Chapter XXX: Book 3: of James MacKaye’s “Economy of happiness” is published

separately, in inexpensive form because of its greater popular
interest, the hope being that the reprint may reach a wider circle of
readers than would care for the larger work.

=Mackaye, Mrs. James Steele.= Pride and prejudice: a play founded on Jane Austen’s novel. $1.25. Duffield.

A four-act play founded upon Jane Austen’s eighteenth century novel.

* * * * *

“Few of the peculiar excellences of the book survive in the play, in
which the lack of action, or of anything like real dramatic interest,
until the very end, is only too apparent.”

– + =Nation.= 83: 291. O. 4, ’06. 120w.

“A pleasing play.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 120w.

“So far as the literary side is concerned, Mrs. Mackaye has done her
work well.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 90w.

=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy. **$1.25. Macmillan.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ – =North American.= 182: 753. My. ’06. 170w.

=McKechnie, William Sharp.= Magna carta: a commentary on the great charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“Mr. McKechnie may justly claim to have provided us with a most
adequate commentary on Magna Carta. His notes ... show that he is
widely read in the literature of his subject; and they are admirably
lucid. The book will be the more useful because it is mainly a summary
of the researches and theories of the best modern critics.” H. W. C.
Davis.

+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 150. Ja. ’06. 880w.

“The most detailed and satisfactory examination of Magna Carta.”

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 16. Ja. 4. ’06. 1570w.

=McKim, Rev. Randolph Harrison.= Problem of the Pentateuch. **$1. Longmans.

“Lectures in reply to the ‘higher criticism’ of the Bible.... The
attractiveness of Dr. McKim’s book for the general reader, not
particularly interested in homiletical literature or the disputes of
theology, lies in its well-sustained tone of urbanity and its fairness
to the ‘higher critics.’ Dr. McKim does not hesitate to state their
arguments clearly. His own argument is interesting merely as a
revelation of the theories of the Pentateuch put forth by persons who
deny the inspiration and Mosaic origin of the five books.”—N. Y.
Times.

* * * * *

=Bib. World.= 28. 79. Jl. ’06. 50w.

“Doubtless every serious reader who picks up this book will find that
his curiosity has been aroused rather than that his mind has been set
at rest. But, for its scope, this brief volume is fairly well put
together.”

+ + – =Cath. World.= 83: 833. S. ’06. 510w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 945. Je. 23, ’06. 1540w.

“Despite the pains he has taken in the investigation of these matters,
it cannot be said that he has comprehended the case put forward by
historical criticism.”

– =Nation.= 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 460w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 356. Je. 2, ’06. 340w.

=McKinley, Albert Edward.= Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.

“Mr. McKinley’s book must of necessity become the standard authority
on this subject. The only lack is a bibliography.” Edward Porritt.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 403. Ja. ’06. 1630w.

=MacKinnon, James.= History of modern liberty. set, **$10. Longmans.

“The first volume consists of chapters chiefly on the governmental
institutions of the countries that once formed the Western Roman
empire; the second consists of chapters on the course of the
reformation in England and Scotland, France and Germany, with a brief
chapter of twelve pages on Spain in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. A single chapter on mediaeval political thought ‘in
relation to liberty,’ which closes the first volume, is balanced in
the second by one on the writers on political theory in the sixteenth
century. For the rest, the strict adherence to geographical divisions
forbids an international and comparative treatment, and no continuity
of subject or idea is maintained.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Taken all in all, his book is both readable and instructive. It may
safely be commended to all whose enthusiasm for liberty needs a
stimulant.”

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 876. Jl. ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Had the writer been willing to use more care and restraint, he could
have produced a better book, for he has zeal and industry, a wide
range of interest and knowledge, ambition and ability.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 538. My. 5. 1620w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)

“It may be seriously questioned whether the usefulness if the work
would not have been increased by the topical method of treatment
rather than the chronological. Professor MacKinnon’s style in places
is characterized by lucidity of statement, forcefulness of expression,
and even by brilliancy; but too often the detail which mars his
discussions is dry and prolix.” James Wilford Garner.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 31. Jl. 16, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Dr. Mackinnon has, we fear, somewhat fluctuating ideas as to the
exact scope of his theme. It is the result of much careful study,
especially in French historical literature, and it is marked by a
sanity of judgment and a true love of freedom of which Dr. Mackinnon
desires to be the historian.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 215. Je. 15, ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

“The author is on the whole judicious and scholarly without attaining
real distinction. His book will not add to our sum of knowledge and
will not open new avenues of thought.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 457. My. 31, ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“They contain much of interest and value, but yet they fall short of
what we should wish the story of human liberty to be.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 559. My. 5, ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“The serious defect of the work, however, is that it lacks
organization. The process of the development of liberty is not clearly
delineated. On the whole, the work despite its shortcomings, must be
pronounced a notable one.” George L. Scherger.

+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 219. Ag. ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=McLaws, Emily Lafayette.= Maid of Athens. †$1.50. Little.

A romance based upon Byron’s brief wooing of Lady Thyrza Riga, the
Maid of Athens, whom he immortalized in verse. Count Riga gives his
life for Greece, and Countess Riga rather than fall into the hands of
the Turks slays herself, while the child Thyrza was sent to
Constantinople and was brought up at court by a renegade uncle. Here
Byron found her, and was seriously minded in his love-making, but a
rival Turkish suitor brought disaster through a forged letter. Lady
Thyrza’s death, and later Byron’s passing away at Messolonghi bring
the story to a tragic close.

* * * * *

“Exceptionally well written and giving delightful glimpses of Turkish
and Greek life.” Amy C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 160w.

– =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 120w.

“It cannot be said that Miss McLaws reflects much of the Byronic heat
and light, while her Oriental atmosphere is distinctly of a kind never
made in the East.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 151. Mr. 10, ’06. 310w.

– =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 40w.

“On the whole this is a better piece of work than either ‘Jezebel’ or
‘When the land was young.’”

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 140w.

=MacLean, Frank.= Henry Moore, R. A. *$1.25. Scribner.

“This volume in “The makers of British art” series is a thoroly
workmanlike ‘life,’ narrating the details of Moore’s rather uneventful
career, describing and characterizing all his works of importance and
certainly in its estimate of those works, doing full justice to the
painter—comparatively few of whose pictures have been seen on this
side of the Atlantic. Numerous halftone blocks help to give some faint
idea of the man’s power and versatility in depicting his chosen
theme.... A final chapter touches briefly but illuminatingly on the
work of the few noteworthy painters of the sea with whom Henry Moore
was contemporary—John Brett, Whistler, Claude Monet, Mesdag—and
several lesser British marine artists.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Doubtless will long remain the standard biography of England’s
foremost marine painter.”

+ + + =Ind.= 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 150w.

“An interesting analysis is made of Moore’s work in marine painting.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 320w.

“A sound and unpretentious piece of work which will supply all the
information that the general reader will care for about this
thoroughly competent if not quite great painter.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 138. F. 15, ’06. 90w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 300w.

=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.

From the letters and poems of Byron, written during the most mature
and productive period of his life while under the spell of the Italy
that he loved and that loved him in return, the editor has made wise
selection and she has arranged the chosen parts chronologically, and
illustrated them with sixty reproductions from photographs.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 270w.

=Ind.= 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 120w.

“The alluring title of this book will not disappoint lovers of Byron.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 110w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 90w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 310w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 256. N. ’06. 80w.

=MacManus, Anna (Mrs. Seumas) (Ethna Carbery, pseud.).= Four winds of Eirinn. **75c. Funk.

This posthumous book of verse is indeed a legacy to all who love Ireland. The poems ring with strong-heart energy and anticipation, and in their buoyancy teach fine lessons of loyalty and patriotism to the land of Erin.

* * * * *

“A small but precious volume.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 320w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 80w.

=McMaster, John Bach.= History of the people of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.

Volume six of this history covers the years from 1830 to 1842. Dr.
McMaster discusses affairs under the following headings: Our federal
union, State rights maintained, Social conditions, The election of
1832, Nullification put down. The deposits and the panic of 1834,
Politics at home and abroad, Activity of the abolitionists,
Proceedings of Congress, Speculation and surplus, The end of Jackson’s
term, The panic of 1837, Along our borders, A free press and the right
of petition, Buckshot, Aroostook, and anti-rent war, The log-cabin,
hard-cider campaign and The quarrel with Tyler.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 6.)

“This author has made to general United States history the most
notable original contribution his generation has seen.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 6.)

“With all its faults this history is undoubtedly the best that has
been written of the twelve years. It is a storehouse of fact, and
brings to light a mass of material which will be as useful to the
historian as interesting to the general reader.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 483. D. 6, ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 6.)

“Two objections to this method of treatment naturally arise. The first
is the lack of definiteness, of finality which every great work of
reference ought, in a measure to possess. The second objection, which
may not necessarily inhere in the method of the author is the
preponderant reliance on the debates in congress and the leading
newspaper discussions.” William E. Dodd.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 818. D. 1, ’06. 2870w. (Review of v. 6.)

“His industry in accumulation is greater than his skill in
arrangement. His work lacks in wise adjustment and true perspective.
He is embarrassed by the enormous amount of his material and has not
the courage to omit the non-essential.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 6.)

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 755. D. ’06. 280w.

=McMurry, Charles Alexander.= Course of study in the eight grades. 2v. ea. *75c. Macmillan.

“Our educational machinery has to be made more compact and efficient,
and ... [these two little volumes] tell how it is being accomplished.
The author gives in detail just what ought and can be done in each
grade by a judicious combination of the policies of enriching and
pruning. He is not a man of one idea, but is open-minded and
progressive in all lines. The very full and carefully selected list of
textbooks and side reading for each grade are especially valuable, and
would be a safe guide for school-room libraries.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“[In] chapters devoted to the theory and practice of education ... the
author is so overpoweringly verbose that his meaning is frequently
lost in a cloud of words.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 575. My. 11. 500w.

“It appears to me that the greatest objection to Dr. McMurry’s course
of study lies against the conception that it tends to dissipate the
energies of the pupil, rather than concentrate his mind on a definite
portion of knowledge that constitutes a part of a subject.” James M.
Greenwood.

+ – =Educ. R.= 32: 331. N. ’06. 8000w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

“A very valuable volume.” Frederick E. Bolton.

+ + =School R.= 14: 540. S. ’06. 750w.

=McMurry, Mrs. Lida Brown, and Gale, Mrs. Agnes Spofford (Cook)=, comps. Songs of mother and child. $1.25. Silver.

A collection of about a hundred and fifty poems grouped under the
following divisions: “The mother’s heart,” “Evening songs,” “The
father’s love,” “The child world” “Child pictures,” “Ministry,” “The
empty nest,” “Ideals,” and “The long ago.” The songs are contributed
by about a hundred well-known authors.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 60w.

“The book is so conscientiously edited and so well-arranged that the
gems are easy to find and re-find.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 169. Mr. 17, ’06. 640w.

=Macnaughtan, S.= Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50. Dodd.

“The writer is supposed to be an officer, lamed for life in the Boer
war, who settles down in his own village to get what comfort may be
found in a humdrum existence. After a few pages we are at ease in the
village of Stowel ... and find the match-making and tea-parties
positively exciting.” (Sat. R.) “There are the two Miss Traceys,
models of appropriate deportment; there is Mrs. Lovekin,
self-appointed and embarrassing co-hostess at every tea-table; there
is sweet, faded Miss Lydia Blind, and her sister Belinda, ... there
are Anthony Crawshay, frank and free, and Ellicomb, the ‘artistic;’
there are the Darcey-Jacobs, ... and last, but not least, there are
the Jamiesons, four spectacled young ladies, and Maud, ‘the pretty
one,’ all upon matrimony and good works intent. But all these are
after all, but a screen under cover of which Hugo, our diarist, may
weave a half-unconscious day-dream unobserved.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“The author has succeeded with his heroine as well as with the rest of
his cast.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1289. D. 9, ’05. 250w.

“An unassuming bit of fiction, which possesses a certain quiet charm
quite its own.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 119. O. ’06. 570w.

“A pleasing bit of fiction which does not draw too heavily upon the
reader’s nervous endurance.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 70w.

“The ‘lame dog’ has worked up his diary into a delightful book.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 383. N. 10, ’05. 440w.

“One must read the companionable, pleasant book, warm at the heart
with neighbor feeling and radiant with gentle humor.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 580w.

“The romance glowing beneath the light tone of the diary is delightful
and novel enough to insure the reader’s attention to the end. The
author has a good sense of humor.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 90w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.

“Is refreshing and individual.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 819. D. 23, ’05. 230w.

“One of the shortest and most attractive novels we have read of late
years.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 984. D. 9, ’05. 1420w.

=MacPhail, Andrew.= Vine of Sibmah: a relation of the Puritans. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“The heroine is a beautiful Quakeress, the hero a brave captain in
Cromwell’s disbanded army, and about the two central figures are
grouped King’s men and Roundheads, Puritans and pirates, Quakers and
Jesuits, Indians and soldiers as the scene shifts from old to New
England. To save the reader a tiresome search for the title, ‘The vine
of Sibmah,’ is found in Isaiah, xvi, 8, and is the text of a sermon
preached by Mr. Increase Mayhew as the little fleet led by the
‘Covenant’ started on its voyage to Salem: ‘O, vine of Sibmah, thy
plants are gone over the sea.’”—Ind.

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“The story is something more than readable, although it is long-winded
throughout and drags not a little toward the end. A critic of the more
microscopic sort might pick many flaws in his narrative.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 240. O. 16, ’06. 230w.

“Here is a good historical novel, one of the best since ‘Hugh Wynne,’
by Dr. Mitchell.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 519. Ag. 30, ’06. 160w.

“The lover of historical romance will be glad to illuminate the years
around 1662 by passing through them with Mr. MacPhail’s well-imagined
characters.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.

=Macquoid, Percy.= History of English furniture. 20 pts. 4v. per pt., *$2.50. per v., *$15. Putnam.

“Mr. Macquoid’s work is accomplished with great skill and knowledge.
His chief defect is that he has no apparent philosophy as a setting
for his studies, which would link up the craft of furniture-making
with organic history.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 271. Mr. 3. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Int. Studio.= 28: 275. My. ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Mr. Macquoid’s book, when complete, will find a place in every
library that devotes itself to costly and well-informed monographs.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)

“In fullness of textual descriptions as well as in beauty, variety,
and correctness of plates, Percy Macquoid’s ‘History of English
furniture’ may be considered a variorum edition.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 300w.

(Review of v. 2, pt. 9 and 10.)

=Spec.= 96: 266. F. 17, ’06. 60w. (Review

of v. 2.)

=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Dickens. 60c. Crowell.

A group of Dickens’ children separated from the crowded thorofares of
their story habitat and viewed alone. Oliver Twist, Smike, Little
Nell, Paul and Florence Dombey, Pip, Little Dorrit and David
Copperfield constitute the group.

* * * * *

+ =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 220w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 110w.

=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.

“An admirable and very welcome addition to the literature of the
nursery and schoolroom.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 180w.

=McTaggart, John Ellis.= Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.

“The first chapter of the book sets forth the importance of dogma; in
the second, the establishment of dogma is considered at length. The
third and fourth treat of human immortality and pre-existence.... The
conclusion is reached, that the arguments which may lead us to believe
in immortality also make it probable that we have pre-existed....