Chapter X: Preface (10)

“Presents certain phases of a life forever passed, simply,
picturesquely, and vividly, and hence, whether diary or reminiscence,
has interest and historical value.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w.

=Canfield, Dorothea Frances.= Gunhild: a Norwegian-American episode. †$1.50. Holt.

7–33199.

There is great strength in this story, and it is so planned that a
beautiful self centered American girl traveling through Norway in
company with a sister, an admirer and an aged aunt, is contrasted
strongly with Gunhild, a Norwegian peasant. This girl, born in
America, a child of the people, shows among her northern snows a depth
of soul that belittles the conventional thought of the society girl;
and the man stirred by something deeper and more profound than his
life has yet known, turns from the girl he might have married to
Gunhild and finds that she too is not for him.

* * * * *

“‘Gunhild’ is her first novel, and a promising one.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 260w.

=Canfield, William Walker.= The spotter: a romance of the oil region. $1.50. Fenno.

7–27157.

A dramatic tale of the Pennsylvania oil region in which a sturdy
Scotchman who refused to sell his farm to the oil syndicate is the
victim of intrigue. In it are pictured the newly rich in the complete
reaction from financial restraint, smooth-tongued conspirators,
spotters and moonshiners.

* * * * *

“Melodramatic fiction.”

− =Nation.= 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 280w.

* =Canning, Albert S. G.= Shakespeare studied in six plays. **$4. Jacobs.

The six plays studied are Othello, Macbeth, King John, Richard II.,
Henry IV., and The merry wives of Windsor. The method is one of
exposition rather than analysis, consisting of a succession of
quotations interspersed with explanatory remarks.

* * * * *

“Its author is a master of the prosaic, nor have we encountered any
other commentator equally skilled in the art of reducing noble poetry
to small beer.”

− =Acad.= 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1100w.

“We have seldom occasion to examine a more unnecessary book. It
contains no learning and, except in the quotations, no wit; the style
is that of a schoolboy; the general intelligence is barely mediocre.
The few explanatory notes are borrowed from an out-of-date commentary,
and are often inaccurate.”

− − =Nation.= 85: 427. N. 7, ’07. 240w.

“On points of history his adequate comments are fitly introduced. The
unsatisfactoriness of the book results from faults of omissions,
leaving a volume of no little usefulness on its positive side.” George
S. Hellman.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 780w.

“These essays ... are conscientious, but they are nothing more. The
themes upon which Coleridge and Lamb have lavished their genius ...
cry aloud for a more inspired and a more original treatment than that
which Mr. Canning has given them. Nor are the passages selected for
quotation always those which particularly deserve attention and
comment.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 480w.

=Capek, Thomas.= Slovaks of Hungary, Slavs and Panslavism. priv. ptd. T. Capek, 225 E. 71st St., N. Y.

6–6749.

Including statistical information concerning the American Slovaks;
something of their ambitions and efforts. “Much of the book is taken
up with matters of discontent over the Magyar domination and others of
peculiar concern to the home country.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

* * * * *

“While we have no desire to question the aim and purpose of the
writer, we believe that a greater service would have been performed if
he had aimed to interpret to the American people more of the virtues
and qualities which make the Slovak immigrant a desirable addition to
our population.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 207. Ja. ’07. 460w.

“The book is interesting as containing much information about a
country and people little known, and especially as throwing light upon
the complexities of that wonderful polyglot empire of Francis Joseph.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 506. Ag. 18, ’06. 440w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 50w.

=Card, Fred Wallace.= Farm management. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.

7–12691.

A thoro-going treatment of the subject from the standpoint of business
methods. The discussion includes business accounts, suggestions for
watching markets, time for marketing various products, and adaptation
to local conditions.

* * * * *

“Practical, suggestive, probably the best of the ‘Farm library’ series
yet published.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 118. My. ’07. S.

“A practical book, an intensely practical book, it is, nevertheless,
to a man with the farm bee buzzing in his bonnet, as fascinating as a
Persian tale. The book is unique in agricultural literature.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 260w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w.

=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= Angel of forgiveness. †$1.50. Lippincott.

7–31281.

A young girl’s story of her own life from the ago of eight to
eighteen. They are full years, for in them she learns much thru
sickness and suffering, she finds the mother she had always thought
dead in the person of her dearest cousin and brings her back to the
home she had left in her young wife-hood and to the husband who loves
her. Then, when the angel of forgiveness has brought joy to her home
she leaves it, a bride of eighteen, to mother the children of a
husband much her senior and with him to find true happiness.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“The way out of the dilemma has been happily contrived by Miss Carey,
and the whole book is pleasant to read.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 672. N. 2, ’07. 140w.

=Carling, George.= Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.

6–34796.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The atmosphere of greed and treachery is unpleasant from first to
last but for all that the account of these latter-day land-pirates is
absorbing.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 280w.

=Carling, John R.= By Neva’s waters; being an episode in the secret history of Alexander the first, czar of all the Russias. †$1.50. Little.

7–21539.

An episode in the secret history of Alexander the first, czar of all
the Russias. There are love and court intrigue in plenty, which center
chiefly about a young English lord whose love affair with the czarina
is in the end forgiven because he did not know she was a wife, and
she, owing to a strange lapse of memory, had forgotten her estate. It
is a book which holds the interest until the last strand of the plot
is untangled.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

=Carlson, John S.= Swedish grammar and reader. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.

7–23330.

A practical text-book for the school-room and home, which lays no
claim to a purely scientific exposition of the principles of language.

* * * * *

“This is a book that has been much needed, and does for the student of
Swedish what Professor Julius Olson’s similar work does for the
student of Norwegian. The selections which fill the ‘reader’ section
of the volume are judiciously made and of much interest.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 60w.

“A new and thoroughly practical text-book for the elementary study of
Swedish.”

+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 40w.

=Carpenter, Edward Childs.= Code of Victor Jallot: a romance of old New Orleans. il. †$1.50. Jacobs.

7–31421.

A story of the early nineteenth century whose scenes are laid in
Louisiana. A French refugee, a Beau Brummel type of hero with plenty
of sturdier qualities of manhood, fights for the love of “mademoiselle
of the magnolias” and wins.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

=Carpenter, Frank G.= Foods; or, How the world is fed. *60c. Am. bk.

7–20683.

The first book of a series upon the great industries of the world. It
aims to provide a knowledge of the production and preparation of
foods, and to show how civilization and commerce grew from man’s need
of foods and the exchange of foods between the different nations of
the earth.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 207. N. ’07. ✠

“The boy who has read it will be much better prepared for economic
studies later on than the boy who has never become interested in any
of these things.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 572. S. ’07. 220w.

=Carpenter, Margaret Boyd.= Child in art. $2. Ginn.

A sympathetic treatment of the child in art, with some thirty
reproductions of famous paintings and works of sculpture. The volume
sketches the history of the use of the child in art and shows that the
development of Christianity first brought childhood into prominence.

* * * * *

“The present volume is summary and superficial: the writer has an
unfortunate instinct for the obvious and the trite.”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 628. My. 18, ’07. 160w.

“Even if there are omissions, there is also plenty of interest in the
book.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 140w.

=Carpenter, Rolla Clinton.= Experimental engineering and manual for testing; for engineers and for students in engineering laboratories. 6th rev. and enl. ed. $6. Wiley.

6–16782.

“The present book is the sixth edition, and is the result of many
revisions and additions by which, as the author states, with the aid
of colleagues and assistants, he has brought the subject down to
present-day requirements.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Despite these rather damaging criticisms, it must be said in
conclusion that the book has many features which make it a valuable
addition to engineering literature. It is to be hoped that, in the
next edition, the author will re-edit the book throughout, correct the
errors, omit such descriptive matter and verbiage as is unnecessary,
add to subjects which are incomplete, and thus produce a model, not
only as regards superficial pretensions, but also as regards real
worth.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 519. N. 15, ’06. 2930w.

=Carr, Sarah Pratt.= Iron way; a tale of the builders of the West. †$1.50. McClurg.

7–12274.

“A romance of the gold-fever days in California which shifts scene to
follow the course of construction of the Central Pacific railway. The
traditions, heroic deeds and thrilling adventures associated with the
building of this highway across the continent are recorded from the
author’s memory. The book has a buoyant pioneer atmosphere.”

* * * * *

Reviewed by William Morton Payne.

=Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 140w.

“One feels that one is reading authentic history, but such is the art
of the writer that the deftly inwoven romance—a captivating love
story—remains the predominant interest. It would appear that the book
is Mrs. Carr’s debut in literature, yet it is written with an ease, a
freshness and a power which many a practised hand would be glad to
have acquired.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 260w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 240. Ap. 13, ’07. 210w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

=Carr, W. M.= Open hearth steel castings. $1.50. Penton pub.

7–33981.

“This little book is a reprint of a series of articles which were
published in the ‘Iron trade review’ and ‘The foundry,’ in 1905 and
1906. It comprises chapters on: Raw materials for acid and basic
practice and moldings; open hearth furnace construction; fuels and
accessories; manipulation of acid and of basic heats; chemical and
physical tests; relation between chemical composition and physical
properties; blowholes and checks in steel castings; heat treatment and
annealing; repairing with thermit, and cost of equipment.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Each subject is treated briefly and the information given is
well-chosen, useful and accurate, reflecting the author’s own
experience in practice, and utilizing advantageously the small amount
of printed space occupied. It is written in a clear manner and the
greater part of it will be comprehensible even to men who have no
technical education.” Bradley Stoughton.

+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 350w.

=Carrington, Hereward.= Physical phenomena of spiritualism, fraudulent and genuine. **$2. Turner, H. B.

7–17909.

A brief account of the most important historical phenomena, a
criticism of their evidential value, and a complete exposition of the
methods employed in fraudulently reproducing the same. The book is
mainly devoted to exposing the frauds of professional mediums.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 130w.

“This book is interesting, it is amusing, it is even, in its
revelation of the frauds practised by nearly every professional
medium, revolting. The paramount impression this writer conveys is
that of being a fair and openminded gentleman of excellent balance and
keen intelligence.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 550w.

“It is, indeed, a storehouse of raw material from which one may learn
to generalize safely about the psychology of deception.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.

=Carroll, Benajah Harvey.= Political history of Europe from 1815 to 1848, based on continental authorities. $2. Baylor univ. press, Waco, Texas.

6–13425.

A volume which “is intended to give American students, an accurate if
somewhat succinct account of the course of Post-Napoleonic European
political history,” and “does not pretend to be more than a
compilation from the best and most accessible and usually untranslated
continental authorities.”

* * * * *

“The author was apparently in too great haste to attend much to the
medium of his thoughts. Present and past tenses and conditions are
mixed up indiscriminately, and extraordinary language is indulged in.
Most of it is fairly good, and the characterizations of public men are
at times excellent. But the arrangement is poor and detail is usually
put in where uncalled for; the disjointed sections give little
impression of continuity and do not make clear the general
development; nothing stands out in bold relief.” Victor Coffin.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 947. Jl ’06. 530w.

“The work may have its place as a survey of the history of the period
for an elementary class, but should not have been introduced to the
general public in its present form.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 464. N. ’06. 170w.

“It does not pretend to be based on sources, and apparently the only
authority mentioned is Lord’s ‘Beacon lights of history.’ The book,
however, displays considerable historical reading, and contains a few
useful suggestions and apt quotations. In some respects it is a
literary curiosity; it is written in an English more vigorous than
elegant, and was evidently prepared in great haste.... All things
considered, the book seems to have no justification for its
existence.”

− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 191. Mr. ’07. 170w.

=Carson, William Henry.= Evelyn Van Courtland. $1.50. Fenno.

7–29570.

Jealousy incites Howard Van Courtland to murder his business partner.
Malcolm, a young clerk in their employ, is accused and the story is
mainly concerned with the trial in which Van Courtland’s daughter,
learning of her father’s guilt, is bent upon clearing Malcolm. She
draws information from the prosecuting attorney and passes it on to
the defendant’s counsel, all of which finally proves of no avail until
in a dramatic court-room scene the father confesses his guilt and dies
suddenly. In the end misunderstandings are adjusted and love wins a
hard fought battle.

* * * * *

“Here is another novel hinging on the unwritten law. It is not as
unsavory as some of its kind, and, as its lack of distinction
precludes the probability of a wide circulation, it is not likely to
do any harm.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w.

=Cartrie, Count de.= See =La Villeniere, T.-A. T. de la C.=

=Carus, Paul.= Our children; hints from practical experience for parents and teachers. *$1. Open ct.

7–2052.

Written by “one of the most distinguished exponents of the new
philosophical conception known as monism.” It supplements Froebelism
with the results of recent scientific investigation and advanced
psychological methods. “In the chapter which treats upon the subject
of punishment, we get the key-note to the author’s ethical principles.
Like Tolstoy, and like a greater Teacher, he advocates non-resistance
of evil with evil. Retaliation is condemned, a lie must be overcome by
truth, wrong by right and violence by patience.... Punishment, Dr.
Carus declares, ought to be the ‘consequence of a wrong act which is
brought home to the knowledge and sentiments of the child.’”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“Like Huxley he knows the secret of clothing abstruse subjects in an
attractive garb and his works have a popular appeal. It will prove of
especial interest and value to those engaged in kindergarten work.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 24: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 300w.

“Written in thought-provoking style. The book contains many hints from
practical experience.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 40w.

=Carver, Thomas Nixon=, comp. Sociology and social progress. *$2.75. Ginn.

6–5680.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.

+ =Charities.= 17: 472. D. 15, ’06. 430w.

“A timely and valuable book. The selections from large works, which is
no easy task, are judiciously made. He has supplied an introduction to
it of his own, in which he sets forth as clearly as has ever been done
the true scope and method of sociology. His treatment is thoroughly
sane.” Lester F. Ward.

+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 27. Ja. 4, ’07. 1110w.

=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Works of James McNeill Whistler; a study. **$4. Moffat.

7–3697.

Not so much a work of ultimate authority and exhaustive knowledge, as
an intelligent and reasoned view of Whistler’s work for the benefit of
the reader of somewhat limited opportunities.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.

=Current Literature.= 42: 289. Mr. ’07. 810w.

“As a piece of critical writing, it is eminently sound and true to
right principles. The aptness of Miss Cary’s phraseology is deserving
of more than casual comment. Exception must, however, be taken to one
expression.” Frederick W. Gookin.

+ + − =Dial.= 42: 218. Ap. 1, ’07. 1540w.

“A book which comprehensively covers the field of Whistler’s
accomplishments and embodies a perspicuous account of his methods.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1404. D. 22, ’06. 130w.

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 360w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w.

“In a word, it is a survey of Whistler’s artistic accomplishments,
presented in an elaborate, beautiful, pictorial setting by an author
whose experience has given her rare insight into the mysteries and
functions of artistic expression.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 15, ’06. 190w.

“Miss Cary’s book is admirably adjusted in its aim. It seems ...
equally admirable in its manner and the selection of its matter.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 640w.

“She is admirable alike in the selection of material and in the
non-technical treatment of his inspiration.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w.

“It is indeed a patient, accurate literalness which chiefly
distinguishes this book. We get the facts, it is true, but in the end
feel somewhat deprived of that spirit which animates and transcends
mere fact—a spirit which Whistler himself possesses in so abounding a
degree and which he would seem to demand of others.” Christian
Brinton.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 370w.

=Casson, Herbert Newton.= Romance of steel: the story of a thousand millionaires. **$2.50. Barnes.

7–25647.

“Not so much a history of the steel industry itself as of the
successive efforts to capitalize that industry and of the personal
careers of the men whose fortunes have been made in steel-making,
although they themselves were in most instances as ignorant of the
industrial processes by which their wealth was gained as the average
man in the street.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“Mr. Casson’s story has the merit of being remarkably inclusive, on
the historic and physical sides, as well as in its personal aspects.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 820. O. 3, ’07. 800w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 428. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.

“One of the most readable books of the year.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 381. S. ’07. 140w.

=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Edgerton.= My merry Rockhurst. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–34310.

“Some episodes in the life of Viscount Rockhurst, a friend of King
Charles II. and at one time constable of his majesty’s tower of
London.” These episodes, although they do not form a consecutive
story, all deal with the same reckless, daring cynic, loyal friend and
devoted father. They tell of his fortunes, his misfortunes, his varied
adventures, his struggles with the world and with himself, and all
have as a background the strangely romantic court at which he played
such a conspicuous part.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“The tales are so ingeniously and thoroughly welded together that the
book as a whole forms a complete and satisfactory romance.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 130w.

* Cathedrals of England and Wales: their history, architecture and associations. 2v. $10. Churchman co.

An opportunity is here afforded of becoming acquainted with the
character, the history, the traditions and associations connected with
the cathedrals of southern Britain.

* * * * *

“A sumptuous gift-book and the enterprise of the publishers is to be
commended. They have introduced to the American public a volume which
is a treasury of art, literature, and history.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w.

“The present volumes give an entertaining and, for the general reader,
an adequate account and portrayal.” Cameron Mann.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 629. O. 19, ’07. 860w.

Catholic encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic church; ed. by Chas. G. Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, Conde B. Pallen, Thomas J. Shahan, John J. Wynne, assisted by numerous collaborators. 15v. ea. $6. Appleton, Robert.

7–11606.

An encyclopedia which as it is produced by American Catholic scholars
who have brought to their task the freshness of view and freedom of
inspiration that stamps Catholicism in America may be said to
represent the “ripest and most developed product of Catholic thought.”
(Lit. D.)

=v. 1.= In this first volume are to be found the contributions of over
1,000 men and women of recognized scholarship, representing 27
nationalities.

* * * * *

“Unfortunately, several of the articles are egregiously one-sided;
some others are conspicuously incompetent, and a few display such
violations of a sane and critical spirit that we could hardly believe
our eyes when we read them.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 1150. My. 16, ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Considered as an achievement of scholarship alone, it will command
attention.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 765. My. 11, ’07. 1410w. (Review of v. 1.)

“In spite of all criticism ... [it] remains a very notable
contribution to science and a remarkable example of American
enterprise.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 267. S. 6, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Though this important work has chief value and significance for
Catholics, it contains a great deal of interest to every intelligent
man, and, so far as it is used by non-Catholics, must contribute to
the correcting of erroneous opinions and the breaking down of existing
prejudices.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 566. Je. 20, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It will be generally admitted that the work is the best for
themselves that English-speaking Catholics have yet published, and the
most popular and the most interesting one they have ever presented to
the non-Catholic world.” Henry A. Brann.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 2340w. (Review of v. 1.)

“On the whole, in spite of the mediævalism of certain portions, and in
spite of occasional lapses from the general level of excellence—lapses
inevitable in any work of the kind—the first volume must be pronounced
fair and sane, and if succeeding volumes maintain the same standard
the work cannot fail to prove exceedingly useful.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 787. Ag. 10, ’07. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The contributors represent Catholic scholarship in its broadest sense
throughout the world.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)

* =Cattelle, Wallis Richard.= The pearl: its story, its charm and its value. il. **$2. Lippincott.

7–30808.

The story of the pearl is told “from its birth and growth under tropic
seas, through the search for it by dark skinned divers of the Orient
and its journeyings by the hands of men who traffic in precious
things, until it becomes finally the cherished familiar of the great.
Historical and traditional allusions, the sentiment and superstitions,
the romance of ancient and noble associations drawn to it through the
ages, are garnered here and to them added the more prosaic facts which
a merchant’s experience suggests, to enable lovers of the dainty
sea-gem to discriminate.”

=Cautley, C. Holmes.= Millmaster. $1.50. Longmans.

With a setting furnished by a Yorkshire manufacturing village the
reader’s interest is centered in “the upright and self-contained
millmaster and his son, Mark, a character gentler than his father but
as estimable.” (Lond. Times.) A book in which the human element is
strong, the description informing, and which is “stamped with the
hallmark of sincerity.”

* * * * *

“It is something to the credit of the author that he has done what he
evidently set out to do, and those who can master the dialect may like
those parts of the book which fail to attract us.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 130w.

“The author has looked with clear and kindly eyes upon life, and is
concerned only to portray it as it is. The result is a novel of very
real value.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 500w.

“Mr. Cautley’s novel is too long, but there is good stuff in it.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 150w.

=Cellini, Benvenuto.= Life of Benvenuto Cellini; tr. and ed. by John Addington Symonds, with an introd. to this ed. by Royal Cortissoz. 2v. **$6. Brentano’s.

6–40203.

This edition is complete enough for the student and artistic enough in
book workmanship for the collector. Besides Mr. Symonds’ introductory
material, Royal Cortissoz presents a “sympathetic though critical”
interpretation of the “discrepancy between Cellini’s personal
forcefulness and artistic achievement.”

* * * * *

“It may be said at once that no more distinguished piece of
book-making has come from an American press for a long while past. The
typography while usually excellent, is not impeccable.”

+ + − =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 330w.

“A more satisfying edition of this classic autobiography does not
exist in English.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w.

“This reprint is likely to remain for years the preferable library
edition of these fascinating memoirs.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 150w.

“Altogether the edition presents this classic in a form of such good
taste and solid excellence of workmanship that it will be welcomed by
all lovers of literature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 160w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 60w.

=Chadwick, Hector Munro.= Origin of the English nation. (Cambridge archæological and ethnological ser.) *$2.25. Putnam.

7–29044.

By making use of all branches of ethnological study—history,
tradition, language, custom, religion and antiquities—the author
“deals with the history, social and otherwise of the tribes whose
coming, to put the matter briefly, changed Britain to England.”
(Spec.)

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 709. Ap. ’07. 40w.

“Mr. Chadwick has written a book which no special student of Saxon
England can neglect. But this critical method is open to cavil. In the
first place, the criticism is too linguistic. In the second place,
being linguistic, the criticism lacks principle.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 480w.

“It is a work for students, and they are not likely to neglect it: but
many years will pass before its results can be incorporated in
textbook and handbook.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 91. Mr. 22, ’07. 820w.

“There was certainly room for such a work, in which all the available
evidence should be carefully considered, and Mr. Chadwick has done
this with the greatest minuteness. In fact, his book suffers to some
extent from over-minute discussion of questions which have at best a
very faint bearing upon the main subject of his inquiry. Another
general criticism which might be made is that Mr. Chadwick is rather
too much given to the common, but very unsatisfactory, process of
drawing a strong conclusion from a series of very weak premises.”

+ − =Nature.= 75: 555. Ap. 11, ’07. 780w.

“The value of the book lies in the healthy spirit of scepticism which
pervades it, and which is the outgrowth of an unusually wide knowledge
of Teutonic philology, literature and archaeology.”

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 550. S. ’07. 180w.

“A very learned and careful work.”

+ + =Spec.= 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.

=Chadwick, Rev. John White.= Cap’n Chadwick, Marblehead skipper and shoemaker. *60c. Am. Unitar.

6–35723.

A portrait, sketched by his son, of a rugged yet unvaryingly tender
hearted New Englander who plied his shoemaker trade in winter and
followed a skipper’s life in summer.

* * * * *

“In spite of some looseness of style the book is spell binding from
start to finish.” Robert E. Bisbee.

+ − =Arena.= 37: 111. Ja. ’07. 120w.

“This little biography will be treasured not alone by those who revere
its author’s memory, but by the wider public who will find in it a
sympathetic yet discriminating characterization of a life well worth
telling about, but of a kind not often described outside of fiction.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w.

=Chamberlin, Georgia Louise, and Kern, Mary Root.= Child religion in song and story: a manual for use in the Sunday schools or in the home. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–26993.

Believing in unity in lesson, songs, prayers and memorized texts the
authors of this book have arranged a series of thirty-nine lessons for
children from six to nine in the Sunday school. The development of a
general religious theme is aimed at in each group, and the groups
follow each other in logical arrangement. The book is suggestive
thruout and may be used in the home as well as in the Bible school.

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

6–29527.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Deeply interesting as it is, ‘The fighting chance’ is not without
flaws and imperfections.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 121. F. 2, ’07. 370w.

“Mr. Chambers has achieved another success.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 180w.

“How far Mr. Chambers is correct in his representation of the ways and
manners of wealthy and ‘exclusive’ New Yorkers, especially of those
who contrive to combine business with pleasure, must be left to the
judgment of critics equipped with expert knowledge; but at any rate it
is brisk and credible.” Herbert W. Horwill.

+ =Forum.= 38: 544. Ap. ’07. 760w.

− =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 60w.

“Mr. Chambers has handled a problem, unpleasant in itself, with
exceptional skill and delicacy in this story.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 220w.

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

6–20360.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“All the light side of his nature, the fun and the cleverness, go into
such a collection of stories as this, and the world is the better for
getting so much wholesome laughter and tender sentiment.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 350w.

“Though cast in the guise of a continuous narrative, this volume
consists in reality of short stories and should be read as such.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 140w.

“The humor is quite delicious, and the whole thing is carried through
with great spirit.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 80w.

=Chambers, Robert William.= Tree of heaven. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–17386.

“The occult in everyday affairs is the theme of this new book.... Each
one of the stories of which the volume is composed tells the tale of
some mysterious happening, some supernatural experience, beyond the
power of material reasoning to explain, which comes into the life of
some ordinary everyday man.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 603. Ag. ’07. 360w.

+ =Ind.= 63: 458. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w.

“Trim, carefully upholstered, and perfectly imaginable tales. Very
good of their extravagant kind.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 110w.

“Some of the separate stories are excellent in their mechanism and in
the way of their telling. Nearly all of them suffer from opulent
adjectivitis. Mr. Chambers too often marches along with his head in
rainbowlike clouds, which he scatters like fragments all over his
pages until the reader fairly longs for a nice gloomy page or two in
which nothing will sparkle or flash or flame or dazzle or
scintillate.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 630w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.

=Chambers, Robert W.= Younger set. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–26022.

“In the ‘younger set’ from which he gets his title Mr. Chambers finds
much that is buoyant, much that augurs well for the future of the
social development of New York. His hero is a gentleman and a soldier;
his heroine a clear-eyed pure-minded young girl, the embodiment of
faithfulness, good breeding, and true-heartedness; while there is a
really charming family picture of father, mother, children, and
dogs—Mr. Chambers’s dogs are always capital, by the way. The more
serious purpose of the book is to discuss certain aspects of the
divorce problem.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“It is this vicious, sordid element which, we think, spoils the
genuine love story that runs through the book. But Mr. Chambers is a
clever writer and a close student of character.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 250w.

“Under a veil of pseudo-realism can no more disguise its fundamental
melodrama than cottonseed oil can escape notice in a salad dressing.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 26: 163. O. ’07. 630w.

“The treatment is marred by the note of insincerity, and the virtuous
types that the author contrasts with the vicious ones are too unreal
to be taken seriously. It has certain elements of positive excellence,
such as constructive art, poetical elegance of diction, and a
sympathetic touch.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 350w.

“A sort of perverted Sabbath school story about the younger set in New
York society.”

− =Ind.= 63: 756. S. 26, ’07. 950w.

“This argument is the weakness in his story, because it is out of
place, and it is not sustained by the lives of the characters
portrayed.”

− =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w.

“The purpose of the novel—the inculcation of the idea that divorce
does not terminate all the obligations of marriage—is clearly and
interestingly evolved, in spite of the exaggerations and
artificialities of expression with which it is at times obscured.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 620w.

“The author has taken plenty of space and filled his stage with more
men and women, girls and boys, than we can enumerate. But they are all
drawn with such skill and knowledge that one closes the book with a
pleasant sense of its abundant vitality, breadth, and charm.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w.

=Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 670w.

“An absorbing story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“The present volume is a genuine piece of work, alive and tingling
with nervous energy, although it is inferior in some respects to Mr.
Chambers’s best work.”

+ − =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 260w.

“It is in more than one respect far more pleasant than the average
novel of American society.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 549. N. 2, ’07. 220w.

=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.

6–32458.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The translation is readable, the introduction excellent, and the
notes, though not numerous, frequently offer original and valuable
suggestions.”

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 290w.

“A very detailed account, which should be found in any considerable
collection on the early period of American and Canadian history.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07.

“The editing and translation show painstaking care and appreciation of
the work of the author. Disputed points, obscure references and
seeming contradictions are satisfactorily explained in succinct
foot-notes. An index, also, would have been of value.”

+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 205. Ja. ’07. 360w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 80w.

“The present translation by Mrs. Bourne is a boon to the reading
public as well as a tribute to the great explorer and the acute
observer whose fame grows as the knowledge of his service becomes more
generally known.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 960w.

=Champney, Elizabeth W.= Romance of the Italian villas. **$3. Putnam.

7–431.

“From the vast storehouse of Italian legendary lore the author has
collected a dozen or so stories identified with as many villas and has
retold them, mostly in archaic form, so as to present an illusion of
the past.” (N. Y. Times.) “She writes not so much of buildings as of
the romantic and dramatic events which have taken place within their
walls, not to mention other interesting incidents in the lives of
famous people who dwelt there.” (Lit. D.) Numerous fine illustrations
which are reproductions of paintings emphasize the value of the work.

* * * * *

“Carefully selected and delightfully told.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07.

“Will not take high rank either as a collection of tales or a literary
guide-book. The style is undistinguished, and the author’s version of
the histories attaching to the villas of which she writes is tame and
undramatic.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 200w.

“She writes with verve, communicating to her reader the charm she
feels herself.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 130w.

“It is a book such as only careful research could have produced well,
but Mrs. Champney can be trusted to be sure of her ground. Having done
this, she proceeds to write in a manner that is always felicitous.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

“The reader, for whom many personages of history are perhaps but
names, is brought, as it were, into close intimacy with them in their
very palaces.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w.

“It is a question whether anyone has the right to change facts even
though they have no securer foundation than legend. These things Mrs.
Champney has done. There is not the slightest doubt that she has
improved the dramatic qualities of several of the stories she has
handled.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 630w.

“Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney has made some very careful selections from
the treasures of Italian legends, and has presented them in a manner
most attractive to foreign readers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. ’06. 210w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 40w.

“With the subjects she has chosen it would be hard not to make a
readable book, and this one is eminently so.” Charlotte Harwood.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 445. Jl. ’07. 350w.

=Chancellor, Edwin Beresford.= History of the squares of London: topographical and historical. *$5. Lippincott.

A history of London squares thru time and change with anecdotes of
their famous occupants, omitting present or recent owners. In
interesting succession are presented Berkeley square with its statue
which Herbert Spencer maintained is better than the Venus de Milo;
Grosvenor square with anecdotes of Alvanley and Nelson, Thrale and
Wilkes; Cavendish square, with its reminiscences of the Marquis of
Steyne and Princess Amelia, and Selwyn and Lord Bessborough.

* * * * *

“This book, which Mr. Chancellor has compiled with remarkable skill
and industry, appears at a fitting time.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 12. Jl. 6. 1000w.

“Mr. Chancellor’s account of his style is too modest. There is very
little indeed in his book that can accurately be called ‘dull
enumeration,’ and there are plenty of anecdotes, bits of forgotten
history, and curious reminiscence.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 450w.

“There may be nothing new in it—and indeed it is the kind of book that
can be written only by grace of the books that have preceded it; but
it is never dull, and that is saying much of a work which contains 400
large pages and weighs 3 lb.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 320w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“A work of considerable research and replete with curious and often
valuable historical information.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 160w.

“Very entertaining is a good deal of the information the author has
piled together about all the principal squares in London.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 390w.

=Chandler, Frank Wadleigh.= Literature of roguery. (Types of English literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.

7–31996.

The second work of a series whose plan is to deal with all the
important literary forms in English by a division according to types
rather than a division into chronological periods. A concise
description is given of the earlier appearances of the rogue as a
typical figure in the literatures of Spain, France, Germany and
Holland; then follows the rogue of the mediaeval time as he appears in
drama, legend, and jest book, and the rogue of the picaresque novel of
Elizabethan time. Criminal biographies, prison chronicles, drama,
opera, sociological studies, and lyric verse are shown to yield their
rascals, and the authors who have portrayed them are discussed.

* * * * *

“Its greatest charm lies in its peculiar combination of authority with
human interest, of scholarly methods and an imposing bibliography with
a fine sense of proportion,—a large grasp of the matter as a whole and
in its relation to other lines of literary research.” Edith Kellogg
Dunton.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 315. N. 16, ’07. 1920w.

“His work is unique in its scope.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 130w.

“Whoever has the courage to plow through or the inspired wisdom to
skip that dismal first volume will find that in the second, beginning
with Defoe and coming down to Thackeray, there is a really interesting
account of the English literature of roguery, punctuated with
pertinent critical remarks, and delivered like a man of this world.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 744. N. 23, ’07. 1400w.

=Channing, Elizabeth Parsons.= Autobiography and diary: gleanings of a thoughtful life. *$1. Am. Unitar.

7–25238.

A diary kept by the author during more than thirty years. The aim of
Miss Channing’s friends in offering the volume is to lead to a “closer
realization of the value of clear thinking and sincere feeling in
things religious ... to promote reverence for things deep and true,
love for things high and holy, patience in trial, and above all, faith
in God.”

* * * * *

“Her diary is the simple record of a thoughtful mind, essentially
womanly, carrying on homely tasks with patience, yet capable of
sharing in the world’s movements.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 350w.

=Chapin, Anna Alice.= Heart of music: the story of the violin. **$1.60. Dodd.

6–43758.

“Beginning far back in the region of legend, the story of this most
ancient of all stringed instruments grows from the turtle shell to the
marvel of Stradivarius, and is enthroned as the one perfect thing—‘the
heart of music incarnate and triumphant.’”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 39. F. ’07.

“Her book is good of its kind, replete with curious information, and
well written.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 542. D. 20, ’06. 150w.

“This vivid style and her faculty for choosing and setting forth
lucidly and logically the salient characteristics of an epoch, a
nation, or an individual makes her pages very readable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 51. Ja. 26, ’07. 570w.

“An attractive book for all passionate lovers of the violin, and yet
one that, by reason of the great mass of facts collected will hold the
attention of students.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 110w.

=Chapman, Frank Michler.= Warblers of North America, by Frank M. Chapman, with the cooperation of other ornithologists; with 24 full-page colored pls., il. every species, from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall, and half-tones of nests and eggs. **$3. Appleton.

7–14643.

“The first untechnical monograph on a single group of American birds,”
including Gerald Thayer’s notes on songs and habits of birds. The
special treatment of the warbler family, each species and subspecies
being taken up in turn, is followed by a list of biographical
references which “rounds out the treatment in a way that leaves
nothing to be desired.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.

“To the technical ornithologist, as well as to the amateur with only
the myrtle and yellow warblers on his ‘list,’ this volume will be of
constant use.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 438. My. 9, ’07. 570w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 150w.

“Its plan is easy of grasp and tends to make the book not only a
pleasant reference volume, but gives it a place as a work of permanent
and authoritative value.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.

“Its title would much better have been ‘The wood warblers of North
America,’ for the true warblers, family Sylviidae, also represented in
North America, are not treated at all.” Harry C. Oberholser.

+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 305. S. 6, ’07. 480w.

=Chapman, J. Wilbur.= S. H. Hadley of Water street: a miracle of grace. **$1.25. Revell.

6–29045.

The narrative of the thoro evangelization of a man who spent a wild
youth, became a drunkard, thief and gambler, but who after the
transformation devoted twenty years to a useful life.

* * * * *

“Dr. Chapman has yielded somewhat disproportionate space to the
eulogies pronounced over Mr. Hadley at the time of his death.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 190w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 180w.

=Charles, R. H.=, ed. Ethiopic version of the book of Enoch; ed. from 23 Mss., together with the fragmentary Greek and Latin versions. (Anecdota oxoniensia, Semitis ser., pt. XI.) *$4. Oxford.

The author “holds that parts of the book were originally composed in
Hebrew, parts in Aramaic, and that some at least of the original was
in poetic form. The text is clearly printed and there is an ample
apparatus of variant readings.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“Professor Charles’s long-expected critical text of Enoch constitutes
a marked advance upon previous editions of that important work.”

+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 320. Ap. ’07. 60w.

“In the present careful text and very full apparatus the task seems
done with tolerable finality.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 106. Ja. 31, ’07. 300w.

=Chart, D. A.= Story of Dublin; il. by Henry J. Howard. (Mediaeval towns ser.) $2. Macmillan.

7–25495.

This is a story of Dublin from the year 150 A.D., in which the author
does his surest work when he reaches mediaeval Dublin with its wealth
of reliable material. He writes of the city, its topography, its
buildings, of the variety and picturesqueness of the outlying country,
of people and incidents; and lends to the whole a historical
background. The illustrations are principally from pen-and-ink
sketches and give value to the work.

* * * * *

“It is unfortunate that in his desire to write a popular tourists’
book Mr. Chart should have spoilt the history which, so far as it
goes, has evidence of a real interest, research, and, we venture to
say, promise of better work.”

− + =Acad.= 73: 942. S. 28, ’07. 820w.

“There are plenty of truths in this book—plenty of learning also; but
there are grave gaps and often annoying inaccuracies.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 34. Jl. 13. 1320w.

“A narrative at once agreeable to read and of historic value.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 230w.

=Chaucer, Geoffrey.= Stories from Chaucer, (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.

7–25660.

A faithful prose rendering of the best of the “Canterbury tales”
written for young readers with the hope of stimulating a later study
of Chaucer in the original text.

* * * * *

“When one re-tells the Canterbury stories, adding to them material
which is not part of them, the result is of doubtful value. Mr.
McSpadden’s introduction is in many ways worthy, and he shows a
sincere effort to retain the spirit of the master genius.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 496. N. 28, ’07. 100w.

“The best that can be said about ... ‘Stories from Chaucer’ ... is
that [it is] a literary impertinence. They are written, it is true ...
with skill and cleverness, and with a limpid style that brings them
quite within the limits of ten-year-old understanding. But why should
mayhem be committed upon the literary body of a subtle, suggestive,
and intellectual poet in order to make a holiday for babes?”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w.

=Cheney, John Vance=, ed. Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States from Washington to Polk, from Taylor to Roosevelt. 2v. *$3. Reilly & B.

6–34849; 6–35584.

Two handsome volumes which print collectively for the first time the
inaugural addresses of our presidents.

* * * * *

“The bindings are simple and chaste, and the presswork
unexceptionable. The addresses themselves form a subject well suited
to be clothed in the form in which they here appear.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 633. My. ’07. 100w.

=Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)

Reviewed by Edward Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 682. O. 20, ’06. 1130w.

=Cheney, Warren.= His wife. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–31211.

A group of Russian peasants among Alaskan snows enact here a drama
impossible in its primitive passions to a more conventional setting.
The wife of Luka dies in the first chapter, and he, crazed by her
loss, wanders away to search for her. He fancies he has found her in
his brother’s promised bride, wins her love, is wounded in the quarrel
with his brother for her possession, and awakes after an illness to a
realization that she is not the much loved wife he has lost. How these
two souls so oddly met, so strangely bound together, work out their
own happiness is the story of the book.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

=Chesson, Nora.= Father Felix’s chronicles; with introd. by W. H. Chesson. *$1.50. Wessels.

“If ‘Father Felix’s chronicles’ suggest Maurice Hewlett, it is by no
means in the ways of imitation, conscious or involuntary.” (Nation.)
“Father Felix is a priest of the order of St. Benedict in the early
part of the fifteenth century, and he has knowledge, in one way or
another, of the loves and hates and desires and revenges of the men
and women who surround the throne of King Henry IV. The author makes
him tell the story of these vanished people so vividly that the dust
of their passions seems touched with the fire of actual life.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* * * * *

“She had in fact, assimilated the period as few novelists of to-day
have done. Her tale is somewhat disjointed and episodic, but its
vitality keeps interest for it. It is very learned in the times, but
its learning is never an obsession.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 796. D. 22. 210w.

“It may well be said that the introduction to this remarkable story
will create antagonism. Nevertheless, in spite of this serious
handicap, the book itself shows ability of so rare an order as to
point an instructive difference between a real creation and the flimsy
stuff passing current as historical fiction.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 640w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“The volume is well worth reading for the vivid picture which it
leaves upon the mind, of life at the beginning of the fifteenth
century.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w.

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

6–34069.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Not a systematic, exhaustive biography, but a suggestive,
appreciative, and at times brilliant tribute to the great author; not
free from paradox or exaggeration, but illuminating and always
entertaining.”

+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.

“It is more characteristically frolicsome, less restrained and direct,
than the same author’s study of Browning.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.