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Tabb, John Banister. Selection from the verses of the Rev. John Tabb, made by Alice Meynell. **$1. Small.
“The deliciously tender songs of childhood, of flowers, of lament, the delicate fancies and symbols ... and the sacred poems, which in their union of individuality and universality remind us often of the best of Herbert, are the work of one who is none the less a poet, because four lines often contain his thought.”—Acad.
“One of Mr. Tabb’s leading characteristics is his power of suggesting by the lightest of touches, the most delicate of hints, some mighty truth.”
| + | Acad. 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 250w. |
“His tiny poems like the psychologist’s pinpricks, are very perfect tests of poetic sensibility.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + | Atlan. 100: 846. D, ’07. 280w. |
“Mrs. Meynell’s selection, which is not free from misprints nor immaculately edited, should at least prove a valuable introduction to the four little volumes of ‘Poems,’ ‘Lyrics,’ ‘Child verse,’ and ‘Later lyrics.’”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1940w. |
“Is a fairly satisfactory exhibition of the quality of that keenly individual poet.”
| + | Nation. 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 360w. |
“His pearls here have been beautifully strung, and they show him at his best.” Christian Gauss.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w. |
“Mrs. Meynell has made a good selection from Mr. Tabb’s poems, and we miss nothing we should desire to see reprinted. At his best he has the quaintness and poignancy of Crashaw, but he is not always at his best; and when his conceits master him he is guilty of doubtful taste. Sometimes, as in the sonnet ‘Unmoored,’ he attains a fine dignity of rhythm; but his strength lies usually in simple catches, in which a thought or an emotion is delicately wedded to a metaphor.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 160w. |
Taft, Lorado. Talks on sculpture. pa. 15c. Caproni.
7–16504.
A pamphlet reprint of papers written by the sculptor-author in response to the movement instigated by Miss Brinkhaus to beautify school rooms with casts of sculpture masterpieces. These brief talks will awaken in both children and grown ups a desire for and an appreciation of good art.
Taft, William Howard. Four aspects of civic duty. (Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship.) **$1. Scribner.
6–46256.
The duties of citizens viewed from the standpoint of a recent graduate of a university, of a judge on the bench of colonial administration and of the national executive constitute the four aspects of civic duty considered by Secretary Taft.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 49. F. ’97. S. | |
| Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 420. Mr. ’07. 330w. | ||
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 190w. |
“As a talker to young men on civic duty Dr. Hadley can hardly have failed to see in him the supreme fitness of a man who has done a great deal of that duty in an especially effectual fashion.” Edward Cary.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 13. Ja. 12, ’07. 1120w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 766. Mr. 30, ’07. 290w. |
“There is no rhetorical attempt at all, but a rhetorical success all the same, in which the lecturers, can quite unmistakably say what they mean and in which they always mean something.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 226. N. ’07. 490w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 80w. |
“The manner in which the character of the speaker, who has been so effective an actor in the various public offices to which he has been called, impresses itself upon the reader is not the least of the many valuable features which the lectures contain.”
| + | Yale R. 16: 108. My. ’07. 130w. |
* Taggart, Marion Ames. [Daughters of the little grey house.] †$1.50. McClure.
7–33202.
A sequel to “The little grey house.”
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w. |
Taggart, Marion Ames. Doctor’s little girl. $1.50. Page.
7–30163.
Other little girls will enjoy reading of this sunny child of ten whose father is the kindly village doctor. They will delight with her in her games and her playmates, sorrow at her troubles and her illness, and with the others drink her health in the closing toast to “Everybody’s little girl.”
Taggart, Marion Ames. [Six girls and the tea room.] †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26963.
A companion volume to “Six girls and Bob,” in which the cheerful Scollard family make light of their poverty and force their little tea room to yield them pleasure as well as financial profit. Their lighthearted optimism carries them and their friends thru many troubles and brings to them happiness and, in the end, prosperity.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w. |
Takekoshi, Yosaburo. Japanese rule in Formosa; with preface by Baron Shimpei Goto; tr. by George Braithwaite. *$3. Longmans.
7–25501.
A “narrative of all salient facts of historical interest since the date of the annexation of Formosa to Japan.... [It is] typical of the Japanese administrative system, which is the enthronement of bureaucratic principles of collective effort to the rigid exclusion of individualism. The book deserves study by all who wish to acquaint themselves with the methods by which Japan has raised herself to her present high position in the world, and which her statesmen will continue to use in pursuing their further plans of Imperial expansion.”—Lond. Times.
“Where the author is not concerned to emphasize the success of his countrymen the volume is one of undoubted value, since it contains a great deal of information as to the administrative mechanism of the government, which is not available in other works on the island.” Alleyne Ireland.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 156. O. ’07. 840w. |
“An interesting, informing account of present conditions.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 172. O. ’07. |
“His ability to see the contrasts and similarities in the peoples and the economic and geographical conditions make the book not only informing but entertaining.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 622. N. ’07. 690w. |
“Throughout ... the book which has been admirably translated by Mr. George Braithwaite, there is not a single touch of imagination; but in its place a succession of useful statistical tables elaborated with the methodical accuracy which delights the Japanese mind, and illustrative of every conceivable subject, connected with the government of the island.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 1410w. |
“It is obvious that he is bent on making as favorable a showing as possible for his beloved country, his conclusions must be accepted with some reserve. Faithful and intelligent translation.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 320w. |
“This book ... is neither as lucid in style nor as felicitous in diction as his previous works, but it is none the less readable, containing as it does many bright passages and charming expressions.” K. K. Kawakami.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1670w. |
“Graphic attempt to describe the conditions and possibilities of Japanese rule in Formosa.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 500. Ap. 20, ’07. 230w. |
Talbot, Arthur Newell. Tests of concrete and reinforced concrete columns. gratis. Engineering experiment station, Urbana, Ill.
7–19783.
“This pamphlet summarizes tests of (1) the shearing strength of concrete and (2) the bond or adhesion between concrete and straight, plain bars embedded in it; the tests were made in 1905 and 1906.”—Engin. N.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 510w. |
Talbot, Ellen Bliss. Fundamental principle of Fichte’s philosophy. *$1. Macmillan.
7–21441.
This monograph “contains a critical interpretation of Fichte’s teaching concerning the Ego, Being, and Existence. Incidentally Dr. Talbot sets forth ... the relation of Fichte to Kant, the nature of ‘intellectual perception’ in both the critical and the absolute philosophy, and adds an important appendix to show that Kant’s ‘I think’ is a purely formal principle.” (Nation.)
“As under the category of ‘Fichte-studien,’ the book deserves the highest praise, not only for careful scholarship, but also for clearness and articulation of argument. It is a characteristic product of the thoroughness of training which is shown in the ‘Cornell studies.’” W. H. Sheldon.
| + + | J. Philos. 4: 471. Ag. 15, ’07. 1190w. |
“[The author] expresses herself with simplicity and great clearness; her temper is judicial; and in her interpretation she is faithful to the philosopher’s writings undistorted by her own preconceptions, or by deductions as to what he ‘ought to have thought.’”
| + + | Nation. 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 210w. |
“The work as a whole is an admirable discussion of the main principles of Fichte’s philosophy, and one could not ask, for one entering upon the study of Fichte, a much better guide. Such monographs as the present one are not mere pieces of philosophical archaeology. They set the contributions of great thinkers in a clearer light, and so furnish points of departure for the systematic investigations of the present.” J. A. Leighton.
| + + | Philos. R. 16: 437. Jl. ’07. 1710w. |
Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert. My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.
6–39742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 49. F. ’07. S. |
“Bishop Talbot writes in a popular literary style, and for the entertainment of the general reader.” Arthur Howard Noll.
| + | Dial. 42: 248. Ap. 17, ’07. 130w. |
“It is a vivacious and veracious transcript of a fascinating stage in the evolution of the West, a life that is fast becoming a memory, and Bishop Talbot has rendered a service in preserving some of its more picturesque features and characters in his story.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1036. My. 2, ’07. 180w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 40. Ja. 5, ’07. 570w. |
“We feel that we cannot too warmly recommend ‘My people of the plains’ to our readers.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 864. Je. 1, ’07. 1420w. |
Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.
6–31411.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Cath. World. 84: 554. Ja. ’07. 120w. |
Tallentyre, S. G. pseud. (E. V. Hall). [Friends of Voltaire.] *$2.30. Putnam.
W 7–118.
Sketches of ten apostles of Voltaire’s teachings. Miss Tallentyre has worked her material into “an anecdotal history,” thru the pages of which is easily discernible pre-Revolutionary thought. The ten men whose vices and virtues are delineated are D’Alembert, Diderot, Gallani, Vauvenargues, d’Holbach, Grimm, Helvétius, Beaumarchais and Condorcet.
“Her book is an agreeable contexture of anecdotes, epigrams and light biographical sketches.”
| + | Acad. 72: 56. Ja. 19, ’07. 1360w. |
“Taste of a sort and talent of a sort are certainly exhibited in its composition: taste to select amusing stories, witty sayings, and lively traits of character; talent to frame out of this material a light and entertaining description of the society of the age.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 440w. |
“The book, throughout, is entertaining and helpful to a clear understanding of a momentous and often misunderstood epoch in both history and literature.” Josiah Renick Smith.
| + + | Dial. 43: 58. Ag. 1, ’07. 1180w. |
“Apart from petty vices and the constant effort to awaken the momentary interest of uninformed readers, the book has a certain journalistic merit. It can be read rapidly, and many of its judgments strike one as sound, while still more of them are no doubt sincere.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 521. Je. 6, ’07. 240w. |
“S. G. Tallentyre, knows the France of the eighteenth century rather better, one may say, than she knows the art of English composition. But for all that, her book throbs with life, and an exceeding interesting, if often deplorable, phase of life it portrays.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 364. Je. 8, ’07. 1550w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 100w. |
“Even in the least successful of the studies ... apart from an occasional and sometimes pardonable lapse into extravagance of statement, there is little to criticise.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 290w. |
“Her sallies are saddening, and no vivid picture is given of the brilliant circles through which she leads her readers. But none the less her book is worth reading and forms an adequate sequel to her ‘Life of Voltaire.’”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 208. F. 16, ’07. 1300w. |
“This new work was well worth doing, for the subjects cannot fail to be found interesting, especially by readers of the former book.”
| + | Spec. 98: 803. My. 18, ’07. 260w. |
* Tappan, Eva March. American hero stories. †$1. Houghton.
6–13065.
Designed for young readers this volume gives “accounts of the most important of American explorers, from Columbus to Lewis and Clark, tales of life in five of the early colonies, north and south; lives of our most famous pioneers, and some stories of war times.” (N. Y. Times.)
| Dial. 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 30w. |
“Children will find here no end of things that will interest them in the lives of Magellan, Drake, Stuyvesant, Dolly Madison, Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, and many others.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 90w. |
Tappan, Eva March. Short history of England’s literature. *85c. Houghton.
5–8088.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by John Maxwell Crowe.
| + + | School R. 14: 698. N. ’06. 230w. |
Tarbell, Ida Minerva. [He knew Lincoln.] **50c. McClure.
7–12636.
A brief sketch which Billy Brown, one time druggist at Springfield, Illinois, gives of the Abraham Lincoln whom he knew, the Lincoln who used to sit swapping stories with his cronies in Billy’s little store. It is a vivid picture of the man; pathetic, humorous, but above all human.
“Although short, and expensive for the number of its pages, it is worth buying because of its excellence and the universality of its appeal.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 204. N. ’07. |
“It is sure to take its place among the permanent and valued tributes to the memory of its hero.” Harry James Smith.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 135. Jl. ’07. 180w. |
“A little masterpiece sure to have a place in future collections of such.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 724. My. 4. ’07. 40w. |
“Throughout the recital Miss Tarbell has shown a restraint which is the finest art.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 188. Mr. 30, ’07. 560w. |
“As a piece of art this story belongs with the best of recent American writing; as a piece of fiction it is so faithful in its interpretation of the spirit of its subject that it is more veracious than a great deal of history.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 110w. |
“Once in a while a modern writer with enough journalism to be vivid and vital, and sufficient dignity and scholarship to keep the idea of a book in mind, gives us a picture of contemporary or bygone character which is more than mere writing. It is life itself. Miss Ida Tarbell, it may fairly be said, has done this.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 756. Je. ’07. 110w. |
Tarbell, Mrs. Martha (Treat). Tarbell’s teachers’ guide to the International Sunday school lessons for 1906. $1.25. Bobbs.
5–40811.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For orthodox Sunday-school teachers and workers we know of no work of equal value.”
| + + | Arena. 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 190w. |
“The teacher who has not access to large library facilities, or time and training for wide personal study will find in Miss Tarbell’s ‘Guide’ a veritable treasure house.” Henry T. Fowler.
| + | Bib. World. 29: 70. Ja. ’07. 810w. |
Tarkington, Booth. His own people. il. **90c. Doubleday.
7–30869.
An Indiana hero in realizing his dream of a European tour succumbs to the wiles of a bogus countess who shows him a good deal of Europe and then cheats him out of his last dollar at cards.
“One may criticise it with downright hostility, rail at its staleness, and deplore its triviality. But always it is impossible to ignore the fact that it is the work of a writer who, ever and always, at his worst as at his best, possesses the rare and absolutely indescribable gift of charm.” Arthur Bartlett Maurice.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 279. N. ’07. 390w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 380w. |
“In this latest novelette of Mr. Tarkington’s there is a little more intention and a little less brilliancy than we are accustomed to associate with his work.”
| + | Nation. 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 380w. |
“Is real comedy and is decidedly interesting.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 190w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
Taylor, Bert Leston. Charlatans. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–30926.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Taylor’s touch is everywhere light and pleasing: he has the gift of gentle social satire and the trick of clever dialogue.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w. |
“As fiction the book stands on a par with many of the stories its author has satirized so freely in the past. It is woefully lacking in literary distinction, and even in literary promise.”
| − | Ind. 62: 562. Mr. 7, ’07. 270w. |
Taylor, Edward Robeson. Selected poems. *$2. Robertson.
7–18557.
This selection includes pieces from the author’s two volumes “Visions and other verse” and “Into the light and other verse,” whose unsold copies were destroyed in San Francisco’s fire, and also some poems written since.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 180w. |
“The whole book shows everywhere the stamp of the thinker and the student. A great poet he is not; a true poet, in his degree, he is.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 263. Ag. 30, ’07. 1310w. |
Taylor, Emerson Gifford. Upper hand. †$1.50. Barnes.
6–24575.
A story of mystery in which the rich man of a New England village, the pretty girl who in a strange fashion becomes his ward, a pirate, a fanatical labor leader and others are involved in many exciting complications which include labor troubles and narrow escapes from death. There is also a love interest.
“A story which, despite its fantastic character, sustains our interest to the end.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 320w. |
“Told with some vigor in the writing but with little charm or literary grace.”
| − + | Outlook. 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 20w. |
“The construction of the book is somewhat loose and episodic.”
| − | Ind. 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w. |
“When Mr. Taylor learns to take more pains with his work he will find that it is much better.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 585. S. 22, ’06. 440w. |
Taylor, Henry Charles. Introduction to the study of agricultural economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
5–32900.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
| Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 421. Mr. ’07. 220w. |
“As a text, however, Professor Taylor’s work fills a need of the time. Whether we agree with the author’s rather tenuous theories and laborious mathematical demonstrations or not, we feel that he is following the right track, in applying economic theory to practical agriculture in a special treatise. The reader is constantly made aware that Professor Taylor has wrought with rare patience, industry and intelligence.” Royal Meeker.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 157. Mr. ’07. 700w. |
Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-. Moliere: a biography; with an introd. by Thomas Frederick Crane. *$3. Duffield.
6–34857.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Except in the account of the death-scene, which (based on Grimarest) is related with passion, good sense and good feeling, it lacks inspiration.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 644. My. 25. 540w. |
“One may challenge Mr. Chatfield-Taylor’s presentation of his materials in these and other points, and still assert that his book is the best that we have so far in English for the general reader who wishes to know the life and work of the master of comedy.” A. G. Canfield.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 2130w. |
Taylor, Ida Ashworth. Queen Hortense and her friends, 1783–1837. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
A fair-minded study of the life of Napoleon’s step-daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais. The author says “Hortense has not been permitted to make her defense to the public. Her confessions, perhaps her justifications, remain as she left them, unprinted, and it is upon the data supplied by contemporaries that posterity must form its conclusions.”
“There was need of a book in English on Queen Hortense. Miss Taylor has fairly supplied it and incidentally has furnished the best complete account of her in any language.” George M. Dutcher.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 137. O. ’07. 790w. |
“It is a creditable piece of popular biography, founded on a careful study of the best authorities, and making no concessions to readers whose sole appetite is for scandal relieved by domestic sentiment.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 6. Jl. 6. 1490w. |
“Although Miss Taylor affects the pose of the historian, let not the unwary be taken in; she clearly has done little else than get together enough picturesque materials for her purpose.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 210w. |
“The chief events of Hortense’s life are traced at length in these two-volumes by a biographer almost too discreet and conscientious for a task which leads her through such worlds of gossip, back-stair politics, of queer people and gimcrack pretenders.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 434. S. 28, ’07. 1540w. |
Taylor, J. A. Robert Southwell, S. J., priest and poet. *70c. Herder.
“A truthful and forcible sketch of the most widely known and most interesting of the heroic band that gave their lives for the faith under Elizabeth.”—Cath. World.
“Notwithstanding its aloofness from sympathy with Southwell’s cause, this short biography does full justice to the holiness of the man, to his remarkable and winning character; and does not slur over the baseness of the creatures who hunted him to death. The simple style of the narrative sets forth, more adequately than would florid periods, the grandeur of the man and his deeds.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 832. Mr. ’07. 500w. | |
| − + | Spec. 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 150w. |
Taylor, John W. Coming of the saints: imaginations and studies in early church history and tradition. *$3. Dutton.
7–29078.
The story of the journeyings of saints from Palestine to the West in the early days of the Christian era. Mr. Taylor writes of the comings of both the Hebrew and the later Greek missionaries, and in his account he has mingled both history and legend.
“It may not satisfy the technical critics of the writings of the sub-Apostolic age; but all will admit that it is a well-written, interesting and discriminating narrative.” J. Charles Cox.
| + | Acad. 71: 328. O. 6, ’06. 1200w. |
“This is no ordinary book. With much patient learning, and careful, sympathetic study of all the reputed resting-places of the early saints, Mr. Taylor weaves together the frail but fine threads that link the Christianity of tradition with the Christianity of the Bible, and both of these with the histories of Gaul and Britain.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 435. O. 13. 2060w. |
“An uncritical use of medieval miracle stories in the attempt to write history.”
| − | Ind. 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 60w. |
“If, instead of constructing imaginary histories, he had endeavored to account for the rise of these legends, he might have added a chapter to the history of the early English church; as it is, his volume is a collection of fanciful stories, and nothing more.”
| − | Nation. 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 320w. |
“These studies ... are marked by ample learning and good judgment.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w. |
Taylor, Sedley. Indebtedness of Handel to works by other composers. *$4. Putnam.
7–27021.
Two centuries of accumulated evidence go to show that Handel was a plagiarist. Mr. Taylor brings together the results of the careful investigation on the part of capable authorities. “The main object of this book appears to be the presentation, by a simplified process, of the materials necessary to enable every intelligent person to compare passages in Handel’s music with the sources from which they have been derived.” (Sat. R.)
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 430w. |
“His reasoning is close and exceedingly clever; but he will hardly get the acquittal for which he seeks in the face of his masterly presentment of the evidence against the master. The author has turned out an excellent piece of work, and one with which no student of Handel can afford to dispense.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 427 D. 21, ’06. 460w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 183. F. 21, ’07. 970w. |
Reviewed by Richard Aldrich.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 960w. |
Reviewed by Harold E. Gorst.
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 167. F. 9, ’07. 1880w. |
Taylor, Talbot Jones. Talbot J. Taylor collection: furniture, wood carving, and other branches of the decorative arts. **$6. Putnam.
6–20689.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | Outlook. 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w. |
Taylor, Walter Herron. General Lee, his campaigns in Virginia, 1861–1865, with personal reminiscences. *$2. Nusbaum bk.
7–1480.
The author, who served on General Lee’s staff, thruout the war, has written a clear account of the great battles in which Lee’s army took part, and has added an appreciative memoir.
“The present writer has undertaken his task in a spirit of fairness and without a trace of bitterness.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 170w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 130w. |
Teasdale, Sara. Sonnets to Duse, and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.
Nine sonnets which pay exquisite tribute to Eleonora Duse and two score other poems and sonnets some breathing of love, some singing of little children and some chanting a hymn of joy with an undernote of sadness.
“The book is a small, delightful thing, which one is not tempted to say much about, but to welcome.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 426. O. 5, ’07. 260w. |
Tegner, Esias. Frithiof saga; tr. from the German of Ferdinand Schmidt, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
7–31176.
The Frithiof saga which narrates the stirring adventures of Frithiof, a hero of the Northland and viking of its seas, is “noble, heroic, and free from exaggerated description or overwrought sentiment.... The central motives of the saga are his love for King Bele’s daughter, Ingeborg; the refusal of her brothers to sanction their marriage because the hero is not of royal birth; her unwilling marriage to the old King Ring; Frithiof’s exile and final union with Ingeborg.”
Teller, Charlotte. The cage. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–9551.
A novel built up along the lines of socialism, with its setting in the lumber-yard districts of Chicago. A preacher of the gospel whose point of view is “We must teach these working people to respect the laws of the land,” a young Austrian socialist whose opinion is, “We must change the laws so that they can be respected,” an “egotistical philanthropic employer” and a group of women, subordinating their ideas to the men whose opinions they respect, occupy the stage of the drama.
“Aside from [one] rather irritating feature, which savours of trick-work, the book is a good piece of work, painting in certain aspects of labour troubles with broad, comprehensive brush strokes.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 300w. |
“The unaffected style, the ease and strength with which she has put together the varying phases of a difficult situation so as to produce a perfect illusion, indicates that she may win high rank among the writers of the new fiction.”
| + | Ind. 62: 559. Mr. 7, ’07. 710w. |
“It is a readable book rather than a conclusive one; interesting rather than valuable; a ramble, by turns painful and pleasant, rather than an arrival.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 390w. |
“Unlike most American novels the book has in its fibre something more—indeed, a good deal more—than its bare story. It is evidently the fruit of a mind and heart that have studied and questioned life in its nakedness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 143. Mr. 9, ’07. 640w. |
* Tennant, Pamela. Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.
Lady Tennant permits the figures in the pictures of the Tennant collection to come to life, step down from their canvases, and tell her children tales of the life and times which they helped to make. “Thus the real children who have been taught to love them in their frames play with Beppo, Dolores, the Leslie boy, and Charlotte and Harry Spencer, who tell the story of their kidnapping by the gipsies.... Lady Crosbie flits by, looking ‘permanently mischievous;’ and Peg Woffington rustles about the passages, sometimes finding the children a nuisance.” (Ath.)
“It is a charming and original idea, which Lady Tennant has carried out very gracefully.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 240w. | |
| Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 60w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 50w. |
Tenney, Rev. Edward P. Contrasts in social progress. **$2.50. Longmans.
7–14562.
The method used in this comparative study of religion “consists, briefly, in applying the principles of natural selection and the survival of the fittest to the great religions of the world, with a view to ascertaining which may justifiably claim pre-eminence on a basis of concrete services rendered to mankind.” (Outlook.) Social betterment is used as the basis for the test of conditions which appear in countries under the sway of Brahmanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Mohammedanism and Christianity. “In each case his examination comprises distinct sociological departments—as, the condition of women and children, the individual situation, philanthropic and charitable measures, educational facilities.” (Outlook.)
“The author manifestly aims to be fair: he uncovers the errors and evils of Christendom, and praises the virtues and truths of alien civilizations, and everywhere are the evidences of painstaking industry in the collection of facts and of expert judgments.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + | Dial. 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 300w. |
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 346. Jl. 1, ’07. 410w. |
“As developed, Mr. Tenney’s book becomes in some important respects a mine of valuable information relating to present-day conditions in various countries; and although it is open to a certain degree of criticism on the score of imperfect appreciation of the Oriental point of view, there can be no question that he has satisfactorily made out his case. A book which the Christian reader will find unusually hopeful and inspiring.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 340w. |
* Terhune, Albert Payson. Caleb Conover, railroader, il. 50c. Authors & newspapers assn.
7–11205.
“Vastly more obscure and poor than the Corsican, and in addition illiterate, Caleb Conover has become by the masterful force of his natural endowment a ‘Napoleon of finance.’... And it is with his career as an imperious, despotic and unspeakably corrupt political boss that Mr. Terhune chiefly concerns himself—tho the militant railway as a basis and bulwark of Conover’s empire is kept constantly in sight.”—Ind.
| Ath. 1907, 2: 547. N. 2. 160w. |
“This book is one of the strongest studies ever made of the American ‘Big boss,’ and from beginning to end is increasingly clever and interesting.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 230w. |
* Thackeray, William Makepeace. [Ballads] and songs. $1.50. Putnam.
Containing “Ballad of Bouillabaisse,” the “Mahogany tree,” the “Sorrows of Werther,” “At the church gate,” the “Lyra hibernica,” the “Old friends with new faces.”
“This is one of the ready choice illustrated books of the year.”
| + + | Dial. 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 240w. |
“In make-up the book lacks distinction, and seems moreover, peculiarly out of harmony with the subject matter.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 70w. |
“All illustrated by Mr. H. M. Brock with that friendly, graceful pencil of his. A welcome, simple, neat volume, great riches stored in a little room.”
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 70w. |
Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French). Lion’s share. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31229.
The ingredients out of which Miss French compounds her “Lion’s share” are many and varied: high finance with accompanying intrigue, kidnapping and consequent detective work, and love and adventure to suit the most satiated appetite. The hero is a United States army officer who occupies the centre of the stage and is champion-in-general. “When the time comes for him either to uphold the laws and constitution of his country as he has sworn to do, or protect and aid his relatives in a criminal proceeding, he decides on the latter course, easing his conscience by resigning his commission.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Miss French’s book, however, is certainly built on lines calculated to please the multitude. The book is not a particularly valuable one and hardly up to Miss French’s standard. Its characters are not admirable when they are good, and not bad enough to be fascinating when they are bad.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 570w. |
“Although quite convincingly sensational, and, apart from its entertainment as fiction, it touches suggestively some of the graver industrial problems of the day.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 100w. |
Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French). Man of the hour. †$1.50. Bobbs.
5–26124.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 25. Ja. ’07. |
Thomas, Edward. [Heart of England.] *$6. Dutton.
7–25143.
“Rambling descriptive matter, with a sprinkling of poetry and philosophy, and an occasional backward glance at the ‘old-fashioned times,’ serve to string some forty-eight colored pictures together.” (Dial.)
“The fault of the book is that it is written in a style that is much too affected.”
| − + | Acad. 71: 417. O. 27, ’06. 540w. |
“Mr. Thomas suffers from an over-excitation of the colour-sense, and he indulges in a great deal of fine writing. The process of reproduction is not kind to Mr. H. L. Richardson’s illustrations, some of which are pretty; but they bear singularly little relation to the text.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 735. D. 8. 510w. | |
| Dial. 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 80w. |
“Imperceptibly the reader is impressed by the writer who carries him here and there in and about England and shows him new and old things with equal charm.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1396. D. 13, ’06. 110w. |
“Such a book as Mr. Thomas’s makes one take root in England.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 280w. |
“Mr. Thomas possesses in an uncommon degree the primary quality of a good writer, imagination.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 53. Ja. 12, ’07. 710w. |
Thomas, Henry Wilton. Sword of wealth. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–42369.
A story of industrial slavery which is set in Northern Italy. “The capitalist is a Sicilian rogue, the hero is a socialist, and the rioters are Italian peasants.” (Ind.) Such dramatic incidents are included as the insurrection of Milan, the assassination of King Humbert and the radical democratic movement in Italy.
| − | Ind. 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 220w. |
“It takes a more practiced hand than Mr. Thomas seems to possess to combine romance and economics in the same novel.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 906. D. 29, ’06. 380w. |
Thomas, J. M. Lloyd. Free Catholic church. *80c. Am. Unitar.
Under the essay titles: The catholicity of religion, The fulfilling of Christianity, An undogmatic church, The importance of doctrine, The need of symbolism, and The higher churchmanship, the author advocates a church based on union of spirit which shall meet the demands of our critical age, and he urges ecclesiastical bodies to “abandon the treacherous dogmatic principle on which they are now organized and seek another and firmer foundation.”
“In his brief essay on the establishment of what he calls ‘A free Catholic church,’ Mr. Lloyd Thomas shows himself if not a fanatic, at any rate a wholly unpracticed visionary.” A. E. M. F.
| − | Acad. 72: 289. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w. | |
| Nation. 85: 164. Ag. 22, ’07. 190w. |
Thomas, Northcote W. [Kinship organizations and group marriage in Australia.] *$2. Putnam.
7–28949.
“This interesting monograph belongs to the Cambridge archaeological and ethnological series. It is an endeavor to summarize what is actually known and understood as to the Australian systems and to point out the obscure points which need further investigation. It will be of assistance to all who are studying the history of the development of the family.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“Mr. Thomas’s book is a severely critical and much-needed essay in restraint of the making of hasty theories.” Andrew Lang.
| + + | Acad. 72: 87. Ja. 26, ’07. 920w. | |
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 70: 168. Jl. ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Thomas ... both is, and seems, sound. No one, indeed, is more competent than Mr. Thomas to give the world an accurate digest of the information at present available in regard to the status regulations affecting marriage amongst the Australians.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 257. Mr. 2. 1180w. |
“The author seems to be at his best in the discussion of such a vexed question as group marriage; the argument is closely reasoned, and brings out several new points.” A. E. Crawley.
| + + | Nature. 76: 221. Jl. 4, ’07. 170w. |
Thomas, William I. [Sex and society; studies in the social psychology of sex.] *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–7162.
The author says in his preface: “While each study is complete in itself, the general thesis running through all of them [eight in number] is the same—that the differences in bodily habit between men and women particularly the greater strength, restlessness, the motor aptitude of man, and the more stationary condition of woman, have had an important influence on social forms and activities, and on the character and mind of the two sexes.”
“Valuable and stimulating contribution to sociological literature.” Alfred C. Haddon.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 13: 113. Jl. ’07. 2220w. |
“A strong, scholarly, well-balanced, and well arranged book.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 131. My. ’07. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 445. Ap. ’07. 1770w. |
“Professor Thomas moves with an expert discernment, discloses many a short-coming in prevalent doctrine, and builds up a consistent objective picture of woman’s sociological status.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 146. Mr. 1, ’07. 370w. | |
| + + − | Ind. 62: 561. Mr. 7, ’07. 900w. |
“The book has genuine interest for the general reader and makes a direct appeal to the student of sociology.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 410w. |
“The data upon which the conclusions rest though drawn from a wide area of social observation, are admittedly incomplete; but Professor Thomas is commendably cautious in his inferences, and does not hesitate to point out the weak spots in the chain of evidence. We do not imagine that Professor Thomas holds any brief for the so-called ‘rights’ of woman, but he has certainly put the case in an interesting light.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 309. Ap. 4, ’07. 320w. |
“The book is extremely interesting. It is written with clearness and charm, and in spite of its scientific character, it moves with the speed and life of a narrative. Prof. Thomas is a sincere and intelligent man, and his book is a fair and useful addition to the literature on the subject. Women had better read it with sympathy rather than hysteria; it will do us good.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 89. F. 16, ’07. 1040w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 899. Ap. 20, ’07. 870w. |
“In scientific circles the essays will be accepted as presenting many novel and weighty conclusions on society as seen from a single, but extremely important, view point.” Robert C. Brooks.
| + + | Philos. R. 16: 655. N. ’07. 750w. | |
| Putnam’s. 2: 621. Ag. ’07. 320w. | ||
| Putnam’s. 2: 622. Ag. ’07. 270w. | ||
| + | Sat. R. 104: 174. Ag. 10, ’07. 1250w. |
Thomas, William S. Hunting big game with gun and with kodak; a record of personal experiences in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; with 70 il. from original photographs by the author. *$2. Putnam.
7–4834.
In which “Mr. Thomas gives his readers ample variety, hunting the bighorn and grizzly in British Columbia, the caribou and moose in New Brunswick and Quebec, and deer in Virginia and Mexico.”—Nation.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 106. Ap. ’07. |
“His camera was apparently unsuited to the work. In comparison with the recent achievements of Schillings and Hornaday and others in this field they make a very poor showing.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 90w. |
“It is hard to make a flat failure out of an outdoor book, but still harder to make it a distinguished success. ‘Hunting big game with gun and kodak,’ comes some distance from either extreme.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 339. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w. |
“This charming book, excellently printed and illustrated, has the value of convincing and picturesque simplicity. By adhering strictly to an account of personal experiences the author, while limiting the scope of his narrative has shown himself to be a discriminating and appreciative observer of nature.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 300w. |
“His book is very readable without being remarkable.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1036. Je. 29, ’07. 180w. |
Thompson, Holland. From the cotton field to the cotton mill: a study of the industrial transition in North Carolina. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–20350.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author gives evidence of thorough familiarity with social and industrial conditions in the southern states, and his study is a valuable contribution to the literature descriptive of our industrial development.” J. C.
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 57. Ja. ’07. 230w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 180w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 80w. |
Thompson, Mrs. Jeanette May. [Water wonders every child should know.] **$1.10. Doubleday.
7–35227.
“This is an interesting book, because it deals in a very simple and entertaining way with frost, ice, snow, dew, and running water; and because it is enriched by many reproductions of beautiful photographs of crystals taken by Mr. Bentley.”—Outlook.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 143. My. ’07. ✠ |
“This book happily combines adequate knowledge of the subject with a graphic and entertaining style.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 526. Jl. 6. ’07. 50w. |
Thompson, R. F. Meysey-. Hunting catechism. $1.25. Longmans.
Colonel Meysey-Thompson has lived with hounds and horses and hunting men the greater portion of his life. So he is on familiar ground in everything pertaining to the etiquette of the hunting field, hunters and hounds, as also pertaining to habits of the hunted,—of stags, foxes, and hares.
“A man who does not know most of it before he dreams of riding ‘cross country’ cannot learn it here, and the work has the aridity of a schoolbook to one who has had its contents knocked into him years ago.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 470w. |
“A most amusing little volume. Although it is nominally intended for the use of beginners, many who have had some experience of the hunting-field can learn from it; and if they are above learning, they cannot fail to be entertained by the anecdotes, recollections, and reflections which many seasons’ hunting has enabled the author to sprinkle through the pages.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 1036. Je. 29, ’07. 480w. |
* Thompson, Ralph Wardlaw. Griffith John, the story of fifty years in China. *$2. Armstrong.
7–15464.
“While the book sets forth the enthusiasm and optimism of a gifted missionary working under nineteenth-century conditions, its real value lies in the fact that it gives the evolution of mission methods under exterritorialty.”—Ind.
“The book is one of the best ever written for its frank portrayal of the ups and downs of a great missionary’s aggressive work and his boundless hope for China.”
| + | Ind. 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 260w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 260w. |
Thompson, Robert John, comp. Proofs of life after death. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–34653.
A symposium embracing opinions as to the future life whose contributors include scientists, psychical researchers, philosophers, and spiritualists.
| Am. J. Theol. 11: 717. O. ’07. 20w. |
“In spite of the fact that in a few instances the thinkers who wrote for the symposium or whose opinions are here cited, have advanced to more positive grounds since the book was compiled, it is a volume of real merit, not the least interesting part being the writings of Mr. Thompson introducing the subject and the different groups of thinkers.”
| + | Arena. 86: 671. Je. ’07. 400w. |
Thomson, John Arthur. Herbert Spencer. *$1. Dutton.
W 6–274.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Current Literature. 42: 102. Ja. ’07. 1340w. |
Thomson, W. G. History of tapestry, from the earliest times until the present day; with 4 plates in color and numerous il. in black and white. *$12. Putnam.
7–25516.
A pretentious work on tapestry from the earliest times to the present day. “Its records throw valuable side-lights on history. In the present volume we find many more instances than are generally known where national events have been commemorated and where sovereigns and princes have paved the way to negotiations and treaties desired by them by the timely gift of a costly tapestry. Finally, tapestries give us a wonderfully graphic idea of house construction and decoration, of folk and home life of old times.” (Outlook.) Over eighty color and half-tone illustrations enhance the value to students of tapestries.
“We are not sure if the definition of tapestry given by the author is faultless.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 217. Ag: 24. 1020w. |
“It is not only a treasury of information, but so cleverly have the innumerable details been woven into the narrative that it is readable as well as interesting.” Frederick W. Goodkin.
| + + | Dial. 43: 36. Jl. 16, ’07. 1300w. |
“Full of interest, full of surprises and always spiced with romance, and Mr. Thomson has not spoiled the story in its telling.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1471. Je. 20, ’07. 900w. |
“We take leave of the author, then, with admiration of his power as a faithful draughtsman, and with respect for his diligent search among original sources of information.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 63. Jl. 18, ’07. 710w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 310w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 858. Ap. 13. ’07. 190w. |
“It is impossible not to grumble especially at the information withheld by Mr. Thomson.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 104: 52. Jl. 13, ’07. 1240w. |
Thomson, William Hanna. Brain and personality; or, The physical relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–6262.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 131. My. ’07. |
“The book is printed in the United States, the illustrations are poor, and there is no Index.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 470w. |
Thoreau, Henry David. Works. Bijou, ed. 5v. $2.50. Crowell.
These five volumes of the selected works of Thoreau are furnished with introductions by Nathan H. Dole, Annie Russell Marble, and Charles C. D. Roberts, while Emerson’s biographical sketch prefaces “Excursions.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 70w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 542. S. 7, ’07. 120w. |
Thoreau, Henry David. Writings of Henry David Thoreau. (Walden ed.) 20v. ea. $1.75. Houghton.
A monumental undertaking which becomes an atonement to a mighty soul for lack of appreciation during the most of life. The first six volumes include Thoreau’s miscellaneous writings and the remaining fourteen are devoted to his journal which is published for the first time. The edition furnishes “a record of the life-work of one whose observations of the phenomena of nature were most thorough and untiring and whose descriptions are among the best in literature.”
“On the whole this ‘Walden edition’ is every way satisfactory in its different forms for different purchasers and prices.” F. B. Sanborn.
| + + − | Dial. 41: 232. O. 16, ’06. 2880w. |
“Have the interest of an autobiography, and will be read for more light upon one of the most piquant and romantic careers among American scholars and reformers. For the full understanding of this part of the copious work, many more notes and explanations are needed than the editors had room to afford even had they the needful knowledge.” F. B. Sanborn.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 107. F. 16, ’07. 2140w. (Review of v. 8–20.) |
“If we should quarrel with it for anything it would be for its too great abundance. Much is trivial, yet much also is of extraordinary interest.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 56. Ja. 17, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 11–20.) |
“Mr. Torrey is an accomplished writer as well as a well-known naturalist. His introductions are of a quality rare in such performances. They are free from the spirit of hero-worship or of hero-manufacture; now and then they perhaps approach the other extreme.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 681. O. 20, ’06. (Review of v. 1–10.) | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 427. Jl. 6, ’07. 990w. |
Thoreau, Henry David. [Cape Cod]; with an introd. by Annie R. Marble. 35c. Crowell.
7–37720.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
Thorndike, Lynn. Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe. *75c. Macmillan.
6–4648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is based on independent study and ... it abundantly proves its point.” A. G.
| + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 396. Ap. ’07. 350w. |
Thorp, Frank Hall. Outlines of industrial chemistry: a text-book for students. 2d ed. *$3.75. Macmillan.
The second edition, revised and enlarged, and including a chapter on metallurgy. “This work has been prepared for the purpose of comprising in a single volume of moderate dimensions an outline treatment of the more important industrial chemical processes.... It is divided into three parts: Inorganic industries, Organic industries, and Metallurgy.” (Technical Literature.)
“Gives in one volume a comprehensive and clearly written description of all branches of chemical industry.”
| + | Nation. 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w. |
“The work is well suited to the instruction of students in engineering and will be found of value to engineers in all branches, who are often confronted with problems requiring a knowledge of industrial chemistry for their solution.”
| + | Technical Literature. 2: 30. Jl. ’07. 370w. |
Thorpe, William Henry. [Anatomy of bridgework.] $2.50. Spon.
7–28955.
A book which treats “of the behavior of bridges under traffic so as to show the weak points in their design and their effect upon the cost of maintenance.” (Engin. N.)
“The book will be of relatively small service to American engineers.” Henry S. Jacoby.
| − + | Engin. N. 57: 436. Ap. 18, ’07. 890w. | |
| + | Technical Literature. 1: 224. My. ’07. 280w. |
Throckmorton, Josephine Holt. Donald MacDonald. $1.25. Murdock McPhee & Co., 221 Pennsylvania av., Washington, D. C.
7–20710.
In this story which begins at West Point and later depicts army scenes during the civil war, the characters of two men are brought into sharp contrast. Red Tracy, the selfish boy who becomes a false lover, a thief, and an officer untrue to his friends and ashamed of his old father, is a fitting foil for MacDonald, the best type of gentleman and soldier.
Thrum, Thomas G. [Hawaiian folk tales: a collection of native legends]; il. from photographs. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–9782.
In this group are twenty-five folk lore tales contributed by recognized authorities including Rev. A. O. Forbes, Dr. N. B. Emerson, J. S. Emerson, Mrs. E. M. Nakuina, Dr. C. M. Hyde and others. The volume rescues from oblivion tales of mythology, religious functions, tradition and cosmology, and preserves their native poetic quality.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 132. My. ’07. | ||
| + | Dial. 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 250w. |
“Of this collection some [of the legends] are obviously sophisticated and treated in a literary manner, others are crude and dry.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 180w. |
Thruston, Mrs. Lucy (Meacham). Jenifer. †$1.50. Little.
7–16941.
The Carolina mountains form the setting for this story of the development of the character of Jenifer, a poor country lad, who discovers kaolin upon some land which he promptly buys from the needy owner, who does not suspect its value. This makes him rich and he goes to the city to see life and there marries Alice the frivolous clerk of a glove counter. This is but the beginning. How he comes back to his land, awakes to the responsibility of his position and re-orders his life, forms the story.
“Is a firm, smooth piece of work, without those early marks of the amateur.”
| + | Ind. 63: 635. S. 12, ’07. 190w. |
“The plot itself is not very original, but the literary handling of it is worthy of all praise. Spontaneity and genuine imagination mark the book, and the descriptions of mountain scenery are admirable.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 110w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 130w. | ||
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 514. Ag. 24, ’07. 210w. |
“As charming and as open to criticism as the vivacious yet irregular features of a pretty girl.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 100w. |
Thureau-Dangin, Paul. Saint Bernardine of Siena; tr. by Baroness G. von Hugel. *$1.50. Dutton.
W 7–28.
“Two centuries after St. Francis of Assisi, his followers labored for a revival of religion contemporaneously with the revival of learning known as the Renaissance. A leading promoter of it was the saintly preacher of whom this volume is a memorial. An account of the moral and civic anarchy of the time forms the historical setting of the story of the revivalist’s missionary life, the popular enthusiasm he kindled, his trials with ecclesiastical opponents, his sermons, and, finally, of the two orders of the Franciscan brotherhood, from the less to the more rigorous of which he went over.”—Outlook.
“Admirable life.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 201. O. ’06. 90w. |
“Two temptations seem to beset the biographers of a saint: one is to idealize the subject, ... and the other is to attribute to Divine intervention every extraordinary event associated in any way with his career. The volume before us, because it contains but few evidences of these imperfections, merits special commendation.”
| + + | Cath. World. 85: 838. S. ’07. 260w. |
“By the time M. Thureau-Dangin’s French has been transmuted into the Baroness’s English, the sayings of the saint are often barely recognizable.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 750w. |
“The volume which tells of his life will be chiefly interesting to students and to the devout,”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 230w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 130w. |
“A delightful book. It is characterized by a limpid felicity of style, a quiet power of objective presentment, complete sympathy with its subject, and a serene impartiality which, however—a great gift this—takes none of the fire and life out of the book. Of the Baroness von Hugel’s translation we can say that it is eminently readable and writ in passable English. But it bristles in inaccuracies, and the translator’s fear of being fettered by the original causes her at times to take undue liberties with the text.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 380w. | |
| + | Spec. 97: 24. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w. |
Thurston, Ernest Temple. Katherine. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11213.
Katherine Crichton marries a big-hearted, broad-minded man whose work principles she does not understand, and therefore nurses unhappiness as a result of fancied neglect. An accident results in a physical state that promises her only two years of life, and she determines to give herself up to happiness and the romance which had been denied her. How her husband spares her the ignominy of dishonor and restores her to her home is handled with keen perception and an understanding of genuine nobility of heart.
“Men and women do not speak and think as Mr. Thurston writes. Of the evolution of Katherine we see nothing; what we see of the evolution of Mr. Thurston does not inspire us with any confidence as to his future. His characters bear much the same relation to life as do the emerald woods in a penny shooting-gallery.”
| − | Acad. 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 340w. |
“Mr. Thurston continues to display a familiarity with feminine psychology which is unusual in English fiction. Will no doubt soon shed his Meredithian manner. At present he has a bad attack.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 317. Mr. 16. 300w. |
“‘Katherine’ differs from his earlier books in portraying Protestant England rather than Catholic Ireland; but it conveys the same impression of being the outcome of direct, keen observation of flesh-and-blood men and women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 283. My. ’07. 510w. |
“This story, weighted with much futile philosophizing, is not exactly edifying, and its dulness is relieved by few flashes of brilliancy.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − | Dial. 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 280w. |
“Mr. Thurston takes it out of the class to which it apparently belonged, and cloaks it with the dignity of a grave psychological problem.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Forum. 39: 116. Jl. ’07. 350w. |
“It is characteristic of the horror-minded present that a writer like Mr. Thurston should dramatize the diagnosis of cancer and call it a romance.”
| − | Ind. 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 210w. |
“The most striking and most interesting thing about Mr. Thurston’s book is the manner in which it is written.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 216. Ap. 6, ’07. 930w. |
Thurston, Ernest Temple. Traffic, the story of a faithful woman. †$1.50. Dillingham.
6–29093.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As in ‘The apple of Eden,’ Mr. Thurston dissects deep and pitilessly as the modern Frenchman: but even in this candidly repellant theme, he keeps a certain fervor which makes his work worth while for adult readers of firm nerves and serious mind.” Mary Moss.
| + − | Atlan. 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 420w. |
Thurston, Katherine Cecil. Mystics, il. †$1.25. Harper.
7–14253.
A strong young man loving life and freedom serves an ascetic uncle for seven years. The uncle dies bequeathing his vast wealth to a sect known as the Mystics. A sense of deep wrong leads the nephew to violate the uncle’s dying request to guard the sacred book of the sect until it could be turned over to one of the leaders. He copies it word for word, finds that the Mystics look forward to the appearing of a prophet, decides to play the rôle himself and to appear at the proper moment, his one aim being to secure the money out of which these people had defrauded him. His course leads to a dramatic though logical dénouement.
“The characters are mere puppets without a semblance of life, and the episodes of the story are vague and loosely put together.”
| − | Acad. 72: 416. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w. |
“She has taken her public too cheaply.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 535. My. 1. 190w. |
“The story is not only short, but jejune and projected on a low level; though it may be granted, freely, that the presentation is powerful, the few characters well marked, and the plot simple and logically worked out.”
| − + | Cath. World. 85: 550. Jl. ’07. 580w. |
“The wild improbability of the plot and the essentially childish nature of the whole story make it barren as a subject for criticism.”
| − | Lit. D. 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 80w. |
“Mrs. Thurston possesses imagination and a laudable desire to skip the dull parts; explanations, for instance.”
| − | Nation. 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 280w. |
“Is rather a disappointment to those who have read ‘The gambler’ and ‘The masquerader.’”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 353. Je. 1, ’07. 190w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w. |
“A piece of manufacture and not particularly interesting at that.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 220w. |
“It might have been written by an incompetent understudy so far as interest is concerned, and no amount of oxygen in the reader’s blood can make it seem to him other than hopelessly wooden.” Vernon Atwood.
| − | Putnam’s. 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 130w. |
“The contents are so vapid and drearily profitless that it seems unfair to seek a type for them in any semblance to humanity.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 529. Ap. 27, ’07. 410w. |
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. [Early western travels, 1748–1846]; a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
4–6902.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“These volumes, as is usual in the series, are well edited. The reviewer suspects—only suspects because he has not been able to compare the reprint with the original edition—that there are a few errors in proof-reading; but these would not be worth mentioning were it not for the high standard already set for the workmanship of the series.”
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 430. Ja. ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 18 and 19.) |
“Continue to reach the standard of value and interest found in the earlier issues.”
| + + + | Ind. 61: 878. O. 11, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 18–24.) |
“Is the most valuable of the five or six volumes published in the series this year.” Webster Cook.
| + + | School R. 15: 712. D. ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 25.) |
Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin. History of higher education in America. **$3. Appleton.
6–35963.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 106. Ap. ’07. |
“One cannot but regret that the author has not seen fit to describe the highest type of university as it exists today in this country, and to present a view of higher education in its latest and finest aspects with the particularity and appreciation which he devotes to its beginnings in the early colonial days.” J. B. P.
| + − | Educ. R. 33: 87. Ja. ’07. 700w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 117. Ja. ’07. 170w. |
“An eminently readable and human account of the history of higher education with especial attention to the story of the older colleges.” J. H. T.
| + | School R. 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 330w. |
Tilley, Arthur Augustus. François Rabelais. (French men of letters, v. 3.) **$1.50. Lippincott.
7–29040.
A biographical and critical study of Rabelais written for the “French men of letters” series. The author’s familiarity with his subject and his comprehensive study of sources, have resulted in an authoritative narrative which assumes less knowledge on the part of readers than as tho it had been written for Frenchmen.
“Let it be said at once, and with all frankness, that it is the very work to be consulted by anyone who wants to be well instructed in the known facts concerning Rabelais. It is when we cease to consider facts and dates and such matters that Mr. Tilley becomes tiresome and quite ineffectual.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 133. N. 16, ’07. 1870w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 390w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 260w. |
Tillson, Benjamin Richards. Complete automobile instructor. $1.50. Wiley.
7–1971.
A timely companion for every one who drives a car, containing over six hundred questions with answers. It covers the ground of the principles, the operation and the care of gasoline automobiles.
“The possession of the book obviates the necessity for the new car owner’s ‘cramming’ with a mass of befuddling details at the outset, and enables him gradually to acquire a working knowledge of his machine as necessity demands it.”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 250w. | |
| Nation. 84: 152. F. 14, ’07. 30w. |
“Of the crop of automobile instruction books that have appeared in the last two or three years this seems to us the one the automobile owner who knows little of mechanics will find it easiest to master.”
| + | Nation. 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 180w. |
Tinney, W. H. Gold mining machinery; its selection, arrangement and installation: a practical handbook for the use of mine managers and engineers, with a chapter on the preparation of estimates of cost. *$5. Van Nostrand.
The volume includes a concise treatment of steam generation, water motors, gas and oil engines, engine erection, the various kinds of pumps adapted to mining work, winding machinery, air compressors, air drills, reduction of ores, transmission of power by shafting belts, compressed air and electricity, transport, piping, joints, etc.
Reviewed by Walter R. Crane.
| − + | Engin. N. 57: 88. Ja. 17, ’07. 1080w. |
“Mr. Tinney’s production fails in its purpose, for it is out of date and superficial.”
| − | Nature. 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 130w. |
Titsworth, Alfred Alexander. Elements of mechanical drawing. *$1.25. Wiley.
6–35444.
“This book is divided into two parts. In the first part, for beginners, the various drawing instruments in common use are described, and a series of exercises is given to illustrate the use of each of the instruments. The rest of this section is devoted to examples in simple projection, to intersections, of solids, and development of surfaces. Part 2, for more advanced students, comprises problems in descriptive geometry, isometric projection, oblique projection, shadows, and perspective work, and concludes with a series of problems.”—Nature.
“Its mechanical make-up is unusually neat.”
| + − | Engin. N. 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 50w. | |
| Nature. 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 120w. |
* Tittle, Walter. First Nantucket tea party, il. **$2. Doubleday.
7–38632.
“This is a letter written in 1754 by Ruth Starbuck Wentworth to her mother. Besides relating the amusing story of the first teabrewing that ever took place on Nantucket, it traces the romance of Ruth Wentworth and Captain Morris, which began and ended while the letter was being written in those delightful daily portions that our grandmothers used to indite as painstakingly as they did their other daily stints.”—Dial.
“A curious little document.”
| + | Dial. 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 130w. |
“The illuminated illustrations and decorations by Walter Tittle, reproducing the style of some medieval manuscript, form an admirably appropriate setting to the pretty little colonial romance.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w. |
Toch, Maximilian. Chemistry and technology of mixed paints. *$3. Van Nostrand.
7–2131.
“Intended for the student in chemistry who desires to familiarize himself with paint, or the inquirer who desires a better knowledge of the subject, or for the paint manufacturer and paint chemist as a work of reference.” “The whole effect of the book will be towards improvement of manufacture and in the mutual relations between makers and users.... The microphotographs are excellent, and inserted on calendered paper, the print is large and clear, paper good, binding attractive.” (Technical Literature.)
“Authoritative. Contains much useful information. Only book on the subject.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 173. O. ’07. |
“Taken as a whole, the book will be found instructive and useful. Naturally, it does not give away trade secrets, but on the other hand, it contains much that is very little known by the general public, and it will well repay careful study.” Robert Job.
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 552. My. 16, ’07. 1570w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 79 F. 9. ’07. 60w. |
“Altogether, a credit and an ornament to American technological literature.” Joseph W. Richards.
| + + | Technical Literature. 1: 224. My. ’07. 520w. |
Todd, Charles Burr. In olde Massachusetts. **$1.50. Grafton press.
7–23474.
In these sketches of old times and places during the early days of the commonwealth are included descriptions of Cambridge in midsummer, a day in Lexington, autumn days in Quincy, Marblehead scenes, Martha’s Vineyard, and tales of Nantucket’s first tea-party, wrecks and wrecking, historic Deerfield, Pittsfield, the Hoosac tunnel, Lenox, and other historic places, many of which are pictured by photographs.
| Dial. 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 290w. |
“An entertaining volume.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 637. N. ’07. 60w. |
Todd, Margaret Georgina (Graham Travers, pseud.). Growth. †$1.50. Holt.
7–17048.
The growth, not only of Dugald Dalgleish, the hero, the son of an obscure nonconformist minister, who from a student at the University of Edinburgh develops into a popular preacher, but also the growth, mental and spiritual, of his friend Thatcher, who becomes a priest of Rome, is chronicled in the course of this tale of inward struggle. Judith Lemaistre, the big doctor, the woman Dugald marries, and many other characters worth knowing, take their leisurely way thru the story, which with its religious background and earnest Scotch atmosphere is very different from the usual novel of today.
“We honestly admire the author’s thoroughness and all-round fairness of view. The tone is dignified and sincere, the story gravely interesting; it is also, though we say it with regret, many pages too long.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 526. N. 24, ’06. 160w. |
“There is little plot in the story, but it is written with care, and bears the signs of good workmanship on every page.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 120w. |
“Out of all this diverse material we get a picture of human life that grows fairly absorbing in its interest as we proceed, a dramatic structure in which the claims of both spirit and sense are allowed, a residual philosophy that is shaped to fine intellectual issues, yet which keeps all the time in close contact with the world of practical affairs.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 43: 251. O. 16, ’07. 340w. | |
| Nation. 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 320w. |
“The characters all stand out very vividly, each one strongly individualized. And they are interesting people to meet in the pages of a story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 590w. |
“The picture of student life is particularly appealing in respect of certain characteristic natural qualities.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 100w. |
“The story is too serious to attract the regular novel reader, and perhaps too much occupied with past questions to absorb the lovers of problems, but it is a well-constructed, interesting bit of work.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w. |
“It is a relief, after the slight and sketchy specimens of fiction which are published as complete novels, to come across a piece of conscientious and detailed work, even if that work is not completely successful.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 300w. |
Toffteen, Olaf A. Ancient chronology. Pt. 1. Published for the Oriental society of the Western Theological seminary. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–36124.
A volume which covers the ancient chronology of Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, and Egypt down to 1050 B. C. The first chapter treats biblical chronology solely on the basis of the dates furnished by the Bible, taking them at their face value, and without any inquiry, either into the age of the documents, or into their historicity; the second chapter contains a full treatment of the ancient history of these countries; and the third is devoted to Egyptian chronology.
“An interesting work designed to defend traditional views. It presents a wealth of material, many new interpretations of fact, and original conclusions. The work is marred by many inexcusable errors in spelling.”
| + + − | Bib. World. 30: 479. D. ’07. 30w. |
“The treatment of monumental sources is careful, and the general conclusions do not contradict the more sane and conservative scholars, to whose investigations he has added much that is of value.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1316. N. 28, ’07. 250w. |
Tolstoy, Leo. [Tolstoy on Shakespeare]: a critical essay on Shakespeare; tr. by V. Tchertkoff; followed by Shakespeare’s attitude to the working classes, by Ernest Crosby, and a letter from G. Bernard Shaw. *75c. Funk.
7–14638.
Full of disagreement with the “universal adulation,” in fact, iconoclastic thruout, Tolstoy argues, among other things, that Shakespeare is lacking in the very point of excellence that by general consensus of the world’s opinion earned for him the right to be called an imperial genius, namely, delineation of character.
“The orthodox must consign this book to perdition, and anathematize its author as a literary iconoclast steeped in guilt inexpressible.”
| − | Cath. World. 84: 836. Mr. ’97. 630w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 46. Ja. ’07. 2460w. |
“No doubt such critical onslaughts upon our accepted standards of literary achievement, as those contained in this little volume, serve a useful purpose, if only by arousing us from a conventional and lazy acquiescence in fundamental matters of literary taste, which receive from us all too little consideration.”
| − | Ind. 62: 441. F. 21, ’07. 970w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 180w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 1160w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 253. F. ’07. 80w. |
* Tolstoy, Leo. Twenty-three tales from Tolstoy; selected and tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude. *75c. Funk.
These twenty-three stories are arranged under seven heads: Tales for children, published about 1872 when Tolstoy was interested in the education of peasant children; Popular stories, including What men live by; A fairy tale, which contains Tolstoy’s indictment of militarism and commercialism; Stories written to pictures, intended to help the sale of cheap reproductions of good drawings; Folk-tales retold; Adaptations from the French; and Stories given to aid the persecuted Jews.
Tomalin, H. F. Three vagabonds in Friesland with a yacht and camera. *$3. Dutton.
“A book which is frankly described in its introduction as a ‘book of photographs, with letterpress obligato,’ records a vagabond trip through Friesland, a little frequented part of North Holland.”—Outlook.
“It will take rank amongst the best illustrated volumes of travel that have recently appeared.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 32: 251. S. ’07. 430w. |
“Charming account of a June outing in northern Holland.”
| + | Nation. 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 690w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
“The photographs are remarkable both from an artistic and a technical point of view, and illustrate the life and people of one of the most picturesque districts in Europe. The ‘obligato,’ too, is rather well played.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 60w. |
“They are cheery fellows and capital company, and Mr. Marshall’s numerous photographs of the scenes, and especially of the natives, are deserving of praise.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 110w. |
Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth. Marching against the Iroquois. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–37600.
A tale based upon General Sullivan’s expedition against the Iroquois in the Mohawk valley in the year 1779.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 143. My. ’07. |
“It is a combination of history and fiction that the young people will find both instructive and entertaining.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 60w. |
Tompkins, Herbert W. In Constable’s country; with many reproductions from his paintings. *$4. Dutton.
More a transcript of impressions, penned, in the first instance, by the wayside than an essay on Constable and his art.
“A gossipy chronicle of unimportant wanderings, readable because the author has written of what interested himself.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 779. D. 15. 380w. | |
| + | Dial. 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 180w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1397. D. 13, ’06. 90w. |
“Mr. Tompkins gives us no formal essay on Constable, but instead, the more instructive, informal illumination contained in a transcript of impressions written, in the first instance, by the wayside.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 390w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 120w. |
Tonge, James. Principles and practice of coal mining. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“A compact, comprehensive, and not too technical treatise covering the entire field of coal production.... The illustrations, both photographic and diagrammatic, are comprehensive, and serve well to illuminate the descriptive matter. At the end of each chapter is a series of questions bearing upon it, as on aid to fixing the subject matter thereof in the memory of the student.”—Engin. N.
“It is adapted to use as a lighter text-book for students intending to specialize in mining engineering, and is so written as to be equally well adapted to the needs of the practical miner who may wish to qualify for higher and more responsible positions in the coal-mining industry.”
| + | Engin. N. 58: 297. S. 12, ’07. 330w. |
“These varied subjects are dealt with in a thoroughly practical manner, and although necessarily brief, the descriptions are well up to date.”
| + | Nature. 75: 364. F. 14, ’07. 530w. |
Toothaker, Charles Robinson. Commercial raw materials. $1.25. Ginn.
A comprehensive and conveniently arranged handbook describing briefly the important materials which enter into the commerce of the world—such as cotton, sugar, woods, rubber, silk, iron and coal.
“The book is distinctly a book of facts, with no attempt to bring out the causal side of production or trade. Hence the volume can only be a supplementary reference text, a present help in trouble; and it is not intended as a class book.” Richard Elwood Dodge.
| + | Educ. R. 34: 534. D. ’07. 170w. |
Topliff, Samuel. Topliff’s travels: letters from abroad in the years 1828 and 1829; ed. with a memoir and notes by Ethel Stanwood Bolton. $2. Boston Athenaeum.
7–6782.
The letters of a “typical hard-working American” written during his travels in England, Scotland, Holland, France, Spain and Italy during 1828–29, including a visit to Lafayette at his chateau Lagrange. “His travels are of interest because few Americans in his day indulged in such pleasures.” (Ath.)
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 724. Ap. ’07. 70w. |
“He was an accurate observer, writing in the formal and stately style of the age, though he often condescended to waggishness on such subjects as leapyear and matrimony, and had clearly a liberal spice of the Old Adam in his composition.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 1: 165. F. 9. 440w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 226. Mr. 7, ’07. 580w. |
Torrence, Frederic Ridgely. Abelard and Heloise. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–8253.
In this poetic drama “there are four acts, the first two being separated from the others by a score of years. The first half of the work gives us the Paris school and Fulbert’s villa, the second half of Paraclete and Chalons. The dramatic handling of the story is spirited and rapid.”—Dial.
“To his close study of the sources we owe the thousand vivid historical details that are woven into the vigorous give and take of the dialogue with fine, dramatic and poetic effect. In the matter of structure, however, there is a question whether Mr. Torrence’s play has not lost its effectiveness through his endeavor to give the whole story as it is in the books.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + − | Atlan. 100: 847. D. ’07. 620w. |
“It is not without infelicities, verbal and rhythmical, but its movement is, on the whole, stately and impressive.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 42: 252. Ap. 17, ’07. 640w. |
“Nor can it be said that the poet’s style has changed for the better. There is a general air of strain; his metaphors frequently pall before he has done with them, and his metre has a way of being so free as to be crabbed.” H. W. Boynton.
| − + | No. Am. 185: 86. My. 3, ’07. 1440w. |
“Is disappointing when one reflects upon what one demands of so high a theme. The ejaculatory method of speech in the first twenty pages is nothing less than exasperating, and one wonders if no one will ever stand still long enough to utter a finished sentence. The character of Abelard is so weak and vacillating as to make the love of Heloise seem unworthy.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| − | No. Am. 186: 96. S. ’07. 120w. |
“The difficulties presented by this famous love story are so great as to be almost insuperable. Mr. Torrence has met them with courage and with tact.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 453. Je. 29, ’07. 500w. |
“The character of Heloise seems illogical and there are certain points in the conception of the plot which might be challenged, as poetry it is full of exquisite passages and has the choice, uncommon beauty, the distinction, of Mr. Torrence’s art.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 349. Je. ’07. 230w. |
Torrey, Bradford. Friends on the shelf. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–36033.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 75. Mr. ’07. |
“Endowed with sound taste, and a fine literary touch, he pronounces, in a desultory review of the man’s life or work, much sound common-sense judgment upon his methods or his productions.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 638. Mr. ’07. 480w. |
“Some little matters to quarrel over might easily be singled out.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 470w. | |
| Putnam’s. 1: 637. F. ’07. 670w. |
Tosi, Pier Francesco. [Observations on the florid song; or, Sentiments on the ancient and modern singers]; written in Italian; tr. into English by Mr. Galliard. *$1.75. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Tosi, like most of the men of his day, is witty and garrulous even when he is most earnest about his subject, and in the very racy contemporary translation he makes capital reading.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 22. Ja. 18, ’07. 590w. |
Tout, Thomas Frederick. Advanced history of Great Britain from the earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria. *$1.50. Longmans.
W 7–13.
A book which “serves a double purpose. It belongs to a series designed for school use.... But it is also a most convenient volume of easy reference.... The maps are abundant and simple, and there are a number of genealogical and other tables, including a list of ministers and governments since 1689.”—Nation.
“He weighs and sifts his evidence with the aim of writing history, not a pleasant mixture of facts and fancies; and he never lets his enthusiasm get the better of his judgment. As a history for students who are within a year or so of leaving school we do not hesitate to say that Professor Tout’s is the best obtainable at the present day.”
| + | Acad. 72: 65. Ja. 19, ’07. 220w. |
“The maps are the best for their purpose which the writer has ever encountered in a text-book. The scholarship displayed in the book must be heartily commended. The information is drawn from the best primary and secondary sources and is used with great discrimination. In only two points has the present reviewer found anything to criticize.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 193. O. ’07. 950w. |
“The bibliographies given are altogether too short and unsatisfactory for an advanced history. In this respect the book leaves much to be desired. As a chronicle of events the work is well done.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 130w. |
“It is abundantly provided with maps and genealogical tables, and has all the well-known merits of his scholastic work.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 654. N. 24. 70w. |
“The narrative is pointed and succinct, but broad enough to include a clear account of political and constitutional changes.”
| + | Nation. 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 90w. |
“The complicated politics of Charles II.’s reign are set forth with special clearness.”
| + | Spec. 97: 302. S. 1, ’06. 280w. |
* Tower, Walter S. History of the American whale fishery. (Publications of the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Series of political economy and public law, no. 20.) $1.50. Winston.
7–19443.
This work which appeals to both historians and economists gives a “comprehensive review of the origin and development of the whaling industry from colonial times to the present. The volume has its particular value in the fact that it is the only complete history of its kind both as regards time and treatment. As the author pointed out, the latest work on the subject in question appeared in 1876 but the discussion was superficial, especially of the whole period after 1815.” (Yale R.)
“An exceedingly valuable work. Every library will desire to own this book, and economists and historians will wish to have the volume upon the shelves of their private collections.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 603. N. ’07. 170w. | |
| + | Yale R. 16: 226. Ag. ’07. 140w. |
Tower, William Lawrence. Investigation of evolution in chrysomelid beetles of the genus leptinotarsa. (Carnegie institution of Washington publications, no. 48. Station for experimental evolution. Paper no. 4.) $3.25. Carnegie inst.
7–9833.
“This genus embraces forty-three species, of which the best known is the common potato beetle. Starting with the distribution of the group, Professor Tower passes to individual variation in color pattern, size, and shape: he discusses the structure, ontogeny, and phylogeny of coloration in these and other insects; experimental modification of the colors and the significance of the various hues and patterns, both in the larvae and adults; the normal habits and instincts of these beetles; details of interesting selection experiments in breeding and the production of new races; and a final chapter on the relation of all the results obtained to the problem of the origin of species.”—Nation.
“Not only does it extend our knowledge of evolution along the old lines of research, but now for the first time do we have clear cases of the modification of the germ plasm by external conditions.”
| + + + | Ind. 63: 398. Ag. 15, ’07. 240w. |
“The thoroughness of the work and clearness of exposition inspire confidence in the results and conclusions. It is a valuable contribution to the literature of evolution.”
| + + + | Nation. 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 250w. |
“It is of the first importance to every biologist.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
| + + + | Science, n.s. 26: 71. Jl. 19, ’07. 2170w. |
Townsend, Charles Wendell. Along the Labrador coast. †$1.50. Estes.
7–20631.
“The journey which this book records was undertaken chiefly for the study of birds, but the author became greatly interested in the scenery, the geology, the flowers and trees, the fish and fishermen, the Eskimos and Eskimo dogs, the Hudson bay company’s posts, the Moravians, and Dr. Grenfell’s mission.” (R. of Rs.) The author writes of Labrador “merely as an interested visitor and amateur ornithologist.” (N. Y. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 198. N. ’07. |
“The simple narrative makes enjoyable reading and admirably supplements the more technical ‘Birds of Labrador,’ which Dr. Townsend has published.”
| + | Nation. 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 270w. |
“A straightforward and pleasant narrative of a summer vacation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 510w. |
“Both text and pictures form a distinct contribution to our knowledge of Labrador life and scenery.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 120w. |
Townsend, Edward Waterman. Beaver Creek farm. †$1.25. Appleton.
7–29726.
A city lad’s experiences while rusticating at his grandfather’s farm, where he meets a country boy who teaches him the wholesome wonders of country life.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 87: 371. O. 12, ’07. 50w. |
Townsend, Edward Waterman. Our constitution: why and how it was made, who made it, and what it is. **$1.50. Moffat.
6–38915.
“A popular review of our great instrument of government.... After a brief review of the previous experiences of the colonies with self-government, the various movements toward union are described, and the familiar struggles and compromises which finally ended in our present constitution. A discussion of the amendments concludes the text proper. A last chapter and an appendix include the chief documents, English and colonial, which form the background of the history of our present constitution.”—Acad.
“In the light of its object it should be said that on the whole the work is entertainingly written and will furnish an easy introduction to the study of the constitution to a class of readers who would be repelled by a work of greater scholastic pretensions.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 225. Ja. ’07. 300w. |
“As a whole ... the book should be of service, as it is clear, compact and expressed in a fairly interesting manner.”
| + | Ind. 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 230w. |
Townsend, John Wilson. Kentuckians in history and literature. $2. Neale.
7–29721.
A love for Kentucky’s history, traditions and literature has prompted the researches which have resulted in this volume of side-lights. The galaxy includes poets, novelists, lawyers, warriors and statesmen.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 508. S. 28, ’07. 110w. |
* Tozier, Josephine. Spring fortnight in France. **$2. Dodd.
7–31243.
The journeys which Angela Victoria, thirty-six and alone, makes thru central France are strung upon a thread of romance and are only the more captivating for that reason. “In her own charming fashion, she visits Le Mans, Poitiers, Carcassonne, Arles, Tarascon, and half a dozen other cities of southern France, and many excellent illustrations from photographs show characteristic views of them.” (Dial.)
“A sprightly combination of romantic fiction and traveller’s impressions.”
| + | Dial. 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 190w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 100w. |
“Josephine Tozier, besides knowing her France, is gifted with vivacity, and imparts all the information we want in most engaging style.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 220w. |
Tozier, Josephine, comp. Travelers’ handbook; new and rev. ed. **$1. Funk.
7–17665.
This manual for transatlantic tourists “is not concerned with descriptions of sights and tours, but is full of practical advice as to the customs of the various countries, their coinage, tramways, railroad guides, fees, food, etc. Much of the information is intended for American women.” (Ind.)
| + | Ind. 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 150w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 30w. | ||
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 30w. |
* Tracy, John Clayton. Plane surveying: a text-book and pocket manual. $3. Wiley.
7–33942.
A complete manual for students. “In plan it is a text-book and pocket manual combined, while in scope its aim is not to cover the whole field of surveying, but to treat with thoroughness fundamental principles and methods. As a text-book, it deals with the theory of surveying, while as a manual it gives many practical suggestions and directions which are usually left for oral instruction.” (Tech. Lit.)
“Prof. Tracy has written a book of great value to the surveyor, both in his student days and in the first years of his practice.”
| + | Engin. N. 58: 569. D. 12, ’07. 730w. | |
| Technical Literature. 2: 458. N. ’07. 760w. |
Tracy, Louis. [Captain of the Kansas.] $1.50. Clode, E. J.
7–6181.
Mr. Tracy uses his well-tested ingredients again,—the sea, shipwreck, fights with cannibals, hairbreadth escapes, etc. “He has valiantly succeeded in making the primary colours once more effective. Even in Chile the black angel whose disciple puts sticks of dynamite among the coals of a seagoing steamer is not ill-served. The voyage of that steamer is a triumph of pyrotechnical narrative, assisted by a map.... Peril from cannibals obliges a physician to reserve a bullet for the heroine, but Ossa on Pelion could not have flattened the good cherub who looked after her and her lover.” (Ath.)
“If heartiness can freshen a stale phrase, Mr. Tracy’s romance may be described as a thrilling novel of adventure.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 120w. |
“Everybody in the book is a live human being, and they are all carried along by the skillful story teller who has a very neat and effective style and a happy knack of characterization.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 91. F. 16. ’07. 770w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 210w. |
“As a sea-story the book is capital, as a novel it is nothing.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w. |
* Train, Arthur Cheney. [Mortmain.] †$1.50. Appleton.
7–33597.
Eight stories, each of which deals with some sort of adventure. “‘A man hunt’ seems the modern New York equivalent for the complicated expeditions with which du Boisgobe thrilled Paris in the seventies; but ‘A study of sociology,’ with its sinister termination, gives a welcome glimpse of Mr. Train’s special knowledge, and approaches more nearly to the realistic interest of ‘A prisoner at the bar.’” (Nation.)
“Within their obvious limits, these stories are good. They are quick, lively, ingenious, better written than the majority of their class, more competently worked out, less childish.”
| + | Nation. 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 160w. |
“[There is] piquancy which will commend the group to the most indifferent reader.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 240w. |
Train, Arthur Cheney. [Prisoner at the bar: side-lights on the administration of criminal justice.] **$2. Scribner.
6–43223.
“The object of Mr. Train’s book is to give a concrete idea of the actual administration of criminal justice in large cities. The book is by no means an academic essay in criminology, but the result of actual observation and experience, the author having been associated for some years with District Attorney Jerome as prosecutor in the criminal courts of New York city.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 75. Mr. ’07. |
“It is not too much to say that this volume is easily one of the most important books on penology of the last decade.” Carl Kelsey.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 235. Ja. ’07. 590w. |
“He has written an authoritative description of the machinery of criminal justice and has done his work so well that even he who runs may see the wheels go ’round.” Frederick Trevor Hill.
| + + | Bookm. 24: 484. Ja. ’07. 840w. |
“Although thoroughly serious in purpose, he lightens his chapters with amusing anecdote and thus gives us an entertaining as well as a strikingly suggestive book.”
| + | Dial. 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“Let no one think that because Mr. Train has written a book lightly readable and brimming with humor that it has no significance.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1269. My. 30. ’07. 360w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w. |
“An instructive and interesting account of the actual administration of criminal law in the largest of American cities.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 202. Je. 28, ’07. 1010w. |
“A set of most interesting sidelights on the actual administration of criminal justice in our large cities. The voice is the voice of the expert, though the hand is rather that of the journalist.”
| + | Nation. 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 250w. |
“The book as a whole belongs to the same class as Mr. Francis Wellman’s ‘Art of cross-examination.’”
| + | Outlook. 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 280w. |
“Mr. Train’s greatest service, perhaps, lies in his showing partly intentionally but partly unconsciously, the extent to which we tolerate mediaeval methods ill-adapted to modern conditions, and the extent to which, in practice at least, we hold the mediaeval theory that vengeance is the object of punishment.”
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 574. S. ’07. 190w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 160w. |
“We hope that Mr. Train’s book will meet the reception in this country which it deserves.”
| + | Spec. 99: 128. Jl. 27, ’07. 1980w. |
Trask, Kate Nichols. In my lady’s garden; pages from the diary of Sir John Elwynne. **$1. Lane.
7–6766.
A love idyl whose background is a tangle of fragrance. The capricious Mary is wooed by the staid Sir John and is simply waiting for him to conquer her caprice. When the conquest is made the feminine question comes, “O, Jack, why did you let us waste so much time?”
“The fragrance and beauty of the English garden in May are in the book. There is wisdom in it, too.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 144. My. 9, ’07. 130w. |
Trask, Kate Nichols. Night and morning. **$1.25. Lane.
A side-light on the divorce problem. It upholds the “higher inner law of love itself which in itself is the highest freedom,” and which is “a Beatitude rather than a law.” It “is the story of the woman taken in adultery retold in picturesquely colored blank verse, with the imaginative addition of the personality of her lover, a ‘subtle Greek’ Leonidas.” (Nation.)
“Its development and constructive power indicate a mind of very uncommon order. There is a continuous upbuilding of interest until the last words are spoken. The poem is didactic, but its artistic form is preserved, in spite of the extreme difficulty of the situation which might easily have resulted in the art being, at all events, obscured by theological discussion.” D. Frangcon-Davies.
| + + | Arena. 37: 556. My. ’07. 2730w. |
“The story is told with picturesque beauty and adorned with happy imagery. Avowedly a didactic composition, the poem is nevertheless deeply moving, and its spiritual message is high and clear.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 130w. |
“The mood of the poem is admirable throughout, and the workmanship respectable.”
| + | Nation. 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 150w. |
“Here and there an occasional false quantity is found, but the poem, as a whole, is of surpassing beauty and Miltonic dignity. This quality of its verse and the high quality of its philosophy should destine ‘Night and morning’ to become immortal.” U. W.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 617. O. 6, ’06. 800w. |
Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden: (March 28–July 14, 1888). **$3. Small.
6–6242.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is as revealing in character as it is unconventional in its literary make-up.”
| + | Arena. 37: 325. Mr. ’07. 1860w. |
Treffry, Elford Eveleigh, comp. Stokes’ encyclopedia of familiar quotations. **$2.25. Stokes.
6–46744.
“A work that can be easily consulted for phrases and sentiments, as the quotations are arranged under subjects. A general index gives the usual reference for every important word in every quotation, making it available for fugitive line or passage. The author index, with its long list of mere page references to authors, is of little value. An effort has been made to include quotations by modern authors, Kipling, Hay, Roosevelt, Stedman, Henry Van Dyke, and others.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
“The work will supplement but not replace Hoyt’s ‘Cyclopaedia of practical quotations’ and Bartlett’s ‘Familiar quotations.’”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 75. Mr. ’07. | |
| + | Dial. 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 60w. | |
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 170w. |
Trent, William P., and Henneman, John B., comps. Best American tales. 35c. Crowell.
7–25511.
Tales from Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Fitz-James O’Brien, and Edward Everett Hale have been selected for this addition to the “Handy volume classics.”
Trevelyan, George Macaulay. Garibaldi’s defence of the Roman republic. *$2, Longmans.
7–21750.
“This volume has to do with Mazzini’s short-lived Roman republic in 1849.... The volume is divided into three parts, the first ... tells the story of Garibaldi’s childhood at Nice, of his adventurous life in South America, and his romantic marriage ... of the condition of the Roman states from 1815 to 1846, and of the reform movements and democratic protests. This prepares the way for part second, which describes the defense of Rome, and part third, which treats of Garibaldi’s retreat and escape.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is at once illuminated by enthusiasm and clarified by faithful scholarship. It is a worthy English monument to one of the noblest periods in the life of a noble nation.” H. S.
| + + | Acad. 72: 455. My. 11, ’07. 1260w. |
“He deserves the warmest thanks for his picture of a period which suits excellently his vivid style.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 39. Jl. 13. 780w. |
“Mr. Trevelyan does not display much knowledge of Italy as she is to-day.” W. Miller.
| + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 816. O. ’07. 390w. |
“A book of literary distinction and genuine utility.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 420w. |
“It is to be hoped that a serious historical work, at once so authoritative, so well written, and so romantic, will do much to dispel the popular illusion that history must needs be ‘dull.’”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 2300w. |
“It is when he enters into communion with the soul of his hero that Mr. Trevelyan is at his best, and that is to say that he excells at a point where even the greatest historians have failed.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 569. Je. 20, ’07. 830w. |
“The author’s attitude is that of sympathetic admiration, but he does not permit enthusiasm to blind him to the mistakes and errors of his hero.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 308. My. 11, ’07. 450w. |
“We wish that Mr. Trevelyan would write another volume like this, of exceptional merit, recounting Garibaldi’s later triumphs.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 341. Je. 15, ’07. 180w. |
“An interesting and scholarly—a rare juxtaposition of adjectives—account of this strenuous patriot’s heroic defence of the short-lived Roman republic.” G: Louis Beer.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 743. S. ’07. 110w. |
“Mr. Trevelyan has walked over every inch of the ground; he has described the country and the military problem in a clear and picturesque narrative.”
| + | Spec. 98: 619. Ap. 20, ’07. 2350w. |
Trine, Ralph Waldo. In the fire of the heart. **$1. McClure.
7–4378.
The author “has collected a vast quantity of statistics and quotable facts upon social conditions in America and woven them together in the web of his own enthusiasm for humanity.” (Outlook.) The subjects are as follows: With the people: a revelation; The conditions that hold among us; As time deals with nations; As to government; A great people’s movement; Public utilities for the public good; Labor and its uniting power; Agencies whereby we shall secure the people’s greatest good; The great nation; and The life of the higher beauty and power.
“With strong moral undertone, the book presents rather strikingly a number of the vital facts of our modern industrial system and the problems resulting from it.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 169. Jl. ’07. 230w. |
“This work is a very important addition to the rapidly growing literature of social progress that is emanating from our younger men of clear mental vision, of heart and of conscience.”
| + + | Arena. 37: 328. Mr. ’07. 1310w. |
“The simple reassertion of opinions is not proof of their soundness, and the reader can easily discover that the arguments on one side are here urged without much consideration of those on the other side. With the ethical ideals of the author it would be difficult to take issue.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| − + | Dial. 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 130w. |
“A deep and fervent sympathy with the toilers characterizes the book.”
| + | Ind. 63: 455. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w. |
“Abounds in suggestive ideas bearing upon present-day life.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 180w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 230w. |
Trine, Ralph Waldo. This mystical life of ours; a book of suggestive thoughts for each week through the year. **$1. Crowell.
7–29412.
An even fifty-two helpful thoughts selected from the works of Dr. Trine. They exhort the one striving for success to come into harmony with the higher laws and forces, to come into league and to work in conjunction with them, for only then is the wayfarer in a position to test and to be benefited by the “ever present Help.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 80w. |
Trobridge, George. Emanuel Swedenborg: his life, teachings, and influence. 25c. Warne.
A reliable life of Swedenborg which “is not only a mine of original information, but provides the means of correcting many current misconceptions concerning this remarkable man.”
Trow, Cora Welles. Parliamentarian. 75c. Wessels.
6–16228.
A manual of parliamentary procedure, extemporaneous speaking and informal debate.
Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes, jr. [Court beauties of old Whitehall: historiettes of the restoration.] *$3.75. Scribner.
7–2574.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Merely a superfluous piece of book making, badly done. Its style is journalese of a poor type”
| − | Sat. R. 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 50w. |
Trumbull, William. Evolution and religion: a parent’s talk with his children concerning the moral side of evolution. **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–17356.
In these brief religious talks on evolution the author touches upon all the great facts of life, in a simple, wholesome way that will prepare the child mind for larger and more scientific works upon prolonged infancy, race survival, government, human beliefs, animal worship, selection, and the hundred other topics here suggested.
Tucker, T. G. Life in ancient Athens: the social and public life of a classical Athenian from day to day. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–4807.
Athens during the hey-day of its classical period is portrayed, the time when Athenian life stood for vigorous vitality and unblemished character. It is mainly of the things that have been too well preserved in antiquities for time to efface that Mr. Tucker writes; actual events, actual buildings; knowledge of manners, customs, ideals; of Attic virtues, vices, weaknesses, humors, drolleries; and knowledge of what law and society allowed.
“If we must criticise, we would cast a doubt upon the statement that the Athenians were a mixed race. We can find no evidence of an Achaean strain in their ancestry. Nor do we hold that the Greek tongue was a Homeric importation. And to speak of the Propylæa as a ‘triumphal arch’ is surely misleading to the novice in these matters. Apart from these points, our only quarrel with Professor Tucker is the complete absence of all references.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 560w. | |
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 40w. | ||
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 132. My. ’07. |
“On the whole, the volume achieves its modest aim, which at once disarms criticism; but it rather suffers from the inevitable comparison with some of the other members of the same series.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 148. Mr. 1, ’07. 210w. |
“Humor bubbles up from time to time. It is perhaps ungracious to note errors. What are they compared with the Attic salt of the author which leaves a pleasant taste?”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 1414. Je. 13, ’07. 480w. |
“It is no easy matter with a book to make an ancient people live again. For either the writer’s learning clouds his sense of style to the dusty detriment of the reader’s interest, or love of style, dangerously liable to profit by lack of industry, is indulged in at the expense of solid learning. But Prof. Tucker of the University of Melbourne has fairly steered between that Scylla and this Charbydis.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1420w. |
“Nothing can be found covering so satisfactorily and completely the subject here treated as does this book.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 200w. |
“A most instructive and illuminating book.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w. |
Tuker, M. A. R. [Cambridge]; painted by William Matthison. *$6. Macmillan.
A “businesslike” volume which in addition to descriptive information which one desires is the “inspiration which we expect in one who writes about an ancient home of learning, haunted by the associations of great names.” (Spec.) “The origin and history of the schools of Cambridge, an account of their social and intellectual life, and of their distinguished graduates, together with seventy-seven full-page illustrations in color of the colleges and grounds, painted by William Matthison are the principal features of the work.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Miss Tuker has put a quart of solid information into her pint pot, but her text is as a whole much above the standard hitherto reached in these ‘colour’ books.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 400w. |
“If Mr. Tuker chose to write a reference book instead of evoking a spirit, perhaps there is nothing to say except that he has performed his task well.” May Estelle Cook.
| + − | Dial. 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 450w. |
“Contains nearly a hundred colored illustrations, as to the excellence of which tastes will doubtless differ. The text, however, may be commended as an intelligent and careful exposition of the mysteries of an English university, sound, discriminating, and readable.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 240w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 430. Jl. 6, ’07. 180w. |
“The pity is that this middle portion has not been expanded to shut out both the beginning and end of the book.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 372. S. 21, ’07. 320w. |
“Topics that have been handled not once or twice only before become fresh under the author’s vigorous treatment. And a new topic, which has hitherto been but casually referred to, receives the full attention which it requires. The pictures themselves are very attractive, finely finished, and always pleasant to look at. One might say that the imaginative element is wanting. We see the places to the very best advantage, but there is no hint of anything more. There is nothing Turneresque about them.”
| + + − | Spec. 98: 868. Je. 1, ’07. 340w. |
Tunison, Joseph Salathiel. Dramatic traditions of the dark ages. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–18809.
Mr. Tunison’s aim is “to popularize the investigations of the learned, cumbrous, and eccentric Sathas, who sought to show that whatever dramatic tendencies appeared in western Europe during the middle ages were directly inspired by Byzantium.” (Nation.) “The book is a mine of interesting facts about social, religious, and literary life, as connected with or influencing the stage, during the centuries of the Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is obvious, then, that Mr. Tunison’s evidence cannot always be accepted without examination. But the book is ... distinctly interesting and valuable. It is the work of a scholarly and independent mind; but unfortunately the lack of sound methods produces as strange results in literary history as it used to produce in etymology.” John Matthews Manly.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 124. O. ’07. 1200w. |
“The author commands plain facts enough to make up a useful popular history of dramatic tendencies in Byzantium and the Western empire, but owing to his vitiated method, he merely gives the impression of being widely misinformed.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 287. S. 26, ’07. 1100w. |
“Mr. Tunison has the skill and liveliness of method which enable him to marshall this wonderful array of facts which he has got together into a readable thesis of mingled narrative and argument. His own vigorous intellectual personality, evident in the assurance with which he sets forth his surmises, convictions, and arguments, gives a pleasurable tang to his scholarly production.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w. |
Turgenieff, Ivan Sergieevitch. Novels and stories of Ivan Turgenieff; tr. from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. 14v. English ed. in 16v. ea. $1.25. Scribner.
A complete translation of Turgénieff’s works, “The present version by Miss Hapgood is more extended [than Mrs. Garnett’s] as it includes all the well-known works, with the addition of a few writings of minor importance which had not been before translated.” (Ath.) Mr. Henry James has furnished the set with an introduction which is “a sympathetic study of the great author as a man.” (Spec.)
“On the whole, the translation is distinctly good.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 1: 70. Ja. 20. 1000w. (Review of v. 1–16) | |
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 60w. (Review of “Smoke.”) |
“In any proper sense of the word, Turgénieff is one of the most real of writers. We feel, though we cannot test the feeling as we could in the case of a story of English life, that the characters are truly drawn, that their creator knows a great deal more about them than they know about themselves, and that they are at once individuals and types.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 285. Ag. 24, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 1–16.) |
Reviewed by S. Strunsky.
| Nation. 85: 488. N. 28, ’07. 2690w. (Review of v. 1–14.) |
“A great service to the younger generation of readers.” Florence Finch Kelley.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 339. My. 25, ’07. 1400w. (Review of v. 1–16.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 9–14.) |
“Miss Hapgood knows Turgénieff as thoroughly as she knows the language in which he has written.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 1–8.) |
“The translator, an accomplished Russian scholar, appears to have done her work as well as possible”
| + | Spec. 96: 222. F. 10, ’06. 1770w. (Review of v. 1–16.) |
Turner, George Frederic. Frost and friendship. †$1.50. Little.
At the court of his friend, King Karl of Grimland, a rich young Englishman, a draper’s son encounters an amazing series of adventures and in the end, of course, wins a wife. Winter sports, tobogganing, and curling furnish amusement and also play their part in the drama in which frost and friendship melt beneath the warmth of love.
“Comes dangerously near the superfluous.”
| + − | Ath. 1906. 2: 651. N. 24. 140w. | |
| − + | Nation. 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 260w. |
“There are exciting incidents, but improbabilities end by becoming absurdities.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 779. F. 23, ’07. 60w. |
Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester. Reminiscences of a missionary bishop. **$2. Whittaker.
6–28227.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author records his experiences with no word of complaint for the hardships he was called upon to endure, and his book cannot fail to be an inspiration to the younger members of the ministry of his church, to whom he gives useful advice upon a variety of topics.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 247. Ap. 17, ’07. 720w. |
Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie). Maker of modern Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.
6–16716.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The style is clear and entertaining, and, though the numerous byways through which the author leads us, destroy the logical arrangement and proportion of the book, still she tells us much that is welcome concerning Mexico which it would have been necessary to omit had she confined herself more strictly to her subject.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 423. Mr. ’07. 500w. |
Twelvetrees, W. Noble. Concrete-steel buildings; being a companion volume to the treatise on Concrete-steel. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“In this book, detailed accounts are given of various buildings in reinforced concrete which have been built in Europe and America, the original data for which have for the most part appeared in the technical press. The descriptions are very complete, entering into all the details of design and construction, and are very well illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs.”—Engin N.
“The book presents a very satisfactory compilation. Great care has been taken to acknowledge all indebtedness to British publications; to French, German and American authors small consideration is shown.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 58. 182. Ag. 15, ’07. 340w. |
“An excellent index adds much to the value of this book for reference purposes, which will prove a welcome addition to the library of every architect and civil engineer.” T. H. B.
| + + | Nature. 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 330w. |
Tybout, Ella Middleton. The smuggler. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–31227.
Three American girls seek refuge from hayfever on a Canadian island and instead of passing an uneventful summer they find themselves involved in a series of strange happenings by a band of clever smugglers who pose as their friends and use them as a blind to pass their ill-gotten goods over the border. The story is told in a sprightly fashion and there is a pretty love tale and two not so pretty but more dramatic. All in all, it is an interesting novel with a pleasing mixture of love, mystery, adventure, tragedy and humor.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Tylee, Edward Sydney. Trumpet and flag, and other poems of war and peace. *$1.25. Putnam.
These poems are largely upon present day topics and include among others “After Vereeniging,” studies of “Bismarck” and “Rhodes,” an elegy on Queen Victoria, “The drummer,” The salute, Balliol college chapel, Somersetshire dialect poems, and Sculling at midnight.
“The verse is smooth and pleasing, although its themes are often grim.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 167. S. 16, ’07. 140w. |
“Mr. Tylee’s more ambitious pieces have a certain careful timeliness, a skilful obviousness that gives them rather the attraction of an eloquent leading article than of poetry.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 250w. |
“Mr. Tylee’s chief fault is that he is a little inclined to monotony both in rhythm and imagery.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 370w. |
* Tyler, John Mason. Growth and education. **$1.50. Houghton.
7–22411.
The author evidently agrees with Spencer that “man’s first duty is to become a good animal.” “While the book deals mainly with bodily growth and development, the writer is led naturally by his subject into the field of moral and intellectual culture. He recognizes the importance of character-forming agencies in all periods, but justly emphasizes the high school as the time of final determination.” (Dial.)
“Professor Tyler’s recent book ... comes, with rather unusual authority on account of the high scientific standing of the writer, and it is enriched by a broad view of the subject, and a certain warmth of treatment which adds greatly to the value of a book intended for teachers. We recommend it heartily to the library of every teacher.” Edward O. Sisson.
| + + | Dial. 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 400w. |
“To the defects and mistakes of current educational practice, this enlightening volume brings sound scientific and practical correctives.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 747. Ag. 3, ’07. 420w. |
* Tyndale, Walter. Below the cataracts. il. **$3–50. Lippincott.
“Mr. Walter Tyndale is a painter who has spent some years at work in the Nile valley and is interested in both the mysterious beauty of the ancient monuments and in the picturesqueness of the Egyptian life of to-day. Cairo with its winding streets, beautiful mosques, and tempting bazaars, Thebes with its tombs and temples, and Karnak with its wonderful wall-inscriptions and reliefs, furnish most of the material for the sixty beautiful colored plates and the chapters of description and personal reminiscence of travel in Egypt which make up his recently published volume ‘Below the cataracts.’”—Dial.
| Dial. 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 100w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
* Tyrrell, Rev. George. Much-abused letter. *90c. Longmans.
7–15463.
In this volume Father Tyrrell explains and defends his letter to a perplexed scientist which resulted in the Pope’s recent encyclical and caused Tyrrell’s excommunication from the church.
“Its essence is certainly radical, and is intended to meet the esoteric needs. And it is an illustration—very important and interesting—of a movement of thought in the Catholic as well as the Protestant church.”
| + | Ind. 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 250w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 564. N. 16, ’07. 1000w. |
Tyrrell, Rev. George. Through Scylla and Charybdis; or, The old theology and the new. *$1.50. Longmans.
An exposition by a broad and spiritually minded Catholic upon both the dogmatic and the political position of priests. “It deals with the difference between revelation and theology, and leaves the reader with the impression that in Father Tyrrell’s mind dogma can now only be accepted metaphorically, as the changing expression of the truth,—as if one were to say, for instance, that remorse is a revelation and hell a metaphor, forgiveness a revelation and absolution a metaphor.” (Spec.)
“The book makes its appeal to every one at all modern in sympathy who is at the same time not disposed to cut the Gordian knot and let religion altogether go by the board.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 395. O. 5. 1320w. |
“His book, though addressed to Catholics, is profitable reading for Protestants also, many of whom need some of its lessons.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 340w. | |
| Spec. 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 600w. |