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Fairlie, John Archibald. Local government in counties, towns and villages. *$1.25. Century.
Uniform with the “American state series,” Dr. Fairlie’s work is mainly descriptive of the present time, reducing historical discussion to a brief summary. Such matters are treated as “county officers, police, and justices; the town in New England, in the south and the west; public education, charities, public health, and local finance in a manner suited to the large mass of readers who approach such a subject neither as lawyers nor as philosophers.” (Nation.)
+ Dial. 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 60w.
“He gives a careful and businesslike presentation for the general reader or the young person who wants to get the subject up for a college course.”
+ Nation. 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 200w.
“The usefulness of this work will be at once appreciated by any one who has attempted to find an adequate treatment of this topic in existing text-books.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 200w.
Fairman, James Farquharson. Standard telephone wiring for common battery and magneto systems. *$1. McGraw pub.
A handbook for telephone men, containing diagrams of circuits for straight lines, party lines, plans, sub-stations, private lines and intercommunicating systems, with a brief description of the apparatus used and rules of the fire underwriters.
“The book is intended primarily for telephone wiremen, and it appears to be well adapted to their work.” H. H. Norris.
+ Engin. N. 55: 430. Ap. 12, ’06. 130w.
Fairweather, Mary. Passion stroke: a tale of ancient masonry. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
A mystical tale of the strange passing of the Sibyl of Delphi-Pythia and the high-priest, Hiereros of Delphi, and his dual personality. the faun thru the two kingdoms of the flesh and of the mind to the great third kingdom of life in love. The action centers about the time of the burning of the ancient temple of Delphi.
Fairy stories; retold from St. Nicholas. **65c. Century.
Sixteen fairy tales in prose and rhyme, copyrighted all the way from 1874 to the present year appear here in an attractively illustrated volume for young readers. Among them are Tinkey, The ten little dwarfs, The king of the golden woods, Casperl, Giant Thunder Bones, and How an elf set up housekeeping.
Fanning, Clara E., comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the United States navy. *$1. Wilson, H. W.
Fifteen articles dealing with material on both sides of the question, “Resolved that the policy of substantially enlarging the American navy is preferable to the policy of maintaining it at its present strength and efficiency” have been reprinted from various magazines to make up this little volume. The result is a fund of information on the subject which will prove valuable not only to the high school debating league but will help all students, club members, or librarians who wish information upon this subject in compact form. Articles by Captain Mahan, John D. Long, Captain Hobson, and Rear Admiral George W. Melville have been included.
Fanshawe, Reginald. Corydon: an elegy in memory of Matthew Arnold and Oxford. *$1.80. Oxford.
In the 224 Spenserian stanzas which compose this tribute to Matthew Arnold “The evolution of the intellectual life of Oxford during the last sixty years is traced with knowledge and insight, and there is some felicitous literary criticism by the way.... Though the elegy abounds in memorable phrases ... depends for its success neither on these nor on the beauty of individual stanzas, but rather on the orderly progress of the closely knit thought and the sustained dignity of the language.” (Ath.)
+ – Ath. 1906. 1: 663. Je. 2. 340w.
“Mr. Reginald Fanshaw has paid a heartfelt tribute to an institution, a man and an intellectual epoch.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 41: 65. Ag. 1, ’06. 330w.
“In passing from the programme to the performance itself the reader is most pleasantly surprised to find it continuously informed by a mellow poetic mood, and containing scarcely a lapse from suave and accomplished workmanship. The tone is frankly academic and traditional, and most successfully so. There is a lack of intensity, of original poetic energy in the conception of this that makes against its wide and enduring appeal.”
+ – Nation. 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 500w.
“He is a little inclined to a surfeit of epithets, but his verse is orderly and musical, and he expresses gracefully many genuine, if not very startling truths.”
+ – Spec. 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 90w.
Fariss, Amy Cameron. Sin of Saint Desmond. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
A tale of the loves of a will-o’-the-wisp girl who allows the marriage with the man she does not love to bind her in no way to marital allegiance. She finally enthrals a man of supposedly strong nature known among his relations as “Saint Desmond.” The story is dramatic, even tragic as it finds no better solution than making death a punishment for waywardness.
N. Y. Times. 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 250w.
Farmer, James Eugene. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. *$3.50. Century.
“It has been a pleasure to read so historically accurate, and so well-balanced a survey of the court of the Grand Monarque.” James Westfall Thompson.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 658. Ap. ’06. 730w.
“The book is therefore likely to be of some value as a work of reference, whilst it should also appeal to the general reader. The index is unfortunately far from adequate; but we have seldom read a book containing so much matter which was so free from printers’ errors.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 225. F. 24. 2050w.
“Altogether, this is an entertaining and instructive book, although devoid of pretension to profound interpretations of the age of Louis XIV.”
+ Dial. 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 350w.
“In some descriptions Mr. Farmer goes dangerously near the language of auctioneers. Though laborious and careful, Mr. Farmer has only produced a guidebook of a very superior kind. A visitor to Versailles could hardly read anything better.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 51. F. 16, ’06. 610w.
“One submits to the charm of narrative with the feeling that he is resting on absolutely sure ground.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 600w.
“One could hardly ask for a more intimate life-like and exact picture of the first gentleman of Europe and his time.”
+ + Reader. 7: 565. Ap. ’06. 630w. R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“As it stands, it is half guide-book, half history and biography, and so arranged that one finds it difficult to read through. Mr. Farmer’s selections from the memoirs of the time are made with great judgment.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 713. My. 5, ’06. 1420w.
Farnell, Louis Richard. Evolution of religion: an anthropological study. *$1.50. Putnam.
Two of the four lectures delivered in 1905 for the Hibbert trust deal with the methods and the value of the study of comparative religion and its relations to anthropology; the remaining two are special studies in the anthropological manner, of the ritual of purification and the evolution of prayer from lower to higher forms.
“It contains much that is suggestive and valuable, and the two chapters on ritual purification and the evolution of prayer are real contributions to the study of these important matters.”
+ + – Acad. 69: 1258. D. 2, ’05. 320w.
“This first essay is essentially only a vindication of the comparative study of religion. The remaining two essays are excellent specimens of constructive work.” F. C. French.
+ + J. Philos. 3: 580. O. 11, ’06. 920w. + Lond. Times. 4: 443. D. 15, ’05. 490w. N. Y. Times. 10: 749. N. 4, ’05. 270w.
Farquhar, Edward. Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
“A volume of somewhat remarkable verse not without promise of future work, as ambitious in theme, and as widely speculative, yet with all mature reflection and more disciplined regard for order.”
+ Critic. 49: 282. S. ’06. 110w.
Farquhar, Edward. Youth of Messiah. $1. Badger, R: G.
A poem which is based upon material supposed to have been found in an ancient manuscript newly discovered.
Farquhar, George. Plays; ed. with an introd. and notes by William Archer. *$1. Scribner.
An addition to the “Mermaid series.” The volume contains the following, four plays: The constant couple, The town rivals, The recruiting officer, and The beaux’ stratagem.
“Mr. Archer’s edition is, as would be expected, scholarly and trustworthy.”
+ + Acad. 71: 199. S. 1, ’06. 1970w.
“The ‘Mermaid’ texts are now issued in those thin-paper editions which are the detestation of most good book-lovers.”
– Nation. 83: 200. S. 6, ’06. 100w. Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 60w.
Farrer, Reginald J. House of shadows. †$1.50. Longmans.
“Tempest Ladon, is a north-country squire of ancient lineage, who marries a young Italian lady. Elena dies in giving birth prematurely to a son, and leaves behind her a casket of love-letters written, she says, to her husband, which he promises never to read. The son, St. John, in his turn, marries a beautiful middle-class girl and brings her home to his father, who hates her as she hates him. Meanwhile Tempest discovers that he is dying of sarcoma, and is so afraid of hell-fire if he commits suicide that he tries to persuade his son to take the chances of damnation and kill him. Ultimately the daughter-in-law is tempted into handing him the overdose which ends him, but not before he has discovered that Elena’s letters were written to an Italian cousin, who is the real father of St. John.”—Acad.
“It is clever enough to make us hope that, when Mr. Farrer has read more widely and thought more sanely, he may yet do good work.”
+ – Acad. 70: 406. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.
“The characters are drawn with a vivid touch, but not one is genuinely agreeable.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 324. My. 17. 250w.
“A book remarkable for its force and continuity.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 84. Mr. 9, ’06. 480w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 240w.
Fawcett, Mrs. Millicent Garrett (Mrs. Henry Fawcett.) Five famous French women. $2. Cassell.
Five character studies of French women “of intellect who were born to hold the reins of power.” (Acad.) They are Joan of Arc, Renée, Duchess of Ferrara. Louise of Savoy, her daughter, Margaret of Angoulême and Jeanne d’Albrét, queen of Navarre.
“The studies suffer from weak construction, but they are interesting. The style is clear, with a certain cheerful colloquialism which is rather unexpected.”
+ – Acad. 70: 352. Ap. 14, ’06. 950w.
“It is a little difficult to determine what kind of public she has in view. Evidences of carelessness in proof-reading are somewhat numerous.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 892. D. 30. 280w.
“As Mrs. Fawcett’s standpoint is a non-Catholic one, she expresses some opinions with which we cannot agree; and she hardly applies the same weights and measures to the Catholic and Huguenot.”
– Cath. World. 84: 106. O. ’06. 430w.
“The author is to be congratulated ... for having brought very near to modern appreciation a series of remarkable characters.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 309. My. 12, ’06. 680w.
Fechner, Gustav Theodor. On life after death, from the German by Hugo Wernekke. **75c. Open ct.
“This is a new edition of a book too little known in this country. The author, a professor of physics in the University of Leipsic ... is at once a scientist and a poet.... His fundamental postulate is the continuity of life, and it will commend itself alike to the student of the New Testament and the student of philosophy.... The biographical sketch of the author which is appended to the volume adds to its interest and serves to interpret it.”—Outlook.
Reviewed by W. C. Keirstead.
Am. J. Soc. 10: 556. Jl. ’06. 120w.
“Dr. Wernekke’s [translation] is the more literal, but Miss Wadsworth’s reads more smoothly.”
+ Ind. 60: 1597. Je. 28, ’06. 360w.
“The chief defect of the book is its tone of assurance, the author’s fancies being affirmed with the same positiveness as if they were scientific observations of philosophical deductions.”
– + Outlook. 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 190w. Outlook. 83: 357. Je. 16, ’06. 1210w.
Fenollosa, Mary McNeil (Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa) (Sidney McCall, pseud.). [Dragon painter.] †$1.50. Little.
The depth of feeling which the Japanese of the passing generation hold for Japan and the art that has always been hers is strongly brought out in this story of Kano Indara, the last of a line of great artists, who views with terror the encroachments of western art. He hears of Tatsu, the wild mountain dragon painter and, in his deathless longing for an artist-son, he sends for him and gives to him his daughter Umè-Ko that he may be indeed his son, and also because he could not hold him otherwise, for the youth has painted his dragon-pictures merely because his soul was filled with a longing for the dragon-maid, his mate thruout all incarnations. When he finds her in Kano’s daughter his great love absorbs the artist in him and Kano, who lives for art alone, in his rage and disappointment takes the young wife from her too-loving husband until, from the depths of his great grief and agony of spirit, the artist in him once more emerges, then she is restored to him as from the dead.
“In our judgment ‘The dragon painter’ is far inferior as a novel to either ‘Truth Dexter’ or ‘The breath of the gods.’”
+ – Arena. 36: 686. D. ’06. 530w. + + Ind. 61: 1494. D. 20, ’06. 590w. + Nation. 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 330w. N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“One does not need to have had any personal experience in the land of which Mrs. Fenollosa writes in order to be perfectly certain that these pages give a truthful picture of Japanese domestic life and a faithful revelation of the inner depths of Japanese feeling—not one of those specious translations of Japan in terms of modern ‘Westernism.’”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 650w.
Field, Horace, and Bunney, Michael. English domestic architecture of the XVII. and XVIII. centuries. *$15. Macmillan.
The authors of this volume on domestic architecture in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries “have provided examples of smaller buildings, with their measurements and different views of them, besides an introduction and many full notes. There are about 100 illustrations, including half-tone full, double, and half page plates, drawings, diagrams, etc. The introduction contains a resume of the history of the English domestic architecture followed by a chapter on ‘The renaissance evolution in England,’ and then by descriptions of the houses presented.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 280w. + Int. Studio. 28: 274. My. ’06. 310w.
“The matter of this text is perfectly well thought out and expressed. The book is a valuable one from every point of view.”
+ + Nation. 82: 144. F. 15, ’06. 870w. N. Y. Times. 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 270w.
Fielding, Henry. Selected essays, ed. by Gordon Hall Gerould. *60c. Ginn.
“The editor has evidently profited by consulting the best critical comment on his author, and his introduction is both full and interesting.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 231. S. 9. 190w.
Finberg, Alexander J. English water color painters. *75c. Dutton.
“About two dozen artists are considered in Mr. Finberg’s little book on the water-color painters of England and forty-two half-tone reproductions of their works are included.... The names include those of Samuel Scott, a marine and landscape painter; Paul Sandby, sometimes called the ‘Father of the English school of water color;’ Thomas Hearne, accomplished also as a draughtsman; Alexander and John Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Turner, Rowlandson, Blake, Cotman, Cox, Prout, Ford Madox Brown, Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Fred Walker, and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“An admirable and instructive essay, which it is a pleasure to read, even where one is bound to disagree with it.” T. Sturge Moore.
+ – Acad. 70: 497. My. 26, ’06. 1160w.
“Is really a model short treatise.”
+ + Ind. 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 140w. + – Nation. 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 180w. N. Y. Times. 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 190w.
“Both in text and illustration the little book is extremely valuable.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.
Finck, Henry Theophilus. Edvard Grieg. *$1. Lane.
Volume eight in the “Living masters of music” series is the first book in English on the life and personality of this famous Norwegian composer. “An invalid, he has lived in seclusion in the Far North; a successful pianist, conductor, and composer almost from the beginning of his career, happily married to a cousin who could not only inspire but interpret his songs—in spite of some dark years and some inevitable shadows, he stands for us in the sun; largely as to his career, wholly and radiantly as to his warm personality. The photographs of him from the fifteen-year-old boy to the sixty-year-old man ... are full of charm and of a winning quality that fit absolutely into the character of his music.” (Nation.)
“There is much new material relating to the personal side of the composer.”
+ Critic. 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“A sound and sympathetic study of this great son of the North.”
+ + – Dial. 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 270w.
“The book is charmingly written, is entertaining from cover to cover, and is sure to become popular with all music lovers. Mr. Finck has the gift of the true biographer, of nowhere obtruding his own personality.” Joseph Sohn.
+ + Forum. 37: 526. Ap. ’06. 480w. Lit. D. 32: 200. F. 10, ’06. 710w. + + Nation. 82: 184. Mr. 1, ’06. 1560w.
“Mr. Finck’s book is an attempt to place him in the very forefront of modern composers. There are interesting biographical details in the book.” Richard Aldrich.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 750w.
“In spite of this attitude of fierce worshiper, Mr. Finck has written a very readable as well as useful book. He has succeeded in the first place in filling it with personality. He has, in the second place, brought together much information about Grieg, some old and some new, which has not before been easily accessible.”
+ + – Outlook. 82: 520. Mr. 3, ’06. 210w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 60w. R. of Rs. 33: 255. F. ’06. 130w.
Findlater, Jane Helen. Ladder to the stars. †$1.50. Appleton.
The author “depicts a young woman whose relatives are housekeepers, commercial travelers, clerks, as sex or circumstances decree; and she invests her with spiritual ambitions with which the local minister cannot cope; with social aspirations unintelligible in a circle where human society means nothing beyond class-strata; and with intellectual ideals that cannot be shared by those in whose eyes ‘two years at Mrs. Clumper’s’ are synonymous with a liberal education.”—Lond. Times.
+ Acad. 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 160w.
“Her picture of middle-class life in a country town is admirably incisive and humorous, and at the same time free from ill-nature. The character of her heroine is less satisfactory.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 340w.
“The writer leaves us with a feeling that the ideas which she attributes to her heroine are her own; in other words, the illusion is incomplete. If it had been otherwise the book would have been a triumph of art; as it is, we have a comedy of manners, wise, kindly, and incisive.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 338. O. 5, ’06. 380w.
“In spite of its stilted and sometimes unreal heroine and its several impossible incidents, it will certainly be the exceptional reader who will not find himself very much interested and amused.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 684. O. 20, ’06. 710w.
“The story, of course, is open to the criticism common to all stories which turn on the literary ability of their characters, that the author can give no proof of this ability, and that the reader has to take it on trust.”
+ – Spec. 97: 404. S. 22, ’06. 280w.
Firth, Charles Harding. Plea for the historical teaching of history: an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904. *35c. Oxford.
+ Nation. 82: 388. My. 10, ’06. 880w.
Firth, John Benjamin. Constantine, the first Christian emperor. **$1.35; **$1.60. Putnam.
“On the side of institutions, however, the book is distinctly weak.” Charles H. Haskins.
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 432. Ja. ’06. 370w.
Fischer, Louis. Health-care of the baby: a handbook for mothers and nurses. *75c. Funk.
Under Part 1, General hygiene of the infant, the author gives chapters upon bathing, clothing, training, etc. Part 2, Infant feeding, treats of the various methods of feeding and of infant foods. Part 3. Miscellaneous diseases and emergencies, includes a detailed treatment of the various children’s diseases and a chapter upon accidents.
+ R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 40w.
Fisguill, Richard, pseud. (Richard H. Wilson). Venus of Cadiz. †$1.50. Holt.
“Read him sympathetically and he will reward you with the next best thing to tears,—a laugh.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 170w.
Fish, Carl Russell. Civil service and the patronage. *$2. Longmans.
+ Ind. 60: 799. Ap. 5, ’06. 310w.
“A careful and useful historical study.”
+ Nation. 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 350w. + + – Yale R. 15: 330. N. ’06. 440w.
Fisher, Clarence Stanley. Excavations at Nippur; plans, details, and photographs of the buildings, with numerous objects found in them during the excavations of 1889, 1890, 1893–1896, 1899–1900 with descriptive text by Clarence S. Fisher. (Babylonian expedition of the Univ. of Penn.) 6 pts. ea. pt. $2. C. S. Fisher, Rutledge, Delaware co., Pa.
“The entire work comprises some two hundred large folio pages of topographical introduction and descriptive text, abundantly illustrated with cuts and photographs, including some splendid full-page photogravures, besides many folding lithographic plates giving plans and details of the buildings.”—Outlook.
“Altogether we may heartily congratulate both the University and Mr. Fisher on the first part of a book, which bids fair to be a most valuable contribution to science. We have noticed some typographical errors ... but these are trifles.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 340. S. 22. 1520w. (Review of pt. 1.) + + + Ind. 60: 685. Mr. 22, ’06. 1450w. (Review of pt. 1.) Ind. 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Fisher certainly deserves great credit for the manner in which he has exhibited the topographical and culture development of Nippur and its temple. In this regard his work constitutes an important contribution to Babylonian archæology, and scholars will await with interest the publication of the remaining five parts, in which, it is to be hoped, more care will be bestowed on the proof reading of the descriptive text.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 308. Ap. 12, ’06. 740w. (Review of pt. 1.) Outlook. 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w. (Review of pt. 1.)
Fitch, (William) Clyde. [Climbers: a play in four acts.] **75c. Macmillan.
A new volume in the published edition of the plays of Mr. Fitch. The climbers, which had a considerable degree of success on the stage, is not only a clever satire upon the social climber but contains some well-devised situations, which, altho they lose some of their effectiveness in book form, make good reading.
“No other play of this author that we have seen so well bears the test of print.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 36. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w. + + Outlook. 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 50w.
Fitch, (William) Clyde. [Girl with the green eyes.] **75c. Macmillan.
The first appearance in book form of Mr. Fitch’s four-act play.
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 743. Je. 16. 80w.
“While far from being a distinguished illustration of the literary drama, the play reads very well—possibly better than it sounds when acted.”
+ Dial. 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 70w.
“Many passages in this smart piece read well, and the study of feminine jealousy it involves has not been surpassed since Colman’s ‘Jealous wife.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 200w.
Fitch, William Edwards. Some neglected history of North Carolina, including the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American revolution. $2. Neale.
“The value of the book lies wholly in the original documents reprinted from the North Carolina Records.” Theodore Clark Smith.
+ – Atlan. 98: 705. N. ’06. 210w.
Fitchett, William Henry. Unrealized logic of religion; a study in credibilities. *$1.25. Eaton.
The author deals with a wide field, and apparently with unrelated subjects, but his object is to show that “when widely separated points in literature, history, science, philosophy and common life are tried by their relation to religion they instantly fall into logical terms with it.” Under the headings: History; Science; Philosophy; Literature; Spiritual life; and Common life he discusses such subjects as; The logic of the missionary; of our relation to nature; of the infinitesimal; of human speech; of answered prayers; of unproved negatives; and of half-knowledge, in which he gives “examples of the innumerable correspondences which link the spiritual and secular realms together.”
“It is a very strong book. The author has read widely, thought deeply and knows his ground thoroly.”
+ + Ind. 61: 823. O. 4, ’06. 170w. Lit. D. 32: 248. F. 17, ’06. 820w. + Outlook. 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
“That the words ‘logic’ and ‘logical’ are the most applicable to his reasonings we certainly doubt. A few pages of his book suggest the obvious criticism that there is much more of rhetoric than logic in it. The pertinence of the criticism may be concerned, but it does not derogate from the value of the work.”
+ + – Spec. 95: 930. D. 2, ’05. 1640w.
Fitz, George Wells, and Fitz, Rachel Kent. Problems of babyhood; building a constitution, forming a character. **$1.25. Holt.
This two-fold study of the controllable aspects of child development furnishes conclusions reached from the standpoint of the physician, the teacher, the mother and the father. “It is hoped that thru its frank and practical treatment of some of the many problems presented by parenthood it may give courage to withstand the criticism of tradition and convention, strength to resist the modern tendency to indulgence, faith to fight for the child’s birthright of a sane mind in a sane body.”
R. of Rs. 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 70w.
“There is an air of authority, based on experience and the unmistakable certificate of good common sense about ‘Problems of babyhood.’”
+ World To-Day. 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 90w.
FitzGerald, Edward. Euphranor: a dialogue on youth. *75c. Lane.
“Many will read this charming reprint of a forgotten book not for its educational, but for its literary charm, for in it FitzGerald proved himself a master of the two crafts.”
+ + – Acad. 69: 1330. D. 23, ’05. 950w.
Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington. Sir Henry Irving: a biography. **$3. Jacobs.
Mr. Fitzgerald’s biography was published during Irving’s life time. This issue includes ten years of added happenings, making it a complete sketch.
“There is still room, however, for a full critical account of Irving the actor.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ – Dial. 41: 384. D. 1, ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Fitzgerald’s volume will hardly be a rival of Bram Stoker’s more elaborated and formal one. At the same time, it has a value that is quite its own.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w.
“It would be better if it were a little more conservative and little less discursive.”
+ – Nation. 83: 398. N. 8, ’06. 890w.
“We commend Mr. Fitzgerald’s biography of Irving to persons who want a handsome book about a great actor, containing the story of his life, told in a kindly way.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 280w. + R. of Rs. 34: 757. D. ’06. 180w. Spec. 96: 505. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.
Fitzgerald, Sybil. In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.
“Ranging over wide fields of knowledge, it betrays ignorance which should have deterred the writer ... from venturing anywhere near them. Solecisms are sown so thickly that the charitable supposition of printer’s errors cannot cover half the sins. Nevertheless, the writer has observed many things truly, and said some things well.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 46. F. 9, ’06. 590w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 170w.
Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty. Life of Granville. 2v. $10. Longmans.
“In every way very competent for it, the biographer has done his work sympathetically.”
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 666. Ap. ’06. 2350w. Blackwood’s M. 178: 792. D. ’05. 6660w.
“This is not only an interesting and readable book, but, as indeed was to be expected, a permanently valuable contribution to our political history.” Augustine Birrell.
+ + + Contemporary R. 88: 769. D. ’05. 6100w.
“It is not, I may add, too political for the reading of any American who loves to read of the history of his own time in England written so absolutely from the inside as is this.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ Critic. 48: 354. Ap. ’06. 1210w.
“If these two portly volumes cannot lay claim to full equality of style and political insight to John Morley’s monumental work on Gladstone, among the lives of the statesmen of the Victorian era, they may be ranked second, with Charles Stuart Parker’s ‘Sir Robert Peel’ forming a close third.”
+ + Ind. 60: 741. Mr. 24, ’06. 1090w.
“A work of immense importance in its bearing upon the history of England from 1850 to 1890.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 120w.
“The biographer has done his work well. American readers will find amusement as well as instruction in this excellent biography.”
+ + Nation. 82: 224. Mr. 15, ’06. 2090w.
Flammarion, Nicolas Camille. Thunder and lightning; tr. by Walter Mostyn. **$1.25. Little.
An abridged form of the French work discussing the victim of lightning, atmospheric electricity, the flash and the sound; giving the effect of lightning on mankind, animals, trees and plants, metals, objects, houses, etc.; showing the curious freaks of fireballs, and concluding with a chapter on pictures made by lightning.
“The translation is exceedingly well done, and we have noticed but one mistake.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 364. Mr. 24. 440w. Dial. 40: 331. My. 16, ’06. 410w.
“Apart from the above mentioned differences the English translation is well done, and will be found very interesting reading.”
+ Nature. 73: 196. D. 28, ’05. 210w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Seems less concerned to explain the marvelous occurrences by recognized laws than to startle the reader and convince him that there is much that is inexplicable in electricity.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
Fleming, John Ambrose. Principles of electric wave telegraphy. *$6.60. Longmans.
A treatise based to a large extent upon the author’s Cantor lectures delivered before the Society of arts in London. It is a three part work treating respectively of electric oscillations, electric waves, and electric wave telegraphy.
“The book seems destined to occupy the same place in the field of oscillatory currents as the author’s work on the ‘Alternating current transformer’ did in the field of ordinary alternating currents. It is a book deserving the careful attention of the student, of the physicist, and of the engineer, as well as of the telegrapher.” Samuel Sheldon.
+ + Engin. N. 56: 54. Jl. 12, ’06. 530w.
“In Dr. Fleming’s book is to be found a treatment of the subject which is exhaustive and thorough both on the theoretical and practical sides. It is a book which has been wanted and will be warmly welcomed.” Maurice Solomon.
+ + + Nature. 74: 291. Jl. 26, ’06. 490w.
Fleming, Walter Lynwood. [Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama.] **$5. Macmillan.
“Prof. Fleming’s aim is to trace the course of the civil war in his native state ... particularly in its political and social aspects, from its beginning to the breaking down of reconstruction in 1874.... The book is divided into six sections, treating consecutively: “Secession,” “War times in Alabama,” “The aftermath of war,” “Presidential restoration,” “Congressional reconstruction,” and “Carpetbag and negro rule.” All these phases of the theme are discussed freely and with a wealth of detail and fullness of bibliography that must delight the student’s heart. The general reader will also find much that is new, many a story or party episode told in such a way as to be truly illuminating.”—N. Y. Times.
“The author’s sympathies are decidedly with the South, but the work is free from bitterness or prejudice, and is on the whole as impartial an account as one can expect from any writer on this subject.” William O. Scroggs.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 943. Jl. ’06. 570w.
“The spirit in which this book is written and the personal equation of the writer are fairly open to criticism. On the whole, the author is to be commended for a scholarly and critical treatment of a most highly important historical epoch.” Charles C. Pickett.
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 430. Mr. ’06. 1130w.
“The most comprehensive and valuable work of this kind that has yet been written.” James Wilford Garner.
+ + + Dial. 40: 150. Mr. 1, ’06. 1040w. + Ind. 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Professor Fleming’s method, for scientific precision and efficiency, could hardly be surpassed, even by a guillotine. Nevertheless, we consider this volume a very important contribution to the history of its period.”
+ – Nation. 82: 349. Ap. 26, ’06. 1910w.
“It is diffuse, poorly arranged, notwithstanding the elaborate scheme or outline presented in the table of contents. In this the subdivisions seem to be so minute as to become a source of embarrassment to the author. Another difficulty closely allied to this one is the frequent repetition of the same ideas. But despite these blemishes—important though they be—the book is eminently worth while. It is a magazine of information for the general reader.” William E. Dodd.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 34. Ja. 20, ’06. 1440w.
“An admirable, piece of work.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 400w.
Reviewed by David Miller DeWitt.
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 535. S. ’06. 1800w.
Fletcher, Ella Adelia. Philosophy of rest. 75c. Dodge.
The philosophy of rest is preached in four peaceful little essays which this tranquil philosopher calls; The unrest of our day, The cultivation of soul-force, The ministrations of nature and silence, and To conserve force.
Flint, Robert. Socialism. **$2. Lippincott.
A reprint of the work brought out in 1894. “As becomes its author, ‘Socialism’ is a philosophical essay upon cardinal points of doctrine, and does not deal with the history and present position of socialistic speculation or agitation.” (Nation.)
Ind. 61: 1058. N. 1, ’06. 580w. Nation. 83: 348. O. 25, ’06. 80w. Outlook. 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 240w.
Fogazzaro, Antonio. [The saint] (Il santo): authorized tr.; with introd. by W. R. Thayer. †$1.50. Putnam.
“Piero Maironi, a young Brescian, is summoned from an intrigue with a married woman ... to the deathbed of his wife.... In the little church adjoining the asylum Maironi has a vision which alters the whole course of his life. He leaves the world and adopts the name of Benedetto, but remains a layman and joins no religious order. Driven from the monastery ... he goes forth to preach to the people and is hailed by the peasants as a saint and a miracle-worker. He disclaims miraculous power; and a sick man, who is brought to him to be healed, dies under his roof.... Naturally Benedetto is discarded by his ignorant followers.... And he goes to Rome, where he becomes the leader of a movement for the reform of the church. Naturally, again he comes into conflict with ecclesiastical authority, and ... he is relentlessly pursued by Vatican intrigue ... is practically turned into the streets, but is taken in by an agnostic professor ... in whose house he dies, apparently a failure but foretelling with undying faith the triumph of his cause in the person of his disciples.”—Spec.
“The English version reads fairly well as a piece of English, but as a translation it is not satisfactory and the author’s meaning is often inadequately represented or even distorted. But it will give the English reader a very fair idea of the book as a whole, and he will miss nothing essential.”
+ – Acad. 71: 38. Jl. 14, ’06. 1090w.
“One feels compelled to protest against any confusion of the greatness of ‘Il santo’ as a piece of brilliant polemics, a powerful theological brief, with its worth as a novel. Frankly, it is not a great novel; it is too defective in technique, it lacks on the one hand the rugged simplicity of Verga, on the other the melodious rhythm and artistic proportions of d’Annunzio. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most interesting human documents that have come from Italy in the last quarter century.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – Bookm. 24: 261. N. ’06. 1760w.
“Very acceptable English version now given us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 41: 281. N. 1, ’06. 1180w. Ind. 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 60w. Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“Fogazzaro’s Italian is not the highly poetical medium manipulated by Gabriele d’Annunzio. It is saner, simpler, and more direct, while the wide sympathy, kindness of heart, and light, wholesome humor of Fogazzaro incite, maintain, and develop the reader’s respect.” Walter Littlefield.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 496. Ag. 11, ’06. 2800w.
“The book has gained a place of power among the factors of coming change.”
+ Outlook. 84: 283. S. 29, ’06. 1430w.
“It appeals to the intelligence and to the religious instincts on every page.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 224. N. ’06. 340w.
“This task [to illustrate in the guise of romance, with a modern St. Francis of Assisi as its central figure, the four ‘spirits of evil’] has been achieved by Signor Fogazzaro with such eloquence, and yet such reverence and restraint, that the action of the Curia in proscribing his work is little short of the inexplicable.”
+ Spec. 96: 1043. Je. 30, ’06. 900w.
Folsom, Justus Watson. Entomology, with special reference to its biological and economic aspects. *$3. Blakiston.
Although planned primarily for the student this volume is intended also for the general reader, and gives “a comprehensive and concise account of insects.” As a rule only the commonest kinds of insects are referred to in the text, in order that the reader may easily use the text as a guide to personal observation. The anatomy of insects, their physiology, color, relations to plants, other animals, and man, their behavior, distribution, etc., are fully treated and the volume is profusely illustrated and has a bibliography and an index.
“It is well adapted to general readers who want books on insects more advanced than the small popular works.”
+ + Ind. 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 120w.
“It easily takes rank not only with the best treatises on entomology, but among those which modern zoological science has produced. The author’s style is simple, concise, and lucid. His treatment of other writers is uniformly generous and just.”
+ + + Nation. 83: 206. S. 6, ’06. 990w.
“Here is an abundance of practically useful as well as interesting knowledge.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 814. Ag. 4, ’06. 250w.
“The style is never prolix, and although verbal infelicities are rather too frequent, the meaning is rarely obscure. The book as a whole is excellent, and will be most useful to the general student.” J. G. N.
+ + – Science, n.s. 24: 589. N. 9, ’06. 730w.
Forbush, Rev. William Byron. Boys’ life of Christ. **$1.25. Funk.
The author has made a strong appeal to boys thru this vivid and natural biography of Jesus. His aim is “to show the manly, heroic, chivalric, intensely real, and vigorously active qualities of Jesus,” to approach the divine Jesus thru the human greatness.
“The author of this work has written one of the most fascinating stories for the young, apart from all consideration of the subject, that we have read in years.”
+ + Arena. 35: 221. F. ’06. 280w.
“It is remarkably well done.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w. + + Outlook. 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 150w. R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 50w.
Ford, Ellis A. Challenge of the spirit. **30c. Crowell.
A monograph whose keynote is sounded in the following: “Life itself is revelation,” says Mr. Ford, “in all that I myself have felt or have known through watching others I find the triumph of spirit over sense, the gain on things unseen through the instrumentality of the seen.”
Ford, Richard. Letters of Richard Ford. 1797–1858; ed. by Rowland E. Prothero. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Ford’s letters are filled with the inimitable humor that made his guide book to Spain so popular. These letters written in 1830 from Spain to Henry Unwin Addington, then British minister to Madrid, “convey in piquant language Mr. Ford’s first impressions of ‘an original peculiar people, potted for six centuries.’” (Ath.) The editor says “To the artist, the historian, the sportsman, and the antiquary, to the student of dialects, the observer of manners and customs, the lover of art, the man of sentiment, Spain in 1830 offered an enchanting field, an almost untrodden Paradise. In Ford all these interests were combined, not merely as tastes, but as enthusiasms.”
“Mr. Prothero’s connecting narrative is skilful and clear.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 389. Mr. 31. 870w. + Dial. 40: 265. Ap. 16, ’06. 360w. + Lond. Times. 5: 64. F. 23, ’06. 950w.
“A graceful but slight book. Only the ghost of Ford has passed into these pages.”
+ – Nation. 82: 492. Je. 14, ’06. 430w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 256. Ap. 21, ’06. 650w. + Outlook. 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 40w.
“Excellent letters ... edited with the utmost discretion.”
+ + Spec. 95: 1038. D. 16, ’05. 1290w.
Fordham, Elias Pym. Personal narrative of travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky; and of a residence in Illinois territory, 1817–1818; ed. with notes, introd. and index by Frederick Austin Ogg. *$3. Clark, A. H.
This manuscript, hitherto unpublished was written anonymously in 1817–18 by a young Englishman who assisted Morris Birkbeck in establishing his Illinois settlement. The journeys are “rich in personalia of early settlers, remarks on contemporary history and politics, state of trade, agriculture, prices, and information on local history not obtainable elsewhere ... and make accessible to historical students much new and important material.”
“It might be added that Mr. Ogg’s prefatory description of the westward movement during this period, showing the economic condition of both Old and New World under which Fordham made his tour and his observations, is as interesting as anything Fordham wrote.” Edwin E. Sparks.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 150. O. ’06. 4420w.
Reviewed by Theodore Clarke Smith.
Atlan. 98: 703. N. ’06. 60w. + + Nation. 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 200w. N. Y. Times. 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 140w.
“It is a most enjoyable narrative, and of real historical importance.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 254. N. ’06. 100w.
“The volume contains much new material on the local history of the region over which Fordham’s travels extended.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 100w.
Foreman, John. [Philippine islands.] *$6. Scribner.
This third edition of Mr. Foreman’s “Political, geographical, ethnographical, social, and commercial history of the Philippine archipelago, embracing the whole period of Spanish rule with an account of the succeeding American insular government” is not only revised and enlarged but contains several chapters upon our administration in the Philippines since February 6, 1899, not found in the earlier editions. The volume is abundantly illustrated.
“Jumble of facts and fancies, information and misinformation.”
– Ind. 61: 514. Ag. 30, ’06. 980w.
“Such a work as this is of scant value to anyone.”
– Nation. 83: 201. S. 6, ’06. 350w.
“The author’s knowledge is so broad and complete that even his criticisms (and he does criticise) are likely not to be resented. The work fulfills all that is implied in its sub-title; it is so complete that it is not possible adequately to catalogue its contents in a short notice.” George R. Bishop.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 561. S. 15, ’06. 2230w.
Forman, Justus Miles. Buchanan’s wife. †$1.50. Harper.
Beatrix Buchanan, for two years married to a man whom she does not love, finds her lot unbearable. The “droop to her mouth” reveals the state of her mind and incidentally betrays the fact that she had not made the way all sunshine for her husband. Grown cynical and harsh, with the “desperately shy sweetness” entirely crushed having nothing to nourish it, Buchanan disappears one night from the world. The day of Beatrix’ happiness must dawn. She tricks the man she loves by purposely lying when called to identify a body resembling her husband. After her marriage a little “gray tramp” steps into her rose garden with mind as well as lungs gone. It is the pitiable shadow of her husband and in her misery she ministers to him till death. The story is one of a woman’s will dramatically expressed.
“A preposterous yarn, which has little power to arouse sympathy, and which depends for its effects upon trickiness and crude melodrama.” Wm. M. Payne.
– Dial. 41: 242. O. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Really a most remarkable tale, told in a forked lightning literary style, that is very shocking to the reader’s nerves.”
– – Ind. 61: 939. O. 18, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Forman’s new novel has a rather sensational flavor.”
– + Lit. D. 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 400w.
“Nothing and nobody within the covers of the book could possibly have happened; all the same it does grip one’s interest.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 519. Ag. 25, ’06. 210w.
“The weakness of the book lies in its confusion of two literary methods, one objective and melodramatic, the other an analysis of character and its development.”
– + Outlook. 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 190w.
Forman, Samuel Eagle. Advanced civics: the spirit, the form, and the functions of the American government. *$1.25. Century.
+ Bookm. 22: 643. F. ’06. 120w.
“It offers to the student a large mass of information, clearly expressed, and free from the inaccuracies so common in text books on civics.”
+ + Ind. 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 80w. R. of Rs. 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“A valuable handbook for every American citizen, an interesting guide into the field of politics, and an inspiring counselor to duty.” Edward E. Hill.
+ + School R. 23: 384. My. ’06. 890w.
Forrest, Rev. David William. Authority of Christ. *$2. Scribner.
“The thesis is that Jesus is not to be regarded as authority in matters of literary criticism, to determine the authorship of a Psalm or to decide whether the stories about Abraham are legendary or historical, but that his authority consists purely in his ‘final revelation of religious truth and practice, of “what man is to believe concerning God, and what duties God requires of man.”’”—Nation.
“Has something of the heaviness which characterizes doctrinal discussions of the older sort. The second chapter of the book, however, on ‘The legitimate extension of Christ’s authority,’ is a valuable bit of arrangement.”
+ – Ind. 61: 1057. N. 1, ’06. 200w. + – Nation. 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 250w.
“Dr. Forrest is careful to give a logical completeness to his treatment of his subject.”
+ + Spec. 96: sup. 643. Ap. 28, ’06. 430w.
Fosdick, Lucian J. French blood in America. **$2. Revell.
The first portion of her work is devoted to a survey of the Huguenots prior to their coming to America. Then follow an account of the unsuccessful attempts to found Huguenot colonies in North America, and the story of the beginnings at Plymouth, New Amsterdam, and Virginia.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 208. O. ’06. 40w.
“The purpose of the whole is to exalt the part played by Huguenot exiles and their descendants, but the claims advanced are so boundless and the critical ability displayed so slender as to provoke incredulity.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
– + Atlan. 98: 703. N. ’06. 90w.
“By reason of loose arrangement, repetition and undiscriminating admiration we lose a notable chapter of American history. In this wide field, Mr. Fosdick has worked with enthusiasm, tho not with care.”
– + Ind. 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 450w.
“Mr. Fosdick appears to have no sense whatever of historical objectivity. Apart from its anxiety to prove too much this book is a useful recapitulation of what has been accomplished in the United States by people of French Protestant origin.”
+ – Nation. 83: 171. Ag. 23, ’06. 530w.
“Mr. Fosdick’s book does not rank in scholarship with Douglas Campbell’s almost forgotten book, but it is as good as some other books of ‘claimings’ and will hold its own for some time to come.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 358. Je. 2, ’06. 280w.
“The defects of the book are so serious that we cannot recommend it either as an authoritative or interesting contribution to its subject.”
– Outlook. 83: 528. Je. 30, ’06. 270w. R. of Rs. 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 130w.
“We cannot help thinking that the book might have been ordered; but it was worth writing, and is certainly worth reading.”
+ – Spec. 97: 174. Ag. 4, ’06. 290w.
Foster, George Burman. Finality of the Christian religion. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
Following an introduction and an historical two parts; “Christianity as authority-religion,” and “Christianity as religion of the moral consciousness of man.” In the first section the rise, development, and disintegration of Christianity as authority-religion is historico-critically traced. In the second section, Christianity as religion of the moral consciousness is defined in antithesis to the extremes of naturalism and clericalism.
“Taken altogether, his style has so little in common with the ordinary usage of British and American theologians that it is not transparent enough to make the reading of the book a pleasure, unless it be to the narrowest specialist. What ... is the secret of Professor Foster’s success? Plainly, it is the vitality of his constructive idea, and the earnest, almost passionate, manner in which he works out its legitimate outline. He has neglected no important work upon any phase of his subject.” Andrew C. Zenos.
+ + – Am. J. Theol. 10: 529. Jl. ’06. 3190w.
“He is too closely dependent upon particular German writers.” P. Gardner.
+ + – Am. J. Theol. 10: 535. Jl. ’06. 2100w.
“From the standpoint of a layman, I must confess that the book seems to me too much elaborated in many places.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ – Dial. 40: 324. My. 16, ’06. 530w.
“It is the gravest defect of Professor Foster’s work that he has so much to say by way of approach to his subject, and so little, in proportion, on the subject itself.”
+ – Ind. 60: 926. Ap. 19, ’06. 1220w. Ind. 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 80w. Lit. D. 32: 484. Mr. 31, ’06. 1500w. Lit. D. 32: 573. Ap. 14, ’06. 810w.
“Dr. Foster’s argument is close and learned; not easy to read, but to be studied and pondered over.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 370w.
“Both in source and substance this is a significant book, though opening no line of thought quite new.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 86. My. 12, ’06. 850w.
Foster, John Watson. Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.
The audience reached in this work is mainly that made up of men in the diplomatic service of the nation, and the author discusses in an informing manner the utility of the diplomatic service, the duties of diplomats and their rank qualifications, the consular service, the negotiation and framing of treaties, arbitration and international claims.
“His style is so simple and his chapters are so enlivened with interesting incidents and sensible criticisms that even readers entirely unfamiliar with diplomatic work will have no difficulty in understanding and enjoying him.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 1287. N. 29, ’06. 790w.
“Tho technical in part as setting forth the rules and procedure of diplomatic intercourse, it has been prepared for the general reader and, needless to say, it has the literary distinction which characterizes the works of this experienced and able writer on diplomacy.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
Fountain, Paul. Eleven eaglets of the west. **$3. Dutton.
The “eleven eaglets” of the title are the states or territories of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. The work “is the record of several journeys made by the author in the days when the Wild West was, with a few exceptions, still a wilderness. He travelled with a strong party, and was usually, if not always, accompanied by a waggon, which, with infinite labour and astonishing success, was dragged through forests, over rocky heights, and across sandy deserts.... [The book] will have permanent interest as an account of the extreme West as it was forty years ago.” (Ath.)
“He tells the story of his adventures in a simple, straightforward way, but the conclusions which he sometimes draws from them are not altogether convincing.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 450w.
“The pictures which he presents of the western states which have already changed so greatly are assuredly worthy of preservation.”
+ Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 140w.
“Any one unfamiliar with that section of the continent would carry away from the perusal of his book a most confused impression of its geographical features, and of either its past or its present social and industrial conditions.”
– Nation. 82: 299. Ap. 12, ’06. 200w.
“One sees that the author is an observer of catholicity. His book, though the travels are travels of so long ago, is singularly refreshing. Informing enough also, though you need not pin your faith too utterly to all the things that are said.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 533. S. 1, ’06. 1350w. + Sat. R. 101: 500. Ap. 21, ’06. 150w.
Fowler, Rev. Charles Henry. Missionary addresses. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
A group of seven missionary addresses on the following subjects: Missions and world movements. Our opportunity. The reflex influence of missions. The message, Home and heathen missions contrasted, The field. The supreme need of the heathen and Divinity of the missionary idea.
Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin). The subjection of Isabel Carnaby. †$1.50. Dodd.
The reappearance of Isabel Carnaby, married and happy makes this story a sequel to Mrs. Felkin’s “Concerning Isabel Carnaby.” “First we have our old friend Isabel, who heroically refrains from sacrificing to a purely personal whim the whole of her husband’s political career; secondly, a half-caste girl, married to a good-natured imbecile of an Englishman whom she finds it impossible to love until (in the disguise of a man) she has felt the weight of his, literally, heavy hand; thirdly a parson whose desertion of his wife, arising from a sequence of incredible occurrences, is by her endured with a meekness which is happily as incredible.” (Ath.)
“In general, the smart and good-natured aphorisms in which the book abounds seem to us as remote from reality as is the framework of the story.”
– + Ath. 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 330w.
“In ‘The subjection of Isabel Carnaby’, Miss Fowler has come almost within sight of the borderland of the masterpieces.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
“Somewhat long and extremely loquacious new novel. The author is far too deeply engaged in upholding a thesis to linger for long over any of the facts which she chronicles.”
– Lond. Times. 5: 170. My. 11, 06. 530w.
“The combination of fun with brilliance is her own, absolutely. Her ceaseless sense of the incongruity of congruities, and vice versa, makes an effect as of punning with ideas. There are a few excellent little sermons in the book, and many evidences that the writer thinks her thoughts in the language of David and Paul.”
+ – Nation. 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 640w.
“Mrs. Felkin appears to be a good woman and a loving wife who had nothing particular to say, and in the course of 357 pages has said it very well.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 340w.
“Miss Fowler is an author of irresistible wit and cleverness.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 809. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
“This story of her married life is not satisfying, although it is full of those clever generalizations for which the writer has a special gift.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 120w.
“The story is neither deep nor vital, but it is entertaining and refreshing.”
+ Outlook. 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
“The reader’s feeling of gratitude to her is not due for any subtle analysis of character, but for the brilliant powers of repartee with which she invests her characters.”
+ – Spec. 96: 950. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.
Fowler, Nathaniel Clark, jr. Starting in life: what each calling offers ambitious boys and young men; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.50. Little.
Authoritative and practical is this guide to the selection of a calling in life. The author has summoned to his aid successful representatives of each of the thirty different lines of work discussed. The book represents composite opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of all the vocations of life which young men are likely to enter.
Fowles, George Milton. Down in Porto Rico. 75c. Meth. bk.
“This is an unpretending little volume, giving in plain, matter-of-fact way a description of the island, its inhabitants, and their characteristics and customs.”—Outlook.
“His account, moreover, is marked by a strong religious bias.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ – Dial. 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 260w.
“It is written in a fair spirit, is neither critical nor eulogistic, but simply descriptive, is free from all affectation of fine writing, but is not characterized by either brilliance of style, pictorial description, or philosophic generalizations.”
+ Outlook. 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w. + Putnam’s. 1: 126. O. ’06. 60w.
France, Jacques Anatole Thibault. Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, tr. and introd. by Lafcadio Hearn. †$1.25. Harper.
A new edition of this delightful story of that dear old man, Sylvestre Bonnard, member of the Institute and scholar of world-wide reputation, who has lived a long life in the congenial companionship of his books and his cat, treasuring thru the years the memory of the love of his youth. When he finds the daughter of his Clémentine poor and abused he seeks, with a child-like ignorance of the world’s ways, to help her and in so doing commits his great crime: but by it he gains his point and becomes god-father to Jeanne’s romance and to her children.
“Even Lafcadio Hearn’s translation can hardly render in English all the charm of this wholly delightful story in which M. France put all the grace of style and delicacy of characterization which are his in his inspired moments.”
+ + Critic. 49: 286. S. ’06. 90w. + Dial. 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 40w.
“The story has had many translators, but of them all the translator of the present edition, Lafcadio Hearn, has been most happy in preserving the elusive fragrance of sentiment in this beautiful old rose-jar of a book.”
+ + Ind. 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w. Nation. 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Hearn’s skill as a translator is admirably shown in this book. There are some trifling errors of date in the story.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 190w.
Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi). Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi, newly tr. into English, with introd. and notes by Father Paschal Robinson. $1. Dolphin press.
“A simple, tasteful volume containing the work of Saint Francis, including a group of six letters translated by Father Paschal Robinson, of the Order of Friars Minor. The translator supplies an introduction which gives some account of the writings, makes some comment on their quality, and gives a brief history of the manuscripts and the various editions. A series of notes, an appendix relating to doubtful, lost, and spurious writings, and a bibliography, with an index, give the volume ... a completeness which many books of this kind lack.”—Outlook.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 739. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“Altogether, the volume is that of a thoroughly devout scholar, and should take the place of much of the well-meaning literature of St. Francis which has become so common of recent years, but has little to commend it except its good intentions.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 450w. + Outlook. 82: 328. F. 10, ’06. 90w. R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 70w.
“We may pronounce the apparatus of this book to be the best bit of modern work done in English on S. Francis of Assisi. The actual translation is to our mind the least unsatisfactory, as it certainly is the least important, part of the book.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 320w.
“Father Robinson has done an excellent piece of work, carefully avoiding giving offence to those who, while admiring St. Francis, do not accept the Roman obedience.”
+ Spec. 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 240w.
Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.). Sphinx’s lawyer. †$1.50. Stokes.
A story which perpetuates the spirit of a dead man, a “moral lunatic” thru the wife’s unceasing energy to carry on his cult. “Errington Welch-Kennard, the lawyer, is apparently the high priest of a band of admirers who revolve about the ‘sofa-bed’ of Sybil Algernon Heseltine, for the avowed purpose of keeping alive the dead man’s notorious memory. At much damage to his reputation, the hero has stood by her and her husband through their worst days and now consoles the widow with a genuine friendship which the pair are content to let the world misunderstand. Sybil’s revenge upon fate is to draw young men under the blighting influence of her husband’s life and work, but having a real affection for the lawyer, she bestirs herself to find him a wife, judging that at forty, after an unsavoury career which has exhausted his resources, nothing else can secure him safety and happiness.” (Bookm.)
“The book is irredeemiably vulgar; vulgar in design, vulgar in execution.”
– – Acad. 70: 383. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.
“A mistake both in its motive and its manner.”
– Ath. 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 260w.
“The book is good enough to provoke interest. For the robust, ‘The sphinx’s lawyer’ is not insipid reading; and granted her chosen milieu, Mrs. Frankau does not needlessly offend the timid.” Mary Moss.
+ – Bookm. 23: 630. Ag. ’06. 950w.
“Her book is simply bestial in its implications. There is a skill in the exhibition no doubt, but to any right-minded person it is disgusting.”
– – + Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 300w.
“A clever woman who uses her talent perversely is about what we have learned to think of the writer who calls herself ‘Frank Danby.’” Wm. M. Payne.
– + Dial. 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 240w. Lit. D. 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 190w. – N. Y. Times. 11: 447. Jl. 14, ’06. 430w.
Franklin, Benjamin. Writings of Benjamin Franklin; collected and ed., with a life and introd. by Albert H. Smyth. **$3. Macmillan.
When complete, this ten-volume work will be “almost certain to be the final edition of Franklin’s work and correspondence.” (Outlook.) It is authoritative, and is compiled from original sources, with material arranged in chronological order. The author “has utilized the Franklin papers, obtained in 1903 by the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the famous Stevens collection in the Library of Congress, and the thirteen thousand documents that are the property of the American Philosophical society. He has also ransacked the archives of Great Britain and of four continental nations, and has made many interesting ‘finds.’ Furthermore, he has taken pains to secure accurate transcripts and has corrected more than two thousand errors that had crept into former editions.” (Forum.) Two volumes have thus far appeared.
“What promises to be the most complete edition of Franklin and one of the most valuable contributions to American historical and literary scholarship. His own labors to add to the materials amassed by his immediate predecessor have evidently been very great and successful.” W. P. Trent.
+ + Forum. 37: 404. Ja. ’06. 2630w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Admirable new edition.” Paul Elmer More.
+ + Ind. 60: 98. Ja. 11, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“It would be easy to quarrel with Mr. Smyth for the scantiness and rather vague purpose of his notes. But in other and more essential respects this edition deserves the highest praise. It is far more complete than any hitherto published.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 1108. My. 10, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 4–6.) Ind. 61: 1235. N. 22, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)
“As the third general compilation of Franklin’s writings, it must stand against the works of Sparks and Bigelow; and if the promises made are performed, it will surpass in scope and in utility these earlier issues.”
+ + Nation. 82: 12. Ja. 4, ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In one instance Mr. Smyth has traced the author of two of these rejected essays, and in other instances he omits them because they are ‘dull and trivial.’ The editor’s notes are excellent, but it is puzzling to know how the name of Jarman should have been explained only on its third appearance, and why a reference to Whitefield (p. 234) is allowed to remain concealed in the initials only.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 179. Mr. 1, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)
“While Mr. Smyth has not found much that was new in this period, his careful observance of textual accuracy much increases the value of what is printed.”
+ + + Nation. 82: 429. My. 24, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 3.) + + Nation. 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 4.) N. Y. Times. 11: 204. Mr. 31, ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 5.) N. Y. Times. 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)
“In every respect the book is admirably fitted for library use.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 838. D. 2, ’05. 190w. (Review of v. 1.) + R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 180w. + R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 3.)
“As this excellent edition of Franklin’s writings approaches completion its superiority over all former editions is increasingly evident.”
+ + + R. of Rs. 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 7.)
Franklin, Benjamin. Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin; ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.
“Its carefully chosen selections should be put by the side of the ‘Autobiography’ on the shelves of the many Americans who are interested in the history and literature of their country, but are unable to allow themselves the luxury of owning either of the two best editions of Franklin’s works.” W. P. Trent.
+ Forum. 37: 399. Ja. ’06. 500w.
Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald. *$1.25. Dutton.
Reviewed by W. P. Trent.
+ + + Forum. 37: 400. Ja. ’06. 2520w.
Franklin, Benjamin. His life, written by himself; condensed for school use, with notes and a continuation of his life by D. H. Montgomery, with an introd. by W. P. Trent. *40c. Ginn.
The essential portions of Franklin’s autobiography have been retained, to which has been added interesting matter drawn from his other writings. The text is annotated, and of special importance is Professor Trent’s introduction.
Franklin, Frank George. Legislative history of naturalization in the United States. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
This study covers the subject of naturalization from the Revolutionary war to 1861 and in it the author has “sought to exhibit the course of opinion” upon the subject “chiefly as it manifested itself in discussion, reports, and legislation at the central forum of American political life.” A good bibliography and index are appended.
“Unfortunately the scope of the work is too narrow to give it more than a very limited value to the student of citizenship. As a purely ‘legislative history,’ however, there is little to criticize,—except that, it should be brought down to date so as to cover recent legislation.”
+ – Dial. 41: 121. S. 1, ’06. 190w.
“The mass of details given by the author ... prevents the mind from clearly grasping the important matter contained in the work. The value and importance of the study, however, cannot be overlooked.”
+ – Ind. 61: 640. S. 13, ’06. 420w.
“This work presents a careful and exhaustive study.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 140w. N. Y. Times. 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 330w.
“A decidedly useful monograph. The book is not conspicuous for literary graces, its author manifestly being wholly absorbed in the task of accumulating the facts.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 866. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.
Frantz, Henri. French pottery and porcelain. *$2.50. Scribner.
In this late addition to the “Newnes’ library of applied arts,” “The wonderful variety of French ceramics, from the private factory of Hélè de Hengest at Château d’Orion, in the time of Francis I down to the marvels turned out by the Sevres ovens and their extraordinary artistic and useful achievements in crockery in this book molded into a coherent chronicle of events, full of romance and story.... Not a town or a hamlet which produced a marvel of Faience escapes notice. The wonderful Faience violin, a masterpiece of Rouen as well as the polychrome bas-reliefs of Monstiers receive proportional attention in text and illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.
“The chief objection to the book taken by itself, without comparison with others of the series, is that no attempt is made to carry out the promise of the title. There are signs that the work has been written by some one not familiar with English, or else translated by some one not wholly competent, or not very careful. On the whole, the most important part of the book is its illustrations. These have been made and the examples selected with considerable good taste and thoroughness.”
– – + Nation. 83: 40. Jl. 12, ’06. 1130w.
“The volume is most comprehensive, particularly in its records of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
Fraser, John Foster. Canada as it is. $2. Cassell.
“This volume is a fair example of modern ‘special correspondent’ book-making. It is clever, confident, readable, and full of salient points and hurried slangy presentations of political situations.” (Spec.) The author “neglects no aspect of the country—the fruit-gardens of Ontario, the factories of Montreal and Toronto, the wheat-fields of Manitoba, the passes of the Rocky mountains, or the lumber forests of British Columbia. Mr. Foster Fraser has looked into every nook and cranny of all these countries with keen journalistic eye, and has swiftly penned his impressions.” (Acad.)
“The writing is always strong, vigorous, effective. Altogether, this is one of the best books on Canada that has been produced for a long time.”
+ + Acad. 68: 563. My. 27, ’05. 700w.
“Presents a fairly accurate picture of the Dominion and its policy.”
+ Ath. 1905, 1: 528. Ap. 29. 180w.
“Gifted with a quick eye, and the wide if not always very deep knowledge of the experienced journalist, he has produced an entirely readable little volume.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ – Dial. 41: 279. N. 1, ’06. 380w.
“Much of this is set forth attractively in Mr. Fraser’s little book.”
+ Nation. 82: 266. Mr. 29, ’06. 1550w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 810w.
“In short, Mr. Foster Fraser’s book on the Dominion is both strong and weak in the sense in which his previous work on the United States was strong and weak. There is an undoubted fascination in the cocksure statements conveyed through short, crisp, though occasionally jerky sentences.”
+ + – Spec. 95: 502. O. 7, ’05. 460w.
Fraser, John Foster. Pictures from the Balkans. $2. Cassell.
The author’s wanderings led him from Belgrade thru Servia, across the Turkish frontier, thru Albania and various parts of Macedonia, Bulgaria, in and out thru cities and wild mountainous country. He tells, in a pleasing fashion of the people and things which he encountered, of the strange medley of nations, governments and religions, of all the contending forces which go to make up that whirlpool known as the Balkans. Forty full page plates from photographs illustrate the volume.
“The author’s impartiality leads him into a certain amount of contradiction.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 570w.
“Mr. Fraser ... contrives to convey a considerable amount of information in an entertaining form, which makes no very exacting demands upon the attention of the reader.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 187. My. 25, ’06. 550w.
“When he avoids politics and mingles with the people and restrains his air of British indifference and intolerance, he is quite charming—particularly in his descriptions of gardens and tobacco-fields and where other elements of natural scenery arouse his artistic instincts.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 597. S. 29, ’06. 2320w.
Fraser, Mary (Crawford) (Mrs. Hugh Fraser). In the shadow of the Lord: a romance of the Washingtons. †$1.50. Holt.
Mary Ball who repulsed an unworthy Scottish lover became the second wife of Augustine Washington and sailed with him to Virginia. It is the account of these happenings that opens this romance of the Washingtons. “In due course George is born, and it is his early life which forms the chief interest of the book. He makes an attractive, but somewhat pedantic young hero, but is, indeed, too difficult a subject for Mrs. Fraser, who writes with far more sympathy of his father, a fine old gentleman, and of his mother, a woman who lived and died ‘in the shadow of the Lord,’ than she does of the young lad.” (Lond. Times.)
“The characterization, which is the mainstay of such a book, is excellent throughout.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 260w.
“Mrs. Fraser’s portrait of Washington hardly fills the frame of one’s ideal. Upon the whole, however, the novel is a creditable and interesting picture of colonial days.”
+ – Lit. D. 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 290w.
“She is too ponderous in her study of child life.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 338. O. 5, ’06. 420w.
“If placed in the hands of an intelligent person who, by some anomalous circumstance, had never heard of George Washington, the book would still—ay perhaps more—appeal to the heart and mind as a splendid biography of a splendid family.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 740w.
“The story is well arranged, the persons concerned are sufficiently lifelike and the general effect ... is dignified, and wholesome.”
+ Outlook. 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 120w.
“It is a mistake to weary the reader with details of domestic events, marriages, births, and so on, which have nothing to do with the story.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 647. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“Mrs. Fraser has made her book hang together rather more closely than is the case with most historical novels.”
+ – Spec. 97: 442. S. 29, ’06. 490w.
Fraser, William Alexander. Thirteen men. †$1.50. Appleton.
Thirteen stories of life in Canada and the East Indies. One of the men happens to be a fighting ram, one a king cobra, another a coon, and still another a collie dog, but they claim the reader’s interest no less than the “squaw-man,” the college-bred man and the Scotch lumberman.
“One ought not to quarrel with Mr. Fraser’s stories for what they are not when they are so much that is clever and interesting. For they are about things that grip the heart, and they march along with a brave, gay manner that is like a whiff of sea wind.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 320w.
“In these stories the matter as well as the manner shows the deadening influence of facile imitation.”
– Outlook. 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
Frazer, James G. Lectures on the early history of the kingship. *$2.75. Macmillan.
These lectures deal with the early history of kingship, and in sketching a general theory of its evolution show that “it was as sagacious magicians rather than valiant warriors that men first gained kingship.” (Outlook.) The first part of the discussion is introductory and illustrative of savage beliefs in general, the second part surveys the field of savage chieftainship and the third part deals with the classical evidence.
“The points here mentioned detract little from the charm of the work, and those who turn to these lectures for a foretaste of the new ‘Golden bough’ will find, as of old, skilful exposition of the argument, allied to elegance of diction and no little learning.”
+ + – Acad. 70: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 1970w.
“He has made a notable contribution to the literature of primitive sociology.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 864. Jl. ’06. 1030w.
“It is the effect of a good book not only to teach, but also to stimulate and suggest, and we think this the best and highest quality and one that will recommend these lectures to all intelligent readers, as well as to the learned.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 757. D. 2. 1520w.
“In his handling of the Mediterranean religions, whether he is concerned with legend or with cult, his judgments lack authority and the impress of special insight or adequate study.” Lewis R. Farnell.
+ + – Hibbert J. 4: 928. Jl. ’06. 2360w. + + – Lond. Times. 5: 7. Ja. 5, ’06. 530w.
“Of Dr. Frazer’s charm of style and literary skill in arranging his material it is needless to speak, and the points noted above detract in no way from the interest of the book, which, indeed, might rest its reputation on the classical material alone.” N. W. T.
+ + – Nature. 73: sup. 4. N. 30. ’05. 1490w.
“It would not be hazardous to say that Dr. Frazer has shown himself to be the most learned of English scholars. Altogether here as elsewhere in recent years, Dr. Frazer shows himself more ingenious than convincing.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 10: 921. D. 30, ’05. 990w.
“Not often nowadays does one come upon so ingenious a piece of original study as these lectures.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 210w.
“Interesting and suggestive work.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 112. Ja. 27, ’06. 1140w.
Freeman, Rev. James Edward. Man and the Master. 75c. Whittaker.
The chapters on the life of the Master “simply deal with certain phases or aspects of that life and seek to lay emphasis upon cardinal characteristics” without attempting to set forth any chronological order.
“While there is nothing in these pages which has not been said before, there is nothing which does not need to be said again and again, and it is all said briefly, warmly, impressively.”
+ Outlook. 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 60w.
Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins). [Debtor.] †$1.50. Harper.
“It is the story itself, with its unlovely incidents too often and too minutely related, that is disappointing.”
+ – Acad. 69: 1176. N. 11, ’05. 380w. + – Ath. 1905, 2: 860. D. 23. 190w.
“No better book of the honest, old-fashioned kind has appeared this year.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1340. D. 7, ’05. 660w.
“Not worth telling in its bare outlines, it is made into a masterpiece of Mrs. Freeman’s method.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 217. F. 17, ’06. 430w.
“This is the most unconventional story that Mrs. Freeman has written ... the dénouement is at once artistically and ethically satisfying.”
+ + Reader. 7: 227. Ja. ’06. 430w.
“The book is full of little vignettes of village life charmingly depicted, and the story is well put together.”
+ Spec. 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 280w.
Freer, William Bowen. Philippine experiences of an American teacher; a narrative of work and travel in the Philippine islands. **$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a narrative of three years of teaching and travel in the Philippines.... It is particularly interesting for the light it throws on many phases of life and character not noticed to any extent in other books; and the testimony it furnishes of the real progress of American educational work in the island is extremely gratifying.... The book is illustrated with reproductions of photographs of scenery and life.” (Critic.) The author hopes that his book “will result in a better appreciation of some desirable traits of Filipino character, in a stronger conviction of the unwisdom of granting at this time, any greater degree of self-government than the Filipinos already possess, and in a fuller understanding of the work that is being done in the public schools in the attempt to fit the people for the eventual exercise of complete autonomy.”
“The book is especially valuable for the near views that it gives of the everyday life of the islanders, their manners and customs, and their personal characteristics.”
+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 217. O. ’06. 80w.
“His story, told with a simplicity that recalls ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ conveys a more vivid and life like picture of life among the Filipinos than is to be found in more pretentious volumes.”
– + Cath. World. 83: 837. S. ’06. 590w. + Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 110w.
“The best part of the book is that which describes the methods employed by the teachers.”
+ + Dial. 41: 71. Ag. 1, ’06. 410w.
“An easily read, unpretentious, but informative and interesting book.”
+ + Ind. 61: 995. O. 25, ’06. 440w.
“His work is a valuable one. The book is especially valuable for its pictures of the home life, the personal characteristics, the customs of the plain people of the islands. It is a study from the ground up.” George R. Bishop.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 484. Ag. 4, ’06. 2480w.
“Although his style has no distinction, and is sometimes marred by carelessness, it is unaffected. The author has shown skill in selecting the human, the concrete, the picturesque, to present to his readers, and in giving at the same time the impression that he has shown the typical.”
+ Outlook. 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 220w.
“This narrative of his work and travel in the islands therefore sheds more light on the special conditions which we were called on to face there than all the works of dilettante political economists who have sought to tell the needs of the islands and the short comings of American rule.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 541. Ap. 28, ’06. 1140w. + World To-Day. 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 150w.
French, Allen. Pelham and his friend Tim. †$1.50. Little.
A stirring story for boys in which two chums have various exciting adventures, the chief of which grows out of a mill strike. The tale teaches wholesome lessons of comradeship and charity.
“Mr. French has infused vigor and action into his pages.”
+ Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 130w.
“A good, wholesome book for boys, and one that will hold their interest from the first page to the last.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 150w.
French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French) (Anne Warner, pseud.). Seeing France with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.
France as seen with Uncle John is a veritable scenic railway, for the lively and loquacious old gentleman drags his two nieces over the entire map of that interesting country at a rate which makes not only their sightseeing, but the conduct of their love affairs, of which he disapproves, a difficult proposition. His running comment upon the places and things visited is most amusing and forms a clever satire upon the Uncle John type of American. There is much wit, and under the wit wisdom, and the traveler may profitably read it not only for entertainment but as an example of how not to see France.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Falls so far below what she has taught her readers to expect that even her enemies, if she has any, must be sorry that she has published it. The book provides merely a mild sort of entertainment.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 320w.
“It is quite impossible to read this little satire by Anne Warner without laughter.”
+ Outlook. 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French). Susan Clegg and her neighbors’ affairs, †$1. Little.
Susan Clegg once more—nor has she forgotten the little matter of occupying the gossip-stage’s center, and doing the principal bit of talking herself. Mrs. Lathrop is as cheerful a listener as ever, and readily susceptible to Susan’s versions of neighborhood happenings.
“We do not think, however, that the present volume is quite up to the former short stories by this author, and from our point-of-view it is very inferior to ‘The rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.’”
+ – Arena. 36: 334. S. ’06. 120w.
“Latent pathos, the soul of true humor, is entirely absent from the book. The author nearly always relies on grotesque situations, and here her skill is such that the counterfeit often rings like the current coin.”
– + Lit. D. 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 320w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 170w.
“Her observations are marked by philosophy as well as wit.”
+ Outlook. 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 200w.
French, Lillie Hamilton. Mrs. Van Twiller’s salon. †$1.50. Pott.
Mrs. Van Twiller gathers about her various types of New York society—an artist, a scribe of social doings, a professor, a major, various men of the world, etc.—and dominates the group in characteristic modern salon fashion.
“An amusing volume on the order of the ‘Potiphar papers.’”
+ Critic. 47: 578. D. ’05. 10w.
“The book is not only eminently readable, but very suggestive.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 765. N. 11, ’05. 310w.
French, Samuel Livingston. Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1863. $2.50. Pub. soc. of New York.
A “concise and effective” history of the movements of the army of the Potomac whose purpose is to award the honors impartially, and to frame an absolutely unbiased and correct judgment concerning the various commanders.
“Purports to set forth ‘an absolutely unbiased and correct judgment concerning the various commanders.’ The volume consists largely of extracts from documentary material, which the author uses in such a way as effectually to thwart the purpose stated above.”
– Am. Hist. R. 12: 210. O. ’06. 50w.
“The volume is composed mainly of extracts from official documents and letters, chosen to bolster up the rather absurd and discredited positions taken by the author.”
– Dial. 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 220w.
“Unfortunately excerpt and comment are jumbled together without sufficient typographical distinction between the two, and it is often difficult to tell what is official record and what is Mr. French. The proofreading, moreover, is frequently of a sort to add to the reader’s distress. But the matter collated is of the greatest value.”
– + Ind. 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 220w.
“He succeeds in shedding considerable new light upon many acts of the Army of the Potomac and its commanders.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 123. Jl. 2, ’06. 150w. N. Y. Times. 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 250w.
Frenssen, Gustav. Holy land; exclusive authorized tr. of “Hilligenlei;” tr. from the German by Mary Agnes Hamilton. †$1.50. Estes.
“It is less a continuous tale than a collection of charming scenes—simple poetic, realistic—of the lives of humble folk working and striving in a little harbour town in Holstein. The keynote of the book is struck by Hule Beiderwand, ever watching for the coming of a ‘brave man who shall bring the whole land beneath his sword until it is a holy land in deed as in name.’”—Acad.
“Is an exceptionally interesting book, informed throughout with strong and tender feeling. Miss Hamilton’s translation is excellent, especially as reproducing the atmosphere of poetry and romance and of spiritual enthusiasm which is essentially a charm of the original work.”
+ + Acad. 71: 332. O. 6, ’06. 150w.
“Recommend it most heartily to all who regard the art of fiction as something more than a clever spinning of plots and a pleasant arrangement of words.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 400. O. 6. 180w.
“The fundamental impression which it is the author’s purpose to produce is created by a long succession of delicate touches, working upon the subconsciousness of the reader, and gradually combining in cumulative effect.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + + Dial. 41: 282. N. 1, ’06. 860w. Lit. D. 32: 448. Mr. 24, ’06. 1290w.
“With the exception of a few passages which bear evidence of a struggle with the style of the original, the translator’s painstaking work has been successful.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 360w.
“Though the preacher Frenssen may justify some chapters by his seriousness of ethical purpose, the artist can offer no apology for his offenses against the canons of good taste.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 910w.
Frenssen, Gustav. Jorn Uhl; tr. by F. S. Delmer. †$1.50. Estes.
“To quote his own comment on a German landscape, ‘It was all clearly and finely and most lovingly painted, with a touch of plain rustic honesty, and a rough, hearty fruitfulness in it.’” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“Frenssen tells his story with unique power. He tells it from his own soul. He is a vivisector of his subject’s soul. He probes to the primitive spring of action and of feeling. The style is just the vesture which such truth would seem to demand. It is direct, primitive, and as a rule, bald. It is also live, searching and moving.”
+ + Lit. D. 31: 318. S. 2, ’05. 1070w.
Friedenwald, Herbert. Declaration of independence. **$2. Macmillan.
“Dr. Friedenwald would do well to simplify his style, which is curiously involved.”
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 422. Ja. ’06. 1000w.
Friedrich-Friedrich, Emmy von (Emmy von Rhoden, pseud.). Young violinist; tr. from the 12th ed. of the German of Emma von Rhoden, by Mary E. Ireland. $1. Saalfield.
A pathetic story with a happy ending following the hardships and final happiness of Mignon Marconi, who, when her father died had as an only inheritance her beloved violin. She runs away from cruel treatment, is cared for by a band of traveling musicians and finally becomes the adopted daughter of a lady bountiful.
Friswell, Laura Hain. In the sixties and seventies. **$3.50. Turner, H. B.
“A pleasing volume of personal impressions of literary and social people of note.... The author is the daughter of an English essayist and novelist who had agreeable and friendly relations with Thackeray, Cruikshank, Thomas Cooper the Chartist, Kingsley, and other noted men of his generation, while Miss Friswell has many anecdotes of her own acquaintance, Sir Walter Besant, his collaborator, Mr. J. S. Rice, Sir Henry Stanley, William Black, and many writers of our own day.”—Outlook.
“Is unfortunately disfigured by a good deal of triviality; some egotism, for which, however, the author apologizes handsomely; and one or two indiscreet passages.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 830. D. 16. 280w.
“As a record of ‘Impressions of literary people and others,’ it is vivid, rapid, thoroughly entertaining and seldom frivolous, and, despite occasional carelessness ... generally well written.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – Dial. 40: 188. Mr. 16, ’06. 2240w. + Lit. D. 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 200w.
“The contents are not quite worthy of the excellent paper and print of this handsome volume. They would have been more in place in a magazine. This is mainly because there is nothing whatever of political interest and it is usually their politics that make English memoirs worth reading.”
– + Nation. 83: 184. Ag. 30, ’06. 420w. N. Y. Times. 11: 20. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.
“Her book is of interest.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 960w.
“The book is cheerful reading, and, while it is occasionally trivial, is in the main a good specimen of a class of books which entertain one’s leisure hours in a most satisfactory way.”
+ Outlook. 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.
“The book is curiously without ‘purple patches’ ... but it is good to read.”
+ Spec. 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 260w.
From servitude to service: the history and work of Southern institutions for the education of the negro. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.
“By its freedom from the polemic spirit and by its adherence to actual facts and conditions, this book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of what is happening to the negro.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 160w. + – Outlook. 82: 520. Mr. 3, ’06. 210w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
Frothingham, Eugenia Brooks. Evasion. †$1.50. Houghton.
“About two men and a girl. The weak-willed Apollo cheats at cards, and the strong Antaeus shoulders the blame. The girl marries Apollo out of pity and to help her family, regretting it only once, but for a long time.” (Pub. Opin.) “‘The evasion’ contains a plot absorbing enough to hold one’s attention tensely to the end, but it will be remembered longer for its vivid portrayal of the lives of the idle rich and the convincing contrast drawn in its pages between these seemingly useless members of society and the big majority that counts.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Her style is cosmopolitan and her point of view that of the dweller in both continents, but her spiritual outlook is of the younger world, and to the end we are left in doubt whether she is on the side of authority, or of negation.”
+ – Acad. 70: 551. Je. 9, ’06. 350w.
“There is much that is admirable about the volume. But the prologue strikes the wrong note.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 415. Je. ’06. 640w.
“It is so good that one wishes it were better. Miss Frothingham should studiously avoid the morbid and overstrained effects which are her most serious menace as a novelist.”
+ – Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 130w.
“The great army of happy folk who need no warning will find its picture of Boston as accurate as the picture of New York in ‘The house of mirth.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 210w.
“The story is interesting, well constructed, and written with charm and spirit.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 560w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – North American. 182: 927. Je. ’06. 70w.
“The story is strong, and like many strong things not especially pleasant.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 480. Ap. 14, ’06. 70w. + R. of Rs. 33: 758. Je. ’06. 20w.
Fuchs, Karl Johannes. Trade policy of Great Britain and her colonies since 1860, tr. by Constance H. M. Archibald. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is marked by so much of a scientific spirit as to be a really useful aid towards the study of our fiscal history during the period which it covers.”
+ + Spec. 96: sup. 643. Ap. 28, ’06. 390w.
Fuller, Caroline Macomber. Flight of puss Pandora. †$1.50. Little.
Weejums, the alley cat’s kitten, has a formidable rival in Pandora, the apartment cat. Miss Fuller’s pets have a way of opening homes and human hearts for near inspection. But the scrutiny results in lessons of observation and human kindness.
“An animal tale which will please all children who love cats.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
Fuller, Hubert Bruce. Purchase of Florida; its history and diplomacy. *$2.50. Burrows.
“This elaborate monograph ... was suggested by the author’s conviction that the epoch identified with the acquisition of Florida and with our early entanglement with Spain had not received adequate treatment at the hands of historians, and that a careful elucidation of this period and of the events which marked the struggle to secure New Orleans and the Mississippi would contribute a pregnant and interesting chapter in our national history. For his material Mr. Fuller has gone direct to original sources.”—Lit. D.
“The result of these investigations has enabled him to present in a new light many momentous episodes in the early diplomatic history of the nation.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 180w.
“Excellent as is Mr. Fuller’s book and valuable as are the new facts that it contains, it is open to two serious criticisms. The material upon which it is based is inadequate, and the knowledge which it displays of European diplomatic situations is insufficient.”
+ – Nation. 83: 536. D. 20, ’06. 1340w.
“Mr. Fuller’s account of this whole affair is the best we know of.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 1130w.
“Close revision should be had in the event of another edition, and the work thus be made still more valuable to historical students, who will undoubtedly welcome it if only because it gives ready access to much documentary information hitherto not generally available.”
+ + – Outlook. 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
“A scholarly monograph.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 639. N. ’06. 50w.
Fuller, Robert Higginson. [Golden hope a story of the time of King Alexander the Great.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The story is told in a style in which care and the exactness of historical detail are nicely mingled with the charm of genuine sensitiveness to the romantic situation. The book is a fine story of adventure.”
+ Reader. 6: 722. N. ’05. 170w.
Fyvie, John. Some literary eccentrics. **$3. Pott.
Eleven studies whose best present Landor, Hazlitt and George Wither. The other “eccentrics” are Thomas Day, Crabb Robinson, Douglas Jerrold, King James I, Sir John Mandeville, Babbage, Beckford and John Buncle.
“Taken for no more than it professes to be, the book is a good one.”
+ Dial. 41: 245. O. 16, ’06. 490w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 665. O. 13, ’06. 1320w. Putnam’s. 1: 383. D. ’06. 130w. + Sat. R. 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 140w.
“They are hardly worth binding up into a book. They add very little to our knowledge, and they are not a work of a writer alive to the picturesqueness of the past or sensitive to the harmonies of the English language.”
– Spec. 96: 906. Je. 9, ’06. 1170w.