Chapter XV: Preface (15)

“To those who love a simple story, simply told, but with true
sentiment and gentle grace, we highly commend this new novel. The
story entertains but does not excite; it affords a refreshing contrast
both to the problem novel and to the cloak-and-sword romance.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 160w.

=De La Pasture, Elizabeth.= Lonely lady of Grosvenor square. †$1.50. Dutton.

6–41709.

The lonely lady is a pretty country bred girl of twenty-five who comes
to Grosvenor square as the guest of a great-aunt and stays there after
her aunt’s death to watch over the estate which is an inheritance of
her twin brother who is in active service in Africa. The account of
how she tries to do honor to her name and position by following the
social code of her country rector’s wife, and how from the dull
loneliness of London state and formality she is rescued by her distant
cousin the Duke, forms a pretty old fashioned love story.

* * * * *

“The author writes as gracefully and as easily as ever—almost too
easily—and her touch both in humor and pathos is light and sure.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 144. F. 9, ’07. 270w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07. ✠

“The characters are well drawn and natural, and the narrative has
sufficient vitality to sustain the reader’s interest.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 192. F. 16. 280w.

“The very genuine charm of this quiet and refreshing story of
present-day London is its simple unassuming naturalness.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 181. Ap. ’07. 600w.

“A book of manners and sentiments; it touches only the surface of
life, but it is agreeably written and proves mildly entertaining.” Wm.
M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.

“‘Charming’ is the word that attaches itself instinctively to her
work; it may not be the highest praise, but in this case it implies
popularity as well.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 390w.

=Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w.

“A story that in its sweetness and wholesomeness and simple unaffected
pathos forms a refreshing contrast to the morbid and unpleasant
matters with which fictionmakers frequently feel themselves obliged to
deal.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 990w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.

“The book would be nothing if it were not for its genuine humor, which
is none the less welcome because it is not boisterous.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 160w.

“Mrs. de la Pasture’s powers as a narrator are considerable: and this
story is a thoroughly pleasant though not a very robust example of her
manner.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 90w.

“The book is not quite on the level of ‘Peter’s mother’ but it is
sufficiently amusing to rank among the most pleasing novels of the
season.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 160w.

=Delehaye, H.= Legends of the saints: an introduction to hagiography; from the French, tr. by Mrs. V. M. Crawford. (Westminster lib.) *$1.20. Longmans.

A two-part work whose purpose is to show the application of the
ordinary rules and methods of historical criticism to hagiographical
criticism. The first treats of hagiography; the second, of the
relation of paganism to Christianity.

* * * * *

“For the elucidation of the first part the author has peculiar and
rare qualifications. The other part of his book is not so good. M.
Delehaye also makes it evident in his book that he is but imperfectly
acquainted with some subjects on which he pronounces an opinion.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 326. S. 21. 1570w.

“Historical students will find the work to be a fine example of sound,
conservative, scientific method.”

+ =Cath. World.= 86: 259. N. ’07. 760w.

=Deming, Philander.= Story of a pathfinder. **$1.25. Houghton.

7–17047.

In this volume Mr. Deming “gathers up some loose threads of
autobiography and romance.... The six chapters or sections are chiefly
reprints from ... periodicals. Opening with an account of his rise to
the dignity and emoluments of a court stenographer, Mr. Deming goes on
to relate how he wrote his first successful story, then gives a few
tastes of his quality as a narrator of fiction, and concludes with
another bit of autobiographic reminiscence.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“His style, easy and conversational, is attractive; and the plots of
his tales, which have the touch of real life, are ingenious without
being involved, and all end with a fine-conceived and unexpected
stroke that pleasingly caps the already well-developed climax.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 330w.

“After reading his little volume, full of unobtrusive sincerity and
penetrated with that sort of poetry which marks the evening of certain
lives, one feels in contact with one of those rare personalities which
give biography its chief charm.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.

“Although written at a much later date, both his stories and preface
bear rather the impress of the fifties than of the postbellum
newspaper world. It is the atmosphere of Greeley’s Memoirs, with all
the mildness and restraint of what might be called the middle
Victorian period in American fiction.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 170w.

=De Montmorency, J. E. G.= Thomas a Kempis. *$2.25. Putnam.

7–11046.

“The mooted question of its authorship is here critically discussed,
and its authenticity fairly demonstrated; its structure is analyzed,
and the various sources shown from which its author drew; lists and
accounts of its manuscripts and printed editions are given; many fine
illustrations, including some facsimile pages, are added; full
recognition is shown to the work of Thomas’s fellow-mystics.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Mr. de Montmorency has an axe to grind—and sharpens it on á Kempis.
He sets up a distinction between the visible or official church, and
the invisible church, existing within the official church of which it
is truly the vital and Catholic part. With the needful caution, the
reader will find Mr. de Montmorency’s handling of the book full of
suggestion and matter for reflection. In treating purely evidential
questions, such as the authorship, he is sane and dispassionate
enough.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 67. Ja. 19. 1300w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 100w.

“Mr. de Montmorency is full of enthusiasm for Thomas á Kempis and his
book and his zeal is according to knowledge; but his knowledge is not
always displayed with discretion. He could find it in his heart to
spend it all upon us.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 429. D. 28, ’06. 860w.

=Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 110w.

“Mr. Montmorency might have been with advantage at greater pains to
organize his book, which is obviously a labor of love.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 1230w.

“It is a timely and helpful commentary upon a great recreative and
reconstructive movement.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.

“Mr. de Montmorency has given us the results of the most recent
investigations, lucidly stated and with an absence of ‘parti pris’
which is worthy of high praise.” A. I. du Pont Coleman.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 630. F. ’07. 240w.

“Mr. de Montmorency’s general observations about this wonderful book
are pregnant and excellent.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 431. Ap. 6, ’07. 750w.

“Interesting and learned book.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 178. F. 2, ’07. 1510w.

=De Morgan, John.= In lighter vein. **$1.50. Elder.

7–24148.

An anthology of witty sayings and anecdotes of prominent people from
Elizabeth to our own Mark Twain and Roosevelt. It is designed for
relaxation.

* * * * *

“It contains some good jokes and some dull ones, some that we never
heard and some that we are glad to have recalled to memory.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 576. S. 5, ’07. 60w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.

=De Morgan, William.= Alice-for-short: a dichronism. †$1.75. Holt.

7–20515.

Alice-for-short, six years old and timid, bravely plods thru a London
fog with a jug of beer. She breaks the jug, which accident brings to
her side a protector, who, a little later, when the drunk-sodden
parents die, rescues her from the basement of an old house in Soho and
places her in the care of his sister. The chief interest of the tale
lies in the development of the child in intimate portrayal, the simple
life-likeness of characters, and the sure tho delayed consummation of
the romance. There are ghosts and mysteries in the plot which seems to
be a sensitive conscience’s concession to the veteran novel-reader
rather than a scheme vitally necessary to the character-drawing.

* * * * *

“We applaud Mr. De Morgan in that whatever he writes is instinct with
an infinite knowledge of humanity, with a subtle and tender humor, and
an exquisite skill in characterisation.”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 658. Jl. 6, ’07. 1080w.

“The story is disconnected, and slow in movement, full of humor, and
shows exquisite skill in characterization.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠

“Before the two hundredth [page] is reached a falling off in the
quality of the work must be noted, and a serious shrinkage in the warp
and woof of the fabric. The author has been perhaps just a little too
sure of his readers, just a little too palpably in love with his
creatures.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 10. Jl. 6. 310w.

“You have come in contact with a rarely engaging personality which, by
some alchemy defying analysis, is capable of being seized and passed
on through the medium of cold print.” Mary Moss.

+ + =Bookm.= 25: 519. Jl. ’07. 1230w.

“Only a crabbed partisan of the formal could place his hand upon his
heart and sincerely aver that he would willingly spare any of these
irrelevancies. They add salt and savour to a novel which even without
them would be reckoned a remarkable example of the art of fiction at
its noblest.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + − =Dial.= 42: 375. Je. 16, ’07. 1000w.

+ + =Ind.= 63: 397. Ag. 15, ’07. 890w.

“Is disappointing after ‘Joseph Vance.’”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

“This ripeness of vision constitutes Mr. De Morgan’s charm. He has
lived to see, to see tolerantly, tho not without feeling.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 272. Ag. 24, ’07. 600w.

“When the 563 very closely printed pages are finished, it seems
incredible that the story should have been made to fill them. The odd
thing is that we have not been bored.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 181. Je. 7, ’07. 740w.

“There is no denying that Mr. De Morgan’s humor now and then
degenerates into mere facetiousness, or that his familiar prolixity
becomes at times mere garrulousness. Yet one cannot help liking M. De
Morgan, even when he is most trying. The writer has, we should say, a
sensitive conscience in the matter of plot—a desire to give the reader
his money’s worth of that staple—but an instinctive contempt for it
for its own sake. What really interests him is his persons and his
talk about them.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 522. Je. 6, ’07. 870w.

“To the present reviewer at any rate it seems that Mr. De Morgan has
somehow been able to see us, not as we see ourselves, but in a certain
perspective belonging properly to a next generation. Of the literary
quality of Mr. De Morgan’s work it is impossible to speak without a
degree of enthusiasm which might invite suspicion of incoherence.
These stories differ from those of the old masters not in manner but
in matter.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 363. Je. 8, ’07. 1620w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

“After all the truth about such a book as ‘Alice-for-short’ may be
said in a sentence. It is in great qualities that it is deficient—and
how often may great qualities be found? And it is in the lesser, but
not negligible ones—in wise comment, deft workmanship, in humor,
fancifulness and charm—that it is satisfyingly replete.” Olivia Howard
Dunbar.

+ − =No. Am.= 186: 449. N. ’07. 1350w.

“Mr. De Morgan is not an imitator of Dickens, but he has certain
things in common with Dickens, and one is that we, not grudgingly but
cordially forgive him traits that would damn utterly a lesser genius.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 540w.

“Is interminably long and too nebulous to talk about.”

+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 112. O. ’07. 210w.

“The book is indeed an excellent example of the manner without the
matter of Mr. Thackeray. Here are all the faults in method in spite of
which he was great.”

− + =Sat. R.= 104: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 460w.

“This new story will establish his right, we think, to be accepted
without further hesitation as a very considerable novelist.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 96. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w.

=De Morgan, William Frend.= Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography. †$1.50. Holt.

6–25695.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Current Literature.= 42: 344. Mr. ’07. 1050w.

“Singularly rich, mellow, and human narrative, which is garrulous in
the genial sense, and as effective as it is unpretending.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. ’07. 440w.

“A book that must take its place, by virtue of its tenderness and
pathos, its wit and humor, its love of human kind, and its virile
characterization, as the first great English novel that has appeared
in the twentieth century.” Lewis Melville.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 395. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w.

“Is probably the only book of its kind that the present generation
will offer; therefore the most may as well be made of the temperate,
mellow, elderly enjoyment it affords.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

+ =No. Am.= 183: 1187. D. 7, ’06. 1460w.

=Putnam’s.= 3: 112. O. ’07. 390w.

=Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.).= Bell foundry. 45c. Benziger.

7–21531.

Gerold, a young bell founder on his way from Italy to his home in
Bavaria encounters Gatterer, a noted bell founder of the Tyrol and
stops to work in his foundry. Thru a series of rough and bloody
incidents it is discovered that Gatterer and his workmen are a gang of
villains who plunder and murder all who travel thru their forest. As a
result of this discovery Elizabeth, who has passed as his daughter, is
restored to the name and position of which the highwaymen robbed her
and becomes the bride of Gerold.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 110w.

=Dennett, R. E.= At the back of the black man’s mind; or, Notes on the kingly office in West Africa. *$3.25. Macmillan.

7–13004.

Mr. Dennett writes out of the fulness of a wide experience among the
Bavili both as a private resident and as an official. About
three-quarters of the book under review deals with the hierarchy of
kings and chiefs, the laws, social organization, marriage, birth, and
death customs, psychology and philosophy of the Bavili; the remainder
of the book treats with much the same subjects as they have been
observed by the author in Benin. Finally, there is a valuable appendix
by Bishop James Johnson on the religious beliefs and social laws of
the Yoruba people.

* * * * *

“The evident sincerity of the writer and his sympathetic appeal on
behalf of a better understanding of the black man must commend him
both to those whose interest in the backward races of mankind is
purely scientific and to those who desire to understand the negro for
his own sake.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 634. My. ’07. 380w.

“With a little more sense of method, the value of [his] contribution
to science might have been doubled.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 1260w.

“Not the least interesting part of this curious book is the appendix,
which contains extracts from the writings of two educated negroes ...
and it must be confessed that they are easier to follow than Mr.
Dennett when he sets himself to explain native symbolism.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 280w.

“The reviewer cannot accept Mr. Dennett’s etymology of the Bantu
phrases he attempts to explain. It is such a valuable contribution to
ethnology that one could almost wish a second edition might be brought
out with revised and reasonable orthography.”

+ − =Nature.= 75: 248. F. 10, ’07. 840w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 907. D. 29, ’06. 230w.

“All students will be grateful to Mr. Dennett for the care and labour
which he has expended in collecting and recording [the beliefs and
customs] although some may wish that he could have carried out his
task in a simpler and less perplexing fashion.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 622. My. 18, ’07. 1460w.

=Dennis, James Shepard.= Christian missions and social progress. v. 3. **$2.50. Revell.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is impracticable here to give any conception of the wealth of this
material or of the skill with which it is arranged and presented.” C.
R. Henderson.

+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Dr. Dennis has furnished an arsenal, well stored with weapons of many
kinds, but all effective for both offensive and defensive warfare.” A.
K. Parker.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 362. Ap. ’07. 510w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Whether as a description of Christian missions or as a source book
for students of social progress, this work is invaluable.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 465. N. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Crowded with information concerning the beneficent results of
missions.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)

“All that was said in the previous notice as to the author’s breadth
of view and catholicity of interest, as well as of the superlative
worth of the work as a missionary apologetic, is even more true of
this volume. Notwithstanding defects, these volumes will stand for
years to come as a witness to the manifoldness and beneficent
character of one of the most helpful social factors of the less
enlightened lands.” Harlan P. Beach.

+ − =Yale R.= 15: 457. F. ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Denslow, William Wallace, and Bragdon, Dudley A.= Billy Bounce: pictures by Denslow. *$1.50. Dillingham.

6–34681.

The adventures of a messenger boy whose inflated rubber suit sends him
bouncing through the air with astonishing ease and rapidity. He visits
the land of bogie men, bugbears and ghosts, and exposes them to
youthful readers as entirely harmless.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

“A whimsical and comical tale.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.

“The wit of this book is vaudeville wit and not meant for analysis. Of
Mr. Denslow’s illustrations, however, it may be said that the coloring
is less crude than in his previous books.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 70w.

=Densmore, Emmet.= Sex equality. **$1.50. Funk.

7–32183.

Dr. Densmore’s theories are based upon the teachings of Darwin,
Spencer, and modern exponents of the doctrine of evolution. The book
teaches that women are more intuitive, refined, unselfish and
spiritual than men, but are inferior to them in initiative, resource,
power and breadth of view; that these mental differences are not
fundamental nor the result of sex but are caused by environment and
heredity. The book makes a strong plea for extending democracy into
all phases of human life.

=Derby, George=, comp. Conspectus of American biography; being an analytical summary of American history and biography, containing also the complete indexes of The national cyclopaedia of American biography. $10. White.

6–38537.

“This substantial volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains, in
indexed or tabular form, an enormous number of facts so arranged as to
make it a helpful book of reference.” (Dial.) It includes lists of men
prominent in public or private office; it tabulates poems, plays and
novels in which historical characters figure; there is a catalogue of
public statutes in the United States, a collection of “notable
sayings,” an “anniversary calendar,” and a list of “founders of
American families and their descendants.”

* * * * *

“There are sins of omission as well as of commission. Yet the volume
will be found useful for reference.”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 180w.

=Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.

“Mr. Derby’s work is as important as that of an explorer who opens up
a new country for industrial and commercial activity. The treasures
were there. Mr. Derby has made them available for all.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 430w.

=Derr, Louis.= Photography for students of physics and chemistry. *$1.40. Macmillan.

7–471.

“This book is eminently not for the perusal of the ‘snap-shot camera
man,’ unless he be an ardent amateur and profoundly interested in the
scientific possibilities and details of his subject.... The book is
divided into eighteen chapters dealing with the camera and all its
accessories. It includes articles on lenses, photo-chemical action,
development and developers, fixing, washing, and drying,
intensification and reduction, halation and reversal, printing
processes, lantern slides and shutter exposures.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“He may have suited his book to the needs of his students, but the
result to a stranger presents itself as a very uneven treatment of the
subject.” C. J.

+ − =Nature.= 75: sup. 6. Mr. 14, ’07. 670w.

“The language is simple and the diagrams assist materially in the
exposition. The book should have unquestionable value for the class of
readers designated in the title—and for others bent individually on
experimental investigation.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 250w.

=De Selincourt, Beryl, and Henderson, May Sturge.= Venice. il. **$3.50; ed. de luxe, **$7.50. Dodd.

7–31989.

A generous amount of fresh material has been discovered for this much
pictured city. “The illustrations, after the water-colours of Mr.
Barratt, who has lived for many years in the city of the lagoons and
is familiar with her in all her moods, are real triumphs of
reproduction, interpreting with rare fidelity the delicate atmospheric
effects that are the chief charm of the originals.” (Int. Studio.)

* * * * *

“They have treated it both from the art and literary point of view
with a certain amount of freshness.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.

“There are many admirable descriptive touches; and if nothing is set
in a new light, that is probably because a city which has been studied
and re-studied by so many lovers is familiar now to all the world. Mr.
Barratt’s illustrations are exceedingly successful, and add materially
to the attractiveness of the book.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 820. Je. 29, ’07. 260w.

=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Boy’s marriage. †$1.50. Lane.

“Beverley Teruel, nicknamed Girlie because of his lack of
sophistication, shortly after leaving Oxford marries the girl of his
father’s choice.” (N. Y. Times.) “Beverley flies into a morbid
suspicion of the purity of his perfectly healthy passion. He seeks
solace in a platonic affection for a literary woman, finds it
difficult to exist without her, disobeys her by rushing to London to
see her, and, when severely snubbed, falls an easy victim to the wiles
of a woman of the town. During his absence Eva has been making
discoveries which impel her towards a whole-hearted bid for her
husband’s vanished affection. But it is too late. Innocence has given
place to morbidity, and everything ends as, granting the premisses, it
must end, miserably.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“The workmanship of the book, though sensitive, is sometimes feeble.
There is a good deal of superfluous detail, and the lines are not
always clear. But the choice and development of the theme show
courage, humour, and a severe logic which promise well.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 611. D. 15, ’06. 440w.

“It is mainly for the promise in the book that we commend it.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 190w.

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 160w.

=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Strongest plume. †$1.50. Lane.

“In ‘The strongest plume’ Mr. de Selincourt tackles in characteristic
fashion the problem of the girl who in conventional phrase ‘goes
wrong’ before her marriage.... The man to whom she is engaged is a
very ordinary, common-place prig, quite incapable of understanding the
real nature of the girl who has given herself to him. He is perfectly
ready, indeed anxious, to do ‘the right thing’ and marry her as soon
as possible, but he is at no pains to disguise his personal feeling
that Joan is really a ‘fallen’ woman. She resents his attitude ...
comes gradually to the realisation that it has all been a terrible
mistake. She comes to see that she has no love for him at all, and
that marriage, so far from setting everything right, will only be an
added wrong.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“In his study of the girl’s mental development, in the fidelity of his
psychological analysis, Mr. de Selincourt almost touches greatness.
His delineation bears the unmistakable stamp of truth. It carries
conviction.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 696. Jl. 20, ’07. 780w.

“The portraiture is much superior to the knowledge of life displayed.
Mr. De Sélincourt’s cynicism is still that of youth, without an
adequate basis; but though we find the work immature, we remain
confident that he will yet write a fine story.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 150w.

“He writes well, and he has a notable gift for the analysis of
character. But at present he does not escape dulness; he gives the
impression of distinction, and leaves us cold.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 258. Ag. 23, ’07. 270w.

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 150w.

“Its chief characters have been pressed into the service and
illustration of a theory, as the reader is constantly made to feel.
This compulsion makes them shadowy and ineffectual, and it cannot even
be said that they are pleasant shades.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 177. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.

=Deussen, Paul.= Outline of the Vedanta system of philosophy according to Shankara; tr. by J. H. Woods and C. B. Runkle. **$1. Grafton press.

6–35998.

The Vedanta philosophy which grew out of the teachings of the
Upanishads represents the common belief of nearly all thoughtful
Hindus. Following a brief introduction which gives the fundamental
idea of the system, Mr. Deussen discusses the Vedanta’s teaching
regarding theology, cosmology, psychology, migration of the soul and
emancipation.

* * * * *

“The name of Dr. Woods, who has studied the Hindu systems with Deussen
at Kiel as well as with native pundits in India, is a sufficient
guaranty of the accuracy of the rendering both of German and of
Sanskrit technical terms. It will be a convenience, especially to
those who give university courses in Hindu philosophy, to have this
compendium accessible in English.” Arthur O. Lovejoy.

+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 23. Ja. 3, ’07. 700w.

“It is the best exposition of the chief school of Hindu metaphysics
obtainable in brief compass.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 240w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1. ’06. 180w.

=Devine, E. J.= Training of Silas. $1.25. Benziger.

7–2759.

A Roman Catholic story which brings a “purse-proud plebeian
millionaire to a realization that there is a greater end to be
considered than the possession of wealth.”

* * * * *

“It has a strongly didactic purpose, which is gracefully draped in a
thin suit of fiction.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 835. Mr. ’07. 160w.

=Dewar, Douglas.= Bombay ducks: an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist’s Eldorado. *$5. Lane.

Agr 6–1634.

With less of a scientific smack than the title suggests, Mr. Dewar
writes of the birds and small animals of India. Excellent
illustrations which are Captain Fayrer’s photographs reproduced on
“unglazed and tonal paper give a Japanese effect which is quite
unusual and well worthy of imitation.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“The little essays or articles are pleasantly written, and the
descriptions are in essentials correct.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 480w.

“The style is piquant and refreshing.” May Estelle Cook.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

“Without in any way questioning the ornithological value of Mr.
Dewar’s work, it is in the literary side of the volume, the facility
of expression, easy narrative style, and genial satire, that the worth
of the book lies.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.

“Mr. Dewar is a naturalist and a good observer.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.

=Dewhurst, Frederic Eli.= Investment of truth. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–23074.

A posthumous volume of sermons “for unemotional and meditative people,
especially those who are a little troubled by religious uncertainty.”
(Ind.)

* * * * *

“Dr. Dewhurst was a man of unusual gifts, among which were religious
insight and the faculty of clear speech. He was not a noisy prophet,
but he could make a chosen text ring with truth from which one could
not escape.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 885. O. 10, ’07. 90w.

“Mr. Dewhurst’s appeal is to the few, but to these he appeals
strongly.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 140w.

=De Windt, Harry.= Through savage Europe; being a narrative of a journey throughout the Balkan states and European Russia. **$3. Lippincott.

7–29080.

This is a vivid account of a journey taken as correspondent to the
Westminster gazette through Montenegro, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Servia,
Bulgaria, Roumania, Southern Russia and the Caucasus. “He found the
remoter districts hotbeds of outlawry and brigandage, where the
traveler must needs take his life in his hand. Yet these same Balkans,
he avers, can boast of cities which ‘are miniature replicas of London
and Paris,’ civilized centers having very little in common with the
country as a whole.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

“The book is to be commended, but rather to those who have not read
recent works dealing with the same subjects than to those who may have
had enough of them already.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 190w.

“The distinctive merit of this book lies in the fact that the author
visited these same countries a generation ago, and consequently is
competent to gauge the various lines of progress made in these
everchanging hot-beds of European discord.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 630w.

“A pleasant chatty account.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 478. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w.

“A vivacious account of travel and observation.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 567. Je. 13, 07. 280w.

“Mr. Harry De Windt has written several very interesting and informing
books of travel, but none more attractive than this.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w.

“A most entertaining volume.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 765. My. 11, ’07. 380w.

=Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson, ed.= Railway organization and working: a series of lectures delivered before the railway classes of the University of Chicago. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.

6–41297.

A series of twenty-five papers or lectures that were delivered by
prominent railway officials bearing upon the traffic, auditing, and
operating of the American railway.

* * * * *

“An admirable book in spite of its being a collection.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07.

“The papers are of high average excellence and the volume constitutes
a most welcome addition to the scanty literature dealing with the
management of railway traffic.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 200w.

“The book should be placed in every reference library used by railway
employees; and any young engineer in railway service will find it
worth while to read the book, since it will aid him to gain a broader
outlook upon the industry in which he is playing a part.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 260w.

“The volume contains remarkably few repetitions, considering the
manner of its construction, and few of the contributors have failed to
observe the limits of their special subjects. I believe everyone
interested in railways will enjoy it. And everyone who reads it will
profit by it.” Balhasar H. Meyer.

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 244. Ap. ’07. 470w.

“It will be found of great practical service to students. The
treatment of the subject is plain and untechnical.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w.

=Dickins, Frederick Victor.= Primitive and mediaeval Japanese texts, Romanized and translated into English. 2 v. *$6.75. Oxford.

7–29200–29201.

The two hundred and sixty-four lays of which the anthology consists
are “Japanese proper, not Chino-Japanese.” “They have a character of
their own, giving the impression of lovely and delicate workmanship.
Mr. Dickins has translated in vol. i, some short mediaeval lays; the
Preface to ‘The garner of Japanese verse old and new;’ the Mime of
Takasago; and ‘The story of the old bamboo wicker-worker,’ the
earliest work of fiction in Japanese or any Ural-Altaic tongue. Volume
ii, is not for the general reader but for students of the Japanese
language, containing the text of the Lays romanised, and a short
grammar, with glossary and index.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“He has done with splendid success the task which he has set himself.”
R. Y. Tyrrell.

+ + =Acad.= 72: 54. Ja. 19, ’07. 1500w.

“These two volumes, apart from their interest to the general reader,
comprise in themselves all that is necessary for very considerable
progress in the direct knowledge of the older Japanese literature.
They take high rank among scholarly works on Japan, and will be the
indispensable companion of the serious student.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1340w.

“Altogether, one has in these two volumes a sufficient apparatus for
the study of the mind of pre-Mongolian Japan.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 730w.

=Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 50w.

=Dickinson, F. A.= Big game shooting on the equator; with introd. by Sir C: Norton Eliot. **$4. Lane.

“In brief, the volume is largely a note-book of observations on the
various species of game, their habitat, appearance, size, color,
habits, and head measurements, jotted down in the curtest and most
uninteresting terms imaginable. Should any hunter of big game
anticipate a sporting pilgrimage to Africa, however, Captain
Dickinson’s book will offer him some additional information on the
rarer kinds of game in the East African country.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“It is all written in a straightforward, sensible way, without any
attempt at word-painting or fine phrasing. All who are going to East
Africa on a hunting trip should read it for the value of its advice,
and all who have already enjoyed the experience for the memories it
may evoke.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 700w.

“Were it not for the excellent illustrations, and for the summaries of
the game regulations of the British East African Protectorate and the
German East African Protectorate, the book would have but little
intrinsic value.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 150w.

“As regards his claim ... of accuracy, a little more care might have
laid a better foundation for it. We have mentioned these few blemishes
because this book is likely to be largely consulted by intending big
game shooters, and because otherwise it is so trustworthy an authority
on the subject. To the general public the volume is likely to commend
itself highly by its excellent photographs and its breezy, amusing,
and interesting style.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 308. O. 11, ’07. 960w.

“Capt. Dickinson writes in tabloid style. He wastes no words, and his
crisp, short sentences do their duty, and have done, with the
clearness and precision of a military command.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 540w.

“Nothing could be more useful than some of his recommendations. The
style is one of the oddest that we have met with for many days. It is
slangy to a degree far beyond what is usual even in smoking-room
gossip. The curious thing is that he can write exceedingly well when
he tries.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 750. N. 16, ’07. 400w.

=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= From king to king. **$1. McClure.

7–12876.

For this American edition the work appearing in England in 1891 has
been rewritten and revised. “Aims at presenting ‘The tragedy of the
Puritan revolution’ in a series of dramatic scenes or dialogues. ‘The
pages that follow,’ writes Mr. Dickinson in his reprinted preface to
the first edition, ‘contain an attempt to state, in a concrete form,
certain universal aspects of a particular period of history. The
tragedy lies in a conflict of reforming energy with actual men and
institutions; and it has been the object of the author to delineate
vividly the characters of leading actors in the struggle, their ideals
and the distortion of these, as reflected in the current of events.’”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“All criticism of the work must return to the question of the success
of the dramatic dialogue as an essay form. On the whole, one finds
himself inclined to decide that the experiment is successful; for the
dialogue has enabled our author to realize his hope of effectively
setting forth the clash of the individual with a movement. And yet
there is a little reserve about one’s commendation of the book as a
whole. In the first place, it can appeal only to a much narrower
circle than most of Mr. Dickinson’s other productions. In the second
place, there are occasional suggestions of the cold literary
exercise.” F. B. R. Hellems.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 115. S. 1, ’07. 1500w.

“One of the most satisfactory books of closet drama of the extreme
type that we have lately seen.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 440w.

Reviewed by Cleveland Palmer.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 3280w.

“There is a wealth of poetic feeling and command of noble diction
doubtless hitherto unsuspected in Mr. Dickinson.” Christian Gauss.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 240w.

=Dietzgen, Joseph.= Positive outcome of philosophy, tr. by Ernest Untermann. $1. Kerr.

6–38881.

The three principal works of Dietzgen, “The nature of human brain
work,” “Letters in logic,” and “The positive outcome of philosophy,”
are included in this volume, which brings within the reach of American
students the work of one of the greatest writers on socialist
philosophy.

* * * * *

=Am. J. Soc.= 12: 564. Ja. ’07. 390w.

Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.

=Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 262. Ja. ’07. 450w.

=Dillon, Edward.= Glass. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.

7–15911.

“The first half a dozen chapters are devoted to primitive and early
glass down to the middle ages.... There are also Assyrian cylinders of
glass and an Assyrian cone of the beautiful emerald glass. Other
chapters tell of medieval treatises on glass, of Saracenic enameled
glass, of Venetian glass, whether enameled or otherwise, and that of
the renaissance, French, Spanish and Netherlandish. Two chapters are
devoted to German, two to English and one to Dutch glass; Persia,
India and China together supply material for another chapter; while
the final pages are devoted to contemporary glass.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Mr. Dillon’s book should aid in the improvement of taste. His work is
ably written.”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 5. O. 12, ’07. 1940w.

“The book is technical enough to be useful to the student, and full
enough of history, romantic suggestion and beautiful illustrations to
hold the attention of the untrained person with artistic impulses who
is beginning to take an interest in glass.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.

“It is a compilation, of course; but it will for a long time hold its
place as the best and most authoritative general account of the
subject to be found in English, or perhaps in any language.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 490w.

“We cannot blame a book or work of art for not being what it does not
pretend to be, but a large volume with the general title ‘Glass’ may
be called to account if it gives no hint of the interesting things
which are being done in our time.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 1450w.

“The text is written in an interesting style, as by a man intensely
interested in his task, and shows exhaustive study and thorough
mastery of the subject.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.

=Dinsmore, Rev. Charles Allen.= Atonement in literature and life. **$1.50. Houghton.

6–45133.

“This is a philosophical rather than a literary dissertation on ...
the idea of sin, retribution, and reconciliation. Assuming that
literature is life in its highest expression, Mr. Dinsmore undertakes
to show that it is this idea of offence and subsequent reconciliation
which gives their value to some of the great masterpieces of
literature—Homer’s Iliad; the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles; the
Divina Comedia; Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Richard III., The winter’s
tale, Henry VIII., and The tempest; Paradise lost; Adam Bede; The
scarlet letter; and some other classics.”—Cath. World.

* * * * *

“The book is written in a style worthy of the subject, and is
singularly interesting from its dealing with masters in literature.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 810w.

“This study is in fine contrast with the manner in which the people
who belong to the ‘art for art’s sake’ school treat the great
masterpieces of literature.”

+ =Cath. World.= 85: 258. My. ’07. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 300w.

=Outlook.= 85: 375. F. 16, ’07. 340w.

=Ditchfield, Rev. Peter H.= Parish clerk; with 31 il. *$2.50. Dutton.

7–27625.

A methodical record of the duties, the quaint ways, and the peculiar
manners of the race of English parish clerks. This functionary “is
studied in his substance and in his accidents, and every trait of
character is illustrated and anecdotes drawn from the literature and
experience and folklore of centuries. These stories by themselves
would make the fortune of an ‘encyclopædia of wit,’ and by bringing
them together Mr. Ditchfield has certainly added to the gaiety of the
nation.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“The chapters themselves are badly arranged, repetitions are frequent;
the style is jerky and colorless; and anecdotes have been dragged in
with little regard to probability. It is little more than a
scrap-book.”

− =Acad.= 72: 362. Ap. 13, ’07. 1310w.

“In the chapter that deals with the antiquity of the office and its
duties in mediaeval days, Mr. Ditchfield might, with advantage, have
exercised just a little more care.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 534. My. 4. 1030w.

+ =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 350w.

“The book is a useful addition to the history of English
ecclesiastical institutions.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 700. S. 19, ’07. 100w.

“A book about parish clerks which, we should think, must be
exhaustive.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 124. Ap. 19, ’07. 1330w.

“May be commended as a work of curious erudition and as a storehouse
of capital anecdotes.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 150w.

“It makes a fascinating record, brimful of human nature, not by any
means destitute of human failings, nor yet of lovely and gentle
traits.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 477. Ag. 3, ’07. 1910w.

“Mr. Ditchfield has much that is entertaining to say about the
subject, one which is entirely to his liking. He tells many curious
things about the office and many more, still more curious, about the
holder of it.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 330w.

=Ditmars, Raymond Lee.= Reptile book. **$4. Doubleday.

7–10051.

“A comprehensive, popularized work on the structure and habits of the
turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes which inhabit
the United States and Northern Mexico.” “But it is more than a popular
book, for it is a gold mine of information for the zoologist.”—Ind.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.

“It is a great book, well planned, clearly written, popular and yet
scientific.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.

“The text is a notable addition to popular herpetological literature,
but we cannot agree with the author that this field is a gap which
‘has steadily remained unchanged.’”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 680w.

“Mr. Ditmars has done his task excellently. He writes out of a large
and intimate knowledge, and in a clear, intelligible style.” Cameron
Mann.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 920w.

=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Merrylips; il. by Frank T. Merrill. $1.50. Macmillan.

6–34081.

A story dedicated “to every little girl who has wished for an hour to
be a little boy.” The child heroine figures in exciting adventures
among Roundheads and Cavaliers during Cromwell’s time, masquerading
for a time as a boy among the King’s soldiers.

* * * * *

“The story is excellent in atmosphere and has more incident and plot
than the author’s previous works.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 250. D. ’06. ✠

+ =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 130w.

“A most attractive tale for young people. Should it fall into the
hands of the elders it will surely be read at a sitting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 668. O. 13, ’06. 180w.

“This story has decidedly finer literary flavor than most books for
children or about children.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 110w.

=Dix, Edwin Asa.= Prophet’s Landing: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–12634.

The rigor of monopoly in the early seventies in its iconoclastic
treatment of the cherished idols of sentiment furnishes the motif of
this story. A department store proprietor becomes a magnate thru the
exercise of mighty business genius minus heart. His octopus methods
work havoc in hearts and homes in Prophet’s Landing, and the events
which follow one another in rapid succession show the ultimate
futility of greed, tho it shelter itself under the moral law.

* * * * *

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠

“The story is entitled to a place in the honorable line of our New
England fiction.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 240w.

“The characters in this wholesome novel are strongly drawn. A simple
tho powerful love-story traverses it, and there are interesting
descriptions of New England life.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 280w.

“A good, obvious tract, which might be more serviceable than
literature of a higher order, if it could conceivably be held before
the eyes of the wicked shopkeeper and the wickeder railroad man.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.

“It may be doubtful whether a strong and able man would ever repent in
quite the spectacular manner in which Mr. Dix, accomplishes his hero’s
reform ... but the book does present a salutary lesson on modern
business methods.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 420. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.

“The story is unpretentious, but distinctively effective; and its
humor and sentiment give it variety and dramatic vitality.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 19, ’07. 370w.

=Dix, Morgan=, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York. 4v. **$5. Putnam.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Dr. Dix has been thorough in his search for documents and careful in
their use, and his work will be invaluable to students of the matters
with which it deals.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

=Dix, William Frederick.= Face in the girandole: a romance of old furniture. **$2. Moffat.

6–39023.

Mr. Dix makes an asset of his hobby for old furniture in this charming
book. “‘The face in the girandole’ sets forth something of the joys,
something of the sorrows of an old furniture collector. Into it he has
incidentally but skilfully woven just a dash of romance as a foil, and
this added touch will make it appeal to others besides those who
collect furniture.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“It is a novelette that almost anybody might like to spend an idle
hour upon.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 180w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 130w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.

“For the most part it is pleasantly and faithfully done.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 70w.

=Dix, William Frederick.= Lost princess. †$1.50. Moffat.

7–26021.

“A direct descendant of the novel of imaginary principalities and
imaginable adventures rendered popular by Mr. Anthony Hope.... The
recipe for this kind of story calls for several manufactured
geographical names, a group of appropriate gentlemen and ladies, all
superlatively beautiful, brave, good or wicked, and then a rush and
tumble of extraordinary events, ending in poetic justice for all
concerned.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The first chapter really makes one look for something new, but things
soon settle down into the old familiar lines.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 230w.

=Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 110w.

=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Traitor. †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–24587.

The third novel in Mr. Dixon’s trilogy of reconstruction of which “The
leopard’s spots” and “The clansman” were the first two. It deals with
“the dissolution of the Ku Klux Klan and the attempt of unscrupulous
men after its dissolution to use its garb and methods for personal
ends.” (Outlook.) “It provides a secret panel and a secret passage,
ghosts, a murder in the midst of the revelry of a masked ball of Ku
Kluxes; a young man robbed of his heritage, and a young woman with
coquettish curls and a Dolly Varden, who is a daughter of the thief.
It makes this willful young woman suspect the young man of the
murder—’twas the thief, her father, who perished by the assassin’s
hand—and shows her fiercely set upon bringing him to the gallows by
making him fall in love with herself, and, therefore, confidential
enough to confess all.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The book cries out for the stage—the Third avenue stage. It is as
full of situations, thrills, climaxes, ‘curtains,’ as a home of
melodrama is of gallery gods.” Ward Clark.

− =Bookm.= 26: 83. S. ’07. 1020w.

“The book is at least remarkable as a psychological phenomenon, for it
is probably the first time a man has so successfully interpreted
himself into the character of an historical, palpitating female.”

− =Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 110w.

“There are not lacking some dramatic scenes in the course of the
story, but as a defense of government by means of the Invisible Empire
the author manifestly defeats his own purpose.”

− + =Lit. D.= 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 480w.

“From a literary point of view there is much in common between Mr.
Lawson and Mr. Dixon. In fact, both are yellow journalists.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 1350w.

“This tale, like its predecessors, seems to us ill written and almost
hysterically high-keyed in expression.”

− =Outlook.= 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.

=Dodd, Helen C.= Healthful farmhouse, by a farmer’s wife; with an introd. by Ellen H. Richards. *60c. Whitcomb & B.

6–45718.

A book written for the average farmer’s wife from the point of view of
one who does all her own cooking, dishwashing, sweeping, and laundry
work, yet runs a lawn mower and cares for the flower beds about the
house, and does much work in the vegetable garden. It proves that art
may be combined with the ideas of utility and sanitation.

* * * * *

“An admirable little book full of practical ideas.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07. S.

+ =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 80w.

=Dodge, Walter P.= Real Sir Richard Burton. *$1.80. Wessels.

Mr. Dodge’s biography was inspired by a desire “to overthrow the
destructive criticism of Burton contained in the ‘Life’ by Thomas
Wright.” “By confining himself not without a sense of proportion, to
Burton’s main exploits, Mr. Dodge is able to skim over several
pitfalls in which a fuller biography is likely to be enmeshed, and his
reticence over certain threadbare controversies is welcome.” (Lond.
Times.)

* * * * *

“His ‘Real Sir Richard Burton’ is no Sir Richard Burton at all, but an
abstraction who made certain journeys and wrote certain books. He
settles no vexed questions and produces no new information.”

− =Acad.= 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.

“Is actually a panegyric rather than a biography. To original research
or critical acumen it can make little claim, nor does the author
appear to have had any personal acquaintance with the subject of his
sketch.” Percy F. Bicknell.

− =Dial.= 43: 114. S. 1, ’07. 1530w.

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 330w.

“Mr. Dodge is too passionate an admirer to be a good biographer. He
sacrifices personality to achievement lest by chance he admit
something to his hero’s discredit. In the case of Burton such caution
is superfluous.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 489. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.

=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c. Crowell.

6–34260.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.