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La Colonie, Jean Martin de. Chronicles of an old campaigner, M. De La Colonie, 1692-1717; from the French of Walter C. Horsley. [*]$4. Dutton.
“These memoirs of the war of the Spanish succession have been unknown to English readers, and in this adequate translation have real historic value. Curious sidelights on military customs and methods of war two hundred years ago are included. The ‘old campaigner’ had a bluff, rugged, and not uninteresting personality. There are portraits and other illustrations.”—Outlook.
“The book is preëminently for military men, being devoted to the details of battles and sieges, of marches and counter-marches. Other readers will find it tiresomely prolix. Both translator and printer appear to have done their work well. Portraits, plans of battles and a copious index are duly provided.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 290w. |
“It cannot be said that the book is a substantial addition to historical knowledge, but it is pleasant reading and is beautifully illustrated with portraits and plans.” I. S. Leadam.
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 808. O. ‘05. 1610w. |
“This book contains little information regarding politics or society, but certainly deserves to be known by all who care to study warfare as an art.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 461. Je. 8. ‘05. 410w. |
“The translation of the memoirs by Mr. Horsley has its special merit, as it gives an excellent idea of the methods of warfare at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The translation is remarkably well done, and the notes at the foot of the pages of great value.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 70. P. 4, ‘05. 1300w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] La Fontaine, Rachel Adelaide. Days and hours of Raphael, with a key to the hours. [**]$1. Grafton press.
“A little manual of art study, substantially bound, copiously illustrated, and intended for the tyro in matters aesthetic. The full page plates in half-tone, including, besides the seven ‘Days’ and the twelve ‘Hours,’ two portraits of Raphael, are of excellent quality. The accompanying notes of explanation are very elementary, presupposing little knowledge of art or mythology on the part of the reader.”—Dial.
[*] “It is a pity, seeing her effort for simplicity, that the author does not couch her ideas in less obscure and tortuously constructed sentences.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “The explanations of the illustrations the book contains are comprehensive and interesting. The book will have a place in any collection of Raphaeliana.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 110w. |
Lahontan, Armand Louis de Delondarce, baron de. New voyages to North America; reprinted from the English ed. of 1703, with a facsimile of original title pages, and 24 maps and il., and the addition of introd., notes, and analytical index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; (with bibliography by Victor Hugo Paltists). 2v. [*]$7.50. McClurg.
Two books of adventurous travel in the heart of North America. The author came to New France at the age of seventeen in 1683 with a detachment of French marines, and he writes of experiences which cover many years, giving “an account of the customs, commerce, religion and strange opinions of the savages,” with geographical information and personal comment. “There is also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages,” and “an account of the author’s retreat to Portugal and Denmark and his remarks on their courts.” His book was very popular when first published but the truth of the whole was later doubted because of one chapter, which gave in detail an apparently fictitious story of the discovery of the River Long.
“These volumes display enthusiasm as well as erudition, and render accessible a great quantity of curious information. The labour that has been bestowed both on the letters themselves and on the bibliography is worthy of the highest praise.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 386. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1050w. |
“The foot-notes are admirably done, and a long introduction describes entertainingly the character of the writer and his narrative. Mr. Paltsits in this, as in preceding volumes of the series, contributes a scholarly and satisfying bibliography.”
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 100w. | |
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 590. My. ‘05. 130w. |
Reviewed by John J. Halsey.
| + + | Dial. 39: 14. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1060w. | |
| + + | Ind. 59: 211. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w. |
“Dr. Thwaites’s editorial notes are similar in quality to those which have accompanied his ‘Jesuit relations’ and other works of Western travel. The Introduction, however, contains one or two slips.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 95. F. 11, ‘05. 190w. |
“Mr. Reuben Gold Thwaites’s notes add much to the value of the text.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 180. Mr. 25. ‘05. 460w. |
[*] Laking, Guy Francis. Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty King Edward VII. [*]35c. Dutton.
[*] “A sumptuous book, appearing as an imperial quarto, bound in half leather, with the British royal monogram in color on one side. The collection at Windsor castle is well-known for its fine specimens of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. periods, as well as the best examples of the most famous craftsmen of the past two centuries—Jacob Chippendale, Riesener, André Bouille, Gaspar Teune, and many others. The introduction to the book treats of the starting of the collection and its growth, from the beginning of the seventeenth century down to the present day.... The illustrations, presenting pictures of the finest specimens in the collection, are in photogravure.”—N. Y. Times.
| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: 185. D. ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “It is evidently the work of one who has a good knowledge of technical history and an eye that can discriminate between original work and restorations.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 428. D. 8, ‘05. 360w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
Lamb, Charles and Mary. [Works and letters, v. 6 and 7.] [*]$2.25. Putnam.
“Here certainly is the largest, richest edition of the ‘Letters’ which has been published, clearly superior to some in size, to others in the quality and scope of the notes, and to all as a book that is easy and pleasant to read. In short, Mr. Lucas seems to come near to an inaccessible perfection, as well as to have produced the best edition of the ‘Letters’.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 605. Je. 10, ‘05. 1890w. (Review of v. 6. and 7.) | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 680. Je. 3. 4290w. |
“Mr. Lucas’s copious and most interesting notes are the fruit of years of loving study and research. To him Lamb is indeed ‘Saint Charles’; yet his chief editorial merit lies, perhaps, in giving us Saint Charles un-canonized.” William Archer.
| + + | Critic. 47:50. Jl. ‘05. 1260w. | |
| Dial. 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 150w. |
“The editor has used extraordinary pains to make clear the innumerable allusions to persons and things well known to correspondents, but unknown to us.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 108. F. 18, ‘05. 390w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1520w. | |
| + + + | Spec. 94: 640. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1780w. |
[*] Lamb, Charles, and Lamb, Mary Anne. [Tales from Shakespeare.] [*]$2.50. Scribner.
“A small quarto, liberal and very clear in print, and adorned for each play by a full-page colored design from the pencil of Norman M. Price. These designs are, in point of merit and attractiveness in perfect keeping with the rest of the elegant volume, and will impress and educate the taste of any child who reads the classic by himself.... The portraits of the authors after those in the National portrait gallery face the bordered title-page.”—Nation.
| * | + + | Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 120w. |
| * | + + | Ind. 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “We recall no edition of Charles and Mary Lamb’s ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ comparable at all points with that just issued by Jack in London.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 120w. | |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 360w. |
[*] “This is a handsome book, worthy in form of its contents.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 692. N. 4. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Lamb, Osborn Rennie. Essay on the drama. $1. Ames & R.
This essay which discusses the drama in its various phases is developed under the divisions Criticism is not analysis; The aesthetic essential in drama; The play of the people; Sympathy as a dramatic force; The dramatic power of terror; Humor in drama; Reflective thought in drama; and Scenery and music in drama as an aid to the creation of atmosphere. The essay may prove suggestive to dramatic critics, and it will certainly help the average reader to form his own opinions and to challenge the “misstatement and false argument” so often found in newspaper criticism.
Lamb, Osborn Rennie, and Dixon, H. Claiborn. Iberian: Anglo-Greek play. $1.50. Ames & Rollinson press.
Following the ancient dramas in unities of time, place and theme, “The Iberian” combines in a one-act play “the beauties of the ancient Greek drama with those of the modern romantic play, so as to adapt the same to the stage and scenario of to-day.” Athens is the scene of the play, 435 B. C., the time.
Lamia, pseud. See Austin, Alfred.
Lamprecht, Karl Gotthard. What is history? Five lectures on the modern science of history; tr. from the Germ. by E. A. Andrews, [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
One of these lectures was first given at the Congress of arts and sciences in St. Louis, and the other four at the sesquicentennial of Columbia university. The subjects treated are Historical development and present character of the science of history; The general course of German history from a psychological point of view; The translation to the psychic character of the German present; Universal mechanism of psychic periods of transition; Psychology of the periods of culture in general; and Problems of universal history.
“‘What is history?’ is throughout suggestive and provocative, though the work of translation has not been skilfully performed; indeed, the English version is in one or two passages unintelligible.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 801. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1480w. |
“The translation inevitably suffers from such conditions. In spite of them it gives us a rendering which is clear, readable, and reliable for sense, and which is a useful contribution toward an English terminology of the subject. Many inexcusable inaccuracies in detail occur, however.” Asa Currier Tilton.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 119. O. ‘05. 1360w. |
“Unfortunately the book abounds in abstruse terminology borrowed from psychology and kindred sciences.”
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 590. My. ‘05. 380w. |
“Mr. Andrews has done his work well, and made a good rendering.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 60w. | |
| + | Critic. 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 60w. |
“Throughout, indeed, the translation scarcely helps to clear up the obscurities of the original.” A. G.
| + — | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 604. Jl. ‘05. 390w. |
“Professor Lamprecht has a clumsy method of presentation ... and he adds to the difficulty by much elusiveness of demonstration and by an awkward terminology. Professor Lamprecht’s method may be good psychology, it certainly is not history.”
| + — — | Nation. 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 2270w. |
“If well translated, they would constitute a very stimulating volume.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 439. Jl. 1, ‘05. 530w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 190w. |
“There is a meaning, we doubt not, in his words, but it is very hard to get at.”
| — | Spec. 94: 719. My. 13, ‘05. 190w. |
“Their appeal is to the student of the science of society rather than to the historian proper.”
| + | Yale R. 14: 107. My. ‘05. 100w. |
Lancaster, G. B. Sons o’ men. [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
A collection of short stories which “deal with the men who herd and shear the sheep in South New Zealand and save them from storm and snow at the cost of hardships scarce endurable. At times, too, the native plays a part.” (R. of Rs.)
“Through such books hope grows less forlorn.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “Lively reading—and informative as well.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 758. D. ‘05. 170w. |
“Mr. Lancaster reaches a high level of excellence in ‘The story of Wi.’”
| + + | Spec. 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 100w. |
Lancaster, R. V. Creed of Christ: a study of the Gospels. 60c. Presbyterian com.
The author states in his preface, “I have caught a glimpse of Jesus from what, to me, is a fresh viewpoint,” and this he voices in his book, which is divided into two sections: The introduction, and The creed. Under the latter head he discusses, The scriptures; God; Satan; Sin; Redeemed men; The kingdom; The second coming; The final glory, and Kindred subjects.
“His volume is careful, painstaking, conscientious, but without insight or imagination, and so without literary quality.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 569. N. 4, ‘05. 360w. |
Landon, Percival. The opening of Tibet. $3.80. Doubleday.
“Mr. Landon gives in ‘The opening of Tibet,’ an account of Lhasa, the history of Tibet, the folk-lore and manners of the Tibetans, and the present relations with the rest of the world, with which he became acquainted as the representative of the London Times with the mission sent by the British government to Lhasa. The book is profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs and sketches and maps.” (N. Y. Times). An introduction is provided by Col. Younghusband, who headed the mission to the Forbidden land.
“The book is ponderous in size, wide in its scope and interesting reading. Including the numerous appendices, the range of information extends from the frogs and fishes of the country to the folklore, art, religion and amazing priest-craft of the people.”
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 591. S. ‘05. 170w. |
“Regrettable that some errors of fact and date should have crept into the earlier and historical pages of the work.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 231. F. 25. 2440w. |
“Fine descriptive writing, indeed, is characteristic of Mr. Landon’s work throughout.”
| + + | Bookm. 21: 305. My. ‘05. 1100w. |
“His style is a model for the writer of travel books.” W. E. Griffis.
| + + | Critic. 46: 560. Je. ‘05. 790w. |
“Is a virile and picturesque narrative of great general interest. All in all, it is a welcome addition to the annals of travel and exploration.” H. Addington Bruce.
| + + | Current Literature. 38: 345. Ap. ‘05. 3400w. |
“Mr. Landon has the genius of the true reporter for weaving a large amount of detail in an interesting ‘story,’ but he gives no map or index.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1186. My. 25, ‘05. 370w. |
“The work is conceived on broader lines, historically and philosophically, than the rival volume of Mr. Candler.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 273. Ap. 6, ‘05. 1710w. |
“A characteristically British presentation of a most interesting and somewhat delicate subject. The vast amount of information which Mr. Landon has collected ... This is not a solemn book altogether.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 116. F. 25, ‘05. 2590w. |
“The Tibetan expedition was fortunate to have with it a writer so competent to do justice to its romance, so sympathetic towards Tibetan life, so eagerly inquisitive and retentive of impressions, and above all, the possessor of a style so dexterous and graceful.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 365. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1620w. |
Landor, Arnold Henry Savage. Tibet and Nepal. [*]$5. Macmillan.
“In his book, Mr. Landor tells about a second journey to Tibet. He describes the natives, their costumes, and religion, and the country through which he passes, besides recounting adventures on the way. He has provided numerous colored and black-and-white pictures, being reproductions of sketches made on the spot. These illustrations are portraits of the native men, women, and children, scenery, churches, animals, &c. In the opening chapter the author writes of his preparations for this visit.”—N. Y. Times.
“This odd, unsatisfactory and fascinating essay. The present writer can only say that for his part, he believes his author to be sincere and correct, and one of the pluckiest, truest-hearted and most enterprising men in the world to boot.... One of the cleverest, too, for the drawings in colour and black and white display a very acute artistic sense and an exquisite perception of the beauty and grandeur of mountain scenery.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 101. F. 4, ‘05. 570w. |
“It is difficult to take Mr. Landor seriously, and we find it impossible to follow his tour geographically.”
| — | Ath. 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 530w. |
“The illustrations with which Mr. Landor has liberally besprinkled the story of his achievements are even more astonishing than the text.” H. Addington Bruce.
| — | Bookm. 21: 307. My. ‘05. 520w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 230w. |
“Apart from some apparent faults, the book is decidedly agreeable and even exciting reading, and presents in many ways an intimate picture of the life of the Tibetans and their innumerable curious customs. The colored pictures are striking and effective.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 130w. |
“It is a weird and fascinating story, told in the author’s best vein.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 90w. |
“He traveled only on the outskirts of the country, and he makes some obvious mistakes; but he writes with an assumption of the highest expert knowledge. This swashbuckling air does not reassure the reader; but when it comes to climbing snow mountains our imagination falters far behind him.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 179. F. 4, ‘05. 280w. |
Lang, Andrew. [Adventures among books.] [*]$1.60. Longmans.
Seventeen essays are collected in this volume. Adventures among books, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rab’s friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Morris’s poems, Mrs. Radcliff’s novels, A Scottish romanticist of 1830, The confessions of St. Augustine, Smollet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The paradise of poets, Paris and Helen, Enchanted cigarettes, Stories and story telling, The supernatural in fiction, An old Scottish psychical researcher, The boy.
| + + + | Acad. 68: 324. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1970w. |
“It holds the sound criticism which proceeds from good taste and wide knowledge, though it is so lightly presented as to seem mere butterfly work.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 470w. |
“But one forgives Mr. Lang his little affectations for the sake of his delightful humor, his literary touch, and his real bookishness.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + + + | Critic. 46: 409. My. ‘05. 1770w. |
“Those who have a taste for books about books will hunt long before they will find one more tickling to the palate than Mr. Lang’s ‘Adventures among books.’” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 38: 409. Je. 16, ‘05. 2240w. | |
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1170w. |
“They are very high class work of the moment rather than work of a permanent quality.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w. |
“Mr. Lang’s account of his own ‘adventures among books’ is full of teaching and attractiveness. So indeed are all the papers that make up this volume.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 250w. |
Lang, Andrew. History of Scotland from the Roman occupation. V. 3, [*]$3.50. Dodd.
The period covered in the third volume of Mr. Lang’s history begins with the accession of Charles I., and continues to the end of Argyll’s rising, 1625-1688. “With always interesting details, he carefully considers successively the Protestant disruption, the riot in St. Giles’s church and its consequences, the bishops’ war, the Scotch invasion of England, the relations of the commonwealth to Scotland, finally the restoration.... It is true that the period was one of theological, political, and physical conflict, measured by the battles of Aberdeen, Auldearn, Alford, Kilsyth, Carbinsdale, Dunbar.... But out of the general swaying, struggling mass of men rise certain commanding figures who receive characteristic treatment from Mr. Lang—Hamilton, Montrose, Charles the First, Sharp, Argyll, Cromwell.” (Outlook).
“If the present volume maintains the standard of excellence set by its predecessors it does not escape the shortcomings that characterized them. The proportion is occasionally obscured and the connection of events lost sight of, by the inclusion of details which although interesting are unrelated. The disposition of the material and the general structure of the volume are, on the other hand, excellent; and some of the characterizations—notably those of the two Argylls, Montrose and Archbishop Sharp—are altogether vital and admirable.” Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 150. O. ‘05. 1400w. |
“The impression received from this work is that the author is not attempting to write a formal history of Scotland, but is rather using the materials he has collected and studied to test the accuracy of earlier works by well-known authors. The result is that while those who are intimately familiar with the details of Scottish history will find Mr. Lang intensely interesting as a critic and as a shrewd investigator, uncovering new sources of information, the ordinary reader must frequently be puzzled to understand the connection and relation of events. But in respect to exact statement of doubtful events at least, Mr. Lang’s work is a fine example of modern scholarship, being based on a careful analysis of the documents and other sources available for the study of Scottish history.”
| + + — | Dial. 38: 19. Ja. 1, ‘05. 470w. |
“He is, as usual, at his best in appreciations of character, and, as usual, he sees important points which have generally been ignored. His work suffers somewhat from its great accuracy in points of detail. Mr. Lang has gone to the original sources, and ... he has thrown fresh light on many obscure topics, and he has brought a sane and enlightened judgment to bear on the numerous controverted issues in his story.”
| + + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 799. O. ‘05. 710w. |
“He takes little or no thought about style, but simply jots down the facts in a succession of short sentences. The modern passion for scrutinizing all the sources and presenting their results in the most plain and summary fashion has seized and carried away this accomplished man of letters. The chief blemish of the book is the spirit in which it is written. We might have expected Mr. Lang, in dealing with men and events that lie two centuries and a half behind him, to show that calmness and detachment which befit the philosophic historian. The best parts of his book, and certainly the most readable, are those which describe the campaigns of that brilliant leader [Montrose].”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 13. Ja. 5, ‘05. 2240w. | |
| R. of Rs. 30: 756. D. ‘04. 70w. |
“It is less frequently relieved by what Stevenson termed its author’s ‘incommunicable humour.’ There is, further, in this volume a good deal more than we have noticed before of Mr. Lang’s ‘perversity.’”
| — + + | Spec. 94: 716. My. 13, ‘05. 2850w. |
Lang, Andrew. [John Knox and the reformation.] [*]$3.50. Longmans.
In his account of the life of John Knox, Mr. Lang has endeavored to get behind enveloping traditions and reveal the real man. He criticises Knox’s history carefully and disagrees with it. He gives much Scottish history and an interesting account of Knox’s struggle with Mary Stuart and his onslaught upon Mary of Guise in which is much gentle irony.
“Even in exposing the enormities of John Knox he keeps his literary temper, and instead of breaking the reformer’s head with a bludgeon, gently pricks him with the pin-point of his scorn.”
| + | Acad. 68: 585. Je. 3, ‘05. 1580w. | |
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 942. Jl. ‘05. 60w. |
“The book is exceedingly lively in tone and style, but is, we think, rather spoilt throughout by the apparent desire to make points.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 230. Ag. 19. 2020w. |
“But because the work is as true and impartial as it is, it is the best life of Knox we have.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 693. Ag. ‘05. 470w. |
“Mr. Lang writes as a man of letters, without much respect for popular traditions or what the elders consider orthodoxy. He goes not only to the sources, but back of tradition, even to the intensely human John Knox. Lang makes Knox not less great, but more human.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 381. O. ‘05. 310w. |
“From the beginning to the end of his book, Mr. Lang employs all the resources of his literary art, irony, denunciation, special pleading, to discredit the great Reformer.” Charles H. Cooper.
| — | Dial. 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 310w. |
“But what separates Mr. Lang from his colleagues in this literature is a marked lack of sympathy with the public life of his subject. That he writes a charming book is a matter of course.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 190. Je. 16, ‘05. 460w. |
“Mr. Lang has studied his subject as few of the more solemn of his biographers have, and exhibits in his entertaining book a very human, powerful, and not unlikable Knox.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 990w. |
“It would command universal admiration (out of Scotland general assent) if it were not for a satirical style, which hardly befits history.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 440. S. 30, ‘05. 580w. |
[*] Lang, Andrew. [Oxford.] [*]$1.50. Lippincott.
“This edition has fifty illustrations reproduced from drawings or etchings by J. H. Lorimer, Alfred Dawson, Toussaint, Brunet-Debaines, Ernest Stamp, Lancelot Speed, T. H. Crawford, R. K. Thomas, and Joseph Pennell, and there are one or two rather charming drawings to which no artist’s name is given. The book itself is too well known to need discussion now.”—Acad.
[*] “The present edition makes a very pleasant gift-book.”
| + | Acad. 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 90w. | |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 444. N. 30, ‘05. 110w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 825. D. 2, ‘05. 1380w. |
[*] Lang, Andrew, ed. [Red book of romance.] [**]$1.60. Longmans.
“‘All the stories were done by Mrs. Lang out of the old romances,’ says the editor, who proffers excellent advice as to what should be read, being the sworn foe of the youthful prig. Mr. H. J. Ford has provided alluring illustrations, some of which are full of bright color. The stories come largely from the North, which produces, perhaps, the best romances in the world; but we have also ‘The tale of the Cid,’ ‘Don Quixote’s homecoming,’ ‘Cupid and Psyche,’ ‘Guy of Warwick,’ and others.”—Ath.
[*] “It is full of the kind of entertainment always provided by its compiler.”
| + | Acad. 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 90w. | |
| * | + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 110w. |
[*] “No better reading for the young will be found among this year’s Christmas books.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “The book is rich in appearance and varied in contents.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “The stories are all told by Mrs. Lang and are in a graceful easy style, except for a trick of generalization in a would-be humorous fashion, and occasional unpleasant affectations.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 503. D. 21. ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “A fine book for a holiday gift either for a youngster, or an old person with a young heart.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] “Mrs. Lang has written the stories out of the old romances and has done it admirably.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | Sat. R. 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 220w. | |
| * | + | Spec. 95: 692. N. 4, ‘05. 310w. |
Lankester, Edwin Ray. Extinct animals. [*]$1.75. Holt.
“A peep at the strange and wonderful history of extinct animals” thru which the author hopes to awaken in young people an interest in its further study. The volume embodies a corrected shorthand report of a course of lectures adapted to a juvenile audience given by the author during the Christmas holidays, 1903-4 at the Royal institution, London. The lantern slides used in the lectures have been converted into process blocks to illustrate the volume, there are over two hundred illustrations and drawings, many of which are from photographs of specimens in the Natural history museum.
[*] “It may safely be said that since the days of that ‘most delightful collector and explorer of the earth’s crust, Dr. Gideon Mantell,’ there has been published no book on this subject combining so successfully the virtues of accuracy and attractiveness.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 357. O. 27, ‘05. 1010w. |
“We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists and many readers to its pages.”
| + + + | Nature. 73: 6. N. 2, ‘05. 1140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 657. O. 7, ‘05. 320w. | ||
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w. |
“It is well adapted to arouse the interest of adult as well as youthful minds in a fascinating branch of study.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 180w. |
“Appealing chiefly to young people ... the author adopts an easy, somewhat conversational style, as free as possible from unnecessary technicalities. But simple and elementary though the book is, it is by no means confined to matter already well known even to scientific readers.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 597. N. 4, ‘05. 1680w. |
Larned, Josephus Nelson. Seventy centuries of the life of mankind. 2v. $4.50. C. A. Nichols Co., Springfield, Mass.
“These volumes are evidently intended for the general reader who wishes an intelligent grasp of the broad outlines of general history.... The biographical prefaces to each period are unique and useful, the index is good, the illustrations are chosen with discrimination.”—Ind.
“The arrangement of the work is not striking and the impressions conveyed are not clear cut. He has made remarkably discriminating use of excellent and recent materials available in English.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 810w. |
[*] “Makes the serious error of a chronological arrangement regardless of the logical sequence of events, and he divides time into periods measured by the lives of great men—a method destructive of real historical unity.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
“Unlike most abridgments, it is extremely readable, and is well calculated to stimulate the beginner to further inquiry. When all is said, however, the excellencies of the work outweigh its defects.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 509. O. ‘05. 130w. |
Larson, Laurence Marcellus. King’s household in England before the Norman conquest. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
A monograph submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. First comes a discussion of the relations of the king and his nobles, the eorls, gesiths, and thegns; then the various officers of the royal household, the king’s reeve, seneschal, butler, chamberlain, staller, and house-carls are considered and the development of their offices is traced.
“Exhibits much more originality and power of research than the average doctoral thesis, it also displays a linguistic equipment and a lucid style. He has carefully exploited charters, laws, chronicles, sagas, lives of saints, and poetic monuments in quest of evidence bearing on his subject; and the result is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon institutions.” C: Gross.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 631. Ap. ‘05. 690w. |
“Is an admirable study of a subject beset with great difficulties. Dr. Larson deserves warm praise for the skill which he has shown.”
| + + + | Yale R. 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 140w. |
Latham, Charles. Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.
“A pair of very sumptuous folio volumes containing the collected series of photographs of Italian gardens by Mr. Charles Latham.... These fine photographs have more than an artistic charm; one dwells on them all with delicious memories.” (Lond. Times.) “As a photographer of architecture, and especially of gardens, Latham stands among the ablest.... Some descriptive text by E. March Phillipps accompanies the pictures. It is of a gossiping, semi-historical sort.” (Nation.)
[*] “He who has never seen them will find the present treatment at once comprehensive and suggestive.”
| + | Dial. 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 330w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 100w. |
“The value of such a splendid collection of photographs as Mr. Latham’s is so evident, and the expense of securing them so great, that it is much to be regretted, that they should not be accompanied by plans.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 341. O. 26, ‘05. 380w. |
“Miss Phillipps brings to her descriptive text those elements of knowledge which are most conducive toward a pleasant and worthy realization of her work.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 760w. |
[*] “The text leaves somewhat to be desired; there is in it much too little of the noble art of landscape gardening.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 160w. |
Laurvik, John Nilsen, tr. See Michaelis, Karin.
Laut, Agnes Christina. [Pathfinders of the West.] [**]$2. Macmillan.
This volume “tells the story of the men who discovered and explored the great Northwest. First among the explorers of the land west of the Mississippi the author places Pierre Radisson, claiming precedence for him over Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle.... The discovery of an account of Radisson’s voyages, written by himself, the authenticity of which has been generally admitted by scholars, has induced the author to popularize the story of his life in the West and rescue his name from oblivion.” (Cath. World.) There are many illustrations, an historical appendix and an index.
“But whatever we may decide as to Miss Laut’s theory as to the Mississippi and Lake Superior discoveries, two facts remain: first, Radisson and Groseillers were pathfinders—in the real sense—to Hudson Bay; and, secondly, the author has made a readable translation of much of Radisson’s narrative.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 199. O. ‘05. 420w. |
“More absorbing than the most thrilling romance of imaginary heroes.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 128. Ap. ‘05. 230w. |
“Her work is not merely authentic, and founded, as history must always be founded, on the original documents, but it is vivified by the touch of an artist.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 353. My. 16, ‘05. 1260w. | |
| Nation. 80: 318. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1120w. |
“Asks us to readjust our notions of the early history of the western United States. Miss Laut is doing a work which deserves well of historians in following up to their sources the stories and traditions of the Western history of our country and retelling the stories in her characteristically clear style.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 248. F. ‘05. 160w. |
Lawson, Publius Virgilius. Bravest of the brave. Captain Charles de Langlade. $1.50. Log cabin inn, Menasha, Wis.
Altho the hero of this sketch fought upon the other side in the French and Indian war and the Revolutionary war, he compels the interest of Americans as a great French-Canadian pioneer. The account of some of the “ninety-nine battles, skirmishes and border affrays” in which he took part is stirring.
| Pub. Opin. 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 410w. |
“From materials in the possession of the Wisconsin historical society, and from other sources, Mr. Lawson has constructed a most interesting sketch of this ardent pioneer and fighter.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w. |
Lawson, Publius Virgilius. Prince or creole: the mystery of Louis Seventeenth. $1.50. G. Banta pub. co.
An attempt to prove that the late Rev. Eleazer Williams, who devoted his life to missionary work among the Indians, was really the boy king, son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and that instead of dying in the Temple prison, Paris, he was sent to America where he grew up as the son of a half-breed.
“He has not marshaled his evidences; his brief is a hodge podge; his statements, made with much éclat, are unsubstantiated by references. He has not even the grace of style to make his book interesting.”
| — — | N. Y. Times. 10: 363. Je. 3, ‘05. 430w. |
“If he does not succeed in winning his readers to his way of thinking, Mr. Lawson may at least take to himself the credit of having recounted, in an entertaining way, a narrative of high interest altogether apart from that naturally attached to historical mysteries.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w. |
Leach, Albert Ernest. Food inspection and analysis, for the use of public analysis, health officers, sanitary chemists, and food economists. $7.50. Wiley.
“The foregoing title very well describes this book written by one of America’s analysts of longest experience in this field of chemistry.... Food inspection, its principles and the precautions necessary in its conduct are ably, though briefly discussed.... The mass of information gathered in American laboratories together with the more recent developments in European food inspection, ... the author has ably systematized and condensed.... Nearly two hundred carefully compiled tables of composition are given, and upward of fifty tables showing the physical characters, chemical constants, etc., of food constituents, are introduced.... The worker in the field of food chemistry will find of great value the list of bibliographic references with which each chapter closes.”—Science.
“Few American contributions of importance seem to have escaped his notice. No important class of foods has failed to receive careful consideration. As a guide to special analytical methods the work is no less valuable. In literary style, the book is clear and concise. There are a few striking omissions. All considered, however, this book is the best manual on its special subject in the English language, possibly in any language.” William Frear.
| + + + | Science, n. s. 21: 465. Mr. 24, ‘05. 1610w. |
[*] Learned, Arthur G. Eve’s daughters: epigrams about women from world-wide sources. Compiled by a mere man and portrayed by A. G. Learned. $1.75. Estes.
“These epigrams, made by men concerning women and compiled by ‘a mere man,’ include wise and witty sayings from the works of such men as Goethe, Hugo, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Emerson, Shakespeare, Euripides, Thackeray, Ruskin, Byron, Bourget, Maupassant, and many others ... about the widow, the coquette, the flirt, the debutante, the prude, the summer girl, and the best and highest type of womanhood as well. The work is designed as a gift-book, and is beautifully illustrated by Mr. A. G. Learned with delicate marginal line drawings, and more elaborate full-page designs.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The epigrams contained herein are famous; the numerous illustrations are not.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 10w. |
[*] “The volume belongs to the large class of pretty and amusing gift-books which are intended not for systematic reading, but for pleasant companionship in an idle hour.”
| + | Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “The epigrams have been chosen with considerable judgment.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 29. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “The selection of the quotations has been carefully made.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
Ledoux, Louis Vernon. Songs from the silent land. [**]$2. Brentano’s.
An attractive little volume which contains about forty poems on such subjects as life, love, nature, and thought.
“All may be said to be ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,’ rather than to evince any novel or original thought on the author’s part. Yet the verse itself is at least of average merit.”
| + | Critic. 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 80w. |
“These two examples show Mr. Ledoux to have refined sensibilities and something of the poetic vision; and they are fairly representative of a body of work that is finished in execution and uniformly pleasing.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 330w. |
“Mr. Ledoux’s poems strike a pure and high note.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w. |
Lee, E. Markham. Tchaikovsky. $1. Brentano’s.
The second volume in the “Music of the masters” series. Mr. Lee’s exposition at no time loses sight of the object of the series which is helpfulness to the “plain man,” and in so doing he analyses, summarizes and holds up to broad day the vitalizing facts of Tchaikovsky’s musical genius. The symphonies, chamber music, orchestral works, piano-forte music and songs are discussed in turn with illustrations of the principal themes.
“His criticism is searching and candid as well as sympathetic, and his descriptions are picturesque.” Richard Aldrich.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 170w. |
Lee, Rev. Frank T. Bible study popularized. [*]$1.25. Winona pub.
“The first chapter in this book is devoted to general information about manuscripts and translations, and closes with commendation of the American revision. A chapter on personal Bible study follows. The rest of the book is taken up with illustrations of different methods of Bible study—by books, by historic periods, by characters and incidents—and a concluding chapter on expository preaching.”—Bib. World.
“The style is simple and clear, although the range of subjects required too much condensation. The critical standpoint is quite conservative. The historical sketches are compiled from ordinary sources.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + + — | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 390. Ap. ‘05. 120w. |
Reviewed by Irving F. Wood.
| + — | Bib. World. 25: 315. Ap. ‘05. 450w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 253. F. ‘05. 60w. |
Lee, Robert Edward, Capt. [Recollections and letters of General Robert E. Lee, by his son.] [**]$2.50. Doubleday.
“The author allows Gen. Lee’s letters, written to his most intimate ones, to form the body of the book. As these letters were written without any idea of their being made public, this book turns the light on the man as he really was.” (Ind.) “The hero of the Confederacy, seen through the eyes of his youngest son, stands forth a living personage, a kindly husband and father no less than an ideal commander, not unduly elated by victory, nor unduly cast down by defeat.” Some of the chapters are devoted to “Services in the United States army,” “The confederate general,” “The army of northern Virginia,” “Fronting the army of the Potomac,” “The surrender,” “A private citizen,” “President of Washington college,” “The idol of the South,” “Lee’s opinion of the late war,” “An ideal father,” and “The reconstruction period.”
“Such comments as Captain Lee has added are delightfully told and in perfect good taste. The style is simple, but betrays a practiced hand.” John R. Ficklen.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 674. Ap. ‘05. 710w. |
Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
| + + | Atlan. 95: 133. Ja. ‘05. 630w. |
“A true representation of himself. The book does not attempt to exalt Lee.”
| + | Ind. 58: 155. Ja. 19, ‘05. 350w. |
[*] “A charming work, which should be read by every Northern man who finds himself intolerant of southern heroes.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. |
“The story is gentle and soothing, and it will not disappoint those who may wish to forget the horrors of war and the screech-owls of peace.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 54. Ja. 19, ‘05. 190w. |
“One cannot read this book without being convinced of the man’s disinterested motives and nobility of character, nor can we wonder that he developed qualities of leadership.”
| + | R. of Rs. 30: 754. D. ‘04. 160w. |
“If we must look elsewhere for a proper appreciation of the soldier, we cannot read these Recollections without gaining a clearer knowledge of the dignity and kindliness which distinguished the private citizen.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 220. F. 11, ‘05. 2420w. |
Lee, Sidney Lazarus. Great Englishmen of the sixteenth century. [**]$1.75. Scribner.
The contents of this volume are based on a series of eight lectures delivered at Lowell Institute, Boston, in the spring of 1903. After an opening chapter on the Renaissance in England, “he has vivified the personalities of these half-dozen men,—More, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser, Bacon and Shakespeare,—and has made them show forth almost the entire activity of the age.” (Dial).
“It contains no original discoveries, no profound generalizations, no subtleties of criticism. But it gives the results of sound scholarship and sound common sense in a dry but pleasant way. Perhaps the best essays in the book are those on More and Bacon.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 73. Ja. 21. 2090w. |
“With commendable fairness and conscientious criticism Mr. Lee has handled the virtues and the weaknesses of his subjects. This volume of essays is a valuable addition to literature on the subject.”
| + + + | Cath. World, 81: 549. Jl. ‘05. 540w. |
“The versatility of the intellect and the imagination of their age was never better shown than in this charming account of these five men.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 187. F. ‘05. 80w. |
“The book is no mere rehashing of the commonplace. Mr. Lee endeavors to place these men before us in the light of their personal environment as well as in the greater light of their relation to their time.” J. W. Tupper.
| + + | Dial. 38: 123. F. 16, ‘05. 930w. |
“Delightfully written biographies ... prefaced by the best sketch of the intellectual spirit peculiar to the sixteenth century which we remember anywhere to have read.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1074. My. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
“One great merit of the book is the catholic sympathy it displays with minds of very different types.... The admirable marshalling of the facts.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 116. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1220w. |
Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget). Enchanted woods, and other essays on the genius of places. [*]$1.50. Lane.
A “rag-bag of impressions” the author calls her “pilgrimage through the open and hidden ways where, without any noisy calling, the Genius loci meets her. In Italy ... at every time of year; at Pisa, Ravenna, Venice; among Tuscan churches in summer ... in the last fir-woods of the Apennines ... she sees what Keats might have seen.” (Spec.)
“There is also in the book, besides its charm, a sympathetic insight into the past, born of wide and intimate knowledge, a sanity, a clearness of vision and perspective, all of which make the author a delightful companion.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 478. N. ‘05. 240w. |
“The habitual grace of Vernon Lee’s style is present in these pages, and her unfailing vivacity makes her the most delightful of couriers and engaging of companions.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“This is made up of just what the guide book leaves out, the personal equation, the temperamental interpretation.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
“What gives the book a permanent value is her thorough knowledge of the literature, the art, and the architecture of these countries in whose remote corners she has from time to time made her home.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 310w. |
“They are not very deep, many of them are quite superficial, but they are charming, and if not full of thought themselves, may easily cause thought in those who read them.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 780w. | |
| + | Reader. 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 280w. |
“The many little essays are very like ‘Vernon Lee’s’ other work, which is always pretty and delicate, and shows a capacity for arriving at the genius of places.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 170w. |
“Her remarks contain much more than empty fancy and personal enjoyment; she sees, but she also thinks, and so the book is worth reading for its wisdom as well as its beauty.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 330. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1550w. |
Leech, John. Pictures of life and character. $1.50. Putnam.
A collection of the cartoons of John Leech, taken mainly from Punch.
| * | Ind. 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
“They have historic value, no doubt, for manners and customs, for dress, etc. In some the humor of the drawing suffices; in many the legend is necessary for the smile.”
| + | Nation. 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 200w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w. |
“It is pleasant to have in this book so full and satisfactory a collection of John Leech’s pictures.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 835. O. 7, ‘05. 50w. |
Lefevre, Edwin. [Golden flood.] [†]$1. McClure.
The story of a young chemist who outwitted both the president of New York’s largest bank and the richest man in the world by depositing assay office checks to the amount of several millions a week until the great financiers believed that he manufactured his gold in his laboratory is cleverly told. Wall street and the reader are excited until the young man has made his fortune and explained his methods.
“Mr. Lefevre’s delightful sense of humor would sufficiently commend his book, were it not also remarkable for its technical adroitness and its excellent character touches.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w. |
“This is an exceedingly interesting story.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 359. Je. 3, ‘05. 300w. |
“Mr. Edwin Lefevre has constructed an interesting story with a most ingeniously worked out dénouement. It is a dénouement in the very simplicity of which lies its strength.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“That story, however, has more than its element of uniqueness to recommend it. The studies in the characters of great financiers, Gentile and Jew, are of unusual vividness and verisimilitude.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 120w. |
Le Gallienne, Richard. Painted shadows. [†]$1.50. Little.
These are not stories, nor essays, nor a part of prosaic today; they are verily painted shadows, as clear, as fanciful, and as elusive. There is much charming verse and much poetic prose, and many truthful things which strike home to a troubled soul. “The youth of lady Contantia,” “The shadow of a rose,” “What of love? What of fame?”—they were real only so long as they ran before us, shining shapes of promise. They were real only so long as they were shadows. “Old silver,” with its exquisite song, “The woman of dreams,” “Household gods,” “Dear dead woman,” “The two ghosts”; they and the others form a book which will be dear to all who love what is good and beautiful in literature.
“Devotees of the realistic school in literature will never enjoy Mr. Le Gallienne’s work, but for those who value a story more for its fine literary quality than for its fidelity to the real conditions of life, his beauty of phrasing and delicacy of imagination hold a charm which never grows old.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + | Arena. 33: 221. F. ‘05. 160w. |
“... In ‘Painted shadows,’ where pretty phrasing usurps the place of beautiful thought, where the mental amiability of the author’s attitude is unsupported by any vigor or nobility of utterance.”
| — + | Reader. 5: 784. My. ‘05. 570w. |
“Le Gallienne’s style, when at its best, is one of the finest things in contemporary literature. It is distinctly at its best in ‘Painted shadows.’ Should add materially to Mr. Le Gallienne’s reputation.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 110w. |
“He touches life with a delicate brush. His plots are not strong, or very purposeful; but they have the true aroma of my lady’s boudoir. He does not hesitate to use the impossible fancies of mediaeval romance to bring his stories to a desired consummation.” J. R. Ormond.
| + | The South Atlantic Quarterly. 4: 98. Ja. ‘05. 180w. |
Le Gallienne, Richard. Romances of old France. [**]$1.50. Baker.
Daintily bound, with marginal drawings the floral designs of which, in pale green ink, wander across its pages, this small volume contains the old stories of King Florus and the fair Jehane; Amis and Amile; The tale of King Coustans the emperor; Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin; Aucassin and Nicolete; and The history of over sea, all retold in the author’s own delicate fashion with little digressions and comments.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “Mr. Le Gallienne’s style is graceful, piquant, and spirited, without being archaic; and he tells as much of the stories as most readers will care to hear.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 180w. | |
| * | Nation. 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “He is near enough to his readers in lack of deep learning and near enough to his subjects in romantic feeling to give his work an undoubted interpretative value.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 830. D. 2, ‘05. 500w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 100w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 753. D. ‘05. 20w. |
Le Gallienne, Richard, tr. See Hafiz. Odes from the Divan of.
Legg, Leopold George Wickham, ed. Select documents illustrative of the history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. [*]$4. Oxford.
The editor’s aim is “to tell the story of the Revolution ‘almost in the words of the Frenchmen of the time.’ For this purpose he has made his selections chiefly from ... such journals as the political part of the Mercure de France, edited by Mallet du Pan, Mirabeau’s Courrier de Provence, and Brissot’s Patriote français.... Occasionally the texts of laws vital to the comprehension of the period are inserted in the body of the work, while others fill about one hundred pages of the appendix.” (Dial.)
“Along with numerous capital features there are some grave defects. The finding apparatus is not what it should be. The dogmatic manner and the partisan spirit which mark these comments are particularly out of place in a work which will probably find its chief use among university students.” Frank Maloy Anderson.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 196. O. ‘05. 500w. |
“Mr. Legg’s selections are made with excellent judgment, and are all interesting.”
| + + + | Dial. 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 380w. |
“Two volumes of extracts that are well worth the editorial care he has lavished upon them.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 580w. |
“Mr. Legg’s book is admirably edited, it supplies not only a charming refreshment but a valuable and even an indispensable assistance to the serious student of the French revolution.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 279. Ag. 26, ‘05. 850w. |
Legge, Arthur E. J. Ford, The. [†]$1.50. Lane.
“The ford in question connects the lands of an old-fashioned peer with those of a new soap-boiler, and its use gives cause for a feud between the houses. On this basis it is clear that a love affair between the millionaire’s son and the peer’s daughter is, as the doctors say, indicated. But the peer’s middle-aged cousin and heir, Paul Gleddayne, unwittingly introduces complication. He had loved the soap-boiler’s wife, and Mr. Legge very frankly tells us that Ralph Harrold, the jeune premier, might have been Paul Gleddayne’s son, though he happens not to be. Paul at any rate is very fond of him for his dead mother’s sake, and is distressed to find himself in the young man’s way alike in politics and love.”—Sat. R.
“The cynical indifference with which he depicts the lax morality of his men and women detracts much from an otherwise admirable piece of work.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 947. S. 16, ‘05. 370w. |
“It displays close observation and an unusual knowledge of life, and tells its story in excellent style, terse and graceful. The characters are drawn with vigor, and altogether the book is quite out of the ordinary in both its plot and its workmanship. While it is interesting, however, it fails to compel interest.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 300w. |
“There is a pervasive air of marital infidelity about the book which should make it popular. Mr. Legge labours his points unnecessarily, and might with advantage refrain from working up to very obvious epigrams.”
| — + | Sat. R. 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 300w. |
“His novel is only incidentally melodramatic, and primarily appeals to the reader as a study in character, not as a sensational romance. A book which is characterized more by charm than by strength.”
| + | Spec. 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 730w. |
Lent, Edward Burcham. Being done good. [*]$1.25. Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
A sufferer from rheumatism gives his experience with physicians of various schools in their attempts to cure him. “Blisters and red-hot cautery” is followed by disquisitions upon Turkish and electric baths, patent medicines, liver cures, hot-water treatment, and osteopathy. The humor is so genial it will not offend even those who are ridiculed.
“Here we have a satire, a humorous, but none the less biting satire, upon the medical science of today and those who apply its principles.”
| + | Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 120w. |
“In genuine humorous style.”
| R. of Rs. 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 60w. |
Leonard, Mary Finley. [Story of the big front door.] 75c. Crowell.
This volume of the “Twentieth century juveniles” tells of the doings of the Hazeltine children who lived behind the big front door, of Ikey Ford, and other boys and girls, of their aunts, uncles, and neighbors, their plays and their clubs. The children are good children who openly repent of their pranks, and the gentle strain of moralizing which runs thru the book fits it for Sunday school use.
[*] Leonard, William Samuel. Machine-shop tools and methods. $4. Wiley.
A third revised and enlarged edition of a book which represents Mr. Leonard’s “lectures on shop practice and machine design, given to the students in the Michigan agricultural college. The text is concise, comprehensive, and clear.... The description of the machines and tools is good and covers the principal details without useless words. The names of the machine parts, tools and fixtures are those used in general shop practice.”—Engin. N.
[*] “The book as a whole is undoubtedly the best one on machine shop practice that has yet appeared.” William W. Bird.
| + + + | Engin. N. 54: 529. N. 16, ‘05. 220w. |
Le Poer, John Patrick. Modern legionary. $1.50. Dutton.
A story uniform with Roger Patrick’s “Frontiersman.” “The tale is told by the hero, an Irish boy of sixteen, who joins the French foreign legion and is sent to Algeria. He describes the life of the ‘legionary’ among Chinese, Berbers, and other semi-savage tribes; and recounts several adventures.” (N. Y. Times).
“The chief characters are drawn boldly and effectively, and the scenes are described with a certain raciness which makes the story worth reading.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 782. Je. 24. 430w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 502. Jl. 29, ‘05. 450w. |
“It is not easy to dismiss the idea that a vast deal of fancy is intermingled with the fact, so extraordinary are the adventures accredited to the narrator. Book leaves an unpleasant taste. But with all its cynicism and unquestionable offenses against the canons of good taste, it is not without value as a protest against the evils of militarism and war, a forcefully worded indictment reciting the evils attendant upon armed strife.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] Le Queux, William. [Czar’s spy; the mystery of a silent love.] 50c. Smart set.
A young Englishman, the hero of this story, becomes involved in a series of strange happenings which occur in Italy, England, Scotland, Finland, and Russia, and include ghastly murders, robberies and plots. The maneuvers of a mysterious yacht owned by a band of international criminals, the dark deeds of the strangler, governor of Finland, and the sufferings of the beautiful young heroine whose enemies have rendered her deaf and dumb because she knows their guilty secret, form but a part of the thrilling and complicated plot.
[*] “It is a story that sets out to harrow your feelings and keep them harrowed till the end, which is as happy as possible.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] Le Roy, James A. Philippine life in town and country. [**]$1.20. Putnam.
“Mr. Le Roy’s aim has been rather to set forth the social constituents of the population than to describe in minute detail the customs and manners of the people. He regards all Filipinos ... as the crude recipients of the blessings or curses of the American system. In this light he studies their religion, their tribal life, their family organization, and their social status. On questions which are still undetermined and uncertain he refrains from pronouncing judgment.”—Pub. Opin.
[*] “Mr. Le Roy’s writing is always fair-minded and non-partisan in attitude. Is both instructive and readable.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 350w. |
[*] “Everything considered, it is one of the best studies of the essential character of the Filipinos which has yet appeared.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 725. D. 2, ‘05. 370w. |
Le Strange, Guy. Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. [*]$4. Macmillan.
“Mr. Le Strange’s book is nominally a geography, but it is more than that—it is a fairly close description of Western Central Asia during the time of its greatest prosperity, with especial reference, of course to the geography of the country.”—N. Y. Times.
“We cannot express our gratitude to him better than by hoping that he will resume his laborious task and publish another volume as well indexed and as admirably provided with maps as that which he has already given us.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 268. Ag. 25, ‘05. 2140w. |
“Of course such a book cannot be very readable, but its value for the students of mediaeval Hither Asia cannot be exaggerated, and even for the student of civilization in the broad it will be full of suggestion.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 380w. |
“The book is extremely suggestive and provocative of thought; it tells such tales as it has to tell in an interesting way, and throws a strong side light on the civilization of the Arab ‘misbelievers’ at the time when Christian Europe was groveling in outer darkness.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 664. O. 7, ‘05. 860w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 120w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 60w. |
“Mr. Le Strange has earned the gratitude of students for the valuable work which he has done in the field, comparatively unexplored, of Arabian geography.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 505. O. 7, ‘05. 350w. |
Lethaby, William Richard. Mediaeval art from the peace of the church to the eve of the Renaissance, 312-1250. [*]$2. imp. Scribner.
“The book is divided into twelve chapters, of which the first deals with the age of Constantine.... Four chapters following this treat of the Romanesque and Byzantine.... Then comes chapter VI., which deals with the peculiar characteristics of the later Middle ages.... This chapter introduces the treatment of Gothic art, which fills the second half of the volume. The discussion of it stops with the fourteenth century. There are 66 full-page, half-tone prints and 125 text cuts.”—Nation.
“But while Mr. Lethaby has assimilated the important results of foreign research, he is thoroughly independent in his judgments.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 758. Je. 17. 1260w. | |
| + + | Critic. 46: 186. F. ‘05. 130w. |
“The treatment is so cursory that the reader often finds little more than a list of monuments. Mr. Lethaby’s book as a whole shows no new grasp of the subject, no general principle or underlying philosophy whereby to coördinate many artistic movements.” George Breed Zug.
| — | Dial. 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 430w. |
“In Mr. Lethaby’s book we have an admirable summary of the two chief styles of medieval art—the eastward culmination, or Byzantine school, and the western, or Gothic.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 260w. | |
| Int. Studio. 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 50w. |
“Two apparent characteristics of Mr. Lethaby are a laudable willingness to take pains, and a marked readiness to adopt positive opinions—to reach final conclusions and avow them.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 339. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1230w. |
“His book is crowded with illustrations, yet there is not one too many.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 110w. |
“It has one rather serious defect in the lack of clear bibliographical definitions of at least of all the more important books and sources referred to.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 119. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1700w. |
“In this book, besides the lucid descriptions of the technical parts of the Gothic architect’s work, there are passages of rare insight into the spirit of mediaeval builders.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 270w. |
Levasseur, Pierre Emile. Elements of political economy; tr. by Theodore Marburg. [*]$1.75. Macmillan.
Following practically the four-fold division of this subject, viz., production, distribution, exchange and consumption, M. Levasseur’s work is “characterized by clearness and originality of presentation, forcefulness of treatment, and conservatism of viewpoint.” (Outlook.) The work is inadequate on the subjects of the great industrial and economic questions of the day, monopolistic production, unionism and strikes, etc. There are no indexes and no lists of references.
“It is short, succinct, interesting. It may well be used to supplement other books. The translators’ work is well done.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 592. S. ‘05. 110w. |
“Lack of logical treatment renders M. Levasseur’s book almost incomprehensible to the beginner, for whom it is evidently intended.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 180w. |
“Levasseur’s ‘Elements’ is fluent, commonplace, eclectic.”
| + | Ind. 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 190w. |
“On the whole the work is disappointing. It is decidedly inferior to several good textbooks which already exist in English.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 503. Jl. 29, ‘05. 910w. |
“The merits of the original are somewhat dimmed in the present version, wherein the phraseology is at times so awkward as to leave the author’s meaning seriously in doubt.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 360w. |
“This work is regarded as valuable chiefly for its sound and well-balanced statements of economic truths, and for its clear discrimination in dealing with new theories.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 70w. |
Levetus, A. S. Imperial Vienna. [*]$5. Lane.
An account of the history, tradition and arts of Vienna, according to the sub-title. “The volume ... is both more and less than its subtitle implies. There is a good deal of ‘history’ (141 pages out of the 416), an indefinite amount of ‘tradition,’ and a very little (ten pages) about ‘art, including sculpture and painting under Franz Josef’; but there is, in addition, something about literature, the theatre, dancing, court festivities, society, education, and the life of the common people. And, of course, the guide-book element is all there—description of streets, squares, buildings, monuments, churches, palaces, &c. The whole is enlivened by more than 150 well-selected, and for the most part, very clever illustrations from sketches in charcoal, pencil, and pen and ink.” (Nation).
“An admirable literary and artistic memorial of one of the most interesting of European capitals.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 90w. |
“Unfortunately the numerous illustrations by Erwin Puchinger are scarcely equal to the text they supplement; they lack character and atmosphere, and are devoid of the feeling for their subject which is so distinctive a charm of the work of Miss Levetus.”
| + + — | Int. Studio. 24: 369. F. ‘05. 220w. |
“Has consulted good, though not many, sources, and is not sensational in the treatment of her topics. At its best utterly devoid of literary grace, it contains many sentences of almost incredible crudity, and some which make one wonder how they could have escaped the eye of the most careless proof-reader.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 140. F. 16, ‘05. 710w. |
Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.). [Sunset trail.] [†]$1.50. Barnes.
Cattle days, and Dodge City, the crown of the Texas cattle region, furnish the time and place for this breezy story. Bat Masterson, who is a real person, is the hero, and as sheriff has many adventures and shows much courage, finally winning the love of a Boston girl by killing seven Indians before her eyes.
[*] “The book is not compelling in interest.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 130w. |
“Mr. Lewis’s keen wit and almost hypertrophied sense of the ridiculous makes the volume intensely interesting to those who have any well developed humor of their own.”
| + | Dial. 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“Except for Mr. Lewis’s ‘manner,’ they are much like other Western tales.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 368. Je. 3, ‘05. 330w. |
“These stories have less fun and more gore than Mr. Lewis’s well-known ‘Wolfville days.’”
| — | Outlook. 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 110w. |
“Interesting adventures they are—full of roughness and readiness and gun play.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 210w. |
“The story is packed with adventure, and there is so steady a flow of quiet, often grim humor in it that the reader forgets that for once he is not getting his customary scenes of sentiment.”
| + | Reader. 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 270w. |
Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E. Jordan valley and Petra. [**]$6. Putnam.
Two volumes containing more than 150 halftones of photographs, record the interesting and instructive features of a journey from Baerut to Jerusalem, covering forty-one days. The first volume gives minute descriptions of the make-up of a caravan, methods of dealing with the natives, the itinerary of the journey, statements as to the history of the places visited, etc. The second volume is devoted to a description of Petra, where for five days the party camped in the heart of the city.
[*] “Many interesting, unique, and valuable features.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | Dial. 39: 380. D. 1, ‘05. 750w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81: 128. Ag. 10, ‘05. 790w. |
“Apart from this unimportant drawback of mixing pulpit and physical geography, however, the book is excellent, and gives a good description of the present condition of the country through which the Israelites passed before they entered the Promised land.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 605. S. 16, ‘05. 1290w. |
“Apart from its scientific and antiquarian interest, their narrative is enlivened with incident, adventure, and humor.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 450w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 210w. |
Lillibridge, William Otis. [Ben Blair: the story of a plainsman.] [†]$1.50. McClurg.
The author takes Ben Blair, of worse than unknown parentage, starts him along that well trodden road in fiction—Western ranch life, then makes of him a real hero, true to his ideals, a supporter of law and order, a staunch friend, a dauntless lover, and he places this Dakota plowman in triumphant contrast to a New York clubman. While the situations are not new in type, they are certainly new in treatment and strongly handled, and one regrets that the book did not appear sooner, before the constant march of Western writers had won its ground away.
Lilly, William Samuel. Studies in religion and literature. [*]$3.25. Herder.
“A collection of nine essays.... Some of the subjects treated are: ‘What was Shakespeare’s religion?’; ‘A French Shakespeare (Balzac)’; ‘A nineteenth century Savonarola (Lamennais)’; ‘Cardinal Wiseman’s life and work’; and ‘Concerning ghost stories.’”—Cath. World.
“The ground covered is extensive, and the skill and versatility displayed are of the unusual order that we expect from Mr. Lilly. But whatever the topic, or whatever the attitude toward it, Mr. Lilly’s work is always interesting and instructive reading.”
| + + | Cath. World. 80: 830. Mr. ‘05. 160w. |
Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (Joe Lincoln, pseud.). Partners of the tide. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
A Cape Cod story in which “a small boy is adopted on the death of his parents by two maiden kinswomen, goes to school, and falls under the influence of the captain of a vessel in the coasting trade. After some years on board his ship ... they become the joint owners of a wrecking schooner. The interest of the story is pretty well divided between the young fellow’s love for a neighbor and schoolmate and his business success.” (Dial.)
“Without being remarkable, the book inspires a hearty liking.”
| + | Critic. 47: 285. S. ‘05. 70w. |
“It is in the sketches of New England character threaded upon the narrative that its chief attractiveness lies.”
| + | Dial. 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 90w. |
“The book is rural drama of the sort that appeals to the rather old and the rather young.”
| + | Nation. 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 290w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w. |
“It is all written in the best sort of sea talk, and is altogether about as good an example of a sea yarn as often gets into print.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 433. Jl. 1, ‘05. 630w. |
“Honest fun and oddity of character make the tale lively reading.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 70w. |
“A salty story, full of quaint characters with quaint turns of speech.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 270w. |
Lincoln and Douglas debates; ed. by Archibald Lewis Bouton. [*]60c. Holt.
Professor Bouton, as a teacher of argumentation has felt the lack of available material illustrative of the thrust-and-parry of actual debate and has prepared these selections to supply the deficiency, choosing them because of their value both as masterpieces of the art of debate and as historical documents. Of the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates in the senatorial campaign of 1858 in Illinois, those at Freeport, Galesburgh and Alton are printed here entire, prefaced by Lincoln’s speech of June 16 at Springfield, with which he opened the campaign, and supplemented by the famous Cooper institute address of Feb. 15, 1860. The volume is well annotated for class use.
Lindsay, Charles Harcourt. (Charles Harcourt, pseud.). Good form for men. [**]$1. Winston.
The prescribed code is made the authority for this “guide to conduct and dress on all occasions,” yet the suggestions are flexible enough to include frequent conditions that are outside the scope of established rules. The book is convenient in form and concise in treatment.
“This is probably the most valuable book of the character that has appeared in America.”
| + + + | Arena. 34: 553. N. ‘05. 180w. |
“What he says as a rule is to the point and unexaggerated.”
| + | Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 70w. |
“It is written in good faith, if not in good form, and contains hints that should be helpful.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 940w. |
[*] Liquor problem, [**]$1. Houghton.
“The somewhat celebrated Committee of fifty for the investigation of the liquor problem was organized in 1893, and has since that time through its sub-committees published no less than five volumes embodying the results of its labors. Of these volumes two of considerable size considered the physiological aspects, one was occupied with legislative aspects, one with economic aspects, and one with ‘substitutes for the saloon.’”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “For the general reader this little book is the most important treatise upon the subject. It should receive wide attention.”
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 749. N. ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “It is unfortunate that this final volume does not make any reference to the experience of the last five years, nor to the sharp criticism made upon the work of the committee.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 871. O. 12, ‘05. 880w. |
[*] “Constitutes, as might be expected from the character of the investigating parties, about as sane a statement of the real conditions of the liquor problem as can be obtained within small compass. The value of the book seems to be chiefly in the papers contributed by Dr. Billings and President Eliot.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 310w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 637. N. ‘05. 160w. |
Litsey, Edwin Carlile. Race of the swift. [†]$1.25. Little.
Seven stories of wild animals and the tragedy which follows their trail in their quest of food. The title story tells of the plucky run of a mother fox foraging for her little ones; The robber baron is the story of a feudal hawk; The ghost-coon tells of a coon which was white but not a ghost; The spoiler of the folds, follows the hunt of a gray-wolf; The fight on the tree-bridge is waged between an old raccoon and a little coon-dog; The guardian of the flock is the tragic tale of a sheep dog turned traitor; and The King of the Northern slope depicts the last fight of a great wild cat. The volume is illustrated by Charles L. Bull.
[*] “The stories have marked individuality, though the subjects of them ... have been treated very often before. Each tale moves rapidly and firmly, with perfect adherence to the facts of animal life, and without sentimentality.” May Estelle Cook.
| + | Dial. 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 130w. |
“These seven tales ... are unusually interesting reading.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 300w. |
Little, Archibald John. Far East. [*]$2. Oxford.
“A volume of that excellent geographical series, ‘The regions of the world.’ ... The book is no mere compilation, but written out of a full experience. Most of the chapters are occupied with China historically and geographically.... The description of the Yangtse valley is especially good and complete, for on this Mr. Little writes with unique knowledge. There are also interesting chapters on Mongolia and Turkestan, and a very good and full account of Tibet and the various approaches to that land.”—Spec.
“The style of the book is everywhere lucid, its thought is everywhere original and stimulating, and even dry geographical details are vivified by their connexion with human history.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 361. S. 16, ‘05. 2400w. |
“It is the kind of book of which there has been genuine need for some time.”
| + + + | Dial. 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 380w. |
“Is a capital illustration of what may be accomplished by judicious condensation. Every sentence counts, and the ultimate result is not a confusing jumble of facts and figures—as it might easily have been—but a clear-cut picture, the details of which are unmistakable.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 140w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 1900w. |
“We congratulate Mr. Little on having given us a most readable volume, full of information, and yet with that local colouring which is an essential for a book to command the attention of the general reading public.”
| + + | Nature. 72: 626. O. 26, ‘05. 780w. |
“It is an admirable summary of the geography and peoples of the Far East, interesting to read, valuable for reference, and with an abundance of excellent maps that will well repay study.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 2510w. |
“If not technically a geographical expert, Mr. Little possesses quite enough scientific knowledge to enable him to deal intelligently with the problems at issue; while his personal knowledge of the region and people enables him to infuse into his descriptions the special interest at which the ‘Regions of the World’ series aims.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 409. S. 23, ‘05. 1720w. |
“Is a most comprehensive and scholarly work, written by one who has a lifelong knowledge of the Far East, and is, in addition, an accomplished geographer.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 528. O. 7, ‘05. 320w. |
Littlefield, Walter, tr. See Noussanne, H. de. Kaiser as he is.
Livingston, Luther Samuel. Auction prices of books. 4v. [*]$40. Dodd.
“The editor of ‘American book-prices current,’ ... not satisfied with that meritorious labor, has undertaken to combine selectively his own series with the English of corresponding title, and with earlier sources antedating both. Of the four quarto volumes to result we have the first—A to Dick, ‘Auction prices of books.’ ... This is one of those enterprises concerning which the bare statement as just made is all-sufficient for the connoisseur.”—Nation.
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 775. Je. 24. 1590w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 264. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1710w. (Review of v. 2.) |
[*] “Mr. Livingston has evidently not spared himself trouble to make this section complete.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 604. N. 4. 880w. (Review of v. 3.) | |
| + + + | Nation. 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + + + | Nation. 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| + + | Nation. 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.) | |
| + + + | Nation. 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 360w. (Review of v. 4.) | |
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 550w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“More and more, as it nears completion, does Mr. Livingston’s work commend itself to those who have to do with books.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 622. S. 23, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.) |
[*] “The value of the work will increase.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 843. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 4.) | |
| + + + | Spec. 94: 947. Je. 24, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“There is nothing very remarkable in this portion.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 615. O. 21, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister). Mrs. Radigan: her biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal and the memoirs of J. Madison, [†]$1. Scribner.
A satire upon New York social climbers in which Mrs. Radigan climbs, her beautiful sister Pearl climbs with her, and young Jones, the real estate agent, is pulled up hanging to their skirts. The titled Englishman, the complacent bishop and the cotillion leader appear in the story, which overflows with good humor.
“The book is sprightly and clever without being over-clever, and it is written by one who knows his ground.”
| + | Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 260w. |
“The story, being satire, but satire of a kindly nature, is very bright reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 430w. |
“A rather clever satire, varying from the obvious to some delightfully subtle thrusts at modern American society.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 150w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 761. D. ‘05. 100w. |
Locke, William John. [Morals of Marcus Ordeyne.] [†]$1.50. Lane.
A London bachelor, contentedly engaged upon a “History of renaissance morals” whose life is filled by his valet, his cat and Judith, his clever neighbor, comes upon a beautiful oriental child strayed from a Syrian harem and takes her to his home. This girl wakens his slumbering passions, she elopes with a daredevil fellow, but in the end, chastened and developed, returns to Ordeyne.
“His style is delightful, pointed, witty and finished. But for all his admirable craftsmanship there is something wanted, and that an essential—vitality.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 664. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w. |
“The chief distinguishing quality of the story, however, is found in the literary and artistic merit rather than in its ethical worth. Clearly it is a tale written to amuse. The author possesses a peculiarly brilliant and finished style.”
| + | Arena. 34: 107. Jl. ‘05. 430w. |
“It is clever throughout, despite the sentimentalism.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 587. My. 13. 280w. |
“It is a refreshingly whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 364. Je. ‘05. 670w. |
“The story is intensely interesting from first to last, besides being rich in the sort of literary and scholarly allusiveness that appeals most strongly to the cultivated mind.” William Morton Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 820w. | |
| Ind. 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 60w. |
“It is entirely original in conception, and the plot is carried out with great skill. The conversations are particularly clever.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 307. My. 13, ‘05. 710w. |
“Unusual, striking, and brilliant to a degree is this story.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 220w. |
“The changes of scene are frequent, the note of passion is dominant, and the conclusion, if not unexpected, is gratifying.”
| + — | Reader. 6: 472. S. ‘05. 190w. |
“The story is unconventional, it is interesting, and it is well written.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 812. Je. 17, ‘05. 510w. |
Lockhart, John Gibson. Life of Robert Burns. [*]60c. McClurg.
Uniform with the “Library of standard biographies,” this volume contains in handy compact form the text of the edition of 1820. It has been annotated, and an index added for the use of students and readers.
| + | Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 30w. |
Lockhart, John Gibson. Life of Sir Walter Scott. [*]60c. McClurg.
The Lockhart life of Scott has appeared in an abridged form, newly edited with notes for the student’s use. It is uniform with the “Library of standard biographies.”
Lodge, George Cabot. Cain: a drama. [**]$1. Houghton.
A drama dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth. It presents Cain as an heroic defender of free thought, to whom is revealed:
“The power of life, the glory of rebellion.
The fire and love of liberty, the pride
Of freedom, poverty, solitude, and pain.”
He kills his brother that he may not live to pollute humanity by spiritual bondage, and for the sake of the light he carries, willingly becomes “an outcast from the laws of men.”
“The diction of the poem is almost as severe as its outline, and is sustained throughout at a lofty pitch.” Wm. Morton Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 46. Ja. 16, ‘05. 740w. |
“Is a veritable volcano of poetry, pouring out real fire, mingled with smoke and ashes. What Mr. Lodge lacks is the saving sense of humor. He has undoubted force and passion. The whole play gives the impression of reversed dynamics.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w. |
“His mastery of poetic structure is still imperfect. Yet, when all due abatement has been made, ‘Cain’ is a book of interesting promise. There is here, moreover, in both substance and form, much to reward attention.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 420w. |
“Mr. Lodge’s drama is a personal and passionate reading of the story of Cain and Abel, in which Cain is presented as a Biblical Prometheus daring the wrath of heaven to bring light to the souls of men. He is the archetype of the modern free-thinker, while Abel is the cowardly formalist.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 18. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w. |
London, Jack. [The game.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
A story of the prize ring showing two types of fighters,—one a fine specimen of manhood, the other fashioned after the brute order. There is an idyllic romance too, which of course concerns the higher minded boxer and a very human young maiden who grows jealous of her rival “the game.” The author has drawn the savage side with deft realism, both from the participant’s and the spectator’s viewpoint.
“Mr. London has in this book made a very decided advance in the matter of style.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 809. Ag. 5, ‘05. 300w. |
“This book is simply a good and spirited little report, rather too loud for quiet tastes. There is nothing elemental here; this is sheer street-bred sensuality, if it is anything.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 138. Jl. 29. 300w. |
“He has produced at least one story which of its kind seems to the present writer very nearly flawless—‘The game.’”
| + + + | Bookm. 22:35. S. ‘05. 620w. |
“It is of the most banal and ordinary stamp, utterly lacking in the dramatic power with which its author has been credited hitherto.”
| — — | Critic. 47: 285. S. ‘05. 110w. | |
| + + | Ind. 58: 1480. Je. 29, ‘05. 280w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“Mr. London seems for the first time unaccountably out of his element and outside of the verities.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 528. Ag. 12, ‘05. 730w. |
“Mr. London’s stories are never lacking in power, dramatic quality, and picturesqueness, but his love for the strenuous and the tragic has led him to end his story in a way that is fairly brutal.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w. |
“The description of the fight itself which forms the greater portion of the book is skilfully done. But it is only good journalism.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w. |
London, Jack. [The sea wolf.] $1.50. Macmillan.
“A ferryboat sinks in the San Francisco harbor, the passengers perish, but Humphrey Van Weyden, critic, æsthete, typical specimen of hyper-civilization, is picked up by the ‘Ghost,’ and compelled by the captain of that ‘hellship’ to become cook’s scullion. Van Weyden is a creature of overdeveloped brain-power, physically a plaything in the hands of Wolf Larsen, the ship’s captain, and thus arises a struggle between the primitive brutalities of the natural man and this last product of the twentieth century.... The plot has further and rather more conventional ramifications, but it is primarily the fight between the beast in man and the man who has worked out the beast that holds our attention, and, secondarily, the overshadowing personality of Wolf Larsen.”—R. of Rs.
“We do not wish to deny the cleverness of much in ‘The sea-wolf,’ but we must protest against this picture of rampant inhumanity and brutality.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 14. Ja. 7, ‘05. 310w. |
“This romance is one of the strongest and most original stories by an American novelist that has appeared in recent years. The story though powerful and quite out of the ordinary lines of romance, is not a novel that we can heartily recommend to the general reader.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + | Arena. 33: 452. Ap. ‘05. 610w. |
“Thus the story becomes essentially an account of the development of character under extraordinary conditions, and its aspect as a narrative of adventure is obscured by its aspect as a psychological study. It is not a pleasant tale to read—it is too strongly seasoned to be that,—but it acquires a certain fascination in the course of its telling, and fairly grips the attention in its culminating passages.” W. M. Payne.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w. (Outline of plot). |
“Altho thousands read in ‘The sea-wolf’ nothing but an exciting tale, yet the ethical theorem is developed by argument and illustration with a symmetry and completeness rare even in a serious treatise.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 39. Ja. 5, ‘05. 820w. |
“This latest book is the high-water mark of the author’s power. Virile, forceful, dashing though he has been from the first entry into literature, he can do nothing more memorable than this story of a hellship, manned by brute beasts, under a sea-wolf. It is in the cruelty, the peace, the awfulness, the beauty of the sea, that Mr. London has outdone himself as well as others. The book is not food for babes, but for lovers of the sea. He must own strong nerves who would ship with Wolf Larsen, but the Iliad of the ocean is opened before him.”
| + + + | Reader. 5: 378. F. ‘05. 600w. |
“In depicting that fatal struggle between him and Van Weyden, Mr. London remains entirely impartial. The book is neither a glorification of the ‘overman’ nor of his opposite. We are told of the two, and of their fight for life, with swift directness, with sincerity and strength.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 500w. |
London, Jack. [Tales of the fish patrol.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“The broad bays about San Francisco, and the rivers that run into them, are sources of revenue of fishermen of several diverse nationalities—Chinese, Italians, and Greeks. The life of the fish patrol, whose duty it is to enforce the fishing laws, furnishes plenty of opportunities for adventures, exciting and often dangerous. The stories in this volume describe some of these adventures simply but dramatically.”—Outlook.
“It is ostensibly a book for boys, but it is good reading for others as well.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “Have the freshness and vigor of the sea and not a little of its heroism.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “The stories have a fresh realism and a curt vigor which show first-hand work.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 140w. |
London, Jack. [War of the classes.] [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
The book is made up of six socialistic studies entitled: “The class struggle,” “The tramp,” “The scab,” “The question of the maximum,” “A review,” “Wanted: a new law of development.” and “How I became a socialist.” It is Mr. London’s purpose, he declares in his preface, to “enlighten, to some slight degree,” the minds of a few capitalists.
“It is an interesting thought-provoking volume, to be read and pondered, but truths and half truths are so interwoven that it is scarcely a safe guide.”
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 592. S. ‘05. 100w. |
“It is marred somewhat by repetition and lacks the coherence and cogency of a logical whole. With all these defects, however, the ‘War of the classes’ is no whit inferior in the vigour of its style and the sweep and rapid movement of its thought to any of Jack London’s work.” Robert C. Brooks.
| + + — | Bookm. 22: 61. S. ‘05. 1990w. |
“Some of Mr. London’s best and most lasting work is to be found in these pages. It is regrettable, however, that certain discrepancies in the text have not been more carefully edited.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1190. My. 25, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “Develops the socialist attitude on modern social antagonisms in his characteristically forcible and striking style.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 550w. |
“The essays are full of half-truths, and half-truths that need statement. We advise the student of modern industrial problems to read this book; but to be slow about accepting either its picture of conditions or its proposals for remedies.”
| — + | Outlook. 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 520w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 290w. | |
| + — | Reader. 6: 595. O. ‘05. 390w. | |
| + — | R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 130w. |
Loney, S. L. Elements of trigonometry; with answers. [*]90c. Macmillan.
This volume “is mainly taken from pt. 1. of the author’s ‘Plane trigonometry,’ and is designed as an easier text-book.”—Nature.
“Altogether an admirable piece of work, and we can pay it no higher compliment than to say it is well on the level of those other text-books for which Professor Loney is so well known.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 130w. |
“The subject is treated in the usual way, and there is nothing to call for special mention.”
| + | Nature. 71: 507. Mr. 30, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Long, John Luther. Heimweh and other stories, [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“Eight stories, or rather novelettes.... In the first of these, which gives its title to the book, we are told the story of a day labourer and his wife, from the day of their marriage to their death.... ‘The siren’ ... describes a courtship carried on by two bold swimmers, who, at last, swim out too far from land, and are drowned.” (Ath.) The remaining stories are: The loaded gun; Liebereich; “Jupiter Tonans;” “Sis;” Thor’s emerald; and Guile.
[*] “His aims are right, and so, for the most part, are his methods.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 686. N. 18. 280w. |
[*] “Too much sentimentality, not enough humor, and an unfortunate lack of compression. Mr. Long’s ingenuity and facile expression prevent them from being wholly bad.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 578. D. ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “These stories do not lack imagination, but at times the gayety seems forced, and the conversations are jerkily vivacious.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “He has a sense of atmosphere, his point of view is individual, and he is not without that kindly humour which laughs while it sympathises. But he is terribly sentimental.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 6. D. 9, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] Long, John Luther. Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo. [†]$2.50. Lippincott.
A reincarnation of this Japanese romance, in which wide margins, Japanese flowers and fancies which wander across the text, and various full page illustrations, some of which are in color, lend to the interesting story of Sakura-San and the “excellent barbarians” from England and America who play at cross purposes thruout its pages a new and subtle charm.
[*] “In this and ‘Madame Butterfly’ he is seen at his best.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 20w. | |
| * | + | Dial. 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “The author has contrasted Oriental and Occidental traits in his well-known style.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w. | |
| * | Nation. 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “Told with charm and well-rendered Oriental atmosphere.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Long, John Luther. Seffy; a little comedy of country manners. [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
Old Baumgarten, a Pennsylvania-German and Maryland farmer, has set his heart upon marrying his great slow going son, Seffy, to a red-headed, tempestuous girl, named Sally, who owns the lands lying between his farm and the railroad. He almost brings this about, but Seffy’s reticence allows another lover to come between him and his sweetheart. Sally marries out of spite and comes to bitterly repent of it, while old Baumgarten curses his son, knocks him down and sends him out into the world where he learns to fight for things and to get them. In the end he comes back to claim all that he lost in his youth.
| * | + | Dial. 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w. |
Long, William Joseph. [Northern trails: stories of animal life in the far north.] [*]$1.50. Ginn.
“Mr. Long takes the reader with him ... to the barren shores of Labrador and Newfoundland. Wolves, we meet, that guide lost children home, and then disappear into the wilderness; a wild goose that caresses his mate goodbye at the approach of the hunter, before going out to fight for his home and young; and Pequam, of the weasel family, that tempts an Indian to abandon his trail, by killing a deer and leaving it across the track. These animals and many more—whales, polar bears and salmon—are all introduced to us in the midst of their wild, unfrequented haunts. All are endowed with almost human intelligence and reason, after the manner of interpreting their actions which Mr. Long has made so popular.”—Ind.
[*] “There is a charm about Mr. Long’s book that few writers for children attain.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “His stories have a charm and an excellence of their own.” May Estelle Cook.
| + | Dial. 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“We are willing to let the disputed question of instinct or intelligence go, however, and on the strength of the splendid descriptions of nature and the always evident love of the wild, accord this volume a high place among ‘books of the trail.’”
| + + | Ind. 59: 873. O. 12, ‘05. 250w. |
“Mr. Long assures us of the accuracy of his data, and maintains the reasonableness of his inferences.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “Aside from the controversial side as to whether these eight stories are to be classified as natural history or fiction, these tales of the Northern trails are dull and lifeless.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 560w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w. |
“His this year’s story is vigorous, delightful, and refreshing.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 100w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w. |
Long day. See Richardson, Dorothy.
Loomis, Charles Battell. Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a return to nature. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
A novel which “recounts the experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Vernon and their city-reared colored cook, Minerva, during a summer sojourn in the country.... A fine silk thread of a plot runs through the book, stringing together the many humorous situations.”—Pub. Opin.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 478. N. ‘05. 80w. |
“It is a good book to read aloud, but only a chapter or two at a time.”
| + | Ind. 59: 696. S. 21, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “The unexpected endings of the many humorous situations will keep the reader in a gale of mirth, and when he lays the book down after the last chapter, he will feel that he has found a new friend in Minerva.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 520w. |
[*] “Is more in the nature of a vaudeville show than anything else, and it is not possible to describe all of the attractions which Mr. Loomis offers. They are surely worth a reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 460w. | |
| + | Outlook. 81: 88. S. 9, ‘05. 50w. |
“It is not an uproarious story; its humor is quiet; it possesses the subtle turn which is symptomatic of its author.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 384. S. 16, ‘05. 230w. |
Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June. Italian in America. $1.50. Buck.
“The pretty evident purpose of this volume is to reverse the prevailing American prejudice against the Italian as an immigrant and material for United States citizenship.... [It] uses ... the argument ... of statistics, and its authors ... attempt to show first of all that the Italian settler is economically a good thing for the country.... Secondly, they produce evidence that in the particulars of disease and crime he does not supply more than his quota ... and, thirdly, they argue from data which they present that he ... adapts himself very completely ... to American ways of doing and thinking.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book as a whole is general in its treatment, somewhat objectionable because of frequent quotations, and partakes too much of the loose character of magazine articles. The spirit of the book is much to be commended.” Emily Fogg Meade.
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 609. S. ‘05. 460w. |
“The book is optimistic, discriminating and instructive.”
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 532. My. 18, ‘05. 110w. |
“Is of normal simplicity and clearness.”
| + | Ind. 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 120w. |
“There is room for believing that ‘The Italian in America’ will be a potent instrument in molding a saner public opinion.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 800w. |
“But the labors of others are here presented in logical sequence and in a sympathetic spirit, resulting in an interesting and readable book. The book is not free from dubious assertions.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 361. My. 4, ‘05. 1040w. |
“It will strike many perhaps that Messrs. Lord, Trenor, and Barrows have omitted some essential facts, but both the facts presented and the inferences drawn are interesting in substance—even when the manner of presentation is dry. Taken all together the cumulative evidence for the Italian collected by the authors is impressive.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1050w. |
“Welcome as a wholesome corrective of fallacy and prejudice.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 460w. |
Lorenz, Daniel Edward. Mediterranean traveller, [*]$2.50. Revell.
A compact practical guide-book which covers southern Spain, Morocco, Algiers, the chief cities of northern Africa, Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt. Much historical and general information is given, a bibliography precedes each chapter, and there are many maps and pictures.
“This compact work ‘fills a long felt want.’ The proof reading has not been done by a classical expert.”
| + + — | Critic. 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 160w. |
“The text is in some portions accurate and business-like, but in others it reveals amateurishness, and some inaccuracies and misprints.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 370w. |
“The excellence of its method and treatment of the many countries bordering on the great interior sea of Europe are unquestionable.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w. |
“‘The Mediterranean traveler’ will find here in one volume what elsewhere must be picked out of several.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 451. F. 18. ‘05. 60w. |
Loring, Andrew. Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by George Saintsbury. [*]$2.50. Dutton.
“The lexicon is divided into three parts—Finals, Penults, and Antepenults. The words have been grouped according to the accented vowel sound and placed in columns in the alphabetical sequence of the letters which follow this sound.... Each part of the lexicon has fourteen vowel divisions, adopted for reference purposes; and the divisions are enumerated in a table of contents, which also includes key words illustrating the vowel sounds.”—N. Y. Times.
“In size and arrangement it is admirable; it might have been larger still without being any better.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 678. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w. | |
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 450w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 290w. |
“Altogether an able book, full of aid to those who make rhymes.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w. |
“The arrangement is novel, at first sight a little intricate, but truly scientific.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w. |
“This may be a very useful book.”
| + | Spec. 94: 791. My. 27, ‘05. 240w. |
Loring, J. Alden. Art of preserving animal tracks, $1. J. A. Loring, Owega, Tioga co., N. Y.
“Mr. Loring describes in this pamphlet a very ingenious and apparently effective method of making molds, and from the mold, casts of the tracks of mammals and birds, large and small.... The operation itself is clearly and minutely described, and seemingly could be easily managed by any intelligent boy.”—Outlook.
| Outlook. 79: 757 Mr. 25, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone (Margaret Sidney, pseud.) [Ben Pepper.] [†]$1.50. Lothrop.
This is the tenth volume in the popular “Little Pepper” series. “The hero is Ben, Mother Pepper’s first-born, her ‘steady-as-a-rock’ boy. Christmas shopping in which the Little Peppers take a lively hand, Christmas philanthropies, the usual quota of accidents and pranks, and, finally, Ben’s decision as to whether he will go to college or enter a business office, ‘beginning at the very bottom,’ are the features of the story.”—Outlook.
[*] “Mrs. Sidney has made him as interesting as others of the Pepper family.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 100w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 70w. |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 765. D. ‘05. 70w. |
Lott, Noah, pseud. See Hobart, George Vere.
[*] Lottridge, Silas A. Animal snap-shots and how made. [**]$2. Holt.
A simple narrative concerning the birds and mammals which the author has come to know in the course of various vacations spent in studying and photographing them. The pictures illustrate the facts and some of the series represent the work of years. The object of the book is to arouse, especially in young people, a living interest in the animals about them. There are chapters on the woodchuck, skunk, muskrat, fox, mouse, squirrel, blue bird, robin, bobolink, crow, owl, hawk and others.
Lovett, W. J. Complete class book of naval architecture; practical, laying off, theoretical, with numerous il. and nearly 200 full, worked-out answers to recent education department examination questions. [*]$2.50. Longmans.
“This work is intended primarily for British students attending technical classes.” It “covers the whole field of naval architecture, theoretical and practical.”—Engin. N.
“In this country its field as a text-book will necessarily be limited, and as a reference book its treatment of the various subjects, except elementary ship calculations, is inadequate.” D. W. Taylor.
| + — | Engin. N. 53: 529. My. 18, ‘05. 1030w. |
Low, Berthe Julienne. French home cooking. [**]$1.20. McClure.
The author, tho a Frenchwoman by birth, has lived in this country twenty-five years. She says: “This is not a book for restaurants, hotels, or people who can afford a chef. Most Americans have formed their ideas of French cooking from hotels, restaurants, or formal dinners, and have never known the home cooking, which is more simple and more wholesome. It is also less complicated.... The recipes which I shall give are used in well-to-do families and constitute what is called in French the ‘bonne cuisine bourgeoise.’” She starts with the very arrangement of the kitchen and instructs in those little tricks by which the French are able to obtain distinction and flavor in their cookery.
| + | Critic. 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 60w. |
“Mrs. Low’s formulas are in the main so excellent that it would be invidious to discriminate. Her success is unequivocal and decisive.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 78. Ja. 25, ‘05. 490w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w. |
Low, Sidney. The governance of England. [*]$2.25. Putnam.
“A well-informed, well-written, and interesting description of the government of Great Britain, beginning with a definition of the British constitution, so difficult of characterization, but explained by Mr. Low in a thoroughly rational and comprehensive way.... Mr. Low gives a very interesting account of the place and function of the prime minister, of the cabinet, of the privy council, of both houses of parliament, and of every other form and function of government in Great Britain.” (Outlook). “The main view of Mr. Low is that of Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, that the power of the house of commons is declining and must continue to decline, while that of the cabinet, and especially of the inner cabinet, is increasing.” (Ath.)
“Is a most able and valuable production, marked, too, by unusual excellence of style. If we name points on which we have doubts as to whether Mr. Low is right, it is with the profound feeling that he has given great attention to a subject in which he evidently takes much interest, and the facts of which, so far as they are generally available, he has mastered.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 79. Ja. 21. 1980w. |
“There can be little but praise for the author’s literary style. It is easy, strong and clear, and with a light touch and aptness of allusion that never detract from the weighty theme.” John William Russell.
| + + + | Bookm. 22: 57. S. ‘05. 1400w. |
“There are many clever and some acute observations in the book; but, in our judgment, the view given of the English constitution is superficial, and in some cases erroneous.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 400. My. 18, ‘05. 2010w. |
“Very admirable book. The plan of the work is so excellently conceived and executed that only one or two objections are suggested by a first reading. One is to the title. The other objection is to an occasional drop into triviality and the college graduate habit of quoting mere hackneyed phrases and tags from other languages. There are occasional slips in the printing and in the statements. The particular excellence of this work has already been indicated as being an interpretation of the English constitution as it operates to-day. The value of this book is very greatly increased for American readers by the frequent comparisons instituted between the English and American political systems.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1650w. |
“Probably no book has yet appeared which, in so untechnical and comprehensive a way, places before the reader the elaborate, highly complex, and thoroughly democratic governmental system.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 448. F. 18, ‘05. 200w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Lowell, Mrs. Carrie Thompson, comp. Art lovers’ treasury; famous pictures described in poems; forty-eight reproductions of famous pictures accompanied by poems of noted writers, with text by Carrie Thompson Lowell. [**]$1.20. Estes.
“Forty-eight pictures are reproduced in half-tone, and the editor writes a running comment, treating a group of paintings and sculpture under some general heading, such as ‘Mythology in poetry and sculpture,’ ‘Legends of the saints,’ or ‘Pictures translated into verse.’” (Dial.) “An attempt has been made to assemble famous pictures and pieces of sculpture, and to bring into association with these certain poems that have been inspired by the various works of art that are pictured, or which have been written descriptive of them.... Many of the best artists are represented, as well as poets such as Dante, Keats, Browning, Longfellow, Whittier, Markham, and some others.” (Ind.)
[*] “An excellent companion volume to Miss Singleton’s ‘Great portraits’ is this compilation of Mrs. Lowell.”
| + | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “Pictures and poetry are thoroughly representative, and the arrangement, though necessarily loose holds the reader’s interest.”
| + | Dial. 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 100w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] Lowery, Woodbury. Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562-1574. [**]$2.50. Putnam.
“This, the second of Mr. Lowery’s monographs on the history of Spanish colonization within the present limits of the United States, deals with the Florida settlements of the period 1562-1574, and like its predecessors, is based on a careful study of original sources.... An interesting feature is—comprehensive exposition of the tribal organization, characteristics and customs of the Florida Indians. The work contains several maps, more than thirty bibliographical and critical appendices, and a good index.”—Outlook.
[*] “Scholarly work.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 20w. |
[*] “A treatise not only of prime interest but of solid value, as embodying a broader and more than usually judicial statement of the vexed themes involved.”
| + + — | Lit. D. 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 600w. | |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “So cautious is he, and so frequent are his references to and citations from authorities, that from the narrative standpoint his book is at times arid and tedious. But it is unquestionably of distinct value to the historical student.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 340w. |
Lowrie, Rev. Walter. Gaudium crucis: a meditation for Good Friday upon the seven words from the cross. [*]90c. Longmans.
Meditations upon mercy, judgment, love, joy and sacrifice, confirmation, accomplishment and duty, and filial trust. The book is designed for those who are unable to attend the Good Friday services, and to assist the clergy in preparing their sermons.
| Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe Loyson). To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews, Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.
“‘A tour of Christian exploration.’ Pere Hyacinthe and his wife (who is an American) travelled from Algeria to Jerusalem, by way of Arabia and Egypt, and the travels are described in a lively and vigorous style.... The idea of the book is not the travel, so much as the relativity of religions of the peoples studied ... and Madame Hyacinthe Loyson’s point is the universal brotherhood of ... the religions of Allah and Jehovah and the Christian religion. In the co-operation of the three—and in the honouring by modern Christianity of some of the grander and simpler elements of the other two faiths, she sees the regeneration of the world.”—Acad.
[*] “There is a breadth of view in the book, enthusiasm and some little of that spirit which sees good in ‘every country but its own.’ It will not please theologians, but it may stimulate the thoughts of the ordinary religiously-minded man or woman.”
| + | Acad. 68: 1237. N. 25, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “Everywhere in the book there is the intense spiritual earnestness of a good woman holding conferences with the leading representatives of Islam.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 340w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 230w. |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 636. N. ‘05. 60w. |
Lucas, Abner H. Call of to-day. [*]50c. Meth. bk.
Sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Montclair, N. J. They include: The religion for to-day; Work for to-day; The commanded strength; Joy for the morning; The mighty appeal of usefulness; Re-enlisted strength; and The complete life.
Lucas, Edward Verrall, comp. Book of verses for children. $1. Holt.
Some 200 verses which Stevenson, Browning, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Lewis Carroll, Riley, Longfellow, Scott, Rossetti, and many others have written for little folks are gathered into this delightful volume, with old ballads, rhymes and songs of Christmas.
“Altogether, the little volume is one of the most desirable of such collections (in small space) now to be got at. There seems to be something in it for all good juvenile tastes.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 575. S. 2. ‘05. 230w. |
[*] Lucas, Edward Verrall. Life of Charles Lamb. 2v. [*]$6. Putnam.
Mr. Lucas “has tried as far as possible to keep the story of the life to the words of the original performers and their contemporaries.... At a wave of his hand witness after witness gets up to testify in his own words and tell the reader what he knew of Lamb during the period in question.... We are able to see the actual environment of Lamb between 1815 and 1825, surrounded ... by the normal frequenters of these ‘noctes’ such as George Dyer, Fenwick, Robert Fell, Martin Burney, G. Burnett, Randal Norris, George Dawe, Ayrton, Phillips, Alsager, and Barren Field. The portraits of most of these intimates of the Mitrecourt and Inner Temple-lane are limned with a delicate and artistic curiosity. Lamb is depicted in this circle as he lived.... For all the very happiest things that have ever been said about Lamb the enthusiast will find a happy-hunting-ground in these two volumes.”—Lond. Times.
[*] “Only once, so far as we have noticed, is he betrayed into something like over-confidence in his minute research.”
| + + — | Acad. 95: 999. S. 30, ‘05. 1810w. |
[*] “Of the man Charles Lamb—the ‘human mortal,’ as distinguished from the thinker and writer—Mr. Lucas’s pages reflect a true and lively image. He is less successful in reproducing the intellectual features of his subject; while his portraits of certain of Lamb’s contemporaries—notably that of Coleridge—are not far removed from travesty.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 756. D. 2. 880w. |
[*] “Is likely to prove of more importance than the recent edition of ‘The works and letters of Charles and Mary Lamb,’ of which he was the editor. It will not supersede the ‘Life and final memorials’ of Talfourd, but it contains, mainly in the form of letter and anecdote, much of supplementary value, and some matter which is absolutely fresh.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + — | Atlan. 96: 844. D. ‘05. 1080w. |
[*] “Taking Mr. Lucas’s biography as a whole there is a wealth of entertainment in its pages which it would be difficult to overestimate. The part that we are least sanguine of recommending is the appendix, which seems to us a heavy incubus upon a book which ought to carry not an ounce of superfluous material.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 297. S. 22, ‘05. 2440w. |
[*] “Mr. Lucas has drawn upon a large fund of fresh material, and has so generously told the story of both lives in the language of his subjects that this biography is really an autobiography.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 380w. | |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “Above all other things Mr. Lucas’s work is one which abounds in the essential characteristic of biographical work—sympathy. The vast compilation of tiny details of personality and character are not thrown together haphazard but are arranged chronologically, and indexed in a masterly manner.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 820. D. 23, ‘05. 690w. |
[*] “The first really complete and adequate Life of that singularly delightful writer and admirable man.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: 653. O. 28, ‘05. 1550w. |
Lucas, Edward Verrall. [Wanderer in Holland.] [*]$1.75. Macmillan.
“The combination of Mr. Lucas as narrator with Mr. Herbert Marshall as illustrator has given us a charming volume.... It was a happy idea to intersperse photographs of some of the more famous Dutch pictures. Mr. Lucas is an admirable guide and visitors to Holland could not have a more agreeable commentator on their travels past or future.... He not only abounds in wise and quaint comments himself, but is the cause of our remembering the wisdom of others.”—Sat. R.
“‘A wanderer in Holland’ is, of course, no substitute for Murray or Baedeker, rather is it their essential complement.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 920. S. 9, ‘05. 1050w. |
“If the success of a book of travels is to be measured by the travel-fever it excites in the veins of its readers, this volume should have a warm welcome.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2:571. O. 28. 2300w. |
“And now we have found all the fault we care to find with this charming guide. To say that it ranks a long way after ‘The inland voyage’ is only to say that Stevenson is dead. We welcome in it a like sense of intimacy—it wears the face of a friend—it talks.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 292. S. 15, ‘05. 1150w. |
[*] “Mr. Lucas makes no pretension to connoisseurship, but his untechnical remarks on pictures are nearly always interesting, and, to one reader at least, prove the most attractive part of his writing.”
| + | Nation. 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w. |
“The fact is Mr. Lucas comes near being in his book exactly what one would like a well-informed and companionable fellow-traveler to be if one were seeing Holland with one’s own eyes.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 920w. |
“In short the book is notable among books of travel and description for its readable qualities and discriminating and individual taste.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “A book of more than ordinary merit—a book with genuinely original qualities.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 150w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 755. D. ‘05. 60w. |
“As we might have expected from his record, he neither bores nor dogmatises but his book is full of information and not a little wise reflection.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 370w. |
“It is as a critic of character and manners and a chronicler of art that Mr. Lucas interprets his function as a guide.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 468. S. 30, ‘05. 1330w. |
Luccock, Rev. Naphtali. Royalty of Jesus and other sermons. [*]50c. Meth. bk.
Beauty of thought and simplicity of language mark these sermons which apply the teachings of Christ to the conditions of to-day under the titles: The royalty of Jesus; The fullness of Christ; The power of a surrendered life; The face of Jesus Christ; The brook in the way; The gospel for an opulent civilization; The cry of the disinherited; The song of Moses and of the Lamb.
Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis). [Work of Lucian of Samosata]; trans, by H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. [*]$4. Oxford.
Four handy volumes in which the translators have happily rendered idiom by idiom and “literary allusions, quotations, and technicalities of law, philosophy, or art are neatly turned to apt analogues. They sound every note in Lucian’s compass, from the mock-heroic serio-satiric eloquence of the Nigrinus, the angry contempt of the False prophet and the Death of Peregrine ... to the solemn trifling of the Fly ... and the demonstration by Socratic induction in the ‘Parasite’ that dining out is better than dining.” (Dial.) The fourth volume contains a list of notes which explain all allusions to classical biography and mythology.
[*] “The renderings of Messrs. Fowler have all the ease and ‘élan’ of a work originally written in English.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
| + + | Acad. 68: 846. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1680w. |
“Their translation is decidedly good; they have ventured on some daring modernisms, but these we can tolerate if only lightness is secured.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 294. S. 2. 2420w. |
“The translation is admirably executed in the freer manner of Jowett’s ‘Plato.’” Paul Shorey.
| + + | Dial. 39: 233. O. 16, ‘05. 1850w. |
“The editors ... deserve high praise for the clearness and vigour of their translations.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 265. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1520w. |
“This Fowler translation is a work of high art, for which its authors are to be thanked.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 610w. |
“The translators have with admirable fidelity, vigour, and vivacity reproduced the writings of one whom such a critic as Erasmus reckoned not only among the most entertaining, but also the most instructive, of ancient authors.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: 713. N. 4, ‘05. 1870w. |
Lucke, Charles Edward. Gas-engine design. [**]$3. Van Nostrand.
“The book is divided into three parts: 1, Power and efficiency, with rules for deciding on the necessary piston displacement; 2, Stresses on the various parts of the engine and also with the various cylinder arrangements as affecting the turning effort and balance; 3, The necessary dimensions of the various parts to resist the stresses with both empirical and theoretical formulæ for the computation.”—Engin. N.
“It is a very notable addition to the literature on the gas engine.” Storm Bull.
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 526. My. 18, ‘05. 1170w. |
Lützow, Francis, count. Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. Oxford.
The Ilchester lectures for the year 1904 “have their origin in a wish to do something for the Bohemian cause by illustrating before a foreign audience the wealth of Czechish traditions.... While Count Lützow alludes briefly to his contemporaries, the chief of his attention is devoted to the chronicles of the Middle ages and the era of the Reformation. Here the conditions fixed by a popular course of lectures compel him to be brief in his notice of all save the now famous authorities like Cosmas, Benes of Weitmil, Lawrence of Brezof, Sixt of Ottersdorf, and Paul Skála.... He gives us simply and tersely the results of the most recent research on technical points in conjunction with Palacky’s views on the larger issues.” (Nation.)
“The count, who is a master of our language, goes through the list of Bohemian historians, estimating their merits and furnishing characteristic extracts. These are translated into very clear and succinct English. Excellent book.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1860w. |
“To many of our readers we can best convey an impression regarding the style and quality of his work by stating that it resembles a compressed Wattenbach with an element of current political interest added.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 85. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1300w. |
Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn. Lord Dufferin, the life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. [*]$7.50. Scribner.
The life of a man to whom fate gave great opportunities, and who was big enough to handle and hold them. He was a central figure in many of the political events of the last half of the nineteenth century, he served as Governor-general of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, to Constantinople, Rome and France. This biography is compiled from his journal, his letters, and the recollections of his friends.
“But the real value of the book lies in the information it supplies in regard to the great movements in foreign and colonial politics that have been going on during the last thirty years.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 144. F. 18, ‘05. 1580w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 201. F. 18. 1560w. |
“Making every deduction for the imperfections inseparable from even the best biographies, one reaches the conclusions that here a really great subject has been treated both adequately and effectively.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
| + + | Dial. 39: 58. Ag. 1, ‘05. 1520w. | |
| Ind. 58: 1358. Je. 15, ‘05. 1040w. |
[*] “His book is frank yet discreet, and marked in all its parts by delicacy of perception.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 3370w. |
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 193. Ap. 1, ‘05. 3250w. |
“What is to be regarded as the official biography. It is official also in its discreetness—a discreetness at times carried to extremes, dimming perception—and in the highly eulogistic tone maintained throughout. It may safely be said that Sir Alfred, while presenting a work obviously open to criticism, has also presented one of direct value to the historical student, and of interest to the general reader.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w. |
“Sir Alfred Lyall seems to us to have chosen the best way in which to tell the story of Lord Dufferin’s life.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 253. F. 18, ‘05. 930w. |
Lydston, G. Frank. Diseases of society. [**]$3. Lippincott.
“A study of social conditions in this country. The police criminal, the anarchist, and the large number of moral and physical law-breakers are here discussed. The author also deals with such questions as the oppression of wealth, the rights and wrongs of organized capital and labour, the negro question, and the offences of society at large. The book is well illustrated.”—Bookm.
“The style, although brilliant at times, is open to much criticism. It is verbose, often disconnected and rambling. In spite of many blemishes the book is of great value. With the general thesis of the book and a large percentage of the conclusions, the reviewer is in hearty sympathy and heartily commends it to students of social problems.” C. Kelsey.
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 350. Mr. ‘05. 1040w. |
“His examination of the question of crime seems exhaustive, his inferences inevitable.” Albert Warren Ferris.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 528. Jl. ‘05. 660w. |
“While here and there is much that is interesting, although at times crudely presented, the author like many others who write upon the subject errs in trying to prove too much from insufficient premises and newspaper gossip, and this is especially true when he treats of craniometry and physiognomy.” Allan McLane Hamilton.
| + — | Critic. 47: 183. Ag. ‘05. 1140w. |
“It has not the air of a serious book of science, and indeed contains here and there a misplaced facetiousness.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w. |
“As monographs the parts are incomplete, and the whole is neither sufficiently unified for the ordinary reader, nor clearly cut for the student. Nor is the style attractive.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 680w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 600w. |
“This is really a study of the vice and crime problem from a medical standpoint.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 255. F. ‘05. 170w. |
Lyle, Eugene P. [Missourian.] [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
Mr. Lyle finds material for his first story within the tottering Empire of Maximilian. The hero is one of Jo. Shelby’s band who, refusing to surrender after the fall of the Confederacy, offered their services to Maximilian in Mexico. Din Driscoll, Missourian, Confederate officer, the “storm center” in every fight, and the exquisite, capricious Jacquelin d’Aumerle, secret emissary of Napoleon on business of state, figure almost grotesquely in a series of thrilling adventures which result from defending each other from intrigue and death. In the end this airy coquette of two imperial courts chooses to find her happiness within the confines of a shut-away Missouri farm.
[*] “The fact is Mr. Lyle has been absorbed by his material, instead of absorbing it.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 200w. |
“Here, for instance, is an example of literary over-seasoning, which, far from being exceptional, is fairly characteristic of the book’s style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 22: 135. O. ‘05. 550w. |
“We should be grateful to Mr. Lyle for having given in this novel a new and adequate setting for the American hero of love and war.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 930. O. 19, ‘05. 860w. |
“Yet, dramatic, picturesque, brilliant in attack and technique as the book undoubtedly is, the interest in it is largely spectacular.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 510w. |
“It is crude enough in certain details, but its reading leaves no doubt as to the fact that Mr. Lyle possesses extraordinary vision and power to communicate what his imagination sees.” L. L.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 880w. |
[*] “Admirably fresh and lively tale.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
“The history is accurate, but unimportant; the romance is of vast importance and fairly accurate.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w. |
Lyman, Olin Linus. Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Lakes. $1.25. Amsterdam.
The brief career of Commodore Perry (1785-1819), midshipman, lieutenant, commander of Lake Erie, and the American squadron in the Mediterranean is given in this volume which is “a eulogy rather than a biography.” (N. Y. Times.)
“As an elementary history the book is good. It should make rather a good ‘reader.’ Mr. Lyman has padded his book tremendously, and has indulged in ‘fine writing’ of the worst sort. The author is very chary of dates.”
| + — — | N. Y. Times. 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w. |
Lynch, Frederick. Is life worth living? [**]30c. Crowell.
A new volume in the “What is worth while series.” A message of comfort showing that life in God’s world is truly worth living, that there is but one answer to the question for those who believe in the life eternal.
Lytton, Lord Bulwer-. [Last days of Pompeii.] $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this pocket volume is printed on opaque “Bible” paper in large clear type, is bound in limp leather, and contains a frontispiece of the author.