Chapter XVI: Preface (16)

The author “begins with the assertion that ours is a land of
inequality, and, proceeding to an analysis of that inequality, he
distinguishes between various types of ‘princes of privilege.’ A
somewhat pessimistic chapter describes the physical, mental and moral
deterioration of the masses. Mr. George devotes a chapter to the
danger of unionism, and several chapters to what he calls weapons of
privilege, chiefly the use of the courts, and corruption in politics.
The proposed remedy of all these inequalities and wrongs, as one would
naturally infer from Mr. George’s well-known predilections, is to be
found in the single tax.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“The book is clear in presentation and logical arrangement. It is a
valuable contribution to the study of our social and industrial
problems—a book of unusual merit and interest.” Scott E. W. Bedford.

+ + – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 851. My. ’06. 490w.

“One need not agree with all the conclusions of the author to profit
by his arguments. The volume deserves careful study.”

+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 300w.

“No more important work dealing with the grave problems that confront
the American republic to-day has appeared in months than Mr. George’s
strong, clear and logical work.”

+ + =Arena.= 35: 438. Ap. ’06. 4700w.

“In the analysis of social conditions, it is not a whit in advance of
‘Progress and poverty.’” Winthrop More Daniels.

– =Atlan.= 97: 844. Je. ’06. 460w.

“Mr. George’s book is to be chiefly condemned, not because it is
essentially an aggregation of all sorts of material, largely gathered
from newspapers and magazines, but because this miscellaneous stuff
has been arrayed and employed, with no little rhetorical skill and
dexterity, to simulate an honest investigation and a comprehensive
discussion of the great questions with which the author professes to
deal.” R. W. Raymond.

– – =Cassier’s M.= 29: 510. Ap. ’06. 2680w.

“It is a challenge clothed with dignity, as well as a plan of reform
that is not devoid of charm. If the work may serve to awaken the
public seriously to the tendencies which are so fraught with danger,
one will readily pardon the faults of logic and exaggerated inferences
which it contains.”

+ – =Cath. World.= 83: 829. S. ’06. 700w.

“This is an able, sincere and elaborate indictment of modern society,
resting fundamentally on the highly questionable assertion that the
rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 350w.

Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 230w.

=Engin. N.= 55: 317. Mr. 15, ’06. 890w.

+ – =Ind.= 60: 1047. My. 3, ’06. 340w.

“In detail, his pages contain little or nothing that will be new to
the careful observer of prevailing conditions, or the student of
contemporary magazines and newspapers from which he has derived most
of his abundant illustrative material.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 610w.

“In developing his thesis, Mr. George has given us a book of
first-rate interest and importance. It is written forcefully and
brilliantly, and, merely as good reading, it will take a high place in
the literature of economic and political discussion. As a picture of
present-day conditions it is a remarkable piece of description and
analysis.” Franklin H. Giddings.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 61. F. 3, ’06. 1990w.

“The style is excellent, the spirit earnest, the

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 760. Mr. 31, ’06. 980w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 130w.

=Geronimo (Apache chief).= Geronimo’s story of his life; taken down and edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.

The atmosphere of legend and incident pervades this story of Geronimo,
the seventy-seven-year old Apache chief. He begins his story with the
account of the origin of the Apaches. “One finds in these grandiose
legends traces of the familiar mythical cosmogonies of the East, and
it might be of advantage if scholars gave them more attention.”
Geronimo’s object in telling his life story is to secure freedom and
justice for his people.

* * * * *

“The narrative of the fierce old chief’s bloody career in his struggle
with the invading whites is a moving one, and is as full of exciting
and picturesque incident as any of Cooper’s novels. It is told with
that wealth of imagery for which the Indian is noted.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 240w.

“His story is simple, straight-forward, and interesting, and should
find a large number of readers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 600w.

“It goes without saying that the old chief has an interesting
autobiography, and the work is further important as giving the Indian
side of a long and notable controversy with our government.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 120w.

=Gerould, Gordon Hall.= Sir Guy of Warwick. $1. Rand.

“A fine old story of knighthood, recast and retold in plain modern
English for those who find the ancient romances archaic and stilted to
read.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 70w.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ’05. 20w.

=Gerstacker, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian.= Germelshausen; tr. from the German by Clara M. Lathrop. *50c. Crowell.

In this quaint little German classic, which has been excellently
translated, a young artist in the course of his wanderings in the
forest, comes upon a beautiful girl who is waiting on the highway for
a lover who never comes. She leads him into her village where he sups,
dances, and falls in love with her. But just before midnight she takes
him into the outskirts of the town and leaves him,—until the hour
shall strike. Then, when it is too late, he discovers that the village
was Germelshausen, which lies forever sunk in the swamp save for one
day in a hundred years when it comes to life, and this was the day,
the village has sunk again, and Gertrude is lost to him forever.

=Gettemy, Charles Ferris.= True story of Paul Revere. **$1.50. Little.

Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 112. Ja. ’06. 200w.

“The book is a fine example of acute historical criticism, not
cynically applied to overthrowing the basis for a healthy patriotic
sentiment, but good naturedly correcting the facts, while leaving the
sentiment intact.”

+ =Ind.= 40: 929. Ap. 19, ’06. 390w.

“Mr. Gettemy’s reserved but commendable study does not probe deep, but
it is truthful and scrupulous in its intent. He has not, however,
over-stated his indebtedness to E. H. Goss’s previous work.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 124. Ag. 9, ’06. 1300w.

=Gibbon, Perceval.= Vrouw Grobelaar and her leading cases. †$1.50. McClure.

In this new volume of tales the author “deals with the back-world of
Boer superstition, the kind of story we may believe to be told round
winter fires on lonely farms. The Vrouw Grobelaar, the narrator, will
capture the affections of every reader with her shrewd common sense,
her sharp tongue and trenchant philosophy of life.... The tales
themselves range over every variety of subject, from the idyllic to
the purely horrible.” (Spec.) The collection includes The king of the
baboons, Piet Naude’s trek, The sacrifice, Vasco’s sweetheart, Avenger
of blood. A good end, Her own story.

* * * * *

“His English is as plain as the English of the Bible, and the Boer men
are like the men of the Old Testament.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 126. D. 2, ’05, 310w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 832. D. 16. 1030w.

“On the whole ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ presents the most gripping and
vision-enlarging group of stories since Kipling’s ‘Plain tales from
the hills.’”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 530w.

“Some transplantations and an occasional forgetfulness to make the old
narrator speak in character are not a serious detraction from the
attraction of the stories. They are deftly woven together; and the
humour of the vrouw and the liveliness of her little circle qualify
their love of horror.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 433. D. 8, ’05. 460w.

“In ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ lies waiting a genuine sensation for the lover
of short Stories. Unless the reviewer is at fault, they will recall to
the reader the hour wherein he tasted his first Maupassant, and that
other hour when the new Kipling swam into his ken.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.

“In the light they throw upon a unique people, the Vrouw Grobelaar’s
leading cases are worthy of careful reading. They are full of
informing hints as to the Dutch of the Transvaal, their attitude
towards the Kafirs, their mingled superstitions and piety, their
courage and obstinacy.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 350w.

– + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 90w.

“The Leading cases which long observation of her would have supplied
as guides to conduct cover most sides of South African life.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 785. D. 16, ’05. 280w.

“Altogether, it is a collection to be heartily commended, for to most
readers it will open up a new world, and the style and method are
those of a true artist in fiction.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 260w.

=Gibson, Charles.= Among French inns: the story of a pilgrimage to characteristic spots of rural France. **$1.60. Page.

“The guide-book information with which the story is interrupted, is
generally sound.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 140w.

“A substantial volume which might well serve as a guide to travelers
eager to get off the beaten tracks and to see France in its most
characteristic features; and is also a very readable and interesting
volume.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 180w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 795. My. 19, ’06. 280w.

=Gibson, Charles Dana.= Our neighbors. **$4.20. Scribner.

“The present volume is a worthy companion to those that have preceded
it.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 160w.

=Gibson, Charlotte Chaffee.= In eastern wonderlands. †$1.50. Little.

What all writers who know the east are doing for a grown-up world
to-day the author has tried to do for little people, she has helped
them to an understanding of what is to be found nowadays in eastern
lands by describing a real trip around the world as taken by three
real children. She has deftly blended those things which interest with
those things which instruct, and has illustrated her account with
photographs, until Japan, China, Ceylon, India, the Red sea and Egypt
lose their vague outlines and become as familiar to her little readers
as they did to Alice, Fred and Charlotte who saw them all.

=Gifford, Mrs. Augusta Hale.= Italy, her people and their story. **$1.40. Lothrop.

A popular history of the beginning, rise, development, and progress of
Italy from the time of Romulus down to the reign of Victor Emanuel
III.

* * * * *

“The history is given with considerable attention to details and
altogether the volume is of exceptional value, both from its
historical accuracy and its popular style.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 530w.

“It has little of the literary distinction of the other, pays
inadequate regard to the dignity of historical writing, and is not
always as critical as could be desired. Nevertheless, it, too, conveys
much substantial information in respect to the past and present of the
Sunny Peninsula and its vein is ... decidedly entertaining.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 160w.

“A readable volume. In the latter part, written in Italy and under the
direct influence of contemporaneous conditions, she very often
succeeds in giving us observations and impressions which bring her
narrative to a commendable, authoritative, and vital end.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 540w.

“This volume may find popular acceptance. As a discriminating writer,
however, the author is open to criticism.”

+ – =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ’05. 90w.

“For the person who has not time to take up history in a professional
way and who wishes to get a fairly comprehensive idea of the Italian
situation, Mrs. Gifford’s book will be a valuable auxiliary.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.

“A well-sustained, complete history of Italy.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 90w.

=Gilbert, Charles Benajah.= School and its life. $1.25. Silver.

“This volume, the fruit of wide experience both as a teacher and
school superintendent, deals with life rather than the mechanism of
schools. It conceives of teaching as a spiritual process, of education
as the wholesome development and adaptation of life to its
environment, and finds the conditions of successful teaching in
conforming to the common laws of life and growth. Its aim is to secure
to children the educative influence of a natural, sane, and wholesome
school life as a part of the larger world-life. Its successive
chapters discuss the vital problems arising in the management and
organization of schools and school systems.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A sane, practical, and comprehensive work on school management.”

+ =Bookm.= 24: 73. S. ’06. 280w.

=Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 90w.

=Gilbert, Rosa Mulholland (Lady John Thomas Gilbert).= Life of Sir John T. Gilbert. $5. Longmans.

Lord Gilbert’s unusually fortunate career is felicitously sketched by
his wife. “Copious correspondence, embracing letters from scholars,
historians, archæologists, Irish Franciscans in Rome and in Portugal,
noblemen, and public officials enliven the narrative, and,
incidentally, bear witness to the conscientious, painstaking method of
the historian.... The curtain that screens the sanctities of domestic
life is drawn aside just enough to give us a glimpse of the fine,
noble, sunny gentleman, an earnest Catholic, of high culture and
simple tastes, ambitious only of a competence sufficient to guarantee
him the opportunity to prosecute his work of study and composition,
which he loved, not for the fame that it brought him, but for itself.”
(Cath. World.)

* * * * *

“Well-written and delicate panegyric of a notable man.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 859. D. 23. 1160w.

“Lady Gilbert has discharged her task with excellent taste.”

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 402. Je. ’06. 660w.

“His widow, besides giving some account of her husband’s career,
prints copious selections from his correspondence, with the object of
illustrating the character of his work, and the interest of his
‘unusual and many-sided personality.’ We do not think Lady Gilbert has
been very successful in achieving this object.”

– + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 623. Jl. ’06. 260w.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 532. S. 1, ’06. 590w.

“We have never taken up a ‘life’ so distended by trivial and ephemeral
letters.”

– =Sat. R.= 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 230w.

“The facts are here, but they should have been put together for
readers who will not, and indeed cannot, search for them. We see the
pictures of a single-minded-worker, but have but a vague idea of what
he actually did.”

– + =Spec.= 96: 387. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.

=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Book of music: poems. **$1. Century.

“For though I can no music make, I trust
Here’s proof I love it.”

Such does Mr. Gilder vouchsafe in the opening lines of his prelude.
There are about thirty poems which show the “love that in him burns
for the fair lady of Melody.” There are tributes to Mme. Essepoff,
Paderewski. Macdowell, Beethoven, Rubenstein and others, there are
lines to Handel’s Largo, the violin, and the ’cello, and there is a
poet of music’s appreciation of the Music at twilight, in moonlight
and in darkness.

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 613. O. 6, ’06. 400w.

=Gilder, Richard Watson.= In the heights. *$1. Century.

“Few know as well as he how to find the fitting word or a felicitous
phrase with which to celebrate a friend, or a cause, or a memory.” Wm.
M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 310w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ + =North American.= 182: 756. My. ’06. 230w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 50w.

=Gilliam, Charles Frederic.= Victorious defeat: the story of a franchise. $1.50. Roxburgh pub.

A political novel which deals with the rights of the laboring classes.
Robert Barker, champion of the people, loves Irene, the daughter of
Judge Henly who is pitted against him in a political contest. Irene is
torn between her duty to her father and her love for the masterful
young leader, who, her sense of honor tells her, is in the right. The
election results in a defeat for the judge and his constituents, but a
defeat which the losers themselves count victorious in the end.

=Gillman, Henry.= Hassan: a fellah. [+]75c. Little.

A new popular edition of this story which appeared in 1898.

=Gilman, Daniel Coit.= Launching of a university. **$2.50. Dodd.

A volume of papers and addresses, nearly a third of which are devoted
to the founding and early years of Johns Hopkins University, and the
remainder to educational addresses delivered on occasions such as the
Yale Bi-Centennial and the dedication of the Princeton library
building.

* * * * *

“In one respect, the reader of historical proclivities may be inclined
to find fault with ‘The launching of a university.’ President Gilman
resolutely keeps back all references to the occasional misfortunes and
unpleasantnesses which harassed him and his colleagues.” Robert C.
Brooks.

+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 358. D. ’06. 1020w.

+ + =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 240w.

Reviewed by F. B. R. Hellems.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 289. My. 1, ’06. 2320w.

“Cicero would have given his approval to this book.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 1104. My. 10, ’06. 230w.

“Taken as a whole, President Gilman’s book is notable alike as a
history of the university with which he was so long connected, as a
discussion of some vital questions of the day, and as a contribution
to the story of American educational progress.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 531. Ap. 7, ’06. 810w.

=Nation.= 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 140w.

+ + =Nature.= 74: 123. Je. 7, ’06. 880w.

Reviewed by Edward Cary.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 157. Mr. 17, ’06. 1320w.

“It is a rich ‘sheaf of remembrances’ that he has preserved in
noteworthy reminiscences and characterizations of gifted men, set
forth in finished literary form with here and there a gem of
pleasantry and wit.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 260w.

=Gilman, Lawrence.= Edward MacDowell. *$1. Lane.

An eighty page monograph of the “American Grieg” uniform with the
“Living masters of music” series. “That MacDowell is, ‘in a singularly
complete sense the poet of the natural world,’ yet no less the
‘instrument of human emotion;’ that the range of his emotional
expression is astonishing; that he has a remarkable gift for extremely
compact expression; that his music is ‘touched with the deep and
wistful tenderness, the primeval nostalgia;’ that much of its charm
lies in its spontaneity and the utter lack of self-consciousness; that
no musician has felt the spell of the ocean as has MacDowell ... these
and other characteristic points, Mr. Gilman dwells on, thus giving his
readers as good an idea of the music as can be obtained without
hearing it.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“In spite of some annoyances of style, a love of high-sounding but
little meaning words and phrases, Mr. Gilman manages to depict the
character of his subject’s work in such a way as to convey a distinct
impression.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 310w.

“Mr. Gilman has given a sympathetic and reasonably comprehensive
account of his life and work.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 100w.

“The least satisfactory of Mr. Gilman’s chapters is that on the songs,
the most satisfactory that on the sonatas. It is to be regretted that
no bibliographic note has been appended.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 990w.

“He has written in a high-pitched key of praise. His book would be
more agreeable reading if he would improve his style, which is
‘precieux’ in the extreme.” Richard Aldrich.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 560w.

“Mr. Gilman deserves all credit for his abstention from irrelevant
personalities. The value of this sympathetic essay is considerably
impaired by the laboured preciosity of its style.”

+ – =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 170w.

=Gilpin, Sidney.= Sam Bough, R. S. A.: some account of his life and works. $3. Macmillan.

“Sam Bough was a true Bohemian, who lived from hand to mouth, and
threw away his best chances of worldly success for the sake of the
indulgence of some passing whim.” (Int. Studio.) It is as a Cumberland
painter of types native to his district that he demands recognition,
and the biographer has produced from letters, anecdotes and personal
estimates, a sympathetic sketch of the man and the artist.

* * * * *

“Nor are these documents remarkable except for the constant recurrence
of a certain breezy jocularity, which doubtless was delightful to
those who were in a position to appreciate the point of it.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 272. Mr. 3. 300w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28, ’05. 300w.

+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 70w.

“It is an interesting record of a man of versatile powers. There are
scarcely as many good stories in it as one might expect.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: sup. 125. Ja. 27, ’06. 160w.

=Gilson, Roy Rolfe.= Katrina: a story. †$1.50. Baker.

“The quaintly humorous middle-aged newspaper worker whose ability as a
writer is joined with whimsical peculiarities of character, finds in
the little girl Katrina, whom he accidentally meets, the child of the
girl he loved many years ago. His friendship with the little girl and
his care of her and her optimistic and intellectual but unpractical
father make a delightful narrative.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“He combines a sympathetic understanding of the young child’s point of
view with an equally rare understanding of the sorrows and
disillusions of age.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 247. N. ’06. 440w.

“The author has such use of his faculties as a bird has of its wings
in mid air, and he has told his story with that whimsical, bright
movement of the mind which accounts in part for its indescribable
charm and grace.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1499. D. 20, ’06. 290w.

“A tale full of naiveté and tenderness.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 120w.

“A satisfactory bit of writing.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 130w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

“It is written with a certain tenderness and quiet humor which may
almost be said to give it distinction.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 100w.

=Gilson, Roy Rolfe.= Miss Primrose. $1.25. Harper.

The simple sweetness of Letitia Primrose, whose life was one long
sacrifice of service to her father, to other people’s children, and
finally to another woman’s home, gives to the book its dainty charm,
while the characters of David, the boy who dreamed of Rugby, Butters,
the editor who printed her father’s classic poems in the village
paper, and others who came under the spell of her sweet innocent
personality give to the story both young life and humor.

* * * * *

“The book is almost wholly devoid of plot, and although it is written
with no little literary skill, the average reader will find it lacking
in interest.”

– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 67. Jl. 21. 210w.

“The story as a whole is rather cloying.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 192. Mr. 31, ’06. 470w.

“There are gentle pathos and quaint humor to be found throughout.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 50w.

=Gissing, George Robert.= House of cobwebs and other stories. $1.50. Dutton.

“The fifteen stories included in this posthumous volume are prefaced
by an introductory survey of the work of their lamented author [by Mr.
Thomas Seccombe].... The stories themselves, slight as is their
texture, are ‘admirable specimens of Gissing’s own genre.’ They
manifest the delicate tenderness of his feeling not for, but with
those to whom life has not been kind.... As Dickens was the novelist
of the recognized poor, Gissing is the novelist of those poorer poor
who belong of right to another class.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

+ + – =Acad.= 70: 479. My. 19, ’06. 880w.

“But what is certain, and is rendered positive by this book, is that
he had little artistic sense of the short story. These are mere
blotches of feeling, studies of atmosphere; they are never stories.
They might have found their use in corners of a long novel. They have
neither beginning nor ending, only being; and they might well leave
off before or after their conclusion. Never was there a more glaring
lack of the ‘dramatic’ than in Mr. Gissing.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 10. Jl. 7. 490w.

“Mr. Seccombe has prefaced this volume of remains ... with a
discriminating essay of considerable biographical and critical
interest.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1100w.

“The observation in these sketches is originally fine, and then highly
selective; the English of great purity and incisiveness; and, that a
certain thinness of tone and lack of humor are necessary results of
gruelling personal experience with the matter in hand. It is a book
for those who love impeccable workmanship.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 450w.

“The volume is well worth making one’s own, not only because of these
last characteristic sketches by a dear and vanquished hand, but
because of Mr. Seccombe’s illuminating essay, invaluable to all who
care to enter into an intimate comprehension of Gissing’s novels as
related to their author.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 519. Ag. 25, ’06. 950w.

“To us this collection of short stories is more valuable for the
excellent and readable introductory survey of Gissing’s work, written
by Mr. Thomas Seccombe, than for the stories themselves, although some
of the latter are wrought out with care and have literary form.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 170w.

“In point of workmanship, observation, and the philosophy of life
which they set forth they show him at his best and sanest.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 835. My. 26, ’06. 1070w.

=Gladden, Rev. Washington.= Christianity and socialism. *$1. Meth. bk.

“Full of good advice to both employers and employed, and he endeavors
to reconcile their differences in a truly irenic spirit.” Edward
Fuller.

+ =Critic.= 48: 214. Mr. ’06. 330w.

“Like all Dr. Gladden’s utterances, these discourses are characterized
by what has been well termed ‘sanctified common sense’ and are
thoroughly stimulating and suggestive.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 310w.

“It were well if all clerical pronouncements on social questions were
marked by Dr. Gladden’s thoroness of information and his earnest
sympathy with the problems of the men who work.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 156. Jl. 19, ’06. 120w.

=Yale R.= 14: 444. F. ’06. 80w.

=Gladden, Rev. Washington.= The new idolatry, and other discussions. **$1.20. McClure.

“A volume of discussions in protest against commercializing of
government, of education, and of religion; against the growing
tendency in church and state to worship power and forget the interests
of justice and freedom; against the dethronement of God and the
enthronement of Mammon.” The contents include the new idolatry;
Tainted money; Standard oil and foreign missions; Shall ill-gotten
gains be sought for Christian purposes? The ethics of luxurious
expenditure; The church and the nation; Religion and democracy; Rights
and duties; The new century and the new nation; The Prince of life.

* * * * *

“One does not have to agree with all that is said to appreciate the
importance of the subjects discussed.”

+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 419. Mr. ’06. 110w.

“The essays are really adapted only for oral delivery. They verge upon
platitude and will scarcely stimulate thought.”

– =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 60w.

+ =Dial.= 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 270w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 20. Ja. 13, ’06. 710w.

“Its spirit and lessons are both needed by the American people.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087 D. 30, ’05. 90w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 120w.

=Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson.= Wheel of life. †$1.50. Doubleday.

Miss Glasgow has taken a plunge with Mrs. Wharton into the very thick
of New York’s smart set life. She throws upon her society screen a
complexity of types, which with ingenious detachment appear at one
time pathetically human, again beggarly moral, and most often
impersonally conventional. “The three women represent as many types;
Gerty a mondaine of the better sort ... holding her silken skirts
above the soil of scandal, and underneath a mocking mask, keeping a
pinioned soul; Connie Adams, a silly moth, fluttering in endless
gayeties outside the more exclusive circles ... and the cloisteral
Laura, not only a genius, but a consummate flower of womanhood. Of the
men, Perry Bridewell and Arnold Kemper are not unlike—pleasure-seeking
men of the clubs.... Bridewell is not much more than a well-groomed,
handsome body; Kemper is Bridewell with intellect added. Adams, on the
contrary, is the absorbed man of letters ... caring for no pleasure
outside his work.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The average level of the tale is extraordinarily high, but it does
not rise to anything that matters very much anywhere.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 270w.

“‘The wheel of life’ is a serious attempt. If it be only partially
successful (as compared with the great works of all time), the quality
of success is of the best, it is not cheap. The essentials are there.”
Mary Moss.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 91. Mr. ’06. 1890w.

“It is a pity that Miss Glasgow’s humor does not shine forth more
abundantly; her work needs it.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

+ – =Critic.= 48: 435. My. ’06. 460w.

“As compared with ‘The deliverance’ for example, this work is an
inferior production.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w.

“Miss Glasgow’s stories of her native South were better, and the
little group of Southerners ... are decidedly the best thing in it.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 284. F. 1, ’06. 440w.

“Is not up to Miss Glasgow’s level, but this seems largely due to her
trespassing upon an alien field.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 491. Mr. 31, ’06. 690w.

“Its reach is greater than that of its predecessors; its author has
gone down into the deep places, and the distinction, the lift that is
all its own is that in the last analysis it is the apotheosis of
goodness.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ + =North American.= 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.

“There are broader contrasts of character than in ‘The house of
mirth,’ though not quite the same sureness of touch, the same sense of
intimacy with the most illusive aspects of a well-defined though
loosely ordered social group.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.

“All of these [four groups of characters] are faithfully and well
wrought, and each adds its increment of genuine substance to the sum
total effect of an admirable book.”

+ =Reader.= 7: 448. Mr. ’06. 680w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 80w.

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 100w.

“The novel is a study of manners, and is extremely clever, very
subtile, and slightly disagreeable.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 310w.

=Glyn, Elinor (Mrs. Clayton Glyn).= Beyond the rocks. †$1.50. Harper.

Danger ground is trodden from the first page to the last in Mrs.
Glyn’s story of hearts. Theodosia Fitzgerald, young and beautiful,
marries Josiah Brown, rich but fifty and stupid. In spite of her
attempt to be faithful she falls in love with an English lord and the
ardent love of the two runs a riotous course in the face of
conventionality and duty.

* * * * *

“Mrs. Glyn’s picture of the unscrupulous, sensual, bridge-playing set
would give a ludicrously false impression, both of that set and of
English society in general, to any reader who was unable to correct it
by his own observation. Nor is Mrs. Glyn much happier with more
reputable people.”

– =Acad.= 70: 503. My. 26, ’06. 380w.

“Lack of good taste and deficiency in technique are serious handicaps,
and in fact this novel is drawn back by them from the domain of good
art into the republic of the second-rate.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 230w.

“All the parents who were in doubt about letting their debutante
daughters browse upon ‘The visits of Elizabeth’ may turn them loose
upon ‘Beyond the rocks’ without a twinge of misgiving.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 450w.

“The whole moral atmosphere of the book is of a decidedly unwholesome
and vitiated character.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 771. N. 24, ’06. 960w.

“Continues to be sprightly in her manner, but her latest story moves
in conventional grooves, its characters are mere puppets, its plot is
thin, and its emotionalism feeble.”

– + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 40w.

=Goddard, Dwight.= Eminent engineers: brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress. *$1.50. Derry-Collard co.

“In selecting the 32 subjects for these biographies, the honors were
equally divided between American and European engineers. The American
sketches are headed by Benjamin Franklin and John Fitch, and concluded
by James B. Eads. Arkwright, Newcomen and Watt head the Europeans, and
Bessemer and Sir William Siemens close the list.... In selecting the
names, the object was to include men who had ‘accomplished something
of importance in the development and application of power and
machinery.’”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The volume, as a whole, brings together, in convenient and readable
form, brief biographies of men whose careers are of interest to every
engineer.”

+ =Engin. N.= 55: 433. Ap. 12, ’06. 140w.

“Mr. Goddard’s English is careless, but he has written a book of
interest.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 401. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

=Godfrey, Edward.= Structural engineering, bk. 1. Tables. $2.50. E: Godfrey. Monongahela bank bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.

The author “has selected the most necessary elements of the ‘Pocket
companion,’ of ‘Osborn’s tables’ and of other similar works, put some
of the material into improved form, and added an equal amount of new
matter, comprising diagrams, tables and drawings.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Is in many respects distinctly ahead of anything yet published in the
English language. As a whole, the book represents a very useful
collection of structural tables, and a very compact one. But its
varied contents are so heterogeneously mixed up, so lacking all
orderly arrangement, as to excite one’s surprise.”

+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 193. F. 15, ’06. 300w.

=Godfrey, Elizabeth, pseud. (Jessie Bedford).= Bridal of Anstace. †$1.50. Lane.

“Love, battling with race and religion, is the foundation of Elizabeth
Godfrey’s latest romance. At the outset of her story London is
astounded by the marriage of an English girl Anstace, with the Count
Basil Leonides. The wedding is performed with the ceremony of the
Orthodox Greek church. In the midst of the reception that follows, the
bridegroom receives a telegram. He reads it, and without showing it to
his bride, begs her to prepare for instant departure. While she is
making her preparations, however, he slips from the house alone and
disappears. Why he went, and where, the sudden reappearance of the
earlier wife whom he thought dead, and all that followed therefrom
makes up the substance of the story.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Miss Godfrey tells her story in easy, flowing style, and handles her
unwieldy cast skilfully.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 599. Je. 23, ’06. 100w.

“The picture shows experience of life, powers of reflection, and a
simple and flowing style which would cover more sins than are to be
found here.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 9. Jl. 7, ’06. 270w.

“A plot somewhat over intense and morbid is relieved in this novel by
much delightful character-study.”

– + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 200w.

“It would be easy to pick holes in Miss Elizabeth Godfrey’s novel. No
amount of uncertainty of handling in minor matters, or allegiance
divided between observation and convention, can destroy our pleasure
in the gentle light that beams through an engaging, almost a childlike
story.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 226. Je. 22, ’06. 320w.

“Manners, customs, and pronunciations come in with the breath of
research in their garments. But these easily-seen inequalities do not
prevail over the fine and interesting features of the story. In
construction and in omission, it is the most masterly novel Miss
Godfrey has yet written.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 15. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

“Though most of the characters are well drawn and the style of writing
is attractive, the fascination lies in the fact that the mystery is
not solved until almost the last chapter.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 170w.

+ – =Spec.= 97: 63. Jl. 14, ’06. 150w.

=Gomperz, Theodor.= Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v. 2 and 3. ea. *$4. Scribner.

Reviewed by George Hodges.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 420w.

“I do not wish to lay down these learned, stimulating, and eloquently
written volumes without saying that their writer, in a degree true of
no other historian, has understood how to take the history of Greek
thought out of its isolation, to relate it to the whole culture of the
Greeks, and to illuminate it by the civilization of modern times.” Wm.
A. Hammond.

+ + =Philos. R.= 15: 83. Ja. ’06. 1600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

+ + + =Quarterly R.= 204: 63. Ja. ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

=Goode, John.= Recollections of a lifetime, by John Goode of Virginia. $2. Neale.

Mr. Goode was a member of the secession convention of Virginia, the
Confederate congress and the congress of the United States. His
reminiscences, aside from including interesting phases of his life as
lawyer, soldier, and statesman, give helpful side lights on the men
and affairs of war times.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 214. O. ’06. 50w.

“Even the general public will find much to entertain, if it reads far
enough.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 366. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.

“Outside of the instances mentioned and some good anecdotes, there is
little that will repay either the general reader or the historian in
search of material.”

– + =Outlook.= 83: 53. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 80w.

=Goodhue, Isabel.= Good things and graces. **50c. Elder.

“Has a flavor that escapes many a more pretentious effort of its
class.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 30w.

=Goodloe, Carter.= At the foot of the Rockies. †$1.50. Scribner.

“Good as the stories are in themselves, they have gained much in the
telling; for Miss Goodloe has just the right dramatic and artistic
touch.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 90w.

=Goodnow, Frank Johnson.= Principles of administrative law of the United States. *$3. Putnam.

“It is the only book dealing with the entire scope of the subject.”
Isidor Loeb.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 174. Mr. ’06. 1220w.

“Work presents a breadth of view and a freedom from dogmatism which
entitle it to a high rank in the literature of political science.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 799. Ap. 5, ’06. 370w.

“In a certain sense he has made the subject his own; but he has not
made it ours.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 105. Ag. 2, ’06. 1040w.

“The most serious defect in a work which is otherwise little exposed
to criticism, and should win wide favor both among students and the
general educated public, is the fact that, no attempt is made to
examine the application of administrative principles to the government
of the Territories and dependencies of the United States.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 37. S. 1, ’06. 750w.

“We have as a result a comprehensive discussion of administrative
organization in the United States, in which the organization of the
general, State, and local governments, the relation of the officials
to the public, and the forms of control over official action are
analyzed with a degree of clearness and force which give to the work a
high position in the literature of American politics.” L. S. Rowe.

+ + =Yale R.= 15: 97. My. ’06. 290w.

=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Balance of power: a novel. $1.50. Outing pub.

This novel “deals with a factory situation and the rise of a strong
young man whose ability is characterized by the word ‘inevitable’; but
the excellence of the book is in its fiber ... and a statement of the
plot conveys but little.” (Outlook.) “Among the characters which are
many and diversified, the most interesting, probably, is the bluff old
colonel who is a sort of self appointed oracle of the town. This
Yankee Mars struts through the book with the air of a man who has
smelt powder and who knows a thing or two, and the way in which he
imposes what he calls his opinions upon the yokels of Hampstead is
very wonderful.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

“A good, readable story, and an interesting contribution to that
modern type of American fiction which depicts our keen, progressive
industrial life, alongside of the life of society and of the home.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 249. N. ’06. 270w.

+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w.

“Mr. Arthur Goodrich had a good story to tell. He has told it very
cleverly, too, although with overmuch coquetry with his plot in the
first third of the book.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 470w.

“It is one of the truest studies of the phase of American life of
which it treats that have been made in fiction, and also one of the
most interesting of the novels of the season.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 100w.

“The novel is overcrowded. There is excellent material, but too much
of it. Yet there are evidences of marked ability—occasional touches
which reveal the fine creative instinct.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 335. O. 6, ’06. 160w.

“The combination of industrialism and politics and love makes a book
which rises above the level of most of its contemporaries.”

+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 160w.

=Gordon, William Clark.= Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

Following an introductory chapter on Literature and social science in
which the author and literature he treats Social conditions in England
in the time of Tennyson, Tennyson’s idea of man, Tennyson’s idea of
woman, The family, Society, Social institutions, and Democracy and
progress. Restating the main points of his summary and conclusions.

* * * * *

“His book is a creditable summary of the forces and conditions
prevalent in Great Britain while Tennyson was writing.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 391. O. 20, ’06. 740w.

“It is a painstaking production, provided with many extracts and many
more for reference.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 50w.

“As a thesis for the doctorate this essay is an instructive example of
the bewildering effect of a study of sociology.”

– + =Nation.= 83: 190. Ag. 30, ’06. 670w.

“Really Mr. Gordon expresses himself very well, and most of what he
says is true, but mayn’t we hope that a plain man reading his favorite
poet may yet be permitted to do his own thinking?”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 500w.

=Gorky, Maxim, pseud. (Alicksel Maximovitch Preschkov).= Creatures that once were men: a story; tr. from the Russian by J. K. M. Shirazi, with an introd. by G. K. Chesterton. 75c. Funk.

Mr. Chesterton in his introduction says: “This story is a test case of
the Russian manner, for it is in itself a study of decay, a study of
failure, and a study of old age.” “Gorky’s tale is pessimistic and
contains all the hard, realistic word-painting which is characteristic
of him.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Story one can hardly call it. It is just one of Gorky’s photographs.”

+ – =Acad.= 68: 280. Mr. 18, ’05. 1090w.

“Mr. Shirazi has rendered his author fairly well; perhaps he uses a
little too much slang. The foot-notes are also meagre.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 210w.

=Ind.= 61: 398. Ag. 16, ’06. 300w.

“We have enjoyed Mr. Chesterton’s fifteen pages, however, much more
than Maxim Gorky’s ninety-four. Anything more dismal ... we have never
seen.”

+ – =Spec.= 94: 373. Mr. 11, ’05. 160w.

=Goschen, George Joachim.= Essays and addresses on economic questions. $5. Longmans.

A statement of Lord Goschen’s economic creed as a business man and a
statesman, besides being a survey of all the most important economic
aspects of English history during the period covered, 1865–1893. “The
most important ‘pieces’ in the present volume are not of a
philosophical character, but are devoted to the discussion of specific
remedies for specific economic evils.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“We confidently recommend this volume to every student of economics
and political science.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 58. Ja. 20, ’06. 1820w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 719. N. 25. 660w.

“Lord Goschen’s ‘Introductory notes’ will probably attract more
attention than the essays to which they are prefixed.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 354. O. 27, ’05. 1360w.

“In all of them he shows that firm grasp both of facts and of
principles that has characterized his economic writing.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 228. Mr. 15, ’06. 1160w.

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 753. D. 9, ’05. 1720w.

“In all of [the various essays] will be found, combined with the gift
of lucid and forcible expression, the sagacity and almost excessive
caution, the careful attention to facts and the skillful analysis of
figures to which the public is accustomed in their author.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 759. N. 11, ’05. 1480w.

=Gosse, Edmund William=, ed. British portrait painters and engravers of the eighteenth century, Kneller to Reynolds. *$50; *$70. Goupil.

This volume “is not so much a history of the subject as it is a
collection of plates after those mezzotints, ‘plain and colored,’ in
which the enchanting portraits painted by fashionable artists who were
also men of genius, were reproduced with an elegance and skill
unsurpassed by the originals.... Mr. Gosse’s text provides an
instructive accompaniment to the illustrations, but it is as a picture
gallery in little that this will find its appreciative public.”—Atlan.

* * * * *

“The introductory essay on the status of the portrait painter during
the eighteenth century has afforded Mr. Gosse a theme to which his
wide knowledge of eighteenth-century literature has enabled him to do
full justice.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 902. D. 30. 1240w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The plates in their turn are so well made that in some, if not in all
cases, they actually rival the qualities of the mezzotints from which
they are taken.” Royal Cortissoz.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 270. F. ’06. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)

“A perfectly adequate introduction.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 397. F. 15, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It is not very easy to say on what principle the illustrations are
here chosen, and it certainly would have been better to arrange them
according to the painters than to group them alphabetically according
to the name of the subject. Mr. Gosse’s essay has two great merits. It
is extremely readable, and it brings out with remarkable clearness the
extraordinary change that passed over the position of the portrait
painter after the advent of Reynolds.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 940w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Gosse, Edmund William.= Coventry Patmore. **$1. Scribner.

Reviewed by George Trobridge.

=Westminster R.= 165: 76. Ja. ’06. 7860w.

=Gosse, Edmund William.= French profiles. *$1.60. Dodd.

“All in all, Mr. Gosse’s ‘French profiles’ is a volume to strengthen
the present ‘entente cordiale’ between English and French by
contributing towards mutual understanding and appreciation.” Arthur G.
Canfield.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 13. Ja. 1, ’06. 1850w.

=Gosse, Edmund William.= Sir Thomas Browne. **75c. Macmillan.

“To the master of exquisite expression Mr. Gosse does complete justice
in the last and best chapter of a book which deserves warm praise for
its judicial temper and fine insight.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 827. D. 16. 2580w.

“An admirably balanced estimate of the author of the ‘Religio
medici.’”

+ + =Contemporary R.= 88: 906. D. ’05. 850w.

“It has been prepared with excellent taste and judgment.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 50w.

“Where Mr. Gosse fails in his estimate is in not sufficiently
recognizing the essentially poetic quality of Browne’s work, apart
from mere form or style. The absence of a bibliography is the grievous
fault this book shares with the other volumes of the same series.”

+ – =Dial.= 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.

“Is not particularly interesting.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 1491. Je. 21, ’06. 220w.

“It presents its subject in so attractive a light that one who has
never read Sir Thomas Browne’s books will turn to them with eager
interest, and one already acquainted with them will reread them with a
new zest.” Horatio S. Kranz.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 4. Ja. 6, ’06. 2820w.

=Gougar, Mrs. Helen Mar Jackson.= Forty thousand miles of world wandering. $3. Helen M. Gougar, Lafayette, Ind.

The author’s recent tour of the world has furnished a wealth of travel
material out of which she has constructed with great accuracy an
informing, popular work of interest to the traveler who has covered
the ground no less than the stay-at-home book tourist. The present-day
phases of life and institutions appeal to her rather than the dead and
buried aspects. In keeping with the heavy paper, clear type and
handsome binding are numerous fine illustrations.

* * * * *

“This volume will not prove disappointing, and we can heartily and
conscientiously recommend it to our readers.”

+ + =Arena.= 35: 215. F. ’06. 4180w.

=Gould, George Milbry.= Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health of patients. *$1. Blakiston.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 180w.

=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Rhine from Cleve to Mainz; 8 il. in col. by Trevor Hadden and 48 other il. *$2. Macmillan.

“No attempt has been made to describe objects of interest that would
be visited by the traveler or to give a complete history of the Rhine.
Mr. Gould has attempted to supply information concerning ‘sights’ and
the meaning and purpose of the objects as well as legends about
them.... A good deal of the text deals with the history of the
principal cities, taking up only the most significant events of their
past and connecting these as closely as possible with their present
condition and importance.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Baring-Gould is severely historical. When he does tell us a
story, he is careful to say at the end that it is a fable; and he
disproves it with dates. His book is a treasure-house of dates.”

+ + – =Acad.= 71: 306. S. 29, ’06. 1090w.

“In a rather happy-go-lucky fashion, but always pleasantly and
entertainingly, he discourses of kings and bishops, robber-bands,
altar-pieces, vintages, and various other matters. It would be very
easy to point out inaccuracies here and there, but it would be unfair
to judge such a book from the severely scientific standpoint.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 212. Ag. 25. 260w.

“All told very simply and directly and in a dry-as-dust manner which
will probably prevent the book from finding many readers except those
who take the journey which it describes.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 260w.

“Mr. Baring-Gould’s book is, as all admirers of his genius would wish
it to be, eminently characteristic. He has a keen eye for Nature, and
a keener for objects of interest, archaeological and historical, and
also a considerable gift of satire, for which, it must be allowed,
Germany affords not a few occasions.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 240w.

=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Riviera. **$1.50. Dutton.

Beginning with Provence the author lures his readers on to Le Gai
Saber, then to Marseilles, Aix, Toulon, Hyères, Draguignan, Cannes,
Nice, Monaco, Mentone, San Remo, Alassio, and other places by the way,
ending at Savona, describing the charm of each town, giving hints to
travelers, telling little stories of the natives, and interspersing
all with well chosen bits of history, literature and sentiment. Forty
good photographs of scenery illustrate the volume.

* * * * *

“A good map and a better index would greatly improve this book.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 850w.

+ =Dial.= 41: 72. Ag. 1, ’06. 280w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 872. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.