Chapter 5: deals with Free-will, and offers a strong argument in favor (3)

“There is no other book in the English language which permits the
reader to penetrate so far into the mysteries of that witch’s kettle
boiling between the Baltic and the Black seas.” Ferdinand Schwill.

+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 579. Ja. ’06. 310w.

“Professor Milyoukov’s book gives an interesting, readable and, in all
but one chapter, a logical, coherent explanation of the Russian
crisis. On this important subject there is no work of equal merit and
authority accessible to English readers.” James T. Young.

+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 441. Mr. ’06. 620w.

“It is difficult to find words strong enough adequately to express the
inestimable value of Professor Milyoukoff’s book for every one
desirous of understanding Russia in the past, the present, and the
future.”

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 57. Ja. 18, ’06. 2500w.

“It affords information not given elsewhere. There are apt comparisons
at various points between Russian and American conditions.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 137. My. 19, ’06. 290w.

“Milyoukov’s book is not particularly well written, and in the opinion
of the reviewer is ill-proportioned; yet it is beyond doubt the best,
most instructive and most authoritative work on Russia ever published
in English.” Vladimir G. Simkhovitch.

+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 527. S. ’06. 1150w.

=Mims, Edwin.= Sidney Lanier. **$1.50. Houghton.

“The story of Lanier’s life is here told simply and sympathetically,
and, so far as possible, by quotations from his own letters or from
the writings of those who knew him intimately. The first third of the
book takes him through his storm and stress period, out of the law
office, and into the serenity that accompanied his settled devotion to
art. The second portion deals with his musical and literary career and
his work as teacher and lecturer, all in Baltimore; while the closing
pages describe the New South, Lanier’s characteristics and ideas, the
last months of his life, with a final chapter giving the author’s
estimate of his achievement as critic and poet.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“The dignity and clearness both of the narrative and of the critical
portions of the book are in pleasant harmony with its spirit. The
volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography.” M.
A. De Wolfe Howe.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 110. Ja. ’06. 670w.

“Mr. Mims, however, has admirably accomplished the task he undertook,
of setting before us a living picture of his friend’s charming
personality.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 101. O. ’06. 780w.

“Is the first complete and adequate life of Lanier.” Jeannette L.
Gilder.

+ + =Critic.= 48: 355. Ap. ’06. 730w.

“The characteristics of this interesting volume are its
picturesqueness, its simplicity, its fulness of detail and its
dispassionate discussion of Lanier’s claims to a permanent place among
our American poets of fame.” W. E. Simonds.

+ =Dial.= 40: 120. F. 16, ’06. 1740w.

“With carefully balanced judgment Professor Mims refrains from
indiscriminate praise.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 109. Ja. 11, ’06. 850w.

“In particular the biography makes a welcome contribution to the
knowledge of his youth and ‘wanderjahre’ and the unfolding of his
gifts and vocation.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 110w.

“The chief tests of a biography are accuracy and charm. The former
this book seems to fulfil; we have not found any misstatement nor
noted any omissions. Charm the book does not possess.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 60. Ja. 18, ’06. 930w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 871. D. 9, ’05. 710w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 250w.

=Mitchell, John Ames.= Silent war. $1.50. Life pub.

“The story deals with a group of multi-millionaires who become the
victims of a socialistic movement—a popular awakening resulting in
such radical measures as blackmail and assassination—and the plot is
complicated by a love affair between one of the money kings and the
daughter of one of the members of the People’s league.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The author somehow fails to rise to the full possibilities of his
theme.”

– =Lit. D.= 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

“The story is interesting and probably will find many readers. It is
to be hoped that it will circulate among people who will regard it as
a story merely and not as a socialistic tract. Its effect on
impressionable Socialists might be harmful.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 210w.

“The book as a whole is an extremely interesting social study, written
with quiet charm but decidedly radical in its suggestion, although the
closing action has none of the quality of a solution in that it falls
back upon individual relationships and special instances.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 682. N. 17, ’06. 290w.

=Mitchell, S. Weir.= Constance Trescot. $1.50. Century.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

– =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 150w.

=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Diplomatic adventure. †$1. Century.

Paris is the scene of this story, the time is that of the Civil war in
America, and the incidents are recorded by a secretary to our legation
in France. The plot is based upon an assumed incident of a stolen
dispatch which fell into the hands of the American minister to France
during the time when the emperor was trying to induce England to
acknowledge the Confederate states as a nation. Besides the narrator
and the American officer are a woman who seeks the protection of a
stranger’s cab and three Frenchmen, nicknamed Athos, Porthos and
Aramis. There are diplomatic mysteries, impulse with prospective duels
to atone for it, and finally a merry issue from all complications.

* * * * *

“It is as an agreeable a book for an idle hour as one could wish.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 70w.

“Dr. Weir Mitchell contrives, as only an accomplished writer could
contrive, to bring into his little novel, mystery, conspiracy,
comicality, diplomacy and romance, with probability enough to keep
unbelief at bay.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 43. My. 24, ’06. 170w.

“A very clever little skit.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 327. My. 19, ’06. 220w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

“The book is not quite up to Dr. Mitchell’s self-imposed standard.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 711. Je. 9, ’06. 100w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 755. Je. ’06. 50w.

=Mitchell, Silas Weir=, ed. Pearl. *$1. Century.

The translation into modern English of a fourteenth-century middle
English lyric.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 120w.

“We could wish that he had given us the whole poem, but this need not
preclude our thanks for his very charming version of the portions that
he thought worthy of translation.”

+ – =Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 130w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 450w.

“This beautiful old poem of the middle English period has never been
translated with so delicate a sense of its tender beauty or with so
much reverence for its spirit.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 300w.

=Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.

=Ath.= 1905, 2: 834. D. 16. 180w.

“But notwithstanding the ‘made-up’ nature of the book, it is very
readable and the illustrations are interesting.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 120w.

“If the present work does not attain to, or claim, much originality,
it is a clever and readable compilation, with something about it, of
the sprightly freshness of Miss Austen’s own work.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 158. Mr. 1, ’06. 350w.

“Miss Mitton has made her book particularly interesting.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 9. Ja. 6, ’06. 1310w.

=Mitton, G. E.= Normandy: painted by Nico Jungman. *$3. Macmillan.

“There seems to be throughout an attempt to imitate Cassier’s with
disastrous results.”

– =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 30, ’05. 200w.

Modern mystic’s way. †$1.25. Dutton.

The author was released from Huxleyan agnosticism before Professor
James’ psychological discovery of the “subliminal” stratum of
consciousness which opened the way to realms agreed upon by agnostics
to be closed. “The revolutionized attitude and transfigured view of
the world resulting from this are here exhibited. The confession of
Jacob Behmen is adopted, ‘God is the place of the soul,’ and Jesus’
saying, ‘All live in him.’ With St. Francis, the mystic sees in bird
and beast his brother. The problems of prayer and brotherhood clear up
in his thought that all life is one, the life of God.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“She uses scientific knowledge in a way which only a vision could
justify; and the vision is absent.”

– =Acad.= 69: 707. Jl. 8, ’05. 430w.

“His little book is a valuable addition to the library of devotional
thought, though it only presents the conceptions of the classic
mystics in modern form.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ’05. 190w.

=Moffat, Mary Maxwell.= Queen Louisa of Prussia. **$3. Dutton.

The domestic, intellectual and inspirational characteristics of this
favorite among Prussian queens are arranged with new material to
fortify them. “She did not make poetry, she did make politics; but she
made them poetically.... And just as the greatest of all poets is said
to have been a good business man, this best of all queens could use
feminine weapons to deal with him whom only such weapons could reach.”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“This is by no means the first life of Queen Louisa, but it certainly
is one which will be read with delight by many who will take it as a
mere incident in the Napoleonic drama, and by many more perhaps who
will regard it as a clear exposition of a good and capable woman’s
life.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 222. S. 8, ’06. 1460w.

“If it can scarcely be said that Mrs. Moffat has risen to the heights
of her opportunities, she has, at least written an unpretentious,
careful, and fairly readable book.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 293. S. 15. 2020w.

“This book is so clear and delightful that we should like to efface
ourselves and quote it all.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 717. N. 3, ’06. 900w.

“Altogether this is a biography that appeals and stimulates and
convinces, and as such should hold the interest of a wide and
appreciative audience.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 360w.

“A mistress of her materials, and gifted with fine powers of
reflection, the authoress commands a vigorous, original style equally
adapted to personal portraiture and general description.”

+ + – =Spec.= 97: sup. 651. N. 3, ’06. 1790w.

=Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louise (Stewart) (Ennis Graham).= Wrong envelope and other stories. $1.50. Macmillan.

“The principal story is called ‘That girl in black,’ and tells, among
other things how Despard Morreys—cool, contemptuous, blasé—all but
died of brain fever on being refused by the mysterious Miss Fforde,
who is afterward discovered to be no less a person than Lady Margaret
Fforde, daughter to the Earl of Southwold.... The other stories are
similar in tone and subject, with the exception of ‘A strange
messenger,’ which forsakes society for a colliery district, and treats
of the supernatural. The concluding tale of the volume ‘A ghost of the
Pampas,’ is by the late Mr. Bevil R. Molesworth, the author’s
son.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“These are tales of a bygone pattern, somewhat flavourless and
abounding in italics.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 10. Je. 7. 240w.

“A collection of extraordinarily commonplace tales.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 533. S. 1, ’06. 360w.

“The stories are fairly interesting, but are by no means on a level in
execution, quality, or interest with Mrs. Molesworth’s admirable
stories for young readers.”

+ – – =Outlook.= 83: 912. Ag. 18, ’06. 50w.

“Although these are quite readable short stories, Mrs. Molesworth’s
peculiar talent is in writing for children, not for grown-up people.”

+ – =Spec.= 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.

=Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald.= Russian court in the eighteenth century. 2v. *$6. Scribner.

“The atmosphere of Russia in the 18th century is the atmosphere of the
Blasted Heath whereon the witches danced. ‘Fair is foul, and foul is
fair.’” The Russian present is viewed through the schemes, plots and
crimes of the reign of Catherine I., Peter II., Anna, a niece of Peter
the Great, Elizabeth, Peter III., Catherine II., and Paul.

* * * * *

“The whole story is of absorbing interest to one who would watch the
play of the elemental passions either in individual relations or in a
barbaric state.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 20. Jl. 1, ’06. 310w.

“The interest of the subject, more especially at the present moment is
so great that we have found it almost impossible to lay down his
book.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 462. D. 29, ’05. 2490w.

“The eighteen illustrations, finely reproduced from historical
portraits of the principal actors in the drama, form the most
unimpeachable feature of the book.”

+ – =Nation.= 82. 456. My. 31, ’06. 680w.

“There is nothing new in this story. Mr. Molloy’s account is fluent
and interesting.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 320w.

+ – =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 260w.

=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherard.= History of Venice: its individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; tr. from the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. Sold in 2v. sections, per section, *$5. McClurg.

Under the imprint of the Istituto Italiano d’arts grafiche, appears
this important work which will be issued in three parts as follows: