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Earle, Mrs. C. W. Letters to young and old. *$2.50. Dutton.
Letters such as Mrs. Earle has been accustomed to write to her friends and family are here collected into a volume which covers a wide field of interest. The seven sections include letters from Germany, letters upon gardening, health, diet, children, art, and life in general.
| + | Acad. 72: 39. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. |
“Altogether, it is a delightful, gossiping olla podrida.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 260w. |
“Here is a novel and clever idea in bookmaking.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 197. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w. |
“Those who liked her three books of potpourri will find it interesting, but no one to whom the three former volumes did not appeal should even try to read this one.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 780w. |
East, Alfred. Art of landscape painting in oil color. *$3. Lippincott.
“Mr. East has not attempted in this book to write of landscape painting in its elementary stages. His aim has been rather to give the already qualified student an insight into certain truths which have been revealed to him in his own practice of the art. To correct a false attitude towards nature, and to help the reader to understand the importance of technique, has been the aim of this book. It is illustrated by eight landscapes and a page of studies of effects in colour, and many halftone pictures, chiefly from the painter’s works; also an admirable selection from those pencil sketches in which he excels.”—Int. Studio.
“The letterpress is somewhat elementary. The book is redeemed, however, by a genuine love for the subject.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 779. D. 15. 390w. |
“We cannot think of any painter who could be a better guide than Mr. East. He is not contemptuous of the beginner, and he has a literary faculty which enables him to explain his meaning very clearly.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 363. F. ’07. 360w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 520w. |
“This work should be of great use to many a student, amateur and artist. Mr. East writes with distinctness, and has the power of making his reader understand clearly the various processes, mental and technical, which he uses for the construction of a landscape.”
| + | Spec. 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 290w. |
* Eastman, Charles Alexander. [Old Indian days.] †$1.50. McClure.
7–33219.
The chivalry of the Indian warrior and the womanliness of the Indian woman are subjects which Mr. Eastman sets forth with authority and sentiment. In an idealized sense his tales become more “than mere narrations of savage exploits and records of the legends and traditions, beliefs and practices, of a primitive people.” (Outlook.)
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“We feel personally grateful for the refreshment afforded by more than one exquisitely idyllic tale among the dozen, or so in his volume.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 120w. |
* Eckstorm, Mrs. Fannie (Hardy). David Libbey, Penobscot woodsman and river-driver. *60c. Am. Unitar.
7–23501.
Another figure for the galaxy of “true American types.” David Libbey is a Maine woodsman who “met all the demands of son, husband, father, brother, friend, citizen and soldier, and yet had time for self-education, for æsthetic culture, and for the exercise of a talent by no means meagre.”
Eddy, Arthur Jerome. Tales of a small town by one who lived there. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30989.
The small town element is here in the fact that every one knows the business of everyone else be it the lawyer who connives to secure the drunkard’s farm through his wife before she has actually determined on a divorce suit, or the adventurous young minx with the peroxide hair who flirts with her uncle and her staid next door neighbor to the distress of their wives. The stories are interesting although not wholly pleasing for the admirable traits of the villagers are subordinated to their unlovely ones.
Edwardes, Marian, comp. Summary of the literatures of modern Europe (England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain); from the origins to 1400. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–20970.
“The work is essentially an annotated and classified bibliography, with references to the most authoritative scholarly discussions of the writings included. It presents an immense mass of historical and critical information in a form that is both compact and convenient for use.”—Dial.
“In spite of these ... defects ... the compilation is distinctly serviceable. With careful revision it might be made indispensable.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 870w. | |
| + | Dial. 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 120w. |
“Enough has been said, we believe, to show how defective this work is, notwithstanding its occasionally useful citations of recent literature.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 469. O. 21, ’07. 460w. |
“A very careful and painstaking work, and should be found useful by students.”
| + | Spec. 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 80w. |
Edwards, A. Herbage. Kakemono: Japanese sketches. *$1.75. McClurg.
7–29123.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A complete view of Japan, the book does not give; the unpleasant features are left for others to portray. But that omission makes it the more agreeable to read.”
| + | Dial. 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 330w. |
“A series of slight sketches, more ambitious than successful.”
| − | Nation. 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w. |
Edwards, Matilda Betham-. Literary rambles in France. il. *$2.50 McClurg.
7–36931.
Miss Betham-Edwards, who gave us a few years ago “Home-life in France,” now gives equally intimate glimpses of the personality of some of the French men and women of letters. Some of the suggestive chapter headings are: Flaubert’s literary workshop, On the track of Balzac—Limoges. The genesis of Eugènie Grandet, In the footsteps of George Sand, Brantôme and The story of the Marseillaise.
“She gives with perfect success the atmosphere of the places and people that she writes about. That is, we imagine, all that she set out to do, and in any case all that was needed.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 698. Jl. 20, ’07. 510w. |
“Is in our opinion one of the best of her long series of monographs on French life and scenery. Her tendency to facile literary allusion takes her readers far from the scene she is describing. This is destructive of the French atmosphere which ought to characterize her books of travel.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 780w. |
“It is a pleasure to discover that [it] belongs, not to the appalling multitude of ‘popular guides,’ but to the small and delightful company of artistic and illuminating travellers’ sketches. They have, in the first place, the note of spontaneity.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 370w. |
“There never was a more staunch champion of Protestantism than Miss Betham-Edwards; and we take leave to think that a writer who hardly acknowledges any other religion in France cannot be said to know France thoroughly.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 266. Ag. 24, ’07. 1200w. |
Edwards, Owen. [Short history of Wales.] *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
A brief history of only a little over a hundred pages for those who have never read any Welsh history.
“The pages on Wales at the present time are unquestionably the most interesting. The style is simple, lucid, and picturesque. Those for whom the book is primarily intended—readers ignorant of Welsh and Latin—will be led to knowledge of pleasant paths.”
| + | Nation. 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 180w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w. |
“His attitude is still that of the North Walian. Despite such trifling blemishes the book is excellent.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 500w. |
Edwards, William Seymour. [Through Scandinavia to Moscow.] **$1.50. Clarke.
6–37647.
Entertaining observations made by Mr. Edwards as he and his bride traveled in five weeks thru Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, to St. Petersburg and back to London by way of Berlin, Hamburg, and Amsterdam. The account is given in the form of letters written by the author to his father and is illustrated with snap shots taken en route.
“The personal touches and impressions—interesting incidents well told—make an unusually attractive account of a traveler’s experiences. Here and there an occasional careless statement threatens to shatter the reader’s faith in the accuracy of the book as a whole. On the whole the book is worth reading. Its story is pleasantly told, with many interesting items well worth remembering.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 230w. |
“Commonplace in many respects.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 390w. |
“A simple, straightforward account.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 810w. |
Eeden, Frederik van. [Quest.] $1.50. Luce, J. W.
7–15321.
The symbolism which abounds in this book reminds one of Ibsen. A little boy seeks diligently from fairy guides a solution to the riddle of the universe and its manifold manifestations. As he grows older his desire for understanding is no less keen but for the fairy thoughts of imagination are substituted the troll-ideas of grotesque human realities. Finally among the sordid commonplaces he falls in with a companion who is a “modern reincarnation of the Christ.” There is a very human love tale, the romance of the imaginative Johannes and Marjon, a little circus girl.
“A remarkable work of sustained fancy, the book presents no new ‘Weltanschauung,’ it brings no new message. Dr. van Eeden has dreamt a dream, he has not seen a vision. The translation is on the whole, admirable.” A. Schade van Westrum.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 296. My. ’07. 1540w. |
“‘The quest’ as a romance is, by reason of its loose construction and its generally feeble character drawing, a negligible quantity. As a work of philosophy it is suggestive, but tautological and obscure. As a social study on the other hand, it possesses exceptional value; is, in fact, one of the most comprehensive arraignments of the hypocrisy and corruption of the age that has yet been written.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 99. Jl. 11, ’07. 480w. |
“There is much jog-trot indeterminate narrative as well as much didacticism, in the third part.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 610w. |
“The things that hold and charm are the glimpses of the quaint mind of ‘de kleine Johannes’—little John—the scenes from Dutch life, the pictures of the mountebanks’ way, the hints of things good and bad that stirred our little John; the flights of fancy, now gracious and now horribly gruesome; the homely simplicity of the narrative of the hero’s love affairs. Almost equally pleasing is much of the homelier satire. But there is other satire that falls dully on the mind like the rhapsodies of Markus the prophet.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 154. Mr. 16, ’07. 720w. |
“Weary wastes of long-drawn-out commonplace separate the brilliant and beautiful passages. Pages of puerile, pottering pedantic dialogue that might have stepped out of a Rollo book discourage the interest. The result is a work diffuse and discursive—not to say sprawling—and obscure.” Alvan F. Sanborn.
| − | No. Am. 185: 79. My. 3, 07. 1510w. |
“The writer’s intentions are obviously excellent and his philosophy sound. To Dutch readers his performance is doubtless excellent as well, but to us it is so involved, prolix and tiresome as to be absolutely impossible. The barriers between our minds and his book are quite impassable.”
| − + | Putnam’s. 3: 111. O. ’07. 240w. |
“Delicately fanciful, and deeply spiritual besides, ‘The quest’ merits wide attention.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 768. Je. ’07. 30w. |
Eggleston, George Cary. Jack Shelby; a story of the Indiana back-woods. †$1.50. Lothrop.
6–20455.
An exciting tale of the adventurous pioneer days of 1836.
“Not well written, but gives an interesting, and probably accurate picture of pioneer life.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 80. Mr. ’07. |
“Is of a good kind and well done.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 30w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 768. D. ’06. 50w. |
Eggleston, George Cary. Love is the sum of it all: a plantation romance. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–32710.
A plantation romance whose scene is laid in Virginia following the reconstruction period. “Warren Rhett, the hero, is a young Virginian, enlightened, enfranchised, energized by education in the north and a cosmopolitan experience as a bridge builder, not solely as the lover of the good and beautiful heroine.” (N. Y. Times.) The heroine is the daughter of a sculptor; the love-making is uninterrupted in Warren’s step-mother’s home where he is recuperating and incidentally rescuing the plantation from decay and bankruptcy.
“On the whole, the book is wholesome as well as pretty. If there is not a deal of excitement in it, there is plenty of suggestive observation.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 480w. |
“As a social critic, Mr. Eggleston has nothing new or important to say. He does not even say what he has to say well. As a novel it is impossible to praise it.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 540w. |
Elbe, Louis. Future life in the light of ancient wisdom and modern science. **$1.20. McClurg.
6–9285.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 41. F. ’07. |
Eldridge, William Tillinghast. Hilma; il. by Harrison Fisher and Martin Justice. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9545.
“This book belongs in that class of which Anthony Hope’s ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ is the prototype. A brave and resourceful American is thrown into the dynastic plots of a petty imaginary nation in eastern Europe, and plots and counterplots develop in rapid and thrilling succession. One does not need to guess that the American foils the political villains who try to keep Princess Hilma from her throne, nor that he loves the beautiful young queen, and that both sacrifice love to duty.”—Outlook.
“The author has studied the ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ carefully, and has tried to produce another one; even the ‘Dolly dialogue’ form of conversation is attempted. The result written in American language is terrible.”
| − | Acad. 73: 996. O. 5, ’07. 120w. |
“Perhaps above the average of its kind.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 134. My. ’07. |
“Nobody needs quarrel with the story merely because it is an imitation. The important thing is that it is a good one.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 150w. |
“The story is told in nervous and sometimes ungrammatical English, and its nomenclature rivals that of ‘Graustark’ for weirdness.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − | Dial. 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 160w. |
“A particular trouble is that the dialogue ... is tremendously labored and disconcertingly pointless. The author, with all the industry and good will in the world, lacks both the necessary invention and the highly desirable knowledge of the hearts of men and women.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 460w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 190w. |
“The tale is built up in a workmanlike way, and has a reasonable number of thrills and sudden turns.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w. |
Eliot, Sir Charles Norton E. Letters from the Far East. *$2.40. Longmans.
7–30811.
“This volume consists of letters originally published in the Westminster gazette during a recent visit to China and Japan, undertaken with the special object of studying the languages and creeds of those countries and the development which Buddhism has undergone.”—N. Y. Times.
“The volume is one of singular interest, but displays a fanciful and slightly paradoxical intellect. The author’s reflections upon Mohammedanism and his panegyric on Hinduism will startle readers, but provoke reflection to a higher degree than do most works of travel.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 408. Ap. 6. 1010w. |
“Among the chapters on China those descriptive of Canton, Peking, and Chinese literature will be found particularly entertaining. The value of the book would have much increased by an index. There are sixteen illustrations, very good reproductions of photographs.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 540w. |
“A studious and thoughtful examination of many sides of Far Eastern thought and life, written by a thoroughly competent observer. The book has not yet been written about Far Eastern matters that does not challenge criticism or controversy on points; but it is rare to find one so little provocative in that respect and so greatly instructive as this collection of letters.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 103: 561. My. 4, ’07. 1050w. |
“Among the numerous works that have been devoted of recent years to the problems of the Far East, his unpretentious little book takes a very high place.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 1400w. |
Eliot, Charles W. [Four American leaders.] *80c. Am. Unitar.
6–42960.
Commemorative addresses on Franklin, Washington, Channing and Emerson, which present the four Americans from the point of view of their intellectual contributions in shaping the political, moral, and intellectual trend of the Republic.
“Inspiring addresses.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 120. My. ’07. |
“While the book contains suggestions apt to stir up antagonism in certain minds, and while we are made to feel that the author’s sympathies are at times misplaced and that he lacks something of the spirit of the true prophet, we must confess to the beauty of his style, his true sense of proportion and his fine analytical powers within certain limitations.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + − | Arena. 37: 110. Ja. ’07. 120w. |
“We have rarely read a book which could inspire a more profound respect for what is lastingly noble in humanity than this.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 330w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 801. O. 1, ’06. 80w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w. |
“These papers are written—all of them—in the lucid, direct and vigorous style which we have come to associate with their author, and will be sure of the careful and respectful attention to which everything that comes from his strong, well-disciplined, well-stored and independent mind is entitled.” Horatio S. Krans.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 111. Ap. ’07. 1010w. |
Eliot, Charles W. Great riches. **75c. Crowell.
6–34713.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 210. Ja. ’07. 90w. |
“President Eliot may be a great executive officer, but we cannot count him among great and true thinkers.”
| − | Arena. 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 180w. | |
| Cath. World. 85: 401. Je. ’07. 420w. |
“It treats a topic of unmistakable importance and large public interest in a spirit of sane and hopeful Americanism.”
| + + | Educ. R. 33: 99. Ja. ’07. 430w. |
“The economic analysis seems to be faulty. The writer assumes that the riches of to-day are of a new kind, which carry with them no visible responsibility.”
| − + | J. Pol. Econ. 14: 637. D. ’06. 320w. |
Eliot, George. [Romola]; historically il. and ed., with introd. and notes, by Guido Biagi. 2v. *$3. McClurg.
6–42367.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The illustrations, 160 in all, are well reproduced. Furthermore, they are for the most part adequately described, and in every case are, for their own sakes, worth possessing; but many of them are wholly irrelevant, or are made so by being recklessly misplaced.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 390w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 660w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w. |
“The letter-press is excellent, and the whole work has a scholarly character.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 100w. |
Elkington, Ernest Way. [Savage South seas]; painted by N. H. Hardy, described by E. Way Elkington. *$6. Macmillan.
A volume whose text and illustrations are devoted to the native peoples of British New Guinea, the Solomon islands and the New Hebrides. The text “describes the appearance, customs, habits, characteristics and prospects of the savage natives, with some account of their past history, shows how little real impression the missionaries have made upon them, tells what the islands offer to the white man who is willing to work, and succeeds fairly well in giving an idea of the subtle charm which the South Sea islands can exercise over the Anglo-Saxon.” (N. Y. Times.) The illustrations “representing every phase of native life, industries, amusements, and religious ceremonies, as well as the pile houses and the scenery, enable one very vividly to realize it.” (Nation.)
“It is the most beautiful of the ‘colour books’ that we have seen, and excels the majority of them by far in the excellence of its letter press.”
| + | Acad. 73: 861. S. 7, ’07. 1230w. |
“It is a good book of a bad kind—the usual kind; there are hundreds of the sort, but few, we may add, so well executed, for the author has avoided many faults into which he might have fallen—the enthusiasms, the prolixities, and the vulgarities which are common to the kind.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 202. Ag. 24. 720w. |
“The authoritative tone and the evidently intimate knowledge of native customs are proof positive of something beyond a cursory observation of life among the islanders.”
| + | Dial. 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 220w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 390w. |
“In this book the illustrations so far exceed the text in importance and quality that little need to be said concerning the latter, which contains many inaccuracies and misprints, is written in poor English, and generally falls far below the level of other volumes contained in this series.” C. G. S.
| + − | Nature. 76: 541. S. 26, ’07. 470w. |
“It is written entertainingly, with plenty of anecdote interspersed.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w. |
“The artist has given us many accurate drawings of the genuine native in his appropriate setting. Nor does he sacrifice accuracy of detail for mere pictorial effect; thus the student may feel confident in trusting his details of ornament, dress, house-structure and the like, indeed in some instances new facts are incidentally given to the student in the plates. The letterpress is a chatty compilation of no value to the serious student, as it is full of mistakes of various kinds and there is no evidence that Mr. Elkington has visited the places of which he writes.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w. |
* Elliot, George F. S. Chile: its history and development, natural features, products, commerce, and present condition; with an introd. by Martin Hume. *$3. Scribner.
A history of Chile with full description of existing conditions. “Mr. Scott Elliot deals principally with the romantic history of his favourite republic. The adventures of President O’Higgins and of Cochrane have formed the theme of many well-told tales. O’Higgins was the natural son of Ambrose Higgins, Marquis de Osorno, Viceroy of Peru.” (Ath.)
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The illustrations are selected with but slight regard for the text, and in several cases are put where they mar the author’s work. Those who wish to know the natural features and economic conditions of the country will be able to learn more than they can carry away in their minds, for Mr. Elliot is a naturalist as well as an observer of industrial and political phenomena. Of the historical portion of the work we must be content with saying that the author does not seem to us to do justice to the work of the church in Chile.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 639. N. 23, ’07. 720w. |
Elliott, Delia Buford. Adele Hamilton. $1.25. Neale.
7–14586.
A story of a little more than a hundred pages which tells of the bravery of a southern woman who at her husband’s death finds herself penniless, and takes her five children to California hoping that in a new country away from surroundings that would remind her of her former abundance she may fight her financial battle and win.
Elliott, Emilia. Joan of Juniper inn. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–27610.
A cheerful, wholesome story peopled with true-to-life boys and girls who have real experiences and who are bubbling over with innocent fun.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 90w. |
Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Deerfoot in the forest. †$1. Winston.
5–28020.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“This series of adventures ... will convince his admirers that his vitality is undiminished.”
| + | Acad. 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 50w. |
Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Hunt of the white elephant. †$1. Winston.
6–26188.
A sequel to “River and jungle,” in which the hero of the latter sets out with a native guide to capture a white elephant. Before the quest is successfully terminated thrilling adventure is furnished by an exciting tiger hunt, an encounter with a wild buffalo, and interference from thieving natives. From the first page to the last it is full of exciting situations.
“Is one of Ellis’ very best tales, being written in a spirited manner and replete with exciting adventures so dear to the vivid and hungry imagination of the child.”
| + + | Arena. 37: 222. F. ’07. 270w. |
Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Lost in the forbidden land. †$1. Winston.
6–26192.
One of three volumes in the “Foreign adventure series.” It is a thrilling account of the dangers that two Americans encountered while attempting to trace the Pilcomayo river in South America to the Paraguay. Even Yankee ingenuity fails at times when set to baffle so formidable an enemy as the Tobas Indians.
Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.
| − | Arena. 38: 320. Ag. ’07. 200w. | |
| Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 70w. |
* Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Queen of the clouds. †$1. Winston.
7–23712.
The last in the three-volume “Paddle your own canoe” series. There is in this story plenty to whet the appetite of an adventure-loving lad—mystery, a brave sailor boy as hero, a shipwreck, the discovery of pirates’ gold, treachery, a search extending to India, wild beasts of the jungle, the Sepoy rebellion, the escape and return.
Ellis, Edward Sylvester. River and jungle. †$1. Winston.
6–26479.
Indo-China is the scene of Dudley Mason’s experiences which befall him on his way thru the jungle to his father, a missionary in the interior of Siam. Tigers, crocodiles, snakes, wild Indians and elephants make the way one of perils and hair-breadth escapes.
Ellis, Edward Sylvester (Seward D. Lisle, pseud.). Seth Jones of New Hampshire. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–6405.
A reprint of a dime-novel published nearly 50 years ago, which supports the claim made by the author in his introduction that dime novel literature not only was not immoral but was good reading for the young. Seth Jones is a border hero and his story is one of scalpings and bloodshed, of rescued maidens and daring escapades.
“It is such a story as the most fastidious of telegraph boys would not hesitate to put his imprimatur upon.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 639. Ap. 20. ’07. 340w. |
“We cheerfully testify that it is innocuous, simple, free from moral taint, as little sensational as is humanly possible for a book with Indians, a kidnapped maiden, and a hunter with a coonskin cap to be. Is a very mild case of Fenimore Cooper and water.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 718. Mr. 23. ’07. 240w. |
Ellis, Edward Sylvester, and Chipman, William Pendleton. Cruise of the Firefly, †75c. Winston.
6–21383.
An adventurous tale in which a boat race between the clubs of two rival institutions secures for the winners a two months’ camping trip north from the Maine coast. The exciting experiences of the race in which plots are foiled, and the later cruise fairly bristling with thrilling experiences, furnish rare entertainment for a wide-awake boy.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 80w. |
Ellis, Edwin J. Real Blake. **$3.50. McClure.
“Mr. Ellis gives us an immense amount of information, heaped in bewildering fashion, and ticketed with labels and comments which can hardly fail to increase that bewilderment.” (Ath.) “Readers will naturally want to know what new material Mr. Ellis presents them with, not already in Gilchrist. He prints in full for the first time ‘The island in the moon,’ Blake’s squib upon the literary folk he met at the Mathews’s house.... All Blake’s comments on Lavater are given, instead of the selection printed by Gilchrist. But of course the main difference between the two lives is Mr. Ellis’s insistence on the mystical side of Blake.”—Acad.
“There is a great deal that is interesting and valuable in Mr. Ellis’s book: but it is not well composed, the writing is slovenly, and it has other serious faults which will assuredly prevent it from superseding Gilchrist, in spite of a much completer understanding of Blake’s mind and ideas.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 232. Mr. 9, ’07. 1360w. |
“It is written to do honour to Blake and to explain him, but it requires both correction and explanation before it can do either.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 598. My. 18. 2130w. |
“If Mr. Symons writes from the point of view of ultra-romanticism, Mr. Ellis speaks from the region of spirit-rapping and table-turning. He has produced a book that is almost a model of what a biography ought not to be.”
| − − | Nation. 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 750w. |
“Mr. Ellis worships Blake, and he seems to have attracted to himself several of his idol’s less amiable qualities, his arrogance, his carelessness in writing and his intolerance; these characteristics are obvious, not only in the preface, but more or less throughout the book.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: sup. 8. F. 23, ’07. 320w. |
Ellis, George. Modern practical carpentry for the use of workmen, builders, architects, and engineers. *$5. Industrial.
“A practical discussion of the methods and practices connected with the heavier kinds of carpentry work. It treats of the subject as seen in England, where wood work is used to a much greater extent than in this country. However, the discussions on shoring, scaffolding, tunnel and bridge centering and coffer dams are of universal interest.”—Engin. N.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 306. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w. |
Ellis, George William, and Morris, John Emery. King Philip’s war; based on the archives and records of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and contemporary letters and accounts with biographical and topographical notes. **$2. Grafton press.
6–43914.
To this account of King Philip’s war “Mr. Ellis has contributed the narrative with the references, and Mr. Morris has supplied the biographical foot-notes, the local descriptions, and the illustrations.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“A history of King Philip’s war, which should be both readable and trustworthy, has long been desired by students of early New England. The volume under review meets these requirements, being based upon careful research and written in clear narrative style. The volume is singularly free from errors or misquotations from authorities.” Clarence S. Brigham.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 400w. |
“A scholarly history of the last struggle of an expiring race, rather than a successful study of an important episode in the conquest of the continent.” Carl Russell Fish.
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 655. My. ’07. 250w. |
“The genealogical interest of Mr. Morris has resulted in a collection of biographical details that must make the book valuable to all tracers of New England ancestry. Indeed, one criticism of the book as a book lies in its multiplicity of names and explanatory notes.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 390w. |
Elton, Oliver. Frederick York Powell: a life and selection from his letters and occasional writings. 2v. *$6.75. Oxford.
7–18309.
Two interesting volumes upon a man of large personality and profound knowledge, who for years, as tutor and professor, exercised great influence over the young men of Oxford and London. The first volume is devoted to memoirs and letters, and the second to writings.
“Mr. Elton has failed partly because failure was inevitable, partly because of a certain lack of sympathy with his subject; but he has one quality which is also his main defect—a fine impartiality.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1280w. |
“The many-sidedness of the man has been well brought out; the attractive nature of his personality is excellently displayed; the facts of his career are correctly noted; his fugitive work has been tastefully brought together; and all the friends of York Powell—and he had a genius for friendship—will be grateful to Mr. Elton for placing this memorial of their departed friend in their hands.” H. Morse Stephens.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 648. Ap. ’07. 2100w. |
“An appreciation which is rich on every page with a just and sympathetic understanding of the man’s nature.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 821. D. 29. 2400w. |
“The book brings out with fine judgment and skill Powell’s love for literature, folklore and art, but is less successful in showing that history was his special province.”
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 204. Ja. ’07. 230w. |
“Mr. Elton’s book would have been much improved by the compression necessary to bring it into a narrower compass.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 424. D. 21, ’06. 2440w. |
“The present memoir is clever and interesting, but somewhat too diffuse. A valuable, vivid record of a life which deserves to be held in memory and honor.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 311. Ap. 4, ’07. 2440w. |
“The book is a master tonic.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 775. D. 22, ’06. 1340w. |
“The life of York Powell was bound to be written, and it could scarcely have fallen into better hands.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 55. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w. |
Emanuel, Walter. Dogs of war. †$1.25. Scribner.
7–15118.
One thoroughbred and a number of mongrels constitute a group pledged to “attack at sight all thoroughbreds who give themselves airs or offer insult to plebeian canines.” “Ears,” the aristocratic spaniel tells the story, which is accompanied by Mr. Cecil Aldin’s humorous drawings.
“The episodes enshrined in these pages bear and repay intimate study.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 731. D. 8. 70w. |
“His greatest failing as a raconteur is his lack of humor.”
| + − | Dial. 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 230w. |
“The collaboration is quite perfect, and it is always impossible to consider the story apart from the pictures. Possibly the drawings are a bit cleverer than the text, although there is much amusing matter in the dog biography.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w. |
Emerald and Ermine: a tale of the Argoät by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” *$1.50 Harper.
7–33591.
About the slim figure of a young widowed duchess of an old estate in Brittany, the author has woven a strong and dramatic plot using as a background the sturdy peasant life of the Argoät. The estate, in the event of the remarriage of the duchess, reverts to her husband’s degenerate cousin, and he to gain it, conspires to trap her into matrimony. His villainy succeeds, but she finds true love and happiness and he receives the coveted revenues only to find them poor comfort and devoid of joy.
“A tale steeped in the color and fragrance of woodland Brittany, characterized by a mysterious plot and rare charm of atmosphere.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Emerson, Edward Waldo. Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell, captain Sixth United States cavalry, colonel Second Massachusetts cavalry, brigadier-general, United States volunteers. **$2. Houghton.
7–15315.
“This volume consists of a brief but adequate biography of the young soldier; of judicious selections from his correspondence, and of very full, discriminating notes upon both the life and the letters.”—N. Y. Times.
“While Mr. Emerson’s intense admiration for his hero is very plain he writes always with restraint, good taste, and the best judgment.” J. K. Hosmer.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 161. O. ’07. 580w. |
“Doubly excellent in its admiration and its restraint.” Henry Dwight Sedgwick.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 278. Ag. ’07. 2470w. |
“Abundant notes supplement both the lifestudy and the letters; to these notes are confided many of the most intimate revelations of the young soldier’s personality. The student of American history and literature may well be grateful for this record, so directly and fully told, of a life which is as inspiring in memory as it was in companionship.” Annie Russell Marble.
| + + | Dial. 43: 10. Jl. 1, ’07. 1800w. | |
| Ind. 63: 883. O. 10, ’07. 420w. |
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Emerson has created a distinct impression of General Lowell’s superb endowment of character, justifying that attitude of reverend adoration he inspired in his own immediate circle.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 220w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 630w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 70w. |
“The letters are especially valuable for their portrayal of a beautiful and dignified character, and they also give many suggestive sketches of prominent statesmen and soldiers.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 400w. |
“An admirably typical American life, worthily told in the narrative, not less worthily when the letters of its subject are left to tell the story.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 101. O. ’07. 450w. |
Engineering index annual for 1906; comp. by J. B. Johnson. *$2. Eng. Mag.
An inclusive guide to engineering literature which does away with the alphabetical arrangement of its former volumes. “In the present annual volume all items have been grouped according to eight grand divisions: Civil engineering; Electrical engineering; Industrial economy; Marine and naval engineering; Mechanical engineering; Mining and metallurgy; Railway engineering; and Street and electric railways. Each of these is subdivided into a number of heads.” (Engin. N.)
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 556. My. 16, ’07. 710w. |
English music. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–38907.
These seventeen lectures were delivered by well-known artists and musical writers at the time of the tercentenary of the existence of the “Worshipful company of musicians” during June, 1904. They illustrate the historical significance of the ancient instruments and books then on exhibition. “The lectures are brief and attractive essays; several are more than a résumé of what the historians have written, and offer some interesting points more or less novel.” (N. Y. Times.)
“We close the book with but one regret; that it possessed so kindly and lenient an editor as Mr. Crowest seems to have been. A little more severity might have turned out a work better fitted to bear the hardships of an unsympathetic world.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 281. S. 22, ’06. 1760w. |
Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.
| + | Dial. 42: 11. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“An exceptionally valuable contribution to musical literature.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 500w. |
“They are necessarily rather disjointed as musical history, but are likely to fulfill a good purpose in clearing up ideas, generally vague, which many people hold concerning ancient instruments and some of the ancient music and its composers.” Richard Aldrich.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 700w. |
Erskine, John. Actæon, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–46756.
A book of verses, songs and sonnets which show a lyric gift and true poetic feeling.
“A series of poetical exercises, wholly derivative in merit, and of slight significance.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 110w. |
“His work is more notable for form than for substance; the most vital note in it is its fine sense of the apostolic tradition in poetry, its sentiment of poetic scholarship.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 350w. |
“Mr. Erskine has written much that is good since ‘Actaeon,’ but he seems for the most part to have fallen upon a more personal and minor strain.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 500w. |
Escott, Thomas H. S. Society in the country house, *$4. Jacobs.
“In sixteen lengthy chapters Mr. Escott conducts his readers to as many groups of country houses, tracing the rise of each great family, characterizing its most interesting representatives and most famous visitors, drawing upon a store of racy anecdote and curious legend, and fully substantiating his claim that the country house has associations with the spiritual, literary, and social movements of the nation, which are even stronger than those more picturesque and popularly recognized bonds which unite it with the chase, the turf, and the stage.”—Dial.
“We prefer to take the book as a cheerful jumble of interesting side-lights on people and events, the value of which consists in its mirroring the passing phases of thought in the fashion and speech of the time. It is left to the reader to supply his own perspective, and to select the grain from the inevitable chaff of anecdote and genealogy.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 720w. |
“We hope that Mr. Escott’s future volumes of pleasant reminiscences may have the advantage of a ‘checker’ who will do the drudgery and the index, and leave the writer free to please us without calling down the cantankerous critic.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 960w. |
“Mr. Escott pursues his subject with a leisurely thoroughness that is characteristically British, but his style is crisp and nervous enough to hold the reader’s interest.”
| + | Dial. 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 410w. |
“It is so cumbersome as to make us long once again for the old days of two and three volumes. A book of gossip that cannot be held in the hands as one leans back in a chair is a publisher’s mistake. Wherever the book is opened some eminent name meets the eye, with an anecdote attached to it; and what more can be said?”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 15. Ja. 11, ’07. 280w. |
Espy, Ella Gray. What will the answer be? $1.50. Neale.
7–20705.
The question concerns the future of Jo, the child of the orphanage who has felt the influence of Miss Jane, who gave her life to charity and who has also lived in an adopted home and seen something of love and its possibilities. The reader is left to draw his own conclusions as to Jo’s decision for public service or matrimony.
Evans, Edward Payson. [Criminal prosecution and capital punishment of animals.] *$2.50. Dutton.
7–28640.
A study of the curious methods of mediaeval and modern penology relating to the prosecution and punishment of animals.
| Nation. 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 330w. |
“The author has succeeded in making an extremely readable and in a sense a learned volume, one which is a welcome addition to the curiosities of literature.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w. |
Evans, Edwin. Tchaikovsky. (Master musicians.) $1.25. Dutton.
7–10577.
The part of this work is devoted to the composer as a man is based upon the biography of the Tchaikovsky published with his letters by his brother Modest. The greater portion of the study is devoted to a critical survey of the musician and his works including an estimate of the relative values of his operas. “A valuable feature of Mr. Evans’s book is a chronological table of Tchaikovsky’s compositions.” (Nation.)
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 240w. | |
| + − | Nation. 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 250w. |
“Of the man and his work the book presents a useful summary treatment, though it rarely rises to a very high order of criticism.” Richard Aldrich.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 600w. |
Evelyn, John. [Diary of John Evelyn]; ed. with notes by Austin Dobson. 3v. *$8. Macmillan.
The bicentenary of John Evelyn’s death has served to produce some good reprints of his diary. This one edited by Mr. Dobson contains an informing biographical introduction and helpful notes. “Its long chronicle extends over an unbroken period of more than sixty years, dating from the stormy days which preceded the Commonwealth to the early time of Queen Anne. During all this age—‘an age,’ as his epitaph puts it, ‘of extraordinary events and revolutions’—Evelyn was quietly, briefly, methodically noting what seemed to him worthy of remembrance. His desire for knowledge was insatiable, his sympathies wide, and his tastes catholic.”
“Such a book as his ‘Diary,’ then, cannot be too often reprinted, nor do we know a better edition than this, skilfully edited by Mr. Austin Dobson.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 567. D. 8, ’06. 1730w. |
“The reader of the ‘Diary’ is supplied with an ample commentary as he goes along, which will be of infinite service in elucidation of biographical and historical points. Indeed, we cannot imagine the work better done.”
| + + | Ath. 1906. 2: 765. D. 15. 980w. |
“But what gives Mr. Dobson’s edition its importance is less its text than its ‘editorial equipment.’” H. W. Boynton.
| + | Dial. 41: 451. D. 16, ’06. 500w. | |
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 389. N. 23, ’06. 2200w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 852. D. 8, ’06. 1780w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.) |
“Among various editions of Evelyn none surpasses in convenience, editorial thoroughness, and beauty of form this edition, in three volumes, presented with a combination of simplicity and elegance that mark only the best book-making.”
| + + + | Outlook. 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 430w. |
“A fine edition ... for which we cannot thank Mr. Dobson too much.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 526. Ap. 27, ’07. 1790w. |
“The introduction which he has prefixed to this edition of the Diary, is an admirable summary of Evelyn’s life, and supplies as careful an appreciation of the diarist’s character and work as could be desired.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 60 Ja. 12, ’07. 300w. |
Ewald, Carl. Spider and other tales; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. †$1. Scribner.
7–15116.
“Pleasant, readable little stories about animals and plants, in which insects and flowers and birds, and even clouds and dewdrops are made to talk as if they were human beings.”—N. Y. Times.
“This little book of fables deserves to be added to the permanent library of childhood.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 240w. |
“He has a simple, naive style, which makes his work very suitable for supplementary reading on nature subjects for young children, while older people can read his stories with pleasure because of the purity and perfection of his literary method.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w. |
Ewell, Alice Maude. Long time ago; in Virginia and Maryland with a glimpse of old England. il. $1.50. Neale.
7–26957.
Nine good stories of revolutionary and colonial times told by a lady and dame of long ago.