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[*] Cabell, James Branch. Line of love. [†]$2. Harper.
“The tales have been culled from French ‘romans’ and dull English chronicles, and the mediaeval atmosphere has been preserved by the quaintly, though never obscurely, archaic style of narration. Ten pictures and cover vignette by Mr. Pyle, richly colored and ... perfectly in keeping with the literary atmosphere, together with conventional floral borders in color, make a singularly attractive giftbook.”—Dial.
| * | + + | Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 130w. |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “Is worthy of its predecessors.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “They are written in the richly colored, tapestry-like style. Unfortunately in the present volume the tapestry gives the impression of being machine-made and a little threadbare.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “A collection, told in exquisite poetical way, of some of the most picturesque but less-known love-stories of history.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32 :752. D. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] Cadogan, Edward. Makers of modern history: three types: Louis Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck. [**]$2.25. Pott.
“The struggle between conservative principles and revolutionary forces constitutes the framework of the history of the nineteenth century. With this great movement are closely associated the names of Louis Napoleon, Cavour, and Bismarck, the subjects of the three essays included in this volume.... It is on the epoch making, the history making, actions of these men that emphasis is here laid.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The volume contains no new materials, but it summarises the careers of the three Machiavellian personages in question clearly and sensibly.” W. M.
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 615. Jl. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “In general, however, these essays may safely be recommended to the unprofessional reader, who will be dull indeed if he does not discover in them the absorbing interest of the three dissimilar men whom they describe.”
| + | Nation. 81: 492. D. 14, ‘05. 680w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “The faults of the book are greatly those of immaturity, and the writer may possibly in time produce historical work of permanent value.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 311. S. 2, ‘05. 860w. |
[*] “The author’s statements and interpretations of facts are clear, vigorous, original, and sufficiently tinctured with philosophy, and he never slides into what Mommsen called the ‘dressing-gown’ style of narrative.”
| + | Spec. 95: 123. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1820w. |
Caffin, Charles Henry. How to study pictures. [**]$2. Century.
Mr. Caffin unfolds the gradual progress of art from its liberation from the shackles of Byzantine traditions down to the impressionist school of Monet. A comparative method of study is employed, contrasting the motives and methods of two artists in each of the twenty-eight chapters, sometimes of the same school, often of different schools. And the author maintains that the first necessity for the proper seeing of a picture is to try and see it thru the eyes of the artist who painted it, that it is an understanding of the individuality of the artist’s experience and feeling that enables one to be an intelligent judge of merit.
| + + | Critic. 47: 474. N. ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “While possessing a simplicity of method which conveys to the average reader a general insight into pictorial methods and motives, the author’s work is characterized by elegance of style, grace of feeling, and elevation of thought; it will do as much good in the direct service of art as any treatise published in recent years.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 311. N. 16, ‘05. 400w. |
[*] “Mr. Caffin’s book was needed and will be found to contain much information not easily obtainable elsewhere.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1375. D. 14, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “Except for this driving ideas in double harness, the material and judgments are not unfamiliar; but the task is done thoroughly and many things are happily put.”
| + + — | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 190w. |
“What Mr. Caffin has to say is always worth reading, for he puts each painter’s character forcibly before one, and manages to be entertaining as well as instructive.” Charles de Kay.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 570w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 260w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “It is the one most completely adapted to the needs of the person entirely ignorant of art, its history and its development.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 665. N. 18, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32 :640. N. ‘05. 90w. |
Caffyn, Mrs. Kathleen Mannington (Iota, pseud.). Patricia, a mother. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
Patricia, whose husband, a hypocrite and a humbug, leaves both his son and his estate to the guardianship of his mother, goes to live with her mother-in-law and sees her son slowly estranged from her because she will not speak and blacken the character of her dead husband to the mother who reveres his memory. There is much of gossipy country society and in the end an old family servant sets things right and Patricia comes to her own.
“A most moving story, full of feeling and insight into human character. Certainly it is a story that ‘counts.’”
| + + | Acad. 68: 397. Ap. 8, ‘05. 650w. |
“The cleverness of the novel lies not so much in its plot as in the graphic characterization. It is a piece of work of which the author has reason to be proud.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 492. Ap. 15. 300w. |
[*] “Her story makes a thoroughly interesting book.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
“There is considerable strength in this novel. There is some lack of artistic proportion in the general working out of the story.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 100w. |
Cahan, Abraham. White terror and the red. $1.50. Barnes.
A story of inner Russia by a member of the Revolutionary party who was forced to flee from Russia to avoid Siberia. The plot concerns the tragic events of a quarter of a century ago, when czar Alexander II. was assassinated by the Nihilists and an antisemitic outbreak followed, but it is the Russia of to-day that we see, drawn from a practical knowledge of the subject. The hero of the book is a Russian prince who steps out of his class to uphold the cause of the people, marries a Hebrew woman and finally suffers imprisonment.
“The intelligent reader will find in it much sound workmanship and no little insight into the psychology of the Russian intellectuals.”
| + | Acad. 68: 472. Ap. 29, ‘05. 430w. |
“But the style has a curious impenetrability about it, which reminds one of a bad translation.”
| — + | Ath. 1905, 1: 588. My. 13. 240w. |
“In ‘The white terror and the red’ we have something far more interesting than a narrative of sensational episodes, or a gallery of interesting types, more valuable than a vivid picture of melodramatic history in the making. We have a work of art of the highest class. As a guide to the full understanding of Russian political and social life it is probably the most valuable ever written in the English language.” Edwin Lefevre.
| + + + | Bookm. 21: 186. Ap. ‘05. 1380w. |
“It is a sound, firm piece of work; and it shows an easy familiarity with the subject and with the method. As an addition to its historical importance, a sweet, fully realized piece of fiction.” Hutchins Hapgood.
| + + | Critic. 46: 560. Je. ‘05. 860w. |
“This book gives one a more realistic and vivid impression of the Terrorist movement than any we have read. It has no definite plot or literary coherency, but consists of a series of sketches written in an unexaggerated and impassioned style.”
| + + | Ind. 58 :502. Mr. 2, ‘05. 250w. |
“To those who seek an education on underground’ Russia Mr. Cahan’s latest novel can be recommended.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 258. Ap. 22, ‘05. 450w. |
“A well-constructed, forceful, and ably sustained piece of work. Has given us a picture of Russian conditions which we may accept as essentially correct. Of no small merit from the purely literary standpoint.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 140w. |
“It would be more exact to characterize this book as a study of Russian social conditions than as a work of fiction, although there is a story as a whole.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 430. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w. |
“The book is written in an admirable style,—keen, quiet, full of reserve power. The book is a valuable contribution to present-day literature, considered either as fact or fiction. It tells with judgment, with conviction, with emotion, the sad story of a sad people.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 784. My. ‘05. 380w. |
“A book that impresses one with its power, competence, and fairness. It is a profoundly interesting sociological document that the public may thank Mr. Cahan.”
| + + — | R. of Rs. 31 :763. Je. ‘05. 90w. |
Caine, Hall. Prodigal son. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
This latest of Hall Caine’s novels has all the strength and the heart sadness found in his other works. Iceland is the home of the tragic story and its characters are the simple folk of the Northland: the factor and his daughters, Thora and Helga; the old governor and his sons, Magnus and Oscar. Magnus resigns Thora, his promised wife, to Oscar, his more fascinating brother, bearing the odium of the broken betrothal that they may be happy. Helga, however, breaks in upon this dearly bought joy, and wins Oscar’s love. The sad death of Thora and the wanderings of the exiled Oscar are strong and dramatic, and his final return home as the renowned Icelandic composer has not the joy of that first prodigal’s home coming, but holds the full sorrow of the years.
“The story shows a confused sense of moral values, and fairly reeks with cheap sentimentality. Its style is common and its situations theatrical. Altogether it is a poorer performance than was to be expected even from the author of ‘The Christian’ and ‘The eternal city.’” W. M. Payne.
| — — | Dial. 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 180w. |
“Though the plot is horribly tragic, there are no melodramatic climaxes to detract from the dignity of the style in which it is written. There are exquisite touches of pathos in the descriptions, and in the delineation of character the author shows a keen knowledge of the various phases of human nature. It is intensely emotional, and certainly the strongest book that Hall Caine has ever written.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 499. Mr. ‘05. 450w. |
“Here, as in all his books, Mr. Caine has the power of wringing his readers’ vitals, yet not the power of convincing them that he is working out a tragedy rather than a melodrama.”
| + + — | R. of Rs. 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 230w. |
Caird, Edward. Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers. [*]$4.25. Macmillan.
This second course of Gifford lectures is closely allied to the first, delivered ten years earlier at the university of St. Andrew’s, which treated of the evolution of religion. This course treats of the evolution of theology in its first great period. There are lectures upon the relation of reason to religious faith; the three stages in the evolution of theology; the precursors of Plato, the two distinctive tendencies of Plato; Aristotle; post-Aristotelian philosophies; Stoicism; Neo-Platonism; Philo; and Plotinus.
“The theology of the earlier Greek philosophers seems inadequately treated. There is at times a tendency to interpretation which seems formal and doctrinaire. The book is entirely free from pedantry. Nevertheless statements occasionally occur which stand much in need of a reference to authorities. It may be questioned whether the author’s horror of mysticism does not lead him into misunderstanding and exaggeration. The advantages of a point of view steadily maintained throughout a discussion ... gives lucidity to the exposition and is a constant challenge to investigation of its adequacy.” H. N. Gardiner.
| + + — | Philos. R. 14: 204. Mr. ‘05. 3560w. |
Cajori, Florian. Introduction to the modern theory of equations. [*]$1.75. Macmillan.
“The present work falls into two nearly equal parts. The first 103 pages treat the following topics: Elementary properties and transformation of equations; location and approximation of the roots of numerical equations; solutions of cubic, biquadratic, binomial and reciprocal equations; the linear and Tschirnhausian transformations. The remaining 120 pages are devoted to substitution groups and Galois’s theory of the solution of algebraic equations.”—Science.
“The work has much that may be praised; in particular, its very moderate size, its choice of topics, copious references for further study, and a large number of illustrative examples and problems. Lack of explicitness is manifest.” James Pierpont.
| + + — | Science, n.s. 21: 101. Ja. 20, ‘05. 850w. |
Caldecott, Alfred, and Mackintosh, H. R., eds. Selections from the literature of theism. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
Professor Caldecott has edited selections from Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, the Cambridge Platonists, Berkeley, Cousin, Comte, and Janet. While the sections under Professor Caldecott’s care include Kant, Schleiermacher, Mansel, and Latze. There are full notes and references.
“A well-selected collection.”
| + + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 401. Ap. ‘05. 30w. |
“The plan of this book, therefore, is excellent, and the careful notes and introductions show that it has been well carried out.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 616. Mr. 16, ‘05. 150w. |
“The editing of these selections fell into excellent hands. The misgivings of the editors as to the wisdom of the selections made are quite needless, for nothing better could have been desired. The notes and biographical notices are very fine—fresh, scholarly, interesting. Though I have deemed it necessary to say some things of more or less critical character, yet, taking the work as a whole, it is a welcome and highly useful addition to theological literature.” James Lindsay.
| + + — | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 247. Ja. ‘05. 1610w. (Survey of contents.) |
Caldecott, Rev. W. Shaw. Tabernacle—its history and structure; with a preface by Rev. A. H. Sayce. [*]$1.75 Union press.
A study of the Old Testament itself has furnished the material for this unconventional, original, and withal, scholarly work on the history and architecture of the tabernacle. The book is divided into four parts: The history of the tabernacle. The triple cubit of Babylonia, The triple cubit of Babylonia as used in the construction of the tabernacle. The triple cubit in Babylonia and in Palestine. The index is complete and the illustrations are good.
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 139. Jl. 29. 460w. |
Caldwell, Otis William. Handbook of plant morphology. [*]$1. Holt.
This volume is based upon the handbook of plant dissection, by J. C. Arthur, Chas. R. Barnes, and John M. Coulter, which Prof. Caldwell has revised, rewritten and extended in order to bring it down to date. There is a preliminary chapter for both teacher and students upon the use and equipment of the laboratory. Eight lessons are devoted to the cyanophyceæ and chlorophyceæ, five to the fungi and lichens, five to the bryophyta, three to the pteridophyta and five to the spermatophyta.
“The types selected illustrate very well the probable steps in the evolution of plants, and the discussions are exceedingly clear and suggestive.” R. B. Wylie.
| + + | Bot. G. 39: 424. Je. ‘05. 260w. |
“A preliminary chapter on the use and equipment of the laboratory contains some very practical suggestions for the teacher and student. The comparison of the morphological characters that appear in the concise annotations attached to each exercise materially enhances the value of the book.” Carlton C. Curtis.
| + + | Educ. R. 29: 425. Ap. ‘05. 270w. |
“It is an excellent guide for study of plant structures in a college course.”
| + | Ind. 59: 270. Ag. 3, ‘05. 40w. |
Calhoun, Alice J. When yellow jasmine blooms. $1.50. Neale.
A story of the southland, with a heroine of the old-fashioned type, of rare beauty and unyielding pride, and a hero who, when he is not trusted without explanation, seeks to hide his wounded heart at the ends of the earth. By the aid of an opal which foretells disaster, and a railroad wreck, all is happily ended “when the jasmine blooms.”
Calkins, Ernest Elmo, and Holden, Ralph. Modern advertising. [**]$1.50. Appleton.
“‘According to various estimates the amount of money spent to-day in America for advertising ranges from six hundred to one thousand million dollars a year.’ This statement gives some measure of the important part which the art of advertising has come to play in the methods of business in the twentieth century. This volume gives an interesting account of the methods of modern advertising, and attempts to formulate some of the principles which underlie successful publicity.” (Outlook.) The volume belongs to Appleton’s “Business series.”
“Is overloaded with a special plea for the general advertising agent. Yet the authors have their subject practically and thoroughly in hand, and supply an illustrated manual that will be of value particularly to the business man who is planning a campaign of publicity.”
| + + — | Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 60w. |
“It is as interesting to read as a novel.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1074. My. 11, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + — | Nation. 80: 340. Ap. 27, ‘05. 540w. |
“Though the authors have not succeeded in supplying a concise and altogether satisfactory definition of their subject, they have certainly produced a very readable book.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 610w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 80w. |
“The book is written primarily for the general reader, and as such it will be found to be a most interesting exposition of the subject of advertising and sales-management.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32:128. Jl. ‘05. 390w. |
[*] Calkins, Harvey Reeves. Mind of Methodism. [*]25c. Meth. bk.
“This little tractate was written by a British Wesleyan missionary for his people in India. It is an excellent description of a catholic Christianity that in general is not particularly distinctive of Methodism from other evangelical ‘isms’ as known among us.”—Outlook.
| * | + | Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 40w. |
Call, Annie Payson. [Freedom of life.] [**]$1.25. Little.
“Interior freedom rests upon the principle of non-resistance to all things painful to our natural love of self,” sums the trend of Miss Call’s arguments. Many of the chapters contain comfort, and good advice, and are the result of sure insight: among them are ‘Self-consciousness,’ ‘Human sympathy,’ ‘Dependence and independence,’ ‘Self-control,’ ‘About Christmas,’ and ‘To mothers.’
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
| + — | Critic. 47: 248. S. ‘05. 80w. |
“Contains sound logic—and some sophistries; much good sense—and just a little nonsense. Although we have entered a demurrer in regard to certain parts of the book, be it understood that we criticise only the universal application which the author makes of her fundamental principle of non-resistance. The excellent little volume should be widely and thoughtfully read; it is written in a style at once succinct and limpid, and it holds much truth upon which it is safe to build.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 660w. |
“‘The freedom of life’ is directed not so much against the bondage of doing wrong as against the bondage of doing right in the wrong way.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 200w. |
“It is a pity that a book always excellent in intention and usually in performance should be marred by such absurdities.”
| + — | Reader. 6: 591. O. ‘05. 390w. |
Call, Annie Payson. [Man of the world.] [**]50c. Little.
The man of the world as Miss Call characterizes him is one who must know evil in order to renounce it, must be capable of understanding all phases of life, must recognize the beauty and power of the things of this world as servants to our highest law, must be in the process of gaining freedom from the world’s evils, must be a citizen of the world sustained by the mind and heart of God.
[*] “A little book, but sound and sensible as its larger predecessors.”
| + | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 50w. |
Calthrop, Samuel R. God and his world: sermons on evolution. [*]$1.25. Ellis.
Eight scholarly sermons by this venerable Unitarian minister which set forth the doctrine of evolution and “fill that idea full of God.” The sermons are entitled: God, Religion and evolution, One Lord and His name One, Jesus and the evolution of the kingdom of God, Experimental theology and experimental religion, Fate and freedom, God minus man and God in man, and Immortality.
“Dr. Calthrop is a theist, and more thoroughgoing than very many theists. He is also a Christian theist, and distinct as such from many who share with him the name of Unitarian.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 300w. |
Calvert, Albert F. Life of Cervantes. $1.25. Lane.
This story of Cervantes’ romantic life and adventures was written for the tercentenary of the publication of the first part of “Don Quixote.” The illustrations of the first edition of that book are reproduced, and there is a bibliography, a list of proverbs traceable to Cervantes, and a table giving the editions of “Don Quixote” as brought out in various countries.
“Is a little too obviously written for the tercentenary.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 99. F. 4, ‘05. 130w. |
“Mr. Calvert is evidently unacquainted with the recent literature of his subject.”
| — — | Ath. 1905, 1: 366. Mr. 25. 500w. |
“The first brief and satisfactory monograph to be written in English. This narrative is compact and well considered.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + + | Atlan. 96: 280. Ag. ‘05. 120w. |
“With some simulation of scholarship, however, this ‘Life’ lacks its essence.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 355. My. 4, ‘05. 580w. |
“It contains a good short account of Cervantes’s adventurous and romantic life, about the only one of convenient size and real fullness known to us.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 296. Ap. 15, ‘05. 450w. |
Reviewed by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.
| * | — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 3. O. 14, ‘05. 2650w. |
[*] “The ‘Life’ is sufficiently well done.”
| + | Spec. 95: sup. 798. N. 18, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] Calvert, Albert Frederick. Moorish remains in Spain. [**]$15. Lane.
A brief record of the Arabian conquest and occupation of the peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration in the cities of Cordova, Seville, and Toledo, illustrated with eighty-four colored plates and over four hundred black and white illustrations and diagrams. A series of two hundred designs to illustrate the composition and development of various schemes of Arabian ornament, will be found of especial interest to students of Moorish art.
| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 36. D. ‘05. 280w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. [**]$4. Macmillan.
A comprehensive history of modern times which will be complete in twelve volumes. Two volumes will be published each year, appearing in two series beginning respectively with vol. I and vol. VII. Volumes I, II, III, VII, and VIII have already appeared. The series will consist of—vol. I, The renaissance; vol. II, The reformation; vol. III, Wars of religion; vol. IV, The thirty years war; vol. V, Bourbons and Stuarts; vol. VI, The eighteenth century; vol. VII, The United States; vol. VIII, The French revolution; vol. IX, Napoleon; vol. X, Restoration and reaction; vol. XI, The growth of nationalities; vol. XII, The latest age.
(Vol. II). “The present volume is quite up to the standard of the first: it has the same virtues and the same defects. In only two of the chapters, the first and the last, are those results of clarification which come from the highest kind of specialization really clear.” J. H. Robinson.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10:382. Ja. ‘05. 1420w. |
(Vol. VIII). “Whatever doubts remain concerning the construction of the book, it should be welcome for the wealth of information it supplies and for the impartial review of fiercely-debated questions which it affords. As a rule it exhibits the tested results of sound scholarship.” A. L. P. Denis.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 403. Ja. ‘05. 1770w. |
“The length of some of the chapters and paragraphs is somewhat disproportionate to the importance of the matters of which they treat. And there are some rather startling omissions. There are moreover a considerable number of misprints and minor errors. Despite all these minor defects, however, there can be no doubt that the third volume of this great work is in every way worthy of the high standard set by the earlier ones.” Roger Bigelow Merriman.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 145. O. ‘05. 960w. (Review of v. 3.) |
(Vol. VIII). “No single-volume history of the French revolution in the English language, and possibly none in the French, contains so much and such well-organized information as that embodied within the compass of this book. In breadth and accuracy of treatment, in the opinion of the reviewer, it is superior to any that has yet appeared in the series.” James Westfall Thompson.
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 139. Ja. ‘05. 2110w. |
“Presents too much accidental selection and grouping. The paramount excellence of some of the chapters is so evident that the weakness of the others is made especially evident.” Wm. E. Lingelbach.
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 598. My. ‘05. 1010w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“The index of the present volume is, we are glad to see, a great improvement on its predecessors.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 583. My. 13. 2520w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“With one exception, beyond painstaking fidelity and unflagging industry which gathers in every scrap of fact that can be crammed into the work, there is nothing remarkable in the treatment of the subjects. And the devotion to detail seems to have been carried too far.”
| + + — | Cath. World. 82: 91. O. ‘05. 3900w. (Review of v. 8.) |
“There is a certain lack of homogeneity, produced partly by divergencies both in opinion and in style, and partly by repetitions due to the treatment of a single subject in its different phases. A graver objection is the absence, both from this volume and from that devoted to ‘The reformation,’ of a sufficient statement of the Roman Catholic side. The work would be indispensable to students for its bibliographies alone.”
| + + — | Critic. 46: 278. Mr. ‘05. 1280w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Reviewed by E. D. Adams.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 165. S. 16, ‘05. 1140w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Reviews Vols. III and VIII.
| Ind. 58: 669. Mr. 23, ‘05. 700w. |
[*] “A fine, scholarly catalog of events, with little sense for literary form or emphasis. It is learned and fair, but cold and unsympathetic; useful as an encyclopedia, and having little dramatic interest.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“It is generally accurate; it is critical; it is clearly written; it is dispassionate. The attitude of pure science is worthily maintained.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 314. Ap. 20, ‘05. 2930w. (Review of Vol. III.) |
“It is everywhere conscientious and never hurried.” Christian Gauss.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 209. Ap. 8, ‘05. 4100w. (Detailed review of Vol. III.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 250w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Cambridge natural history. [*]$4.25. Macmillan.
This new work upon systematic ichthyology, “in line with modern concepts respecting the vertebrates or chordates, includes not only the lower types of the vertebrates of the old naturalists, but also the hemichordata and urochordata or tunicates. The old class of fishes ... is replaced by the three classes for more than a generation past adopted in America, that is, the ‘cephalochordata’ (leptocardians), the ‘cyclostomata’ (marsipobranchs) and the ‘pisces’ (teleostomes or fishes proper).” (Science.)
“As a whole the work is good; it ranks higher than any of its forerunners on the same lines of comprehensiveness and in the general quality of its contents. The third section ... is most open to attack; in places it bristles with vexatious little errors, indicating lack of acquaintance with the subject, and shaking one’s faith in portions better treated.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 423. My. 25, ‘05. 1140w. |
“Surveyed as a whole, both authors and editors alike are to be congratulated on having produced a work of sterling merit. The psychologist and the student of evolution will find in these chapters of Mr. Boulenger a perfect mine of information.”
| + + + | Nature. 72: 103. Je. 1, ‘05. 1990w. |
“We shall be grateful, also for the new light which the co-authors of the ‘Cambridge natural history,’ and especially Dr. Boulenger, have thrown and will continue to throw on mooted questions of morphology and classification.” Theo. Gill.
| + + — | Science, n.s. 21: 653. Ap. 28, ‘05. 5080w. |
Campbell, Gerald, comp. See Fitz Gerald, Edward and Pamela. Letters and portraits of.
Campbell, Reginald John. Sermons addressed to individuals. [**]$1.25. Armstrong.
As the author states in his preface, these eighteen sermons “are not literature, they are extempore speech.” Each one was suggested by some life story or called out by some confession, or some cry for pastoral aid, and to the text of each sermon is prefixed a short account of the particular case which it was designed to meet. Mr. Campbell is an evangelist, and minister of the City Temple of London.
“But these occasional sermons are not sermons for an occasion merely. Their appeal is a very wide one.”
| + + | Bib. World. 26: 154. Ag. ‘05. 130w. | |
| Ind. 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 80w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 200w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 220w. |
Candler, Edmund. [The unveiling of Lhasa.] $5. Longmans.
An account of the Lhasa mission from the standpoint of the correspondent of the Daily Mail. He relates the predetermining causes, the diplomatic and historical matters bearing upon the expedition, and a detailed account of the actual journey and of the encounters with the Tibetans. A vivid description of Lhasa, of the monasteries, and of the people follows.
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 147. F. 4, 2320w. |
“A series of clear-cut sketches depicting the every-day life of the people ... form the most striking feature of that portion of Mr. Candler’s book given over to Lhasa.” H. Addington Bruce.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 305. My. ‘05. 490w. |
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
| + | Dial. 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 490w. |
“There is in his pages a breezy personal element, which lends the charm of reality to all he sees and does. His descriptions are brief, and his summing up of the results of the mission clear and forcible.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 273. Ap. 6, ‘05. 440w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 116. F. 25, ‘05. 1080w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 427. Mr. 18, ‘05. 670w. |
“A book of remarkable interest. The manner of writing is as admirable as the matter. Other books on the expedition may be written fuller of detailed information, but none can be more thoroughly imbued with its romance. One of Mr. Candler’s most notable gifts is a power of vivid, sympathetic delineation of scenery.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 178. F. 4. ‘05. 1260w. |
Canfield, Dorothea Frances. Corneille and Racine in England: a study of the English translations of the two Corneilles and Racine with special reference to their presentation on the English stage. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
“A valuable feature of this book is the presentation of well-chosen excerpts from the various translations, illustrative of the author’s critical comments. These selections are accompanied by the original text.... Pleasantly suggestive sketches are given of the writers who figured as translators from the time of Charles I to the earlier years of the nineteenth century. Among a crowd of obscure hacks may be noted the names of Katharine Philips (the ‘Matchless Orinda’), Waller, Cotton, Otway, Steele, Young (of the ‘Night thoughts’), and Colley Cibber.”—N. Y. Times.
“A quiet, high-bred humor and a marked felicity of phrase brighten many of these pages.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 250. F. ‘05. 50w. |
Canfield, William Walker. Legends of the Iroquois: told by the Cornplanter. [**]$1.50. Wessels.
The legends and bits of folk-lore here reproduced were told by the Seneca chief, the Cornplanter, to a pioneer of western New York, whose note-book with the valuable jottings came into the possession of Mr. Canfield. Enough of the wild poetry, religious undertone, and imagination was transmitted to enable the author to catch the spirit of the tales, which he has preserved with full understanding and sympathy.
“A valuable and entertaining edition to the literature of our aboriginal folk-lore.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 191. F. ‘05. 30w. |
“Present what is from several points of view the most fascinating side of Indian character, the poetic and imaginative side. It has a distinct value to the student of ethnology, or anyone who is interested in the study of Indian life and character, it will also appeal with equal force to the reader who seeks only entertainment; for we venture to say that anyone who dips into this book of legends will find them as fascinating as a book of verses or a metrical romance.” L. J. Burpee.
| + + | Dial. 38: 121. F. 16, ‘05. 290w. |
Canning, Albert Stratford George. Literary influence in British history. [*]$2.25. Wessels.
In a prefatory note the author states that “In this republished and revised volume I endeavor to trace the influence of literature in British history, with the hope that the book may be of use to readers not familiar with larger works on the subject.” Then follows a review of representative English literature in every period of England’s history from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Scott and Froude. There is much not only of historical and literary but also of biographical interest.
Cannon, Edwin, ed. See Smith, Adam. Wealth of nations.
Capart, Jean. Primitive art in Egypt; tr. [*] by A. S. Griffith. [*]$5. Lippincott.
“This exhaustive volume dealing with the early decorative work of the Egyptians on implements and buildings, deals with its subject more from an archaeological than from an artistic standpoint.” (Critic.) The work is largely based upon the discoveries of Prof. Flinders Petrie, and is richly illustrated.
[*] “Has been ably translated.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 599. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w. |
[*] “M. Capart’s own part in the book appears to have been mostly confined to the selection of the matters to be reproduced, and this task has been discharged with both skill and judgment. The translation by Miss Griffith is adequate to its purpose.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 170w. |
[*] “For the student of the problem of the origin of art the author has probably made a valuable contribution, with his clear text, and plentiful illustrations. For the casual reader, however, the often insisted upon details are liable to become wearisome.”
| + + — | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “A distinctive up-to-date book.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 500w. |
[*] “Is full of curious and interesting reading.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 261. Ag. 19, ‘05. 120w. |
Capen, Edward Warren. Historical development of the poor law of Connecticut. [*]$3.50. Macmillan.
Volume XXII. of the “Columbia university studies.” An historical study of the treatment of the poor in Connecticut from the earliest colonial period to the present day, in which the town system of relief is considered as opposed to the state and county systems. There is an excellent bibliography, and there are indexes covering not only the subjects treated but the decisions and statutes cited.
| + + + | Acad. 68: 496. My. 6, ‘05. 220w. |
“The history is interestingly set forth, each statement of fact is verified by references.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 587. My. ‘05. 140w. | |
| Dial. 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 50w. | ||
| + | Ind. 59: 933. O. 19, ‘05. 40w. |
“In his present monograph Dr. Capen has provided us not only with a most exhaustive exposition of the development of the law from early colonial days, but also with a useful commentary on its workings, pointing out clearly its advantages and defects.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] Capen, Oliver Bronson. Country homes of famous Americans. [**]$5. Doubleday.
“The profusion of pictures large and small with which the book is embellished ... throws a welcome light upon the surroundings of many of our celebrated men, representing, as Mr. T. W. Higginson says in his introduction, ‘not merely the tastes and habits of the man’s household, but the private background of his public life.’ Not all the houses chosen are of equal interest, nor are their owners of equal celebrity.... In all, the homes of eighteen men are chosen, including those of Lee at Arlington, of Jefferson at Monticello, Lowell’s Elmwood, Longfellow’s Craigie house, and Madison’s Montpelier.”—Nation.
[*] “There has, of late, been much journeying (on paper) to the homes of great men, but none of these journeys has ended in such a fortunate meeting of text and pictures as have those of Mr. Capen.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 492. D. 14, ‘05. 460w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 769. N. 11, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Capes, Bernard. Lohengrin. $2. Page.
“This is the third of a series of romances founded on the themes of grand operas.... The illustrations, in black and white, are by Sarcadi Pogany, and fancifully, yet not without plenty of vigor and action, depict the dramatic incidents of the legend, which is repeated in description and dialogue and dramatic succession in the form of the modern historical romance.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “Mr. Capes tells his story well and strongly, his descriptions are vivid and significant, and all the drama of the story clearly brought out. But because you are writing of distant days, need your style be such ‘genuine antique’ stuff as this?”
| + — | Acad. 68: 833. Ag. 12, ‘05. 300w. |
[*] “This is monstrous fine writing; so fine that for the life of us we cannot tell whether it is meant to be in blank verse or not. Much of it is; some of it is not; and the mixture is merely annoying. There are, too, the inevitable lapses of one who sets out to play a part without conviction.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 233. Jl. 21, ‘05. 400w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 140w. |
Capwell, Irene Stoddard. Mrs. Alderman Casey. 75c. Fenno.
In rich Irish brogue the wife of Alderman Casey tells of her experiences in trying to keep up with the social aspirations of her pretty daughter, Mary Ann, who in the end forsakes tennis clubs, Browning clubs, summer hotels and euchre parties for Tom Donovan, the pride of the police force.
[*] Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Household of Peter: a novel. (†)$1.50. Lippincott.
“A story of life in a small English country town. Peter is a young doctor, and his household consists of himself, his three sisters, and a faithful serving-woman. There is the usual complement of nobility and gentry.”—Outlook.
[*] “Altogether this is a soothing and cheerful story.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 130w. |
[*] “Peter’s household is a wholesome, affectionate set of folks; but at times they are tiresome, and their conversations are too long drawn out.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
Carl, Katherine A. With the empress dowager. [**]$2. Century.
Miss Carl, thru the influence of Mrs. Conger, wife of the United States minister, was called to Pekin in the summer of 1903 to paint a portrait of the empress dowager. She remained eleven months, and painted four portraits one of which was exhibited at the St. Louis exposition, and during all this time she lived at the Chinese court, and came in daily contact with the empress dowager and the court ladies. She gives a simple, straightforward account of her unique experiences, telling with frank enthusiasm all about her life and the life of those around her in the summer and the winter palaces, until her readers also come under the spell of the empress dowager’s fascinating personality and come to see the Chinese social customs and religious rites in all their picturesque dignity.
| * | Critic. 47: 573. D. ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “There is much entertaining tittle-tattle in the volume about Chinese court life, but Her Majesty is lost in the distant perspective.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + — | Dial. 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 440w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 100w. |
“Unfortunately Miss Carl is not an observer or a writer; she was very greatly affected by the divinity that hedges royalty; and her book of more than 300 pages is much such a record as a school girl with an easy pen might send to an admiring club of friends.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 752. N. 4, ‘05. 670w. |
[*] “Her book is of great interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
“It is believed that the present volume contains the first accurate and satisfactory information concerning the personal appearance and characteristics of an interesting imperial personage.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 190w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 755. D. ‘05. 140w. |
Carling, John R. Weird picture. (†)$1.50. Little.
A story concerned mainly with the machinations of an Italian artist whose madness and villainy actuate him to follow the Giotto method of stabbing his model to produce a realistic picture. There are some weird effects, exciting discoveries, and thru it all runs the romance of a matter-of-fact Englishman and his beautiful cousin.
“A well conceived and constructed story, which contains some crisp dialogue and characterization.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 139. Jl. 29. 150w. |
“Those whose blood is yet uncurdled and whose detective sense has never been baffled by literary mystery might try this.”
| — | Ind. 59 :753. S. 28, ‘05. 40w. | |
| Outlook. 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w. |
“The plot is absorbing and well-concealed.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 868. Je. 3, ‘05. 110w. |
Carlyle, R. W., and Carlyle, A. J. History of mediaeval political theory in the West. 3v. v. I. [**]$3.50. Putnam.
“The object of the joint authors of the present work is to carry in several volumes the history of political theory down to the early seventeenth century.... It is to be strictly a ‘history of theory, not of institutions.’ ... Part I or the introduction of the work devotes two chapters to the political theory of Cicero and Seneca.... Part II is devoted to the political theory of the Roman lawyers.... Part III has for its subject the political theory of the New Testament and the Fathers.... Part IV, the political theory of the ninth century.... Each chapter and each part is followed by a very useful summary, and at the foot of each page are given very lengthy extracts from the sources.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The author of the present volume has brought to his work a thorough knowledge of the early church writers ... and has succeeded in expressing himself in such admirable and lucid English, free from all philosophical abstractions and obscurities, that at no time does his exposition fail to instruct and to interest the reader. This clearness is largely due to the admirable arrangement of the subject-matter and to the method of treatment. No claim could be made that the author has discovered any new theories or new theorists, but he has certainly put many matters in a new light. Throughout his work he seldom shows any familiarity with the researches of modern scholars in the field of political theory, and with but few exceptions he never refers to any secondary authorities. This is a glaring and inexcusable fault in an otherwise highly meritorious work.” James Sullivan.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 629. Ap. ‘05. 780w. |
Carlyle, Thomas. [French revolution.] [*]$1.50. Macmillan.
Three volumes uniform with “Bohn’s historical library,” edited by John Holland Rose. The text and foot notes of the author are reproduced verbatim, and there are in addition notes by the editor which supplement the text with more modern information. There is an introduction, and there are appendices and numerous illustrations.
| Nation. 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 60w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 123. F. 25, ‘05. 260w. |
“An excellent library edition.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 4w. |
Carlyle, Thomas. Oliver Cromwell; with a selection from his letters and speeches. [*]60c. McClurg.
“An abridged and newly edited volume of Carlyle’s Cromwell.” It is uniform with “Standard biographies.”
Carman, Albert Richardson. Ethics of imperialism; an enquiry whether Christian ethics and imperialism are antagonistic. [**]$1. Turner, H. B.
“This is a defense of imperialism by a very radical method of discrediting altruism as an ethical ideal and extolling egoism, personal and national, as the best of all possible principles. This, of course, leads to extreme libertarian views of social policy.”—Ind.
Reviewed by John J. Halsey.
| Dial. 39: 270. N. 1, ‘05. 1000w. | ||
| Ind. 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 90w. | ||
| Nation. 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 340w. |
[*] Carman, (William) Bliss. Poems. 2v. [*]$10. Page.
This sumptuous edition has been compiled from Mr. Carman’s various published works, and includes a number of poems which have seen print in magazines but have never before appeared in book form.
[*] “His work is done so much in the open, his qualities are so frankly and immediately affirmed in it, he is so free from subtleties and intricacies of meaning, that the province of the reviewer properly ends with pointing the way to his books as a source of many kinds of intellectual and emotional pleasure—all wholesome, rich, and strong.” Elisabeth Luther Carey.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 849. D. 2, ‘05. 1140w. |
[*] “He has a true gift of song, an artist’s joy in beautiful words, and that passion for the moods of Nature which of itself transmutes verse into poetry. His defect is to fall occasionally into facile jingles, and now and then into inapposite conceits.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 192. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] Carman, (William) Bliss. Poetry of life. [**]$1.50. Page.
A volume of essays which contains besides the title essay, The purpose of poetry; How to judge poetry; The poet in the commonwealth; The poet in modern life; The defence of poetry; Distaste for poetry; Longfellow; Emerson; Mr. Riley’s poetry; Mr. Swinburne’s poetry; The rewards of poetry; Cheerful pessimism; Masters of the world; The poetry of to-morrow; The permanence of poetry.
[*] “That Mr. Carman is a master of a stimulating style in verse and prose alike is evidenced by this sane, hopeful, yet discriminating study of varied phases of art and life.”
| + | Dial. 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 380w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “Its value is permanent by reason of the broadly comprehensive treatment which he has given to the subject of poetry in its larger aspects. I am not sure but he is at his best as a critic.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 910. D. 23, ‘05. 1290w. |
Carnegie, Andrew. [James Watt.] [**]$1.40. Doubleday.
Mr. Carnegie has woven into his biography of the inventor of the steam-engine, out of which he made his fortune, his own philosophy of success, drawing upon his personal experience to point the morals found in his hero’s life.
“In Mr. Carnegie he has found a worthy and sympathetic biographer.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2:115. Jl. 22. 880w. |
“The wonderful career of James Watt is here ably retold by a most appreciative countryman with a wealth of comment bearing on or suggested by Watt’s life or inventions, which is scarcely less interesting than the narrative itself.”
| + | Engin. N. 53: 625. Je. 15, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 991. O. 26, ‘05. 350w. |
“It is in the expression of the author’s views of life and the world that the work’s value mainly lies, for as a biography, it adds naught to the store of available information. Extremely interesting and helpful.”
| + + | Lit. D. 21: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 560w. |
“Its lively, not to say jerky, style would hardly be a sufficient inducement to read this book. The preface names two highly competent engineers as having revised the technical passages, but here and there a sentence may be found to which they can hardly have lent their deliberate approval.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 527. Je. 29, ‘05. 1600w. |
“Mr. Carnegie has written a really helpful book, and one which is especially helpful to the young man entering into life’s battles.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 320w. |
“There is a good deal of useful information in the book, but the best feature of it is the romantic cast that the author has given to an intrinsically dry subject.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 837. My. 27, ‘05. 180w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 50w. |
“Mr. Carnegie’s book is of the kind to put in the hands of a promising boy. It will stimulate him to work, but not at the expense of the simple moralities and pleasures of a well-regulated life.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 396. S. 16, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Carpenter, Joseph Estlin. James Martineau: theologian and teacher. [*]$2.50. Am. Unitar.
A book written “at the invitation of the British and Foreign Unitarian association, to describe the life and work of Dr. Martineau in briefer compass than was possible to his first biographers.... Professor Carpenter has had the advantage of the use of certain additional letters which have become available since the publication of the Life and has utilized other papers and correspondence hitherto unused.... The result is an exceedingly valuable ‘study,’ in which the incidents of the life and the characteristics of the man and the thinker are made to throw light upon one another in a way which is possible only to one who, having mastered every detail of his subject, is able to select the essential and significant elements in every case.”—Hibbert J.
[*] “It is difficult to imagine any class of readers who will easily set down this biography when once they have opened it. The stress of interest will indeed vary, but the admirable lucidity of Mr. Carpenter’s arrangement will render the process of skipping easy and comparatively safe.” Philip H. Wicksteed.
| + + | Acad. 68: 560. My. 27, ‘05. 1530w. | |
| * | + | Ath. 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 150w. |
[*] “The book is written in a style which, while it gives the impression of perfect accuracy, is yet so clear and graceful that the reader is never either puzzled or wearied.” James Seth.
| + + | Hibbert J. 4: 210. O. ‘05. 2150w. |
[*] “It is an original study, based to some extent on new materials, and everywhere showing care and ripe reflection.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 219. Jl. 7, ‘05. 910w. |
[*] “Appearing in Dr. Martineau’s centenary year, it is a timely and permanent memorial of a spiritual leader unsurpassed in the English speaking world.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 250w. |
[*] “This admirable work is a worthy memorial of a great man. His development is traced with such skill that Mr. Carpenter makes us realize the continual interplay of the outer and inner life. We see in these pages the organic growth, not only of a great intellect but of a great moral force.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2340w. |
Carpenter, Rt. Rev. William Boyd, bp. of Ripon. Witness to the influence of Christ; being the William Belden Noble lectures for 1904. [**]$1.10. Houghton.
Six lectures entitled—Two aspects of Christ’s influence; Christ the perfect type of consciousness; Christ the teacher of principles; Christ the law of the soul; Christ verified in experience; Christ as authority.
“The thought is worthy and is set forth with exceptional literary skill, with recurring pregnant expressions of much suggestiveness.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “Exhibits his well-known versatility and literary skill.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. |
“A happy combination of poetic feeling and logical clearness characterizes the entire argument.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w. |
Carr, Clark. Illini. $2. McClurg.
“A story of the prairies, written from the memories of over half a century lived in Illinois. The author has endeavored to present his views of the position and influence of Illinois among the states, to give an estimate of events, and of those Illinoisans who were conspicuous actors in them, from 1850, the year in which the Fugitive-slave law was enacted, to the opening of the Civil war.”—Bookm.
“Is a pleasant combination of history, biography, and romance.”
| + | Critic. 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w. |
“The story is not sufficiently interesting to have any advantage over the ordinary historical form.”
| — | Ind. 58: 844. Ap. 13, ‘05. 160w. |
Carroll, John S. Exiles of eternity: an exposition of Dante’s Inferno. [*]$3. Gorham.
“‘Exiles of eternity’ is an exposition canto by canto, in a simple, popular, yet thoroughly literary style, reaching the aim of bringing before the reader, who may or not be acquainted with the Italian language, the general scope of Dante’s ethical teaching as studied from a broad Anglican point of view, not uncolored by an intense poetical appreciation. This exposition is preceded by a brief sketch of the poet.” (N. Y. Times). The book makes no attempt at special research from original sources, hence there are reproduced several errors of earlier commentators. The author states, however, that his purpose is rather to present his subject in its “broad outlines” than to go into those “mere niceties, ingenuities and intricacies of interpretation” which too often lead Dante scholars astray.
“Characterized by broad general reading among English and American commentators rather than by special research. An English reader who wishes to make the acquaintance of the ‘Inferno’ through a broad and pleasant way with Dante’s ethical rules of action brought strictly up to date, cannot do better than to read Mr. Carroll’s book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 310w. |
Carryl, Guy Wetmore. The garden of years, and other poems. [**]$1.50. Putnam.
A volume of genuine poetic value, posthumously published, is the gift of Guy Wetmore Carryl to the literature of our time. “In the long poem which lends its title to the present collection, we have a true love poem marked by exquisite feeling and rare felicitous grace of execution. We may but say retrospectively, using Mr. Stedman’s so fitly characterizing words,—‘Still in the strength of youth, he seemed quite equal to either experiences or work, and likely to take his fill of both.’” (Critic).
“Its varied but everywhere irrefragable proofs of poetship. There is abundant evidence in ‘The garden of years’ that Guy Carryl had received the muse’s accolade; and we might add, that, in his own range of inspiration and execution, this young Lycidas ‘hath not left his peer.’” E. M. T.
| + + | Critic. 46: 182. F. ‘05. 220w. |
“It is a volume of manly sentiment embodied in facile and vigorous measures.”
| + | Dial. 38: 199. Mr. 16, ‘05. 270w. |
Carson, Thomas G. Man’s responsibility; or, How and why the Almighty introduced evil upon the earth. [**]$1. Putnam.
“All of Mr. Carson’s argument is to the effect that phrenology is an exact and useful science, and that it should be used in the government of the world and the reclamation of mankind.”—N. Y. Times.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 258. Ap. 22, ‘05. 390w. |
Carter, A. Cecil, ed. Kingdom of Siam. [**]$2. Putnam.
A volume prepared by native Siamese in connection with the commission to the St. Louis exposition. “The materials used by the author are largely furnished by high officials in different departments of government service.” (N. Y. Times). The view of Siam includes a sketch of King Chulalongkorn, and his son, the Prince Maha Vajiravudh, a description of Siam itself,—“the Land of the White Elephant,” a summary of its resources, and a glimpse of the capital city, Bangkok, where modern invention has given crowning touches to the city’s mechanism. The chapter on agriculture is perhaps the best in the book. There are many illustrations, chiefly, however, of temples and public buildings.
“The style will not interest the general reader.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 125. Ja. ‘05. 70w. |
“Well-written and skilfully arranged work.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 110w. |
“It contains everything that a stranger needs to know of a fascinating country. The book has no literary endeavor manifest in its pages, being rather a complete handbook of the kingdom, with numerous illustrations of persons and places,—an encyclopedia in little.” Wallace Rice.
| + + | Dial. 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 150w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 36. Jan. 21, ‘05. 620w. |
Carter, Thomas. Shakespeare and the Holy Scriptures, with the version he used. [*]$3. Dutton.
“Following the plays of Shakespeare in the probable order of their composition, Dr. Carter exhibits the extent to which Biblical ideas and phraseology appear in them. Citations from Shakespeare are from the text of the First folio, published in 1623; citations from the Bible are from the Genevan version (edition of 1598), the popular version of that time, and from the Genevan New Testament of 1557. ‘No writer,’ says Dr. Carter, ‘has assimilated the thoughts and reproduced the words of the Holy Scripture more copiously.’”—Outlook.
“In consequence of this fatal want of judgment, the book may be pronounced to be practically valueless.”
| — | Nation. 81: 388. N. 9, ‘05. 600w. |
“To say the best for it, it is a curious book and a monument of industry.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 250w. |
“Dr. Carter proves a parallelism between Shakespeare and the Bible abundantly sufficient for his purpose, and need not have overloaded his book with much that is conjectural and doubtful.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 160w. |
“Dr. Carter’s book, in fact, though it displays a minute familiarity with the text of the Bible and puts before the student the full materials for judging for himself, is an absurd overstatement.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 437. S. 30, ‘05. 1560w. |
[*] “Enough has been said to show that this large book, notwithstanding the labour spent upon it, is entirely useless for its main purpose; while for the further purpose of estimating Shakespeare’s knowledge of the Bible it is almost as useless, since nine-tenths of the parallels suggested are not parallels at all.”
| — — | Spec. 95: 687. N. 4, ‘05. 2010w. |
Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady). Life and art of Botticelli. [*]$4. Dutton.
This is an expansion of a study published a year or so ago, and is copiously illustrated with reproductions from the famous works of the painter. “This clear narrative restates the results of modern research and gives a trustworthy account of the Florentine painter’s career. What he owed to Savonarola and Dante is set forth in straightforward fashion, and his works are surveyed in chronological order, one by one.” (Atlan.)
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
| + | Atlan. 95: 278. F. ‘05. 90w. |
“Her work forms ... a homogeneous whole, that is, however, somewhat marred here and there by certain strange mannerisms.”
| + + — | Int. Studio. 24: 369. F. ‘05. 200w. |
“A notable contribution to the descriptive literature of art. The author is evidently steeped in artist-lore, and in this handsome volume has presented a treatise of an art school as well as a biography of Botticelli.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31 :252. F. ‘05. 70w. |
Carver, Thomas Nixon. The distribution of wealth. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
In treating the value-and-distribution problem, “Professor Carver has earned high praise in that he has, with perfect clearness, defined precisely his point of view, systematically presented his doctrinal position, and carried it out with consistent argument.” The relation between values and distributive shares is traced out by Professor Carver as follows: “The value of the agent is determined by the value of the product. But what determines the value of the product? The relative want. And what determines the relative want? The relative supply. And what determines the relative supply? The cost of production. And what determines the cost of production? The value of the agents employed. And what determines the value of the agents? The value of the product; etc., etc.” The foregoing questions are discussed and answered. The law of diminishing returns is made the central feature of the theory of distribution. The author “pronounces strongly in favor of preserving the distinction between land and capital both for static and dynamic purposes; he sees, indeed, as bearing upon the relations of land and capital to cost, no significance in the distinction between static and dynamic.” Quotations from J. Pol. Econ.
“The reader has only to study a few pages before the earnestness with which the subjects are expounded infects him. The exposition is clear, and occasionally graphic representations are given to make it impossible for the student to escape comprehension.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 110w. |
“The work under consideration is admirable as a theoretical discussion in that it is centralized about the shares in distribution, preceded by what the author considers necessary by way of introduction, namely ‘value,’ ‘diminishing returns,’ and ‘forms of wealth and income.’ The concrete is everywhere uppermost throughout the book. The style is characterized by a certain vivacity which greatly enlivens the discussion and claims the attention of the reader whether he agrees or disagrees with the conclusions.” J. E. Conner.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 346. Mr. ‘05. 540w. |
“The book is in the main a clear and careful restatement of the prevalent ideas on the theory of distribution as now accepted. The book is moderate in tone and in conclusions.” H. Parker Willis.
| + + | Dial. 38: 266. Ap. 16, ‘05. 790w. |
“The power and significance of the work. Too much can hardly be said in commendation of the book for its clarity and simplicity of style, its skill and effectiveness of statement, and its logical and attractive arrangement of material. It seems worth while to express forthwith the conviction that Professor Carver’s theoretical position is untenable, for the reason that he attempts to make of value and distribution two distinct problems.” H. J. Davenport.
| + + — | J. Pol. Econ. 13: 131. D. ‘04. 3050w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] Gary, Elisabeth Luther. Novels of Henry James: a study. [**]$1.25. Putnam.
“An attractive volume illustrated with a new portrait of Mr. James and an etching of his home at Rye in England; and supplemented by a bibliography zealously compiled by Mr. Frederick A. King.... Miss Carey ... reviews all his work from the beginning; traces his development step by step, and treats in separate chapters of the power of his imagination and the value of his philosophy.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “If there is weakness anywhere in this interesting and luminous study it is in the chapter on ‘Philosophy.’ One wishes that more expansion of Mr. James’s moral and psychologic messages had been included.” Annie Russell Marble.
| + + | Dial. 39: 441. D. 16, ‘05. 820w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 782. N. 18, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “A remarkably interesting and well-rounded piece of contemporary criticism.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 290w. |
Castaigne, Andre. Fata Morgana. [†]$1.50. Century.
This romance of art student life in Paris easily draws into one circle a circus rider, the daughter of a Chicago millionaire, the Duke of Morgana, the various critics, models, artists and poets of greater or lesser degree. The setting is Bohemian rather than artistic, and the characters are often coarse. The career of Phil Longwell, a young American painter, is followed through years of struggle from the time when he first falls in love with Hella, the pretty circus-girl friend of his boyhood, to the time when he wins honors, success and the admiration of the young American heiress. His paintings of the Fata Morgana, its strange legend and the simple faith of the people of Morgana, form striking contrast to the cynicism of Parisian life. The book is illustrated by the author.
“Unquestionably the plot is thin and the construction faulty. Is a typical artist’s book, full of life and colour.”
| + — | Bookm. 21: 183. Ap. ‘05. 280w. |
“Charming as is Monsieur Castaigne’s narrative, the chief interest will probably centre in the illustrations. In it the layman ... will find a rich store of interest and entertainment.”
| + | Int. Studio. 24: sup. 104. F. ‘05. 400w. |
“No less striking in plot than in title, it rests the reader wearied of stereotyped and hackneyed situations.”
| + | Reader. 6: 116. Je. ‘05. 320w. |
[*] Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Edgerton. Heart of Lady Anne. [†]$1.50. Stokes.
In the time of powder, masks and patches, Squire Day married the spoiled beauty, Lady Anne, and the story of her heart is the story of how she chafed at life on her young husband’s estate, how she went up to London as guest of Lady Kilcroney, who was Kitty Bellairs, and how she encountered the scheming, cruel world of fashion which taught her that her husband, who knew how to reveal himself as an heroic figure at the critical moment in each of her sad experiences, and who even aroused her jealousy toward the last, was the real master of the situation and of her heart.
[*] “A tale in Dresden china, so dainty and clever as fully to satisfy the taste for Dresden, but arousing no very strong feeling.”
| + | Acad. 68: 1154. N. 4, ‘05. 510w. |
[*] “No authors know better how to use romance than Mr. and Mrs. Castle, and none can give the air of this artificial century with so excellent a grace.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 680. N. 18. 340w. |
[*] “Dainty bit of eighteenth century romancing.”
| + | Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “‘Tis a beguiling tale.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1483. D. 21, ‘05. 250w. |
[*] “Has quite the dash of the authors’ earlier stories.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “Has, in a less degree, the sparkle and liveliness of the authors’ former work.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 1040. D. 23, ‘05. 90w. |
Castle, Agnes, and Castle, Egerton. Rose of the world. [†]$1.50. Stokes.
“The story opens in India, where the reader has a glimpse of official English life. The tragedy of widowhood descends upon a girl wife, who lives to realize the meaning of her sorrow.”—Outlook.
“This is, perhaps, the finest book that Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Castle have as yet produced—daring, original, moving. The plot is developed with that reticence which is the soul of art; the tension is relieved by delightful touches of humor, charming descriptions of scenery, clever character-drawing.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 519. My. 13, ‘05. 1170w. |
“If this is not the best of their novels, it takes high rank among them.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 713. Je. 10. 500w. |
“At one stroke a delicate psychological study is metamorphosed into a Wilkie Collins melodrama.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 366. Je. ‘05. 710w. |
“As a piece of story-telling, it is almost good. Only, unfortunately, the heroine does not in the least belong to this era of the world.”
| + — | Critic. 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 200w. |
“The charm is essentially one of style, for the plot is not remarkable, and the situations verge upon the melodramatic.” W. M. Payne.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
“In this second and more critical reading the careful workmanship of the writers is everywhere apparent.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + + | Forum. 37: 109. Jl. ‘05. 670w. |
“A tale which, had it but broken off 100 pages from the end, might have ranked with the few things which bear reading more than once.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 153. My. 12, ‘05. 580w. |
“In their latest book they have lost none of their brilliancy of description.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 430w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“The tale is well written, with touches of comedy in minor characters.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 40w. |
“A story that is touched by a rosy glamor and strengthened by apt characterization.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 190w. |
“The story, in fact, for all its wildness, claims attention as a serious study in character, while the events are sensational enough to attract the unpsychological.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 778. Je. 10, ‘05. 310w. | |
| — | Spec. 94: 789. My. 27, ‘05. 280w. |
[*] Castle, Frank. Machine construction and drawing. [*]$1.25. Macmillan.
“The author first describes the necessary drawing instruments, and explains their use. He then sets out in detail, with proportional dimensions, various forms of common fastenings, such as rivets, bolts, keys, etc. Then come some chapters containing examples of mill work, followed by others dealing with steam-engine details. The final chapter gives a short account of the physical properties of materials used in construction. Sets of useful exercises occur at intervals, and a few calculations of strengths are given.... The drawings which abound throughout the work represent good practice, are fully dimensioned, very clearly printed, and will be appreciated, by teachers and students alike.”—Nature.
| * | + | Acad. 68: 962. S. 16, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “While not free from minor defects, the book can be cordially recommended for use in drawing classes, and to young engineers who are seeking after knowledge on which to base subsequent work in machine design.”
| + + — | Nature. 72: 533. S. 28, ‘05. 280w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 210w. |
Casual essays of The Sun; editorial articles on many subjects, clothed with the philosophy of the light side of things. $1.50. Priv. ptd.
Extracts from the editorial pages of the New York Sun, which “touch lightly upon many subjects—upon the passing of the negro minstrel and the banjo, upon mince pie, ... famous men and institutions ... upon college yells, hairpins, Solomon, and the impropriety of addressing the president of the United States as ‘Excellency.’ There is some delectable and curious matter about poets old and new.... You may find also essays on English and reformed manners of spelling it, ... essays upon women of all ages, upon sweethearts and loves, essays upon mothers-in-law, and even essays upon the cup that cheers.” (N. Y. Times.)
“One likes to save it for the choice hours, when one is really alone.” Edward Fuller.
| + + | Critic. 47: 247. S. ‘05. 280w. |
“There is no evidence that the writer is restrained by any limitations of conscience, consistency or charity from putting down anything interesting or amusing that comes into his head.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
“There is much excellent fooling here.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 130w. |
Catch words of cheer, compiled by Sara A. Hubbard. [**]$1. McClurg.
Printed in dark green ink with green marginal decorations and a touch of red in the headings, this attractive little volume pleases the eye, while the catch words culled from St. Paul, Cicero, Maeterlinck, Carlyle, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Helen Keller, Ruskin, Goethe, Longfellow, and a host of other writers of all ages, are wisely chosen to bring help and comfort. There is a quotation for each day of the year.
[*] “An excellent combination of high seriousness and enlivening humor.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “A collection of bright, comforting, helpful sayings.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 40w. |
Cather, Willa Sibert. [Troll garden.] [†]$1.25. McClure.
Seven short stories of artist life, emotional psychological, and pathetic, under the titles: Flavia and her artists, The sculptor’s funeral, The garden lodge, A death in the desert, The marriage of Phædra, A Wagner matinee, and Paul’s case.
“Is a collection of freak stories that are either lurid, hysterical or unwholesome, and that remind one of nothing so much as the colored supplement to the Sunday papers. The ‘purple patches’ of learning in the book, like the thrills, seem sewed on here and there, with one eye closed to get the effect.” Bessie du Bois.
| — — + | Bookm. 21: 612. Ag. ‘05. 1320w. |
[*] “There is real promise in these half-dozen stories. Miss Cather has sincerity and no small degree of insight.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 476. N. ‘05. 200w. |
“Taken as a whole, the book indicates more than usual talent for close delineation.”
| + | Dial. 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 140w. |
“There is promise of something greater in them all.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 1482. Je. 29, ‘05. 260w. |
“In this collection of seven stories the author has shown a great deal of deep feeling and real ability, but many of the stories are too ambitious, and seem to be more the work of promise than of fulfillment.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 303. My. 6, ‘05. 230w. |
“They are singularly vivid, strong, true, original, and they have withal a richness of quality one might almost say of timbre, like a contralto voice.”
| + | Reader. 6: 477. S. ‘05. 170w. |
Catherine of Siena, St., tr. by Vida D. Scudder. [*]$2.50. Dutton.
Selections from the letters of Catherine for long counted among Italian classics. “Mystics are not good letter writers, for mystics are bound to be without humor, and Catherine’s are all religious letters, full of obscure and jarring medieval imagery. But they are human documents. She only learned to write by miracle three years before her death, and until then she employed young aristocrats as secretaries. Her correspondence was wonderfully varied. ‘She wrote to prisoners and outcasts; to great nobles and plain business men; to physicians, lawyers, soldiers of fortune; to kings and queens, and cardinals and popes; to recluses ... and to men and women of the world.’” (Lond. Times.)
“Excellent, too, are the small forewords to the various letters, giving vivid glimpses of the young saint’s various correspondents, and incidentally of the composite society of that time.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 681. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1880w. |
“For once we are in the pleasant position of finding nothing to blame; and this because the editor has not only done what was needful, but also (a rarer thing in editors) refrained from doing what was unneedful.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 430. S. 30. 1390w. |
“Miss Scudder’s translation is finely made; and, in the passages we have compared with the original, is perfectly faithful. A more readable version could hardly have been attempted.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 82: 112. O. ‘05. 1430w. | |
| + + | Dial. 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 360w. |
“Miss Scudder has done her task admirably both as translator and as editor.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 224. Jl. 14, ‘05. 1400w. |
“The perfervid language of religious ecstacy in which they are couched does not fit the English tongue.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 499. Jl. 29, ‘05. 480w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 1073. Ag. 26, ‘05. 180w. |
“It would be difficult to praise Miss Scudder’s work too highly.”
| + + + | Spec. 95:497. O. 7, ‘05. 1630w. |
Cator, Dorothy. Everyday life among the head-hunters, and other experiences from East to West. $1.75. Longmans.
“We needn’t pretend here to follow Mrs. Cator in her wanderings, but she spent two years in Borneo and lived among the gruesome ‘head-hunters’ while her husband dealt with lawbreakers among them. She visited China and Japan, (before the last war) and has spent several years upon the worst parts of the African west coast, living there much of the time in mud huts among the natives and seeing them as they are.” (N. Y. Times.) Her narrative is of exceptional interest. Many photographs illustrate the volume.
“Mrs. Cator writes simply and straightforwardly, just, we should imagine, as she talks: and her book is not only chatty and amusing, but contains some very fresh and clear-sighted comments on government, civilization, foreign missions, etc.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “Her narrative has sufficient charm and vivacity to justify its publication.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 759. D. 2. 370w. |
“Writes with a mixture of girlish simplicity and womanly shrewdness which is nothing short of charming.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 745. N. 4, ‘05. 840w. |
Cattell, Henry Ware. Post-mortem pathology: a manual of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom. [*]$3. Lippincott.
A second revised and enlarged edition of this “practical treatise for students and practitioners,” copiously illustrated. “Several improvements over the first edition have been introduced, including the chapter on the bones and joints, and nearly thirty new illustrations. Important changes have also been made in various chapters during the revision.” (Science.)
“There are but few things connected with autopsies that will not be found mentioned in the volume.” Lewellys F. Barker.
| + + + | Science, n.s. 21: 784. My. 19. ‘05. 1340w. |
[*] Cavendish, George. Life and death of Cardinal Wolsey. [*]$7.50. Houghton.
“A large and handsome quarto, printed on light, English made paper, in large, clear type, and bound in green boards with buckram back, the Wolsey arms being stamped in gold on the cover. The edition is believed to be from the most authoritative text and contains the full-page photogravures, reproduced in sepia and red chalk tints, of Wolsey, Henry VIII., Thomas Cromwell, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary Tudor, and Charles Brandon, and others mentioned in the book, reproduced from paintings by Holbein and others.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
| * | + + | Atlan. 96: 842. D. ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “The volume is of interest not only as an unusually early biographical attempt, but as well because of its dramatic presentation of this great chapter in English history.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 573. D. ‘05. 110w. |
Reviewed by Edward E. Hale, jr.
| * | + + | Dial. 39: 375. D. 1, ‘05. 650w. |
[*] “It is certainly a work of great interest for the historical student, and is now presented in a most beautiful and appropriate setting.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 350w. | |
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 240w. |
Cawein, Madison Julius. Vale of Tempe. [*]$1.50. Dutton.
“‘The Vale of Tempe,’ by Madison Cawein is a volume which, along with some crudities and weakness, has both the old glamour of poesy and an individual tang, so to say, that is uncommon in contemporary verse. Mr. Cawein draws his inspiration in equal draughts from the Kentucky landscape and from the world of pagan poetry, and in at least two of the aptitudes of the poet he stands pretty much by himself. His turn for vivid imaginative phrase is of the first order.... His command of the technique of tone-color is also exceptional.”—Nation.
| * | — | Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “Mr. Cawein is a ‘true poet,’ both in his art and in his inspiration.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 302. O. 12, ‘05. 560w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10:593. S. 9, ‘05. 280w. |
Chadwick, H. Munroe. Studies on Anglo-Saxon institutions. [*]$2.50. Macmillan.
Mr. Chadwick says that his book “makes no claim to offer a comprehensive survey of the problems of ancient English sociology,” that his object has been “to call attention to those branches of the subject which seemed not to have been sufficiently regarded by previous writers. For example, in sketching the history of the kingdoms I have given special attention to the evidence relating to Kent, Sussex, Essex, and the Hwicce. On the other hand Mercian and Northumbrian history has been treated of more briefly, because I had little or nothing to add to what had already been said.” Following a discussion of the monetary system, he describes the coins, their values, terms for money, etc. He also discusses the social system, the administrative system, and the origin of the nobility.
“Too many of his conclusions are based on very little or very questionable evidence; some are probabilities merely. Mr. Chadwick’s work is a remarkably suggestive study: new interpretations are proposed and the possibilities of certain neglected materials are clearly indicated.” Laurence M. Larson.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 135. O. ‘05. 660w. | |
| + + + | Ind. 59: 333. Ag. 10, ‘05. 340w. |
“For the Heptarchic period in particular Mr. Chadwick’s results are of real value.”
| + + + | Nation. 81 :185. Ag. 31, ‘05. 580w. |
“Great caution marks all of Mr. Chadwick’s work.”
| + + | Nature. 71: 380. F. 23, ‘05. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 118. F. 25, ‘05. 340w. |
“He has handled some of the most perplexing problems of ancient English sociology with painstaking industry.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 210w. |
“He investigates the subject with the most scrupulous care, accurately weighing the evidence of various documents, and maintaining an entirely scientific attitude. His book is a valuable contribution to the study of historical origins.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 222. F. 11, ‘05. 250w. |
Chadwick, John White. Later poems. [*]$1.25. Houghton.
The best verses in this volume deal with the common weal and woe of humanity, and the “deep things of God.” The poet also sings of the lighter phases of human existence, “his thoughtful love of nature finds charming expression in many fugitive pieces” (Outlook). In others, especially in “Timeo Danaos,” a high and nobly exigent patriotism shines forth.
| + | Critic. 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 130w. |
“A pleasing addition to our store of occasional and memorial verse.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 370w. |
“It is some compensation for the over-polemical character of Mr. Chadwick’s verses that their serious thoughtfulness leaves an impression of sobriety and dignity.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + — | Forum. 37: 246. O. ‘05. 700w. |
“His poetic product was of a ripeness which shows, if not genius, at any rate talent of the first order.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 290w. |
“As they stand, however, they represent the fine warm masculine intellect of which they, with many other virtues and felicities, are the fruit.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 350w. |
“His poems are not without their singing quality, but this is never merely the lilt of the care-free warbler. The mystery and wonder and tragedy and spiritual meaning of life are ever with him.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1060. Ap. 29, ‘05. 560w. |
Chadwick, Samuel. Humanity and God. [**]$1.50. Revell.
“The author ... is known in England for his success as a Wesleyan missioner.... A vein of mysticism runs through his thought, but his speech is pointed and vigorous. He is a skillful Biblical expositor, and his discourse on ‘The extra mile’ is one of the best in the multitude of those on Jesus’ doctrine of non-resistance. The theology underlying all is a blend of old and new, largely old, but on the bed-rock of the new, the identity of the human and the divine. This gives to the collection its title.”—Outlook.
| Outlook. 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] Chamberlain, Charles Joseph. Methods in plant histology. [*]$2.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
A two-part work which has grown out of a course in histological technique conducted by the author at the University of Chicago. The first part deals with the principles of fixing and staining, and the various other processes of microtechnique; the second, with the application of these principles to specific cases.
Chamberlain, Esther, and Chamberlain, Lucia. Mrs. Essington. [†]$1.50. Century.
The scene of the little drama enacted in this story is a hospitable California country house, and the actors are mainly the daughter of the hostess, young, strong, athletic, and a charming widow, who side by side run an altogether modest race for the affections of the one ineligible young man of the party, a poor composer.
“‘Mrs. Essington’ is a book which commands the reader’s interest—nay, more, his admiration.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w. |
“It is a story filled with dramatic possibilities, and of these the authors ... have taken ample advantage.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. |
“This is a clever book in several ways, with plenty of atmosphere and nothing out of drawing, but this study of loss and renunciation carries it beyond cleverness into quite another class.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 100w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 230w. |
Chamberlain, Georgia Louise. Introduction to the Bible for teachers of children: a manual for use in the Sunday schools or in the home. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
“A most admirable elementary course in Biblical introduction, designed to give children of the fourth grade, or about ten years of age, familiar acquaintance with the various books of the Bible and their varied character, and the ability to use the Bible intelligently.”—Ind.
“The most prominent—and evidently the most purposeful—omission is that of any reference to the inspiration of the Bible.”
| — — | Cath. World. 80: 820. Mr. ‘05. 780w. |
“The lessons are well arranged, the suggestions to teachers are clear and stimulating, and the entire work shows diligence and thoroughness in preparation.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 320w. |
Chambers, Robert William. [Iole.] [†]$1.25. Appleton.
A rather gushy poet with soft white fingers brings up his eight lovely daughters to roam the fields in pink pajamas, talk Greek, and keep near to nature. When the mortgage on his home is to be foreclosed the agent falls in love with the oldest daughter, the owner with the second one, and they all leave nature for the city. The remaining daughters also have romances.
| + — | Ind. 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 110w. | |
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 366. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w. |
“Originally a fantastical bit of extravaganza printed as a short story, this has been expanded into a book, and thereby much of its cleverness and freshness lost.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “Skipping boldly, now, from Japanese ancestor-worship to contemporary satire, we hail Robert Chambers prince of the last half-year’s production.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 760. D. ‘05. 190w. |
Chambers, Robert William. [Reckoning.] [†]$1.50. Appleton.
“The city of New York, loyal at heart, and sorely besieged by the English, within and without, is the scene of this romance.... A brave youth is selected by his Excellency, Mr. Washington, acts as a spy in the city, and finally escapes the peril of his position, to be rewarded as a courageous soldier in open battle. The heroine, a belle in the gay Tory circles, bewitches the hero, after much banter and playing at love-making. Emerging from a tangle of cross-purposes, she proves herself a noble woman, brave enough to sacrifice all for her lover and his country.”—Outlook.
“This is emphatically the best work yet done by that very promising author. But for one fatal blot it might almost be counted a masterpiece, as in writing, vigour, interest and the other attributes of a good novel it far excels any former attempt of the writer. But he has had the perversity to make his hero a spy.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 270w. |
“A stirring romance, full of action and of the savor of the period and scenes described.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 504. O. 14. 260w. |
[*] “The new work is as good as ‘Cardigan.’ He gives us historical truth, wholesome excitement, and no small measure of literary art all at once; and for so much of good it would be churlish not to give thanks.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 120w. |
“Incidents, after all, never make up for people; and the end of the war, which ends the book, comes as a very considerable relief. The tale is an anti-climax only because the author struggles too frantically to urge the pace and exhausts our energies prematurely.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 341. O. 13, ‘05. 440w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. | |
| + | Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 110w. |
“In spite of unreality and preposterous over-coloring, he gives the impression of reality. It is good reading for a quiet evening.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 504. O. 14, ‘05. 310w. |
[*] “Exceedingly good reading.”
| + | Spec. 95: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 240w. |
[*] Chamblin, Jean. Lady Bobs, her brother and I: a romance of the Azores. [†]$1.25. Putnam.
“A pleasant little romance told in letters to her friend by the girl most involved. Incidentally some graphic descriptions of the Azores and their inhabitants are introduced among the junketings of a group of American and English visitors to the islands.”—Outlook.
[*] “Besides this pleasing little romance, however, the story has its charm in witty descriptions and quaint turns of phrases.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 825. D. 2, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “Kate is a witty letter-writer and is capable of flashing out bits of spontaneous humor.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 80w. |
Champlin, John Denison, and Lucas, Frederic Augustus. Young folks’ cyclopaedia of natural history. $2.50. Holt.
Taking its place with the Champlin cyclopaedias of “Literature and art,” “Common things,” “Persons and places,” and “Games and sports,” this work “includes in a single compact volume, at a moderate price, an outline of the entire animal kingdom, from the largest mammal down to the tiniest insect that has to be studied under a magnifying glass.”
“The book will be most useful to children, who will find it too interesting to be considered mere study.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 287. S. ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “A treasure-house for the young naturalist.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 20w. |
“The text in general shows little systematic grasp in the arrangement of facts, either in the articles as a whole or in any article in particular. The text throughout bears testimony to painstaking compilation rather than to ready knowledge.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 509. Je. 22, ‘05. 510w. |
“Is a mine of information.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 491. Jl. 22, ‘05. 380w. |
“The articles are clearly written and the subjects are treated in good proportion as to relative importance.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 196. My. 20. ‘05. 100w. | |
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 70w. |
Champney, Elizabeth Williams. Romance of the French abbeys. [**]$3. Putnam.
Mrs. Champney gives the result of last summer’s wanderings among the abbeys of France. She weaves into her descriptions the history and romance that cling to these fast decaying relics of the life and culture of the mediaeval times. The illustrations are many and excellent, including photogravures from historical paintings, and architectural half-tones.
[*] “The author is neither archaeologist nor sociologist, but a woman who has placed her descriptions and told her stories with unusual charm of manner.”
| + | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 110w. | |
| * | + | Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
“A pleasantly readable mixture of history and legend.”
| + | Ind. 59: 815. O. 5, ‘05. 240w. |
“The book, then, will hold its own as a collection of attractive and instructive pictures, while the text is found to be just such a collection of fantastical, pathetic, and half-humorous stories as tradition associates with the monasteries of France.”
| + | Nation. 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 250w. |
“She tells fourteen stories.... All are picturesque and are told with ingenuity and with a certain fidelity to the atmosphere and spirit of the times to which they relate.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 320w. |
[*] “The combination of Mrs. Champney’s art with history and romance is beyond measure taking; the book is irresistible.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 100w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 732. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “Mrs. Champney writes pleasantly and has a good subject—though sometimes she is tiresome, especially in her treatment of legends in the picturesque style.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ‘05. 200w. |
Chancellor, William E. Our schools. $1.50. Heath.
“In this treatment of school management, the subject is defined, not as the control and the instruction of individual pupils, but as the organization, maintenance, administration, direction, and supervision of schools, and the planning of schoolhouses. The book is designed for all persons interested in the control of schools and school systems.”
“Mr. Chancellor’s style throughout the volume is direct and practical. His composition is inelegant, if not occasionally ungrammatical.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 78. Jl. 15. 650w. |
“As a guide to the novice, the work will undoubtedly prove useful. As a study in social control, it is a masterpiece. Anyone interested in knowing the schools as part of the social machinery of the country will find the work profitable.”
| + + + | Dial. 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 290w. |
“All persons engaged in the practical work of administrating and managing schools will be glad to get hold of this volume, and will be grateful to its author for the vast wealth of concrete instances which he has adduced to illustrate the attitudes and conduct of those with whom school officers have to deal in their work of directing public schools.” Samuel T. Dutton.
| + + | Educ. R. 29: 195. F. ‘05. 1210w. (Survey of contents.) |
“It is a book of high ideals and much common sense.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 60w. |
“It impresses us as being crammed full of suggestive material that will prove of great value for classroom use in departments of education and in normal schools.”
| + + | School R. 13: 274.[*] Mr. ‘05. 110w. |
“The greatest weakness is in the method of treatment. This is strikingly unscientific. The second great weakness in this work is the narrow point of view. A third characteristic weakness is seen in the trivialities with which the book is loaded.” Junius L. Meriam.
| — — — | School R. 13: 517. Je. ‘05. 1350w. |
Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis. United States: a history of three centuries, 1607-1904; population, politics, war, industry, civilization. 10 pts. pt. 1. [**]$3.50. Putnam.
The purpose of the joint authors in offering a new work on American history is “to present in a comprehensive and carefully proportioned narrative an account of the beginnings of the national existence and of the successive stages in the evolution of our distinctive national qualities and institutions.” Colonization, 1607-1697, forms the subject matter of this first part, which is divided into four sections: “Population and politics,” “War,” “Industry,” and “Civilization.” “The second section presents the record of war and of conquest, chiefly in their military phases,” while the fourth section is devoted to “religion and morality, literature and art, education and social life.”
“In none of the four divisions [of Vol. I] is anything like a serious study of institutions attempted. The unique separateness of treatment is so faithfully observed that the historical trains on this four-track road of American development rarely graze one another in passing. They appear to run quite free from any essential interconnection. The Bibliography is a hodgepodge. The titles of the ‘authorities’ are frequently misquoted, none of the references cite pages, and the notes are numbered consecutively. As the work progresses the number of notes steadily decreases, but the grade of intelligence displayed in their selection remains the same. The index ranges itself alongside of the notes and references. As for literary composition, whatever be the claims of the publishers, the book abounds in cheap comments, efforts at fine writing and big words. Of the making of positive errors, misstatements, and slipshod phrases there is no end. Wrong dates, misspellings, and misuse of proper names and places are so common as to call for no special remark.” William R. Shepherd.
| — — — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 642. Ap. ‘05. 1130w. |
“It would hardly be correct to say that it makes no contribution to historical literature; in parts three and four, ‘Industry’ and ‘Civilization,’ a good many interesting facts have been brought together, but it would be difficult to say who will profit by them.” David Y. Thomas.
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 601. S. ‘05. 350w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The ‘Perspectives’ at the close of certain chapters are more valuable than the chapters themselves, being completer chronologies. Dark sayings, easy verdicts, drippings of philosophy and misquotations in the style of ‘popular lecturers’ are characteristic of the book.”
| + — — | Ind. 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 630w. |
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
| — — | Reader. 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w. |
Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis. United States; a history of three centuries. 10 pts. pt. 2, Colonial union, 1698-1774. [**]$3.50. Putnam.
Part 2 is divided into five sections which cover the western movement of the people and their political history, wars, industries and agriculture, religions and social conditions, and contemporaneous European history.
“The volume is on the whole an interesting result of much labour, written with considerable vigour and insight, and summing up better than any other work yet produced the various phases and aspects of that surprising development—the birth of a new race.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 851. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1230w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| Critic. 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It is to be regretted that a work so attractively got up should thus far exhibit so slight intrinsic merit of either substance or form.”
| — | Nation. 80: 435. Je. 1. ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“In short, the style of Messrs. Chancellor and Hewes grows monotonous and fatiguing. They occasionally get hopelessly entangled in the meshes of inaccuracy and irrelevancy. Historical errors are extremely common.”
| — — — | N. Y. Times. 10: 434. Jl. 1, ‘05. 750w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It is defective in almost every essential.”
| — — | Outlook. 81: 42. S. 2, ‘05. 610w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.) |
“Full of great and varied interest.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 900. Je. 17. ‘05. 270w. |
Chandler, Mrs. Izora Cecilia, and Montgomery, Mary W. Told in the gardens of Araby. [*]75c. Meth. bk.
Nine stories translated from the Turkish. The emerald roc; The story of the beautiful girl who had her wish; The story of the beautiful one who did not have her desire; Story of the crying pomegranate and the laughing bear; Story of the bird of affliction; Story of the water-carrier; Story of the coffee-maker’s apprentice; The crystal kiosk and the diamond ship. A prelude gives a description of the manners and customs of the people with whom the stories deal.
“Told with varying success.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 481. Je. 15. ‘05. 310w. |
“Neither very good nor very bad.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 358. Je. 3. ‘05. 290w. |
Chandler, Katherine. In the reign of coyote. 40c. Ginn.
A little book of folk-lore from the Pacific coast, in which the coyote, the wisest and most efficient of the four-footed creatures, occupies the chief place. The setting of the book gives a glimpse of child life in colonial California.
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 30w. |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 90w. |
Channing, Edward. History of the United States. 8v. v. I, Planting of a nation in the New world. [**]$2.50. Macmillan.
Volume I., of a history of the United States which is designed to trace as one unbroken development the founding of the thirteen colonies by immigrants, mainly from England, the achievement of independence from English control, the Union under the Constitution, the growth of the United States, territorially and socially, and the final welding of the American people into a great nation. The present volume carries the account down to 1660. At the end of each chapter have been placed for advanced students in history technical discussions and bibliographical matter.
“In scholarship the work easily leads any other attempt of the kind. The style is clear, pleasing and admirably simple. If it lacks the literary flavor of some of the more popular histories, there is the compensating charm of deep knowledge and plain-spoken truth. The only adequate estimate of this work is to state frankly that it stands in the forefront of scholarly efforts to tell the history of this country.” C. H. Van Tyne.
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 602. S. ‘05. 420w. |
“Professor Osgood’s ‘American colonies in the seventeenth century’ is far more detailed on the institutional side, and upon some points gives what seems to the reviewer a better interpretation of the documents. On the other hand, President Tyler’s ‘The English in America’ is richer in detail of narrative, but is by comparison much less accurate in parts,—in the treatment, for example of the Dutch colonies.” St. George L. Sioussat.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 83. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1580w. |
“The scholarship easily surpasses that in any other undertaking of the kind, and the clear, pleasing and simple style makes the book eminently readable.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1479. Je. 29, ‘05. 510w. |
[*] “As a study of the growth of the nation, from the political, institutional, industrial and social point of view, it stands without a rival.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 80w. |
“We do not know of a better brief discussion of the discovery of America, nor any so good of the intimate relation between the English-Spanish commercial rivalry of the sixteenth century and the English colonizing enterprises of the seventeenth.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 40. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1500w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 225. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w. |
“It is thoughtful and well written, and deserves the attention which should be accorded to the work of any scholarly man whose writing is the result of careful study and mature reflection.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1360w. |
“It is in this constant striving to grasp the spirit of the times and to assist to a better understanding of movements and events as they appeared to those participating in them that the special significance of Professor Channing’s work lies.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 41. S. 2, ‘05. 640w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w. |
“Professor Channing’s treatment of the colonies and their social institutions, is interesting throughout, but is especially strong in those chapters which deal with New England.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 170w. |
Chapin, Anna Alice. Makers of song. [**]$1.20. Dodd.
“A collection of sketches, the aim of which is to point out the men who have in the most marked degree influenced the development and to enable students to understand more thoroughly the history of song.”—Bookm.
“Miss Chapin’s work is both statistical and narrative, and her well-written story of the origin of song will be read with interest.” Ingram A. Pyle.
| + + | Dial. 38: 237. Ap. 1, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] Chapin, Anna Alice. True story of Humpty Dumpty, how he was rescued by three mortal children in Make Believe Land. [**]$1.40. Dodd.
This brand new story of Humpty Dumpty is illustrated with “many delightful full-page colored pictures and black and white sketches ... by Ethel Franklin Betts. It is long, in prose, a history of the experiences of Meg, Bab, and Dick. The three are not the best children that ever were, they complain about always having eggs for tea—that is where Humpty comes in—and through this they have many novel experiences.” (N. Y. Times.)
[*] “It is a good modern fairy tale for very little folk.”
| + | Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “Marks an advance in matter and manner over her last year’s ‘Babes in toyland.’”
| + + | Nation. 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “A very nice new book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 210w. |
Chapin, Henry Dwight. The theory and practice of infant feeding. [*]$2.25. Wood.
“The second edition of Dr. Chapin’s book on infant feeding contains what appears to the layman to be an extremely clear and sensible exposition of the conditions which have to be met in providing a proper diet for very young children.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book is plentifully provided with scientific data, tables, and facts, but it is neither technical nor dull. On the contrary, it makes rather good reading for anybody with an appetite for curious and useful knowledge.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 103. F. 18, ‘05. 300w. |
Chapin, Henry Dwight. Vital questions. [**]$1. Crowell.
Dr. Chapin’s prominence in the medical world argues much for the authoritativeness of this little volume which in plain terms sets forth some of the “vital questions” of society and the individual. Among them are Inequality, The unfit, Poverty, Health, Education, Success, Happiness, Religion and Death.
“Altogether, one must account the book exceedingly readable, earnest and useful.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 664. O. 7, ‘05. 550w. |
“Dr. Chapin’s book is a valuable help to the thoughtful living which is the proper basis both of the simple and the strenuous life.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 180w. |
Chapman, Edward Mortimer. Dynamic of Christianity. [**]$1.25. Houghton.
This study of the vital and permanent elements in the Christian religion takes the stand that an effort to reconcile science and religion would be “like an attempt to harmonize the fact of sunrise with the joy of walking and working in the light.” “The inevitable conclusion of his study is the conviction of the truth and value of Christ’s own doctrine of the spirit as the imminent and resident force in the universe, the ground of phenomena, physical and spiritual.” (Pub. Opin.)
“In the first place, its style is excellent, possessing the easy dignity of true culture, and the simple directness of a finished instrument of English expression; in the second place, the book shows wide reading in the modern literature of religious experience and criticism. Mr. Chapman’s philosophy is not solid enough, and his history is totally inadequate.”
| + + — | Cath. World. 80: 541. Ja. ‘05. 780w. |
“Is a valuable addition to current religious thinking.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 160w. |
“While it appeals at the same time to the religious people and to the men of science, is written with the assumption that there is no quarrel between the two. Mr. Chapman develops his theme in an interesting way through citations from the writings of famous men.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 254. F. ‘05. 130w. |
Chapman, George. [Bussy D’Ambois and The revenge of Bussy D’Ambois], ed. by F: S: Boas. 60c. Heath.
A volume in section III. of the “Belles-lettres” series, the English drama. In it “an attempt is made for the first time” to edit these plays “in a manner suitable to the requirements of modern scholarship.” The texts are from the quartos of 1641, 1646, and 1657 collated with those of 1607, and 1608, with variants noted. A biography of Chapman, an introduction, full notes, bibliography and glossary are provided.
Charlton, John. Speeches and addresses: political, literary, and religious. $2. Morang & co.
“John Charlton, member of the Canadian house of commons from 1872 to 1904 ... has collected some of his speeches and addresses on various subjects. Those which will be of special interest here are those on the National transcontinental railway; the Brown draft reciprocity treaty of 1878, which failed to be ratified by the United States senate; Self-protection, reciprocity and British preference. There is also an able parliamentary speech on ‘Irredeemable currency,’ and in the platform addresses there are two of interest as giving a Canadian’s view of Washington and Lincoln.”—Ind.
[*] “His speeches are marked with vigor and common-sense argument.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 933. O. 19, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 690w. |
“Mr. Charlton is qualified to speak with authority on all matters pertaining to the political and economic life of the country he has served so well.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 136. S. 16, ‘05. 320w. |
Chase, Arthur Wesley. Elementary course in mechanical drawing for manual training and technical schools; with chapters on machine sketching and the blueprinting process. 2 pts. Pt. 1. $1.50. H. Speakman, Congress and Honore sts., Chicago.
“As its title implies, this work presents in the usual style an introduction to the elements of mechanical drawing. The problems have been arranged so as to omit all finished sheets; the student is given the layout of a drawing only; in this way any direct copying of finished work is prevented. Specifications are fully given in every case so the student receives a drill similar to the experienced in practical work.”—Engin. N.
“The text is lucidly but not always concisely written.”
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 186. F. 16, ‘05. 90w. |
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Facsimile reproduction of the first folio of Chaucer, 1532; with an introduction by Prof. Skeat. [*]$50. Oxford.
“The folio of 1532, compiled by William Thynne, clerk of the kitchen to Henry VIII, a man of means and an ardent admirer of Chaucer, was the first collection which claimed on its title-page to be the works of Geoffrey Chaucer; and this it is which is here reproduced. As the First folio, it possesses great bibliographical interest.”—Nation.
| Nation. 80: 251. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1530w. |
“Dr. Walter Skeat has added largely to the literary value of the book by his biographical introduction.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] Cheney, John Vance. Poems, [**]$1.50. Houghton.
Mr. Cheney “has now brought together in a single volume of ‘Poems’ all of his work that he wishes to preserve.... It is a limited achievement, no doubt, for few of the pieces extend beyond a single page, and many of them are but the briefest bits of song.... His lyrics are of acceptance, coupled only with the gentlest and most apologetical sort of questioning ... but they ... should endear the author to us, at least in our less strenuous moods.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| * | + | Dial. 39: 274. N. 1, ‘05. 640w. |
[*] “The selected collection of his ‘Poems’ is remarkable for its variety and readability.”
| + | Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 390w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 240w. |
Cheney, Warren. Way of the North: a romance of the days of Baranof. $1.50. Doubleday.
A young Russian doctor, deported to Sitka, tells the story of life in this Alaskan town while the country was still under Russian rule. He falls in love with a girl who goes to Alaska to fulfil a childhood betrothal, and in relating the events which lead up to his happiness, he gives vivid descriptions of the lives of the settlers and of the civil and military personages prominent in that wild country.
“Handling his material simply and unaffectedly, as befits the bold and sturdy pioneer spirit, but not without a certain monotony of style.”
| + — | Bookm. 21: 652. Ag. ‘05. 220w. | |
| + — | Ind. 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 170w. |
“The reader’s interest is awakened at the outset and fairly well sustained. The characters are sharply drawn and the style is simple and entertaining. As a whole, however, the book is not of unusual interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 250w. |
“A novel of unusual setting and some extraordinary power.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 100w. |
“Book that can be enjoyed for its style alone. ‘The way of the North’ is, beyond doubt, the best written American book of the season.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 150w. |
Chesebrough, Robert A. Christmas guests and other poems. $1.50. Little, J. J.
The author has dedicated these eighteen poems to his granddaughter, but they are verses which appeal to his age rather than to hers, the ghosts of the past flit thru them, regrets, happy memories, thoughts of death and the hereafter, while they all breathe forth the mellow philosophy which comes with years.
Chesnut, Mary Boykin. Diary from Dixie: being her diary from November 1861 to 1865; ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary. [**]$2.50. Appleton.
The author was the wife of James Chesnut, jr., United States senator 1859-1861, and afterwards aide to Jefferson Davis, and a brigadier general in the confederate army. The diary gives a clear picture of the social life during the war, and of the events which took place in Charlestown, Montgomery and Richmond.
“It is for the picture of social life in the South under the stress of an unsuccessful struggle that this lively and fascinating book will be chiefly read.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 90w. |
“Her diary could not have been more entertainingly written if she had intended it for publication.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 507. Je. ‘05. 460w. |
“Full of vivid pictures of the social life of the time and of the varied experiences of the war.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 60w. |
“The style is crisp and bright, and the tone frank and good tempered. It is on the subject of negroes and slavery that Mrs. Chesnut’s diary will prove most valuable to historians, but the general reader will be chiefly interested in the accounts of the home life of the beleaguered people.” Walter L. Fleming.
| + + | Dial. 38: 347. My. 16, ‘05. 1060w. | |
| + — | Nation. 80:485. Je. 15, ‘05. 2230w. |
“This diary has decided historical value. Further, it is an intimate record of an intelligent looker-on in Richmond during a greater portion of the war. There are some discrepancies.” William E. Dodd.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10:260. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1910w. |
“The two editors of the book are to be congratulated on having discovered and having thrown into such readable form this biographical material.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 907. Ap. 8, ‘05. 230w. |
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. [Colonel’s dream.] (†)$1.50. Doubleday.
The story of an ex-Confederate officer who when the war is ended, seeks his fortune in New York, and twenty years after returns to the South to enjoy life and incidentally to put into practice some of his Northern business training. “It is frankly up to the times, with the clash of race and the convict camp, and the decayed old gentry.” (Ind.)
“The style is easy, apparently practised, and the story does not lack for abundant incident.”
| + | Ind. 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 130w. |
“It must be acknowledged that the author does not spare the faults of the negro any more than he spares those of the white man—and in both cases many of his pictures are true.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 605. S. 16, ‘05. 360w. |
“Taken all in all, the book is not as successful as one could wish, and certainly is distinctly inferior to the author’s earlier work.”
| + — | Outlook. 81 :278. S. 30, ‘05. 140w. |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. [Club of queer trades.] (†)$1.25. Harper.
No one is eligible to this club unless he has invented a brand new occupation by which he earns a living. The members include a man who offers himself to dinner hosts as a butt for repartee, another who guarantees to provide any commonplace soul as well as the more gifted, with a suitable romance. The founder of the club earns his livelihood by seeking out new members and has all sorts of unique experiences.
“It is neither here nor there; neither veritable romantic extravaganza, true detective literature, nor consistent satire upon either of those forms of fiction.” H. W. Boynton.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 614. Ag. ‘05. 930w. |
[*] “Clever and amusing as the stories are, the book is not altogether happy.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 453. N. ‘05. 260w. |
“Funmaking of the most fantastic kind characterizes the six short stories.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05, 610w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w. |
“Mr. Chesterton is undeniably clever. These stories are whimsical and ingenious rather than humorous. The stories are uneven in merit.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 80w. |
“Utter and unredeemed extravaganza.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 90w. |
“With the exception of the first episode the execution is hardly up to the level of the conception. The book, in fine, gives one the impression rather of a series of brilliant improvisations than of a finished work of art.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 597. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1000w. |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. [Heretics.] [*]$1.50. Lane.
Mr. Chesterton “has described nearly every strong man of our day,” and in these essays “he is calling out from the housetops to happier uncontemplative men, to come out and be sad, like himself, in thinking of supreme happiness.... He praises an abstract Chestertonian man of whom he is hopelessly and continually in pursuit. That everything he recommends is right, we indeed believe; but he cries in the wilderness, and with no human voice, no trace of suffering or experience at all, but only an anchorite’s imagining.” (Acad.)
| + — | Acad. 68: 655. Je. 24, ‘05. 930w. |
[*] “‘Heretics’ goes farther than any of its forerunners toward convincing us that the humorist really has something worth saying and worth understanding. The trouble with his method is that while it is infallible for getting the attention, it is not well calculated to keep it.” H. W. Boynton.
| + — | Atlan. 96: 848. D. ‘05. 500w. |
“With all his daring, he succeeds in keeping to windward of sheer silliness and mere sensationalism.” H. W. Boynton.
| + | Bookm. 22: 165. O. ‘05. 1580w. |
[*] “Between the covers of ‘Heretics’ there is not a little excellent critical doctrine. Yet the writer ought to trust his readers to understand him without preliminary shouts to attract their attention.” Edward Fuller.
| + | Critic. 47: 565. D. ‘05. 640w. |
“One page amuses by its originality of conception and expression, the next provokes by its insecurity of argument, the third charms by its suggestiveness. It is a book to be relished, not as a whole, but in snatches. With all its half-playful cynicism, it seems to be in the main sincere.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 204. O. 1, ‘05. 1560w. |
“The general comment on Mr. Chesterton is that he is extremely ingenious, but so inordinately whimsical that it would be absurd to take him seriously. The true account of him is that he is not ingenious at all, but exceptionally straight forward and matter-of-fact.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + | Forum. 37: 255. O. ‘05. 1660w. |
“Mr. Chesterton is quite as trenchant and exuberant as he was, and we are, after all, not much older than we were; yet we join in the fun with perceptibly less eagerness now. The truth is that Mr. Chesterton has done in this book what he always did ostensibly, and always avoided really; he has given himself away.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 183. Je. 9, ‘05. 1140w. |
[*] “His ideas are sounder than many a casual reader will be willing to admit. They are sound in spite of Mr. Chesterton’s perversity.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 490w. |
“For in the things that really matter Mr. Chesterton is on the side of the angels. He is orthodox. He handles his heretics sometimes like Bishop Bonner, with firmness and jocosity; sometimes like Socrates, turning their pet phrases inside out, and showing their hollowness; but all are handled paradoxically.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 224. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1150w. |
Cheyne, Thomas Kelly. Bible problems and the new material for their solution. [*]$1.50. Putnam.
A lecture which “is in part a presentation of the new facts which require better attention, and in part a plea for bolder Biblical criticism, as justified by these facts, and as necessary to the now imperative work of theological restatement.” (Outlook). Among the strongly insisted upon “new facts” are the study of the New Testament in the light of mythology, and due regard for Winckler’s discovery in Assyrian inscriptions of North Arabian names that suggest numerous corrections in our present text of the Old Testament. On the other hand, Professor Cheyne states that his views “tend to increased conservatism in the rendering of the text of the Jewish Old Testament.”
Reviewed by A. Jeremias.
| + + — | Hibbert J. 4: 217. O. ‘05. 1550w. | |
| Ind. 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 50w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 250w. (Statement of Cheyne’s position.) | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 40w. |
Cheyney, Edward Potts. Short history of England. [*]$1.40. Ginn.
In making clear the fundamental facts of English history, Professor Cheyney emphasizes full descriptions of early institutions and conditions, the study of really great movements and influential men, and the necessity of adhering to the thread of one’s country’s history. Each chapter is followed by a list of works and portions of works suggested for general reading.
“It has many good points, one of which is that Professor Cheyney has very definite ideas of what a school-book should include.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 47. Ja. 14. ‘05. 240w. |
“The book is well planned throughout. From printers’ and other errors the work is remarkably free.” Norman MacLaren Trenholme.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 851. Jl. ‘05. 650w. |
“Apparently this one is better in the earlier than in the later portions. The book ... must be regarded as a compendium, rather than as an original inquiry, and, as such, it will be found useful.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 333. Ap. 27, ‘05. 410w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31:510. Ap. ‘05. 80w. |
Reviewed by W. H. Cushing.
| + + | School R. 13: 356. Ap. ‘05. 110w. |
Child and religion. See Stephens, Thomas. ed.
Christian, Eugene, and Christian, Mrs. Eugene. Uncooked foods and how to use them. $1. Health culture.
The authors contend that “the application of heat in the cooking of food destroys some of the important food elements that were vital and organic by rendering them inorganic, including those that are needed in the building up of the system and the maintenance of bodily and mental health.” Recipes for the preparation of uncooked food, healthful combinations and menus for the benefit of those who wish to try the experiment, follow the arguments.
| Arena. 33: 565. My. ‘05. 290w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Christmas carols, ancient and modern, ed. by Joshua Sylvestre. $1. Wessels.
Illustrated from photographs of well known paintings, and with marginal decorations of conventionalized Christmas greens, this collection of carols, many of which are reprinted from old broad-sides, begins with In excelsis gloria, and includes Welcome yule, sung in the time of Henry VI; several Elizabethan carols; Herrick’s Ode on the birth of our Saviour; The three kings, in the version of Henry VII’s time; Joy to the world, a popular favorite in Devon and Cornwall; and many popular carols whose time and authorship are unknown. The explanatory note given at the head of each carol, telling all that is known of its history adds much to the interest of the collection as its value is historical rather than poetical.
| * | Ind. 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 120w. |
Christy, Robert, comp. Proverbs, maxims, and phrases of all ages; classified subjectively and arranged alphabetically. [**]$3.50. Putnam.
In this new edition, the first since 1887, the two original volumes have been compressed into one, the work is apparently otherwise unchanged.
| Nation. 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 90w. |
“The collection needs careful revision, and is worth it even as it stands; it contains the material for a good treasury of proverbial sayings.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 350w. |
Church of Christ. See Phillips, Thomas W.
Cincinnati southern railway (The): a history; edited by Charles G. Hall.
A novel municipal experiment is recorded in the history of the origin, construction and financial organization of this railroad. As early as 1836 the need of a railway between Cincinnati and the South was felt so strongly that at a mass meeting held in Cincinnati one million dollars was subscribed for the enterprise. Before anything definite could be accomplished, the Civil war came and checked all such projects. After many delays, authority was secured from the legislature of Ohio as well as from those of Kentucky and Tennessee, and in 1873 the actual work of construction began, necessary funds being lent by the trustees from their own pockets. In July, 1877, the first division of the road was opened for business. Millions of dollars were raised by the sale of bonds, and the road is at present in the possession of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific railway co. as lessee, while the Cincinnati Southern holds the legal title for the city of Cincinnati. The lease expires in 1906.
| Dial. 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 330w. |
Cipperly, John Albert. Labor laws and decisions of the state of New York. pa. [*]$1. Banks & co.
This compilation includes statutes as well as cases. “Besides its value for purposes of reference, it shows almost at a glance what has been done in this state for ‘Labor,’ and how far we have advanced (or fallen away) from a state of society in which the laborer shifts for himself. On paper our laws are very paternal.” (Nation.)
“A useful compilation.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 312. Ap. 20, ‘05. 310w. |
Clark, Charles Heber (Max Adeler, pseud.). Quakeress. [†]$1.50. Winston.
A pathetic story of a Quaker maid, living the quiet life of the Friends and all but betrothed to a serious minded young neighbor. A dashing southerner and his frivolous sister come into the peaceful community, the sister to prove to the stern young Quaker that he has his frailties, and her brother to win the heart of the little Quaker maid. There is a description of a visit to their southern plantation, and then comes the war—and heart break and disaster. An Anglican minister and his devoted wife add humor to the story.
“Taken as a whole, the book is weak and commonplace. Max Adeler should by all means go back to his old humorous methods.”
| — | Acad. 68: 880. Ag. 26, ‘05. 410w. |
“The character drawing is excellent. There are some highly dramatic passages and the story is replete with incidents and adventures. Perhaps its greatest value lies in its worth as a careful, interesting and faithful psychological study.”
| + + + | Arena. 34: 108. Jl. ‘05. 460w. | |
| * | + | Ath. 1905, 2: 681. N. 18. 200w. |
| + | Dial. 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
“One of the best novels of the season. This book is remarkable because it is not viciously witty, altho it comes from the pen of a professional wit.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1420. Je. 22, ‘05. 600w. |
“About the book as a whole there is a kind of sweet, old-fashioned fragrance which inclines one, no doubt for sentimental reasons, to look back on it kindly.”
| — + | Lond. Times. 4: 279. S. 1, ‘05. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 420w. |
“The usual intermingling of joy and sorrow, love and life, appears in the quiet story, simply told.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w. |
“It cannot be said that the story as a whole is evenly strong, or that it realizes all the climaxes that its plot affords. It is never dramatic, and it is often amateurish.”
| + | Reader. 6: 243. Jl. ‘05. 180w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 100: 442. S. 30, ‘05. 110w. |
“The book leaves a tranquilly sad impression on the reader’s mind, the workmanship is highly finished and the plot is well thought out.”
| + | Spec. 95: 532. O. 7, ‘05. 340w. |
Clarke, James Langston. Eternal Saviour-judge. [*]$3. Dutton.
“The familiar principle that the proper design of punishment is reformatory, not vindictive, is here applied in a new line of argument to the problem of retribution. Mr. Clarke works out a Biblical doctrine that aims to avoid the objections made severally to the theories of endless retribution, annihilation, and universalism. Substantially, it is a purgatorial scheme. In this the Biblical antithesis to ‘salvation’ is not ‘damnation’ but ‘judgment,’ corrective as well as punitive.”—Outlook.
| Outlook. 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 160w. |
“This thesis is stated with much ability.”
| + | Spec. 94: 368. Mr. 11, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] Clarke, William Newton. Use of the Scriptures in theology; the Nathaniel William Taylor lectures delivered at Yale university in 1905. [**]$1. Scribner.
The fundamental premise of this volume is “that a rationally sound theology depends on the soundness of the method of using the Bible as a source of theology. Dr. Clarke shows that the traditional method is unsound, and what mischief has been done by it. He then discusses the problem created by the search for a sound method, what this method is, and what its results, both negative and positive.”—Outlook.
[*] “Dr. Clarke has written a book which every minister should buy or beg or borrow.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1229. N. 23, ‘05. 620w. |
[*] “Though this is a small book, it may be reckoned equal to the best productions of its author.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 240w. |
[*] Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). [Editorial wild oats.] [†]$1. Harper.
This volume contains half a dozen short stories all of which bear upon the general subject of youthful journalistic experiences, which Clemens has been pleased to call, Editorial wild oats. The sketches are entitled: My first literary venture; Journalism in Tennessee; Nicodemus Dodge—printer; Mr. Bloke’s item; How I edited an agricultural paper; and The killing of Julius Caesar “localized.”
[*] “Mark Twain’s fund of humor seems inexhaustible, so here again it remains at its old-time high level.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “Extravagant tales of newspaper life.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 15w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 637. N. 11, ‘05. 140w. |
Clement, Clara Erskine. [Women in the fine arts.] [**]$2.50. Houghton.
“A compendium of miscellaneous information about all the women artists that the author could discover between the seventh century B.C. and the twentieth, A.D. Among the thousand names included, the late nineteenth century is the most fully represented. As the greater part of the material about contemporary painters was furnished by themselves, we may assume that it is correct.... Being alphabetically arranged, the book is a convenient manual from which to extract information about artists who have not yet got into the encyclopedias. A number of full-page illustrations add interest to the text, and a fifty-page introduction gives a general idea of what women have accomplished in art.”—Dial.
| Dial. 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 160w. | ||
| + — | Spec. 95: 262. Ag. 19, ‘05. 30w. |
Clement, Ernest Wilson. Christianity in modern Japan. [**]$1. Am. Bapt.
“Professor Clement ... here attempts a survey of the moral forces which are now in full energy in Japan.” (Nation.) The book gives a “bird’s-eye view of the work of Christianity in Japan. It is not intended to cover the work in great detail; it is rather planned to be a general outline with reference to books, pamphlets, and magazines, where more complete information can be obtained on each special topic.” (Pub. Opin.)
“With index, tables and other equipment for a book to be studied, this has also a decided literary charm.” William Elliot Griffis.
| + + | Critic. 47: 265. S. ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “Orderly arrangement, historical development, engagingly shown, philosophical insight, and a brisk luminous style make this a model handbook, pleasing and valuable.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 80w. | |
| * | + + | Lit. D. 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 270w. |
“In literary proportion and breadth of view and in keenness of insight, this book is a model. It is all the more likely to be permanent in its influence because of its cool, judicial temper.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1090w. |
“The book is intended for mission-study classes, and is interesting.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 180w. |
“Mr. Clement’s book is a comprehensive discussion of the development of Christianity in Japan.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 120w. |
Clement, Ernest Wilson. Handbook of modern Japan. [**]$1.40. McClurg.
The introduction states: “The book endeavors to portray Japan in all its features as a modern world power: It cannot be expected to cover in great detail all the ground outlined, because it is not intended to be an exhaustive encyclopedia of ‘things Japanese.’ It is expected to satisfy the specialist, not by furnishing all materials, but referring for particulars to works where abundant materials may be found. It is expected to satisfy the average reader, by giving a kind of bird’s-eye view of modern Japan. It is planned to be a compendium of condensed information, with careful references to the best sources of more complete knowledge.”
| * | + | Nation. 81: 945. N. 30, ‘05. 80w. |
Clement, Ernest W. Japanese floral calendar. 50c. Open ct.
A prettily illustrated book showing the flowers popular each month of the Japanese year. Descriptive bits, snatches of folk-lore, and poems with a chapter on Japanese gardens make the whole a charming book. The flowers for the months, beginning with January and ending with December, are the pine, plum, peach, cherry, wistaria, iris, morning-glory, lotus, “seven grasses,” maple, chrysanthemum, and camellia.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 360w. |
Clements, Frederick E. Research methods in ecology. $3. Univ. pub., Neb.
“This work ... is intended ... as a handbook for investigators and for advanced students of ecology, and not as a text book on the subject.... The book is presented in four chapters ... the first of which deals with the scope, historical development, present status and important applications of ecology.... The second chapter is concerned with the habitat and methods of its investigation.... The third chapter has to do with the plant, the stimuli which it receives, the nature of its response, its adjustment and adaptation especially to water and light as stimuli.... The fourth chapter ... has for its general subject the formation or vegetation unit consisting essentially of plants in a habitat.”—Science.
“Altogether, Clements’s ‘Research methods in ecology’ is a notable contribution to the literature of ecology.” Conway MacMillan.
| + + + | Science, n.s. 22: 45. Jl. 14, ‘05. 670w. |
Cleveland, Frederick Albert. Bank and the treasury. [*]$1.80. Longmans.
“Timely and valuable is this critique of the American currency and banking system.... Holding that the time has come when changes in the National bank act are imperative, in the direction both of securing more effective governmental control and of insuring greater currency ‘elasticity,’ Dr. Cleveland contends that whatever financial reforms be undertaken, they should be in the way of adapting, not revolutionizing, the existing system.”—Outlook.
“There is no disputing the fact that it is a contribution, and indeed a very worthy one, even if it does not contain the final word on the subject. As to the ground covered, however, those who are interested in such problems cannot do better than to consult this volume; indeed, they cannot afford not to do it.” J. E. Conner.
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 603. S. ‘05. 430w. |
“The instructed reader will find not a few things in the book that will arouse his wonder.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 61. Jl. 20, ‘05. 800w. |
“The work of an acute observer and careful reasoner, of one who has gone deeply and intelligently into every phase of his subject.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 190. My. 20, ‘05. 520w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 509. O. ‘05. 80w. |
Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover. Presidential problems. [**]$1.80. Century.
If in times of weighty new matters, there are any who have a moment for a backward glance, they would do well to review with Mr. Cleveland some of the problems of his administration which “illustrate the design, the tradition, and the power of our government.” The chapters are four: “Independence of the executive,” “The government in the Chicago strike of 1894,” “The bond issue,” and “The Venezuelan boundary controversy.”
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
| + + + | Atlan. 95: 552. Ap. ‘05. 800w. |
Clifford, Chandler Robbins. Philosophy of color. 50c. Clifford & Lawton.
The treatise is an attempt to analyse and understand the law which governs the use of colors, so that we may know how to produce harmony and not strike a jarring note. The author makes practical suggestions for the use of colors in house furnishings. There are many illustrations.
“The author of this interesting little treatise has brought the subject within the understanding of any one.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 17. Mr. ‘05. 310w. |
Clifford, Ethel. Love’s journey. [**]$1.50. Lane.
“The rustle and patter of leaves, the trilling of birds, the whisper of rain make April music in Miss Clifford’s poetry; for all that these sounds have been caught and tamed in rhyme and measure, it is still the natural elementary melodies of the earth, not the artificial music of man, that her songs suggest. Lyric succeeds lyric and mood follows mood like sun and shade in the forest on a day in spring.”—Lond. Times.
“But it is difficult to quote enough to convey the faint charm of these poems, a charm which is diffused rather than distilled. As a maker of haunting refrains Miss Clifford is often felicitous.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 107. Jl. 22, ‘05. 510w. |
“The charm of Miss Clifford’s poetry lies in the woodland simplicity. She is at her best when she pays no heed to the works of man.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 168. My. 26, ‘05. 350w. | |
| Nation. 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 190w. |
“Miss Clifford’s new volume is less interesting than her first. The dramatic poems are the best; few of the other pieces are more than merely pretty and tuneful.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 50. Ag. 8, ‘05. 260w. |
Clouston, J. Storer. [Lunatic at large.] $1. Buckles. also pub. by Brentano’s.
A young doctor without a practice receives a tempting offer of £500 and expenses to travel with a wealthy youth mentally unbalanced. Fearing to trust himself to the caprice of a lunatic, a friend of his represents the patient, while the “sane lunatic” is drugged and left in a private asylum. The amazing doings of this clever and worldly wise young man constitute the book. His methods of escape, his escapades in London, his periodical change of name, scene, and history are skilfully and amusingly handled.
| + | Ind. 59: 44. Jl. 6, ‘05. 70w. |
“Is not at all probable, and not very edifying, but it is certainly well written and entertaining.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 310w. |
Clute, Willard Nelson. Fern allies. [**]$2. Stokes.
A well-illustrated manual of the families of non-flowering plants, other than the ferns, found in North America north of Mexico.
“The book is a valuable addition to our literature of less-known American plants.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 380w. |
“There can hardly be a more convenient guide for the beginner who, having busied himself somewhat with ferns, wishes to glance at their relatives. The text is interesting and the drawings are clear.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 382. N. 9, ‘05. 100w. | |
| + | Outlook. 81: 525. O. 28, ‘05. 20w. |
Coates, Florence Earle. Mine and thine (poems). [**]$1.25. Houghton.
A volume of eighty sonnets and poems including personal tributes to Mr. Stedman, Mr. Yeats, Madame Bernhardt, and Helen Keller, Beethoven, Picquart, Whistler, E. N. Westcott, Stevenson, Millet, and Joan of Arc, and verses to England, Paris, and Buffalo, and to the “War for the liberation of Cuba.”
“Their chief merit is not spontaneity but thoughtfulness.”
| + | Critic. 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 30w. |
“Of the excellence of Mrs. Coates’s sentiments there can be no doubt; her nature is warmly responsive to whatever is worthy in life and beautiful in art. But her expression does not often exhibit spontaneity or achieve distinction.”
| + | Dial. 38: 200. Mr. 16, ‘05. 250w. |
“Miss Coates’s verses may be described in a general way as topical.”
| + | Ind. 59: 218. Jl. 27, ‘05. 190w. |
“The best of the poems ... are those which deal with persons. These are always sympathetic to the essential quality of the man.”
| + | Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 160w. |
“The distinguishing marks of Mrs. Coates’ verse are simplicity and an unashamed gravity.”
| + | Reader. 5: 619. Ap. ‘05. 340w. |
Cobb, Benjamin Franklin. Business philosophy. [**]$1.20. Crowell.
A clear, level-headed exposition of the problems facing every business man from the least to the greatest, and suggestions regarding how to meet and handle them. Such subjects are treated as choosing a profession, system, credit, collections, office management, relations to employes, advertising, use of trading stamps, etc.
| + | Outlook. 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 10w. |
[*] “A little volume of practical suggestions, written from personal experiences.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 639. N. ‘05. 20w. |
Cobden club. Burden of armaments; a plea for retrenchment. 90c. Wessels.
In view of the steady increase in military and naval expenditure by the British government, the Cobden club has issued this volume which deals with the subject in the spirit of Cobden and carries his narrative and arguments down to the present date. Part 1, is a condensed restatement of Cobden’s arguments in “The three panics” (1863), part 2, Retrenchment, deals with the economic reaction between 1863 and 1884, part 3, The growth of militarism, gives an account of the relapse into extravagance, part 4, is a plea for disarmament.
“The book under consideration is much more than a mere recall to right feeling: it is no less than an appeal to common sense.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 390w. | |
| + + + | Nation. 80: 421. My. 25, ‘05. 1200w. |
Cochrane, Charles H. Modern industrial progress. [**]$3 Lippincott.
“The tremendous industrial progress of the past few decades is recorded in this volume in brief descriptions of many inventions and discoveries and new applications of old discoveries.” (Outlook). “Among the numerous subjects discussed are electricity, including the progress made by Marconi, great canals and tunnels, bridges, tools of destruction, great farms and farming machinery, the iron horse and the railways, foods, engineering enterprises, newspapers and periodicals, instruments of science, cotton, wool, and texture manufactures, etc.” (Bookm.) There are over four hundred illustrations.
| + + + | Acad. 68: 496. My. 6, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + | Critic. 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 60w. |
“In a straightforward, practicable manner, makes clear the recent steps in the field of mechanics and invention.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 80w. | |
| + + + | Dial. 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 230w. |
“Such books as this are especially useful in school and public libraries. Not as interestingly written as might be, but full of information.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 270. F. 2, ‘05. 70w. |
“The work is therefore encyclopædic in scope, and, as it is the production of a single mind, is neither profound in treatment nor remarkable for accuracy. Carelessness in composition and revision makes many of the sentences, to say the least, ambiguous. As a scientific treatise, the book is worthless. As a popular survey of modern progress, were it more carefully written and more generously indexed, it would be useful.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 191. Mr. 9, ‘05. 240w. |
“Mr. Cochrane’s subject is large, and he has pretty well covered it. His book is as full of meat as an egg; and good meat it seems to be, too.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 147. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w. |
“The volume is obviously intended for popular consumption, having no orderly or logical arrangement of subjects, and the treatment being absolutely untechnical.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 70w. |
“A book full of attractive materials.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 80w. |
“A remarkable piece of work, encyclopaedic in its scope.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 619. Ap. 29, ‘05. 620w. |
Coe, George Albert. Education in religion and morals. [**]$1.35. Revell.
Professor Coe finds the essence of religious education “on the part of the teacher self-revelation and self impartation; on the part of the pupil, self-expression and self-realization.” In other words, all religious education is the “genuine mingling of a developed life in the interests and occupations of an undeveloped life.” (Bib. World). The best field for religious training is in the home, where the most free and natural relations exist. It is by revealing a sincere and self-sacrificing attitude toward life that a religious influence can be exerted.
“It is in the breadth, courage and sanity of his survey of the social situation that the chief merit of his work is found.”
| + + | Am. J. of Theol. 9:388. Ap. ‘05. 300w. |
“This is a great book—the greatest on its subject since Bushnell’s ‘Christian nurture’ in 1847. It takes religious education off its apex of formal dogmatic instruction, and sets it down on the broad, stable base of sharing the concrete experiences of life. It gives us a point of view; and in the light of that point of view goes forth to challenge all unreality and insincerity. This book should be in the hands of every Christian.” William DeWitt Hyde.
| + + + | Bib. World. 25: 154. F. ‘05. 1300w. (Statement of its teachings.) |
“The treatment of the problem in hand is thoroughly in accord with good psychological and pedagogical practice. The whole work, a worthy complement to Professor Coe’s previous publication on ‘The religion of a mature mind,’ is vitalizing and illuminating in its character and effect.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1011. Ap. 22, ‘05. 910w. |
Cohen, Alfred J. (Alan Dale, pseud.). [Wanted, a cook.] (†)$1.50. Bobbs.
A humorous account of the trials and tribulations of a newly married couple. “Two babes in the woods in this wilderness of flats make a pathetic attempt to have a real home, which comes to grief through a succession of disasters in the shape of incompetent or dishonest or impossible cooks. The mistress of the tiny ‘flat’ knows many things, but not how to cook; her experiences are enough to have turned her pretty hair gray, and one wonders if there is for her and women like her any other solution than the ‘apartment hotel,’ which is the only one the book offers.” (Ind.)
| Acad. 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 510w. |
“Seldom has it been our pleasure to read a more delightful satire on one phase of our present-day urban life. Has treated the servant-girl question in an inimitable manner. Though exaggerated at times as is the wont of the humorist, it is from first to last broadly true, and on the whole the story will prove as excellent a cure for the blues as the first reading of Mark Twain’s ‘Innocents Abroad.’”
| + + | Arena. 33: 222. F. ‘05. 140w. |
“There is a fund of humour and entertainment in ‘Wanted a cook’ which makes it delightful reading.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 200w. |
“An airy variation of a very well-worn theme.”
| — | Critic. 46 :480. My. ‘05. 50w. |
“Perhaps the most feeling, altho somewhat farcical, presentment of the vexed problem is the latest by Alan Dale.”
| + | Ind. 58:210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 210w. |
Cohen, Isabel E. Legends and tales in prose and verse. 75c. Jewish pub.
A compilation of prose and verse on Jewish subjects, most of which concern Bible characters.
“Pleasant and instructive reading for the young.”
| + | Dial. 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
Colby, Frank Moore. Imaginary obligations. [*]$1.20. Dodd.
A volume of dogmatic essays. “Some of his best chapters have to do with ‘The business of writing,’ and ‘Literary compulsion.’ ‘The literary temperament’ is treated in a way that makes the reader squirm in his chair. ‘The temptation of authors’ contains a warning to successful and prolific writers. ‘The danger of spreading oneself thin is that the time surely comes when it is done unconsciously. A man thinks it his thought flowing on like that, when it is only his ink.’ The fitness of Mr. Colby’s title, ‘Imaginary obligations,’ is somewhat imaginary.... But a book must have a title, and for a collection of loosely related essays one will serve about as well as another.” (Dial).
“The range of topics is wide, the comments are pointed, and the style is, on the whole, decidedly racy. No reader can fail to enjoy the wit and the satire even when they are directed against some pet hobby of his. The fun is harmless and it may be found to be accompanied by wisdom.”
| + | Boston Evening Transcript. :7. F. 10, ‘05. 250w. |
“Mr. Colby possesses a good measure of shrewd sense, a wholesome hatred of humbug and a keen eye to detect it, a practised pen, and a knack of terse, incisive, and often striking expression. But with these qualities go their defects: aiming to be brilliant and sententious, he occasionally exaggerates and makes phrases.”
| + — | Dial. 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 430w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 60w. |
Cole, Samuel Valentine. Life that counts. [**]75c. Crowell.
This book grew out of a series of addresses given before young people. It deals with some aspects of service but chiefly with certain qualifications of the useful life; viz. sympathy, courage, perseverance and aspiration. These are symbolized by four faces, the face of a man, a lion, an ox, an eagle, the emblem of the four evangelists.
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 733. D. 2, ‘05. 70w. |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Select poems; ed. by Andrew George. 60c. Heath.
This volume of the Belles-lettres series contains select poems of Coleridge arranged in chronological order, with introduction and notes by the editor.
| N.Y. Times. 10: 104. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w. |
Collier’s self-indexing annual for 1905: a contemporaneous encyclopedia and pictorial history of men and events of the past year as recorded and described by the world’s foremost specialists in every department of human progress. $5. Collier.
Here the time saver finds in ready-to-use form the “political history of the world and of important current events in the fields of labor, industry, science, invention, the arts, sport, education, religion, and sociology.” “The material has been collated from ‘Collier’s Weekly,’ is preceded by a sketch review of the year 1904, which is to be highly praised as a model of condensed statement, and is arranged in alphabetical order, with many illustrations.” (Outlook).
| + | Outlook. 79 :501. F. 25, ‘05. 100w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 80w. |
Collins, F. Howard. Author and printer: a guide for authors, editors, printers, correctors of the press, compositors and typists. [*]$2.25. Oxford.
“The want of uniformity in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and use of italic type causes continual trouble to all who are responsible for the editorial supervision of scientific literature in any form.... Mr. Collins has prepared his book to help in this end.... The volume contains more than twenty thousand separate entries of words arranged alphabetically. Included among these are abbreviations, disputed spellings, foreign words and phrases, divisions of words, and various rules and explanations which should prove of service to authors and editors.”—Nature.
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 560. My. 6. 450w. | |
| Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 70w. |
“In conclusion we can pronounce this compilation useful, if almost without rhyme or reason and certainly not highly authoritative.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 203. S. 7, ‘05. 1220w. | |
| + + + | Nature. 72: 100. Je. 1, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Collyer, Robert. Augustus Conant, Illinois pioneer and preacher. [*]60c. Am. Unitar.
This second volume in “True American types” series contains the charmingly simple record of the plucky career of a typical New Englander who was born in Vermont in 1811, went west in the early days as an Illinois pioneer and later became a minister with the staunch support of his young wife. After triumphing over circumstances he met his death in the Civil war as chaplain in the Union army. The author’s account is supplemented by quotations from the quaintly brief entries in his various journals, and the whole forms a significant story of the life of man who wrested happiness and success from a barren environment.
Colton, Arthur Willis. [Belted seas.] (†)$1.50. Holt.
Captain Buckingham enlivens a winter afternoon by recounting his adventures in South America and elsewhere. Leaving the town of Greenough and the girl he had “agreed” to marry, he traversed the belted seas for thirty years, drifting back at last to his old harbor to gaze on the tombstone of his sweetheart, and assist in her daughter’s elopement. His story includes humorous yarns of hotel keeping in a ship carried inland by a tidal wave, of a hidden treasure over which a squatter had calmly built his cabin, and of a whale which put forth to sea with a hen roosting on a harpoon embedded in its side.
“His work is never commonplace, but never before has he been so light-hearted, so effervescent of spirit as here.”
| + | Critic. 47: 382. O. ‘05. 160w. |
“Some of his turns of thought are provocative of the heartiest laughter, and he never permits his auditors an instant of boredom.”
| + | Dial. 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
“The dry, whimsical old captain spins a yarn worth hearing.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w. |
“It is a toy, very ingenious and puzzling, we must admit, but not a genuine specimen of literary handicraft.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 340w. |
“Captain Tom’s description of his eccentric mates is occasionally exaggerated to the point of caricature, and his style is inconsistent, wavering between the style of the plain mariner and that of a clever, versatile, even brilliant writer.”
| + — | Nation. 80 :442. Je. 1, ‘05. 370w. |
“A certain knack of conversation and characterization, a certain largeness of view where the differing morals and madnesses of men are concerned, which gives them not only interest, but a sort of oneness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 222. Ap. 8, ‘05. 450w. |
“Its humor is both spontaneous and demure, and its comedy pointed and subtle.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w. |
“This is of the grotesque, distorted type of humorous story. His observations on human nature are often shrewd and amusing.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 959. Ap. 15, ‘05. 110w. |
“Mr. Colton’s sailor men are flesh and blood, though their adventures are the wildest flights of fancy.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + | Reader. 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 150w. |
Colton, Olive A. Rambles abroad. $2. Franklin ptg. and engr. co.
The author “recounts at the outset her visit to Naples and Rome, interspersing her narrative of travel with historical discussion.... From Rome she takes us to Vienna, Budapest, Munich, Wartburg and Weimar, thence to Paris. A visit to England and Windsor castle concludes the trip. The pictures are excellent throughout.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
“Miss Colton has nothing new to tell, in this narrative of a brief European trip; but she tells her story simply and well.”
| + | Boston Evening Transcript. F. 8, ‘05. 130w. |
Colyar, Arthur St. Clair. Life and times of Andrew Jackson; soldier—statesman—president. 2v. $6. Marshall & B.
Mr. Colyar is a lawyer and an enthusiastic admirer of Jackson. His object in writing these books is to give a sympathetic account of the great Tennesseean, and he has produced a democratic biography which is at times historically biased.
Reviewed by J. S. Bassett.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 667. Ap. ‘05. 530w. |
Coman, Katharine. Industrial history of the United States for high schools and colleges. [*]$1.25. Macmillan.
In this volume Prof. Coman aims “to bring the essential elements of the economic history of this country within the grasp of the average reader, and she has also adapted it for high school and college students.... There are many illustrations in half-tone in the book, as well as a number of maps and diagrams, and, besides the authorities given in the margin, the book is supplied with a list of books and their authors for the general reader.” (N. Y. Times.)
[*] “It supplements in a highly interesting way the ordinary narrative text-book, and will prove a valuable adjunct in the teaching of the subject.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 390. D. 1, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “A carefully executed work, packed with information.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 641. S. 30, ‘05. 280w. |
[*] “The book is exceptionally accurate in detail.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 775. N. 18, ‘05. 160w. |
“While the author has not always satisfactorily exhibited the economic forces underlying the great movements and events in the history of the United States, she has, on the whole, performed a difficult task well. It is by no means easy to marshal the facts in an interesting way and at the same time bring out their significance; but this the author has succeeded in doing to a praiseworthy degree.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “The book as a whole is a model of clear statement and systematized information.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 637. N. ‘05. 90w. |
Commons, John Rogers, ed. See Trade unionism and labor problems.
Companion to Greek studies; ed. by Leonard Whibley. [*]$6. Macmillan.
“‘The companion to Greek studies’ differs in scope from other books of the same class; for, besides a survey of Greek life, thought, and art in their different branches, it includes a chapter on the physical conditions of Greece, another containing chronological tables of politics, literature, and art, and a chapter on certain branches of criticism and interpretation. While each article has been intrusted to a writer who has made a special study of the subject, it has been the aim of the work to give the substance of our knowledge in a concise form.... It is hoped that the full table of contents and the indexes of proper names and Greek words will increase the value of the book for purposes of reference. Bibliographies have generally been appended to each article to help those who seek further information. Plans, views, and reproductions of ancient works of art have been carefully chosen and inserted in those articles in which illustration seems most necessary.” Preface.
“The lack of references is a serious drawback. As a companion to the reading of Greek authors, a handbook for reference about Greek things, the book is convenient, well arranged and, in all essentials, trustworthy.”
| + + — | Acad. 68 :102. F. 4. ‘05. 1270w. |
“It is not a book, but a compressed encyclopedia, a vast collection of facts crammed into the smallest possible compass. Almost the whole book is interesting, in spite of its compression.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 616. My. 20. 1010w. |
“Few volumes have a stronger claim to their places in the library of the classical scholar.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 650w. |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 114. F. 25, ‘05. 340w. |
“What Dr. Smith’s ‘Dictionary of antiquities’ was for students half a century ago this is for those of to-day. In concise form it exhibits the larger and more accurate knowledge gained by recent research, and also treats of subjects not heretofore presented in works of this kind. As a book of reference it is all that could be desired. Its illustrations are both numerous and fine. In this work British scholars have again scored most creditably. In their index of scholars and modern writers Americans are scarcer than the facts require.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w. |
“If the object of the compilers was to give the maximum of information in the minimum of space, they have certainly succeeded in the attempt.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1400w. |
“Of its value there can be no question.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 919. Je. 24, ‘05. 940w. |
Compatriots’ club lectures. Compatriots’ club lectures: first series. [*]$2.75. Macmillan.
The Compatriots’ club, a non-partizan body, was constituted in March, 1904, with the object of advancing the ideal of a united British empire. The present volume contains eight lectures. The principles of constructive economics as applied to the maintenance of empire, by J. L. Garvin; Tariff reform and national defense, by H. W. Wilson; Imperial preference and the cost of food, by Sir Vincent Caillard; The evolution of the empire, by Hon. St. John A. Cockburn, K. C. M. C.; The proper distribution of the population of the empire, by H. A. Gwynne; Political economy and the tariff problem, by Prof. W. J. Ashley; Colonial preference in the past, by John W. Hills, and Tariff reform and political morality, by the Rev. Dr. William Cunningham.
“No better text-book could be accepted both by friends and opponents as a starting place for discussion.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 46. Jl. 8. 450w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 191. Je. 16, ‘05. 1170w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 270w. |
“These lectures we believe will have a wide-reaching educative effect in preparing opinion for the part which the state will take in the future in many matters from which the individualist theory has excluded it.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 1450w. |
“It is the work of a group of well-known men, who obviously believe what they write, and who in many respects have advanced beyond the crude fallacies and cheap-Jack promises which have disfigured Mr. Chamberlain’s presentment of his own case. It is worth while to see why such men are protectionists, and where the flaw in their reasoning lies.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 192. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2700w. |
Condit, Edgar Mantelbert. Two years in three continents: experiences, impressions and observation of two Americans abroad. [**]$2. Revell.
The author and his wife, starting from Ireland, visited all the capitals of Europe, and then Russia and the Orient. The account of their journey is both humorous and interesting, and they give many valuable and homely details not found in the ordinary book of travels.
“The book is replete with humor, and is all the better because it is so thoroughly American in quality. Mr. Condit’s descriptive powers are excellent. In this the good spirits of the writer always predominates and it is easy reading.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 128. F. 25, ‘05. 190w. |
Condivi, Ascanio. Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, tr. by Herbert P. Horne. [*]$7.50. Updike.
“Condivi wrote a great biography, tho no longer than a Plutarch. It puts Michael Angelo before us a genius yet a man. It is rich in choice anecdote, it describes the rivalries and reverses, the successes and triumphs incident to one of power and resource and ambition, and over all its style and treatment give the time as Castiglione describes it. The work itself and Addington Symond’s praise should have before this prompted a popular English edition. Mr. Horne’s translation is close and con amore, but the book is published in a very limited edition.”—Ind.
“Altogether, the volume is one in which the bibliophile no less than the art student will rejoice.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 51. Ja. 16, ‘05. 290w. |
“The format is less notable than the biography of the translation. Mr. Horne designed the type which is here first used. It is chaste and clearly cut, yet the page is not clear.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 569. Mr. 9, ‘05. 490w. |
“Condivi’s narrative is always delightful, it is so unaffected and sincere. The present translation is pleasant to read, having plenty of character.”
| + | Spec. 94: 114. Ja. 28, ‘05. 110w. |
Conley, John Wesley. Bible in modern light: a course of lectures before the Bible department of the Woman’s club, Omaha. [**]75c. Griffith & R.
In this series of lectures the author “treats the character and composition of the Bible, manuscripts, translations, light from the monuments; and deals with such problems as the relation of the Bible to science, art, ethics, woman, education, progress.” (Am. J. of Theol.)
“A series of simple, clear and popular lectures.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 9: 390. Ap. ‘05. 80w. |
“In a class where a competent leader could fill gaps and expand outlines, the book might serve as a suggestive textbook.” Henry M. Bowden.
| + + — | Bib. World. 26: 157. Ag. ‘05. 280w. |
[*] Connolly, James Bennet. Deep sea’s toll. [†]$1.50. Scribner.
Eight stories of the Gloucester fishermen entitled: The sail-carriers; The wicked “Celestine”; The truth of the Oliver Cromwell; Strategy and seamanship; Dory-mates; The saving of the bark Fuller; On Georges shoals; and Patsie Oddie’s black night.
[*] “They are admirably drawn pictures of the hardest life a man can choose.”
| + | Nation. 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 360w. |
[*] “Well sustains the reputation won for him by his previous stories in the same field.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 140w. |
Connolly, James B. On Tybee knoll: a story of the Georgia coast. [†]$1.25. Barnes.
“This is a short, simple but interesting story of rivalry between some contractors on river and harbor work at Savannah, Ga. The young hero and his older partner have various exciting experiences in executing a contract that involved cutting and rafting some poles for dipper dredges. The rafts were stolen, rescued, cut adrift and finally rescued again. Incidentally there are races, fights and rescues on the water.”—Engin. N.
“One forgives the extravagance of the story for the sake of the exhilarating sea breeze that seems to blow through all the pages.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 518. Jl. ‘05. 290w. | |
| + | Engin. N. 53: 635. Je. 15, ‘05. 100w. | |
| — | Nation. 81: 102. Ag. 3, ‘05. 300w. |
“The present tale might be an early effort.”
| — | Outlook. 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 40w. |
Connor, Ralph, pseud. (Charles William Gordon.) [Prospector.] $1.50. Revell.
The story of the life of a young minister who goes from the university of Toronto to his work of self-sacrifice in the wilds. He is affectionately called the Prospector because he untiringly seeks out lonely ranches and brings their owners into touch with their distant neighbors. There are vivid pictures of Canadian frontier life and character, and there is, of course, a love interest.
“From cover to cover physical strength is glorified; but it is the physical strength of teachers and preachers, of earnest, deadly earnest, muscular Christians. Literary merit has nothing to do with the author’s success. His English is fairly sound, and that is as much as may be said for the writing.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 43. Ja. 14. 320w. |
“The vein is worked a little too hard, and the results forced.”
| + — | Critic. 46: 477. My. ‘05. 90w. |
“The splendors of home missionaries’ sacrifice have never been more vividly portrayed.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 269. F. 2, ‘05. 170w. |
“Interesting as a novel as well as valuable as a picture of Canadian life.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 57. Ja. 14, ‘05. 190w. |
Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzenlowski). [Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard.] $1.50. Harper.
Late writers have often turned to the “new lands” of South America for picturesque settings for their stories. Mr. Conrad has laid the scene of his new novel in a republic on the western coast. “In this country an English family has long been settled and has had for its stake the government concession of a silver mine, handed down from father to son, and entailing much disagreeable ‘squeezing’ from successive presidents and dictators. The descendant to whom it has fallen when the present narrative opens is the first one to make it a really valuable property, and in the development he becomes the greatest power in the state, enlisting foreign capital, building railroads, and carrying governments on his pay roll. A final desperate effort on the part of greedy politicians to get control of the goose that lays his golden egg is the main feature of the plot ... but the psychological interest predominates over the adventurous or romantic interest which justifies the author in naming this novel after one of its characters ... one upon whom Mr. Conrad has concentrated his analytical powers.” (Dial).
“A novel ought not to be a snap-shot, it should be a firmly and richly woven fabric. Such is ‘Nostromo.’ Flexible and vivid style.” O. H. Dunbar.
| + + | Critic. 46: 377. Ap. ‘05. 480w. |
“Readers will find in the book ample reward for their pains in perusing it, will often reach the point of exasperation at its lengthy analyses, its interminable dragging-out of incident, and its frequent harking back to antecedent conditions. The work is a very strong one, and we can think of no other writer, unless it be Mr. Cunningham-Grahame, who could have done anything like as well with the same material.” W. M. Payne.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 125. F. 16, ‘05. 420w. |
“As a study of South American revolution the book is a monument of realism. There is ever present a psychological question, a moral issue that is as modern as Ibsen.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 557. Mr. 9, ‘05. 700w. |
“The love element is slight and in its development irregular, and the adventurous element is not absorbing. The stream of the story is always slender. It glimmers and shimmers most poetically—what there is of it—but even at its broadest and strongest it gives no hint of bearing the reader along with it, and again and again it sinks wholly out of sight amid the silver sands of picturesque description.”
| + — | Reader. 5: 618. Ap. ‘05. 310w. |
Conrad, Stephen, pseud. (Stephen Conrad Stuntz). Mrs. Jim and Mrs. Jimmie. [†]$1.50. Page.
A recital of the experiences of Mrs. Jim at quilting parties, picnics, sociables, weddings, commencements, and fires, interspersed by comments of Mrs. Jimmie. There is much real village life, much satire, and not a little homely philosophy.
[*] “This story sustains the same relation to love that an old-fashioned ‘experience meeting’ sustains to religion.”
| — | Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 370w. |
“A tedious story of a country town.”
| — | Outlook. 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 30w. |
Conway, Moncure Daniel. Autobiography, memories and experiences. 2v. [**]$6. Houghton.
A frank autobiography of a long life. Mr. Conway says of himself: “A pilgrimage from pro-slavery to anti-slavery enthusiasm, from Methodism to Freethought, implies a career of contradictions.” Born in Virginia of a slave-holding family, 1832, he prepared for the Methodist ministry; but at twenty-one, alienated from his family and old beliefs, he turned to the Unitarian ministry and took an active part in the anti-slavery movement in the early fifties. In 1863 he went to England to lecture in behalf of the North, and remained in London, where he formed lasting friendships with the “good and great” of his time. His account of his experiences and his pictures of the people whom he knew are of exceptional interest.
“Two very entertaining volumes that will prove of marked interest to the general reader, and may be of considerable service to the historical student. Commendation for their general readableness and attractiveness.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 701. Ap. ‘05. 170w. |
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
| Atlan. 95: 128. Ja. ‘05. 1730w. |
[*] “On the whole Mr. Conway’s volume is the most important book of its kind that has been published during the present year.” R. W. Kemp.
| + + + | Bookm. 20: 481. Ja. ‘05. 750w. |
“Two large volumes, and I do not think there is a dry page in either one of them.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 46: 120. F. ‘05. 920w. |
“He has, therefore, won the gratitude due for a compilation that makes easy and attractive reading. But it is emphatically the work of a clever journalist and genial clubman, not of a trustworthy historian. It will not be safe to use the material here collected unless it is otherwise confirmed. Mr. Conway is surprisingly careless even in matters closely connected with his own career.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + — | Forum. 36: 564. Ap. ‘05. 1930w. |
“In a vivid and picturesque manner ... Mr. Moncure D. Conway tells the story of a strenuous life.” Walter Lewin.
| + + | Hibbert J. 3: 614. Ap. ‘05. 1300w. |
“A man who has lived in such times and amid such associations must from the nature of the case have an interesting story to tell. Fortunately, Mr. Conway is too good a literary craftsman to let the story suffer in the telling.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 30: 755. D. ‘04. 240w. |
“We may say without hesitation that it is an instructive, as it is a transparently sincere, record of human experience. The first volume is meant for American more than for English readers.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 181. F. 4, ‘05. 230w. |
Cook, Albert S., ed. See Judith.
Cook, Albert S., and Benham, A. R. Specimen letters. [*]60c. Ginn.
“The range of the selection is unlimited, since it includes Cicero, Pliny, Tragan, Mme. de Sevigné, and Voltaire.... The other eighty-eight letters ... are English or American, beginning with Addison and ending with ‘Ellen G. Starr.’”—N. Y. Times.
“The collection is an admirable one, representative of every form of the epistolary art, and made particularly attractive to the general reader by its freedom from editorial encumbrances.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
“As an avowed supplement to Scoones, such of their work as he has not anticipated would have a distinct value.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 344. My. 27, ‘05. 880w. |
Cook, Joel. Switzerland; picturesque and descriptive. [**]$2.40. Coates.
A book designed for students and tourists, as well as general lovers of fine book workmanship. Six sections of Switzerland are covered—Western Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland, the Upper Rhine, the Middle Rhine, the great Rhine gorge, and the Lower Rhine, and in addition to the descriptive matter, there are numerous half-tone illustrations. He opens with a rapid survey of the history of the Swiss confederation, followed by descriptions of the Lake of Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, and Montreux, coming next to the Castle of Chillon.
“He has here attempted to do for Switzerland what he has already done for America, England, and France, by emphasizing with personal impressions those points of human interest which usually receive mere perfunctory notice in the guide books.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 330w. |
[*] Cook, Theodore Andrea. Old Provence. 2v. [**]$4. Scribner.
“The first volume deals with Provence under the Greeks and Romans. Mr. Cook writes entertainingly of the traces of Marius in Provence. He follows his march, camp by camp, through the country until he met the Teutons and the Ambrons on the bank of the Lar.... Volume II of the account of Provence is no less discursive than the first, and no less interesting in the same discursive way. It covers the period from about the time of Charlemagne, say, 900 A. D., to the death of the good King Réné in 1480, with excursions back to Greek, Roman, and Teutonic days and forward to modern times.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “We heartily congratulate him on the interest of his book, but are not satisfied with it, for we feel certain that he can and will do better. The book seems to us wanting in plan, and from absence of design to be somewhat confused for the general reader.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 505. O. 14. 710w. |
“Mr. Cook has not achieved a history of Provence. But he offers us a guide, indefatigable, vigorous, vivacious, eager to discourse on every subject, and primed with valuable information.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 357. O. 27, ‘05. 940w. |
[*] “There is room for many books about a region so replete with interest, and it can do nobody any harm to read this one; but, while it will not spare the traveller abroad the need of his guide-books, it has not the light and graceful touch and the gift of vivid presentation that will satisfy the reader who stays at home—the ultimate test.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 468. D. 7, ‘05. 1520w. |
“A work containing much of interest and importance, and little that is trivial in itself, yet all so badly arranged that the reader has to pick and choose to find what he wants.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 675. O. 14, ‘05. 1060w. |
[*] “Mr. Cook knows his Provence well, but he does not know how to tell about it. Nevertheless the volumes are worth buying and worth reading, for their contents cannot be obtained elsewhere.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 706. N. 25, ‘05. 110w. |
Cooke, Grace MacGowan. Grapple. [†]$1.50. Page.
The principal figure in this labor-problem story is Mark Strong who from the ordinary miner’s lot rises to the ownership of a mine. Although once a member of the United mine workers, and still a believer in unions, he will not be bound by the inflexible rules of labor organizations, and employs non-union help. The struggle that ensues gives an opportunity for an exposition of arguments on both sides of the question.
[*] “The seriousness of the book is relieved by an element of humor which is perhaps better than nothing, although it is a humor of a rather cheap sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 307. N. 16, ‘05. 140w. | |
| Outlook. 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 110w. |
Cooke, Marjorie Benton. Dramatic episodes. $1.25. Dramatic.
Ten short plays, each in a single scene, which satirize the follies of the foibles of to-day.
| Dial. 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
Cooper, Edward Herbert. Twentieth century child. $1.50. Lane.
A glimpse into the new nursery, where smart children who make epigrams dwell. Their prayers, lessons, play, social life, punishments and health are discussed.
“The style is a mixture of slap-dash, slang, and fine writing.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 461. Ap. 15. 1020w. |
“It is rich in insight, sanity, a wise and sympathetic understanding of his delightful circle of juvenile acquaintance. The whole book is blessedly free from any touch of the patronizing.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 475. N. ‘05. 170w. |
“The value of his book lies largely in its very personal tone.”
| + | Dial. 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 360w. |
“Written in a pseudo-serious vein.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 400w. |
“The volume as a whole is a clever and unusual combination of anecdote, fiction, biography, and serious discussion.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 110w. |
“We do not take Mr. Cooper seriously; and the whole performance has an air of artificiality which produces irritation at every page.”
| — — | Sat. R. 99: 710. My. 27, ‘05. 220w. | |
| — | Spec. 94: 398. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1640w. |
Cooper, James Fenimore. [Last of the Mohicans.] 80c; lea. $1.25. Crowell.
In the thin paper and flexible cover of the “Thin paper classics” this favorite Indian story becomes a handy pocket companion.
Cooper, James Fenimore. [Spy.] 60c; lea. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume recently added to the “Thin paper classics.”
Cooper, Walter G. Fate of the middle classes. [*]$1.25. Consolidated retail booksellers.
“The only way to make sure of the general good is to guard the interests of every class with jealous care. This end is best attained when each class realizes that self-protection is the best protection, self-help the best help, and self-respect the surest guaranty of the respect of others.” This forms a part of the watchword of the volume.
[*] “Force is not lacking in much of what Mr. Cooper advances.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 774. N. 18, ‘05. 540w. |
“Despite these criticisms, we think this volume a real contribution to the thought of the day, because characterized by three qualities not too often found in combination in treatises on our industrial problems, namely, a careful study of existing conditions, a sane and non-partisan judgment respecting them, and something of prophetic vision regarding the tendency of industrial progress and the direction in which it should be guided.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 360w. |
[*] “He has no very definite plan of organization, but he has at least sounded a note of warning.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 210w. |
Cooper, William Colby. Immortality: the principal philosophic arguments for and against it. $1. W: Colby Cooper, Cleves, O.
“A serious and very able discussion, from the purely philosophical viewpoint, of the logical arguments for and against the theory of the persistence of life after the crisis of death.” (Arena.) The author is a physician.
“The method of presentation, however, is less open to criticism than the typography.”
| + + — | Arena. 33: 674. Je. ‘05. 590w. |
“The argument seems conclusive for the survival of life and consciousness, but less conclusive for the survival of the individuality.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 93. My. 6, ‘05. 90w. |
Corelli, Marie (Minnie Mackay). Free opinions, freely expressed on certain phases of modern social life and conduct. [**]$1.20. Dodd.
The essays collected in this volume attack newspapers, Americans, and certain unfortunate tendencies which the author discovers in modern English society.
“The style of the essays ... is perhaps even more fervidly enthusiastic than that of the author’s fiction.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 283. S. ‘05. 80w. |
“The disputatious, not to say censorious, tone of these essays moves the reviewer to remind the writer that people are seldom to be argued or scolded into wisdom. Have the merit of brevity and at times of sprightliness.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 43. Jl. 16, ‘05. 530w. |
“Violence, prejudice, a painfully narrow view of life, and a lack of proportion ... shockingly mar her present book.”
| — — | N. Y. Times. 10: 280. Ap. 29, ‘05. 850w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] Cornes, James. Modern housing: houses in town and country, illustrated by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement houses, model cottages and villages. [*]$3. Scribner.
Mr. Cornes, who as a member of the Leek town council has made a study of the question of housing the working classes, and has conducted some interesting experiments in Leek itself, now writes of these experiments, makes suggestions which will lessen the cost of house construction and “furnishes some suggestive contrasts between the opportunities for building in town and country by the inclusion of some admirably executed plans and pictures of the cottages now on view at the Cheap Cottages exhibition at Letchworth.” (Spec.)
| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: 181. D. ‘05. 330w. |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 347. O. 26, ‘05. 330w. |
| * | + | Spec. 95: 191. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w. |
Coryat, Thomas. Coryat’s crudities hastily gobbled up in five moneths’ travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of High Germany and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this kingdome; reprinted from the edition of 1611. 2v. [*]$6.50. Macmillan.
Altho the humor of the three-score panegyrics which gave the book unusual vogue in its first appearance has somewhat faded with time, there remains much to interest and amuse in this quaint account of travels afoot, of dangers, and of butterflies, of manners and of customs.
“Careful reprint.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 488. My. 6, ‘05. 1360w. |
“His latest edition is luxuriously produced, and in every way worthy of him, given the publishers’ rule of not altering or pointing out his mistakes.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 394. S. 23. 920w. |
“Coryat’s style, whatever its defects, has often the true Elizabethan richness.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 213. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1600w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81: 80. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1570w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 670w. |
“The quaintness of the original has been preserved, and it would be difficult, indeed, to imagine anything exceeding this work in precisely that quality.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 138. My. 13, ‘05. 350w. |
“Those who go through these hundred pages of the ‘Crudities’ do penance indeed.”
| — + | Sat. R. 99: 816 Je. 17, ‘05. 130w. |
Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.). [Mayor of Troy.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
“A quaint tale of the Cornish coast. The setting is historical, being that of the threatened Napoleonic invasion.... The mayor of Troy, who is also major of the volunteer artillery ... is ... snatched by ruthless fate from the scenes of his glory, seized by a press-gang ... and carried off to become an ornament of the British navy. The ship which bears him is blown up.... He is rescued by the enemy, and languishes ten years in a remote military prison. Meanwhile ... he is given up for dead, his wealth is distributed according to the terms of his will, and Troy does him all sorts of posthumous honors. When he returns—but we will not reveal what happens, remarking only that it is the unexpected.”—Dial.
[*] “The book presents us with one humorous situation after another, crowned by an invention so extraordinary that the author may fairly be said to have surpassed his own best previous efforts.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “Taken all in all, we should say that Mr. Quiller-Couch has never done much better work than in his ‘Mayor of Troy,’ and that is to praise it highly.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 839. D. 2, ‘05. 780w. |
Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller-. Shakespeare’s Christmas and other stories. [†]$1.50. Longmans.
“A collection of ripe and forcible stories, of which the least successful is the one which gives its name to the book.” (Lond. Times.) They “range in date from the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century, and range in characters from Shakespeare and Wellington to the fishwives of Saltash and the highwaymen of Tregarrick.” (Ind.)
| + + | Acad. 68: 925. S. 9, ‘05. 710w. |
“We note the usual flavour of distinction in the writing, the scholarly attention to details, the little touches of observation which show how thoroughly the writer has identified himself with the beings of his invention.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 250w. |
“His abundant knowledge of archeology and local color is effectively used without being made unduly conspicuous.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 580. S. 7, ‘05. 90w. |
“In most of these stories he does himself justice, and that is high praise.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 279. S. 1, ‘05. 480w. |
“Has become, for the moment and with exceptions, dull.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 200w. |
“Is as good a collection of stories as its title promises, and as this vivacious, ingenious, and voluminous writer always can be depended upon to furnish at wonderfully short intervals of time.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 620w. |
“The material and setting of each story are striking and original, the manner of narration attractive and ingenious, yet the general effect is disappointing and unsatisfactory.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 441. S. 30, ‘05. 270w. |
Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q.” pseud.). [Shining ferry.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
John Rosewarne, a stern, proud old man, looking back upon a reckless youth, his son, who follows the Bible after reading into it his own desires, the gentle Peter Benny and his eleven children, a blind boy, and many others enter into this story of a sleepy little sea port town.
“In the last third or so of the book the interest, to our mind, suddenly filters away. The fault is one of structure. The interest of the novel dribbles out along several lines, none of which assumes a principal position and concentrates attention. And such is the reason why we are disappointed with what is in large measure a well-written book, with plenty of character and written in excellent English.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 520. My. 13, ‘05. 460w. |
“In this book he seems, for the first time, to have achieved a novel really complete in character, incident, and construction.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 394. Ap. 1. 720w. |
“Admirable studies of character. Its charm resides in the touches of gentle sentiment, of quaint humor, and tender feeling with which it is enriched in every chapter. It is a wholesome and human book, to be read with keen delight from beginning to end.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 170w. |
“There is a savor in it—a distinction not only of style, but of thought and temper—which will enable it to outlive much fiction that is more strongly wrought.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + — | Forum. 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 270w. |
“Is one of the best stories of the year.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 300w. |
“These figures are all well drawn—not over-drawn—neither too diabolical nor too angelic.”
| + + | Lit. D. 21: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 810w. |
“Quiller-Couch has a deft hand at character sketching, and in this latest story of his, one finds many character sketches and little story. Mr. Quiller-Couch has a goodly humor which saves his story from a certain melancholy gloominess which it might otherwise possess too abundantly.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 430w. | |
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 120w. |
“There is not a forced or a strained note anywhere. The sense of proportion is everywhere evident in the book, so that when one closes it one is in possession of a little corner of the tapestry of life where not a stitch has been dropped.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 430w. |
“One of those novels made to be enjoyed rather than criticised.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 636. My. 13, ‘05. 430w. |
Coudert, Frederick René. Addresses, historical—political—sociological. [**]$2.50. Putnam.
The twenty-one addresses of this eminent international lawyer, which his editor has selected for this volume include: International arbitration; The Anglo-American arbitration treaty; The rights of ships; Christopher Columbus; Louis Kossuth; Andrew Jackson; Charles O’Conor, Montesquieu; Chief Justice Waite; France, Morals and manners; Reply to Dumas’s advocacy of divorce; Lying as a fine art; The bar of New York from 1792 to 1892; Young men in politics; and Columbia college.
[*] “In selecting from among his subject’s addresses those for use in this book ‘P. F.’ has been wholly successful, and has made a volume of much interest.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 791. N. 18, ‘05. 860w. |
[*] “They are valuable as specimens of a style worth studying by nascent writers and speakers.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 170w. |
Course of Christian doctrine; a handbook for teachers. 50c. Dolphin press.
“The aim of the new Sunday-school manual is, as stated in its preface, ‘to bring the new education to bear on the old sacred and unchangeable truths, and to lead the children not only to know, but to love and practice them.’ ... The book suggests such new features as blackboard work, historical tablets, the use of the sandboard, pictures, poems, and the like.... The course mapped out is divided into eight grades, each including instruction in prayers, catechism, Bible history—both Old and New Testament—and Catholic devotions and practices.”—Cath. World.
“The scholarship and originality which mark the first chapter prevail throughout the work.”
| + + | Cath. World. 80: 670. F. ‘05. 1540w. |
Coutts, Francis. Musa verticordia. [*]$1.25. Lane.
From the first poem of this group the volume takes its name. The trial of Dreyfus furnishes the theme of one poem; two others are interpretations of Parsifal and Meistersinger; still others are commemorative in nature. There are also some interesting Spanish folk rhymes.
“Mr. Francis Coutts stands out head and shoulders from the generality of our modern minor poets in that in addition to its technical excellence his verse strikes a strong individual note.”
| + | Acad. 68: 61. Ja. 21, ‘05. 280w. |
“Mr. Coutts’ muse would to us be austere were he not somewhat too vague, too nebulous, for austerity. A mastership of whatever form of verse he essays, a lofty purpose, withal a rooted fealty to poetic sorrow, must be conceded to Mr. Coutts.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 170w. |
“This attitude of intellectual challenge is characteristic of the entire volume, and it is such touches of ‘sæva indignatio’ that give the author’s work its most distinctive quality.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 273. N. 1, ‘05. 300w. |
“It is impossible to read Mr. Coutts without admiration. But he lacks, through nearly all this volume, the human sweetness that is the preservative of poetry.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 168. My. 26, ‘05. 400w. |
“Mr. Coutts is always thoughtful and always sensitive to the imaginative import of his ideas.”
| + | Nation. 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w. |
“He has extreme simplicity and chastity of style, what Stevenson has called ‘the piety of speech,’ a perfect taste, and an instinct for rendering in delicate poetry, evasive moods and fancies. There is also a gravity and austerity. The slightly forced reflectiveness seems to us to be a blemish in much of his work.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 114. Ja. 28, ‘05. 310w. |
Cowan, Rev. Henry. John Knox, the hero of the Scottish reformation, 1505-1572. [**]$1.35. Putnam.
In this seventh volume in the “Heroes of the reformation” series, the writer has aimed to “describe those portions of the career of Knox which are most likely to be of general interest: to place his life-work in its historical setting.” This he has done, giving a clear picture of the reformer and his times. References to original authorities are given in foot-notes and there is a complete index.
“Both popular and scholarly.”
| + + | Bib. World. 26: 400. N. ‘05. 70w. |
“While less piquant than Lang’s, is perhaps the better book for the student. With a quick penetration into the particular subject or episode in hand, a strong grasp of the situation, and with clear and rapid movement of style, he makes a good story as well as a trustworthy one.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 381. O. ‘05. 110w. |
“The author is an advocate, but he is fair, dignified, and moderate in his advocacy of Knox’s side of these questions and of the general course of his conduct as a Puritan leader.” Charles H. Cooper.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 840w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 190. Je. 16. ‘05. 210w. |
“Dr. Cowan’s way of looking at Knox is, of course, not Mr. Lang’s way. Naturally Dr. Cowan’s biography is less interesting.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 650w. |
“Dr. Cowan’s work is that of a professor unable to apprehend the spirit of a religion outside his sphere of thought.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 440. S. 30, ‘05. 510w. |
Cowen, Thomas. The Russo-Japanese war: from the outbreak of hostilities to the battle of Liao Yang. [*]$4.20. Longmans.
“A trained observer, for many years a war correspondent, describing for newspapers the Boer war, the Japanese-Chinese war, phases of the Spanish-American war, both in Cuba and the Philippines, the Boxer in China, and the siege of Peking, Mr. Cowen treats of the war in the East with exceptional facilities for getting at the facts.” (N. Y. Times). He analyses the reasons for Japanese success, he sums up the cause for Russia’s failures in the statement that “Indecision in emergency has been a characteristic weakness of Russia.” He follows the steps taken by Japan in her preparation for war, showing the methods adopted for meeting the peculiar difficulties to be overcome in opposing the host of Russia’s forces. “Remarkably effective as word pictures are his descriptions of the naval operations in the early days before Port Arthur.... And with it all there is a constant succession of pictures of army and navy life that is positively fascinating in the simple old-fashioned manner in which it is told with no attempt at ‘fine writing.’” (N. Y. Times).
| + + | Nation. 80: 74. Ja. 26, ‘05. 3220w. |
“With the simplicity of a tactical primer the reasons for success and the causes of failure are alike made plain.”
| N. Y. Times. 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1430w. |
“He writes with a graphic touch and an intimacy with affairs Japanese that give a value to his volume which it otherwise would not possess.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 590w. |
[*] Cowley, Abraham. Poems: Miscellanies, The mistress, Pindarique odes, Davideis; verses written on several occasions. [*]$1.50. Macmillan.
“A very convenient single-volume edition printed in large type, the text edited by Mr. A. R. Waller from the first collected edition of Cowley’s works, published in 1688, the year after his death. This volume presents the variations noted in a collation of the 1668 text with the folio of 1656, the volume of 1663, and the edition of ‘The mistress,’ which appeared in 1647. Errors which have been discovered in the poems are indicated by brackets and are explained in the notes.”—Outlook.
| * | + + | Acad. 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 1370w. |
| * | + | Lond. Times. 4: 309. S. 29, ‘05. 2110w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 120w. |
Cox, Kenyon. Old masters and new: essays in art criticism. [**]$1.50. Fox.
“This volume makes no pretensions to be a history of art. It is, as Mr. Cox explains, a series of appreciations of individual masters, and, incidentally, gives a view of the course of painting since the sixteenth century. The artists principally discussed are Michelangelo, Dürer, Rubens, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, William Blake, F. M. Brown, Burne-Jones, Meissonier, Baudry, Puvis de Chavannes, Whistler, Sargent, Saint-Gaudens, Veronese, Perugino, and the Venetian artists, the Pre-Raphaelites, some of the lesser painters of the nineteenth century, and the sculptors of the early Italian renaissance.”—N. Y. Times.
“Kenyon Cox is a master of essays in art criticism, and this collection ... shows him at his best.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 120w. |
“If his style lacks that brilliancy which marks the man of great genius ... we have in their stead the sound technical knowledge of the artist, coupled with a keen sense of discrimination.” Albert E. Gallatin.
| + + — | Critic. 47: 259. S. ‘05. 520w. |
“Keen insight and a peculiar warmth of description.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
[*] “In its new dress, therefore, and with its score of excellent half-tones, the book should find a wider public than ever.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
“Taken altogether, perhaps the most notable and significant book of art criticism pure and simple, not only of the year, but of several years.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 691. S. 21, ‘05. 640w. |
[*] “For incisive analysis and illuminative appreciation Mr. Cox’s little book of essays, ‘Old masters and new,’ is the most significant and the most valuable work in art criticism pure and simple issued in many a long day.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
“Mr. Cox’s ideas are sound and put with candour and balance.”
| + + + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 88. Je. ‘05. 190w. |
“Where Mr. Cox speaks as an artist (and he nearly always does), it is not easy to take issue with him, for he knows remarkably well what he is talking about. Now and then one may disagree with him about other matters.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 461. Je. 8, ‘05. 830w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 60w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 282. Ap. 29, ‘05. 300w. |
“Short as they are, these ‘Essays in criticism,’ expressed in an excellent style, may be warmly recommended to lovers of art.” Charles de Kay.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 600w. |
[*] “The author knows his subject, and expresses his thoughts in simple and concise language, so as to make himself intelligible to those of limited observation and experience.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 200w. |
“There is in all the essays a most unusual clarity of style and probity of judgment.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 879. Ag. 5, ‘05. 760w. |
[*] “Mr. Cox’s essays are vivid, delightful, and spirited discussions of great events in art, and they have a vivacity and surety of judgment which can not but delight the more matured art student.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “Is a practical book of art criticism. It ought to be helpful to novices in art appreciation.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 30w. |
Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree). [Storm center.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
A Civil war story whose scene is laid in the mountains of Tennessee. “The Federal officers who court Southern women in Charles Egbert Craddock’s new story ... are more credible types, and it is the first time in its history that the Civil war has been reduced to a neighborhood affair, but the story of their wooings is the best this author has written in years.” (Ind.)
“This sincere feeling for style, though occasionally it is overdone, is certainly the best thing about a story which barely misses being exceedingly dull. Suffers from a general vagueness and faulty construction.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 234. Ag. 19. 210w. |
“The outline of the story has scarcely a single point of novelty, and yet the narrative does maintain its interest.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 284. S. ‘05. 140w. |
“Slight in substance, and of moderate interest only.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 50w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“The machinery of the story seems to creak at times. But there are elements of power in the novel; ‘it goes.’”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 440w. |
“It hardly has the force and depth of the author’s earlier books. Its plot is a little conventional, but there are novel and entertaining incidents.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 695. Jl. 15. ‘05. 80w. |
Crafts, Wilbur Fisk. Successful men of today, and what they say of success. $1. Funk.
A new edition, revised, enlarged, and made thoroughly up-to-date, of this popular description of the road to success, based on facts and opinions gathered by letters and personal interviews from five hundred prominent men who tell of their experience along this royal highway, and give helpful hints for those who would follow.
Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.). Flute of Pan. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
The author has converted her play, which was produced in England with small success, into a novel, which, while entertaining, retains the weakness of the stage comedy. The plot hinges on a slight misunderstanding between a young English earl who has gone to Venice to paint and lead the simple life, and the Princess of Siguria who comes to ask him to be her prince consort; other aristocratic characters enter into and complicate the story.
“From the beginning of the book to the end we have not met with a stroke of genuine drollery, or of the humour that is composed of mingled laughter and sympathy.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 615. Je. 10, ‘05. 710w. |
“It is indeed, impossible to criticise ‘The flute of Pan’ away from the footlights. Its plot is thin, and it may be styled a comedy of intrigue. But it is very readable and bright and pleasant.”
| + — | Ath. 1: 746. Je. 17, ‘05. 250w. |
“The story is without background; it is a collection of sketches and notes, giving the impression that the writer has never quite made up her mind as to what she is aiming at.”
| — | Lond. Times, 4: 193. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w. |
[*] “In the present story we miss the clever epigrams and the brilliant dialogue which characterized much of her previous work, and there is nothing to take their place.”
| — + | Outlook. 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 50w. |
“It is as a psychologist that she would make her appeal. But psychology is not her strong point. Her methods are those of the dilettante.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 847. Je. 24, ‘05. 1070w. |
Craik, Dinah Maria (Miss Mulock, pseud.). [John Halifax, gentleman.] $1.25. Crowell.
All friends of John Halifax will be pleased to see it as one of the attractive “Thin paper classics” series.
Cram, Ralph Adams. Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied arts. [**]$2. Baker.
Ten papers which show the development of Japanese art and help the Western mind to a better understanding of it makes up “this series of impressions of the esthetic voicing of Japanese civilization.” Beginning with The genius of Japanese art, the author covers the early and later architecture of Japan; Temples and shrines; Temple gardens; and Domestic interiors. There are also chapters upon The minor arts; A color print of Yeizan; A note on Japanese sculpture; and the Future of Japanese art. The volume is illustrated with some original plans and many unusual pictures.
[*] “At last we have a volume doing justice to Japanese architecture.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 100w. | |
| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 35. D. ‘05. 210w. |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 280w. |
[*] “It is rare that in a discussion of this sort one finds such brilliant diction, fervent imagery, and such a reverent attitude as Mr. Cram manifests. Judged from the standpoint of its purpose the book is beyond criticism. Mr. Cram’s book is one of the most important of the year.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w. |
Cram, Ralph Adams. Ruined abbeys of Great Britain. [**]$2.50. Pott.
“The ruins described and illustrated are Glastonbury, Whitby, Lindisfarne, Beaulieu, Netley, Tintern, Gisburgh, Bolton, Jedburgh, Kelso, Rievauix, Byland, Melrose. Dryburgh, Kirkstall, Malmsbury, York, and Fountains. In the concluding chapter Mr. Cram ... estimates the position of the abbeys in English social and economic life and the effect of their suppression upon the moral and religious condition of the people. The book is fully illustrated and has a full index of names and places.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The subject is pursued rather with an interest in the significance of the religious houses in English life and their fortunes in their relations with the State than from an exclusively artistic standpoint.”
| + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 36. D. ‘05. 150w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
Cramp, Walter S. Psyche, a romance of the reign of Tiberius. $1.50. Little.
The horrid cruelty of Tiberius and his time is graphically set forth. The story is of Psyche, a beautiful Greek dancing girl, and her lover Gyges, a charioteer in the Roman circus, and the troubles which came upon them through their knowledge of a fatal secret connected with the ambitions of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian guards, to make himself emperor. The story is the result of a careful study of the times, and consequently is unpleasant and full of horrors.
“Mr. Cramp’s story is the result of considerable study and painstaking care, but it lacks ... that strong imaginative quality that makes its characters convincing.”
| + | Arena. 34: 221. Ag. ‘05. 350w. |
“An ambitious and gratifying bit of interpretation.”
| + | Dial. 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w. |
“Written with conscientious care, but rarely touched by the charm of imagination.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05. 60w. |
Craven, John J. Prison life of Jefferson Davis. [**]$1.20. Dillingham.
A former edition of this book was published in 1866. The author was surgeon at Fortress Monroe during the time of Mr. Davis’ imprisonment, and the volume gives a full account of the “details and incidents of his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together with many conversations on topics of great public interest.” Copies of the official reports sent by the author to the commanding officer, concerning the prisoner’s physical and mental condition are given in full.
| Critic. 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 50w. |
Crawford, Francis Marion. [Fair Margaret: a portrait.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“Margaret Donne is an English girl, daughter of an Oxford don and his American wife—a girl the description of whose parentage implies a career of unusual interest. When the book opens her parents are dead and she is in Paris with a close friend of her mother cultivating her voice. Three men figure as her admirers, one of them mysterious and probably royal. Margaret becomes an opera singer and meets with success.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “Abounds in action and shows its author at his best—and his best is very good.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “Mr. Crawford is a born story-teller, but a good deal of the writing in this volume is very commonplace and lacking in distinction of any kind; but the book is worth reading for the sake of the picture of the old artist.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 120w. |
Crawford, Francis Marion. Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v. [**]$5. Macmillan.
“Brushing aside the didactic history formed by a rapid succession of events and the chronological sequence of great and little names, Mr. Crawford extracts from tradition and monument a narrative which reveals the life of the islanders, the causes of their rise and glory and of their dismal decay, far better than a formal history even when accompanied with skillful and enlightening commentary. Concerning the stories revealed by the monuments, Mr. Crawford’s text is set off with a series of illustrations by Joseph Pennell—splendidly true in their grasp of art and history and delightful as pictorial records of a dying race and its dead culture.”—N. Y. Times.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 883. D. 9, ‘05. 310w. |
Crawford, Francis Marion. Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman. [*]$2.50. Macmillan.
“No one should by any chance visit Sicily or southern Italy without first having read Mr. Crawford’s book. This new edition puts into one volume, not at all bulky or inconvenient, what was formerly presented in two. The illustrations are capital and are well printed.”—Outlook.
[*] “Countless touches show that Mr. Crawford thoroughly understands his ground and his people, with a psychological insight that renders especially interesting his theories and deductions.”
| + | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “Indeed, it is hard to see wherein, within the limits, the work could have been better done. Mr. Crawford’s work is an unexcelled resumé for the historical scholar, the student of history, or for just the lover of good literature.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 550w. | |
| Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 40w. | ||
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 90w. |
“In every way the edition is satisfactory.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 50w. |
Crawford, F. Marion. [Whosoever shall offend.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Crawford’s technique becomes, if anything, more refined with each new work that he puts forth, but his substance grows thinner than ever. A forced mechanical invention marks the plot of ‘Whosoever shall offend,’ and the characters are but slightly modified variations of the types that he has been fashioning for the past score of years. The new novel is concerned with a polished villain, who murders his wife and seeks to murder his stepson, all with the sordid object of gaining their fortune for himself, and in the end is trapped and punished according to his deserts. It is all very cleverly managed, but the interest is of the mildest.”—Dial.
“It is a well-written, highly interesting melodrama.... The characters are all good types, the plot is strong, and the Italian atmosphere tempers the sensational occurrences to the colder northern imagination.”
| — + | Critic. 46: 477. My. ‘05. 100w. |
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
| Dial. 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 110w. |
“In this last novel Crawford is at his best. He writes with the charm and the originality of a man at the full tide of his powers.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1133. My. 18, ‘05. 260w. |
“The story is ingenious, the sketches of scenery and peasantry admirable, the comments by the way philosophic and thoughtful; the English, of course, of the best-regulated. The reader for the most part, however, remains outside.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 98. F. 2, ‘05. 320w. |
“Notwithstanding its horrors, and partly on account of them, ‘Whosoever shall offend’ is simply an agreeable and diverting story, the work of an accomplished writer, who always turns out his creations in graceful form and who has established the right to be called the ‘Norris’ of American fiction.”
| + | Reader. 5: 496. Mr. ‘05. 370w. |
“His theme, as in not a few of his earlier books, is a particularly grewsome and mysterious crime. He appears to tell the story not for the sake of its sensational elements, however, but for the sake of character and social analysis. Contains a fascinating story, a puzzling mystery and its solution, elements in a book which, if well handled, as here, have never yet been known to fail of their effect.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 160w. |
Crehore, Albert Gushing. Synchronous and other multiple telegraphs: some methods of obtaining independent telegraph circuits on a single wire both with and without synchronism. [*]$2. McGraw pub.
“The multiple telegraph systems other than synchronous systems discussed in the book are modifications of the Edison Phonoplex, the Varley and other somewhat similar systems; sometimes termed superimposed systems.... The first part of the book is taken up with a description and discussion of instances of the type of telegraph systems just mentioned. The second and third parts of the book relate to methods of obtaining synchronism at distant points; and to synchronous telegraphs, respectively.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Wm. Maver.
| * | Engin. N. 54: 535. N. 16, ‘05. 590w. |
Creighton, Louise (Mrs. Mandell Creighton). The life and letters of Mandell Creighton. [*]$9. Longmans.
The “Life and letters” of Bishop Creighton, the English Phillips Brooks, given to the public by Mrs. Creighton, portray a broadminded, steadfast man, a man who was “intensely loyal to the church and its mission.” “It is a long time since there was published any memoir or volume of letters which shows the Church of England on its best and most lovable side than do these memoirs of Creighton. But their interest is by no means confined to the Church of England. They contain many social studies of England in the second half of the old century; and in particular the chapters which deal with Creighton’s life at Emberton will long be remembered as a classic study of mining, fishing and farm life in the villages on the bleak northeast coast of England.” (Ind.)
“In the hands of Mrs. Creighton the English language is not as apt and flexible an instrument as in those of Lady Burne-Jones, but she shows an equal skill in the selection and arrangement of her material, and perhaps a somewhat greater readiness to admit the weaknesses and limitations of her subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + | Forum. 36: 558. Ap. ‘05. 3120w. | |
| Ind. 58: 324. F. 9, ‘05. 670w. |
“His widow and biographer, ... has not, although a lady of distinguished literary ability, succeeded in presenting an entirely coherent and harmonious portrait. Mrs. Creighton’s biography is a model of sound literary judgment particularly in its accurate proportion. She has also displayed tact.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 95. F. 2, ‘05. 2120w. |
Crewdson, Charles N. [Tales of the road.] $1.50. Thompson & Thomas.
“The author’s object is not merely to tell amusing anecdotes about his own and others’ experiences as commercial travellers ... but to give some practical hints and suggestions to young men just beginning to ‘go on the road’; yet the book is, after all, chiefly a collection of anecdotes.”—Outlook.
[*] “Some of these are amusing; others are rather tedious. Perhaps it may most aptly be compared with such a book as ‘Letters from a self-made merchant to his son,’ but it lacks the originality and shrewd homely humor which made that book so deservedly popular.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 120w. |
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. Cherry ribband: a novel. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
“Raith Ellison, the son of a grim, blind, old Scotchman, lets his eyes rest on Ivie Rysland, the daughter of Sergeant Grif Rysland of his majesty’s dragoons, quartered in Scotland for the express purpose of suppressing the conventicles. For this he is cast off by his father and enlists in Rysland’s troop. In the course of time he comes to be one of the jailers of his majesty’s prison on the Bass, where his own father and brother are confined. Later on, by an unexpected turn of events, he assists at a jail delivery by which his father and brother gain their freedom again. Of course it ends happily.”—Pub. Opin.
[*] “Is a thrilling drama-novel of the joyous old type of Dumas and Hope—and Crockett.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 470w. |
[*] “This romance is full of charm and vigor. The story shows the author at his best.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 160w. |
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. Loves of Miss Anne. $1.50. Dodd.
“The story is on the old theme of the apprentice’s love for his master’s daughter—in this case a shepherd boy and a very capricious and spirited girl, who treads the narrow path between fun and ill-breeding with rather uncertain steps. The boy becomes a land-agent, helps to rescue the girl from the insults of a drunken brother, and marries her after some pretty love-making on the hills by moonlight. The tale is told by Miss Anne’s faithful companion.”—Spec.
“Her story may be read with a good conscience.” W. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 38: 126. F. 16, ‘05. 140w. |
“There is about the whole book a good humour and good health. It is a pity that Mr. Crockett will not realize that vulgarity is in itself bad art, and in no way contributes to the realism of a narrative.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 145. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w. |
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. May Margaret. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
The heroine of Mr. Crockett’s story is the Scottish May Margaret of the famous house of Douglas. The tale reveals how this high-spirited, quick witted maiden presides in turn over the destinies of three wooers. “It is all a fearful matrimonial tangle, but history and not Mr Crockett, is responsible for that, and canonical laws find a way for the legalizing of it—as is with much sly humor set forth in the text.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is in Mr. Crockett’s best vein. It may be doubted whether the author has made the most of this Æschylean drama; but he has emphasized the actors, and his additions to history tend to fix the picture in our memory.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 714. Je. 10. 170w. |
“While not a masterpiece, the tale is strong in its appeal to the two elemental human passions, war and love, viewed through the magic mirror of imagination and set in the enchanted land of Long Ago.”
| + | Lit. D. 31 :666. N. 4, ‘05. 240w. |
“This is not, perhaps, one of his best, but it goes with the gait of the ‘true romance’ ... and is good to read.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 435. Jl. 1, ‘05. 440w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 445. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w. |
“Liberties are taken with history, and there are a hundred flagrant anachronisms of style and matter; but the real blemish is that the whole atmosphere is sham antique, and aggressively false.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 196. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1100w. |
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. Raiderland: all about Grey Galloway, its stories, traditions, characters, humors. [**]$2. Dodd.
“A sort of literary guide-book to that part of Galloway which is the locale of the bulk of his fiction. The result is a pleasant medley of facts and fiction, of descriptive touches and old legends, of character sketches and those intuitions which a land gray with history is certain to arouse.” (Pub. Opin.) Of his purpose, the author says: “It is my desire not so much to write a new book about Galloway as to focus and concentrate what I have already written for the use of Galloway lovers and Galloway travelers.”
“A collection of more or less doubtful history but of excellent literary material. The drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell are, as always, delightful.” Wallace Rice.
| + | Dial. 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
“To a native of Galloway, or to a person steeped in Mr. Crockett’s books as some are steeped in Stevenson or Scott or Thackeray, the whole may well be delightful. To the ordinary Philistinic reader much of it will appear superfluous—though even he must catch at times the infection of Mr. Crockett’s enthusiasm and feel the charm of this bit and that of panegyric, of reminiscence or local color.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 560w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38 :26. Ja. 5, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. Sir Toady Crusoe. (†)$1.50. Stokes.
This new story for boys of all ages tells how that very charming little fellow, Sir Toady Lion, became Sir Toady Crusoe, and of the many remarkable adventures which he and Saucy and Dick and some others had on Isle Crusoe on the Scottish coast, how he befriended a poacher in his father’s covers, how he played the part of local assistant to Providence in behalf of his big brother, Hugh John, and Cissy Carter, by threatening Cissy’s father with two large pistols, and how he did many other strange things in a way very unlike any one else and very like Toady. There are many illustrations by Gordon Browne.
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “He is an amusing, if improbable little chap, but other children will certainly learn from him neither good English nor good manners.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 1040. D. 23, ‘05. 80w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 765. D. ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “Is superior to the ordinary story for children, in its style, humour, characterisation and atmosphere. And yet Mr. Crockett’s tale is not altogether satisfactory, there is too large a mixture of grown-up sentiment in it.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | Spec. 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ‘05. 60w. |
Croiset, (Marie Joseph) Alfred, and Croiset, Maurice. Abridged history of Greek literature; authorized tr. by G. F. Heffelbower. [**]$2.50. Macmillan.
“This manual is a compression of the great history of Greek literature, which the authors of this work have published in five volumes, appearing 1887-1899. In accord with this conception of Greek literature as a whole we find their admirable development of each period.... It is the peculiar excellence of this work that it gives no partial and incomplete view of Greek literature, but carries the account of it not only through the Hellenistic period, but through the Christian writers of the first three centuries as well.... Their closing chapters on the Hellenic revival and the last days of Hellenic literature are most illuminating and valuable.”—Educ. R.
“The subject is developed with the beautiful French lucidity which makes readable an account of the dullest epoch, and the brilliant phrasing which is a Frenchman’s birthright cannot be altogether lost, even in translation. The translation by Professor Heffelbower exhibits some curious phenomena.” Grace Harriet Macurdy.
| + + — | Educ. R. 29: 314. Mr. ‘05. 900w. | |
| + + — | Ind. 58: 152. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1290w. |
“Mr. Heffelbower’s translation is fluent enough, but full of infelicities when reproducing MM. Croiset’s rendering of gems of Greek literature.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 38. Ja. 12, ‘05. 1440w. |
“The translation preserves the spirit, while giving us the idiomatic English so necessary for the young student.”
| + + | School R. 13: 274.[*] Mr. ‘05. 140w. |
“In spite of these lapses—which, after all, are few in number considering the extent of the work—the book as a whole may be commended to students of Greek literature, who are unable to use the original, as a measurably satisfactory presentation in English of a work of unquestioned excellence.” John C. Rolfe.
| + + — | School R. 13: 738. N. ‘05. 540w. |
Crosby, Ernest. Broadcast. [*]75c. Funk.
Mr. Crosby, the poet reformer and Tolstoyan, shows thru his verses, pictures, messages and meditations, the tyranny which the world’s systems exercise over its powerless victims. His remedy for the times so out of joint lies in making “men pull together” as only “love, cooperation, equal service, true honor and honesty” can accomplish.
“The present volume, though inferior to ‘Plain talk in Psalm and parable’, contains much that is thought-stimulating and helpful. The more we read Mr. Crosby’s writings, the more profoundly are we convinced that he is above all else a moralist and a teacher, and that prose is the field of literature in which he is most effective.”
| + — | Arena. 34: 334. S. ‘05. 930w. |
“But in spite of unpoetic poetry and illogical logic to be found in abundance on the strident little pages of this outcry against our social organization, there are also the results of observation definitely outlined.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] Crosby, Ernest. Garrison the non-resistant. 50c. Public pub. co.
Mr. Crosby, the disciple of Tolstoy, has taken the facts relating to the life of Garrison as related in “The story of his life by his children” and explains thru them the anomaly that the cause of abolition fathered by a non-resistant was at last decided by the greatest war of history.
Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson. Wild Irishman. [**]$1.25. Appleton.
As Mr. Crosland has numbered the “Egregious Englishman,” and the “Unspeakable Scot” among the scalps of his satire, so now does he display just such designing intentions towards the “Wild Irishman.” His attacks are merciless, and “such chapters as those on ‘Pigs,’ ‘Potatoes,’ ‘Dirt,’ ‘Whiskey,’ and ‘Blarney’ are not exactly calculated to make the native of Erin enthusiastic in the writer’s praise.” (Dial.)
| — | Dial. 39: 210. O. 1, ‘05. 520w. | |
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 620. S. 23, ‘05. 780w. | |
| — | Outlook. 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 80w. |
“As an exercise in literary pyrotechnics the work is out of the ordinary—but we cannot help a disappointment in that Mr. Crosland has not devoted an unusual brilliancy to better uses than mere display.”
| — | Pub. Opin. 39: 447. S. 30, ‘05. 210w. | |
| * | + | R of Rs. 32: 636. N. ‘05. 90w. |
Cross, Wilbur Lucius. Development of the English novel. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
The seventh edition of Professor Cross’ work which first appeared in 1900. Not only has use proven its principles authoritative, but judgments which the author offered five years ago have stood the test of change and advancement.
“The best of its kind, no doubt, in the language.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 261. Ag. 3, ‘05. 20w. | |
| Nation. 80: 435. Je. 1, ‘05. 70w. | ||
| Outlook. 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w. | ||
| Pub. Opin. 39: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 310w. |
“Professor Cross has done a thorough and useful work.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w. |
Crowley, Jeremiah. The parochial school: a curse to the church, a menace to the nation. $1. Published by the author, Chicago.
In a chapter dedicating his work to the “Emancipate Catholic laity of tomorrow” the author makes an appeal to the laity. “‘The parochial school’ lays bare clerical immorality in the United States in a way to rival the story of the church in Latin countries or in Germany before Luther’s day. Sad as is this picture, it is, however, far less painful, than to read how thoroughly good men combine to hide, gloss over, or condone clerical crimes.... Father Crowley devotes much space to the dangers of the parochial school. They are an incubus on the church and a serious menace to her.... The surest way in the world to kill off Catholicism is to give over education to priests and nuns. Witness France.” (Ind.)
| + | Ind. 58: 207. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1030w. |
“He does not attack the Catholic church, but arraigns its priests and prelates who have become corrupted.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 350w. |
Crowley, Mary Catherine. Heroine of the strait. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of this romance of Detroit in the time of the Ottawa chief, Pontiac. An account of the thrilling events connected with the pitiless siege of Detroit, through which runs the love story of the young Scotchman, Sterling, and Angelique Cuillerier, a brave daughter of the frontier.
Crowley, Mary Catherine. Love thrives in war: a romance of the frontier in 1812; with front, by Clyde O. De Land. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of a lively romance in which Perry, Tippecanoe, and Tecumseh figure. The heroine, a Scotch girl, who has a trio of suitors, promises to marry the man she loathes in order to save the life of her lover. The author has made a thoro study of the scenes and times which she depicts.
Cruttwell, Maud. Verrocchio. [*]$2. Scribner.
“To her biographies of Mantegna and the Robbias our author now presents one of Verrocchio, perhaps the least known and appreciated of fifteenth century masters.” (Outlook). The biographer has aimed to show “upon what dubious evidence the attribution to Verrocchio of such work as the Tornabuoni relief and other inferior sculpture and painting is based, to trace his steady development from the immature work of the Baptism to the full burst of his powers in the statue of the Colleoni, and to arrive at a truer estimate of his artistic capabilities by the rejection of all inferior work, the attribution of which is merely hypothetical, taking as the standard of judgment only such works as are proved beyond possibility of doubt to be authentic.” The book is fully illustrated.
“It is in her purely aesthetic judgments that we find Miss Cruttwell least satisfactory. Taken as a whole, Miss Cruttwell’s study is the most accurate, impartial, and complete that has yet been made on the subject; but it leaves room for some writer touched more deeply by the imaginative aspect of Verrocchio’s work to give him his exact place in the temple of fame.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 116. Ja. 28. 1670w. |
“It is a thorough-going essay, notable for its clarification of the master’s works. Her book has gusto; it is written with equal knowledge and enthusiasm. It is one of the best of those monographs to which I have referred as based on system and industry rather than on an original impulse.” Royal Cortissoz.
| + + | Atlan. 95: 277. F. ‘05. 540w. |
“The author has grasped the value of giving attention to the study of the artist’s works at the expense of vague surmises as to his biography.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 186. F. ‘05. 80w. |
“A scholarly and appreciative monograph of great importance.” George Breed Zug.
| + + | Dial. 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 890w. |
“Her book is altogether the best on Verrocchio that we have, in English at least.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 100w. |
“Generally speaking, Maud Cruttwell’s work is sober and well informed. One may regret the vagueness of her general views. Few comprehensive works of recent years are as useful.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 77. Ja. 26, ‘05. 920w. |
“She leaves us with an impression not to be gained by other readings of the exaltation of the Verrocchio ideal. The biographer and critic renders an equally important service in discriminating between Verrocchio’s own work and those far feebler achievements of his followers sometimes attributed to him.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w. |
Culbertson, Anne Virginia. Banjo talks. $1. Bobbs.
A group of about fifty negro dialect poems, some of which sing, others dream, and many talk sound common sense.
“Here are many songs, poems and lullabies phrased in the homely terms and picturing the life and character of the Southern negro more accurately than labored essays. And more than this, these simple folk-lore songs, ditties and lullabies are composed with due regard to the laws of versification.”
| + | Arena. 34: 554. N. ‘05. 990w. |
[*] “Showing very little of the philosophical temper that makes Mr. Dunbar’s work unique, and being considerably less perfect in dialect, they have to their credit a decided imaginative quality, much picturesqueness of diction, and a charming spontaneity of conception and treatment.”
| + | Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 200w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “The volume as a whole, with its humor, its pathos, its jumbled ratiocinations, gives a fairly complete portrait of the southern negro.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 70w. |
Cullum, Ridgwell. [In the brooding wild.] [†]$1.50. Page.
“The tragedy of ‘The brooding wild’ consists in the enmity sown between two brothers, trappers of a straightforward primitive type, by a woman whom they believe to be a mysterious white squaw, queen of an Indian tribe. She is really a very ordinary half-breed conspiring with a rascally trader to rob the brothers.... The climax, in which a lunatic filled with the lust of slaughter breaks away into the wilderness, unfortunately passes the border-line of the grotesque.”—Sat. R.
“The human interest is subsidiary to the landscape. We wish the author had trusted for his effects to the realities of his mighty background, for his conspirators are made of pasteboard while his wolves and dogs and bears are of flesh and blood.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w. |
“Unfortunately his ambition has outsailed his power of execution, and from unskilful treatment the story loses the interest promised at the outset.”
| — | Ath. 1905, 1: 619. My. 20. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 450w. |
“The story is told with fervor, with a rough, crude force.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w. |
“The book is garishly melodramatic.”
| — | Sat. R. 99: 745. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w. |
Cunningham, William. Growth of English industry and commerce during the early and middle ages. v. I. 4th ed. [*]$4. Macmillan.
“In this new edition of the first volume ... substantial additions are found, together with corrections on various points of detail and increased precision of statement.... As it now stands, this volume, which traces the course of industrial progress through early and mediæval England, more nearly than ever before fulfills its author’s purpose of indicating clearly the interconnection between the economic and political facts of the periods reviewed, and of making plain not only the events but the ideas of the time.”—Outlook.
| Nation. 80: 373. My. 11, ‘05. 140w. | ||
| + + | Outlook. 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 180w. |
Curtis, Francis. Republican party. Vols. I and II. [**]$6. Putnam.
“The work should command serious interest. The very fact that it is honored by a foreword over the name of President Roosevelt, and that the introductory notes ... were written by Senator William P. Frye and Speaker J. G. Cannon, at once arouses interest. By copious extracts from government documents, party platforms and newspaper files, the author shows first the republican party owes its origin neither to enthusiasts nor to a single movement. The party has been consistent through its career, and to-day stands for the three great policies for which it stood at its birth, ‘liberty, honor, and progress.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“But in spite of the fact that the author is neither exact nor entirely conservative in all his statements, the work as a whole must command lasting respect.”
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 127. Ja. ‘05. 300w. |
“The period of the Civil war is handled skilfully and with less partisanship than might have been expected. It will be easily seen that Mr. Curtis’s work will be accepted only by loyal party men, and yet it is of great value to the historical student; in fact, it is a very elaborate historical argument.”
| + | Ind. 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 400w. |
“It would be ridiculous to call this kind of stuff ‘history’, since it entirely lacks the historical spirit or sense of proportion, still Mr. Curtis has compiled a useful record.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 99: 599. My. 6, ‘05. 1400w. |
Curtis, William Eleroy. Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia. [**]$2. Revell.
“Another descriptive informational volume, so many of which have already come from the pen of the same author. Mr. Curtis tells of things he has seen, and garnishes his narrative with a great deal of historical and descriptive information which makes very interesting reading. There are a number of excellent illustrations in this volume.”—R. of Rs.
[*] “To add anything new to these old familiars would be impossible; but Mr. Curtis’s view-point is at times refreshing.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 39: 377. D. 1, ‘05. 380w. |
[*] “There is in the present book the same easy, confident, and confidential style of sketching and statisticizing (if the word may pass) that makes not unpleasant reading in Mr. Curtis’s previous volume.”
| + | Nation. 81: 403. N. 16, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “Its reading will amply repay any one interested in either the ancient or the modern development of the countries treated.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 210w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 755. D. ‘05. 70w. |
Curtis, William Eleroy. [Modern India.] [**]$2. Revell.
A vast deal of information has been brought together here, and the author’s method “is to combine with a mass of observations and deductions of his own—the observations taken hastily upon his travels and the deductions—not too carefully checked—statistics, fragments of history, geography, ethnology, guide book information, and what not gathered together from all available sources.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author is happier in his delineation of modern life, and the casual reader will enjoy the descriptions of town and country, plague and famine, peasant and priest.” (Nation.)
[*] “It is a strange medley of wit and wisdom with error and ignorance, of fun and burlesque with serious study, the good qualities, however, predominating.”
| + — | Ath. 2: 639. N. 11, ‘05. 1560w. |
[*] “A very helpful book for those who wish data upon which to base a reasonable judgment of the actual state of affairs in that country.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | Dial. 39: 377. D. 1, ‘05. 300w. |
“With much that is statistically accurate, the book unfortunately abounds in printer’s and author’s errors.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 180w. |
“It would, no doubt, be hard to find in another single volume such a variety of information about India and Indian affairs, but the assemblage with all its facts and figures, lacks that authority which is necessary to give full value to a work of this kind.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 1160w. |
“A feature of particular value to Americans is the exposition of the activities of their countrymen in the religious, educational, economic and social life of India.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “Another of Mr. Curtis’ encyclopaedic but entertaining books.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 636. N. ‘05. 100w. |
Cuthbert, Father. Catholic ideals in social life. [*]$1.25. Benziger.
Father Cuthbert’s “desire has been to give expression to the Catholic mind touching some of the most urgent questions of the hour in regard to social life and conduct.” His essays include: The church and personal liberty, The Christian state, The education of women, Marriage, The value of work, The priest and social reform, The responsibility of wealth, The idea of responsibility, Religious aspects of social work, The working man’s apostolate, and St. Francis and you.
“Fresh, hopeful, and courageous essays.”
| + + | Cath. World. 80: 681. F. ‘05. 540w. |
Cuthell, E. H. My garden in the city of gardens. [**]$1.50. Lane.
Gardening in India from October to June furnishes the theme of this “memory with illustrations.” There is a goodly amount of incidental knowledge worked in, such as descriptions of prevalent Indian customs and bits of gossip concerning Hindu every-day life.
“In spite of these faults and such others as an awkward style of writing and the lack of a glossary of Indian words, the book contains a good deal that is of interest in regard to life and nature in India.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 243. O. 16, ‘05. 390w. |
“As garden-books go, this one is sufficiently entertaining, and the descriptions are as good as the photographs.”
| + | Nation. 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 150w. |
“Much of it is good enough reading if the mood fits.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 690w. |
“But good as much of the book is, it is a little spoiled by an excess of carelessness in style and a too pointed assertion of individual mannerisms.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 291. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1470w. |
Cutler, James Elbert. Lynch law: an investigation into the history of lynching in the U. S. [**]$1.50. Longmans.
Beginning with the origin of the term Prof. Cutler traces the development of the lynch law from 1830 down to date. He discusses the present situation, suggests remedies, and gives charts and statistics.
“The volume will repay careful study, even if exception is occasionally taken to some of the author’s conclusions. The volume represents a great amount of research work and the author is to be congratulated upon the manner in which the material is presented.” Carl Kelsey.
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 606. S. ‘05. 280w. | |
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 296. S. 2. 1860w. | |
| + | Cath. World. 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 510w. |
“The book is sane, temperate in tone, moderate in statement, and judicial in conclusions. It is the only really valuable treatise on the subject, and is not likely to be superseded.” Walter L. Fleming.
| + + + | Dial. 39: 34. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1310w. |
“Dr. Cutler has done much to solve the problem by his laborious, careful, and candid study of the question, which has already made him the leading authority upon a dangerous social disease.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 57. Jl. 20, ‘05. 2110w. |
“In his final chapters on the justification of lynching and the remedies for it, Mr. Cutler shows a spirit remarkable for its fairness and an appreciation of the force of circumstances and the historical facts of the situation.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 1850w. |
“Careful and dispassionate study of the phenomenon known as lynching.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 380w. |
“A well-considered and thoughtful analysis of the facts and figures.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05. 470w. |
[*] “Mr. Cutler’s book should be valuable for its summary of facts, and for the solemn warning that thoughtful Americans may read between the lines.”
| + | Spec. 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ‘05. 380w. |
Cutting, Mary Stewart. Little stories of courtship. [†]$1.25. McClure.
“Tales of plain, everyday, middle-class people—people who are not overburdened with the world’s goods, but who are educated, cultured and refined—in short, the people we meet daily about us. The eight stories which make up this volume are very pleasant reading, indeed.”—N. Y. Times.
“This collection does not fulfill all the expectations excited by its unique predecessor, ‘The little stories of married life.’”
| + | Bookm. 21: 545. Jl. ‘05. 320w. | |
| + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 180w. |
“Stories of the book are all simple in their theme, but they gain much by Mrs. Cutting’s sympathetic handling of them.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w. |
“The charm of all the stories lies in their perfect naturalness.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w. |
“Some of these ‘little stories of courtship’ are excellent in their way, indicating shrewd observation and a kindly sympathy. But they are of very uneven merit.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 110w. |
“They are gracefully spun, and, without being intense, they have the human touch. They portray life in its usual phases, yet they are not without variety, and they are very genuine in feeling.”
| + | Reader. 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 220w. |
Cyclopedia of applied electricity; a practical guide for electricians, mechanics, engineers, students, telegraph and telephone operators, and all others interested in electricity. Prepared by a corps of experts, electrical engineers and designers. 5v. $30. Am. school of correspondence.
The text is divided in five parts and contains over 2,000 illustrations. Part I. treats of current measurements, part II. of dynamos, part III. of lightning, part IV. of alternating currents and power transmission, and part V. of telephony.
“We give, therefore, without comment on our part, the opinion passed by the publishers themselves: ‘The practical value of the work as a whole can hardly be questioned.’”
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 294. Mr. 16, ‘05. 990w. |
“A practical guide and encyclopedia of electrical knowledge that should be of great value to the everyday worker with electricity in all of its applications.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 428. Mr. 18, ‘05. 250w. |
Cynewulf. Dream of the rood: an old English poem attributed to Cynewulf; ed. by Albert S. Cook. [*]90c. Oxford.
With the reproduction of this poem from the Vercelli book, the editor offers complete sidelight information including an introduction which discusses the manuscript, translations, authorship—sometimes attributed to Caedmon—and literary characteristics of the poem. There are full notes, an appendix and a glossary.
“This little book is full of valuable and all but convincing facts.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 445. Ap. 22, ‘05. 600w. |
“The notes proper are full and interesting, and the glossary unusually helpful.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 686. Je. 3. 280w. | |
| Dial. 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w. | ||
| Dial. 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 40w. |