Chapter XXX: Part 1: of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York (2)

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 313. Mr. 16. 1820w.

Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.

=Putnam’s.= 1: 631. F. ’07. 530w.

=Hyde, Henry M.= Upstart. †$1.50. Century.

6–34689.

“Pat, ‘the upstart,’ son of a drunken Irish soldier who yet dies a
heroic death, and of a bighearted washerwoman, fights his way up
bravely, is not ashamed of his mother or of his finespirited and jolly
Aunt Bridget, makes his mark as a lawyer and politician, and finally
‘gets the girl’—the daughter of a raging Berserker of a Swede (we
suppose it is a Swede, the book says ‘Dootchman’), who is ‘King’ of
the country all about, and with his six stalwart boys has terrorized
the people.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“It is a realistic narrative, simple and straightforward, with touches
of humor, and unpretentiously successful in its execution.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 100w.

“Mr. Hyde has written a novel that is interesting as a story and not
without value as a document of that phase of American life that is
seen in the Middle West.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w.

“The book has some strikingly good qualities which, since it is a
first novel, give promise of good work in the future. It has also some
strikingly bad qualities. This atmosphere of unconscious democracy is
the best thing in the book.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 390w.

“Altogether, this is a vigorous tale, homely but dramatic.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 130w.

=Hyde, Rev. James.= Old faith re-stated. *60c. Warne.

The subjects treated are the cardinal articles of the Christian faith,
the titles for the chapters being taken from Scriptures; as “What
think ye of Christ?” “The Word was God,” “If thou wilt enter into
life, keep the commandments,” “When the Son of Man shall come in His
glory.” The aim of the restatement of faith is to aid the church in
getting back to its original foundation.

=Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in the great deserts, romantic incidents and perils of travel, sport, and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50. Lippincott.

6–45335.

“Desert stories of twenty-four travellers and explorers.... The
majority of these explorations belong to the first half of the last
century, and the arms and equipment of the men, often single-handed,
who undertook them must appear miserably inadequate to any
schoolboy.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“This volume is, in stirring details, in no way inferior to its
companions.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 120w.

“On the whole, the author has produced a good and entertaining volume.
He is content to write simply and let the actual facts supply all the
thrills required to stimulate juvenile interests.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

“There is material enough to keep a boy’s interest up to the highest
pitch, and the book is well put together.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 260w.

* =Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in great forests. **$1.50. Lippincott.

“The author observes that the period 1760–1860, which is roughly
covered by his book, was the golden age of forest wanderings, and not
unreasonably deplores the wasteful destruction of one of the finest
features of nature. In this volume we are introduced to sportsmen and
explorers in all parts of the world, from Stedman on his march through
the forests of Guiana to De Saulcy botanizing in the forest region of
the Jordan.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Will revive recollections in adults; and inspire the young reader
with something of the spirit of the past.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.

+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 90w.

“Recorded in a style which should attract all juvenile readers.”

+ =Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 160w.

=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.

6–33631.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Many of his sentences are so obscure and confused as to be almost
unintelligible.” Henry W. Wright.

− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 80w.

+ =Arena.= 86: 670. Je. ’07. 600w.

“Its aim is cautious, its method conservative and its theme of
absorbing interest.” I. Woodbridge Riley.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 79. Mr. ’07. 1380w.

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.

=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.

5–17300.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

Reviewed by Henry W. Wright.

=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 150w.

I

=Ibsen, Henrik.= Collected works of Henrik Ibsen; rev. and ed. by William Archer. 11v. ea. $1. Scribner.

6–39770.

An edition of Ibsen to be complete in eleven volumes, translated by
Mr. Archer whose version was approved by the late poet. All the
volumes have new introductions by Mr. Archer. The volumes are as
follows: Feast at Solhang, Lady Inger, Love’s comedy; Vikings,
Pretenders; Brand; Peer Gynt; Emperor and Galilean (2 parts); League
of youth; Pillars of society; Doll’s house; Ghosts; Enemy of the
people; Wild duck; Rosmersholm, Lady from the Sea; Hedda Gabler,
Master builder; Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When we dead
awaken.

* * * * *

“It will be long before these handsome and cheap red volumes are
likely to be superseded as the standard edition of Ibsen.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 288. Mr. 23, ’07. 1390w. (Review of v. 2–4, 6 and
7.)

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1–11.)

=Ath.= 1907, 2: 163. Ag. 10, 760w. (Review of v. 9.)

+ + =Dial.= 42: 117. F. 16, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 4.)

=Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and
7.)

=Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 8.)

+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 11.)

“Mr. Archer makes good use of the material that has appeared since the
first editions.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1495. D. 20, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 2, 6 and 7.)

=Ind.= 62: 622. Mr. 14, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

“This new copyright edition is indispensable to the student or reader
of Ibsen for two reasons, it is the only complete and authoritative
translation in English, and the series of introductions which William
Archer has contributed forms the best exposition and analysis of the
dramas that we have in the language.”

+ + + =Ind.= 63: 824. O. 3, ’07. 250w. (Review of v. 5, 9 and 10.)

“Is particularly timely, not only for the comprehensive view of that
playwright which it presents thru the introductions as well as in the
rounded mass of his writing, but also for the example offered by one
who, with all his faults, is nevertheless one of the great modern
dramatic technicians.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–11.)

“Mr. Archer’s work gives notable distinction to this edition of
Ibsen’s writings. Exceptional care has been taken to secure accuracy
of text.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1–7.)

“Ibsen’s language is much more direct—much more English, one might
almost say—than that of his translator. The diction of Mr. Archer is
too often circuitous and stilted. The introduction to each play throws
valuable light both on the plays and their author. Together, these
introductions will form a pretty complete review of Ibsen’s life, as
well as of his art. His introductions form the first systematic survey
of Ibsen in English.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 17. Ja. 3, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and
7.)

“Of the translations, that by Mrs. Marx-Aveling ... is by far the most
successful. Mrs. Archer’s [translations] show unmistakable kinship to
those undertaken by William Archer himself. There is in them the same
stiff and stilted language, the same conventional artificiality, the
same failure to make the tone of the original audible.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 417. My. 2, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 7 and 9.)

=Nation.= 85: 170. Ag. 22, ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 10.)

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 477. N. 21, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 5.)

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)

“Where [revision] appears it has been done with good judgment.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Ibsen, Henrik.= Letters of Henrik Ibsen; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik and Mary Morrison. *$2.50. Duffield.

5–42524.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is impossible within the limits of a review to suggest a tithe of
the interesting things in this valuable human document. Suffice it to
say ... that the translators have done their work in a most
praiseworthy fashion.” Grace Isabel Colbron.

+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 477. Ja. ’07. 1690w.

=Iles, George.= Inventors at work; with chapters on discovery. **$2.50. Doubleday.

6–36472.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Current Literature.= 42: 94. Ja. ’07. 460w.

“The book is a very superficial but also very inclusive collection of
references.”

− + =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 230w.

“It is a contribution to popular rather than technical literature, but
in the main fails to fulfil the promise of its title in that it does
not show us the inventor at work, but aims rather to catalog the
results of invention in certain departments of the world’s work.”

− + =Ind.= 62: 676. Mr. 21, ’07. 790w.

* =Inchbold, A. Cunnick.= Under the Syrian sun; the Lebanon, Baalbek, Galilee, and Judæa. il. *$6. Lippincott.

7–29089.

Pictures and descriptions of Syrian countries with a great deal of
sunshine and warmth in both.

* * * * *

“The chief merit of this book lies in the coloured plates, most of
which are interesting, while a few are of great beauty. The
letterpress, oddly unconcerned with the pictures, is a lady’s account
of her travels—pleasant, but much too wordy—interspersed with a lot of
trite and often worthless information which simply embodies the
commonplaces of social intercourse in a land where every one sets up
for an authority.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 809. D. 22. 500w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, *07. 20w.

“[Has] a compelling charm.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 180w.

=Indiana state teachers’ association.= In honor of James Whitcomb Riley. 50c. Bobbs.

6–16282.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.

=Ingalls, Walter Renton=, ed. Lead smelting and refining, with some notes on lead mining. $3. Eng. and mining journal.

6–46366.

A reprint of various articles pertaining to the mining, smelting and
refining of lead.

* * * * *

“Notwithstanding the number of different authors who have discussed
the various questions, the whole book is very concise in its
treatment, and there is an astonishingly small amount of duplication.
The book is not a complete textbook of the subject of which it treats,
but presupposes a knowledge on the part of the reader of the
fundamental principles involved. For the use of practitioners and as a
supplement to textbooks of the subject it is of great value.” Bradley
Stoughton.

+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 540w.

=Inge, William Ralph.= Truth and falsehood in religion. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–8274.

In six lectures delivered to undergraduates of the University of
Cambridge, Mr. Inge’s object “is to commend Christianity as a
religious system to the attention of thoughtful young men.... He
candidly admits the difficulties of the subject, and recognizes the
defects of much of the current Christianity and the value of modern
scientific and philosophical thought. Religion, he holds, is not
chiefly an affair of the intellect; the necessary postulate, or act of
faith, is the belief that our higher reason is in vital ontological
communion with the power which lives and moves in all things, and most
chiefly in the spirit of man.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w.

“Though we cannot regard his treatment of the Logos idea as
convincing, we can heartily commend the spirit of his lectures.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 359. D. 27, ’06. 570w.

“Thoroughly judicious and constructive.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 843. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Eight secrets. †$1.50. Macmillan.

6–42426.

“This is the life story of an ingenious American boy who works out his
destiny despite all sorts of difficulties and dangers and who is
helped in his struggle by a wideawake girl. Both live in a simple
Pennsylvania village and both are endowed with unusual inventive
talent, which enables them to do things of a rather extraordinary
nature.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 72: 295. Mr. 23, ’07. 300w.

“The story is full of varied incidents. It will instruct as well as
amuse young readers, for whom it is intended.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 150w.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 100w.

“We unhesitatingly pronounce this one of the best boys’ books of the
season. Mr. Ingersoll is always to be depended upon for faithfulness
to nature, and whether he deals with animals or with boys he gives us
the genuine thing.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 140w.

=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Life of animals: the mammals. *$2. Macmillan.

6–18321.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“We do not expect that this book will be successful in this country:
we have already many publications of a similar sort which are as good,
and which avoid, of course, the spelling and diction of our
neighbors.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 201. F. 16. 90w.

+ + − =Nature.= 75: 176. D. 20, ’06. 670w.

“The book has great merits, and we do not know of anything by an
English zoologist which exactly covers the same ground.”

+ + − =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 310w.

=Ingersoll, Robert Green.= Philosophy of Ingersoll, ed. and arranged by Vera Goldthwaite. **$1.50. Elder.

6–42943.

“The pungent quotations are arranged under various headings, so that
it is possible in a few moments to get the gist of Ingersoll’s views
on any main subject of human interest.” (Dial.) “The subjects are
arranged under such titles as Life, Cause and effect, Nature, Man and
woman, Marriage, Love, Home, Children, etc.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 50w.

“In brilliant epigram, in exquisite imagery, and flashes of wit and
humor, it shows the hater of superstition and cant in a manner
impossible to be revealed by a prejudiced perusal of his entire works,
where the finest thoughts are very often turned to unworthy abuse and
ostentatious irony.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 140w.

=Inman, Herbert Escott.= Did of Didn’t-think: a fairy story for boys and girls; il. by W. Tayler. †$1. Warne.

The “didn’t-thinks” of the young hero of this tale result in such
things as his wiping the fluff from a butterfly’s wings, locking the
kitten in the coal bin, and melting the nose of his sister’s doll. He
is visited by the fairy queen who punishes him by taking him to the
land of Didn’t-think to find the Did.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 90w.

=Innes, Charles Herbert.= Air compressors and blowing engines, specially adapted for engineers. *$2. Van Nostrand.

W 7–82.

“The book begins with the application of thermodynamics to the
compression of air under various circumstances.... The second chapter
is concerned with experiments on compressors.” (Nation.) The remainder
of the book is concerned with descriptions of various valves, blowers,
and compressors.

* * * * *

“While the book contains no distinctly new matter, it is distinctly
valuable because of the scarcity of literature dealing with this
subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.

+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 634. D. 13, ’06. 570w.

=Nation.= 84: 117. My. 2, ’07. 160w.

=Innis, George S.= Wycliffe: the morning star. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

7–18306.

This volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series is an adequate answer
to the question “What would a busy, earnest man want to know about
John Wycliffe and his work?”

* * * * *

“It is the story of a great man, told in a spirited style for plain,
busy, and earnest people by one who has imbibed all that history
relates of that ‘morning star of the reformation,’ and has reproduced
it in a well-digested and graphic abridgment, from which nothing
essential seems omitted.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 576. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

=Ireland, William W.= Life of Sir Henry Vane. *$3. Dutton.

6–2311.

“The story of this remarkable Puritan is told with vigor and effect by
Mr. Ireland, who, tho not a ‘professed’ historian and decidedly in
sympathy with his hero, writes with good judgment under his frank
recognition of the many sides to the Puritan-Royalist
controversy.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“While finding Mr. Ireland’s book lacking in some ways, its good
purpose, scholarship, and sound republican spirit lead the reviewer to
commend it as throwing much light upon its hero and the age in which
he moved.”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 369. Ja. ’07. 1040w.

“There are many minor inaccuracies in the book, but its main defect is
the want of a firm, definite outline, which is due to imperfect
comprehension of the man and the period.” C. H. F.

− =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 414. Ap. ’06. 170w.

“His volume bears evidences of careful and independent research, and
tho the style is sometimes pedestrian, interest is readily sustained
to the end.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 130w.

“Dr. Ireland’s limits require a severe process of selection, yet he
includes much that is almost offensively superfluous. It would be
impossible in this review to point out all the faults of type, faults
of phraseology, faults of grammar that disfigure these pages. A single
rapid reading has shown no less than sixty in four hundred and forty
pages. The history is by no means immaculate.”

+ − =Nation.= 82: 248. Mr. 22, ’06. 1140w.

“The book, we grant, is a scholarly and interesting presentment of a
noted man and a glorious period. We believe it would have been better
had the author considered if, only to confute them as unsound and
extravagant, the conclusions of his co-laborers.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 950w.

“Mr. Ireland has said the final word, and incorporates in his volume a
vast amount of original literature which, although familiar to
students of English history, has not hitherto been employed in
elucidating the character of the fourth Governor of Massachusetts.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 1740w.

“Dr. Ireland succeeds in making his portrait singularly attractive
without the use of flattering or adulatory phrases.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 87. F. ’07. 670w.

“If his conclusions must largely be rejected, his book is nevertheless
substantially helpful in some respects. It has certain corrective
value, and—albeit in a rambling way—brings together from many
scattered sources a quantity of interesting data shedding new light on
the period.”

+ − =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 250w.

“It abounds in all the stale old schoolboy rants and third-hand
formulas about liberty and tyranny, about priestcraft, Protestantism.”

− =Sat. R.= 101: 304. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.

* =Irving, Henry Brodribb.= Occasional papers, dramatic and historical. **$1.50. Small.

Eight essays on subjects as follows: The English stage in the
eighteenth century, Colley Cibber’s apology, The art and status of the
actor, The calling of the actor, The true story of Eugene Aram, The
fall of the house of Goodere, The Firalder case, and The early life of
Chief Justice Scroggs.

* * * * *

“Mr. Irving’s [defense of the profession and art] is one of the best
yet written.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 1090w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

“‘The English stage in the eighteenth century,’ being decidedly the
most able and interesting paper in a volume which deserves these
epithets in no common degree.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 310w.

=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Random rhymes and odd numbers. il. **$1.50. Macmillan.

6–41958.

“Humorous verse on timely subjects.... In the best we find not only
remarkable deftness in the use of rhyme and meter, but much
good-humored and shrewd comment in verse on questions and incidents of
recent news interest.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Shows the range of his humor and metrical skill, and is always good
reading. But it fails to show quite the poetic energy of the volume of
‘Chinatown ballads,’ of which we lately had to speak.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w.

“It is after all the vein of seriousness running through the volume of
gay verse that makes Mr. Irwin’s ‘Random rhymes and odd numbers’ more
than the light amusement of a passing hour.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 560w.

“Mr. Irwin is really a sort of poetic Dooley.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w.

=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Shame of the colleges. $1.25. Outing pub. co.

7–22412.

In these days of the muck rake almost everything has figured in the
literature of exposure and now the dread instrument is run “over the
field of waving rah-rahs.” Dedicated to Leland Stanford Junior, this
little volume with its amusing illustrations makes its witty
accusations in a series of papers entitled Harvard, the crimes of the
amalgamated-gentleman trust; Vassar, delicious but dyspeptic;
Princeton, frenzied but unashamed; The University of Chicago, a
self-made antique; Yale, the democratic machine at Yale; and West
Point, a reign of drill-terriers.

* * * * *

“Might almost be described as a small body of liquid verse entirely
surrounded by dull prose.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 442. Jl. 13, ’07. 300w.

=Irwin, William Henry.= City that was: a requiem of old San Francisco. *50c. Huebsch.

6–23693.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It deals with facts as well as feelings, but he wrote from the heart,
and every word shows it. He caught and expressed something of the
spirit of a light-hearted city whose charm even the most casual
visitor never failed to feel.”

+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 60w.

Island stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.

7–29584.

A good deal of geography is entertainingly taught here. Robinson
Crusoe’s island as it is to-day is sure to interest boys to whom it
has been bequeathed as a “playground for the imagination.” Then there
are the Philippines, the Hawaiian islands, the Cannibal islands,
Madeira and Samoa, and interesting experiences that fall to the lot of
the story-teller while sojourning in them.

* * * * *

“This book contains ... stories that every normal boy will read with
avidity.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 110w.

=Ives, George Burnham.= Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. *$5. Houghton.

7–10313.

“By means of a series of classifications, the bulk and detail of Dr.
Holmes’s work have been made accessible from several points of
approach. There are six lists concerned with Holmes’s own work and
four relating to matter written about him.... There is subjoined
information as to the circumstances under which the poem or book was
written and first published, with other relative items. Such a work is
of course essentially a guide book.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Ives’s work has been done well.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 1260w.

“This is a very careful piece of work, and while absolute completeness
is not claimed for its data, one may be confident that nothing of
great importance is likely to have been omitted. The present task has
not been performed in the spirit of meticulous yet critically
undiscriminating diligence of which the bibliographer is sometimes
guilty.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 218. Ap. 6, ’07. 2150w.

J

* =Jacberns, Raymond.= Discontented schoolgirl. †$1.50. Lippincott.

The story of the English school days of an impish little girl of
French and English parentage. “In the Juvenile fiction of a bygone
generation Marcella would have been held up as an awful warning to
young readers, and would probably have incurred some terrible fate as
a punishment. Now her disobedience, insolence, ingratitude to a kind
guardian, and general insubordination, are gleefully related as being
rather amusing than otherwise, and the happy ending to the story is
indirectly due to her bad behaviour.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.

=Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams.= Persia past and present. **$4. Macmillan.

6–33596.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“For the general reader the work possesses all the elements that go to
make books of travel in strange lands interesting reading. For the
scholar the book is valuable both for the richness of its
bibliographical references and for its own contributions to the
subject.” George Melville Bolling.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 602. Ap. ’07. 1740w.

“An exhaustive and scholarly work, well illustrated, fully indexed.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.

“It is a book of travel and of research, and is of interest and value
alike to the scholar and the traveler,—an unusual combination, for few
travelers are scholars, and few scholars are travelers.” Dora Keen.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 659. My. ’07. 1090w.

“It is hardly possible to overpraise the vivid representation by Prof.
Jackson of what he actually saw.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1160w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 66. Mr. 1, ’07. 1390w.

Reviewed by George R. Bishop.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 443. Jl. 13, ’07. 2500w.

“It has enduring value. It has scientific power. It has historical
interest and, what is rarer, the feeling for what is genuinely
interesting in history. It has a sense of the humanity of life, the
poetry, the mysticism.” Charles Johnston.

+ + =No. Am.= 186: 446. N. ’07. 1320w.

“A volume which has a permanent value, and will take its place by the
side of those of Sir Robert Ker Porter and Lord Curzon.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 432. Ap. 6, ’07. 790w.

“The information which he gives is to a certain extent limited by his
absorption in his own studies.... He is however fully conversant with
the work of his predecessors, and he does not fail to provide an
excellent general survey of the ground they have covered. The
excellent photographs of the Sassanid rock-cut monuments reproduced in
this book will be of great value to archaeologists.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 623. Ap. 20, ’07. 910w.

=Jackson, Charles Ross.= Sheriff of Wasco. †$1.50. Dillingham.

7–16754.

Wasco County, Oregon, terrorized by an outlaw of numberless crimes and
unheard of cruelty elects a young railroad man its sheriff. The story
follows the trail of the outlaw with the determined young officer
until he brings down his inhuman prey and wins the love of a
millionaire’s daughter whom he has rescued from the bandit’s clutches.
It is a wild tale in which brute passions are described with a
strength and vividness that does not admit of delicacy.

* * * * *

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.

=Jackson, Frederick Hamilton.= Shores of the Adriatic: the Italian side. *$6. Dutton.

7–13428.

“The twenty-two chapters treat of the seaboard provinces ... and
small, well-known places. Mr. Jackson describes the churches,
dwellings, and other places and things of archaeological and artistic
interest, telling something, too, about the people and their
characteristics in the various towns. There are also extracts from the
histories of churches, pictures or persons, the towns themselves, as
well as the political and national history of the places visited. The
illustrations ... are photographic reproductions, drawings, plans,
etc. of buildings, natives, scenes, interiors, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“His descriptions of architecture are exceedingly close and careful,
though at times rather too technical for the layman to follow quite
clearly: and the historical matter which he gives suffers from a
compression which perhaps was unavoidable. He has spared neither time
nor labour in his work, and has produced a valuable and delightful
book.”

+ + − =Acad.= 72: 186. F. 23, ’07. 1400w.

“If this volume has a few weak points—one of which is a very imperfect
index—these are more than counterbalanced by many and solid merits.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 582. My. 11. 900w.

“A good book; in fact, the only fault one is inclined to find with it
is that it is too monotonously good. A little more liveliness would
atone even for a lapse in grammar.”

+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 120w.

“Lovers of fine architectural construction and decorative detail will
delight in the many fine drawings that enrich Mr. Jackson’s delightful
volume.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 276. Ja. ’07. 320w.

“His work from the mere fact of its bulk could never serve as a
guide-book. The want of maps, too, is a serious drawback in a
practical hand-book. On the other hand, for those who ask for charming
impressions, the volume is too practical, too conscientious. Very
different and full of detail are his architectural descriptions, and
here we feel him thoroughly at home.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1360w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 876. D. 15, ’06. 310w.

“Mr. Jackson has discovered and described three or four times as many
things as the ordinary traveler would find out for himself, unless he
were, indeed, a many-sided man.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 456. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.

“It contains much information clearly and compactly put. Nevertheless,
we wish that the author’s manner were more vivacious, and that the
color of the history described were as equally evident as its
outline.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.

“Mr. Jackson has described and drawn with a care worthy of all praise.
One regrets a little this somewhat stolid tone as one turns over the
only work of value which an Englishman has ever written on this
region.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 860w.

=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle E. S.= Wee Winkles and her friends. †$1.25. Harper.

7–30868.

Another chapter in Wee Winkles’ life telling of her dolls, the little
baby kittens, and of Jerry, the fire-engine horse, that rescued
Wideawake from an old tumble down house where an accident had befallen
him. Any child might profit by the lesson of love for animals that is
taught thruout the story.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 30w.

“The author has mastered this art, and her story deals with simple
incidents, in simple language, well suited to hold the interest of the
little readers.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 70w.

=Jackson, Henry Latimer.= Fourth gospel and some recent German criticism. *$1.10. Putnam.

“The present volume takes up in detail the authorship, historicity,
criticism of the gospel according to St. John, the identification of
John the beloved apostle and John of Ephesus, and the Fourth gospel
and the Synoptics. The footnotes are numerous and full.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“A very useful compendium. The frequent summaries are helpful to the
reader and make amends for some needless repetition.”

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 368. Ap. ’07. 80w.

“A careful, judicial, and up-to-date examination of the Johannine
problem.”

+ =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w.

“The book may be strongly commended, especially for its accuracy of
information and impartiality in presentation of both sides of a
controversy, and it is hoped that it will receive attention from any
who may suppose that Professor Sanday and Principal Drummond have
spoken the last word on this important subject.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.

“The book is a valuable supplement to Ernest F. Scott’s essay on the
theology of the fourth gospel.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 230w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 130w.

=Jackson, Holbrook.= Bernard Shaw. *$1.50. Jacobs.

W 7–187.

“Mr. Jackson discusses Shaw in the fourfold aspect of man, Fabian,
playwright and philosopher and proves to his own satisfaction that Mr.
Shaw is the incarnation of all that is best in modern thought.”
(Nation.) “Mr. Jackson shows that the real Shaw is a serious man with
a serious purpose, ‘that all his art has been an evolution toward a
means of expression for the sake of propaganda,’ and quotes his
admirable Fabian tracts to prove that if Shaw has undertaken to
transform sociology from a ‘dismal into a joyous science,’ it is from
no lack of earnestness but from a fine sense of the adaptation of
means to ends.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Truth to tell, Mr. Jackson has so soaked himself in the Shaw drama,
the Shaw economics, ethics, and politics, and the Shaw philosophy,
that he is not able to stand sufficiently away from his subject to see
him objectively. His whole book is oppressed with the weight of Mr.
Shaw’s personality.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 376. S. 28. 580w.

“The book is well written, and, in its biographical pages especially,
highly entertaining.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 370w.

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 250w.

“Still, since ‘it is obvious that’ Mr. Shaw, like Alice, is incapable
of explaining himself and needed some one to write him down to the
level of the hyper-self-conscious middle class, Mr. Jackson has
performed the kind office very fairly well.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 261. Ag. 30, ’07. 1450w.

“The book is also likely to prove interesting to connoisseurs in human
intellectual vagaries, not only because it is cleverly written, in a
way that often reflects what the faithful call the Shavian attitude
and manner but because it gives an apparently authoritative summary of
Mr. Shaw’s various theories, social, political and the like, and
furnishes some significant facts which may help to account for a good
many of them.”

+ =Nation.= 85:334. O. 10, ’07. 490w.

=Jackson. Lucie E.= Feadora’s failure; il. by J. Macfarlane. $1. McKay.

7–22917.

A book for young people which records the rebellion of six spirited
children against the rule of their wilful, inexperienced,
eighteen-year old sister who insists upon managing the household and
servants when the mother dies.

* =Jacob, Robert Urie.= Trip to the Orient: the story of a Mediterranean cruise. **$1.50. Winston.

7–9812.

In the main a revised and elaborated personal journal of the
happenings incident to a seventy-day tour of the Mediterranean
districts.

* * * * *

“The book itself is likely to interest few, if any, outside of the
restricted circle of those who happened to take the same tour or are
planning to take a similar one in the future. The book has lost much
through the inferior quality of the illustrations.”

− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 594. N. ’07. 180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Jacobs, William Wymark.= Short cruises; il. by Will Owen. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–16484.

“These cruises, largely by sailors, but of the land or at the most, of
the port, are in the author’s familiarly amusing vein.... The
practical joke, the admonition by craft, the object lesson through
wile have their perfect work in these pages. If the fun possibly makes
especial appeal to masculine readers, feminine ones should observe
that it is always the woman who gets the best of it.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“This volume is fit to stand on the shelf beside ‘Many cargoes’ and
‘Sea urchins.’”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 210w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.

“To be frank, the sailormen we meet with in these pages—at all events,
where they are deepwater sailormen—are not in the least the real
thing; but they are much more amusing than the real thing is wont to
be, and so we welcome their appearance.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 1170w.

“There are, we regret to say, signs in his latest book that Mr. Jacobs
is tiring. He is still funny, but he has receded further from life.”

− =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 300w.

“His invention is varied, his humour on his chosen lines of cartoon
and caricature, boundless, and his mastery supreme of what in
respectful homage we venture to term slanguage.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 90w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.

=James, George Wharton.= Wonders of the Colorado desert (southern California). **$5. Little.

6–43916.

Two volumes, each containing over two hundred and fifty pages, tell of
“strange, wonderful and beautiful things ... unknown to cities and to
the unobservant eye.” Mr. James locates the desert with a good deal of
exactness because the world at large is misled by the word “Colorado.”
He has gathered together in the volume twenty-four years of
observations and experiences all characterized by the vague sense of
mystery surrounding an untamed, unused and unnourished stretch of
country. There is a wealth of pictures attending his sketch of rivers
and mountains, cañons and springs, life and history.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.

“It is a book that it is a genuine pleasure to recommend to
discriminating readers.”

+ + =Arena.= 37: 327. Mr. ’07. 940w.

“A remarkable and valuable work.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 350w.

“To many people who are quite ignorant of the Colorado desert, and
this includes nearly every one outside the desert and vicinity, the
book will be full of pleasant surprises. Perhaps the chapters on the
wild animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plant life of the desert
contain as many surprises as any in the book.”

+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 510w.

“A very comprehensive and interesting work.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 42. Ja. 3, ’07. 410w.

“Written ‘con amore’ and under the immediate inspiration of the
unwonted scenes which they describe, the volumes will have an intimate
appeal for those interested in the wonders of their own land.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 300w.

“Actual perusal inspires a wish that the author had limited his field
and compressed his material into one volume. He should remember that a
plethora of superlatives only weakens a eulogy.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 520w.

“He has gifts of observation far above the common and the literary art
of vivid and picturesque description.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 121. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.

“Occasionally the reader feels that the author is giving a little too
much detail, and, is even inclined to question whether the material
might not to advantage have been presented in a single volume.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 90w.

=James, Henry.= American scene. **$3–Harper.

7–5704.

After an absence of nearly a quarter of a century Mr. James viewed
once more his native land, and wrote in the style which he has made
his own, of what his eyes, fresh after long absence, saw in her. New
England, in the autumn, New York in the spring, The Bowery, Newport,
Washington, Richmond, Charleston, and sunny Florida, the beauty of
them, the very atmosphere and air of them are to be found between
these covers.

* * * * *

“The book is undeniably difficult to read; full of psychological
subtleties, involved expression, baffling to the average reader.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.

“Throughout four hundred and sixty-five broad pages there is no oasis
in the level, unbroken expanse of Jacobean style. Nor has his style
improved with years. In this latest example it has an irritation once
absent; for to the defects of his own qualities he has added
carelessness.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 282. Mr. 9. 2640w.

“Despite his consummate analytic power, perhaps not the one after all
to whom we should willingly allow the last word on what America stands
for.” James F. Muirhead.

+ − =Atlan.= 100: 566. O. ’07. 1330w.

“Mr. James is, if at his worst, also at his best in this book.” Edward
Clark Marsh.

− + =Bookm.= 25: 188. Ap. ’07. 1270w.

“The book is one to read in at length, if not to read through. Its
pages are strewn with the happiest phrases and turns of expression.
They teem with passages of exquisite artistry, which, without
reference to the scenes and objects so delicately depicted, are a joy
to the lover of the gracefully elaborate, the subtilely expressive and
still more subtilely suggestive, in English prose.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 176. Mr. 16, ’07. 1570w.

“No book which Mr. Henry James has written makes so severe a tax on
the loyalty of even his most enthusiastic readers as his ‘American
scenes.’”

− =Ind.= 63: 95. Jl. 11, ’07. 1090w.

“Crowded, sensitive, intricate book, probably the most remarkable book
of impressions of travel which we possess. It cannot be pretended that
it can be read without considerable concentration of attention; once
drop the finespun thread, and you are lost. But to follow it out to
the end is to have a positive revelation of the amount of insight and
exactness of expression which can be packed between the covers of a
single book.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.

“A work of marvellously keen and subtle analysis; it transfixes the
defects and shortcomings of American civilization with unerring
thrusts; but it is less successful on the positive and synthetic side.
Its vision is, if anything, too personal, too microscopic.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 266. Mr. 21, ’07. 1260w.

“It would be impossible within reasonable limits to give much idea of
the rich and fantastic humor that plays about the revisited towns of
America, leaves behind it suggestions to awaken our serious thought.”
Elisabeth Luther Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 221. Ap. 6, ’07. 1760w.

“There is but one way in which to read ‘The American scene:’ refuse to
let it antagonize you, remember constantly that it is the utterance of
a ‘restored absentee;’ and with every page you will come more and more
under the charm of his descriptions and the subtlety of his
judgments.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ − =No. Am.= 185: 214. My. 17, ’07. 1830w.

=Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 450w.

“He has written not a guide-book, but a drama, the drama of a
continent: and he has contrived with illuminating subtlety that the
‘persons’ of it shall be not the varieties of humanity upon its
surface, but the evidences, the more or less enduring records of their
aspiration and their content.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 395. Mr. 30, ’07. 2400w.

“The faults we have to find with it are only the faults which cling to
all Mr. James’s work. He is exceedingly difficult to read. Mr. James
writes with such urbanity and so genuine a love for the land that the
most nervous patriot could not take offence at his pages, while to a
certain limited class of readers they will be a source of acute
intellectual pleasure.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 334. Mr. 2, ’07. 1750w.

=James, William.= Pragmatism: a new name for some old ways of thinking. **$1.25. Longmans.

7–20643.

“A popular presentation of pragmatism. Professor James claims
Socrates, Aristotle, Locke, Berkeley and Hume as pragmatists. But
these “forerunners of pragmatism used it in fragments; they were a
prelude only. Not until in our time has it generalised itself.” The
volumes teach that truth comprises all principles, ideas, and beliefs
that lead in the long run to the best practical results. Pragmatism is
the same method in philosophy that utilitarianism is in ethics, which
pronounces monogamy right and gambling wrong, not by previous
intuition, but by the test of experience. What wears best is good;
and, because proved good, is true.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“We should not be doing justice to Professor James’s style did we not
refer to the colloquialisms and American slang which abound in the
book.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 772. Ag. 10, ’07. 1180w.

Reviewed by I. Woodbridge Riley.

=Bookm.= 26: 215. O. ’07. 2070w.

“His presentation of the pragmatic method is of course unique by
reason of the author’s own charming literary style, comprehensive
knowledge of philosophy, literature and philosophy, literature and
philosophical principles, and great skill as an expositor.”

+ =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 80w.

+ =Ind.= 63: 630. S. 12, ’07. 930w.

“The lectures contain nothing new, and, on the whole, nothing that was
not more concisely put in some of these previous pronouncements; but
it is always a pleasure to hear Professor James talking.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 730w.

“Professor James has an unconventional way of dealing with
philosophical questions, so that by graphic illustrations and by
simple language he attracts attraction and wins assent.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 970w.

“It is scarcely possible to exaggerate one’s appreciation of the
lucidity and skill with which so abstract a topic has been treated.”
Joseph Jacobs.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 527. Ag. 31, ’07. 2610w.

Reviewed by Carolyn Shipman.

=No. Am.= 185: 884. Ag. 16, ’07. 1950w.

“His well-known, vivacious and breezy style of address, garnished here
and there with racy colloquialisms, working, as it does, to enliven
attention to his arguments, is itself felicitously pragmatic.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 330w.

“Professor James’s volume is interesting and stimulating throughout,
and it is needless to add that it contains a deal of practical wisdom
and much useful advice which all philosophers would do well to heed.
And it seems to me to be much stronger in what it affirms than in what
it denies.” Charles M. Bakewell.

+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 624. N. ’07. 4780w.

“I am therefore bound to record the opinion that the present volume
fails to rise to the level of its author’s reputation. There is
something too much of ‘the large loose way’ about it.” R. M. Wenley.

+ − =Science=, n.s. 26: 464. O. 11, ’07. 2480w.

=James, Winifred.= Bachelor Betty. **$1.25. Dutton.

7–23302.

“Bachelor Betty is a vivacious young Australian girl who comes over to
England to seek her fortune as a journalist. She is an independent
young person who means to make the best of things, and for this
purpose she adopts an aggressively cheerful attitude, extracting fun
out of all sorts of unpromising material.... ‘There is not,’ she
writes, ‘one woman in a hundred who chooses an independent life
because she prefers it’.... We know full well that whimsical Betty
with her continual babble and chatter, her delicate philanderings with
the ‘youngest man,’ the ‘oldest man’ and other admirers will come at
last into the safe haven of matrimony.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“All her characters are made living by some touch or phrase which
renders the least important of them a personality.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 706. Jl. 20, ’07. 230w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.

“Here is an author who takes herself not too seriously, and knows how
to entertain us. We find sanity and humanity also in the development
of the story.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 120w.

“What redeems it entirely from the commonplace is the author’s lively
turn of phrase and fresh, untrammelled observation.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.

“Her talk is quite pleasant, too, and every now and then she says
quite womanly-characteristic things in a quite womanly-characteristic
way. There is nothing very remarkable about it, but there have been
worse love stories—many of them.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.

“We should have found ‘Bachelor Betty’ much more amusing but for the
author’s obvious determination to be humorous at all costs. Is full of
promise and we feel sure is only an earnest of better work to come.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 148. Ag. 3, ’07. 310w.

=Jameson, E. M.= Peggy Pendleton. $1.25. West. Meth. Bk.

A first rate story for young readers. The heroine, Peggy Pendleton,
found favor with those who enjoyed “The Pendletons,” and here she
continues the fulfillment of numerous budding promises, among them
good cheer, generosity, and quick thoughtfulness for others.

=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American history. per. v. **$3. Scribner.

7–6643.

A series of twenty volumes entitled “Original narratives of early
American history,” undertaken under the auspices of the American
historical society and edited by J. F. Jameson. “The series is to
consist of such volumes as will illustrate the early history of all
the chief parts of the country, with an additional volume of general
index. The plan contemplates, not a body of extracts, but in general
the publication or the republication of whole works or of distinct
parts of works.” (N. Y. Times.)

=v. 1. Olson. Julius E., and Bourne, Edward G.=, eds. Northmen,
Columbus, and Cabot.

6–36882.

This first volume of the series is divided into three parts: “The
voyages of the Northmen,” edited by Professor J. E. Olson, which
presents the saga in Hauksbok and that in Flatey-jarbok, together with
some minor Northern and papal pieces; “The voyages of Columbus” and
“The voyages of John Cabot,” edited by Professor E. G. Bourne.

=v. 2. Burrage, Henry S.=, ed. Early English and French voyages,
1534–1608.

6–44365.

The account of these voyages is largely taken from Hakluyt and covers
the voyages of Cartier, Hore, Hawkins, Drake, Gilbert, Barlowe, Lane,
White, Grenville, Brereton, Pring, Waymouth, and Popham.

=v. 3. Hodge, Frederick W., and Lewis, Theodore H.=, eds. Spanish
explorers in the southern United States, 1528–1543.

7–10607.

“This volume includes the contemporary accounts of the three most
important Spanish explorations in the region now comprised in the
southern part of the United States. These are Cabeza de Vaca’s
narrative of his remarkable wanderings, the account of the expedition
of Hernando de Soto by the gentleman of Elvas, and Pedro de
Castaneda’s narrative of the expedition of Coronado. Apart from the
requirements of the series there was not the same necessity for the
issuing of this particular volume as for the other two as two of these
narratives already have been published in handy and inexpensive form
under the competent editorship of Messers. Bourne and Winship
respectively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

=v. 4. Grant, William Lawson=, ed. Voyages of Samuel de Champlain,
1604–1618.

7–22899.

This volume includes extracts from the writings of Champlain from
which the student may construct a theory of the value of Champlain’s
work as explorer and colonizer.

=v. 5. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner=, ed. Narratives of early Virginia.

7–33220.

“Selections from the doughty John Smith fill about two-thirds of the
volume; the remaining contents include narratives and letters by
George Percy, Lord De-la-Ware, Dion Diego de Molina, Father Biard,
John Ræfe, and John Pory. The period covered is that from the first
settlement to the dissolution of the Company in 1624 by the aggrieved
monarch.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“Most serviceable and in all ways to be welcomed is this volume. But
it might have been made still more serviceable.” C. Raymond Beazley.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 654. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 1.)

“This publication edited by Dr. Burrage is one which meets a long-felt
want. The reader has sufficient information about the narrators, both
historical and bibliographical to whet his appetite and increase his
interest.” P. Lee Phillips.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 692. Ap. ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)

Reviewed by G. P. W.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)

“If the remaining volumes are edited with a similar degree of skill
and intelligence as these under review, the series will prove to be a
most admirable one and will be recognized as a standard collection of
source publications.” Herman V. Ames.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 183. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

+ + =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Dial.= 42: 266. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5)

“There is a sanity and freedom from controversial bitterness in the
editorial portions which commends the volume warmly to us.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 41. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Each narrative has been carefully edited as to an introduction and
foot-notes, an excellent index being added.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Nation.= 84: 245. Mr. 14, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Furnishes the best possible introduction to a further study of the
large and intricate problem of Spanish explorations in America.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Nation.= 85: 493. N. 28, ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“To a careful student it is simply invaluable, the many footnotes
giving the various authorities on any possible disputed point.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 71. F. 2, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The notes, without being burdensome, are adequate for purposes of
explanation.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 481. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Mr. Grant, the editor, succeeds well in elucidating difficult points
and illuminating obscure passages.”