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Ihlseng, Magnus C., and Wilson. Eugene Benjamin. Manual of mining. [*]$5. Wiley.
“Based on the course of lectures delivered at the school of mines of Colorado, Prof. Ihlseng’s book, which is regarded in America as the best text-book on the subject, has been enlarged under the joint authorship of Mr. Wilson to include coal mining.... The book is divided into two parts, mining engineering and practical mining. The former deals with prospecting, preparatory work, methods of mining, power generation, hoisting machinery, electric generation and water power ... underground haulage systems, ... pumping, mine gases, ventilation, ... and accidents in mines. The second part deals with shafts, ... tunnels and gangways, drilling and boring machines for explorations, miner’s tools, channelers, drills and coal-cutters, and blasting.”—Nature.
“The book has no American competitor, and it is superior to any other book in the English language covering the same broad field.”
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 293. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1060w. |
“The book contains much useful information, but the lack of method in the arrangement cannot fail to militate against its use as a textbook.”
| + + — | Nature. 72: 53. My. 18, ‘05. 360w. |
[Indian stories retold from St. Nicholas.] 65c. Century.
The best of the stories of Indian life and legend contributed to St. Nicholas by well-known travelers and writers have been collected here for “out of hours” reading for young children. The book is the first of a series of historical stories, now in preparation, which in order will include “Colonial stories,” “Revolutionary stories,” “Civil war stories,” and “Our national holidays.”
“Capital tales of Indian legend and adventure.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 7w. |
Inge, William Ralph. Faith and knowledge. [*]$1.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Inge’s sermons are chiefly doctrinal.... The subject most frequently recurring is the dependence of faith upon knowledge, the author opposing the Ritschlian view that faith is independent and master in her own sphere.”—Ind.
“A series of well-written sermons of rather more than ordinary power.”
| + + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 400. Ap. ‘05. 70w. |
“They disappoint the reader by an absence of intellectual virility and ‘grip,’ and a certain passionate enthusiasm which sweeps the interest of the reader into its current.” F. E. Dewhurst.
| + — | Bib. World. 26: 74. Jl. ‘05. 490w. | |
| Ind. 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 70w. |
“These sermons are thoughtful, scholarly, finely spiritual. I should not think of calling them great or powerful. But they are good—at times quite suggestive, though in places tolerably commonplace. The author is not merely preacher and rhetorician but, one is pleased to find, a capable spiritual thinker. The style is always clear and good.” James Lindsay.
| + + — | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 385. Ap. ‘05. 1220w. |
Ingersoll, Ernest. Island in the air. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
Fifty years ago some plucky resourceful young people were cut off from their elders, as they all travelled westward to found a new home, by a landslide which held them fast upon a bit of table land, an island in a sea of air. The story tells of their adventures with Indians and wild animals and their final escape. There is also much information upon archaeology, geology, and the use of drugs.
“Exactly the sort of narrative to please adventurous boys and girls.”
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| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 768. D. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Innes, Arthur Donald. [England under the Tudors.] [*]$3. Putnam.
“‘England under the Tudors’ ... is the fourth (the second in order of publication) of Professor Oman’s ‘History of England’ in six volumes, and is, therefore, a companion volume to Mr. Trevelyan’s ‘England under the Stuarts.’ ... Mr. Innes ... has produced a competent book on this troubled epoch.”—Lond. Times.
[*] “Mr. Innes has carefully interpreted each reign in the light of these views and they give to his narrative a consistency and unity which will make his book especially valuable to the younger student and to the general reader, to whom it is more particularly intended to appeal.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 419. D. 1, ‘05. 660w. |
[*] “Mr. Innes’s work has not the brilliance of Mr. Trevelyan’s installment, but it is thoroughly adequate for its purpose, and shows even greater signs of sound judgment. If it is not so readable, it is perhaps more trustworthy. It is this sane judgment which characterizes Mr. Innes’s treatment of difficult and disputed questions, and makes his book so valuable an introduction to the study of the whole period. If the other volumes of the series are executed as well as the two already at hand, the reading public will at last have an adequate history of England.” Joseph Jacobs.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 869 D. 9, ‘05. 1550w. |
International catalogue of scientific literature: First annual issue. N-Zoology. pt. 1, Author catalog: pt. 2, Subject catalog, ea. [*]$8.40. imp. Blakiston.
“The work is planned to include the zoölogical literature for the year 1901, altho one is compelled to analyze the preface in order to determine the period covered since no record of its extent appears on title page of either part.... Part I. contains the general explanations, with the scheme of classification and an index thereto in English; and this matter is repeated in French, German and Italian. Following these, the author catalog fills 260 pages and lists 5,918 titles. Part II., which is about three times as voluminous, contains at the close a list of journals with abbreviated titles and the topographical classification. More than 1100 pages are filled with the subject references proper. The addition to each phylum of a list of names of new genera and species will commend itself to all as a most desirable feature.”—Science.
“With respect to promptness, completeness and accuracy the results are distinctly inferior to those already achieved for zoölogy by several bibliographic agencies.” Henry B. Ward.
| + — | Science, n. s. 21: 147. Ja. 27, ‘05. 1380w. |
Ireland, Alleyne. Far Eastern tropics: studies in the administration of tropical dependencies. [**]$2. Houghton.
The author spent many months in the Far East in the service of the University of Chicago, and the present volume contains carefully collected data and studies of the governments and commercial conditions of the tropical dependencies of Great Britain, Holland, France, and the United States, also a new map of southeastern Asia prepared by Mr. Ireland, himself, and an appendix containing statistics.
“We should like to recommend it as a very able study in comparative colonization in the tropics.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 719. Jl. 8, ‘05. 170w. | |
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 937. Jl. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “It is for the most part clearly written in an interesting style, it gives just the facts which an American might wish to know, and its conclusions are given with an impartiality, honesty and forcefulness which must carry the greatest weight in the minds of the unprejudiced.” James T. Young.
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 755. N. ‘05. 860w. |
“He is courageous in his outspoken comment upon all that he finds wrong.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 718. Je. 10. 740w. |
“Mr. Ireland has wit and vision, and in his style are clearness and force. He has made a difficult subject interesting.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
| + + + | Critic. 47: 265. S. ‘05. 220w. |
“There is every evidence of careful and painstaking study; and the book has the unusual merit of being on the whole, definite and precise in its statements.” H. Parker Willis.
| + + | Dial. 39: 36. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1660w. | |
| + — | Ind, 58: 1363. Je. 15, ‘05. 770w. |
“It stands out from a copious literature as a valuable contribution to the study of comparative colonization.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 230. Jl. 21, ‘05. 1300w. |
“Mr. Ireland is an effective writer, clear, vigorous, and direct, putting his points in a broad way. Mr. Ireland strikes us as being rather too sweeping in his views, and rather too confidently positive in his expression of them.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 2950w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 221. Ap. 8, ‘05. 200w. |
“Altogether, it is the most satisfactory work on tropical dependencies that has yet been published, and is indispensable both because of its first-hand information and its acute suggestions.” Stanhope Sams.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 512. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2020w. |
“It is safe to say that nowhere else can be found so many facts, or facts so clearly stated, about the particular places and problems concerned as are gathered in this book.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w. |
“On the whole it is a well-considered work.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 510w. |
“Sound knowledge and deep care disclosed.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 407. S. 23, ‘05. 890w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 945. Je. 24, ‘05. 1650w. |
Irving, Edward. How to know the starry heavens: an invitation to the study of suns and worlds. [**]$2. Stokes.
“An introduction to the study of astronomy, written, not as a text-book, but with the intention of arousing the reader’s interest in this great subject, and stimulating him to the study of text-books.”—Outlook.
“On the whole, the book may be characterized as a fresh, up-to-date, and stimulating series of short essays on the worlds that people space.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 274. Ap. 16, ‘05. 320w. |
“The diction, moreover, is simple and direct. In all respects it is a book admirably adapted for the average reader.”
| + + | Ind. 38: 1421. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w. |
“The wonders of the universe are described in a fascinating way.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 143. Ja. 14, ‘05. 50w. |
Irving, Washington. Selected works. $2.50. Crowell.
Five tiny volumes each measuring about two inches by an inch and a half include selections from “Tales of a traveller,” “Christmas sketches,” “The Alhambra,” “The sketch book,” and “Bracebridge hall” respectively. The books are perfect little models in thin paper, clear type and limp leather binding.
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| * | + + | Ind. 59: 1380. D. 14, ‘05. 80w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 80w. |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 752. D. ‘05. 60w. |
Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. [**]$5. Doubleday.
Mr. Arthur Rackman has made fifty paintings to illustrate this new edition of Rip Van Winkle, and they are all reproduced in full color. “Each of them is a marvel of his Dureresque detail, his grotesque elaborateness, and of the strange bizarre life which beats on every inch of his paper.... Half of the charm of the book lies in the quaintness and originality of the pictures of Rip’s life among ordinary mortals before and after his long sleep in the mountains—in the humour of the old burghers, the beautiful delicately-figured landscapes, the village scenes with their happy mixture of grace and humour.... The winning and tender beauty of his women and children would alone make this book an artistic treasure.” (Lond. Times.)
| * | + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 250w. |
“Among the Christmas books which will pour from the press during the next three months it will be hard to rival this delightful volume.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 340w. |
“The humor and the poetry of Irving are all in the pictures, without a hint of the theatrical quality.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 640. S. 30, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “It is difficult to understand for whose pleasure this latest edition of ‘Rip Van Winkle’ is designed. It cannot be taken seriously as an ‘art book,’ the drawings are not sufficiently good, while at the same time it is too sumptuous a production to put into the hands of an ordinary child.”
| — + | Sat. R. 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 170w. |
Irwin, Wallace Admah. At the sign of the dollar. $1. Fox.
In this cleverly slangy book of verses
“Statesman, lawyer, business man
Rob-as-rob-will or catch-as-catch-can,
At the jolly old sign of the Dollar.”
The topics are strictly American and up to date, and the verses in their own satirical way point a few morals. Niagara be damned, Frenzied finance, To the pure all food is pure, To an Indian skull, and Fall styles in faces, are fair samples.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 584. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “It is humorous, fresh and glib.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Isham, Samuel. History of American painting. [*]$5. Macmillan.
In this volume the development of art in this country is traced from its beginning and the conditions which influence it, the social aspects of art, and the personality of the artists are discussed. Much space is given to the lives of some of the earlier painters, the rise and development of the National academy of design is described, also early institutions now dead and forgotten. There are twelve full-page photogravures and 100 text illustrations.
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1375. D. 14, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “The book is interesting to read now, and should prove of great value in the future.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 530w. |
[*] “The truth is that Mr. Isham has written a book about New York painters with passive sympathy for tradition and convention and with some reference to the development of art in the whole country.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 760w. |