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Yechton, Barbara, pseud. (Lydia Farrington Krause). Some adventures of Jack and Jill. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
“A pretty story of a group of English children who lived in Santa Cruz, West Indies. Little Jill, the narrator, looks up to her brother Jack with loving admiration. The mischief they get into and the honest way they get out make delightful reading.”—Outlook.
[*] “The story is well told.”
| + | Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 20w. |
[*] “It is a good story for boys and girls, any one in fact.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “Refinement and gentleness characterize this wholesome chronicle of childish thoughts and doings.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 60w. |
Yellow war, by “O.” [**]$1.20. McClure.
Dramatic episodes of the war in the Far East are given here with a touch of imagination which only adds to their reality: we see things as the yellow men must see them. There are scenes of war on sea and land, scenes at the front, and at home, most of which tell of the systematic subordination and sacrifice of the individual to the system.
“It is a book which gives an excellent idea of the actors in the war.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 172. F. 25, ‘05. 320w. |
“There is much idealization rather than a precise report, and the result is an impression even more veritable than the others have been able to convey, notwithstanding a certain sense of the fiction that is truer than mere fact.” Wallace Rice.
| + + | Dial. 38: 417. Je. 16, ‘05. 890w. |
“On its face a collection of detached recitals, many of them thrilling, but not incredible, this volume, when carefully read, reveals more than tales of adventure. The anonymous writer is clearly distrustful and unsympathetic, but he tries to be impartial.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 204. S. 7, ‘05. 1480w. |
“On the whole, it is a book of blood-stirring reading—a sort of prose glory song of the wonderful little yellow man.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 550w. |
“Remarkable for their vividness and intensity.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 280w. |
“It is quite likely that this fiction is a truer picture in spirit of the Japanese than much of the fact we have been fed on.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 360w. |
“It is a word panorama of its great battles and sieges by one who has studied the characters of the men of the two nations engaged in it. The style of this narrative is highly direct and intense, full of life and color.”
| + + + | Reader. 6: 597. O. ‘05. 180w. |
“The merely literary merits of his book are great. Most of the book can only be described as lurid; and yet the author writes simply, is never rhetorical, and clearly labours to be temperate and exact. The book is not impartial, sometimes it is palpably unfair, and now and then it is impossibly fantastic. But at its best it comes nearer a kind of genius than any war correspondence we remember.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 405. Mr. 18, ‘05. 800w. |
Young, Egerton Ryerson. Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.
Hector grows very human to the animal lover as with a high degree of intelligence he records his dog thoughts and narrates his Northland adventures. Particularly interesting is the author’s suggestion that the devotion and loyalty which a dog renders his master must be preserved as a part of all good in the final reckoning.
[*] “Knows his subject and its surroundings thoroughly.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “He has written some excellent descriptions of sledge-trips and other characteristic experiences of that frozen country, but his book, as a whole, is marred by a touch of sentimentality and a tendency to point a moral.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “There is plenty of adventure and danger, animal jealousy and human love. The book is pleasant—fascinating indeed—and morally healthy.”
| + | Spec. 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ‘05. 60w. |
Young, Janet, comp. Psychological yearbook. [**]$1. Elder.
Quotations showing the laws, the ways, the means, the methods, for gaining lasting health, happiness, peace and prosperity.
Young, Jeremiah Simeon. Political and constitutional study of the Cumberland road. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The introductory chapters on the early transportation difficulties and the first roads to the West are a most convenient summary of that interesting problem in our early economic history. The two following chapters on the genesis of the Cumberland road, its location, construction and administration, will be welcomed by everyone who has had to lecture on the subject. The long constitutional controversy is clearly outlined, taking up the question of eminent domain, jurisdiction, Monroe’s veto, and the final surrender of the road to the states through which the road passed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The treatment is in the main historical. The style of the author is both good and bad. It is clear, but marred by numerous repetitions of lines and even paragraphs, giving us the impression that the chapters were written at widely separated times. There is, moreover, an unfortunate failure of correspondence at times between the text and citations. The book is a very readable and logical discussion of a most interesting subject. It is marred, however, by certain faults of style and inaccuracies in details.” Alonzo H. Tuttle.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 696. Ap. ‘05. 330w. |
“This is an admirable little monograph, a source study of a constitutional question of great historical significance. The monographic study will greatly aid the general historian in getting a sure grasp of the main questions involved.”
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 346. Mr. ‘05. 130w. |
Younghusband, Francis Edward. Heart of a continent. [*]$2. Scribner.
This narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, thru the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Hunza, 1884-1894, was issued several years ago, and is now republished in cheaper form, owing to the renewed interest which recent events have awakened in both Colonel Younghusband and the entire region traversed. At the time of this expedition Manchuria was practically a closed country, Russia had not thought of occupying it, and the account is one of thoro pioneer explorations, of interesting experiences and observations on the people and the general conditions. There are half a dozen illustrations.
“For full details of their remarkable journey, Mr. James’s book must be consulted; but the brief account of it given by Col. Younghusband is sufficiently full for ordinary purposes, and is replete with both interesting and valuable information.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 157. F. 23, ‘05. 1960w. |
Ystridde, G. Three dukes. [**]$1.20. Putnam.
“A story portraying life among the upper classes of Russia. A pretty English girl accepts the position as a governess to two grown daughters of an eccentric Russian nobleman. The mother is very anxious to get her daughters married. Three dukes are attracted by the beauty of the governess and the fancied dowries of her pupils, but the path of love is very rugged.”—Bookm.
“Nowhere is there a glimpse of the author’s self, the book is as free from personal feeling and bias as a police report. She records what she has seen and heard, and her photographs of scenes and people bear the stamp of truth and individuality.”
| — | Acad. 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 230w. |
“A vivacious and readable picture of Russian life, containing a good many sharply drawn characters who sound as if they had human prototypes.”
| + | Critic. 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 50w. |
“The genuineness of the local coloring is undeniable, and the deft manipulation of both characters and incident shows unusual talent. The book has a charm. The interest is kept up throughout.” W. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 38: 125. F. 16. ‘05. 210w. |
“To an English speaking, American thinking reader much of it seems futile and much else of it dull. Similarly all of it seems to lack that sense of humor which is nothing more or less than a sense of proportion.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 20. Ja. 14, ‘05. 400w. |