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=Prior, Edward S.= Cathedral builders in England. *$2. Dutton.

Mr. Prior tells the story of mediaeval churches, monastic, secular,
collegiate and parochial, whether built for monks, canons, or parish
use, whether they were designed as cathedrals, or have now come to
have a bishop’s chair. The author begins with the year 1066 and covers
the time to the present century. Each of the nine periods into which
the book is divided opens with a list of cathedrals discussed in the
chapter devoted to that time. There are ample illustrations in black
and white.

* * * * *

“It is satisfactory to find the subject approached after a masterly
and in many respects an original fashion.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 143. F. 3. 1430w.

“The book is full of vital interest, and should be put into the hands
of all young students of the history of their native land.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 371. Je. ’06. 150w.

+ + =Nation.= 82: 434. My. 24, ’06. 1510w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 270w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 280w.

“A good account, with interesting illustration.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 423. Mr. 17, ’06. 1390w.

=Pritchett, Henry Smith.= What is religion? and other student questions: talks to college students. **$1. Houghton.

President Pritchett’s sound advice to young men is along the lines of
the science of religion, the significance of prayer, joining a church,
etc. He answers the question “What is truth?” and “What is religion?”
“in a practical manner far more likely to influence young men in the
right direction than more eloquent addresses which depart more from
the vital questions to be discussed.” (Critic.)

* * * * *

“Many persons more than students will find food for thought in the
little volume.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 90w.

“He speaks as a scientist without dogmatic prejudices, and in a free,
outspoken and brotherly manner.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 824. O. 4, ’06. 210w.

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 180w.

=Proctor, Edna Dean.= Songs of America and other poems. **$1.25. Houghton.

Aside from her patriotic numbers including poems for Flag day and
Columbus day, and her Indian legends, Miss Proctor offers a group of
memorial verses the best of which are those on Emerson and Whittier.

* * * * *

“Patriotic pieces conceived with an admirable seriousness of mood, and
elaborated with a good command of poetic materials, but without any
very fresh distinctions of inspiration.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 220w.

“Its spirit is purely American, and it is written in pure English.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 768. N. 11, ’05. 80w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.

=Prouty, Charles A. and others.= President Roosevelt’s railroad policy. 50c. Ginn.

“The book has a certain ephemeral value, although the views of all
four of the participants may be found more adequately expressed
elsewhere.”

+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 174. Mr. ’06. 140w.

=Prudden, Theodore Philander.= Congregationalists: who they are and what they do. 40c. Pilgrim press.

“A little book whose aim is to make known the wide influence of the
Congregational churches and their relation to national development and
institutions.”

* * * * *

“He has made a comprehensive and convenient book of reference and
instruction.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 28, ’06. 60w.

Pryings among private papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby.” *$2.50. Longmans.

The compiler has gleaned from the Reports of the Royal historical
commission “anecdotes and odds and ends, carefully eschewing
everything biographical, historical, political, or instructive.” The
result is a pot-pourri which illustrates the social life of English
ancestors from the “cradle to the grave.”

* * * * *

“Altogether this is a good book for an unoccupied hour, especially as
it contains interesting allusions to famous individuals.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 862. D. 23. 100w.

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 396. Je. ’06. 150w.

“There is almost nothing new in the book.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 63. F. 3, ’06. 530w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 29. Ja. 6, ’06. 240w.

=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.

“The truth is, there is a prime defect in Miss Puffer’s theory—a
somewhat zealous unwillingness to allow for ideal significance in
beauty. Yet the book is not one with which the critic can dispense.
The psycho-physical factors are justly apportioned, the main theory is
at least a right account of important elements; and the concrete
applications are a distinct advance on the road towards an efficient
science.” H. B. Alexander.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 215. Ap. ’06. 910w.

=Lit. D.= 31: 983. D. 30, ’05. 1300w.

=Purchas, Samuel.= Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes. *$3.25. Macmillan.

+ + =Acad.= 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 13 and 14.)

“Messrs. MacLehose are indeed to be congratulated on the successful
issue, now arrived at its sixteenth volume, of this noble addition to
the history of the conquest of the earth by modern commerce. We say
addition, for Purchas is so rare a volume, that the work comes to most
of us as new.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 438. O. 13. 760w. (Review of v. 16.)

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 17 and
18.)

“The record here given is delightfully full of surprising incidents,
and it will be a queasy taste that will not find much in these two
volumes to charm a leisure hour and stimulate thought.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)

=Putnam, James Jackson.= Memoir of Dr. James Jackson; with sketches of his father, Hon. Jonathan Jackson, and his brothers, Robert, Henry, Charles, and Patrick Tracy Jackson; and some account of their ancestry. **$2.50. Houghton.

Dr. Jackson was a Boston physician of note in the first part of the
last century, his brother was on the supreme bench of Massachusetts
from 1813 to 1824, and his father, Jonathan Jackson, a Newburyport
merchant, was a delegate to congress and held various state offices.
The sketch reminds the present generation of its debt to Dr. Jackson
“for the establishment on sound foundations of the medical learning
still growing to more and more.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Will be of general interest, as well as of moment to Bostonians.”

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 80w.

“The book will interest other than medical men.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 290w.

“Is in many respects an ideal biography, not only because it presents
a most attractive character satisfactorily, but because it makes the
background of people and places, from which that character emerged,
just clear enough.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 290w.

“Dr. Putnam’s memoir is prepared with great good taste and modesty.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 124. F. 8, ’06. 1340w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ’05. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ’05. 130w.

=Pyle, Edmund.= Memoirs of a royal chaplain. *$4. Lane.

“The fullness and accuracy of Mr. Hartshorne’s dates and the excellent
index add immensely to the value of this volume ... incidentally the
letters throw considerable light on English manners and mode of life,
and on the condition of medicine during the reign of George II.” A. G.
Porritt.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 381. Ja. ’06. 790w.

“Every mention of a celebrity produces a small biography. Not content
with this, he digresses, on the smallest provocation, into all sorts
of matters which have no connection whatever with the text. But with
all its faults students of the eighteenth century must feel grateful
to Mr. Hartshorne for the publication of this volume.” H. M’N.
Rushforth.

+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 172. Ja. ’06. 910w.

“These letters are not pleasant reading. As part of the history of the
Church of England in what were perhaps its most degenerate days these
letters have an obvious value.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 158. Jl. 19, ’06. 310w.

=Pyle, Howard.= Story of champions of the round table. **$2.50. Scribner.

“Mr. Pyle Writes as fascinatingly as he illustrates.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.

=Pyle, Katharine.= Nancy Rutledge. †$1.25. Little.

All about the work and play of a group of children who attend a Quaker
school.

* * * * *

=R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 20w.

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=Quayle, William Alfred.= Prairie and the sea. *$2. Meth. bk.

“This is a series of pleasing out-of-door talks and rambles. The
author, Mr. William A. Quayle, is always sympathetic in his moods, is
an ardent worshiper at the shrine of nature, and is at times playful,
at other times ecstatic. The book is made beautiful by a very large
number of altogether charming photographs and marginal
drawings.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“His work belongs to the great average output of nature essays—not
striking, but thoroughly readable on the whole, and, together with the
accompanying pictures, making up an attractive volume.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 240w.

“It is not original and it is not all worthy, it is not all in the
best taste—but there’s undoubtedly a charm about both pictures and
text.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 650w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 60w.

=Quick, Herbert.= Double trouble; or, Every hero his own villain. †$1.50. Bobbs.

A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale which substitutes hypnotic power for
the potion of Stevenson’s story. Florian Amidon, an educated upright
young banker, wakes up one morning to make the startling discovery
that he has lost five years of his life to another personality—to
Eugene Brassfield, of whom Amidon has not the slightest consciousness.
The trouble for Amidon which grows out of the anything but
irreproachable life of Brassfield furnishes the motif of the story,
and introduces a series of novel situations.

* * * * *

“This novel has two legitimate claims to public interest. It is a
pleasing love-story quite out of the ordinary beaten path of fiction,
and it is a popular study of one of the latest assured results of
modern psychology—the subliminal self or double personality.”

+ =Arena.= 36: 108. Jl. ’06. 670w.

=Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 180w.

“The story, moreover has a crisp and animated style that adds greatly
to the charm. We can assure the reader of this tale much
satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 380w.

“The tale moves with alacrity and is never dull.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.

“A capital story of strange happenings most convincingly told.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10, ’06. 480w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

“A pervading sense of humor, reminiscent of Stockton, sheds an air of
plausibility over the situation.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 110w.

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=Racster, Olga.= Chats on violins. *$1.25. Lippincott.

“Space hardly permits detailed examination, but what she does present
in the way of history and theory she sets forth clearly and in a form
well adapted to meet the approval of the casual reader upon such a
subject.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 80w.

=Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint of the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical sketch and notes by C: Whitney Mixter. **$4. Macmillan.

“Concerning the present reprint, Professor Mixter deserves much credit
for the labor he has bestowed on the original work to make it more
readable.” Lester W. Zartman.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 442. Mr. ’06. 930w.

“In preparing for publication a reconstructed edition of ‘The new
principles of political economy’ by John Rae, the editor has rendered
economic science a real service.” Isaac A. Loos.

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 56. Ja. ’06. 1340w.

=Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 250w.

“Neither as radical nor as original as it was in 1834. Professor
Mixter ought not to have given to the public such a volume as this
without adding an index.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 3, ’06. 320w.

=Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).= Queen of the rushes, a romance of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.

The drowning of Jonathan Rees of Scethryg and his band of reapers
forms the tragic opening of this story of the Welsh country and the
Welsh country people. Little Gwenifer, watching for her mother on the
shore, sees her go down when the boat is overturned and is struck dumb
by the shock. Gildas, the young son of the old mishteer, takes his
father’s place on the estate, and cares for the little dumb girl who
is known thruout the neighborhood as queen of the rushes. She loves
Gildas with a mute devotion, and on the night when his wife leaves
him, pleads dumbly with her to return, is thrown upon the rocks, and,
in the shock of it, recovers her speech. This of course, opens the way
for her happiness and that of her benefactor.

=Ramanathan, Ponnambalam.= Culture of the soul among western nations. **$1.25. Putnam.

“The author of this book is Solicitor General for Ceylon. His recent
visit to this country will be recalled in many cultured centers—in
colleges, churches, and the better class of clubs. His aim here is to
show that, in the Western countries, people have wandered far away
from the early conceptions of Christianity when chief importance was
attached to oral teachings of the faith by men who had reached
perfection or sanctification, through the development of perfect love
in the soul.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

=Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 100w.

“The little book may be recommended to those who wish to become
acquainted with the higher religious life of present-day India. They
will find little to surprise or repel them; a good deal to attract.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 220w.

“The spirit of Mr. Rámanáthan’s teaching is admirable, and his use of
the Scriptures for confirmation is ingenious. What he speaks from a
profound spiritual experience is incontestable. His doctrine that the
knowledge of God reaches its acme in a state of feeling disjunct from
thought and will is psychologically impossible, as well as rationally
untenable.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 310w.

=Ranck, George Washington.= Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1. Grafton press.

+ =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 60w.

=Randall, Edward C.= Life’s progression: research in metaphysics. *$1.60. Henry B. Brown co., 496–8 Main st., Buffalo, N. Y.

A book which makes no use of creeds nor faith, which believes that
positive knowledge has displaced them both and also the idea of death,
that origin and destiny are not beyond the grasp of mortals, that in
the spirit world laws are fixed and are immutable, that dissolution is
not annihilation but liberation and opportunity and that God is
universal good and dwells in the heart of all mankind.

=Rankin, Carroll Watson.= Girls of Gardenville. †$1.50. Holt.

“The sweet sixteen,” club and the doings of its sixteen girlish
members, the three Stones counted as one because they were triplets
and couldn’t all leave home at once, fill this book with wholesome
young life from cover to cover. How two of them tried to paper a room
so as to give their mother something which she could not give away,
how one of them played fireman; how they held a rummage sale; how they
secured a Hallowe’en pumpkin; all this and more is told in the course
of the story.

* * * * *

“The tone of the book is commendable; it teaches sound principles
without being priggish.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 50w.

“The tales are not vigorous or interesting enough either in content or
in style to have other than the negative value of supplying harmless
and diluted amusement to young readers.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 40w.

=Ransom, Caroline Louise.= Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 50w.

=Raper, Charles Lee.= Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.

Professor Raper says in the preface of his book: “It is only a simple
and elementary discussion of the more important principles which are
involved in the consumption, production and distribution of wealth ...
as a means to an end—a means to human welfare in all of its manifold
aspects.”

* * * * *

“It appears to the reviewer that the author fails to put in a clear
light the principle of decreasing returns in relation to land. The
best part of this volume is found in its descriptions, as description
is ordinarily understood; however, in the higher realm of description,
where description resumes under the briefest formulæ the widest range
of facts, the work is not strong.”

+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 341. S. ’06. 490w.

“A more distinctly American book has hardly ever come into our hands.
Not only the spelling, but also the mode of regarding events, the
standpoint from which the different aspects of life are viewed, is
distinctly that of the other side of the Atlantic. Besides stimulating
our thoughts, the work has also the advantage of being written
throughout in a simple and easy style.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 402. O. 6. 1390w.

“By way of special criticism of ‘Wealth and welfare,’ it may be noted
that economic terms are used without sufficient accuracy of
definition. The text is happily written, less in the once-upon-a-time
style than much high-school economics, and does in fact give a ‘simple
and elementary discussion of the more important principles’ of the
science.”

+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 521. O. ’06. 310w.

“The style is clear, if sometimes oracular; and the doctrine generally
sound.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 120w.

=Rashdall, Rev. Hastings.= Christus in ecclesia. *$1.50. Scribner.

Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 376. Ap. ’06. 130w.

=Raven, John Howard.= Old Testament introduction, general and special. **$2. Revell.

“An introduction written from the traditional point of view, dating
the Pentateuch, e.g., from 1300 B. C., Job, Proverbs, and Song of
Songs from 1000 B. C., and the Psalms from 1075–425 B. C.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“The conservatism of this book is of an extreme type and lacks good
scholarly foundation.”

– =Bib. World.= 27: 319. Ap. ’06. 50w.

“The book is antiquated in its methods as well as in its results.” L.
W. Batten.

– =Bib. World.= 28: 73. Jl. ’06. 510w.

“A fair and manly argument, to which is appended a select bibliography
impartially referring both to allies and adversaries.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 150w.

=Rawling, C. G.= Great plateau. $5. Longmans.

“An excellent record of two remarkable expeditions, one in company
with his friend Captain Hargreaves to central Tibet in 1903.... The
other through eastern Tibet after the British Indian force had
occupied Lhassa. The first journey was undertaken at a time when Tibet
was rigidly closed to foreigners; the second was rendered possible by
the success of the Younghusband mission.... After the occupation of
Lhassa, Captain Rawling travelled with Captain O’Connor, the agent of
the Indian government, through Shigatse and Holy Manasarowar to
Gartok. Armed with orders from the Tibetan authorities they were
admitted to audiences and places that would otherwise have been
impossible. The hardships and inconveniences were many but the
expedition was unique and of considerable scientific importance....
His volume is fully illustrated.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“The reader in search of novelty will hardly fail to obtain a book of
travel among people who for the most part had never seen a European
before, and Capt. Rawling’s modest narrative will be found full of
interest and variety.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 19. Ja. 6. 1540w.

“To those who are interested in the development and the geography of
Tibet the volume will contain some new features, but the general
reader will find small profit in the book. The story of the first
expedition is a weary tale of countless marches and camps, but the
account of the Gartok expedition has at least the grace of vivacity
and freshness.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 300w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 2. Ja. 5, ’06. 1080w.

“The story of the journey through the villages and among the fruitful
fields could scarcely be spoiled even by dull narration, and this book
is brightly written.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1420w.

“To all who are interested in Tibet in particular and geography in
general, Captain Rawling’s book makes strong appeal.”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.

“The style of the book is throughout clear and modest, the
descriptions are full of vigour, and the interest of the subject is of
the highest.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 490w.

=Rawnsley, Rev. Hardwicke Drummond.= Months at the lakes. $1.75. Macmillan.

“Canon Rawnsley gives the impressions he has derived from his study
for twenty years of ‘the changes in the face and mood of Nature.’”
(Ath.) “Although the Canon devotes a chapter to every month, the
dazzling colors in which he sees them prevent us from realizing which
stage of the year we have reached, and the individual features of
plant and tree are wholly lost in a shower of light. If there are any
dark days they are cheered by ‘Bands of hope meetings, parish room
concerts, magic lantern entertainments, and tea drinkings.’ In
December, finally, we feel that we have passed a very innocent and
brightly coloured year, although we are not quite sure that we have
been at the lakes.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“Canon Rawnsley is an amiable observer of men and manners; he has an
eye for natural beauty, and an ear for every echo of folk-tale or
tradition that lingers in the dale; but he seems to be almost
incapable of expressing himself in precise and straightforward
English.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 595. Je. 23, ’06. 800w.

“If we are inclined to ‘skip’ some of his descriptive matter, we read
with pleasure every word concerning local tradition and custom, of
which the Canon is evidently a master.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 637. My. 26. 110w.

“The Canon’s style, moreover, starred as it is with a great variety of
pretty words, and fashioned into innumerable conceits, seems, if not
impertinent, at least irrelevant when you remember the respect with
which Wordsworth subordinated his pen to the truth.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 216. Je. 15, 06. 270w.

=Nation.= 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 160w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 570w.

“Canon Rawnsley’s volume will be a delight to many readers,—to those
who may yet test the truth of his pictures, and to those who must be
content with using them to call back the past.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 837. My. 26, ’06. 210w.

=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.).= Hearts and creeds. †$1.50. Little.

There is real strength in this story of an English-Protestant girl who
marries a French-Catholic. Both are typical of their race and creed,
altho both are extremists and both have strong personality. The scene
is laid in Quebec, where the two races abide like oil and water, and
the love which brought Arline and Armédie together, the prejudices
which all but wrecked their married life, and the epidemic which
thrust aside all barriers and by leaving them face to face with death
brought them together again are strongly drawn. The social and
political life of Quebec is well handled and there are many
interesting characters.

* * * * *

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 558. Jl. ’06. 240w.

“For once, Miss Ray’s usual brisk fashion of telling a story has
apparently deserted her.”

– =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 130w.

“For readers whose imaginations are not abreast with the times this is
a good story, and it is exceedingly well delivered.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 698. S. 20, ’06. 420w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 194. Mr. 31, ’06. 290w.

“An unusually good story.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.

“An attractive love story.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 240w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 757. Je. ’06. 40w.

=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Janet: her winter in Quebec. †$1.50. Little.

Ronald Leslie and his sister Janet, on whom has suddenly fallen the
care of their mother thru the wreck of their father’s mind and
fortune, become fast friends of Day Argyle, a New York girl and her
brother Rob, invalided from Exeter by an accident at foot-ball.
Together, in spite of their troubles, they spend a delightful winter
in Quebec, and thru Mrs. Argyle and Sir George Porteous, a most
amusing Englishman of much heart and money if little brain, Janet and
Ronald become self-supporting.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 70w.

=Raymond, Evelyn (Hunt) (Mrs. John Bradford Raymond).= Sunny little lass. †$1. Jacobs.

Glory Beck, her blind grandfather, and Bo’sn, the dog, lived happily
together in “the littlest house in New York” and did many odd jobs,
until one day Glory heard that her grandfather was to be taken to
“Snug Harbor,” the seamen’s home, where they never took little girls.
But she went bravely on serving and peddling peanuts with this fear in
her heart until one day Bo’sn came home without her grandfather. Then
she set out to find him, and the story is not allowed to end unhappily
for either the old sailor or his sunny grandchild.

=Rea, Hope.= Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.

The latest volume of the “Great masters series,” edited by G. C.
Williamson furnishes a fifty-page life of Rubens with another hundred
pages devoted to a critical estimate of his paintings. There is a well
selected and carefully reproduced group of illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 891. D. 16, ’05. 150w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 160w.

=Read, Carveth.= Metaphysics of nature. *$2.75. Macmillan.

“The work, may be classed with the most important works published in
this generation.” David Phillips.

+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 393. Ap. ’06. 1130w.

“No short notice like this can do justice to the closeness of the
argument, the soundness and comprehensiveness of a book which must be
ranked with the most important of recent years.”

+ + + =Nature.= 73: 290. Ja. 25, ’06. 910w.

“I have found it the most stimulating and entertaining work in
philosophy that I have read for some time, and this in spite of the
fact that I find its most ambitious undertaking unsupported by
argument, vague and futile.” Charles M. Bakewell.

+ + – =Philos. R.= 15: 324. My. ’06, 4240w.

Readers’ Guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.

The cumulative system of indexes, which resulted from the
consolidation of the Cumulative index to a selected list of
periodicals and the Readers’ guide to periodical literature begins
with this volume a series of five year indexes. It is a 1640 page
volume indexing sixty-seven magazines. Since an index to periodicals
is used primarily to find out what the magazines contain on a
particular subject and is less frequently consulted for questions of
authorship and title, this index is first of all a subject index. An
author entry is given to each article, and title entries have also
been given in the case of fiction, unusually distinctive titles, and
sometimes poetry. Book reviews are indexed under the name of the
author of the book and are usually given a subject entry also.

* * * * *

“The scope of the work is so extensive that it well deserves its name,
and should prove of perennial usefulness to the writer, the clergyman,
the debater—in fine, to all who have occasion or desire to enlarge
their understanding of any subject.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 500w.

“We have always used Poole, and were prepared to swear by it. But the
new volume absolutely discounts the older as a book of reference.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 72. F. 3, ’06. 470w.

“The ‘monthly guide’ and the cumulated annual volumes are in constant
use in this office, and are highly valued for their comprehensiveness,
accuracy, and general mechanical excellence.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 220w.

=Reagan, John Henninger.= Memoirs with special reference to secession and the Civil war. $3. Neale.

By offering his memoirs to the public Judge Reagan is but discharging
what he believes to be a duty to brave, self-sacrificing and patriotic
people. His growth along the lines of rugged self-dependence has made
him an honest, unprejudiced interpreter. He hopes by example to
stimulate young readers to honorable aspirations, and further to show
by authentic documents, Confederate and Federal, the justice of the
cause of the late Confederate states.

* * * * *

=R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 210w.

=Reddall, Henry Frederic (Frederic Reddale, pseud.).= Wit and humor of the physician, a collection from various sources classified under appropriate subject headings. **50c. Jacobs.

Anecdotes, jokes and jingles concerning the profession of medicine.
Such things as a doctor and his friends would enjoy, after dinner
stories which would bear fruit in “that reminds me.” They are
classified under such headings as: Some neat replies, The ignorant
patient, Peculiar cases, Strange situations and Hospital anecdotes.

=Redesdale of Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st baron.= Garter mission to Japan. $1.75. Macmillan.

In passing from the Old Japan which filled the author’s “Tales” fifty
years ago to the New Japan of the present volume the author says: “As
for me, when I see these things I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I have
been asleep and centuries have passed over my head.” The record deals
principally with the chief object of the expedition which was that of
carrying the insignia of a Knight of the garter to the Emperor of
Japan. “To live as a youth in feudal Japan and to gather up the lore
about tycoons, ronins, etc., and of gods, men and things which have
utterly vanished, and then again in life’s afternoon and as a king’s
envoy, to enter the same land when panoplied in modern steel and
machinery, is a rare privilege.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“The narrative is one of sustained interest. The circumstances and
environment are described with the grace and restraint proper to a
record of what took place on Japanese soil. Lord Redesdale’s hand has
lost none of its cunning.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 122. Ag. 4. 1020w.

“The author’s pages have a richness of suggestion and interpretation
which is absent from those of most writers on Japan.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1114. N. 8, ’06. 420w.

“Most wonderful of all, and most to be commended to those of our
readers who have never seen Japan, is the picture which Lord Redesdale
conjures with singular vividness and convincing force, of a people
trained to greatness, because trained to the pursuit of great ideals,
under a code of national ethics unique in the history of the whole
world, of which the first and last commandment is that where Japan is
concerned ‘self entirely disappears.’”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 232. Je. 29, ’06. 2640w.

“With such companions as Kuroki, Togo and Asano, and with sport,
travel and novel experiences with people, country gentlemen and palace
occupants, all told of so pleasantly, one must call this little book a
garden of delights.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 560w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 2640w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 755. N. 17, ’06. 1420w.

“There is a great deal more in Lord Redesdale’s book than a mere
account of ceremonials and the general doings of the mission. It is an
impressionist sketch of the difference between the old and the new in
Japan, written by one who is no mere globe-trotter but has seen both.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 440w.

“Lord Redesdale’s account of the Garter mission to Japan is
interesting for more reasons than one. In the first place it describes
a ceremony unique in history. In the second place ... is interesting
because the author is better able than most living Englishmen to
compare the new Japan with the old.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 235. Ag. 18, ’06. 1170w.

=Reed, Helen Leah.= Amy in Acadia. †$1.50. Little.

“The travellers are not very attractive in themselves, but their
conversation is often full of interest.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 70w.

=Reed, Helen Leah.= Brenda’s ward; il. †$1.50. Little.

Brenda now becomes mistress of her own manse which is no more
pretentious than a charming Boston flat where she houses and looks
after the welfare of a bright lovable Western girl.

* * * * *

“A readable story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

=Reed, John Calvin.= Brothers’ war. **$2. Little.

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 30w.

“It is a valuable contribution to its subject, in both philosophy and
fact, and it deserves a wide circulation.” F. E. Chadwick.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 927. Jl. ’06. 680w.

“This book should have a large place in the thought of the future
historian.”

+ =Arena.= 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 280w.

“A wealth of personal reminiscences helps to render his discussion of
topics fresh and original, though, it must be said, too, somewhat
desultory.”

+ – =Cath. World.= 82: 833. Mr. ’06. 340w.

“Certainly the book deserves attention, whether the proposed solution
does or not. It is not exactly well written, but it is distinctly
impressionistic and first-hand.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 192. F. ’06. 490w.

“The book is valuable because it is written by one who is familiar
with much that he writes about; but there are many who will hardly
agree with some of the conclusions presented.”

+ – =Dial.= 40: 92. F. 1, ’06. 610w.

“Its economic bases are usually sound, tho they serve too frequently
as starting points for extravagant assumptions; there are shrewd
judgments set off against mere collocations of words, and there is
restrained and measured expression mingled with wild hyperbole. Yet
for all its shortcomings, it is a book well worthy a larger audience
in the North.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 340. F. 8. ’06. 600w.

+ – =Nation.= 82: 348. Ap. 26, ’06. 1840w.

“Is most remarkable for the large modern view which informs it as a
whole.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 1070w.

“Its most noteworthy contribution to the subject is the clear and
illuminating exposition of ‘national’ feeling in the South before the
war.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 160w.

“Taken all in all, it is a fair, informing, and impressive
presentation of the southern attitude.”

+ + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 27. Ja. 6, ’06. 180w.

“The tendency of his book is to make each section more fully recognize
the other’s point of view.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 230w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 80w.

=Reed, Myrtle.= Spinner in the sun. **$1.50. Putnam.

There is a mystery in Miss Reed’s new story. “It is a tale of village
tragedy working out the purification and redemption of its actors”
(Lit. D.) among whom are the woman who behind a chiffon veil had for
twenty-five years brooded over her wrongs and unhappiness, a
“whimsical old maid with a sour hatred of all men-kind” and Piper Tom,
who pipes love notes in the wood.

* * * * *

– =Acad.= 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 250w.

“Nothing but humor could redeem the extravagant, sentimental
presentment offered as a reading of life. But humor is nowhere
present.”

– =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13, ’06. 350w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1. ’06. 150w.

“We prefer the author as she showed her wit in ‘The book of clever
beasts.’”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 100w.

=Reeve, Sidney Armor.= Cost of competition: an effort at the understanding of familiar facts. **$2. McClure.

The theory that competition is the one great curse of to-day is
vigorously advanced in this volume. “As a remedy Mr. Reeve puts
forward the abolition of all rent, all interest, all commercial
competition and barter, and the return to first principles, when
friendly savages exchange fish for hare without regard to profit or
cost.... The chapters upon sweatshops and prostitution, upon
congestion in great cities with the resultant evils of landlordism,
upon the effect of competition in debasing the pulpit, the stage, and
literature will fix the attention even of those who dissent from some
conclusions.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Its social vision may be astigmatic, but it is unmistakably
penetrating.” Winthrop More Daniels.

+ – =Atlan.= 97: 845. Je. ’06. 730w.

“It is written with all the zeal of a missionary, and upholds the
cause of socialism with vigor and earnestness.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 370w.

“We commend it to all who are interested in the grave economic, labor
and humanitarian problems of the day, and who are possessed of time
and courage sufficient to follow through what for these busy days is a
long and somewhat technical discussion.”

+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 564. My. 17, ’06. 610w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 359. Mr. 10, ’06. 1100w.

“His book is worth attention by students of our social pathology, and
deserves a sympathetic reception as a sign of the times and as a
contribution toward their amendment.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 96. F. 17, ’06. 710w.

“The economist, concerning whom a good deal that is disparaging is
here said, will not be hard put to expose the fallacies underlying the
structure so laboriously erected, while the ‘non-technical’ reader is
likely to beat a hasty retreat before the heavy artillery of
mathematical formulae with which the argument is supported.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 323. F. 10, ’06. 280w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 130w.

=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in American diplomatic history, 1815–1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.

Review by Kendric Charles Babcock.

+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 350w.

=Reich, Emil.= Failure of the “higher criticism” of the Bible. *$1. Meth. bk.

Critical articles written during the past two years, and lectures
delivered during a recent tour thru England and Scotland appear here
in book form for the purpose of destroying the scientific support of
higher criticism, and of constructing “the right method of
comprehending the Bible.”

* * * * *

“He resorts to rhetoric and claptrap, and appeals less to reason than
to ignorance and prejudice.”

– – =Acad.= 69: 1221. N. 25, ’05. 720w.

“Dr. Reich is quite ignorant of his subject, he is unacquainted with
the objects, methods, and views of higher criticism, and admittedly
considers it unnecessary to treat the study seriously.”

– – =Lond. Times.= 4: 403. N. 24, ’05. 1500w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 180w.

+ – – =Sat. R.= 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 300w.

“We cannot congratulate the anti-critics on their new ally.”

+ – =Spec.= 93: 62. Ja. 12, ’06. 1260w.

=Reid, G. Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications. *$3.50. Dutton.

“Although addressed largely to medical men this volume will be found
of great value to all students of human progress and social problems.
The work begins therefore with a clear statement of the various
theories of heredity and evolution. The reviewer knows of no book in
which the significance of these differences is more plainly shown. The
reviewer has seldom seen a more carefully worked out thesis.” Carl
Kelsey.

+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.

“Of the three general characters which distinguish Mr. Reid’s book,
this ‘real lucidity’ ... is the first and the most valuable. The
second general feature of this volume is what the sportsman would call
its keenness. The third feature ... is the mere fact that it is
written by a medical man.” C. W. Saleeby.

+ + – =Fortnightly R.= 84: 604. O. ’05. 5430w.

“If true at all, the reasoning is in advance of our general
knowledge.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 345. Ap. 26, ’06. 250w.

“It is this quality of suggestion, of imagination, and the ability to
compel history to contribute facts to his arguments, that make his
work valuable to the student, and also readable to the unscientific
thinker.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 649. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.

=Reid, George Winston.= Conscience. $1. W. F. Brainard, N. Y.

“Heat is the common bond of the separate sciences, and binds them into
one science. Since the Latin ‘cum’ or ‘con’ signifies ‘together,’ the
sciences united or the philosophy of the sciences may be called
‘Conscience.’” So thru the following chapter the author evolves his
conception of conscience, Matter, or the science of chemistry, Energy,
or the science of physics, The heavenly bodies or the science of
astronomy, Life, or the science of biology, Consciousness, or the
science of psychology, and Conscience, or scientific philosophy.

* * * * *

“The volume is a queer jumble of natural physics, metaphysics,
epistemology and religion, in which the method is that of piecing
together brief quotations from the greatest variety of diverse
sources.”

– =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 60w.

=Reid, Sir (Thomas) Wemyss.= Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842–1885; ed. with introd. by Stuart J. Reid. $5. Cassell.

“This is a book the last page of which leaves us in an Oliver
Twist-like state of asking for more.” (N. Y. Times.) “Wemyss Reid was
notable as a literary man, a biographer, and a writer of fiction. But
his Memoirs are chiefly important as those of the editor of the Leeds
‘Mercury,’ a powerful paper of the moderate Liberal school in a
stirring time. He flourished in what was perhaps the palmiest epoch of
British journalism, when the editor of a great journal himself
directed its policy and was a statesman of the pen, not a mere
organist or the manager of a Yellow concern.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Not even the promise of ‘revelations,’ not even the prospect of the
day, when Liberal policy will throw reticence to the winds, can atone
for the banality of the present sad and sorry instalment.”

– – =Acad.= 69: 1145. N. 4, ’05. 1050w

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 610. N 4. 470w.

“The interesting matter in the volume could be presented in less than
a score of pages.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 230w.

“There are too many records of personal adventure, tours, and so on,
which were hardly worth preserving in print. But on the whole the book
is interesting.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 361. O. 27, ’05. 840w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 56. Ja. 18, ’06. 870w.

“The author’s acquaintance with most of the leading English statesmen
and literary men of the past two generations makes his memoirs not
only a valuable addition to the modern English history, but fills them
to the brim with delightful bits and anecdotes.” Elizabeth Banks.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 847. D. 2, ’05. 1780w.

“Sir Wemyss Reid is an excellent example of a good second-class
ranker.”

– =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 400w.

“Perhaps the most important, though not, in our opinion, the most
interesting or attractive, sections of his volume are those which deal
with the internal divisions in the Liberal party.”

+ – =Spec.= 95: 819. N. 18, ’05. 1510w.

=Reinsch, Paul Samuel.= Colonial administration. *$1.25. Macmillan.

“The author has no theories to exploit, and makes but few criticisms
in the condensed space at his command.” Edwin E. Sparks.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 577. Ja. ’06. 270w.

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 178. Jl. ’06. 70w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 70w.

“The author, in fact, seems to be less well prepared to deal with the
Philippines than with the colonial possessions of Great Britain,
France, Germany, and even Java.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 511. Mr. 1, ’06. 960w.

“A work that not only shows wide reading, but presents a careful study
of the ultimate as well as the immediately practical character of the
problems to which a colonial policy gives rise.” W. F. Willoughby.

+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 562. Jl. ’06. 810w.

“It is, of course, largely expository, but it is also constructive to
a high degree, and every one engaged in colonial administration might
wisely keep it near at hand for ready reference. Every chapter is
compact and readable, and is rendered the more valuable by concrete
illustrations from the practices and experiences of colonial
governments the world over.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 38. S. 1, ’06. 700w.

Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21:135. Mr. ’06. 720w.

“It is a valuable epitome of the administrative methods of the great
colonising powers as they exist to-day, and it contains also some
interesting speculations upon the ethical basis of activity.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 149. Ja. 27, ’06. 230w.

“It is as valuable a comparative study as was its predecessor
[‘Colonial government’] which is high praise.”

+ + =Yale R.= 14: 446. F. ’06. 150w.

=Reinach, Salomon.= The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by Florence Simmons. **$2. Scribner.

“Taken as a whole, the work is a masterpiece of taste, of judgment,
and of condensation, and should be in the library not only of every
lover of art, but of every cultivated person.” George B. Zug.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 930. Jl. ’06. 590w.

=Remington, Frederick.= Way of an Indian. *$1.50. Fox.

“In the form of a story Mr. Remington has reproduced his popular
pictures of Indian life. He has taken the period between the discovery
of gold in California and the death of General Custer in the battle of
the Little Big Horn, and has given us the life story of a Cheyenne boy
with all the ambitions and aspirations of his race.... The story
ranges from conflicts with rival tribes to massacres of immigrants,
and, of course, in the last chapter civilization triumphs over
savagery.” (Pub. Opin.) 15 pictures by the author illustrate the book.

* * * * *

“A remarkably realistic life-history of a typical Indian.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 90w.

“As a story, is singularly strong, if crude and simple, and, as a
study in primitive instincts, and an epitome of the struggle that
attended the coming of the whites into the buffalo country, is a
wonderfully effective piece of work.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 630w.

“Has told a very effective story of the tragic clash of the Indians of
the Northwest with the resistless onward movement of the white man.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 240w.

“If he does not fully succeed in making us feel as if we had been
inside the skin of a redman ... at least we are given ... a vivid and
picturesque exhibition of this typical Indian and his ways.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.

“It is written from the Indian point of view, and is vivid,
picturesque, and truthful.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.

“The literary quality of Remington’s stories may be a matter of
dispute, but whose canvases rank before his in America’s gallery of
historical painters?”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 40w.

=Remsburg, John E.= Six historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant: the fathers and saviors of our republic, freethinkers. $1.25. Truth seeker.

To the five names generally conceded as first among the historic
figures of the first century of national existence the author adds
that of Thomas Paine fortifying this patriot’s claim to prominence and
setting straight his misinterpreted religious views.

=Repplier, Agnes.= In our convent days. **$1.10. Houghton.

“Miss Repplier writes with a grave humour which makes easy reading,
but naturally her chronicle is somewhat ‘small beer.’”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 104. Ja. 27. 240w.

“Miss Repplier, in her latest volume, has recalled the past years, and
presented them with such living power that, in all the charm, the
frankness, the mischievousness, and romance of childhood, they live
again.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 560. Ja ’06. 760w.

“Her admirable little stories are written to entertain, not to
‘improve’ ... they are free from the slightest suggestion of the
sentimental or the banal.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 160w.

“A book of charming autobiographical tales.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 200w.

+ =Reader.= 7: 341. F. ’06. 230w.

Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by William Tenney Brewster. *$1.10. Macmillan.

+ =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 60w.

“The essays are most excellently chosen.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 100w.

=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

At the death of her father a young girl leaves her artistic and
literary set in Florence with its Bohemian culture and goes to live
with her guardian in England. Orme with his shaggy strength first
repels than attracts Aldyth, eventually he plays the Rochester rôle
and she that of Jane Eyre.

* * * * *

“Once the characters are staged—and this process is somewhat long
drawn out—the dénouement is inevitable to those who know their ‘Jane
Eyre.’ We cannot bestow higher praise than to say that this does not
detract from our sustained interest in the characters and their
story.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 125. Ag. 4. 90w.

“We have read few recent novels with greater pleasure.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 430w.

=Reynolds, John Schreiner.= Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865–77. $2. State co., Columbia, S. C.

“Beginning with a rather brief sketch of the provisional government
set up by President Johnson, the author next exhibits in detail the
workings of the administrations of the ‘carpet-bagger’ Governor Scott,
of Governor Moses the ‘renegade secessionist,’ and of Governor
Chamberlain, the ‘reform’ Republican. One chapter is devoted to the Ku
Klux trials, another to the disgusting story of the ‘public frauds,’
and two chapters to the election of Hampton in 1876, the bargain with
the Washington administration, and the overthrow of the rule of the
‘carpet-bagger’ and the negro.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“Mr. Reynolds loses sight of the philosophy of history in the combat
of opposing parties.” Frederick W. Moore.

– + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 180. O. ’06. 430w.

“Mr. Reynolds has unusual qualifications for writing the history of
that chaotic period; he was an observer of much about which he writes,
he knew many of the leaders of the opposing forces, and he is familiar
with the periodical and pamphlet literature from which the history of
the Reconstruction must largely be drawn. It is much to be regretted
that he did not see fit to indicate for the benefit of other students
the sources from which he drew his information.”

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 118. S. 1, ’06. 470w.

“In spite of certain faults of temper and attitude, the book is, in
many respects, worthy of high praise. A patient care in the gathering
and use of its voluminous and minute data is everywhere observable,
and a judicial method is attempted thruout, tho unfortunately not
always maintained.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13, ’06. 170w.

“Mr. Reynolds endeavors to be fair, temperate in statement, and sure
in his conclusions. He has succeeded in a high degree but not
entirely.” William E. Dodd.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 306. Ag. 18, ’06. 1330w.

“This history is not judicial. It abounds in statements of fact, but
is sparing of references to sources.”

– =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.

=Reynolds, Sir Joshua.= Discourses; with introd. and notes by Roger Fry. *$2.50. Dutton.

A new fully annotated and illustrated edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds’
lectures delivered to the students of the Royal Academy. “The enduring
value of the ‘Discourses’ arises from the fact that they attempt to
expound the laws of artistic expression from the artist’s point of
view, and as Mr. Fry observes, it is rare that a writer has at once
the requisite practical knowledge and the power of generalization.”
(Ath.) Each lecture receives a critical introduction explaining by
biographical or other data the artist-lecturer’s attitude on a given
subject. There are 30 illustrations from the works of painters most
frequently cited.

* * * * *

“Mr. Fry has paid the book a greater compliment by letting it speak
for itself, and in his introductions to the various discourses and
above all in his little notes to the illustrations he has shown
himself to be imbued with all the better side of Reynold’s catholic
criticism, besides proving himself an independent critic, whose
observations are pregnant, illuminating and just.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 2060w.