Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward). Trixy. $1.50. Houghton.
This story, which is a dramatic argument against vivisection, has for its heroine Trixy, a performing French poodle, who, barely escaping death on the dissecting table, confronts the accused physician in court. The human interest centers about this young scientist who loses the affections of the woman he loves, and eventually his own life, by his experiments. A young lawyer, an active defender of little dogs and kittens, wins the hand of the girl who could not trust herself to the vivisectionist.
“Clever artist as she is, we are not prepared to say that she has avoided many an ignominious descent into the pathetic.”
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“We do not propose to consider it as a story, but as a tract, for that is what it is chiefly in the author’s mind. In this case ... we question whether the charity which she gives to beasts does not make her forget the charity due to human beings. But Mrs. Ward goes so far as to make a superstitious use of natural scenery to enforce her warning against vivisection.”
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Ward, H. Marshall. Trees: a handbook of forest botany for the woodlands and the laboratory. 6 vol. ea. [*]$1.50. Macmillan.
The author has prepared this series as a text-book for all who need a guide to their studies. The text is clear and simple and each volume is provided with diagnostic tables devised for use in the field. The series includes, Birds and twigs; Leaves; Flowers and inflorescences: Fruits and seeds; Seedlings; and The habit and conformation of the tree as a whole.
“The book has evidently been compiled with great care. Its value, then, to the student, forester or other, is beyond question.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26, 480w. (Review of v. 3.) |