“This is an interesting description of Yezd, ‘in the very center of
  Central Persia,’ where the author was for some time engaged in
  missionary work, and enjoyed unusual opportunities of mixing with all
  sorts and conditions of people. The experience of such a stay as he
  says apologetically, is not a traveler’s experience, but what of
  that?... the sympathetic picture of Yezd scenery, life, and manners
  which he has drawn with minute and vivid accuracy is as memorable as
  it is rare.”—Ath.

  “The real value of ‘Five years in a Persian town’ lies in the
  sympathetic study of native character and modes of thought. In this
  respect Mr. Malcolm will not easily be surpassed, combining, as he
  does, keen insight and a curious subtlety of imagination with an
  incisive style relieved by delightful touches of dry humor.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 69. Jl. 15. 1680w.

  “A keen, but quiet and unobtrusive, sense of the humorous aspects of
  things runs thru the author’s pictures of Yezdi life and enhances the
  attractiveness of the volume.”

       + =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 190w.

  “The book fulfils its purpose excellently, and makes a fair guess at
  some Persian characteristics.”

       + =Nation.= 81: 286. O. 5, ‘05. 650w.

  “Mr. Malcolm has given us a very interesting, amusing and instructive
  account of Persian life.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.

* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Reconstruction of religious belief.
**$1.75. Harper.

  “Mr. Mallock attempts to aid ‘the thoughtful man of to-day,’ either
  ‘in justifying his old belief by supplying it with new foundations, or
  in building up some new belief which may possibly take its place.’ Mr.
  Mallock demonstrates that, when science has said its last word, it
  inevitably leaves us in some region outside itself in which ‘an
  intellectual solution of the contradiction between scientific and
  religious principles must be found.’”—R. of Rs.

  * “Science can never find a complete explanation of phenomena. The
  attempt to show that it can, and to dispense with philosophy, is the
  cardinal error of Mr. Mallock’s book; it finally leads him to pure
  scepticism, from which he jumps into blind credulity. Much of the book
  is of considerable value. The whole of the third part, in which the
  case for scientific agnosticism is criticised, is admirable,
  particularly the demonstration that chance has no real existence.”

     + — =Acad.= 68: 1171. N. 11, ‘05. 2190w.

  * “It is a good book to be read at a single sitting, like a good
  novel. To say that it is interesting, well written, and appropriate to
  the times, is to offer it the merest justice; but to describe it as a
  complete success is perhaps going too far. Perhaps it would be more
  successful if it were less complete.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

     + + =Dial.= 39: 440. D. 16, ‘05. 1470w.

  * “The soundest part of Mr. Mallock will be found in the
  considerations which he develops in his earlier chapters rather than
  in the more pretentious ‘solution’ which he proclaims in his
  concluding book.”

     + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 355. O. 27, ‘05. 1920w.

  * “Mr. Mallock offers nothing really new in his argument, but it
  derives a novel coloring from its relations to recent scientific
  views, and piquancy from his wit and humor. The book is brightly
  written and the thought is throughout interesting. The proof-reading
  leaves something to be desired.”

   + + — =Nation.= 81: 451. N. 30, ‘05. 1020w.

 *     + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 100w.

  * “He is doing good service not only to the cause of religious
  apology, but to society, and above all, to truth, which has suffered
  long and much from the timidity of science to push its conclusions to
  logical issue.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. O. 14, ‘05. 1860w.

=Mann, Henry.= Adam Clarke. $1. Popular book co.

  “A narrative of the experiences of a family of British emigrants to
  the United States in cotton mill, iron foundry, coal mine, and other
  fields of labor.” The author, whose work as a newspaper man has
  brought him in contact with the phases of life treated in this story,
  tells of the abuses at the immigrant office, and scores the
  protectionists, the settlement workers, the Pittsburg militia, and the
  Pennsylvania railroad. The many hardships suffered by all of their
  class are vividly detailed as the history of the Clarke family
  progresses.

  “The ferocity of the painted picture is such that nobody is likely to
  take it as a literal transcription of conditions—but nobody who knows
  the city or human nature will doubt the existence of a substantial
  basis for some of the author’s fury. To be sure he is a partisan, and
  as is the way of partisans, his eye is single and fixed. Well-informed
  and well-balanced people may read it with profit. It might be less
  good for incipient anarchists.”

  (Outline of plan).

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1180w.

  “As a novel the work calls for no consideration, but it is deserving
  of attention as an obviously sincere attempt to present the grievances
  and sufferings of the poor in a manner that will quicken sympathy to
  action. Unfortunately, ... the writer, through ignoring the reverse
  side of the shield and through undoubted exaggeration, tends to repel
  rather than attract the thoughtful reader, and to inflame rather than
  broaden the thoughtless.”

     + — =Outlook.= 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.

=Mann, Hugh.= Bound and Free: two dramas. *50c. Badger, R: G.

  An argument for sex-emancipation, for doing away with marriage, the
  family, the home as they exist to-day. The author calls the dramas
  which illustrate his point Bound, and Free, he makes the chief
  characters in each declare that they can love many men, or women, as
  the case may be, at the same time and in the same way, but can love
  but one supremely, their soulmate. Most conventional people will
  consider this book immoral.

* =Mannix, Mary Ella.= Children of Cupa. 45c. Benziger.

  A pathetic story of the eviction of the Cupa Indians from their home
  in California on the Warner ranch, told in connection with the
  experiences of a family of campers who spent six weeks of the last
  summer the Indians remained on their ancestral lands at the Hot
  Springs on the old reservation, and learned to know the people and to
  sympathize with them, and to understand their life and the part the
  missions played in it.

=Manzoni, Alessandro.= Sacred hymns [Gl’ inni sacri] and the Napoleonic
ode [Il cinque maggio] of Alexander Manzoni; tr. by Joel Foote Bingham.
*$3. Oxford.

  The translator has aimed “to give the exact sense of the author.” The
  Italian texts are also given in the appendix and there is a portrait
  of Manzoni, a biographical preface, as well as historical
  introductions and critical notes.

  “Dr. Bingham’s translations are painstaking, and, if one knows the
  original, one can recognize that he has given an equivalent for many
  of Manzoni’s thoughts; but the metrical charm and the poetry have
  evaporated. Whoever desires a complete outfit of notes and critical
  opinions on Manzoni’s hymns and ode will find them in this book.”

       + =Nation.= 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 390w.

  “We have nothing with this rendering.”

       — =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.

* =Mar, Alice=, il. Japanese child life, with new stories and verses by
Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.

  The strange faces, quaint costumes, odd games, amusements and
  occupations of the little Japanese children are prettily set forth in
  picture and verse. There are eight full-page illustrations in color.

 *     + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.

  * “The stories and little poems have grace, quaintness, and charm.”

       + =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 90w.

=Marble, Annie Russell.= Books in their seasons. **30c. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “What is worth while series,” this little volume
  pleads for not “the gentle reader,” but “the sane reader,” suggests
  some authors and books, and asks the reader in his own further
  choosing to follow nature’s moods and seasons, to read books fitting
  to the time, and in harmony with the outer world.

=Marchmont, Arthur William.= Courier of fortune. †$1.50. Stokes.

  “The story is placed in a town known as Morvaix, ruled badly,
  viciously, by one Duke de Rochelle. Reports of the misrule reach the
  ears of the Duke de Bourbon, the suzerain lord, and he sends his son
  Gerard secretly to investigate the charges. This Gerard does, and a
  remarkable chain of circumstances so adjusts matters that the young
  man falls in love, and is loved in return by the very girl that de
  Rochelle means to make his own. Here is fire and tinder in
  plenty.”—Pub. Opin.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.

         =Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 90w.

* =Marden, Orison Swett.= Choosing a career. **$1. Bobbs.

  The founder and editor of “Success” has prepared a volume which will
  undoubtedly prove valuable to all those who need practical aid in
  selecting a life-work. In part one, he discusses the considerations
  which are related to the choice of a life-calling, such as parental
  influence, environment, health, money making, and the temperamental
  and mental qualities which different lines of work demand. Part
  second. Suggestions as to possible careers, contains sound advice and
  helpful suggestions by men and women whose choice has brought them
  success in their various callings. Twenty-eight different trades and
  professions are treated in as many chapters. The book is illustrated
  with the photographs of some of those who have chosen wisely.

* =Marden, Orison Swett.= Making of a man. †$1.25. Lothrop.

  “The cheerful philosophy that Dr. Marden has preached in previous
  books he insists upon in this which consists of a series of talks
  especially intended for young men. Examples of the world’s heroes are
  cited, the world’s leaders of thought are liberally quoted, anecdotes
  are given; and thus, by precept, illustration, and in symposium of
  opinions, Dr. Marden reinforces his own teachings in regard to
  perseverance, ‘self-honor,’ courage, self control, money, success,
  ‘Moral daring,’ and kindred subjects.”—Outlook.

 *     + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.

  * “He preaches self-control, determination, rectitude, industry,
  thoroughness, courage—and who would gainsay him?”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 400w.

  * “Dr. Marden’s style is full of inspiration and suggestion.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 60w.

=Margoliouth, David Samuel.= Mohammed, the rise of Islam. **$1.35.
Putnam.

  This fortieth volume in the “Heroes of the nations” series, “gives
  first a survey of the conditions of Arabia and Arab life at the time
  when Mohammed first appeared.... The biography of the prophet consists
  largely in following the military, political, and religious campaigns
  with which he spread the religion of Islam, and which Mr. Margoliouth
  traces in detail.... His genius, according to this biographer, was
  equal to the emergencies, but not too great for them.” (N. Y. Times.)

       + =Dial.= 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 310w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 510w.

  “Apart from the dragoon-like treatment of the question of the
  prophet’s sincerity and of all phases of his religious development,
  and despite defects of verbosity and discursiveness, the book is of no
  uncertain value.”

     + — =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 230w.

* =Marks, G. Croyden.= Hydraulic power engineering. *$3.50. Van
Nostrand.

  In this second edition the author has enlarged the work for the
  purpose of including some examples of new developments connected with
  hydraulic pressing and lifting machinery, and introducing
  illustrations of typical valves and machines. The text has also been
  fully revised.

=Marriott, Charles.= Genevra. $1.50. Appleton.

  This is more than a character study, it is also a soul study of a girl
  of twenty-nine whose young days have been spent quietly on a
  Cumberland farm. Hopelessly out of touch with the simple folk around
  her, she turns to poetry as an emotional outlet and has written a
  number of magazine poems and is publishing a book of verses when the
  story opens. The young artist, Leonard Morris, wakes all the
  slumbering fires of her nature, she is gloriously happy and her poems
  sing of it; when she finds that he fails to understand her, her
  publisher is the first to detect it in the new note of her work. It is
  a single hearted story of loyalty to love and to work. There are some
  good minor characters, her commonplace and ungenial family are drawn
  with pathetic humor.

  “Her life-story is a tapestry of severe design and sombre hue.” W. M.
  Payne.

       + =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 230w.

  “It is not an exceptionally original theme, but it is not that it
  easily lends itself to dramatic situations, strong character
  contrasts, and the expression of vivid emotions—all valuable adjuncts
  in novel making—and the author of Genevra has used every one of them
  to good advantage, besides giving ample evidence of his being the
  possessor of the same subtle force and style that rendered his
  previous book notable.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7. ‘05 1070w.

=Marshall, Archibald.= House of Merrilees. †$1.50. Turner.

  A mystery surrounds the house of Merrilees. Its master dies suddenly,
  his body disappears and with it his fortune which he had converted
  into jewels. The mistress of Merrilees had died abroad some years
  before, and it was given out that their infant son died with her. A
  young cousin takes possession of both the estates and the mystery and
  discovers the real heir in the person of his best friend. There is
  also a love interest.

  “Mr. Marshall has conceived a sufficiently ingenious plot for his
  novel of mystery; but he does not succeed in gripping the attention
  and holding it from the start to the gasp of satisfied excitement at
  the finish.”

     + — =Acad.= 68: 198. Mr. 4, ‘05. 200w.

  “This is an excellent story of a mystery so well and so artistically
  concealed that the final disclosure gives rise to a feeling of
  pleasure, not only at the nature of the surprise, but also at its
  inevitableness.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 555. My. 6, 180w.

  * “It all makes exciting reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 260w.

  * “Is surprisingly good reading.”

       + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 90w.

  “Mr. Marshall is quite entertaining, his imagination is lively, and
  possibly he may regard the novel as a huge joke.”

       + =Sat. R.= 99: 745. Je. 3, ‘05. 260w.

  “The book will while away an unoccupied hour very pleasantly.”

       + =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.

=Marshall, Beatrice.= Queen’s knight errant. †$1.50. Dutton.

  A romance of the days of Raleigh and the virgin queen. A little girl
  is washed ashore in Devon on the land of a recluse alchemist named
  Vidal. A neighboring esquire takes charge of the child and brings her
  up with his own sons. The romance of this waif who turns out to be
  Vidal’s sister, and one of these sons is woven about Raleigh’s love
  affair with Mrs. Throgmorton, their secret marriage, and the anger of
  the queen.

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 660w.

  “Too high-flown in style to suit the present taste.”

       — =Outlook.= 79: 452. F. 18, ‘05. 20w.

* =Marsland, Frank.= Occupations in life; a fund of practical
information and business advice for boys and young men. $1.50. C. E.
Fitchett, 57 Warren st. N. Y.

  The author who is a mercantile reporter with the Bradstreet company,
  draws easily upon his fund of professional experience in offering
  business counsel to young men. The advice emphasizes an early
  selection of life work, a careful use of spare hours for promoting
  interests along special lines of work, and a better understanding of
  conditions in the business world and the world of occupations.

 *     + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 586. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.

=Martin, Edward Sanford.= Courtship of a careful man. †$1.25. Harper.

  “A collection of short stories of New York life, having a peculiar
  quality of their own. Quite modern in effect, they have a background
  of good breeding distinctly American. The conversations among
  different members of the families represented are clever, and exhibit
  a complete and happy knowledge of the world.”—Outlook.

  “In this latest book we find Mr. Martin in rather lighter vein than is
  his wont, but as always, excellent company.”

       + =Bookm.= 21: 545. Jl. ‘05. 240w.

  * “Clever and disappointing book.” Frances Duncan.

     + — =Critic.= 47: 454. N. ‘05. 260w.

  “Few writers of fiction can be reproached with too light a touch, but
  we should say that Mr. Martin is one of them.”

     — + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 470w.

  “The entire collection of stories is delightfully light, breezy, and
  easy and attractive reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.

  “Both the author’s style and his characters may be fitly described as
  alluring.”

       + =Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.

     + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 60w.

=Martin, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert.= Homer Martin; a reminiscence. *$1.50.
W: Macbeth, N. Y.

  This beautiful memorial gives us but a slight glimpse into the life of
  the author’s artist husband, whose landscapes, into which he has put
  his best self, she feels are better able to interpret him than she. It
  is illustrated by half tone reproductions of Martin’s better known
  paintings.

  “In the distinction of its perfect English, its reserve where there
  might have been enthusiasm, and its sincerity where there was room for
  flattery, it is a very model for biographers.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 80: 550. Ja. ‘05. 150w.

  “This little sketch was well worth doing. While very modestly done,
  Martin’s claims to greatness are fully presented.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 70w.

=Martin, Helen Reimensnyder.= Sabina, a story of the Amish. $1.25.
Century.

  Sabina, a pretty Amish maid with wistful eyes, is haunted by a face of
  strange ugliness which appears from time to time as a warning of
  impending disaster to herself or family. A young artist comes to her
  home as a summer boarder, and Sabina falls in love with him.
  Everything points towards tragedy, but the face and her infatuation
  for the artist are alike banished by a fever, and she returns to her
  people and her Amish lover. The real charm of the story lies in the
  Pennsylvania-German dialect and the local color.

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 644. S. 30, ‘05. 260w.

       + =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 120w.

  “Although the characters of Sabina and Tillie are similar, although
  there is practically the same atmosphere and environment, the second
  book does not equal the first.”

     + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 130w.

=Martin, Hiram=, ed. See =Smet, Father Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters
and travels of.

=Martindell, Mrs. Charlotte S.= Diary of a bride. **$1. Crowell.

  “If I must choose between dusting unread books and reading undusted
  ones, may the wise fates help me always to choose the latter. I hate
  dusty, grimy books and shall make a desperate effort both to read and
  dust.” So says this bride, and she is as good as her word to establish
  in her home making and her heart-keeping an admirable poise.

=Martineau, James.= Tides of the Spirit. *$1. Am. Unitar.

  “Selections from the writings of James Martineau. The book is edited
  by the Rev. Alfred Lazenby, who contributes a sympathetic
  introduction—an essay on ‘the master who first opened mine eyes to the
  spiritual realities of life and taught me to see the divine within the
  human.’”—Dial.

         =Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 60w.

=Marvin, Frederic Rowland.= Companionship of books, and other papers.
**$1.50. Putnam.

  The author has collected in this volume many papers upon as many
  subjects all of which show the touch of one who has lived a scholar’s
  life. The title essay calls the reader’s attention to the author’s
  chosen friends in the world of books, then follows an essay on
  autograph treasures, and one called Modern builders of air-castles,
  which treats of the Brook farm experiment. Papers upon matters
  historical, literary, and religious, follow. The varied subjects and
  the brevity of their treatment make the book one which may be
  profitably picked up in odd leisure moments.

  * “It is a frightful hodge podge of subjects, but one may find a
  number of things of more or less curious interest in the heterogeneous
  mass.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 917. D. 23, ‘05. 300w.

* Mary the queen. 50c. Benziger.

  A story of the virgin Mary for little people.

=Maskell, Alfred.= Ivories. $6.75. Putnam.

  A notable addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The author traces
  his subject to every land in every period. He discusses the
  achievement of the earliest dynasties of Assyria and Egypt, shows the
  high place of the Byzantine work, devotes a chapter to Japanese and
  Chinese ivory sculpture, treats some of the technical phases of
  carving, and concludes with a chapter on the nineteenth century and
  present day products of the art. There are numerous beautiful
  illustrations in photogravure and half tone.

   + + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 247. Ag. 19. 1540w.

  “The first compendious account in any language of the progress of
  ivory carving thru-out the world’s history. A high standard of
  excellence is set in this book; it cannot fail to take rank at once as
  the authoritative work upon the subject of which it treats.” Frederick
  W. Goodkin.

   + + + =Dial.= 39: 239. O. 16, ‘05. 1750w.

  “The present volume will be found satisfactory and very
  comprehensive.”

     + + =Ind.= 59:696. S. 21, ‘05. 240w.

  “If he could have trusted our capacity and interest a little further
  he would have given us both less and more, and his book might perhaps
  have gained something in coherence, completeness, and proportion.”

   + + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 284. S. 8, ‘05. 1120w.

  “While our praise, therefore, cannot be very hearty, this still
  remains the largest book of the sort, with the most complete display
  of pictures.”

     + — =Nation.= 81: 171. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1070w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.

  “In all his chapters, however, along with much technical information,
  Mr. Maskell enlightens the reader with keen and original observations
  on the significance of the various epochs.”

     + + =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 170w.

  “One of the excellent features of this learned book is the manner in
  which the information has been presented. Clearness of thought and
  arrangement is to be found throughout.”

   + + + =Spec.= 95: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1490w.

=Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley.= Truants. $1.50. Harper.

  An exciting story of London life in which the truants are a young
  married couple living with the rich and domineering father of the
  husband. To escape this tyranny the young man leaves his wife and sets
  forth to carve a new fortune for her and for himself. He at last joins
  the Foreign legion in Africa and wins distinction, but is called home
  by the news that his foolish young wife has fallen into the clutches
  of an adventurer. The real interest lies in the character of Pamela
  Mardale and her lover who protect and assist the truants and thereby
  find their own happiness.

  “There is a good deal of variety about this romance, but it is not a
  very organic piece of work. The best part of it is that devoted to the
  Foreign legion, of which the author seems to have made a special
  study. It is fairly new ground for the average reader.” W. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 270w.

  “He writes in a prosaic manner of the most romantic passions.”

       — =Ind.= 59: 216. Jl. 27, ‘05. 80w.

  “‘The truants’ is a departure from two established canons of art: that
  the heroine must be interesting, and the motif adequate. The author’s
  style has distinction, color and restraint; his product is fiction to
  be read, not fiction manufactured to be sold.”

     + + =Reader.= 5: 254. Ja. ‘05. 420w.

  “Sure to awaken the reader’s interest.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 120w.

=Mason, Arthur James.= Historic martyrs of the primitive church. *$3.20.
Longmans.

  The author “has aimed to present nothing which may not be relied upon
  as historically true.... He has endeavored, he writes, to present the
  stories of the acts of the martyrs during the first three centuries of
  Christianity in a plain and straightforward manner, with only such
  explanations and illustrations as the ordinary reader may require; he
  has omitted lengthy discussions, unnecessary dates, questions of
  genuineness, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

     + + =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 230w.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 938. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

  “The narratives are set forth in graphic form, and Dr. Mason has
  accomplished a most interesting task.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 653. My. 27. 460w.

  “Mr. Mason writes of them with tender sympathy, devout veneration, and
  scholarly competence.”

   + + + =Cath. World.= 81: 397. Je. ‘05. 210w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 160w.

  “Has brought together in a sifted and trustworthy form the chief
  records of the passion of the primitive martyrs.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 99: 810. Je. 17, ‘05. 1270w.

  “A most valuable contribution to the history of Christian life.”

   + + + =Spec.= 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 340w.

=Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Beethoven and his forerunners. **$2. Macmillan.

  Dr. Mason, who sent out his “From Grieg to Brahms” two years ago, has
  now rendered the musical world another distinct service. “It has been
  said of Dr. Daniel Gregory Mason that he often ‘expresses what one has
  felt, but never quite formulated.’” The book “opens with a chapter on
  ‘The periods of musical history,’ touches on ‘Palestrina and the music
  of mysticism’ and ‘The principles of pure music,’ followed by
  biographical and critical studies of Hadyn, Mozart, and Beethoven.”
  (Dial.)

  “Displays that firm grasp of the subject which makes it interesting as
  well as valuable reading for the student. There is a chord of
  sincerity in all that Dr. Mason writes; and while he is never
  pedantic, his work shows remarkable insight into the origin and
  development of musical works.” Ingram A. Pyle.

     + + =Dial.= 38: 237. Ap. 1, ‘05. 390w.

  “The book itself is altogether a better book—a more creditable piece
  of writing than its predecessor.”

     + + =Ind.= 59: 41. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w.

  “The author has a happy gift of turning a phrase so that it is easily
  remembered, and a still more valuable gift of a right judgment, which
  makes his phrases helpful and not misleading.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w.

     + + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.

  “It is doubtful if this book of Mr. Mason’s will prove as valuable or
  find as wide acceptance as his earlier one. Mr. Mason ... gives much
  that is valuable in the contemporary discussion of music.” Richard
  Aldrich.

   + + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 530w.

  “One of the few writers of to-day who can see the philosophy of
  musical development in its relation to the general progress of the
  world, and can, moreover, write about this in an entertaining way. The
  touch is that of one who not only knows but feels his theme in its
  greatness.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 110w.

* =Masson, Thomas Lansing (Tom Masson).= Corner in women. **$1.60.
Moffat.

  “A collection of more or less humorous sketches furnished to
  periodicals, and especially to ‘Life,’ in recent times, and well
  supplied with short stories, fables, epigrams, squibs, jokes, and
  humorous verse, with a Gibson girl cover and many other
  pictures.”—Outlook.

 *     + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 20w.

  * “All the ‘follies’ are clever, and there is plenty of variety in
  both subject and manner of treatment.”

       + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.

 *   + + =Ind.= 59: 1383. D. 14, ‘05. 90w.

 *       =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 160w.

  * “Like all other books of its kind, this volume suffers from what
  might be called unstable humorous equilibrium, but it contains many
  really funny things.”

       + =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.

* =Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays
written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.

  “Mr. Masterman ... attempts to describe the tendencies of English
  civilization, to estimate the nature of its dominant ideals, and to
  point out recent changes which have occurred in these, the nature of
  the foundation upon which they rest, and the likelihood of
  catastrophes in the future. That he is also filled with a passionate
  sense of the injustice of the system which both creates and
  evangelizes the slums, and with a hatred for the idols of the
  marketplace, is evident on every page and lends pathos to much of his
  writing.”—Ath.

  * “A good deal of it is mere journalism. With the modern journalist’s
  eye for effect and instinct for phrasing, Mr. Masterman has also a
  good deal of his love of sweeping statements. It is just this lack of
  balance, this emotionalism, which we think injures the writer’s style.
  His rhetoric is too monotonous, and his pathos too recurrent, to be
  effective. In our opinion, then, the book is clever, interesting, and
  useful, but hardly great. At the same time we welcome its appearance.”

     + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 38. Jl. 8. 1430w.

  * “He has studied the life of the poor closely, and has pleaded their
  cause with passionate conviction. He has moreover all the gifts of a
  very persuasive writer, and his style, always easy and attractive,
  rises sometimes to heights of a real eloquence. Mr. Masterman’s
  defects are the defects of his qualities.”

   + + — =Sat. R.= 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 1480w.

  * “Nobility of temper; catholicity of personal; literary, and
  religious, though hardly of political appreciation; and frequently a
  striking felicity of phrase are among the notes of Mr. Masterman’s
  essays.”

     + + =Spec.= 95: 355. S. 9, ‘05. 1260w.

=Matarazzo, Francisco.= Chronicles of the city of Perugia, 1492-1503,
tr. by Edward S. Morgan. *$1.25. Dutton.

  “Matarazzo tells the story of Perugia under the rule of the Baglioni,
  that clan of full-limbed men and lovely women, whose delicate
  complexions and golden locks filled and dazzled him with such a sense
  of their more than human beauty that he almost forgot their crimes in
  his fervid, well-nigh amorous, worship of their splendor and their
  strength. Such is the chronicle which Mr. Morgan has ventured to do
  into English; and it is hardly too much to say that the English is as
  good as the Italian.”—Nation.

   + + + =Acad.= 68: 634. Je. 17, ‘05. 1250w.

  * “Mr. Morgan’s translation, as a piece of English, is most admirably
  done; the archaic flavor he has imparted to the story has a distinct
  charm. There is one complaint to be lodged against him, however: we
  think he should have put his readers in a position where they would be
  better able to judge of Matarazzo’s veracity.”

   + + — =Cath. World.= 82: 412. D. ‘05. 530w.

  “A fascinating picture of the moral, social and religious conditions
  of society in a typical Italian city during the Renaissance.”

     + + =Ind.= 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 190w.

  “We have never seen a translation which has more completely caught the
  spirit of the original.”

   + + + =Nation.= 80: 522. Je. 29, ‘05. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.

  “A careful English translation.” Walter Littlefield.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 170w.

  “In these chronicles, Matarazzo ... displays a clear, picturesque
  style. He is sometimes garrulous, it is true, but seldom prolix.”

       + =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

=Mather, Persis.= Counsels of a worldly godmother. †$1.50. Houghton.

  “We cannot imagine a goddaughter who would not turn a grateful ear to
  the tactful ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother,’ by Mrs. Mather. The
  witty and diplomatic woman of the world, who here attempts to direct a
  debutante to the right path to genuine social success, is not in any
  undesirable sense of the word ‘worldly.’ She stands for the best that
  Society with a large S is capable of producing, and she points to the
  way of attaining that best and of escaping the pitfalls of sham,
  snobbery, notoriety, and ostentation. While her counsels are addressed
  primarily to those who are striving to get on in society, they can be
  followed with advantage by all aspirants to sweet and gracious
  womanhood.”—Pub. Opin.

  “No less wise than witty are these ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 550w.

  “While she never appeals to a particularly high motive or sets up a
  lofty ideal, the common sense and the sparkle of her curtain lectures
  may attract notice when more serious writing would fail.”

       + =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.

       + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 180w.

=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank
Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.

  Subjective views of the country taken by an artist in colors and
  another in words. The book “is no more than a quiet introduction to
  Ireland” without statistics and without wrangling. “We find a sympathy
  with the poor, a love of wild nature, an appreciation of modest
  perfections, an absence of all ill-temper or rancour which are rare
  and refreshing in a book about Ireland.” (Ath.)

  “On the whole the geography is accurate, and the painter’s sketches
  are in their outline so also. We cannot lay down this interesting book
  without the feeling that it is in many senses over-coloured.”

   + + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 216. Ag. 12. 840w.

  “Ireland is a sadder, grayer country than Mr. Mathew has described or
  Mr. Walker painted.”

     + — =Nation.= 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 460w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 360w.

         =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 130w.

  “He is not always accurate. But he knows his history, and he makes it
  interesting to others.”

     + — =Sat. R.= 99: 813. Je. 17, ‘05. 280w.

=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Billy Duane. †$1.50. Dodd.

  A story of politics and society in New York, which concerns an
  estranged couple. Billy Duane, the mayor, turns his Madison avenue
  house into political headquarters in his wife’s absence. Mrs. Billy
  objects to rough politicians and cigar stumps, but is fond of roulette
  at any cost and is discovered at the game when a dress-making
  establishment is raided by the police. The affairs of the Duanes and
  numerous friends of their type form the plot, which works out happily,
  ending with a reconciliation.

  “With the flashes of inspiration characteristic of this writer. The
  book is written on a more pretentious scale than its author’s ability
  in character-drawing seems to warrant.”

     + — =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 30w.

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 173. Mr. 18, ‘05. 570w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.

  “A style that is a composite of ‘The duchess’ and certain more modern
  and strenuous American writers.”

       + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 70w.

  “It lacks neither rapid movement nor interesting central theme, but is
  written in an irritating staccato style ... which makes it hard to
  read.”

     + — =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.

=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Marquise’s millions. **$1. Funk.

  An American girl in France, direct heir to her aunts’ immense estate,
  learns that it has been the life long intention of these relatives to
  bequeath their millions to “The Nineteenth Louis” when he should
  return to France and to his rights. She contrives with the aid of an
  ambitious mother and a scheming lover to have the latter impersonate
  the long absent Louis and win the fortune. Finally, her honor asserts
  itself, she discloses the intrigue, and starts out to battle with life
  alone.

  * “This is a romantic little tale of devotion to the Bourbon cause,
  light, readable and effective rather than well written.”

       + =Acad.= 68: 1033. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.

         =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 60w.

  “This is a sprightly tale.”

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 490w.

  “An original situation which the author has devised and cleverly made
  much of.”

       + =Outlook.= 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.

  “A really delightful story.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w.

=Mathews, Shailer.= Messianic hope in the New Testament. *$2.50. Univ.
of Chicago press.

  “The messianic hope of the Pharisees is formulated as a criterion
  for historical interpretation. With its aid a study is made of the
  messianic ideas of Jesus, the New Testament doctrine of judgment
  and justification through faith; the messiahship of Jesus as the
  basis of the apostolic theodicy; the messianic age and its
  forerunner the gift of the spirit; the resurrection of the body;
  the coming of the kingdom; the ‘consummation.’ As a conclusion
  there is shown the distinction between the essential and the
  formal elements of historical Christianity made possible by such
  an investigation.”—Pub.’s note.

  * “A very able treatment of this theme, conservative in spirit, yet
  thoro in research.”

     + + =Ind.= 58: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.

  “Is the best monograph on the subject with which we are acquainted.”

   + + + =Outlook.= 80: 982. Ag. 19, ‘05. 620w.

     + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 360w.

=Mathot, R. E.= Gas engines and producer gas plants. tr. from the French
by Waldemar B. Kaempffert. $2.50. Henley.

  A practical treatise setting forth the principles of gas engines and
  producer design, the selection and installation of an engine,
  conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their
  possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a
  chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.

  “The original is very clearly written and the translator has succeeded
  in preserving this clearness.” Storm Bull.

   + + + =Engin. N.= 53: 527. My. 10, ‘05. 280w.

=Matthews, (James) Brander=, ed. American familiar verse. See Wampum
library of American literature. v. 3.

=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Recreations of an anthologist. **$1. Dodd.

  Eleven brief papers, by-products of the author’s work upon his four
  anthologies. There are essays upon “Unwritten books.” “Seed corn for
  stories,” “American epigrams,” “Carols of cookery,” “Recipes in
  rhyme,” “The uncollected poems of H. C. Bunner,” and “The strangest
  feat in modern magic.”

       + =Critic.= 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w.

  “A volume of pleasant literary essays.”

     + + =Dial.= 38: 54. Ja. 16, ‘05. 70w.

  “Entertaining little volume.”

       + =Nation.= 80: 197. Mr. 9, ‘05. 600w.

=Matthews, Mary Anderson.= Love vs. law. $1.50. Broadway pub.

  The interestingly sketched career of a young Wellesley graduate who
  returns to her Missouri home and determines to study law. This fair
  Portia is admitted to the bar, conducts many a successful case,
  becomes an advocate of equal rights, but withal loses not for a moment
  her girlish winsomeness nor womanly courage. Eventually she becomes
  wholly reconciled to the part that Cupid plays in staying the progress
  of her profession.

=Mauclair, Camille.= Auguste Rodin; the man, his ideas, his work. $4.
Dutton.

  In this account of the sculptor and his work, the sculptor speaks for
  himself and his admiring biographer speaks for him; between them we
  are given a view of the methods of Rodin, and his valuable views upon
  the education of other sculptors.

  “Though M. Mauclair is rather the advocate than the critic, his book,
  if only for the many quotations from the master’s conversations, is of
  genuine interest.”

   + + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 407. Ap. 1. 1360w.

  “A precise though rather over-eulogistic statement of Rodin’s
  personality and work, and a study of the artist’s psychology and its
  application to his personal ideas upon the technical principles of
  sculpture and his methods of work.”

   + + — =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 160w.

  “M. Mauclair is ... a violent partisan.”

   + + — =Nation.= 80: 439. Je. 1, ‘05. 590w.

  “M. Camille Mauclair does not leave us with the feeling that we know
  the man Rodin.” Charles de Kay.

     — + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 257. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1630w.

  “From its pages a just appreciation of the artist can be gained.”

     + + =Spec.= 95: 227. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1340w.

=Maude, Aylmer.= The Doukhobors. $1.50. Funk.

  Mr. Maude, who made the arrangements with the Canadian government
  which led to the migration of the Doukhobors to Canada, and who thru
  his keen sympathy with the work of Tolstoi was early drawn into a
  close study of this peculiar people, is especially fitted to write
  such a work. It contains a history of the Doukhobors, and traces their
  connection in the past with the Lollards, Anabaptists, Quakers and
  other sects. It also gives a vivid account of their migration to
  Canada, and of the famous “pilgrimage” in 1902, which was finally
  checked by the Canadian government. The author finds in the
  waywardness of so strange a sect, in their lack of appreciation of the
  favor granted by the Canadians, a proof that Tolstoi, sincere and
  earnest and far-seeing as he is, is yet not infallible in point of
  judgment. Incidental to his account of “The Christian commune of
  universal brotherhood” Mr. Maude also takes a stand for individual
  ownership of property. The book, he says, is a public apology for his
  having helped, however unwillingly, to mislead the Canadian government
  as to the nature and religion of the people he has settled among them.

         =Acad.= 68: 608. Je. 10, ‘05. 810w.

  “To Mr. Elkinton’s book that of Mr. Maude may justly be looked upon as
  a pendant.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 103. Jl. 22. 1190w.

  “The disconnectedness and lack of sequence in his chapters ... and the
  large amount of irrelevant matter make the book something of a
  conundrum to the reader until he reaches the final chapter.”

     + — =Ind.= 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 460w.

  “At last we have a work from which the student of sociological
  experiments and systems, as well as the ordinary laymen, can obtain a
  fair, clear, and sufficiently complete conception of the truly
  ‘peculiar’ Russian sectarians about whom so much that is prejudiced or
  erroneous has been written.”

     + + =Nation.= 80: 212. Mr. 16, ‘05. 2180w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 69. F. 4, ‘05. 1470w. (Abstract of book).

  “Although not very well put together, is an extremely interesting
  study of ‘a peculiar people.’”

     + — =Outlook.= 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 410w.

  “His book is not so good as it should be from a deficiency in the need
  of perspective; or perhaps a readiness to use up old material.”

     + — =Sat. R.= 99: 635. My. 13, ‘05. 700w.

         =Spec.= 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 560w.

=Maule, Francis I.= Only letters. **$1. Jacobs.

  “In the approaching season of the American exodus to Europe, this gay
  record of pleasant travel, written by an intelligent man to his
  brother, will prove a welcome addition to the books set aside to read
  on the steamship. From England, Russia, Egypt, and here and there
  between, the writer gathered impressions.”—Outlook.

  “He is gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary, keen perceptions, and
  a vast treasury of real American humor, sometimes a trifle
  exasperating, but never by any chance dull.”

       + =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.

=Maurer, Edward R.= Technical mechanics. $4. Wiley.

  “The author shows close sympathy with the point of view of the
  beginner, and appreciation of the fact that at certain points the
  conventional treatment of fundamental principles fails to meet the
  need of the ordinary student. As features of Maurer’s book may be
  mentioned the emphasis everywhere given to the vector nature of the
  qualities dealt with, the parallel treatment of graphical and
  analytical methods in statics, the admirable chapter on work and
  energy, and the satisfactory treatment of the subject of
  units.”—Science.

  “As a sound and practical text-book for the use of students of
  engineering Professor Maurer’s book possesses high merit. The
  exposition is nearly always concise. The soundness of the logic is
  rarely open to question.” L. M. Hoskins.

   + + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 302. F. 24, ‘05. 1300w.

=Maxwell, Donald.= Log of the Griffin: the story of a cruise from the
Alps to the Thames. **$2.50. Lane.

  The adventures on land and sea of a strange craft built in the Alps,
  and carried by wagon to Lake Zurich. She sailed the Rhine, and the
  East Scheldt, and arrived at the mouth of the Thames on board a
  steamer. The log is illustrated by a hundred or more sketches of the
  unique cruise.

  “An agreeable novelty in the well-worn ways of European travel.”

     + + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 70w.

  “Without being in any way a serious work, the narrative commends
  itself as well-told, veracious, original; while in its artistic aspect
  the book is beautiful.” Wallace Rice.

       + =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 200w.

  “The account of the evolution of the queer craft and of its adventures
  cannot fail to amuse, if it does not instruct.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 130w.

  “Capital reading.”

     + + =Nation.= 80: 78. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Condensed narrative.)

=Maxwell, Joseph.= Metapsychical phenomena, tr. by J. I. Finch. $3.50.
Putnam.

  The method and observation of “physical” manifestations are given
  chiefly, such as “table-turning,” “rapping,” and “levitation.” There
  is a preface by Charles Richet, and also an introduction by Sir Oliver
  Lodge. An additional chapter gives a complex case by Professor Richet,
  and an account of some recently observed phenomena by the translator.

  “One leaves Dr. Maxwell’s book with a perfect conviction of his
  honesty, some hesitation about his logic, and entire certainty that
  his records will have no weight with sceptics; but then he does not
  seem to expect to produce any effect on them.” Andrew Lang.

     + — =Acad.= 68: 898. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w.

       — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 693. Je. 3. 1570w.

  “It should be said that, in spite of its size, Dr. Maxwell’s book is
  eminently readable, although the translator has admitted a good many
  disfiguring gallicisms.”

   + + — =Nation.= 81: 285. O. 5, ‘05. 780w.

  “Modern in its research. It has a well-balanced scientific skill.”
  Pendennis.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 429. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1200w.

  “Interesting as is his book, it cannot well be deemed a weighty
  addition to the literature on this fascinating but elusive subject.”

     + — =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 210w.

  “The effect produced on the mind is mainly cumulative, but by reason
  of the manifest sincerity of the author and his competency and
  experience as an observer, its importance as a contribution towards
  the study of this neglected Cinderella among sciences is
  unquestionably very high.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 100: 249. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1220w.

       — =Spec.= 95: 496. O. 7, ‘05. 2230w.

=Maxwell, W. B.= Ragged messenger. **$1.20. Putnam.

  “A sensational novel, in which the hero, a minister of the church, for
  the sake of his conviction, gives up his parish and preaches on the
  street and in the slums of London. A large fortune comes to him, all
  of which he gives to the poor. He is unrewarded for his sacrifices.
  The heroine, a beautiful woman, is an adventuress”.—Bookm.

  “The book is carefully written, both in matter of style and
  development of the plot. The idea of the story is original, and the
  book as a whole is unusually vigorous and impressive.”

     + + =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 80w.

  “The reader gets the impression that he is listening to a man talking
  to himself.”

     + — =Ind.= 58: 786. Ap. 6, ‘05. 300w.

  “As a study in modern phases this story must be considered something
  more than remarkable. The phases themselves are more than remarkable,
  the motive almost fantastic in spite of the realistic modern London
  setting. The yeast of fate brews and works in the whole, and makes of
  these elements a climax so melodramatic as to seem almost inspired.
  But it is melodrama pathologically inevitable. One may read the books
  and ponder on the meaning of faith, science, and common sense, or one
  may think chiefly of the story—one of humanity probed pretty deep—one
  somewhat daringly planned, but one which shows strength and a seeing
  eye.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 70. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.

  “A powerful story.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 50w.

=Maxwell, W. B.= Vivien. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “The story is told entirely from the point of view of the heroine....
  The hero of the book is a cheerfully profligate earl (the villain
  being gloomily profligate), who is awakened to the seriousness of life
  when the heroine repels his advances, and he succeeds to a dukedom....
  At the end of five hundred and fifty closely printed pages the duke
  repents of his sin and marries the heroine, who is discovered to
  possess ‘the golden current, the divine fire,’ which can apparently
  only be derived from ancestors whose names are in the peerage.”—Spec.

  “Mr. Maxwell has other admirable qualities, notably a keen instinct
  for character, a sense of humour, and many craftsmanlike devices for
  rendering that humour effective.”

       + =Acad.= 68: 856. Ag. 19, ‘05. 890w.

  “The first half of the story is better than the last, for in the last
  we approach very close to sentimental melodrama. It rings feminine.”

     + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 640w.

  “In general, Mr. Maxwell seems to miss the finer point of
  characterization. For all that, there are passages in his book, even
  in the fairy tale part of it, which stir the feelings. He has humour;
  he is master of his words, and he can retain his reader’s attention
  through a very long and unevenly handled story.”

     + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 262. Ag. 18, ‘05. 340w.

  “Another story almost as extraordinary and possibly even more intense
  in its holding power [than ‘The ragged messenger.’]” H. I. Brock.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 760. N. 11, ‘05. 1160w.

  “A novel of more than usual interest and strength.”

     + + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 90w.

  “It is the product, not of a philosopher, but of a clever reporter, an
  emotional wordy piece of work owing its success to cheap sentiment, a
  fine journalistic style, highly coloured and verbose, effective
  characterisation, and detailed and no doubt accurate accounts of
  life.”

     + — =Sat. R.= 100: 378. S. 16, ‘05. 410w.

  “The book is fluently written, and judged by its own standard, is
  clever.”

     + — =Spec.= 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 330w.

=Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth (Chandler).= Mrs. Maybrick’s own story.
**$1.20. Funk.

  The author tells the story of her life from the time of her arrest for
  the murder of her husband, through the course of her trial, and the
  fifteen years imprisonment which terminated December, 1903. The
  recital is womanly and pathetic without a trace of bitterness. A legal
  digest of the case is appended.

  “Such a tale cannot help being morbid, but in the main it rings true.
  To those who have an interest in prison life it will not fail to be of
  value, yet for the ordinary reader it would be a book worth while
  avoiding.”

       + =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 80w.

         =Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w.

     + + =New England Magazine,= n.s. 31: 622. Ja. ‘05. 5830w.
         (Condensed narrative of book.)

  “There is no bitterness in the book, but it is a strong indictment of
  British justice, and points out the crying need for a British court of
  appeals in criminal cases.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 220w.

=Meeker, Royal.= History of shipping subsidies. *$1. Published for the
American economic association by the Macmillan co.

  Part one deals with shipping subsidies historically under the
  sub-divisions: Great Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Austro-Hungary;
  Japan; Other countries; and United States. Part two concerns the
  Theory of subsidies and is divided into: Theoretical arguments;
  Popular arguments for subsidy; Political arguments for subsidy; and
  Ethical considerations. There is also a bibliography and an index.

=Meigs, William Montgomery.= Life of Thomas H. Benton. **$2. Lippincott.

  A life of a distinguished statesman of the middle period by one who
  has made a thoro study of his career. The biography contains accounts
  of the many historical events with which the great Missourian was
  connected, such as the admission of his state into the Union, and the
  election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency. His service as United
  States senator, his love of the Union, and his personal influence upon
  the Democrats of his state are dwelt upon.

  “A readable account of the Missourian’s career.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 947. Jl. ‘05. 20w.

  “Meigs appeals to the student by a more judicial and critical
  attitude. There is hardly an overstatement or a serious error to be
  found.” W. H. Mace.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 176. O. ‘05. 650w.

  “This must be reckoned the most complete and authoritative biography
  of Benton.”

   + + + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 60w.

  “The author has consulted most of the available authorities on Benton,
  and has gathered much material from hitherto unknown sources. The work
  is the best life of Benton yet produced.”

   + + + =Dial.= 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 600w.

  “It is a highly praiseworthy study of the great Missourian, sincere,
  thorough and judicial.”

     + + =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 170w.

  “Lacking in dramatic arrangement and wanting in painstaking accuracy
  of statement.”

     + — =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.

  “Mr. Meigs’s narrative is diffuse but vivacious, and abounds in
  anecdote and illustration. It gives an unusually clear and
  comprehensive survey of a signally useful and pure-minded man.”

   + + — =Lit. D.= 21: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 640w.

  “There was distinctly room for a one-volume biography of Senator
  Benton. [Mr. Roosevelt’s biography in the American statesmen series]
  gives a picture of Benton superior to any which can be found in Mr.
  Meigs’s book. The greatest praise that we can award the latter is to
  say that it is the result of painstaking and laborious investigation
  and it will be of considerable value to students of history. The
  material, unfortunately, is put together with very little literary
  skill, and the style is certainly not such as to attract the general
  reading public. It is highly regrettable that Mr. Meigs cannot make us
  take the interest in the character of his picturesque subject which he
  tells he himself feels.”

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 67. F. 4, ‘05. 1080w.

  “More ambitious in scope than successful in accomplishment.
  Altogether, we have read the work with distinct feelings of
  disappointment, the disappointment being heightened by the reflection
  that the author has undoubtedly grasped Benton’s historical
  importance, and that had he but bestowed on the execution of his task
  the care evident in gathering of materials, he would have given us a
  biography well worth while.”

     + — =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 400w.

         =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 150w.

=Meili, Frederick.= International civil and commercial law as founded
upon theory, legislation and practice, tr. by A. R. Kuhn. **$3.
Macmillan.

  “The author was a delegate from Switzerland to the Hague international
  conferences, and this very thorough discussion was at least in part
  suggested by those conferences. The book of course deals with
  international private law as distinguished from international public
  law, and is in the main concerned with the continental views of this
  branch of jurisprudence.” (Outlook). “Mr. Kuhn has not only translated
  the work, but has supplemented it with additions from American and
  English law. Very useful lists, annotations, and bibliographies
  complete the work.” (R. of Rs.)

  “It is a convenient, if not very skilfully planned survey of the whole
  field. The information which it furnishes as to bibliography is not
  the least recommendation of the book. But the omissions are far from
  few.”

   + + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 340w.

  “Its exactness of method and thoroughness of research evidently make
  it a work of lasting value to the jurist accustomed to deal with large
  legal topics in a scientific manner.”

     + + =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.

  “Professor Meili has written a very useful book for students of
  comparative politics, as well as for lawyers.”

   + + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 351. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.

  “A very handy and valuable legal work.”

   + + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

=Mellor, J. W.= Crystallization of iron and steel: an introduction to
the study of metallography. *$1.60. Longmans.

  “It is certainly a convenience to possess such a book.... In six short
  and lucid chapters—originally lectures delivered in 1904 to the
  engineering students of the Staffordshire county technical classes of
  the Newcastle high school—we are taken from a well-put statement of
  what is known respecting the solidification and cooling of alloys in
  general to the consideration of the phenomena recognized in iron and
  steel in particular, and, lastly, to practical directions for the due
  preparations of specimens for microscopic examination.”—Ath.

  “It must be regarded as an ‘ad interim’ report only. Looking at Dr.
  Mellor’s little volume in this light, we have nothing but praise to
  award it.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 310. S. 2. 540w.

  * “This second chapter is the only unsatisfactory one of the book.
  Confining himself to limited space, the writer has sacrificed
  conciseness to mere brevity. The two predominant features of the book
  as a whole are the great concentration of information into a small
  space, and the interesting manner in which it is presented, which
  latter never fails to attract. This clouding of the main issue by the
  introduction of data not absolutely necessary is one of the principal
  weaknesses of the book. When all has been said, this book is the best
  popular introduction to the study of metallography that we have.”

   + + — =Engin. N.= 54: 528. N. 16, ‘05. 1690w.

  “The presentation is without bias, and each theory and method is
  described and examined as clearly and fairly as the author’s evident
  lack of practical acquaintance with the subject as a whole will
  permit.” A. McWilliam.

     — + =Nature.= 72: 532. S. 28, ‘05. 610w.

=Melville, Lewis.= Thackeray country. $2. Macmillan.

  A volume in the “Pilgrimage series.” “Mr. Melville treats of those
  localities which are of primary interest to those who are acquainted
  with the life and writings of the great novelist. He deals with
  Thackeray’s London homes and the features and associations of their
  neighborhood; his homes in Paris, and other places on the European
  continent, and in America. Special attention is paid to those places
  that form a background of the scenes of Thackeray’s novels.
  Biographical information is also supplied connected with the
  novelist’s residences from his arrival in England from India at the
  age of six until his death in 1863. The volume contains fifty
  full-page illustrations mostly from original photographs by C. W.
  Barnes Ward.” (N. Y. Times.)

  “The author has not tackled his task in the right spirit or performed
  it in the right way; all that he has given us is a rather disconnected
  short life of Thackeray. There are many distinct mistakes. A large
  portion of the book has not anything to do with its supposed subject.
  It is a poor production.”

     — — =Acad.= 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w.

  “He has written an interesting book, which will please the reader the
  more, the better he knows the author.”

       + =Spec.= 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.

=Menpes, Dorothy.= Brittany. *$6. Macmillan.

  “The latest of the ‘Menpes books’ is devoted to ‘Brittany.’ Mr.
  Mortimer Menpes has made a specialty of traveling with a water-color
  box and a literary daughter, and the results of these travels appear
  each year in time for the holiday trade.” (Nation.) There are some
  seventy-five illustrations, and they show different parts of Northern
  France—peasants, scenes in the markets, street scenes, etc.

  “Her best descriptions, her brightest sketches, are spoilt for the
  reader by unnecessary blots of sloppiness.”

   + + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 312. S. 2. 160w.

  “Text and illustrations have a common facility and a common lack of
  seriousness which is welcome, or the reverse, according to one’s point
  of view.”

     + — =Nation.= 81: 279. O. ‘05. 240w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 501. Jl. 29, ‘05. 260w.

=Meredith, Katharine Mary Cheever (Johanna Staats).= Wing of love. †$1.
McClure.

  “A charming child in this book, and a nice young journalist chap, her
  staunch friend from the day she and her mother find their way to the
  top floor of the New York lodging house where he and two other
  bachelors have their abode. This friendship is quite disinterested,
  the mother receiving only courteous attentions from him, his heart
  being in another’s keeping—facts concerning which subsequently develop
  very prettily to connect them with his romance.”—Outlook.

  “The chief fault in its development lies in the fact that, instead of
  making it a short story, she has padded her little tale until it has
  lost much of its charm.”

     — + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380 Je. 10. ‘05. 310w.

       + =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.

=Merington, Marguerite.= Cranford: a play. $1.25. Fox.

  A comedy in three acts made from Mrs. Gaskell’s well-known story of
  the same name. The full charm of the story is retained in the
  dramatization.

  * “Written with Miss Merington’s usual sprightliness.”

       + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 40w.

  “A not unskillful dramatization for amateur theatricals of Mrs.
  Gaskell’s ever fresh and delightful tale.”

       + =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 15w.

=Merriman, Charles Eustace.= Self-made man’s wife: her letters to her
son: being the woman’s view of certain famous correspondence. †$1.50.
Putnam.

  “In her letters the mother advises her son on the treatment of his
  wife, on the retention of his ideals, on the writing of books and on
  the reading of them, on quarreling and making up, on the fallacy and
  folly of aphorisms, adages, and other epigrammatic usages, on economy
  in households, and a number of other living topics, and aptly
  illustrates her points by instances taken from her own domestic
  experiences or observations of the experiences of her neighbors.”—N.
  Y. Times.

  “Upon the whole these letters are tedious and disappointing.”

       — =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.

       + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 300w.

  “A cup of cambric tea is this book.”

       — =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

  “If they are not as entertaining as those of her husband it is only
  perhaps because the reader has already consumed two volumes of his
  epistolary lore and is perhaps a trifle satiated.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 530w.

  “The number of old jokes and the weary waste of platitudes in this
  book are positively depressing.”

       — =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.

  “The letters have a masculine ring. They exhibit a terse expression, a
  worldly acumen, a sense of humor, and an anecdotal wealth, that
  strongly resemble the style of the self-made man.”

     + + =Reader.= 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 440w.

=Merriman, Mansfield.= Mechanics of materials. $5. Wiley.

  A tenth edition, re-written and enlarged, of this text-book which
  “deals with the elastic and, to a limited extent, with the plastic
  properties of materials of construction and the application of the
  laws of strength of materials to the simple machine parts and
  structures. The treatment is essentially theoretical.”—Nature.

  * “The present book is in some respects an excellent treatise. The
  first point which strikes a reader is the great looseness of
  terminology. The author has an aggravating way of describing a thing
  at first very crudely and inaccurately, but without any reservations,
  giving a revised statement much later on and a further revision later
  still, and this in the case of quite simple matters.”

   + + — =Nature.= 73: 25. N. 9, ‘05. 1180w.

=Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= Text-book on roof
and bridges, pt. 1, Stresses in simple trusses. $2.50. Wiley.

  “Those ... who are familiar with the first edition of this book,
  published in 1888, will hardly recognize the present volume as being a
  revision of the same book.... We now have the dead load stresses, the
  live load stresses and the stresses due to wind and other causes
  treated in separate chapters for the common forms of simple trusses.
  The fifth chapter takes up the consideration of long-span bridges....
  Chapter VI. discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and
  plate girder design. Chapter VII. treats of deflections.... The final
  chapter takes up cranes, bents, towers, viaducts, and other
  miscellaneous structures. A notable feature of the new edition is the
  extensive use of illustrations, including half-tone views of notable
  truss bridges, folding plates and numerous text drawings.”—Engin. N.

         =Engin. N.= 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.

* =Mertins, Gustave F.= Storm signal. $1.50. Bobbs.

  Two intertwined love stories provide the romantic interest in this
  story of the South and the negro. The conditions in the South after
  the Civil war are vividly presented, the good old negro type is well
  drawn, but the real story is that of the negro uprising, when black
  fiends, driven to desperation by the recital of their wrongs in their
  secret meetings, attack and are repulsed. There are strong dramatic
  scenes and characters which, tho unpleasing, are strikingly portrayed.

* =Merwin, Samuel.= Road builders. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “To make an achievement in railroad building dramatic and exciting and
  to hold the reader’s interest in suspense from beginning to end is a
  feat in fiction writing which few men would attempt.... The young
  engineer who with bulldog determination and ever-ready invention puts
  his engineering feat through on time, in the face of cunning enemies,
  natural obstacles, and stupid and criminal employees, is a type, but
  he is also a rousing good fellow.”—Outlook.

  * “There is no lack of well contrived incident, and on the whole the
  book is true to life.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 54: 534. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.

  * “The tale is clear-cut, terse and thrilling. Altogether the book is
  an industrial romance bristling with human interest.”

     + + =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.

  * “More important than the adventures and incidents of the feat that
  is finally accomplished, is the evidence Mr. Merwin gives of his own
  growth in character delineation. Each man is different from every
  other, and all are real, whether good or bad.”

     + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 260w.

=Metcalf, Maynard Mayo.= Outline of the theory of organic evolution.
*$2.50. Macmillan.

  A series of lectures given by Professor Metcalf before the Woman’s
  college of Baltimore, expanded and put in book form. It is not a
  technical biological book, but it is an introductory survey of the
  biological theory of evolution and is intended for the general reader.
  It gives well established facts in their general outlines, and deals
  with some of the most striking phenomena of anatomy.

  “It is a treatise so clear, simple and fascinating withal, that the
  subject can not only be readily grasped by the most slow-thinking
  reader, but few who peruse the opening pages will be content to lay it
  aside. This book is precisely the work that general readers need. It
  is a volume that should be read by every young man and woman in
  America.” Amy C. Rich.

   + + + =Arena.= 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 450w.

  “Presents in a clear and simple style the fundamental principles of
  organic evolution in a form very well adapted to the needs of the
  general reader and to those who wish an outline of the theory of
  Darwinism. Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is the wealth
  of clear and very well selected illustrations.”

   + + + =Bot. G.= 39: 301. Ap. ‘05. 160w.

  “Two features of the book are especially praiseworthy: first, the
  clearness and distinctness with which essentials are presented;
  second, the wealth of illustration. It is safe to say that no previous
  popular treatise on evolution has been so completely and so well
  illustrated as this. The chief criticism to be made regarding the book
  as a whole is its failure to give any adequate account of the
  important results of many of the recent investigations in the field of
  evolution.”

   + + — =Dial.= 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.

  “The volume under consideration will find its own place, because it is
  far better than the least technical books on evolution previously
  published. It will form an excellent introduction to the classical
  books on evolution. The author has very successfully attempted to
  write in a non-technical and popular style. No other book in the same
  field is so lavishly illustrated. Without hesitation the reviewer
  recommends the book to those who want information about the theory in
  its non-technical bearings.”

   + + + =Ind.= 58: 323. F. 9, ‘05. 520w.

  “This is one of the best popular accounts of the theory of evolution
  that have come under our notice. An excellent feature of the book is
  its wealth of pictorial illustration. A few points call for
  criticism.”

   + + — =Nature.= 71: 509. Mr. 30, ‘05. 450w.

         =R. of Rs.= 31: 256. F. ‘05. 70w.

* =Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the
French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.

  Metchnikoff’s theory “is familiar enough now to the reading public
  with its protective forces in the body; leucocytes ready to mass
  together to repulse the assault of germ organisms as well as their
  toxic products; but the work is not primarily on macrophages and
  microphages, but on the great question of immunity from infection.
  This extends through immunity of protozoans, metazoans (multicellular
  plants), and finally of animals—immunity either natural or acquired.
  The ramifications of the work extend over a vast area of
  experimentation and citation of contemporaneous work, but the immunity
  always is attributed, in one way or another, to the protective
  activity of the leucocytes. This makes the work a very agreeably
  unified one, and clearly drawn colored illustrations of the leucocytic
  activity do much to enhance the value of the treatise.”—Pub. Opin.

   + + + =Engin. N.= 54: 646. D. 14, ‘05. 600w.

  * “The present book, however, justifies itself adequately from a
  purely practical point of view.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 600w.

  * “While the work is primarily for scientific use, there is no reason
  why an intelligent layman should not acquire from its reading a very
  clear and comprehensive idea of immunity in its varied forms.”

     + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 603. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.

=Meyer, Rev. F: Brotherton.= Epistle to the Philippians; a devotional
commentary. *$1. Union press.

  The author has not attempted mere criticism, but has “endeavored
  honestly to ascertain the meaning of the epistle, and to beat out but
  pure and unalloyed gold.” Each chapter covers a few verses, the
  commentary is full and clear and the verses covered are noted in the
  margin of each page.

* =Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Government regulation of railway rates; a study
of the experience of the United States, Germany, France,
Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  “Professor Meyer, in his preface, declares that he ‘has become firmly
  convinced of the unwisdom of government regulation of railways or
  their rates’; and he has hurried into print with this book lest
  Congress ‘may be led to enact ill-considered laws granting dangerously
  enlarged powers to the Interstate commerce commission.’ Part I. of the
  book describes Prof. Meyer’s studies of the state-owned and operated
  railways in Europe and Australia.... In part II. Prof. Meyer takes up
  conditions in the United States.”—Engin. N.

 *   + — =Engin. N.= 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 520w.

 *     + =Outlook.= 81: 936. D. 16, ‘05. 330w.

  * “Apart from the matter of personal opinion on this subject, however,
  Professor Meyer’s book contains much valuable material, which is
  summarized in a way which cannot fail to interest all students of the
  railroad question, whatever may be their views as to the expediency of
  federal legislation.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 200w.

* =Meyrick, Rev. Frederick.= Memories of life at Oxford and experiences
in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere. *$3.50. Dutton.

  “The most noticeable feature of this book is in the sidelights it
  throws on the ‘Tractarian movement’ at Oxford, in 1833-41, as well as
  on the ‘Old Catholic reform movement’ on the continent, and
  incidentally on this history of the Church of England during the last
  fifty years or so.... Aside from this, the book contains a
  considerable fraction of entertaining matter connected with university
  social life at Oxford.”—Critic.

  * “We recommend a revision of the index: for several names and
  incidents demanding mention the reviewer has been compelled to hunt
  laboriously through the pages of the book.”

     + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 741. Je. 17. 1920w.

 *     + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 90w.

  * “We cannot rate his book very high, even in the class to which it
  belongs, for it is neither very interesting nor very good-natured.”

     + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 500w.

  * “The real value of the book lies not so much in the impressions, the
  appreciations or depreciations, which are given of Newman and Pusey,
  of Keble and Gladstone, and other well-known and great figures, as in
  the incidental vignettes of persons of less note whose portraits are
  more seldom drawn.”

       + =Spec.= 95: 469. S. 30, ‘05. 1120w.

=Miall, Louis C.= House, garden and field. $2. Longmans.

  This collection of short nature studies by Professor Miall of the
  University of Leeds covers a multitude of subjects and gives a wealth
  of useful and interesting information upon fresh air, the dog, the
  cat, birds, bookworms, flies, trees, and whatever chances to attract
  his attention at the moment. The book seems to open our eyes to an
  interested observation of the things around us.

  “It is packed with scientific facts, with clear and practical
  suggestions for class room and study club, and with eye-opening and
  thought-stimulating questions. No arrangement or lack of arrangement
  can destroy the value of the good sense and clarity with which these
  and all the other subjects are treated.” May Estelle Cook.

   + + — =Dial.= 38: 386. Je. 1, ‘05. 220w.

  “There is no attempt to be consecutive, and he writes concerning
  whatever for the moment strikes his attention. The object in view is
  to teach teachers rather than pupils.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 37. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1360w. (Survey of
         contents.)

=Michael Angelo Buonarroti.= Sonnets; now first tr. into rhymed English
by J. Addington Symonds. 2d ed. *$1.25. Scribner.

  The second edition of J. A. Symonds’ translation of Buonarroti’s
  sonnets, with the Italian in alternating pages. The notes following
  the text explain the circumstances, as far as known, in which the
  sonnets were written, and make note of the various manuscript versions
  over which Buonarroti worked.

       — =Nation.= 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.

  “Such as they are, [the translations] are ingenious word renderings,
  which, while not entirely devoid of fine lines, for the most part lack
  color and lightness of rhythm.”

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 199. Ap. 1, ‘05. 270w.

  “The volume in which they are placed represents both dignity and
  taste.”

       + =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.

=Michael, Oscar Stewart.= Sunday-school in the development of the
American church. *$1.50. Young ch.

  “The ‘American church’ of the title is the church of which the author
  is a minister—the Protestant Episcopal.... The book will be of
  interest to persons engaged in Sunday-school outside as well as within
  the Episcopal church. It brings especially emphatic testimony to the
  value of Sunday-schools as propagators of churches.”—Outlook.

  “He gives an adequate and interesting account of the Sunday-school
  work of a great church which has always espoused warmly the cause of
  Christian nurture.” William Byron Forbush.

       + =Bib. World.= 26: 394. N. ‘05. 140w.

         =Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w.

=Michaelis Karin (Katharina Marie Bech Brondum=). Andrea, the
tribulations of a child; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik. $1. McClure.

  The famous Danish author has written the story of a young girl whose
  father and mother are unhappily estranged. The little heroine devotes
  her life to bringing them together and her tribulations and soul
  struggles as revealed in her diary finally accomplish this end, when
  her parents read the pitiful little book together after her untimely
  death.

  “The book has been rendered into ungrammatical American. This story,
  though quite short, contains proof that Karin Michaelis is an artist.”

     + — =Acad.= 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 280w.

  “The story is a classic.”

     + — =Ind.= 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 450w.

=Michelson, Miriam.= Madigans. †$1.50. Century.

  Six high-spirited, clever, mischievous youngsters, whose very
  names—among them Split, Sissy, Bep and Fom—suggest the hostile brevity
  that often characterizes the sisterly relations, riot in the
  foreground of this family stage, while a father deep in
  too-much-for-me perplexity, and an irresponsible aunt figure in the
  rear. Tho there are slights, digs and taunts, deep down in the heart
  of each is an untrained affection for the other, and staunch loyalty.
  It is a lively story for young readers, many of whom will discover a
  fellow feeling for some Madigan. Mr. Orson Lowell’s illustrations are
  happily in keeping with the author’s portrayal.

  “Their escapades are brightly told and they are very human.”

       + =Critic.= 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 30w.

  “Miss Michelson’s humor has rare freshness and charm.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 100w.

* =Mifflin, Lloyd.= Collected sonnets of Lloyd Mifflin; revised by the
author. *$2.60. Oxford.

  Over 200 selections of verse are included in this volume which
  contains, in addition to work which has previously appeared in the
  author’s various books of poetry, several new sonnets which appear for
  the first time in this collection.

  * “A little of Mr. Lodge’s sincerity of passion would have helped Mr.
  Mifflin’s book. Yet no recent collection of verse has been more
  instinct with poetic love of beauty or has shown more ability at
  communicating it in verse.”

     + — =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 390w.

  * “In spite of inevitable lapses from the simplicity and strength of
  the best examples there is a remarkable uniformity of excellence in
  both the technical achievement and the dignity and interest of the
  phases of feeling expressed.”

   + + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.

  * “Written on any conceivable subject, they rarely rise above the
  platitudinous, and at their best are sonorous without being in any way
  impressive.”

       — =Spec.= 95: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.

=Mifflin, Lloyd.= Fleeing nymph and other verse. **$1. Small.

  A group of about fifty poems whose themes include life, love and
  nature. “None of the shorter pieces in Mr. Mifflin’s volume is very
  notable. All have the grace that comes from the sparing, delicate use
  of words, many are picturesque and pleasing in conception; but there
  is a certain softness of tone in them that is not wholly a pleasant
  softness.” (Nation.)

     + — =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 170w.

  “There is much delicate art in these songs, and they are freighted
  with a rich burden of thought.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. 1. ‘05. 130w.

  “Mr. Mifflin’s poetry is distinguished by its admirable technical
  qualities.”

     + + =Ind.= 59: 458. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w.

  “On occasions he is out in his scansion and in his grammar. But this
  is to show Mr. Mifflin at his worst. His best, though never quite free
  from the intrusion of the second-best word, shows a power of
  sympathetic description, usually sad, that leaves its mood behind it.”

     + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 224. Jl. 14, ‘05. 300w.

  “If there is a lack of pith and fibre in Mr. Mifflin’s lyrics that
  makes against the permanence of the impression left by them, his
  narrative poetry ... is, after all, admirable.”

     + — =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 360w.

  “‘The fleeing nymph, and other poems,’ by Lloyd Mifflin, have the
  light and graceful touch characteristic of their author.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 210w.

=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Ultimate passion: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.

  An honest young politician with high ideals accepts the support of a
  corrupt political ring in his race for the presidency in order that he
  may learn their methods and thus combat them. Three women come into
  his life, the foolish daughter of the “boss”, an adventuress, and a
  real woman who arouses the “ultimate passion” which survives when his
  political campaign fails.

  “If you want a good example of the book which overreaches itself by
  deliberate exaggeration, you will find it in ‘The ultimate passion.’”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

       — =Bookm.= 21: 602. Ag. ‘05. 420w.

  “Mr. Mighels has the meagrest equipment as a novelist, and his
  performance as a whole is so crude that it is scarcely worth while to
  consider its details.”

       — =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.

  “Has style (of a sort), an interesting framework, and
  characterizations of no mean order of merit. This is a very vigorous
  book, inspired by genuine passion, and making a skilful progress to
  its logical conclusion.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 240w.

  “Mr. Mighels’s work seems to us faulty in conception as well as
  execution, and to serve no particular purpose.”

       — =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 30w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 150w.

  “A hysterical novel of political corruption.”

       — =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 6w.

  “Is a masterpiece among political novels.”

   + + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 180w.

=Miles, Eustace Hamilton.= Boy’s control of self expression. *$2.
Dutton.

  “The introductory chapters are written chiefly for those who have the
  care of boys.... These are followed by chapters on ‘Physical and
  external helps’ toward self-control, mental helps; and the book closes
  with some general remarks, the ‘opinion of a mother,’ a letter to a
  boy, ‘A defense of Latin—rightly taught,’ and ‘A theory about
  excessive blood pressure.’ The volume has illustrations and
  diagrams.”—N. Y. Times.

     + — =Nation.= 80: 436. Je. 1, ‘05. 330w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 10: 297. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 290w.

  “There are valuable ideas and suggestions in this book on the training
  of boys, but the author attempts to cover so much ground, and does it
  in so haphazard a way, that it is almost impossible to separate the
  wheat from the chaff.”

     + — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 40w.

     + — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 280w.

=Millar, A. H.= Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1. Scribner.

  In establishing the reasons for difficulty in understanding Queen
  Mary’s character, the author says: “Any natural determination toward
  tolerance which Mary’s character may have originally possessed was
  warped and distorted by her early education; and her disposition, once
  gentle and confiding, may have been changed by her experience of the
  faithlessness of mankind into that form of stolid distrust which
  suspects the truest friend and questions the least interested
  motives.” His biography is based on this view of things. “Mr. Millar
  believes and most readers will believe, that the errors committed by
  Mary Stuart were more of the heart than of the head.” (Outlook.)

  “Mr. Millar’s book is a careful presentation of facts, with a due
  regard for the bearing of the political questions of the time. It is,
  in truth, a well-written piece of history. He is not her partisan
  through thick and thin.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 1140w.

  “Well written volume.”

     + + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.

=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Beauty of kindness. **30c. Crowell.

  This volume in the “What is worth while series,” sets forth the beauty
  of kindness, “the small coin of love.” It is a plea for the unselfish
  service, for simple kindness in daily life and in little things.

=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Inner life. *50c. Crowell.

  In this new volume in the “Chiswick series,” Dr. Miller shows that if
  the heart be given to Christ, if the inner life be made beautiful,
  this beauty will show in the deeds of our outer life and the world for
  us will be re-created.

=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= When the song begins. **65c. Crowell.

  Another of Dr. Miller’s devotional books. Its object is to help people
  in learning how to live more beautifully, more victoriously, more
  usefully. It contains twenty chapters upon, The mystery of suffering,
  The joy of the cross, Friendship with Christ, Courage to live nobly,
  Under the All-seeing Eye, and other similar subjects.

         =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.

* =Miller, Olive Thorne, pseud. (Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller).= Kristy’s
surprise party. †$1.25. Houghton.

  “On her birthday Kristy’s uncles and aunts, and some adult friends
  besides, call in a body, and each in turn relates a story, which
  Kristy enjoys very much, and which other little girls may enjoy also.”
  (Outlook.) “In one is a stirring picture of a girl in the Chicago
  fire, another describes a western blizzard and a young girl’s rescue
  of a schoolmate. A good Indian story and sundry others of domestic
  adventure.” (Nation.) The volume is well illustrated by Ethel N.
  Farnsworth.

 *       =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

  * “A group well written, full of interest, and suited to middle
  youth.”

       + =Nation.= 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.

 *     + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 140w.

  * “The stories are clean, bright, and of considerable variety.”

       + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.

=Miller, Peyton Farrell.= Group of great lawyers of Columbia county, New
York. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.

  Mr. Miller, a lawyer of Hudson, has filled a volume with “interesting
  reminiscences and gossipy personal sketches of such men as Martin Van
  Buren, Samuel J. Tilden, Robert Livingston, Chancellor Robert R.
  Livingston, Edward Livingston, and others. It also contains a brief
  account of the Anti-rent war.” (Am. Hist. R.)

         =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 722. Ap. ‘05. 60w.

  “An entertaining series of personal sketches. Members of the bar of
  New York state will find Mr. Miller’s pages crowded with interesting
  reminiscences of the great lawyers of the past.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.

=Mills, Edmund James.= Secret of Petrarch. *$3. Dutton.

  “The volume is the work of a literary scholar of analytic type who has
  turned his lenses upon certain disputed points in the lives of the
  lovers and has brought forward various proofs to attest his own
  theories.” (Dial.) “A series of prose studies supplemented by some
  translations and some original verse interpretative of the life and
  genius of Petrarch. The prose consists of small but rather discursive
  chapters touching various points in connection with Laura, her
  identity, her birthplace, her character, and incidents in her
  relations with Petrarch.” (Outlook.)

  “The reader can hardly accept all the author’s conclusions.”

     + — =Dial.= 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 340w.

  “To one acquainted with ... ‘My secret’ ... Mr. Mills’s book is a sad
  disappointment. We suspect that the critical discussions were only
  designed to introduce the drama.”

   + — — =Nation.= 80: 180. Mr. 2, ‘05. 460w.

  “Has quite unconsciously given false values to internal evidence. He
  found in Petrarch’s verse what he wished to find there, and where
  twist, quibble, and distortion fail him he sets down his theory as a
  self-evident truth. Candor forces us to praise Mr. Mills’
  ingeniousness rather than his scholarship. We can freely applaud his
  poetry, however, which gives a far stronger illusion of reality than
  do Landor’s Conversations between the same persons.”

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w.

  “The volume lacks coherence.”

     + — =Outlook.= 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 190w.

=Mills, Edmund Mead.= Only a profession and other sermons. (Methodist
pulpit. 2d ser.) *50c. Meth. bk.

  Eight sermons including, besides the title sermon, How to know, The
  all-conquering Christ, The nation’s memorial, As he thinketh in his
  heart, What makes a nation great? Unconscious deterioration, and A
  withered hand.

* =Mills, Weyman Jay.= Caroline of Courtlandt street. **$2. Harper.

  “A highly idealized story of New York life when the eighteenth century
  was young. Caroline of Courtlandt street, the daughter of an actress,
  yearns for her mother’s profession and by way of proving her right to
  enter it plays a pretty little comedy in which her father’s
  aristocratic and snobbish relatives take unconscious but highly
  important parts. The stage fails to gain her in the end, but in the
  meanwhile she has furnished us with a diverting little drama.”—Pub.
  Opin.

  * “A slight but spirited novelette.”

       + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.

  * “An elaborately decorated romance, both as to the narrative and
  setting. The style is flowery.”

     + — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2. ‘05. 120w.

 *     + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 733. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.

=Milyoukov, Paul.= Russia and its crisis. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.

  In interpreting the Russian present by the Russian past, the author
  produces the results of long years of study. Professor Milyoukov is a
  representative of the branch of the liberal party known as the
  “Intellectuals,” and his work for freedom has already brought him
  calumny, imprisonment and exile. The aim of his discussion is to
  reveal the internal crisis in Russia as an outgrowth of the historical
  circumstances under which Russian civilization has developed. The
  author has explained the permanent and lasting elements in the
  political, social and religious life of a great world-power.

  “Our pleasure at the thought and learning displayed in the lectures of
  which this volume is composed is marred by the extraordinary fancies
  of its author on the transliteration of names.”

   + + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 810w.

  “With ample knowledge, training, and evident fairness, he is the best
  available guide to a knowledge of present conditions in Russia from
  the historical point of view.” Charles H. Cooper.

   + + + =Dial.= 39: 268. N. 1, ‘05. 760w.

   + + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 309. S. 29, ‘05. 1040w.

  “A strong book—one that will not appeal to the general reader, but
  will reach rather the serious and thoughtful.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 556. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1430w.

  “A masterly portrayal of the factors which have determined the present
  constitution of the Russian state, as well as the elements of leaven
  and fermentation at present working in that state.”

     + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 446. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.

  * “A very valuable addition to the literature on the subject of
  Russian conditions.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 200w.

=Minor, Benjamin Blake.= Southern literary messenger, 1834 to 1864 by
Benjamin Blake Minor, editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847. *$2.
Neale.

  “A history of a magazine which for so many years held the chief place
  in the periodical literature of the South and an honorable one in that
  of the country, written by the gentleman who was its editor and
  proprietor from 1843 to 1847, and who now at the good old age of
  eighty-six, is perhaps the only survivor of those who were personally
  connected with its fortunes. It will have a special interest for
  cultivated people in the South, and incidentally for all students of
  American literary history.”—Critic.

       + =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w.

  “In spite of obvious faults (and partly because of them) Dr. Minor’s
  book has both permanent value and contemporary interest.”

   + + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 494. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1350w.

=Mitchell, Charles Bayard.= Noblest quest, and other sermons preached in
the First Methodist Episcopal church, Cleveland, O. *50c. Meth. bk.

  Eight stirring sermons including, besides the title sermon, The
  Supreme Master, A shameless Jew, The dignity of labor, Remember thy
  Creator, A deserted grave, Life’s Jerusalem, and The impartial God.

=Mitchell, S. Weir.= Constance Trescot. $1.50. Century.

  The tragic story of a young northern wife who goes with her husband to
  St. Ann, Missouri, where he is agent for a large estate. He becomes
  involved in a law suit, and is the prey of the prejudices and
  misconceptions so common to the reconstruction period. After his
  murder, Constance lives only to avenge herself upon his slayer, and
  the story becomes a strong psychological study of the charming woman’s
  selfish cruelty. It is a masterly book, unusual, and real, both in
  theme and characters.

  “It is told in a masterly fashion.” Richard W. Kemp.

   + + — =Bookm.= 21: 386. Je. ‘05. 1640w.

  “A novel of dignity and importance out of material that if treated
  less intelligently would be simply sensational.” C. A. Pratt.

     + + =Critic.= 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 470w.

  “It is a great triumph, thus out of commonplace materials, and by the
  use of strictly legitimate methods, to produce a work of such singular
  power, and Dr. Mitchell deserves the warmest congratulations upon his
  success.” Wm. Morton Payne.

   + + + =Dial.= 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 490w.

  “The second section of the book is, in fact, open to this dilemma. If
  Constance is in her right mind, the story of her revenge is
  inexplicable and impossible. If she is not, her madness removes it out
  of the range of subjects capable of being made to appeal to the
  imagination of the reader by means of the art of the novelist.”
  Herbert W. Horwill.

   — — + =Forum.= 37: 104. Jl. ‘05. 1000w.

     + + =Nation.= 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 600w.

  “This is a good story.”

     + + =Ind.= 58: 1011. My. 4, ‘05. 630w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My. 6, ‘05. 540w.

  “It is a tale wherein the psychological element, however, does
  overcloud the romantic interest.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.

  “The motif ... is an extremely unpleasant one, and in hands less
  skilled than those of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell the story would be too
  painful. The story is a study of character of a very unusual kind,
  full of insight, experience and skill.”

   + + — =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.

  “It is undeniably powerful. The workmanship is of a high order.”

     + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.

       + =Reader.= 6: 239. Jl. ‘05. 390w.

  “Impressive as the book is, one wonders inevitably whether Constance
  was, after all, worth this expenditure of literary power on the part
  of Dr. Mitchell.”

     + — =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 200w.

=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Youth of Washington: told in the form of an
autobiography. †$1.50. Century.

  To think the thoughts of Washington as he thought them, to express
  them as he might have expressed them, in a word, to command a view of
  men and things as this general and statesman of Mount Vernon looked
  upon them, has been a unique task, to say nothing of the daring
  implied. But Dr. Mitchell has only reversed the great process of
  dramatization. Instead of fitting an actor to the mold of some great
  writer’s conception, as the stage continually does, he starts with the
  man and suits his thoughts and speech to the individual. Years of
  study, fresh enthusiasm, and keen insight into human nature have been
  brought to bear on his unusual task.

  “Dr. Weir Mitchell has added another to the melancholy examples of
  Washingtonion dullness. It is sedate, detailed, conscientious and very
  dull.”

       — =Acad.= 68: 63. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w.

  “May be judged as history or as fiction, according to the taste of the
  reader, and possesses high merit in either aspect. It would be
  possible to criticize some of Dr. Mitchell’s statements, and the
  conception of Washington’s mother is too harsh and even contradictory
  in detail to be either true or pleasing.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.

   + + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 444. Ja. ‘05. 430w.

  “Only a Weir Mitchell or his equal could have accomplished
  successfully the daring feat of personating George Washington. But in
  this book the great George has proven a worthy son of himself, and it
  is hard to realize that the quaint, formal phraseology is not indeed
  his own. His criticisms of his family and himself are frank and
  delightful.”

     + + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 240w.

=Mitton, G. E.= The dog. $2. Macmillan.

  The autobiography of Scamp, a dog of the streets, who finds a good
  home and a loving mistress and is trained into a first-class
  retriever. He is caught in a trap while hunting, comes into the hands
  of poachers and counterfeiters, sojourns in the London streets and the
  dog pound, and eventually finds his way back to his former mistress to
  end his days in luxury.

  “The book on the dog deals too much with one particular dog and his
  fortunes, and might almost pass as an entirely fictional tale.”

     + — =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 250w.

  “Attractive for the children for whom it was written. Scamp was just a
  dog. The author has not attempted to endow him with human or
  supernatural attributes.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 610w.

  “Cleverly written story. It is a story that will delight boys and
  girls, touching older hearts as well.”

       + =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.

* =Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.

  Not only Jane Austen herself but the society that she drew so
  skillfully is pictured in this volume. Miss Mitton considers Jane
  Austen “more wonderful as a product of her times than considered as an
  isolated figure.” She has therefore aimed “to sketch the men and women
  to whom she was accustomed, the habits and manners of her class, and
  the England with which she was familiar.”

  * “In short, it is a richly human book, for which we owe all the
  praise (except what is due to the reproductions from Reynolds,
  Morland, Hoppner, Bunbury, Romney, and others), and little of the
  blame, to the author.”

     + + =Acad.= 68: 1170. N. 11, ‘05. 980w.

  * “Is the next best thing to reading one of Miss Austen’s own
  stories.”

       + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 80w.

  * “A prose and pedestrian piece of book-making, which nevertheless has
  something of the interest that attaches to an interesting subject.”

     + — =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 150w.

* =Mitton, G. E.= Normandy: painted by Nico Jungman. *$3. Macmillan.

  “Miss Mitton begins with a chapter ‘In general,’ and proceeds to tell
  the stories of the Norman Dukes and the ‘mighty William.’ Then we have
  a full description of Rouen, and chapters on Caen, Falaise, Bayeux and
  the smaller towns, and then a chapter of the greatest interest on the
  famous tapestry, Mont St. Michel, The Cotentin, Dieppe and the coast,
  and a journey up the Seine from Honfleur to Vernon.”—Acad.

 *       =N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.

=Mitton, G. E.= Scenery of London. *$6. Macmillan.

  “Miss G. E. Mitton, an expert in London lore, furnishes the text,
  while the pictures are reproductions of paintings by Herbert
  Marshall.... There are seventy-five in all capitally reproduced in
  colors.”—N. Y. Times.

  “As illustrations to a book, to be looked at closely and not over
  long, Mr. Marshall’s pictures are excellent, because they come from a
  fine artist, and yet present a variety of moods and likings which are
  entirely suited to such books as these. She has aimed high and done
  some interesting and some pleasing work, and made a readable book.”

     + + =Acad.= 68: 779. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1000w.

  “Both artist and author have succeeded in producing what is a real
  addition to the literature of London.”

     + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 363. S. 16. 900w.

         =Lond. Times.= 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 530w.

  “Of the many recent books about London the best to look at is that
  called ‘The scenery of London.’ Miss Mitton discourses agreeably as is
  her wont.”

   + + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 608. S. 16, ‘05. 280w.

=Monroe, Paul.= Text-book in the history of education. *$1.90.
Macmillan.

  “The framework upon which Dr. Monroe has built his well-written work
  is clear and hardly to be improved upon. Each chapter is headed in the
  table of contents with a phrase expressing the psychological tendency
  of the time or movement which it represents, and these are divided and
  subdivided in an unusually able manner. Facts are made additionally
  easy of location by the index by Miss Scott. Dr. Monroe’s ‘Text-book’
  is hardly what its name implies, but rather a foundation work for
  those who desire to ‘work up’ from it, as the references
  indicate.”—Pub. Opin.

  “A very solid book on the history of education.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 630w.

  * “It is diligent in research, copious in information, clear in
  analysis, philosophic in trend, and sound in deduction; and, although
  there are passages in it that are somewhat hard reading, occasional
  grammatical lapses, and a needless and sometimes wearisome repetition
  of certain scientific terms ... it is distinguished throughout for
  purity, precision, and force of diction. The treatment of its theme is
  the most exhaustive yet essayed by an American author.” Charles
  Elliott Fitch.

   + + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 909. D. 23, ‘05. 2510w.

  “This must be rated as a work of the first rank in its class.”

     + + =Outlook.= 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 410w.

  “A finished, well-unified and arranged work.”

     + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 350w.

  * “The work is broad in range, and provides an immense accumulation of
  data.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 120w.

=Monroe, Paul.= Thomas Platter and the educational renaissance of the
16th century. **$1.20. Appleton.

  This sketch which gives the life of an educator just at the turning
  point in educational history between the mediæval and the modern, is
  important because “The autobiography furnishes such concrete
  information in regard to two phases of the education of the sixteenth
  century: first, the life of the wandering scholar; and, second, the
  spread of the humanistic ideas until they dominate the educational
  activities of the times.”

  “Is a valuable volume which throws a great deal of light on a critical
  and seldom dealt with period of the history of education.”

     + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w.

* =Montague, Margaret Prescott.= Poet, Miss Kate and I. **$1.50. Baker.

  Miss Kate is a small chestnut mare, I am Miss Dorothy, and the poet is
  David Selwyn, successful and thirty-two, whom his doctor has given but
  twelve months more of life. He determines to spend that twelve months
  bravely, and rents a house in the Alleghanies so that he may “write,
  write, write until the finale,” unhampered by his old New York
  surroundings. Here he meets Dorothy and enjoys his last summer until
  he finds that his growing love for her makes the thought of death more
  bitter; then he runs away. But of course the author does not let him
  die, and the reader feels thruout the pretty, cheery little story that
  all is to be well with him.

  * “The plot is slight, but the nature sketches, the character study,
  and a very piquant way of putting things, give the book a decided
  charm.”

       + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.

 *     + =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.

=Montgomery, David Henry.= Elementary American history, *75c. Ginn.

  This textbook, the latest of the “Montgomery series,” has been
  prepared to meet the demand for a short continuous narrative history
  of our country, suited to the wants of elementary pupils.

  “Compared with other textbooks of its kind, it has merit. The language
  is simple, and there are many illustrations and maps. This is only
  another example of a book constructed on the college plan, with
  shorter paragraphs and more simple language.” H. O. Gillett.

     + — =El. Sch. T.= 5: 518. Ap. ‘05. 160w.

=Montgomery, David H.= Student’s American history. $1.40. Ginn.

  For this latest edition the work has been thoroly revised and many
  facts have been rewritten, including questions of political and
  constitutional history, the opening of the West and its influence on
  the division of the nation. References have been made more complete,
  and some new maps added.

  “It has all the teaching apparatus of the best type of the modern
  high-school book, and may be cordially recommended.”

     + + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 60w.

  * “In attractiveness of presentation and clearness of diction it
  compares favorably with such manuals as McMaster’s and Channing’s.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 130w.

=Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morrs.= First view of
English literature. *$1. Scribner.

  “This adaptation of the author’s more advanced ‘History of English
  literature,’ based on the suggestions of many high school and academy
  teachers, is a class-room manual of practical value. Features that
  especially commend the volume are the historical introductions to each
  epoch, dwelling on political and social conditions, important for
  their effect on literature, and the full review outlines given in the
  form of simple and illuminating questions.”—Outlook.

  “The book is a highly finished work, and we commend it.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 420w.

  “The book is lucid and concise, noticeably so in its discussion of the
  Renaissance and of Romanticism.”

     + + =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.

  “There is much valuable geographical, descriptive, and annotative
  matter.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.

* =More, Charles Herbert.= Character of renaissance architecture. **$3.
Macmillan.

  “Prof. Moore has reduced the mere descriptions of buildings to a
  minimum, having provided many illustrations—twelve photogravure plates
  and 139 drawings and photographs—to make the discussions clear. He
  writes in his introduction about the character of the fine arts of the
  renaissance, the mixed influences actuating the artist of the time—the
  painter’s habits of design, etc. This followed by chapters on the dome
  of Florence, St. Peter’s dome, Renaissance architecture in the
  erection of churches and palaces in Rome and Florence and the North of
  Italy, carving, and architecture of the renaissance in France and
  England.”—N. Y. Times.

  * “It is a book of strong convictions and solid thought.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 360w.

  * “He is a man of profound and strongly held convictions, and hardly
  allows a page or a half-dozen pages to pass from under his hand
  without a reassertion of the most important of them.”

     + + =Nation.= 81: 385. N. 9, ‘05. 980w.

 *       =N. Y. Times.= 10: 713. O. 21, ‘05. 270w.

  * “In the ‘Character of renaissance architecture’ we have the same
  creative and scholarly qualities of artist and investigator which
  characterized ‘Development and character of Gothic architecture.’ But
  where the latter was synthetical the former is analytical almost to
  the verge of iconoclasm.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 781. N. 18, ‘05. 850w.

  * “This volume is admirably adapted to be a text-book for advanced
  classes in our universities and a reference book for readers
  generally. We are glad to note that the index to the volume is
  specially copious and exhaustive.”

     + + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.

=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Love alone is lord. †$1.50. Putnam.

  Another novel of which Lord Byron is the hero. It concerns his early
  love for his cousin, Mary Chaworth and, altho many chapters are
  devoted to his affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the book gives him a
  semblance of constancy by making him return to his first love and
  their tragic parting the climax, and end of the book. Madame de Stäel,
  Sheridan, Moore, and other well known people of Byron’s time enter
  into the story.

  * “Mr. Moore has increased our dislike to positive hatred; all the
  worst qualities of this pernicious breed of book are accentuated in
  his present novel.”

       — =Acad.= 68: 1032. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.

  * “Mr. Moore’s is one of the books worth reading.”

       + =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 380w.

 *   + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 315. S. 29, ‘05. 540w.

  “Somehow the book leaves us cold.”

       — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.

  “As a novel the book has vigor and interest; as a presentation of
  Byron the poet it is a failure.”

     + — =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.

  “Mr. Moore has written an interesting story, but it has nothing to do
  with the hero and heroine, Lord Byron and Mary Ann Chaworth.”

     + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.

  * “Byron’s character is sketched sans prudishness by an author whose
  every book guarantees a few hours’ lively entertainment.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 32: 762. D. ‘05. 110w.

  * “We do not blame Mr. Moore for his failure, but for the impudence of
  his attempt.”

       — =Sat. R.= 100: 529. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.

* =Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Children of other days. †$1.50. Stokes.

  The notable pictures of children of various countries and times after
  paintings of great masters are accompanied by little sketches intended
  to interest the child reader in the portrait. The book is an art book
  of real value to little people.

 *     + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 535. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Lace book. **$5. Stokes.

  The author “tells us in ‘The lace book’ in a concise form, all that
  is interesting in the history of the evolution and production of
  lace in the countries which have given the world the finest examples
  of this delicate fabric. This handsome volume is illustrated with
  engravings from famous pictures of distinguished personages, showing
  how lace was employed in costume at different times; well-chosen,
  full-size examples are also given of the various kinds of lace; and
  an index endows the collector and connoisseur with a book of
  reference.”—Nation.

  “A very handsome and interesting book.”

       + =Critic.= 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 70w.

  * “A more engaging example of the combination of the useful with the
  agreeable could not easily be found than is provided by this volume.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 4: 380. N. 10, ‘05. 1100w.

     + + =Nation.= 80: 158. F. 23, ‘05. 1530w.

  * “A most interesting and readable account of lace from the earliest
  days.”

       + =Spec.= 95: sup. 797. N. 18, ‘05. 230w.

=Moore, T. Sturge.= Albert Dürer. *$2. Scribner.

  An original study rather than a conventional biography. The artist’s
  paintings, drawings, metal engravings, and wood cuts, are critically
  considered, the philosophy of his art is discussed, and the details of
  his life are given. The book is illustrated with half-tones and four
  copper-plates.

  “A very stimulating essay, with sufficient fact, date, and specific
  criticism attached, as is helpful to that study, but no more. As an
  illustrated record of Dürer’s work, the book is a welcome supplement
  to the little volume by Lina Eckenstein, ... though it will not
  replace that as an admirable and business-like summary of the artist’s
  life and work. It must be admitted, first and foremost, that the
  volume is concerned with Mr. T. Sturge Moore’s outlook on life and the
  arts; the author has not lost himself in his subject.”

       + =Acad.= 68: 173. F. 25, ‘05. 1100w.

  “The style is vigorous and picturesque, and, on the whole dignified.
  There seems, further, a lack of cohesion between the various parts of
  the book.”

     + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 247. F. 25. 1680w.

       + =Critic.= 46: 475 My. ‘05. 130w.

  “An excellent book marred by an involved and slipshod style.”

   + + — =Dial.= 38: 358. My. 16, ‘05. 590w.

  “His book is worthy of its place in the series by reason of his
  sympathetic interpretation of Dürer’s work.”

       + =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 190w.

  “Its writing and point of view make it a model of what an art book,
  written for lay readers, should be.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 150w.

  “A singularly illusive book. While all the words in it are
  intelligible, the exact thing that was intended to be expressed
  somehow escapes one.”

     — + =Nation.= 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 590w.

  “What Prof. Thausing, Allihn, Zahn, and Scott never suspected we find
  brought forth with the pride of discovery and illuminated in the
  language of a poet by Dürer’s latest and youngest biographer. In the
  history of biographical writing, of art criticism, and
  connoisseurship, ‘Albert Dürer,’ by T. Sturge Moore, is an
  epoch-making work. Its form and execution present a new model for
  study and imitation. He lays bare the mind, the soul of the artist,
  and shows the inevitableness of what Dürer achieved.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 580w.

  “Mr. Moore is always interesting, and perhaps never more interesting
  than when he is least convincing. His work is certainly a stimulating
  addition to the series in which it finds place.”

     + — =Outlook.= 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 230w.

=Moorehead, William Gallogly.= Outline studies in the New Testament,
Philippians to Hebrews. **$1.20. Revell.

  “These studies will be deemed scholarly and sound by such Christians
  as are unreconciled to the scientific and critical doctrines now
  dominant, and disposed to stand by the verbal inerrancy of the
  Scriptures.”—Outlook.

         =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w.

=More, E. Anson.= Captain of men. †$1.50. Page.

  Merodach, the Assyrian, is the hero of this story of Tyre in the days
  when David was outlawed. Miriam, a slave in the household of the
  richest merchant of Tyre, who is engaged in the tin trade, is the
  heroine. The action is involved, there are many characters and there
  is much cruelty.

  * “It is fairly well written and fairly exciting, but nothing more.”

       + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 200w.

  “Has some effective scenes, with long wastes of dullness.”

     + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 403. Je. 17, ‘05. 440w.

=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 3 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.

  The author, an ex-professor of Sanskrit, received his call to the work
  of literary criticism during the course of two years in which he lived
  a life of solitary meditation. In Series one, of his essays the hermit
  of Shelburne devotes himself to the problems of the soul, he treats of
  Hawthorne, Emerson, Carlyle, Symons, Tolstoy and others, and discusses
  the religious and literary movements of to-day. Series two contains
  papers on English sonnets, Lafcadio Hearn, Hazlitt, Lamb, Kipling and
  FitzGerald. Crabbe, Meredith, Hawthorne, Delphi and Greek literature,
  and Nemesis. The third series treats of Cowper’s correspondence,
  Whittier the poet, Sainte-Beuve, Scotch novels and Scotch history,
  Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Brownings’ popularity, Byron’s Don
  Juan, Laurence Sterne and Mr. Whitehouse.

       + =Acad.= 68: 847. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1410w. (Review of second series.)

         =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 50w. (Review of second series.)

  * “Mr. More is a critic of many merits, and his ‘Shelburne essays’
  reveal a penetrating and cultivated intellect. But it is obvious that
  he is less comfortable in the æsthetic environment of the sixteenth
  century than in that of the eighteenth.” Edward Fuller.

   + + — =Critic.= 47: 567. D. ‘05. 800w. (Review of second and third
         series.)

  “Is a collection of literary, psychological, and ethical studies, of
  unusual seriousness and power. Our essayist may be thought at times to
  take himself and his hermit experience, and his ‘long course of
  wayward reading,’ a little too seriously. He has certainly read widely
  and wisely, and his essays are unquestionably full of meat.”

     + + =Dial.= 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 670w. (Review of first series.)

  “Both in his fine classical scholarship and in his carefully wrought
  sentences, Mr. More calls to mind the lamented Walter Pater, although
  the Oxford scholar’s reading and literary sympathies, wide as they
  were, strike one as less comprehensive than Mr. More’s.”

     + + =Dial.= 39: 17. Jl. 1, ‘05. 490w. (Review of second series.)

     + + =Dial.= 39: 277. N. 1, ‘05. 410w. (Review of third series.)

  “The second series of Mr. Paul Elmer More’s ‘Shelburne essays’ is
  likely to win the favor of book lovers in no less degree than its
  predecessor. Mr. More’s freedom from provincialism is manifest even in
  his style.” Herbert W. Horwill.

     + + =Forum.= 37: 252. O. ‘05. 1320w. (Review of second series.)

  “If Mr. More is able to realize his ideal of the high calling of the
  critic he will eventually be able to exert an influence on American
  literature like that of Brunetiere on French.”

       + =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 460w. (Review of third series.)

  * “The Lafcadio Hearn and the Sainte-Beuve [essays] are, perhaps, the
  most remarkable for the depth and penetration of their analysis.”

       + =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. (Review of second and third
         series.)

  “His is the criticism that takes infinite pains, dissects out every
  nerve.”

   + + — =Nation.= 81: 104. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of second
         series.)

  “Are marked by charm and insight. They are not unduly discursive.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w. (Review of second
         series.)

  “He is sound and sane, and he can penetrate sympathetically to inner
  realities of the works and the men he is studying. He is independent
  and he thinks for himself.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 700w. (Review of third
         series.)

  “Mr. More has the instincts of the scholar and the tastes of the man
  of culture; but his feet are on the ground. And he has a generous
  endowment of that common sense which is the conservator of art, as
  genius is its inspiration.”

   + + + =Outlook.= 81: 678. N. 18, ‘05. 1550w. (Review of first-third
         series.)

  “Whatever his subject, the stamp of leisurely scholarship, of
  well-backed, first-hand knowledge, of that indescribable something
  called ‘style’ attests the writer’s kinship with the best of the
  old-school essayists.”

     + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 942. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. (Review of second
         series.)

=Morgan, Lewis Henry.= League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois; ed.
by Herbert M. Lloyd. **$5. Dodd.

  This new edition contains not only an accurate re-print of the edition
  of 1851, but also copious editorial notes, and introduction, personal
  reminiscences of Morgan by Charles T. Porter, a brief biography of
  Morgan with a bibliography of his writings, a sketch of the lives of
  Ely S. Parker and Charles T. Porter, an excellent index, and many
  illustrations.

  “One-volume reprint of the two-volume original lacks nothing desirable
  in the way of critical apparatus.”

     + + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 180w.

  “Still remains the best and most authoritative work on the subject.
  For his editorial notes Mr. Lloyd has drawn upon every source of
  information, and they reveal his wide and discriminating reading of
  literature on the Iroquois. Not only a work of prime importance to all
  students of Indian life and character, but a book that one reads with
  genuine enjoyment for its own sake.” L. J. Burpee.

     + + =Dial.= 38: 119. F. 16, ‘05. 2300w.

=Morris, William O’Connor.= Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the
revival of the military power of England. **$1.35; hf. lea. **$1.60.
Putnam.

  “This is the most recent volume of the “Heroes of the nations”
  series.... The book is in no sense a biography of Wellington, but
  almost entirely a military history. The Peninsular war forms, as it
  were, the kernel.... But Wellington’s early career is not neglected.
  The promise of his youth ... is well indicated in the first chapter,
  and in the second, the seven years spent in India are ... treated....
  The ninth chapter deals with the campaign of 1815.... The remainder of
  the book, on the duke’s political life, is not so detailed.... There
  are 16 portraits of the principal personages, and 16 maps and
  plans.”—Nation.

  “This is a hopelessly mediocre book. The book has not even ... a
  correct, agreeable, and lucid style. It cannot be recommended even for
  the instruction of the general public and school-boys.” R. M.
  Johnston.

     — — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 692. Ap. ‘05. 260w.

  Reviewed by Edward Fuller.

         =Bookm.= 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 250w.

  “This seems to us the first really satisfactory account of his career
  and his influence on the military power of England that has been given
  in compact and popular form.”

     + + =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 70w.

  “Mr. Davis remarks in the concluding sentence that ‘the judge’s
  conclusions, although they have been challenged by some high
  authorities, deserve the attention due to acute independent study of
  the original sources of information’; a statement which will probably
  be indorsed by most readers of the book.”

     + + =Dial.= 38: 93. F. 1, ‘05. 290w.

  “But on the whole, those who like a résumé of a period will find in
  this book more than a good example of its kind.”

       + =Nation.= 80: 76. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1050w.

=Morrison, Arthur.= Green diamond. †$1.50. Page.

  The pursuit of a lost diamond, which is stolen from the Rajah of Goona
  and sent to England in a magnum of Tokay wine; an American buys the
  wine, and not suspecting its value, sells it. Adventures thrilling and
  blood-curdling follow thick and fast until at last the breathless
  author and reader give up the chase.

  “Arthur Morrison is entitled to rank among the better writers of
  mystery or detective-stories of the present time. ‘The green diamond’
  is, we think, the best of Mr. Morrison’s mystery-stories. It is one of
  the best mystery tales of the present year.” Amy C. Rich.

     + + =Arena.= 33: 342. Mr. ‘05. 450w.

       + =Reader.= 5: 501. Mr. ‘05. 180w.

* =Mortimer, Alfred Garnett.= It ringeth to evensong. *$1.25. Whittaker.

  The trials and blessings of old age are discussed helpfully here for
  people of advancing years. The same optimism of the book commends it
  to the healthy minded no less than to the mortal who looks out
  drearily upon old age.

=Mother Goose.= Only true Mother Goose; ed. by Edward Everett Hale.
†60c. Lothrop.

  A facsimile reprint of “The only true Mother Goose” as published in
  Boston in 1833, including the odd-looking woodcuts. Dr. Hale has
  furnished an introduction to the book “which setting aside the Goose
  fable, is really a valuable collection of political squibs and old
  songs, any where from a century and a half to three centuries old.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

 *       =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.

         =Nation.= 81: 257. S. 28, ‘05. 320w.

 *       =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.

     + + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.

  * “A quaint little volume.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 60w.

Mother-Light: a novel. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “This book places in the suburbs of Trenton, New Jersey, the
  headquarters of an extraordinary religious cult, something after the
  Theosophical order. Three hundred pages are devoted to describing its
  mummeries and the emotions and experiences of a young woman from Ida
  Grove, Iowa, its chosen high priestess, or ‘Mother-Light’.”—Outlook.

 *       =Ath.= 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 290w.

         =Outlook.= 79: 653. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.

=Mott, Frederick Blount.= Before the crisis. †$1.50. Lane.

  A book dealing with America before the outbreak of the Civil war, and
  during the campaign of John Brown and his sons. “The book is full of
  graphically told adventures; but though these are exciting reading,
  the picture of slavery is even more interesting. The slaves depicted
  are under good masters, yet in spite of this the author shows
  conclusively how the characters of both owners and slaves were
  corroded by an institution which involved the absolute dependence of
  one human being on the caprice of another.” (Spec.)

  “Mr. Mott’s romance is a moderately deft piece of workmanship on
  familiar, melodramatic lines.”

       + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.

  “It is a thrilling story, however, and well enough told for those
  readers living too far North to detect the author’s egregious errors
  in representing negro character and negro dialect.”

     + — =Ind.= 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 200w.

       + =Spec.= 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 140w.

=Mott, Lawrence.= Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in
the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.

  Jules Verbaux, a gaunt French-Canadian trapper, outlawed by the Hudson
  Bay company, which has put a price upon his head, lives the life of
  the hunted, cleverly avoiding capture. He flits like a shadow over the
  frozen north and thru the fury of its storms, trapping where he can,
  but wherever he rears his lone hut some relentless enemy reduces it to
  ashes. A prey to brute passions in a cruel world with all hands
  against him, the great heart of the man still beats warm beneath the
  “petite” cap of his “enfant” who is dead, which he carries constantly
  with him, the sole reminder of the wife whom he believes has deserted
  him. Again and again it prompts him to noble action while his whole
  being calls for vengeance. In the end he is given a bleak sort of