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Dale, Alan, pseud. See Cohen, Alfred J.
Dale, Thomas F. Polo, past and present. [*]$3.75. Scribner.
An authoritative polo handbook. “Mr Dale has succeeded in accomplishing what no previous writer on polo has ever done, that is to present a concise, even graphic, view of the present status of polo throughout the world. The chapters on polo in England, America, India, Australia, and New Zealand, while technical, as the rules of each country are presented in full with illustrative comment, are of peculiar interest at the present time owing to a growing sentiment for an international code of rules.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Dale has the happy faculty of writing entertainingly for the general reader as well as for the scientific student. His book combines both elements.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1090w. |
“A short chapter on the elements of polo is as instructive as it can be; and the later portions of the work, which deal with training ponies, stable management, and polo-pony breeding, contain much excellent matter.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 471. S. 30, ‘05. 600w. |
Daniels, Mabel W. [American girl in Munich.] [†]$1.25. Little.
A Boston girl’s account of a year spent as a student of music in Munich. The German life in the little pension, the trials and joys of her fellow students, her professors, and the operas and symphonies she enjoyed, are described in a series of chatty letters to her chum. She meets several real celebrities in the world of music, and weaves into her story a pretty little German love idyl.
“Pleasantly written and full of delightful humor.”
| + + — | Dial. 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 230w. |
“There is not a ponderous page, yet she has attempted to enliven her narrative by weaving into it a boarding-house love story. It would have been wiser to study her German and read her proofs carefully.”
| + + — | Nation, 81: 83. Jl. 27, ‘05. 680w. |
“Delightfully readable are the letters. The book will be primarily interesting to another girl who has been or is thinking of studying abroad, but it is written in a chatty, gossipy manner which makes easy reading.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 230w. |
“A series of bright and entertaining letters. They have a flavor of genuineness quite apart from their mention of real notabilities and places.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 959. Ap. 15, ‘05. 70w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 70w. |
Dante Alighieri. [Divina commedia]; tr. by H. F. Tozer. [*]$1. Oxford.
“A translation into English prose intended primarily for readers who are not acquainted with Italian. Mr. Tozer has endeavored to give Dante’s meaning as fully and clearly as possible without adhering too literally to the words; and at the same time to present the poem in a fairly readable form.”—Bookm.
“In rendering the poem itself Mr. Tozer’s prose contrasts lamentably with the noble, beautiful, living English and the unerring good taste of Professor Norton.” Abbott Foster.
| — + | Bookm. 21: 418. Je. ‘05. 970w. |
“The translator has coped successfully with the difficult task of rendering Dante in English prose suitable for the student. From an artistic standpoint, much is necessarily lacking in the way of music and connotation of style.”
| + — | Critic. 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 70w. |
“The most obvious quality of Mr. Tozer’s translation is its readableness; its inferiority to Mr. Norton’s lies in a less profound Dante scholarship, and in a certain looseness of style which springs from a tendency to paraphrase, and now from the use of inappropriate words.”
| + | Nation. 80: 298, Ap. 13, ‘05. 750w. |
Reviewed by W. L.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 184. Mr. 25, ‘05. 700w. |
Dante Alighieri. [Inferno]: a translation and commentary, by Marvin R. Vincent. [**]$1.50. Scribner.
“While owning up to the ‘disenchantment’ of any translation,” the author, who is professor of sacred literature in the Union theological seminary, offers his own as a help to ‘make the study of Dante what it should be—a part of the curriculum of every theological institution.’ The translation “is fortified with about 125 pages of notes which comprise a commentary on words and phrases and ideas gathered and sifted from H. F. Tozer’s convenient book of explanation, and from similar publications. The author has also scattered some things of his own with lavish hand—principally in the departments of religions and ethical interpretation, altho there are some of historical fact.” (N. Y. Times).
“The student is led without useless ornamentation directly to the poet’s conception; and that is what most students want.”
| + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 379. Ap. ‘05. 210w. |
“Dr. Vincent has made a very strong, accurate and readable translation.”
| + + | Bookm. 21: 418. Je. ‘05. 2890w. |
“It is far from being a successful translation, for the figurative meanings have almost entirely disappeared with the rhythmical. It is just as far from being a successful poem, for all that Dr. Vincent gives us has already been more concisely expressed in plain prose. These notes are of uniform excellence, and are, as the author intimates, the result of class-room debates. On the chance that there are certain intellects which will more rapidly grasp a blank verse ‘Inferno’ rather than one in genuine poetry like Cary’s or in rhetorical prose like Norton’s, Dr. Vincent’s book may not be deemed entirely superfluous. For such intellects his notes can hardly fail to be otherwise than enlightening and stimulating.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 560w. |
“Dr. Vincent announces that he has made a literal translation based on the Oxford text of Dr. Moore.”
| + | R. of Rs. 30: 759. D. ‘04. 80w. |
D’Arblay, Madame. See Burney, Frances.
Dargan, Edwin Charles. History of preaching from the apostolic fathers to the great reformers. [**]$1.75. Armstrong.
“This, the first of three volumes, carries the subject to the close of the Reformation period. The two that are to follow will treat of modern European preaching and the history of preaching in the United States. Thus a field at present but partially worked will be fully covered. The present volume treats successively of the patristic preaching, its decline after the fourth century, mediæval preaching from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, and the subsequent renaissance.”—Outlook.
“Dr. Dargan gives us a careful view of the historic settings and abundant biographical detail.”
| + + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 598. Jl. ‘05. 70w. |
“The author appears to have done very little original research, but he writes a readable style, and has made use of good sources of information.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 271. Ag. 26. 130w. |
“We know of no other work of this character in which the combination of pleasing diction and abundant information is more satisfactory. Our author has depended largely upon Protestant authorities on matters connected with the Catholic church. The erudition of the author, his pleasing style and his spirit of equity give to the book a large value.”
| + + — | Baltimore Sun. : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 490w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 370w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] “The book is a treasury of learning of a certain kind, but the learning is scarcely helpful. As a bibliography, indeed, the volume may be useful.”
| + — | Spec. 95: sup. 910. D. 2, ‘05. 190w. |
Dasent, Sir George Webbe. Heroes of Iceland; adapted from the translation of Dasent by Allen French. $1.50. Little.
A tale adapted from Dasent’s translation of “The story of burnt Njal,” the great Icelandic saga, with a preface, introduction and notes by Mr. French. It pictures Iceland in the tenth century, the old pagan life, the dawn of Christianity, and the struggle of mighty heroes.
[*] “In his comprehensive introduction as well as his notes, the author gives a thoro setting.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 471. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w. |
“A very convenient form of the greatest of Icelandic stories.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “We have no criticism to make on Mr. French’s execution of his task.”
| + + | Spec. 95: sup. 904. D. 2, ‘05. 280w. |
Dasent, Sir George Webbe. [Popular tales from the Norse.] [*]$2.50. Putnam.
The third edition of an 1859 English classic. “The book contains besides the ‘Tales,’ the introduction of the original edition, which considers broadly the origin and diffusion of folk tales in general, and of the Norse popular tales in particular.... A new part of the book is a memoir of the author by his son, Arthur Irwin Dasent, who gives an account of his father’s career from the time of his birth, on the island of St. Vincent, in 1817, to his death in England, in 1896. It is the story of an extraordinarily full and busy life, and a typically English record, at the same time, of recognition and merited reward.” (Nation).
“These, because of their manner and matter, are as fresh as on the day when they were first given in English garb. Scarcely a writer of recent time has been the possessor of such an English vocabulary or the master of such an English style. Dasent’s ‘Tales’ are in this way not only a singularly remarkable instance of felicitous translation from a foreign language into our own, but are at the same time a well of English, pure and undefiled, and a model of what English prose happily may be.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 114. F. 9, ‘05. 530w. |
Daumier, Honore. International Studio. Daumier and Gavarni. [*]$2; [*]$3. Lane.
A number devoted to Daumier and Gavarni, the two great French cartoonists of the last century. There are two dozen reproductions of their work in color and photogravures, and a hundred illustrations in black and white. Critical and biographical notes on Daumier are translated from an essay of M. Henri Frantz, and there is an essay upon Gavarni by M. Octave Uzanne.
“Will be greatly prized by collectors of the works of the great satirical cartoonists and illustrators. It will prove a valuable addition to the art-collector’s library.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + | Arena. 33: 338. Mr. ‘05. 690w. |
“The essays are after all mere introductions to the plates. Incidentally the cartoons furnish a fascinating interpretation of Parisian life and manners. The special numbers of ‘The studio’ are always interesting, but this one is unusually unique and suggestive.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 51. Ja. 16, ‘05. 260w. |
Davenport, Frederick Morgan. Primitive traits in religious revivals: a study in mental and social evolution. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
“This is a purely sociological interpretation of revivals, having no evangelistic bias or motive. In his development of this theme the author has introduced accounts of various revivals of this country and Great Britain.”—R. of Rs.
“His collection of materials in this field is highly interesting, and a valuable supplement to Stoll’s ‘Suggestion and Hypnotismus in der Völker-psychologie.’” W. I. Thomas.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 11: 272. S. ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “It is a valuable contribution to our knowledge. Every minister should read it carefully and take its lessons to heart. The social student will find it helpful in explaining phenomena which have not received the attention they deserve.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 750. N. ‘05. 190w. |
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
| + — | Atlan. 96: 688. N. ‘05. 500w. |
“The treatment of his subject is logical and fairly clear, though with a number of repetitions.” Rolvix Harlan.
| + + — | Bib. World. 26: 237. S. ‘05. 570w. |
“The latter chapters of the book are somewhat disappointing. Instead of calm, scientific analyses or a logical drawing of conclusions, Prof. Davenport indulges in an exposition of his own theories and ideas.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 390. Ag. 17, ‘05. 580w. |
“The book is a valuable and highly interesting contribution to the many recent discussions of the place and value of the emotions in moral and religious development.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 20. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1080w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1660w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 140w. |
Davidson, Andrew Bruce. Theology of the Old Testament. [**]$2.50. Scribner.
Principal Salmond has compiled this treatise in Old Testament theology from the manuscripts left by Dr. Davidson. Under the doctrine of God, of man, of sin, of redemption, and of the last things, is given his theological interpretation of the Old Testament.
“It is a pleasure to note throughout both volumes the keenness of observation, the gift of interpretative insight, and the incisive style which are conspicuous in all the writings of the lamented biblicist. It treats the Old Testament as not only a literary, but a moral unit. This is really the essence of the inadequacy and untimeliness of the book. The fact is that these lectures must be repudiated by biblical science in as far as they fail to indicate Israel’s progress in religious thought and make the Old Testament literature an illustration either of the New Testament teaching of our modern creeds. They must also be disowned by the ‘higher criticism,’ of which Mr. Davidson was more or less an exponent, because they fail to apply an ethical test to religious belief.” James Frederick McCurdy.
| + — | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 346. Ap. ‘05. 5160w. |
“There are many fine discussions of particular problems, and many brilliant individual passages that one would like to quote; but there is no history of the religion of Israel. Will be useful to the preacher who wishes to gather up the teachings of the Old Testament on any given point; but it will be of little value to the student who is trained in modern historical methods.”
| — + | Bib. World. 25: 283. Ap. ‘05. 2340w. |
“Containing incisive, profitable, and helpful discussions of some of the fundamental doctrines of the Old Testament.” Ira M. Price.
| + | Dial. 38: 45. Ja. 16, ‘05. 600w. |
“The book contains much good material and is of real value.”
| + | Ind. 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 320w. |
Davidson, Rev. John. St. Peter and his training. [*]30c. Lippincott.
“Following the New Testament account of the apostle, and setting aside the critical questions it raises, the author finds evidence of its truth in its consistent realism as a portrait from life.”—Outlook.
“The psychological problem involved in the story of Peter’s denial of his Master is better handled, and more justly to Peter, than by most expositors.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 452. F. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
Davidson, John. Selected poems. [*]$1.25. Lane.
“Mr. Davidson has drawn from his seven earlier volumes with a shrewd critical sense.... Unusual mastery of narrative construction in verse, his energy of conception and readiness in the fundamental mind-work of poetry, are all shown here at their best in the ‘Ballads,’ which make the bulk of the book.”—Nation.
“He handles the metre with masterly skill, filling it with imaginative life and power. The chief virtue of his ballads is the virile energy of the shaping strength that we feel working in them.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 329. Mr. 18. 850w. |
“Mr. John Davidson’s poetic view of the world is as tragical as Ernest Dowson’s; but there is a grim irony of intellectual strength in his work that marks him of a different race of men.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + | Atlan. 96: 417. S. ‘05. 340w. |
“Uncommonly masculine volume.”
| + | Nation. 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 330w. |
Davidson, Rt. Rev. Randall Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury. Christian opportunity. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
The sermons, addresses and speeches delivered by the Archbishop of Canterbury during his recent visit to America make a volume not only temporarily significant but monumental. “The most interesting contents of the volume, of course, are the sermons in Trinity church in Boston, and the address at Faneuil hall. None however, surpasses in excellence of material or stamps Dr. Davidson as a broader scholar than his cordial address to the evangelical ministers at Boston university. ‘We in England,’ he said, ‘have learned in these latter days to recognize better than ever before how splendid an element in the growth of English life and character is due to our Puritan forefathers, and you in New England have come to see that even among those whom your great-great-grandfathers thought were very black, there is something worth having and holding and thus we join hands in behalf of the common cause—the setting forward of our Master’s kingdom in the old world and in the new.’” (Pub. Opin.)
| Atlan. 95: 705. My. ‘05. 180w. |
“The title is happy, for the burden of them all is the greatness of the opportunity here in this new continent. Their level judgment, catholic spirit, and fraternal feeling ...”
| + + | Boston Evening Transcript. : 7. F. 10, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + | Ind. 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 90w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 190w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w. |
Davidson, Thomas. Education of the wage earners. [*]75c. Ginn.
“The record of a unique experiment among the Russian Jews of New York city. As the result of a challenge at the close of a lecture, Professor Davidson organized a class composed almost exclusively of wage-earners from the tenement houses. With them he successfully studied the history of civilization, modern literature, and the history of philosophy.... The volume which is edited by Mr. Charles M. Blakewell, contains a brief biography and characterization of Professor Davidson by the editor.”—Dial.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 80w. |
“With the interpreting touch of the editor, the inspiring letters of Davidson, and the final words from the pupils, we have a book of very real and personal force.” Lucy Wright.
| + + | Charities. 14: 642. Ap. 1, ‘05. 540w. |
Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.
| Dial. 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 210w. |
Reviewed by J. Lawrence Laughlin.
| * | + + | J. Pol. Econ. 13: 611. S. ‘05. 370w. |
Davies, D. Ffrangçon-. Singing of the future; with an introd. by Edward Elgar. [*]$2.50. Lane.
“In the old warfare between technique and intelligence as regards musical interpretation, Mr. Ffrangçon-Davies declares himself, as we might expect, on the side of intelligence. With him the meaning is everything, and he contends that if the singer thinks the words he is singing, all the rest will follow of itself.... Far from despising vocal technique, the author lays great stress on a sound method, and explains what the basis of that method should be.”—Lond. Times.
“It is a pity that by the copious use of footnotes and parentheses the author should have weakened his case, for by these and other means he qualifies almost everything he says till the reader is at a loss to keep the main drift of his argument in view.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 306. S. 22, ‘05. 610w. | |
| * | + + | Nation. 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 420w. |
Davies, Gerald Stanley. Franz Hals. $1.75. Macmillan.
This latest addition to the “Great masters in painting and sculpture series” is devoted to that Dutch artist of the early 17th century, Franz Hals. All that is actually known or surmised concerning his life is given and there are 35 half-tone reproductions of the author’s best known paintings. There is also a chronological list of his most important pictures, and a catalog of his works arranged according to the galleries in which they are hung.
“Mr. Davies’s work is a fine example of what a sympathetic, imaginative, and withal a learned man may produce from very slender accepted data.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 520w. |
Davies, Rev. John Llewelyn, ed. Workingmen’s college, 1854-1904. [*]$1.25. Macmillan.
Records of its history and its work by members of the college. For half a century the workingmen’s college has played an important part in the sociological evolution of England, and its history and development are of general interest. The editor has written a chapter on F. D. Maurice, who was the real founder of the college. Mr. G. W. Trevelyan writes a chapter on “The college and other universities.” Mr. J. P. Elmslie describes “Art teaching in early days,” Mr. C. B. Lucas tells of “The college clubs.” There are many other chapters illustrating the development of this great work from a simple night school to a model institution of its kind.
“The value of the book is enhanced by some excellent portraits; but it lacks an index.”
| + | Acad. 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w. | |
| Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 337. Mr. ‘05. 100w. | ||
| Nation. 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w. | ||
| Spec. 94: 18. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1520w. |
Davies, W. W. Codes of Hammurabi and Moses. [*]75c. Meth. bk.
A comparison of the laws of Hammurabi and Moses which is designed to help all Bible students. To this end the text of the Hammurabi code is given in small pica type, selected parallels from the Old Testament in long primer, and remarks and comments in brevier.
| Outlook. 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 150w. |
Davis, Foxcroft. [Mrs. Darrell.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
In this novel of Washington life Elizabeth Brandon marries Darrell and finds out too late that she loves his friend and cousin Hugh Pelham. Upon Darrell’s death his estate goes to Pelham, who is in Africa, and his lawyers press Elizabeth sorely. This destroys her faith in Pelham and she all but falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous senator, who wishes to divorce his wife and marry her, when Pelham returns. The senator’s daughter also plays an important part in the story.
“The story is slight, the characters shadowy, and the style, except for a strange abundance of ‘non-sequiturs,’ exceedingly commonplace.”
| — | Nation. 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 310w. |
“Not only does he reveal the actions of his characters, but also the train of thoughts that lead up to those actions. Nevertheless ‘Mrs. Darrell’ is a book full of interest.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 379. Je. 10, ‘05. 610w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 210w. |
“The book as regards plot and constructive power and development cannot be praised highly, but the love story is in some ways unusually interesting.”
| — + | Outlook. 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] Davis, John Patterson. Corporations: a study of the origin and development of the great business combinations and their relation to the authority of the state. 2v. [**]$4.50. Putnam.
“This treatise is of great helpfulness to the student of what is now familiarly known as the ‘corporation problem.’ ... The subject is here attacked chiefly from the historical standpoint, from the earliest manifestations of corporate activity in the ecclesiastical organizations of the primitive Christian church to the colonial companies, forerunners of the development companies of to-day. There are, however, chapters dealing with contemporary phenomena at a length sufficient to make the writer’s views concerning the structure, operation, and future of the modern corporation clear.”—Lit. D.
[*] “Without fully concurring with him, we find his views highly suggestive and stimulating, and ... ‘a particularly welcome addition to economic literature.’”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 580w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 680w. |
Davis, Norah. Northerner. [†]$1.50. Century.
The hero of Miss Davis’ first published book is a young New York capitalist who buys a street railway and a lighting plant in an Alabama town. Titanic and aggressive, young Falls underrates the momentum of sectional prejudice even where it carries with it the sanity of a whole town. Mob violence, strikes, and a lynching form the dramatic phase of the story whose other side portrays the loyalty and courage of Joan Adair. This southern girl, tho reared to the fanatic prejudice of her townsmen, could, one is led to believe, champion right and justice impersonally, even tho the process had not been terribly confused with her love for the much misunderstood and ostracized hero.
[*] “The supreme merit of the book lies, however, in the subtle delineation of Southern life with its love, its fear, its pride, its idealism, and its prejudice.”
| + | Arena. 34: 664. D. ‘05. 500w. |
[*] “The serious questions of the Northerner are vigorously stated, and some characters and scenes very forcibly presented. The construction is bad, and there is a lot of tiresome talk.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 340w. |
“The principal value of the story is in its depicting of the life of the half-asleep, half-awake southern town with its new-formed ambitions obscured by the rubbish of old traditions.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 200w. |
Davis, Richard Harding. [Miss Civilization.] [**]50c. Scribner.
“A comedy in one act, founded on a story by the late James Harvey Smith. By means of strategy, the daughter of a wealthy man succeeds in holding three thieves in her home until the arrival of the police, whom she had summoned by telephone when she first heard the burglars trying to file their way into the house.”—Bookm.
“This playlet is admirably suited for parlor and amateur theatricals, where it will furnish both to actors and audiences unalloyed delight.”
| + | Ind. 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w. |
“This is a lively and amusing play. It is not badly suited for amateur rendering.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 30w. |
Davison, Charles. [Study of recent earthquakes.] $1.50. imp. Scribner.
“This copiously illustrated volume ... gives a popular account of the results which have been arrived at by modern seismology.... Rather than grouping seismic phenomena, as we should expect to find them in a text-book, the author has given a concise history of eight disturbances, each of which has a special interest.... A subject attractive to the general reader which is referred to in several chapters as an account of signs which have given warning of a coming earthquake.”—Nature.
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 710w. |
“Mr. Davidson’s book is well worth reading, whilst the manner in which its contents have been arranged should obtain for it a circulation amongst those who seek for general information.”
| + + | Nature. 71: 532. Ap. 6, ‘05. 630w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 677. My. 6, ‘05. 290w. |
Davitt, Michael. Fall of feudalism in Ireland. [**]$2.50. Harper.
“The land league revolution of the Irish people, their struggles to regain possession of the lands confiscated under Cromwellian settlement,—which was virtually continued during two hundred and fifty years,—is set forth in this book.... Parnell is, of course, Mr. Davitt’s hero; and the personal portraiture he gives is both interesting and valuable.”—Critic.
“He writes from a partisan viewpoint and, as might have been expected, makes no attempt to conceal his partisanship. Despite this fact he has done good service to contemporary history by the care he has bestowed on the documentary part of his exhaustive work.” E. P.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 230w. |
“Is of great value both as a record and as literature.”
| + | Critic. 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 230w. |
[*] Dawson, Miles Menander. Business of life insurance. [**]$1.50. Barnes.
“Mr. Dawson writes as an actuary of long experience, addressing himself primarily to those holding or contemplating the purchase of life insurance. The comparative merits and defects of the various systems of insurance and forms of policy, the methods whereby rates are or should be fixed, the ‘schemes’ adopted by companies to increase their business—in short, almost every topic connected with the subject is discussed with a mingling of criticism, advice, and warning.”—Outlook.
[*] “Practical suggestive, and soundly informative, this book should find a wide audience.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 320w. |
Dawson, Samuel E. Saint Lawrence, its basin and border-lands. [*]$1.35. Stokes.
“In orderly fashion and in often luminous phrase Dr. Dawson sets forth the story of the discovery, exploration, and occupation of the northeastern part of the North American continent. The text is accompanied by some good illustrations and by some especially good maps.”—Outlook.
“This learned Canadian not only enjoys a wide personal knowledge of the region he deals with but is likewise possessed of the critical faculty, which has enabled him to deal satisfactorily with a subject involving a good many disputed points.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 116. Jl. 22. 1210w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w. | |
| + + | Ind. 49: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 230w. |
“His present volume is a critical and scholarly study of the most fruitful era of early North American exploration.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 1920w. |
“This volume should appeal to the student of history and to the lover of romance.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w. |
“It is a rare treat to read Dr. Dawson’s scholarly and delightful volume.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 478. O. 7, ‘05. 160w. |
Dawson, Thomas C. [South American republics, pt. 2.] [**]$1.35. Putnam.
“Descriptive rather than analytical,” this work presents “an excellent summary of the events leading up to the independence of the South American republics. The first volume, dealing with Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil, was written during the period when he [Mr. Dawson] was secretary of the United States legation to Brazil. During the interval between the appearance of the first and second volumes the author was appointed minister to Santo Domingo. This second volume deals with Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“His exposition of contemporary history is disappointing. There are too many names and dates and too few explanatory remarks. There is a tendency to dwell on the period of the conquest and to leave untouched the difficult business of untangling the innumerable revolutions of the past eighty years. Even as a collection of historical primers its value is seriously impaired by evidences of hasty or inaccurate compilation. To attempt to read the volume through is sufficiently confusing, but the publishers have not improved matters. The illustrations do not illustrate. Moreover, the maps are inadequate and out of date.” Hiram Bingham.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 671. Ap. ‘05. 520w. |
“The author has shown great skill in the presentation of the economic situation in compressing the history of eleven republics into two small volumes. In the presentation of the political situation the author has been careful to keep himself free from partisanship or bias. This work when read in connection with Stanford’s ‘Geographical compendium of South America,’ will furnish a clear-cut picture of the present situation in the South American republics.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 338. Mr. ‘05. 250w. | |
| + | Ind. 58: 1189. My. 25, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “Excellent, useful, and most readable book. Mr. Dawson, however, largely owes the remarkable completeness of this work to his familiar acquaintance with the Spanish literature on the subject, and his great personal opportunities for compiling the history of the nineteenth century in South America.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 696. N. 4, ‘05. 330w. |
Dawson, W. J. Evangelistic note, [*]$1.25. Revell.
A book of addresses on evangelical topics by a man well known as a successful international revivalist. He resigned the pastorate of the Highburg quadrant church in England to enter a more evangelistic field, and his sermons defend liberal theology and set forth the value of his work.
“His sermons are models of manly appeal to the thinking people of to-day.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 958. Ap. 15, ‘05. 230w. |
“Among the various essays, addresses and sermons in the book the one which gives the whole its title is the best and most adequate, with the additional advantage of being written in clear, forceful, convincing English such as is seldom found in current literature.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 390. Mr. 11, ‘05. 640w. |
Dawson, William James. Makers of English fiction. [*]$1.50. Revell.
Dr. Dawson begins with Daniel Defoe and discusses the writers of novels of sentiment from Richardson to Fielding, and to Jane Austen, then he takes up the works of Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Charles Reade, Charles Kingsley, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, closing the book with chapters on “Religion in fiction” and a “Concluding survey.”
“He is a patient and systematic reader; his powers of analysis are considerable, his sympathies are broad, and he has, what is an extremely valuable gift, the historic sense.” E. C.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 1070w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “The book is well worth reading, as a comprehensive survey of a development, and as painstaking a work of criticism as has come to us for many a day.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 664. N. 18, ‘05. 280w. |
Day, Emily Foster. Menehunes. [*]75c. Elder.
A folklore tale of the Menehunes, the tiny dwarfs of Hawaii, illustrated by Spencer Wright.
| * | + | Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w. |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 100w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 210w. |
Day, Thomas Fleming. [Hints to young yacht skippers.] $1. Rudder pub.
Mr. Day says this handbook is offered in response to many letters from boys and young men “asking for hints on all manner of subjects relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small yachts.” Being a practical sailor and yachtsman himself, he knows the necessity of the sort of information he compiles, in fact declares that had he owned such a book in the beginning, it would have saved him time, money, hard work and anxiety.
“The book is full of useful information.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 39. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w. |
(Detailed statement of contents.)
Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank. Text book of sociology. [*]$1.30. Macmillan.
A text book founded upon the sociological writings of Dr. Ward, and especially upon his work, “Pure sociology.” This epitome is stamped with the same characteristics that are emphasized thruout Dr. Ward’s study, viz., the mastery of the impersonal tone over the human. “He carries from his work in physical science a certain abstractness of statement which is partly inseparable from all generalization, but which has the effect of holding the interpretation farther aloof from actual life than is desirable or necessary.” (Am. J. Soc.)
“Comes nearer than any predecessor to satisfying reasonable demands for an elementary textbook in general sociology.” Albion W. Small.
| + + — | Am. J. Soc. 11: 266. S. ‘05. 1190w. |
[*] “The abridgment has been excellently done.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. |
“It is therefore a wide field that is traversed here under the lead of a stimulating if not always convincing teacher.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 887. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w. |
Decennial publications of the University of Chicago. 1st series, 10v. [*]$40. Univ. of Chicago press.
Ten imposing quarto volumes, well bound in red cloth, compose the first series of the Chicago university decennial publications and contain two volumes of reports and eight volumes of investigations, the latter consisting of a collection of articles representing the work of research of the several departments of the university, organized during the decennium. Vol. I and II contain President Harper’s report for the first ten years of the life of Chicago university; vol. III contains, part I, Systematic theology, Church history, Practical theology; part II, Philosophy, Education; vol. IV is devoted to Political economy, Political science, History, and Sociology; vol. V includes the Semitic languages and literature, Biblical and patristic Greek; vol. VI deals with the Greek language and literature, the Latin language and literature, Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology, classical archæology; vol. VII turns to the province of Romance languages and literatures, the Germanic languages and literatures and to English; vol. VIII invades the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics; vol. IX treats the subjects of Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology; and vol. X deals with Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, Neurology, Botany, Pathology, and Bacteriology.
| Bib. World. 25: 240. Mr. ‘05. 50w. (States contents of v. 5.) | ||
| + + + | Ind. 59: 44. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 760w. (Survey of contents). |
“The whole series is a remarkable presentation of the intellectual activity which has prevailed at this youthful university during the brief period of its existence.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 593. Ap. 15, ‘05. 410w. |
Deecke, W. Italy: a popular account of the country, its people, and its institutions (including Malta and Sardinia); tr. by H. A. Nesbitt. $5. Macmillan.
A book which gives a German professor’s account of Italy. “Beginning with the boundaries of the country and the ancient attempts at geographical description, it proceeds to treat of the orography and general features of the surface, goes on to the geology and the climate, giving incidentally an account of the volcanic phenomena and touching briefly on the animals and plants. The various elements of the population are then described, with a short sketch of the history, and a fuller account of products, trade and manufactures, political institutions, finance, internal communications, and education, the church, language, and science, and a topographical description of various parts of the peninsula and the adjoining isles.” (Nation.)
“It is popular in the very best sense of the word. In the first place, it is comprehensive. In the second place, it is compact. The work is simply a marvel of condensation. In the third place, the book is exceedingly readable. The only adverse criticism we have is that the statistics are not quite up to the present, and the reader will want constantly to refer to later tables. But in other respects we do not know of another book on Italy at once so comprehensive, so accurate, and so interesting.”
| + + — | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 378. Ap. ‘05. 250w. (States contents of Vol. V.) |
“Is all done carefully and well.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 588. My. ‘05. 100w. |
“That the book is dull is therefore not surprising; but that it is also full of errors is both surprising and inexcusable.”
| — — | Dial. 38: 95. F. 1, ‘05. 410w. |
“It is really nothing more than a compilation of the facts that may be found in condensed form in a half dozen well selected books.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
“When we turn to subjects wherein the element of time does not enter so immediately we find reason for little save praise.”
| + + — | Lit. D. 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. 760w. |
“An elaborate account of Italy, worked out with true German thoroughness. It covers pretty nearly every aspect in which the land and its inhabitants can be regarded. Taking the book as a whole, it is a careful and intelligent piece of work, clearly and simply written, and generally accurate. We have noted a certain number of errors in fact, but none of great importance, though there are some errors in nomenclature, and some mistakes in the accounts given of particular places. A book which amounts to an encyclopaedic description of Italy from so many points of view. The topographical part is really something between a gazetteer and a guidebook, fit to be used for reference rather than to be read continuously.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 250. Mr. 30, ‘05. 2290w. |
Deeping, Warwick. Slanderers. [†]$1.50. Harper.
“Gabriel Strong is the son of a tea merchant ... is a dreamer, an idler.... Partly to please himself, partly to please his father, partly to save trouble, he makes love to and marries a fine sleek tiger-cat of a woman, and as soon as it is too late repents.” He finds that he loves the daughter of a miser, but swears to love this Joan only in spirit. “Meanwhile the sleek, handsome wife gets bored, goes off elsewhere, and the gossips of the village get busy with the greenwood meanderings of Gabriel and Joan. Hence the name of ‘The slanderers.’ ... They are the parson’s wife, the doctor’s wife, the members of the church guilds, and like fine charitable organizations. And these women are allowed no virtues at all to temper the malignity of their tongues and their feminine proneness to think evil of other people.” (N. Y. Times).
“The style is good and the texture of the English is durable.”
| + | Critic. 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 110w. |
“Mr. Deeping is somewhat crass and crude in his methods with these slanderers. You get the idea that Mr. Deeping imagines religion is a mere cloak for hypocrisy, or a grindstone for sharp knives to slay the reputations of indiscreet idealists. Really the trouble with Mr. Deeping is the lack of enough humor to adjust his burning ethical sentiments, his opulent fleshly imaginings, to each other and to the meridian of average sanity. The story is dragged violently by the hair of its head into an ending which satisfies—if it does nothing else—the average reader’s supposed demand for a happy outcome, but it is distinctly disappointing in spite of patches of purple language.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 117. F. 25. ‘05. 610w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 120w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w. |
“Mr. Deeping’s tapestry has not acquired that soft glory which makes its best beauty. And as for the modern design, it is quite atrocious.”
| — — | Reader. 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 370w. |
“Many of his pages glow with genuine romantic beauty.”
| + | Reader. 6: 477. S. ‘05. 170w. |
Dekker, Eduard Douwes. (Multatuli, pseud.). [Walter Pieterse: a story of Holland.] $1.50. Friderici & Garies.
“Walter is in a way a Dutch ‘Sentimental Tommy,’ and the growth of his vivid imagination and literary aspiration among rather sordid surroundings and stolid people is told with minuteness and perhaps a little over-elaborated humor. ‘Multatuli’ is not exactly a Dutch Dickens, but he has some Dickensy qualities.”—Outlook.
“His story is immensely detailed and told in a bygone style of confidentialness, but a style highly animated and frequently witty. The translator, though a Ph. D., affronts style and even grammar at moments.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 520w. |
“In fact, you may see in Dekker now touches of Fielding, now of Heine, (he has been called the Holland Heine), now the contemporary iconoclast. Bernard Shaw, whose hatred of ‘respectability’ he shares. Adherents of the new school of novelists, Ibsenites, &c., who are not already familiar with Dekker’s work will not regret a perusal of Mr. Evans’s rendering, nor will the more catholic seekers after real life in fiction—real, yet divorced from sentiment.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 39, Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 248. Ja. 28. ‘05. 50w. |
De la Pasture, Mrs. Henry. [Peter’s mother.] [†]$1.50. Dutton.
“The realm of the wholesome commonplace” is chosen for this story. There is Peter’s widowed mother, Lady Mary, whose gentleness is contrasted with the tyrannical selfishness of her son; there is the brilliant Sarah who adores the mother, and to spare her the suffering inflicted by the caddish son, sets to work to wind the youth about her finger. How she succeeds forms one side of a story whose other phase deals with a middle-aged romance involving Lady Mary and two men—“one strong, serene, patient, understanding, the other with a passion so lofty as to sacrifice itself upon its own altar.”
“It is a delightful story, told with a certain distinction and much charm. The whole thing is in harmony.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 149. F. 18, ‘05. 210w. | |
| — | Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 30w. | |
| Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 120w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 430w. |
“This book is a good illustration of the fact that normal characters can be made interesting.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w. |
“An excellent entertainment in which sentiment and humour are most agreeably blended.”
| + | Spec. 94: 258. F. 18, ‘05. 720w. |
Deledda, Grazia. After the divorce. [†]$1.50. Holt.
The author, a young Sardinian, has written a sad story of Italian peasant life. The hero is condemned to twenty-seven years imprisonment for the murder of his uncle. During his confinement, before the confession of the real murderer frees him and establishes his innocence, his baby dies and his pretty young wife, who lacks both money and character, secures a divorce, under the new law which liberates the wife of a convict, and marries a wealthy lover whom she had once rejected. The story is a pitiful one, and when at last the two are reunited they are saddened, disillusioned, and their young happiness is gone forever.
“In style she is as simple and unaffected as Verga himself. She effaces herself almost wholly, she makes you see the primitive life of her little island almost as vividly as though you were there in person.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 270. My. ‘05. 400w. |
“The translation appears competent and sympathetic.”
| + | Critic. 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 340w. |
“As a picture of peasant characteristics and modes of thought it is perfect.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1007. My. 4, 05. 270w. |
“As a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the book is a failure; as a manifesto against divorce, it might be adopted by all good Catholics.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 190w. |
“It is a human story, and the fact that it apparently has lost something in the translation does not alter the fact that it is still well worth reading.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 267. Ap. 22, ‘05. 690w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 20w. |
“The translator has apparently preserved the color and flavor of the original; her chief fault is a too slavish following.”
| + + — | Reader. 6: 592. O. ‘05. 390w. |
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel. Breaking the wilderness: the story of the conquest of the far West. [**]$3.50. Putnam.
It is the aim of this book to “present a review in chronological order of the important events which contributed to breaking the wilderness that so long lay untamed west of the Mississippi, mentioning with as much detail as possible in a single popular volume the principal persons and happenings in proper sequence, but paying special attention to the trapper and trader element, which, more than any other, dispelled the mysteries of the vast region.”
“Barring the deficiencies which mar its critical value, Mr. Dellenbaugh has produced a fairly satisfactory work.” Isaac Joslin Cox.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 169. O. ‘05. 840w. | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 620w. |
“The greatest interest of the book will probably be found to lie in the innumerable and fully authenticated tales of trappers and traders with which its pages abound.”
| + | Dial. 38: 274. Ap. 16, ‘05. 290w. |
“In most, if not all, respects Mr. Dellenbaugh’s book is admirable. The text is a rare combination of history, observation and story telling, and it is beautifully illustrated. The ‘breaking of the wilderness,’ the once savage region west of the Mississippi, by explorer, fighter, trapper and settler is pictured to us as by a vitascope.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 50w. |
“Is naturally one of great interest and value.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1110w. |
“The chief value of Mr. Dellenbaugh’s work is the presentation of the chronological review of Western exploration in unbroken sequence.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 250w. |
“His style is too abrupt, and the separate phases of the history have the appearance of being thrown together.”
| + — — | Spec. 94: 923. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w. |
[*] Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.). Violin maker; trans, by Sara Trainer Smith. 45c. Benziger.
The story of the gentle, pious Matthias Klotz, son of a poor tailor of Mittenwald, of how he herded his father’s goats and how Jacob Strainer found him, discovered his ambition to become a violin maker, and took him away to his own school at Absam. From him Matthias went to other masters in Italy, and after years of faithful work returned to his father and his old home and founded his own celebrated school in Mittenwald.
Dent, Edward J. Alessandro Scarlatti: his life and works. [*]$3.50. Longmans.
“An ambitious work dealing with the Neapolitan composer.... Without blind adoration of his hero, he has brought himself into thorough sympathy with Scarlatti’s personality, and has studied all his circumstances and his relations to Italian art.”—Acad.
“Appreciation of Mr. Dent’s adventurous excursion into a new path is called for by the attempt as such, and the result of his labours is a handsome volume which should find a place in every music-lover’s library. Accuracy, not elegance of style, has been aimed at, yet there are occasional sentences where Mr. Dent has endeavoured to impart interest to the manner as well as the matter.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 1470w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 538. Ap. 29. 470w. |
[*] “A work of high importance, which must be accepted as the standard authority on the life and writings of the Verdi of his time.” W. J. Henderson.
| + + + | Atlan. 96: 852. D. ‘05. 240w. |
“An exhaustive study at first hand from original documents and scores.” Richard Aldrich.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 780w. |
De Pue, Edward Spence. Dr. Nicholas Stone. [†]$1.50. Dillingham.
An exciting detective story in which Dr. Stone and the Pacific coast manager of a great life insurance company discover that several policy holders have been skilfully murdered. Their investigations bring them thrilling adventures in the Chinese quarter, Dr. Stone narrowly escapes cremation; but they relentlessly follow the strange evidence of strange drugs until they discover the criminal, a wealthy and respected old man, who devises unusual methods of murder for the mere joy of achievement without detection, letting the life insurance money go to an accomplice. There is also a love interest.
“To those who crave in the reading the temporary excitement that attends the perusal of a story filled with murders and murder plots, the detection of crimes in spite of highly scientific methods employed to divert suspicion, and the tragic self-death of the murderer when he discovers that his deeds are known, this book may possess interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 420w. |
De Selincourt, Beryl D. Home of the first Franciscans in Umbria, the borders of Tuscany and the Northern Marches. [*]$1.50. Dutton.
“The author describes Assisi, the district of Lake Thrasymene, Monte Casale, and Vallingegno, two Umbrian solitudes, the valley of Rieti, the Marches and La Verna. She has also written an introduction in which she touches on the influence of the personality and temperament of St. Francis, of the places to which he retreated. The thirteen half-tone illustrations are reproductions of photographs taken by Mildred Bicknell.”—N. Y. Times.
“Discriminating and sympathetic introduction. Mrs. de Selincourt’s style, in any liberal spirit of criticism, is of a high average.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 387. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1190w. | |
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 143. Jl. 29. 340w. |
“A successful attempt to show to what a degree the character and teachings of St. Francis of Assisi were shaped and illustrated by his surroundings.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 170w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 225. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w. |
“A manifest labor of love.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 100w. |
“Shows much diligence and contains some interesting and out-of-the-way information.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 502. O. 14, ‘05. 970w. |
“The book is full of beauty and pathos, but it leaves us with but a vague idea of what St. Francis really thought.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 320w. |
Deutsch, Leo. Sixteen years in Siberia, tr. by Helen Chisholm. $3. Dutton.
A new and cheaper edition of “this well-written and convincing account of penal methods and conditions in Siberia by one who has known them to his cost ... the new edition contains ... a preface, in which the translator seeks to estimate the influence of recent events in giving impetus to the reform movement in Russia” and “an appendix, ... a reply by Count von Bülow to a Reichstag interpellation concerning the Königsberg trial of last July, when certain German subjects were prosecuted for smuggling revolutionary literature into Russia.” (Outlook.)
“The volume deserves a wide reading.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 588. S. ‘05. 120w. |
“Very interesting and informing book.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 505. Jl. 29, ‘05. 410w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 170w. |
Devine, Edward T. Principles of relief. [**]$2. Macmillan.
Dr. Devine’s experience as general secretary of the New York charity organization society has put him in vital touch with the practical aspects of a great cause. His convincing treatment is arranged under four heads: Part I “is a strong, clear, logical presentation of the essential ‘principles of relief.’ The fundamental and most fruitful idea of this discussion is that there is a normal standard of living which can be known and approximately measured, and that all relief work is to be judged by its success in aiding social debtors to find their place in a normal and well-balanced life.... In Part II is printed a most interesting and instructive collection of typical relief problems.... Part III is a sketch of certain aspects of relief. Part IV gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am. J. Soc.)
“While a certain amount of repetition of thoughts already published was inevitable in a systematic treatise, every chapter and paragraph has its justification. Looking back over the literature of charity produced during the last twenty years in America, we are bound to place this volume in the very front rank, with few companions in the specific field; and we must regard it as indispensable to the serious student of the general subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + + + | Am. J. Soc. 10: 554. Ja. ‘05. 670w. |
“In it are brought to consciousness, perhaps for the first time fully, the underlying principles on which the charity organization society movement is based. Moreover it undertakes to give a comprehensive statement of the elementary principles upon which all relief giving, whether public or private, should rest; and it correlates these principles with the general facts of economics and sociology in such a way as to leave no doubt in the mind of the reader that the author has mastered his subject. The point of view of the book is constructive throughout; and it is safe to say that for many years to come it will be, both for the practical worker and for the scientific student, the authoritative work upon the ‘principles of relief.’ I cannot help feeling, after careful reading, that the book shows too much the bias of the author’s personal field of labor. Its point of view is too exclusively that of the charity organization society worker.” Charles A. Ellwood.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 143. Ja. ‘05. 870w. |
“No one who is interested either historically or practically in the subject of charity can afford to neglect this volume.” Winthrop More Daniels.
| + + | Atlan. 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 340w. |
“The book will help us to give a quantitative value to our vague notions about the standard of living and the minimum wage; and no writer has applied this definite standard to the methods of poor relief more thoroughly. Especially valuable to a student is the analysis of typical relief problems, which enables one to arrive at principles of relief much as a study of court decisions takes one to the heart of legal principles. The work will be recognized as one of the chief contributions on this vital subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 330w. |
“The book as a whole will be a standard to all charity workers and professional philanthropists, but while not exactly over technical it is too heavy for the average reader, and will probably not interest him to any great extent.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 900. Ap. 20, ‘05. 300w. |
“While Mr. Devine’s statement of principles is not very lucid, his practical suggestions are instructive.”
| + | Nation. 80: 235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 610w. |
“The first [volume] stirs the sympathies and supplies the motives for Christian charity; the second broadens the horizon and shows the problem in its world aspects; the third gives the practical and, so far as we can judge, wise counsel in dealing with the problem as it presents itself in American cities.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1440w. |
“Dr. Devine’s book is a manual at once of theory and of practice.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w. |
“Aside from these few passages [pp. 12, 13, 462], which appear somewhat visionary, the book is eminently sane and practical.” David I. Green.
| + + — | Yale R. 14: 81. My. ‘05. 1190w. |
Devins, John Bancroft. Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.
This report is the result of two months’ careful investigation in Luzon. It gives interesting notes of travel and fully covers the social, political and religious field. It tells what American missionaries are doing and shows that many of the Americans in the Philippines are of a type as greatly in need of missionaries as the Filipinos themselves.
“Dr. Devins’s book is non-discriminating and simple-minded in a high degree.” H. Parker Willis.
| + — | Dial. 39: 37. Jl. 16, ‘05. 390w. |
“Has included in his volume much useful information and much matter interesting and entertaining for one reason and another.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 580. S. 2, ‘05. 1080w. | |
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 270w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 767. Je. ‘06. 140w. |
Dexter, Edwin Grant. History of education in the United States. [**]$2. Macmillan.
The work comprises in less than seven hundred pages of text “a survey of education in this country from the landing of the Cavaliers and of the Puritans to the opening of the twentieth century, including in it an historical survey and an analysis of contemporary conditions of education in every state in the Union, of every stage of education from kindergarten to popular lecture courses for adults, and of every phase of educational activity from an account of early schoolbooks to newspapers and periodicals of the various periods, the publication of learned societies and the work of libraries.... The general organization of the work is into three parts: the growth of the people’s schools, higher and special education, and educational extension.” (Educ. R.)
“This book is very attractive in its make-up, but it will prove disappointing to those who hold that the history of education should be history. The declared purpose of the author is to present a mass of fact rather than discussions of historical trend. But instances are far too numerous in which the fact is not even fact.” Elmer Ellsworth Brown.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 657. Ap. ‘05. 420w. |
“To compress so much in one volume is a task of no small magnitude, and to say that Professor Dexter has done this with excellent judgment and discrimination is only to give due praise. It is no detraction from the character of the text to say that the most valuable feature of the work is the elaborate bibliography at the end of each chapter and the marginal references which are to be found on every page.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 310w. |
“The best work of its class yet published. So far as it goes, it is most thoroughly and skilfully done.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 100w. |
“The handling of statistics is skilfully done. There is no unity, whole episodes in the history of education are absent, as are also the majority of the important personalities. A more accurate title would have been ‘A historical encyclopedia of American education.’” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
| + — | Dial. 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 330w. |
“The merits of this book are those of comprehensiveness, organization, accurate analysis and classification, and excellent selection of the material to be included in a single volume dealing with so extended a subject; its demerits are an unfortunate lack of accuracy in many details, not all of them unimportant, and a tendency ... to accept stereotyped generalizations without adducing facts to support them, and the omission of any attempt to interpretation. No other single work, of even more than one volume, has ever attempted so much, so that there is little basis for comparison, and little room for criticism, so helpful is the general result. It is easily first of treatises upon the subject.” Paul Monroe.
| + + — | Educ. R. 29: 202. F. ‘05. 2320w. |
“A work of truly encyclopedic comprehensiveness, but nevertheless readable.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + + | Nature. 72: 147. Je. 15, ‘05. 1550w. |
Dexter, Edwin Grant. Weather influences; an empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. [**]$2. Macmillan.
A monograph based upon a series of investigations of the committees of New York and Denver, and the effects of the weather changes of their divergent climates, upon their inhabitants. A comparison of the school, criminal, hospital, mortuary, and other records with the meteorological charts of the weather bureau gives the principal data for statistics as to the effect of wind and weather upon disease, drunkenness, insanity, crime, suicide, natural depravity of school children, errors of bank officials, etc.
Reviewed by E. T. B.
| Atlan. 95: 135. Ja. ‘05. 320w. | ||
| Ind. 58: 728. Mr. 30, ‘05. 510w. |
Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton. England and Holland of the Pilgrims. [**]$3.50. Houghton.
“The history of the Mayflower ‘Pilgrims’ is an important part of the history of the Protestant reformation in England.... Their most eminent historian was the late Dr. Dexter. The present volume, left unfinished at his death, completes their history by a full account of the environment and experience in which the reforming movement slowly struggled and groped towards the decisive venture, by which the door was opened at Plymouth rock to its great success.... Dr. Dexter’s draft of history, rewritten and edited by his son after further researches in England and Holland, now stands in a completeness to which it is likely that little can be added.”—Outlook.
[*] “It is a book made by bookmen. Sometimes, as we read, our vision is obstructed; we cannot see the forest on account of the trees. The grand human story seems lost in a mass of antiquarian detail.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 306. N. 16, ‘05. 860w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 600w. |
“A loving hand and diligent investigation of the original sources of information to the minutest details are apparent throughout the work.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 420w. |
Dicey, A. V. Law and opinion in England. [*]$3. Macmillan.
Professor Dicey “lays bare to the general reader the dominating influences, intellectual and moral, which characterize the general body of law-making or operating to change it.” (Ath.) “His careful soundings and observations lead him to mark on his chart of the nineteenth century three main currents—the first, the period of old Toryism or legislative quiescence extending from 1800-1830; ... the second is designated as the period of Benthamism or individualism; ... the third is described as the period of ‘collectivism,’—the growth of opinion ‘which favors the intervention of the State even at some sacrifice of individual freedom.’” (Lond. Times.)
| + + + | Acad. 68: 727. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1130w. | |
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 5. Jl. 1, 1820w. |
“Mr. Dicey adds a familiarity with English literature and a simplicity of style in dealing with the most intricate topics and summarising the most extensive developments that will save his work from being relegated to the shelves of law libraries alone.” Robert C. Brooks.
| + + | Bookm. 22: 282. N. ‘05. 1260w. |
“A masterly exposition of the forces which have promoted the course of our modern legislation and a penetrating analysis of the counter-currents and cross-currents of opinion which have delayed or diverted it.” R.
| + + + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 829. O. ‘05. 250w. |
“This is a careful examination of a complex subject.”
| + + — | Lit. D. 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 500w. |
“We know no better piece of work of its kind.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 214. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1930w. |
“His chapter on judicial legislation—a most difficult subject—is a model.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 102. Ag. 3, ‘05. 2180w. | |
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 884. D. 9, ‘05. 1000w. |
“A work of unusual incisiveness and value.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 571. O. 28, ‘05. 460w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 90w. |
“We get a history of public opinion from a special point of view, and if it is far from being a history of opinion in its wider aspects during the nineteenth century, it deals with sufficient breadth and in sufficient detail with opinion as it affects the practical interests dealt with by legislation. Much of the best reading in Professor Dicey’s book consists of personal sketches.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 86. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1810w. |
“Granted the difficulty of the subject, it may be fairly said that there is no other living scholar who could have handled it in a style so masterly and yet so attractive. Like all Professor Dicey’s books, it is easy to read, and the simplicity and orderliness of the narrative disguise the labour and thought involved in its preparation. There is no novel dogma propounded, but an accepted doctrine is brilliantly worked out in detail. For anyone who wishes a guide to that difficult thing, the intellectual life of a nation, we can imagine no more lucid and stimulating handbook.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: 16. Jl. 1, ‘05. 880w. |
Dick, Stewart. Arts and crafts of old Japan. [**]$1.20. McClurg.
“If we would understand Japanese art we must accept the conventions,” says the author. The sympathetic attitude which grows out of a careful survey of the forces of Japanese development is necessary for connoisseur and beginner alike. Painting, color printing, sculpture and carving, metal work, keramics, lacquer, and landscape gardening and the arrangement of flowers are covered in the treatment.
“It is by far the best short introduction to the subject of which it treats that has yet appeared.”
| + + — | Dial. 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “He talks entertainingly and correctly, and yet rather as a student and reader in Europe, than as an observer in Japan itself.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 90w. |
Dickberry, F. Storm of London. $1.50. Turner, H. B.
The earl of Somerville, weary of purposeless social life, decides upon suicide one night during a violent storm. When he awakens he looks upon a London from which every vestige of clothes and furniture had been swept away thus removing all outward signs of social distinction. “Yet even when we recognize that the book is in a way an allegory, and a satire upon the shams of modern life, nothing can alter the fact that here is a story which, chapter after chapter, pictures the fashionable life of London, the crowds in the street, the dinners and receptions and public functions, all thronged with men and women in the garb of Adam and Eve before the fall.” (Bookm.)
“The volume may have a certain incisive irony, but it is sadly deficient in good taste.”
| — | Bookm. 22: 37. S. ‘05. 300w. |
“An elaborate and tiresome extravaganza, in which the author handles the idea of an unclothed society with cumbrous and offensive satire. There is enough ability in the book to suggest that the writer might do something better.”
| — | Critic. 47: 476. N. ‘05. 40w. |
“It is worth reading. It is undeniably smart.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 468. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w. |
Dickens, Charles. Christmas carol, and Cricket on the hearth. $2. Baker.
The illustrations of George Alfred Williams add much to this very attractive edition of the two Dickens’ stories which have come to be perennially a part of the holiday season.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w. |
| * | + | Dial. 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “On the whole it is an excellent book to put into the hands of young people who are nevertheless old enough to appreciate the qualities both of literary and artistic workmanship.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w. |
Dickens, Charles. [Tale of two cities.] $1.25. Crowell.
Dickens’ “popular and picturesque” and thoroly authentic aid to the understanding of the terrible days of the French Revolution has ever taken its place beside the histories. This reprint is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”
[*] Dickens, Charles. [Tales from Dickens], ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives. [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
A short cut to the best selections from the best of Dickens’ works has been provided here for the uninitiated Dickens reader as well as the Dickens lover who desires to refresh his memory. On an average of four or five tales have been taken from each story, and many characteristic drawings reproduced.
| * | + | Dial. 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Dickerson, Mary Angela. Wonderful wishes of Jacky and Jean. [†]$1. Wessels.
The story of two children who had a fairy sparrow that made wishes realities for them. But the sport had trials too which mingle with the wonders of the tale.
Dickerson, Mary C. Moths and butterflies. [*]$1.25. Ginn.
An elementary text-book for use in the upper grammar grades and lower high school classes. The life histories of eighteen moths and nine butterflies are given in parts 1 and 2. Part 3 is devoted to Relationship—practical suggestions. There is also a chapter on how to collect, keep, and study moths, butterflies and caterpillars. The book contains a glossary, an index and over 200 photographs made from life, by the author.
“It will be found a very useful book for the nature study library in schools and for private ownership by pupils of the upper grammar and high school grades.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 272. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w. |
“A great deal of useful general information is given in the book, and it seems on the whole to be careful and accurate.”
| + + — | Nature. 72: 76. My. 25, ‘05. 280w. |
“None more suitable from thoroughness of treatment, photographic illustration, and moderate price to do its work in the schools for which it was intended.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05 100w. |
“The work is untechnical, and well adapted to cultivate the intelligent minds of young persons in America.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 919. Je. 24, ‘05. 130w. |
Dickinson, Edward. Study of the history of music; with an annotated guide to music literature. [**]$2.50. Scribner.
An aid to the understanding of musical history and criticism prepared by the professor of the history of music at Oberlin. “This volume is intended to clear the way by indicating the problems, the method and the materials” necessary for the study; further, “the narrative and critical portions give a terse and comprehensive summary of music history, show what are the important subjects involved and their connections and relations. The bibliographical sections lead the student to the best critical commentaries in the English language on every phase and detail of the subject.”
“His book is certainly almost unique in its clearness of statement and general usefulness; it is a marvel of condensed information.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 780w. |
“There is nothing else in English that is comparable in completeness and suggestiveness for students of musical history.” Richard Aldrich.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 540w. |
“We know of no short history of music which is its equal. This volume is about equally valuable for reading, for study, and for reference.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 190w. |
“A very thorough and illuminating work on the development of music. The biographical and explanatory notes to this volume are very valuable, supplying, with the text, a consecutive narrative of the history of music.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. [Modern symposium.] [**]$1. McClure.
“This purports to be an account of a meeting of philosophers representing all the various political and social systems of the world. The Conservative, the Radical, the Socialist, the Anarchist, the Scientist, the Poet, and many more, each pleads his own cause. The closing speaker, noted simply as a man of letters, distinctly represents Mr. Dickinson’s theories of life, and attempts to sum up all the virtues of all the other systems.”—Dial.
[*] “The charm of his style adds a pleasing force to his arguments.”
| + | Dial. 39:314. N. 16, ‘05. 160w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 130w. |
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. Religion: a criticism and a forecast. [**]50c. McClure.
An attempt to discover a religious ideal that can be accepted by the logically constituted mind of modern man, which involves a keen, reverential analysis of the virtues and failings of established religions.
“Not merely is the writer a man of genius; not merely is he master of a style which seems to sweep the whole gamut of human emotion, and to make language rise and fall like the notes of a violin; but he has written a book which should make many think. Its importance lies in its object.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 230w. |
“Mr. Dickinson is especially happy in stating certain general attitudes of mind in order to give us a clear glimpse of where we or others stand in so important a subject as religion.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 480w. |
[*] “These articles were frank and definite discussions of the relation of religion to knowledge. Mr. Dickinson has a clear and suggestive style.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 180w. |
Dickson, Harris. Ravanels. (†)$1.50. Lippincott.
The setting of this story is the South just after the reconstruction period, and its hero haunted by the memory of his father’s murder in those troublous times, feels called upon to avenge it. But his revenge is not sweet, for he is overwhelmed with the horror of his deed, and is only saved from insanity by the soothing influence of the girl he loves.
“Is even better than his first novel.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 150w. |
“The novel has both strength and character, besides a romantic plot of much dramatic interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w. |
“While Mr. Dickson possesses a peculiarly charming literary style and a gift for portraying genial human qualities, he has blundered in the symmetry of his story.”
| + — | Ind. 58 :1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w. |
“The tragedy of the story is admirably mellowed with its pathos. The characters are skillfully drawn and a genuine depth of interest is aroused which never flags until the books ends, amid all its sorrows, with happiness and cheer.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 246. Ap. 15, ‘05. 480w. |
“A dramatic and skilfully written romance of the South, exceptional for the conspicuous absence of all reference to the issues usually raised in novels of this section.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 30w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 150w. |
“Is an interesting story, well told, which holds the reader’s attention to the end.”
| + | Reader. 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 350w. |
“The book contains one of the best trial scenes in recent fiction.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w. |
Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong. Book of the spiritual life, with a memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. [*]$3. Dutton.
The larger part of this volume is taken up with the memoirs of Lady Dilke by her second husband. “It shows her as a girl, as an art student, as the wife of Mark Pattison, and the correspondent of many eminent persons, as an art critic, and as the cultured and kind friend of young people and of all movements for the amelioration of human life. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... is a series of Lady Dilke’s mature reflections on the problems of existence and our duty as sojourners here.”—Lond. Times.
“Not even her work, however, remarkable as it was, and in so many spheres of art and thought, will erect in the future such a monument to Lady Dilke as that raised to her by her husband in the brief memoir which precedes ‘The book of the spiritual life.’”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 774. Jl. 29, ‘05. 2300w. |
“Sir Charles Dilke, in writing the memoir, has accomplished his difficult task with tact and dignity.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 679. Je. 3. 3150w. | |
| * | + | Critic. 47: 435. N. ‘05. 680w. |
“The little memoir ... is a model of what such work should be—informing, sympathetic, and restrained. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... gives evidence of wide reading and a sympathetic outlook.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 179. Je. 9, ‘05. 730w. | |
| + + — | Nation. 81 :305. O. 12, ‘05. 970w. |
“The memoir dwells (naturally) much upon spiritual and literary aspects, and will be found dull by readers who are not already immensely interested in the woman which it commemorates.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 467. Jl. 17, ‘05. 530w. |
“To come into appreciative touch with such a life as hers is to receive an inspiration.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 240w. | |
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 843. Je. 24, ‘05. 1450w. |
Dill, Samuel. [Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius.] [*]$4. Macmillan.
“Prof. Samuel Dill, in his new volume ... deals principally with the inner moral life of the time, and gives very little space to its external history and the machinery of government. He treats at some length of the relation of the senate to the emperor in the first century, and the organization of the municipal towns. He also gives a complete survey of the literature and inscriptions of the period.” (N. Y. Times). Each page is supplied with explanatory and reference notes.
“He has mastered with praiseworthy assiduity every authority on his subject, old and new. Yet, though this material is ample, the author makes no attempt to co-ordinate it in such a way as to give the reader a picture of the age as a whole, and of the great psychological laws which governed its development.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 47. Ja. 14, ‘05. 540w. | |
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 125. O. ‘05. 1520w. |
“In view of the great importance of this book, and the certainty that it will be regarded as the best work on this period in English, we have taken some trouble to collect matter which will help towards its improvement.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 362. Mr. 25. 1600w. |
“Taking the volume as a whole, Professor Dill’s Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius must, it seems to me, occupy a place in the first rank of the histories of social life. That place is secured for it by the sanity of its judgments on social phenomena, by the vigour of its not-faultless literary style, and by its very great learning.” Henry Jones.
| + + + | Hibbert J. 4: 200. O. ‘05. 2800w. |
“Nowhere else can so full and true an account be found of the conditions of Roman society at this time as in this admirable book.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 870. O. 12, ‘05. 1070w. |
“And, aside from its inherent importance, its thoughts are so lucidly and attractively expressed that no intelligent reader, whether a Latinist or not, can fail to find it pleasant reading.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 356. My. 4, ‘05. 2890w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. |
“There is an almost incredible richness and fulness of detail, and yet it is so presented that an intelligible and well-proportioned picture is the result.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 601. S. 16, ‘05. 1320w. |
“Professor Dill has laid under lasting obligation those readers who seek to understand the inner life and moral condition as well as the political and external affairs of a given period. While Professor Dill’s prescribed limitation seems to forestall criticism, the question can hardly be repressed whether his picture of society in pagan Rome is quite complete without mention of the great regenerative force which was gathering strength within its bosom and advancing through bitter conflict to victory.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 499. F. 25, ‘05. 880w. |
“This is preëminently a book for scholars.”
| + + | R of Rs. 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 40w. |
“His style is rather that of an essayist than of an historian, and he lacks that precision, that careful explicitness, and, above all, that direct citation of authorities which in a learned work are indispensable, while in the selection and use of his materials he often disappoints our hopes. Mr. Dill has learning, industry, and, as numerous passages show, a brilliant pen. If his separate chapters had been published as single essays, they would most of them, we think, have been justly considered excellent. They are rich in what is interesting and delightful.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 2040w. |
“The author’s literary skill has enabled him even to make the dry bones of the inscriptions part and parcel of the literature of the period, with which he is indisputably more familiar than any other Englishman living. A work that deserves to rank with Lecky’s ‘History of European morals.’”
| + + + | Westminster Review. 168: 231. F. ‘05. 210w. |
Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope. Samuel de Champlain. $5. Morang & co.
“For material, M. Dionne has gone chiefly to Champlain’s own writings and to the reports of missionaries. Designed as a contribution to a popular series [“Makers of Canada”] we do not meet in this book with any long discussion of disputed or technical points; but M. Dionne takes time to consider large issues such as the expediency of Champlain’s attack upon the Iroquois, and is not prevented from breaking a lance at intervals with Faillon. For us the most interesting portion of the narrative is concerned with the taking of Quebec by the English in 1629.”—Nation.
“We do not think that Mr. Dionne praises him too highly in a volume in which the only serious fault we detect is a certain lack of sequence.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 314. S. 29, ‘05. 560w. |
“These and all cognate topics are dealt with by M. Dionne with both sympathy and information.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 490w. | |
| * | Spec. 95: 822. N. 18, ‘05. 200w. |
Ditchfield, Peter Hampson. Picturesque English cottages. [**]$2. Winston.
To “Old cottages and domestic architecture in southwest Surrey,” and “The old cottages, farm houses and other stone buildings of the Cotswold district” “must now be added Mr. Ditchfield’s ‘Picturesque English cottages,’ less technical than the others, equally well illustrated, and covering the field more broadly.... The text, covering as it does such subjects as methods of construction, influence of material, the evolution of the cottage, foreign influence upon it, the cottage garden and its flowers, is entertaining, and by no means too technical for the uninstructed reader.” (Nation.)
“Were it not for its binding, the book would be wholly without blemish. So tasteless, so utterly inappropriate a cover.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 267. S. 28, ‘05. 910w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w. |
Dix, Beulah Marie. Fair maid of Graystones. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
Graystones is a great country house in Suffolkshire, and the action takes place in the time of Cromwell after the surrender of the Cavalier stronghold of Colchester to the Parliamentary forces. The story opens upon a group of Cavalier prisoners. “The hero, Jack Hetherington, prisoner, is fighting a big Roundhead for kicking a dying Cavalier.... All through the brilliantly told tale, Jack fights his way against great odds. He weds the Fair Maid, a neglected orphan, dependent of a great family, and the two young things go out penniless to seek a home.” (Outlook.)
[*] “The plot, which hinges on a case of mistaken identity, is ingenious, if scarcely probable, and the interest fresh and well sustained.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 160w. |
[*] “The story reads agreeably, and adds another leaf to its author’s wreath of laurel.”
| + | Nation. 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “There is not much history to trouble about ... but there is good style here, and lively characterization in Miss Dix’s now known manner.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 839. D. 2, ‘05. 210w. |
“While there is nothing extraordinary about the plot, it has no tinge of the commonplace, and it is handled with so high an appreciation of artistic values and human interest that one wishes there were more writers like Miss Dix.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 160w. |
Dixon, Amzi Clarence. Lights and shadows of American life. William H. Smith, 25 Stanhope St., Boston.
Christian talks which will find favor in many Christian homes because they combine orthodox thought, humorous expression, and broad common sense. Such subjects as: Our homes; Our money makers; Our boys and girls; Our amusements; Our Sabbath; Our politics; Our churches; and Our destiny, are discussed.
Dixon, Thomas, jr. Clansman. [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
“The clansman” is the second book of Mr. Dixon’s trio of historical novels. The first, “The leopard’s spots,” as the author states in his preface, “was the statement in historical outline of the condition of the negro from the enfranchisement to the disfranchisement.” “The clansman” is the sequel, and “develops the true story of the Ku Klux Klan which overturned the revolution régime.” The great issues of the reconstruction period create a giant force which the dignity and strength of Lincoln grapple with for a brief period, and which the evil genius of “The great commoner,” Austin Stoneman, Thaddeus Stevens in thin disguise, dominates thruout the story. Congress’ policy of revenge towards the new South, the impeachment of Johnson, the radical faction’s determination to bestow civic rights upon negroes, the resulting reign of terror in the South under the sway of negroes and carpetbaggers, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan provide stirring scenes thru which runs a double love story.
| + + | Acad. 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w. |
“The clansman may be summed up as a very poor novel, a very ridiculous novel, not a novel at all, yet a novel with a great deal to it; a novel that very properly is going to interest many thousands of readers, of all degrees of taste and education, a book which will be discussed from all points of view, voted superlatively good and superlatively bad, but which will be read.” F. Dredd.
| — — + | Bookm. 20: 559. F. ‘05. 920w. |
“One reads not far in the present volume until he is convinced that Mr. Dixon is not to be waved aside as a mere argumentative pamphleteer, but that he has in him literary possibilities of a high order. The advance from the crudities of ‘The leopard’s spots’ is marked, and is seen in every feature.” W. H. Johnson.
| + + | Critic. 46: 277. Mr. ‘05. 780w. |
“Book shows from beginning to end the effort of an unscrupulous partisan to become an artist. The story appears to have been got out of the Congressional Record and pieced together with two or three charming love affairs.”
| — — + | Ind. 58: 325. F. 9, ‘05. 1050w. |
“A thrilling romance. It is by no means equally certain that the book paints in any too vivid colors the chaos of blind passion that in the North followed Lincoln’s assassination or the reign of terror that resulted in the South.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1020w. |
“Deliberately uses such talent as he has to arouse the worst passions in his readers. There is less vulgarity in the story than might be expected, but restraint has not yet done its full work. The best men, both North and South, will turn from this repellant portrayal of our country and our countrymen.”
| — — + | Outlook. 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 230w. |
“The dramatic intensity, the color, the incisiveness of Mr. Dixon’s style. It is in the expression of personal opinion, and the characterization of individuals that the strong partisan bias of the book is most plain. Three-fourths of the book are given up to the epoch-making events and radical legislation, that prepared the way for the Ku Klux Klan. ‘The clansman’ consists of a bitter arraignment of Thaddeus Stevens, some vivid portrayals of great scenes, some impassioned pleading, and a modicum of fiction. As a novel it may reinforce, but it will not displace the more artistic presentment of the reconstruction period that another Southerner has given us in ‘Red rock.’”
| + + — | Reader. 5: 379. F. ‘05. 500w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w. |
“Mr. Dixon ... is so impressed with the tremendous interest of his country’s history that he has lost his sense of perspective.”
| — | Sat. R. 99: 636. My. 13, ‘05. 250w. |
Dixon, Thomas, jr. Life worth living. [**]$1.20. Doubleday.
This group of essays and papers sets forth the beauties of nature and the joys of country life. The opening chapter, Dreams and disillusions shows the “horrors of city life”; there are other chapters upon such subjects as—The music of the seasons, The fellowship of dogs, Some sins of nature, The shouts of children, In the haunts of wild fowl, and What is life?
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
| + — | Bookm. 22: 70. S. ‘05. 620w. | |
| — | Ind. 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w. |
“It is not often we are given such an insight into a public man’s private life.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 160w. |
Dods, Rev. Marcus. Bible, its origin and nature. [**]$1. Scribner.
“This is the first volume published on the foundation which Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, provided in 1879, with a view to the defense of ‘the religion of the Bible ... as commonly received in the Presbyterian and other evangelical churches.’” (Outlook.) It contains the lectures given at Lake Forest college in May, 1904.
[*] “The book is a polemic, but a gracious polemic.”
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 9: 741. O. ‘05. 670w. |
“His work will be of service in disarming prejudice and allaying fears as to the critical study of the Bible.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w. |
“What is peculiar to himself is the clarity of exposition, the brightness of sympathy, the sound sanity and sincerity of his treatment of a subject which more than anything lends itself to exaggeration and lip service.”
| + + | N. Y. Times 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 750w. |
“He states his argument with great ability, and meets objectors with ingenuity and skill.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w. |
Dole, Nathan Haskell. comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.
A companion volume to the author’s “Greek poets.” There have been included Latin poets from Plautus and Terence to Juvenal and Lucian. A sketch of each poet’s life followed by representative selections from his works, bringing together material for a complete survey of Roman literature.
[*] “As far as the originals are concerned, the selections are excellently made, but the versions are very uneven, and had to be.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 400w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 380w. |
“It is, however, a charming collection in which few will miss any favorites.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 140w. |
Dolly Winter: the letters of a friend which Joseph Harold is permitted to publish. [†]$1.25. Pott.
Letters from the hero to his friends give the romance of a man of the world who, while temporarily following the simple life in a secluded village, becomes interested in Dolly, whose mother as a result of ill doing, is insane.
“The letters are written in a graceful style and unfold a romantic story with much keenness of wit and other elements of the now almost lost art of letter writing.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“An innocuous tale upon well-worn lines.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 16w. |
Donne, William Bodham. William Bodham Donne and his friends; ed. by Catharine B. Johnson. [*]$3. Dutton.
“A volume of letters to and from ‘William Bodham Donne and his friends,’ ed. by Donne’s granddaughter, Catherine B. Johnson.... The letters selected attempt to give a connected idea of W. B. Donne’s life and to illustrate his character.... [He] numbered among his ‘friends’ the best-known literary personages of his day.... There are 16 illustrations, including portraits of William Bodham Donne, Fanny Kemble, FitzGerald, John Mitchell Kemble, Trench, Bernard Barton, Blakesley, and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“Considering the difficulty of the task before her, Mrs. Johnson has succeeded remarkably well.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 233. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1120w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 431. Ap. 8. 770w. |
“Most of the letters in this book were written by Donne, but a great many were written to him, and it is hard to say which are the more interesting.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 47: 159. Ag. ‘05. 1580w. |
“The workmanship of both editor and printer is good.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 39: 10. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2380w. |
[*] “Miss Johnson has done her part admirably in editing the letters.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 260w. |
“It is altogether a model of what such a record should be.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 206. S. 7, ‘05. 720w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 170w. |
“They are the letters of a true literary man, letters that are worth the permanent form in which they are now embodied.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 570w. |
“These letters of Donne and his friends ... form a worthy memorial of him.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 593. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
Donnell, Annie Hamilton. [Rebecca Mary]; with eight illustrations in color by Mary Shippen Green. [†]$1.50. Harper.
Rebecca Mary, a little New England girl, figures thru these sketches. She lives with a prim severe aunt with whom she possesses in common certain family traits. “Being a Plummer meant a great deal. It meant that by no chance must one ever display any of the emotions that one experiences. Neither must one ever show one’s affection; one must have courage to do what is right, no matter how unpleasant; one must be conscientious to a fault, and above all one must do one’s duty if it kills one.” (N. Y. Times.)
“On the whole, Rebecca Mary is worth knowing.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w. |
[*] “There is no doubt that Rebecca will find her niche in the affections of readers beside that occupied by the immortal Emmy Lou.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “A charming study of child life.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 30w. |
Dopp, Katharine Elizabeth. Place of industries in elementary education. [*]$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
In this third edition a chapter upon “Ways of procuring a material equipment” and “Ways of using it so as to enhance the value of colonial history” is added in order to make the book serviceable as a teacher’s manual. The chapters are entitled—Significance of industrial epochs, Origins of attitudes that underlie industry, and Practical applications. The illustrations are from photographs.
“The most suggestive single work that can be placed in the hands of teachers.” W. I. Thomas.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 11: 272. S. ‘05. 120w. | |
| + + | Dial. 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 180w. |
“It is a great satisfaction to meet with a book that moves along an unbeaten path to new points of view on current problems. Such a book is this.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 90w. |
Dorman, Marcus R. P. History of the British empire in the 19th century, v. 2. The campaigns of Wellington and the policy of Castlereagh (1806-1825). [*]$4. Lippincott.
“A consecutive account of British foreign and domestic policy.... Mr. Dorman pays little attention to affairs in France and central Europe. His point of view is always British and his desire is to elucidate the part played by British statesmen and soldiers in continental affairs.... He introduces a considerable body of new information drawn from the correspondence of British representatives in other countries. He throws light on the Welcheren expedition, on the part played by General Chitroff in betraying information to the British government, on the negotiations between Alexander and Napoleon in 1811, and on the position of Prussia in February, 1812.... The second portion of the history, dealing with the period from 1815 to 1825, is chiefly concerned with the policy of Castlereagh.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The attitude assumed throughout is that of a fair-minded and impartial narrator.” Charles M. Andrews.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 664. Ap. ‘05. 1560w. |
Dorsey, George Amos. Mythology of the Wichita. $1.50. Carnegie inst.
A volume “collected under the auspices of the Carnegie institution by the Curator of anthropology of the Field Columbian museum of Chicago.... In this collection are sixty myths. The author has written an introductory chapter of twenty-four pages, telling of the history and social life of the Wichita, a group of the Caddoan stock who have stood high among the Indians as regards home life and morality.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
| Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 120w. | ||
| Nature. 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 230w. |
Dorsey, George Amos, ed. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee. [*]$6. Pub. for the American folklore society by Houghton.
“As a faithful narrator, Mr. Dorsey translates the indecorous into Latin. The stories he divides into several groups, the ‘Cosmogonous,’ the ‘Boy heroes,’ ‘Medicin,’ ‘Animal tales’; then comes ‘People marry animals or become animals.’ Then there are many stories which are placed under the general heading of ‘Miscellaneous.’ ... The Pawnee delighted in boy heroes.... Indian maidens figure as heroines. A fairly ideal one is ‘the girl who married a star.’ ... The coyote figures in many of the traditions.... The Pawnees have also their medicine bundles. Some of these bundles are believed to have the power of inducing rain to fall.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by Frederick Starr.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 166. S. 16, ‘05. 1570w. |
“The book is a very important contribution to American folk lore.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 230w. | |
| + + | Nature. 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
“The notes at the conclusion of this volume add very much to one’s comprehension of the folk-lore of the Pawnees.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 540w. |
Doub, William Coligny. History of the United States. [*]$1. Macmillan.
To show that civics forms an integral part of the history of a nation, Professor Doub combines the two subjects in one text, doing away with the necessity of separate books.
| Am. Hist. R. 11: 217. O. ‘05. 30w. |
“In the hands of a well-equipped educator this volume will render a separate study of civics unnecessary.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 267. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w. |
“The author is successful, it appears to us, in his desire to make government so completely an integral part of the history of a nation that the people will rightly see and understand this relationship.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Double-knot and other stories. [†]$1.25. Benziger.
Mary T. Waggaman, Anna T. Sadlier, Magdalen Rock, Mary E. Mannix, Mary G. Bonesteel, Eugene Uhlrich, Maurice Francis Egan, and seven other Roman Catholic writers have written the thirty stories which make up this volume. Nearly all of them are sweet, simple little love stories, but some are merry ones, like the story of the pretty stenographer, who, thru a misdirected letter, succeeded in marrying a millionaire, and some are sad, like the story of the two lovers who, parted for a life time, met at last as inmates of the Home which the Little Sisters of the Poor provide for the needy and aged.
Dougall, Lily. Summit House mystery. $1.50. Funk.
The events recorded here transpire in the shut-away section of the mountains of northern Georgia, where two women seek seclusion. “The story concerns a mysterious crime, and a strong-willed, long-suffering religious woman is the central figure. It recalls, in the solution of the mystery, and in one powerfully dramatic passage, Miss Braddon’s famous ‘Henry Dunbar.’ It also recalls (as vividly) superficial facts of the Borden murder mystery at Fall River about sixteen years ago.” (N. Y. Times).
“One class of fiction lovers will read it for the ‘mystery,’ while another will care more for its delicate, and subtle observations of nature and character, and the admirable English the author commands.”
| + | Critic. 46: 477. My. ‘05. 220w. |
“Miss Dougall’s frequently too fluent descriptive facility is freely exercised. There is beauty, however, in her descriptive phrases, and she can place a scene before the reader’s eyes with just the effect she aims at. The plot is ingenious and sufficiently original, and is remarkably well worked out. Miss Dougall is one of the cleverest of contemporary story tellers. Better still are the studies of character. The novel has value, too, as an impartial comparison by an outsider of Northern and Southern traits of character. It is a readable book, and it deserves success.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 280w. |
“The plot is ingenious and original and remarkably well worked out.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“The plot of this novel is managed with much skill, holding one’s interest without disclosing the solution of the puzzle until the very end. It is a cleverly told tale, with many original points.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 80w. |
“This book was published in England under the title ‘The earthly purgatory,’ and the title was well chosen. For the lover of adventure the book is to be commended.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] Douglas, Amanda Minnie. [Little girl in old San Francisco.] [†]$1.50. Dodd.
“The little girl first reached San Francisco in its earliest days. When the book closes, San Francisco is the great metropolis of the West. Giving the life story of the ‘little girl’ from her childhood past her wedding-day, the author also pictures the changes and growth of the city.”—Outlook.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “The book has not only human interest but some historical value.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
Douglas, James. Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.
This detailed description of Quebec in the seventeenth century forms a study of the French occupation of Canada, their explorations into the wilderness, and their struggle with England for supremacy. The volume is fully illustrated with reproductions of old pictures, maps, diagrams and portraits.
[*] “An important addition to the historical literature of Northern America.”
| + | Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 80w. |
“In fact, though Dr. Douglas has trod in paths that had been pretty well blazed out and explored before him, he has achieved a work of value.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 673. O. 14, ‘05. 630w. |
“Dr. Douglas’s book may find fit place alongside Sir Gilbert Parker’s ‘In old Quebec,’ Sir John Bourinot’s ‘The story of Canada,’ and the dozen volumes of Parkman’s histories.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 50w. |
Douglas, James. [Theodore Watts-Dunton: poet, novelist, critic.] [*]$3.50. Lane.
Mr. Douglas has exhibited Mr. Watts-Dunton to the world mainly as a novelist and poet. This view does not accord with Mr. Joseph Jacobs’ notion, for instance, which maintains that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s highest place is one among the critics. “The work comprises: (1) Reminiscences and anecdotes concerning Watt-Dunton’s distinguished friends and associates; (2) Watts-Dunton’s last words about Rossetti, and the campaign of slander in connection with his relations with his wife; (3) Unpublished poems by Watts-Dunton; (4) Letters from George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and other distinguished men; (5) An account of the life at the Pines, and the relations between Swinburne and Watts-Dunton; (6) Extracts from Watts-Dunton’s articles in the London Athenæum.” (Int. Studio). The illustrations include Welsh and English landscapes, works of art by Rosetti and others, and both outside and inside views of the Pines, the joint home of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne.
“The volume is precisely what it claims to be—a biographical and critical study, and the subject has been extremely fortunate in his biographer; for Mr. James Douglas is not only a fascinating and discriminating critic, but is in such perfect rapport with Watts-Dunton and his dearest literary companions that the rare sympathy of deep friendship lights up a story that even without warmth would have been fair and fascinating, and gives to it a peculiar charm.”
| + + + | Arena. 33: 336. Mr. ‘05. 990w. |
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
| Atlan. 95: 426. Mr. ‘05. 510w. |
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
| Atlan. 95: 837. Je. ‘05. 1030w. |
“The author is an enthusiastic admirer of his subject, not a calm and critical biographer.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + — | Critic. 46: 451 My. ‘05. 900w. |
“The object of Mr. Douglas in this work is to give a general view of the man and his writings. As far as the man is concerned, the work is by no means a formal biography, but rather a series of dissolving views of a strong personality. His [Douglas’] own commentary is rambling and possibly overwrought, but will be found serviceable as a sort of connective tissue whereby the reprinted passages are held together.” W. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 78. F. 1, ‘05. 2880w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 157. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w. | |
| * | + — | Ind. 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
“There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences, collected and arranged by one so eminently able as Mr. James Douglas, form a very important addition to contemporary records of the leading lights of the nineteenth century in the literature and art of America and England.”
| + | Int. Studio. 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 280w. (Detailed statement of contents.) |
“Mr. Douglas’s vicarious autobiography of the mind of Theodore Watts-Dunton is in plan and execution pretty much everything that a study of a living man of letters ought not to be. The chief value of the book is as an anthology of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s scattered and too little known work in criticism, in fiction, and in verse.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 176. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1710w. |
“Mr. Douglas in this book has chosen to represent Mr. Watts-Dunton as critic by very few, and those for the most part badly selected, specimens. This book does less than justice to the great position of Mr. Watts-Dunton in contemporary English letters. He lays stress upon the wrong thing, praises his hero for his lesser qualities, reproduces too little of his criticism, and too much of his poetry. Whoever wants to know Mr. Watts-Dunton in his capacity as poet and novelist will find his merits more than sufficiently exemplified and insisted upon in Mr. Douglas’s book.” Joseph Jacobs.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 4. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2890w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 60w. |
Dowden, Edward. Montaigne. [**]$1.50. Lippincott.
The initial volume in the “French men of letters series.” With a clever distribution of detail which Montaigne bequeathed to the world about himself, Professor Dowden “seeks to interpret the author not merely by the facts of his life but also by what he reveals of himself in his writings. And ... Montaigne lays himself bare for the inspection of the reader.” (Dial.)
“He has told the old tale clearly and simply, as far as possible in Montaigne’s own words, and we know no handbook better fitted to enlighten those readers who have not the time or industry to read the essays themselves.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 975. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w. |
[*] “In the admirable biography ... Montaigne’s life and work are considered with sympathetic discretion.” Edward Fuller.
| + + | Critic. 47: 566. D. ‘05. 790w. |
“It is no cut-and-dried biography, but an illuminated record of the mind and soul of the man whom Sainte-Beuve called ‘the wisest Frenchman that ever lived.’”
| + + | Dial. 39: 168. S. 16, ‘05. 790w. |
“For the book itself is evidently no quickly commissioned and machine-made production. It is the result rather of affectionate assiduity, or serious collection of materials, and collation of authorities.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 293. S. 15, ‘05. 1760w. |
“What makes this volume specially pleasing is that, in the spirit of ‘entente cordiale,’ it shows the desire to appreciate, with the graceful help of a winning style, the essentially French writer, who nevertheless finds a literary home in all countries.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 300w. |
“Prof. Dowden’s ‘Montaigne’ has the quality we always look for in the work of that capable critic. This writer is not a virtuoso among biographers; but what he lacks in brilliancy is more than made up for in sober force.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 665. O. 14, ‘05. 2280w. |
[*] “And it is the distinctive characteristic of Mr. Dowden’s work that in it Montaigne lives for us again. This effect, moreover, is produced with a deftness which defies analysis. The treatment is essentially impressionistic but it is none the less convincing.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 280w. |
“A critical and sympathetic account which every genuine lover of Montaigne will prize.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 542. O. 21, ‘05. 390w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 40w. |
“He makes Montaigne as interesting as a man’s biography can be made whose real life is contained in his books. Our feeling about the book is rather that it is too much biographic; and that more space should have been given to the study of Montaigne’s influence on French and on English literature.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 501. O. 14, ‘05. 1640w. |
[*] “Professor Dowden’s work is entirely worthy of its attractive setting. We do not think he has ever made a literary sketch so satisfactory.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: sup. 908. D. 2, ‘05. 500w. |
Dowson, Ernest. Collected poems. [*]$1.50. Lane.
This volume contains all of the poetical works of Ernest Dowson, including “Verses,” published in 1896; “The Pierrot of the minute,” in 1897; and a posthumous collection entitled “Decorations.” Mr. Arthur Symons has written an appreciative memoir to the book.
“[He] wrote in verse with sad sincerity, and in exquisite lingering rhythms and a diction poignant in its reserved perfection.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + + | Atlan. 96: 416. S. ‘05. 700w. |
“The delicate talent of Ernest Dowson is appraised with intelligence, and the subtle sympathy which it so peculiarly needs, in the introductory essay by Mr. Arthur Symons which accompanies the final edition of Dowson’s ‘Poems.’” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 272. N. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
“We quote a poem which will illustrate both his musical grave way and the destructive and unpoetical philosophy that he had acquired.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 177. Je. 9, ‘05. 910w. |
“A volume of decadent poetry, so called, of exceptionally fine quality.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 302. O. 12, ‘05. 440w. |
“The poems before us justify the praise Mr. Symons bestows upon them. They vibrate with feeling, and are stamped with reality, as having been lived before they were phrased.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 660w. |
“We may well believe that a few of these poems at least will live and be treasured, never indeed by the many, but by those who are sensitive to music and choice expression, and to sentiment that is genuine, however fatally stamped with too much sadness, born of disease.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 99: 808. Je. 17, ‘05. 1430w. |
Doyle, (Arthur) Conan. [Return of Sherlock Holmes.] $1.50. McClure.
Thirteen short stories which chronicle the last adventures of the famous detective, who now retires from the public gaze to end his days on his Sussex bee-farm. There is the story of the mystery of the second stain, the adventure of the priory school, the adventure of the six Napoleons and others of equal mystery.
“Mr. Holmes is so interesting that he might easily be more so. Moreover, he is not so accurate as of yore.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 530w. |
“The novelist has not shown anything like as much ingenuity in the construction of fresh problems as the detective shows in solving them.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + — | Forum. 37: 106. Jl. ‘05. 1340w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w. |
“Speaking generally, this volume does not average as high as its predecessors; but this is only because its best are not quite equal to the best he has told before.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w. |
“The stolen examination paper, the missing foot-ball player, and the professional blackmailer, for all his miserable death, seem rather small game for the redoubtable Holmes after the stirring scenes of his earlier days.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 346. Mr. 4, ‘05. 380w. |
“The new stories are not so fresh as the old, not so ingenious, nor do they offer that full measure of breathless suspense without which the fiction of crime is only weariness and vexation.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 170w. |
Doyle, Edward. Haunted temple and other poems. $1. Edward Doyle, 247 W. 125th st., N. Y.
“The haunted temple” by the blind poet of Harlem is a criticism of life. The temple is builded of “the lifeless dross of the heart and the spirit,” the law of construction is “antipodal—not one, with that of the ascending stars and the sun.” Introspection and poetic fervor mark this work and the accompanying poems.
| + | Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 50w. |
“A daring and somewhat unregulated imagination is the chief characteristic.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“Many of his verses are deeply religious in tone and are healthily, almost buoyantly trustful, with an entire absence of morbidness.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 270w. |
Drayton, Michael. [Poems.] $1.25. Scribner.
“The latest edition to the ‘Newnes’ pocket classics.’ ... Instead of attempting to show every side of Drayton’s work in so narrow a compass, the editor has wisely selected only the best side, and has accordingly presented a very full collection of his shorter pieces.”—Outlook.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 1015, Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w. |
Driscoll, Clara. Girl of La Gloria; il. by Hugh W. Ditzler. [†]$1.50. Putnam.
This love story of Texas, which pictures the rough but romantic life on the plains, is the story of a young New Yorker who falls in love with a girl who is the last of an old Mexican family whose estates have gradually been taken from them by the Americans.
“Miss Driscoll can tell a tale with freshness and an engaging individuality. She has not quite got the knack either of omitting unessential details, or of saving essential ones from being a trifle tedious.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 495. My. 6. ‘05. 310w. |
“The author’s diction is commonplace, and her grammar none too sound.”
| — — | Ath. 1905, 1: 556. My. 6. 120w. |
“The story is really too good, as stories go, to be treated altogether flippantly.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 601. Ag. ‘05. 170w. |
“It is a very little story and very simple.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w. |
“And nothing in particular to recommend or condemn it.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 20w. | |
| + — | Reader. 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 90w. |
Drummond, William Henry. [Voyageur, and other poems.] [**]$1.25. Putnam.
The new French-Canadian poems which make up this volume sing sadly and gayly, by turns, of the hunter, and the pioneer, of home and of country, of youth and of “The last portage” when “De moon an’ de star above is gone, yet somet’ing tell me I mus’ go on.”
“It is only when the author forsakes his patois, and writes in the English tongue, that he lays himself open to serious fault-finding.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 300. S. 2. 390w. |
“Heartily can we commend every page of Dr. Drummond’s latest volume.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 287. S. ‘05. 190w. |
“The patois is not beautiful in itself, and to many readers it may seem a little barbarous; but it is Mr. Drummond’s true material, for the dialect songs have a merit which is absent in the few pieces written in ordinary English.”
| + | Spec. 95: 391. S. 16, ‘05. 500w. |
Dubois, Dr. Paul. Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. [*]$3. Funk.
The author both a psychologist and physician gives in this volume of nearly 450 pages the experience and principles of psychic treatment of nervous disorders based upon twenty years of successful specialization and practice in this branch of medical skill. “The strong optimistic tenor of the book, its simple untechnical language, and the directness with which its philosophy is applied to life, make it capable of becoming a vital fact not merely to physicians but to every one who has pondered on the relations between the psychic and the physical.”
“The charm of Dr. Dubois’s style is preserved in spite of the difficulties and occasional errors of translation. The entire absence of pedantry, the constant good nature and wit, a marked dramatic and rhetorical instinct and honest zeal make his book one of the most readable in medical or psychological literature.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 31: 497. O. 7, ‘05. 940w. |
Duckworth, W. L. H. Morphology and anthropology: a handbook for students. [*]$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Duckworth defines the subject-matter of his book as an inquiry into (1) man’s zoölogical position: (2) the nature of his ancestry.... In the classification adopted by Mr. Duckworth, man retains the position assigned to him by Huxley.... Nor has the evidence which has accumulated in the last thirty-three years permitted Mr. Duckworth to make a more definite statement as to the ancestral chain ... of man than was made by Darwin in his first edition of the ‘Descent of man’ in 1871.”—Nature.
“Within the limits at his disposal he has been able to marshal his facts and inferences in a methodical and convincing manner.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 533. Ap. 29. 740w. |
“It would not be just to close this review without acknowledging the number of original facts and fresh opinions that mark the pages of this work. The opening chapters are perhaps too condensed. The chapters on the cerebral organization are specially well done, and contain the best exposition yet published of our knowledge of that part of the Primate organization.” A. K.
| + + + | Nature. 71: 433. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1690w. |
“Duckworth’s observations strike us in the main very favorably, as both candid and judicious. A very good and useful handbook.” T. D.
| + + | Science, n.s. 22: 398. S. 29, ‘05. 680w. |
“Is an invaluable piece of exact work, somewhat beyond the needs of the general reader, but admirably adapted to those of the student.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 787, My. 27, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson). Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.
Madame Duclaux’s interesting description of France and the French is now reissued as “a beautiful quarto with twenty reproductions of water-color sketches by W. B. Macdougall, chiefly in illustration of French dwellings from farm-houses to chateaux.... The seven divisions of the book carry one from Normandy to Provence with apparently equal sympathy and shrewd observation.” (Nation.)
[*] “One of the most gorgeous of holiday books, and one that deserves to be read from cover to cover, not only because of its subject but for its literary style as well.”
| + | Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “Altogether this is a delightful book.”
| + | Nation. 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 310w. |
[*] “Altogether she has made an instructive and attractive book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 877. D. 9, ‘05. 420w. |
[*] “The artist’s work is often amateurish and the arrangement of the pictures awkward.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 692. N. 25, ‘05. 180w. |
Dudley, Albertus True. In the line. [†]$1.25. Lee.
The third volume in the “Phillips Exeter” series tells the story of a sturdy Boston boy who having worked up to the position of guard on the football team is forbidden by his father to play in one of the crucial games of the season. Opportunity is thus given for arguments on both sides of the much-discussed football question.
“Except in so far as it lends encouragement to football ... the book is bent to encourage all sorts of good things—honesty, democracy, morality, courage, a harmless gayety.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 572. S. 2, ‘05. 230w. |
Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant. Notes from a diary, 1896-1901. 2v. [*]$4. Dutton.
These volumes close the notes from a diary which contains the record of half-a century ending as the reign of Edward VII. begins. Sir Mountstuart has avoided the chief interests of his life, politics and administration but has preserved “some interesting and amusing things that would otherwise have soon disappeared,” anecdotes, bits of verse, stories of travels, of dinners, and of visits among the most brilliant men of his time.
“Very entertaining volumes. They paint the manners of the time more graphically than any novelist has been able to do.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 356. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1090w. |
“They are a treasure-house of entertainment. There is a good deal of pleasant classical lore; there are riddles, too, and jokes galore, so that the ordinary man as well as the scholar should be pleased.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 456. Ap. 15. 1610w. |
[*] “A mirror of the times indeed and it is with sincere regret that I read Sir Mountstuart’s ultimatum that these volumes are his last.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 46: 508. Je. ‘05. 950w. |
“Though by no means dull reading are a little cloying if taken in course and at a sitting.”
| + | Dial. 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w. |
“They are bed-candle reading. As such they will divert, interest, and offer diverse suggestion to different people.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 1350w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“Not an unkind word enters these pages. The author is amiable both by nature and grace. He is an accomplished raconteur.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 1020w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 130w. |
“He has made such a contribution to the gaiety of the world as seldom comes from a single pen.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 641. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1960w. |
Duignan, W. H. Worcestershire place names. [*]$2.40. Oxford.
A glossary which brings the history and place names of Worcestershire down to date and “has more than a merely local interest; for the English place names, which nearly all have their root in Anglo-Saxon, occur again and again throughout the whole country, and in them England’s early history is latent.” (Nation.)
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 250w. |
“It is not surpassed in excellence by any other work of its class with which I am acquainted.” Henry Bradley.
| + + + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 603. Jl. ‘05. 590w. | |
| Nation. 80: 501. Je. 22, ‘05. 200w. |
Dumas, Alexandre. [Three musketeers.] $1.25. Crowell.
This novel running almost to the six hundred page limit, depicting the court life of France during the closing years of Louis XII’s reign and the opening years of the Grand Monarch is in this edition fashioned after the “Thin paper classics” model. It offers a complete revised translation with introduction and cast of characters by J. Walker McSpadden.
Dumas, Alexandre. [Twenty years after.] $1.25. Crowell.
An edition of Dumas’ novel which is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”
Dunbar, Agnes B. C. Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. [*]$4. Macmillan.
In volume one “the author has collected the facts and legends concerning thousands of Catholic saints, canonized or beatified maids and matrons, from ancient Britain to the Japan of the seventeenth century, their austerities and charities, their martyrdoms and miracles.” (Outlook.) Volume two draws its material mainly from the “Acta sanctorum,” and “the author’s survey extends over the whole church before the parting of the East from the West, the Western church as a whole to the Reformation, and afterward the Roman church. Besides being of value as a pious work, the dictionary will also be useful as a work of reference.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is written with ardent sympathy and with a highly respectable erudition.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 843. S. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Every statement is accredited to a certain writer.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.) |
[*] “But Miss Dunbar has worked out the problem in each case, and made a remarkably complete book—the only one of the kind in English we think.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 899. D. 16, ‘05. 480w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Dunbar, Charles Franklin. Economic essays. [**]$2.50. Macmillan.
“The volume now before us brings together fifteen essays which had been published in various journals, chiefly in the Quarterly journal of economics, and adds thereto five others which have never before seen the light. With the former, the task of the editor was comparatively simple; the latter, by the pious care of a disciple, have been brought ‘as nearly as possible into the form which the author would have wished’ to give them. The introduction by Professor Taussig, carefully avoiding mere eulogy, is the fit tribute of a student to a revered master. While the book cannot repair, except in slightest measure, the loss which economic science suffered in Professor Dunbar’s death, it is a worthy memorial to one who contributed so much, as teacher, editor, and investigator, to the progress of economic study in the United States.”—Nation.
“Especially helpful are the chapters on the panic of 1857 and the description of the state banking systems in the middle of the century. Serve as admirable examples of interesting and intelligible generalizations based upon trade and banking statistics.” D. R. D.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 203. O. ‘05. 300w. |
“Some of those essays are models of careful research. The easy literary style in which they are written should make the volume one of unusual interest to the general public as well as of value to the student.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w. |
“He separates fact from fancy, and presents the results of scientific inquiry, largely in the field of banking and currency, in an eminently judicious and scholarly manner.” Arthur B. Woodford.
| + + | Dial. 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 320w. | |
| + + | Ind. 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“While it does not do full justice to his attainments, the present volume gives sufficient evidence of Professor Dunbar’s firm hold upon his science in its broadest relations, his skill in handling questions of the day, and his special aptitude for patient and fruitful historical research. All [the five now printed for the first time] display the nice workmanship of the author, and must be reckoned with by him who would write the definitive history of our banking system.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 159. F. 23, ‘05. 830w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “It is hardly too much to say that an hundred pages may be selected from Professor Dunbar’s writings which are as well worth preservation and careful study as a similar number of pages in the works of any of the great masters of the science since Adam Smith. Certainly there is no American economist whose writings deserve a higher rank.” G. S. C.
| + + + | Yale. R. 14: 328. N. ‘05. 1000w. |
[*] Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Howdy, honey, howdy. [**]$1.50. Dodd.
“In this collection of verse the ... many-gifted lyrist of his race strikes again almost exclusively those chords of pathos and humor, in purely dialect verse, which have won for the author a quite unique position among America’s ‘minor poets’ of to-day. The publishers have rendered the volume very attractive by adding to the racy metrical text characteristic photographs and tasteful decorations; the former by Leigh Richmond Miner; the latter by Will Jenkins.”—Critic.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “Mr. Dunbar’s part in the volume needs no description, save to say that it is in his characteristic vein and well up to his usual standard in quality.”
| + | Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 60w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 290w. |
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. [**]$1. Dodd.
About eighty poems are grouped here which range from the grave to the gay. The author keeps well to his special field of folk lore. A number of the poems are in negro dialect, “portraying the pranks and plottings of a rollicking pickaninny world.”
“His present volume is in no wise disappointing: as in its predecessors we find in ‘Lyrics of sunshine and shadow’ a rich sympathy with the homely characteristic themes treated and a happy deftness in the management of rhyme and rhythm.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w. |
“Mr. Dunbar’s poetic inspiration is slender but sincere. He is at his best in simple ballad measures, writing of the common joys of health and out-of-doors.”
| + | Nation. 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 190w. |
Duncan, Edmondstoune. Schubert. $1.25. Dutton.
Modern methods of compilation are employed, modern demands for the conditioning forces of a career are met, and the modern accompaniment of illustrative matter is supplied in this complete life of Schubert recently added to the “Master musicians series.” The biography of Schubert, Schubert the man, and Schubert the musician constitute the three divisions for treatment.
[*] “His little book is for the most part dull, flat and prosy, overloaded with trivial details, in the midst of which the real essentials are lost sight of.”
| — — | Ind. 59: 990. O. 26, ‘05. 250w. |
“The chief fault of Mr. Duncan’s book is a curious habit of repeating biographic details or criticisms in different sections of it. Some of his best and most important things are printed in footnote type in the bibliography.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 170. Ag. 24, ‘05. 700w. |
“An agreeable and generally trustworthy biography.” Richard Aldrich.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 730w. |
“It brings out facts not before known, though it is far from being an ideal biography.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 330w. |
[*] “His own observations are marked not only by the warm personal affection which Schubert invariably inspires in his admirers, but by excellent taste and sound critical judgment.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 763. N. 11, ‘05. 310w. |
Duncan, Frances. Mary’s garden and how it grew. [†]$1.25. Century.
Mary is typically the child enthusiast, while her instructor, the kind Herr Trummel, “gardener, horticulturist, retired florist, and above all, Switzer,” teaches her the simple forms of practical, scientific gardening. Aside from the tale of good comradeship existing between the gray haired gardener and the little “Liebchen,” the book is a practical handbook of instruction for all garden makers. It covers the possibilities for the different months, showing what may be accomplished in winter as well as in the favorable summer time. The illustrations by Lee Woodward Zeigler are suggestively good.
“Miss Duncan’s little book, with its helpful illustrations, will do the best sort of missionary work. Her knowledge of her subject is intimate and her teaching technically sound; her graceful English....”
| + + | Critic. 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 160w. |
Duncan, Norman. [Dr. Grenfell’s parish, the deep sea fishermen.] [**]$1. Revell.
In this book the author’s “freight is fact ... and the language is vigorous. What he calls Dr. Grenfell’s parish is the long, rocky coast of Labrador and of Newfoundland ... where Dr. Grenfell has labored, and is laboring, sailing the icy seas in fog and storm and tending the bodies (and minding somewhat also the souls) of the scattered dwellers in a vast, drear, country, which is less desolate since he came into it. Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell is an Englishman, and he is commissioned by the ‘Royal national mission to deep sea fishermen.’ ... Mr. Duncan’s account is chiefly concerned, not with the doctor, but with his monster parish and the inhabitants of it.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a better and more interesting piece of work than either of its predecessors from the same pen.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 450w. |
“By his literary gift Mr. Duncan opens the eyes of the least imaginative to the significance of the work he describes.”
| + | Critic. 46: 471. My. ‘05. 280w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w. (Condensed narrative of book). | ||
| + | Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 170w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 130w. |
“This is indeed a different, and a better tale from any figment of the imagination. It reaches the heart with the force of verity.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 117. Je. ‘05. 460w. | |
| Spec. 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w. |
Duncan, Norman. [Dr. Luke of the Labrador.] [†]$1.50. Revell.
Mr. Duncan “has added a new province to the realm of literature. The gray ice-bound fields of Labrador, those stern, grim seas, that virile, simple folk, and its life of tragic monotony,—these things are now possessions to the imagination, possessions of enduring value.” (R. of Rs.) “Doctor Luke is a philanthropist, who, putting aside an early career of dissipation, devotes his life to relieving distress on the bleak coasts of Labrador.” (Ind.)
Reviewed by G. W. A.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 543. Jl. ‘05. 500w. |
“With his keen faculty for seizing the essentials and dismissing the superfluous, Mr. Duncan has brought us face to face not only with the rigors and romance of life on the Labrador coast, but with its humor as well—and a varying humor it is, now droll and again grim, but always an accurate depiction. A romance full of interest and charm.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w. |
“There is a group of figures of excellent variety and of the best sort of originality, self-stamped as made up of discovery and sympathetic interpretation. The story is perfectly fitted into the strange, wild surroundings.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 97. F. 2, ‘05. 540w. |
“As an organic, thoroughly-developed novel, it is a failure.”
| + — | Reader. 5: 789. My. ‘05. 210w. |
“A novel of unusually high merit. But Mr. Duncan has not only a new field to exploit, he has style. The swift yet long and undulating sentences move with a distinctive rhythm that is as fresh as it is new. They tell a strong, beautiful love story. Altogether, ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’ is one of the season’s two or three best books.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 170w. |
Duncan, Norman. [Mother.] [†]$1.25. Revell.
Mr. Duncan “lets heaven into the attic shekinah of a vaudeville actress, where she kept her child. Her love for him was the holy effulgence that covered her pitiful, painted life, and sanctified her. It is a fine argument for the way to heaven in women, dramatically expressed and quaintly proved, even if we leave out the philosophy of the ‘dog-face’ man, which to appreciate one must read.”—Ind.
[*] “The treatment is at once realistic and idealistic, and the two elements do not at all times blend quite harmoniously.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 170w. |
“Norman Duncan’s new story, ‘The mother,’ gives the impression that he wrote it with his light turned a trifle too high and with his keynote of pathos taken an octave above where the reader’s sympathies reach comfortably.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “Altogether, in delicate balance of humor and pathos, in quick clutch upon the heartstrings, in revealing vividness of imagination, the art and spirit of ‘The mother,’ put it in the noble class of ‘Rab and his friends.’”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 540w. | |
| * | Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + — | Outlook. 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 50w. |
“Mr. Duncan has consistently progressed in his art, but in no instance more than in ‘The mother.’”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 200w. |
Duncan, Robert Kennedy. New knowledge: a popular account of the new physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of matter. [**]$2. Barnes.
“A popular account of the new theory of matter and the relations of the new physics and new chemistry to other sciences.... The discovery of Becquerel and the Curies and its consequences form mainly the subject matter of the book. The author treats of current conceptions, the periodic law, gaseous ions, natural radio-activity, the resolution of the atom, inorganic evolution, and the new knowledge and old problems. There are numerous illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.
“Although some little fault might be found with the arrangement of the book, Prof. Duncan has succeeded in his main object. When allowance is made for the faults here enumerated, the book remains the best of its kind that we have read.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 787. Je. 24. 1450w. | |
| + + — | Critic. 47: 287. S. ‘05. 100w. |
“It is not too much to say that no intelligent person can afford to permit this book to go unread. We have failed to find in the book any important inaccuracy, despite the fact that the field covered is so large and the subject-matter so difficult.”
| + + + | Educ. R. 30: 310. O. ‘05. 740w. |
“The style out-flammarions Flammarion in its vividness and its occasional verse quotations. So also is its all-embracing scope an expression of the author’s literary enthusiasm rather than of his scientific earnestness.”
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 641. Je. 15, ‘05. 490w. | |
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1015. My. 4, ‘05. 360w. |
“This work is the first attempt which I have seen to bring into suitable compass, in an intelligible manner, the various problems which are occupying the attention of many physicists and chemists. There are few errors, and these are unimportant. Whether the author might not have omitted much fine writing is a question of taste.” W. R.
| + + — | Nature. 72: 241. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1310w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 300w. |
“His descriptions and explanations are clear even to a layman.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1060w. |
“The author has the rare faculty of infusing life into scientific discussion.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “Its author shows himself to be a man of wide reading, thorough scholarship, broad horizon and unmistakable literary talent. I do not find in it one single incorrect statement of fact.” R. A. Millikan.
| + + + | Science, n.s. 22: 787. D. 15, ‘05. 520w. |
“His book shows an admirable power of exposition, and the only fault that one can find with it is that its proofs have not been read with sufficient care, so that a certain number of slips have crept into its pages.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 154. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w. |
[*] Dunham, Edith. Jogging round the world. [†]$1.50. Stokes.
A book with an educational value for children. It is designed to give an idea of interesting characteristics of many parts of the world; it shows riders and drivers, with curious steeds or vehicles in strange lands and at home. Their story is further told by the pictures which give glimpses of the life and manners of remote people.
| * | + | Nation. 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 30w. |
Duniway, Mrs. Abigail Scott. From the West to the West: across the plains to Oregon. [†]$1.50. McClurg.
This account of a trip by wagon from Illinois to Oregon is too homely to be romantic. The details or daily hardships are given, and there are many characters each with its own story. The squaw-man, the Indian, the run-away slave, and the Mormon all appear in the course of the long journey. Death by the wayside, cholera, a stampede of cattle, and other happenings accentuate the reality of the story and of the long list of characters playing a part in it.
“The book affords an interesting though somewhat idealized picture of the early days, but makes no pretensions to historical or geographical accuracy.”
| + | Dial. 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 150w. |
“The book is one which possesses no value as a novel, though it may inspire interest as a curiosity, not of literature, to be sure, but of story writing.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 370w. |
Dunkerley, S. Mechanism. [*]$3. Longmans.
This new text book “opens with an introductory chapter in which the usual definitions occur relating to machines, kinematic chains, lower and higher pairs ... this is followed by a chapter ... on simple machines and machine tools. Chapters 3 and 4 deal chiefly with mechanisms of the quadric crank and double slider crank chain forms ... the pantograph finds an important place here.... The next two chapters deal with velocity and acceleration diagrams.... The remainder of the book deals with gear wheels, non-circular wheels and cams.... There is also a section devoted to gear-cutting machinery.... The illustrations are mainly line drawings.... A series of numerical examples at the end of the book will be of much value to students.”—Nature.
“A valuable text-book on mechanism.” E. G. C.
| + + | Nature. 72: 4. My. 4, ‘05. 610w. |
Dunn, Henry Treffry. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his circle. [**]$1. Pott.
The author was at one time a pupil of Rossetti’s and an inmate of the house on Cheyne walk, and he gives reminiscences of the painter-poet and his circle, which are interesting, reliable, and full of anecdote.
“The editor has made too much of his function; the copiousness of his annotation is out of keeping with the sketchy character of the text, and his introduction is turbid and grandiloquent. Mr. Dunn’s reminiscences are rendered engaging by a certain simplicity and suavity. He gives a clear human outline to that figure of Rossetti of which the commentators have seemed disposed to make a kind of bogy.”—H. W. Boynton.
| + + — | Atlan. 95: 422. Mr. ‘05. 760w. |
“Simplicity of style. A graphic contribution to Rossettiana.”
| + | Critic. 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 60w. |
Dunn, Jacob Piatt, jr. Indiana: a redemption from slavery. $1.25. Houghton.
“A revised edition of ‘Indiana’ in the ‘American commonwealth series.’ The author has increased its value in the revision by adding a chapter of about fifty pages on the history of the state since its admission to the Union. Otherwise, the changes made are slight.”—Am. Hist. R.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 724. Ap. ‘05. 60w. | ||
| Dial. 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 50w. | ||
| + | Nation. 81: 64. Jl. 20, ‘05. 270w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w. |
Dunn, Martha Baker. Cicero in Maine, and other essays. [**]$1.25. Houghton.
Nine delightful essays republished from the “Atlantic,” including, besides the title essay: A plea for the shiftless reader; The meditations of an ex-school committee woman; Piazza philosophy; The Browning tonic; The book and the place; Concerning temperance and judgment to come; Book dusting time; and Education.
“Mrs. Dunn’s style is delightful.”
| + | Dial. 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 500w. |
“Thorough comprehension of the value of a sound, sensible, and cultivated upbringing for young people, added to clear-sighted judgment of present conditions and the mellowing glow of good reading spread over all, make an enviable equipment for a writer. All these are evident.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 310w. |
“Whether dispensing a mild dose of ‘Piazza philosophy’ or a strong potion of ‘Browning tonic,’ Mrs. Dunn may be counted on to cheer and not inebriate.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] Dunning, William Archibald. History of political theories from Luther to Montesquieu. [**]$2.50. Macmillan.
This volume “carries forward to the middle of the eighteenth century the work begun in the former volume, which was confined to ancient and mediaeval history.... Beginning with the reformation, Professor Dunning traces the history of anti-monarchic doctrines of the sixteenth century, the work of the Catholic controversialists and jurists, the law of nations as developed by Hugo Grotius, English political philosophy before and during the Puritan revolution, Continental theory during the age of Louis XIV., and finally, the epoch-making work of Montesquieu himself.”—R. of Rs.
[*] “The book is a piece of sound and conscientious work, and bears abundant testimony to the wideness of the Professor’s reading.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1134. O. 28, ‘05. 100w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 550w. |
[*] “The author is not obscure and is judicial.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 610w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 110w. |
Durham, M. Edith. Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.
The author was sent to the Balkans by sympathetic English people to distribute relief to the starving inhabitants. She gives an interesting account of the discomforts she endured in the performance of her numerous duties, and the things which she saw among the peasants and in the hospitals. There is much of politics, and she pictures vividly the “lava bed of raw primeval passion ... into which no power dared thrust its fingers for fear of having them burned off.”
“It is easily and pleasantly written, and will give the reader who knows not the Near East a clearer insight into an irritating and unsolved problem than other more weighty and pretentious works.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 338. Mr. 25, ‘05. 610w. |
“A parting tribute must be paid to Miss Durham’s nervous and idiomatic English, characteristically that of an educated and refined woman, unspoiled by grammars.” Wallace Rice.
| + + | Dial. 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 560w. |
“Gives a positive picture of conditions there.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1370w. |
“Her enthusiasm adds to the charm and does not detract from the value of these descriptions by an intelligent eyewitness of little known conditions in obscure places.”
| + | Reader. 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 310w. |
Dwight, Henry Otis, ed. Blue book of missions for 1905. [**]$1. Funk.
A book containing detailed facts and statistics regarding all missions and missionary societies, both Protestant and Roman Catholic thruout the world. Its information is indexed in handy compendium form for clergymen, missionaries and students.
| Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w. |
Dwight, Henry Otis; Tupper, Henry Allen R.; and Bliss, Edwin Munsell, eds. Encyclopedia of missions; descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical. [**]$6. Funk.
In this second and revised edition there is less than two-thirds the amount of matter given in the first edition of thirteen years ago. It contains “data relating to some 5000 cities and towns and villages which are of present importance to the missionary enterprise.” There is also a number of special articles of unusual value, prepared by experts. Another excellent feature is the bibliography that follows special articles upon countries, mission boards, religion and races, as well as some other subjects. (Ind.)
“We commend the general appearance of the work, its clear typography and evidence of careful editing. There is much in this new and admirable encyclopedia to commend. The absence of an index is inexcusable.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 614. Mr. 16, ‘05. 770w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 574. S. 2, ‘05. 680w. |
Dyer, Henry. Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. [*]$3.50. Scribner.
The latest book on Japan by Dr. Henry Dyer, “a hard-headed, thick-skinned Scotchman,” belongs to the literature of knowledge, and will interest especially those who like unembroidered facts and plenty of statistics and tables, and who hate anything like “fine writing,” eloquence or “gush.” The author who established the College of engineering in Japan, has since his return to Great Britain kept in touch with the makers of modern Japan, and “out of the intellectual kinship thus engendered has grown the present work, designed to afford the foreign reader an adequate idea of the spiritual, moral, mental, and material Japan of to-day.” (Outlook). The book does not aim to be a history of Japan, but is rather a study of the influences which have made the country “a member of the community of nations.” The subjects discussed at length are education, the army and navy, means of communication, industrial development, art industries, commerce, food supply, colonization, constitutional government, administration, finance, international relations, foreign politics, social results, the future, and recent events.
“Excellent as the present volume is—among the most lucid and fruitful that have appeared in recent years upon Japan—it is, of necessity, uncritical—accepts the Japanese estimate of themselves and the estimates of their perfervid admirers almost without examination.”
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“States all that he sees and knows in terms of plainest common sense. In one point Dr. Dyer has excelled all other writers on Japan. He shows clearly and forcibly, as well as copiously, what the great army of Yatoi, hired assistants and salaried organizers and advisers, in the days of their youth and strength thirty years ago, did for the Japanese in raising their ideals and pointing the way to future success.”
| + + — | Dial. 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w. |
[*] “He marshals many facts frequently overlooked by writers on twentieth century Japan, but essential to a proper appreciation of the problems—social, religious, economic, and political—now confronting the country.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 270w. |
“Untrustworthy in theories, perhaps no other single volume gives so wide and correct a view of the main facts in the several phases of Japanese national life.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 337. Ap. 27, ‘05. 2710w. |
“A treatise of so comprehensive and illuminating a character as to warrant its inclusion in the front rank of works aiming to present in compact form an authoritative account of the evolution and present stage of development of the Island empire. It is in the author’s discussion of Japanese problems that the highest value of his work lies. Mr. Dyer gives a far better idea than do the majority of writers of the part played by foreigners in the growth of Japan. It is heavy with repetitions not only of idea but of phrase; its diction is at times strangely awkward and at times imbued with the flavor of the ‘blue book’; while inexactitudes of statement are occasionally to be detected.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 497. F. 25, ‘05. 1720w. |
Dyer, Louis. Machiavelli and the modern state. [*]$1. Ginn.
“The volume is made up of three chapters, originally delivered as lectures in England in 1899, under the titles ‘The prince and Cæsar Borgia,’ ‘Machiavelli’s use of history,’ ‘Machiavelli’s idea of morals.’ The author was formerly an assistant professor at Harvard.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“What we have is a series of remarks, some of them on Machiavelli and none on the modern state.... The ‘brilliant allusiveness’ of the style, the great number of irrelevancies, and the florid overtranslations....” Edward S. Corwin.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 685. Ap. ‘05. 240w. |
“A valuable little volume.”
| Am. J. of Theol. 9: 381. Ap. ‘05. 310w. | ||
| Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 129. Ja. ‘05. 40w. |
“Mr. Dyer, however, without any of Mr. Morley’s charm or Macaulay’s zest, does contrive to say a good deal that is valuable in the course of these most interesting lectures.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 462. Ap. 15, 510w. |