“A sort of a ‘musical Baedeker.’ ... It has been the author’s aim to make his book equally useful and helpful to concert-goers, for whom it forms a permanent analytical programme, to pianists, and to those amateurs of music who can now, owing to the pianola, pursue for the first time a systematic and co-ordinated study of Chopin’s works.... A brief account is given of each composition.... The volume opens with a brief sketch of Chopin’s life, which is followed by short preliminary chapters on various aspects of his work.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Ingram A. Pyle.
| + + | Dial. 38: 238. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w. |
“An exceptionally valuable book, which every devotee of pianoforte music should have at hand for daily reference.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 290w. |
“It is likely to be a useful compilation for hurried reference.” Richard Aldrich.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 110w. |
Jordan, David Starr. [Guide to the study of fishes.] 2v. [**]$12. Holt.
Dr. Jordan’s work is encyclopedic in its scope, and “treats of the fish from all the varied points of view of the different branches of ichthyology. In general, all the traits of the fish are discussed, those which the fish shares with other animals most briefly, those which relate to the evolution of the group, and the divergence of its various classes and orders most fully. The extinct forms are restored to their place in the series and discussed along with those still extant.” (Dial.)
“The most comprehensive treatise on American ichthyology.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.