Chapter XXXIV: Part 3: , The decadence of Venice. The author is the leading historical (1)

writer of Italy to-day, and the translator knows his Venice well. The
first part, now ready in two volumes, deals with the origin of the
people, aspect and form of the city, the houses and churches,
questions of constitution, lands, commerce and finance, the dress,
manners and customs of the people, industrial and fine arts, and
culture.

* * * * *

=Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Moncrieff, Ascott Robert Hope (Ascott R. Hope, pseud.).= Highlands and islands of Scotland; painted by W. Smith, jr.; described by A. R. Hope Moncrieff. *$3.50. Macmillan.

A delightful book upon the remoter West Highlands which contains
chapters upon Tartans, The Holy isles, The land of Lorne, Pibrochs and
Coronachs, Tourists, The outer Hebrides, Children of the mist, etc.,
in which Mr. Moncrieff describes little trips from one place to
another ... the dialects of the people, their manners, etc. The many
illustrations in color add much to the charm of the text and include
pictures of Glen Rosa in Arran, Loch Linnhe, Glencoe, Ben Nevis, the
Hills of Jura, some castles, natives and their homes, views of rivers,
falls, lakes, islands, and other places.

* * * * *

“A lively, readable, rambling book of jottings, very pleasantly
written.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 570. My. 11. 90w.

+ – =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.

“Fine volume. The author has given us a great amount of mingled
instruction and entertainment.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 90w.

=Monroe, Paul.= Text-book in the history of education. *$1.90. Macmillan.

“Mr. Monroe can certainly justify his selections, and, take it all in
all, has given us a book that is the most useful textbook on the
subject that has yet appeared. The work gives evidence of hurried
preparation (in certain infelicities of style) and lack of careful
proofreading.” George H. Locke.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 945. Jl. ’06. 910w.

“Very suggestive and helpful, in the reviewer’s opinion, is the
treatment of education as adjustment, and an interpretation of the
history of educational practice and theory from this point of view.”
H. Heath Bawden.

+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 694. Mr. ’06. 1000w.

“The book is thoroughly practical, being divided into well-marked
paragraphs and sections; and as it aims to being rather suggestive
than exhaustive, it should commend itself to teachers.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 240w.

“It is cause for genuine regret that a piece of work so well begun and
with such great possibilities should be thus disfigured and damaged by
a multitude of errors and blemishes. But with all its faults the book
is probably the best thing available for college classes in the
history of education.” Edward O. Sisson.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 116. F. 16, ’06. 2760w.

=Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

=Montague, Elizabeth May.= Beside a southern sea. $1. Neale.

Lorraine, beautiful and passionate, in the absence of her husband to
whom she is but a mere doll, finds her soul’s mate in her husband’s
brother John. Together they talk of life and its meaning, together
they strive to mend the broken lives of a woman who has sinned and a
woman who was sinned against, and finally together they go hand in
hand out of the story, leaving husband and society for life and love
on a South sea island where John has established a Christian community
among the natives.

=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr.= Analysis of racial descent in animals. Holt.

Professor Montgomery of the University of Texas regards his work as a
prologue rather than an exhaustive treatment of his subject. Giving
the experimental method credit for everything that it can do in the
direction of interpreting phenomena he turns to the value of the
comparative method of which he makes critical tests.

* * * * *

“Has attained a large measure of success in presenting the general
problems of evolution as they appear to-day, with the necessary
technicalities succinctly and, on the whole, clearly presented.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 529. Je. 28, ’06. 240w.

“A valuable contribution to the methodology of difficult problems in
evolution.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.

=Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 100w.

“Scholarly work.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.

“The author’s intimate acquaintance with the great wealth of phenomena
and with the extensive literature dealt with in this book, makes it
one of particular importance and value to biological students.” E. G.
Conklin.

+ + =Science=, n.s. 24: 173. Ag. 10, ’06. 2080w.

=Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morss.= First view of English literature. *$1. Scribner.

=Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 80w.

“Certainly the work has the merit of making the study of literature
seem a very easy and attractive thing; by no stretching of terms,
however, can the _View_ be called thoro. Moreover, as in the
_History_, the suggestiveness of the writing is expected to atone for
lack of definite statement, dates, etc.” G. C. D. Odell.

+ – =Educ. R.= 32: 317. O. ’06. 410w.

=Moore, Charles Herbert.= Character of renaissance architecture. **$3. Macmillan.

“An extremely clear and interesting account of a vast subject;
authoritative, calm, instructive; an admirable handbook and book of
reference.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 524. Je. 2, ’06. 320w.

+ – =Architectural Record.= 18: 471. D. ’05. 980w.

“A study both lucid and critical, of Renaissance architecture by one
who may almost be classed as an avowed enemy, without sympathy for the
aims and aspirations of the Renaissance architects.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 706. Je. 9. 770w.

“He has discounted the legitimate weight of his argument, and given to
what ought to have been a work of impersonal scholarship an atmosphere
of carping provinciality.” Royal Cortissoz.

– + =Atlan.= 97: 281. F. ’06. 390w.

“A volume ... which for insight, scholarship and creative criticism
will rank of equal value with the earlier work.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 512. Mr. 1, ’06. 560w.

“In spite, therefore, of his somewhat hackneyed subject, Mr. Moore’s
book will be found full of original assertions, and the untiring
industry of which it is the outcome will no doubt win a certain meed
of admiration. But the illustrations are mostly commonplace, and fail
to bring out the salient characteristics of the buildings they
represent.”

+ – =Int. Studio.= 29: 272. S. ’06. 160w.

“From such a promising title we expected at least an intelligent
appreciation of this great historical movement in architecture.
Instead we find ourselves hurled back into middle Victorianism of the
deepest dye.”

– =Sat. R.= 101: 173. F. 10, ’06. 1690w.

+ – =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27. ’06. 960w.

=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Jessamy bride. **$2. Duffield.

This new edition of Mr. Moore’s story of the days of Dr. Johnson and
his tea-drinking companions is handsomely gotten up and includes seven
illustrations in color by C. Allan Gilbert.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Love alone is lord. †$1.50. Putnam.

+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 70w.

=Moore, Frederick.= Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.

“Mr. Frederick Moore has been the correspondent of the London Times in
Turkey, Bulgaria, Servia, and Albania. He has seen at close range a
great deal of the people of the Balkan peninsula, and he has the knack
of describing his impressions in concise and vivid language. His book
is a real help to the better understanding of countries now in a
particularly interesting phase of their political and religious
development.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The pictures are of remarkable interest.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 762. Je. 23. 280w.

“Mr. Moore has succeeded in giving a very good idea of the various
peoples of the Turkish part of the peninsula, of the various agencies
at work among them and the general conditions of the country. He
carried with him a camera, which he used effectively. The
illustrations, from his photographs, are excellent, and really
illustrate the text.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 264. S. 27, ’06. 1890w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 50w.

“We have been so well supplied with the treatises of publicists on the
Balkan question that we can afford to be grateful to a writer with so
keen an eye and so modest an intention.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 401. S. 22, ’06. 1350w.

=Moore, George.= Lake. †$1.50. Appleton.

“A dreamlike study of spiritual development.... The priest who in this
story lives by the shore of the lake, has, in a moment of religious
zeal, driven from his parish a schoolmistress who has fallen into the
deadliest sin that a woman can commit in Ireland; he finds when she
has gone that her personality has stamped itself upon his heart
irrevocably; and the story told is the story of the gradual
development of his nature through love of her, and the learning of the
lesson that if he is to find the true life that exists somewhere for
each of us, he must strip himself of his priestly office and find his
soul in the world of men.... Finally ... it becomes inevitable that in
order to leave his parish without scandal and hurt to the simple souls
dwelling there, he should swim across the lake and allow it to be
supposed that he is drowned.... In the moon light of a warm September
night he leaves his priestly clothes and his priestly office upon one
shore of the lake and swims across it to the other, where he assumes
the habit and destiny of a man. This crossing of the Lake, of course,
is at once the spirit and allegory of the book.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“He has never shown himself a more finished artist in words than in
this book.”

+ + =Acad.= 69: 1200. N. 18, ’05. 380w.

“It is such a theme as was wont to appeal to him, but it is not
satisfactory; it is all too cloudy. The form of the book is also
difficult; and, indeed, the natural descriptions and the sensitive and
vivid style are the only things that can be praised without reserve.”

– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 610w.

“Mr. Moore, however, has not risen to the level of his opportunities.
Compare ‘The lake’ for instance, with Mr. Temple Thurston’s ‘Apple of
Eden,’ of which the subject is essentially the same, and you will see
at once how far Mr. Moore has fallen from his former high estate.” H.
T. P.

– + =Bookm.= 23: 295. My. ’06. 830w.

“His ‘later manner’ outranks his earlier.” Carolyn Shipman Whipple.

+ =Critic.= 48: 433. My. ’06. 990w.

“The handling is not sensational, but it is not altogether free from
the charge of unwholesomeness. We doubt if Mr. Moore has ever done a
better piece of writing.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 370w.

+ + =Edinburgh R.= 203: 364. Ap. ’06. 1280w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 1378. Je. 7, ’06. 630w.

=Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

“The book has much charm, especially in the first half, and some
interest, especially in the second half.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 630w.

“From the point of view of thought and style, the book is certainly on
a high plane. We are charmed in the poetical presentation of the
picture.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 382. N. 10, ’05. 860w.

“If I dared to suggest a novelist of whom I was vaguely reminded when
reading this book, I should name Tourgeneff.” James Huneker.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1780w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 190w.

“Mr. Moore’s work is notable for skill of analysis and for charm of
style, but it is as free from moral feeling as if there were no guides
in the world save instinct and impulse; herein lies the limitation
which keeps it out of the class of lasting fiction.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 757. Mr. 31, ’06. 380w.

“With singular personages and circumstances unhackneyed, he yet
contrives a tedious in lieu of a seizing story.”

– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. 06. 60w.

“It is a very subtle piece of work, this that Mr. Moore has done; very
fine and elaborate, very delicate and profound.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 723. D. 2, ’05. 990w.

=Moore, George.= Memoirs of my dead life. *$1.50. Appleton.

“An astoundingly frank book.... Frank and brutal and fascinating....
There is talk about art and literature; but the bulk of the volume is
given over to narration of various events in the life of Mr. Moore,
events as a rule published after a man has joined his forefathers....
It will be all very shocking to our American fiction-fed public, this
outspoken declaration of a man who is not afraid to declare that the
love passion is a blessing, good wine a boon, art alone enduring....
There are thirteen chapters. Several of them appeared in a Neo-Celtic
periodical. Some are veritable short stories. One, the last, is
charged with noble images; ‘The lovers of Orelay,’ is the most
attractive tale; all are cleverly executed and ring as if sincere.”—N.
Y. Times.

* * * * *

“He writes with freedom always, and nowadays with greater grace than
he was wont to do. But we wish he would exercise his powers on a more
worthy object than a too-elaborate parody; for after all we have
really no interest in the sort of man and thing he portrays.”

– + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 101. Jl. 28. 690w.

“In the English edition and unexpurgated form, ‘Memoirs of my dead
life’ is a shocking book, and its present reviewer delights in the
statement.” James Huneker.

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 613. O. 6, ’06. 1990w.

“When Mr. Moore is content to leave sexual subjects alone, he writes
gracefully and effectively on art and music. Although his judgments
sometimes appear hasty and superficial, and introduces into his
descriptions a wealth they are always fresh and suggestive. He is
particularly sensitive to the moods of nature of poetic imagery.”

– + =Sat. R.= 102: 17. Jl. 7, ’06. 730w.

=Moore, J. Howard.= Universal kinship. $1. Kerr.

The chief purpose of this volume “is ‘to prove and interpret the
kinship of the human species with the other species of animals.’ The
first eleven chapters are devoted to ‘a proof of the physical
kinship,’ that is a statement of the idea of evolution leading up to
man. In the second group—five chapters—the physical kinship is traced,
and much that exists in modern society is but a holdover from mere
primitive conditions.... Ultimately the author believes peace,
justice, and solidarity will rule.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 177. Jl. ’06. 160w.

“Much of what the author says is true, but in the attempt to prove his
thesis he is inclined to ignore the evil side of the brute’s nature
and the noble side of human nature.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 400. Ag. 16, ’06. 110w.

– =Outlook.= 83: 45. My. 3, ’06. 80w.

=Moore, John Bassett.= American diplomacy: its spirit and achievements. **$2. Harper.

“Prof. Moore surveys and analyzes the field of American negotiation
and treaty making, and insists upon the fair, square and direct
methods in vogue from the beginning to the present time as contrasted
with the European evasive and delusive art. Incidentally the book
serves as a history of American expansion as well as a number of
developments of usage, like the doctrine of expatriation and the
falling into abeyance of the ‘right of search,’ in its extreme
forms.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Moore clears up many misapprehensions and writes with a precision
and clearness of judgment to which few writers can lay claim. This
fact is all that redeems the book from the combined faults of brevity
and comprehensiveness. Throughout the volume, Mr. Moore speaks with
the authority derived from a thorough mastery of the sources, and with
a refreshing disregard of views that have gained currency through mere
force of repetition. His general treatment is free from conventional
bias.” John Holladay Latané.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 692. Ap. ’06. 710w.

“Whatever he writes is both authoritative and interesting, and shows
the most intimate knowledge.” James Wilford Garner.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 253. Ja. ’06. 560w.

“One may question his assignments of space or of historical importance
to one topic or another, or his judgments of men and events, though to
the reviewer these seem on the whole to be admirable.” Frederic Austin
Ogg.

+ =Dial.= 40: 190. Mr. 16, ’06. 4440w.

“The story of the struggle for this concession is told with the same
masterful command of all the material which characterizes each of the
essays in this most valuable volume.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 48. Ja. 4, ’06. 420w.

“We have found the book entertaining as a non-chronological narrative,
but less valuable as an exposition of principles. Indeed, as an
expounder of principles, the author writes in altogether too patriotic
a vein to be weighty.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 247. Mr. 22, ’06. 1050w.

“This book is stimulating to one’s patriotic ardor; it presents a fine
record and it is certainly clearly set forth in sound and
straightforward English. It would appear not unreasonable to suppose
that such omissions as have been noted may have caused the emphasis to
be improperly distributed.” William E. Dodd.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 855. D. 2, ’05. 2280w.

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 137. S. 15, ’06. 1940w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 726. D. 2, ’05. 270w.

“Professor Moore’s own reputation as a diplomat is equaled by his
ability to write forceful, clear, and fascinating essays.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 200w.

=Moore, John Trotwood.= Bishop of Cottontown: a story of the Southern cotton mills. †$1.50. Winston.

Child labor and the extent to which it was carried in the South after
the close of the war, is described in grim detail in this story of the
Acme cotton mills. Richard Travis, the man at their head, is a low
creature who poses as a gentleman and lures pretty girls into his mill
only to betray them. His underlings are as unscrupulous as he and
persuade the poverty-stricken whites of the neighborhood to sell their
little children into real slavery for a term of years at five cents a
working hour. The book is a strong and terrible arraignment of child
labor and in the end through the influence of the “Bishop” of
Cottontown, the woman whom Travis really loved and lost, and other
better souls, the mills become co-operative and the little children
are given back their childhood.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

“Gives us an excellent description of life in the Tennessee valley.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.

=Moore, Mabel.= Carthage of the Phoenicians in the light of modern excavations. **$1.50. Dutton.

“This book is an interesting and succinct account of the work of
excavation, being accomplished in the Punic tombs of Carthage by the
Rev. A. L. Delattre, Archpriest of the Cathedral of St. Louis of
Carthage, and his colleagues. In other words, the book gives the
results of excavations in certain large tombs, especially the
Necropolis of St. Louis and the Necropolis of Bord-el-Djedid.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“The book may be commended for its simple and straightforward
description of the successful labours of the Fathers of Carthage on a
spot where the depredations of the natives are fast destroying the
ancient remains and monuments. But we cannot follow it in the
suggestions and theories which it contains.”

+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 610. Jl. ’06. 190w.

“As an account of the diggings in three principal necropolises, the
book is of real value to the student of archaeology, altho it contains
no great treasures.”

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 200w.

“When the author passes from fact to comment and conjecture her work
is not so valuable. But there is very little in the book that departs
from the category of facts, and for the exhaustive care which has been
displayed in compiling this record from the many publications of the
White fathers and from other sources there can be nothing but praise.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 500w.

“The tourist who visits northern Africa today will find this volume
worth taking along. Where the author diverges from her story of the
finds to matters of history or ethnology some inaccuracies appear.”

+ – – =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

“As an appetiser nothing could well be better than this little
treatise.”

+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 646. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.

=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.

A half-dozen stories that portray fearless young heroines, some of
whom are drawn from royalty of mediaeval times.

=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Lace book. **$5. Stokes.

+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 280. Ja. ’06. 130w.

=Moore, T. Sturge.= Albert Durer. *$2. Scribner.

“The reader must go elsewhere for a full and formal narrative of
Dürer’s career, but Mr. Moore will take him close to the secret of the
German master’s art.” Royal Cortissoz.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 150w.

=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.

“It is soon apparent that Mr. More deals competently with all or
nearly all of his topics; he writes on the basis of an uncommonly
broad and serious general preparation, and after supplying himself
specifically with the knowledge appropriate to each task.” George
McLean Harper.

+ + =Atlan.= 98: 561. O. ’06. 3980w. (Review of series 1–4.)

“Fully up to the standard of the two earlier books.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 373. My. 3, ’06. 690w. (Review of third series.)

More five o’clock stories in prose and verse. 75c. Benziger.

Mainly legends of saints written for the instruction of Catholic young
people.

=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.

A group of valiant and unconquerable men have their deeds exploited in
these pages. They range from the daring Norsemen and Columbus to the
indefatigable Peary. The author has caught the spirit of romance and
adventure necessary to make these men fit subjects for our young
American’s hero worship.

* * * * *

“A popular work of a most acceptable type.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 210w.

“It is well suited to the needs of young readers—particularly as
collateral reading in school—and some of their elders will also enjoy
the compact but graphic narrative.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 80w.

“These tales are interesting and inspiring, and furnish an adequate
notion of what was accomplished in the great work of discovering a
continent.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 258. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

“In the main his narratives are trustworthy but there are some
striking exceptions.”

+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 190w.

=Morris, Clara (Mrs. Frederick C. Harriott).= Life of a star. **$1.50. McClure.

“In her new volume, ‘The life of a star’, as in her earlier ‘Life on
the stage,’ Clara Morris mingles with the natural vivacity of the
artist’s attitude a certain charmingly feminine intimacy and frank
egotism. It is quite as if the actress clothed her memory in a
bewitching, much-beribboned house gown and sat down to enjoy a cup of
tea with it. Happily it is a serviceable memory, flexible, and well
provided with material. Years of entrances and exits, plaudits,
receptions, and train-catchings brought the actress into flashing
contact with many interesting people of the passing generation.”—N. Y.
Times.

* * * * *

“It will bear comparison with some of the best of similar work by
authors of acknowledged rank in literature.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 20. Jl. 1, ’06. 290w.

“In all this bright rush of recollection and easily voluble femininity
one is always conscious of the writer. The tone is as conversational
as a dinner talk—and, one is tempted to say at times as perceptibly
elevated.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 590w.

“While there is nothing of vital importance recorded, the incidents
are vivaciously related, and the spirit of the writer shows
pleasantly.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 60w.

“Full of human interest, human pathos, and dramatic intensity.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 160w.

=Morris, J.= Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.

“To supply history through the medium of biography,” has been the
author’s aim in preparing this volume, “to convey a general impression
of Japan and her people: the workings of reform, as exemplified in the
lives of some of her patriots.” Consequently the twenty-two chapters
are each devoted to one of the makers of Japan. The part which His
Majesty the Emperor, The last of the Shoguns, Marquis Ito, Enomoto,
Okuma, Oyama, Togo and all the others played in the introduction of
reforms is given in detail and “the situation in Japan now that those
measures for which they were responsible may be said to have taken
full effect” is discussed. There are 24 illustrations from
photographs.

* * * * *

“His work is admirably successful: it is careful without being
laboured, and learned without being dull.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 570. Je. 16, ’06. 270w.

“A readable book. His materials are neither abundant, nor of first
rate authority. The portraits in the volume are excellent, except the
one of the Mikado, which is old and hackneyed.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 205. Ag. 25. 1920w.

“Not a past master in literary composition is Mr. J. Morris. It is
just the book needed, and often called for in vain at many libraries.”

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 326. N. 16, ’06. 510w.

“His book is invaluable because it turns from things of the spirit and
gives what is virtually a biographical history of the new Japanese
government and nation, laying emphasis upon the concrete and
tangible.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1115. N. 8, ’06. 400w.

“Than this volume no more readable or reliable book on Japan has been
produced of late years.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 661. N. 3, ’06. 390w.

=Morris, Sir Lewis.= New rambler, from desk to platform. $2. Longmans.

Twenty-eight short papers and addresses which deal “with the place of
poetry in education, with provincial ‘institutes’ with a school of
art, with the education of girls, with the teaching of science.” (N.
Y. Times.) “Especially commendable are the remarks on ‘The place of
poetry in education.’ Talleyrand’s warning to the youth who had no
taste for whist,—‘Young man, you are preparing yourself for a
miserable old age,’—he thinks might also be addressed to the young
person insensible to the charms of poetry.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

=Acad.= 69: 1172. N. 11, ’05. 1120w.

“His experience of life and acquaintance with literature make his
reflections and reminiscences and counsels well worth reading.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 92. F. 1, ’06. 430w.

“The picture which most of the discourses conjure up is that of an
elderly gentleman whose juniors have asked him his opinion, more out
of politeness than curiosity, on some subject about which he really
knows no more than they do, and who therefore proceeds to expound with
all the pomp of platitude, and the manner of one who has discovered
the obvious after years of profound reflection.”

– =Lond. Times.= 4: 434. D. 8, ’05. 430w.

“Many of the essays—indeed, most of them—are excellent reading; the
addresses bear unmistakably the mark of the British beast. You can see
in your mind’s eye as you read the solid provincials listening to the
words of the distinguished speaker. And the words are dull and the
matter quite lacks the whimsicality and individuality, the personal
note, which lends the essays charm.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 490w.

– =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 310w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 490w.

=Morse, Edward Sylvester.= Mars and its mystery. **$2. Little.

A book for the general reader. In approaching the interpretation of
the markings of Mars the author gives a brief historical summary of
what has already resulted from observation, shows in what proportion
the constantly changing canals reveal evidence of life, and presents
what he has been able to draw of the Martian details, with a
transcript of his notes made at the time of observation, and finally
has made an imaginary sketch of how the world would look from Mars.

* * * * *

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 300w.

“A fascinating question is here discussed in a plain and thorough
treatment for the general reader.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 631. N. 10, ’06. 380w.

“The book is marred in one or two places by a rather savage personal
attack upon a British astronomer in good standing, partly, apparently,
on account of religious convictions. The book is interesting, and well
worth reading to all these who wish to learn the opinions of various
authorities on the most fascinating of all planets.” Wm. H. Pickering.

+ – =Science=, n.s. 24: 719. D. 7, ’06. 540w.

=Morse, John Torrey, jr.= Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee. **$3. Little.

“A timely contribution to Massachusetts biography.... The memoir,
which is followed by selections from the writings and speeches of
Colonel Lee, is hardly a biography, but rather a biographical sketch
dealing with the subject’s early life, his career in the Civil war,
and his connection with Harvard.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 60w.

+ + =Nation.= 82: 18. Ja. 4, ’06. 1370w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 888. D. 9, ’05. 60w.

“Mr. Morse has made an interesting book, much less local than a less
skillful writer would have produced. It is disfigured by several
mistakes on the part of the compiler, but none of them is of capital
importance.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 440w.

=Morse, Margaret Fessenden.= Spirit of the pines. †$1. Houghton.

“In the solitude of the New Hampshire woods, two lovers of nature find
more and more points of affinity until all the world is glorified by
“The light that never was on sea or land.” But the great White terror
has been present from the first, and the two souls are strong enough
to heed its ‘Thou shalt renounce! Thou shalt renounce!’ Although a
tragedy, the little romance is, upon the whole, far from tragic. The
letters of the young people are as breezy as the mountain top. There
are many touches of humor and wholesome wisdom.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 60: 1378. Je. 7, ’06. 120w.

“It is, to put it briefly, the story of love and renunciation that
Miss Morse tells us, with a beauty of sentiment and language that
stamps her work one of the daintiest products born of imagination in
many a day.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.

“Is a graceful little idyll.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 230w.

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

+ =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 50w.

“While the romance is slight, it is refined and combines strength with
pathos.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 80w.

=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Famous actor families in America. **$2. Crowell.

Beginning with the Booths, the author has given a series of delightful
sketches and stories of the Jeffersons, the Drews, the Barrymores, the
Sotherns, the Hollands, the Hacketts, the Wallacks, the Boucicaults,
the Davenports and the Powers. In connection with them many other
noted names are dealt with, and the whole is illustrated with 40 full
page plates and provided with a valuable bibliography. The volume is
both authoritative and interesting and will appeal to theatre-goers,
playwrights, critics, and readers in general.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

“The volume has no index, but it needs one.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 50w.

“Of the information contained in this book there is much that is
useful, much more that is trivial, but very little that is original,
and of that little it must be added none is particularly valuable.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 310w.

“The material is abundant, and for the most part it has here been
judiciously used. The perspective of praise is not always preserved,
and the reader might infer that the living had often proved themselves
equal to the dead.” Brander Matthews.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 794. D. 1, ’06. 540w.

“It is delightful reading in a general way, full of attractive
personalities and episodes connected with the most picturesque of
professions.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 190w.

“This is perhaps the most useful and informing single volume on the
American stage, past and present, that the general reader, who is also
a lover of drama and of acting, can place upon his bookshelves.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 130w.

“It is written in a spirit of reverence and appreciation for the work
of the past generation, and with generosity and sympathy for the
living representatives.”

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 160w.

=Moss, Mary.= Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.

An unconventional poet weds a woman of rigidly Puritanical notions.
His intolerance of her straight-laced ideas passes the ill-bred limit
and reaches brutality. In the background are the members of the parish
who with united voice cry out against his indiscretions. The rupture
which the divergence in the temperament of husband and wife is bound
to create is nevertheless averted and a reconciliation is effected.

* * * * *

“It is only in the latter chapters of the book that Miss Moss seems to
fall away from the higher standard that she set herself at the outset.
None the less, she has failed to spoil a book which contains much that
is strong and fine and eminently true.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 24: 387. D. ’06. 530w.

“The story, we think, would have been more powerful, if not more
immediately effective, if its tone had been less light and satirical.
It should, perhaps, be enough that there are no dull or meaningless
persons or events, and that a deeper note seems to sound beneath the
trebles and tenors of the social-comedy strain.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 330w.

“She has written a novel of much originality, and has written it with
such cleverness and spirit that whoever begins it will be unwilling to
lay it down until the last word is read.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 699. O. 27, ’06. 720w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

“Good workmanship and entertaining qualities are happily combined.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 290w.

Mother Goose: her book, with pictures by Harry L. Smith. [+]75c. Duffield.

All the old rhymes which delight the nursery of today just as they
delighted the nurseries of long ago are to be found unchanged in this
comfortable volume in the new, tho not too modern, dress which Harry
L. Smith has designed for them.

=Mott, Lawrence.= Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.

“We could readily spare much of the tiresome patois.”

+ – =Acad.= 69: 1335. D. 23, ’05. 220w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 889. D. 30. 360w.

“Stands out prominently among the books of the month.” Frederick Taber
Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 634. F. ’06. 230w.

“It is strong, imaginative, and picturesque, and as the first work of
a very young writer deserves to be specially noted. The dialect ... is
about the thorniest we have ever had to cope withal, and is likely to
discourage many readers.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.

“Mr. Mott is to be congratulated at once on the way in which he has
sketched the scenes of the old trapper’s labours and also upon his
peculiar success in the management of the French-Canadian dialect.”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.

=Mottram, William.= True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam Bede,” giving the real life history of the more prominent characters; with 86 il. mainly from photographs by Allan P. Mottram and Vernon H. Mottram. **$1.75. McClurg.

Adam Bede, Dinah Morris, Mrs. Poyser and Seth Bede are set in the
walks of life from which they emerged to the plane of book people. The
author is “grand nephew of Adam and Seth Bede” holding that relation
to the Evans family from which the Bedes are drawn. The sketches are
intimate ones, biographical in nature, and include a wealth of
incident.

* * * * *

“As a whole, the book is written in a tone of alternate religious
devotion and personal panegyric that becomes tiresome to the less
piously enthusiastic.” Percy F. Bicknell.

– =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 463. D. 29, ’05. 610w.

“The subject and love of the subject make the whole story clear and
its prose good.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 520w.

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 160w.

“The chapter on ‘George Eliot’s’ life is, we think, a mistake. Mr.
Mottram tells us nothing that we did not know before; but he does
condescend to something like special pleading.”

+ – =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 150w.

=Moulton, Forest Ray.= Introduction to astronomy. *$1.25. Macmillan.

“In the first fourteen chapters the book sets forth the methods by
which the science is developed, the important features of the solar
system and the mechanical principles involved in celestial
dynamics.... On the firm grounding of facts set forth in the first
fourteen chapters, the evolution of the solar system is discussed with
a fulness and precision found in no other astronomical work of its
grade.... The final chapter is devoted to stars and nebulæ in which,
as before, the selection of the important things is notable.”—J. Geol.

* * * * *

“The book is well brought up to date.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 78. Jl. 21. 830w.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 569. Jl. ’06. 160w.

+ =Dial.= 41: 12. Jl. 1, ’06. 60w.

“There is sometimes a tendency to expand verbosely.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 140w.

“The work is to be heartily commended to the geologist who wishes a
brief and trustworthy summary of the recent developments in
astronomical science.” T. C. C.

+ =J. Geol.= 14: 458. Ag. ’06. 580w.

“Students of astronomy will find in Prof. Moulton’s volume an
excellent text-book which, by its lucidity and wealth of detail, will
enable them to obtain a fairly thorough grasp of their subject.” W. E.
R.

+ + =Nature.= 74: 538. S. 27, ’06. 320w.

“He has arranged his material logically and convincingly.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 60w.

“This book is an elementary, descriptive text, suited to those who are
approaching the subject for the first time, and from this point of
view the selection of material is quite satisfactory, though not
always presented in logical order.” W. J. Hussey.

+ – =Science=, n.s. 24: 397. S. 28, ’06. 570w.

=Moyes, Rt. Rev. James.= Aspects of Anglicanism; or, Some comments on certain incidents in the ’nineties. $2.50. Longmans.

From a Roman catholic standpoint these papers throw “many lights upon
the inconsistency of the Anglican position, the historical flaws in
the Anglican title, and the weakness of the arguments advanced against
Rome.” (Cath. World.)

* * * * *

“Monseigneur Moyes’ able articles are worthy of their present
permanent form.”

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 270. My. ’06. 530w.

=Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 240w.

=Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus.= Mozart, the man and the artist as revealed in his own words, comp. and annotated by Friedrich Kerst, tr. into Eng., and ed. with new introd. and additional notes, by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.

+ =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.

“[The translation is] especially praiseworthy for its faithful and
delightful reproduction of the composer’s colloquial and careless
epistolary style.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 999. O. 25, ’06. 90w.

+ + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 280w.

“The translations have been admirably made by Mr. Krehbiel, and his
additions to the notes (indicated by brackets and his initials) are
valuable.” Richard Aldrich.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.

=Müller, (Friedrich) Max.= Life and religion; an aftermath from the writings of the Right Honourable Professor F. Max Müller by his wife. **$1.50. Doubleday.

“A volume of extracts from the writings of the late Professor Max
Müller, selected and arranged by his wife. It is not a controversial
work, and should not be treated as such; rather, it is as though the
veteran humanist and philologist invited the reader to sit with him by
the fireside, and there confided to him the thoughts and aspirations
which had guided his path during a long and successful life.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“The first impression of the book is perhaps a little disappointing;
because, from its necessarily disjointed nature one does not instantly
perceive the uniting thread. Many of his paragraphs sound much like
the empty professions of those who have learned such things by rote;
but one does not read far without finding that the author speaks
whereof he knows.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ =Dial.= 40; 152. Mr. 1, ’06. 630w.

=Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 80w.

“We will say frankly that while all that we find here about ‘Life’ is
admirable, some of the utterances concerning ‘Religion’ seem of less
value.”

+ – =Spec.= 95: 873. N. 25, ’05. 220w.

=Muller, (Friedrich) Max.= Memories: a story of German love; tr. by George P. Upton, il. new ed. $2.50. McClurg.

The memories span the way from childhood to manhood and reveal
introspective fancies about the “soul that rises with us, our life’s
star” as it gradually expands to meet the demands of love which in
this instance is exquisite agony. The book is prettily illustrated and
appears in holiday binding.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 80w.

“The story lacks plot, incidents or situations truly, but it abounds
in beauty, grace, and pathos that strongly appeal to those influenced
by ideality and the love of nature.”

– + =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

=Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 40w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 30w.

=Munk, Joseph Amasa.= Arizona sketches. **$2. Grafton press.

“Dr. Munk’s style is wholly lacking in literary finish, but his
account of ranch life and other matters in the southwestern corner of
the United States teems with interesting facts and photographs.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 192. F. ’06. 100w.

“This is a good example of a new type of book, in which the literary
element is subordinate to the pictorial.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 8O. Ja. 25, ’06. 860w.

=Munn, Charles Clark.= Girl from Tim’s place; il. by Frank T. Merrill. †$1.50. Lothrop.

“The author’s heroine and surroundings are not fictitious. ‘Tim’s
Place’ was in the northern wilderness of Maine, to which Mr. Munn goes
in the hunting season, and the girl was employed by its owner, who
compelled her to work barefooted and gave her only the cast-off
clothing of men to wear. The story of her escape and after life
compose the book.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 60: 1376. Je. 7, ’06. 280w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 169. Ja. ’06. 470w.

=Murray, A. H. Hallam.= High road of empire: sketches in India and elsewhere. **$5. Dutton.

With special attention to the picturesque side of travel along the
“highways of a fascinating land,” the author aims “to recall pleasant
memories to those who have already fallen under the spell of its
potent charms,” and to awaken in the less fortunate “the determination
to become better acquainted with the great empire in the East.”

* * * * *

“A volume of which the text is perfect for its easy common sense.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 797. D. 9. 670w.

“The writer can make his somewhat commonplace experience alive by a
reserved enthusiasm.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 540w.

“One feels, after reading it, that one has passed some pleasant hours
with a gentlemanly, well-informed companion, nowhere obtrusive,
nowhere tiresome, nowhere pretentious.”

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1284. My. 31, ’06. 470w.

“The accompanying narrative combines with many a bright picture of
contemporary Anglo-Indian society just enough history to give
permanent value to the book.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 180. Ap. ’06. 150w.

“The text is pleasant, gossipy talk, with a due modicum of history and
archaeology.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 98. F. 1, ’06. 110w.

“His book is as refreshing as if it dealt wholly with untrodden paths
and fields.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ’05. 140w.

“A very pleasing book on India.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 259. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.

“The author treats of the varied features of India with an intimate
and illuminative touch. Entertaining and instructive text.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 120w.

“A most excellent, accurate, praiseworthy, intelligent book, written
by one who invariably goes to matins when he can, and whose heart is
full of sympathy for India. But he does not see India; that is the
pity of it!”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 13. Ja. 6, ’06. 1270w.

“A pleasant mixture of guide-book and history, ‘The high-road of
empire’ gives both to eye and ear a vivid impression of the East.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 541. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.

=Myrick, Herbert.= Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.

“The absence of the constructive method, even of ordinary coherence in
the story, indicates an unaccustomed hand.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 132. F. 3. 120w.

“Mr. Myrick knows a great deal about the West and has diligently
collected a lot of material of historical value, but he has spoiled it
by diluting it with a trashy romance.”

– + =Ind.= 60: 457. F. 22, ’06. 170w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 13, ’06. 100w.

“His plot is of the simplest, his language crude, and his construction
awkward, but there is about the book a flavor of sincerity and
intimate knowledge that holds the interest even of those who may be
disposed to regard it as a dime novel in pretentious garb.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 853. D. 2, ’05. 110w.

“As a romance the merit of the publication is not conspicuous enough
to invite serious comment. As a curiosity the book is quite worth
looking over, both for what is in it and the elaborate arrangement of
the material into forewords, prologues, parts, epilogues, and
addenda.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 270w.

“A Third avenue melodrama de luxe.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.

N

=Nayler, James Ball.= Kentuckian. $1.50. Clark.

This “is a narrative of Ohio in the sixties, and is concerned with the
operations of the Underground railroad and the exploits of a gang of
horse thieves. The hero is a young man from the other side of the
river, who becomes the district school teacher, and falls in love with
the prettiest of his pupils. This is not exactly an original
invention, but it may be allowed to serve once more.”—Dial.

* * * * *

Reviewed by William M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 140w.

“A delightful old-fashioned story with many midnight turns in it.”
Mrs. L. H. Harris.

+ =Ind.= 60: 1220. My. 24, ’06. 220w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.

=Needham, Raymond, and Webster, Alexander.= Somerset house, past and present. **$3.50. Dutton.

“This exhaustive history of the Duke of Somerset’s palace, the
illustrations of which include many reproductions of interesting
portraits and old prints, embodies the results of much arduous
research, in the course of which many new facts have been discovered.
It is indeed far more than a mere account of a famous building, for
its authors have made excursions into archaeological and topographical
by-paths, so that it will appeal to the antiquarian as well as the
student of history.” (Int. Studio.)

* * * * *

“We lay down this book with admiration of its thoroughness, and a
clear perception that it is a notable addition to the literature of
London.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 33. Ja. 12, ’06. 1290w.

“The authors have done their work well, and produced an illustrated
history of one of London’s most important palaces which is both
accurate and interesting.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 65. Jl. 21. 1190w.

“They have interwoven into their history of Somerset house much that
is new, or rather much that has never found its way into the pages of
the standard English histories.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 160. Jl. 19, ’06. 500w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.

“Our author’s vehement protestantism is somewhat too much in
evidence.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 495. Je. 14, ’06. 1580w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 830w.

“The student will find within their pages much to which access is
difficult elsewhere.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 240w.

“A capital book, pleasantly written and remarkably accurate.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 824. Je. 30, ’06. 1290w.

=Negri, Gaetano.= Julian the apostate: an historical study; tr. by the Duchess Litta-Visconti-Arese, with an introd. by Pasquale Villari. 2v. *$5. Scribner.

“The author uses the person of Julian as a lay figure on which to
arrange his philosophical tenets, in the form of a trophy.” (Lond.
Times.) Julian was “a man of brilliant intellect and strenuous
morality in revolt from a corrupted Christianity. As such the Emperor
Julian gained from the Church of his time the name of ‘Apostate,’
which has stuck to him since. As such he heads a long line of those
whom the false representatives of Christianity have scandalized into
rejection of the faith presented to them so deformed and smirched....
He is not, however, hindered by his admiration for the austere
idealist who is his hero from seeing his faults and fallacies, and
pronouncing ‘insane’ his attempt to revitalize and purify an effete
and corrupted paganism.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“May not be free from minor defects, but it has this great merit—that
there is perfect sympathy between the author and his subject and for
this reason it may be said to add to our knowledge of this most
fascinating emperor, though it brings to light no new facts about his
brief and romantic career. Though some obscurities may be due to the
author, the translator shows a disposition, regrettable in what is
intended to be a popular work, to employ unfamiliar and borrowed words
where simpler terms might with advantage have been used.”

+ + – =Acad.= 70: 87. Ja. 27, ’06. 1510w.

“The work is diffuse, and even repetitious, but never tiresome.
Without a knowledge of the original, one may believe the translator to
have been for the most part successful.” Francis A. Christie.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 631. Ap. ’06. 1150w.

“The monograph, which is written in a delightfully interesting style,
is evidently based on a careful and discriminating study of the
original authorities. The translator’s accuracy is almost equal to her
taste, but we may note a few trifling corrections.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 830w.

“Some slips will be found in these two large volumes, and one rather
large error—the acceptance as genuine of Julian’s letters to
Iamblichus.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 324. Ap. 19, ’06. 600w.

“Gaetano Negri, whose volume has been thoroughly well translated from
the Italian, treats his subject with an understanding untouched by
partiality.” George S. Hellman.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 529. S. 1, ’06. 1020w.

“His study of the original sources, both pagan and Christian, has
given him an intimacy with Julian’s life and Julian’s world which
imparts vitality both to his work and to the interest of its readers.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 240w.

“Much praise is due to the Duchess Visconti-Arese for the excellent
rendering of this work. It is full of boldness and originality. We are
only afraid that the unwieldy presentation of his mature reflection
may compromise its undeniable merit.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 143. F. 3, ’06. 1800w.

“Signor Negri’s volumes on Julian deserve a cordial welcome. His
philosophy of history and his philosophy of religion are almost as
vague as Julian’s, and are not very illuminating; but the crowded
pictures they contain of Julian and his contemporaries will be found
interesting and informing even by those who are familiar with Gibbon
and Harnack.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 1008. Je. 30, ’06. 1860w.

Nelson’s encyclopædia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman. 12v. $42. Nelson.