Chapter XIV: Preface (14)

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 92. Mr. 22, ’07. 1300w.

“For a historical understanding of the peculiarities of religious life
in England this history is eminently instructive.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 320w.

“In taking leave of a very able book we cannot but express our
thankfulness that Professor Dale has been able to preserve unimpaired
for the students of church history a valuable work which might have
lost much by the too early death of its author.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 1310w.

=D’Alton, Rev. John A.= History of Ireland from the earliest times to the present day. 3v. v. 2, from 1547 to 1782. *$3. Benziger.

Covers the ground from the earliest period down to the present day,
and “aims not to contribute anything original in the way of research
or criticism, but to produce a popular history by judicious selection
of the best materials that his predecessors have furnished.” (Cath.
World.)

* * * * *

“Being both a learned and an honest man, he seldom misstates facts,
and is ready to face them as he understands them; but one cannot read
twenty pages of the book without feeling that he is a Roman Catholic,
and takes the standpoint of that church as his own. These flaws do not
prevent the book before us from contrasting very favorably with
various Irish histories which have come under our notice.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 628. My. 25. 1560w. (Review of v. 2.)

“He is simple, clear, and at times, picturesque. The temper of the
work is fairly critical, though not unfrequently our author does not
acquaint his readers with the existence of an opinion at variance with
the one he favors.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 248. My. ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Father D’Alton has few graces of style, but he is workmanlike, and is
wise to avoid rhetoric. On the whole, what impresses us most is his
impartiality; he desires to get at the truth and tell it plainly. His
view would be broader if he had entered more closely into English
history.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 620. My. 18, ’07. 1570w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Dalton, William.= Dalton’s complete bridge. **$1.25. Stokes.

6–30000.

The most recent and authoritative work on bridge, written by the great
British expert.

* * * * *

“We are still waiting for the Cavendish of bridge, but books like this
help to pave the way for his arrival.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 99. Jl. 28. 550w.

“A treatise which leaves nothing to be desired on the score of
thoroughness.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w.

+ − =Nation.= 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 100w.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 90w.

=Daly, Thomas Augustine.= Canzoni. *$1. Catholic standard and times pub. co.

6–38398.

“Mr. T. A. Daly’s dagoes, his darkies, and his Irishmen all satisfy
one’s sense of verity. Of the dialect verses in this volume, those
dealing with the humor and sentiment of the humble Italian life in our
large cities make up the larger portion.... In his Irish verses there
is something of the quality of Samuel Lover, an Old World flavor in
the wit and lilt as well.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Daly is happy, likewise, in his poems of love and home, which are
always true and sound. What is most admirable throughout the volume is
the union of wit, humor, or sprightliness, as the case may be, with a
genuine respect for all that is pure, sweet, tender, manly, and
noble.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 547. Jl. ’07. 860w.

“Contains some unusually good light verse, mostly dialect, part of it
Irish, part Italian. Both are handled skillfully.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1497. D. 20, ’06. 250w.

“The pervading wholesome spirit particularly commends this book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 270w.

=Dampier, William.= Voyages, ed. by John Masefield. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.

7–26474.

“A new and attractive edition in two volumes, with portrait, maps, and
a brief sketch of Dampier’s life of the editor.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 72: 187. F. 23, ’07. 1860w.

“The ‘Voyages’ here presented in two handy volumes, at a comparatively
low price, are full of popular interest and romance. They are far more
stirring reading than many a belauded work of modern fiction.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 300w.

“In Mr. Masefield’s reprint the type is clear and the editing
generally excellent. The introductory memoir might indeed have been
fuller for Admiral Smyth’s standard biographical sketch in the United
service journal is now seventy years old, and no longer easy to find.
From Mr. Masefield’s index we miss several entries, among them the
name of Selkirk.” Lane Cooper.

+ + − =Dial.= 43: 205. O. 1, ’07. 2420w.

+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 160w.

“A carefully annotated edition.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 240w.

=Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W.= Literature of libraries in the 17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.

=v. 3 and 4.= These volumes of this series deal respectively with “The
life of Sir Thomas Bodley, written by himself, together with the first
draft of the statutes of the public library at Oxon,” and “Two tracts
on the founding and maintaining of parochial libraries in Scotland,”
by James Kirkwood.

=v. 5.= This is “A brief outline of the history of libraries” by
Justus Lipsius, translated from the second edition, the last from the
hand of the author, by John Cotton Dana. The library of Osymandyas of
Egypt is the first to be mentioned, then follows the brief history of
other Egyptian libraries, of Grecian and of Roman collections. Two
chapters in closing are devoted to historic library decoration, book
cases, shelves, tables and seats.

=v. 6.= The concluding volume of this series is entitled “News from
France,” or “A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin,”
preceded by “The surrender of the library,” two tracts written by
Gabriel Naudé.

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 290w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

Reviewed by Laurence Burnham.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 639. F. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“The contents of the last volumes easily sustain the high standard of
the previous books in the series and indeed are of even greater
interest to the layman as well as the librarian.” Laurence Burnham.

+ + =Bookm.= 26: 101. S. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 3–6.)

“As a whole, this series promises to be a delight to the bibliophile
as well as to the librarian.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 73. F. 1, ’07. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

+ =Dial.= 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

“Both volumes will have antiquarian value for those engaged in library
pursuits to-day. And the dignified sketch of Bodley’s life has also a
general human interest.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

+ =Nation.= 84: 564. Je. 20, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 5 and
6.)

=Dane, John Colin.= Champion: the story of a motor-car; il. by W. E. Webster. †$1.50. Dillingham.

7–15596.

The autobiography of a motor-car, which is full of the love,
adventure, and treachery of its several possessors. “The difference
between this and the well-known autobiography of a horse, ‘Black
Beauty,’ is in some respects typical of the changes in our own time
since the mid-Victorian era.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“It is crude and sensational, but the story moves forward with spirit,
and certain exciting scenes in it are well realized; for instance,
that in the great motor-car race in France.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

=Daniels, Frank T.= A text-book of topographical drawing. (Technical drawing ser.) *$1.50. Heath.

7–8517.

“The first chapter deals briefly and concisely with the instruments
and materials required in topographic drafting. The next two chapters
take up the subject of paper and of plotting. The remaining chapters
take up the subjects of drafting and the symbols used in drafting
topographic maps, in ink and in colors, and the methods of
representing surface form. This is followed by a brief treatise on
earthwork and earthwork computation.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Here is a book that makes a field of its own, and for which there is
a place on shelves of all engineers and surveyors who have to do with
topographic drafting. The book is concisely and clearly written. In
reviewing so well written a text-book it seems ungracious to be
critical over trifles.”

+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 78. Jl. 18, ’07. 750w.

=Danneel, Heinrich.= Electrochemistry; v. 1, Theoretical electrochemistry and its physico-chemical foundations; tr. from the Sammlung Göschen by Edmund S. Merriam. *$1.25. Wiley.

7–7516.

=v 1.= Treats of the modern theories of electrochemistry, as well as
their physicochemical foundations. Explains the terms work, current,
and voltage, and discusses gas laws, osmotic pressure, theory of
electrolytic dissociation and conductivity, ionic theory,
electromotive force, the galvanic current, polarization, electrolysis
and the electron theory.

* * * * *

“The average student who is called upon to study the ionic theory will
obtain, we venture to think, a better grip of the subject by a study
of Danneel’s book than from that of Abegg. The latter book treats the
subject more fully but Danneel’s style is more interesting, and he
leaves none of the salient facts out.”

+ + =Nature.= 76: 380. Ag. 15, ’07. 200w. (Review of pt. 1.)

“This volume ... contains a surprising amount of fact and information
within a very small compass. The translation is vigorous and clear.”
Arthur B. Lamb.

+ + − =Science=, n. s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 260w. (Review of pt. 1.)

=Dante Alighieri.= Divine comedy and The new life; ed. with introd. and notes by Oscar Kuhns, lea. $1.25. Crowell.

An edition uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” which with its
introduction, bibliography and notes will serve to give a new impulse
to the study of Dante.

=Dargan, Olive Tilford.= Lords and lovers and other dramas. **$1.50. Scribner.

“‘Lords and lovers’ is a romantic play in two parts of the time of
Henry III. of England. It is as readable ... as a good novel, while it
has the added charm of workmanlike and impressive blank verse and of
dramatic situations, possibly not actable, yet conceived with a fine
theatrical unction.... The second play, ‘The Shepherd,’ is in prose.
It is a powerful presentation of contemporary Russian life, conceived
with real force and imagination, though weakened as a work of art—as
is also the concluding play, ‘The Siege,’—by an obvious concession to
the desire of the sentimental reader for a measurably happy
consummation.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Such verse as this leaves no room for criticism. It bears the visible
mark of the divine gift, and there is no poet of our time who might
not be proud to claim it for his own.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 540w.

+ − =Nation.= 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 570w.

Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 880w.

“Mrs. Dargan is a poet, not a great one, because not original, though
she is decidedly individual.” James Huneker.

+ =No. Am.= 184: 190. Ja. 18, ’07. 1410w.

“If one were asked to say wherein the chief weakness lay, one would
feel that one had acquired no new or individual point of view from the
reading, and that there was no serious comment upon life.” Louise
Collier Willcox.

+ − =No. Am.= 186: 95. S. ’07. 280w.

“There are abundant signs of immaturity in the first book of plays,
and only a very young writer would have attempted the dramatization of
such a character and experience as Poe’s; but there are also
indisputable marks of original force of mind and imagination; the
quality of promise which comes from strength and vitality rather than
from facility and sensibility.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 328. F. 9, ’07. 1320w.

“[The reader] cannot be unconscious of certain defects of plot. Mrs.
Dargan’s great strength lies in the personality with which she invests
her characters and in her remarkable command of blank verse.” Jessie
B. Rittenhouse.

+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 349. Je. ’07. 300w.

=Davenport, Charles Benedict.= Inheritance in poultry. pa. $1. Carnegie inst.

6–27702.

Mr. Davenport has made an application of Mendelian principles to
inheritance similar to that carried out by Saunders, Hurst and Bateson
in England. “In part, however, he has studied different characters and
races, and has been able to add many new and important facts to those
already known. The present work is, however, to be looked upon rather
as a preliminary—a first installment of the extensive experiments
under way at Cold Spring Harbor.” (Science.)

* * * * *

“This is a valuable addition to the rapidly-increasing literature
dealing with the subject of inheritance. There are a few marks of
carelessness in the text.” F. A. D.

+ + − =Nature.= 74: 583. O. 11, ’06. 330w.

“The facts are presented with admirable clearness and conciseness, and
despite the large number of details that the subject demands the
matter is handled in a very attractive way.” T. H. Morgan.

+ + + =Science=, n. s. 25: 464. Mr. 22, ’07. 1220w.

=Davenport, Frances Gardiner.= Economic development of a Norfolk manor, 1086–1565. *$3. Putnam.

6–37953.

The subject of Miss Davenport’s study has been the court rolls of the
manor of Forncett, near Norwich, which formed a part of the estate of
the Earls of Norfolk. She carries it thru five centuries, and affords
her readers an opportunity to follow in Forncett’s complex history the
agricultural history of a great part of England.

* * * * *

“With no theory to establish and no prejudice to maintain, she
gathered all the information that could be procured relating to a
single Norfolk manor, arranged it logically, and thus furnished a
contribution to our knowledge of medieval economic conditions that is
thoroughly trustworthy.” Thomas Walker Page.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 609. Ap. ’07. 720w.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 153. Jl. ’07. 330w.

“This is an extremely unpretentious, but none the less very remarkable
piece of work. We commend specially to the attention of students the
map of Forncett which accompanies this book.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 125. Ag. 4. 810w.

“The care with which the author has done her work is worthy of all
praise. Her calculations and tables are correct to a fraction. This
accuracy of inquiry bears fruit in a series of results with which
every student of economic history will have to reckon. The writer is
not so safe a guide in regard to the social and legal side of the
inquiry, and this is due partly to her insufficient use of the help to
be obtained from comparison with kindred cases.” P. Vinogradoff.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 154. Ja. ’07. 1370w.

+ + =Ind.= 63: 692. S. 19, ’07. 260w.

“This essay publishes the results of painstaking and scholarly
original research.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 80w.

“In the certainty and precision of statement that comes from an
unusual knowledge of the minute detail of her subject lies the value
of Miss Davenport’s study of Forncett.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 480w.

“Valuable as an analysis of a typical community.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 60w.

“Though it leaves many questions unanswered, and though in some
respects the picture is not as clear as we might wish—the sokeman
still remaining something of a puzzle—we can but feel content with a
work that is in the highest degree painstaking and scholarly.” Charles
M. Andrews.

+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 726. D. ’07. 1060w.

“The full value of it will appear only as other studies of a similar
kind are published with which comparisons may be made. Meanwhile it
remains a model of the way in which such work should be done. The
material has been collected and examined with painstaking
thoroughness, and has been written up with admirable discrimination.”
C. D.

+ + =Yale R.= 16: 211. Ag. ’07. 720w.

=Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle.= Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.

W 6–228.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The whole book is inaccurate and slipshod. Mr. Fulleylove’s charming
illustrations deserved a better surrounding.” C. L. K.

− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 370w.

=Davidson, Gladys.= Stories from the operas. 2d ser. *$1.25. Lippincott.

Here “Wagner is represented by only two of his operas—‘Parsifal’ and
‘Die Meistersinger.’ Of the other operas whose stories are told by
her, four—Gounod’s ‘Philemon and Baucis,’ Meyerbeer’s ‘Star of the
north,’ Halévy’s ‘The Jewess,’ and Bellini’s ‘La sonnambula’—have
practically disappeared from the stage, while a fifth, Tchaikovsky’s
‘Eugene Onegin,’ has never become acclimated outside of Russia. The
others in the list are popular favorites of today and likely to remain
so for some time. Their plots are told by the author in the form of
short stories without reference to the stage or the music.”—Nation.

* * * * *

=Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 100w.

“The value of the book might have been materially increased had the
author boiled down each plot-story and given us all the standard
operas instead of merely a selected number.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 180w.

=Davidson, John.= Holiday and other poems. *$1. Dutton.

The technical experiments which the form of Mr. Davidson’s poetry
abounds in, are fully in keeping with the venturesomeness of his
themes and ideas. “He has nothing to do with civilization, except to
denounce and defy it; his self-chosen part is that of the upsetter of
all equanimities, the denier of all commonly accepted creeds,
conventions, and traditions.” (Lond. Times.) “The very title of the
book is manifold in its meaning. Life is a holiday, and the holiday of
holidays is the final liberty torn by the spirit out of its material
servitudes.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“It is evident that what he lacks mostly is discipline and that
austerity and economy of language which go with it. The fault looks
straight out of the verse, and it is equally noticeable in his essay,
which rambles over the whole universe of thought, touching on many
things of which Mr. Davidson speaks with no authority and yet
containing many interesting and suggestive things. Here we have
extravagance both of thought and expression. It is the outpouring of
an uncurbed, undisciplined, and vain mind.”

− + =Acad.= 71: 77. Jl. 28, ’06. 2000w.

“This volume ought to win for Mr. Davidson the wider audience that he
deserves. But his anarchic violence and metaphysical eccentricity are
still rocks of offence, and he is not the sort of man who is easily
taught or tamed.”

+ − =Ath.= 1966, 2: 151. Ag. 11. 1990w.

“In the closing passage of this ‘Note,’ Mr. Davidson, after a tribute
to Poe, enlarges upon America in general, and makes it evident that he
has been ‘seeing things.’” Wm. M. Payne.

− =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.

“His essay is a most stimulating and interesting piece of work. With
all its eccentricities, it does the most useful thing criticism can
do: it increases our sense of the greatness of poetry.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 281. Ag. 17, ’06. 1550w.

+ − =Nation.= 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 180w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w.

“In his prose, however, as in his verse, Mr. Davidson betrays a touch
of rodomontade, a want of balance, and the vice of self-consciousness.
He disappoints by a certain want of grip. His hands seem ever to be
sliding over a hard surface. This criticism, none the less, must not
be taken as disparagement. If not the poet of the future, he is a
forerunner—one of the minor prophets.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 304. S. 8, ’06. 1460w.

“Mr. Davidson’s fault is that he is inclined at times to torture his
fancy into conceits. He can draw wonderful little vignettes of
landscape; but he can also describe nature in a way so painfully
‘literary’ that our teeth are set on edge. Colour, imagination, and
fire are rarely absent from his lines, and above all he has the
singer’s supreme gift of the infallible ear.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 340w.

=Davidson, Thomas.= Philosophy of Goethe’s Faust; ed. by Charles M. Bakewell. *60c. Ginn.

6–45070.

Mr. Davidson tells in these six lectures what the poem has come to
mean to him, and has sought to lay bare its “philosophical or ethical
skeleton.” Speaking of the poem, he says: “Its content, I believe, is
the entire spiritual movement toward individual emancipation, composed
of the Teutonic reformation and the Italian Renaissance in all their
history, scope, and consequences.”

* * * * *

“The merit of the book is that it presents an individual point of
view, and is not merely a gathering from the opinions of previous
critics and commentators; while its defects arise, to some extent at
least, from this very quality of independence. However, many of Mr.
Davidson’s ideas are interesting, and some of his remarks on single
passages are really thoughtful and illuminating, although his work,
taken in its entirety, is, we think more acceptable as an exposition
of his own philosophy than of Goethe’s.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 153. Ag. 10. 390w.

“The book is too slight to deal thoroughly with ‘Faust’ or its
philosophy, and many a reader will be more interested in what Mr.
Davidson betrays of his own opinions than in what he says about
Goethe’s.” G. Santayana.

+ − =J. Philos.= 14: 106. F. 14, ’07. 880w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 74. Mr. 8, ’07. 1660w.

“It would almost seem that Mr. Davidson has done his work as guide too
thoroughly. He overloads his interpretations with meanings, he scents
symbolism everywhere, and constructs a philosophy of ‘Faust’ which,
though interesting and instructive in itself, can hardly be proved to
have been in the poet’s mind. It holds the reader’s interest from
beginning to end, and arouses in him a keen desire to take up his
‘Faust’ again, which is, after all, the most important function of a
book of this kind.” Frank Thilly.

+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 552. S. ’07. 360w.

=Davidson, William L.= Stoic creed. *$1.75. Scribner.

“The book is divided into three main ‘sections,’ followed by an
appendix on ‘Pragmatism and humanism.’ The first section deals with
‘Moulding influences and leaders of the school,’ and shows how
stoicism is mainly derived, on its ethical side, from the impulse of
Socrates and the sophists. The second section, on ‘Stoic science and
speculation,’ contains chapters dealing with the conception of
philosophy, the logic and epistemology, the physics and cosmology, of
the school, concluding with a chapter on the atomic theory of Epicurus
in its relation to stoicism. The third section has for its title
‘Morality and religion,’ and occupies about half the book. It
contains, in addition to a detailed exposition of the ethical system
and its relation to cynicism, some useful pages of criticism, in which
the defects of the system are indicated; and an interesting chapter
entitled ‘Present-day value of stoicism,’ in which the dicta of
eminent moderns, such as M. Arnold and Renan, concerning the stoic
moralists are examined and appreciated.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“On the present-day value of stoicism and on its aspects as the
precursor of much modern theory, Professor Davidson writes admirably
in his excellent volume. It is no dry-as-dust treatise compact of
dates and uncompromising facts. It is a sympathetic study of the
history and development of the stoic philosophy which no student can
afford to neglect.”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 918. S. 21, ’07. 770w.

“The book shows a competent knowledge of the subject and a gift of
clear exposition. Occasionally, however, the writing is rather loose.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 400w.

“A most important chapter in the history of thought on the great
problems of the world is embodied in this discriminating and
interesting volume.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 320w.

=Davies, A. C. Fox-.= Dangerville, inheritance. †$1.50. Lane.

6–40211.

“This differs from most other detective tales in being the story of a
mystery rather than the glorification of a detective. It also differs
from them in keeping the solution from even the reader until the last
page. Lord and Lady Dangerville seem to have been magnetised to
attract mysteries, and mysteries of no mean radius.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“For the lovers of Sherlock Holmes ‘The Dangerville inheritance’ will
be a fine detective story; but as an unusual drama of human life, and
as an excellently told history it will have a more discriminating
audience.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

“The whole story is too preposterous to be taken seriously.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 25: 393. Je. ’07. 280w.

“The final outcome is slightly irritating from its shock to one’s
sense of probability.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w.

=Davies, A. C. Fox-.= Mauleverer murders. †$1.50. Lane.

7–27614.

Mystery and plot abound in this story. “The heroine leads a double
life, and is suspected of leading a triple or quadruple one. Sums like
£150,000 are juggled with airily as feathers; the properties include
bicycles, revolvers, knotted cords, strychnine, (wholesale,) perfumed
handkerchiefs, half-destroyed letters, watches stopped at dreadfully
significant hours, and the southern European kingdom of
Moritania—royal line extinct. There is a detective who is not likely
to displace Sergeant Cuff or Mr. Sherlock Holmes in our affections.”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Beginning with the title, the author furnishes us with a thrill if
not in every line, certainly on every page. The plot does not unfold;
it rolls up and accumulates like a snowball.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 320w.

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.

“As a detective story the book suffers a little from the same thread
of interest not being sustained all through. The end of the story is
brutally horrible, and we are not convinced by the author’s production
of the real criminal.”

− =Spec.= 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.

=Davis, Grace T.= Hero tales of congregational history. *$1. Pilgrim press.

7–3702.

“The characters sketched in this volume are all illustrious in the
history of the Congregational churches for nearly three centuries. As
pioneers of religion and civilization, and as builders of
institutions, their names have gone into our national history, and
their lives deserve the commemoration here bestowed. It is intended
especially for adolescent readers, and is effectively
illustrated.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 90w.

+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.

=Davis, Hayne=, ed. Among the world’s peace-makers: an epitome of the Interparliamentary union. $1.50. Progressive pub. co.

An epitome of the Interparliamentary union, with sketches of eminent
members of this international house of representatives and of
progressive people who are promoting the plan for permanent peace
which this union of lawmakers has espoused.

* * * * *

“Will be to the future historian a trustworthy and most fruitful
source of information.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 720w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 110w.

=Davis, Henry William Charles.= England under the Normans and the Angevins. *$3. Putnam.

6–1101.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w.

=Davis, Latham.= Shakespeare, England’s Ulysses: the masque of Love’s labor’s won, or The enacted will; dramatized from the sonnets of 1609. *$3. Stechert.

The masque, whose text is the sonnets of 1609, is really a legal
document whose sole purpose is to convey and re-establish by a will
the authorship of our Shakespearian literature. “The name of the new
heir to the Shakespearian mantle, as revealed by the ‘star-like’
acrostic that ‘stands fix’d’ at the termination of the dramatis
personæ is that of ... Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex.”

* * * * *

“It is a queer book, an unreadable one, and to the ordinary mind quite
unintelligible, but it is a book and it is printed, and it will
comfortably amaze a few of the credulous. There’s not a bit of harm in
it.”

− − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. My. 18, ’07. 200w.

=Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn M.= Price of silence; with il. by Griswold Tyng. †$1.50. Houghton.

7–11208.

New Orleans furnishes the setting for this romance whose prologue
deals with civil war times. “Then the tale passes over the intervening
years to the present time and concerns itself with the love and
complications of a grandniece of the mansions’s chatelaine, a son of
the Union officer who commanded the looting provost guard, and young
relatives and friends of the heroine.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠

“Its interest is cleverly maintained, and its colouring is vivid and
pleasing.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 140w.

“The story is told with unfailing animation, and pictures with great
fidelity the traits of the old French society now rapidly passing from
view as a distinctive element in the life of the ancient city of
Bienville.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 280w.

“We suspect that the story is of a sort to be widely read, and to be
generally taken, at least in the North, for a true and pleasing
picture of southern types and southern life. We protest against such
acceptance of it, and decline to believe that this colonel-myth is
anything but a travesty of the truth.”

− =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 370w.

“It is very curious that an author who can write as well and with as
much taste as Mrs. Davis should be so entirely lacking in artistic
instinct. There is much in her book that is very charming. And along
with it is much that is deplorably clumsy and grotesque.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 310w.

“The book is unsatisfactory, both as a picture of the times with which
it deals and as a story.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 90w.

=Davis, Michael M.= Gabriel Tarde: an essay in sociological theory. $1. Michael M. Davis, 791 West End av., N. Y.

6–46265.

An analysis of M. Tarde’s system. “After reviewing and summarizing
Tarde’s positions the author introduces some evidence to show that
Tarde only partly understood the role of imitation and has
consequently over-estimated it. The criticism is well taken. So, too,
is the criticism based upon Tarde’s neglect or ignorance of the work
of others which might have saved some missteps. The author gives him
great credit for original and suggestive discussions.” (Ann. Am.
Acad.)

* * * * *

“A piece of clean critical workmanship. Mr. Davis is to be
congratulated upon the catholicity of his discussion.” Albion W.
Small.

+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 125. Jl. ’06. 450w.

“Students of social theory will find this monograph of interest and
value.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 154. Jl. ’07. 140w.

=Davis, Norah.= World’s warrant; with a frontispiece by F. C. Yohn. †$1.50. Houghton.

7–13951.

“Briefly, it is the endeavor to get a wife by advertisement, and the
resulting tangle in the lives of a number of persons whose characters,
cultivation, and position in the world would ordinarily remove them
far from any such complications.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Miss Davis merits notice chiefly from her treating the South as a
live country, inhabited by contemporary human beings, and not by a set
of conventional lay figures left over from the tragedy of the last
generation.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 501. My 30, ’07. 250w.

“Miss Davis has evolved a plot of unusual ingenuity and dotted it with
situations that are striking and unexpected. A good many of them must
be taken at a gulp if they are taken at all. The author has developed
the plot very cleverly.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 310w.

“Miss Davis not only makes very real both the atmosphere of somnolent
Dixieland and the rattle and bustle and determined energy that are
waking it up, but she also has the knack of weaving a plot and the
ability to invent incidents and situations and to depict character.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 349. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

=Davis, Richard Harding.= Real soldiers of fortune. **$1.50. Scribner.

6–42911.

Mr. Davis sketches “the kind of man who in any walk of life makes his
own fortune, who, when he sees it come, leaps to meet it and turns it
to his advantage.” The group includes Gen. William Walker, Baron
Harden-Hickey, General MacIver, Winston Spencer Churchill, Capt. Philo
Norton McGiffen, and Major Burnham.

* * * * *

“Written with the author’s usual spirit and dash.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07. S.

“A collection of biographical sketches of unequal merit.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 680w.

“The remarkable deeds of six remarkable men, told by a writer also
accounted remarkable, furnish reading that should be and is remarkably
interesting.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 230w.

“The exploits and adventures of these real soldiers of fortune are not
a whit less interesting or astonishing than those of Mr. Davis’s ideal
soldier of fortune.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.

“Adventurous spirits are presented in the narrative, with anecdote,
episode, and adventure, which reads like the wildest romance, and yet
through the care of the author is not dissociated from the historical
events in which these men played important, but, for the most part,
thankless rôles.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

“The spirit and dash with which these biographical sketches are
written will certainly attract young readers.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 90w.

“Mr. Davis’ study of Walker, the filibuster king, has resulted in a
real contribution to our knowledge of that strange character, and many
Americans, young and old, will read this new estimate of Walker with a
fresh interest.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 230w.

“The best sketch in the book is that of ‘Major Burnham, chief of
scouts.’”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 410w.

=Davis, Richard Harding.= Scarlet car. †$1.25. Scribner.

7–22818.

These sprightly stories, three in number, are brimful of adventure. A
large red motor car furnishes the possibilities of romance which
involves the affections of a charming Beatrice, young Peabody whom she
drops unceremoniously, and Billy Winthrop, “the right man” of the
scarlet car. “Knowing Mr. Davis’s taking ways where proper figured men
and pretty women are concerned, and his ingenuity in finding
interesting situations for them—noble, manly attributes for the men,
graceful, girlish tricks for the women, sentiment for both—you do not
need to be told any more details of the story of the scarlet car. You
will find out for yourself.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“A light, bright, little story for an idle hour or two.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠

“Why should Mr. Davis, a man who knows Gallegher, make himself the
literary chauffeur of such merely sleek, well-fed supernumeraries?”

+ =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 180w.

“The amusing incidents which happen by the way are appropriate to the
undisguisedly farcical nature of the whole affair.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.

“Mr. Davis is not at his best in ‘The scarlet car.’ It is very
distinctly destined for the most careless of summer readers. Frederick
Dow Steele’s pictures are excellent.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 610w.

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

“An extravaganza-like tale, in which love, motoring, and adventure are
carelessly mingled with a quite modern infusion of humor.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.

=Davis, William Stearns.= Victor of Salamis: a tale of the days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–15591.

This piece of historical fiction deals with the invasion of Greece by
the Persians under Xerxes. Altho many of the characters are fictitious
and the love story is purely imaginary, the scenes are apparently true
to the times, and Athens and Sparta are made to tremble before the
invader as history tells us they trembled, while her heroes of the
hour play the glorious parts which history says they played. Perhaps
the best chapters are those descriptive of Thermopylae and Salamis.

* * * * *

“Interest is well sustained by the incidents of war and fortunes of
love.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠

“We think that Mr. Davis might have been a little more careful in his
proper names.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 250w.

“Knowledge and deep sympathy combine to make the book something more
than readable, which is perhaps all that was to be expected of it.”
Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.

“It is a particularly grim story of war, with amply abundant details
to satisfy, even to satiate, the most bloodthirsty reader who ever
frequented a circulating library.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 240w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.

“The leading historical personages are made to appear real men.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.

“The weakness of the book is in some details, which count, it may be,
for more than they are worth.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.

=Dawson, Alec J.= The message. †$1.50. Estes.

A novel with a purpose which presumes to command a 1940 view point.
“His standpoint is frankly imperial, and even partisan. He assumes
that the trend of the present government is towards weakness and
sentimentalism and the neglect of national interests; and from that
postulate he has developed a pretty pickle for the country it governs.
The Germans land in force on the coasts of East Anglia, and in an
almost incredibly short time Great Britain is at their mercy.
Thereafter comes the rebuilding—the re-edification which is implied in
the title. This tack is initially undertaken by Canadian preachers,
and indeed the entire regeneration comes from the colonies.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“What remains of highest value in the story is the human current of
interest, which is maintained from the first.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 420w.

“Is for the most part rather frankly boresome, with here and there a
welcome oasis of something distinctly better, something that seems
almost worthy of the author of ‘Hidden manna.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 26: 81. S. ’07. 310w.

“Mr. Dawson is afire with patriotic purpose, but he is so didactic as
to be at times dull.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 658. Je. 25, ’07. 260w.

“The whole book moves briskly, and is exciting reading, although in
the earlier part anything but exhilarating.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 802. My. 18, ’07. 220w.

=Dawson, Coningsby William.= Worker, and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.

6–41523.

The distinctive notes of Mr. Dawson’s verse are “passionate sympathy
with contemporaneous experiences and conditions, ardent feeling, and a
forcible though sometimes unmusical expression.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“The author of these poems possesses genuine lyrical feeling, and his
thought, where abstract themes are dispensed with, is graceful and not
too reminiscent. A more serious flaw is the tendency, constantly
noticeable, to manufacture refrains, as it were, in season and out. By
multiplying instances of this device, the author has gone far to
defeat his own object, and incidentally, to disfigure a book of
considerable promise.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 725. Je. 15. 310w.

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 280w.

“Shows something of James Thomson’s poignant view of the world,
something also of a pre-Raphaelite savor of phrase, but it is only
intermittently visited by any real spell of verbal magic and
compelling mood.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w.

“One reads this excellently cadenced verse, where never a note jars,
but cannot recover it when lost to the ear. A certain tenuous,
immaterial atmosphere pervades it all, leaving one uncertain as to
what Mr. Dawson has said, or what has been won from his personal
relation to life. Mr. Dawson is a poet of white light, but life is
multi-colored.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 350w.

“His poetry is, so to speak, too close to the age in which it is
written. For that reason it is likely to be heard, for it is the voice
of the moment; for the same reason it is not likely to endure. It
would be unjust to Mr. Dawson, however, to give the impression that he
is simply a journalist in verse. Interesting and significant volume of
verse.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 373. F. 16, ’07. 360w.

=Dawson, Nelson.= Goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ work. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.

7–37522.

“As befits the subject, this volume is beautifully printed and richly
illustrated. It is intended not so much for the craftsman and worker
in gold or silver as for the collector and art lover. Beginning with
the gold and silver ore in the ground, the author follows the history
of the manufacture of ornaments and articles of use in the precious
metals from the very earliest dates, far back of the Greek and Roman
period, down to our own times, with a specially full description of
such little-known periods as that of the Irish metal-workers and of
the early English renaissance.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“There is really not one dull page in a publication that will no doubt
appeal alike to the antiquarian, the student of ecclesiastical
history, the artist and the craftsman.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 167. D. ’07. 340w.

“On the historical side it is a little elementary; on the practical
and artistic side it has the interesting personal touch that is only
to be found in the notes of a man who knows from experience what the
artist aims at, what means he employs, and what difficulties he has to
face and overcome.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 282. S. 20, ’07. 490w.

=Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 100w.

=Spec.= 99: 336. S. 7, ’07. 60w.

=Dawson, William Harbutt.= German workman: a study in national efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.

6–23711.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A very readable account of that splendid system of ‘social policy’ by
means of which the health and efficiency of the workman have been
promoted as by no other people in the history of the race.” Charles
Richmond Henderson.

+ =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 190w.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 643. D. ’06. 610w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 1000w.

=Day, Emily Foster (Mrs. Frank R. Day).= Princess of Manoa. **$1.50. Elder.

6–45043.

Nine sketches from the folk-lore of Hawaii. Brown paper, black type,
and full page illustrations in sepia, make a unique book daring in its
oddity.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 41: 456. D. 16, ’06. 60w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1500. D. 20, ’06. 70w.

“The legends of old Hawaii are rich in romance and piquant charm, and
Emily Foster Day puts into graceful English a few of the most
interesting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 40w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 90w.

“Very simply and sympathetically told, and in excellent taste.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.

=Day, Holman Francis.= Rainy day railroad war. †$1. Barnes.

6–27347.

A story for boys which “relates the history of a fight over the
building of a railway through the timber lands of Maine. The young
hero is an assistant engineer, and develops in this contest
resourcefulness and courage.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Only fairly well done, but will be interesting to boys.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 20. Ja. ’07.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 60w.

“A spirited and vigorous story for boys.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 239. S. 22, ’06. 80w.

=Day, James Roscoe.= Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.

7–36714.

Chancellor Day, the champion of corporate business, shows how trusts
are logical, natural and consistent with the developing interests of
the “new age.” He discusses corporations, the distribution of wealth,
organized charity, tainted money and labor unions. Several interesting
chapters are devoted to a defence of the Standard oil company.

* * * * *

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

=Decharme, Paul.= Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.

6–5711.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“As a book of reference for the contents of Euripides’s plays, or a
collection of passages bearing upon certain topics, Professor
Decharme’s work will unquestionably be found useful; but for an
introduction to the spirit of Euripides we should rather refer the
student to Croiset, Dr. Murray, or Dr. Verrall.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 143. F. 2. 360w.

=Deeping, Warwick.= Woman’s war. †$1.50. Harper.

7–20869.

The story of the contentions of two women whose husbands are rival
doctors in a little English town. And in this game of chess, so
maliciously carried on by the blacks, it is the queen that centers her
energies, in the king’s behalf, on check-mating the king of the
whites. The darkest moment for the white men is when the queen of the
blacks attacks the castle of the white king’s reputation and sweeps it
from the board, and it is only by steadily pushing a white pawn step
by step to the king-row that the king and queen of the whites redeem
the castle and check-mate the black king.

* * * * *

“In the effort to give greater life to the central figures the minor
ones appear to have been neglected. Nevertheless we do not hesitate to
commend the book.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 100w.

Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 77. S. ’07. 1370w.

“Having chosen a painful but live contemporary theme, he proceeds to
treat it with a childish superficiality.”

− =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 260w.

“A clever and forceful book this, but not entertaining, and hard as
nails.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 50w.

“As a whole, both in seriousness of conception and in success of
execution, the novel must be pronounced to have attained a high level
of merit.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.

=De Garmo, Charles.= Principles of secondary education: the studies. *$1.25. Macmillan.

7–6800.

The fundamental principles of American secondary education are here
set forth in the form of a text book for college and university
classes. The object being “to reveal thru an analysis of the content
of the studies themselves their inherent and comparative educational
value, and upon a basis of the values thus established to determine
the best possible combination of the studies into the various
curricula now demanded by democratic society.” A second object is to
show how secondary education can most effectively perform its proper
functions.

* * * * *

“It is evident that such a systematic treatment by an authority so
competent and respected as Professor De Garmo will be welcomed by
students of education in America, and particularly by teachers of the
principles of secondary education, who will find the book invaluable
as text-book and reference.” Edward O. Sisson.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 900w.

“The greatest value of the volume before us lies in the stimulus that
it affords for classroom-work. An urgent need of this work, if it is
to be truly serviceable, is a more extensive bibliography than the
present meager references furnish.” Julius Sachs.

+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 421. N. ’07. 1160w.

+ =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 290w.

“So far as regards the distinctive study of secondary education, it
must be said that Dr. De Garmo’s book is the first in the field. The
name of the author and the title will arouse general interest in the
volume, and this interest will be sustained by the contents.”
Nathaniel Butler.

+ + =School. R.= 15: 472. Je. ’07. 1000w.

=De Lancey, Magdalene (Hall), lady.= A week at Waterloo in 1815. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–8229.

“Lady de Lancey gives an account of the wound received by her husband
at the great battle, of the agony of suspense caused to her as the
varying news came filtering through to her at Antwerp, and of the way
in which she tended him in a cottage in Mont St. Jean. The story is
one of genuine pathos, which is, if that could be possible, enhanced
by the fact that they had been married less than three months....
Letters by Walter Scott and Dickens add interest to the volume.”—Ath.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 71: 11. Jl. 7, ’06. 610w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S.

“The narrative is touching in its simplicity, and occasionally gives
new and startling glimpses into the horrors of war.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 70. Jl. 21. 430w.

=Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 830. O. ’06. 160w.

“Lady De Lancey’s book is, however, literature, worthy to stand beside
Lucy Hutchinson’s life of her colonel and Margaret of Newcastle’s life
of her lord.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 263. Je. 2, ’07. 310w.

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.

+ =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 270w.

=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.

7–26962.

A boarding school story for girls which pictures the weaknesses, hopes
and aims of some very true-to-life girls.

=Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell).= Awakening of Helena Richie. †$1.50. Harper.

6–24158.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Our nearest equivalent to the old-fashioned English novel.” Mary
Moss.

+ + =Atlan.= 99: 124. Ja. ’07. 580w.

“Helena Richie herself is faintly, thinly conceived. Her consciousness
is too elementary to feel seriously about, and one only wonders that
such grave events can hang themselves upon so slight a character.”
Louise Collier Willcox.

+ − =No. Am.= 183: 547. S. 21, ’06. 1180w.

+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 125. Ja. ’07. 280w.

=Deland, Margaret W. C.= Encore. †$1.50. Harper.

7–32562.

A slight story of Margaret Deland’s favorite spot, Old Chester. When
Letty Morris and Alfred Price tried in early youth to elope, the good
Dr. Lavendar, whom they sought to unite them, withdrew for a moment
and sent a message to the parents of the runaways. Their day of bliss
was over. The encore is the repetition of the love-making after fifty
years, and this time it is dissenting children who make the way hard;
but Dr. Lavendar comes to the rescue and this time lends his clerical
aid.

* * * * *

“This prettily bound and illustrated edition of one of the most
charming of the Old Chester chronicles is, we suppose, aimed at the
holiday public. We hope it will hit the mark.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 120w.

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

“The tale is told with delightful ease and humor.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 60w.

=De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham).= Catherine of Calais; new ed. $1.50. Dutton.

7–28454.

“Catherine is a girl of quiet charm and of lifelong devotion to an
ideal of romance. She quite takes hold of the readers heart, and he is
glad that she loves to the end the stately, handsome, conscientious
husband she has awesomely admired as a girl, and that she never
penetrates the secret that he is essentially a dull and commonplace
gentleman. In contrast to Catherine there are two capitally drawn
elderly women, one of infernal temper and overbearing self-approval,
the other of indolent and self-indulgent temperament, but exceedingly
clever in character-reading and in social comment.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Readers who like little star-trimmed heroines who give the impression
of having moonbeam toes and of being incapable but good will enjoy
this story. The interest of the story depends upon what the characters
say, not what they do.”

− =Ind.= 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 190w.

“Catherine is, in fact, a silly and meek and dutiful and loving little
creature, one of the Amelia Sedleys who do not become extinct in life,
whether they are to be found in fiction or not.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 240w.

“It is pleasant to be able to acknowledge so clean and sweet a book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 500w.