Chapter XIV: Preface (14)

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=Fitch, (William) Clyde.= Climbers: a play in four acts. **75c. Macmillan.

A new volume in the published edition of the plays of Mr. Fitch. The
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=Fitch, (William) Clyde.= Girl with the green eyes. **75c. Macmillan.

The first appearance in book form of Mr. Fitch’s four-act play.

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=Fitch, William Edwards.= Some neglected history of North Carolina, including the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American revolution. $2. Neale.

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=Fitchett, William Henry.= Unrealized logic of religion; a study in credibilities. *$1.25. Eaton.

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innumerable correspondences which link the spiritual and secular
realms together.”

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=Fitz, George Wells, and Fitz, Rachel Kent.= Problems of babyhood; building a constitution, forming a character. **$1.25. Holt.

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=FitzGerald, Edward.= Euphranor: a dialogue on youth. *75c. Lane.

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=Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington.= Sir Henry Irving: a biography. **$3. Jacobs.

Mr. Fitzgerald’s biography was published during Irving’s life time.
This issue includes ten years of added happenings, making it a
complete sketch.

* * * * *

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=Fitzgerald, Sybil.= In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.

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=Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty.= Life of Granville. 2v. $10. Longmans.

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=Flammarion, Nicolas Camille.= Thunder and lightning; tr. by Walter Mostyn. **$1.25. Little.

An abridged form of the French work discussing the victim of
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* * * * *

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=Fleming, John Ambrose.= Principles of electric wave telegraphy. *$6.60. Longmans.

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* * * * *

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=Fletcher, Ella Adelia.= Philosophy of rest. 75c. Dodge.

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=Folsom, Justus Watson.= Entomology, with special reference to its biological and economic aspects. *$3. Blakiston.

Although planned primarily for the student this volume is intended
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=Forbush, Rev. William Byron.= Boys’ life of Christ. **$1.25. Funk.

The author has made a strong appeal to boys thru this vivid and
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* * * * *

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=Ford, Ellis A.= Challenge of the spirit. **30c. Crowell.

A monograph whose keynote is sounded in the following: “Life itself is
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=Ford, Richard.= Letters of Richard Ford. 1797–1858; ed. by Rowland E. Prothero. *$3.50. Dutton.

Mr. Ford’s letters are filled with the inimitable humor that made his
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* * * * *

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=Fordham, Elias Pym.= Personal narrative of travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky; and of a residence in Illinois territory, 1817–1818; ed. with notes, introd. and index by Frederick Austin Ogg. *$3. Clark, A. H.

This manuscript, hitherto unpublished was written anonymously in
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* * * * *

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Sparks.

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Reviewed by Theodore Clarke Smith.

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=Foreman, John.= Philippine islands. *$6. Scribner.

This third edition of Mr. Foreman’s “Political, geographical,
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the earlier editions. The volume is abundantly illustrated.

* * * * *

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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 561. S. 15, ’06. 2230w.

=Forman, Justus Miles.= Buchanan’s wife. †$1.50. Harper.

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=Forman, Samuel Eagle.= Advanced civics: the spirit, the form, and the functions of the American government. *$1.25. Century.

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=Forrest, Rev. David William.= Authority of Christ. *$2. Scribner.

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=Fosdick, Lucian J.= French blood in America. **$2. Revell.

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* * * * *

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“Mr. Fosdick’s book does not rank in scholarship with Douglas
Campbell’s almost forgotten book, but it is as good as some other
books of ‘claimings’ and will hold its own for some time to come.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 358. Je. 2, ’06. 280w.

“The defects of the book are so serious that we cannot recommend it
either as an authoritative or interesting contribution to its
subject.”

– =Outlook.= 83: 528. Je. 30, ’06. 270w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 130w.

“We cannot help thinking that the book might have been ordered; but it
was worth writing, and is certainly worth reading.”

+ – =Spec.= 97: 174. Ag. 4, ’06. 290w.

=Foster, George Burman.= Finality of the Christian religion. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.

Following an introduction and an historical two parts; “Christianity
as authority-religion,” and “Christianity as religion of the moral
consciousness of man.” In the first section the rise, development, and
disintegration of Christianity as authority-religion is
historico-critically traced. In the second section, Christianity as
religion of the moral consciousness is defined in antithesis to the
extremes of naturalism and clericalism.

* * * * *

“Taken altogether, his style has so little in common with the ordinary
usage of British and American theologians that it is not transparent
enough to make the reading of the book a pleasure, unless it be to the
narrowest specialist. What ... is the secret of Professor Foster’s
success? Plainly, it is the vitality of his constructive idea, and the
earnest, almost passionate, manner in which he works out its
legitimate outline. He has neglected no important work upon any phase
of his subject.” Andrew C. Zenos.

+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 529. Jl. ’06. 3190w.

“He is too closely dependent upon particular German writers.” P.
Gardner.

+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 535. Jl. ’06. 2100w.

“From the standpoint of a layman, I must confess that the book seems
to me too much elaborated in many places.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 324. My. 16, ’06. 530w.

“It is the gravest defect of Professor Foster’s work that he has so
much to say by way of approach to his subject, and so little, in
proportion, on the subject itself.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 926. Ap. 19, ’06. 1220w.

=Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 484. Mr. 31, ’06. 1500w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 573. Ap. 14, ’06. 810w.

“Dr. Foster’s argument is close and learned; not easy to read, but to
be studied and pondered over.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 370w.

“Both in source and substance this is a significant book, though
opening no line of thought quite new.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 86. My. 12, ’06. 850w.

=Foster, John Watson.= Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.

The audience reached in this work is mainly that made up of men in the
diplomatic service of the nation, and the author discusses in an
informing manner the utility of the diplomatic service, the duties of
diplomats and their rank qualifications, the consular service, the
negotiation and framing of treaties, arbitration and international
claims.

* * * * *

“His style is so simple and his chapters are so enlivened with
interesting incidents and sensible criticisms that even readers
entirely unfamiliar with diplomatic work will have no difficulty in
understanding and enjoying him.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1287. N. 29, ’06. 790w.

“Tho technical in part as setting forth the rules and procedure of
diplomatic intercourse, it has been prepared for the general reader
and, needless to say, it has the literary distinction which
characterizes the works of this experienced and able writer on
diplomacy.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 250w.

=Fountain, Paul.= Eleven eaglets of the west. **$3. Dutton.

The “eleven eaglets” of the title are the states or territories of
California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah,
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. The work “is the record of
several journeys made by the author in the days when the Wild West
was, with a few exceptions, still a wilderness. He travelled with a
strong party, and was usually, if not always, accompanied by a waggon,
which, with infinite labour and astonishing success, was dragged
through forests, over rocky heights, and across sandy deserts.... [The
book] will have permanent interest as an account of the extreme West
as it was forty years ago.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“He tells the story of his adventures in a simple, straightforward
way, but the conclusions which he sometimes draws from them are not
altogether convincing.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 450w.

“The pictures which he presents of the western states which have
already changed so greatly are assuredly worthy of preservation.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 140w.

“Any one unfamiliar with that section of the continent would carry
away from the perusal of his book a most confused impression of its
geographical features, and of either its past or its present social
and industrial conditions.”

– =Nation.= 82: 299. Ap. 12, ’06. 200w.

“One sees that the author is an observer of catholicity. His book,
though the travels are travels of so long ago, is singularly
refreshing. Informing enough also, though you need not pin your faith
too utterly to all the things that are said.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 533. S. 1, ’06. 1350w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 500. Ap. 21, ’06. 150w.

=Fowler, Rev. Charles Henry.= Missionary addresses. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

A group of seven missionary addresses on the following subjects:
Missions and world movements. Our opportunity. The reflex influence of
missions. The message, Home and heathen missions contrasted, The
field. The supreme need of the heathen and Divinity of the missionary
idea.

=Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin).= The subjection of Isabel Carnaby. †$1.50. Dodd.

The reappearance of Isabel Carnaby, married and happy makes this story
a sequel to Mrs. Felkin’s “Concerning Isabel Carnaby.” “First we have
our old friend Isabel, who heroically refrains from sacrificing to a
purely personal whim the whole of her husband’s political career;
secondly, a half-caste girl, married to a good-natured imbecile of an
Englishman whom she finds it impossible to love until (in the disguise
of a man) she has felt the weight of his, literally, heavy hand;
thirdly a parson whose desertion of his wife, arising from a sequence
of incredible occurrences, is by her endured with a meekness which is
happily as incredible.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“In general, the smart and good-natured aphorisms in which the book
abounds seem to us as remote from reality as is the framework of the
story.”

– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 330w.

“In ‘The subjection of Isabel Carnaby’, Miss Fowler has come almost
within sight of the borderland of the masterpieces.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 200w.

“Somewhat long and extremely loquacious new novel. The author is far
too deeply engaged in upholding a thesis to linger for long over any
of the facts which she chronicles.”

– =Lond. Times.= 5: 170. My. 11, 06. 530w.

“The combination of fun with brilliance is her own, absolutely. Her
ceaseless sense of the incongruity of congruities, and vice versa,
makes an effect as of punning with ideas. There are a few excellent
little sermons in the book, and many evidences that the writer thinks
her thoughts in the language of David and Paul.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 640w.

“Mrs. Felkin appears to be a good woman and a loving wife who had
nothing particular to say, and in the course of 357 pages has said it
very well.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 340w.

“Miss Fowler is an author of irresistible wit and cleverness.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 809. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

“This story of her married life is not satisfying, although it is full
of those clever generalizations for which the writer has a special
gift.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 120w.

“The story is neither deep nor vital, but it is entertaining and
refreshing.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 110w.

“The reader’s feeling of gratitude to her is not due for any subtle
analysis of character, but for the brilliant powers of repartee with
which she invests her characters.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 950. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.

=Fowler, Nathaniel Clark, jr.= Starting in life: what each calling offers ambitious boys and young men; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.50. Little.

Authoritative and practical is this guide to the selection of a
calling in life. The author has summoned to his aid successful
representatives of each of the thirty different lines of work
discussed. The book represents composite opinions on the advantages
and disadvantages of all the vocations of life which young men are
likely to enter.

=Fowles, George Milton.= Down in Porto Rico. 75c. Meth. bk.

“This is an unpretending little volume, giving in plain,
matter-of-fact way a description of the island, its inhabitants, and
their characteristics and customs.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“His account, moreover, is marked by a strong religious bias.” H. E.
Coblentz.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 260w.

“It is written in a fair spirit, is neither critical nor eulogistic,
but simply descriptive, is free from all affectation of fine writing,
but is not characterized by either brilliance of style, pictorial
description, or philosophic generalizations.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 60w.

=France, Jacques Anatole Thibault.= Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, tr. and introd. by Lafcadio Hearn. †$1.25. Harper.

A new edition of this delightful story of that dear old man, Sylvestre
Bonnard, member of the Institute and scholar of world-wide reputation,
who has lived a long life in the congenial companionship of his books
and his cat, treasuring thru the years the memory of the love of his
youth. When he finds the daughter of his Clémentine poor and abused he
seeks, with a child-like ignorance of the world’s ways, to help her
and in so doing commits his great crime: but by it he gains his point
and becomes god-father to Jeanne’s romance and to her children.

* * * * *

“Even Lafcadio Hearn’s translation can hardly render in English all
the charm of this wholly delightful story in which M. France put all
the grace of style and delicacy of characterization which are his in
his inspired moments.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 90w.

+ =Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 40w.

“The story has had many translators, but of them all the translator of
the present edition, Lafcadio Hearn, has been most happy in preserving
the elusive fragrance of sentiment in this beautiful old rose-jar of a
book.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.

=Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 50w.

“Mr. Hearn’s skill as a translator is admirably shown in this book.
There are some trifling errors of date in the story.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 190w.

=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi, newly tr. into English, with introd. and notes by Father Paschal Robinson. $1. Dolphin press.

“A simple, tasteful volume containing the work of Saint Francis,
including a group of six letters translated by Father Paschal
Robinson, of the Order of Friars Minor. The translator supplies an
introduction which gives some account of the writings, makes some
comment on their quality, and gives a brief history of the manuscripts
and the various editions. A series of notes, an appendix relating to
doubtful, lost, and spurious writings, and a bibliography, with an
index, give the volume ... a completeness which many books of this
kind lack.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 739. Ap. ’06. 50w.

“Altogether, the volume is that of a thoroughly devout scholar, and
should take the place of much of the well-meaning literature of St.
Francis which has become so common of recent years, but has little to
commend it except its good intentions.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 450w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 328. F. 10, ’06. 90w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 70w.

“We may pronounce the apparatus of this book to be the best bit of
modern work done in English on S. Francis of Assisi. The actual
translation is to our mind the least unsatisfactory, as it certainly
is the least important, part of the book.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 320w.

“Father Robinson has done an excellent piece of work, carefully
avoiding giving offence to those who, while admiring St. Francis, do
not accept the Roman obedience.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 240w.

=Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Sphinx’s lawyer. †$1.50. Stokes.

A story which perpetuates the spirit of a dead man, a “moral lunatic”
thru the wife’s unceasing energy to carry on his cult. “Errington
Welch-Kennard, the lawyer, is apparently the high priest of a band of
admirers who revolve about the ‘sofa-bed’ of Sybil Algernon Heseltine,
for the avowed purpose of keeping alive the dead man’s notorious
memory. At much damage to his reputation, the hero has stood by her
and her husband through their worst days and now consoles the widow
with a genuine friendship which the pair are content to let the world
misunderstand. Sybil’s revenge upon fate is to draw young men under
the blighting influence of her husband’s life and work, but having a
real affection for the lawyer, she bestirs herself to find him a wife,
judging that at forty, after an unsavoury career which has exhausted
his resources, nothing else can secure him safety and happiness.”
(Bookm.)

* * * * *

“The book is irredeemiably vulgar; vulgar in design, vulgar in
execution.”

– – =Acad.= 70: 383. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.

“A mistake both in its motive and its manner.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 260w.

“The book is good enough to provoke interest. For the robust, ‘The
sphinx’s lawyer’ is not insipid reading; and granted her chosen
milieu, Mrs. Frankau does not needlessly offend the timid.” Mary Moss.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 630. Ag. ’06. 950w.

“Her book is simply bestial in its implications. There is a skill in
the exhibition no doubt, but to any right-minded person it is
disgusting.”

– – + =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 300w.

“A clever woman who uses her talent perversely is about what we have
learned to think of the writer who calls herself ‘Frank Danby.’” Wm.
M. Payne.

– + =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 240w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 190w.

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 447. Jl. 14, ’06. 430w.

=Franklin, Benjamin.= Writings of Benjamin Franklin; collected and ed., with a life and introd. by Albert H. Smyth. **$3. Macmillan.

When complete, this ten-volume work will be “almost certain to be the
final edition of Franklin’s work and correspondence.” (Outlook.) It is
authoritative, and is compiled from original sources, with material
arranged in chronological order. The author “has utilized the Franklin
papers, obtained in 1903 by the University of Pennsylvania, as well as
the famous Stevens collection in the Library of Congress, and the
thirteen thousand documents that are the property of the American
Philosophical society. He has also ransacked the archives of Great
Britain and of four continental nations, and has made many interesting
‘finds.’ Furthermore, he has taken pains to secure accurate
transcripts and has corrected more than two thousand errors that had
crept into former editions.” (Forum.) Two volumes have thus far
appeared.

* * * * *

“What promises to be the most complete edition of Franklin and one of
the most valuable contributions to American historical and literary
scholarship. His own labors to add to the materials amassed by his
immediate predecessor have evidently been very great and successful.”
W. P. Trent.

+ + =Forum.= 37: 404. Ja. ’06. 2630w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Admirable new edition.” Paul Elmer More.

+ + =Ind.= 60: 98. Ja. 11, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

“It would be easy to quarrel with Mr. Smyth for the scantiness and
rather vague purpose of his notes. But in other and more essential
respects this edition deserves the highest praise. It is far more
complete than any hitherto published.”

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1108. My. 10, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 4–6.)

=Ind.= 61: 1235. N. 22, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)

“As the third general compilation of Franklin’s writings, it must
stand against the works of Sparks and Bigelow; and if the promises
made are performed, it will surpass in scope and in utility these
earlier issues.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 12. Ja. 4, ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 1.)

“In one instance Mr. Smyth has traced the author of two of these
rejected essays, and in other instances he omits them because they are
‘dull and trivial.’ The editor’s notes are excellent, but it is
puzzling to know how the name of Jarman should have been explained
only on its third appearance, and why a reference to Whitefield (p.
234) is allowed to remain concealed in the initials only.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 179. Mr. 1, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)

“While Mr. Smyth has not found much that was new in this period, his
careful observance of textual accuracy much increases the value of
what is printed.”

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 429. My. 24, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 3.)

+ + =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 204. Mr. 31, ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 5.)

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)

“In every respect the book is admirably fitted for library use.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ’05. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 180w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 3.)

“As this excellent edition of Franklin’s writings approaches
completion its superiority over all former editions is increasingly
evident.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 7.)

=Franklin, Benjamin.= Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin; ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.

“Its carefully chosen selections should be put by the side of the
‘Autobiography’ on the shelves of the many Americans who are
interested in the history and literature of their country, but are
unable to allow themselves the luxury of owning either of the two best
editions of Franklin’s works.” W. P. Trent.

+ =Forum.= 37: 399. Ja. ’06. 500w.

=Franklin, Benjamin.= Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald. *$1.25. Dutton.

Reviewed by W. P. Trent.

+ + + =Forum.= 37: 400. Ja. ’06. 2520w.

=Franklin, Benjamin.= His life, written by himself; condensed for school use, with notes and a continuation of his life by D. H. Montgomery, with an introd. by W. P. Trent. *40c. Ginn.

The essential portions of Franklin’s autobiography have been retained,
to which has been added interesting matter drawn from his other
writings. The text is annotated, and of special importance is
Professor Trent’s introduction.

=Franklin, Frank George.= Legislative history of naturalization in the United States. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

This study covers the subject of naturalization from the Revolutionary
war to 1861 and in it the author has “sought to exhibit the course of
opinion” upon the subject “chiefly as it manifested itself in
discussion, reports, and legislation at the central forum of American
political life.” A good bibliography and index are appended.

* * * * *

“Unfortunately the scope of the work is too narrow to give it more
than a very limited value to the student of citizenship. As a purely
‘legislative history,’ however, there is little to criticize,—except
that, it should be brought down to date so as to cover recent
legislation.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 121. S. 1, ’06. 190w.

“The mass of details given by the author ... prevents the mind from
clearly grasping the important matter contained in the work. The value
and importance of the study, however, cannot be overlooked.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 640. S. 13, ’06. 420w.

“This work presents a careful and exhaustive study.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 330w.

“A decidedly useful monograph. The book is not conspicuous for
literary graces, its author manifestly being wholly absorbed in the
task of accumulating the facts.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 866. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.

=Frantz, Henri.= French pottery and porcelain. *$2.50. Scribner.

In this late addition to the “Newnes’ library of applied arts,” “The
wonderful variety of French ceramics, from the private factory of Hélè
de Hengest at Château d’Orion, in the time of Francis I down to the
marvels turned out by the Sevres ovens and their extraordinary
artistic and useful achievements in crockery in this book molded into
a coherent chronicle of events, full of romance and story.... Not a
town or a hamlet which produced a marvel of Faience escapes notice.
The wonderful Faience violin, a masterpiece of Rouen as well as the
polychrome bas-reliefs of Monstiers receive proportional attention in
text and illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The chief objection to the book taken by itself, without comparison
with others of the series, is that no attempt is made to carry out the
promise of the title. There are signs that the work has been written
by some one not familiar with English, or else translated by some one
not wholly competent, or not very careful. On the whole, the most
important part of the book is its illustrations. These have been made
and the examples selected with considerable good taste and
thoroughness.”

– – + =Nation.= 83: 40. Jl. 12, ’06. 1130w.

“The volume is most comprehensive, particularly in its records of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 280w.

=Fraser, John Foster.= Canada as it is. $2. Cassell.

“This volume is a fair example of modern ‘special correspondent’
book-making. It is clever, confident, readable, and full of salient
points and hurried slangy presentations of political situations.”
(Spec.) The author “neglects no aspect of the country—the
fruit-gardens of Ontario, the factories of Montreal and Toronto, the
wheat-fields of Manitoba, the passes of the Rocky mountains, or the
lumber forests of British Columbia. Mr. Foster Fraser has looked into
every nook and cranny of all these countries with keen journalistic
eye, and has swiftly penned his impressions.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“The writing is always strong, vigorous, effective. Altogether, this
is one of the best books on Canada that has been produced for a long
time.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 563. My. 27, ’05. 700w.

“Presents a fairly accurate picture of the Dominion and its policy.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 528. Ap. 29. 180w.

“Gifted with a quick eye, and the wide if not always very deep
knowledge of the experienced journalist, he has produced an entirely
readable little volume.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 279. N. 1, ’06. 380w.

“Much of this is set forth attractively in Mr. Fraser’s little book.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 266. Mr. 29, ’06. 1550w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 810w.

“In short, Mr. Foster Fraser’s book on the Dominion is both strong and
weak in the sense in which his previous work on the United States was
strong and weak. There is an undoubted fascination in the cocksure
statements conveyed through short, crisp, though occasionally jerky
sentences.”

+ + – =Spec.= 95: 502. O. 7, ’05. 460w.

=Fraser, John Foster.= Pictures from the Balkans. $2. Cassell.

The author’s wanderings led him from Belgrade thru Servia, across the
Turkish frontier, thru Albania and various parts of Macedonia,
Bulgaria, in and out thru cities and wild mountainous country. He
tells, in a pleasing fashion of the people and things which he
encountered, of the strange medley of nations, governments and
religions, of all the contending forces which go to make up that
whirlpool known as the Balkans. Forty full page plates from
photographs illustrate the volume.

* * * * *

“The author’s impartiality leads him into a certain amount of
contradiction.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 570w.

“Mr. Fraser ... contrives to convey a considerable amount of
information in an entertaining form, which makes no very exacting
demands upon the attention of the reader.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 187. My. 25, ’06. 550w.

“When he avoids politics and mingles with the people and restrains his
air of British indifference and intolerance, he is quite
charming—particularly in his descriptions of gardens and
tobacco-fields and where other elements of natural scenery arouse his
artistic instincts.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 597. S. 29, ’06. 2320w.

=Fraser, Mary (Crawford) (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= In the shadow of the Lord: a romance of the Washingtons. †$1.50. Holt.

Mary Ball who repulsed an unworthy Scottish lover became the second
wife of Augustine Washington and sailed with him to Virginia. It is
the account of these happenings that opens this romance of the
Washingtons. “In due course George is born, and it is his early life
which forms the chief interest of the book. He makes an attractive,
but somewhat pedantic young hero, but is, indeed, too difficult a
subject for Mrs. Fraser, who writes with far more sympathy of his
father, a fine old gentleman, and of his mother, a woman who lived and
died ‘in the shadow of the Lord,’ than she does of the young lad.”
(Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“The characterization, which is the mainstay of such a book, is
excellent throughout.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 260w.

“Mrs. Fraser’s portrait of Washington hardly fills the frame of one’s
ideal. Upon the whole, however, the novel is a creditable and
interesting picture of colonial days.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 290w.

“She is too ponderous in her study of child life.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 338. O. 5, ’06. 420w.