Chapter XIII: Preface (13)

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Times.)

* * * * *

“Annie Matheson’s introduction, we think, adds not much to the
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=Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott).= Two in Italy. *$2. Little.

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=Ellis, Clara Spalding.= What’s next; or, Shall man live again? $1.50. Badger, R: G.

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* * * * *

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=Ellis, Edward Sylvester (Colonel H. R. Gordon, pseud.).= Black Partridge, or, The fall of Fort Dearborn. †$1.50. Dutton.

Auric Kingdom, a Fort Wayne lad, his chum, Jethro Judd of Fort
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=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Hunt on snowshoes. [+]75c. Winston.

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* * * * *

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=Ellis, John Breckenridge.= Stork’s nest. †$1.50. Moffat.

“A tale of rough life in northern Missouri.... The process of molding
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end—the bad people die, and the good live happy ever after.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

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+ =Bookm.= 23: 30. Mr. ’06. 240w.

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=Ellison, Mrs. Edith Nicholl.= Childs recollections of Tennyson. *$1. Dutton.

These child-hood and girl-hood recollections of Tennyson and the life
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of this happily congenial household is a pleasing addition to our
knowledge of the laureate.

* * * * *

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=Elson, Henry William.= School history of the United States. *90c. Macmillan.

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escape neglect.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

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Reviewed by Marcus W. Jernegan.

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=Elson, Louis Charles.= Elson’s music dictionary. $1. Ditson.

A valuable book of reference for musicians, containing the definition
and pronunciation of such terms and signs as are used in modern music,
together with a list of foreign composers and artists, with
pronunciation of their names, a list of popular errors in music, rules
for pronouncing foreign words, and a short English-Italian vocabulary
of musical words and expressions.

* * * * *

“For the most part, however, this handy dictionary deserves
commendation.”

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=Elton, Oliver.= Michael Drayton. Constable & co., London.

This little volume by Professor Elton is “as an ‘avant-courier’ to the
concerted attempt to restore Drayton to his place of eminence in
English literature ... [and it tells] the prospective reader of the
poetry all that is known, through the researches of modern scholarship
of the man and his work.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

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the subject. There is evidence throughout of long research and
indubitable scholarship.”

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=Eltzbacher, O.= Modern Germany. **$2.50. Dutton.

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world? What is Germany’s policy towards this country, towards the
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Germany’s aims, what are her ambitions, and, above all, what are the
causes of her marvelous success?”

* * * * *

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inferences from statistics.”

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=N. Y. Times.= 10: 789. N. 18, ’05. 330w.

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doubt, his book is interesting and full of virile thought.” Wolf von
Schierbrand.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 469. Jl. 28, ’06. 1670w.

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opponents. We note his fairness, nevertheless.”

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the comparative wisdom of the fiscal policies of Germany and Great
Britain.”

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=Elzas, Barnett Abraham.= Jews of South Carolina. *$6. Press of J. B. Lippincott co.

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* * * * *

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=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= Friendship and character. $1. Century.

The value of this “Thumbnail” offering is increased by Emma Lazarus’s
essay on Emerson’s personality which forms the introduction.

=Emerson, Willis George.= Builders. $1.50. Forbes.

A young New York newspaper man is sent out west by his managing editor
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upon a gold mine which to the surprise of everyone “strikes pay dirt.”
There is of course, a western girl in the story and there are other
characters chiefly prospectors, western in type and of mingled good
and evil. The plot of the story is superior to its workmanship.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

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on from page to page.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 472. Jl. 28, ’06. 650w.

Empire and the century: a series of essays on imperial problems and possibilities, by various writers. **$6. Dutton.

“The present volume is intended to give, within the compass of a
single book, the current views of representative men and women upon
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this particular moment of its history.” There is an introduction by
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“The heritage”; the other writers include J. St. Loe Strachey, J. L.
Garvin, the Bishop of Stepney, Carolyn Bellairs, R. N.; George Peel,
Sir Edward Hutton, Prof. J. W. Robertson, Benjamin Sulte, Sir Godfrey
Lagden, Lady Lugard, Valentine Chirol, Sir Frederick Lugard, Col.
Younghusband, and many others.

* * * * *

“The essays often contradict one another, and the whole is somewhat in
the nature of a collection of magazine articles. On the other hand,
some of the contributions are full of interest and well worthy of
attentive consideration.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 715. N. 25. 1380w.

“Admirable and extensive compendium.” Robert C. Brooks.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 251. My. ’06. 620w.

“It contains a great deal of political, geographical and commercial
information hard to find elsewhere.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 70w.

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treatise.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 600w.

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political preferences they are nevertheless informative and deserving
of close attention.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 350w.

“This volume forms an extremely valuable contribution to our knowledge
of Imperial problems.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 1087. D. 23, ’05. 2260w.

English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson. *$1.25. Holt.

“While the volume is in no way designed as a text in the history of
English literature, it would prove a most excellent companion piece to
such a course.”

+ =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 140w.

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literature.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 80w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 50w.

+ =School R.= 14: 232. Mr. ’06. 50w.

=Eno, Henry Lane.= Baglioni: a play in five acts. **$1.25. Moffat.

A drama founded upon the story of the celebrated Baglioni family who
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tears, it is cast in that antiquated literary style which is always so
perilous to handle, and which betrays one so easily into turgidity and
bombast.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The blank verse marches with tolerable, even correctness, but the
rhetoric is often turgid and we should doubt if the play could be
found to be actable, though possibly possessing some dramatic
passages.”

– + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 100w.

“He has allowed himself to be distracted by dramatically irrelevant
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the renaissance mood.”

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tastes insipid.” Bliss Carman.

– + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 818. D. 2, ’05. 750w.

=Erb, J. Lawrence.= Brahms. $1.25. Dutton.

A useful and suggestive introduction to the life of Johannes Brahms
which appears uniform with the “Master musicians” series. “There are
no stirring events to recount, no revolution, or hurling of artistic
thunderbolts; his life is but a record of work, unswervingly pursued,
and of a homely, simple life of quiet friendships, with rambles
through Italy or Switzerland in holiday times, though these holidays
were the opportunities for some of his best work, as is ever the case
with a true artist.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 69: 1087. O. 14, ’05. 510w.

“Mr. Erb’s book is not a bad book; he has gathered his materials
conscientiously and he has not tortured truth in their
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of work.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 490. Ag. 16, ’06. 470w.

“The most useful of these, [biographies of Brahms] for the general
reader, is Erb’s.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 90w.

“His biography is not marked by originality, either of research or of
critical views; but it will fill a place that has not been exactly
filled in English.” Richard Aldrich.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 60w.

“Although it is written without any great distinction of style, it is
decidedly readable.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’05. 190w.

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useful and unpretending little book.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 763. N. 11, ’05. 160w.

=Eva Mary, Sister.= Community life for women; with introd. by Boyd Vincent. 75c. Young ch.

A little book which advocates the sisterhood idea and organization as
an authorized part of church order. The subject is treated in nine
chapters, as follows: The need of religious communities, Vocation,
Probation, The regular life, The vow, The common life, The temptations
of the community life, Popular objections to the community life, and
Helps and hindrances.

=Evans, Florence Adele.= Woodland elf. 60c. Saalfield.

The stories which the woodland elf reads from the leaves of his
library bush to comfort Maidie, who is lost in the woods, will
interest other little people who are not lost for they tell all about
the chameleon’s color, why snakes shed their skins, why Indian pipes
grow, why the wild-cat has no tail, why seals wear furs, why wishes no
longer come true and explain the whys and wherefores of many other
wonderful things.

=Evans, Henry Ridgely.= Old and new magic; introd. by Dr. Paul Carus. *$1.50. Open ct.

“This book begins with the ancient Egyptian magic and comes down to
such modern prestidigitateurs as Kellar and Herrmann. Scores of
conjurers’ tricks are explained, with abundant illustration. In its
introduction Dr. Paul Carus discourses in a readable way about the
relations between magic, illusion, and miracle from the point of view
of one to whom the miraculous is the impossible.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A discursive and unpolished but hugely entertaining account of
necromancy and conjuring.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 290w.

“No reader need fear to take up this book because of its moral or
ethical purpose. It contains fascinating reading for everybody.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.

=Outlook.= 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 50w.

=Evans, Herbert Arthur.= Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds. $2. Macmillan.

In this new volume in the “Highways and byways” series the author
“takes Oxford as a starting-place, and wisely devotes far the larger
part of the book to less well-known places.... Upper and lower
Slaughter, Temple Guiting, Chipping Warden, Stow-on-the-Wold.... These
are the samples of the many quaint names of scores of English villages
through which the author takes his reader in a leisurely pedestrian
trip. Everywhere he finds ancient hills, ruined abbeys, picturesque
cottages, or old-fashioned inns, and his narrative abounds in local
traditions, legends, and the drift of the side-eddies of history. The
drawings are by Frederick L. Griggs.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Evans, except for an occasional touch of affectation, writes very
well, and displays a knowledge alike of architecture, history, and
botany.”

+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 417. Ap. 7. 340w.

“The volume is a thoroly good one, and will be of service to the
tourist who visits Oxford, for all necessary instructions for
following the route are given.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 641. S. 13, ’06. 290w.

“The volume is fully up to the rest of this charming series.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 250. S. 20, ’06. 620w.

“It is not only attractive, but taking it as a whole it is accurate
and valuable; between its covers is store both of pleasure and of
profit.”

+ + =Nature.= 74: 124. Je. 7, ’06. 560w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 103. F. 17, ’06. 330w.

“Mr Evans writes in a discursive and agreeably rambling way.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 200w.

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 20, ’05. 70w.

“Mr. Evans is fully equal to his task of guide and historian.”

+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 645, Ap. 28, ’06. 220w.

=Evans, Thomas Wiltberger.= Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans: recollections of the second French empire. *$3. Appleton.

Dr. Evans, American dentist of the French court, had a particularly
favorable viewpoint for first hand facts, and in becoming Napoleon
III’s “eulogist and apologist” he finds “unusual opportunities of
observing the evolution of political ideas and institutions in France
and the conditions and causes that immediately preceded and determined
the fall of the second empire as seen from within.” (Critic.) The
first absolutely authentic account of Empress Eugénie’s flight from
France at the time of the Commune is furnished by Dr. Evans, who
himself aided in her escape.

* * * * *

+ + =Acad.= 69: 1308. D. 16, ’05. 1470w.

+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 829. D. 16. 1370w.

“Dr Evans made no pretension to literary ability, but at the same
time, if these ‘Memoirs’ are in his own words, he knew how to express
himself in an interesting and picturesque manner.” Jeannette L.
Gilder.

+ + =Critic.= 48: 82. Ja. ’06. 750w.

“It is evident that he could, did he choose, throw much light on the
history of the Empire and its fall. The present volume, intelligently
edited by his friend and executor, Dr. Crane, is ample evidence that
he has so chosen. The last [part] is the most interesting, the first
the least convincing.”

+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 870w.

“His attempts at assuming political importance leave one unconvinced,
his judgments on men and things reveal more a mixture of naiveté and
self-importance than anything else, and yet there is a residium that
has some claim to attention.”

– + =Nation.= 82: 185. Mr. 1, ’06. 360w.

“It is interesting—it ought to be conclusive, but it is not, for some
reason.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ’05. 1390w.

“The book is thoroughly readable and quotable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 140w.

“The human personal interest in the notes and letters more than atones
for the lack of literary form.”

+ – =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 290w.

“His Memoirs lack both authority and charm.”

– =Sat. R.= 101: 367. Mr. 24, ’06. 1570w.

“More ‘Memoirs’ of Dr. Evans may be published. It is to be hoped that
they will be as interesting as these, but editorially better
compressed.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 674. Ap. 28, ’06. 1640w.

=Evelyn, John.= Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, esq.; with the life of the author by Henry B. Wheatley. 4v. *$12. Scribner.

The bicentenary of the death of John Evelyn has renewed interest in
the famous diarist who “by a prodigal accident” was a contemporary of
Samuel Pepys. This four-volume importation contains the diary of John
Evelyn, selections from his letters, a biographical sketch of the
author and a new preface.

* * * * *

“Mr. Wheatley’s edition is second only to his famous edition of
Pepys.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 165. Ag. 11. 570w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 451. D. 16, ’06. 370w.

“We may welcome an old favorite in its new dress, although we might
wish that the volumes were a trifle less bulky—and expensive.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 183. Ag. 30, ’06. 590w.

“The extreme dryness of the memoir, one may almost say, is a guarantee
of its authenticity, and in truth it is chiefly, as it almost had to
be, a summary of the diary itself.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 593. S. 29, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“This is undoubtedly the definitive edition of Evelyn’s ‘Diary’.”

+ + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 20w.

+ + =Spec.= 96: 712. My. 5, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Everett, Grace W.= Hymn treasures. $1.25. Meth. bk.

It is the aim of this book to bring to light some of the hidden
treasures of hymnody and to show their worth. From the Magnificat and
the Benedictus sung by Mary and Zacharias, respectively, to the very
modern songs, the author writes interestingly about the makers of
hymns and their contributions.

=Ewald, Carl.= My little boy; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1. Scribner.

“Not often does the father of a little boy write his biography so
humorously, tenderly and sympathetically as does Carl Ewald, in
telling the story of his little son. The two are comrades, bound
together by many common interests and pursuits.... The little boy ...
teaches his father a few lessons, altho the wise man needs fewer than
most parents; and the little lad learns many lessons, as all boys and
girls must.... He must be taught strict honesty, and respect for the
rights of others. The father teaches these things as well as many
others, truthfulness, fidelity to a trust or to a promise, the cruelty
of race prejudice, in a way of his own, which is always sympathetic
and respectful of a child’s feelings.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“It is the sweetest biography we remember.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 390w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.

=Eyre, Archibald.= Girl in waiting. $1.50. Luce.

“This story belongs to a class now prevalent in fiction, the short
extravaganza.” (Ath.) “This is an unpretentious tale of a rich girl
masquerading as a poor one and coming under suspicion as a dangerous
character. There is a young man in the case, of course, and
circumstances shape themselves, equally of course, to bring the two
together.” (Critic.)

* * * * *

“It does not lack the modern essentials of the genus—liveliness and
flippancy. As a whole its tone is not quite equal, as the airs of
comedy and farce are intermingled a little too crudely.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 324. Mr. 17. 90w.

“Mr. Eyre writes pleasantly and cleverly and enables the reader to
avoid ennui for an idle hour.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 60w.

“Taken all together ‘The girl in waiting’ is almost as good as some of
the things in the same line which have been done by Mr. Morley
Roberts. There’s a light touch, a venturesome spirit, an eye for human
oddities, not a little human sympathy, and a knack of kindly
caricature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 580w.

“A droll little comedy of misunderstanding, although beyond this
Archibald Eyre has produced an unusual story told in an unusual way.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

=Eytinge, Rose.= Memories of Rose Eytinge. **80c; **$1.20. Stokes.

=Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 70w.

“The book abounds in interesting bits of reminiscence, anecdotes, and
incidents of public characters, with sidelights on their
idiosyncrasies,—forming the naïve chronicles and observation of over
half a century.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 190w.

“There are spirit and individuality in many of her comments upon
people.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 150w.

F

=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Local government in counties, towns and villages. *$1.25. Century.

Uniform with the “American state series,” Dr. Fairlie’s work is mainly
descriptive of the present time, reducing historical discussion to a
brief summary. Such matters are treated as “county officers, police,
and justices; the town in New England, in the south and the west;
public education, charities, public health, and local finance in a
manner suited to the large mass of readers who approach such a subject
neither as lawyers nor as philosophers.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 60w.

“He gives a careful and businesslike presentation for the general
reader or the young person who wants to get the subject up for a
college course.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 200w.

“The usefulness of this work will be at once appreciated by any one
who has attempted to find an adequate treatment of this topic in
existing text-books.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 200w.

=Fairman, James Farquharson.= Standard telephone wiring for common battery and magneto systems. *$1. McGraw pub.

A handbook for telephone men, containing diagrams of circuits for
straight lines, party lines, plans, sub-stations, private lines and
intercommunicating systems, with a brief description of the apparatus
used and rules of the fire underwriters.

* * * * *

“The book is intended primarily for telephone wiremen, and it appears
to be well adapted to their work.” H. H. Norris.

+ =Engin. N.= 55: 430. Ap. 12, ’06. 130w.

=Fairweather, Mary.= Passion stroke: a tale of ancient masonry. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

A mystical tale of the strange passing of the Sibyl of Delphi-Pythia
and the high-priest, Hiereros of Delphi, and his dual personality. the
faun thru the two kingdoms of the flesh and of the mind to the great
third kingdom of life in love. The action centers about the time of
the burning of the ancient temple of Delphi.

Fairy stories; retold from St. Nicholas. **65c. Century.

Sixteen fairy tales in prose and rhyme, copyrighted all the way from
1874 to the present year appear here in an attractively illustrated
volume for young readers. Among them are Tinkey, The ten little
dwarfs, The king of the golden woods, Casperl, Giant Thunder Bones,
and How an elf set up housekeeping.

=Fanning, Clara E.=, comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the United States navy. *$1. Wilson, H. W.

Fifteen articles dealing with material on both sides of the question,
“Resolved that the policy of substantially enlarging the American navy
is preferable to the policy of maintaining it at its present strength
and efficiency” have been reprinted from various magazines to make up
this little volume. The result is a fund of information on the subject
which will prove valuable not only to the high school debating league
but will help all students, club members, or librarians who wish
information upon this subject in compact form. Articles by Captain
Mahan, John D. Long, Captain Hobson, and Rear Admiral George W.
Melville have been included.

=Fanshawe, Reginald.= Corydon: an elegy in memory of Matthew Arnold and Oxford. *$1.80. Oxford.

In the 224 Spenserian stanzas which compose this tribute to Matthew
Arnold “The evolution of the intellectual life of Oxford during the
last sixty years is traced with knowledge and insight, and there is
some felicitous literary criticism by the way.... Though the elegy
abounds in memorable phrases ... depends for its success neither on
these nor on the beauty of individual stanzas, but rather on the
orderly progress of the closely knit thought and the sustained dignity
of the language.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 663. Je. 2. 340w.

“Mr. Reginald Fanshaw has paid a heartfelt tribute to an institution,
a man and an intellectual epoch.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 65. Ag. 1, ’06. 330w.

“In passing from the programme to the performance itself the reader is
most pleasantly surprised to find it continuously informed by a mellow
poetic mood, and containing scarcely a lapse from suave and
accomplished workmanship. The tone is frankly academic and
traditional, and most successfully so. There is a lack of intensity,
of original poetic energy in the conception of this that makes against
its wide and enduring appeal.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 500w.

“He is a little inclined to a surfeit of epithets, but his verse is
orderly and musical, and he expresses gracefully many genuine, if not
very startling truths.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 90w.

=Fariss, Amy Cameron.= Sin of Saint Desmond. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

A tale of the loves of a will-o’-the-wisp girl who allows the marriage
with the man she does not love to bind her in no way to marital
allegiance. She finally enthrals a man of supposedly strong nature
known among his relations as “Saint Desmond.” The story is dramatic,
even tragic as it finds no better solution than making death a
punishment for waywardness.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 250w.

=Farmer, James Eugene.= Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. *$3.50. Century.

“It has been a pleasure to read so historically accurate, and so
well-balanced a survey of the court of the Grand Monarque.” James
Westfall Thompson.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 658. Ap. ’06. 730w.

“The book is therefore likely to be of some value as a work of
reference, whilst it should also appeal to the general reader. The
index is unfortunately far from adequate; but we have seldom read a
book containing so much matter which was so free from printers’
errors.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 225. F. 24. 2050w.

“Altogether, this is an entertaining and instructive book, although
devoid of pretension to profound interpretations of the age of Louis
XIV.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 350w.

“In some descriptions Mr. Farmer goes dangerously near the language of
auctioneers. Though laborious and careful, Mr. Farmer has only
produced a guidebook of a very superior kind. A visitor to Versailles
could hardly read anything better.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 51. F. 16, ’06. 610w.

“One submits to the charm of narrative with the feeling that he is
resting on absolutely sure ground.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 600w.

“One could hardly ask for a more intimate life-like and exact picture
of the first gentleman of Europe and his time.”

+ + =Reader.= 7: 565. Ap. ’06. 630w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 120w.

“As it stands, it is half guide-book, half history and biography, and
so arranged that one finds it difficult to read through. Mr. Farmer’s
selections from the memoirs of the time are made with great judgment.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: 713. My. 5, ’06. 1420w.

=Farnell, Louis Richard.= Evolution of religion: an anthropological study. *$1.50. Putnam.

Two of the four lectures delivered in 1905 for the Hibbert trust deal
with the methods and the value of the study of comparative religion
and its relations to anthropology; the remaining two are special
studies in the anthropological manner, of the ritual of purification
and the evolution of prayer from lower to higher forms.

* * * * *

“It contains much that is suggestive and valuable, and the two
chapters on ritual purification and the evolution of prayer are real
contributions to the study of these important matters.”

+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1258. D. 2, ’05. 320w.

“This first essay is essentially only a vindication of the comparative
study of religion. The remaining two essays are excellent specimens of
constructive work.” F. C. French.

+ + =J. Philos.= 3: 580. O. 11, ’06. 920w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 443. D. 15, ’05. 490w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ’05. 270w.

=Farquhar, Edward.= Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

“A volume of somewhat remarkable verse not without promise of future
work, as ambitious in theme, and as widely speculative, yet with all
mature reflection and more disciplined regard for order.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 110w.

=Farquhar, Edward.= Youth of Messiah. $1. Badger, R: G.

A poem which is based upon material supposed to have been found in an
ancient manuscript newly discovered.

=Farquhar, George.= Plays; ed. with an introd. and notes by William Archer. *$1. Scribner.

An addition to the “Mermaid series.” The volume contains the
following, four plays: The constant couple, The town rivals, The
recruiting officer, and The beaux’ stratagem.

* * * * *

“Mr. Archer’s edition is, as would be expected, scholarly and
trustworthy.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 199. S. 1, ’06. 1970w.

“The ‘Mermaid’ texts are now issued in those thin-paper editions which
are the detestation of most good book-lovers.”

– =Nation.= 83: 200. S. 6, ’06. 100w.

=Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 60w.

=Farrer, Reginald J.= House of shadows. †$1.50. Longmans.

“Tempest Ladon, is a north-country squire of ancient lineage, who
marries a young Italian lady. Elena dies in giving birth prematurely
to a son, and leaves behind her a casket of love-letters written, she
says, to her husband, which he promises never to read. The son, St.
John, in his turn, marries a beautiful middle-class girl and brings
her home to his father, who hates her as she hates him. Meanwhile
Tempest discovers that he is dying of sarcoma, and is so afraid of
hell-fire if he commits suicide that he tries to persuade his son to
take the chances of damnation and kill him. Ultimately the
daughter-in-law is tempted into handing him the overdose which ends
him, but not before he has discovered that Elena’s letters were
written to an Italian cousin, who is the real father of St.
John.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“It is clever enough to make us hope that, when Mr. Farrer has read
more widely and thought more sanely, he may yet do good work.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 406. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.

“The characters are drawn with a vivid touch, but not one is genuinely
agreeable.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 324. My. 17. 250w.

“A book remarkable for its force and continuity.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9, ’06. 480w.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 240w.

=Fawcett, Mrs. Millicent Garrett (Mrs. Henry Fawcett.)= Five famous French women. $2. Cassell.

Five character studies of French women “of intellect who were born to
hold the reins of power.” (Acad.) They are Joan of Arc, Renée, Duchess
of Ferrara. Louise of Savoy, her daughter, Margaret of Angoulême and
Jeanne d’Albrét, queen of Navarre.

* * * * *

“The studies suffer from weak construction, but they are interesting.
The style is clear, with a certain cheerful colloquialism which is
rather unexpected.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 352. Ap. 14, ’06. 950w.

“It is a little difficult to determine what kind of public she has in
view. Evidences of carelessness in proof-reading are somewhat
numerous.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 892. D. 30. 280w.

“As Mrs. Fawcett’s standpoint is a non-Catholic one, she expresses
some opinions with which we cannot agree; and she hardly applies the
same weights and measures to the Catholic and Huguenot.”

– =Cath. World.= 84: 106. O. ’06. 430w.

“The author is to be congratulated ... for having brought very near to
modern appreciation a series of remarkable characters.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 309. My. 12, ’06. 680w.

=Fechner, Gustav Theodor.= On life after death, from the German by Hugo Wernekke. **75c. Open ct.

“This is a new edition of a book too little known in this country. The
author, a professor of physics in the University of Leipsic ... is at
once a scientist and a poet.... His fundamental postulate is the
continuity of life, and it will commend itself alike to the student of
the New Testament and the student of philosophy.... The biographical
sketch of the author which is appended to the volume adds to its
interest and serves to interpret it.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

Reviewed by W. C. Keirstead.

=Am. J. Soc.= 10: 556. Jl. ’06. 120w.

“Dr. Wernekke’s [translation] is the more literal, but Miss
Wadsworth’s reads more smoothly.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 1597. Je. 28, ’06. 360w.

“The chief defect of the book is its tone of assurance, the author’s
fancies being affirmed with the same positiveness as if they were
scientific observations of philosophical deductions.”

– + =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 190w.

=Outlook.= 83: 357. Je. 16, ’06. 1210w.

=Fenollosa, Mary McNeil (Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa) (Sidney McCall, pseud.).= Dragon painter. †$1.50. Little.

The depth of feeling which the Japanese of the passing generation hold
for Japan and the art that has always been hers is strongly brought
out in this story of Kano Indara, the last of a line of great artists,
who views with terror the encroachments of western art. He hears of
Tatsu, the wild mountain dragon painter and, in his deathless longing
for an artist-son, he sends for him and gives to him his daughter
Umè-Ko that he may be indeed his son, and also because he could not
hold him otherwise, for the youth has painted his dragon-pictures
merely because his soul was filled with a longing for the dragon-maid,
his mate thruout all incarnations. When he finds her in Kano’s
daughter his great love absorbs the artist in him and Kano, who lives
for art alone, in his rage and disappointment takes the young wife
from her too-loving husband until, from the depths of his great grief
and agony of spirit, the artist in him once more emerges, then she is
restored to him as from the dead.

* * * * *

“In our judgment ‘The dragon painter’ is far inferior as a novel to
either ‘Truth Dexter’ or ‘The breath of the gods.’”

+ – =Arena.= 36: 686. D. ’06. 530w.

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1494. D. 20, ’06. 590w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 330w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

“One does not need to have had any personal experience in the land of
which Mrs. Fenollosa writes in order to be perfectly certain that
these pages give a truthful picture of Japanese domestic life and a
faithful revelation of the inner depths of Japanese feeling—not one of
those specious translations of Japan in terms of modern ‘Westernism.’”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 650w.

=Field, Horace, and Bunney, Michael.= English domestic architecture of the XVII. and XVIII. centuries. *$15. Macmillan.

The authors of this volume on domestic architecture in England in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries “have provided examples of
smaller buildings, with their measurements and different views of
them, besides an introduction and many full notes. There are about 100
illustrations, including half-tone full, double, and half page plates,
drawings, diagrams, etc. The introduction contains a resume of the
history of the English domestic architecture followed by a chapter on
‘The renaissance evolution in England,’ and then by descriptions of
the houses presented.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 280w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 274. My. ’06. 310w.

“The matter of this text is perfectly well thought out and expressed.
The book is a valuable one from every point of view.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 144. F. 15, ’06. 870w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 270w.

=Fielding, Henry.= Selected essays, ed. by Gordon Hall Gerould. *60c. Ginn.

“The editor has evidently profited by consulting the best critical
comment on his author, and his introduction is both full and
interesting.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 231. S. 9. 190w.

=Finberg, Alexander J.= English water color painters. *75c. Dutton.

“About two dozen artists are considered in Mr. Finberg’s little book
on the water-color painters of England and forty-two half-tone
reproductions of their works are included.... The names include those
of Samuel Scott, a marine and landscape painter; Paul Sandby,
sometimes called the ‘Father of the English school of water color;’
Thomas Hearne, accomplished also as a draughtsman; Alexander and John
Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Turner, Rowlandson, Blake, Cotman, Cox, Prout,
Ford Madox Brown, Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Fred Walker, and others.”—N.
Y. Times.

* * * * *

“An admirable and instructive essay, which it is a pleasure to read,
even where one is bound to disagree with it.” T. Sturge Moore.

+ – =Acad.= 70: 497. My. 26, ’06. 1160w.

“Is really a model short treatise.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 140w.

+ – =Nation.= 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 190w.

“Both in text and illustration the little book is extremely valuable.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.

=Finck, Henry Theophilus.= Edvard Grieg. *$1. Lane.

Volume eight in the “Living masters of music” series is the first book
in English on the life and personality of this famous Norwegian
composer. “An invalid, he has lived in seclusion in the Far North; a
successful pianist, conductor, and composer almost from the beginning
of his career, happily married to a cousin who could not only inspire
but interpret his songs—in spite of some dark years and some
inevitable shadows, he stands for us in the sun; largely as to his
career, wholly and radiantly as to his warm personality. The
photographs of him from the fifteen-year-old boy to the sixty-year-old
man ... are full of charm and of a winning quality that fit absolutely
into the character of his music.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“There is much new material relating to the personal side of the
composer.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 60w.

“A sound and sympathetic study of this great son of the North.”

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 270w.

“The book is charmingly written, is entertaining from cover to cover,
and is sure to become popular with all music lovers. Mr. Finck has the
gift of the true biographer, of nowhere obtruding his own
personality.” Joseph Sohn.

+ + =Forum.= 37: 526. Ap. ’06. 480w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 200. F. 10, ’06. 710w.

+ + =Nation.= 82: 184. Mr. 1, ’06. 1560w.

“Mr. Finck’s book is an attempt to place him in the very forefront of
modern composers. There are interesting biographical details in the
book.” Richard Aldrich.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 750w.

“In spite of this attitude of fierce worshiper, Mr. Finck has written
a very readable as well as useful book. He has succeeded in the first
place in filling it with personality. He has, in the second place,
brought together much information about Grieg, some old and some new,
which has not before been easily accessible.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 520. Mr. 3, ’06. 210w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 60w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 130w.

=Findlater, Jane Helen.= Ladder to the stars. †$1.50. Appleton.

The author “depicts a young woman whose relatives are housekeepers,
commercial travelers, clerks, as sex or circumstances decree; and she
invests her with spiritual ambitions with which the local minister
cannot cope; with social aspirations unintelligible in a circle where
human society means nothing beyond class-strata; and with intellectual
ideals that cannot be shared by those in whose eyes ‘two years at Mrs.
Clumper’s’ are synonymous with a liberal education.”—Lond. Times.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 160w.

“Her picture of middle-class life in a country town is admirably
incisive and humorous, and at the same time free from ill-nature. The
character of her heroine is less satisfactory.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 340w.

“The writer leaves us with a feeling that the ideas which she
attributes to her heroine are her own; in other words, the illusion is
incomplete. If it had been otherwise the book would have been a
triumph of art; as it is, we have a comedy of manners, wise, kindly,
and incisive.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 338. O. 5, ’06. 380w.

“In spite of its stilted and sometimes unreal heroine and its several
impossible incidents, it will certainly be the exceptional reader who
will not find himself very much interested and amused.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 684. O. 20, ’06. 710w.

“The story, of course, is open to the criticism common to all stories
which turn on the literary ability of their characters, that the
author can give no proof of this ability, and that the reader has to
take it on trust.”

+ – =Spec.= 97: 404. S. 22, ’06. 280w.

=Firth, Charles Harding.= Plea for the historical teaching of history: an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904. *35c. Oxford.

+ =Nation.= 82: 388. My. 10, ’06. 880w.

=Firth, John Benjamin.= Constantine, the first Christian emperor. **$1.35; **$1.60. Putnam.

“On the side of institutions, however, the book is distinctly weak.”
Charles H. Haskins.

+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 432. Ja. ’06. 370w.

=Fischer, Louis.= Health-care of the baby: a handbook for mothers and nurses. *75c. Funk.

Under Part 1, General hygiene of the infant, the author gives chapters
upon bathing, clothing, training, etc. Part 2, Infant feeding, treats
of the various methods of feeding and of infant foods. Part 3.
Miscellaneous diseases and emergencies, includes a detailed treatment
of the various children’s diseases and a chapter upon accidents.

* * * * *

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 40w.

=Fisguill, Richard, pseud. (Richard H. Wilson).= Venus of Cadiz. †$1.50. Holt.

“Read him sympathetically and he will reward you with the next best
thing to tears,—a laugh.” Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 170w.

=Fish, Carl Russell.= Civil service and the patronage. *$2. Longmans.

+ =Ind.= 60: 799. Ap. 5, ’06. 310w.

“A careful and useful historical study.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 350w.

+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 330. N. ’06. 440w.

=Fisher, Clarence Stanley.= Excavations at Nippur; plans, details, and photographs of the buildings, with numerous objects found in them during the excavations of 1889, 1890, 1893–1896, 1899–1900 with descriptive text by Clarence S. Fisher. (Babylonian expedition of the Univ. of Penn.) 6 pts. ea. pt. $2. C. S. Fisher, Rutledge, Delaware co., Pa.

“The entire work comprises some two hundred large folio pages of
topographical introduction and descriptive text, abundantly
illustrated with cuts and photographs, including some splendid
full-page photogravures, besides many folding lithographic plates
giving plans and details of the buildings.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Altogether we may heartily congratulate both the University and Mr.
Fisher on the first part of a book, which bids fair to be a most
valuable contribution to science. We have noticed some typographical
errors ... but these are trifles.”