Chapter IX: Preface (9)

Seven essays which regard poetry from the standpoint of the
moralist,—the moralist who thinks that “In the wretched degradation
into which belles lettres have fallen we seem to be losing all sense
of the importance once attached to them, when critics were scholars
and poets something more than aesthetes.” The essays are The poetry
and poets of America, The collected work of Lord Byron, The collected
poems of Mr. William Watson, The poetry of Gerald Massey, Miltonic
myths and their authors, Longinus and Greek criticism, and the True
functions of poetry.

* * * * *

“In this book Mr. Churton Collins writes as a pessimist.”

– =Acad.= 69: 1305. D. 16, ’05. 1850w.

“As a critic, Prof. Collins has a cultivated taste, but his instinct
is unsure.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 857. D. 23. 1720w.

“Impeccable in scholarship. Mr. Collins has not in this volume avoided
one or two minor slips of style, probably due to careless
proofreading.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 472. Je. 7, ’06. 1590w.

“A genuine by-product of scholarship, true essays, containing not any
sound doctrine, but the human touch which alone is able to convey the
results of scholarship to those who stand outside the bars of that
snug pasture.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 5700w.

“A fine book because its author has high ideals and has lived with and
learned to love the master-minds of literature.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 494. Ap. 21, ’06. 1100w.

“The truth is that Professor Collins’s doctrine turns out, if it is
followed to its logical conclusion, to be a fatally narrow one.”

+ – =Spec.= 97: 93. Jl. 21, ’06. 1870w.

=Colson, Elizabeth, and Chittenden, Anna Gansevoort=, comps. Children’s letters: a collection of letters written to children by famous men and women. $1. Hinds.

As different in tone and individuality are these letters as the
characteristics and moods of the long list of contributors. Among the
letter-writers selected are Holmes, Whittier, Lincoln, Phillips
Brooks, Martin Luther, Sidney Smith, Longfellow, Stevenson, Scott,
Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen and many others.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.

“The compilers ... have performed their tasks of selection and
explanation with good judgment and sympathy.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 41. Ja. 20, ’06. 2030w.

“Altogether a delightful little volume, and one well worth making.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 445. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.

=Colton, Arthur Willis.= Belted seas. †$1.50. Holt.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

=Atlan.= 97: 46. Ja. ’06. 200w.

=Colton, Arthur Willis.= Cruise of the Violetta. †$1.50. Holt.

An Ohio woman, left with a vast fortune, equips a yacht and sails to
the land of “parrots and monkeys and bananas and foreign missions.”
The story is a humorous characterization of a practical woman’s
missionary work, shared by the unique Dr. Alswater, who was “not a
‘globe trotter’ but rather a floater,—in the manner resembling
sea-weed, that drifts from place to place, but wherever it drifts or
clings, is tranquil and accommodating.” The fortunes of a young
electrician, sent to a South American town to establish an electric
light plant, form one thread of the tale.

* * * * *

“Mr. Colton’s new novel is conceived in an unconventional, not to say
freakish, style. Banter and sarcasm prevail from the beginning to the
end. Humor is not lacking, but it is seldom wholesome or spontaneous.”

– + =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 200w.

“He approaches the ticklish realm of burlesque with too great
cocksureness.”

– =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 250w.

“It is lively and clever, and fit company for hours that might
otherwise be dull.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

“In this book he is not at his best.”

– =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 40w.

=Colvin, Sir Auckland.= Making of modern Egypt. *$4. Dutton.

“It is the imperturbability of Lord Cromer which dominates Sir.
Auckland Colvin’s history,” (Acad.)—the man who is chiefly responsible
for the growth of modern Egypt. “The scheme of the book is a simple
one. Whereas Lord Milner gave us a series of brilliant essays on
different aspects of the Egyptian problem, Sir Auckland aims at
presenting a consecutive narrative of successive incidents so that the
reader may know, in any given year, the exact progress made by Egypt
up to that date in all branches of the public service. It is an
attempt to show history in the making, and, though lacking the style
and charm of “England in Egypt,” it will prove of more value to the
student than Lord Milner’s volume.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“Well written, lucid and temperate, it sets before us the events of
the last five and twenty years without favour. As we read Sir Auckland
Colvin’s book, we understand the reason of the supremacy which England
most unselfishly still holds in Egypt and her colonies, and we can
imagine no better handbook of practical statesmanship than ... ‘Making
of modern Egypt.’”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 279. Mr. 24, ’06. 1150w.

“Sir Auckland Colvin knows all there is to be known on ‘The making of
modern Egypt.’ The fact that he can hardly be said to possess the art
of constructing a book does not detract from the worth of this volume,
though it renders it heavy for the general reader.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 296. Mr. 10. 610w.

“It differs from Lord Milner’s ‘England in Egypt’ in being more of a
consecutive narrative of incidents, but at the same time lacks the
brilliancy of style that characterizes Lord Milner’s essays.”

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 260w.

“Despite a few errors and a few redundancies this book is the most
useful record available, if we exclude Lord Cromer’s official reports,
of Egypt’s progress from 1882 to the present day.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 90. Mr. 16, ’06. 1300w.

“The book, despite the many romantic phases of the subject, is not
exciting reading, but it supplies the safest guide to those who may
wish to study one of the most interesting and far-reaching series of
events which have occurred in our own time.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 62. Jl. 19, ’06. 1320w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 390w.

“Cannot fail to be a valuable and interesting work.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 60w.

“Every chapter is enlivened with wit and picturesqueness of phrase,
and he has a happy gift of classical reminiscence.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: 946. Je. 16, ’06. 1340w.

=Coman, Katherine.= Industrial history of the United States for high schools and colleges. *$1.25. Macmillan.

“In view of the scattered and partial character of the material
available, it is not perhaps surprising that Miss Coman’s book gives
the impression of a collection of facts having to do with the economic
history of the United States, rather than of a clear presentation of
the main features of that history and the influences by which they
have been determined. It must be said, moreover, that even in her
statements of facts the author has not exercised as much care as might
fairly be expected.” Henry B. Gardner.

– + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 948. Jl. ’06. 650w.

“On all moot questions in our economic history, whether resulting from
political differences or purely academic in character, she has shown
an eminent degree of fairness.” Robert C. Brooks.

+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 530. Ja. ’06. 550w.

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of statement.” Henry E. Bourne.

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“This is an instructive and a much needed work.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 440w.

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it fails to leave upon the mind of the reader a clear impression of
the development of the principal industries of the country.” Robert
Morris.

+ + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 62. Ja. ’06. 140w.

“The lines of conception ... are broad, and bold, but not fully
matched by firmness in execution.” Carl Russell Fish.

+ – =School R.= 14: 462. Je. ’06. 530w.

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commendation. The great defect of the book is that those ‘essential
elements’ of our economic history are not only not brought out clearly
so that the reader may be sure to grasp them, but they are apparently
not comprehended by the author herself.” G. S. C.

+ – =Yale. R.= 15: 324. N. ’06. 1150w.

=Commons, John Rogers=, ed. Trade unionism and labor problems. *$2.50. Ginn.

The second volume of the “Selections and documents in economics” being
brought out by Professor W. Z. Ripley of Harvard university. There are
twenty-seven essays, mostly reprints from current scientific magazines
on a variety of aspects of the social and economic situation, which
aim to furnish collateral reading for college classes.

* * * * *

“Is invaluable to the student; it places in accessible form a mass of
most important material, and heartily commends itself to the reader.”
G. B. Mangold.

+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 182. Jl. ’06. 580w.

“There is scarcely a question of the day that does not have
interesting light shed on it by one or more persons peculiarly fitted
to discuss it. The book is an excellent disseminator of wholesome good
sense and moderation.” W. E. C. W.

+ + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 196. Ja. ’06. 320w.

“It will furnish the raw material for a course in descriptive
economics, and as such is a serviceable volume.”

+ =Bookm.= 22: 536. Ja. ’06. 130w.

“Despite the variety of material in the book, a fair amount of unity
is preserved through Mr. Commons’s introduction, which adequately
relates the chapters.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 190w.

“To any student of labor problems the book is indispensable.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 150w.

“With most of the material included economists are generally familiar,
but the assembling of the material in one volume provides an excellent
text-book for classes making a study of labor problems.” John
Cummings.

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 455. Jl. ’06. 320w.

“The selections will supplement admirably the lectures and ordinary
reference-books which have constituted hitherto the principal pabulum
that teachers could set before their students.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 250w.

“The volume is full of valuable information, but it is rather material
for the student than history, philosophy, or sociology for the general
reader.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 210w.

“In no other one book is such a mass of vital facts brought together.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ’05. 210w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 210w.

Companion to Greek studies; ed. by Leonard Whibley. *$6. Macmillan.

“The only weakness is in a detail of arrangement i. e. the neglect of
side references and the consequent lack of coherence. There is much
unevenness in the bibliographies.” James C. Egbert.

+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 454. Je. ’06. 610w.

=Comstock, Harriet T.= Meg and the others. 75c. Crowell.

Two little girls of to-day, sitting in the firelight just before
bed-time hear the stories of Meg, and Mary, and the Boy, which their
grandmother calls out of the long ago for them. And when they have
heard all about them, their games, their troubles, and their
adventures, when they have learned to love them, and are loath to let
them go, they find that Mary is a nice old lady who is coming to live
with them, and that Meg and the Boy are really their own dear
grandmother and grandfather.

=Comstock, Mrs. Harriet Theresa.= Queen’s hostage. †$1.50. Little.

A story built up about plot, treachery, and treason which constantly
threatened Queen Elizabeth’s peace of mind. The hero is a young lord
of the house of Rathven who incognito redresses the wrongs of a
treacherous father and earns the long questioned right to be counted
among the queen’s loyal subjects.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 170w.

=Comstock, Seth Cook.= Marcelle the mad. †$1.50. Appleton.

“With the romantic Ardennes forest for setting, and for the motif the
incident of a medieval feud between the Duke of Burgundy and the
citizens of the town of Dinant, Dr. Comstock has written a stirring
tale of adventure to which he gives the name of ‘Marcelle the mad’ ...
after the female Robin Hood who plays the leading role.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“A trifle melodramatic and stilted in the earlier chapters, it
develops into a really powerful piece of work. If the story boasts
little originality either of plot or incident, it is told with a skill
and vigor that lift it well above the level of its kind, and few are
likely to leave it dissatisfied.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 210w.

“As a romance—a mere romance—of the time-killing variety, Mr.
Comstock’s story will do very well indeed.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.

“A stirring tale of love and adventure.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.

=Conant, Charles Arthur.= Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4. Harper.

Mr. Conant’s work carries “the reader from the beginnings of exchange
when cattle and fragments of metal passed by tale of weight down
through the origin of coinage and the birth thereof of modern banking
to the complete mechanism of money and credit as they exist to-day.”
“It is not written for the purpose of demolishing the ‘quantity
theory,’ extirpating the bimetallist, or advocating an ‘asset
currency,’ but is devoted to irenic exposition rather than polemical
discussions.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The work is not only a forceful exposition of so-called principles
which have guided commercial people and leading nations in thinking
about monetary problems, but it is unique in that the work of the
author is in the nature of a collation of the thought and expression
of nearly every writer of note on the several topics treated.”
Frederick A. Cleveland.

+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 424. Mr. ’06. 2170w.

“The proper man to write on the subject is the man who is constantly
practicing the operations he describes. Mr. Conant fulfills these
conditions.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 401. O. 6. 1890w.

“To his task Mr. Conant brings some very unusual qualifications.”
Winthrop More Daniels.

+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 851. Je. ’06. 640w.

“A breadth of view and a freedom from partisan bias not frequently
found in monetary treatises.” R. C. B.

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 216. Ap. ’06. 510w.

“A careful reading increases the admiration for the skill with which
the well-selected quotations have been woven into the book. What was
once scattered and almost unattainable in small libraries has been
brought together in an attractive, new and forceful way, which leaves
the professor of economics deeply indebted to the author.” Frank L.
McVey.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 450w.

“In spite of its theoretical weakness, the work has much to recommend
it to serious students of monetary science. It furnishes one of the
best available accounts of recent developments in money and banking.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 398. F. 15, ’06. 450w.

“He has not always discriminated between what was novel to him and
what would be new to a well-informed reader. His pages are encumbered
with superfluous quotations upon unimportant topics. His historical
chapters are sometimes painfully inadequate, and his treatment of
theoretical subjects not always satisfactory.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 210w.

“It would be difficult to name a treatise which blends facts and
theory so well, applying each to the other in a manner so
illuminating.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 913. D. 23, ’05. 580w.

“As a writer he possesses an agreeable style and the ability so to
present the most arid scheme that it becomes interesting even to a
reader having a minimum of economic knowledge.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 614. Mr. 17, ’06. 1550w.

“While Mr. Conant’s work possesses the virtue of great
comprehensiveness, it is the opinion of the reviewer that, to be of
greatest use to the general reader and the university student alike, a
book on money and banking should above all exhibit that unity and
precision of theory which is the greatest lack in Mr. Conant’s work.”
A. C. Whitaker.

+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 332. Je. ’06. 1720w.

“Mr. Conant’s treatment of disputed questions in monetary theory, in
the opinion of the present reviewer, leaves much to be desired. Mr.
Conant is none too happy in his handling of technical economic
phrases.” A. Piatt Andrew.

+ – =Yale R.= 15: 321. N. ’06. 1190w.

Congo, The: a report of the commission of enquiry appointed by the Congo Free State government. *$1. Putnam.

“The main topics taken up in the commissions’s report are the land
régime, taxation, military service, trade concessions, depopulation,
and the administration of justice. In respect to all of these matters,
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appropriating alleged vacant lands, the oppressiveness of the labor
tax, the terrorism and cruelty resulting from quasi-military
expeditions, the exploitation of the natives by agents of greedy
commercial companies, and the lax jurisdiction of the territorial
courts.”—Dial.

* * * * *

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 100w.

=Dial.= 41: 210. O. 1, ’06. 450w.

=Ind.= 60: 874. Ap. 12, ’06. 120w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 340w.

=Connolly, James Bennet.= Deep sea’s toll. †$1.50. Scribner.

“It is a healthy, stimulating book, with the tang of salt air in every
page.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 190w.

“Though applauded by all true sailors, is a trifle too special for a
general reader.” Mary Moss.

+ – =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 40w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.

=Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 240w.

“Is written with full knowledge and sympathy, and in the slow,
involved talk of the men we get much of the flavour of the spoken
word.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.

=Connor, Ralph, pseud. (Charles William Gordon).= The Doctor, a tale of the Rockies. †$1.50. Revell.

A character of rare strength and beauty is developed in this story of
Barney, who as a lad was obliged to renounce his hope of a college
education in favor of a clever younger brother. He stayed at the mill,
worked, played his violin, and longed to be a doctor. Then, after many
things had come to pass which tried his soul, and purged it of all
dross, he became a preacher-doctor in the Rockies where strong men and
rough loved him for his unselfish ministrations to their bodies and
their souls and honored him as a power for good. In the end when he
laid down his life for his friend he brought his career to its final
triumph of success in failure.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 180w.

“It is hard to see why the average adult should not find the story at
once commonplace and passably long-winded.”

– =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w.

“The best thing Ralph Connor has done since ‘The sky pilot,’ and
perhaps the best thing he has ever done. Is a good book, both in the
religious and literary senses of the word.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 440w.

=Conover, James Potter.= Memories of a great schoolmaster. **$1.50. Houghton.

The life of Dr. Henry A. Coit, for fifty years headmaster of St.
Paul’s school at Concord, N. H., has inspired this volume. It is a
confession of Dr. Coit’s religious and educational faith expressed in
terms of high standards and ideals in everything.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 160w.

“To the alumnus of St. Paul’s the book will be a valuable memorial of
its chief personality; and to others it will be an interesting
disclosure of a noteworthy influence.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 321. My. 19, ’06. 1080w.

“It is an inspiring book for all who, whether teachers or parents,
have the perilous charge of either boys or girls in the budding time
of adolescence.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 190w.

“His book has the double charm of personal knowledge and of love for
his subject.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 511. Ap. 21, ’06. 60w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. 2, ’06. 70w.

=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski).= Mirror of the sea. †$1.50. Harper.

One who has long known and loved her, and who has always understood,
writes here of the sea and her moods, of her anger when the winds lash
her, of the fear of her, the charm of her, of the men in the good
ships that sail her and sometimes go down in her, of their ways, their
rugged courage, and the various phases of the lives they lead. There
are bits of sentiment, scraps of romance, flashes of humor, many real
dramatic scenes and much hard fact, and thru it all the sound of the
sea.

* * * * *

“But the book is more than a series of fine pictures; it is a
sensitive appreciation of the whole art of seamanship, an imaginative
reading of the varying moods of the sea.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 393. O. 20, ’06. 980w.

“There is nothing here which the discriminating reader can afford to
miss.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 513. O. 27. 430w.

“His latest work will compare well with the best work he has done.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 220w.

“For ‘The mirror of the sea’ we would make bold to predict a very long
life. We seem to see it being discovered and re-discovered as the
years roll on.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1390w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 374. N. 1, ’06. 670w.

“He knows the souls of the sea and of ships, as he knows the souls of
men, but that would be worth but little to us, did he not possess a
still more wonderful faculty of interpretation and expression—a
faculty that was never better shown than in these sketches.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 820w.

“To a practical knowledge of seamanship, of lading cargoes, ruling
crews, managing and navigating vessels, Joseph Conrad adds the vision
of a poet and exercises the witchcraft of a master of style.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 180w.

“To those who belong to the totem of its writer it will be always a
kind of gospel. It contains the whole soul of a man who has known the
deeps of sea mysteries, who has sought them as a lover, with joy, and
reverence, and fear.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 888. D. 1, ’06. 850w.

=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski).= Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard. $1.50. Harper.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 45. Ja. ’06. 570w.

Conversations with Christ: a biographical study. $1.50. Macmillan.

The author of these “Conversations” which, he says, have “too much
personality to be mythical” “has taken between twenty and thirty
passages from the gospels in which questions put, or petitions made,
to the Master, and His answers, are recorded. In all of these we have
portraits of Christ, wonderfully various, but with an unmistakable
likeness, and also with an unmistakable reality.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 118. Mr. 30, ’06. 530w.

“As a study it has the merit of freshness and insight; it is the
product of a cultured and vigorous mind, intellectually and
spiritually strong.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 110w.

“A really noble piece of writing.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 372. Mr. 24, ’06. 260w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 501. Mr. 31, ’06. 480w.

=Conway, Sir Martin.= No man’s land; a history of Spitsbergen from its discovery in 1596 to the beginning of the scientific exploration of the country. *$3. Putnam.

It is the history of the whaling industry engaged in by rival nations
along the coasts of this group of islands that occupies the greater
part of Sir Martin Conway’s volume. In addition are accounts of
Russian exploring enterprises and scientific expeditions in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

* * * * *

“His task has been accomplished in a characteristically complete
fashion, and has evidently involved a good deal of research in rare
books of old voyages, both English and Dutch.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 635. My. 26. 880w.

“No one has a better claim than Sir Martin Conway to have undertaken
this history, and few could have written it so well. The book is a
most valuable achievement, a most important contribution to
geographical literature.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 209. Je. 8, ’06. 2190w.

“The great value of this work is that it brings within convenient
compass a great body of information scattered through forgotten books
and manuscripts which throw light on some obscure points and give a
connected history and a most complete account in English of the great
whale industry.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 370w.

“Sir Martin Conway arouses the interests of his readers in the curious
history of a land which, though never permanently inhabited, has
played the part of an apple of discord between the great powers of
former days.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 239. Ag. 25, ’06. 1160w.

“A compendious bibliography and some good illustrations add to the
value of his excellent book.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 330w.

=Cook, E. Wake.= Betterment, individual, social and industrial; or, Highest efficiency. **$1.20. Stokes.

The preface says: “The object of this work is to give in convenient
form the latest discoveries which promote individual, industrial, and
collective efficiency.” Conservation of energy in all its forms would
result in the “Simple life,” weary though the expression be, and the
author suggests it as the goal that insures immunity from disease, and
a great increase in mental and physical energy.

=Cook, Theodore Andrea.= Old Provence. 2v. **$4. Scribner.

“Old Provence is the land of romance, and of the tale of its beauty
and interest Mr. Cook is the most delightful of narrators.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 34. Ja. 13, ’06. 1060w.

“The work needs a clearer plan, more adequate special knowledge,
better judgment and critical discrimination, many more references
(there are but very few), more personal reserve, a better index and a
real map. It is pleasant, semi-learned magazine writing.”

– + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 874. Jl. ’06. 570w.

“More than a guide-book and less, it is one of those aids to travel
which, like Mr. Crawford’s ‘Rulers of the South,’ should lie by the
side of Baedeker in even the smallest steamer trunk.” Josiah Renick
Smith.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 39. Ja. 16, ’06. 1610w.

“The effect is excellent and exquisite, the information fixed and
true.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 440w.

“We commend these attractive volumes to every one who cares for truth
and romance blended in European history.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 463. Mr. 24, ’06. 1730w.

=Cooke, Edmund Vance.= Chronicles of the little tot. $1.50. Dodge.

Under five head verses grave and gay are here grouped for little
people: The cradlers. The creepers, The cruises, The climbers, and In
remembrance.

* * * * *

“Should make both universal and tender appeal,—not alone to those who
are the little tot’s vassals and slaves, but to the wider circle of
child-lovers, as well.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 210w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 818. D. 2, ’05. 310w.

=Cooke, Grace MacGowan.= Their first formal call; il. by Peter Newell. †$1. Harper.

How two ambitious boys just out of knickerbockers and duly posted in
“Hints and helps to young men in business and social relations,” fared
in making their first formal call upon the Misses Claiborne. Not
daring to make their mission known they sat at the feet of Grandfather
Claiborne and Aunt Missouri the entire Sabbath afternoon and when
night came were sent to bed, much to the humbling of their youthful
pride.

* * * * *

“Mrs. Cooke has made the whole affair wonderfully ludicrous and real
and Peter Newell has furnished fourteen full-page pictures as funny as
the text.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

=Cooke, Jane Grosvenor.= Ancient miracle. †$1.50. Barnes.

“Life in the Grand plateaux of northern Canada is described pleasantly
in this peaceful but not unpleasing tale of love and labor. Mrs. Cooke
has imprisoned the atmosphere of this cold yet beautiful country and
draws well the good and pleasant folk who live there. The Francoeur
family, the faithful curé Xavier, and his numerous progeny are all
pictured graphically, while the love stories of the two girls furnish
sufficient interest to keep the reader’s attention.”—Critic.

* * * * *

“It is chiefly for the characterization that the book will be found
enjoyable.”

+ + – =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 90w.

“A romance of the Canadian forests, alive with the fascination and
witchery of those vast regions.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 200w.

“So good superficially that it is a little difficult to express its
limitation. There is a lack of human warmth and sympathy.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 861. Ag. 11, ’06. 110w.

=Cooper, Edward Herbert.= Twentieth century child. $1.50. Lane.

Reviewed by E. L. Pomeroy.

+ =Arena.= 35: 106. Ja. ’06. 230w.

=Cooper, Walter G.= Fate of the middle classes. *$1.25. Consolidated retail booksellers.

+ – =Ind.= 60: 342. F. 8, ’06. 180w.

=Copperthwaite, William C.= Tunnel shields and the use of compressed air in subaqueous works. *$9. Van Nostrand.

“Mr. Copperthwaite’s task has been to compile and condense ...
scattered information into one place. He has done his work
excellently.... Mr. Copperthwaite divides his book into eleven
chapters. Of these the last chapter on ‘Cost of the shield,’ and the
first three chapters on ‘Early history, 1818–1880,’ ‘Use of compressed
air in engineering works’ and ‘Cast-iron lining for tunnels,’
respectively, are general in character; the remaining seven chapters
are collections of descriptions of specific shield tunnel works
classified under three heads; Shields in London clay, Shields in water
bearing strata and Shields in masonry tunnels.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The book is undoubtedly destined to be the standard English work on
this peculiarly difficult branch of engineering practice.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 218. Ag. 25. 1520w.

“The volume is in all respects worthy of prominent position in the
tunnel engineer’s library.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 676. Je. 14, ’06. 1520w.

“A very valuable and comprehensive history of a system of tunnelling.”

+ + + =Nature.= 74: 348. Ag. 9, ’06. 1180w.

=Corelli, Marie (Minnie Mackay).= Treasure of heaven: a romance of riches. †$1.50. Dodd.

The treasure of Heaven which becomes the quest in Miss Corelli’s story
is love, and she would demonstrate the fact that riches menace its
possession. David Helmsley, an aged multi-millionaire, becomes a tramp
in pursuit of definite happiness, he gives and takes in his wanderings
and learns both are spontaneous. Finally he is nursed back from death
by one who teaches him the great love lesson which, without any
matrimonial thought, blesses his closing days.

* * * * *

“The novel is exceedingly modern in flavor and probably will be found
satisfactory by those readers who were in expectation of iconoclastic
touches such as recently have distinguished Miss Corelli’s
utterances.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 260w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 450w.

“Miss Corelli’s latest story is by no means lacking in power. Lacking
in distinction, it of course is; but it has more dignity of substance
and less indignity of style than anything of hers we have hitherto
seen.”

– – + =Nation.= 83: 227. S. 13, ’06. 500w.

“As a literary production does not measure up to its ethical
intention.”

– – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 549. S. 8, ’06. 640w.

=Putnam’s.= 1: 319. D. ’06. 80w.

=Cornell, Hughes.= Kenelm’s Desire. †$1.50. Little.

Desire, a musician by instinct, by training, and by heredity, spends a
summer in British Columbia among the Indians, canoeing, sailing,
mountain-climbing and fishing. Here she discovers in a young Alaska
Indian, adopted and educated by white people, a soul fired by ambition
and pride, one that reflects the sad poetry of vanishing traditions.
The love idyll is interwoven with flagrant race prejudice, political
scenes, and true-to-life sketches of Indian character.

* * * * *

– =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 270w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 220w.

“Hughes Cornell has a novel situation in this story and manages it
well.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 170w.

=Cornes, James.= Modern housing: houses in town and country, illustrated by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement houses, model cottages and villages. *$3. Scribner.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 320w.

=Coryat, Thomas.= Coryat’s crudities. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.

“The recently republished crudities of Thomas Coryat give, perhaps, a
clearer notion of Shakespeare’s period than does Shakespeare himself.”
Herbert Vaughn Abbott.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 694. My. ’06. 3850w.

=Cotes, Sara Jeannette (Duncan) (Mrs. Everard Cotes).= Set in authority. †$1.50. Doubleday.

A story “about India and the possibility of carrying our beloved
doctrines of liberalism into practice in that strange land.... In with
the politics is wound a story of men and women, of love and loss and
hopes and fears, which displays a number of very cleverly drawn
characters, whose thoughts and feelings are of deep interest. The
soldier, by strange bonds that remain concealed until the very end, is
united by close ties to the Viceroy himself—and the discovery adds
pathos to the wretched muddle which everybody made of things.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“It is not a comforting or exhilarating story, but it is a clever,
mature, and thoughtful piece of work that will increase Mrs. Cotes’s
already high reputation.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 529. Je. 2. ’06. 330w.

“Mrs. Cotes has given us of her best in this story of Indian life.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 791. Je. 30. 90w.

“Every character in the book is alive and every character has its
proper measure of interest.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 470w.

“People who like atmosphere, much clever talk, details of life and
character, will enjoy her book. Those who prefer much story and less
atmosphere will pronounce it tedious.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 340w.

“It is quotable to a large degree, and cannot be read without constant
responsive smiles and a desire to share the witty characterizations
with any near-by neighbor.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 190w.

“Society in the capital of a small Indian province is clearly
sketched, but the ineffective love-story of the chief characters is
unconvincing.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 250w.

“Her present book, though from a literary standpoint not quite in her
happiest vein, is, however well worth reading.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 989. Je. 23, ’06. 310w.

=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.).= From a Cornish window. *$1.50. Dutton.

This reflective and discursive “volume is somewhat arbitrarily divided
into twelve chapters named after twelve months. Cornish matters, so
far as treated at all, are more particularly discussed in ‘August’ and
‘December’; the other chapters handle at random, literature and life
and politics and education. The writer’s unenthusiastic estimate of
‘our modern bards of empire,’ whom he finds lacking in high
seriousness and any recognition of the human soul, is to be noted with
approval. In the sober month of November he indulges in reflections on
this human soul’s ultimate destiny.”—Dial.

* * * * *

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 410w.

“Despite occasional dull pages in these random outpourings, our
popular story-teller ‘Q’ is worth reading in his more serious moods.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 118. S. 1, ’06. 360w.

“There are pages of fooling that we could wish omitted; there is a
certain flippancy, a lightness of word that wrongs the serious
thought, that makes us say, ‘Not worthy of “Q”!’ We speak of this at
once, that we may get our objections out of the way and have done with
them. Who—where so much is good—can help a little sigh after
perfection?”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 264. Jl. 27, ’06. 1380w.

“There is much variety in this miscellany, or series of miscellanies,
arranged by the calendar; but nothing therein is labored or affected.
It is excellent talk, as flexible, suggestive, and responsive to
suggestion, as good talk should be.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 880w.

“A very charming miscellany.” H. I. Brock.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 531. S. 1, ’06. 1300w.

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 91. S. 8, ’06. 280w.

“All lovers of good literature will find it a treasury which they will
not readily exhaust.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 300w.

=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.).= Mayor of Troy. †$1.50. Scribner.

+ =Acad.= 70: 333. Ap. 7, ’06. 720w.

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 603. My. 19. 540w.

“A broadly humorous tale.” Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 50w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 80w.

“So long as we are ready to take the actors as characters in farce,
the fun is fast and furious, and the writer carries us along with him
so that we do not stop to think of possibilities.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9., ’06. 420w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 466. Ap. 14, ’06. 150w.

+ – =Spec.= 96: 425. Mr. 17, ’06. 510w.

=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q”, pseud.).= Shakespeare’s Christmas and other stories. †$1.50. Longmans.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 80w.

“Are capital illustrations of his narrative skill.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 90w.

=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.).= Sir John Constantine: memoirs of his adventures at home and abroad, and particularly in the island of Corsica, beginning with the year 1756; written by his son, Prosper Paleologus, otherwise Constantine; ed. by Q. †$1.50. Scribner.

This tale of adventure “has movement, suspense, the thrill of danger
and the delight of high-minded devotion and idealized love. The time
is in the seventeenth century, when Corsica was in arms against
Genoa’s occupation and oppression, and the people were rallying to
Paoli. Among the aspirants for the crown is a young English lad whose
somewhat quixotic but chivalrous father, Sir John Constantine, of
Cornwall, has procured from Theodore, a dissolute ex-king confined in
an English debtor’s prison, a written renunciation in favor of the
boy, together with the possession of the famous iron crown. With a few
friends Sir John and his son land in Corsica and encounter adventure
aplenty.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 71: 440. N. 3, ’06. 550w.

“As adventure there has been no better story for a long time; and
there is many a laugh in it too.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1, 310w.

“A novel of adventure of many merits is ‘Sir John Constantine,’ about
whose ultimate relation to the literature of its period there need be
but little doubt.” A. Schade van Westrum.

+ + =Bookm.= 14: 379. D. ’06. 630w.

“How does he produce a literature that is not literal of life, but
higher—a sublimated form of memories that come to the reader like the
fragrance of centuries, sweet and familiar, too elusive to hold, too
dear to lose?”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 935. O. 18, ’06. 730w.

“His genius consists in having the right words with which to interpret
a high romance of a time long past.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

“Mr. Quiller-Couch is no weaver of ornate verbal fabrics; but he is at
once too ardent and too steeped in great literature to be ever mean or
cold, and there are times when the mere beauty of his style, as style,
moves us to enthusiasm.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 420w.

“As a tale of romantic adventure we have had hardly anything since
Stevenson’s time so good as Mr. Quiller-Couch’s new story. The story
as a whole, indeed, is so excellent of its kind that one wishes that
the author had recast some parts of the book and subjected it to a
severer test of his judgment as to construction, probability, and
humor.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 280w.

“Sometimes the changeling in ‘Q’ gets the better of the romancer, and
the farce, delightful in itself, strikes a jarring note in such an
environment. Apart from this blemish, we have nothing but praise for a
story which is not only ‘Q’s’ finest achievement, but one which must
stand very near the work of the greatest of the romantics.”

+ + – =Spec.= 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 370w.

“For ingenuity of plot and unconventionality of adventure the book is
in a class by itself. His work never descends to vulgarity or claptrap
excitement. For he is an artist.”

+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 120w.

=Coudert, Frederick René.= Addresses, historical—political—sociological. **$2.50. Putnam.

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 829. Mr. ’06. 400w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.

“Mr. Coudert was a man of broad and deep culture, thoroughly
acquainted with the literature of France, Spain, and Germany, and
possessing a lucid, graceful, and effective English style.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 270w.

=Cowan, Rev. Henry.= John Knox, the hero of the Scottish reformation, 1505–1572. **$1.35. Putnam.

“The index in Cowan is admirable; that in Macmillan is almost
worthless. The work by Cowan is the more scholarly, the more unbiased,
and the more valuable.” Eri. B. Hulbert.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 353. Ap. ’06. 480w.

“Dr. Cowan’s work is less a piece of detraction or of eulogy than a
plain narrative of events, with occasional comment upon the main
issues which claimed Knox’s effort.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 288. Ap. 6, ’06. 210w.

=Cox, Isaac Joslin=, ed. Journeys of La Salle and his companions. 2v. **$2. Barnes.

The latest issue of the “Trail makers” series. The work includes
translations from the memoirs of Tonty, Membré, Hennepin, Douay, Le
Clercq, Joutel, and Jean Cavelier, besides minor sketches and an
introduction.

* * * * *

“An admirable supplement to the formal story of American history and
exploration, giving us cheap reprints of the personal narratives of
the early discoverers and travellers, most of which are long out of
print and comparatively inaccessible in the libraries.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. 06. 90w.

=Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 50w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 220w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 68. F. 3, ’06. 660w.

“Some of these narratives have been difficult of access, and certainly
they all abound in stirring adventure and incident.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’06. 220w.

=Cox, Kenyon.= Old masters and new: essays in art criticism. **$1.50. Fox.

“Amounting to a general view of the course of art since the sixteenth
century.”

+ =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 350w.

=Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).= Dream and the business. †$1.50. Appleton.

Mrs. Craigie’s posthumous novel. “There are six main figures in the
book,—Firmalden, the Nonconformist minister, and his sister; the Roman
Catholic Lord Marlesford and his wife; Lessard, the musician, and Miss
Nannie Cloots, the actress. Among these six the game of love is played
with immense confusion.” (Spec.) “The story is one of dreams and of
disillusions; it fits its title better than it does the text from
which the title is taken. To the meaning of the latter, as made
obvious by the context, it seems scarcely to adhere.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“We close it with the feeling that here is a fine novel marred by the
old lack of sympathetic interest in human nature.”

+ – =Acad.= 71: 197. S. 1, ’06. 1950w.

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 266. S. 8. 450w.

“Under her customary lightness of manner the tone is full of grave
sincerity, but this does not mean that the story is a tract—far from
it!—or that it is dull. On the contrary, her workmanship has never
been more careful or her good sayings more abundant.” Mary Moss.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 382. D. ’06. 890w.

“The author’s skill in describing the play of light and shadow on the
surface of character, her French firmness and lightness of touch, the
abundance of epigram and delicately elegant phrase, and the keenness
of her observation, in which mingles a slight dash of kindly cynicism,
make up a fine story.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 406. D. ’06. 480w.

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1347. D. 6, ’06. 550w.

“The characterization, acute enough up to a point, constantly breaks
down through the writer’s becoming more interested in the conversation
than in the people. She lays herself open to the reproach of talking
through her characters instead of letting them talk.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 297. Ag. 31, ’06. 1310w.

“It may well enough stand as her monument, for it suggests everything
characteristic in her substance and manner.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 352. O. 25, ’06. 930w.

“Although, as we think, its characters do not measure up to their
creator’s conception of them, and although we are sometimes dragged
rather than swept along with the narrative, the ability of the novel
is of so high an order that we agree with Mr. Choate in his belief
that it ‘will be another laurel’ in its writer’s ‘well-won crown.’”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 684. O. 20, ’06. 1320w.

“Its chief charm, alike from the development of a double plot, which
is so delicately conceived and carried out with so much artistic
finish as to obscure the end before the end comes, lies in the
vitality of its characters and their consistently preserved
personalities.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

“The book is in many ways the best that Mrs. Craigie has written. It
is riper, maturer, firmer. It exhibits a more vivid grasp of things.
Much of the pain which strove in her earlier books to hide itself
under a mask of flippancy is mercifully gone.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1150w.

“Will not, we think, add to the reputation of Mrs. Craigie; but it
will not detract from it. It is a fair example of her strength and her
weakness.”

+ + – =Spec.= 97: 369 S. 15, ’06. 770w.

=Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).= Flute of Pan. †$1.50. Appleton.

“It should be safe to predict success for the comedy.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 240w.

“The whole story is told in the vein of comedy, and is but a trifling
performance.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 250w.

“It is moderately amusing. The reader with a small purse might
hesitate, however, before putting out his $1.50. for it.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 500w.

=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied arts. **$2. Baker.

“To our mind the most important chapter in it is that dealing with
Japanese sculpture. We do not remember any work in which its subject
is so well and instructively handled.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 557. My. 5. 800w.

“The general reader as well as students of this subject will find Mr.
Cram’s book interesting and instructive.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 20w.

+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 220w.

“The essays that make up this volume are thoughtful and
discriminating.” Frederick W. Gookin.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 192. Mr. 16, ’06. 870w.

“It is the work of a man who finds perfected Japanese designs as
nearly supreme as any decorative art in the world can be. A book of
extreme subtlety of thought, which is increased by the strongly
religious turn that all Mr. Cram’s reasoning is apt to take.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 164. F. 22, ’06. 800w.

“A keen analysis, interestingly written, of the beauties of Japanese
architecture.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 70w.

=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Ruined abbeys of Great Britain. **$2.50. Pott.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 150w.

“For the book generally we have nothing but praise. It is a pity,
however, that Mr. Cram did not use more moderation of language in his
introduction.”

+ + – =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17, ’06. 220w.

=Crane, Aaron Martin.= Right and wrong thinking and their results. **$1.40. Lothrop.

The undreamed-of possibilities which man may achieve thru his own
mental control.

* * * * *

“Mr. Crane’s argument is both skilful and convincing.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 270w.

“A forceful monograph.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 50w.

=Crapsey, Algernon Sidney.= Religion and politics. **$1.25. Whittaker.

A series of thirteen sermons, delivered before the author’s own
congregation which discuss “society as politically and
ecclesiastically organized, from the point of view of the religion of
Christ as conceived by the author.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“All this, however, is incidental. The book is an excellent popular
treatment of the subject of the relation between church and state,
going most originally into the profoundest questions as to the nature
of each, and giving a most excellent historical resume of their
relations.” Ralph Albertson.

+ + =Arena.= 36: 109. Jl. ’06. 2450w.

Reviewed by George Hodges.

=Atlan.= 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 280w.

“On matters of politics and industry, as well as history, and on the
spirit of American institutions, and on the church as the incarnation
of that spirit ... on all such themes this will be found a simple yet
stimulating book, brave and persuasive, conferring dignity upon the
writer, transferring worth unto the reader, a book of dear ideas that
may be cheaply had (by us) but never cheaply practiced.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 514. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.

“It cannot, however, be regarded as a contribution of original value
to the subject. In spite of its plea for science, it seems to be the
product of the writer’s inner consciousness rather than his
investigations.”

– + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ’05. 220w.

=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Fair Margaret a portrait. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“It is always interesting, and told with the author’s deep knowledge
of human nature, and his unvarying charm.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 310w.

“The story, if it does not rank with this popular author’s best work,
is none the less very readable.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 170w.

“If there were nothing else in this book than the portrait of the
big-hearted, Junoesque, voluble French woman ... it would still be one
of the books that Mr. Crawford might justly be very proud of.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 373. D. ’05. 450w.

“The present addition to the Crawford library does not promise to
dispute the position of the ‘Saracinesca’ series, though, like all of
Mr. Crawford’s work, it belongs to the first-class of current
fiction.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 837. Mr. ’06. 390w.

“The dialog has more than Mr. Crawford’s customary vivacity.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 111. Ja. 11, ’06. 330w.

“Is extremely interesting, and there is some good character drawing in
it.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 650w.

“There is a certain skill in the construction, but the mechanism is
always visible, and there is no character which really lives. The
interest in the book lies rather in the shrewd comments and
reflections with which the dialogue is interspersed.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 396. N. 17, ’05. 330w.

“The story is told, too, in his own charmingly leisurely fashion, with
many stops by the way to comment or analyze, and we confess to a
distinct desire for its sequel.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 230. Ap. 7, ’06. 420w.

“It is, by all odds, the best thing he has done within the last ten
years.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 28. Ja. 6, ’06. 390w.

=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Lady of Rome. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“It has for background the social life of Rome which he depicts so
well, and deals chiefly with the character—or rather conscience—of
Maria Montalto, which is sustained through many years and various
crises by religious conviction, causing her to expiate her sin at some
length, in fact from cover to cover. Expiations and religious scruples
at such length might easily become irritating, but here the author has
shown his skill by making Maria’s struggles not only far from
wearisome but so far interesting that the reader is pleased to leave
her in the last pages still a sensible woman, who believes in the
reward of virtue.”—Acad.

* * * * *