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Rae, John. Sociological theory of capital. **$4. Macmillan.
6–7791.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His rearrangement of the text represents a great improvement over the original form. While he has employed his privilege of annotating very sparingly, such notes as he has attached are uniformly helpful.” Alvin S. Johnson.
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 162. Mr. ’07. 1310w. |
“Dr. Mixter has done work of a valuable type in producing this volume, for, whether Rae’s economic conclusions are accepted or not, they are certainly a most stimulating contribution to the history of economics.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w. |
Ragg, Rev. Lonsdale. Dante and his Italy. *$3.50. Putnam.
7–29016.
“To look at Italy through the eyes of Dante himself, and having looked to realise her for others, as she appeared to the poet during his sojourn upon earth, has been the chief aim of the author of this new study.... He begins with a rapid sketch of the state of Europe as a whole at what he calls the ‘critical moment of Dante’s life, the ideal state of his vision,’ passing on to concentrate his attention first on Italy, then on Florence, and finally on Dante himself, tracing his literary antecedents, calling up one after another the possibilities of his contemporary authors and of his hosts during the weary wanderings of his exile, the narrative terminating with an eloquent account of the last days at Ravenna, and of the impression caused by the news that the great genius had passed away.”—Int. Studio.
“Our chief quarrel with Mr. Ragg is on account of his trick of introducing trivialities, hardly suited to the dignity of his theme.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1120w. |
“Canon Ragg is steeped to the finger tips in Dantesque lore, is thoroughly familiar with everything written by the man to whom his book is one long tribute of homage, and is gifted with an imagination so vivid that he has been able to piece together a very realistic picture of the period at which his hero lived.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 169. Ag. ’07. 200w. |
“His task is suited to his powers, which are, it must be said, not inconsiderable. He gives the delightful impression, so rarely received in these days, that he knows a great deal more than he has set down.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 164. My. 24, ’07. 1340w. |
“With a little more system, a greater tenacity in developing each of his themes, Mr. Ragg would have written a book to be often opened for reference after being once read for pleasure. It is a pity, that this book should be marred by many misprints in foreign words. A more serious defect is an excessive fondness for the dramatic and picturesque, which leads Mr. Ragg into baseless conjectures and striking inconsistencies.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 1070w. |
“Everywhere Canon Ragg writes as a man, scholarly and imaginatively dominated by his subject, and yet with a painstaking discretion which at once enables the reader to separate facts from hearsay. On one or two points, however, he shows that he has not followed the researches of Dante’s scholars as carefully as he has the half-forgotten chronicles of the poet’s contemporaries.” Walter Littlefield.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 2220w. |
“Dr. Ragg’s narrative style, clear, compact, smooth, well fits his subject-matter.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 410w. |
“Many of Mr. Ragg’s statements have that air of generalization which belongs to ideas absorbed at second-hand. He needs a course of reading, and above all a study of statutes and documents.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 688. Je. 1, ’07. 750w. |
“If the writer allows himself here and there a touch of fancy not altogether authorised by known facts, he never in any case sins against probability.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 233. Ag. 17, ’07. 1140w. |
Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe). Queen of the rushes, a tale of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.
6–35940.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Considered as a series of pictures representing Welsh landscape and Welsh people, this book has much charm and a certain quiet interest. As a story it fails by an excessive and inartistic introduction of the marvellous.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 110w. |
“Allan Raine is very sensitive to the beauty and the picturesqueness of the rugged Welsh character and Welsh scenery, and has a skillful pen in the weaving of these things into a structure of the tale. The result is to mask very pleasingly an inherent feebleness of conception and treatment.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 28. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w. |
Raleigh, Walter Alexander. Shakespeare. *75c. Macmillan.
7–15578.
A monograph in the English men of letters series, which interprets Shakespeare to us largely from his dramas. It is in five chapters: Shakespeare, Stratford and London, Books and poetry, The theatre, Story and character, and The last phase.
“A distinct contribution to Shakesperean literature.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 170. O. ’07. S. |
“It is one of the most suggestive books on Shakespeare that this country has yet produced.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 689. Je. 8. 2870w. |
“Even some of the most appreciative among [the critics] have considered his work too much as literature and not enough as drama. This is the chief fault in Professor Raleigh’s contribution.” Edward Fuller.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 155. O. ’07. 1320w. |
“He has produced a thoroughly safe volume on the subject of what everyone should know about Shakespeare. And when we add that he writes not as a fetich-worshipper but as a reverent and honest student, we have said enough.”
| + | Dial. 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 390w. |
“To a layman the contrast between Professor Raleigh’s volume and the writings of Shakespeare scholars generally is very astonishing. The point that, as a layman, we wish to emphasize, is that he can be read with pleasure by those who have tried to read the other books and failed.” Frank Moore Colby.
| + + | Forum. 39: 255. O. ’07. 1760w. |
“For this little volume it is safe to predict a large degree of public favor. It reveals, it is true, many instances of bad logic and an abundant lack of system. But it is in many respects brilliant, the style is almost epigrammatic in its sententiousness, and the felicitous aptness with which the text is quoted amounts almost to a display of genius.”
| + + − | Ind. 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 1000w. |
“Mr. Raleigh has given us an essay, overflowing with life, crammed with suggestion, full of stimulating ideas and happy turns of phrase, and with no dull page from beginning to end. It is table-talk in excelsis, stamped with all the freshness and brightness of an original mind. This impromptu nature of Mr. Raleigh’s criticism brings with it, of course, the defect of its quantity.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 2870w. |
“We are delighted to find him penetrating to the root of the matter, which is that Shakespeare’s stage was a platform and not, like ours, a picture-frame, and that drama written to be played on a platform took a peculiar shape from that very fact. Alive to the fact, he seems to be dead, or only half alive, to its consequences. He has the key, nourishes it, and then, instead of using it, puts it in his pocket.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 141. My. 8, ’07. 1700w. |
“The book is not well constructed; and throughout, the author’s strength lies rather in stimulating comment than in logical inference.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 454. My. 11, ’07. 1400w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 256. Ap. 20, ’07. 330w. |
“Prof. Raleigh’s comprehension of this theatre and its demands lends much value to his book.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 288. My. 4, ’07. 1230w. |
“It is in his consideration of Shakespeare as a poet and as a creator of character that Professor Raleigh is seen at his best.” Brander Matthews.
| + + | No. Am. 185: 780. Ag. 2, ’07. 1090w. |
“Professor Raleigh is not so happily untechnical as Professor Baker, and is more concerned with critical estimates, from the easy assumptions of which many of his readers will heartily dissent.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 380w. |
“Though not so good a book as we might expect from him, is much better than some of the critics reckon it.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 276. S. ’07. 890w. |
“Dr. Raleigh manages to get within the compass of one brief volume a vast amount of information and interpretation of the immortal bard without becoming either prosy or dogmatic.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w. |
“Professor Raleigh has really achieved some sort of balance within a scope which he recognizes from the outset to be very limited.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 145. Ag. 3, ’07. 1850w. |
“The writer of this happy volume has the art of forgetting that he is a professor.”
| + | Spec. 98: 942. Je. 15, ’07. 1330w. |
Ramsay, William Mitchell. Pauline, and other studies in early Christian history. *$3. Armstrong.
7–29067.
A group of fifteen essays touching upon the character of Paul, the authorship of the Acts and early Christianity in Asia Minor. They have been collected from various British magazines and are accompanied by a great number of illustrations.
“The book exhibits all those qualities which we are accustomed to look for in Professor Ramsay’s writings; freshness of standpoint, flashes of insight only possible to a scholar of rich and varied learning, unflagging zest in the handling of his subject—a zest which communicates itself to the reader—and that lucid and forcible style which has done so much to popularize the results of his investigations.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 527. Jl. ’07. 1330w. | |
| Ath. 1907, 1: 130. F. 2. 820w. |
“Many possess permanent value.”
| + | Bib. World. 29: 160. F. ’07. 60w. |
“Since the author confessedly speaks as ‘a historian and geographer,’ one cannot fail to notice the dogmatic tone that marks some of his purely theological utterances.” George H. Gilbert.
| + − | Bib. World. 30: 294. O. ’07. 1030w. | |
| Ind. 62: 505. D. 28, ’07. 50w. |
“The title is inexact and the unity of character in the studies slight.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w. |
“Not only does Professor Ramsay bring fresh and valuable instruction from the field of his special study, but he renders good service as a judicious moderator of the schools of critics.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w. |
“The pages dealing with the life of St. Paul are perhaps the most interesting in the book, not only intrinsically, but because Professor Ramsay is so great an authority on the subject.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 170w. |
Randal, John. Sweetest solace. $1.50. Dutton.
7–7197.
Gascoigne square, Whitborough, is made the scene of a pretty love story in which two young girls from Australia come into the square as mistresses of a board school. Here they meet a number of interesting people, differing widely in character and social position, and here the mystery of their father, who had lived his young life in this very square, is unravelled, leaving them free to marry the two young men of wealth and family who have come to love them. It is not the mystery, however, which is uppermost for interest centers around the quaint characters and their old prejudices: the social climbers, dear old Miss Blackiston, wholehearted Ben Cox, Lord Streybridge, narrow-minded Mrs. Petch, spiteful Miss Marston, and all the others.
| + | Nation. 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w. |
“This is a pleasant story reproducing something of the Trollope atmosphere. But Mr. Randal lays the colours on too thickly when depicting a cad.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 148. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w. |
* Rannie, David Watson. Wordsworth and his circle. (Memoir ser.) **$3.50. Putnam.
“Criticism, quotation, narrative, and anecdote are so woven together as to form a single piece.... Coleridge moves through the scenes, with the divine light ever waning in his eyes; Lamb banters and praises; Southey, Christopher North, Dr. Arnold, De Quincey, Scott, Rogers, Keats, come and go, speak and listen, and range themselves in proper perspective about the central, still lonely figure.”—Nation.
“Though well-read and in the main judicious, he occasionally makes odd slips in his critical remarks. The style is always graceful and dignified, and we do not hesitate to affirm that this is the best book yet written for any one who wishes to breathe, so to speak, the very atmosphere in which these men moved.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 1130w. |
“This is a desultory but an entertaining, and often suggestive, book on a subject which has grown somewhat worn.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 190w. |
Ransom, Olive. Woman’s heart: manuscripts found in the papers of Katherine Peshconet and ed. by her executor, Olive Ransom. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–11548.
The diary of a woman who loved a priest. “It is difficult to imagine a twentieth-century Abelard receiving letters from an American Héloïse; letters so quivering with intensity of emotion and with also a touch of classicism that would have suited well the Renaissance spirit.” (Ind.) “As for Katherine, if hers was a woman’s heart, then, indeed, is a woman a daughter of Eve. She argued through years, got what she wanted, and died for it.” (N. Y. Times.) The book “tells an interesting story, altho its hold is purely psychical.” (Ind.)
“The old arguments against the theories and practices of the Roman Catholic church, even here in America, are reiterated with amazing vivacity and freshness.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 220w. |
“The book leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 500w. |
* Ransome, Arthur. Bohemia in London. **$1.50. Dodd.
Here is presented London’s historical and present-day Bohemia with the Parisian “tinsel and sham” wanting. “The ‘Bohemia in London’ is distinctly British and not Gallic; it is founded on the same code of laws as that which prevailed in the more famous Bohemia of Paris; there is no exaggeration in its pictures and there is no suppression of realities.” (Ind.)
“His book, if not exciting, is readable enough.” G. S. S.
| + | Acad. 73: 158. N. 23, ’07. 520w. | |
| Dial. 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 160w. |
“I feel very confident that ‘Bohemia in London’ will prove a distinct literary success. I can say with conviction that the book gives the most life-like picture of that London quarter which the author sets himself to describe. The book is rich in humorous descriptions and portraitures, has many pathetic scenes, and gleams here and there with genuine poetic feeling.” Justin McCarthy.
| + | Ind. 63: 1420. D. 12, ’07. 200w. |
“The book is entertainingly and thoughtfully written.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: sup. 10. S. 28, ’07. 360w. |
Raper, Charles Lee. Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.
6–24099.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book contains little or nothing that is original either in material or treatment. Moreover. it does not seem at all adapted to the use for which its author intends it.”
| − | Yale R. 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w. |
Rappaport, Philip. Looking forward: a treatise on the status of woman and the origin and growth of the family and the state. $1. Kerr.
6–23736.
“As the preface states, ‘this book is written from the standpoint of historic materialism.’ Its aim is to show how past forms of the family and of the state have been determined by economic conditions, especially by methods of production, and to demonstrate incidentally that Marxian socialism is the only means of social salvation and the natural goal of development. The author shows considerable acquaintance with the socialist school of social and economic writers, but beyond that his acquaintance with the scientific literature of the subjects upon which he writes is very limited.”—Am. J. Soc.
“Like all socialist writers, he makes large use of Buckle and Morgan, but he seems utterly unaware of the works of later investigators which long since have made Buckle and Morgan out of date.” Charles A. Ellwood.
| − | Am. J. Soc. 12: 563. Ja. ’07. 250w. |
“It is an extremely valuable book, because it is fundamental in character and rationalistic in method of treatment. There is, therefore, no appeal to emotionalism, sentimentality or prejudice that would tend to cloud the reason or obscure the unbiased judgment.”
| + + | Arena. 37: 443. Ap. ’07. 3280w. |
Rashdall, Hastings. Theory of good and evil: a treatise on moral philosophy. 2v. *$4.75. Oxford.
7–18191.
“In the first instance it is intended for ‘undergraduate students in philosophy,’ and is not supposed to assume any previous acquaintance either with ethics or with general philosophy. In the second place, it aims at working out an ethical theory which shall be in some sense a higher synthesis of Green and Sidgwick, to whose memory the book is dedicated.” (Lond. Times.) “In the first volume, Mr. Rashdall deals with the fundamental conceptions of ethics.... In the second volume the author examines what he regards as the metaphysical implications of ethics, but he hardly proves the propriety of introducing such a discussion Into a treatise on moral philosophy.” (Nation.)
“This treatise, though concerned with the investigation of profound questions, is singularly successful in its avoidance of all ponderosity and pedantry. Written in a pleasing style, it is readable throughout. The problems discussed are clearly presented, the line of argument is always developed with logical care and dialetical skill, the discussions of even the most abstract questions are uniformly lucid and illuminating. Much of the suggestive power of the work is derived from the wealth of pertinent illustration, upon his abundant store of which the author draws freely.” A. R. Gifford.
| + + | J. Philos. 4: 548. S. 26, ’07. 1900w. |
“In spite of the disadvantages incident to his plan, Dr. Rashdall has produced a very readable and useful book. Without being strikingly original his criticisms and contentions touch fundamental issues and rest upon a full knowledge of ethical thought in the past as well as of recent discussions. One of the features of the book is its fairmindedness and moderation.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1690w. |
“The discussion is generally sympathetic—often entertaining, and in attention to details the author has been industrious and thorough. Yet the final impression left upon the reader is that of logical looseness and structural weakness.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 331. O. 10, ’07. 870w. |
“The chief merits of his book [are] clearness and force with which the problem of morality is stated and the fearlessness with which the author follows out his own solution.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 1004. Je. 29, ’07. 1800w. |
Rauschenbusch, Walter. Christianity and the social crisis. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–13925.
The author begins his study of tracing the relations of Christianity to the social crisis as far back as the days of the greater Hebrew prophets. He finds reasons for the “halting and groping,” conscience of Christendom, “perplexed by contradicting voices” and finds reasons for “freeing an honest man’s heart” on the maxims of the past and the imperious call of the future.
“Of less value is the later and constructive part of the work where an attempt is made to outline the immediate measures which should be taken to mitigate the evils of our time. Such questions cannot be successfully treated in the form of rhetorical appeals to somewhat vague and elementary feelings and without a mastery of technical economic reasoning which is not revealed in the work itself.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + − | Dial. 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 170w. |
“There is not room here to show the successive stages by which Professor Rauschenbusch builds up his structure of thought to its culmination: we can only say that nothing in it is set down in carelessness or in ignorance, and that it cannot be ignored by any one who would understand the social thought of today.”
| + | Ind. 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 410w. |
“Professor Rauschenbusch writes in the heat of religious zeal and with reforming passion.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 530w. |
“It is a book to like, to learn from, and, though the theme be sad and serious, to be charmed with.” Joseph O’Connor.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w. |
“While its argument is strongly based on economic, historical, ethical, and religious grounds, its temper and tone, admirably dispassionate and judicial, commend it to fairminded men.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 264. O. 5, ’07. 1100w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w. |
Raven, John Howard. Old Testament introduction. general and special. **$2. Revell.
6–3543.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The section on the ‘Text’ is rather uneven. ‘The Pentateuch in general’ is handled somewhat in detail, and always to the detriment of the modern view. We are still more amazed that a modern textbook should be published without an index of any kind. This is inexcusable.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
| − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 310w. |
Raven, John James. Bells of England; with 60 il. (Antiquary’s books.) *$3. Dutton.
7–2433.
The result of a sixty years’ study of campanology. “It is a work that can scarcely fail to give satisfaction to any who are interested in the story of bells, whether experts or novices. The Celtic, Saxon, Norman, Plantagenet, and Tudor use of bells, and the history of the later foundries are fully discussed; whilst other chapters tell of particular dedications, of change-ringing, of chime barrels and carillons, of handbells or tintinnabula, of bell usages and laws, and of the legends and poetry to which they have given birth.” (Ath.)
“The critic looks in vain for sins of commission.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 307. S. 15. 350w. |
“Dr. Raven’s book puts a new and deeper meaning into a thousand familiar quotations and allusions, and makes understandable numerous rites and customs that may previously have been past over without a thought of their significance.”
| + | Ind. 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 170w. |
“A volume highly creditable to his patient industry.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 420w. |
“Mr. Raven’s book is well worth the notice of students, serious and slight, of the subject.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w. |
“A book which should take a high place in the literature of the subject.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 339. S. 8, ’06. 280w. |
Ravenel, Harriott Horry. Charleston; the place and the people. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–42434.
A story that “has more to do with the antebellum Charleston than with the city of to-day. A great store of local history and tradition has been freely drawn upon in the preparation of this work, while the artist, Vernon Howe Bailey, has co-operated ably with the author in picturing the distinctive architectural features of South Carolina’s stately and dignified capital.” (R. of Rs.)
“It is in a fine spirit of reverence for the traditions of her home-land that Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel has written this volume.”
| + | Dial. 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 260w. |
“The book is of peculiar interest, not only for the information it contains, but for the manner in which all is presented.”
| + | Ind. 62: 738. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w. |
“It has much of the haunting fascination peculiar to the old town.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 886. D. 22, ’06. 510w. |
“Mrs. Ravenel writes with loyalty, deep interest, and great care for important detail. She infuses into otherwise dry history the elusive charm of a vivacious and discriminating mind.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 420w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 70w. |
Ray, Anna Chapin. Ackroyd of the faculty. †$1.50. Little.
7–12975.
Ackroyd, the young professor of much intellect and worse than no family, comes in contact with a wholly new social scheme of things thru his position on the faculty of a great university. The daughter of the head of his department stands for the world of culture he has never known and the influence of these two characters upon each other forms the story of the book. In the end, of course, each finds in the other all that an early environment had failed to give.
“This is the best of the three faculty stories recently published. It is better worked out and stronger than Miss Ray’s previous work.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠ |
“The book is charmingly written.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 280w. |
“The story offers some unusual attractions to the discriminating reader.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 140w. |
Ray, Anna Chapin. Day: her year in New York. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–30834.
The third volume in Miss Ray’s “Sydney books.” It deals largely with the development of Phyllis, Sydney’s younger sister, an untamed, withal sensitive girl, who needs people and kindness to bring out the best in her.
Raymond, George Lansing. Essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–3936.
A handbook in which the author “traces the phenomena of the arts to their sources in material nature and the human mind; he shows that the different arts have been developed by similar methods and that these methods characterize the entire work of artistic imagination.... There are chapters on nature, art, beauty, artistic mental action, form, and significance, the personality of the authors, art composition, rhythm and proportion.... There are a large number of half-tone illustrations and pen-and-ink sketches.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Some of his essays, notably that on Rhythm, are full of interesting suggestion, and prove that their author, whatever else he may lack, is a master of literary style.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 31: 249. My. ’07. 290w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 550w. |
“It can be said that its superior in an effective, all-around discussion of its subject is not in sight.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w. |
“As a whole, the work lacks those psychological foundations which many of us consider desirable in a treatise on aesthetics. As a result, the subject matter is more that of art theory than of aesthetics in any broad sense. Yet the pervading tone is one of sanity and tolerance which will commend the book to many. We cannot, perhaps, agree entirely with the author’s own estimate of his work.” Robert Morris Ogden.
| − + | Psychol. Bull. 4: 225. Jl. 15, ’07. 1310w. |
Rea, Hope. Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | Acad. 70: 617. Je. 20, ’06. 200w. |
Reade, Charles. [Cloister and the hearth.] $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the thin paper, limp leather reprints. It is prefaced by an “Appreciation” of Charles Reade by Algernon C. Swinburne, reprinted from “Miscellanies.”
Reade, Willoughby. When hearts were true. $1. Neale.
7–25510.
The title expresses the thought uppermost in four good short stories, as follows: His last song, Forgive us our trespasses, For the child’s sake, and The ghost of Oak Ridge.
Readers’ guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Some of the periodicals seem too trivial for such a record, whereas neither of the English quarterlies is represented. But on the whole the work bears all the marks of being well planned and carefully edited.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 90w. |
Reagan, Harry Clifton. Locomotives, simple, compound, and electric. $3.50. Wiley.
7–11983.
In the fifth edition of this practical treatise on the locomotive engine and its handling in service, the work has been revised in order to include the latest developments of steam and electric locomotives.
“There is no doubt but what a great deal of information for the practical engineer can be obtained from this book, but it is a pity that the arrangement has not been more systematic and that so many prominent and important parts of the locomotive have been omitted from discussion.” G. R. Henderson.
| − + | Engin. N. 57: 666. Je. 13, ’67. 1260w. |
Reagan, John Henninger. Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the civil war; ed. by Walter Flavius McCaleb; with introd. by George P. Garrison. $3. Neale.
6–34012.
“The book itself is short, embracing but three hundred and fifty pages of not very compact print. The main topics treated are the author’s early life in Texas, his part in Congress during three or four years prior to 1861, the organization of the Confederacy at Montgomery, the civil war, as viewed by an active and efficient cabinet officer in Richmond, and the problems of reconstruction. The most interesting portion of the book is the plain, unvarnished story of Reagan’s hardships and early struggles.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The editing of the work has been very well done.” William E. Dodd.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 679. Ap. ’07. 700w. | |
| Ind. 62: 1166. My. 3, ’07. 100w. |
“Are partly dull and partly interesting. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Mr. Reagan’s recollections of the early days of Texan independence is not particularly lively. As postmaster general of the Confederacy, however, Mr. Reagan stands on firmer ground, and has written pages that are not without future historical value.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w. | |
| Spec. 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w. |
Reed, Helen Leah. [Napoleon’s young neighbor.] †$1.50. Little.
7–34325.
A side-light story based upon the “Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena” by Mrs. Abell. It tells of Napoleon’s friendship for a little girl, Betsy Balcombe, at whose house, “The Briars,” he spent the first ten weeks of his banishment.
“Is a bit of history interestingly written.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 50w. |
Reed, Myrtle. Love affairs of literary men. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–31403.
The author brings out of their lavender the love-memories of Swift, Pope, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Cowper, Carlyle, Poe, Shelley and Keats.
| + | Dial. 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 80w. | |
| Lit. D. 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 350w. | ||
| + | Lit. D. 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w. |
“A collection of more or less well-known facts, retold in pleasant fashion. A book that will find favor among the many whose appetite prefers entrées to joints.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 170w. |
Reed, Myrtle. [Spinner in the sun.] **$1.50. Putnam.
6–33577.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This story—especially the earlier part of it—has both charm and originality, its diction being excellent, and the characters, if not altogether life-like, well imagined.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 90w. |
“The only trouble is that the author has resorted to narcotics in order to produce effects sufficiently weird in the minds of her characters, and, as is too often the case with women writers, she cannot quite achieve the dramatic without falling into the melodramatic.”
| − | Ind. 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w. |
Rees, Arthur Dougherty. Double love; a tragedy in five acts. †$1. Winston.
7–17377.
In this poem-drama of American life a modern capitalist in blank verse, insists that his daughter’s love must choose between her and his other love, a literary career. He demands that he “walk the Rialto of true trade, the mart of traffic.” Naturally tragedy is the artistic result.
Reich, Emil. Success in life. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–11564.
The philosophy of success is the outgrowth of definite basic principles. Mr. Reich denounces the “fluke” idea of success and plants success on the principle of energetics. The hope of the author is to establish an ideal so universal that it may be used by anyone in any walk of life for the attaining of honest, successful results.
“In spite of this ill-advised plan of constructing a mathematical framework on which to fashion a body of doctrine dealing with the most unmathematical of subjects, the book is so fresh, so unconventional, so ingenious, and so suggestive, that its weaknesses and imperfections do not need to plead very hard for forgiveness. He has the readiness, not to say looseness, of the fluent talker and lecturer, but little of the exactness, the terseness, the fine reserve of the scholarly and painstaking writer.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w. |
“He is the possessor of a lucid and attractive style which enables him to clothe abstract and even trite themes with a new and timely interest.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 370w. |
“The book, however, has an interest and value not promised in its title. The whole book is written with reference to British conditions. As a criticism of these it is interesting. Dr. Reich is a Teutonic Max O’Rell, who has read Schopenhauer and Herbert Spencer.”
| + | Nation. 84: 479. My. 23, ’07. 440w. |
“Dr. Reich’s misfortune is that he presents real and false explanations with equal confidence and equal felicity. His merit is that he is always readable and always suggestive, even when he is as wrong as sheer ignorance or rash haste to conclusions can make any man.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 155. Mr. 16, ’07. 1620w. |
“A sagacious writer he is, though at times amusingly otherwise.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w. |
Reichel, Rev. George Valentine. Bible truths through eye and ear. **$1. Whittaker.
6–45727.
A volume of “object teachings,” written for children, based upon such subjects as Harbors, Fog-signals, Life-saving, Lessons of the snow, Knots, Having salt, Fort builders, Like unto clear glass, and a great many more.
Reid, George Archdall. Principles of heredity, with some applications. *$3.50. Dutton.
5–40286.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The book not only lacks evidences of seasoned thought, but of familiarity with the more recent literature bearing on the discussion of heredity, and, on the whole, is a disappointing analysis of the subject. Nevertheless, we believe it will be of service on account of the new point of view adopted and the citing of evidences hearing on heredity furnished by disease.” William A. Locy.
| − + | Science, n.s. 25: 60. Ja. 11, ’07. 1400w. |
Reid, Homer A. Concrete and reinforced concrete construction. *$5. Clark, M. C.
7–6665.
“The book is divided into 34 chapters. The subject matter may be grouped as follows: Cement and its manufacture and tests, the aggregate, proportioning, mixing and placing concrete, cost of work, and finishing concrete surfaces, 132 pages; physical and elastic properties of concrete and steel, 85 pages; principles and style of reinforcement, mechanical bond, curved pieces subject to flexure, and columns, walls, and pipes, 53 pages; theory of flexure of beams and strength of columns with formula and calculations, 136 pages; foundations, 58 pages; general building and construction and matters connected with practical construction, 142 pages; retaining walls, dams, conduits and sewers, tank and reservoir construction, chimneys, tunnels, etc., 144 pages; bridges, arches, piers and abutments, 104 pages; concrete building blocks, 20 pages.”—Engin. N.
“The analytical or theoretical portion of the book is its weakest feature. On the whole, with a few important items to be excepted, the analytical treatment is more complete than that in other books which have appeared. The general plan of the book is excellent, the proportioning of parts good, and the manner of presentation commendable. In some minor particulars objection may be made to the exact order of presentation, and some headings and forms of statement need editing.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 301. Mr. ’07. 3180w. |
Reid, Rev. John. Jesus and Nicodemus: a study in spiritual life. *$1.75. Scribner.
A series of studies given in the form of lectures or sermons to different congregations in Scotland. “The conversation with Nicodemus peculiarly invites exposition, not only because of the far-reaching truth contained in it, but also because from our knowledge of the historical situation we are enabled to fill out the scene which the gospel gives in bare outline. Mr. Reid has become himself master of the historical situation, and has thus made luminous the mental attitude of Nicodemus. He has also given the right place to the reflective illumination of the mind of the evangelist as it came to a larger, fuller understanding of Jesus.” (Am. J. Theol.)
“There is perhaps only one interpretation which will not meet with general acceptance. Would that we had more of such penetrating, illuminating, vital interpretations of the scenes of the fourth gospel.”
| + + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 534. Jl. ’07. 460w. |
“Characterized by literary skill and religious insight.”
| + | Bib. World. 29: 239. Mr. ’07. 20w. |
Reid, Stuart J. Life and letters of the first Earl of Durham (1792–1840). 2v. *$10. Longmans.
7–10998.
An authoritative and detailed biography of John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham; “The Durham book has been written with full access to the letters and papers of Lord Durham, and will throw a new light on the reform struggle of 1830, the secret history of the reform bill of 1832, on the creation of the kingdom of Belgium, on the affairs of Russia, when Durham pleaded for the Poles, and subsequently when he was Ambassador at St. Petersburg; on the strange vicissitudes of the Whigs under Grey and Melbourne, and much else that will be much worth reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Of the misrepresentations to which he was exposed and all else pertaining to this interesting chapter of his life Mr. Reid writes fully and well.”
| + | Acad. 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 970w. |
“If one essays the task of criticizing Mr. Reid one must add that his work is only moderately well done. He lacks conciseness and sometimes lucidity; his matter is not always well arranged, not always pertinent, not always quite accurate. He makes too great a hero of Durham and resents too obviously any unfavorable criticism by his contemporaries.” George M. Wrong.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 637. Ap. ’07. 780w. |
“Mr. Stuart Reid has acquitted himself with credit as the recorder of a brief and brilliant career. He has studied his authorities carefully. and though a good deal of an enthusiast, he is fairly alive to his hero’s shortcomings. Wordiness and prolixity unfortunately disfigure his otherwise acceptable volumes.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 539. N. 3. 2100w. |
“There appears only one statement with regard to Canadian history which need be questioned.” H. E. Egerton.
| + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 187. Ja. ’07. 620w. |
“An obvious and long existing gap in English political biography is now filled.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1209. My. 23. ’07. 780w. |
“He furnishes us for the first time with copious and well nigh exhaustive materials for forming our own judgment. But he is rather long-winded, and he is a little too blind to the real defects of Durham’s personal character and political temper.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 357. O. 26, ’06. 3320w. |
“These volumes are an extreme illustration of that obsession of bigness which now seems to afflict most writers of English biography.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 111. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w. |
“The book is a painstaking—even laborious—survey of the life of a very interesting man. The author has a strong bias in favor of his subject, which is not always an advantage to the reader.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 106. F. 23, ’07. 1330w. |
“Must at once be ranked among the great biographies of English statesmen of the nineteenth century. It is one of the class to which Parker’s ‘Peel,’ and Morley’s ‘Gladstone’ belong. As a literary achievement its place is alongside the ‘Life of Peel’ rather than alongside Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone.’” Edward Porritt.
| + + − | No. Am. 184: 755. Ap. 5, ’07. 1790w. |
“Like most biographers, Mr. Reid paints the character of his hero in too bright colors, and he claims entirely too much for him as a statesman.” W. Roy Smith.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 363. Je. ’07. 1060w. |
“Durham has found in Mr. Reid a capable and warmly sympathetic biographer.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 50. Ja. 12, ’07. 2430w. |
“As a biographer Mr. Reid is painstaking, industrious, and inordinately appreciative, but we cannot think that the style he has adopted was the best in which to write the ‘Life’ of so curious a personality. His is the old-fashioned type of biography, filled with moralisings and platitudes, very wordy and very lengthy.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 727. N. 10, ’06. 1830w. |
Reid, Whitelaw. Greatest fact in modern history. **75c. Crowell.
7–6398.
The greatest fact in modern history which Mr. Reid presents is the rise and development of the United States from a group of struggling colonies to its position of commanding power among the nations. He says two factors operating in American success have been character and circumstance.
Reid, William Maxwell. Story of old Fort Johnson; il. by John Arthur Maney. **$3. Putnam.
6–34695.
A sketch occasioned by the recent purchase and presentation to the Montgomery county historical society of old Fort Johnson, the most historic house in the Mohawk valley to-day. The story closely connects people and events associated with the famous “first baronial mansion in New York” with the history of the Mohawk valley.
“An interesting, rambling tale; it is a mixture of history, fiction, ethnology and gossip.” C. H. Rammelkamp.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 397. Ja. ’07. 500w. |
“To the lover of the old, the wild, the picturesque in early American life, the book will possess charm; to the general reader, it will supply abundant detail with which to reconstruct a most romantic period. To the historian, it will offer a reason for doing the work over again.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 42. Jl. 4, ’07. 400w. |
“His facts will be accepted as accurate, and some of them are here brought together for the first time.”
| + − | Lit. D. 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w. |
“He is well versed in early history, but he should have had the guidance of hands more accomplished than his own in the art of putting a book together properly.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 559. D. 27, ’06. 630w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 330w. |
“Its chief blemishes are discursiveness, fragmentariness, and unnecessary repetition; its virtues are enthusiasm, informativeness, and entertainment.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 140w. |
Reinach, Salomon. Apollo; tr. from the French by Florence Simmonds. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–15337.
A new edition, expanded and furnished with editorial matter to date, of a work which long ago appeared under the title, “The story of art throughout the ages.” The book comprises twenty-five lectures delivered by Dr. Reinach during 1902–1903 at the Ècole du Louvre upon the historic schools of art. There are abundant illustrations and an ample bibliography. “The original title is restored, and the additions, concerning British art, are now inclosed in square brackets, so that one may know when one is reading M. Reinach and when one is reading Miss Simmonds.” (Nation.)
| + | Acad. 72: 137. F. 9, ’07. 1250w. |
“A second edition ... which is an improvement noon the first.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 210w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 70w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 383. S. ’07. 60w. |
“It is a really uncommon achievement.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 160w. |
Reinsch, Paul Samuel. American legislatures and legislative methods. *$1.25. Century.
7–8279.
A critical exposition of the manner in which the law making bodies—state and federal—in the United States are organized and operated.
“All things considered, Professor Reinsch’s volume is an important addition to the literature of American politics. It is a contribution both to the understanding of the present situation and to the establishment of a better method for future studies of a similar character.” Charles Edward Merriam.
| + + − | Am. J. Soc. 13: 118. Jl. ’07. 700w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 127. My. ’07. S. |
“As a whole the book is the best presentation of this subject in limited space which has yet appeared.” Luther F. Witmer.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 615. N. ’07. 460w. |
Reviewed by Max West.
| + | Dial. 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 700w. |
“A most admirable volume of a practical sort.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 209. S. ’07. 90w. |
“Without a doubt there is room in the citizen’s library for such a useful and suggestive study of national and state politics.”
| + | Ind. 63: 998. O. 24, ’07. 630w. |
“He finds so many and such serious defects in our system of government and sees so plainly the forces of selfishness on one hand and of indifference and ignorance on the other hand, with which reform has to contend, and he describes both with such clearness that the reader will be likely to rise from the study of the volume in a discouraged mood.” Edward Cary.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 1150w. |
“In every way the volume is not only informative but suggestive, and is eminently thorough in treatment.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w. |
“A work of great value, that marks a distinct advance in scientific treatment of legislative procedure. He has grasped a principle of cardinal importance, oversight of which is a common defect in academic study of political institutions, namely, that the character of institutions is to be found in their working.” Henry Jones Ford.
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 713. D. ’07. 1270w. |
“Professor Reinsch’s method of treatment is frankly critical.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 140w. |
* Reissig, Carl. Standard family physician: a practical international encyclopedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the household. 2v. $13. Funk.
7–15943.
In this undertaking Professor Reissig has been assisted by Smith Ely Jelliffe and nearly fifty associate editors. “Taken as a whole, the work is a commendable effort to lead the layman to take a rational view of diseases and of ‘the results which may be reasonably expected from therapeutic measures.’ The opposition to quackery in its various forms, to all the ‘pathies,’ and to ‘natural’ methods is praiseworthy and ought to do good.” (Nation.)
“While ordinarily such works are likely to do at least as much harm as good, there seems to be no reason why this one should not prove a source of benefit in every way to its readers.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1005. O. 24. ’07. 340w. |
“In general, it may be said that too little attention is paid to the emergencies of domestic life, the very conditions where such a book is most needed in families at a distance from medical aid.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 300w. |
Religion of Christ in the twentieth century. **$1.50. Putnam.
6–2998.
“The unnamed author’s theme is the radical question of our time, ‘What is Christianity?’ and his text is Lessing’s remark, ‘The Christian religion has been tried for eighteen centuries; the religion of Christ remains to be tried.’ By the Christian religion is meant a body of religious doctrine supported by an ecclesiastical organization. The religion of Christ is the attitude of the spirit toward God and man that Jesus manifested as controlling his life.”—Outlook.
Reviewed by Gerald Birney Smith.
| Am. J. Theol. 11: 704. O. ’07. 370w. |
“The book is a shrewd, discerning critique of regnant forms of piety, and a discriminating projection of the faith and theology that ought to come.”
| + + | Ind. 61: 1038. N. 1, ’06. 280w. |
“These thoughts have been uttered before, but never more clearly or attractively, and they well express the spirit in which the movement for the improvement of theology should proceed.”
| + + | Outlook. 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 370w. |
* Remco’s. Manual of apartment house service. **$1. McClure.
Under “General instructions” there are rules applicable to every contingency apt to arise in an apartment building. Such subjects as the conduct of heating apparatus, the eradication of vermin, the technicalities of elevators, steam and hot-water boilers and engineering and sanitary details about the apartment house.
“What a paradise apartment life would be if this book were widely circulated and its contents enforced.”
| + | Engin. N. 58: 536. N. 14, ’07. 200w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Rexford, Eben Eugene. Four seasons in the garden: with 27 il. and with decorations by Edward S. Holloway. **$1.50. Lippincott.
7–16936.
Gardening for the home-maker is treated in all its phases by the “foremost amateur gardener of the United States.” The book treats of the making and care of the lawn, flowerbeds. back-yard gardens and window boxes, of the more ambitious garden of the suburbanite and the country dweller, and concludes with two chapters on village and rural improvement societies.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 171. O. ’07. S. |
“The book is not what its title might indicate—a guide to the seasons in their order. It is likely to be most serviceable to beginners in garden making. The author’s language is simple, his style is popular, and he gives facts and instruction in an easily understood form.”
| + | Dial. 40: 367. Je. 16, ’07. 410w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 50w. |
“A gathering into one unusually attractive volume, from the standpoint of the maker of books, of all the knowledge which has been coming piecemeal from this prolific writer on the gentle subject through many years.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 240w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
“It contains clear and definite instruction.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 70w. |
Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-. Dull girl’s destiny. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
The “dull girl” is twenty-six, and inexperienced, yet able to produce “novels esteemed worthy to rank as a ‘counterblast’ to the plays of Bernard Shaw.” (Ath.) “However, the interest of the story centres, not in the question whether the heroine could have written the novels of Jane Smith, but in the description of contemporary manners and the amusing sketches which the author gives us of her dramatis personae.” (Spec.)
“In liveliness and brightness the novel is much above the average.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 190w. |
“The heavy artillery of analysis, should not be trained upon an amiable, unpretentious story of this kind, since its obvious qualities are neither subtlety nor penetration but a wholesome right-mindedness, a mild humor, and unfailing good taste.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w. |
“All but two characters are so odious as to arouse the reader’s personal resentment.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 290w. |
“Although the plot ... invites criticism, still the book is pleasant and entertaining reading.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 984. Je. 22, ’07. 220w. |
Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-. Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author’s innate strain of romanticism would not permit her to write the evenly sustained story of a simple life which she appears to have been qualified to do.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 182. Ap. ’07. 400w. |
“Its characters and its mystery are alike improbable; but the writer knows how to tell her story.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 69. F. 2, ’07. 350w. |
Rhead, George Woolliscroft. [Chats on costume]; with 117 il. *$2. Stokes.
W 7–41.
A book which begins with a general survey of the subject and follows with “brief accounts of the development and history of the tunic, mantle, doublet and hose, kirtle or petticoat, crinoline, collars and cuffs, hats, caps and bonnets, dressing of the hair, mustachios and beard, and boots, shoes, and coverings of the feet.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)
“Felicitously conceived and successfully accomplished. Mr. Rhead is a pleasant writer, and his facts, quotations, and verses are judiciously selected.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 246. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 127. My. ’07. |
Rhead, George Woolliscraft, and Rhead, Frederick Alfred. Staffordshire pots and potters. *$6.50. Dodd.
7–38577.
“To the amateur as well as to the expert collector, the book, with its clear definitions of the peculiarities differentiating the work of one potter from another, and its wealth of illustrations. some of them in colour, of the treasures in museums and private collections, will be a mine of wealth; but it will also appeal forcibly to the antiquarian and historian, for the authors have made a point of tracing the condition between the progress of their art and the advance of civilization.... Especially fascinating is the chapter on the passing of the Elerses—the predecessors of Wedgwood.”—Int. Studio.
“Might well be called the romance of English ceramic art. so forcibly realized are the personalities of the craftsmen presented to the reader, so skillfully are the accounts of their technical triumphs interwoven with their life stories, and so vividly is the local colouring of their environment reproduced.”
| + | Int. Studio. 31: 82. Mr. ’07. 330w. |
“The book stands apart from most of the ceramic works published during recent years by reason of its independence and personal point of view.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 90. Mr. 22, ’07. 1540w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“The authors are peculiarly fitted for the task they have set themselves.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 380w. |
Rhead, Louis John. Bait angling for common fishes. *$1.25. Outing pub.
7–22908.
A handy volume of practical information on how to angle for common and familiar bottom fishes. A score or more varieties are discussed, carp, eel, perch, bass, etc., descriptions of their habits are given for the benefit of amateurs, and the whole is illustrated with drawings by the author.
| Nation. 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 380w. |
Rhodes, Harrison. Flight to Eden: a Florida romance. †$1.50. Holt.
7–30836.
Basil Forrester, London born and bred, finds that there is no place for him in England after his infidelity to his wife results in her suicide. He goes to Florida, begins life over, fostering only the impulses of primitive man. His love for a maiden of the wild impels him to relinquish every hold upon England. After years have passed he remembers that the house of Kingstowne must be perpetuated through him and sends his ten year old son back to be educated to the traditions of his title.
“There is no question that Mr. Rhodes knows how to portray people and incidents in a way that forces you to see them. But he has something still to learn about the unities of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 409. D. ’07. 420w. |
“A singular mingling of the crude and the romantic is here.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 140w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 120w. |
Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the compromise of 1850 to the final restoration of Home rule in the South in 1877. 7v. v. 6–7. per set, **$17.50. Macmillan.
5–12579.
These concluding volumes of Mr. Rhodes’ history cover the period 1866–1877. “A peculiar claim can be made on behalf of a historian who writes candidly and yet firmly of the burning of Columbia under General Sherman, the disputed Hayes-Tilden election, and the whole melancholy reconstruction period.” (Lit. D.)
“Dr. Rhodes possesses some of the most important qualities of the true historian. He has the judicial temper and he spares no pains in accumulating and sifting material. To an English reader he occasionally seems somewhat prolix though seldom actually tedious.”
| + + − | Acad. 73: 793. Ag. 17, ’07. 2120w. (Review of v. 1–4.) |
“As in volume 5 he finished what is on the whole our best history of the civil war, so in volume 7 he has finished the best history yet written of reconstruction. Unfortunately, however, the superlative does not in this second instance convey nearly so high praise as in the first. There exist several reasonably good histories of the war, but until these two volumes appeared there was no work covering the period of reconstruction which could be commended.” William Garrott Brown.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 680. Ap. ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“It may be stated without fear of successful impeachment, that no other period of American history has been so well and interestingly written as the one covered by Mr. Rhodes. Although seven volumes have been devoted to the history of about thirty years, there is no useless detail to weary the reader, but a concise, well-balanced story, that can be followed with unflagging interest by the general student as well as the specialist.” J. W. Garner.
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 435. Mr. ’07. 1060w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“His sense of proportion is artistic, as well as his perspective. Aside from the almost unexampled impartiality of judgment which the work displays throughout, its most striking characteristics to the lay leader will be found in its subordination of the literary to the judicial element.” Bernadotte Perrin.
| + + + | Atlan. 99: 859. Je. ’07. 5850w. (Review of v. 8 and 7.) |
“Dr. Rhodes’s works ... certainly carry the stamp of verisimilitude and have the force necessary to lure the reader on and invite him to return.” David Y. Thomas.
| + + + | Dial. 42: 180. Mr. 16, ’07. 1640w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“The evidence from quantity is abundantly supported by other evidence that Dr. Rhodes lost interest in his task after he had brought the story of actual warfare to a close, or perhaps, more exactly, after he had described the struggle between President Johnson and congress.” Wm. A. Dunning.
| + + − | Educ. R. 34: 109. S. ’07. 2160w. (Review of v. 1–7.) |
“The greatest historical work that has been written in America—great not in length alone, but in excellence of scholarship, and the magnitude and interest of his theme.”
| + + + | Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“Within the limits I have tried to indicate it is not easily overpraised. That, however, breeds regret—regret that once more a work so excellent as history should not be also excellent as literary art.” William Garrott Brown.
| + + − | Ind. 62: 552. Mr. 7, ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“The work has the rare quality of being dispassionate and yet interesting.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“Mr. Rhodes is to be congratulated on having accomplished a difficult and laborious task with something like conspicuous success.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 242. Ag. 9, ’07. 1920w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) | |
| + + | Nation. 84: 14. Ja. 3, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“It need hardly be said that these volumes have fully met the expectations of readers of their predecessors. He has set new standards in the study of and interpretation of events, in the use of materials, and in the generosity and kindliness of his estimates of men.” William E. Dodd.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 4. Ja. 5, ’07. 3460w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“Must be deemed pre-eminently the standard work for the period with which it deals, and a work so exhaustive and so able that it will probably be long before its supremacy is challenged.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 113. My. 18, ’07. 1760w. (Review of v. 1–7.) |
“It seems probable that the general verdict will be that, though entitled to high praise, they are not in all respects up to the high standard set by some of the volumes that appeared before them.” Paul Leland Haworth.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 513. S. ’07. 2710w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“While not strikingly original either in his conceptions of the import of the events of his period or in the manner in which he sets them forth, Mr. Rhodes has given us a piece of historical narrative which will command respect for solidity, fairness, and accuracy.” John Spencer Bassett.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 252. My. ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 5–7.) | |
| + + + | R. of Rs. 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“Far the best existing narrative of the events which led up to and followed the civil war as well as of the war itself, apart from more merely technical military treatises.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“His one great limitation is that he has not penetrated deeply into the great underlying forces at work in our history and his judgments therefore are not always profound or such as will stand the test of time. Especially well suited for the reference library in our schools.” Webster Cook.
| + + − | School R. 15: 716. D. ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) | |
| Spec. 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“Other subjects such as finance and currency, commercial crises, political corruption, the tariff, and the broader economic and social changes affecting American society are not ignored, as they were not in the previous volumes; but they are not adequately treated, and the author shows in his treatment of them none of that breadth of view and well-balanced judgment which appears in his account of the political controversies that have to do with slavery, the civil war and the reconstruction.” G: Stevens Callender.
| + + − | Yale R. 16: 198. Ag. ’07. 3390w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
Rhys, Ernest. Fairy-gold; il. by Herbert Cole. $2.50. Dutton.
7–35196.
“Mr. Rhys has retold many legends and fairy tales of the semi-mythical days in England.” (Outlook.) “The first part contains old favorites, of many of which the editor has found new versions; the second part consists of shorter fables and stories; and the third of fairy tales, and poems from Browning, Elia, Keats, Tom Hood and others. The book is daintily gotten up and Mr. Herbert Cole’s illustrations are excellent.” (Acad.)
“A delight to handle and to read.”
| + | Acad. 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 80w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 112. Ap. ’07. |
“This is a book to find welcome.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 80w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w. |
“The book is one to please older readers, but none the less for that will be acceptable to children.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 80w. |
“A very interesting and artistic production.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w. |
Ribot, Theodule Armand. [Essay on the creative imagination]; tr. from the French, by Albert H. N. Baron. *$1.75. Open ct.
6–32845.
A discussion of the subject under the following heads: Analysis of the imagination, Development of the imagination, Types of imagination, Conclusion and Appendices.
“As a manual to a region well worthy of exploration, the volume may be recommended both in the original and in the present form.”
| + | Dial. 41: 244. O. 16, ’06. 340w. |
“Mr. Baron has done us a service of some value in rendering into English M. Ribot’s monograph on the creative imagination. The translation sticks somewhat closely to the original idiom, but this is a virtue rather than a fault. It forms a valuable addition to the psychological literature on imagination.” Felix Arnold.
| + + | J. Philos. 3: 695. D. 6, ’06. 800w. |
“Like all its author’s work, it is suggestive and thorough.”
| + + − | Nature. 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 100w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 150w. |
Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell (Hegan). [Captain June.] †$1. Century.
7–29097.
The story of a dear little American boy who stays with his Japanese nurse in her country while his mother is in Manila nursing his sick father through a fever.
“A charming tale.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 399. O. 5. 100w. |
“Told with a certain freshness, although the situation is slight. Mrs. Rice has done better work.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 60w. |
“Very charming.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 60w. |
“Pleasantly told.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w. |
“While in ‘Captain June’ Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice does not write with quite the same firmness of touch that characterizes the work of the author of ‘Emmy Lou,’ she, like Mrs. Martin, throws her picture upon the screen in clear, sharp light and shadow.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 763. D. ’07. 230w. |
Rice, Cale Young. [Night in Avignon] 7–15143. The theme for Mr. Rice’s drama is “a momentary revolt on the part of Petrarch from the apparently unresponsive and remote Monna Laura, and the consequences in which it involves him.” (N. Y. Times.) “The situation is conceived with an admirable intensity, but it is worked with such agitation of mood and manner that it fails to be pleasing or even convincing.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w. |
“Though brief, and slight in detail, as a one-act play must necessarily be, it is nevertheless so vivid and the fusion is so complete between the dialogue and action that it embraces in small compass all the essentials of the drama.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 220. Ap. 6, ’07. 920w. |
“Among the recent group of dramatic poets, Mr. Cale Young Rice ... has done excellent work, particularly worthy of comment on its architectonic side. Mr. Rice has an instinctive sense of dramatic relations; his dramas move by first intent and the unity of word and action is admirably maintained. His work is not without its immaturities.”
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 350. Je. ’07. 120w. |
Rice, William de Groot C., comp. Book of American humorous verse, lea. $1.25. Duffield.
7–25551.
An anthology in which the verse of well-known American humorists appears.
Rich, Charles Edward. [Voyage with Captain Dynamite.] †$1. Barnes.
7–26459.
“The story of three boys who go out from Cottage City in a small yacht and who are caught in a storm and run down by a larger vessel, a filibuster. They are rescued by Captain Dynamite, who carries them off to Cuba. There, having sent word home that they were safe, they take part in many adventures and do, perhaps, a little more than a boy outside a book would be able to do. Harry Hamilton rescues Juanita, a young Cuban girl, who is in prison, and who escapes in his clothes.”—N. Y. Times.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w. |
“Does not spare adventures, and boy readers will be thrilled by the excitements provided.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 70w. |
Rich, Walter Herbert. Feathered game of the Northwest. **$3. Crowell.
7–29864.
The author does not cover the broad field of general ornithology but narrows his scope to include only groups of birds of special interest to sportsmen. These he treats in a manner to be of interest also to the professional ornithologist and to the general reader. Fair sportsmanship is the keynote, discountenancing record-killing slaughter. Hunting yarns and bits of hunters’ wisdom gathered here and there over the gun-barrel mingle with the observations. Nearly ninety birds are described, located and illustrated in full-page half-tones.
“His descriptions are so good that enjoyment of them need not be confined to sportsmen.”
| + | Dial. 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 100w. |
“On the whole, he succeeded in making a thoroughly, reliable and entertaining volume.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 760. N. 16, ’07. 410w. |
“The illustrations which are diagnostic, add considerably to the value of the volume. Mr. Rich has, however, fallen into the error very general among artists, of placing his ducks too high out of the water. On the more technical side we find recent scientific names given accurately, and the facts concerning life-histories, although of course mainly drawn from the point of view of the hunter, are reliable. As literature, the essays are commendable.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 402. O. 31, ’07. 380w. |
“Chatty and humorous as well as informing, and well illustrated.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 90w. |
* Richards, Ellen Henrietta. Sanitation in daily life. *60c. Whitcomb & B.
7–37734.
A thorogoing manual on sanitation in the home and city based upon the most approved methods of sanitary science.
* Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth. [Grandmother.] †75c. Estes.
7–24770.
“A young girl forced by circumstances into marriage with an old man gave him the loyal gratitude and devotion his kindness merited. She overcame the hatred of his passionate granddaughter of her own age, and became the loved ‘Grandmother’ of all the village children for whom she wove sweet songs and pretty stories. The tragedies of her inner life were never realized by those about her, but they caused her to be a benediction to every one who knew her.”—Outlook.
“Those who enjoyed ‘Captain January,’ (and that means every one, young or old, that read it) will like Mrs. Richards’s new story, ‘Grandmother.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 110w. |
“A sweet and touching story.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 120w. |
Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe). [Silver crown: another book of fables.] †$1.25. Little.
6–29779.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Acad. 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 20w. |
“Useful to parents, teachers, and librarians, but containing little for the children themselves.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 54. F. ’07. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 50w. |
Richards, Ralph Coffin. [Railroad accidents, their cause and prevention.] $1. Ralph C. Richards, 215 Jackson boulevard, Chicago.
6–32141.
“A general discussion of various classes of accidents is accompanied by citations of examples showing how the very accidents in question had happened to individuals. References to operating rules—which rules, if followed, would have prevented the accidents in many instances—are freely made throughout the book, and the rules themselves are given in an appendix forming the last 15 pages of the book.”—Engin. N.
| Engin. N. 56: 418. O. 18, ’06. 60w. | ||
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 70w. |
Richards, William R. Apostles’ creed in modern worship. **$1. Scribner.
6–32847.
“An exposition of the creed rather than a defence of it; and the exposition is spiritual and practical rather than historical and scholarly.”—Outlook.
“The book may be considered to represent the best that can be said in favor of the adoption of the creed by the non-liturgical communions, though it by no means answers the objections raised against its use in the controversies over it in England and Germany.”
| + | Nation. 83: 328. O. 18. ’06. 330w. |
“It is not and does not purport to be of value to the critical student; it will be of aid in giving rational significance to the creed to those who are accustomed to use it in public worship.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 80w. |
Richardson, Charles. Chancellorsville campaign: Fredericksburg to Salem church. $1. Neale.
7–17004.
An account of the battles from Fredericksburg to Salem church and a description of the battle field, to which is appended a collection of abstracts from the reports of the operations of the Union army of the Potomac, covering the entire Chancellorsville campaign.
“Borrows a certain quality of value from the circumstance that it contains in convenient form the text of President Lincoln’s correspondence with the egregious Hooker, together with other official notes of the campaign, and the report of Gen. Lee upon the battle in which Thomas Jonathan Jackson lost his life. Mr. Richardson’s own story of that battle is negligible.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 270w. |
“Had Colonel Charles Richardson chosen to utilize his personal experience as the basis for his ‘The Chancellorsville campaign,’ he might have made an interesting contribution to civil war literature; but as it is, his narrative is quite negligible. Barring a tedious—and to readers not familiar with the ground—difficult description of the scene of conflict, his account of the operations of Early and Sedgwick about Fredericksburg, displays little originality, and consists for the most part of quotations from official reports strung together in a commonplace way.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 438. Je. 22. ’07. 110w. |
Richardson, Charles. Tales of a warrior: sanguine but not saguinary for old time people. $1.25. Neale.
7–16755.
Nine simply told tales of the civil war time. Several of them are in southern dialect, and they deal with the county squire, the soldier, the old negro, and other southern types.
Richardson, Frank. 2835 Mayfair: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.
A detective story which has a double identity mystery in it, and one in which the author “takes care to discount the criticism that his story is not credible by making it absolutely impossible.” (Spec.)
“Regarded as satire or melodrama, ‘2835 Mayfair’ must be considered unsatisfactory. There is, however, plenty of ingenuity in the manner in which Mr. Richardson develops his tale, and his admirers will find no lack of those inconsequent humours which he has taught them to expect.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 459. My. 11, ’07. 270w. | |
| − + | Nation. 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 330w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 110w. |
“Mr. Richardson’s efforts in what may be called his satirical manner are rather laboured in the present book, which may be best described as a sensational extravaganza and, as our American cousins would say, not very successful at that.”
| − | Spec. 99: 333. S. 7, ’07. 150w. |
Richardson, Leon Josiah. Helps to the reading of classical Latin poetry. *50c. Ginn.
7–6757.
The book is intended for students of classical Roman poetry, primarily that of Virgil and Ovid. The book outlines the part that reading should play in the field of classical study, compares Latin and English rhythms, and explains simply the nature and structure of Latin verse, with special reference to the dactylic hexameter and the elegiac meter.
“In all probability it contains rather more than the average student, or perhaps even the exceptional student, if he be an undergraduate, will take the time to read with care. On the other hand, one who is more advanced will scarcely find here anything that is new to him. Some of the illustrative material is ... well selected; and the first twenty pages or so may be read by any one with interest and pleasure.” H. T. P.
| + | Bookm. 25: 207. Ap. ’07. 360w. |
“A helpful little volume for the sympathetic reader of Latin verse.”
| + | Nation. 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 90w. |
Richardson, Rev. Willard S., ed. David: warrior, poet, king. il. $2.50. Appleton.
7–31970.
In this narrative told by means of various passages of scripture, special stress is laid upon the qualities of the man David, the frailties over which the might of character triumphed, the friendship for Jonathan, and the anguish and grief over Absalom. The character development is traced thru the experience of exile, thru the early years of opposition to his rule over the two tribes, and thru the years of prosperity and adversity as king over Israel.
Rickaby, Rev. Joseph, S. J. Free will and four English philosophers; a study of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. *$1.25. Benziger.
“Father Rickaby believes that, though men are slow to see and loth to own it, free will still remains the hub and centre of philosophical speculation. The four philosophers whose views are here criticized are Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. His method is to quote a passage from these authors and then discuss it.”—Ath.
| Ath. 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 330w. |
“A long matured volume abounding with acute criticism and close reasoning. The most original feature of Father Rickaby’s treatment of the question is his theory on the working of free-will.”
| + + | Cath. World. 84: 564. Ja. ’07. 330w. |
“A vigorous and interesting book.” St. George Stock.
| + − | Hibbert J. 5: 704. Ap. ’07. 1330w. |
Rickert, (Martha) Edith. Golden hawk. †$1.50. Baker.
7–15544.
“A modern romance in the picaresque style, steeped in the sunshine of Provence.... Trillon, the hero, has a lordly disdain for commercialism.... We meet him ... fascinating the daughter of the inn-keeper by his audacious flattery, and after a courtship conducted with lightning rapidity in the teeth of every sort of opposition, going off to seek his fortune, while his betrothed is left to the untender mercies of her parents and the priest.... She enters a nunnery. But the irrepressible Trillon returns from the sea, abducts his betrothed ... sets himself to perform a labour of Hercules imposed by the priest as the condition of his consent to the marriage,—the conversion of a rocky wilderness known as the Pit of Artaban into a farm. Trillon’s exploits as a farmer ... make a most entertaining recital; and the final scene, in which he plays the part of a Provençal Lochinvar, brings a fantastic story to an appropriate close.”—Spec.
“The only fault we have to find in her work is that it needs pruning.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w. |
“The sort of thing that could easily be turned into operetta.” Harry James Smith.
| + | Atlan. 100: 134. Jl. ’07. 330w. |
“It is not a book to be judged by ordinary standards; it must be read indulgently, sympathetically, softly laughed over for the sake of its fantastic humor, its unexpected mingling of sunshine and of shadow.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 392. Je. ’07. 300w. |
“A pretty story, full of surprises for even the seasoned reader of summer fiction.”
| + | Ind. 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 210w. |
“Her portraits with all their charm seem sometimes a little stiff, sometimes over flamboyant But there are fine, airy landscapes in plenty; the action is spirited throughout; and few of the incidents fail of the graces of pathos, humour, enthusiasm, and, above all, imagination.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 580w. |
“She escapes the danger of letting her picaresque hero seem hackneyed and mediocre, by tracing his mental processes from within out, here and there giving a genuine touch of character study, instead of relying entirely upon description of his fantastic dress and twinkling hawk-like eyes.”
| + | Nation. 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 350w. |
“Miss Rickart has undeniable talent, a grace of style, a keen sense of verbal felicity and skill in reproducing a superficial effect. She has not yet learned the lesson that to be a real artist one must not go too far afield from one’s own life and temperament.” Florence Wilkinson.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 314. My. 18, ’07. 690w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 230w. |
“The tale is told with dash and spirit, and has unity of conception. There is buoyancy and there is color, and the reader’s interest is swept along impetuously from beginning to end.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 210w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 765. Je. ’07. 60w. |
“The ‘bravura’ style is at times somewhat forced.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 541. Ap. ’07. 640w. |
Rickett, Arthur. [Vagabond in literature.] *$1.50. Dutton.
7–35194.
A volume “made up of ‘papers’ on Hazlitt, De Quincey, Walt Whitman. Robert Louis Stevenson, George Borrow, Henry Thoreau, and Richard Jefferies.”—N. Y. Times.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 104. Ap. ’07. |
“These agreeable essays are not epoch-making—how few books are!—but they offer many a page of good reading, none the worse for being on well-worn themes.”
| − + | Dial. 42: 146. Mr. 1, ’07. 330w. | |
| Ind. 62: 973. Ap. 25, ’07. 630w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 789. D. 1, ’06. 300w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w. |
Ricketts, Charles S. Art of the Prado: a survey of the contents of the gallery, together with detailed criticisms of its masterpieces and biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them. *$2. Page.
7–30412.
A finely illustrated volume which deals with the paintings of the Prado—Madrid’s famous treasure house of masterpieces. Here are found at their best the gold of Titian, the silver of Velasquez. the glow of Rubens and the magic and awe associated with Rembrandt. In what manner and to what extent these pictures are an unchallenged “congress of masterpieces” the author essays to enlighten the reader.
“He understands how to give his criticism a turn which is at once illuminating and suggestive.”
| + | Dial. 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 310w. |
“This is a real book, containing real opinions, which may be read with profit and pleasure by any one who cares for the serious study of art.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 550. D. 12, ’07. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“At best the book is an excellent and readable guide to a collection not too widely known, and considered as such the author is deserving of unqualified attention.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 310w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w. |
Rideal, Samuel. Sewage and the bacterial purification of sewage. $4. Wiley.
A third and enlarged edition of a work which “consists chiefly of a statement of the problem of sewage treatment and of the principles involved and methods employed in the solution of that problem, together with a review of some of the large number of experiments on sewage.... It covers some events and literature well into 1906.”—Engin. N.
“By means of the present revision, Dr. Rideal’s book becomes the most up-to-date and the best general work on sewage treatment now available.”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 667. Je. 13, ’07. 340w. |
“It seems to be generally acknowledged among sanitary engineers that this work is the most comprehensive treatise on the subject in the English language, and the appearance of a third edition recently is only natural in view of the high standing which the book has won.”
| + + | Technical Literature. 2: 333. O. ’07. 370w. (Reprinted from Engin. Rec.) |
* Rideout, Henry Milner. [Admiral’s light.] †$1.50. Houghton.
7–36092.
The shores of New Brunswick and Maine furnish the setting of a story in which are brought together a girl reared by Yankee gypsies, a lad, hungry for things of life, the recluse grandfather who keeps a lighthouse, an Italian sailor, and a Chinaman whose portion of the tale is one of mystery. The sea-change of the heroine into something rich and strange which breathes sacrifice is the absorbing part of the story.
Rideout, Henry Milner. Beached keels. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–38551.
Three stories of the sea and shorefolk. The first is a “strange tale of curious people in an unusual setting; the second, a tragic, pathetic tale of two brothers; the third, humorous.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)
“All are striking, and more than usually well told.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
“Mr. Rideout’s construction is faulty; his stories short as they are, seem to ramble needlessly. But he has the gift of vividness and a rare sense of the value of little things; he can paint the crest of a wave or a trait of character with an admirable terseness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 24: 691. F. ’07. 330w. |
“His fancy is fertile and it imagines large canvases. He almost fills them, but not quite. It is in dealing with the emotions of his characters in the powerful situations in which he places them that Mr. Rideout still falls short: he leaves a little too much to the collaboration of the reader.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w. |
“‘Wild justice’ stands out with almost startling distinctness against the pale mediocrity of current magazine fiction.”
| + | Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 190w. |
“All of these three tales, but more especially the first have quite unusual vigor and originality. The author’s chief fault is a somewhat abrupt manner.”
| + − | Outlook. 84. 1080. D. 29, ’06. 120w. |
Rideout, Henry Milner. Siamese cat; il. by Will Grefe. †$1.25. McClure.
7–15114.
A love story in which a Siamese cat and a pigeon-blood ruby figure largely. It “swings along at a high speed and there is plenty of Asiatic coast atmosphere, of the semi-tourist, semi-native sort. The local color, appears veracious with its mixture of bad smells and pink mists and ruined temples and calm homicides and pigin English and poisonings and stabbings while you wait.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The setting is oriental, and adds not a little to the attractions of a light, swift-moving ingenious, and altogether entertaining tale.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠ |
“This is a book which tempts the reviewer to cast propriety to the winds and call it in cold print a thundering good story.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 380w. |
“It is a merry tale, for all its trifling with human life.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 360. Je. 4, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
Riedl, Frigyes. History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.
7–2035.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1996.
| + | Acad. 71: 652. D. 29, ’06. 940w. |
“This book with Dr. Reich’s ‘Historical survey of Hungarian literature’ covers the subject comprehensively.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 127. My. ’07. |
“An extremely readable volume, exhibiting scholarship without pedantry, and resisting the temptation to dwell at too great length upon the formative period of the literature.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 115. E. 16, ’07. 320w. |
“This is a remarkable book, as it is the first history of Hungarian literature in the English language.”
| + | Ind. 63: 635. S. 12, ’07. 710w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 386. Ap. 25, ’07. 330w. | |
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w. |
Riemer, J. Shaft-sinking in difficult cases; tr. from the Germ. by J. W. Brough. *$3.50. Lippincott.
“The volume is confined to a description of means that have to be resorted to when ordinary methods of sinking cannot be applied on account of excessive influx of water, the means described being shaft sinking by hand, boring shafts, the freezing method of sinking, and the sinking-drum method.” (Nature.) “The book is divided into four main sections, devoted respectively to (1) Shaft sinking by hand, (2) Shaft sinking by boring, (3) The freezing method, and (4) The sinking drum process. Concrete examples are given of the application of each method. The folding plates in the back of the book amply illustrate the constructive details involved.” (Engin. N.)
| Engin. N. 58. 178. Ag. 15, ’07. 180w. |
“It is not a book for elementary students, but one that deserves the careful study of advanced students and of experienced engineers. The translation has been carefully made.”
| + + | Nature. 76: 291. Jl. 25, ’07. 380w. |
Ries, Heinrich. Clays, their occurrence, properties, and uses, with especial reference to those of the United States. *$5. Wiley.
6–37212.
“The author treats his subject under the following heads:—The origin of clay, chemical properties, physical properties, kinds of clay, methods of mining and manufacture, distribution of clay in the United States, Fuller’s earth.”—Nature.
“The only work summarizing the scattered literature on American clays.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 171. O. ’07. |
“Notwithstanding defects in matter and manner, Dr. Ries has rendered a distinct service to ceramics in producing this work. It more nearly meets the general need than any other English book in the field, and will doubtless awaken in many aspiring minds an enthusiasm to know more than the book pretends to tell, and will thus lead to research and scholarship, which has so far groped in vain for lack of a guide.” Edward Orton, jr.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 437. Ap. 18, ’07. 1380w. | |
| J. Geol. 14: 459. Ag. ’06. 230w. |
“This book is very well produced and free from slips.”
| + | Nature. 75: 411. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w. |
“The most comprehensive and evenly balanced, if not the only, presentation of the subject as a whole that we have.” Eugene A. Smith.
| + + | Science, n. s. 25: 999. Je. 28, ’07. 1370w. |
Riley, James Whitcomb. Morning. $1.25. Bobbs.
7–26127.
The keynote of this latest group of Riley poems is struck in the following:
“Let us see as we have seen—
Where all paths are dewy-green,
And all human-kind are kin—
Let us be as we have been.”
“It is doubtful if his admirers will find in it quite the charm of his earlier work.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 363. D. ’07. 200w. |
Riley, James Whitcomb. While the heart beats young. $2.50. Bobbs.
6–36414.
Under this title are included “all the best of Mr. Riley’s child-verses, with many pictures in color by Ethel Franklin Betts.”—Dial.
| + − | Dial. 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 130w. |
“Riley still makes the same heart-felt appeal to the people that he did more than a quarter of a century ago.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 90w. |
Ripley, William Z. Railway problems: a collection of reprints with maps and introd. $2.25. Ginn.
7–6187.
Uniform with “Selections and documents in economics.” While the book is primarily intended to serve as a college text in the economics of transportation, it also aims to offer in convenient form for the general reader and student of American public questions authoritative information upon this important economic and political question.
“Of use to the interested public, the student, the college instructor, and the debator.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 127. My. ’07. S. |
“Is by far the best compendium of papers on railway transportation that has yet been made.” Emory R. Johnson.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 616. N. ’07. 460w. |
“The book is invaluable for college work, and to all who would take up the history of American railways.” Ralph Albertson.
| + | Arena. 38: 219. Ag. ’07. 330w. |
“We can very heartily commend this book to anyone desiring to make a study of the economic relations of the railways to the public.”
| + | Engin. N. 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w. |
“Professor Ripley makes it easy for the student to get a view of the more important of our railway problems.” William Hill.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 435. Jl. ’07. 320w. |
“One of the great advantages of the material presented in this volume for pedagogical purposes is that it deals so largely with debatable questions. With its aid there should be no difficulty in making college courses on railway problems interesting as well as profitable.”
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 559. S. ’07. 210w. |
“Has been edited with great care. The book fully meets the aim of the editor and is all that can be desired.” Albert I. Frye.
| + + | Technical Literature. 1: 269. Je. ’07. 1050w. |
Ristori, Adelaide. Memoirs and artistic studies of Adelaide Ristori; rendered into English by G. Mantellini. **$2.50. Doubleday.
7–26130.
“Besides the biographical matter furnished by Signor Ventura, the present book of memoirs consists of two parts: in the first, Madame Ristori gives her reminiscences of her stage career, commencing with her first appearance before the footlights at the age of two months, and extending over sixty-three years to her farewell performance, which was given twenty-two years ago at the New York Academy of music in a memorable production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth,’ Edwin Booth taking the title-role on that occasion. The second part of her Memoirs is devoted to an analysis of six of the principal parts in her répertoire: Schiller’s ‘Mary Stuart,’ Giacometti’s ‘Queen Elizabeth,’ Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Macbeth,’ Legouve’s ‘Medea,’ Alfieri’s ‘Myrrha,’ and Racine’s ‘Phaedra.’”—Lit. D.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3:171. O. ’07. S. |
“To the already published lives of Adelaide Ristori this new edition of her memoirs, with its appended letters coming down nearly to the date of her death, is a useful supplement. But there is still room for a final, full, and critical account of the remarkable actress, prepared with far more care than the volume under review.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + − | Dial. 43: 160. S. 16, ’07. 1770w. |
“Her autobiography has not literary quality, and it is marred in the translation by a faulty English that editing might, it would seem, easily have bettered.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1003. O. 24. ’07. 210w. | |
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 452. S. 28, ’07. 1200w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w. |
“Not only is the arrangement of the matter slovenly ... but the English translation supplied by Signor G. Mantellini reflects but little credit upon the original composition.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 239. S. 12, ’07. 1000w. |
“The work of the translator is utterly inadequate. His mistakes, due to a very evident lack of familiarity with the conventions and idioms of the English language, are sometimes ludicrous, sometimes annoying, sometimes obscuring; and many of them would never have passed even a moderately good proof-reader, who was compelled to wade through the ridiculous pi of commas strewn thicker than Vallombrosan leaves.” Anne Peacock.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 537. S. 7, ’07. 1400w. |
“The story of her life is here told in a simple and informal way, without boasting, but with intelligent appreciation of men and things.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 200w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 512. O. ’07. 130w. |
Ritchie, Rev. Arthur. Spiritual studies in St. Luke’s gospel. 2v. *$5. Young ch.
6–39459.
“The general character of these volumes is homiletical. and their aim is to feed the altar flame of the consecrated heart.” (Outlook.) “Dr. Ritchie has arranged his commentary in short sections, and divided each study into an exposition and a series of three ‘thoughts,’ thus adapting his work to quick reference and ready comprehension.” (Nation.)
| + | Nation. 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 170w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 120w. |
Rivers, W. H. R. Todas; with il., map and chronological tables. *$6.50. Macmillan.
7–18149.
The author says that his book is not merely a record of the customs and beliefs of a people who amount to fewer than a thousand individuals all told, but is also a demonstration of anthropological method. These people occupy the well-watered plateau of the Nilgiri hills in Southern India, and their life, character, customs, ceremonials and factors upon which their social organization rests are informingly discussed.
“A work as laborious as it is original.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 551. N. 3. 1350w. |
“An exhaustive study.”
| + | Dial. 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w. |
“As an example of scientific method, this is the best socio-religious monograph of a special community yet published.” A. C. Haddon.
| + + | Hibbert J. 5: 680. Ap. ’07. 1560w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 406. D. 7, ’06. 960w. |
“An admirable study of savage life.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w. |
“Thanks to Dr. Rivers’s energy and care we have a complete and scientific account of one of the most significant phenomena in the history of that varied organism, religion. A monument of industry and care, not without insight, and the results of comparative study, and is an invaluable record of which Cambridge and the new anthropology may be proud.” A. E. Crawley.
| + + | Nature. 75: 462. Mr. 14, ’07. 960w. |
“Mr. Rivers’ careful monograph will thus win and retain a central place, that between the preliminary and more or less amateurish anthropological observers whose works he practically supersedes, and the deeper interpretation for which he does so much to prepare.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 1380w. |
“Mr. Rivers’s learned book will remain the chief authority on the interesting race with which he deals.”
| + + | Spec. 98: sup. 120. Ja. 26, ’07. 300w. |
Rives, Hallie Erminie. [Satan Sanderson.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–26018.
Plot and action abound in this story of confused identity. In his college days, only four years past, the Reverend Harry Sanderson was known to his fellows as Satan Sanderson. There crosses his path one day an old associate, Hugh Stires, the degenerate son of St. James’ richest parishioner, and so closely resembling Sanderson as to cause all the trouble that ensues. The ghosts of the past appear, but are downed by the invincible might of the young rector. The degenerate weds the woman Sanderson loves, proves unworthy of her, and throws himself upon Sanderson’s mercy, and the latter in attempting to save him meets with an accident that robs him of his memory. The climax and the fall grow out of the confusion of identity that follows, and a ne’er-do-well’s one impulse of manhood.
“The thrills follow thick and fast as in melodrama by Theodore Kremer. They follow in good sharp English, moreover, with only occasional tiptoe reaches into preciosity.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 590w. |
“Miss Rives writes well, though without much restraint upon her native luxuriance of expression, and with none whatever upon her imagination.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 960w. |
Rix, Herbert. Tent and Testament; a camping tour in Palestine with some notes on Scripture sites. *$2.50. Scribner.
7–15906.
“This record of a camping tour in Palestine is from the hand of a scholarly and critical traveler.... Throughout a route which lay in part aside from the common track of tourists his interest in verifying Biblical sites and Biblical allusions fully justifies the title of his record.... The prolonged discussions required by controverted questions as to Nazareth, Bethlehem, Capernaum, and other localities are set off into appendices ... and the whole is indexed and illustrated.”—Outlook.
“A thoughtful, well-written, even learned work, far from the vain outpouring of the tourist. The narrative, though heavily charged with information, is wonderfully unembarrassed: and the word-pictures which abound are true to life.... We are sorry that Mr. Rix should have left so much perishable matter [Protestant theories with regard to holy places] in a work which has permanent interest.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 351. Mr. 23. 150w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 70w. |
“The narrative is sufficiently enlivened with incident and anecdote to give it continuous interest.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 282. F. 2, ’07. 110w. |
“His narrative of travel is that of an intelligent and well-informed traveller who went without prepossessions and was both able and willing to weigh evidence. His observations were careful. Now and then he is able to correct even so great an authority in Palestinian topography as Dr. George Smith.”
| + | Spec. 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 300w. |
Roach, Abby Meguire. Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.
6–37923.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author is evidently a close observer of human nature and a clever analyst.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 352. Mr. 22. 180w. |
Roberts, Charles George Douglas. [Haunters of the silences.] $2. Page.
7–18302.
In the course of these eighteen short stories of the wild, Mr. Roberts not only introduces us to types of animal life in the earth’s silent places but takes us down into the depths of the sea to meet the orca, the shark, the narwhal, and the ocean cuttlefish.
“The book is very well worth buying and keeping for the illustrations alone, and again it is well worth buying and keeping even had it no illustrations. It will be a world dull of appreciation which does not recognize great qualities in this volume.”
| + | Acad. 73: 106. N. 9. ’07. 620w. |
“Charming stories of creatures of the air, the deep sea, of the northern forests and silent wastes.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠ |
“The book is full of good reading, and it is well written.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 587. N. 9. 270w. |
“It has remained for Mr. Roberts to crystallise into a series of brief and vibrant character-studies the really salient features of the horizonless life of the outer worlds.” Thomas Walsh.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 305. My. ’07. 270w. |
“For this large-minded fairness, as well as for other reasons, the book belongs to the small but fortunately growing class of the best nature story-books.” May Estelle Cook.
| + + | Dial. 42: 369. Je. 16. ’07. 840w. |
“The stories are said to be in a line with accurate natural history. However, it is not concerning questions of observed facts so much as the interpretations that scientific men will have a quarrel with the author of this and with those of similar books.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 350w. |
“It is the most ambitious work of the kind that Mr. Roberts has yet written, and deserves to be placed in the first rank of nature books.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 400w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 300w. |
“Of these nature writers, as they have come to be called, Mr. C. G. D. Roberts ... is far the most charming, the most literary, the most interesting. As for the illustrations by Mr. Bull, they merit an article in themselves. It is difficult to see how they could be more full both of imagination and accuracy.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1610w. |
“He writes of his subjects with sympathy and imagination, while his descriptions of their ways and hunts are scientifically exact.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w. |
“He talks about wild life from the standpoint of a man who knows it well and is also a writer of refinement and of literary instinct.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 100w. |
Roberts, Charles George Douglas. Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.
6–30929.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Current Literature. 42: 110. Ja. ’07. 440w. | ||
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w. |
Roberts, Charles George Douglas. In the deep of the snow; il. by Denman Fink. †50c. Crowell.
7–21228.
A short Christmas story of the northern frontier in which a stout-hearted father takes a long snow-shoe journey to bring Santa Claus to his wilderness cabin.
Roberts, George Simon. Historic towns of the Connecticut river valley. Il. *$3.50. Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N. Y.
6–24568.
“The history of each town is given, some anecdotes of some of its distinguished sons and their careers told, old houses are described, landmarks pointed out, and places of historical interest shown. Pictures, too, are given of houses, sites of buildings, etc., and there are portraits, views of the town, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
“The towns are taken up one by one, in an order extending from the mouth of the river northward. There is, however, little other order; repetitions are frequent, and in the selection of information to be included or excluded no clear purpose appears beyond that of furnishing entertaining reading matter.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 434. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
“He writes pleasantly, but he has not written a chronicle, for he has written loosely. Names are spelled wrongly, dates are awry, and now and again some statement amazes those familiar with the old towns.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w. |
“Its wealth consists mostly in the assembling of anecdotes, and of certain of the vital historical facts appertaining to each of the towns. A more analytic index would have greatly relieved the congestion of the text, and served to reveal its riches.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 440w. |
“The volume is entertaining and authoritative.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 380w. |
Roberts, Margaret. Saint Catherine of Siena and her times; by the author of “Mademoiselle Mori.” *$2.75. Putnam.
7–10561.
“St. Catherine, surnamed Benincasa, was born in the year 1348 when Siena lay in the grip of the black death, the daughter of a well-to-do citizen, a dyer by trade. She grew to be the peacemaker of Italy and the revered friend of popes and princes. The present narrative of her life, without being remarkable in any special way, gives a measurably adequate picture, as biographical pictures go, of this remarkable woman.”—N. Y. Times.
“We have already devoted a considerable amount of space to this inaccurate book only because it is about the worst specimen of its class which we have seen.”
| − − − | Acad. 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1900w. |
“An excellent life of Saint Catherine written in a tone as far removed from blind enthusiasm as from faint-hearted apology.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 890w. |
“Her pages present no evidence of her right to undertake the serious task in question; rather they give us reason to think that neither the faculty of clearly and logically presenting facts, nor the power of sympathetically appreciating Catherine Benincasa, has been granted to the saint’s latest biographer.”
| − | Cath. World. 86: 254. N. ’07. 100w. |
“Miss Roberts ... brings a large store of knowledge and no small literary skill to her congenial task.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1416. Je. 13, ’07. 160w. |
“The way in which this new ‘Life’ of her absorbs one, seeming to transmit her force and charm, is the best proof of the author’s excellence. It would, indeed, be hard to find an historical biography better done.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 630w. |
“Readable, vivacious life. References to volume and page of the works quoted are rarely given and, on the whole, one is forced to the conclusion that the historian’s well-documented life of St. Catherine is yet to be published. Throughout the book there are evidences of careless proof-reading.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 800w. |
“The book, in short, is more interesting than informing. It fails to leave a distinct impression of St. Catherine.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w. | |
| + − | Outlook. 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w. |
Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.
| + − | Putnam’s. 1: 629. F. ’07. 630w. |
“For one reason or another, perhaps because of some rather lengthy sentences, the present book has not quite the romantic—one might almost say the dashing—interest of others on the subject. Still, the book given to us by the well-known and accomplished author of ‘Mademoiselle Mori’ has very great merits of its own, and it will be read with interest by all who love the Italy of the fourteenth century.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w. |
Roberts, Morley. Flying Cloud: a story of the sea. $1.50. Page.
7–15115.
Young Jack, the greenhorn, at the opening of this tale leaves his school and his angry uncle and embarks upon the Flying Cloud to seek his fortune in Australia. But neither school nor uncle could have given him the training he received from the brown men of the crew, the two brave mates, the old Malay bo’s’n, and the captain, the victim of opium. It is a thrilling tale, the story of how Jack learned the ways of the sea and the seamen.
“We advise Mr. Roberts to let the sea alone for a while; he will only anger her by his florid compliments, and she has already a superfluity of verbose admirers. He can do better than this, and he might do excellent work if he were content to think a little more and write a great deal less.”
| − | Acad. 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 260w. |
“As story pure and simple has faults. When warmed to his work, he throws aside all that is pretentious and mannered, sloughs his colloquialism as a writer, and deals in sound, moving, graphic English.”
| + − | Ath. 1907. 1: 535. My. 4. 180w. |
“If the reader can once get over the rhapsodical opening chapters of this very good tale of the sea, he is probably in no danger of abandoning the gallant Flying Cloud.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 150w. |
“This new marine tale by Mr. Morley Roberts has the tang of authentic brine and the swift pulse of life in it.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 690w. | |
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 593. My. 11, ’07. 200w. |
Roberts, Morley. Painted Rock, tales and narratives of Painted Rock, South Panhandle, Texas, told by Charlie Baker, late of that city and also of Snyder, Scurry county. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A collection of ten short stories dealing with the citizens of Painted Rock, their “histories and their affairs.” There is a good deal of bloodthirsty revenge portrayed, and life seems to be cheap. The realism and its primitive setting will no doubt prove fascinating to people who look for the kernel of humanity amongst the waste of savagery.
“Mr. Roberts’s intimate knowledge of Texas and its people enables him to reproduce both the atmosphere and the personalities of that strange country.”
| + | Acad. 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 290w. |
“This sort of record will ... always be interesting to English readers.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 1: 351. Mr. 23. 280w. |
“Mr. Roberts seems to have caught most admirably the spirit of the southwest, its ethics, its code of manners, and, best of all, its inimitable breeziness of speech.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 670w. |
“The stories (of the familiar Alfred Henry Lewis stuff) in the present volume seem hardly up to Mr. Roberts’s mark.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 393. Je. 15, ’07. 430w. |
Roberts, Theodore. Red feathers. $1.50. Page.
7–26602.
A story of the Island of Newfoundland before it had a name, of the days when chiefs and their warriors made prayers to the sun, the winds, the frost and the stars, when magicians were abroad in the land, evil as well as good ones, practicing their witchery to terrorize or to bless their tribes.
“Mr. Roberts who has much real knowledge of Indian lore, tells his story in a delightful way that will please both little people and adults.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 90w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w. |
* Roberts, William. Sir William Beechey. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
W 7–140.
The honesty of the work of Beechey is emphasized in this study. “The task of tracing out the identity of Beechey’s sitters, which included most of the celebrities of his time has been pursued by Mr. Roberts with most patient industry and he has unearthed a mass of information of great value to future biographers. He sifts out carefully different versions of the same period of the artist’s life, and gives the evidence in their favour without insisting on the acceptance of one or the other.” (Acad.)
“The book was well worth publishing for its information not only about Beechey but about many of his distinguished contemporaries.”
| + | Acad. 72: 602. Je. 22, ’07. 220w. |
“This expanded catalog of the work of that rather commonplace portraitist is both commonplace and dull.”
| − | Ind. 63: 1176. N. 14, ’07. 120w. |
“Mr. Roberts’s monograph is expository rather than critical, and particular interest attaches to the chapter of forty pages in which he gives a series of extracts from Beechey’s account books.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w. |
Robertson, Alexander. Discourses on the history, art and customs of Venice. *$3. Scribner.
A group of discourses which contain interesting information as to the religion of the early Venetians. The volume “is remarkable for two things—its seventy-three half tones reproduced from some of the most attractive photographs that we have yet seen of modern Venice and the attempt of the author to read into Venetian monuments Presbyterian texts as to their inspiration, building, and perpetuation.” (N. Y. Times.)
| + − | Nation. 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 130w. | |
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 294. My. 1, ’07. 520w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 120w. |
* Robertson, Archibald Thomas. Epochs in the life of Jesus: a study of development and struggle in the Messiah’s work. **$1. Scribner.
7–35611.
“These lectures, delivered at a Missouri summer assembly in 1906, present in popular form the main facts of Jesus’ life. The writer seeks to give ‘a straight-forward constructive discussion of the career of Jesus as set forth in the Gospels’ putting the emphasis upon the pivotal points in the movement of Jesus’ ministry, and avoiding critical discussion.”—Bib. World.
“The point of view is conservative.”
| + | Bib. World. 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Robertson, James Peter. Personal adventures and anecdotes of an old officer. **$3.50. Longmans.
An octogenarian’s reminiscences of deathdealing adventures. In spite of the fact that his mother predicted early death unless he reformed, Colonel Robertson is hale and hearty at the age of eighty-four. “The volume is full of good stories, telling anecdotes, gallant exploits and hair-breadth adventures, related in a manner which at once fascinates and compels admiration for the old officer and his comrades. Like Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir John French, and Sir Henry Hildyard, Colonel Robertson was a middy before he took to soldiering, and a love for the sea and life afloat bore fruit in many stirring episodes in his subsequent career, while to the credit of the seaman’s instinct thus early imparted may be placed that readiness of resource so frequently exhibited during the vicissitudes of his military life.”—Acad.
“Our readers will find it as exciting as any adventure story, and described with a naturalness and simplicity as delightful as they are unusual.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 36. Ja. 12, ’07. 1730w. |
“An eminently readable and entertaining book.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 287. Mr. 9. 560w. |
“The startling exploits with which the book is packed ... make the ordinary sensational novel seem tame in comparison.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 450w. |
“Something exciting, of one sort or another, happens in nearly every paragraph. And it is all told with a naive sort of charm, in blunt, simple, and straightforward statement, with no more attempt at literary embellishment than you would find in a Quartermaster’s report. And the narrative gains much in interest and dignity by this soldierly simplicity in the telling of it.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 540w. |
“Colonel Robertson writes with energy and natural force, and his anecdotes are lively as his adventures.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w. |
“Colonel Robertson leaves us with a most agreeable impression of soldierly qualities.”
| + | Spec. 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 380w. |
Robertson, John Mackinnon. [Short history of free thought, ancient and modern.] 2d ed. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
W 7–14.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“On the whole this is an excellent book, and yet it has one characteristic—for the author perhaps, an unavoidable one—that may limit its usefulness. It is written with a purpose additional to the scientific recording and explaining of facts, namely, to spread free-thought as above defined.” Carveth Read.
| + + − | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 513. Jl. ’07. 1480w. |
“He writes in narrative style and enlivens his thesis with humor.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 139. Mr. 3, ’06. 90w. |
“It is desirable to caution the unwary reader against accepting too confidingly his conclusions; but the skill with which he marshals the luminous points in a difficult subject is worthy of all praise.” Edward Fuller.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 127. Ap. ’07. 1200w. |
Robertson, Louis Alexander. Through painted panes, and other poems. *$1.50. Robertson.
7–16926.
Consists chiefly of poems reprinted from earlier volumes, the plates of which were lost at the time of the San Francisco destruction. “Resurgam,” a new poem of the collection, grew out of the earthquakes ravages, and contains a prophecy for the rearing of earth’s fairest city where the old one stood.
| Dial. 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 130w. |
Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.). [The convert.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–35623.
“The convert” is not merely a novel, it is a strong plea for woman’s suffrage. The work of the suffragettes of London with their open air meetings in squares and on wharfs crowded with rude and unsympathetic mobs is glaringly described until the heroine, if not the reader, is drawn over to them and their cause. The heroine, now a splendid woman moving in society’s inner circle, was, when a young girl, deceived by the man she loved and led to sacrifice the child which was to have been hers. Now, with this burning loss in her heart and the cause of down trodden woman strong in her soul, she meets the man once more and, closing the past forever, gives him to the girl he now loves but asks in return his help in the cause, that by helping other women he may expiate his guilt toward one.
“Extremely clever and well written.”
| + | Acad. 73: sup. 113. N. 9, ’07. 320w. |
“The play was said to have had its dramatic movements; but the novel is one long welter of talk.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 649. N. 23. 130w. |
“A sterling example of the bigger, worthier sort of book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 406. D. ’07. 770w. | |
| Ind. 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 230w. |
“With the fullest admiration for much that is good in ‘The convert,’ we regard it as an opportunity missed, not only by Miss Robins the novelist, but by Miss Robins the advocate of female suffrage.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 660w. |
“It is a strong book in many senses of the word. It is difficult, however, to speak of ‘The convert,’ as a novel. The conditions portrayed in the book, however, are British rather than American, and thus in this country ‘The convert’ will make its appeal to the critical judgment more as a work of fiction than as a brilliant and possibly accurate account of a burning political question.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 727. N. 16, ’07. 1300w. |
“An interesting book written with skill.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 180w. |
“Its weakness as a novel lies in the fact that this girl had such an extraordinary past that she is not a typical figure.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: sup. 8. N. 16. ’07. 180w. |
“Successful as a story it is not, and it may be doubted whether is makes any serious contribution to the literature of the struggle.”
| − | Spec. 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 270w. |
Robinson, Charles Mulford. Modern civic art. **$3. Putnam.
3–13052.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
| + + | Charities. 17: 509. D. 15, ’06. 1100w. |
Robinson, James Harvey. Readings in European history. Abridged ed. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–6250.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | Bookm. 23: 455. Je. ’06. 190w. |
Robinson, William. English flower garden and home grounds. 10th ed. *$6. Scribner.
A volume of nearly a thousand pages which sets forth the design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs for the open-air garden and their culture.
“To those who love to plan their own pleasure-grounds and make their own choice of plants, this is one of the best treatises within reach. It is moreover, written in such a pleasing style that it might even serve to wean from idleness those who now depute to professional gardeners the task of selection and care of plants.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w. |
“Exhaustive, detailed authoritative, and immensely practical, this book is one that has come to be regarded as indispensable to every man having such a piece of work in hand.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 210w. |
Robinson, William. Garden beautiful: home woods, home landscape. *$4. Scribner.
Agr 7–1170.
A book of good counsel particularly for those who own large estates. The reader is told how to beautify his grounds, and the treatment of both forests and flower gardens is considered in detail. A plant dictionary is appended.
“The author has a final chapter defending his use of common English names of plants and trees; and here we must differ with him.” Edith Granger.
| + − | Dial. 42: 367. Je. 16, ’97. 550w. |
“This book is most valuable in England, as it is written for that climate, but his careful list of trees with directions where each should be planted, his list of shrubs, and the true love of nature that runs thru the book will make it one that owners of woodlands or large estates will enjoy and find useful in spite of the mustard and pepper with which it is highly seasoned.”
| + | Ind. 62: 500. F. 28, ’07. 420w. |
“Mr. Robinson is an attractive writer, who knows how to put sound advice in a telling form.... The only trouble with his books is the marked tendency to repetition.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 250w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 160w. | |
| Outlook. 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 40w. |
“Undoubtedly the best modern book of reference for flower gardens.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w. |
“Mr. Robinson’s chapters are full of interesting suggestions about landscape gardening. He can give some practical as well as aesthetic advice, moreover, to owners of woodlands and parks.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 583. N. 9, ’07. 170w. | |
| Spec. 99: 714. N. 9, ’07. 580w. |
Robinson, William Henry. Golden palace of Neverland. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–21222.
“Mr. Robinson’s story tells of the transporting of a girl and boy to a fairy island on a magic raft. Numerous exciting adventures befall them there, leading them into the society of gnomes and other interesting beings; also into Mother Goose’s domain, where they encounter well-known friends, such as Tom the piper’s son, Little Jack Horner, etc.”—Outlook.
“An excellent new fairy story book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 80w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 60w. |
Roche, Francis Everard. Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
6–16205.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is lacking, in poetic elevation, although it has seriousness and animation.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 90w. |
Rodd, Sir James Rennell. Princes of Achaia and the chronicles of Morea: a study of Greece in the middle ages. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–29135.
What Gibbon would not undertake Sir Rennell Rodd has accomplished, namely to give life and form to the “obscure and various dynasties that rose and fell on the continent or in the isles.” “There is a clear-cut introduction dealing with historical authorities. A readable account of the fourth crusade, including the sack of Constantinople and the partition of the empire, is given as a sort of prologue.... The history from the time of Otho of Brunswick to the Greek restoration is summarized as an epilogue. There are three appendices, the third of which contains helpful genealogical tables; also a map ... and an index.” (Dial.)
“It may safely be said that the volumes under notice are valuable for the parts relating to the Morea though they show traces of haste elsewhere. If the author could find time to cut the two volumes down to one, omitting such parts as have no immediate connection with his subject and revising the rest, his book would be improved and have a distinctly greater historical value.” Edwin Pears.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 130. O. ’07. 1710w. |
“It is a conscientious and critical work. The author does not strain after effects, though he is fully alive to the interest of his subject.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 375. Mr. 30. 960w. |
“Our author has spared no effort to reach available sources, or to make his results perfectly clear. The style is simple and direct.” F. B. R. Hellems.
| + | Dial. 42: 306. My. 16, ’07. 2850w. |
“Sir Rennell Rodd possesses almost every qualification for writing the history of Frankish Greece.” W. Miller.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 570. Jl. ’07. 1060w. |
“Though this history of medieval Achaia has certain limitations which the specialist will detect, it is based on sound and large foundations.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 82. Mr. 15, ’07. 1080w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 342. My. 25, ’07. 380w. |
“As a narrative his work is not likely to be superseded. Unfortunately the most interesting part of the book comes first.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 103: 334. Mr. 16, ’07. 1910w. |
“A coherent narrative such as has not been offered to us before in English, though we do not forget Finlay.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1600w. | |
| + + | Yale R. 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 420w. |
Rodocanachi, Emmanuel. Roman capitol in ancient and modern times. *$1. Dutton.
7–29082.
In which are considered the citadel, the temples, the senatorial palace, the palace of the conservators and the museum. “The first part tells the story from the foundation of the city down to the sixth century. At this time a period of darkness set in. The place was practically forgotten. Then in the eleventh century it emerged again into light. The second part tells the story of the locality as it was in the period of the revival.” (Spec.)
“It must be admitted that the task of translating the mass of ill-digested material of which the book consists cannot have been otherwise than tiresome, but the shortcomings of the translation make the work in its present form still more tiresome to read.”
| − | Acad. 72: 189. F. 23, ’07. 510w. |
“The translation is faithful, but not attractive. We notice a good many misprints. The shortcomings of the book do not seriously interfere with its general interest and usefulness.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 546. My. 4. 500w. |
“It is, of course, scholarly and scientific—too much so, perhaps, for the traveler who has neither time nor inclination for a minute examination of the antiquities, buildings and ruins of the famous hill; for such as have, the volume cannot be excelled.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 90w. |
“At first sight the book, with its multitudinous footnotes and wealth of historical erudition, may appear to be more acceptable by the student than by the ordinary reader. For the special kind of reader mentioned as being bodily on the capitol it must be invaluable, being a guide book informed with this peculiar charm, that, although no information is omitted which the pilgrim might be expected to possess already, the style conveys a delicate compliment in being far above the comprehension of the vulgar ignoramus.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 1210w. | |
| + | Spec. 97: 544. O. 13, ’06. 80w. |
Roe, Fred. Old oak furniture. **$3. McClurg.
The author says “If any apology is needed for what may be termed old oak worship, I may say that the final aim of art is—or ought to be—beauty, and that the cult of old oak is really only one aspect of the pursuit of beauty.” He discusses English archaic rarities, Gothic styles of medieval time, styles of the renaissance and after, oaken chairs and stools before the renaissance, coffers and chests, cupboards and sideboards, bedsteads and cradles, panelling and filled furniture, furniture with hiding-places, vicissitudes of old furniture, and forgeries in old oak.
| + | Dial. 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 260w. |
“Written rather for the inexperienced than the expert, his book will be an excellent aid to the neophyte; but it also contains much new information of value even to the accomplished antiquarian.”
| + | Int. Studio. 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 130w. |
Rogers, Arthur Kenyon. Religious conception of the world; an essay in constructive philosophy. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–5078.
“In the opening lines of his introduction the author tells us that he set out to defend a view of the world which is frankly religious and theistic.... With grace and skill he discusses the eternal problems of philosophy regarding the relation of God and nature, God and man, the purely metaphysical question concerning the nature of God. In plain language he tries to explain the greatest historical mystery, the permission of evil on the part of God. He also dwells at some length on the problems of freedom and immortality.”—Ind.
“Treats of religion in a logical and constructive manner. Despite the abstract nature of the topics, the author uses simple language, carefully avoiding the technical expressions of the philosophical schools.”
| + | Ind. 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 820w. |
“An acutely and cautiously reasoned work. It is addressed to earnest thinkers, it presumes patient consideration, and may weary those who are disinclined to intellectual exercise.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 420w. |
“Perhaps the strongest chapters in the book are those devoted to theism proper. A less satisfactory part of the book is that dealing with the foundations and validity of knowledge.” H. W. Wright.
| + + − | Philos. R. 16: 555. S. ’07. 700w. |
Rogers, Arthur Kenyon. Student’s history of philosophy. *$2. Macmillan.
7–27624.
A new edition whose revision includes some corrected errors of fact, “a large number of mistakes of judgment,” says the author, “and infelicities of expression.” The exposition itself has also been rewritten, references have been added in connection with quoted passages, and the bibliographies have been brought down to date.
“Is not in any sense noteworthy and the author’s style is decidedly heavy.”
| − | Educ. R. 34: 535. D. ’07. 70w. |
“Next to the comprehensiveness of the treatment and the clearness of the exposition, the most remarkable characteristic of the book is the accuracy of the bibliography.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 390w. |
• Rogers, Gertrude. Cobwebs. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–26605.
A little book of dainty verse whose silvery texture is enhanced by the sunshine of youth, buoyancy and possibility.
“A pale distillation of old poetic symbols.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 110w. |
Rogers, Robert Cameron. Rosary and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–32395.
Four classical idyls in blank verse.
“Are distinctly out of the common. But the talent of Mr. Rogers is for the most part lyrical, and a very charming talent it is.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 41: 205. O. 1, ’06. 390w. |
“With all its variety and intelligence, the volume just misses distinction, chiefly, we should guess, because of a certain limitation of sentiment and because the life in it has been strained through too many books.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 440. N. 22, ’07. 210w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 30w. |
Roller, Frank W. Electric and magnetic measurements and measuring instruments. *$3.50. McGraw pub.
7–6710.
“A summary of the instruments and methods used or proposed for all kinds of measurements of electrical and magnetic quantities.”—Engin. N.
“It is not a treatise that will be useful to a student, unless accompanied by very careful directions from a competent instructor. The descriptions appear to be accurate and a vast amount of information is rendered accessible.” Henry H. Morris.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 660w. |
Rollins, Frank West. What can a young man do? **$1.50. Little.
7–32570.
Over fifty possible careers are here sketched for the benefit of the young man with his life work before him. There are chapters upon the professions, various branches of business, politics, consular service, the sailor, the actor, the chauffeur, the farmer and many other ways of earning a living.
“The book will be read with interest and profit by the heads of families and by their sons who are about to choose their life work.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 711. N. 9. ’07. 170w. |
* Rollins, Montgomery. Money and investments: a reference book for the use of those desiring information in the handling of money or the investment thereof. *$2. Estes.
7–31980.
“The object of the book is essentially to furnish to the layman information about the simple forms of financial transactions, to explain the slang of the stock market, and to guide him in his investments. The foreword of 36 pages gives a general review of the financial situation with suggestions to investors. The remaining 436 pages are in the form of an encyclopedia, with headings alphabetically arranged.”—Ind.
“We have received many letters lately from our subscribers asking us to recommend an elementary book of finance. The present volume ... seems to fill the bill.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 270w. |
“Is a workmanlike compilation of little financial essays, cast in dictionary form. The book is rather suitable for reference than for counsel in action.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 110w. |
Romanes, Ethel (Mrs. George John Romanes). Story of Port Royal. *$5. Dutton.
7–28621.
“An attempt to give an account of the remarkable religious movement known as Port-Royal—which ... in the seventeenth century ... touched French life at almost every point.”—Lond. Times.
“We cannot commend the style of the writing. The sentences are jerky and the paragraphs disjointed. There is a running comment of religious and moral sententiousness which is both irritating and tedious. We have, however, nothing but praise for Mrs. Romanes’s industry and enthusiasm for her subject.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 696. Je. 8. 940w. |
“Sainte-Beuve’s great book, ‘Port Royal,’ is, as every one knows, the one supreme work on the subject. No substitute for it exists in English, nor can we honestly say that Mrs. Romanes’s book will occupy that place. It is written in a rambling, inconclusive style, which wanders from subject to subject, from biographical sketches of the principal actors in the story to long theological disquisitions and back again in a way which is most confusing to the reader.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 2000w. |
“It is to be regretted that Mrs. Romanes did not submit her manuscript to somebody competent to correct her French.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 550w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w. |
“Perhaps her seemingly unnecessary fullness of detail is essential to give a complete picture, but occasionally one feels that the text might have been condensed. This, however, if it be a blemish, is certainly a minor one. Her volume is to be heartily commended to all students of religious development.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
“Mrs. Romanes has dealt with it sympathetically, if occasionally her observations are rather English and conventional.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 273. Ag. 31, ’07. 690w. |
Rook, Clarence. Switzerland, the country and its people; painted by Effie Jardine. *$6. Putnam.
7–26626.
Mr. Rook “gives us neither an arid chronological history nor a descriptive guide-book, but takes up chapter by chapter for broad intelligent treatment such subjects as ‘Swiss patriotism,’ ‘The growth of a republic,’ ‘The Swiss government,’ ‘Popular control,’ ‘Winter sports,’ ‘The Swiss as engineers.’”—Outlook.
“The artist’s little pictures are very much like what one has been used to in similar books. She is more successful, to our mind, with lowlands and street scenes than with the high Alps, and with summer scenes than with winter. Mr. Rook writes in a cheerful journalistic style, without more regard for accuracy in details than that style tolerates. On the main facts of Swiss history and institutions he is usually correct.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 500. Ap. 27. 1260w. |
“We were very much surprised to find Mr. Rook’s part of this book not only readable, but interesting, even informing, tho not burdened with statistics.”
| + | Ind. 62: 802. Ap. 4, ’07. 260w. |
“It is one of the most entertaining and instructive of the season’s books of travel.”
| + + | Lit. D. 24: 724. My. 4, ’07. 240w. |
“About the text there is nothing heavy. In a style which is both easy and graceful, Mr. Rook introduces his reader to the admirable government and fine characteristics of the sturdy Swiss.”
| + | Nation. 84: 571. Je. 20. ’07. 570w. |
“In several well-considered chapters the government of Switzerland is very adequately treated, and there are some suggestive comparisons between Swiss methods of government and those of other nations.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 274. Ap. 27, ’07. 310w. |
“With very few exceptions these pictures can be cordially praised. Each subject, whether serious or light, is treated in appropriate vein and with evidence of knowledge and discrimination.”
| + + − | Outlook. 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w. |
Reviewed by Charlotte Harwood.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 444. Jl. ’07. 400w. |
“Mr. Rook is a lively and picturesque writer, and we have never come across a more readable account of the rise and progress of the Swiss confederation.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w. |
“A volume which is bound both to please and to profit.”
| + | Spec. 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 140w. |
Roosevelt, Theodore. Good hunting in pursuit of big game in the West. $1. Harper.
7–6650.
These true stories of big-game hunting in the West are written for young people, especially for young hunters. The tales are told wholly from the sportsman’s point of view and over-sympathetic little readers of the modern animal story may not enjoy these triumphant hunts which meant death to: the wapiti or round horned elk, a cattle-killing bear, a Christmas buck, the timber-wolf, the prong-buck, or the white goat. The volume closes with some sound advice upon ranching.
“It is eminently suited for its purpose, as its tone is sportsmanlike and the descriptions are in well-chosen words.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 90w. |
“Full of wholesome advice on hunting and ranching.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 140w. |
“Spirited papers.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 290w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 639. My. ’07. 90w. |
Roosevelt, Theodore. Square deal. $1. Allendale press.
6–36925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Ind. 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 70w. |
Root, Edward Clary. Unseen jury: a novel; with il. by Phillipps Ward. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–9546.
The father of a girl with two lovers is found dead in a stream. All evidence points to the guilt of the dissipated lover whose suit had been repeatedly rejected by the father. When conviction seems imminent, the other lover, a lawyer, takes up the defense, wins the case and the free man goes back to the girl only to learn that his rival is her choice.
“Detective stories involving murder mysteries do not seem likely to offer anything agreeably new. But in this respect a pleasant surprise awaits the reader of ‘The unseen jury.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 286. My. ’07. 440w. |
“The theme is an interesting one, and the author has handled his plot fairly well. Mr. Root could also have improved the story not a little by judicious condensation. And the manuscript has been edited with shocking carelessness.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 310w. |
Root, Elihu. Citizen’s part in government. (Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship.) **$1. Scribner.
7–22700.
“Secretary Root discusses (1) the task inherited or assumed by members of the governing body in a democracy; (2) the function of political parties as agencies of the governing body; (3) the duties of the citizens as a member of a political party; and (4) the grounds for encouragement.”—R. of Rs.
“It is a vigorous and stimulating book, well worth addition to Bishop Goodsell’s list.” Edward A. Bradley.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 830w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 226. N. ’07. 310w. |
“Mr. Root’s sensible and well-proportioned treatment of these topics is precisely what is needed by the young American who aspires to have a real part in making the political conditions around him better.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 382. S. ’07. 290w. |
Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root). Does God comfort? by one who has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.
6–18575.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Arena. 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 60w. |
Root, Robert Kilburn. Poetry of Chaucer: a guide to its study and appreciation. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–34823.
The author’s purpose has been “to put his readers in possession of the most recent results of Chaucerian research, which are at present widely scattered in learned periodicals. The scanty facts that have been unearthed about Chaucer’s biography, the chronology of his works, the sources to which he was indebted for his material—for, like Shakespeare and Molière, Chaucer took his own wherever he found it—and the social conditions and surroundings amid which and for which the poet wrote are amply set forth.” (N. Y. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 104. Ap. ’07. |
“This interesting study avoids both the iridescent foam of clever but shallow appreciation and the dead calm of unanimated learning.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 300w. |
“Especially to be commended is his conservatism in rejecting the ingenious speculations which have recently aimed at revolutionizing the generally accepted chronology of Chaucer’s poems. Like most books that issue from American universities, it is perhaps too didactic in aim, and the shadow of orthodoxy at times hangs a little heavily over its pages.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 390w. |
“It is written with learning and from a sane and sympathetic point of view.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 737. N. 10, ’06. 940w. |
Ropes, James Hardy. Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–14529.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is constructive in method, conservative in treatment, clear in style. An excellent supplement to Kent’s ‘Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament.’”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 128. My. ’07. |
“The interpretation of the Acts in ... Dr. Ropes’s Apostolic age ... is a living and breathing matter, a real thing, seeking honestly and earnestly for truth, and bringing us the truth thus found with all frank generosity.” George Hodges.
| + | Atlan. 99: 565. Ap. ’07. 210w. |
“The general tendency of the book is distinctly orthodox. It is from such contributions to the subject that real progress may be hoped.”
| + | Spec. 97: 24. Jl. 7. ’06. 90w. |
Rose, Arthur Richard. Common sense hell. **$1. Dillingham.
6–6895.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| N. Y. Times. 11: 196. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w. |
* Rose, Elise Whitlock. Cathedrals and cloisters of midland France; il. by Vida Hunt Francis. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
“Together the volumes contain four photogravures and two hundred half-tone illustrations picturing the churches of central France, whose architecture is differentiated from that to the north and south by the dominance of the Byzantine influence. Miss Rose has already written of the south of France cathedrals; and the new books are bound uniformly with the others, and follow a similar method.”—Dial.
“Architectural beauty, historical associations, and human interest are all considered, and accuracy rather than popularity is the author’s aim.”
| + | Dial. 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 110w. | |
| Nation. 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 60w. |
“The book is almost as pleasant to read as to look at, being quite competent on the technical side and betraying the same artistic sensibility in text as in pictures.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 560w. |
Rose, Elise W. [Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France]: with il. from original photographs by Vida H. Francis. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
6–45154.
In which are arrayed artistic and historic charms of the cathedral and monasteries chiefly of Provence, Languedoc and Gascony. “This work aims to allure the curious traveller. It is not technical, and its historical side is not very systematic. Yet the author preserves a just sense of proportion.” (Nation.)
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 71. Mr. ’07. |
“Only those who know intimately the south of France can appreciate the amount of trouble that has gone to the making of this book, and the excellence of the photographs by which it is illustrated.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 488. O. 19. 170w. |
“She writes impersonally but informally, employs few technicalities, and describes and criticises in a general way rather than in detail. For the stay-at-home reader also these volumes will prove somewhat too diffuse to hold his interest.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 320w. |
“The author struggles rather helplessly with general historical and archaeological questions in the opening pages, and is often uncertain and inexpert in the use of language, but manages, nevertheless, with the help of many fine illustrations, to convey the charm.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 480w. |
“Miss Francis’s work as a photographer is characteristic of technical ability, artistic selection of models, and a thorough knowledge of the subjects photographed.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 160w. |
“A delightful book. One can hardly imagine a more fascinating sort of collaboration.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 94. F. 16, ’07. 330w. |
“The work is more attractive because of its apparent spontaneity of production.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 90w. |
“It is evident that loving and conscientious thought and ample time have been given to the making of these volumes, which are full of interest, architectural, historical and picturesque.” Charlotte Harwood.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 444. Jl. ’07. 260w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w. |
“One of the best books we have read for many a day.”
| + + − | Spec. 98: 620. Ap. 20, ’07. 1520w. |
Rose, John Holland. [Development of the European nations], 1870–1900. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
5–34973.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As essays, these volumes, apart from certain evidence of haste, would hold a high place; as serious history they do not appear, to the present writer, at least, to attain to the standard of historical writing set by Mr. Rose in his other work, nor indeed that reached by other work in the same field.” William E. Lingelbach.
| − + | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 485. N. ’06. 760w. |
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of. Lord Randolph Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.
6–38396.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“By far the most lucid contribution to the political literature of the past few years.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 133. F. 9, ’07. 430w. |
“Costs too much for the amount or value of the material in it.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 14. Ja. ’07. |
“With all deductions made, however, it is a lifelike as well as brilliantly attractive portrait that Lord Rosebery has sketched in this book.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| + + − | Bookm. 24: 439. Ja. ’07. 1540w. |
“Is especially valuable for its candid tone and its critical judgment.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 350w. |
“Lord Rosebery’s brilliant style and sparkling epigrams are admirably displayed in this study. Lord Rosebery’s book is full of charm, and one who begins it will not lay it aside until the end is reached.”
| + + | Educ. R. 33: 207. F. ’07. 240w. | |
| + + | Ind. 62: 499. F. 28, ’07. 770w. |
Reviewed by Gertrude Atherton.
| + + | No. Am. 184: 87. Ja. 4, ’07. 2030w. |
“A fascinating study, absorbingly interesting from first to last. And yet, because of the anomalous attitude of the author toward the subject of his essay, it leaves an impression that is decidedly unpleasant.” Horatio S. Krans.
| + − | Outlook. 84: 1077. D. 29, ’06. 750w. |
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 762. Mr. ’07. 1380w. |
Rosenberg, E. Electrical engineering: an elementary text-book; tr. by W. W. Haldane Gee and Carl Kinzbrunner; authorized ed. rev. and brought down to date for the American market by E. B. Raymond; new enl. rev. ed. *$2. Wiley.
7–970.
“The author aims to describe in concise form and in simple non-mathematical language the important applications of the electric current. The underlying principles were stated and briefly illustrated in an easy conversational style, the evident attempt being to write as one would have spoken in addressing his audience in person. The scope of the book covers the construction and operation of direct and alternating current generators and motors, electric lighting and power transmission.”—Engin. N.
“The revision has improved the work as a text-book for schools and has not made it inaccessible to the general reader, as he can pass over these pages without losing the general plan. It covers the same ground as ‘Electrical engineering,’ by Slingo and Brooker, and is one of the very few books in which the attempt is made to do so much in a small space. The general make-up of the volume shows plainly the way in which it has been built; in fact, the ‘patching’ is quite evident.” Henry H. Norris.
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 196. F. 14, ’07. 610w. |
* Rosengarten, Joseph George. French colonists and exiles in the United States. **$1. Lippincott.
7–30856.
An important undertaking in a field heretofore only partially covered. The author has gathered together from the works of recognized historians facts about the French colonists and the Huguenots which show how much “character and ability they brought to the United States.”
Ross, Denman Waldo. Theory of pure design: harmony, balance, rhythm. **$2.50. Houghton.
7–15335.
“A notable attempt to show the mathematical origin and structure of the plastic arts.... [it] deals principally with harmony, balance and rhythm.”—N. Y. Times.
“The reasoning is clear and in most respects convincing; it would be entirely so but for a false note at the outset, in a definition of harmony which virtually makes it synonymous with unity and takes no note of the accordance of correlations.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 350w. |
“The impression given by a reading of Professor Ross’s volume is a singular one. Each definition seems precise, each paragraph logical, and the sequence of ideas seems clear, the argument convincing, yet one goes on the end with an increasing dissatisfaction, a growing sense that something is wrong.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 506. My. 30, ’07. 2270w. |
“Endless discussion is invited by every point he makes. There is no doubt, however, that perusal of his volumes will stimulate the faculty of artistic precision in production and criticism.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 450w. |
Ross, Edward Alsworth. Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
5–15556.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
| + | Charities. 17: 473. D. 15, ’07. 590w. |
“No brief review, however, can do justice to the masterly manner in which most of these topics have been handled. Excellent as the book is, one receives the impression that it will hardly serve as the foundations of a science. It is rather a collection of carefully selected materials for such foundations. But ‘Foundations of sociology’ is something more than a scientific treatise. It is a piece of literature—and that it is good literature few would deny.” Alvin S. Johnson.
| + + − | Educ. R. 33: 208. F. ’07. 1080w. |
* Ross, Edward Alsworth. Sin and society: an analysis of latter-day iniquity; with a letter from President Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–36978.
“Professor Ross’ book is less an arraignment of the dictator-sinner, hiding behind corporations, than an exhortation to society in general to educate itself to know when our own democracy is outraged, and to the individual in particular to spend less time in painting Utopias and more in making good the things he has led his fellow men to expect of him. The discussion is pragmatistic.”
| R. of Rs. 36: 758. D. ’07. 180w. |
Rossetti, William Michael. Some reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti. 2v. *$10. Scribner.
6–45370.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a wonder that with his vast opportunities Mr. Rossetti did not make a more readable book. The trouble is he has not the dramatic gift; he has little feeling for portraiture.” James Huneker.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 15. Ja. 12, ’07. 2240w. |
Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + | Putnam’s. 1: 507. Ja. ’07. 570w. |
“No one can put down these reminiscences without a feeling of kindliness and respect for the writer, which in these days of ‘revelations’ and disclosures is no small praise.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 570w. |
* Round, Douglass. Date of St. Paul’s epistle to the Galatians. *60c. Putnam.
“It is urged that Galatians was written from Antioch before the Council at Jerusalem and the second missionary journey, that is about 49–50 A. D. The argument is especially directed against certain elements in Ramsay’s position.”—Bib. World.
| Bib. World. 29: 479. Je. ’07. 30w. |
“We neither assent nor dissent, but welcome the very reasonable and moderate tone of the writer.”
| + | Spec. 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 110w. |
Round the world: a series of interesting illustrated articles on a great variety of subjects. 85c. Benziger.
v. 2. Includes the following chapters: American cut glass, Street scenes in different lands, A visit to Mammoth cave, How flax is made, The great Arizona desert, Plowing in many lands, A word about Turkey, The grape and raisin industry in the United States, The capitol at Washington, From Greece to Italy, Cadet life at West Point, and Grain, and how it is handled.
v. 3. Includes chapters on the great Eastern question, The West and the great petrified forest, In the footsteps of the apostles, Revetment work in the United States, Near to Galway town, In the heart of the African forest, The “blind” readers of the post office, The little republic, A day in the Zoo, The reclamation, service, and School-days in Egypt.
| Cath. World. 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Rowe, Eleanor. Practical wood-carving: a book for the student, carver, teacher, designer, and architect. *$3. Lane.
W 7–124.
“The implements and woods employed, the various methods of work, Gothic, Renaissance, and pierced carving, are treated in successive chapters, amply illustrated, concluding with an instructive discussion of treatment and design. A useful glossary is appended.”—Int. Studio.
“The book is practical, and the illustrations are beautiful.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 171. O. ’07. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 31: 251. My. ’07. 950w. |
“Carries her subject to a still further and more practical, more artistic development.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 279. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w. |
“No one who reads this book can help being the wiser, for it is clear and practical, and the advice of the letterpress is well illustrated by reproductions of old and new work.”
| + | Spec. 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 150w. |
Rowntree, Joseph, and Sherwell, Arthur. Taxation of the liquor trade, v. 1, *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–17254.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not too much to say that the result is one of the most important books upon the subject ever produced. It is very doubtful whether there exists elsewhere, in so convenient form, information relative to the systems of taxation by the different states of this country.”
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 469. N. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The book is a mine of information on almost every phase of the subject and constitutes a notable addition to the scanty literature dealing with this side of taxation.”
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 565. S. ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Ruete, Frau Emilie. Memoirs of an Arabian princess; tr. by Lionel Strachey. **$2.50. Doubleday.
7–29873.
“The ‘Memoirs,’ originally written, during a period of ill-health, for the future perusal of the author’s children, describe with great simpleness the Princess of Oman’s childhood in the Sultan’s palace and subsequently at the home of one of her brothers. The life of the harem, education of children, female fashions, the position of women in the East, Arabian suitorship and marriage, social customs, Mohammedan beliefs and festivals, medical methods, and the system of slavery are set forth from an intimate point of view.”—Lit. D.
| + | Lit. D. 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 340w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“Her book is written in the simplest manner, and with a feeling for the value of picturesque and telling detail, and the two together make it a vivid picture of a sort of life as distant and as different from that of the princess’s American readers as if she had come out of the days of Haroun al Raschid.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 330w. |
“A new book containing some interesting intimate revelations of Arab life.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 636. N. ’07. 60w. |
Ruggles, John. Recollections of a Lucknow veteran. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–29042.
“This is an interesting and characteristic narrative of the Indian mutiny by a Lucknow veteran.... The familiar story is given here with many added incidents by a veteran who looked all these things in the face, and who retains a keen recollection of them.”—Lit. D.
“It is fresh and spontaneous, commendably brief and modest, and in many ways a model autobiography.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w. | |
| + | Spec. 98: 58. Ja. 12, ’07. 240w. |
Ruhl, Arthur B. Break in training, and other athletic stories; il. by Howard Chandler Christy. $1.25. Outing pub.
6–43781.
A reissue of a book first copyrighted in 1900. The present edition contains a colored frontispiece by Howard Chandler Christy.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 18. Ja. ’07. |
“They could not have been written before Kipling, but they are none the worse for that. We should like to see Kipling beat them. These stories are clean and wholesome, yet emphatically manly.”
| + + + | Ind. 62: 738. Mr. 28, ’07. 290w. |
“It is a clean book and a healthful book. It is not profound, and it does not ruffle the waters of psychology. This collection of stories is noteworthy for its sincerity.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 141. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w. |
“Mr. Ruhl’s style of writing suits his subjects very well, as a ‘Break in training’ pleasantly demonstrates.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 768. Je. ’07. 50w. |
Russel, Mrs. Florence Kimball. [A woman’s journey through the Philippines on a cable ship that linked together the strange lands seen en route.] $2.50. Page.
7–23256.
An interestingly written and fully illustrated book which is chatty and informing and characterized by truly feminine observation.
“Bright and witty travel-talk.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“She sprinkles her sprightly narrative with much information, some of it intentional and some of it unconscious, about the native character and the nature and resources of the islands.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 420w. |
Russell, Charles Edward. Uprising of the many. **$1.50. Doubleday.
7–23946.
Questions are answered here that grow out of “the threat of a moneyed autocracy, the passing of wealth, and the power for which wealth stands, into the hands of a few.” “These chapters, largely a republication of material that has already appeared in Everybody’s magazine, form a powerful indictment against the shameless greed of ‘vested interests,’ and exhibit our own country as tolerating, constitutionally, legally, and by tacit consent, some of the most outrageous injustices in the history of the world.” (Dial.)
“His book is rich in instructive matter.”
| + | Dial. 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 270w. |
“Has collected an immense amount of information that is of value to the perplexed student of current economic conditions in this country. The author’s view is a partizan one and occasionally passes over fairly obvious defects in the workings of the system of governmental and municipal control and ownership which he describes.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 390w. |
“Altogether while much that he says is really informing, there is so much that requires to be read with great critical caution that we can hardly commend his work to the otherwise uninstructed reader.”
| − + | Outlook. 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 260w. |
“It is a comprehensive survey of the world movement for the democratization of industry.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 758. D. ’07. 60w. |
Russell, George William E. [Seeing and hearing.] *$2.50. Dutton.
7–37516.
“A volume of mixed gossip and reminiscence.... Mr. Russell knows English society intimately, and this volume is a sort of chorus accompanying it throughout its ‘season’ and on its travels. There are five chapters on the pleasures, or pangs of the table; others on social changes, purple and fine linen, suburban Sundays, hospitality, ostentation, publicity versus reticence, etc.”—Nation.
“On the whole, we like Mr. Russell best when he is touching on his earlier reminiscences.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 450w. |
“In ‘Seeing and hearing’ he still further works the vein opened in the two earlier volumes, but leaves the reader a little disposed to query whether the vein is not getting worked out.”
| − + | Dial. 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 310w. |
“This new book differs from the old in not containing so many anecdotes, and in being a trifle more reflective, even pensive at times, but the note is much the same.”
| + | Nation. 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 160w. |
“His style, less severely academic and chastened than Mr. Benson’s, has a charm of its own—the charm of the easy, flowing talk of a man of the world.” A. I. du. P. Coleman.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 220w. |
“It has ... an excellent literary touch, and it is full of good stories, most of which will be new even to readers of Mr. Russell’s books.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 403. Mr. 30, ’07. 200w. |
“It is always easy to read Mr. Russell and it is commonly worth while. But he writes in haste, and does not always verify his references.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 1410w. |
Russell, Louis Arthur. Commonplaces of vocal art: a plain statement of the philosophy of singing. $1. Ditson.
7–23091.
A volume for the singer, teacher and platform speaker which treats of the philosophy of the voice and of voice use, and offers suggestions as to the best method of practice for the development of the speaking voice and the voice in singing.
Russell, T. Baron. [Hundred years hence; the expectations of an optimist.] *$1.50. McClurg.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Taken in small quantities, Mr. Russell’s prophecy is diverting, but those who read it continuously may wish that parts of it had been written in the age predicted by the author, when ‘boredom’ shall have been abolished.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 40. Ja. 10, ’07. 470w. |
Rutherford, Ernest. Radioactive transformations; with diagrams. **$3.50. Scribner.
6–39464.
The Silliman lectures delivered at Yale in 1905. “Some treatment of radioactivity in general is given, and then a detailed development of the special subject of the book. This treatment differs only from the author’s previous expositions in the greater detail in which the subject is worked out.” (Nature.)
“Although this book is less comprehensive, as far as the general treatment of radioactive phenomena is concerned, than his previous work on ‘Radioactivity,’ it is divested of most of the technical terms which baffle the general reader, and is, in consequence, a book for both the student and the intelligent layman.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 71. Mr. ’07. |
“We have the less compunction in thus drawing attention to these blemishes in what we believe to be a very valuable book that they are all such as may be easily removed either in the next edition or in the next public pronouncement Prof. Rutherford may make on the subject.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 18. Ja. 5. 2190w. | |
| + + + | Nation. 84: 68. Ja. 17, ’07. 940w. |
“The only doubt which can be felt is whether it meets any want which was not already satisfied by his previous work, ‘Radio-activity.’” R. J. Strutt.
| + + − | Nature. 75: 195. D. 27, ’06. 780w. |
“Whilst his writings are always authoritative, and therefore welcome to the student, they have been divested in this volume of most of the technical and mathematical subtleties which necessarily repel the general reader in such a book as that of Professor Thomson, and there is hardly a page which cannot be understood by the intelligent layman.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 20. Ja. 5, ’07. 820w. |
* Ruville, Albert von. William Pitt: earl of Chatham. 3v. *$9. Putnam.
After the manner of German scholarship thoro research prepared the way for Ruville’s life of the “Great commoner.” “On two points he has, we think, added something valuable to our knowledge of Pitt. He brings out strongly the share which Pitt was forced to take in the personal intrigues which seemed so large an element in contemporary politics, the influence of his connections, of the Grenvilles especially, on his career, and the extent to which for many years he depended on the support of the Prince of Wales and the Leicester house party. And. secondly, Dr. von Ruville succeeds in making Lord Bute’s share in English politics clearer than it has been made before.” (Nation.)
“One does miss, perhaps, now and then, a style and manner rising to a great occasion, as in the account of Chatham’s last speech in the lords—where, by the way, he did not die, as pictorial tradition represents. The fact of translation, though this one is excellently well done, may account for this, though, to be sure, impressive writing is not the mark of modern histories.” G. S. S.
| + − | Acad. 73: 85. N. 2, ’07. 1070w. |
“The perusal of his conscientious pages leaves behind it a sense of disappointment. Dr. von Ruville is, in the first place, destitute of eloquence. Secondly, he takes but little account of human nature.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 511. O. 26. 890w. |
“Will always be of value to the historical student, at any rate as a mine of information. Throughout it he shows extraordinary wrong-headed judgment not in the presentation of facts, but in the deductions which he draws from them.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 329. N. 1, ’07. 1230w. |
“It is only when we come to look for breadth of view or width of treatment, for perception, proportion, sympathy, illumination, in fact for those larger qualities which make history and biography alive, that we are driven reluctantly to the conclusion that the book is unhappily depressing and depreciatory.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 517. D. 5, ’07. 1770w. |
“Dr. von Ruville goes through his work after the fashion of a chemist in his laboratory, weighing, dissolving, calculating, and recording results with the patient pen of science.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 638. N. 23, ’07. 2420w. |
“It is the first history of Chatham which in any way brings together all the results which may be obtained from manuscripts and printed material. Save for a few trivial mistakes, the translation is well done. It is not inspiring; but then the original German has none of the qualities of eloquence.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 775. N. 16, ’07. 1970w. |
Ryan, John Augustine. Living wage: its ethical and economic aspects. *$1. Macmillan.
6–14607.
Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.
“Is a good contribution on a most important subject. All good men everywhere should welcome this serious attempt to find the ethical and economic basis of just wages, and be grateful for its sane and dearly stated findings.” T. J. Riley.
| + + − | Am. J. Soc. 12: 561. Ja. ’07. 860w. |
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
| Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 234. Ja. ’07. 600w. |
Reviewed by W: J. White.
| Charities. 17: 471. D. 15. ’06. 880w. |
“As a whole the work appears to be scholarly. The organization of the material used is excellent. On the main point however—the validity of the author’s ethical theory and judgment—the economic student cannot of course pass judgment.” R. F. Hoxie.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 641. D. ’07. 280w. |
“The writer of this book has brought together in clear and readable form most of the essential arguments which have been offered for his contention; and he has supplied to trade unions and advocates of advanced social legislation very telling arguments for their position.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + | Dial. 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 370w. |
Ryan, Marah Ellis. Indian love letters. **$1. McClurg.
7–10045.
The hopeless love of a high-minded Indian for a fair haired girl in the East chants its sorrow here. Pathos, despair, renunciation, never impersonal where love is concerned, all stalk by the side of this stalwart young Indian over the sand dunes of Arizona. It is the old, old story but is tempered and colored by the strain of Indian poetry that reflects innate worship of Nature.
“The author has compressed a great deal within a few pages, and has managed her original and difficult theme with much artistic skill. The ethnic is one with the romantic element of the letters.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 400w. |
* Ryley, M. Beresford. [Queens of the renaissance.] **$2. Small.
A study of these types of the renaissance really means a study of the rapid development of woman’s intellect and fascination thru the humanist movement in Italy.
“Miss Ryley has done her work well. She writes clearly, and with gusto, though at times she is led into being gratuitously ornate.”
| + | Acad. 73: 864. S. 7, ’07. 810w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The subject necessarily brings the writer and reader into situations which require tact to be properly dealt with. Here, again, we find little to commend.”
| − + | Spec. 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 170w. |