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Gale, Zona. [Romance island.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
The charm of this story does not lie in the plot, indeed one does the book an injustice in sketching the course of St. George’s love affair with the New York heiress whose father has been made king of Yaque, a mysterious island in the eastern seas, which has been ruled by hereditary monarchs since 1050 B. C. and whose civilization is what the world will be a thousand years from now. St. George, an ex-newspaper man now a millionaire, meets the heiress thru an attempt to murder her, and follows her in behalf of his old paper, to Yaque where she is offered her father’s throne and a royal husband. All this, however, is merely a framework about which Miss Gale winds a series of charming fancies. It is a dainty and illusive romance from cover to cover in which pure sentiment, vivid imagination, practical newspaper routine, humor, satire and good character drawing are marvelously blended.
“The story is thrillingly exciting from cover to cover. Those readers who do not demand the element of probability, or even of possibility, in their novels, will enjoy ‘Romance island.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ – Arena. 36: 688. D. ’06. 170w.
Galloway, Julia Rebecca. When the lilacs bloom, and other poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
Songs of springtime give place to poems of feast days, and these to patriotic themes in this little volume of unpretentious verse.
“There are echoes of many greater poets on the pages, yet sincerity is manifest.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 140w.
Galloway, Thomas Walton. First course in zoology: a text-book for secondary schools, normal schools and colleges. *$2.50. Blakiston.
A thorogoing text-book whose plan of treatment has been tested in the author’s own class room. By its use he has secured good interest and fine spirit in the study of animals and animal life on the part of beginners ranging from the third year of the preparatory school to freshmen in college.
Gannett, Henry, Garrison, Miss Carl Louise, and Houston, Edwin James. Commercial geography. *$1.25. Am. bk.
This three-part text book on trade treats commercial conditions, commercial products and commercial countries respectively. Numerous illustrations accompany the text.
“Teachers of geography will find the book most useful.” W. S. J.
+ El. School. T. 6: 439. Ap. ’06. 260w. + – Nation. 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 340w. R. of Rs. 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“One of the faults of this generous inclusiveness is the difficulty in the logical distribution of emphasis. Some errors have crept in.” J. Paul Goode.
+ – School R. 14: 457. Je. ’06. 930w.
Gapon, Father George. Story of my life. *$3. Dutton.
“A valuable and interesting contribution to the history of the Russian revolutionary movement. All suspicious sensationalism is avoided.... The story of a great organization is convincingly, straightforwardly, and clearly told.” (Lond. Times.) “The story of Gapon’s boyhood, the description of the massacre of January, 1905, the account of his escape are good. So are the pictures, which, though few in number, give interesting glimpses of Russian life in town and country.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 500w.
“Told with vigor and deep feeling.”
+ Critic. 48: 472. My. ’06. 200w.
“It is instructive also as to the motives and methods of the revolutionists, and as to the corruption, cruelty, and tyranny of the autocracy.”
+ Dial. 40: 395. Je. 15, ’06. 190w.
“His book is very modest in tone.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 416. D. 1, ’05. 1220w.
“The opportunity thus furnished for the study of a curious character has considerable value, from a psychological point of view.”
+ Nation. 82: 371. My. 3, ’06. 1000w.
“The story of Gapon’s life is told without dates, or without more than the vaguest reference to time. This deficiency greatly diminishes the value of the book.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 138. Mr. 3, ’06. 220w. + Outlook. 83: 138. My. 19, ’06. 250w. Pub. Opin. 40: 332. Mr. 17, ’06. 830w.
Gardenhire, Samuel Major. Long arm. †$1.50. Harper.
Le Droit Conners, artist from inclination and training, non-professional detective from pure “love of the game” figures in a series of fascinating mysteries upon which he brings to bear not clumsy machine-made discretion and discernment, but a finer quality of penetration which expresses itself as an original art study well worth etching. He is an apologist for erring humanity up to the point of a crime’s outraging even the primal instinct then he becomes pitiless. There are eight baffling mysteries in the group.
“Personally, we do not find LeDroit Conners as entertaining as Old Sleuth, although perhaps his methods are more subtle.”
– + Critic. 48: 475. My. ’06. 50w. + Ind. 60: 1166. My. 17, ’06. 120w.
“In every instance the plot is ingeniously and skilfully worked out, while the ‘dramatis personae’ from Conners himself to the humblest fourth villain, reflect on Mr. Gardenhire’s part an intimate knowledge of human nature.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 710w.
“All of the stories are good not only from the detective point of view, but from the novelist’s as well, and their ingenuity by no means overshadows their human interest.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 143. Mr. 10, ’06. 640w. + Outlook. 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 80w.
“This new member of the detective fraternity is quite worthy to succeed his illustrious predecessors.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
“The book belongs to that large category which is suitable for reading in railway trains or in other places of detention; but Le Droit Conners cannot be called a very noteworthy creation.”
+ – Spec. 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w.
Gardiner, John Hays. Bible as English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A work which confines its attention to the literary character of the Bible as it appears in the authorized version, though recognizing and indorsing the main principles and results of historical criticism.” (Bib. World.) The larger portion of the book is given to the Bible itself “in the original tongues,” and the remaining part to the translations.
“An excellent work of its kind.”
+ Bib. World. 28: 351. N. ’06. 30w. + Nation. 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 1060w.
“Has a value limited only by the extent of its circulation, which cannot be too wide. What one particularly enjoys about it is, that though distinctly scholarly, it is distinctly not academic. It is literary as distinguished from, and opposed to pedagogic.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 697. O. 27, ’06. 2650w.
Gardiner, Ruth Kimball. Heart of a girl. †$1.50. Barnes.
“All of Mrs. Gardiner’s gifts of intuition, memory, imagination, and observation have been marshalled in the depiction of Margaret Carlin, and her years of training in the art of writing stand her in good stead.”
+ Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 150w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
Gardner, Alice. Theodore of Studium: his life and times. $3. Longmans.
“Miss Gardner presents her present volume as ‘a sketch of a notable man, who lived in notable times,’ as one in whose life ‘were focussed many great historical tendencies which gave their character to the Churches and the civil societies of the Middle Ages.’” (Am. Hist. R.) “The iconoclastic controversy, though its history is much less well-known than that of the great theological controversies which preceded it, is yet, as Miss Gardner points out, of more practical interest to us at the present day; and the other conflict in which Theodore was engaged, that as to the marriage of Constantine, ... was based upon a true moral principle.... After an introductory chapter dealing with the earlier history of iconoclasm we have a detailed narrative of Theodore’s life, followed by an account of his services to hymnology and calligraphy, translations of some of his hymns, a short sketch of the succeeding history to 1057, and a bibliography of Theodore’s works, while the book is embellished by excellent photographs of the remains of the Studite monastery.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
“Miss Gardner is at her best—as is natural in one of her training and associations—in vivid presentation of the history of the time, yet she never fails to perceive its psychological bearing upon the individuality of her subject. In a future edition the author will doubtless correct some errors and omissions in the index, and a few mistakes of facts and nomenclature pardonable in an author not personally acquainted with the Orient.” H. H. Spoer.
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 637. Ap. ’06. 1020w.
“Is an attractive narrative, well put together and based upon careful study, especially of Theodore’s own works.” E. W. Brooks.
+ Eng. Hist. R. 21: 352. Ap. ’06. 940w.
“Whether, however, we agree or disagree with Miss Gardner’s estimate of the merits of the controversy, we can be wholly grateful to her for a work which submits the documents to a fresh examination and draws from them an account so lucid, so discreet and readable, of a little-known age.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 1120w.
“This is above all a scholarly work. With all her skill in handling her topic she has not succeeded in turning out an interesting book.” W. v. S.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 1430w.
“This is a very learned work, if somewhat marred in execution by the writer’s prepossessions.”
+ + – Spec. 95: 764. N. 11, ’05. 390w.
Gardner, Percy. Grammar of Greek art. **$1.75. Macmillan.
Outlook. 83: 688. Jl. 21, ’06. 250w.
Gardner, William. [Life of Stephen A. Douglas.] $1.50. Eastern pub.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 100w. + Ind. 60: 344. F. 8, ’06. 60w.
Garland, Hamlin. Witch’s gold; il. by W. L. Taylor, with colored decoration by H. A. Linnell. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A recast of “The spirit of Sweetwater.” It has been restored from its cut down serial form to meet the more expensive requirements of a holiday edition.
“In its present form is a simple healthful love-tale of the West, adapted to beguile an idle hour.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 90w.
“The story does not represent Mr. Garland at his best; it is simply an amiable frontier romance, altogether barren of the grim power of ‘Main-travelled roads.’”
+ – Nation. 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 390w.
“The tale probably most attractive in a cruder and more elusive form, suffers in the lengthening.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 581. S. 22, ’06. 550w. Outlook. 84: 338. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
Garnett, W. H. Stuart. Turbines. *$2.75. Macmillan.
This volume “while written with a view to interest amateurs, calls special attention to those points and problems deserving the more particular notice of students. It has been the author’s object to trace the development of the science of turbines as it appears to have grown in the minds of the inventors responsible for its material manifestations. The two parts into which the book is divided deal respectively, with water and steam turbines. Appendices contain tables, notes on the ‘Behavior of gas,’ some mathematical principles, and other matter. There are eighty-three illustrations in the book.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a popular work of a most excellent sort—the sort that is calculated to instruct rather than merely to interest or amuse, and in which the instruction is given in such plain and simple terms that it can be understood by the non-technical reader. On the whole the book is one which we can heartily recommend to American purchasers.”
+ + Engin. N. 56: 52. Jl. 12, ’06. 480w.
“A book which will do much, it is probable, to make the layman take a more intelligent interest in this the latest and most striking development of the skill of the mechanical engineer.”
+ + Nature. 75: 53. N. 15, ’06. 380w. N. Y. Times. 11: 443. Jl. 7, ’06. 270w.
Garrett, John Henry. Idyllic Avon: being a simple description of the Avon from Tewkesbury to above Stratford-on-Avon; with songs and pictures of the river and its neighborhood. **$3. Putnam.
A fifty mile pilgrimage which the author and some companions made up Shakespeare’s Avon. “With songs and anecdotes and riverside pictures, John Henry Garrett has written a half-personal, half-historical volume to show that the Avon has other personalities than that of Shakespeare, other towns of interest than Stratford.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is pathetic that a man who can make such good pictures and write pretty good prose should be tempted into making such very bad verse.” Anna Benneson McMahan.
+ + – Dial. 41: 201. O. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Will be a valuable guide for anyone who wishes to follow his steps.”
+ Ind. 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 160w.
“Is one of the most thorough of its kind.”
+ Nation. 83: 349. O. 25, ’06. 280w.
“All in all, he has written a delightful book—anecdotal, historic, poetic, and especially personal and intimate.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 490w. + R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 30w.
“We hear about the history, about the antiquities of the country, about its natural beauties, about the inhabitants and their manners and customs, and hear it in such a way and in such proportions that we are never tired. It is not a book to criticise; it is one to enjoy.”
+ + Spec. 97: 338. S. 8, ’06. 310w.
Garriott, E. B. Long-range weather forecasts. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
“The bulletin is a formal denunciation on the part of the Government’s meteorological bureau, of weather forecasters and forecasts that pretend to describe the main features of the weather for long periods ahead: periods much longer than those covered by the geographical progression of storms, floods, cold waves, and the like across the corresponding areas of observation.”—Engin. N.
“The bulletin may serve many an engineer as an interesting bit of reading for hours of relaxation.”
+ Engin. N. 53: 532. My. 18, ’06. 330w.
Garrison, William Lloyd. Words of Garrison. **$1.25. Houghton.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“With what Garrison said and with what he did, admirably summarized, the reader is now provided with something worthy of the name of ‘A reformer’s handbook.’” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ Atlan. 97: 116. Ja. ’06. 170w.
“It is impossible to believe that a richer selection could not have been compiled, even if also this were attained partly by omission of what is here presented.”
+ – Ind. 59: 1344. D. 7, ’05. 280w.
Gasiorowski, Waclaw. Napoleon’s love story; tr. by the Count de Soissons. $1.50. Dutton.
The romantic relations between Madame Walewska and Napoleon furnish the subject for this novel, written by a follower, of the school of Sienkiewicz. “The scenes are in Warsaw, Vienna, Paris. The plot shows how the Polish patriots sought to use the emperor’s interest in Mary for their own ends, and for those ends inspired in a noble and tender girl a sort of sacrificial fire—a sacrificial fire which was transfigured in due time to something quite different.” (N. Y. Times.) “The central, all-compelling figure of the book is Napoleon; whether present or absent he is the determining force, the master-spirit in whom everyone is merged.” (Acad.)
“We have read every word of the story with the greatest pleasure and interest.”
+ Acad. 69: 686. Jl. 1, ’05. 530w.
“The translation is well done, but for a certain spasmodic method of conversation and a few slips of idiom.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 42. Jl. 8. 230w.
“This romance is chiefly remarkable for its length, caused by a remorseless spinning out of dialogue and elaboration of descriptive detail.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 150w. Ind. 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 330w. Nation. 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 70w.
“Even a translation rendered utterly inadequate by a purely mechanical knowledge of the English tongue fails to conceal the fine skill and dramatic power of the author and the romantic and human interest of the story.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 30. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.
“It is too long and treats of an unpleasant theme ... but it is a strong piece of work, with passages of rare dramatic power and some fine characterizations.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 180w. + R. of Rs. 33: 767. Je. 16, ’06. 60w.
“The novel is very long-winded, full of somewhat tedious conversations: the dialogues translated do not run at all easily, and for an understanding of the intrigues which surround the heroine a knowledge of Polish politics is required which few Englishmen possess.”
+ – Sat. R. 100: 251. Ag. 19, ’05. 410w.
“M. Gasiorowski, in short, has shown delicacy as well as power in his treatment of a difficult theme.”
+ Spec. 95: 359. S. 9, ’05. 820w.
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson). Works of Mrs. Gaskell. 8v. ea. $1.50. Putnam.
There will be eight volumes to complete the “Knutsford edition” of Mrs. Gaskell’s works. The old favorites are being recast in modern book form and the preparation is in progress under the editorial supervision of Dr. Adolphus W. Ward, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, who contributes a general introduction to the issue and a special one to each volume based upon material of important biographical and critical interest. The volumes are as follows, “Mary Barton;” “Cranford;” “Ruth;” “North and South;” “My Lady Ludlow;” “Sylvia’s lovers;” “Cousin Phyllis;” “A dark night’s work;” etc.; and “Wives and daughters.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 300. S. 15. 300w. + Ath. 1906, 2: 334. S. 22. 100w.
“The ‘Knutsford edition’ of the works of Mrs. Gaskell, to which we had looked forward eagerly, is, it must be confessed something of a disappointment. The paper is so thin that the print shows through from one side to another. ‘The Life of Charlotte Bronte’ is omitted ... the introductions, though breathing a very sympathetic spirit of admiration, contain little that we did not know already.”
– Lond. Times. 5: 312. S. 14, ’06. 2630w.
“This attractive edition, is substantial and tasteful without being too elaborate.”
+ Outlook. 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 170w. + Sat. R. 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
“The ‘Knutsford edition,’ well printed and in convenient-shaped volumes, will prove a real godsend both to those who have not read Mrs. Gaskell, and to the older generation who are anxious to revive their memories of her pure and admirable style.”
+ + Spec. 97: 437. S. 29, ’06. 1650w.
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson). [Cranford]; ed. with an introd. and annotations by William E. Simonds. 30c. Ginn.
A student’s edition of “Cranford” prepared for college entrance purposes.
Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis A. Henry the Third and the church. *$4. Macmillan.
“Dr. Gasquet shows a wide acquaintance with the sources for this period, and seldom makes serious mistakes, but there is evidence here and there that he has hardly concerned himself sufficiently with the criticism of the authorities which he had used, while there are also to be found some indications either of unfamiliarity with the details of thirteenth-century history or of carelessness in passing his book through the press.” T. F. Tout.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 780. O. ’06. 1000w.
Gates, Eleanor (Mrs. Richard Walton Tully). [Plow-woman.] †$1.50. McClure.
“Two girls with their crippled father come up from Texas to settle on a ‘section’ in Dakota. One, the plow-woman has to be the man of the family, and her strong body and brave, steadfast spirit carry her nobly through many hardships. The evil intrigues of the man who asserted a prior claim to their section, the dangerous outbreak of Indian captives from the near-by fort, the menace of disorderly ‘Shanty town’ filled with camp followers, all combine to prevent anything like monotony in the active lives of three Lancasters.”—Outlook.
“Ingenuity is one of the author’s conspicuous endowments. Situation after situation keeps interest expectant up to the last. No less is her skill in definition of character, although here and there a bit may be judged out of drawing.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 374, N. 1, ’06. 450w. N. Y. Times. 11: 674. O. 13, ’06. 150w. N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Altogether the varied group of men and women, the graphic descriptions of scenery and conditions in the West, indicate the unusual powers of the author, and her wisdom in writing about what she knows so well.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 210w.
Gates, Errett. Disciples of Christ. **$1. Baker.
“This is the first adequate statement of the history of the Disciples of Christ since the Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, published in 1868. Will be counted a distinct contribution, not merely to the understanding of the Disciples of Christ, but of the religious life of America as well.” E. S. Ames.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 361. Ap. ’06. 330w.
“This is the first real history of this religious body. It is written in a clear style, with impartial judgment.”
+ + Bib. World. 27: 320. Ap. ’06. 60w. + Outlook. 81: 939. D. 16, ’05. 80w. R. of Rs. 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 90w.
Gates, Mrs. Josephine (Scribner). Little Red, white and blue; il. by Virginia Keep. †$1.25. Bobbs.
The author of the “Live dolls” series has offered in this story book for children a delightful sketch of an army captain’s child. Her babyhood loyalty to the stars and stripes furnishes a bright lesson in patriotism.
Gates, Mrs. Josephine (Scribner). Live dolls’ house party; il. by Virginia Keep. †$1.25. Bobbs.
In continuation of the “Live dolls” doings Mrs. Gates tells of a doll’s house party in the little town of Dollville, the hostess being the queen of the dolls. A pretty story, prettily told, with enough of doll romance to satisfy the most imaginative child.
Gaussen, Alice C. C. Woman of wit and wisdom: a memoir of Elizabeth Carter, one of the “Bas-bleu” society. *$3. Dutton.
All those who care to know more of eighteenth-century literature and life in England will be interested in this sketch of the long and uneventful life of the scholar, linguist, and translator of Epictetus. “It has been made chiefly through the unpublished letters and papers possessed by members of the family today and by the Carter institute at Deal where Elizabeth Carter lived. Johnson, Fanny Burney and Richardson appear in these pages.... Poulteney was another friend of hers.” (Sat. R.)
“Miss Gaussen’s book is disappointing: her narrative is so desultory and broken that we have found it difficult to derive a clear impression of the central figure.”
– Acad. 70: 496. My. 26, ’06. 660w.
“Miss Gaussen has made little of excellent material.”
+ – – Ath. 1906, 1: 442. Ap. 14. 920w.
Reviewed by J. H. Lobban.
Blackwood’s M. 180: 462. O. ’06. 4110w.
“Her volume is handy and attractive and shows evidence of zeal and industry.”
+ Dial. 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 470w. + Lond. Times. 5: 141. Ap. 20, ’06. 960w.
“Rather a flimsy volume.”
– Nation. 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 830w.
“Is an easy and pleasant sketch. On the whole the memoir is well worth reading.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 240w.
Gauthiers-Villars, Henry, and Tremisot, G. Enchanted automobile; tr. from the French by Mary J. Safford. $1. Page.
In this addition to the “Roses of Saint Elizabeth series,” is told the story of Coco and Touton, the twin boy and girl of King Crystal IX of Bohemia, who lived a long time ago in the days of the fairies. The twins were ignorant little things and hated study until one day they went out into the world in the enchanter Merlin’s wonderful automobile and there they met many interesting people and learned the true value of work.
N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
Gautier, Theophile. Russia, by Theophile Gautier, and by other distinguished French travelers and writers of note; tr. from the French, with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far East, by Florence MacIntyre Tyson. 2v. **$5. Winston.
“In general, it may be said that it stands the test of time wonderfully well.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 102. F. 1, ’06. 1350w. N. Y. Times. 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 310w. + R. of Rs. 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Gaye, R. K. Platonic conception of immortality and its connexion with the theory of ideas. *$1.50. Macmillan.
+ – Quarterly R. 204: 63. Ja. ’06. 190w. + + Spec. 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 110w.
Gayley, Charles Mills, and Young, Clement C. Principles and progress in English poetry. $1.10. Macmillan.
“Everything may be readily pronounced excellent; many of the ideas stated or implied are debatable ... but everything is well and carefully done. It is a book that any student of literature will find useful.” Edward E. Hale, jr.
+ + – Bookm. 23: 102. Mr. ’06. 1110w.
Geffroy, Gustave. National gallery (London); with an introd. by Sir Walter Armstrong. ¼ vel. *$10. Warne.
“Is a book of intelligent and pleasant talk. Printed in handier form and with better illustrations, ... it would make a first-rate popular guide; but under the circumstances it is unlikely to deprive Mr. Edward T. Cook’s well-known volume of its vogue.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ – Atlan. 97: 282. F. ’06. 60w.
“(His) method has the merit of keeping the text within reasonable limits ... but it does not bring the collection vividly before one and fails to give a measure of the extraordinary variety of the old masters brought together in this particular one of London’s museums.” Charles de Kay.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 325. My. 19, ’06. 1390w.
“M. Geffroy’s brief introduction is pleasant and unpretentious, and marked with knowledge and good sense. A handy book of reference.”
+ + Sat. R. 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
Geiermann, Rev. P. Manual of theology for the laity: being a brief, clear and systematic exposition of the reason and authority of religion and a practical guide-book for all of good-will. *60c. Benziger.
The plan followed in this volume is first, to investigate the fundamental ideas of religion as proposed by reason and history; second, to study the revealed religion both in its supernatural truths and in its divinely ordained practice; and third, to show how the true religion of to-day logically follows from these two premises.
Geikie, James. Structural and field geology for students of pure and applied science. *$4. Van Nostrand.
“The different chapters seem of unequal value.”
+ – Nation. 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 160w.
Geil, William Edgar. Yankee in pigmy land. **$1.50. Dodd.
In his bright, fully illustrated narrative of a journey across Africa from Mombasa through the great pigmy forest to Banana, Mr. Geil touches mainly upon the lion hunters, the sleeping sickness and its victims, the lost caravan, nights alone with savages, the greatest wild-game region of the earth, The Congo rule, the work of missionaries including a biographical sketch of Bishop Tucker, and the “Land of laughter” itself with its tiny inhabitants and their simple life.
“Both text and pictures are tremendously realistic, and, to be frank, excite both disgust and pity.”
+ – Critic. 48: 477. My. ’06. 250w.
“The real value of his journey lies in his account of the home and habits of the little brown Tom Thumbs of the great Pigmy forest.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ – Dial. 40: 233. Ap. 1, ’06. 380w. + Ind. 60: 874. Ap. 12, ’06. 120w.
“A narrative that never flags, dealing in a fresh way even with the homes of which much has already been said by others.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 130w.
“The humor in which he indulges in his narrative is carried too far and becomes wearisome.”
+ – Nation. 81: 525. D. 28, ’05. 380w.
George, Henry, jr. Menace of privilege: a study of the dangers to the republic from the existence of a favored class. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The author “begins with the assertion that ours is a land of inequality, and, proceeding to an analysis of that inequality, he distinguishes between various types of ‘princes of privilege.’ A somewhat pessimistic chapter describes the physical, mental and moral deterioration of the masses. Mr. George devotes a chapter to the danger of unionism, and several chapters to what he calls weapons of privilege, chiefly the use of the courts, and corruption in politics. The proposed remedy of all these inequalities and wrongs, as one would naturally infer from Mr. George’s well-known predilections, is to be found in the single tax.”—R. of Rs.
“The book is clear in presentation and logical arrangement. It is a valuable contribution to the study of our social and industrial problems—a book of unusual merit and interest.” Scott E. W. Bedford.
+ + – Am. J. Soc. 11: 851. My. ’06. 490w.
“One need not agree with all the conclusions of the author to profit by his arguments. The volume deserves careful study.”
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 300w.
“No more important work dealing with the grave problems that confront the American republic to-day has appeared in months than Mr. George’s strong, clear and logical work.”
+ + Arena. 35: 438. Ap. ’06. 4700w.
“In the analysis of social conditions, it is not a whit in advance of ‘Progress and poverty.’” Winthrop More Daniels.
– Atlan. 97: 844. Je. ’06. 460w.
“Mr. George’s book is to be chiefly condemned, not because it is essentially an aggregation of all sorts of material, largely gathered from newspapers and magazines, but because this miscellaneous stuff has been arrayed and employed, with no little rhetorical skill and dexterity, to simulate an honest investigation and a comprehensive discussion of the great questions with which the author professes to deal.” R. W. Raymond.
– – Cassier’s M. 29: 510. Ap. ’06. 2680w.
“It is a challenge clothed with dignity, as well as a plan of reform that is not devoid of charm. If the work may serve to awaken the public seriously to the tendencies which are so fraught with danger, one will readily pardon the faults of logic and exaggerated inferences which it contains.”
+ – Cath. World. 83: 829. S. ’06. 700w.
“This is an able, sincere and elaborate indictment of modern society, resting fundamentally on the highly questionable assertion that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”
+ – Critic. 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 350w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ – Dial. 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 230w. Engin. N. 55: 317. Mr. 15, ’06. 890w. + – Ind. 60: 1047. My. 3, ’06. 340w.
“In detail, his pages contain little or nothing that will be new to the careful observer of prevailing conditions, or the student of contemporary magazines and newspapers from which he has derived most of his abundant illustrative material.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 610w.
“In developing his thesis, Mr. George has given us a book of first-rate interest and importance. It is written forcefully and brilliantly, and, merely as good reading, it will take a high place in the literature of economic and political discussion. As a picture of present-day conditions it is a remarkable piece of description and analysis.” Franklin H. Giddings.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 61. F. 3, ’06. 1990w.
“The style is excellent, the spirit earnest, the
+ – Outlook. 82: 760. Mr. 31, ’06. 980w. R. of Rs. 33: 255. F. ’06. 130w.
Geronimo (Apache chief). [Geronimo’s story of his life]; taken down and edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.
The atmosphere of legend and incident pervades this story of Geronimo, the seventy-seven-year old Apache chief. He begins his story with the account of the origin of the Apaches. “One finds in these grandiose legends traces of the familiar mythical cosmogonies of the East, and it might be of advantage if scholars gave them more attention.” Geronimo’s object in telling his life story is to secure freedom and justice for his people.
“The narrative of the fierce old chief’s bloody career in his struggle with the invading whites is a moving one, and is as full of exciting and picturesque incident as any of Cooper’s novels. It is told with that wealth of imagery for which the Indian is noted.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 240w.
“His story is simple, straight-forward, and interesting, and should find a large number of readers.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 600w.
“It goes without saying that the old chief has an interesting autobiography, and the work is further important as giving the Indian side of a long and notable controversy with our government.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 756. D. ’06. 120w.
Gerould, Gordon Hall. Sir Guy of Warwick. $1. Rand.
“A fine old story of knighthood, recast and retold in plain modern English for those who find the ancient romances archaic and stilted to read.”—Outlook.
+ Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 70w. + Outlook. 80: 936. Ag. 12, ’05. 20w.
Gerstacker, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian. Germelshausen; tr. from the German by Clara M. Lathrop. *50c. Crowell.
In this quaint little German classic, which has been excellently translated, a young artist in the course of his wanderings in the forest, comes upon a beautiful girl who is waiting on the highway for a lover who never comes. She leads him into her village where he sups, dances, and falls in love with her. But just before midnight she takes him into the outskirts of the town and leaves him,—until the hour shall strike. Then, when it is too late, he discovers that the village was Germelshausen, which lies forever sunk in the swamp save for one day in a hundred years when it comes to life, and this was the day, the village has sunk again, and Gertrude is lost to him forever.
Gettemy, Charles Ferris. True story of Paul Revere. **$1.50. Little.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ Atlan. 97: 112. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“The book is a fine example of acute historical criticism, not cynically applied to overthrowing the basis for a healthy patriotic sentiment, but good naturedly correcting the facts, while leaving the sentiment intact.”
+ Ind. 40: 929. Ap. 19, ’06. 390w.
“Mr. Gettemy’s reserved but commendable study does not probe deep, but it is truthful and scrupulous in its intent. He has not, however, over-stated his indebtedness to E. H. Goss’s previous work.”
+ – Nation. 83: 124. Ag. 9, ’06. 1300w.
Gibbon, Perceval. [Vrouw Grobelaar and her leading cases.] †$1.50. McClure.
In this new volume of tales the author “deals with the back-world of Boer superstition, the kind of story we may believe to be told round winter fires on lonely farms. The Vrouw Grobelaar, the narrator, will capture the affections of every reader with her shrewd common sense, her sharp tongue and trenchant philosophy of life.... The tales themselves range over every variety of subject, from the idyllic to the purely horrible.” (Spec.) The collection includes The king of the baboons, Piet Naude’s trek, The sacrifice, Vasco’s sweetheart, Avenger of blood. A good end, Her own story.
“His English is as plain as the English of the Bible, and the Boer men are like the men of the Old Testament.”
+ Acad. 69: 126. D. 2, ’05, 310w. + Ath. 1905, 2: 832. D. 16. 1030w.
“On the whole ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ presents the most gripping and vision-enlarging group of stories since Kipling’s ‘Plain tales from the hills.’”
+ Lit. D. 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 530w.
“Some transplantations and an occasional forgetfulness to make the old narrator speak in character are not a serious detraction from the attraction of the stories. They are deftly woven together; and the humour of the vrouw and the liveliness of her little circle qualify their love of horror.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 433. D. 8, ’05. 460w.
“In ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ lies waiting a genuine sensation for the lover of short Stories. Unless the reviewer is at fault, they will recall to the reader the hour wherein he tasted his first Maupassant, and that other hour when the new Kipling swam into his ken.”
+ Nation. 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.
“In the light they throw upon a unique people, the Vrouw Grobelaar’s leading cases are worthy of careful reading. They are full of informing hints as to the Dutch of the Transvaal, their attitude towards the Kafirs, their mingled superstitions and piety, their courage and obstinacy.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 350w. – + R. of Rs. 33: 756. Je. ’06. 90w.
“The Leading cases which long observation of her would have supplied as guides to conduct cover most sides of South African life.”
+ Sat. R. 100: 785. D. 16, ’05. 280w.
“Altogether, it is a collection to be heartily commended, for to most readers it will open up a new world, and the style and method are those of a true artist in fiction.”
+ Spec. 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 260w.
Gibson, Charles. Among French inns: the story of a pilgrimage to characteristic spots of rural France. **$1.60. Page.
“The guide-book information with which the story is interrupted, is generally sound.”
+ – Nation. 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 140w.
“A substantial volume which might well serve as a guide to travelers eager to get off the beaten tracks and to see France in its most characteristic features; and is also a very readable and interesting volume.”
+ Outlook. 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 180w. + Spec. 96: 795. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
Gibson, Charles Dana. Our neighbors. **$4.20. Scribner.
“The present volume is a worthy companion to those that have preceded it.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 160w.
Gibson, Charlotte Chaffee. In eastern wonderlands. †$1.50. Little.
What all writers who know the east are doing for a grown-up world to-day the author has tried to do for little people, she has helped them to an understanding of what is to be found nowadays in eastern lands by describing a real trip around the world as taken by three real children. She has deftly blended those things which interest with those things which instruct, and has illustrated her account with photographs, until Japan, China, Ceylon, India, the Red sea and Egypt lose their vague outlines and become as familiar to her little readers as they did to Alice, Fred and Charlotte who saw them all.
Gifford, Mrs. Augusta Hale. Italy, her people and their story. **$1.40. Lothrop.
A popular history of the beginning, rise, development, and progress of Italy from the time of Romulus down to the reign of Victor Emanuel III.
“The history is given with considerable attention to details and altogether the volume is of exceptional value, both from its historical accuracy and its popular style.”
+ + Dial. 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 530w.
“It has little of the literary distinction of the other, pays inadequate regard to the dignity of historical writing, and is not always as critical as could be desired. Nevertheless, it, too, conveys much substantial information in respect to the past and present of the Sunny Peninsula and its vein is ... decidedly entertaining.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 160w.
“A readable volume. In the latter part, written in Italy and under the direct influence of contemporaneous conditions, she very often succeeds in giving us observations and impressions which bring her narrative to a commendable, authoritative, and vital end.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 540w.
“This volume may find popular acceptance. As a discriminating writer, however, the author is open to criticism.”
+ – Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ’05. 90w.
“For the person who has not time to take up history in a professional way and who wishes to get a fairly comprehensive idea of the Italian situation, Mrs. Gifford’s book will be a valuable auxiliary.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
“A well-sustained, complete history of Italy.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 90w.
Gilbert, Charles Benajah. School and its life. $1.25. Silver.
“This volume, the fruit of wide experience both as a teacher and school superintendent, deals with life rather than the mechanism of schools. It conceives of teaching as a spiritual process, of education as the wholesome development and adaptation of life to its environment, and finds the conditions of successful teaching in conforming to the common laws of life and growth. Its aim is to secure to children the educative influence of a natural, sane, and wholesome school life as a part of the larger world-life. Its successive chapters discuss the vital problems arising in the management and organization of schools and school systems.”—Outlook.
“A sane, practical, and comprehensive work on school management.”
+ Bookm. 24: 73. S. ’06. 280w. Ind. 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w. + Outlook. 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w. R. of Rs. 34: 384. S. ’06. 90w.
Gilbert, Rosa Mulholland (Lady John Thomas Gilbert). Life of Sir John T. Gilbert. $5. Longmans.
Lord Gilbert’s unusually fortunate career is felicitously sketched by his wife. “Copious correspondence, embracing letters from scholars, historians, archæologists, Irish Franciscans in Rome and in Portugal, noblemen, and public officials enliven the narrative, and, incidentally, bear witness to the conscientious, painstaking method of the historian.... The curtain that screens the sanctities of domestic life is drawn aside just enough to give us a glimpse of the fine, noble, sunny gentleman, an earnest Catholic, of high culture and simple tastes, ambitious only of a competence sufficient to guarantee him the opportunity to prosecute his work of study and composition, which he loved, not for the fame that it brought him, but for itself.” (Cath. World.)
“Well-written and delicate panegyric of a notable man.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 859. D. 23. 1160w.
“Lady Gilbert has discharged her task with excellent taste.”
+ Cath. World. 83: 402. Je. ’06. 660w.
“His widow, besides giving some account of her husband’s career, prints copious selections from his correspondence, with the object of illustrating the character of his work, and the interest of his ‘unusual and many-sided personality.’ We do not think Lady Gilbert has been very successful in achieving this object.”
– + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 623. Jl. ’06. 260w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 532. S. 1, ’06. 590w.
“We have never taken up a ‘life’ so distended by trivial and ephemeral letters.”
– Sat. R. 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 230w.
“The facts are here, but they should have been put together for readers who will not, and indeed cannot, search for them. We see the pictures of a single-minded-worker, but have but a vague idea of what he actually did.”
– + Spec. 96: 387. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.
Gilder, Richard Watson. Book of music: poems. **$1. Century.
“For though I can no music make, I trust
Here’s proof I love it.”
Such does Mr. Gilder vouchsafe in the opening lines of his prelude. There are about thirty poems which show the “love that in him burns for the fair lady of Melody.” There are tributes to Mme. Essepoff, Paderewski. Macdowell, Beethoven, Rubenstein and others, there are lines to Handel’s Largo, the violin, and the ’cello, and there is a poet of music’s appreciation of the Music at twilight, in moonlight and in darkness.
+ Nation. 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 130w. N. Y. Times. 11: 613. O. 6, ’06. 400w.
Gilder, Richard Watson. In the heights. *$1. Century.
“Few know as well as he how to find the fitting word or a felicitous phrase with which to celebrate a friend, or a cause, or a memory.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 310w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + North American. 182: 756. My. ’06. 230w. R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 50w.
Gilliam, Charles Frederic. Victorious defeat: the story of a franchise. $1.50. Roxburgh pub.
A political novel which deals with the rights of the laboring classes. Robert Barker, champion of the people, loves Irene, the daughter of Judge Henly who is pitted against him in a political contest. Irene is torn between her duty to her father and her love for the masterful young leader, who, her sense of honor tells her, is in the right. The election results in a defeat for the judge and his constituents, but a defeat which the losers themselves count victorious in the end.
Gillman, Henry. Hassan: a fellah. [+]75c. Little.
A new popular edition of this story which appeared in 1898.
Gilman, Daniel Coit. Launching of a university. **$2.50. Dodd.
A volume of papers and addresses, nearly a third of which are devoted to the founding and early years of Johns Hopkins University, and the remainder to educational addresses delivered on occasions such as the Yale Bi-Centennial and the dedication of the Princeton library building.
“In one respect, the reader of historical proclivities may be inclined to find fault with ‘The launching of a university.’ President Gilman resolutely keeps back all references to the occasional misfortunes and unpleasantnesses which harassed him and his colleagues.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + – Bookm. 24: 358. D. ’06. 1020w. + + Critic. 48: 479. My. ’06. 240w.
Reviewed by F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + – Dial. 40: 289. My. 1, ’06. 2320w.
“Cicero would have given his approval to this book.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1104. My. 10, ’06. 230w.
“Taken as a whole, President Gilman’s book is notable alike as a history of the university with which he was so long connected, as a discussion of some vital questions of the day, and as a contribution to the story of American educational progress.”
+ + Lit. D. 32: 531. Ap. 7, ’06. 810w. Nation. 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 140w. + + Nature. 74: 123. Je. 7, ’06. 880w.
Reviewed by Edward Cary.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 157. Mr. 17, ’06. 1320w.
“It is a rich ‘sheaf of remembrances’ that he has preserved in noteworthy reminiscences and characterizations of gifted men, set forth in finished literary form with here and there a gem of pleasantry and wit.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 260w.
Gilman, Lawrence. [Edward MacDowell.] *$1. Lane.
An eighty page monograph of the “American Grieg” uniform with the “Living masters of music” series. “That MacDowell is, ‘in a singularly complete sense the poet of the natural world,’ yet no less the ‘instrument of human emotion;’ that the range of his emotional expression is astonishing; that he has a remarkable gift for extremely compact expression; that his music is ‘touched with the deep and wistful tenderness, the primeval nostalgia;’ that much of its charm lies in its spontaneity and the utter lack of self-consciousness; that no musician has felt the spell of the ocean as has MacDowell ... these and other characteristic points, Mr. Gilman dwells on, thus giving his readers as good an idea of the music as can be obtained without hearing it.” (Nation.)
“In spite of some annoyances of style, a love of high-sounding but little meaning words and phrases, Mr. Gilman manages to depict the character of his subject’s work in such a way as to convey a distinct impression.”
+ – Acad. 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Gilman has given a sympathetic and reasonably comprehensive account of his life and work.”
+ Critic. 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“The least satisfactory of Mr. Gilman’s chapters is that on the songs, the most satisfactory that on the sonatas. It is to be regretted that no bibliographic note has been appended.”
+ – Nation. 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 990w.
“He has written in a high-pitched key of praise. His book would be more agreeable reading if he would improve his style, which is ‘precieux’ in the extreme.” Richard Aldrich.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 560w.
“Mr. Gilman deserves all credit for his abstention from irrelevant personalities. The value of this sympathetic essay is considerably impaired by the laboured preciosity of its style.”
+ – Spec. 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 170w.
Gilpin, Sidney. Sam Bough, R. S. A.: some account of his life and works. $3. Macmillan.
“Sam Bough was a true Bohemian, who lived from hand to mouth, and threw away his best chances of worldly success for the sake of the indulgence of some passing whim.” (Int. Studio.) It is as a Cumberland painter of types native to his district that he demands recognition, and the biographer has produced from letters, anecdotes and personal estimates, a sympathetic sketch of the man and the artist.
“Nor are these documents remarkable except for the constant recurrence of a certain breezy jocularity, which doubtless was delightful to those who were in a position to appreciate the point of it.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 272. Mr. 3. 300w. + Int. Studio. 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 150w. N. Y. Times. 10: 728. O. 28, ’05. 300w. + – Sat. R. 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 70w.
“It is an interesting record of a man of versatile powers. There are scarcely as many good stories in it as one might expect.”
+ – Spec. 96: sup. 125. Ja. 27, ’06. 160w.
Gilson, Roy Rolfe. Katrina: a story. †$1.50. Baker.
“The quaintly humorous middle-aged newspaper worker whose ability as a writer is joined with whimsical peculiarities of character, finds in the little girl Katrina, whom he accidentally meets, the child of the girl he loved many years ago. His friendship with the little girl and his care of her and her optimistic and intellectual but unpractical father make a delightful narrative.”—Outlook.
“He combines a sympathetic understanding of the young child’s point of view with an equally rare understanding of the sorrows and disillusions of age.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 24: 247. N. ’06. 440w.
“The author has such use of his faculties as a bird has of its wings in mid air, and he has told his story with that whimsical, bright movement of the mind which accounts in part for its indescribable charm and grace.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1499. D. 20, ’06. 290w.
“A tale full of naiveté and tenderness.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
“A satisfactory bit of writing.”
+ Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 130w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“It is written with a certain tenderness and quiet humor which may almost be said to give it distinction.”
+ Outlook. 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
Gilson, Roy Rolfe. [Miss Primrose.] $1.25. Harper.
The simple sweetness of Letitia Primrose, whose life was one long sacrifice of service to her father, to other people’s children, and finally to another woman’s home, gives to the book its dainty charm, while the characters of David, the boy who dreamed of Rugby, Butters, the editor who printed her father’s classic poems in the village paper, and others who came under the spell of her sweet innocent personality give to the story both young life and humor.
“The book is almost wholly devoid of plot, and although it is written with no little literary skill, the average reader will find it lacking in interest.”
– + Ath. 1906, 2: 67. Jl. 21. 210w.
“The story as a whole is rather cloying.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 192. Mr. 31, ’06. 470w.
“There are gentle pathos and quaint humor to be found throughout.”
+ Outlook. 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 50w.
Gissing, George Robert. [House of cobwebs] and other stories. $1.50. Dutton.
“The fifteen stories included in this posthumous volume are prefaced by an introductory survey of the work of their lamented author [by Mr. Thomas Seccombe].... The stories themselves, slight as is their texture, are ‘admirable specimens of Gissing’s own genre.’ They manifest the delicate tenderness of his feeling not for, but with those to whom life has not been kind.... As Dickens was the novelist of the recognized poor, Gissing is the novelist of those poorer poor who belong of right to another class.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + – Acad. 70: 479. My. 19, ’06. 880w.
“But what is certain, and is rendered positive by this book, is that he had little artistic sense of the short story. These are mere blotches of feeling, studies of atmosphere; they are never stories. They might have found their use in corners of a long novel. They have neither beginning nor ending, only being; and they might well leave off before or after their conclusion. Never was there a more glaring lack of the ‘dramatic’ than in Mr. Gissing.”
– Ath. 1906, 2: 10. Jl. 7. 490w.
“Mr. Seccombe has prefaced this volume of remains ... with a discriminating essay of considerable biographical and critical interest.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1100w.
“The observation in these sketches is originally fine, and then highly selective; the English of great purity and incisiveness; and, that a certain thinness of tone and lack of humor are necessary results of gruelling personal experience with the matter in hand. It is a book for those who love impeccable workmanship.”
+ Nation. 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 450w.
“The volume is well worth making one’s own, not only because of these last characteristic sketches by a dear and vanquished hand, but because of Mr. Seccombe’s illuminating essay, invaluable to all who care to enter into an intimate comprehension of Gissing’s novels as related to their author.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 519. Ag. 25, ’06. 950w.
“To us this collection of short stories is more valuable for the excellent and readable introductory survey of Gissing’s work, written by Mr. Thomas Seccombe, than for the stories themselves, although some of the latter are wrought out with care and have literary form.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 170w.
“In point of workmanship, observation, and the philosophy of life which they set forth they show him at his best and sanest.”
+ Spec. 96: 835. My. 26, ’06. 1070w.
Gladden, Rev. Washington. Christianity and socialism. *$1. Meth. bk.
“Full of good advice to both employers and employed, and he endeavors to reconcile their differences in a truly irenic spirit.” Edward Fuller.
+ Critic. 48: 214. Mr. ’06. 330w.
“Like all Dr. Gladden’s utterances, these discourses are characterized by what has been well termed ‘sanctified common sense’ and are thoroughly stimulating and suggestive.”
+ + Dial. 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 310w.
“It were well if all clerical pronouncements on social questions were marked by Dr. Gladden’s thoroness of information and his earnest sympathy with the problems of the men who work.”
+ Ind. 61: 156. Jl. 19, ’06. 120w. Yale R. 14: 444. F. ’06. 80w.
Gladden, Rev. Washington. The new idolatry, and other discussions. **$1.20. McClure.
“A volume of discussions in protest against commercializing of government, of education, and of religion; against the growing tendency in church and state to worship power and forget the interests of justice and freedom; against the dethronement of God and the enthronement of Mammon.” The contents include the new idolatry; Tainted money; Standard oil and foreign missions; Shall ill-gotten gains be sought for Christian purposes? The ethics of luxurious expenditure; The church and the nation; Religion and democracy; Rights and duties; The new century and the new nation; The Prince of life.
“One does not have to agree with all that is said to appreciate the importance of the subjects discussed.”
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 419. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“The essays are really adapted only for oral delivery. They verge upon platitude and will scarcely stimulate thought.”
– Critic. 48: 470. My. ’06. 60w. + Dial. 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 270w. N. Y. Times. 11: 20. Ja. 13, ’06. 710w.
“Its spirit and lessons are both needed by the American people.”
+ Outlook. 81: 1087 D. 30, ’05. 90w. R. of Rs. 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 120w.
Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson. [Wheel of life.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
Miss Glasgow has taken a plunge with Mrs. Wharton into the very thick of New York’s smart set life. She throws upon her society screen a complexity of types, which with ingenious detachment appear at one time pathetically human, again beggarly moral, and most often impersonally conventional. “The three women represent as many types; Gerty a mondaine of the better sort ... holding her silken skirts above the soil of scandal, and underneath a mocking mask, keeping a pinioned soul; Connie Adams, a silly moth, fluttering in endless gayeties outside the more exclusive circles ... and the cloisteral Laura, not only a genius, but a consummate flower of womanhood. Of the men, Perry Bridewell and Arnold Kemper are not unlike—pleasure-seeking men of the clubs.... Bridewell is not much more than a well-groomed, handsome body; Kemper is Bridewell with intellect added. Adams, on the contrary, is the absorbed man of letters ... caring for no pleasure outside his work.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The average level of the tale is extraordinarily high, but it does not rise to anything that matters very much anywhere.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 270w.
“‘The wheel of life’ is a serious attempt. If it be only partially successful (as compared with the great works of all time), the quality of success is of the best, it is not cheap. The essentials are there.” Mary Moss.
+ Bookm. 23: 91. Mr. ’06. 1890w.
“It is a pity that Miss Glasgow’s humor does not shine forth more abundantly; her work needs it.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ – Critic. 48: 435. My. ’06. 460w.
“As compared with ‘The deliverance’ for example, this work is an inferior production.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Miss Glasgow’s stories of her native South were better, and the little group of Southerners ... are decidedly the best thing in it.”
+ Ind. 60: 284. F. 1, ’06. 440w.
“Is not up to Miss Glasgow’s level, but this seems largely due to her trespassing upon an alien field.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 491. Mr. 31, ’06. 690w.
“Its reach is greater than that of its predecessors; its author has gone down into the deep places, and the distinction, the lift that is all its own is that in the last analysis it is the apotheosis of goodness.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + North American. 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.
“There are broader contrasts of character than in ‘The house of mirth,’ though not quite the same sureness of touch, the same sense of intimacy with the most illusive aspects of a well-defined though loosely ordered social group.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.
“All of these [four groups of characters] are faithfully and well wrought, and each adds its increment of genuine substance to the sum total effect of an admirable book.”
+ Reader. 7: 448. Mr. ’06. 680w. + R. of Rs. 33: 758. Je. ’06. 80w. + – Sat. R. 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 100w.
“The novel is a study of manners, and is extremely clever, very subtile, and slightly disagreeable.”
+ – Spec. 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 310w.
Glyn, Elinor (Mrs. Clayton Glyn). [Beyond the rocks.] †$1.50. Harper.
Danger ground is trodden from the first page to the last in Mrs. Glyn’s story of hearts. Theodosia Fitzgerald, young and beautiful, marries Josiah Brown, rich but fifty and stupid. In spite of her attempt to be faithful she falls in love with an English lord and the ardent love of the two runs a riotous course in the face of conventionality and duty.
“Mrs. Glyn’s picture of the unscrupulous, sensual, bridge-playing set would give a ludicrously false impression, both of that set and of English society in general, to any reader who was unable to correct it by his own observation. Nor is Mrs. Glyn much happier with more reputable people.”
– Acad. 70: 503. My. 26, ’06. 380w.
“Lack of good taste and deficiency in technique are serious handicaps, and in fact this novel is drawn back by them from the domain of good art into the republic of the second-rate.”
– Ath. 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 230w.
“All the parents who were in doubt about letting their debutante daughters browse upon ‘The visits of Elizabeth’ may turn them loose upon ‘Beyond the rocks’ without a twinge of misgiving.”
+ Nation. 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 450w.
“The whole moral atmosphere of the book is of a decidedly unwholesome and vitiated character.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 771. N. 24, ’06. 960w.
“Continues to be sprightly in her manner, but her latest story moves in conventional grooves, its characters are mere puppets, its plot is thin, and its emotionalism feeble.”
– + Outlook. 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 40w.
Goddard, Dwight. Eminent engineers: brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress. *$1.50. Derry-Collard co.
“In selecting the 32 subjects for these biographies, the honors were equally divided between American and European engineers. The American sketches are headed by Benjamin Franklin and John Fitch, and concluded by James B. Eads. Arkwright, Newcomen and Watt head the Europeans, and Bessemer and Sir William Siemens close the list.... In selecting the names, the object was to include men who had ‘accomplished something of importance in the development and application of power and machinery.’”—Engin. N.
“The volume, as a whole, brings together, in convenient and readable form, brief biographies of men whose careers are of interest to every engineer.”
+ Engin. N. 55: 433. Ap. 12, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Goddard’s English is careless, but he has written a book of interest.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 401. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
Godfrey, Edward. Structural engineering, bk. 1. Tables. $2.50. E: Godfrey. Monongahela bank bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.
The author “has selected the most necessary elements of the ‘Pocket companion,’ of ‘Osborn’s tables’ and of other similar works, put some of the material into improved form, and added an equal amount of new matter, comprising diagrams, tables and drawings.”—Engin. N.
“Is in many respects distinctly ahead of anything yet published in the English language. As a whole, the book represents a very useful collection of structural tables, and a very compact one. But its varied contents are so heterogeneously mixed up, so lacking all orderly arrangement, as to excite one’s surprise.”
+ + – Engin. N. 55: 193. F. 15, ’06. 300w.
Godfrey, Elizabeth, pseud. (Jessie Bedford). Bridal of Anstace. †$1.50. Lane.
“Love, battling with race and religion, is the foundation of Elizabeth Godfrey’s latest romance. At the outset of her story London is astounded by the marriage of an English girl Anstace, with the Count Basil Leonides. The wedding is performed with the ceremony of the Orthodox Greek church. In the midst of the reception that follows, the bridegroom receives a telegram. He reads it, and without showing it to his bride, begs her to prepare for instant departure. While she is making her preparations, however, he slips from the house alone and disappears. Why he went, and where, the sudden reappearance of the earlier wife whom he thought dead, and all that followed therefrom makes up the substance of the story.”—N. Y. Times.
“Miss Godfrey tells her story in easy, flowing style, and handles her unwieldy cast skilfully.”
+ Acad. 70: 599. Je. 23, ’06. 100w.
“The picture shows experience of life, powers of reflection, and a simple and flowing style which would cover more sins than are to be found here.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 9. Jl. 7, ’06. 270w.
“A plot somewhat over intense and morbid is relieved in this novel by much delightful character-study.”
– + Critic. 49: 286. S. ’06. 200w.
“It would be easy to pick holes in Miss Elizabeth Godfrey’s novel. No amount of uncertainty of handling in minor matters, or allegiance divided between observation and convention, can destroy our pleasure in the gentle light that beams through an engaging, almost a childlike story.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 226. Je. 22, ’06. 320w.
“Manners, customs, and pronunciations come in with the breath of research in their garments. But these easily-seen inequalities do not prevail over the fine and interesting features of the story. In construction and in omission, it is the most masterly novel Miss Godfrey has yet written.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 15. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w. N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“Though most of the characters are well drawn and the style of writing is attractive, the fascination lies in the fact that the mystery is not solved until almost the last chapter.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 170w. + – Spec. 97: 63. Jl. 14, ’06. 150w.
Gomperz, Theodor. Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v. 2 and 3. ea. *$4. Scribner.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ + Atlan. 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 420w.
“I do not wish to lay down these learned, stimulating, and eloquently written volumes without saying that their writer, in a degree true of no other historian, has understood how to take the history of Greek thought out of its isolation, to relate it to the whole culture of the Greeks, and to illuminate it by the civilization of modern times.” Wm. A. Hammond.
+ + Philos. R. 15: 83. Ja. ’06. 1600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.) + + + Quarterly R. 204: 63. Ja. ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
Goode, John. Recollections of a lifetime, by John Goode of Virginia. $2. Neale.
Mr. Goode was a member of the secession convention of Virginia, the Confederate congress and the congress of the United States. His reminiscences, aside from including interesting phases of his life as lawyer, soldier, and statesman, give helpful side lights on the men and affairs of war times.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 214. O. ’06. 50w.
“Even the general public will find much to entertain, if it reads far enough.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 366. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.
“Outside of the instances mentioned and some good anecdotes, there is little that will repay either the general reader or the historian in search of material.”
– + Outlook. 83: 53. Je. 30, ’06. 240w. + Putnam’s. 1: 253. N. ’06. 80w.
Goodhue, Isabel. Good things and graces. **50c. Elder.
“Has a flavor that escapes many a more pretentious effort of its class.”
+ Critic. 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 30w.
Goodloe, Carter. At the foot of the Rockies. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Good as the stories are in themselves, they have gained much in the telling; for Miss Goodloe has just the right dramatic and artistic touch.”
+ + Critic. 48: 190. F. ’06. 90w.
Goodnow, Frank Johnson. Principles of administrative law of the United States. *$3. Putnam.
“It is the only book dealing with the entire scope of the subject.” Isidor Loeb.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 174. Mr. ’06. 1220w.
“Work presents a breadth of view and a freedom from dogmatism which entitle it to a high rank in the literature of political science.”
+ + Ind. 60: 799. Ap. 5, ’06. 370w.
“In a certain sense he has made the subject his own; but he has not made it ours.”
+ – Nation. 83: 105. Ag. 2, ’06. 1040w.
“The most serious defect in a work which is otherwise little exposed to criticism, and should win wide favor both among students and the general educated public, is the fact that, no attempt is made to examine the application of administrative principles to the government of the Territories and dependencies of the United States.”
+ + – Outlook. 84: 37. S. 1, ’06. 750w.
“We have as a result a comprehensive discussion of administrative organization in the United States, in which the organization of the general, State, and local governments, the relation of the officials to the public, and the forms of control over official action are analyzed with a degree of clearness and force which give to the work a high position in the literature of American politics.” L. S. Rowe.
+ + Yale R. 15: 97. My. ’06. 290w.
Goodrich, Arthur Frederick. Balance of power: a novel. $1.50. Outing pub.
This novel “deals with a factory situation and the rise of a strong young man whose ability is characterized by the word ‘inevitable’; but the excellence of the book is in its fiber ... and a statement of the plot conveys but little.” (Outlook.) “Among the characters which are many and diversified, the most interesting, probably, is the bluff old colonel who is a sort of self appointed oracle of the town. This Yankee Mars struts through the book with the air of a man who has smelt powder and who knows a thing or two, and the way in which he imposes what he calls his opinions upon the yokels of Hampstead is very wonderful.” (Lit. D.)
“A good, readable story, and an interesting contribution to that modern type of American fiction which depicts our keen, progressive industrial life, alongside of the life of society and of the home.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 24: 249. N. ’06. 270w. + – Lit. D. 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Arthur Goodrich had a good story to tell. He has told it very cleverly, too, although with overmuch coquetry with his plot in the first third of the book.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 470w.
“It is one of the truest studies of the phase of American life of which it treats that have been made in fiction, and also one of the most interesting of the novels of the season.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
“The novel is overcrowded. There is excellent material, but too much of it. Yet there are evidences of marked ability—occasional touches which reveal the fine creative instinct.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 335. O. 6, ’06. 160w.
“The combination of industrialism and politics and love makes a book which rises above the level of most of its contemporaries.”
+ + World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 160w.
Gordon, William Clark. Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Following an introductory chapter on Literature and social science in which the author and literature he treats Social conditions in England in the time of Tennyson, Tennyson’s idea of man, Tennyson’s idea of woman, The family, Society, Social institutions, and Democracy and progress. Restating the main points of his summary and conclusions.
“His book is a creditable summary of the forces and conditions prevalent in Great Britain while Tennyson was writing.”
+ Acad. 71: 391. O. 20, ’06. 740w.
“It is a painstaking production, provided with many extracts and many more for reference.”
+ + Dial. 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 50w.
“As a thesis for the doctorate this essay is an instructive example of the bewildering effect of a study of sociology.”
– + Nation. 83: 190. Ag. 30, ’06. 670w.
“Really Mr. Gordon expresses himself very well, and most of what he says is true, but mayn’t we hope that a plain man reading his favorite poet may yet be permitted to do his own thinking?”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 500w.
Gorky, Maxim, pseud. (Alicksel Maximovitch Preschkov). [Creatures that once were men]: a story; tr. from the Russian by J. K. M. Shirazi, with an introd. by G. K. Chesterton. 75c. Funk.
Mr. Chesterton in his introduction says: “This story is a test case of the Russian manner, for it is in itself a study of decay, a study of failure, and a study of old age.” “Gorky’s tale is pessimistic and contains all the hard, realistic word-painting which is characteristic of him.” (Ath.)
“Story one can hardly call it. It is just one of Gorky’s photographs.”
+ – Acad. 68: 280. Mr. 18, ’05. 1090w.
“Mr. Shirazi has rendered his author fairly well; perhaps he uses a little too much slang. The foot-notes are also meagre.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 210w. Ind. 61: 398. Ag. 16, ’06. 300w.
“We have enjoyed Mr. Chesterton’s fifteen pages, however, much more than Maxim Gorky’s ninety-four. Anything more dismal ... we have never seen.”
+ – Spec. 94: 373. Mr. 11, ’05. 160w.
Goschen, George Joachim. Essays and addresses on economic questions. $5. Longmans.
A statement of Lord Goschen’s economic creed as a business man and a statesman, besides being a survey of all the most important economic aspects of English history during the period covered, 1865–1893. “The most important ‘pieces’ in the present volume are not of a philosophical character, but are devoted to the discussion of specific remedies for specific economic evils.” (Lond. Times.)
“We confidently recommend this volume to every student of economics and political science.”
+ + Acad. 70: 58. Ja. 20, ’06. 1820w. + + Ath. 1905, 2: 719. N. 25. 660w.
“Lord Goschen’s ‘Introductory notes’ will probably attract more attention than the essays to which they are prefixed.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 354. O. 27, ’05. 1360w.
“In all of them he shows that firm grasp both of facts and of principles that has characterized his economic writing.”
+ + Nation. 82: 228. Mr. 15, ’06. 1160w. + Sat. R. 100: 753. D. 9, ’05. 1720w.
“In all of [the various essays] will be found, combined with the gift of lucid and forcible expression, the sagacity and almost excessive caution, the careful attention to facts and the skillful analysis of figures to which the public is accustomed in their author.”
+ + Spec. 95: 759. N. 11, ’05. 1480w.
Gosse, Edmund William, ed. British portrait painters and engravers of the eighteenth century, Kneller to Reynolds. *$50; *$70. Goupil.
This volume “is not so much a history of the subject as it is a collection of plates after those mezzotints, ‘plain and colored,’ in which the enchanting portraits painted by fashionable artists who were also men of genius, were reproduced with an elegance and skill unsurpassed by the originals.... Mr. Gosse’s text provides an instructive accompaniment to the illustrations, but it is as a picture gallery in little that this will find its appreciative public.”—Atlan.
“The introductory essay on the status of the portrait painter during the eighteenth century has afforded Mr. Gosse a theme to which his wide knowledge of eighteenth-century literature has enabled him to do full justice.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 902. D. 30. 1240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The plates in their turn are so well made that in some, if not in all cases, they actually rival the qualities of the mezzotints from which they are taken.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + Atlan. 97: 270. F. ’06. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A perfectly adequate introduction.”
+ + Ind. 60: 397. F. 15, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is not very easy to say on what principle the illustrations are here chosen, and it certainly would have been better to arrange them according to the painters than to group them alphabetically according to the name of the subject. Mr. Gosse’s essay has two great merits. It is extremely readable, and it brings out with remarkable clearness the extraordinary change that passed over the position of the portrait painter after the advent of Reynolds.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 940w. (Review of v. 1.)
Gosse, Edmund William. Coventry Patmore. **$1. Scribner.
Reviewed by George Trobridge.
Westminster R. 165: 76. Ja. ’06. 7860w.
Gosse, Edmund William. French profiles. *$1.60. Dodd.
“All in all, Mr. Gosse’s ‘French profiles’ is a volume to strengthen the present ‘entente cordiale’ between English and French by contributing towards mutual understanding and appreciation.” Arthur G. Canfield.
+ + Dial. 40: 13. Ja. 1, ’06. 1850w.
Gosse, Edmund William. Sir Thomas Browne. **75c. Macmillan.
“To the master of exquisite expression Mr. Gosse does complete justice in the last and best chapter of a book which deserves warm praise for its judicial temper and fine insight.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 827. D. 16. 2580w.
“An admirably balanced estimate of the author of the ‘Religio medici.’”
+ + Contemporary R. 88: 906. D. ’05. 850w.
“It has been prepared with excellent taste and judgment.”
+ Critic. 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“Where Mr. Gosse fails in his estimate is in not sufficiently recognizing the essentially poetic quality of Browne’s work, apart from mere form or style. The absence of a bibliography is the grievous fault this book shares with the other volumes of the same series.”
+ – Dial. 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Is not particularly interesting.”
+ – Ind. 60: 1491. Je. 21, ’06. 220w.
“It presents its subject in so attractive a light that one who has never read Sir Thomas Browne’s books will turn to them with eager interest, and one already acquainted with them will reread them with a new zest.” Horatio S. Kranz.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 4. Ja. 6, ’06. 2820w.
Gougar, Mrs. Helen Mar Jackson. Forty thousand miles of world wandering. $3. Helen M. Gougar, Lafayette, Ind.
The author’s recent tour of the world has furnished a wealth of travel material out of which she has constructed with great accuracy an informing, popular work of interest to the traveler who has covered the ground no less than the stay-at-home book tourist. The present-day phases of life and institutions appeal to her rather than the dead and buried aspects. In keeping with the heavy paper, clear type and handsome binding are numerous fine illustrations.
“This volume will not prove disappointing, and we can heartily and conscientiously recommend it to our readers.”
+ + Arena. 35: 215. F. ’06. 4180w.
Gould, George Milbry. Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health of patients. *$1. Blakiston.
+ Outlook. 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 180w.
Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-. Book of the Rhine from Cleve to Mainz; 8 il. in col. by Trevor Hadden and 48 other il. *$2. Macmillan.
“No attempt has been made to describe objects of interest that would be visited by the traveler or to give a complete history of the Rhine. Mr. Gould has attempted to supply information concerning ‘sights’ and the meaning and purpose of the objects as well as legends about them.... A good deal of the text deals with the history of the principal cities, taking up only the most significant events of their past and connecting these as closely as possible with their present condition and importance.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Baring-Gould is severely historical. When he does tell us a story, he is careful to say at the end that it is a fable; and he disproves it with dates. His book is a treasure-house of dates.”
+ + – Acad. 71: 306. S. 29, ’06. 1090w.
“In a rather happy-go-lucky fashion, but always pleasantly and entertainingly, he discourses of kings and bishops, robber-bands, altar-pieces, vintages, and various other matters. It would be very easy to point out inaccuracies here and there, but it would be unfair to judge such a book from the severely scientific standpoint.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 212. Ag. 25. 260w.
“All told very simply and directly and in a dry-as-dust manner which will probably prevent the book from finding many readers except those who take the journey which it describes.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 260w.
“Mr. Baring-Gould’s book is, as all admirers of his genius would wish it to be, eminently characteristic. He has a keen eye for Nature, and a keener for objects of interest, archaeological and historical, and also a considerable gift of satire, for which, it must be allowed, Germany affords not a few occasions.”
+ Spec. 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 240w.
Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-. Book of the Riviera. **$1.50. Dutton.
Beginning with Provence the author lures his readers on to Le Gai Saber, then to Marseilles, Aix, Toulon, Hyères, Draguignan, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Mentone, San Remo, Alassio, and other places by the way, ending at Savona, describing the charm of each town, giving hints to travelers, telling little stories of the natives, and interspersing all with well chosen bits of history, literature and sentiment. Forty good photographs of scenery illustrate the volume.
“A good map and a better index would greatly improve this book.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 850w. + Dial. 41: 72. Ag. 1, ’06. 280w. + Ind. 60: 872. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w. + – Nation. 82: 414. My. 17, ’06. 920w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 99. F. 17, ’06. 500w. + R. of Rs. 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“‘The Riviera’ furnishes Mr. Baring-Gould’s facile pen with a subject full of variety. Whatever the theme, it seems to be equally at home.”
+ Spec. 96: sup. 645. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.
Graham, George Washington. Mecklenburg declaration of independence, May 20, 1775, and lives of its signers. $1.50. Neale.
A monograph upon the Mecklenburg declaration of independence which was read before the Scotch-Irish society of America in June of 1895. It has been enlarged and revised to meet the requirements of publication in book form.
“Will be found decidedly interesting. It is not equally convincing, for, altho it must be conceded that he adduces more documentary evidence than did any of his predecessors, Dr. Graham, has, like them, seen fit to rely largely on the testimony of assumption and hearsay already made familiar through their efforts but inadmissible in the court of history.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 801. My. 26, ’06. 1860w. – Nation. 82: 475. Je. 7, ’06. 1360w.
“The work, as an effort to validate the document, is one of supererogation. As a historical monograph by a high authority, however, it deserves to be read.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 460w.
Graham, Harry (Col. D. Streamer, pseud.). [Misrepresentative women.] $1. Duffield.
In “this villainous collection of abominable verse” this modest author sings merrily of Eve, Lady Godiva, Marie Corelli, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Mrs. Grundy, Dame Rumor, and other good souls who have achieved fame in one way or another; then he passes on to, The self-made father to the ready-made son, and other extraneous matter.
+ Dial. 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 100w.
“The point of view as well as the lines are nevertheless clever enough to cover a multitude of shortcomings in technique and mere construction.”
+ – Ind. 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
“Harry Graham’s jingles about ‘Misrepresentative women’ are in the same vein as those in his previous volumes of comic verse, and it bears some evidence that the vein has been slightly overworked.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 160w.
“Is the best kind of fooling.”
+ Spec. 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
Granger, Anna D. Skat and how to play it. $1. Matthews.
Miss Granger has prepared the first real American treatise on skat, and offers the student the fundamental principles that govern the game.
Grant, Percy Stickney. Ad matrem, and other poems. Kimball.
“Something akin to Miltonic richness meets us in the outset of ‘Ad Matrem,’ in the lines depicting the rout of the Greek godheads, before the Lux mundi shining over Judean hills.” (Critic.) “The collection of poems is not large, but it is stamped throughout with elevation of tone, dignity, and often charm of manner.” (Outlook.)
Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.
+ Critic. 48: 272. Mr. ’06. 260w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.
“It shows unusual feeling for the resources of difficult meters and unusual skill in handling them.”
+ Outlook. 83: 283. Je. 2, ’06. 500w.
Grant, Robert. Law-breakers and other stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
Besides the title story there are six others in the group,—“George and the dragon,” “An exchange of courtesies,” “The romance of a soul,” “Against his judgment,” “A surrender,” and “Across the way.” They “belong to the literature of exposure.... Each story has a definite problem, or rather thesis, clearly stated and logically argued.... The question argued in the title story is one that might well form a topic for a debating society. It is this: Is a man who cheats the custom house officer so fundamentally untrustworthy in character that a good woman should not trust her life to him? For the particulars in the case and the verdict of the author we must refer our readers to the book.” (Ind.)
“The impression of the entire collection is one of discouragement.” Mary Moss.
+ – Bookm. 23: 435. Je. ’06. 690w.
“Is a distinctly stimulating book.”
+ Critic. 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 60w. + Ind. 60: 1047. My. 3, ’06. 170w.
“Upon the whole, they do not measure up to what we have learned to expect from him.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 334. My. 26, ’06. 280w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“As a whole the stories will strike most readers as not up to the level of Judge Grant’s best work.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 814. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.
Grant, Robert. Orchid. †$1.25. Scribner.
“You merely feel that he is stating a condition, never that he tells you the story of one person or group of people.” Mary Moss.
+ – Atlan. 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 270w.
“The book, though it contains an appalling story, is written with persiflage and an irony, which is, from first to last, carefully concealed.”
+ Reader. 6: 91. Je. ’05. 720w.
Gratacap, Louis Pope. World as intention: a contribution to teleology. *$1.25. Eaton.
“The volume is written in a serious, straightforward manner.”
+ Am. J. Theol. 10: 165. Ja. ’06. 170w.
Graves, Algernon, comp. Royal academy of arts. per v. *$11. Macmillan.
“It deserves to rank with such an enterprise as the ‘Dictionary of national biography.’ to which, indeed it is a complement, and like it, should be in every institution, public or private, worthy of the name of library.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 342. S. 9. 2180w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole, however, Mr. Graves is continuing to perform his onerous task with every reasonable care, and the more frequently one refers to his volumes the more valuable do they seem.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 205. F. 17. 2960w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.) + + Ath. 1906, 1: 705. Je. 9. 2030w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We have noticed a good many slight slips, which are probably the fault, not of Mr. Graves, but of the compiler of the original catalogues.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 79. Jl. 21. 1730w. (Review of v. 6.)
“As a work of reference for the historian, whether dealing with the Academy or with any one of a tremendous company of artists, this handsomely printed compilation commends the warmest praise.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + Atlan. 97: 273. F. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Every page, indeed, bears witness to the painstaking accuracy with which the thousands of references have been extracted from the records.”
+ + Int. Studio. 28: 276. My. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
“We have said enough to indicate the curious interest of these laborious volumes. Much might have been added, both as to the earlier and the modern men.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 66. F. 23, ’06. 1480w.
“Has all the interest of the first.”
+ + + Nation. 81: 240. S. 21, ’05. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It will take its place among the indispensable works of reference.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 340. Mr. 17, ’06. 530w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
Gray, Charles H. Lodowick Carliell. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“His work is deserving of all praise.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 28. Ja. 6. 280w.
Gray, John Thompson. Kentucky chronicle. $1.50. Neale.
“Among the Virginia emigrants to The Falls, was Reginald Thornton, a stately, kindly gentleman of the old school.” He established himself at Lastlands, a few miles from The Falls, and it is the life of his children, his grandchildren, their friends and enemies that goes to make up this chronicle which is “more than a romance, it is a wisdom book.”
Gray, Maxwell, pseud. (Mary Gleed Tuttiett.) Great refusal. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The ‘great refusal’ is made by the hero, who renounces wealth and position to become a common workingman, and eventually embarks in a socialistic venture having for its object the establishment of a Utopian commonwealth in Africa. These are not his only sacrifices, for love also is cast aside, and it is not until the end of much suffering that his early passion is replaced by one fixed upon far surer foundations. The characterization is excellent, alike of the two women, the devoted hero, and his masterful father, whose money seems to the son too tainted for legitimate enjoyment.”—Dial.
“The author fails chiefly because she has not defined exactly what she would be at. In regard to the condition of the poor, her hero is an ignoramus.”
– + Acad. 70: 173. F. 24, ’06. 1440w. + – Ath. 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 270w. – Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 140w.
“A singularly charming and appealing book. The style of the novel, also, is natural as to dialogue, and charmingly allusive as to description.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The tale is a really thoughtful one, written with a purpose; but buried so deeply beneath value the motive at its true worth.”
– + Lond. Times. 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 170w.
“Upon the whole, however, the characters are consistent with themselves, and the author shows her art by being just to all of them.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 1350w.
“The best thing in the novel is the rapid-fire exchange of sociological epigrams and paradoxes between a group of Oxford undergraduates.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 160w.
“The book is certainly above the average in readability as well as in ideals; and though the workmanship does not always reach the level of the conception, the main part of the story amply repays the reader for wading through what must be acknowledged to be the extreme dullness of the first two or three chapters.”
+ – Spec. 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 350w.
Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” **$1.50. Harper.
The fleecy grayness of a Breton mist permeates this story of Pierrek, the child who is sent by the sea to the empty arms of a woman whose wits are wandering because of the loss of her own baby boy. With true Breton faith in the miraculous he is considered hers, grows to manhood on the Breton cliffs, marries the girl of his choice, becomes a loving husband, and a happy father, only to learn thru a woman’s jealousy that his mother of mothers is not his own and that his wife is his own sister. Then indeed the grey mist envelops him and he goes back to the gray sea leaving those he loves in sorrow and facing a hopeless future which the impenetrable mists of life and death envelope like a shroud.
“It cannot be called satisfactory as a whole, and the conclusion is too annoying to be tragic.”
– Ath. 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 300w.
“The whole tone of the present volume is as false as possible—little short of maudlin.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 771. N. 24. ’06. 240w.
“A pleasantly written story, but it is curiously deficient in the dramatic quality which justifies a tragic ending, and there is every reason for averting the final catastrophe.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
Greely, Adolphus Washington. Handbook of Polar discoveries. $1.50. Little.
Following the topical method of treatment, General Greely has compiled from original narratives “such data of accomplished results as may subserve the inquiries of the busy man who often wishes to know what, when, and where, rather than how.” All important Arctic geographic additions to knowledge are given as well as the more important scientific investigations. The table of contents includes; Early Northwest voyages to 1750, Nova Zembla, The northeast passage, Spitzbergen, Behring strait, The northwest passage, Franklin’s last voyages, North-polar voyages, The islands of the Siberian ocean, Franz Josef land, The Antarctic regions in general, and chapters upon the African, Australian, Pacific and American quadrants.
“It is a great public service to have these voluminous narratives studied, digested, criticised and reported by the foremost authority on the subject.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1117. N. 8, ’06. 120w.
“A few ... serious misstatements or misprints ... have crept in as the result of imperfect revision of the earlier text.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 493. D. 6, ’06. 490w.
“It is the polar vade mecum in English.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 845. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
Green, Allen Ayrault. Good fairy and the bunnies; 11 full-page il. in col. and 10 chapter headings by Frank Richardson. $1.50. McClurg.
The purpose of this story is to relieve the grief of boys and girls who lose pets by suggesting to their minds the possibility that the good animals of the earth are, after death transported to a beautiful land on a star above.
Ind. 61: 1411. D. 13, ’06. 20w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w.
“There are plenty of pictures in colors ... but their style is not of the best.”
– R. of Rs. 34: 766. D. ’06. 20w.
Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs). [Circular study.] *50c. Fenno.
A popular edition of a story which appeared first in 1900. It is a mystery story whose crime, discovered to have been committed in self defense, involves a dramatic tale of revenge and love.
+ – Nation. 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 110w. N. Y. Times. 11: 293. My. 5, ’06. 70w.
Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs). [Woman in the alcove.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
A mystery story which runs a rapid and exciting course to the inevitable solution opens upon a brilliant private ball. A gorgeously appareled woman with a diamond on her breast too vivid for most women is murdered in an alcove, and the gem hidden in the woman’s gloves is discovered later in the possession of innocent Rita Van Arsdale. Her lover is accused of the deed, and the interest of the story becomes identified with this determined young woman’s efforts to free him from the charge of guilt.
“It is one of the best of Anna Katharine Green’s detective novels and displays all the remarkable ingenuity that marks the best work of the famous author of ‘The Leavenworth case.’”
+ Arena. 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 190w. Critic. 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“One does not look for character drawing or social analysis in such books, but it requires no small skill to write them as acceptably as does Mrs. Green, who pleases her large constituency well.”
+ Ind. 61: 338. Ag. 9, ’06. 130w.
“Anna Katharine Green’s hand has assuredly lost its cunning if ‘The woman in the alcove’ is to be accepted as the criterion of her present workmanship.”
– Lit. D. 32: 918. Ja. 16, ’06. 120w.
“One of the most fascinating books of its kind, superior in content, it seems to us, to either ‘The filigree ball’ or ‘The millionaire baby,’ and as absorbing in the reading as those or any of their predecessors.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 293. My. 5, ’06. 280w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“This is a fairly good detective story, but not the best.”
+ Outlook. 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 60w. + Spec. 96: 950. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
Green, Evelyn Everett-. Secret of Wold Hall. †$1. McClurg.
“It belongs to the innocuous class of respectable mediocrities, and is not bad to rest one’s mind upon.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 4. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.
Greene, Charles Ezra. Structural mechanics, comprising the strength and resistance of materials and elements of structural design; with examples and problems. *$2.50. Wiley.
“Published in 1897, this book has become well known. It stands intermediate between the ordinary textbook on Mechanics of materials and such books as Johnson’s Framed structures.... The book is evidently framed for use; and one who has studied mechanics and has the general fundamentals fixed in his mind will, in the shortest time, find out what to do, or the information necessary for action.... The new edition, now under review, contains 240 pages, whereas the 1897 (first) edition contained 268 pages; this, too, notwithstanding the insertion of explanatory and introductory sentences in various parts of the text.”—Engin. N.
“The chief feature of the book is compactness of treatment without sacrifice of clearness of statement.” W. Kendrick Hatt.
+ + + Engin. N. 55: 74. Ja. 18, ’06. 2060w.
Greene, Cordelia Agnes. Art of keeping well; with a biography by Elizabeth P. Gordon. **$1.25. Dodd.
A memorial volume by virtue of the sketch of Dr. Greene’s life to which the last half of the book is devoted. “The part contributed by Dr. Greene contains some eighteen articles on subjects connected rather with hygiene than with medicine, all of them supporting the title given to the book.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 230w.
“A sensible book of advice.”
Outlook. 82: 715. Mr. 24, ’06. 80w.
Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly Williams. With spurs of gold. †$1.50. Little.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 260w.
Greene, Maria Louise. Development of religious liberty in Connecticut. **$2. Houghton.
“A welcome and creditable addition to the small list of valuable works on American ecclesiastical history.... The chief bones of contention in Connecticut were, of course, the Halfway Covenant and the Saybrook Platform; and to the development of these great statements, and of the controversies which centered round them, Miss Greene pays detailed and patient attention.... The bibliography lists the principal authorities, including much contemporary material hitherto little used.”—Nation.
“Careful and scholarly treatise.”
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 687. Ap. ’06. 620w.
Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 358. Ap. ’06. 430w.
“With much learning and insight into the meaning of events, with a lucid style and without prejudice, Dr. Greene has written a valuable religious history of Connecticut.” George Hodges.
+ + Atlan. 97: 413. Mr. ’06. 330w. + + Critic. 48: 477. My. ’06. 120w.
“The treatment of this subject is admirable, and is a distinct contribution to the history of our national development. The placing of the references to authorities in the appendix seems to us an objectionable arrangement.”
+ + – Dial. 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Miss Greene is neither partial nor hostile, and her work, if it errs somewhat in feeling, is well stored with facts.”
+ – Nation. 82: 201. Mr. 8, ’06. 310w. + R. of Rs. 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 120w.
“The volume as a whole is one to be welcomed by students of Connecticut history.” Williston Walker.
+ Yale R. 15: 96. My. ’06. 480w.
Greene, Robert. Plays and poems; ed. by J. Churton Collins. 2v. *$6. Oxford.
Prof. Collins says, “I determined to spare no pains to make this edition, so far at least as the text was concerned, a final one.” “It preserves the original spelling not even removing the confusion of i and j, of u and v. Such indications of scene and stage business as the editor contributes himself, or as he takes over from Dyce, he sets apart in brackets. He transcribes in full from the Alleyn treasures at Dulwich, the manuscript part from which the actor studied Orlando in Greene’s ‘Orlando Furioso,’ a most interesting fragment, which sheds light on the customs of the Elizabethan playhouses. He collects all the songs out of Greene’s novels. He discusses in detail, with full knowledge and with robust common sense, all the many uncertainties connected with the biography and with the bibliography of his author.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Although, the value and interest of this research is unquestionable, we must yet take exception to Dr. Churton Collin’s arrangement of the actual text of the plays. The general introduction is long and learned; but it is in many respects disappointing. The special introductions are, however, of marked importance.”
+ – Acad. 69: 1252. D. 2, ’05. 1430w.
“Prof. Collins cannot be charged with an excess of enthusiasm in this venture. There are signs of weariness in the attempt to correct and improve upon his predecessors.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 471. Ap. 21. 1740w.
“In fulness and accuracy it is, as it should be, up to the level which has long been required in the case of the Greek and Latin classics, and, we might add also, in the case of writers of the mediaeval period. The notes especially are replete with learning.”
+ + Nation. 82: 410. My. 17, ’06. 2240w.
“It is pleasant to be able to welcome the ‘Greene’ of Prof. Churton Collins as a worthy companion to the ‘Kyd’ of Prof. Boas.” Brander Matthews.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 1590w.
“What we are glad of is the opportunity of reading him at large in so delightful a text.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 261. Mr. 3, ’06. 1990w. + + – Spec. 96: 537. Ap. 7, ’06. 1200w.
Greene, Sarah P. McLean. Power Lot. †$1.50. Baker.
Power Lot, God Help Us is the full name of this bleak little Nova Scotia hamlet, and the story of its people as Captain Jim, a sailor on the Bay of Fundy, tells it, is quaint and very human. The main plot, concerns Robert Hilton, a dissolute youth who has been wasting his inherited wealth in New York and who is marooned by the family doctor upon these windswept cliffs, and Mary, the girl whom Captain Jim himself loved but could not win. The regeneration of Robert thru work and right living finally brings out his real character and makes him worthy of both Mary and his great wealth, and to show how this is accomplished the rugged life of the coast inhabitants and their constant fight against poverty is pictured with sympathy and humor.
“So much of the psychology of ‘Power lot’ is true, and not without interest, whether the reformation of the hero be credible or otherwise.”
+ – Ind. 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 380w.
“Whole chapters might be omitted with advantage, but the story itself is a real story, full of quaint turns of humor and sentiment, and told with a peculiar eloquence and a strong feeling for dramatic effect.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 553. S. 8, ’06. 600w. + Outlook. 84: 239. S. 22, ’06. 70w. Putnam’s. 1: 319. D. ’06. 50w.
Greenidge, Abel Hendy Jones. [History of Rome during the later republic and early principate.] 6 vols. v. I, *$3.50. Dutton.
“The work is disappointing as a whole from its lack of directness, proportion, and continuity.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 414. Ap. 7. 890w.
Greenshields, E. B. Landscape painting and modern Dutch artists. **$2. Baker.
A history of landscape painting from the awakening of art in the thirteenth century to the recent French impressionists and the modern revival in Holland. The author’s object is to lead the art student to separate the “thought and the personal vision” of the master from the great technical skill which is the servant that makes possible its expression on canvas. This detachment leads to the subjective study that interprets individuality.
“The text is concise and to the point.”
+ Critic. 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Greenshields, who has established himself as an authority on the artists under discussion, has approached his task with ardor, and has assembled his material with an eye keen both to the true and the interesting.”
+ + Dial. 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 300w.
“This is largely composed of somewhat imperfectly fused essays, neither profound nor novel, but agreeably written and giving information that will be helpful to many in teaching them how to see pictures.”
+ – Ind. 60: 805. Ap. 5, ’06. 210w. Nation. 82: 279. Ap. 5, ’06. 150w.
“A pleasing typographical as well as convenient feature of the book will be found in its marginal notes.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 560w. + Outlook. 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w. Pub. Opin. 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 140w. R. of Rs. 33: 767. Je. ’06. 50w.
“Without adding anything fresh to our knowledge, the writer gives an excellent summary of the rise and development of landscape painting from early Renaissance times to the present day.”
+ Spec. 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 130w.
Greenslet, Ferris. James Russell Lowell, his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
“It is the more surprising therefore, that a man who is steeped in Lowell should on occasion himself write so vilely.”
– + Acad. 70: 201. Mr. 3, ’06. 1100w.
“There is a manifest danger that some of the merits of substance may be hidden by the tricks of manner. The genuine merits are so many and so positive that it would be the greatest of pities for the apprehensive reader too quickly to take alarm and lose the benefits of Mr. Greenslet’s searching study of Lowell the man and the writer.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + – Atlan. 97: 111. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“A compact record of this many-sided life and a really judicial discussion of the poet’s place in literature—the first essentially critical biography of Lowell yet attempted.” W. E. Simonds.
+ + + Dial. 40: 119. F. 16, ’06. 1290w.
“The book as a whole is well done, the smaller details being handled with fondness for such details, and the critical notes touching all the sensitive points.”
+ Ind. 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 300w.
“A very painstaking and creditable, but uninspired, monograph.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 101. Mr. 23, ’06. 570w.
“It is hardly possible to speak too highly of Mr. Greenslet’s performance. In addition to an unusually ample literary outfit, he possesses the critic’s instinct and insight, and his almost unfailing touchstone.”
+ + + Nation. 82: 180. Mr. 1, ’06. 2130w. + + + Nation. 82: 205. Mr. 8, ’06. 2130w. R. of Rs. 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“Mr. Greenslet’s book is an excellent performance. A better portrait of the man one could not wish to see.”
+ + + Spec. 96: 228. F. 10, ’06. 610w.
Greenwood, James Mickleborough, ed. Successful teaching: fifteen studies by practical teachers; prize winners in the national educational contest of 1905; with an introd. by J. M. Greenwood. *$1. Funk.
Fifteen essays which “are intended to help teachers in their daily work; to give them broader views of teaching certain subjects, better methods of presentation, and deeper insight into the thoughts, feelings, emotions, desires, passions, and aspirations of a developing human soul.”
“The book will prove valuable as an additional book of reference to teachers who have available the more systematic and exhaustive treatises.”
+ Bookm. 24: 296. N. ’06. 140w.
“The contributions are of varying merit, tho on the whole excellent.”
+ Ind. 61: 936. O. 18, 06. 90w. R. of Rs. 34: 384. S. ’06. 50w.
Grey, Edward C. W. St. Giles’s of the lepers. $1.50. Longmans.
This large London parish took its name from the hospital for lepers founded by the queen of Henry I. The author who labored here for thirty years sketches the history and describes the recent attempts to uplift the people who are sheltered within its limits. Among the most interesting chapters are those which tell of the author’s experiences as a Guardian of the poor, and his account of the founding of the Boys’ institute.
“Had [Mr. Grey’s] life been spared, the few errors we have come across would doubtless have been corrected, and his work, as a book of reference, rendered more valuable by the addition of an index.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 477. Ap. 21. 590w.
“His reminiscences are not so valuable as his history, but they round out a book unpretending, but very interesting.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 893. D. 16, ’05. 620w. + Sat. R. 101: 180. F. 10, ’06. 130w. + Spec. 95: 872. N. 25, ’05. 330w.
Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick. [Passenger from Calais.] †$1.25. Page.
This story which records a series of adventures that begin in a sleeping-car between Calais and Basle, and come to an end on the north African shore as sprightly as one could wish. Briefly told, Lord Blackadder divorces his wife. She wishes to escape with her child whom the father also cares to possess. In order to facilitate her flight by confusing the confidential agents who might follow her, she and her twin sister gowned alike, and accompanied by maids closely resembling one another journey in different directions, the one with the child and the other with a dummy. The flight and the pursuit give rise to numerous exciting situations.
“The trouble with ‘The passenger from Calais’ ... is the lack of a certain magnetic something which in the story of mystery leads the reader onward more or less breathless, through a mass of details cunningly arranged to impede his progress and inflame his curiosity.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 81. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
Grinnell, William Morton. Social theories and social facts. **$1. Putnam.
A discussion of the subject of the economic and social conditions of to-day with the following chapter headings: Natural and artificial laws; Trusts; Competition; Socialism; Legislation; Labor; The Cost of living; Course of wages; Railway rates. “The chief value in Mr. Grinnell’s book is that it points out the difference between political and industrial socialism and in so doing emphasizes both the true function and the real value of the corporation as a contrivance for the distribution of wealth.” (Outlook.)
“Nowadays it is comparatively rare to find anyone holding so consistently a laissez faire policy as does the author in this little volume.”
+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 419. Mr. ’06. 150w.
“It is not a closely reasoned exposition, nor one characterized by breadth of view. The facts are not critically examined to determine their real meaning, and they are not always accurate. Occasionally sweeping statements are made as if the facts were well established.”
+ – Critic. 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 150w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
Dial. 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 150w.
“It is impossible to find in the book a central idea or a consistent standpoint.”
– Ind. 60: 1286. My. 31, 06. 130w.
“It is unfortunate that the author of this book, by his assumptions, extravagances and inaccuracies, not to say errors, impairs the worth of a work which contains some very valuable suggestions.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 490w. R. of Rs. 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 90w.
Grove, Sir George. Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; new ed. thoroughly rev. and greatly enlarged; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. 5v. ea. **$5. Macmillan.
+ + + Acad. 70: 483. My. 19, ’06. 700w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is, of course, impossible for Mr. Maitland to verify every statement made in old articles and in those of new contributors.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 458. Ap. 14. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“No exception can be taken to the scholarly character both of the revised and the new matter.”
+ + + Dial. 40: 267. Ap. 16, ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Americans do not receive quite as full treatment as might have been asked for them legitimately in a book intended just as largely for the American as for the British market.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 480w.
“In dealing with matters of smaller importance the level reached and sustained is a high one. The work has been conspicuously well done, as regards both editing and production ... we have been hard put to discover flaws.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 2620w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The shortcomings of the new ‘Grove’ are few compared with its many sterling qualities.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 413. My. 17, ’06. 580w. (Review of v. 2.)
“There is a table of corrections of errors in the first volume at the end of this, and there will doubtless be more corrections in the third volume.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 253. Ap. 21, ’06. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.) + + + R. of Rs. 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
Grundy, Mabel Barnes-. Hazel of Heatherland. †$1.50. Baker.
Hazel of Heatherland is a head-strong young heroine whose refractory doings are refreshing and forgivable. Her whims form a sort of froufrou of caprice against the background of Robert Underwick’s plain, sturdy qualities. The romance of these two is aided by clever Aunt Menelophe who is not so much a match-maker as a tactful student of “fluffy bits of inanity.” So she characterizes some women, and would be of service to them.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.
“The author evidently knows rural England as well as how to write a pleasing story.”
+ Outlook. 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 90w.
“Is freshly and amusingly written.”
+ Sat. R. 99: 601. My. 6, ’06. 140w.
Guerber, Helene Adeline. How to prepare for Europe. **$2. Dodd.
A popular handbook “How to prepare for Europe” is a “comprehensive work written in a popular vein. There are chapters on the history of each country, its literature and art, a vocabulary in six languages, bibliographies of history, art, travel, etc., and other material for the European traveler.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The tourist should by all means secure this book as a supplement to his indispensable Baedeker.”
+ + Dial. 40: 394. Je. 16, ’06. 260w.
“These bibliographies would have been more useful, if price, publisher, and some indication of their relative value had been given.”
+ – Ind. 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 70w.
“A useful little book that need not be depreciated as over-ambitious, since it is light in the hand and most compact and clearly printed.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 420w.
“A useful handbook, covering a different field from any single volume of which we know.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.
Guerville, A. B. de. New Egypt. **$5. Dutton.
“A book of description combining history, geography, and travel.... M. de Guerville has found that there really is a new Egypt, and that, moreover, it is quite willing to be studied and analyzed.” (R. of Rs.) “For the most part the illustrations in the present work are portraits of well known natives, types, and scenes, as well as pictures of English and French personages connected with Egypt’s recent history.” (N. Y. Times.)
“If scandal is more amusing to his mind than politics, we do not blame him, for the scandal adds colour and merriment to his narrative. Nor should it be forgotten that his observation is as honest as it is quick.”
+ Acad. 70: 279. Mr. 24, ’06. 130w.
“A very entertaining book, which no one who concerns himself with things Egyptian can afford to pass by.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 590w.
“We commend the book for its valuable information, for its pungent style, and for its sprightly gossip about things Egyptian.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + Dial. 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 360w.
“His account of the rapid advance of civilization into the Sudan will be as surprising as it is interesting to most readers.”
+ Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 150w.
“A book as readable by reason of its style as by its intrinsic merit.”
+ + Nation. 82: 370. My. 3, ’06. 1820w. N. Y. Times. 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 320w.
“On the whole, the book is one of the best on its subject yet published.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 190w.
“Despite occasional blemishes, the book is worth reading.”
+ + – Outlook. 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 350w.
“Entertainingly written.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 130w.
Guinan, Rev. Joseph. Soggarth Aroon. $1.25. Benziger.
Chapters from the experiences of an Irish country curate, first appearing in the “Ave Maria” and now amended and enlarged.
Gull, Cyril Arthur Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.). [Lost cause.] †$1.50. Putnam.
Mr. Thorne’s preface states: “‘Protestantism’ within the church is a lost cause, it is dying, and for just this reason the clamor is loudest, the misrepresentation more furious and envenomed.... The author ... attacks those of the extreme ‘Protestants’ whom he believes to be insincere and who rebel against the truth for their own ends.... Finally, the noisiest ‘Protestants’ are hitting the Church as hard as they can. The author has endeavored to hit back as hard as he can.” The book treats this theme with dramatic intensity.
“Mr. Guy Thorne is not very skilful at handling even the small craft he has set sail in. His devices are of the easy and conventional order and his people lack vitality and breadth of human souls. His book is not one to be regarded except as a warning and example of the sacrifice of literature to opinion.”
– Acad. 69: 821. Ag. 12, ’05. 920w. – Ath. 1905, 2: 171. Ag. 5. 280w.
“The venom of the book is, upon the whole, confined to its preface, and it portrays some exalted Christian characters, and at times a spirit truly catholic, in the accepted sense of the term.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 520w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
Gull, Cyril Arthur Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.). Made in His image. †$1.50. Jacobs.
How Charles Bosanquet, minister of industrial affairs, framed a measure which settled for a time the problem of the great army of the unemployable in London, and what came of it, is the burden of this story. First the starving masses are drawn, hideous, menacing, parasites upon the working poor; then comes the minister’s solution; those whom the courts deem unfit for society are to be made slaves for life. This is the beginning of that awful thing, the slave colony in the Cornish hinterland at which the Christian world stood aghast. Thru all this a love story is developed. Bosanquet and his old friend, John Hazel, now his political opponent, both love Muriel, an active worker in the anti-slavery league. And then the day comes when the slaves break loose!
“Strange though its theme and remarkable the treatment, this novel shows its greatest touch of genius in its ending.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 240w.
Gunne, Evelyn. Silver trail; poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
The author has followed her silver trail to learn its mystery. Her verse goes hither and yon for themes, sometimes beyond the mountain, to the sunset, more often far afield. The lines all breathe possibility, hope, buoyancy.
Gunsaulus, Frank W. Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25. Revell.
+ Ind. 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 180w.
Gwatkin, Henry Melville. Eye for spiritual things: and other sermons. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Some twenty-eight sermons.... English sermons of the best type.... The ... volume ranges over a wide class of subjects, though no theme is handled which is not of importance in the religious life. The point of view is indicated in the following sentence: ‘The knowledge of God is not to be learned by sacrificing reason to feeling, or feeling to reason, by ascetic observance or by orthodox belief; it is given freely to all that purify themselves with all the force of heart and soul and mind.’”—Nation.
“Strong and thoughtful sermons.”
+ + Bib. World. 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 10w.
“They are chaste and dignified, orderly and quiet, without screaming for oratorical effect, conveying a happy sensation of established faith and power held in reserve.”
+ Nation. 83: 36. Jl. 12, ’06. 210w.
“They have real originality and independence of thought, a fine power of description, and an eloquence which is free from mere rhetoric; on the other hand he drags in controversy sometimes when it is not necessary, and it is just when he denounces dogma and tradition and the Roman Church that he deteriorates and tends to become commonplace.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 190w.
Gwatkin, Henry Melville. Knowledge of God. 2v. *$3.75. Scribner.
“These volumes present in rearranged form the Gifford lectures at Edinburgh in 1904 and 1905 by the Professor of Ecclesiastical history in Cambridge, England. What man has discovered concerning God through God’s revelation of himself to man is the theme given by the title. The first series discusses the reality and character of such a revelation and discovery of God in the universe and in man. The second series is devoted to a historico-critical survey of its development from the stage of primitive religion to the present.”—Outlook.
“The book is studded with memorable phrases and incisive comments, and rises at times to serene and lofty eloquence. The value of the book is that it is a sort of philosophy of history by a man intimately acquainted with every detail of the subject, and entirely free from the bias of the ecclesiastic. We cannot help thinking that Prof. Gwatkin would have strengthened his book by a more sympathetic attitude. For all that it is stimulating, and by its very decision, useful, and above all things, interesting and brilliant.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 265. S. 8. 1450w. Lond. Times. 5: 274. Ag. 10, ’06. 1540w.
“With the work as a whole one must confess to disappointment. Dr. Gwatkin would appear to be most broad and tolerant in many respects, but his manner toward Roman Catholics is sometimes offensive.”
+ – Nation. 83: 310. O. 11, ’06. 540w.
“Whatever defects may be attributed to his work, its philosophic thought and warmth of feeling make it a worthy continuation of the work of his predecessors in the Gifford lectureship.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 711. Ag. 18, ’06. 520w.
“It is a pity that the value of these lectures is seriously compromised by a singular inability to do justice to any form of Christian thought except the Evangelical.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 1820w.