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Kasson, John A. Evolution of the constitution of the United States of America and history of the Monroe doctrine. [**]$1.50. Houghton.
An edition in a form convenient for the general reader of a work published in memorial volumes, at a high price, in 1887 for the Constitutional centennial commission. “Mr. Kasson gives a clear but condensed recital of the conditions preliminary to the original ‘Confederacy:’ a statement of the infirmities and ineffectiveness of the Articles of confederation; the recognition of the failure of those articles by the patriots of the revolution; the successive steps by which they sought the consent of the states to a general convention to provide a substitute government; and finally the manner in which they accomplished the organization of a nation.” (R. of Rs.)
Reviewed by C. L. Raper.
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 340. Mr. ‘05. 150w. |
“This ought to be a good handbook for beginners, but is not a lawbook, and does not cover the field occupied by such a book as Cooley’s well-known treatise.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 188. Ag. 31, ‘05. 900w. |
Reviewed by R. L. S.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 67. F. 4, ‘05. 530w.(States scope of book). | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 247. F. ‘05. 150w. (States scope of book). |
Katherine, pseud. See Stephens, Louise G.
Kaye, Percy Lewis. English colonial administration under Lord Clarendon, 1660-1667. 50c. Hopkins.
In his monograph, Dr. Kaye presents colonial administration under the following heads: The official colonial system, The Royal charters of Connecticut and Rhode Island, The founding of Carolina and the conquest of New Netherland, The Royal commissioners in New England and Results.
Keats, John. [Poems]; ed. with an introd. and notes by E. de Selincourt. $2.25. Dodd.
“Mr. de Selincourt has wisely left the significant irregularities of orthography as Keats left them; and he has grouped the poems in a logical and significant order, relegating to an appendix certain nonsense rhymes and doggerel ditties that have stood hitherto side by side with ‘La Belle sans merci’ and the ‘Ode to Malta.’ The text stands midway of an introduction and a body of notes that preserve an even-handed balance between ideal and textual criticism.”—Nation.
[*] “The prefatory study is the result of much original and painstaking research and the notes leave no clue to the sources of the poet’s ideas untouched.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 326. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1420w. |
“In the mean time we commend most heartily to the public his introduction and notes to this edition.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 534. O. 21. 3260w. |
[*] “It is safe to say that no one who has this new edition will feel the need of any other: to that extent at least it is definitive.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 150w. |
“Is likely to stand as the best edition of the poet for the critical student of poetry as a fine art.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 310w. |
“His industry is commonly attended with judgment. And so his effort ... has yet been a real success. It is complete if he has succeeded in producing the ‘definitive’ edition of Keats. And it seems that it has really done that.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 1140w. |
“The notes are so full as to class this volume with texts for the expert rather than for the ordinary reader.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 120w. |
Keen, William Williams. Addresses and other papers. [*]$3.75. Saunders.
The truth about modern surgery told by a master surgeon is of value both to the members of the medical profession and the general reader. Dr. Keen treats the historical and antiquarian aspects of practical anatomy, covers the ground of modern surgery, shows the position of the medical college to-day, its mission and needs, and closes with an address on “The surgical reminiscences of the Civil war.”
“The subjects are discussed in excellent English, and with exactness, though without the technical language.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 484. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1280w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w. |
“These papers are of interest chiefly to physicians and surgeons; but some of them are of value to readers outside of the medical profession.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w. |
Keith, Marian. [Duncan Polite, the watchman of Glenoro.] [†]$1.50. Revell.
Pathos and humor are skilfully blended in this story of a small Canadian town where English, Irish, High and Lowland Scotch are found. Duncan McDonald, called the polite to distinguish him from all the other McDonalds, is the hero of the tale which concerns the discord which a young and modern minister engenders in an old kirk, where he wins a youthful following in spite of the elders’ aversion to all new things.
“It is a fresh, clean story, likely to interest young people in spite of the prayerful tension in the atmosphere of the tale.”
| + | Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 60w. |
“Anyhow, it wad hae made a bonnie, wee short story.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 470w. |
Kellogg, Vernon. American insects. [**]$5. Holt.
“This volume aims to provide a general, systematic account of the principal insect families as they exist in America, written with the greatest regard for scientific accuracy and thoroughness, but in such a way as to interest the average intelligent reader. A chapter on ‘Insects and disease,’ giving an account of the researches which have determined beyond any question the part played by mosquitoes in the spread of malaria and yellow fever, is of special timeliness just now.”—Outlook.
“We have in this simple volume a whole library of insect lore, brought into convenient compass, abundantly illustrated and clearly printed.”
| + | Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 110w. |
“Readable and profusely illustrated, it gives a great amount of information about the insects of this country, in such a manner that it is available to any intelligent person. With all its merits, Prof. Kellogg’s book is a little too much of a compilation to be ideally satisfactory.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 164. S. 16, ‘05. 690w. |
“It seems that nothing needed to make this a complete guide to the study of our American insects has been omitted. The style of the book is in general popular and adapted to the average intelligent reader.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 340w. |
“In general, entomologists will agree with the schemes of classification.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 207. S. 7, ‘05. 690w. |
“Not only is an excellent reference book, but ... contains much interesting reading for any nature-lover.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 100w. |
“The minor defects noted detract little from its real value, and Professor Kellogg’s volume will be welcomed as one of the best general text-books on the subject covered.” C. L. Marlatt
| + + — | Science, n.s. 22: 563. N. 3, ‘05. 1160w. |
Kellor, Frances A. Out of work. [**]$1.25. Putnam.
“Miss Kellor’s previous studies of convict women and correctional institutions gave her an admirable preparation for the investigation of employment bureaus.” (Am. J. Soc.) Her researches have been carried on in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, with the result that her material is first hand. She discusses the employment agencies, their treatment of the unemployed, and their influence upon homes and business. The last chapter is devoted to state and municipal laws.
“No previous study has accumulated such a wealth of information on this vital problem. The author has very properly aimed to give a clear and adequate statement of the entire situation and has dealt out advice sparingly. Yet she has probably suggested about all the measures for betterment which give any promise of immediate usefulness.” C. R. Henderson.
| + + + | Am. J. Soc. 10: 558. Ja. ‘05. 110w. |
“The work is well done. This volume should command the attention of housekeepers and employers generally, as well as students, for it indicates that the reign of graft is not confined to political positions, and the corrupting influences of many agencies are clearly set forth.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 220w. |
“It is an admirable piece of work. The work thorough and well-planned; and the facts stated in an impartial and interesting manner; simple and entertaining as well as scientifically valuable.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
| + + | Critic. 46: 279. Mr. ‘05. 580w. |
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + + | Dial. 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w. |
“The volume is worthy of high praise and it should be widely read.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 99. Jl. 13, ‘05. 290w. |
Reviewed by S. P. B.
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 13: 295. Mr. ‘05. 530w. |
“An interesting study of employment agencies. The value of Miss Kellor’s book lies largely in the undoubted authenticity of the information on which it is based. The book should be read by all who are interested in reforming the abuses of employment agencies in American cities.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w. |
Kelly, Myra. [Little citizens.] [†]$1.50. McClure.
Miss Kelly’s narrative had to do with a “polyglot brood of future Americans,” children of the New York east side Jewish colony. She “shows us these little citizens at work and play in a New York school. Their parents are pedlars, seamstresses, and costermongers.... They are timid, ignorant, unwashed. But the children they send shrewdly and faithfully to school ... are enchanting. Of course they are naughty. Miss Kelly is at once too honest and too artistic to write stories about little saints.... But they are clever, affectionate, and teachable.... They speak an odd dialect that we take to be a graft of the Yiddish on American; and at school their ways are most humorous and entertaining.” (Acad.)
“Miss Myra Kelly’s ‘Little citizens’ are as strange to us as the countries of their birth, and their charm is partly the charm of novelty. She has presented them with originality and freshness and with a convincing sympathy.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 480w. | |
| + + | Critic. 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w. |
“For real insight into the child mind with its misconceptions and limitations, so hard for an adult to understand, these stories are only equalled by those of ‘Emmy Lou.’”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 502. Mr. 2, ‘05. 210w. |
“They pile up material for the future, and are in the present prodigiously amusing.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 260w. |
“In the representation of their terrible manners, their extraordinary dialect and their oriental warmth of heart, the author shows keen observation, delightful humor, and no mean order of creative talent. Miss Kelly’s book is amusing, and it is unconsciously, unintentionally, and therefore delightfully, instructive. The dialect is picturesquely and easily handled.”
| + + + | Reader. 5: 623. Ap. ‘05. 380w. |
“The volume may be highly recommended as containing sketches of an original and attractive kind.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 754. My. 20, ‘05. 150w. |
Kendrick, A. F. English embroidery. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
“A well-illustrated guide for students and collectors to the history of art embroidery in England from the middle ages down to the eighteenth century, with descriptions of the important examples of this work that have been preserved.”—Outlook.
“He writes, moreover, from a liberal and genuinely artistic standpoint, and is not carried away by a love of mere curiosity.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 760. Je. 17. 500w. |
“It is seldom that a book on a special subject is so interesting and readable throughout.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 60. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1350w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 300w. | ||
| Outlook. 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 40w. |
Kennedy, John Pendleton, ed. Journals of the house of burgesses of Virginia, 1773-1776. [*]$10. Putnam.
The publication of these documents by the Library board of Richmond will be welcomed by all students of this most interesting period in Virginia’s history. The editor has provided a valuable introduction containing numerous extracts from contemporary newspapers and unpublished “Broadsides.” The letters and minutes of the Colonial Committee of Correspondence are appended to the Journal of each year.
“The work of editing the volume has been ably done.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w. |
“A very satisfactory introduction.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 31: 585. O. 21, ‘05. 340w. |
“The editor, John Pendleton Kennedy, State Librarian, has performed his task with judgment, and the result is highly creditable to the state.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 144. Ag. 17, ‘05. 770w. |
Kennedy, Sidney Robinson. Lodestar. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
In their rambles thru the Connecticut hills, two friends, a novelist and a painter, meet a refined and well educated country girl, with whom they both fall in love. A great-hearted millionaire enters the story, and there are many amusing complications.
“One of the pleasantest of summer books.”
| + | Ind. 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w. |
“Something of a disappointment.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 680w. |
“Clever and readable novel.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 100w. |
Kent, Arminie Thomas. Otia; ed. by Harold Hodge. [**]$1.25. Lane.
Some thirty essays, and critical reviews reprinted from various magazines, and about twenty poems, serious, sentimental and satiric, which were written between 1881 and the author’s death in 1903.
“The book intrinsically strikes us as a failure.”
| — | Acad. 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 690w. |
“In treating a writer who pays such attention to the small points of style, and who incidentally sneers at ‘the shallower sort of American scholars,’ an American reviewer feels justified in pointing out minute defects.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 540w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w. |
“Among the essays, the best, we think, are those which deal with the technique of literature. Of the poems, we should place first the sonnet to the memory of Lord Beaconsfield, where the form leaves very little to be desired.”
| + | Spec. 94: 93. Ja. 21, ‘05. 70w. |
Kent, Charles Foster, ed. Israel’s historical and biographical narratives, from the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom to the end of the Maccabean struggle. [**]$2.75. Scribner.
“Professor Kent has undertaken the bold task of rearranging the writings of the Old Testament in their logical and chronological order. The aim is not merely to arrange the books, but to break them up into their component parts, and to indicate the sources from which they were originally drawn, presenting in a practical and intelligible form, the results of modern critical research. ‘The student’s Old Testament’ is to be divided into six volumes:—(1) ‘Narratives of the beginning of Hebrew history’; (2) ‘Historical and biographical narratives’; (3) ‘Prophetic sermons, epistles, and apocalypses’; (4) ‘Laws and traditional precedents,’ (5) ‘Songs, psalms, and prayers;’ (6) ‘Proverbs and didactic poems.’ The work is intended for general readers, not for specialists only.”—Lond. Times.
“Results of very various degrees of certainty are embodied in his volume. But his work will be invaluable to the student who uses it with discrimination.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1060w. |
“It is a credit to the university served by Professor Kent.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w. |
Kent, Charles Foster. Narratives of the beginnings of Hebrew history, from the creation to the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom. [**]$2.75. Scribner.
Impelled by the demands for a constructive presentation of the facts regarding the literature of the Old Testament, Professor Kent has undertaken a series of six volumes presenting successively the narrative of the beginnings of Hebrew history, historical and biographical narratives, prophetic sermons, epistles and apocalypses, laws and traditional precedents, songs, psalms, prayers, proverbs, and didactic poems; thus covering the entire Old Testament. This first volume, “The student’s Old Testament,” is a modern and scholarly translation, with a systematic, logical classification of the early narratives found in the books from Genesis to Ruth. Various versions of the ancient stories are presented side by side, so that they can be read like the gospels of the New Testament, in their original form.
“Its information is full and eminently trustworthy. In the notes the editor is careful not to be over-dogmatic.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 140. Jl. 29. 530w. |
“Its scholarly character, its conservative and constructive spirit, its admirable rendering of the text, its ample helps for proper interpretation, and its large promise of good things to come in the subsequent volumes, assures the reader that a most serviceable work has been added to the apparatus for biblical study.” H. L. W.
| + + | Bib. World. 25: 309. Ap. ‘05. 1020w. |
Ker, William Paton. Dark ages, [**]$1.50. Scribner.
“Professor Ker, of University college, London, presents, under special title of ‘The dark ages,’ the first volume of a series of ‘Periods of European literature,’ to be edited by Professor Saintsbury.... He begins with an attempt to define this much-abused term.... Chronologically he limits his period by the decline of Roman culture on the one hand and the year 1100 on the other.... In the second chapter, ‘The elements,’ we are given a general survey of the whole period.... The main body of the volume is then divided into two parts, treating respectively the ‘Latin authors,’ and ‘The Teutonic languages’; and a short final chapter on the literature of Ireland and Wales completes what is at best but a hasty survey of a vast field.”—Am. Hist. R.
“There are enough learned references here to challenge the literary expert at every turn. Indeed, we can hardly see how any one can understand this book to whom the things it deals with are not already perfectly familiar. To such a one it offers a somewhat confused résumé of matters he should know already. For the young student it is far too abstruse, and for the general reader it lacks the unity and concentration which alone can command his attention. Mr. Ker’s bane is fine writing; he has a certain sense of humor that now and then is useful, but it leads him into long ways around where directness and compactness are prime necessities.” E. E.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 628. Ap. ‘05. 410w. |
“By wise selection of his materials, lucid exposition, and occasional happy characterization, he maintains the interest even of those who are prepared to find the Dark ages pretty dull and unprofitable. Of actual error we think the work will be found to contain very little.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 382. My. 11, ‘05. 940w. |
Kerr, Robert Pollok. Blue flag: or, The Covenanters who contended for Christ’s crown and covenant. 75c. Presbyterian com.
The origin and history of the Covenanters is accurately and stirringly presented in this little book which is intended for class study in Sunday schools and young people’s societies. To this end a series of questions is given at the close of the volume.
[*] Kerst, Friedrich, comp. [Beethoven: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words]: tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. [*]$1. Huebsch.
Much of the material used for compiling this Beethoven handbook has been drawn from letters, reports of conversations, and diaries heretofore unavailable. The author has classified his cullings under appropriate chapter headings, and they serve to enlighten Beethoven lovers upon the great composer’s spiritual, philosophical and human observations.
[*] Kerst, Friedrich, comp. [Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words]; tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. [*]$1. Huebsch.
From material gleaned here and there, the author has pieced together “an autobiography of Mozart written without conscious purpose, and for that reason peculiarly winning, illuminating and convincing. The outward things in Mozart’s life are all but ignored in it, but there is a frank and full disclosure of the great musician’s artistic, intellectual and moral character, made in his own words.”
[*] Kester, Vaughan. Fortunes of the Landrays. [†]$1.50. McClure.
This story “begins and ends in an Ohio town, and is essentially a picture of life in that community; but the adventures of certain of its characters take us at times to the far West with the forty-niners—to Salt Lake City in the early days of Brigham Young, to the closing scenes of the Civil war, and to the prairies of Kansas. The story is one of three generations, not only of the Landrays, but of the other families with whose fortunes theirs are associated.”—Dial.
[*] “On the whole, a solid and capable story, with flashes of brilliancy.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “A novel whose interest, although complicated, is remarkably well sustained. Its faults of incoherency do not prevent it from being a fairly readable production.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
[*] “The chief merit of the story lies in its character drawing.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “This story is unsatisfactory. There is good work in it; but the general scheme is weak. Characterization is one of Mr. Kester’s strongest qualities.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 220w. |
Ketcham, Heber D. Certainty of the kingdom and other sermons. The Methodist pulpit. Second series, [*]50c. Meth. bk.
In the hope that the ways of God may be made more plain to his readers, the author offers these eight sermons entitled, The certainty of the kingdom, Our sonship, The will, the pivot of destiny. The unveiled vision, Paul, the preacher, and Life’s procession of the seasons.
Key, A. Cooper-. Primer of explosives, for the use of local inspectors and dealers. [*]35c. Macmillan.
“The author gives a short description of the manufacture of the chief explosives, but its great value will be found in the sections devoted to special risks with each class, the methods of storing and packing, and a particularly useful chapter on the general construction and management of a store, the destruction of explosives, etc. It is certain that a careful study of the book by local inspectors will lead to a better understanding of the whole question of explosives.... For those traders and users who have the handling of these goods after they have left the manufactory the book should be equally valuable.”—Nature.
| + + | Acad. 68: 962. S. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
“Is what such a handbook should be.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 369. S. 16. 250w. |
“This little book should prove to be of great value to those for whose benefit it has been mainly written.” J. S. S. B.
| + + | Nature. 72: 507. S. 21, ‘05. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 638. S. 30, ‘05. 220w. |
Khan,—(Hadji), and Sparroy, Wilfrid. With the pilgrims to Mecca, [*]$3.50. Lane.
An account of Mr. Khan’s journey to Mecca in 1902 as a special correspondent of the Morning Post. The author is a Mohammedan and speaks Arabic fluently. He tells of the various rites and ceremonies which must be performed by the pilgrims, and of their strange religious feasts and festivals. There are also chapters upon bazaars and social life in the holy city, the whole being enlivened by the original humor of the author’s guide. There is a closing chapter upon the slave market by Mr. Sparroy.
“A book which gives perhaps the most vivid and picturesque account of the great pilgrimage which has ever been written in English, compared with which the well known narratives of Burckhardt and Burton are dry, jejune and colourless. For vigour of style and picturesque treatment of Hadji Khan may be compared with the famous traveller, Palgrave, with the latter’s tendency to embroider the narrative at the expense of accuracy.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 329. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1240w. |
“A welcome book for our libraries.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 220w. |
“No portion of the book lacks interest for the curiously inclined, and it is admirably and graphically written.” Wallace Rice.
| + + | Dial. 38: 383. Je. 1, ‘05. 580w. |
“It is unfortunate that little reliance can be put on our author’s accuracy. With the pictures of society and trade in Mecca it is different; these are most lively in color and give every appearance of truth.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 319. Ap. 20, ‘05. 560w. |
“For an insight into the mind of the Oriental, and more particularly of the followers of the prophet, with the ceremonies of his faith, we know of nothing equal to the work under notice.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 820w. |
“Every detail of the ‘pilgrim’s progress’ from his arrival at Jeddah is minutely set forth, and that with a force and local colour that increases one’s interest.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 315. S. 2, ‘05. 300w. |
Kielland, Alexander L. Professor Lovedahl; tr. from the Norwegian, by Rebecca Blair Flandrau. [*]$1.25. Turner, H. B.
“A romance from the Northland. The love of money and power lead to the downfall of a society man and to the gradual ruin of a whole community. The author aims to put corruption and cant in their proper places.”—Bookm.
“A story pre-eminently Scandinavian in its matter, inspiration, and outcome. Nobody in it is happy; few people in it are good. It is all horribly futile and Scandinavian.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 250w. (Outline of plot). |
Kildare, Owen. [My Mamie Rose: the story of my regeneration.] $1. Baker.
A popular edition of this autobiography of a child of the Bowery, a newsboy, a “beer slinger” in a notorious dive, a pugilist, one who could not read or write until he was thirty, who now at thirty-eight earns his living by his pen, and upholds the cause of right. It is the story of how this development of the real man in him came about thru the influence of his Mamie Rose, the little school teacher who died on the eve of their marriage, and also, tho perhaps he would not admit it, thru the influence of his pal, the bull pup Bill.
“‘My Mamie Rose’ is a true love story, a human document and a photograph of slum life as it is to-day. Its effect will be to demolish theories of environment and to inspire the settlement worker with greater hope.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 975. S. ‘05. 280w. |
Kinealy, John Henry. Centrifugal fans: a theoretical and practical treatise on fans for moving air in large quantities at comparatively low pressures. [*]$5. Spon.
“This compact little treatise is devoted mainly to the theory of centrifugal fans. There is included in it, however, a brief outline showing the evolution of the present usual commercial type of centrifugal fan and some practical information concerning the less common types, such as the cone type, running without a casing, and disk or propeller fans. The work is primarily devoted, however, to the ordinary commercial fan for use in heating and ventilating work or for mechanical draught.”—Engin. N.
“It is difficult to see how this work can be of material value to the practicing engineer.” D. W. Taylor.
| — | Engin. N. 53: 644. Je. 15, ‘05. 2060w. |
King, Charles. Medal of honor: a story of peace and war. [*]$1.25. Hobart.
This is not one of General King’s garrison stories, altho it is of course a story of the army. Its hero, Ronald Fane, who wins the medal of honor and the girl he loves, is first an instructor at West Point, and after active service against the Apaches becomes instructor in military tactics at a western university. There are many complications and the plot is skilfully tangled and skilfully straightened out again.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 380w. |
[*] King, Charles Francis. [Soldier’s trial.] $1.50. Hobart.
A sub-title declares that this novel is, “an episode in the canteen crusade,” and it does set forth the army sentiment against the well meaning outsiders who defeated the ends of temperance by abolishing the canteen; but the book is largely concerned with a garrison scandal caused by a beautiful Spanish girl with two husbands and many lovers. There are several unsavory episodes and the book draws, perhaps, a less pleasing picture of army life than any of General King’s army stories.
King, Henry Churchill. Personal and ideal elements in education. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
“President King writes for the scholar a conservative interpretation of the results gained by men like Coe, Starbuck, and Leuba in their researches concerning psychology of conversion and allied themes.... The chapters were first delivered as papers before religious conventions.... The volume contains President King’s inaugural address, another plea for the retention of the old-time college course.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.
| Dial. 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “His plea for less of the mechanical and more of the personal in education is worth the attention of teachers and of all interested in the methods which are at this moment forming the future citizen.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 180w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 90w. |
King, Henry Churchill. Rational living: some practical inferences from modern psychology, [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
“President King ... has brought together the ‘four great emphases’ of psychological study in popular form, and pointed out their direct practical bearing on the conduct of life. For the satisfaction of those who have not at hand the works of the masters in psychology, he quotes these freely, so that the reader may judge of the adequacy of the grounds on which are based the practical counsels which they suggest for rational living in respect to growth, character, happiness, and influence. In conclusion it is shown that ‘just these ideal conditions to which psychology leads us Christ declares to be actual.’”—Outlook.
[*] “A serious and amazingly comprehensive study.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 100w. |
“The peculiar merit of President King’s work is that he has presented the fundamental facts of psychology, together with the practical counsels which they impose for a life in rational accord with our nature, more comprehensively and completely than any preceding writer.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 200w. |
Kingdom of Siam. See Carter, A. Cecil, ed.
Kingsbury, Sara. Atonement, $1. Eastern pub.
The sweat shop, the college settlement, and the college itself, each points its own moral in this story of Marion, the niece of a millionaire, who turns from a life of luxury to work among the poor. Her self sacrifice, however, is not rewarded by personal happiness for, in the renunciation of Roger, her betrothed, she suffers equally with him as he works out his expiation for the betrayal of a daughter of the sweat-shop, who was employed in his great department store.
Kingsley, Charles. [Hypatia.] $1.25. Crowell.
A new volume in that pleasing pocket edition: the “Thin paper classics.”
Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse). Resurrection of Miss Cynthia. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
Miss Cynthia, a spinster of thirty-three, who has lived a narrow, cramped little life is told by her doctor that, owing to an affection of the lungs, she has only one more year to live. Instead of repining she decides to make her last days happy ones so she throws off all the traditions of her house, discards black for bright colors, and goes out to enjoy light and sunshine. As a result she finds both health and an old lover.
[*] “Clever and pleasant tale.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 240w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 651. O. 7. ‘05. 290w. |
Kinzbrunner, Charles. Testing the continuous current machine in laboratories and test-rooms: a practical work for students and engineers. $2. Wiley.
“This work is a laboratory manual giving detailed instruction for carrying out numerous experiments upon direct current machines. The author has had constantly in mind the necessity of planning the exercises with a view to their practical application and has endeavored to make the book useful to engineers as well as to students.”—Engin. N.
“It is a pleasure to commend Mr. Kinzbrunner’s manual to American readers and to state that it deserves to be classed with the somewhat similar works of Nichols, Swenson, and Frankenfield, and other well-known writers of electrical laboratory manuals.” Henry H. Norris.
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 638. Je. 15. ‘05. 820w. |
Kipling, Rudyard. [Seven seas.] [*] [*]$2. Appleton.
“In a green and gold cover, with an old-fashioned ship on it riding high before the wind, reappears this famous volume of verse by the unofficial laureate of Great Britain. The pages are adorned with decorative borders in green.”—Critic.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 40w. |
| * | + | Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
Kirk, William Frederick. [Norsk nightingale: being the lyrics of a “Lumberyack.”] [**]75c. Small.
“Faithful Norsk-English dialect, Western slang, cleverness in rhyme and structure, and odd incongruity of familiar stories put in a queer form—all help to make the poems amusing in a new fashion.”—Outlook.
“Novelty and freshness, and no little ingenuity as a parodist, salute us in this volume of dialect verse.”
| + | Critic. 47: 384. O. ‘05. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 190w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 60w. |
Kiser, S. E. Charles the chauffeur. $1. Stokes.
“The story of the social and financial aspirations of a well-meaning and very able young chauffeur, who never killed anyone unless he had to in order to make a certain run, and who would handle a machine as few chauffeurs can.... The story, told by Charles himself and frequently spelled phonetically, abounds in descriptions of a highly diverting nature.”—N. Y. Times.
“For those who enjoy humor of a broad up-to-date kind this will be just the kind of story they will like.”
| + | Sat. R. 10: 342. Je. 10, ‘05. 270w. |
Kitton, Frederic George. Dickens country. $2. Macmillan.
A volume in the “Pilgrimage” series. A brief biography of the novelist which, in following his life, gives with the places, persons and incidents mentioned the part each played in his stories. There are fifty full-page illustrations in half-tone, including pictures of Dickens himself and of the places connected with him.
“In ‘The Dickens country’ we have a work worthy of the subject and of the writer. Wherever he [Dickens pilgrim] may list to go, he should carry this book with him—a sure and faithful guide, and a pleasant travelling-companion.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 126. F. 11, ‘05. 1140w. |
“The work has been done so faithfully and so fully that it need never be attempted again.”
| + + + | Dial. 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 430w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 156. Mr. 11. ‘05. 280w. |
“The book is coherent and accurate.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 870w. |
“He had thoroughly mastered the subject, and wrote out of a well-filled mind.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 923. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w. |
Kittredge, George Lyman. Old farmer and his almanack. [*]$2.50. Ware.
Some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas’s “Farmer’s Almanack”; together with extracts, curious, instructive, and entertaining, as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter.
“There are, indeed, not a few purple patches sewed into this crazy-quilt, but they are hid from our eyes unless we find clues in the capacious index.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w. |
“An interesting volume.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 217. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1160w. |
“A highly interesting book.”
| + | Spec. 95: 436. S. 28, ‘05. 240w. |
Klein, Felix. In the land of the strenuous life. [**]$2. McClurg.
Kindly impressions of the United States, its institutions and its people by one whose object was to see and describe the things of our land which might serve as profitable examples to his “poor beloved France.” The Abbe visited New York, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis and the World’s fair, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, and also saw something of Canada. His volume is dedicated to President Roosevelt and is an author’s translation of his successful French work.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 110w. |
“The good literary style of the English version, made by the Abbé himself, and the highly entertaining character of the narrative, will no doubt make it a favorite in this country also.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 162. S. 16, ‘05. 2210w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 719. O. 21, ‘05. 210w. |
“The wit and brilliancy that shine upon every page, and illuminate the acute judgments made by Abbé Klein, give a unique charm to the record, and will attract many readers.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 270w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 754. D. ‘05. 190w. |
Knapp, Oswald G., ed. Artist’s love story. [*]$3.50. Longmans.
The letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Siddons, and Maria and Sally Siddons help to tell the story of the love affairs of the artist and the two daughters of the great actress. Both girls died early of consumption and Lawrence died a bachelor, but lived to break other hearts. The book is illustrated with lithographs and facsimiles taken from drawings and portraits done by Lawrence.
| + | Dial. 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 270w. |
“Its peculiar value consists in the light it casts upon an age when people cultivated and enjoyed their emotions more than they did wisdom or intelligence.”
| + + | Ind. 68: 612. Mr. 16, ‘05. 860w. |
Knight, William A. Retrospects. Vol. I. [*]$2.25. Scribner.
“Any book from the pen of Dr. William Knight, the Wordsworth scholar and St. Andrews professor, is sure to be richly worth the reading.... After noting, in his preface, the indisputable benefit to be derived from communion, whether personal or thru books, with ‘characters that are strong, original, exalted and benign, that are many sided, fertile-minded and ideal,’ he says a word condemnatory of that distorted presentation of a man’s life which is not seldom found in the so-called critical biography.” (Dial). “Professor Knight ... adds to fuller and more formal accounts of his literary contemporaries odds and ends of which he has had personal knowledge.” (N. Y. Times). Among the most interestingly discussed are Carlyle, Browning, Frederick D. Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. A second volume is promised.
“Is a treat. Without conscious idealization, therefore, or any embroidery or amplification of plain facts and spoken words, Professor Knight has produced some chapters of fragmentary biography that are as fascinating as they are convincing, their very charm indeed largely lying in their evident truthfulness and their admirable restraint.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 38: 117. F. 16, ‘05. 2760w. (Survey of contents). |
“‘Retrospects’ is, on the whole too much involved in the academic and professionally literary point of view to inspire such interest as a more human account of the same people must needs call forth.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 840w. (Survey of contents). |
[*] Knipe, Emilie Benson, il. Girls and boys: with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. [†]$1.50. Stokes.
Pictures and verses of present day American children at home and at play. There are eight full-page illustrations in colors.
Knowles, Frederick Lawrence. Love triumphant. [**]$1. Estes.
A volume containing ninety poems, grouped into five sections and singing of human love, divine love, love triumphant over guilt, and love of country.
“In Mr. Knowles’ poems we find the imaginative genius of the true poet, the grace of the accomplished versifier and the prophet’s high and noble appeal to the reason and sense of right in man, all in so eminent a degree that his work holds for us a special charm.”
| + + + | Arena. 33: 557. My. ‘05. 3050w. |
“Graceful workmanship.”
| + | Dial. 38: 199. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
“Mr. Knowles’s volume contains some very good verses. But there are also some very bad ones.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 150w. | |
| * | + — | Ind. 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
“The illustrations are all very well reproduced, and beneath each one a full description, with sizes, etc., is given, a most useful feature, making reference and identification easy.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: 82. Mr. ‘05. 150w. | |
| Int. Studio. 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 180w. |
“Mr. Knowles, while not disdaining the graces of rhythm and rime, and while taking the most sweet and serious things of life as subject matter, yet contrives to give a strain of real music that comes refreshingly, and to voice the themes that carry swift appeal to the heart.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 730w. |
“As one reads on through the book and rereads, the rhetorical virtuosity becomes more obvious and the poetry less.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w. |
“He gives us flashing poetic thoughts, but he cannot show them in such beauty as to move the soul. He is at his best in expression when, abandoning the labored incentive of the magazine demand, he tells simply some little story with feeling in it.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 640w. |
Knowles, Robert Edward. [St. Cuthbert’s: a novel.] [†]$1.50. Revell.
“The pastor of a large Presbyterian church in Canada gives here in semi-romantic form the story of his parish. Most of his characters speak Scotch dialect.” (Outlook.) A love story of which the clergyman’s daughter, Margaret, is the heroine, runs thru the book.
[*] “He has given us the best study of mingled pathos and humor that we have read for several years.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1264. D. 2, ‘05. 320w. |
“The book is not without passages rich in humor and pathos, but it is too didactic, and in some particulars lacks the restraint which many readers would naturally expect of a clerical pen.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. |
“The interest and value of the book lie in its revelation of Scottish traits, in its author’s appreciation of a noble bedrock of granite character underlying the soil infertile of the flowers of speech.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 220w. |
Knowles, W. Pitcairn. Dutch pottery and porcelain. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
A guide to the collector and student in attributing specimens to the correct maker and factory and period. The author is himself a connoisseur and famous collector, and “tells us the alphabet from which pottery and the different makes of porcelain are constructed. Then, by the aid of a few historical facts, he creates a Dutch atmosphere. When we are sufficiently acclimatised he traces the development of the industry from the time when the potter-baker accepted the assistance of the seller of clay and went into partnership with the potter-turner, till he finally collaborated with the potter-painter, and the porcelain factory came into existence.” (Acad.) The volume belongs to the “Newnes library series.”
“Our author is a reliable, as well as an entertaining guide.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 460w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 466. Je. 8, ‘05. 840w. |
“His knowledge of the literature and history of the Dutch art is put at the disposal of his readers in a simple and engaging way, aided by beautiful colored plates of many museum pieces.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w. |
Knox, George William. Japanese life in town and country. [**]$1.20. Putnam.
“After an introductory chapter on ‘The point of view,’ notable for its liberal-minded common sense, Dr. Knox reviews briefly, but clearly and interestingly, the history of Japan from the traditionary period down to the present time. Chapters VI and VII are taken up with Buddhism and Confucianism; Chapter VIII ... gives an account of the efforts made in the eighteenth century to spread Confucianism by popular preaching and quotes at length from one of the curious Confucian sermons. So important in Dr. Knox’s mind is the influence of the samurai and his philosophy upon the Japanese of to-day that he devotes three chapters to this subject. The quotations from the autobiography of Arai Hakuseki in Chapter X are as informing as anything that has lately come to us about feudal Japan.”—Ind.
“In this readable volume Dr. Knox has succeeded in compressing into small space a great deal of interesting matter about Japan.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 211. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w. | |
| R. of Rs. 30: 758. D. ‘04. 50w. |
Kobbé, Gustav. Famous actors and their homes. $1.50. Little.
Little chats about the home side of John Drew, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, E. H. Sothern, and Francis Wilson with closing chapters on the Lamb’s club and the Players. There are many illustrations taken from photographs of the actors at home.
[*] “These sketches are deservedly popular, for they combine dignity with interest, in a field where such a combination is rarely achieved.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 250w. |
Kobbé, Gustav. Famous actresses and their homes. $1.50. Little.
Word pictures and photographs of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Annie Russell, and Mrs. Fiske, when off stage, also chapters upon, The actress’s home behind the scenes; The actress’s Christmas; and Some actresses in summer.
Kobbé, Gustav. [Loves of great composers.] [*]$2.50. Crowell.
In an easy conversational manner the real romance in the lives of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner is set forth. Several of the stories are based upon untranslated material, and many popular errors are corrected. The volume is illustrated from photographs, and includes portraits of the composers themselves and of Constance, wife of Mozart; Countess Therese von Brunswick, the “immortal beloved” of Beethoven; Mendelssohn’s wife and sister; Clara Schumann; and a reproduction of the famous pastel of Countess Potocka.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “The accounts are entertaining, and the reader is grateful for their complete avoidance of sentimental rhapsodizing.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w. | |
| * | + + | Nation. 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “Mr. Kobbe’s book is curiously entertaining. It is not a rehash of old and stale matter in a new binding, but is the result of personal investigation and study.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “Two charmingly written volumes.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w. |
Kobbe, Gustav. Opera singers; a pictorial souvenir. $1.50. Ditson.
“A profusely illustrated pictorial souvenir of the most famous living opera singers, with their biographies.... This handsome work is interesting as giving intimate glimpses of opera folk.... The artists considered in this attractive book are Nordica, Calvé, Eames, Melba, Sembrich, Ternina, and Schumann-Heink, and Caruso and Jean and Edouard De Reszke. There is also a chapter on ‘Opera-singers off duty.’”—R. of Rs.
“Besides being full of anecdotes, the compilation is of great value as giving biographic sketches of the singers taken down from their own lips, sometimes with the aid of stenography.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 70w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 30w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 10: 510. Ap. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] Kobbé, Gustav. Wagner and his Isolde. [**]$1. Dodd.
“The correspondence and journals of Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck, which have lately appeared, are the basis of this volume, which gives the whole story of that fascinating period of Wagner’s life. The author obtained from a friend of Mme. Wesendonck some personal impressions of her, and some photographs that are reproduced herein.”—Critic.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w. |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “To the student of Wagner’s music these letters afford some interesting commentary from the composer.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 230w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Kolle, Frederick Strange. Fifty and one tales of modern fairyland, [†]$1.50. Grafton press.
“The tales are really new, and entertaining as well. They teach good lessons without obtruding the moral aim, and many of them are based on modern scientific discoveries and processes. Even the balloon and the automobile—a ‘conscientious’ one, not the ordinary unprincipled sort—figure in the stories. The illustrations by Flora Sheffield are in keeping.”—Critic.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 60w. |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 15w. |
[*] “And one finds them exactly what one might expect sterilized fairy tales to be—made of quite tasteless and sawdusty particles.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 861. D. 2. ‘05. 370w. |
[*] Konody, Paul G. [Filippino Lippi.] $1.25. Warne.
This volume in the “Newnes art library” contains a brief life of Filippino Lippi and sixty-four full-page reproductions of his works.
| * | + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 442. S. 30. 190w. |
[*] “Is a more serious performance than most of the contributors to this series have offered us.”
| + | Nation. 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 130w. |
Koons, Ulysses Sidney (Brother Jabez, pseud.). [Tale of the kloster: a romance of the German mystics of the Cocalico.] [†]$1.50. Am. Bapt.
A description of life in the curious celibate community of Ephrata, where German mystics, refugees to Pennsylvania from the persecutions which followed the Hundred years war, endured the hardships of the pioneer. There is also a love story interwoven with danger and suffering and the rigid life of the brotherhood.
“As a representation of the manners and feelings of the time and the strange community the story has its own value. It is written with simplicity and grace.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 140w. |
“Rather violently injected a love story. Every contribution to American history which recognizes the proportionate importance of the different ingredients which have gone to the composition of our national stock and so helps to a broader and fuller understanding of our national development deserves recognition and encouragement.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 94. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w. |
Kropotkin, Petr Alexieevich, kniaz’. Russian literature. [**]$2. McClure.
A very complete account of Russian literature from its beginning in mythology and folklore to the present day, with much personal information about its great figures and copious extracts from its masterpieces.
| + + | Acad. 68: 656. Je. 24, ‘09. 610w. |
“The work of Prince Kropotkin is very comprehensive in view of its scope. The English of Prince Kropotkin’s book is fairly good, although occasionally stiff and unidiomatic.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 70. Jl. 15, 2060w. |
“The greater part of the book, devoted wholly to the nineteenth-century writings, treated from the author’s novel point of view and full of the charm of his attractive personality, make this volume, in spite of some glaring misprints, a very desirable addition to Russian literary history.” Henry James Forman.
| + + — | Critic. 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 1520w. |
“Prince Kropotkin has given us a work of absorbing interest, colored, no doubt, by his own political philosophy, but discriminating and profound in its judgment of aesthetic values. Of the English language, as his readers well know, he is an absolute master.”
| + + — | Dial. 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
“But he has done us an especial service by making accessible information concerning the younger Russian writers whom we want to know something about.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 638. S. 14, ‘05. 610w. |
“Prince Kropotkin’s book is admirable, and, so far, at any rate, as the later Russian literature is concerned, should supercede all other works of the kind in our language.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 150. My. 12, ‘05. 1550w. | |
| + + — | Nation. 80: 526. Je. 29, ‘05. 1780w. | |
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1890w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 320w. |
“In our opinion the most satisfactory treatise which has yet appeared in English on the literature of Russia.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 99: 774. Je. 10, ‘05. 2260w. |