Chapter 4: , Dissolved continuous current windings; Chapter 5, (4)

“Quite apart from its value in the discussion of purely administrative
problems of police management, the book is very readable. Mr. McAdoo
knows his subject and handles it with great directness. One criticism
which might be made is that when discussing the problems of the police
he assumes that his readers possess rather more information regarding
the police organization than they are likely to have, but these lapses
are only occasional.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 935. O. 18, ’06. 570w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382 Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 649. My. 26, ’06. 1480w.

“Has a human interest that places it in a class apart from the
ordinary category of manuals and treatises on good government. Mr.
McAdoo writes clearly and fearlessly, as one who has nothing to
conceal from the public.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 180w.

=McCall, Sidney.= Breath of the gods. †$1.50. Little.

+ – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 130w.

=McCall, Sidney.= Truth Dexter. †$1.50. Little.

A new illustrated edition. Ever refreshing is the charming naïvete of
the Southern girl who goes to Boston as a bride and has only her
innocence and clarity of soul to offset intrigue on the one hand and
culture on the other, until, indeed, she is subjected to a rigid
course of intellectual training which conventionalizes her.

* * * * *

“In spite of what seem to us defects, the romance has so much in its
favour that we can heartily recommend it to our readers.”

+ – =Arena.= 36: 219. Ag. ’06. 580w.

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 880w.

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.

=McCarthy, Justin.= History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40. Harper.

“Although these volumes may at times be handy books of reference, they
must not be depended upon for fullness or accuracy.” A. G. Porritt.

+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 676. Ap. ’06. 790w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“Mr. McCarthy makes good reading for the ordinary, unhistorical man
who is often astonishingly ignorant of earlier Victorian events.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 863. D. 23. 50w.

“The author takes advantage of his opportunity to review the reign of
Victoria as a whole, and this is the most valuable part of the work.”
Edward Fuller.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 289. My. ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“Mr. McCarthy’s last volumes are very delightful, eminently readable,
and valuable. Nor does their fairness make them colorless.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 287. Mr. ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 4. and 5.)

+ + =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Flower of France. †$1.50. Harper.

Simplicity, steadfastness, and a tender human sympathy characterize
Mr. McCarthy’s Maid of Orleans. She is the same Joan of dreams and
visions that history portrays her, the unyielding warrior who fights
the dauphin’s cause because of a direct command from her God, yet as
she rides forth in her shining armor, she is after all the Maid whom
Lahire loves and not the fanatic whom the evil Cauchon sent to the
stake. She is a heroine who might have yielded to the entreaties of
her lover had she not impersonally espoused the high and divinely
directed cause of her country’s good—higher than which is no other
allegiance.

* * * * *

+ – =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 320w.

“Mr. McCarthy has been uncommonly successful in reproducing the life
of that distant century.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 694. Je. 9. 240w.

“One sees all too plainly throughout the volume the earmarks of
prospective dramatisation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 24: 120. O. ’06. 190w.

“The story is a fairly good one of its kind, but it has no reason for
existence.”

+ – =Critic.= 49: 91. Ag. ’06. 70w.

“We need not waste much time on a production that exhibits such
appalling vulgarisms as ‘won out’ and ‘downed all opposition’ and is
cheaply sentimental or sensational from first to last.” Wm. M. Payne.

– =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 110w.

“He has been lifted up, as a literary artist, out of pagan piety, and
pretty glamour of words that have characterized his other books into a
region of sterner spirituality and courage. This gives the story a
gravity and power which his novels have always lacked in spite of
their charm.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 516. Ag. 30, ’06. 1060w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 120w.

“Sufficiently well written to be very pleasant reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 355. Je. 2, ’06. 490w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.

“A graceful, pleasantly written story.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 766. Jl. 28, ’06. 70w.

“On the whole, the effect of the book is to bring out the merits of
Mr. Andrew Lang’s historical novel of the same period.”

– =Sat. R.= 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 240w.

=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.

Pure romance, with a proper alloy of adventure is found in this story
of the two O’Hagens, the twin brothers whose swords were always ready
to defend their honor and fair ladies. Dorothea, the unhappy wife of a
dissolute prince of an eighteenth century German principality, has as
a child played at love in a garden with one of the brothers and this
old memory calls them both to her side where amid court intrigue and
the clash of swords one wins happiness and the other dies a good
death.

* * * * *

“Mr. McCarthy is at his buoyant best.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.

“The story is a pleasant piece of work.”

+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 543. N. 3. 210w.

“Lacks some of the historical interest and the odd situations that
were the strong features of ‘If I were king’ but the new novel has a
touch of the originality of construction which made a success of the
François Villon book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 775. N. 24, ’06. 360w.

“Lightly amusing, but of very little weight or force, is this novel.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 50w.

“It is altogether an admirable historical novel of the lighter type,
written with a jaunty elegance which is most effective.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 617. N. 17, ’06. 90w.

=McCash, Isaac Newton.= Ten plagues of modern Egypt. *$1. Personal help pub.

The ten plagues of modern Egypt herein discussed are divorce,
amusements, municipal misrule, corrupt journalism, lynching, social
impurity, our city carnivals, murder, gambling, and intemperance. A
concluding chapter discusses the civic conscience.

=McCaughan, William J.= Love, faith, and joy. $1. J. Gosham Staats, Chicago.

A group of sermons delivered in the Third Presbyterian church,
Chicago.

=McClellan, Elisabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607–1800; with an introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by Sophie Steel. **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.

“The work is, in fact, of great, practical value both to the art
student and to the costumier.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 370. Je. ’06. 470w.

“The letterpress is rather scrappy and disconnected, but it is full of
valuable information derived from undeniably accurate sources, and
occasionally transcribed without acknowledgment.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 336. S. 15, ’06. 360w.

“Very handsome and interesting volume.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: 545. Ap. 7, ’06. 230w.

=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8. Winston.

A connected and chronological record of the commercial, industrial and
educational advancement of Pennsylvania, and the inner history of all
political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838;
illustrated with portraits of over 100 distinguished men of
Pennsylvania, including all the governors, senators, judges of the
courts of today, leading statesmen, railroad presidents, business men
and men of note.

* * * * *

“It will be regarded as a valuable contribution to such a history, a
contribution that no other man could make.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 415. Je. 23, ’06. 140w.

“Throughout his work the element of human interest is strong, its
distinctive characteristics, in fact, being its striking pen-portraits
and its abundance of illustrative anecdote. He shows an evident desire
to be just, and usually writes with such restraint that blame must
yield to admiration.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 250w.

=M’Clymont, Rev. J. A.= Greece; painted by J: Fulleylove; described by the Rev. J. A. M’Clymont. *$6. Macmillan.

These descriptions of Greece have been written by one who has observed
as he travelled, who has read the latest books, and studied Grote and
Mr. Frazer; while the seventy-five colored pictures give some
beautiful views of Athens and all Attica. There is also a sketch map
of Greece and an index.

* * * * *

“Some of the pictures are decidedly pretty, and there are good sky and
cloud effects in many of them; but the ‘tout ensemble’ is not like
Greece. There is also a want of proper distribution in the subjects.
If the author could not supply more than a few scanty observations of
his own, why not have recourse to the dozens of excellent picturesque
books of travel.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 803. Je. 30. 770w.

“One of the finest of the many fine books written about Greece. The
descriptive text is admirably written. There is some thing like chaos
in the spelling of proper names.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 395. Ag. 16, ’06. 640w.

“The artist is indeed thoroughly in touch with his subjects, which
appear to have appealed to him with even greater force than those of
his native land.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 183. D. ’06. 240w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 80w.

“Neither illustrations nor letter press have any right to be put
forward as representing a land among the two or three most interesting
and influential in the whole history of mankind.”

– =Sat. R.= 102: 54. Jl. 14, ’06. 300w.

“The literary portion of this book is something of a disappointment.
The pictures are highly pleasing.”

+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 230w.

=MacCunn, Florence.= Mary Stuart. **$3. Dutton.

A biography, based upon an accurate knowledge of recent developments
along the line of Mary Stuart controversy, “while making no attempt to
give any detailed account of it.” (Lond. Times.) “It does not pretend
to be anything more than a romantic story of a woman told by a
woman.... Mrs. MacCunn looks upon Mary as simply an intensely
passionate woman. So her volume, if not the authoritative book on
Mary, is perhaps one of the most readable that have yet been produced.
Its charm is enhanced by numerous portraits and other illustrations,
which are of the best quality.” (Spec.)

“We have only indicated the attitude of Mrs. MacCunn towards her
heroine: it is candidly historical and perfectly womanly.” Andrew
Lang.

+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1146. N. 4, ’05. 1360w.

“The author had not space enough for controversy, but exhibits
complete balance of judgment. Her narrative is vivid, and avoids
rhetorical pursuit of the picturesque. She is extremely sympathetic.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 569. O. 28. 870w.

“Miss Maccunn ... has subordinated everything else to her main figure,
and the result is a portrait glowing with animation.” Lawrence J.
Burpee.

+ =Dial.= 41: 62. Ag. 1, ’06. 1250w.

“Without omitting any salient facts or distorting any critical
situation, she has written a book which is real biography, and not a
mere contribution to controversy.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 397. N. 17, ’05. 830w.

“Among a host of technical and controversial monographs, it stands out
a simple lively narrative of the remarkable adventures through which
Mary Stuart passed.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 347. Ap. 26, ’06. 460w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 320w.

“Her book is an admirable piece of work, and we think should remain
the standard short history of one of the most familiar of the many
Queens of tears.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 156. Mr. 10, ’06. 400w.

“Her book is well written ... and if her conception of Queen Mary’s
character be correct, it is admirable.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 144. F. 3, ’06. 1040w.

+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 794. N. 18, ’05. 810w.

=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Cowardice court. †$1.25. Dodd.

“Apparently the chief matter [of this tale] is the feud—a paltry
quarrel over some five hundred acres of Adirondack woodland, which the
young American refuses to sell even to a buyer of such distinction as
her ladyship of Baslehurst. Really, however, the chief matter is the
interest the English-bred Penelope takes in the American enemy. The
story goes of itself, runs away with itself almost. There is a storm,
a haunted house, some dog shooting, much trespassing, and more
lovemaking.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 50w.

“Altogether absurd in incident and psychology, but decidedly readable
and engagingly romantic.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 876. Ap. 12, ’06. 70w.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

“Has somewhat too heavy a hand for his slight material.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 28, ’06. 50w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.

=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Jane Cable; il. in col. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.

“‘Jane Cable’ is a love-tale with the strenuous sweep of the Western
metropolis for its atmosphere. The principals of the story are a very
flawless pair who enter the primrose path of romance under promising
auspices. Their roseate dream receives a rude awakening by reason of
certain family revelations which seem to put a blot upon the girl’s
birth and which blast the reputation of the young man’s father. Some
very ugly, tho not uninteresting, characters are brought upon the
scene. Chief among these is the lawyer, Elias Droom, a character
probably suggested by Uriah Heep, but uglier.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“It is interesting to record, from personal observation, that readers
of ‘Jane Cable’ seem to evince the same absorption, the same oblivion
of time and space which a few years ago marked the readers of ‘Beverly
of Graustark.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 248. N. ’06. 410w.

“As a good melodrama should, the story takes hold in the first pages
with a grip that releases the interest only when the problems are all
solved.” Paul Wilstach.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 280. N. ’06. 400w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 90w.

“The characters are fairly well drawn and there is much diversity of
plot and incident.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 290w.

“‘Jane Cable’ is a well-told story, within the limitations of its
class.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 90w.

“Is on the whole the best piece of work he has done.”

+ + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 170w.

=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Nedra. †$1.50. Dodd.

“So farcical a plot demands a light and humorous touch and here the
author fails, for though he gets amusing situations, the treatment of
them is poor, and the dialogue is conspicuously without humor.”

– =Acad.= 71: 526. N. 24, ’06. 210w.

– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 150w.

=Macdonald, Ronald.= Sea-maid. †$1.50. Holt.

Once upon a time the Dean of Beckminster and his prim wife were cast
shipwrecked upon a lone sea island, and when after twenty years a
certain ship’s company were marooned upon the same island they found,
with the Dean and his wife, their beautiful daughter who dressed in
savage garb and was eager to know of a world she had never seen. This
is the setting of a veritable farce-comedy enacted by an English lord,
a commonplace person with whom he has changed names to avoid the
advances of a passée fortune hunter, the ship’s doctor, a girl who is
“good sort,” an actor, and several other people both good and bad. The
book is frankly intended to “draw smile and laugh.”

* * * * *

“There is somethings deliciously attractive in the serious manner in
which he handles the subject.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 205. Mr. 3, ’06. 310w.

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 294. Mr. 10. 280w.

“An uneven book, genuinely amusing in parts, distinctly tiresome
elsewhere.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 285. My. ’05. 270w.

“Of its kind ‘The sea-maid’ is good.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 50w.

“For sheer entertainment this story is one of the best of the year,
and it is by no means devoid of the qualities that appeal to the
literary sense.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 210w.

“Is, in itself a harmless and in parts an entertaining and refreshing
story, showing touches of imagination and of humor; but is none the
less tainted with that peculiar flavor of cheapness—coming perilously
near vulgarity.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 230w.

“The fault of the story is that it mingles the romantic, the
burlesque, and the melodramatic rather indiscriminately.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.

“The book is an ingenious fantasy, and the reader will find that the
time he spends in reading it passes very pleasantly.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 390. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.

=MacDonnell, John de Courcy.= King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and the Congo. *$6. Cassell.

“Though the work has the character of special pleading, still it is
not of the unusually low order of such partisan publications.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 190w.

=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Introduction to the Old Testament. $1.75. Armstrong.

“The style is easy, clear, concise, and fulfills the purpose laid
down. It is a good piece of modern, up-to-date pedagogical work.” Ira
Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.

+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 318. Ap. ’06. 280w.

“To each book of the old Testament he furnishes an introduction which
is written in the free critical spirit characteristic of modern
scholarship, and written, too, with a power to stimulate the interests
of his readers, and satisfy their just and reasonable demands for
information concerning the history and character of writings regarded
by so many as sacred Scriptures.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 102. Ja. 27. 440w.

“The book supplies a recognized need.”

+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 79. Ja. ’06. 40w.

“By its brevity, clearness and interest the book is a good one to
serve as a manual for the student.” L. W. Batten.

+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 74. Jl. ’06. 180w.

“Utterly unfit to be put into the hands of the unsophisticated readers
for whom it is prepared. Hundreds of his statements are either
incorrect or rest upon a very unsubstantial foundation.”

– – =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 377. Ap. ’06. 130w.

“For a readable account of what scholars hold regarding the Old
Testament without discussion of what is still problematical and
uncertain, Professor McFadyen’s treatise can be heartily recommended.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 518. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 280w.

=Macfall, Haldane.= Sir Henry Irving. *$1. Luce, J: W.

A character sketch of Sir Henry Irving, the man, his career and his
art. The volume is illustrated by Mr. Gordon Craig and includes
sketches of Irving in the characters of Robespierre, Macaire, Dubrose,
Badger and others.

* * * * *

“Though a trifle laudatory, Mr. Macfall has produced a lucid portrait
of his subject.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 95. Ag. 16, ’06. 130w.

“In itself the little book, with its excellent paper, admirable
typography, and abundant margins, is attractive and artistic, but as a
tribute to Irving it is in almost all respects insufficient.”

– =Nation.= 83: 35. Jl. 12, ’06. 290w.

“The criticism is pitched in a high key of praise; and is too much a
panegyric to be always valuable as criticism; yet there is much that
is true said about Irving’s excellences.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 470w.

“An extremely interesting character sketch.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 50w.

=MacFarland, Charles Stedman.= Jesus and the prophets; an historical, exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50. Putnam.

“For the ground which it covers, Dr. MacFarland’s book is without
doubt the best popular work on the subject in English, and cannot fail
to be helpful to all students of the Bible who prize exact knowledge.”
William R. Schoemaker.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 128. Ja. ’06. 530w.

“It will stimulate even where it does not carry full conviction.” John
H. Strong.

+ – =Bib. World.= 27: 476. Je. ’06. 880w.

“The design of this book is excellent. Yet we cannot praise the book
unreservedly; the author is well up in the German critics and shows a
tendency to assimilate their conclusions rather too readily. It is
good to know German if one is going to write a book on the Greek
Testament; but it is better to know Greek.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.

+ =Spec.= 95: 1087. D. 23, ’05. 110w.

=Macfarlane, Walter.= Principles and practice of iron and steel manufacture. *$1.20. Longmans.

Written by one who understands teaching, this book is designed
primarily for technical students, metallurgists and engineers.

* * * * *

“It has the advantage of being short and, in general, accurate and
clear. Much of the data has not appeared in print before, but is
evidently taken from personal experience. Of the individual chapters,
those on the puddling process and tool steel are the best, while the
discussion of steel castings and the short chapter on malleable
castings are very far below the general standard.” Bradley Stoughton.

+ + – =Engin. N.= 56: 51. Jl. 12, ’06. 800w.

=MacGrath, Harold.= Half a rogue. †$1.50. Bobbs.

There is a curious mixture of elements in Mr. MacGrath’s new story.
Play writing, municipal politics, social enmity, strikes, and always
love—from beginning to end it is the one quality which leavens sordid
states and makes burdens bearable. Katherine Challoner leaves the
stage to marry John Bennington, Richard Warrington gives up
playwriting to enter politics, and incidentally, to woo Patty
Bennington. A malicious busy-body, who tries to recall ghosts of past
indiscretions, fails, but not until Warrington loses in the mayorality
race. Yet he does win Patty.

=MacGrath, Harold.= Hearts and masks. †$1.50. Bobbs.

“The tale is not so good a story as ‘The man on the box’ but it will
doubtless prove almost as popular.”

+ =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 220w.

Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 22: 633. F. ’06. 370w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 110w.

=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture. $1.50. Bureau of university travel. [Ginn.]

A handbook prepared to accompany a collection of five hundred
reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture.

* * * * *

“What he has done is both too little and too much; and the faults that
have been indicated tend to make any scholar view the book with a
distrust which, on the whole, it does not merit.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 804. Je. 30. 840w.

“The impression made by the book is satisfactory, and it will
undoubtedly be of service, especially to the beginner in the study of
classic art. Mr. von Mach shows a thorough knowledge of his subject,
and there is a pleasing independence of view, although the influence
of the great teachers is plainly seen. There are a number of
typographical errors.” James C. Egbert.

+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 101. Mr. ’06. 790w.

=Outlook.= 83: 688. Jl. 21, ’06. 200w.

=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Outlines of the history of painting, from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.

An arrangement which aims to aid art students in obtaining a
comprehensive view of the whole field of painting. The first part
comprises twenty-eight chronological tables of painters; the second
part, an alphabetical list of artists; the third, a brief account of
the history of painting.

* * * * *

“This should prove a convenient class summary and in general a useful
tabulation of painters and periods.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 100w.

“Another who has helped us the better to understand Greek art,
Professor Edmund von Mach, has published a useful book.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 250w.

=Machen, Arthur.= House of souls. †$1.50. Estes.

“This volume includes some previously published stories, notably ‘The
great god Pan’ and ‘The inmost light,’ which some twelve years since
appeared in ‘The keynote series;’ also ‘The three impostors,’ which we
best remember as a deft derivative from Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian
nights.’ The rest of the items are new, but the same note of horror is
struck with more or less emphasis in all, and with a varying measure
of success.”—Ath.

* * * * *

+ – =Acad.= 71: 136. Ag. 11, ’06. 800w.

“Mr. Machen is a very clever writer—so clever that it seems almost a
pity that he should persistently envelope his talent in cerements of
the bizarre.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 129. Ag. 4. 340w.

“Whatever may be said for the making of gargoyles in general (or
satyrs in particular) as a question of art or of morals, whatever your
own taste may be in such matters, Mr. Machen is a master of his
method.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 578. S. 22, ’06. 700w.

“As regards the execution of the stories, Mr. Machen has style, and a
talent for the fantastic ... but he has not the power of creating
horror.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 117. Jl. 28, ’06. 220w.

=M’Kay, William D.= Scottish school of painting. *$2. Scribner.

“Although Mr. McKay does not succeed in giving any clear definition of
what constitutes the Scottish school, or how it differs from other
schools, his well-written volume is full of interesting details about
the lives and works of Scottish painters, and tells us something,
though not quite enough about the organization of painting in Scotland
since it began to exist at all.”—Lond. Times.

* * * * *

“As a compact and compendious record of the work of painters of
Scottish nationality the book occupies a distinct place in art
history, and its standard of execution is uniformly high.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 246. S. 1. 1700w.

“In a sense this is a pioneer work. It is one which no student of art
should fail to own and to read with great care.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 360w.

“A smaller book dealing with the few leading painters of Scottish
birth and leaving out the nobodies would have been more acceptable.”

– =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 190w.

“We have no hesitation in commending this excellent volume, not only
to the art lover, but also to the student.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 29: 273. S. ’06. 490w.

=Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 220w.

“We turn to his book for a retrospect rather than for a comment upon
the things of to-day. He knows what painting is, he is well acquainted
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=MacKaye, James F.= Economy of happiness. *$2.50. Little.

Dr. Mackaye’s universal panacea for the cure of all ills which man is
heir to is common sense, susceptible to tests which are independent of
the convictions of any man or assemblage of men. Book 1 analyses
common sense to disclose these tests; and Books 2 and 3 treat of the
theoretical and practical technology of happiness.

* * * * *

“A book which deals with the ethical foundations of the subject in a
way that is both novel and profound. In fact the book is a revolution
in philosophy and aims at one in economics. He lays a deeper and safer
foundation for his socialism than Marx laid, and he undermines most
thoroughly the system of ethics upon which the political and economic
dogmas of competition and ‘laissez faire’ have been based.” Ralph
Albertson.

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“Every socialist, sociologist, economist and serious journalist should
examine this book. For the wayfaring man it is perhaps too solid, tho
it is enlivened by brilliant, unforced epigrams and humorous phrases.”

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“It would have been better if he had condensed some and omitted other
parts of the earlier chapters which are unnecessarily long and
discursive.”

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“While the ethical doctrines of this work are thus objectionable,
there is much in its economic scheme for the promotion of social
happiness that is worthy of thoughtful consideration.”

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=MacKaye, James.= Politics of utility: the technology of happiness—applied; being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c. Little.