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Vachell, Horace Annesley. Face of clay: an interpretation. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–24581.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is delightfully written, and the people and places stand clearly before us.” Mary K. Ford.
| + | Bookm. 25: 83. Mr. ’07. 960w. |
“The book must be called successful, if only for the very striking background which Mr. Vachell gives to a drama otherwise lacking in intrinsic interest.”
| + − | Spec. 96: 836. My. 26. ’06. 290w. |
Vachell, Horace Annesley. Her son: a chronicle of love. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–31481.
The story of a foster-mother’s devotion to the illegitimate son of the man whom she was engaged to marry. The compromising situations that arise from her determination to shield the boy leave in the reader’s mind “two ideas: first, a strong doubt as to the wisdom of too much self-sacrifice, and secondly, the enormous advantage, even from the point of view of expediency, of the open and straightforward course of action.” (Bookm.)
“This is a story which grows in interest from the first to the last page. It is well constructed and full of dramatic situations which nowhere develop into melodrama, in fact the more intense and strained these situations become the more naturally and simply does the author treat them.”
| + | Acad. 72: 415. Ap. 27, ’07. 290w. |
“For a novel so well written, the theme, as we have said, is disappointing. People do make wrecks of their lives, but not in this wantonly sentimental manner.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 240w. |
“The book is interesting, the characters have a life and personality of their own and it is written in that pleasant, tranquil narrative style which is destined to flourish and charm long after the present morbid and neurotic school shall have disappeared.” Mary K. Ford.
| − + | Bookm. 26: 278. N. ’07. 600w. |
“He has the credit of elaborating what is probably a new situation in the old triangular plot, and earns gratitude thereby, even if the characters, especially the actress and the journalist, suggest only the properties of his art.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 118. Ap. 12, ’07. 300w. |
“No doubt the action turns upon sentiment; but, as readers of the ‘The hill’ well recall, Mr. Vachell’s sentiment is not of the watery kind. It consorts very well with sensible thinking and a plain and sturdy way of speech.”
| + | Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 420w. |
“Is an unusual novel and will be deeply relished by those who think and feel. There is enough of a problem in it to arouse warm discussion.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 644. O. 19. ’07. 670w. |
“A highly dramatic and human story by one of the five best writers in England.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
“The book goes beneath the surface in its study of motive and character and although it sometimes touches on delicate ground, it holds up a high standard of honor, faithfulness, and nobility of purpose.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 80w. |
“We readily admit that the novel is well written, that the dialogue is bright, and the narrative well handled. But viewed as a whole the story stands or falls with the character of Dorothy Fairfax ... and we fear that a good many readers, instead of regarding her, with Lady Curragh, as ‘a heavenly fool,’ will be tempted to pronounce her an unearthly idiot.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 721. My. 4, ’07. 1000w. |
Vambery, Arminius. Western culture in eastern lands: a comparison of the methods adopted by England and Russia in the Middle East. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–25742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“However frequently one may be disposed to take issue with Prof. Vambéry in his assumptions and conclusions, the scholarly merits of his work must be recognized at every turn. He occasionally falls into a panegyrical strain which is ill advised.... But these lapses are not frequent, and they probably flow from the author’s vivacity of style rather than from any inherent faults in his thought.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
| + − | Dial. 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 2400w. |
* Vance, Rev. James Isaac. Eternal in man. **$1. Revell.
7–13923.
An appeal to higher living based on the conviction that man is a citizen of the eternal world.
“A vigorous and rhetorically effective appeal to higher living.”
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 716. O. ’07. 20w. |
“Such regrettable extravagance, akin to the ‘mother of God’ doctrine of the fourth century, is offset, but not atoned for, by many an excellent statement of moral and religious verities.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w. |
Vance, Louis Joseph. [Brass bowl.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–12274.
A charming young New York girl who assumes the role of a burglar for the purpose of securing papers that will bring comfort to a grief stricken father; a real burglar, as dangerous as he is clever; and a young millionaire who is an exact counterpart of the burglar are the chief actors in this drama, whose exciting situations grow out of the resemblance of the two men.
“A more amusing and ingenious ‘shocker’ than this we have seldom read. Can be recommended for railway journeys and for all who wish to be amused without being made to think; incidentally it gives interesting glimpses into American life.”
| + | Acad. 73: 193. N. 30, ’07. 220w. | |
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 137. My. ’07. |
“Will hold the breathless interest of the reader who is seeking only to be amused, as the action is rapid and the dialogue well written.” Amy C. Rich.
| + − | Arena. 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 150w. |
“A reader may protest, may resent the undue strain upon his sense of probability, but he will be tolerably sure to follow the story to its end.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 229. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 280w. |
Vanderlip, Frank Arthur. Business and education. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–17640.
A collection of Mr. Vanderlip’s addresses and speeches dealing authoritatively with financial, industrial and educational questions. The author is vice-president of the National city bank, New York, and writes out of the fulness of a long commercial experience, made valuable by a broad knowledge of his fellow-man and a soundness of business judgment.
Reviewed by J. C.
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 440. Jl. ’07. 470w. |
“We would not gainsay the right of successful business men to their literary diversions, but will venture the delicate suggestion that not every article contributed to popular magazines needs to be reproduced in more permanent form.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 21. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w. |
“Mr. Vanderlip’s book is a good qualification for his doctorate in finance.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 1250w. |
“Mr. Vanderlip’s conclusions are well thought out and clearly stated.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 758. Je. ’07. 160w. |
* Van Dresser, Mrs. Jesmine Stone. How to find Happyland: a book of children’s stories. il. **$2. Putnam.
7–16944.
A book of fairy tales written by a mother for her son.
“Charmingly written.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12. ’07. 70w. |
“A pretty wholesome fairy book, sufficiently mysterious to awaken interest in the children, yet very gracefully written, and having nice little morals tucked craftily away within its pages. The writer has the true gift of story-telling for little folks, and the pictures by Florence E. Storer quite suit the text.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w. |
Van Dyke, Henry. [Americanism of Washington.] 50c. Harper.
6–34847.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. van Dyke’s practised and graceful pen has made a book by no means without literary charm. If, from the literary point of view, one were to criticise this volume, such criticism would surely involve a discounting of the effectiveness of the peroration, which is more smoke than flame, and never rises beyond the mere rhetoric of patriotism and moral enthusiasm.” Horatio S. Krans.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 110. Ap. ’07. 720w. |
Van Dyke, Henry. Battle of life. **30c. Crowell.
7–20955.
This sermon, preached from the text, “Overcome evil with good” appears uniform with the “What is worth while series.”
Van Dyke, Henry. [Days off, and other digressions.] †$1.50. Scribner.
7–33932.
Uniform with “Fisherman’s luck” and “Little rivers.” The “days off” are “more or less occupied with fishing, with now and then a bit of hunting, one long drive over the glorious English roads among the Quantock hills, one woodland excursion between the lupin and the laurel with no record of killing, and one or two chats on bookish subjects.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Van Dyke writes of these jaunts with a taking measure of fancifulness, and a flavour of bookishness which is agreeably elusive.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 130w. | |
| + + | Dial. 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 250w. |
“It is mighty pleasant to take a ‘day off’ with the parson.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 70w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 762. N. 2, ’07. 260w. |
“One does not need to read far in ‘Days off’ before he comes upon the secret of its vitality and interest; it is revealed in a phrase—‘no vacation is perfect without a holiday in it.’”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 765. D. 7, ’07. 720w. |
“Altogether, this is a readable book, but it would have been more prudent not to invite, as on p. 37, a comparison with Charles Lamb.”
| + | Spec. 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 120w. |
Van Dyke, Henry. Good old way. **30c. Crowell.
7–20954.
An addition to the “What is worth while series.” The good old way is the path of faith and duty which runs amid the tangle of sensuality, avarice, social ambition, intellectual pride, moral indifference, hypocrisy and indecision.
* Van Dyke, Henry. Music lover. **$1. Moffat.
7–35629.
“Dr. van Dyke describes the emotions of the true lover of music, as he sits in his chosen place and hears a great orchestra render a great symphony. Generous margins appropriately decorated in color, and a colored frontispiece by Sigismund de Ivanowski, whose work has lately attracted much attention, are the decorative features.”—Dial.
| Dial. 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w. |
“A beautiful prose poem.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
* Van Dyke, Henry. [Story of the other wise man.] $5. Harper.
A special holiday edition containing a new preface by the author. “He tells us that he had studied and loved the curious tales of the three wise men of the East as told in the Golden legend of Jacobus de Voragine and other mediæval books; but of the fourth wise man he had never heard until the long, lonely night when the story came to him.” (Outlook.)
| N. Y. Times. 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 70w. |
“Particularly well printed and illustrated.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w. |
Van Dyke, John Charles. Opal sea. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–8871.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Since Ruskin no more charming guide to the beauties of nature has put himself at our disposition than Professor Van Dyke.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 408. Je. ’07. 400w. |
Van Dyke, John C. Studies in pictures: an introduction to the famous galleries. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–9576.
The service which Mr. Van Dyke renders is that of aiding the student of painting in seeing truly, comprehending adequately, and judging justly. There are ten chapters as follows: Old masters out of place; Pictures ruined, restored and repainted; False attributions, copies, forgeries; Themes of the masters; Workmanship of the old masters; Figure painting; Portrait painting; Genre painting; The animal in art; Landscape and painting.
“To his credit be it said he is never irrelevant, he relates historical facts which have bearings on certain cases, he makes suggestive comparisons, but ultimately when he wishes to explain beauty of a certain piece of drawing, of a harmony of color, or of a composition of masses, he perforce refers his reader to the picture itself.”
| + | Acad. 73: 726. Jl. 27, ’07. 930w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 132. My. ’07. S. | |
| + | Dial. 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w. |
“Professor Van Dyke is a helpful cicerone, for he does not overpower the reader with his theories, or force upon him his tastes, or crush him with the weight of his learning, but talks clearly and sensibly about what pictures are painted for and how we can get the most out of them.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w. |
“The passenger who expects to take a look at the famous galleries will take a far more sensible, comprehending look if he has scanned these brief, chatty pages; the passenger who, picking up a friend’s copy, had planned to waste no time poking about under European skylights will probably conceive some curiosity for the art treasures abroad.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 31: sup. 52. Ap. ’07. 440w. |
“Mr. Van Dyke is a most trustworthy guide, who knows what he is talking about, with a knowledge rare indeed even amongst those who enjoy a great reputation as critics.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 32: 252. S. ’07. 150w. |
“Not only useful to the unsophisticated, to whom it is admirably adapted, but valuable to those who have a tendency to lose themselves in technicalities. The treatment is popular, almost casual [and] is based on a sympathetic attitude toward ignorance, which is rare in the writing of a specialist and a mark of mental breadth.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 940w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 383. S. ’07. 50w. |
“Is just the kind of work that is wanted to put the uninstructed lover of pictures on the right track.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w. |
Van Eps, Frank S., and Van Eps, Marion B. Rejoice always: or, Happiness is for you. $1. Frank S. Van Eps, 144 W. 123 st., N. Y.
7–514.
A little book which preaches the gospel of happiness, sets forth its value and explains how it may be attained. Its chapter headings show its scope and trend of argument; Rejoice, The consciousness of God, No anxiety, Prayer and supplication, Thanksgiving, and The peace of God.
“Very optimistic little book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 80w. |
“Its fundamental positions are true psychologically and ethically, as well as in the mystical religious life. It may be heartily commended to all who would reach the high levels of ‘the life that is life indeed,’ where no cloud or storm is that the sun does not quickly dissipate.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 45. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w. |
Van Norden, Charles. Yoland of Idle Isle. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29008.
Idle isle is one of the Bermudas whither a New England college president and his granddaughter go to live in seclusion. The adventures that befall the heroine who is being reared away from the wicked world and the madding crowds suggest those of Miranda before Ferdinand awakens her.
“The one extraordinary thing in the book is the language in which its characters converse and soliloquize. It is surely the strongest mixture of grandiloquence and nonsense ever put down in sober print and attributed to people in their right minds. He promises quite plainly that there are further ‘annals yet to be written.’ It is to be hoped that he will think better of it and continue his ‘leisure.’”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 900w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
Van Norman, Louis Edwin. Poland, the knight among nations; with an introd. by Helena Modjeska. **$1.50. Revell.
7–32871.
“Because of his intimate relations with Poles of the best class, Mr. Van Norman’s opportunities for studying both town and country life in all sections of the tripartite kingdom were exceptional, and his comments on Polish music and art, the national psychology and political and social problems are well worth considering; but his account of his pilgrimages to the scenes of Sienkewicz’s three great historical novels, and his picture of the great interpreter of Poland himself in his home among the Carpathian mountains are perhaps of the greatest interest to readers of contemporary literature.”—N. Y. Times.
“If Madame Modjeska has briefly prepared the reader for much, Mr. Van Norman has made himself admirably accessory after the fact, by telling the whole story in a vivid, impressive and scholarly manner.” Dolores Bacon.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 414. D. ’07. 590w. |
“A sympathetic, first-hand study of a noble race of vigorous virtues and lovable faults.” Arthur Guiterman.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 632. O. 19, ’07. 1820w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“Mr. Van Norman has had unusual opportunities of studying Poland at first hand, and his sympathies for the people are naturally keen, as he married a Pole. On every page of the present volume we are conscious of that knowledge and sympathy.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 640w. |
“It is in the portrayal of modern Polish activities and accomplishments that Mr. Van Norman’s book performs its most distinct service.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 637. N. ’07. 270w. |
Van Sommer, Annie, and Zwemer, Samuel M., eds. [Our Moslem sisters: a cry of need from lands of darkness interpreted by those who heard it.] **$1.25. Revell.
7–16363.
“In this book is collected a mass of testimony and undoubted facts that merely lift the edge of the sad truth as to the lives of women in Mohammedan communities.... The universality and ease of divorce, the absolute freedom of the husband, and the utter helplessness of the wife, are revelations to many. A mere sentence, repeated three times, is irrevocable, and the wife is cast out to a life of sorrow, shame, and poverty very often.... Egypt, all Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Bulgaria, Persia, India, Java, and all Malaysia are darkened by this unholy revelation to Mohammed.”—Outlook.
“The conditions of women in Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Northern Africa, India, and Southeastern Asia are described forcibly and clearly.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 320w. | |
| Spec. 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w. |
Van Vorst, Bessie. Letters to women in love. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–36049.
Four groups of advisory letters written to four American women “occupying quite different places in the historical development of love.” Mrs. Van Vorst “thinks that the thing which counts about a woman more than anything else, from beginning to end, is her age.” She spends half her life “not being old enough and the rest in being too old.” And she tempers her advice accordingly. For example, “if a woman is over thirty-eight she must have patience in dealing with the man she loves; if she is less than twenty-five she may risk defiance in order to bring him to terms.” (Ind.)
“Few women will like the book, it is so pertinent, but most of them over thirty years of age could profit by Mrs. Van Vorst’s suggestions without injuring society.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w. |
“There was abundant material here for the making of an interesting book. Mrs. Van Vorst has done little with it beyond discovering its possibilities. The cases she presents are not lacking in human interest, but the deeper note is lacking.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 290w. |
“Her conscientious efforts to be ‘guide, philosopher, and friend’ result admirably—in the book—but in real life we fear her dissertations would be relegated to the same high shelf whither every guide, philosopher, and friend has retired from time immemorial.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 90w. |
Van Vorst, Marie. Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.
5–8736.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 27. Ja. ’07. |
Van Vorst, Marie. Sin of George Warrener. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–20363.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As the excellent study of a thoroughly vain, vapid, and at the same time utterly unscrupulous creature, Mrs. Warrener stands out distinctly among this year’s novelistic figures. ‘The sin of George Warrener’ is executed with distinguished artistic feeling.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 240w. |
Vasari, Giorgio. Stories of the Italian artists; collected and arranged by E. L. Seeley. *$3. Dutton.
W 6–323.
A collection of extracts from Vasari’s monumental work dealing chiefly with anecdote and biography, and designed evidently, for young readers. The volume is illustrated with 25 half tone reproductions in sepia and 8 colored plates.
| + | Dial. 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 320w. |
“A digest of Vasari’s biographies, which is amply sufficient for artist and critic and intensely interesting for the general lover of Italian art history. The editor and translator manages the subject with consummate skill. What is of notorious inaccuracy is deftly suppressed, and what is of permanent value in the lives of the artists or in the surroundings in which they worked is quite as skillfully emphasized. The style, too, has a touch of the archaic, which while everywhere intelligible, gives a charming illusion of antiquity.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 560w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 60w. |
Vaughan, Charles Edwyn. Romantic revolt. (Periods of European literature.) *$1.50. Scribner.
7–32815.
A monograph which treats of the rise and progress of the Romantic revolt against classicism in Great Britain; of a group of German writers, including Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller and Goethe; of the romantic movement in France and Italy; and of the history of romanticism in Spain, the Netherlands, the Slav countries, Scandinavia, Bohemia, Poland and Russia.
| Acad. 72: 181. F. 23, ’07. 1520w. |
“The book is exceptionally readable.”
| + | Dial. 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 110w. | |
| Nation. 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w. |
“It is unusual to find so large an amount of important literary history and of sound literary criticism within the compass of a book which may be read within a comparatively short time.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 261. Ap. 20, ’07. 440w. |
Vaughan, Herbert M. Last of the royal Stuarts. 2d ed. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–28488.
“A footnote to history” which is conceded to be one of the most interesting of recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism. “Henry Stuart was born in 1725, became a wealthy Cardinal-Bishop, had to flee from Napoleon, accepted, in his need, a pension from George III., and died in 1807.” (Lond. Times.) “A good account is given of the cardinal’s place as an historical figure. Genius is not claimed for him, but his piety, bounty, and kindness are pointed out, and the author perhaps wisely omits to quote the ill-natured gossip of Henry Swinburne.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
“It is doubtful if any more interesting record of the life of the Prince Cardinal has ever been produced.” W. F. Dennehy.
| + + | Am. Cath. Q. 32: 1. Ja. ’07. 8000w. |
“That the Duke scarcely deserved a biography is our opinion; while the biography is written without much research, and with rather inadequate references.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1090w. |
“The author has put together whatever is worth knowing about the rather uneventful career of Henry IX.” A. F. S.
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 201. Ja. ’07. 380w. |
“Much good and careful work has gone into Mr. Vaughan’s history of the Cardinal Duke of York, and the book is of value as rounding out the literature of the Stuart family. The references in Mr. Vaughan’s footnotes are curiously indefinite, and consequently lose much of their value and usefulness.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 450w. |
“A life of Cardinal York, though it could not be a work of great historical import, was yet worth writing, and Mr. Vaughan has written it well.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 320. S. 21, ’06. 1210w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 599. S. 29, ’06. 1210w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.) |
“This life of the Cardinal Duke is one of the most interesting of recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 286. Mr. 30, ’07. 430w. |
“Interesting and carefully prepared book.”
| + | Spec. 99: 327. S. 7, ’07. 1350w. |
Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp. [The Naples Riviera.] il. $2. Stokes.
W 7–197.
“Mr. Vaughan gives a generous interpretation to the Naples Riviera, including the Islands of the Blessed that float in a pellucid atmosphere in the enchanting bay. Everywhere he is resuscitating a dead past, from Herculaneum submerged in volcanic mud, and Pompeii long buried in a shroud of ashes, to Salerno of the once famous medical schools, to Pæstum with the temples that were dilapidated when S. Paul landed at Puteoli, and to Amalfi which was for a time supreme at sea till the now moribund Pisa contested the supremacy.” (Sat. R.) “The reader of these pages, therefore, will collect, with a minimum of effort, a little history, a little folk-lore, a little biography, a little literary reminiscence, and a little appreciation of the places which interest him in these parts.” (Ath.)
“‘The Naples Riviera’ is a paradise of colour. It is therefore an ideal subject for a colour-book, and an artist so conspicuously clever in seizing and reproducing an effect as Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen could be trusted to make the most of such an opportunity.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 573. My. 11. 380w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“This is an agreeable book upon a well-worn theme.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 110w. |
“Altogether the book, though written with verve and sympathy, is somewhat melancholy reading. We are disappointed in Mr. Greiffenhagen’s drawings. They show evident traces of haste, and in some is a sad lack of perspective.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 240w. |
Vedder, Henry Clay. Balthasar Hubmaier. **$1.35. Putnam.
5–37146.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If much of the material were relegated to foot-notes or appendixes, the reader would feel more directly the charm, the tragedy and the great significance of the career to which Dr. Vedder has devoted so much sympathetic study.” William Walker Rockwell.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 364. Ja. ’07. 1160w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 60w. |
Velvin, Ellen. Behind the scenes with wild animals. **$2. Moffat.
6–40578.
“Interesting talks about the ways of animals, wild and tame, the perils behind the scenes in animal shows, the curiosities of animal life, the methods of animal trainers, and other kindred topics.”—Outlook.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S. |
“The disjointed way in which anecdote follows anecdote, and the lack of coherence between chapters and parts of chapters leave in the reader’s mind only a blur of disconnected facts. The single thing that approaches lasting value is the list of various species of mammals which have been bred in captivity.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w. |
“She writes with animation and directness, and her narrative is enlivened by many capital photographs.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w. |
* Velvin, Ellen. Wild animal celebrities. **$1 Moffat.
7–31196.
Here are told the life stories of celebrated animals in which “the author has sketched for us the events befalling the lions, bears, and elephants, from their wild days to the time of their captivity; and besides that, she has given us good insight into the dangers encountered by the men who are responsible for the animals on exhibition.” (Nation.)
“Such a book ought to be read by every one who visits collections of wild animals.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 120w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 110w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 150w. |
Vernon, Ambrose White. Religious value of the Old Testament in the light of modern scholarship. **90c. Crowell.
7–10032.
A comparison of the earlier attitude toward the Old Testament with the present view of modern scholarship. While in sympathy with the higher criticism, the author holds to the belief that the Bible, every word of it, is true, and that it is the inspired word.
“Those who agree with the author will thank him for setting forth what they feel, with such eloquence. To those who are hesitating between the older and newer views the book will make a strong appeal through its spiritual earnestness and suggestiveness. But what will its effect be upon those who love the old wine of the ‘Infallible word?’ To them many of his epigrammatic expressions will appear irritating.” Kemper Fullerton.
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 666. O. ’07. 280w. |
“The discussion is concise, clear, and interesting, and should be read by every minister and Bible student.”
| + + | Bib. World. 29: 399. My. ’07. 90w. |
“Mr. Vernon ... has studied the problems of the Old Testament with conscientious thoroness, with painstaking use of the best literature, and with a singular faculty of discerning salient and significant facts and assembling details into a consistent picture.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 1032. My. 2, ’07. 1520w. | |
| Ind. 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w. |
“Professor Vernon writes with eagerness, with evident sincerity and intensity of conviction, and there is a certain tension and activity in his style, which, while it may not leave his sentences always smooth, keeps one’s interest alert.”
| + | Nation. 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 750w. |
“The aim of this little book is so admirable and the spirit is so praiseworthy that we regret to speak of it in criticism rather than in commendation. But it appears to us to be inadequate in its treatment of a theme where inadequacy is tantamount to error.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 300. Je. 5, ’07. 340w. |
Vianney, Joseph. Blessed John Vianney. (Saints ser.) *$1. Benziger.
“In the life of the Curé d’Ars we have a story of devotion and self-sacrifice, of magic influence over others, of shrewd common-sense and humour, so wonderful as to be almost past belief.”—Sat. R.
“A well-written and interesting sketch. It is clear, however, that the narrative is not free from exaggeration.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 240w. |
“The admirable life of the Curé of Ars, written by his nephew, has been translated into English so idiomatic that one would scarcely suspect that the version is not an original.”
| + + | Cath. World. 84: 555. Ja. ’07. 230w. | |
| Sat. R. 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 230w. | ||
| Spec. 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 170w. |
Victoria, queen of Great Britain. [Letters of Queen Victoria: a selection from Her majesty’s correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861]; ed. by Arthur C. Benson and Viscount Esher. 3v. **$15. Longmans.
7–36986.
While there is to be found political history in plenty in these letters, they constitute, in the main, a document “whose chief importance consists in revelation of character.... Even in her prejudices the queen commands admiration, while proof appears on every page of her innate rectitude; the masculine discernment which kept her feminine susceptibilities under control, her knowledge of business, which neither excused slackness nor pardoned obscurity, and her grasp of detail are all emphasized.” (Ath.)
“The general editing is worthy of the documents which it elucidates, though in the third volume Mr. Benson and Lord Esher lead their readers into one or two blind alleys, whence foot-notes might have extricated them.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 509. O. 26. 1820w. |
“The care and skill shown in editing and annotating this great quantity of miscellaneous matter are all that could be desired. Dr. Eugene Oswald has done good work in translation.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 43: 368. D. 1, ’07. 1870w. |
“If it were not for the greatest interest that attaches to the letters, their reading would be somewhat wearisome and would give little enjoyment.”
| + + − | Ind. 63: 1366. D. 5, ’07. 1950w. | |
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 150w. |
“There is, therefore, no use in denying that the interest of these volumes lies rather in the substance than in form. They do not give us quite the vivid and brilliant picture of the times, as they appeared when seen from the Throne, which a ‘Life’ might and probably would have given us. The book is, in fact, pre-eminently ‘a book for students of political history;’ it is a mass of material for the future historian of the reign.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 313. O. 18, ’07. 5420w. |
“It is, accordingly, the public aspect of the Queen which alone can give much interest to these volumes of her letters.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 422. N. 7, ’07. 1600w. |
“It is absorbing as history; it is, if possible, more absorbing as a revelation of the inner life of the great family of sovereigns.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 673. O. 26, ’07. 3320w. |
“It is in reality a human document of unusual value.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 608. N. 23, ’07. 940w. |
“Those who only know Queen Victoria’s gifts as a writer through her Highland journals will be astonished when they read these volumes. To say that the book is of absorbing interest does it scant justice, for it is one of the great books of the century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + + + | R. of Rs. 36: 703. D. ’07. 2180w. |
“Despite the suppressions, enough has been left in the correspondence to render it not only interesting, but piquant and amusing. Mr. Benson and Lord Esher have received very efficient assistance. The introductory notes to the chapter, giving an historical summary of each year, are models of compression and accuracy.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 514. O. 26, ’07. 1800w. | |
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 545. N. 2. ’07. 2370w. |
“Besides providing an intimate portrait of the Queen’s mind, it gives a fascinating picture of her times, and incidentally of the chief figures of the Victorian epoch. In our opinion, not a little of the success of the book—and from the historical and literary point of view it is a very great success—is due to the fact that the documents are as a rule quoted entire, and we are not put off with scrappy extracts and excerpts from letters.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 611. O. 26, ’07. 2540w. | |
| + + | Spec. 99: 667. N. 2, ’07. 3500w. |
Viereck, George Sylvester. Game at love and other plays. †$1.25. Brentano’s.
6–28417.
“A series of short prose dramatic studies.... Of the six subjects treated, four are ... suggestive ... of a contempt for all the restrictions which prevent human society from relapsing into barbaric animalism.... The last two pieces, grouped under the single title, ‘The butterfly,’ are cast in the shape of the old moralities.”—Nation.
“The volume is remarkable not only for its promise but also for its accomplishment.”
| + | Bookm. 25: 426. Je. ’07. 320w. |
“They may be dismissed at once as naught.”
| − | Ind. 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 550w. |
“What Mr. Viereck may achieve in the future, if ever his rankly luxuriant boyish fancies acquire the ballast of solid learning and common sense, it would be hazardous to predict. At present, he is devoting precious gifts to futile and unworthy ends.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 370w. |
“It is this collection that has now come to us ... as the first adequate representation in our tongue of a poet who has been compared with Shelley and Keats and Swinburne, Baudelaire and Heine.” Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w. |
“These little plays, cynically catching life at some unnatural angle, as they do, and cleverly, even brilliantly, done as they are, scarcely amount to a raison d’etre.” Richard Le Gallienne.
| + − | No. Am. 184: 421. F. 15, ’07. 1060w. |
“Quite evidently not the result of experience but due to a somewhat decadent outlook upon life.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 253. F. ’07. 180w. |
Viereck, George Sylvester. [House of the vampire.] †$1.25. Moffat.
7–28969.
“His vampire is a personage of immense literary distinction, who moves among his contemporaries like a god, yet all of whose works are actually the product of others whose minds he enters, whose mental creations he steals, and whose vigor he saps.” (N. Y. Times.) Every note of originality which he discovers in any one he appropriates, reproduces as his own, justifying himself with this: “I carry the essence of what is cosmic ... of what is divine.... I am Homer ... Goethe ... Shakespeare.... I am an embodiment of the same force of which Alexander, Cæsar, Confucius, and the Christos were also embodiments.”
“Only in a few pages does Mr. Viereck succeed in producing the effects he strives for; the rest of it is crude and commonplace.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 200w. |
“The difficulty with Mr. Viereck’s treatment lies in purely melodramatic conception of character, an utter lack of subtlety in dealing with the whole situation, and a distressing congestion of large words.”
| − | Nation. 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 350w. |
“Except in the final scene, where its extravagances are in keeping with the subject, the style of the book is quite impossible. ‘The house of the vampire’ may be described as a tale of horror, keyed from the first word to the last in the highest pitch of tragic emotion.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 400w. |
Viereck, George Sylvester. Nineveh and other poems. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–17378.
“In this volume of verse the author’s theme is, for the most part, the anguish and the joy of adolescence. Some of the best poems are glorious riots of purely sensuous passion; others are despairing cries to some solidity of stay amid the turbulence of sense. The poet and the immoralist are at war in many verses, but the poems are sane because the poet is the stronger.” (Bookm.)
“We have spoken unkindly of Mr. Viereck, because we feel that he has fine poetic possibilities; and all his self-confidence fails to convince us that he is not wrong in adopting the now too conventional part of defiant Titan.”
| − + | Acad. 73: 58. O 26, ’07. 230w. |
“Perhaps no poet now writing is more proficient in the loud symphonious lay, and the quality of Mr. Viereck’s vigorous, if unhealthy imagination is of a sort to be expressed very perfectly in his reverberating verse.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + − | Atlan. 100: 845. D. ’07. 500w. |
“Mr. Viereck owes something to the world. His recent volume proves him to be indisputably a poet. It also indicates the lines along which he must develop in order to fulfil his promise. As yet his genius is greater than his talent. His verse has spontaneity, but not perfected art; and it behooves him to study carefully the master poets and grow to greater sureness of technical effect.” Clayton Hamilton.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 426. Je. ’07. 520w. |
“Despite the note of sensuality only too apparent in these compositions, they are remarkable productions, and we trust that their licentiousness illustrates what will prove but a passing phase of their writer’s expression.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Ind. 43: 91. Ag. 16, ’07. 600w. |
“At times he is amazingly clever; tho, like clever children, he pays up for it by periods of dire fatuity.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 250w. |
“With the exception of the amazing cleverness of this youthful verse there seems little promise in it.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 30w. |
“Even Mr. Viereck’s sustained energy of phrase and the fine orotund music of his verse hardly avails against this vicious monotony of subject. The subject, however, is fortunately taken not so much from life as from a rather narrow segment of poetic literature.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 330w. |
Reviewed by Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w. |
“He speaks in spontaneous and eloquent verse, melodious with the memories of the recurrent haunting harmonies of Poe, the sea-surge of Mr. Swinburne and the plangent tenderness of Oscar Wilde, and ringing also with a certain hammer-blow of passion which is entirely his own. He speaks with authority of the half-sensuous and half-religious hysteria of adolescence. Mr. Viereck is as yet only a possibility; but his possibility is glorious.” Clayton Hamilton.
| + + − | No. Am. 185: 556. Jl. 5, ’07. 1180w. |
“It will never set the poetic world on fire by its originality, for the writer has but a note and a half at best, and follows closely certain poets whom he obviously admires with extravagance. Mr. Viereck has as yet accomplished only a fair imitation of the real thing. A near-poet of twenty-two has still so much to learn.”
| − | Putnam’s. 3: 111. O. ’07. 220w. |
“He has not developed the ‘rhythmic effects’ he talks of by any device more essential than ingenious systems of indentation, which gives the printed pages a resemblance to parts of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or a long-division sum. Similar affectations spoil his sense as well as his form.”
| − + | Sat. R. 104. sup. 5. S. 28, ’07. 280w. |
* Villani, Giovanni. [Villani’s chronicle; being selections from the first nine books of the Chronicle Florentine of Giovanni Villani]; tr. by Rose E. Selfe and ed. by P. H. Wicksteed. *$2. Dutton.
“Within the compass of twenty pages the author retells the tangled tale of Florentine political history, from the days of the Countess Matilda to those of Cosmo Pater Patriæ, handling his subject in a fashion which leaves the reader better informed as to the real forces at work throughout that troubled period than the perusal of many bulky volumes is likely to make him.” (Ath.) It throws light upon the historical allusions in the “Divine comedy.”
“Of the translation we can speak in terms of high praise, not only for its fidelity, but also for the admirable manner in which it reflects the garrulous grace and lively movement of the original.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 604. My. 18. 500w. |
“Like Rambaldi’s Latin commentary on the ‘Commedia,’ Villani’s chronicle is a perfect mine of information in regard to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Tuscany, although less personal and not so anecdotal as the work of the Imola professor.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 310w. |
“Mr. Wicksteed’s introduction shows all the qualities that might be expected from one of the most widely read of English Dantists. In a few pages he manages to throw a really searching light on the confused struggle of Florentine politics.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 230w. |
Villari, Luigi. Fire and sword in the Caucasus. **$3.50. Pott.
7–7543.
“A vivid picture of the revolutionary outbreaks and the racial strife that have made many a scene of horror in parts of the Caucasus within the past year and a half.”—N. Y. Times.
“By his new book he will add considerably to his reputation.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 8. Jl. 7, ’06. 1140w. |
“Mr. Villari tells his story well. In his present volume the author makes few mistakes.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 1: 699. Je. 9. 1050w. |
“We have no hesitation in commending it to all who seek a competent guide with whose assistance they may penetrate behind the veil of silence or exaggeration which hides or distorts the truth as regards the situation in Russia.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 230. Je. 29, ’06. 530w. |
“The numerous reproductions of the author’s photographs are interesting, and add substantially to his narrative.”
| + | Nation. 83: 488. D. 6, ’06. 650w. |
“It is of permanent value because it is a careful study of the chief races living there—a study that was necessary to make some aspects of the political situation clear.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 570w. |
“Unlike the generality of writers upon Russia in the present day, however, he displays no animus against either government or people.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 303. D. 8, ’06. 520w. |
“He has a facile pen, and is a master of the special correspondent’s variety of the ‘graphic’ style.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 430w. |
Vincent, Charles John, ed. Fifty Shakespeare songs. (Musicians’ lib., v. 21.) $2.50. Ditson.
6–37861.
The Shakespeare songs to which this volume is devoted are grouped as follows: Songs mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays, Songs possibly sung in the original performances, Settings composed since Shakespeare’s time to the middle of the nineteenth century, and Recent settings.
“Many of the selections are practically unobtainable for the average seeker in any other form.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 214. N. ’06. |
“The editor has furnished excellent historical and critical notes on the songs.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 235. F. 23. 140w. | |
| Dial. 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 110w. | ||
| Nation. 83: 491. D. 6, ’06. 140w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 40w. |
Vincent, James Edmund. Highways and byways in Berkshire; with il. by Frederick L. Griggs. $2. Macmillan.
W 7–45.
Nothing of guide book order and inclusiveness is found in Mr. Vincent’s description. He goes out of the beaten path, in fact, and “the reader is introduced to many an old country house not magnificent enough to be mentioned in the ordinary guide-books, but adorned each with its own legends and private tragedies.” (Nation.)
“His style is weighed down with mannerisms; and there is in the book too much about Mr. Vincent, with the result that Berkshire often comes off second best.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 260w. |
“A volume of less than five hundred pages is bound to be an imperfect record of a county; but Mr. Vincent, who is an engaging guide as far as he goes, leaves too large a tract of the county out of his itinerary for this commonplace to do him service.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 347. Mr. 23. 710w. |
“Berkshire has found in her new biographer a most sympathetic interpreter, one who knows how to read the meaning of the most trivial everyday incidents, and to trace their connection with those of days gone by.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 365. F. ’07. 200w. |
“The work is well designed for those who wish to know, but do not already know, this country of meadows and downs and dapper woods. But the Berkshire man will miss much, especially he who has had commerce with the southern and eastern sides.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1030w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 410w. |
“The style of production, the illustrations and the spirit of the author will together insure the volume a wide popularity. Mr. Vincent is never dull.”
| + + | Nature. 75: 149. D. 13, ’06. 150w. |
“The illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs are quaintly attractive, and the artist has caught the spirit of the text in a most happy manner.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 130w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w. |
“On the whole he is a good and pleasant general guide, and his book one of the most thorough and interesting in the series.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w. |
“Mr. Vincent informs all that he sees with his own joyous temper, and gossips of men and things in a spirit so frank and candid, yet so free withal from malice, that he would be a dull soul indeed who failed to catch the infection of his gaiety. Besides the light-heartedness to which he confesses in his preface, the writer brings to his task, literary acquirements of no mean order, a genuine love for the county of his adoption, an eye for the larger effects of nature, and a happy ease of style.”
| + | Spec. 98: 502. Mr. 30, ’07. 1640w. |
Vinci, Leonardo da. [Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci], with critical introd. by Charles L. Hind. (Drawings of great masters.) *$2.50. Scribner.
“As Mr. Hind remarks, Leonardo da Vinci found in drawing the readiest and most stimulating way of self-expression. One welcomes with pleasure the extremely clear and fine renderings of some fifty of the drawings in this volume. The critical study by Mr. Hind is discriminating and sympathetic.”—Outlook.
| + | Dial. 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 250w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 50w. | ||
| Outlook. 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 30w. |
Vinci, Leonardo da. [Note-books]; arranged and rendered into English, with introd. by Edward McCurdy. *$3.50. Scribner.
7–15913.
An anthology of Leonardo’s work in literature comprising the record and results of his studies in the theory of art together with fragments of literary composition of a philosophical or imaginative character, and much personal and biographical matter.
“His translation is always lucid, when the original permits it to be so.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 1630w. |
“We have observed only two errors In Mr. McCurdy’s contributions to the volume.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 67. Ja. 17. ’07. 610w. |
“The collection of the great Italian’s notes should be put into the hands of every young artist—indeed, one might say of every man.”
| + + | Outlook. 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 210w. | |
| + | Spec. 98: 92. Ja. 19, ’07. 1530w. |
* Voorhees, Irving Wilson. Teachings of Thomas Henry Huxley. $1. Broadway pub.
7–30873.
“After recounting with brevity the influences of heredity and environment which acted upon Huxley’s early years, the author sets forth and discusses his teachings in biology, theology, education, morals, and psychology, and concerning individual rights and the gospel of work. He believes that two main forces were at work throughout Huxley’s life—‘the one that of the scientific investigator, full of enthusiasm, dominant, persevering, toiling arduously day by day.... The other that of the polemical philosopher, fond of arguments, combative ... fighting ... partly for victory, partly for the upholding of what he deemed a principle of ideal.’”—N. Y. Times.
“A sympathetic interpretation.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 60w. |
“The book is written impartially, recognizing fully the philosopher’s great services to scientific advancement, but discussing freely the flaws in his theories.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 170w. |
Vries, Hugo de. Plant breeding: comments on the experiments of Nilsson and Burbank. *$1.50. Open ct.
7–19453.
“After a general survey of the historical material, Professor De Vries examines the work of these two men in the light of recent discoveries in heredity and hybridization, and uses their results to test the Darwinian theory and the mutation theory, and finds all the data in favor of the latter.”—Lit. D.
“Can be heartily commended to the practical farmer and gardener as well as to the scientific student.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 198. N. ’07. |
“The book is one that can be confidently commended to the notice of the practical plantbreeder as well as to the students of science.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 242. Ag. 31. 1730w. |
“It is a compact and popular presentation of the recent wonderful development in methods of plant breeding, and a clear statement of the bearing of all this vast experimental work upon the author’s theory of mutation. Altogether, the book is full of pregnant suggestions, and should do much toward clearing up some of the evident confusion concerning the views of the distinguished author.” J. M. C.
| + + | Bot. Gaz. 44: 47. Ag. ’07. 2250w. |
“The volume is clearly and pleasantly written, and as the forms of plant-life discussed are those in which there is much general interest,—such as wheat, oats, corn, and various fruits,—it may be read with satisfaction and profit by all.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 320w. |
“The chapter on the association of characters—correlation biologists usually call it—is simply rich in its array of facts and its suggestiveness, and the keen analysis of the methods and results of plant amelioration is equally admirable. The whole book is perfectly comprehensible by the general reader.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 220w. |
“This book is one of the most valuable contributions to botanical science that has appeared in recent years. It will be widely read because of the clear scientific discussion of the principles that underlie plant breeding.” Carlton C. Curtis.
| + + + | J. Philos. 4: 606. O. 24, ’07. 2260w. |
“The book is full of valuable information for the live farmer, the gardener, nurseryman, or seed-grower, as well as for the student of evolution and the lover of plants.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 270w. |
“The volume can be heartily recommended as an interesting and safe guide to amateurs who desire to examine more closely the variant plants around them.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 760w. |
Vries, Hugo de. Species and varieties; their origin by imitations; ed. by Daniel T. MacDougal. 2d ed. *$5. Open ct.
“Very few changes are to be seen in the new edition.... The few errors of the first edition have been corrected, and some alterations have been made for the sake of clearness.”—Bot. Gaz.
“The most important new feature is an explanatory note on variations in ‘Oenothera biennis.’” H. C. Cowles.
| + + | Bot. Gaz. 43: 140. F. ’07. 150w. |
“All the misprints that we pointed out in our review of the first edition have been corrected; and even our suggestion that uniformity in the termination of the adjectives derived from such terms as physiology was desirable has been adopted. But, curiously enough, the uniformity is intra-verbal and not inter-verbal. There is no need to commend the book. It is indispensable, inasmuch as it is the only available account of Prof, de Vries’s work in English, so far.” A. D. D.
| + + − | Nature. 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 230w. |