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                                  THE
                           BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
                          [ANNUAL CUMULATION]
                               VOLUME II
                  BOOK REVIEWS OF 1906 IN ONE ALPHABET

                      DESCRIPTIVE NOTES WRITTEN BY
                         JUSTINA LEAVITT WILSON

                          DIGEST OF REVIEWS BY
                        CLARA ELIZABETH FANNING

                              MINNEAPOLIS
                        THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
                                  1906

                                CONTENTS

 Preface
 Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
 Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
    Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines
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   D
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   G
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                                PREFACE.

This volume is the second annual cumulation of the Book Review Digest.
In the main it includes the books of 1906 that have been commented upon
by the best critics. It aims, on the one hand, to record truthfully the
scope, character and subject content of books as they appear, and, on
the other, to supplement this descriptive information from month to
month with excerpts culled from the best current criticism appearing in
forty-five English and American magazines which make a prominent feature
of book reviews, thus furnishing to the librarian and bookseller a basis
for the evaluation of books.

Frequently the best reviews of a book appear during the year following
its publication, so in this volume will be found supplementary excerpts
relating to books which were entered in the 1905 annual.

It will also be observed that a number of entries include only the
descriptive note. These titles look to the year 1907 to furnish the
material for appraisal, and excerpts will be published in current
numbers of the Digest as fast as reviews appear.

                                                            THE EDITORS.

During the first year of the Cumulative Book Review Digest’s existence
the question of its being entered as second class matter was pending. It
was finally ruled out on account of the cumulative idea. So the second
year a new name and a new plan which would meet the postal requirements
cut off the recognition of the first volume, and the Book Review Digest
was launched as volume one. Now that the post office ruling has been
reversed, the present volume may take its place chronologically as
volume two of our series.

                                                         THE PUBLISHERS.

          Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made

 Acad.—Academy. $4. Southampton St., Strand, London, W. C.
 Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
 Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $2. University of Chicago
    Press, Chicago, Ill.
 Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago
    Press, Chicago, Ill.
 Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
    Science. $6. Philadelphia.
 Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Trenton, N. J.
 Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press,
    Chicago, Ill.
 Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C., London.
 Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St.,
    Boston, Mass.
 Bib World.—Biblical World. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
 Bookm.—Bookman. $2. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave., N. Y.
 Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $5. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
 Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.
 Critic—Merged into Putnam’s on October 1, 1906.
 Dial.—Dial. $2. Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.
 Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia
    University, N. Y.
 El. School T.—Elementary School Teacher. $1.50. University of Chicago
    Press, Chicago.
 Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green, and Co.,
    39 Paternoster Row, London, E. C.
 Engin. N.—Engineering News. $5. 220 Broadway, New York.
 Forum.—Forum, $2. Forum Publishing Co., 123 E. 23d St., N. Y.
 Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $3. Williams & Norgate, London.
 Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
 Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics. $2.50. 1415 Locust
    St., Philadelphia.
 Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 67 5th Av., N. Y.
 J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
 J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods.
    $3. Science Press, Lancaster, Pa.
 J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago
    Press, Chicago, Ill.
 Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $3. 44–60 East 23d Street, New York.
 Lond. Times.—London Times (literary supplement to weekly edition),
    London, England.
 Mod. Philol.—Modern Philology. $3. University of Chicago Press,
    Chicago, Ill.
 Nation.—Nation. $3. P. O. Box 794, New York.
 Nature.—Nature. $6.25. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
 N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review, New York.
 Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
 Philos. R.—Philosophical Review. $3. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
 Phys. R.—Physical Review. $5. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
 Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon
    St., Boston.
 Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. $2. 41 North Queen St.,
    Lancaster, Pa.
 Pub. Opin.—Public Opinion. Merged July 7, 1906 with the Literary
    Digest.
 Putnam’s—Putnam’s Monthly and the Critic. $3. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 27 &
    29 W. 23rd St., New York.
 Reader.—Reader Magazine. $3. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
 R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $2.50. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor
    Place, New York.
 Sat. R.—Saturday Review. $7.50. 33 Southampton St., Strand, London.
 School R.—School Review. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
    Ill.
 Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $5. Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y.
 Spec.—Spectator. $7.50. 1 Wellington St., Strand, London.
 Yale R.—Yale Review. $3. New Haven, Conn.

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:

  =Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names= will be found in the Publishers’
    Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.

  =An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates= those books sold at a
    limited discount and commonly known as net books. Books subject to
    the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a
    double asterisk (**) when the bookseller is required to maintain the
    list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed at 20
    and 10 per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.

  =The plus and minus signs= preceding the names of the magazines
    indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire review.

  =In the reference to a magazine=, the first number refers to the
    volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.

  =No book previously noticed= has its descriptive note reprinted. Books
    noticed for the first time this month have descriptive note which is
    set off from excerpts by a dash.

The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading reviews
of the English-speaking world. Few libraries are able to subscribe for
all and the smaller libraries are supplied with comparatively few of the
periodicals from which the digests are to be culled. For this reason the
digest will be of greater value to the small libraries, since it places
at their disposal, in most convenient form, a vast amount of valuable
information about books, which would not otherwise be available.

We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and
the digests so full and accurate, that librarians who do not have access
to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at substantially
correct appreciations of the value of the books reviewed.

This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which
are practically out of the reach of the ordinary library; we shall
endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there will
be little occasion to refer to the original publications.

                           Book Review Digest
             Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
    Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines

                                   A

=Abbot, Henry L.= Problems of the Panama canal. $1.50. Macmillan.

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.

=Abbott, G. F.= Through India with the prince. *$3.50. Longmans.

  As special correspondent for the Calcutta Statesman, Mr. Abbott
  accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales on their recent tour
  thru’ India. The author gives the route of the royal party making the
  description interesting with receptions and fêtes; he records
  observations socially and politically; he “touches on every imaginable
  topic that India offers to a writer.” (Dial.) “Disposed to be
  epigrammatic, sarcastic, and ironical, in epigram he is sometimes
  betrayed into excess.” (Lond. Times.)

  “The style is, as the French say, ‘tortured,’ or, in other words,
  there is some straining after effect. We are, nevertheless, able to
  commend Mr. Abbott’s volume: and his photographs are among the best of
  the many good Indian photographs we have seen.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 478. Ap. 21. 810w.

  “The want of descriptive power and the too pronounced personal note
  are the two blemishes that detract from the main value of the book,
  which is found in the writer’s comments and observations on the
  political status of India.” H. E. Coblentz.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 362. Je. 1, ’06. 580w.

  “Mr. Abbott made lively use of his exceptional opportunities and shows
  himself to be a man of, at any rate, independent judgment.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 870w.

  “He has not written daily newspaper ‘stories,’ but a book that will
  quite probably endure.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 160w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.

  “He had opportunities of seeing pageants, and we allow that he has a
  gift for describing them. But where is his call to deal with the
  ‘serious problems of British rule?’”

      – =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 250w.

=Abbott, Lyman.= Christian ministry. **$1.50. Houghton.

  “The book is a valuable one for the modern ministry. It is full of
  reality, of suggestion, and of inspiration.” J. M. English.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 384. Ap. ’06. 830w.

  “The book is characterized by keen analysis, comprehensive thought,
  practical interest, and by vigorous and clean-cut expression.” E. A.
  Hanley.

    + + =Bib. World.= 27: 394. My. ’06. 350w.

    + – =Cath. World.= 82: 556. Ja. ’06. 210w.

=Acton, Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st baron.= Lord Acton
and his circle; ed. by Abbot [Francis Aidan] Gasquet. *$4.50. Longmans.

  The letters of Lord Acton render a direct service in throwing light on
  a personality little known and little understood. “With the exception
  of a few letters written to Mr. Wetherell, all those here published
  were addressed to Richard Simpson, one of the most brilliant though
  least famous of the Oxford converts to Rome, and they are all
  concerned with the conduct of ‘The rambler,’ ‘The home and foreign
  review,’ and the other periodicals which occupied the energetic youth
  of Acton.... We see in the letters how thoroughly Acton was imbued
  with the principle of growth in religious thought.... We get a series
  of interesting glances into European and Papal politics before either
  Bismarck had won his laurels or the Pope had lost his crown.” (Ath.)

  “It may be said of the letters as a whole that they will possess most
  importance to the liberal section of English Catholics, for whom,
  indeed, the book seems to have been written.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 301. S. 29, ’06. 1530w.

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 472. O. 20. 1510w.

  “On the whole the picture of Lord Acton as it appears in this volume
  is a very favorable one.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 84: 401. D. ’06. 1560w.

  “Attractively edited.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “The letters contained in the present volume are of surpassing
  interest.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 3. O. 13, ’06. 1310w.

  “The editor has done his work of annotating the letters and explaining
  the allusions admirably; and it could not have been an easy task.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 621. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.

=Adams, Andy.= Cattle brands. †$1.50. Houghton.

  Life on the frontier in the eighties is vividly portrayed in the
  fourteen stories which Mr. Adams, “a veteran cowboy,” has included in
  this volume. These are tales “of the desperado; of man-to-man
  difficulties; of queer characters; the adventures of the cowboy in the
  field of politics, the capture of outlaws by rangers; and the ransom
  of rich rancheros who have been kidnapped.” Some titles are: Drifting
  North, Bad Medicine, A winter round-up, A college vagabond, The double
  trail, Rangering, and The story of a poker steer.

  “These stories are somewhat slight in texture, more suited to the
  ephemeral needs of a magazine than a bound volume, but they have a
  ring of sincerity about them and an insight into essentials.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 577. Je. 16, ’06. 280w.

  “To many people they will seem more enjoyable than the longer stories
  by Mr. Adams. Their merit lies wholly in the obvious truth to life of
  the scenes.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “The new book will seem to most readers too much like an echo of ‘The
  log of a cowboy’ to allow of its producing the same effect of
  sincerity.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 570w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    – + =North American.= 183: 120. Jl. ’06. 200w.

=Adams, Frederick Upham.= Bottom of the well. †$1.50. Dillingham.

  The capture of a smuggling craft by a revenue cutter off the Jamaica
  coast brings into view the hero of Mr. Adams’ story, a lad of twelve,
  the charge of the smugglers. Once separated from them, he is adopted
  and educated by a titled Englishman. From England the scene shifts to
  New York where young Stanley Deane espouses the cause of some much
  abused strikers whose plans brew within the four walls of the “Well.”
  He is convicted of murder, but cleared of the charge when the supposed
  victim dramatically appears and reads a serious lecture to the
  supporters of a police system that “makes justice a market place for
  the employment of incompetence and the enriching of pettifoggers.”

=Adams, Samuel.= Writings of Samuel Adams; ed. by H. A. Cushing. *$5.
Putnam.

  “In one respect this volume is superior to the first. It indicates
  with care the reason for attributing newspaper letters and other
  papers to Adams. Little more if anything can be demanded. The notes
  are numerous and helpful.” A. C. McLaughlin.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 910. Jl. ’06. 1010w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Mr. Cushing has followed Wells too closely, and has not made such a
  careful, critical study of the contributions to journals as to give
  his decision the requisite weight.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 55. Jl. 19, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Adams, Thomas Sewall, and Sumner, Helen L.= Labor problems: a text
book; ed. by Prof. R. T. Ely. *$1.60. Macmillan.

  “The ground covered has not been well covered in any other text book.
  The scope of this book is unusually broad.” John Cummings.

    + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 396. Je. ’06. 1360w.

=Addison, Mrs. Julia de Wolf.= Art of the National gallery: a critical
survey of the schools and painters as represented in the British
collection. **$2. Page.

  “Will be likely to hold its own for several generations.”

  + + + =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.

  “Is brightly and sympathetically written.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 372. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “Is for a person visiting the gallery who has a fair general knowledge
  of art, one who would like to be guided by impressionistic criticism
  rather than by accepted scientific connoisseurship.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 300w.

    + – =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.

=Adler, Elkan Nathan.= About Hebrew manuscripts. *$2.50. Oxford.

  Nine detached pieces compose this group: Some missing chapters of Ben
  Sira; An ancient bookseller’s catalogue; Professor Blau on the Bible
  as a book; A letter of Menasseh Ben Israel; Jewish literature and the
  diaspora; The humours of Hebrew mss.; The romance of Hebrew printing:
  and Zur jüdisch-persischen litteratur, by Prof. Bacher.

  “Much of his work is, of course, tentative: but he at the same time
  provides very useful material for further study.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 666. Je. 2. 230w.

  “To the true book worm, to the man who loves ‘erudition’ for its own
  sake without looking very deep for the substantial contents of rare
  prints or manuscripts, this work will be welcome.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 21. Ja. 4, ’06. 580w.

=Adler, Felix.= Essentials of spirituality. **$1. Pott.

  “In fact Dr. Adler does not mean quite what he says. His theory
  followed logically would lead us all into a moral Nirvana.” Edward
  Fuller.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 214. Mr. ’06. 170w.

  “Four popular addresses which are very readable and elevating in
  tone.” E. L. Norton.

    + + =J. Philos.= 3: 413. Jl. 19, ’06. 1600w.

=Adler, Felix.= Religion of duty. **$1.20. McClure.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

        =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 130w.

=Aflalo, Moussa.= Truth about Morocco; an indictment of the British
foreign office; with introd. by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. *$2. Lane.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 41. Ja. 20, ’06. 90w.

=Agnus, Orme, pseud. (John C. Higginbotham).= Sarah Tuldon. [+]75c.
Little.

  A popular edition of a 1904 book. Sarah Tuldon, an English peasant
  girl, is the type of heroine which one expects to find in historical
  novels, but her spirit, energy, good commonsense and generosity are
  directed towards leavening sordid conditions among the laboring
  classes. She is self-reared from most unpromising surroundings, and
  thru never-wearying perseverance reaches a position of self-command
  and generalship in her community.

  “Its greatest claim to importance lies in the artistic and sympathetic
  treatment the author has given the subject.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 326. My. 19, ’06. 150w.

=Ainger, Alfred.= Lectures and essays. 2v. *$5. Macmillan.

  Canon Ainger, “of blessed memory, never forgot in the pulpit that he
  was a man of letters, or out of it that he was a clergyman.” In these
  volumes, he “ranges over a wide field, from Chaucer to Tennyson,
  giving five lectures and two essays to Shakespeare, and writing also
  of Swift, Cowper, Burns, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Charles Lamb,
  Dickens, of children’s books, of actors, modern plays, conversation,
  of wit, and of euphuism.” (Spec.)

  “The saving grace in Canon Ainger was his appreciation of perfect
  language. In his critical estimates we think he very often wandered
  wide.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1220. N. 25, ’05. 1250w.

  “Had the Royal institution lectures been omitted, our judgment might
  have been much more favourable.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 289. Mr. 10. 2180w.

  “That the author has found the secret of charm in literature no one
  who is familiar with his genial and sympathetic work on Lamb needs to
  be reminded.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 100w.

  “The two volumes are likely to find contented readers best among those
  who look for a discussion of style and obvious quality rather than
  verbal felicities and critical niceties.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 350w.

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 415. D. 1, ’05. 1010w.

  “The two volumes will not take rank as permanent additions to the
  literature of the English essay, but they form most agreeable
  reading.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 210w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 80w.

  “Sanity and sympathy is the keynote of these essays.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 781. D. 16, ’05. 1570w

  “It is, indeed, no small merit in a writer when he expresses his most
  subtle thought with the lucidity, ease, and completeness that are to
  be found here.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 118. Ja. 27, ’06. 1570w.

=Alden, Raymond MacDonald.= Knights of the silver shield; with il. by
Katharine H. Greenland. †$1.25. Bobbs.

  Out of such ingredients as castles, knights, giants, palaces and
  fairies, the author has fashioned a story for little people abounding
  in good deeds and true.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

=Aldin, Cecil Charles Windsor.= Gay dog; pictured by Cecil Aldin.
†$1.50. Dutton.

  Mr. Aldin’s “gay dog” is a bull terrier owned by an actress. And the
  creature is as veritable a bit of canine irresponsibility and
  pomposity as one could imagine. He indulges in the fun-loving,
  care-free pursuits of his mistress, gets into scrapes, and is finally
  sent into the country to recuperate. His dog-philosophy is this: “Some
  dogs are too readily imposed upon—not I.”

  “No display of cleverness quite compensates for unsuitability in
  choice of subject-matter.”

      – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 30w.

  “The text is poor, but Mr. Aldin’s drawings have some spirit.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ’05. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 870. D. 9, ’05. 150w.

  “This year of a dog’s life is very amusing.”

      + =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ’05. 50w.

=Aldington, Mrs. A. E.= Love letters that caused a divorce. [+]75c.
Dillingham.

  The title is quite self-explanatory of the contents of the book. A
  series of letters which at first intend no harm, grow to the
  proportion of Platonic missives, and later become the unlicensed
  love-letters that cause a separation.

=Aldis, Janet.= Madame Geoffrin, her salon and her times. **$2.75.
Putnam.

  From the journals and letters of friends have been gathered the
  interesting phases of a unique salonist’s life. Madame Geoffrin was “a
  homely bourgeoise without rank and connections,” yet able to draw
  about her kings and princes, dukes and maréchals, in short, the
  literary, artistic and social lights of all Europe. Aside from being
  simply a diversion, the book sets forth much economic and social
  history of the latter half of the eighteenth century.

  “The central story is well enough told, though in rather a rambling
  manner.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 282. Mr. 24, ’06. 670w.

  “The scraps of information of which it is made up are of exactly the
  right kind. We cannot commend the style of the book, which is
  unpleasantly jerky.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 71. Ja. 20. 1340w.

  “A most interesting volume.”

    + + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ’05. 100w.

  “It is an extremely vivacious and interesting throng of men and women
  that pass before us in the pages. The author is an amiable and
  communicative cicerone.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 236. Ap. 1, ’06. 510w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 40. Jl. 5, ’06. 660w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 45. F. 9, ’06. 1060w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 270w.

  “The volume is remarkably crisp and concise in its treatment of
  material which in many hands would have remained an incoherent medley,
  and, what is of prime importance in a work of this kind, its clever
  and sprightly pages slacken to no dull word.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 30. Ja. 20, ’06. 1250w.

  “It is bright, easy, extremely anecdotal, and studded with
  word-miniatures of the notables of the day.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 210w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.

  “An interesting and readable book.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 303. F. 24. ’06. 1820w.

=Aldrich, Richard.= Guide to The ring of the Nibelung. $1.25. Ditson.

  “The book furnishes a very helpful aid to the study of Wagner’s great
  tetralogy.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 97. F. 1, ’06. 40w.

  “An analysis which in completeness and usefulness surpasses those of
  his predecessors.”

    + + =Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 60w.

  “Particularly useful to students is the second part of this little
  book.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.

  “For general use this guide is most convenient.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 90w.

=Alexander, De Alva Stanwood.= Political history of the state of New
York. 2v. ea. *$2.50. Holt.

  Volume 1, (1774–1832) follows the movements of political parties in
  New York from 1777, when the state constitution was drawn up, to 1832
  and the formation of the Whig party. Volume 2, (1833–1861) takes up
  the story and carries it down thru the formation of the republican
  party in 1854, to the crippling of the Weed machine in 1861. The
  causes of fractional divisions during these years are carefully
  traced, and the subtle methods by which such men as George Clinton,
  Hamilton, Burr, De Witt Clinton, Van Buren, Seymour and Thurlow Weed
  achieved leadership and in succession ordered the political course of
  the Empire state receive detailed analyses.

  “These volumes will have small value for the special student of New
  York politics, but they are capable of rendering a real service to the
  general reader until the time when a more thorough and comprehensive
  study of this subject shall appear.”

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 152. O. ’06. 960w.

  “In this limited field Mr. Alexander writes with vigor, and shows
  generally a sound judgment which partly atones for his tendency to
  hero-worship and his lack of research.” Theodore Clarke Smith.

  + + – =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 120w.

  “The author has contrived so well to adorn the necessary political
  facts with items in personal biography, that the chronicle rises to a
  place somewhere in the domain of masterpieces.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 280w.

  “What Mr. Alexander has done is to give an interesting, although,
  perhaps, a too uncritical account of political leaders and events in a
  field of American history that was practically unoccupied. To the
  reader, who has hitherto found it impossible to get anything like a
  general idea of early New York politics in a single work, the volumes
  should prove a boon.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 351. O. 25, ’06. 1090w.

  “Mr. Alexander is very successful in conducting the reader through the
  mazes of New York politics.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 540. S. 1, ’06. 230w.

  “In the main, Mr. Alexander has succeeded well in presenting the
  personalities that have figured conspicuously in New York’s history.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 220w.

=Alexander, Eleanor.= Lady of the well. †$1.50. Longmans.

  “This novel is a romantic story of Guelf and Ghibelline, of troubadour
  and queen of beauty. The Emperor Frederick II., grandson of
  Barbarossa, is the central figure, and the troubadour, Bernart, is
  very properly the hero. There is a great deal of real romance in the
  book, and the clash of arms and perilous adventures which occur in it
  are very much more lifelike than is usual in works of this
  kind.”—Spec.

  “It is a pretty story, gracefully written, as such a story should be;
  but a little nebulous, as is the troubadour himself.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 503. My. 26, ’06. 180w.

  “Miss Alexander writes with distinction, and her book may be
  recommended as a quiet and artistic piece of work.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 300w.

  “Just the proper amount of realism and humor to make a pretty and
  fairly plausible tale.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 273. Ap. 28, ’06. 420w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.

  “A picturesque piece of work in many ways, but the style is stiff and
  affected and at times careless and slipshod.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.

  “The beginning of the story certainly drags a little. The book is
  altogether an extremely successful attempt to portray an exceedingly
  difficult subject, and we may congratulate the author on the mediaevel
  atmosphere which she has contrived to impart into her story.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.

=Alexander, Grace.= Judith. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  Camden, Ohio, in the days of the Omnibus bill furnishes the setting
  for this romance. The principal actors in the little drama, which is
  barely saved from being a tragedy, are the following: Stephen Waters,
  a stalwart young minister; Judith La Monde who is to be sacrificed
  matrimonially to atone for her mother’s wrong done to the fiancé’s
  father; Abel Troop, the colorless but altogether good youth, for whom
  Judith is making her sacrifice; and a group of town’s people who lend
  a social and political atmosphere to the story. Judith’s battle
  between conscience and heart’s desire is waged valiantly and her
  patience has its reward.

  “The story shows painstaking effort and some skill in handling, but it
  lacks the subtle power and imaginative grasp that mark a novel of the
  first rank.”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 200w.

  “A volume that is not devoid of merit.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 230w.

  “Some of the scenes are well done, and the characters stand out with a
  good degree of boldness.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 100w.

  Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 140w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 229. Ap. 7, ’06. 620w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.

=Alexander, Hartley Burr.= Poetry and the individual: an analysis of the
imaginative life in relation to the creative spirit in man and nature.
**$1.50. Putnam.

  “If it be necessary to analyze the reason for the expression of
  thought in poetry, then Dr. Alexander has done a useful thing. If not,
  he has at least done an interesting thing, in tracing from a
  philosophical standpoint the evolution of poetry since its earliest
  manifestation.” (Pub. Opin.) The question is dealt with under the
  general subjects: Impulse and song, Evolution of poetic spirit, The
  worth of life. The universal and the individual, The imagination,
  Aesthetic expression, Beauty and personality, and Nature and poetic
  mood.

  “His style impresses me as surprisingly inconsistent. It is both
  brilliant and stilted, fluent and awkward. The book is admirable for
  its sympathetic and sure apprehension of the present age (its
  individualism, introspection and courageous faith) and for a
  captivating string of poetry and eloquence which pervades the whole.”
  Ralph Barton Perry.

  + + – =J. Philos.= 3: 439. Ag. 2, ’06. 1740w.

  “Doubtless many will question the validity of his logical process at
  various points, and a still larger number will find it extremely
  difficult to read his pages with confident grasp of his meaning, for
  it is not the habit of the day to carry such discussions quite as far
  beneath the surface as he has presumed to go.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 537. Je. 28, ’06. 1010w.

  “It is a well-ordered and well-reasoned treatment.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 381. Je. 16, ’06. 1090w.

  “The book is not unusual at all, but shows care in its preparation,
  and somewhat more interesting than this, an actual love for the
  subject.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 90w.

=Alexander, J. H.= Elementary electrical engineering in theory and
practice. $2. Van Nostrand.

  A class book for junior and senior students and working electricians.
  The volume is fully illustrated.

  “It is difficult to find much in this book to recommend.”

      – =Nature.= 74: 488. S. 13, ’06. 180w.

=Alexander, Lucia.= Libro d’oro of those whose names are written in the
Lamb’s book of life; tr. from the Italian by Mrs. Francis Alexander.
*$2. Little.

  “Her translation is in excellent English, and reads like an original;
  she has given us an altogether delightful book.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 436. My. 5, ’06. 540w.

  “Mrs. Alexander ... has discharged the translator’s task very
  faithfully and gracefully.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 832. Mr. ’06. 280w.

        =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 30w.

  “As a whole, the book will undoubtedly appeal to a limited and
  definite class of readers, but the legends are picturesque enough to
  make a casual dipping into the treasures of the book decidedly
  pleasurable. The English rendering of the text is simple and
  graceful.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 200w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 105. F. 17, ’06. 160w.

=Alexander, William.= Life insurance company. **$1.50. Appleton.

  “It is, indeed a ‘primer’ with all a primer’s defects and merits; a
  text of so great skill in presentation that it may be trusted pretty
  nearly to teach itself; of surpassing snap and go; of perfect mastery
  in technique of exposition; of consistent actuality and concreteness
  of method: of interest almost rivaling a storybook.” H. J. Davenport.

  + + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 126. F. ’06. 90w.

=Alger, George William.= Moral overstrain. **$1. Houghton.

  “Eight essays dealing with the moral aspects of modern business and
  law.... The writer ... who is a New York lawyer, discusses ‘graft’,
  the influence of corporate wealth, the irresponsible use of money, and
  the man with the ‘muck-rake.’”—R. of Rs.

  “In the flood of, to say the least, ill-judged revelation with which
  the magazines are being flooded at the present time such calm reviews
  as these are of the greatest benefit as a needed antidote.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w.

  “One feature of the book which recommends it is that in almost every
  case the lawyer-author has a remedy to suggest for the evil he
  exposes.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 250w.

  “Any American citizen will be benefited by reading the eight essays.
  They are sane without being commonplace, and interesting without being
  sensational.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1225. My. 24, ’06. 110w.

  “They are vigorous in thought, and written in a nervous and virile
  English.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 80w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 50w.

=Allen, Charles Dexter.= American bookplates. *$2.50. Macmillan.

  “It is still the only book on the subject and serves its purpose well
  as an indispensable book of reference.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 140w.

=Allen, Frank Waller.= Back to Arcady. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.

  “It is a pretty and poetic book, perhaps without much substance, but
  all the better for its delicacy of touch and feeling.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 35. Ja. 20, ’06. 1250w.

  “Mr. Allen’s fancy is tenderly delicate, and entirely free from
  sentimentality.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 170w.

=Allen, Philip Loring.= America’s awakening: the triumph of
righteousness in high places. **$1.25. Revell.

  An optimistic view of America’s reviving ideals in business and
  politics. “This book is an attempt to catch, while the subject is
  still close and living, some of the spirit and accomplishment of this
  revival. Dealing, as it must with movements only half worked out and
  men still active in the same fields, it cannot pretend to be in any
  sense critical or final. Yet it does hope to make the citizen who
  reads it a little better acquainted with some of the personalities and
  some of the forces most prominent in this remarkable period.”

  “He does not hold a brief for any reformer or any fad. The novelty and
  assured interest of Mr. Allen’s book lie chiefly, of course, in his
  interpretation of events.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 1120w.

  “A readable and suggestive little work.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 190w.

=Alston, Leonard.= Modern constitutions in outline: an introductory
study in political science. *90c. Longmans.

  “May be of some service to the reader who wishes to get a little
  knowledge of a big subject in a short time and with little effort: it
  is a short cut to learning.”

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 459. Ja. ’06. 80w.

=Ambler, Sara Ellmaker.= Dear old home. †$1.50. Little.

  A happy wholesome story for young boys and girls. Two city children
  spend the summer with their grandmother in an Amish settlement of
  Pennsylvania. The story records the pranks and sports of these
  youngsters aided by two Pennsylvania Dutch children.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10. ’06. 80w.

=Amelung, Walter, and Holtzinger, Heinrich.= Museums and ruins of Rome;
ed. by Mrs. S. Arthur Strong. 2v. *$3. Dutton.

  Each of these volumes gives a “synthetic and comprehensive view” of
  the subject with which it deals. “The plan of the work is very simple.
  Beginning with the Vatican, the student is taken through the papal
  collections, the municipal collections, and the national collections,
  the text describing and characterizing the masterpieces, with
  sufficient biographical data relating to the sculptors, with succinct
  but clear accounts of the character of the work, and descriptions
  which enable the reader to fasten his attention on special
  characteristics with the enforcement of a profusion of illustrations.”
  (Outlook.) A short bibliography prefaces each volume.

  “Altogether, these little books are without their match, and no one
  should go to Rome without them.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 290w.

  “This manual, however, is not calculated to please the ordinary
  visitor to Rome, nor the student of Roman antiquities in general, on
  account of its bias in favour of one class of specialists.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 400. Mr. 31. 870w.

  “It is very evident that our author has given us the latest and best
  theories as to the different works of art.” James C. Egbert.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 335. My. ’06. 960w.

  “The volume becomes quite a liberal education in the history of
  antique sculpture, which is made more thorough by its historic index
  in the concluding chapter.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 190w.

        =Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 50w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 265. Jl. 27, ’06. 630w.

  “Amelung’s knowledge and experience are broad and solid, his
  perception keen, and his writing vigorous yet pleasant. The
  translation represents him as worthily as perhaps any translation of a
  book of æsthetic as well as historic criticism could reproduce its
  original.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 56. Jl. 19, ’06. 190w.

  “Gives the traveler a convenient and suggestive guide for his rambles
  about the Roman capital.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 100w.

  “A convenient work.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 170w.

  “Probably the best compendium yet produced of the art treasures of the
  mother city of the world.”

  + + + =Sat. R.= 101: 796. Je. 23, ’06. 130w.

  “The idea embodied in these volumes is an excellent one, and it is,
  upon the whole, carried out with a large measure of success. Some
  points, however, invite criticism. Dr. Amelung’s verdicts on ancient
  sculptors are not free from that dogmatism which is the besetting sin
  of German archæologists.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 990w.

American Jewish yearbook, 5667. Sept. 20, 1906, to Sept. 8, 1907; ed. by
Henrietta Szold. 75c. Jewish pub.

  The eighth issue of this yearbook. Among the new features are a table
  of the time of sunrise and sunset, and the beginning of dawn and the
  end of twilight for six northern latitudes, on three days of each
  month of the solar year; two new lists including respectively a record
  of the United States during the current year and notable articles
  appearing in the Jewish press and thru secular mediums, and notably a
  table of Jewish massacres in Russia during the period “whose entrance
  and exit are guarded by Kishineff and Bialystok as blood stained
  sentinels.”

        =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 40w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 110w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 80w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 70w.

=Ames, V. B.= Matrimonial primer; with pictorial matrimonial mathematics
and decorations by Gordon Ross. **$1.50. Elder.

        =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 60w.

=Amsden, Dora.= Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the school of Japanese
colour-print artists. **$1.50. Elder.

  “Accurate investigation of personalities, epochs and eras, and warm
  appreciation, expressed in highly rhetorical terms, of Japanese art
  characterize this informing volume.”

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ’05. 90w.

  “This little book tells us things we desire to know about a
  fascinating subject.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 398. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

=Anderson, Asher.= Congregational faith and practice: principles,
polity, benevolent societies, institutions. *5c. Pilgrim press.

  A little pamphlet for pastors and church workers.

=Anderson, Sir Robert.= Sidelights on the home rule movement. *$3.
Dutton.

  “Sir Robert Anderson’s ‘Side lights on the home rule movement’ is
  emphatically a controversy-breeding book. It contains the
  recollections of the well-known British secret service official so far
  as they pertain to his activity in connection with Fenianism and later
  aspects of Irish agitation, and it may also be described in large part
  a scathing criticism of the Irish sections of Mr. Morley’s ‘Life of
  Gladstone,’ which Sir Robert attacks as the work of a romanticist
  rather than a historian.”—Outlook.

    + – =Ind.= 61: 824. O. 4, ’06. 260w.

  “It has fallen to the lot of hardly any other man in our time to have
  so intimate a knowledge of the darker aspects of Irish Separatist
  politics as Sir Robert Anderson.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 189. My. 25, ’06. 1180w.

  “It will be difficult for most readers who are not of his immediate
  social or political circle to see any advantage that can result from
  the publication.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 300w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 529. O. 27, ’06. 330w.

  “Apart from these personal interests, the book has an undoubted
  historical value as a contribution to our knowledge of the events with
  which it mainly deals. Especially interesting are the chapters on the
  Fenian movement, the dynamite campaign, and the much too historic
  Clerkwell explosion.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 84. Jl. 21, ’06. 1170w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 904. Je. 9, ’06. 2080w.

=Anderson, Wilbert L.= Country town; with introd. by Josiah Strong.
**$1. Baker.

  Dr. Strong says “The author has faith in the country town, and is able
  to render a reason for the faith that is in him.” Mr. Anderson
  maintains that the great drift from the country to the city will only
  benefit the rural districts, for there will be left an enduring
  residuum with the stout heart that battles with problems of
  civilization and advancement. He says “that there is no scientific
  reason for the popular notion that the rural population is under a
  fatality of evil. The future depends almost wholly upon the power of
  environment—upon education, upon commerce, upon evangelization, upon
  participation in the great movements of the age.”

  “This study of existing conditions will be found valuable even by
  those who do not agree with all the conclusions reached.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 120w.

  “Though he cites numerous authorities, he writes in the graceful style
  of the essayist.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “It is involved in style; is loaded with quotations and citations
  having no particular bearing on the case, full of repetition, and not
  clear in its manner of reaching conclusions, which are, however, sane
  ones.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 280w.

  “The most serious criticism that can be advanced against it is that
  the author carries the argument from evolution to an extreme in
  conducting a sociological inquiry along biological lines. To be
  commended for its readableness as well as for the sanity and
  fair-mindedness.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 340w.

  “Extremely interesting and informing work.” Edward Cary.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.

  “Mr. Anderson is an optimist where optimism is rare.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.

Andreas and The fates of the apostles: two Anglo-Saxon narrative poems;
ed. with introd., notes, and glossary by G: Philip Krapp. *$2. Ginn.

  This volume in “The Albion series of Anglo-Saxon and middle English
  poetry,” contains all the material essential to a thoro study of these
  two poems. The text of both poems is based upon Wülker’s Codex
  Verallensis and the variant readings present a full history of the
  textual criticism of the works. A comprehensive introduction discusses
  the Vercelli manuscript, the sources of the poems, their history, and
  their authorship. The volume is fully annotated and contains a
  classified bibliography and a glossary.

  “Altogether, this much-needed edition is one of the most scholarly
  contributions that have been made in recent times to the illustration
  of Old English literature.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 155. Ag. 11. 1390w.

=Andrews, Arthur Lynn=, ed. Specimens of discourse. *60c. Holt.

  A miscellaneous collection of specimens chosen with the object of
  teaching a student to present near-at-hand occurrences in clear
  English. The introduction gives a variety of themes, analyses them,
  and shows how to elaborate various types of composition, as
  description, narration and exposition.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 100w.

        =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 60w.

        =School R.= 14: 232. Mr. ’06. 60w.

=Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman (Mrs. William S. Andrews).= Bob and the
guides; il. by F. C. Yohn, A. B. Frost and others. †$1.50. Scribner.

  A book of ten Canadian hunting stories with Bob, a small boy, for the
  hero. In each he gives in boyish fashion some camping adventure,
  admitting that he gets “big words mixed sometimes unconscientiously.”
  but having a “noble ear for general picturesqueness.”

  “Can be read aloud and out of doors, two severe tests for a book.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1372. Je. 7, ’06. 370w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.

=Angus, S.= Sources of the first ten books of Augustine’s De Civitate
Dei. $1. Univ. library, Princeton, N. J.

  A three-part thesis which treats “Literary sources of Augustine.”
  “Annotations on books i-x,” and “Augustine’s knowledge of Greek.”

=Annandale, Nelson.= Faroes and Iceland; with 24 il. and an appendix on
the Celtic pony, by F. H. A. Marshall. *$1.50. Oxford.

  “Is pleasant reading. He might with advantage have given a little more
  time to contemporary Icelandic literature before printing his
  censures: he is too ready to cry ‘All is barren,’ and hardly
  appreciates the variety of life, the mixture of old fashions and
  modern culture in that wonderful country. Some of his statements may
  be flatly contradicted by other travellers, who have found better
  entertainment there and little of the squalor which seems to have
  beset Mr. Annandale.” W. P. Ker.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 191. Ja. ’06. 580w.

=Anstruther, Elizabeth.= Complete beauty book. **$1.25. Appleton.

  “Beauty is a matter of health, dress, and winsomeness,” the author
  declares in her introduction, and she follows her assertion with
  sensible advice upon the care of the body, a detailed plea for fresh
  air, exercise, and cold water, with some additional counsel upon
  clothes and conduct. The skin, diet, digestion, the hair, the hands,
  feet, and teeth, fatness and thinness and charm of manner are treated
  in successive chapters.

  “With the utmost good sense and simplicity, we are told just how to
  keep well and to be beautiful.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 880w.

Arbiter in council: a collection of papers on war, peace and
arbitration. *$2.50. Macmillan.

  “Is there any reason to hope that right ever will be ready? This is
  the question which the ‘Arbiter in council’ essays to answer. In form,
  the work is a series of colloquies initiated by a veteran Liberal, a
  disciple of Bright and of Cobden, and a lifelong advocate of peace and
  arbitration.” (Lond. Times.) The subjects discussed, one for every day
  during a week, are the causes and consequences of war, modern warfare,
  private war and the duel, cruelty, the federation of the world,
  arbitration, the political economy of war and Christianity and war.

  “The scheme is a well-imagined one and the discussions are full of
  interest, information and suggestion. Nevertheless the result is far
  from satisfactory. The book is pervaded throughout by the assumption
  more or less openly avowed that war is always and everywhere a wrong
  thing—not merely that most wars are wrong, and that many wars are
  wicked: and the several parties to the discussion are all too much of
  the same way of thinking.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 114. Mr. 30, ’06. 2520w.

  “As a summary of all that is to be said on the subject, thrown into a
  readable form, the book is well done; nevertheless, after reading it
  there is left in the mind of the reader the perhaps unavoidable
  feeling that it is an old story.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 354. O. 25, ’06. 910w.

      – =Sat. R.= 102: 306. S. 8, ’06. 310w.

  “A clever piece of special pleading rather than a serious contribution
  to political thought.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 711. My. ’06. 1950w.

=Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of=: autobiography and
memoirs; ed. by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll. 2v. *$10. Dutton.

  In his autobiography the Duke of Argyll sketches a “long career filled
  with notable activities. Acceding to the title very young and
  unexpectedly ... he was of a serious and energetic bent. Early called
  to share in the government, he was a member of several cabinets....
  For years he was an enthusiastic follower of Gladstone, but broke with
  him on the land question and Home rule; but their personal friendship
  remained unimpaired. Yet his chief distinction was as a controversial
  writer. He had considerable scientific attainments. From early life an
  eager naturalist ... and was practically skilled in geology. He read
  widely in science, too, and being, as he innocently observes,
  ‘inclined to question rather than to harbor doubt’ he ‘took most
  naturally to religion and theology.’” (Nation.)

  “His biography was well worth writing; though it might have been
  advantageously condensed into half the size.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 565. Je. 16, ’06. 1530w.

  “The Duke might have curbed his pen to advantage.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 755. Je. 23. 1970w.

  + + – =Blackwood’s.= 180: 343. S. ’06. 3530w.

  “It differs in two particulars from most British biographies. It deals
  with political and social life in Scotland as well as in England; and
  more than any biography of recent times, except perhaps that of Earl
  Granville, it deals with life almost exclusively from an aristocratic
  point of view.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 454. Ag. 23, ’06. 1390w.

  “Has an interest and a value little below Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone’
  in the brightness of the light which it throws on the English history
  of its time.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 197. Je. 1, ’06. 3540w.

    + – =Nation.= 83: 60. Jl. 19, ’06. 1030w.

  “The chapters which follow the autobiography give a most inadequate
  picture of what the Duke was in his prime and of what he did. The
  chapter on his science is particularly disappointing.”

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 437. Ag. 30, ’06. 3880w.

  “The various kinds of interest that belong to the memoirs of a
  statesman, relating great events in which he has a borne a part, and
  the chronicles of a recluse, of a naturalist watching the lower lives
  about him, belong to these volumes.” Montgomery Schuyler.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 481. Ag. 4, ’06. 1340w.

  “To the biographical library these volumes will be a valuable
  addition. Will be interesting as a biography to the reader who is
  versed in the art of judicious skipping, and valuable as a
  contribution to the history of the nineteenth century.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 220w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 110w.

  “The Duke of Argyll’s literary gift was considerable, as is shown, not
  only by his speeches, but by his descriptive criticism of the great
  men by whom he was surrounded.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 790. Je. 23, ’06. 2080w.

  “It is full of interest, and displays almost on every page a love and
  knowledge of nature which add to its charm.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 945. Je. 16, ’06. 1420w.

=Armitage, Albert B.= Two years in the Antarctic. $5. Longmans.

  A personal narrative of the British Antarctic expedition to which Dr.
  Nansen contributes a preface.

  “Those who have studied Captain Scott’s weighty volumes may skim with
  some amusement and interest Lieutenant Armitage’s lighter pages.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 440. D. 15, ’05. 390w.

  “He is a good narrator and carries the reader along with a warmth that
  is surprising in such a chilly subject.” Stephen Chalmers.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 1210w.

  “Mr. Armitage supplies some points of detail which supplement Captain
  Scott’s narrative.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 726. D. 2, ’05. 200w.

=Armour, John P.= Edenindia: a tale of adventure. †$1.50. Dillingham.

  Edenindia is a Utopian realm into which an airship drops the hero of
  this tale, Victor Bonnivard. Jilted by a heartless maiden, and weary
  of life at best, it touches his vanity to be called to join the king’s
  counsellors and family of state. Edenindia is a socialistic kingdom
  whose inhabitants have been kept in ignorance of any other people.
  Ennui finally compels young Victor to elope with the king’s daughter.

  “His imagination, if bold, is rather heavy and lumbering in its gait.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 737. O. 28, ’05. 170w.

=Armour, Jonathan Ogden-.= Packers, the private car lines and the
people. $1.50. Altemus.

  In which Mr. Armour defends the packers. He tells of the conditions
  that brought the private car-line into existence and what it has
  accomplished to facilitate traffic and to improve the business
  situation.

  “Mr. Armour is not a stylist; but he knows how to put his arguments
  clearly and effectively.”

      + =Cath. World.= 84: 407. D. ’06. 220w.

  “The book is vigorously written, and probably must be regarded as the
  authoritative reply of the packers, by one of their most eminent
  representatives, to the accusations brought against them. It is an
  able plea in defense and avoidance. As such the careful student of the
  problem will find it valuable. He will not find it conclusive.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 190w.

  “Mr. Armour writes in a rather bitter tone.”

      – =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 220w.

        =Spec.= 97: 372. S. 15, ’06. 110w.

=Armstrong, Sir Walter.= Gainsborough and his place in English art.
$3.50. Scribner.

      + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 80w.

  “Has already come to be justly regarded as a standard biography.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.

=Armstrong, Sir Walter.= Peel collection and the Dutch school. $2.
Dutton.

  “A meritorious contribution to museum literature.” Royal Cortissoz.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 282. F. ’06. 70w.

  “The volume is perhaps the best contribution to the critical study of
  Dutch painting since the publication of ‘Les maîtres d’autrefois.’ It
  is something new in the literature of art. Its criticism is fresh and
  stimulating.”

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 128. F. 16, ’06. 460w.

=Armstrong, Sir Walter.= Sir Joshua Reynolds, first president of the
Royal academy. *$3.50. Scribner.

  “Excellent critical life.” Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 273. F. ’06. 70w.

  “His whole aim seems to be to belittle and disparage Sir Joshua as a
  man, and as a result to lessen the potentiality of his art.” Charles
  Henry Hart.

      – =Dial.= 40: 226. Ap. 1, ’06. 1160w.

  “It is probably the best book that has yet been written about Sir
  Joshua.... His presentment of Reynolds’s character is, perhaps, more
  just than the pæans of the hero worshippers; and his critical opinions
  on Reynolds’s art are worthy of the most careful attention.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 459. F. 22, ’06. 130w.

=Armstrong, William Jackson.= Heroes of defeat. $3. Clarke, R.

  Six heroes who thru no fault of bravery failed to attain their hoped
  for success “are here described with all the vivid and picturesque
  power of a Froude, a Macaulay or a Hugo.” (Arena.) They are Schamyl,
  the soldier priest and hero of Caucasus; Abdel Kader, the Sultan of
  Algeria who for fifteen years kept France from any stronghold in
  Algeria; Scanderbeg, the Albanian who saved Europe from the Turk’s
  dominion; Tecumseh, our own Shawnoe hero; Vercingetorix, King of Gaul,
  who fought against Julius Caesar; and Kosiuszko, the hero of Polish
  freedom.

  “It is a real acquisition to our literature, a work of permanent
  value.”

  + + + =Arena.= 35: 326. Mr. ’06. 2500w.

  “Mr. Armstrong tells the story of all these with some skill, though
  his style is considerably marred by flights that suggest stump
  oratory.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 110w.

=Arnim, Mary Annette (Beauchamp) gräfin von.= Princess Priscilla’s
fortnight. †$1.50. Scribner.

  “Priscilla’s adventures are a shade too preposterous for genuine
  enjoyment.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 110w.

  “The most charming extravaganza imaginable.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 410w.

  “A gentle cynicism, which we fancy a little mellower, and a style a
  little riper than in the earlier books, leave a pleasant fragrance in
  the memory, when the strange experience ends, precisely as it should.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 167. Ja. 18, ’06. 370w.

  “‘Priscilla’ is an unworthy successor to ‘Elizabeth,’ though she will
  be probably quite as popular.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 110w.

  “The strength of the book lies in its faithful picture of the contrast
  of two modes of life, brought on this occasion sharply together—a true
  comedy-motive when, as in this case, both are adequately understood.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1039. D. 16, ’05. 1130w.

=Arnold, Matthew.= Sohrab and Rustum: ed. for schools and general use by
W. P. Trent and W. T. Brewster. *25c. Ginn.

  Supplied with an accurate text, footnotes and an introduction, this
  poem is offered to the general reader by way of preparation for the
  study of Arnold no less than to the preparatory school student.

=Arthur, Richard.= Ten thousand miles in a yacht. **$2. Dutton.

  A narrative which follows the incidents of the celebrated cruise made
  by Commodore E. C. Benedict’s yacht among the West Indies and up the
  Amazon in the winter of 1904–5. The author and also Mr. Ivins who
  contributes the introduction were among the eleven cruisers. The
  volume contains numerous illustrations from photographs.

  “Some readers may wish that the author and the introductory writer had
  exchanged places.” H. E. Coblentz.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 361. Je. 1, ’06. 410w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 50w.

  “A singularly naïve narrative it is.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 256. Ap. 21, ’06. 960w.

  “A slight but readable account of quite an unusual cruise.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 110w.

  “Mr. Arthur has a knack of telling his experiences pleasantly.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 70w.

=Asakawa, Kanichi.= Early institutional life of Japan. *$1.75. Scribner.

  Reviewed by Munroe Smith.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 162. Mr. ’06. 970w.

=Ashley, William James.= Progress of the German working classes in the
last quarter of a century. *60c. Longmans.

  “An example of judicial and balanced argument.” Charles Richmond
  Henderson.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 260w.

=Aspinwall, Alicia.= Story of Marie de Rozel—Huguenot. *75c. Dutton.

  The wife of Marie de Rozel’s great-greatgrandson has written the true
  story of this brave little Huguenot maid and what befell her in the
  days when the people of her faith were persecuted in Catholic France.
  It is a pretty little tale and the author has given it to us
  unembellished, just as it came to her out of the dim past.

  “Not quite so interesting as it should be, considering the material.”

    – + =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 60w.

=Asser, Bishop of Sherbourne.= Life of King Alfred, trans. from the text
of Stevenson’s edition, with notes, by Albert S. Cook. *50c. Ginn.

  The Bishop of Sherbourne’s quaint contemporary account of England’s
  greatest king is here given in a form which will appeal to students in
  schools and colleges as well as to the general reader. The Latin text,
  thru the critical labors of Stevenson, has been cleared of many
  Elizabethan interpolations, and the present translation is accurate
  and well annotated.

  “Presents in convenient form a valuable document whose authenticity is
  now generally conceded.”

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 732. Ap. ’06. 50w.

  “The advantages which Professor Cook’s translation enjoys over
  previous ones is due mainly to the fact that he has been able to use
  the results of the investigations of these two scholars [Plummer and
  Stevenson.]”

      + =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 190w.

=Aston, W. G.= Shinto: the way of the gods. *$2. Longmans.

  Forty years of research and study in Japanese literature, language and
  history have provided material for this treatise. It is “chiefly
  intended as a repertory, for the use of students, of the more
  significant facts of Shinto, the old native religion of Japan before
  the introduction of Chinese learning and Buddhism.”

  Reviewed by Henry Preserved Smith.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 703. O. ’06. 300w.

  “So attractively written that the reader hardly appreciates at once
  the amount of learning, Eastern and Western, which it implies.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 602. My. 19. 1270w.

  “In his arrangement of the book, with its abundant translation of
  ancient text and ritual, all well indexed, we have just what the
  volume professes to be—a handbook for the study of Shinto.” William
  Elliot Griffis.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 255. Ap. 16. ’06. 1280w.

  “This master of facts is very modest in theory and generalization.
  This is ‘the’ book on Shinto. There is no other.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 341. F. 8, ’06. 590w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 14w.

  “It is the one complete monograph on Shinto.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 20. Jl. 5, ’06. 1270w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 140w.

  “No part of his subject has escaped his notice, and his materials are
  arranged in a logical sequence which makes them clear even to a casual
  reader. But the book is not for casual readers.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 401. Mr. 31, ’06. 880w.

=Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.).= Travelling thirds.
†$1.25. Harper.

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 793. D. 9. 320w.

  “Incidentally points a moral, if she cannot be said always to adorn
  her tale.” G. W. Adams.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 368. D. ’05. 820w.

  “Can scarcely be considered with its writer’s more serious work.”
  Olivia Howard Dunbar.

    + – =Critic.= 47: 510. D. ’05. 190w.

  “The book possesses its author’s characteristic faults of hardness and
  exaggeration; it is almost destitute of sympathy and moderation, while
  of the unusual virtues of bold plot and suspended creation that we
  have come to associate with Mrs. Atherton’s name, it has scant
  measure.”

      – =Reader.= 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 280w.

  “The book as a whole is rather too suggestive of the pages of a
  guide-book; but if slight, the story is amusing, and is written with
  Mrs. Atherton’s usual vivacity.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 100w.

=Atkinson, Fred Washington.= Philippine islands. *$3. Ginn.

  “It attempts to cover the whole field, history, geography, commerce,
  government, religion and the characteristics of the people. The last
  is probably the most important part of the book, because in Filipino
  psychology lies the problem, and this is the hardest part of the book
  to write, and it is a part upon which the author’s experience should
  enable him to make a real contribution.” J. Russell Smith.

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 242. Ja. ’06. 360w.

  “This is a wholesome, stimulating, enjoyable book, the ripe fruit of
  an earnest worker, a lover of ideals, yet a master of facts. It is a
  real illuminator of the theme treated.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 160w.

  “This latter section is by far the most valuable portion of the work,
  for here the writer has apparently felt at liberty to speak with
  somewhat less restraint than elsewhere, and to give expression to his
  own views. The book as a whole, especially in its earlier portions,
  gives the impression of having often been read before, and follows
  with minute care the official view at almost every point.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 48. Ja. 16, ’06. 490w.

  “Is both valuable and interesting where it presents the author’s own
  observations and opinions, but is often inaccurate where sources of
  encyclopaedic and historic information which should now be discarded
  have been relied upon in the work of compilation.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1540. D. 28, ’05. 60w.

  “This is one of the most interesting of the many books which have been
  published on the new possession of the United States. This book is
  indeed a manual of its subject.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 220w.

=Atkinson, George Francis.= College textbook of botany. *$2. Holt.

  “Professor Atkinson has been exceptionally fortunate in accomplishing
  a very difficult piece of work. The studies have been carefully
  prepared and this scientific survey of the botanical field will be
  widely appreciated.” Carlton C. Curtis.

  + + + =Educ.= R. 31: 211. F. ’06. 780w.

=Atlay, J. B.= Victorian chancellors. 2v. v. 1. *$4. Little.

  “Mr. Atlay purposes to deal in two volumes with the careers of the
  Lords Chancellors during the reign of Queen Victoria. The first volume
  contains the memoirs of Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham
  and Lord Truro.... Mr. Atlay’s work is extremely interesting whether
  he is writing of men about whom there are voluminous biographies too
  cumbrous to be read pleasantly, or of men such as Lord Cottenham and
  Lord Truro about whom he has had to collect data for himself.... Lord
  Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham have been much written about; but Mr.
  Atlay has used information either not open to Lord Campbell or used by
  him invidiously; and as to Lord Lyndhurst especially he corrects
  Campbell’s unfair sketch following Sir Theodore Martin’s biography.”
  (Sat. R.)

  “To measure two men so dissimilar in character, opinion and
  temperament as Lyndhurst and Brougham, with an equal hand is no small
  achievement, and Mr. Atlay deserves all the commendation that we can
  give him.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 327. Ap. 7, ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “This volume is lively and entertaining, well compiled from a variety
  of authentic sources, and as regards Lyndhurst and Brougham much more
  trustworthy than the rather spiteful and far from accurate biographies
  which the late Lord Campbell wrote of his two contemporaries.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 141. Ap. 20, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Mr. Atlay. though neither a subtle thinker nor a masterly writer,
  does provide his readers with a clear, sensible, and, above all, an
  honest narrative of the career of the men whose lives he undertakes to
  write.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 514. Je. 21, ’06. 2470w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 475. Jl. 28, ’06. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 762. Je. 16, ’06. (Review of v. 1.)

  “To lawyer, politician, student of manners, and lover of good stories
  alike his book will furnish the best of entertainment.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 619. Ap. 21, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Aubin, Eugene.= Morocco of to-day. *$2. Dutton.

  “M. Eugene Aubin is a French observer of Morocco, with the gift of
  precise, delicate, sympathetic appreciation. This he is able to
  convert into words, and the result is a very good book.... There are
  ... some exceptionally good chapters, notably that on Du Hamara, in
  which Moroccan warfare is described.... The author describes many
  places, institutions, and customs, together with some of the internal
  incidents of the years 1902–3, but he does not deal with international
  questions save for a few trade statistics.”—Nation.

  “His descriptions are vivid; the information he supplies is lucidly
  set forth, and upon the whole remarkably trustworthy. The number of
  equally informative English books about Morocco is extremely small.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 480. Ap. 21, 370w.

  “Without doubt this book contains more information about modern
  Morocco than any other book to be obtained. To many M. Aubin’s
  explanations of the Sultan’s life and position will be in the nature
  of a revelation.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 283. S. ’06. 240w.

        =Ind.= 61: 215. Jl. 26, ’06. 150w.

  “It suffers from a certain unevenness. The translation is fair and
  contains few slips.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 518. Je. 21, ’06. 500w.

  “An excellent translation.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 815. Ag. 4, ’06. 100w.

  “A scholarly work.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 80w.

  “It is the most complete book of its kind upon the subject, of
  to-day.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 791. Je. 23, ’06. 1400w.

=Auchincloss, W. S.= Book of Daniel unlocked. *$1. Van Nostrand.

        =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 583. Jl. ’06. 20w.

  “An ingenious but useless addition to the already extensive literature
  based on the desire to interpret the book of Daniel as literal
  predictions of dates and events far in the future.”

      – =Bib. World.= 27: 319. Ap. ’06. 30w.

=Audubon, John Woodhouse.= Audubon’s western journal: 1849–1850. *$3.
Clark, A. H.

  This is a manuscript record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an
  overland journey thru Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of
  California. There is a biographical memoir by Maria R. Audubon,
  daughter of the diarist, and an introduction, notes and index by Frank
  Heywood Hodder.

  “Persons interested in early California history will find here some
  descriptions of the conditions in the early days really worth
  reading.” Edwin E. Sparks.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 151. O. ’06. 410w.

  Reviewed by Theodore Clarke Smith.

      + =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 90w.

  “On the whole, the volume leaves nothing to be wished for, either in
  the editor’s or the publisher’s field.”

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 310w.

        =Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 140w.

  “The journal is of very great interest, and admirably edited.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 110w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 120w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 120w.

        =Sat. R.= 101: 762. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

=Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.).= Door of humility. *$1.50. Macmillan.

  A poem of 57 cantos in which a poet “is perplexed in youth with some
  obvious theological doubts, and his lady refuses him till he comes to
  a better frame of mind. He straightway proceeds upon a kind of grand
  tour, which gives him the opportunity to describe elaborately
  Switzerland, Rome, Greece, and other places. After much trite
  metaphysical speculation he arrives at a sort of solution, and returns
  home.... Humility, the poem, teaches, is the only gateway to truth.”
  (Spec.)

  “Mr. Austin has read his ‘In memoriam’ too lovingly, and, in his poem,
  at least, has not been able to rid himself of the domination of the
  great mind and to stand on his own feet. This result is rendered the
  more conspicuous and deplorable by the thick sowing of the text with
  phrases that can only be described as journalistic.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 349. Ap. 14, ’06. 1260w.

  “The philosophy and its sentimental setting are patiently planned on
  the Tennysonian model, but unhappily it is not enough to succeed a
  poet in order to be successful in imitating him.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 663. Je. 2. 840w.

        =Ind.= 61: 455. Ag. 23, ’06. 750w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 124. Ap. 6, ’06. 970w.

  “The piece is as a whole marked by a suavity and a kind of thin
  dignity, though not seldom there is a lapse into banality.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. 16, ’06. 290w.

  “The most obvious excellence of Mr. Austin’s work is its metrical
  purity in the matter of rhythm he never offends. But his excellence is
  bought at the price of his liberty.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 960w.

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 557. My. 5, ’06. 930w.

  “We have no wish to be unkind to a writer who is so transparently
  ingenuous and well-meaning, and we readily admit that he is not
  without his felicities.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 180w.

=Austin, Louis Frederic.= Points of view; ed, with prefatory note by
Clarence Rook. **$1.50. Lane.

  Essays selected from the author’s contributions to London newspapers
  compose this volume. Such subjects are treated as Sir Henry Irving,
  America at Oxford, Men and modes. Logic for women. Motor cars and
  nervous systems, A famine in books, etc. “Mr. Rook’s prefatory note
  contains an impressive idea of Mr. Austin’s strenuous life. It is,
  indeed, ironical that a man should be strenuous in chatting with his
  pen; but it is also tragic.” (Ath.)

  “The papers collected in this memorial volume are fresh, witty, and
  shallow in the sparkling way of champagne.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 270w.

  “There are in fact, few writers nowadays who can write this kind of
  essay, and fewer still who can make their own writing, on the whole,
  so much worth while as Mr. Austin.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 470w.

=Austin, Martha Waddill.= Tristam and Isoult. $1. Badger, R: G.

  “The finished play appears to us possessed of acting possibilities.
  Besides being liberally endowed with no small measure of beauty in
  poetic figure and expression.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 230w.

  “The workmanship throughout is excellent, with vigorous lines,
  pictorial imagery, and ease of movement.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 310w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 755. My. ’06. 290w.

=Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.= The flock; il. by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.
Houghton.

  Mrs. Austin’s flock is a literal flock of sheep. “This is a sort of
  epic of the sheep pastures. She begins with a sort of New Englandish
  landmark, the year of the Boston massacre, which was also the year
  Daniel Boone moved into the West east of the Mississippi, but the
  country of her pasture is the Pacific slope, where she has lived among
  the herders and their woolly charges. Mrs. Austin tells of the work of
  these herders in the mountain valleys, in rain and drought, of the
  shearing baile, of the dogs, of the struggle for the control of the
  feeding grounds. She tells how the wild beasts come down upon the fold
  or the grazing flock, and how the sheep are protected by the faithful
  shepherds. There are stories, too, of individual shepherds who have
  had adventures, an account of a particular old California sheep range,
  and a chapter on ‘The sheep and the forest reserves.’” (N. Y. Times.)

  “The poetic temperament which so well fits Mrs. Austin for writing
  stories of the West has been of equal advantage to her in telling of
  the shepherd-life with ‘its background of wild beauty, mixed romance,
  and unaffected savagery.’” May Estelle Cook.

      + =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06, 290w.

  “The charm of the whole lies in three qualities: the novelty and
  interest of the subject, the picturesque texture of the author’s mind,
  and in a style which is both cultivated and racy, and adapted to
  conveying her unusual sense of beauty.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 489. D. 6, ’06. 720w.

  “As a matter of fact the sheep are only an excuse for an outdoor book
  which takes on a certain pastoral stamp because of them, but rejoices
  chiefly in the open—the free earth, the sun, and the wind.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

=Austin, Mary.= Isidro. †$1.50. Houghton.

  “A not too probable Spanish-American romance gaining color from a
  picturesque setting.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 20w.

=Avary, Myrta Lockett.= Dixie, after the war. **$2.75. Doubleday.

  A new picture of the period of reconstruction in the South drawn by
  one who has made a first-hand study of her subject. “The book is the
  aftermath of defeat described in poignant words, in sorrow rather than
  in anger, and without a trace of bitterness.” (Lit. D.) “Mrs. Avary
  sets forth in a serio-comic way the blunders and even the corruption
  incident to military dictatorship, and in the course of the volume
  throws many side-lights on what most Northerners now admit to have
  been the serious mistake of reconstruction policy.” (R. of Rs.)

  “Probably about all we can reasonably expect in the way of fairness
  and soberness, in dealing with the reconstruction period, has been
  done in the volume under review. The book is written in a lively
  anecdotal style; the author has a keen sense of humor and a profound
  conception of the value of a good story.” Walter L. Fleming.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 274. N. 1, ’06. 1840w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 360w.

  “A little judicious pruning, a little more care for style, a little
  more regard for accuracy in historical detail, would have made of this
  a really good book.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 307. O. 11, ’06. 510w.

  “As a collection of anecdotes and observations the book may be found
  entertaining, but it should not profess, as it does, to be an
  exposition of social conditions in the South.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 605. S. 29, ’06. 310w.

  “It vividly brings before the reader the way Southern men and women
  felt and talked in a most trying period.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 288. S. 29, ’06. 190w.

  “An unusually vivid portrayal of the actual social conditions in the
  South during the years immediately succeeding the fall of Richmond.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 130w.

=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= History of the United States and its people.
In 15 vol. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.

  “A history that reflects and epitomizes the verified historic data of
  our preceding historians, and that is of special worth in that
  accuracy has been made the crowning aim of both author and
  publishers.”

  + + + =Arena.= 35: 554. My. ’06. 1260w. (Review of v. 2.)

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 157. Ag. 11. 810w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “What is lacking is precisely the quality which makes Mr. Channing’s
  book noteworthy,—the impression of personality and individual
  authority.” Theodore Clarke Smith.

  + + – =Atlan.= 98: 706. N. ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  + + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 383. Ap. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and
          2.)

    + + =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “In spite of a few trivial errors in the matters of date and the like,
  this second volume is in the highest degree satisfactory.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 331. My. 16, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Excellently adapted for the public for which it is designed.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 1281. My. 31, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Maintains in general the level of its predecessor, and in some
  important respects shows improvement.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 470. Je. 7, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 2.)

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Throughout is evident the master desire for accuracy and
  impartiality, and both have been attained to a really remarkable
  degree.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “As to the text of this history, while it has had the benefit of
  readings and suggestions by many historical experts, it retains the
  great advantage of a continuous narrative written by a single hand,
  and thus adhering to a well-proportioned scheme.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Ayer, Mary Allette.= Joys of friendship. **$1. Lee.

  A companion volume to the author’s “Daily cheer year book.” The
  extracts are arranged under the following sub-headings: The love of
  friendship, Companionship, Sympathy, Influence, Immortality of
  friendship, and The Divine friendship.

      + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ’05. 60w.

  “A book of this character, however, loses much through lack of an
  author’s index.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 676. O. 14, ’05. 100w.

=Ayres, S. G.= Complete index to the Expositor’s Bible, topical and
textual. *$1. Armstrong.

  “First, as to its general design, it undertakes to exhibit each book
  both in its general teaching and in the specific teaching of its
  several sections. Next, as to the school of criticism represented, it
  is composite, some of its volumes representing the older and others,
  especially in some Old Testament books, the newer school. The present
  ‘Index’ is by subjects, texts, and authors quoted; there are, for
  instance, forty-eight citations from Renan. The accompanying
  Introductions present an appreciative and discriminating review of the
  progress and general results of Biblical criticism up to the present
  time.”—Outlook.

  “Seems to be quite adequate.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1222. N. 25, ’05. 60w.

  “This ‘Index’ is very full and will be of great value to all users of
  the ‘Expositor’s Bible’.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 26: 398. N. ’05. 40w.

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 234. S. 23, ’05. 100w.

                                   B

=Babelon, Ernest.= Manual of oriental antiquities. New ed., with a
chapter on the Recent discoveries at Susa. **$2.50. Putnam.

  A reprint of Everett’s translation of Babelon’s work with a chapter
  which includes M. de Morgan’s discoveries in Susa. He “gives a
  chronology of the ruins according to recent discoveries, and describes
  the principles of building, stone sculpture, bronze metal work,
  jewelry, and the industrial arts. The region described in this chapter
  has hitherto been almost unknown.” (N. Y. Times.)

        =Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 85. S. ’06. 480w.

  “This added chapter only makes more evident the need of a revision or
  rewriting of the whole work.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 84. Jl. 26, ’06. 910w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 520w.

=Bacheller, Irving (Addison).= Silas Strong, emperor of the woods.
†$1.50. Harper.

  A strong plea for the preservation of our forests. The author says “It
  is in no sense a literary performance. It pretends to be nothing more
  than a simple account of one summer life, pretty much as it was lived,
  in a part of the Adirondacks.” Silas Strong is a woodland philosopher,
  and his camp is the scene of the wooing of a wood-nymph by a young
  politician. “The incidents include a forest fire, while among the
  leading characters is a dog said to be particularly engaging.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

      + =Acad.= 71: 287. S. 22, ’06. 150w.

  “Many will be unable to feel either great admiration for, or any
  unusual interest in, Silas.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 140w.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 90w.

  “Altogether, it is a book that deserves to be read, and, having been
  read, to be pondered.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 540w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 320w.

  “Strong, fine-flavored story of the woods.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.

  “The actual story is not as impressive as it might be.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 130w.

    + – =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 100w.

=Bacon, Alice Mabel.= In the land of the gods: some stories of Japan.
†$1.50. Houghton.

  “Ten true pictures of fairyfolk and phenomena set in the frame of a
  dainty English style.” (Ind.) They illustrate “Japanese beliefs and
  traditions which Miss Bacon regards as the sources of the Japanese
  qualities and traits which have been so clearly shown the world during
  the great crisis of the last two years.” (Outlook.)

  “This book is a ‘Japanese fairy world’ to date, but with something of
  Hearn’s witchery of style.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ’05. 110w.

  “All are worth telling, extremely well told, and full of interest both
  for children and for their elders.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 130w.

  “There is certainly much pleasure to be had from reading these ten
  little stories.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 230w.

  “These stories are very happily phrased, full of the spirit of
  intuition, and thoroughly sympathetic with the life which they
  describe.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ’05. 60w.

=Bacon, Mrs. Dolores Harbourg.= King’s divinity. †$1.50. Holt.

  They met at a ball given by royalty, he a cousin of royalty, she a
  charming American girl. The course of true love is interrupted by
  court conventions and obdurate counsellors, but the divinity of love
  finally proves itself more than that of majesty.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 470w.

  “Is pleasant reading, but thin in quality and imperfect in its plot
  development.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 70w.

=Bacon, Edgar Mayhew, and Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter.= Nation builders: a
story. $1. Meth. bk.

  An appreciation of the itinerant preachers of Methodism who went out
  to possess the American frontier a century ago.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’06. 200w.

  “It is an inspiring record and the joint authors have well presented
  it.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 92. Ja. 20, ’06. 340w.

=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= Connecticut river, and the valley of the
Connecticut; three hundred and fifty miles from mountain to sea:
historical and descriptive. **$3.50. Putnam.

  Under the headings “Historical,” “The romances of navigation,” and
  “The topography of the river and valley” the author has “traced all
  the interesting movements and events associated with New England’s
  chief river down to the present day.” The book abounds in the
  picturesque and traditional no less than in well authorized historical
  fact.

      + =Dial.= 41: 327. N. 16, ’06. 510w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 370w.

  “Is a book of notable interest to New-Englanders.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 260w.

  “The proportions of the long stretch have been duly considered, and
  the narrative, not unlike the river which it portrays, runs
  consistently, though compressed within brimming pages, from cover to
  cover—a happy concurrence of literary ease and historical severity.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 670w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 140w.

=Bagley, William Chandler.= Educative process. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  “Students of schoolcraft and teachers will find that Mr. Bagley’s
  elaborate account of the processes of education repays careful study.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 555. Ja. ’06. 250w.

  “The contribution in this book lies in the careful selection of
  biological and physiological principles which have educational
  bearings, and which can be seen as such by the average teacher.”
  Frederick E. Bolton.

    + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 369. N. 15, ’06. 560w.

  “What has been especially needed for some time is just such a work as
  Dr. Bagley has written. It will be generally agreed that Dr. Bagley
  has given us here a sound and scholarly statement of educational
  theory.” Edwin G. Dexter.

    + + =School R.= 14: 464. Je. ’06. 460w.

=Bagot, Richard.= Italian lakes; painted by Ella Du Cane, described by
Richard Bagot. *$6. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Bagot gossips not unpleasantly, if with no great indication of
  profound historical research.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 427. Ap. 7. 170w.

  “His book contains much valuable and interesting information, but the
  pleasure of reading it is somewhat marred by the uncalled-for
  apologetic tone adopted throughout, and the ever-recurrent use of the
  personal pronoun.”

    + – =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 200w.

  “Charming pictures—with a very inferior text. Indeed it would have
  been better had the sketches followed one another and the printed
  matter been condensed into notes.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 120w.

  “We have found this the most pleasing volume of a class of books which
  appear now to have a certain vogue.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ’05. 180w.

=Bagot, Richard.= Passport. †$1.50. Harper.

  “Mr. Bagot’s style is clever and finished. It lacks a definite
  clear-cut motive that should give it force and value.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.

=Bailey, Mrs. Alice Ward (A. B. Ward, pseud.).= Roberta and her
brothers; il. by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. †$1.50. Little.

  A lively story with a wide-awake, ambitious young heroine who is
  mother, sister, housekeeper and counsellor in her father’s home. Her
  trials, her triumphs, and her longings offer wholesome entertainment
  to young readers.

  “Is a book with plenty of life and vim between its covers.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 90w.

  “The story is wholesome, lively, and sufficiently natural to arouse a
  response in the heart of all girl readers.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 120w.

  “The characters are nicely differentiated, the expression fresh.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 40w.

=Bailey, Mrs. Alice Ward (A. B. Ward, pseud.).= Sage brush parson.
†$1.50. Little.

  The sage brush wastes of Nevada furnish the general setting of Mr.
  Ward’s story while the particular interest centers in one of the
  little towns filled with rough miners. Among these carousing groups
  there appears one day an Englishman of deep religious zeal and culture
  bent upon the mission of saving souls. The reader’s sympathy is
  readily won for the lonely figure, whose apparent asceticism is not
  bred in the bone, but the outgrowth of a bitter heart load. The
  melodramatic touches are thoroughly in keeping with the locale of the
  story-drama.

  “This is one of the strongest and most human stories we have read in
  months.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 557. My. ’06. 640w.

  “It is a good example of how much weakness in a plot and in style may
  be pardoned, if the central characters win our affection and hold our
  interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 29. Mr. ’06. 480w.

  “There is much strength in this vivid narrative, combined with humor,
  realistic description, and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 250w.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1224. My. 24, ’06. 430w.

  “The style is crisp, virile, incisive; and although there may be
  suggestions of Bret Harte, perhaps even of ‘The Virginian’ here and
  there, this is yet a new story, strongly told, with a character all
  its own.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 340w.

  “Logic is not A. B. Ward’s strong point, but she ... writes a readable
  story and one that keeps the attention right up to the last word.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 1100w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 110w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 130w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 80w.

=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= Outlook to nature. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  “We see that the writer is a passionate lover of nature with a strain
  of the poet in him, but we do not always find his treatment
  convincing.”

    + – =Nature.= 74: 315. Ag. 2, ’06. 430w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.

=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= Plant-breeding: being lectures upon the
amelioration of domestic plants. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  To this fourth edition of his volume in the “Garden craft series,”
  Prof. Bailey has added a new chapter on current plant-breeding
  practice. “For one who already knows something of garden plants ‘Plant
  breeding’ affords a royal road to modern evolutionary doctrine, while
  the changes in the text between the first and the present fourth
  edition show how rapid has been recent progress in this field.”
  (Atlan.)

  “Gives a remarkably simple and readable account of current practice in
  this department of horticulture, interpreting every process in the
  light of recent theory.” E. T. Brewster.

+ + |=Atlan.= 98: 424. S. ’06. 150w.

  “Most accomplished writer of pure horticultural English.” Mabel Osgood
  Wright.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14. ’06. 1190w.

=Bailie, William.= Josiah Warren, the first American anarchist: a
sociological study. **$1. Small.

  “Warren’s anarchism was of a type different from that exemplified in
  the terrorists of today; was, in fact, philosophical anarchism in its
  purest form. Upholding the doctrine of the sovereignty of the
  individual and the abolition of all government but self-government,
  and cherishing the idea that the restraints of government are not
  needed to induce each individual to exercise his liberty with due
  regard to the rights of others, Warren spent many years in the
  endeavor to demonstrate in practice the validity of his
  theories.”—Outlook.

  “Those who are interested in the growth of social theories in this
  country will welcome this little volume.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 173. Jl. ’06. 90w.

        =Critic.= 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 60w.

  “The story of the way in which Warren sought to put his teachings into
  practice makes entertaining and not unprofitable reading.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.

  “Mr. Bailie doesn’t succeed in conveying any impression of his
  personality.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 311. My. 12, 06. 540w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 240w.

        =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 565. S. ’06. 140w.

=Bain, F. W.= Digit of the moon, and other love stories from the Hindoo.
$1.50. Putnam.

  “As stories of an ancient civilization, these flowery, unhurried tales
  have a charm of movement and meaning. As love stores the tales are
  pure and ardent, mixing earthly and heavenly motive and passion in the
  intimate way of the early world.”

      + =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 230w.

=Baird, Jean K.= Cash three. 60c. Saalfield.

  A little lad, as cash boy in a department store, fighting poverty with
  his father while his mother’s relatives are trying to find him. The
  tale, ending in a happy Christmas, is full of hardships, relieved by a
  father’s devotion and a child’s natural cheerfulness.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895, D. 22, ’06. 30w.

=Baird, Jean K.= Danny. 60c. Saalfield.

  Goat Hill, an Irish washerwoman settlement, furnishes the setting of a
  story in which Mary Shannon, and Danny, the pride of her heart, are
  the principal characters.

=Baker, Abby G., and Ware, Abby H.= Municipal government of the city of
New York. *90c. Ginn.

  Altho written for eighth grade pupils in the New York schools, much of
  the discussion exceeds local interest and offers suggestions for every
  city’s government as well as help along the line of preparation for
  civil service examinations.

=Baker, Cornelia.= Queen’s page. †$1.25. Bobbs.

  “Is one of the most delightful children’s books of the year.” Amy C.
  Rich.

    + + =Arena.= 35: 333. Mr. ’06. 190w.

=Baker, Louise R.= Mrs. Pinner’s little girl $1. Jacobs.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 40w.

=Baldwin, May.= Girls of St. Gabriel’s. †$1.25. Lippincott.

      + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. D. 9, ’05. 50w.

=Baldwin, May.= That little limb; il. †$1.25. Jacobs.

  A misunderstood, unconsciously naughty little girl lives a riotous
  life in her canon uncle’s home until he has to send her away to
  school. Her friendship for a young doctor just over the wall who is
  her prince and who understands her is the foil for all her childishly
  weird thrusts at life and people.

  “Is rather a disappointing book.”

      – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ’05. 70w.

=Baldwin, Simeon Eben.= American judiciary and judicial system. *$1.25.
Century.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 60w.

=Baltzell, W. J.= Complete history of music. Presser.

  A book for schools, clubs and private reading. “The author begins at
  the beginning, with the prehistoric music of Assyrians and Egyptians,
  and follows down through Hebrew and Greek music, through the
  beginnings of mediaeval music, through the great period of the
  polyphonic ecclesiastical composers, and so to the modern schools, and
  the most modern schools There are chapters on musical instruments, on
  singing, on the origin and development of the opera and of the suite
  and sonata.” (N. Y. Times.)

  “The most useful and up-to-date history of music in any language.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 414. My. 17, ’06. 340w.

  “For its purpose, and within its limitations this history is unusually
  good, and an uncommon skill has been shown in its compilation and in
  the arrangement of its parts.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 350w.

  “Especially full and informing are the early chapters dealing with the
  origin and primitive evolution of music.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 170w.

=Baly, Edward Charles Cyril.= Spectroscopy. *$2.80. Longmans.

  “Briefly the volume may be described as an excellent scholarly
  compendium of terrestrial spectroscopy brought up to date. The subject
  of astrophysics is barely touched upon. Of the seventeen chapters
  which the treatment includes, the first seven are devoted to what
  might be called ordinary spectroscopic practice, including the theory
  and use of the prism and the diffraction grating; the remaining ten
  chapters are given to more advanced and special problems, such as
  those occurring in the infrared and ultra-violet regions,
  spectroscopic sources, the Zeeman effect, spectral series, etc.
  Concerning each of these chapters it may be said that the problem is
  always definitely stated, the English is clear and simple, and the
  references to original sources are ample.”—Astrophys. J.

  “The volume as a whole is characterized by a fine perspective and by
  always putting the emphasis in the right place. It should find a place
  in the library of every student of physical optics.” Henry Clew.

    + + =Astrophys. J.= 23: 170. Mr. ’06. 810w.

  “The book, indeed, fills a gap in spectroscopic literature which has
  long existed. Notwithstanding the few drawbacks to which attention has
  been directed, the book reflects the greatest credit on its author.”

  + + – =Nature.= 73: sup. 9. N. 30, ’05. 680w.

=Bangs, John Kendrick.= R. Holmes & co.: being the remarkable adventures
of Raffles Holmes, esq., detective and amateur cracksman by birth.
†$1.25. Harper.

  The conflicting traits and characteristics of Raffles and of Sherlock
  Holmes are strangely blended in this new hero, Raffles Holmes, who
  introduces himself as the grandson of the famous cracksman and the son
  of the great detective. His history and adventures as recorded by
  Jenkins, who is his Dr. Watson and his Bunny in one, are highly
  amusing. In the double capacity of thief and detective he enjoys a
  successful and spectacular career, for while the Raffles in him
  perpetually cries “Take” the Holmes in him thunders “Restore” and he
  does both to his own advantage.

      + =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 90w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 200w.

  “A parody needs to be remarkably well done to secure the forgiveness
  of the admirers of the original. It is to be feared that Mr. Bangs
  must go unforgiven.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 110w.

=Banks, Rev. Louis Albert.= Great promises of the Bible. $1.50. Meth.
bk.

  This is the fourth volume of a quartette, the first three of which are
  “The great sinners of the Bible,” “The great saints of the Bible,”
  “The great portraits of the Bible.” There are thirty sermons which
  comprise a complete survey of the Bible promises including the promise
  of a new heart, forgiveness, answers to prayer, sleep, home of the
  soul, victory, morning and immortality.

=Barbey, Frederic.= Friend of Marie Antoinette (Lady Atkyns). *$3.
Dutton.

  “Lady Atkyns an English actress, lived in France long enough to
  acquire violent Royalist sentiments, and to be presented to the lovely
  queen Marie Antoinette, to whose cause she forever swore allegiance.
  Her recently discovered correspondence reopens the puzzle of the
  disappearance of the Dauphin. However, the case remains as completely
  unsolved as ever.... Lady Atkyns seems to have been a monomaniac of
  very generous impulses, who was the dupe of excited French Royalists,
  and they appeared as eager for English gold as for the rescue of their
  king.”—Outlook.

  “A most disappointing book. Indeed, one is tempted to ask oneself,
  when wading through the excellent translation of M. Barbey’s work
  whether that distinguished writer really made the best of his
  material.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 401. Ap. 28, ’06. 790w.

  “The translation is, as a whole, very tolerably executed.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 507. Ap. 28, 2430w.

  “Although M. Barbey is a good compiler of evidence, he has no gift for
  vividness.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 132. Ap. 12, ’06. 1460w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 257. Ap. 21, ’06. 1460w. (Reprinted from
          Lond. Times.)

  “There are more exclamatory passages by the author than authentic
  quotations from Lady Atkyns’s letters.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 210w.

  “It is a pretty romance anyway, and a few words at least of it might
  be given as a foot note to the history of France.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 300w.

      – =Spec.= 97: 235. Ag. 18, ’06. 1510w.

=Barbour, Mrs. Anna Maynard.= Breakers ahead. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  This story outlines the life of a “sublime egoist.” A young
  Englishman, Thomas Macavoy Denning, leaves home because he has been
  expelled from school, and comes to America with the resolve to make in
  the new world, single-handed, a name which shall equal his father’s in
  the old. He succeeds in so far as wealth and position are concerned,
  by sheer will, force, and self confidence he succeeds financially; but
  on the eve of his political triumph, just as his election as governor
  of a western state seems assured, the results of a lax past, of a
  period when he sowed wild oats rises up to defeat him—and his was not
  a soul which could bear defeat.

  “The effect as a whole is not convincing. The author’s style is rather
  stilted and the dialogue is somewhat less than natural.”

      – =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 160w.

  “Otherwise the story is exceptionally well put together, and rises
  steadily toward a climax of interest that proves fairly enthralling.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 230w.

        =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Crimson sweater. †$1.50. Century.

  Life at the Ferry Hill school as Roy Porter, brother of Porter of the
  Harvard eleven, found it, forms an interesting study of the smallness
  and the breadth of various boy natures as well as a series of pictures
  of football, hockey, cross country runs, boat racing, base-ball, and
  other sports as they were played there. Harry, daughter of the
  head-master, furnishes a wholesome girl element and is Roy’s comrade
  thru the various ups and downs that made up his school life from the
  time when, as a boy, he rescued her pet rabbit, to the time when,
  having won his place as leader of the school, he is carried on the
  shoulders of his triumphant classmates at the close of the game in
  which Ferry Hill at last beat Hammond.

        =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 110w.

  “Although the book was intended primarily for boys, the wholesome,
  outdoorsy girl will find it just as interesting on account of the
  hearty friendship between the boy and one of his girl schoolmates.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.

  “It is perfectly safe to predict a large reading for this book among
  American schoolboys.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 80w.

=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Maid in Arcady. †$2. Lippincott.

  An aimless Vertumnus drifts into Arcady and beholds Clytie, a daughter
  of the gods. He gazes spellbound. So begins a tale of love which has
  the stamp of Olympia upon it, but which in reality is very modern
  after all, and, true to the adage, does not run smoothly. Believing
  that she is Laura Devereaux the girl whom his friend loves, he takes
  himself miserably away striving to forget that he had ever stumbled
  into Arcady. After a long and weary waiting he discovers his mistake
  and a happy ending ensues.

  “The new story is longer and somewhat more substantial than its
  predecessors, but equally graceful and amusing.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “The story is graceful and more spirited than one would expect from
  the emphasis given to its externals.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 130w.

=Bard, Emile.= Chinese life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: sup. 3. F. 2, ’06. 150w.

=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Cecile Vincens) (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Louis
XIV. and La Grande Mademoiselle. **$3. Putnam.

  The present story continues the career of La Grande Mademoiselle where
  the author’s “The youth of La Grande Mademoiselle” dropped it, just at
  the close of the Fronde,—that protest of the French nobility against
  centralization. Mme. Barine’s heroine was related to Louis XIII., was
  the richest heiress in France, and aspired to be an empress, a
  political power and a nun. “Her mad vagaries and misguided impulses”
  furnish material for a comic as well as a tragic study of a
  fascinating period.

  “It is a book of striking interest, and the rendering is tolerably
  well done, though it retains French idiom too much, and gives us
  occasionally but jerky English.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 70w.

  “The proof of the merit of Mme. Barine’s work lies in the fact that
  one is eager to read it in spite of the very bad translation. To a
  subject replete with picturesque interest Mme. Barine has done full
  justice.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 220w.

  “The narrative has all the vivacity of fiction, though at the same
  time its historical care and accuracy are evident at every turn. The
  translation, which is anonymous, is easy and unaffected.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 250w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 41. Jl. 5, ’06. 250w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 100w.

  “Is, to say the very least, vastly entertaining.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 1280w.

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 270w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 70w.

  “There is a lack of delicacy in some of the passages, which the
  translator would have shown better taste either by omitting or toning
  down, but the sketch given of the court and its manners is admirably
  drawn, and the pathos of the often ridiculous adventures of the
  heroine is well brought out.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 757. Je. 16, ’06. 880w.

  “The story may be read at length in these pages, admirably told by the
  author, so far as a deplorable translation permits us to appreciate
  it.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 265. F. 17, ’06. 470w.

=Barnard, William Francis.= Moods of life: poems of varied feeling. $1.
The Rooks press.

  A hundred and some poems which portray the grave as well as the gay
  moods of life.

  Reviewed by William M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 310w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. ’06. 50w.

=Barnes, James.= Outside the law. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “A detective story with the detective left out.” (Outlook.) Lorrimer,
  a man of great wealth, imparts to an old servant the secret process by
  which he can reproduce the works of old engravers with great fidelity.
  The servant’s treachery in joining a band of counterfeiters starts a
  series of situations which implicate the innocent Lorrimer, and weave
  a relentless mesh about him.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 897. D. 16, ’05. 330w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.

=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith Huddleston.= Cecilia’s lovers. †$1.50. Dodd.

  A companion book to Mrs. Barr’s “Trinity bells.” New York life of
  to-day is portrayed, but Cecilia’s “Quakeress benefactor and Quaker
  home are the most pleasing and realistic features of the book. Her
  worldly friends and lovers are by no means satisfying to the reader.”
  (Outlook.)

  “As regards the literary quality of the book there is not much to be
  said, but it is bright and pleasant, and likely enough to find
  readers.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 170w.

      + =Outlook.= 81: 380. O. 14, ’05. 60w.

=Barr, Robert.= Speculations of John Steele. †$1.50. Stokes.

  “There is not a dull page in the story. It moves on to a happy ending
  and the situations are so well handled that the reader’s attention is
  held from the beginning to the end, while as he reads he begins to
  understand why the mere pursuit of unearned wealth in this country is
  so absorbing.” Mary K. Ford.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 366. D. ’05. 1020w.

  “We cannot believe that Mr. Steele really did that which he is alleged
  to have done.”

      – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 140w.

=Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.).= Triumphs of Eugene Valmont. †$1.50.
Appleton.

  “Eugene Valmont is an addition to the large number of private
  detectives who have betrayed the confidence of their clients by
  recording their achievements.” (Ath.) His exploits carried thru a
  group of stories frequently reveal a deviation from English legal
  methods, and hence an opportunity for other than machine made results.
  “The story of how the famous diamond necklace brought ill fate to
  every one connected with it from Marie Antoinette down is capitally
  told and helps to explain why Valmont lost his place as chief of
  detectives in Paris.” (N. Y. Times.)

  “The creation of Eugene Valmont may, indeed, be counted one of Mr.
  Barr’s best achievements.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 475. Ap. 21. 200w.

  “The stories are readable but not absorbing.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 90w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.

  “Some ingenious and amusing detective stories.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 150w.

=Barrett, Alfred Wilson.= Father Pink. †$1.50. Small.

  A wily tho good-natured priest enters a fight to secure for his niece,
  Lucretia, money and diamonds which, by right of an unsubstantiated
  claim, go to the heroine of the tale, a young French girl. Interested
  in righting the much-tangled up affairs of fortune is a young bachelor
  who, tho outwitted on several occasions and who sees Father Pink
  disappear thru a tiger’s cage with the coveted diamonds, none the less
  wins the heroine and restores to her her wealth.

=Barrington, Mrs. Russell.= Reminiscences of G. F. Watts. *$5.
Macmillan.

  “The author of this affectionately fashioned memorial reveals no
  critical qualifications for her task.” Royal Cortissoz.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 277. F. ’06. 540w.

=Barrows, Charles Henry.= Personality of Jesus. **$1.25. Houghton.

  Mr. Barrows is a successful lawyer who was formerly president of the
  International Young men’s Christian association training school. The
  author discusses the personal appearance, growth and education,
  intellectual power, emotional life, will, and unwritten principles of
  Jesus.

  “This indifference to the large lessons to be learned from recent
  historical study of the Gospels is the more to be regretted, since the
  author proves himself so well qualified, in his general knowledge and
  by his warm religious feeling, to discuss the high theme upon which he
  has expended so much patient labor.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1056. N. 1, ’06. 310w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 690. My. 5, ’06. 850w.

  “The author has done as well as anyone could be expected to do without
  the aid of criticism.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 87. Jl. 26, ’06. 740w.

  “Its practical common sense, its freedom from theological
  predilections, its sincere spirit, and its unpretentious style combine
  to make it a useful aid.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 170w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 110w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 50w.

=Barry, J. P.= At the gates of the east: a book of travel among historic
wonderlands. $2. Longmans.

  “The information contained in the volume was not obtained from other
  books of travel, but derived at first hand. The places were visited in
  separate circular tours ... both in the spring and the autumn. The
  volume opens with descriptions of the capitals of Eastern Europe ...
  Cairo is the next city dealt with, after which come the cities of
  Southern Greece ... the eastern Adriatic towns ... and in the Western
  Balkans, Cettinje and the Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A
  chapter on ‘Ways and means,’ in which the author tells the prospective
  tourist how to plan the trip outlined in his book, where to start and
  at what time of the year, what places to see, a word concerning costs
  and money, guide books, etc., closes the volume.”—N. Y. Times.

  “When the author becomes eloquent or sentimental, as he often does, he
  is apt to show imperfect knowledge, and make statements which jar on
  the educated reader. Yet ... the book is pleasant and often
  instructive.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 410w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 467. Jl. 21, ’06. 590w.

=Barry, John D.= Our best society. †$1.50. Putnam.

  “It lacks Mrs. Wharton’s subtlety and finish, and is far from evincing
  great sophistication but it is none the less an accurate portrayal of
  certain phases of New York life.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 341. My. ’06. 340w.

  “A sprightly and acute narrative. Considered as a novel, the book
  lacks conventional structure and plot, but so does the life it
  discriminatingly portrays.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 120w.

  “Is written with some skill.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.

=Barry, Richard.= Sandy of the Sierras. $1.50. Moffat.

  Sandy, true to his name, is a red-headed Scotch lad who goes from the
  Sierras down to San Francisco to make his fortune. He rises from the
  lower rounds of the ladder to the heights of political fame. He
  “becomes boss of the Pacific coast, and is not above the tricks of his
  trade. You leave him happy in having at one stroke won his love and
  made his father-in-law Senator.” (N. Y. Times.)

  “The author has a better command of journalistic slang than of
  literary English.” Wm. M. Payne.

      – =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 120w.

        =Ind.= 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 180w.

  “Those who are familiar with the word-painting and lurid touches of
  Mr. Barry’s ‘Port Arthur: a monster heroism,’ will not miss them in
  his new story.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 330w.

  “Mr. Barry, no doubt, could write a better novel now.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 451. Jl. 14, ’06. 440w.

  “Much as I like Sandy I should like him better if his creator liked
  him less.”

    – + =Putnam’s.= 1: 111. O. ’06. 440w.

=Barry, William (Francis).= Tradition of Scripture: its origin,
authority, and interpretation. *$1.20. Longmans.

  “This is a volume of the ‘Westminister library,’ a series intended for
  the use of ‘Catholic priests and students,’ presumably ecclesiastical
  students.... The author’s preoccupation is theological, not
  scientific; and in his treatment of critical questions, he inquires,
  not what are the conclusions established by the evidence, but what
  proportion of these conclusions can be reconciled with the
  pronouncements of Roman authority.” (Acad.)

  “The book is no doubt well adapted to those for whom it is intended,
  many of whom will learn from it much that they do not know,
  particularly about the Old Testament; and it will serve well enough as
  material for sermons. But priests and students will be well advised
  not to rely on Dr. Barry’s treatment of the critical problems of the
  New Testament, should they ever be called upon to discuss those
  problems with persons having a real knowledge of them.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w.

  “It is an encouragement to find a Catholic writer thus generously and
  intelligently treating the critical study of the Bible, and thus ready
  to welcome the results of honest and truth-loving scholarship.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 83: 265. My. ’06. 390w.

        =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 3250w.

=Bashford, Herbert.= Tenting of the Tillicums; il. by Charles Copeland.
[+]75c. Crowell.

  “Tillicums,” the Indian word for “friends” is adopted by four boys who
  ran the round of camping adventure on Puget Sound. Their fearlessness
  is put to the test by wild animal as well as desperado, and is the
  real keynote to the spirited tale.

=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Sanitation of a country house. $1. Wiley.

  “This little book would form a useful, popular and non-technical guide
  on sanitary matters to anyone about to build a country house.”

      + =Nature.= 73: 437. Mr. 8, ’06. 50w.

  “A clean-cut, authoritative little exposition.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 120w.

=Bassett, Mrs. Mary E. Stone.= Little green door. †$1.50. Lothrop.

  “The story is pretty in its pale, anemic way, but there are so many
  lustier blossoms to be gathered.”

    + – =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05, 200w.

=Bastian, Henry Charlton.= Nature and origin of living matter. *$3.50.
Lippincott.

  “For the past thirty-five years Dr. Bastian has consistently upheld
  the doctrine that life not only in the past originated, but does at
  the present time originate, from dead matter—the doctrine once
  generally known as that of spontaneous generation.... The present book
  ... dwells particularly on the importance to medical science of proof
  that disease germs may arise de novo.... Our boards of health are
  proceeding on the assumption that one typhoid germ, for instance, is
  always the offspring of another similar germ, and that if we can
  exclude these germs we can exclude the disease.... If it be true that
  a typhoid germ may under certain conditions arise where no such germ
  existed before, our precautions, tho necessary, will often be
  unavailing. And that they are sometimes failures for this very reason
  is Dr. Bastian’s belief.”—Lit. D.

  “That the author is convinced of the truth of what he sets forth in
  his book none can doubt, but that it will succeed in making converts
  among men of science is not to be expected.” W. P. Pycraft.

      – =Acad.= 69: 1350. D. 30, ’05. 1420w.

  “Whatever one may think of the group of opinions which Dr. Bastian has
  maintained for a generation, consistently and almost alone, he is at
  least a learned man and a skillful writer, so that his discussion of
  the general problem is most illuminating.” E. T. Brewster.

    + – =Atlan.= 98: 420. S. ’06. 370w.

  “The observations and experiments are absolutely inconclusive.”

      – =Dial.= 40: 392. Je. 16, ’06. 440w.

  “No one will suggest that of the two hundred and forty-five
  micrographs reproduced in this book, a single one has been falsified;
  yet it will be almost universally held that the interpretation put
  upon them by their author and the inference drawn from them are
  incorrect.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 750w.

  “Dr. H. Charlton Bastian re-expounds his well known biological
  heresies with a vigour and industry worthy of a better cause.” J. A.
  T.

      – =Nature.= 73: 361. F. 15, ’06. 1130w.

  “Dr. Bastian’s work is an interesting one, both scientifically and, so
  to speak, psychologically. One cannot but feel in reading the work
  that the author is a man with an extraordinary amount of learning and
  industry, and it is not unlikely that the learning and industry will
  be useful at least, in drawing more attention to the subject of
  heterogenesis.” Charles Loomis Dana.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 424. Jl. 7, ’06. 1740w.

  “If this author is not quite a Huxley, he is more readable than
  Haeckel: we wonder that it never struck him that proper ‘contents,’
  page headings, and side summaries are indispensable accompaniments of
  a serious scientific book.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 610w.

=Batten, Rev. Loring W.= Hebrew prophet. $1.50 Macmillan.

  “His treatment is interesting, fresh, and skillfully related to modern
  life.” John E. McFadyen.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 316. Ap. ’06. 410w.

  “The closing chapters, on the prophet’s relation to the church and on
  the prophet’s vision, are somewhat one-sided and disappointing. As a
  whole, gives an excellent portraiture of one of the most remarkable
  figures in the history of religion.” Kemper Fullerton.

    + – =Bib. World.= 28: 155. Ag. ’06. 440w.

  “It speaks well for the American pulpit that a work of such ability
  comes from the rector of an important city parish.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 370w.

=Battine, Cecil.= Crisis of the confederacy: a history of Gettysburg and
the Wilderness. $5. Longmans.

  “Captain Battine is a clever, a vivid and an engaging writer. But his
  judgments, both of men and of events, are often airy and unbased.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 270w.

  “A confessed Confederate bias does not interfere with impartial
  treatment, and the work is quite worth study by those who are
  interested in our history as well as by professional soldiers.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 140w.

=Baughan, Edward Algernon.= Music and musicians. *$1.50. Lane.

  The twenty seven articles included in “Music and musicians” are
  reprints of the author’s contributions to English periodicals. He
  treats such subjects as “The obvious in music,” “Richard Strauss and
  his symphonic poems,” “Richard Strauss and programme music,” and
  “Wagner’s ‘Ring.’”

  “He has a way of his own in looking at men and things, and it is
  therefore not surprising if one cannot in all points agree with him.
  There are many excellent comments and criticisms in the volume.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 167. Ag. 11. 540w.

  “He has ideas of his own, and his lucid style enables him to convey
  them to the general reader even when they relate, as they must now and
  then, to matters technical.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 268. S. 27, ’06. 820w.

  “In all these matters, Mr. Baughan writes interestingly and gives
  frequent fillips to thought and discussion, even if he has not all the
  conviction of an aggressive advocate.” Richard Aldrich.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 1260w.

    + – =Spec.= 96: 1039. Je. 30, ’06. 1720w.

=Baxter, James Phinney.= Memoir of Jacques Cartier, Sieur de Limoilou:
his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the
manuscript of 1534; with annotations, etc. **$10. Dodd.

  “This volume contains a new translation from the original French of
  Cartier’s ‘Voyages’ in 1535–1536 and 1541, and the first translation
  of the manuscript discovered in 1867 in the Bibliotheque Nationale, of
  the voyage of 1534. A bibliography and a collection of all the
  pertinent documents thus far discovered in the French and Spanish
  archives and included, as well as an exhaustive memoir of
  Cartier.”—Am. Hist. R.

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 745. Ap. ’06. 90w.

  “Dr. Baxter has given us what may almost be regarded as the last word
  on the great navigator of St. Malo. His work is authoritative.”
  Lawrence J. Burpee.

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 260. Ap. 16, ’06. 1600w.

  “This volume, which seems to have been a true labor of love, is a
  worthy tribute to his memory.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 150. Ag. 16, ’06. 480w.

  “His book is distinctly valuable and an important addition to any
  library aiming to keep up with the development of the knowledge of
  American history.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.

=Bayliss, Sir Wyke.= Seven angels of the renascence. **$3.50. Pott.

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 487. Ap. 21. 1560w.

    + + =Contemporary R.= 88: 903. D. ’05. 1230w.

  “Unfortunately, however, it can scarcely be said that he has really
  contributed anything new to the vast mass of literature on the same
  subject already in circulation.”

    + – =Int. Studio.= 27: 278. Ja. ’06. 170w.

=Bazan, Emilia Pardo.= Mystery of the lost dauphin, tr. with an introd.
essay by Annabel Hord Seeger. †$1.50. Funk.

  With a dramatic power which is moving in its forcefulness this Spanish
  author has written the story of the lost dauphin, the little son of
  Louis XVI, who was long supposed to have died in prison. It is a book
  of such realism that the reader feels thruout that it is the dread
  hand of fate and not the author who relentlessly orders the unhappy
  life of Naundorff, and forces him finally to give up voluntarily the
  recognition he has struggled a lifetime to gain. The story of his
  lovely daughter Amélie, whose happiness is sacrificed, gives to the
  book a deeper human interest.

      + =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 110w.

  “This particular version of the imagined history of the Dauphin has a
  romantic atmosphere of hopeless unreality, and arouses only a languid
  sort of interest.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 113. S. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “Her literary style is remarkable for clarity and simplicity.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 398. Ag. 16, ’06. 260w.

  “It belongs to the highest type of the historical novel, drawing its
  inspiration from authentic sources and rich in those elements which
  invest the dry bones of history with flesh and blood.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w.

  “The novel is so well constructed, there is so much rich color in the
  landscapes, and so much clever character drawing that, at first sight,
  it seems strange that it does not interest one particularly. But the
  reason is not far to seek. It is a novel of propaganda.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “Generally speaking, the English will do well enough. For the story,
  in spite of Senora Bazan’s reputation, it does not in the present
  version afford those thrills which one demands in fiction of the lost
  Dauphin school.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 454. Jl. 14, ’06. 410w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 90w.

=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.= Spoilers. †$1.50. Harper.

  A story which breathes the “wild west” atmosphere of Nome and the
  outlying mining camps, one whose brutality (of the daring Jack London
  order) proves the truth of Kipling’s “there’s never a law of God or
  man runs north of Fifty-three.” The plot involves a conspiracy against
  the joint owners of the Midas, the richest mine of Anvil Creek. A
  charming girl is the unconscious agent of the villains, and is also
  the cause of bitter rivalry between one of the owners and one of the
  conspirators. There are brawls, shootings in the streets, riots,
  battles at the mines, and murderous hand-to-hand fights—all of which
  show elemental savage man free from moral restraint.