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G., A. E. Whistler: notes and footnotes and other memoranda. $2.50. Collector and art critic.
“In the Whistler part of the book the author discusses the painter as a man of letters, as a realist, as a master of the lithograph, as a draughtsman, and the Whistler memorial exhibition held in Boston in 1904.... Following the Whistler Notes and footnotes’ come discussions of grotesques by Leonardo, Puvis de Chavannes as a caricaturist, Arthur Symons on Aubrey Beardsley, a bookplate by Otho Cushing, the colored etchings of Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the art of Everett Shinn, the English caricaturists, a ‘note’ on Childe Hassam, and some notable criticism.” (N. Y. Times.) Nine tinted plates share the honors with the text.
“Mr. Gallatin’s notes are thoughtful and suggestive, and have the merit of brevity.”
| + + − | Dial. 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 270w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 340w. |
Reviewed by Christian Brinton.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 60w. |
Gainsborough, Thomas. Drawings. *$2.50. Scribner.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Drawings of the great masters” series, this volume contains 44 drawings by Gainsborough printed in various tints, with a number mounted on dark colored backgrounds. These are prefaced with a brief introduction by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower.
| + | Dial. 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 240w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 70w. |
Gairns, J. F. Locomotive compounding and superheating: a practical text-book for the use of railway and locomotive engineers, students and draughtsmen. *$3. Lippincott.
7–32868.
A help to the understanding of both compounding and superheating, and an aid in preparing the way to a choice or design of those types of locomotives best suited for the region and traffic to be handled.
“It is to be regretted that the author seems not to have fully appreciated the rapidly-growing economic and operating importance of superheating for locomotives, and hence did not go thoroughly into the theory and practice on the subject. Mr. Gairns gives us probably the best book on compound locomotives which has appeared since Barnes-Woods in 1892. As a whole, the book is worthy of a place upon the railway engineer’s and locomotive designer’s shelves.” H. Wade Hibbard.
| + + − | Engin. N. 58: 291. S. 12, ’07. 2400w. |
Gale, Zona. Loves of Pelleas and Etarre. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30832.
Every year of Pelleas and Etarre’s fifty together has heaped new graces upon them thru the ministry of love. They are two who never have known that youth had gone because love staid. They are never happier than when making the conditions of young love-making brighter. For, hand in hand they wander in fancy thru lanes and gardens of long ago of which the lanes and gardens of to-day are but a continuation. A most delightful story which attributes to love the alchemy power of effacing time and change.
“The story is told with quaint humor and much delicacy.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 201. N. ’07. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 120w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“She sees the little things in life that make what is called atmosphere, and she is able to paint her mind’s pictures clearly for the restricted vision of the rest of us.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 570w. |
“To all who know the hidden sources of human joy and have neither grown old in cynicism nor gray in utilitarianism. Miss Gale’s charming love stories, full of fresh feeling and grace of style, will be a draught from the fountain of youth.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 150w. |
Gallon, Tom. [Cruise of the make-believes.] †$1.50. Little.
7–32034.
A romantic idyl of a modern prince and a beggar maid. The girl drudges in a poor quarter of London to support a shiftless father and brother, but she dreams and keeps her soul alive by a make-believe Eden. A young millionaire becomes interested in her and in trying to help her tangles things sadly. The father and brother drain him financially, the girl he would help is made unhappy; but in the end he is fortunate enough to lose his money and in love and poverty he and Bessie find a real land of make-believe.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
Gallon, Tom. [Tinman.] †$1.50. Small.
A young artist deliberately murders the slanderer of Barbara Patton, the woman he loves, gives himself up, covers the real motive of his crime and is imprisoned for life. After twenty years he is freed only to be drawn into a reenactment of the crime for the sake of Barbara’s daughter. Thruout the entire dramatic course of the tale the love motif is strongest, it sounds out above the grim note of crime, suffering and domineering will.
“The first portion of the book, though somewhat lurid in method, would have made a strong and unusual short story; but the further development of events ... conveys an unmistakable flavour of nothing higher or nobler than the typical dime novel.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − | Bookm. 26: 165. O. ’07. 220w. |
“Notwithstanding an important manner, ‘Tinman’ has only been strung out to store size by the ingenious device of repeating the heroine’s adventures in the person of her daughter, merely giving a happier outcome to the fortunes of Barbara number two.”
| − | Nation. 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 310w. |
“Is about as dolefully sensational as anything that has hitherto come from his feverish pen.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 481. Je. 15, ’07. 210w. |
“The plot of the story is complicated and well managed, and notwithstanding the dark and lurid coloring, the tale holds the reader’s interest from the start.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 190w. |
“A gleam or two of brightness would have vastly improved the story. But that the reader is held by the situations and that those situations are ingeniously thought out cannot be denied.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w. |
Galloway, Thomas Walton. First course in zoology: a text-book for secondary schools, normal schools and colleges. *$2.50. Blakiston.
6–35707.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In point of careful balance and commonsense use of questions, few recent text-books bear comparison with this volume.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w. |
“For the average school course the book includes too much, and too difficult work; while for the college course it seems to fall as far short. For the normal school, and this is probably the grade of work more directly aimed at by the author, the book would seem to be well suited. Of actual errors in statement of facts or principles there seem to be relatively few.” C. W. H.
| + − | Science, n. s. 24: 719. D. 7, ’06. 1120w. |
“It is evident that a good deal of thought and effort have gone into its making, and it has consequently a degree of character and individuality which is rare among the members of its genus.” S. J. H.
| + + | Science, n. s. 26: 715. N. 22, ’07. 600w. |
Galsworthy, John. [Country house.] †$1.50. Putnam.
7–15919.
“Two graphic pictures of the racecourse are all that [the author] gives of definite action; the remainder of the book is concerned with the entry into the self-deluding community of Worsted Skeynes of a natural, lawless passion which, attacking one of its members, exercises a paralyzing effect upon the whole.... The portraiture in the author’s gallery will reward the attention of all who love the mirror of truth.”—Ath.
“His work has many qualities of greatness: but it is not yet great. A slight tendency to bitterness and to sentimentality is the one blemish in an extraordinarily well-written, well-observed piece of work.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 251. Mr. 9, ’07. 560w. |
“Occasionally, in an effort to extract the last drain of satire from a situation, Mr. Galsworthy is biting and mordant to an almost painful degree. His insight is keen, and he seems to enjoy the irony underlying the affairs of men.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 1: 348. Mr. 23. 340w. |
“It is a wonderful, vivid and detailed picture of stolid and complacent British conservatism, a consistent worship of the God of things as they are.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 497. Jl. ’07. 760w. |
“Mr. Galsworthy’s forte lies in depicting traditional prejudices, and the types which represent them, rather than in the creation of individual characters.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 680. Ag. ’07. 270w. |
“Few novelists are as successful as Mr. Galsworthy in adapting their means to their purposes, with the result, as in the present instance, of giving vivid reality to a group of commonplace people and of reproducing the very atmosphere of the scenes in which they move.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 230w. |
“The pervading tone of indulgent irony justifies the classification of this volume with the fiction which in a true sense is a criticism of life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Forum. 39: 114. Jl. ’07. 740w. |
“Is a better novel, better constructed and better written, than either ‘The island Pharisees’ or ‘The man of property,’ its plot especially, while still apparently slight, being in reality of much firmer and closer texture.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 96. Jl. 11, ’07. 460w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Galsworthy has not produced a real hero. He has given us his Troilus. Let us hope that in his next novel he will give us his Hamlet.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 77. Mr. 8, ’07. 1150w. |
“The development of the story is workmanlike and plausible, and the whole is unfolded in a brisk, competent narrative, with savor and discretion, through the medium of a perfectly satisfactory style.”
| + | Nation. 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 390w. |
Reviewed by Lewis Melville.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
“The faults of this unusual and interesting novel lie upon its surface. For the sake of Mr. Pendyce alone ‘The country house’ is well worth more than one reading.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 430w. |
“When his characters come to develop some consciousness, one of another, when they come to be more closely and significantly linked together, this brilliant portrayer of manners may easily come to produce something of permanent value.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + | No. Am. 185: 777. Ag. 2, ’07. 1430w. |
“Clever beyond anything we have seen lately is this most artistic story. We could wish it were happier.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 180w. |
“He is far from being detached and indifferent toward human nature in its finer manifestations, even if he does choose to make us feel its beauty chiefly by delineating the sordid, pathetic opposite.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 186. My. ’07. 110w. |
“Here is not a mere slice of life, a personal affair, a particular instance; it is a slice from a nation, a base of interests, an enduring condition. It is, of course, the central problem in a book of the kind to prevent undue domination either of the situation or of the story, and the author, conscious perhaps that in a previous work he permitted the situation to dictate terms to him, has in this been too much inclined to restrict its scope.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w. |
“He has devoted a great deal of skill and energy to the presentation of three or four characters who are especially designed to win, not only the sympathy, but even the affection of the reader. It is true that perhaps the most admirable and delightful of all is a spaniel.... John, an adorable personage; indeed, many readers would rather share a dog-biscuit with him than eat six courses in the company of the squire’s guests.”
| + | Spec. 98: 503. Mr. 30, ’07. 800w. |
Galsworthy, John. Man of property. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–42370.
“A rather unusually thoughtful novel of English social life, which deals in a large, intelligent way with the development of character, the sordidness of wealth without graciousness, and the narrowness of upper middle class London society a generation or so ago.”—Outlook.
“The book is remarkable: it has strength without the least taint of sensation; and is written with a finish that is both rare and delightful. Two points only are there to which we take exception: that Mr. Galsworthy at times lingers unnecessarily over the Forsytes; and that he has, in one passage at least, mistaken brutality for strength.”
| + + − | Acad. 70: 309. Mr. 31, ’06. 440w. |
“There is a story of a kind, connecting the long series of carefully finished pictures. But the pictures, the characterization, are the main thing. They are minute, vivid, and steadily interesting. The whole is a sound and equable piece of work, deserving high praise.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 340w. |
“A novel of this character is new; it shows thought and determination and an unflagging alertness with its companion, ease, that make Mr. Galsworthy’s career a matter of some importance to English fiction.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 430w. |
“His style is admirable, his humor incisive, and his description of the less pleasant characters in his books splendid; but he lacks tenderness. He sees all weeds in the garden, and in his vision the rose is scarcely visible for the thorns.” Lewis Melville.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
“Altogether a novel well worth the reading.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w. |
“Mr. Galsworthy’s grip on the point of view of Forsyte and his way of action, is something quite terrible. To read a chapter about Soames Forsyte, the typical ‘man of property,’ is to feel oneself literally gasping for oxygen at the end of it. It is not an especially pleasant experience, but it occasions a profound respect for the writer who brings it about.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 185. My. ’07. 520w. |
“A novel at once so able that it cannot be overlooked, and so ugly in places that it cannot be recommended without a serious caution.”
| + − | Spec. 96: 587. Ap. 14, ’06. 1270w. |
Galton, Arthur. Church and state in France, 1300–1907. *$3.50. Longmans.
W 7–107.
“Mr. Galton ... begins his exposition with the struggle between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII., where he finds the seeds of Gallicanism. He traces their development through the sixteenth century, till the growth reached its full expansion in the eighteenth. When he enters on the revolutionary period he devotes a great deal of attention to the Constitution Civile, ... He treats, with amplitude, the genesis, character, and scope of the Concordat, and, very properly, with more brevity, the course of events through the restoration, the second republic and the second empire. The last chapter, about eight-five pages, relates the campaign during the third republic down to the law of separation.”—Cath. World.
“It is a lack of the historic sense which is the fault of the Rev. Mr. Galton’s work on the relations between church and state in France. He has written an elaborate pamphlet rather than an historical study.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 337. Ap. 6, ’07. 1780w. |
“The book is one which on literary grounds we cannot commend.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 840w. |
“Mr. Galton’s book is of considerable value, as far as it is an exposition of historic fact. Nor is it valueless, as far as it is an interpretation of these facts, for it provides a good subject for any one who would study the influence of prejudice in the writing of history.”
| + − | Cath. World. 85: 396. Je. ’07. 1350w. |
“The subject is treated of with splendid knowledge, with a fine sense of coherence and proportion, and with a style that is altogether captivating.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 740w. |
“He has an exceptional amount of historical learning ... as well as a pithy and lucid style. His toleration is noticeable.”
| + | Spec. 98: 716. My. 4, ’07. 1650w. |
Gambier, J. W. Links in my life on land and sea. **$3.50. Dutton.
A career which began its adventures in the Baltic fleet during the Crimean war, subsequently continued in Norfolk Island, Rio de Janeiro, Egypt, Cyprus, New Zealand, the Andaman Islands, New Caledonia, China and Japan. After his retirement Captain Gambier acted as correspondent for the London “Times” during the Russo-Turkish war.
“To read his book is to imagine oneself in the privacy of Captain Gambier’s smokingroom, listening to very pleasant after-dinner gossip.”
| + | Acad. 71: 634. D. 22, ’06. 560w. |
“A lively volume written in a sprightly style.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 320w. |
“Commander J. W. Gambier is an unconventional writer; and the rules of grammar are included among the conventions which he overrides. That matters little, however, for he is a breezy writer, with plenty of stories to tell. The book is one to be read by all who enjoy rollicking relations of adventure.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 470w. |
“He writes in a free off-hand manner, and is frequently unrefined, even to coarseness. If the book has literary merit, we have failed to discover it; or any mark of distinction. The author’s comments are, as a rule, commonplace.”
| − | Nation. 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 360w. |
Gamble, William. Straight talks on business. **$1. Jacobs.
7–27365.
Talks for the young man contemplating a business career, for one who is unafraid to think, to work, to sacrifice, who looks upon business not as a pastime, nor as an unpleasant necessity, but as a human duty. The advice has grown out of the experiences of a man who has followed a strenuous business life. He claims no new business philosophy, but puts principles which time has tested into new form better suited to present day needs.
“Though unquestionably ‘straight,’ the advice is rather platitudinous than subtle, and is too informal and discursive to have any considerable technological value.”
| − + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 501. O. ’07. 80w. |
Games book for boys and girls; a volume of old and new pastimes. $2.50. Dutton.
7–35045.
A volume “full of directions for playing scores of indoor games and pastimes for the playground. There are also directions for the collection and preservation of plants, ferns, and seaside objects, for the care of home pets, for indoor gardening, for the making of toys, the tying of knots of many sorts, and for the doing of many other interesting things.”—N. Y. Times.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 21. Ja. ’07. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w. |
Gant, L. W. Elements of electric traction for motormen and others. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A practical handbook intended to serve as an introduction to the more advanced works on electric traction and to supplement various existing handbooks for motormen and others.
“The style is readable and as clear as could be expected in view of the limited space, the large range of topics, and the presumably meager preparation of the reader. The book lacks attractive illustrations.” Henry H. Norris.
| + − | Engin. N. 58: 422. O. 17, ’07. 460w. |
Gardiner, John Hays. Bible as English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–33638.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Perhaps the most interesting and theologically suggestive section of Professor Gardiner’s work is that devoted to the wisdom literature of the New Testament epistles.” Kemper Fullerton.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 667. O. ’07. 590w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 96. Ap. ’07. |
“An admirable manual for the use of students.”
| + | Bib. World. 29: 159. F. ’07. 80w. |
“Professor Gardiner brings to his task an acquaintance with the accepted results of historical criticism and instead of rhapsodizing upon a few selected passages of rhythmical scripture, he investigates the complex sources of that literary charm which it is easier to praise than understand.” John R. Slater.
| + + − | Bib. World. 30: 234. S. ’07. 650w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 81. Ja. ’07. 1760w. |
“From the beginning to the end of the author’s discussion of his great subject, the treatment of it is not only intelligent and reverent; it is singularly vital and inspiring.” M. H. Turk.
| + + | Educ. R. 33: 316. Mr. ’07. 810w. |
“Prof. Gardiner is occasionally led to press his conclusions further than his facts will warrant.” William T. Brewster.
| + + − | Forum. 38: 386. Ja. ’07. 1480w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 789. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w. |
Gardner, Edmund G. King of court poets; a study of the work, life and times of Lodovico Ariosto. *$4. Dutton.
7–6794.
In which Mr. Gardner has combined a sequel to his “Dukes and poets in Ferrara” with a somewhat full study of the life and works of Lodovico Ariosto.
| + + | Acad. 71: 569. D. 8, ’06. 1030w. |
“Mr. Gardner takes a good deal of pains with his authorities, and puts his information together as well as can be expected of any one except a highly trained historian in dealing with that complicated time. The main fault of the book is a certain tendency to verbosity.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 69. Ja. 19. 1510w. |
“The chapters dealing with the poetry of Ariosto are pleasing, but on the whole rather inconclusive. The style of the book is without distinction, and it occasionally lapses into elegance.”
| − + | Dial. 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 150w. |
“The work of Mr. Gardner is not only a biography of Ariosto, and the finest biography of the author of the ‘Orlando furioso’ that has yet appeared in English, but it contains a complete and luminous picture of the political and literary condition of Ferrara from 1500 to 1530.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 803. Ap. 4, ’07. 430w. |
“The work is admirably done, most useful for reference; but it is laboured, and there are barren spaces in which the dry bones of history do not live.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 350. O. 19, ’06. 2270w. |
“Different portions of the book, as they deal with political or literary history, read as if they belonged to different studies, and were bound together by mistake.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 593. Je. 27. ’07. 1010w. | |
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 701. O. 27. ’06. 1830w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.) |
“Is a book in which the scholar may find more to his purpose than the reader who, without any very keen appetite for detailed history and unimportant biographical detail, reads for pleasure and for general information.” Horatio S. Krans.
| + − | Outlook. 84: 1078. D. 29, ’06. 420w. |
“It is with a very sure hand, with all the sobriety of a scholar, albeit not untinged with the agreeable glow of an admirer, that Mr. Gardner writes of Alfonso I. ... and Ludovico Ariosto.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 679. D. 1, ’06. 880w. |
Gardner, Percy. Growth of Christianity. $1.75. Macmillan.
“The theme of the present volume, which is in the form of ten popular lectures, is the relations of Christianity with the various forms of culture and thought with which it has come into contact. The germ of Christianity is found in the Lord’s prayer, and specifically in the petition, ‘Thy will be done,’ and its essential spirit is defined accordingly as a passionate devotion to the will of God as operative in the world.”—Nation.
“No one can read Professor Gardner’s book without respect. It is earnest and lucid, and bears witness of the profound scholarship of its author.”
| + | Acad. 73: 31. O. 19, ’07. 780w. |
“His new book is an able and striking interpretation of the history of the church, from a somewhat unusual point of view.”
| + | Bib. World. 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 60w. |
“The scope and purpose of the book, cast originally for popular lectures, do not allow space for anything more than drawing the broad obvious outlines. When, however, this is done by anyone as deep-versed in antiquity as Dr. Gardner, there is something in the summary presentation by which even professed students may have their vision cleared.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 800w. |
“Dr. Gardner has surveyed the growth and progress of the Christian faith from a very interesting point of view.”
| + | Nation. 85: 331. O. 10, ’07. 700w. |
“The reader will see therefore, that the author’s view of Christian doctrine is not quite that of the ordinary orthodox Churchman. The strongest part of the book is ... where he is displaying his splendid knowledge of Greek and Roman antiquities and their bearing on church life and belief.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 380w. |
Garland, Hamlin. Long trail. †$1.25. Harper.
7–15590.
A narrative of the hardships of Jack Henderson, a Minnesota boy, in company with two master-trailers, who together brave the dangers of the old Telegraph trail to the Yukon gold fields. “Cold and heat, hunger and thirst, the love of gold, and the rivalry of fierce men go to make up the vivid and varied life.”
“Interesting to men and boys especially.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 201. N. ’07. |
“This is an excellent book for a boy’s holiday reading, thoroughly wholesome and stimulating, and in no part dull.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 100w. |
“Has the healthful, breezy traits that mark Mr. Garland’s other western tales.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 160w. |
“It is perfectly safe, however, to say that if ‘The long trail’ does prove to contain the quality which tickles youthful palates, it may be given to the young without a shade of misgiving as to their finding it entirely wholesome provender.”
| + | Nation. 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 160w. |
“The striking quality of this new book ... is the startling and realistic effect of its utter simplicity.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 350w. |
Garland, Hamlin. [Money magic: a novel.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–32322.
By the magic of money, Bertha, a true type of the girl of the new West, is lifted from the hot office of her mother’s wayside hotel to the giddy heights of mistress of a millionaire’s establishment. This change of fortune however, brings with it a helpless old cripple of a husband, an ex-gambler whom she had pluckily married out of loyalty when she thought him dying. Her story is one of development and character expansion under these strange conditions until she is at last free to call her own that happiness which she has so long and nobly denied herself.
“By some the story may be thought a trifle too long; but it is good stirring narrative thruout, and the development of character through incident and emotional crises is highly interesting.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 200w. |
“Is far and away the best and most significant novel that Mr. Garland has written in many years. It has perspective, it is firm of plot, rich in colour, full of movement, unflaggingly interesting, its characters are deftly and understandingly individualised—it has the semblance of life.” A. Schade van Westrum.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 417. D. ’07. 690w. |
“There is a certain amount of truth in this narrative, and fairly effective characterizations, although the latter must be described as crude rather than subtle. Mr. Garland, has done much better work than this, and will, we trust, do it again.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 240w. |
“His people, however, will disappoint the expectations raised in their favor, and will, somehow, show coarse streaks in their composition of which the author is hopelessly unconscious.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1177. N. 14, ’07. 350w. | |
| Nation. 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 230w. |
“An interesting study of the mixed life in a western city.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w. | |
| + − | Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 160w. |
Garland, James Smith. New England town law: a digest of statutes and decisions concerning towns and town officers. *$6.50. Boston bk.
6–31416.
“This valuable volume consists of two very distinct parts. The first eighty-three pages are taken up with in an interesting review of the origin, development and present status of the New England town. The second part of the book presents the first systematic compilation of the laws of the New England states in relation to towns and town government.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“Intended mainly to serve a practical purpose.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 723. Ap. ’07. 40w. |
“The volume is an excellent beginning in a sort of work in which as yet but little has been accomplished in the United States.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 213. Ja. ’07. 380w. |
“The introduction ... is of interest to many persons other than the officers and lawyers who will use the body of the work.”
| + | Nation. 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 140w. |
“A complete, although succinctly written and compactly arranged, compendium of the law of the different states of New England relating to towns and town government.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 90w. |
Garratt, Herbert A. Principles of mechanism: being a short treatise on the kinematics and dynamics of machines. $1.10. Longmans.
“A book for students who are under the guidance of an instructor, rather than a complete treatise for general use. It is divided into two general parts, Kinematics of machines and Dynamics of machines. In the former the principles of the forms of mechanisms are considered, no attention being given to the efficiencies of such mechanisms, to the masses moved or to the forces exerted. In the latter part, the dynamics of certain simple mechanical motions are considered.”—Engin. N.
“For the class-room work, as a text to be supplemented by extensive lectures, the book has a use, but it is not complete enough for the general student. Too much has been left out for the purpose of affording ‘a clear perception of the anatomy of the skeleton.’” Amasa Trowbridge.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 260w. |
Garrick, David. Some unpublished correspondence of David Garrick; ed. by G: Pierce Baker. *$7.50. Houghton.
7–26122.
Some forty letters and manuscripts are included with an interesting reproduction of portions of the marriage agreement between Garrick and Mlle. Violette. “If of somewhat less moment than the author deems it as a contribution to Garrick lore, it will nevertheless be sought eagerly by theatrical connoisseurs for the excellence of its typography and the beauty of its illustrations, which show the great actor at different periods of his life and in various characters, and afford material for an interesting study in physiognomy. Several of the portraits will be new to most readers.” (Nation.)
“In lack of an index, page-headings to show who is being addressed by the writer would have been very welcome; sometimes it is impossible to determine this without some search, or to ascertain at once the probable date of a letter.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + − | Dial. 43: 201. O. 1, ’07. 1610w. |
“With Mr. Baker the work of editing evidently has been a labor of love, as is proved by his ample explanatory notes, but it is unlikely that the ordinary reader will find in the letters the significance which the editor seems to attach to them.”
| + | Nation. 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 540w. |
“This volume of hitherto unpublished letters contains a sufficiently interesting collection to make it worth owning, although not a few of the epistles, as one invariably finds in the books of ‘correspondence,’ suggest no particular reason for publication beyond their signature and quaint style.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 790w. |
Garrod, H. W. Religion of all good men, and other studies in Christian ethics. **$1.20. McClure.
6–42406.
In the main a paradoxical contention that Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah.
| − | Ath. 1906, 1: 697. Je. 9. 820w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 208. F. ’07. 1930w. |
“I think that the worth of the book very far outweighs such faults as it may possess—these latter being, indeed, such necessary accompaniments of perfect straightforwardness that we could not wish them absent. It will do any man good to read such virile words,—and if they harm him, he is not worthy to withstand the gods.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
| + − | Dial. 42: 79. F. 1, ’07. 1280w. |
Reviewed by St. George Stock.
| − | Hibbert J. 4: 945. Jl. ’06. 1300w. |
“The spectacle of a sincere man disavowing Christianity because it is not good enough is sufficiently novel to pique one’s interest, and whoso is drawn by curiosity to Mr. Garrod’s pages will find his attention kept alert.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w. |
“The title of the book is distinctly attractive, and the book itself is decidedly interesting. There is learning in it, and undoubted ability behind it. Written from a frankly naturalistic standpoint, it is singularly free from bitterness and narrowness.” James Lindsay.
| + − | Int. J. Ethics. 18: 108. O. ’07. 1770w. |
“This thesis Mrs. Garrod defends with much skill and it can scarcely be denied that important truth at least lies close beside his propositions.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 270. Mr. 21, ’07. 380w. |
“These ‘studies in Christian ethics’ one chapter of which gives this volume its attractive but quickly disappointing title, are not such as to call for serious consideration.”
| − | Outlook. 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 140w. |
“A volume of five attractively written essays on religious subjects.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w. |
“He has written a smart book, in which the flippant theology is not meant perhaps to be taken very seriously. But was it worth while printing these essays merely to make elderly dons’ flesh creep? What he takes for audacity and courage may be regarded by his readers as only impudence.”
| − + | Sat. R. 101: 759. Je. 16, ’06. 950w. |
Garst, Rev. Henry. Otterbein university. *75c. Un. breth.
The story of the founding of a Christian college, the evolution of the thoughts, opinions, convictions that are back of its material growth and progress.
Garvie, Alfred Ernest. Guide to preachers. *$1.50. Armstrong.
“Laymen who would qualify themselves to preach acceptably and effectively—and there is need of many such—will find this an eminently helpful book. It covers the whole subject—the Biblical, doctrinal, homiletical, rhetorical conditions of preaching and reasoning suitable to the needs of the modern world. Such subsidiary matters as language, literary style, elocution, and delivery receive proportionate treatment.”—Outlook.
“Its counsels are in harmony with sound scholarship and conform to good taste.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 100w. |
“There is no other book that so well meets the present want.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w. |
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson). Works of Mrs. Gaskell. 8v. ea. $1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + + | Acad. 71: 519. N. 24, ’06. 1500w. (Review of v. 1–8.) |
“The edition, with its informing introductions, will take its place in all well-constituted libraries.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 801. D. 22. 110w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.) | |
| + + | Nation. 84: 221. Mr. 7. 130w. (Review of v. 4–8.) |
“Excellent new dress.”
| + | Nation. 84: 331. Ap. 11. ’07. 3370w. (Review of v. 1–8.) |
“Dr. Ward ... has performed his task with exquisite taste, grace, and zeal.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 878. D. 15, ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1–8.) |
Gates, Eleanor. Good-night; il. by Arthur Rackham. †50c. Crowell.
7–20865.
The quaint story of a very human parrot that scattered the padre’s fuchsias but fought desperately with the cat to save a little canary’s life.
Gates, Eleanor. [Plow-woman.] †$1.50. McClure.
6–34690.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is decidedly a book to read.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 317. Mr. 16. 210w. |
“Is a capital story, in spite of an indulgence in contrast amounting almost to an abuse.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 360w. |
“There is distinction, refreshment and reality about her descriptions of the Dakota prairie, an original charm also about Dallas, the plow-woman, so long as she follows the lean mule in the brown furrow, but that is the best that can be said.”
| + − | Ind. 61: 1570. D. 27, ’06. 300w. |
Gates, Herbert Wright. Life of Jesus: a manual for teachers. 75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–36267.
A manual designed to accompany the outline course on the life of Jesus which has been prepared for intermediate grades of the Bible school.
“The ‘Manual’ and ‘Note book’ taken together promise to be a valuable aid in teaching the life of Christ to children.”
| + | Bib. World. 28: 352. N. ’07. 110w. |
“Deserves commendation.”
| + | Nation. 85: 516. D. 5, ’07. 130w. |
Gayley, Charles Mills. Plays of our forefathers. **$3.50. Duffield.
7–30422.
An account of the origin and development of the early miracle and morality plays of which “Everyman” has become so famous an example, illustrated with reproductions of old wood-cuts. The author’s scholarship is everywhere in evidence as well as his keen delight in histrionism, for, he says, “to laugh and weep, to worship and to revel for a season, in the manner and spirit of our ancestors, were infinitely more pleasing than the pride of controversy or the pursuit of scientific ends.”
“His book is not only one to be commended to the scholar but to be enjoyed by the general reader.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
| + + | Dial. 43: 282. N. 1, ’07. 970w. |
“As a reference work, it is hard to exceed this for completeness, but its interest is for the specialist alone.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1311. N. 28, ’07. 710w. |
“A charming book, which may be recommended to the general reader as the best introduction to the subject at the same time that it possesses a value for the specialist.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 523. D. 5, ’07. 800w. |
“He has made a good book which every one interested in the theatre will be glad to own, and the borrowing fiend loathe to return.” Anna Marble.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 220w. |
Genung, John Franklin. Hebrew literature of wisdom in the light of to-day: a synthesis. **$2. Houghton.
6–39461.
An interpretation of the inner and spiritual menacing of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes which can be applied to the life of to-day.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 42. F. ’07. |
“The style sometimes offends a severe taste, and we had rather not believe that monstrosities like ‘factual’ belong to the literary idiom of to-day—or to-morrow.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 190w. |
“Presented in a thoroughly readable and interesting form.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 298. Je. 8, ’07. 330w. |
Genung, John Franklin. The idylls and the ages. **75c. Crowell.
7–26418.
A companion study to “Stevenson’s attitude to life.” It is an inquiry into the permanent value of Tennyson’s epic “The idylls of the king.” The primary aim of this volume “is neither eulogy nor criticism, but what Walter Pater has taught us to call appreciation.”
“Our quarrel with it is chiefly for its literary cant and esoteric eloquence, its lack of the prose point of view.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 180w. |
George, 2d duke of Cambridge. George duke of Cambridge: a memoir of his private life based on the journals and correspondence of His Royal Highness, ed. by Edgar Sheppard. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–28494.
“Born a few years after Waterloo, in 1819, the Duke of Cambridge lived in four reigns, and was actually present at two coronations. At the time of his birth he was the first direct descendant of George III., and but for the birth of the Princess Victoria, a few months later than his own he might have reigned as George V., and there is good reason to suppose that he would have proved an excellent sovereign. This memoir not only tells the story of a long life of usefulness and honor, but it also reveals with much clearness an interesting and lovable personality, and gives us, incidentally, many suggestive portraits of military and political leaders.”—N. Y. Times.
“Dr. Edgar Sheppard might have done well to condense the ‘memoirs of his private life’ into one volume instead of filling two.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 591. D. 1, ’06. 1840w. | |
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1610w. |
“The editor has done his work with taste and discretion. The portraits are interesting, and there is a satisfactory index.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1100w. |
“The book has some interest and even value, but these scarcely correspond to its size and what we may even describe as its pretensions.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 58. Ja. 12, ’07. 530w. |
George, Henry, jr. Romance of John Bainbridge. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–37965.
Part of the incidents in Mr. George’s story are taken from the life of his late father. “Being the son of his father and also himself, it was doubtless inevitable that Mr. George should attempt to make out of his novel a lesson in economics. His theme is the iniquity of giving public service franchises to private individuals or corporations, and the resultant political corruption.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Dealing as this novel does with the questions which are pressing for immediate solution, makes it one of the really important romances for all reformers and patriots to read.”
| + + | Arena. 37: 100. Ja. ’07. 3990w. |
“This is a wholesome novel of the life of to-day. It is we believe, the author’s first long work of fiction, altho there is nothing in the style to indicate this fact.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 170w. | |
| Nation. 83: 391. D. 8, ’06. 40w. |
“He might have cut and slashed and blue penciled a fourth of his copy with advantage to the rest. Wrapped up in the plot of Mr. George’s novel there is a good story, an exceedingly good story.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 903. D. 29, ’06. 380w. |
“While there are parts of the story that too thinly for artistic effect disguise the especial message that Mr. George feels himself commissioned to utter, the tale is well told and worth telling.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
Geronimo (Apache chief). [Geronimo’s story of his life]; taken down and edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.
6–35725.
Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 67. Mr. ’07. S. |
Gibbs, Josiah W. Scientific papers of J. Willard Gibbs. 2v. v. 1. *$5; v. 2. *$4. Longmans.
Agr 7–1540.
Professor Gibbs’s scattered papers on scientific subjects have been collected and published in two imposing volumes. The first includes his papers on the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances and on thermodynamics; the second contains twenty-one papers, chief among which are those occupied with the author’s calculus called “vector analysis.”
“For profound thought and power of generalization and abstract formulation no American scientist has equaled Willard Gibbs.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 50w. |
“The work of Gibbs may be said to round off the constructive stage of one of the most far-reaching scientific advances of the nineteenth century—the unravelling of the formal scheme of relations which guides the transformation of dead matter, as it is now set forth in the doctrine of thermodynamics.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 90. Mr. 22, ’07. 1960w. |
“In every way (except by an index) recommends itself to the liking of friends of American science.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 92. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w. |
“The papers have been edited with great care by Henry Andrews Bumstead and Ralph Gibbs van Name, and the former, in the biographical notice prefixed, discusses with knowledge the scientific work done by Willard Gibbs and gives a clear-cut picture of the man himself.” C. G. K.
| + + | Nature. 75: 361. F. 14, ’07. 1340w. |
Gibbs, Philip. Men and women of the French revolution. *$7. Lippincott.
7–8230.
Not a history but a psychological study of some of the actors in the great drama, so arranged that the thread of the narrative is not confused or lost.
“A readable, but rather sketchy account of a number of the leading personages of that period.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 513. O. 27. 330w. |
“In thus deviating from the beaten path of history and giving rather free play to his own fancy in this ‘psychological study,’ the author has produced a work more attractive in some respects than the formal chronicles of the period.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + | Dial. 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 210w. |
“Mr. Gibbs has succeeded in producing a book that is more readable (especially to those who dote on adjectives) than our old friend Dryasdust’s, but there is a certain persistent striving for dramatic effect and high phrases that gives the narrative a false note very often.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 540w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 80w. |
“Although the value of Mr. Gibbs’s work is seriously impaired by an extremely florid and somewhat popular style, it is to some extent redeemed by his dramatic power, while in spite of some inaccuracies it is manifestly clear that he has obtained his information from no second hand sources.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 780w. |
“The book, though somewhat grandiose in style, is just the sort to spur on an indolent reader to make the acquaintance of other, and possibly more accurate, works on the French revolution. But the inaccuracies are manifold and distressing, and not the less so that, in some cases, they seem to be the result of pure carelessness.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 870w. |
“Its style is popular, vivid and realistic. Mr. Gibbs has a command of strong epithets, and knows how to describe what his imagination presents to him.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 766. N. 17, ’06. 180w. |
* Gibson, Charles R. Romance of modern photography. **$1.50. Lippincott.
No attempt is made in this volume “to offer suggestions to the picture-taker, but again step by step the growth of the art is discussed through the changes, from daguerrotypes to the latest improved methods; and from the toy known as the zoetrope—with which children used to amuse themselves—to the latest moving picture.” (Nation.)
| Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w. |
“We have found some of the most interesting pages in Mr. Gibson’s book to be those describing the processes of reproduction for illustrations. A great deal of space and pains have been devoted to colour-photography and its difficulties, and some of this description has not attracted us much. Once or twice, in the earlier pages, Mr. Gibson might have been a little clearer if he had been a little more categorical.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 639. N. 2, ’07. 750w. |
Gibson, Thomas. Pitfalls of speculation. *$1. Moody pub.
6–33639.
“The author of this little treatise undertakes to demonstrate that business methods are applicable to speculation, and that, when so applied, speculation itself becomes a ‘safe business.’... Chapters are devoted to Ignorance and over-speculation, Manipulation, Accidents, Business methods in speculation, Market technicalities, Tips, Mechanical speculation, Short selling, What 500 speculative accounts showed, Grain speculation, and Suggestions as to intelligent methods. The book treats mainly of speculative deals on margins, which are regarded as entirely legitimate forms of speculative trading.”—J. Pol. Econ.
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 100w. |
“Mr. Gibson’s reasons against speculating are unanswerable, but we part company with him in the idea that he can teach successful speculation to any considerable number of scholars.” Edward A. Bradford.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 754. N. 17, ’06. 1640w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 80w. |
* Gibson, W. R. Boyce. Rudolph Eucken’s philosophy of life. 2d ed. *$1.40. Macmillan.
This second edition includes an appendix dealing with Professor Eucken’s doctrine of “activism” whose difference from pragmatism is explained in the following: “The pragmatism which has lately made so much headway, especially among English-speaking peoples, is more inclined to shape the world and life in accordance with human conditions and human needs, than to invest spiritual activity with an independence in relation to these, and apply its standards to the testing and sifting of the whole content of our human life.”
“In point of form the book suffers manifestly from the circumstances of its origin. In spirit and tone, however, it is attractive, and the reader can hardly fail to be favourably impressed by the competence of the author for his task, both in the matter of zeal and of knowledge.” Alexander Mair.
| + − | Int. J. Ethics. 18: 124. O. ’07. 790w. (Review of 1st ed.) |
“An excellent statement of Eucken’s practical philosophy.”
| + | Nation. 85: 326. O. 10, ’07. 200w. (Review of 2d ed.) |
“But whether or not we assent to the author’s conclusions concerning the future influence of Eucken’s philosophy, this statement of it should find many readers, as a very compact and useful résumé of the interesting and stimulating point of view.” Edmund H. Hollands.
| + − | Philos. R. 16: 548. S. ’07. 950w. (Review of 1st ed.) |
Giddings, Franklin Henry, ed. Readings in descriptive and historical sociology. *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–39002.
“Mainly illustrative of sociological theory as given in his preceding works, and also in part an expansion of that theory. Its framework is an elaborate outline of theory given in definitions and propositions. Its filling is composed of select readings illustrative of this, gathered from all times and from peoples in every stage of social development, as found in literature and laws, official records, legends, and newspapers.”—Outlook.
“The reviewer wishes to add that while these remarks are mainly critical in character, they express rather the deep interest which he has in the fundamental issues which Professor Giddings’ book raises than any desire to ignore the many positive merits which the book has, and which will certainly secure it a wide reading among those who are interested in the sources of sociological theory and in the author’s own theory of their value and interpretation for a science of society.” H. Heath Bawden.
| + − | Am. J. Soc. 12: 845. My. ’07. 3900w. |
“It is much more than its title indicates, for it contains, besides a careful selection of readings, an outline of sociological theory which, in many particulars, is new and interesting.” Charles A. Ellwood.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 232. Ja. ’07. 630w. |
Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.
| + | Charities. 17: 472. D. 15, ’06. 430w. |
“The selections cover a wide field and show extensive and patient research. The greater part of these would probably be unavailable for the general student were he obliged to go to the sources himself.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w. |
“The puzzle seems to be: Fit these extracts, if you can, into the author’s general scheme of sociological classification and terminology. The value of it all we shall leave to those who have the courage to try it.”
| − | Nation. 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 450w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 260w. |
“The book will be of great value to the isolated student and teacher.”
| + + | Yale R. 15: 467. F. ’07. 220w. |
Gilbert, Charles Benajah. School and its life. $1.25. Silver.
6–21911.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The fact that the book lacks continuity diminishes its value, but the treatment of some subjects ... shows a grasp of the real situation and a breadth of vision born only of real contact with a great system of schools. The benefits of co-operation applied to parent, teacher, and pupil are clearly shown.” J. Stanley Brown.
| + − | El. School T. 7: 368. F. ’07. 220w. |
“This book, it seems to me, is one of the significant educational contributions of the year. What makes it significant is in large part the rare combination of philosophic insight with a wealth of practical experience.” Irving E. Miller.
| + + | School R. 15: 228. Mr. ’07. 780w. |
Gilbert, George Holley. Short history of Christianity in the apostolic age. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–41055.
“This is a proper sequel to ‘Constructive studies on the life of Christ’ by Professors Burton and Mathews.... That work was based on the gospels; this is concerned with the remainder of the New Testament. Its successive portions first narrate events and comment upon them, then propose questions and suggestions for study, with supplementary topics and references to literature.... The volume is finely illustrated.”—Outlook.
“The material is conveniently divided, and interestingly and ably treated.”
| + + | Bib. World. 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w. | |
| Ind. 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 50w. | ||
| + + | Outlook. 85: 141. Ja. 19, ’07. 180w. |
Gilbert, Nelson Rust. Affair at Pine Court: a tale of the Adirondacks. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30455.
A fashionable house party at a New Yorker’s country home in the Adirondacks is made the scene of this tale of love, mystery and adventure. A Pomeranian count arouses the greed of the humble natives by exhibiting the wonderful “Lens of the Grau” in the presence of his host’s butler. These envious enemies of the rich pleasure seekers at the court put the house in a state of siege during which each guest displays his or her real character and all ends in safety and happiness.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of William Blake; ed. with introd. by W. Graham Robertson, il. *$3.50. Lane.
W 6–375.
A reprint of a standard source for facts and personal interpretation of Blake’s life. To the illustrations appearing in the original edition, Mr. Robertson has added a number of colour prints, drawings, etc. from his own notable Blake collection, thus emphasizing particularly the fame of Blake the painter.
Reviewed by A. Clutton-Brock.
| + + | Acad. 71: 524. N. 24, ’06. 900w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 240w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 169. F. ’07. 1100w. | ||
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 282. Ja. ’07. 690w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 210w. | |
| Lond. Times. 6: 12. Ja. 11, ’07. 1370w. |
“This reprint is admirable from the point of view of the general reader, and, by reason of its illustrations, necessary also to the special student.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 160w. | |
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 708. D. 8, ’06. 340w. | |
| + + | Spec. 97: 826. N. 24, ’06. 230w. |
Gilchrist, Edward. Tiles from a porcelain tower. *$1.25. Riverside press, Cambridge, Mass.
6–45067.
A volume of verse chief among whose poems are “those more expressly from the Porcelain tower, ‘the pride and symbol of Cathay,’ wherein the decaying splendors of the East are expressed with both imagination and humor.” (Nation.) There are also included some translations from the Greek, Danish, Russian and the Chinese.
“The lyrics of a reflective mind, but their flow is far from musical—a defect due in part to the frequent collocation of ill-matched vocables, and in part to the fact that the movement is too much clogged with ideas.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 210w. |
“Mr. Gilchrist has plainly done a good deal of rather virile thinking, and as he has made his ingeniously plotted verse the vehicle rather for his notion than for his moods, his work has much of the peculiar pithiness that marked the work of the concettists in their less fantastic vein.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 340w. |
* Gilder, Richard Watson. Fire divine. **$1. Century.
7–32109.
This volume adds sixty new pieces to the poetry of the author, including memorial verses on Carl Schurz, George Macdonald, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich; poems to music and musicians; and a requiem for Augustus Saint-Gaudens, entitled “Under the stars.”
| N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
Gillespie, G. Curtis. Rumford fireplaces, and how they are made. $2. Comstock, W: T.
7–11989.
“A reprint of Count Rumford’s essay on Fireplaces is here accompanied by a discussion of the same subject by Mr. Gillespie. In the course of his discussion ... Mr. Gillespie introduced a number or drawings and sketches of his own, illustrating fireplaces designed by him, of the so-called Rumford type ... also mantels of his own design, and reproductions of views of a large number of fireplaces, andirons, and the like, both mediaeval and modern.”—Engin. N.
| Engin. N. 57: 436. Ap. 18, ’07. 90w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 154. Mr. 16, ’07. 110w. | ||
| Technical Literature. 1: 224. My. ’07. 60w. |
Gilman, Bradley. Open secret of Nazareth. **$1. Crowell.
6–26086.
“Ten letters written by Bartimaeus, whose eyes were opened, to Thomas, a seeker after truth.” A traveler in the Holy Land writes his impressions and conviction to a friend at home. “‘The open secret’ which Jesus strove to impart—the truth which, however evident, eludes so many—is that of the Consecrated will—the active endeavor on all the small or serious occasions presenting themselves at the cross-roads of daily life to identify one’s self with the divine will of pure goodness to all our fellows.”—Outlook.
“It is suffused with devotional feeling and animated with poetic imagination, but clear in moral insight.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 180w. |
Gilman, Lawrence. Music of to-morrow, and other studies. *$1.25. Lane.
7–10576.
Mr. Gilman “attempts to prophesy what will be the general character of the music of the next half-century. He admits the temerity of the attempt, but argues boldly and convincingly. His broad general dictum is that the permanent elements of the music of the future will have to do with ‘that region of experience which lies over the borderland of our spiritual consciousness.’ It will forsake the ‘incessant exploitation of the dynamic element in life’ and urge us to listen for ‘the vibrations of the spirit beneath.’”—R. of Rs.
“The general impression left by this book is that on the whole the title has been well chosen. Mr. Lawrence Gilman gives expression to some interesting ideas about music held by himself in common with enthusiastic modern thinkers.”
| + | Acad. 72: 126. F. 2, ’07. 440w. |
“The best written and conceived essay in Mr. Gilman’s interesting little volume is that devoted to Claude Debussy, the poet and dreamer. I do not care much for his Liszt essay. It does not dig enough into the subject. Mr. Gilman’s book is interesting, at times gracefully written, and strives to understand the music of to-day. This latter quality is in itself a critical feat, for in critic-land we usually face the setting sun.” James Huneker.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 32. Mr. ’07. 1120w. |
Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.
| + | Dial. 42: 224. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 340w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 869. D. 15, ’06. 490w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 100w. | |
| Spec. 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w. |
Gilman, Lawrence. Strauss’ “Salome;” a guide to the opera; with musical il. *$1. Lane.
7–18584.
A guide containing a description of the drama, a full analysis of Strauss’s score, also musical illustration and examples.
| Current Literature. 42: 294. Mr. ’07. 2410w. | ||
| Dial. 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 40w. |
“It will be a useful guide for those who desire to reach below the surface of Strauss’s remarkable book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 180w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w. |
* Giry, Arthur, and Reville, Andre. Emancipation of the mediaeval towns; tr. and ed. by Frank Greene Bates and Paul Emerson Titsworth. (Historical miscellany.) pa. 50c. Holt.
7–20319.
A translation of chapter 8 of the second volume of Lavisse and Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale.’ It covers in four chapters the rise of towns in France: The origins, The communal revolution, The communes and Towns of burgessy and new towns.
“In this terse, closely compact monograph no space has been devoted to fine writing. We have here a concise and clearly intelligible account of those communities in the middle ages which were the precursors of our modern commonwealths.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 230w. |
“In its field it is unsurpassed; and the general student will learn more by studying the vivid picture which it presents than he could hope to learn by attacking at the start the whole question of municipal organization, in all its uncertainties and complexities. The translators have done their work well; especially do they deserve commendation for accepting frankly the terms for which there is really no English equivalent.”
| + + | Yale R. 16: 334. N. ’07. 140w. |
Given, John La Porte. Making a newspaper. **$1.50. Holt.
7–16382.
“A detailed account of the business, editorial, reportorial, and manufacturing organization of the daily newspaper in a large city.” The author’s deductions are made from his own large newspaper experience. He shows how editors gain their information and how all classes of civilization contribute consciously or unconsciously, to the daily record of happenings. In addition to chapters covering the general workings of the newspaper, he discusses such subjects as preparing for journalism, getting a situation, prizes in journalism, with the printers, and the money-making department.
“Interesting, apparently trustworthy, journalistic in style.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 165. O. ’07. S. |
“Clearly and forcibly written for the most part, but somewhat painfully devoid of idealism.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 261. S. 7. 1880w. |
“Interesting and seemingly trustworthy account of all branches of his profession.”
| + | Dial. 43: 18. Jl. 1. ’07. 310w. |
“The book will occupy a place on the literary journalist’s shelf beside Mr. E. L. Shuman’s ‘Practical journalism,’ and, while it will not wholly supersede the Chicagoan’s brisk lively compendium, it possesses the peculiar merit of giving the most comprehensive and thorogoing account of New York newspaper making that has so far found its way into print.”
| + | Ind. 63: 399. Ag. 15. ’07. 380w. |
“Within its lines it is excellent.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 70w. |
“Mr. Given’s style is clear and trenchant, his phrases well chosen, and the entire book is good reading for any one.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 190. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 139. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w. |
“He understands his subject, or as much of it as he has cared to write about, as well as any one man could be expected to understand it, and his writing is lucid.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 200w. |
Glazier, Richard. [Manual of historic ornament.] *$2. Scribner.
A second edition revised and enlarged. It is surprising how many examples of the ornament of past ages in many countries “have been collected together in this book, with its clear pen drawings. These include not only architecture, but glass, silver, ivory, carpets, furniture, china, and sculpture. There is a running commentary which clearly indicates the main outlines of the subject.” (Spec.)
“Useful handbook.”
| + | Int. Studio. 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 250w. |
“For a book devoted avowedly to ‘ornament’ there is an unexpected amount of care and thoughtful analysis given to architecture in the larger sense of construction, disposition, and ordonnance. There is no index of consequence. On this account one doubts the practical utility of the book. The general tendency of the book is to be praised.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 345. Ap. 11, ’07. 390w. | |
| + | Spec. 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 80w. |
Gloag, M. R. Book of English gardens; il. by Katharine Montagu Wyatt. $2. Macmillan.
7–2583.
An introductory sketch of gardening “from Eden onwards” precedes a description of thirteen famous English “out-of-door drawingrooms.” Among them are Abbotsbury, Beckett, Sutton Place, Brownsea Island and Wrest Park. “The author has interwoven with her various descriptions and appreciations historical and genealogical facts agreeable to a gossiping palate.” (Ath.)
“The writing is easy and unpretentious; and the illustrations are effective.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 621. N. 17. 210w. |
“The book is full of laboriously collected information connected with the family history of the owners of the famous houses and gardens in England. They are the homes and gardens of the titled rich. The book has the interest of an old curio.”
| + | Ind. 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 210w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 250w. |
“It is more than possible that the text of this attractive volume was written to fit the pictures, and hence it is not surprising that there is a misfit here and there. But despite the imperfect coördination, the treatment is admirable in its way.”
| + − | Nation. 84:208. F. 28, ’07. 300w. |
“Such a volume needs no recommendation.”
| + | Spec. 97: 407. S. 22, ’06. 100w. |
Glyn, Elinor. [Three weeks.] †$1.50. Duffield.
7–21536.
A brief story which is an exaltation of sensuous fascination into an affair of the soul and which casts the moral law to the four winds of heaven. A titled young Englishman is sent away from home to be cured of his love for a rural English girl with red hands. In Paris he meets and falls in love with the queen of a Russian dependency, “infinitely sinuous and attractive” who is residing at his hotel incognito. They yield entirely to the sway of their love which the author’s art aims to transform into the poetry of sentiment. They suffer the agony of it in separation followed by tragedy.
“She is too desperately anxious to shock her middle-class readers and impress them with upholstery of her high-born heroine. The result is that you laugh a little and yawn a little and are not shocked at all, but only rather bored by a vulgar and extremely silly story.”
| − | Acad. 72: 635. Je. 29, ’07. 320w. |
“It is not in the least amusing, and the sentiments it evokes in others are both cynical and disagreeable.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 755. Je. 22. 200w. |
“‘Misrepresentation and misunderstanding’ are bound to be her portion, because she has slapped down a host of immaturities on the most perilous of subjects, making the venture bravely with a limited capital of expression and insight.”
| − | Lit. D. 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 310w. |
“The whole leaves a bewildering doubt—has Elinor Glyn become perfectly indifferent to her reputation or, by any mischance, is she beginning to take herself seriously?”
| − | Nation. 85: 328. O. 10, ’07. 170w. |
“Ethics may require that a tale be lewd; but it’s a crime for it to be stupid.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 580. S. 28, ’07. 640w. |
“She sets out to write a story of mere animal passion, but she succumbed to the atmosphere of the moral idea, which is still characteristic of literature in these islands, and she ended in a melodrama.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 754. Je. 15, ’07. 570w. |
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence. Life and letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin; ed. by Rollo Ogden. 2v. **$4. Macmillan.
7–12877.
An interesting biography written by one who knew Mr. Godkin personally and who writes appreciatively of the many phases of the man who left Ireland in his youth, was for 35 years a conspicuous figure in New York journalism, and exercised a great influence in American political and social life. The story of his life naturally throws many side lights upon the men and politics of his day.
“It is unfortunate that the arrangement of the display is so defective. There is no table of contents and no outline of topics. The division into chapters might as well have been omitted, or else made to mean something. The index seems imperfect, and worst of all, the chronology of the story is ofttimes in a hopeless jumble.” Charles H. Levermore.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 168. O. ’07. 950w. |
“It has rarely been our pleasure to read a work at once so interesting and valuable as this.” Charles Lee Raper.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 612. N. ’07. 1080w. |
“The reader is now and then admitted with fair discretion into the privacies of Godkin’s life. But the book hardly, perhaps, does justice to its subject, and a slipshod index in no way atones for the absence of a table of the contents of its ill-arranged chapters.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 752. Je. 22. 1750w. |
Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 421. S. ’07. 2160w. |
“It is marvellously clever editing, but it lacks something which enters into really great biographies. We miss that full and intimate characterisation which Mr. Ogden is so admirably qualified to give. His method suggests either indolence or a wrong perception of what a book should be. Here we have pearls, not strung, perhaps, at random, but still suggestive of a too great self-suppression on the part of him who strung them. The book is immensely interesting.” Richard W. Kemp.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 2700w. |
“The work of Mr. Ogden on these volumes has been admirably done. With an editorial self-suppression which finds its best parallel in the work of Professor Norton, he has given us Mr. Godkin’s story from Mr. Godkin’s own pen, supplying only the connecting links without which that story could not be fully understood.” W. H. Johnson.
| + | Dial. 42: 216. Ap. 1, ’07. 2120w. |
“Mr. Godkin knew every one who was worth knowing both in public and private life, and his comments are singularly keen, even when they are hasty and unfair. Moreover, these memoranda cover a long and interesting period of history.” Harry Thurston Peck.
| + | Forum. 39: 100. Jl. ’07. 1270w. |
“Taken collectively the correspondence forms an unusually instructive study of a man whose being was almost exclusively political.”
| + | Ind. 63: 568. S. 5, ’07. 1000w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 140w. |
“[The volumes] have distinct value and interest.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w. |
“There is far too much padding in his two volumes, consisting of copious extracts from Godkin’s early journalistic correspondence.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1300w. |
“Both in the selection and in the arrangement of all this material, Mr. Ogden has performed his task with admirable taste and skill.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 2440w. |
“Mr. Ogden has done the work of editing with great modesty and with good judgment.” Edward Cary.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 2000w. |
“Nothing within our knowledge compares with them in the vivid portrayal of current affairs during the last half of the last century. They will be for a long time to come a repertory from which the historian and the essayist will draw their facts.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 294. Je. 8, ’07. 1900w. |
“This book of Mr. Odgen’s is less the biography of an individual than it is the revelation of just how the silent but irresistible forces of political and social change are fostered and directed until they have done their perfect work.” Harry Thurston Peck.
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 520. S. ’07. 670w. |
“Is a biography of the best, containing in its two plump volumes a minimum of excellent commentary, and a maximum of invaluable documentary material.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 110. O. ’07. 390w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 635. My. ’07. 240w. |
“We earnestly recommend every thinking man, who values the principles of honesty, decency and rationality in the public life of his country, to read every word of these two volumes, and ponder well upon their significance.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 82. Jl. 20, ’07. 1670w. |
“As a biography, indeed, it is open to some criticism. It does not follow the rules on which most memoirs are composed.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 797. My. 18, ’07. 1430w. |
Goe, David E., ed. Transaction of business, by Sir Arthur Helps [with], How to win a fortune, by Andrew Carnegie; [and other essays]. $1. Forbes.
These practical papers on business are offered to the merchant and manufacturers who will relish their wit, wisdom, and advice. Such subjects as; Choice and management of agents, Interviews, Secrecy, Our judgment of other men, Analyzing of a business proposition, Delays, and expense, are discussed by men who have succeeded.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Goethe’s Faust, erster teil; ed. with introd. and commentary by Julius Goebel. *$1.12. Holt.
7–11976.
The text of this edition of the first part of Faust is that of Erich Schmidt, in the Jubiläumsausgabe of Goethe’s works, to which the editor has added an illuminating introduction and excellent notes.
“Altogether, this edition of Faust is a credit to American scholarship and an important step in the development of sound methods in the academic study of German literature.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 330w. |
“He has been able to vitalize rather than stifle the imagination in reading the poet’s pages, and to enrich the reader philosophically rather than tantalize him with evasive verbiage of metaphysical dissertation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 295. My. 4, ’07. 250w. |
Gomperz, Theodor. Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v. 3. *$4. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In less than one hundred pages, and in a style eminently luminous and readable, the author has condensed a wealth of interpretation and criticism which can only be described as masterly.” Lewis Campbell.
| + + | Hibbert J. 5: 439. Ja. ’07. 5320w. (Review of v. 3, pt. 1.) |
Gonner, E. C. K. Interest and saving. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The two essays of which this volume is composed “attempt an analysis of the connection which exists between interest and the process of saving whereby wealth is accumulated and capital supplied.”
“The book offers, besides its theoretic interest, many common-sense remarks as to the standard of living and the natural objection felt to a drop in that standard.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 184. Ag. 18. 840w. |
“Despite the scholarship of the author and the acuteness of some minor arguments, the book contains little new and that fallacious.” Frank A. Fetter.
| − + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 160. Mr. ’07. 690w. |
“We confess that the issues involved seem often to be too much overshadowed by the number and magnitude of the hypotheses under which each case is considered. It is, for the student, an admirable exercise in dialectics.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 306. S. 1, 06. 180w. |
Goodchild, G. F., and Tweney, C. F., eds. Technological and scientific dictionary. *$6. Lippincott.
GS 7–673.
“The various arts and sciences ... are treated in this dictionary. Much space is devoted to chemistry, a fair amount to mechanical and electrical engineering, and relatively little to civil engineering. Music and heraldry are among the main topics.... Among the other leading subjects included are architecture, assaying, astronomy, economic botany and zoology, building trades, geology, glass and leather manufacture, hygiene, metallurgy, mineralogy, motor cars, oil and paint manufacture, photography, textiles and watch making”—Engin. N.
“A thoroughly British point of view. The physical make-up of the book is generally satisfactory, its poorest feature being a portion of the illustrations, some of the line diagrams and woodcuts being badly blurred.”
| + − | Engin. N. 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 220w. |
Goodell, Charles L. Old Darnman; il. by Charles Grunwald. (Hour-glass ser.) **40c. Funk.
6–46349.
The “Darnman” is a pathetic figure whose mental disorder resulted from the death of his affianced bride upon their wedding day. Clad in his wedding garments, for two generations he went the rounds of the farmers’ homes, accepted one-meal hospitality, and invariably asked for needle and yarn to mend his threadbare clothes. This little story has grown out of the traditional bits gathered from different sources.
“A charming but very sad little story, which is of value, however, as recording in permanent form the history of one who was a familiar figure to many New Englanders of an earlier generation.” Amy C. Rich.
| + | Arena. 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 270w. |
“The story is told with pathos and delicacy.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 170w. |
“It is one of those little stories which, for the few minutes necessary to read it, take one out of the humdrum of everyday existence, and so is worth while.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 80w. |
Goodell, Charles Lee. Pastoral and personal evangelism. **$1. Revell.
7–25069.
Really a dissertation upon the sort of evangelism that in two years raised the membership of the Calvary Methodist church in New York from fourteen hundred to twenty-four hundred, “a record of fact and conviction wrought out in the thick of the fight.” Dr. Goodell says that “evangelism is the aggressive propaganda of the Christian life.”
| N. Y. Times. 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 80w. |
“Inspirational, practical, methodical, this is a helpful book for the development of latent Christian power.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 150w. |
Goodrich, Arthur Frederick. Balance of power. $1.50. Outing pub.
6–31388.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 25. Ja. ’07. |
“The banality of the closing chapter is an unfortunate sequel to an otherwise excellent love story.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 110w. |
“All that was required to make it a strong story, instead of a story of a strong man, was the service of an editor capable of eliminating superfluous verbiage, dovetailing incidents and interlacing the threads in such a manner that the narrative might have run along, if not altogether smoothly, at least without a surfeit of interruption.” George Harvey.
| − + | No. Am. 184: 188. Ja. 18, ’07. 1100w. |
Gordon, Armistead C. Ivory gate. $1.25. Neale.
7–31168.
Twenty-five slender poems written long ago and still singing sweetly of love as a young man dreams of it, but to several is added a final verse dispelling the illusion by the light of an old bachelor’s experience.
Gordon, Mrs. Elizabeth Oke. Saint George, champion of Christendom and patron saint of England. *$5. Dutton.
7–29061.
The book consists of four parts. Besides a biographical sketch of the martyr, there are chapters on the Commemoration of St. George in church liturgies and national institutions, on Celebrated knights of St. George, and on St. George in art.
“As a whole the book has little historical worth. The author does not appear to discriminate in the least between legend, poetry, chronicle, and sealed documents for their value as sources. This quality or indifference to modern historical criticism seems to us a far more serious fault in the book than the occasional actual misstatements of the author.” D. S. Muzzey.
| − − + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 173. O. ’07 450w. |
“Her book, on the whole, is a disappointment, owing to its omissions and its general lack of thoroughness.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 1860w. |
“Those who wish to read a sober and discreet attempt to unravel the actual history of the three heroes that bore the name of George—the Arian archbishop, the tribune, and the martyr—will prefer to consult Miss F. Arnold-Forster’s ‘Studies in church dedications;’ or, ‘England’s patron saints,’ ii. 464–74.” G.
| − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 824. O. ’07. 590w. |
“When one considers how much good literature can be bought nowadays for five dollars it would be impossible to praise this book with any heartiness even if it reached a higher level of style and scholarship than it does.”
| − | Nation. 85: 348. O. 17, ’07. 350w. |
Gordon, George Angier. Through man to God. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–35977.
Dr. Gordon’s doctrine preached in these sermons is that the heart and soul of Christianity should be interpreted, not thru nature, but thru nature’s highest concept, man, to the Creator of man.
“One of the discourses ‘Belief and fear,’ though true and strong in its main thought, is greatly marred by an extraordinary misuse of the text, ‘The devils also believe and tremble.’” Theodore G. Soares.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 712. O. ’07. 230w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 238. D. ’06. |
Reviewed by George Hodges.
| Atlan. 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 290w. | ||
| Ind. 62: 97. Ja. 10, ’07. 150w. |
“In seriousness of purpose, in professional self-respect, in dignity of undertaking, Dr. Gordon has not violated the canons of the worthy order to which he belongs.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 790w. |
“For all these reasons—for their philosophic grasp, their modern view, their poetic vision, their vigorous faith, and their sane and tender feeling—we commend this volume of sermons both to the thoughtful reader and to the homiletical student.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 141. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w. |
Gordon, Samuel. Ferry of fate: a tale of Russian Jewry. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–12695.
Two young Jews, after struggling for two years against poverty and opposition in the Odessa University, come under the ban of expulsion. One is reinstated because he finds favor with the prefect, who lures him into an assistant secretaryship, demanding that origin and religion be forgotten. The other goes back to his little town and with his people takes up the cudgel against the government. The story follows the mental agony of the traitor Jew and the retribution which human justice fixes for his portion.
“If there is a failure in the book, it is in the portrait of Nyman the ferryman, who alone among Mr. Gordon’s personages suggests the melodramatic Russian Nihilist of the detective novel. ‘The ferry of fate’ deserves to be read carefully. The author has aimed high, and most of his readers will agree that he has hit the mark.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 661. Je. 2. 180w. |
“Shows the hand of the promising apprentice.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w. | ||
| Spec. 97: 63. Jl. 14, ’06. 110w. |
Gordon, William Clark. Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–25171.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To a refined appreciation of beautiful literature the author unites considerable knowledge of modern sociology.”
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 715. O. ’07. 150w. |
“The book, which we would gladly examine in more detail, is well worth study. One criticism we must make. Why does Mr. Gordon put the ‘Wesleyan revival’ as one of the five causes which wrought a great social change in Tennyson’s time?”
| + − | Spec. 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 170w. |
Gorky, Maxim. [Mother]; il. by Sigmund de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–16750.
After the death of a brutal husband a mother turns to her son and in winning him back to virtue frees herself from the “dazed, cowed” state into which she had been beaten. “Led into dangerous, forbidden ways, coming into a knowledge of the risks they run who think for themselves in Russia, she goes on with a courage and love absolutely sublime.” (Outlook.)
“Depicts present-day life in Russia without exaggeration or morbidness.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 179. O. ’07. |
“As a document, it will have value for all students of socialism.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 667. Ag. ’07. 280w. |
“Like all Gorky’s work it is sternly realistic, free from the tricks of the romanticists, without elaborated plot, just a piece of the web of life, as plain and patternless as when it left the loom of the fates.”
| + | Ind. 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 340w. |
“His book is a sort of rude epic of Russian poverty and oppression, from which nothing is omitted.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 430w. |
“Hardly elsewhere has socialism spoken with a voice at once so deep and so gentle.”
| + | Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 560w. |
“A powerful story, which may be too sentimental and overwrought, but deserves serious attention.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 60w. |
“This book peculiarly merits its sacred title.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 840w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
“This is a great and serious book; it has exquisite description and idealization of nature, and yet it has the flaw which Maxim Gorki has himself pointed out in all his works; it does not give us joy.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| + + − | No. Am. 85: 661. Jl. 19, ’07. 1300w. |
“Gorky has lost none of his grim power.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 160w. |
“The book is not pleasant reading but it is as much better than his previous work as growth is better than decay.”
| + − | Putnam’s. 3: 111. O. ’07. 180w. |
“Since, however, Russia, and, for that matter, Slav letters generally, are so little known,—even if frequently talked about,—in the United States, we would particularly commend this excellent translation of Gorky’s latest book.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 763. Je. ’07. 360w. |
Goron, Marie Francois. Truth about the case: the experiences of M. F. Goron, ex-chief of the Paris detective police; ed. by Albert Keyzer; il. by A. G. Dove. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–17362.
Thirteen detective stories based upon the personal experiences of the ex-chief of the Paris detective police. Among them are stories of crimes of murder, of blackmail, and robbery. Many interesting characters ranging from the indiscreet society woman to the habitual criminal are introduced as in tale after tale, mystifying and complicated plots are untangled by the master mind of the old detective.
| Acad. 72: 126. F. 2, ’07. 640w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 335. My. 25, ’07. 260w. |
“If in these stories the clue is not so obscure nor the crime so intricate as in the best detective romances, there is mystery enough to make the account of its solution thoroughly entertaining, and what they may lose in melodramatic excitement they gain in apparent reality.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 160w. |
Gorst, Sir John E. Children of the nation. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–25650.
A book whose object is to bring home to the people of Great Britain a sense of the danger of neglecting the physical condition of the nation’s children. Some of the chapters deal with infant mortality, children under school age, underfed children, overworked children, children’s ailments, physical training, hereditary disease, and the home.
“The book under review is serviceable because of its analysis of the conditions involved in child health rather than for the remedies proposed for physical defects.” W: H. Allen.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 609. N. ’07. 460w. | |
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1640w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 290w. |
“The book is written with a glow of enthusiasm and conviction which makes it very delightful reading and even those who would not agree with many of his conclusions and recommendations, could hardly fail to peruse it with interest and appreciation.” Millicent Mackenzie.
| + + − | Int. J. Ethics. 18: 128. O. ’07. 670w. |
“Sir John Gorst’s book is a great deal better than most of its class. It is less sentimental and is written with some restraint, though with point and vigour, and it lays out the subject in a fairly comprehensive and orderly way; but it belongs to the class and exhibits, in some degree, the usual defects. Nothing is adequately discussed; the facts given are scrappy, selected, and not always accurate; over-statement is common; too much weight is attached to mere opinions; some important questions are omitted, and in regard to others the writer’s knowledge is seriously defective.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 12: 58. F. 22, ’07. 1230w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 770w. |
“A wholesome common sense characterizes the author’s counsels and suggestions.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 300w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 1620w. | |
| Spec. 97: 987. D. 15, ’06. 520w. |
* Gorst, Nina Kennedy. Light. $1.50. Dodge. B. W.
Misery and temptation are depicted in this story, the central figure of which is a servant girl who has a child out of wedlock. She is buffeted about from place to place in the underworld, and, finally, after repeated struggle, the light comes thru the lispings of her child.
“Mrs. Gorst is not successful in her treatment of such menfolk as appear in her pages, but her landladies, laundry-girls, and cottagers deserve praise as individual and truly excellent portraits.”
| + − | Acad. 70: 430. My. 5, ’06. 490w. |
“Mrs. Gorst’s new story is not an advance on ‘This our sister!’ The sense of form and proportion is even less conspicuous, and a certain crude and rather brutal outlook, suggestive of force, is absent. Instead we find more diffuseness, and a fainter show of purpose and individual vision.”
| − | Ath. 1906. 1: 542. My. 5. 190w. |
“We could have well spared some incidents; and the most sordid, which is also the most superfluous, is nearest to melodrama of the lower order.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 520w. | |
| Spec. 96: 758. My. 12, ’06. 150w. |
Goss, William F. M. locomotive performance. $5. Wiley.
6–46367.
“This valuable work by Dr. Goss covers the very important field of locomotive steam engineering from a standpoint that prior to the development of the engineering laboratory at Purdue university was never possible. Dr. Goss has combined in this volume the most important results obtained from the Purdue tests, records of which have from time to time been separately published, together with other material never before published, thereby making a ‘permanent and accessible record of the work of the laboratory.’”—Engin. N.
“This work of Dr. Goss will rank at the head of the scientific and technical standards of reference in locomotive engineering. It presents information on important points obtained with great care and accuracy and under conditions never before made possible until the establishing of the Purdue testing plant and engineering laboratories.” Arthur M. Waitt.
| + + + | Engin. N. 57: 192. F. 14, ’07. 2050w. |
* Gosse, Edmund William. [Father and son]: biographical recollections. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–36407.
The “struggle between two temperaments” forms the subject-matter of this volume relating to Edmund Gosse and his father. The offspring of parents married late in life, the boy grows up in an atmosphere heavily charged with extreme English Puritanism. “When the child’s ‘temperament’ began to develop, it displayed itself as a passionate attachment to the romantic in art and poetry; and there were infinite possibilities of discord between a father who, though he enjoyed declaiming the sonorous lines of Virgil and Milton, prided himself on never having read a page of Shakespeare, and a son who saved up his pocket money to buy the poems of Coleridge and Keats, and, on one occasion, Christopher Marlowe.” (Lond. Times.)
“Beyond doubt, the charm of the book lies in the opening chapters, which describe the child’s sombre life in London, without playmates or companions, the sights he saw through the window; and the experiments he conducted alike in true religion and in idolatry, not, perhaps, much unlike those of other children, but told with all the skill of an accomplished man of letters.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 347. N. 15, ’07. 1060w. |
“The whole book is as human in spirit as it is scientific in method.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 759. N. 30, ’07. 1640w. |
“Offers to the curious an absorbing study of temperament.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 520w. |
Gosse, Edmund William. Modern English literature: a short history. **$2.50. Stokes.
W 6–144.
In revising and enlarging this volume for the fifth edition, eight photogravures and sixty-four half tone portraits have been included. “Goethe said ... that the portrait of a man of letters was his best monument. If that be true, or even partly true, we cannot but hope that this illustrated edition ... may be found to possess some of the qualities of a literary Valhalla.” (Author in preface.)
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 84. Mr. ’07. | |
| Dial. 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w. | ||
| Ind. 61: 1061. N. 1, ’06. 40w. |
“Has real value both for the student and general reader. The literary style, criticism, and method of treatment are satisfying.”
| + + | Lit. D. 83: 813. D. 1, ’06. 270w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w. |
Gould, Francis Carruthers. Political caricatures. $2. Longmans.
A fourth annual collection of the political caricatures of Sir Francis Gould “which are fully up to the former series of F. C. G.”
“He has a knack of doing disagreeable things, when he thinks fit to do them, in a manner which excludes resentment.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 800. D. 22. 280w. |
“We may not catch all the fun of Gould’s pictures on this side of the Atlantic, but they would certainly serve admirably as an introduction to the study of contemporary British politics.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 310w. |
“Keen, vigorous, good-humored, with the rarest possible exceptions, he is all that a political caricaturist should be.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 90w. |
Gould, George Milbry. Biographic clinics: essays concerning the influence of visual function, pathologic and physiologic upon the health of patients. 4v. ea. *$1. Blakiston.
v. 1. The origin of the ill-health of De Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Browning.
v. 2. The origin of the ill-health of Wagner, Parkman, Mrs. Carlyle, Spencer, Whittier, Ossoli, Nietzsche and George Eliot.
v. 3. Essays concerning the influence of visual function, pathologic and physiologic, upon the health of patients.
v. 4. Morbid symptoms due to eye strain as illustrated by Balzac, Tchaikovsky, Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn and Berlioz.
“The temper of the man commends itself.”
| + | Dial. 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“The author’s attitude toward his critics, his resentment of the very general doubt of the conclusions of his earlier volumes on these subjects, and a certain harshness in presenting his material will much delay the conversion of those professional brethren, and there are very many of them, who find his theories rather too finely drawn to be acceptable.”
| − | Nation. 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“It would do much to gain acceptance for the general doctrine of the writer were it but presented with more discretion and less acrimoniousness, and, we may add, much more briefly.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“Dr. Gould is a good writer, a man of large learning, and his sincerity is not to be questioned.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1–5.) |
Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-. Book of the Pyrenees. **$1.50. Dutton.
7–35350.
A timely book in which Mr. Gould not only reviews the history of the past but with “personal knowledge takes us through ports and cirques to the bare plateaus, the broken forest land and the Alpine pastures, patrolled by the shepherds with their powerful dogs, the haunts of the bear, the wolf and the izard.” (Sat. R.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 165. O. ’07. S. |
“Like its predecessors, the new work contains a great deal of information, and is easily—almost too easily—written.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 400w. |
“Essentially a guide-book, but one that is readable as well as practically helpful.”
| + | Dial. 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 40w. |
“The illustrations, all in black and white, are very numerous, and are noteworthy for the softness and mellowness of the tones.”
| − | Ind. 62: 1357. Je. 6. ’07. 140w. |
“If one must find a fault at all hazards, it will certainly be with the map, which is a mere sketch, noting not the tenth of the places touched upon, and therefore wholly inadequate for reference.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 440w. |
“It will not be Mr. Baring-Gould’s fault if an exquisite mountain region is not better known and appreciated.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 70w. | |
| Sat. R. 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 220w. |
Gouley, John W. S. Dining and its amenities, by a lover of good cheer. *$2.50. Rebman co.
7–10595.
“Here are tales of how men have eaten in all ages. The savages reveling in long pig, Lucullus and his Roman friends dallying over nightingales’ tongues. Here are the moving histories of the beginnings and glorious consummations of the wines and liquors which to-day make glad our hearts and light our steps. Here are anecdotes, here are the maxims of that prince of the table, Brillat-Savarin, in their original French, with the translations appended. We are given the evolution of the table utensils as well as the food because of which they exist, and the glass and porcelain come in for a share of encomiums as well as the soup or the entrée.”—N. Y. Times.
“Can therefore scarcely fail of attracting us to open its covers, and once open we find a lot to keep us turning the pages. The book is somewhat overloaded with words of Latin derivation.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 800w. |
Graham, Harry. [Familiar faces.] il. $1. Duffield.
7–25157.
Some of the familiar faces which Captain Graham describes in rime are those of the baritone, the dentist, the man who knows, the waiter, the policeman, the music hall comedian, the faddist, and the gilded youth. Mr. Hall has assisted in the impressionism by introducing a series of very suggestive pen and ink sketches.
Graham, Henry Grey. Social life of Scotland in the eighteenth century. $2.50. Macmillan.
A new edition, which gives in a cheaper and more compact form than ever before, Mr. Graham’s exhaustive treatise upon the evolution which took place in the religion, education, agriculture, science, and art of eighteenth century Scotland.
“Mr. Graham knows the minutiae of Scottish social life, and with anecdotes full of the peculiar national humor and notes that should not be skipped, shows us the people of thrift, faith, struggle and romance more fully than we have ever yet seen them.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 330w. |
“One of the historical books for which there is a steady demand.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 330w. |
“Always Mr. Graham is informing and always he is entertaining, his pages being lightened with a wealth of gossipy but illuminating allusion and anecdote, and his style faithfully mirroring the changing aspects of his theme.”
| + + | Outlook. 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 340w. |
Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun. Queen and cardinal: a memoir of Anne of Austria, and of her relation with Cardinal Mazarin. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–25499.
“This is the story of the life of Anne of Austria, chiefly dealing with the events of that life during the period when she was Queen Regent. Naturally, it is largely concerned with the relations between the Queen Mother and Cardinal Mazarin. The question as to whether a private ceremony of marriage ever took place has never been authoritatively settled, although the opinion of most students of that period is that there actually was such a marriage. No real light is thrown on the question by this book, which is in its nature rather a popular narrative than a historical search into new material.”—Outlook.
“Mrs. Colquhoun Grant should have revised her writing more carefully, as well as her history. Miss Pardoe and Miss Freer did not claim to be historians, but they wrote so well in the vein Mrs. Grant has chosen that they fairly occupy the field.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 381. Mr. 20. 840w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 310w. |
“We do not feel that the book grows out of her knowledge, but rather that her knowledge has grown out of the book, and we turn for reality to the pages of her chief authority, Ann of Austria’s friend, Mme. de Motteville.”
| − | Lond. Times. 6: 53. F. 15, ’07. 1210w. |
“Her volume should be attractive to those who, while interested in the bypaths of history, wish their study made easy.”
| + | Nation. 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“Is not unworthy of the attention of those readers who lack knowledge or inclination to consult the French originals. It may be commended also to the persons who object to the freedom of those originals, for Mrs. Grant’s narrative avoids the more spicy and scandalous details in so far as the theme she treats permits such avoidance.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 1110w. |
“Altogether, the book is readable, although it is not important, and might well have been published in less pretentious guise.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 200w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| Putnam’s. 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 380w. |
“This volume is not without merit, and Mrs. Colquhoun Grant knows a good deal about her subject and tells her story in a not unpleasing style.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w. | |
| + − | Spec. 99: 235. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w. |
Grant, Robert F. S., tr. Before Port Arthur in a destroyer: the personal diary of a Japanese officer; tr. from the Spanish ed. *$3. Dutton.
A version made from a Spanish translation of a Japanese original. “The narrative takes in a period of something less than a year: January 26th, 1904–January 4th, 1905. The most animated part of it is the story of the boarding of a Russian ship early in March.” (Spec.)
“The book does not read like a naval officer’s diary of operations in which he took the part described, so that we cannot extend to naval students our recommendation of the value, readable as is the spirited narrative of war.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 140w. | |
| Nation. 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 170w. | ||
| Spec. 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 220w. |
Graves, Algernon, comp. Royal academy of arts, per v. *$11. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 808. D. 22. 1570w. (Review of v. 7.) | |
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 611. My. 18. 1900w. (Review of v. 8.) |
“A serious demerit is that Mr. Graves makes no distinction between pictures and drawings.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 86. Mr. 15, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 5–8.) |
Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” **$1.50. Harper.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A tragic story with a wealth of poetic and picturesque vision.”
| + | Ind. 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 110w. |
“A remarkable feature of this weird and powerful story, which, unlike most of the novels of the present day, leaves an indelible impression upon the mind, is a degree of restraint, rare in a woman, observed by the author.” Ex-Attache.
| + | No. Am. 184: 413. F. 15, ’07. 1750w. |
“The anonymous author’s ideas of Breton, or any life, entirely preclude meritorious novelistic composition.”
| − | R. of Rs. 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w. |
Greely, Adolphus Washington. Handbook of Polar discoveries. 3d ed. $1.50. Little.
6–37224.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠ |
“It is strictly a ‘handbook,’ a somewhat encyclopedic account based upon original sources, not meant for continuous reading. It is, nevertheless, a fascinating narrative.” E. T. Brewster.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 130w. | |
| + + | Dial. 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 210w. |
Green, Alice Sophia Amelia (Stopford) (Mrs. John Richard Green). [Town life in the fifteenth century.] 2v. in 1. **$4. Macmillan.
A reissue which merely brings the two volumes together under one cover. “The republication in a single volume will draw attention anew to this very interesting study of English borough life in a century which the author thinks to be, in many ways, ‘extraordinarily like our own.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mrs. Green is certainly to be congratulated on the new edition in its present compact and convenient form.”
| + | Ind. 63: 945. O. 17, ’07. 250w. |
“A thorough study.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 180w. |
Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs). [Mayor’s wife.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–17385.
A mystery lies back of the very strange behavior of a public man’s wife. In it are involved a young secretary, two witch-like old women, who constantly peer into the operations of the mayor’s household from the vantage point of their near-by window, and a loyal servant. The author weaves a ghost spell over the tale, in which former marriages, theft, and other villainy make hearts miserable.
“It is a mystery story of more than ordinary ingenuity in its inventive resources. It lacks in human interest. There is none of the compelling imaginative genius displayed that makes the characters of a romance appeal to the reader as real flesh and blood men and women.”
| + − | Arena. 38: 216. Ag. ’07. 270w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
“It has a great deal more plot than most books by its author, and possesses some psychological interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w. |
Green, Helen. At the actors’ boarding house, and other stories. pa. 50c. Helen Green, 826 8th Av., N. Y.
6–45045.
“The book takes its name from a boarding house kept by one Maggie de Shine, a professional herself in her younger days, and patronized by such ‘top-liners’ of vaudeville as the Property Man, the Buck Dancer, the Ingenue, the Three Mangles, Bertine Feathers and her six Pantella Girls, the Texarkana Comedy Four, Mildred Molar, the Queen of Burlesque, and a score of others whose dinner-table talks, punctuated by an occasional ‘scrap,’ are described in speech racy enough to make George Ade’s slang conventional English in comparison.”—Bookm.
“Mrs. Green has not yet completely mastered the art of story telling. It is as a writer of newspaper sketches that she excells ... real pictures of real life, written from the inside, and although often running cheek by jowl with crime and vice, never repulsive.” James L. Ford.
| − + | Bookm. 25: 431. Je. ’07. 1220w. |
Greenstone, Julius H. Messiah idea in Jewish history. $1.25. Jewish pub.
7–4165.
A refutation of the assertion that Judaism has no dogmas. From the stories of Jewish lore, the author proves “that dogma played as important a part in the development of Jewish institutions as did the law, that Judaism ‘regulates not only our actions but also our thoughts.’”
| Nation. 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w. |
“For Christian as well as Jewish readers this is an instructive book.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 150w. |
Gribble, Francis Henry. Madame de Staël and her lovers. *$3.50. Pott.
The marriage which was a “mere bargain, and ensuing liaisons numerous and frank” occupy the writer who essays to portray this strong personality “brought up in the salons of the eighteenth century, in the midst of all that was most brilliant in the Paris of that day, and carried on a wave of European fame through the revolution, the empire, and the restoration.” (Spec.)
“The worst things about Mr. Gribble’s book are the title and the preface. A clear and vivacious piece of biography which excels in interest many recent novels.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 376. Mr. 30. 1260w. |
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
| Putnam’s. 3: 237. N. ’07. 420w. |
“This is a very interesting and, indeed, a brilliant book.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: sup. 4. My. 4, ’07. 870w. |
“Mr. Gribble’s study of Benjamin Constant is curious, and a good deal of it will be new to English readers.”
| + | Spec. 99: 94. Jl. 20, ’07. 1620w. |
Grierson, Elizabeth W. Children’s book of Edinburgh; il. by Allan Stewart. *$2. Macmillan.
7–35148.
Following an introduction the author treats entertainingly Modern interests of Edinburgh, The sights of Edinburgh, Tales of long ago, and Mary, queen of Scots.
“Contains too much detailed information regarding the institutions of the city, and not enough about customs, to interest American children, but the history and legend in it will be useful to librarians and teachers.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 81. Mr. ’07. |
“Is in parts entertaining and picturesque, but the general effect is rather scrappy, and some portions are dull.”
| − + | Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 30w. |
“Apart from this question of probability, there is too much savagery in some of these ballads to make them suitable material.”
| − + | Spec. 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 270w. |
Griffis, William Elliot. Japanese nation in evolution: steps in the progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29750.
“It is the young Japanese nation tingling with righteous latter-day enthusiasm of which this book treats, and all “figureheads and impersonalities” are entirely eliminated. The rise of the Japanese is traced from prehistoric times, with special emphasis laid upon the author’s notion that the original stock of this people is Aryan, or Ainu, and not Mongolian. To this latter fact he attributes the secret of the nation’s superiority.”
“A distinct contribution to the literature on Japan.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 194. N. ’07. S. |
“The author is conceded to be the best informed American on the subject concerning which he writes.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 330w. |
“It is a scholarly book, presenting a thorough discussion of Japanese ethnology,—not, however, in a technical manner.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 638. N. ’07. 80w. |
Griffiths, Arthur. [Rome express.] $1.25. Page.
7–9550.
A sleeping-car tragedy occurring between Laroche and Paris furnishes the mystery which is unravelled in the course of this story. The French detective service is out in full force, and frequently goes off on the wrong trail. Among the implicated are an Italian countess, her maid and an Italian banker, the latter of whom is proven guilty and barely escapes the guillotine.
“This is an excellent detective story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 183. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w. |
* Griggs, Edward Howard. Use of the margin. (Art of life series.) *50c. Huebsch.
The aim of this series of books is “to illuminate the never-to-be-finished art of living,” with no attempt at solving the problems or giving dogmatic theories of conduct. The present monograph shows what possibilities for development there are in the margin—the time falling to the lot of each individual to spend as he may please—and points out ways of using it to increase the capital, the character, intelligence and appreciation of one’s life.
Griswold, Stephen M. [Sixty years with Plymouth church.] **$1. Revell.
7–21719.
“The author’s connection with Plymouth church began four years after Mr. Beecher came as its first pastor. The present volume is not a history of the church, such as was lately published of the Broadway tabernacle in New York, but is rather a series of notes and impressions attached to a thread of facts. Naturally to the author the great predominating figure is the first pastor, altho full credit and honor are given to the two very able men who succeeded him, Dr. Abbott and Dr. Hillis. A fair account is given of the origin of the church, and, naturally, a very slight account of the trial of Mr. Beecher, with a view of involving the name of no one.”—Ind.
“The book has an excellent spirit, and gives a correct impression of the immense influence the church had in favor of freedom all over the country.”
| + | Ind. 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 170w. | |
| Outlook. 86: 525. Jl. 4, ’07. 100w. |
Groben, countess Gunther. Ralph Heathcote: letters of a young diplomatist and soldier during the time of Napoleon; giving an account of the dispute between the Emperor and the Elector of Hesse. *$5. Lane.
“These letters are of exceptional interest. They are intimate letters written by an only son to his mother at the time when Napoleon was putting Europe in confusion. Ralph Heathcote was a young man of intelligence, and owing to the fact that he was an Englishman who had been born and bred in Germany, his point of view is fresh and enlightening.”—Acad.
“His letters written during the strenuous time of his life must interest all who care in any way for that most enthralling of subjects—the conduct of life.”
| + | Acad. 73: 671. Jl. 13, ’07. 1090w. |
“The chief, indeed the only, value of these letters is the insight they give into the society, in Cassel, and incidentally, in London, Edinburgh, and Lisbon.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 620w. |
“As a testimonial of filial affection, and as a record of the every-day life of a somewhat gifted young man in several lands and in various capacities, one hundred years ago, the correspondence has interest; but its literary value is as slight as its historical importance.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 300w. |
“A reader of the volume should find himself drawn on almost irresistibly until he completes it. It is an interesting and instructive addition to the year’s literature.” George R. Bishop.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 1760w. |
“Heathcote’s letters describing his services in the Peninsula are readable though of no particular value to the student of military history.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 150. Ag. 3, ’07. 150w. |
Grose, Howard Benjamin. Incoming millions. *50c. Revell.
6–38888.
This new volume dealing with the immigrant population “is one of the home study mission course, and is dedicated to ‘the Christian women of America, whose mission it is to help save our country by evangelizing the alien women and teaching them the ideals of the American home.’ It contains valuable information culled from various sources, intending to shew the intent of the immigration to America.” (Ind.)
“Plenty of good information about the immigrant in this volume.”
| + | Ind. 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w. |
“The tone of the volume is moderate and reasonable.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 912. D. 29, ’06. 140w. |
Grove, Sir George, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.
v. 3. “The new volume 3, which begins with Maas and ends with Pyne, includes for the first time, the names of MacDowell, Mahler, Mancinelli, Mascagni, Milloeker, Napravnik, Paderewski, Paine, Parker, Pierne, and Puccini among the composers; while to the list of singers and conductors have been added the names of Mallinger, Malten, Maurel, Mottl, Nevada, Nikisch, Nordica.”—Nation.
| + − | Ath. 1907. 1: 419. Ap. 6. 1290w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Fully sustains the reputation of its two predecessors for accuracy of historical statement, comprehensiveness of scope, and conservatism of criticism.”
| + + + | Dial. 42: 256. Ap. 17, ’07. 600w. (Review of v. 3.) | |
| + + | Ind. 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“It proves, like the previous two volumes, that the revision is an earnest one, seeking out the omissions and deficiencies of the original, and placing the new tasks in hands almost always the most capable to be found.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 133. Ap. 26, ’07. 2550w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Altogether, the space has been expanded by over one-fifth, and the editor and his associates have almost invariably done their work well, thus making ‘Grove,’ more than ever, a necessity to every amateur and student.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 345. Ap. 11, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“The revision has been thorough, perhaps not all points so thorough as might have been wished; but it has ... completeness in covering the vast field of musical history and literature, fullness of information, and interest of presentation.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“A most excellent standard and really unique work.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 638. My. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3.) | |
| + + − | Spec. 98: 760. My. 11, ’07. 1120w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Grundy, Mrs. Mabel Sarah Barnes. Dimbie and I—and Amelia. †$1.50. Baker.
7–9552.
Dimbie, the devoted and manly young husband, I, his wife, the chronicler of this one year of married life, Amelia the racy maid of all work, and other delightful characters are revealed in the course of this tender little story with its pathetic undercurrent of brave cheeriness and undying affection.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠ |
“A brave, bright story is ‘Dimbie and I,’ and one that is well worth the reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 470w. |
Gruyer, Paul. Napoleon, king of Elba; tr. from the French. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–19481.
“In the present work the search-light of history is turned full upon the little island and its great occupant. The smallest details of the Emperor’s life in his little kingdom are narrated and much new light is thrown upon his character. Interesting portraits are also given of the sharers of his exile: Madame Mère, Pauline his sister, the devoted Bertrand, Drouot and the old watch-dog Cambronne.”—Lit. D.
“A pleasing volume, which will introduce British readers to an island with which few persons are acquainted, and to one of the less known episodes of the Emperor’s career. The rendering is at times faulty.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 616. N. 17. 160w. |
“Paul Gruyer is not the only writer who has chosen this theme. But nowhere before the appearance of the book under review had a complete picture of the surroundings and the central figure been presented with the necessary completeness. Now nothing remains to be known. As to the translator’s task, it has been fairly done, as far as turning the French into readable English. But in other respects the performance is one of which it is impossible to write with too great severity. The translator is totally ignorant of everything French, except to a certain extent the French language, and of the history of the period.” Adolphe Cohn.
| + + − | Bookm. 24: 592. F. ’07. 1210w. |
“There is nothing maudlin about the volume (its author surely was among the millions who recently voted Pasteur the greatest Frenchman) and it deserves to be bought and read by every Napoleonic student.”
| + | Ind. 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w. |
“The narrative is of a vivid and striking character.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w. |
“The author sets out a good part, though not by any means all, that is shown in adequate fashion.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 90w. |
“Brings together the wealth of information contained in scattered and forgotten sources, and presents it in an eminently readable form.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 300w. |
“Presents a comparatively unknown chapter of Napoleonic epic, and throws some important light on the character and ability of the most colossal individual of modern history.” George Louis Beer.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 759. Mr. ’07. 710w. |
“The work of Paul Gruyer will live when the ‘Last voyages’ is forgotten.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 950w. |
Guenther, Conrad. Darwinism and the problems of life: a study of familiar animal life. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–17681.
“A study of the theory of evolution, defending the doctrine of ‘natural selection,’ to the exclusion of all other explanations of individual and collective development in men and animals.... The bulk of the book treats in detail of the manner of development of the many species of living creatures, from the original protoplasm or unicellular being to the complex and mysterious physiology of man.”—N. Y. Times.
“Taken as a whole, that portion of Dr. Guenther’s book which deals strictly with biology can best be characterized as sadly behind the times.” Raymond Pearl.
| − | Dial. 43: 208. O. 1, ’07. 850w. |
“Not only in the lucidity of its presentation and discussion, but in its arrangement of the materials also, it is adapted above all others as a book that may be taken up by those who possess very little idea of science, and whose ignorance leads them to hold very erroneous ideas of the present state and value of evolutionary doctrine. The point that merits much criticism, in the opinion of the reviewer, is the author’s attitude toward the work of De Vries and others, on mutation or saltation as the method of evolution.” Henry Edward Crampton.
| + − | J. Philos. 4: 297. My. 23, ’07. 2260w. |
“It is in making a fetich of natural selection, and by its action alone explaining the whole problem of evolution, that the volume falls far short of being a well-balanced thesis.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 450w. |
“This is a disappointing book. Many of the author’s conclusions on the main subject are sound enough. It is more to be regretted that his statements of fact are so often open to adverse criticism, and that he has been, on the whole, so badly served by his translator.” F. A. D.
| − + | Nature. 74: 268. Jl. 19, ’06. 590w. |
“It is not written in too technical a manner. The presentation of the ideas is simple.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 269. Ap. 27, ’07. 850w. |
Gulick, Luther Halsey. Efficient life. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–11182.
The avowed object of this little volume is to offer suggestions of a hygienic nature which will enable the reader to perform more efficiently the duties of life. It discusses among other things: States of mind and states of body, Exercise, Food, Waste, Fatigue, Sleep, The bath—for body and soul, Pain—the danger signal, and Growth in rest.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 122. My. ’07. S. |
“The experience of a practical man of affairs as well as physician recorded in the ‘Efficient life’ recommends the book to business men and women as a health hand-book which will relieve rather than add burdens to the pressure of life and which will make efficiency in work easier and work itself more efficient.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 158. Jl. ’07. 250w. |
“It is a notably sensible, frankly practical, and popularly attractive statement of some well-established principles of healthy mindedness.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 320w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w. |
“Dr. Gulick has no hobbies and sees clearly that the things to be commended are those which the hearer may reasonably be expected to do and not over-refinements of bodily care and personal conduct impossible of general attainment.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 330w. |
“Dr. Gulick applies himself to telling us how to counteract the deteriorating effects of (town) life, and he has executed his task well.”
| + | Nature. 76: 315. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w. |
“Reading and following Dr. Gulick’s suggestions in this book ought to help many people to raise the standard of their individual efficiency, for the advice given concerning the conduct and regulation of life is both sound and essential.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 260w. |
Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.). [The serf.] *$1. Fenno.
The author has chosen the rough and wicked England of the twelfth century as the setting for his story of Hyla, the serf, whom he has made typical of serfdom, and within whose misshapen body burned the first spark of freedom which was to enkindle the world. The coarse times are well depicted from the lewd life of the barons in their castles to the hopeless routine of the serfs in their shacks. The personality of Hyla who rises from the herd about him and becomes a man and a murderer to avenge his daughters and his wrongs, is strongly brought out and the reader follows breathless until he has paid the awful price exacted from such as he.
“If the reader can bear the smell of the sewerage of the twelfth century, and the feel of the big eels slipping thru his toes as he reads, he will find in this book the most gorgeous descriptions of water scenes that have appeared in years. The whole meaning of the marches and fens of the twelfth century, their menace and their beauty, as distinct from the civilized waterways of modern times in England is well portrayed.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w. |
“He frequently leaves the straight path of this narrative in order to preach a modern doctrine of brotherhood. Apart from its didactic quality the story has a good deal of force; Hyla the serf and his fortunes are worth following for their own sake.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 380w. |
“It is an exciting and interesting tale and it presents a fairly truthful picture of English life in the early middle ages.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w. |
Gummere, Francis B. Popular ballad. (Types of English literature ser., v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.
7–18086.
“Prof. Gummere starts out with a severely critical consideration of just what must be meant by ‘popular’ as applied to ballads and rules out all but about 300 specimens of the genre. While he treats the ballad as a closed account, an outcome of conditions which no longer exist, he admits that there is nothing to prevent the daily production of ballads which in time may become as popular as any in this collection. But he restricts the present study to these remnants of oral tradition, divides them into half a dozen classes, studies their sources, and gives a critical estimate of their worth.”—N. Y. Times.
“The last chapter on the worth of the ballad as poetry, is written ‘con amore,’ but with all that admirable scholarly restraint that marks all of Professor Gummere’s work.”
| + | Dial. 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 320w. |
“Notwithstanding the differences of opinion which we entertain regarding these matters of controversy, we gladly acknowledge the interest of Prof. Gummere’s work, and believe that it will be accepted as beginning auspiciously a series which promises great usefulness.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 122. Ag. 8. ’07. 1350w. |
“Prof. Gummere writes in an interesting style. He has a cleverness of statement and an ability to use aptly and vividly a very great fund of erudition that will make his book entertaining as well as instructive for the general reader, while the special student will find it a mine of information.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w. |
Gunsaulus, Frank W. Higher ministries of recent English poetry. **$1.25. Revell.
7–23730.
“The four lectures deal with the distinctively Christian element in the writings of Arnold, Tennyson and Browning, the introductory essay treating of the preparatory influence of Shelley, Wordsworth and Coleridge.” (Ind.) Gunsaulus emphasizes the classical stoicism of Matthew Arnold, Tennyson’s portrayal of conscience and the inevitable results of sin, and the religious element in Browning.
“Dr. Gunsaulus’s essays are scholarly and seriously suggestive, and give a broad view of the thought and of the influence of these three masters of the last century.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1002. O. 24, ’07. 330w. |
“Yet while there is an appreciation of the genius of the poets about whom the author writes, there is also in every lecture a certain amount of bathos and sloppy extravagance.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 421. N. 7, ’07. 210w. |
“Dr. Gunsaulus does not add anything very new to a well-worn subject. And his own view of poetry seems a somewhat prosaic one.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 120w. |
“Perhaps the best specimen of Dr. Gunsaulus’s work is his analysis of Tennyson’s greatest poem. ‘The idylls of the king.’”
| + | Outlook. 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 260w. |
Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley. Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25. Revell.
5–33035.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The strength of the book is its weakness. It is too wordy, imaginative, and passionate. Thought is not sufficiently clear and comprehensive to serve as a basis for enduring emotional power. The book is inspirational rather than informing, and its power might have been vastly increased by gripping the intellect more vigorously even at some sacrifice of rhetoric.” E. A. Hamley.
| + − | Bib. World. 29: 471. Je. ’07. 190w. |
“In the present volume the Chicago pastor impresses one with a sense of asymmetry. He seems to give disproportionate attention to the ‘fall’ of Adam with its alleged consequences, and the fall of Chicago, with its palpable consequences, from the moral ideals of all good citizens.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w. |
Gunter, Archibald. Mr. Barnes, American: a sequel to Mr. Barnes of New York. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9841.
“Highly dramatic scenes and characters are provided in this volume.... The very ample dramatis personae include Corsican bandits, supra-beautiful maidens, members of the aristocracy, ill-favored ruffians both imported and domestic, and ghosts. Very exciting events transpire and ... slaughter is plethoric.”—Lit. D.
| Lit. D. 34: 723. My. 4, 07. 200w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 243. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 220w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 767. Je. ’07. 160w. |
* Gunter, Archibald C. Prince Karl. †$1.25. ’07. Dillingham.
7–33913.
An unsatisfactory novelization of a satisfactory play whose principal characters are “a despotic mother-in-law, an Anglomaniac dude, and a Bostonian girl fresh from Vassar. The hero, Prince Karl, is a sort of Jekyll and Hyde character, only in the novelization the character is accompanied by considerable buffoonery.” (Outlook.)
“The plot is commonplace, and the dialogue has little wit. An unusual but characterless feature is the use of the historical present in the telling of the story.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 90w. |
“The novelization of the play ‘Prince Karl’ is distinctly unsatisfactory; it is crude, sketchy, and unreal; the faults that effective stage setting and clever acting would render oblivious in an acted drama become very salient in a narrative read in cold blood. There is no originality in either the plot or character portrayal.”
| − | Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 110w. |
Guthrie, William B. Socialism before the French revolution; a history. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–22934.
The first comprehensive attempt to meet the need of a record of the history of social reform from the time of More to the French revolution. The author emphasizes especially the fact that social theory is the outgrowth of social conditions and that social strivings and social ideals are by no means confined to the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. His captions are as follows: The beginning of social unrest of England, The social theories of Sir Thomas More, Life and times of Campanella, The socialism of Campanella, Eighteenth century radicalism in France; The social teachings of Morelly, and revolutionary radicals.
“His references to modern socialism are not always happy. There are frequent statements that need the saving grace of qualification; while the tone of some of them is jaunty rather than judicial.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1004. O. 24, ’07. 320w. |
“If Dr. Guthrie’s work is open to severe criticism it is perhaps because of its conception of the nature of socialism and his assumption that the utopias of the period under discussion are to be taken as socialism.” R. F. Hoxie.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 497. O. ’07. 540w. |
“He makes no effort to write an exhaustive history of early socialism, and the title of his book is therefore not accurately descriptive of its contents. All that he attempts to do, and we are grateful to him for doing this, is to recall to our minds those writings of the past which best illustrate the evolution of socialistic thinking.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 441. Jl. 13, ’07. 340w. |
“There are here no hasty generalizations, unwarranted inferences, and strainings of interpretation.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 290w. | |
| + | Spec. 99: 369. S. 14, ’07. 390w. |
Guyer, Michael Frederic. Animal micrology; practical exercises in microscopical methods. *$1.75. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–4839.
“The topics discussed in this book are as follows: necessary apparatus; preparation of reagents; general statement of methods; killing, fixing, imbedding, sectioning, staining, and mounting; minute dissections; tooth, bone, and other hard objects; injection of blood and lymph vessels; in toto preparations; blood; bacteria; embryological methods with chick, etc.; and reconstruction from sections.”—School R.
| Dial. 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 30w. |
“The crucial test of the value of the work must necessarily consist in the actual experiment of using it in class. We venture to think, however, that the volume will react to this test in a most successful manner.”
| + + | Nature. 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 440w. |
“As a textbook it could hardly be improved. The advanced student cannot help but wish that it might have been available when he began his work.”
| + | School R. 15: 306. Ap. ’07. 420w. |
“Concise, eminently practical and well classified treatment. It will be found useful to a larger number of people than any other book of its kind at present in existence in English.” Irving Hardesty.
| + | Science, n.s. 25: 339. Mr. 1, ’07. 1450w. |
Gwatkin, Henry Melville. Knowledge of God and its historical development. 2v. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–2069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| − | Acad. 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w. |
“In both its apologetic and its historical task this work is conservative and follows in the beaten paths of the traditional methods. On the historical side Professor Gwatkin is more at home, though one cannot escape here the feeling of special pleading which does injustice to many facts and persons of history. Looseness of expression and of thought characterizes his apologetic work.” W. C. Keirstead.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 546. Jl. ’07. 1150w. |
“Is uncommonly readable and convincing, not only by reason of its abundant learning but by reason of its unfailing fairness and its habitual restraint. The argument is never overstated, and the difficulties are never undervalued.” George Hodges.
| + + | Atlan. 99: 565. Ap. ’07. 60w. |
“The ordinary reader will often be somewhat bewildered by the mass of historical material brought into brief compass. Moreover, throughout the work, the author stops to answer so fully the supposed objections of those who differ from him that one is frequently more impressed by the wealth of possible opinion than by the author’s own position. His work will be full of suggestion to historical students; but because of its objective point of view, it is primarily a book of description, rather than one of interpretation.” Gerald Birney Smith.
| + − | Bib. World. 30: 381. N. ’07. 510w. |
“The freshness and charm with which the lecturer has dealt with his subject should procure for them an abundant welcome in a much wider circle. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the book is the earnest and sustained effort which Professor Gwatkin makes to combine the best modern thought upon religion and the philosophy of religion with the substance of the old historical faith.” Robert A. Duff.
| + − | Hibbert J. 5: 675. Ap. ’07. 2670w. |
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius. Fair hills of Ireland; il. by Hugh Thomson. $2. Macmillan.
7–35041.
Mr. Gwynn states that his book is written in praise of Ireland. And it is such praise as one can give who has a full understanding of “its soil and its people, its mountains and plains, seas and rivers, cities and solitudes, its ways of life and thought, its history and its aspirations, its failures and possibilities, its joy and grief.” Of these he writes: “It is, in fact, obviously intended to play a part in promoting the ‘Irish revival.’” (Outlook.)
“He sings his song of love and war so charmingly, and with such sympathy and intuitive understanding, that it seems ungenerous to complain that his book is not what its title implies. Let us confess that we speedily forgot our sense of disappointment in the glamour of his pages.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 630. D. 22, ’06. 850w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 9. Ja. ’07. S. |
“Is intended to be suggestive and picturesque, and succeeds thoroughly in this aim. We commend it strongly to those who visit Ireland with leisure and in earnest, and are not satisfied with following beaten tracks and hearing stale jokes.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 685. D. 1. 1110w. |
“It is a book that will appeal to Irishmen in particular and to travellers and lovers of antiquity in general.”
| + | Canadian M. 28: 399. F. ’07. 260w. | |
| Dial. 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 310w. |
“How he has managed to pack, in a volume of a little over 400 pages, so many delightfully told legends and historic incidents, which give to every landscape a sort of moral personality, is Mr. Gwynn’s secret.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 320w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w. |
“There is, however, one drawback to the legends told by Mr. Gwynn. The orthography of the names of the heroes, and even of the heroines, is repulsive, and will always be an obstacle to the wide, acceptance of these historical, semi-historical, and mythical romances.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 570w. |
“The method of presentation is logical and interesting.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 630w. |
“Its author wanders too rapidly and disconnectedly from theme to theme, indulges overfreely in allusion, and demands too great a previous knowledge of Irish history, legendary as well as authentic. Nevertheless, the book will be found well worth the pains necessary to read it, and should meet an especial welcome from prospective travelers in Ireland.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
“We do not always accept Mr. Gwynn’s opinions, and we sometimes find ourselves wondering why he has said this or seems not to know that.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 583. N. 10, ’06. 1240w. |
“We can imagine no more instructive and attractive guide to the holy places of Irish history. His style, while singularly free from mannerisms, is always full of light and colour and vivacity. He has humour too, and a high sense of dramatic contrast.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 1410w. |