Chapter I: Preface (1)

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

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

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

THE EDITORS.

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

THE PUBLISHERS.

Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made

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

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A

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

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

– =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 250w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

+ =Acad.= 71: 301. S. 29, ’06. 1530w.

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

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

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

“Attractively edited.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

+ =Acad.= 70: 577. Je. 16, ’06. 280w.

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

+ =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.

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

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

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Is brightly and sympathetically written.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

+ =Nation.= 82: 21. Ja. 4, ’06. 580w.

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

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

+ – =Critic.= 48: 214. Mr. ’06. 170w.

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

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

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

Reviewed by George Hodges.

=Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 130w.

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

+ =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 100w.

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

+ =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 350w.

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

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

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

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 80w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 30w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

“A most interesting volume.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ’05. 100w.

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

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

+ + =Ind.= 61: 40. Jl. 5, ’06. 660w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“An interesting and readable book.”

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

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

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

+ =Dial.= 40: 97. F. 1, ’06. 40w.

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

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

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

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

“For general use this guide is most convenient.”

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

+ + – =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 120w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 220w.

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

+ – =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 200w.

“A volume that is not devoid of merit.”

+ =Bookm.= 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 230w.

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

+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 100w.

Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.

– =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 140w.

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

+ =Acad.= 70: 436. My. 5, ’06. 540w.

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

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

=Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 30w.

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

+ =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 200w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w.

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

+ =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 250w.

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

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

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

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

=R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 50w.

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

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

+ + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 140w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

“A readable and suggestive little work.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 50w.

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

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

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

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

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

“A convenient work.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

=Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 40w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 110w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 80w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 70w.

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

=Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 60w.

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

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

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ’05. 90w.

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

+ =Spec.= 97: 398. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

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

A little pamphlet for pastors and church workers.

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

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

* * * * *

+ – =Ind.= 61: 824. O. 4, ’06. 260w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

+ =Spec.= 96: 904. Je. 9, ’06. 2080w.

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

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

* * * * *

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

+ =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 120w.

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

+ =Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 170w.

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

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

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

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

“Extremely interesting and informing work.” Edward Cary.

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

+ =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 100w.

=Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 60w.

=School R.= 14: 232. Mr. ’06. 60w.

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

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

* * * * *

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

+ =Ind.= 60: 1372. Je. 7, ’06. 370w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

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

+ – =Spec.= 96: 711. My. ’06. 1950w.

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 110w.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

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

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

– =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 220w.

=Spec.= 97: 372. S. 15, ’06. 110w.

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

+ =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 80w.

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

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

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

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

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 282. F. ’06. 70w.

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