– Lond. Times. 5: 290. Ag. 24, ’06. 810w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 447. Jl. 14, ’06. 1090w. – – Sat. R. 102: 270. S. 1, ’06. 1460w.
Janssen, Johannes. History of the German people at the close of the middle ages; tr. from the German by A. M. Christie, v. 7–8. *$6.25; v. 9–10, *$6.25. Herder.
Volumes seven and eight cover the period between the years 1550 and 1580, recording such events as the religious conference at Worms in 1557, the Diet of Augsburg in 1559, the Grumbach-Gotha conspiracy for a Lutheran empire, the effects in Germany of the religious wars in France and the Netherlands, the war against the Turks, the establishment and progress of the Jesuits in Germany and the final sessions and general effect of the Council of Trent. Volumes nine and ten “cover the comparatively brief period from 1580, the year of the proclamation of the famous Formula of Concord, to the beginning of the Thirty years’ war—a period that included the Cologne catastrophe, the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the rise and fall of the Calvinist Chancellor Krell. The four convents’ dispute, the regrettable incident of Donauwörth and the great Julich Cleves wrangle.” (Sat. R.)
“As in the previous volumes, Dr. Janssen’s method of treating the events just touched upon is to allow the contemporary documents and records as far as possible to tell their own story in their own words. The system is an excellent one in many ways. It gives a vividness, a reality to the narrative that are invaluable. The author has too little of the dramatic instinct which no great historian has wholly lacked.”
+ + – Sat. R. 102: 834. S. 15, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
Janvier, Margaret Thompson (Margaret Vandegrift, pseud.). Umbrellas to mend. $1.50. Badger.
This fantastic little story is really an airy satire in which King Arthur, in order that he may annex a neighbor kingdom and acquire a sufficient range to fire his birthday cannon, urges the marriage of his daughter to the heir apparent. The princess, however, is a leader in the Current events club and strongminded; she leaves the court and wanders about in disguise for two years accompanied by her aunt. Meanwhile the prince goes in search of her in the guise of an umbrella mender, and in the end the princess accepts the prince but not the kingdom.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 326. My. 19, ’06. 230w.