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Rabelais, Francois. Selections; ed. by Curtis Hidden Page. [*]$2. Putnam.
A volume in the series of “French classics for English readers.” In the selections the aim of the editor has been to “keep all the essential parts of the story, and all the scenes which had most literary value and human interest; to retain all the best of the historical satire; and to include other parts which have some special interest, such as the chapters on education.”
“Mr. Page has done his task as well as it could be done.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w. | |
| + | Dial. 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 120w. | |
| Ind. 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 140w. |
“The edition is very well got up and generally attractive.”
| + | Spec. 94: 521. Ap. 8, ‘05. 80w. |
“Dr. Page’s introduction is an interesting and scholarly study of his author.”
| + + | Yale R. 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Rae, John. Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint of the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical sketch and notes by Charles Whitney Mixter. [*]$4. Macmillan.
“Rae’s book is a refutation of Smith’s system, and in the course of chapter after chapter he carefully takes the author of the ‘Wealth of nations’ to pieces. The result is that he arrives at a defense of protection as opposed to free trade and of legislative interference as opposed to the laissez-faire policy. Professor Mixter in his recrudescence of Rae has split the book in the middle, giving the first and last parts in an appendix.”—Pub. Opin.
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “A readable book where only the dismal science existed before.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “He has not been content with making a mere reprint, but has carefully scrutinized and rearranged the original work so as to make it of distinct use for modern readers and valuable as a text-book in advanced courses.” I. F.
| + + | Yale R. 14: 330. N. ‘05. 1250w. |
Ragster, Olga. Chats on violins. [*]$1.25. Lippincott.
In these “chats” the history of the violin, historical and biographical sketches of Italian and German makers, and anecdotes of great players are given, followed by chapters on the manner of preserving and playing the violin and an appendix upon the life of Paganini. The illustrations present a series of types of the violin from the ninth century to the present day.
“Miss Ragster’s treatment is clear and concise, and not of such a technical nature as to burden the ordinary reader.”
| + | Dial. 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 210w. | |
| + | Nation. 81: 305. O. 12, ‘05. 90w. |
“Miss Ragster’s English style is frequently vivacious, but often unfinished, and she is imperfectly informed as to the spelling of many foreign proper names and other words.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 580w. |
[*] “While the book is not technical in any sense, it should be of considerable value to all students of the violin.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 100w. |
Rambaud, Alfred Nicholas; Simkovitch, Vladimir; and others. Case of Russia: a composite view. [**]$1.25. Fox.
“A presentation of certain phases of Russian life and history by five writers who have a first-hand knowledge of the subjects they discuss. It comprises: an outline sketch of the successive steps in the expansion of Russia; a brief psychological study of the Russian people; an interpretation of the Russian autocratic system; an inquiry into the progress and possibilities of the Slav; and a survey of the religious situation in Russia.”—Outlook.
| Critic. 47: 411. N. ‘05. 320w. |
“The proof-reading is inadequate, and the translation is not always quite what it should be.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 462. Je. 8, ‘05. 21??w. |
“Most of the matter, however, is somewhat vitiated by having been written some time ago.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 220w. |
“As with all ‘composite views,’ the effect is in some respects elusive, in others bewildering. But, on the whole, the symposium is distinctly helpful, and especially in the direction of assisting to a clearer understanding of the dominant traits and qualities of the inhabitants of the unhappy land.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w. |
“There is a good deal of psychological interest in the essays, particularly in that of Mr. Novicow.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 80w. |
Ramsay, William Mitchell. Letters to the seven churches of Asia and their place in the plan of the Apocalypse. [*]$3. Armstrong.
“A prophet of Christianity, and one who for many years has devoted his best efforts to the study of a solution of the problem that confronts the religious world upon the meeting of the Asiatic and the European, when the barriers of the lofty mountains and arid plains of East and West are no more, believes that the great issue is with Christianity, and he has written this book to set forth a number of convincing proofs of the world-evangelizing principles that have won and are winning triumphs for the Christian faith.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
| + + | Acad. 68: 81. Ja. 28, ‘05. 640w. |
“Ramsay’s fresh and rich book adds much to our knowledge of the Roman province of Asia in the first century A. D., and the influence of Christianity therein. The book combines the merits of scientific and popular history-writing. In three special ways this volume is valuable: (1) as a contribution to the understanding of the apostolic age; (2) as an aid to the interpretation of the New Testament Apocalypse; (3) as a practical study in comparative religion.” C W. Votaw.
| + + + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 552. Jl. ‘05. 1180w. |
“His archaeological and historical skill makes [it] of peculiar interest.”
| + | Bib. World. 25: 158. F. ‘05. 20w. |
“The first half of the book is worth more than the last half. The style is diffuse; repetitions are frequent; and there are long-expanded commonplaces. The book will be welcomed chiefly because it contains many items of interesting information and throws much light upon the environment of the early Asia Minor Christians.” D. A. Hayes.
| + + — | Bib. World. 26: 71. Jl. ‘05. 980w. |
“In scholarly detail, the story of the seven cities and their various symbols is related, and the usages and customs of the early Christian era are succinctly set forth.”
| + + | Boston Evening Transcript. F. 8, ‘05. 400w. |
“His interpretation of particular passages is open to question, but his historical, geographical and archæological material on the churches addressed in these letters is very full and valuable.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1131. My. 18, 05. 130w. |
[*] “Some of his interpretations may be questioned, but the wealth of information and fact makes his book valuable for reference.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + — | Nation. 81: 81. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1690w. |
“Is rather an introduction than a commentary, and it has much value as an introduction to the whole of the New Testament.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 980. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1180w. |
“Requires careful study, which it will amply repay.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 368. Mr. 11, ‘05. 470w. |
[*] Ranck, George Washington. Bivouac of the dead, and its author. [**]$1. Grafton press.
The well-known martial elegy. The bivouac of the dead, and a lyric called The old pioneer, penned at the grave of Daniel Boone, by the same author, are included in this little volume with a story of the poems and a brief biography of Theodore O’Hara prepared with the full cooperation of his family. The whole forms a fitting tribute to the Kentucky soldier-poet.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
Ranke, Leopold von. History of the reformation in Germany; tr. by Sarah Austin; ed. by Rob. A. Johnson. $2. Dutton.
This new low-priced edition of Ranke’s great work is “a reproduction of Mrs. Austin’s translation which only included the first six of the ten books into which Ranke divided his complete work. It includes the history of the German reformation down to the year 1534.” (Acad.)
| Acad. 68: 440. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1290w. |
“We have only a fragmentary translation, and ‘editing’ worthy of the publisher’s office-boy.”
| — — | Nation. 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 100w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 380w. | ||
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 301. My. 6, ‘05. 280w. |
Ransom, Caroline Louise. Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. [*]$4.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“A rather laborious piece of archæological work in a small field has been well performed by Miss Ransom.... Her investigation, in so far as it is original, depends upon an examination of monumental sources; from the literary she draws little, and that out of the usual handbooks, “the volume, a fine quarto, is beautifully illustrated by many full-page plates and cuts.””—Nation.
“It is a slightly expanded college thesis, and a scholarly contribution to the archæology of furniture. No phase of the subject is overlooked. The results are presented in a manner which, though not entertaining to the general reader, will prove highly instructive to the student of archæology.”
| + | Dial. 38: 275. Ap. 16. ‘05. 180w. |
“The plates and other illustrations in the text are many and well chosen, and the references and discussions in the notes show careful research and sound scholarship.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 99. Jl. 13, ‘05. 130w. | |
| Int Studio. 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 170w. |
“The text shows evidence of a scholarly study of them, and, what is almost better, the application of much common sense.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 250. Mr. 30, ‘05. 590w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 400w. |
“A work of scholarly research in a limited special field.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 10w. |
Rashdall, Rev. Hastings. Christus in ecclesia. [*]$1.50. Scribner.
“Dr. Rashdall is an efficient representative of the Broad church group in the Anglican establishment. In this volume of discourses he addresses himself especially to educated men and women. He is concerned lest religion be crowded out of life, either by revolt against narrow ecclesiasticism or by the pressure of other concerns.... To explain some Christian institutions, ideas, and practices to educated hearers, with a view to promote an interest in the Church and its ordinances at once rational and reverent, is therefore the main object of these discourses. Starting from a review of the Oxford movement as having restored the idea of the Church to its due prominence in Christian thought. Dr. Rashdall discusses in considerable detail the institutional side of Christianity.”—Outlook.
“His outlook is historical. These discourses serve at any rate for a temperate and eminently clear expression of what many educated but not professional readers will recognize as an intelligible common-sense view on points of current controversy.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 140w. |
“Characterized by transparent lucidity and an unadorned simplicity of diction.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 652. My. 27. 710w. | |
| + + | Ind. 59: 330. Ag. 10, ‘05. 120w. |
“The breadth and thoroughness of the discussion make the volume a helpful contribution to the reconstructive work now going on in religious thought. The general aim is practical. There is a note of reality, and of an intentness on reality, running through all these discourses.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w. |
“In literary quality, too, as well as in the matter and tone, these sermons commend themselves to the discerning and sympathetic reader.” H. N. Gardiner.
| + + | Philos. R. 16: 735. N. ‘05. 280w. |
“He is able, earnest, and learned, constructive, occasionally conservative, as well as critical.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 300w. |
Rateau, A. Experimental researches on the flow of steam through nozzles and orifices, to which is added a note on the flow of hot water; authorized tr. by H. Boyd Brydon. [*]$1.50. Van Nostrand.
“This little book on the flow of steam is an expansion of” Prof Rateau’s “report to the congress of applied mechanics in 1890.... The object of the investigation was to determine the conditions governing the discharge from large conoidal convergent nozzles and an orifice in a thin plate, both above and below the ratio p equals 0.58 P.”—Engin. N.
“His work is painstaking in the extreme. One or two obvious typographical errors are noted. It is an interesting addition to the literature on the flow of steam through nozzles.” Strickland L. Kneass.
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 533. My. 18, ‘05. 650w. |
“The translation is clear. It is, however, a defect, for English readers, that the principal formulæ are left as given by the author in foreign units.”
| + + — | Nature. 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 210w. |
Rathbone, Eleanor F. William Rathbone: a memoir. $3. Macmillan.
In this memoir of her father, a Liverpool merchant, the author gives his life, his well-known work in parliament and in various philanthropic movements.
“Very capably written biography.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 368. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 718. Je. 10. 730w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 218. Ap. 8, ‘05. 350w. | ||
| + + + | Spec. 95: 258. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1870w. |
Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.). By the good Sainte Anne: a story of modern Quebec. [†]$1.50. Little.
A new edition of this story of a typical Englishman, a Canadian of English descent, and a young French-Canadian, all of whom pay court to bright, vivacious Nancy Howard, who with her father, a New York physician, drop in among the guests at the Maple Leaf. The scenes and points of interest in and about Quebec furnish a setting for the bright conversations in which the story abounds.
| + — | Outlook. 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 80w. |
Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.), and Fuller, Hamilton Brock. [On the firing line: a romance of South Africa.] [†]$1.50. Little.
Africa during the Boer war furnishes the setting of Miss Ray’s story of love and combat. The hero, a stalwart Canadian, follows an impulse to enter the fray as a private and in his narrow field demonstrates broad soldierly ability which operates for its full value, not only with the girl he loves, but with his rival, the young captain of his troop.
“There is movement and life on every page.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1421. Je. 22, ‘05. 140w. |
“In spite of its conventional plot, holds a lively interest for the reader.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 250w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
“The collaboration in this novel is very successful. A well-constructed, entertaining, bright story, permeated by the spirit that recognizes and appreciates high ideals.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 100w. |
Ray, Anna Chapin. Sidney: her summer on the St. Lawrence. [†]$1.50. Little.
In this new book for boys and girls, Sidney Stayres and her little brother Bungay spend an eventful summer with their cousins and their friends on the St. Lawrence. There are picnics, and general good times, there are accidents and anxious hours, but these doings of the true hearted little heroine and those who loved her will prove wholesome and entertaining reading for all young folks.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 150w. |
“The characters seemed posed and artificial.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 40w. |
Raymond, Edward Brackett. Alternating current engineering, practically treated. [*]$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“This book is written by a member of the staff of the testing department of the General electric company; it consists of two parts; the first part contains the general theory of electricity and magnetism and a special theory of alternating currents; the second part treats of transformers, alternating current motors and alternators.... There is a great need for such a book, a book in which a young man just starting in practical electrical engineering work after college or any other school could find a clear, concise exposition of what he needs, what is done in practice, and why it is done so and not otherwise.”—Phys. R.
“In summing up it seems that notwithstanding some defects the book can be well recommended to young electrical engineers and to those who would like to refresh their memory on the subject of alternating currents. It is to be regretted that Mr. Raymond did not write his book in coöperation with somebody more familiar with the theoretical part of the subject and particularly with the approved methods of presenting them in a simple, lucid way. Then the wide practical experience of Mr. Raymond would find its right place in the book and make it one of the most valuable additions to our engineering literature.” V. K.
| + + — | Phys. R. 20: 190. Mr. ‘05. 1380w. |
Raymont, T. Principles of education. [*]$1.40. Longmans.
The author’s object in writing this book was “to present a brief but comprehensive treatment of the problems of education as they have shaped themselves in my mind during several years of experience in teaching.... It is for the younger members of that profession that my book is primarily intended.”
“Readable and suggestive.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 290w. |
“An interesting and comprehensive treatise on education.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 12. Jl. 1. 690w. |
“The main quality of his book we should describe as common-sense.” J. Welton.
| + + — | Int. J. Ethics. 16: 113. O. ‘05. 800w. |
Rea, Hope. Tuscan and Venetian artists, their thought and work. [*]$1.50. Dutton.
A new and enlarged edition of these essays which treat of the broader aspects of Italian art, using individual artists and their work as illustrations. In “Builders and goldsmiths,” the influence of these arts upon painting is shown thru Botticelli, while Angelico, the idealist, and Signorelli, the realist, are contrasted to show the relation between imagination and reality in art, and the fusion of the two is illustrated by Raphael and the Venetians. Giotto, Duccio, Carpaccio, and Raphael are treated under artists story tellers. There is also a chapter on Della Robbia ware. There are thirty-eight tinted half-tones.
“The author writes intelligently, if with no great originality of thought, and in a pleasing if not over-exact style.”
| + | Nation. 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 170w. |
“It is particularly valuable as a study of the causes which lead to the transference of an emotion from the individual to the canvas or marble.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 470w. |
“The book may be recommended to those whose sympathy has not yet been aroused as it should be for the art of Tuscany and Venetia. Such a little book of criticism as this is always needed, not only for the unthinking tourist or student, but sometimes also for the thinking.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 248. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w. |
Read, Carveth. Metaphysics of nature. [*]$2.75. Macmillan.
“By metaphysics Professor Read means the ‘study of the validity and adequacy of knowledge and belief’ ... the addition ‘of Nature’ is intended to rule out ideals, the matter of ethics, politics, religion, and art. Within these limits he claims that his work is conciliatory and constructive.”—Ath.
| + + — | Acad. 68: 803. Ag. 5, ‘05. 760w. |
“Signs are not wanting that he approaches his subject as a man of science rather than a philosopher, that is, in a spirit of vindication rather than unbiased inquiry.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 47. Jl. 8. 640w. |
“Professor Carveth Read’s ‘Metaphysics of nature’ is a book that must take rank at once for importance with Mr. Bradley’s ‘Appearance and reality’ and Professor Ward’s ‘Naturalism and agnosticism.’” T. Whittaker.
| + + | Hibbert. J. 4: 205. O. ‘05. 1990w. |
“One of the best parts of the volume is the general discussion of the test of truth.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 600w. | |
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 527. O. 21, ‘05. 1620w. |
Read, Opie. American in New York, a novel of to-day. $1.25. Thompson & Thomas.
Short sketches are welded together to form this book. There is a gallant Kentucky millionaire; “there is a very lovely widow who talks to him in the tea room, and to whom he tells quaint tales of the West; there is a young man, the millionaire’s adopted son, and a young woman, the widow’s niece.... To add to the zest of it too, the Colonel—so the millionaire is called—is very fond of playing Haroun Al Rashid. There is a villain also.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Really, the present volume furnishes some very good reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 220w. |
“Tells some humorous stories and moralizes more or less shrewdly at times. There is too much, however, of his political and social dogmatism, and the personal story involved is of the weakest.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 90w. |
Redgrave, Gilbert R., and Spackman, Charles. Calcareous cements: their nature, manufacture, and uses, with some observations upon cement testing. [*]$4.50. Lippincott.
“In its present edition this book is noteworthy for its discussion of cement manufacture. Over one-third of the space is devoted to this subject. The next largest space is given to composition, chemical analysis and constitution. In these sections and in its historical notes on the development and early manufacture of hydraulic cements the book is superior to any other treatise of which we have knowledge.”—Engin N.
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 645. Je. 15, ‘05. 360w. |
Rée, P. J. Nuremburg and its art to the end of the 18th century; from the German by G. H. Palmer. [*]$1.50. Scribner.
“The librarian of the Bavarian museum at Nuremburg has written a careful survey of the art treasures in that city. He scarcely touches the history of the place ... but traces the development of German art, as illustrated by the buildings and in the museums of Nuremburg, in painstaking and elaborate fashion. His treatment of the artists and craftsmen who succeeded Dürer will be found especially valuable by English tourists who wish to learn something more of designers and artist-craftsmen.... This volume of the “Art cities” series is abundantly illustrated by one hundred and twenty-three photographs.”—Ath.
“In spite of its merits, we fear that English readers will find it hard to digest. The translation of the book looks as if it had been ‘made in Germany.’”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 121. Jl. 22. 650w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 645. S. 30, ‘05. 230w. |
Reed, Helen Leah. [Amy in Acadia.] [†]$1.50. Little.
This is the first volume of a second series of the “Brenda” books; it is a story for girls and tells of the experiences encountered by Amy, her mother, and her girl friends among the descendants of the exiled Acadians. These experiences acquire a peculiar interest thru their romantic setting and their historical background.
“The author manages, with indifferent skill, to convey much information for the benefit of young readers—that is, if they do not rebel at Amy.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 40w. |
Reed, John Calvin. [Brothers’ war.] [**]$2. Little.
Optimistic in tone, looking forward to a glorious and peaceful future for a United States truly united, this book, altho written by a Southerner, and, to a certain extent, a plea for the South, makes for a better understanding between North and South by giving an account of the causes which led up to the Civil war in a fair-minded manner which admits of the statement that “the brothers on each side were true patriots and morally right.” It is an interesting volume and it discusses political parties, the great men upon each side, slavery, the race question and the Ku-Klux Klan, in a spirit so generous toward the North that it will not alienate even a reader in whom strong partisan feeling still remains.
Reed, Myrtle. [At the sign of the Jack-o’-Lantern.] [**]$1.50. Putnam.
A New York newspaper man and his bride begin their honeymoon in their heirloom house which was set on a hill and known as the Jack-o’-Lantern, because its arrangement of doors and windows made hideous resemblance to a human face. The eccentric donor had added wing after wing to the main portion of the house, the reason for which becomes apparent when relations, singly and in groups, swoop down on the pair to make their annual visit—“to sponge on a dead man as they did when he was alive.” In this pandemonium Howard Carr tries to write his first book.
“The author gives us a commonplace farce, all bustle, noise and confusion, with scenes and characters that have long ago lost all novelty.”
| — | Acad. 68: 1009. S. 30, ‘05. 450w. |
“It is a disconcerting, but not displeasing blend of folly and shrewdness. Some readers will think the book a mere tissue of nonsense, others may take a fleeting pleasure in its very absurdity.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 433. S. 30. 260w. |
[*] “Miss Reed has certainly provided us in this instance with an original form of entertainment, and the story should prove popular.”—Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 308. N. 16, ‘05. 360w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “Myrtle Reed is possessed of a quick sense of humor, is a keen observer of life, and an exceptionally alert and alluring judge of human nature.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 420w. |
“Miss Reed is mistress of a delicacy of thought and style which lends itself gracefully to the light and airy exaggeration of human foibles.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 674. O. 14, ‘05. 710w. |
“We do not find this tale altogether successful in its alternating attempts at sprightliness and sentiment. The characters neither act reasonably nor talk naturally.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
Reeves, Jesse Siddall. Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in American diplomatic history, 1815-1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.
This pamphlet is uniform with the “Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.” The study centers about the unfortunate colonial enterprise called Champ d’Asile on the banks of the Trinity river in Texas.
Reid, G. Archdall. Principles of heredity, with some applications. [*]$3.50. Dutton.
“While possessing large and varied interest for the general reader, this work is specially addressed to medical men.... What is new in the work is mainly drawn from evidence, hitherto largely unused, concerning heredity, that he has found in the study of disease, especially of the zymotic kinds, and also of narcotics. This is held to establish conclusively that parental acquirements are never transmitted to offspring and that the great mass of variation has another origin than that of the action of the environment of the germ-cells.”—Outlook.
“What he has written is evidently the result of wide reading and serious logical thinking with regard to the many intricate questions involved. At the same time his work is seldom technical, and will be nearly always readily intelligible even by those who are not familiar with the strictly biological terminology of the subject.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1110. N. 9, ‘05. 760w. |
“He covers too much ground, and appears to have put together matter written at different times and in pursuance of different trains of thought.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 184. Je. 9, ‘05. 1340w. |
[*] “We have one fault to find; in a work on the principles of heredity one would have expected a fuller discussion than is actually given of biometric and Mendelian methods of dealing with that phenomenon.” A. D. D.
| + + — | Nature. 73: 121. D. 7, ‘05. 1330w. |
“He writes with a warmth of conviction that is stimulating to thought, and with a mastery of his subject which commands attention.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 350w. |
Reinach, Salomon. The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by Florence Simmonds. [**]$2. Scribner.
“A general outline of art from its origin to the present age. It includes art in the polished stone and bronze ages; in Egypt, Chaldea, and Persia; Aegean, Minoan, and Mycenæan art; Greek art before Phidias; Phidias and the Parthenon; Praxiteles, Scopas, and Lysippus; Greek art after Alexander the Great; the minor arts of Greece; Etruscan and Roman art; Christian art in the East and in the West; Romanesque and Gothic architecture; Romanesque and Gothic sculpture; the architecture of the renaissance and modern architecture; the renaissance of Siena and Florence; Venetian painting; Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael—the Milanese Umbrian and Roman schools; Michelangelo and Correggio; the renaissance in Germany; the Italian decadence and the Spanish school; art in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century; the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France; and art in the nineteenth century. There are nearly six hundred illustrations in the book.”—Bookm.
“Is a clever and valuable rapid sketch written by an authority.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 706. Ap. ‘05. 60w. |
“The translation is fluent and adequate as a whole, though it is occasionally clumsy.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 343. Mr. 18. 490w. |
“The translation before us, in the main, reads well, and the book, as a whole, appears in a very acceptable form. Much may be said in praise of the work and very little against it. The reader immediately becomes fascinated by the style, the independence of thought and judgments by the illuminating touches on periods and individual artists. Taken in its ensemble, it is possibly the best short history of art, or rather the history of the filiation of art schools ever written.” Hugo P. Thieme.
| + + + | Baltimore Sun. : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 490w. |
“Excellent as is the treatment of ancient art, it is surpassed by the clear and scholarly exposition of art in the Christian era, so that we have no hesitation in saying that this book is an indispensable work for every library, whether large or small, throughout the land. It is a matter of sincere congratulation for the author to find so much knowledge in so small a space. The setting given to the text is of the same high order as the text itself.”
| + + + | Boston Evening Transcript. Feb. 8, ‘05. 1140w. |
“A book both critical and fascinating. The translation, by Miss Florence Simmonds, is admirably done.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 220w. |
“Well translated and copiously illustrated.”
| + + — | Int. Studio. 25: 84. Mr. ‘05. 60w. |
“The book is a little masterpiece. His taste and judgment are as sure as his knowledge is exact. It is assuredly the best brief general history of art, if not the best such history of any length, that has yet appeared. It deserved a better and more faithful translation than has been given it by Florence Simmonds. One is never certain whether he is getting the opinions of M. Reinach or those of Miss Simmonds.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 58. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1590w. |
“The translation is unusually careful and successful, and the reader of it loses nothing of the practical utility of the work. The distinguishing trait of M. Reinach is his combination of poise and alertness. He is not a partisan.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 398. Je. 17, ‘05. 910w. |
“In the style there are surprising vivacity and individuality. The individual common sense, the happy and sometimes sharply incisive phrases, and the broadly critical spirit of the book are traits rare in an outline of this sort.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 260w. |
“Has given us a work of exceptional educational value in his splendidly condensed ‘Story of art throughout the ages.’ It serves the double purpose of reference book and of introductory work to the art of any period. Readable narrative. All that a well-equipped special library on art should contain is given in condensed and miniature form in this one volume.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 297. F. 25, ‘05. 140w. |
“The rendering into English is clear and satisfactory.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] Reinsch, Paul Samuel. Colonial administration. [*]$1.25. Macmillan.
This volume in “The citizen’s library of economics, politics, and sociology,” “is rather a statement of the various problems confronting colonial governments, and an indication of the main lines of solution that have been attempted than a complete and conclusive discussion of the principles involved. The book gives in small compass a broad survey of the most important activities of modern colonial governments, and deals with the facts of colonial administration rather than with the underlying philosophy. Such topics as education; finance; commerce; currency, banking, and credit; agriculture; the land policy; and the labor question, are tersely and instructively discussed.”—R. of Rs.
[*] “The temper and language of Prof. Reinsch’s introductory chapter could scarcely be improved. He has for the most part made good use of the numerous books cited in his notes.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 580w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 638. N. ‘05. 110w. |
Remensnyder, Junius Benjamin. Atonement and modern thought; with an introd. by B: B. Warfield. $1. Lutheran pub. soc.
“Dr. Remensnyder makes a vigorous presentation of the Lutheran conception of the Atonement in its antagonism to the characteristic tendencies of modern thought. As thus conceived it was an objective transaction in which Christ as the sinner’s substitute bore the punishment due to sin. The Atonement thus viewed is presented as the central truth of Christianity.”—Outlook.
| + — | Outlook. 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 160w. |
Renan, Joseph Ernest. [Life of Jesus.] 68c. Bell, H. W.
A reprint in popular form of the scholarly “Life” written by the great French Liberal “from the view-point of one who saw in him a great prophet, but a son of the Infinite only in the sense that the noblest and purest of earth can be termed the sons of God.” (Arena.)
“Is a volume that should be found in the libraries of all broad-minded people. This work will ever remain the loving and masterful labor of one of the bravest, ablest and most honest thinkers and scholars of the nineteenth century.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + + | Arena. 33: 451. Ap. ‘05. 610w. |
Repplier, Agnes. Compromises. [**]$1.10. Houghton.
A group of entertaining essays with pure literary merit. The subjects which Miss Repplier treats are: Luxury of conversation; The gayety of life; The point of view; Marriage in fiction; Our belief in books; The beggar’s pouch; The pilgrim’s staff; A Quaker diary; French love-songs; The spinster; The tourist; The headsman; Consecrated to crime; Allegra.
“She has always a point of view; she writes in an agreeable style; and she is well informed and has taste.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 21. 320w. |
“They are not meant for the frivolous, but for those who can appreciate good literature. She has her own ideas on the subject about which she writes, and states them without hesitation or qualification.”
| + | Cath. World. 80: 689. F. ‘05. 220w. |
“The subjects of her essays vary pleasantly and they are all written in a purely literary style. Her vivacity is not nervous, but intellectual, and the thread of her thought is so interwoven with the golden warp of older writers like Johnson, Montaigne and others that for once we have the tone of time upon the fresh tapestry of modern life. Her reflections shade back into old philosophies. All are seasoned with that pleasant gossip which a good-tempered intelligent woman has acquired from a wide knowledge of and close friendship with the best writers of the last four hundred years.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 154. Ja. 19, ‘05. 450w. |
[*] Repplier, Agnes. In our convent days. [**]$1.10. Houghton.
Charming personal reminiscences of the author’s childhood in a French-American convent school. The stories are real, they are true to human nature, true, so those who know declare, to the atmosphere of the school itself, and certainly true in that many of the little girls who lived and had adventures and murmured profound confidences inside those convent walls are prominent women to-day.
| * | Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “Is in Miss Agnes Repplier’s happiest style.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 485. D. 14, ‘05. 370w. |
[*] “She has never been more delightful than in this little volume.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 440w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “Delightful studies of girl nature told with humor and literary grace.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 40w. |
Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by William Tenney Brewster. [*]$1.10. Macmillan.
These essays have been selected with the object of supplementing the technical works on methods and forms. The volume includes Literature, by John Henry Newman; Style, by Thomas de Quincey; The philosophy of style, by Herbert Spencer; The principles of success in literature, by George Henry Lewis; Style in literature—its technical elements, by Robert Louis Stevenson; Style, by Walter Pater; and Our English prose, by Frederic Harrison. Professor Brewster has included an introduction, notes and questions, and an index.
“Has performed a useful service for teachers of literature.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 279. N. 1, ‘05. 50w. |
“A volume likely to be of good service to academic students of literature and composition.”
| + | Nation. 81: 382. N. 9, ‘05. 90w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 270w. |
“The introduction ... makes skilful use of the material which the editor has carefully selected for the body of the volume.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 90w. |
“A very welcome work.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 575. O. 28, ‘05. 220w. |
Revival; a symposium, ed. by Rev. J. H. MacDonald. [*]75c. Meth. bk.
Seven addresses which were first delivered before the Chicago Preachers’ meeting. They are designed to awaken a more general interest in revival work and include sermons by Bishop McDowell, Rev. E. B. Crawford, Rev. Chas. Little, Rev. John Thompson, Rev. W. E. Tilroe, and Rev. P. H. Swift.
[*] “They are excellent as far as they go, but the collection as a whole lacks completeness and proportion.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 80w. |
Reybaud, Henrietta Etiennette Fanny (Arnaud) (Mme. Charles Reybaud). La belle paysanne; tr. from the French by Remus F. Foster. $1. Neale.
A young French student falls in love with the pastel of a beautiful woman which he finds in his uncle’s house, and he hears her story from an old lover of hers and a priest, and learns how, as a young girl, she broke her troth to the marquis and married a handsome peasant, whom she afterwards murdered. In the end he finds in his uncle’s repulsive old housekeeper the original of his fancy.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w. |
Reynolds, Cuyler, comp. Classified quotations: compiled for general reference and also as aids in making up lists of toasts and in the preparation of the after dinner speech and occasional address; with suggestions concerning the menu and other details connected with the proper ordering of a banquet; being a reissue of “The banquet book.” [**]$2.50. Putnam.
“The book is a collection of quotations on all sorts of subjects, intended to help persons preparing menus for dinners. It evidently fills the place for which it was intended, for this appearance is the fifth.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The collection is a good one; more general, besides than the needs of the banquet. The index is rather meagre.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “Mr. Reynolds has the capacity for taking infinite pains, as all his work shows, and this collection is remarkably complete.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 140w. |
Reynolds, George F. Some principles of Elizabethan staging. 50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
This study is only a part of a more comprehensive one now in preparation, discussing not only Elizabethan plays but also the actual construction of the stage itself and the properties which furnished it.
Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina Rhoades). That Preston girl. [†]$1.50. Wilde.
A story which depicts the loneliness and suffering of a girl who is ostracized because of her father’s dishonest means of attaining wealth. She is a refined, unselfish, loyal type of girlhood, a helpful acquaintance for any young reader.
Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the compromise of 1850. Vol. 5. [**]$2.50. Macmillan.
“Confidence has grown with each succeeding volume that the great history of the Civil war is being written.” (Ind.) This fifth volume covers the years 1864-66. “In the beginning of this volume, Mr. Rhodes gives a brief recapitulation of the salient events of the Civil war, and follows this with a detailed account of Sherman’s Georgia campaign. Grant’s Appomattox campaign, Lee’s surrender, and the assassination of Lincoln are all treated within the limits of a single chapter. A long chapter is devoted to an account of society at the North during the war, and a similar chapter to society at the South. Another chapter is assigned to the treatment of prisoners of war. The volume closes with a fair and impartial account of reconstruction.” (R. of Rs.)
“But it would be unfair to regard Dr. Rhodes’s slips in military matters as impairing the value of his work. The present volume is a perfect storehouse of valuable facts and records. If anything, it is too full of material and not sufficiently ordered.” A. R. Ropes.
| + + — | Acad. 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 640w. |
“I cannot think of another historian who so constantly produces the effect of complete candor, who is so indefatigably minded to tell all that can be reckoned of consequence, and to display unreservedly the sources of his knowledge and the grounds of his opinions.” W. G. Brown.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 181. O. ‘05. 2800w. |
“As a whole it comes up fully to the high standard set in the preceding volumes. In the treatment of the controversial questions of the time Mr. Rhodes shows the same spirit of impartiality and breadth of view which has won for him the admiration of students.” James Wilford Garner.
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 352. Mr. ‘05. 920w. |
“To the specialist, the work will appeal as authoritative until more evidence is forthcoming. The author has performed a distinct service in showing that a non-partisan account of our great Civil war need not be colorless.” David Y. Thomas.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 230. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1020w. |
“It is hardly possible that the theme will ever be treated with fuller detail, more skilfully wrought into a dramatic story. Concerning this, as concerning the whole work, it must be said that it will be most authoritative among those who are most familiar with the sources of information. The general reader may grow to believe fully in the author’s conclusions, but the specialist will be convinced by the unquestionable force of the testimony offered.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 151. Ja. 19, ‘05. 680w. |
[*] “This masterful accomplishment entitles Mr. Rhodes to the first place among American historians.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 120w. |
“The writer’s method and his even narration make pleasant reading. There is the same painstaking examination of authorities, the same skilful arrangement of facts, the same balanced (sometimes hesitating) judgment, and the same desire to be eminently fair to all parties in a controversy.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 177. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1800w. |
“Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of the war itself, and of the issues growing out of the war, is that of an unbiased historian, and will meet, we think, with the cordial approbation of southern as well as northern participants in that great struggle.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 247. F. ‘05. 180w. |
“A considerable part of this volume is given to a chapter describing the conditions of society in the northern states during the war, and another chapter to society in the southern states. These are among the most important and interesting contributions to our historical literature. They are hardly entitled to be called brilliant, but they are full of good sense, of sound judgments, and of well-proportioned groupings of facts. They are likely to be read as long as any historical writings of our time. His style is not brilliant, but it is a good working style, with the fundamental merits of clearness and dignity; and his judgments are the judgments of a man of great common sense. All preceding books have at best been materials for such a history. Mr. Rhodes’s work is the best narrative of this stirring time.”
| + + + | World’s Work. 9: 5982. Mr. ‘05. 700w. |
Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell Hegan (Mrs. Cale Young Rice). Sandy. [†]$1. Century.
In turning away from Mrs. Wiggs and Lovey Mary, Mrs. Rice has chosen to import the irresponsible, hot-headed, impulsive Irish boy, Sandy. All the way from stowaway on an American liner to the successful college graduate, and the hero of an ambitious romance, he runs a curious round of chance which claims him for a boot-black, newsboy, peddler, and finally drops him into the keeping of a kind-hearted old judge, who starts him along the road to fortune.
“The story is a good deal more than readable.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 684. Je. 3, 210w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w. |
“The book possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of her two earlier volumes. There is no denying Mrs. Rice’s pleasant manner of telling a story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 630w. |
“It possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of the philosophy of the Cabbage patch.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w. |
“A simple, lifelike story full of quiet humor, pathos, and charm.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 80w. |
“An interesting study of the stuff that Americans are made of, and of a variety of cleverly drawn Kentucky types.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 872. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w. |
“Mrs. Rice’s reputation will receive a fine impetus from this delightful little story.”
| + | Reader. 6: 95. Je. ‘05. 140w. |
“Mrs. Rice has given too much attention to the outsiders in ‘Sandy,’ and the boy and the girl who are the chief actors suffer. The story is sketchily drawn; too sketchily, the average reader will think.”
| + + — | Reader. 6: 243. Jl. ‘05. 300w. |
“Nothing but the dreariest herbage of sentimental commonplace.”
| — | Sat. R. 99: 601. My. 6, ‘05. 290w. |
Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow (Mrs. R. H. Richards). Art of right living. [*]50c. Whitcomb & B.
This small volume proffers much commonsense advice on the limitations of food, the need of air, exercise, amusement and work.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 299. My. 6, ‘05. 70w. | ||
| Outlook. 79: 398. F. 11. ‘05. 30w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 50w. |
Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe. Mrs. Tree’s will. [†]75c. Estes.
“The reader of Mrs. Richard’s series beginning with ‘Captain January’ will meet old acquaintances here. Mrs. Tree herself, though dead, seems more alive than anybody through her will, its effects, and the anecdotes her survivors narrate.”—Outlook.
[*] “The book is a gem in its own way.”
| + | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “Is a worthy successor to ‘Mrs. Tree’ in affording quiet amusement for an idle hour. Mrs. Richards writes brightly, humorously, and with excellent taste.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 350w. |
“There are certain touches of pleasant humor here and there in the book that almost give it a reason for existence.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 310w. |
“The picturing of village life, though amusing and touching at times, lacks strength and body, seems trivial and fantastic.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14. ‘05. 60w. |
Richardson, Clifford. Modern asphalt pavement. $3. Wiley.
This book successfully covers a field hitherto but inadequately dealt with. It is “the first authoritative presentation of the subject by a representative of the asphalt paving companies, thus making public the results of long and patient investigation by them, not heretofore accessible to the municipal engineer.... Structurally, Mr. Richardson divides an asphalt pavement into three parts or courses; the base, the intermediate course and the surface course.” (Engin. N.) He treats his subject exhaustively from the selection of materials to the proper execution of the work.
“In conclusion it not too much to say that Mr. Richardson’s book should be classed with those which appear too infrequently, but whose appearance marks epochs in the industry to which they relate. Even if the dictums of the authors are not always accepted or vindicated, they set people to thinking and mark out new paths for future progress.” S. Whinery.
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 633. Je. 15, ‘05. 4240w. |
“The book is likely to prove of great value to municipal authorities.” T. H. B.
| + + + | Nature. 72: 316. Ag. 3, ‘05. 600w. |
Richardson, Dorothy. [Long day: a true story of a New York working girl as told by herself.] [*]$1.20. Century.
A country bred girl tells of her experiences in New York city. She came friendless and unskilled with but a few dollars in her pocket, she sought honest work, and found short jobs as a box maker, a sweat-shop worker, a liner of jewel-boxes, a “shaker” in a steam laundry and at various other occupations all equally unpleasant and equally underpaid. The pictures she draws of the working girls’ home are painfully sad and realistic.
[*] “The book deserves a reading.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 749. N. ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “Written with so much understanding and insight.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 890w. |
“The woman who tells her own story is terribly in earnest about it all.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 330w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “A story that is nothing less than fascinating.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 757. D. ‘05. 180w. |
Richardson, Norval. Heart of hope. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
“This story of the Civil war offers drama and romance in about the usual proportions, but the former of a quality quite unusual—the siege of Vicksburg being pictured with cycloramic realism.”—Outlook.
| + | Outlook. 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 30w. |
“This is an uncommonly interesting story of the Civil war. The sentimental motive is skilfully woven into the account of the siege.”
| + — | Reader. 6: 475. S. ‘05. 240w. |
Richey, Harry Grant. Handbook for superintendents of construction, architects, builders, and building inspectors. $4. Wiley.
“The subjects which receive particularly thorough and careful treatment are: excavating, laying out foundations, testing and analysis of stone, stone and bricklaying (which is especially well illustrated), testing of soil, piling, timber specifications, steel sheet piling, building stones, etc.... A fair amount of space is devoted to cement and concrete.”—Engin. N.
“In general, the book is meritorious and well presented, almost all of the matter being of value to building inspectors or superintendents. The book compares very well with other books of its kind.” Wm. W. Ewing.
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 642. Je. 15, ‘05. 560w. |
Richman, Irving Berdine. Rhode Island; a study in separatism. [**]$1.10. Houghton.
A volume in the “American commonwealths” series. “There can be no doubt that the distinctive characteristic of Rhode Island as a political entity has been its separatist tendencies. Founded as a protest, it has clearly demonstrated its innate individualism in every crisis of its history.... There is reason for Mr. Richman’s assertion that even to-day the influence of the old-time thought is making itself keenly felt in the political life of the state.... Mr. Richman writes with enthusiasm [and gives] concise retrospective summaries.”—Outlook.
[*] “Mr. Richman has made one of the most instructive and readable contributions to the ‘American commonwealths’ series.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 904. D. 16, ‘05. 580w. |
[*] “His conclusions, on the whole, show discrimination, and his treatment is adequate, developing the social and economic as well as the political and constitutional history of the state. The most serious defect—and it is serious—is an occasional obscuration of salient facts in a mass of detail.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 280w. |
Richmond, Grace S. [Indifference of Juliet.] [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
An “account of Juliet’s repeated refusals of a nice, tall, broad-shouldered young man named Anthony. Anthony had been rich, but unfortunately lost all his money. Nevertheless he continued to love Juliet.... At last, goaded to desperation, he worked out a pretty little plan of arousing the lady’s jealousy, which was quite successful. With Juliet’s aid he fitted and furnished a dear little box of a house in the country, ostensibly for a lovely California girl.... After it was all ready for its new mistress Juliet permitted herself the luxury of going over it all alone one evening and crying. And there Anthony found her. But this is not the end of the story. In fact it is only the beginning, and several other romances crop up before it is finished.”—N. Y. Times.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 380w. |
“A pleasant little love story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17. ‘05. 220w. |
Rickert, Edith. Reaper. [†]$1.50. Houghton.
A story of the primitive life of the Shetland islands where the sea is “the great fact of life.” The hero reaps his harvest of content after years spent in patient service to a widowed mother, whose fondness for drink he strives by eternal vigilance to hide from others. The call of the sea is forever in his ears, but in the end, when he is free to go, he finds that the desire is conquered and his real happiness lies at home in the love of a woman and a little child.
“The dialect is not particularly unintelligible, but there is a good deal of it.”
| + | Critic. 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 50w. |
“It is worth reading for itself, and those who love the sea, especially, will like it because it is full of the atmosphere of the sea, of the simplicity and the mysticism and primitiveness of true sea-dwelling people.”
| + | Ind. 58: 503. Mr. 2, ‘05. 290w. |
“A new field, and a new strong writer in that field. There is much quiet power in the story.”
| + | Reader. 5: 256. Ja. ‘05. 280w. |
“As to its intrinsic interest and picturesqueness there can be no doubt whatever.”
| + | Spec. 94: 717. My. 13, ‘05. 670w. |
[*] Ridgeway, William. Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse. [*]$3.75. Macmillan.
“Treats not only of all the chief breeds of British domestic horses known in historical times, but also takes a survey of all the other living equidae, as well as of the ancestors of the genus. He has made an attempt to treat historically the origin of the various colors found in English horses; at the same time indicating the influence exercised on the history of the chief nations of the ancient, mediaeval, and modern world by the possession of horses.... Besides all this he has ‘also tried to point out the lessons of supreme importance to the breeder.’ ... A supplementary chapter has been included considering ‘The development of equitation.’ There are also addenda and a full index, besides numerous illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “He marshals evidence for you as a special pleader, and hammers it in as a violent partisan. But at the same time he does not carry his audience away. There are too many slips of fact, too many circular proofs, too many violations of logic. At the end you are interested, stimulated, but not won.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 313. S. 29, ‘05. 1710w. |
[*] “Prof. Ridgeway on the other hand, has primarily attacked the problem from the point of view of the historian and the archaeologist, and it must be acknowledged that naturalists owe him a large debt of gratitude for bringing into prominence lines of evidence with which, from the very nature of the case, they are unfamiliar.” R. L.
| + + | Nature. 73: 126. D. 7, ‘05. 1950w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 731. O. 28, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | Outlook. 81: 942. D. 36, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “It is also an encyclopedia of information on the history of the ‘Equidae’, collected from every source, from post-Pliocene deposits to modern sporting newspapers. Professor Ridgeway, when merely setting down information, is apt to flit among countries and ages with a dexterity which perplexes the reader.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 655. O. 28, ‘05. 1540w. |
Ridley, Alice, Lady. Daughter of Jael. $1.50. Longmans.
With the spirit of a Brutus, Frances Cary, the heroine of this story, kills her niggardly and cruel grandfather in order to free her brother, the lawful heir, from a rule of terrible bondage. The act was inevitable to her philosophy of youth. The book goes on to show that retribution will not be restrained by the mitigating circumstance of unselfishness in actuating a crime. One has his fill of deep problems.
“This story deals with the shadow of a very dark deed involving a question of casuistry in morals. The book is interesting in a dismal way. The odor of chloroform pervades it and hangs heavy on every page.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 21. Ja. 14, ‘05. 490w. |
“It fairly bristles with problems. In spite of the undercurrent of gloom the story is light and even gay in some of its passages.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 26. Ja. 5. ‘05. 250w. |
Riley, James Whitcomb. Riley songs o’ cheer. $1.25. Bobbs.
Over fifty of Mr. Riley’s happiest verses have been collected into this volume which is profusely illustrated by Will Vawter. The all-golden; A Christmas carol; The first bluebird; Mister hop-toad; A passing hail; The twins; A song of the road; and While the heart beats young, are included among other old favorites.
| * | + + | Arena. 34: 660. D. ‘05. 480w. |
[*] “There is a good deal of commonplace work in the book, but there are also bits here and there of Mr. Riley at his best.”
| + | Dial. 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “It is a great pity that Mr. James Whitcomb Riley’s publishers should persist in vulgarizing verse so fine as his by cheap and silly illustrations.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 150w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 170w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “Wholesome verse, it is, and tinged with a sentiment that is genuine though often commonplace.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 70w. |
Riley, Theodore Myers. A memorial biography of the Very Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman. $5. Priv. ptd. at the Marion press, Jamaica, Queensborough, N. Y.
A biography which covers fully the facts of a life upon which the author comments as follows: “He was never primarily a theologian, or indeed primarily anything but an admirably well-balanced man, in whom the note of our common nature was always predominant.... He wrote no great books; he ventilated no schemes of sociological or of theological improvement to the world; he offered no advice to the public for the reconstitution of human society. He simply abode in the path of achievement marked out for him by his office as a priest, and by his gifts of constitution and rule.... And so he became great, because he was faithful, humble, wise, modest.”
“It is appreciative, orderly, and so full that its 795 pages of noble type leave nothing to be desired except an index.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 154. F. 23, ‘05. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 57. Ja. 28, ‘05. 170w. (Statement of contents.) | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 580w. (Abstract of contents.) |
Riley, Thomas James. Higher life of Chicago. [*]75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
A study of the culture interests of Chicago has resulted in the exposition of some of the agencies that are working for the betterment of the city, including the schools, libraries and the press, civic associations and women’s clubs, social settlements, charities, etc.
“To many who think of Chicago as a great commercial centre merely, this account of the higher life will be a revelation.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 594. S. ‘05. 100w. |
“It is a book of much value both for reference and for the further stimulation of cultural and altruistic endeavor.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 327. My. 1, ‘05. 80w. |
Ringwalt, Ralph Curtis. Briefs on public questions, with selected lists of references. [*]$1.20. Longmans.
A book which “is sure of favor with the young debating community, but is also well calculated to enlarge the understanding and settle the convictions of journalists and legislators. Its themes are logically ordered under three heads, Politics, Economics, and Sociology.” (Nation.) Twenty-five individual topics are treated, among them Naturalization, Woman suffrage, Negro suffrage, Restriction of immigration, Reciprocity with Canada, Government ownership of railways, single tax, etc.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 56: 594. S. ‘05. 170w. |
“Great judgment and fairness have been displayed by the author, who has been able to sink personal considerations to a marked degree in his effort to impartially present a brief outline of the principal arguments on each subject discussed.”
| + + + | Arena. 34: 329. S. ‘05. 250w. |
“High-school and college students will give this book a warm welcome.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
“The scheme and the execution are to be commended, and Mr. Ringwalt has had in mind in his bibliography the resources of ordinary public libraries.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 1160w. |
“Within its chosen field a valuable reference book. The work has been done with much care and thoroughness, and the book is not by any means limited in its usefulness to those preparing for debates, although its peculiar adaptability to that purpose is evident.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 442. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
Riordan, William L. [Plunkitt of Tammany hall.] [†]$1. McClure.
A series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York county courthouse bootblack stand—and recorded by William L. Riordan. “For more than forty years he has seen the political game played in New York city.... His has been the peculiar distinction of holding four offices at one and the same time and drawing salaries for three of them.... He is the old-fashioned type of the professional politician, even in Tammany Hall, but he has a shrewd, homely sense that is not to be learned from books and that would be invaluable in a man without the moral crookedness that afflicts this man.”—Pub. Opin.
| Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 90w. | ||
| Pub. Opin. 39: 477. O. 7, ‘05. 370w. | ||
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 638. N. ‘05. 170w. |
Ripley, William Zebina, ed. Trusts, pools and corporations. [*]$1.80. Ginn.
This volume is “a compilation of special articles, mainly by other well-known legal writers, on the great cases which have arisen relative to the status of corporate bodies. These cases extend over a period of thirty-five years, from the Michigan salt association ... in 1868 to the recent Northern securities company and the United States shipbuilding company.”—N. Y. Times.
“Doubtless the book will prove a valuable adjunct to the equipment of the student. But a further compilation and classification of cases would have been more reassuring to the student.”
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 593. My. ‘05. 170w. | |
| Dial. 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 50w. |
“An important and valuable contribution to economic literature.”
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 295. Mr. 16, ‘05. 540w. |
[*] “A book of very considerable value.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 290w. |
“The introduction is a clear and unbiased discussion of the trust problem.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 140w. |
Rishell, Charles Wesley. Child as God’s child. 75c. Meth. bk.
A discussion of “baptism and church membership and the teaching of the home and Sunday school from the point of view of one who believes in gradual growth into the religious life.” (Ind.)
| Ind. 58: 1013. My. 4, ‘05. 50w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 144. Mr. 4, ‘05. 210w. |
Rives, Amelie. See Troubetzkoy, Amelie.
Rives, Hallie Ermine. See Dickens, Charles
Roberts, Charles George Douglas. [Red fox: the story of his adventurous career in the Ringwaak wilds and of his final triumph over the enemies of his kind.] [†]$2. Page.
“The history of a hero fox of singular beauty and strength, united with rare intelligence, adaptability and foresight.... His range was the forest, rocky slopes, and backwoods farms of the Ringwaak country in eastern Canada. Here he ran the full gamut of fox-experience ... leading a joyous and adventurous life till the brightness of his renown made him a shining mark for capture. Then, taken by a trick formidable for its simplicity, he was sent to the states to make a Roman holiday for a fashionable hunt club, but escaped by almost super-vulpine sagacity and found safety in the mountains.” (Nation.) Fifty full page drawings by Charles Livingston Bull illustrate the volume.
| * | + | Acad. 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “Has the fascination of a real jungle story, without owing any apparent debt to Mr. Kipling.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 798. D. 9, 210w. | |
| * | + | Dial. 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “It is as charming in style as it is in atmosphere.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “It is intensely interesting throughout; it ends happily; the natural history is sound; and the pictures are numerous and worthy.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 150w. |
“Mr. Roberts appears to tell his story chiefly for its own sake, but he impresses us quite as deeply as if he had tried to enforce it by didacticism.”
| + | Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 290w. |
“Is a rare thing among animal biographies. The interest, at least, is quite human.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 410w. |
[*] “Certainly the story is entertaining, and wins and keeps the sympathy of the reader for the four-footed hero.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 140w. |
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “Red Fox is one of the most interesting characters in all the annals of woods life.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 170w. |
“The treatment is sufficiently literal to answer all that the author claims for his book, and certainly nothing is lost in charm by the insertion of what Mr. Roberts considers the animal psychology.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 140w. |
Roberts, Edmund Willson. Automobile pocketbook: a compendium of the gasoline automobile. $1.50. Gas engine pub.
The object of this little book is “to place before the designer and the operator, in a brief manner, a few general notes on the design and the operation of the gasoline automobile.” “Somewhat more than one-half the book is devoted to the design of various parts, such as valve mechanisms, mufflers and axles; and detailed descriptions of the best forms now in use are given, accompanied by lettered drawings, which enable the average reader to grasp the idea at a glance.... Several chapters are devoted to the care of various parts of the automobile, how to locate troubles and how to make repairs.” (Engin. N.)
“This pocketbook fills a place in automobile literature occupied by no other book.”
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 636. Je. 15, ‘05. 280w. |
Roberts, George Simon. Old Schenectady. [*]$4.50. Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N. Y.
A book which “carries the reader back to 1682, when the Dutch Van Curlers, the Vedders, the Tellers, and other Dutch families settled there. The author does not attempt a historical narrative, but gives a series of pictures of the quaint town in the early days: its pioneer settlers; its defenses against Indian attack; its French and Indian massacre; its Dutch heirlooms. The value of the book is much enhanced by appropriate and well-executed cuts and halftone illustrations.”—Am. Hist. R.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 722. Ap. ‘05. 80w. |
“Some history, more genealogy, and a modicum of biography well served by the compiler of the neatly printed volume, make an interesting story. The book bristles with anecdote, reminiscence, and tradition of the families ... whose names still count for much in the Mohawk valley.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 61. Ja. 28, ‘05. 520w. |
Roberts, Isaac Phillips. Horse. [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
This book “includes an account of the development of the horse from the early times and the introduction of improved breeds; a description of kinds and grades now in use; a careful study of the different gaits and paces of the horse; and many chapters dealing with the most approved and practicable methods of training, feeding, driving, breeding, and caring for horses.”—Outlook.
“Even the man who breeds horses for the market may find helpful suggestions here. Told in an entertaining way, with an enthusiasm for the subject that adds sparkle to the story.”
| + + + | Country Calendar. 1: 223. Jl. ‘05. 110w. |
Reviewed by Charles Tracy Bronson.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 570w. |
“The book has unquestioned value, and contains in compact form but in clear language much that is valuable.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 100w. |
Roberts, Morley. [Lady Penelope.] [†]$1.50. Page.
The lady Penelope Brading, orphaned daughter of an English earl and an American heiress, is a young woman of ideas, and ideals. From a host of suitors, and there are many as she possesses all things save a sense of humor, she chooses eight; a poet, a captain, a successful Jew, a young nobleman, a war correspondent, a balloonist, an artist, and an American millionaire, and puts them in training, finally announcing that she has married one of them secretly. Each pretends to be the one and the reader is thoroly mystified even when a baby arrives to further complicate the situation.
“In the present book we find neither matter nor manner.”
| — | Acad. 68: 151. F. 18, ‘05. 320w. |
“‘Lady Penelope’ is the best book we have seen for the use of those newspapers which a few years ago offered prizes for guessing how the story would end.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 673. Mr. 23, ‘05. 440w. |
“It is all in its airy way an amazingly clever satire, touching upon an astonishing number of solemn and respectable matters in a manner of cheerful and spontaneous audacity, which disarms resentment.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 146. Mr. 11, ‘05. 790w. |
“This is an amusing and audacious comedy of cross purposes and dramatic situations.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w. |
“Original, clever and amusing.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w. | |
| + | Reader. 6: 478. S. ‘05. 170w. |
“Witty and ingenious.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 140w. |
Roberts, Theodore. [Brothers of peril.] [†]$1.50. Page.
The two brothers of peril are a brave Indian boy and a young English cavalier seeking adventure in the New world. The scenes are laid in Newfoundland among the Beothic Indians. The author says: “I have dared to resurrect an extinct tribe for the purposes of fiction. I have drawn inspiration from the spirit of history rather than the letter. But the heart of the wilderness, and the hearts of men and women, I have pictured in this romance of olden time as I know them to-day.”
[*] “A well-fancied tale of old Newfoundland.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 50w. |
“We admire Mr. Roberts’s modesty, and commend him for his temperate description.”
| + | Bookm. 22: 182. O. ‘05. 200w. |
“A rarely good tale of adventure in which the characters are vividly drawn and the interest is never allowed to fall below the properly breathless point.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 870w. |
“A fabric pulsing with thrills, jealousy, pirates, Indian treachery and other necessities of a thoroughly good story of adventure.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 221. Ag. 12. ‘05. 90w. |
Robertson, Charles Grant, ed. Select statutes, cases and documents to illustrate English constitutional history, 1660-1832; with a supplement from 1832-1894. [**]$3. Putnam.
“The book is the outgrowth of the author’s own needs in teaching modern history at Oxford, where he found that ... there was a hiatus that needed to be filled by a collection of documents for the epoch that opens with the restoration of Charles II.... Among the statutes and documents included may be mentioned the Act of uniformity, the Test act, the Coronation oath, the Bill of rights, the Act of settlement, the Act for the union with Scotland, the Act for the union with Ireland, the Abolition of the slave trade. All of the most famous cases in English legal history, within the period treated, are included.”—N. Y. Times.
“Careful notes indicate when statutes have been repealed, though the system employed does not always make clear just what portions. It is spread out too thin to suit the needs of intensive work. The value of the bibliography and of many of the page references is much lessened by the failure to give the date and place of publication of the editions cited. Other examples seem to indicate that the editor’s knowledge of the general history of at least part of his period is somewhat faulty.” Arthur Lyon Cross.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 877. Jl. ‘05. 790w. |
“In his selection and editing of the statutes and cases that were available Mr. Robertson has certainly displayed excellent judgment and sound learning.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22, 230w. | |
| + + — | Nation. 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 540w. |
“Is indispensable to the reader and student of modern English history. The volume forms altogether one of the very best collections of documents illustrative of English history.” Stanhope Sams.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 300w. |
Robertson, James Alexander. See Blair, Emma Helen, jt. auth.
Robertson, Morgan. Down to the sea. [†]$1.25. Harper.
Fourteen stories on various subjects, but all of men whose real home is not on land. Under such titles as—“A cow, two men, and a parson,” “The mutiny,” “The vitality of Dennis,” “Fifty fathoms down,” “The enemies,” “The rivals,” and “A hero of the cloth,” we hear of war vessels and other craft, of humorous and exciting happenings, and come to know some most enjoyable characters.
| + | Critic. 47: 382. O. ‘05. 180w. |
“Are in the last degree ingenious in construction and clever in the telling. They have, however, two serious faults: they are so far-fetched ... and, except for the adventures of Finnegan, they are painful to the point of being disagreeable.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 200w. |
“In his characterization of the men whom he brings into these stories there is all the vigor, simplicity, and natural unforced humor that would be expected from one who has been called the ‘Kipling of the sea.’”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 860w. |
“Some amusing, some vividly realistic, and others impressive by virtue of the style, even when farthest from the probable.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 30w. |
“There are a directness and freshness about the mere way in which Mr. Robertson sets about telling a story, that only come when one is master of his whole subject, a close observer and friend of his characters, a master of the ship, and of the words to describe both men and ships. But it is in the humorous that Mr. Robertson excels.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w. |
“These stories of his have the genuine salt savor and the salt sting.”
| + | Reader. 6: 592. O. ‘05. 140w. |
“A volume of thoroughly good and amusing stories of many seas.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 60w. |
Robertson, T. W. Society and Caste, ed. by T. Edgar Pemberton. 60c. Heath.
A volume in section III. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The texts are printed from the English acting editions which follow the original manuscripts. A life of Robertson, an introduction, notes and a bibliography are included.
Robertson, William Graham, il. French songs of old Canada; with translations into modern English verse. [*]$10. Dutton.
A beautiful gift book of colored drawings which illustrate the stories found in these old songs of the French-Canadians. A separate pamphlet contains good English translations of the songs.
| + + + | Int. Studio. 24: 368. F. ‘05, 400w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 150w. |
Robins, Edward. William T. Sherman. [*]$1.25. Jacobs.
Altho there is not room for great detail in this brief account of the life of Sherman, many interesting conversations and anecdotes have been included which add both to its historical and biographical value. The volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and contains chronology, bibliography, and index.
Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes). Dark lantern; a story with a prologue. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“London society, within the last ten years, makes the surroundings of the intrigue and passion that are here dealt with ... Katherine Dereham, the heroine, and the ogre doctor, Garth Vincent, however, concentrate most of the reader’s attention. Katherine is a beautiful girl, who falls desperately in love with a prince, who cannot marry her ... and wastes much of her youth in a harmful thralldom to a fancy. After her escape from her passion for the prince, burdened with a serious illness, she becomes the thrall of the ogre doctor, described as ‘the man with the dark-lantern face.’”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a striking, though scarcely a satisfactory book, and widely remote in every respect from the ordinary machine-made novel of commerce.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 651. My. 27. 250w. |
“Besides the vigor with which the main theme is handled, the striking quality of the book is a certain kind of bigness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 516. Jl. ‘05. 820w. |
“Her characters certainly have vitality, and an extraordinary power to interest us.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 340w. |
“Grotesque in its violation of the elementary principles of art and literature.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| — — | Forum. 37: 103. Jl. ‘05. 610w. | |
| + — | Ind. 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 370w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 80w. |
“‘A dark lantern’ at once sustains the writer’s reputation for competent craftsmanship.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 153. My. 12, ‘05. 460w. | |
| — | Nation. 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 660w. |
“It must be called, plainly, a distorted picture. But it is full of sincerity, and has much fine detail. In strength, in originality, in emotional force it is far out of the common.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 360. Je. 3, ‘05. 830w. |
“Is not what is sometimes called a pleasant book, but it has the strength of interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 50w. |
“In the New England sense, it is not a nice story, but the able characterization and the intense plot give it the right to be.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 230w. |
“Miss Robins may see life awry,—the reader clings to the hope that she does,—but she sees it strongly and brilliantly.”
| + — | Reader. 6: 357. Ag. ‘05. 320w. |
Robins, Rev. Henry Ephraim. Ethics of the Christian life; or, The science of right living. [**]$2. Am. Bapt.
“Part. I. deals with the nature of the ethics of the Christian life: the moral agent and the disorder of the moral nature, the remedy for moral disorder. Part. II. discusses the scope of the ethics of the Christian life: all duty rests on the holy will of God, duty to self, duty to society, duty to nature, duty to God. Part. III. considers the method of the ethics of the Christian life.”—Am. J. of Theol.
“Valuable work. The work under review is a contribution to only one tract of that larger field.” C. R. Henderson.
| + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 387. Ap. ‘05. 440w. |
“Grant Dr. Robins’ premises, and you can not escape his conclusions. His is not a twentieth century ethical system.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 136. Ja. 26, ‘05. 190w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 254. F. ‘05. 100w. |
Robinson, Albert Gardner. [Cuba and the intervention.] [**]$1.80. Longmans.
A book which “falls roughly into three divisions: a review of peninsular misrule in Cuba and of the efforts of the Cubans to throw off the Spanish yoke; a survey of the American occupation of the island, with especial attention to the work of reconstruction; and a statement of the conditions prevailing since the Cubans attained self-government. An eye-witness of many of the events he describes, Mr. Robertson writes with vivacity and warmth.... His point of view, however, is primarily and frankly Cuban.”—Outlook.
“The volume covers the various phases of American activity and gives valuable insight into the difficulties of the task confronting the American authorities.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 60w. |
“This is a clear and unbiased account of one of the most interesting incidents in our national history.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 729. Mr. 30, ‘05. 280w. |
“While his volume is in some respects extremely useful—notably ... in assisting to a better appreciation of the Latin-American character—it can scarcely be said to fulfill its main purpose of giving a clear and unbiased account of the methods and results of American intervention.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 260w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 319. S. 2, ‘05. 240w. |
“Mr. Robinson sums up the whole case of the United States and Cuba with admirable impartiality.”
| + + | Spec. 91: 644. Ap. 29, ‘05. 190w. |
Robinson, Charles Mulford. Modern civic art. [**]$3. Putnam.
A consideration of the problem of civic improvement as applied to all cities, their business centres, streets, residences, tenements, parks, and parkways. This second edition is illustrated with numerous half-tones and photogravures presenting architectural arrangements for city squares, water fronts, and other places of decorative importance.
“Though flowery in style on occasion, the author handles his subject both widely and concretely.”
| + | Critic. 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 50w. |
Reviewed by Ralph Clarkson.
| + + | Dial. 39: 15. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1070w. |
“The author’s analysis is exhaustive, and his treatment is as complete and authoritative as our present knowledge of the subject makes possible.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 268. Ap. 6, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 300w. |
“We are glad that a second edition, with the addition of designs, has been published of this valuable volume.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 130w. |
Robinson, E. Kay. Country day by day. [**]$1.75. Holt.
In his garden on the coast of Norfolk, the author has studied bird life and plant life and he gives an account of an English year, the drama which the observant one may see enacted day by day, by the things of feathers and of petals.
“It forms a vade mecum of pleasant information for all the passing hours of the rolling year.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 367. Mr. 25. 570w. | |
| * | + | Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 60w. |
| + | Dial. 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
Reviewed by May Estelle Cook.
| * | + | Dial. 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 210w. |
“As a rule, the author has nothing specially new to tell, and his book may be regarded as a guide to what the observant country resident ought to see and notice, rather than as an exponent of fresh facts.” R. L.
| + + — | Nature. 71: 418. Mr. 2, ‘05. 250w. |
“It is one of the great merits of the book that this appreciation of nature is never allowed to degenerate into sentimentalism.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 140w. |
“This is a delightful record of a year in the country day by day. It is written with a keen sympathy with nature and a true instinct for the beautiful.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 621. Ap. 29, ‘05. 710w. |
[*] Robinson, Edwin Arlington. [Children of the night], [**]$1. Scribner.
“President Roosevelt has praised this book of poems, finding in them ‘an undoubted touch of genius.’ To this fact no doubt is due the reprinting of a little book now eight years old.” (Critic.) “The mood is usually serious, and quite removed from the too sweet and pensive sadness of one who invokes grief as a becoming adjunct to his verse.... The numerous poems of religious feeling are the product of a wholesome faith.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “We do not dispute the President’s dictum; but we suspect that he has not kept ‘au courant’ with the flood of American minor verse. Had he done so, he would think twice before applying the word ‘genius’ to Mr. Robinson, notwithstanding the author’s ‘curious simplicity and good faith.’”
| + | Critic. 47: 584. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “Mr. Robinson’s work has never got half the attention it deserved.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 314. N. 16, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “Is a very pleasant little book. No minor poet of the day is less indebted to poetic conventionalisms than Mr. Robinson, or more securely himself.”
| + | Nation. 81: 507. D. 21, ‘05. 250w. |
[*] “They are nearly always individual, and show little tendency to echo poets of a larger gift which too often is the hall mark of the minor poet.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “There is an undoubted touch of genius in the poems collected in this volume, and a curious simplicity and good faith, all of which qualities differentiate them sharply from ordinary collections of this kind.” T. Roosevelt.
| + + | Outlook. 80: 913. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1270w. |
[*] Robinson, Harry Perry. Black bear. [*]$2. Macmillan.
“The black bear tells the story of his cubhood, his joys and his troubles, his games and adventures with his sister ‘Kahwa.’ Then comes the first terrible experience of his life, a forest fire.... But ‘Kahwa’ escapes the fire only to be taken prisoner by men.... She tries to escape, but is killed in the attempt. Then follows period of loneliness, and in process of time the first great fight and the winning of a wife. All this is told with much spirit, and illustrated by some excellent pictures. One is quite sorry to leave him sitting disconsolately behind the bars of his cage; but then we could not otherwise have had his autobiography.”—Spec.
| * | + | Acad. 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “Mr. Robinson’s bears live on his pages. The reader begins early to feel an active interest in their fortunes and it is maintained to the end.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 404. N. 24, ‘05. 500w. | |
| * | Lond. Times. 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 731. O. 28, ‘05. 310w. | |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 890. D. 16, ‘05. 350w. |
| * | + + | Spec. 95: 692. 4, ‘05. 190w. |
Robinson, Sir John Richard. Fifty years of Fleet street: being the life and recollections of Sir John R. Robinson; comp. and ed. by F. Moy Thomas. [*]$4. Macmillan.
Forty-seven years as manager of the “London daily news” earned for Mr. Robinson, in the words of Mr. John Morley, “the respect and honor of everybody who cares for the tradition of English journalism.” Failing health was doubtless responsible for the failure of his intention to write his autobiography. From the fragmentary diaries, journals, jottings, and impressions, the compiler, Mr. Thomas, has constructed his “Life and recollections.” “Most of the conspicuous persons in the world of politics, literature, art, and music during the past fifty years had been the personal friends and associates of the great journalist.” (N. Y. Times). Among them were: Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Disraeli, Cobden, Mill, Rosebery, Landseer, General Grant, Cyrus Field, “Mark Twain,” Artemus Ward, Bret Harte, Archibald Forbes, Charles Dickens, Lord Coleridge, Charles Kingsley, Arthur Sullivan, Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Sankey, Sarah Bernhardt, Bismarck, Labouchere.
“The text is interesting and at times absorbing. A vein of good nature and social enjoyment is distinctly visible throughout it.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 56. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1190w. |
“A volume of great interest and considerable value. There can be no two opinions of Mr. Thomas’s fitness for the accomplishment of the task he undertook in compiling and editing these recollections, for during a quarter of a century he was a worker with and a close friend of Sir John Robinson. The whole book, though a disappointment to those of us who expected a carefully prepared, witty, instructive volume of memoirs written by the chieftain’s own hand and with proofs corrected and revised by him, is nevertheless one that we have every reason to feel grateful to Mr. Frederick Moy Thomas for having compiled and edited.” Elizabeth Banks.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 49. Ja. 28, ‘05. 2330w. |
Robinson, Rowland Evans. Hunting without a gun, and other papers. $2. Forest & stream.
A posthumous volume of sketches and stories in which the blind writer tells of the joys of the lover of nature, who seeks the creatures of the woods, but does not harm them.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 407. Je. 17, ‘05. 380w. | |
| Outlook. 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w. |
Robinson, Rowland Evans. Out of bondage. $1.25. Houghton.
Seventeen short dialect stories, many of which have already appeared in various magazines, are collected under this title. “Out of bondage” is a story of the “underground” railroad, in which a Quaker family save an escaped negro from his pursuers. A little Quaker maid and her lover, and a revengeful disappointed admirer complicate the plot. “A letter from Hio,” is another idyll of country life, with a simple love motive. “The shag back panther,” a creation of an old Canuck, frightens its inventor from the berry patch. “A story of the old frontier” is an account of an Indian’s gratitude in liberating a woman who had nursed him. Altho the subjects are varied, they all concern men, animals, and country life. The treatment is mainly humorous.
“The very rusticity of his humor increases the verisimilitude of his portrait.”
| + | Nation. 80: 312. Ap. 20, ‘05. 100w. |
“The shrewdness and pointed humor of the different characters are revealed with a keenness and delicacy of touch that show long, personal acquaintance among these people.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 284. Ap. 29, ‘05. 340w. |
“Surprisingly even in their interest and freshness. Mr. Robinson’s stories bring back old Vermont days and show us typical village and country people in all their native ruggedness, kindliness, and neighborly qualities.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 708. Mr. 18. ‘05. 150w. |
Rodd, Sir James Rennell. Sir Walter Raleigh. 75c. Macmillan.
“To Englishmen of to-day,” Sir Walter Raleigh “represents the genesis of British imperialism in the modern sense. To Americans, he stands for that sixteenth-century daring and love of adventure to which the English colonies in the new world owed their existence. The sketch of Raleigh ... is a well written account of a career that was full of dramatic incident.”—R. of Rs.
“Sir Rennell Rodd has a sure grasp of his documents and has used them with much skill.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 483. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w. |
“He has done his best as far as study goes, toward the solution of many mysterious actions on the part of the gallant Englishman. Sir Rennell Rodd’s record of social life during the two decades of the reign of Queen Elizabeth gives a clear insight into actual conditions.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1570w. (Survey of contents.) |
“A study rich in atmosphere. There are times when he assuredly assumes the role of a special pleader. The proportion is not so well maintained as we should desire. But, on the whole, he has acquitted himself well, giving us a book which is at once enjoyable and a creditable addition to a series of which it forms part.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 310w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 80w. |
Rogers, A. W. Introduction to the geology of Cape Colony; with a chapter on the fossil reptiles of the Karroo formation, by R. Broom. [*]$3.50. Longmans.
A handbook which contains results of investigations made public as recently as 1904. There is a geological map and an introduction which connects the geological structure with the scenic features.
“It is a work which will be found of much use to the student of South African geology, since it contains in a compact form a good deal of information to be found otherwise only by reference to numerous scientific journals and official reports.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 504. Ap. 22. 570w. |
“Is sure to remain a standard treatise. Compact and highly attractive handbook.” Grenville A. J. Cole.
| + + + | Nature. 72: 35. My. 11, ‘05. 830w. |
Rogers, Joseph Morgan. Thomas H. Benton. [**]$1.25. Jacobs.
This addition to the “American crises biographies” contains a detailed account of the Missouri statesman, and gives the chief political events from 1820 to the repeal of the Missouri compromise with which his public work ended.
“Rogers did not entirely shake off his editorial habit of popular statement when producing a serious historical work.” W. H. Mace.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 176. O. ‘05. 650w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 80w. |
“The work is careless and superficial.”
| — | Dial. 38: 325. My. 1, ‘05. 340w. |
“Mr. Rogers in this account of Thomas H. Benton has assumed more than properly belongs to the biographer.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 420w. |
“In point of literary quality, a decided advance on his ‘The true Henry Clay.’ While the treatment is, as a rule, open-minded, it is marred at times by invidious and unnecessary comparisons between Benton and his notable contemporaries, and by occasional overstatement to a degree constituting a serious defect.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w. |
“Mr. Rogers has presented an accurate and impressive picture of Thomas H. Benton.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 230w. |
“The author has avoided, rather than sought after, popular effects; his own opinions are held in abeyance, and he sometimes assumes too large a knowledge on the part of his reader.”
| + + — | Reader. 6: 593. O. ‘05. 470w. |
Rogers, Joseph Morgan. The true Henry Clay. [**]$2. Lippincott.
The author’s life-long acquaintance with Clay’s “career and environment,” and his access to the private papers of the great statesman, have put him in touch with the real facts for a biography, which tells “the truth about Clay and his failures and successes.” He is set forth in the light of the true builder for his country,—the “economic development that has compelled the admiration of the world had its beginnings in the policies of internal improvements and tariff protection to which he stood, if not as father, at least as sponsor.... The key to his career, to his failures and successes alike, Mr. Rogers finds in his profoundly emotional nature. ‘While physically and mentally Clay was a strong man, temperamentally he was constituted like a woman.’” (Outlook).
“The loose rambling, repetitious style, running at times even into errors of grammar, informs us at once that we are not to look here for the minor accuracies of scholarship. Nor are all the errors minor. Read as a whole the book produces an admirable impression. This biography detracts no whit, from the value of Schurz’s account of the national activities of Henry Clay, but it will give the general reader a much better idea of the man.” Carl Russell Fish.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 900. Jl. ‘05. 880w. |
“The emphasis is on the personal side. The author is an admirer of Clay, yet he tells the truth about him, not glossing over his defects and frailties or attempting to cover his blunders.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 204. Mr. 16, ‘05. 160w. |
“There is an occasional slip of misstatement ... but on the whole a painstaking care is evident.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 160w. |
“Mr. Rogers is fair-minded in that he does not scruple to lay bare the weaknesses as well as the strength of his hero. Nor has he any race or sectional prejudices to air. Lack of a sense of proportion, a feeble grasp of the subject as a whole, constitute, indeed, his chief faults. The man Clay he sees and comprehends. Of positive errors there are, so far as we have noticed, comparatively few.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 280w. |
“Presenting a work markedly deficient in point of literary quality, gives an account of the great Kentuckian that is vivid, impartial, and philosophic, and that assists us to place him correctly among the founders of the United States of the twentieth century.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 241. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1090w. |
“By all odds, the most entertaining and intimate sketch of Clay that has yet appeared.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 126. Ja. ‘05. 190w. |
Rohlfs, Mrs. Charles. See Green, Anna Katharine.
Rolfe, William James. Satchel guide for the vacation tourist in Europe; a compact itinerary of the British isles, Belgium and Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Italy. [*]$1.50. Houghton.
In this first edition of 1905, the list of hotels has been revised, corrections have been made in routes, fares, etc., and local changes in London and Paris have been noted. Pockets in the covers contain a plan of London and a railway map of the British isles.
[*] Roosevelt, Theodore. Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. [**]$3. Scribner.
“The first three chapters of the President’s book describe hunting trips in Colorado and Oklahoma, after bears, coyotes, cougars, and bobcats. Other chapters some of which are reprinted, with additions, from previous books, deal with other American big game, the wapiti, white-tail and mule deer, antelope, and mountain sheep; chapters are also devoted to wilderness reserves, books on big game, and the outdoor life of the President and his family at their Long Island home.” (Outlook.) The volume is illustrated from photographs by the president himself or by members of his family.
[*] “All lovers of outdoor sport, all admirers of our strenuous President will be delighted with this book.”
| + | Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “This latest volume of his own will take high rank among those for the novelty of the sports it describes as well as for the freshness and spirit of the descriptions. We may say in passing that the President is as good a field-naturalist as a sportsman.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 381. N. 10, ‘05. 830w. |
[*] “To the reader who will approach the book either with a healthy interest in outdoor life or with an idle curiosity to read what a President has written, the work should prove of interest. The book should prove a valued addition to its class.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 1670w. |
[*] “Altogether it is an unusual book, and of interest to every one.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “Each chapter of the book bears testimony to the vigorous, wholesome, straightforward character of its author and to the remarkable thoroughness and zest with which he undertakes the study of any subject in which he is interested.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 610w. |
[*] “Mr. Roosevelt’s literary method in treating of outdoor subjects is well known. It is characterized by a thorough-going purpose to do something more than merely narrate the author’s personal adventures.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 753. D. ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “President Roosevelt’s most sensible remarks on the proper means of preserving game in a democratic country are worthy of all attention, and not less his analysis of the true hunter’s creed, with which every sportsman must agree.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 868. N. 25, ‘05. 430w. |
Root. A. I. A B C of bee culture; rev. by E. R. Root. $1.20. Root.
“A work of high value to all engaged in this fascinating pursuit. It is a cyclopædia in form and arrangement, and is fully illustrated, and the present edition has been so thoroughly revised as to be practically a new book.”—Outlook.
“There is nothing more comprehensive and satisfactory obtainable on this subject.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 50w. |
Rosadi, Giovanni. Trial of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by Emil Reich. [*]$2.50. Dodd.
This work of Rosadi’s has been widely read in Italy and Germany, and now appears in a translation by Emil Reich, who says of it—“Signor Rosadi has approached his problem—apparently a purely legal one—with a warmth of sympathy, with a breadth of philosophical view, with a purity of religious sentiment that have rendered his book not only a noteworthy contribution to the history of Jesus, but a stimulating and (we say it unhesitatingly) an edifying work in the best sense of the word.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 660w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 288. S. ‘05. 120w. |
“Is rich in information of court procedure among Jews and Romans in the days of Pontius Pilate, but the total absence of criticism in the use of the Gospels renders it unsafe as a guide in historical study.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 40w. |
“We doubt ... if the best English and American scholarship will regard Signor Rosadi’s work seriously, and we must admit that the work seems to serve no particularly good purpose.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 1080w. |
“It is a thoroughly scholarly study.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 346. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w. |
“The particular significance of the work is perhaps due to the two facts that it treats the famous trial as a matter of history and gives it its proper legal standing, and also that it portrays the personality of the man Christ in a way that appeals to a class of readers usually indifferent to religious books.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 170w. |
“To English readers it will appear rather too full and rhetorical. We cannot praise the translation of the book. We have rarely seen a book with more misprints.”
| + — — | Sat. R. 99: 638. My. 13, ‘05. 440w. |
“Is throughout deeply interesting.”
| + | Spec. 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 390w. |
Rose, Achilles. Carbonic acid in medicine. $1. Funk.
The healing qualities of carbonic acid gas known centuries ago and used for therapeutical purposes have been re-discovered in modern science. The author has set forth the history and general usefulness of the properties to medical science.
Rose, John Holland. Napoleonic studies. [*]$2.50. Macmillan.
Essays, based principally on materials found while working on the author’s “Life of Napoleon I.,” which are of interest, with a few exceptions, to Napoleonic scholars. These exceptions are found in the chapters, “Wordsworth, Schiller, Fichte, and the Idealist revolt against Napoleon,” “The religious belief of Napoleon,” and “The detention of Napoleon by Great Britain.” The remaining discussions relate to: “Pitt’s plan for the settlement of Europe,” “Egypt during the first British occupation,” “Canning and Denmark in 1807,” “A British agent at Tilsit,” “Napoleon and British commerce,” “Britain’s food supply in the Napoleonic war,” “The Whigs and the French war,” “Austria and the downfall of Napoleon,” and “The Prussian co-operation at Waterloo.”
“While they vary in their temper and treatment as widely as the subjects, yet the author’s personality gives them quite sufficient unity to secure the interest of the reader and the continuity of the subject. Incidentally they clear up several little mysteries of antiquarian interest.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 658. Ap. ‘05. 1270w. |
“Regarding the new essays, they serve to emphasize the value of the research work which Mr. Rose has done in the British archives, and to prove that in spite of the great number of scholarly studies of the Napoleon era, large deposits of unused material still exist.” E. D. Adams.
| + + | Dial. 38: 41. Ja. 16, ‘05. 1520w. |
“Mr. Rose’s essays are marked by the same wealth of information and carefulness of statement which appeared in his book. He does not dogmatize for the sake of amusing his readers by a sharp saying, and inclines to caution whenever he ventures to put forth a generalization.”
| + | Nation. 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 470w. |
Rose, Mrs. Mary. Women of Shakespeare’s family. [*]50c. Lane.
“This book is largely made up of suppositions, as indeed might be expected, so little beyond names and dates is known about Shakespeare’s mother, wife, and daughters ... and it is only fair to say that Miss Rose has been careful to do her best with the few facts that she has to deal with.”—Spec.
| + | Spec. 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 130w. |
Roseboro’, Viola. Players and vagabonds. $1.50. Macmillan.
Nine short stories founded upon real incidents met with in the author’s life upon the stage. Humor and pathos, episode and character, are combined to show the life of the real player folk behind the scenes. The first and longest story, “Where the ways crossed,” is the pathetic tale of Darley, a young Englishman, who found his longed-for chance to play the hero in a burning theatre. “The embroidered robe” is a character sketch of two would-be actors, “Her mother’s success” makes an unworldly mother the centre of a troupe of very worldly actors, “Potent memories” is all pathos, “The clown and the missionary,” all humor, “A bit of biography,” tells the story of a ten year old boy who forsook his adopted home for the stage. “Our Mantua maker,” “A marriage de covenance,” and “A glimpse of an artist,” complete the volume.
“If the reader is not more than entertained, is not touched and softened, then he, or she, is adamant.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 298. F. 25, ‘05. 190w. |
“All of them are human and searching and tender, full of a changeful, charmful quality that fascinates, brightened by brief triumphs, darkened by long poverty and disappointment, warmed by self-forgetful helping of others.”
| + | Reader. 5: 257. Ja. ‘05. 220w. |
“The pathos of her stories rings true and sound, and her all-embracing charity engages the fullest sympathy. These tattered waifs and strays of life, these, ‘players and vagabonds,’ have found one to plead for them whose pleading it would hardly be possible to resist.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 121. Ja. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier. [I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the cross], tr. by Elizabeth Lee. [†]$1.50. McClure.
“A poor German carpenter under sentence of death for an anarchistic crime is supposed to write in his cell and from memory the story of that other carpenter of long ago—who was condemned as a subverter of the established order. Naturally the German carpenter’s own hard experience and his own dreams color his story of the other—naturally his memory plays him false, naturally (he is of a Catholic country) he writes in ideas and incidents from lives of the saints and the like. But it is his merging of his own bitter life into that of the Christ which makes the book real as other stories dealing with this subject are not.” (N. Y. Times.) There are six illustrations in color by Cowin Knapp Simson in the Holy Land.
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “The narrative is a strange and powerful one.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 500w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “The story is told simply and colloquially, but with reserve and dignity.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 1038. D. 23, ‘05. 120w. |
Rosenthal, Herman, tr. See Ganz, Hugo. Land of riddles.
Roses and how to grow them. See Barron, Leonard, ed.
Ross, Edward Alsworth. Foundations of sociology. [*]$1.25. Macmillan.
It is claimed for Professor Ross that he interests especially sociological heresy-hunters; it is also claimed that in this new work this same following will find difficulty in singling out any censurable utterances. It treats of the scope and task of sociology, the sociological frontier of economics, social laws, “mob mind,” the social forces, the factors of social change, recent tendencies in sociology, the causes of race superiority, “The value rank of the American people,” “The properties of group units,” and “The unit of investigation in sociology.”
“This book is, on the whole, devoted to the method, rather than to the content, of knowledge. It does much in the way of clearing the cobwebs out of the sociological skies. It is, however, a general survey rather than a treatise. The present volume can hardly fail to serve, for some time to come, as one of the most effective path-breakers in sociological inquiry.” Albion W. Small.
| + + — | Am. J. Soc. 11: 129. Jl. ‘05. 1400w. |
[*] “No one interested in the development of social theory, or in the understanding of social phenomena can afford to leave it unread.” Carl Kelsey.
| * | + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 759. N. ‘05. 540w. |
[*] “Brilliant but somewhat capricious.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
“Easy to read, brief, comprehensive, and introducing the reader to most of the conceptions of value. The book’s greatest fault is ... that of undervaluing work which is too abstract to meet the conditions of a real practical problem.”
| + + — | Nation. 81:42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 250w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 210w. |
“His style is rather exuberant, but it is picturesque and rapid.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 1410w. |
“The book is of value to the lay reader in that it clarifies not a few of the foggy statements and definitions that have been associated with this newly developed science to its popular detraction. Professor Ross is a clear and forcible writer.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 140w. |
Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross). Old Florence and modern Tuscany. [*]$1.50. Dutton.
The author, who has lived among the Tuscan peasants for over thirty years, has written a series of fifteen papers, eleven of which have already appeared in various magazines. The book opens with the history of the Misericordia, the brotherhood of pity in Florence, then follow chapters upon “A domestic chaplain of the Medici,” “Two Florentine hospitals,” “A September day in the valley of the Arno,” “Popular songs of Tuscany,” “Vintaging in Tuscany,” “Oil-making in Tuscany.” “Virgil and agriculture in Tuscany,” “A stroll in Boccaccio’s country,” “The dove of the holy Saturday,” “San Gimignano della Belle Torre,” “Volterra,” “Mezzeria or land tenure in Tuscany,” and “The jubilee of the crucifix.”
Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.
| + | Dial. 38: 351. My. 16, 05. 760w. | |
| + | Ind. 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 150w. |
“Well deserve being collected into book form on account of their historical research and of their keen observation of actual conditions of peasant life in Tuscany. The most attractive article of all in this volume is on the popular songs of Tuscany.”
| + | Nation. 80: 218. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1150w. |
“Written with a distinct and common inspiration and with undoubted joy in transcription.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 490w. |
“Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Hewlett have been enlightening us as to Tuscany; now comes Mrs. Ross in a smaller volume but with almost equal information, especially as to the Tuscan peasants. While we learn more about modern Tuscany than about old Florence ... Mrs. Ross’s account is noteworthy, although for a more exhaustive treatment one will turn to the volumes by Mr. Gardner, M. Yriarte, and Mrs. Oliphant.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 260w. |
Rosse, Florence James. Philosophy and froth. 50c. Broadway pub.
Almost 200 little epigrammatic sayings, some of which are clever and some of which are not.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 552. Ag. 19, ‘05. 150w. |
Rouse, Adelaide Louise. Letters of Theodora. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
A girl, who has left a position in a New Jersey college and a faithful lover to seek literary honors in unfeeling New York, writes of her struggles to a girl friend. A life of grape-nuts in a hall bedroom does not discourage her and she has many experiences and flirtations which introduce various interesting characters; but in the end she marries the original John.
“Though she really has nothing much to write about, her letters make pleasant reading.”
| + | Acad. 68: 420. Ap. 15, ‘05. 270w. |
“‘The letters of Theodora’ do not constitute a psychological brain-twister, but a light and pleasing romance.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 60w. |
“It must be confessed that Teddy has a vivacious way about her which makes her letters very pleasant reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 287. Ap. 29, ‘05. 630w. |
“A clever entertaining book.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w. |
“May not appeal to a very large public. The public to which it does appeal will be select and worth having.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 210w. |
Rouse, G. H. Old Testament criticism in New Testament light. [*]$1. Union press.
An address given before the Bengali Christian conference of Calcutta has been expanded into this volume which is addressed to the general reader. It presents “modern views” upon subjects included under the chapter headings, Our basis—Christ made no mistakes; Christ’s treatment of the Old Testament; The relation of the Levitical law to the prophetic history and teaching; The Pentateuch; The authorship of Psalm cx.; The historicity, accuracy, and authoritativeness of the Old Testament; The book of Daniel; Prophecy; and Critical methods.
“The higher critics will find in this work much to learn, and much to moderate their views, while the uncritical Christian will find much to deepen his faith and to strengthen his hold on the Old Testament as well as the New Testament.” T. H. L. Leary.
| + + | Acad. 68: 1100. O. 21, ‘05. 710w. | |
| Spec. 95: 56. Ag. 8, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] Routh, James Edward, jr. Fall of Tollan. $1. Badger, R: G.
A dramatic poem in which Quetzal is sent by “the all-father, the high Tonaca,” to rule over Mexican Tollan and become a power for good. The god of darkness, “lest man should be all blessed,” took the form of Lord Tezca who basely seized the throne and “scoffing all but careless, jovial wit and witty joy,” ruled until “hostile tribes flung down the bronze-wrought gates.” Kingdom followed kingdom, while the people dumbly waited for “Quetzal’s hoped return.”
Rowland, Helen. Digressions of Polly. [†]$1.50. Baker.
Polly and her fiancé furnish the airy dialogue of this book. There are twenty-three chapters, each a complete little chat, with its own setting and its own amusing climax; but thru them all Polly, the light-hearted, with her curls, her dimples and her chiffon ruffles, and Jack the resourceful, very human and very much in love, are true to their frivolous parts.
“The result is not equal to the effort.”
| — | Critic. 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 30w. |
“One of the brightest volumes of dialogue of the season.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 260w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“If it is lacking in originality ... the conversations of the fair and frivolous Polly and her fiancé, never dull, are often unusually diverting.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 60w. |
“Her froth and her frills make her very good company, indeed, for others than the agreeable young man who takes her balls and occasionally sends back a very respectable one of his own.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 474. S. ‘05. 250w. |
“She is certainly entertaining, though, perhaps for too many pages.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Rowland, Henry Cottrell. Mountain of fears. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
“There are contained in this volume eight stories of adventure, having a slender thread of connection in that all are narratives by Doctor Leyden of strange experiences in his career as a collector for museums.” (Pub. Opin.) “They deal with strange and exotic regions such as Papua, the Orinoco, Borneo, Curacao, Sulu, the South Sea islands, Hayti, and the Malay peninsula.... Drinking, murder, abduction, fraud, brutality, cowardice—such are the contents of the book.” (Nation.)
[*] “Some of the most unpleasant short stories it was ever the fate of an author to invent. There is no denying that in spite of some exaggeration and tall talk, the stories are exceedingly well told, but why tell them?”
| + — | Nation. 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “The tales are vivid and strange.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “Joseph Conrad would have told the story differently, and doubtless better, but it is doubtful if he could have created a more convincing atmosphere of horror.”
| — + | Pub. Opin. 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 200w. |
Rowland, Henry Cottrell. Wanderers. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
The story of a young Irishman who, fearing that his father’s will has given his yacht to a brother, runs away with the coveted boat. He takes an artist friend with him, and later picks up an American professor’s daughter, with whom both young men fall in love, and her chaperone. After many and varied adventures, which include dueling and piracy, Brian legally acquires both the yacht and the girl.
“The style is simple but adequate, there is plenty of humor, and the book admirably fulfils its purpose.”
| + | Critic. 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w. |
“An unpretending tale, entertaining for an hour or two, agreeable in its main personages, pleasantly written, abundantly varied in its kinds of interest.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“Rollicking, jovial story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 520w. |
“A light, breezy tale of the sea, with less of storm and stress than is common to novels of a marine cast, but sufficiently spiced with adventure to keep the interest alive. Leaving numerous improbabilities out of mind, the book will serve well to while away a couple of hours.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 100w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w. (Outline of plot.) |
“The book will be acceptable to those who wish entertainment without mental effort.”
| + | Reader. 6: 472. S. ‘05. 180w. |
Rowlands, Samuel. [Bride.] [**]$3.50. Goodspeed.
“An interesting reprint.... Save for an entry in the Stationers’ register under date of 1617, this work has hitherto been unknown to bibliography. Last spring a unique copy was purchased from a German bookseller for the library of Harvard university, and this is now reprinted in partial facsimile, with a brief introductory note. The poem ... a conversation between a bride and her attendant maidens concerning the respective advantages of the single and married estates ... is written in Rowlands’ habitual cleanly-turned six-line, stanza.”—Nation.
“Will add little to Rowlands’ fame.”
| + | Acad. 68: 329. Mr. 25. ‘05. 1030w. | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 720w. | |
| Critic. 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 90w. |
“There is nothing in the poem either to add to the poetic treasures of our literature or to furnish any new footnotes to literary history.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 160w. |
Rowntree, B. Seebohm. Betting and gambling: a national evil. [*]$1.60. Macmillan.
“The preliminary chapter is devoted to the Ethics of betting and gambling, and is by John A. Hobson, M. A. It is followed by The extent of gambling, by John Hawke; Stock exchange gambling, by A. J. Wilson; Gambling among women, by J. M. Hogge; Crime and gambling, by Canon Horsley; The deluded sportsman, by a bookmaker; Gambling and citizenship, by J. Ramsey MacDonald; Existing legislation, by John Hawke; and The repression of gambling, by R. Seebohm Rowntree. In the appendix are given some government bills on the subject, opinions of prominent men on betting, a note on pedestrianism, tipping, betting statistics, and a bibliography.”—N. Y. Times.
“We can at all events congratulate Mr. Seebohm Rowntree upon having produced an amusing contribution to the faddist class of literature of the day.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 623. Je. 10, ‘05. 410w. | |
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 505. O. 14, 670w. |
[*] “Mr. Rowntree treats of the evil of betting in the thoro and dispassionate manner he has employed in his other studies.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w. | |
| + | Nation. 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 350w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w. |
“Such a book as this has long been needed. It is the work of specialists for the abatement of a national evil.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 300w. |
“As a study the book is very good reading.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 260w. |
“This volume will be found very valuable as a reference-book.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 504. O. 7, ‘05. 430w. |
[*] Rowson, Susanna Haswell. [Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth]; with an historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.
This “true story of events in New York city during the Revolution,” has seen over one hundred editions, and the present reprint corrects many errors which have crept into the various texts and gives an historical introduction showing that the people concerned in this account of the beautiful and ill-fated Charlotte, who eloped at fifteen with an English army officer and died broken-hearted and deserted some two years later, concerns people well known in their day. The language of the book is quaintly old-fashioned, and the unpleasant truths are plainly treated. The story was originally intended as a warning to young girls.
[*] “Mr. Halsey’s introduction is extremely interesting: a bit of bibliographical work of high order, adding enormously to the literary value of the volume.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 820w. |
Royce, Josiah. Herbert Spencer; an estimate and review; together with a chapter of personal reminiscences by James Collier. [**]$1.25. Fox.
“Exactly one-half this volume is occupied by Professor Royce’s estimate of Spencer.... Having sketched the general history of evolution in bold and strong lines, he reviews the origin and significance of Spencer’s own view of evolution.... The third quarter of the volume is given to a criticism by Professor Royce of Spencer’s educational theories.... The volume is brought to a close by some personal reminiscences of Spencer by Mr. James Collier, who was for nine years his secretary, and for ten his amanuensis.”—Nation.
“[Belongs] to the supplementary order of biographical material.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Atlan. 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 390w. |
“This little volume is one of the best ... contributions to Spenceriana which have been called forth by the publication of Spencer’s Autobiography.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 254. My. ‘05. 570w. |
“A most apt supplement to the ‘Autobiography.’”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 50w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 71. Ja. 26, ‘05. 2180w. |
“Professor Royce has given us a rather dreary picture of the Englishman, Mr. Collier ... gives a more sympathetic account in his personal reminiscences in the latter part of the book.” H. Heath Bawden.
| + + | Philos. R. 14: 361. My. ‘05. 730w. |
“One need hardly ask better help toward a just estimate of the great career so lately closed than is afforded by this little book in which historical, biographical and critical insights are happily blended.” Edward H. Griffin.
| + + + | Psychol. Bull. 2: 205. Je. 15, ‘05. 700w. |
[*] Rudy, Charles. [Cathedrals of northern Spain; their history and their architecture: together with much of interest concerning the bishops, rulers and other personages identified with them.] [**]$2. Page.
The author of this well illustrated volume in the ‘Cathedral series’ “has an unbounded love not only for Spain but for the Spanish people. He sees the cathedrals of the Castillian country with enthusiastic eyes, and he writes as he sees.” (Ind.)
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “The book, as a whole, will hardly appeal to any but the superficial reader.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] Ruskin, John. Complete works. $37.50. Crowell.
Thirty volumes containing besides the usual texts of Ruskin’s works at least two volumes of author’s notes, bibliography and indices not usually found in current editions. The volumes are strongly bound for library purposes, the type is large and clear, and the illustrations for the set include thirty photogravures, 341 half-tones, and 10 color plates, some of which are reproductions of Ruskin’s own sketches, as well as Turner’s. The books are boxed and appear in three styles of bindings.
Ruskin, John. Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton; ed. by C. E. Norton. [**]$4. Houghton.
These letters, covering a period from 1855 to 1887, are edited by Professor Norton himself. They are the intimate letters of a man to his best friend, some, indeed, have been omitted as too intimate for publication, and, beginning where “Praeterita” ended, they form a sequel to it and a valuable addition to Ruskin’s autobiography. The letters describe the changes which took place in Ruskin’s views of art, religion, and life during that period, they show him as a social reformer, and political economist, and give his opinions on American and European politics. His sketches of the people and places that he loved, his inner purposes, his work, and the doubts and perplexities that beset him, reveal the writer to us in a new and more lovable light. There are a number of illustrations.
| + + | Acad. 68: 123. F. 11, ‘05. 1240w. |
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
| Atlan. 95: 425. Mr. ‘05. 590w. |
“The graceful dignity and consummate skill of the comment which accompanies them. Not only are they a continuous record of Ruskin’s intellectual and emotional life from 1856 on, and thus almost completely supplement the unfinished ‘Praeterita,’ but they have the advantage over ‘Praeterita’ in being records contemporary to the fact, and thus not subject to contamination through subsequent changes of mood and of memory. In that of purest friendship, merely as the spontaneous record of his inner as well as his outer life. With just reticence and balance of judgment, Mr. Norton sums up the work of his friend. Ruskin’s comments on his contemporaries are interesting.” G. R. Carpenter.
| + + | Bookm. 20: 455. Ja. ‘05. 1360w. |
“He [Norton] has performed a delicate task with exquisite taste.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
| + + + | Critic. 46: 117. F. ‘05. 950w. | |
| + + + | Ind. 58: 957. Ap. 27, ‘05. 560w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 36. Ja. 12, ‘05. 2430w. |
“Read with an eye single to the revelation of personality, there is hardly a letter here included that does not yield something of value, and the effect of the whole is to give us the conviction that we may now approach closer to the real Ruskin than has hitherto been possible even with the assistance of his ablest interpreters.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 139. Ja. 14, ‘05. 2170w. |
“The letters are indeed revelatory, but, for the most part, they are revelatory of a woeful instability of purpose and of a pitiful misery of mind. Except incidentally and occasionally, they cannot be said to add dignity to the name of the man they characterize.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 497. Mr. ‘05. 710w. |
“Professor Norton was one of Ruskin’s closest friends, and these letters make an excellent biography of the great Englishman.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 150w. |
“Fascinating as these letters are to read, their one subject is Himself, his own troubles, his own work, his own knowledge: from beginning to end it is I.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 407. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1930w. |
Russell, Charles Edward. Twin immortalities, and other poems. [*]$1.50; special ed. [*]$2.50. Hammersmark.
The little ode and several other poems contain an interpretation of music, but in Graubünden and Pigli, which are written according to the classical form of the sonata, music and poetry are most closely allied. The book is dedicated to President Loubet, the foremost democrat of these times, and in such poems as “Adam’s sons” and the “Coronation ode,” the brotherhood of man is set forth.
“That there is much in this volume to interest both the musician and the verse-wright,—perhaps, chiefly, him who stands on the borderland between the two arts, the composer of librettos.”
| + | Critic. 46: 182. F. ‘05. 140w. |
“Rich and varied volume of verse.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 197. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1110w. |
“He has an admirable gift of phrase, which at its best is alive to its finger tips.”
| + | Nation. 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 850w. |
Russell, Constance, Lady. Three generations of fascinating women, and other sketches from family history. [*]$10.50. Longmans.
“A gallery is presented in the volume of beautiful women of the past, and of those in particular who were the leaders in the society of former times.” (N. Y. Times). There are fourteen sketches dealing with Lady Russell’s family history, including the families of Campbell, Gunning, Lenox, Gordon, and Whitworth, besides side-light information concerning contemporaries. There is the Hon. Mary Bellenden, who was “incontestably the most agreeable, the most insinuating, and the most likable woman of her time;” of the second generation, her daughter Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury, a woman of rare charms, who numbered among her friends the statesmen and men of letters of the day; of the third generation, the Hon. Mrs. Damer, who in both London and Paris was a social leader and the center of a host of literary personages.
| Critic. 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 70w. |
“You might call Lady Russell’s book a story of fleeting beauties. Are not so much idealizations as realities.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1260w. (Survey of contents.) |
[*] “This is an admirable literary work now revised and reproduced in a most admirable manner.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w. |
Russell, George William Erskine. [Sydney Smith.] [**]75c. Macmillan.
A volume in the “English men of letters series.” A full treatment of the life and personality of a man celebrated for his wit, but whose more solid qualities as a man of letters, a founder of the Edinburgh Review, a lecturer on moral philosophy, a writer of pamphlets, a politician, and a clergyman, deserve respect. His humor found him a ready audience, and his keen shafts were used to point his morals more effectively.
“Mr. George Russell’s biography is adequate and sympathetic. He has selected his material with discretion, and has let Sydney Smith tell his own story as far as possible. Now and again the biographer permits his own prejudices to intervene, and so strikes a jarring note. The book is a coherent, intelligible account of a great man.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 122. F. 11, ‘05. 1800w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 234. F. 25. 1500w. |
“He seems, in short, pretty thoroughly to have summed up the Sydney Smith question; no more elaborate study of him is likely to be needed.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + + | Atlan. 96: 276. Ag. ‘05. 690w. | |
| Critic. 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 90w. |
“Mr. Russell’s chief merit, then, consists ... in the shrewd and kindly criticism which he bestows upon Sydney Smith’s energy, goodness, wit and occasional foibles.”
| + | Dial. 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 410w. | |
| + | Ind. 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 420w. |
“If there is any fault to be found with Mr. Russell’s book, it is that he does not dwell long enough on the purely social side of Sidney Smith. Mr. Russell’s brief but interesting biography is well indexed, and provides such copious extracts from Sydney Smith’s writings on all possible subjects that it is not a bad substitute for his ‘Works,’ which are not easily accessible to the general reader.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 297. Ap. 13, ‘05. 1200w. |
“If Mr. Morley made a mistake in selecting his subject he has shown his editorial wisdom in his choice of author. No one is better suited to treat of the great Whig wit than such a representative of the great Whig family, the Russells. Having something of a conscience, Mr. Russell does not say much about Smith’s literary qualities and capacities.” Joseph Jacobs.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 145. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1730w. |
“A very readable life of the great English wit by an interesting biographer. Suffers nothing by brevity; for Mr. Russell has succeeded in conveying the personality of Sydney Smith and in making his pages live in the light of that personality.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 200w. |
“A very readable monograph.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 40w. |
“Sydney Smith is essentially of those writers who speak for themselves. The assistance he has received from Mr. Russell is judged to a nicety.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 668. My. 20, ‘05. 1900w. |
“Mr. Russell’s volume makes one of the best jest books we have ever seen, for there is just enough flour of biography to keep the plums of quotation properly apart. If we may hint a fault, it is that in the matter of Smith’s churchmanship Mr. Russell seems to make the worst of what he considers a bad job.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 441. Mr. 25, ‘05. 690w. |
[*] Ryan, Thomas Curran. Finite and infinite. [**]$1.50. Lippincott.
The author says, “My purpose is to consider, first, such evidences of God’s disposition towards the world, as may be found in the history of nature; and, second, as to whether, in the light of science and philosophy, we may conceive Him as other than a Person, having such attributes as are, to human understanding, inseparable from personality.”
[*] “Mr. Ryan seems to have read widely in philosophy, with a result that should caution all readers to read no more than they can digest.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 939. D. 16, ‘05. 240w. |