Chapter XXIV: Preface (24)

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Jewish encyclopaedia; ed. by Isidore Singer. 12v. $84. Funk.

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+ + – =Spec.= 97: 96. Jl. 21, ’06. 1440w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)

=Joachim, Harold H.= Nature of truth: an essay. *$2. Oxford.

Mr. Joachim says in his preface, “The following essay does not pretend
to establish a new theory. Its object is to examine certain typical
notions of truth, one or other of which—whether in the form of a vague
assumption or raised to the level of an explicit theory—has hitherto
served as the basis of philosophical speculation. If I am not
mistaken, every one of these typical notions and accredited theories
of truth fails sooner or later to maintain itself against critical
investigation. And I have tried ... to indicate in what direction (if
in any) there appears some prospect of more successful construction.”

* * * * *

“Mr. Joachim’s essay is an examination of three typical notions as to
what truth is, and will be found most direct of all recent attempts to
answer Pilate’s question.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 96. Jl. 28. 700w.

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ungracious to allude to secondary blemishes. But it is not easy
reading, and the author has provided no analysis of argument and only
a scanty index.” F. C. S. Schiller.

+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 54. S. 27, ’06. 3520w.

“His book as a whole shows the possession of the philosophic temper in
a high degree, and its conclusions are the more valuable because they
are so carefully and moderately expressed.”

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“Up to a point. Mr. Joachim’s work fulfills our expectations. The
trouble is that, at the end of it all, Mr. Joachim has to confess
himself beaten. His notion of truth will not work out, and leaves him
with only negative results, hoping against hope to escape from
skepticism.”

– + =Nation.= 83: 42. Jl. 12, ’06. 1230w.

“It claims no positive result, but is an acute, though rather involved
and at times scholastic criticism of three current conceptions of

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important contribution to English philosophy—with the exception of Mr.
Haldane’s last book—since the appearance of Mr. F. H. Bradley’s
‘Appearance and reality.’ In his candour, his freshness, and his power
of clean-cut definition he has many points of resemblance to the
latter writer.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: 984. Je. 23, ’06. 1870w.

=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Wild wings: adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger birds of No. America on sea and land. **$3. Houghton.

“This is emphatically a book to be bought; the ornithologist must have
it; the lover of nature should have it.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 611. My. 19. 600w.

“Attractive book.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 130w.

=Johnson, Burges.= Beastly rhymes; with pictures to correspond by E. Warde Blaisdell. **$1. Crowell.

Familiar beasts are put thru clever performances in rhyme as well as
pictures taxing both their acrobatic skill and animal mentality. “The
aim of the little book is rather the instruction of Youth than the
edification of Age.”

* * * * *

“Mr. Johnson’s animal verses are as amusing in their way as his
‘Rhymes of little boys’ Were in another fashion.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

=Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

=Johnson, Claude Ellsworth.= Training of boys’ voices. 75c. Ditson.

All who are interested in the training of children’s voices in school,
Sunday school, or choir, will find this little text-book useful. The
chapter headings will suggest its scope: Children’s natural voices,
Beginning tone production, Voice training, Vocal exercises, Music in
schools, Boys in church choirs, The selection of music for boys’
voices.

* * * * *

“His remarks on voice training are commendable.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 229. S. 13, ’06. 630w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.

=Johnson, Clifton.= Birch-tree fairy book. †$1.75. Little.

This companion volume to “The oak-tree fairy book” contains a wide
variety of stories ranging from simple folk-tales to fairy romances,
but all have been carefully edited for home reading and while the
charm remains the savagery and distressing details have been omitted.
The stories given are; Tom Thumb, The giant with the golden hair,
Three feathers, Jack the Giant-killer, The ugly duckling, The forty
robbers, The wizard and the beggar, and a score more old favorites.

* * * * *

“Timid parents need not fear to place these stories in the hands of
the most sensitive child. Savagery, excessive pathos, undue thrills
are all glossed over or dispensed with.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 80w.

=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

“A collection that will suit the ideas of most parents as to
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

=Johnson, Emory Richard.= Ocean and inland water transportation. **$1.50. Appleton.

The general scope of this work is suggested by the chapter headings:
The measurements of vessels and traffic, The history of the ocean
carrier, Ways and terminals of ocean transportation, The ocean freight
service, The ocean mail service, The International express service,
Rate and traffic agreements, pools, and consolidation of ocean
carriers, Marine insurance, Aid and regulation by the national
government, The mercantile marine policy of the United States.

* * * * *

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reference.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 310w.

“Topics, which are only imperfectly understood by the average
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way.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 70w.

=Johnson, Joseph French.= Money and currency in relation to industry, prices and the rate of interest. *$1.75. Ginn.

Of his work the author says: “While it is intended to be a complete
exposition of the science of money ... its unique characteristics, if
it possess any will be found in the deep practical significance it
discovers in the phenomena of price, in its analysis of the demand for
money, in its exposition of credit as related to prices and the rate
of interest, and in the clearness it gives to the concepts of
commodity money, fiat money, and credit money. This book deals with
money as an independent economic entity, and seeks to bring out the
fact that ‘price’ in the world of business is a more important word
than ‘value’.”

* * * * *

“He has slurred over certain controverted topics, in order to avoid
snags which he regards as needless difficulties. Without presuming to
pass judgment upon these disputed technicalities, it is safe to say
that the book will be of use as an account of the actual phenomena of
money and currency.” A. W. S.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 427. N. ’06. 90w.

“Professor Johnson has rendered a valuable service in his scholarly,
and at the same time practical, discussion of the money problem. He
has made a book which is simple in language and readable.” Charles A.
Conant.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 192. Jl. ’06. 870w.

“Aside from his novel classification of the forms of money, the author
contributes no additional material of any importance to the general
subject of money.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 218. Jl. 26, ’06. 350w.

“What should prove the best text in its field. Particularly to be
commended are the careful analysis of the demand for money, the
discussion of ‘fiat’ money and the treatment of the difficult subject
of credit.”

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 366. My. 3, ’06. 140w.

“Few or none which will better repay study by the serious merchant who
wishes help by which to forecast the future and protect himself
against reverses which come to many unawares and not understood.”
Edward A. Bradford.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 354. Je. 9, ’06. 2200w.

“Professor Johnson’s book is a welcome addition to the voluminous
literature of money, and, with its errors of detail eliminated, it
will, without doubt, take rank among the best of the general works
upon the subject.” A. Piatt Andrew.

+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 714. D. ’06. 1870w.

=Johnson, Owen, Max Fargus.= †$1.50. Baker.

A most unpleasing group of people are met with in the course of this
story, which is interesting because the characters are well drawn, and
the plot is well handled. Max Fargus, an old miser, rich thru the
astute management of his oyster houses, meets in the park an
impoverished actress who shrewdly leads him on and, posing as a
country girl, actually wins his affections. He has her investigated,
however, by a shyster lawyer before he marries her and the lawyer
drives a crafty bargain with the girl, by which, in return for his
favorable report, he is to receive half her gains. After marriage
Fargus becomes suspicious and later works out a revenge which succeeds
so well that all the leading characters are left either dead or
miserable and the shyster’s partner, who has become his enemy,
receives the Fargus money.

* * * * *

“There is something exceedingly refreshing in the very grimness of Mr.
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praise—to say that the characters are as well drawn as they are
named.” Firmin Dredd.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 161. O. ’06. 450w.

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+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 260w.

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with spirit, and an occasional good bit of characterization.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 310w.

“It is a picture of depravity and simply that, clever enough in
workmanship, but lacking in motive.”

– + =Outlook.= 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 160w.

=Johnson, Samuel.= Lives of English poets; ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, with brief memoir of Dr. Birkbeck Hill by his nephew, Harold Spencer Scott. 3 v. *$10.50. Oxford.

This three-volume edition of the “Lives of the poets” is the
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edition of Boswell’s “Life.” Mr. Harold Spencer Scott, Dr. Hill’s
nephew, has prepared this edition for the press, preserving the main
outlines of the work as they were left by the author. He has further
contributed a memoir and bibliography of his uncle.

* * * * *

+ + =Acad.= 70: 133. F. 10, ’06. 1350w.

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+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 162. F. 10. 3020w.

“A reprint of special importance.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + + =Atlan.= 98: 276. Ag. ’06. 970w.

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and small, common and strange, in the shape of apposite and
illuminating quotations from all manner of books and writers.” W. P.
Trent.

+ + + =Forum.= 37: 540. Ap. ’06. 5760w.

“A more thorough and accurate piece of revision and verification than
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will rarely, we imagine, be found in editorial annals.”

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“It was a happy idea of Dr. Birkbeck Hill to publish the “Lives” in
what will probably be their final edition.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 2130w.

=Johnson, William Henry.= French pathfinders in North America. $1.50. Little.

“Written in a style especially adapted for younger readers.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 50w.

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=Johnson, William Henry.= Sir Galahad of New France. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.

“It is a harmless little idyl, pleasantly told, a new version of ‘The
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Frederic Taber Cooper.

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=Johnson, Wolcott.= Old man’s idyl. **$1. McClurg.

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=Johnston, Alexander.= American political history, 1763–1876; ed. and supplemented by James Albert Woodburn. 2v. ea. *$2. Putnam.

“This volume presents in book form the series of articles on ‘American
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to Lalor’s ‘Cyclopedia of political science, political parties, and
political history,’ in the period from 1763 to 1832. The next volume
will come down to 1876. The editor’s task has been to arrange,
connect, and supplement Prof. Johnston’s papers so as to present a
compact and continuous narration. He has also written a brief
introduction, and an able history and analysis of the Monroe doctrine,
and some material has been added to bring the history down to date.
The work, however, remains substantially Prof. Johnston’s.”—N. Y.
Times.

* * * * *

“As it stands the book is hard to use, especially the second volume,
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essays lies in the clearness and vigor with which political action and
motives are analyzed, and for this reason the volumes, in spite of
their chaotic character, will be of permanent value.” Theodore Clarke
Smith.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 688. Ap. ’06. 840w.

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question, and the work of the editor seems to have been, on the whole,
skilfully performed.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 157. F. 22, ’06. 360w.

“It is valuable rather for its suggestions and conclusions than for
the mere statement of facts.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)

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+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 120w.

“His treatment of political parties in the middle third of the
nineteenth century is especially illuminating and useful.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Johnston, Annie Fellows.= Little colonel’s Christmas vacation. †$1.50. Page.

This latest book in the “Little colonel” series tells the story of the
little Colonel at school, of her breakdown and enforced stay at home,
of her holiday good times, and of kind deeds she is able to render
less fortunate ones.

* * * * *

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=Johnston, Mrs. Annie Fellows.= Little colonel, maid of honor. $1.50. Page.

The little Kentucky “colonel,” so much of a favorite with young
readers, has reached the age for interest in other people’s love
affairs. The main action of this new page of happenings in the life of
Lloyd Sherman centers about a southern wedding, so perfectly arranged
as to give the impression that everything “bloomed into place.”

* * * * *

“Will be in large demand as a holiday gift.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 120w.

=Joinville, Jean de.= Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville; new Eng. version by Ethel Wedgwood. *$3. Dutton.

An old chronicle six hundred years old is reproduced here. It records
the life and adventures of King Louis of France, known as the “Saint,”
with special reference to the seventh crusade in Egypt. The book is
fully illustrated.

* * * * *

“We can speak very highly of Miss Wedgwood’s powers of translation;
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qualities of his style.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 270. S. 3. 670w.

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documents of mediæval times.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 121. S. 1, ’06. 40w.

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least, it would have been better not to omit these parts of the text
and to add some bibliographical notes.”

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lasting to the old than absorbing to the young.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 70w.

“The diction preserves excellently the general effect of the original.
It is a very simple diction, by the way, not running too much to the
archaic.”

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=R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 60w.

“This is one of the most delightful books we have come across for a
long time. The translation is spirited and excellent; the preface and
notes are just what a reader wants; and no more than he wants, for
intelligent enjoyment of one of the great stories of all time.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 655. N. 3, ’06. 1650w.

=Jones, Chester Lloyd.= Consular service of the United States, its history and activities. $1.25. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.

A monograph dealing with the subject under the following headings:
Legislative history, Organization, Rights and duties of consuls, Extra
territoriality, Consular assistance to the foreign trade of the United
States, European consular systems, and Suggestions for the improvement
of the service.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 208. O. ’06. 50w.

“The work is a welcome addition to the too meagre literature
concerning our foreign trade.” George M. Fisk.

+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 580. N. ’06. 320w.

“Mr. Jones has collected a large number of facts connected with his
subject and has brought them together in convenient and readable
form.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28, ’06. 620w.

“This is a rather more ambitious and comprehensive history of our
‘trade ambassadors’ abroad than has been published before.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.

“An exhaustive, scholarly monograph.”

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=Yale R.= 15: 337. N. ’06. 160w.

=Jones, Harry Clary.= Electrical nature of matter and radioactivity. $2. Van Nostrand.

The author has brought together here articles that were published as a
series in the Electrical review. The treatment is more popular than
technical, yet accurate scientifically.

* * * * *

“We think that he has produced a book which should prove useful to
those whose mathematical attainments do not permit them to study the
larger and more difficult works of Prof. J. J. Thomson and Prof.
Rutherford.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 306. S. 15. 840w.

“His vigor carries one along at such a rate that, did one not know
better, he would be convinced of certain statements often not proved,
or forget that there is another side to the question.” Charles
Baskerville.

+ – =Engin. N.= 56: 53. Jl. 12, ’06. 680w.

“The facts are clearly stated and neatly summarized, but without any
attempt at adventitious ornamentation to catch the attention of the
casual reader.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 457. Ag. 23, ’06. 460w.

“Well adapted to bringing one’s physics up to date.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w.

“The book as a whole gives a comprehensive and interesting survey of
the radio-activity of matter as it is interpreted by the
disintegration hypothesis. Perhaps the best chapters are those dealing
with the reproduction of radio-active matter and the theory arising
therefrom.” F. S.

+ + – =Nature.= 74: 632. O. 25, ’06. 750w.

“The subject is recondite, yet its presentation is sufficiently
simplified for easy comprehension.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 250w.

=Jones, Samuel Milton.= Letters of labor and love. **$1. Bobbs.

“No man or woman can read this book without being made purer, nobler
and truer for its perusal. It is a volume that will make for civic
righteousness, a nobler manhood and a juster social order.”

+ + =Arena.= 35: 101. Ja. ’06. 430w.

“As the most forcible and significant utterances of such a man, these
letters should find ready welcome not only among his admirers but also
among all who are interested in the deeper problems of society.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 129. F. 16, ’06. 510w.

“It is the real Jones as his friends knew him who appears in this
book, and no one who wants a memorial of his life and teachings can
well do without it.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 290w.

=Jonson, Ben.= Devil is an ass; ed. with introduction, notes and glossary by William Savage Johnson. $2. Holt.

“This seems to suffer from what may be called a lack of artistic
restraint in annotation.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 37. Ja. 11, ’06. 160w.

=Jordan, David Starr.= Guide to the study of fishes. 2v. **$12. Holt.

“Unfortunately the index is not so good as it might be. It may be said
generally that it would be difficult to praise this fine work too
highly.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 720w.

“Where the author has wandered from the narrower field of systematic
ichthyology, with its attendant problems of distribution and external
morphology, he has sometimes fallen into vagueness or error. Where, on
the other hand, he has traversed his own familiar ground he has
supplied a real need and supplied it admirably.” Jacob Reighard.

+ + – =Science=, n.s. 22: 861. D. 29, ’05. 2740w.

=Jordan, Louis Henry.= Comparative religion: its genesis and growth. *$3.50. Scribner.

“Mr. Jordan’s book is of the nature of a work of reference, and must
have involved great labor.” (Acad.) “It is mainly descriptive of the
distinctive method, aim, and scope of the new science, its genesis,
its prophets and pioneers, its founders and masters, its schools and
auxiliary sciences, its mental emancipations, other achievements and
growing bibliography.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“From its very nature it can hardly be said to make interesting
reading; but it will be found invaluable as a manual.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1258. D. 2, ’05. 80w.

“The volume shows wide reading and great industry in bringing so many
names together. Yet the chapter on auxiliary or subsidiary sciences
might have been retrenched with advantage, and the illustrations of
comparative sciences are too many. The value of the book will be found
to consist in its full bibliography, which is made available by a
copious index.” Henry Preserved Smith.

+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 701. O. ’06. 920w.

“A valuable handbook of great breadth of learning, written in an
admirable spirit. It is a book for which we are profoundly thankful,
notwithstanding the fact that it has some defects which are incidental
to the manner of its composition.” George A. Barton.

+ + – =Bib. World.= 28: 285. O. ’06. 890w.

“It must be admitted that so great a task, beyond the first-hand
knowledge of any one man, is on the whole well done.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1542. D. 28, ’05. 230w.

“Whoever wishes to know ‘all about’ comparative religion at its
present stage will find cyclopaedic information here in sufficient
fullness, not merely in the text but also in appended charts, and all
carefully indexed for ready reference.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 270w.

“Mr. Jordan’s book will probably interest even the casual reader, but
it will be of special value to the student for the sake of its
elaborate bibliography. So far as we have been able to apply a test,
no important work, either in English or a foreign language, has been
overlooked.”

+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 462. Ap. 14, ’06. 1450w.

“It contains too much, attempts too much, it is irritating; but on the
other hand it is a very thorough and comprehensive work, especially to
be recommended for reference to out-of-the-way information.” E.
Washburn Hopkins.

+ – =Yale R.= 14: 438. F. ’06. 1070w.

=Joseph, H. W. B.= Introduction to logic. *$3.15. Oxford.

A restatement of the traditional doctrine “which is used at the
universities as an instrument of intellectual discipline.” (Lond.
Times.) “Mr. Joseph has interesting remarks to make on the relation
between mathematics and logic, and a good statement of the doctrine
that the principle of syllogistic inference cannot be made into the
premise of a particular syllogism without begging the question. His
chapter entitled ‘The presuppositions of inductive reasoning: the law
of causation’ is a model of clear and forcible reasoning. Mill’s four
methods, he finds, may be reduced to one ‘method of experimental
inquiry.’” (Nature.)

* * * * *

“A thoughtful and scholarly treatise, conceived on the lines of a good
text-book.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 362. O. 26, ’06. 430w.

“Useful as his book may prove to an advanced logician, it is almost
the worst possible for a beginner’s introduction to the subject.”

– + =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 1560w.

“It is an excellent and very sound exposition of the traditional logic
for which Oxford has been famous ever since the days of Chaucer’s
Clerk. But if the matter is traditional, the manner of exposition is
as fresh and independent as it could well be, and the author has
entirely fulfilled the desire expressed in his preface not to teach
anything to beginners which they should afterwards have merely to
unlearn.”

+ + =Nature.= 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 450w.

=Josephus, Flavius.= Works; tr. by William Whiston, and edited by D. S. Margoliouth. $2. Dutton.

“The complete works of the learned and spirited writer, Flavius
Josephus, compressed in one royal octavo volume.... The editor’s work
... includes an introductory essay, and a few notes, and a careful
collation of the text with the critical edition of the original Greek
of Niese and Von Destinon, and its division into sections after the
plan of the learned German editors. Recent research has been
intelligently summarized. All of Josephus is here, including, of
course, the few disputed passages.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The editor’s Introduction is decidedly piquant. He seems to treat his
author in exactly the right vein, now genially discounting his
marvelous exploits, now politely doubting his veracity while enjoying
his romance.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 666. Je. 2. 630w.

“The introduction is, of course, admirably written, and weighted with
references to the learned literature of the subject; still more loaded
with erudition are the notes.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 211. Je. 8, ’06. 570w.

“Is admirably adapted to the chief use to which it is likely to be
put, as a book of reference for library shelves.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 230w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 50w.

=Joubert, Carl.= Fall of tsardom. *$2. Lippincott.

“This volume consists of threatenings against the Russian government,
and reminiscences of what has happened in the past after similar
threats had been made.” (N. Y. Times.). “It cannot be said that in
these pages the author gives an accurate picture of social and
political conditions; his pen is distinctly that of an advocate. For
example he criticises the secret societies for the purposeless crimes
they commit, but at the same time he defends the ‘revolutionary
committee’ for sanctioning assassination ‘in extreme cases.’ Purely
constitutional reform is in his opinion hopeless; the tsardom is a
deadly growth that must be plucked out by the roots.” (Critic.)

* * * * *

“The tone of exaggeration which pervades ‘The fall of tsardom’ tends
to disguise those of the observations and reflections of the author
which might otherwise been thought of value.”

– =Ath.= 1905, 1: 747. Je. 17. 680w.

“The theories which the author promulgates ... are less interesting
than the experiences he describes. Those interested in current
movements in Russia should not overlook this account of them.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 220w.

“Is a miscellaneous collection of gossip, scraps of information of
questionable authenticity, court scandals, and hints at deeper
knowledge yet.”

– =Lond. Times.= 4: 176. Je. 9, ’05. 730w.

“The book is interesting, even if not convincing.”

– – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 174. Mr. 24, ’06. 650w.

=Joubert, Carl.= Truth about the Tsar. *$2. Lippincott.

One of the three rather sensational volumes on Russian subjects which
have been written by this man whose real name is not Joubert. “It is
not Russia that has gone mad, but Tsardom. As autocratic sovereigns,
the hours of the Romanoffs are numbered. A constitutional monarchy or
the United States of Russia are the only alternatives possible. Such
are the opinions of Carl Joubert—who claims to know both the land and
the ruler, and who reiterates in this volume the ideas he promulgated
in ‘Russia as it really is.’” (Critic.)

* * * * *

“Even if only half its statements are true, it is worth reading.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 340w.

“As our author indulges in fewer Russian words than in his former
volumes his errors are fewer.”

– – =Nation.= 82: 267. Mr. 29, ’06. 1260w.

“An entertaining and upon the whole, informing book about Russian
affairs. It is rhetoric, not history, and the fact that the special
pleading is on the right side does not make it any less special.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 690w.

“Mr. Joubert is more rhetorical and less precise than we could wish.”

– =Spec.= 94: 218. F. 11, ’06. 1570w.

=Joutel, Henri.= Joutel’s journal of La Salle’s last voyage, 1684–7. *$5. McDonough.

“One of the most valuable source-books of American history.... The
writer was a townsman of the great pathfinder, sailed with him from
France in 1684, accompanied him in his after-wanderings in the wilds,
and while not an eye-witness to his murder, was not far away when the
fatal shot was fired by the desperate mutineer, Duhaut. The story of
the misfortune of the pioneers and of the terrible days that followed
the murder of their leader is told with a directness and simplicity
that grip the attention with the interest of a work of fiction.... Dr.
Henry R. Stiles, the editor of the present reprint ... rounds out
Joutel’s narrative by historical and biographical introductions, the
latter explaining who Joutel was, and the former giving an accurate
and interesting account of La Salle’s earlier explorations. The book
also contains a bibliographical appendix covering the literature on
the discovery of the Mississippi.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 973. Jl. ’06. 160w.

=Ath.= 1906, 2: 307. S. 5. 110w.

“Joutel’s narrative is not only the most authoritative account of that
last voyage which ended so tragically for La Salle, but it is
eminently readable.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 450w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 380. Je. 9, ’06. 410w.

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, 06. 250w.

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 338. S. 15, ’06. 260w.

“The account, so happily composed, had the further good fortune to be
translated into excellent English, the authentic speech of the time;
and it is this version which is here faithfully reprinted and
skilfully annotated by Dr. Stiles, to whom we are pleased to give the
credit of a sound and scholarly piece of work.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 440. S. 29, ’06. 1350w.

=Judson, Frederick Newton.= Law of interstate commerce and its federal regulation. *$5. Flood, T. H.

“With some well directed effort it might have been made a permanent
contribution to the literature of the subject.” H. A. C.

– + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 561. S. ’06. 1220w.

“An authoritative and codified statement of existing law and practice
on the subject of interstate commerce. The book is marred by careless
proof-reading.” Frank Haigh Dixon.

+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 91. My. ’06. 730w.

=Judson, William Pierson.= City roads and pavements suited to cities of moderate size. **$2. Eng. news.

This new edition, revised and rendered thoroly up to date, has been
issued in response to the continued call for a guide to the building
of real highways as well as of city pavements. The history, cost,
composition and durability of various pavements are given under the
headings: Preparation of streets for pavements, Ancient pavements,
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Concrete pavements, Wood pavements, Vitrified brick pavements,
American sheet-asphalt, artificial and natural, Bitulithic pavement,
and Broken stone roads.

Justice for the Russian Jew; an appeal to humanity for the cessation of an unprecedented international crime against an outraged and oppressed race. *25c. Ogilvie.

A complete stenographic report of the stirring speeches delivered at
the great mass meeting in Washington, D. C., January 21, 1906, called
to protest against the murders of the Jews in Russia, with photographs
and sketches of the speakers. The list of speakers includes;
Congressman Sulzer; Rev. Francis T. McCarthy; Hon. Wendell Phillips
Stafford; Rev. Donald C. MacLeod; Hon. Henry T. Rainey; Col. John A.
Joyce; and Hon. Chas. A. Towne.

* * * * *

=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 50w.

K

=Kaempfer, Engelbert.= History of Japan. 3v. *$9. Macmillan.

“Kaempfer covers an extraordinarily wide field. The long journey to
Japan, the geography, climate, origin and history of the people, their
religions, their mode of government, their chronological system, their
laws, manners and customs, their natural and industrial productions,
their systems of trade, are all described. The portion of the work
which deals with the history and religion will now appeal only to the
esoteric reader.... But nearly the whole of the second and third
volumes, in which are described in minute detail the author’s life at
Nagasaki; the journeys to and from and life at the capital; wayside
scenes and travellers along the great high-roads, the Court of the
Shogun, who is called the secular monarch, as distinct from ‘the
Ecclesiastical hereditary Emperor,’ the Mikado and the popular
festivals, are so full of interest that he would be indeed a dull
reader who was not entranced by their continued intrinsic
charms.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“It is a wise and faithful account with more than an occasional touch
of dry humour.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 569. Je. 16. ’06. 430w.

“The reproduction is, in every respect, worthy of its original, and in
its new and convenient form the ‘Historia’ should meet with many
readers, as an achievement of the highest interest in itself, and as
the beginning and foundation of all true knowledge of the pattern
people of the twentieth century.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 6. Jl. 7. 2610w.

“For the reference library and the philosophical student of the
Japanese, the work is invaluable.”

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 448. My. 31, ’06. 250w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 572. S. 15, ’06. 470w.

“The publication of this new edition is therefore a real public
service. We have only one fault to find. Kaempfer’s spelling of native
terms is so archaic as, in many instances, to be absolutely
unintelligible to modern readers and difficult to follow even by
persons more than ordinarily acquainted with the history, geography
and language of Japan.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 17. Jl. 7. ’06. 1660w.

=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Joey at the fair. 75c. Crowell.

Boys in the early “teens” will enjoy this story of a New England farm
and of Joey and how he attained his great ambition of raising a calf
which should win the blue ribbon at the county fair. The achievement
is made more difficult because of a young city cousin who is a
mischief maker from the time of his arrival and who almost succeeds in
maliciously diverting the blue ribbon from the sleek Betty; but Joey
and the calf win out in the end.

=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Light keepers: a story of the United States light-house service. †$1.50. Dutton.

How Cary’s Ledge light was kept according to the “rules an’
regerlations,” by its three old keepers, Cap’n Eph, Sammy, and Uncle
Zenas, third assistant and also cook, is here told in a fashion
pleasing to young folks. How they blamed themselves for neglecting the
day’s routine in order to risk their lives to save the victims of fog
and wreck, how the boy whom they called Sonny drifted to their ledge,
stayed there and became a joy to them, how the government came to
appreciate and reward them and many other matters of human interest
furnish a pleasing variety in their bleak existence.

* * * * *

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 210w.

=Kauffman, Reginald Wright.= Miss Frances Baird, detective: a passage from her memoirs. $1.25. Page.

A young woman, good-looking, alert, making a direct asset of her
intuition, unravels the mystery of a diamond robbery in a manner that
would commend her to the most exacting of detective staffs.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 61: 697. S. 20, ’06. 270w.

=Kaye, Percy Lewis.= English colonial administration under Lord Clarendon, 1660–1667. 50c. Hopkins.

“On the whole, however, a comparison of Dr. Kaye’s paper with earlier
treatments of the same subject indicates no considerable addition to
our stock of information and no decided novelty in the handling of the
material.” Evarts B. Greene.

+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 438. Ja. ’06. 410w.

=Keats, John.= Poems; with notes and appendices by H. Burton Forman. $1.25. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” A biographical sketch by Nathan
Haskell Dole, notes and appendices make the volume complete.

=Keays, Mrs. H. A. Mitchell.= Work of our hands. †$1.50. McClure.

A Montague and Capulet enmity is set at naught by the marriage of
young Bronsart and Aylmer Forsythe. This hero is a capitalist “whose
life of luxury has given him a moral myopia,” and his wife in a rather
provocative way sets about to relieve the down-trodden condition among
the laborers in his factories, and to force her husband into believing
that his wealth should be used for aiding instead of oppressing the
poor.

* * * * *

“In ‘The work of our hands,’ H. E. Mitchell Keays, with large outlook
and wide sweep, shows a strange working out of destiny.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 520w.

“The book will not contribute much to the solution of problems
economic or marital, but it is a strong and clever story; the interest
well sustained, despite a little too much preaching.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ’05. 410w.

“The story suffers ... from evidences of overwrought nerves. The tone
is feverish.”

– =Reader.= 7: 452. Mr. ’06. 240w.

=Keen, Walter Henry.= Margaret Purdy. $1.50. Broadway pub.

Mr. Keen’s story traces the development of Margaret Purdy from her
“puny child-wife” state to one of vigorous mental and moral freedom.
Her growth under the direction of Professor Bickersteth whose
laboratory assistant she becomes furnishes the real interest of the
book.

=Keen, William Williams.= Addresses and other papers. *$3.75. Saunders.

“Perhaps more false impressions with regard to medical thought would
be corrected by a casual reading of this volume than in any other way
that we know.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1346. D. 7, ’05. 340w.

=Keith, Marion.= Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. $1.50. Revell.

Upper Canada and its people, the spirit of the woods, the sordidness
of the everyday life, is at the heart of this story of Scotty, who,
true to his Scotch grandparents and the early lessons he learns under
the silver maple, fights a good fight, resists temptation, is true to
himself, and when he comes at last into the heritage of his English
father “by the right road, the road of truth and equity,” it is also
into a heritage of love and happiness.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 220w.

=Keller, Very Rev. J. A.= Saint Joseph’s help; or, Stories of the power and efficacy of Saint Joseph’s intercession. *75c. Benziger.

The second edition of a book whose aim is to make known the power of
St. Joseph’s intercession and the favors obtained through his
assistance.

* * * * *

“The simple, trusting, tender faith of the narrator is contagious; and
the book is sure to fasten in young minds a devout confidence in St.
Joseph.”

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 268. My. ’06. 70w.

=Kelley, Florence.= Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25. Macmillan.

“Legislation and judicial decision concerning the rights of the child,
the rights of women, the rights of all labourers to leisure through
restricted hours of labor, and the rights of the purchaser to
knowledge of the condition of production and distribution of goods,
are clearly presented and interpreted. The author is prepared for the
work, and by long experience in social, economic investigation as
government and state official, as special investigator, as a
settlement resident, and as a member of the Illinois bar. The volume
forms the latest addition to the ‘American citizens’ library.’”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“One marked distinction of Mrs. Kelley’s discussions is the vividness
of the concrete images used to enforce the argument, and these
illustrations are not borrowed from books.” C. R. Henderson.

+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 846. My. ’06. 840w.

“Her topics are ripe and full: the book may well become a classic on
industrial life, but this first edition lacks the final touch of care,
the polish of revision to which it is richly entitled.” Charlotte
Kimball Patten.

+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 249. Ja. ’06. 920w.

“Is a most valuable book to students of social conditions and of the
general welfare.”

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 130w.

“Mrs. Kelley’s book is, by the conditions of its subject, tentative.
Its chief value lies in its suggestions for future improvement.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 330w.

“Interesting and instructive volume.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 343. F. 8, ’06. 240w.

“This book is marred by extremely bad arrangement. In spite of this,
the volume is rich in fact, sound in theory, generally correct in
reasoning, and replete with suggestion and stimulation.” Henry Raymond
Mussey.

+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 382. Ap. ’06. 990w.

“Her facts and arguments, however, are such as no student of the
problems involved can afford to neglect.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 64. Jl. 19, ’06. 1510w.

“A brief, terse, but readable review of recent progress toward better
things.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 806. Ap. 7, ’06. 310w.

Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 326. Je. ’06. 1400w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 110w.

=Kelley, Gwendolyn Dunlevy, and Upton, George Putnam.= Edouard Remenyi, musician, litterateur, and man: an appreciation. **$1.75. McClurg.

Here are sketches of Remenyi’s life and artistic career by friends and
contemporaries, to which are added critical reviews of his playing and
selections from his literary papers and correspondence. The
biographical sketch reveals the Romany spirit of the man which made
routine impossible and which led him at times to vanish from human
sight. There are nine portraits of the famous violinist taken during a
period of forty-four years.

* * * * *

“A book about a musician rather than a work on music. The personal
element presses strongly forward on every page.” Josiah Renick Smith.

+ =Dial.= 41: 12. Jl. 1, ’06. 860w.

“Is much more than what they call it—‘the skeleton of a work that
might have been.’”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 147. Ag. 16, ’06. 1120w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 250w.

“The estimate of his personality is naturally indulgent, but it is
vivid. There is plenty of Remenyi material here, even if there is not
a Remenyi biography.” Richard Aldrich.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 1060w.

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.

=Kellogg, Vernon.= American insects. **$5. Holt.

“Prof. Kellogg has well summarized our present information on the
subject, and drawn attention to future potentialities.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 78. Jl. 21. 730w.

“Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the work is probably the best that
exists for anyone, desiring an introductory work on North American
insects compressed into a single volume.” D. S.

+ + – =Nature.= 73: 292. Ja. 25, ’06. 310w.

=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.

“It is a pleasure to recommend a book with such confidence as this
volume inspires.” John Graham Brooks.

+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 511. Jl. ’06. 260w.

=Kellum, Margaret Dutton.= Language of the Northumbrian gloss to the Gospel of St. Luke. 75c. Holt.

No. 30 in the “Yale studies in English.” The thesis covers fully the
phonology and inflection of the Northumbrian gloss to the Gospel of
St. Luke.

=Kelly, Howard Atwood.= Walter Reed and yellow fever. **$1.50. McClure.

A sketch of the life and work of the man who brought about the
conviction that the mosquito is an agent for the spread of yellow
fever.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 360w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 1400w.

=Kelly, R. Talbot.= Burma. *$6. Macmillan.

A seven months’ journey thru Burma, covering 3,500 miles is here
interestingly “painted and described.” It is a book of first
impressions gathered from forest and jungle.

* * * * *

“His is a perfect example of the colour-book of commerce, the merriest
and most entertaining of peep-shows, but without relation to art or
literature.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 45. Ja. 13, ’06. 190w.

“His impressions of Burmese character are intelligent, and more often
accurate than not.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 340w.

“In Mr. Kelly’s pictures we catch something of the charm of travel in
a strange country and among people entirely unlike our own.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1380. D. 14, ’05. 180w.

“An eloquent writer, as well, as an accomplished artist, wielding the
pen with even greater skill than the brush, and imbued, moreover, with
the courage, perseverance, and enthusiasm of the true explorer, the
author of this delightful volume has concentrated all his powers on
his fascinating subject, producing what will certainly rank as a
standard work on this great dependency of the British Empire.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 26: 87. Mr. ’06. 260w.

+ + =Nation.= 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 410w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 210w.

“Mr. Kelly is one of the few artists who can write. The volume is a
worthy member of a very attractive series.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 610w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 80w.

“A narrative that on its own merits makes pleasant reading and gives a
very true and sympathetic sketch of Burma and its people, and is much
more than a mere explanation of his pictures. He has, however, been
misled into a sweeping condemnation of Indian natives by generalizing
hastily from the unfavourable specimens that are to be met in Burma.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.

=Kelsey, Frederick W.= First county park system. $1.25. Ogilvie.

Although a ten year history of the development of the Essex county
park system of New Jersey, this work is far reaching in its
helpfulness. “It supplies a working-guide for other communities where
park systems are to be established” exposes “The baneful influence of
the public service corporations in frustrating a splendid and nobly
planned work and subordinating the interests of the community to the
selfish enrichment of those interested in the exploiting of the people
thru the public service corporations.”

* * * * *

“It is a volume that merits wide circulation—a work that we can
especially recommend to all persons interested in the development of
park systems in and around American municipalities.”

+ =Arena.= 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 340w.

“The book, is in the best sense of the term, a political pamphlet.”

+ =Engin. N.= 55: 312. Mr. 15, ’06. 450w.

=Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 29, ’06. 140w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 160w.

=Kennard, Joseph Spencer.= Italian romance writers. **$2. Brentano’s.

A well-wrought introduction furnishes an outline of the history of
modern story telling, discusses the various early types of fiction and
finally Italian tendencies and ideals. Then follows chapters upon
Alexander Manzoni, Massimo Taparelli D’Azeglio, Francesco Domenico
Guerrazzi, Tommaso Grossi, Ippolito Nievo, Edmondo De Amicis, Antonio
Fogazzaro, Giovanni Verga, Matilde Serao, Federigo De Roberto, Anna
Neera, Grazia Deledda, Enrico Annibale Butti, and Gabbriele
D’Annunzio, which give something of the authors and much of the
characters they created. The volume will serve as a pleasing
commentary to students of modern Italian literature, and will prove an
interesting source of enlightenment to all who have not time for
further study.

* * * * *

“It is a pity, however, that American readers could not have been
presented with a version in less ‘rocky’ English than the present
one.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 290w.

“Mr. Kennard had evidently read widely and thought earnestly before
formulating his opinions. But he seems incapable of expressing
opinions simply, plainly or convincingly. At its best his style is
hardly brilliant. At its worst it is intolerable.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 1250w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 936. Je. 23, ’06. 1190w.

“Notwithstanding repeated evidences of haste or carelessness in the
execution, we maintain that the work is a good and useful introduction
to the study of modern Italian fiction.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 27, ’06. 1460w.

“While not a profound or final treatise, is a pleasing, diffuse book,
crowded with information, and worth the study.” James Huneker.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 423. Je. 30, ’06. 3250w.

“Dr. Kennard’s book as a whole is one of the most interesting and
instructing contributions to our knowledge of Italian literature.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 330w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 90w.

=Kennedy, Charles William=, tr. Legend of St. Juliana; translated from the Latin of the Acta sanctorum and the Anglo-Saxon of Cynewulf. Univ. lib., Princeton.

The Anglo-Saxon and Latin texts used by the translator for this double
rendering into the English are those printed by Professor Strunk in
the “Belles-Lettres” edition.