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Maartens, Maarten. New religion: a modern novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29090.
A novel which embodies a satire on the medical profession whose aim is to disgust people with doctors and medicine. “Mr. Maartens gives us no inkling of what we are to do without doctors, but one of his characters whose legs have been mutilated in an accident is restored by faith. Several surgeons pronounce his case hopeless unless he will have both legs amputated. He refuses and is healed by prayer. Perhaps Mr. Maartens is an apostle of Faith healing or Christian science in disguise.” (Sat. R.)
“There is not a human character in the book, and not a wise idea. It is pretentious, badly constructed and badly written.”
| − − | Acad. 73: 928. S. 21, ’07. 700w. |
“Such a book will not please those who seek for sensation; but as a criticism of modern western civilization, especially of its excessive care of the body, and neglect of the spirit, ‘The new religion’ has its charm and claim.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 240w. |
“Will not bear comparison with ‘Dorothea,’ still less ‘God’s fool,’ but it contains interesting characters, witty comments and pathetic scenes, and its satire, unfair and exaggerated, like all satire, nevertheless has point and significance.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 440w. |
“The personages in the novel are masterly portrayals, but they do not excite the reader’s sympathy, while the story, as a whole, in spite of its many brilliant passages, is not entirely convincing, and leaves the impression that in the treatment of his main theme the author has not been free from a tendency to exaggeration, which rather weakens his arraignment of the medical profession.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 380w. |
“We have not believed in the loves or the diseases; nor have we profited by the satire; but we have been very much entertained, and wit and fantasy are good, call them what you will.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 870w. |
“Somehow the author has failed to hit the key; the story is neither fantastic enough nor sober enough to be more or less than a gentle irritant.”
| − | Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 310w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 80w. |
“The characters and happenings of the story are mere pegs on which to hang the author’s theories, but none the less the pages of the book are illumined with numerous flashes of wit and startling examples of acute observation.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: sup. 7. S. 28, ’07. 1300w. |
Maartens, Maarten. Woman’s victory and other stories. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–35218.
“The book takes its title from the caption of the first story, but it is suitable for the collection as a whole. For most of the stories recount a contest of some sort, of wit or will, or feeling, or intention, between people of opposite sex, in which the woman is usually the victor.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a pity that work so admirable as the stories mentioned and some others should be jostled by work so feeble and inferior as ‘The diamonds’ and several stories better unnamed.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 161. Ag. 18, ’06. 390w. |
“Will appeal to students of human nature, and lovers of analytical and psychological stories, but not the casual fiction reader.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 136. My. ’07. |
“The book exhibits to advantage the author’s creative power and artistry.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 200w. |
“One can only wonder that a novelist of Mr. Maartens’ standing has cared to gather in permanent form these unimportant contributions to various periodicals.” A. Schade van Westrum.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 190. Ap. ’07. 820w. |
“The skill in representing women joined with one or other of the hatreds makes up more than a few vivid stories of action and the number of apparently swiftly sketched moments, impressions of persons and moods, which have the artistic quality of a fine etching and must have taken quite as much work.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 284. Ag. 17, ’06. 390w. |
“The tales in the present collection display in form a factitious versatility; in substance they are rather monotonous.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 420w. |
“This present sheaf of short stories gives evidence, for the most part, of little more than the habit of writing, although there is, now and then, a bit of clever craftsmanship or a stroke of subtle character-drawing.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 190w. |
“There is a fineness and acuteness in these sketches, for they are little more, that few fiction writers of our day could equal.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 60w. | |
| + − | R. of Rs. 35: 762. Je. ’07. 40w. |
Mabie, Hamilton Wright. [Famous stories every child should know]; ed. by Hamilton W. Mabie, assisted by Kate Stephens. **90c. Doubleday.
7–29005.
“Dickens, Ruskin, Hawthorne, Ouida are among the authors represented, and the Biblical story of Ruth is also included. There is an introduction by Mr. Mabie in which he emphasizes the value of really good literature for children and the unfortunate amount of cheap literature written especially for them, and the uselessness of the goody-good and unreal stories.”—N. Y. Times.
“Will be found more useful for reference than general reading.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 208. N. ’07. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w. |
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed. [Heroes every child should know.] **90c Doubleday.
6–36046.
“Heroic figures of many races, ages, and types are here presented for young people to admire—some legendary, some semi-legendary, but for the most part men of actual and recorded deed, like David, Roland, King Alfred, Robert Bruce, Washington, Lee, Lincoln, and Father Damien. The stories are told by recognized writers of ability and fame, and the narratives have been selected not only because of the subjects but because of dramatic and vivid story-telling power.”—Outlook.
| Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w. |
“To read it strengthens one’s pride in humanity.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 150w. |
“Most happy in its title as in its contents.”
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 764. D. ’06. 40w. |
Mabie, Hamilton Wright. [Legends that every child should know]; a selection of the great legends of all times for young people; il. and decorated by Blanche Ostertag. **90c. Doubleday.
6–32353.
Legends as told by famous authors in verse and prose, with some adaptation from other collections. Among them are Hiawatha, Beowulf, Childe Horn, Sir Galahad, Rustem and Sohrab, The seven sleepers of Ephesus, Guy of Warwick, Chevy Chase, The fate of the children of Lir, The beleaguered city, Prester John, The wandering Jew, King Robert of Sicily, The life of Beato Torello da Poppi, The Lorelei, The passing of Arthur, Rip Van Winkle, The gray champion, The legend of Sleepy Hollow.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
“A book judiciously supervised by Mr. Mabie.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 30w. |
“Many an older person would profit by conning the legends. Mr. Mabie’s introduction is interesting, even though not illuminating.”
| + | Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 90w. |
McAdoo, William. Guarding a great city. **$2. Harper.
6–18052.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume would have been much stronger had the author dropped the controversial tone and found a more logical arrangement for his material.”
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 320w. |
McAllister, Addams Stratton. Alternating current motors. *$3. McGraw pub.
6–42400.
“This is a general treatise on single-phase and polyphase induction motors, synchronous motors and convertors, and single-phase commutator motors.”—Engin. N.
“The book is good, plain physics from beginning to end.”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 230w. |
McArthur, Peter. Prodigal and other poems. *$1. Kennerley.
7–19470.
Two score verses which range in subject from a mother’s lullaby to an Indian wind song, from Bob Fitzsimmons to Sarah Bernhardt, from sentiment to slang.
“Is a thoughtful poet, although his inspiration is apt to be a little tame.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 43: 92. Ag. 16, ’07. 260w. |
“Shakespeare himself stands like a ghost behind the word-play and clever artistry of Peter McArthur.” Christian Gauss.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 400w. |
McCabe, Joseph. [Talleyrand: a biographical study]; with 25 portraits including a photogravure frontispiece. *$3. Appleton.
7–35192.
The author aims to present Talleyrand as a “consistent and intelligible personality.” The study is a defense of the man “who had faith in no principle, gratitude to no master, loyalty to no cause; who loved money, power and pleasure and sought each without scruple.”
“From the historical point of view the book cannot be compared with Lady Blennerhasset’s detailed biography.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 99. Ap. ’07. |
“He has written a readable book, giving an artistic sketch of the life of one of the most remarkable men, and certainly the most skilful diplomatist of the period; but the work is at several points sketchy and inadequate, and lacking here and there in knowledge and soundness of judgment.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 190. F. 16. 1200w. |
“His biography is interesting if not convincing.” Joseph O’Connor.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 3840w. |
“Mr. McCabe, accordingly, must be said to have failed completely in his efforts to make out a case for the gentleman of many governments—albeit he has done some service in brushing away sundry myths that in the course of the years have clustered about the figure of this man of mystery.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 336. Je. 15, ’07. 610w. |
“Has set out to solve the enigma, and in the solution to redeem his subject’s reputation. That his task was difficult Mr. McCabe, doubtless, would not deny; that he has been to some extent successful in this task is high praise, nothing but the highest praise is due to his masterly and fascinating defence.”
| + − | Spec. 98: sup. 111. Ja. 26, ’07. 2400w. |
McCarthy, Justin Huntley. Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.
6–39729.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A clever, but scarcely edifying story.”
| + − | Cath. World. 85: 104. Ap. ’07. 100w. |
“Here ends our entertainment, a romantic one withal, and a merry.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 12: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 290w. |
“It is a stirring tale written with the author’s accustomed grace and with a certain wanton sprightliness, which, for all its fascination, is a distinct lowering of his literary standards after the grave beauty and fine exaltation with which he wrote ‘The flower of France.’”
| + | Ind. 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 220w. |
McCarthy, Justin Huntley. Needles and pins. †$1.50. Harper.
7–18594.
The old adage of “When a man marries his trouble begins,” is here applied to François Villon, the “beggar rhymer” whom Louis of France ennobled when Lady Katherine of Vaucelles loved and married him. When the story opens they have begun their married life on Katherine’s estate in Poitou, where her new lord is ill received. There is much fighting and bloodshed and also much marital skirmishing before Villon wins his wife’s respect and learns how to keep her love.
“Notable in the novel are its gaiety and brightness, and its deft literary workmanship. We must not seek dull realism here; it is a field of sheer entertainment.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 693. Je. 8. 180w. |
“The tale is told with quiet humour, sympathy, and an underlying vein of poetry that lends a definite charm to many of the pages.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 370w. |
“Mr. McCarthy presents Villon in the light of a perfectly monogamous Shelley. Apart from this somewhat trying piece of originality, the book has merit.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 260w. |
“It is a more thoughtful book than ‘If I were king,’ a harder book to write, a book with much subtle analysis, and quite probably McCarthy himself likes it better. It’s a question whether the public, fain to stay unjarred in their rose-colored dream of romantic passion, will agree with his possible estimate.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 450w. | |
| Sat. R. 103: 690. Je. 1, ’07. 280w. |
McClellan, Elisabeth. Historic dress in America, 1607–1800. **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
4–33115.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The chapter on uniforms in America, 1775–1800, is more complete than anything of the kind we have seen before, and the glossary of the nomenclature of dress, while it is hardly so full as that to be found in the ‘Cyclopaedia of costume,’ is curious and useful.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 450w. |
“Elisabeth McClellan and Sophie Steel have written and illustrated a work invaluable for reference on the subject of dress in America. The pictures, often copied from originals yet extant, are beautiful; the portraits of governors most interesting; and the glossary of the odd language of dress—it rivals that of heralds in eccentricity—is extremely useful.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1550w. |
* MacClintock, Porter Lander. [Literature in the elementary school.] *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Such topics are discussed as the service rendered by literature in the education of children, the kind of literature and the elements of literature serviceable in the elementary school, the story, folk-tale and fairy-story, hero-tales, nature and animal stories, symbolistic stories, fables, poetry and drama. The presentation of the literature, the correlations of literature and outside reading are also treated.
McClure, Alexander Kelly. Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8. Winston.
6–9611.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w. |
MacColl, Hugh. Symbolic logic and its applications. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–29053.
“Points on which he lays considerable stress, and in which he does not command the uniform assent of the other symbolic logicians, are these:—(a) that he takes statements and not terms to be in all cases and necessarily the ultimate constituents of symbolic reasoning; (b) that he goes quite beyond the ordinary notation of the symbolists in classifying propositions according to such attributes as true, false, certain, impossible, variable; (c) that in regard to the existential import of propositions, while other symbolists define the null class O as containing no members, and understand it as contained in every class, real or unreal, he, on the other hand, defines it as consisting of the null or unreal members, O1, O2, O3, &c., and considers it to be excluded from every real class. A chapter is devoted to the solution of Prof. Jevon’s so-called inverse problem.”—Nature.
“There are some respects in which Mr. MacColl appears too much dominated by ordinary language. The present volume is interesting and instructive, and the points in which it is incontrovertible are much more numerous than those in which it is open to doubt.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 396. Mr. 31. 1480w. | |
| + − | Nature. 75: 1. N. 1, ’06. 190w. |
Reviewed by John Grier Hibben.
| Philos. R. 16: 190. Mr. ’07. 2020w. |
McCook, Henry C. Nature’s craftsmen: popular studies of ants and other insects; il. from nature. **$2. Harper.
7–12257.
A book which has grown out of a series of nature articles printed in Harper’s magazine during the past four years. The papers deal principally with popular phases of insect and aranead life, with themes drawn chiefly from the author’s own specialties, ants and spiders. In addition, the products of some original studies have been included, as, for instance, wild bees, water-striders, caddis-flies, wasps and ant-lions.
“Well written, printed, illustrated and bound.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 168. O. ’07. S. |
“One of the most interesting and instructive entomological publications of recent date. Its method is popular in the best sense of the term.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 950w. |
Reviewed by George Gladden.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 230w. |
“The character of the contents, the interesting nature of the observation related, and the clearness and grace of the author’s style, all combine to place the book in the first rank of popular natural histories.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
| + + | Dial. 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 460w. |
“An admirable volume for the open shelves of the public or school library.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 190w. |
“There is throughout a strict adherence to truth and a spirit of careful research. Close to the ideal type of nature book, well written, well printed, and well illustrated.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 290w. |
“The book is written in a very pleasing style throughout, with the exception of the last few pages, which bear signs of haste.”
| + + − | Nature. 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 410w. |
“In his years of close study of insects he has seen many a weird spectacle of which he writes here most entertainingly.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 120w. |
“The stories contain so little that is technical, and that little so easily explained, that teachers and others who wish to interest children in insect study will find the book one of the most valuable of all the flood of nature books which recent years have brought forth.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w. |
“Although free from technical terms, Dr. McCook’s work is thoroughly scientific in its treatment.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w. |
“Well suited for the general reader who is interested in entomology.”
| + | Spec. 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 120w. |
McCrackan, William Denison. Italian lakes. (Little pilgrimages ser.) Il. $2. Page.
7–15494.
“Mr. McCrackan first gives a brief general description of the ‘lakes of azure, lakes of leisure,’ and then takes up, one by one, the lakes themselves, the points of greatest interest upon or near their shores, and the journeys to be made from each.” (N. Y. Times.) “The picturesque towns and villa gardens on the shores are vividly described, and not only those which are famous the world over, but many which have succeeded in shyly hiding their loveliness from all eyes but those of the author, who has done his work with conscientious thoroness. The last chapters deal with people who had more or less connection with the towns on the lakes.” (Ind.)
“Enthusiastic, trustworthy, but not remarkable in style.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 169. O. ’07. |
“A very readable and not unprofitable book.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 220w. |
“He is enthusiastic and sympathetic, and every lake and island has for him its own special charm, its own distinctive beauties and its own historical or artistic associations.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 230w. |
“It is a pleasure to commend ‘The Italian lakes.’ We have noted a few errors.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 330w. |
“He has always a keenly appreciative eye for whatever is striking or picturesque or beautiful, and lets none of it escape the traveler’s attention, from the snowclad peaks in the background to the flowers by the wayside.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 290w. |
“Certainly it offers to tourists and sojourners a feast contrasted with the scant fare with which, perforce, they have had to be content in reading their necessarily condensed Baedeker, Meyer, Murray, or Boniforti.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 567. Je. 13, ’07. 400w. |
McCullough, Ernest. Engineering work in towns and small cities. $3. Technical bk. agency.
7–19430.
“After discussing the city engineer and his duties the author takes up, in turn, roads and streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, pavements, sanitation in general, drainage, sewerage, water supply, concrete, building departments, miscellaneous data (in the course of which a few paragraphs on lighting are given), contracts and specifications, office systems, records, field work and engineering data. Appendixes are devoted to concrete mixing machines, trenching machines, bibliography, trade literature and specification index.”—Engin. N.
“The book is unique, for one of its class, in the amount of information it contains on how to do things. Much of this is based on the practical experience of the author, and the balance, for the most part, has been selected with good judgment.”
| + − | Engin. N. 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 490w. |
* MacCurdy, Hansford, and Castle, William Ernest. Selection and cross-breeding in relation to inheritance of coat-pigments and coat-patterns in rats and guinea-pigs. (Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 70.) pa. 50c. Carnegie inst.
7–21347.
The results of the authors’ recent researches which have included the study of a thousand animals throughout several generations.
| Nation. 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 170w. |
Reviewed by T. H. Morgan.
| + | Science, n.s. 26: 751. N. 29, ’07. 480w. |
McCutcheon, George Barr. [Daughter of Anderson Crow.] †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25508.
It is not the real but the adopted daughter of Anderson Crow, town marshal, about whom this story centers. After many adventures including a kidnapping and a hold up, in which the inhabitants of the small western village in which the tale is set, play a part, the parentage of Rosalie is discovered and her real wealth and position made known.
“The humour and spirit of the book are well sustained by the illustrations.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 170w. |
“Since the pursuit of literature, on the part of both authors and publishers—has transmuted itself from the desire to do something worth while into the endeavor to hit the bull’s eye of popular taste, that fact is perhaps justification for Mr. McCutcheon’s numerous books. Otherwise it is impossible to understand why they should be either written or published.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 670w. |
“In addition to the various good qualities of the author shown in the book there is a good bit of character drawing in Crow.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w. |
“Mr. McCutcheon, who told a good story in ‘Jane Cable,’ tells a better one in ‘The daughter of Anderson Crow.’”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 270w. |
McCutcheon, George Barr. [Jane Cable.] †$1.50. Dodd.
6–27704.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The plot does not strike one as being particularly probable, and the action is a little jerky and uncertain.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 80w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 850w. |
“It is admirably done up to a point, but somehow it fails to carry conviction. It is at least a hundred pages too long. It is discursive where it should be reticent, verbose where it should be merely suggestive.”
| − + | Sat. R. 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 540w. |
McDavid, Mittie Owen. Princess Pocahontas. $1.25. Neale.
7–32383.
A simple story of Pocahontas, her brief career and her relation to the English colonists.
* Macdonald, Alexander. [In search of El Dorado: a wanderer’s experiences.] $2. Jacobs.
“True romances, no fiction with the ‘Deus ex machina,’ at the psychological moment, but unadorned risks, escapes, and adventures ... and little epics of comradeship—impressions of men to whom gold and jewels are much, but to whom loyalty is the one thing better.” They are adventures of the Klondike, the Never-Never Land of Australia, and British New Guinea.
“The chief merit of the work lies in its graphic pictures of life in the mining camps, and of the quaint humours of their inmates, whom the author portrays in the most kindly spirit. As Mr. Macdonald in his preface lays claim to entire accuracy in geographical detail, we may mention one or two points on which his memory seems to be at fault.”
| + − | Ath. 1905, 2: 759. D. 2. 520w. |
“At times his adventures are a little too marvelous, the coincidences a bit too striking, and the luck or ill-luck slightly too much colored; but we can appreciate the stories for they are capitally told.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + − | Dial. 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 170w. |
“Their adventures are worth the telling, and Mr. Macdonald has told them well. These are right good stories.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 699. N. 2, ’07. 140w. |
“He has experiences to recount which we do not expect to find outside the boy’s adventure book. He writes admirably and picturesquely, notwithstanding his reminder that he knows more of the rifle than the pen.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ’05. 320w. |
“No book of the kind we have come across for long so decidedly merits reading.”
| + + | Spec. 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 180w. |
MacDonald, Frederick W. In a nook with a book. *$1. Scribner.
7–24202.
“Mr. Macdonald’s eighteen short chapters touch on all sorts of themes dear to bibliophiles.... While he writes understandingly of the church fathers and historians, and of the Anglican divines, from Latimer and Jewell to Mozley and Liddon, this ministerial book-lover can also gossip about Pepys and Mrs. Piozzi and Charles Lamb, and is even caught quoting, with admirable effect, from Eugene Field’s ‘Bibliomaniac’s prayer.’”—Dial.
“It is clear that, like some divines of an older period, he belongs both to literature and religion.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 45. Ja. 12. 340w. |
“A little volume of unusual charm. This is the most brightly entertaining book about books that has fallen into our hands for a long time.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 400w. |
“Of actual criticism in Mr. Macdonald’s book there is little, but that good.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 790w. |
Macdonald, Frederika. Jean Jacques Rousseau: a new criticism. *$6.50. Putnam.
7–11002.
An “attempt to rehabilitate” the character of Rousseau by showing that he has ever been viewed in the light of the false reputation which attached itself to him as the result of a conspiracy between two contemporaries.
“Mrs. Macdonald has presented a very good case in a very bad manner. Her book is narrow in scope, and written in an uncritical frame of mind.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 470. O. 20. 1960w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 175. F. ’07. 1500w. |
“So far as the impression made by the book on the present reviewer is concerned, the future of the reputation of ‘the virtuous Jean Jacques Rousseau’ lies still on the knees of the gods.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 327. F. 7, ’07. 1230w. |
“She writes rather like the advocate who sought to secure the acquittal of his client by abusing the plaintiff’s attorney. That is the weak side of her work. But she has nevertheless made a literary discovery for which credit must be ungrudgingly accorded.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 337. O. 5, ’06. 1850w. |
“Her work is an honor to her head and heart, and as a repository is indispensable to every Rousseau library.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 556. D. 27, ’06. 3490w. |
“Mrs. Macdonald has only brushed away some calumniating gossip; the main questions at issue are as they were a century ago.” James Huneker.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 1330w. |
“However significant the results of Mrs. MacDonald’s investigations may prove, she herself has not worked them out in a manner above criticism.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 337. Je. 15, ’07. 900w. |
“The new evidence which she has unearthed is so striking that it cannot be lightly put aside.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 487. O. 20, ’06. 2630w. |
* Macdonald, George. [Princess and the goblin.] il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–12642.
A charming new edition of George Macdonald’s most popular children’s story. The original wood engravings after the drawings of Arthur Hughes have been retained, and Miss Maria L. Kirk has contributed some attractive colored illustrations embodying the atmosphere and spirit of the story.
| + | Nation. 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w. |
Macdonell, Anne. Touraine and its story; il. by A. B. Atkinson. *$6. Dutton.
W 7–36.
Leisurely does Miss Macdonell conduct her follower thru the land of chateaux, and takes him into the byways of the “thousand valleys.” “Indeed, she finds more of the flavor of by-gone days in the lesser castles, where there are no guides to hurry the visitors, and where the shabbiness and quiet decay give the imagination free rein. It is to these that she takes her readers; to the grim fortresses, also, that guarded the lands: to the humble dwellings that nestled in the shadow of the lordly manors; and to the rivers—shy and silent or swift and rapacious—that water this ‘Garden of France.’” (Dial.)
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 99. Ap. ’07. |
“The book is especially strong on its historical side.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 1: 575. My. 11. 450w. |
“Her history systematizes and rounds out the story of the twelve individual chateaux, as told by Miss Lansdale, and her itineraries sometimes duplicate but often supplement the other writers.”
| + | Dial. 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 380w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 180w. |
“One that, in spite of all the competitors already in the field, will undoubtedly hold its own, so beautiful are many of the illustrations it contains, so freshly is the apparently inexhaustible theme treated.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 364. F. ’07. 330w. |
“Perhaps the difference between her writing and that of Mr. Cook is chiefly the difference between the man and woman author. His is more complete. Hers is more picturesque, more literary, more diffuse, above all, more personal. It is inseparable from herself as a traveller; and if we sometimes feel a little too much colour, a faint desire for dry bones and for form, we also feel that her style has more charm than that of her predecessor.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 432. D. 28, ’06. 950w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w. |
“A sympathetic chronicler has been found in Miss Macdonell who possesses the historical knowledge which is essential in treating of this district of France where every site has its story and association; she also has no little capacity for describing scenery and introducing the incidents appropriate to the locality.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w. |
“The blemishes are so really insignificant that we feel safe in recommending the book, with its pretty illustrations, to all who care for a fascinating subject.”
| + + − | Spec. 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 200w. |
McFadyen, John Edgar. Prayers of the Bible. $1.75. Armstrong.
7–7187.
“Contains valuable devotional and liturgical material, together with discussions of the character and content of both Old and New Testament petitions.” (Ind.) It is divided into four parts; The prayers of the Bible, Modern prayer, The prayers of the Bible collected and classified, and Biblical prayers for modern use.
“It is a timely contribution to the understanding of the devotional elements in the Bible by an interpreter thoroughly in sympathy with the modern scientific and historical spirit.”
| + | Bib. World. 28: 159. F. ’07. 60w. |
“The method of the author is scientific, the spirit devout. The study of biblical prayer is of interest alike to the student of the Bible and to the man of religious life and temper whether he be a student or not. To both, this volume will prove of interest and value.” Frederick Carl Eislen.
| + | Bib. World. 30: 297. O. ’07. 600w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 60w. |
MacFall, Haldane. Ibsen, the man, his art and his significance; il. by Joseph Simpson. *$1.50. Shepard, Morgan.
7–3098.
A running narrative composed of the plots of the plays and the incidents of the biography. The material is drawn chiefly from Jaeger, Brandes, Gosse, Archer and Boyesen.
“Boiled down, his enthusiastic chapters amount to a fair exposition of some portions of Ibsen’s genius.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 283. Mr. 23, ’07. 30w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 124. My. ’07. |
“His individual contribution is a jerky emotional commentary, which makes a brave pretense of being impressive, but exhibits no particular insight or sense of perspective.”
| − | Dial. 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 270w. |
“This book ... is a curious compound of indiscriminating eulogy and sound criticism.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 680w. |
“We fear MacFall has read too much Shaw.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w. |
“On the whole, though doubtless Mr. MacFall would resent it, his book is a good one for beginners.”
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 110w. |
McGaffey, Ernest. Outdoors: a book of the woods, fields and marshlands. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–14649.
“Mr. McGaffey’s book tells of the pleasures of out-door life in the fields and prairies and marshlands of the northern part of the Mississippi valley, and it is written from the point of view of the hunterman and fisherman who take the chase of fur, scales, and feathers more as an excuse for getting into the open than as an object in itself.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by George Gladden.
| − | Bookm. 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 410w. |
“The advice to sportsmen which the book contains is not full enough or new enough to compensate for the disappointment this point of view causes the nature lover. Nevertheless, Mr. McGaffey’s appreciation of the background of these naturalistic plays in one act is so delicate and often so poetically worded as to gain him grateful acknowledgment.” May Estelle Cook.
| + − | Dial. 42: 370. Je. 16, ’07. 550w. |
“The style of the book vouches for itself.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w. | |
| Nation. 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w. |
“Will give a pleasant hour to any one who loves and knows the out-of-doors.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 330w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 60w. |
McGehee, Lucius Polk. Due process of law under the federal Constitution. $3. Thompson.
6–32130.
A volume which “deals accurately and clearly with a subject of which some phase or other is under daily discussion. The regulation of railway rates, the protection against impure food, the suppression of child labor and of monopolies, the validity of a decree for divorce based on constructive service, are but a few of the problems in which ‘due process’ is involved.... The rules expounded are as far as possible based on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.” (Nation.)
“The author ... succeeds in being concise as well as readable; and he criticises modestly, but firmly.”
| + | Nation. 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 190w. |
“The text of the book is admirably unobstructed by confusing detail.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 1160w. |
“He displays a sense of proportion and a faculty for generalization, arrangement and concise and exact statement which render his work lucid and readable and remarkably free from the clumsiness of much legal writing.” Thomas Reed Powell.
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 541. S. ’07. 1180w. |
McGinley, Anna M. A. Profit of love: studies in altruism; with preface by Rev. George Tyrrell. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–4504.
“Is the world growing in love as well as in knowledge? This is the fundamental question dealt with in the present volume of essays on human love and its relation to our common daily experiences.... The dedication of the series ‘to my neighbor’ is significant, and the aim of the author thruout is to show from a study of the elementary laws of natural growth that the trend of all human progress is toward universal brotherhood, enlightened and sustained by a supremely dominant altruism rather than by man-made laws.... It deals with principles rather than with their practical application, tho many useful hints in this direction can be easily gathered by way of influence.”—Ind.
“The main point is: Has this book power and vitality enough to arouse views, thoughts, ambitions of any kind in the mind of its readers? This book has that power and vitality, and we wish a wide circulation for it.”
| + + | Cath. World. 84: 705. F. ’07. 840w. |
“The book is deeply spiritual, but it does not belong to the conventional and still less the conventual type of such writings. Certain accepted educational and religious notions are called in question with a frankness which, while it may alarm the timid, cannot fail to prove stimulating to the thoughtful, and for these alone the book is intended.”
| + | Ind. 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w. |
McGrath, Harold. Best man. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–30162.
Three stories: “The best man,” “Two candidates,” and “The adventures of Mr. ‘Shifty’ Sullivan,” make up this volume. The first is the story of a young lawyer who finds that the millionaire father of the girl he loves has made more millions by a dishonest transaction and he is torn between love and duty of disclosure. He chooses duty, but the girl’s grandfather comes to the rescue and the honest lawyer is able to keep her love and to see the wrong righted. The second is a tale of love and politics, and the last tells of how a young minister fought a good fight.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 170w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 140w. |
MacGrath, Harold. [Half a rogue.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–43779.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is nothing new and striking about the story as a study of American life; while as a romance pure and simple it is far inferior to the ‘Man on the box.’” Amy C. Rich.
| − + | Arena. 37: 221. F. ’07. 190w. |
“There is very little plot in the story, tho much diversity of incident marks the rather lively narrative. Upon the whole, it is a good machine-made novel.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w. |
“We cannot give unstinted praise to Mr. McGrath’s last novel. His tendency to be epigrammatic is occasionally a trifle wearisome.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 880w. |
“A bright, entertaining story.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 100w. |
Macgregor, David Hutchison. Industrial combination. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–12496.
“Everything that can be said either in favor of or against trusts, cartels, and unions is stated fairly and minutely.... [The author] analyzes with much skill the various phases of modern organizations—their productive efficiency, the greater or less risk as compared with competitive methods, their bargaining strength, their resources—and discusses at length their relation to labor, especially in connection with trade unions. He sums up his general views in the two final chapters—the attitude of public opinion and legislation.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“No student of combinations can afford to dispense with this book and no reader will fail to learn from it. Copious material has been used, but it has been so adequately digested that the reader will nowhere find himself overburdened with detail, though the touch of reality is preserved throughout by the illustrations selected. The arrangement suits well the method of treatment.” S. J. Chapman.
| + − | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 393. Ap. ’07. 990w. |
“Mr. Macgregor’s style and mode of presentation are disappointing. His method, while detailed, is essentially abstract. There is no guiding purpose visible in the work. It is altogether a fair and impartial study of the subject, and in this respect is wholly admirable. But there seems to be no point to which the author is aiming. It is as if he did not see the wood for the trees, and yet the trees are all abstractions, not concrete things. This quality will prove a serious handicap to the success of the work.” Garrett Droppers.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 120. F. ’07. 710w. |
“The most careful scientific study which has yet been made in this field of investigation. Mr. Macgregor’s conclusions are generally as sane as his methods of procedure are correct. The chief, if not the only ground for criticism is his disposition to take too seriously ‘official’ material dealing with the trust movement in the United States.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 768. N. 17, ’06. 310w. |
“Mr. Macgregor does not share the view of his compatriot, Mr. Macrosty, that cartels and trusts are stages in a movement toward socialism. The reasons for his dissent from that view are given in the third division of his book and must be considered the least satisfactory part of his work.” Henry L. Moore.
| + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 337. Je. ’07. 660w. | |
| Spec. 97: 177. F. 2, ’07. 300w. |
“Perhaps the most instructive feature of the work is its discussion of the effects of the protective tariff upon the operation of the trusts. On the whole the work is a valuable addition to the literature of the general trust movement. It is, however, likely to find its chief usefulness among the scholarly students of the subject since it is marred by the constant use of technical terms many of which seem to have been coined by the author and which he does not usually explain.” Maurice H. Robinson.
| + + | Yale R. 16: 330. N. ’07. 1050w. |
Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von. Outlines of the history of painting, from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–30483.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In small compass is given all the information that has so far been scattered through encyclopedias.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 65. F. 2, ’07. 310w. |
Mach, Ernst. Space and geometry in the light of physiological, psychological, and physical inquiry. *$1. Open ct.
6–34085.
“The first essay deals with the relation of the spatial concept to the senses. In the second we have an attempt to trace the natural development of geometry from psychological causes, while the last essay discusses the subject from the point of view of physical inquiry. Incidentally, a number of illustrations are introduced, some of which are admirably adapted for teaching purposes.”—Nature.
“The translation is well-nigh perfect.”
| + | Nation. 83: 519. D. 13, ’06. 580w. |
“There could be no more suitable book for giving the elementary or secondary teacher some intelligent ideas about geometry than Dr. Mach’s series of essays.”
| + | Nature. 75: 603. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w. |
“We certainly have to thank the Open court publishing company for adding this little book to the other works of Professor Mach that they have published in English.” W. T. Marvin.
| + | Psychol. Bull. 4: 259. Ag. 15, ’07. 670w. |
Machen, Arthur. [Hill of dreams]; il. by S. H. Sime. †$1.50. Estes.
“The ‘Hill of dreams’ is a study of the perverted mental and moral development of a boy with an absorbing love of the beautiful. ‘Beauty for beauty’s sake’ and ‘art for art’s sake’ his cult are accustomed to call it when they drench a poisonous swamp with perfumes and cover it with rose leaves.”—N. Y. Times.
“There is something sinister in the beauty of Mr. Machen’s book. It is like some strangely shaped orchid, the colour of which is fierce and terrible, and its perfume is haunting to suffocation by reason of its intolerable sweetness.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 330w. |
“His Muse is a kind of Lilith—not a drop of her blood is human—and thus, except from the decorative point of view, he leaves us cold.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1. 317. Mr. 16. 410w. |
“Although written with noticeable ability, the book in itself has not sufficient strength to deserve attention here, did it not mark a curious morbid phase of English fiction in which sound, color, and scent are put to superfine uses by neurotic young gentlemen who should be shut up, or set at manual labor.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w. |
“This ‘Hill of dreams’ is like nothing so much as a long-drawn-out bad dream from which one awakens with a feeling of thankfulness that it isn’t true, after all.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w. |
Mackail, John William, ed. [Select epigrams from the Greek anthology.] *75c. Longmans.
“A new edition of ... a book which has long been out of print.... The word ‘epigram’ is the equivalent of ‘inscriptions,’ and the greater number of the pieces have this character,—lines inscribed on tombs and altars and votive offerings and family memorials. In the anthology as we know it to-day other verses have been added, fragments of idylls, lyrics, quotations, from forgotten gnomic and dramatic poets.”—Spec.
“Mr. Mackail’s introduction is an entirely delightful piece of work. The subtle and beautifully expressed analysis of the Oxford professor of poetry makes it quite a different thing from the ordinary introduction to a classical edition.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
| + | Acad. 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1560w. |
“This little volume alone suggests that Greek is ‘worth while.’”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 441. Ap. 13. 140w. |
“Would that the number of Americans who could make use of so delightful a book were many times greater.”
| + | Nation. 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 40w. |
“Its charm is its homeliness, its intimate appeal, and its amazing range.”
| + | Spec. 97: 779. N. 17, ’06. 1580w. |
“It is not easy to choose where there is so much beauty and pathos.”
| + | Spec. 98: 581. Ap. 13, ’07. 220w. |
MacKaye, James. Economy of happiness. **$2.50. Little.
6–28423.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume seems to be the work of a man who has not stopped learning, and who is likely to use the clues in the present argument to good purpose in further study of social problems. He is well entitled to a hearing. The absence of an index is unfortunate.” A. W. S.
| + − | Am. J. Soc. 12: 566. Ja. ’07. 920w. |
“Is an elevated and closely knit moral system with an outcome frankly socialistic.” John Graham Brooks.
| + | Atlan. 99: 279. F. ’07. 580w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 119. F. 24, ’06. 110w. |
MacKaye, James. Politics of utility: the technology of happiness—applied: being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c. Little.
6–37899.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is well written and contains some very incisive criticisms of modern society, and several interesting economic distinctions and theories, but on the whole, it can be fairly said that the average thinker would find difficulty in seeing just where the proposed scheme differs from modern socialism.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 641. My. ’07. 250w. | |
| Ind. 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 80w. | ||
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 45. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w. | |
| Spec. 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 230w. |
Mackaye, Percy Wallace. Jeanne d’Arc. *$1.25. Macmillan.
6–35545.
“In constructing his drama Mr. Mackaye has focused the interest upon the child nature of the present heroine—the simplicity that the records abundantly show was hers—and the mystery of power and inspiration behind that simplicity. The contrasting character is the Duc d’Alençon, a skeptic with a rationalism which differs in no essential from that now in vogue.”—N. Y. Times.
“A dignified and poetic treatment of one of the noblest of all possible themes. Such publications are among the most welcome signs of the times.”
| + | Dial. 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 60w. |
“There are passages that quite thrill you in the first act of Jeanne d’Arc. But at the same time there is a kind of inconsequence about the piece as a whole which destroys, at least to some extent, the effect.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 222. Jl. 25, ’07. 400w. |
“It is a succession of moods and pictures with no real dramatic knot, and with but one or two dramatic situations; and the traditions of Jeanne d’Arc are sentimentalized to such a degree that they cease to be quite convincing, either as history or as material for tragedy embodying a criticism of life.”
| − | Nation. 83: 440. N. 23, ’06. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 240w. |
“An excellent poetical drama eminently fitted for the stage.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| + | No. Am. 186: 96. S. ’07. 110w. |
“While Mr. Mackaye has not succeeded in fusing this mass of material into a wholly organic drama, he has succeeded much more nearly in doing so than would have seemed probable at the outset.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 348. Je. ’07. 240w. |
Mackaye, Percy Wallace. Sappho and Phaon: a tragedy, set forth with a prologue, induction, prelude, interludes, and epilogue. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–17376.
In the prologue of this drama the dramatist has imagined the players’ quarter of a theatre of Herculaneum to be unearthed. An archaeologist present finds a papyrus scroll containing the players’ copy of “Sappho and Phaon.” The play presents Sappho created entirely from the bits of her verse that have been preserved. Among Sappho’s lovers are Pittacus, the Mitylene tyrant, and Alcaeus, while Sappho herself loves Phaon, a slave, who is bound to his slave mate Thalassa. Pittacus relinquishes his suit while Alcaeus persecutes Phaon. The tragedy grows out of these conditions, and into it are woven the traditional vengeance of the gods, with the modern note of symbolism and mysticism.
“The trait that lingers in the mind as the finest promise is the way in which he has invested the old passionate story with intimations of tender and wistful humanity.” Ferris Greenlet.
| + | Atlan. 100: 848. D. ’07. 700w. |
“The least convincing episodes in Mr. MacKaye’s very unusual and interesting work are those in which, to suit his own fancy rather than fact, he has endeavored to restore to us the life, customs and habits of the ancient Roman stage.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 569. S. 5, ’07. 650w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w. |
“Dr. Mackaye’s work is the most notable addition that has been made for many years to American dramatic literature. It is a true poetic tragedy, classic in form and spirit, not always glowing with the fire of genius, but nevertheless charged with happy inspiration; dignified, eloquent, passionate, imaginative; and thoroughly human in its emotions.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 1060w. |
“A work of unusual merit, in which the author’s high aspirations are measurably justified by his powers of expression, and his feeling for the spirit of Greek life and art is shown to be allied with knowledge.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 1540w. |
“Considered as a poem to be read ... ‘Sappho and Phaon’ surpasses all his earlier productions. Considered as a play to be acted, it does not pass beyond their ineffectiveness.” Clayton Hamilton.
| + − | No. Am. 185: 880. Ag. 16, ’07. 1490w. |
“Here once more Mr. Mackaye’s fantasticality runs riot.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| − | No. Am. 186: 96. S. ’07. 140w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 86: 452. Je. 29, ’07. 460w. |
* McKenzie, F. A. Unveiled East. *$3.50. Dutton.
A serious dissertation upon the growing imperialism of Japan as attested by her territorial expansion, increased fighting power, and aggressive commercial campaign. The author offers his deductions as a warning to Great Britain and the United States whose trade and prestige are being threatened.
“We are inclined to fear some little prejudice on the author’s part.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 520w. |
“His book is well-balanced and reserved in opinion and in fact, and makes interesting and profitable reading for anyone concerned in Far Eastern affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 370w. |
“Altho Mr. McKenzie’s book is avowedly written for a purpose ... it is not lacking in entertaining descriptions of the countries he has visited, and furnishes, on the whole, a valuable contribution to the literature dealing with the problems of the Far East.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 390w. |
“Although we are quite unable to accept all Mr. McKenzie’s conclusions with regard either to Japan, China, or Russia, his book certainly constitutes a skilful presentation of the case of Korea.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 238. Ag. 2, ’07. 1200w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 474. Ag. 3, ’07. 1100w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“We call it ‘remarkable’ for, though the book is full of faults of manner, including an undue sentimentality, and of arrangement, including constant repetitions, yet it has the great merit of stating adequately a point of view which has hitherto been confined to the conversation of certain Far East residents.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 1150w. |
Mackenzie, John Steuart. Lectures on humanism. (Ethical lib.) **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–33950.
“Prof. Mackenzie’s own humanism is described as ‘a point of view from which human life is regarded as an independent centre of interest’—as contrasted with a naturalism and supernaturalism which seek the explanation of human life either in the forces around man or in some powers distinct from man and those forces. In the light of that description the influence of humanism in philosophy, politics, economics, education, and religion is studied, and the two closing chapters examine the limitations and implications of humanism.”—Nature.
“Prof. Mackenzie’s lectures provide excellent reading. The metaphysical expert is offered, in a final lecture, a few choice nuts to crack; whilst for the sociological expert—if, indeed, there is such a person, it matters less if the argument comes scarcely within bowing distance of him.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 730w. | |
| Ind. 63: 1369. D. 5, ’07. 820w. |
“While in the earlier part of the book discussions are somewhat abstract and sometimes obscure, even those not metaphysically trained can read with perfect understanding, lectures iv-ix., which deal with the applications of these teleological principles to politics, economics, education, and religion.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 448. N. 14, ’07. 600w. |
“Prof. Mackenzie fears that the style of treatment may be regarded as sketchy; sketchy it is, and the title of the volume perhaps induces expectations that are not realised; but undeniably the work has substantial merits.”
| + − | Nature. 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 250w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 300w. |
* MacKinlay, Malcolm Sterling. Antoinette Sterling and other celebrities. **$3.50 Appleton.
These stories and impressions of artistic circles have for their central figure Madame Sterling. In her youth she studied under the most famous teachers of Europe and later became an interesting factor in American music tho “no singer is likely in the future to achieve such a position as she undoubtedly held with so limited a repertory or such disregard for the higher technical developments of the art.” (Spec.)
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. MacKinlay’s memoir of his mother, written in a spirit of true filial piety, yet with refreshing candour, is well worth reading by amateurs as well as professionals.” C. L. G.
| + | Spec. 96: 617. Ap. 21, ’06. 2100w. |
McKinney, Mrs. Kate Slaughter. Silent witness. $1.50. Neale.
6–46772.
A story of hurried action built up about a crime and the accusation of the wrong man.
* Mackinnon, Albert G. Tangible tests for a young man’s faith. *75c. West. Meth. bk.
This book offers a remedy for the belief that one must look to scholars for an answer in all matters pertaining to religious belief. It is intended to aid self help in arriving at conclusions regarding the truth of the gospel.
MacKinnon, James. History of modern liberty. set, *$10. Longmans.
6–15083.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Mackinnon has produced a superlatively good book, marred only by an occasional looseness of style that detracts from the dignity of an important work.”
| + + − | Spec. 98: 421. Mr. 16, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
Macklin, Herbert W. The brasses of England. (The antiquary’s books.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–38576.
“In this volume, the chronological as opposed to the class division has been adopted, with the advantage of bringing its subject into a closer relation with history. The earliest brass is that of Sir John Daubernon at Stoke D’Abernon. This is dated 1277. Nineteen other examples belong to the next half-century, the latest but one being another Daubernon at the same place (1327). These are treated at length. The regular series begins with chap. 3. The Plantagenet, Lancastrian, Wars of the roses, and Tudor periods are successively dealt with. A chapter is given to the spoliation of the monasteries, ... and another to the Elizabethan revival. The illustrations are plentiful and excellent.”—Spec.
“The indexes are thorough, and the whole arrangement will be found convenient to the hasty searcher as well as pleasant to the more leisurely reader.”
| + + | Ath. 1907. 2: 104. Jl. 27. 580w. |
“The numerous and interesting brasses of Lancashire and Yorkshire and of the other northern counties are not included, and his book thus falls short of being a complete account of the brasses of England.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 300w. |
“Though it contains little that is new, and some of the illustrations have been copied or reduced from those in other books, the author has managed to give a certain freshness to a somewhat hackneyed theme by connecting it more closely than has hitherto been done with the history of the country in which the quaint memorials of the dead he so eloquently describes were produced. The various appendices dealing with minor groups of brasses, which might perhaps have been with advantage incorporated in the text, display a really remarkable grasp of a subject that would appear to be practically inexhaustible.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 168. Ag. ’07. 220w. |
“The entire book is certain to interest students of the literature and art of the centuries in which monumental brasses were produced.”
| + | Nation. 85: 312. O. 3, ’07. 800w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 356. Je. 1, ’07. 110w. |
Reviewed by Charles De Kay.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 452. Jl. 20, ’07. 2000w. |
“He has already earned a right to champion the cause of brasses, and his thorough and comprehensive survey of them gives him a further claim to plead for their better perservation.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 900w. | |
| Spec. 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w. |
Maclaren, Alexander. [Expositions of Holy Scripture.] 30v. ea. *$1.25. Armstrong.
“A commentary on the entire Bible, in 30 volumes. Sold in series of six volumes. The treatment proceeds on the plan of an ‘anthology of the passages best suited for homiletic treatment in the expository method.’”
ser. 1. Genesis, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Matthew.
ser. 2. Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers; Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth and the First book of Samuel; Second book of Samuel and the First book of Kings; St. Mark, 2 v.; and Acts of the Apostles, 1st. v.
“Full of insight and suggestiveness.”
| + | Bib. World. 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w. (Review of first ser.) |
“The work is rather voluminous and diffusive, making it cumbersome and expensive for practical use.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w. (Review of first ser.) |
“Dr. Maclaren is always intent on spiritual truths, felicitous in drawing instructive modern parallels to ancient experiences, ingenious in making unpromising sentences yield fruitful lessons, and putting fresh point into trite texts.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 200w. (Review of second ser.) |
Macleane, Douglas. Reason, thought and language; or, The many and the one: a revised system of logical doctrine in relation to the forms of idiomatic discourse. *$6. Oxford.
7–29051.
A book whose object is “to strengthen and revivify formal logic by bringing into close connection with the living facts of thought and speech.” “His work is rather a restatement and a defence of traditional doctrines.” (Nation.)
“This is a pleasantly written, discursive, fairly comprehensive book on logic, and a notable feature of it is the unusual number, variety, and freshness of the examples given. The chief objection which Mr. Macleane has failed to meet is that the more intentionally formal our logic the less can the actual risk of ‘ambiguous middle’ be taken into account.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 606. D. 15, ’06. 620w. |
“Apart from the defects of the traditional standpoint, Mr. Macleane’s book has much to recommend it. Though in some places needlessly prolix, the author generally expresses his views with much sense, point, and an abundant supply of appropriate and often humorous examples.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 185. Ag. 17. 1880w. |
“In so far as it deals with logic as an art, Mr. Macleane’s book will be useful for reference even if it is too long and discursive for the classroom. In his discussion of extra-logical subjects, he is not always convincing.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w. |
“There can be no question of its learning and ability. Formal logic is apt to be heavy reading to the average mind, and the lavish introduction of this relieving element of bright and amusing illustration is a real gain in the lengthy and solid volume before us.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 518. O. 26, ’07. 1370w. |
Macleod, Mary. A book of ballad stories. $1.50. Stokes.
7–35074.
Many old friends will be found in new prose dress. Patient Griselda, The beggar’s daughter of Bethnal Green, Thomas the rhymer, The Robin Hood cycle, King Cophetua and the beggar maid, The friar of orders gray, and two score more.
“Much of the charm of the originals is unavoidably sacrificed in the change of form.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 53. F. ’07. |
“Prof. Edward Dowden has written an excellent historical introduction. [She turns] the swinging rhythm into something else without weighing carefully the taste for poetry which young people largely possess.”
| − + | Ind. 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w. |
McMahan, Mrs. Anna B. [Shakespeare’s Christmas gift to Queen Bess.] **$1. McClurg.
7–33927.
A story woven around the first presentation of “A midsummer night’s dream” at the court of Queen Elizabeth.
“A whimsical bibelot, which may be counted upon to please fastidious readers both in substance and mechanical features.”
| + | Dial. 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 160w. |
McMahan, Anna Benneson, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.
6–34853.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In one sense the compiler is certainly a follower of Byron—in the carelessness of her style. The information which she imparts could be read just as easily in almost any literary history. The selections from the letters and poems are aggravatingly cut about by lacunæ and curtailments.”
| − | Acad. 72: 92. Ja. 26, ’07. 650w. |
“Is a pleasant, if not quite equal companion to the admirable ‘With Shelley in Italy,’ which appeared last year. The new book has a little the air of having been made as an afterthought, or to order, because of the merited success of the earlier.” Harriet Waters Preston.
| + − | Atlan. 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 500w. |
“It does not throw any new light on Byron or help us to more understanding or enjoyment of his poems.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 120w. |
McMahan, Anna Benneson, ed. With Wordsworth in England. **$1.40. McClurg.
7–31456.
A selection of the poems and letters of William Wordsworth which have to do with English scenery and English life. An author’s viewpoint and the world he looks upon are no where better commanded than from the subjective realm of his own poetry, for that reason this volume of Wordsworth’s verse is offered as “a guide to some of his well-beloved haunts.”
“Mrs. McMahan has already proved herself ... a singularly inspiring guide to intimate acquaintance with recondite poetic treasure.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w. | |
| Lit. D. 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 80w. |
“The volume is thus an excellent supplement to Mr. Rannie’s (which is illustrated less freely), although her own introductions and comments are of no special value.”
| + | Nation. 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 80w. |
Reviewed by Bliss Carman.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 1280w. |
McMaster, John Bach. History of the people of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume before us presents a coherent, comprehensive, and illuminating narrative. It is not a series of monographs, but gives the impression of the progressive development of national powers in relation to one another. A few typographical errors have been noted.” C. H. Levermore.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 899. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 6.) | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 124. My. ’07. S. (Review of v. 6.) |
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 6.) |
“This big book, which may well be called a life-work, is a mine of information. All the severest demands of the new school as to scholarship and industry are fully met, and there is in it a wholesome human sympathy.” John Spencer Bassett.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 251. My. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 6.) |
McNaugher, John, ed. Psalms in worship; a series of convention papers bearing upon the place of the Psalms in the worship of the church. *$1. Un. Presb.
7–18116.
These papers were presented at two Presbyterian conventions called to promote the claims of the Psalms in the field of worship and they are now published in the hope that they may influence the Christian church at large to “restore the Psalms to their true place in the hearts and on the lips of Christian believers.” The volume contains “a comprehensive statement of the reasons for the exclusive use in worship of the Bible Psalms. Definitely argumentative discussions of a doctrinal and critical kind are in the forefront. Others of broader type succeed.”
Macnaughtan, S. [Lame dog’s diary.] †$1.50 Dodd.
6–6931.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The whole is like a bit of ‘Cranford’ with a few more masculine complications.” Mary Moss.
| + | Atlan. 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 190w. |
McPherson, Logan Grant. Working of the railroads. **$1.50. Holt.
6–43941.
“The author does not so much analyze the technical work of the individual railroad departments as the general principles which they pursue in their work.... The separate chapters deal with construction and operation, traffic, accounting and statistics, financial and executive administration, correlation and integration of the railroads and with their relations to the public and the state.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “It would pay the railroads to buy a million copies of this book and place it in the hands of the public for educational purposes.” (Dial.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 125. My. ’07. S. |
“The general and elementary principles of railroad transportation are explained in an interesting way.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 416. Mr. ’07. 210w. |
“In a most scientific and careful manner it presents the various functions of railroading.” John J. Halsey.
| + | Dial. 42: 282. My. 1. ’07. 1170w. |
“The value of the book lies in the fact that it is a clear and concise exposition of its subject, written by one who is both a practical railroad man and a trained economist.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 390w. |
“While the attitude of Mr. McPherson is naturally favorable to the railroad, he is very fair in his treatment of mooted questions.”
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 570. N. ’07. 130w. |
“To the subject of actual government control and regulation, and to the arguments that support this agitation, Mr. McPherson has given a careful and impartial study.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w. |
“A modest attempt, distinctly successful within its limits, to explain the operation of an American railway.”
| + | Nation. 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w. | |
| Outlook. 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 470w. |
“This little volume provides material for instruction in railroad economics, much needed, but difficult of attainment by most teachers.”
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 559. S. ’07. 120w. |
“For those who wish to get a good general outline of the railroad situation in this country without going much into details, Mr. McPherson’s book can be heartily recommended, and not the least important part of it is the list of references with which the book concludes.” Ray Morris.
| + + − | Yale R. 16: 326. N. ’07. 1280w. |
Macray, Rev. William Dunn. Register of the members of St. Mary Magdalen college. Oxford, from the foundation of the college, v. 5. *$2.50. Oxford.
v. 5. “The present volume consists of two portions. In the first we have extracts from the registers and accounts, in the second biographical notices of fellows and demies,—every one may not know that ‘Demy’ is the Magdalen name for a scholar.... There is a quite indescribable medley of facts in the extracts. All of them will have an interest for members of the college, and many have a general significance.”—Spec.
| Ath. 1907. 1: 44. Ja. 12. 490w. (Review of v. 5.) | ||
| Nation. 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“The extracts in the volume have been carefully compiled.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 5.) | |
| + | Spec. 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.) |
McSpadden, Joseph Walker. Famous painters of America. **$2.50. Crowell.
7–30413.
This book does not discuss art, altho it deals with artists. The personal and picturesque side of men known to the casual reader is presented here with much amusing anecdote and comment. The lives of Benjamin West, Copley, Stuart, Inness, Vedder, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Sargent, Abbey and Chase are given and there are three dozen handsome full page illustrations from photographs of the artists and their works.
“The book is not well written, is florid in style, but contains material on some of the later artists of which little is to be found elsewhere except in magazine files or expensive works.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 195. N. ’07. |
“It ought to appeal to the holiday buyer who is interested in art from the outside.”
| + | Cath. World. 86: 404. D. ’07. 190w. |
“While its point of view is popular there is nothing superficial about its method.”
| + | Dial. 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“The author has done what he has tried to do, which is more than can be said about every writer.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 240w. |
“The general reader might find some mild entertainment in it—it makes no pretense to give any information about art.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 50w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w. |
Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| Putnam’s. 3: 361. D. ’07. 30w. |
“It is anecdotal in the extreme.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 36: 760. D. ’07. 50w. |
McTaggart, John Ellis. Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.
7–7484.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. McTaggart is a master of clear definition and concise ratiocination. Indeed, his clearness and conciseness are of such exquisite quality that almost of themselves they afford the impression of wit.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 1: 320. Mr. 17. 1240w. | |
| Cath. World. 84: 563. Ja. ’07. 200w. |
“This arbitrary method of criticism seems to us to vitiate a good deal of the book. It is undeniably clever, and very many good things are said; and it fully sustains Dr. McTaggart’s reputation as a clear thinker and a lucid writer; but much of it is likely to produce irritation rather than reflection.” David Phillips.
| + − | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 383. Ap. ’07. 2260w. |
“This very curious volume has interest as disclosing a personality and as illustrating a phase of thought. It is written in a simple almost childlike style, without the slightest pretence. The author does not seem to be aware of the conflict and incompatibility of the various elements in his mind.”
| + − | Sat. R. 101: 591. My. 12, ’06. 1240w. |
MacWhirter, John. MacWhirter sketch book; being reproductions of a selection of sketches in color and pencil from the sketch book of John MacWhirter, designed to assist the student of landscape painting in water color. $1.50. Cassell.
“Wonderfully exact reproductions of sketches in color and pencil by a famous Scotch water colorist, designed to assist the student. There are no fewer than twenty-four full-page reproductions of water color studies, the landscape being generally either Scotch or Swiss or Italian.... There is an introduction by Edwin Bale, and some interesting notes by the artist are also included.”—N. Y. Times.
“The pencil sketches, even the slightest of them, will be found of value by the student.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 304. My. 11. ’07. 130w. |
“In spite of this flavour of a bygone time, there are one or two sketches which have in them that freshness and charm which are so often worried out of finished exhibition pictures.”
| + | Spec. 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w. |
Macy, Arthur. [Poems.] *$2.25. Clarke, W. B.
5–36098.
“A memorial volume of an unusually pleasant quality.... Mr. Macy was essentially the poet of good-fellowship. If such an impulse does not produce, in his own phrase, ‘Poetry with a big P,’ yet ... it does possess a very comfortable and lasting appeal.”—Nation.
“It is informed with a genuine warmth of sentiment, a Thackerayan humor, and a mellow morality, and is expressed with a clean music of phrase.”
| + | Nation. 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w. |
“Mr. Macy showed a felicity in the choice of words and an almost unerring ear for perfection of rhyme, combined with an unusual exactness in the use of difficult meter.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 230w. |
Madden, John. Forest friends: the woodland adventures of a boy pioneer. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–12644.
It is of a little lad of seven with a passionate, enduring love of the forest and its wild inhabitants that Mr. Madden writes. The experiences that result from a child’s quick fascination of things of the woods are told reflectively out of the fulness of the man’s memory.
“A good example of the static drama. It fills a real need in supplying a record of the animal life of regions near at hand in the early days of man’s occupation.” May Estelle Cook.
| + | Dial. 42: 369. Je. 16, ’07. 630w. |
“Will be read with profit by many other men’s sons.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 60w. |
“Although no new facts are added to our store of knowledge, it is a relief to read a book treating of just ordinary creatures with ordinary habits.”
| + | Nation. 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w. |
“Not necessarily for the boy, but quite as attractive to the boy’s father.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w. |
Madison, James. Writings; comprising his public papers and private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed: ed. by Gaillard Hunt. *$5. Putnam.
v. 6. “This volume covers the years 1790 to 1802. There is little that is new.... About half of it consists of Madison’s speeches in the First Congress, ... his various contributions to Freneau’s ‘National gazette,’ ‘Helvidius,’ his speech on the Jay treaty, and his Virginian report of 1799–1800. The rest is correspondence, embracing a dozen or so of family letters.... There are also a few new letters, and from Madison’s assumption of the secretaryship of state in May, 1801, an important series of instructions to the American representatives in England, France, and Spain. The footnotes, though not numerous, are almost uniformly good.” (Am. Hist. R.)
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 697. Ap. ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 6.) |
“The printing of so many speeches is of doubtful utility, as the reporting of that day was notoriously defective, and these summaries can only be comprehended from their context in the ‘Annals.’ The space thus occupied could have been better employed by including more of the correspondence, and especially the letters to Jefferson. The notes of the editor are judicious and accurate.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 6.) |
Madison, Lucy (Foster) (Mrs. Winfield Scott Madison). Maid of Salem towne. †$1.25. Penn.
6–11309.
Into this story of the charming little maid who came so near being hanged for a witch, and who was rescued in dramatic fashion by her friends at a critical moment, are woven sketches of the good old colony folk including Cotton Mather himself. The whole forms a vivid picture of life in a time more picturesque than comfortable.
“Most happily told.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 880. D. 15, ’06. 150w. |
Madonna of the poets; an anthology of only the best poems written about the Blessed Virgin. *85c. Benziger.
“An anthology covering a long period of literature. Many of the verses ... are far from being widely known to-day. Robert Grosseteste, William Forest, Richard Rowlands, Ben Jonson, Sir John Beaumont, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, represent the inspiration of the Madonna in English life, from the middle ages till long after England had ceased to be Catholic. Among the modern contributors are Wordsworth, Newman, Hawker, Aubrey de Vere, Coventry Patmore, George Macdonald, Father Tabb, Alice Meynell, Louise Imogen Guiney, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling.” (Cath. World.)
“A very curious mingling of pieces.”
| + − | Acad. 70: 374. Ap. 21, ’06. 1340w. | |
| Cath. World. 84: 558. Ja. ’07. 230w. |
Maeterlinck, Maurice. Measure of the hours; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Dodd.
7–15583.
Some new essays and others lately appearing in magazines are included among the twelve of this group. The collection “is somewhat heterogeneous, and ranges over questions of morality, social duty, literary appreciation, scenery and popular science.” (Nation.)
“A book of fragments, not all of equal value.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 1150w. |
“All of them are admirably translated, so far as one may judge without comparing the French, by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of them offer something novel and worthy of more than a moment’s pondering.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 250w. |
“The main interest of nearly all these essays is essentially that of the earlier volumes; the aim is still to combat insensibility to the possibilities of unguessed mysteries in what lies around us.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 546. Je. 13, ’07. 870w. | |
| + | Nature. 76: 198. Je. 27, ’07. 120w. |
“Maeterlinck can weave mysticism, educe a moral, out of whatever comes to his hand. The merit of his style, of its pellucid originality, is the metaphor and that metaphor generally a single type, personification. It is no willful trick of style, no imposed elaborateness of location. It is the simple expression of his vision.” Florence Wilkinson.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 662. O. 19, ’07. 1570w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 512. O. ’07. 100w. |
Maffitt, Emma Martin. Life and services of John Newland Maffitt; il. $3. Neale.
7–429.
A sympathetic sketch of Captain John Newland Maffitt, seaman, surveyor, commander, author and patriot.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 90w. | ||
| Ind. 62: 619. Mr. 14. 130w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 80w. |
* Magda, queen of Sheba; tr. into French from the original Ghese, by Hugues Le Roux, and from the French into English by Mrs. John Van Vorst; with an introd. by Hugues Le Roux. **$1.20. Funk.
The alleged romance of the historic Queen of Sheba translated from “The glory of the kings,” an ancient royal Abyssinian manuscript.
| Lit. D. 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 80w. |
“Textually it is a remarkable book—curiously compounded of stately phrases imitated from the authorized version and other phrases singularly bald, modern, and pedestrian.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 695. N. 2, ’07. 1680w. |
“The volume, which is half story, half study, has an undoubted literary charm as well as historic value.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 756. D. ’07. 80w. |
Magill, Edward Hicks. Sixty-five years in the life of a teacher. **$1.50. Houghton.
7–9847.
“Dr. Magill’s career as a teacher began when he was sixteen. He is now over eighty, so that his career as an educator literally spans the whole history of the development of American education.”—Lit. D.
“The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal, and professional.”
| + | Dial. 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w. | |
| Educ. R. 34: 208. S. ’07. 80w. |
“Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting chapters of American educational history.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w. |
“Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”
| + | Nation. 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 810w. |
“To those interested in educational matters his book would have been of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the personal note.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 390w. |
“It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 104. O. ’07. 480w. |
Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet. Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.
6–35732.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If it had been handled with considerably more restraint, and if the characters concerned had been a little more like ordinary human beings and not quite such impossible combinations of superlative virtue and cleverness, vindictiveness and villainy, it might easily have made a better book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − + | Bookm. 24: 591. F. ’07. 340w. |
“Is the strongest novel yet written by Sir William Magnay.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 180w. |
Mahaffy, John Pentland. Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–20870.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“After all, it is the only book of its kind. Nowhere else can one get a connected survey of what the Greeks were doing and thinking and saying under the dominance of that empire whose social life has been depicted in such a scholarly and yet fascinating manner by Professor Dill.” B. Perrin.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 580w. |
“It is much to be regretted that a scholar of distinction should have published a work which everywhere exhibits the wide range of his learning, but which seems to bear clear signs of hasty compilation and an imperfect appreciation of what readers may justly look for in a costly and, it might have been presumed, authoritative work.”
| + − | Spec. 98: sup. 116. Ja. 26, ’07. 750w. |
Mahan, Alfred Thayer. [From sail to steam: recollections of naval life.] **$2.25. Harper.
7–32861.
This narrative of naval affairs, much of it in the form of personal reminiscences, tells of the change from sail to steam power, and so becomes a history of the old navy and the new. It is an authoritative account and although intimate, none the less permits of impersonal conclusions and generalizations.
“A very attractive book, which albeit devoid of much striking incident or much stirring adventure, is full of Captain Mahan himself.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 1870w. |
“A capital book, this, to take up of a winter’s evening, when the day has been long and trying.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 210w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 754. D. ’07. 100w. |
“The author has, indeed, ‘let himself go,’ which must have been a very pleasant change from his usual austerity of construction and argument, and the reader shares the delights of the escapade. The mixture of autobiography, anecdote and essay is only less casual than the autobiography Mark Twain is publishing.”
| + | Spec. 99: 614. O. 26, ’07. 7800w. |
* Mahan, Alfred Thayer. Some neglected aspects of war; together with The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.
“A group of articles demonstrating the necessary and righteous part played in modern civilization by war, broadly considered, and the impossibility of replacing it shortly by any other agency, the conditions of the world remaining as they now are.”
Maine, Sir Henry James. [Ancient law] with introduction and notes by Sir Frederick Pollock. **$1.75. Holt.
7–26409.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 221. Ja. ’07. 360w. | |
| + + | Nation. 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 480w. |
Maitland, Frederic William. Life and letters of Leslie Stephen. *$4.50. Putnam.
7–15902.
The biographer holds the reader’s attention close to the moral and intellectual qualities “which gradually made Leslie Stephen the first among English critics and thinkers and one of the most influential among English moralists.” (Nation.) “Quite apart from the admirable literary form of the record, Professor Maitland has presented us with the portrait of an intensely human character, who took life, sunshine and thunder alike, with a free forehead and a free heart.” (Sat. R.)
“Will amply repay reading.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 463. N. 10, ’06. 1620w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 70. Mr. ’07. | |
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 684. D. 1. 1830w. |
“The biography now published should be the most welcome of books to all whose interests are engaged in the highest ideals of thought and conduct.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 42: 102. F. 16, ’07. 3000w. |
“It may be doubted if the present year will bring us from England a biographical work surpassing this in real literary distinction and literary value.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 440w. |
“Mr. Maitland has done as well for Leslie Stephen as Leslie Stephen did for Fitzjames, and the only possible ground of complaint is that he has not given us quite enough of himself.” Sir Frederick Pollock.
| + + + | Living Age. 252: 153. Ja. 19, ’07. 2990w. (Reprinted from Independent Review.) | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 384. D. 16, ’06. 2290w. |
“He has composed a biography which thrills in every line with affection and admiration for his hero, but never lies.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 12. Ja. 3, ’07. 2410w. |
“Part of its charm is the unconscious subsidiary portrait that the biographer has done of himself.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 1520w. |
Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.
| + + | No. Am. 184: 195. Ja. 18, ’07. 1680w. |
“For American readers the book would have been better had the author, or editor—for he is more editor than author—given a little more historical background. Historically the letters need some interpretation.”
| + + − | Outlook. 85: 759. Mr. 30, ’07. 1720w. |
“It has not a trace of the cant of conventional biography. He has the double advantage of having known Stephen intimately and of having deserved to know him.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 633. F. ’07. 1000w. |
“Professor Maitland’s book is neither a criticism, nor an appreciation, nor a panegyric; it is a living and breathing portrait of a modest, strong, active-minded, melancholy, tenderhearted man. The lights are not heightened, the shadows not deepened.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 580. N. 10, ’06. 1920w. |
“It would be difficult to overpraise the merits of Mr. Maitland’s work. Written in a style which rivals Stephen’s own in nervous strength, and excels it, perhaps, in colour and certain whimsical humour, it presents a most living portrait of a most vital being.”
| + + + | Spec. 97: 1047. D. 22, ’06. 1850w. |
Malet, Lucas, pseud. See Harrison, M. S. K.
Malim, Margaret F. Old English woodcarving patterns; from oak furniture of the Jacobean period. *$4.50. Lane.
7–29184.
“A large portfolio containing reproductions of facsimile drawings from rubbings, designed especially for teachers, students and classes. Thirty examples are shown on twenty plates.... All the patterns given in this portfolio have been collected from genuine pieces of old oak furniture from various parts of the country.”—Int. Studio.
| Int. Studio. 31: sup. 85. My. ’07. 510w. |
“A really useful portfolio.”
| + | Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 130w. |
* Mallock, William Hurrell. [Critical examination of socialism.] **$2. Harper.
A controversial treatment of the entire subject of socialism which may serve as a first introduction to the subject and which points out with equal fairness the strong and weak points of the system as it exists at the present time. The author discusses the historical beginning of socialism, Marxian socialism, the proximate and ultimate difficulties, individual motive and democracy, Christian socialism, the just reward of labor, interest and abstract justice, equality of opportunity and the social policy of the future.
“The book contains some crudities of plan and detail and an inexcusable number of grammatical or typographical errors.”
| − | Engin. N. 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
* Malvery, Olive Christian. Soul market. †$1.50. McClure.
The experiences and observation of Miss Malvery who impersonated various types of slum folk for the sake of studying their lives at close range.
“The cleverly delineated views from an inner standpoint are more fresh and impressive than methodical statistics.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 133. F. 2. 210w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Manly, John Matthews, comp. English poetry, 1170–1892. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–11577.
A high school and college text which includes between fifty and sixty thousand lines of poetry from the beginning of the Middle-English period down to the death of Tennyson. Intrinsic worth and beauty, and special significance in the history of English literature have determined the choice of the poems.
| + | Dial. 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 400w. |
Mann, Charles Riborg, and Twiss, George Ransom. Physics. *$1.25. Scott.
5–33989.
In Professor Mann’s thoroly modern textbook, “intended for third or fourth year high school or freshman collegiate students ... he has abolished such problems as ‘let the forces a, b and c meet at the point q’ and substituted real concrete examples of the applications of physical formulae. He has substituted photographs of modern machinery, such as turbine engines, motors and loop-the-loop, for the antiquated and diagrammatic illustrations of the old text-books.” (Ind.)
“Professor Mann has made a special effort to make the student realize that physics is a practical subject and necessary to the understanding of the operations of daily life. Some of his pictures seem unnecessary and somewhat kindergartenish.”
| + − | Ind. 61: 259. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w. | |
| Nation. 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w. |
Mann, Horace K. Lives of the popes in the early middle ages. v. 2 and 3: The popes during the Carolingian empire, Leo III. to Formosus, 795–891. ea. *$3. Herder.
These volumes “include a period of thirty-three years and six pontificates,—Popes in those days very seldom even approached the ‘annos Petri.’ This was the time of the ‘false decretals,’ and Mr. Mann is at great pains to show that the Popes with whom he is concerned did not use the evidence which these forgeries offered to support their claims.”—Spec.
“He has gone over his sources with painstaking care, and has thrown an extensive mass of historical erudition into an easy and well-ordered narrative. If there is anything in this volume against which one might feel inclined to utter an adverse criticism, it is the polemical note which strikes us as over-assertive in Father Mann’s pages.”
| + + − | Cath. World. 84: 413. D. ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“As Mr. Mann has given us the facts, we need not be in any way prejudiced by his deductions. But here we think the value of the work before us ceases. It will be known as a handy and compendious book of reference (it would be still more handy if the index were not so inadequate), and though we cannot deny that the author has, to some extent, read himself into the atmosphere of the early middle ages, he gives us little that is new or original in the encyclopaedic knowledge which he has so diligently culled from well-known sources. To literary style he disclaims all pretension, but by the want of it his volumes miss the charm which might otherwise surround his subject.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 2. Ja. 4, ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.) | |
| Spec. 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Though we differ from Mr. Mann on various points, we may sincerely congratulate him on bringing this learned work to a successful conclusion.”
| + + − | Spec. 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 3.) |
[Manners and social usages]: revised and corrected. $1.25. Harper.
A complete revision of a standard work which offers suggestions for proper conduct in all the ordinary walks and emergencies of life. It is based on broad principles of good taste and consideration for others, and on the social conditions of our country.
“We know of no other book that so amply meets the need.”
| + | Ind. 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 170w. |
“The present volume is excellent of its sort, well-written, clear, tactful. It tells the social aspirant all he needs to know.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 640w. |
Mannix, Mary Ella. Patron saints for Catholic youth. 60c. Benziger.
v. 3. Includes St. Francis Xavier, St. Patrick, St. Louis, St. Charles, St. Catharine, St. Elizabeth, St. Margaret and St. Claire.
Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield). Our little Dutch cousin. †60c. Page.
6–18353.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The visit of a little New York boy to his cousin in Holland is the pretext for much interesting information that an American child would most enjoy.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 530. Ja. ’07. 40w. |
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.). [Automobilist abroad]; with il. and decorations by Blanche McManus. *$3. Page.
7–21289.
“Mr. Miltoun ... might have called his book ‘The automobilist’s hotel abroad,’ for in his running commentary on the roads and routes of Europe he lays special emphasis upon the methods of catering to motorists, and he has no hesitancy in mentioning by name the good and inferior inns one may meet in different towns.... The European motorist will find considerable practical information in the closing chapters of the book. One gives a short account of the leading European races and winners; another tells how to join the touring club of France, and another gives a comprehensive digest of the automobile regulations, custom duties, and methods of securing drivers’ licenses and registrations in different countries.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Miltoun’s enthusiasm for the motor-car, however, does not overbalance the practical and practicable problems of touring abroad. Every point of such a tour ... is adequately and interestingly recounted by the author of this book.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | Dial. 43: 211. O. 1, ’07. 730w. |
“His book has the distinction of being one of the first satisfactory volumes of travel written by an automobilist.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 308. O. 3, ’07. 770w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 340w. |
“While not exactly an automobilist’s vade mecum, it contains all the essential elements of a motor guide through Europe, presented through the medium of a personal and very practical experience.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 1020w. |
Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.). [Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country]; il. by Blanche McManus. $3. Page.
6–29521.
Leisurely wanderings thru the Loire country have made possible in this sketch more of atmosphere and historic setting than conventional rambles usually permit. It is Touraine’s feudal and Renaissance châteaux that chiefly occupy the author. Blois, with its counts who rivalled in power and wealth the churchmen of Tours and the dukes of Brittany, Cambord with its master-builders’ massive art, Amboise, the rival of the capital in cradling the thought and action of fifteenth and sixteenth century monarchs, are described, with many another château, in the light of their monumental glory. The volume is handsomely illustrated.
“It is a pity that Mr. Miltoun should continue to present his material in so disorderly a form. His arrangement lacks both method and sequence, and his style has a qualified and uncertain ring that is very annoying.”
| + − | Dial. 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 210w. |
“Old Touraine ... is here vividly portrayed with brush and pen.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 914. D. 15. ’06. 120w. |
“Thus we have in this book, a series of personal impressions unrolled like a panorama, the course of which is stayed from time to time, while author and artist bring up something from the past which may pleasurably instruct without a too heavy laying on of archæology, history or architectural technique.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 769. N. 24, ’06. 450w. |
“Both in pictures and text much of interest and value is furnished.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1. ’06. 160w. |
“This is a pretty and attractive but rather confusing book. Though very pleasant reading, the book as a whole, rather lacks proportion, repetition is not absent, and the wanderings become a little bewildering.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 641. N. 2, ’07. 380w. |
Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.). [Rambles on the Riviera]: being some account of journeys made en automobile and things seen in the fair land of Provence; il. by Blanche McManus. $2.50. Page.
6–29989.
Not a book of historical or archaeological importance, not a conventional book of travel or a “glorified guide book,” but a record of personal observations on the picturesque, romantic and topographical aspects of the French Riviera proper.
Reviewed by William Rice.
| Dial. 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 140w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 572. S. 15, ’06. 580w. |
Mantle, Beatrice. Gret: the story of a pagan. †$1.50. Century.
7–29091.
An Oregon lumber camp furnishes the setting of this story whose young heroine is more the daughter of the camp than of her selfish father who spends his wealth in the cities and returns home now and then to nag and to criticise the unrestrained manner in which his wife is bringing Gret up. The wild free life of the camp, Gret’s unthinking joy in its content suffer never an interruption until love comes when she is changed into a thoughtful woman.
“A sterling book unmarred by convention.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 270. N. ’07. 580w. |
“With so much of the smart and the tailormade in our fiction, it is a pleasure to come now and then upon a novel which holds one such human breathing creature as Gret.”
| + | Nation. 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 590w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“But vivid as Gret’s personality is made and absorbing as is the story of her triumphs, there is never a moment when either gets out of the realm of romance into commonplace reality.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 300w. |
“Altogether the story has a refreshing novelty, and is well worth reading.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 180w. |
* Marble, Annie Russell. Heralds of American literature: a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
The aim of this book is to recount in detailed study, and largely from original sources, the lives and services of a group of typical writers during the pioneer days of national growth, who revealed the standards and aspirations of their time, and who announced the dawn of a national literature, although their own products were often immature and crude. The group includes Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Philip Freneau, John Trumbull, a group of Hartford wits, Joseph Dennie, William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown.
Marchmont, Arthur Williams. [By wit of woman.] †$1.50. Stokes.
6–16736.
“Given the ingredients of the girl, the prince, the kingdom-in-the-mountains, garnished with palaces, gold-laced officials, and highly spiced with an unprincipled lady spy, one can stir together a romantic pudding that is sure to appeal to the average appetite.... The author ... has sought to do nothing more than to turn out precisely such a readable yarn.”—N. Y. Times.
“A novel devoid of evidence of artistic ambition.”
| − | Ath. 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 150w. |
“Obviously one need claim nothing strikingly new for the book.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 250w. |
Marchmont, Arthur Williams. In the cause of freedom; with a front. in colors by Archie Gunn. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–16375.
“A travelling Englishman comes upon a Polish maiden, in the company of a notorious conspirator, both pursued by the police, in a village of Russian Poland. The conspirator is dispatched early in the game, and the maiden is left on the Englishman’s hands. Being highspirited and impressionable, the Englishman is nothing loth to accept the charge, and the pair lead the police a merry chase all the way to Warsaw, where the action culminates in street riots and other forms of excitement.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| Dial. 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 110w. |
“The pages fairly sizzle with excitement from beginning to end.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w. |
“If our credulity had not been strengthened by much similar strong food, it would be overtaxed to learn of the succession of hairbreadth escapes and gallant rescues credited to Robert Anstruther, the hero. But, if we must read these romances, it is less fatiguing to believe than to question.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 90w. |
Marden, Orison Swett. Optimistic life; or, In the cheering-up business. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–27001.
Thirty-eight chapters of optimistic wisdom which constitute what might be termed the “scriptures of the toilers.” The keynote is the higher success, and Mr. Marden points out how and when it may be discovered in all phases of business. He discusses such subjects as business integrity, the need of proper vocations, leaving one’s troubles at the office, the difference between work and drudgery, the cost of an explosive temper, and the habit of not feeling well.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 180w. |
* Marden, Philip Sanford. [Greece and the Aegean islands.] **$3. Houghton.
7–36985.
A book of travel and description which will serve as a guide to many who have the Grecian archipelago in view and as a book of reminiscence to all who have taken the journey. Entering Greece by “the front door of the kingdom”—by way of the Piræus—the tour includes Athens, Delphi, Mycenæ, Nauplia, Epidaurus, Olympia, and among the islands, Delos, Samos, Cos, Cnidos, Rhodes, and others. The book is handsomely illustrated.
Markham, Sir Clements Robert. [Richard III, his life and character reviewed in the light of recent research]; with a portrait and a map. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–10996.
In which the character of Richard III is rehabilitated, and this last of the Plantagenets is made to appear as “a good son, a devoted husband, and a loving father;” in which it is affirmed “that he cherished his relatives, was a kind and trusty friend, and an honorable and magnanimous foe.” (N. Y. Times.) The defense goes to prove that the two sons of Edward IV. did not die in the reign of Richard III. but survived until after the accession of Henry VII.
“He seems to imagine that to repeat a statement over and over again makes it true, and that citations from earlier writers take the place of original documents.”
| − | Acad. 72: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 1220w. |
“The reasoning that Sir Clements Markham uses is very ingenious but hardly convincing, and he does not improve his case by attempting in his closing chapter to show that Mr. Gairdner is inconsistent in his portrayal of Richard.” N. M. Trenholme.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 134. O. ’07. 870w. |
“His book is ingenious, bright and readable; he marshals his arguments cunningly, and he scores some good points. But it is not too much to say that he approaches the whole subject in the spirit of an advocate, and consequently his essay can hardly be considered a serious addition to historical literature.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 220. F. 23. 750w. |
“Had Sir Clements been content to show that the allegations of Tudor historians were in some matters unfounded, we might have been more ready to accept a verdict of not proven on the serious charges; more than this he has not after all been able at the best to establish.” C. L. Kingsford.
| − + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 579. Jl. ’07. 1190w. |
“Shakespeare students as well as those interested in English history cannot afford to neglect the volume. It is based upon critical research, and makes out a strong case against Henry.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 380w. |
“He has shown us how very uncertain any verdict must be, and he has done good service in sweeping away many of the myths with which Tudor prejudice and falsehood have obscured the reign of Richard III.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1570w. |
“If he could have imposed upon himself something of the cynical temper and cool judgment with which Horace Walpole, first of Richard’s defenders, wrote his ‘Historic doubts,’ his book would have been doubled in value to the general reader.” Florence Finch Kelley.
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 226. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 350. O. 19, ’07. 3900w. |
“Sometimes the chain of argument is really pitiable. That most fallacious method of writing history is adopted, that of treating official versions and transparent pretexts as actual facts.”
| − − | Sat. R. 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 840w. |
“Though we judge him to have failed in his main contention, the author has painted a vivid picture of the epoch between the battles of Northampton and Bosworth; he has bestowed the skill of a trained geographer in elucidating the topography of Towton, and Wakefield, and Barnet; and he was swept into limbo a mass of crude absurdity.”
| − + | Spec. 97: 175. F. 2, ’07. 1720w. |
Marks, Edward C. R. Mechanical engineering materials: their properties and treatment in construction. 60c. Van Nostrand.
“A very useful little volume of information on methods of manufacture, properties and tests of steel, iron, copper and the various copper, manganese, tin and aluminum alloys used, for the most part, in machinery.”—Engin. N.
“The one criticism of this book is that the author has selected a too pretentious title.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 60w. |
* Marks, Mrs. Mary A. M. England and America. 1763–1783. 2v. *$6. Appleton.
7–34222.
Something of the spirited attitude which Mrs. Marks assumes toward her work is summed up in the statement that her book is the Tory reaction against the monopoly of office by the Whigs and the consequences of that reaction, the loss of American colonies and an addition of £129,000,000 to the national debt. “The years covered by this history are those in which the final effect of the causes of the American movement toward independence are studied, as well as the conduct of England brought to face the new situation. A characteristic of the book, its determining characteristic, is that it keeps to the point of view of the time and the point of view of the English.” (N. Y. Times.)
“To students of history this book should be invaluable; it puts things in a clear, simple light, and is the work of one who has made careful research into the records of the period.”
| + | Acad. 73: 675. Jl. 13, ’07. 420w. |
“A spirited piece of work, to which much conscientious search has been devoted and which displays sobriety of judgment in dealing with the motives of individuals placed in desperate circumstances. Though Miss Marks as a rule writes clearly, if rather colloquially, she is guilty of an obscure allusion or two.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 209. Ag. 24. 680w. |
“She has produced a book which is very readable and interesting in spite of obvious faults. The style, which is equally free from the dignity which was formerly and the dullness which is now thought appropriate to history, is too often careless and even slipshod. The arrangement is not happy. There is a disregard of proportion and not seldom a superfluity of unimportant detail. It is the most serious defect of the book that the author writes throughout as a partisan.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 265. S. 6, ’07. 1800w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 333. My. ’07. 240w. |
“It is apparent that this work violates the most fundamental requirements of modern scholarship. Nor is it in minor points more satisfactory. Gross blunders, glaring inconsistencies and ill-considered conclusions abound. While the narrative is lively, its style is more undignified than that usually countenanced by the Muse of history.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 1000w. |
“Thoroughness, fullness, and fairness are the distinctive characteristics [of the book] which into the bargain is written with a keen sense of the dramatic value of the great events of twenty years whose history she narrates.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 350w. |
“Miss Marks has studied the period thoroughly, and her work can hardly fail to take a permanent place among the authorities on the subject.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 330w. |
Marriott, John A. R. Life and times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland. *$2.25. Putnam.
7–25683.
“Mr. Marriott has not only written a life of the young statesman whose career and character inspired one of Matthew Arnold’s most brilliant essays, but he has also given us a masterly treatise upon one of the most absorbingly interesting periods of English history,” (N. Y. Times) viz., “the times of Laud and of Strafford, of vexed issues in church and state, of the petition of rights and the grand remonstrance.... Among the most charming of his chapters are those describing Falkland’s existence before the revolution, in his well-loved home at Great Tew.” (Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Marriott has done a real service in conveying to us in a volume of absorbing human interest so much of the vital charm and personality of the man. He has managed in masterly fashion to disentangle the real points at issue. He has given us an estimate of Falkland’s character that bears the impress of truth.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 383. Ap. 20, ’07. 1470w. |
“In the industrious and sympathetic analysis of Falkland himself, of his character and the part he played, Mr. Marriott’s work appears to us to suffer from the fact that he sets out with a strong preconception, a preconception founded, no doubt, upon close and loving study before he began his book.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 61. Jl. 20. 2060w. |
“This is a delightful book, on a delightful subject. Mr. Marriott is a historian of the new school in so far as he is a student and scholar; but, unlike many of his contemporaries, not so far as to be a scientific pedant. He never forgets the importance of the personal element, and is a painter no less than a critic.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 153. My. 17, 07. 2300w. |
“The facts are well presented, the characters clearly drawn, but the transmuting skill is not present that would make literature of one of the richest themes in English history.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 1100w. |
“May well be deemed a representative type of the highest literary scholarship of our time.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 500w. |
“There is thus ample reason for the biography now written by Mr. J. A. R. Marriott. It is not a book of inspiring interest.” H. Addington Bruce.
| + | Outlook. 87: 783. D. 7, ’07. 3250w. |
“We have no fault to find with Mr. Marriott’s graceful biography of one of the most interesting figures in a fascinating age except the air of confessorship and greatness eclipsed by a conspiracy of detraction which he throws around the ‘apostle of moderation and martyr of the via media.’”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 751. Je. 15, ’07. 1290w. |
“In pleading the claims of Falkland to consistency and foresight he has produced a sober and well-balanced study of those times, so sorely out of joint, against which his hero was doomed to struggle in vain.”
| + | Spec. 99: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 2550w. |
Marsh, Harriet B. Point of view in modern education. 60c. Public school.
“Consists of a collection of lectures delivered before Mothers clubs. It is an attempt to state in simple concrete terms the changes in ideas in education brought about by fundamental, philosophical, scientific, social and religious thought.”—Bookm.
“Despite the naïve manner in which most complex problems of science, of ethics, or of social, practical or economic relationships are settled, the lectures are at least suggestive and give a point of view of education differing from the formal and mechanical one.”
| + − | Bookm. 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w. |
“There is much sound advice and instruction in these pages, which will repay the study of a teacher.”
| + − | Cath. World. 84: 823. Mr. ’07. 360w. |
Marsh, Richard. Who killed Lady Poynder? †$1.50. Appleton.
7–26342.
“‘Who killed Lady Poynder?’ is a story of nearly 130,000 words, constructed on the principle which has produced so many rattling stories in the past, that of supplying really damning evidence against every person, male or female, who has any connection with the plot at all. Lady Poynder was shot in her own house in London. The author’s ingenuity is expended in showing how many persons had or might have had the opportunity and motive for the murder.”—Nation.
“Granting one tremendous coincidence—a coincidence of coincidences, in fact—the reasoning is plausible and the tale entertaining enough. But in respect to method it is a horrible example of the effect of trying to put a novel of mystery and a novel of manners between the same covers.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 280w. |
“A promising situation, surely, for a vigorous minded novelist, and Mr. Richard Marsh is quite equal to it in the remainder of the book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 633. O. 19, ’07. 140w. |
Marshall, H. E. Island story: a child’s history of England; with col. pictures by A. S. Forrest. *$2.50. Stokes.
7–35150.
A child’s history of England to be placed not at the lesson-book end of the shelf, but with “Robinson Crusoe” and the like,—so the preface suggests.
“The especial value of this book is that the stories include legendary as well as historical events. Well written, though with no particular quality of style; beautifully made as to paper and print, but illustrated by poor colored pictures.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 82. Mr. ’07. |
“It is not a history, if by that we mean facts and dates alone, but if we want motives as well, and the personality of the chief actors, then this thick ornamental book accomplishes its aim admirably.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w. | |
| R. of Rs. 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w. |
“It is eminently readable, a success, we would say, in what looks much easier than it is, telling a story in simple words.”
| + | Spec. 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 80w. |
* Marshall, Herbert Menzies, and Marshall, Hester. [Cathedral cities of France.] *$3.50. Dodd.
7–32829.
A finely illustrated book of French cathedral cities which serves to enlighten the stay-at-home tourist and to refresh the memory of one who has covered the ground.
“Is one of the best of its class. [The authors’] very lack of familiarity with the country might make their original notes of travel the more valuable, as they are evidently intelligent as well as artistic observers.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 580w. |
“The author seems oppressed by the weight of her authorities.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 426. D. 1, ’07. 140w. |
“Her knowledge of architecture is singularly accurate and discriminating.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w. |
“The writing is simple and dignified; the pictures are in some cases clear and attractive, but in others show that blotchy, messy surface which is still the bane of most color printing.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 80w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The pictures have a charm of their own, even to those who are familiar with the most famous of the buildings with which they deal in so original and unconventional a way.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 330w. |
“The authors of this book have been more successful than many of their predecessors. They have lingered in the localities and have fortified their observation, by some study of what others have written. Unfortunately, though they always indicate quotations, they by no means always mention whence they came. We regret that Mr. Marshall’s great skill as a draughtsman is often neutralized by the failure of the medium he has chosen to convey what he was clever enough to perceive.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 230w. |
Marshall, John. Constitutional decisions; ed. by Joseph P. Cotton, jr. 2 v. ea. *$5. Putnam.
5–39509.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A compilation of the constitutional decisions of Marshall is well worth the making. It seems captious to mention two typographical errors—in volume one, page 255, where, ‘1858’ is printed for ‘1758,’ and in volume two, page 1, where ‘1875’ appears instead of ‘1775.’” Frederick C. Hicks.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 475. N. ’06. 990w. |
Marston, Edward. Fishing for pleasure and catching it, and two chapters on angling in North Wales, by R. B. Marston. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–34385.
“The book is quite varied in its contents, turning aside from the author’s own angling experiences to extracts from the nature books of William J. Long, paraphrases of portions of ‘The song of Hiawatha,’ and other not very intimately related subjects.”—Nation.
| Dial. 40: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 100w. | ||
| + | Nation. 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 120w. |
“Readers who know how pleasantly Mr. E. Marston can write need not have his new volume any further recommended.”
| + | Spec. 96: 546. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w. |
Marti, Karl. Religion of the Old Testament: its place among the religions of the nearer East. (Crown theological lib., no. 18.) *$1.25. Putnam.
7–37540.
“A sketch giving a bird’s-eye view of the development of Israel’s religion in its relation to other religions of western Asia. The point of view is that of the historical school of which Marti is a leading representative.”—Bib. World.
“An interesting and suggestive sketch.”
| + | Bib. World. 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w. |
“The novice will scarcely appreciate the skill with which Professor Marti has selected salient facts and the features which need to be kept prominent, and avoided confusing the learner by a mass of details.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 330w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w. |
“It is a pity that so good a book should be published without an index.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 140w. |
“It is a valuable contribution to a great theme by one who has devoted his life to its study. Not only the general reader, for whom it is especially intended, but the theologian will learn not a little from its pages.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 127. Jl. 27, ’07. 1390w. |
Martin, Benjamin E., and Martin, Charlotte M. [Stones of Paris in history and letters.] $2. Scribner.
6–35587.
A new edition of a book which traces the history and letters of Paris thru its structures. There are numerous illustrations from photographs.
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 251. Mr. 2. 530w. |
“An entirely admirable book.” Harriet Waters Preston.
| + | Atlan. 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 710w. |
“The streets of Paris have also been carefully scanned and a most entertaining story has been created out of the assembled material and has been skillfully synthesized.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 110w. |
“In all essential respects the work holds its own.”
| + | Nation. 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 90w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 682. N. 17, ’06. 20w. |
“We have a good deal more of the real social and political history of the French capital than is found in many a more pretentious historical work.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w. |
“The charm of these records is unquestionable, and for this reason, as we have said before, the faults in their construction may be overlooked.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 201. Ag. 10, ’07. 1390w. |
Martin, George Madden. Abbie Ann. †$1.50. Century.
7–29096.
Abby Ann, Emmy Lou’s successor, is a little Coal City inhabitant, who with only a father’s care has not made much headway towards the graces. She is a spirited little miss who is finally sent away to school, to the school that had once claimed her mother as a pupil. Children will take keen delight in the part Abbie Ann plays in bringing about a reconciliation between her father and two very austere aunts.
“The story is told with much of the sympathy and humor that characterizes ‘Emmy Lou’ by the same author, but the incidents of this book will appeal more to a child than those of its charming predecessor.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 209. N. ’07. ✠ |
“‘Abbie Ann’ skips into our affections as gaily as she skipt along the railroad station at the opening of another bright story by the author of ‘Emmy Lou.’”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 260w. |
“The little girl is sure to be warmly welcomed by other little girls outside the story books.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 60w. |
“Not only shows that she understands her art thoroughly, but, like Mrs. Burnett, she lets the facts move the reader, and abjures adjectives.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w. |
Martin, Mrs. Helen Reimensnyder. Betrothal of Elypholate, and other tales of the Pennsylvania Dutch. †$1.50 Century.
7–30437.
The sturdy qualities of Mennonite men and maidens are revealed in their life and lovemaking with which these stories deal.
“Decidedly more interesting than the longer stories by the same author.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 202. N. ’07. ✠ | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The contrasts that she depicts by bringing in now and then an outsider from the city, or a son who has gone into the outside world and won success and culture, are almost too vivid to be artistic.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 130w. |
“The tales are charmingly written and disclose a phase of unusually interesting life.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 120w. |
Martin, Helen R. (Mrs. Frederic C. Martin). His courtship; il. by Alice Barber Stephens. †$1.50. McClure.
7–15920.
A professor of psychology rusticating among the Pennsylvania Dutch during his vacation, becomes interested in a much persecuted slave of the kitchen. That the girl proves to be the daughter of cultured parents and had been kidnapped in infancy, that during her bondage she had found solace and books in a haunted room suggest the lines along which the professor may make some impersonal observations for the cause of psychology but more especially for his own personal cause of happiness.
“The author is certainly more successful when she confines herself to Dutch characters, and has in this case spoiled an excellent short story by expanding it into the more ambitious novel.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 203. N. ’07. |
“The book is a curious mingling of keen-eyed observation, great naturalness in narrative and dialogue, and exasperating artificiality of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 80. S. ’07. 440w. |
“A story marked by unusual powers of penetrating observation.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 220w. |
“This is a short story which made up of its mind to grow into a novel, and got spoiled in the process.”
| − | Nation. 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 180w. |
“The author’s management of the dialect is commendable, for she does not overdo the matter and put in dialect for its own sake.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w. |
“As long as she portrays the Mennonites, or the ordinary Dutch, she has a field unique and worthy of her talents, but in introducing outsiders from the gay world she strikes as ordinary a note as did the fascinating Jubilee singers of long ago when they tried to sing our concert pieces.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 100w. |
Martin, Louis Adolphe. Text-book of mechanics. *$1.25. Wiley.
6–17261.
v. 1. Statics. “This is the first part of a text-book designed for an introductory course to applied mechanics, for use in colleges and technical schools. The author has arranged the book so that statics only is covered in this volume.”—Engin. N.
v. 2. Kinematics and kinetics. “Chapters are included on the following subjects: Kinematics—Rectilinear motion of a particle; curvilinear motion of a particle; motion of a rigid body; Kinetics—Kinetics of a particle and of the mass-center of a rigid body; application of the equations of motion for translation and for rotation; work and energy; impact.” (Technical Literature.)
“The book is a very good one for class work in technical schools.” Amasa Trowbridge.
| + − | Engin. N. 56: 50. Jl. 12, ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The fundamental principles of elementary mechanics are presented in simple manner and in logical order in this volume.”
| + | Engin. N. 58: 659. D. 12, ’07, 60w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| Technical Literature. 2: 334. O. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Martin, Martha Evans. Friendly stars. **$1.25. Harper.
7–14831.
A personal friendship with the stars which the author shares with her readers. It is an untechnical study and points out to the naked eye the most interesting facts about the stars. Their rising and setting, their number, colors, distances, movements and distinguishing characteristics are made clear to the observer who has had no preparatory instruction.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 125. My. ’07. S. |
“The delicate, yet sure and accurate touch of the author, and her genuine love for the sky, combine to charm the reader, and to make him wish to have the book within reach, in case he too is a lover of the heavens.”
| + | Dial. 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w. |
“The graceful introductory note of commendation from Doctor Jacoby leaves nothing more to be said as to the scientific accuracy of the author’s work.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 160w. |
“This volume will appeal to the beginner in astronomy and to the general reader quite as much as to the astronomer.” W. E. R.
| + | Nature. 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 180w. |
“[Told] in a plain simple way, quite free from the technical language which baffles the unscientific mind.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 254. Ap. 20. ’07. 620w. |
“A useful and even interesting study.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w. |
Martin, Percy Falcke. Mexico’s treasure-house (Guanajuato): an illustrated and descriptive account of the mines and their operations in 1906. $3. Cheltenham press.
6–40260.
“A full account, with many illustrations, of the mines of a region which has been pronounced more ‘thoroughly mineralized’ than any equal portion of the globe.... Perhaps the most suggestive parts of the volume are those which tell of the new methods, mostly devised by Americans, to draw fresh wealth from the old workings.”—Nation.
“The story of what has been done, and the discussions of present conditions in the Mexican labor market and in industry are the features that render the book valuable. These subjects are treated in an interesting manner, and so far as the reader can judge, with impartiality and accuracy.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 641. My. ’07. 500w. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 250w. |
“The description is technical and highly detailed.”
| + | Nation. 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 80w. |
Martin, Percy Falcke. Through five republics (of South America); a critical description of Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela in 1905; il. *$5. Dodd.
6–18334.
The subtitle furnishes the scope of this book of which the author says: “First, I believe it is timely, in view of the enormous advances made by the South American republics of late years, and the amount of British capital invested therein. Secondly, I have in my journalistic capacity been enabled to gather much information of value, which I have found no opportunity for utilising in the newspapers I have represented, but which, accompanied by illustrations and somewhat fuller descriptions, should be acceptable as a critical account of the countries visited.”
“The book contains a great deal of information—though it lacks arrangement.”
| + − | Acad. 69: 1366. D. 30. ’05. 270w. |
“A book which will be found of some value by commercial men and possibly by politicians. In matters apart from trade and figures Mr. Martin is hardly a safe guide. There are minor inaccuracies scattered throughout the volume.”
| + − | Ath. 1905, 2: 760. D. 2. 1300w. |
“The industry with which Mr. Martin has collected his figures and endless minutiae is commendable in spite of the rather deadening effect when they are all massed and offered you in lieu of entertainment.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w. |
“Perhaps no book ever was written the illustrations to which more completely supplemented the shortcomings of the letter-press.” George R. Bishop.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 2580w. |
“If only Mr. Martin had ‘boiled down’ these four hundred and sixty-five closely printed pages, and set forth plainly his conclusions, it would have been better. As it is, we do not quite know what he means.”
| + − | Spec. 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 240w. |
Martin, Sir Theodore. Monographs: Garrick, Macready, Rachel and Baron Stockmar. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–41036.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 46. F. ’07. |
“In less than a hundred pages this accomplished man of letters and wise commentator on things dramatic has produced a model brief biography [of Garrick].” S. M. Francis.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 490. O. 19, ’07. 110w. |
“Each is interesting, the paper on Stockmar having many touches of intimacy.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w. |
Martin, William A. P. [Awakening of China], il. from photographs. (Geographical lib.) **$3.80. Doubleday.
7–19477.
Written as a result of close-range study this work represents China as “the theater of the most important events now taking place in the world.” It is an optimistic study, and the author “aims to explain those subterranean forces which seem to be raising the China of to-day from the bosom of the deep. Political agitation, whether periodic like the tides or unforeseen like the hurricane, is in general superficial and temporary, and the present reform movement in China, the author believes, has its root in forces more deep seated than such sporadic phenomena.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Optimistic in tone, philosophic in temper.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 196. N. ’07. | |
| Ath. 1907, 2: 439. O. 12. 700w. | ||
| + | Lit. D. 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 690w. |
“‘Awakening of China’ maintains Dr. Martin’s reputation as a leading authority on Chinese affairs, and though some allowance must be made for the optimism of a writer whose deep sympathy and interest have induced him to spend the evening of his days among the people where his life work has been done, it is a valuable and interesting contribution to our knowledge.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1200w. | |
| Nation. 85: 60. Jl. ’07. 580w. |
“Not many authors are so well qualified as Dr. Martin to write a great book on the movement now taking place in China.” K. K. Kawakami.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 440. Jl. 13. ’07. 1960w. |
“It is safe to say that no volume yet issued in this valuable series is of such immediate importance as Dr. Martin’s work. But it is rounded out by an index so hopelessly inadequate as to be a burden rather than a help to the student who would use the work for reference purposes.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 266. O. 5, ’07. 1900w. |
“A well informed work, and describes, in a readable, though somewhat succinct manner, the process of transformation now going on in China.” G: Louis Beer.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 746. S. ’07. 30w. |
“Dr. Martin’s book is scarcely equal to the expectations which the reader naturally forms from its title and its general appearance.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 743. N. 16, ’07. 1290w. |
Marx, Karl. Capital: a critique of political economy. $2. Kerr.
6–43940.
v. 2. This second volume devoted to the circulation of capital is edited by Frederick Engels and is translated from the second German edition by Ernest Untermann. Pt. 1, deals with The metamorphoses of capital and their cycles, pt. 2, with The turn-over of capital, and pt. 3, The reproduction and circulation of the aggregate social capital.
Reviewed by Ernest Untermann.
| + | Arena. 38: 457. O. ’07. 3480w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“This edition is well made, and easy reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| Outlook. 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
Marx, Karl. [Revolution and counter-revolution; or, Germany in 1848.] 50c. Kerr.
Articles collected and brought forward from the years 1851–1852. They form an “invaluable pendant to Marx’s work on the coup d’état of Napoleon III.,” and give readers some idea of the conditions under which Marx was working and under which he prepared the papers as well as his “Achtzehnte brumaire” and “Zur kritik der politischen und oeconomie.”
Marx, W. J. [For the admiral.] †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–28959.
A story for young people which turns back to France in the 16th century when Catholics and Huguenots were engaged in hostilities. The hero is a youth who enters upon the perilous undertaking of carrying an important packet to the Huguenot leader, Admiral de Coligny, and later joins him in a campaign filled with daring adventure.
“It is by much the best book of its kind sent us for review this season, and stands head and shoulders above its rivals.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 140w. |
Marzials, Sir Frank Thomas. Moliere. $1. Macmillan.
Illustrated with reproductions of portraits and title-pages this little volume contains “a bibliographical criticism of the man of letters.” (N. Y. Times.) “The literary criticism is particularly good. The great dramatist’s genius has never been better appreciated.” (Spec.)
“It is a seemly little book.” Brander Matthews.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 792. D. 1, ’06. 990w. |
“Sir F. T. Marzials writes with unflagging spirit, and shows a sane and sober judgment.”
| + | Spec. 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 250w. |
Masefield, John, ed. Sailor’s garland. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–12996.
An anthology of sea poems. Miscellaneous poems, poems based upon historical fact, poems of mermaids and sea spirits, of pirates and smugglers and love poems are found here. The last thirty pages are devoted to a collection of sea chanties with a goodly bit of interesting folk-lore.
“The exercise of a little judgment might have made it so much better.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 490w. |
“The selection is good and wise, one we should like to see in the forecastle, as well as in the saloon of every British ship afloat.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 660w. | |
| Ind. 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 30w. | ||
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1170w. |
“Containing a surprising amount of good seaverse.”
| + | Nation. 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 40w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 1170w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.) | |
| + − | Spec. 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 210w. |
* Mason, Alfred E. W. [Broken road.] †$1.50. Scribner.
7–37552.
An Indian prince educated at Eton and Oxford and a young Englishman continuing the work of opening the great road thru Chiltistan begun by his father, are the principal figures in this story which deals with the English rule over India.
“It is a vigorous story, and a strong story—an earnest story also. The lights and shades are cleverly put in, and the narrative in Mr. Mason’s hands becomes a veritable fragment of Doom.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 682. N. 30. 270w. |
“The style suffers from a touch of the overemphatic, a slight suggestion of parade in its implication of significances, which the story does not go deep enough to warrant. But in spite of these shortcomings, the author succeeds in conveying to us his own regretful sense of life’s contrasts, ironies, and frustrations.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 450w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“His new book will rank with his ‘The four feathers’ as a capital piece of clear, direct, romantic narrative—intensely exciting, yet not unduly sensational.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w. |
Mason, Alfred E. W. [Running water.] †$1.50. Century.
7–7196.
Whatever of deep sentiment, of resolution and also of villainy there is in the tale is magnetically associated with the ice fields of the Alps above Chamonix. There is an unrelated company of people upon the stage of the little drama, chief among whom is a brave-hearted girl who took her lesson of life from the Alpine guides—“If you have knowledge that can save a life—well you have got to use it, that’s the law.” Tired of her mother’s vain life, she hunts up her father, whom she has never seen, and tries to operate the law she had learned by saving a soul from the net which her dissolute father had drawn about it. The tale is one of her failures and successes.
“Here it would seem that all the elements that go to make a novelist of the highest rank were present, and yet the novel itself belongs to the hopeless second grade of literature.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 205. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w. |
“The characters are more than ordinarily well-drawn, but the situations are painful, and, on the whole, the book leaves an unpleasant impression.”
| − + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 110. Ap. ’07. |
“It is a sheer melodrama on one side, but so treated as to appear a human document.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 270w. |
“A thoroughly readable story.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
| + | Bookm. 25: 300. My. ’07. 750w. |
“Elements of human and natural interest combine to make a tale of singular fascination, over which the mountain glamour is cast with such compelling effect that it acts as a shaping influence upon the lives of all the persons chiefly concerned.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 460w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 350w. |
“The book ends tamely, and leaves an impression of casual workmanship.”
| − | Lond. Times. 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 270w. |
“The story is told with great fluency—too much, in fact. Throughout it resembles the last act of those congenitally three-act plays to which a fourth is added, to lengthen the entertainment till supper-time.”
| − | Nation. 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 390w. |
“It is a pretty and pleasing tale notwithstanding the numerous extremely repulsive people who move through its pages.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 500w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 160w. |
“While he always interests his reader’s mind, does not always convince him as to the plausibility of the incidents.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w. |
“The author is really more concerned with telling his story than with portraying character and interpreting experience, but the very story he selects to tell proves how wide-spread, for the moment, is the grip of the ideal upon the mind of the novelist.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 185. My. ’07. 180w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 764. Je. ’07. 40w. | ||
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 369. Mr. 23, ’07. 810w. |
“Happily named, but unequal, romance.”
| − + | Spec. 98: 377. Mr. 9, ’07. 1320w. |
Mason, Daniel Gregory. [Romantic composers.] **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–43759.
Following an introductory chapter on Romanticism in music, there are studies of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt. “In his two previous volumes Mr. Mason has already dealt with Beethoven and his forerunners, and with the development of composition from Grieg to Brahms; in his present volume he fills the gap, and traces the wandering paths which led from one to the other of these frontier lines.” (Lond. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S. |
“That Mr. Mason so singularly misapprehends the essential significance of modern music seems little short of lamentable, for it vitiates what would otherwise be an influential and important body of critical writing.” Lawrence Gilman.
| − + | Bookm. 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1460w. |
“To the study of the widely varying natures. Mr. Mason brings acute musical perception, a sure grasp of his thesis, and an intelligent sympathy which never weakens into partisanship.” Josiah Renick Smith.
| + | Dial. 42: 224. Ap. ’07. 270w. |
“This series of essays, tho they would be both servicable and satisfactory to the professional musician, are quite intelligible to the average reader, and will find their best public among concert-goers who wish to get the most out of their concerts.”
| + | Ind. 62: 497. F. 28, ’07. 330w. |
“His book is an excellent piece of work throughout; delicate and sensitive in criticism, clear and often felicitous in style, marked by wide knowledge and carefully considered judgment. Now and again his taste appears to us a little fastidious.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 650w. | |
| − + | Nation. 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 280w. |
“This book is written with more flexibility and interest of style than his earlier one on ‘Beethoven and his forerunners.’” Richard Aldrich.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 1030w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 70w. |
* Mason, Edith Huntington. Real Agatha. **$1. McClurg.
The will which leaves a man’s millions to his step-daughter contains a clause intended to thwart fortune-hunting husbands. The Honorable Agatha must surround herself by “not less than five nor more than six” young women of her own age each of whom is to be known as the Honorable Agatha. The caprice of the real Agatha moves her to assume the rôle of private secretary to her chaperon, leaving the field to the six Agathas and the puzzled suitors. Of course the real romance concerns the secretary and a young lord who in the face of convention woos her.
| Dial. 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w. |
Masse, Henri Jean L. J. Oxford. (Langham series of art monographs.) *$1. Scribner.
6–46316.
A handy pocket volume of information which will interest the traveler. The picture accompaniment does full justice to the historic university town.
“It is as unreadable as a guide-book, and more like one than anything else, yet we imagine it would be an inefficient guide. For those who love dessicated information it may have its place, but its place is not in a series of art monographs.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 185. F. 21, ’07. 70w. |
“That peculiar rhetoric which guide books almost infallibly possess does not taint the language here. Considering the shortness of the book ... its amount of information is amazing. It does not seem possible that one single art treasure can have been omitted.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 390w. |
“In many ways it would be vastly superior to the ordinary guide-book.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 46. Ja. 6, ’07. 90w. |
* Masson, Thomas Lansing. Bachelor’s baby, and some grown-ups. **$1.60. Moffat.
7–29740.
“Here are to be found short stories, dialogues, whimsical-serious essays, strings of modern apothegms, bits of verse, and what not.”—Nation.
| Ind. 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 40w. |
“To speak of the volume comprehensively is not easy, considering its hodge-podge make-up, nor are any of the component elements important enough in themselves to need particularization. Mr. Masson’s wit is facile, occasionally smart, often pungent, never very penetrating.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w. |
“There is always a touch of whimsicality in the treatment, whether the author is writing a treatise on the decadence of husbands or a pathetic short story. There is always also vivacity of style, a sense of humor, and much good-natured irony intertwined with warm human feeling.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 715. N. 9, ’07. 160w. |
Masson, Thomas L., comp. Humor of love: an anthology. **$2.50. Moffat.
6–45700.
A two-volume anthology; one, a selection of humorous writings on love in verse, the other, a similar treatment in prose.
“Two more delightful volumes could scarcely be conceived.”
| + + | Canadian M. 28: 399. F. ’07. 220w. |
“Is done from a full knowledge of the lighter erotic literature in English with an excellent ‘flair’ for the things that are at once graceful and amusing.”
| + | Nation. 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 50w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1110w. |
Masson, Thomas Lansing. Von Blumers; il. by Bayard Jones. **$1.50. Moffat.
6–41275.
The Von Blumers are a young suburban couple whose efforts to accommodate “their prejudices and their tempers to one another” result in numerous capitulations of serio-comic aspect. “Mr. Masson’s novel fairly bubbles with humor of the quiet kind, but none the less effective because of its homeliness and truth to nature.” (Lit. D.)
“The characters are well drawn and there is much innocent entertainment in this thoroughly wholesome book.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 26. Ja. 6, ’07. 230w. |
“Tom Masson is in his best vein of humor in this story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 873. D. 15, ’06. 130w. |
“A quietly humorous semi-story.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 40w. |
Master-man. †$1.50. Lane.
6–28224.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a book that will win its way quietly. There is about it a persuasive and unmistakably feminine touch.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 24: 588. F. ’07. 440w. |
“This is a story that will interest some people and disgust others.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 320w. |
Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney. In peril of change: essays written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.
6–6975.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
| Charities. 17: 463. D. 15, ’06. 770w. |
Masterman, Charles F. G., Hodgson, W. B. and others. To colonise England: a plea for a policy. *$1. Wessels.
The first portion of this volume consists of a series of sketches by Mr. Hodgson “graphically describing the loneliness of rural England; the waste of its fertile lands given up to rough pasture, wide hedges, and coppices carefully preserved for the sake of the game, while cottages fall in ruins, and small farms are swept out of existence.... The second section by Mr. Masterman ... is occupied with details of schemes which offer a remedy for the creeping paralysis of English rural life.” (Nation.) The third part of the volume consists of contributions on the land question from thirteen Liberal members of Parliament, and part four gives a summary of official testimony issued by the Board of agriculture.
“The second section by C. F. G. Masterman has a literary value that should give its author high rank among modern essayists. The third part ... is the least valuable and least interesting part of the book.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 262. S. 19, ’07. 1080w. |
“Worth reading but [it seems] to leave out of account not a few considerations which have to be reckoned with in attempting a solution of the question of the labourer and the land.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup: 463. O. 5, ’07. 340w. |
Matheson, George. Representative men of the New Testament. **$1.50. Armstrong.
5–26910.
The author has taken the representative men just as they are presented and has attempted “without inquiring whence or how they come, to find the special thought which each reveals.” He discusses John, Nathaniel, Peter, Nicodemus, Thomas, Philip, Matthew, Zaccheus, James, Barnabas, Mark, Cornelius, Timothy and Paul.
| Bib. World. 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w. |
“Well adapted for private reading.”
| + | Ind. 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 60w. |
* Matheson, George. Representative women of the Bible. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
7–33919.
A volume supplementary to the author’s three books on “Representative men of the Bible.” After completing ten of the studies the author died suddenly. The ten with the outline of the eleventh are: Eve the unfolded, Sarah the steadfast, Rebekah the far-seeing, Rachel the placid. Miriam the gifted, Deborah the drastic, Ruth the decided, Hannah the pious, Mary the guiding, Mary the thought-reading, and, in the appendix, Notes to the study of Mary Magdalene.
“The religious spirit, the poetic genius, and the literary skill of Dr. Matheson are indisputable. The excessive idealizing into which such qualities are prone to run appears in his portrait of Rebekah.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 130w. |
Mathew, Frank. Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.
5–35680.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Mr. Mathew exhibits a very strong feeling for the picturesque and a very ardent desire to be exact, complete and impartial.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 140w. |
“Mr. Walker’s pictures are admirably reproduced. but their coloring gives no true impression of Ireland’s tender greens and browns and grays.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 130w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 40w. |
Mathews, Frances Aymar. “Allee same.” †50c. Crowell.
7–22821.
A slum worker in New York takes a Chinese child away from its parents and the latter to retaliate steal the American’s baby. Seventeen years of separation lead to a dramatic reunion of parents and children.
Mathews, Frances Aymar. Undefiled. †$1.50. Harper.
6–29094.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Judith’s story is abundantly supplied with exciting incident: this is about all that may possibly be said in its favor, for it is both unreal in characterization and preposterous in invention.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − | Dial. 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 380w. |
“Seems to aim at the popular suffrage by means of what we might call the megaphonic method.”
| − | R. of Rs. 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 140w. |
Mathews, Shailer. Church and the changing order. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–18117.
Mr. Matthews believes that the church in its broad significance of institutional Christianity is facing a crisis, namely, the need that it define its attitude toward formative forces now at work. He looks to the church to correct these forces, to inspire them with its own ideals, to insure that the results shall bring about a better to-morrow. He discusses the church in its relation to scholarship, to the gospel of the risen Christ, to the gospel of brotherhood, to social discontent, to the social movement and to materialism.
“Broad minded, yet conservative, and highly readable.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 169. O. ’07. S. |
“He has diagnosed the disorders of the modern world with a skill and range rare indeed.”
| + + | Bib. World. 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 50w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 145. Ag. 15, ’07. 680w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 470w. |
“Perhaps the most important chapters in the book are those which deal with the church and social discontent and the church and the social movement. These chapters are deserving of serious consideration by clergy and laity alike.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 110w. |
Matthews, (James) Brander. American character. **75c. Crowell.
6–17850.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A beautifully written and beautifully printed essay.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 30w. | |
| + | Putnam’s. 1: 639. F. ’07. 130w. |
* Matthews, (James) Brander. [Inquiries and opinions.] **$1.25. Scribner.
7–29534.
“The inquiries, which range from ‘Invention and imagination’ to ‘The art of the stage manager,’ and the opinions, which are expressed upon such various subjects as Mark Twain and Maupassant, are the inquiries and opinions of a writer who is shrewd, clear-headed, well-informed, ‘au courant,’ a craftsman.”—Nation.
“They are comparatively devoid of temperament, of the discursive touch, of charm; they afford us no unexpected lights or sudden vistas, but they furnish us many interesting facts and just observations set forth with singular lucidity and coherence.”
| + | Nation. 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 100w. |
“His essays are models of that interior logic which follows the line of vital unfolding of a subject, and his style is lucid to a degree.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 520w. |
Matthews, Irma B. Under a circus tent. †75c. Jacobs.
7–29099.
Instruction and entertainment are furnished in the stories or life before captivity which the animals of the circus menagerie tell to a little boy brought up among them.
Mauclair, Camille. Antoine Watteau. *75c. Dutton.
W 7–64.
“M. Mauclair sets out with a double aim; to show that Watteau by his discovery of the decomposition of tones was ‘the inventor of impressionism and the link that connects Ruysdael and Claude Lorrain with Turner, Monticelli and Claude Monet;’ and ‘that in reality Watteau was no painter of gay and laughing scenes,’ but that underneath this decorative exterior lay a great soul that had ... been stricken by what has been called the “malady of the infinite.””—Acad.
“Brief but stimulating monograph. The illustrations to the volume are well chosen, but the printing leaves much to be desired, subtleties of modelling and daintiness of brushwork alike being lost in vague blurs.”
| + | Acad. 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 330w. |
“Excellent little book for the price.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 100. Ap. ’07. |
“This biographer, like many another admirer, seems to have fallen a little under the spell of a painter peculiarly liable to hypnotize those who approach him.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 671. Je. 1. 480w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 36. Ja. 19. ’07. 400w. |
Maud, Constance Elizabeth. Felicity in France. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 6–392.
“This book is really a guide-book in disguise, being concerned with the travels of two ladies through Brittany and Touraine, and the shorter voyage of one of them in Provence.” (Spec.) “Felicity, the younger of the natives of England, undertakes to ‘chaperon’ an admirable lady, Aunt Anne, who, in spite of her threescore years and the fact that she has a granddaughter of 8 years of age, has neither white hair, nor a lace cap, nor spectacles. Being slight and active, yet she is athletic. She is ‘a curious compound of an abnormally intelligent and active boy of 16, and an exceedingly dignified, stately, and somewhat sarcastic little lady of 60.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“The reader must turn for himself to these enchanting pages. If he does not feel the charm of Felicity’s progress through Mistral’s Provence, he is to be pitied.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 10. Jl. 7, ’06. 710w. |
“Not remarkable as to style but lively and sympathetic, and gives enchanting glimpses of French life.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 100. Ap. ’07. |
“It is a pity that in spite of all the literary gifts this volume indicates, the author should write in such a slovenly style as she does. We feel sure that these bright sympathetic, clearly seen glimpses of French life deserve a little more care from their author in this presentment.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 170w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 280w. |
“The book represents a personally conducted tour of much charm—rich in the revelation of pleasing characteristics.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 360w. |
“The narrative style is constantly pleasing, and there are many choice bits in the way of ancient legends and modern peasant studies.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 90w. |
“Miss Maud writes with a light touch eminently suited to her subject.”
| + | Spec. 97: 171. Ag. 4, ’06. 120w. |
Maugham, Reginald Charles Fulke. Portuguese East Africa; history, scenery, and great game of Manica and Sofala. *$4.50. Dutton.
7–10990.
“Mr. Maugham has collected into book form the knowledge and experiences gained during an official connexion with the country which has lasted for some twelve years.... The earlier chapters dealing with the history, scenery, flora and fauna are followed by others on the great game and on personal adventures in pursuit. These in turn are succeeded by what will be to many the most interesting portion of all, some sixty pages devoted to native customs, characteristics, and dialects.”—Lond. Times.
“Should be interesting to naturalists at home as well as to travellers in search of game.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 410w. |
“As Mr. Maugham has more than ordinary skill in narration and description, his book will interest the casual as well as the confirmed reader of records of travel.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 320w. |
“In the earlier part he seems to be rather too general, and not always quite accurate, in his descriptions; he leaves us with the sort of feeling that we might be reading of many other portions of tropical Africa just as well as of the strip which lies along the east coast immediately south of Zambesi.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 385. D. 16, ’06. 550w. |
“Mr. Maugham makes a valuable contribution in this book to the not very easily obtainable existing stock of knowledge about Portuguese East Africa.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 80w. |
Maurin, M. J. Pauline Marie Jaricot, foundress of the order for the propagation of the faith and the living rosary; tr. from the French by E. Sheppard. *$1.35. Benziger.
“A biography based on that of Mlle. Maurin, a friend of Mlle. Jaricot in her later years.... The life of one of those women who recall, in a less conspicuous way, St. Catherine of Siena.... The daughter of a wealthy bourgeois of Lyons, she was just one of those ladies who, devoting themselves at an early age to religion, spend their lives in the quiet practice of good works.... She died in obscurity, and to most people this biography will be the first revelation that she ever existed.”—Ath.
“The style of the book, we may add, is for the most part plain and simple, without dryness, as religious biography should be, and the English rendering is idiomatic and good.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 180. Ag. 13. 1600w. |
“[The author’s] devoted zeal for the honor of his pious heroine manifests itself in the frankness and enthusiasm which enhance the intrinsic interest possessed by the story of this remarkable life.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 419. D. ’06. 450w. |
Maxey, Edwin. International law; with illustrative cases. *$6. Thomas law bk.
6–11647.
A volume which “embodies the results of Professor Maxey’s many years’ experience as a teacher.... In treatment the emphasis is thrown upon peace and neutrality rather than upon war. The questions arising out of the recent Russo-Japanese war are discussed freely and impartially. There is also a very complete chapter on contraband.”—R. of Rs.
“On the whole, the work is inaccurate and ill-digested.”
| − | Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 210w. |
“The analysis and the style are clear and concise.”
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 160w. |
Maxse, Frederick I. Seymour Vandeleur. *$4. Longmans.
War 7–22.
Brevet-Lt.-Col. Vandeleur, soldierly and daring as he was, is engulfed in the events which surrounded him and the problems which he faced. “The record of his life is therefore the record of our Imperial development during the past decade.” (Spec.)
“If in his admirable chapters on Uganda and Nigeria he leads us a long way from his hero, we are contented by the excellence of his narrative, and his easy presentation of facts which, in a less skilful hand, might easily be tedious; he becomes on more general subjects, such as education, so discursive as to call attention to the disadvantages of the method he has adopted. This, however, is a slight defect in a delightful book.”
| + + − | Acad. 69: 12. Ja. 6, ’06. 610w. |
“A book which combines literary merit with all the special historical value arising from the important share which the author himself took in many of the campaigns which he passes in review.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 620w. |
“Col. Maxse presents with animus, vigor, and ability, the whole case against the people called ‘Little Englanders,’ and in particular shows what dry rot has done for the British army between Waterloo and the beginning of the Boer war.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1420w. |
“We do not know any other book which sets out so succinctly and clearly Imperial achievements which are wholly creditable, and which are too apt to be forgotten in the present windy war of theories. And in addition there is the portrait of the brilliant soldier, done with all the sympathy and knowledge of long friendship.”
| + + | Spec. 96: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 1390w. |
Maxwell, Donald. Cruise across Europe: notes on a freshwater voyage from Holland to the Black sea. *$3. Lane.
7–19483.
“A light, humorous chronicle of a freshwater voyage in a small boat, from Holland to the Black sea, by way of Ludwig’s canal, a waterway begun by Charlemagne which unites the basins of the Rhine and Danube, but is seldom used and little known.”—Acad.
“The author writes entertainingly of the people he met, the country he passed through, and the incidents of his voyage; and Mr. Collington Taylor’s illustrations are delightful.”
| + | Acad. 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 120w. |
“He writes brightly and naturally, and makes little attempt to be laboriously funny—no small merit nowadays.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 170w. |
“The entire voyage ... is well narrated, and still better illustrated by the author himself and another artist.”
| + − | Dial. 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 220w. |
“The book is a notable one, proving, for the first time, the possibility of sailing from the west to the east of Europe by a fresh water route.”
| + | Int. Studio. 31: 334. Je. ’07. 240w. | |
| + | Spec. 93: 146. Ja. 26, ’07. 390w. |
Maxwell, Gerald. Miracle worker. $1.50. Luce.
7–15322.
The scene of this story is laid in and about Leipzig. A young Afghan doctor combines the hypnotic power which is his oriental heritage with wizard skill in surgery to produce a most remarkable change of identity. By drugs he keeps alive a German countess, dying of burns, until the day of the execution of a girl who is the exact counterpart of the countess. By skilful manoeuvering he effects a substitution, having prepared the countess’ body by means of drugs so that the tissues would not pass into the death rigour for a prolonged time. He transfers the memory section of the brain from the dead countess to the girl whose life he has saved, restores her to health and to the count who believes only that a restoration was effected by a skin-grafting operation.
“The story exhibits considerable constructive ingenuity, but is spun out too much, while the motive of several reprehensible transactions seems inadequate.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w. |
“It is ingenious and up to a certain point interesting, but credulity and sensibility finally rebel.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w. |
“In the articles of novelty, audacity, and ingenuity of plot this story ... so far surpasses the average of the fiction which strains after these things, that it needs only certain refinements of the story teller’s art and condensation, by a half—or even a third—to be more than a mere thriller and time-killer. There are skilful minor touches once in a while, and suggestions of humor even. And the elements of the gruesome and horrible are played for all they are worth.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 219. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace. Memories of the months. $2.50. Longmans.
In which the year’s happenings are recorded month by month. “Readers will be able to share with the author of the memories his ‘delight in the open field, the woodland, and the riverside,’ and if they prove willing disciples they may in time experience the joy of original observation for themselves—at least they will learn to study and appreciate the boundless beauties of nature.” (Nature.)
“The overriding of a harmless hobby is apt to become wearisome. The illustrations are charming, and are uncommonly well reproduced: whilst errors of print are few and not of great consequence.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 160w. |
“In such a volume one desires perpetually to pencil notes on the margin, an inclination that generally implies three qualities in the work; it is pleasant, suggestive and incomplete.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 540w. |
“The ability to combine literary grace with scientific accuracy, and the power to interest, and at the same time to impart useful information, is unfortunately rare, and we are grateful to Sir Herbert Maxwell for placing his gifts at the disposal of a large audience by means of these pages.”
| + | Nature. 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 120w. |
“Another volume, of delightful rambling along nature lanes, here, there, everywhere.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 70w. |
“Literary excellence and scientific accuracy, two qualities which often do not accompany each other, combine to increase the value of these notes.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 460w. |
Maxwell, William Babington. Guarded flame. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–27707.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The impressiveness with which its ethical teaching is enforced is the justification for much that seems at the time intolerable in the presentation.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 42: 14. Ja. 1 ’07. 560w. |
“There is far too much scientific terminology and a rather incredible amount of human perfection, but there is also intellectual breadth and maturity, finely expressed intensity, high moral sensibility.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 230w. |
Maynadier, Gustavus Howard. Arthur of the English poets. *$1.50. Houghton.
7–15547.
“The purpose of Mr. Maynadier’s book is to trace Arthurian legends to their sources, to tell more fully of their origin and growth, and to keep more closely to English countries than MacCallum had done. The new book has grown from a course of lectures delivered at Harvard university and Radcliffe college in 1900.... The author examines the sources of Arthur’s immense literary fame and sets forth the divergent views of various contemporary scholars. Separate chapters deal with Lancelot, Tristram, and Iseub and the Holy Grail.”—Lit. D.
“For literary students—as distinct from specialists—who wish to gain a good general view of the rise and flourishing of the legend the book will be most useful. The writer is evidently ignorant of the valuable assistance rendered by the Welsh hagiology in estimating the various elements which went to the formation of the wonderful story of the Graal.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 182. N. 30, ’07. 3200w. |
“Dr. Maynadier’s treatment of his subject is most scholarly and sympathetic, and nowhere is it more so than in his discussion of Tennyson’s presentation in modern form of this old world legend.”
| + | Dial. 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 270w. |
“Despite some few errors, is the best popular account in the language of the growth and vicissitudes of the Arthurian legend, particularly with reference to its earlier development.”
| + + − | Ind. 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 40w. |
“It is in general a work of original research, and is a contribution of value to one of the most interesting departments of English literature.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 220w. |
“The book, taken as a whole, is one of decided value. It is very agreeably written, and has a basis of accurate scholarship.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 584. Je. 27, ’07. 1080w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 2: 426. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w. |
“Is the most complete treatment of the origin, development, and history of the Arthurian legends in English poetry that we have.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w. |
“It is not a work of original scholarship, nor of genius living in its princely fashion upon other men’s scholarship, but something between, and in its kind admirable. Once or twice we have been surprised by the gaps in Mr. Maynadier’s knowledge ... and by his excessive respect for Tennyson and his misunderstanding of Morris.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 364. S. 21, ’07. 1630w. |
“The work was well worth doing and the author has done it well. No teacher of English can afford to miss reading this delightful book. It is most scholarly in tone and treatment, and sympathetic in a just appreciation.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | School R. 15: 768. D. ’07. 450w. |
Mayor, Rev. Joseph Bickersteth. Epistle of St. Jude and the Second epistle of St. Peter; Greek text, with introd., notes and comments. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Professor Mayor’s commentary presents the Greek text of these epistles, abundantly annotated, together with an extended introduction. The propriety of treating these two epistles together is obvious in view of their close literary relationship. Professor Mayor discusses fully the relationship of II Peter to I Peter, concluding, with most scholars, that they are from different hands.”—Bib. World.
| Bib. World. 29: 480 Je. ’07. 50w. |
“His notes here are marked by sound learning and accurate scholarship.”
| + + | Nation. 34: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 450w. |
Mazzotto, Domenico. Wireless telegraphy and telephony; tr. from the original Italian, by S. R. Bottone. *$2. Macmillan.
6–16742.
“Prof. Mazzotto, a countryman of the inventor Marconi takes up the subject of what is now called radiotelegraphy, and discusses it historically and technically ... and places at the service of both scientific and ordinary readers in clear language all that is known on the subject up to the present.”—N. Y. Times.
“Some of the descriptions remain obscured by somewhat longwinded—and therefore involved—sentences. This defect possibly results from translation.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 630w. |
“Mr. Bottone’s translation is clear and well done.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 403. Je. 16, ’06. 180w. |
Meade, Richard Kidder. Portland cement; its composition, raw materials, manufacture, testing and analysis. *$3.50. Chemical.
6–32139.
“A book ... which fairly represents to date the American Portland cement industry, as seen from the standpoint of the technical staff.... While the chapters on ‘Proportioning raw material’ and on ‘Analytical methods’ are naturally the strongest in the book ... yet Mr. Meade deals with machinery and processes of manufacture extremely well.”—Engin. N.
“Mr. Meade is to be congratulated on a really notable effort. Undoubtedly the book will be well received by the many people interested in cements, and will occupy a place in cement literature which every body has known was vacant and which should be filled by some one competent for the task.” Frederick H. Lewis.
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 87. Ja. 17, ’07. 720w. | |
| + + | Nature. 76: 123. Je. 6, ’07. 610w. |
Meakin, Annette M. B. Russia, travels and studies. *$4. Lippincott.
W 6–316.
“Starting with Rousseau’s view that Naples should be visited in summer and St. Petersburg in winter, Mrs. Meakin makes the Russian capital the starting-point for a literary, if not literal, journey all over the European dominions of the Czar, closing with Kieff and the Caucasus. She gives a great deal of information—historical, topographical, sociological—which is of considerable interest and value.”—Spec.
“Contains much more definite information on a wider range of subjects, than the usual personal narratives of travel.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 212. N. ’06. |
“This book is a valuable contribution to the too small list of good books on Russia, because it contains so many first hand observations, put in such a clear and attractive form.” Samuel N. Harper.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 661. My. ’07. 630w. |
“The slips and little errors in the earlier pages are, though unimportant so numerous that we began to suspect the qualifications of the writer for the task undertaken. But we gladly admit that in reading on we found reason to change our view.”
| + − | Ath. 1905, 2: 891. D. 30. 980w. |
“They are somewhat desultory and discursive, but they contain nothing uninteresting, and they cover fields ordinarily left untouched even in a country so voluminously written of as Russia.” Wallace Rice.
| + | Dial. 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 150w. |
“This volume is an interesting and enlightening narrative of Russia’s many-sided life, by a woman whose investigations have been thorough and discerning.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 110w. |
“The thing that strikes the reader of Miss Meakin’s ‘Russia’ is a certain inconsequence of matter and style. We know of no popular book in English that deals so fully with the treasures of the Russian monasteries and museums, both public and private. There is a regrettable weakness in the matter of the names of the Russian governments.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 151. F. 14, ’07. 450w. |
“Every chapter is solid without sacrifice of entertainment. The author rather skillfully avoids the hackneyed.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 410w. |
“We look in vain for a glossary to explain the interesting text in this well printed, illustrated, and mapped book, brimful of little-known facts about Russian towns.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 522. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 101: 525. Ap. 28, ’06. 1500w. |
“The chief charm of this book is that one can take it up at any time and find something, if not positively new, at once informing and non-controversial.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 390w. |
Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett. [Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond.] *$3. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | Outlook. 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 300w. |
Meakin, Walter. Life of an empire. *$1.80. Wessels.
7–38582.
A work whose aim is “to give clear and definite expression to some of the problems which confront the British Empire.... [The author] first traces the growth briefly, with compact and vivid narrative, of the empire from the time of the Romans to the present, presents the salient features of its different parts, discusses the problems and the tendencies of each locality, and in the final chapter considers the necessity of the unity of the empire and how it can be attained.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Meakin ... displays sound principle and good feeling generally expressed in commonplaces. On many of the grave questions of which he writes at length Mr. Meakin has failed to clear his mind. We find also a good many trifling errors which seem to show some deficiency in the equipment of our author.”
| + − − | Ath. 1907, 1: 164. F. 9. 630w. |
“His discussion of the color problem in the different localities of the empire has interest and some practical value for Americans. But when he finds the cause of race hatred in the southern United States to be in the struggle for existence the American reader will begin to feel some doubt as to the keenness of his observation.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 420w. |
“His book is as flimsy as it is pretentious. His ideas are cosmopolitan, his economics are childish, and his ways of expressing himself would not redound to the credit of a schoolboy essayist.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 190w. |
Meany, Edmond Stephen. Vancouver’s discovery of Puget Sound: portraits and biographies of the men honored in the naming of geographic features of northwestern America. **$2.50. Macmillan.
7–14804.
The volume deals with the broad general subject of western Canadian discovery, and is based principally upon the second edition of the journal of Captain Vancouver, published in London in 1801. Many interesting portraits supplement the text, and there are biographies of a number of men whose names now appear conspicuously upon the map of the North American continent.
“In the main the work is trustworthy. If the portion of Vancouver’s ‘voyage’ had been faithfully reproduced it would require no comment in this review. But there are numerous errors in copying (changes, omissions, and insertions) which should have been corrected in proof-reading.” William R. Manning.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 160. O. ’07. 520w. |
“It is disappointing to find so much genuine scholarship expended to, comparatively speaking, so little purpose.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
| + − | Dial. 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 800w. |
“It would be difficult to exaggerate the interest and charm of these vivid pages, written, as they were, under the spell and inspiration of a new world.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 390w. |
“This is a valuable contribution to the early history of Puget sound region of the State of Washington.”
| + | Nation. 85: 147. Ag. 15, ’07. 960w. |
“A volume which adds materially to the early history of this continent.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 180w. |
“A distinctly original and helpful historical monograph, valuable not only for the information it affords concerning Vancouver’s voyage itself and the significance of the names applied to prominent geographical features of the Oregon country, but for the light it throws on the operations of Spain in that region and negotiations which ended in the relinquishment to England of the Spanish territorial claims.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w. |
“A noteworthy addition to the subject of Americana in its largest sense.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w. |
“This volume is of definite historical importance in the literature of geographical biography, and a handsome tribute to the memory of a great Englishman.”
| + | Spec. 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 440w. |
Mears, Mary M. Breath of the runners; a novel. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–37599.
One of the runners is a large-souled, unselfish girl, the other a jealous, narrow-minded, self-constituted rival. Beulah Marcel’s art career from the lowly rounds of a cameo-cutter’s apprentice to the point of distinction as a sculptor is unselfishly subordinated to that of Enid Rahfield spares no effort, good or evil, to win much-coveted fame. The scene shifts from New York to Paris, and at every pause of the runners, the love interest creeps in, and with it, misunderstandings which are fully accounted for at the mention of “artistic temperament.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 17. Ja. ’07. |
“There is much knowledge of the art world, much keen insight into the hearts of men and women, and no small amount of healthful philosophy of life in this unpretentious story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 310w. | |
| Ind. 62: 621. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w. | ||
| + − | Nation. 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 560w. |
“There is something in the youth and freshness, the first poetic outlook upon dawning life, never to be seized a second time, but which permeates ‘The breath of the runners.’” Louise Collier Willcox.
| + | No. Am. 183: 1058, N. 16, ’06. 1460w. |
“The characters are unusual and significant, and they are alive. The writer has much to learn in the matter of construction.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 200w. |
Meline, Jules. Return to the land. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–19755.
Senator Jules Méline, sometime minister of agriculture, President of the representative chamber of France, and Prime Minister, has here given minute and careful instruction on manufacturing and industrial questions in a most interesting manner. “The great object of the book,” says Justin McCarthy in his preface “is to convince the world that the return to the land, and the work that the land still offers in all or most countries, is now the nearest and the surest means for the mitigation or the removal of the troubles which have come on the working populations everywhere, and that the present is the appropriate time for the beginning of such a movement.”
“M. Méline ... is a statesman of the highest rank, who approaches the question in a manner that is at once widely philosophic and highly practical.”
| + | Acad. 71: 326. O. 6, ’06. 690w. |
“He is a clear thinker, and presents his arguments in an attractive as well as convincing form. He has graced his pages with artistic, at times almost poetic language, and from cover to cover the book is sure to interest the reader. To many of his conclusions few would give assent. The remedies he proposes are foreign to all our habits of thought. This does not render the argument any the less interesting and thought-provoking.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 642. My. ’07. 250w. |
“It is not likely that we shall learn much that can bear on the land problems of Great Britain from the leading French Protectionist.”
| − | Ath. 1906, 2: 405. O. 6. 280w. |
“Its thorough, though general, and suggestive treatment, promises interesting reading for Americans.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 238: Ap. 13. ’07. 200w. |
“Senator Meline discusses most interestingly an interesting thesis, with blemishes in detail which are apart from the merits of the idea.” Edward A. Bradford.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 331. My. 25, ’07. 1270w. |
“It is, in fact, in his recommendations, and in his review of the present state of French agriculture, that his work is most valuable, for here, by reason of long experience and thorough study, he is master of his subject.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 474. Je. 29, ’07. 380w. |
“We have much to learn from France, and M. Méline by constantly drawing examples from England makes his book as instructive reading for Englishmen as for his own countrymen.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 809. D. 29, ’06. 310w. | |
| − | Spec. 37: 933. D. S, ’06. 250w. |
* Melville, Lewis, pseud. [Farmer George: a study of the life and character of George III.] 2v. **$7.50. Brentano’s.
“George III.’s home and court life, his relations with his ministers and other prominent persons of his reign are presented. Fully described, too, is the king’s trouble with Wilkes, as well as the attitude of his court and subjects toward the American colonies, from the Stamp act down to the acknowledgment of the United States of America.”—N. Y. Times.
“In their unambitious style Mr. Melville’s pages are readable enough.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 653. N. 23. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“The book may be popular, and, as it is better that people should know something about George III. than nothing, it will serve a purpose in the libraries.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 612, N. 16, ’07. 570w. |
Mendelssohn, Felix. Thirty piano compositions; ed. by Percy Goetschius, with a preface by Daniel Gregory Mason. $2.50; pa. $1.50. Ditson.
7–5083.
Uniform with the “Musician’s library.” The volume includes eight “Songs without words,” the Sonata in E major, the Rondo capriccioso, besides various preludes, fugues, studies, etc.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 100. Ap. ’07. | |
| + | Dial. 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 90w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 207. F. 28, ’07. 430w. |
Menpes, Mortimer. Paris; painted by Mortimer Menpes; text by Dorothy Menpes. 24 full-page il. in color and line drawings. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–110.
Here the reader finds less of the art galleries, churches, and museums than of the “life of Paris, and above all, the joy of the life of Paris.... The streets and boulevards, the cafés and restaurants, the various forms of amusement, the poverty and the picturesqueness of the shiftless and generous students of the Latin Quartier, and many other phases of Parisian existence, are rendered in all their lights and shades with astonishing accuracy.” (Ind.)
“It is a great accomplishment to have caught as much of it all within the pages of one book as the Menpes have done.” May Estelle Cook.
| + | Dial. 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 390w. |
“The ‘Paris’ of Mortimer and Dorothy Menpes may not have much of that practical quality of serviceableness which we look for in a guide, but it has a brilliant impersonal style and will supplement in a very pleasant fashion a work more purely utilitarian. The illustrations in color, as well as those in line, are smooth and harmonious. The former are not glaring, but faithful and delicate, with subtle gradations of tone that are very striking.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1356. Je. 6, ’07. 230w. |
“She writes in a somewhat abrupt style; her series of pictures of Paris life have been jotted down in short, terse sentences, which somehow fail to match the grace and humour that float everywhere in the golden, hazy atmosphere of that city. But her book, with its vivid descriptions, is a pleasant contribution.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 541. Je. 13, ’07. 350w. |
“Miss Menpes takes up various manifestations of Parisian ways of thinking, acting, and living, and manages to invest her subject, hackneyed though it is, with a great deal of freshness and charm. The two dozen full-page illustrations in color, devoted to street scenes and famous buildings, are not equal to the former publications of Mr. Menpes’s work.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 160w. |
Meredith, Ellis. Under the harrow. †$1.50. Little.
7–12976.
All about three brave hearted girls’ struggles for success on Grub street in the city of New York. There is a touch of pathos in the penury that fills the life of these “attic geniuses;” their little successes, more often reverses, their simple romances, above all their naturalness and love of life are well worth following thru the pages of the story.
“Amusing here and there, but unimportant as a whole.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 60w. |
“The older generations of readers, who remember Murger’s ‘Scènes de la vie de Bohème’ and Du Maurier’s ‘Trilby,’ will find Mr. Meredith’s little story of Bohemian life in New York insipid and futile but it will not be without interest and encouragement for the younger generation.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w. |
“The story has its good points, but produces an uncomfortable impression at times from the effort of the author to incorporate in it like patchwork all the smart things possible to collect. Many of the patches are incongruous.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w. |
Meredith, Owen, pseud. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton). Personal and literary letters of Robert, first earl of Lytton, (Owen Meredith); ed. by Lady Betty Balfour. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
7–26424.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The present winter season has produced at least an average crop of biographical works, but none of them, so far as we have seen, can surpass this one for attractiveness and interest.”
| + + + | Blackwood’s M. 181: 36. Ja. ’07. 5910w. |
“It is a far more touching and interesting record than the biography of many a greater man.” Charles H. A. Wager.
| + + | Dial. 12: 182. Mr. 16, ’07. 2320w. | |
| Ind. 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 290w. |
“Considering her object—a picture of the man rather than of his times—Lady Betty Balfour must be congratulated on a model achievement.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 88. Ja. 10, 07. 1060w. |
“A very interesting book this, and a very interesting man Lord Lytton, and one who, notwithstanding his distinction as a diplomat, earns our sympathy because of his ungratified ambition in other directions.” Jeannette B. Gilder.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 504. Ja. ’07. 1300w. |
Merejkowski, Dmitri. Peter and Alexis; tr. by Mr. Herbert Trench. $1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In this last volume of the trilogy the faults of the author’s style become intolerably exaggerated. A lack of symmetry, subordination and clarity seems to be a general fault with Russian literature and doubtless also of their life, for a like confusion and aimlessness appear to characterize their politics.” Edwin E. Slosson.
| − | Ind. 61: 1148. N. 15, ’06. 910w. |
Merrill, George Perkins. Treatise on rocks, rock-weathering and soils; new ed. rev. throughout. *$4. Macmillan.
6–46275.
“There has been very little attempt to harmonize conflicting views, and almost none at independent interpretation. The pages devoted to rocks and to soils reflect current views rather than suggest new ones. The chapters devoted to rock-weathering are the best in the book, and constitute in the aggregate our most authoritative treatise on this subject.”—Dial.
“The book is especially useful to readers who desire a knowledge of the general facts and principles involved in the study of rocks and their change into soils.”
| + | Dial. 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 180w. |
“Combines a large amount of matter of a purely categorical and descriptive scientific character with an almost equally large amount of matter of interest and value to any wide-awake person wishing to know about the earth on which he lives.”
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w. |
“Having used it for years, the present reviewer has yet to find it fail him in his classroom needs.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 440w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 5. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w. |
Merriman, Mansfield. Elements of sanitary engineering. 3d ed. *$2. Wiley.
7–6418.
A new edition of a book published in 1898. “Few changes of importance have been made in the first 180 pages of the present edition.... The two chapters on ‘Disposal of sewage’ and ‘Refuse and garbage’ have been rewritten and extended to cover some of the advances of the past eight years, and an appendix has been added which contains matter on water supply and purification supplementary to that in the first edition.” (Engin. N.)
“Not only a creditable production but practically the only one covering just its field.”
| + − | Engin. N. 56: 640. D. 13. ’06. 530w. |
Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester. Text-book on roofs and bridges, pt. 4, Higher structures. 3d ed., rev. and enl. $2.50. Wiley.
7–6418.
“Not a treatise, but only a text-book, and only an elementary text-book. The authors nowhere pretend to thoroughness in treatment. They discuss only the principal types of ‘higher structures:’ the continuous girder, the drawbridge, the suspension bridge, and the metal arch (the inclusion of the cantilever bridge and three-hinged arch, which are statically determinate, seems somewhat inappropriate.)”—Engin. N.
“The book has many excellences, both in plan and detail. A few minor faults also remain.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 442. Ap. 18. ’07. 490w. |
“Despite its brevity and limitations, the work on higher structures by Merriman and Jacoby is the best general work in America to-day. Indeed, there is no other one book of the same size that gives so general a treatment. The volume is worthy of the attention of every student and designing engineer. It indicates the trend of modern analysis.” C. Derleth, jr.
| + + − | Technical Literature. 1: 268. Je. ’07. 1660w. |
* Merritt, Albert Newton. Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1. Houghton.
7–37945.
This discussion was awarded first prize in the 1906 Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics. The phases of the subject presented are the following: Are American railway rates excessive? Federal control of rates is necessary. Objections to rate-fixing by a commission, The interstate commerce act and its interpretation by the commission and by the courts, and A rational plan for public control of rates.
Merwin, Samuel and Webster, Henry K. Comrade John. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33593.
The subtle satire upon our modern tendency to embrace newly coined religions which underlies this story will not mar the tale for mere lovers of romance but will make it for those who see the humor in today’s sects and religious colonies. One Herman Stein has invented a religion of “toil and triumph” and associates with him in the creation of a fitting setting for his community a young architect with a showman’s instinct. To this combined Mecca and Luna Park comes the one woman. The two men contend for her favor and the one by sacrificing all to save her gains her love.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“Altogether the book, while it cannot be very strongly praised as a novel of character and motive, has the story-interest strongly developed and well maintained.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 270w. |
Metchnikoff, Elie. Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.
5–41797.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
| Current Literature. 42: 332. Mr. ’07. 990w. |
Meyer, Balthasar H. History of the Northern securities case. pa. 60c. Univ. of Wis.
6–37905.
“The ten chapters in eighty-two pages give a clear, concise, and readable history of the litigation [in the Northern securities case], including the genesis of the idea of a holding company and the causes of organization, the action of the state authorities and the federal government, with an analysis of the decisions in the main case, and in the ancillary litigation over the liquidation of the company. The appendix gives a number of the briefs or documents of the litigation in a form convenient for reference.”—Yale R.
“It is fortunate that the greatest attempt to effect railroad consolidation should have had so able a historian as Professor B. H. Meyer.” Emory R. Johnson.
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 618. N. ’07. 520w. |
“A careful and scholarly treatment from the economic view-point.” Wm. Hill.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 182. Mr. ’07. 370w. |
“The style is clear and forcible. In some places, particularly in the introductory chapters it would seem that the author had studied conciseness at the expense of the clearness which would have been gained by fuller amplification of the narrative. The author is manifestly familiar with the material and thorough and accurate research is shown throughout. Full justice is done to the dissenting as well as the prevailing opinions.” Frederick N. Judson.
| + + − | Yale. R. 16: 208. Ag. ’07. 1040w. |
Meyer, Ernst von. History of chemistry from the earliest times to the present day; being also an introduction to the study of the science; tr. with the author’s sanction by George McGowan. 3d Eng. ed., tr. from the 3d Germ. ed. *$4.25. Macmillan.
This third edition includes additions and alterations which bring the work down to date.
“The work is convenient, because there is no better one (except Ladenburg’s, which is too small), and in spite of its numerous inconveniences. Among these is the avoidance of dates.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 181. F. 21, ’07. 1090w. |
“The work is a perfect treasure-house in its wealth of bibliographical and biographical detail. Its literary charm lies in the simplicity and directness of its style, characteristics which Dr. McGowan has well preserved in his admirable rendering into English.”
| + + | Nature. 75: 169. D. 20, ’06. 1100w. |
“An unbiased historical research study.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w. |
Meyer, Hugo R. [British state telegraphs.] **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33625.
Prof. Meyer here resumes his study of the history of public ownership in Great Britain. It is a two-part story which the author tells of the British state telegraphs: the purchase of the telegraphs, in 1870, from the companies that had established the industry of telegraphy; and the subsequent conduct of the business of telegraphy by the government. “Both parts contain a record of fact and experience of importance to the American public at the present moment, when there is before them the proposal to embark upon the policy of the municipal ownership and operation of the so-called municipal public service industries.”
Meyer, Hugo Richard. Municipal ownership in Great Britain. *$1.50. Macmillan.
6–10877.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So far as it goes, the book is a model in its way. No one need feel any doubt as to where the author stands. It shows an excellent grasp of the subject and is a scholarly, though somewhat uninteresting, presentation of the evidence from his own point of view. He no longer assumes the attitude of the judge, but rather that of the special pleader.” Garrett Droppers.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 370. Je. ’07. 1850w. |
“The best that can be said of Professor Meyer’s book is that it is an able ‘ex parte’ statement of the case against municipal ownership in Great Britain.” Delos F. Wilcox.
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 528. S. ’07. 1950w. |
“A noteworthy contribution, to a vexed question. It is a careful and minute study, showing vast research and erudition. The work notwithstanding its appearance of great learning, will, in the opinion of the reviewers, fail to carry conviction to the reader. The prejudice of the author crops out too plainly at every turn. The book smacks more of the library than of the world of affairs.” John H. Gray.
| + − | Yale R. 16: 102. My. ’07. 650w. |
Meyer, Hugo R. Public ownership and the telephone in Great Britain. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31983.
Still a further continuation of Professor Meyer’s history of public ownership in Great Britain. It gives the history, written from original documents, of the efforts of the British government to administer the telephone service in England.
Michael, Mrs. Helen C. Studies in plant and organic chemistry, and literary papers; with biographical sketch. *$2.50. Riverside press.
7–17319.
“The volume contains an extended biographical sketch; an introduction to Mrs. Michael’s work in chemistry, by Dr. Wiley; sixteen papers on organic chemistry, four of them in German; and four literary papers which discuss such themes as ‘Science and philosophy in art,’ ‘The drama in relation to truth,’ Whitman Browning, etc. A photogravure portrait forms the frontispiece and shows the face of a most attractive woman.”—Dial.
| + | Dial. 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w. |
“The sketch itself is well proportioned and discriminating, and is thoroughly appreciative of Mrs. Michael’s remarkable powers. Every student of plant-physiology will be glad to have in this compact form the scattered papers which, under her maiden name of Abbott, Mrs. Michael contributed to many scientific publications.”
| + | Nation. 85: 127. Ag. 8, ’07. 320w. |
Michel, Emile. Rembrandt: a memorial; il. with seventy plates in color and photogravure. *$5. Lane.
7–28517.
This volume has grown out of the renewed interest in Rembrandt which was awakened by Holland’s tercentenary celebration of the birth of the great master.
| + + | Acad. 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w. |
“Altogether this ‘Rembrandt’ will be a book that all lovers of art will want to have on their shelves and in their hands; and when it is complete with the special plate that is to be presented to subscribers, it will be one of the most artistic productions of the time.”
| + + | Acad. 70: 461. My. 12, ’06. 490w. |
“The omission of an index is the great blemish on the work; and this is intensified by the not over-careful way in which the list of plates in colour and in photogravure has been drawn up.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 163. Ag. 11. 2550w. |
“The book as a whole is one of the best of the art books of the present season.”
| + + | Ind. 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w. | |
| + + | Int. Studio. 29: 274. S. ’06. 210w. | |
| Int. Studio. 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 240w. | ||
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8. ’06. 80w. |
Mighels, Philip Verrill. Sunnyside Tad. †$1.25. Harper.
7–30440.
Sunnyside Tad and Diogenes, the tawny little pup that he rescued from drowning, are outcast chums who suffer and rejoice together. The two in their David and Jonathan relations teach a lesson brimful of love and fearlessness.
“A first-class boy’s story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w. |
* Mijatovich, Chedomille. Royal tragedy; being the story of the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga, of Servia. *$2.50. Dodd.
A full story of the Servian tragedy with all the elements that entered into the plot and its execution.
“He writes of matters which almost involve passion, but he writes (as might be expected of him) dispassionately. The story that he has to tell is full of interest, and he tells it admirably.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 760w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 70w. |
“The writer is frankly a partisan of King Milan. Its chief defect lies in the excessive intrusion of the author’s personality.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 160w. |
“M. Chedomille Mijatovich tells the tragic story in a remarkably interesting book.”
| + | Spec. 98: 293. F. 23, ’07. 2340w. |
Miles, George H. Said the rose, and other lyrics; with an introd. by John C. Collins. **$1. Longmans.
7–18559.
“Poems of a writer who died forty years ago. They have been rescued from the past, and have met with appreciative comment. “The titular lyric is the plaint of a rose, plucked by a lady to wear upon her bosom for an hour, and then cast ruthlessly away.... A number of the poems in this volume are impressions of Italy, particularly of Italian art, and the influence of Browning is very evident.” (Dial.) A graceful biographical and critical introduction by Mr. Churton Collins will serve to acquaint the present generation with the amiable and gifted man who, in the preceding one, adorned the chair of English in Mount St. Mary’s college, Emmetsburg.” (Cath. World.)
| + | Cath. World. 85: 827. S. ’07. 410w. |
“Reading the fifty pages of Mr. Collins’s appreciative essay, we learn anew the lesson of fame’s caprice, for we become acquainted with a writer of admirable qualities, whose performance certainly deserved something less than the entire forgetfulness that seems to have become its portion.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 580w. |
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w. |
“All of the work is accomplished, but none save perhaps ‘Beatrice,’ shows any trace of original talent.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 120w. |
Mill, John Stuart. [Subjection of women]; new ed.; ed. with introductory analysis by Stanton Coit. *40c. Longmans.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Dial. 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 50w. |
Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax. New Far East. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–10925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is written a little too much in the spirit of a man who feels that he is tilting against generally accepted opinions, but his volume is none the less an excellent one, indeed one of the most enlightening we have on the present Far Eastern situation.” Archibald Cary Coolidge.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 136. Mr. ’07. 560w. |
Miller, Elizabeth Jane. [Saul of Tarsus; a tale of the early Christians]; with il. by Andre Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–36043.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Vivid and absorbing narrative.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 17. Ja. ’07. |
“One of the most interesting and well-written novels of the year.” Amy C. Rich.
| + | Arena. 37: 218. F. ’07. 610w. |
“As far as historic truth is concerned, there is little fault to be found with the novel. It is a pity that as much can not be said of the style. It is lacking in life, and the interest of the reader often flags.”
| − + | Lit. D. 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 140w. |
Miller, Rev. James Russell. Christmas-making. **30c. Crowell.
7–22861.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A good, optimistic little book, but with nothing very striking about it, either in contents or style.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + − | Arena. 37: 334. Mr. ’07. 40w. |
Miller, Rev. James Russell. For the best things, pa. bds. **65c. Crowell.
7– 26992.
“A trumpet call for striving ‘for the best things,’ an appeal to the best impulse in the human heart.”
| N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 80w. |
Miller, Rev. James Russell. Glimpses of the heavenly life. **30c. Crowell.
7–20953.
Belonging to the “What is worth while” series, this little book aims to give some of the glimpses of the heavenly life which the Bible reveals.
Miller, Rev. James Russell. Morning thoughts. **65c. Crowell.
7–21332.
Page sermons for every day in the year, whose aim is to start the reader out upon his new day with some actively helpful thought.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 60w. |
Miller, John Henderson. Where the rainbow touches the ground. †$1. Funk.
6–44370.
A Kansas cyclone is responsible in a freakish way for the restoration of property to a man who had surely known the hardships of the “submerged tenth.” The book is full of local color in which herbs and simples, and homely philosophy abound.
“We do not share the high opinion of this story which the publishers seem to entertain nor can we agree with them that the author is a writer of exceptional power. The ethical tone of the work is good and the lessons of practical value.”
| − + | Arena. 37: 221. F. ’07. 120w. |
“The story is told with a quaint sort of art which will appeal to the jaded novel-reader.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 510. Mr. 30. ’07. 160w. |
Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.). Harry’s runaway. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–32035.
A sure cure for the runaway malady. The good work of parents in restraining dissatisfied boys is helpfully supplemented in Mrs. Miller’s story. Harry Barnes persuades a playmate to run away with him. Their experiences lead to a half starved condition in which their parents find them. To make Harry’s lesson more impressive each night some one drops in and tells a runaway story which shatters some youthful ideal of heroism and reduces the would-be hero to the suppliant state.
Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.). What happened to Barbara. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–15599.
A little girl of thirty years ago is the heroine of Mrs. Miller’s story. “The story has the air of being autobiographical, and is interesting for two reasons, and two only: It furnishes a kind of proof that there is a type of healthy child life in which the thing we know as sentiment is non-existent: and it demonstrates the possibility of converting into quasi-literary form the amazing gift of being able to discourse ‘ad libitum’ about absolutely nothing.” (Lit. D.)
| − + | Lit. D. 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w. |
“It might be, and doubtless is, in the main, a carefully expurgated account of the part of the author’s own life which lies in the schoolgirl stage.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 430w. |
Millet, Jean Francois. Drawings of Jean Francois Millet: 50 facsimile reproductions of the master’s work with an introductory essay by Leonce Benedite. *$20. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The disappointment is in the selection. Now and then there is an obvious blunder in the title given. If a competent technical study of the merits of Millet’s drawing, as drawing, was unattainable, why not omit the text altogether and publish a portfolio? Well worth more than the price asked, if one has the money to spend.”
| − − | Nation. 84: 90. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w. |
“The volume before us is a really desirable possession, and not merely another so-called ‘art book.’”
| + + | Spec. 97: 620. O. 27, ’06. 1200w. |
Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Gale, Henry Gordon. Laboratory course in physics for secondary schools. *40c. Ginn.
6–31644.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A possible objection to the proposed course lies in the introduction of the vernier and the micrometer calimeter. The use of these instruments seems contrary to the authors’ attempt to avoid the ‘creeping-over’ of the methods and the instruments of research and specialization from the university into the high school, where they have absolutely no place. The same objection might be urged against the use of per cent. errors and discussion of accuracy of measurements. The book is to be commended, not only for its improvements over older manuals, but also as part of a completed and tried course.” F. R. Watson.
| + + − | School R. 15: 168. F. ’07. 280w. |
Mills, Lawrence Heyworth. Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achaemenides and Israel. *$4. Open ct.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“From the first words of the preface ... to the end of the book, there is so much involved construction and verbiage, combined with misprints that the author’s ‘reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff.’”
| − | Ind. 62: 217. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w. |
Mills, (Thomas) Wesley. [Voice production in singing and speaking], based on scientific principles. **$2. Lippincott.
6–38905.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 46. F. ’07. S. | |
| + + | Nation. 84: 18. Ja. 3, ’07. 450w. |
“It is scientific in the best sense.” Richard Aldrich.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 580w. |
Milton, John. Complete poetical works; with a biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Milton’s poetical works uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” The introduction by Mr. Dole aims to elucidate the circumstances, motives and intention of each of the poems individually.
Minchin, George M., and Dale, J. B. Mathematical drawing. *$2.10. Longmans.
An exposition of the subject which presupposes a knowledge of analytic geometry and the calculus so far as methods are concerned, but which makes no use of theorems proved by them. Nearly half of the book is devoted to a discussion of conical and parallel projection.
“This book is of rather more interest to the mathematician than the engineer; it has several features that are of value to both, but is too brief to be of greatest service to either.”
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 480w. |
Mitchell, John Ames. Silent war. $1.50. Life pub.
6–38893.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is no more impressive as a warning than it is interesting as a romance. The interest of the reader is aroused at the very beginning and held in leash throughout until the final denouement.” Ellis O. Jones.
| + + | Arena. 37: 446. Ap. ’07. 350w. |
“The book is in many ways strong. It is original, improbable, and not so well written as ‘Amos Judd’ and others of Mr. Mitchell’s books.” Madeleine Z. Doty.
| − − | Charities. 17: 487. D. 15. ’06. 250w. |
Mitchell, William. Structure and growth of the mind. *$2.60. Macmillan.
W 7–111.
“A treatise on descriptive and genetic psychology in four main parts: The direct explanation of the mind, Sympathetic and aesthetic intelligence, The growth of intelligence, and Extension of direct explanation and the direct explanation.”
“It is, however, frankly technical: it is a book to be studied, not to be read. It has the discursive form of lectures, yet, after all, of written lectures that reflect the slow and careful growth of his phrasing and presentation, and assume a like attentive and painstaking attitude on the part of the student in the class-room or the study. To the circle of those specifically minded to follow the pursuit the work is enthusiastically recommended as a notable addition to the modern literature of psychology.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 350w. |
“The fact that the views which are supported are throughout reasoned views gives it an unusually stimulating quality. And this quality would be still more in evidence were it not for a certain occasional elusiveness in the presentation of the argument, which is not altogether removed by the detail analysis that is provided.” W. G. Smith.
| + + − | Hibbert J. 6: 218. O. ’07. 1300w. |
“It is an abstruse, laborious book, the work of one who is not fanatically attached to either school, who studies both the direct and indirect explanations of the structure and growth of mind.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 680w. |
“The discursive style and the absence of prominent landmarks would often give the reader a rather vague idea of the plan of exposition, were it not for the table of contents, which is a model of scientific analysis, and almost makes up for the absence of an alphabetical index.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 1050w. |
“Mr. Mitchell’s work will compare very favourably with the best philosophical books of recent years.”
| + + | Nature. 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 350w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w. |
“A stimulating and serviceable guide-book in psychology, devoted to elaborate and searching criticism for the benefit of readers who are not in a hurry to run while reading.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 170w. |
“One of the most interesting chapters in this book is on the power of suggestion, or the power of a thought to determine a course of thought.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 365. S. 21, ’07. 1080w. |
Mitton, G. E. [Jane Austen and her times.] *$2.75. Putnam.
6–2322.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 230w. |
Miyakawa, Masuji. Life of Japan. **$3. Baker.
7–28500.
Dr. Miyakawa was educated in America and returning to Japan became interpreter for the imperial army. He reveals intimately “to millions of American homes” a knowledge of Japan and Japanese conditions. The book is dedicated to Commodore Perry whom the author calls the “national redeemer of Japan.” “The bulk of the book is devoted to tracing the rapid growth of Japan since the making of the treaty with the United States, in the reform of its financial system, in the development of its domestic industry and its foreign commerce, the expansion of its army and navy, the establishment of a constitutional form of government, and the adoption of American methods in education and journalism.” (N. Y. Times.)
“For the most part, however, the book is accurate and well suited to the needs of readers who do not care to go deeply into the subjects treated.”
| + | Dial. 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 250w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 1000w. |
Miyakawa, Masuji. Powers of the American people. Congress, president, and courts. *$3. N. Hayes, cor. N. Y. ave. & 15th st., Washington, D. C.
A manual of instruction which points out the various powers and duties which are imposed by the constitution, written by a Japanese attorney—the first to be admitted to the American bar.
“To the average American student, the book is a primer of the simplest type. To the foreign lawyer who wishes to become familiar with the theoretical side of our government the book will be of considerable assistance, but to a foreign business man or a foreigner studying modern institutions, the book is of little value, for it lives in the dim, forgetful past, not in the pulsing present.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 643. My. ’07. 320w. |
“While there are some imperfections in the style, and while for the general reader the book would be more valuable if it had undergone revision by an English scholar, it is a remarkably clear and comprehensive statement of the fundamental principles of our American constitution and might well be commended to the lay reader who desires to obtain a nonpartisan impression and scholarly view of the nature of our government and the functions of its various departments.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 140w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 638. N. ’07. 50w. |
Modern pilgrim’s progress; with introd. by the Very Rev. H. S. Bowden. *$1.60. Benziger.
A description of the “phases of thought through which an educated and thoughtful woman passed on her spiritual journey from the Anglican to the Roman faith. The arguments in favor of the Roman faith are as old as its attractions, and the author does not lay claim to any polemical originality.” (Spec.)
| Cath. World. 84: 264. N. ’06. 840w. |
“The book is a striking one.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 462. O. 13, ’06. 630w. |
“The interest of the book lies in the transparent sincerity of the writer, and in the manner in which she emphasises the strange fact that a mind constitutionally restless and hungry for new ideas may be completely transformed and forever pacified by drugs of sacredotal anaesthetics.”
| + | Spec. 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w. |
* Moedebeck, Hermann W. L. Pocket-book of aeronautics, by H. W. L. Moedebeck in collaboration with O. Chanute and others; authorized Eng. ed.; tr. by W. Mansergh Varley. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–29118.
The present work aims to review the history of aerial navigation and its present development and to give scientific information on the physics of the atmosphere.
“In this handy little volume we have an excellent comprehensive summary of the whole subject of aeronautics, and the English reading public have to thank Major Moedebeck for producing such a work which has been so capably translated by Mr. Varley.”
| + + | Nature. 76: 100. My. 30, ’07. 370w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 274. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w. |
“Useful and timely hand-book. No reference is made to the large amount of data collected with kites in the United States by our Weather bureau and at the Blue Hill observatory, nor to the more recent observations with balloons at great heights, which were instituted by this observatory.” A. Lawrence Rotch.
| + + − | Science, n. s. 25: 936. Je. 14, ’07. 700w. |
Moffat, Mary Maxwell. Queen Louisa of Prussia: *$3. Dutton.
6–43228.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A sympathetic and admiring portrayal of Queen Louisa, and a clear and interesting picture of her times. While it throws no new light on Prussian history, it never degenerates into a court calendar, but is dignified and worthy of its subject throughout.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 100. Ap. ’07. |
“Well-written, well arranged, and always interesting memoir.” S. M. Francis.
| + | Atlan. 100: 493. O. ’07. 400w. |
“If not taken as a balanced history of the period it will do no harm, and may serve to interest casual readers to a period of German history of crucial importance.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 180w. |
“A good deal of new matter not found in Horn or even Lonke. There is, too, a good index and a fair bibliography, though it lacks any mention of Martin’s German biography (1887), and is wholly deficient in American references.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 940w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 476. Jl. ’07. 220w. |
Moffat, Rev. James, ed. Literary illustrations of the Bible, ea. *40c. Armstrong.
Six volumes of commentaries entitled; The book of Ecclesiastes, The book of Daniel, The gospel according to Saint Mark, The epistle to the Romans, The gospel according to Saint Luke, and The book of Revelation.
“The treatment is novel and interesting, and we think might be followed with educational effect by every reader of the Scriptures.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 210w. |
“A small but choice assortment of gleanings from a fruitful field.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 80w. |
Moller, Muriel. Wood-carving designs. *$2.50. Lane.
“Six sheets of excellent working drawings of panels, frames, etc., with examples of furniture suitable for them, as to which Mr. Walter Crane writes an appreciative foreword.”—Int. Studio.
“Should prove of great utility to the carver in wood.”
| + | Int. Studio. 31: 251. My. ’07. 100w. | |
| Int. Studio. 31: sup. 86. My. ’07. 350w. | ||
| + | Spec. 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 70w. |
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. Sir Joshua and his circle. *$6.50. Dodd.
7–13429.
Less of a sketch of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ life and character than a portrayal of his relations to the group of men and women prominent in the literature and art of his day.
“Mr. Molloy has re-told the old stories fairly well, and produced the sort of book that very many people like to read.”
| + | Dial. 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 280w. |
“The book certainly cannot be said to have been necessary; but it is written with such infectious good humour and apparent zest, the touch is so spirited and flowing, the local colour thrown on with so light and lavish a hand, that it may be skimmed with amusement and pleasure.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 390w. |
“It cannot be said that Mr. Molloy’s attempts to be vivacious are always highly successful, nor does it inspire confidence to describe scenes as if the writer were present and spoke from memory of ‘wistful eyes’ and the like.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 31. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w. |
“Worth reading, and even by those who are already more or less saturated with Reynolds biographical material.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 290w. |
Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo. Venice, its individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; tr. from the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. Sold in 2v. sections, per section, *$5. McClurg.
This is the second installment of Molmenti’s “Venice.” It contains two volumes as did the first section, and deals with “the golden age” from the viewpoints of conditioning factors, constitution, climate and public health, festivals, the arts, industry, scientific movements, schools, private life, the stage, palaces and houses, fashions, entertainments, the family and the corruption of manners.
“Mr. Molmenti is certainly a learned man in the limited sense of the word, that is, he is a collector pure and simple, whose primitive notion of a book is a succession of scrap-heaps, labelled chapters, which his readers are set to pick over for bright and valuable matter appearing here and there like raisins in a cake.” Ferdinand Schwill.
| − + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 866. Jl. ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The ideal volume from the standpoint of the reputable publisher is one which combines literary interest with an appropriate and attractive type setting and a new edition that goes far toward the accomplishment of this are two volumes recently published with the title ‘Venice.’” Laurence Burnham.
| + + | Bookm. 24: 639. F. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Among those who have made a serious study of the Venetian past, perhaps none is more eminent than the Italian historian Pompeo Molmenti.” Laurence M. Larson.
| + + − | Dial. 43: 38. Jl. 16, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“In the main, we find Molmenti’s verdicts sound, and his attitude judicial. We must praise the very readable translation of Mr. Horatio Brown, himself a recognized authority on matters Venetian.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1435. D 12, ’07. 820w. |
“Admirably translated by a scholar whose erudition is equal to that of their author.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 31: 331. Je. ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“He has what many who attempt works of this kind lack—charm, the gift of presenting a great body of material so that it not only conveys information, but gives pleasure.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 499. My. 30, ’07. 1170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The material which enables the author to describe these subjects in the most minute detail has been collected with the greatest care, patience and industry from original sources. So complete, indeed, are the descriptions that in many cases we have pages of sheer enumeration—of estimable value to specialists, but of doubtful attractiveness to the lovers of the romantic phases of Venetian history.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“That the translation itself is excellent goes without saying. The reader’s pleasure is interfered with by no heaviness of style, no awkward turn of a sentence. The straightforward tale of the old Venetians, the most interesting community in Europe, is told with a frank simplicity, and yet with every detail that can be desired by a careful student.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 535. Ap. 6, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The book is not a history of events, but of thought and character,—a far more intricate subject, and one involving a far profounder knowledge. The erudition is as amazing as ever. Our one complaint is that Mr. Brown does not underrate the scholarship of his readers. About one-tenth of the text of the first volume consists of untranslated quotations from some foreign tongue.”
| + + − | Spec. 99: 868. N. 30, ’07. 1350w. |
Moncrieff, A. R. Hope. [Surrey; painted by Sutton Palmer], with 75 il. in col. *$6. Macmillan.
W 7–171.
Brush and pen have worked in pleasing consonance to reproduce the “enchanting by-ways” of Surrey. Mr. Palmer’s full-page colored illustrations are accompanied by description that are “chatty and spring from point to point very much as William Combe in verse rattled amiably along as an accompanist and reciter for Rowlandson’s pictures of the schoolmaster on his trips.” (N. Y. Times.)
| + | Nation. 83: 349. O. 25, ’06. 280w. |
“As a rule the neat and simple method of the artist suits the process fairly well.” Charles de Kay.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 120w. |
“Altogether, the book is one of the most agreeable of this series.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 180w. |
Monroe, Will Seymour. Turkey and the Turks: an account of the lands, the peoples, and the institutions of the Ottoman empire. $3. Page.
7–26348.
A brief but unified picture, gained thru study and travel, of the incoherent Ottoman empire and its complex civilization. A chapter is devoted to the rise, another to the decline of the empire one is given to the significant events in Turkish history during the past thirty years, but the most of the book is devoted to matters of purely human interest, including eight chapters upon Constantinople, its monuments, characteristic quarters, street scenes, bazaars, baths, kahns, fountains, mosques and dervishes.
| Dial. 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 130w. |
“As a whole, the book is to be commended for the useful information which it gives, but in some points it merits criticism.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 310w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 160w. |
Montague, Margaret Prescott. Sowing of Alderson Cree; with a front. by W. T. Benda. †$1.50. Baker.
7–12272.
Alderson Cree is shot by an enemy and upon his death-bed exacts from his young son the promise to avenge the deed. “His ‘sowing’ is the spirit of revenge and hatred which is thus implanted in the child’s heart, and the reaping comes ten years later, when the boy must choose between revenge and love. The story has in it all the rough strength of the mountain valley where the scene is laid and of the rough mountain people who figure in its pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A book of extraordinary sweetness and strength, for in reading one is led along by the sure touch of the writer, who, born and living all her days among the mountain people, knows their lives and touches them with truth and tenderness.” Harriet Prescott Spofford.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1770w. |
Montgomery, Edmund. Philosophical problems in the light of vital organization. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–5071.
“This work is divided into two parts: 1, Philosophical survey; 2, Biological solutions. Some of the problems discussed in the first part are substance, identity, causation, the problem of the external world, universals and particulars, innate faculties, subject and object, etc.... The problems of substantiality, causation, mechanical necessity, living substance as sensorimotor agent, sentiency and purpose in movements, teleology in nature, etc., are discussed in the second part, in conjunction, with the author’s own views.”—Psychol. Bull.
“Futile as is all such philosophizing, there are valuable practical applications of biology, in ethics, education, and sociology, and these Mr. Montgomery has instructively presented, though disadvantaged by a heavy and otherwise somewhat defective literary style.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 390w. |
“A somewhat peculiar setting forth of a familiar view, relating to what is here termed the psychophysical puzzle. What is peculiar is the mystical, or mystifying phraseology in which these views are presented.” E. A. Norris.
| − | Psychol. Bull. 4: 243. Ap. 25, ’07. 670w. |
Montgomery, Hugh, and Cambray, Philip G. Dictionary of political phrases and allusions with a short bibliography. *$2. Dutton.
W 7–84.
A novel book of reference in which “foreign political phrases, terms, and catch-words of international significance, but with particular reference to Great Britain, are defined in simple language.” (N. Y. Times.) “This book will help a hasty journalist to write in such a fashion as to pass muster with a hasty sub-editor.” (Ath.)
“Numerous catch phrases of recent political campaigns are discussed which surely do not deserve a place in a one-volume work of this character, and even the allusions to strictly English politics are not treated with comprehension of their relative importance. The worst fault of the book is the lack of judicial attitude. Almost every page is tinged with a national prejudice which warps the discussion so as largely to destroy its value.”
| − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 598. N. ’07. 150w. |
“Most of the entries fall a little short of the exactness to be desired in such a dictionary.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 769. D. 15. 1090w. | |
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 250w. |
“To any one having occasion to refer to British acts of legislation or to catchwords of British politics the usefulness of this volume is obvious.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 100w. | |
| Spec. 97: 991. D. 15, ’06. 110w. |
Montgomery, James Alan. Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect. **$2. Winston.
7–15492.
An exhaustive study of the Samaritans which treats of their history, theology, and philology, with a closing chapter devoted to the literary history of the sect.
“It is a mine of information. The author has apparently overlooked nothing. The method and style are clear and simple, and the book deserves a place in any library.”
| + + | Bib. World. 29: 479. Je. ’07. 40w. |
“A large amount of diligent research is evident.”
| + | Nation. 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 130w. |
“Its account of the romantic story of this curious sect will be an authoritative work upon the subject, for it presents an amount and variety of material which can be found nowhere else.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w. |
“The book is a contribution to the literature of an obscure subject. It makes no pretense to popularity. But it will interest scholars who will be especially thankful for the careful ‘Samaritan bibliography.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 90w. |
“We commend to our readers his volume.”
| + | Spec. 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w. |
Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr. Analysis of racial descent in animals. *$2.50. Holt.
6–16987.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Our author undertakes the herculean task, we venture to think successfully, of setting the study of phylogeny on a surer foundation.” A. D. D.
| + + | Nature. 75: 530. Ap. 4, ’07. 990w. |
“Every teacher and advanced student of biology should become acquainted with the views of an author who has studied so many and widely separated biological phenomena.” Robert W. Hegner.
| + + | School R. 15: 167. F. ’07. 320w. |
Montresor, Frances Frederica. Burning torch. †$1.50. Dutton.
The story of an orphan child endowed with second sight which has descended to her from a Highland ancestor. “The heroine not only does not marry, she is killed in a railway collision. This, being a kind of domestic Cassandra, she has foreseen, as, helpless to prevent or to convince, she has foreseen all the other catastrophes which have befallen her circle—the suicide of her father, the almost patricide of her favorite cousin, the violent death in the desert of the man she loves.” (Nation.)
“It is only just to state that in spite of a considerable lack of sympathy with its philosophy we read ‘The burning torch’ with an interest that surprised us.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 731. Jl. 27, ’07. 400w. |
“One does not realize it (there are so many diverse interests touched by a sympathetic and exceedingly observant perception) till nearly the end; but the tale is compounded of elements which do not coalesce quite happily.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 212. Jl. 5, ’07. 330w. | |
| Nation. 85: 268. S. 26. ’07. 200w. |
“Parts of the story are pretty dull, and the style tends to be tedious, but for all that there is really good stuff in the rather nondescript and futile whole called ‘The burning torch.’”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 380w. |
“While there are many grim and not altogether pleasant traits distributed among the actors, there is also a decided hopefulness for humanity and faith in God pervading the story.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 270w. |
“A book heavier with fate and fatalities we have never seen. It is not an easy book to read.”
| − | Putnam’s. 3: 239. N. ’07. 760w. |
“Miss Montresor can always be relied upon for a straightforward story without ellipse or obscurity; she tells it fluently and at some length, as though she could not help telling it. She has delicacy and enough observation to make every one of her numerous characters distinct.”
| + | Spec. 99: 59. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w. |
Moody, Winfield Scott. Pickwick ladle and other collector’s stories. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–35226.
Sketches of “two hardened bric-a-brac hunters.... Each story breathes an agreeable leisure, and the thread of the Wyckoffs’ adventures among the antique dealers is enriched by a shrewd characterization of the dealers themselves, from Dirck Amstell, the honest Dutchman, to a proud representative of Du Val upon Fifth avenue.”—Nation.
“Unusually well told stories.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 136. My. ’07. ✠ | |
| + | Ind. 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 130w. |
“Dainty in touch, with humor that is real and pervaded by an atmosphere of good society.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 40w. |
“The pleasant surprise of the stories as a whole is that treating of the infinitely small, they constantly broaden into a larger perspective.”
| + | Nation. 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 220w. |
“Altogether delightful little stories.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w. |
“After reading much of the fiction of the day, one feels as if in this modest volume he is really once more in good society.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w. |
Moore, Edward A. Story of a cannoneer under Stonewall Jackson, in which is told the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the army of northern Virginia; with introds. by Robert E. Lee, jr., and Hon. Henry St. George Tucker: il. $2. Neale.
7–21269.
“In which is told the part taken during the civil war by the Rockbridge artillery in the operations of the army of northern Virginia.... It is history and romance in one, and at the same time a chronicle and a picture gallery. To read it is to know intimately the brave and noble young fellows who formed the company, a command that proved its mettle in twenty-three engagements.”—N. Y. Times.
“We heartily commend the volume as a truthful picture of real war.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 151. Ag. 10. 110w. |
“The book possesses genuine value despite occasional eccentricities of style which careful editing would have avoided.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 340w. |
“He tells the story of the four years’ struggle in a clear, direct, soldier like way, always with a sense of the humorous, and always sympathetically, like a man to whom life is larger than any one man’s experience.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 190w. |
“The story is well told, and gives a real insight into the every-day life and typical privations of the confederate soldier-boy. Mr. Moore’s sympathetic narrative is full of ‘human interest’ of a very genuine kind.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 511. O. ’07. 140w. |
Moore, Frederick. Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.
6–41820.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story throughout is as straightforward and as thoroughly to the point as could be desired. There is no pretension, the facts are told in simple style, readable and interesting from beginning to end. The book as a whole gives a better idea of the life in the Balkan region than any other similar volume yet published.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 598. N. ’07. 190w. |
“He has the capacity to see the really interesting things and record his impressions so as to convey them to the reader. And this he does without the tall writing which as a rule disfigures the work of a newspaper correspondent. He possesses also the gift of humor.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 730w. |
Moore, George. [Lake.] †$1.50. Appleton.
5–37156.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is Irish to the core, but with a quiet and contemplative melancholy. Of the few events none is cheap or trite.” Mary Moss.
| + | Atlan. 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 190w. |
Moore, George. [Memoirs of my dead life.] **$1.50. Appleton.
6–42372.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The collection is a rather sickening blend of Henry Harland at his fluffiest and of Goncourt at his feeblest.” H. T. P.
| − + | Bookm. 24: 479. Ja. ’07. 1080w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 398. Ap. ’07. 1270w. |
“It probably contains more of himself than is to be found in the sum of his other works, which would be equivalent to saying that it surpasses them in interest.”
| + | Lit. D. 54: 218. F. 9. ’07. 260w. | |
| Nation. 84: 62. Ja. 17, ’07. 730w. |
“‘The memoirs of my dead life’ is even more dead than Mr. Moore is wont to be. It is worse than dead—it is defunct.”
| − | Putnam’s. 1: 767. Mr. ’07. 540w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 130w. |
Moore, John Bassett. Digest of international law. 8v. per set, $10. Supt. of doc.
6–35196.
Eight large volumes in the preparation of which Prof. Moore, “analyzed, digested and epitomized diplomatic discussions, treaties, and other international agreements, international awards, the decisions of municipal courts, the writings of jurists, the documents—published and unpublished—of presidents and secretaries of state of the United States, the opinions of attorneys-general, and the decisions of state and federal courts.” (R. of Rs.)
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 466. Ja. ’07. 160w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w. |
“By far the best feature of these volumes is their admirable analysis of the subject-matter with which they deal.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 783. Je. 22, ’07. 1550w. |
Moore, John Trotwood. [Bishop of Cottontown.] †$1.50. Winston.
6–17871.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story has so much that is excellent in it, and the author’s spirit is so fine and fair, and his humanity so broad, that it is a source of sincere regret that the book is so diffuse.”
| + − | Arena. 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 390w. |
Moore, Joseph Augustus. School house; its heating and ventilation. $2. Joseph A. Moore, 28 Conway st., Roslendale, Bost.
5–39873.
“The author has here embodied in convenient form a large amount of useful information based on his experience during the past eighteen years in inspecting public buildings in Massachusetts and ‘in supervising the construction of and testing the various methods of heating and ventilation, especially in school houses.’ He has also included further useful matter in the way of quotations from state laws and regulations on the construction and state supervision of public buildings.”—Engin. N.
“The book is written in an easily understood, direct manner. It would constitute a good beginning of a library for a school janitor’s library.”
| + | Engin. N. 56: 182. Ag. 16, ’06. 170w. |
Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson. Collector’s manual; with 336 page engravings and with borders by Amy Richards. **$5. Stokes.
6–43921.
A guide for the collector of antiques in which the author gives helpful information about old furniture, old glass, brass and copper articles, English pottery and porcelain, old clocks, pewter, etc.
“Pleasant reading but not particularly valuable.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 46. F. ’07. |
“Mrs. Moore writes definitely and concisely.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 81. F. 1, ’07. 380w. |
“These chapters are all full of information, given in a popular, chatty way from the collector’s standpoint, giving account of shrewd bargains and the money value of things, rather than of their artistic merit.”
| + | Ind. 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 310w. | |
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w. |
“The book is evidently the work of a practised and ardent pursuer of this peculiar game, one, moreover, who can point to what exists in old books about this favorite sport. And yet the space occupied by rather useless borders might well be filled with careful footnotes.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 480w. |
“Not only the collector, but the home builder, will find much in the book that is of value to him. The illustrations are very good and clearly show the different articles presented.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 118. F. 23, ’07. 490w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 50w. |
Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson. Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–40212.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is to be regretted that these stories, which are based on acts of heroism and are inspiring to girls, should be so poor in workmanship.”
| − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 83. Mr. ’07. |
Moore, T. Sturge. Correggio. *$2. Scribner.
7–35193.
“The originality of the book lies largely in the asides, though the author does good service in challenging previous vague attempts to define the peculiar sort of ecstacy wherein Correggio’s Corregiosity must surely consist. Mr. Moore’s own view is that the master fully realized himself only a handful of the classical pictures, notably the Io, the Ganymede, and perhaps the Antiope. As the favored decorator of the provincial and by no means highly cultured court of Parma. Correggio lacked the sustaining forces behind a Titian or a Michaelangelo, frequently availing himself too readily of his own formulas, seldom realizing the full dignity of his position as artist.”—Nation.
“Not so readable as Brinton’s book in the ‘Great masters’ series, nor does it contain so much about the life of Correggio, but is much more exhaustive as to technique.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 101. Ap. ’07. |
“Rarely have we read a book more bewildering in general plan, and this in spite of not a little classification into divisions and subdivisions. It is moreover, written in a style of liquid and wandering reverie.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2:624. N. 17. 1150w. |
“He again devotes rather too much space to the exploitation of his own critical creed; and he is unnecessarily hard on Mr. Berenson and Signor Conrado Ricci.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1126. N. 14, ’07. 290w. |
“When Mr. Sturge Moore shakes himself free of the other critics and deals with his professed subject, Correggio, he reveals himself as admirably qualified for the task. He brings to his work that rare combination, a practical training in art and a wide knowledge of literature, with a power of philosophical analysis to which very few writers on the history of art can pretend. The catalogue ‘raisonné,’ in which Mr. Moore has been helped by his friend. Mr. C. S. Ricketts, is fairly complete.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 399. N. 30, ’06. 1030w. |
“The style is occasionally crabbed, its discursiveness extreme, but as the sincere effort of a poet’s mind to interpret a most poetical painter it abounds in wisdom even in the byways of the theme.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 230. Mr. 7, ’07. 620w. |
“The result [of defining the temper, address, inspiration and quality of works], though somewhat spun out in generalizations, is interesting, suggestive, and important, especially as coming from one who questions the value of the aims and methods of modern historical art criticism.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w. |
“There is much in this volume with which it is possible to disagree; there is, I think, too much controversy in it, and Mr. Moore is not at his happiest in controversy. Nor is the design of the book quite satisfactory. But, whatever the faults, I believe that it is on the main lines of such work as this that aesthetic criticism, if it is to have any vital hold on the intelligent interests of the world, must proceed.” Laurence Binyon.
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 799. D. 29, ’06. 1900w. |
Moore, Thomas. Complete poetical works; with biographical sketch by Nathan H. Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.”
Moore, William Harrison. Act of state in English law. *$3. Dutton.
7–18175.
“A systematic treatment of ‘Matters of state.’ with numerous citations of important cases. ‘The type of “matter of state” is the matter between states, which, whether it be regulated by international law or not, and whether the acts in question are or are not in accord with international law, is not a subject of municipal jurisdiction.’”—N. Y. Times.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 59. F. 2. ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Moore has taken a generous view of what his subject includes, and his book is not only interesting to read but it will facilitate the work of those high legal personages whose dignified labours lie on this borderland of international and municipal law.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 812. D. 29, ’06. 280w. |
More, Mrs. Louise Bolard. Wage-earners’ budgets: a study of standards and cost of living in New York city; with a preface by Franklin H. Geddings. (Greenwich house series of social studies, no. 1.) **$2.50. Holt.
7–30623.
A study of the social, economic and industrial life of the wage-earners of a city neighborhood, based upon an inquiry into the economic status of two hundred families whose struggle for existence is most intense. The investigator’s final list was made up of families who proved able and willing to coöperate with her intelligently and patiently in keeping simple accounts, and in making careful, verifiable statements. The statistics are presented in tabulated form and throw light upon incomes, expenditures and standards of living.
“As a contribution to our concrete knowledge of social conditions the present work bears the only test to which it need be subjected—it is accurate, specific, and detailed.” John Cummings.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 560. N. ’07. 560w. |
“The value of the book consists, then, in its detailed study of how a certain class of working people live.” Charles S. Bernheimer.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 1050w. |
More, Paul Elmer. [Shelburne essays.] 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–45344.
ser. 4. This closing series of Mr. More’s essays contains, “informing and delightful criticisms” of such celebrities as Robert Stephens Hawker, Fanny Burney, George Herbert, John Keats, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Lamb and Walt Whitman. There are also three other essays in the group. A note on ‘Daddy’ Crisp, The theme of ‘Paradise lost’ and The letters of Horace Walpole.
“Scholarly, thoughtful essays on literature. Style clever, sometimes charming. For the student rather than the average reader.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 46. F. ’07. (Review of v. 4) |
“Is the most interesting which he has published since his first.”
| + | Ind. 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 530w. (Review of v 4.) |
“By this time Mr. More has got his philosophy of life sufficiently well in hand to use it rather as a means of orientating himself with reference to his subject than as an end in itself.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 4.) | |
| Nation. 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“Never here shall we find anything more than comfort and instruction. The one thing more that we should desire to find is inspiration.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“He makes no cheap bid for favor. He dispenses altogether with smartness, and almost altogether with humor. He is never audacious, like Mr. Lang, nor ironical, like Mr. Saintsbury. He possesses no gift of style, but writes in clear, unembarrassed sentences, making a legitimate demand upon the intelligence of his readers.” Agnes Repplier.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 840w. (Review of v. 4.) (Reprinted from Philadelphia public register.) |
“By the soundness of his critical method, and by virtue of the range, depth, and precision of knowledge, combined with literary charm and human interest, which these essays evince, Mr. More, takes a secure place in the forefront of American criticism.” Horatio S. Krans.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 752. Mr. ’07. 1060w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“The essays are appreciative, and it is saying little for them to assert that no one, however familiar he may be with the men into whose characters and works they probe so tenderly and searchingly, can fail to receive instruction from the book. Moreover, the style is limpid and easy; the author is never ‘clever’ or paradoxical, according to the new fashion; he is never startlingly witty, but always sane and apt; and a spirit of sweet reasonableness prevades all.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 91. Jl. 20, ’07. 1460w. (Review of v. 4.) |
Morgan, Conway Lloyd. Interpretation of nature. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–42351.
“This little book is an extension of an article which appeared in the ‘Contemporary review’ of May, 1905. It deals with the scientific and teleological aspects of the interpretation of nature, the aim of the book being, in the author’s words, to show that a belief in purpose as the casual reality of which nature is an expression is not inconsistent with a full and whole-hearted acceptance of the explanations of naturalism within their appropriate sphere.” (Int. J. Ethics.)
“The book is enriched with extremely well selected examples, which serve to make clear and precise the author’s meaning and to make the book intelligible and interesting to the general reader.” C. T. Preece.
| + | Int. J. Ethics. 16: 517. Jl. ’06. 670w. |
“This little book deals with big questions, and many who have pondered over them will be grateful to the author for the lucidity of his argument, which is an expression of his own clear vision.”
| + | Nature. 73: 265. Ja. 18, ’06. 1410w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 200w. |
Morgan, George. True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.
7–27032.
An intimately analytical biography of Patrick Henry thruout which the white light is turned upon him. He lives again in the atmosphere of the revolution, becomes the center of situations and scenes which he dominated, is lawyer, orator, soldier, statesman and executive, and is seen surrounded by his contemporaries and friends. The historical value of the study is apparent, while it is as fascinating as any romance.
“The rapid narrative style, plentifully seasoned with personal details quite upholds the claim of the publishers that the book is ‘as readable as a spirited romance.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 280w. |
Morgan, James. Theodore Roosevelt: the boy and the man. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–31182.
A simple, straightforward, withal complete sketch of our president, showing the rounds by which he did ascend to the present heights from which he defends and promulgates America’s sturdiest democratic principles. “Its aim is to present a life of action by portraying the varied dramatic scenes in the career of a Man who still has the enthusiasm of a Boy, and whose energy and faith have illustrated before the world the spirit of Young America.”
“Written in a mechanical style and without originality but will be useful until replaced by a better work.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 196. N. ’07. |
“The book is one that will appeal to the ‘plain people.’”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 350w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w. |
“He has accomplished a difficult task accurately and impartially.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 240w. |
“Rarely is a living man so adequately celebrated. Mr. Morgan’s appreciation of his subject is hearty; his selection of material out of the enormous mass of Rooseveltiana available is so admirably calculated to his purpose that the reviewer can do no better than quote from the text. An almost ideal biography.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 610. O. 12, ’07. 1250w. |
“Altogether, this new biography is one of the indispensable books of its class so far as contemporary literature is concerned.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 635. N. ’07. 300w. |
Morgan, Lewis H. [Ancient society; or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization.] $1.50. Holt.
Mr. Morgan classifies his study under four general heads as follows: Growth of intelligence through inventions and discoveries, Growth of the idea of government, Growth of the idea of the family and Growth of the idea of property. His presentation is logical and suggestive.
| Ind. 63: 1313. N. 28, ’07. 280w. |
“It is gratifying to see a reprint of a work which may be called one of the minor classics among American archeological monographs.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 120w. |
“We are glad to see so valuable, scholarly, and interesting a work again made accessible.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 546. S. 14, ’07. 350w. |
“Really epoch-marking work in the history of thought.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 180w. |
Morgan, Thomas Hunt. Experimental zoology. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–3114.
“A work of 450 pages, based on thirty-five lectures; a treatment that does not pretend to be entirely exhaustive, but for which ‘the plan has been to select the most typical and instructive cases.’ Divided into main sections on the Experimental study of evolution; Growth; Grafting; Influence of environment on the life cycle; Determination of sex, and Secondary sexual characters.”
“The novelty of the field covered in this work and the very fundamental bearings of the data and hypotheses here gathered in a critical summary combine to make Professor Morgan’s work indispensable to anyone who wishes critical information of recent movements in the biological world.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 400w. |
“Professor Morgan’s book is the best, indeed the only up-to-the-moment abstract of the results and the various phases of this experimental investigation of the life and make-up of animals. It is not primarily a book for the general reader, but there is no other for him on the same subject. And he can better afford not to understand a few of Professor Morgan’s references and yet be able to rely on what he does understand as being true, than to look for a more popular and less reliable account.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 218. Jl. 25, ’07. 820w. |
“There is much original matter, in spite of the space necessarily given to compilation. The most serious defect is in the index, which is all too scant for such a mass of diverse subject matter.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 343. Ap. 11, ’07. 490w. |
“We may be allowed to compliment the author on his highly successful execution of an arduous task; his workmanship is marked by carelessness, lucidity and impartiality, by the salt of good-tempered criticism.” J. A. T.
| + + | Nature. 76: 313. Ag. 1, ’07. 1160w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 60w. |
“The book treats primarily of those subjects and problems of experimental zoology which have not been considered in other books. The material which is presented is not always fully digested. Style and method of presentation present certain features which can be due only to haste or lack of care.” C. M. Child.
| + − | Science, n.s. 26: 824. D. 13, ’07. 3920w. |
Morgan, William Conger. Qualitative analysis as a laboratory basis for the study of general inorganic chemistry. *$1.90. Macmillan.
6–42922.
“Less a work for the beginner than for the student who has already acquired a certain familiarity with experimental chemistry. It is in fact, a comprehensive study of analysis from the theoretical side.... The book is divided into sections, the first of which deals with general principles, such as mass action, equilibrium, reversible changes, and dissociation; the second section is devoted to reactions of the common elements, arranged according to the periodic system, and the third deals with systematic analysis.”—Nature.
“To those who want a textbook with ionic notation, and do not mind having the names of certain elements and compounds written in the American spelling, this book is to be highly commended.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 543. My. 4. 300w. |
“A course of general educational value.”
| + | Nation. 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 360w. |
“It is simply and clearly written, although the American spelling and the alternate use of names and symbols in the text are a little confusing to the English reader. Nevertheless, the book has a distinct character of its own; it is interesting and suggestive, and will fill a gap in chemical philosophic literature.” J. B. C.
| + − | Nature. 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 170w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w. |
“The press work of the book is excellent and typographical errors are very few. There is a complete index.” Jas. Lewis Howe.
| + | Science, n.s. 25: 535. Ap. 5, ’07. 1120w. |
Morley, Margaret Warner. Grasshopper land. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–17914.
The foreword to this careful inquiry into the affairs of the denizens of grasshopperland explains that the book is not for children but for their “grandfathers and grandmothers who were once boys and girls in the country and who may be in danger after all these years, of forgetting about grasshoppers.” But the little volume will not only refresh the memories of those who have forgotten, but will also tell those, who never knew, much that is interesting about the ways of the grasshopper folk. There are many illustrations from drawings.
“She evidently knows a great deal about such insects, and what she knows she has set forth in very entertaining and lucid form.” George Gladden.
| + | Bookm. 25: 625. Ag. ’07. 130w. |
“The book is a well executed piece of sugar-coated science, intended for children or amateur naturalists, and is couched in literary rather than scientific form.”
| + | Dial. 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 90w. |
“This information will be convenient for teachers by giving them something more to talk about.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 80w. |
Morris, Charles. Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–15411.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Useful in the children’s room as well as in the general library.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 12. Ja. ’07. S. |
Morris, Charles. Heroes of progress in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–43546.
Short chapters deal with forty-five men who have taken the initiative along the highroads of statesmanship, invention, scientific research, benevolent activity and moral earnestness from the days of Roger Williams to the present.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 12. Ja. 07. S. |
“The language is simple and easily understood by the younger readers.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 70w. |
Morris, Charles. Heroes of the army in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–43547.
America’s fighters by land and sea, “striking for liberty and union and sowing the land with memories of valiant deeds” furnish many a narrative for the youthful patriot of to-day. There are thirty-six men in Mr. Morris’ group including men from George Washington to Nelson A. Miles.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 13. Ja. ’07. S. |
“Should be a valuable form of supplementary reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 902. D. 22, ’06. 100w. |
Morris, Charles. Heroes of the navy in America. *$1.25. Lippincott.
7–15488.
Accounts of conflicts on the high seas which do honor to both our navy and the heroes who fought in it. There are chapters upon: John Paul Jones, William Bainbridge, Stephen Decatur, James Lawrence, David Porter, Oliver Perry, Farragut, Dewey, Hobson, and a score of others as brave if not as well known.
“Is exceedingly well adapted to the needs of young readers. Treating chiefly, although not entirely, of our naval successes, it presents a rather one-sided and flattering picture of our naval history as a whole.” Charles Oscar Paullin.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 185. O. ’07. 410w. | |
| Dial. 43: 21. Jl. 1, ’07. 180w. |
“Mr. Morris knows how to tell a story, and his compendium ought to attract many who do not see their way to attacking the minute Mahan, the much-questioned Maclay, the entirely discredited Buell, or the laborious Spears.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 100. O. ’07. 150w. |
Morris, Charles. Home life in all lands. **$1. Lippincott.
7–28638.
A book that might be used as a supplementary reader for geography classes. It tells of the people of far-away quarters of the world, their queer food, strange clothing, curious habits, customs and methods of securing a living.
Morris, Charles. Old South and the new. **$2.25. Winston.
7–36220.
A complete illustrated history of the southern states, their resources, their people and their cities, and the inspiring story of their wonderful growth in industry and riches from the earliest times to the Jamestown exposition.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Morris, George Van Derveer. Polly. $1.50. Neale.
6–46773.
A fairy tale of love in which it is shown that men love not so much the reality, the substance, as they do the ideal.
Morris, J. Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.
W 6–266.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Morris, has given us in his volume a most entertaining and valuable review of the work of the great statesmen of our rising Far Eastern neighbor.” Laura Bell.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 233. Ja. ’07. 420w. |
“Convenient for newspaper reference, and for all those who do not seek more than the current notions about distinguished men.”
| + | Nation. 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w. |
Morris, William. Stories from Morris, by Madalen Edgar. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–22916.
Stories from “The earthly paradise.” The author has held close to Morris’ rehabilitation of the spirit of the middle ages with its superstitious belief in magic, and its love of mystery and romance.
“To strip his work of all its poetic beauty, its meaning, and its intellectual distinction is unfair both to him and his childish readers.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w. |
Morrison, Arthur. [Chronicles of Martin Hewett], detective. $1.50. Page.
7–12979.
A new illustrated edition of the earlier adventures of Hewett whose “‘well known powers’ are nothing but common sense assiduously applied and made quick by habit.”
Morrison, Arthur. [Martin Hewitt investigator.] †$1.25. Harper.
A new edition of Mr. Morrison’s detective stories. Martin Hewitt, master of both the science and art of detective study, is an interesting personality. In addition to the usual keen perception, shrewd observation, and deft logic required of sleuths, he operates the law of human kindness.
| Nation. 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 280w. |
“The stories present many varied phases of crime, and they are very well told.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 50w. |
Morse, Edward Sylvester. [Mars and its mystery.] **$2. Little.
6–31643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Charmingly written, well worth reading, but deals with perhaps too much assurance about matters concerning which there are wide differences of opinion among astronomers.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 47. F. ’07. |
“His book is carelessly put together, repetitious, decidedly partisan—and always lively.” E. T. Brewster.
| − + | Atlan. 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 40w. |
“The present author takes the viewpoint, rather, of the special pleader, marshals the evidence that bolsters up the theory he is advancing, ridicules opinions divergent from his own, and leaves the reader in a state of wonder as to what arguments might be advanced on the other side of the question.” Herbert A. Howe.
| − + | Dial. 42: 75. F. 1, ’07. 950w. | |
| + − | Ind. 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 160w. |
“One cannot but admire the ingenuity of his argument, even if unable to accept his conclusion.”
| + − | Nation. 34: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 490w. |
“The book is a useful guide to further study of the subject, as it gives full references to the original sources of information.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 8, ’07. 190w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 117. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
* Moryson, Fynes. Itinerary of Fynes Moryson. 4v. ea. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“Containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England Scotland and Ireland.” This reprint is the first in full since the original was published in 1617.
| + | Nation. 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Is worthy of a place on the shelf which contains that delightful work of ancient travel and whimsical humor, ‘Coryat’s crudities.’”
| + | Outlook. 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| + | Sat. R. 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Full of interesting matter.”
| + | Spec. 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
Mosenthal, Philip J., and Horne, Charles F., eds. City college; memories of sixty years; ed. for the Associate alumni of the college of the city of New York. *$5. Putnam.
A memorial volume recording the life and history of the college of the city of New York, prior to its removal to its new home on St. Nicholas Heights.
“The work has been done and notably well done.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w. |
“It is a mosaic of admirable arrangement whose separate stones have been polished for the setting by a number of distinguished alumni.”
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 721. S. ’07. 250w. |
Moses, Bernard. Government of the United States. *$1.05. Appleton.
6–12152.
“This is a sketch of the organization and general methods of working of the United States government. The subject matter rather outruns the title, as all grades of government, and not the national alone, are covered.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “Especially noteworthy is an inclusion among the topics of that new phase of American government—the dependencies. Roosevelt’s letter instructions to the Philippine board and an act of Congress bearing upon it are appended.” (Ind.)
“The style of the work is pleasing and there is no unnecessary padding.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 90w. |
“The discussion of the various topics are very lucid and followed by the fullest topical references, perhaps a little too advanced for the average student.”
| + | Ind. 61: 256. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w. |
Moses, Josiah. Pathological aspects of religions. *$1.50. Stechert.
6–32848.
“A dissertation for the doctorate at Clark university, made by a diligent collection of more or less important instances of the perversion of the religious instinct, such as mysticism, fetichism, ritualism, emotionalism, etc.”—Ind.
“There is very little originality perceptible either in his methods or conclusions.”
| − + | Ind. 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 50w. |
“Its value is impaired by a number of misstatements of fact, and by the author’s lack of training in historical research. The proofreading, also, is very bad. As Dr. Moses’s general points of view are good, we feel confident that he will be able to revise his book in such a way as to bring out more clearly its fundamental idea.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 1000w. |
* Moses, Montrose Jonas. Children’s books and reading. *$1.50. Kennerley.
7–38221.
A practical, workable guide to children’s books and reading prepared after consultation with leading librarians. There are chapters covering the history of children’s books from early times to the present day and others dealing with the general purpose of the books besides a sixty-seven page appendix of book-lists carefully arranged and classified.
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 759. D. ’07. 50w. |
Moses, Montrose Jonas. Famous actor families in America. **$2. Crowell.
6–34709.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Contains much useful material, but little that is new; some of it is trivial. In spite of it, it will be referred to often in reference work and will interest readers who care for the drama.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 47. F. ’07. |
“Not many of the books which have been published about actors have had the interest or the literary merit of ... ‘Famous actor families in America.’”
| + | Ind. 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 440w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 90w. |
Moss, Mary. Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.
6–34369.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 380w. |
Mother Goose. Mother Goose in silhouettes cut by Katharine G. Buffum. †75c. Houghton.
7–30443.
Mother Goose uniquely illustrated in silhouettes that have a taking way of speaking for themselves.
Mott, Lawrence. To the credit of the sea. †$1.50. Harper.
7–17361.
Eight dramatic stories of the sea and the fishermen of the Labrador coast: To the credit of the sea, The white squall, The world of waters, The leaving of a dory, The best man out of Labrador, Uncle Sam Simmons, To’mie’s luck, and Adrift.
“Will interest the lover of sea yarns.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 178. O. ’07. |
“We are glad to recommend this book as the best its author has produced.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 200w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 359. Je. 1, ’07. 120w. |
“The stories ... are quite brutal, yet lightened by attempts at current popular sentiment.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w. |
Mott, Lawrence. White darkness and other stories of the great Northwest. $1.50. Outing.
7–4162.
Sixteen “tales of the blood-and-iron men of the Northland.” Stories of the trappers and the brave hearts that beat beneath their rough exteriors, stories of the Indians and the work of the Canadian mounted police; all are intensely dramatic and are told with much feeling and few words as befits the lonely snow-curtained land where passions are elemental and death is a matter of daily encounter. The tales include beside the title story; Jaquette, The silver fox, The current of fear, Wa-gush, Follette, The talking of Almighty voice, and others.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 78. Mr. ’07. |
“The stories are all picturesque, and some contain really vivid descriptive writing. There is a photographic quality about them. Clean-cut and clever, they have craft, but not art, except, perhaps, in two cases.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 110w. |
“What differentiates the stories of Lawrence Mott from those of Mr. London is the occasional unforseen flash of generosity and self-sacrifice, the revelation of tenderness in unexpected quarters, that shines out like a beacon light across the gloom of the pictures he draws.”
| + | Bookm. 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 440w. |
“These stories are all of the type known as ‘magazinable;’ which means that the chances are against their proving (to invent a similar verbal horror) really ‘bookable.’”
| + − | Nation. 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 120w. |
“They have less of that strength, boldness, and incisiveness which make London’s life pictures stand out like silhouettes against a full white moon, but they have more appreciation of the lights and shadows in the picture, more gentleness of mood, and a more poetic appreciation of nature.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 114. F. 23, ’07. 300w. |
“Mr. Mott writes incisively with no waste of words, and he has the dramatic sense in a high degree, but tragic bloodshed is much more frequent in his pages than in Parker’s tales of the same sort.” Vernon Atwood.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 160w. |
Mottram, William. True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam Bede.” *$1.75. McClurg.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The reader who picks up the volume in search of a sensation will be sorely disappointed. It is a jumble of family traditions, diffusely written, and displaying a marvellous lack of transition: but it is a genuine production nevertheless.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 860w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 100w. |
Moulton, Forest Ray. [Introduction to astronomy.] *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–14049.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A good text book. Its chief distinctive feature is the exposition of the ‘planetesimal theory’ propounded as a substitute for the nebular hypothesis of Laplace.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 47. F. ’07. |
“Prof. Moulton’s point of view is his own, in many ways unlike that of the textbooks in general use. Although the order and emphasis of presentation may be sometimes criticized, there can be no question that the book is throughout suggestive and stimulating.” Mary W. Whitney.
| + + − | Astrophys. J. 25: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w. |
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
| + | Atlan. 100: 263. Ag. ’07. 160w. |
Moulton, Richard Green. Modern reader’s Bible: the books of the Bible with three books of the Apocrypha presented in modern literary form; ed. with introds. and notes. **$2. Macmillan.
7–34574.
A one-volume edition of the reader’s Bible. The text used is that of the Revised version and the chapters and verses of the King James version are noted in figures on the margin. The general divisions follow the topical arrangement used in the volumes of the smaller separate editions.
Moulton, Richard Green. Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29024.
The introduction of Dr. Moulton’s study considers “What is implied in ‘The moral system of Shakespeare.’” Following his preliminary observations he conducts his inquiry along three lines of thought: the first presents particular dramas to illustrate what may be recognized as root ideas in the philosophy of Shakespeare; the second surveys the world of Shakespeare’s creation in its moral complexity; the third considers the forces of life in Shakespeare’s moral world, so far as these express themselves in dramatic forms from personal will at one end of the scale to overruling providence at the other end.
“The weakness of the book lies chiefly in just this neglect of the oft-despised sources. The reputation of the work as suggestive and stimulating is of course deserved, and it will doubtless long continue to serve as a useful guide in a fruitful kind of study.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 130w. |
Mozart, Johann. Twenty piano compositions; ed. by Carl Reinecke. (Musician’s lib., v. 26.) $2.50; pa. $1.50. Ditson.
7–1326.
The twenty selections from Mozart composition are prefaced by a sympathetic biographical sketch by Dr. Reinecke.
“There is probably no one volume better fitted to arouse the piano student’s interest in Mozart.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 101. Ap. ’07. | |
| + | Dial. 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 190w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 319. Ap. 4, ’07. 420w. |
Mudd, Samuel A. Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd; ed. by his daughter, Nettie Mudd; with preface by D. Eldridge Monroe. $3. Neale.
7–3.
Containing his letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas island, where he was imprisoned four years for alleged complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with statements of Mrs. Samuel A. Mudd, Dr. S. A. Mudd, and Edward Spangler regarding the assassination and the argument of General Ewing on the question of the jurisdiction of the Military commission and on the law and facts of the case, also “diary” of John Wilkes Booth.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 80w. | ||
| Ind. 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 50w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 330w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 120w. |
Mudge, James. [Fenelon: the mystic.] *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14595.
An appreciative treatment of Fénelon, his life, character, and influence is contained in this volume of the “Men of the kingdom” series.
Mulford, Clarence E. Bar—20. $1.50. Outing.
7–23640.
“Twenty-five chapters of gunpowder smoke, of shanty towns in New Mexico or Texas, thick with dust, pierced with bullets, strewn with prostrate forms of cowboys. Terse descriptions of alkali plains, of Gila monsters cayuses and the playful manners of the Bar–20 outfit.”—Nation.
“Delightful one dollar and a half ‘dime novel.’”
| + | Ind. 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w. |
“The narrative is full of swing, so full as to swing past at top speed without making any particular impression beyond the fact that Bar–20 invariably worsts its enemies.”
| − | Nation. 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 310w. |
“A rattling good story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 380w. |
* Mumby, Frank Arthur, ed. Letters of literary men. 2v. ea. *$1. Dutton.
7–18132.
Two volumes of letters which begin with Frances Burney and end with Robert Buchanan. The collection is divided into four groups as follows: The age of Wordsworth and Scott, The age of Byron, The early Victorian age and The age of Tennyson.
“Mr. Mumby might have left his work to responsible critics, without suggesting that it was thorough and painstaking. It is both, and the volumes afford some of the most interesting reading which we have come across of late. The editor’s short notes by way of introduction are capable, and his taste in selection, on the whole, admirable.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907. 1: 99. Ja. 26. 280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“A very attractive and companionable book. In these two volumes you have not only an index museum to most of the best letter writers of the last two centuries, but also a quantity of invaluable material for testing and revivifying many of the salient or amusing passages in literary annals.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 426. D. 21, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“There is a wealth of good reading which is of exactly the right kind to take up and dip into at any place for a half-hour’s rational enjoyment.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Mr. Mumby has done his work well. One or two letters could have been spared.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w. |
“It is the autobiographical interest of these letters that appeals most to the reader.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 643. Ap. 27, ’07. 1800w. |
* Munn, Charles Clark. Boyhood days on the farm: a story for young and old boys. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–38603.
In which the old gambrel-roofed farmhouse with open fireplace, big woodshed and tall well-sweep, the meadow and stream, and the isolated school at the cross roads are rescued from oblivion and made the environment of a farmer lad of the old New England type. The winter and summer humdrum is pictured with all a youngster’s resentment of the irksomeness of so tame a life yet it is made the all-important factor in the sturdy development of a type that has ever been prominent in the nation’s development.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 150w. |
Munro, Neil. [Bud.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–20870.
Bud is a little Chicago girl who steps serenely into the home of her staid aunts in a Scottish village. She is a contradictory mixture of owlish wisdom and baby ignorance, and whenever she expresses her thoughts it is with a goodly bit of slang that shocks her newly found relatives. It is a charming book with a freshness entirely its own.
“We cannot readily forgive Mr. Munro for permitting the child to have the inevitable attack of pneumonia in chapter thirteen, and his descriptive style when elated is like that of Dickens at his worst. But, after all, Bud is the thing, and Bud, if we may use an expression that might have come from her lips, is a peach with a stone in it.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 562. Je. 8, ’07. 230w. |
“Although the child is overdrawn and speaks a language too picturesque, and the story has no particular merit, there is a freshness about it that many will find charming.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠ |
“Not perhaps a book of solid merit, or dazzling wit, but neither is it in the least dull or in the least pretentious.”
| + | Nation. 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 270w. |
“A pretty story this, but badly constructed.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w. |
“She is a fascinating child, and though the book is spun out unnecessarily, and Mr. Munro’s humour is at times strained, her dealings with her neighbors make a very pleasant story.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 160w. |
“Though the little American play-actress is the central figure of this high-spirited and wholesome entertainment, its abiding charm resides in the portraiture of the ‘people of the placid, old, half-rustic world, that lives forever with realities, and seldom sees the passions counterfeited.’”
| + | Spec. 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 700w. |
Munro, William Bennett. Seigniorial system in Canada: a study in French colonial policy. *$2. Longmans.
7–11561.
“Beginning with an introductory chapter on the European background of French colonization. Dr. Munro traces the history of the seigniorial grants from 1598 to 1760. After this, with the elaborate critical apparatus and bibliography of the ‘scientific historian,’ he describes the relations of the seignior to his superiors and his dependents, and the fiscal and religious systems of New France. He concludes with chapters on British Canada which strengthen our growing conviction that the American revolutionists were uninformed when they made the famous Quebec act a chief grievance against Great Britain.”—Ind.
“Within the limits he imposes on himself he has done his task extremely well. He is always accurate. The bibliographical apparatus is excellent and altogether the book attains to a very high standard both of historical insight and of scholarship.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 171. O. ’07. 1040w. |
“For the student of colonial history this book offers a valuable sidelight; for the Canadian student its direct value must be great. It will be long before the work has to be done again.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 240w. |
“It has been reserved for Professor Munro not only to coördinate materials which were brought together fifty years ago with those which have been accumulated by his own efforts, but to supply the proper perspective, enliven obscure details by critical insight, and set forth the seigniorial system, as an organic whole.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 283. S. 26, ’07. 1530w. |
“The foregoing criticisms, it will be noted, deal with minor matters, Professor Munro’s book is to be heartily recommended to all students of Canadian institutions.” F. P. Walton.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 729. D. ’07. 960w. |
“It is indeed a mine of information, all the more valuable that it is written throughout with absolute dispassionateness.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 517. O. 26, ’07. 1000w. |
“We congratulate the author on the success with which he has accomplished his task. The only portion of his work that seems to fall below the high level reached in the earlier chapters is that which deals with the period of British control, a phase of the subject which might well receive separate and fuller treatment.” Charles M. Andrews.
| + + − | Yale R. 16: 321. N. ’07. 600w. |
Munson, John William. Reminiscences of a Mosby guerrilla. **$2. Moffat.
6–40255.
Mr. Munson became one of the Partisan rangers at the beginning of their career and remained until the final surrender. “The spirit of the author is fair and his admiration of courage impartial. Every one who rode with Mosby has exciting experiences, hot fighting, fast riding, and narrow escapes.” (Outlook.) “It is hardly history that he gives, but rather adventure with a historic setting. Or if it be called history, it must be classified as of that specialized type produced south of Mason and Dixon’s line among a people imaginative and emotional, but not analytical or introspective.” (Ind.)
“Contains much repetition, but is otherwise interesting in the manner of telling as well as matter, and is characterized by considerable humor.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 47. F. ’07. | |
| + | Dial. 42: 145. Mr. 1. ’07. 590w. |
“Tells in a spirited and captivating way the story of Mosby’s guerrillas.”
| + | Ind. 62: 618. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w. | |
| Nation. 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 160w. |
“This is a plain, clear narrative, told with no pretense of literary grace or historical accuracy, but with abundance of stirring incident.”
| + | Outlook. 84. 842. D. 1. ’06. 80w. |
Munsterberg, Hugo. Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.
5–11083.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is conceived in a somewhat sentimental fashion. The argument, though expounded in an attractive and popular manner, is, however, essentially metaphysical.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 377. Mr. 30. 110w. |
Munsterberg, Hugo. Science and idealism. **85c. Houghton.
6–15720.
“This little book gives the text of a lecture delivered last winter before the students of Yale university. In it Professor Munsterberg indicates in brief compass his position in regard to certain fundamental philosophical problems, restating in somewhat popular form the theories of the relations of science to experience, and of the classification of the sciences, which are already familiar to readers of the books and articles which he has published during the last few years.”—Philos. R.
“This little book is remarkable in that it presents in clear and simple outline a system of transcendental philosophy that is admittedly both abstruse and elaborate.” W. P. Montague.
| + + | J. Philos. 4: 161. Mr. 14, ’07. 1370w. |
“The form of this presentation is admirably clear and direct. Moreover, it is throughout dignified and earnest, as becomes an address on serious topics, and does not seek to gain popularity and effectiveness by the adoption of slang or phrases caught up from the man on the street.” J. E. C.
| + + | Philos. R. 16: 95. Ja. ’07. 520w. |
Murray, A. M. Imperial outposts, from a strategical and commercial aspect; with special reference to the Japanese alliance; with a preface by Earl Roberts. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–38236.
“Colonel Murray makes a strategical and commercial survey of imperial outposts with a special eye to the obligations of the Japanese alliance. His book is the result of a journey to the Mediterranean, Aden, Hong Kong and other British fortified stations, as well as to Japan and Canada. It is based on first hand-information which should be useful to all who wish to make a study of the conditions in which the Empire would find itself on the outbreak of a great war. When Colonel Murray wants to express an opinion, as a rule he gives that of an expert whose views he has had the advantage of obtaining direct.”—Sat. R.
“If we note those opinions from which we differ, it must be with the preliminary remarks that there is still more in the book with which we thoroughly agree, and that the whole of it is suggestive and worthy of the most careful consideration.”
| + − | Ath. 1907. 1: 533. My. 4. 1140w. |
“He knows how to put things shortly, and he does not hesitate to state the conclusions which his information has led him to form, whether they are or are not favourable to the existing state of things.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1300w. |
“The number of material points touched on is great; the work is one of much value.” George R. Bishop.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 501. Ag. 17, 07. 1250w. |
“Colonel Murray’s is a volume of peculiar interest to the military strategist of whatever country.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 720w. |
“It is in no sense of the word authoritative and is but a slight contribution to our knowledge.” G: Louis Beer.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 745. S. ’07. 70w. |
“This book will materially assist the study and closer knowledge of the Empire from Malta round the world to Halifax.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 230w. |
“The book has made us feel two things: first, that we should like to see every officer in the British army with the wide vision and interest in the strategical and commercial organization of the empire which Colonel Murray displays; and secondly, that we should desire more evidence before accepting all the very definite conclusions of the author.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 831. My. 25, ’07. 1650w. |
Murray, David. [Japan]; rev. ed. (Story of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
6–37650.
Continuing the history to the close of 1905, with the provisions of the Treaty of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan, and supplementary chapters by Baron Kentaro Kaneko.
“Yet deserves a place in a popular library, however, for its comparative freedom from sentimental and moral judgment of the things narrated, as well as for its wealth of descriptive, though uncritically presented data. Mr. Vorse’s two supplementary chapters on the constitution and the Chinese and Russian wars seem to possess singularly strong and weak points. Baron Kaneko’s two lectures cannot be said to deserve a place in a book of history. They are pleas of an advocate, as well as amenities of an envoy.” K. Asakawa.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 152. O. ’07. 1230w. |
“The real claim of the book depends not on the revised features so much as on the whole view it gives of Japanese history from the beginning of the empire down to the present time.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 220w. | |
| Nation. 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 85: 95. Ja. 12. ’07. 230w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w. |
Murray, James Erskine-. Handbook of wireless telegraphy; its theory and practice: for the use of electrical engineers. students, and operators. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
7–37604.
A handbook which is not encyclopedic yet is more than a simple exposition of the subject. It is intended for those who understand something of the theory and practice of wireless telegraphy and who are familiar with the technical terms.
“The author has arranged what may be fairly considered a most thorough general treatise of wireless telegraphy, and one bringing together the latest knowledge and theories.”
| + + | Engin. N. 58: 540. N. 14, ’07. 490w. |
“With all due respect to Dr. Erskine-Murray, we submit that this handbook is a striking example of how not to write on wireless telegraphy or any other subject. [Contains] much of intrinsic value and interest, particularly, for example the seventeenth chapter, on theories of transmission.” Maurice Solomon.
| + − | Nature. 76: 563. O. 3, ’07. 660w. |
Murrell, Cornelia Randolph (Mrs. David Gamble Murrell). What Marjorie saw abroad. $1.50. Neale.
6–43797.
A bright, wide-awake account of a trip abroad in which are given helpful bits of information for the prospective traveler. “It is not intended for a guide-book—only a forerunner.”
“The descriptions are accurate and good, and not so long drawn out as to be tiresome.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 120w. |
Muther, Richard. History of modern painting; rev. ed. continued by the author to the end of the 19th century. 4v. *$25. Dutton.
A revision of the first German edition, appearing in 1894, which has been continued to the end of the nineteenth century. “Besides all the old illustrations from woodcuts and photographs, each of the new volumes contains about a dozen full-page plates in color—a fine gallery in themselves.” (Dial.)
“For a survey of so wide a field this is just what is wanted; a bold rather than a subtle vision and a valuable style that carries the reader along to the next chapter before he thinks of criticising the last.”
| + | Acad. 73: 693. Jl. 20. ’07. 790w. |
“Suffers precisely from a certain determinism which prevents him from realizing the artistic life of this period in relation not only to the past, but also to the future.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 160. Ag. 10. 1480w. |
“The whole latter portion of the second volume is inferior to the rest of the work, and gives the effect of having been written in a much more hurried and perfunctory manner.” Elizabeth Kendall.
| + + − | Bookm. 25: 619. Ag. ’07. 1430w. |
Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.
| + | Dial. 43: 11. Jl. 1. ’07. 130w. |
“It is not often that one is permitted to write with unqualified enthusiasm of a history of art that is encyclopedic in its range, for the reason that few men who have written upon the subject combine Professor Muther’s profound erudition, sureness of judgment, excellence of taste and grace and fluency of expression.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 550w. |
“At the end of the English survey only does he fail us.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w. |
“The author, though there is a certain originality in his method (which is rather psychological than chronological) does not take the very high rank amongst art critics of the day claimed for him. In spite, however, of certain peculiarities of style, he has brought together in a convenient form a vast amount of information, and now and then hits on a very apt comparison.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 32: 334. O. ’07. 230w. |
“Nowhere else can the student turn for an exhaustive critical study of the nineteenth century, a statement which, in itself, declares the unique value of this work.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 700w. |
“Every one—artist, connoisseur, and critic—who desires to learn the real mission of modern art and comprehend its present status as individually and still more or less nationally expressed should read Prof. Muther’s work.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 349. Je. 1, ’07. 1620w. |
“Americans ... will feel some sense of disappointment, therefore, in not finding more pages devoted to American art in Dr. Muther’s books. Dr. Muther writes with an incisive phrase, far removed from the ponderous, involved style of some of his compatriots.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 550w. |
Muther, Richard. History of painting; tr. from the Germ. and ed. with critical notes by George Kriehn. **$5. Putnam.
7–11026.
An “attempt to explain from the psychology of each period its dominant style and to interpret the works of art as ‘human documents.’” “The work is in two volumes and contains eighty illustrations. It deals with the entire development of European paintings from the ‘downfall of the antique world,’ the fourth century, to the early years of the nineteenth.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A valuable book.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 125. My. ’07. |
“The excellent bibliography and the index of artists are additional merits of these exhaustive, original, sumptuous volumes.” Anna B. McMahan.
| + + | Dial. 43: 12. Jl. 1, ’07. 1920w. |
“It is only by comparison with the larger work that this two-volume ‘history of painting’ elicits criticism. There is hardly another work of similar scope that is at once so compact with information and so pleasant to read.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 110w. |
“He seeks the explanation of the painter’s work as a product of the times. Though Dr. Muther has not been the only writer to employ this method in the study of art, it is not the general fashion, and his development of it is conspicuous particularly for the breadth of the field to which he has applied it. The style is, for a book of the kind, unexpectedly spontaneous and free from the pedantic touch.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 31: sup. 51. Ap. ’07. 880w. |
“His book reveals considerable familiarity with a very wide range of art, and may be read with as much advantage as entertainment, if the reader will constantly remain on his guard and take frequent opportunities of testing the author’s statements, especially when they strike him as particularly clever.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 182. Je. 7, ’07. 680w. |
“Dr. Muther’s faults are what seem to us the faults of broad philosophical generalizations based on erroneous or insufficient premises—the faults of a man who would take a large view of things without allowing himself to be hampered by inconvenient or tedious facts, who would, in a word, evolve his camel from his inner consciousness.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 85. Jl. 25, ’07. 2110w. |
“It is more elaborate and less encyclopaedic than ‘The story of art throughout the ages,’ by S. Reinach, and is hardly a ‘history’ in the general acceptation of the term. Its principal features are exposition, criticism and connoisseurship.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 80w. |
“His criticism is entirely modern—his appraisements justified by the effect produced on the modern mind. Vain endeavor, idiosyncrasy, custom—all are gauged according to the modern standard of satisfying results.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 580w. |
“His books are distinguished from others because, as far as possible, their author approaches every great movement and every great man from a purely psychological point of view. The result is gratifying.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 480w. |
“From a strictly scientific standpoint the work as a whole is somewhat lacking in a due appreciation of the racial element in art, for the author is manifestly more of a psychologist than an ethnologist. And yet so grateful is one for these fresh, vital and inspirational volumes that criticism is almost disarmed.” Christian Brinton.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 124. Ap. ’07. 590w. |
“Scholarly work.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 639. My. ’07. 50w. |
Myers, Frederic William H. [Human personality and its survival of bodily death]; ed. and abridged by his son, Leopold H. Myers. **$3. Longmans.
7–1302.
An abridged editions of a work whose aim “is principally, to collect evidence of the phenomena discussed. Nevertheless, the author enters to some extent, on the more difficult and dangerous path of interpretation and theory.” (Cath. World.) Following an introduction the chapter headings are as follows: Disintegration of personality, Genius, Sleep, Hypnotism, Sensory automatism, Phantasms of the dead, Motor automatism and Trance, possession and ecstasy.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 144. My. ’07. |
“One of the most valuable contributions that has been made to the literature of psychic science.”
| + + | Arena. 36: 671. Je. ’07. 520w. |
“Without eliminating anything characteristic or typical, the editor has compressed the original into this one volume.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 254. My. ’07. 280w. |