Chapter 5: deals with Free-will, and offers a strong argument in favor (2)

“The biography within its limits, is a praiseworthy piece of work, and
no doubt will remain the standard English life of the master. The
author’s style is suitable enough to her subject. We cannot, however,
altogether congratulate her on her translations.”

+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1267. D. 2, ’95. 156Ow.

“Valuable as undoubtedly is the painstaking collection of data, the
book is somewhat overweighted by detailed accounts of programs and the
like ... that it is rather difficult for the reader to see Brahms the
man in his proper perspective.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 320w.

“Her work is especially to be commended because she traces the history
of the progress of Brahms’ music in England from 1867 ... down to the
present day.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 360. O. 27, ’05. 950w.

“For readers of Max Kalbeck’s ‘Life of Brahms’ there is not much that
is entirely new in the bulk of Miss May’s pages; but, pending the
translation of that exhaustive work, American admirers will find here
the most complete accessible depository of Brahms lore.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 330w.

“She is a passionate partisan of her subject, who is her hero. There
is no other book in England in which the life of Brahms is so minutely
recorded.” Richard Aldrich.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 1050w.

“Possibly Miss May has succeeded as well as is possible with so
unpromising a subject. But profound musical insight she has not, and
therefore a great part of her two volumes is of no interest to any
living being.”

– + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. N. 18, ’05. 1060w.

“She is far from allowing her admiration for the musician to blind her
to his shortcomings as a man. Miss Florence May’s qualifications for
her task are amply proved by the thoroughness of its execution.” C. L.
G.

+ + =Spec.= 95: 652. O. 28, ’05. 1660w.

=Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough.= Sea-shore life; the invertebrates of the New York coast and adjacent coast regions. $1.20. N. Y. zoological soc. (For sale at N. Y. aquarium.)

The first volume in the “New York aquarium nature series.” “It
describes the marine invertebrates of the region about New York, but
on account of the wide distribution of this species, it is applicable
to the Atlantic coast generally. Like the treatise by Dr. Brooks, this
work is popular in character, and at the same time records the
scientific observations of a professional zoölogist of the highest
standing. It may be used as a reference book for visitors studying the
collections of the New York aquarium.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“Specialists may quarrel with some cases in the author’s nomenclature
or seek more light on some of his statements, but all will agree that
the book is a welcome addition to the literature of the seashore.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 220w.

“He is able to tell what he knows, and to make it interesting, too.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 803. Ap. 5, ’06. 180w.

“A perusal of the text leads to the conclusion that it combines
interest with accuracy in an exemplary degree, and is well qualified
to meet the requirements of the intelligent reader who may yet be
without technical training in zoölogy.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 538. Je. 28, ’06. 440w.

Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 320w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 110w.

“Dr. Mayer has succeeded in the difficult task of presenting in a
readable and popular form a good deal of information regarding the
habits and distribution of the lower marine animals of the coast of
New York and of Long Island.” T. H. Morgan.

+ + =Science=, n.s. 22: 701. D. 1, ’05. 310w.

=Mead, Charles Marsh (E. E. McRealsham).= Irenic theology: a study of some antitheses in religious thought. **$1.50. Putnam.

“Professor Mead has undertaken to discuss some of the fundamental
problems of theology with a view to making clear the ground upon which
a sensible, reverent, and thoughtful Christian of the present day can
stand.... The theological position is that of evangelical
common-sense.... The ‘irenic’ character of the discussion comes from
the fundamental position of the book, that the world of Christian
thought, like the world of natural science, possesses a series of
facts, which abide even though they cannot be wholly understood.” (Am.
J. Theol.) “The principal themes on which he seeks to promote concord
are the immanence and transcendence of God, the humanity and divinity
of Christ, the sovereignty of God and freedom of man, and the various
explanations of the atonement.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“His logic is characteristically keen, his thought and style admirably
direct and lucid. The book is a contribution to critical theology of
seriousness and worth, and is adapted to render useful service to many
students, younger as well as older. It treats of high themes in a
worthy manner, with unfailing concern for clearness of thought,
tolerance of divergent opinion, and inclusive recognition of the
many-sidedness of truth.” James Hardy Ropes.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 551. Jl. ’06. 730w.

“The author’s keenness and argumentative skill must be recognized.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 1226. My. 24, ’06. 230w.

“Whatever dissent at these and other points Dr. Mead’s argument may
elicit the irenic spirit pervading it is auspicious for the larger
ultimate agreement toward which Christian thought is moving on.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ’05. 260w.

=Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett.= Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond; with 24 il. *$3. Dutton.

“The work is more than a merely descriptive narrative of a highly
interesting country and people. It is a valuable commentary upon a
civilization which, by reason of its nearness to Europe and its
historic link with Spain, possesses more than the usual interest for
students of the Orient.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“It will be apparent then, that ‘Life in Morocco’ is something in the
nature of a scrapbook of notes. Upon the whole and in view of the
existence of Mr. Meakin’s triology, we cannot say that the work of
rescuing these papers from their admittedly ephemeral form was
particularly worth doing.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 14. Ja. 6. 350w.

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 270w.

“Barring a few unlucky wanderings into Arabic, its pictures and
impressions, dashed in, it is true, in a broad exclamatory style, are
very vivid, interesting, and substantially correct.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 310w.

“The author loves his subject; he knows it, and though he has already
written three weighty tomes upon Morocco, he yet finds much unknown to
the unswinkt tourist, with which to delight. Perhaps this is the best
of his work upon the Moors and their land. Throughout the book
journalese is veilless and shameless, though in reproducing the
sayings of the people he often reveals that he appreciates their grave
and sententious style.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 79. Ja. 20, ’06. 1840w.

=Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett.= Model factories and villages. $1.90. Wessels.

“Mr. Meakin’s book is divided into two parts, the first section
dealing largely with the elementary efforts made by manufacturers
whose buildings were situated in the centres of cities toward
ameliorating the conditions of light, air, sanitation, dining
facilities, and recreation; and with the efforts, more inherently
successful, of those who had recognized the underlying principle that
cheap land, away from the heart of the city, in a district that might
be suitably surrounded by the homes of the workingmen, was the
essential for real improvement.... The second half of Mr. Meakin’s
book deals with ‘industrial housing,’ and ... illustrates the success
which manufacturers have had, in their various and varied schemes,
toward surrounding their workshops with ideal villages. The whole book
is strongly indicative of the trend towards co-operation that modern
industry is taking.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“Mr. Meakin’s object in this interesting presentation of the efforts
towards ‘ideal conditions of labour and housing’ is frankly
propagandist.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 46. Jl. 8. 520w.

“Contains an immense amount of information, both interesting and
instructive, in regard to the progress made during the past century in
matters referring to the welfare of the laborer and artisan.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 159. Mr. 1, ’06. 300w.

“Mr. Meakin’s book is a very interesting one, and much might well be
said in praise of the painstaking way in which the author has
assembled his material.” Ernest R. Dewsnap.

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 185. Mr. ’06. 560w.

“It will be useful, too, to serious students of economic and
industrial conditions as by far the most comprehensive account of such
institutions that has yet appeared.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 234. Jl. 21, ’05. 740w.

“There is no good reason for the annoying division of the inadequate
index into two parts.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 280w.

“Mr. Meakin has done a most excellent work in showing how the best and
most paying labor is that of healthy and happy workers, and his book
deserves the careful study of all employers.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 433. S. 23, ’05. 1410w.

=Meigs, William Montgomery.= Life of Thomas H. Benton. **$2. Lippincott.

“The biographical appeal of the book does not quite bear the accepted
relation to the historical.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

+ – =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 110w.

=Meiklejohn, John Miller Don.= English language: its grammar, history and literature. *$1.20. Heath.

A revised American edition of Professor Meiklejohn’s work incorporates
into it the latest results of modern scholarship.

* * * * *

“In its present form will be found more valuable than ever before.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 50w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 50w.

=Mencken, Henry Louis.= George Bernard Shaw; his plays. $1. Luce, J: W.

An attempt “to bring all of the Shaw commentators together upon the
common ground of admitted facts, to exhibit the Shaw plays as dramas
rather than as transcendental treatises, and to describe their plots,
characters, and general plans simply and calmly, and without reading
into them anything invisible to the naked eye.”

* * * * *

– =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 100w.

“The writer of the present volume does little more than give us a
résumé of the plays and novels. Mr. Mencken’s English is rather too
colloquial for elegance. Nor can we admire the tone of the
biographical note.”

– =Nation.= 82: 103. F. 1, ’06. 1120w.

“It is well written and informing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 914. D. 23, ’05. 180w.

“It is not necessary to accept the estimate of Mr. Shaw which Mr.
Henry L. Mencken places upon him in this volume in order to get some
value out of his arrangement of Mr. Shaw’s plays, and the opinion
which he gives regarding them.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 323. F. 10, ’06. 110w.

=Menpes, Dorothy.= Brittany. *$6. Macmillan.

“It is a book which would lie gracefully, among other choice and
useless knick-knacks, on any drawing room table.”

– =Acad.= 69: 851. Ag. 19, ’05. 360w.

=Sat. R.= 101: 687. Je. 2, ’06. 1820w.

=Meredith, George.= Works. New pocket ed. 16v. ea. $1. Scribner.

Fourteen volumes of fiction, one of short stories, and one of poems
make up the pocket set of Meredith’s works.

* * * * *

“They are engaging and companionable little books.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 50w.

“It is good to have such books as this and its fellows in convenient
and inexpensive form.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 436. Jl. 7, ’06. 590w.

“The publishers have done well by the novels and by the reader.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 190w.

=Meredith, Owen, pseud. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton).= Letters personal and literary of Robert, Earl of Lytton, (Owen Meredith); ed. by his daughter, Lady Betty Balfour. 2v. $5.50. Longmans.

“The volumes form no crude collection of miscellaneous letters, but an
arranged and orderly display of correspondence that illustrates the
many sides of a most remarkable man.” (Acad.) “Not content with
stringing her father’s letters together with the usual matter-of-fact
commentary, she has thrown into her narrative much literary and
personal feeling.” (Ath.) The letters form an instructive narrative of
the events of his life throwing light upon his literary work, his
diplomatic career, and especially his much discussed policy as Viceroy
of India.

* * * * *

“This is one of the most interesting books of the season. She has
produced a work even more interesting than a ‘Life’ would have been.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 389. O. 20, ’06. 1220w.

“Lady Betty Balfour was not born a Lytton for nothing. She has a
style, and her reading has been wide.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 505. O. 27. 2340w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 349. O. 19, ’06. 2410w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 773. N. 24, ’06. 1590w.

=Sat. R.= 102: 613. N. 17, ’06. 2300w.

=Merejkowski, Dmitri Sergeitch.= Peter and Alexis; tr. by Mr. Herbert Trench. $1.50. Putnam.

“Peter and Alexis” is the last of Merejkowski’s trilogy, “The Christ
and the anti-Christ,” the other two being “The death of the Gods,” and
“The forerunner.” It deals with a purely Russian theme. “While it
incidentally exhibits Russia and all classes and conditions of
Russians at the beginning of the eighteenth century, it centres around
one of the most piteous examples to be found in all history of what is
ever a moving and a piteous theme—the gradual alienation of son from
father, and father from son.... On the one side looms Peter the Great,
the master-worker, building Russia with his own hands; half man, half
were-wolf.... On the other side is Alexis, the weakling, the victim of
fate, naturally affectionate, but utterly inadequate.” The volume
closes with a description of his journey back to Russia and the
horrible death awaiting him.

* * * * *

“It is clear that the translator has spared no pains to reproduce the
difficult, heavily laden atmosphere of the tragedy in which
Merejkowski deals for the first time with a purely Russian theme, and
he appears to succeed admirably.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1314. D. 16, ’05. 380w.

“Of the version itself we can say that it is conscientiously executed
and very readable.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 110w.

“It is a powerfully impressive study of unlovely characters among
revolting conditions.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 130w.

“This work is possibly richer in material than either of its
predecessors, but its construction is so hopelessly chaotic as to
preclude any serious claim to consideration as a work of art.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 460w.

“As a work of art ... measured by its own intrinsic exigencies, it is
defective, tho as a poignant, brutally strong portrayal of character,
and relentless group of big tho elusive forces, it is the performance
of a literary Achilles whose weakness was not in his heel, but in his
head.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 917. Je. 16, ’06. 540w.

“Nothing is so powerful in the book as the character studies.” Stephen
Chalmers.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10, ’06. 450w.

“It is tumultuous, turgid and sometimes prolix, while the rhapsodical
final chapter is all but unintelligible.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 380w.

“Both shocks through its horror, and grips through its power; it is an
eloquent book by a sterling artist.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 757. Je. ’06. 50w.

=Merington, Marguerite.= Captain Lettarblair: a comedy in three acts written for E. H. Sothern; arranged from the prompt book used in the original Lyceum production. $1.50. Bobbs.

An old estate which has brought grief to the hero’s father and which
has been inherited by the heroine without his knowledge, complicates
their love affairs for three acts, and while the heroine is, unknown
to her, pressing the hero for money on an old debt in order that she
may secretly enrich him, the hero in despair and bankruptcy goes off
to India and a rival forges his name and receives the heroine’s gift.
In the course of the clever dialogue all this is gracefully untangled,
and all ends happily for them and for the four minor characters whose
love affairs furnish much humor thruout the play.

* * * * *

“Already a little old-fashioned in the ingenuousness of some of its
devices, ‘Captain Letterblair’ yet retains much of the freshness and
buoyancy that made it the success of a season nearly fifteen years
ago.”

+ – =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 100w.

“The play reads well and its cleverness is as scintillating in print
as it is in spoken words.”

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 40w.

=Merington, Marguerite.= Scarlett of the mounted. †$1.25. Moffat.

“The reader will be interested in this northern mining district
which ‘contains an unsurveyed number of square miles and crooked
inhabitants,’ according to ‘Scarlett of the mounted,’ who has come
with the law behind him to establish some kind of order. The
heroine of the story is the daughter of an old miner, a
supercilious young lady decidedly bettered by her sojourn at the
mines. And the plot is brought to a happy ending after various
ingenious complications.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“It would be misleading to say that the story is one for mature minds,
for the plot is extremely harmless.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 565. S. 15, ’06. 310w.

“A fairly good story.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 160w.

“Miss Merington’s skit fails to convince. Still, it is written
light-heartedly, and that is something.”

– + =Putnam’s.= 1: 319. D. ’06. 100w.

=Merriam, George Spring.= Negro and the nation; A history of American slavery and enfranchisement. *$1.75. Holt.

Strong pro-negro feeling is shown thruout this volume, which beginning
with the growth of slavery in America, traces the history of the black
race in our country down to the present day. All the events in our
national life which had to do with slavery are carefully considered,
while chapters are devoted to the leading men both white and black
whose influence has helped to mold the black man’s destiny. It is a
comprehensive study, written in an interesting style and leading
logically up to the conclusion that the solution of the race problem
lies in dealing with each man according to his merits, regardless of
color, and leaving the ultimate relation of the races to nature and
the sovereign powers.

* * * * *

“The author’s general knowledge of ordinary historical facts seems, on
the whole, adequate, but some mistakes have crept in. The negro is
present only as a lay-figure. The style is terse and interesting, and
the book has a good index.” Carl Russell Fish.

+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 903. Jl. ’06. 650w.

“That tendency to idealize the negro which has been the bane of almost
every northern writer on the negro question since the publication of
‘Uncle Tom’s cabin,’ is not wholly absent from this book, in spite of
its sane and judicious spirit. On the whole, however, the book is to
be commended as another evidence that the time has arrived when the
negro question can be approached by writers in both sections in an
impartial and scientific spirit.” Charles A. Ellwood.

+ + – =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 274. S. ’06. 340w.

“The treatment of reconstruction is at once the freshest and most
systematic part of the book.” H. Paul Douglass.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 349. S. ’06. 630w.

“A history of the growth of the negro problem distinguished throughout
by fairness.”

+ =Critic.= 43: 471. My ’06. 100w.

“This real value lies in the new point of view from which the negro is
studied.” W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 294. My. 1, ’06. 730w.

“The historical portion of the work is decidedly open to criticism.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 210w.

“It does not approach the degree of completeness which severe
condensation might accomplish, even within the limit of its four
hundred pages, nor is it to be followed safely either in its
statements of facts or in its estimates of men and events.”

– + =Nation.= 82: 248. Mr. 22, ’06. 1140w.

“The last fifty pages will be of most interest to the reader who
desires to enlighten himself upon the negro question as it is with us
today.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 970w.

“The author, who studies his subject almost altogether from the
historical standpoint, has not, it is true, grasped his opportunity in
all its fulness. Nor is his narrative wholly exact. But it is so vivid
and forceful, and the point of view maintained is so essentially just
as to carry conviction and prepare the reader for candid consideration
of the ameliorative suggestions proffered in the closing chapters.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 87. S. 8, ’06. 1680w.

“Considering that the author so seriously endeavors to give an
impartial treatment, to maintain a fair attitude, one regrets that he
did not see fit to base his work upon a thorough investigation of the
subject.” Walter L. Fleming.

– + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 703. D. ’06. 1190w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 140w.

“The criticisms which may be made upon this volume are concerned
largely with the proportionate attention given to different topics.
Although, therefore, the volume is not a new study and brings no new
facts to our notice, it deserves careful attention because of the
impartial way in which the author has gathered the facts and told the
story.” Carl Kelsey.

+ – =Yale R.= 15: 216. Ag. ’06. 620w.

=Mertins, Gustave F.= Storm signal. $1.50. Bobbs.

“Is an intensely dramatic and exciting story of a negro uprising in
the South. Is a work that is bound to foment racial hatred and to
arouse the evil passions of both whites and blacks. Its influence
cannot be other than unfortunate.” Amy C. Rich.

+ – =Arena.= 35: 333. Mr. ’06. 260w.

“Mr. Mertins, in fact, comes very near being a real novelist. The
artist has used the problem to make his drama, and has not made his
drama to exploit the problem.” H. I. Brock.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 103. F. 17, ’06. 1010w.

“While his work is far from convincing, it is of value in laying
emphasis on aspects of the question which the advocates of municipal
ownership are prone to forget.”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 240w.

=Merwin, Samuel.= Road builders. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 45. Ja. ’06. 360w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 228. Ja. 25, ’06. 190w.

=Merzbacher, Gottfried.= Central Tian-Shan mountains, 1902–1903: published under the authority of the Royal geographical society. *$3.50. Dutton.

The scientific geographer supplements the work of the earlier
travellers by filling in, corroborating, and correcting their
information. Such a work is this which appeals especially to the
student of geology and glaciers. The author says “In this
[preliminary] report I have endeavoured more particularly to embody
observations on the present and past glacier conditions of the
Tian-Shan, and on peculiarities in the physical features of its valley
formations; subjects to which, throughout the expedition, my attention
was especially directed. On the other hand, in order not to give the
report a compass which would retard its publication, botanical,
zoological, and climatological observations will have to be almost
wholly omitted.”

* * * * *

“A defect of the volume is the transliteration of native names.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 267. Mr. 3. 1700w.

“Doctor Merzbacher’s book, preliminary report though it be, [is] one
for the specialist rather than for the general reader.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 2. Ja. 5, ’06. 730w.

“The book is a contribution of importance to the literature of the
mountains, and fills a great gap in mountain geography.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 394. My. 10, ’06. 440w.

“Is a worthy record of scientific work carried out under great
difficulties. The author is to be warmly congratulated.”

+ + =Nature.= 73: 227. Ja. ’06. 1030w.

“The geological detail is so generally diffused on most pages and the
treatment of the subject is so largely technical that the book lacks
desirable elements of popularity. Dr. Merzbacher’s first-rate piece of
work has set the standard high for later explorers, and his book is
worthy of the scientific labors which he carried out under such trying
circumstances.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 640w.

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 190w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 560. My. 5, ’06. 810w.

+ + =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 200w.

=Metcalf, H. B.=, comp. Gems of wisdom for every day. **$1. McClurg.

For each day in the year the compiler has chosen a quotation culled
far from the beaten paths of his predecessors and the result is an
attractive little volume of interesting and more or less “unfamiliar
quotations.”

=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.

“The present translation of Prof. Metchnikoff’s work has been
admirably carried out by Mr. Binnie.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 363. Mr. 24. 1120w.

“It will be popular, too, for it contains important details in the
history and development of the most interesting chapter in modern
pathology.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 110. Ja. 11, ’05. 800w.

“His marshalling of the multitudinous details is masterly and so lucid
that any one who knows the meaning of the words can follow it with
ease. And these qualities are enhanced by the true scientific spirit
and scrupulous fairness with which arguments are handled.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 194. My. 25, ’06. 800w.

“The volume is fascinating reading, and any one who first dips into it
will in all probability do more, and study it deeply. It forms a
complete statement of the phagocytic hypothesis, and a masterly
summary of the whole subject of immunity up to 1902.” R. T. Hewlett.

+ + + =Nature.= 75: 99. N. 29, ’06. 480w.

“The book is a classic and we owe the translator a heavy debt for
making it an English one. We can give him no higher praise than by
affirming that there is nothing in the diction of the text to suggest
its alien origin.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 173. Ag. 11, ’06. 1900w.

=Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Government regulation of railway rates; a study of the experience of the United States, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“Very one-sided and, so far as our railway conditions come into
consideration, often absolutely untruthful representations.” A. v. d.
Leyen.

– – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 683. Mr. ’06. 4400w.

“Unfortunately the author is temperamentally a doctrinaire and an
advocate. His book evinces a great amount of study, but the results of
his labor are greatly injured by the author’s unscientific spirit.”
Emory R. Johnson.

– + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 186. Jl. ’06. 1210w.

“Mr. Meyer’s book fully deserves first rank among the plentiful
literature now appearing in behalf of the railway side of the
rate-regulation controversy.”

+ – =Arena.= 36: 103. Jl. ’06. 2180w.

“Despite the wealth of erudition paraded in the footnotes, the
cautious reader puts the treatise down, unsatisfied, incredulous.”
Winthrop More Daniels.

– + =Atlan.= 97: 847. Je. ’06. 410w.

“As a statement of the difficulties of government rate-making the book
could hardly be excelled; but as a treatment of the whole problem of
railway rates it has notable weaknesses.”

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 281. F. 1, ’06. 710w.

“The author has produced a remarkably clear and forcible book upon a
very involved and difficult subject. The boldness of his opinions and
the vigor of his criticisms will very likely bring down upon his head
the denunciation or more than one person to whom his opinions are
politically distasteful, but it will be much easier to denounce him
than to answer him.” Blewett Lee.

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 49. Ja. ’06. 2030w.

“His statements are supported by a formidable array of statistics, and
while it is obvious that he has overlooked or inadequately considered
some of the vital points at issue, his book is useful if only for
calling attention to certain objections which the advocates of
municipal ownership are for their part prone to forget, but which must
be met.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’96. 190w.

“Notwithstanding the hard work which the volume embodies, the final
verdict must be that it is the plea of the advocate, not the
deliverance of the impartial judge.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 204. Mr. 8, ’06. 1100w.

“The book adds nothing to the theory of transportation. Its only
service is in its statement of the problem.” Henry C. Adams.

+ – =Yale R.= 14: 417. F. ’06. 1720w.

=Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Municipal ownership in Great Britain. **$1.50. Macmillan.

The second of a series of four books on public regulation of industry.
The object is “to show how deplorably belated is Great Britain with
regard to street car traction and electric lighting in comparison with
the United States; to condemn all who have been directly or indirectly
connected with municipal ownership in England; and to glorify company
control of public utilities as it exists in American cities.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“However much one may differ from the conclusions reached in this
book, every student of the subject must feel indebted to the author
for the clear summary and quotation which he has given of the opposing
arguments urged at each stage of legislation and the changes that were
made from time to time in the laws and their execution, and for his
interesting statistical comparisons between English and American
developments.” Edward W. Bemis.

+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 351. S. ’06. 1360w.

“Notwithstanding that partisanship, the weakness of some of his
arguments and the many phases of the subject which he leaves
untouched ... we commend Professor Meyer’s book to all who wish to
look at the other and generally unpopular side of municipal
ownership. It is certainly a notable addition to the short list of
anti-municipal-ownership books.”

+ – =Engin. N.= 56: 181. Ag. 16, ’06. 780w.

“It is so obviously a long-distance view, that a reading of Mr.
Meyer’s book suggests that he has never been in England or Scotland.
Mr. Meyer shows himself ignorant of English municipal history.”

– =Ind.= 61: 39. Jl. 5, ’06. 1160w.

“If intellectual tolerance is not one of the merits of the book, moral
earnestness is; and the work is one that cannot be lightly answered.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 340w.

“Mr. Meyer sets himself a task, and it has been performed once for all
it seems to us.” Edward A. Bradford.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 532. S. 1, ’06. 1980w.

“It is mainly historical, and will be found a useful compilation by
those who wish to know the legislative and administrative course of
events.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 170w.

=Meynell, Everard.= Giovanni Bellini. $1.25. Warne.

A late addition to the “Newnes art library.” The author says that
Bellini “was fortunate in his age.... The years spanned by his life
spanned most significant years in the history of painting, and, riding
as he did on the crest of the wave of change and development, his work
is the illustration and commentary of sixty pregnant years.” It is the
analysis of these forces as they became an integral part of artists’
expression that the author deals with.

* * * * *

“Has all of the good qualities in its sixty-five illustrations and
clear text that have placed its companions on so firm a basis.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 40w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 310w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9, ’06. 260w.

=Michelson, Miriam.= Anthony Overman. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“The community, the editorial office, labor, capital, the reformer,
the journalist, the ‘essentially feminine’ woman, the doctor, the
striker, the scab.... This is the inventory of the chief comments of
‘Anthony Overman.’ The hero is a renascent Daniel Deronda, with a
modern as well as a racial difference; the heroine a ‘yellow woman
journalist.’ Such elements must needs strike fire when they meet,
and the story deals with their interaction and final ...
reconciliation.... The way of the altruist is to talk pages about
himself, and Anthony is no exception; but he is a fine embodiment of
the passion for doing good and of the suffering over others’
pain.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“There is slight spontaneity in the telling of the story; the fun is
feeble; the slang is dreary. Miss Michelson has done better work and
we trust that she will do so once again.”

– =Bookm.= 24: 179. O. ’06. 430w.

“One of the most original of recent novels. Its characteristic is a
determination to see things as they are. The point of view is
saliently modern, not boastfully so; felt naturally not thrust out as
a rock of offence.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 250w.

“Not dull as a story and decidedly edifying as a study.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 544. S. 1, ’06. 550w.

“All of the characters are superficial and paper-y—and dull.”

– =Putnam’s.= 1: 319. D. ’06. 240w.

=Michelson, Miriam.= Yellow journalist. †$1.50. Appleton.

Miss Michelson’s San Francisco heroine is quite as much a girl of
mettle as was Nancy of “In the bishop’s carriage.” The “gay,
emotional, unscrupulous little girl-reporter, listening at doors,
lying, cheating, keen as a rat terrier, looks upon life as war. She
bows to a code of strictly professional ethics, but it sanctions
behavior of which you cannot approve.” (Atlan.) “Her quest for ‘copy’
brings her into intimate relations with public and private scandals,
family quarrels, divorce cases, and murders. The unscrupulous methods
which she pursues in the attempt to score a ‘beat’ for her paper are
hardly less repellent than the details of the cases themselves.”
(Outlook.) In the end she “gives it all up to marry the reporter that
she had always secretly admired, although professionally they were at
swords’ points.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“Miss Michelson is as popular, as ‘catchy’ as ragtime.” Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 210w.

“There are just a few writers who have succeeded in reducing to paper
the atmosphere of a newspaper office ... and Miriam Michelson must be
numbered among them.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 22: 373. D. ’05, 250w.

“Miss Michelson is possessed of a very vivacious and snappy style,
that may make her work entertaining to those who can stand yellow
journalism unexcused by daily news.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 60w.

+ =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 140w.

“A clever, readable story.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 100w.

=Mifflin, Lloyd.= Collected sonnets of Lloyd Mifflin; revised by the author. *$2.60. Oxford.

+ – =Acad.= 70: 60. Ja. 20, ’06. 70w.

“Contains three hundred or more pieces of unusual merit.” P. H. Frye.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 94. Mr. ’06. 280w.

“There can be no doubt, in the presence of this collection, that he
has given proof of a true poetic gift, and made a considerable
contribution to American literature.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 460w.

“Sonnets of a very high order of merit—a remarkable exhibition for any
poet.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 517. Mr. 1, ’06. 130w.

“The most fertile and workmanlike sonneteer of the day.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

=Mifflin, Lloyd.= My lady of dream. *75c. Oxford.

A volume of love lyrics of fragile charm, also a number of sonnets, in
all of which the author has “sought to apostrophize in an elusive way
that Spirit which has ever been very dear to me and at whose feet I
have offered many years of my life.”

* * * * *

“The author does better with the stately movement of the sonnet than
with the freer utterance of song. He has not the gift of liquid
melody, whatever others he may have.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 290w.

“A collection of love lyrics informed with that pleasantly sentimental
fluent lyricism with which Mr. Mifflin’s readers are familiar.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. 16, ’06. 90w.

=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Chatwit, the man-talk bird; il. by the author. †$1.50. Harper.

“The book purports to tell the tale of a talking magpie, ‘whose
loosened tongue and human inclinations gat wrath in the breasts of the
West-land animals,’ and of course that wrath engendered ten thousand
woes, and sent many souls of brave birds and animals across the Styx
before their natural time.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Rather different from the ordinary animal story.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 40w.

“We should hardly be willing to put the present volume in the hands of
a child without impressing upon his mind emphatically the fact that
real birds and animals never, never act as here represented.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 300. Ap. 12, ’06. 170w.

“Children will find it captivating.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 720w.

=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Crystal sceptre. †$1.50. Harper.

A young American while on a balloon-trip meets with an accident which
leaves him on an unknown island among an unheard-of race of black
creature whom he dubs “missing links.” His battles with ourangs, his
tiger hunt with poisoned arrows of his own manufacture, his discovery
of “the goddess,” and the perils incident to his fleeing with her back
to civilization can satiate a large adventure appetite.

* * * * *

“This is a glorified dime novel of the blood-and-thunder genre. Will
prove none the less interesting to the audience which the book aims to
reach.”

– + =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 250w.

“An exciting tale of ingenious fashioning.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 320w.

“Will prove decidedly entertaining to the average boy.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 90w.

=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Dunny: a mountain romance. †$1.25. Harper.

Sylvia Weaver, to pay a debt of gratitude to a mountaineer who had
been a benefactor to her and her brother Dunny, crosses the continent
from the east to the Sierras to wed the man. Her only picture of him
is constructed from an almost ancient photograph and a package of
letters. This story tells of her heart struggles to render justice to
Jerry Kirk and to crush her love for his rival. It tells also of
Jerry’s big-hearted renunciation and heroism; while Dunny with
child-like buoyancy is the central spirit and peacemaker.

* * * * *

“The story has its vein of humor, too.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 70w.

=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Ultimate passion: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.

“With some rawness of execution, Mr. Mighels, in ‘The ultimate
passion,’ shows welcome vitality, and also introduces a real
innovation.” Mary Moss.

+ – =Atlan.= 97: 45. Ja. ’06. 120w.

=Miles, Henry.= Later work of Titian. $1.25. Warne.

“This one volume in a series of twenty on painters past and present,
contains sixteen pages of sanely written comment, description, and
biography concerning Titian, preceded by a photogravure frontispiece
and followed by sixty-four full-page half-tone illustrations.... Here
the author has written modestly and directly, but the half-tones fall
below the average level.”—Critic.

* * * * *

“Quite a find to the man looking for quantity rather than quality in
reproductions of Titian’s work.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 100w.

=Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 310w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 120w.

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 332. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.

=Militz, Annie Rix.= Primary lessons in Christian living and healing. $1. Absolute press.

A text-book of healing by the power of truth as taught and
demonstrated by the Master. The book is not purely a Christian science
study.

=Mill, Hugh Robert.= Siege of the South pole. **$1.60. Stokes.

The latest issue in Dr. J. Scott Keltie’s “Story of exploration
series.” The author tells of the beginnings of speculations by the
ancients concerning this section of the world, and, follows the thread
of exploration thru the ages down to the twentieth century. All the
attempts to reach the South Pole are recorded from Captain Cook in
1775 to Nordenskjöld in 1903.

* * * * *

“Dr. Mill’s book does for Antarctic exploration what General A. W.
Greely’s ‘Handbook of Arctic discoveries’ does for the history of
exploration at the North pole, and that it does equally well.” H. E.
Coblentz.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 490w.

“It is convenient for reference and also very readable as narrative of
heroic endeavors and many failures.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 100w.

“A book that deserves wide circulation.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 110w.

“His book is not only a larger monument of learning but also a more
entertaining composition than the works on the same topic of Herr
Fricker and Mr. Balch.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 440. D. 15, ’05. 740w.

“Of its substantial accuracy there can be no doubt.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 384. My. 10, ’06. 530w.

“The book is as interesting as it is instructive.” J. W. G.

+ + =Nature.= 75: 103. N. 29, ’06. 890w.

“There is an inevitable monotony to the book, which will limit its
reading to scientific readers in great part.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 80w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 622. Ap. 21, ’06. 1110w.

=Mill, John Stuart.= Subjection of women; new ed.; ed. with introductory analysis by Stanton Coit. *40c. Longmans.

“John Stuart Mill’s argument against ‘The subjection of women’ has
unfortunately not yet become needless, and is reprinted in cheap form,
with an introduction by Stanton Colt to serve as a weapon in the
present conflict.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“The present editor has prefaced to the essay a lucid analysis that
will be of service to the reader, who, without it, might have some
difficulty in following the course of thought which frequently, almost
imperceptibly, glides from one point of view to another.”

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 264. My. 06. 340w.

=Ind.= 60: 1648. Je. 28, ’06. 30w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 110w.

=Millar, A. H.= Mary, queen of Scots. *$1. Scribner.

“The book is, in the main, a careful and not too detailed presentation
of facts.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 170w.

=Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax.= New Far East; an examination into the new position of Japan and her influence upon the solution of the far eastern question, with special reference to the interests of America and the future of the Chinese empire. **$1.50. Scribner.

Mr. Millard “would lead us to feel that the Japanese have been
overrated; that they have received too much sympathy, especially from
America; that they need now not sympathy, but cold scrutiny; that they
are an increasing commercial menace to our trade with Asia; that in
the administration of Manchuria they will not accomplish what might
have been done by Russia; finally, that in China they have been behind
the American boycott, and were the secret instigators to the
opposition manifested towards the American construction of the
Canton-Hankau railway.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 360w.

“Of the many books and papers that have been published lately on the
present topic, none can compete with this one in interest or as a
course of intelligent information and temperate opinion upon what is
undoubtedly one of the great crises in the history of mankind.”

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 696. Ag. ’06. 1360w.

“He appears throughout to write with judicial freedom from
partisanship, and aims to fortify his conclusions by a fair statement
of what can be said on both sides of controverted questions.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 130w.

“There is hardly one word of Mr. Millard’s comment on the treatise
that commands assent. Any such argument as that which Mr. Millard puts
forth is unworthy of serious attention.”

– – =Nation.= 83: 103. Ag. 2, ’06. 900w.

“The author does not often leave the reader in doubt concerning his
meaning; but in numerous instances the phrasing might have been
improved.” George R. Bishop.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 517. Ag. 25, ’06. 3020w.

“Mr. Millard’s book is timely because Americans need to have their
eyes wide open as to what is going on in the Far East, but his
criticisms will seem to many unjustly prejudiced.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 39. S. 1, ’06. 610w.

=Sat. R.= 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 180w.

=Miller, Cincinnatus Heine (Joaquin Miller, pseud.).= Building of the city beautiful. **$1.50. Brandt.

In form this work is “a romance embodying the author’s visions of the
city of God that is to be, for the realization of which Jew and
Christian join heart and hand. In substance it is a sketch of the
social Utopia which in the coming age will be based on Jesus’
foundations, as given in the Lord’s Prayer and the Sermon on the
Mount.... The spiritualized affection of a noble man for the noblest
of women ... runs through the whole, and ‘the City beautiful’ at last
appears in form as transcendently ideal as that in the Apocalypse.
Taken as a whole, this work, whose chapters are each introduced by an
appropriate poem, is a prose poem on the evil that is, and the good
that is to come.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Considered as a romance of love and service, this story is as unique
in literature as it is fascinating in its influence over the cultured
imagination. To us no social vision has yet appeared that is so
profound in its philosophy, so rich in most vital truth, as this
master-creation of our poet of the Sierras.”

+ + =Arena.= 34: 654. D. ’05. 4030w.

=Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 50w.

=Dial.= 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 330w.

=Ind.= 60: 1045. My. 3, ’06. 290w.

“The contents do not live up to the title of the little volume.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 129. Mr. 3, ’06. 200w.

“A work which in thought and art shows its author at his best.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 519. Mr. 3, ’06. 180w.

“A thought-provoking volume, written in Joaquin Miller’s best style.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 60w.

=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= Saul of Tarsus; a tale of the early Christians; with il. by Andre Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.

Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome and Damascus furnish a setting for this
tale of the days following the crucifixion. Saul of Tarsus, Stephen,
Agrippa and the emperors Tiberius and Caligula are drawn with a touch
faithful to the thought, manners and customs of the times and
enlivened by the author’s vigorous imagination.

=Miller, James Russell.= Beauty of kindness. **50c. Crowell.

A thoughtfully written and charmingly illustrated study of kindness.

=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Christmas-making. **30c. Crowell.

A little volume in the “What is worth while” series. Mr. Miller makes
an appeal for the right sort of Christmas observance in the heart and
in the home.

=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Heart garden. *65c. Crowell.

Dr. Miller’s message on the subject of the heart garden makes a plea
for keeping the human heart clear of weeds and full of sweet and
beautiful plants and flowers.

=Millet, Jean Francois.= Drawings of Jean Francois Millet: 50 facsimile reproductions of the master’s work with an introductory essay by Leonce Benedite. *$20. Lippincott.

Fifty of Millet’s drawings reproduced in photo-lithography by the
Hentschel-colortype process place within the reach of artists and
students examples of a great master’s work at a moderate price. “This
half-hundred of drawings confirms the reiterated proof that it was not
the indignant fire of a prophet that burned in Millet, but the
steadfast warmth of a brother of men. The introduction by Léonce
Benedite sums this clearly and gracefully. It is well, too, to place
the work, as has been done here, with regard to contemporaries and to
remind us that Millet excelled by worth, not novelty.” (Int. Studio.)

* * * * *

“A book of drawings such as this offers ... a better opportunity of
understanding Millet’s genius than is to be found in the study of his
paintings, and an opportunity, moreover, still needed, for Millet,
with all his reputation, has not had the study he deserves.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 447. O. 13. 2280w.

“A volume that can fitly be described as distinguished. With fine
appreciation, the exceptional figure of the master is set before the
reader, special attention being given to his relation to the ideals
current in his day.” Frederick W. Gookin.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 383. D. 1, ’06. 1200w.

“M. Benedite has dealt with his material in such a manner as to invest
even hackneyed details with fresh charm, for he calls up many a vivid
picture of Millet at every stage of his career, as well as of those
amongst whom his lot was cast.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: 363. O. ’06. 440w.

“The publication carries the stamp of authentic value.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D ’06. 350w.

“The frontispiece represents the famous ‘Angelus’ and quite fails to
translate its proper colors. As to the other plates, one feels as if
the originals were before one. This is one of the finest art books of
the season and is all the more welcome because Millet is better known
by his oils than his drawings yet in them we seem to get closer to the
man and the purposes that guided him in art.” Charles de Kay.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 886. D. 22, ’06. 440w.

=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Gale, Henry Gordon.= Laboratory course in physics for secondary schools. 40c. Ginn.

The fifty carefully arranged experiments which fill this little volume
have been chosen with two aims in view, to make a continuous and
inspiring laboratory study of physical phenomena; and to reduce
apparatus to its simplest possible terms and yet to present a thoro
course in laboratory physics. The experiments do not presuppose any
previous study of the subject involved, or any antecedent knowledge of
physics.

=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achæmenides and Israel: being a treatise upon the antiquity and influence of the Avesta, delivered as university lectures. *$4. Open ct.

The first half of his book is given to a study of the Old Persian
inscriptions as compared with those sections of the Bible concerned
with the proclamation of Cyrus for the rebuilding of the temple at
Jerusalem. The second half of the volume is devoted to the Avesta and
its influence on the Jews of the exile. The final section discusses
the debt of Judaism to the Avesta.

* * * * *

“Professor Mills’s book is the best study on the spiritual life of the
Achaemenians which has so far been written. In a work so admirable it
may seem ungracious to call attention to faults of detail, yet it must
be said that the English style of Professor Mills’s book is not easy
reading. Occasionally, also, there is a statement which is open to
question.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 189. Ag. 30, ’06. 790w.

“Is a valuable essay in comparative religion.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 230w.

=Mills, (Thomas) Wesley.= Voice production in singing and speaking, based on scientific principles. **$2. Lippincott.

The results of a life study of the voice are set forth here, and they
emphasize the author’s belief that practice and principle should be
combined in successful voice development. Vocal physiology, breathing,
and larynx and the laryngeal adjustment, registers, fundamental
principles underlying voice production, elements of speech and song
and physical and mental hygiene are among the phases of the subject
presented.

=Mills, Weymer Jay.= Caroline of Courtlandt street. **$2. Harper.

– =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.

=Mills, Weymer Jay.= Ghosts of their ancestors; il. by J. Rae. †$1.25. Fox.

“Its pages are redolent of the old-time flavor of the
eighteenth-century Gotham in which its scenes are laid; and if its
author has not fully availed himself of the opportunity afforded by
his pleasing conceit of summoning the ghosts of long-dead
Knickerbockers to advance the love and fortunes of a charming daughter
of the house of Knickerbocker, he has at least written a little tale
calculated to while away an hour or so in most agreeable
fashion.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 110w.

“The story is full of charm of a kind to be felt rather than defined.
The satire is never bitter enough to offend, yet always keen enough to
reach the mark.” Nancy Huston Banks.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 226. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 80w.

=Milyoukov, Paul.= Russia and its crisis. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.

“The work would be much improved for American readers if it could be
re-edited and re-arranged. Although specialized in its treatment it is
altogether too valuable a contribution to English books on Russia to
be left unreadable.” C. E. Fryer.

+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 678. Ap. 16, ’06. 710w.