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Earle, Maria Theresa (Mrs. Charles W. Earle). Garden colour; with fifty full-page il. by Margaret Waterfield. [*]$6. Dutton.
“An English collaborated production ... fifty-one colored plates ... which are from water colors by Miss Margaret Waterfield. Miss Waterfield herself writes the garden notes for the various months, giving advice in regard to cultivation only incidentally, but chiefly in regard to artistic arrangement—those methods of planting whereby each plant or shrub shows its own beauties to best advantage, while at the same time enhancing those of its neighbors.... It is the principles rather than the actual facts that the various writers wish in this case to enforce. Miss Waterfield’s collaborators include Mrs. C. W. Earle, Miss Rose Kingsley, and other well-known English garden lovers and writers.”—Dial.
| Country Calendar. 1: 109L. Je. ‘05. 90w. |
“One who has considered the subject only casually will certainly get some inspiring suggestions from both pictures and text.” Edith Granger.
| + + | Dial. 38: 380. Je. 1, ‘05. 480w. | |
| + + | Ind. 58: 1257. Je. 1, ‘05. 130w. |
“The contributed text is not so uniformly good as the plates.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w. |
“This book is notable both from the standpoint of nature lover and bibliophile.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 480w. |
Eastman, Charles A. [Red hunters and the animal people.] [**]$1.25. Harper.
“In the red man’s philosophy, as interpreted by the author, himself a full blooded Sioux, the beasts of the fields and the birds of the air are the brothers of their human fellow creatures. The four-footed and feathered tribes also, in the same philosophy, regard the red man as a brother. They are the animal people, and these stories are stories of them as such—stories which differ not as widely as might be wished from the white man’s animal tales now so numerous.”—N. Y. Times.
“One of the most original and delightful books about animal life that have appeared for a long time, full of interest and information not to be found in text-books. The book is simply and pleasantly written, with no affectation or mannerism.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 105. F. 4, ‘05. 210w. |
“With no literary art whatever at his command, he has mistakenly chosen to cast his material in the form of short stories, and has failed with them.”
| — | Critic. 46: 478. My. ‘05. 120w. |
“Is likely at first to be a little disappointing, it is so plain, so lacking in art or artifice. After Mr. Long and Mr. Thompson-Seton, it is like bread-and-butter after dessert. But it nearly, if not quite, justifies the simile, for if the reader sustains his interest long enough his taste will approve the rather homely fare.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 230w. | |
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 47. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w. |
“The book is entertaining as fiction, valuable because of the light it throws on Indian life, and largely interesting as one of the few contributions to our literature made by an Indian.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 230w. |
“This is a very pleasing book.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 683. My. 6, ‘05. 180w. |
Eastman, Helen. New England ferns and their common allies; an easy method of determining the species. [*]$1.25. Houghton.
“It is a merit of this book that it includes ... the lycopodiums and equisetums, club-mosses and horse-tails. Each plant is provided with a picture, from the press ... and even the unusual varieties and hybrids are included.... The descriptions are good and brief.”—Ind.
“We wish the author had not given us so many fancy English names that have no authority. But it is a good book, and we are particularly glad for the horse-tails and club-mosses.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 320w. |
Eccles, Robert Gibson. Food preservatives, their advantages and proper use; the practical versus the theoretical side of the pure food problem; with an introd. by E. W. Duckwall. $1; pa. 50c. Van Nostrand.
A volume which sets forth the pure food problem as it is found in practice and theory. “A valuable part of the book is that devoted to showing how little evidence there is for the assumption, commonly made even by chemists, that the process of fermentation is so similar to that of digestion that whatever prevents the one must impair the other.” (Ind.)
“It contains much special pleading, but this is justified by the excessive amount of special pleading that has been done, both in and out of court, against the use of preservatives.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 960. Ap. 27, ‘05. 430w. |
[*] Eckel, Edwin C. Cements, limes and plasters: their materials, manufacture, and properties. [*]$6. Wiley.
The composition and character of the raw materials, the methods of manufacture, and the properties of the various cementing materials are treated in this volume, which is designed for the use of the working engineer. Complete reference lists are given for the benefit of those who wish to make a further study of the subject treated.
[*] “This is an exceedingly valuable and well-nigh exhaustive work. It is by far the most valuable work on the several subjects that it treats that we have met, and in our judgment may be rightly considered a masterpiece of compilation.”
| + + + | Science, n.s. 22: 522. O. 27, ‘05. 450w. |
Eckenrode, Hamilton James. Political history of Virginia during the reconstruction. 50c. Hopkins.
The author “concerns himself almost altogether with the political parties of the reconstruction era. He relates the history of the
Alexandria government, ... and discusses quite fully President Johnson’s attitude toward the Southern states at the close of the Civil war.... He shows that the Republican party in Virginia was for the most part opposed to unlimited negro suffrage, until the Philadelphia convention of 1866, when ‘manhood’ suffrage became a party measure.”—R. of Rs.
“The method of the author is truly critical, the use of the sources satisfactory, ... and the conclusions arrived at are unquestionably justifiable and as accurate as the nature of the subject will permit.” William E. Dodd.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 700. Ap. ‘05. 450w. | |
| R. of Rs. 30: 756. D. ‘04. 140w. |
Eckman, George P. Young man with a program, and other sermons to young men. [*]50c. Meth. bk.
The purpose of these sermons is to offer practical reasons to young men for yielding themselves to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. They treat of the young man and his capital, the young man in his house, at his work, the young man with ambition, the young man and his meditation, and his opportunities, and finally the young man and the supreme passion.
Edgington, T. B. Monroe doctrine. $3. Little.
The author, an attorney of over forty years’ practice at the bar of Memphis, Tenn., has brought to his task a long professional experience and an extended study of original sources of information. Altho new material abounds in this presentation of the Monroe doctrine,—including the treaty establishing the Hague tribunal, the Venezuelan boundary case, the settlement of the European claims against Venezuela, and the Panama canal treaty and concession, “its origin, its history, and its application to various exigencies are in this book described with no little narrative skill, with clearness, and with judicial spirit.” (Outlook).
“The book contains errors of fact as well as of judgment. The most serious imperfections are due to a lack of experience in handling sources, especially a lack of acquaintance with public documents. Notwithstanding grave defects the book is interestingly written and suggestive.” John H. Latané.
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 601. My. ‘05. 370w. |
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
| Atlan. 95: 553. Ap. ‘05. 360w. |
“Mr. Edgington preserves a calm and historical spirit in all his comments on the interesting subjects of which he treats, and the argumentation in which he not infrequently indulges is that of a candid jurisconsult rather than that of a partisan.” James Oscar Pierce.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 122. F. 16, ‘05. 1190w. |
Edmunds, Albert Joseph. Buddhist and Christian gospels: being Gospel parallels from Pali texts. [*]$1.50. Open ct.
The third edition, complete, and edited with notes by Prof. Anesaki of the imperial University of Tokio. The editor “holds to the independence of the fundamental documents of the Buddhist and the Christian scriptures. He only raises the question whether the Gospel of Luke, ‘in certain traits extraneous to the synoptical narrative,’ is indebted to a Buddhist source. This question he submits to the reader who compares the parallel texts here presented. Much more than merely such parallels are presented; pretty nearly every book of the New Testament supplies matter for a comparison with the Buddhist scriptures, which even the amateur in such studies will find interesting. The New Testament suffers nothing in the comparison.” (Outlook.)
“As a contribution to the study of comparative religion from a Japanese scholar, this volume has a peculiar interest as well as a positive value for the student.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 160w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 512. O. ‘05. 90w. |
Edwards, Amelia Blandford. Untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys: a midsummer ramble in the Dolomites. $2.50. Dutton.
In this third edition the text is the same as that of the first edition of 1873, but the footnotes and other explanatory matter that appeared in the second edition of the book have been included in the present volume. The district here described is in that part of the Southeastern Tyrol lying between Botzen, Brunecken, Innichen and Belluno; within this space are the limestone Dolomite mountains. There are numerous illustrations in half-tone.
“Now as twenty-five years ago, the indispensable work is Miss Edwards’ ‘Untrodden peaks.’”
| + + | Nation. 80: 529. Je. 29, ‘05. 480w. |
“A pleasant volume of travel and guidebook information.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 340w. |
“A new and welcome edition of a thoroughly readable book of travels.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 80w. |
Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham-. Home life in France. [*]$2.50. McClurg.
Miss Betham-Edwards’ first hand knowledge of French family and school life has been the outgrowth of years of service as an officer of public instruction. This insight tempers her treatment with sympathy and enthusiasm. She describes every phase of life from the home-keeping which is “the glorification of simplicity,” to the city keeping which is presided over by “indefatigable workers to whom fireside joys and intellectual pleasure are especially dear, and to whom self-abnegation ... becomes a second nature.”
“It is brightly written, and full of entertaining little personal reminiscences of the kind which do more to explain France to the average English mind than pages of psychological studies appealing only to the cultivated few.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 561. My. 27, ‘05. 1360w. |
[*] “Writes with knowledge on a subject she may be said to have made her own, and what is more, she writes sympathetically.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 310w. |
[*] “The point of view is impartial, but friendly, and both knowledge of the subject and charm of style characterize the book.”
| + | Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “Miss Betham-Edwards discourses with intelligent vivacity and good humor, lightening our darkness, gently removing the prejudice born of ignorance, and steadily building up the respect that rests on knowledge.” Josiah Renick Smith.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 300. N. 16, ‘05. 1180w. |
“The value of a book which is in the main not less valuable than interesting is somewhat impaired by this persistent ignoring of the seamy side of life.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 570w. |
[*] “She has succeeded on the whole, in writing a very entertaining book full of detailed information, with statistics that here and there need slight correction.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 491. D. 14, ‘05. 1010w. |
“An extremely interesting, and in many ways valuable, book.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 1000w. |
“The book is an excellent one for the intending sojourner in France, and it will, of course, interest those who have sojourned in that country.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “A description of French domestic life and conditions which is written with sympathy and enthusiasm.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 636. N. ‘05. 50w. |
“Miss Betham-Edwards selects matter which on the whole may be intended more for women than for men, but the latter will not enjoy it the less on that account.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “There are also here and there signs of hurry and awkwardness in the style. All this could easily be put right in another edition, which the book, if only for the valuable amount of detail it contains, certainly ought to reach.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 259. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1570w. |
Edwards, William Seymour. [Into the Yukon.] [**]$1.50. Clarke, R.
In a series of papers which were originally home letters, the author tells of the travels of himself and wife thru the Canadian northwest, the gulfs and fjords of the North Pacific, the valley of the upper Yukon, the golden Klondike, and some parts of California and the Middle west. The book gives an apparently unbiased view of conditions on the Canadian Yukon in the summer of 1903. It is profusely illustrated with snap shot photographs.
“If it says nothing new, at least says it brightly and interestingly.” Wallace Rice.
| + | Dial. 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 100w. |
“Mr. Edwards seems to be a clear-sighted observer, and his narration is straightforward and unpretentious. He appears to possess the knack of gathering and summarizing popular opinion without the exaggeration or superficiality usually characteristic of hasty news-gatherers. The most interesting portion of the book is naturally that relating to the Klondike region.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 141. F. 16, ‘05. 920w. |
“A readable narrative.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 255. F. ‘05. 70w. |
Eggleston, George Gary. Daughter of the South. [†]$1.50. Lothrop.
A war’s-end romance which follows the adventurous career of the Commodore of a cotton-buying fleet. While braving great danger for the sake of great profit he encounters the heroine in distress and carries her northward on one of his boats to love and to safety.
“His art must be described as crude. Nevertheless, he tells a story of some interest, and keeps fairly in touch with reality.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 160w. |
“‘Decent under difficulties’ should be the title of this last story.”
| — | Ind. 59: 987. O. 26, ‘05. 60w. |
“Exactly like all the rest of his novels.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 557. Ag. 26, ‘05. 290w. |
“Altogether, while not by any means a great book, this story is agreeable reading.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 130w. |
Eggleston, George Gary. Our first century. [**]$1.20. Barnes.
“The design of this book ... is ... to present in a connected and picturesque narrative those facts of American history during the seventeenth century which were characteristic as to life and manners and customs. The book has the story element in a marked degree. It is liberally illustrated.”—Outlook.
| + + | Dial. 39: 91. Ag. 16, ‘05. 390w. | |
| * | + + | Ind. 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 40w. |
“After reading this lively little narrative one can without hesitation commend it to those who find the ordinary one-volume histories dry and meagre, and who have not the time or inclination to consult the larger works.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 280w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 797. D. 16, ‘05. 90w. |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 140w. |
Eggleston, George Gary. Rebel’s recollections. [*]$1. Putnam.
A fourth edition of a book first published in 1874, with an additional article upon “The old regime in the Old Dominion.” It contains much that is interesting, and gives a good idea of the Confederate soldier, and the Confederate commissary, also civil administration.
| + | Ind. 58: 1312. Je. 8, ‘05. 100w. |
“The book contains in a very readable form a deal of information about the Confederacy, which Mr. Eggleston had first hand. Mr. Eggleston overemphasizes certain features, but there is a certain advantage in that, for they are just the features which other writers have been apt to ignore.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w. |
“The book still outranks in interest almost all other reminiscences of the Civil war.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w. |
Eldridge, George Dyre. Milibank case. [†]$1.50. Holt.
A detective story whose scene is laid in Maine near the Canadian border. The plot centers about the murder of a young lawyer, supposedly without enemies, and involves prominent state politicians. The tangle undertaken by two detectives contains at its close a surprise for detective and reader alike.
“The story is fluently told, and is not ungenial as murders go.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 200w. |
“Is only a fair example of the art.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w. |
Eliot, Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe. East African protectorate. $5. Longmans.
“Up to the time of his recent resignation, the author had been commissioner for the British government in the protectorate. He describes the country, its peoples, gives its history, and discusses its prospects as a field for European colonization; he also describes the present system of administration in the protectorate, and writes about the Uganda railway, trade, slavery, missions, a trip down the Nile, animals, etc. The volume is illustrated, and contains several maps.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book gives a great deal of minute and not always interesting geographic information, but it was written by neither a geographer nor an economist, and often produces a sense of vagueness by omitting factors essential to an understanding of the country in its relation to human welfare. Other parts of the book are interesting, and the sociologist might find some useful information in the accounts of the native races.”
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 589. S. ‘05. 170w. |
“Sir Charles Eliot has here provided a much more compact and, within its limits, comprehensive handbook on the subject than was previously available.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 363. Mr. 25. 1260w. |
“... Throughout makes the book a most readable one, even to those who have no intention of being lured to it by the glowing pictures he paints.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1790w. |
“Nothing could exceed the interest, the deep research and the knowledge shown in the present work.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 99: 808. Je. 17, ‘05. 1600w. |
“One of the best of recent travel books on a subject which is growing daily in interest and importance. The book is an encyclopedia of information, but the reader is never bewildered among the details, and the main problems of the future are lucidly and undogmatically discussed. The style is simple and colloquial, but it is never slipshod.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 552. Ap. 15, ‘05. 2030w. |
Eliot, Charles William. Happy life. 75c. Crowell.
A new edition of this forceful, kindly book by the President of Harvard university. Under the headings: The moral purpose of the universe; Lower and higher pleasures; Family love; Pleasure in bodily exertion; The pleasure of reading; Mutual service and co-operation; The selection of beliefs; and The conflict with evil, he shows how to “cultivate the physical mental, and moral faculties through which the natural joys are won.”
[*] “The material is abundantly worth preserving in its new form.”
| + | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “The points are concrete and practical, and the style is very simple, with a ring of nobility and sincerity about it that is worth more than many epigrams.”
| + | Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 150w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 20w. |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 37: 732. D. 2, ‘05. 80w. |
Eliot, George. [Adam Bede.] $1.25. Crowell.
This volume of “Adam Bede” is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.” It takes up little space on the library shelf, and its flexible cover and thin paper make it specially desirable for a pocket edition.
Eliot, George. [Romola.] $1.25. Crowell.
“Romola” in this edition is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”
Eliot, John. Logick primer. [*]$6. Burrows.
“A reprint of John Eliot’s ‘Logic primer’ of 1672. The ‘Primer’ is an interlinear translation of the Indian text and the reprint is made from a photographic reproduction of the entire book (40 leaves) made in 1889 at the expense of the late James C. Pilling.”—Am. Hist. R.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 716. Ap. ‘05. 50w. |
Elkin, William Baird. Hume: the relation of the Treatise of human nature, bk. I, to the Inquiry concerning human understanding. [*]$1.50. Macmillan.
“As a stepping-stone in philosophy from the old to the new, Hume still furnishes staple material to the student. Dr. Elkin here undertakes to make clear the exact ground held by him in his principal philosophical works, the ‘Treatise on human nature’ and the ‘Inquiry concerning the principles of morals.’”—Outlook.
| + + — | Nation. 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 410w. | |
| Outlook. 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 120w. |
“Taken all together, the book is a scholarly, clear-headed, thorough piece of work, straightforward in expression and substantially convincing in the large.” A. K. Rogers.
| + + + | Philos. R. 14: 615. S. ‘05. 1260w. |
Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott.) Two in Italy. [*]$2. Little.
Italian studies and sketches, so chatty in form as to be largely in dialog, which give glimpses of Italian life and character under the chapter headings: Anacrap; The inn of Paradise; Buona Fortuna; The Castello; Savonarola Finnerty; In old Poland; and, The hermit of Pietro Anzieri. There are six full page illustrations from drawings by John Elliott.
[*] “Mrs. Elliott knows Italy better than most Americans, and she knows how to write.”
| + | Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “Readers of ‘Roma beata’ will enjoy this second volume, which, though of slightly different type, is equally permeated by Mrs. Elliott’s individual and entertaining point of view.”
| + | Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 130w. |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 100w. |
Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Deerfoot in the forest. [†]$1. Winston.
This is the first of a new series of Indian stories which continues the adventures of the author’s famous character Deerfoot, the Shewanoe. The time and incidents depicted are those of the Lewis and Clark expeditions. The plot of “Deerfoot in the forest” centers about the rescue of two boys by Deerfoot, and the thrilling adventures attending their return to safe territory.
“All Mr. Ellis’ tales, like those of Castlemon, Oliver Optic and other writers of this class, are replete with interest, action and excitement, and the present volume ... is fully up to the standard set by Mr. Ellis in his popular series of tales that have preceded the present books.”
| + | Arena. 34: 557. N. ‘05. 570w. |
[*] Ellis, Edward Sylvester. [Deerfoot in the mountains.] [†]$1. Winston.
This third and last volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” takes the Indian guide and his two boy companions in a whirl of adventure from the Pacific ocean to their home in Ohio. The recapture of Deerfoot’s wonderful stallion, Whirlwind, a single handed encounter with five ferocious braves, and a hair breadth escape in a raging mountain torrent, are among the incidents which will recommend this story to all boy readers.
[*] Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Deerfoot on the prairies [†]$1. Winston.
In this second volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” the popular Indian hunter accompanied by his two boy friends and his Blackfoot guide makes the dangerous journey from the Ohio to the mouth of the Columbia river successfully, altho the hostile Indians, wild horses, grizzly bears, and other dangers of one hundred years ago beset their path and create many strange adventures for them.
Elton, Charles Isaac. William Shakespeare, his family and friends; ed. by A. H. Thompson. [*]$4. Dutton.
A series of papers, disconnected and sometimes unfinished, which would doubtless have been expanded into an exhaustive work had the author lived, have been collected by and published by Mr. Thompson, with a memoir written of the author by Mr. Andrew Lang. There are chapters on Shakespeare’s early life, on Stratford and London in Shakespeare’s time; on his family and descendants; on the history of Blackfriars’ theatre, and many other subjects of both interest and value. There is a complete and accurate index, which renders this work, with its wealth of facts, of great value to the student.
“Indeed, so much material is furnished, and the learned antiquary ranges so very far afield, that the drift of his argument is not seldom obscured. The book abounds in the best kind of biographical material. It is a work of the very greatest value to the student of Shakespeare.” Charles H. A. Wager.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 194. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1600w. |
“This work is a large and scholarly one, with perhaps more of detail about the great poet’s life and surroundings than would be essential to such an idea of the man himself as is given by Mr. Mabie in his picture. Mr. Elton’s volume, however, will be welcomed by scholars.”
| + | R. of Rs. 30: 758. D. ‘04. 80w. |
Ely, Helena Rutherford. Another hardy garden book. $1.75. Macmillan.
A book which is not intended to be a treatise upon any of the subjects referred to, or to take the place of other books upon gardening. It is, the author states in the preface, “a brief statement of simple methods of conducting gardening operations, particularly in the small home garden,” and it contains the result of the author’s own experiences in raising vegetables, fruits and flowers. There are chapters on the vegetable garden, fruits, trees—deciduous and evergreen, perennials and other flowers, a garden of lilies and iris, autumn work in the flower garden, and the flower garden in spring. There are many half-tone illustrations from photographs of flowers, trees and gardens, taken at various seasons of the year.
“The new book is wider in its scope than its predecessor.”
| + | Country Calendar. 1: 9g. My. ‘05. 100w. | |
| + + | Critic. 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 120w. |
“Her books are far from being sentimental, but are infused with a very vigorous personality, and with occasional touches of humor that prove she is not taking herself too seriously.” Edith Granger.
| + | Dial. 38: 381. Je. 1, ‘05. 370w. |
“The charm of the book rests in the reader’s companionship with an intelligent, agreeable woman, who loves her garden.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1254. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
“The author of this work places before us her quiet statements in an unobtrusive and instructive manner, and, here and there, gives touches to her sketch which makes the book more than usually readable.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 338. Ap. 27, ‘05. 620w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 160w. | ||
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
“It seems a quite practical book for the amateur gardener.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 50w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 90w. |
Ely, Richard T., ed. See Adams. T. S. and Sumner, Helen L. Labor problems.
Ely, Richard Theodore. Labor movement in America. [*]$1.25. Macmillan.
A new and enlarged edition of a standard authority first issued nearly twenty years ago.
[*] “At present we have no book that could be a satisfactory substitute for Professor Ely’s volume.” A. W. S.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 11: 431. N. ‘05. 50w. | |
| Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 589. S. ‘05. 50w. | ||
| Dial. 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 30w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 520w. | ||
| Outlook. 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 50w. | ||
| Yale R. 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 120w. |
Emch, Arnold. Introduction to projective geometry and its applications: an analytic and synthetic treatment. $2.50. Wiley.
“The first chapter derives the usual theorems of projective ranges and pencils, perspective and involution by means of the anharmonic ratio.... The second chapter deals with collineation.” There is “a chapter on the theory of conics.... The next chapter discusses the conics which pass through four fixed points; ... the cubic curve, defined by a pencil of conics and a projective pencil of lines, is treated at some length.... The fifth chapter, of over forty pages, is devoted to applications to mechanics.”—Engin. N.
“A knowledge of trigonometry and plane analytical geometry is all that is required to understand the book, which is clearly and carefully written.” Virgil Snyder.
| Engin. N. 53: 183. F. 16, ‘05. 370w. |
“The author is a very clever draughtsman, and his skill as a writer is equally pronounced.”
| + + + | Nature. 72: 77. My. 25, ‘05. 210w. |
“The exposition of the interesting connection between collineations and the surprisingly beautiful doctrine of linkages deserves special mention, as do also the clearness, directness and swiftness of style in which the book is written.” Cassius J. Keyser.
| + + + | Science. n.s. 22: 114. Jl. 26, ‘05. 290w. |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Works. 12 vol. ea. $1.75. Houghton.
Edward Waldo Emerson has carefully edited this twelve volume centenary edition of his father’s works, culling some valuable new material from the author’s note books, “his savings-bank,” he called them. The three volumes recently added to complete the twelve are, “Lectures and biographical sketches,” “Miscellanies,” and “Natural history of intellect and other papers.” “The last of them is provided with an elaborate general index to the entire edition. No less than five papers in this closing volume are now printed for the first time. The editing of these volumes, done by the pious hands of Mr. Edward Waldo Emerson, offers a shining example of what such editorial work should be, and makes the present form of the writings far more desirable than any of the earlier ones.” (Dial).
“The present edition, in its Notes by Dr. Emerson, contains the first complete commentary on the author’s writings.”
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| Dial. 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 120w. |
“Is manifestly the definitive edition, since it is the most comprehensive and perfect in matter and form.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 40. Ja. 5, ‘05. 780w. |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Emerson calendar; ed. by Huntington Smith. [**]50c. Crowell.
Suggestions for each day of the year taken from Emerson’s works. By giving cullings which show clear perception of life and its obligations, the editor hopes to render an aid along the line of simpler living.
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English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson. [*]$1.25. Holt.
The chief purpose of this book is to cultivate a liking for good English prose in the college student who is taking introductory work in literature. The material chosen is therefore interesting in thought and style and the selections are complete in themselves even when entire chapters or essays are not given. Essays by Bacon, Milton, Swift, Addison, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle, Macaulay, Ruskin, Newman, Stevenson and others are included, and the volume is fully annotated for class use.
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| * | + | Outlook. 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 60w. |
Erasmus, Desiderius (surnamed Roterdamus). Epistles of Erasmus, arranged in order of time: English translations from the early correspondence, with a commentary confirming the chronological arrangement and supplying further biographical matter, by Francis Morgan Nichols. 2v. ea. [*]$6. Longmans.
“The first volume published in 1901, contained a selection of the letters of Erasmus up to the date of his receipt in Rome of the news of the death of King Henry VII of England (April 21, 1509).... The second volume carries the extant correspondence of Erasmus to the year 1517, when he took up his residence at Louvain. Many of the later letters are not those of Erasmus himself but were written by his correspondents.”—N. Y. Times.
“On the whole this volume fairly maintains the interest roused by the first and must be regarded as a highly important contribution to the whole subject of the new learning.” E. E.
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“These minor writings of the great humanist are chiefly valuable for the light which they shed upon his intensely interesting career. They are strongly marked with the well-known Erasmian characteristics, an easy elegance, a classical spirit, a strong tendency to flattery, a decided turn for quiet irony, and an impulse to break out once in a while into sarcastic flings at religious orders and the Roman Curia.”
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“The same qualities of careful rendering and intelligent conjecture mark the work of this as of the first volume, and the same little formalities and tricks of usage occur here as there. It offers an indispensable starting-point for every future study of the great humanist.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 39. Ja. 12, ‘05. 570w. (Review of Vol. II.) |
“The appendices contain many hitherto inaccessible documents of value to the student of the Reformation epoch.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 160w. |
Erskine, Mrs. Steuart. London as an art city. [*]$1. Scribner.
In her little monograph Mrs. Erskine “shows why London is a field for her artistic study on account of its wonderful architecture and wonderful art collections; a literary center with a past as the home of such writers as Dickens, Thackeray ... Goldsmith ... and others, and the home of present workers in art—George Frampton, T. Brock, A. Gilbert, and other sculptors; while among the painters are Sir Edward Poynter, Luke Fildes, John S. Sargent, and a number of others. The volume is fully illustrated with half-tone pictures of buildings, reproductions of well-known paintings, &c.” (N. Y. Times).
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| Nation. 80: 33. Ja. 12, ‘05. 310w. | ||
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Esty, William. Alternating current machinery. $6. American school of correspondence at Armour institute of technology, Chicago.
“The author of the present volume declares that it has been prepared with the special object of giving the beginner, and the so-called practical electrician, a working knowledge of alternating current apparatus, so that he may know how to install and operate it intelligently.... The book is divided into nine different headings, and treats of the alternator, commercial types of alternators, synchronous motor, switchboard and station appliances, special switchboard apparatus, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by David B. Rushmore.
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 637. Je. 15, ‘05. 590w. |
Evans, Henry Ridgely. Napoleon myth. bds. [*]75c. Open ct.
The Napoleonic myths in both literature and art the author measures according to historical fact. The book also contains an introduction by Dr. Paul Carus and a reprint of “The grand erratum” by Jean Baptiste Peres. “The whole is a summary of the results of ‘higher criticism’ as applied to the Napoleon of the popular imagination.” (R. of Rs.)
[*] “The author does little or nothing to emphasize the difference between fact and legend, or point out the means of distinguishing between the two spheres.”
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Everett, William. Italian poets since Dante. $1.50. Scribner.
The author has converted his lectures, delivered in the famous Lowell course in Boston, into book form with slight revision. His aim is “to show that Italy from the ‘trecento’ down to the end of the eighteenth century gave forth a literature which is great without the contributions of Dante, but which is often neglected and thought of lightly owing to the transcendent genius of that one man. Petrarca, Pulci, Boiardo, Berni, Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, Tasso, Marino, and the dramatists Goldoni and Alfieri are among the writers concerning whom Dr. Everett discourses with fine academic appreciation and a charming disregard of modern criticism.” (N. Y. Times).
“His attitude towards his subjects is sympathetic, his appreciation is sincere, his criticisms are just and moderate. It is therefore all the more regrettable that he should have allowed his work to stand disfigured by so many slip-shod, loosely constructed and even absolutely ungrammatical sentences.”
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| + + — | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 379. Ap. ‘05. 260w. |
“Dr. Everett’s survey, indeed, embraces only about a dozen names, and treats those for the most part rather sketchily.”
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| + + | Critic. 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 60w. |
“The work is luminous and vivid in style, and a delight to the instinct of every lover of literature. Eloquent panegyric upon Milton, and many another purple patch revealed in these pages. From the point of view of the scholar, little exception is to be taken to this work. To say that the book is readable is to do it much less than justice.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 49. Ja. 16, ‘05. 700w. |
“A carelessness in the use of language which is often slovenly and sometimes ungrammatical. The most vexatious quality of the book, however, is due to Dr. Everett’s scorn of all methods and opinions save his own. We admit that his views are sometimes refreshingly independent. But his egoism, which is piquant when it wanders away from his subject, is disastrous when he attempts a serious comparison of the Italian poets. Dr. Everett’s short biographies of the poets are generally interesting and clever. His criticisms are erratic, but the copious extracts from Italian poetry with which he illustrates them are very valuable to the general reader.”
| + — — | Ind. 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 450w. |
“His textual illustrations show him to be not only a translator in the finest sense, but also a poet of broad and subtle imagination and of a most delicate harmonic sensibility. The torch of classical effulgence dropped from the hand of Ticknor, of Longfellow, and of Lowell, he has caught up and illuminates anew what once passed for history. On one point, however, we think the doctor might have made a concession to the moderns as a gentle hint for his own permanency. He might have furnished an index. He is also cruel to kill off the poet Carducci, who at this writing is very much alive.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w. |
“Mr. Everett’s sketches of their lives and works seem adequate and the translations, some of which are original, are vigorous. The author would have improved his work if he had pruned the rhetoric, more suitable for lectures than essays.”
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“He is generally just. We do not much like the fun that he makes of the romances. It is somewhat cheap.”
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[*] Eytinge, Rose. Memories of Rose Eytinge. [**]80c; [**]$1.20. Stokes.
Into her own autobiography Rose Eytinge has introduced a wealth of sidelight information on the American drama of the past fifty years. She was an associate and personal friend of Edwin Booth, J. W. and Lester Wallack, E. L. Davenport and Augustin Daly, and her observations are all from the vantage point of first hand knowledge.