“The text is very lucidly written, although at some points too concise for ease in reading. The present testing manual will prove a good study text for those who have not ample opportunity to become acquainted in detail with electrical machines by personal experience.”
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 570w. |
Severy, Melvin Linwood. Mystery of June 13th. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
“Geographically, the plot is hatched in two places,—New Zealand and New Jersey. The main theme is the defrauding of a life insurance company by a man who claims to be his own brother, after having had himself ostensibly murdered, and having had said brother silenced by an awful threat.”—R. of Rs.
[*] “A tissue of preposterous absurdities, and, moreover, an exceedingly badly written book.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “Though overloaded with superfluous details and unnecessary complications, stands out as a ‘detective story’ belonging to the highest class,—after Poe’s.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 32: 763. D. ‘05. 90w. |
Shafer, Sarah Andrew. Beyond chance of change. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
An idyll of childhood for both children and grown-ups. Rachel, the doctor’s little girl, who celebrates her eleventh birthday in the first chapter, is the real heroine, but her brothers and sisters and her village friends, big and little, play important roles in this drama of child days. There is Rachel’s tender conscience, which invariably awakes after the mischief is done and leads to confession and repentance of such dire deeds as stealing a doughnut and knocking the head off the china goat; there is the account of the wooing of Nora by Mike, with Rachel’s assistance; of the barely frustrated plan of the adventurous band who were about to set out for Idaho to find the cave of gold as described in “Idaho Ike; or, The boy billionaire”; and there are stories of a tea-party, a church social, a Fourth of July, and the dramatic pulling of a first tooth.