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Maartens, Maarten (J. M. W. van der Poorten-Schwartz). My poor relations. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
Fourteen unpleasant stories of life in a little Dutch village, where the people are degraded and low in mind and morals. In “The mother” Mary Quint vainly struggles to help her son conquer his inherited love of drink. “Jan Hunkum’s money,” “Fair lover,” “The summer Christmas,” “The notary’s love story,” “The banquet,” and the rest, are all horridly true, and are told in a vivid style that makes them almost too real.
“The book is as oppressive as a nightmare.”
| — | Critic. 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 90w. |
“Most of the fourteen stories herein told are pathetic almost to tragedy.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w. |
“All the stories, while not calculated to make one laugh, will undoubtedly keep one’s interest alive.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
“It would be hard to name a book in which the characters are so uniformly disagreeable as in this collection of short stories.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
“One may go so far as to compare them to De Maupassant’s though hardly to that master’s best.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 120w. |
Mabie, Hamilton Wright. [Fairy tales every child should know.] [**]90c. Doubleday.
Twenty four “once upon a time” fairy tales collected from various countries to amuse and stimulate the imagination of the child of today. They include such familiar stories as, Hans and Gretel, Ali Baba, The golden goose, One eye, two eyes, three eyes, Blue beard, Red riding hood, The ugly duckling, Tom Thumb, Jack the giant killer, Jack and the bean stalk, and Puss in boots.
| Dial. 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w. | ||
| + + — | Nation. 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w. |
“In one respect the book appears to us defective, in that it does not state by whom the particular version of each of these child classics was written.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w. | |
| * | + — | R. of Rs. 32: 768. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed. [Myths every child should know: a selection of the classic myths of all times for young people.] [**]90c. Doubleday.
“This volume is uniform with ‘Fairy tales every child should know.’ It collects for children’s reading and for school use sixteen myth-stories which belong to the world’s literature and appeal to the young imagination. Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder-book’ and ‘Tanglewood tales’ furnish half the material.... Charles Kingsley’s ‘Greek heroes,’ Mr. Brown’s ‘In the days of the giants,’ Mr. A. J. Church’s ‘Stories from Homer,’ Mr. Mabie’s ‘Norse stories,’ and Miss Emerson’s ‘Indian myths’ are the other sources. Mr. Mabie furnishes an introduction.”—Outlook.
| * | + — | Lond. Times. 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “We could wish that Mr. Mabie had put his interesting preface before a more consecutive and less heterogeneous collection.”
| * | + — | Nation. 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 230w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “They are rather stiffly told and frequently the style is too difficult and elaborate to be easily understood by children.”
| — + | Sat. R. 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 110w. |
McAlilly, Alice. Hilda Lane’s adoptions. $1.50. Meth. bk.
Hilda Lane, kept from the man she loves for twenty years by a war time misunderstanding, adopts a sturdy waif named Robert, and a negro girl, Liberty, and educates them. Liberty grows up to offer her life to white fever sufferers, and Robert, on the eve of a successful career and engaged to marry a lovely southern girl, discovers that there is negro blood in his veins and nobly consecrates his life to the uplifting of the black race. The book is chiefly occupied with the negro question.
McAlilly, Alice. Larkins wedding. $1. Moffat.
“An apotheosis of good nature and neighborly kindness. A worthy washerwoman related grammatically to Mrs. Partington arranges the wedding of her daughter. The respect both have won in their town inspires the interested villagers of higher social position to make the pathetic efforts of Mrs. Larkins turn out a happy success. A change in bridegrooms adds to the general jollity, and the two Larkins, mother and daughter, disappear in a haze of prosperity and sentiment.”—Outlook.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10:650. O. 7, ‘05. 340w. |
“The story is told with many touches of humor.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w. |
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st baron. Essays; ed. by Lady Trevelyan. $6. Putnam.
These six compact little volumes contain nothing but the text of the essays and preface as edited by Lady Trevelyan, the author’s sister. There are several illustrations in each volume—mainly engravings and portraits.
“Edition is as satisfactory for the purposes of the reader of Macaulay as a modest man can desire, handy enough to permit you on occasion to put a volume in your coat pocket and take it with you upon a journey, yet entirely fit for the library shelves. For it sacrifices to compactness not size of type (and the eyes of the reader) but an easily dispensable surplus of margin.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10:92. F. 11, ‘05. 250w. |
“Admirably planned for thoroughly comfortable reading, and to take up small space in a library. For a good edition which meets all the requirements of the average reader, and of a size which makes it possible to carry the volumes about when one travels, we do not recall a better edition than this.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 120w. |
Macbean, L., and Brown, John. Marjorie Fleming. [**]$1.40. Putnam.
The famous account of “Pet Marjorie” by Dr. John Brown is here reprinted, with much later information and her journals and letters hitherto unpublished. There are fourteen illustrations, including pictures of the little girl taken alone and with Scott.
[*] “We commend this book, sure that it will become a precious possession.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1098. O. 21, ‘05. 1000w. |
“Should be welcomed by all admirers of Dr. Brown’s earlier story of her.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 50w. | |
| + | Dial. 38:52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 120w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 390w. |
McCall, Sidney. [Breath of the gods.] [†]$1.50. Little.
Little Yuki, a samurai’s daughter, the last of her honorable race, has been educated in Washington and returns to Japan with the American minister to Tokio, his wife and daughter. Her story is the story of the heart of Japan, the nobility, the love of country, the cruelty; and when she tramples on her own love and the love of the young Frenchman, Pierre, and marries Prince Haganè at the command of her father and the call of her country, she typifies the cheerful sacrifice of the individual to the system, which is, perhaps, the keynote of Japan. The time is that of the present war with Russia, the tragedy is horrid and occidental.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is one of the most artistic novels of the year. We doubt if any American writer has given us a truer or more intimate insight into the life and the spiritual and intellectual concepts of the Japanese than has the author of the ‘Breath of the gods.’”
| + + | Arena. 34: 331. S. ‘05. 1190w. |
“The genre painting, although too crowded with details, is good; but the end is disappointing.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 575. O. 28. 310w. |
“In her work one sees an unbounded admiration of traits not fully comprehended, rather than a keen and sympathetic understanding of the Japanese ideals and their visible exponents.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 150w. |
“Putting aside the truth or improbability of the story, the book is interesting in all parts and thrilling in some.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 670w. |
“‘The breath of the gods’ is worthy of the author of ‘Truth Dexter.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“As a story the book is written in a somewhat hectic and turbulent fashion, and its early promise is hardly fulfilled by the melodrama of its conclusion.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 50w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w. | ||
| + | Reader. 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 210w. |
McCarthy, Justin. History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. [*]$1.40. Harper.
“These two volumes conclude the ‘History of our own times,’ begun by Mr. McCarthy some twenty-five years ago. The five volumes taken together cover the entire reign of Queen Victoria.... This work ... is rather a series of essays than a continuous history. All of the important events of the period come in for consideration. The greatest of these for the empire at large was the Boer war.... The interest and value of these volumes rests upon the fact that they are the work of a man who knows intimately what he is writing about.”—N. Y. Times.
“Looking at the work as a whole, we can only describe it as glib, fluent, popular—not by any means as a thoughtful and far-reaching study of men and the events of our time, and of the tendencies of those great movements which they have generated.”
| + | Acad. 68: 1118. O. 28, ‘05. 1940w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) | |
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 110w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
[*] “But Mr. McCarthy is always readable, and the entertaining quality of his work will undoubtedly be of value in bringing to the negligent reader some familiarity, at least, with the main features of later English politics.” E. D. Adams.
| + | Dial. 39: 435. D. 16, ‘05. 1390w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“It does not read like the work of a man behind the scenes, or tell us anything that we have not already read in the newspapers. Mr. McCarthy writes without any sense of proportion, and freely scamps the essential in order to make room for padding. All that can truthfully be said is that Mr. Justin McCarthy has the trick of being mildly readable even when he is platitudinous and obvious.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 371. N. 3, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“He tells the story in a simple, intelligible way. He is never dry, tedious, discursive, labored, or involved. It is not adverse criticism to say that he has not written a weighty history.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 1050w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“He is always interesting, and though sometimes gossipy and sometimes affected by personal prepossessions, he writes with singular fairness of temper. His history is journalistic rather than scientific.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 190w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
[*] “It is very interesting and of considerable use to students of recent events.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
[*] “We are sorry that we cannot say that it is even a good book of reference, for Mr. McCarthy is not methodical enough, nor detailed enough, nor accurate enough to make himself an authority on facts. The English is slovenly.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 726. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) | |
| * | + — | Spec. 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 300w. |
McCarthy, Justin. Irishman’s story, [**]$2.50. Macmillan.
An autobiography giving the author’s experiences in newspaper work, his visits to America, and his parliamentary career (1879-1902), covering the Parnell period with its sudden close and the breaking up of the Nationalist party.
“Historical students who may turn to either of these volumes will be compelled continuously to keep in mind the nationality and political environment of the writers; for with both Davitt and McCarthy every Irishman on the popular side is a patriot, an orator, or a statesman.”
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 170w. |
“A record sufficiently varied and full of incident to have a sure claim on public interest. It would rank with such a narrative as Mr. Riis’s rather than with literary autobiographies, or with intellectual documents like Spencer’s account.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Atlan. 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 270w. |
“A delightful melange of reminiscence, description, autobiography and anecdote, and will be read with genuine enjoyment.”
| + + | Boston Evening Transcript. F. 8, ‘05. 820w. |
“From first to last these autobiographical chapters have a charm.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1310. Je. 8. 670w. |
McCarthy, Justin Huntly. Dryad. [†]$1.50, Harper.
“The hero is the son and heir of Duke Baldwin of Athens, who ruled near the close of the thirteenth century. The heroine, Argathona, is a dryad, who remained in the Eleusinian wood after the gods departed. There are numerous adventures—joustings, conspiracies, battles, enchantments—related with cheerful disregard of everything except the interest of the reader.”—Pub. Opin.
“He has not succeeded in creating the right atmosphere. Mr. McCarthy has found a beautiful theme and in spite of his cleverness has handled it so roughly that he has deprived it of its external charm and has not developed the possibilities of its inherent beauty”
| — | Acad. 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 570w. |
“Mr. McCarthy must be congratulated on having so deftly handled the supernatural that one hardly feels the impossibility of Argathona.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w. |
“Decidedly the best that Mr. McCarthy has done.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w. | |
| + — | Ind. 58: 958. Ap. 27, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | + — | Ind. 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
“A very readable tale after its own unreal fashion.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 50w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 50w. |
“Selecting a somewhat vague historical period, he devises an impossible plot, worked out by impossible characters. A rather pleasing piece of make-believe.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w. |
“It may be said indeed that he has woven in this story a tapestry whose grace of design and exquisite harmony of color all lovers of this kind of story will approve. There is something Tennysonian in the silken softness of his style and in his imagery.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 210w. |
“The story is told with Mr. McCarthy’s usual verve and lightness.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w. |
“Mr. McCarthy contrives to get a real touch of poetry into his descriptions of the forest.”
| + | Spec. 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 140w. |
McCarthy, Justin Huntly. [Lady of Loyalty house.] [†]$1.50. Harper.
“A story of Cromwell’s time, with the brilliant Lady Brilliana Harby as the storm centre. Dangers without end beset the lady and her admirers true and false, the whole ending happily when the clang of wedding bells replaces the clash of swords.”—Critic.
| Critic. 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 40w. |
“A pretty tale and a merry one. This is mostly a skipping, happy-go-lucky story, a seventeenth century scherzo.”
| + | Reader. 5: 787. My. ‘05. 330w. |
“Is a brisk and breezy romance. There is little or no attempt at historical accuracy or minute coloring, a fact that is quite refreshing. Mr. McCarthy is content to tell a swift and fascinating story, in which effort he succeeds thoroughly.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 110w. |
McCaul, Ethel. Under the care of the Japanese war office. $1.50. Cassell.
An English woman’s account of her recent visit to Manchuria to inspect the work of the Japanese Red cross society. Their efficient system is given in detail and there are many incidents and descriptions typical of the land and the people.
“Gives many interesting glimpses of the kindly side of war.”
| + | Acad. 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w. |
“Miss McCaul is an honest, straightforward writer, and her book is a tonic.”
| + | Critic. 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 170w. |
“The practical advantages to be derived from a study of the volume under review cannot be questioned.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1230w. |
“Her letters here collected have in them much of interest, but are overloaded with too detailed narrative of personal experiences.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 140w. |
“Unpretentious, but able and interesting little book. It contains much that is valuable to a student of military medicine.”
| + | Spec. 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w. |
McClain, Emlin. Constitutional law in the United States. [*]$2. Longmans.
“This text book on American constitutional law is published in the “American citizen” series, edited by Prof. Hart.... The classical bibliography and references at the beginning of each chapter together furnish opportunity for a more extended study of the subjects dealt with in the text.... The volume is divided into eight parts ... first ... the System of government.... Part II. explains how the government is organized. Parts III., IV., and V. deal with the nature and scope ... of the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branches of the government; Part VI. concerns itself with the relations of the states to each other and to the federal government. The last two parts are on the relations of the individual to the government and on civil rights.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is an able, fresh, vigorous treatment of the subject, handled with assurance and with considerable novelty in method.”
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 90w. |
“Covering in a cursory way so vast a field, the book is necessarily in many respects unsatisfactory. It has, however, the decided merit of containing a selected general bibliography, topical bibliographical references for each chapter, an analytical table of contents, and a fairly satisfactory index.”
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 591. My. ‘05. 220w. |
“The volume is very well adapted either for private reading or for classes of civics or history in our schools.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 120w. |
“The clear arrangement and concise style, the subordination of detail, and the avoidance of a mere mechanical order in the presentation of topics save it from stereotyped formality or dull abstruseness. On the whole, we should expect to see McClain supplant Cooley to a considerable extent in the schools and colleges.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 750w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w. |
McClellan, Elizabeth. Historic dress in America, 1607-1800; with an introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by Sophie Steel, [**]$10; hf. lev. or mor. [**]$20. Jacobs.
“The work begins with the time of the earliest Spanish occupation of the continent, and concludes with the opening of the nineteenth century. Within this period the dress of men and women, nobles, commoners, and soldiers, is minutely described, the illustrations being from contemporary prints, old portraits and similar authentic sources.”—Reader.
“The text is accompanied by excellent illustrations. Its attempt at completeness and the care used in arrangement suggest that its greatest value is as a book of reference. Therefore it is a matter of regret that references for the large number of quotations are not more frequent.”
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 715. Ap. ‘05. 130w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 610w. |
“This exhaustive and well illustrated volume on the American dress of the past should hold a position among the most authoritative works on the subject.”
| + | Critic. 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “A valuable book of reference.”
| + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 70w. |
“Nothing approaching the completeness of the present work has yet been offered.”
| + + + | Reader. 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 120w. | |
| + | Spec. 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 270w. |
McClure, Alexander Kelly. Our presidents and how we make them. $2. Harper.
The present revised edition brings this book of reference down to date. An account of the Roosevelt-Parker campaign is given with a narrative of its various conventions.
“As a whole this is a convenient and reasonably accurate handbook of American national politics, and only here and there does the author make a statement that seems questionable.” H. T. P.
| + + — | Bookm. 22: 84. S. ‘05. 860w. |
“All these summaries, if not very critical in tone, are readable and to the point.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w. |
“It is not only a valuable record, but also interesting history.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 670w. |
“The style remains involved and awkward and the diction careless.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w. |
McCook, Rev. Henry Christopher. Senator: a threnody. [**]$1.25. Jacobs.
This poem is a tribute to Marcus Hanna, written by a life-long friend. It is divided into five parts: A prologue of a life; Village scenes; Transformed villagers; A plea for immortality; and The life beyond.
“All conducted with a skill evidencing considerable homiletic experience.”
| + | Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 90w. |
McCrackan, William Denison. Fair land Tyrol. [**]$1.60. Page.
An enthusiastic description of “happy Tyrol,” in which are mingled beauty of landscape, and quaint peasant charm: the toymakers and innkeepers of to-day: the patriots and minnesingers of yesterday. The traveller is shown where to find interesting sights and scenes and is given a knowledge of the part that he may understand the Tyrolese of the present. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs.
“The book is readable and interesting.”
| + | Acad. 68: 791. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 173. Ag. 5. 1270w. |
“A pleasant account of one of the most delightful of European districts.”
| + | Critic. 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 110w. |
“Readable for itself, and giving an excellent notion of the country, the book is also usable side by side with a guide book, as an intelligent and interesting description of the principal places in the country.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 528. Je. 29, ‘05. 660w. |
“As a whole his book is disappointing, childishly enthusiastic, and not at all convincing as either guide book or account of travel in the Tyrol. It is full, however, and one will not go astray in following Mr. McCracken as a guide.”
| — + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 780w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 70w. |
“There is no distinction about the style, which is sometimes slipshod.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w. | |
| + | Spec. 95: 126. Jl. 22, ‘05. 90w. |
McCracken, Elizabeth. Women of America. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
As a result of several years of observation of the American woman as she is found in the large towns and small all over the United States, Miss McCracken gives her to us in all her phases, the professional woman and the club woman; her ideals and her achievements.
“This misleading book.... Harmfully sentimental spirit in which the fourteen articles ... are written. No information is offered to the seeker after fact; and for the theorist there is no basis of discussion. The book is simply a rambling series of unilluminating anecdotes, strongly personal without being strongly vital in tone.” O. H. D.
| — — | Critic. 46: 281. Mr. ‘05. 600w. |
“The book is often unjust in its criticism, fulsome in its praise, illogical in its attempts at argument. It could not be called a serious contribution to sociological literature, partly because it is a vitascope of photographs from a car window instead of the careful canvasses of a Millet, who has known his subjects long, and loved them well.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 439. F. 23, ‘05. 460w. |
“The book has far too wide a title.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 338. Ap. 27, ‘05. 640w. |
“Thus, the book is not made up of official statistics, but is the fruit of personal meetings with women and visits to the scenes of their occupations.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 140w. |
“The art of making what has appealed to herself appeal to her reader has been mastered by Miss McCracken.”
| + | Spec. 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 970w. |
McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.). [Nedra.] [†]$1.50. Dodd.
The elopement of a young couple from Chicago who start for the Philippines via New York and London, travelling as brother and sister, forms the basis of this story which is turned into an amusing extravaganza by a ship wreck in mid-ocean which leaves the hero stranded upon the island of Nedra with a new heroine, a girl whom he has rescued by mistake.
“He has given us the kind of story Americans like, incredible, daring, delightful and a little absurd.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “Like most of Mr. McCutcheon’s novels, ‘Nedra’ is not a matter for critical appreciation. One may say it is ‘apart’ from it rather than ‘beneath it.’”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 420w. |
“It belongs to the novels of recreation pure and simple, and well fulfills its purpose of robbing the reader of the sense of time.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w. |
“The story is lively, entertaining, and very improbable.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 50w. |
McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.). [Purple parasol]; with il. by Harrison Fisher, and decorations by C: B. Falls. [†]$1.25. Dodd.
The owner of a purple parasol, a gray dress and a sailor hat is shadowed by a young lawyer who hopes to pile up evidence for a divorce case against the erring wife of an old husband. The story becomes a romance when the owner of the parasol turns out to be a young and beautiful girl.
| + | Bookm. 21: 652. Ag. ‘05. 110w. |
“Has the merit of lightness and brevity.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 130w. |
“A slight and rather foolish story.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 40w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w. |
McCutcheon, John Tinney. Mysterious stranger and other cartoons. [*]$1.50. McClure.
Over one hundred and fifty cartoons which have appeared during the past year or so in the Chicago Tribune are gathered into this volume. The author expresses the hope that his drawings “may have a permanent interest because of the great historical importance of the period they encompass” but aside from political matters much space is given to genial take-offs of President Roosevelt as bear-hunter and glad-hander, and satires of child life.
[*] “As a comic history of our own times they are not without value.”
| + | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “The cartoons are well worth embodying in a form less transient than the pages of a daily newspaper.”
| + | Dial. 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 250w. | |
| * | + + | Ind. 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
“Preserves too much that is trivial and vulgar (not in the most odious sense), and would have been the better for a severe screening. On the whole we find the collection rather dreary.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 382. N. 9, 05. 190w. |
MacDonnell, John de Courcy. King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and the Congo. [*]$6. Cassell.
The main object of this book “is to tell once more the story of the origin and progress and methods of government of the Congo Free State, and to refute the charge that Leopold has not fulfilled the pledges made under the Berlin act.” (Nation).
“The writer’s arguments, however, are not convincing, and we wish we could attribute their unreality to ignorance of the subject in hand.”
| — — | Ath. 1905, 1: 584. My. 13. 2800w. | |
| Nation. 81: 62. Jl. 20, ‘05. 590w. |
“The weakness of the book is its redundancy and its tendency to exalt into great virtues the king’s most commonplace actions. Its attenuated special pleading minimises but does not destroy whatever usefulness as a record it may possess.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | Spec. 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 290w. |
McDougall, W. Physiological psychology. [*]40c. Macmillan.
This “tiny little volume ... presents a clear account ... of the elements of scientific psychology, and is thoroughly up to date.”—Acad.
“Small and unambitious though it be, this book is worth more than the little space it would fill in the library of the student of mind.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w. |
[*] McFadyen, John Edgar. [Introduction to the Old Testament.] $1.75. Armstrong.
“Mr. McFadyen sums up accurately and concisely the established results in regard to each book of the Old Testament, avoiding positive assertion where the facts do not warrant it. The inexpert reader will get from this book in a small compass a clear idea of the results of criticism and also of the common-sense method by which they have been arrived at.”—Acad.
[*] “Mr. McFadyen writes in a most interesting style: and successfully brings out both the human interest and the religious value of the several books.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1222. N. 25, ‘05. 150w. | |
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. |
MacFarland, Charles Stedman. Jesus and the prophets; an historical, exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. [**]$1.50. Putnam.
“Holding Jesus to be more than a prophet, Dr. MacFarland sees that he was called to the work of a prophet, to meet a spiritual exigency, as the ancient prophets in their time had done.... As Jesus’ disciples misunderstood the prophets, so they misunderstood and still misunderstand his use of them.” (Outlook.) The author is a Congregational minister.
“No one should hereafter use Dr. Briggs’s or any of the older works on Messianic prophecy as authorities without parallel reference to this newer treatise.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “A careful and scholarly examination of the relation of Jesus to Old Testament prophecy.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
“Dr. MacFarland’s work is of unusual importance for the setting right and clarifying of erroneous and confused notions, an excellent specimen of the application of critical method for the realization of religious values.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 370w. |
Macfarlane, Isabella. Royal knight: a tale of Nuremburg. [†]$1.25. Dillingham.
A story of 15th century Nuremburg, and of twin sisters of a poor and widowed mother, one betrothed to a wool-merchant’s son, the other, loved by a young German officer whose father is chief magistrate. Because the girl holds her honor above her love, the magistrate’s son attempts to force her consent by accusing her mother of witchcraft. Imprisonment and torture follow, but thru the loyalty of the daughters and the advent of their champion, who is no other than Emperor Maximilian, all ends happily.
| N. Y. Times. 10:304. My. 6, ‘05. 290w. |
Macfarlane, Walter. Laboratory notes on practical metallurgy: being a graduated series of exercises. [*]80c. Longmans.
“This little book is apparently intended as a first course for beginners in practical work in a metallurgical laboratory.... It consists of a series of practical exercises, all well within the grasp of the average boy, graduated and well arranged with a view of developing the habit of observation.... The student is introduced to furnace work.... The preparation of the ordinary common alloys follows.... Later, the more complex subject of the principles on which the process for the extraction of copper, lead, gold, and silver from their ores depend is dealt with. The book concludes with a few elementary exercises in assaying gold and silver ores, and the analysis of coal and coke.”—Nature.
| + | Engin. N. 53: 639. Je. 15, ‘05. 170w. |
“The book contains much useful information for junior students, and can be recommended for their use.”
| + + — | Nature. 71: 413. Mr. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
MacGowan, Alice, and Cooke, Grace MacGowan. Return: a story of the sea islands in 1739. [†]$1.50. Page.
In a stirring romance the authors reproduce people and scenes of colonial South Carolina and Georgia. In it Diana Chaters, the belle of Charleston, and a young Virginian of the historic family of Marshall figure prominently. This heroine, “the heartless coquette, is publicly jilted as the result of a brutal wager. How she takes her shame, and how she builds it into her life, is told by the authors with skill and upon somewhat new lines.” (Outlook.)
“‘Return’ is a capital love-story, one of the very best romantic novels of the year.”
| + + | Arena. 34: 447. O. ‘05. 600w. |
[*] “For the most part the story develops naturally, the characters have actual personality, and the savour of romance is well maintained.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 220w. |
“The book is written in an excellent literary style.”
| + | Ind. 59: 98. Jl. 13, ‘05. 240w. |
“A capital tale of love and adventure.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 420w. |
“A book of fresh, wholesome romance.”
| + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 410w. |
“A love-story with plenty of color and movement. It is all very well done, vivid, dramatic; but the story is too overcrowded with characters; there are too many side issues. Not a little excision as well as condensation would have greatly improved a vigorous story.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w. |
“A story with original strength and some novel situations. The characters are admirably individualized, the action is lively, and the whole picture excellently drawn.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 858. Ap. 1. ‘05. 90w. |
“‘Return’ is a well told tale, and interesting from the first line.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
“It is difficult to conceive of a story in which the element of picturesqueness enters more effectively.”
| + | Reader. 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 220w. |
MacGrath, Harold. Enchantment. [†]75c. Bobbs.
A group of Mr. MacGrath’s short stories which abound in daringly novel situations. The five are “A night’s enchantment.” the adventure of the lady in the closed carriage, “The blind madonna,” the adventure of the golden louis, “No Cinderella,” the adventure of the satin slipper, “Two candidates,” the adventure in love and politics, and “The enchanted hat,” the adventure of my lady’s letter.
“Without being in any way remarkable ... will provide amusement and entertainment.”
| + | Dial. 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w. |
“Is a collection of five of Mr. MacGrath’s stories—good ones too.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] MacGrath, Harold. [Hearts and masks.] [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
The sprightly record of a night’s adventure in which the principal participants bent upon attending a masked ball thru a fluke are mistaken for clever thieves. The plot which thickens about the innocent imposters for a time, and which is later cleared up, furnishes an exciting hour for the most sated fiction appetite.
[*] “Constructed with an art that holds the reader’s interest from the first page to the last.”
| + | Dial. 36: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “It is a book to be read in a half hour, but it contains adventure enough to last a lifetime.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 300w. |
MacGrath, Harold. [Princess elopes.] [†]75c. Bobbs.
The chief figures in this story of rapid action are the madcap Princess of Barscheit, her grumpy uncle intent upon a suitable marriage for her, and a young American medical student. The American consul tells the story of a series of adventures capped by the princess’s escape from marrying the redfaced Prince of Doppelkinn. That she finds the young American with her on this journey is certainly not distressing to her, and that he turns out to be the long lost heir of Doppelkinn and a much worthier suitor than the father are facts which atone for her matrimonial hardships.
| + | Dial. 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 100w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 510w. |
“This tale ... will be found altogether diverting, if not convincingly real.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 80w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 40w. |
Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von. Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture, to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture. [*]$1.50. Bureau of University travel.
“Dr. von Mach’s book is not a ‘handbook’ in the ordinary sense of the word, but a descriptive catalogue of five hundred plates and forty-five text illustrations representing works of Greek and Roman sculpture.... The description and discussion of each work is preceded by a note giving the material, place, and date of discovery when known, museum or other collection in which the work is now preserved, and some bibliographical information.”—Nation.
“The author shows in this book the excellencies of his former work. He states his conclusions boldly and independently.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w. |
“Certainly Dr. von Mach’s style leaves much to be desired. While we cannot recommend Dr. von Mach as a perfectly wise guide to such as wish to know Greek art, we are glad to express our belief that the university prints, accompanied by this handbook, will be of great service to the student.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 417. My. 25, ‘05. 1220w. |
McIvor, Allan, pseud. Overlord. $1.50. W. Ritchie.
This story of the peons of Canada is a frankly unhistorical tale of the freeing of Canada from England in a great war in which the “Habitans” and serfs under the leadership of the overlord defeat “Pitchener,” the English general. The overlord, aside from his feudal ownership along the upper St. Lawrence, owns several United States railroads, consequently the president, tho ostensibly neutral, aids him, and in return receives Canada as a gift from his grateful hands when England is finally defeated.
“A history which is frankly fictitious. The most surprising thing in the book is the bitterness toward England and the English.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 44. Ja. 5, ‘05. 370w. |
“In this curiously heaped up and involved lot of fiction are a vast number of tags and ends of stories and undigested ideas, the winnowing of which would be hopeless here. It’s a very long, queer book.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 470w. (Outline of plot). |
Mackaye, Harold Steele. Winged helmet. [†]$1.50. Page.
France in the sixteenth century when Charles of Bourbon was rebelling against Francis I. is the setting. The story is one of fighting and adventure, of a nobleman who ill-uses his lady, and of my lady’s maid who saves her mistress from Saracen slavery by luring a villain into quicksand, and does other daring things. In the end the lord and lady are reconciled and the maid reaps as her reward the title of Lady of Ravelle.
“An improbable tale, convincing as we read.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 158. Jl. 20, ‘05. 100w. |
“A light romance—rather under average weight in fact. Nor in spite of the wings on the helmet and the out-of-the-common incidents mentioned, does it make up in spirit what it lacks in baser qualities. It cannot carry even its own feathery self as a gallant should.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 370w. |
“A spirited romance of the Weymanesque school. Characters and scenes are well imagined and the story ingeniously contrived; but the flow is unpleasantly interrupted by repeated transitions from the usual narrative form to diary extracts and the like.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w. |
Mackaye, Percy Wallace. Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy. [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
“Fenris the wolf, son of Odin, troubles the serenity of Heaven with his barkings of defiance, and with his wolfish desires for Freyja, the betrothed of his brother Baldur. In the prologue, Odin ordains that Fenris, Baldur, Freyja and himself shall leave their heavenly estate and become four mortals. The action of the play consists in the conversion of Fenris to charity and human love.... The action passes before rune-stones in the northern forest at daybreak or twilight, in prison chambers and by deep forest pools.”—Nation.
| + | Critic. 47: 288. S. ‘05. 100w. |
“There is much beauty in Mr. Mackaye’s work, beauty of poetry and thought; he is strong, tender and imaginative, and the more we study his play, the more we wish either that it were not a play at all or that we might see it acted.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 340w. |
“As a whole the play fails a little of tragic impressiveness precisely because of a certain forcing of the note. It is, nevertheless, a poetic venture, of a sincerity and magnitude for which there can be nothing but admiration.”
| + | Nation. 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 460w. |
McKean, Thomas. Vortex. [†]$1.50. Lippincott.
The serenity of two lives—Anna of the Titian red hair, and her artist husband Paul—is jeopardized by a scheming Jesuit who plots to get possession of the wife’s fortune for the Church. He uses as a foil Elena, an actress, who serves as a model for Paul’s masterpiece Spring. In the swirl of complications Father Lamian’s real relations to Elena come to light, showing a misspent youth and a deeply designing nature.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 270w. |
“The story is weak and poorly written, annoyingly commonplace in expression, and quite unnecessary.”
| — — | Outlook. 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 30w. |
McKechnie, William Sharp. Magna carta: a commentary on the great charter of King John. [*]$4.50. Macmillan.
“Each chapter of ‘Magna carta’ is given in its original Latin, with an English version by Dr. McKechnie following it in smaller type, after which comes the commentary. The book includes a select bibliography and a list of the authorities consulted by the author, a general index, and an index to statutes. In appendices are documents relative to or illustrative of King John’s Magna carta.”—N. Y. Times.
“One feels compelled to state that although for want of something better this work will undoubtedly be consulted, nevertheless taken as a whole it cannot be regarded as of more than mediocre value.” Henry Lewis Cannon.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 137. O. ‘05. 920w. |
“A scholarly and authoritative work based on the results of the latest critical research, devoid of rhetorical flourish and meeting the requirements of the lawyer and the historian. The book is well planned. We are grateful to our author for clearing up the problems of Magna Carta in so scholarly and definitive a fashion.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 635. S. 14, ‘05. 830w. |
[*] “Very readable book.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. |
“He has given us what will long remain as the standard work on Magna Carta, a book remarkable alike for its solid learning, its fertility in suggestion, and its characteristic note of moderation and sweet reasonableness.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 152. My. 12, ‘05. 1810w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 270w. |
“The first exhaustive commentator on ‘Magna carta’ since the days of Richard Thompson.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 280w. |
“We should be disposed to dismiss his book as nothing more than a text-book of unusual thoroughness were it not for one saving merit. Mr. McKechnie is not afraid of discussing an abstract and complicated question.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 250. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w. |
“His conclusions, like his style, are not always inspired, or beyond criticism or revision.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 642. Ap. 29, ‘05. 2120w. |
McKibben, Julia Baldwin. Miriam. $1.25. Meth. bk.
Miriam, whose birth is hid in mystery, is brought up as a slave in an old-fashioned southern household. She is freed by her master, and educated in the north where no none knows of the taint in her blood. After bravely renouncing love and happiness, confessing to her lover and friends the truth, she learns that by birth she is an honored daughter in the home where she was once a slave.
[*] “A story of the old South of no literary value, and as foreign to fact as many others that have been written on similar lines.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w. |
Mackie, Pauline Bradford. Girl and the kaiser. [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
The presence of the kaiser upon the pages of this simple little love story lends a certain dignity and makes the plot possible, but has no real historical significance. Wilhelmina, who has been brought up in America, comes to Germany to visit her uncle, the Admiral von Uhland, and his pleasure loving French wife. Here she meets two young naval officers, and upon the occasion of the kaiser’s visit to her uncle she learns of the strict paternalism practiced in the German army and navy, and that a rich wife is essential to a poor officer. This is where the denouement comes in. In the end the kaiser, who has taken a fancy to her, in his favorite role of destiny, points out to her the sensible road where she finds both wealth and love.
“Is a charmingly bright and unconventional story. Though by no means a great story, is one of the most clever little romances of the season.”
| + + | Arena. 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w. |
McKinley, Albert Edward. Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.
The purpose of the author has been “to present the dynamic or developmental aspect of the subject, rather than the analytic; he has not been content with a mere summary of the suffrage qualifications in the several colonies, but has endeavored to trace the growth of the colonial ideals and practices respecting the elective franchise.”
“Mr. McKinley’s volume is full of interest. Taken in connection with Mr. Bishop’s ‘History of elections in the colonies,’ the whole ground seems thoroughly covered.” F. W. S.
| + + + | Am. J. Soc. 11: 134. Jl. ‘05. 230w. |
“In general there is shown the most conservative scholarship. The immense amount of material consulted, the care in the verification of its vast number of mere facts, and the patience shown in the organization of the mass of data, calls forth the highest praise for the author’s scholarship.” John L. Conger.
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 608. My. ‘05. 530w. |
McKinley, Charles E. Educational evangelism: the religious discipline for youth. [*]$1.25. Pilgrim press.
Clergymen, and all who are interested in the religious training of boys and girls from 16 to 20 will find much of value in this essay, which discusses the religious needs of youth and gives suggestions as to how the church may meet them.
“It is one of the most sensible and thoughtful presentations of what the spiritual discipline of youth should be, both through the pulpit and in the school, that has recently appeared. He shows himself an original thinker, a man of insight, and a true lover of youth.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 110w. |
“Though a small book, this is full of judicious thought well worthy of thoughtful consideration.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 150w. |
McKinley, William. Tariff. $1.75. Putnam.
“The essay was written in 1896, when Mr. McKinley was governor of Ohio, and while the information he had gained as chairman of the ways and means committee was still fresh in mind. Naturally the legislative and political aspects of the tariff are the ones to which most attention is given. The author recognizes his difficulty of dealing with the subject in a non-partisan way, but states, ‘It has been my honest endeavor to do justice to all directly participating in the events narrated. It has been my aim to present as completely as possible a review of proposed tariff legislation since the close of the Civil war to the present time, as well as a sketch of the measures actually enacted, to the end that the student may observe the trend and purpose of the leading political parties in respect to this economic question.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The essay was intended for general readers and its merits fully justify its being put into book form.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 133. Ja. ‘05. 240w. |
McLain, John Scudder. Alaska and the Klondike. [**]$2. McClure.
The author, who is editor of the Minneapolis Journal, accompanied a special sub-committee of the Senate committee on territories to Alaska in the summer of 1903 and in a series of articles for his paper discussed the resources and possibilities of the country. These articles now appear in book form revised, and including statistical information on commercial and industrial operations down to 1904.
“His book is conservatively written, is interesting and seems to be believable.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 592. S. ‘05. 420w. |
“It is the most complete and also the most trustworthy book of its class that has appeared up to the present time.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 70w. |
“The book should serve for a long time ... in the capacity of an authoritative reference work.” Wallace Rice.
| + + | Dial. 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w. |
“A clear picture of Alaska—its history, population, occupations, resources, and problems.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 428. S. 23, ‘05. 660w. |
“Few of his statements can be designated as erroneous, and these are mostly of slight importance.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 890w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w. |
“An exceedingly interesting book of travel, which ... justifies the claims of the publishers that it has practically the accuracy and trustworthiness of a public document.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 1810w. |
“Not only an entertaining record of travel, but a compact statement of the conditions, resources, and needs of the territory. Unquestionably the ground is not fully covered, but the amount of information derivable from the work is such that for all general purposes the treatment is adequate.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 210w. |
“The present treatise is the best that has so far appeared. It is broadly comprehensive.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + | Reader. 6: 595. O. ‘05. 260w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 90w. |
McMahon, Anna Benneson, ed. See Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
McManus, Thomas J. Luke. Boy and the outlaw. $1.50. Grafton press.
The author, whose boyhood was spent in Harper’s Ferry, where he witnessed the famous raid of John Brown, has woven his recollections of that time into a story in which a Virginia boy discovers a wounded mulatto, one of Brown’s men, the day after the raid, and attempts to conceal the outlaw from the authorities. The resulting adventures comprise the story, in which a Virginia squire, a doctor, a young lawyer and others figure.
“A story that moves swiftly and directly and contains a good deal of pleasant humor and excellent character-drawing.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 70w. |
Macphail, Andrew. Essays in Puritanism. [**]$1.50. Houghton.
Taking Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman and John Wesley as the subjects of his essays, the author has written a series of sketches which give a better picture of the individual types than of Puritanism.
“An uncommonly readable and instructive book.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 43. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w. | |
| + — | Ind. 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 150w. |
“He mingles with his sharp and sometimes acrid treatment of Puritanism a good deal of sound and discriminating comment on its more attractive side, but on both sides of his view of Puritanism he leaves an impression that he has not very thoroughly worked the matter out.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 280. Ap. 29. ‘05. 650w. |
“These essays are bright, readable, entertaining, but they are also sometimes smart and a trifle flippant in style, and, in their dealing with philosophical thought, superficial. His view, no less than his style, is journalistic.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w. |
“His book has many attractions; one of them is the pertinence with which he makes reflections, called forth in the first instance by the past, apply to the present. And he has a way of discerning the real greatness of the men whom he describes.”
| + | Spec. 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 230w. |
Macquoid, Mrs. Katharine Sarah Gadsden. [Pictures in Umbria.] [*]$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a volume of purely ‘impressions de voyage’ by an intelligent observing woman inspired by the history and landscape of Umbria.... The author has a distinct liking for showing the life of the people by describing their physical characteristics and relating their conversation, and by throwing these things in contrast with the characteristics of the ancient race.”—N. Y. Times.
| + + | Acad. 68: 823. Ag. 12, ‘05. 530w. |
[*] “This one is neither too historic nor too artistic to suit many tastes.”
| + | Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w. |
“The text is so trite and prosaic that it gives the impression of being written merely for the sake of furnishing a setting for the fifty original illustrations.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “Written in a bright and picturesque style, and full of interesting anecdotes.”
| + | Int. Studio. 27: 183. D. ‘05. 110w. |
“When all has been said, the illustrations are by far the most interesting features of the book. It is worth publishing for them alone.”
| + | Nation. 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 380w. |
“The book will form an entertaining companion for the fireside tourist, for it is intimately written in unadorned, direct narrative style.” Walter Littlefield.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 130w. |
Macquoid, Percy. History of English furniture. 20 pts. v. I, pts. 1-3. per pt. [*]$2.50. Putnam.
“The history has been divided into four parts: ‘The age of oak,’ comprising furniture from 1500 to 1660; ‘The age of walnut,’ from 1660 to 1720, showing the varied influences of the Restoration and Dutch designers; ‘The age of mahogany,’ lasting from 1720 to 1770, in which the introduction from France of fresh ideas in design clearly marked another change, and ‘The composite age,’ from 1770 to 1820, inspired by an affectation of all things classical, combined with an unbalanced taste.... There are nearly 1000 illustrations in the entire work, and sixty of these are in the exact colors of the originals.”—N. Y. Times.
| + + — | Ath. 1905. 1: 631. My. 20. 730w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“This book will be valuable, not only to lovers of old furniture, but to art students interested in wood-carving.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 155. Jl. 20, ‘05. 560w. (Reviews v. 1., pt. 1.) | |
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: 273. My. ‘05. 230w. (Reviews vol. I., pts. 1-2.) | |
| + | Nation. 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 240w. (Reviews vol. I., pt. 1.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 350w. (Reviews vol. I, pts. 1-3.) | ||
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 490w. (Review of v. 1. pts. 4 and 5; v. 2, pt. 6.) |
[*] “It is unnecessary to add anything to what we have already said concerning the importance and elegance of this work, which is absolutely unsurpassed in its field.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 2, pts. 6 and 7.) | |
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.) |
[*] McSpadden, Joseph Walker. [Stories from Wagner.] (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.
“The stories considered in this little volume are; Four from the ‘Ring’ dramas, also ‘Parsifal, the pure,’ ‘Lohengrin, the swan knight,’ ‘Tannhauser, the knight of song,’ ‘The master singers,’ ‘Rienzi, the last of the tribunes,’ ‘The flying Dutchman,’ and ‘Tristan and Isolde.’”—R. of Rs.
[*] “For the non-musical as legend and fairytale, for the young music lover who has still in anticipation the Wagner music drama, it is a capital little book.”
| + | Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 150w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] McVickar, Henry Whitney. Reptiles. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
“The story is based upon a wager made by three men that in five years after marriage they will feel the same devotion to their wives that they felt before marriage. Two, a wealthy young Englishman and an American clergyman, were for the affirmative, one, a clever young cynic, for the negative. When the bets were called, the clergyman was prepared to pay the full amount like a man of honor, the young Englishman to compromise with a third, but the cynic refused to take the money, because he, too, lost, since he still loved his wife.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The story is told in a rather impressionistic style, which frequently leaves something to be desired.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 794. N. 25, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “A thoroughly disagreeable novel.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 40w. |
Macy, Jesse. Party organization and machinery. [*]$1.25. Century.
Party organization is described in its relation to presidential, congressional, and senatorial leadership. Professor Macy traces party development pathologically rather than historically from its real beginning in Jefferson’s administration, as a township or county organization, up through state, congressional, and national committees. The development of the committees is given, Tammany, and the differing party management in various states are fully treated.
“Students of political and constitutional history will find it of great service ... because it treats the problems wisely and brings home to the reader forcibly the significance of party organization as a fact.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 110w. |
“Prof. Macy deals with his subjects sympathetically. The mode of presentation is concrete.” F. I. Herriott.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 606. My. ‘05. 650w. |
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
| Atlan. 95: 552. Ap. ‘05. 300w. |
“This study in political pathology will be a welcome addition to the books available to the student of political science. There seems to be nothing omitted from this little hand-book that any student of party methods or management could possibly wish to know.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 660w. |
“Survey is very broad. As a rule, Professor Macy is direct and explicit but he is not always consistent, and we note occasional slips liable to lead to misconstruction of his position. Whatever there is of error, however, is not sufficient to vitiate the value of his work.”
| + — | Outlook. 78: 1043. D. 24, ‘04. 290w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 30: 761. D. ‘04. 230w. |
Madison, James. Writings; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. v. 5, 1787-1790. subs. [*]$5. Putnam.
“Mr. Hunt’s third and fourth volumes, consisting chiefly of Madison’s notes of debates in the Federal convention, brought us down to the date of its adjournment in September, 1787. The present volume carries us but two years and a half farther.... Of a hundred and eight letters printed by Mr. Hunt there are only a dozen that have not been printed before.... Six came from the Madison papers, two from the collections of the New York library, two from the Virginia historical society, one from a North Carolina source, and one, a letter of some interest written to Philip Mazzei, was once the property of Guizot and is now in a private collection in Berlin.... Madison’s speeches in the Virginia convention occupy nearly a fourth of the volume. His speeches in the first two sessions of the First congress, running to nearly as great extent, are also given.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Hunt’s annotations are apposite and intelligent.” J. Franklin Jameson.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 691. Ap. ‘05. 330w. |
“It is a disagreeable task to criticise a volume which shows so much care and intelligent arrangement, but there is evidence of some hasty proofreading, or perhaps of slovenly copying. The notes are full and judicious.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 271. Ap. 6. ‘05. 560w. |
[*] Maeterlinck, Maurice. Old-fashioned flowers, and other out-of-door studies. [**]$1.20. Dodd.
“Half a dozen studies of flowers in colors by Mr. Charles B. Falls, and attractive type, paper, and binding lend to the small volume an air of distinction which matches the unusual quality of M. Maeterlinck’s style. Flowers, like animals, have distinct personalities for M. Maeterlinck, but his frequent personifications are aesthetically justified by the real feeling that they express.”—Dial.
[*] “A delightful ‘little volume of nature sketches.’”
| + | Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “A little volume of his most subtle and characteristic essays.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “Characterized by the singular beauty of Maeterlinck’s style, the tinge of mysticism, and the interpretation of thought by sentiment which have given all his books subtle individuality.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 442. D. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet. Prince of lovers. [†]$1.50. Little.
A story founded upon the secret chronicles of two states lying in the midst of the Hungarian forest. The time is after the close of the Thirty years’ war, when some two hundred of these independent states existed in Germany. The princess of one state is about to be betrothed, against her will, to the heir of the other, when the heir disappears. Disguised as a young lieutenant, he comes to her father’s court and wins her love. After nearly losing his life and his throne in a series of daring adventures, he elopes with the princess and comes to his own. A crafty chancellor, a soldier of fortune, and an unscrupulous villain add to the plot.
“His story is commonplace, and the telling always undistinguished.”
| — | Acad. 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w. | |
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 746. Je. 17. 110w. |
“Is full of exciting incident and of well-marked characters.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 330w. |
“The romance is not a bad specimen of its type.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 250w. |
“To label this novel as old-fashioned, is to pay a compliment, not cast a slur. It is to say that the author has taken pains and time, that his creation is shapely, and dignified.”
| + | Reader. 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 390w. |
Magnus, Hugo. Superstition in medicine; tr. from the German by Julius L. Salinger. [**]$1. Funk.
A history of the erroneous ideas and fanciful beliefs that have prevailed in the world with regard to sickness and its cure from the days of ancient Rome to the present time.
Mahaffy, John Pentland. Progress of Hellenism in Alexander’s empire. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
In a series of lectures, which represent the compendium of a long and brilliant development of human nature, the author addresses not only the general reader who wishes to know something of the expansion of Greek ideas toward the East, but the specialist who needs general views of the whole into a corner of which his particular field fits. He treats Xenophon as the precursor of Hellenism, and brings the influences down to the part they perform in modern Christianity.
“There is little in the book (beyond novelty of presentation) which cannot be found elsewhere. It is less excusable that it treats too exclusively of problems of the author’s own raising, too little of those current at the present time.” W. S. Ferguson.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 189. O. ‘05. 310w. | |
| + + | Dial. 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 480w. |
“Such occasional indistinctness does not, however, detract appreciably from the general luminousness of the picture, from the inspiriting nerve and freshness which we learnt long ago to associate with Dr. Mahaffy’s utterances and which show no signs of failing.” E. B.
| + + — | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 822. O. ‘05. 320w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 159. My. 19, ‘05. 560w. |
“Dr. Mahaffy has made a mistake in attempting to deal in so small a compass with so vast a question as the spread of Hellenism.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 344. S. 9, ‘05. 1420w. |
“They are readable and discursive, but they would not convey a very clear impression of the period which they profess to describe to any save finished scholars.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 353. S. 9, ‘05. 1400w. |
Mahan, Alfred Thayer. [Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812.] 2v. [**]$7. Little.
The authoritative and widely directed study of Captain Mahan on the influence of sea power upon history has resulted in a series of most important volumes. In turning his attention to this phase of the War of 1812, he has brought to light some entirely new material from government and private documents, has treated with special clearness the subject of the imprisonment of American seamen, and has given emphasis to the records of American privateers. The author traces the train of causes of the war from 1651, in order to make clear Great Britain’s course. The work is strongly bound and illustrated.
“No one who reads his latest work will hesitate to say that it is in all respects worthy to rank on the same level as its predecessors. The vein is as rich as ever, and it is worked with no abatement of skill and no diminution of profitable output. He is occasionally prolix, and the construction of his sentences is sometimes clumsy and involved.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 366. N. 3, ‘05. 2760w. |
[*] “His discussion of the conditions which caused the war is the best we know of anywhere.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 777. N. 18, ‘05. 1160w. |
[*] “But whatever its defects, ‘Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812’ must be rated, like its distinguished predecessors, a substantial contribution to the history of naval warfare and a suggestive exposition of the force of the doctrine of ‘preparedness.’”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 831. D. 2, ‘05. 940w. |
Mahler, Arthur. Paintings of the Louvre; Italian and Spanish, in collaboration with Carlos Blacker and W: A. Slater. [**]$2. Doubleday.
“A handbook of the Italian and Spanish sections of the celebrated art gallery, and includes also a history of the art of Italy from the early workers in the Byzantine manner to the Renaissance, while the part devoted to the Spanish schools is given up mainly to Velasquez and Murillo. The illustrations show examples of the work of these artists as well as of Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“The illustrations are numerous, but too much reduced and too indistinctly printed to do more than remind one how inadequately they represent the originals.”
| — | Acad. 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 340w. | |
| + — | Critic. 47: 475. N. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “The criticism is of the old school, Vasari’s pleasing tales being repeated with an apparent obliviousness of the incredulity into which they have fallen through the researches of such moderns as Berensen, Fry, and others.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 80w. |
“The book, as embodying the latest results of research, is to be relied on. The criticism is unoriginal and often extremely commonplace. It is well arranged, the English is smooth.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 190w. |
“The only charge to be brought against his text is the overstudious avoidance of anything like emphasis. The final chapter on Spanish paintings shares the merits of the others—clearness, simplicity, intelligence.” L. L.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 1030w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “The historical, biographical, and technical constituents of this commentary are quite readable.”
| + | Spec. 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 490w. |
[*] Maitland, John Alexander Fuller. Joseph Joachim. [*]$1. Lane.
This volume in the “Living masters of music” series “is only some sixty pages in length and is divided into five sections dealing with Joachim’s career, violin playing, teaching, influence, compositions, each of which is necessarily summarized in the briefest manner.... Having quickly disposed of the facts of his career, there is space found for interesting personal reflections upon the playing and influence of Joachim. His character, moral and artistic, which is one, is well summed up.”—Acad.
[*] “Is a good specimen of condensed biography.”
| + | Critic. 47: 476. N. ‘05. 110w. | |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 450w. |
Maitland, J. A. Fuller, ed. See Grove, George.
Major, Charles. [Yolanda, maid of Burgundy.] [*] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“The time is when Edward IV. reigned in England, and Louis XI. sat upon the French throne. Then Charles of Burgundy, styled Charles the bad, was feared as the richest and most powerful prince in the country, and it was Mary, his beautiful and gentle daughter, who was the pawn that the wicked prince would have gladly sacrificed for his own ambitious aims.... It is a story bristling with intrigue and adventure, with meetings after dark, and love and scorn and villainy and fine ladies traveling unattended, and mystery galore, and always through it all runs the theme of love—the love of a brave man for a beautiful girl.”—N. Y. Times.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “A readable story, though not a high literary achievement.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “Is a very good story of its kind.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “Charles Major once more shines through brilliant incapacity when he attempts ‘Yolande.’”
| — | R. of Rs. 32: 761. D. ‘05. 70w. |
Malcolm, Napier. Five years in a Persian town. [*]$3. Dutton.
“This is an interesting description of Yezd, ‘in the very center of Central Persia,’ where the author was for some time engaged in missionary work, and enjoyed unusual opportunities of mixing with all sorts and conditions of people. The experience of such a stay as he says apologetically, is not a traveler’s experience, but what of that?... the sympathetic picture of Yezd scenery, life, and manners which he has drawn with minute and vivid accuracy is as memorable as it is rare.”—Ath.
“The real value of ‘Five years in a Persian town’ lies in the sympathetic study of native character and modes of thought. In this respect Mr. Malcolm will not easily be surpassed, combining, as he does, keen insight and a curious subtlety of imagination with an incisive style relieved by delightful touches of dry humor.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 69. Jl. 15. 1680w. |
“A keen, but quiet and unobtrusive, sense of the humorous aspects of things runs thru the author’s pictures of Yezdi life and enhances the attractiveness of the volume.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 190w. |
“The book fulfils its purpose excellently, and makes a fair guess at some Persian characteristics.”
| + | Nation. 81: 286. O. 5, ‘05. 650w. |
“Mr. Malcolm has given us a very interesting, amusing and instructive account of Persian life.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 320w. |
[*] Mallock, William Hurrell. Reconstruction of religious belief. [**]$1.75. Harper.
“Mr. Mallock attempts to aid ‘the thoughtful man of to-day,’ either ‘in justifying his old belief by supplying it with new foundations, or in building up some new belief which may possibly take its place.’ Mr. Mallock demonstrates that, when science has said its last word, it inevitably leaves us in some region outside itself in which ‘an intellectual solution of the contradiction between scientific and religious principles must be found.’”—R. of Rs.
[*] “Science can never find a complete explanation of phenomena. The attempt to show that it can, and to dispense with philosophy, is the cardinal error of Mr. Mallock’s book; it finally leads him to pure scepticism, from which he jumps into blind credulity. Much of the book is of considerable value. The whole of the third part, in which the case for scientific agnosticism is criticised, is admirable, particularly the demonstration that chance has no real existence.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1171. N. 11, ‘05. 2190w. |
[*] “It is a good book to be read at a single sitting, like a good novel. To say that it is interesting, well written, and appropriate to the times, is to offer it the merest justice; but to describe it as a complete success is perhaps going too far. Perhaps it would be more successful if it were less complete.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
| + + | Dial. 39: 440. D. 16, ‘05. 1470w. |
[*] “The soundest part of Mr. Mallock will be found in the considerations which he develops in his earlier chapters rather than in the more pretentious ‘solution’ which he proclaims in his concluding book.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 355. O. 27, ‘05. 1920w. |
[*] “Mr. Mallock offers nothing really new in his argument, but it derives a novel coloring from its relations to recent scientific views, and piquancy from his wit and humor. The book is brightly written and the thought is throughout interesting. The proof-reading leaves something to be desired.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 451. N. 30, ‘05. 1020w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 752. D. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “He is doing good service not only to the cause of religious apology, but to society, and above all, to truth, which has suffered long and much from the timidity of science to push its conclusions to logical issue.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: sup. 5. O. 14, ‘05. 1860w. |
Mann, Henry. Adam Clarke. $1. Popular book co.
“A narrative of the experiences of a family of British emigrants to the United States in cotton mill, iron foundry, coal mine, and other fields of labor.” The author, whose work as a newspaper man has brought him in contact with the phases of life treated in this story, tells of the abuses at the immigrant office, and scores the protectionists, the settlement workers, the Pittsburg militia, and the Pennsylvania railroad. The many hardships suffered by all of their class are vividly detailed as the history of the Clarke family progresses.
“The ferocity of the painted picture is such that nobody is likely to take it as a literal transcription of conditions—but nobody who knows the city or human nature will doubt the existence of a substantial basis for some of the author’s fury. To be sure he is a partisan, and as is the way of partisans, his eye is single and fixed. Well-informed and well-balanced people may read it with profit. It might be less good for incipient anarchists.”
(Outline of plan).
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1180w. |
“As a novel the work calls for no consideration, but it is deserving of attention as an obviously sincere attempt to present the grievances and sufferings of the poor in a manner that will quicken sympathy to action. Unfortunately, ... the writer, through ignoring the reverse side of the shield and through undoubted exaggeration, tends to repel rather than attract the thoughtful reader, and to inflame rather than broaden the thoughtless.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w. |
Mann, Hugh. Bound and Free: two dramas. [*]50c. Badger, R: G.
An argument for sex-emancipation, for doing away with marriage, the family, the home as they exist to-day. The author calls the dramas which illustrate his point Bound, and Free, he makes the chief characters in each declare that they can love many men, or women, as the case may be, at the same time and in the same way, but can love but one supremely, their soulmate. Most conventional people will consider this book immoral.
[*] Mannix, Mary Ella. Children of Cupa. 45c. Benziger.
A pathetic story of the eviction of the Cupa Indians from their home in California on the Warner ranch, told in connection with the experiences of a family of campers who spent six weeks of the last summer the Indians remained on their ancestral lands at the Hot Springs on the old reservation, and learned to know the people and to sympathize with them, and to understand their life and the part the missions played in it.
Manzoni, Alessandro. Sacred hymns [Gl’ inni sacri] and the Napoleonic ode [Il cinque maggio] of Alexander Manzoni; tr. by Joel Foote Bingham. [*]$3. Oxford.
The translator has aimed “to give the exact sense of the author.” The Italian texts are also given in the appendix and there is a portrait of Manzoni, a biographical preface, as well as historical introductions and critical notes.
“Dr. Bingham’s translations are painstaking, and, if one knows the original, one can recognize that he has given an equivalent for many of Manzoni’s thoughts; but the metrical charm and the poetry have evaporated. Whoever desires a complete outfit of notes and critical opinions on Manzoni’s hymns and ode will find them in this book.”
| + | Nation. 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 390w. |
“We have nothing with this rendering.”
| — | Sat. R. 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] Mar, Alice, il. Japanese child life, with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. [†]$1.50. Stokes.
The strange faces, quaint costumes, odd games, amusements and occupations of the little Japanese children are prettily set forth in picture and verse. There are eight full-page illustrations in color.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “The stories and little poems have grace, quaintness, and charm.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 90w. |
Marble, Annie Russell. Books in their seasons. [**]30c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “What is worth while series,” this little volume pleads for not “the gentle reader,” but “the sane reader,” suggests some authors and books, and asks the reader in his own further choosing to follow nature’s moods and seasons, to read books fitting to the time, and in harmony with the outer world.
Marchmont, Arthur William. Courier of fortune. [†]$1.50. Stokes.
“The story is placed in a town known as Morvaix, ruled badly, viciously, by one Duke de Rochelle. Reports of the misrule reach the ears of the Duke de Bourbon, the suzerain lord, and he sends his son Gerard secretly to investigate the charges. This Gerard does, and a remarkable chain of circumstances so adjusts matters that the young man falls in love, and is loved in return by the very girl that de Rochelle means to make his own. Here is fire and tinder in plenty.”—Pub. Opin.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w. | ||
| Pub. Opin. 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] Marden, Orison Swett. Choosing a career. [**]$1. Bobbs.
The founder and editor of “Success” has prepared a volume which will undoubtedly prove valuable to all those who need practical aid in selecting a life-work. In part one, he discusses the considerations which are related to the choice of a life-calling, such as parental influence, environment, health, money making, and the temperamental and mental qualities which different lines of work demand. Part second. Suggestions as to possible careers, contains sound advice and helpful suggestions by men and women whose choice has brought them success in their various callings. Twenty-eight different trades and professions are treated in as many chapters. The book is illustrated with the photographs of some of those who have chosen wisely.
[*] Marden, Orison Swett. Making of a man. [†]$1.25. Lothrop.
“The cheerful philosophy that Dr. Marden has preached in previous books he insists upon in this which consists of a series of talks especially intended for young men. Examples of the world’s heroes are cited, the world’s leaders of thought are liberally quoted, anecdotes are given; and thus, by precept, illustration, and in symposium of opinions, Dr. Marden reinforces his own teachings in regard to perseverance, ‘self-honor,’ courage, self control, money, success, ‘Moral daring,’ and kindred subjects.”—Outlook.
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “He preaches self-control, determination, rectitude, industry, thoroughness, courage—and who would gainsay him?”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 400w. |
[*] “Dr. Marden’s style is full of inspiration and suggestion.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 639. N. ‘05. 60w. |
Margoliouth, David Samuel. Mohammed, the rise of Islam. [**]$1.35. Putnam.
This fortieth volume in the “Heroes of the nations” series, “gives first a survey of the conditions of Arabia and Arab life at the time when Mohammed first appeared.... The biography of the prophet consists largely in following the military, political, and religious campaigns with which he spread the religion of Islam, and which Mr. Margoliouth traces in detail.... His genius, according to this biographer, was equal to the emergencies, but not too great for them.” (N. Y. Times.)
| + | Dial. 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 310w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 510w. |
“Apart from the dragoon-like treatment of the question of the prophet’s sincerity and of all phases of his religious development, and despite defects of verbosity and discursiveness, the book is of no uncertain value.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] Marks, G. Croyden. Hydraulic power engineering. [*]$3.50. Van Nostrand.
In this second edition the author has enlarged the work for the purpose of including some examples of new developments connected with hydraulic pressing and lifting machinery, and introducing illustrations of typical valves and machines. The text has also been fully revised.
Marriott, Charles. Genevra. $1.50. Appleton.
This is more than a character study, it is also a soul study of a girl of twenty-nine whose young days have been spent quietly on a Cumberland farm. Hopelessly out of touch with the simple folk around her, she turns to poetry as an emotional outlet and has written a number of magazine poems and is publishing a book of verses when the story opens. The young artist, Leonard Morris, wakes all the slumbering fires of her nature, she is gloriously happy and her poems sing of it; when she finds that he fails to understand her, her publisher is the first to detect it in the new note of her work. It is a single hearted story of loyalty to love and to work. There are some good minor characters, her commonplace and ungenial family are drawn with pathetic humor.
“Her life-story is a tapestry of severe design and sombre hue.” W. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 230w. |
“It is not an exceptionally original theme, but it is not that it easily lends itself to dramatic situations, strong character contrasts, and the expression of vivid emotions—all valuable adjuncts in novel making—and the author of Genevra has used every one of them to good advantage, besides giving ample evidence of his being the possessor of the same subtle force and style that rendered his previous book notable.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 16. Ja. 7. ‘05 1070w. |
Marshall, Archibald. House of Merrilees. [†]$1.50. Turner.
A mystery surrounds the house of Merrilees. Its master dies suddenly, his body disappears and with it his fortune which he had converted into jewels. The mistress of Merrilees had died abroad some years before, and it was given out that their infant son died with her. A young cousin takes possession of both the estates and the mystery and discovers the real heir in the person of his best friend. There is also a love interest.
“Mr. Marshall has conceived a sufficiently ingenious plot for his novel of mystery; but he does not succeed in gripping the attention and holding it from the start to the gasp of satisfied excitement at the finish.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 198. Mr. 4, ‘05. 200w. |
“This is an excellent story of a mystery so well and so artistically concealed that the final disclosure gives rise to a feeling of pleasure, not only at the nature of the surprise, but also at its inevitableness.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 555. My. 6, 180w. |
[*] “It all makes exciting reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “Is surprisingly good reading.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 90w. |
“Mr. Marshall is quite entertaining, his imagination is lively, and possibly he may regard the novel as a huge joke.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 745. Je. 3, ‘05. 260w. |
“The book will while away an unoccupied hour very pleasantly.”
| + | Spec. 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 160w. |
Marshall, Beatrice. Queen’s knight errant. [†]$1.50. Dutton.
A romance of the days of Raleigh and the virgin queen. A little girl is washed ashore in Devon on the land of a recluse alchemist named Vidal. A neighboring esquire takes charge of the child and brings her up with his own sons. The romance of this waif who turns out to be Vidal’s sister, and one of these sons is woven about Raleigh’s love affair with Mrs. Throgmorton, their secret marriage, and the anger of the queen.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 660w. |
“Too high-flown in style to suit the present taste.”
| — | Outlook. 79: 452. F. 18, ‘05. 20w. |
[*] Marsland, Frank. Occupations in life; a fund of practical information and business advice for boys and young men. $1.50. C. E. Fitchett, 57 Warren st. N. Y.
The author who is a mercantile reporter with the Bradstreet company, draws easily upon his fund of professional experience in offering business counsel to young men. The advice emphasizes an early selection of life work, a careful use of spare hours for promoting interests along special lines of work, and a better understanding of conditions in the business world and the world of occupations.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 586. S. 9, ‘05. 300w. |
Martin, Edward Sanford. Courtship of a careful man. [†]$1.25. Harper.
“A collection of short stories of New York life, having a peculiar quality of their own. Quite modern in effect, they have a background of good breeding distinctly American. The conversations among different members of the families represented are clever, and exhibit a complete and happy knowledge of the world.”—Outlook.
“In this latest book we find Mr. Martin in rather lighter vein than is his wont, but as always, excellent company.”
| + | Bookm. 21: 545. Jl. ‘05. 240w. |
[*] “Clever and disappointing book.” Frances Duncan.
| + — | Critic. 47: 454. N. ‘05. 260w. |
“Few writers of fiction can be reproached with too light a touch, but we should say that Mr. Martin is one of them.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 470w. |
“The entire collection of stories is delightfully light, breezy, and easy and attractive reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w. |
“Both the author’s style and his characters may be fitly described as alluring.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w. |
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 60w. |
Martin, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert. Homer Martin; a reminiscence. [*]$1.50. W: Macbeth, N. Y.
This beautiful memorial gives us but a slight glimpse into the life of the author’s artist husband, whose landscapes, into which he has put his best self, she feels are better able to interpret him than she. It is illustrated by half tone reproductions of Martin’s better known paintings.
“In the distinction of its perfect English, its reserve where there might have been enthusiasm, and its sincerity where there was room for flattery, it is a very model for biographers.”
| + + | Cath. World. 80: 550. Ja. ‘05. 150w. |
“This little sketch was well worth doing. While very modestly done, Martin’s claims to greatness are fully presented.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 252. F. ‘05. 70w. |
Martin, Helen Reimensnyder. Sabina, a story of the Amish. $1.25. Century.
Sabina, a pretty Amish maid with wistful eyes, is haunted by a face of strange ugliness which appears from time to time as a warning of impending disaster to herself or family. A young artist comes to her home as a summer boarder, and Sabina falls in love with him. Everything points towards tragedy, but the face and her infatuation for the artist are alike banished by a fever, and she returns to her people and her Amish lover. The real charm of the story lies in the Pennsylvania-German dialect and the local color.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 644. S. 30, ‘05. 260w. | |
| + | Outlook. 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 120w. |
“Although the characters of Sabina and Tillie are similar, although there is practically the same atmosphere and environment, the second book does not equal the first.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 130w. |
Martin, Hiram, ed. See Smet, Father Pierre-Jean de. Life, letters and travels of.
Martindell, Mrs. Charlotte S. Diary of a bride. [**]$1. Crowell.
“If I must choose between dusting unread books and reading undusted ones, may the wise fates help me always to choose the latter. I hate dusty, grimy books and shall make a desperate effort both to read and dust.” So says this bride, and she is as good as her word to establish in her home making and her heart-keeping an admirable poise.
Martineau, James. Tides of the Spirit. [*]$1. Am. Unitar.
“Selections from the writings of James Martineau. The book is edited by the Rev. Alfred Lazenby, who contributes a sympathetic introduction—an essay on ‘the master who first opened mine eyes to the spiritual realities of life and taught me to see the divine within the human.’”—Dial.
| Dial. 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 60w. |
Marvin, Frederic Rowland. Companionship of books, and other papers. [**]$1.50. Putnam.
The author has collected in this volume many papers upon as many subjects all of which show the touch of one who has lived a scholar’s life. The title essay calls the reader’s attention to the author’s chosen friends in the world of books, then follows an essay on autograph treasures, and one called Modern builders of air-castles, which treats of the Brook farm experiment. Papers upon matters historical, literary, and religious, follow. The varied subjects and the brevity of their treatment make the book one which may be profitably picked up in odd leisure moments.
[*] “It is a frightful hodge podge of subjects, but one may find a number of things of more or less curious interest in the heterogeneous mass.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 917. D. 23, ‘05. 300w. |
[*] Mary the queen. 50c. Benziger.
A story of the virgin Mary for little people.
Maskell, Alfred. Ivories. $6.75. Putnam.
A notable addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The author traces his subject to every land in every period. He discusses the achievement of the earliest dynasties of Assyria and Egypt, shows the high place of the Byzantine work, devotes a chapter to Japanese and Chinese ivory sculpture, treats some of the technical phases of carving, and concludes with a chapter on the nineteenth century and present day products of the art. There are numerous beautiful illustrations in photogravure and half tone.
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 247. Ag. 19. 1540w. |
“The first compendious account in any language of the progress of ivory carving thru-out the world’s history. A high standard of excellence is set in this book; it cannot fail to take rank at once as the authoritative work upon the subject of which it treats.” Frederick W. Goodkin.
| + + + | Dial. 39: 239. O. 16, ‘05. 1750w. |
“The present volume will be found satisfactory and very comprehensive.”
| + + | Ind. 59:696. S. 21, ‘05. 240w. |
“If he could have trusted our capacity and interest a little further he would have given us both less and more, and his book might perhaps have gained something in coherence, completeness, and proportion.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 284. S. 8, ‘05. 1120w. |
“While our praise, therefore, cannot be very hearty, this still remains the largest book of the sort, with the most complete display of pictures.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 171. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1070w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w. |
“In all his chapters, however, along with much technical information, Mr. Maskell enlightens the reader with keen and original observations on the significance of the various epochs.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 170w. |
“One of the excellent features of this learned book is the manner in which the information has been presented. Clearness of thought and arrangement is to be found throughout.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1490w. |
Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley. [Truants.] $1.50. Harper.
An exciting story of London life in which the truants are a young married couple living with the rich and domineering father of the husband. To escape this tyranny the young man leaves his wife and sets forth to carve a new fortune for her and for himself. He at last joins the Foreign legion in Africa and wins distinction, but is called home by the news that his foolish young wife has fallen into the clutches of an adventurer. The real interest lies in the character of Pamela Mardale and her lover who protect and assist the truants and thereby find their own happiness.
“There is a good deal of variety about this romance, but it is not a very organic piece of work. The best part of it is that devoted to the Foreign legion, of which the author seems to have made a special study. It is fairly new ground for the average reader.” W. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
“He writes in a prosaic manner of the most romantic passions.”
| — | Ind. 59: 216. Jl. 27, ‘05. 80w. |
“‘The truants’ is a departure from two established canons of art: that the heroine must be interesting, and the motif adequate. The author’s style has distinction, color and restraint; his product is fiction to be read, not fiction manufactured to be sold.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 254. Ja. ‘05. 420w. |
“Sure to awaken the reader’s interest.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 120w. |
Mason, Arthur James. Historic martyrs of the primitive church. [*]$3.20. Longmans.
The author “has aimed to present nothing which may not be relied upon as historically true.... He has endeavored, he writes, to present the stories of the acts of the martyrs during the first three centuries of Christianity in a plain and straightforward manner, with only such explanations and illustrations as the ordinary reader may require; he has omitted lengthy discussions, unnecessary dates, questions of genuineness, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
| + + | Acad. 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 230w. | |
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 938. Jl. ‘05. 90w. |
“The narratives are set forth in graphic form, and Dr. Mason has accomplished a most interesting task.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 653. My. 27. 460w. |
“Mr. Mason writes of them with tender sympathy, devout veneration, and scholarly competence.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 397. Je. ‘05. 210w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 160w. |
“Has brought together in a sifted and trustworthy form the chief records of the passion of the primitive martyrs.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 810. Je. 17, ‘05. 1270w. |
“A most valuable contribution to the history of Christian life.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 340w. |
Mason, Daniel Gregory. Beethoven and his forerunners. [**]$2. Macmillan.
Dr. Mason, who sent out his “From Grieg to Brahms” two years ago, has now rendered the musical world another distinct service. “It has been said of Dr. Daniel Gregory Mason that he often ‘expresses what one has felt, but never quite formulated.’” The book “opens with a chapter on ‘The periods of musical history,’ touches on ‘Palestrina and the music of mysticism’ and ‘The principles of pure music,’ followed by biographical and critical studies of Hadyn, Mozart, and Beethoven.” (Dial.)
“Displays that firm grasp of the subject which makes it interesting as well as valuable reading for the student. There is a chord of sincerity in all that Dr. Mason writes; and while he is never pedantic, his work shows remarkable insight into the origin and development of musical works.” Ingram A. Pyle.
| + + | Dial. 38: 237. Ap. 1, ‘05. 390w. |
“The book itself is altogether a better book—a more creditable piece of writing than its predecessor.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 41. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w. |
“The author has a happy gift of turning a phrase so that it is easily remembered, and a still more valuable gift of a right judgment, which makes his phrases helpful and not misleading.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
“It is doubtful if this book of Mr. Mason’s will prove as valuable or find as wide acceptance as his earlier one. Mr. Mason ... gives much that is valuable in the contemporary discussion of music.” Richard Aldrich.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 530w. |
“One of the few writers of to-day who can see the philosophy of musical development in its relation to the general progress of the world, and can, moreover, write about this in an entertaining way. The touch is that of one who not only knows but feels his theme in its greatness.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 252. F. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Masson, Thomas Lansing (Tom Masson). Corner in women. [**]$1.60. Moffat.
“A collection of more or less humorous sketches furnished to periodicals, and especially to ‘Life,’ in recent times, and well supplied with short stories, fables, epigrams, squibs, jokes, and humorous verse, with a Gibson girl cover and many other pictures.”—Outlook.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 20w. |
[*] “All the ‘follies’ are clever, and there is plenty of variety in both subject and manner of treatment.”
| + | Dial. 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 80w. | |
| * | + + | Ind. 59: 1383. D. 14, ‘05. 90w. |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “Like all other books of its kind, this volume suffers from what might be called unstable humorous equilibrium, but it contains many really funny things.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney. In peril of change: essays written in time of tranquility. [*]$1.50. Huebsch.
“Mr. Masterman ... attempts to describe the tendencies of English civilization, to estimate the nature of its dominant ideals, and to point out recent changes which have occurred in these, the nature of the foundation upon which they rest, and the likelihood of catastrophes in the future. That he is also filled with a passionate sense of the injustice of the system which both creates and evangelizes the slums, and with a hatred for the idols of the marketplace, is evident on every page and lends pathos to much of his writing.”—Ath.
[*] “A good deal of it is mere journalism. With the modern journalist’s eye for effect and instinct for phrasing, Mr. Masterman has also a good deal of his love of sweeping statements. It is just this lack of balance, this emotionalism, which we think injures the writer’s style. His rhetoric is too monotonous, and his pathos too recurrent, to be effective. In our opinion, then, the book is clever, interesting, and useful, but hardly great. At the same time we welcome its appearance.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 38. Jl. 8. 1430w. |
[*] “He has studied the life of the poor closely, and has pleaded their cause with passionate conviction. He has moreover all the gifts of a very persuasive writer, and his style, always easy and attractive, rises sometimes to heights of a real eloquence. Mr. Masterman’s defects are the defects of his qualities.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 1480w. |
[*] “Nobility of temper; catholicity of personal; literary, and religious, though hardly of political appreciation; and frequently a striking felicity of phrase are among the notes of Mr. Masterman’s essays.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 355. S. 9, ‘05. 1260w. |
Matarazzo, Francisco. Chronicles of the city of Perugia, 1492-1503, tr. by Edward S. Morgan. [*]$1.25. Dutton.
“Matarazzo tells the story of Perugia under the rule of the Baglioni, that clan of full-limbed men and lovely women, whose delicate complexions and golden locks filled and dazzled him with such a sense of their more than human beauty that he almost forgot their crimes in his fervid, well-nigh amorous, worship of their splendor and their strength. Such is the chronicle which Mr. Morgan has ventured to do into English; and it is hardly too much to say that the English is as good as the Italian.”—Nation.
| + + + | Acad. 68: 634. Je. 17, ‘05. 1250w. |
[*] “Mr. Morgan’s translation, as a piece of English, is most admirably done; the archaic flavor he has imparted to the story has a distinct charm. There is one complaint to be lodged against him, however: we think he should have put his readers in a position where they would be better able to judge of Matarazzo’s veracity.”
| + + — | Cath. World. 82: 412. D. ‘05. 530w. |
“A fascinating picture of the moral, social and religious conditions of society in a typical Italian city during the Renaissance.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 190w. |
“We have never seen a translation which has more completely caught the spirit of the original.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 522. Je. 29, ‘05. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w. |
“A careful English translation.” Walter Littlefield.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 170w. |
“In these chronicles, Matarazzo ... displays a clear, picturesque style. He is sometimes garrulous, it is true, but seldom prolix.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 642. Jl. ‘05. 110w. |
Mather, Persis. Counsels of a worldly godmother. [†]$1.50. Houghton.
“We cannot imagine a goddaughter who would not turn a grateful ear to the tactful ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother,’ by Mrs. Mather. The witty and diplomatic woman of the world, who here attempts to direct a debutante to the right path to genuine social success, is not in any undesirable sense of the word ‘worldly.’ She stands for the best that Society with a large S is capable of producing, and she points to the way of attaining that best and of escaping the pitfalls of sham, snobbery, notoriety, and ostentation. While her counsels are addressed primarily to those who are striving to get on in society, they can be followed with advantage by all aspirants to sweet and gracious womanhood.”—Pub. Opin.
“No less wise than witty are these ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 550w. |
“While she never appeals to a particularly high motive or sets up a lofty ideal, the common sense and the sparkle of her curtain lectures may attract notice when more serious writing would fail.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 100w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 180w. |
Mathew, Frank. Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank Mathew. [*]$6. Macmillan.
Subjective views of the country taken by an artist in colors and another in words. The book “is no more than a quiet introduction to Ireland” without statistics and without wrangling. “We find a sympathy with the poor, a love of wild nature, an appreciation of modest perfections, an absence of all ill-temper or rancour which are rare and refreshing in a book about Ireland.” (Ath.)
“On the whole the geography is accurate, and the painter’s sketches are in their outline so also. We cannot lay down this interesting book without the feeling that it is in many senses over-coloured.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 216. Ag. 12. 840w. |
“Ireland is a sadder, grayer country than Mr. Mathew has described or Mr. Walker painted.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 460w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 360w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 130w. |
“He is not always accurate. But he knows his history, and he makes it interesting to others.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 813. Je. 17, ‘05. 280w. |
Mathews, Frances Aymar. Billy Duane. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
A story of politics and society in New York, which concerns an estranged couple. Billy Duane, the mayor, turns his Madison avenue house into political headquarters in his wife’s absence. Mrs. Billy objects to rough politicians and cigar stumps, but is fond of roulette at any cost and is discovered at the game when a dress-making establishment is raided by the police. The affairs of the Duanes and numerous friends of their type form the plot, which works out happily, ending with a reconciliation.
“With the flashes of inspiration characteristic of this writer. The book is written on a more pretentious scale than its author’s ability in character-drawing seems to warrant.”
| + — | Critic. 46: 478. My. ‘05. 30w. | |
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 173. Mr. 18, ‘05. 570w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w. |
“A style that is a composite of ‘The duchess’ and certain more modern and strenuous American writers.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 70w. |
“It lacks neither rapid movement nor interesting central theme, but is written in an irritating staccato style ... which makes it hard to read.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w. |
Mathews, Frances Aymar. Marquise’s millions. [**]$1. Funk.
An American girl in France, direct heir to her aunts’ immense estate, learns that it has been the life long intention of these relatives to bequeath their millions to “The Nineteenth Louis” when he should return to France and to his rights. She contrives with the aid of an ambitious mother and a scheming lover to have the latter impersonate the long absent Louis and win the fortune. Finally, her honor asserts itself, she discloses the intrigue, and starts out to battle with life alone.
[*] “This is a romantic little tale of devotion to the Bourbon cause, light, readable and effective rather than well written.”
| + | Acad. 68: 1033. O. 7, ‘05. 310w. | |
| Critic. 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 60w. |
“This is a sprightly tale.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 490w. |
“An original situation which the author has devised and cleverly made much of.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 80w. |
“A really delightful story.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w. |
Mathews, Shailer. Messianic hope in the New Testament. [*]$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The messianic hope of the Pharisees is formulated as a criterion for historical interpretation. With its aid a study is made of the messianic ideas of Jesus, the New Testament doctrine of judgment and justification through faith; the messiahship of Jesus as the basis of the apostolic theodicy; the messianic age and its forerunner the gift of the spirit; the resurrection of the body; the coming of the kingdom; the ‘consummation.’ As a conclusion there is shown the distinction between the essential and the formal elements of historical Christianity made possible by such an investigation.”—Pub.’s note.
[*] “A very able treatment of this theme, conservative in spirit, yet thoro in research.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
“Is the best monograph on the subject with which we are acquainted.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 982. Ag. 19, ‘05. 620w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 360w. |
Mathot, R. E. [Gas engines and producer gas plants.] tr. from the French by Waldemar B. Kaempffert. $2.50. Henley.
A practical treatise setting forth the principles of gas engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.
“The original is very clearly written and the translator has succeeded in preserving this clearness.” Storm Bull.
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 527. My. 10, ‘05. 280w. |
Matthews, (James) Brander, ed. American familiar verse. See Wampum library of American literature. v. 3.
Matthews, (James) Brander. Recreations of an anthologist. [**]$1. Dodd.
Eleven brief papers, by-products of the author’s work upon his four anthologies. There are essays upon “Unwritten books.” “Seed corn for stories,” “American epigrams,” “Carols of cookery,” “Recipes in rhyme,” “The uncollected poems of H. C. Bunner,” and “The strangest feat in modern magic.”
| + | Critic. 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w. |
“A volume of pleasant literary essays.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 54. Ja. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
“Entertaining little volume.”
| + | Nation. 80: 197. Mr. 9, ‘05. 600w. |
Matthews, Mary Anderson. Love vs. law. $1.50. Broadway pub.
The interestingly sketched career of a young Wellesley graduate who returns to her Missouri home and determines to study law. This fair Portia is admitted to the bar, conducts many a successful case, becomes an advocate of equal rights, but withal loses not for a moment her girlish winsomeness nor womanly courage. Eventually she becomes wholly reconciled to the part that Cupid plays in staying the progress of her profession.
Mauclair, Camille. [Auguste Rodin; the man, his ideas, his work.] $4. Dutton.
In this account of the sculptor and his work, the sculptor speaks for himself and his admiring biographer speaks for him; between them we are given a view of the methods of Rodin, and his valuable views upon the education of other sculptors.
“Though M. Mauclair is rather the advocate than the critic, his book, if only for the many quotations from the master’s conversations, is of genuine interest.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 407. Ap. 1. 1360w. |
“A precise though rather over-eulogistic statement of Rodin’s personality and work, and a study of the artist’s psychology and its application to his personal ideas upon the technical principles of sculpture and his methods of work.”
| + + — | Critic. 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 160w. |
“M. Mauclair is ... a violent partisan.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 439. Je. 1, ‘05. 590w. |
“M. Camille Mauclair does not leave us with the feeling that we know the man Rodin.” Charles de Kay.
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 257. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1630w. |
“From its pages a just appreciation of the artist can be gained.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 227. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1340w. |
Maude, Aylmer. The Doukhobors. $1.50. Funk.
Mr. Maude, who made the arrangements with the Canadian government which led to the migration of the Doukhobors to Canada, and who thru his keen sympathy with the work of Tolstoi was early drawn into a close study of this peculiar people, is especially fitted to write such a work. It contains a history of the Doukhobors, and traces their connection in the past with the Lollards, Anabaptists, Quakers and other sects. It also gives a vivid account of their migration to Canada, and of the famous “pilgrimage” in 1902, which was finally checked by the Canadian government. The author finds in the waywardness of so strange a sect, in their lack of appreciation of the favor granted by the Canadians, a proof that Tolstoi, sincere and earnest and far-seeing as he is, is yet not infallible in point of judgment. Incidental to his account of “The Christian commune of universal brotherhood” Mr. Maude also takes a stand for individual ownership of property. The book, he says, is a public apology for his having helped, however unwillingly, to mislead the Canadian government as to the nature and religion of the people he has settled among them.
| Acad. 68: 608. Je. 10, ‘05. 810w. |
“To Mr. Elkinton’s book that of Mr. Maude may justly be looked upon as a pendant.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 103. Jl. 22. 1190w. |
“The disconnectedness and lack of sequence in his chapters ... and the large amount of irrelevant matter make the book something of a conundrum to the reader until he reaches the final chapter.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 460w. |
“At last we have a work from which the student of sociological experiments and systems, as well as the ordinary laymen, can obtain a fair, clear, and sufficiently complete conception of the truly ‘peculiar’ Russian sectarians about whom so much that is prejudiced or erroneous has been written.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 212. Mr. 16, ‘05. 2180w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 69. F. 4, ‘05. 1470w. (Abstract of book). |
“Although not very well put together, is an extremely interesting study of ‘a peculiar people.’”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 410w. |
“His book is not so good as it should be from a deficiency in the need of perspective; or perhaps a readiness to use up old material.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 635. My. 13, ‘05. 700w. | |
| Spec. 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 560w. |
Maule, Francis I. Only letters. [**]$1. Jacobs.
“In the approaching season of the American exodus to Europe, this gay record of pleasant travel, written by an intelligent man to his brother, will prove a welcome addition to the books set aside to read on the steamship. From England, Russia, Egypt, and here and there between, the writer gathered impressions.”—Outlook.
“He is gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary, keen perceptions, and a vast treasury of real American humor, sometimes a trifle exasperating, but never by any chance dull.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w. |
Maurer, Edward R. Technical mechanics. $4. Wiley.
“The author shows close sympathy with the point of view of the beginner, and appreciation of the fact that at certain points the conventional treatment of fundamental principles fails to meet the need of the ordinary student. As features of Maurer’s book may be mentioned the emphasis everywhere given to the vector nature of the qualities dealt with, the parallel treatment of graphical and analytical methods in statics, the admirable chapter on work and energy, and the satisfactory treatment of the subject of units.”—Science.
“As a sound and practical text-book for the use of students of engineering Professor Maurer’s book possesses high merit. The exposition is nearly always concise. The soundness of the logic is rarely open to question.” L. M. Hoskins.
| + + + | Science, n.s. 21: 302. F. 24, ‘05. 1300w. |
Maxwell, Donald. Log of the Griffin: the story of a cruise from the Alps to the Thames. [**]$2.50. Lane.
The adventures on land and sea of a strange craft built in the Alps, and carried by wagon to Lake Zurich. She sailed the Rhine, and the East Scheldt, and arrived at the mouth of the Thames on board a steamer. The log is illustrated by a hundred or more sketches of the unique cruise.
“An agreeable novelty in the well-worn ways of European travel.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 70w. |
“Without being in any way a serious work, the narrative commends itself as well-told, veracious, original; while in its artistic aspect the book is beautiful.” Wallace Rice.
| + | Dial. 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 200w. |
“The account of the evolution of the queer craft and of its adventures cannot fail to amuse, if it does not instruct.”
| + | Int. Studio. 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 130w. |
“Capital reading.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 78. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Condensed narrative.) |
Maxwell, Joseph. [Metapsychical phenomena], tr. by J. I. Finch. $3.50. Putnam.
The method and observation of “physical” manifestations are given chiefly, such as “table-turning,” “rapping,” and “levitation.” There is a preface by Charles Richet, and also an introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge. An additional chapter gives a complex case by Professor Richet, and an account of some recently observed phenomena by the translator.
“One leaves Dr. Maxwell’s book with a perfect conviction of his honesty, some hesitation about his logic, and entire certainty that his records will have no weight with sceptics; but then he does not seem to expect to produce any effect on them.” Andrew Lang.
| + — | Acad. 68: 898. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w. | |
| — | Ath. 1905, 1: 693. Je. 3. 1570w. |
“It should be said that, in spite of its size, Dr. Maxwell’s book is eminently readable, although the translator has admitted a good many disfiguring gallicisms.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 285. O. 5, ‘05. 780w. |
“Modern in its research. It has a well-balanced scientific skill.” Pendennis.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 429. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1200w. |
“Interesting as is his book, it cannot well be deemed a weighty addition to the literature on this fascinating but elusive subject.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 210w. |
“The effect produced on the mind is mainly cumulative, but by reason of the manifest sincerity of the author and his competency and experience as an observer, its importance as a contribution towards the study of this neglected Cinderella among sciences is unquestionably very high.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 249. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1220w. | |
| — | Spec. 95: 496. O. 7, ‘05. 2230w. |
Maxwell, W. B. Ragged messenger. [**]$1.20. Putnam.
“A sensational novel, in which the hero, a minister of the church, for the sake of his conviction, gives up his parish and preaches on the street and in the slums of London. A large fortune comes to him, all of which he gives to the poor. He is unrewarded for his sacrifices. The heroine, a beautiful woman, is an adventuress”.—Bookm.
“The book is carefully written, both in matter of style and development of the plot. The idea of the story is original, and the book as a whole is unusually vigorous and impressive.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 189. F. ‘05. 80w. |
“The reader gets the impression that he is listening to a man talking to himself.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 786. Ap. 6, ‘05. 300w. |
“As a study in modern phases this story must be considered something more than remarkable. The phases themselves are more than remarkable, the motive almost fantastic in spite of the realistic modern London setting. The yeast of fate brews and works in the whole, and makes of these elements a climax so melodramatic as to seem almost inspired. But it is melodrama pathologically inevitable. One may read the books and ponder on the meaning of faith, science, and common sense, or one may think chiefly of the story—one of humanity probed pretty deep—one somewhat daringly planned, but one which shows strength and a seeing eye.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 70. F. 4, ‘05. 520w. |
“A powerful story.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 50w. |
Maxwell, W. B. Vivien. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
“The story is told entirely from the point of view of the heroine.... The hero of the book is a cheerfully profligate earl (the villain being gloomily profligate), who is awakened to the seriousness of life when the heroine repels his advances, and he succeeds to a dukedom.... At the end of five hundred and fifty closely printed pages the duke repents of his sin and marries the heroine, who is discovered to possess ‘the golden current, the divine fire,’ which can apparently only be derived from ancestors whose names are in the peerage.”—Spec.
“Mr. Maxwell has other admirable qualities, notably a keen instinct for character, a sense of humour, and many craftsmanlike devices for rendering that humour effective.”
| + | Acad. 68: 856. Ag. 19, ‘05. 890w. |
“The first half of the story is better than the last, for in the last we approach very close to sentimental melodrama. It rings feminine.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 640w. |
“In general, Mr. Maxwell seems to miss the finer point of characterization. For all that, there are passages in his book, even in the fairy tale part of it, which stir the feelings. He has humour; he is master of his words, and he can retain his reader’s attention through a very long and unevenly handled story.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 262. Ag. 18, ‘05. 340w. |
“Another story almost as extraordinary and possibly even more intense in its holding power [than ‘The ragged messenger.’]” H. I. Brock.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 760. N. 11, ‘05. 1160w. |
“A novel of more than usual interest and strength.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 90w. |
“It is the product, not of a philosopher, but of a clever reporter, an emotional wordy piece of work owing its success to cheap sentiment, a fine journalistic style, highly coloured and verbose, effective characterisation, and detailed and no doubt accurate accounts of life.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 378. S. 16, ‘05. 410w. |
“The book is fluently written, and judged by its own standard, is clever.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 330w. |
Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth (Chandler). Mrs. Maybrick’s own story. [**]$1.20. Funk.
The author tells the story of her life from the time of her arrest for the murder of her husband, through the course of her trial, and the fifteen years imprisonment which terminated December, 1903. The recital is womanly and pathetic without a trace of bitterness. A legal digest of the case is appended.
“Such a tale cannot help being morbid, but in the main it rings true. To those who have an interest in prison life it will not fail to be of value, yet for the ordinary reader it would be a book worth while avoiding.”
| + | Critic. 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 80w. | |
| Nation. 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w. | ||
| + + | New England Magazine, n.s. 31: 622. Ja. ‘05. 5830w. (Condensed narrative of book.) |
“There is no bitterness in the book, but it is a strong indictment of British justice, and points out the crying need for a British court of appeals in criminal cases.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 220w. |
Meeker, Royal. History of shipping subsidies. [*]$1. Published for the American economic association by the Macmillan co.
Part one deals with shipping subsidies historically under the sub-divisions: Great Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Austro-Hungary; Japan; Other countries; and United States. Part two concerns the Theory of subsidies and is divided into: Theoretical arguments; Popular arguments for subsidy; Political arguments for subsidy; and Ethical considerations. There is also a bibliography and an index.
Meigs, William Montgomery. Life of Thomas H. Benton. [**]$2. Lippincott.
A life of a distinguished statesman of the middle period by one who has made a thoro study of his career. The biography contains accounts of the many historical events with which the great Missourian was connected, such as the admission of his state into the Union, and the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency. His service as United States senator, his love of the Union, and his personal influence upon the Democrats of his state are dwelt upon.
“A readable account of the Missourian’s career.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 947. Jl. ‘05. 20w. |
“Meigs appeals to the student by a more judicial and critical attitude. There is hardly an overstatement or a serious error to be found.” W. H. Mace.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 176. O. ‘05. 650w. |
“This must be reckoned the most complete and authoritative biography of Benton.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 60w. |
“The author has consulted most of the available authorities on Benton, and has gathered much material from hitherto unknown sources. The work is the best life of Benton yet produced.”
| + + + | Dial. 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 600w. |
“It is a highly praiseworthy study of the great Missourian, sincere, thorough and judicial.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 170w. |
“Lacking in dramatic arrangement and wanting in painstaking accuracy of statement.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
“Mr. Meigs’s narrative is diffuse but vivacious, and abounds in anecdote and illustration. It gives an unusually clear and comprehensive survey of a signally useful and pure-minded man.”
| + + — | Lit. D. 21: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 640w. |
“There was distinctly room for a one-volume biography of Senator Benton. [Mr. Roosevelt’s biography in the American statesmen series] gives a picture of Benton superior to any which can be found in Mr. Meigs’s book. The greatest praise that we can award the latter is to say that it is the result of painstaking and laborious investigation and it will be of considerable value to students of history. The material, unfortunately, is put together with very little literary skill, and the style is certainly not such as to attract the general reading public. It is highly regrettable that Mr. Meigs cannot make us take the interest in the character of his picturesque subject which he tells he himself feels.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 67. F. 4, ‘05. 1080w. |
“More ambitious in scope than successful in accomplishment. Altogether, we have read the work with distinct feelings of disappointment, the disappointment being heightened by the reflection that the author has undoubtedly grasped Benton’s historical importance, and that had he but bestowed on the execution of his task the care evident in gathering of materials, he would have given us a biography well worth while.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 400w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 150w. |
Meili, Frederick. International civil and commercial law as founded upon theory, legislation and practice, tr. by A. R. Kuhn. [**]$3. Macmillan.
“The author was a delegate from Switzerland to the Hague international conferences, and this very thorough discussion was at least in part suggested by those conferences. The book of course deals with international private law as distinguished from international public law, and is in the main concerned with the continental views of this branch of jurisprudence.” (Outlook). “Mr. Kuhn has not only translated the work, but has supplemented it with additions from American and English law. Very useful lists, annotations, and bibliographies complete the work.” (R. of Rs.)
“It is a convenient, if not very skilfully planned survey of the whole field. The information which it furnishes as to bibliography is not the least recommendation of the book. But the omissions are far from few.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 340w. |
“Its exactness of method and thoroughness of research evidently make it a work of lasting value to the jurist accustomed to deal with large legal topics in a scientific manner.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w. |
“Professor Meili has written a very useful book for students of comparative politics, as well as for lawyers.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 351. S. 9, ‘05. 500w. |
“A very handy and valuable legal work.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 110w. |
Mellor, J. W. Crystallization of iron and steel: an introduction to the study of metallography. [*]$1.60. Longmans.
“It is certainly a convenience to possess such a book.... In six short and lucid chapters—originally lectures delivered in 1904 to the engineering students of the Staffordshire county technical classes of the Newcastle high school—we are taken from a well-put statement of what is known respecting the solidification and cooling of alloys in general to the consideration of the phenomena recognized in iron and steel in particular, and, lastly, to practical directions for the due preparations of specimens for microscopic examination.”—Ath.
“It must be regarded as an ‘ad interim’ report only. Looking at Dr. Mellor’s little volume in this light, we have nothing but praise to award it.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 310. S. 2. 540w. |
[*] “This second chapter is the only unsatisfactory one of the book. Confining himself to limited space, the writer has sacrificed conciseness to mere brevity. The two predominant features of the book as a whole are the great concentration of information into a small space, and the interesting manner in which it is presented, which latter never fails to attract. This clouding of the main issue by the introduction of data not absolutely necessary is one of the principal weaknesses of the book. When all has been said, this book is the best popular introduction to the study of metallography that we have.”
| + + — | Engin. N. 54: 528. N. 16, ‘05. 1690w. |
“The presentation is without bias, and each theory and method is described and examined as clearly and fairly as the author’s evident lack of practical acquaintance with the subject as a whole will permit.” A. McWilliam.
| — + | Nature. 72: 532. S. 28, ‘05. 610w. |
Melville, Lewis. Thackeray country. $2. Macmillan.
A volume in the “Pilgrimage series.” “Mr. Melville treats of those localities which are of primary interest to those who are acquainted with the life and writings of the great novelist. He deals with Thackeray’s London homes and the features and associations of their neighborhood; his homes in Paris, and other places on the European continent, and in America. Special attention is paid to those places that form a background of the scenes of Thackeray’s novels. Biographical information is also supplied connected with the novelist’s residences from his arrival in England from India at the age of six until his death in 1863. The volume contains fifty full-page illustrations mostly from original photographs by C. W. Barnes Ward.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author has not tackled his task in the right spirit or performed it in the right way; all that he has given us is a rather disconnected short life of Thackeray. There are many distinct mistakes. A large portion of the book has not anything to do with its supposed subject. It is a poor production.”
| — — | Acad. 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w. |
“He has written an interesting book, which will please the reader the more, the better he knows the author.”
| + | Spec. 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 190w. |
Menpes, Dorothy. [Brittany.] [*]$6. Macmillan.
“The latest of the ‘Menpes books’ is devoted to ‘Brittany.’ Mr. Mortimer Menpes has made a specialty of traveling with a water-color box and a literary daughter, and the results of these travels appear each year in time for the holiday trade.” (Nation.) There are some seventy-five illustrations, and they show different parts of Northern France—peasants, scenes in the markets, street scenes, etc.
“Her best descriptions, her brightest sketches, are spoilt for the reader by unnecessary blots of sloppiness.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 312. S. 2. 160w. |
“Text and illustrations have a common facility and a common lack of seriousness which is welcome, or the reverse, according to one’s point of view.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 279. O. ‘05. 240w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 501. Jl. 29, ‘05. 260w. |
Meredith, Katharine Mary Cheever (Johanna Staats). Wing of love. [†]$1. McClure.
“A charming child in this book, and a nice young journalist chap, her staunch friend from the day she and her mother find their way to the top floor of the New York lodging house where he and two other bachelors have their abode. This friendship is quite disinterested, the mother receiving only courteous attentions from him, his heart being in another’s keeping—facts concerning which subsequently develop very prettily to connect them with his romance.”—Outlook.
“The chief fault in its development lies in the fact that, instead of making it a short story, she has padded her little tale until it has lost much of its charm.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 380 Je. 10. ‘05. 310w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 80w. |
Merington, Marguerite. Cranford: a play. $1.25. Fox.
A comedy in three acts made from Mrs. Gaskell’s well-known story of the same name. The full charm of the story is retained in the dramatization.
[*] “Written with Miss Merington’s usual sprightliness.”
| + | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 40w. |
“A not unskillful dramatization for amateur theatricals of Mrs. Gaskell’s ever fresh and delightful tale.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 15w. |
Merriman, Charles Eustace. Self-made man’s wife: her letters to her son: being the woman’s view of certain famous correspondence. [†]$1.50. Putnam.
“In her letters the mother advises her son on the treatment of his wife, on the retention of his ideals, on the writing of books and on the reading of them, on quarreling and making up, on the fallacy and folly of aphorisms, adages, and other epigrammatic usages, on economy in households, and a number of other living topics, and aptly illustrates her points by instances taken from her own domestic experiences or observations of the experiences of her neighbors.”—N. Y. Times.
“Upon the whole these letters are tedious and disappointing.”
| — | Acad. 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 300w. |
“A cup of cambric tea is this book.”
| — | Critic. 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 90w. |
“If they are not as entertaining as those of her husband it is only perhaps because the reader has already consumed two volumes of his epistolary lore and is perhaps a trifle satiated.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 530w. |
“The number of old jokes and the weary waste of platitudes in this book are positively depressing.”
| — | Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w. |
“The letters have a masculine ring. They exhibit a terse expression, a worldly acumen, a sense of humor, and an anecdotal wealth, that strongly resemble the style of the self-made man.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 440w. |
Merriman, Mansfield. Mechanics of materials. $5. Wiley.
A tenth edition, re-written and enlarged, of this text-book which “deals with the elastic and, to a limited extent, with the plastic properties of materials of construction and the application of the laws of strength of materials to the simple machine parts and structures. The treatment is essentially theoretical.”—Nature.
[*] “The present book is in some respects an excellent treatise. The first point which strikes a reader is the great looseness of terminology. The author has an aggravating way of describing a thing at first very crudely and inaccurately, but without any reservations, giving a revised statement much later on and a further revision later still, and this in the case of quite simple matters.”
| + + — | Nature. 73: 25. N. 9, ‘05. 1180w. |
Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester. Text-book on roof and bridges, pt. 1, Stresses in simple trusses. $2.50. Wiley.
“Those ... who are familiar with the first edition of this book, published in 1888, will hardly recognize the present volume as being a revision of the same book.... We now have the dead load stresses, the live load stresses and the stresses due to wind and other causes treated in separate chapters for the common forms of simple trusses. The fifth chapter takes up the consideration of long-span bridges.... Chapter VI. discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and plate girder design. Chapter VII. treats of deflections.... The final chapter takes up cranes, bents, towers, viaducts, and other miscellaneous structures. A notable feature of the new edition is the extensive use of illustrations, including half-tone views of notable truss bridges, folding plates and numerous text drawings.”—Engin. N.
| Engin. N. 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] Mertins, Gustave F. Storm signal. $1.50. Bobbs.
Two intertwined love stories provide the romantic interest in this story of the South and the negro. The conditions in the South after the Civil war are vividly presented, the good old negro type is well drawn, but the real story is that of the negro uprising, when black fiends, driven to desperation by the recital of their wrongs in their secret meetings, attack and are repulsed. There are strong dramatic scenes and characters which, tho unpleasing, are strikingly portrayed.
[*] Merwin, Samuel. [Road builders.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“To make an achievement in railroad building dramatic and exciting and to hold the reader’s interest in suspense from beginning to end is a feat in fiction writing which few men would attempt.... The young engineer who with bulldog determination and ever-ready invention puts his engineering feat through on time, in the face of cunning enemies, natural obstacles, and stupid and criminal employees, is a type, but he is also a rousing good fellow.”—Outlook.
[*] “There is no lack of well contrived incident, and on the whole the book is true to life.”
| + + | Engin. N. 54: 534. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “The tale is clear-cut, terse and thrilling. Altogether the book is an industrial romance bristling with human interest.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “More important than the adventures and incidents of the feat that is finally accomplished, is the evidence Mr. Merwin gives of his own growth in character delineation. Each man is different from every other, and all are real, whether good or bad.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 260w. |
Metcalf, Maynard Mayo. Outline of the theory of organic evolution. [*]$2.50. Macmillan.
A series of lectures given by Professor Metcalf before the Woman’s college of Baltimore, expanded and put in book form. It is not a technical biological book, but it is an introductory survey of the biological theory of evolution and is intended for the general reader. It gives well established facts in their general outlines, and deals with some of the most striking phenomena of anatomy.
“It is a treatise so clear, simple and fascinating withal, that the subject can not only be readily grasped by the most slow-thinking reader, but few who peruse the opening pages will be content to lay it aside. This book is precisely the work that general readers need. It is a volume that should be read by every young man and woman in America.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + + | Arena. 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 450w. |
“Presents in a clear and simple style the fundamental principles of organic evolution in a form very well adapted to the needs of the general reader and to those who wish an outline of the theory of Darwinism. Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is the wealth of clear and very well selected illustrations.”
| + + + | Bot. G. 39: 301. Ap. ‘05. 160w. |
“Two features of the book are especially praiseworthy: first, the clearness and distinctness with which essentials are presented; second, the wealth of illustration. It is safe to say that no previous popular treatise on evolution has been so completely and so well illustrated as this. The chief criticism to be made regarding the book as a whole is its failure to give any adequate account of the important results of many of the recent investigations in the field of evolution.”
| + + — | Dial. 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w. |
“The volume under consideration will find its own place, because it is far better than the least technical books on evolution previously published. It will form an excellent introduction to the classical books on evolution. The author has very successfully attempted to write in a non-technical and popular style. No other book in the same field is so lavishly illustrated. Without hesitation the reviewer recommends the book to those who want information about the theory in its non-technical bearings.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 323. F. 9, ‘05. 520w. |
“This is one of the best popular accounts of the theory of evolution that have come under our notice. An excellent feature of the book is its wealth of pictorial illustration. A few points call for criticism.”
| + + — | Nature. 71: 509. Mr. 30, ‘05. 450w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 256. F. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Metchnikoff, Elie. Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French by Francis G. Binnie. [*]$5.25. Macmillan.
Metchnikoff’s theory “is familiar enough now to the reading public with its protective forces in the body; leucocytes ready to mass together to repulse the assault of germ organisms as well as their toxic products; but the work is not primarily on macrophages and microphages, but on the great question of immunity from infection. This extends through immunity of protozoans, metazoans (multicellular plants), and finally of animals—immunity either natural or acquired. The ramifications of the work extend over a vast area of experimentation and citation of contemporaneous work, but the immunity always is attributed, in one way or another, to the protective activity of the leucocytes. This makes the work a very agreeably unified one, and clearly drawn colored illustrations of the leucocytic activity do much to enhance the value of the treatise.”—Pub. Opin.
| + + + | Engin. N. 54: 646. D. 14, ‘05. 600w. |
[*] “The present book, however, justifies itself adequately from a purely practical point of view.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 600w. |
[*] “While the work is primarily for scientific use, there is no reason why an intelligent layman should not acquire from its reading a very clear and comprehensive idea of immunity in its varied forms.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 603. N. 4, ‘05. 330w. |
Meyer, Rev. F: Brotherton. Epistle to the Philippians; a devotional commentary. [*]$1. Union press.
The author has not attempted mere criticism, but has “endeavored honestly to ascertain the meaning of the epistle, and to beat out but pure and unalloyed gold.” Each chapter covers a few verses, the commentary is full and clear and the verses covered are noted in the margin of each page.
[*] Meyer, Hugo Richard. Government regulation of railway rates; a study of the experience of the United States, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
“Professor Meyer, in his preface, declares that he ‘has become firmly convinced of the unwisdom of government regulation of railways or their rates’; and he has hurried into print with this book lest Congress ‘may be led to enact ill-considered laws granting dangerously enlarged powers to the Interstate commerce commission.’ Part I. of the book describes Prof. Meyer’s studies of the state-owned and operated railways in Europe and Australia.... In part II. Prof. Meyer takes up conditions in the United States.”—Engin. N.
| * | + — | Engin. N. 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 520w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 936. D. 16, ‘05. 330w. |
[*] “Apart from the matter of personal opinion on this subject, however, Professor Meyer’s book contains much valuable material, which is summarized in a way which cannot fail to interest all students of the railroad question, whatever may be their views as to the expediency of federal legislation.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 637. N. ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Meyrick, Rev. Frederick. Memories of life at Oxford and experiences in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere. [*]$3.50. Dutton.
“The most noticeable feature of this book is in the sidelights it throws on the ‘Tractarian movement’ at Oxford, in 1833-41, as well as on the ‘Old Catholic reform movement’ on the continent, and incidentally on this history of the Church of England during the last fifty years or so.... Aside from this, the book contains a considerable fraction of entertaining matter connected with university social life at Oxford.”—Critic.
[*] “We recommend a revision of the index: for several names and incidents demanding mention the reviewer has been compelled to hunt laboriously through the pages of the book.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 741. Je. 17. 1920w. | |
| * | + | Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “We cannot rate his book very high, even in the class to which it belongs, for it is neither very interesting nor very good-natured.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 500w. |
[*] “The real value of the book lies not so much in the impressions, the appreciations or depreciations, which are given of Newman and Pusey, of Keble and Gladstone, and other well-known and great figures, as in the incidental vignettes of persons of less note whose portraits are more seldom drawn.”
| + | Spec. 95: 469. S. 30, ‘05. 1120w. |
Miall, Louis C. House, garden and field. $2. Longmans.
This collection of short nature studies by Professor Miall of the University of Leeds covers a multitude of subjects and gives a wealth of useful and interesting information upon fresh air, the dog, the cat, birds, bookworms, flies, trees, and whatever chances to attract his attention at the moment. The book seems to open our eyes to an interested observation of the things around us.
“It is packed with scientific facts, with clear and practical suggestions for class room and study club, and with eye-opening and thought-stimulating questions. No arrangement or lack of arrangement can destroy the value of the good sense and clarity with which these and all the other subjects are treated.” May Estelle Cook.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 386. Je. 1, ‘05. 220w. |
“There is no attempt to be consecutive, and he writes concerning whatever for the moment strikes his attention. The object in view is to teach teachers rather than pupils.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 37. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1360w. (Survey of contents.) |
Michael Angelo Buonarroti. [Sonnets; now first tr. into rhymed English] by J. Addington Symonds. 2d ed. [*]$1.25. Scribner.
The second edition of J. A. Symonds’ translation of Buonarroti’s sonnets, with the Italian in alternating pages. The notes following the text explain the circumstances, as far as known, in which the sonnets were written, and make note of the various manuscript versions over which Buonarroti worked.
| — | Nation. 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w. |
“Such as they are, [the translations] are ingenious word renderings, which, while not entirely devoid of fine lines, for the most part lack color and lightness of rhythm.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 199. Ap. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
“The volume in which they are placed represents both dignity and taste.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w. |
Michael, Oscar Stewart. Sunday-school in the development of the American church. [*]$1.50. Young ch.
“The ‘American church’ of the title is the church of which the author is a minister—the Protestant Episcopal.... The book will be of interest to persons engaged in Sunday-school outside as well as within the Episcopal church. It brings especially emphatic testimony to the value of Sunday-schools as propagators of churches.”—Outlook.
“He gives an adequate and interesting account of the Sunday-school work of a great church which has always espoused warmly the cause of Christian nurture.” William Byron Forbush.
| + | Bib. World. 26: 394. N. ‘05. 140w. | |
| Outlook. 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w. |
Michaelis Karin (Katharina Marie Bech Brondum). Andrea, the tribulations of a child; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik. $1. McClure.
The famous Danish author has written the story of a young girl whose father and mother are unhappily estranged. The little heroine devotes her life to bringing them together and her tribulations and soul struggles as revealed in her diary finally accomplish this end, when her parents read the pitiful little book together after her untimely death.
“The book has been rendered into ungrammatical American. This story, though quite short, contains proof that Karin Michaelis is an artist.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 280w. |
“The story is a classic.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 450w. |
Michelson, Miriam. [Madigans.] [†]$1.50. Century.
Six high-spirited, clever, mischievous youngsters, whose very names—among them Split, Sissy, Bep and Fom—suggest the hostile brevity that often characterizes the sisterly relations, riot in the foreground of this family stage, while a father deep in too-much-for-me perplexity, and an irresponsible aunt figure in the rear. Tho there are slights, digs and taunts, deep down in the heart of each is an untrained affection for the other, and staunch loyalty. It is a lively story for young readers, many of whom will discover a fellow feeling for some Madigan. Mr. Orson Lowell’s illustrations are happily in keeping with the author’s portrayal.
“Their escapades are brightly told and they are very human.”
| + | Critic. 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 30w. |
“Miss Michelson’s humor has rare freshness and charm.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] Mifflin, Lloyd. Collected sonnets of Lloyd Mifflin; revised by the author. [*]$2.60. Oxford.
Over 200 selections of verse are included in this volume which contains, in addition to work which has previously appeared in the author’s various books of poetry, several new sonnets which appear for the first time in this collection.
[*] “A little of Mr. Lodge’s sincerity of passion would have helped Mr. Mifflin’s book. Yet no recent collection of verse has been more instinct with poetic love of beauty or has shown more ability at communicating it in verse.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 390w. |
[*] “In spite of inevitable lapses from the simplicity and strength of the best examples there is a remarkable uniformity of excellence in both the technical achievement and the dignity and interest of the phases of feeling expressed.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “Written on any conceivable subject, they rarely rise above the platitudinous, and at their best are sonorous without being in any way impressive.”
| — | Spec. 95: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 60w. |
Mifflin, Lloyd. Fleeing nymph and other verse. [**]$1. Small.
A group of about fifty poems whose themes include life, love and nature. “None of the shorter pieces in Mr. Mifflin’s volume is very notable. All have the grace that comes from the sparing, delicate use of words, many are picturesque and pleasing in conception; but there is a certain softness of tone in them that is not wholly a pleasant softness.” (Nation.)
| + — | Critic. 47: 384. O. ‘05. 170w. |
“There is much delicate art in these songs, and they are freighted with a rich burden of thought.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 67. Ag. 1. ‘05. 130w. |
“Mr. Mifflin’s poetry is distinguished by its admirable technical qualities.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 458. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w. |
“On occasions he is out in his scansion and in his grammar. But this is to show Mr. Mifflin at his worst. His best, though never quite free from the intrusion of the second-best word, shows a power of sympathetic description, usually sad, that leaves its mood behind it.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 224. Jl. 14, ‘05. 300w. |
“If there is a lack of pith and fibre in Mr. Mifflin’s lyrics that makes against the permanence of the impression left by them, his narrative poetry ... is, after all, admirable.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 360w. |
“‘The fleeing nymph, and other poems,’ by Lloyd Mifflin, have the light and graceful touch characteristic of their author.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 210w. |
Mighels, Philip Verrill. Ultimate passion: a novel. [†]$1.50. Harper.
An honest young politician with high ideals accepts the support of a corrupt political ring in his race for the presidency in order that he may learn their methods and thus combat them. Three women come into his life, the foolish daughter of the “boss”, an adventuress, and a real woman who arouses the “ultimate passion” which survives when his political campaign fails.
“If you want a good example of the book which overreaches itself by deliberate exaggeration, you will find it in ‘The ultimate passion.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| — | Bookm. 21: 602. Ag. ‘05. 420w. |
“Mr. Mighels has the meagrest equipment as a novelist, and his performance as a whole is so crude that it is scarcely worth while to consider its details.”
| — | Critic. 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w. |
“Has style (of a sort), an interesting framework, and characterizations of no mean order of merit. This is a very vigorous book, inspired by genuine passion, and making a skilful progress to its logical conclusion.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 240w. |
“Mr. Mighels’s work seems to us faulty in conception as well as execution, and to serve no particular purpose.”
| — | Ind. 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 30w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 150w. |
“A hysterical novel of political corruption.”
| — | Outlook. 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 6w. |
“Is a masterpiece among political novels.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 180w. |
Miles, Eustace Hamilton. Boy’s control of self expression. [*]$2. Dutton.
“The introductory chapters are written chiefly for those who have the care of boys.... These are followed by chapters on ‘Physical and external helps’ toward self-control, mental helps; and the book closes with some general remarks, the ‘opinion of a mother,’ a letter to a boy, ‘A defense of Latin—rightly taught,’ and ‘A theory about excessive blood pressure.’ The volume has illustrations and diagrams.”—N. Y. Times.
| + — | Nation. 80: 436. Je. 1, ‘05. 330w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 297. My. 6, ‘05. 230w. | ||
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 290w. |
“There are valuable ideas and suggestions in this book on the training of boys, but the author attempts to cover so much ground, and does it in so haphazard a way, that it is almost impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 40w. | |
| + — | Spec. 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 280w. |
Millar, A. H. Mary, Queen of Scots. [*]$1. Scribner.
In establishing the reasons for difficulty in understanding Queen Mary’s character, the author says: “Any natural determination toward tolerance which Mary’s character may have originally possessed was warped and distorted by her early education; and her disposition, once gentle and confiding, may have been changed by her experience of the faithlessness of mankind into that form of stolid distrust which suspects the truest friend and questions the least interested motives.” His biography is based on this view of things. “Mr. Millar believes and most readers will believe, that the errors committed by Mary Stuart were more of the heart than of the head.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Millar’s book is a careful presentation of facts, with a due regard for the bearing of the political questions of the time. It is, in truth, a well-written piece of history. He is not her partisan through thick and thin.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 1140w. |
“Well written volume.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 200w. |
Miller, Rev. James Russell. Beauty of kindness. [**]30c. Crowell.
This volume in the “What is worth while series,” sets forth the beauty of kindness, “the small coin of love.” It is a plea for the unselfish service, for simple kindness in daily life and in little things.
Miller, Rev. James Russell. Inner life. [*]50c. Crowell.
In this new volume in the “Chiswick series,” Dr. Miller shows that if the heart be given to Christ, if the inner life be made beautiful, this beauty will show in the deeds of our outer life and the world for us will be re-created.
Miller, Rev. James Russell. When the song begins. [**]65c. Crowell.
Another of Dr. Miller’s devotional books. Its object is to help people in learning how to live more beautifully, more victoriously, more usefully. It contains twenty chapters upon, The mystery of suffering, The joy of the cross, Friendship with Christ, Courage to live nobly, Under the All-seeing Eye, and other similar subjects.
| Outlook. 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Miller, Olive Thorne, pseud. (Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller). Kristy’s surprise party. [†]$1.25. Houghton.
“On her birthday Kristy’s uncles and aunts, and some adult friends besides, call in a body, and each in turn relates a story, which Kristy enjoys very much, and which other little girls may enjoy also.” (Outlook.) “In one is a stirring picture of a girl in the Chicago fire, another describes a western blizzard and a young girl’s rescue of a schoolmate. A good Indian story and sundry others of domestic adventure.” (Nation.) The volume is well illustrated by Ethel N. Farnsworth.
| * | Ind. 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “A group well written, full of interest, and suited to middle youth.”
| + | Nation. 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 80w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “The stories are clean, bright, and of considerable variety.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w. |
Miller, Peyton Farrell. Group of great lawyers of Columbia county, New York. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.
Mr. Miller, a lawyer of Hudson, has filled a volume with “interesting reminiscences and gossipy personal sketches of such men as Martin Van Buren, Samuel J. Tilden, Robert Livingston, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, Edward Livingston, and others. It also contains a brief account of the Anti-rent war.” (Am. Hist. R.)
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 722. Ap. ‘05. 60w. |
“An entertaining series of personal sketches. Members of the bar of New York state will find Mr. Miller’s pages crowded with interesting reminiscences of the great lawyers of the past.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w. |
Mills, Edmund James. Secret of Petrarch. [*]$3. Dutton.
“The volume is the work of a literary scholar of analytic type who has turned his lenses upon certain disputed points in the lives of the lovers and has brought forward various proofs to attest his own theories.” (Dial.) “A series of prose studies supplemented by some translations and some original verse interpretative of the life and genius of Petrarch. The prose consists of small but rather discursive chapters touching various points in connection with Laura, her identity, her birthplace, her character, and incidents in her relations with Petrarch.” (Outlook.)
“The reader can hardly accept all the author’s conclusions.”
| + — | Dial. 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 340w. |
“To one acquainted with ... ‘My secret’ ... Mr. Mills’s book is a sad disappointment. We suspect that the critical discussions were only designed to introduce the drama.”
| + — — | Nation. 80: 180. Mr. 2, ‘05. 460w. |
“Has quite unconsciously given false values to internal evidence. He found in Petrarch’s verse what he wished to find there, and where twist, quibble, and distortion fail him he sets down his theory as a self-evident truth. Candor forces us to praise Mr. Mills’ ingeniousness rather than his scholarship. We can freely applaud his poetry, however, which gives a far stronger illusion of reality than do Landor’s Conversations between the same persons.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w. |
“The volume lacks coherence.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 190w. |
Mills, Edmund Mead. Only a profession and other sermons. (Methodist pulpit. 2d ser.) [*]50c. Meth. bk.
Eight sermons including, besides the title sermon, How to know, The all-conquering Christ, The nation’s memorial, As he thinketh in his heart, What makes a nation great? Unconscious deterioration, and A withered hand.
[*] Mills, Weyman Jay. Caroline of Courtlandt street. [**]$2. Harper.
“A highly idealized story of New York life when the eighteenth century was young. Caroline of Courtlandt street, the daughter of an actress, yearns for her mother’s profession and by way of proving her right to enter it plays a pretty little comedy in which her father’s aristocratic and snobbish relatives take unconscious but highly important parts. The stage fails to gain her in the end, but in the meanwhile she has furnished us with a diverting little drama.”—Pub. Opin.
[*] “A slight but spirited novelette.”
| + | Dial. 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “An elaborately decorated romance, both as to the narrative and setting. The style is flowery.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 833. D. 2. ‘05. 120w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 733. D. 2, ‘05. 60w. |
Milyoukov, Paul. Russia and its crisis. [*]$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
In interpreting the Russian present by the Russian past, the author produces the results of long years of study. Professor Milyoukov is a representative of the branch of the liberal party known as the “Intellectuals,” and his work for freedom has already brought him calumny, imprisonment and exile. The aim of his discussion is to reveal the internal crisis in Russia as an outgrowth of the historical circumstances under which Russian civilization has developed. The author has explained the permanent and lasting elements in the political, social and religious life of a great world-power.
“Our pleasure at the thought and learning displayed in the lectures of which this volume is composed is marred by the extraordinary fancies of its author on the transliteration of names.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 810w. |
“With ample knowledge, training, and evident fairness, he is the best available guide to a knowledge of present conditions in Russia from the historical point of view.” Charles H. Cooper.
| + + + | Dial. 39: 268. N. 1, ‘05. 760w. | |
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 309. S. 29, ‘05. 1040w. |
“A strong book—one that will not appeal to the general reader, but will reach rather the serious and thoughtful.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 556. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1430w. |
“A masterly portrayal of the factors which have determined the present constitution of the Russian state, as well as the elements of leaven and fermentation at present working in that state.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 446. S. 30, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “A very valuable addition to the literature on the subject of Russian conditions.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 636. N. ‘05. 200w. |
Minor, Benjamin Blake. Southern literary messenger, 1834 to 1864 by Benjamin Blake Minor, editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847. [*]$2. Neale.
“A history of a magazine which for so many years held the chief place in the periodical literature of the South and an honorable one in that of the country, written by the gentleman who was its editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847, and who now at the good old age of eighty-six, is perhaps the only survivor of those who were personally connected with its fortunes. It will have a special interest for cultivated people in the South, and incidentally for all students of American literary history.”—Critic.
| + | Critic. 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w. |
“In spite of obvious faults (and partly because of them) Dr. Minor’s book has both permanent value and contemporary interest.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 494. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1350w. |
Mitchell, Charles Bayard. Noblest quest, and other sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Cleveland, O. [*]50c. Meth. bk.
Eight stirring sermons including, besides the title sermon, The Supreme Master, A shameless Jew, The dignity of labor, Remember thy Creator, A deserted grave, Life’s Jerusalem, and The impartial God.
Mitchell, S. Weir. Constance Trescot. $1.50. Century.
The tragic story of a young northern wife who goes with her husband to St. Ann, Missouri, where he is agent for a large estate. He becomes involved in a law suit, and is the prey of the prejudices and misconceptions so common to the reconstruction period. After his murder, Constance lives only to avenge herself upon his slayer, and the story becomes a strong psychological study of the charming woman’s selfish cruelty. It is a masterly book, unusual, and real, both in theme and characters.
“It is told in a masterly fashion.” Richard W. Kemp.
| + + — | Bookm. 21: 386. Je. ‘05. 1640w. |
“A novel of dignity and importance out of material that if treated less intelligently would be simply sensational.” C. A. Pratt.
| + + | Critic. 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 470w. |
“It is a great triumph, thus out of commonplace materials, and by the use of strictly legitimate methods, to produce a work of such singular power, and Dr. Mitchell deserves the warmest congratulations upon his success.” Wm. Morton Payne.
| + + + | Dial. 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 490w. |
“The second section of the book is, in fact, open to this dilemma. If Constance is in her right mind, the story of her revenge is inexplicable and impossible. If she is not, her madness removes it out of the range of subjects capable of being made to appeal to the imagination of the reader by means of the art of the novelist.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| — — + | Forum. 37: 104. Jl. ‘05. 1000w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 600w. |
“This is a good story.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1011. My. 4, ‘05. 630w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 299. My. 6, ‘05. 540w. |
“It is a tale wherein the psychological element, however, does overcloud the romantic interest.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w. |
“The motif ... is an extremely unpleasant one, and in hands less skilled than those of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell the story would be too painful. The story is a study of character of a very unusual kind, full of insight, experience and skill.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w. |
“It is undeniably powerful. The workmanship is of a high order.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 140w. | |
| + | Reader. 6: 239. Jl. ‘05. 390w. |
“Impressive as the book is, one wonders inevitably whether Constance was, after all, worth this expenditure of literary power on the part of Dr. Mitchell.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 200w. |
Mitchell, Silas Weir. Youth of Washington: told in the form of an autobiography. [†]$1.50. Century.
To think the thoughts of Washington as he thought them, to express them as he might have expressed them, in a word, to command a view of men and things as this general and statesman of Mount Vernon looked upon them, has been a unique task, to say nothing of the daring implied. But Dr. Mitchell has only reversed the great process of dramatization. Instead of fitting an actor to the mold of some great writer’s conception, as the stage continually does, he starts with the man and suits his thoughts and speech to the individual. Years of study, fresh enthusiasm, and keen insight into human nature have been brought to bear on his unusual task.
“Dr. Weir Mitchell has added another to the melancholy examples of Washingtonion dullness. It is sedate, detailed, conscientious and very dull.”
| — | Acad. 68: 63. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w. |
“May be judged as history or as fiction, according to the taste of the reader, and possesses high merit in either aspect. It would be possible to criticize some of Dr. Mitchell’s statements, and the conception of Washington’s mother is too harsh and even contradictory in detail to be either true or pleasing.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 444. Ja. ‘05. 430w. |
“Only a Weir Mitchell or his equal could have accomplished successfully the daring feat of personating George Washington. But in this book the great George has proven a worthy son of himself, and it is hard to realize that the quaint, formal phraseology is not indeed his own. His criticisms of his family and himself are frank and delightful.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 240w. |
Mitton, G. E. The dog. $2. Macmillan.
The autobiography of Scamp, a dog of the streets, who finds a good home and a loving mistress and is trained into a first-class retriever. He is caught in a trap while hunting, comes into the hands of poachers and counterfeiters, sojourns in the London streets and the dog pound, and eventually finds his way back to his former mistress to end his days in luxury.
“The book on the dog deals too much with one particular dog and his fortunes, and might almost pass as an entirely fictional tale.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 250w. |
“Attractive for the children for whom it was written. Scamp was just a dog. The author has not attempted to endow him with human or supernatural attributes.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 610w. |
“Cleverly written story. It is a story that will delight boys and girls, touching older hearts as well.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Mitton, G. E. [Jane Austen and her times.] [*]$2.75. Putnam.
Not only Jane Austen herself but the society that she drew so skillfully is pictured in this volume. Miss Mitton considers Jane Austen “more wonderful as a product of her times than considered as an isolated figure.” She has therefore aimed “to sketch the men and women to whom she was accustomed, the habits and manners of her class, and the England with which she was familiar.”
[*] “In short, it is a richly human book, for which we owe all the praise (except what is due to the reproductions from Reynolds, Morland, Hoppner, Bunbury, Romney, and others), and little of the blame, to the author.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1170. N. 11, ‘05. 980w. |
[*] “Is the next best thing to reading one of Miss Austen’s own stories.”
| + | Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “A prose and pedestrian piece of book-making, which nevertheless has something of the interest that attaches to an interesting subject.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] Mitton, G. E. [Normandy]: painted by Nico Jungman. [*]$3. Macmillan.
“Miss Mitton begins with a chapter ‘In general,’ and proceeds to tell the stories of the Norman Dukes and the ‘mighty William.’ Then we have a full description of Rouen, and chapters on Caen, Falaise, Bayeux and the smaller towns, and then a chapter of the greatest interest on the famous tapestry, Mont St. Michel, The Cotentin, Dieppe and the coast, and a journey up the Seine from Honfleur to Vernon.”—Acad.
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 728. O. 28, ‘05. 270w. |
Mitton, G. E. Scenery of London. [*]$6. Macmillan.
“Miss G. E. Mitton, an expert in London lore, furnishes the text, while the pictures are reproductions of paintings by Herbert Marshall.... There are seventy-five in all capitally reproduced in colors.”—N. Y. Times.
“As illustrations to a book, to be looked at closely and not over long, Mr. Marshall’s pictures are excellent, because they come from a fine artist, and yet present a variety of moods and likings which are entirely suited to such books as these. She has aimed high and done some interesting and some pleasing work, and made a readable book.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 779. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1000w. |
“Both artist and author have succeeded in producing what is a real addition to the literature of London.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 363. S. 16. 900w. | |
| Lond. Times. 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 530w. |
“Of the many recent books about London the best to look at is that called ‘The scenery of London.’ Miss Mitton discourses agreeably as is her wont.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 608. S. 16, ‘05. 280w. |
Monroe, Paul. Text-book in the history of education. [*]$1.90. Macmillan.
“The framework upon which Dr. Monroe has built his well-written work is clear and hardly to be improved upon. Each chapter is headed in the table of contents with a phrase expressing the psychological tendency of the time or movement which it represents, and these are divided and subdivided in an unusually able manner. Facts are made additionally easy of location by the index by Miss Scott. Dr. Monroe’s ‘Text-book’ is hardly what its name implies, but rather a foundation work for those who desire to ‘work up’ from it, as the references indicate.”—Pub. Opin.
“A very solid book on the history of education.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 630w. |
[*] “It is diligent in research, copious in information, clear in analysis, philosophic in trend, and sound in deduction; and, although there are passages in it that are somewhat hard reading, occasional grammatical lapses, and a needless and sometimes wearisome repetition of certain scientific terms ... it is distinguished throughout for purity, precision, and force of diction. The treatment of its theme is the most exhaustive yet essayed by an American author.” Charles Elliott Fitch.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 909. D. 23, ‘05. 2510w. |
“This must be rated as a work of the first rank in its class.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 410w. |
“A finished, well-unified and arranged work.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 350w. |
[*] “The work is broad in range, and provides an immense accumulation of data.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 120w. |
Monroe, Paul. Thomas Platter and the educational renaissance of the 16th century. [**]$1.20. Appleton.
This sketch which gives the life of an educator just at the turning point in educational history between the mediæval and the modern, is important because “The autobiography furnishes such concrete information in regard to two phases of the education of the sixteenth century: first, the life of the wandering scholar; and, second, the spread of the humanistic ideas until they dominate the educational activities of the times.”
“Is a valuable volume which throws a great deal of light on a critical and seldom dealt with period of the history of education.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 136. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] Montague, Margaret Prescott. Poet, Miss Kate and I. [**]$1.50. Baker.
Miss Kate is a small chestnut mare, I am Miss Dorothy, and the poet is David Selwyn, successful and thirty-two, whom his doctor has given but twelve months more of life. He determines to spend that twelve months bravely, and rents a house in the Alleghanies so that he may “write, write, write until the finale,” unhampered by his old New York surroundings. Here he meets Dorothy and enjoys his last summer until he finds that his growing love for her makes the thought of death more bitter; then he runs away. But of course the author does not let him die, and the reader feels thruout the pretty, cheery little story that all is to be well with him.
[*] “The plot is slight, but the nature sketches, the character study, and a very piquant way of putting things, give the book a decided charm.”
| + | Dial. 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
Montgomery, David Henry. Elementary American history, [*]75c. Ginn.
This textbook, the latest of the “Montgomery series,” has been prepared to meet the demand for a short continuous narrative history of our country, suited to the wants of elementary pupils.
“Compared with other textbooks of its kind, it has merit. The language is simple, and there are many illustrations and maps. This is only another example of a book constructed on the college plan, with shorter paragraphs and more simple language.” H. O. Gillett.
| + — | El. Sch. T. 5: 518. Ap. ‘05. 160w. |
Montgomery, David H. Student’s American history. $1.40. Ginn.
For this latest edition the work has been thoroly revised and many facts have been rewritten, including questions of political and constitutional history, the opening of the West and its influence on the division of the nation. References have been made more complete, and some new maps added.
“It has all the teaching apparatus of the best type of the modern high-school book, and may be cordially recommended.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “In attractiveness of presentation and clearness of diction it compares favorably with such manuals as McMaster’s and Channing’s.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 130w. |
Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morrs. First view of English literature. [*]$1. Scribner.
“This adaptation of the author’s more advanced ‘History of English literature,’ based on the suggestions of many high school and academy teachers, is a class-room manual of practical value. Features that especially commend the volume are the historical introductions to each epoch, dwelling on political and social conditions, important for their effect on literature, and the full review outlines given in the form of simple and illuminating questions.”—Outlook.
“The book is a highly finished work, and we commend it.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 420w. |
“The book is lucid and concise, noticeably so in its discussion of the Renaissance and of Romanticism.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w. |
“There is much valuable geographical, descriptive, and annotative matter.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w. |
[*] More, Charles Herbert. Character of renaissance architecture. [**]$3. Macmillan.
“Prof. Moore has reduced the mere descriptions of buildings to a minimum, having provided many illustrations—twelve photogravure plates and 139 drawings and photographs—to make the discussions clear. He writes in his introduction about the character of the fine arts of the renaissance, the mixed influences actuating the artist of the time—the painter’s habits of design, etc. This followed by chapters on the dome of Florence, St. Peter’s dome, Renaissance architecture in the erection of churches and palaces in Rome and Florence and the North of Italy, carving, and architecture of the renaissance in France and England.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “It is a book of strong convictions and solid thought.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 360w. |
[*] “He is a man of profound and strongly held convictions, and hardly allows a page or a half-dozen pages to pass from under his hand without a reassertion of the most important of them.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 385. N. 9, ‘05. 980w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 713. O. 21, ‘05. 270w. |
[*] “In the ‘Character of renaissance architecture’ we have the same creative and scholarly qualities of artist and investigator which characterized ‘Development and character of Gothic architecture.’ But where the latter was synthetical the former is analytical almost to the verge of iconoclasm.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 781. N. 18, ‘05. 850w. |
[*] “This volume is admirably adapted to be a text-book for advanced classes in our universities and a reference book for readers generally. We are glad to note that the index to the volume is specially copious and exhaustive.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 290w. |
Moore, Frank Frankfort. Love alone is lord. [†]$1.50. Putnam.
Another novel of which Lord Byron is the hero. It concerns his early love for his cousin, Mary Chaworth and, altho many chapters are devoted to his affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the book gives him a semblance of constancy by making him return to his first love and their tragic parting the climax, and end of the book. Madame de Stäel, Sheridan, Moore, and other well known people of Byron’s time enter into the story.
[*] “Mr. Moore has increased our dislike to positive hatred; all the worst qualities of this pernicious breed of book are accentuated in his present novel.”
| — | Acad. 68: 1032. O. 7, ‘05. 310w. |
[*] “Mr. Moore’s is one of the books worth reading.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 380w. | |
| * | + — | Lond. Times. 4: 315. S. 29, ‘05. 540w. |
“Somehow the book leaves us cold.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 290w. |
“As a novel the book has vigor and interest; as a presentation of Byron the poet it is a failure.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 120w. |
“Mr. Moore has written an interesting story, but it has nothing to do with the hero and heroine, Lord Byron and Mary Ann Chaworth.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “Byron’s character is sketched sans prudishness by an author whose every book guarantees a few hours’ lively entertainment.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 762. D. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “We do not blame Mr. Moore for his failure, but for the impudence of his attempt.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 529. O. 21, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson. Children of other days. [†]$1.50. Stokes.
The notable pictures of children of various countries and times after paintings of great masters are accompanied by little sketches intended to interest the child reader in the portrait. The book is an art book of real value to little people.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 535. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson. Lace book. [**]$5. Stokes.
The author “tells us in ‘The lace book’ in a concise form, all that is interesting in the history of the evolution and production of lace in the countries which have given the world the finest examples of this delicate fabric. This handsome volume is illustrated with engravings from famous pictures of distinguished personages, showing how lace was employed in costume at different times; well-chosen, full-size examples are also given of the various kinds of lace; and an index endows the collector and connoisseur with a book of reference.”—Nation.
“A very handsome and interesting book.”
| + | Critic. 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “A more engaging example of the combination of the useful with the agreeable could not easily be found than is provided by this volume.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 380. N. 10, ‘05. 1100w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 158. F. 23, ‘05. 1530w. |
[*] “A most interesting and readable account of lace from the earliest days.”
| + | Spec. 95: sup. 797. N. 18, ‘05. 230w. |
Moore, T. Sturge. [Albert Dürer.] [*]$2. Scribner.
An original study rather than a conventional biography. The artist’s paintings, drawings, metal engravings, and wood cuts, are critically considered, the philosophy of his art is discussed, and the details of his life are given. The book is illustrated with half-tones and four copper-plates.
“A very stimulating essay, with sufficient fact, date, and specific criticism attached, as is helpful to that study, but no more. As an illustrated record of Dürer’s work, the book is a welcome supplement to the little volume by Lina Eckenstein, ... though it will not replace that as an admirable and business-like summary of the artist’s life and work. It must be admitted, first and foremost, that the volume is concerned with Mr. T. Sturge Moore’s outlook on life and the arts; the author has not lost himself in his subject.”
| + | Acad. 68: 173. F. 25, ‘05. 1100w. |
“The style is vigorous and picturesque, and, on the whole dignified. There seems, further, a lack of cohesion between the various parts of the book.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 247. F. 25. 1680w. | |
| + | Critic. 46: 475 My. ‘05. 130w. |
“An excellent book marred by an involved and slipshod style.”
| + + — | Dial. 38: 358. My. 16, ‘05. 590w. |
“His book is worthy of its place in the series by reason of his sympathetic interpretation of Dürer’s work.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 190w. |
“Its writing and point of view make it a model of what an art book, written for lay readers, should be.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 150w. |
“A singularly illusive book. While all the words in it are intelligible, the exact thing that was intended to be expressed somehow escapes one.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 590w. |
“What Prof. Thausing, Allihn, Zahn, and Scott never suspected we find brought forth with the pride of discovery and illuminated in the language of a poet by Dürer’s latest and youngest biographer. In the history of biographical writing, of art criticism, and connoisseurship, ‘Albert Dürer,’ by T. Sturge Moore, is an epoch-making work. Its form and execution present a new model for study and imitation. He lays bare the mind, the soul of the artist, and shows the inevitableness of what Dürer achieved.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 580w. |
“Mr. Moore is always interesting, and perhaps never more interesting than when he is least convincing. His work is certainly a stimulating addition to the series in which it finds place.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 230w. |
Moorehead, William Gallogly. Outline studies in the New Testament, Philippians to Hebrews. [**]$1.20. Revell.
“These studies will be deemed scholarly and sound by such Christians as are unreconciled to the scientific and critical doctrines now dominant, and disposed to stand by the verbal inerrancy of the Scriptures.”—Outlook.
| Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w. |
More, E. Anson. Captain of men. [†]$1.50. Page.
Merodach, the Assyrian, is the hero of this story of Tyre in the days when David was outlawed. Miriam, a slave in the household of the richest merchant of Tyre, who is engaged in the tin trade, is the heroine. The action is involved, there are many characters and there is much cruelty.
[*] “It is fairly well written and fairly exciting, but nothing more.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 200w. |
“Has some effective scenes, with long wastes of dullness.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 403. Je. 17, ‘05. 440w. |
More, Paul Elmer. [Shelburne essays.] 3 ser. ea. [**]$1.25. Putnam.
The author, an ex-professor of Sanskrit, received his call to the work of literary criticism during the course of two years in which he lived a life of solitary meditation. In Series one, of his essays the hermit of Shelburne devotes himself to the problems of the soul, he treats of Hawthorne, Emerson, Carlyle, Symons, Tolstoy and others, and discusses the religious and literary movements of to-day. Series two contains papers on English sonnets, Lafcadio Hearn, Hazlitt, Lamb, Kipling and FitzGerald. Crabbe, Meredith, Hawthorne, Delphi and Greek literature, and Nemesis. The third series treats of Cowper’s correspondence, Whittier the poet, Sainte-Beuve, Scotch novels and Scotch history, Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Brownings’ popularity, Byron’s Don Juan, Laurence Sterne and Mr. Whitehouse.
| + | Acad. 68: 847. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1410w. (Review of second series.) | |
| Critic. 47: 283. S. ‘05. 50w. (Review of second series.) |
[*] “Mr. More is a critic of many merits, and his ‘Shelburne essays’ reveal a penetrating and cultivated intellect. But it is obvious that he is less comfortable in the æsthetic environment of the sixteenth century than in that of the eighteenth.” Edward Fuller.
| + + — | Critic. 47: 567. D. ‘05. 800w. (Review of second and third series.) |
“Is a collection of literary, psychological, and ethical studies, of unusual seriousness and power. Our essayist may be thought at times to take himself and his hermit experience, and his ‘long course of wayward reading,’ a little too seriously. He has certainly read widely and wisely, and his essays are unquestionably full of meat.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 670w. (Review of first series.) |
“Both in his fine classical scholarship and in his carefully wrought sentences, Mr. More calls to mind the lamented Walter Pater, although the Oxford scholar’s reading and literary sympathies, wide as they were, strike one as less comprehensive than Mr. More’s.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 17. Jl. 1, ‘05. 490w. (Review of second series.) | |
| + + | Dial. 39: 277. N. 1, ‘05. 410w. (Review of third series.) |
“The second series of Mr. Paul Elmer More’s ‘Shelburne essays’ is likely to win the favor of book lovers in no less degree than its predecessor. Mr. More’s freedom from provincialism is manifest even in his style.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + | Forum. 37: 252. O. ‘05. 1320w. (Review of second series.) |
“If Mr. More is able to realize his ideal of the high calling of the critic he will eventually be able to exert an influence on American literature like that of Brunetiere on French.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 460w. (Review of third series.) |
[*] “The Lafcadio Hearn and the Sainte-Beuve [essays] are, perhaps, the most remarkable for the depth and penetration of their analysis.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. (Review of second and third series.) |
“His is the criticism that takes infinite pains, dissects out every nerve.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 104. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of second series.) |
“Are marked by charm and insight. They are not unduly discursive.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w. (Review of second series.) |
“He is sound and sane, and he can penetrate sympathetically to inner realities of the works and the men he is studying. He is independent and he thinks for himself.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 700w. (Review of third series.) |
“Mr. More has the instincts of the scholar and the tastes of the man of culture; but his feet are on the ground. And he has a generous endowment of that common sense which is the conservator of art, as genius is its inspiration.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 678. N. 18, ‘05. 1550w. (Review of first-third series.) |
“Whatever his subject, the stamp of leisurely scholarship, of well-backed, first-hand knowledge, of that indescribable something called ‘style’ attests the writer’s kinship with the best of the old-school essayists.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 942. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. (Review of second series.) |
Morgan, Lewis Henry. League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois; ed. by Herbert M. Lloyd. [**]$5. Dodd.
This new edition contains not only an accurate re-print of the edition of 1851, but also copious editorial notes, and introduction, personal reminiscences of Morgan by Charles T. Porter, a brief biography of Morgan with a bibliography of his writings, a sketch of the lives of Ely S. Parker and Charles T. Porter, an excellent index, and many illustrations.
“One-volume reprint of the two-volume original lacks nothing desirable in the way of critical apparatus.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 180w. |
“Still remains the best and most authoritative work on the subject. For his editorial notes Mr. Lloyd has drawn upon every source of information, and they reveal his wide and discriminating reading of literature on the Iroquois. Not only a work of prime importance to all students of Indian life and character, but a book that one reads with genuine enjoyment for its own sake.” L. J. Burpee.
| + + | Dial. 38: 119. F. 16, ‘05. 2300w. |
Morris, William O’Connor. Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England. [**]$1.35; hf. lea. [**]$1.60. Putnam.
“This is the most recent volume of the “Heroes of the nations” series.... The book is in no sense a biography of Wellington, but almost entirely a military history. The Peninsular war forms, as it were, the kernel.... But Wellington’s early career is not neglected. The promise of his youth ... is well indicated in the first chapter, and in the second, the seven years spent in India are ... treated.... The ninth chapter deals with the campaign of 1815.... The remainder of the book, on the duke’s political life, is not so detailed.... There are 16 portraits of the principal personages, and 16 maps and plans.”—Nation.
“This is a hopelessly mediocre book. The book has not even ... a correct, agreeable, and lucid style. It cannot be recommended even for the instruction of the general public and school-boys.” R. M. Johnston.
| — — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 692. Ap. ‘05. 260w. |
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
| Bookm. 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 250w. |
“This seems to us the first really satisfactory account of his career and his influence on the military power of England that has been given in compact and popular form.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 70w. |
“Mr. Davis remarks in the concluding sentence that ‘the judge’s conclusions, although they have been challenged by some high authorities, deserve the attention due to acute independent study of the original sources of information’; a statement which will probably be indorsed by most readers of the book.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 93. F. 1, ‘05. 290w. |
“But on the whole, those who like a résumé of a period will find in this book more than a good example of its kind.”
| + | Nation. 80: 76. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1050w. |
Morrison, Arthur. Green diamond. [†]$1.50. Page.
The pursuit of a lost diamond, which is stolen from the Rajah of Goona and sent to England in a magnum of Tokay wine; an American buys the wine, and not suspecting its value, sells it. Adventures thrilling and blood-curdling follow thick and fast until at last the breathless author and reader give up the chase.
“Arthur Morrison is entitled to rank among the better writers of mystery or detective-stories of the present time. ‘The green diamond’ is, we think, the best of Mr. Morrison’s mystery-stories. It is one of the best mystery tales of the present year.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + | Arena. 33: 342. Mr. ‘05. 450w. | |
| + | Reader. 5: 501. Mr. ‘05. 180w. |
[*] Mortimer, Alfred Garnett. It ringeth to evensong. [*]$1.25. Whittaker.
The trials and blessings of old age are discussed helpfully here for people of advancing years. The same optimism of the book commends it to the healthy minded no less than to the mortal who looks out drearily upon old age.
Mother Goose. [Only true Mother Goose]; ed. by Edward Everett Hale. [†]60c. Lothrop.
A facsimile reprint of “The only true Mother Goose” as published in Boston in 1833, including the odd-looking woodcuts. Dr. Hale has furnished an introduction to the book “which setting aside the Goose fable, is really a valuable collection of political squibs and old songs, any where from a century and a half to three centuries old.” (N. Y. Times.)
| * | Ind. 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w. | |
| Nation. 81: 257. S. 28, ‘05. 320w. | ||
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “A quaint little volume.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 60w. |
Mother-Light: a novel. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
“This book places in the suburbs of Trenton, New Jersey, the headquarters of an extraordinary religious cult, something after the Theosophical order. Three hundred pages are devoted to describing its mummeries and the emotions and experiences of a young woman from Ida Grove, Iowa, its chosen high priestess, or ‘Mother-Light’.”—Outlook.
| * | Ath. 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 290w. | |
| Outlook. 79: 653. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w. |
Mott, Frederick Blount. Before the crisis. [†]$1.50. Lane.
A book dealing with America before the outbreak of the Civil war, and during the campaign of John Brown and his sons. “The book is full of graphically told adventures; but though these are exciting reading, the picture of slavery is even more interesting. The slaves depicted are under good masters, yet in spite of this the author shows conclusively how the characters of both owners and slaves were corroded by an institution which involved the absolute dependence of one human being on the caprice of another.” (Spec.)
“Mr. Mott’s romance is a moderately deft piece of workmanship on familiar, melodramatic lines.”
| + | Acad. 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w. |
“It is a thrilling story, however, and well enough told for those readers living too far North to detect the author’s egregious errors in representing negro character and negro dialect.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 200w. | |
| + | Spec. 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 140w. |
Mott, Lawrence. Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson bay region in the early days. [†]$1.50. Century.
Jules Verbaux, a gaunt French-Canadian trapper, outlawed by the Hudson Bay company, which has put a price upon his head, lives the life of the hunted, cleverly avoiding capture. He flits like a shadow over the frozen north and thru the fury of its storms, trapping where he can, but wherever he rears his lone hut some relentless enemy reduces it to ashes. A prey to brute passions in a cruel world with all hands against him, the great heart of the man still beats warm beneath the “petite” cap of his “enfant” who is dead, which he carries constantly with him, the sole reminder of the wife whom he believes has deserted him. Again and again it prompts him to noble action while his whole being calls for vengeance. In the end he is given a bleak sort of happiness—but it suffices, and his great heart sighs, “Je suis content.”
[*] “The book offers interesting reading for boys, and even older readers may enjoy the vivid descriptions of the hard life of the trapper.”
| + | Nation. 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “It is not too much to say that this book is splendid: it might not be too much to say that it is great.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 749. N. 4, ‘05. 450w. |
[*] “It is a strong story, happily free from much of the brutality and dreariness that have marked so many stories of the frozen north.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “They are strong stories of strong men who lived full-blooded lives and died in whatever way ‘le bon Dieu willed.’”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 180w. |
Moule, Rt. Rev. Handley C. G. Second epistle to Timothy: short devotional studies on the dying letter of St. Paul. [*]$1. Union press.
The bishop of Durham “has taken up this heart-moving Epistle with the single intention of expounding it after the manner of a Bible reading, not for literary criticism or enquiry but in quest of divine messages for heart and life.” As the verses are treated in the commentary, they are noted in the margin of each page. A poem upon “The martyrdom of St. Paul,” written in 1876, is appended.
Moyer, James Ambrose. Descriptive geometry for students of engineering. $2. Wiley.
This is the second edition of this book. “It is far more than a slight revision.... The text has been more than doubled, and the number of diagrams increased from 33 to 77.... The text is placed on the left-hand pages, and the diagrams, instead of being massed at the end of the volume, as in the former edition, are placed on the right hand pages, the space not thus used being available for notes by the student.” (Engin. N.)
“As a whole, the book is well adapted to the needs of engineering colleges, and in a number of important features is the most satisfactory one now available.” Henry S. Jacoby.
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 535. My. 18, ‘05. 510w. |
“We believe that the interests of both theory and practice would be better served if the instruction offered by Mr. Moyer were combined with such a course as that afforded by Professor Emch’s book.” Cassius J. Keyser.
| + + — | Science, n.s. 22: 115. Jl. 28, ‘05. 160w. |
Muirhead, Rev. Lewis A. Eschatology of Jesus; or, The kingdom come and coming: a brief study of our Lord’s apocalyptic language in the synoptic Gospels. $1.75. Armstrong.
“The volume is composed of lectures given on the Bruce foundation, and is subject to the limitations of its origin. The first lecture considers the pre-suppositions of the study; the second, the relation of the Jewish apocalypses to Jesus; the third, the actual teaching of Jesus concerning the consummation of the Kingdom; and the fourth, inclusively, the Son of man.”—Am. J. of Theol.
“The treatment, as a whole, however, can hardly be called more than sketchy. Taken altogether, the book, though stimulating, suffers from the fault which besets all exegetical studies dominated by pre-suppositions. Mr. Muirhead has said some very sensible things, but his volume presumes an attitude of mind ... that one may go the length of literary criticism and yet refrain from dogmatic or historical changes.” Shailer Mathews.
| + — | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 343. Ap. ‘05. 710w. |
Reviewed by H. B. Sharman.
| + — | Bib. World. 25: 233. Mr. ‘05. 970w. |
“Mr. Muirhead submits this view to careful investigation, in excellent spirit, cautious yet receptive, and his work is one of the most valuable of recent contributions to the understanding of the synoptic gospels.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 130w. |
Muirhead, Lewis A. Times of Christ. [*]60c. Scribner.
“The author of this handy volume is favorably known by his scholarly and fruitful work on ‘The eschatology of Jesus.’ To meet the needs of junior students he has here expanded and simplified a former edition of this manual, which some older students may value as an inexpensive and convenient substitute for Schürer’s voluminous work on ‘The Jewish people in the time of Christ.’”—Outlook.
| + | Outlook. 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 60w. |
Mulets, Lenore Elizabeth. Stories of little fishes. [†]$1. Page.
This sixth volume in the series of “Phyllis’ field friends” opens with the statement that one who goes a-fishing with Phyllis may expect to catch strange things, and that under the general title of fishes the reader may chance upon an eel, a turtle, or a frog. Then follows a mixture of fact and fiction which will delight the young, altho the combination of scientific truth and fairy story is rather daring.
[*] “They are entertainingly written.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 40w. |
Mulock, Miss, pseud. See Craik, Dinah Maria.
Mumford, Ethel Watts. Joke book note book. [**]75c. Elder.
This note book for jokes is a clever little conceit, cleverly carried out. It is in pocket size with pages left blank for the instant jotting down of the illusive joke. An illustrated thumb index makes reference to the different divisions easy, while the head pieces, which are real heads, the tail-pieces, which are real feet, and the general make up, are jocose enough to fit whatever may be recorded.
| * | + | Dial. 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 120w. |
Mumford, Ethel Watts; Herford, Oliver, and Mizner, Addison. [Complete cynic’s calendar of revised wisdom for 1906.] [**]75c. Elder.
The same cynicisms applied to a new calendar. The book is made as attractive as its predecessor, with marginal drawings done in red ink.
[*] “This 1906 edition is better as a whole than any of its predecessors. The cream of the old ‘twister’ proverbs has been retained, and the new ones are equal to the best of the old.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Munk, Joseph Amasa. [Arizona sketches.] [**]$2. Grafton press.
Dr. Munk “describes not only the Grand cañon of the Colorado, with which we are all more or less familiar from former accounts, but also such little-known phenomena as the Meteorite mountain and the oddities of desert vegetation.... There are also interesting chapters on the structures of the cliff dwellers, and entertaining accounts of the habits and customs of the snake dancers, the modern Moquis. The book is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—R. of Rs.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 140w. |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 754. D. ‘05. 120w. |
Munro, Dana Carleton, and Sellery, George Clarke, eds. and trs. Medieval civilization: selected studies from European authors. [*]$1.25. Century.
“The compilers of this volume designed it as an aid to instructors and students in mediaeval history. The book includes samples of many authorities bearing on the points on which the student of mediaeval history will be likely to need special illumination.”—N. Y. Times.
“The volume is especially adapted to institutions where the libraries are limited in scope.”
| + | Critic. 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 50w. |
“Prepared with praiseworthy care and good judgment.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 690w. |
“Each student may use it as an auxiliary. The volume will be practically serviceable for the purpose for which it is intended. Even readers with fairly correct general conceptions of the period will find much that is new to them.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 410w. (Survey of contents.) | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 136. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Munro, Hugh Andrew Johnstone. Criticism and elucidations of Catullus; also Ætna revised, amended and explained. [*]$4. Stechert.
A reprint of a volume which “first appeared in 1878, and has for some time been a rare book, not easily procured. Mr. J. D. Duff contributes a prefatory note to the effect that three short papers, printed by Munro in ‘The journal of philology’ after the publication of his book, have been added, a few misprints have been corrected, and a few fresh notes by Munro himself included. Reference has also been made occasionally to discussion of points since Munro’s day. But the book, as at present printed, is only two pages longer than in the old form. This masterpiece of Munro, with all its liveliness of style, knowledge of Latin, and feeling of poetry, ought to be known to every classical scholar.”—Ath.
[*] “Our best thanks are due to those who have made it available for the present generation.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 190w. | |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 200w. |
Munsterberg, Hugo. Americans; tr. by Edwin B. Holt. [**]$2.50. McClure.
“A translation of Professor Munsterberg’s ‘Die Amerikäner,’ recently published in Germany. It aims to be a general explanation of the American people—their history, their customs and their political and social life. He discusses the methods used by the Americans in meeting such vital problems as the silver question, trusts, the negro question, divorce, huge fortunes, displays of wealth, etc.”—Bookm.
“The work, in spite of its undoubted merits, lacks the keen incisiveness that distinguished the ‘American traits.’ At times the style is rather diffuse, and in place of brilliant generalizations one gets somewhat barren generalities.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 389. Ap. 8, ‘05. 3090w. |
“We regard the work as one of the most subtly dangerous books, if one is not on the alert to detect its fallacies, that has appeared in years. Apparently liberal, it is in fact ultra-reactionary in so far as its attitude toward true democracy is concerned. The author’s desire to make the Americans appear to the best advantage to the aristocratic and cultured of monarchial Germany leads him at times to indulge in the same sophistical special-pleadings that mark his treatment of democracy and the genius of free government which we have dwelt upon in our editorial.” Amy C. Rich.
| — — + | Arena. 33: 333. Mr. ‘05. 1700w. |
“Excellently translated. His work deserves to find an honourable place in all libraries as a supplement to the more solid volumes of Mr. Bryce.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 490w. | |
| + + | Critic. 46: 191. F. ‘05. 150w. |
“By plan, selections of topics, and perspective of presentation, the work seems measurably suited to its objective purpose. The self-assertive American cannot refrain from expressing with regret but with conviction, his inability to endorse the judicial pronouncements or the philosophic standpoint of ‘The Americans.’ It is possible that we lack the gift to see ourselves as others see us; but we cannot candidly laud the lifelikeness of the portrait when we are introduced into its presence.” Joseph Jastrow.
| + — | Dial. 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 3900w. |
“The translation is ... written in a fluent style and betraying little of the awkwardness which attaches to so many translations and at once betrays them as such, a cursory examination of passages taken at random reveals not a few infidelities, inaccuracies and inaptitudes.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 12. Ja. 5, ‘05. 450w. |
“The tone of the work is essentially optimistic. Of the two [’American traits’ and ‘Americans’] the latter is by far the most pretentious. It is comparable rather with such a work as Emile Boutmy’s ‘The English people.’ To defect of method must be added blemishes of misstatement and even errors of prejudice. There can be no doubt that it renders a distinct service to the readers of both countries. Seldom have we seen such a complete record of American achievement, individual and national, as is embodied in the pages dealing with the concrete facts of our development.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 446. F. 18, ‘05. 970w. |
“One of the most thoughtful, valuable dissections of American national character by a foreigner is ‘The Americans.’”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 210w. |
“The book is a typical specimen of the best German method. The whole book is an admirable defence of what is best in American life, but at the same time there is a wholesome suggestion of that other side.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 894. Je. 17, ‘05. 1660w. |
Munsterberg, Hugo. Eternal life. [**]85c. Houghton.
“Two friends are sitting at the hearth after a funeral, and one gives the other his thoughts on immortality, as recorded here in an imagined monologue. There is an Oversoul, whose will-attitudes are the norms of the good, the beautiful, and the true. These are eternal. These will-attitudes we may make ours, yet they become ours ‘only in so far as our consciousness, is the over-individual consciousness, the Oversoul.’”—Outlook.
“His interpretation of life in terms of will is done with extraordinary skill and perspicuity, considering the small space allotted to the problem in his paper. But his application of the theory of will-values to individual immortality appears to us unsatisfactory and weak.”
| + — | Cath. World. 81: 537. Jl. ‘05. 690w. |
“It is a spiritual structure built upon the sands of speculation.” Edward Fuller.
| + — | Critic. 47: 245. S. ‘05. 200w. |
“It is written in a charming manner, and is really a description of the author’s philosophy. The fault I find with Professor Munsterberg’s philosophy is really this: that it pretends to get rid of time and space in considering personality, and yet does not do so, and cannot, in the nature of things.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
| + — | Dial. 38: 415. Je. 16, ‘05. 1290w. | |
| Outlook. 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 150w. |
Murfree, Mary Noailles. See Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud.
Murray, A. H. Hallam; Nevinson, H. W.; and Carmichael, Montgomery. Sketches on the old road through France to Florence. [*]$5. Dutton.
Mr. Murray has pictured his journey thru Normandy, central and southern France, and Italy in a series of sketches which the equally artistic descriptive work of Mr. Nevinson on France, and Mr. Carmichael on Italy rounds into a volume pleasing and instructive to both the mind and the eye.
“His book is beyond doubt the best colour-book yet issued.”
| + + | Ath. 1905. 2: 216. Ag. 12, 370w. |
“The illustrations by A. H. Hallam-Murray are full of the romance and charm of the places he has pictured.”
| + | Critic. 46: 480. My. ‘05. 210w. |
Murray, Grace Peckham. Fountain of youth. [**]$1.60. Stokes.
The relation of personal hygiene to health and longevity, all along the way from the commonplace in looks to genuine attractiveness is set forth clearly and professionally in this very fully illustrated handbook.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 659. O. 7, ‘05. 230w. | ||
| + + | Outlook. 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w. |
Mustard, Wilfred Pirt. Classical echoes in Tennyson. [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
Volume III in the “Columbia university studies in English series.” A book which sets forth the classical influence in Tennyson’s writings by showing the kinship between many of his passages and those of the old Greek and Latin authors. There are many explanatory and reference notes, including the texts of the passages quoted both in English and the original.
“This attractive little volume, it should be understood, is something very much better than the mere digging out of such verses of Tennyson as show resemblance to lines in Greek or Latin literature. The erudition of the compiler is accompanied everywhere by an exact and critical scholarship. Here and there he corrects errors of Tennysonian editors and biographers—once a misquotation from memory by Tennyson himself. For this and other reasons this book cannot safely be missed by any student of Tennyson’s work in general, whether or not he happens to be especially interested in its particular subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + | Forum. 36: 401. Ja. ‘05. 840w. |
“The author is often prone to seek for origins in specific things which for centuries have been generalities in thought and language. Prof. Mustard writes without prejudice and with a wholesome perception of the idiosyncracies of the poet’s mind, of his knowledge, and his imagination.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 670w. |
Muther, Richard. Jean François Millet. [*]$1. Scribner.
Although but a brief monograph, this addition to the “Langham series,” gives a fair and concise study of Millet’s work. The volume is pleasing in size, shape, and illustrations.
“Is especially notable for the justice of its point of view.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 347. O. 26, ‘05. 860w. |
“If the account somewhat lacks the picturesque phraseology which we find in Mrs. Ady’s biography, it has a greater note of authority.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 130w. |
My garden in the city of gardens. See Cuthell, E. H.
Myers, A. Wallis, ed. Sportsman’s year book for 1905. [*]$1.25. imp. Scribner.
“There are chapters by different writers on the horse racing during the year, cricket, football, rugby, motor racing, motor boating, polo, lawn tennis, croquet, hockey, lacrosse, amateur athletics, rowing, coursing, cycle racing, and yacht racing. These are followed by biographies of well-known English sportsmen and sportswomen. The illustrations, in black-and-white, include photographic reproductions of portraits of English champions, boats, horses, dogs, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
| Nation. 80: 289. Ap. 13, ‘05. 170w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 240w. |
Myers, Albert Cook, ed. Hannah Logan’s courtship: a true narrative; the wooing of the daughter of James Logan, colonial governor of Pennsylvania, and divers other matters, as related in the diary of her lover, John Smith, esq., 1746-1752. $2.50; ¾ lev. $4. Ferris.
In the diary of John Smith of Philadelphia, Quaker and business man, is recorded the story of his quiet life and of his courtship of Hannah Logan, whom he married in 1748. The book is illustrated by facsimiles, autographs, silhouettes, and portraits, which aid the diary in giving an interesting view of colonial Philadelphia.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 723. Ap. ‘05. 110w. |
“The extreme frankness and naïveté of the diary, which was intended for no eyes but those of Smith himself, add to the pleasantness of the book, for which we are grateful to Mr. Myers.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1, 393. Ap. 1. 530w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 160w. |
“A volume exceedingly attractive to students of our colonial history, and not unattractive to the general reader.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 273. Ap. 16, ‘05. 270w. |
“The diary is not only a charming and perfectly un-self-conscious record of a courtship of those days; it is worth much as a picture of the manners and daily life of the Quakers of ‘the Province’.”
| + | Nation. 80: 271. Ap. 6, ‘05. 640w. |
“As the medium of presenting an excellent picture of colonial home life the book also has value.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 397. Je. 17, ‘05. 580w. |
“The plan of the book is original and it will interest many readers.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 604. Mr. 4, ‘05. 70w. |
Myers, Frederick William Henry. Fragments of prose and poetry. [*]$2.50. Longmans.
A volume edited by the wife of this high minded scholar, poet and leader in the work of “Psychical research” three years after his death. There is an autobiographical sketch which sets forth his struggle with doubt and faith, followed by tributes to Ruskin, Gladstone, Watts, Stevenson and other friends who passed before him into the unknown. The last section of the volume contains sixty of his poems. The whole is well illustrated.
| + + | Arena. 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 540w. |
“But here is less an argument than a ‘document,’ the inner life of a poet and thinker. His poems which fill nearly half the book, ... are so good they should be better; but his congenital sin, perhaps, of rhetoric— ... too often gets the best of them.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 438. F. 23, ‘05. 870w. |
[*] Myrick, Herbert. Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.
On the slender thread of the story of a young New Yorker who in unmerited disgrace disappears from his home, reappears as a western tenderfoot, serves under Custer, and wins reputation and a bride, are strung pictures of the crude life and thrilling scenes found in northern Colorado, Wyoming and Montana in the early seventies. The book altho both novel and historical, is not a typical historical novel. The numerous illustrations from paintings by Charles Schreyvogel, Edward W. Deming, and Henry Fangel, with many photographs not only supplement the author’s descriptions but overshadow the text. The fact that they represent real people about whom the appendix provides further facts, gives the book an added value. There are portraits of Custer, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-face and other characters, and pictures of various scenes from cow-boy life.