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Dale, Robert W. History of English Congregationalism. **$4. Armstrong.
A book by one of England’s most commanding nonconformists which is written for Congregationalists but which will interest “Episcopalians and Presbyterians especially, as well as all Americans to whom the development of religious freedom and the delimitation of the spheres of church and state form an attractive subject.” (Outlook.) “He tells the life-history of a cause which suffered contempt and cruel oppression, and of which he was the latest—and the most eloquent—exponent.... So much only of political history is given as is absolutely necessary for his purpose.” (Ath.)
“By this book the author has erected a worthy monument to his own memory; but it must not be forgotten that without another’s labour it would never have seen the light. The manner in which the work of arrangement, of revision, of completion, and of illustration has been performed by his son demands separate, if brief recognition. In discretion, taste, and literary ability it is altogether admirable.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 567. My. 11. 2030w. |
“Let us say at once that for thoroughness of treatment and for exactness of detail there is no work known to us on this subject which approaches the volume now produced by Principal Dale out of the materials which his father left.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 92. Mr. 22, ’07. 1300w. |
“For a historical understanding of the peculiarities of religious life in England this history is eminently instructive.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 320w. |
“In taking leave of a very able book we cannot but express our thankfulness that Professor Dale has been able to preserve unimpaired for the students of church history a valuable work which might have lost much by the too early death of its author.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 1310w. |
D’Alton, Rev. John A. History of Ireland from the earliest times to the present day. 3v. v. 2, from 1547 to 1782. *$3. Benziger.
Covers the ground from the earliest period down to the present day, and “aims not to contribute anything original in the way of research or criticism, but to produce a popular history by judicious selection of the best materials that his predecessors have furnished.” (Cath. World.)
“Being both a learned and an honest man, he seldom misstates facts, and is ready to face them as he understands them; but one cannot read twenty pages of the book without feeling that he is a Roman Catholic, and takes the standpoint of that church as his own. These flaws do not prevent the book before us from contrasting very favorably with various Irish histories which have come under our notice.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 628. My. 25. 1560w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“He is simple, clear, and at times, picturesque. The temper of the work is fairly critical, though not unfrequently our author does not acquaint his readers with the existence of an opinion at variance with the one he favors.”
| + − | Cath. World. 85: 248. My. ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Father D’Alton has few graces of style, but he is workmanlike, and is wise to avoid rhetoric. On the whole, what impresses us most is his impartiality; he desires to get at the truth and tell it plainly. His view would be broader if he had entered more closely into English history.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 620. My. 18, ’07. 1570w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Dalton, William. Dalton’s complete bridge. **$1.25. Stokes.
6–30000.
The most recent and authoritative work on bridge, written by the great British expert.
“We are still waiting for the Cavendish of bridge, but books like this help to pave the way for his arrival.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 99. Jl. 28. 550w. |
“A treatise which leaves nothing to be desired on the score of thoroughness.”
| + | Dial. 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w. | |
| + − | Nation. 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 100w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 90w. |
Daly, Thomas Augustine. Canzoni. *$1. Catholic standard and times pub. co.
6–38398.
“Mr. T. A. Daly’s dagoes, his darkies, and his Irishmen all satisfy one’s sense of verity. Of the dialect verses in this volume, those dealing with the humor and sentiment of the humble Italian life in our large cities make up the larger portion.... In his Irish verses there is something of the quality of Samuel Lover, an Old World flavor in the wit and lilt as well.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Daly is happy, likewise, in his poems of love and home, which are always true and sound. What is most admirable throughout the volume is the union of wit, humor, or sprightliness, as the case may be, with a genuine respect for all that is pure, sweet, tender, manly, and noble.”
| + + | Cath. World. 85: 547. Jl. ’07. 860w. |
“Contains some unusually good light verse, mostly dialect, part of it Irish, part Italian. Both are handled skillfully.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1497. D. 20, ’06. 250w. |
“The pervading wholesome spirit particularly commends this book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 270w. |
Dampier, William. Voyages, ed. by John Masefield. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
7–26474.
“A new and attractive edition in two volumes, with portrait, maps, and a brief sketch of Dampier’s life of the editor.”—Outlook.
| + | Acad. 72: 187. F. 23, ’07. 1860w. |
“The ‘Voyages’ here presented in two handy volumes, at a comparatively low price, are full of popular interest and romance. They are far more stirring reading than many a belauded work of modern fiction.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 300w. |
“In Mr. Masefield’s reprint the type is clear and the editing generally excellent. The introductory memoir might indeed have been fuller for Admiral Smyth’s standard biographical sketch in the United service journal is now seventy years old, and no longer easy to find. From Mr. Masefield’s index we miss several entries, among them the name of Selkirk.” Lane Cooper.
| + + − | Dial. 43: 205. O. 1, ’07. 2420w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 160w. |
“A carefully annotated edition.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 240w. |
Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W. Literature of libraries in the 17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.
v. 3 and 4. These volumes of this series deal respectively with “The life of Sir Thomas Bodley, written by himself, together with the first draft of the statutes of the public library at Oxon,” and “Two tracts on the founding and maintaining of parochial libraries in Scotland,” by James Kirkwood.
v. 5. This is “A brief outline of the history of libraries” by Justus Lipsius, translated from the second edition, the last from the hand of the author, by John Cotton Dana. The library of Osymandyas of Egypt is the first to be mentioned, then follows the brief history of other Egyptian libraries, of Grecian and of Roman collections. Two chapters in closing are devoted to historic library decoration, book cases, shelves, tables and seats.
v. 6. The concluding volume of this series is entitled “News from France,” or “A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin,” preceded by “The surrender of the library,” two tracts written by Gabriel Naudé.
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 290w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.) |
Reviewed by Laurence Burnham.
| + | Bookm. 24: 639. F. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The contents of the last volumes easily sustain the high standard of the previous books in the series and indeed are of even greater interest to the layman as well as the librarian.” Laurence Burnham.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 101. S. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 3–6.) |
“As a whole, this series promises to be a delight to the bibliophile as well as to the librarian.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 42: 73. F. 1, ’07. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–4.) | |
| + | Dial. 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.) |
“Both volumes will have antiquarian value for those engaged in library pursuits to-day. And the dignified sketch of Bodley’s life has also a general human interest.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.) | |
| + | Nation. 84: 564. Je. 20, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.) |
Dane, John Colin. Champion: the story of a motor-car; il. by W. E. Webster. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–15596.
The autobiography of a motor-car, which is full of the love, adventure, and treachery of its several possessors. “The difference between this and the well-known autobiography of a horse, ‘Black Beauty,’ is in some respects typical of the changes in our own time since the mid-Victorian era.” (Ath.)
“It is crude and sensational, but the story moves forward with spirit, and certain exciting scenes in it are well realized; for instance, that in the great motor-car race in France.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 130w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 100w. |
Daniels, Frank T. A text-book of topographical drawing. (Technical drawing ser.) *$1.50. Heath.
7–8517.
“The first chapter deals briefly and concisely with the instruments and materials required in topographic drafting. The next two chapters take up the subject of paper and of plotting. The remaining chapters take up the subjects of drafting and the symbols used in drafting topographic maps, in ink and in colors, and the methods of representing surface form. This is followed by a brief treatise on earthwork and earthwork computation.”—Engin. N.
“Here is a book that makes a field of its own, and for which there is a place on shelves of all engineers and surveyors who have to do with topographic drafting. The book is concisely and clearly written. In reviewing so well written a text-book it seems ungracious to be critical over trifles.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 58: 78. Jl. 18, ’07. 750w. |
Danneel, Heinrich. Electrochemistry; v. 1, Theoretical electrochemistry and its physico-chemical foundations; tr. from the Sammlung Göschen by Edmund S. Merriam. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–7516.
v 1. Treats of the modern theories of electrochemistry, as well as their physicochemical foundations. Explains the terms work, current, and voltage, and discusses gas laws, osmotic pressure, theory of electrolytic dissociation and conductivity, ionic theory, electromotive force, the galvanic current, polarization, electrolysis and the electron theory.
“The average student who is called upon to study the ionic theory will obtain, we venture to think, a better grip of the subject by a study of Danneel’s book than from that of Abegg. The latter book treats the subject more fully but Danneel’s style is more interesting, and he leaves none of the salient facts out.”
| + + | Nature. 76: 380. Ag. 15, ’07. 200w. (Review of pt. 1.) |
“This volume ... contains a surprising amount of fact and information within a very small compass. The translation is vigorous and clear.” Arthur B. Lamb.
| + + − | Science, n. s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 260w. (Review of pt. 1.) |
Dante Alighieri. [Divine comedy] and The new life; ed. with introd. and notes by Oscar Kuhns, lea. $1.25. Crowell.
An edition uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” which with its introduction, bibliography and notes will serve to give a new impulse to the study of Dante.
Dargan, Olive Tilford. [Lords and lovers and other dramas.] **$1.50. Scribner.
“‘Lords and lovers’ is a romantic play in two parts of the time of Henry III. of England. It is as readable ... as a good novel, while it has the added charm of workmanlike and impressive blank verse and of dramatic situations, possibly not actable, yet conceived with a fine theatrical unction.... The second play, ‘The Shepherd,’ is in prose. It is a powerful presentation of contemporary Russian life, conceived with real force and imagination, though weakened as a work of art—as is also the concluding play, ‘The Siege,’—by an obvious concession to the desire of the sentimental reader for a measurably happy consummation.”—Nation.
“Such verse as this leaves no room for criticism. It bears the visible mark of the divine gift, and there is no poet of our time who might not be proud to claim it for his own.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 540w. | |
| + − | Nation. 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 570w. |
Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 880w. |
“Mrs. Dargan is a poet, not a great one, because not original, though she is decidedly individual.” James Huneker.
| + | No. Am. 184: 190. Ja. 18, ’07. 1410w. |
“If one were asked to say wherein the chief weakness lay, one would feel that one had acquired no new or individual point of view from the reading, and that there was no serious comment upon life.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| + − | No. Am. 186: 95. S. ’07. 280w. |
“There are abundant signs of immaturity in the first book of plays, and only a very young writer would have attempted the dramatization of such a character and experience as Poe’s; but there are also indisputable marks of original force of mind and imagination; the quality of promise which comes from strength and vitality rather than from facility and sensibility.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 328. F. 9, ’07. 1320w. |
“[The reader] cannot be unconscious of certain defects of plot. Mrs. Dargan’s great strength lies in the personality with which she invests her characters and in her remarkable command of blank verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 349. Je. ’07. 300w. |
Davenport, Charles Benedict. Inheritance in poultry. pa. $1. Carnegie inst.
6–27702.
Mr. Davenport has made an application of Mendelian principles to inheritance similar to that carried out by Saunders, Hurst and Bateson in England. “In part, however, he has studied different characters and races, and has been able to add many new and important facts to those already known. The present work is, however, to be looked upon rather as a preliminary—a first installment of the extensive experiments under way at Cold Spring Harbor.” (Science.)
“This is a valuable addition to the rapidly-increasing literature dealing with the subject of inheritance. There are a few marks of carelessness in the text.” F. A. D.
| + + − | Nature. 74: 583. O. 11, ’06. 330w. |
“The facts are presented with admirable clearness and conciseness, and despite the large number of details that the subject demands the matter is handled in a very attractive way.” T. H. Morgan.
| + + + | Science, n. s. 25: 464. Mr. 22, ’07. 1220w. |
Davenport, Frances Gardiner. Economic development of a Norfolk manor, 1086–1565. *$3. Putnam.
6–37953.
The subject of Miss Davenport’s study has been the court rolls of the manor of Forncett, near Norwich, which formed a part of the estate of the Earls of Norfolk. She carries it thru five centuries, and affords her readers an opportunity to follow in Forncett’s complex history the agricultural history of a great part of England.
“With no theory to establish and no prejudice to maintain, she gathered all the information that could be procured relating to a single Norfolk manor, arranged it logically, and thus furnished a contribution to our knowledge of medieval economic conditions that is thoroughly trustworthy.” Thomas Walker Page.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 609. Ap. ’07. 720w. | |
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 153. Jl. ’07. 330w. |
“This is an extremely unpretentious, but none the less very remarkable piece of work. We commend specially to the attention of students the map of Forncett which accompanies this book.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 125. Ag. 4. 810w. |
“The care with which the author has done her work is worthy of all praise. Her calculations and tables are correct to a fraction. This accuracy of inquiry bears fruit in a series of results with which every student of economic history will have to reckon. The writer is not so safe a guide in regard to the social and legal side of the inquiry, and this is due partly to her insufficient use of the help to be obtained from comparison with kindred cases.” P. Vinogradoff.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 154. Ja. ’07. 1370w. | |
| + + | Ind. 63: 692. S. 19, ’07. 260w. |
“This essay publishes the results of painstaking and scholarly original research.”
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 80w. |
“In the certainty and precision of statement that comes from an unusual knowledge of the minute detail of her subject lies the value of Miss Davenport’s study of Forncett.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 480w. |
“Valuable as an analysis of a typical community.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 60w. |
“Though it leaves many questions unanswered, and though in some respects the picture is not as clear as we might wish—the sokeman still remaining something of a puzzle—we can but feel content with a work that is in the highest degree painstaking and scholarly.” Charles M. Andrews.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 726. D. ’07. 1060w. |
“The full value of it will appear only as other studies of a similar kind are published with which comparisons may be made. Meanwhile it remains a model of the way in which such work should be done. The material has been collected and examined with painstaking thoroughness, and has been written up with admirable discrimination.” C. D.
| + + | Yale R. 16: 211. Ag. ’07. 720w. |
Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle. Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.
W 6–228.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The whole book is inaccurate and slipshod. Mr. Fulleylove’s charming illustrations deserved a better surrounding.” C. L. K.
| − + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 370w. |
Davidson, Gladys. [Stories from the operas.] 2d ser. *$1.25. Lippincott.
Here “Wagner is represented by only two of his operas—‘Parsifal’ and ‘Die Meistersinger.’ Of the other operas whose stories are told by her, four—Gounod’s ‘Philemon and Baucis,’ Meyerbeer’s ‘Star of the north,’ Halévy’s ‘The Jewess,’ and Bellini’s ‘La sonnambula’—have practically disappeared from the stage, while a fifth, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin,’ has never become acclimated outside of Russia. The others in the list are popular favorites of today and likely to remain so for some time. Their plots are told by the author in the form of short stories without reference to the stage or the music.”—Nation.
| Nation. 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 100w. |
“The value of the book might have been materially increased had the author boiled down each plot-story and given us all the standard operas instead of merely a selected number.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 180w. |
Davidson, John. Holiday and other poems. *$1. Dutton.
The technical experiments which the form of Mr. Davidson’s poetry abounds in, are fully in keeping with the venturesomeness of his themes and ideas. “He has nothing to do with civilization, except to denounce and defy it; his self-chosen part is that of the upsetter of all equanimities, the denier of all commonly accepted creeds, conventions, and traditions.” (Lond. Times.) “The very title of the book is manifold in its meaning. Life is a holiday, and the holiday of holidays is the final liberty torn by the spirit out of its material servitudes.” (Ath.)
“It is evident that what he lacks mostly is discipline and that austerity and economy of language which go with it. The fault looks straight out of the verse, and it is equally noticeable in his essay, which rambles over the whole universe of thought, touching on many things of which Mr. Davidson speaks with no authority and yet containing many interesting and suggestive things. Here we have extravagance both of thought and expression. It is the outpouring of an uncurbed, undisciplined, and vain mind.”
| − + | Acad. 71: 77. Jl. 28, ’06. 2000w. |
“This volume ought to win for Mr. Davidson the wider audience that he deserves. But his anarchic violence and metaphysical eccentricity are still rocks of offence, and he is not the sort of man who is easily taught or tamed.”
| + − | Ath. 1966, 2: 151. Ag. 11. 1990w. |
“In the closing passage of this ‘Note,’ Mr. Davidson, after a tribute to Poe, enlarges upon America in general, and makes it evident that he has been ‘seeing things.’” Wm. M. Payne.
| − | Dial. 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w. |
“His essay is a most stimulating and interesting piece of work. With all its eccentricities, it does the most useful thing criticism can do: it increases our sense of the greatness of poetry.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 281. Ag. 17, ’06. 1550w. | |
| + − | Nation. 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 180w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w. |
“In his prose, however, as in his verse, Mr. Davidson betrays a touch of rodomontade, a want of balance, and the vice of self-consciousness. He disappoints by a certain want of grip. His hands seem ever to be sliding over a hard surface. This criticism, none the less, must not be taken as disparagement. If not the poet of the future, he is a forerunner—one of the minor prophets.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 304. S. 8, ’06. 1460w. |
“Mr. Davidson’s fault is that he is inclined at times to torture his fancy into conceits. He can draw wonderful little vignettes of landscape; but he can also describe nature in a way so painfully ‘literary’ that our teeth are set on edge. Colour, imagination, and fire are rarely absent from his lines, and above all he has the singer’s supreme gift of the infallible ear.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 340w. |
Davidson, Thomas. Philosophy of Goethe’s Faust; ed. by Charles M. Bakewell. *60c. Ginn.
6–45070.
Mr. Davidson tells in these six lectures what the poem has come to mean to him, and has sought to lay bare its “philosophical or ethical skeleton.” Speaking of the poem, he says: “Its content, I believe, is the entire spiritual movement toward individual emancipation, composed of the Teutonic reformation and the Italian Renaissance in all their history, scope, and consequences.”
“The merit of the book is that it presents an individual point of view, and is not merely a gathering from the opinions of previous critics and commentators; while its defects arise, to some extent at least, from this very quality of independence. However, many of Mr. Davidson’s ideas are interesting, and some of his remarks on single passages are really thoughtful and illuminating, although his work, taken in its entirety, is, we think more acceptable as an exposition of his own philosophy than of Goethe’s.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 153. Ag. 10. 390w. |
“The book is too slight to deal thoroughly with ‘Faust’ or its philosophy, and many a reader will be more interested in what Mr. Davidson betrays of his own opinions than in what he says about Goethe’s.” G. Santayana.
| + − | J. Philos. 14: 106. F. 14, ’07. 880w. | |
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 74. Mr. 8, ’07. 1660w. |
“It would almost seem that Mr. Davidson has done his work as guide too thoroughly. He overloads his interpretations with meanings, he scents symbolism everywhere, and constructs a philosophy of ‘Faust’ which, though interesting and instructive in itself, can hardly be proved to have been in the poet’s mind. It holds the reader’s interest from beginning to end, and arouses in him a keen desire to take up his ‘Faust’ again, which is, after all, the most important function of a book of this kind.” Frank Thilly.
| + + − | Philos. R. 16: 552. S. ’07. 360w. |
Davidson, William L. Stoic creed. *$1.75. Scribner.
“The book is divided into three main ‘sections,’ followed by an appendix on ‘Pragmatism and humanism.’ The first section deals with ‘Moulding influences and leaders of the school,’ and shows how stoicism is mainly derived, on its ethical side, from the impulse of Socrates and the sophists. The second section, on ‘Stoic science and speculation,’ contains chapters dealing with the conception of philosophy, the logic and epistemology, the physics and cosmology, of the school, concluding with a chapter on the atomic theory of Epicurus in its relation to stoicism. The third section has for its title ‘Morality and religion,’ and occupies about half the book. It contains, in addition to a detailed exposition of the ethical system and its relation to cynicism, some useful pages of criticism, in which the defects of the system are indicated; and an interesting chapter entitled ‘Present-day value of stoicism,’ in which the dicta of eminent moderns, such as M. Arnold and Renan, concerning the stoic moralists are examined and appreciated.”—Ath.
“On the present-day value of stoicism and on its aspects as the precursor of much modern theory, Professor Davidson writes admirably in his excellent volume. It is no dry-as-dust treatise compact of dates and uncompromising facts. It is a sympathetic study of the history and development of the stoic philosophy which no student can afford to neglect.”
| + + | Acad. 73: 918. S. 21, ’07. 770w. |
“The book shows a competent knowledge of the subject and a gift of clear exposition. Occasionally, however, the writing is rather loose.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 400w. |
“A most important chapter in the history of thought on the great problems of the world is embodied in this discriminating and interesting volume.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 320w. |
Davies, A. C. Fox-. Dangerville, inheritance. †$1.50. Lane.
6–40211.
“This differs from most other detective tales in being the story of a mystery rather than the glorification of a detective. It also differs from them in keeping the solution from even the reader until the last page. Lord and Lady Dangerville seem to have been magnetised to attract mysteries, and mysteries of no mean radius.”—Acad.
“For the lovers of Sherlock Holmes ‘The Dangerville inheritance’ will be a fine detective story; but as an unusual drama of human life, and as an excellently told history it will have a more discriminating audience.”
| + | Acad. 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 180w. |
“The whole story is too preposterous to be taken seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − | Bookm. 25: 393. Je. ’07. 280w. |
“The final outcome is slightly irritating from its shock to one’s sense of probability.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w. |
Davies, A. C. Fox-. Mauleverer murders. †$1.50. Lane.
7–27614.
Mystery and plot abound in this story. “The heroine leads a double life, and is suspected of leading a triple or quadruple one. Sums like £150,000 are juggled with airily as feathers; the properties include bicycles, revolvers, knotted cords, strychnine, (wholesale,) perfumed handkerchiefs, half-destroyed letters, watches stopped at dreadfully significant hours, and the southern European kingdom of Moritania—royal line extinct. There is a detective who is not likely to displace Sergeant Cuff or Mr. Sherlock Holmes in our affections.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Beginning with the title, the author furnishes us with a thrill if not in every line, certainly on every page. The plot does not unfold; it rolls up and accumulates like a snowball.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 320w. | |
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w. |
“As a detective story the book suffers a little from the same thread of interest not being sustained all through. The end of the story is brutally horrible, and we are not convinced by the author’s production of the real criminal.”
| − | Spec. 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w. |
Davis, Grace T. Hero tales of congregational history. *$1. Pilgrim press.
7–3702.
“The characters sketched in this volume are all illustrious in the history of the Congregational churches for nearly three centuries. As pioneers of religion and civilization, and as builders of institutions, their names have gone into our national history, and their lives deserve the commemoration here bestowed. It is intended especially for adolescent readers, and is effectively illustrated.”—Outlook.
| + | Ind. 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 90w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w. |
Davis, Hayne, ed. Among the world’s peace-makers: an epitome of the Interparliamentary union. $1.50. Progressive pub. co.
An epitome of the Interparliamentary union, with sketches of eminent members of this international house of representatives and of progressive people who are promoting the plan for permanent peace which this union of lawmakers has espoused.
“Will be to the future historian a trustworthy and most fruitful source of information.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 720w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 639. My. ’07. 110w. |
Davis, Henry William Charles. England under the Normans and the Angevins. *$3. Putnam.
6–1101.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w. |
Davis, Latham. Shakespeare, England’s Ulysses: the masque of Love’s labor’s won, or The enacted will; dramatized from the sonnets of 1609. *$3. Stechert.
The masque, whose text is the sonnets of 1609, is really a legal document whose sole purpose is to convey and re-establish by a will the authorship of our Shakespearian literature. “The name of the new heir to the Shakespearian mantle, as revealed by the ‘star-like’ acrostic that ‘stands fix’d’ at the termination of the dramatis personæ is that of ... Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex.”
“It is a queer book, an unreadable one, and to the ordinary mind quite unintelligible, but it is a book and it is printed, and it will comfortably amaze a few of the credulous. There’s not a bit of harm in it.”
| − − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 220. My. 18, ’07. 200w. |
Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn M. Price of silence; with il. by Griswold Tyng. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–11208.
New Orleans furnishes the setting for this romance whose prologue deals with civil war times. “Then the tale passes over the intervening years to the present time and concerns itself with the love and complications of a grandniece of the mansions’s chatelaine, a son of the Union officer who commanded the looting provost guard, and young relatives and friends of the heroine.” (N. Y. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠ |
“Its interest is cleverly maintained, and its colouring is vivid and pleasing.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 140w. |
“The story is told with unfailing animation, and pictures with great fidelity the traits of the old French society now rapidly passing from view as a distinctive element in the life of the ancient city of Bienville.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 280w. |
“We suspect that the story is of a sort to be widely read, and to be generally taken, at least in the North, for a true and pleasing picture of southern types and southern life. We protest against such acceptance of it, and decline to believe that this colonel-myth is anything but a travesty of the truth.”
| − | Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 370w. |
“It is very curious that an author who can write as well and with as much taste as Mrs. Davis should be so entirely lacking in artistic instinct. There is much in her book that is very charming. And along with it is much that is deplorably clumsy and grotesque.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 310w. |
“The book is unsatisfactory, both as a picture of the times with which it deals and as a story.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 90w. |
Davis, Michael M. Gabriel Tarde: an essay in sociological theory. $1. Michael M. Davis, 791 West End av., N. Y.
6–46265.
An analysis of M. Tarde’s system. “After reviewing and summarizing Tarde’s positions the author introduces some evidence to show that Tarde only partly understood the role of imitation and has consequently over-estimated it. The criticism is well taken. So, too, is the criticism based upon Tarde’s neglect or ignorance of the work of others which might have saved some missteps. The author gives him great credit for original and suggestive discussions.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“A piece of clean critical workmanship. Mr. Davis is to be congratulated upon the catholicity of his discussion.” Albion W. Small.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 12: 125. Jl. ’06. 450w. |
“Students of social theory will find this monograph of interest and value.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 154. Jl. ’07. 140w. |
Davis, Norah. World’s warrant; with a frontispiece by F. C. Yohn. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–13951.
“Briefly, it is the endeavor to get a wife by advertisement, and the resulting tangle in the lives of a number of persons whose characters, cultivation, and position in the world would ordinarily remove them far from any such complications.”—N. Y. Times.
“Miss Davis merits notice chiefly from her treating the South as a live country, inhabited by contemporary human beings, and not by a set of conventional lay figures left over from the tragedy of the last generation.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 501. My 30, ’07. 250w. |
“Miss Davis has evolved a plot of unusual ingenuity and dotted it with situations that are striking and unexpected. A good many of them must be taken at a gulp if they are taken at all. The author has developed the plot very cleverly.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 310w. |
“Miss Davis not only makes very real both the atmosphere of somnolent Dixieland and the rattle and bustle and determined energy that are waking it up, but she also has the knack of weaving a plot and the ability to invent incidents and situations and to depict character.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 349. Je. 15, ’07. 130w. |
Davis, Richard Harding. Real soldiers of fortune. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–42911.
Mr. Davis sketches “the kind of man who in any walk of life makes his own fortune, who, when he sees it come, leaps to meet it and turns it to his advantage.” The group includes Gen. William Walker, Baron Harden-Hickey, General MacIver, Winston Spencer Churchill, Capt. Philo Norton McGiffen, and Major Burnham.
“Written with the author’s usual spirit and dash.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 8. Ja. ’07. S. |
“A collection of biographical sketches of unequal merit.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 680w. |
“The remarkable deeds of six remarkable men, told by a writer also accounted remarkable, furnish reading that should be and is remarkably interesting.”
| + | Dial. 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 230w. |
“The exploits and adventures of these real soldiers of fortune are not a whit less interesting or astonishing than those of Mr. Davis’s ideal soldier of fortune.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w. |
“Adventurous spirits are presented in the narrative, with anecdote, episode, and adventure, which reads like the wildest romance, and yet through the care of the author is not dissociated from the historical events in which these men played important, but, for the most part, thankless rôles.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 150w. |
“The spirit and dash with which these biographical sketches are written will certainly attract young readers.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 90w. |
“Mr. Davis’ study of Walker, the filibuster king, has resulted in a real contribution to our knowledge of that strange character, and many Americans, young and old, will read this new estimate of Walker with a fresh interest.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 230w. |
“The best sketch in the book is that of ‘Major Burnham, chief of scouts.’”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 410w. |
Davis, Richard Harding. Scarlet car. †$1.25. Scribner.
7–22818.
These sprightly stories, three in number, are brimful of adventure. A large red motor car furnishes the possibilities of romance which involves the affections of a charming Beatrice, young Peabody whom she drops unceremoniously, and Billy Winthrop, “the right man” of the scarlet car. “Knowing Mr. Davis’s taking ways where proper figured men and pretty women are concerned, and his ingenuity in finding interesting situations for them—noble, manly attributes for the men, graceful, girlish tricks for the women, sentiment for both—you do not need to be told any more details of the story of the scarlet car. You will find out for yourself.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A light, bright, little story for an idle hour or two.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠ |
“Why should Mr. Davis, a man who knows Gallegher, make himself the literary chauffeur of such merely sleek, well-fed supernumeraries?”
| + | Ind. 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 180w. |
“The amusing incidents which happen by the way are appropriate to the undisguisedly farcical nature of the whole affair.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 200w. |
“Mr. Davis is not at his best in ‘The scarlet car.’ It is very distinctly destined for the most careless of summer readers. Frederick Dow Steele’s pictures are excellent.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 610w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“An extravaganza-like tale, in which love, motoring, and adventure are carelessly mingled with a quite modern infusion of humor.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w. |
Davis, William Stearns. [Victor of Salamis: a tale of the days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–15591.
This piece of historical fiction deals with the invasion of Greece by the Persians under Xerxes. Altho many of the characters are fictitious and the love story is purely imaginary, the scenes are apparently true to the times, and Athens and Sparta are made to tremble before the invader as history tells us they trembled, while her heroes of the hour play the glorious parts which history says they played. Perhaps the best chapters are those descriptive of Thermopylae and Salamis.
“Interest is well sustained by the incidents of war and fortunes of love.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠ |
“We think that Mr. Davis might have been a little more careful in his proper names.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 250w. |
“Knowledge and deep sympathy combine to make the book something more than readable, which is perhaps all that was to be expected of it.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w. |
“It is a particularly grim story of war, with amply abundant details to satisfy, even to satiate, the most bloodthirsty reader who ever frequented a circulating library.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 240w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 170w. |
“The leading historical personages are made to appear real men.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 90w. |
“The weakness of the book is in some details, which count, it may be, for more than they are worth.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w. |
Dawson, Alec J. [The message.] †$1.50. Estes.
A novel with a purpose which presumes to command a 1940 view point. “His standpoint is frankly imperial, and even partisan. He assumes that the trend of the present government is towards weakness and sentimentalism and the neglect of national interests; and from that postulate he has developed a pretty pickle for the country it governs. The Germans land in force on the coasts of East Anglia, and in an almost incredibly short time Great Britain is at their mercy. Thereafter comes the rebuilding—the re-edification which is implied in the title. This tack is initially undertaken by Canadian preachers, and indeed the entire regeneration comes from the colonies.” (Ath.)
“What remains of highest value in the story is the human current of interest, which is maintained from the first.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 420w. |
“Is for the most part rather frankly boresome, with here and there a welcome oasis of something distinctly better, something that seems almost worthy of the author of ‘Hidden manna.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − | Bookm. 26: 81. S. ’07. 310w. |
“Mr. Dawson is afire with patriotic purpose, but he is so didactic as to be at times dull.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 658. Je. 25, ’07. 260w. |
“The whole book moves briskly, and is exciting reading, although in the earlier part anything but exhilarating.”
| + | Spec. 98: 802. My. 18, ’07. 220w. |
Dawson, Coningsby William. Worker, and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–41523.
The distinctive notes of Mr. Dawson’s verse are “passionate sympathy with contemporaneous experiences and conditions, ardent feeling, and a forcible though sometimes unmusical expression.” (Outlook.)
“The author of these poems possesses genuine lyrical feeling, and his thought, where abstract themes are dispensed with, is graceful and not too reminiscent. A more serious flaw is the tendency, constantly noticeable, to manufacture refrains, as it were, in season and out. By multiplying instances of this device, the author has gone far to defeat his own object, and incidentally, to disfigure a book of considerable promise.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 725. Je. 15. 310w. |
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 280w. |
“Shows something of James Thomson’s poignant view of the world, something also of a pre-Raphaelite savor of phrase, but it is only intermittently visited by any real spell of verbal magic and compelling mood.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w. |
“One reads this excellently cadenced verse, where never a note jars, but cannot recover it when lost to the ear. A certain tenuous, immaterial atmosphere pervades it all, leaving one uncertain as to what Mr. Dawson has said, or what has been won from his personal relation to life. Mr. Dawson is a poet of white light, but life is multi-colored.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 350w. |
“His poetry is, so to speak, too close to the age in which it is written. For that reason it is likely to be heard, for it is the voice of the moment; for the same reason it is not likely to endure. It would be unjust to Mr. Dawson, however, to give the impression that he is simply a journalist in verse. Interesting and significant volume of verse.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 373. F. 16, ’07. 360w. |
Dawson, Nelson. Goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ work. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
7–37522.
“As befits the subject, this volume is beautifully printed and richly illustrated. It is intended not so much for the craftsman and worker in gold or silver as for the collector and art lover. Beginning with the gold and silver ore in the ground, the author follows the history of the manufacture of ornaments and articles of use in the precious metals from the very earliest dates, far back of the Greek and Roman period, down to our own times, with a specially full description of such little-known periods as that of the Irish metal-workers and of the early English renaissance.”—Outlook.
“There is really not one dull page in a publication that will no doubt appeal alike to the antiquarian, the student of ecclesiastical history, the artist and the craftsman.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 33: 167. D. ’07. 340w. |
“On the historical side it is a little elementary; on the practical and artistic side it has the interesting personal touch that is only to be found in the notes of a man who knows from experience what the artist aims at, what means he employs, and what difficulties he has to face and overcome.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 282. S. 20, ’07. 490w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 100w. | ||
| Spec. 99: 336. S. 7, ’07. 60w. |
Dawson, William Harbutt. German workman: a study in national efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.
6–23711.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A very readable account of that splendid system of ‘social policy’ by means of which the health and efficiency of the workman have been promoted as by no other people in the history of the race.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + | Dial. 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 190w. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 14: 643. D. ’06. 610w. | ||
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 1000w. |
Day, Emily Foster (Mrs. Frank R. Day). Princess of Manoa. **$1.50. Elder.
6–45043.
Nine sketches from the folk-lore of Hawaii. Brown paper, black type, and full page illustrations in sepia, make a unique book daring in its oddity.
| Dial. 41: 456. D. 16, ’06. 60w. | ||
| + | Ind. 61: 1500. D. 20, ’06. 70w. |
“The legends of old Hawaii are rich in romance and piquant charm, and Emily Foster Day puts into graceful English a few of the most interesting.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 40w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 90w. |
“Very simply and sympathetically told, and in excellent taste.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w. |
Day, Holman Francis. [Rainy day railroad war.] †$1. Barnes.
6–27347.
A story for boys which “relates the history of a fight over the building of a railway through the timber lands of Maine. The young hero is an assistant engineer, and develops in this contest resourcefulness and courage.”—Outlook.
“Only fairly well done, but will be interesting to boys.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 20. Ja. ’07. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 60w. |
“A spirited and vigorous story for boys.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 239. S. 22, ’06. 80w. |
Day, James Roscoe. Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–36714.
Chancellor Day, the champion of corporate business, shows how trusts are logical, natural and consistent with the developing interests of the “new age.” He discusses corporations, the distribution of wealth, organized charity, tainted money and labor unions. Several interesting chapters are devoted to a defence of the Standard oil company.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Decharme, Paul. Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.
6–5711.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a book of reference for the contents of Euripides’s plays, or a collection of passages bearing upon certain topics, Professor Decharme’s work will unquestionably be found useful; but for an introduction to the spirit of Euripides we should rather refer the student to Croiset, Dr. Murray, or Dr. Verrall.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 143. F. 2. 360w. |
Deeping, Warwick. [Woman’s war.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–20869.
The story of the contentions of two women whose husbands are rival doctors in a little English town. And in this game of chess, so maliciously carried on by the blacks, it is the queen that centers her energies, in the king’s behalf, on check-mating the king of the whites. The darkest moment for the white men is when the queen of the blacks attacks the castle of the white king’s reputation and sweeps it from the board, and it is only by steadily pushing a white pawn step by step to the king-row that the king and queen of the whites redeem the castle and check-mate the black king.
“In the effort to give greater life to the central figures the minor ones appear to have been neglected. Nevertheless we do not hesitate to commend the book.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 100w. |
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 77. S. ’07. 1370w. |
“Having chosen a painful but live contemporary theme, he proceeds to treat it with a childish superficiality.”
| − | Nation. 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 260w. |
“A clever and forceful book this, but not entertaining, and hard as nails.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 50w. |
“As a whole, both in seriousness of conception and in success of execution, the novel must be pronounced to have attained a high level of merit.”
| + | Spec. 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w. |
De Garmo, Charles. Principles of secondary education: the studies. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6800.
The fundamental principles of American secondary education are here set forth in the form of a text book for college and university classes. The object being “to reveal thru an analysis of the content of the studies themselves their inherent and comparative educational value, and upon a basis of the values thus established to determine the best possible combination of the studies into the various curricula now demanded by democratic society.” A second object is to show how secondary education can most effectively perform its proper functions.
“It is evident that such a systematic treatment by an authority so competent and respected as Professor De Garmo will be welcomed by students of education in America, and particularly by teachers of the principles of secondary education, who will find the book invaluable as text-book and reference.” Edward O. Sisson.
| + + | Dial. 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 900w. |
“The greatest value of the volume before us lies in the stimulus that it affords for classroom-work. An urgent need of this work, if it is to be truly serviceable, is a more extensive bibliography than the present meager references furnish.” Julius Sachs.
| + + − | Educ. R. 34: 421. N. ’07. 1160w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 290w. |
“So far as regards the distinctive study of secondary education, it must be said that Dr. De Garmo’s book is the first in the field. The name of the author and the title will arouse general interest in the volume, and this interest will be sustained by the contents.” Nathaniel Butler.
| + + | School. R. 15: 472. Je. ’07. 1000w. |
De Lancey, Magdalene (Hall), lady. A week at Waterloo in 1815. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–8229.
“Lady de Lancey gives an account of the wound received by her husband at the great battle, of the agony of suspense caused to her as the varying news came filtering through to her at Antwerp, and of the way in which she tended him in a cottage in Mont St. Jean. The story is one of genuine pathos, which is, if that could be possible, enhanced by the fact that they had been married less than three months.... Letters by Walter Scott and Dickens add interest to the volume.”—Ath.
| + | Acad. 71: 11. Jl. 7, ’06. 610w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S. |
“The narrative is touching in its simplicity, and occasionally gives new and startling glimpses into the horrors of war.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 70. Jl. 21. 430w. | |
| Eng. Hist. R. 21: 830. O. ’06. 160w. |
“Lady De Lancey’s book is, however, literature, worthy to stand beside Lucy Hutchinson’s life of her colonel and Margaret of Newcastle’s life of her lord.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 263. Je. 2, ’07. 310w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w. | |
| + | Spec. 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 270w. |
Deland, Ellen Douglas. Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26962.
A boarding school story for girls which pictures the weaknesses, hopes and aims of some very true-to-life girls.
Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell). [Awakening of Helena Richie.] †$1.50. Harper.
6–24158.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Our nearest equivalent to the old-fashioned English novel.” Mary Moss.
| + + | Atlan. 99: 124. Ja. ’07. 580w. |
“Helena Richie herself is faintly, thinly conceived. Her consciousness is too elementary to feel seriously about, and one only wonders that such grave events can hang themselves upon so slight a character.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| + − | No. Am. 183: 547. S. 21, ’06. 1180w. | |
| + − | R. of Rs. 35: 125. Ja. ’07. 280w. |
Deland, Margaret W. C. [Encore.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–32562.
A slight story of Margaret Deland’s favorite spot, Old Chester. When Letty Morris and Alfred Price tried in early youth to elope, the good Dr. Lavendar, whom they sought to unite them, withdrew for a moment and sent a message to the parents of the runaways. Their day of bliss was over. The encore is the repetition of the love-making after fifty years, and this time it is dissenting children who make the way hard; but Dr. Lavendar comes to the rescue and this time lends his clerical aid.
“This prettily bound and illustrated edition of one of the most charming of the Old Chester chronicles is, we suppose, aimed at the holiday public. We hope it will hit the mark.”
| + | Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 120w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The tale is told with delightful ease and humor.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 60w. |
De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham). Catherine of Calais; new ed. $1.50. Dutton.
7–28454.
“Catherine is a girl of quiet charm and of lifelong devotion to an ideal of romance. She quite takes hold of the readers heart, and he is glad that she loves to the end the stately, handsome, conscientious husband she has awesomely admired as a girl, and that she never penetrates the secret that he is essentially a dull and commonplace gentleman. In contrast to Catherine there are two capitally drawn elderly women, one of infernal temper and overbearing self-approval, the other of indolent and self-indulgent temperament, but exceedingly clever in character-reading and in social comment.”—Outlook.
“Readers who like little star-trimmed heroines who give the impression of having moonbeam toes and of being incapable but good will enjoy this story. The interest of the story depends upon what the characters say, not what they do.”
| − | Ind. 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 190w. |
“Catherine is, in fact, a silly and meek and dutiful and loving little creature, one of the Amelia Sedleys who do not become extinct in life, whether they are to be found in fiction or not.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 240w. |
“It is pleasant to be able to acknowledge so clean and sweet a book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 500w. |
“To those who love a simple story, simply told, but with true sentiment and gentle grace, we highly commend this new novel. The story entertains but does not excite; it affords a refreshing contrast both to the problem novel and to the cloak-and-sword romance.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 160w. |
De La Pasture, Elizabeth. Lonely lady of Grosvenor square. †$1.50. Dutton.
6–41709.
The lonely lady is a pretty country bred girl of twenty-five who comes to Grosvenor square as the guest of a great-aunt and stays there after her aunt’s death to watch over the estate which is an inheritance of her twin brother who is in active service in Africa. The account of how she tries to do honor to her name and position by following the social code of her country rector’s wife, and how from the dull loneliness of London state and formality she is rescued by her distant cousin the Duke, forms a pretty old fashioned love story.
“The author writes as gracefully and as easily as ever—almost too easily—and her touch both in humor and pathos is light and sure.”
| + | Acad. 72: 144. F. 9, ’07. 270w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 77. Mr. ’07. ✠ |
“The characters are well drawn and natural, and the narrative has sufficient vitality to sustain the reader’s interest.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 192. F. 16. 280w. |
“The very genuine charm of this quiet and refreshing story of present-day London is its simple unassuming naturalness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 181. Ap. ’07. 600w. |
“A book of manners and sentiments; it touches only the surface of life, but it is agreeably written and proves mildly entertaining.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w. |
“‘Charming’ is the word that attaches itself instinctively to her work; it may not be the highest praise, but in this case it implies popularity as well.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 390w. | |
| Nation. 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w. |
“A story that in its sweetness and wholesomeness and simple unaffected pathos forms a refreshing contrast to the morbid and unpleasant matters with which fictionmakers frequently feel themselves obliged to deal.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 990w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 280w. |
“The book would be nothing if it were not for its genuine humor, which is none the less welcome because it is not boisterous.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 160w. |
“Mrs. de la Pasture’s powers as a narrator are considerable: and this story is a thoroughly pleasant though not a very robust example of her manner.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 90w. |
“The book is not quite on the level of ‘Peter’s mother’ but it is sufficiently amusing to rank among the most pleasing novels of the season.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 160w. |
Delehaye, H. Legends of the saints: an introduction to hagiography; from the French, tr. by Mrs. V. M. Crawford. (Westminster lib.) *$1.20. Longmans.
A two-part work whose purpose is to show the application of the ordinary rules and methods of historical criticism to hagiographical criticism. The first treats of hagiography; the second, of the relation of paganism to Christianity.
“For the elucidation of the first part the author has peculiar and rare qualifications. The other part of his book is not so good. M. Delehaye also makes it evident in his book that he is but imperfectly acquainted with some subjects on which he pronounces an opinion.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 326. S. 21. 1570w. |
“Historical students will find the work to be a fine example of sound, conservative, scientific method.”
| + | Cath. World. 86: 259. N. ’07. 760w. |
Deming, Philander. Story of a pathfinder. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–17047.
In this volume Mr. Deming “gathers up some loose threads of autobiography and romance.... The six chapters or sections are chiefly reprints from ... periodicals. Opening with an account of his rise to the dignity and emoluments of a court stenographer, Mr. Deming goes on to relate how he wrote his first successful story, then gives a few tastes of his quality as a narrator of fiction, and concludes with another bit of autobiographic reminiscence.”—Dial.
“His style, easy and conversational, is attractive; and the plots of his tales, which have the touch of real life, are ingenious without being involved, and all end with a fine-conceived and unexpected stroke that pleasingly caps the already well-developed climax.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 330w. |
“After reading his little volume, full of unobtrusive sincerity and penetrated with that sort of poetry which marks the evening of certain lives, one feels in contact with one of those rare personalities which give biography its chief charm.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w. |
“Although written at a much later date, both his stories and preface bear rather the impress of the fifties than of the postbellum newspaper world. It is the atmosphere of Greeley’s Memoirs, with all the mildness and restraint of what might be called the middle Victorian period in American fiction.”
| + | Nation. 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 170w. |
De Montmorency, J. E. G. Thomas a Kempis. *$2.25. Putnam.
7–11046.
“The mooted question of its authorship is here critically discussed, and its authenticity fairly demonstrated; its structure is analyzed, and the various sources shown from which its author drew; lists and accounts of its manuscripts and printed editions are given; many fine illustrations, including some facsimile pages, are added; full recognition is shown to the work of Thomas’s fellow-mystics.”—Outlook.
“Mr. de Montmorency has an axe to grind—and sharpens it on á Kempis. He sets up a distinction between the visible or official church, and the invisible church, existing within the official church of which it is truly the vital and Catholic part. With the needful caution, the reader will find Mr. de Montmorency’s handling of the book full of suggestion and matter for reflection. In treating purely evidential questions, such as the authorship, he is sane and dispassionate enough.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 67. Ja. 19. 1300w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 100w. |
“Mr. de Montmorency is full of enthusiasm for Thomas á Kempis and his book and his zeal is according to knowledge; but his knowledge is not always displayed with discretion. He could find it in his heart to spend it all upon us.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 429. D. 28, ’06. 860w. | |
| Nation. 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 110w. |
“Mr. Montmorency might have been with advantage at greater pains to organize his book, which is obviously a labor of love.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 1230w. |
“It is a timely and helpful commentary upon a great recreative and reconstructive movement.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w. |
“Mr. de Montmorency has given us the results of the most recent investigations, lucidly stated and with an absence of ‘parti pris’ which is worthy of high praise.” A. I. du Pont Coleman.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 630. F. ’07. 240w. |
“Mr. de Montmorency’s general observations about this wonderful book are pregnant and excellent.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 431. Ap. 6, ’07. 750w. |
“Interesting and learned book.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 178. F. 2, ’07. 1510w. |
De Morgan, John. In lighter vein. **$1.50. Elder.
7–24148.
An anthology of witty sayings and anecdotes of prominent people from Elizabeth to our own Mark Twain and Roosevelt. It is designed for relaxation.
“It contains some good jokes and some dull ones, some that we never heard and some that we are glad to have recalled to memory.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 576. S. 5, ’07. 60w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w. |
De Morgan, William. Alice-for-short: a dichronism. †$1.75. Holt.
7–20515.
Alice-for-short, six years old and timid, bravely plods thru a London fog with a jug of beer. She breaks the jug, which accident brings to her side a protector, who, a little later, when the drunk-sodden parents die, rescues her from the basement of an old house in Soho and places her in the care of his sister. The chief interest of the tale lies in the development of the child in intimate portrayal, the simple life-likeness of characters, and the sure tho delayed consummation of the romance. There are ghosts and mysteries in the plot which seems to be a sensitive conscience’s concession to the veteran novel-reader rather than a scheme vitally necessary to the character-drawing.
“We applaud Mr. De Morgan in that whatever he writes is instinct with an infinite knowledge of humanity, with a subtle and tender humor, and an exquisite skill in characterisation.”
| + + | Acad. 73: 658. Jl. 6, ’07. 1080w. |
“The story is disconnected, and slow in movement, full of humor, and shows exquisite skill in characterization.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠ |
“Before the two hundredth [page] is reached a falling off in the quality of the work must be noted, and a serious shrinkage in the warp and woof of the fabric. The author has been perhaps just a little too sure of his readers, just a little too palpably in love with his creatures.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 10. Jl. 6. 310w. |
“You have come in contact with a rarely engaging personality which, by some alchemy defying analysis, is capable of being seized and passed on through the medium of cold print.” Mary Moss.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 519. Jl. ’07. 1230w. |
“Only a crabbed partisan of the formal could place his hand upon his heart and sincerely aver that he would willingly spare any of these irrelevancies. They add salt and savour to a novel which even without them would be reckoned a remarkable example of the art of fiction at its noblest.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 375. Je. 16, ’07. 1000w. | |
| + + | Ind. 63: 397. Ag. 15, ’07. 890w. |
“Is disappointing after ‘Joseph Vance.’”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w. |
“This ripeness of vision constitutes Mr. De Morgan’s charm. He has lived to see, to see tolerantly, tho not without feeling.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 272. Ag. 24, ’07. 600w. |
“When the 563 very closely printed pages are finished, it seems incredible that the story should have been made to fill them. The odd thing is that we have not been bored.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 181. Je. 7, ’07. 740w. |
“There is no denying that Mr. De Morgan’s humor now and then degenerates into mere facetiousness, or that his familiar prolixity becomes at times mere garrulousness. Yet one cannot help liking M. De Morgan, even when he is most trying. The writer has, we should say, a sensitive conscience in the matter of plot—a desire to give the reader his money’s worth of that staple—but an instinctive contempt for it for its own sake. What really interests him is his persons and his talk about them.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 522. Je. 6, ’07. 870w. |
“To the present reviewer at any rate it seems that Mr. De Morgan has somehow been able to see us, not as we see ourselves, but in a certain perspective belonging properly to a next generation. Of the literary quality of Mr. De Morgan’s work it is impossible to speak without a degree of enthusiasm which might invite suspicion of incoherence. These stories differ from those of the old masters not in manner but in matter.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 363. Je. 8, ’07. 1620w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 80w. |
“After all the truth about such a book as ‘Alice-for-short’ may be said in a sentence. It is in great qualities that it is deficient—and how often may great qualities be found? And it is in the lesser, but not negligible ones—in wise comment, deft workmanship, in humor, fancifulness and charm—that it is satisfyingly replete.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + − | No. Am. 186: 449. N. ’07. 1350w. |
“Mr. De Morgan is not an imitator of Dickens, but he has certain things in common with Dickens, and one is that we, not grudgingly but cordially forgive him traits that would damn utterly a lesser genius.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 540w. |
“Is interminably long and too nebulous to talk about.”
| + − | Putnam’s. 3: 112. O. ’07. 210w. |
“The book is indeed an excellent example of the manner without the matter of Mr. Thackeray. Here are all the faults in method in spite of which he was great.”
| − + | Sat. R. 104: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 460w. |
“This new story will establish his right, we think, to be accepted without further hesitation as a very considerable novelist.”
| + | Spec. 99: 96. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w. |
De Morgan, William Frend. Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography. †$1.50. Holt.
6–25695.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Current Literature. 42: 344. Mr. ’07. 1050w. |
“Singularly rich, mellow, and human narrative, which is garrulous in the genial sense, and as effective as it is unpretending.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 42: 13. Ja. ’07. 440w. |
“A book that must take its place, by virtue of its tenderness and pathos, its wit and humor, its love of human kind, and its virile characterization, as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century.” Lewis Melville.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 395. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w. |
“Is probably the only book of its kind that the present generation will offer; therefore the most may as well be made of the temperate, mellow, elderly enjoyment it affords.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + | No. Am. 183: 1187. D. 7, ’06. 1460w. | |
| Putnam’s. 3: 112. O. ’07. 390w. |
Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.). Bell foundry. 45c. Benziger.
7–21531.
Gerold, a young bell founder on his way from Italy to his home in Bavaria encounters Gatterer, a noted bell founder of the Tyrol and stops to work in his foundry. Thru a series of rough and bloody incidents it is discovered that Gatterer and his workmen are a gang of villains who plunder and murder all who travel thru their forest. As a result of this discovery Elizabeth, who has passed as his daughter, is restored to the name and position of which the highwaymen robbed her and becomes the bride of Gerold.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 110w. |
Dennett, R. E. At the back of the black man’s mind; or, Notes on the kingly office in West Africa. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–13004.
Mr. Dennett writes out of the fulness of a wide experience among the Bavili both as a private resident and as an official. About three-quarters of the book under review deals with the hierarchy of kings and chiefs, the laws, social organization, marriage, birth, and death customs, psychology and philosophy of the Bavili; the remainder of the book treats with much the same subjects as they have been observed by the author in Benin. Finally, there is a valuable appendix by Bishop James Johnson on the religious beliefs and social laws of the Yoruba people.
“The evident sincerity of the writer and his sympathetic appeal on behalf of a better understanding of the black man must commend him both to those whose interest in the backward races of mankind is purely scientific and to those who desire to understand the negro for his own sake.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 634. My. ’07. 380w. |
“With a little more sense of method, the value of [his] contribution to science might have been doubled.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 1260w. |
“Not the least interesting part of this curious book is the appendix, which contains extracts from the writings of two educated negroes ... and it must be confessed that they are easier to follow than Mr. Dennett when he sets himself to explain native symbolism.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 280w. |
“The reviewer cannot accept Mr. Dennett’s etymology of the Bantu phrases he attempts to explain. It is such a valuable contribution to ethnology that one could almost wish a second edition might be brought out with revised and reasonable orthography.”
| + − | Nature. 75: 248. F. 10, ’07. 840w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 907. D. 29, ’06. 230w. |
“All students will be grateful to Mr. Dennett for the care and labour which he has expended in collecting and recording [the beliefs and customs] although some may wish that he could have carried out his task in a simpler and less perplexing fashion.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 622. My. 18, ’07. 1460w. |
Dennis, James Shepard. Christian missions and social progress. v. 3. **$2.50. Revell.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is impracticable here to give any conception of the wealth of this material or of the skill with which it is arranged and presented.” C. R. Henderson.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Dr. Dennis has furnished an arsenal, well stored with weapons of many kinds, but all effective for both offensive and defensive warfare.” A. K. Parker.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 362. Ap. ’07. 510w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Whether as a description of Christian missions or as a source book for students of social progress, this work is invaluable.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 465. N. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Crowded with information concerning the beneficent results of missions.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“All that was said in the previous notice as to the author’s breadth of view and catholicity of interest, as well as of the superlative worth of the work as a missionary apologetic, is even more true of this volume. Notwithstanding defects, these volumes will stand for years to come as a witness to the manifoldness and beneficent character of one of the most helpful social factors of the less enlightened lands.” Harlan P. Beach.
| + − | Yale R. 15: 457. F. ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Denslow, William Wallace, and Bragdon, Dudley A. [Billy Bounce]: pictures by Denslow. *$1.50. Dillingham.
6–34681.
The adventures of a messenger boy whose inflated rubber suit sends him bouncing through the air with astonishing ease and rapidity. He visits the land of bogie men, bugbears and ghosts, and exposes them to youthful readers as entirely harmless.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w. |
“A whimsical and comical tale.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w. |
“The wit of this book is vaudeville wit and not meant for analysis. Of Mr. Denslow’s illustrations, however, it may be said that the coloring is less crude than in his previous books.”
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 70w. |
Densmore, Emmet. Sex equality. **$1.50. Funk.
7–32183.
Dr. Densmore’s theories are based upon the teachings of Darwin, Spencer, and modern exponents of the doctrine of evolution. The book teaches that women are more intuitive, refined, unselfish and spiritual than men, but are inferior to them in initiative, resource, power and breadth of view; that these mental differences are not fundamental nor the result of sex but are caused by environment and heredity. The book makes a strong plea for extending democracy into all phases of human life.
Derby, George, comp. Conspectus of American biography; being an analytical summary of American history and biography, containing also the complete indexes of The national cyclopaedia of American biography. $10. White.
6–38537.
“This substantial volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains, in indexed or tabular form, an enormous number of facts so arranged as to make it a helpful book of reference.” (Dial.) It includes lists of men prominent in public or private office; it tabulates poems, plays and novels in which historical characters figure; there is a catalogue of public statutes in the United States, a collection of “notable sayings,” an “anniversary calendar,” and a list of “founders of American families and their descendants.”
“There are sins of omission as well as of commission. Yet the volume will be found useful for reference.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 180w. | |
| Dial. 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w. |
“Mr. Derby’s work is as important as that of an explorer who opens up a new country for industrial and commercial activity. The treasures were there. Mr. Derby has made them available for all.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 430w. |
Derr, Louis. Photography for students of physics and chemistry. *$1.40. Macmillan.
7–471.
“This book is eminently not for the perusal of the ‘snap-shot camera man,’ unless he be an ardent amateur and profoundly interested in the scientific possibilities and details of his subject.... The book is divided into eighteen chapters dealing with the camera and all its accessories. It includes articles on lenses, photo-chemical action, development and developers, fixing, washing, and drying, intensification and reduction, halation and reversal, printing processes, lantern slides and shutter exposures.”—N. Y. Times.
“He may have suited his book to the needs of his students, but the result to a stranger presents itself as a very uneven treatment of the subject.” C. J.
| + − | Nature. 75: sup. 6. Mr. 14, ’07. 670w. |
“The language is simple and the diagrams assist materially in the exposition. The book should have unquestionable value for the class of readers designated in the title—and for others bent individually on experimental investigation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 250w. |
De Selincourt, Beryl, and Henderson, May Sturge. Venice. il. **$3.50; ed. de luxe, **$7.50. Dodd.
7–31989.
A generous amount of fresh material has been discovered for this much pictured city. “The illustrations, after the water-colours of Mr. Barratt, who has lived for many years in the city of the lagoons and is familiar with her in all her moods, are real triumphs of reproduction, interpreting with rare fidelity the delicate atmospheric effects that are the chief charm of the originals.” (Int. Studio.)
“They have treated it both from the art and literary point of view with a certain amount of freshness.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w. |
“There are many admirable descriptive touches; and if nothing is set in a new light, that is probably because a city which has been studied and re-studied by so many lovers is familiar now to all the world. Mr. Barratt’s illustrations are exceedingly successful, and add materially to the attractiveness of the book.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 820. Je. 29, ’07. 260w. |
De Selincourt, Hugh. Boy’s marriage. †$1.50. Lane.
“Beverley Teruel, nicknamed Girlie because of his lack of sophistication, shortly after leaving Oxford marries the girl of his father’s choice.” (N. Y. Times.) “Beverley flies into a morbid suspicion of the purity of his perfectly healthy passion. He seeks solace in a platonic affection for a literary woman, finds it difficult to exist without her, disobeys her by rushing to London to see her, and, when severely snubbed, falls an easy victim to the wiles of a woman of the town. During his absence Eva has been making discoveries which impel her towards a whole-hearted bid for her husband’s vanished affection. But it is too late. Innocence has given place to morbidity, and everything ends as, granting the premisses, it must end, miserably.” (Acad.)
“The workmanship of the book, though sensitive, is sometimes feeble. There is a good deal of superfluous detail, and the lines are not always clear. But the choice and development of the theme show courage, humour, and a severe logic which promise well.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 611. D. 15, ’06. 440w. |
“It is mainly for the promise in the book that we commend it.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 190w. | |
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 160w. |
De Selincourt, Hugh. Strongest plume. †$1.50. Lane.
“In ‘The strongest plume’ Mr. de Selincourt tackles in characteristic fashion the problem of the girl who in conventional phrase ‘goes wrong’ before her marriage.... The man to whom she is engaged is a very ordinary, common-place prig, quite incapable of understanding the real nature of the girl who has given herself to him. He is perfectly ready, indeed anxious, to do ‘the right thing’ and marry her as soon as possible, but he is at no pains to disguise his personal feeling that Joan is really a ‘fallen’ woman. She resents his attitude ... comes gradually to the realisation that it has all been a terrible mistake. She comes to see that she has no love for him at all, and that marriage, so far from setting everything right, will only be an added wrong.”—Acad.
“In his study of the girl’s mental development, in the fidelity of his psychological analysis, Mr. de Selincourt almost touches greatness. His delineation bears the unmistakable stamp of truth. It carries conviction.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 696. Jl. 20, ’07. 780w. |
“The portraiture is much superior to the knowledge of life displayed. Mr. De Sélincourt’s cynicism is still that of youth, without an adequate basis; but though we find the work immature, we remain confident that he will yet write a fine story.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 150w. |
“He writes well, and he has a notable gift for the analysis of character. But at present he does not escape dulness; he gives the impression of distinction, and leaves us cold.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 258. Ag. 23, ’07. 270w. | |
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 150w. |
“Its chief characters have been pressed into the service and illustration of a theory, as the reader is constantly made to feel. This compulsion makes them shadowy and ineffectual, and it cannot even be said that they are pleasant shades.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 177. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w. |
Deussen, Paul. Outline of the Vedanta system of philosophy according to Shankara; tr. by J. H. Woods and C. B. Runkle. **$1. Grafton press.
6–35998.
The Vedanta philosophy which grew out of the teachings of the Upanishads represents the common belief of nearly all thoughtful Hindus. Following a brief introduction which gives the fundamental idea of the system, Mr. Deussen discusses the Vedanta’s teaching regarding theology, cosmology, psychology, migration of the soul and emancipation.
“The name of Dr. Woods, who has studied the Hindu systems with Deussen at Kiel as well as with native pundits in India, is a sufficient guaranty of the accuracy of the rendering both of German and of Sanskrit technical terms. It will be a convenience, especially to those who give university courses in Hindu philosophy, to have this compendium accessible in English.” Arthur O. Lovejoy.
| + + | J. Philos. 4: 23. Ja. 3, ’07. 700w. |
“It is the best exposition of the chief school of Hindu metaphysics obtainable in brief compass.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 240w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 842. D. 1. ’06. 180w. |
Devine, E. J. Training of Silas. $1.25. Benziger.
7–2759.
A Roman Catholic story which brings a “purse-proud plebeian millionaire to a realization that there is a greater end to be considered than the possession of wealth.”
“It has a strongly didactic purpose, which is gracefully draped in a thin suit of fiction.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 835. Mr. ’07. 160w. |
Dewar, Douglas. Bombay ducks: an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist’s Eldorado. *$5. Lane.
Agr 6–1634.
With less of a scientific smack than the title suggests, Mr. Dewar writes of the birds and small animals of India. Excellent illustrations which are Captain Fayrer’s photographs reproduced on “unglazed and tonal paper give a Japanese effect which is quite unusual and well worthy of imitation.” (Spec.)
“The little essays or articles are pleasantly written, and the descriptions are in essentials correct.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 480w. |
“The style is piquant and refreshing.” May Estelle Cook.
| + + | Dial. 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 210w. |
“Without in any way questioning the ornithological value of Mr. Dewar’s work, it is in the literary side of the volume, the facility of expression, easy narrative style, and genial satire, that the worth of the book lies.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w. |
“Mr. Dewar is a naturalist and a good observer.”
| + | Spec. 97: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w. |
Dewhurst, Frederic Eli. Investment of truth. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–23074.
A posthumous volume of sermons “for unemotional and meditative people, especially those who are a little troubled by religious uncertainty.” (Ind.)
“Dr. Dewhurst was a man of unusual gifts, among which were religious insight and the faculty of clear speech. He was not a noisy prophet, but he could make a chosen text ring with truth from which one could not escape.”
| + | Ind. 63: 885. O. 10, ’07. 90w. |
“Mr. Dewhurst’s appeal is to the few, but to these he appeals strongly.”
| + | Nation. 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 140w. |
De Windt, Harry. Through savage Europe; being a narrative of a journey throughout the Balkan states and European Russia. **$3. Lippincott.
7–29080.
This is a vivid account of a journey taken as correspondent to the Westminster gazette through Montenegro, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Southern Russia and the Caucasus. “He found the remoter districts hotbeds of outlawry and brigandage, where the traveler must needs take his life in his hand. Yet these same Balkans, he avers, can boast of cities which ‘are miniature replicas of London and Paris,’ civilized centers having very little in common with the country as a whole.” (Lit. D.)
“The book is to be commended, but rather to those who have not read recent works dealing with the same subjects than to those who may have had enough of them already.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 190w. |
“The distinctive merit of this book lies in the fact that the author visited these same countries a generation ago, and consequently is competent to gauge the various lines of progress made in these everchanging hot-beds of European discord.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 220w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 630w. |
“A pleasant chatty account.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 478. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w. |
“A vivacious account of travel and observation.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 567. Je. 13, 07. 280w. |
“Mr. Harry De Windt has written several very interesting and informing books of travel, but none more attractive than this.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. |
“A most entertaining volume.”
| + | Spec. 98: 765. My. 11, ’07. 380w. |
Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson, ed. Railway organization and working: a series of lectures delivered before the railway classes of the University of Chicago. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–41297.
A series of twenty-five papers or lectures that were delivered by prominent railway officials bearing upon the traffic, auditing, and operating of the American railway.
“An admirable book in spite of its being a collection.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 8. Ja. ’07. |
“The papers are of high average excellence and the volume constitutes a most welcome addition to the scanty literature dealing with the management of railway traffic.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 200w. |
“The book should be placed in every reference library used by railway employees; and any young engineer in railway service will find it worth while to read the book, since it will aid him to gain a broader outlook upon the industry in which he is playing a part.”
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 260w. |
“The volume contains remarkably few repetitions, considering the manner of its construction, and few of the contributors have failed to observe the limits of their special subjects. I believe everyone interested in railways will enjoy it. And everyone who reads it will profit by it.” Balhasar H. Meyer.
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 244. Ap. ’07. 470w. |
“It will be found of great practical service to students. The treatment of the subject is plain and untechnical.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w. |
Dickins, Frederick Victor. Primitive and mediaeval Japanese texts, Romanized and translated into English. 2 v. *$6.75. Oxford.
7–29200–29201.
The two hundred and sixty-four lays of which the anthology consists are “Japanese proper, not Chino-Japanese.” “They have a character of their own, giving the impression of lovely and delicate workmanship. Mr. Dickins has translated in vol. i, some short mediaeval lays; the Preface to ‘The garner of Japanese verse old and new;’ the Mime of Takasago; and ‘The story of the old bamboo wicker-worker,’ the earliest work of fiction in Japanese or any Ural-Altaic tongue. Volume ii, is not for the general reader but for students of the Japanese language, containing the text of the Lays romanised, and a short grammar, with glossary and index.” (Acad.)
“He has done with splendid success the task which he has set himself.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
| + + | Acad. 72: 54. Ja. 19, ’07. 1500w. |
“These two volumes, apart from their interest to the general reader, comprise in themselves all that is necessary for very considerable progress in the direct knowledge of the older Japanese literature. They take high rank among scholarly works on Japan, and will be the indispensable companion of the serious student.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1340w. |
“Altogether, one has in these two volumes a sufficient apparatus for the study of the mind of pre-Mongolian Japan.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 730w. | |
| Spec. 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 50w. |
Dickinson, F. A. Big game shooting on the equator; with introd. by Sir C: Norton Eliot. **$4. Lane.
“In brief, the volume is largely a note-book of observations on the various species of game, their habitat, appearance, size, color, habits, and head measurements, jotted down in the curtest and most uninteresting terms imaginable. Should any hunter of big game anticipate a sporting pilgrimage to Africa, however, Captain Dickinson’s book will offer him some additional information on the rarer kinds of game in the East African country.”—Dial.
“It is all written in a straightforward, sensible way, without any attempt at word-painting or fine phrasing. All who are going to East Africa on a hunting trip should read it for the value of its advice, and all who have already enjoyed the experience for the memories it may evoke.”
| + | Acad. 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 700w. |
“Were it not for the excellent illustrations, and for the summaries of the game regulations of the British East African Protectorate and the German East African Protectorate, the book would have but little intrinsic value.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + − | Dial. 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 150w. |
“As regards his claim ... of accuracy, a little more care might have laid a better foundation for it. We have mentioned these few blemishes because this book is likely to be largely consulted by intending big game shooters, and because otherwise it is so trustworthy an authority on the subject. To the general public the volume is likely to commend itself highly by its excellent photographs and its breezy, amusing, and interesting style.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 308. O. 11, ’07. 960w. |
“Capt. Dickinson writes in tabloid style. He wastes no words, and his crisp, short sentences do their duty, and have done, with the clearness and precision of a military command.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 540w. |
“Nothing could be more useful than some of his recommendations. The style is one of the oddest that we have met with for many days. It is slangy to a degree far beyond what is usual even in smoking-room gossip. The curious thing is that he can write exceedingly well when he tries.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 750. N. 16, ’07. 400w. |
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. From king to king. **$1. McClure.
7–12876.
For this American edition the work appearing in England in 1891 has been rewritten and revised. “Aims at presenting ‘The tragedy of the Puritan revolution’ in a series of dramatic scenes or dialogues. ‘The pages that follow,’ writes Mr. Dickinson in his reprinted preface to the first edition, ‘contain an attempt to state, in a concrete form, certain universal aspects of a particular period of history. The tragedy lies in a conflict of reforming energy with actual men and institutions; and it has been the object of the author to delineate vividly the characters of leading actors in the struggle, their ideals and the distortion of these, as reflected in the current of events.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“All criticism of the work must return to the question of the success of the dramatic dialogue as an essay form. On the whole, one finds himself inclined to decide that the experiment is successful; for the dialogue has enabled our author to realize his hope of effectively setting forth the clash of the individual with a movement. And yet there is a little reserve about one’s commendation of the book as a whole. In the first place, it can appeal only to a much narrower circle than most of Mr. Dickinson’s other productions. In the second place, there are occasional suggestions of the cold literary exercise.” F. B. R. Hellems.
| + − | Dial. 43: 115. S. 1, ’07. 1500w. |
“One of the most satisfactory books of closet drama of the extreme type that we have lately seen.”
| + | Nation. 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 440w. |
Reviewed by Cleveland Palmer.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 3280w. |
“There is a wealth of poetic feeling and command of noble diction doubtless hitherto unsuspected in Mr. Dickinson.” Christian Gauss.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 240w. |
Dietzgen, Joseph. [Positive outcome of philosophy], tr. by Ernest Untermann. $1. Kerr.
6–38881.
The three principal works of Dietzgen, “The nature of human brain work,” “Letters in logic,” and “The positive outcome of philosophy,” are included in this volume, which brings within the reach of American students the work of one of the greatest writers on socialist philosophy.
| Am. J. Soc. 12: 564. Ja. ’07. 390w. |
Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.
| Int. J. Ethics. 17: 262. Ja. ’07. 450w. |
Dillon, Edward. [Glass.] (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
7–15911.
“The first half a dozen chapters are devoted to primitive and early glass down to the middle ages.... There are also Assyrian cylinders of glass and an Assyrian cone of the beautiful emerald glass. Other chapters tell of medieval treatises on glass, of Saracenic enameled glass, of Venetian glass, whether enameled or otherwise, and that of the renaissance, French, Spanish and Netherlandish. Two chapters are devoted to German, two to English and one to Dutch glass; Persia, India and China together supply material for another chapter; while the final pages are devoted to contemporary glass.”—Ind.
“Mr. Dillon’s book should aid in the improvement of taste. His work is ably written.”
| + + | Acad. 73: 5. O. 12, ’07. 1940w. |
“The book is technical enough to be useful to the student, and full enough of history, romantic suggestion and beautiful illustrations to hold the attention of the untrained person with artistic impulses who is beginning to take an interest in glass.”
| + | Ind. 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w. |
“It is a compilation, of course; but it will for a long time hold its place as the best and most authoritative general account of the subject to be found in English, or perhaps in any language.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 490w. |
“We cannot blame a book or work of art for not being what it does not pretend to be, but a large volume with the general title ‘Glass’ may be called to account if it gives no hint of the interesting things which are being done in our time.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 1450w. |
“The text is written in an interesting style, as by a man intensely interested in his task, and shows exhaustive study and thorough mastery of the subject.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w. |
Dinsmore, Rev. Charles Allen. Atonement in literature and life. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–45133.
“This is a philosophical rather than a literary dissertation on ... the idea of sin, retribution, and reconciliation. Assuming that literature is life in its highest expression, Mr. Dinsmore undertakes to show that it is this idea of offence and subsequent reconciliation which gives their value to some of the great masterpieces of literature—Homer’s Iliad; the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles; the Divina Comedia; Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Richard III., The winter’s tale, Henry VIII., and The tempest; Paradise lost; Adam Bede; The scarlet letter; and some other classics.”—Cath. World.
“The book is written in a style worthy of the subject, and is singularly interesting from its dealing with masters in literature.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 810w. |
“This study is in fine contrast with the manner in which the people who belong to the ‘art for art’s sake’ school treat the great masterpieces of literature.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 258. My. ’07. 190w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 300w. | ||
| Outlook. 85: 375. F. 16, ’07. 340w. |
Ditchfield, Rev. Peter H. [Parish clerk]; with 31 il. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–27625.
A methodical record of the duties, the quaint ways, and the peculiar manners of the race of English parish clerks. This functionary “is studied in his substance and in his accidents, and every trait of character is illustrated and anecdotes drawn from the literature and experience and folklore of centuries. These stories by themselves would make the fortune of an ‘encyclopædia of wit,’ and by bringing them together Mr. Ditchfield has certainly added to the gaiety of the nation.” (Lond. Times.)
“The chapters themselves are badly arranged, repetitions are frequent; the style is jerky and colorless; and anecdotes have been dragged in with little regard to probability. It is little more than a scrap-book.”
| − | Acad. 72: 362. Ap. 13, ’07. 1310w. |
“In the chapter that deals with the antiquity of the office and its duties in mediaeval days, Mr. Ditchfield might, with advantage, have exercised just a little more care.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 534. My. 4. 1030w. | |
| + | Dial. 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 350w. |
“The book is a useful addition to the history of English ecclesiastical institutions.”
| + | Ind. 63: 700. S. 19, ’07. 100w. |
“A book about parish clerks which, we should think, must be exhaustive.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 124. Ap. 19, ’07. 1330w. |
“May be commended as a work of curious erudition and as a storehouse of capital anecdotes.”
| + | Nation. 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 150w. |
“It makes a fascinating record, brimful of human nature, not by any means destitute of human failings, nor yet of lovely and gentle traits.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 477. Ag. 3, ’07. 1910w. |
“Mr. Ditchfield has much that is entertaining to say about the subject, one which is entirely to his liking. He tells many curious things about the office and many more, still more curious, about the holder of it.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 330w. |
Ditmars, Raymond Lee. Reptile book. **$4. Doubleday.
7–10051.
“A comprehensive, popularized work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes which inhabit the United States and Northern Mexico.” “But it is more than a popular book, for it is a gold mine of information for the zoologist.”—Ind.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 119. My. ’07. |
“It is a great book, well planned, clearly written, popular and yet scientific.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w. |
“The text is a notable addition to popular herpetological literature, but we cannot agree with the author that this field is a gap which ‘has steadily remained unchanged.’”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 680w. |
“Mr. Ditmars has done his task excellently. He writes out of a large and intimate knowledge, and in a clear, intelligible style.” Cameron Mann.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 920w. |
Dix, Beulah Marie. Merrylips; il. by Frank T. Merrill. $1.50. Macmillan.
6–34081.
A story dedicated “to every little girl who has wished for an hour to be a little boy.” The child heroine figures in exciting adventures among Roundheads and Cavaliers during Cromwell’s time, masquerading for a time as a boy among the King’s soldiers.
“The story is excellent in atmosphere and has more incident and plot than the author’s previous works.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 250. D. ’06. ✠ | |
| + | Ind. 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 130w. |
“A most attractive tale for young people. Should it fall into the hands of the elders it will surely be read at a sitting.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 668. O. 13, ’06. 180w. |
“This story has decidedly finer literary flavor than most books for children or about children.”
| + + | Outlook. 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 110w. |
Dix, Edwin Asa. Prophet’s Landing: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–12634.
The rigor of monopoly in the early seventies in its iconoclastic treatment of the cherished idols of sentiment furnishes the motif of this story. A department store proprietor becomes a magnate thru the exercise of mighty business genius minus heart. His octopus methods work havoc in hearts and homes in Prophet’s Landing, and the events which follow one another in rapid succession show the ultimate futility of greed, tho it shelter itself under the moral law.
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠ |
“The story is entitled to a place in the honorable line of our New England fiction.”
| + | Ind. 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 240w. |
“The characters in this wholesome novel are strongly drawn. A simple tho powerful love-story traverses it, and there are interesting descriptions of New England life.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 280w. |
“A good, obvious tract, which might be more serviceable than literature of a higher order, if it could conceivably be held before the eyes of the wicked shopkeeper and the wickeder railroad man.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 320w. |
“It may be doubtful whether a strong and able man would ever repent in quite the spectacular manner in which Mr. Dix, accomplishes his hero’s reform ... but the book does present a salutary lesson on modern business methods.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 420. Je. 29, ’07. 230w. |
“The story is unpretentious, but distinctively effective; and its humor and sentiment give it variety and dramatic vitality.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 116. My. 19, ’07. 370w. |
Dix, Morgan, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York. 4v. **$5. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Dix has been thorough in his search for documents and careful in their use, and his work will be invaluable to students of the matters with which it deals.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.) |
Dix, William Frederick. Face in the girandole: a romance of old furniture. **$2. Moffat.
6–39023.
Mr. Dix makes an asset of his hobby for old furniture in this charming book. “‘The face in the girandole’ sets forth something of the joys, something of the sorrows of an old furniture collector. Into it he has incidentally but skilfully woven just a dash of romance as a foil, and this added touch will make it appeal to others besides those who collect furniture.” (Ind.)
“It is a novelette that almost anybody might like to spend an idle hour upon.”
| + | Dial. 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 180w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 130w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w. |
“For the most part it is pleasantly and faithfully done.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 70w. |
Dix, William Frederick. Lost princess. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–26021.
“A direct descendant of the novel of imaginary principalities and imaginable adventures rendered popular by Mr. Anthony Hope.... The recipe for this kind of story calls for several manufactured geographical names, a group of appropriate gentlemen and ladies, all superlatively beautiful, brave, good or wicked, and then a rush and tumble of extraordinary events, ending in poetic justice for all concerned.”—N. Y. Times.
“The first chapter really makes one look for something new, but things soon settle down into the old familiar lines.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 230w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 110w. |
Dixon, Thomas, jr. [Traitor.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–24587.
The third novel in Mr. Dixon’s trilogy of reconstruction of which “The leopard’s spots” and “The clansman” were the first two. It deals with “the dissolution of the Ku Klux Klan and the attempt of unscrupulous men after its dissolution to use its garb and methods for personal ends.” (Outlook.) “It provides a secret panel and a secret passage, ghosts, a murder in the midst of the revelry of a masked ball of Ku Kluxes; a young man robbed of his heritage, and a young woman with coquettish curls and a Dolly Varden, who is a daughter of the thief. It makes this willful young woman suspect the young man of the murder—’twas the thief, her father, who perished by the assassin’s hand—and shows her fiercely set upon bringing him to the gallows by making him fall in love with herself, and, therefore, confidential enough to confess all.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book cries out for the stage—the Third avenue stage. It is as full of situations, thrills, climaxes, ‘curtains,’ as a home of melodrama is of gallery gods.” Ward Clark.
| − | Bookm. 26: 83. S. ’07. 1020w. |
“The book is at least remarkable as a psychological phenomenon, for it is probably the first time a man has so successfully interpreted himself into the character of an historical, palpitating female.”
| − | Ind. 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 110w. |
“There are not lacking some dramatic scenes in the course of the story, but as a defense of government by means of the Invisible Empire the author manifestly defeats his own purpose.”
| − + | Lit. D. 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 480w. |
“From a literary point of view there is much in common between Mr. Lawson and Mr. Dixon. In fact, both are yellow journalists.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 1350w. |
“This tale, like its predecessors, seems to us ill written and almost hysterically high-keyed in expression.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w. |
Dodd, Helen C. Healthful farmhouse, by a farmer’s wife; with an introd. by Ellen H. Richards. *60c. Whitcomb & B.
6–45718.
A book written for the average farmer’s wife from the point of view of one who does all her own cooking, dishwashing, sweeping, and laundry work, yet runs a lawn mower and cares for the flower beds about the house, and does much work in the vegetable garden. It proves that art may be combined with the ideas of utility and sanitation.
“An admirable little book full of practical ideas.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 41. F. ’07. S. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 80w. |
Dodge, Walter P. Real Sir Richard Burton. *$1.80. Wessels.
Mr. Dodge’s biography was inspired by a desire “to overthrow the destructive criticism of Burton contained in the ‘Life’ by Thomas Wright.” “By confining himself not without a sense of proportion, to Burton’s main exploits, Mr. Dodge is able to skim over several pitfalls in which a fuller biography is likely to be enmeshed, and his reticence over certain threadbare controversies is welcome.” (Lond. Times.)
“His ‘Real Sir Richard Burton’ is no Sir Richard Burton at all, but an abstraction who made certain journeys and wrote certain books. He settles no vexed questions and produces no new information.”
| − | Acad. 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w. |
“Is actually a panegyric rather than a biography. To original research or critical acumen it can make little claim, nor does the author appear to have had any personal acquaintance with the subject of his sketch.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| − | Dial. 43: 114. S. 1, ’07. 1530w. | |
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 330w. |
“Mr. Dodge is too passionate an admirer to be a good biographer. He sacrifices personality to achievement lest by chance he admit something to his hero’s discredit. In the case of Burton such caution is superfluous.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 489. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w. |
Dole, Charles Fletcher. Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c. Crowell.
6–34260.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is as far as any thinker of any age has ever reached, the final word for the present.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + + | Arena. 37: 110. Ja. ’07. 620w. |
“Dr. Dole has handled a hard subject in a thoughtful, sympathetic fashion.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 260w. |
Dole, Charles Fletcher. Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.
6–26499.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 119. My. ’07. |
“A most readable book.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 270w. |
“It is specially to be commended to young men and women who have not yet learned the value, the possibilities, and the triumphs of a true democracy.” I. C. Barrows.
| + + | Charities. 17: 461. D. 15, ’06. 2790w. |
“Of course the treatment of so many subjects in one small volume must necessarily be superficial and unsatisfactory.” Max West.
| − | Dial. 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 320w. |
“It is a reasonable and thoughtful presentation of some of the most pressing problems in our contemporary political life.”
| + | Educ. R. 33: 207. F. ’07. 70w. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 124. F. ’07. 220w. |
Dole, Nathan Haskell, comp. and tr. Russian fairy book. †$2. Crowell.
7–24600.
Seven stories on which a child’s imagination may feed, full of adventure, humor, mystery and magic. They are Vasilisa the beauty, The Bright-Hawk’s feather, Ivan and the gray wolf, The little sister and little brother, The white duckling, Marya Morevna, and The frog-queen.
“The stories are in the nature of folk-lore, and are all good.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 40w. |
“Opens a new and fascinating vista to lovers of stories that are full of original beauty and the naïve appeal of ancient folk-lore.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w. |
“The illustrations allure on account of their novelty. However, in the tales there is little or no freshness of subject-matter or style.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 36: 764. D. ’07. 40w. |
Donaldson, James. Woman, her position and influence in ancient Greece and Rome, and among the early Christians. *$1.60. Longmans.
W 7–73.
“The book gives one a clear picture of the various ideals in regard to woman which prevailed through the Greek, Roman and early Christian times, and of how the women measured up to them.”—N. Y. Times.
“Dr. Donaldson’s readable little book is perhaps quite as useful as a work of more solid erudition would be.” Paul Shorey.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 121. O. ’07. 620w. |
“For the most part, a lucid and excellently written summary of the salient facts which may be gathered from the scattered and often conflicting testimonies available to us. He has a wide knowledge of the German writers who have done the ‘spade-work’ of the subject, but he has also an advantage they generally lack—a clear and attractive style.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 248. Mr. 2. 4360w. |
“We conclude by recording the impression of sanity and clarity produced alike by the first and second reading of this modest work. Occasionally we might quarrel about a nuance of interpretation or of presentation. The essential parts are readable and instructive; the whole is valuable.” F. B. R. Hellems.
| + + − | Dial. 43: 86. Ag. 16, ’07. 1200w. |
“His statements were based on sound scholarship, and were made with unusual caution, so that he could publish them in book form with the addition here and there of footnotes embodying certain modern discussions.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 521. Je. 6, ’07. 1510w. |
“It has the buoyancy and freshness of a spring day, a frank love of beauty, an invincible conviction that the generous and fine is the real and important side of human nature.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 201. Ap. 6, ’07. 1550w. |
“For the most part, his work is rather a series of suggestive essays on comparatively well-known facts than a fresh contribution to knowledge. As such, however, it has great value, and the author exhibits exactly the learning, insight, and judgment which we need for the full investigation of a difficult but fascinating subject.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 500. Mr. 30, ’07. 1750w. |
Dos Passos, John R. American lawyer as he was—as he is—as he can be. *$1.75. Banks.
7–2440.
“In this work Mr. Dos Passos discusses in broad outline what he conceives to be the real mission of the lawyer in society, his relation to the government of which he is a citizen, and his clearly defined duties in that relation.”—R. of Rs.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 420w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 120w. |
Doubleday, Nellie Blanchan (Neltje Blanchan, pseud.). Birds that every child should know: the East; 63 pages of photographs from life. (Every child should know series.) **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–7517.
While primarily for children this book interests other bird-lovers as well. “Nearly a hundred species are described and talked about in an informal, interesting way, technicalities being avoided as much as possible, perhaps too much for convenience of identification.” (Ind.)
“A very good book for children, or to use with children, for supplementary work. Does not supplant Chapman’s ‘Birdlife’ as an identification book, and one might hesitate to choose it in preference to Olive Thorne Miller’s two books for teaching purposes, but is superior for reading.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 111. Ap. ’07. |
“A book charmingly written and copiously illustrated.”
| + | Dial. 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 20w. |
“Mrs. Doubleday occasionally ‘talks down’ to her readers in a way that a child who has got beyond the Mother Goose stage and is proud of it would be apt to resent.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 140w. |
“One of the most attractive bird-books that we have seen.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w. |
“The chief criticism is the number of these facts which is crowded into each short essay. Slips are few, and the book, as a whole, is well up to the standard set by the numerous pictures, which is very high.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w. |
“One feels that it would be fine to make the personal acquaintance of the author—and that is saying much. Here is an author who knows the calls of the woodland as a man might know his multiplication table.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 440w. |
“A pleasant, chatty little book.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 140w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 639. My. ’07. 70w. |
* Downes, Alfred M. Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50. Harper.
Here one finds described the bravery of the guardians of modern life, their allegiance to the great machine called the Fire department, the training, the discipline of the men and horses, and for the gentler part, the devotion of the men to their pets.
Dowson, Joseph Emerson. Producer gas. *$3. Longmans.
7–25693.
A discussion of the theory of producer gas, the practical results obtained, best means of securing them, and the use and application of producer gas.
“It is evident all through the book that the authors are thoroughly conversant with the actual working of apparatus for both the production and use of producer gas, and their book meets the needs of persons handling such plants better than any of the other books on the subject with which the reviewer is acquainted.” Alfred E. Forstall.
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 306. Mr. 14, ’07. 700w. |
Doyle, (Arthur) Conan. [Sir Nigel]; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.
6–34805.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Current Literature. 42: 228. F. ’07. 700w. |
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| Dial. 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 130w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 120w. |
Doyle, J. A. Colonies under the House of Hanover. $3.50. Holt.
2–11920.
The fifth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America.” It deals collectively with the whole body of colonies from the accession of the House of Hanover to the beginning of those disputes which ended in separation from the mother country.
| + + | Acad. 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 96. Ap. ’07. |
“Mr. Doyle’s work compares favourably with the new French volume of Prof. Schefer in which are discussed many of the same ‘Colonial problems.’”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 730w. |
“A work as unique as it is valuable, for a one-volume history of the colonies under the House of Hanover has, we believe, no mate.”
| + + − | Ind. 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w. | |
| + + − | Lit. D. 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w. | |
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w. |
“It is evident that Mr. Doyle’s last volumes are no better than those that preceded them, and will do nothing to re-establish the reputation of his earlier work.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w. |
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w. | |
| + − | Outlook. 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w. |
“His final volume is far more fragmentary and inadequate than any of its predecessors.”
| − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w. |
“Mr. Doyle seems quite content to accept, without further investigation on his own part, what he finds ready to his hand in the books of American writers on colonial history, and has neglected much first-hand authority (or its equivalent) of which he should most certainly have known.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 813. Je. 29, ’07. 2430w. |
“Far more important than Mr. Doyle’s misapprehensions as to the social condition of Virginia is his bland acceptance of the ‘Yankee convention’ regarding education in the colony.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 18. Jl. 6, ’07. 2370w. |
“The book swarms with misprints and errors in citation. Mr. Doyle’s style is pleasing in the main and often spirited and graphic—far more so than that of the usual chronicler of colonial annals.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 50. Jl. 13, ’07. 2620w. |
Doyle, J. A. Middle colonies. $3.50. Holt.
2–11920.
The fourth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America” deals with the history of the Middle colonies down to the accession of the House of Hanover, coincident with the disappearance of Penn from the field of colonial politics.
| + + | Acad. 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 96. Ap. ’07. | ||
| + + − | Ind. 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w. |
“There is no fairer view of American colonial development than that contained in the five bulky volumes of Mr. Doyle.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w. | |
| + + − | Lit. D. 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w. |
“It is safe to say that no one can hereafter write about or study the colonial period of American history without reckoning with, and constantly referring to, Mr. Doyle’s work.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w. |
“In organizing and distributing his data Mr. Doyle followed very conventional models, and in the work before us has neglected some of the most essential portions of our history.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w. |
“But although specialists will find fault with him for inaccuracies, the great value of the work is unquestionable. It is regrettable that the indexes have not been better made.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w. | |
| + − | Outlook. 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w. |
“In the volume upon the middle colonies the treatment is to a degree systematic and in some parts quite detailed. Much the same method is followed as was apparent in the earlier instalments of the work. But the writer’s chief fault lies in his failure to grasp, or at least to set forth, the significance of our colonial history as a whole.” Herbert L. Osgood.
| + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Doyle has made the most of his material. He never lets us forget that if his picture is crowded with a mass of insignificant detail, its outlines are large.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 494. Ap. 20, ’07. 1690w. |
[Draught of the blue], together with An essence of the dusk; tr. from the original manuscript by Francis William Bain. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–6406.
A volume of love stories translated from the original Hindoo manuscripts by the author of “A digit of the moon.” “The title, as he tells us in his charming introduction, signifies in some occult way the new moon, the lotus, and the blue eyes of a girl.... The book is pure sublimated fancy, where Western ideals appear in the delicate garb of Eastern mysticism.” (Spec.)
“There is a very genuine pleasure in reading the two curious tales that make up this new volume, because they are not only fascinating in themselves, as specimens of delicate and involved mysticism, but because they are so abundantly and unmistakably saturated with the spirit of the Orient.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 260w. |
“The English of the version is singularly fluent, simple, and graceful.”
| + | Nation. 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 140w. |
“They breathe a delicacy and fragrance of sentiment that are as entrancing as they are foreign to the literature to which the author modestly claims to be indebted, and they are rendered in English that charms with its pure music.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 480w. |
“It is superfluous to praise the charm of Mr. Bain’s style. He writes the English of a scholar and an artist.”
| + + | Spec. 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 380w. |
Dreiser, Theodore. [Sister Carrie.] $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
A reissue of a realistic novel which first appeared in 1900. “It is the direct, unflinching, pitiless history of the physical and moral ruin of one more fool, for the sake of a woman who did not care—a pretty, self-centred, passionless thing, who indifferently suffers his presence while he is useful to her—and then climbs over the wreck of his life in her hasty escape from the mire into which she has helped to sink him.” (Bookm.)
“Mr. Dreiser is no stylist. He merely writes with great simplicity and quiet force of life as he sees and understands it. The only adverse criticism which it seems worth while to make ... is in regard to its rather colourless and misleading title.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 287. My. ’07. 430w. |
“It is a book very much worth reading. But as about a lady one might be excused for noticing that a costume dating seven years back was a trifle out of fashion, so in the case of Mr. Theodore Dreiser’s story, one may perhaps be pardoned for feeling strongly, as one begins to read, that the stock tricks of the realistic method, even in 1900 somewhat discredited, now almost fatally fail to impress or to move. He moves both the intellect and the heart—a considerable achievement.” Harrison Rhodes.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 298. My. ’07. 1260w. |
“There are two reasons why ‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be recommended in spite of its boldness of theme. First of all for the sake of its truthfulness, the frankness of its portrayal of a widespread type. Secondly it is a pitiless, unsparing portrayal of a man’s ruin.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Forum. 39: 117. Jl. ’07. 550w. |
“We do not recommend the book to the fastidious reader, or the one who clings to ‘old-fashioned ideas.’”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 350w. |
“‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be reckoned with, just as the social conditions—or defects—on which it rests must be reckoned with.” Joseph Hornor Coates.
| + | No. Am. 186: 288. O. ’07. 1500w. |
Dresslar, Fletcher B. Superstition and education. pa. $2.50. Univ. of Cal.
7–29553.
An interesting tabulation of superstitions gathered from students in two California normal schools. With each superstition furnished, the student was asked to express belief, partial belief, or disbelief. The results are classified and presented statistically.
| Dial. 43: 172. S. 16, ’07. 150w. |
Dressler, Friedrich August. Moltke in his home. *$2. Dutton.
7–29134.
A sketch of Moltke written, by a musician. “The book has little to do with the creator of the modern German army. Instead it emphasizes the domestic side of the Field-Marshall’s character, his charming home life, his simplicity and refinement.... We learn to know, not only Moltke more familiarly, but also other Germans—the emperors, Bismarck, Richard Wagner, for instance.” (Outlook.)
“Herr Dressler tells us nothing very new, and a good deal of what he has to say is very small beer, yet his book is interesting because he has excellent opportunities, as a musician in great favour, of observing Moltke in every respect of private life.”
| + | Acad. 72: 139. F. 9, ’07. 320w. |
“The book will interest musicians, and also admirers of quiet family life.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 60w. |
“Herr Dressler’s story, charming in its simplicity and the whole-hearted devotion, is adequately translated by Mrs. Charles Edward Barrett-Lennard.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 480w. |
“The picture of life in the Moltke home is full of the homeliest German flavor, the quaint figure of the marshall himself as fresh and vivid and human as possible. A monument to the musician-author’s harmless vanity and his deep affection for the great man in whose glory he sunned himself.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 670w. | |
| Outlook. 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 240w. | ||
| + | Spec. 97: 259. F. 16, ’07. 320w. |
Drew, Gilman A. Laboratory manual of invertebrate zoölogy. *$1.25. Saunders.
7–21555.
A manual prepared in conjunction with the members of the zoölogical staff of the Marine biological laboratory in Wood’s Hole. “The invertebrates are here considered under twelve headings, and detailed directions are given for the study of each division. Following this, come suggestions and questions in regard to allied form.” (Nation.)
“This book possesses the unusual qualification of originality and great practical value. From a pedagogical point of view, the manual answers all requirements.”
| + + + | Nation. 85: 258. S. 19, ’07. 240w. |
“A rather careful reading of several sections reveals no serious faults, while typographical errors are few.” J. S. Kingsley.
| + + − | Science, n. s. 26: 250. Ag. 23, ’07. 410w. |
Driver, Rev. Samuel Rolles. Book of the prophet Jeremiah: a revised translation, with introd. and short explanations. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–15938.
“The aim of Dr. Driver’s book as he tells us is ‘to assist an ordinary educated reader to read the Book of Jeremiah intelligently and to understand the gist and scope of its different parts.’ To this end a new translation is given which aims to be ‘idiomatic, dignified, accurate, and clear.’ This aim is attained. An introductory sketch of the life of Jeremiah and a characterization of his style is given and brief notes at the foot of the page and in an appendix supply the most needed elucidations of the text.”—Am. J. Theol.
“The book is a good illustration of the author’s well-known caution in the matter of literary and textual criticism.” Kemper Fullerton.
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 668. O. ’07. 180w. |
“A very useful handbook.”
| + | Ind. 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w. |
“The reader with an ordinary education may read the book intelligently.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 30w. |
“It all looks so simple and easy that we cannot help asking why no one ever did it before; but the very simplicity is the sign of the master mind.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 531. Ap. 27, ’07. 110w. |
Druce, George C. Dillenian herbaria: an account of the Dillenius collections in the Herbarium of the University of Oxford, together with a biographical sketch of Dillenius, selections from his correspondence, notes, etc.; ed., with introd. by S. H. Vines. *$4.15. Oxford.
“Mr. Druce has drawn up this account of the collections left by Dillenius, and has critically examined the specimens preserved as vouchers, illuminating many doubtful passages in the third edition of Ray’s ‘Synopsis,’ and practically disposing of the dubious entries which have troubled many subsequent botanists. For studies of this character the facilities offered at the Botanic garden, Oxford, are extremely good, and only to be excelled by the Sloane volumes in the department of botany, Cromwell road.... The introduction by Prof. Vines is an appreciative essay on the position of Dillenius as regards his contemporaries; then, with a single page of preface, Mr. Druce gives a life of Dillenius and bibliography.”
“The technical account of these three herbaria would not in itself be interesting to the general reader, were it not for the sundry introductory notes and fragments of letters. But these fragments have the charm which clings to a great part of eighteenth-century science, and carry one back to the days when naturalists did not confine themselves to single and restricted fields.”
| + | Nation. 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 700w. |
“This volume is a valuable contribution to the history of the botanic preeminence of Oxford in the first half of the eighteenth century.” B. D. J.
| + | Nature. 76: 289. Jl. 25, ’07. 690w. |
Drummond, Henry. [Natural law in the spiritual world.] 35c. Crowell.
A reprint uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
Dry, Wakeling. [Giacomo Puccini.] (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
7–14600.
The man and his history are sketched as fully as is possible in the case of a “living master.” The author offers an analysis of Puccini’s operas down to and including “Madame Butterfly.” There are portraits of the composer, views of his various dwelling places and facsimiles of his musical autographs.
“Personal intercourse with the composer has enabled the writer to give point and life to his narration of certain events in the life of Puccini.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 130w. |
“A biographer should, of course, be sympathetic to his subject, but critical insight would make the book more helpful to those who have not arrived at his standpoint. This attitude and the fact that it is evidently very hastily written—a haste which too often shows itself in the use of slipshod English and badly corrected proof-sheets—make the first chapters, which are biographical and include some personal reminiscences, the most interesting reading.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 378. N. 9, ’06. 580w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 670w. |
“Mr. Wakeling Dry possesses little distinction as a writer, and his book is a purely journalistic compilation.” Richard Aldrich.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w. |
DuBois, Elizabeth Hichman. Stress accent in Latin poetry. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–30472.
Dr. Du Bois’ aim has been “to establish an explanation of the purely quantitative Latin poetry which shall reconcile the opposing views as to an apparent clash between word accent and verse accent.” Her work “consists of ninety-six pages only, but every paragraph is closely reasoned, and the writer supports her argument in each case with copious quotations.” (Acad.)
“We are inclined, indeed, to say that Miss du Bois attributes too much importance to accent as an element in language. We find it difficult to believe that any one will be nearer to scholarship for studying Miss du Bois’s book, though we do not deny that she may render service incidentally.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 560w. |
“We have said nothing of the thoroughness and breadth of the author’s scholarship, to which, however, each page of this monograph bears abundant witness.” Harry Thurston Peck.
| + + + | Bookm. 24: 265. N. ’06. 1530w. | |
| Dial. 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 50w. |
“The little book of ninety-six pages fairly justifies Professor Peck’s imprimatur, notwithstanding a too frequent looseness of statement, careless proof reading, and the small ratio of original discussion to mere summarizing of the views of others.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 110w. |
“All the authorities on the subject have been carefully scrutinized and are duly cited, and the book is full of evidence of the most elaborate and careful research on the part of the author into a region of classical scholarship which is practically unexplored by the average Latinist.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 260w. |
DuBois, Patterson. Culture of justice: a mode of moral education and social reform. **75c. Dodd.
7–16993.
“Justice is here presented as the root-principle of the moral life—the, rather than, as the Greek and Roman philosophy esteemed it, a cardinal virtue.... Wisdom and justice, as Plato taught, are mutually involved and inseparable. This is finely exemplified in Mr. Du Bois’s treatment of ‘the culture of justice.’ His ‘basal rule of practice is to think justice—to do this as an acquired habit of mind.’... Mr. Du Bois draws largely upon facts both of adult and childish experience to illustrate by discriminating criticism what justice is and is not, both in large matters and in small, down to keeping dirty shoes off of car-seats.”—Outlook.
“If there is any better book on this subject in our language than this small volume, we would like to know it. To magistrates and lawyers, to teachers and parents, to all who care for progressive morality, social and personal, this admirable treatise cannot be too strongly commended.”
| + + + | Outlook. 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 280w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 759. Je. ’07. 30w. |
Du Bose, Horace M. Symbol of Methodism; being an inquiry into the history, authority, inclusions, and uses of the twenty-five articles; with introduction by Bishop E. E. Hoss. $1. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
7–22109.
A frank treatment which refutes the charge of inadequacy brought to bear upon the Confessional articles of Methodism, and contributes to a correct understanding of the present doctrinal situation.
DuBose, William P. Gospel according to St. Paul. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–11043.
“Humanity, he says, ‘was predestined for the gospel in the sense that the gospel, which is Jesus Christ himself, is the natural, more than natural, supernatural or ultimate highest natural end or completion, and so predestination, of humanity.’ His work is designed to emphasise the divinity of Christ. ‘I bow,’ he says, ‘not only before the work of Jesus Christ as truly God’s, but the worker in Jesus Christ as truly God.’ This was, he thinks, Paul’s gospel.”—Spec.
“We agree heartily with Dr. Du Bose’s interpretation of Paul as far as we understand it. But we find it hard reading, and the interpretator of Paul should make his interpretation easy reading to the thoughtful reader.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 390w. | |
| Spec. 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 130w. |
* Duckworth, Lawrence. Encyclopaedia of marine law. $2. Pitman.
An encyclopaedia including the main principles of marine law. The latest authorities have been consulted, and the latest statutes and decisions are incorporated in the text. The volume makes an appeal to all who deal with shipping in any shape or form.
Duer, Elizabeth. Prince goes fishing. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–35453.
“The story, one of ‘yesterday,’ has a familiar background in the mythical European kingdom. There is the prince who has the not unnatural wish to study the princess selected as his bride; as to the Princess Hélène, she fills well the part of an adorable heroine. What befalls this royal pair is sufficiently diverting, and the life at the toy court of Palatina is also amusingly described.”—Ind.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 108. Ap. ’07. |
“The novel will while away a leisure hour or so very pleasantly.”
| + | Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 100w. |
“Really it is a very entertaining little story, very cleverly put together, and not without a pretty wit.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 530w. |
“The dialogue is vivacious, and many of the situations are cleverly managed.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 110w. |
Duff, Edward G. Printers, stationers, and bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–7493.
“In these lectures the first half-century of book-making in England is covered. The Westminster printers, Caxton, Wynken de Worde, and Notary; the London printers, Pynson, Lettou, and William de Machlinia; foreign printers and the books they made for the English market; the early English bookbinders—these are some of the subjects touched upon. The lectures are narrative in form, not technical, and are filled with interesting allusions and notes on old printers and their ways, old books, and old bindings.”—Nation.
“The Act of 1534 was passed, we may imagine, not (as was professed) for the protection of printing, but in the interest of the royal censorship of the press. The one may be defended and the other condemned with excellent reason, but to defend and condemn them on the grounds put forward by Mr. Duff seems to us a curious aberration in an otherwise very sane and scholarly book.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 37. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w. |
“His knowledge of early English printing and bookbinding is probably unequalled, and his power of putting his material into an attractive and interesting form is very great. We congratulate booklovers on this important addition to their library.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 225. F. 23. 610w. |
“They are in the nature of outlines of that larger work on the history and development of printing in England which is yet to be written.”
| + | Nation. 83: 461. N. 29, ’06. 330w. |
“Without questioning the author’s knowledge or the value of his contributions to the history of English printing, on this point alone it is not unjust to ascribe his reasons for the deterioration of protected bookmaking to his zeal as a free trader. This is a matter of history, and Mr. Duff should not have caused its misinterpretation to form the one blemish on an otherwise important and valuable work.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 470w. |
Duff, Mildred. Novelties and how to make them. 50c. Jacobs.
7–29717.
Hints and helps in providing pleasant occupation for young and old. Directions are included for making every thing from an ark full of animals to furniture.
Duke, Basil W. [Morgan’s cavalry.] $2. Neale.
6–18975.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Ath. 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 310w. | ||
| Ind. 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 90w. | ||
| Spec. 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w. |
Duley, G. Wilson. Dream of hell. $1. Badger.
6–46743.
“The poem is not geographical but psychological, having for its object the teaching of retributive justice, and how utterly nugatory is self justification.”
Dumas, Alexandre. Novels, 10v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
The ten volumes of Dumas’s novels included in this set are Monte Cristo, two volumes, Marguerite de Valois, Dame de Monsoreau, Forty-five guardsmen, Three musketeers, Twenty years after, Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere and Man in the iron mask. They are uniform with the thin paper sets and each volume contains an introduction and frontispiece.
| + | Lit. D. 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 110w. |
Dumas, Alexandre. [My memoirs]; tr. by E. M. Waller, with an introd by Andrew Lang. 6v. ea. $1.75. Macmillan.
The first appearance of this work in English. This initial volume deals with the first nineteen years of Dumas’ life chiefly spent at Villers-Cotterets. “He was beyond doubt a lazy boy, hugely fond of bird-snaring and of hunting, and it is with accounts of these pastimes, related with the charm of a poet, the skill of a dramatist and the knowledge of a woodsman, that some of the best chapters of these memoirs are occupied.” (N. Y. Times.) The central historical figure of this volume is Napoleon under whom Dumas’ father served in various campaigns.
v. 2. The second volume continues the biography thru the days of the drudgery of a clerkship to Dumas’ emancipation when on “the threshhold of success, he is surrounded by his new-found friends of literature and the drama.” (Outlook.)
“A most entertaining book. The translation is easy and fluent, but the last sentence of the book reads oddly.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 518. O. 26. 260w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“No element of completeness and accuracy should be wanting in the present English form.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“A series of chapters of unending and ever varying interest.” George S. Hellman.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 613. O. 12, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Everything is preserved, even the nauseating passages that may be characteristic of their writer but can only disgust readers of any delicacy. Aside from this the ‘Memoirs’ form an admirable addition to our biographical literature.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“No book that we know of beats these memoirs for a vivid, thrilling account of the state of France from 1812 to 1815. Scientific history may have its corrections to make, but the general impression is not to be effaced.”
| + + | Spec. 99: sup. 637. N. 2, ’07. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Joggin’ erlong. **$1.50. Dodd.
6–37888.
“‘Joggin’ erlong’ and other dialect poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar are here bound in attractive form and illustrated with good photographs of negro life.”—Outlook.
“Will add nothing to the laurels won by the young negro poet.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 732. Mr. 28, ’07. 240w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w. |
* Dunbar, William. Poems of William Dunbar; with introd., notes and glossary by H. Bellyse Baildon. *$2. Putnam.
A book intended for the ordinary reader or student which throws much light upon the life and poetry of this fifteenth century Scottish poet.
“Mr. Bellyse Baildon has given us an excellent edition with an admirable preface, most suggestive notes, and a useful vocabulary. Lovers of poetry are greatly indebted to him.”
| + | Acad. 73: 717. Jl. 27, ’07. 1700w. |
“We are not so ready to allow that it will be useful to ‘the ordinary reader or student.’”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 332. S. 21. 540w. |
“Mr. Baildon acknowledges his obligations to the Scottish and German savants who have edited Dunbar. His own work contains quite as much erudition as the ardent reader of poetry requires in a light and handy volume.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 253. Ag. 23, ’07. 1360w. |
“Prof. Schipper’s complaint that the text and glossary are taken bodily from his work appears substantially justified; and one may add that whatever value the notes possess is in the main due to the same authority. As it is, we have, of course, a good text and glossary, and, in the main, adequate notes, but discredited by the circumstances which we have just recited. Various passages in both introduction and notes cast doubt on the editor’s philological knowledge.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 350w. |
“All the assistance that can be given has been supplied by Mr. Baildon, a glossary being the chief of the reader’s help.”
| + | Spec. 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 260w. |
Duncan, Norman. [Cruise of the “Shining Light.”] †$1.50. Harper.
7–15117.
The skipper of the Will-o’-the-Wisp steers his craft upon a reef in a furious gale, drowning seven men and surrendering his own life in order that the “pot o’ money” in the undertaking may “make a gentleman” of his little Dannie. He hastily bequeaths Dannie to Nick Top, a ship-mate, charging him to “fetch un up as his mother would have un grow.” True to his oath, Nick, the seamed and scarred survivor of many wrecks, assumes the education of Dannie, comes to love him and to abhor the rascality and the crime involved in securing the “pot o’ money.” “I’ll not be sorry—not even in hell—for I’ll think o’ the years when you was a wee little lad, an’ I’ll be content t’ remember.” “A story of mystery, of love, of quaint humor and vigorous action.”
“The characters are real, the action vigorous, the mystery really illusive, the love theme well handled, and all is touched with a quaint and delightful humor.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠ |
“This is distinctly the most ambitious, and, we think the best, book that Mr. Duncan has written. The matter is original, and the whole is entertaining, despite the fact that the author overdoes such locutions as ‘the boy that was I’ to an extent which sometimes becomes irritating.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 547. N. 2. 170w. |
“An achievement that marks a long forward stride in Mr. Duncan’s career.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Forum. 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 440w. |
“To the accentuated reappearance in this book of the unmodern style which characterized Dr. Luke we are less reconciled. A romance beautiful and strong. If inwoven with the quaintness of an older literature, its style is none the less an unfailing delight, so lucid, so vivid, so picturesque, so infused with the quality of charm that among contemporary writers of fiction in English few outrank Mr. Duncan in literary technique. Mr. Duncan’s fool almost persuades us that his creator belongs in the glorious company of geniuses.”
| + + − | Ind. 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 610w. |
“A novel that may truly be said to make waste paper of much modern fiction.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 230w. |
“May lay definite claim to be considered as a real book, that indefinable result of original personal impulse and conservative literary tradition.”
| + | Nation. 84: 478. My. 25, ’07. 360w. |
“If old Nicholas Top does not become a permanent member of the honor roll in fiction it will be a marvelous case of non-appreciation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 930w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 130w. |
“The cruise with Norman Duncan as skipper is invigorating, and it ends in a sunny haven.” Philip Loring Allen.
| + | No. Am. 185: 328. Je. 7, ’07. 1440w. |
Duncan, Robert Kennedy. Chemistry of commerce: a simple interpretation of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry. **$2. Harper.
7–31986.
A work which directs the attention of educated lay-folk to science in its subservience to the practical needs of the human race. The author develops the theory that modern science is applicable to the economy and progress of manufacturing and agricultural operations. He shows, among other illustrations of his theory, how the fixation of nitrogen and how industrial alcohol may operate to increase the success of a series of operations to which they are applied.
“It is a book for the open shelves of the public reading-room and one that the manufacturer and business man will profit by perusing, for it contains information on a great variety of topics impossible to get elsewhere in such convenient form.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 823. O. 3, ’07. 290w. |
“Has explained in a clear and interesting way many of the chemical processes used in the manufacture of common and uncommon things.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 30w. |
“This book has the rare qualification of being needed, for nowhere else can the average reader find recent discoveries and manufacturing processes so clearly and accurately explained.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 430w. |
“To a reader who is not over-fastidious as regards literary style, or whose sensitiveness has been dulled by daily perusal of the journalism of Kansas there is much in this book to interest and amuse.”
| − | Nature. 77: 49. N. 21, ’07. 2250w. |
“A book full of appeal to the lay reader.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“Mr. Duncan’s book sets out some of the triumphs of science in this direction in a manner to fire the imaginations of students and men of affairs alike.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 470w. |
Dunham, Edith. Fifty flower friends with familiar faces: a field book for boys and girls. $1.50. Lothrop.
7–17393.
Fifty wild flowers are described and pictured in this volume which not only gives an accurate description of each plant, tells where to find it, but adds little sketches and quotations from flower poems, which will awaken interest in each flower’s distinct personality.
“The boy or girl into whose hands this book is placed can hardly fail to acquire a real and lasting interest in our every-day wild flowers.”
| + | Dial. 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 100w. |
“The grown-ups of the family will find many things that possibly had escaped their attention.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 130w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 127. Jl. ’07. 90w. |
* Dunmore, Walter T. Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.
The subject of ship subsidies is considered by Mr. Dunmore from an unprejudiced, non-partisan standpoint, and he endeavors to decide what is the best policy from the point of view of the commercial and economic interests of the United States; and also what is best, considering the question in its bearing on the national defense. The study is well tabulated and is provided with a bibliography of books and articles consulted.
Dunn, Robert. Shameless diary of an explorer; with il. from photographs by the author. *$1.50. Outing pub.
7–21274.
Mr. Dunn “was one of a party that strove to reach the summit of Mount McKinley, crowned with everlasting snow and ice in the sub-arctic solitudes of Alaska. Day by day he kept a diary of the movements and adventures of the party, noting the smallest details. After the unsuccessful attempt had ended, and those concerned in it had returned to civilization, the idea of publishing the diary occurred to its author, and he determined to lay before the public an unvarnished tale.”—Dial.
“The author might advantageously have omitted some of the profanity and coarseness which he has retained, but apart from this blemish the book is a vivid account of exploring the strange wilds of the remote northwest.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“As with many a predecessor, the result of his self-conscious determination to avoid the posing of which he imagines all others guilty has been his perhaps unconscious transformation into the worst sort of poseur himself. None the less, the volume contains here and there a bit of effective description.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 590w. |
Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley). Dissertations by Mr. Dooley. †$1.50. Harper.
6–38400.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 8. Ja. ’07. |
“As a whole the Dooley philosophy is a work of excellent innuendo, of polished and admirably concealed artistry.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 380w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 390w. |
“Beneath his joyous gift of extravagant ridicule, he is perhaps the wisest man now writing, and America should be very proud of him.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 340w. |
“The quality of the entertainment furnished by the new volume is quite on a level with that of its predecessors; indeed, in some respects it is better, in that it is less parochial in outlook and terminology, and consequently appeals to a wider audience.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 93. Ja. 19, ’07. 990w. |
Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Windham Thomas, 4th earl of. Outlook in Ireland: case for devolution and conciliation. *$3. Dutton.
“Lord Dunraven makes, in measured and fit language, a strong case for the moderate fashion in which Irish affairs have been approached by the committee known by his name.”—Ath.
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 110w. |
“Lord Dunraven’s book has an inevitable air of being born out of due time.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 230w. |
“The book is a statesmanlike consideration of the present status of affairs in Ireland and of the most pressing needs of the unhappy isle, and a masterly plea for fair play, friendliness, tolerance, and justice on both sides of the Irish channel.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1410w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 742. Ag. 3, ’07. 1680w. |
“From the beginning to the end of his book there is hardly a chapter in which he does not either shut his eyes to palpable facts, or at least regard them through some distorting medium of national prejudice, with the result that, however well intended his advice, it will scarcely commend itself to those who have given calm consideration to the Irish problem.”
| − − + | Spec. 98: 290. F. 23, ’07. 2020w. |
During, Stella M. Disinherited; with a frontispiece by Paula B. M. Himmelsbach. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–20512.
Set in England this story with its tangled threads and continuous action shows how an inheritance proved a pitfall. A naive, unconscionable girl marries the gouty old Sir Peter—of a less irascible temperament, tho in many points not unlike Sheridan’s Sir Peter—and does it to save herself from the battle for bread. After the sudden death of Sir Peter a daughter is born, and the mother, finding that the bulk of the estate had been willed to a nephew, begins a long series of sham proceedings which, to hold the property for herself, require that the child be brought up as a boy. At sixteen the child takes things into her own hands, apparently drowns, reappears as a twin sister who, so the fiction ran, had for family reasons been sent to California in infancy, restores to the cousin his property, falls in love with this cousin, and, heart-broken because it is not returned and because she has all thru life served only as her mother’s tool, drowns herself. Plot and counter-plot abound.
“The ultra crudities of the opening, where Avice makes her entrance into society, so little prepare the reader for any display of ingenuity that the latter absurdities prove a rather welcome relief.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 220w. |
* Durland, Kellogg. [Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year in Russia.] il. **$2. Century.
7–32827.
Russia of today as an American sees it. Mr. Durland spent a twelve-month traveling thru European Russia, Poland, the Caucasus, and a part of western Siberia. Mr. Durland’s presentations are not only picturesque descriptions of a traveler, nor yet merely thrilling stories of an active journalist, but contain accurate and authoritative observations on the social, economic and political conditions of the country. The volume is fully illustrated.
Dutton, Maude Barrows. Little stories of Germany. *40c. Am. bk. co.
7–6771.
“Separate stories arranged so as to form a connected account of the history of Germany, beginning with the mythological heroes and extending to Kaiser Wilhelm. There are stories of the great masters of music and painting, as well as of kings and warriors, of the invention of printing as well as of the conquest of land.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 139. My. ’07. ✠ |
Dye, Eva Emery. McDonald of Oregon; a tale of two shores. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–33578.
A story which “deals first with the occupation of Oregon by American settlers, and later with McDonald’s expedition to Japan, undertaken in a spirit of adventure, and resulting in the Perry expedition, of such international consequence.” (Outlook.)
“Although the narrative is based ... upon an exhaustive examination of historical material, the volume can hardly be ranked as a historical publication.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 479. Ja. ’07. 70w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 230w. |
“There is so much vitality in the material upon which this book is based, and the writer expresses herself with such enthusiasm, that the volume holds the interest in spite of the fact that it is too loosely knit for a historical novel, and lacks the unity of a good biography.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 80w. |
“This is history where the substantial facts are so woven with romance and restored to vitality by vivid imagination as to give atmosphere, color and life.”
| + | World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 90w. |