Chapter III: of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably (3)

An art student in Paris is invited by her aunt to make a three weeks
visit in Washington. For certain reasons she sends a friend to
impersonate her. The one chosen is really too sincere and honest to
enjoy the rôle, but when once launched upon it, the fear of being
discovered is subordinate to the joy of social popularity. Among the
characters portrayed are the businesslike tho unrefined aunt, a young
congressman and a trust magnate who both declare their love for Mary,
a prying social secretary who makes mountains of scandal out of
molehills of evidence, and a French ambassador who averts a painful
crisis by claiming the heroine as his daughter and giving her rightful
title of countess.

* * * * *

“Readers who still hold to the old-time standards of honor in fiction
as well as in real life, and who reject the modern American dictum
that success is the main thing, no matter how it is won, may find it a
bit disconcerting to be expected to admire and sympathize with a
heroine who wins through by means that are not in the least debatable.
Otherwise they may find ‘The impersonator’ a moderately entertaining
story, written with vivacity and occasional mild humor.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 430w.

“A superfluous story of Washington society.”

– =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 40w.

=Taylor, Talbot Jones.= Talbot J. Taylor collection: furniture, wood carving, and other branches of the decorative arts. **$6. Putnam.

“This handsome volume, which contains 187 splendid illustrations, is
designed to reveal to the world the decorative treasures hidden in Mr.
Taylor’s house, Cedarhurst, Long Island. Talbot house, of which a
photograph is given, is built in Elizabethan style, and is by no means
pretentious, but its contents are invaluable. It would seem as if its
owner had made a hobby of buying, not so much for the purposes of use
as for ‘a collection.’... The house is especially rich in old carved
woods, and in German and French furniture.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“This book will, therefore, be mainly of interest to collectors, who
are not always the same as connoisseurs.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 308. S. 15. 120w.

+ + =Ind.= 61: 819. O. 4, ’06. 440w.

=Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 180w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 474. Jl. 28, ’06. 750w.

=Spec.= 97: 136. Jl. 28, ’06. 80w.

=Taylor, W. Purves.= Practical cement testing. *$3. Clark, M. C.

A book for the expert or the novice which will increase the accuracy
and simplify the routine of testing work. “With the exception of the
chapter on ‘Classification and statistics’ and the one on ‘Cement
manufacture,’ comprising together barely 30 pages, the entire book is
devoted to the discussion and description of methods of cement
testing. The tests considered are those employed in ordinary routine
work to determine whether a particular shipment of cement is of a
quality sufficiently good for construction work.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“A unique book, which promises to be of great value to cement testers
and to all others interested in seeing that cement conforms with the
best standards of the day.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 79. Ja. 18, 06. 1020w.

=Tchaikovsky, Modeste Il’ich.= Life and letters of Peter Il’ich Tchaikovsky; ed. from the Russian with an introd. by Rosa Newmarch. *$5. Lane.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 905. D. 30. 770w.

Reviewed by Joseph Sohn.

+ =Forum.= 37: 527. Ap. ’06. 180w.

+ + =Ind.= 60: 1489. Je. 21, ’06. 660w.

“A book of more absorbing human as well as artistic interest has
seldom been written.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 351. Ap. 26, ’06. 900w.

“Mrs. Newmarch has retained quite enough to give a complete view of
Tschaikovsky’s life and activities, even his intimate relations.”
Richard Aldrich.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 820w.

“The great Russian’s musical work is so full of the sincerely
emotional and human elements of his character that the story of his
life and selections from his letters make reading almost as attractive
as that of a novel.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 140w.

=Temple, Most Rev. Frederick (Archbishop of Canterbury).= Memoirs of Archbishop Temple by seven friends; ed. by E. G. Sandford. *$9. Macmillan.

The life story of a man who “seemed cast in a heroic mould, more than
life-size,—colossal ... good and simple, of uncommon force of mind,
and power of acquiring knowledge.” (Spec.) The sketch is in seven
parts, commented upon in the preface as follows: “Its different
divisions are clearly marked and defined; the mental characteristic of
the man was breadth, and the fact that different types of mind are
represented in the writers may help to preserve this feature of
breadth in the general portrait. The subject of it was many-sided, and
a mistake would be made if the view presented were contracted....
These memoirs accordingly regard his life as far as possible under its
more public aspects; they are not a biography, but records of a
career.”

* * * * *

“The seven contributors as well as the editor, have been perhaps too
industrious. They have, no doubt, given the salient features of
Archbishop Temple’s life but they have also added many that are
insignificant, and the two large volumes would, if they had been
boiled down into one, have presented a biography more likely to
endure.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 157. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.

“Unless compounded expressly for clerical consumption, the book lacks
proportion.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 351. Mr. 24. 2940w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

=Atlan.= 98: 281. Ag. ’06. 740w.

+ – =Edinburgh R.= 203: 429. Ap ’06. 11010w.

“Remembering the difficult conditions under which these volumes have
been prepared, I think that the editor and his helpers are to be
congratulated upon their success in having subordinated the individual
portions of the work into such just proportion that the personal
force, characteristic energy, and life-story of Archbishop Temple are
felt to constitute the real interest of these volumes.” W. B. Ripon.

+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 912. Jl. ’06. 4660w.

=Ind.= 60: 1222. My. 24, ’06. 710w.

“In spite of its length, ill-proportion, and abundance of repetition,
the book is quite readable, and is to be commended as a contribution
of no small importance to the ecclesiastical history of the England of
the past half-century.”

+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.

“In respect of the fulness of its public detail this memoir may take
its place beside those of Tait, who was Temple’s tutor, and of Benson,
his colleague and friend.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 57. F. 23, ’06. 2540w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 351. Ap. 26, ’06. 850w.

“On the whole Is well done.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 500w.

“More serious is the inability of the writers to secure that
detachment of vision necessary to a correct estimate of their
subject.”

– + =Outlook.= 82: 806. Ap. 7, ’06. 440w.

“We could wish that someone had been found able to weld into one whole
the mass of material collected in these two volumes, with a critical
tact to know what to omit, and with skill in grouping and arranging
material. As it is, there is much repetition. But the critical reader
may find advantages in compensation. There is a unity in the volumes.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 302. Mr. 10, ’06. 1910w.

“This life is a record of work and business. It is so many chapters in
English educational and ecclesiastical history. Viewed as such, it is
admirably done by experts whose judgment is most valuable, and who
express it excellently.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 382. Mr. 10, ’06. 2040w.

=Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st baron.= In memoriam; annotated by the author. **$1. Macmillan.

A little volume whose green covers recall “those which of yore made so
many Christmastides or New Year’s days memorable.” It is an important
edition because it contains Tennyson’s own notes on the poem: “notes,”
says the present Lord Tennyson, “left by my father partly in his own
hand-writing, and partly dictated to me.”

* * * * *

“The interest, after all, of the commentary, is, partly, that we see,
so to speak, the dust and chips of the workshop, and partly, too, that
we discover the thought which underlies the poems to be really neither
abstruse or recondite at all.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 110. F. 3, ’06. 850w.

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 420w.

“I note a few misprints on the commentary.” W. J. Rolfe.

+ + – =Critic.= 48: 453. My. ’06. 1910w.

“A very precious little book.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 120w.

+ + =Ind.= 60: 802. Ap. 5, ’06. 600w.

“Their great value is that we feel that we have been in contact with a
great mind, of which the force lay not in intellectual grasp so much
as interpretative insight, a mind which worked not by logical
processes, but rather in a visible substance of beauty.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 453. D. 22, ’05. 1810w.

“A rather unsatisfactory piece of book-making.”

– =Nation.= 82: 179. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 310w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 166. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.

“The notes themselves are not always of importance, but frequently
they do throw light on the meaning and association of particular
lines.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 100w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 40w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 370. Mr. 24, ’06. 330w.

“But what is before all valuable is to read rightly the message of the
poem as a whole.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 21. Ja. 6, ’06. 560w.

=Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron.= Alfred Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his son, new ed. **$4. Macmillan.

“This one-volume edition is of convenient size and attractive
make-up.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 60w.

=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= History of Henry Esmond: ed. by Hamilton Byron Moore. 60c. Ginn.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 104. Mr. ’06. 40w.

“Unusually helpful notes.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 20w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 60w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 926. D. 30, ’05. 130w.

=School R.= 14: 233. Mr. ’05. 12w.

=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Letters to an American family; with an introd. by Lucy D. Baxter and original drawings by Thackeray. **$1.50. Century.

“The charm of the contents of this book, giving as it does such an
unusual insight into the attractive personality of Thackeray, together
with the successful make-up, combine to make a volume that is to be
doubly valued.”

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 646. F. ’06. 110w.

That reminds me: a collection of tales worth telling. **75c. Jacobs.

+ =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 120w.

=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Short history of Venice. **$1.50. Macmillan.

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 1090w.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 555. Ap. ’06. 780w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 50w.

“Is a pleasantly written and quite adequate epitome.” H. F. B.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 196. Ja. ’06. 390w.

=Thomas, Carl Clapp.= Steam turbines. $3.50. Wiley.

“A thoroly scientific as well as practical treatment of steam turbines
which is designed as a text-book for technical colleges.”

* * * * *

“As a text-book it is quite satisfactory. The only other book in the
English language with which it could be compared is that of Dr.
Stodola. The reviewer is of the opinion that Professor Thomas’ book
will fill a want that has been felt by a great many technical
educators.” Storm Bull.

+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 427. Ap. 12, ’06. 1170w.

=Thomas, Edward.= Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E. Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.

+ – =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ’05. 290w.

=Thompson, Charles Willis.= Party leaders of the time; character studies of public men at Washington, Senate portraits, House etchings, snapshots at executive officers and diplomats, and flashlights in the country at large. **$1.75. Dillingham.

The excellent photographs of over thirty of the public men sketched in
this volume add much to this popular account of those figures
prominent in the Senate and the House, at “the other end of the
avenue,” and “out in the field.” The author has aimed to make clear
the personalities of our public men, “to make visible human beings and
not mere names out of them,” and he has done this by means of a wealth
of anecdote and a newspaper correspondent’s observant eye and ready
pen.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 100w.

“His studies are liberally punctuated with anecdote and afford lively
as well as instructive reading.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 140w.

“Now that they are hung in a gallery together, the complete
effectiveness of each single picture destroys more or less the total
effect, and gives an impression of exaggeration. Everybody is painted
large, and each much of the same bigness.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 174. Mr. 24, ’06. 1880w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7. ’06. 360w.

=Thompson, Holland.= From the cotton field to the cotton mill: a study of the industrial transition in North Carolina. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“Mr. Thompson’s study goes back to colonial days in North Carolina. He
carries it down to as recent a date as March, 1906; and not a phase of
the social and industrial development of the state has escaped his
careful attention. Besides the study of the cotton industry there are
informing chapters dealing with present day social and religious
conditions in North Carolina; and much more than local interest
attaches to Mr. Thompson’s admirable presentation of all these
conditions.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“From many points of view the work was well worth doing, and it has
been well done. The spirit that characterizes Mr. Thompson’s book is
that of the trained investigator.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 215. Jl. 26, 06. 970w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 330w.

=Thompson, John.= Hither and thither: a collection of comments on books and bookish matters. Jacobs.

The librarian of the Free library of Philadelphia has made various
summaries and comments upon many of the volumes, rare and curious,
which he has examined from time to time. The results of his
observations are presented in a series of chapters which include “The
ten lost tribes,” “Early chronicles,” “British essayists,” “A polyglot
psalter,” “Sevres porcelain,” “Palestrina’s music,” “Alexandre Dumas,”
etc.

* * * * *

“Writes entertainingly and instructively on matters chiefly of
antiquarian interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 390w.

=Thompson, Osmund Rhodes Howard, and Rauch, William H.= History of the “Bucktails,” Kane rifle regiment of the Pennsylvania reserves, 42nd of the line: published by H. W. Rauch, historian, for the regimental association; with a dedicatory note by the Hon. E: A. Irvin. $2. William H. Rauch, 2141 N. Park av., Phil.

A volume which “contains the muster rolls of the regiment and a full
account of the organization of the Bucktails from the excellent
material furnished by the mountaineers of Northern Pennsylvania.”—N.
Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Unhappily its authors were plainly inexperienced both in the art of
bookmaking and of writing history. Hence, it does not add much to the
growing collection of valuable regimental histories.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 307. O. 11, ’06. 480w.

“Not a very satisfactory volume altogether, the ‘History of the
Bucktails’ ... contains, nevertheless, some material which will be of
use to the future historian of the civil war and much that is
interesting to the friends, kinsfolk, and descendants of the men who
made up a celebrated body of Pennsylvania troops.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 620. O. 6, ’06. 640w.

=Thompson, Robert John=, comp. Proofs of life after death. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.

The opinions of eminent thinkers on the subject of life after death
are grouped about such headings as science, psychical research,
philosophy and spiritualism. The book contains many arguments from a
scientific standpoint that will interest all who wish evidence other
than theological.

=Thomson, John Arthur.= Herbert Spencer. *$1. Dutton.

“This biography is useful for two reasons: it presents a concise but
luminous account of the human side of the great philosopher, and it
gives the reader an idea of the position of the scientific world today
in regard to the views which Spencer formulated or championed. The
biographical portion proper consumes a comparatively small space—fewer
than one hundred pages—the remainder of the volume being occupied with
exposition and discussion of Spencer’s work, with special reference to
his ‘Principles of biology’ and his attitude to the evolution idea
generally.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Prof. Thomson’s criticism is always clear and suggestive, and his
book is stimulating.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 800. Je. 30. 630w.

“All is so well presented, and is so significant in relation to the
thought of our day, that one is tempted to class the book among the
comparatively small number of those which ‘everybody’ should read.” T.
D. A. Cockerell.

+ + =Dial.= 51: 104. S. 16, ’06. 830w.

“The subject could not have fallen into better hands than those of
Prof. Thomson, who writes clearly, argues cogently, and never fails to
leave his reader interested and informed.”

+ + =Nature.= 74: 533. S. 27, ’06. 430w.

“He writes sympathetically yet critically in his judgment both of the
man and his results.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 366. Je. 9. ’06. 1270w.

“Some of his passages are difficult reading indeed.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 210w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 50w.

=Thomson, William Hanna.= Brain and personality; or, The physical relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.

“The object of this book is to acquaint the general reader with the
remarkable discoveries of modern physiological science of the specific
relations of certain areas on the surface of the brain to special
mental functions. One of the first results of these discoveries is to
impart an entirely new aspect to the important subject of Education.”

* * * * *

“This work on ‘Brain and personality’ ought to be of interest to every
person who possesses either of those entities. Aiming to acquaint the
general reader with the remarkable discoveries of modern physiological
science, it is eminently clear and readable. Confusions and
inconsistencies in ontology do not invalidate the author’s
contributions to physiology, for, like the brain itself, while one
part may be useless in solving problems, the other half is
indispensable.” I. Woodbridge Riley.

+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 373. D. ’06. 1600w.

“Volumes like the present, that fail of this through fundamental lack
of fitness, do not aid the cause which they espouse with good faith
and earnest intention.”

– =Dial.= 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 270w.

“His book treats the subject in a purely scientific manner, but it is
written in a peculiarly lucid style, and can be easily understood
without expert knowledge by the thoughtful layman.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 909. D. 15, ’06. 730w.

=Thoreau, Henry David.= Excursions: with biographical sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 35c. Crowell.

One of the season’s additions to the “Handy volume classics.”

=Thoreau, Henry David.= Friendship. **50c. Crowell.

This essay, originally a part of “A week on the Concord and Merrimack
rivers” is Thoreau’s estimate of what he called “the secret of the
universe.”

=Thoreau, Henry David.= Maine woods; with an introd. by Annie Russell Marble. 35c. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Handy volume classic” series.

=Thorndike, Edward L.= Elements of psychology. *$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N. Y.

“Of the elementary books on psychology which have appeared in recent
years, this volume by Professor Thorndike seems, to the present
reviewer, to be one of the most useful and interesting. Its
arrangement and distribution of the subject matter; its adequate and
lucid exposition and its well formulated definitions make it useful;
while its wealth of examples drawn from common life makes it
interesting.”

+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 292. S. 15, ’06. 760w.

“It not only ensures to the student a clear grasp of the science as a
theoretical whole, but is well calculated to make it vital and real to
him, and helpful in the understanding and conduct of his own practical
life.” Edmund B. Delabarre.

+ + =Science=, n. s. 23: 260. F. 16, ’06. 1070w.

=Thorndike, Edward L.= Principles of teaching. *$1.25. A. G. Seiler, New York.

The author says, “The aim of this book is to make the study of
teaching scientific and practical—scientific in the sense of dealing
with verifiable facts rather than attractive opinions, practical in
the sense of giving knowledge and power that will make a difference in
the actual work of teaching.”

* * * * *

“The most striking qualities of the work are richness of content and
balance and sanity of treatment. On the whole we do not know any
single book more to be recommended for giving young teachers a
scientific conception of their work.” Edward O. Sisson.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 90. Ag. 16, ’06. 770w.

“The book does clearly what it, in the main, sets out to do—to couple
up closely psychological theory with the theory of practice. It is a
valuable addition to educational literature.” W. S. J.

+ + =El. School T.= 6: 440. Ap. ’06. 420w.

“It is a good book for normal school classes, and its numerous and apt
questions and exercises will be found provocative of profitable
discussion in teachers’ meetings and institutes.”

+ =Ind.= 01: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

“Gives the same evidence of vigor, virility, and originality that
characterizes all his other writings.” Frederick E. Bolton.

+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 366. N. 15, ’06. 570w.

“In spite of these possible weaknesses, this book must be regarded as
one of the very best of its kind.” J. L. Meriam.

+ + – =School R.= 14: 765. D. ’06. 790w.

=Thorndike, Lynn.= Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe. *75c. Macmillan.

A monograph in the historical series of Columbia university. “The
noteworthy point in the resume is that magic among the educated was
always associated with science, and is related to it as the guesses of
the child to the positive knowledge of the man.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“He has dipped for himself into the ancient writers, has gathered much
curious information, and has set it forth with gusto and with
considerable sprightliness of style; but his study, though
intelligent, is sadly lacking in thoroughness and yet more so in
closeness of thought and precision of diction. Of magic itself his
conception is confused in the extreme.”

– + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 707. Ap. ’06. 200w.

“An interesting monograph.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 30w.

Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 37. Ja. 20, ’06. 1360w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 231. Ja. 27, ’06. 130w.

Thread of gold, by the author of “The house of quiet.” *$3. Dutton.

“We should deal with life in a generous and high-hearted mood.... Nor
must we aim at mere tranquility ... our peace must be heartened by
eagerness, our zest calmed by serenity.” Such is the burden of this
anonymous author’s book. The essays treat such subjects as prayer, the
pleasure of work, the beetle, the hare, the artist, Westminster Abbey,
the Apocalypse, the statue and music.

* * * * *

“In what superficially appears a volume of fugitive essays on the most
desultory and often trifling themes, we have really the revelation, by
significant flash-lights, of a high-minded nature solitarily and often
doubtfully feeling its way towards truth and right.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 224. F. 24. 1250w.

“Its fault is a complacent fluency. But no inquiring mind could fail
to find something vital and suggestive in its pages.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 31. Ja. 26, ’06. 290w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ’05. 240w.

“For the most part, the book is the sincere, spontaneous talk of a man
of culture who has observed and felt keenly, and who expresses himself
in simple, limpid, captivating style.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 161. Mr. 17, ’06. 710w.

“Is indeed a beautiful book, one that will give the reader a
realization of the joy of life. It is a succession of exquisite
sketches presented by an artist gifted with the elusive literary touch
and a delicate instinct for the beautiful.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 260w.

365 tasty dishes: a tasty dish for every day in the year. *40c. Jacobs.

The full gamut of the simple menu is run in these 365 dishes which
follow the season’s changes beginning with prune snowballs for New
Year’s day, providing rhubarb fool for April 1st, raspberry foam for
the Fourth of July, and plum pudding croquettes for Christmas.

=Thruston, Lucy Meacham.= Called to the field. †$1.50. Little.

A story which looks out upon the Civil war from a Southern home
corner. The heroine is a newly wed Virginia girl who, with the
exception of a risky visit to the enemies’ camp, instead of dipping
into the daring undertakings of most war story heroines stays at the
home helm, where in spite of Northern foraging bands, skirmishes at
her very door, a wounded husband to nurse back to life, she suffers
duty, citizenship and sacrifice to argue their case against the menace
and terror of battle.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 70w.

“Is really a fine piece of work.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

+ =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 120w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 223. Ap. 7, ’06. 350w.

“But for tropical zones of language and landscape. ‘Called to the
field’ is a well-made book—all the more historically correct, perhaps,
for those very exaggerations.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 210w.

“The charm of it lies in its perfect naturalness, and there also is
the secret of its intensity.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 120w.

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 711. Je. 9, ’06. 80w.

=Thurso, John Wolf.= Modern turbine practice and water-power plants. *$4. Van Nostrand.

“The whole book is thoroughly up to date in its information, the facts
and data are well marshalled, and it should be consulted by every
engineer who may be called upon to deal with the problem of the
utilisation of water-power.”

+ + =Nature.= 75: 52. N. 15, ’06. 960w.

=Thurston, E. Temple.= Apple of Eden. †$1.50. Dodd.

“No English novel by a new writer, for serious, restrained ability,
bears comparison with ‘The apple of Eden.’” Mary Moss.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 57. Ja. ’06. 260w.

=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Traffic, the story of a faithful woman. †$1.50. Dillingham.

In his arraignment of society in general and certain phases of human
nature in particular, the author takes his reader over the ground of
an old question—the Roman Catholic denial of divorce. “The
noble-hearted Irish girl of the story is most cruelly confronted with
the fact that unless she would lose what is to her the only hope of
heaven, she may not put away finally and by divorce her drunken,
brutal, and bestial husband, and in plain fact may hold more hope of
final salvation in a life of sin than in a marriage of the truest
affection following a divorce.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

– =Acad.= 70: 334. Ap. 7, ’06. 470w.

“The writing is vigorous, and the exposition courageous, and the book
is better in parts than as a whole.”

– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 294. Mr. 10. 330w.

“A forceful, pathetic, but most unpleasant book.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

– + =Bookm.= 24: 387. D. ’06. 350w.

“Mr. Thurston does not suggest the possession of the imaginative
sympathy or even the ordinary knowledge of life that would warrant him
in attempting so tremendous a task as this. He writes easily, but
there is not in all these 450 pages any indications of vision, any
profound sense of human nature. The book is smooth and superficial,
and, shorn of its coarseness, conventional in every line.”

– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9, ’06. 820w.

“Mr. Thurston more than accomplishes his object of rousing the
sympathy and indignation of the reader. His characters also are both
lifelike and interesting. But the incessant painfulness of the
situation is continuously distressing, so that the book is anything
but a restful novel, while the plain speaking in describing coarse
viciousness exceeds good taste and sound literary judgment.”

– + =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 9, ’06. 240w.

“The story is written in the spirit of rancour, and of obstinate
prejudice, and is therefore useless as a protest against the imagined
wrongs which have inflamed its author’s spirit.”

– =Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.

“It is seldom one meets with a book so wholly disagreeable as this
novel.”

– =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 140w.

=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Gambler. †$1.50. Harper.

“The author throws herself too ardently into the thick of the fight to
judge the relative importance of scenes and incidents. But the story
is told with warm sympathy and with much insight into motive and
character.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 181. F. 24, ’06. 620w.

“It interests us as showing, we fancy, a zeal for the portrayal of
character which the writer’s last success did not display.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 320w.

“If ‘The gambler’, which is a better book than ‘The masquerader’,
shall prove to be less popular, we shall personally ascribe the fact
to the very unfortunate illustrations that misrepresent the text.” R.
W. Kemp.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 361. D. ’05. 2390w.

“It falls short of the standard which ‘The circle’ and ‘The
masquerader’ have established for their author. ‘The gambler’ is a
work that interests you, but it does not vastly enhance Mrs.
Thurston’s fame.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 690w.

“The characters are conventional through and through, in body, heart
and soul. The style of the book is diffuse, inexact, inelegant. The
writer has no very clear idea of what is her plot.”

– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 500w.

“The strongest situations and the best character-drawing are to be
found in the early part of the book.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 304. F. 24, ’06. 880w.

=Thwaites, Reuben Gold=, ed. Early western travels, 1748–1846; a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.

An editorial preface; Wyeth’s Oregon; or A short history of a long
journey from the Atlantic ocean to the region of the Pacific, by land;
and Townsend’s narrative of a journey across the Rocky mountains to
the Columbia river; form the contents of volume 21 of this interesting
series.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 747. Ap. ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 22–24.)

“The style in translation is singularly clear and simple. No small
portion of the narrative is of historical value. The editing appears
to have been done with exceptional fullness and care, the notes are
abundant and supplement the text with information of a scientific and
historical character. Few volumes of travels have received such
careful attention from the editor. The amount of information thus
given on places and persons that are incidentally mentioned by the
author is very large.”

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 179. O. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 22–24.)

“The introduction and notes of the editor add much to the interest of
the reprint, as throughout the series.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 21.)

“In spite of rare slips ... the notes themselves are among the most
valuable of the contributions to American historical scholarship
presented by this excellent series.” Frederick J. Turner.

+ + + =Dial.= 41: 6. Jl. 1, ’06. 2960w. (Review of v. 5–20.)

“Not merely useful to the historian, but filled with tales of such
strange and thrilling adventures as to hold the attention of the
veriest schoolboy.”

+ + + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 8–23.)

+ + + =Nation.= 82: 53. Ja. 18, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 19 and 20.)

=Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 21.)

+ + + =Nation.= 83: 438. N. 22, ’06. 400w. (Review of v. 22–27.)

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 15. Ja. 13, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 19.)

+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 18.)

=Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin.= History of higher education in America. **$3. Appleton.

“The story of the oldest and the newest foundations, the picture of
the environing conditions in former and in later times, and of the
advancing development, is given with many an enlivening touch of
biographical notice and historical incident. Religious and
ecclesiastical influences come into view together with the patriotic,
scholarly, and scientific. The financial side of the history is not
omitted, nor is the architectural. Of course the libraries and the
graduate and professional schools have their appropriate chapters, and
so do undergraduate affairs, including the Greek-letter societies and
athletics. All this, however, is no mere chronicle: the lessons it
yields are interwoven with it.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The book is conceived and executed in a large and generous spirit,
combines accuracy and interest in an unusual degree, and is a notable
addition to the literature of our educational history.” Edward O.
Sisson.

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 321. N. 16, ’06. 2080w.

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 419. N. 15, ’06. 830w.

“Instructive and entertaining volume.” Charles Elliott Fitch.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 720. N. 3, ’06. 2330w.

“What others have given either in outline or in fragments is here
given in detail and completeness. No work on American history is more
worth reading.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.

=Thwing, Eugene.= Man from Red Keg. †$1.50. Dodd.

“In the ‘Man from Red Keg’ we are given the raw material for a great
novel. Much of the dialog is badly written and deals in the baldest
commonplaces, showing that ruthless revision and condensation would
have strengthened the book, but we do get the atmosphere of the
Michigan woods, of a country town, and of live men with vital
interests.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 342. F. 8, ’06. 210w.

=Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.).= Thistles of Mount Cedar: a story of school-life for girls. †$1.25. Winston.

“The story is not marked by any special strength and impresses us as
being stilted and artificial in treatment. The moral atmosphere,
however, is excellent.”

+ =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06 100w.

=Tilton, Dwight, pseud. (George Tilton Richardson, and Wilder Dwight Quint).= Golden grayhound. †$1.50. Lothrop.

“The improbability of a man in his senses, but without a cent in his
pocket following a pretty face seen ‘in a snow-storm outside
Tiffany’s’ even to the jaws of the Golden greyhound, which turns out
to be not a dog but an ocean liner, is followed up in its turn by
other improbabilities of varied and amusing as well as amazing sort.”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

– =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 130w.

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 175. Mr. 24, ’06. 170w.

“A very human story of hearts and fortunes.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

“Is a particularly silly example of its silly class.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.

=Tilton, Theodore.= Fading of the mayflower, a poem of the present time; drawings by W. J. Enright: decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1.50. Marquis.

“A rhythmic lamentation over the decay of the ideals of the early New
Englanders and the rise of the passion for money-getting. The book,
however, closes with a temperately optimistic prophecy of a better day
to come.”—World To-Day.

* * * * *

“The homiletic value of the sonnets is considerable and they embody
much quaint information and homely wisdom, but they almost never
appeal to us as poetry.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 67. Ag. 1, ’06. 270w.

“He tells again, in flowing verses that are easily read, the old
Colonial tales, and his poem is full of apt historical allusion and
pertinent moral reflections. It is quite worthy of its fine setting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.

=World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 60w.

=Titchener, Edward Bradford.= Experimental psychology: a manual of laboratory practice, v. 2. pt. 1, *$1.40; pt. 2, *$2.50. Macmillan.

This second volume of Professor Titchener’s work is a manual of
“Quantitative experiments” as was its predecessor of “Qualitative.” It
comprises two parts, an instructor’s manual and a student’s manual.
The student’s manual contains chapters “on Preliminary experiments,
comprising experiments in tone and pressure discrimination, leading up
to demonstrations of Weber’s Law; on the Metric methods—historical
notes accompanying the experiments; on the Reaction experiment, the
Psychology of time and the range of Quantitative psychology. The
Instructor’s manual contains, in addition, appendices giving
examination questions, bibliographies and a list of important
instruments for psychophysical research with prices and names of
makers.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

“Lucid, methodical and business-like in the extreme.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 582. My. 11. 360w.

=Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 80w.

“It is safe to say that Professor Titchener’s ‘Experimental
psychology’ is much the most important general work on the subject yet
published by an English writer.” H. B. Alexander.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 641. F. ’06. 760w.

“Professor Titchener’s is the most complete guide to quantitative work
in psychology that we have in English, and will be indispensable as a
reference book in laboratories where the course as a whole cannot be
followed.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w.

+ + =Nation.= 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 100w.

“Professor Titchener may congratulate himself not only on having
completed a long and arduous labor, but also upon having produced a
veritable bible for his experimental colleagues.” Edmund C. Sanford.

+ + + =Phys. R.= 15: 424. Jl. ’06. 1080w.

“The work amply deserves to be adopted, for firstly, it is
specifically planned to afford just that discipline that American
psychology to-day lacks, and secondly, this plan is worked out to the
last practical detail with remarkable skill and a prodigious amount of
care.” Edwin B. Holt.

+ + – =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 93. Mr. 15, ’06. 1830w.

“The author has accomplished the most arduous and difficult task with
such distinguished success as to put the coming generation of
psychologists under lasting obligation to him.” James R. Angell.

+ + + =School R.= 14: 155. F. ’06. 350w.

=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde Connecticut. **$1.25. Grafton press.

“The byways of history often have a fascination denied to the
highlands. In these interesting pages Mr. Todd discourses pleasantly
upon various episodes in the past of an old New England commonwealth.
He takes us to Fairfield, to Lebanon, to New London, and gives us
glimpses of matters not often set down.... There were dinners and
dances at Lebanon, the home of Trumbull, when the French officers were
there, and ‘the fair Connecticut girls’ were considered attractive by
the visitors. The volume is the first in ‘The Grafton historical
series,’ designed, as the editor remarks, to ‘provide an effective
background for our Americanism and a welcome perspective to
patriotism.’”—Critic.

* * * * *

“If the succeeding volumes are as well written as Mr. Todd’s the
object will be attained.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 150w.

“The little book will prove of especial interest to persons connected
by birth or kinship with Connecticut, and will also be read with
pleasure and profit by the general public.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 260w.

“It is all pleasing to read, but wants the importance of coherent
narrative working toward some definite result—a book for the fireside
and not for the historian’s shelves.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 600w.

“Entertaining little book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 432. Jl. 7, ’06. 660w.

“The reader will be agreeably surprised by the amount and variety of
information unearthed by Mr. Todd in his sojournings in Connecticut,
much of it admittedly legendary and traditional, but all of it rich in
human interest.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 230w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 70w.

=Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.= Four boys in the Yellowstone; how they went and what they did; il. by H. C. Edward. †$1.50. Lothrop.

With “Four boys in the Yellowstone” Mr. Tomlinson launches his new
series of tales about the scenic wonders and beauties of our own land.
Four boys from as many quarters of the country who are chums at a New
England school share the joys of a vacation trip to the Yellowstone.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 639. O. 6, ’06. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 110w.

=Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 60w.

=Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.= Young rangers: a story of the conquest of Canada; with il. by Chase Emerson. †$1.50. Wilde.

The concluding volume in the “Colonial series,” without lessening the
glory of the attack on the stronghold of Quebec, portrays some of the
heroic acts of the regulars and their comrades of the provinces in the
lesser known but equally important events that contributed to the
final victory.

* * * * *

=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

=Tooker, Lewis Frank.= Under rocking skies. †$1.50. Century.

“Distinctly a readable story.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 50w.

=Torrey, Bradford.= Friends on the shelf. **$1.25. Houghton.

The friends of the library shelf who have inspired part of these
essays are Hazlitt, FitzGerald, Thoreau, Stevenson, Keats and Anatole
France. Not alone of men does Mr. Torrey write for in the volume are
such subjects treated as “Verbal magic,” “Quotability,” “The grace of
obscurity,” “In defense of the traveler’s notebook,” and “Concerning
the lack of an American literature.”

* * * * *

“Human personality emerging from the page of genius is the thing that
has had most attraction for him, and is also the feature of the book
which has the strongest appeal to the reader.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 170w.

“A very pretty style. It is lithe and simple. Within its own limits it
is resourceful, too, and full of variety; but its bounds are narrow.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 310w.

“These papers contain, in fact, much sensible talk on bookish matters.
It is, I say, sensible rather than in any way brilliant or original;
and it is talk rather than finished literature.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 804. D. 1, ’06. 1150w.

=Tosi, Pier Francesco.= Observations on the florid song; or, Sentiments on the ancient and modern singers; written in Italian; tr. into English by Mr. Galliard. *$1.75. Scribner.

One of the chief authorities on the singing of the older Italian
period. Tho written in 1743 and especially valuable for historic
interest, the foibles arraigned and the problems discussed are of
interest to present day students.

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 83: 169. Ag. 23, ’06. 1340w.

“This reprint, with all practical fidelity of the quaint English
translation, offers a curious and in some ways entertaining addition
to the library of the musical student.” Richard Aldrich.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 830w.

=Townsend, Malcolm=, comp. Handbook of United States political history for readers and students. **$1.60. Lothrop.

“The attempt is made to arrange chronologically, and when possible to
tabulate all the facts and dates of American political history from
the time of the first visit of the Norsemen (985) to the present.”
(Ind.) “Prepared under the stimulus of the merciless questioning of
the author’s boys, this work gives complete tables of information of
all species. Genealogies, nicknames, autographs, lists of the writings
of all the Presidents; accounts of their educational advantages, and
descriptions of their inaugurations and burial places; a political
history of the Confederate States; the province of each department of
the general Government, are some of the contents of the volume.” (N.
Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“It is one of the most useful reference books for teacher and student
alike, and the amount of out-of-the-way information which it collects
and classifies is simply amazing.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ’05. 60w.

“The arrangement is excellent, and the quantity of detail assembled
and classified is remarkable. Sufficient care has not been taken on
the score of accuracy.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 168. Ja. 18, ’06. 450w.

“It is by no means always correct.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 115. F. 24, ’06. 580w.

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ’05. 100w.

=Tracy, Louis.= Karl Grier: the strange story of a man with a sixth sense. †$1.50. Clode, E. J.

“Karl Grier has not only all the advantages physical and mental that a
young man can desire, but he possesses the power of projecting his
consciousness into any part of the world according to his wish.... Mr.
Tracy’s hero ‘presented an unrecorded phase of hypertrophy of the
brain,’ the unnatural growth being ‘permitted by the occasional
bursting of a distended membrane.’ Of course every novel reader knows
that such happenings would have extraordinary results. Twice his
marvellous knowledge almost costs Karl his life; it drives one villain
to suicide and the other to stand on his head in a large and
fashionable restaurant. That same villain, too, subsequently makes a
murderous attack upon Karl, which by fracturing his skull and causing
a lesion of the middle and lower lobes of the brain renders his future
life perfectly normal by knocking ‘the sixth sense’ out of him.”—Sat.
R.

* * * * *

“Remarkably interesting novel.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 69. F. 3, ’06. 510w.

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

“We do not find much to please us in such stories.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 274. S. 1, ’06. 240w.

=Traubel, Horace.= With Walt Whitman in Camden: a daily record of conversations kept by Horace Traubel. **$3. Small.

The author, an Englishman, makes no claim to biographical
completeness, but simply gives daily jottings on talks with Whitman
extending over a period of four months together with many letters of
the period. “One may hazard a prophecy that the unbeliever will be a
convert before he closes its pages; not from any propaganda on the
poet’s part, but from the sheer human affection which his
companionship inspires.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 179. Jl. ’06. 80w.

“In all the mass of chaff there is quite enough of true grain—of sage
and admirable thoughts and sayings—to have made a smaller book which
would have done the fame of Whitman a laudable service.” M. A. DeWolfe
Howe.

+ – =Atlan.= 98: 849. D. ’06. 950w.

“The fact that Mr. Traubel has not trusted to his memory, but took
down Whitman’s words, hot from his lips, gives this book its great
value and interest. It is a pity, however, that he took down so many
‘hot’ words.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + – =Critic.= 49: 185. Ag. ’06. 1600w.

“The whole book, unstudied and unpolished, conveys a realistic
impression of the poet and the man, such as only a devoted Boswell is
able to give.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 144. Mr. 1, ’06. 1540w.

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 475. Mr. 31, ’06. 1050w.

“Though the book itself is well arranged and beautifully printed, it
leaves the reader in a somewhat dreary wonder whether it faithfully
records even the declining and enfeebled years of the poet.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 353. Ap. 26, ’06. 540w.

“The book should be distinguished in importance sharply from the mass,
not only for its charm, but as a complete self-revelation of the man
who is likely to hold the ultimate place among our poets.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 109. F. 24, ’06. 2620w.

“One of the most remarkable biographical volumes that have appeared in
many years.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 350w.

=Travis, Elma Allen.= Pang-Yanger. †$1.50. McClure.

Abijah Bead, the Pang-Yanger, who with his four-year-old Rob had been
deserted by the woman whom he had secretly married takes his boy to
the town where the young woman is the wife of a prominent citizen. His
purpose is revenge, for the startling resemblance of the child to the
mother must reveal her story and be a witness to her infidelity. This
forms one thread of the story whose other phase pictures Abijah and an
irresponsible tho charming Southern girl in the light of an
ill-assorted pair.

* * * * *

“The book is a strong one, but we are fain to ask ‘Cui bono?’
Certainly, it does not leave us the better or the happier for the
reading; it does not invoke admiration for the truly admirable; it
presents situations repulsive and painful, and we are glad to think
that it fails as a presentation of life.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 926. D. 30, ’05. 580w.

“Its technical faults are of the kind that the author, with greater
experience, will be unlikely to repeat, and the main outlines of the
plot are strong and interesting. The material is somewhat
sensational.”

– + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 100w.

=Trent, William Peterfield.= Greatness in literature, and other papers. **$1.20. Crowell.

+ =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 200w.

“Upon all these subjects the author has excellent things to say, and
the manner of his discourse is both persuasive and engaging.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 280w.

“A most thoughtful and interesting volume.” Christian Gauss.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 96. F. 17, ’06. 2160w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 60w.

“They are transparently sincere, and more than ordinarily suggestive.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 200w.

=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= England under the Stuarts. *$3. Putnam.

“It is, on the whole, abreast of the times. It is, on the whole,
accurate. It is well conceived, well written, and eminently readable,
and is without doubt the best, if not the only, single-volume history
of the seventeenth century.” Wilbur C. Abbott.

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 378. Ja. ’06. 1930w.

+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.

=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= Poetry and philosophy of George Meredith. *$1.50. Scribner.

“A manifest labour of love, the work of an enthusiastic admirer, as
appreciative criticism should be.... The volume aims at being a kind
of guide to Meredith the poet, a Meredith manual. It studies the poems
in all their varieties, and the poet, in all his aspects.... A good
and helpful book, which really expounds Mr. Meredith’s strength,
without shirking the acknowledgment that he is more trying than a poet
should be.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Mr. Trevelyan’s is the most detailed and elaborate study of Mr.
Meredith’s poetry that has yet appeared. It is also mainly just and
discriminating in temper. It is not brilliant or subtle, and its
treatment is not always exhaustive.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 5. Jl. 7. 1910w.

“A scholarly and sympathetic study.”

+ + =Current Literature.= 41: 641. D. ’06. 1500w.

“This book ought to be of great service to those of Meredith’s readers
... who wish to grasp a view of life that seems to them at once
impressive, sane, and extremely perplexing.” F. Melian Stawell.

+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 128. O. ’06. 1000w.

“Mr. Trevelyan is never the merely literary critic; he has no concern
with fine lines considered apart from their meaning; he deals little
with verbal niceties, with questions of rhythm and metre. He is more
at home, he writes with more authority on the philosophy of the
subject. His judgments of poetry have less insight and persuasion.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 200. Je. 1, ’06. 2080w.

=Nation.= 83: 249. S. 20, ’06. 720w.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 1860w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)

“It is a very sincere and generous tribute from a disciple to a
teacher.”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 758. Je. 16, ’06. 950w.

=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Highways and byways of Dorset. $2. Macmillan.

“The praise of Dorset is the theme of this volume, in which Sir
Frederick Treves tells us what most to admire in that pleasant land of
green vales and breezy gorse-clad down, of purple heath and rocky
coast.... In describing the highways and byways of Dorset he writes of
places known to him from childhood ... and thus, with a facility which
comes with knowledge, he sometimes gives us in a few lines a sketch of
a spot which is so true that we overlook its slightness, and wish for
no detailed description. This faculty makes ‘Highways and byways in
Dorset’ something more than a glorified guidebook.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The illustrations to the book are numerous, but unequal, and, on the
whole, somewhat disappointing; some of them are trivial.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 207. Ag. 25. 2780w.