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Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.). Aboard the Hylow on Sable Island bank. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–28976.
The Hylow was a fishing schooner and two boys came aboard her as stowaways; the one, a messenger boy, carried off by mistake while helping the other, an English lad, to escape the officials who would have deported him. The account of their voyage will interest other boys and teach them much of the ways of the sea and the sea-men and of the life on the Newfoundland banks.
“[Adventures are described] with sufficient frequency to sustain the interest without exceeding the bounds of probability.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w. |
“A vivid picture is given of the fisherman’s life on the Newfoundland banks.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“No very definite idea of sea life is gained from this story; there is a great deal of nautical dialogue in it and very little action.”
| − + | Outlook. 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 70w. |
Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.). Joey at the fair. 75c. Crowell.
6–27349.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The tale is well told and cannot fail to be the source of much pleasure to young readers.”
| + | Arena. 37: 222. F. ’07. 170w. |
“A fresh, vigorous little story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 110w. |
Kaufman, Herbert, and Fisk, May Isabel. Stolen throne; illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy and Hermann Rountree. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–14250.
“The story of the Duchy of Stromburg, of which the Russians are planning to gain possession, and the plotting Slav is shown in his deepest dye. As seems to be almost invariably the case in such contributions to current literature, the hero of the story is an Englishman of ancient race and no particular occupation—a man who is finally awakened to real life by the fascination of a woman.”—N. Y. Times.
“Extravagant as the story is, it is not without interest. If it is an imitation of Anthony Hope, it is a very good article of its kind.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“The adventures are of the purest romance untroubled by any hint of realism—but interesting and entertaining withal.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 560w. |
“A high degree of literary workmanship in which are blended Mrs. Fisk’s well known qualities of subtlety and humor, and Mr. Kaufman’s long-recognized gift as a natural story teller of much vitality.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 120w. |
* Keays, Hersilia A. M. Road to Damascus: a novel. †$1.50. Small.
7–31480.
A young wife, unbeknown to her husband, adopts his child born out of wedlock. The story abounds in struggles which result from her fastkeeping of the secret such as “the desire of the child to know who he is, the antagonism between the boy and his unguessed father, the irritation of the husband at her insistence upon keeping this alien element in their life, and the determination of the woman that neither of them shall know the truth. Toward the end Richarda seems to sum up the whole book when she says: ‘It is the sweat of one soul for another that counts.’” (N. Y. Times.)
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“It is as bare of incident as an Ibsen drama. And like an Ibsen drama it grips the attention as the years of its movement roll by. The book has a certain distinction of difference from the flood of novels, not only because of the artistry of its handling, but also because it is not concerned with material things and the outside facts of life.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 450w. |
Kebbel, Thomas Edward. Lord Beaconsfield and other Tory memories. *$4. Kennerley.
7–37964.
A sketch which is written entirely from the biographer’s own personal experiences and which is not indebted either to “books or hearsay.” With a freedom that departs at times from anecdote, narrative and description, the author turns to “such reminiscences as are in any way connected with the name and fame of the Tory leader, showing how his influence permeated all ranks of society, and how wide and how deep was the impression created, apart from all political considerations, by his unique personality.”
“There are a good many slight inaccuracies in the volume.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 450w. |
“Few American journalists, one imagines, would have the material, drawn from their own experiences, upon which to base so charming and informing a volume of reminiscences as this.” Edward Fuller.
| + | Bookm. 26: 185. O. ’07. 1200w. |
“It is as a Boswell to Beaconsfield that Mr. T. E. Kebbel will make his strongest appeal to American readers of English political biography.” Edward Porritt.
| + | Forum. 39: 102. Jl. ’07. 1990w. |
“Some [chapters] are distinctly trivial, and scarcely worth publication, even in an English Tory magazine.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 420w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 350w. |
“His Disraelian reminiscences are as much personal as political, and throw pleasant sidelights upon the strange personality of the chief. We do not, however, find him always accurate in his retrospect.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 139. My. 3, ’07. 520w. |
“Is rather thin spun ‘copy.’ Still the book has a good deal of lightly entertaining political and personal gossip, which might while away an idle hour.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w. |
“They are memories of one who only saw from afar, but judged shrewdly of what was happening. Within these bounds the book is a good one, interestingly written, and well put together, and altogether worthy of a few hours of a busy man’s time.” Wm. E. Dodd.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 1860w. |
“The best features of Mr. Kebbel’s volume are those that have the Boswellian flavor.” Julius Chambers.
| + | No. Am. 186: 134. S. ’07. 1650w. |
“A book of rare and manysided interest.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w. |
“The ‘Memories’ which refer to Lord Beaconsfield ... will remain, it may be said, the most important part of the book. The historian who would rightly appreciate the ‘Educator of the Tories’ must certainly take them into account. ‘Tory journalism and literature’ is, at least to the journalist, one of the most interesting of Mr. Kebbel’s chapters.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 905. Je. 8, ’07. 1300w. |
Keeler, Charles Augustus. Bird notes afield: essays on the birds of the Pacific coast with a field check list; il. with reproductions of photographs. 2d ed. *$2. Elder.
7–19063.
A revised edition of a bird book for the ornithological tourist to California. “A certain skeleton of scientific classification” underlies the work “in order to convey to the uninitiated some inkling of the systematic grouping of the various species.” The first part of the volume describes the life and habits of the birds, the second, furnishes a descriptive list with a key for classification.
“Mr. Keeler’s text shows ... much accurate and discerning observation.” George Gladden.
| + | Bookm. 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 710w. | |
| + + | Ind. 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 110w. |
“Taken all in all this is the best popular work which has appeared on the birds of the Pacific coast region—interesting both to the Californians and to the bird-lover of other, less favored lands.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 370w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w. |
“All Californians, and especially visitors to the state from the east may profit greatly by the information contained in Mr. Keeler’s interesting book.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 150w. |
Keith, Marion. Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. †$1.50. Revell.
6–34644.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 17. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
Kelley, Florence. Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25. Macmillan.
5–33677.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by A. G. Spencer.
| + + | Charities. 17: 459. D. 15, ’06. 1790w. |
Kellogg, Vernon L. Darwinism to-day. **$2. Holt.
7–29032.
A discussion presenting simply and concisely to students of biology and to general readers the present-day standing of Darwinism in biological science, and outlining for them the various auxiliary and alternative theories of species-forming which have been proposed to aid or replace the selection theories.
“The value of Professor Kellogg’s book to the working student of organic evolution cannot be overestimated. It is a book that the student must have at hand at all times, and it takes the place of a whole library. No other writer has attempted to gather together the scatted literature of this vast subject and none has subjected this literature to such uniformly trenchant and uniformly kindly criticism.” David Starr Jordan.
| + + + | Dial. 43: 161. S. 16, ’07. 1500w. |
“Although the volume contains comparatively little new work, it is none the less valuable as a summary to date of investigations.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 475. N. 21, ’07. 1120w. |
Kellor, Frances A. Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.
4–32737.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
| Charities. 17: 469. D. 15, ’07. 230w. |
Kelly, Edmund. Practical programme for working-men. $1. Scribner.
7–22709.
“After discussing the influence of environment upon man, and pointing out the evils of private property and competition on the one hand and the present impracticability of ‘orthodox’ Socialism on the other, he makes an amazing suggestion, viz., that the ‘unwealthy’ classes organize in order to secure a candidate for the next Presidential election, possibly absorbing the Democratic party! The ‘practical programme’ itself is then discussed, and a nationalization and municipalization of industries is considered expedient in opening the road to coöperation.”—Dial.
“As a theoretical discussion the book has some merit. It is pretty weak as a practical program.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 338. S. ’06. 50w. |
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
| Atlan. 99: 279. F. ’07. 130w. |
“Many of the questions raised, though not always clearly answered, are very thoughtful and timely and the book closes very much stronger than it opens.” W. B. Guthrie.
| + − | Charities. 17: 469. D. 15, ’06. 620w. |
“Of the book as a whole it may be said that a superabundance of rhetoric has somewhat usurped the place of scientific reasoning, and it can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to sociology.” Eunice Follansbee.
| − | Dial. 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 180w. |
“It is an admirable example of keen analysis and strong constructive reasoning.”
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 177. Mr. ’07. 320w. | |
| R. of Rs. 34: 383. S. ’06. 70w. |
Kelly, Myra. Isle of dreams. †$1.25. Appleton.
7–14256.
“The heroine of the story is a young woman artist who ... is believed by herself and her friends to be on the high road to ... success. At a country house, whither she had gone as a week-end guest, she finds that it is her host who has been buying all her paintings. Deeply wounded and humiliated by the discovery that her public is represented by only one man ... she rushes home and off to Europe without giving him a chance to make his explanations. She stays away for a year ... and wins some real fame in the shape of a salon medal, and while she is gone her admirer makes chivalric amends. And, of course, she comes back.”—N. Y. Times.
“Is not, by any means, equal to her short stories of slum children.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 135. My. ’07. |
“Her novel would appear to indicate that she lacks the novelist’s greater gift of imagination; the power of visualizing to herself the web of her invention.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 160w. |
“While ‘Katherine Merrill’ and ‘Robert Ford’ are on the whole well-drawn characters, they are marred by that fatal gift of young novelists—smartness, which has a blasting effect upon style. Another fault which looms large in the book is affectation. In spite of these very palpable defects, however, the book has good points.”
| − + | Lit. D. 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 170w. |
“Imagining a really strong, if painful situation, instead of bravely and patiently unravelling it, she positively submerges it in sugary optimism. It should, however, be confessed that her method will undoubtedly give perfect satisfaction to those readers who look upon a novel as a mental form of sweetened pepsin.”
| − | Nation. 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 860w. |
“Her admirers will be disappointed to find that she does not handle this new medium with the skill that she showed in her use of the short story.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w. |
“The same qualities which brought her success in the depiction of the east side children will charm the readers of her first novel.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
“The novel has touches of humor and good characterizations, but it is not extraordinary—only one more entertaining, pleasantly written, unimportant story.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 40w. |
* Kelynack, Theophilus Nicholas, ed. Drink problem in its medico-sociological aspects, by fourteen medical authorities. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–29117.
“Contains fifteen chapters, written by fourteen medical men, many of whom are known as advocates of the temperance movement. The articles range from such highly speculative subjects as the evolution of the alcoholic to the practical means which should be taken to arrest the spread of alcoholism.”—Ath.
“Upon the purely social aspects of the liquor problem the book is not as complete as one could desire. One or two absurd statistical errors have crept into the text. On the whole, then, the work will be found exceedingly valuable for the scientific student of the liquor problem, and will furnish a mass of useful and reliable facts for the practical temperance reformer.” Charles A. Ellwood.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 611. N. ’07. 510w. |
“For those who are interested in the subject Dr. Kelynack’s book furnishes interesting reading.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 414. Ap. 6. 280w. |
“The volume may be unreservedly recommended as a careful study of the various problems which have to be handled.”
| + | Spec. 98: 336. Mr. 2, ’07. 250w. |
Kempster, James Aquila. Salvage. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–39730.
The hero of this novel is, at the opening of the story, a penniless outcast. He quarrels with a stranger, fancies he has killed him, puts on his clothes, takes his money, and comes to New York where he begins a new life and wins wealth and friends. Of course the stranger is not dead, but crosses the hero’s path again and there are complications galore and a much entangled love story.
“The characters are alive and the atmosphere is fresh.”
| + | Ind. 63: 102. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w. |
“There has not been much attempt by the author—or if there was an attempt it was without success—to make either the story or its separate incidents seem credible or its characters lifelike.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 380w. |
“A successful story of its kind, with no underlying philosophy or special motive, but good in plot and style.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w. |
Kennedy, Charles William, and Wilson, James Southall. Pausanias: a dramatic poem. $1.25. Neale.
7–22893.
Pausanias, beloved of Sparta, is tempted by his thirst for power and his sudden passion for the Byzantine maid, Cleonice, to ally himself with Xerxes and turn traitor to his faithful wife and to Greece. How he yields but is held to his honor by the death of the maid he cannot win is told in the three acts of this well wrought poem, which closes with his own tragic death.
Kennelly, Arthur Edwin. Wireless telegraphy: an elementary treatise. **$1. Moffat.
7–482.
As stated in its preface this is “a presentation of the elementary facts concerning the nature and operation of wireless telegraphy in language as free from technicality as possible, and without the use of algebra, so as to permit of the book being submitted to the consideration of persons not technically versed in electricity or its applications.”
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 98. Ap. ’07. |
“The author ... explains in language comprehensible to any one who has studied elementary physics as much about the principles and the apparatus as any but an expert needs to know.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 90w. |
“A careful study.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w. |
Kenney, Courtney Stanhope. Outlines of criminal law; rev. and adapted for American scholars by James H. Webb. *$3. Macmillan.
7–8557.
“This volume is a revision, adapted for American scholars, of the second edition of the well-known work of Courtney Stanhope Kenny, of the University of Cambridge. The changes chiefly consist in the insertion of citations of American cases and paragraphs bearing on our own laws and the omission of some irrelevant matter.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The volume is chiefly designed as a textbook for law students. It is admirably adapted for this purpose. Its usefulness will, however, be greater for a large number of persons who wish to know more definitely about criminal law will find this manual very valuable.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 649. My. ’97. 200w. |
“A particularly well written text-book.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w. |
“Broadly, the book covers the subject as completely as a general treatise of its compass (400 8vo pages) may. It is a very handy volume to have around the house in a day so full of casuistical questions, and judicial activities so many, various, and novel as at present.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 171. Mr. 23, ’07. 990w. | |
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 574. S. ’07. 250w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 170w. |
* Kent, Charles Foster. Israel’s laws and legal precedents, from the days of Moses to the closing of the legal canon; with plans and diagrams. (Students’ Old Testament, v. 4.) **$2.75. Scribner.
7–20667.
The legal portion of the Old Testament is arranged in five general divisions: (1) personal and family laws; (2) criminal laws, comprising injuries to persons, property, and society; (3) human laws, emphasizing the duty of kindness to animals and men; (4) religious laws, defining obligations to God; and (5) ceremonial laws, containing minute directions regarding worship and the ritual.
“The volume does not profess to be a commentary, yet in the footnotes to the translation there is scattered a large amount of valuable information relative to ancient Hebrew society and every opportunity is taken to illustrate or contrast the Hebrew codes of law with that of Hammurabi. By the aid of this volume, the study of the legal books of the Old Testament is made lucid and interesting.” John E. McFadyen.
| + + | Bib. World. 30: 378. N. ’07. 980w. |
“A thoro, accurate, and scholarly treatment of this exceedingly interesting subject.”
| + + | Educ. R. 34: 430. N. ’07. 50w. |
“Prof. Kent reaches a field where a classification and rearrangement of the Scripture text is of great value to the student of the development of Hebrew religion and social usages.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 229. S. 12, ’06. 230w. |
Kent, Charles Foster. [Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament.] **$1. Scribner.
6–14527.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This book perhaps lacks the charm of style and the closely articulated structure necessary to secure for it the widest reading and to enable it to hold the reader’s interest, but it is packed full of information and will do good wherever it goes.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
| + + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 270w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 123. My. ’07. ✠ |
“On the whole, however, Professor Kent has presented a large and difficult subject in small compass and popular form, with admirable clearness, fairness, and success. A copy of his book should be in the home of every church member in the country.” George A. Barton.
| + + − | Bib. World. 29: 73. Ja. ’07. 540w. |
“Old Testament students of all shades of opinion must be grateful to him for an orderly and painstaking presentation of the complicated legal system of the ancient Jews. Moreover, his work is highly valuable as giving an insight into the methods of higher criticism, and as such should be welcomed by such students as desire to be acquainted with an intellectual position before they either support or condemn it.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 240w. |
Kenton, Edna. Clem. †$1. Century.
7–26020.
A clear-cut western girl with crudities of heredity, training and environment comes into sudden wealth and innocently unashamed, skirts upon the edge of conventional society. She is twenty-six and possesses the integrity of a man. She falls in love with a youth of twenty who is loyal in spite of the determination of his little fashionable set to end his infatuation. The story dwells upon the mother’s cruel scheme of flicking the girl upon the raw by inviting her to an exclusive house party, counting her son’s disillusionment as a result of the gulf which she will spare no pains to make apparent. Clem rises phoenix-like from the fire of her persecution and shames the persecutor’s snobbishness by means of her heroic sense of honor quite beyond their comprehension.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 202. N. ’07. |
“Considered either as a love story a psychological story or a social satire, ‘Clem’ is eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 162. O. ’07. 730w. |
“The author has accomplished a difficult thing in an excellent manner—a manner that is more than literary.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w. |
“If you want a book ... in which every sentence stands up and kicks with its boots on for the ideas it represents, read what Clem has to say.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 490w. |
“Clever in its conception and sometimes approaching the brilliant in its execution. The other characters in the book, although less prominent than Clem are sketched very cleverly and have, to an unusual degree, the touch of life and actuality.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 330w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w. |
“Too much piazza talk and too little probability mar the general effect.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 60w. |
Keon, Grace. “When love is strong.” $1.25. Benziger.
7–17046.
A bank robbery and the search for and discovery of the robber form the plot of this novel which, contrary to the usual detective story, hinges upon the love of the heroine for the guilty man who has become her husband, and whom she raises to her own level by the help of her Catholic faith. It is really a tale of regeneration through love, altho much of the book is concerned with the unravelling of a mystery in which hypnotism plays a part.
“Miss Keon’s very good story is artistic enough to deserve the attention of mature readers who are not too sophisticated by indulgence in contemporary problems-plays or the bold realism which caters to the prevalent taste.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 70w. |
Kephart, Horace. Book of camping and wood craft, a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness. *$1.50. Outing.
6–45323.
Everything the camper could wish for in the line of practical suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and fish, camp cooking, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost and what to do if one does get lost, living off the country, what the different species of trees are good for from the camper’s viewpoint, backwoods handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the treatment of wounds and other injuries, etc., can be found in this little volume. There are many illustrations from photographs.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 11. Ja. ’07. |
“Mr. Kephart buttonholes you gently, fixes you with his woodman’s eye, and if you can escape the longing to start for the wilderness at the first vacation moment you must be an unusual man.”
| + | Ind. 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 160w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 40w. |
“Should be the friend of every intending sojourner in the wilderness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w. |
“The volume is small enough to go in the duffel-bag, but packed full of the facts and suggestions, and redolent of the atmosphere of the woods.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 210w. |
Ker, William Paton. Sturla, the historian. *35c. Oxford.
7–29019.
“This is the ‘Romanes lecture’ of the year.... Sturla was one of the products of that very strange growth, Icelandic culture.... Vacant, or nearly vacant, as far as we know, from the beginning of time, Iceland was settled in the tenth century by some Norwegian gentry, who desired to be free from an intrusive royal government.... Late in the life of this strange community came the literary development. In Snorri Sturlason it found its greatest expression, and Sturla was the son of Snorri’s brother, Thord.”—Spec.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 716. Ap. ’07. 50w. | ||
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1080w. |
“Professor Ker has a light touch and a playful humor not often to be found in the expert. Gives us glimpses which will certainly do what is the true object of a lecture,—make the hearer or reader study the subject for himself.”
| + | Spec. 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 390w. |
Kern, John A. Idea of the church; aspects, forms and activities. $1.25. Pub. house M. E. church So.
7–25171.
A study of the church, actual and ideal, in its most significant features.
* Kernahan, Coulson. The Dumpling. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
This story “deals with a reincarnation of Napoleon, nicknamed ‘The Dumpling,’ who is filled with a noble love of his fellow men, if only they be poor enough, and sees no other way of bettering their condition than by indulging in robbery and murder, plotting in an opium den, and evolving the picturesque combination: ‘God, Napoleon and the Dumpling strike with a granite arm.’” (Acad.)
“Coincidences rage throughout the book, but impossibilities are more rampant still. There is no characterization, but there is a speech eleven pages long about labour, delivered by a murderous madman. The grammar is uncertain, and the style is frequently facetious. It is possible that there is a public which demands such books; it is a thousand pities that Mr. Kernahan should condescend to cater for it.”
| − | Acad. 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 567. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The whole novel is quite impossible, the most insatiable lover of sensation could hardly find satisfaction in it, and it is difficult to understand how a writer of Mr. Kernahan’s standing could submit such a work to public criticism.”
| − | Sat. R. 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 80w. |
“Is an excellent melodrama. The reader of the story is hurled from adventure to adventure in a breathless manner, but it must be confessed that the interest is well kept up and does not flag.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 626. O. 27, ’06. 160w. |
Kerr, Alvah Milton. Diamond key and how the railway heroes won it. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–8218.
With their scenes laid in the mountain regions of Colorado and Arizona, these stories show how courage and devotion to purpose dominate the laying of tracks, the building of bridges, and the tunneling of mountains for the western railroad. “Each of the twelve is represented by a deed of rare heroism or one which shows conspicuously a quick and ready hand and a cool, resourceful head.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Some gems of the story-teller’s art, very pure in ray. Strictly speaking, it is not a novel, yet the ten stories are so welded together by the rails of the ‘Western central,’ the brotherhood of the characters, and the common atmosphere of the events, that the book possesses a oneness unattained by many a professed unity. They are thrilling healthful tales, told in crisp, lucid, scintillating English.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 170w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w. |
Kerr, Walter S. Arcadian proscript: a historical drama in five acts. pa. $1. Walter S. Kerr & co., P. O. box 377 Oakland, Cal.
7–17379.
The Grand Pré which Longfellow’s poem immortalizes furnishes the setting of Mr. Kerr’s drama. His hero is a “proscript,” a legal outlaw. The British governor of Nova Scotia “is one of the villains of the play which is tragic, of course, and romantic, and was obviously designed for theatrical representation.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Has evidently worked with great zeal and unmistakable faith in the historical value of his subject. It is graphically written and full of movement.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 260w. |
* Kester, Vaughan. John o’ Jamestown. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36098.
History and love are mingled in this tale of an English vicar’s son. His love-making is interrupted when he embarks for America and becomes closely identified with the fortunes of Captain John Smith. “The story chronicles the career of the latter, his rescue at the hands of Pocahontas, his brave services on behalf of the Jamestown colony, in the face of jealous opposition and treachery, the injuries which forced him to return to England, and the ghastly winter of bloodshed and famine which followed.” (Bookm.)
“That is really the only serious defect of the book,—a weakness of structure. And since the great majority of the reading public care little for structure so long as a book is readable, there is no question that the vivid portraiture, the stirring incident, the manifest sincerity of purpose of ‘John o’ Jamestown’ will give abundant pleasure to a large number of readers.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 409. D. ’07. 450w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“An exciting story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 110w. |
“While there is nothing very unusual in the telling, the author, Vaughan Kester, uses the abundant material well.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 110w. |
Ketchum, Milo Smith. Design of steel mill buildings and the calculation of stresses in framed structures. 2d ed. *$4. Engin. news.
6–37208.
The first edition of this book was issued in 1903. This new edition contains much additional matter the major part of which is confined to the part of the work on stresses.
“The problems give evidence of thorough preparation, and the data are so arranged that the graphic solution will be confined within the limits of the standard sheet adopted, thereby economizing the student’s time.” Henry S. Jacoby.
| + | Engin. N. 56: 633. D. 13, ’06. 760w. |
Ketchum, Milo Smith. Design of walls, bins and grain elevators. *$4. Eng. news.
7–23625.
“Professor Ketchum’s latest work is divided into three parts, treating of the three branches indicated by the title. The first part is a presentation of the theory, or the theories, of retaining walls.... The second part takes up the subject of coal bins, ore bins, etc., giving theory, principles of design, cost and actual examples.... Part three is on the design of grain bins and elevators.”—Engin. N.
“Anyone desiring to make a specialty of this line of work cannot afford to be without this book, and it will no doubt be a valuable assistant to any specialist, as showing the different ways of meeting different conditions. The most disappointing feature of the book is the treatment of theory, of which there is too much.”
| + − | Engin. N. 58: 73. Jl. 18, ’07. 2650w. |
Keys, Alice Maplesden. Cadwallader Colden: a representative eighteenth century official. **$2.25. Macmillan.
6–40257.
“A very entertaining account of New York politics before the Revolution. By taste, Colden was a speculator in science.... Circumstances drew him into the political and factional differences of the day.... Miss Keys bases her narrative largely upon manuscript material.”—Nation.
“The style is a bit loose, the manner a bit casual: one is perhaps somewhat at sea in the mass of facts, unrelieved for the most part by any very suggestive generalization. Whatever the ‘general reader’ may think, the specialist will nevertheless be grateful for much new light on the web of intrigue which enmeshed the colonial governors from Burnet to Clinton.” Carl Becker.
| − + | Ann. Am. Acad. 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 350w. |
“Writes in a full mastery of her subject. As a result, her work is a valuable study in political biography.”
| + | Nation. 81: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w. |
Kidd, Dudley. Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children. $3.50. Macmillan.
7–7554.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In the work before us he has to a certain extent broken new ground, and performed his task excellently.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 168. F. 9. 2020w. |
“His book may be relied on as accurate in its statements of fact.”
| + | Nation. 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 170w. |
Reviewed by H. Rider Haggard.
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 265. Mr. 2, ’07. 2230w. |
Kidd, Walter. Sense of touch in mammals and birds. *$1.90. Macmillan.
“A great number of facts are here brought together concerning the skin structure of the hands and feet of mammals. The chief forms of epidermic modification are shown to assume eleven leading types in eighty-six mammals that are dealt with. Eleven birds examined show only one type of epidermic modification, though the degree of this varies much. After describing the papillary ridges in a variety of animals, Dr. Kidd discusses the physiology of the sense of touch.”—Spec.
“It is not at all concise, it is not very clear, and it has no index. It seems to us that a great deal of labor has been misspent.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 90w. | |
| Nation. 85: 334. O. 10, ’07. 240w. |
“Although the subject is by no means new, the author has studied it in a fuller manner than at least most of his predecessors.” R. L.
| + | Nature. 76: 101. My. 30, ’07. 240w. |
“Dr. Kidd’s book is the most important contribution to the matter since Miss Whipple’s paper was published.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 170w. |
Kildare, Owen Frawley. My old Bailiwick. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38913.
“The author of ‘My Mamie Rose,’ Mr. Owen Kildare, has given us a picture of the Bowery ‘bum’ in this volume of stories and sketches.” (Ind.) He says “Beds, bunks, cots ... can be had on the Bowery for as little as 5 cents a night, and because there are men who have lost the faculty of earning, begging or even borrowing that sum, a nocturnal procession of over 10,000 parade in our streets, winter and summer, from midnight until dawn.” He speaks well of the work of the Young men’s Christian association but finds little that is acceptable in the “spectacular methods of the Salvation army” and the “mission workers.”
“He has intertwined comment and description, so that one not only gets a vivid idea of the ‘bum’ and the reason for his continuing a ‘has-been,’ but also an understanding of the difficulties encountered in endeavoring to raise him out of the mire and the futility of the efforts some agencies are making toward that end.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1360. Je. 6, ’07. 240w. |
“The most impressive idea one gets from his book is, perhaps, that of a vast amount of wasted time, effort, money and good intentions on the part of those who wish to do something for the region of which he writes.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 360w. |
* Kimball, George Selwyn. Lackawannas at Moosehead; or, The young leather stockings. il. *$1.25. Ball pub.
7–37270.
A nature book in the form of an account of the adventure of a party of college boys with two guides who hunt, fish, camp and study the secrets of woodcraft.
King, Cardenio Flournoy, jr. Boy’s vacation abroad: an American boy’s diary of his first trip to Europe. $1.50. Clark.
7–978.
The author “writes as a boy at school would be expected to write—from the boy’s point of view and with a boy’s interesting enthusiasms.... He assures his readers that he ‘lost a lot of fun writing the book.’ The pictures are many and usually good.”—Lit. D.
“The book is very well illustrated and is as interesting as could be expected under the circumstances.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 90w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 160w. |
“The main Interest of the book is the simple and boyish manner in which the record has been kept.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 590w. |
King, Charles. Captured: the story of Sandy Ray. $1.50. Fenno.
7–15592.
“An ‘out of the way cantonment’ known as Camp Boutelle, a traitor caught in his own toils but possessed of a daughter as fair as she is misunderstood, a young lieutenant newly come from the States.” these are the chief factors in General King’s new story of an army post in the Philippines. (N. Y. Times.)
“The story will be of most interest to military men. To the general reader it seems prolix at times. The characters are fairly well drawn and there are some interesting descriptions of characteristic Filipino warfare.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 210w. |
King, Gen. Charles. Rock of Chickamauga. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–22113.
A civil war story whose events center about General George H. Thomas. Its historical details, presented from intimate observation, are accurate and show something of the relation of Sherman, Grant and Stanton with Gen. Thomas. There is romance mingled with the alarms of war and a charming heroine to make it worth while.
“As a humble monument to the memory of the commander whom he entitles ‘the noblest Roman of them all’ the book should have special interest for all lovers of civil-war history.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 300w. |
“Gen. King ... is much more at home in the thick of battle than in the turgid and mystifying love vicissitudes of his hero.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w. |
King, Henry Churchill. Rational living: some practical inferences from modern psychology. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Practical, helpful, enlightening and well grounded.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 44. F. ’07. |
King, Leonard William, and Hall, H. R. H. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the light of recent discovery. Grolier society, N. Y.
7–10615.
“A supplement to the longer work which Messrs. Hall and King were commissioned to write with the purpose of supplying a full account of all the important discoveries not already included therein. Of the nine chapters five are devoted to Egypt and the remaining four to western Asia.... The photogravures ... are of a high order, and the other illustrations, many of which are from unpublished photographs by the authors, are exceedingly interesting and numerous.”—N. Y. Times.
“We have noticed some slips in the book. But these are trifles which do not reduce the merit of a most excellent book.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 588. N. 9. 1980w. |
“The authors have traversed the field of recent discovery and research, have extracted the vital facts, and have set them down with care and criticism.”
| + | Nation. 84: 225. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w. |
“Taken as a whole, it is admirably done. The geographical arrangement is somewhat confusing, but perhaps a strictly chronological account would have been less easy to understand. Certainly nowhere else are the results of modern scholarship so well summed up, nor can one find the credit for labors and success so punctiliously given.” Holland Thompson.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 638. O. 6, ’06. 1300w. |
King, Most Rev. William. Great archbishop of Dublin, William King; his autobiography, family, and a selection from his correspondence; ed. by Chas. S. King. *$3. Longmans.
“William King played a most important part in church and state.... He was well described as ‘a state Whig, a church Tory, a good bishop.’... His kinsman Sir Charles King here prints for the first time a translation of the archbishop’s Latin autobiography and many letters adding extracts from correspondents already published, with notes on family history and cognate matters.... King corresponded with Swift, Addison, Berkeley, and many churchmen and politicians.”—Sat. R.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 452. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
“The occasional theological notes [of the editor] are blots upon his pages, and lead us to put little trust in his discretion. The ‘Oxford movement’ and the very appearance of a crucifix are bugbears to him. We will not quote any of these outbreaks, lest we should prejudice the reader against an interesting and useful book.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 469. O. 20. 2100w. |
“The most that can be said for the book is that it furnishes illustrations not only of the character and activities of Archbishop King, but also of some of his contemporaries and of Irish life and politics.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 330w. |
“He has done his work with care. The notes are generally accurate and sufficient.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 1270w. |
“The autobiography is interesting, and throws valuable light on contemporary social conditions, as do the letters.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w. |
King, William Benjamin. Giant’s strength. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11209.
Paul Trafford, the giant of the tale, is a rich coal king. The forcing process that has made him a monopolist has been sheltered behind the law, and when the necessary laws did not exist he bought legislatures to pass them. The machinery of his system crushes one Roger Winship whose family is a living judgment upon Trafford’s methods and success. The dramatic element and the strong ethical lesson are to be found in the romance which springs up between the daughter of Trafford and Roger Winship’s son, both of whom are ready to renounce their life happiness for the principle which renders it impossible for young Winship to accept one penny of Trafford’s wealth.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 178. O. ’07. |
“The book is, on the whole, a sincere and careful piece of work, the author’s tendency to preach—excusable, perhaps, in a book dealing with such a theme—being kept steadily in hand.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 150w. |
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| Dial. 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w. |
“Mr. King has appreciated the epic possibilities of this theme and has given us an interesting picture of a modern financial Titan.... In the hands of a master craftsman it would indeed be a fascinating theme, and is perhaps the one reserved for the long-awaited American master.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w. |
“Neither the father nor the lover is convincingly drawn, but the slow development of the daughter Paula’s character under the stress of trial and trouble is admirable.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 710w. |
“There is much to admire in the character-drawing, but occasional false notes indicate that the author had not fully mastered his material.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 761. Je. ’07. 300w. |
“Mr. King has not bestowed on the persons in his story, those continuous small industrious touches which amount in the mass to real significance. But he has written a direct story, all of one piece, which is interesting throughout, and frequently dramatic.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 168. Ag. ’07. 1070w. |
Kingsbury, Susan Myra, ed. Records of the Virginia company of London, 1619–1624. 2v. $4. Supt. of doc.
6–38015.
A work whose value is suggested in the fact that it makes accessible to students for the first time history that has been shut up in carefully guarded manuscript for two centuries. The volumes contain a careful transcript of the court records of the Virginia company, with introduction, notes, bibliography, and index.
“Many efforts have been made through a period of nearly fifty years, to secure the publications of these priceless records of our first colonizing company. But all those who have taken part in former efforts to publish ought to rejoice that they have failed, since the delay has resulted in bringing out, in the fulness of time, a much better edition than would have been produced earlier.”
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“A work of fundamental importance to the student of American history.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 406. Ap. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| + + | Ind. 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“As material of history its value cannot be too highly estimated.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The text now appears in full for the first time, and all the excellencies noted in the first volume are continued in the second. The index is, unfortunately, entirely inadequate, and it is difficult to see on what plan it was prepared.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings of American history.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“From the student’s standpoint, too, the value of the present publication is increased by Miss Kingsbury’s elaborate expository and critical introduction.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Exhaustive and scholarly introductory essays.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
Kingsley, Florence Morse. Princess and the ploughman. †$1.25. Harper.
7–18593.
A pretty pastoral this, altho it is set in the present time. Mary, the princess in distress, is to inherit a large fortune from a spinster aunt if she marries before her twenty-third birthday. The ploughman, a recluse and a farmer, offers her his name in order that she may secure her fortune and promises to ask nothing in return. Of course they are madly in love with each other, else he would not have made the offer, nor she accepted it, but each is proud so they marry but to part and it is long before they come to know each other’s hearts.
“An idyllic little novel, infused with grace and sly humor. Men and women both ought to like it; and for the suspiring college girl, it can not but prove a tonic.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 570w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 438. Jl. 13, ’07. 190w. |
“Their story is a bit of romantic absurdity, or a sweet and refreshing love idyl, as the individual reader’s view-point will determine.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 180w. |
Kingsley, Florence Morse. Those queer Browns. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25050.
A sequel to “The singular Miss Smith.” Miss Smith who left her Back Bay luxury to become a servant in order to study sociological conditions marries Mr. Brown, a Harvard professor, who plays foundryman and boards with Miss Smith’s employer. They spend a year in the New York slums, and this story records their experiences.
“There is plenty of fun in ‘Those queer Browns,’ but plenty of sound sense, too, and amateur philanthropists would undoubtedly profit by reading it.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 300w. |
“Is entertaining, often bright, and sometimes keen.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w. |
Kingsley, Florence Morse. [Truthful Jane.] †$1.50. Appleton.
7–5685.
“The familiar drama of the poor relation.... Jane Blythe, a beautiful, high-spirited girl, is flung by fate on the charity of her London relatives.... Baited by her cousin, who is envious of her beauty and insufferably patronized by her aunt and uncle, she ... resolves to put the sea between herself and her blood relatives. The story of Jane’s battle for her rights in her hard environment is told with the real touch of humor.... In the crisis of Jane’s trials the inevitable knight of romance turns up in the person of John Everett, who marries her and takes her back to England.”—Lit. D.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 135. My. ’07. |
“There is a thoroughly human touch in the handling of the whole story.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w. |
“Not a remarkably good story, but it has a certain modest integrity which places it above the ruck of petty inventions.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 70w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 105. F. 23, ’07. 250w. |
Kinross, Albert. Davenant. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–13436.
“An American publisher of brains and heart tells an Irish mother and her son in London his experience with a crippled, original, and brilliant hack writer in that city, whose work, rejected at home, finds acceptance here, and to whom America becomes a symbol of free, generous, brotherly life.”—Outlook.
“Mr. Kinross has humour, and he has irony. This work is the work of a man who can rise to a considerable achievement. He has pathos also.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 330w. |
“Full of a quality that comes near being charm, but fails just short of it. The style is too self-conscious, and the whole scheme lacks simplicity, so that the mind is taxed by its suggestiveness.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 355. Je. 1, ’07, 220w. |
“The story is wholly off the well-defined lines of fiction, is told in an unhackneyed way, with a vein of deep feeling and of unforced humor. There is a deeper strain in the book for those who read it with imagination; for it is safer to venture the assertion that Mr. Kinross had before him not only the America of gross materialism, but America as a symbol of great and beautiful ideas.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 270w. | |
| + | Spec. 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 250w. |
Kipling, Rudyard. [Puck, of Pook’s hill.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–35734.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So hidden and delicate is the intention, that the book has been reviewed merely as a series of fairy tales; so spontaneous that one even wonders if Mr. Kipling himself knows the full extent of his accomplishment.” Mary Moss.
| + + | Atlan. 99: 113. Ja. ’07. 1080w. |
“Mr. Kipling has apparently passed through that political fever which for so long a time made him almost unreadable. His genius is restored to itself, and he writes as one would always have him write. For this reason alone I would rejoice in the new book. It is a brilliant performance, and it is a golden promise.” Royal Cortissoz.
| + + | No. Am. 183: 926. N. 2, ’06. 2700w. | |
| + | Putnam’s. 1: 510. Ja. ’07. 580w. |
“Not only shows him grand master of the English language, but marks his ability to fit with perfect verbal clothing any subject he may pick out.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 90w. |
Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner (Olney) (Henry Hayes, pseud.). Marcia: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–9553.
An autobiographical society novel in which the heroine at twenty-one “refusing to gain riches as the price of her ancestral acres and home accepts a position as secretary to a woman of wealth, and the story begins.... Mrs. Kirk introduces us to high-minded men and women, who eschew gambling and abhor divorce, who recognize the existence of duty, and are loyal to obligation.” (N. Y. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠ |
“‘Marcia’ is remarkable for nothing but the facility with which a practiced hand can make a fairly readable tale out of indifferent material.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 200w. |
“Its merit rests almost wholly upon its truth to nature and its interesting psychological analysis.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 180w. |
“Unfortunately, the workmanship of the novel is not equal to its excellence of intention. Its characters are characters rather than people. The book is, however, sincere and wholesome, and will not disappoint the public which Mrs. Kirk has already won.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w. |
Kirkham, Stanton Davis. Ministry of beauty. **$1.50. Elder.
7–18089.
An ontological discussion of beauty, life, religion, philosophy, work, health and happiness, with chapters on The world message, The heart of it, The tendency of good, The preacher, The teacher, and The poet. The author treats of good in its abstract sense and emphasizes strongly the development of ethical perception to the point of consciousness of truth’s expression.
Kirkham, Stanton Davis. Where dwells the soul serene. **$1.50. Elder.
7–19460.
A group of essays similar in teaching to those included in Mr. Kirkham’s “Ministry of beauty.” They make their plea for the impersonal idea of truth to which the Christian scientists have wakened. Among the essays are Elements of freedom, The ideal of culture, The idea of religion, The nature of prayer, The beauty of poise, Ethical relations, Wealth, Free aims, Higher laws, and The soul of nature.
Kirkup, Thomas. History of socialism. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“This third edition ... has been revised at a few points and enlarged by some forty pages. The first twelve chapters are substantially unchanged, but the thirteenth, treating of the growth of socialism, has been completely rewritten to bring it up to date. The concluding chapters deal with the alleged forces now making for the coming of socialism, and review in a dispassionate, if sympathetic way the philosophy of the movement.”—Nation.
“But none have surpassed Mr. Kirkup in philosophical grasp of the essentials of socialism, or have presented the doctrine in more intelligible form.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 190w. |
“No man who reads this generous and impartial volume, the work of a socialist sufficiently broadminded to appreciate the weak points of the propaganda and optimistic enough to analyze modern progress from a healthy point of view, can but feel that such a contribution to the literature of the subject must help to ameliorate old misunderstandings and enmities.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 580w. |
“We question whether the spirit of cheerful optimism and an amiable love of compromise, which are the characteristics of this volume, are an adequate mental equipment for a treatment of the subject.”
| + − | Spec. 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 1030w. |
Kiser, Samuel Ellsworth. [Thrills of a bell boy.] 60c. Forbes.
6–16496.
“S. E. Kiser, under this title, writes in his well known style. His bell boy is a close observer and sees many things in the hotel where he works in an humble capacity, hiding a philosopher under his careless exterior. John T. McCutcheon has happily illustrated the text.”—Ind.
| Ind. 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 50w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 230w. |
Kitson, Arthur. [Captain James Cook], “the circumnavigator.” *$4.50. Dutton.
7–28952.
Mr. Kitson departs from the material from which narratives of Cook are usually produced, and has gone to the Admirality papers for data. This story of the discoverer of the Sandwich islands tells of one who made the best use of every opportunity as fast as it presented itself. “It tells the remarkable experiences of the man who, after rising from cabin-boy in a collier to captain in the royal navy, discovered Australia, sailed three times around the world, and was killed, as we all know, by the natives of the Sandwich islands.” (Outlook.)
“Cook’s latest biographer, while a most faithful and painstaking chronicler is either devoid of the capacity of awe, wonder, and romance which the voyages of Cook excite, or he has put these qualities under severe restraint.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 626. Je. 29, ’07. 1400w. |
“There has been until now no complete or satisfactory biography.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 229. Ag. 31. 3200w. |
“To say that Mr. Kitson never stumbles would be fulsome; it is enough to say that his errors are few and unimportant and will not prevent his book from being accepted as a standard.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 187. Je. 14, ’07. 1470w. |
“Mr. Kitson’s work shows great painstaking labor; he corrects several misstatements of previous biographers, and adds some new and interesting facts.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 123. Ag. 8, ’07. 1370w. |
“His book is entitled to take rank as the most careful, trustworthy, and complete record of Capt. Cook’s life that has yet been published.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w. |
“It may be cordially praised as a capital piece of narrative writing.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w. |
“Mr. Kitson has made some discoveries about the life of the great explorer, Captain Cook, which are well worth the trouble he has expended on them, and they leave the voyages neither less nor more fascinating than they were before.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 944. Je. 15. ’07. 1420w. |
Kitson, Charles Herbert. Art of counterpoint and its application as a decorative principle. *$2.50. Oxford.
7–38043.
“The work of a man of wide views, yet of one who values the work of antiquity, and is careful to show how rationally the new has been developed from the old. There is a large class of contrapuntists, both in England and in Germany, at the present day, who are accustomed to sneer at the ancient writers, and to whom the researches of Rockstro and others are anathema. It is satisfactory to see that Dr. Kitson is not of this number; he has evidently studied Morley and the ancients thoroughly, and his very concise résumé of ancient practice is so little superficial that we see at once that he is deeply read.”—Lond. Times.
“He writes well and clearly, and his treatise is excellent alike on the modern and ancient counterpoint. Such a book should do much to dispel the popular delusion that counterpoint is dry.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 150w. |
“Dr. Kitson’s ‘The art of counterpoint,’ we are pleased to say is not one of the many treatises on that subject which are based on previous treatises.”
| + | Nation. 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 280w. |
Kittrell, Norman G. Ned, nigger an’ gent’man: a story of war and reconstruction days. $1.50. Neale.
7–25078.
Desiring to learn details of the fate of two members of his family who fell in the civil war, a northerner makes his first journey into the south. He becomes a guest of true southern aristocrats, faithful representatives of the very highest class of southern society. The aim of the story seems to be that of modifying a northerner’s abhorrent attitude toward the system of slavery by dropping him into surroundings where master and negro alike are bred to the chivalry of the “quality.”
Kleiser, Grenville. How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.
6–42418.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work as a whole is so excellent we feel it would be difficult to overstate its value to serious students.”
| + + + | Arena. 37: 220. F. ’07. 420w. |
“A good deal is taken for granted. The author’s system is nowhere treated clearly as a whole. There is no very plain intimation as to the time is desirable to be given to each chapter. There are exercises and selections, and there are brief passages of exposition and comment, but there is hardly sufficient organization of the material to make the method easy to follow.” W. B. Parker.
| + − | Educ. R. 34: 322. O. ’07. 480w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w. |
Klenze, Camillo von. Interpretation of Italy during the last two centuries: a contribution to the study of Goethe’s “Italienische reise.” *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–18308.
One of the decennial publications of the Chicago university. In this study Goethe’s “Italienische reise” is compared with the travels of his predecessors of the eighteenth century to show how far Goethe was original and to what degree he has been supplemented.
“The book is a work of research representing a vast amount of reading and labor, and will be of service to any one who desires to follow the story of modern culture and intellectual life.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 460w. |
“Dr. von Klenze’s style and treatment do not, we regret to say, rise above the level of the doctor’s dissertation; while there is too much cataloguing of details and too little original reasoning and writing, some important facts are left out.”
| − | Nation. 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w. |
Knauss, William H. Story of Camp Chase; a history of the prison and its cemetery. $2.20. Pub. house M. E. ch. so.
6–22869.
“An interesting volume, compiled by a Southerner, but written impartially.... Made up of letters, extracts from documents, and personal recollections of the civil war, dealing especially with the Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnston’s island in Lake Erie, and Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, as well as other places. Records are given of the disposal of the prisoners.... The numerous illustrations include several maps and diagrams of cemeteries, with graves marked, so that friends can locate them.”—N. Y. Times.
“The author has given his later years devotedly to this noble work, and has contributed in no small degree to the restoration of good feeling between the once hostile sections.”
| + | Ind. 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 160w. |
* Knight, William Angus, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–26349.
The author has collected from various sources estimates, or characterizations, by friends from opposite points of view—a series of mental photographs or appraisals of the man—and has allowed these in their separateness to tell the story of Thomas Davidson’s life and work.
Knollys, George. Ledgers and literature. *$1.25. Lane.
A collection of essays upon such subjects as; A professor of sentiment, Lunching in the city, On the adventures of living in a lunatic asylum, An officer of the boys’ brigade, On the cultivation of the spirit of Greek archaeology, and A week on the Thames.
“[At times] Mr. Knollys, possibly under the influence of a lunch-cake which he despises, allows the prose-poet in him to diminish into the poeticule of prose.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 180w. |
“Some of these humorously fanciful sketches might also have come from the pen of Charles Lamb at his desk in the East India house.”
| + | Dial. 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 360w. |
“These essays, on the whole, are kept up to a very respectable standard, a standard certainly far higher than that which the ordinary novelist reaches. But the standard rarely reaches really brilliant and original work.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w. |
“There is often common-sense, quite good common-sense in it, but not wisdom.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 140w. |
Knowles, Robert Edward. Undertow. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38396.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a good novel, and a pleasant one, and in every respect worthy of the author of ‘St. Cuthbert of the West.’”
| + | Acad. 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 200w. |
Knox, Charles Edwin. Electric light wiring. *$2. McGraw pub.
7–18292.
The author has considered the wiring of buildings by the two and three-wire systems only. “The different generating systems, such as double-generator, single-generator with a balancer set or with compensating transformers are then very simply outlined by the aid of diagrams. Methods of wiring buildings approved by the National board of fire underwriters, and the proper use of conduit, cables, tubes, porcelain fittings, etc., are described. The author has included considerable information on the manufacture of interior conductors with the National code requirements.” (Engin. N.)
“The volume presents the subject of building wiring in actual practice. For this reason the book should be of especial use to young engineers who have not had time or opportunity to acquire a system of practice for themselves. To those who have had little opportunity to approach electrical engineering mathematically, this book should be equally useful.”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 750w. |
Knox, George William. Development of religion in Japan. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–6732.
“In three religions ‘the religion of Japan’ finds various expression. Shintoism is religious patriotism; Buddhism is the faith of the unlettered and poor; Confucianism is ‘the religion of gentlemen.’ These three have been variously modified during the comparatively brief period of fourteen centuries covered by historical dates. The account of these changes constitutes a history of the development of that innate religious feeling in which all religions root.... The religion of Japan already finds a fourth expression in Christianity, as a part of the nation’s new enlightenment.”—Outlook.
“With the ease and poise of a trained scholar, he shows us the development of religion in Japan.” William Elliot Griffis.
| + + | Dial. 42: 335. Je. 1, ’07. 1220w. |
“Less interesting as a human story than ‘The religions of Japan,’ by another American author, this work is far superior as the philosophic presentation of a most fascinating chapter in the grand story of the human mind.”
| + + − | Ind. 63: 224. Jl. 25, ’07. 470w. |
“In the possible elements of human interest this book may be lacking but as a philosophical treatment of a great theme in a spirit at once catholic, critical, and sympathetic, it is a masterpiece.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 1270w. |
“Shows in an admirable manner how the religious feelings of the nation have been excited, and how in the course of the ages they have changed and progressed.” K. K. Kawakami.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 217. Ap. 6, ’07. 890w. |
“This volume has interest for the general reader. Its author is peculiarly qualified for appreciative treatment of his subject by his long residence in Japan.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w. |
Knox, George William. Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.
6–34855.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 45. F. ’07. S. |
“He is able to express himself in an easy and graceful style.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 350w. |
“This work is, in our judgment, the best volume on the subject that has appeared. No one who wishes an intelligent grasp of the great Eastern problem should fail to read ‘The spirit of the Orient.’”
| + + | Arena. 37: 219. F. ’07. 910w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 314. Mr. ’07. 2110w. |
“It is one of the keenest in analysis, perhaps, of any book written on the Far East.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 810w. |
“The still too ignorant Occidental will find not only a sympathetic study of the peoples and customs of India, China and Japan, but also an appreciation of the peculiar spirit and problems of each country.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 296. Je. 8, ’07. 1390w. |
Knyvett, Sir Henry. Defence of the realme. *$1.75. Oxford.
“A hitherto unpublished manuscript now edited by Charles Hughes. Knyvett was a country gentleman, a soldier and a magistrate who, when England was, as it appeared, threatened with a Spanish invasion in 1596, composed this little treatise for presentation to Queen Elizabeth. In it he set forth with the authority of his long experience his views as to the best way to master, train, equip, and handle an army to beat off the invasion.”—Nation.
“The tract was written in haste. On the technical side the treatise is at its weakest. It advocates the use of the antiquated longbow.”
| − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 688. Ap. ’07. 140w. |
“The volume is very pleasant to read and handle.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 280w. |
“His style is direct with an occasional quaintness of turn, but not in itself noteworthy.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w. | |
| Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 550. S. ’07. 100w. |
“Is well edited and commented on by Mr. Charles Hughes.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 149. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w. |
“The book as a whole is exceedingly interesting as well as curious, and Mr. Hughes deserves the gratitude of students, not only of history but of military science, for his discovery of Sir Henry Knyvett’s pamphlet.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w. |
Kobbe, Gustav. Famous American songs, il. **$1.50. Crowell.
6–35736.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S. |
“The work is admirably adapted for a presentation volume, appropriate for all tastes.”
| + | Arena. 37: 109. Ja. ’07. 130w. |
“Tells about everything one can in reason wish to know about some dozen native airs.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 110w. |
Kobbe, Gustav. [How to appreciate music.] **$1.50. Moffat.
6–38904.
An attempt in wholly untechnical language, to satisfy the desires of those who enjoy music and wish to know more about it. The volume is divided into three sections: How to appreciate a pianoforte recital, How to appreciate an orchestral concert, and How to appreciate vocal music.
“Enthusiastic, sometimes gushing, but as a whole, interesting, readable and instructive. Does not replace Krehbiel’s ‘How to listen to music;’ it is not so well written nor so systematically arranged, but it is more suggestive and contains material on later composers, such as Richard Strauss, not to be found in Krehbiel.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S. |
“Avowedly ‘popular’ in intent, and even at times a bit careless in style, the book contains a deal of gossipy chat about musicians.”
| + | Ind. 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 560w. |
“Here are elucidation, history, criticism, gossip, anecdote, cleverly commingled, making the book one that can be read for entertainment as well as instruction.”
| + | Nation. 83: 445. N. 22, ’06. 390w. |
“The seeker after musical knowledge will find much that is entertaining and instructive in these pages and much that is suggestive; but we are constrained to say that he is also likely to find much that is misleading and unbalanced.” Richard Aldrich.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w. |
Kobbe, Gustav. Signora. †$1. Crowell.
7–21369.
The incidents of this sketch take place behind the scenes in the Metropolitan opera house, New York. They are associated with a little waif that was left at the stage entrance one stormy night when Calvé and other famous singers were rendering Carmen. The child is adopted by the company and grows up to be the central figure in a romance whose side-light touches reveal characteristics of well known singers who are seen under thin disguises.
“Is as interesting to the older people as to the children.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“It is a pleasant story of kindness, and is interesting from its original setting.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 110w. |
Koenigsberger, Leo. Hermann von Helmholtz; tr. by Frances A. Welby. *$5.25. Oxford.
7–11038.
A translation, slightly abridged, of a well known German work. “This volume, of absorbing interest, outlines a life which was intimately bound up in the life of the scientific world during the last century.” (Nation.)
“Care has been taken to retain what is essential, and the work has therefore suffered but little. The translation has been carried out with skill, and the writing is on the whole good.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 410w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 730w. |
Kraus, Edward Henry. Essentials of crystallography. *$1.60. Wahr.
6–38911.
A book intended for beginners. “A bibliography of forty-one titles of important reference books and articles is at the beginning of the book. This is followed by a sixteen-page general discussion of the properties of crystals their arrangement into systems, the symbols used, the symmetry, and tractional forms. The systems are then taken up in order, beginning with the cubic and following through to the triclinic. The relations of axes, symmetry, and possible classes are taken up with considerable care in each system.” (J. Geol.)
“The book seems well suited to its purpose, and puts in a concise and compact form that part of its subject which is absolutely essential for an understanding of crystallography.” J. C. J.
| + + | J. Geol. 15: 507. Jl. ’07. 300w. |
“The six pages devoted to compound crystals will seem to many inadequate. Not the least valuable part of the work is an appendix.” Wm. Herbert Hobbs.
| + + | Science, n. s. 24: 807. D. 21, ’06. 770w. |
Kropotkin, Petr Alexeivich. Conquest of bread. *$1. Putnam.
7–11010.
The undertone of Prince Kropotkin’s discussion is that “every society which has abolished private property will be forced to reorganize itself on the lines of communistic anarchy.” “He attempts to demonstrate that communistic and socialistic ideals, despite setbacks and reactions have ever been approaching nearer to practical realization.” (R. of Rs.)
“The translator has done his work well, but has been unable to conceal the extent to which the plausibility of the book rests upon a large use of vague words and of the fallacy of composition and division when talking about ‘the people’ and ‘the workers.’”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 640w. |
“He is a close reasoner, a learned traveller, a keen observer, and he brings into brilliant light uninterpreted truths.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + − | Dial. 43: 230. O. 16, ’07. 250w. |
“Kropotkin’s chapters lack the charm and the scientific serenity of his ‘Autobiography’ and his ‘Fields, factories and workshops.’”
| − | Ind. 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 680w. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 150w. |
“An extremely interesting exposition of the gospel of anarchy.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 71. Mr. 1, ’07. 960w. |
“The present volume adds nothing to what he has said elsewhere and it is hard to understand why it has been brought out in American dress.”
| − | Nation. 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 130w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w. |
“Prince Peter Kropotkin lives in another world and talks another language.”
| − | Spec. 97: 923. D. 8, ’06. 250w. |
Krusi, Hermann. Recollections of my life; ed. by Elizabeth S. Alling. **$2.50. Grafton press.
7–26153.
An autobiographical sketch supplemented by extracts from the educator’s personal records and a review of his literary productions together with selected essays. The record of the author’s educational career chiefly identified with the Oswego normal school, is enlivened “record book” material which afford glimpses into his intellectual life and his character.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’97. 40w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 140w. |
Kuhn, Franz. Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
6–35590.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar. John Huss: The witness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–23894.
In this volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series it has been the author’s aim “to give a plain, straightforward, and concise account of the life, death, and influence of one of the world’s most inspiring witnesses of the truth.”
Kyle, George A. [Morning glory club.] $1.25. Page.
7–12001.
The women of a northern New England town are seized with the spirit of club organization and the “Morning glory club” is the result. General improvement, a definite force for good in the town seem to be their theoretical watchwords yet they go far afield for bits of gossip to retail indiscriminately at their meetings. An equally gossipy group of husbands in the background, a village parson who believes that the club is the devil’s own disguise, a charming young school teacher, misunderstood and much maligned, and the parson’s son, dismissed from college for his pranks, furnish some of the personalities with which the story deals. Comic as well as tragic happenings abound, but all ends well amid wholesome reform and reconciliation.
“He has displayed no startling originality, but the story is readable.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 170w. |