Chapter VIII: Preface (8)

=Chamberlain, Leander Trowbridge.= True doctrine of prayer: with foreword by the Rev. W: R. Huntington. **$1. Baker.

Dr. Chamberlain has presented the doctrine of prayer in a logical
succession of paragraphs “each one of which presents truth which no
one who desires to think deeply about prayer can afford to lose out of
sight.... It is not merely as a healthful exercise for the soul that
he would have us think of prayer, but as a potency, a dynamic, an
efficient cause.... He is willing to explain, to interpret, to
justify, but never to minimize.”

* * * * *

+ =Outlook.= 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 230w.

=Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder, and Salisbury, Rollin D.= Geology. 3v. v. 1, Processes and their results; v. 2, and 3, Earth history, ea. *$4. Holt.

The first volume of the work appeared in 1904 and is now in its second
edition. “In that volume was given a statement of the planetismal
hypothesis of earth origin. In these new volumes the hypothesis is
developed and applied, and its application requires a new reading of
dynamical geology, with a consequent new interpretation of geologic
history.... A notable feature of the work is the attention paid to
past climates and the use made of them in interpretation.... The
treatment of Pleistocene and the human or present periods is unusually
full and satisfactory.... The book closes with a very interesting and
suggestive discussion of man as a geologic agent, and as influenced by
his geologic environment.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“Whether we accept or reject their views, there is no gainsaying the
fact that Profs. Chamberlin and Salisbury have produced a very
suggestive work, which is likely to exert a marked influence on the
teaching of geology in all English-speaking countries.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 191. Ag. 18. 1410w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

“It is not sufficiently complete to be an entirely satisfactory book
of reference. For the general reader the book has a charm and
freshness not common to scientific texts, but it contains so much new
and not yet accepted doctrine that such a reader will need to take
careful note of the qualifying phrases. It is to working geologists
that the book will make the strongest appeal.” H. Foster Bain.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 1420w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

“For the graduate student and as a reference work for the teacher and
general reader the work is, however, indispensable.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 393. Ag. 16, ’06. 1050w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

=Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

+ =Nation.= 82: 476. Je. 7, ’06. 1240w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

“The arrangement of the book is in most respects well adapted to the
requirements of students, and the presentation of the subject matter
is always clear.” A. H.

+ + =Nature.= 74: 557. O. 4, ’06. 2210w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

“The principal adverse criticisms that can be made, relate to the
minor details of editing—not to the subject-matter or the method of
treatment. In the presence of so much that is large, and helpful, and
inspiring such criticisms seem like mere quibbling. Not a subject is
touched upon in the entire work that does not have the breath of a new
life breathed into it.” J. C. Branner.

+ + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 462. O. 12, ’06. 2540w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

“The authors give an admirable account of the various stages through
which the earth has passed since it became solid, and their
beautifully illustrated volumes form one of the most complete and
trustworthy geological treatises which have yet been published.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 654. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

=Chambers, Robert William.= Fighting chance. **$1.50. Appleton.

Silvia Landis, a spoiled society girl, and Stephen Siward, who has
inherited a weakness for drink, meet at a railway station “and
continue the game there begun at a house party where assorted time
killers are assembled.... Silvia angles for a new millionaire and
plays with Stephen even while she lands him.... The story passes from
the house party to the city, where Silvia pursues her social pastimes
and retains her golden fiancé and Stephen ... fights the demon rum
alone with more or less unsuccess. You have in the meantime club
scenes, bridge scenes, scenes of domestic, infelicity, scenes of
sordid life, glimpses of the half-world, a panorama of high
finance.... In the end ... Mr. Chambers, to achieve his happy ending
appropriates a motor car ... and lets it blow up with the marplot.”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Chambers is so clever, has so keen a sense of character, that
after enjoying his book, you ungratefully regard him with violent
irritation. He has no right not to do even better! His abundant and
interesting material is not thoroughly digested.” Mary Moss.

+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 157. O. ’06. 870w.

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nothing to do with its deeper realities.” Wm. M. Payne.

– =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 270w.

“A real rival to Mrs. Wharton’s ‘House of Mirth.’”

+ =Ind.= 61: 642. S. 13, ’06. 70w.

“The interpretation which Mrs. Wharton attempted of New York society
in ‘The house of mirth,’ Robert Chambers has really accomplished in
his new novel.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 877. O. 11, ’06. 1080w.

=Ind.= 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 100w.

“Realistic in the extreme and to the extent of introducing slang and
even profanity, it still has fine touches of sentiment and reveals an
intimate knowledge of a species of human existence which, in a sense
is as new and as modern as the motor and skyscraper.”

+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 370w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 500w.

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

“With all its palpable defects upon it, this novel was framed for
popularity. It is emphatically not for the literary epicure.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 140w.

“Mr. Robert W. Chambers has taken the material of Mrs. Wharton’s
‘House of mirth’ and made it over. Like Mrs. Wharton, Mr. Chambers
shows you the brightest and best touched with the poison; unlike Mrs.
Wharton, he refuses to permit, much less to organize, a conspiracy of
bitter circumstances which shall assist the poison in its cruel work
and bring everything to a bitter end.” H. I. Brock.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 1160w.

“A particularly good story.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

“While the novel may be at heart no more pessimistic, socially
speaking, than Mrs. Wharton’s ‘The House of mirth,’ it lacks the
delicate perception and fine literary shading of that searching
analysis.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 240w.

“If Mr. Chambers had only taken the time to reconstruct the volume,
prune it of superfluous conversations, and infuse into it a little
more of the heroism his title suggests, he would have had a novel of
real significance.”

– + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 160w.

=Chambers, Robert William.= Iole. †$1.25. Appleton.

“This is the prettiest and gayest bit of satire that we have seen in
print for many a day; daintily good-humored, but none the less
piercing and effective.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 150w.

“The fun really ends with Iole’s marriage, at which point a wise
reader, grateful for a smile, will move on to other pastures.” Mary
Moss.

+ – =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 100w.

=Chambers, Robert William.= Mountain-land; with 8 full page il. in col. by Frank Richardson. **$1.50. Appleton.

Two little children have an instructive day’s journey to the
mountain-land during which they converse with the mountains centuries
old and learn the lesson of its disregard for time and change, and
talk with the ice-fly, the snow jay, a band of owls, a squirrel, a
lynx and giant silkworm moths. Each one of the creatures furnishes
instruction regarding its identity, habitat and general
characteristics.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 60w.

=Chambers, Robert William.= Reckoning. †$1.50. Appleton.

“Mr. Chambers’s richly dressed puppets move briskly through their many
trials to a happy end, and the author, as I before said, is a
competent story teller.” Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 150w.

“It leaves you with a sense of puzzled doubt just where erudition
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+ – =Bookm.= 22: 374. D. ’05. 380w.

=Chambers, Robert William.= Tracer of lost persons. †$1.50. Appleton.

Certain interesting cases taken up by Mr. Keen, head of the firm of
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lost ideal and they all end in happy marriages as the dinner given to
Mr. Keen at the close of the volume by five radiant young couples
testifies.

* * * * *

“Somewhat puerile and wholly absurd is the main idea of this amorous
tale, but some of the incidents are amusing, and the dialogue is
brisk.”

+ – =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 50w.

“A new and improved form of the detective story.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 223. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.

=Chamblin, Jean.= Lady Bobs, her brother and I: a romance of the Azores. †$1.25. Putnam.

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commendation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 190w.

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=Champlain, Samuel de.= Voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604–1616) narrated by himself; tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with introd. and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. 2v. ea. **$1. Barnes.

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distinct service to students of our early history. An extremely
adequate and interesting introduction of twenty-eight pages has been
contributed by Professor Bourne.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 190w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 250w.

“An edition that represents in brief the sum of present-day
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+ + =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 210w.

“A work of considerable interest to the historical student.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 50w.

=Champlin, John Denison.= Young folks’ cyclopedia of common things. $2.50. Holt.

This third edition revised and enlarged meets the demands of rapid
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=Champlin, John Denison.= Young folks’ cyclopaedia of persons and places. $2.50. Holt.

More than five hundred new articles appear in this fifth edition,
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happenings.

* * * * *

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=Champney, Elizabeth Williams.= Romance of the French abbeys. **$3. Putnam.

+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 649. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.

=Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis.= United States; a history of three centuries. 10 pts. pt. 2, Colonial union, 1698–1774. **$3.50. Putnam.

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W. M. West.

– – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)

“His material is slight and it is further obscured by a flood of
‘literary’ allusions and historical philosophy-and-water in an
inflated style which becomes a weariness to the reader’s patience.”
Theodore Clarke Smith.

+ + – =Atlan.= 98: 707. N. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Channing, Edward.= History of the United States. 8v. v. 1, Planting of a nation in the New World. **$2.50. Macmillan.

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of the author.” Theodore Clarke Smith.

+ + =Atlan.= 98: 706. N. ’06. 150w.

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occasional gleam of wit and the constant clearness of expression which
marked his first volume.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 2.)

Reviewed by Henry Russell Spencer.

+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 346. Je. ’06. 1220w.

=Chapin, Henry Dwight.= Vital questions. **$1. Crowell.

“The volume is a good one to put in the hands of one whose interest in
matters social needs quickening.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 234. Ja. ’06. 90w.

=Charles, Frances Asa.= Pardner of Blossom range. †$1.50. Little.

A tale of Arizona in which cowboys and Indians figure. Holly, the
granddaughter of the owner of Blossom ranch conceives a dislike for an
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interesting situation which is satisfactorily worked out.

* * * * *

“The story is pretty, and the author has evidently made a resolute
effort to soften the asperities of her early manner.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 130w.

=Charlton, John.= Speeches and addresses: political, literary, and religious. $2. Morang & co.

+ =Dial.= 40: 53. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.

=Chaucer, Geoffrey.= Canterbury tales, prologue and selections: rewritten in simple language by Calvin Dill Wilson, and decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. *$1. McClurg.

In retelling old tales for young readers, Mr. Wilson aims to preserve
in his prose rendering the literary no less than the poetic and
artistic qualities of the original. This Chaucer is a charming volume
which is uniform with Mr. Wilson’s retold “Faery queen.”

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

=Cheney, John Vance.= Poems. **$1.50. Houghton.

+ =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 110w.

+ =Reader.= 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 200w.

=Cheney, Warren.= Challenge. †$1.50. Bobbs.

The dramatic incidents of Mr. Cheney’s tale serve to show in turn
stout-hearted, superstitious and treacherous phases of character as
exhibited among a group of Russians in the Alaskan bay of Ltua. The
rebellious gurgling of the “draw”—a dangerous whirlpool at a certain
turn of the tide—gets into the very action of the story, and as it
sinks every mortal caught in its swirl except the brave-hearted Ivan
and his Mortyra, typifies the evil of the tale. There is also a case
of mental assassination worked out which introduces a metaphysical
problem.

* * * * *

“There are some very strong situations and finely-drawn scenes in the
work, which on the whole is far above the ordinary present-day story
of this character.”

+ =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 220w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 50w.

“It is a novel with a new idea, if there is such a thing in the world,
and a new field, which is worth while in itself.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 410w.

“Warren Cheney ... knows his Alaska and the Russians there thoroughly.
There is in this story a restrained dramatic intensity very grateful
to the artistic sense.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.

“There is decided value in the tale’s study of motive and character,
together with a singularly full acquaintance with the local color and
of a little-known historical episode.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 40w.

=Chesnutt, Charles Waddell.= Colonel’s dream. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“The narrative not unfrequently drags, and the character-drawing is
sometimes wanting in clearness.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 180w.

=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Charles Dickens. **$1.50. Dodd.

“This new book is builded on the false idea that just at this time
Dickens needs a champion among his own people.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr.
Dickens and Mr. Chesterton move ... arm in arm through these pages
like a pair of boon companions, and the ordinary reader may be trusted
not to notice that Mr. Dickens’ arm is somewhat hard held.” (Sat. R.)
“Dickens is a typical English figure, and it is on this side that Mr.
Chesterton’s study is illuminating. It abounds in side-lights thrown
by a somewhat mystical optimism and uproarious spirits on the
Gargantuan feast of good humour provided by the master.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The style in which the book is written reminds us too closely of the
smart political leader.”

+ – =Acad.= 71: 221. S. 8, ’06. 1620w.

“The real misfortune of the book is that the author seems unable to
check his propensity for wild paradox, and cherishes a growing habit
of exaggeration, which leads to false emphasis and essentially
obscures the issue.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 294. S. 15. 2230w.

“Mr. Chesterton’s book is one which no one who loves Dickens or who
admires brilliant writing can afford to ignore.” Arthur Bartlett
Maurice.

+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 267. N. ’06. 2650w.

“As a life of Dickens it does not profess to have value. At the same
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last book one would go to sleep over. As a self-portrayal of Mr.
Chesterton, rather than a picture of his greater countryman, it has
decided merits.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ =Dial.= 41: 272. N. 1, ’06. 1940w.

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 296. Ag. 31, ’06. 1140w.

“As biography Mr. Chesterton’s book is quite superfluous, and, we may
add, quite inadequate. As criticism it will hugely delight folks who
find enjoyment in literary fireworks.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 598. S. 29, ’06. 2260w.

“With so good a book as Dr. Ward’s little critical biography in the
field, the present volume seems a work of supererogation.”

– =Outlook.= 84: 715. N. 24, ’06. 200w.

“One cannot regard Mr. Chesterton as the ideal critic of Charles
Dickens though he makes a very effective apologist.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 368. S. 22, ’06. 1510w.

“The book, taken as a whole, is as warm and understanding a tribute as
any hand has laid on the great writer’s grave. We find ourselves also
largely in accordance with him when he blames and demurs.”

+ + – =Spec.= 97: 364. S. 15, ’06. 2500w.

=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Club of queer trades. †$1.25. Harper.

“They have not a free inventive stroke. They are whimsical and
studied.”

+ – =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05. 160w.

=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Heretics. *$1.50. Lane.

“As a critic, not only of heretics but of various aspects and
relations of life discussed in this volume, when he has finished off
the heretics, Mr. Chesterton shows a definite advance in clearness and
force.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 208. Mr. 8, ’06. 1500w.

=Cheyne, Thomas Kelly.= Bible problems and the new material for their solution. *$1.50. Putnam.

“The book is stimulating and thought-provoking, even though its
theories are now and then insufficiently supported by facts.” Ira
Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.

+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 324. Ap. ’06. 250w.

=Cholmondeley, Mary.= Prisoners. †$1.50. Dodd.

“This novel is essentially a tragedy, with an Italian setting for the
initial crime, that brings about the punishment of an innocent man
through a woman’s revolting cowardice. The action of the novel centres
about the redemption of the small-souled woman who emerges as a fairly
honourable character.”—Canadian M.

* * * * *

“In no modern novel has the female mind been analyzed with a more
delicate sense.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 244. S. 15, ’06. 1640w.

“A powerful though somewhat painful book. Her one failure is
Carstairs.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 329. S. 22. 550w.

“Faults it has in abundance—big, obtrusive, exasperating faults. It is
a book well worth reading.” Edward Clark Marsh.

+ – =Bookm.= 24: 274. N. ’06. 950w.

“Is as vivid in literary force as ‘Red pottage,’ and is more wholesome
in tone. It is the work of an artist, not a vivisectionist.”

+ + – =Canadian M.= 24: 86. N. ’06. 410w.

“The author makes herself the peer for a page or two with the writers
of the best literature in the ... tribute to a certain class of dull,
enduring Englishmen.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 1288. N. 29, ’06. 660w.

“The story is not without dramatic chapters. In spite of literary
defects it often holds the interest of the reader effectively.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 160w.

“Some of the deeper things in human nature are cleverly touched and
their fountain sources stirred.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

“We find wisdom, indeed, rather in the stuff of the story than in
those often brilliant incidental comments on which no small part of
her fame reposes. We suggest that in this book, wise and witty as her
‘chorus’ often is, she has a little abused that privilege by trying
ostentatiously to live up to it.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 600w.

“If the story, as said, mounts steadily, the reader, at least, is
breathless much of the way under the suspense and under the
cleverness. The ethical aspects are broad and deep.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 520w.

“In more ways than one, we are continually reminded of George Eliot;
not that there is the faintest trace of imitation, but that Miss
Cholmondeley has an equal insight into character and motive, a like
power of analysis, a similar gift for pregnant sentences of humor and
of wisdom.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 697. O. 27, ’06. 1280w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

“This is not so well-rounded and satisfying a story as was ‘Red
pottage.’”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 21, ’06. 130w.

“Is technically faulty in construction in that the critical point of
the plot is reached in the early chapters, but the tenseness of the
situation continues.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

“Brilliant but unequal novel.”

+ – =Spec.= 97: 441. S. 29, ’06. 1720w.

=Christian, Eugene, and Christian, Mrs. Eugene (Mollie Griswold Christian).= Uncooked foods and how to use them. $1. Health-Culture.

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=Churchill, Winston.= Coniston. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Love and politics are deftly blended in this life story of Jethro
Bass, the New England politician of a generation ago, the crude man of
the tannery who made himself a power in the state. His first victory,
won by questionable methods, cost him the first Cynthy, but after a
life in which his politics outweighed his love, great as that love
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things of the book.

* * * * *

“The novel, when tried on the touchstone of nature, does not stand the
test. A genuine humour twinkles over the book, making it very pleasant
indeed to read.”

+ – =Acad.= 71: 53. Jl. 21, ’06. 1680w.

“It is not too much to say that it places him at the head of
contemporary American novelists.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 97. Jl. 28. 450w.

“It is of better quality than the average fiction of to-day.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 115. O. ’06. 170w.

+ + – =Critic.= 49: 208. S. ’06. 410w.

+ + =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 390w.

“A sober estimate will give the book due recognition for its idealism,
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ignoring its coherent structure, its superficial characterization, its
long-windedness, its affected pose, and its slovenly diction.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 430w.

“Mr. Churchill’s latest novel is his best novel.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 96. Jl. 12, ’06. 860w.

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

“The story is open, nevertheless, to the same objections which have
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diffusion of events over too large an area.”

+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 460w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 300w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

“He transcribes rather than creates, and his effects are got by
plodding equably ahead with his narrative rather than by any flash of
inspiration.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 249. Jl. 13, ’06. 650w.

“‘Coniston’ would have been a good novel if it had begun in the
middle.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 38. Jl. 12, ’06. 540w.

“‘Coniston’ can hardly fail to give its readers food for thought. Well
will it be for our government if these readers are many, and if they
straightway proceed to run according to the reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 1140w.

“‘Coniston’ is so great an advance on ‘The crisis’ and ‘The crossing’
in construction, condensation, and artistic feeling that it cannot
fail to appeal to a new group of readers, while its human duality will
hold those who have already accepted Mr. Churchill as a born
storyteller.”

+ + =Outlook= 83: 100. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 130w.

“But Mr. Churchill does not merely preach a sermon on civic
righteousness. ‘Coniston’ is a love story, and a capital one, of
perhaps a deeper motive than any of the earlier romances from Mr.
Churchill’s pen.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 256. Ag. ’06. 450w.

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 305. S. 8, ’06. 220w.

+ + – =Spec.= 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 1030w.

=Churchill, Winston.= Title-mart. **75c. Macmillan.

In this little three-act comedy Mr. Churchill satirizes the American
custom of bartering off comely heiresses in the title-market. The
scene is laid in a millionaire’s New England “camp,” the principal
actors are a practical father, an ambitious stepmother, an athletic
daughter devoted to jiu-jitsu, and an English lord who for the
amusement of the moment trades his title for the plain Reginald
Burking, M. P. of the friend accompanying him. The situations growing
out of the exchange of identity are humorously farcical.

* * * * *

“The whole, though a trifle extravagant, is written with remarkable
spirit and humour.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 743. Je. 16. 150w.

“It is smartly written and reads well. The contrast of the rustic mind
with metropolitan swiftness is humorously set forth.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 164. Mr. 17, ’06. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 50w.

“The play is extremely light, however, and depends for its substance
upon a confusion in identities.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 200w.

=Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer.= Lord Randolph Churchill. 2v. **$9. Macmillan.

The fact that Mr. Winston Churchill is not of the party in the
interests of which his father ran his brief political career insures
for this work non-partisan treatment. It deals with Lord Churchill’s
public rather than his private life, and is in the main a record of
ten brief years of an effective career. During this period Lord
Churchill became leader of the House of Commons and chief exponent of
the so-called Tory democracy, attempted the reform of the Conservative
party from within and in the end broke with all his former leaders and
colleagues. “The atmosphere is from start to finish severely
political.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Morley himself did not show more candour in writing the life of
Mr. Gladstone than Mr. Winston Churchill has shown in dealing with the
career of his father.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 1220w.

“It will have to be carefully studied by all who would be well versed
in the political history of England, especially party history, from
the Reform act of 1867 to the end of the Unionist administration of
1886–1892.” Edward Porritt.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 675. Ap. ’06. 790w.

“In the work before us there are many fine passages, and we find it
almost as a whole both vivid and dignified in narration, and here and
there even noble.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 7. Ja. 6. 4340w.

“Mr. Winston Churchill makes the reader feel the tragedy of his
father’s life,—a tragedy equally dramatic whether, as he contends, it
was due to a conscientious struggle for principles that could not be
carried out, or whether, like the tragedies of romance, it was the
fatal result of defects of character.” A. Lawrence Lowell.

+ + + =Atlan.= 98: 248. Ag. ’06. 3910w.

“A biography of marked interest, of rare quality and of intrinsic
historical value.” George Louis Beer.

+ + =Critic.= 49: 83. Jl. ’06. 2420w.

+ – =Current Literature.= 40: 381. Ap. ’06. 1310w.

“It has, then, both biographical importance and historical value, for
it gives us a clearer insight into the workings of Tory machinery than
any other volume.” E. D. Adams.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 2930w.

“Its place is alongside John Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone.’”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 626. Mr. 15, ’06. 1260w.

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

“If executed with tact and a certain deference to family
susceptibilities, may safely be pronounced an impressive political
biography and an invaluable contribution to the history of the
conservative party and of British politics generally.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 491. Mr. 31, ’06. 1210w.

“A life so well worth writing has been admirably written.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 1. Ja. 5, ’06. 3580w.

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 492. Je. 14, ’06. 2110w.

“His book has a general value in so far as it treats of the politics
of Great Britain during a brief period active in partisan struggles if
not notable for great achievements; for it gives us an inside view of
the strange way in which a nation is governed.” Joseph O’Connor.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 125. Mr. 3. ’06. 3870w.

“Considering everything Mr. Churchill is to be felicitated on the
zeal, tact, and ability with which he has executed his task.” H.
Addington Bruce.

+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 905. Ag. 18, ’06. 1790w.

“His manifest care and wish—and he succeeds in both—are to present his
father as he lived, fought, worked among his fellows.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 283. Mr. 3, ’06. 800w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 280w.

“The style of the narrative is easy and clear, occasionally graceful
and pathetic. There is a due sense of perspective.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 18. Ja. 6, ’06. 3080w.

“The book has its faults,—faults of arrangement, of prolixity and
repetition, of occasional irrelevance; and the writer has been tempted
unconsciously to turn the narrative of certain incidents in his
father’s life into a kind of apology for certain incidents in his own.
Mr. Churchill tells the story of his father’s private life with
singular tact and good taste, and he has striven to make the tale of
his public life an adequate history of an epoch in English politics.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: 19. Ja. 6, ’06. 2170w.

=Clare, W. H.= Rattle of his chains. $1.25 Eastern pub. co.

Here is portrayed on the one hand the bondage of a young man serving
false gods bound so that with every move the chains rattle; on the
other, the freedom of industry—“with greed, avarice and covetousness
wanting, and with the golden rule as a living precept.”

=Clarke, Rev. Richard F.= Lourdes: its inhabitants, its pilgrims, and its miracles. *$1. Benziger.

The miracle phase of the Lourdes pilgrimage is uppermost in this
account which is given with “rigorous exactitude.”

=Clarke, William Newton.= Use of the Scriptures in theology; the Nathaniel William Taylor lectures delivered at Yale university in 1905. **$1. Scribner.

“We believe the author’s positions and arguments are in the main sound
and irrefutable.” Milton S. Terry.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 363. Ap. ’06. 1300w.

“Mention should be made of the sweet spirit, religious insight, and
frank and honest courage which appear conspicuously upon every page of
the book.” G. B. S.

+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 474. Je. ’06. 1220w.

=Clayden, Arthur William.= Cloud studies. **$3.50. Dutton.

Not alone to the meteorologist and to the artist who finds
extraordinary examples of art in the “general negligence of cloud
forms,” but to the general reader also does this work appeal. “It is
important to notice that the author accepts the types of the
international cloud atlas and arranges his various forms as subforms
of these types.” The illustrations include many reproductions of
typical cloud-forms, and forms showing the transformation of one
cloud-form into another.

* * * * *

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 364. Mr. 24. 440w.

“Not only the nature-lover and the artist, but the meteorologist as
well, will find much of value and interest in this book.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 169. S. 16, ’06. 190w.

“While of great value to specialists, is hardly less interesting to
the general reader, and will be immensely helpful in continued and
more accurate study of this fascinating subject.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 328. Ap. 19, ’06. 900w.

“Mr. Claydon’s work will be a standard one for all students of
clouds.” H. Hildebrand Hildebrandsson.

+ + – =Nature.= 73: 416. Mr. 1, ’06. 690w.

“While its text should appeal to the scientific man, and its
photographic illustrations to the artist, the style is not attractive,
and in spite of the theoretical interest of the subject, will hardly
induce the wider public to read it in large numbers.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 14. Ja. 13, ’06. 640w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 456. Ap. 14, ’06. 1750w.

“This volume is essentially practical, and anyone who has read it with
attention will find a new interest added for the future to his daily
study of the sky.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 460w.

=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.=). Editorial wild oats. †$1. Harper.

+ =Spec.= 96: 952. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.=). Eve’s diary. $1. Harper.

“Translated from the original,” these experiences of Eve in the garden
of Eden and afterwards form a fitting companion piece to “Extracts
from Adam’s diary.” Thruout she is Eve, the first woman, naive,
frankly curious and frankly loving, a world of women feel the kin-call
when she speaks and her Adam, as she draws him, is without question
the eternal masculine. There is a fund of wit and humor in this gentle
satire on man and nature and there is something more, an undernote
which culminates in this closing tribute to the first mother: At Eve’s
grave. Adam: “Wheresoever she was _there_ was Eden.”

* * * * *

“The book is hardly to us a favorable specimen of the author’s
humour.”

– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 185. Ag. 18. 80w.

+ =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 90w.

“The only fault to find with these books is that there is so little of
them.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

“The book bears internal evidence that it owes much to the skill of
the translator.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 100w.

+ =Spec.= 97: 393. S. 22, ’06. 1310w.

=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Men and things. $1.25. Harper.

An illustrated volume of humor, comprising well chosen selections from
thirty-six modern humorists including Ade, Aldrich, Bangs, Burdette,
Field, Harris, Harte, Holmes, Howells, Nye, Warner and others perhaps
less well known but no less amusing. Mark Twain, as compiler, opens
the book with this apology, “Those selections in this book which are
from my own works were made by my two assistant compilers, not by me.
This is why there are not more.”

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 90w.

=Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 60w.

“It would seem that each author is represented by his inferior work
only.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 170w.

“The new book is full of good matter, in prose and verse.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 116. F. 24, ’06. 250w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 100w.

“It is trite and unnecessary but only fair to say that the best things
in the book are his own.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 150w.

=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.)=, ed. Primrose way. Mark Twain’s library of humor. †$1.50. Harper.

The third volume in Mark Twain’s “Library of humor” continues for
funloving readers the humorous offerings of “Men and things,” and
“Women and things.” Besides the editor’s own contributions are stories
by George Ade, John Kendrick Bangs, Samuel Cox, Sewell Ford, William
Dean Howells, John G. Saxe, Melville D. Landon, Hugh Pendexter and
many others.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 372. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 160w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 40w.

=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= $30,000 bequest and other stories. $1.75. Harper.

Forty or more of Mark Twain’s funniest stories have been gathered into
this volume. Some have appeared before in book form while other more
recent ones have seen print only in magazines. The volume includes: A
dog’s tale, The Californian’s tale, A telephone conversation, Italian
with grammar, The danger of lying in bed, Eve’s diary, Extracts from
Adam’s diary, and A double-barreled detective story. The frontispiece
is a photograph of the author on his 70th birthday, and there are
other illustrations.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.

=Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 120w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 670. O. 13, ’06. 230w.

=Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 60w.

=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Women and things. †$1.50. Harper.

The second volume in Mark Twain’s “Library of humor.” There are some
of Mark Twain’s own stories including the inimitable funny “Esquimau
maiden’s romance.” There are stories by George Ade, John Kendrick
Bangs, Josh Billings, Josiah Allen’s Wife, Widow Bedott, Bret Harte
and others. The stories humorously show the graces, the foibles, the
fancies and weaknesses of women.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 40: 334. My. 16, ’06. 50w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 50w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 40w.

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 70w.

=Clement, Ernest Wilson.= Christianity in modern Japan. **$1. Am. Bapt.

“Clear, compact, and well arranged.”

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 190. Ja. ’06. 290w.

=Clement, Ernest Wilson.= Handbook of modern Japan. **$1.40. McClurg.

=Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 50w.

=Clements, Frederick E.= Research methods in ecology. $3. Univ. pub., Neb.

“One can scarcely praise this work too much; it is what is needed to
prevent ecology from falling into a swift and merited disfavor.”

+ + + =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 381. N. ’05. 790w.

=Clerke, Agnes Mary.= System of the stars. *$6.50. Macmillan.

The results of the past fifteen years of sidereal research have been
embodied in Miss Clerke’s revision. Extensive modifications of the old
text have been made, and new chapters inserted.

* * * * *

“It has the remarkable feature of combining extraordinary profusion of
precise information with an elegance of literary style quite unusual
in scientific authors.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 556. Je. 9, ’06. 760w.

“All astronomers and those interested in astronomy will heartily
welcome the new edition of Miss Clerke’s ‘System of the stars’.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 727. N. 25. 110w.

“Students of astronomy will find the latest results of sidereal
research admirably stated in the new edition.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 60w.

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 420w.

“The work is so good that every student of astronomical physics must
be familiar with it, and every astronomical library must include it.”
R. A. Gregory.

+ + + =Nature.= 73: 505. Mr. 29, ’06. 3840w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ’05. 270w.

“Is one of the noteworthy additions to scientific literature.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 100w.

“We find, as we expected to find, a well-arranged, lucid and
remarkably accurate account of an immense number of observations and a
sympathetic though judicious and cautious analysis of the various
inferences that have been drawn from them.”

+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 54. Ja. 13, ’06. 1100w.

“Miss Clerke. with her usual power of accurate and lucid exposition,
has given us a most fascinating account of all that astronomers have
thus far discovered about these immensely distant stars.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: 714. My. 5, ’06. 1350w.

=Cleveland, Frederick Albert.= Bank and the treasury. *$1.80. Longmans.

Reviewed by Frank L. McVey.

=Dial.= 41: 166. S. 16, ’06. 6120w.

– =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 110w.

“In character it is a plea, not an investigation; an exposition and
defense of ‘a point of view.’ The author also makes some excellent
proposals concerning the form of bank reports.” David Kinley.

+ + – =Yale R.= 14: 421. F. ’06. 530w.

=Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover.= Fishing and shooting sketches: il. by H: S. Watson. *$1.25. Outing pub.

Mr. Grover Cleveland is manifestly as authoritative on the subject of
fishing as was Isaak Walton of old. Much of the former’s philosophy is
simmered down to creed form for the sportsman. And his book,
copyrighted now for the fifth time, has become a guide book for the
fisherman and hunter who are only better instructed for the woodsy
out-of-door tang to all of Mr. Cleveland’s law unto their “honorable
order.”

=Climenson, Mrs. Emily J.= Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Blue-stockings: her correspondence from 1720–1761. 2v. **$8. Dutton.

The story of the early life of Mrs. Montagu, written by her
great-great-niece. “The material in the two volumes was gleaned from
some sixty-eight cases, in each of which were from 100 to 150 letters,
written by Mrs. Montagu or received by her. There are letters to and
from the most learned and celebrated personages in England and France
and other countries. Among the names mentioned are the Duchess of
Portland, Laurence Sterne, Dr. Johnson, Sir Robert Walpole, Mrs.
Friend, Elizabeth Carter, the translator of Epictetus; Gilbert West,
Nathaniel Hooke, Mrs. Pococke, David Hume, Lyttleton, Lord Bath, Dr.
Young, and a number of others.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Mrs. Climenson has succeeded in identifying, with one or two
exceptions, the numerous folk whose names occur in her text; in other
respects her notes are defective and capricious.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 495. My. 26. ’06. 2180w.

“Though containing a variety of readable matter, we think it might
with advantage have been shortened by the excision of much domestic
detail which is not of general interest.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 537. My. 5. 2490w.

Reviewed by J. H. Lobban.

=Blackwood’s M.= 180: 452. O. ’06. 4480w.

+ =Critic.= 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 280w.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 270w.

“Mrs. Climenson has proved herself a loving editor of her kinswoman’s
letters. She has verified with enormous labor the dates of letters,
many of which were previously uncertain.” Basil Williams.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 594. Jl. ’06. 410w.

“She was a formalist rather than a wit, and in her letters she tries
so hard to be amusing that one would really prefer her natural
dulness.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 140. Ap. 20, ’06. 820w.

[Mrs. Climenson has] “so more than edited it that the two handsome and
liberally illustrated volumes ... might be styled a memoir.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 400w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 220w.

“The two volumes before us are edited with some care and not a little
profusion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 351. Je. 2, ’06. 1600w.

“Her correspondence is interesting, for it gives an insight into the
customs of the day, fashions, amusements, travel, etc.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.

“We have many reliable and entertaining contemporary records of the
crowded eighteenth century, but this must be regarded as exceptionally
attractive.” Elizabeth Lore North.

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 524. Je. 30, ’06. 1580w

“Mrs. Climenson is defective in ... literary tact and sense of
perspective.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 727. Je. 9, ’06. 1670w.

=Clute, Willard Nelson.= Fern allies. **$2. Stokes.

“The field notes, which show an intimate acquaintance with the life
histories of the various forms, will interest the botanist as well as
the layman.”

+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 464. D. ’05. 130w.

=Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 60w.

“One could hardly ask a better guide than Mr. Clute’s handsome
volume.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1482. D. 21, ’05. 80w.

“A few years ago the Clutes gave us the best, most comprehensive book
that we have concerning our ferns in their haunts, and now they have
accomplished a yet more difficult task, that of writing and adequately
illustrating a guide to the more obscure kin of the fern tribe.” Mabel
Osgood Wright.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 470w.

=Coates, Thomas F. G.= Prophet of the poor: the life story of General Booth. *$1.50. Dutton.

“In its special mission of reclaiming and preventing the waste of
humanity, the Salvation army has put life and force into the
desiccated idea of the ‘Church militant.’ Of this idea, as well as of
the poor, General Booth has been for over half a century the prophet,
and also the prophet of a human brotherhood, the Christian ideal of
which is more largely realized in his army than in any other branch of
the church. The life-story of this great leader, and of his
like-minded and noble wife and comrade, the ‘mother’ of the army, is
an illustrious chapter in the yet unfinished Acts of the
apostles.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“One would turn to it in vain to find broad grasp of the relation of
the Army to other religious or social efforts of the time, or even
vivid portrayal of the personality of its subject. It fails also in
arrangement of its material, has no index, and is not in any way
satisfactory as a biography of General Booth.”

– =Ind.= 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 140w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 654. O. 6, ’06. 1700w.

=Outlook.= 83: 244. My. 26, ’06. 190w.

“A very entertaining and graphic biography.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 250w.

=Cody, Sherwin.= Success in letter-writing, business and social. **75c. McClurg.

The methods of the old-fashioned polite letter-writing have been
studiously avoided in this up to date volume which “actually tells how
to deal with human nature by mail.” Under the head of business letter
writing not only routine business letters, but circular letters,
advertising letters and letters which “sell goods” are treated. Under
social letter writing are included the various forms of social
correspondence, invitations, regrets, letters of friendship and
liberal advice upon love letters.

=Colcock, Annie T.= Her American daughter. $1.50. Neale.

A group of American writers and artists come together in Madrid at the
opening of the Spanish-American war, and during these agitated days
they work out among themselves the very pretty little love story of
Miss Ray, an art student from South Carolina and Russell, a New York
writer who has had the misfortune to offend her by publishing an
article which ridicules the South. A bull-fight, a carnival, a wicked
señor who has made a wager that Miss Ray will dine with him at
midnight unchaperoned, and good Donna Dolores who calls Miss Ray her
American daughter, lend to the story a truly Spanish atmosphere.

=Colegrove, William.= Hartford; an epic poem. $1.25. Badger, R. G.

An epic poem modeled upon the Æneid, which presents the early history
of Hartford, Connecticut and sings of arms and the colony’s founders.

=Collier, The Hon. John.= Art of portrait painting. *$3.50. Cassell.

In this practical treatise for the student and professional painter,
the subject is treated from a threefold point of view: The historical,
The aims and methods of the great masters, and The practice of
portrait painting. The illustrations include forty or more portraits
painstakingly reproduced from some of the world’s best work.

* * * * *

“No man of our day could write of his subjects more agreeably, sanely,
or with more intimate knowledge, nor produce a volume so likely to
gain the attention of the general public.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 525. Je. 2, ’06. 500w.

“Much personal suggestion is also admitted by the pleasantly
colloquial manner of the book, and the attitude throughout is marked
by common sense, definite opinions and an open-minded inclination for
progress and novelty coupled with a sufficient conservatism.”

+ – =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 54. D. ’06. 330w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 379. Je. 9, ’06. 640w.

=Collins, Archie Frederick.= Wireless telegraphy: its history, theory and practice. *$3. McGraw.

A general explanation of the theory of etheric waves furnishes a
foundation for an explanation of the nature of waves in general, of
light waves of electrical vibrations, and apparatus for producing
them. “He discusses electric discharges, the action of ultra violet
rays, direct and alternating current effects.... He explains the
workings of a variety of oscillating current generators and then
passes to electric wave detectors—the best known to the public being
the Marconi ‘coherer.’” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=Engin. N.= 56: 417. O. 18, ’06. 100w.

“Aims to be—and seems to succeed in being—a practical treatise on
wireless telegraphy so written so as to be of use both to the expert
in scientific matters and to the tyro who has everything to learn.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 733. O. 28, ’05. 330w.

“In the opinion of the reviewer the illustrations ... constitute the
most useful part of this book. In the hands of one whose familiarity
of the subject enables him to interpret the many obscure passages and
to distinguish the inaccurate statements from those that are correct,
Mr. Collins’s book may in some cases be found useful.” Ernest Merritt.

– – + =Phys. R.= 22: 63. Ja. ’06. 500w.

“He covers the whole field briefly but satisfactorily. In addition to
being practically the first book in this field, Mr. Collins’s is well
prepared and authoritative.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 170w.

=Collins, John Churton.= Studies in poetry and criticism. $2.50. Macmillan.