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Fairbanks, Arthur. Mythology of Greece and Rome, presented with special reference to its influence on literature. *$1.50. Appleton.
7–6167.
The purpose of this book is “to illustrate the wide-reaching influence of Greek myths first on the Latin poets, and, mainly through the Latin poets, on later writers.” There are numerous illustrations taken from ancient works of art.
“The author is progressive, yet conservative and judicious, and has produced a useful book.”
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 716. O. ’07. 170w. | |
| Dial. 42: 117. F. 16, ’07. 80w. |
“A scholarly and complete presentation for school and college use.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w. |
“The distinct merit of the book is not that which is emphasized on the title-page; it is, rather, the fact that the ancient stories are told by a professional student of mythology who is familiar with the results of recent investigation.”
| + | Nation. 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 230w. |
Fairlie, John Archibald. Local government in counties, towns and villages. *$1.25. Century.
6–23708.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A handy and valuable compendium. The volume is, however, subject to serious criticism because of the mode or style of presentation.” F. I. Herriott.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 424. Mr. ’07. 650w. |
“He has compacted into comparatively few pages a wealth of information on his subject. Teachers and students of civil government in all parts of the country should find considerable use for the volume.” James A. Woodburn.
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 153. Mr. ’07. 610w. |
Fallow, Lance. Silverleaf and oak. $1.25. Macmillan.
The poems inspired by South Africa, the poems of the imperialistic voyager, are perhaps the best in this volume, which includes among others; The Southern cross; Spirit of hidden places, Day and night up-country, A Cape homestead, and a poem on the churchyard at Durban.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 167. S. 16, ’07. 250w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w. |
“He is apt to fall into banal cadences, and he is much under the influence of Mr. Kipling. The last verse of the poem on the churchyard at Durban seems to us to be the highest point reached by Mr. Fallow’s muse, and is no mean elevation.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 110w. |
Fanning, Clara E., comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the United States navy. *$1. Wilson, H. W.
7–29552.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 80w. |
* Fanshawe, Anne, lady. Memoirs of Ann Lady Fanshawe, wife of the Right Hon. Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., 1600–’72; reprinted from the original manuscript in the possession of Mr. Evelyn J. Fanshawe of Parsloes. il. *$5. Lane.
Of special interest as a family history rather than of value as a side light on social or political history of the time. “The most noteworthy part of the present edition is the elaborate notes, occupying far the larger part of the volume and giving full information about every thing and every person in any way alluded to by Lady Fanshawe.” (Nation.)
“The editing of memoirs is a difficult task at best, but we have no hesitation in saying that these ‘Memoirs’ have been edited as they deserve. and they deserve well.”
| + + | Acad. 73: 943. S. 28, ’07. 1680w. |
“These small blemishes count for nothing in comparison with the sterling merits of the book, which we feel confident will long maintain its place as the standard edition of the ‘Memoirs.’”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 1230w. |
“The book remains curious, delightful as far as Lady Fanshawe is concerned, elaborate and admirable so far as we can absorb her editor.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 234. Jl. 26, ’07. 1260w. |
“The book must remain a standard work of reference for students of the period.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 425. N. 7, ’07. 610w. |
“We are bound to say that most of Lady Fanshawe’s matter is dry stuff. But to all connected with the family this book, admirably printed, and illustrated ought to appeal.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w. |
“The ‘Memoirs’ can make no claim to be a work of great literary merit, but though Lady Fanshawe was not a stylist, there is a directness about her writing that saves it from being wearisome.”
| + | Spec. 99: 402. S. 21, ’07. 260w. |
Farnol, Jeffery. [My lady Caprice.] il. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–31282.
“A love idyl of the summertime. A healthy and active young boy plays a very important part in bringing together a couple of lovers in spite of a very worldly peeress.”—N. Y. Times.
“The Imp is decidedly the most ingenious and interesting person in the book.”
| + | Dial. 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“Should anyone read the book they will find it like rock candy—a thread to which sugar adheres.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 320w. |
“Gay romance.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 100w. |
Farnsworth, Charles Hubert, comp. Songs for schools; with accompaniments written by Harvey Worthington Loomis and B. D. Allen. *60c. Macmillan.
“Mr. Farnsworth has performed a much-needed service to public school music by collecting in one volume, well printed and bound and sold at a moderate price, the best of the traditional songs suitable for children’s voices. One finds here the more important national tunes, beautiful melodies of Stephen C. Foster ... fine old English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh folk songs, a few college songs, and a good selection of hymn tunes.”—Outlook.
“One of the best books of school music ever issued, and occupies a place of its own.”
| + | Nation. 84: 161. F. 14, ’07. 210w. |
“Mr. Loomis’s accompaniments show imagination and much technical skill, though in some instances one might question whether he has not elaborated his treatment more than is in keeping with the ruggedly simple nature of the melodies. On the whole, this book is a long step in advance in the literature of school music.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 766. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w. |
Farrer, James Anson. Literary forgeries; with an introd. by Andrew Lang. $2.25. Longmans.
7–26421.
With the avowed purpose of giving some idea of the large space which literary forgery occupies in the history and development of the race the author discusses forgeries of ancient books like the “Letters of Phalaris” and the “Consolatio” of Cicero, the works of C. J. Bertram, Psalmanazar, the Eikon Basiliké, Chatterton’s Rowley poems, Launder’s attempts to discredit the originality of Milton, the Shakespeareana of Ireland, and other forgeries.
“Mr. Farrer has written an excellent book on a most interesting subject. It is Mr. Farrer’s worst fault that he has included some ingenious persons in his book, who are grievously out of place. Forgery is far too strong a word, for instance, to apply to Chatterton.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 234. Mr. 9, ’07. 1540w. |
“Mr. J. A. Farrer has given us a curious and entertaining book, distinguished generally for the lucidity of its reasoning. It clearly is not intended to be a contribution to learning, since it lacks an index.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 289. Mr. 9. 630w. |
“If we are to judge the book by this grandiose purpose, it cannot be called a complete success. The reader who will decline to gauge the book by its author’s professed purpose will find it a very enjoyable ramble through an attractive by-way of literature.”
| + − | Cath. World. 85: 256. My. ’07. 470w. |
“A quaint, lively, discursive book, a sort of Newgate calendar in the sphere of letters. Mr. Lang’s artistic introduction is full of himself, and therefore delightful.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1850w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 389. Je. 15, ’07. 1380w. |
“Mr. Farrer, whom Mr. Lang introduces to the public in his best style, has written a very readable book.”
| + | Spec. 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. |
Faversham, Mrs. Julie (Opp). [Squaw man; a novel adapted from the play by Edward Milton Royle.] †$1.50. Harper.
6–45695.
The characters in this story, adapted from the play, are a degenerate head of the house of Kerhill, the mother whose whole aim in life is to preserve intact the honor and dignity of her house, Jim Wynnegate, cousin to the Earl of Kerhill, and Diana, the latter’s wife. The scenes shift from London to the plains of western America, whither Jim goes to serve out a term of self-imposed exile, having assumed his cousin’s guilt of theft to save the Kerhill honor. The dramatic element predominates in love scenes, wild-west quarrels, and in the tragedy of devotion.
“A pretty story, rapid in action, with some bright dialogue, but crudely written.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 77. Mr. ’07. |
“The story is here told with spirit, and the narrative is full of variety and interest.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 120w. |
“People who have been unable to see the play may find the book not devoid of the appeal which kept the drama on Broadway for almost an entire season.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w. |
Favorite fairy tales; the childhood choice of representative men and women, illustrated by Peter Newell. **$3. Harper.
7–34176.
An especially attractive volume of such old favorites as Cinderella, Beauty and the beast, The sleeping beauty, Jack and the bean stalk, Jack the giant killer, etc. Marginal decorations, sixteen full-page illustrations and a white fiber binding lettered in gold make the book a beautiful holiday gift.
| + | Nation. 86: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 1340w. |
“The sixteen included are certainly among the best. Mr. Newell’s illustrations are, of course, delightful.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 150w. |
Fea, Allan. Some beauties of the seventeenth century; with 82 il. **$4. Brentano’s.
Seventeen chapters, each of which is devoted to the personal history of some famous beauty or group of beauties most of whom belong to Whitehall in the days of the Restoration. “The facts about the various women—and the author has evidently been at some pains to obtain real facts to the best of his ability—are set forth in a simple narrative vein, making no injudicious pleas in defense of their actions and no superfluous attacks on the evident immorality of many characters.” (N. Y. Times.)
| + − | Nation. 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 210w. |
“Though not to be classed among strictly literary works, has the interest of a clever compilation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w. |
Fenollosa, Mary McNeil (Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa) (Sidney McCall, pseud.). [Dragon painter.] †$1.50. Little.
6–37204.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 24: 489. Ja. ’07. 760w. |
“The characters of the romance belong to screens or fans; it is the Japan of the popular imagination, and the scenes are effective in a sense, but there is nothing fine or interpretative about the writer’s touch.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 50w. |
Fernald, Chester B. John Kendry’s idea. $1.50. Outing.
7–24157.
John Kendry’s idea embodied in such sentiments as “one’s aim should be to live as a conscious part of the whole continuous performance,” and “the one thing true of all life in motion, and the prime instinct of a live man is to go somewhere and do something” is best fostered in the wild free mountain-side surroundings which form much of this story’s setting. At times his idea is submerged in the deadly atmosphere of Chinatown. The pendulum swings between these two environments. On the heights he knows the companionship of a finely-wrought woman, at the foot of the mountain he confronts conventionality, inanities, nay more, plot and villainy.
“It is a story of many startling surprises; in fact, there is an ambush upon nearly every page; that anything like it ever happened, or could happen, we greatly doubt, but that does not prevent its being a highly readable melodrama with a style that comes near to exhibiting distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 310w. |
“This is a lively novel of adventure without any of the sacrifices usually considered necessary in stories of this type. Also his characters, if a trifle heavily emphasized at times, still talk and behave as real human beings might conceivably comport themselves under such startling circumstances.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w. | |
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 510w. |
“His new book has some new interesting glimpses of Chinatown in San Francisco but it is too involved in plot and too improbable in incident to be altogether satisfying.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 50w. |
Ferrero, Guglielmo. Greatness and decline of Rome; tr. by Alfred E. Zimmern. 2v. *$5.25. Putnam.
7–25134.
Two volumes which contain “a history of the age of Caesar, from the death of Sulla to the Ides of March.” “To the author of these volumes history is drama, with its characters, its passions, its plot and its setting—above all with its exquisite irony, the analytical foreknowledge of a Greek tragedy-chorus of which he is the leader. Roman history is no longer a weary catalogue of wars and laws, of risings and assassinations, sprinkled with names which by their very schoolday familiarity have become meaningless. Still less is it the blind hero-worship of a single personality to whom is ascribed a purpose and ambition beyond all human likelihood.” (Acad.)
“Signor Ferrero is a looker-on at this game of cross-purposes, who can use the eyes of his mind. He overlooks all the hands at once, and his book is the result of his observation, not of the platitudes of result, but of the human elements of process. In reading this book of his, we must feel that it is not the game that matters, but the players. If he completes his scheme as worthily as he has begun it, he will have written a more living, a more actual, history of Rome than any we have encountered up to now, and we can only hope for him and for ourselves that the task of translation may remain in Mr. Zimmern’s hands.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 479. My. 18, ’07. 1350w. |
“A fresh and vigorous treatment of a great subject, with a new handling of the evidence, which is not indeed increased, but estimated afresh. The whole book, though on a trite subject, is very stimulating even in its vagaries.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 720. Je. 15. 1240w. |
“Signor Ferrero is no safe guide in matters where sober historical criticism is needed. It must be added that in its English dress his work has many blemishes for which we must hold the translator responsible.” H. Stuart Jones.
| − + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 763. O. ’07. 1220w. |
“The chief defect of the book is the inclination to disparage the deeds of Cæsar.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 998. O. 24, ’07. 830w. |
“The reader ... cannot help being struck by the force with which Signor Ferrero puts his argument, and the admirable way in which he supports it from authorities. Other merits in the work can only be named, the insight into the social life and psychology of the Roman people, the full justice done to Lucullus and Cicero, and the excellent appendices. Mr. Zimmern has done his work most admirably, and has succeeded in reproducing, in a great measure, the vivacity of the original.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 1940w. |
“His work is generously planned; it rests upon a familiarity with the ancient sources of information. It has literary quality and at times brilliancy.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 305. O. 3, ’07. 6000w. |
“Dr. Ferrero argues his points with learning, ability, and entire familiarity with his facts. His thoughtful work is an important contribution to the literature of Roman history, and not less so because it is by an old Italian and based extensively upon the results of Italian scholarship.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 415. Je. 29, ’07. 940w. |
“However familiar with Roman history one may be, he will find an attractive freshness throughout these volumes.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 470w. |
“One of the most noteworthy works of classical analytical history of recent years.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 636. N. ’07. 110w. |
“The work of Signor Ferrero, to-day the foremost of Italian historians, is in a large measure justified. For he has something to say, though it is often hard to dig it out. He belongs to the newer school of historians, who trace not the conscious purpose of the hero, but the inevitable march of circumstances and tendencies.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 718. Je. 8, ’07. 1590w. |
Fiala, Anthony. Fighting the polar ice. **$3.80. Doubleday.
6–44309.
In recording a two years’ fight with polar opposition north of the 81st parallel there are bound to be sensationally dramatic adventures. “It is a record of disaster and defeat. The expedition which was sent out by William H. Ziegler in 1903 to reach the pole from a land base in Franz Josef Land, lost its ship, made three attempts to cross the polar pack by sledge, none of which lasted more than two or three days, and returned home. The main achievements of the expedition were a reconnoissance by Mr. Porter in Zichy Land, and a series of meteorological observations conducted by Sergeant Long.” (Bookm.)
“Although it does not contribute materially to the fund of Arctic knowledge, nor offer much in the way of adventure, it will be found popular with readers of exploration.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 41. F. ’07. |
“Defects notwithstanding, the volume is a valuable record of a singularly luckless expedition.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 1050w. |
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
| + | Atlan. 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 60w. |
“The passages in the narrative which are likely to inspire popular interest are the leader’s description of a fall into a crevasse and Mr. Porter’s lively account of a tough sledge-journey.” Albert White Vorse.
| + | Bookm. 24: 480. Ja. ’07. 1190w. |
“Is doubtless the most interesting story of polar exploration yet written in this country.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | Dial. 42: 185. Mr. 16, ’07. 1500w. | |
| Ind. 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w. | ||
| + | Ind. 62: 1149. My. 16, ’07. 420w. |
“This is the most elaborate and richly illustrated record of polar explorations since Nansen’s books.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 310w. |
“Mr. Fiala’s volume is admirably illustrated and his maps are clear and fairly accurate; but he is too much oppressed with his troubles and with a strong sense of his responsibilities to be an entertaining writer.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w. |
“Mr. Fiala’s book, while not contributing materially to the fund of Arctic knowledge, and while not supplying much in the way of adventure, may yet be found enjoyable by those who find in Arctic literature perennial charm. The proof revision is not perfect.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 44. Ja. 10, ’07. 780w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 160w. |
“The volume is well-written. The glow of imagination is diffused through the narrative and the facts worth telling are well told. Few descriptions of arctic work, conditions, and experience have been more permeated with readable quality. Some of these experiences are of the first order of interest.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 25. Ja. 19, ’07. 1890w. |
“Although unsuccessful in his quest of the Pole, the brilliant young leader of this expedition is to be congratulated on his distinct addition to the general fund of knowledge concerning the Arctic regions.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 120w. |
“We cannot approve of some of the word pictures. They are obviously not scientific.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w. |
Ficke, Arthur Davison. Happy princess and other poems. †$1. Small.
7–14629.
The title poem which is a poetical romance occupies the first part of this volume, it is followed by seven poems upon Fancy in the later days, The return to Avon, To sleep and other subjects. Fifteen poems grouped under the head of Pilgrim verses, and evidently inspired by Oriental wanderings complete the contents.
“Mr. Ficke has to learn what to leave out, and to recognize that even in poetic style the happy phrase is that which flies like an arrow to the goal, not that which plays about the mark like a garden-hose, however charming the rainbow tints that sparkle in its spray.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w. |
“The title poem, written from a mind saturated with Tennyson, Browning, and Keats, contains many good lines and some fine images and premises better things to some in spite of such rhymes as ‘dawn’ and ‘on,’ and ‘love’ and ‘of.’”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 190w. |
“There is an engaging wistfulness about it and often a rare sense of beauty. The verse does not in all cases show fulfillment, but promise always.” Christian Gauss.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w. |
Fidler, Henry. Notes on construction in mild steel; arr. for the use of junior draughtsmen in the architectural and engineering professions; with il. from working drawings, diagrams, and tables. (Longmans’ civil engineering ser.) *$5. Longmans.
7–26472.
A book for the junior draughtsman which is intended to aid him in “bridging the gap between the stress sheet and a working drawing that shall successfully pass the ordeal of criticism in the shops during construction and in the field during the erection of the structure. His plan definitely excludes any computations arising out of the application of mechanics to design, although hints are occasionally given as to theoretic considerations.” (Engin. N.)
“While many useful hints are given to the designer regarding various details as influenced by practical conditions, some are very general and indefinite in character. The range of illustrative examples seems to be too narrow to accomplish the author’s purpose. A comparative discussion of different details used for similar structures would materially enhance its value to the young designer or draftsman. In this respect the latter part of the chapter on columns is decidedly the most valuable.” Henry S. Jacoby.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 305. Mr. 14, ’07. 730w. |
Field, Walter Taylor. Fingerposts to children’s reading. **$1. McClurg.
7–11993.
These essays aim to interest parents, teachers, librarians, Sunday-school workers and all who are concerned with the education of children. The problem met is that of introducing a child to eminent writers through their simpler works.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 120. My. ’07. S. |
“One criticism of a general nature: the child in the author’s mind’s eye would seem to be rather precocious or priggish or both.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 280w. |
“Is admirably planned to awaken parents to the crying need of the best books in the home, and to give practical guidance in their selection.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 140. My. 25, ’07. 150w. |
“An unusually useful book for parents who have children just beginning their education.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 60w. |
Findlater, Jane Helen. Ladder to the stars. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–32359.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w. |
“She knows her story well, and she knows her people, and draws the vulgar, convention-ridden, lower middle class with their dull and sordid lives, made up so exclusively of raiment and food, with a certain truthful if incisive cruelty.”
| + | Ind. 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 200w. |
Finn, Frank. Ornithological and other oddities. **$5. Lane.
“A collection of thirty-eight short articles, which have appeared in various English publications. All but six deal with birds, and some of the subjects are of unusual interest.” (Nation.) “The author’s aim has been to bring together all the out-of-the-way facts about the creatures he writes about, and his choice of instances has been a very happy one. The chapter on the ‘Toilet of birds’ may serve as a sample. Herein he discusses the uses of the birds’ oil-gland, or as he calls it, ‘pomatum-pot,’ and the still more curious ‘powder-puff’ and ‘comb.’” (Acad.)
“There is not a dull line in the whole volume, while the illustrations are remarkably good.”
| + | Acad. 72: 508. My. 25, ’07. 410w. |
“Few of the separate sketches, touching as they do merely the fringe of the subject under discussion, run any risk of exhausting either it or the reader. Being drawn mainly from the aviculturist’s point of view rather than from that of the field naturalist, they should appeal specially to frequenters of zoological gardens and museums.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 580. My. 11. 900w. |
“The width of his knowledge gives some of his essays unusual distinction.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 380w. |
“The most valuable portion is that dealing with the birds of India, a country where Mr. Finn has spent many years.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 356. O. 17, ’07. 310w. |
“Despite its title, which we cannot regard as other than cheap, Mr. Finn’s book is not to be passed over by anyone interested in observation and fond of birds. Distinguished by a note of individuality in the observations that are recorded and the speculations they give rise to.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 20. Jl. 6, ’07. 580w. |
“It is to be wished that Mr. Finn would embody in fuller and more connected form the observations and experience which this book communicates in a series of more or less closely related reminiscences.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 457. O. 5, ’07. 1560w. |
Finnemore, John. [Jack Haydon’s quest.] †$1.50. Lippincott.
A blood curdling tale “about a mining engineer, an expert on rubies, who, with a magnificent ruby in his pocket, was on his way home from India when he suddenly dropped out of sight in Brindisi. Thereupon his son and two adventurous friends, believing him to have been kidnapped and carried back ... to a remote part of India by a wicked native ... started out to rescue him. And if there is any sort of danger, by wind, or waves, or wild beasts, or wicked men, through which they did not wade up to their chins, it is merely because there was not room in the book’s 300 pages for another incident.”—N. Y. Times.
“Experiences in Burma, which Mr. Finnemore recounts with skill.”
| + | Acad. 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 20w. |
“Barring a marked tendency to verbosity, it is a well-told tale.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 210w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 102: sup. 7. D. 8, ’06. 120w. |
Finot, Jean. Race prejudice, tr. by Florence Wade-Evans. $3. Dutton.
7–13005.
“M. Finot argues for national peace and fraternity and endeavors to find argument and reason for universal brotherhood in the underlying principles and traits of our common humanity.”—R. of Rs.
“For larger libraries only.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 163. O. ’07. |
“The general thesis of the writer is sound. Some of the individual illustrations and bits of evidence are probably overdrawn or not understood. His discussion of the situation of the negro in the United States is scarcely fair.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 155. Jl. ’07. 320w. |
“On the whole M. Finot’s work reads smoothly in its English version. His employment of the destructive method to wreck the conclusions of anthropologists must be pronounced more entertaining than convincing.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 770. D. 15. 220w. |
“The net impression of the volume is that of an able but somewhat too zealous special pleading for a cause that certainly makes a philanthropic appeal.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 310w. |
“The book is from first to last uncritical; there is no careful weighing or discrimination of authorities.”
| − | Lond. Times. 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 910w. |
“M. Finot’s volume, while it does not escape the exaggeration natural to an enthusiastic advocate, contains much matter that is of interest to students of international relations and racial history.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 592. Je. 27, ’07. 910w. |
“We observe a few instances of the entire misapprehension of things in this country. The only ground for adverse criticism [of the translation] is in the fact that in some cases French words are retained for which there are fairly adequate equivalents in English. The work is one which urgently demands an index, the absence of which is much to be regretted.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 750w. |
“Upon some questions of fact, with which the writer of this paragraph is familiar, the author has certainly failed to tell the whole truth with impartiality. While recognizing these drawbacks, we commend this book to the thoughtful consideration of all students of the race problem. It is far from furnishing a solution of that problem, but it throws no inconsiderable amount of light upon it.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 452. O. 26, ’07. 840w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 140w. |
Fischer, George Alexander. This labyrinthine life: a tale of the Arizona desert. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–11590.
The aim of this book which portrays the struggles of a tuberculosis colony in Arizona is to present camp-life as it is, so that the invalid can judge as to whether he is in a position to undertake it; to show to the humanitarian and the sociologist that really great results in saving life and in relieving suffering can be achieved by a very moderate outlay; to indicate that it is the duty of the United States government to take the subject in hand following private initiative.
| Lit. D. 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w. |
“Although any effort to arouse interest in the care of consumption is entitled to respect, when a treatise of this kind masquerades as fiction, it is as fiction that it must be judged. From this point of view ‘This labyrinthine life’ lacks the vitality of the dime novel without greatly surpassing it in probability or workmanship.”
| − | Nation. 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 450w. |
“Mr. Fischer has managed to make out of his material a readable tale that is half novel, half a series of sketches, and wholly a disquisition upon consumption and its treatment in the desert region.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 140w. |
Fisher, Clarence Stanley. Excavations at Nippur. (Babylonian expedition of the Univ. of Penn.) 6 pts. ea. pt. $2. C. S. Fisher, Rutledge, Delaware co., Pa.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 446. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
Fisher, George Park. The reformation. Rev. ed. *$2.50. Scribner.
6–11660.
“The book has been reset in clearer type; the notes and the excellent bibliography show keen interest in the publications of the past ten years; tho it must be confessed that the literature of the previous twenty find a scantier recognition. The text shows many minor changes, but as the title-page states, it is simply a revision.”—Ind.
“[The opinion of the reader of it] will necessarily be favorable, for it has long held a high place, in spite of a certain timidity in dealing with controverted points, an apologetic tone, which might suggest, though erroneously, that the convictions of the author are wavering and weak.” Franklin Johnson.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 160w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 1470. Je. 20. ’07. 100w. |
Fisher, Gertrude Adams. Woman alone in the heart of Japan. $2.50. Page.
6–39433.
The author with only her camera for company ventured into the remotest corners of Japan and tells in an entertaining fashion of her experiences in the smaller villages and towns where western civilization has not yet penetrated.
“We can only conclude that the authoress was employed by a yellow editor to paint the boldest of yellow races in her lividest colours. Her pages are lively, graphic, good-tempered—but never beautiful.”
| − | Acad. 73: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w. | |
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 180. Ag. 17. 340w. |
“Her book is more frank and outspoken than the books of most men regarding this much visited land, and impressions may be obtained from it that are hardly to be gained from any other recent work.” Wallace Rice.
| + | Dial. 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 120w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 170w. | |
| Spec. 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 50w. |
Fisher, Irving. Nature of capital and income. *$3. Macmillan.
6–32431.
“In five divisions Prof. Fisher treats of the fundamental concepts of capital and income, capital and income separately, then together, and, finally, there are summaries of the different divisions in the last two chapters. Like other books on the subject, such topics as wealth, property, utility, earnings, etc., are dealt with.”—N. Y. Times.
“It must be said that while Professor Fisher presents his arguments in defense of his conceptions of capital and income with force as well as with confidence, it is doubtful whether they will carry conviction to any mind not already prejudiced in their favor.” Henry R. Seager.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 175. Jl. ’07. 2350w. |
“Of little interest to the average citizen. We believe this work of Professor Fisher’s will tend only to add to the general confusion in political science.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| − − | Arena. 36: 685. D. ’06. 260w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 390w. |
“In point of thorough workmanship and nice finish, the volume stands in refreshing contrast to much—we had almost said most—of the economic writing in these days of unlimited license to produce undigested and undigestible literature. So workmanlike is his performance that it is with regret that we are unable to rate the work more highly as a contribution to economic theory. Highest praise should be given to the author’s discussion of capital and income accounts and of capital and income summation.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 950w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 653. O. 6, ’06. 280w. |
“The ‘dreary science’ has seldom received a breezier contribution, or one of more original treatment.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 235. Ap. 13, ’07. 1370w. |
“Has not only a scientific interest for the theoretical student of economics, but also a human and vital interest for the accountant and the business man.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 390w. |
* Fisk, George Mygatt. International commercial policies, with special reference to the United States: a text book. (Citizen’s lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
A thorogoing hand-book which provides in a form available for students of economics and general readers a systematic treatment of the politics of international commerce. The author discusses the development of modern commercial politics, including free trade, protection, customs in all their phases, commercial treaties, public trade promoting institutions and navigation politics.
Fisk, May Isabel. Talking woman. Il. †$1.25. Harper.
7–20962.
Quite as tho he had in reality met this procession of chatterers and been “talked to death” does the reader lay down Mrs. Fisk’s book of monologues. It isn’t the woman with the forgivable little foible, but the voluble one who parades her own selfish interests to the exclusion of all others. The invalid, At the theatre, The new baby, A woman inquiring about trains, An afternoon call, The boardinghouse keeper and Her first trip abroad are suggestive of humorous as well as true-to-life possibilities for hits.
“Amusing but trivial.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 20w. |
Fitch, Michael Hendrick. Physical basis of mind and morals. $1. Kerr.
6–38885.
“A primer of socialism ... which makes an effective appeal to untrained thinkers, and for that reason deserves consideration by every one interested in exerting counter influence.”—Am. J. Soc.
“On the whole, it must be said that, though the book abounds with sensible remarks and just criticisms of present social conditions, it is an example of that pseudo-science which has brought disrepute upon the social sciences among men of scientific training; and that the less of such books with scientific pretensions we have published, the better it will be for the social sciences.” A. W. S.
| − + | Am. J. Soc. 12: 565. Ja. ’07. 200w. |
Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.
| Int. J. Ethics. 17: 264. Ja. ’07. 90w. |
Fitch, William Clyde. Her own way: a play in four acts. **75c. Macmillan.
7–17031.
The clever four act comedy which Maxine Elliott made famous is now brought out in book form, dedicated to the actress who created Georgiana Carley and endeared her wilful personality to all who watched her romping with her brother’s children, or successfully directing her own love affairs despite the intervention of fate and family.
Fitch, (William) Clyde. The truth; a play in four acts. **75c. Macmillan.
7–21331.
Becky Warder, in whom has been born and bred the habit of petty falsehood, learns in the course of these four acts to speak the truth. She fibs to her husband, whom she adores, about hats, about her gambler father’s needs, and finally about her meetings with Jack Lindon, the man from whom her best friend has separated. The net of white lies closes about her, her much enduring husband ceases to believe in her, and in her trouble she comes to realize the truth is essential to happiness.
“A good play to ‘read ’round’ in a literary club.”
| + | Ind. 63. 700. S. 19, ’07. 60w. |
* Fitzpatrick, Sir James Percy. [Jock of the Bushveld.] **$1.60. Longmans.
The story of a brindled bull-terrier’s life and death, in which the development of dog-intelligence goes hand in hand with realistic dogfights and terrifying brutality. Many passages show the distinction between a real love of nature and a mere sportman’s interest in game. “Among the more exciting episodes are the killing of the ‘old crocodile’, the adventure with the leopard and the baboons, and that of the koodoo cow, in which Jock received the kick that nearly killed him, and left him stone-deaf for the rest of his days.” (Ath.)
“The narrative has all the freshness and charm of a transcript of real life. Though it is strong meat for the little ones, boys of a larger growth and adults will find it difficult to lay the book aside till the last page has been reached.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 460w. |
“To children it can be whole-heartedly recommended. By that select audience of older people who have been long waiting for a South African classic it will be welcomed with surprise and delight.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 322. O. 25, ’07. 1080w. |
“Here is one of the really worth while books, one of the books which have the truth of life and nature in them.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 190w. |
Fleming, Walter Lynwood. Documentary history of reconstruction, political, military, social, educational, and industrial, 1865 to the present time. 2v. $10. Clark, A. H.
6–39739.
v. 1. The first of two volumes whose purpose is to make some of the sources relating to the political, military, social, religious, educational, and industrial history of the reconstruction period more easily accessible to the student and the general reader. “The six chapters of this first volume deal with the South after the war, theories of reconstruction, reconstruction by the president, race and labor problems, the Freedman’s bureau and bank, and Congressional reconstruction. It covers the years 1865–1868. Every chapter has a brief historical introduction, a topical bibliography and a collection of extracts grouped in analytical array.” (Ind.)
v. 2. The second volume of this documentary history “gives ample material to illuminate actual conditions under the Reconstruction governments, with special reference to race relations, political morality, and economic, educational, and religious matters during the carpet-bag régime, and the final undoing of Reconstruction.”—Dial.
“The work has the limitations which are inseparable from all source-books of limited size, but it also has what many source books have not, namely, interest.” J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The material throughout is interesting and valuable.” J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 166. O. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Little can be said in the way of criticism upon the text of the book.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The verdict is that Dr. Fleming has produced a very fair and candid work which will be of great help to all who wish to get a first hand idea of the great and enduring problems arising out of the civil war and subsequent conditions.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 156. Jl. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“On the whole, the work is very creditable to both publisher and editor. However, one can regret that there were not a few more editor’s notes. In several cases, these were really necessary to throw light on the documents used.” David Y. Thomas.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 10. Ja. 1, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“To any one who wishes to make a thorough study of reconstruction, these volumes will be invaluable.”
| + | Dial. 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Professor Fleming’s collection will be invaluable to him when he comes to write his own great history of reconstruction. It can never be of fundamental value to another scholar.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 96. Ja. 10, ’07. 690w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“As a massing together of illustrative material for future historical work it is of extreme value.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| Ind. 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Like so many others, he succeeds better as a delver for historical material than as a writer of history. Not unlikely, his true vocation is to such work as went to the making of these volumes.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The most serious defect, as it seems to me, appears in the author’s readiness to accept current popular account of certain important facts without that thorough investigation of them, which he might have given.” Guy Stevens Callendar.
| + + − | Yale R. 16: 205. Ag. ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
Fletcher, Charles R. L. Introductory history of England, v. 2, From Henry VII. to the restoration. *$2. Dutton.
A history for boys. “With remarkable skill Mr. Fletcher contrives to illustrate with the minimum of dry material those clear and balanced generalizations which form the main value of history as a school study. Problems and situations are summed up with the necessary concentration which the older text-books lacked, yet for the most part with scholarly precision.” (Acad.)
“In spite of these unconventional views, on the whole Mr. Fletcher’s book is a valuable addition to our school literature, it is the outcome of the new historical school and puts the different personages before us in a way not to be found in any other school history.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 940w. |
“The only blot on his book is the colloquialism, not to say the ‘slang,’ which mars many passages.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 490w. |
“To Mr. Goldwin Smith alone, in his history of England, can we compare Mr. Fletcher for his gift of luminous succinctness. He has also the invaluable power of keeping the thread—the artist’s eye for what is salient. He gives us the bones that we ask for, but he does not forget to clothe them with life.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 256. Ag. 23, ’07. 1990w. |
“Mr. Fletcher’s work has but two defects. He hates therefore to waste words, but he must sedulously avoid the temptation to make use of allusive compression. In the next place, there exists a possibility that our author may fail, as most of us do, to see exactly where his own strength lies.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 210. S. 5, ’07. 1680w. |
“The book is full of independent yet well-reasoned and generally reasonable opinion, and is illuminated by many excellent phrases.”
| + + − | Spec. 98: 902. Je. 8, ’07. 1850w. |
Fletcher, Stevenson W. Soils, how to handle and improve them. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.
7–6647.
The author says, “This book is an attempt to set forth the important facts about the soil in a plain and untechnical manner. It is not a contribution to agricultural science, but an interpretation of it.” A popular treatment dealing with the nature and management of soils, soil water, soil builders, benefits of tillage, objects and methods of plowing, harrowing and cultivating, rolling, planking, hoeing, drainage, irrigation, fertilizers, etc.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 96. Ap. ’07. |
“It is to be regretted, however, that the author has in many cases sacrificed accuracy to happiness of statement; that in the avoidance of technical terms and the use of everyday ones, he has not always succeeded in choosing such as were truly synonymous. Had his manuscripts been overhauled at certain points by a chemist, and at others by a biologist, it would have been the better.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w. |
“A simple, direct, and comprehensive statement, serviceable for class use, but offered mainly for the better instruction of the vast American multitude of men, engaged in different branches of farming.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w. |
“It is not altogether with equanimity that we view the recent habit of publishers to push American text-books of agriculture in this country. This preliminary grumble over, we can honestly recommend Professor Fletcher’s book as containing a well-reasoned practical account of the nature and benefit of such operations as ploughing, subsoiling, and cultivating.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 85. Jl. 20, ’07. 500w. |
“A book which, by reason of its excellent illustrations as well as its facts is a useful addition to current agricultural literature.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 294. Ag. 31, ’07. 1860w. |
Fling, Fred Morrow. Source book of Greek history. *$1. Heath.
7–15133.
The author has aimed “to make a collection of sources that would reflect the life and thought of the Greek people, and, to some degree the evolution of that life and thought.” The extracts from Greek literature and the full page photographs of objects of Greek art chosen will be of use to the teacher as a means of introducing the pupil to Greek literature and art, and will also prove valuable as illustrative material when supplemented by narrative history.
“Altogether, it is a work of a helpful and needed sort, particularly well edited.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 60w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 232. S. 12, ’07. 450w. |
Flint, Robert. Socialism. **$2. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a keen, scholarly, comprehensive work, and presents arguments which no socialist can afford to pass by unchallenged. It contains however, one rather serious fault as a present-day document: more than half of it was written fifteen years ago, when the conservative socialists were less important in their class than they now are.” Eunice Follansbee.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 370w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w. |
Fogazzaro, Antonio. [Patriot]; tr. from the Italian with an introd. by M. Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–444.
“The patriot” is a “vivid portrayal of social life in Italy in 1848, the year of the tidal wave of revolution. This was the period when Italian patriotism burned fiercest, the period when the idea of a united Italy was born in the national consciousness. It is the epoch of his country’s martyrdom which the novelist describes in these throbbing pages—the ten years of ‘deadly, cold, and awful silence stretching from the disastrous field of Novara to the glorious days of Magenta, Solferino, and San Martino (1849–59).’”—Lit. D.
“The translation is excellent.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 78. Mr. ’07. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 673. Mr. 21. ’07. 120w. |
“It is the epoch of storm and stress when the iron hand of Austria prest most heavily upon Italian aspirations. It is no figure of speech to say that Fogazzaro’s characters are real. They are reality itself, palpitating with life, and are perfect types of that Italian patriotism which in our time founded a great nation.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 220w. |
“The translation is admirably vigorous and idiomatic, a true conveyance, one surmises, of a forthright and undecorated original.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 60. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w. |
“The movement of the story is uneven, but the foreigner will hardly perceive that this unevenness is due to reality, but will deem it an artistic blemish.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 43. Ja. 26, ’07. 670w. |
“As to the English edition of the ‘Antico,’ though the vigorous translation may tally with the dictionary, it does not always preserve the novelist’s originality of expression and atmosphere.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 460w. |
“The story [is] rather diffuse and ill-balanced, however affecting.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 35: 764. Je. ’07. 120w. |
Fogazzaro, Antonio. [The saint] (Il santo): authorized tr.; with introd. by W. R. Thayer. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–30924.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is of course the most important religious novel of the year, though, to be frank, it is less a novel than a protest. Purely as fiction it lags far behind his earlier work.” Mary Moss.
| + + − | Atlan. 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 310w. |
“‘The saint’ stirs up in the heart so much that is worthy and generous that one is apt to look leniently upon its technical shortcomings.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 35: 121. Ja. ’07. 230w. |
Fogazzaro, Antonio. The sinner, tr. from the Italian by M. Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–18183.
The soul of Piero Maironi, the sinner, is rent thruout these pages by the conflict within him of sensuality and asceticism. His young wife is living, but in an asylum hopelessly insane. He strives to be true to her memory but is beset by temptations of the flesh until in his spiritual struggle he develops a religious mania which leads him to give his wealth to the poor and devote his life to God. His sufferings are thrown upon a background of the Italian, political, social and religious life of today.
“It must be acknowledged that Miss Prichard-Agnetti’s task has been a hard one, and she has acquitted herself, if not as well as possible, at least very fairly. The author’s masterly faculty of delineating character is displayed in the studies, not only of the important personages of his story, but of household dependants and all the many minor characters of the book.”
| + | Acad. 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 890w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 177. O. ’07. |
“Allowing for the inevitable loss that must result thru even a good translation from the delicate, impassioned Italian into the sterner, less flexible English, Fogazzaro’s novel is still a masterpiece.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 300w. |
“The title is rather misleading, since the author has apparently intended to represent not so much the moral life of an individual as the working forces distinctive of a period.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 121. Ag. 8, ’07. 470w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 351. Je. 1, ’07. 970w. |
“As far as general interest as opposed to Italian interest in concerned, ‘The sinner’ far surpasses its predecessor, ‘The patriot’—‘Piccolo Mondo Antico.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 230w. |
“A work of art both high and clean. It is the first half of a two-volume novel, a work of power, which needs to be read entire.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 609. Jl. 20, ’07. 360w. |
“The work is veritably great.” Vernon Atwood.
| + + + | Putnam’s. 2: 620. Ag. ’07. 490w. |
Fogazzaro, Antonio. Woman; translated from the Italian by F. Thorold Dickson. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–32327.
The action of this novel, filled with a strange mixture of spiritual discernment, theories of reincarnation, and the idea of the vendetta, takes place at a castle hermitage owned by the count Caesar d’Ormengo. There falls to the count the care of a beautiful niece Mariana, morbid in fancies and self-analysis. She learns from a secret compartment in her escritoire that she is the reincarnation of an ancestor who went mad in those very walls because of inhuman treatment, and who commands that the one whose eyes shall fall upon the memorandum of her agony find the way for revenge. Involved in the scheme of vendetta are the count, Corrodo Silla, a young secretary whose life is linked to Mariana’s as the reincarnated lover, a German secretary and his daughter. The story waxes horrible as Mariana executes her mission of vengeance: she causes the death of the count, kills Silla and drowns herself. But through all is inexorable fate, to which, not conscious of her own power to baffle it, she yields.
“In bare outline the story would appear merely a morbid tragedy. It is the treatment of Fogoazzaro that redeems and gives to it distinction.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 338. Ap. 6, ’07. 1400w. |
“An experiment in mystic melodrama which is only saved at times from sinking to the level of pure sensationalism by the author’s fine delineation of certain personages.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 502. Ap. 27. 370w. |
“The translation is in excellent, idiomatic English.”
| + | Nation. 84: 545. Je. 13, ’07. 90w. |
“The translation by Mr. F. Thorold Dickson is unusually good; but ‘The woman’ will hardly have the popularity of ‘The saint,’ even at this second attempt.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w. |
Follows, George Herbert. Universal dictionary of mechanical drawing. *$1. Eng. news.
6–42948.
“Mr. Follows bases his dictionary on the fundamental proposition that ‘Mechanical drawing is a language,’ with analogies to the English language, ‘for the positive conveying of exact information,’ and he defines its alphabet or lines, its words or views, and its books, or complete drawings. Numerous good examples are given of the uses and customs of the language (to continue the analogy) which are shown in 22 full page reproductions of standard drawings.”—Engin. N.
“Taken as a whole the book is a distinct step towards standardizing the usages and practice of mechanical drawing.” George O. Oriok.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 88. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w. |
Foolish almanak for anuther year. 75c. Luce, J: W.
6–43522.
This almanac is “the furst cinc the introdukshun ov the muk-rake in magazeen gardning, and the speling reform ov our languig by Theodor Rosyfelt.”
“Shows no falling off from the excellent standard of foolishness set by its predecessor last year.”
| + | Dial. 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 50w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 130w. | ||
| + − | Outlook. 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 40w. |
Foord, J. Decorative plant and flower studies for the use of artists, designers, students, and others, containing 40 col. plates; with prefatory note by Lewis F. Day. *$12. Scribner.
Miss Foord’s “second series of full plates and analytical details, showing the pictorial elements in forty plants. The whole plant, the striking features of the branches, the details of inflorescence, the structure of the bud and flowers, and so on, are presented faithfully.” (Nation.) “Each subject is illustrated by a full-page coloured plate and numerous drawings of details in black and white, the former reproduced by a French stencil process as was the case with the first series.” (Int. Studio.)
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 704. Je. 8. 350w. |
“Though intended primarily for artists and designers, the beauty of the plates makes the volume one to be enjoyed for its aesthetic quality alone.”
| + | Dial. 42: 229. Ap. 1, ’07. 320w. |
“We may say at once that excellent as were her first series of drawings, those now published show a distinct improvement.”
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 380w. |
“The volume can be heartily commended to designers as a safe reference-book, and probably students, likewise, can get good out of it; but just how flower-artists themselves are to be helped by it is another matter. No book ought to stand between an artist and the plants he sees.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 490w. |
Forbush, William Byron. Boy’s life of Christ. Teachers’ ed. $1.25. Funk.
To the original edition of this life of Christ have been added notes, an index, and a section devoted to a series of suggestions and questions bearing on the text. It makes a complete text book for the teacher’s use.
Forbush, William Byron. Ecclesiastes in the metre of Omar, with an introductory essay on Ecclesiastes and the Rubaiyat. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–28480.
“It is not so much a consecutive rendering of the words of Koheleth as an imaginative construction of the Rubáiyat he might have written, made by a very eclectic assembling of words, phrases, and images from the Scripture, woven to a single texture and skillfully colored and cadenced to resemble the manner of FitzGerald.”—Nation.
“The metrical version of Ecclesiastes is a piece of clever work, and furnishes many touches of genuine poetic insight.”
| + | Bib. World. 28: 432. D. ’06. 60w. |
“It is adapted rather to those of sufficient literary training to read a book by its feeling and atmosphere, as one listens to music.” George F. Genung.
| + | Bib. World. 29: 477. Je. ’07. 650w. |
“But forbearance ceases to be a virtue when called upon to applaud the forcing of any other piece of literature into the justly famed form of Omar’s quatrain.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 200w. | |
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 68. Mr. 1. ’07. 210w. |
“Despite some roughness, a successful bit of work—in its sympathetic insight as well as in its technical ability.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 290w. |
“Our one complaint is that many of the phrases in the original are in themselves poetry of so pure a quality that any other version seems odd and irreverent.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 120w. |
Ford, James L. Wooing of Folly. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–34804.
“Folly is the daughter of a miner, who, having ‘struck it rich,’ comes to New York with the money and the ambition to ‘move’ among the Four Hundred. It is not a pleasant story, altho the heroine escapes into the arms of the right man. The purpose of the book is to expose the methods by which social sharks of New York live at the expense of their victims.”—Ind.
“He writes well and venomously.”
| + − | Ind. 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 180w. |
“The book is neatly named, and the slight plot is well handled, but the whole would have gained in general interest as well as humor had it been based on a more sympathetic observation.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 180w. |
Ford, Jeremiah D. M., and Ford, Mary A., eds. Romances of chivalry in Italian verse: selections with introduction and notes. *$2. Holt.
6–23070.
“From these specimens one can trace (1) the development of the romantic epic as a literary genre; (2) the growth of the Orlando story; (3) the characteristic qualities of Pulci, Boiardo, Berni, Ariosto and Tasso. There are also fragments of the early ‘Orlando’ and of the ‘Libro volgar.’”—Nation.
“The selections have been made with excellent judgment.”
| + | Nation. 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 220w. |
“Have well realized their aim to furnish appropriate reading material relating to this period.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 140w. |
Ford, Sewell. Truegate of Mogador, and other Cedarton folks. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–35042.
Twelve amusing tales including besides the title-story; Of such as spin not, The king gander of sea-dog shoal, Captain’s folly, Across a picket fence, “Shiner” Liddel’s revel, The impressing of Looney Fipps, Seed to the sower, Julius, The romance of Windy Bill, The ride for his life, and Through the Needle’s eye. There are eight illustrations.
“Vary greatly as to subject and value, but all are written with humor and occasional pathos.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 16. Ja. ’07. |
“Mr. Ford produces his artistic effects and wins the reader’s interest more by his portrayal of character, which is all done in sharp, vigorous outlines, and by his swift, vivid touch in setting forth backgrounds and surroundings than by the stories he has to tell.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 180w. |
Foreman, John. [Philippine islands.] 3d ed. *$6. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Like the rest of the book, the new part has scarcely a page free from important errors (not to mention vital omissions). The bad arrangement and lack of revision involves much duplication, which the index but poorly remedies. The orthography is sometimes freakish, and Spanish terms are sometimes mistranslated. The statistical tables are very inaccurate in places; the chronological table also, as well is incomplete.” James A. LeRoy.
| − − − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 388. Ja. ’07. 1660w. |
“The volume is both lucid and impartial. It is, indeed, written in a spirit too purely academic to be altogether interesting.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 842. D. 1, ’06. 560w. |
Forman, Justus Miles. Stumbling block. †$1.50. Harper.
7–24156.
David Rivers is wrested from his young love-making by old Robert Henley, a self-constituted guardian, and is sent away to develop a promising literary talent. The success and failure of an impersonally detached ambition become the keynote of the story. Rosemary Crewe whom David left behind is the embodiment of the strong love motif of the tale while Violet Winter, the fascinating New York woman whom he marries, is the stumbling block. Violet contemplates full reparation to David in allowing a threatening disease to go unoperated upon. How complete may have been her sacrifice is left entirely to the reader’s imagination.
“The style is distinguished, and the undercurrent of passion delicately handled. The hero, perhaps, is hardly worthy of the devotion he inspires; but the work should be successful as a study character.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 280w. | |
| + − | Ind. 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 150w. |
“Mr. Forman’s practise in writing novels is shown in his easy management of technical construction. His ideas have become mature; and his way of expressing them remains quite the most curious that is seen in any fictionist addressing the American reader. Rosemary is a dream heroine, faultless in all points. If only Mr. Forman applied the taste that chose her to his manner of writing, he would have written naturally, not corruptly, in a London patois, which is neither the King’s English nor that of William Dean Howells.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 520w. |
“This novel belongs to that class turned out in quantity every year, to which no possible objection should be made, if—merely this—if any one can discover the smallest reason for reading them.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w. |
“The story has some idyllic and romantic passages which are pleasant enough reading in their way—though it is all very artificial—but two-thirds of the book is distressingly dreary and futile.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w. |
“Original, but not really jolly.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 90w. |
Forrest, Rev. David William. Authority of Christ. *$2. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“An exceedingly able treatment of an all-important theme.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 157. Ja. ’07. 180w. |
“This book is reverent and conservative. It concedes considerable to modern criticism, and will probably be read with profit by a section of the church whose orthodoxy would preclude a more thorough discussion. But it has no new message, it makes no real addition to biblical or dogmatic theology, and I doubt if it proves of great value to the scholarly world.” W. C. Keirstead.
| + − | Bib. World. 29: 154. F. ’07. 1080w. |
Forrest, J. Dorsey. Development of western civilization: a study in ethical, economic, and political evolution. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–20984.
A history in which the course of social evolution is traced. The analysis of the conditioning facts of European social history is made on the basis of their ethical, economic and political values. The work is the outgrowth of a demand for a fit setting of present-day development and conditions, and has entailed a vast amount of careful selection of materials.
“The author’s method and treatment offer little ground for objection. What there is of it must be a matter of difference of emphasis rather than attack upon fundamentals. The thing of real moment is that he has given a new and important elucidation of the continuity of history.” John H. Coney.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 117. O. ’07. 990w. |
“If he had not stated its purpose in the preface no one would have ever discovered it.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 290w. |
“He fails to develop clearly the origins of modern states, the specific contributions of the renaissance and the reformation and the continuing activity of the religious and ethical impulse after the breakdown in the authority of the church. This last, indeed, is the most serious blemish in his scholarly work.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 473. Je. 29, ’07. 510w. |
“It is unfortunate that the author’s style falls below the dignity of his conception, the careful marshalling of his authorities and the breadth of his learning.”
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 548. S. ’07. 250w. |
“The book is of value, not because it makes any substantial contributions to our knowledge of the past, but because it does reiterate the reasonable demand that our knowledge of the past should be put in such form that it can be used to explain the processes of social development, and to illuminate the problems of the present.” C. D.
| + + − | Yale. R. 16: 323. N. ’07. 660w. |
Forster, H. O. Arnold. Army in 1906: a policy and a vindication. *$4. Dutton.
War 7–45.
A two-part survey dealing first with the problems and measures brought before Parliament by the author from October 1903, to December, 1906, as representation of the War department in the House of Commons; second with the impressions which the writer has been led to form of some of the more important of the British military problems.
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 683. D. 1. 3350w. |
“Will no doubt be serviceable to American students of military economy who are desirous of knowing just how the British army stood before Mr. Haldane brought out his latest scheme of reform.”
| + | Ind. 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 180w. |
“It is much to be regretted that a clever man who has enjoyed such exceptional opportunities for studying the administration of the army as a Minister of the Crown should not have been able to clear his mind of the dust and heat of contemporary politics and past controversies, and should not have treated his whole subject in the same spirit as that in which he has approached the question of the artillery.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 5: 406. D. 7, ’06. 1870w. |
“Those civilians and military men who are endeavoring to study the various schemes should not fail to add Mr. Arnold-Forster’s book to their libraries—special pleading though it be for a régime and policy of the past.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 270w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 80w. | ||
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 110w. |
“Whatever the views we may hold on the desirability of Mr. Arnold-Forster’s venture, there can be no question that an exceedingly interesting volume is the outcome. The book is unfortunately marred by the expression of some of the unduly arrogant sentiments to which Mr. Arnold-Forster is prone.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 740. D. 15, ’06. 1970w. |
“Whether we agree with his view or no, his attack on the linked-battalion system is extremely well argued, while his impartial examination of arguments for and against an experiment with a Second line field artillery is of first rate importance.”
| − + | Spec. 98: 254. F. 16, ’07. 2260w. |
Foss, Sam Walter. Songs of the average man. **$1.20. Lothrop.
7–28179.
Plain poems for plain people. They strike the popular note, need no interpretation, and are written for the people who do the world’s work. Librarians who assembled at Narragansett Pier will remember “The song of the library staff” included in the group.
Foster, Agness Greene. You, and some others. **60c. Elder.
7–29536.
A little booklet of verse which sings of truth triumphant, of love the way and God the light.
Foster, Frank Hugh. Genetic history of the New England theology. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–8502.
A genetic history and not a mere record of opinion, in which are traced the rise, course and culmination of New England theology as a distinct school of thought. The concluding chapter discloses the secret of its collapse which began in 1880.
“He has achieved a notable success. His analysis of the contributions of the several leaders of the movement is keen, his judgments are fair, and his grasp of the stream of thought as a whole and in its relation to the life of the nation is clearly evident.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w. |
“Prof. Foster has appreciated his subject, and bestowed upon it the labor and pains which its importance deserves. His criticism of the work and writings of the successive theologians is clear and penetrating.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 459. My. 16, ’07. 670w. |
“We miss, perhaps, the eager insight into certain meritorious aspects of the abandoned theology which characterized, for instance, Phillips Brooks’s book on Jonathan Edwards, but we are impressed by the conscientiousness of the trained historian.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 240w. |
“Some unguarded expressions ... raise doubt whether he has yet fully freed himself from the pull of the system whose collapse he records.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 120. My. 18, ’07. 440w. |
Foster, George Burman. Finality of the Christian religion. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–5947.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Every serious thinker ... may not accept all the solutions offered here, but at least he can form no judgment which is worthy of the respect of intelligent men unless he has weighed these in relation to his other beliefs.” C. A. Beckwith.
| + + | Bib. World. 29: 315. Ap. ’07. 1010w. |
“In the volume under consideration one finds a combination of a genuinely philosophical and scientific temper with a warmth of religious feeling that makes the problems discussed living issues, and that gives a reasonable ground for the hope that in his constructive treatment the author will find a satisfactory solution of the problem which he has set himself.” Amy E. Tanner.
| + + | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 253. Ja. ’07. 1670w. |
Foster, John Watson. Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.
6–39718.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a whole, it must be said that the book is a very successful presentation of the field the author sets out to discuss.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 210. Ja. ’07. 610w. | |
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 186. Mr. ’07. 170w. |
“This is a pleasing, sensible, and useful book. If one were to pick flaws at all, it would be in regard to some of the references to European practices and personalities.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w. |
“A commendable feature of the work under review is that it clearly states not only general diplomatic questions but indicates some that are liable to become acute or perilous and that its author suggests solutions that seem eminently reasonable.” George R. Bishop.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 318. My. 18, ’07. 3210w. |
“Historically valuable, as well as interesting to the general reader.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 280w. |
“There is little to criticise in the book either as regards the point of view or the content.” J. W. Garner.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 137. Mr. ’07. 790w. |
“It cannot fail to be of much interest to every American who takes an active interest in the affairs of the world.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 110w. |
Foster, William. English factories in India, 1618–1621: a calendar of documents in the India office, British museum and Public record office; published under the patronage of His Majesty’s secretary of state for India in council. *$4.15. Oxford.
A sequel to the documents appearing in the six volumes of “Letters received by the East India company from its servants in the East.” “International rivalry, oriental politics, the economics of Asia, and the conduct of Europeans under alien conditions, can all be studied to advantage in Mr. Foster’s book. The student of American exploration and history will find much to interest him.... Here he can find further light on the character of Sir Thomas Dale, trace the later voyages of Martin Pring, his successor in command of the East Indian fleet, or learn of the work of William Boffin in the tropics.... Here are made clear both the varied interests and the unity of British expansion in the early seventeenth century.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“These are rich additions to the earlier Calendar of state papers, East Indies, for which the student has long been indebted to Mr. Sainsbury.” Alfred L. P. Dennis.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 879. Jl. ’07. 750w. | |
| Nation. 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 420w. |
Fournier, d’Albe, Edmund Edward. Electron theory: a popular introduction to the new theory of electricity and magnetism; with a preface by G. Johnstone Stoney. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–11034.
A book which attempts in an elementary manner the consistent application of the all-embracing electron theory to the whole range of electro-magnetic phenomena. “A plea for the recognition of electricity as a fundamental natural quantity, and the addition of its unit, the electron, to the three fundamental units of length, mass, and time, of which all dimensional formulas are composed.” (Ath.)
“On the whole the book may be heartily commended as a well-executed attempt to grapple with a new and difficult subject.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 585. N. 10. 1590w. |
“Fournier d’Albe writes perfect English, agreeably and lucidly: and his book could be mastered by an intelligent boy. It would be easier to read, however, if the author would not interrupt his train of thought with paragraphs and even pages whose substance, however essential to the whole theory, forms no part of the matter he is endeavoring to communicate in the particular context.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 205. F. 28, ’07. 680w. |
“A glance at the table of contents of this book is sufficient to show that it fills an acute want at the present time. In making this attempt, the author is to be congratulated both on the choice of his subject and the skill and originality he has displayed in accomplishing it. It is a relief to find that the treatment, though popular, is to the point, and little or nothing is said of these vague and vast speculations as to the ultimate constitution of matter which have unfortunately become identified with the words ‘the electronic theory.’” F. S.
| + + − | Nature. 75: 292. Ja. 24, ’07. 660w. |
“A lucid popular account of the main outlines of the electron theory as it exists at the present day.”
| + | Spec. 98: 20. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w. |
Fowler, Nathaniel Clark, jr. Starting in life: what each calling offers ambitious boys and young men; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.50. Little.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In view of the excellent purpose of the book, and of the general success with which that purpose is carried out, it may be unimportant to point out the slight defects of arrangement which we find in it.”
| + + − | Outlook. 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w. |
Fowler, William H. Steam boilers and supplementary appliances: a practical treatise on their construction, equipment and working. $5. Scientific pub.
“The book does not differ materially from others of its class, but it is largely devoted to English types of boilers which are but little known in this country.”—Engin. N.
“On the whole, the book may be considered a useful work of reference for those interested in the subject, but it will not take the place of any of the standard American works.”—William Kent.
| + | Engin. N. 58: 420. O. 17, ’07. 910w. |
Fowles, George Milton. Down in Porto Rico. *75c. Meth. bk.
6–13696.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Too scanty to be of much value to a student, but accurate so far as it goes, and interesting to the ordinary reader of travel.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 42. F. ’07. S. |
Fox, John, jr. [Knight of the Cumberland], il. by F. C. Yohn. †$1. Scribner.
6–37963.
Mr. Fox has created “the very model of a story” (Nation) out of ingredients a little old and a little new. His knight is a “quaint, picturesque conception, a moonshiner’s son who seems to have been born out of his class or out of his century.” (N. Y. Times.) His heroine is known as “The Blight” because “nor man nor woman nor sixteen-hand-high mule could resist her.” (Nation.) There is an unusual commingling of tournament, duel, and very American stump-speaking. “And it is this very incongruity which renders the tale fascinating.” (Acad.)
“Attractive and original tale.”
| + | Acad. 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 170w. |
“Light, delightful little story.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 246. D. ’06. ✠ |
“The whole story makes glad the sense of symmetry, compact as it is of fun, manners, and motives, as they flourish in the land that we almost think of as created by Mr. Fox.”
| + | Nation. 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 180w. |
“The story is a delight both in conception and literary execution.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 771. N. 24, ’06. 480w. |
“It bears the mark of Mr. Fox’s charming talent, the fresh feeling, the naïve directness, the sympathy with everything that it touches.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 80w. |
“Is but a pretty sketch that takes an hour in reading and leaves the fiction-hunger quite unappeased.” Vernon Atwood.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 170w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
“The work is of the slightest possible texture.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 140w. |
Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi). Little flowers of the glorious Messer St. Francis and of his friars; tr. by W. Heywood; with an introd. by A. G. F. Howell. 35c. Crowell.
This translation of a succession of incidents in the great work of St. Francis and his friars is uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
“Mr. Heywood’s rendering is far and away the best and most complete of those before the public, and he omits nothing that can make it useful or easy of reference.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 210w. |
“Mr. Heywood’s translation strikes us as admirably done upon the whole, and it takes strength from the fact that he is, so far as we are aware, the first translator to keep before him and to use the Latin original of the ‘Fioretti.’”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 500w. |
Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi). Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi, newly tr. into English, with introd. and notes by Father Paschal Robinson. *$1. Dolphin press.
6–717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A very useful and trustworthy version. Occasionally wanting in perspective.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 180w. |
“Father Paschal’s work is a finished piece of historical criticism. He has gone to the sources, and brought to bear on their elucidation an intimate knowledge of all the later literature of the subject.”
| + + | Cath. World. 83: 257. My. ’06. 480w. |
“The English translation is almost as good as a critical edition. Both translators have a thorough knowledge of the recent literature of the subject, and where they touch on controversial points they both show modesty, good temper, and sound judgment.” A. G. L.
| + + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 195. Ja. ’07. 180w. |
“Excellent translation of the writings of S. Francis, with its scholarly preface and valuable critical apparatus.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 60w. |
“That St. Francis was a man of genius no one who thinks about this history of Christianity can possibly doubt; but the common estimate of his genius will not be enhanced by reading Father Paschal Robinson’s edition of his writings.”
| − | Spec. 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 310w. |
Francke, Kuno. German ideals of today, and other essays on German Culture. **$1.50. Houghton.
7–15142.
This volume is made up of a series of essays and sketches on German culture and the higher life of the German people, which have appeared from time to time from Professor Francke’s pen, in a number of American magazines and one or two German periodicals. He admits that ‘the temper of the papers is frankly propagandist.’ They aim ‘to arouse sympathy with German views of public life, education, literature and art, and they try to set forth some German achievements in various fields of higher activity.’—R. of Rs.
“The style is easy, the spirit broad, the treatment interesting.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 164. O. ’07. |
“In the thought which they contain, rather than in the style of Prof. Kuno Francke, lies the chief value of these essays and lectures.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 632. S. 12, ’07. 1180w. |
Reviewed by G: Louis Beer.
| Putnam’s. 2: 741. S. ’07. 250w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 759. Je. ’07. 120w. |
Frank, Henry. Kingdom of love. *$1. Fenno.
7–24829.
Part 1 of this group of essays treats of love as a cosmic principle, the mother principle, the social principle, and deific principle and as the healing grace. Part 2 embraces some thirty and more essays on “Contemplations of life’s ideals.” “The human being is as comprehensive as humanity, potent as Deity, vast as the infinite, in prophecy and promise” is the note sounded thruout.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w. |
Frank, Ulrich, pseud. (Frau Ulla [Hirschfeld] Wolff). [Simon Eickelkatz: The patriarch; two stories of Jewish life]; tr. from the German. $1.50. Jewish pub.
7–12639.
The first of these stories is a pathetic tale of an aged Jew who had spent his life with a wife who despised him, and had seen his only son forsake his faith. The fact that this son had become a great philosopher and teacher did not dull his disappointment and he tells the story of his life as he has seen it sadly from time to time to the doctor who attends him during his last days and who gains much from him both in thought and inspiration. The second story. The patriarch, is a Jewish romance but it is also a picture of Jewish family life with its strong religious feeling and prejudices.
“The tales are well translated into clear, idiomatic English. Although lacking in incident, being rather chronicles of thought than stories of action, they will repay in more ways than one a careful reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 210w. |
Franklin, Benjamin. Writings of Benjamin Franklin; collected and ed., with a life and introd. by Albert H: Smyth, 10v. ea. **$3. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is the leading contribution of the year to American biography. Mr. Smyth’s work as editor was dignified and suitable, while the new papers which he unearthed were of considerable number and importance.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–10) | |
| Lit. D. 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 10.) |
“The editing is exact and the text is clearly an improvement on previous editions, though the novelties are few in number.”
| + + + | Nation. 83: 555. D. 27, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 8.) |
“Mr. Smyth has given only the outlines of a biography, making his chapters convenient pegs on which to hang material discovered since his earlier volumes were published. Some of this material is very interesting.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 309. Ap. 4, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 10.) |
Franklin, Benjamin. Franklin year book; maxims and morals from the great philosopher; comp, by Wallace Rice. **$1. McClurg.
7–33926.
A bit of Franklin wisdom for every day in the year.
Franklin, Frank George. Legislative history of naturalization in the United States from the Revolutionary war to 1861. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–20847.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We regret that it does not cover completely a subject which it covers so well partially. There is no other book, however, which covers the subject at all.” Gaillard Hunt.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 402. Ja. ’07. 720w. |
“Altogether the book is a very unsatisfactory treatment of the subject.” David Y. Thomas.
| − | Am. J. Soc. 12: 556. Ja. ’07. 790w. |
“The book has been written especially for the jurist and the legislator, but its clear style will also make it of interest to the ‘general’ reader.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 331. My. 19, ’06. 70w. |
Fraprie, Frank Roy. Among Bavarian inns. $2. Page.
6–41527.
An account of little journeys to Bavarian highlands and to various quaint inns and hostelries in and out of the ancient towns, together with reminiscences of student and artist life in Munich. The volume is illustrated by a series of photographs of much merit well produced.
“The descriptive and historical matter will interest both past and prospective travellers.”
| + | Dial. 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 180w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 784. N. 24, ’06. 190w. |
Fraser, Edward. Enemy at Trafalgar. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–28489.
“In the ‘Enemy at Trafalgar’, Edward Fraser has collected picturesque details of the great battle obtained from French and Spanish sources. The treatment is anecdotic, and is reinforced by a number of illustrations and portraits. One or two of the plans reproduced are of some interest for the controversy as to Nelson’s tactics, though the question is not dealt with in the text.”—Nation.
“An important contribution to the literature of the Trafalgar campaign.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 196. O. ’06. 40w. |
“The translations are for the most part satisfactory. We should without reserve thank Mr. Fraser for his interesting and important contribution to Trafalgar literature, were it not that he and his publishers are guilty of the sin of issuing this book—full as it is of matter bearing on recent controversy and living problems—with a most insufficient index, one scarcely deserving the name.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 121. Ag. 4. 2480w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 1314. N. 28, ’07. 280w. |
“An excellent study of the battle and its circumstances from the point of view of Nelson’s gallant adversaries. It is written throughout with all the vigour of the author of ‘Famous fighters of the fleet.’”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 630w. | |
| Nation. 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 60w. |
“A book which no student of the naval history of Great Britain can afford to ignore. The portraits are not creditable, the sacrifice to economy having been too great. There is an adequate index.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 150. Mr. 9, ’07. 660w. |
“A novel idea, and its manner of execution throws light on the last great naval combat between France and England.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 90w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 80w. |
“Mr. Fraser’s account of the battle compiled from French and Spanish records will be very useful to check the numerous versions, good, bad, and indifferent, now in existence which have had to rely more or less on British sources for their information. The plates add considerably to the attraction of this fascinating and useful book.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 176. Ag. 11, ’06. 1060w. |
Fraser, John Foster. Red Russia. **$1.75. Lane.
7–29041.
Mr. Fraser has given an impressionistic picture of various phases of modern Russia. “It is the terrible story of the revolutionary terror from below in its struggle with the reactionary terror from above. There are some very striking illustrations.” (R. of Rs.)
“A convincing, vigorous description of Russia as it is today.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 164. O. ’07. S. |
“May be commended despite a slight tendency towards sensationalism.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 539. My. 4. 200w. |
“It is a journalistic piece of work, and that not of the highest kind.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 130w. |
“The scene is incontrovertibly, convincingly described in these hurried, disorderly memoranda. Mr. Fraser has ... travelled all over the country, and he tells what he saw, without much evident feeling, without much sympathy with anybody, but with great vigor of narration. The value of the book is not in its conclusions. Its value is in the self-certified accuracy of its picture of life and conditions in the Czar’s realm to-day.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 401. Je. 22, ’07. 2110w. |
Reviewed by G: Louis Beer.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 743. S. ’07. 300w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 40w. |
“Is more than a mere chronicle of bloodshed, and chapters like that descriptive of the great fair at Nijni-Novgorod are as valuable an aid to a clear understanding of the complexities of the Russian problem as those which deal with riot and massacre.”
| + | Spec. 99: 203. Ag. 10, ’07. 280w. |
Fraser, Mary (Crawford) (Mrs. Hugh Fraser). In the shadow of the Lord: a romance of the Washingtons. †$1.50. Holt.
6–32360.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 16. Ja. ’07. |
“Mrs. Fraser has not succeeded so well with her novel of the life and times of Mary Washington as she did with her Japanese stories.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w. |
“Is told with spirit and vivacity by a woman who has something to communicate and knows how.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 119. Ja. ’07. 290w. |
Fraser, Robert. Three men and a maid. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
7–16753.
“A country squire and his most villainous cousin, a vicar and his nephew, an innkeeper’s two handsome daughters, a scoundrelly lawyer or two, and a most excellently drawn detective furnish the personnel of the narrative, the special recommendation of which is that it is not put in the first person, and has not a visible trace of the tiresomely wise deductions and logical puzzle-reading that are the ordinary accompaniments of the detective story.”—N. Y. Times.
“Another of those ‘first books’ that turn up at pleasant intervals on the reviewer’s table and fairly amaze him with their all-around excellence of plot construction, and style, and their utter lack of any sign that would indicate a novice as their author.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 250. Ap. 20, ’07. 680w. |
“An ingenious and absorbing and tantalizing mystery story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 180w. |
Fraser, William Alexander. Lone furrow. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–6653.
The thread of gold running through Mr. Fraser’s self-styled “homespun web” is a broken-hearted wife whose husband, a young Scotch clergyman, deserted her. “With its leisureliness, its element of mystery (in the vulgar sense), and its prevailing atmosphere of religious inquiry, it recalls some of the later stories of George Macdonald.” (Nation.)
“To put it kindly, not one of his happy efforts.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
| − | Bookm. 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 420w. |
“It is hardly more than a vigorous statement of an interesting situation followed by a prolonged and rambling commentary upon that situation.”
| − | Nation. 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 92. F. 16, ’07. 210w. | ||
| Putnam’s. 2: 620. Ag. ’07. 90w. |
Frazar, M. D. Practical European guide: preparation, costs, routes and sightseeing. **$1. Turner, H. B.
7–16759.
Mr. Frazar has brought eighteen years of experience to his task of offering condensed information to the European traveler. He offers enlightenment on the following points; How to travel, Steamship lines and the voyage, The arrival in Europe, Some attractive routes, European railway fares, What to see, Guidebooks, Hotel-rates, Final suggestions.
| + | Dial. 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 50w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 60w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 126. Jl. ’07. 50w. |
Frazer, James George. Adonis, Attis, Osiris: studies in the history of Oriental religion. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–15462.
“Mr. Frazer’s thesis is that the oriental religions here studied are based upon harvest rites which were intended to insure the fertility of the soil by methods of imitative magic.... Such a book as this ought to be of very great value to the student of the history of philosophy, for it was the blending of these eastern faiths with neo-platonism which formed the soil out of which Christianity arose.”—J. Philos.
“Dr. Frazer is read no less for his learning than for his style, and his latest book will not be found wanting in any of the qualities which lent charm to his former work.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 569. D. 8, ’06. 1280w. | |
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 446. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
“These fascinating studies ... require ... no further recommendation from the reviewer. But there are also perpetual phases like ‘may probably be,’ ‘seem to indicate’; etc., which produce in the reader a feeling of vagueness and uncertainty.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 540. N. 3. 1500w. |
“The exposition displays the erudition, both literary and archaeological, that we are familiar with in Dr. Frazer’s writings; also, in spite of certain irrelevant chapters a more orderly method and relevance than he usually observes. His exposition of the great religious idea of the death and resurrection of the God is clear and sound and rests on solid evidence. Of much less value are the sociological hypotheses that he associates with the religious facts. Here the weakness of his work and method is most manifest. In spite of certain defects and hasty assumptions this book well deserves success and a grateful recognition.” Lewis R. Farnell.
| + − | Hibbert J. 5: 687. Ap. ’07. 1590w. |
“As compared with the first series of studies destined to be incorporated in the new edition of the ‘Golden bough,’ the ‘Lectures on the early history of the kingship,’ published last winter, the argument in the present volume is conducted with more reserve, and the conclusions are advanced with more caution. Mr. Frazer writes with rare literary skill.” Wendell T. Bush.
| + | J. Philos. 4: 21. Ja. 3, ’07. 1150w. |
“We would suggest that, when the matter of this book comes to be incorporated in ‘The golden bough’, Dr. Frazer should make somewhat clearer what he conceives to be the relations of ‘the god of Ibreez’, Sandan, and the Baal of Tarsus respectively.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 342. O. 12, ’07. 1200w. |
“Whether we agree with his conclusions or not, the work is an important contribution to the study of ancient oriental religions and will have to be reckoned with in all future researches into the subject. The French lucidity of treatment, the full and excellent index, and the attractive style, make it singularly easy to read and understand. And the mass of material collected and co-ordinated in it will be a mine for other investigators to quarry. In some passages, more especially in the descriptions of scenery, the language rises to an oratorical height rarely met with in scientific books.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 53. Jl. 13, ’07. 1900w. |
Free, Richard. On the wall. †$1.50. Lane.
Stories of London’s East End told by a young vicar. “The reader who makes acquaintance with the life-tragedy of Granley, artisan, atheist, poet, bravely enduring domestic martyrdom and saving his wife’s good name, will not go away disappointed.” (Sat. R.) “Occasional hits at superficial and arm’s-length charity will be appreciated by people who have been annoyed by such efforts.” (Outlook.)
“Americans will find ‘On the wall’ most amusing. The stories offer entertainment of a very whole-hearted admirable sort.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“There is no affectation about these short stories, and there is much strength and also insight into the humanity common to us all.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w. |
“These sketches ... are oddly unequal.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 242. Ag. 24, ’07. 120w. |
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins. [By the light of the soul.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–5069.
In some strange byways of life is the fragile heroine of Mrs. Freeman’s story led. Motherless at an early age, she is soon to become a temperamental prey to a cold, dispassionate self-loving step-mother. A most illogical occurrence in the form of an untimely marriage upsets whatever of repose her young years were fostering. The only leavening influences in her bare life are the pathetic devotion of a loyal, tho weak, father and the child love of the little half-sister, Evelyn.
“A study in self-sacrifice, containing unusually strong and delicate delineation of New England character, and next-to-impossible situations.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 51. F. ’07. |
“Viewed from an artistic as well as human point of view, Maria’s story is sadder than it should be, and leaves the reader with a sense of dissatisfaction which detracts not a little from his pleasure.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 160. F. 9. 360w. |
“It seems to me to exemplify all that the temperamental novel should not be.” Harry James Smith.
| − | Atlan. 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 280w. |
“In some years of novel-reading I cannot recall a more complete disappointment than this book has given me.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| − | Bookm. 25: 81. Mr. ’07. 1110w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 460. Ap. ’07. 990w. |
“The story has no real ending. As to the people involved in this drama, it is plain that Mrs. Freeman herself has not reached a clear conception of either their personal appearance or their character. The representation of Maria’s character is of a piece with the other vaguenesses and self-contradictions.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| − + | Forum. 38: 538. Ap. ’07. 1410w. |
“The theme required a bigger philosophy of life than Mrs. Freeman could bring to bear upon the subject, and the end is lamentably unconvincing and unsatisfactory.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 260w. |
“She has perhaps sounded deeper levels of the human heart than hitherto.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 250w. |
“We recommend the novel very cordially as a piece of delicate and understanding work and also as an interesting story; but the reader must expect a monochrome and rather a hard one.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 30. Ja. 25, ’07. 300w. |
“If the present work lacks the unity and beauty of a ‘New England nun,’ at least in it she is seeking an enlarged horizon and rather receiving fresh impressions than remaining satisfied to repeat those already used.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w. |
“The story is told with its author’s accustomed skill. Mrs. Freeman brings some of her characters vividly before the reader with the skill in detail for which she is noted.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 300w. |
“There is an effect of carefully wrought, delicate embroidery about the new novel.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 200w. |
“The amount of spirituality under which the characters in English novels will fairly reel is borne lightheartedly by Mrs. Freeman’s latest heroine.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 186. My. ’07. 310w. |
Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins) (Mrs. Charles M. Freeman). [Doc Gordon.] 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
6–25689.
“The interest ... lies in the fresh illustration of the old question, should a moral and spiritual monster, abnormal in subtlety and wickedness be allowed to exist to the menace of the common good? Again, is it a crime, or at least justifiable to cut short the intolerable agony of a dying human creature, if the conscience upholds the deed? These problems play an important part in the story of Dr. Gordon, a man naturally charitable and broadminded, but warped by an evil influence out of his original happy attitude towards life.”—Acad.
“Although she has the magic touch that adorns every subject she writes about, it must be admitted she has no peculiar gift for melodramatic fiction. ‘Doctor Gordon’ is a capital story, with scenes and characters out of the common run.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w. |
“A stocking is not a stocking when it has been raveled, but merely a skein of crumpled thread; just so, this book holds attention while one reads it, but having finished, it seems a rather poor affair as compared with some of Mrs. Freeman’s other stories.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 158. Ja. 17, ’07. 500w. | |
| Lit. D. 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 120w. | ||
| Lond. Times. 6: 119. Ap. 12, ’07. 320w. |
“Miss Wilkins’ delicate talent is incongruous with the wildness of her plot. Altogether, we look back regretfully to the middle-aged lovers and the engaging pet cats of the author’s earlier stories.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 498. Ap. 20, ’07. 130w. |
Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor. Fair Lavinia and others. †$1.25. Harper.
7–34778.
Under the titles: The fair Lavinia, Amarina’s roses, Eglantina, The pink shawls, The willow ware, The secret, The gold, and The underling, Mrs. Freeman presents the village life she knows so well how to picture and shows us the very hearts of the village folks who take part in those homely little comedies and tragedies.
“Delicate and amusing sketches of village life with charm of sentiment and grace of narrative.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 450w. |
“The stories are like old-fashioned shell cameos; the flush of life and beauty shows through the carefully fashioned faces.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 120w. |
French, Allen. Book of vegetables and garden herbs: a practical handbook and planting table for the vegetable gardener. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–16935.
A book intended for seedsmen and their customers, that both may get full benefit from the seeds, the latter in good crops, the former in continued custom. Mr. French gives a summary of the uses, culture and virtues of each plant included; sowing-directions regarding distance of rows from each other, of seeds in the row, depth of planting, etc.; thinning, fertilizing, transplanting and picking.
“Does not replace Bailey’s ‘Principles of vegetable growing’ but is an excellent companion to it, and more attractive in form.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 164. O. ’07. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 18. Jl. 4, ’07. 500w. |
“The directions are simple, with no chance to go wrong.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w. |
“An excellent guide.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 208. Je 1, ’07. 80w. |
“A new garden handbook of great value to the amateur.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w. |
French, Allen. Pelham and his friend Tim. †$1.50. Little.
6–32675.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 80. Mr. ’07. | ||
| + | Bookm. 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
French, Anne Warner. Seeing France with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.
6–34808.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 108. Ap. ’07. |
“It can confidently be recommended to admirers of Mr. Jerome K. Jerome.”
| + | Ath. 1906. 2: 830. D. 29. 60w. | |
| − | R. of Rs. 35: 127. Ja. ’07. 50w. |
French, Anne Warner. Susan Clegg and a man in the house, il. †$1.50. Little.
7–31418.
Susan Clegg tries her hand at boarding an editor. Of him she says: “Seems Elijah is so smart that he’ll be offered a place on one of the biggest city papers in a little while, but in the mean time he’s just lost the place that he did have on one of the smallest ones.” As ever, Susan in no weak fashion expresses her opinions to Mrs. Lathrop. She gives her impressions of the young editor, his flute playing, of the women who ran the club women’s biennial and of the democratic and republican parties.
“In the present volume Susan Clegg is undeniably tiresome. She talks so unremittingly, and always in the same strain.”
| − | Lit. D. 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 190w. |
“To be recommended heartily to people who may have found refreshment in ‘Three men in a boat,’ ‘Chimmie Fadden,’ or the sea worthies of W. W. Jacobs.”
| + | Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“It is a rare pleasure to find a book so wholesome, so amusingly philosophical and so full of the real quality of things that last.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 140w. |
* French, Arthur Willard, and Ives, Howard Chapin. Stereotomy. 2d ed. $2.50. Wiley.
A second edition, with few changes, of a work appearing in 1903.
“The book remains a well-written compilation of method and example in stone-cutting and is serviceable alike for self-study and for use in the class-room. The work of revision in preparing this edition has not been very extensive. Some minor lapses were overlooked.”
| + − | Engin. N. 58: 420. O. 17, ’07. 200w. |
“The subject-matter covers a wide range and includes everything that the student is likely to have need for in his future work.”
| + | Technical Literature. 2: 460. N. ’07. 490w. |
French, Lester G. Steam turbines, practice and theory. $3. Technical press, Brattleboro, Vt.
7–9802.
“A book for the student and practicing engineer which contains a discussion of steam turbines and principles, and early steam turbine patents. “A number of chapters give detailed descriptions of all the important turbines now in use in this country and in Europe.” Then follow chapters upon Steam and its properties, Notes on efficiency and design. The commercial aspect of the turbine, Care and management, Condensing apparatus for high vacuum.... The last chapter of the book treats of the Marine turbine.” (Engin. N.)
“There is nothing very original in it; but quite a little useful information ... has been given place in the book. The weakest part of the book is ... the theoretical part. The book is, on the whole, a very satisfactory one.” Storm Bull.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 442. Ap. 18, ’07. 500w. |
“This is an unusually satisfactory book in which theory and well-chosen practice are judiciously balanced, and unnecessary amplification avoided.”
| + + | Technical Literature. 2: 457. N. ’07. 300w. |
Frenssen, Gustav. Holy land; exclusive authorized tr. of “Hilligenlei;” tr. from the German by Mary Agnes Hamilton. †$1.50. Estes.
6–32857.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book will never be popular in America, it is safe to say, for several reasons. It is, like a German sentence, long-winded, involved, and cumbrous. ‘Holyland’ contains several passages which make it unfit for the youthful, and even many older readers will find them offensive. And because we are in a very different stage of theological thought from Germany, the religious purpose of the novel will fail to arouse either the enthusiasm or the antagonism that it has in Germany.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 740w. | |
| + − | R. of Rs. 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 70w. |
Frenssen, Gustav. Three comrades; tr. from the German by L. Winstanley. †$1.50. Estes.
7–20513.
“An every-day sort of story of ordinary life in Germany. At the opening of the book the three comrades are three 10–year-old boys in the days of the Franco-German war. Later they are carried on into manhood, they separate, and each goes his own way. After a time each is so hampered by his faults of character that he is on the brink of failure. Then, at the crisis of their misfortune, they are reunited and together they are able to avert the threatened disaster.” (N. Y. Times.) “Its value consists in the beauty of one or two of its episodes, in some admirable pictures of land and sea by the Holstein coast, and perhaps above all in the personality of the author.” (Ath.)
“As a story it is confused and incoherent, and its presentation of character though wonderfully vivid at times, can never be called a complete success. With all its shortcomings, it was worthy of being presented to an English public, and we must add a word of cordial praise concerning the manner in which this has been done. The anonymous translation is of unusual excellence.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 170w. |
“The story is powerful and sympathetic, and its characters interesting and human.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 160w. |
“There is much charm in the simplicity of the story, both in plot and style and the vividness with which the author portrays scenes and characters makes it very life-like.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 180w. |
* Friedrichs, Hulda. Romance of the Salvation army; with introd. by General Booth. il. *$1.25. Cassell.
“These sketches exhibit the Army at work in Great Britain, and ‘on the march’ through the world. Its rescue work, training of officers, ‘self-denial week’, and farm colony are described with affecting illustrative experiences. The future of the Army seems secure, though its great General must pass away. Religious enthusiasm for a divine end, coupled with a sagacious, practical use of means, is the lesson of its career to the churches.”—Outlook.
| + | Outlook. 87: 580. N. 16, ’07. 160w. |
“Miss Friedrichs writes well and with restraint, and illustrates her narrative, as the history of the Salvation army is best illustrated, by anecdotes of its individual triumphs. In short, it is a history that almost any reader may peruse with pleasure, for the human interest of the movement, to say nothing of that attaching to so many of its workers, is undeniable.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 639. N. 2, ’07. 250w. |
Friedman, Isaac Kahn. The radical. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–30992.
“The ‘radical’ is a Chicagoan who, beginning life as a butcher’s driver, later becomes a political leader and tries to reform the senate.” (N. Y. Times.) “He is a man of the people, homely, a dreamer, yet powerful, in some of his traits seems to be modeled upon Lincoln. His aim is democratic, and so far as this book goes he seems to fail of attaining it.” (Outlook.)
“He is well-equipped with the facts of political life, and with the social sympathies needed for their effective interpretation. The present book, in the detail of its workmanship, is not as finished a production as the author’s previous writings would lead us to expect.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 260w. |
“Were it not that an unmistakable earnestness of conviction pervades this novel, one’s inclination would be to let it pass unmentioned, for a more ineffective attempt at bending language to the uses of art rarely falls under the reviewer’s eye.”
| − | Nation. 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 280w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The subject is intricate and may account for the somewhat over-involved style of writing, which leaves anything but a clear impression in the reader’s mind.”
| − | Outlook. 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 100w. |
Fry, Henry Davidson. Maternity. $1.50. Neale.
7–34609.
A book for the lay reader, the medical student and the trained nurse which attacks ignorance and superstition and leaves healthful enlightenment in their place.
Fuller, Caroline M. Brunhilde’s paying guest. †$1.50. Century.
7–26461.
The modern Brunhilde of the story is the daughter and only surviving member of an impoverished southern household. Two charming cousins share her duties of hostess when she admits a few “paying guests” to her home. Among them is a young northerner who wars with the spirited valkyr, falls in love with her, and continues to quarrel. It is a pathetic picture of southern aristocracy doing battle with poverty, it is a romance of young strength, of maids and their lovers, set in a delightful southern garden.
“While her conversations are occasionally ‘bright,’ they invariably sound rather like the badinage overheard in trolley cars.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 500w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“A bright, entertaining story for an idle hour, and one that leaves no unpleasant impression.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 90w. |
Fuller, Hubert Bruce. Purchase of Florida; its history and diplomacy. *$2.50. Burrows.
6–32122.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Fuller has failed to give us a clear account of the unusually intricate transactions with which his book must deal, and this failure is chiefly owing to his sins of omission.”
| − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 404. Ja. ’07. 1240w. |
“The chief defect of the book lies in its paucity of references. The author has brought out a good deal of new and interesting matter for which he has given no authority whatever.”
| + + − | Dial. 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 320w. |
“In his earnest desire to deal fairly with all, he occasionally falls into the opposite error of doing something less than justice to his own country.” H. Addington Bruce.
| + − | No. Am. 183: 920. N. 2, ’06. 1230w. |
“The book shows evidence of pretty thorough research; but it ought not to be necessary at this late day, to remind the investigator that the historian—and this volume will appeal to the historian rather than to the general reader—demands foot-note references to sources and authorities. Such references are too sparingly given. In some cases they are lacking where they are particularly desirable.” David Y. Thomas.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 140. Mr. ’07. 470w. |
Fullerton, George Stuart. [An introduction to philosophy.] *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–37866.
The following embodies the purpose of the book: “To point out what the world philosophy is made to cover in the higher branches of learning; to explain the nature of reflective or philosophical thinking and to show how it differs from common thought and from science; to give a general view of the main problems with which philosophers have dealt; to give an account of some of the more important types of philosophical doctrine which have arisen out of the consideration of such problems; to indicate the relation of philosophy to ‘science and to the other sciences;’ and to show that the study of philosophy, is of value to us all, and to give some practical admonitions on spirit and method.”
“Mr. Fullerton has an expository style which is admirably simple and clear, and his preliminary definition of philosophy is as free as possible from the objection that he has assumed a controversial philosophical standpoint.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 1: 407. Ap. 6. 230w. |
“We know of no other book in English that can compare with this one as a manual to help the beginner over the difficulties which beset him in his first adventure into the unfamiliar world of metaphysical abstractions.”
| + + | Cath. World. 84: 827. Mr. ’07. 670w. |
“The book might be called ‘a condensed encyclopedia of the moral and mental sciences.’”
| + | Ind. 62: 857. Ap. 11, ’07. 140w. |
“Like his larger ‘System’ it is likely not only to inform, instruct and practice the student in philosophical reflection, but also to interest and entertain him. Moreover, it contains many practical suggestions to both the teacher and the student well calculated to clear the ground and the air, giving to the undertaking of the young philosopher a wide sweep of open territory and a wholesome atmosphere.” G. A. Tawney.
| + | J. Philos. 4: 356. Je. 20, ’07. 1400w. |
“It has many of the defects which were noticeable in the larger treatise. The logical divisions are imperfect, and the several parts of the work are not well articulated. Professor Fullerton writes, however, very intelligibly, and uses few technical terms. The volume would be more useful, if there were fuller references in it to the philosophical theories of the later French and German authors.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 109. Ja. 31. ’07. 350w. |
“The first half of the book is the best prolegomena to metaphysics that we know for students who come entirely fresh to the subject.”
| + + − | Spec. 99: sup. 463. O. 5, ’07. 370w. |
Funk, Rev. Isaac Kaufman. Psychic riddle. **$1. Funk.
7–8500.
“A remarkably clear and conservative study of the subject of psychic phenomena, with citations of a number of noteworthy experiences.”—R. of Rs.
“Dr. Funk lightens the book by many jokes and by some humor which is of Scotch character. For one thing, his sincerity shines out, and he refuses to allow an apology by a zealous defender which would compromise his intellectual honesty.” George W. Gilmore.
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 555. Jl. ’07. 280w. |
“The general reader will find the entire volume as fascinating and compelling as romance, and to any person interested in psychical research it will be far more interesting than a well written novel.”
| + | Arena. 36: 668. Je. ’07. 1330w. |
“Anybody familiar with the volumes of Myers, or even with the little book of Lapponi, will find that Dr. Funk has paid little attention to systematic arrangement of his data and analysis of the various factors of the problems with which he deals.”
| − | Cath. World. 86: 253. N. ’07. 340w. |
“His purpose has been well executed.”
| + | Dial. 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 112. F. 23, ’07. 280w. | ||
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 180w. |
Futrelle, Jacques. Thinking machine. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9843.
A book of reprinted stories whose theme in each instance is a marvelous exploit of Prof. Van Dusen. “You may now read—or re-read—how Prof. Van Dusen accomplished an experimental jail delivery for himself under circumstances the most ingeniously prearranged for that purpose ... how Prof. Van Dusen ascertained the identity of a man who had mislaid all consciousness of his personality, name, and nativity; how he solved the riddle of a bank burglary, and by sniffing the perfume on a handkerchief traced the crime to a particularly pretty and attractive young woman.” (Ind.)
“They are quite ingenious in their way, and those who like this sort of thing will find them fair examples of their kind. They are not altogether devoid of literary merit.”
| + | Acad. 73: 147. N. 16, ’07. 80w. |
“If, after the reading is over, one still ranks them below the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, it is because the latter have greater realism and accord more closely with the conditions of actual life.” Rafford Pyke.
| + | Bookm. 25: 433. Je. ’07. 500w. | |
| + − | Nation. 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 280w. | |
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 340w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 100w. |
“The author’s ingenuity is great, but the element of probability is not always maintained.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 30w. |
Fyfe, W. T. [Edinburgh under Sir Walter Scott]; with an introd. by R. S. Rait. *$3. Dutton.
7–19482.
The well known incidents of Scott’s life here afford “some guiding lines for grouping of varied details.” These details relate much that is entertaining concerning “the simple, happy social life of Edinburgh’s best society, with its curious mixture of formal manners and informal customs.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The personal element is made much of, and many pleasing character sketches, with some good anecdotes, are given. Of all books, this one should have had an index.”
| + | Dial. 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 170w. |
“We find nothing, or nothing of interest in Mr. Fyfe’s book, with which we have not always been familiar. Mr. Fyfe has not written the history of Scott nor has he contributed original matter from documents to his superfluous restatement of Lockhart’s biography of Sir Walter.”
| − − | Lond. Times. 6: 6. Ja. 4, ’07. 1000w. |
“A useful supplement to Lockhart and the ‘Letters’ and ‘Journals’.”
| + | Nation. 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 250w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 36. Ja. 19, ’07. 340w. |
“Mr. Fyfe has a gift of presenting vividly what he writes by virtue of being simple and direct. To read his book is like going back a hundred years and spending a day in old-time Edinburgh.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 480w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 130w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w. |
“No fuller or better picture of that brilliant half-century of life in Edinburgh which approximately lasted from the death of Samuel Johnson in 1784 to that of Walter Scott in 1832 has ever been given to the public than that presented in this volume. Singularly, if not even paradoxically too, the value of the picture is due quite as much to the faults as to the excellences of the artist.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 483. O. 5, ’07. 1550w. |
Fynn, Arthur John. American Indian as a product of environment; with special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.
7–34805.
A volume for the general reader rather than for the student of anthropology, in which no attempt at “profundity of exhaustiveness” has been made. It is a first-hand study and contains chapters on: Plants, animals and man; Concerning the aborigines of the western continent in general; Pueblo lands and homes; Food and clothing; Government and social life; Education; Industries, arts and sciences; Religion; Games and festivals.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Fyvie, John. Comedy queens of the Georgian era. *$4. Dutton.
7–18122.
“A light, gossipy account of some of the leading actresses of the eighteenth and the early years of the nineteenth centuries. It is well illustrated by photogravure process. Among Mr. Fyvie’s queens are Lavinia Fenton and Elizabeth Farren. That the habit of peers marrying actresses is not modern is shown by these lively chapters.”—Sat. R.
“Mr. Fyvie is a little too reticent to be a good scandalmonger, and a little too technical to be a good historian of the stage; and his sketches, though written from an independent point of view and clearly the result of much original study of his subjects, offer little that is new on the details of their private lives, and nothing on the subject of their professional careers.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 1460w. |
“There is wit, and genial humor and philosophy, with occasional cynicism, in these jottings.”
| + | Dial. 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w. |
“It is disappointing to read through this volume and to feel that the only result has been to learn a deal of scandal.”
| − | Ind. 63: 947. O. 17, ’07. 220w. |
“It is only fair to say that his book, as a rule, shows a praiseworthy desire for accuracy, a careful sifting of a great mass of contemporary evidence, and a quick eye for significant facts. Of course, he has nothing, or very little, that is new to tell, but he creates a certain impression of freshness by drawing liberally from sources of information not in common use.”
| + | Nation. 84: 112. Ja. 31, ’07. 900w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 280w. |
“It is readable, but Mr. Fyvie is not to be commended for bringing to light in the twentieth century the old scandalous theatrical chronicles of the eighteenth.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 250w. |
“We might perhaps have been spared a little of the scandal, and one would prefer as a matter of proportion and taste, that there should have been less about these actresses’ private lives and more about their public careers and their manner of acting. The book will not rank with the recent memoirs of David Garrick by Mrs. Parsons.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 130w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| Putnam’s. 2: 476. Jl. ’07. 210w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 60w. | ||
| + | Sat. R. 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w. |