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* Jacberns, Raymond. Discontented schoolgirl. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of the English school days of an impish little girl of French and English parentage. “In the Juvenile fiction of a bygone generation Marcella would have been held up as an awful warning to young readers, and would probably have incurred some terrible fate as a punishment. Now her disobedience, insolence, ingratitude to a kind guardian, and general insubordination, are gleefully related as being rather amusing than otherwise, and the happy ending to the story is indirectly due to her bad behaviour.” (Ath.)
| Ath. 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 200w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w. |
Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams. Persia past and present. **$4. Macmillan.
6–33596.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For the general reader the work possesses all the elements that go to make books of travel in strange lands interesting reading. For the scholar the book is valuable both for the richness of its bibliographical references and for its own contributions to the subject.” George Melville Bolling.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 602. Ap. ’07. 1740w. |
“An exhaustive and scholarly work, well illustrated, fully indexed.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 44. F. ’07. |
“It is a book of travel and of research, and is of interest and value alike to the scholar and the traveler,—an unusual combination, for few travelers are scholars, and few scholars are travelers.” Dora Keen.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 659. My. ’07. 1090w. |
“It is hardly possible to overpraise the vivid representation by Prof. Jackson of what he actually saw.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1160w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 66. Mr. 1, ’07. 1390w. |
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 443. Jl. 13, ’07. 2500w. |
“It has enduring value. It has scientific power. It has historical interest and, what is rarer, the feeling for what is genuinely interesting in history. It has a sense of the humanity of life, the poetry, the mysticism.” Charles Johnston.
| + + | No. Am. 186: 446. N. ’07. 1320w. |
“A volume which has a permanent value, and will take its place by the side of those of Sir Robert Ker Porter and Lord Curzon.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 432. Ap. 6, ’07. 790w. |
“The information which he gives is to a certain extent limited by his absorption in his own studies.... He is however fully conversant with the work of his predecessors, and he does not fail to provide an excellent general survey of the ground they have covered. The excellent photographs of the Sassanid rock-cut monuments reproduced in this book will be of great value to archaeologists.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 623. Ap. 20, ’07. 910w. |
Jackson, Charles Ross. Sheriff of Wasco. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–16754.
Wasco County, Oregon, terrorized by an outlaw of numberless crimes and unheard of cruelty elects a young railroad man its sheriff. The story follows the trail of the outlaw with the determined young officer until he brings down his inhuman prey and wins the love of a millionaire’s daughter whom he has rescued from the bandit’s clutches. It is a wild tale in which brute passions are described with a strength and vividness that does not admit of delicacy.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w. |
Jackson, Frederick Hamilton. [Shores of the Adriatic: the Italian side.] *$6. Dutton.
7–13428.
“The twenty-two chapters treat of the seaboard provinces ... and small, well-known places. Mr. Jackson describes the churches, dwellings, and other places and things of archaeological and artistic interest, telling something, too, about the people and their characteristics in the various towns. There are also extracts from the histories of churches, pictures or persons, the towns themselves, as well as the political and national history of the places visited. The illustrations ... are photographic reproductions, drawings, plans, etc. of buildings, natives, scenes, interiors, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
“His descriptions of architecture are exceedingly close and careful, though at times rather too technical for the layman to follow quite clearly: and the historical matter which he gives suffers from a compression which perhaps was unavoidable. He has spared neither time nor labour in his work, and has produced a valuable and delightful book.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 186. F. 23, ’07. 1400w. |
“If this volume has a few weak points—one of which is a very imperfect index—these are more than counterbalanced by many and solid merits.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 582. My. 11. 900w. |
“A good book; in fact, the only fault one is inclined to find with it is that it is too monotonously good. A little more liveliness would atone even for a lapse in grammar.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 120w. |
“Lovers of fine architectural construction and decorative detail will delight in the many fine drawings that enrich Mr. Jackson’s delightful volume.”
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 276. Ja. ’07. 320w. |
“His work from the mere fact of its bulk could never serve as a guide-book. The want of maps, too, is a serious drawback in a practical hand-book. On the other hand, for those who ask for charming impressions, the volume is too practical, too conscientious. Very different and full of detail are his architectural descriptions, and here we feel him thoroughly at home.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1360w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 876. D. 15, ’06. 310w. |
“Mr. Jackson has discovered and described three or four times as many things as the ordinary traveler would find out for himself, unless he were, indeed, a many-sided man.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 456. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w. |
“It contains much information clearly and compactly put. Nevertheless, we wish that the author’s manner were more vivacious, and that the color of the history described were as equally evident as its outline.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w. |
“Mr. Jackson has described and drawn with a care worthy of all praise. One regrets a little this somewhat stolid tone as one turns over the only work of value which an Englishman has ever written on this region.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 860w. |
Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle E. S. Wee Winkles and her friends. †$1.25. Harper.
7–30868.
Another chapter in Wee Winkles’ life telling of her dolls, the little baby kittens, and of Jerry, the fire-engine horse, that rescued Wideawake from an old tumble down house where an accident had befallen him. Any child might profit by the lesson of love for animals that is taught thruout the story.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 30w. |
“The author has mastered this art, and her story deals with simple incidents, in simple language, well suited to hold the interest of the little readers.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 766. D. ’07. 70w. |
Jackson, Henry Latimer. Fourth gospel and some recent German criticism. *$1.10. Putnam.
“The present volume takes up in detail the authorship, historicity, criticism of the gospel according to St. John, the identification of John the beloved apostle and John of Ephesus, and the Fourth gospel and the Synoptics. The footnotes are numerous and full.”—N. Y. Times.
“A very useful compendium. The frequent summaries are helpful to the reader and make amends for some needless repetition.”
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 368. Ap. ’07. 80w. |
“A careful, judicial, and up-to-date examination of the Johannine problem.”
| + | Bib. World. 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w. |
“The book may be strongly commended, especially for its accuracy of information and impartiality in presentation of both sides of a controversy, and it is hoped that it will receive attention from any who may suppose that Professor Sanday and Principal Drummond have spoken the last word on this important subject.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w. |
“The book is a valuable supplement to Ernest F. Scott’s essay on the theology of the fourth gospel.”
| + | Nation. 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 130w. |
Jackson, Holbrook. Bernard Shaw. *$1.50. Jacobs.
W 7–187.
“Mr. Jackson discusses Shaw in the fourfold aspect of man, Fabian, playwright and philosopher and proves to his own satisfaction that Mr. Shaw is the incarnation of all that is best in modern thought.” (Nation.) “Mr. Jackson shows that the real Shaw is a serious man with a serious purpose, ‘that all his art has been an evolution toward a means of expression for the sake of propaganda,’ and quotes his admirable Fabian tracts to prove that if Shaw has undertaken to transform sociology from a ‘dismal into a joyous science,’ it is from no lack of earnestness but from a fine sense of the adaptation of means to ends.”—N. Y. Times.
“Truth to tell, Mr. Jackson has so soaked himself in the Shaw drama, the Shaw economics, ethics, and politics, and the Shaw philosophy, that he is not able to stand sufficiently away from his subject to see him objectively. His whole book is oppressed with the weight of Mr. Shaw’s personality.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 376. S. 28. 580w. |
“The book is well written, and, in its biographical pages especially, highly entertaining.”
| + | Dial. 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 370w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 250w. |
“Still, since ‘it is obvious that’ Mr. Shaw, like Alice, is incapable of explaining himself and needed some one to write him down to the level of the hyper-self-conscious middle class, Mr. Jackson has performed the kind office very fairly well.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 261. Ag. 30, ’07. 1450w. |
“The book is also likely to prove interesting to connoisseurs in human intellectual vagaries, not only because it is cleverly written, in a way that often reflects what the faithful call the Shavian attitude and manner but because it gives an apparently authoritative summary of Mr. Shaw’s various theories, social, political and the like, and furnishes some significant facts which may help to account for a good many of them.”
| + | Nation. 85:334. O. 10, ’07. 490w. |
Jackson. Lucie E. Feadora’s failure; il. by J. Macfarlane. $1. McKay.
7–22917.
A book for young people which records the rebellion of six spirited children against the rule of their wilful, inexperienced, eighteen-year old sister who insists upon managing the household and servants when the mother dies.
* Jacob, Robert Urie. [Trip to the Orient: the story of a Mediterranean cruise.] **$1.50. Winston.
7–9812.
In the main a revised and elaborated personal journal of the happenings incident to a seventy-day tour of the Mediterranean districts.
“The book itself is likely to interest few, if any, outside of the restricted circle of those who happened to take the same tour or are planning to take a similar one in the future. The book has lost much through the inferior quality of the illustrations.”
| − + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 594. N. ’07. 180w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Jacobs, William Wymark. [Short cruises]; il. by Will Owen. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–16484.
“These cruises, largely by sailors, but of the land or at the most, of the port, are in the author’s familiarly amusing vein.... The practical joke, the admonition by craft, the object lesson through wile have their perfect work in these pages. If the fun possibly makes especial appeal to masculine readers, feminine ones should observe that it is always the woman who gets the best of it.”—Nation.
“This volume is fit to stand on the shelf beside ‘Many cargoes’ and ‘Sea urchins.’”
| + + | Acad. 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 210w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 178. O. ’07. |
“To be frank, the sailormen we meet with in these pages—at all events, where they are deepwater sailormen—are not in the least the real thing; but they are much more amusing than the real thing is wont to be, and so we welcome their appearance.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 1170w. |
“There are, we regret to say, signs in his latest book that Mr. Jacobs is tiring. He is still funny, but he has receded further from life.”
| − | Lond. Times. 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 300w. |
“His invention is varied, his humour on his chosen lines of cartoon and caricature, boundless, and his mastery supreme of what in respectful homage we venture to term slanguage.”
| + | Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 90w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w. |
James, George Wharton. Wonders of the Colorado desert (southern California). **$5. Little.
6–43916.
Two volumes, each containing over two hundred and fifty pages, tell of “strange, wonderful and beautiful things ... unknown to cities and to the unobservant eye.” Mr. James locates the desert with a good deal of exactness because the world at large is misled by the word “Colorado.” He has gathered together in the volume twenty-four years of observations and experiences all characterized by the vague sense of mystery surrounding an untamed, unused and unnourished stretch of country. There is a wealth of pictures attending his sketch of rivers and mountains, cañons and springs, life and history.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 69. Mr. ’07. |
“It is a book that it is a genuine pleasure to recommend to discriminating readers.”
| + + | Arena. 37: 327. Mr. ’07. 940w. |
“A remarkable and valuable work.”
| + + | Dial. 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 350w. |
“To many people who are quite ignorant of the Colorado desert, and this includes nearly every one outside the desert and vicinity, the book will be full of pleasant surprises. Perhaps the chapters on the wild animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plant life of the desert contain as many surprises as any in the book.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 510w. |
“A very comprehensive and interesting work.”
| + | Ind. 62: 42. Ja. 3, ’07. 410w. |
“Written ‘con amore’ and under the immediate inspiration of the unwonted scenes which they describe, the volumes will have an intimate appeal for those interested in the wonders of their own land.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 300w. |
“Actual perusal inspires a wish that the author had limited his field and compressed his material into one volume. He should remember that a plethora of superlatives only weakens a eulogy.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 520w. |
“He has gifts of observation far above the common and the literary art of vivid and picturesque description.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 121. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w. |
“Occasionally the reader feels that the author is giving a little too much detail, and, is even inclined to question whether the material might not to advantage have been presented in a single volume.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 90w. |
James, Henry. American scene. **$3–Harper.
7–5704.
After an absence of nearly a quarter of a century Mr. James viewed once more his native land, and wrote in the style which he has made his own, of what his eyes, fresh after long absence, saw in her. New England, in the autumn, New York in the spring, The Bowery, Newport, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, and sunny Florida, the beauty of them, the very atmosphere and air of them are to be found between these covers.
“The book is undeniably difficult to read; full of psychological subtleties, involved expression, baffling to the average reader.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 98. Ap. ’07. |
“Throughout four hundred and sixty-five broad pages there is no oasis in the level, unbroken expanse of Jacobean style. Nor has his style improved with years. In this latest example it has an irritation once absent; for to the defects of his own qualities he has added carelessness.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 282. Mr. 9. 2640w. |
“Despite his consummate analytic power, perhaps not the one after all to whom we should willingly allow the last word on what America stands for.” James F. Muirhead.
| + − | Atlan. 100: 566. O. ’07. 1330w. |
“Mr. James is, if at his worst, also at his best in this book.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| − + | Bookm. 25: 188. Ap. ’07. 1270w. |
“The book is one to read in at length, if not to read through. Its pages are strewn with the happiest phrases and turns of expression. They teem with passages of exquisite artistry, which, without reference to the scenes and objects so delicately depicted, are a joy to the lover of the gracefully elaborate, the subtilely expressive and still more subtilely suggestive, in English prose.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 42: 176. Mr. 16, ’07. 1570w. |
“No book which Mr. Henry James has written makes so severe a tax on the loyalty of even his most enthusiastic readers as his ‘American scenes.’”
| − | Ind. 63: 95. Jl. 11, ’07. 1090w. |
“Crowded, sensitive, intricate book, probably the most remarkable book of impressions of travel which we possess. It cannot be pretended that it can be read without considerable concentration of attention; once drop the finespun thread, and you are lost. But to follow it out to the end is to have a positive revelation of the amount of insight and exactness of expression which can be packed between the covers of a single book.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1970w. |
“A work of marvellously keen and subtle analysis; it transfixes the defects and shortcomings of American civilization with unerring thrusts; but it is less successful on the positive and synthetic side. Its vision is, if anything, too personal, too microscopic.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 266. Mr. 21, ’07. 1260w. |
“It would be impossible within reasonable limits to give much idea of the rich and fantastic humor that plays about the revisited towns of America, leaves behind it suggestions to awaken our serious thought.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 221. Ap. 6, ’07. 1760w. |
“There is but one way in which to read ‘The American scene:’ refuse to let it antagonize you, remember constantly that it is the utterance of a ‘restored absentee;’ and with every page you will come more and more under the charm of his descriptions and the subtlety of his judgments.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | No. Am. 185: 214. My. 17, ’07. 1830w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 450w. |
“He has written not a guide-book, but a drama, the drama of a continent: and he has contrived with illuminating subtlety that the ‘persons’ of it shall be not the varieties of humanity upon its surface, but the evidences, the more or less enduring records of their aspiration and their content.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 395. Mr. 30, ’07. 2400w. |
“The faults we have to find with it are only the faults which cling to all Mr. James’s work. He is exceedingly difficult to read. Mr. James writes with such urbanity and so genuine a love for the land that the most nervous patriot could not take offence at his pages, while to a certain limited class of readers they will be a source of acute intellectual pleasure.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 334. Mr. 2, ’07. 1750w. |
James, William. [Pragmatism]: a new name for some old ways of thinking. **$1.25. Longmans.
7–20643.
“A popular presentation of pragmatism. Professor James claims Socrates, Aristotle, Locke, Berkeley and Hume as pragmatists. But these “forerunners of pragmatism used it in fragments; they were a prelude only. Not until in our time has it generalised itself.” The volumes teach that truth comprises all principles, ideas, and beliefs that lead in the long run to the best practical results. Pragmatism is the same method in philosophy that utilitarianism is in ethics, which pronounces monogamy right and gambling wrong, not by previous intuition, but by the test of experience. What wears best is good; and, because proved good, is true.” (Outlook.)
“We should not be doing justice to Professor James’s style did we not refer to the colloquialisms and American slang which abound in the book.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 772. Ag. 10, ’07. 1180w. |
Reviewed by I. Woodbridge Riley.
| Bookm. 26: 215. O. ’07. 2070w. |
“His presentation of the pragmatic method is of course unique by reason of the author’s own charming literary style, comprehensive knowledge of philosophy, literature and philosophy, literature and philosophical principles, and great skill as an expositor.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 430. N. ’07. 80w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 630. S. 12, ’07. 930w. |
“The lectures contain nothing new, and, on the whole, nothing that was not more concisely put in some of these previous pronouncements; but it is always a pleasure to hear Professor James talking.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 730w. |
“Professor James has an unconventional way of dealing with philosophical questions, so that by graphic illustrations and by simple language he attracts attraction and wins assent.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 970w. |
“It is scarcely possible to exaggerate one’s appreciation of the lucidity and skill with which so abstract a topic has been treated.” Joseph Jacobs.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 527. Ag. 31, ’07. 2610w. |
Reviewed by Carolyn Shipman.
| No. Am. 185: 884. Ag. 16, ’07. 1950w. |
“His well-known, vivacious and breezy style of address, garnished here and there with racy colloquialisms, working, as it does, to enliven attention to his arguments, is itself felicitously pragmatic.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 330w. |
“Professor James’s volume is interesting and stimulating throughout, and it is needless to add that it contains a deal of practical wisdom and much useful advice which all philosophers would do well to heed. And it seems to me to be much stronger in what it affirms than in what it denies.” Charles M. Bakewell.
| + + − | Philos. R. 16: 624. N. ’07. 4780w. |
“I am therefore bound to record the opinion that the present volume fails to rise to the level of its author’s reputation. There is something too much of ‘the large loose way’ about it.” R. M. Wenley.
| + − | Science, n.s. 26: 464. O. 11, ’07. 2480w. |
James, Winifred. Bachelor Betty. **$1.25. Dutton.
7–23302.
“Bachelor Betty is a vivacious young Australian girl who comes over to England to seek her fortune as a journalist. She is an independent young person who means to make the best of things, and for this purpose she adopts an aggressively cheerful attitude, extracting fun out of all sorts of unpromising material.... ‘There is not,’ she writes, ‘one woman in a hundred who chooses an independent life because she prefers it’.... We know full well that whimsical Betty with her continual babble and chatter, her delicate philanderings with the ‘youngest man,’ the ‘oldest man’ and other admirers will come at last into the safe haven of matrimony.”—Sat. R.
“All her characters are made living by some touch or phrase which renders the least important of them a personality.”
| + | Acad. 73: 706. Jl. 20, ’07. 230w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 202. N. ’07. |
“Here is an author who takes herself not too seriously, and knows how to entertain us. We find sanity and humanity also in the development of the story.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 120w. |
“What redeems it entirely from the commonplace is the author’s lively turn of phrase and fresh, untrammelled observation.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w. |
“Her talk is quite pleasant, too, and every now and then she says quite womanly-characteristic things in a quite womanly-characteristic way. There is nothing very remarkable about it, but there have been worse love stories—many of them.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w. |
“We should have found ‘Bachelor Betty’ much more amusing but for the author’s obvious determination to be humorous at all costs. Is full of promise and we feel sure is only an earnest of better work to come.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 148. Ag. 3, ’07. 310w. |
Jameson, E. M. Peggy Pendleton. $1.25. West. Meth. Bk.
A first rate story for young readers. The heroine, Peggy Pendleton, found favor with those who enjoyed “The Pendletons,” and here she continues the fulfillment of numerous budding promises, among them good cheer, generosity, and quick thoughtfulness for others.
Jameson, John Franklin, ed. [Original narratives of early American history.] per. v. **$3. Scribner.
7–6643.
A series of twenty volumes entitled “Original narratives of early American history,” undertaken under the auspices of the American historical society and edited by J. F. Jameson. “The series is to consist of such volumes as will illustrate the early history of all the chief parts of the country, with an additional volume of general index. The plan contemplates, not a body of extracts, but in general the publication or the republication of whole works or of distinct parts of works.” (N. Y. Times.)
v. 1. Olson. Julius E., and Bourne, Edward G., eds. Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot.
6–36882.
This first volume of the series is divided into three parts: “The voyages of the Northmen,” edited by Professor J. E. Olson, which presents the saga in Hauksbok and that in Flatey-jarbok, together with some minor Northern and papal pieces; “The voyages of Columbus” and “The voyages of John Cabot,” edited by Professor E. G. Bourne.
v. 2. Burrage, Henry S., ed. Early English and French voyages, 1534–1608.
6–44365.
The account of these voyages is largely taken from Hakluyt and covers the voyages of Cartier, Hore, Hawkins, Drake, Gilbert, Barlowe, Lane, White, Grenville, Brereton, Pring, Waymouth, and Popham.
v. 3. Hodge, Frederick W., and Lewis, Theodore H., eds. Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528–1543.
7–10607.
“This volume includes the contemporary accounts of the three most important Spanish explorations in the region now comprised in the southern part of the United States. These are Cabeza de Vaca’s narrative of his remarkable wanderings, the account of the expedition of Hernando de Soto by the gentleman of Elvas, and Pedro de Castaneda’s narrative of the expedition of Coronado. Apart from the requirements of the series there was not the same necessity for the issuing of this particular volume as for the other two as two of these narratives already have been published in handy and inexpensive form under the competent editorship of Messers. Bourne and Winship respectively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
v. 4. Grant, William Lawson, ed. Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604–1618.
7–22899.
This volume includes extracts from the writings of Champlain from which the student may construct a theory of the value of Champlain’s work as explorer and colonizer.
v. 5. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Narratives of early Virginia.
7–33220.
“Selections from the doughty John Smith fill about two-thirds of the volume; the remaining contents include narratives and letters by George Percy, Lord De-la-Ware, Dion Diego de Molina, Father Biard, John Ræfe, and John Pory. The period covered is that from the first settlement to the dissolution of the Company in 1624 by the aggrieved monarch.”—Dial.
“Most serviceable and in all ways to be welcomed is this volume. But it might have been made still more serviceable.” C. Raymond Beazley.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 654. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“This publication edited by Dr. Burrage is one which meets a long-felt want. The reader has sufficient information about the narrators, both historical and bibliographical to whet his appetite and increase his interest.” P. Lee Phillips.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 692. Ap. ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Reviewed by G. P. W.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 3.) | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 125. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.) |
“If the remaining volumes are edited with a similar degree of skill and intelligence as these under review, the series will prove to be a most admirable one and will be recognized as a standard collection of source publications.” Herman V. Ames.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 183. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 1–3.) | |
| + + | Dial. 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| Dial. 42: 266. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 3.) | ||
| Dial. 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5) |
“There is a sanity and freedom from controversial bitterness in the editorial portions which commends the volume warmly to us.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 41. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Each narrative has been carefully edited as to an introduction and foot-notes, an excellent index being added.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| Nation. 84: 245. Mr. 14, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Furnishes the best possible introduction to a further study of the large and intricate problem of Spanish explorations in America.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.) | |
| Nation. 85: 493. N. 28, ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“To a careful student it is simply invaluable, the many footnotes giving the various authorities on any possible disputed point.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 71. F. 2, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The notes, without being burdensome, are adequate for purposes of explanation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 481. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Mr. Grant, the editor, succeeds well in elucidating difficult points and illuminating obscure passages.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 4.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“The selection and editing could not, in fact have been better done for the purpose which the editors had in view.” H. Cabot Lodge.
| + + | No. Am. 183: 1289. D. 21, ’06. 2100w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“It seems a pity, however, that room was not found for the Ribaut, Laudonnière, and Le Moyne narratives, having to do with the early and ill-fated French settlements in Florida and South Carolina.”
| + + − | Outlook. 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“The reprint is well adapted to the use of both the special student and the general reader of history. From the standpoint of the latter, however, it is to be regretted that Mr. Grant has not seen fit to write a more detailed biographical introduction.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“One could wish that President Tyler had expanded his introductory comment on certain of the documents.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.) | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.) | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 637. My. ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 3.) | ||
| R. of Rs. 36: 756. D. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5.) |
Janet, Pierre. Major symptoms of hysteria: fifteen lectures given in the medical school of Harvard university. *$1.75. Macmillan.
7–23068.
A summary of the psychological research work of the French in the subject of hysteria is given in this series of lectures. They treat of Monoideic somnambulisms, Double personalities, Convulsive attacks, Motor agitations, Paralysis, The troubles of vision, of speech, and other phases of the disease.
“On the whole, one may say that this is the most readable and interesting book on clinical psychology since the days of John Abercrombie and his ‘Intellectual philosophy.’” Irving Wilson Voorhees.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 1230w. |
Janssen, Johannes. History of the German people at the close of the middle ages. v. 9–10, *$6.25. Herder.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Janssen has done a service for Catholic scholarship which it would be hardly possible to overestimate.”
| + + | Cath. World. 84: 566. Ja. ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.) |
Janvier, Thomas Allibone. [Santa Fé’s partner.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–29432.
Palomitas, bearing a striking resemblance to Wolfville, is the scene of the pranks played by Santa Fé Charley, a professional gambler who frequently assumes the garb and speech of a minister, and his partner, the Sage-Brush Hen, who together entertain tenderfoot easterners with mock hangings, stage holdups and shootings. “More folks in Palomitas has names that had tumbled to ’em than the kind that had come regular. And when they sounded regular they likely wasn’t.”
“Humorous yarns of life in a mining town forming a continuous narrative, told in the first person in the racy vernacular of the place.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 202. N. ’07. |
“The book has charming freshness and a southwestern flavor that is delightfully amusing, and suggestive of conditions that have been rapidly passing away.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 180w. |
“It is all good magazine copy, though hardly more.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 306. O. 3, ’07. 350w. |
“Mr. Janvier has latterly been playing not unskillfully with the picturesque material invented and bequeathed to literature by the late Bret Harte.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 310w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Jastrow, Joseph. Subconscious. *$2.50. Houghton.
6–16729.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a result of incontinent use of rhetorical figures, the size of the book has been made unduly large. For this fact alone the book becomes tedious to the man whose time is limited. The lack of a critical and scientific form of presentation, of specific historical references, and of close articulation with the results of advanced researches in experimental and analytical psychology, prevents the book from having any wide sphere of usefulness in the psychological research world.” John B. Watson.
| − − | Am. J. Soc. 12: 558. Ja. ’07. 1380w. |
“The rich material of the much better told observation is too often hidden in the elaborate context. It is indeed difficult to say to which kind of public the book would adapt itself.” Adolf Meyer.
| + − | J. Philos. 4: 79. Ja. 31, ’07. 1840w. |
“In spite of a few criticisms ... the book is a strong and interesting one, displaying the extent and intent of Dr. Jastrow’s grasp on the field which it covers.” Knight Dunlap.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 24: 848. D. 28, ’06. 2090w. |
“A useful, well-reasoned and careful investigation. The book is, unfortunately, much too long and diffuse.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 537. Ap. 6, ’07. 2400w. |
Jaures, Jean Leon. Studies in socialism; tr. with an introd. by Mildred Minturn. **$1. Putnam.
6–14021.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The presentation of the subject is able and its spirit tolerant.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 217. Ja. 180w. |
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
| + + | Atlan. 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w. |
“The merit of the whole volume is not in any new matter, so much as in the calm, direct way that things are stated. It is one of the most satisfying presentations of the fiery subject that one can find.”
| + + | Cath. World. 84: 834. Mr. ’07. 280w. |
“Optimistic yet sane, of strong convictions yet conservative, M. Jaurès has not laid himself open to the familiar accusation that socialists beg the question, for he has gone to its very roots. The beauty of his diction has been well preserved by his translator.” Eunice Follansbee.
| + | Dial. 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 280w. |
Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse. Essays and addresses. *$3.50. Putnam.
A collection of seventeen essays made by the author’s wife from a mass of literary material left by Sir Richard Jebb. “Nearly all deal with one or another phase of Greek literature or life, or with its influence upon the intellectual life of our own time.” (N. Y. Times.) Some of the subjects are The genius of Sophocles, Pindar, Lucian, Sophocles and the trilogy, The influence of the Greek mind on modern life, The position of classical studies, and Humanism in education.
“Lady Jebb should receive the thanks of all lovers of scholarship and humane letters for collecting these papers by her distinguished husband.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 9. Jl. 6. 1570w. |
“Prof. Richard Jebb ... united in a remarkable degree profound scholarship with the capacity for graceful and luminous exposition. And these qualities are so manifest in every page of this present volume that the reader is moved quite as much by admiration for the man’s mental gifts as by interest in what he says.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 270w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 172. My. 31, ’07. 1650w. |
“These extracts ... are typical of the salient characteristics of the writer, that rare combination of profound and ripe scholarship with worldy wisdom and insight, that grasp of first principles, which showed him that scholarship is one and indivisible and can convey the same message in a different guise to the first classic and the budding extensionist.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 816. Je. 29, ’07. 1150w. |
“The occasional and less formal work of a great scholar or writer can hardly fail to contain much that is both of personal interest and permanent value nor is the present volume wanting in either merit.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 203. Ag. 10, ’07. 970w. |
Jefferies, Richard. Essays. 3v. ea. 75c. Crowell.
7–26039–41.
The three volumes reprinted in this set are Nature near London, The open air, and The life of the fields. Each is furnished with an introduction by Thomas Coke Watkins which reflects the author’s passionate love for nature in all its aspects. The lover of woodland and stream will find in Jefferies a companion for all his moods.
Jefferson, Charles Edward. New crusade: occasional sermons and addresses. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–25555.
“A group of sermons whose aim is to aid in reclaiming our Holy Land—America—from the Saracen of the twentieth century—the rum-seller, the gambler, the unprincipled politician, the unscrupulous capitalist and the anarchistic wage-earner. Consecrated personality and Christian unity are the watchwords in bringing about international peace.”
“Their tone is militant and virile; they lift up the standard and eloquently call to arms against the forces at work in the community for moral decay.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 90w. |
Jefferson, Charles Edward. Old year and the new: the art of forgetting. **75c. Crowell.
7–28171.
A holiday sermon based upon Paul’s words “Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press toward the mark.”
* Jenkins, Stephen. A princess and another. $1.25. Huebsch.
7–38268.
A story which has grown out of a study of the records of French soldiers who took part in our revolution. The interest centers about the events that lead to the identification of a French child that had been kidnapped by a jealous uncle and sent to America in charge of a girl who became a colonist’s bondservant. Not until he had grown to manhood and had been courtmartialed as a British spy does he come face to face with the treachery that had kept him from his father and his birthright privileges.
Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple. Citizenship and the schools. *$1.25. Holt.
6–18602.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a collection of essays that deserves the attention of public-school workers for its vital contact with the real present, its courageous but temperate idealism, and its sane counsels. It is characterized rather by a semi-proverbial style than by sustained argument, and contains numerous fresh and terse presentations of wise and weighty principles and practical conclusions.” Edward C. Hayes.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 230w. |
“The presentation is always interesting and illuminated by a wealth of happy illustrations.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 217. Ja. ’07. 160w. | |
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 442. Jl. ’07. 170w. | |
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 573. S. ’07. 80w. |
Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple. Political and social significance of the life and teachings of Jesus. 50c. Y. M. C. A.
6–46236.
“This is not a book to read, but a manual for study. About a series of twelve topics Professor Jenks groups references for reading, suggestive quotations, and stimulating comment.”—Bib. World.
| + | Bib. World. 29: 160. F. ’07. 70w. |
“Among many recent works on the social teachings of Jesus this is of unsurpassed value. For all pastors and other teachers in this field, too often neglected in the churches, it is an eminently desirable help.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 190w. |
* Jenks, Tudor. Electricity for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–33979.
Mr. Jenks “tells in concise and simple language the progress of electricity, showing its discovery and its practical uses. A commendable feature is the combination of biography with scientific accomplishment.”—Nation.
“The book will please any young electrician from ten years up.”
| + | Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 80w. |
“He has made the present volume interesting as well as valuable reading not only for children but for older people interested in the subject.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
Jenks, Tudor. In the days of Goldsmith. **$1. Barnes.
7–10578.
“Mr. Jenks does not attempt to go into over-much detail in recounting his subject’s life. His effort is rather to give a rapid moving picture of the man’s development from childhood and of his years of struggle and final success. And this he projects against a background of the chief events of the time in England, upon the continent, and in America.”—N. Y. Times.
“Capital reading for young people.”
| + | Dial. 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 60w. | |
| Educ. R. 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w. |
“The volume is a good sample of hasty bookmaking.”
| − | Nation. 85: 77. Jl. 25. ’07. 160w. |
“Approaches his subject in a spirit so intensely sympathetic that it becomes controversial. For the general reader the scheme upon which the book is laid out is excellent.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w. |
Jenks, Tudor. When America was new. †$1.25. Crowell.
7–30468.
The homes of the colonists during the seventeenth century furnish the material for Mr. Jenks’s sketch. He tells of the home making, indoor life, manners and customs, what the colonists knew and thought, their books, reading and education, the women and children, the growth of a new people to the point of independence and union.
| Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w. |
“While the language used is simple enough for a child to grasp its meaning easily, the book is one which older people can read with pleasure and profit.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w. |
“Mr. Jenks has tried to do for young people what we are sure will be appreciated by many older heads.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 757. D. ’07. 110w. |
Jennings, Edward W. Under the Pompadour. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
A romance which begins with an eighteenth century smuggling adventure. “There are plots and counterplots, political and personal, and although the hero, to judge by his own narration, was the most innocent idiot that ever acted cat’s paw to a lovely woman, and played cup-and-ball with kingdoms without an inkling of it, the reader finishes the book with a distinct liking for him. The heroine is quite out of the common, and very charming.” (Acad.)
“A story told in the first person is hampered by the restricted point of view involved, the impossibility of relating all things as they happen, and the modesty which prevents the hero from eulogising himself. Apart from these drawbacks Mr. Jennings has written a readable story of life, the simplest forms of life, the meaning both in England and France.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 130w. |
“When all is said, if at times quite preposterously opulent in material it is still a very entertaining, even plausible and suitably told story.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 450w. |
“Mr. Edward W. Jenning’s story is no worse, certainly, and perhaps a little better, than the average of its numerous predecessors in the same class.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 190w. |
“If the reader does not like it we shall think him a real realist, and we shall be sorry for him accordingly.”
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 240. N. ’07. 340w. |
Jennings, Herbert Spencer. Behavior of the lower organisms. **$3. Macmillan.
6–24590.
“This book is eminently worthy of the excellent series [‘Columbia university biological series’] to which it belongs, for it is the most detailed, accurate and complete description, analysis and interpretation of the behavior of lower organisms in existence. More than this, the work stands alone, the first representative of a class of books in which animal behavior is to receive thoroughly scientific treatment.”—J. Philos.
| Current Literature. 42: 217. F. ’07. 2090w. |
“By his researches Professor Jennings has made himself the authority on the behavior of unicellular organisms. His book is admirable with respect to material, method of presentation and form. Its future influence will certainly be tremendous, for it is a work which will determine the direction of research as well as mould popular and scientific opinion. It is the most important book on animal behavior that has ever been written.” Robert M. Yerkes.
| + + + | J. Philos. 3: 658. N. 22, ’06. 4800w. |
“Professor Jennings’s admirable presentation of the results of his observations in this most attractive field of study will appeal to the professionals and laymen. The style of the book is clear, straightforward, and convincing.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 424. N. 15, ’06. 840w. |
“From the standpoint of the contribution of facts, the book is exceedingly valuable. That portion of the book dealing with the analysis of behavior has a somewhat doubtful value because of its vagueness and complexity, and its constant allusions to pleasure and pain and to other physical processes in man. The final chapter dealing overtly with the relation of the behavior of lower organisms to psychic behavior should be undoubtedly greatly modified when the book comes to a second edition.” J. B. W.
| + + − | Psychol. Bull. 4: 228. S. 15, ’07. 1070w. |
“It would seem that Jennings in his enthusiasm for his own views had become blinded to the real strength of the tropism theory and not only was unable to accord it fair treatment, but also lacked appreciation of its real value. It is to be regretted that a book excellent in so many particulars should be marred by so considerable a defect.” G. H. P.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 26: 548. O. 25, ’07. 610w. |
Jensen, Carl O. Essentials of milk hygiene; tr. and amplified by Leonard Pearson. **$2. Lippincott.
7–23316.
A practical treatise on dairy and milk inspection and on the hygienic production and handling of milk, for students of dairying and sanitarians.
“A valuable contribution to the inspection of milk, and his treatise is well translated.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 640w. |
Jephson, Henry. [Sanitary evolution of London.] *$1.80. Wessels.
A narrative of the sanitary history and conditions of life of the people of London based upon the experiences, inferences and conclusions of men in a position to observe how London people live, including the principal measures passed from time to time by the legislature and the administration of those measures by local authorities charged with their administration.
“The book is valuable as an outline of the sanitary legislation affecting Greater London, and as an abstract of reports of health officers and others during a number of decades past. The book would have gained, both in interest and in force, if the author had put more of his information in his own language and had used smaller type for such quotations as he employed, and had grouped or classified his discussion more thoroughly.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 510w. |
“It is regrettable that Jephson has overburdened his book with too many quotations, which are too tiresome for the ordinary busy layman who should read it, and which obscure the generalizations.” Charles E. Woodruff.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 1700w. | |
| Sat. R. 103: 719. Je. 8, ’07. 1000w. |
“A very interesting and instructive history of London sanitation.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 865. Je. 1, ’07. 1350w. |
Jepson, Edgar. Tinker two: further adventures of the admirable Tinker. †$1.50. McClure.
6–34688.
A sequel to the “Admirable Tinker.” The multiform activity of the invincible young hero, is suggested in the following: “Tinker adopts people. He adopts a sister, a pretty child near his own age, and a daughter, a beautiful young woman who is quite grown, and a Russian revolutionist to boot. Tinker is a matchmaker, though as a real boy he cannot endure to be kissed. Tinker is a detective and a fugitive from justice. He drives a big motor car ... and he goes tiger hunting in the leafy coverts of Beauleigh park. Tinker is an amateur actor as well. He plays female roles to admiration in a blond wig and a pinafore.”—N. Y. Times.
“For interesting as this story is—and it must be confessed that it goes with a good swing—it will not bear reading a second time, and the author has a command of workmanship that we feel sure is wasted on such unlikely happenings.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 400. O. 20, ’06. 140w. |
“If one can get over the irritation caused by a small boy who is allowed to go anywhere and do anything—indeed, encouraged by adults to act as a man—the series of adventures here presented will be found entertaining.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 80w. |
“It is astonishing how ingenious Mr. Jepson has been in giving both adventures and conversation a turn so refreshingly original and whimsical, and, in a way, so human, that it is impossible not to feel at the end (unless you are one of the serious) that this playfulness is of the identical sort which prevents Jack—in knickerbockers or a full beard—from becoming a hopelessly dull boy.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 673. O. 13, ’06. 560w. |
“Mr. Jepson’s playful vein is refreshing. The novelist’s responsibility rests very lightly on his shoulders; he simply shares with the reader his own enjoyment of his original and impossible little hero.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 50w. |
Jermain, Mrs. Frances D. [In the path of the alphabet: an historical account of the ancient beginnings and evolution of the modern alphabet.] $1.25. W. D. Page, Fort Wayne, Ind.
6–46295.
A painstaking history of our alphabet which gives in popular form the results of much research, and follows the “path” from a time before the earliest hieroglyphics and cuneiform inscriptions down to modern times with accounts of modern explorers in this field of inquiry.
“An excellent treatise clearly epitomizing a large amount of laborious research.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 450w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 50w. |
Jerrold, Maud F. Vittoria Colonna; with some account of her friends and her times. *$4. Dutton.
7–32139.
A new biography of this gifted woman whose friendship not only with Michael Angelo, but with bishops, cardinals, popes, artists and poets made her a conspicuous figure of her time. Many of her sonnets are included in this volume which also contains a complete bibliography, genealogical tables, and an index.
“Mrs. Jerrold has not given us a final ‘life’ ... but she has produced a pleasant book treating of movements and personalities which must always be full of interest for students of the renaissance and human nature.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 390w. |
“A book to be recommended, and to be enjoyed.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 190w. |
“Though Mrs. Jerrold’s prose is often marred by anacoluthia, her verses are almost invariably equal in charm and style to the originals which they so faithfully translate.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 670w. |
“[Mrs. Jerrold] has gleaned from all the sources of information with a truth-seeking hand, and in all matters of fact has produced an authoritative biography.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 690w. |
“While this latest biography of Vittoria Colonna lacks some of the grace of Mrs. Ady’s studies, it is a book full of charm and inspiration.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 700w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w. |
“Mrs. Jerrold has marshalled her facts with industry and judgment and has produced a work which can be read with pleasure.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 530w. |
“She has collected all the available information on her subject, but has hardly made the best use of it. Arranged with more skill, the picture would have been far more telling.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 676. Ap. 27, ’07. 1590w. |
Jevons, Herbert Stanley. Essays on economics. *$1.60. Macmillan.
5–42515.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.
| J. Pol. Econ. 14: 640. D. ’06. 510w. |
Jevons, William Stanley. Principles of economics: a fragment of a treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers. *$3.25. Macmillan.
5–33567.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The only novel thing about the work is its arrangement, which suggests in many respects an improvement over the traditional arrangement of the time.”
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 185. Mr. ’07. 150w. |
Joachim, Harold Henry. Nature of truth: an essay. *$2. Oxford.
7–2578.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author’s argument is genuine and sincere throughout, his analysis of current theories patient and thorough-going, his criticism of them acute and searching. Moreover, the book is written in a style that befits a philosophical treatise. Philosophic reflection cannot fail to be furthered by the stimulating and helpful criticism contained in Mr. Joachim’s book. That criticism will certainly assist in clearing away much sham knowledge and in preparing the ground for the ‘construction’ that is to come.” G. Dawes Hicks.
| + + | Hibbert J. 6: 197. O. ’07. 5220w. |
“Mr. Joachim does not discuss the view of truth commonly described by the term Pragmatism, and it is doubtful whether the reasons given for this omission are adequate. There can be no doubt that Mr. Joachim’s book is a very valuable contribution to philosophy, though it confessedly leaves some fundamental difficulties unsolved.” J. S. Mackenzie.
| + + − | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 264. Ja. ’07. 250w. |
“It seems to the reviewer that his main contribution to the subject lies in the various criticisms he takes up apart from the rather unsatisfactory negative result.” M. Phillips Mason.
| + − | Psychol. Bull. 4: 264. Ag. 15, ’07. 800w. |
Johnson, Clifton, ed. Birch-tree fairy book. †$1.75. Little.
6–40590.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The stories have been softened by dropping ‘savagery, distressing details, excessive pathos’ from the old versions.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 52. F. ’07. | |
| + | Bookm. 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 80w. |
Johnson, Clifton. Country school, il. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–30474.
In which the author preserves the salient features of the schools of the last century in their picturesque and poetic aspects. He writes from personal experiences of friends and acquaintances, and goes back to the year 1830.
“Readers who have had similar experiences will find Mr. Johnson a very competent conductor back to the happy land of childhood.”
| + | Dial. 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w. |
“All is told in an animated and entertaining manner.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 90w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w. |
Johnson, Clifton. Farmer’s boy. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–29711.
A companion volume to “The country school.” It is a faithful portrait of the farmer boy of fifty years ago who was a sturdy product of sunshine and fresh air ready in all seasons to undertake the primitive tasks allotted to him.
| + | Dial. 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Johnson has exercised unusual diligence and skill in the selection of material, and text and pictures alike contribute to an intensely realistic view of scenes and incidents that are fast fading into oblivion.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w. |
“We question whether the child himself will be interested in Clifton Johnson’s one hundred photographs of child-life in New England, which strung together with voluminous text, is published as the ‘Farmer’s boy.’ But grown-up readers will find these photographs, even if just a bit posed faithful pictures of ‘Childhood’s simple life.’”
| − + | R. of Rs. 36: 767. D. ’07. 60w. |
Johnson, Clifton. Highways and byways of the Mississippi valley. **$2. Macmillan.
6–40988.
An addition to the “Highways and byways” series. The journey from the mouth of the Mississippi to its headwaters carefully avoids the usual highways of travel. The author-traveler “haunts the country roads, lodges with the farmers, studies life in the negro cabins, wins the confidence of the common people, and gets them to talk of their lives and toil and their aspirations, if they have any, and out of the humdrum he garners what is quaint, characteristic, and little known.” (N. Y. Times.) His illustrations are made from snap shots taken along the way.
“The treatment is popular, does not furnish a great deal of information, but presents a vivid and faithful picture.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 10. Ja. ’07. S. |
“Is a book of social studies rather than a technical work.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 140w. | |
| + | Dial. 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 290w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1496. D. 20, ’06. 190w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 140w. |
“Especially valuable is his knack for penetrating without offence into the more intimate life of the farmers, lumbermen, and villagers, so that we get much that is practically first-hand material for the study of the average social life of the great valley.”
| + | Nation. 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 360w. |
“Mr. Johnson is a voluminous writer, but he has written no book of more interest to Americans than this one.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 841. D. 8, ’06. 340w. |
“The book is eminently readable.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 200w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 80w. |
Johnson, Eleanor H. Boys’ life of Capt. John Smith. (Young people’s ser.). †75c. Crowell.
7–26621.
Dedicated to all American boys who are interested in the beginnings of their country, this sketch follows as nearly as possible the explorer’s own words. And to give more of the man’s personality to the volume, some of his letters are appended.
Johnson, Emory Richard. Ocean and inland water transportation. **$1.50. Appleton.
6–20201.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 467. N. ’06. 500w. |
“We believe the book is a useful one for the commercial courses of study now becoming popular in our institutions of learning and that it should be included in the reference libraries of engineering schools and engineering societies. The practicing engineer who meets problems in connection with the economics of water transportation will find in it up-to-date information obtainable only with great difficulty from other sources.”
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 300w. |
“For the general reader the book has comparatively little interest, since it is necessarily elementary in matters most likely to attract him.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 440w. |
“The entire lack of general treatises upon the subject of water transportation will incline teachers and students of the subject to extend a warm welcome. The most valuable portions of the volume are the chapters devoted to ocean transportation. Far less satisfactory is his discussion of shipping subsidies.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 21. Ja. 3, ’07. 600w. |
“The book is of importance, making, with its predecessor, almost the sole complete succinct presentation of the problems which confront the transportation managers and the lawmakers of the United States.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 414. Je. 23. ’06. 160w. |
Johnson, George Ellsworth. Education by plays and games. *90c. Ginn.
7–26152.
“Its first part is a study of the meaning of play, its relation to work, and its application to education. The second part is a series of games chosen from a thousand or more, and judiciously graded for progressive use. The author has wisely chosen the older forms in all the games, thus giving the pupil the key to many references in literature and folklore quite unintelligible if he knew only the modern variations of the original game.”—N. Y. Times.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w. |
Johnson, Thomas Cary. Virginia Presbyterianism and religious liberty in colonial and revolutionary times. 50c. Presbyterian com.
A sketch of the services of Presbyterians during colonial and revolutionary days to the cause of religious liberty.
Johnson, Trench H. [Phrases and names, their origins, and meanings.] **$1.50. Lippincott.
“In alphabetical order the author has gone through a great number of names and phrases heard in everyday speech, colloquialisms and expressions and references of less usual occurrence, explaining in brief statement their origin and meaning. In the preface the author says that his sole design has been to account for the origin of popular phrases and names.”—N. Y. Times.
“This is a very curious book that teems with every possible kind of error. Had it been much elaborated and compiled by a man of learning it might have been useful; the hotch-potch before us is almost too bad to serve as a groundwork for a book of reference.”
| − | Acad. 72: 136. F. 9, ’07. 890w. |
“The book is uncritical in its popular derivations, many of which have been long exploded; and extremely careless in quoting foreign languages. It is difficult to believe that the author knows Latin or Greek. If he does, he ought to have seen that some care was taken with his ‘proofs.’”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 223. F. 23. 140w. |
“Compact and handy volume.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w. |
“It is one of those books which, once you start to read, lure you on from page to page and you rise longing to trip up your friends on all sorts and kinds of catchy little points.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w. |
“Many errors and defects may be found, but the book gives much out-of-the-way information.”
| − + | Spec. 97: 260. F. 16, ’07. 150w. |
Johnson, Willis Fletcher. Four centuries of the Panama canal; with maps and illustrations. **$3. Holt.
6–42401.
“The design of Spanish adventures in the fifteenth century is being fulfilled by American engineers in the twentieth.” So says Mr. Johnson, and he deals with the incidents and circumstances leading from Columbus to Roosevelt. His aim is to give the “salient and essential features of the ‘story,’ with as little as possible of detailed description of the Isthmian country, of its conditions of resources, soil, climate, people, of the technical features of the canal and its auxiliary work.”
“The book shows its newspaper origin by such glaring inaccuracies as those referred to above, by the fact that it comes quite down to the date of publication, by its newspaper English, and by its readability. It is interesting reading, and we need for easy consultation such an account of the origin and progress of the Panama republic and its relations with the United States.” J. Russell Smith.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 684. Ap. ’07. 880w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 148. My. ’07. |
“In dealing with the technical features the author has been led into several errors. Some result from his bias in favour of a sea-level canal, which he makes no effort to conceal. These errors, however, are not of great importance, and do not detract in great degree from the merits of the book. It is but just to say that on the whole the work is very creditable and will form a useful addition to the library of any student of Isthmian canal affairs.” Peter C. Hains.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 429. Mr. ’07. 700w. |
“Exhaustive historical study.”
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 126. F. ’07. 190w. |
“The views and information which he imparts may be regarded as authoritative.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 340w. |
“This is the most thorough and comprehensive work that has yet appeared on the Panama canal. The discussion of the engineering side of the question is very inadequate. For a work of such detail, covering a new field, it is—except when the author gets enthusiastic and eloquent—remarkably free from errors.”
| + + − | Nation. 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 920w. |
“We should have had the assistance of a large map in detail; the clearly printed small maps in color inserted with the text are useful, but inadequate. As a whole. Dr. Johnson’s volume seems the most exhaustive contribution yet made to the popular understanding of a great subject.”
| + + − | Outlook. 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 300w. |
“In matters having a legal or semi-legal character, the author is not at his best.” J. B. Moore.
| + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 139. Mr. ’07. 430w. |
“Described in a satisfactory manner.” G: Louis Beer.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 745. S. ’07. 200w. |
“Is a praiseworthy contribution to our knowledge of the project.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 1012. Je. 29. ’07. 430w. |
Johnston, Alexander. American political history, 1763–1876. 2v. ea. *$2. Putnam.
5–36483.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The exigencies governing the author in their preparation account largely no doubt for the remarkable compression that characterizes the several studies; the style is concise, the narrative compact, and the discussion penetrating and rigorous. The solid worth of the author’s contributions is shown by the infrequency of editorial corrections. The editor’s method of indicating his additions to the text leaves the reader in perplexity at times.” F. I. Herriott.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 480. N. ’06. 920w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The editor’s method of citation and cross reference cannot be commended either for lucidity or seviceableness. Professor Johnston’s acuteness in discerning the vital and fundamental facts in the currents of our political life, his remarkable industry, accuracy and thorough-going research constantly impress one.”
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 162. Jl. ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Johnston, Mrs. Annie Fellows. [Little colonel’s knight comes riding.] $1.50. Page.
7–33204.
The little colonel, in this ninth volume of her series, finds her own true knight and leaving her girlhood behind her, fares forth in veil and orange blossoms to begin her new life near her old home.
“No boy or girl will be harmed, but only mildly entertained, by the chronicle.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 80w. |
Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton. Liberia. 2v. *$12.50. Dodd.
6–44331.
Cyclopedic in treatment and, accordingly extensive in scope, the author covers a vast amount of ground in his two large volumes. The first is devoted to the history of the Liberian republic from 1847 to the present time, incidentally revealing Great Britain’s and America’s colonization policy. The second is devoted to the fauna, flora and anthropology of the country, the latter being treated in its historical, physical and social aspects.
“Less objective than Lindsay’s book ... well written, interesting and the most comprehensive book on the subject which has yet appeared.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 10. Ja. ’07. |
“Our complaint against Sir Harry Johnston is that, with all his cleverness and brilliance as a draughtsman ... he is somewhat wrong in his perspective, if not also in his facts.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 63. Jl. 21. 1970w. |
“The interest with which the welfare of the negro race is followed in this country should secure for the book the attention to which it is entitled by virtue of the industry and learning that have been bestowed upon it.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 610w. |
“A vast amount of intelligent and widely diversified labor has been expended upon these volumes, which give a comprehensive view of the Republic of Liberia.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w. |
“It is a book not only of great utility to the traveller, but of genuine interest to the untravelled; and the wonderful illustrations from the author’s brush and pencil are sufficient of themselves to fire the imagination.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 201. Ag. 11, ’06. 1330w. |
Johnston, John Black. Nervous system of vertebrates; il. *$3. Blakiston.
6–35709.
“A text-book of functional neurology. The unit of description is the functional system of neurones, that is, the aggregate of related neurones which co-operate in the performance of any given type of reflex movement.... While this work is primarily a text-book of the morphology of the nervous system, its great merit lies in the fact that its facts so far as they go also express the functions of the parts, so that comparative physiology and comparative psychology will both find in it an immediate point of departure, for their special researches.”—Science.
“A volume of this kind has been needed in English.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 110w. |
“The book will be of great use to all engaged in instruction or research. It would be easy to point out omissions in the text and topics which deserve more adequate treatment. Satisfaction with certain features of the author’s terminology is alloyed by his indifference to the labors of his predecessors in that regard.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 20. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w. |
“The book gives the impression of having been written by an able zoologist interested in neurology, rather than by a pure neurologist, and therein lies a good deal of its value. In the present work the author presents a very readable and succinct account of his subject, which forms a valuable and welcome addition to the literature relating to it.” W. Page May.
| + + − | Nature. 77: 73. N. 28, ’07. 1040w. |
“The basis of the work is sound and the leading conclusions abundantly supported by the singularly concordant results of the studies of the new school of comparative neurologists.” C. Judson Herrick.
| + | Science, n.s. 24: 845. D. 28, ’06. 1100w. |
Johnston, Mary. [Goddess of reason] 7–16726. Miss Johnston’s first drama “opens in Brittany on a summer morning in 1791, and the curtain falls at the end on the banks of the Loire at Nantes. The plot is as skillfully devised to awaken and sustain interest from the beginning to the end as any of Miss Johnston’s stories, and not until the last scene does the reader face the solution to the problem. The play has a beautiful setting of terraces and ancient homes, and the refinement, dignity, and wit of the old order, set in striking contrast to the turbulence, the passion, the intense conviction, of the revolutionary movement.”—Outlook. “The piece is conceived in terms of romantic situation, and for that reason it is the most readable poetic drama in the popular sense of the word, that has lately been seen.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + | Atlan. 100: 849. D. ’07. 530w. |
“Deserves no permanent place in the library, and on the stage would, in its present shape, be soporific.”
| − | Ind. 63: 570. S. 5, ’07. 200w. |
“A rather extraordinary literary performance, very uneven in character. Altho there is a certain richness of historic background and a vividness of characterization, the defects of the piece are glaring.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 140w. |
“If much of the verse is simply fluent prose cut into lengths, if there are many crude and not a few broken, halt, or utterly commonplace lines, there are occasional passages of uncommon descriptive power, full of pretty imagery and verbal eloquence, and some that thrill with ardor, scorn, or vigorous passion.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 460. My. 10, ’07. 850w. |
“Readers of her other work will not be disappointed, for in the ‘Goddess of reason’ she gives full play to her power over romantic situations, poetical backgrounds, and sentiment.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 100w. |
“As romantic as her stories and as interesting. As a drama ‘The goddess of reason’ is probably too complex for successful presentation. It is lyrical rather than dramatic; but as a piece of writing, both in construction and diction, it will advance Miss Johnston’s reputation.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 453. Je. 29, ’07. 230w. |
“The verse is very dainty and musical, though Miss Johnston takes strange liberties with metre, and the final tragedy is finely conceived and executed. Our one criticism would be that her talent is a little too delicate to reproduce the rude horrors of the revolution.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 180w. |
Johnston, Robert M. Leading American soldiers. (Biographies of leading Americans.) **$1.75. Holt.
7–24610.
The initial volume in a series to be devoted to leading Americans. Thirteen soldiers from George Washington to Joseph E. Johnston are sketched here in the light of their military fitness and attainment. “Their principal battles are treated in considerable detail, which makes the book, as a whole, a composite military history from the interesting view-point of dominant personalities.”
“Neither his sanity nor his splendid lack of bias enables him to weed out the sheep and the goats; he makes no allowance for contemporary—and therefore untrustworthy—records.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 870w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 167. O. ’07. S. |
“From fifteen to sixty-five pages are given to each subject, including the main facts of his life and an outline of his campaigns, with intelligent criticism of them. This criticism, tho briefly expressed, is the valuable feature of the book and makes it worth a careful reading, especially by those who have accepted the traditional opinions found in the popular histories.”
| + | Dial. 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 220w. |
“Though many things in the story of American soldiers strike us differently we do not fail to recognize in this narrator knowledge, fairmindedness, and good sense.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 900w. |
“In spite of the number of contradictions and many inaccuracies in this book, the arrangement is scholarly, brief, precise, and contains in a very few pages the most important events which have made the men whose lives are described from the point of view of the American reader, historical characters. I am placing this book in my library as a useful index to other books in which the lives of the same men are described more in detail. I would recommend it to every military student as a material addition to his military library.” W. G. Haan.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 240w. |
“This also is a valuable compendium for those who wish to know our wars in outline but have not the time or inclination to read of them in detail.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 101. O. ’07. 240w. |
“For the reader who is puzzled to know how to choose between the numerous and voluminous biographies of the great captains of our Civil war period this compact volume performs a real service in preserving the essentials.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 381. S. ’07. 150w. |
“This is an excellent book.”
| + | Spec. 99: 673. N. 2, ’07. 340w. |
Jones, Chester Lloyd. Consular service of the United States, its history and activities. $1.25. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.
6–25758.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is a timely and scholarly monograph based on a careful study of documentary sources, interviews with officials of the consular service and on personal observation of American consulates in Europe.” J. W. Garner.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 482. N. ’06. 750w. | |
| + − | Ind. 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 240w. |
Jones, Harry Clary. Electrical nature of matter and radioactivity. $2. Van Nostrand.
6–16984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 44. F. ’07. S. |
“A book which on the whole justifies its existence by the treatment, found in the last seventy-five pages, of the results of investigations and discussions so recent that they have not yet found place in other books on radioactivity. The book as a whole lacks somewhat in unity of treatment, the different sections differing considerably in value and in method of presentation.” R. A. Millikan.
| + − | Science, n.s. 25: 300. F. 22, ’07. 820w. |
* Jones, Jenkin Lloyd. Love and loyalty. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37980.
A book of sermons preached to boys and girls which “represent a cross-section of twenty-five years of a busy city ministry.”
Jones, John William. Life and letters of Robert E. Lee, soldier and man. $2. Neale.
6–30495.
An intimate sketch of Lee which has been the result of a personal study of the man and a careful handling of the mass of facts contained in letters and various papers and documents.
“The few pages of personal reminiscences of Lee are perhaps the most interesting part of the book.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 470. Ja. ’07. 50w. | |
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 320w. |
“Dr. Jones’s volume gives a fairly readable collection of letters and other data regarding General Lee. But it is marred by a narrow partisanship and a good deal of inaccuracy of statement.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 290w. |
“Dr. Jones writes with excellent spirit as to the bitterness of the past.”
| + | Lit. D. 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 100w. |
“His title is imposing, his fulfilment scant. He does not in the least accomplish the purpose announced in his preface of giving his subject fresh treatment. Unfortunately, he fails all along the line. He has a few unpublished letters to set out, but these are all of slight importance; they are buried under a mass of other letters reprinted from previous books on the subject, and there is no system to indicate to the reader which letters are hitherto unpublished and which not.”
| − + | Nation. 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 390w. |
Jordan, David Starr. College and the man: an address to American youth. 80c. Am. Unitar.
7–13491.
A book addressed to students who look forward to making the most they can of themselves. It is a plea for higher education, for better preparation for the duties of life.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 110w. |
* Jordan, David Starr. Human harvest. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–28174.
A revision and an enlargement of Dr. Jordan’s “Blood of the nation,” which gives a more extended exposition of “the decay of races thru the survival of the unfit.”
Jordan, David Starr. Philosophy of hope; originally published under the title of The philosophy of despair. *75c. Elder.
7–16384.
A robust optimism is preached in this brief monograph, which searches the sources of pessimism, discovers their weakness, and finds a surer foundation for “that philosophy of joy and hope which must be the mainspring of successful life.”
| N. Y. Times. 12: 428. O. 19, ’07. 80w. |
Jordan, David Starr, and Kellogg, Vernon L. Evolution and animal life. **$2.50. Appleton.
7–29033.
An elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories relating to the life and evolution of animals. “The first three chapters are occupied with preliminary definitions of evolution and discussions of the physical basis of life, the simplest form of life, the meaning of species, and similar fundamental points. The next eight chapters deal with the various theories as to the methods of evolution which have been proposed, and the facts and supposed facts of nature on which they have been based. The remaining ten chapters are devoted to special topics related to the subject of evolution.” (Dial.)
“It would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a better work to put into the hands of serious students of evolution, to be used either as a text-book or for so-called ‘collateral reading.’” Raymond Pearl.
| + + − | Dial. 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 340w. |
“Lack of care in the legends is characteristic of the illustrations. This apparently petty criticism of the English has as its excuse the well-known fact that both the authors are, when they try, masters of literary style. One cannot escape the convictions that this book was hurriedly, even somewhat carelessly, ‘reeled off,’ out of the abundant knowledge of the busy authors. Mistakes of fact are rather few.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 818. O. 3, ’07. 1240w. |
“Notwithstanding the extreme condensation, the text is clear and pleasant reading, brightened by original similes.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 426. N. 7, ’07. 570w. |
“The book is perfectly capable of being understood by the reader who is not trained technically in science, provided that he will give it his fair and careful attention.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w. |
Joseph, Horace William B. Introduction to logic. *$3.15. Oxford.
7–29050.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Joseph’s work as a whole shows much learning, industry and acuteness; and we can only express our regret that a logician of such evident ability has restricted his researches within the narrow traditional limits and neglected to avail himself of the powerful instrument which modern symbolic logic has placed at his disposal.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 638. My. 25. 930w. |
“The author has attempted to escape the reproach of dryness, which is proverbial in books of this character, by introducing controversial matter. The book as a whole is well knit together and certainly not without value, but it cannot be recommended as a text-book for beginners.” Adam Leroy Jones.
| + − | J. Philos. 4: 215. Ap. 11, ’07. 980w. |
“The strength of the book lies in the sound judgment which the author has displayed in knowing whom to follow than in any new ideas of his own. A good book and worth reading, though we think it would have been better if the author could have brought himself to compress it.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 102: 680. D. 1, ’06. 1760w. |
Joutel, Henri. Joutel’s journal of La Salle’s last voyage, 1684–7. *$5. McDonough.
6–14763.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A fine historical volume.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 250. My. ’07. 320w. |
“This edition of Joutel’s Journal is so admirable in many respects that it seems ungrateful to offer any criticism. At the same time it does appear somewhat regrettable that in selecting the text for it the most complete one available was not taken.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
| + − | Dial. 12: 283. My. 1, ’07. 1870w. | |
| + + | Ind. 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 40w. |
Jowett, Benjamin. Interpretation of Scripture, and other essays. *$1. Dutton.
W 7–97.
“The present essays are nearly all on Biblical and theological topics.... They reveal the keenness and force as well as the limitations of the great Master of Balliol, a character sketch of whom by Sir Leslie Stephen appropriately introduces them.”—Outlook.
| Dial. 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w. |
“It would be difficult to find a volume containing more valuable material on Biblical subjects in cheaper form than is here offered.”
| + | Ind. 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 90w. |
“An endeavor altogether deserving of commendation.”
| + | Nation. 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w. | |
| Nation. 84: 454. My. 16, ’07. 80w. |
“This collection is of historical importance as well as of intrinsic value.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 481. F. 23, ’07. 170w. |
Joyce, Patrick Weston. Smaller social history of ancient Ireland. *$1.25. Longmans.
“An abridgment of the author’s large and important work on the same subject.... He has treated very fully and in an interesting way the government, military system and law, the religion, learning, and art, the trades, industries, and commerce, the manners, customs, and life of the ancient Irish people as they were before the Anglo-Norman invasion.”—N. Y. Times.
“Certain criticisms which were made with reference to the larger work hold true in equal measure of the abridgment, though they are perhaps less fairly urged against a popular production.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 917. Jl. ’07. 450w. |
“The main traits of this early society are clearly and convincingly portrayed, and, in spite of certain minor defects of treatment, such as the too frequent introduction—for the non-Celtic reader—of the old Irish terms, and of the unnecessary comparisons with Greek and Roman customs, it is the most instructive sketch of ancient Irish society that has yet appeared.” A. C. Howland.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 430. Mr. ’07. 2040w. |
“Dr. Joyce’s work has been done with due regard for the methods and responsibilities of scholarship.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 247. My. ’07. 440w. |
“It is a valuable composition, accurate and full of sound learning.”
| + | Nation. 84: 197. F. 28, ’07. 200w. |
“The author ... has not made his book a mere array of dry facts. It is all told interestingly, and with comment and allusion, and occasional entertaining reference to tradition or literature.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 350w. | |
| Sat. R. 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 220w. |
* Judd, Charles Hubbard. Psychology; general introduction: volume one of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to the methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–23072.
“Professor Judd indicates in his preface the four basic principles which characterize the treatment of mental phenomena in this work. 1. The functional view is adhered to thruout. 2. The genetic method of treatment is followed.... 3. The physiological conditions of mental life have been emphasized.... 4. The dominant importance of ideation as a unique and final stage of evolution is strongly insisted on. ‘The work is intended to develop a point of view which shall include all that is given in the biological doctrine of adaptation, while at the same time it passes beyond the biological doctrine to a more elaborate principle of indirect ideational adaptation.’”—Educ. R.
“While the language of the discussion may be a trifle difficult for the teacher, yet if he perseveres and masters the thought he will be amply repaid in the new and stimulating outlook on mental life here presented.” J. Carleton Bell.
| + + − | Educ. R. 34: 416. N. ’07. 2080w. |
“On the whole, the book is an excellent treatment of the general principles of psychology, and may be confidently recommended to all earnest students of the science.” W. B.
| + + − | Nature. 76: 540. S. 26, ’07. 510w. |
Jude, Alexander. Theory of the steam turbine. *$5. Lippincott.
7–7508.
“The theory of the steam turbine forms altogether the least essential part of the book, whereas the principles that should govern the design form its most important portion. There cannot be any question but that the book has been written for the use of the designers of turbines.... The most important chapter titles are: Historical notes on turbines; Velocity of steam; Types of steam turbines; Practical turbines; Efficiency of turbines; Turbine vanes; Disk and vane friction in turbines; Strength of rotating disks; Governing steam turbines; Steam consumption of turbines; The whirling of shafts; Speed of turbines.”—Engin. N.
“The book is, on the whole, very satisfactory. It is well gotten up and the large number of numerical examples worked out add materially to its value.” Storm Bull.
| + − | Engin. N. 56: 636. D. 13, ’06. 630w. |
Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules. Literary history of the English people, from the renaissance to the civil war. v. 2. *$3.50. Putnam.
7–35185.
“M. Jusserand continues his English version of the ‘Histoire littéraire du peuple Anglais;’ the present instalment is half the original second volume, which appeared in 1904, and went from the Renaissance to the Civil war. This stops just before the drama; it takes in Spenser, Sidney, and ‘Euphues,’ but the predecessors of Shakespeare are kept for the second part.”—Lond. Times.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 98. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.) | ||
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 590w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.) |
“He may be heartily welcomed by every lover of English literature as a well-formed sympathetic and brilliant critic.” Edward Fuller.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.) |
“A work of solid merit and a valuable contribution to the history of English literature.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.) |
“Brilliant in every chapter and every page, it puts forward an original view, drawn from life—from the life that M. Jusserand brings into all his writings. There is never any suspicion here of ‘index-learning’ or merely law-abiding criticism. M. Jusserand does not go out of his way to traverse ordinary accepted judgments, but his opinions, even when they agree with the majority, are uttered with such a zest as commonly goes with paradoxes and extravagances.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 376. N. 9, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.) |
“Owing partly to the liberty of selection which the design of the book permits, and still more to an unfailing charm of style, there is not a dull page in the volume. As regards the style of the book in its English dress, we may remark that the natural order of subject and verb is inverted with a frequency which is irritating and opposed to English idiom. On the whole, however, the work is satisfactorily executed.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.) |
“The translation is so nearly perfect that, but for a few phrases here and there, in which the French idiom overcomes the English, the book gives the impression of being written in English, and in a sort of English as unusual as the French from which it is set over. It may be said, indeed, that this is a literary history in the very obvious sense that its form is touched with the indefinable, unmistakable charm of literature, and thus contributes to and continues the noble development which it traces.” Edward Cary.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 1580w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.) |
“It is not too much to say that if the third volume is equal to its two predecessors, M. Jusserand will have given us what is on the whole the best history of the literature of our language which has yet been written.” Brander Matthews.
| + + + | No. Am. 184: 759. Ap. 5, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.) |
“The volume is never dull and never superficial; but it is very long and very diffuse; it deals with an enormous variety of subjects; and at last, after five hundred and fifty pages, it stops short without having reached the confines of mature Elizabethan literature, and without having touched upon Elizabethan drama at all.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 457. Mr. 23, ’07. 1850w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.) |