Chapter XIII: Preface (13)

+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 357. D. ’07. 860w.

“If one wants common sense in criticism, backed by expert knowledge,
he may turn to this beautifully illustrated volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 230w.

=Crabbe, George.= Poems. 3v. v. 3. *$1.50. Putnam.

7–23869.

“This, the concluding volume of Dr. Ward’s masterly edition of
Crabbe’s poems, contains the last eleven books of the ‘Tales of the
hall,’ the ‘Posthumous tales,’ and ‘Miscellaneous verses’ (1780–1829),
which have all been previously printed, but are now for the first time
arranged chronologically; and in addition a quantity of matter
hitherto unpublished. Of the poems thus newly given to the world, four
are of some length—‘Tracy,’ ‘Susan and her lovers,’ ‘The deserted
family’ (which alone is printed in its completeness), and ‘The funeral
of the Squire.’”—Ath.

* * * * *

“This is the way to edit a man’s works, with scholarship and
exhaustive thoroughness.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 350w.

“The ‘completeness’ of the edition must be held the principal
justification for much which is present. The editing of the present
volume—no light task—is as careful and scholarly as ever.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 318. Mr. 16. 430w.

“Dr. Ward does not wear his heart upon his sleeve, and the scheme of
his book, which is purely textual, gives him no opportunity of
confessing his affections.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 193. Je. 21, ’07. 910w.

“For those, if any such there be, who wish to study Crabbe minutely,
Dr. Ward’s carefully collated text, bibliography, and fresh material
will be indispensable. And to the general reader, also, who does not
own the eight-volume edition of 1834, or one of the other early
editions issued by John Murray, the present publication offers Crabbe
in the most comfortable form.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 180w.

=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Amulet. †$1.50. Macmillan.

6–37962.

The Great Smoky mountains during the days when the Cherokees roved
over them furnish a background for Miss Murfree’s historical tale. “It
is an interesting record of the lives of some very human men and women
who have been transplanted from England to the savage wilds of the new
world.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.

“Touches of poetic description are frequent in adornment of the
narrative, for in this respect Miss Murfree’s hand has not lost its
cunning, but otherwise the book falls far below the high standard set
in her earlier writings.” Wm. M. Payne.

− + =Dial.= 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.

“That which gives the volume a permanent value is the amount of
historical information it contains about Indian customs, religion and
points of view.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 200w.

“There are some fine descriptive passages, and the character-drawing
reveals the firm touch of the practiced artist. It is to the credit of
the writer that she has withstood the temptation to indulge in those
orgies of slaughter which are usually met with in this type of
fiction.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 260w.

“Her present historical romance is a sad affair, perfectly artificial
and unreal from start to finish. It may be historically sound, but
this, other things being equal, is an altogether trivial
consideration.”

− =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 120w.

“Is every whit as good as those stories with which Miss Murfree long
ago established her enviable reputation.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 795. D. 1, ’06. 760w.

“The action of the story is somewhat slow, and the characters move
stiffly, while both narrative and descriptive passages are heavily
weighted with words. A knowledge of Indian rites and customs gives
evidence of the author’s careful preparation for her work.”

+ − =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 110w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 20w.

“The interest of the story lies entirely in the author’s realisation
and vivid picture of eighteenth century personages and their
surroundings.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 160w.

=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Windfall: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.

7–15119.

The youthful and breezy manager of a street fair is lured by excursion
rates to take his show to a small town in the Great Smoky mountains,
and upon arrival realizes that he has been duped and that there are
but a handful of people in the county. He sticks it out, however,
becomes involved in the discovery of an illicit still, and
incidentally, wins a bride, and a windfall.

* * * * *

“It is a good, stirring piece of melodrama, with here and there some
characterization of a sort superior to that of many more pretentious
works of fiction—pleasant and entertaining, but marred by
undisciplined verbosity.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 614. N. 16. 150w.

“The writer shows herself still capable of using the old material to
excellent effect, although it would be foolish to deny that she has
worked the vein until it shows signs of exhaustion.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 290w.

“She has written a very clever story with as much of the old fashion
charm as can be preserved now. The story is extraordinary however,
only in the fact that it contains a threehanded heroine. Fortunately
she has not meddled with the Great Smokies, and the book is worth
reading for the descriptions of them which it contains.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.

“Gives herself free rein in page upon page of the very dullest
description that ever escaped editorial scissors.”

− =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 390w.

“The writer’s style, ordinarily direct and flexible, is occasionally
marred by serious lapses.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 370w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

“The plot is simple and somewhat obvious; the situations are not
always logical, and the effect of the story is rather commonplace.”

− =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w.

=Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.= Practical Christian sociology. **$1.50. Funk.

7–23083.

A revised fourth edition of a series of lectures on moral reforms and
social problems. The subject is treated from the standpoint of the
church, the family and education, capital and labor, and citizenship.
The statistics are brought down to the present time, and the volume is
illustrated with charts and portraits.

* * * * *

“The book is a repository of sociological facts.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 110w.

=Craig, Neville B.= Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the head waters of the Madeira river in Brazil; by Neville B. Craig in co-operation with members of the Madeira and Mamoré association of Philadelphia. **$4. Lippincott.

7–29709.

“The book before us concerns itself much more with the human interest
of the story, than with the larger issues involved. It is a plain tale
of the adventures, trials and exploits—of the sufferings and
privations—undergone by a party of resolute pioneers—American
engineers, contractors and railway builders in a year of heroic
endeavor in the deadly climate of the Amazon valley.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“This book is as entertaining as a novel. The book is a very welcome
contribution to the history of American engineering enterprise.
Certainly every American engineering school should have a copy of the
book. The young engineer will learn things from it that are found in
none of the standard text-books, but which are even more necessary for
his highest success than anything in his mechanics or chemistry.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 426. O. 17, ’07. 1590w.

“He disclaims any literary qualifications for his task, but his
descriptions of life in the torrid zone are graphic at times and in
reporting observations in natural history he avoids the methods of the
nature faker.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 400w.

“While the completeness and continuity of the story is somewhat
sacrificed to the authenticated veracity of the historical account, it
will, nevertheless, appeal to most lovers of works on travels and
adventure. The greatest value of the book is as a contribution to
engineering literature. It may almost serve as a treatise on
organizing and equipping engineering expeditions for tropical work,
until an authoritative text-book on the subject is available. It
should be read by every engineer and contractor engaged in operations
in tropical countries, and will be of value to many others engaged on
works in distant lands or far from a base of supplies.” Albert Wells
Buel.

+ + − =Technical Literature.= 2: 454. N. ’07. 1000w.

=Craig, W. H.= Life of Lord Chesterfield: an account of the ancestry, personal character and public services. *$5. Lane.

7–25141.

A sketch which “has materially broadened our knowledge not alone of
Lord Chesterfield, but also of the political and social history of
England during the long period of his life.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The style is on the whole clear and pleasant, and the work well
deserves careful perusal.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 499. Ap. 27. 3080w.

“It is to be hoped that this biography may help its readers to take a
reasonably comprehensive view of a by no means simple personality.” S.
M. Francis.

+ =Atlan.= 100: 490. O. ’07. 410w.

“His apologist, if one may so designate his latest biographer, is
temperate and judicious in tone, and has presented what appears to be
a not too flattering picture of the man.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 56. Ag. 1, ’07. 1270w.

“It is the chief merit of Mr. Craig’s book to show sterling qualities
which Chesterfield was at too much pains in concealing, to reject the
perishable trivialities of his character, and to exhibit him as a
philosophic statesman, not inferior to any of his contemporaries,
except Walpole at one end of his life, and Chatham at the other.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2300w.

“In this elaborate biography Mr. Craig has done an important piece of
work in a competent way. The index is admirably analytical and leaves
nothing to be desired.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 630w.

“The author means to be disinterested, but his animus is occasionally
too much for him. What he has to say is excellent in substance, but
there is a great deal of repetition and digression in the book.” H. W.
Boynton.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 234. N. ’07. 720w.

“Those who wish to satisfy themselves of Mr. Craig’s judicial acumen,
based on knowledge of facts and sympathy with human nature, must read
his story of Lord Chesterfield.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 428. Ap. 6, ’07. 1720w.

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

6–36053.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

=Atlan.= 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 50w.

“To this the last of her novels a place must be accorded not far below
that occupied by ‘Robert Orange’ and ‘A school for saints,’ her
unquestioned masterpieces, and it is possibly a more remarkable
production than either of those two in certain respects, as of its
finished style, its economy of material, and its nice dramatic
adjustment.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 310w.

“The book comes nearer to actual life than Mrs. Craigie ever came
before, and it has, moreover, the exquisite effervescing brilliancy
that so distinguished her earliest work and made it command the
instant attention of every reader with an ear for epigram.” Cornelia
Atwood Pratt.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 200w.

=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Gothic quest. **$1.50. Baker.

7–21371.

“Contains a number of lectures and essays that have appeared singly in
various publications, which are here brought together.... They are
mainly a discussion of ecclesiastical architecture from the Gothic
standpoint, or, rather, from the standpoint of the English high
church. Formalism and ritualism seem to hold as high a place in
Christian art, to Mr. Cram’s mind, as do form and abstract beauty in
art generally.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“After all criticism of form and matter, one must feel that what
underlies the volume should be known and appreciated by every
individual or committee or congregation interested in the building of
a Christian shrine, or house of worship, or temple.”

+ − =Dial.= 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 680w.

“Quite rich with plums of wisdom and are filled with a contagious
enthusiasm for the expressiveness of mediaeval art.” Elisabeth Luther
Cary.

+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 360. D. ’07. 430w.

=Crandall, Charles Lee.= Text-book on geodesy and least squares, prepared for the use of civil engineering students. $3. Wiley.

6–42921.

“Prof. Crandall is addressing himself primarily to students of Cornell
university and presumably to those who are beginning the study of the
subject and not to professional men engaged in actual work.... The
first few chapters of the book are mainly occupied with the
description of the use and adjustment of instruments in the field. The
next three are devoted to consideration of problems connected with the
figure of the earth.... In the second part, which consists of three
chapters, the author serves up the standing dish of least squares....
The book is well illustrated, and there are some useful tables and
information given in the appendix.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“The book is an excellent and well-balanced statement of past and
current practice, prepared with rare good judgment as to the relative
importance of things. It is especially to be commended as being
thoroughly up-to-date. The student, unassisted, will have difficulty
at many points in seeing the relation between the facts presented, for
the reason that the principles involved are not fully and clearly
stated. If the book is supplemented in the class-room by lectures and
references to other books, designed to remedy the defects indicated,
it will be found to be the best book on geodesy now available in
English. The engineer in practice will find it a most excellent and
suggestive reference book.” John F. Hayford.

+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 800w.

“For a text-book to be used by beginners it might be objected that the
author has a little overlaid his treatise with a superfluity of
detail. A greater fault appears to be one of omission. There is too
little, almost nothing, concerning the methods of deriving the
latitude and longitude of a station. The information throughout is
conveyed in a clear and lucid manner, but a little unevenness is
sometimes noticeable, as though the author were uncertain of the
degree of thoroughness with which the several topics should be
treated.”

+ =Nature.= 75: 339. F. 7, ’07. 680w.

=Crane, Robert Treat.= State in constitutional and international law. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science.) pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.

7–31399.

A monograph based upon the thesis that the concept of the state in
constitutional law must be discriminated from the concept of the state
in international law.

=Crane, Walter.= An artist’s reminiscences. il. *$5. Macmillan.

7–37525.

Notable literary men and women of the Victorian era people Mr. Crane’s
book, among them Tennyson, Irving, William Morris, Rossetti,
Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt, Stevenson, Henley, Whistler and Leighton. “A
feature of the book is the prominence given to the author’s
socialistic opinions, in which he followed with the devotion of a
pupil and the accuracy of a copyist those of William Morris.” (Lond.
Times.)

* * * * *

“The proof-reader has been careless and many small inaccuracies in
names &c., are to be found. As a document for the student of the
domestic history of our times, an agreeable, chatty volume of
reminiscences for the casual reader and above all as the monument of a
delicate personality, this book has an assured place.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 486. O. 19. 1940w.

“We have a long autobiography, crowded with trivial detail,
interesting, no doubt, to the circle of those immediately concerned,
but not especially enlivening to the world at large. Where detail
would be of interest it is often lacking.”

+ − =Dial.= 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 2000w.

“The story of his own success is modestly revealed. The book shows
that among the many crafts in which Mr. Crane has been interested that
of the writer is not excepted.”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 33: 167. D. ’07. 300w.

“If it had been cut down to one third the length, the volume might
have been readable, and in a certain sense valuable. Certain
theatrical autobiographies are the only books that can be compared
with it for self-consciousness.”

− =Lond. Times.= 6: 291. S. 27, ’07. 710w.

“In ‘An artist’s reminiscences’ we have the work and the man
associated for the first time. The result is attractive even
picturesque. If Mr. Crane were a great man the result could hardly be
more satisfactory.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 614. O. 12, ’07. 1850w.

“The work will be of interest to people in many walks of life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

“No overweening egotism parades through its pages. But they are
encumbered by recollections of too many unimportant personages. He
makes the further mistake of narrating his own long and eminently
successful career in over-great detail.”

+ − =Outlook.= 87: 611. N. 23, ’07. 170w.

“It is tantalising to feel how little the writer has told us all in
these pages of the subject about which he knows so much and could
write so well.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 671. N. 2, ’07. 570w.

=Crane, William Edward.= American stationary engineering. $2. Derry-Collard.

6–35993.

“The author discusses in a very clear manner the defects usually found
in boilers, engines, steam pipes, pumps, and accessories, and notes
the remedies that have been devised to overcome them. The book is, in
fact, a recount of his experience with such machinery, and should
prove useful to stationary engineers, machinists and others who wish
to know how to make engines, boilers, etc., operate correctly, and how
to remedy defects in them when they appear.... The book is concluded
with notes, rules and tables of useful information.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

+ =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 200w.

=Cravath, James Raley, and Lansingh, Van Rensselaer.= Practical illumination. *$3. McGraw pub.

7–17392.

“The authors, in the preface to their book, point out that their
object is ‘to present exact practical information of every-day use on
many points that come up in arranging artificial lighting.’ They make
no attempt to treat of the apparatus for the production of light, but
rather to confine the work to the much neglected subject of how best
to use the light after it is produced. A great many tests are shown
giving information on the light distribution of various illuminants
with different globes, reflectors and shades. Much of this information
has not before been available to the general reader.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Taken all in all the book may be truly said to constitute a real
contribution to the literature of the art of practical illumination.
It goes without saying that it should find a place in the library of
every illuminating engineer. But the illuminating engineer is not the
only one to whom the book will appeal. The authors happily have
presented the subject in such a way that the architect, the contractor
and the central station man will derive much benefit from reading it.”
L. B. Marks.

+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 549. My. 16, ’07. 1710w.

=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Arethusa. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–33911.

A story of Constantinople in the fourteenth century whose plot is
built up about the expulsion of the usurper Andronicus from the throne
and the restoration of Johannes. Arethusa, who with her foster parents
were objects of Andronicus’ cruelty, sells herself into slavery to
save her foster mother from poverty, is bought by Carlo Zeno the
principal actor in the Johannine faction, and becomes involved in the
plot to re-establish the deposed ruler.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠

“The breathless adventures and the hairbreadth escapes, the scenes of
torture and luxury are all good reading as isolated episodes; but they
hardly go to make a novel worthy of the author.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 150w.

Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 268. N. ’07. 460w.

“More than once the narrative causes one’s breath to come unevenly—a
sure test of a story of adventure. It would have gone all the better
for the absence of certain over-frequent and rather sententious little
asides, chiefly on the feminine character.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 480w.

“He is merely, as the author of some thirty-five novels should be,
extraordinarily adept, a master of his craft, as a craft.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 450w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

“The tale is told with Mr. Crawford’s usual skill and more than his
usual vivacity.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 110w.

“His admitted acquaintance with his subject exempts him from the
imputation of having studied it for a purpose, yet thereby making more
flagrant his transposition of twentieth-century manners and morals
into the corrupt decrepitude of Constantinople in 1376.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.

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

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Current Literature.= 42: 228. F. ’07. 850w.

“It has perhaps rather less of plot and rather more of psychology than
the author is wont to give us, but the story has both texture and
strength, besides being thoroughly praiseworthy in its ethical
implications.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 440w.

+ + =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 220w.

* =Crawford, Francis Marion.= Little city of hope: a Christmas story. †$1.25. Macmillan.

A touching Christmas story which tells of an inventor’s intense
struggle for a certain scientific triumph, how poverty blocked his way
and how his little son constructed a model city—a miniature of the
college town where the father had been a professor of mathematics—and
wooed and held Hope within its tiny gates. The wife who had sought a
position as governess is the good Christmas angel who makes final
success a possibility.

* * * * *

=Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 70w.

=Crawford, J. H.= From fox’s earth to mountain tarn: days among the wild animals of Scotland. **$3.50. Lane.

The wild life of Scotland inhabiting the country from Ailsa Crag and
the Tweed to the Shetlands is dealt with in true nature-lover fashion.
Mr. Crawford makes a plea for the preservation of eagles, hawks,
foxes, and various other birds of artificial sport.

* * * * *

“Twenty-one short essays, all interesting and well written, in spite
of a somewhat affected style.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 688. D. 1. 410w.

“Mr. Crawford has a way of saying things that makes one think.” May
Estelle Cook.

+ =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 263. Ap. 20, ’07. 320w.

“We find him an instructive and delightful companion, and the range
and minuteness of his knowledge is indisputable.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 850w.

“His style is vigorous. His sentences are short. It contains some
excellent accounts of wild life.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 90w.

=Crawford, William Henry.= Girolamo Savonarola, a prophet of righteousness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

7–18143.

This volume in “The men of the kingdom” series aims “to show what
Savonarola was as a man, and what he did as a true prophet of
righteousness.”

* * * * *

“President Crawford ... writes with contagious enthusiasm, though his
style seems far from being as finished and full of color as the
subject demands. It is certainly a far cry from Villari to Mr.
Crawford.”

− + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 140w.

=Crawfurd, Oswald J. F.= Revelations of Inspector Morgan. †$1.50. Dodd.

7–25506.

Four stories founded on revelations made by a Scotland Yard officer,
“presumably the fruits of his imagination stimulated and impelled by
Scotland Yard narratives to the defence of the professional detective
so long over-shadowed in fiction by the popular and famous amateur.”
(Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“Good detective stories.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.

“Readers will find two of the four stories well up to recent standards
of the kind; while one, ‘The kidnapped children,’ works out a motive
which is as adequate and convincing as it is ingenious and
unexpected.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 360w.

“He gets himself read. Many better story tellers are less lucky.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 640w.

“The not too exacting lover of mystery will find plenty to amuse him
in these studies of crime, though they are somewhat naïve and crude in
their development, and occasionally weak in detail.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 90w.

“We cannot say that these stories are better or worse than the flood
of detective fiction which is just now poured so liberally on the
reading public.”

+ − =Spec.= 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 130w.

=Crawshaw, William Henry.= Making of English literature. *$1.25. Heath.

7–16385.

“A compact yet broadly suggestive historical introduction to English
literature for use by students and by general readers.” The subject is
taken up in six successive periods: Paganism and Christianity
449–1066, which treats of Anglo-Saxon poetry; Religion and romance,
1066–1500, which includes the Anglo-Norman period and the age of
Chaucer; Renaissance and reformation, 1500–1660, covering Shakespeare
and Milton; Classicism, 1660–1780, including the times of Dryden, Pope
and Johnson; Individualism 1780–1832, Burns and Wordsworth and
Democracy and science 1832–1892, the age of Tennyson.

* * * * *

“In individual cases ... we may take exception to Mr. Crawshaw’s
critical estimate, but in the main he is to be commended as a sound
guide.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 300. S. 14. 260w.

“The present work is one of the most satisfactory of compendiums. It
is conceived on new lines and in many respects is better adapted for
the student and general reader than any treatise of the kind that we
can recall. The book bears strong evidence of the influence which
Taine has exercised upon contemporaneous literary history and
criticism.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.

“The critical pages are to be commended for their sanity, good
judgment, breadth of spirit, and sympathetic comprehension.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 260w.

“For the general reader, as well as for the student this is an
illuminating book.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 280w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’07. 80w.

“Our space does not permit us to go into a detailed analysis of this
splendid book, splendid in its critical acumen, sane judgments,
breadth of spirit, and in catholic sympathy, but we must note a point
or two where we think the author might have improved his book. His
treatment of the drama before Shakespeare, especially the mystery and
morality plays, is inadequate and not compactly grouped. We are of the
opinion, too, that many readers of the book will be inclined to
disagree with Professor Crawshaw in his assigning Pope a place as a
forerunner of the romantic movement. With these manifold excellences
we doubt very much if the volume has the staying qualities necessary
for classroom work. For the general reader it is undoubtedly an
excellent book.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ − =School R.= 15: 624. O. ’07. 700w.

=Creighton, William Henry. P.= Steam-engine and other heat-motors. $5. Wiley.

7–8522.

A text for students rather than a reference book for the practicing
engineer. Principles are clearly stated with ample numerical examples
and problems.

* * * * *

“The book is clearly written. Among the illustrations there are rather
too many picked up from the trade catalogues or from other books of
similar nature. These do not always fit in well with the text. But
otherwise, the book is excellent as to the dress given to it by the
publishers.” Storm Bull.

+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 1140w.

“An examination of the book shows that it is not a vade mecum of the
steam engine. The author has had in mind the needs of the engineering
student, and the matter is presented in a manner which is intended to
train the student to think.” John J. Flather.

+ + − =Technical Literature.= 2: 457. N. ’07. 930w.

=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= White plume. †$1.50. Dodd.

6–34687.

Once more the horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholomew lie fresh
upon the pages of a historial romance in which figure Henry of
Navarre, the easy going Marguerite of Valois, the odious Queen-mother,
the Duke of Guise, Philip of Spain, etc. “The story proper begins with
the day of the barricades, where Francis Agnew, an agent entrusted
with high matters by the kings of Scotland and Navarre, is also left
dead. His daughter is aided in her extremity by a certain professor of
the Sorbonne and a gallant young student, John d’Albret, who became
the main actors in a love story, which runs parallel—if such a term
may be used of a tortuous history—with the events of the wars of
religion and the political activities and cruelties of Spanish
inquisitors and statesmen.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“With certain deductions which seem inevitable in respect of style ...
Mr. Crockett has handled a theme of much complexity with vivacity and
skill; and the characterization is in his best form.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 260w.

“Mr. Crockett has put his historical facts (duly supplemented by
sentimental inventions) to skilful use, and made the old story quite
readable again.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 160w.

“The book reminds us of the elder Dumas, partly because the author has
chosen similar situations in French history upon which to found his
story and partly because he has the old charm for spinning a tale full
of intrigue and wild adventures.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 260w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 100w.

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 811. D. 29, ’06. 150w.

=Croly, Herbert David.= Houses for town or country. **$2. Duffield.

7–28610.

In text and illustration are revealed the tendencies of architecture
in America toward nationalization, and the causes for emancipation
from imitation of foreign models. The typical town house, the typical
country house and the house for all the year are discussed, attractive
ideas are set down concerning the hall and the stairs, the
living-room, the dining-room, the bedroom and the kitchen, and the
house in relation to out-of-doors.

* * * * *

“Anyone wishing to build, remodel, or decorate a house, or to plan a
suitable garden for it, can find something suggestive and to his
purpose ... in ‘Houses for town or country.’”

+ =Dial.= 43: 257. O. 16, ’07. 170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 130w.

“The inquiring layman can learn much from this exposition of
architectural ideals, however, and if he is thinking of building a
house either in town or country, he will do well to consult these
pages.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 190w.

Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.

=Putnam’s.= 3: 360. D. ’07. 350w.

=Cromarsh, H. Ripley.= See =Angell, Bryan Mary=.

=Crook, Rev. Isaac.= John Knox: the reformer. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

7–14594.

In this biography of Knox in the “Men of the kingdom” series, the
author has “drawn the reformer out of a cloudy past into a clear
modern vision.”

=Cross, Alfred W. S.= Public baths and wash houses; a treatise on their planning, design, arrangement, and fitting. *$7.50. Scribner.

7–12686.

A book that is conceived and executed from the view point of the
architect rather than from that of the municipal official or the
sanitarian.

* * * * *

“The volume before us is a commendable one.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w.

“Unfortunately, the title is misleading in omitting to prefix the
qualifying adjective British. In spite of its limitations, the volume
should be on the shelves of every technical library and of every
architect who is likely to design bath houses.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 940w.

* =Cross, Richard James=, ed. Hundred great poems. **$1.25. Holt.

A hundred poems of the sort of merit that has stood the test of time.
Shakespeare, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Lamb, Moore,
Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hood, Longfellow, the Brownings, and many
others are represented.

* =Crothers, Samuel McChord.= Making of religion. *40c. Am. Unitar.

Mr. Crothers argues less for antiquarian research, for looking back at
our saints and heroes than for looking forward to the unchangeable
vision that has cheered the ages on.

=Crouse, Mary Elizabeth.= Algiers. **$2. Pott.

6–38897.

“A book of impressions is ‘Algiers.’... The author narrates the story
of this morning land where the East and the West have met; goes down
into its life to discover the traces of what has been ... tells the
romance of the palaces, describes the passing of the days, sees
Lazarus in his rags at the gates, the orange peddlers rolled in their
cloaks, asleep on the ground, and gives many glimpses of the native
women whose lives are veiled like their faces.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.

“Charming as this book often is, it does not bring assurance with its
interpretations.”

− + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 260w.

“The book was worth writing, the task has been admirably performed and
the pictures have much artistic merit.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 3, ’06. 540w.

=Crowell, Norman H.= Sportsman’s primer. $1.25. Outing pub. co.

7–22732.

Both sportsmen and scoffers will enjoy the humor of these satirical
chapters upon football, hunting ducks, automobiling, frog catching,
base ball, tennis, wrestling, angling, golf, dog training, moose
hunting, bear hunting, snipe shooting, whaling and other sports.

=Crozier, John B.= Wheel of wealth, being a reconstruction of the science and art of political economy on the lines of modern evolution. $4.50. Longmans.

6–46262.

A three-part work on economics illuminated by the thought “that the
symbol of a revolving wheel is the natural symbol of the reproduction
of wealth, and that the laws of the increase and decrease of wealth,
as well as the immediate deduction therefrom, must be identical with,
and so be transferable from the mathematics of a mechanical wheel of
wealth and the science of political economy.” Part 1, treats of
“Reconstruction;” Part 2, “Free trade and protection;” Part 3, surveys
the “Critical and historical” aspects of the subjects, passing under
review the English and foreign schools.

* * * * *

“So thoroughly is political economy ‘reconstructed’ in this modest
volume, that we fail to recognize the battered, though regenerated,
science. The book is as disproportioned as a monster. Vital economic
problems are completely disregarded, other questions are treated at
excessive length.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 633. My. ’07. 160w.

“Dr. Crozier possesses a bright and generally intelligible, though
perhaps occasionally rather roystering style, great learning and great
industry. It is not a book to be hastily passed by, and should be
studied carefully by those who disagree with it.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1700w.

“Eliminate the wheel; moderate the oratorical rush of the writer;
reduce the book to a half of its length by omitting many explanations
which really obscure, and metaphors which are none the less
superfluous because ingenious; substitute occasionally a short
mathematical formula for an eloquent paragraph and this book would
take a high place in modern economical literature.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 434. D. 28, ’06. 1390w.

“In a work which reconstructs an entire science in a single stroke, it
is an ungrateful task to call attention to such minor defects as
errors of fact and inference; and in a single number of the ‘Nation’
it would be impossible to chronicle more than a small part of Mr.
Crozier’s mistakes. It is only fair to say that the ‘Wheel of wealth,’
like the author’s preceding works, is entertainingly written, and is
an interesting, if not successful, addition to the books that have
undertaken to reform the unregenerate science of political economy.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 155. F. 14, ’07. 1810w.

“Dr. Crozier’s own reconstruction, we confess, we have some difficulty
in appreciating.”

− =Spec.= 97: 176. F. 2, ’07. 1680w.

=Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M.= Christian Rome. (Grant Allen’s historical guides.) **$1.25. Wessels.

7–30815.

A small guide to Rome which follows “the lines laid down by Mr. Grant
Allen for his series of historical guide-books, of which the present
volume forms a part. His idea was to concentrate the reader’s
attention only on what is essential, important, and typical. Hence the
compilers have made no attempt to catalogue every church and work of
art connected with Christian Rome.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“In plan than which there are none better.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 162. O. ’07.

“Especially valuable for the Vatican galleries.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.

“An admirably practical guide.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 100w.

=Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M.= Umbrian cities of Italy. 2v. il. $3. Page.

7–30814.

A guide-book, yet it withholds information about the details of
travel. “The authors’ method is to give a brief history of the region,
and also of each city, from which the traveler may form an idea of the
states of civilization under which the various art treasures of each
locality were produced and of the people who made them. Then follow
descriptions and studies of monuments, churches, museums, and their
contents. The books are not intended to take the place of an ordinary
guide book nor to furnish catalogues of collections. The aim of the
authors has been to supplement these by giving such a background of
history and tradition and of biographical coloring as will make the
objects studied stand out before the traveler full of meaning and
suggestion.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The plans for the identification of particular pictures in lavishly
decorated churches or other buildings should prove very useful.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 130w.

“Through the descriptions are scattered many bits of criticism which
give to them just the personal, companionable note that most travelers
will enjoy.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 638. O. 19, ’07. 190w.

=Cruttwell, Maud.= Antonio Pollaiuolo. *$2. Scribner.

7–28946.

A comprehensive review of the work of this famous Italian draughtsman
meets a definite need. “One of Miss Cruttwell’s main objects has been
to draw a clear distinction between the two brothers Antonio and
Piero, whose works are commonly classed together and whom ordinarily
well-informed persons find it difficult to separate in their minds....
The book contains as an appendix all the known ‘documents’ bearing on
the brothers Pollaiuolo, and there is a complete catalogue of their
admitted works.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The illustrations are excellent, and the appendix, consisting of
documents relating to the life, list of works and bibliography, makes
the book of extreme value to students. The latter, however, is not so
free from printer’s errors as is the text.”

+ + − =Acad.= 72: 208. Mr. 2, ’07. 1170w.

“One of the most scholarly as well as most readable art books issued
in many a day; and no doubt it will long remain the authoritative
treatise on the Pollaiuoli.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 340w.

“A book of permanent value to students.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 1210w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1270w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)

“Has permanent value.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 859. Ap. 13, ’07. 260w.

=Cruttwell, Maud.= Guide to the paintings in the Florentine galleries, the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia. $1.25. Dutton.

7–33970.

Miss Cruttwell has subtracted many of the commonplace guide book
features, among them descriptions, but yet supplies the necessary
facts of information in clear time-saving form. She says that her book
is not a catalog for use in galleries but a reference volume for the
student. It is timely in view of the recent changes made in the three
galleries of Florence.

* * * * *

“Of the miniature ‘reproductions’ with which this neat and handy
volume is illustrated, we cannot speak with unqualified praise.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 410w.

=N. Y. Times=. 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 90w.

“All the defects of her latest book, however, can be easily removed in
another edition.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w.

=Cundall, H. M.= Birket Foster, R. W. S. il. *$6. Macmillan.

7–28516.

An artistic and descriptive volume of the life of one of the foremost
representatives of the English school of water color painting. His
landscapes, his studies of peasant and farm life, and his
architectural reproductions all bespeak a genius that has tested its
work by the artist’s standards and found it good. To Americans he is
best known for his illustrations to “Evangeline.”

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1907, 1: 52. Ja. 12. 1200w.

“Its author has had exceptional facilities for dealing successfully
with his subject and has turned them to account with no little tact
and skill.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: 81. Mr. ’07. 340w.

“It is a beautifully illustrated, gossipy book, which carries the
reader back to the early days of pictorial journalism in England.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w.

+ + =Nation.= 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 130w.

“In all this series there is not a more attractive volume.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 450w.

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 140w.

“Somehow we cannot reconcile ourselves to Birket Foster in the form in
which he is here reproduced. Mr. Cundall brings to bear on his work
plenty of enthusiasm of the right kind, and is thoroughly appreciative
of the exquisite art of his man, but the book as a whole leaves us
uncontent.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 780. D. 22, ’06. 110w.

=Cunningham, William.= Wisdom of the wise, three lectures on free trade imperialism. *60c. Putnam.

6–33507.

“The three ‘wise’ men whose views upon imperialism and trade policy
are discussed in these lectures are Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Mr. St.
Loe Stachey, and Lord Rosebery.... The first of these essays discusses
English classical free-trade economics.... The second essay is devoted
to a discussion of free-trade imperialism, with reference especially
to Mr. Stachey’s views.... The last essay is a commentary upon Lord
Rosebery’s utterances upon the problem of the unemployed.”—J. Pol.
Econ.

* * * * *

“The analysis is dispassionate, and the author shows a desire to take
his opponents at their best.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 634. My. ’07. 100w.

“There is much interesting economic speculation in these essays. The
argument would, however, be more convincing if less apologetic.”

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 523. O. ’06. 350w.

Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 718. D. ’06. 450w.

“Innuendoes against colleagues and political opponents are not atoned
for by pulpit platitudes on religion and political life. Irrelevance
and confusion are worsened, and bettered, when advanced under the
cloak of a distinguished reputation. The role of political pamphleteer
is not, in short, adapted to Dr. Cunningham’s genius.”

− =Spec.= 96: 1042. Je. 30, ’06. 1700w.

=Cunynghame, Henry H. S.= European enamels. (Connoisseur’s lib., no. 9.) *$6.75. Macmillan.

6–41011.

The third edition of Mr. Cunynghame’s work on enamels, in which he has
included a chapter on a new kind of furnace invented by himself.

* * * * *

“Mr. Cunynghame has absorbed the whole history of his subject and sets
it before us in so convenient and graceful a way as to make his volume
one of the most charming of an excellent series.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.

“On questions relating to the history of enamel the author helps us
hardly at all. He supplies only scraps of comment drawn from various
sources. His style is discursive, and at times it is impossible to
take seriously his ideas on art matters generally.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 520. O. 27. 980w.

“A book that will not stand the test of criticism.”

− =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 340w.

“Beautiful and instructive volume.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 225. Jl. 25, ’07. 240w.

“A very interesting, and on the whole, reliable work on the subject.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 184. D. ’06. 450w.

“The worst fault, however, from the connoisseur’s point of view, is
the absence of a bibliography. Credit must be given him for a real
knowledge of materials and processes, and what he has to say on
these ... is extremely valuable.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 460w.

“We close the volume with the feeling that enthusiasm for the art and
knowledge of its character are to be gained by a faithful study of
these pages. The not very attractive photographic plates are at least
useful. It is altogether a good book for the beginner.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 620w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 113. F. 23, ’07. 560w.

“A valuable volume.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.

=Cunynghame, Henry H. S.= Time and clocks: a description of ancient and modern methods of measuring time. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–11023.

“Mr. Cunynghame, after discussing the subject of time generally,
proceeds to describe the sun-dial, the water-clock (with a notice of
the complication caused by the division of the day into twelve hours),
and sand-glasses. In due course he comes to clocks in their various
forms.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“If Mr. Cunynghame had stuck to his subject, a valuable book might
have resulted, and it need not have been any shorter than the one
actually in hand.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 20. Ja. 5. 500w.

“We rather fear that the reader who has not gone through a course of
dynamics will find it hard to grasp the significance of the various
discussions, despite the clear reasoning and simple examples, whilst
to the science student a greater part of the matter is unnecessary.”
W. E. R.

+ − =Nature.= 75: 269. F. 17, ’07. 160w.

“A very interesting book it is, though in spots disconcertingly
mathematical.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 1090w.

“He is always scientific, and discusses the principle of the technical
contrivances which he describes.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

=Curtis, Carleton Clarence.= Nature and development of plants. *$2.50. Holt.

7–34596.

A work which has less of the text-book aim than that of creating for
the student a viewpoint. It is put forth with the hope that the
discussion “will give the student such comprehension of the subject
that he will come to the lecture room in a proper attitude and that he
will approach his laboratory work with the desire for investigation.”

=Curtis, Natalie=, ed. Indians’ book: an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race. il. **$7.50. Harper.

7–31183.

A most handsomely made book, “undertaken primarily for the Indians, in
the hope that this, their own volume, when placed in the hands of
their children, might help to revive for the younger generation that
sense of the dignity and worth of their race which is the Indian’s
birth-right.” “The book reflects the soul of one of the types of
primitive man.... It is the direct utterance of the Indians
themselves. The red man dictated and the white friend recorded.” The
songs, stories and drawings have been contributed by Indians
themselves.

* * * * *

“To most of its white readers the book will be a revelation of the
vaguely stirring genius and the art, mystic in its intent, spontaneous
in its symbolism, of a child race.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 640w.

“It must be said in general that the poems, stories, and tunes
collected by Miss Curtis have the true aboriginal flavor.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 428. N. 7, ’07. 750w.

“For herself makes claim only to the work of the recorder. But even
the cursory reader will see that she deserves, in addition, much
credit for the noble purpose by which she has been animated, the tact
and patience with which she has carried the work through successfully,
and the painstaking labor which has been involved.” F. F. Kelly.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 646. O. 19, ’07. 1170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

“The appeal of the book is to the lover of folk-lore, to the musician,
to the student of primitive art, and to all who would know about the
Indian character and the Indian traditions.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 558. O. 19, ’07. 160w.

“A noteworthy contribution to the descriptive literature of vanishing
peoples.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 280w.

=Curtis, Newton Martin.= From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2. Putnam.

6–27984.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The historian’s research into archives has been faithful and
laborious; but it is more than rivalled by this loving quest of
tear-bedewed letters from the front, and recollections of actual
survivors.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 685. Ag. ’07. 430w.

“In its human interest, a volume like this finds its value and its
justification.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.

=Cust, Lionel.= Van Dyck. (Great masters in painting and sculpture.) $1.75. Macmillan.

W 7–162.

“An abridged and revised version of the exhaustive volume on the life
and work of Van Dyck published six years ago by Mr. Lionel Cust, whose
erudition is now placed within the reach of a wider public.... The
illustrations are well-chosen and adequately reproduced, and though we
could wish the list of paintings included those in private as well as
those in public collections, the book must be pronounced in every way
a worthy addition to a series remarkable for its convenience and
authority.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“As an authoritative account of a painter whose work is richly
represented in this country, Mr. Cust’s condensed volume should find a
place in the library of every connoisseur.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 162. F. 16, ’07. 130w.

“The addition of new facts which have recently come to light bring the
book up to the level of present-day knowledge.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 140w.

* =Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart.= Suburban whirl. †$1.25. McClure.

7–33206.

Includes “The suburban whirl” and several shorter sketches which
contain tangible precipitates from every-day happenings in home
routine. The titular story shows how in attempting to solve the
question of providing for three on a slender income two charming young
people try suburban life. “They find themselves speedily caught in the
small local maelstrom of clubs and dinners and subscription dances,
obliged to buy tickets to church festivals and charitable
entertainments, and double their expenditures on personal effects, in
order to live up to their new standards.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

“One of the many well-deserved forms of praise that may be offered be
Mrs. Cutting ... is that her instinct for economy of structure is
almost flawless. A larger number [of characters] would have spoiled
the illusion of a small suburban town; a smaller number would not have
conveyed a sense of a social whirl in the suburbs of anywhere else. In
short, she has struck the golden mean, which makes this little story
as admirable for its symmetry as it is for the simple philosophy of
its culmination.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 26: 407. D. ’07. 430w.

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

D

=Dale, Robert W.= History of English Congregationalism. **$4. Armstrong.

A book by one of England’s most commanding nonconformists which is
written for Congregationalists but which will interest “Episcopalians
and Presbyterians especially, as well as all Americans to whom the
development of religious freedom and the delimitation of the spheres
of church and state form an attractive subject.” (Outlook.) “He tells
the life-history of a cause which suffered contempt and cruel
oppression, and of which he was the latest—and the most
eloquent—exponent.... So much only of political history is given as is
absolutely necessary for his purpose.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“By this book the author has erected a worthy monument to his own
memory; but it must not be forgotten that without another’s labour it
would never have seen the light. The manner in which the work of
arrangement, of revision, of completion, and of illustration has been
performed by his son demands separate, if brief recognition. In
discretion, taste, and literary ability it is altogether admirable.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 567. My. 11. 2030w.

“Let us say at once that for thoroughness of treatment and for
exactness of detail there is no work known to us on this subject which
approaches the volume now produced by Principal Dale out of the
materials which his father left.”