Chapter XXXIII: Part 1: of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York (5)

A work whose value is suggested in the fact that it makes accessible
to students for the first time history that has been shut up in
carefully guarded manuscript for two centuries. The volumes contain a
careful transcript of the court records of the Virginia company, with
introduction, notes, bibliography, and index.

* * * * *

“Many efforts have been made through a period of nearly fifty years,
to secure the publications of these priceless records of our first
colonizing company. But all those who have taken part in former
efforts to publish ought to rejoice that they have failed, since the
delay has resulted in bringing out, in the fulness of time, a much
better edition than would have been produced earlier.”

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“A work of fundamental importance to the student of American history.”

+ + =Dial.= 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 406. Ap. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

+ + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“As material of history its value cannot be too highly estimated.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The text now appears in full for the first time, and all the
excellencies noted in the first volume are continued in the second.
The index is, unfortunately, entirely inadequate, and it is difficult
to see on what plan it was prepared.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)

“These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings
of American history.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

“From the student’s standpoint, too, the value of the present
publication is increased by Miss Kingsbury’s elaborate expository and
critical introduction.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Exhaustive and scholarly introductory essays.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Princess and the ploughman. †$1.25. Harper.

7–18593.

A pretty pastoral this, altho it is set in the present time. Mary, the
princess in distress, is to inherit a large fortune from a spinster
aunt if she marries before her twenty-third birthday. The ploughman, a
recluse and a farmer, offers her his name in order that she may secure
her fortune and promises to ask nothing in return. Of course they are
madly in love with each other, else he would not have made the offer,
nor she accepted it, but each is proud so they marry but to part and
it is long before they come to know each other’s hearts.

* * * * *

“An idyllic little novel, infused with grace and sly humor. Men and
women both ought to like it; and for the suspiring college girl, it
can not but prove a tonic.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 570w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 438. Jl. 13, ’07. 190w.

“Their story is a bit of romantic absurdity, or a sweet and refreshing
love idyl, as the individual reader’s view-point will determine.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 180w.

=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Those queer Browns. †$1.50. Dodd.

7–25050.

A sequel to “The singular Miss Smith.” Miss Smith who left her Back
Bay luxury to become a servant in order to study sociological
conditions marries Mr. Brown, a Harvard professor, who plays
foundryman and boards with Miss Smith’s employer. They spend a year in
the New York slums, and this story records their experiences.

* * * * *

“There is plenty of fun in ‘Those queer Browns,’ but plenty of sound
sense, too, and amateur philanthropists would undoubtedly profit by
reading it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 300w.

“Is entertaining, often bright, and sometimes keen.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.

=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Truthful Jane. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–5685.

“The familiar drama of the poor relation.... Jane Blythe, a beautiful,
high-spirited girl, is flung by fate on the charity of her London
relatives.... Baited by her cousin, who is envious of her beauty and
insufferably patronized by her aunt and uncle, she ... resolves to put
the sea between herself and her blood relatives. The story of Jane’s
battle for her rights in her hard environment is told with the real
touch of humor.... In the crisis of Jane’s trials the inevitable
knight of romance turns up in the person of John Everett, who marries
her and takes her back to England.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.

“There is a thoroughly human touch in the handling of the whole
story.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.

“Not a remarkably good story, but it has a certain modest integrity
which places it above the ruck of petty inventions.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 70w.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 105. F. 23, ’07. 250w.

=Kinross, Albert.= Davenant. †$1.50. Dodd.

7–13436.

“An American publisher of brains and heart tells an Irish mother and
her son in London his experience with a crippled, original, and
brilliant hack writer in that city, whose work, rejected at home,
finds acceptance here, and to whom America becomes a symbol of free,
generous, brotherly life.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Mr. Kinross has humour, and he has irony. This work is the work of a
man who can rise to a considerable achievement. He has pathos also.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 330w.

“Full of a quality that comes near being charm, but fails just short
of it. The style is too self-conscious, and the whole scheme lacks
simplicity, so that the mind is taxed by its suggestiveness.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 355. Je. 1, ’07, 220w.

“The story is wholly off the well-defined lines of fiction, is told in
an unhackneyed way, with a vein of deep feeling and of unforced humor.
There is a deeper strain in the book for those who read it with
imagination; for it is safer to venture the assertion that Mr. Kinross
had before him not only the America of gross materialism, but America
as a symbol of great and beautiful ideas.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 270w.

+ =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.

=Kipling, Rudyard.= Puck, of Pook’s hill. †$1.50. Doubleday.

6–35734.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“So hidden and delicate is the intention, that the book has been
reviewed merely as a series of fairy tales; so spontaneous that one
even wonders if Mr. Kipling himself knows the full extent of his
accomplishment.” Mary Moss.

+ + =Atlan.= 99: 113. Ja. ’07. 1080w.

“Mr. Kipling has apparently passed through that political fever which
for so long a time made him almost unreadable. His genius is restored
to itself, and he writes as one would always have him write. For this
reason alone I would rejoice in the new book. It is a brilliant
performance, and it is a golden promise.” Royal Cortissoz.

+ + =No. Am.= 183: 926. N. 2, ’06. 2700w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 510. Ja. ’07. 580w.

“Not only shows him grand master of the English language, but marks
his ability to fit with perfect verbal clothing any subject he may
pick out.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 90w.

=Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner (Olney) (Henry Hayes, pseud.).= Marcia: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.

7–9553.

An autobiographical society novel in which the heroine at twenty-one
“refusing to gain riches as the price of her ancestral acres and home
accepts a position as secretary to a woman of wealth, and the story
begins.... Mrs. Kirk introduces us to high-minded men and women, who
eschew gambling and abhor divorce, who recognize the existence of
duty, and are loyal to obligation.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠

“‘Marcia’ is remarkable for nothing but the facility with which a
practiced hand can make a fairly readable tale out of indifferent
material.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 200w.

“Its merit rests almost wholly upon its truth to nature and its
interesting psychological analysis.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 180w.

“Unfortunately, the workmanship of the novel is not equal to its
excellence of intention. Its characters are characters rather than
people. The book is, however, sincere and wholesome, and will not
disappoint the public which Mrs. Kirk has already won.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.

=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Ministry of beauty. **$1.50. Elder.

7–18089.

An ontological discussion of beauty, life, religion, philosophy, work,
health and happiness, with chapters on The world message, The heart of
it, The tendency of good, The preacher, The teacher, and The poet. The
author treats of good in its abstract sense and emphasizes strongly
the development of ethical perception to the point of consciousness of
truth’s expression.

=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Where dwells the soul serene. **$1.50. Elder.

7–19460.

A group of essays similar in teaching to those included in Mr.
Kirkham’s “Ministry of beauty.” They make their plea for the
impersonal idea of truth to which the Christian scientists have
wakened. Among the essays are Elements of freedom, The ideal of
culture, The idea of religion, The nature of prayer, The beauty of
poise, Ethical relations, Wealth, Free aims, Higher laws, and The soul
of nature.

=Kirkup, Thomas.= History of socialism. *$2.25. Macmillan.

“This third edition ... has been revised at a few points and enlarged
by some forty pages. The first twelve chapters are substantially
unchanged, but the thirteenth, treating of the growth of socialism,
has been completely rewritten to bring it up to date. The concluding
chapters deal with the alleged forces now making for the coming of
socialism, and review in a dispassionate, if sympathetic way the
philosophy of the movement.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“But none have surpassed Mr. Kirkup in philosophical grasp of the
essentials of socialism, or have presented the doctrine in more
intelligible form.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 190w.

“No man who reads this generous and impartial volume, the work of a
socialist sufficiently broadminded to appreciate the weak points of
the propaganda and optimistic enough to analyze modern progress from a
healthy point of view, can but feel that such a contribution to the
literature of the subject must help to ameliorate old
misunderstandings and enmities.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 580w.

“We question whether the spirit of cheerful optimism and an amiable
love of compromise, which are the characteristics of this volume, are
an adequate mental equipment for a treatment of the subject.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 1030w.

=Kiser, Samuel Ellsworth.= Thrills of a bell boy. 60c. Forbes.

6–16496.

“S. E. Kiser, under this title, writes in his well known style. His
bell boy is a close observer and sees many things in the hotel where
he works in an humble capacity, hiding a philosopher under his
careless exterior. John T. McCutcheon has happily illustrated the
text.”—Ind.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 230w.

=Kitson, Arthur.= Captain James Cook, “the circumnavigator.” *$4.50. Dutton.

7–28952.

Mr. Kitson departs from the material from which narratives of Cook are
usually produced, and has gone to the Admirality papers for data. This
story of the discoverer of the Sandwich islands tells of one who made
the best use of every opportunity as fast as it presented itself. “It
tells the remarkable experiences of the man who, after rising from
cabin-boy in a collier to captain in the royal navy, discovered
Australia, sailed three times around the world, and was killed, as we
all know, by the natives of the Sandwich islands.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Cook’s latest biographer, while a most faithful and painstaking
chronicler is either devoid of the capacity of awe, wonder, and
romance which the voyages of Cook excite, or he has put these
qualities under severe restraint.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 626. Je. 29, ’07. 1400w.

“There has been until now no complete or satisfactory biography.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 229. Ag. 31. 3200w.

“To say that Mr. Kitson never stumbles would be fulsome; it is enough
to say that his errors are few and unimportant and will not prevent
his book from being accepted as a standard.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 187. Je. 14, ’07. 1470w.

“Mr. Kitson’s work shows great painstaking labor; he corrects several
misstatements of previous biographers, and adds some new and
interesting facts.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 123. Ag. 8, ’07. 1370w.

“His book is entitled to take rank as the most careful, trustworthy,
and complete record of Capt. Cook’s life that has yet been published.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w.

“It may be cordially praised as a capital piece of narrative writing.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.

“Mr. Kitson has made some discoveries about the life of the great
explorer, Captain Cook, which are well worth the trouble he has
expended on them, and they leave the voyages neither less nor more
fascinating than they were before.”

+ + =Spec.= 98: 944. Je. 15. ’07. 1420w.

=Kitson, Charles Herbert.= Art of counterpoint and its application as a decorative principle. *$2.50. Oxford.

7–38043.

“The work of a man of wide views, yet of one who values the work of
antiquity, and is careful to show how rationally the new has been
developed from the old. There is a large class of contrapuntists, both
in England and in Germany, at the present day, who are accustomed to
sneer at the ancient writers, and to whom the researches of Rockstro
and others are anathema. It is satisfactory to see that Dr. Kitson is
not of this number; he has evidently studied Morley and the ancients
thoroughly, and his very concise résumé of ancient practice is so
little superficial that we see at once that he is deeply read.”—Lond.
Times.

* * * * *

“He writes well and clearly, and his treatise is excellent alike on
the modern and ancient counterpoint. Such a book should do much to
dispel the popular delusion that counterpoint is dry.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 150w.

“Dr. Kitson’s ‘The art of counterpoint,’ we are pleased to say is not
one of the many treatises on that subject which are based on previous
treatises.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 280w.

=Kittrell, Norman G.= Ned, nigger an’ gent’man: a story of war and reconstruction days. $1.50. Neale.

7–25078.

Desiring to learn details of the fate of two members of his family who
fell in the civil war, a northerner makes his first journey into the
south. He becomes a guest of true southern aristocrats, faithful
representatives of the very highest class of southern society. The aim
of the story seems to be that of modifying a northerner’s abhorrent
attitude toward the system of slavery by dropping him into
surroundings where master and negro alike are bred to the chivalry of
the “quality.”

=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.

6–42418.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“This work as a whole is so excellent we feel it would be difficult to
overstate its value to serious students.”

+ + + =Arena.= 37: 220. F. ’07. 420w.

“A good deal is taken for granted. The author’s system is nowhere
treated clearly as a whole. There is no very plain intimation as to
the time is desirable to be given to each chapter. There are exercises
and selections, and there are brief passages of exposition and
comment, but there is hardly sufficient organization of the material
to make the method easy to follow.” W. B. Parker.

+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 322. O. ’07. 480w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.

=Klenze, Camillo von.= Interpretation of Italy during the last two centuries: a contribution to the study of Goethe’s “Italienische reise.” *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–18308.

One of the decennial publications of the Chicago university. In this
study Goethe’s “Italienische reise” is compared with the travels of
his predecessors of the eighteenth century to show how far Goethe was
original and to what degree he has been supplemented.

* * * * *

“The book is a work of research representing a vast amount of reading
and labor, and will be of service to any one who desires to follow the
story of modern culture and intellectual life.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 460w.

“Dr. von Klenze’s style and treatment do not, we regret to say, rise
above the level of the doctor’s dissertation; while there is too much
cataloguing of details and too little original reasoning and writing,
some important facts are left out.”

− =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w.

=Knauss, William H.= Story of Camp Chase; a history of the prison and its cemetery. $2.20. Pub. house M. E. ch. so.

6–22869.

“An interesting volume, compiled by a Southerner, but written
impartially.... Made up of letters, extracts from documents, and
personal recollections of the civil war, dealing especially with the
Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnston’s island in Lake Erie,
and Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, as well as other places. Records
are given of the disposal of the prisoners.... The numerous
illustrations include several maps and diagrams of cemeteries, with
graves marked, so that friends can locate them.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The author has given his later years devotedly to this noble work,
and has contributed in no small degree to the restoration of good
feeling between the once hostile sections.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 160w.

* =Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.

7–26349.

The author has collected from various sources estimates, or
characterizations, by friends from opposite points of view—a series of
mental photographs or appraisals of the man—and has allowed these in
their separateness to tell the story of Thomas Davidson’s life and
work.

=Knollys, George.= Ledgers and literature. *$1.25. Lane.

A collection of essays upon such subjects as; A professor of
sentiment, Lunching in the city, On the adventures of living in a
lunatic asylum, An officer of the boys’ brigade, On the cultivation of
the spirit of Greek archaeology, and A week on the Thames.

* * * * *

“[At times] Mr. Knollys, possibly under the influence of a lunch-cake
which he despises, allows the prose-poet in him to diminish into the
poeticule of prose.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 180w.

“Some of these humorously fanciful sketches might also have come from
the pen of Charles Lamb at his desk in the East India house.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 360w.

“These essays, on the whole, are kept up to a very respectable
standard, a standard certainly far higher than that which the ordinary
novelist reaches. But the standard rarely reaches really brilliant and
original work.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.

“There is often common-sense, quite good common-sense in it, but not
wisdom.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 140w.

=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Undertow. †$1.50. Revell.

6–38396.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Is a good novel, and a pleasant one, and in every respect worthy of
the author of ‘St. Cuthbert of the West.’”

+ =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 200w.

=Knox, Charles Edwin.= Electric light wiring. *$2. McGraw pub.

7–18292.

The author has considered the wiring of buildings by the two and
three-wire systems only. “The different generating systems, such as
double-generator, single-generator with a balancer set or with
compensating transformers are then very simply outlined by the aid of
diagrams. Methods of wiring buildings approved by the National board
of fire underwriters, and the proper use of conduit, cables, tubes,
porcelain fittings, etc., are described. The author has included
considerable information on the manufacture of interior conductors
with the National code requirements.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“The volume presents the subject of building wiring in actual
practice. For this reason the book should be of especial use to young
engineers who have not had time or opportunity to acquire a system of
practice for themselves. To those who have had little opportunity to
approach electrical engineering mathematically, this book should be
equally useful.”

+ =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.

=Knox, George William.= Development of religion in Japan. **$1.50. Putnam.

7–6732.

“In three religions ‘the religion of Japan’ finds various expression.
Shintoism is religious patriotism; Buddhism is the faith of the
unlettered and poor; Confucianism is ‘the religion of gentlemen.’
These three have been variously modified during the comparatively
brief period of fourteen centuries covered by historical dates. The
account of these changes constitutes a history of the development of
that innate religious feeling in which all religions root.... The
religion of Japan already finds a fourth expression in Christianity,
as a part of the nation’s new enlightenment.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“With the ease and poise of a trained scholar, he shows us the
development of religion in Japan.” William Elliot Griffis.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 335. Je. 1, ’07. 1220w.

“Less interesting as a human story than ‘The religions of Japan,’ by
another American author, this work is far superior as the philosophic
presentation of a most fascinating chapter in the grand story of the
human mind.”

+ + − =Ind.= 63: 224. Jl. 25, ’07. 470w.

“In the possible elements of human interest this book may be lacking
but as a philosophical treatment of a great theme in a spirit at once
catholic, critical, and sympathetic, it is a masterpiece.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 1270w.

“Shows in an admirable manner how the religious feelings of the nation
have been excited, and how in the course of the ages they have changed
and progressed.” K. K. Kawakami.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 217. Ap. 6, ’07. 890w.

“This volume has interest for the general reader. Its author is
peculiarly qualified for appreciative treatment of his subject by his
long residence in Japan.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.

=Knox, George William.= Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.

6–34855.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. S.

“He is able to express himself in an easy and graceful style.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 350w.

“This work is, in our judgment, the best volume on the subject that
has appeared. No one who wishes an intelligent grasp of the great
Eastern problem should fail to read ‘The spirit of the Orient.’”

+ + =Arena.= 37: 219. F. ’07. 910w.

=Current Literature.= 42: 314. Mr. ’07. 2110w.

“It is one of the keenest in analysis, perhaps, of any book written on
the Far East.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 810w.

“The still too ignorant Occidental will find not only a sympathetic
study of the peoples and customs of India, China and Japan, but also
an appreciation of the peculiar spirit and problems of each country.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 296. Je. 8, ’07. 1390w.

=Knyvett, Sir Henry.= Defence of the realme. *$1.75. Oxford.

“A hitherto unpublished manuscript now edited by Charles Hughes.
Knyvett was a country gentleman, a soldier and a magistrate who, when
England was, as it appeared, threatened with a Spanish invasion in
1596, composed this little treatise for presentation to Queen
Elizabeth. In it he set forth with the authority of his long
experience his views as to the best way to master, train, equip, and
handle an army to beat off the invasion.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The tract was written in haste. On the technical side the treatise is
at its weakest. It advocates the use of the antiquated longbow.”

− =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 688. Ap. ’07. 140w.

“The volume is very pleasant to read and handle.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 280w.

“His style is direct with an occasional quaintness of turn, but not in
itself noteworthy.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.

=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 550. S. ’07. 100w.

“Is well edited and commented on by Mr. Charles Hughes.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 149. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.

“The book as a whole is exceedingly interesting as well as curious,
and Mr. Hughes deserves the gratitude of students, not only of history
but of military science, for his discovery of Sir Henry Knyvett’s
pamphlet.”

+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.

=Kobbe, Gustav.= Famous American songs, il. **$1.50. Crowell.

6–35736.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.

“The work is admirably adapted for a presentation volume, appropriate
for all tastes.”

+ =Arena.= 37: 109. Ja. ’07. 130w.

“Tells about everything one can in reason wish to know about some
dozen native airs.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 110w.

=Kobbe, Gustav.= How to appreciate music. **$1.50. Moffat.

6–38904.

An attempt in wholly untechnical language, to satisfy the desires of
those who enjoy music and wish to know more about it. The volume is
divided into three sections: How to appreciate a pianoforte recital,
How to appreciate an orchestral concert, and How to appreciate vocal
music.

* * * * *

“Enthusiastic, sometimes gushing, but as a whole, interesting,
readable and instructive. Does not replace Krehbiel’s ‘How to listen
to music;’ it is not so well written nor so systematically arranged,
but it is more suggestive and contains material on later composers,
such as Richard Strauss, not to be found in Krehbiel.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.

“Avowedly ‘popular’ in intent, and even at times a bit careless in
style, the book contains a deal of gossipy chat about musicians.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 560w.

“Here are elucidation, history, criticism, gossip, anecdote, cleverly
commingled, making the book one that can be read for entertainment as
well as instruction.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 445. N. 22, ’06. 390w.

“The seeker after musical knowledge will find much that is
entertaining and instructive in these pages and much that is
suggestive; but we are constrained to say that he is also likely to
find much that is misleading and unbalanced.” Richard Aldrich.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.

=Kobbe, Gustav.= Signora. †$1. Crowell.

7–21369.

The incidents of this sketch take place behind the scenes in the
Metropolitan opera house, New York. They are associated with a little
waif that was left at the stage entrance one stormy night when Calvé
and other famous singers were rendering Carmen. The child is adopted
by the company and grows up to be the central figure in a romance
whose side-light touches reveal characteristics of well known singers
who are seen under thin disguises.

* * * * *

“Is as interesting to the older people as to the children.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w.

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

“It is a pleasant story of kindness, and is interesting from its
original setting.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 110w.

=Koenigsberger, Leo.= Hermann von Helmholtz; tr. by Frances A. Welby. *$5.25. Oxford.

7–11038.

A translation, slightly abridged, of a well known German work. “This
volume, of absorbing interest, outlines a life which was intimately
bound up in the life of the scientific world during the last century.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“Care has been taken to retain what is essential, and the work has
therefore suffered but little. The translation has been carried out
with skill, and the writing is on the whole good.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 410w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 730w.

=Kraus, Edward Henry.= Essentials of crystallography. *$1.60. Wahr.

6–38911.

A book intended for beginners. “A bibliography of forty-one titles of
important reference books and articles is at the beginning of the
book. This is followed by a sixteen-page general discussion of the
properties of crystals their arrangement into systems, the symbols
used, the symmetry, and tractional forms. The systems are then taken
up in order, beginning with the cubic and following through to the
triclinic. The relations of axes, symmetry, and possible classes are
taken up with considerable care in each system.” (J. Geol.)

* * * * *

“The book seems well suited to its purpose, and puts in a concise and
compact form that part of its subject which is absolutely essential
for an understanding of crystallography.” J. C. J.

+ + =J. Geol.= 15: 507. Jl. ’07. 300w.

“The six pages devoted to compound crystals will seem to many
inadequate. Not the least valuable part of the work is an appendix.”
Wm. Herbert Hobbs.

+ + =Science=, n. s. 24: 807. D. 21, ’06. 770w.

=Kropotkin, Petr Alexeivich.= Conquest of bread. *$1. Putnam.

7–11010.

The undertone of Prince Kropotkin’s discussion is that “every society
which has abolished private property will be forced to reorganize
itself on the lines of communistic anarchy.” “He attempts to
demonstrate that communistic and socialistic ideals, despite setbacks
and reactions have ever been approaching nearer to practical
realization.” (R. of Rs.)

* * * * *

“The translator has done his work well, but has been unable to conceal
the extent to which the plausibility of the book rests upon a large
use of vague words and of the fallacy of composition and division when
talking about ‘the people’ and ‘the workers.’”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 640w.

“He is a close reasoner, a learned traveller, a keen observer, and he
brings into brilliant light uninterpreted truths.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 230. O. 16, ’07. 250w.

“Kropotkin’s chapters lack the charm and the scientific serenity of
his ‘Autobiography’ and his ‘Fields, factories and workshops.’”

− =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 680w.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 150w.

“An extremely interesting exposition of the gospel of anarchy.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 71. Mr. 1, ’07. 960w.

“The present volume adds nothing to what he has said elsewhere and it
is hard to understand why it has been brought out in American dress.”

− =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 130w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.

“Prince Peter Kropotkin lives in another world and talks another
language.”

− =Spec.= 97: 923. D. 8, ’06. 250w.

=Krusi, Hermann.= Recollections of my life; ed. by Elizabeth S. Alling. **$2.50. Grafton press.

7–26153.

An autobiographical sketch supplemented by extracts from the
educator’s personal records and a review of his literary productions
together with selected essays. The record of the author’s educational
career chiefly identified with the Oswego normal school, is enlivened
“record book” material which afford glimpses into his intellectual
life and his character.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’97. 40w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 140w.

=Kuhn, Franz.= Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.

6–35590.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠

=Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar.= John Huss: The witness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

7–23894.

In this volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series it has been the
author’s aim “to give a plain, straightforward, and concise account of
the life, death, and influence of one of the world’s most inspiring
witnesses of the truth.”

=Kyle, George A.= Morning glory club. $1.25. Page.

7–12001.

The women of a northern New England town are seized with the spirit of
club organization and the “Morning glory club” is the result. General
improvement, a definite force for good in the town seem to be their
theoretical watchwords yet they go far afield for bits of gossip to
retail indiscriminately at their meetings. An equally gossipy group of
husbands in the background, a village parson who believes that the
club is the devil’s own disguise, a charming young school teacher,
misunderstood and much maligned, and the parson’s son, dismissed from
college for his pranks, furnish some of the personalities with which
the story deals. Comic as well as tragic happenings abound, but all
ends well amid wholesome reform and reconciliation.

* * * * *

“He has displayed no startling originality, but the story is
readable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 170w.

L

=Labriola, Antonio.= Socialism and philosophy; tr. by Ernest Untermann. $1. Kerr.

7–3090.

This volume in the “International library of social science” has been
translated from the third Italian edition, which has been revised and
amplified by the author. In the form of a series of letters, “a
conversation in writing” with Mr. G. Sorei, Labriola has shown “that
we must study the social conditions which were the cradle of
historical materialism, if we would understand its full meaning. He
has demonstrated to us that we must familiarize ourselves also with
the individual growth of the founders of scientific socialism, of its
prominent interpreters, its present day elaborators.”

=Ladd, Horatio Oliver.= Chunda: a story of the Navajos. $1.25. Meth. bk.

6–37926.

“The career of an Indian girl and her lover, who broke away from their
barbaric tribe to learn for its redemption the principles and arts of
civilization. Years afterward they emerge from their training ... and
go back to their native mountain ... to labor together for the
civilization and Christianization of their people.... Dramatic and
tragic interest is added to the narrative, which breathes a deeply
religious spirit throughout with an evident purpose of stimulating a
missionary interest.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 110w.

“It is an excellent book for Sunday-school libraries. All that it
seems to lack is a prefatory note to indicate how far it is fiction
and how far it is fact.”

+ − =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 130w.

=Lafargue, Paul.= The right to be lazy and other studies. 50c. Kerr.

7–23081.

Papers whose purpose is to incite the socialist to march up to the
assault of the ethics and the social theories of capitalism and
establish a future communist society “peaceably if we may, forcibly if
we must.”

=Lamb, C. G.= Alternating currents: a textbook for students of engineering. *$3 Longmans.

W 7–137.

“The first seven chapters cover the preliminary statements of the
usual methods of treating alternate-current problems in general, also
of measuring instruments, and discuss the theory of the single-phase
transformer.... A very brief mention of single-phase commutator motors
occupies the eighth chapter.... The rest of the book is devoted to the
consideration of alternators both as generators and motors, and of
induction motors.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“He has succeeded in producing an excellent reference book for
engineers, but from the reviewer’s experience it is too heavy a text
for undergraduates.” Henry H. Norris.

+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 635. D. 13, ’06. 530w.

+ − =Nature.= 75: 97. N. 29, ’06. 1510w.

=Lamb, Charles.= Essays of Elia; with an introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger, and a biographical sketch by Henry Morley. $1.25. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this volume is furnished with
such additional helps as a biographical sketch of Lamb, an
introduction and notes.

=Lambert, Preston A.= Computation and mensuration. *80c. Macmillan.

7–30461.

A short course whose chapters are as follows: Approximate computation,
Graphic computation, Method of co-ordinates, Volumes of solids bounded
by planes, Use of trigonometric functions, Use of logarithms, Limits,
Graphic algebra, Areas bounded by curves, Volumes of solids. “These
headings give in a general way the subject matter of the book.
Greatest attention is given to concrete applications of principles.
The solution of characteristic problems is illustrated and several
additional are given for solution at numerous points throughout.”
(Engin. N.)

* * * * *

+ =Engin. N.= 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 330w.

=Lampson, G. Locker-.= Consideration of the state of Ireland in the nineteenth century. *$5. Dutton.

“A dictionary of English misgovernment of Ireland.” (Spec.) It is
“expressly, intended to gibbet the incompetence of Ireland’s governors
for five centuries and in suffusing British cheeks with shame to evoke
better intentions for the future.” The author “does not believe
Ireland’s ills will be cured by home rule. He proposes closer union,
rather than separation. Only he suggests that that union be commercial
and social, not political.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Relates, though not in well-arranged order, the chief political
events connected with recent Irish history.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 130w.

“It is a combination of history, characterdrawing, political
discussion, and the evisceration of blue books which Mr. Lampson’s
volume offers. He is a shrewd observer of men.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 470w.

“Mr. Locker-Lampson makes an exhaustive examination of Irish
conditions—and finds what others have found. The chief interest of
this book is in the remedy he proposes.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 545. S. 14, ’07. 1400w.

=Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 270w.

“It is a pity that so much labor should have been marred by such want
of judgment.”

− + =Sat. R.= 104: 422. O. 5, ’07. 1630w.

“Regarded, however, as a thesaurus of Irish history, this volume, well
arranged, well indexed, almost too lavishly appendixed, is of the
highest value as a reference book; it is ‘the case’ against Irish
misgovernment.”

+ + − =Spec.= 99: 93. Jl. 20, ’07. 800w.

=Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo.= Golden days of the renaissance in Rome from the pontificate of Julius II. to that of Paul III. **$5. Houghton.

6–39434.

Against the glowing background of Rome’s renaissance, Signor
Lanciani’s five distinct figures are traced: “Paul III., who during
the fifteen years that he occupied the chair of St. Peter’s
accomplished such wonders in rescuing Rome from the degradation into
which it had fallen; Michelangelo and Raphael, supreme in art;
Vittoria Colonna, the most cultured of sixteenth century women; and
Agostino Chigi, the banker whose splendid financial abilities and
great wealth gave him the surname of ‘Il Magnifico.’” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“A few slips in dates which we have observed may be due to oversight
on the part of the proof-reader, but inconsistency in giving the
modern equivalent for sums of money can hardly be due to that cause.
In general there is good reason to speak well of the book.”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 623. Ap. ’07. 840w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.

“The work is one of permanent value and interest, and a special word
of praise must be given to the illustrations. There is an excellent
index.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 545. My. 4. 1230w.

“Fills a gap in the important series of topographical and antiquarian
studies whereby the most readable of archæologists has done so much to
render the chaotic Rome of to-day an intelligible spectacle to the
passing pilgrim.” Harriet Waters Preston.

+ =Atlan.= 99: 424. Mr. ’07. 1350w.

“The many matters which Signor Lanciani has taken out of their
semi-obscurity in the Italian archives of learned societies and made
available to the English reader, the many stories which he has himself
aided in unfolding, entitle him to not a little gratitude.” Anna B.
McMahan.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 446. D. 16, ’06. 1390w.

“It is really in this elaborate introduction to his main topic that
the professor best proves his originality of thought and literary
skill.”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 165. Ap. ’07. 320w.

“The volume contains much hitherto-unpublished information gained from
study of the old monuments.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

“The general attractiveness of Lanciani’s writing is indubitable. His
sentences run fluently. He is singularly effective in the manner of
telling a story as it were to a single listener. The writer can hardly
hold himself down for two consecutive minutes to the topic he has in
hand. Another fault is the tendency to inaccuracy, which appears so
frequently in matters that can be checked, that it arouses distrust of
the author’s accuracy in matters of perhaps greater moment that lie
within the scope of his peculiar knowledge.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 268. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

“Rodolfo Lanciani seems now to have reached the age when his
accumulation of knowledge vaguely obscures his point of view as to the
essentials required for popular interpretation.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 760w.

“A notable and impressive looking volume.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 30w.

“Professor Lanciani, indeed, who, in the course of a gossiping and
diverting book, devotes a chapter to the subject, writes of these
poems with somewhat less than his customary insight.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 880w.

“Signor Lanciani knows his subject thoroughly and at first hand, and
he is able to bring to bear a vast amount of curious and interesting
detail.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.

=Landon, Perceval.= Under the sun. *$4.80. Doubleday.

7–35221.

“Twenty-five chapters written in the course of annual wanderings over
India during the last five years.... Every province in India,
including Burma, is represented.... The final chapter purports to
describe the later days of Nana Sahib.... The book is well
illustrated.”—Ath.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.

“The chapters are mainly impressions of many Indian cities, and they
are generally correct and just; the writer is faithful as to local
colour, and not less trustworthy as to local smells, which are often
more insistent, if less insisted on by descriptive writers.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 500w.

“Many of his narratives of famous persons and events ... are of
thrilling interest.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 250w.

“Has most of the attractive literary features of the author’s recent
volume on Tibet. The illustrations, an important feature of the book,
include many unusual aspects of India.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 560w.

“Even the reader who has never seen India may enjoy these impressions;
but it is the visitor reading on the spot, or, still more, the old
resident refreshing his memory with them for whom they will have the
greatest charm. As far as it is possible to do so in words, they
certainly convey the impression of the colouring and the atmosphere of
the scenes which they describe.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 391. N. 23, ’06. 780w.

“He certainly has produced a readable book, though many of his
sketches convey less clear-cut impressions of the places than those of
some other writers who have gone over the ground before, Steevens, for
instance; and they lack proportion. Some point is seized on and
overstrained with a discursiveness that causes the reader at times to
lose the thread of the narrative, whilst other more characteristic
features of the picture are omitted.”

− + =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 880w.

“The author has had a quick eye for the distinctive features of the
Eastern wonderland.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 400w.

“Mr. Landon’s book is valuable because it comprises suggestive
impressions of an acute observer as to the actual present.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.

“He writes well and picturesquely. Bookmaking of this sort is
overdone, and the chief novelty in it is the account given at the end,
of the last days of Nana Sahib. It is a somewhat incongruous chapter
in such a book, and at best is not a very valuable or entertaining
contribution to history.”

− + =Sat. R.= 102: 747. D. 15, ’06. 150w.

=Landor, Walter Savage.= Charles James Fox: a commentary on his life and character; ed. by Stephen Wheeler. *$2.75. Putnam.

7–29125.

A hitherto unpublished work of Walter Savage Landor’s—a study of the
life and character of the statesman Charles James Fox. The book was
printed in 1812, but suppressed, and the manuscript and all but one
copy of the book were destroyed. “The memoirs were, of course, highly
eulogistic of Fox, and hence a bête noire to Landor, who was in the
habit of hurling abuse with impartial hand at most of the political
leaders of his day.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“It is handsomely set forth and the editorial notes are good and
sufficient.” G. S. Street.

+ =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 880w.

“No reader of discrimination can lay the volume aside without feeling
that, despite its extravagance and occasional perversity it is the
product of a noble and magnificently endowed intellect.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 656. Je. 1. 1270w.

“Its present day claim is upon students of literature rather than of
politics. It is the vigorous unconventional prose in which Landor’s
political and literary convictions are expressed that gives the volume
any permanent value that attaches to it.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 881. O. 10, ’07. 490w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1320w.

“As an historical estimate of Fox the book is too polemical to have
much value, but the style has a rare energy and color.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 126. Ag. 8, ’07. 270w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 400w.

“Well worth the painstaking labor that Mr. Stephen Wheeler has
bestowed upon it, for in its present form the ‘Commentary’ has both a
literary and a political value.” Edward Porritt.

+ =No. Am.= 185: 664. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.

“A work which, for all its defects, bears in certain particulars the
stamp of true genius.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 562. Je. 13, ’07. 1910w.

“It was certainly well worth publishing, and the editor has done his
work with care and precision.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 130w.

“It is as a glimpse into Landor’s mind, as an additional chapter in
the life of one of the strangest and most original among English men
of letters, that his ‘commentary’ possesses its real and permanent
value.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 292. Ag. 31, ’07. 2430w.

=Lang, Andrew.= Homer and his age. *$3.50. Longmans.

7–2323.

“The present volume, while it contains much that is to be found in its
predecessor [‘Homer and the epic’] is less general, and deals rather
with problems of archaeology, the writer seeking to show that
throughout the Iliad there is a consistency in regard to such details
as the peculiar feudal relations of the chiefs to their over-lord, the
burial of the dead, the use of bronze for weapons, or the descriptions
of armour, which affords convincing proof that all parts of the poem
are approximately of the same date.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“We welcome another powerful counterblast from the graceful and
vigorous pen of Mr. Andrew Lang against the disintegrators of the
poems of Homer.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

+ =Acad.= 71: 543. D. 1, ’06. 1600w.

“It is a fascinating book, and a noteworthy. Mr. Lang was born too
late to keep the wolf from the door of the Homeric house, but this
championship of Homer will go far to bring the poet’s scattered goods
together again under one roof, to be the heirlooms of Achaean glory.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 624. Je. 29, ’07. 2200w.

“Altogether, from frontispiece ... to finis, the book is one for which
every Homeric student may well be grateful.” J. Irving Manatt.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 605. Ap. ’07. 700w.

“We are sorry that Mr. Lang has not treated his subject more
thoroughly, because we are at one with him in most that he says, and
would fain go the whole way if we could.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 38. Ja. 12. 1260w.

“Mr. Lang’s polemic, despite much repetition and some wearisome
details, holds the attention by a wealth of pertinent illustration
from Norse and Old French literature, and by the force and cunning of
his dialectical swordplay.” Paul Shorey.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 248. Ap. 16, ’07. 1450w.

“Excellent book.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 1790w.

“He has evidently written up his notes _currente calamo_, with little
concern for system and unity of presentation, consistency in argument,
or the elimination of wearisome repitition.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 458. My. 16, ’07. 580w.

“Mr. Lang has written such a sound, humane and scholarly book that we
can say directly: This is of the absolute truth.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 26. Ja. 19, ’07. 1630w.

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 304. Mr. 9, ’07. 1740w.

“Those who love Homer or admire Mr. Lang will take up this volume with
eagerness, only to close it with a sigh, while the critic who dreamed
of finding matter for a pleasant essay discovers that he has to deal
with a dispute the pleadings in which would perplex and weary even the
Court of Chancery.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 1046. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.

=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Olive fairy book. **$1.60. Longmans.

7–31208.

Colored plates and numerous other illustrations give additional life
to these tales derived from various sources, from India, France,
Turkey, Armenia, and Denmark.

* * * * *

“As fascinating as those that have gone before. The book is sure to
enthral any child who may possess it, and many persons of more
discreet years.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 90w.

=Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.

“At times are gruesome and without moral, to an extent that prohibits
their being wholesome reading for very young children.”

− =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 100w.

“The collection is an excellent one—Mr. Lang’s editorship vouches for
that—and one and all are entertaining.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 150w.

* =Lang, Andrew=, ed. Orange fairy book; il. by H. J. Ford. **$1.60. Longmans.

6–34647.

Mr. Lang says that his stories “‘are taken from those told by grannies
to grandchildren in many countries and many languages—French, Italian,
Spanish, Catalan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Cherokee, African, Indian,
Australian, Slavonic, and what not.’ As he says, the old puzzle
remains—‘why do the stories of the remotest people so closely resemble
each other?’” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 110w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 70w.

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 60w.

“Mr. Lang’s ‘Orange fairy book’ will not have to look far for eager
hands.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 40w.

“High among fairy books must be placed Andrew Lang’s annual offering.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 140w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 60w.

“Some of them again, as in past years, too gruesome for child
reading.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 50w.

=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 170w.

“There is less of the gruesome than we seem to remember in one or
other of the earlier volumes, and there are, as usual, some
illustrations of excellent quality.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 230w.

=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Poets’ country, il. **$5. Lippincott.

In text and picture the purpose of this book is to trace the relations
of poets with the aspects of “their ain countrie.” Among the poets are
Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Chaucer, Goldsmith,
Keats, Spencer, Moore and Burns. A number of men have participated in
producing the volume.

* * * * *

“The fact is that the ‘spirit of place’ dominates a few poets only,
and a more careful selection would have made this book more
representative.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 520w.

“The book is one to delight lovers of poetry and lovers of the English
country.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 280w.

+ =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 480w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“It is chock-block full of telling quotations, and it really has
plenty of pleasant and informed matter.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.

“All the essays included in the volume may be read with great
pleasure.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 300w.

=Lang, Andrew.= Portraits and jewels of Mary Stuart. *$2.75. Macmillan.

7–2430.

A pictorial history of Mary Queen of Scots from her tenth year to that
preceding her death. Mr. Lang has selected, in all, thirteen portraits
which he proves to be contemporary and authentic. He is aided in
accepting or rejecting a portrait by jewels represented to be worn at
different sittings.

* * * * *

“Mr. Andrew Lang has now gone over the ground again with an historical
acumen greater than that of any of his predecessors in the field.” J.
H. Pollen, S. J.

+ + =Acad.= 70: 543. Je. 9, ’06. 1160w.

“The text is noteworthy for its criticism, its freshness, and its
suggestiveness.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 193. Ag. 18. 1020w.