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“Dr. Mackinnon has produced a superlatively good book, marred only by
an occasional looseness of style that detracts from the dignity of an
important work.”

+ + − =Spec.= 98: 421. Mr. 16, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Macklin, Herbert W.= The brasses of England. (The antiquary’s books.) *$2.50. Dutton.

7–38576.

“In this volume, the chronological as opposed to the class division
has been adopted, with the advantage of bringing its subject into a
closer relation with history. The earliest brass is that of Sir John
Daubernon at Stoke D’Abernon. This is dated 1277. Nineteen other
examples belong to the next half-century, the latest but one being
another Daubernon at the same place (1327). These are treated at
length. The regular series begins with chap. 3. The Plantagenet,
Lancastrian, Wars of the roses, and Tudor periods are successively
dealt with. A chapter is given to the spoliation of the
monasteries, ... and another to the Elizabethan revival. The
illustrations are plentiful and excellent.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“The indexes are thorough, and the whole arrangement will be found
convenient to the hasty searcher as well as pleasant to the more
leisurely reader.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 104. Jl. 27. 580w.

“The numerous and interesting brasses of Lancashire and Yorkshire and
of the other northern counties are not included, and his book thus
falls short of being a complete account of the brasses of England.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 300w.

“Though it contains little that is new, and some of the illustrations
have been copied or reduced from those in other books, the author has
managed to give a certain freshness to a somewhat hackneyed theme by
connecting it more closely than has hitherto been done with the
history of the country in which the quaint memorials of the dead he so
eloquently describes were produced. The various appendices dealing
with minor groups of brasses, which might perhaps have been with
advantage incorporated in the text, display a really remarkable grasp
of a subject that would appear to be practically inexhaustible.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 168. Ag. ’07. 220w.

“The entire book is certain to interest students of the literature and
art of the centuries in which monumental brasses were produced.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 312. O. 3, ’07. 800w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 356. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.

Reviewed by Charles De Kay.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 452. Jl. 20, ’07. 2000w.

“He has already earned a right to champion the cause of brasses, and
his thorough and comprehensive survey of them gives him a further
claim to plead for their better perservation.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.

=Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.

=Maclaren, Alexander.= Expositions of Holy Scripture. 30v. ea. *$1.25. Armstrong.

“A commentary on the entire Bible, in 30 volumes. Sold in series of
six volumes. The treatment proceeds on the plan of an ‘anthology of
the passages best suited for homiletic treatment in the expository
method.’”

=ser. 1.= Genesis, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Matthew.

=ser. 2.= Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers; Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges,
Ruth and the First book of Samuel; Second book of Samuel and the First
book of Kings; St. Mark, 2 v.; and Acts of the Apostles, 1st. v.

* * * * *

“Full of insight and suggestiveness.”

+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w. (Review of first ser.)

“The work is rather voluminous and diffusive, making it cumbersome and
expensive for practical use.”

− + =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w. (Review of first ser.)

“Dr. Maclaren is always intent on spiritual truths, felicitous in
drawing instructive modern parallels to ancient experiences, ingenious
in making unpromising sentences yield fruitful lessons, and putting
fresh point into trite texts.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 200w. (Review of second ser.)

=Macleane, Douglas.= Reason, thought and language; or, The many and the one: a revised system of logical doctrine in relation to the forms of idiomatic discourse. *$6. Oxford.

7–29051.

A book whose object is “to strengthen and revivify formal logic by
bringing into close connection with the living facts of thought and
speech.” “His work is rather a restatement and a defence of
traditional doctrines.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“This is a pleasantly written, discursive, fairly comprehensive book
on logic, and a notable feature of it is the unusual number, variety,
and freshness of the examples given. The chief objection which Mr.
Macleane has failed to meet is that the more intentionally formal our
logic the less can the actual risk of ‘ambiguous middle’ be taken into
account.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 606. D. 15, ’06. 620w.

“Apart from the defects of the traditional standpoint, Mr. Macleane’s
book has much to recommend it. Though in some places needlessly
prolix, the author generally expresses his views with much sense,
point, and an abundant supply of appropriate and often humorous
examples.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 185. Ag. 17. 1880w.

“In so far as it deals with logic as an art, Mr. Macleane’s book will
be useful for reference even if it is too long and discursive for the
classroom. In his discussion of extra-logical subjects, he is not
always convincing.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.

“There can be no question of its learning and ability. Formal logic is
apt to be heavy reading to the average mind, and the lavish
introduction of this relieving element of bright and amusing
illustration is a real gain in the lengthy and solid volume before
us.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 518. O. 26, ’07. 1370w.

=Macleod, Mary.= A book of ballad stories. $1.50. Stokes.

7–35074.

Many old friends will be found in new prose dress. Patient Griselda,
The beggar’s daughter of Bethnal Green, Thomas the rhymer, The Robin
Hood cycle, King Cophetua and the beggar maid, The friar of orders
gray, and two score more.

* * * * *

“Much of the charm of the originals is unavoidably sacrificed in the
change of form.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 53. F. ’07.

“Prof. Edward Dowden has written an excellent historical introduction.
[She turns] the swinging rhythm into something else without weighing
carefully the taste for poetry which young people largely possess.”

− + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

=McMahan, Mrs. Anna B.= Shakespeare’s Christmas gift to Queen Bess. **$1. McClurg.

7–33927.

A story woven around the first presentation of “A midsummer night’s
dream” at the court of Queen Elizabeth.

* * * * *

“A whimsical bibelot, which may be counted upon to please fastidious
readers both in substance and mechanical features.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 160w.

=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.

6–34853.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“In one sense the compiler is certainly a follower of Byron—in the
carelessness of her style. The information which she imparts could be
read just as easily in almost any literary history. The selections
from the letters and poems are aggravatingly cut about by lacunæ and
curtailments.”

− =Acad.= 72: 92. Ja. 26, ’07. 650w.

“Is a pleasant, if not quite equal companion to the admirable ‘With
Shelley in Italy,’ which appeared last year. The new book has a little
the air of having been made as an afterthought, or to order, because
of the merited success of the earlier.” Harriet Waters Preston.

+ − =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 500w.

“It does not throw any new light on Byron or help us to more
understanding or enjoyment of his poems.”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 120w.

=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Wordsworth in England. **$1.40. McClurg.

7–31456.

A selection of the poems and letters of William Wordsworth which have
to do with English scenery and English life. An author’s viewpoint and
the world he looks upon are no where better commanded than from the
subjective realm of his own poetry, for that reason this volume of
Wordsworth’s verse is offered as “a guide to some of his well-beloved
haunts.”

* * * * *

“Mrs. McMahan has already proved herself ... a singularly inspiring
guide to intimate acquaintance with recondite poetic treasure.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.

=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 80w.

“The volume is thus an excellent supplement to Mr. Rannie’s (which is
illustrated less freely), although her own introductions and comments
are of no special value.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 80w.

Reviewed by Bliss Carman.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 1280w.

=McMaster, John Bach.= History of the people of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The volume before us presents a coherent, comprehensive, and
illuminating narrative. It is not a series of monographs, but gives
the impression of the progressive development of national powers in
relation to one another. A few typographical errors have been noted.”
C. H. Levermore.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 899. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 6.)

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07. S. (Review of v. 6.)

Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.

+ + − =Dial.= 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 6.)

“This big book, which may well be called a life-work, is a mine of
information. All the severest demands of the new school as to
scholarship and industry are fully met, and there is in it a wholesome
human sympathy.” John Spencer Bassett.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 251. My. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 6.)

=McNaugher, John=, ed. Psalms in worship; a series of convention papers bearing upon the place of the Psalms in the worship of the church. *$1. Un. Presb.

7–18116.

These papers were presented at two Presbyterian conventions called to
promote the claims of the Psalms in the field of worship and they are
now published in the hope that they may influence the Christian church
at large to “restore the Psalms to their true place in the hearts and
on the lips of Christian believers.” The volume contains “a
comprehensive statement of the reasons for the exclusive use in
worship of the Bible Psalms. Definitely argumentative discussions of a
doctrinal and critical kind are in the forefront. Others of broader
type succeed.”

=Macnaughtan, S.= Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50 Dodd.

6–6931.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The whole is like a bit of ‘Cranford’ with a few more masculine
complications.” Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 190w.

=McPherson, Logan Grant.= Working of the railroads. **$1.50. Holt.

6–43941.

“The author does not so much analyze the technical work of the
individual railroad departments as the general principles which they
pursue in their work.... The separate chapters deal with construction
and operation, traffic, accounting and statistics, financial and
executive administration, correlation and integration of the railroads
and with their relations to the public and the state.” (Ann. Am.
Acad.) “It would pay the railroads to buy a million copies of this
book and place it in the hands of the public for educational
purposes.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.

“The general and elementary principles of railroad transportation are
explained in an interesting way.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 416. Mr. ’07. 210w.

“In a most scientific and careful manner it presents the various
functions of railroading.” John J. Halsey.

+ =Dial.= 42: 282. My. 1. ’07. 1170w.

“The value of the book lies in the fact that it is a clear and concise
exposition of its subject, written by one who is both a practical
railroad man and a trained economist.”

− + =Ind.= 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 390w.

“While the attitude of Mr. McPherson is naturally favorable to the
railroad, he is very fair in his treatment of mooted questions.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 130w.

“To the subject of actual government control and regulation, and to
the arguments that support this agitation, Mr. McPherson has given a
careful and impartial study.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w.

“A modest attempt, distinctly successful within its limits, to explain
the operation of an American railway.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.

=Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 470w.

“This little volume provides material for instruction in railroad
economics, much needed, but difficult of attainment by most teachers.”

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 559. S. ’07. 120w.

“For those who wish to get a good general outline of the railroad
situation in this country without going much into details, Mr.
McPherson’s book can be heartily recommended, and not the least
important part of it is the list of references with which the book
concludes.” Ray Morris.

+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 326. N. ’07. 1280w.

=Macray, Rev. William Dunn.= Register of the members of St. Mary Magdalen college. Oxford, from the foundation of the college, v. 5. *$2.50. Oxford.

=v. 5.= “The present volume consists of two portions. In the first we
have extracts from the registers and accounts, in the second
biographical notices of fellows and demies,—every one may not know
that ‘Demy’ is the Magdalen name for a scholar.... There is a quite
indescribable medley of facts in the extracts. All of them will have
an interest for members of the college, and many have a general
significance.”—Spec.

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1907. 1: 44. Ja. 12. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)

=Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)

“The extracts in the volume have been carefully compiled.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 5.)

+ =Spec.= 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)

=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Famous painters of America. **$2.50. Crowell.

7–30413.

This book does not discuss art, altho it deals with artists. The
personal and picturesque side of men known to the casual reader is
presented here with much amusing anecdote and comment. The lives of
Benjamin West, Copley, Stuart, Inness, Vedder, Homer, La Farge,
Whistler, Sargent, Abbey and Chase are given and there are three dozen
handsome full page illustrations from photographs of the artists and
their works.

* * * * *

“The book is not well written, is florid in style, but contains
material on some of the later artists of which little is to be found
elsewhere except in magazine files or expensive works.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 195. N. ’07.

“It ought to appeal to the holiday buyer who is interested in art from
the outside.”

+ =Cath. World.= 86: 404. D. ’07. 190w.

“While its point of view is popular there is nothing superficial about
its method.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 200w.

“The author has done what he has tried to do, which is more than can
be said about every writer.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 240w.

“The general reader might find some mild entertainment in it—it makes
no pretense to give any information about art.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 50w.

+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w.

Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.

=Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 30w.

“It is anecdotal in the extreme.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 50w.

=McTaggart, John Ellis.= Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.

7–7484.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Dr. McTaggart is a master of clear definition and concise
ratiocination. Indeed, his clearness and conciseness are of such
exquisite quality that almost of themselves they afford the impression
of wit.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 320. Mr. 17. 1240w.

=Cath. World.= 84: 563. Ja. ’07. 200w.

“This arbitrary method of criticism seems to us to vitiate a good deal
of the book. It is undeniably clever, and very many good things are
said; and it fully sustains Dr. McTaggart’s reputation as a clear
thinker and a lucid writer; but much of it is likely to produce
irritation rather than reflection.” David Phillips.

+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 383. Ap. ’07. 2260w.

“This very curious volume has interest as disclosing a personality and
as illustrating a phase of thought. It is written in a simple almost
childlike style, without the slightest pretence. The author does not
seem to be aware of the conflict and incompatibility of the various
elements in his mind.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 591. My. 12, ’06. 1240w.

=MacWhirter, John.= MacWhirter sketch book; being reproductions of a selection of sketches in color and pencil from the sketch book of John MacWhirter, designed to assist the student of landscape painting in water color. $1.50. Cassell.

“Wonderfully exact reproductions of sketches in color and pencil by a
famous Scotch water colorist, designed to assist the student. There
are no fewer than twenty-four full-page reproductions of water color
studies, the landscape being generally either Scotch or Swiss or
Italian.... There is an introduction by Edwin Bale, and some
interesting notes by the artist are also included.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The pencil sketches, even the slightest of them, will be found of
value by the student.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 304. My. 11. ’07. 130w.

“In spite of this flavour of a bygone time, there are one or two
sketches which have in them that freshness and charm which are so
often worried out of finished exhibition pictures.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.

=Macy, Arthur.= Poems. *$2.25. Clarke, W. B.

5–36098.

“A memorial volume of an unusually pleasant quality.... Mr. Macy was
essentially the poet of good-fellowship. If such an impulse does not
produce, in his own phrase, ‘Poetry with a big P,’ yet ... it does
possess a very comfortable and lasting appeal.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“It is informed with a genuine warmth of sentiment, a Thackerayan
humor, and a mellow morality, and is expressed with a clean music of
phrase.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w.

“Mr. Macy showed a felicity in the choice of words and an almost
unerring ear for perfection of rhyme, combined with an unusual
exactness in the use of difficult meter.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 230w.

=Madden, John.= Forest friends: the woodland adventures of a boy pioneer. †$1.25. McClurg.

7–12644.

It is of a little lad of seven with a passionate, enduring love of the
forest and its wild inhabitants that Mr. Madden writes. The
experiences that result from a child’s quick fascination of things of
the woods are told reflectively out of the fulness of the man’s
memory.

* * * * *

“A good example of the static drama. It fills a real need in supplying
a record of the animal life of regions near at hand in the early days
of man’s occupation.” May Estelle Cook.

+ =Dial.= 42: 369. Je. 16, ’07. 630w.

“Will be read with profit by many other men’s sons.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.

“Although no new facts are added to our store of knowledge, it is a
relief to read a book treating of just ordinary creatures with
ordinary habits.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.

“Not necessarily for the boy, but quite as attractive to the boy’s
father.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.

=Madison, James.= Writings; comprising his public papers and private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed: ed. by Gaillard Hunt. *$5. Putnam.

=v. 6.= “This volume covers the years 1790 to 1802. There is little
that is new.... About half of it consists of Madison’s speeches in the
First Congress, ... his various contributions to Freneau’s ‘National
gazette,’ ‘Helvidius,’ his speech on the Jay treaty, and his Virginian
report of 1799–1800. The rest is correspondence, embracing a dozen or
so of family letters.... There are also a few new letters, and from
Madison’s assumption of the secretaryship of state in May, 1801, an
important series of instructions to the American representatives in
England, France, and Spain. The footnotes, though not numerous, are
almost uniformly good.” (Am. Hist. R.)

* * * * *

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 697. Ap. ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 6.)

“The printing of so many speeches is of doubtful utility, as the
reporting of that day was notoriously defective, and these summaries
can only be comprehended from their context in the ‘Annals.’ The space
thus occupied could have been better employed by including more of the
correspondence, and especially the letters to Jefferson. The notes of
the editor are judicious and accurate.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 6.)

=Madison, Lucy (Foster) (Mrs. Winfield Scott Madison).= Maid of Salem towne. †$1.25. Penn.

6–11309.

Into this story of the charming little maid who came so near being
hanged for a witch, and who was rescued in dramatic fashion by her
friends at a critical moment, are woven sketches of the good old
colony folk including Cotton Mather himself. The whole forms a vivid
picture of life in a time more picturesque than comfortable.

* * * * *

“Most happily told.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 880. D. 15, ’06. 150w.

Madonna of the poets; an anthology of only the best poems written about the Blessed Virgin. *85c. Benziger.

“An anthology covering a long period of literature. Many of the
verses ... are far from being widely known to-day. Robert Grosseteste,
William Forest, Richard Rowlands, Ben Jonson, Sir John Beaumont,
George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, represent the
inspiration of the Madonna in English life, from the middle ages till
long after England had ceased to be Catholic. Among the modern
contributors are Wordsworth, Newman, Hawker, Aubrey de Vere, Coventry
Patmore, George Macdonald, Father Tabb, Alice Meynell, Louise Imogen
Guiney, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling.” (Cath.
World.)

* * * * *

“A very curious mingling of pieces.”

+ − =Acad.= 70: 374. Ap. 21, ’06. 1340w.

=Cath. World.= 84: 558. Ja. ’07. 230w.

=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Measure of the hours; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Dodd.

7–15583.

Some new essays and others lately appearing in magazines are included
among the twelve of this group. The collection “is somewhat
heterogeneous, and ranges over questions of morality, social duty,
literary appreciation, scenery and popular science.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“A book of fragments, not all of equal value.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 1150w.

“All of them are admirably translated, so far as one may judge without
comparing the French, by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of
them offer something novel and worthy of more than a moment’s
pondering.”

+ − =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.

“The main interest of nearly all these essays is essentially that of
the earlier volumes; the aim is still to combat insensibility to the
possibilities of unguessed mysteries in what lies around us.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 546. Je. 13, ’07. 870w.

+ =Nature.= 76: 198. Je. 27, ’07. 120w.

“Maeterlinck can weave mysticism, educe a moral, out of whatever comes
to his hand. The merit of his style, of its pellucid originality, is
the metaphor and that metaphor generally a single type,
personification. It is no willful trick of style, no imposed
elaborateness of location. It is the simple expression of his vision.”
Florence Wilkinson.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 662. O. 19, ’07. 1570w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 100w.

=Maffitt, Emma Martin.= Life and services of John Newland Maffitt; il. $3. Neale.

7–429.

A sympathetic sketch of Captain John Newland Maffitt, seaman,
surveyor, commander, author and patriot.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 90w.

=Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14. 130w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 80w.

* Magda, queen of Sheba; tr. into French from the original Ghese, by Hugues Le Roux, and from the French into English by Mrs. John Van Vorst; with an introd. by Hugues Le Roux. **$1.20. Funk.

The alleged romance of the historic Queen of Sheba translated from
“The glory of the kings,” an ancient royal Abyssinian manuscript.

* * * * *

=Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 80w.

“Textually it is a remarkable book—curiously compounded of stately
phrases imitated from the authorized version and other phrases
singularly bald, modern, and pedestrian.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 695. N. 2, ’07. 1680w.

“The volume, which is half story, half study, has an undoubted
literary charm as well as historic value.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 80w.

=Magill, Edward Hicks.= Sixty-five years in the life of a teacher. **$1.50. Houghton.

7–9847.

“Dr. Magill’s career as a teacher began when he was sixteen. He is now
over eighty, so that his career as an educator literally spans the
whole history of the development of American education.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its
simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal,
and professional.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.

=Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 80w.

“Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting
chapters of American educational history.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.

“Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the
charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious
wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 810w.

“To those interested in educational matters his book would have been
of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the
personal note.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 390w.

“It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are
never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 104. O. ’07. 480w.

=Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.= Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.

6–35732.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“If it had been handled with considerably more restraint, and if the
characters concerned had been a little more like ordinary human beings
and not quite such impossible combinations of superlative virtue and
cleverness, vindictiveness and villainy, it might easily have made a
better book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

− + =Bookm.= 24: 591. F. ’07. 340w.

“Is the strongest novel yet written by Sir William Magnay.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 180w.

=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.

6–20870.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“After all, it is the only book of its kind. Nowhere else can one get
a connected survey of what the Greeks were doing and thinking and
saying under the dominance of that empire whose social life has been
depicted in such a scholarly and yet fascinating manner by Professor
Dill.” B. Perrin.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 580w.

“It is much to be regretted that a scholar of distinction should have
published a work which everywhere exhibits the wide range of his
learning, but which seems to bear clear signs of hasty compilation and
an imperfect appreciation of what readers may justly look for in a
costly and, it might have been presumed, authoritative work.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 116. Ja. 26, ’07. 750w.

=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= From sail to steam: recollections of naval life. **$2.25. Harper.

7–32861.

This narrative of naval affairs, much of it in the form of personal
reminiscences, tells of the change from sail to steam power, and so
becomes a history of the old navy and the new. It is an authoritative
account and although intimate, none the less permits of impersonal
conclusions and generalizations.

* * * * *

“A very attractive book, which albeit devoid of much striking incident
or much stirring adventure, is full of Captain Mahan himself.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 1870w.

“A capital book, this, to take up of a winter’s evening, when the day
has been long and trying.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 210w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 100w.

“The author has, indeed, ‘let himself go,’ which must have been a very
pleasant change from his usual austerity of construction and argument,
and the reader shares the delights of the escapade. The mixture of
autobiography, anecdote and essay is only less casual than the
autobiography Mark Twain is publishing.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 614. O. 26, ’07. 7800w.

* =Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Some neglected aspects of war; together with The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.

“A group of articles demonstrating the necessary and righteous part
played in modern civilization by war, broadly considered, and the
impossibility of replacing it shortly by any other agency, the
conditions of the world remaining as they now are.”

=Maine, Sir Henry James.= Ancient law with introduction and notes by Sir Frederick Pollock. **$1.75. Holt.

7–26409.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 221. Ja. ’07. 360w.

+ + =Nation.= 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 480w.

=Maitland, Frederic William.= Life and letters of Leslie Stephen. *$4.50. Putnam.

7–15902.

The biographer holds the reader’s attention close to the moral and
intellectual qualities “which gradually made Leslie Stephen the first
among English critics and thinkers and one of the most influential
among English moralists.” (Nation.) “Quite apart from the admirable
literary form of the record, Professor Maitland has presented us with
the portrait of an intensely human character, who took life, sunshine
and thunder alike, with a free forehead and a free heart.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“Will amply repay reading.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 463. N. 10, ’06. 1620w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 684. D. 1. 1830w.

“The biography now published should be the most welcome of books to
all whose interests are engaged in the highest ideals of thought and
conduct.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 102. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.

“It may be doubted if the present year will bring us from England a
biographical work surpassing this in real literary distinction and
literary value.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 440w.

“Mr. Maitland has done as well for Leslie Stephen as Leslie Stephen
did for Fitzjames, and the only possible ground of complaint is that
he has not given us quite enough of himself.” Sir Frederick Pollock.

+ + + =Living Age.= 252: 153. Ja. 19, ’07. 2990w. (Reprinted from
Independent Review.)

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 384. D. 16, ’06. 2290w.

“He has composed a biography which thrills in every line with
affection and admiration for his hero, but never lies.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 12. Ja. 3, ’07. 2410w.

“Part of its charm is the unconscious subsidiary portrait that the
biographer has done of himself.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 1520w.

Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.

+ + =No. Am.= 184: 195. Ja. 18, ’07. 1680w.

“For American readers the book would have been better had the author,
or editor—for he is more editor than author—given a little more
historical background. Historically the letters need some
interpretation.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 759. Mr. 30, ’07. 1720w.

“It has not a trace of the cant of conventional biography. He has the
double advantage of having known Stephen intimately and of having
deserved to know him.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 633. F. ’07. 1000w.

“Professor Maitland’s book is neither a criticism, nor an
appreciation, nor a panegyric; it is a living and breathing portrait
of a modest, strong, active-minded, melancholy, tenderhearted man. The
lights are not heightened, the shadows not deepened.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 580. N. 10, ’06. 1920w.

“It would be difficult to overpraise the merits of Mr. Maitland’s
work. Written in a style which rivals Stephen’s own in nervous
strength, and excels it, perhaps, in colour and certain whimsical
humour, it presents a most living portrait of a most vital being.”

+ + + =Spec.= 97: 1047. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.

=Malet, Lucas, pseud.= See =Harrison, M. S. K.=

=Malim, Margaret F.= Old English woodcarving patterns; from oak furniture of the Jacobean period. *$4.50. Lane.

7–29184.

“A large portfolio containing reproductions of facsimile drawings from
rubbings, designed especially for teachers, students and classes.
Thirty examples are shown on twenty plates.... All the patterns given
in this portfolio have been collected from genuine pieces of old oak
furniture from various parts of the country.”—Int. Studio.

* * * * *

=Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 85. My. ’07. 510w.

“A really useful portfolio.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 130w.

* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Critical examination of socialism. **$2. Harper.

A controversial treatment of the entire subject of socialism which may
serve as a first introduction to the subject and which points out with
equal fairness the strong and weak points of the system as it exists
at the present time. The author discusses the historical beginning of
socialism, Marxian socialism, the proximate and ultimate difficulties,
individual motive and democracy, Christian socialism, the just reward
of labor, interest and abstract justice, equality of opportunity and
the social policy of the future.

* * * * *

“The book contains some crudities of plan and detail and an
inexcusable number of grammatical or typographical errors.”

− =Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 230w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

* =Malvery, Olive Christian.= Soul market. †$1.50. McClure.

The experiences and observation of Miss Malvery who impersonated
various types of slum folk for the sake of studying their lives at
close range.

* * * * *

“The cleverly delineated views from an inner standpoint are more fresh
and impressive than methodical statistics.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 133. F. 2. 210w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

=Manly, John Matthews=, comp. English poetry, 1170–1892. *$1.50. Ginn.

7–11577.

A high school and college text which includes between fifty and sixty
thousand lines of poetry from the beginning of the Middle-English
period down to the death of Tennyson. Intrinsic worth and beauty, and
special significance in the history of English literature have
determined the choice of the poems.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 400w.

=Mann, Charles Riborg, and Twiss, George Ransom.= Physics. *$1.25. Scott.

5–33989.

In Professor Mann’s thoroly modern textbook, “intended for third or
fourth year high school or freshman collegiate students ... he has
abolished such problems as ‘let the forces a, b and c meet at the
point q’ and substituted real concrete examples of the applications of
physical formulae. He has substituted photographs of modern machinery,
such as turbine engines, motors and loop-the-loop, for the antiquated
and diagrammatic illustrations of the old text-books.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Professor Mann has made a special effort to make the student realize
that physics is a practical subject and necessary to the understanding
of the operations of daily life. Some of his pictures seem unnecessary
and somewhat kindergartenish.”

+ − =Ind.= 61: 259. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w.

=Nation.= 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w.

=Mann, Horace K.= Lives of the popes in the early middle ages. v. 2 and 3: The popes during the Carolingian empire, Leo III. to Formosus, 795–891. ea. *$3. Herder.

These volumes “include a period of thirty-three years and six
pontificates,—Popes in those days very seldom even approached the
‘annos Petri.’ This was the time of the ‘false decretals,’ and Mr.
Mann is at great pains to show that the Popes with whom he is
concerned did not use the evidence which these forgeries offered to
support their claims.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“He has gone over his sources with painstaking care, and has thrown an
extensive mass of historical erudition into an easy and well-ordered
narrative. If there is anything in this volume against which one might
feel inclined to utter an adverse criticism, it is the polemical note
which strikes us as over-assertive in Father Mann’s pages.”

+ + − =Cath. World.= 84: 413. D. ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 3.)

“As Mr. Mann has given us the facts, we need not be in any way
prejudiced by his deductions. But here we think the value of the work
before us ceases. It will be known as a handy and compendious book of
reference (it would be still more handy if the index were not so
inadequate), and though we cannot deny that the author has, to some
extent, read himself into the atmosphere of the early middle ages, he
gives us little that is new or original in the encyclopaedic knowledge
which he has so diligently culled from well-known sources. To literary
style he disclaims all pretension, but by the want of it his volumes
miss the charm which might otherwise surround his subject.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 2. Ja. 4, ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

=Spec.= 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Though we differ from Mr. Mann on various points, we may sincerely
congratulate him on bringing this learned work to a successful
conclusion.”

+ + − =Spec.= 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)

Manners and social usages: revised and corrected. $1.25. Harper.

A complete revision of a standard work which offers suggestions for
proper conduct in all the ordinary walks and emergencies of life. It
is based on broad principles of good taste and consideration for
others, and on the social conditions of our country.

* * * * *

“We know of no other book that so amply meets the need.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 170w.

“The present volume is excellent of its sort, well-written, clear,
tactful. It tells the social aspirant all he needs to know.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 640w.

=Mannix, Mary Ella.= Patron saints for Catholic youth. 60c. Benziger.

=v. 3.= Includes St. Francis Xavier, St. Patrick, St. Louis, St.
Charles, St. Catharine, St. Elizabeth, St. Margaret and St. Claire.

=Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield).= Our little Dutch cousin. †60c. Page.

6–18353.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The visit of a little New York boy to his cousin in Holland is the
pretext for much interesting information that an American child would
most enjoy.”

+ =Bookm.= 24: 530. Ja. ’07. 40w.

=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Automobilist abroad; with il. and decorations by Blanche McManus. *$3. Page.

7–21289.

“Mr. Miltoun ... might have called his book ‘The automobilist’s hotel
abroad,’ for in his running commentary on the roads and routes of
Europe he lays special emphasis upon the methods of catering to
motorists, and he has no hesitancy in mentioning by name the good and
inferior inns one may meet in different towns.... The European
motorist will find considerable practical information in the closing
chapters of the book. One gives a short account of the leading
European races and winners; another tells how to join the touring club
of France, and another gives a comprehensive digest of the automobile
regulations, custom duties, and methods of securing drivers’ licenses
and registrations in different countries.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Miltoun’s enthusiasm for the motor-car, however, does not
overbalance the practical and practicable problems of touring abroad.
Every point of such a tour ... is adequately and interestingly
recounted by the author of this book.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 211. O. 1, ’07. 730w.

“His book has the distinction of being one of the first satisfactory
volumes of travel written by an automobilist.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 308. O. 3, ’07. 770w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 340w.

“While not exactly an automobilist’s vade mecum, it contains all the
essential elements of a motor guide through Europe, presented through
the medium of a personal and very practical experience.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 1020w.

=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country; il. by Blanche McManus. $3. Page.

6–29521.

Leisurely wanderings thru the Loire country have made possible in this
sketch more of atmosphere and historic setting than conventional
rambles usually permit. It is Touraine’s feudal and Renaissance
châteaux that chiefly occupy the author. Blois, with its counts who
rivalled in power and wealth the churchmen of Tours and the dukes of
Brittany, Cambord with its master-builders’ massive art, Amboise, the
rival of the capital in cradling the thought and action of fifteenth
and sixteenth century monarchs, are described, with many another
château, in the light of their monumental glory. The volume is
handsomely illustrated.

* * * * *

“It is a pity that Mr. Miltoun should continue to present his material
in so disorderly a form. His arrangement lacks both method and
sequence, and his style has a qualified and uncertain ring that is
very annoying.”

+ − =Dial.= 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

“Old Touraine ... is here vividly portrayed with brush and pen.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15. ’06. 120w.

“Thus we have in this book, a series of personal impressions unrolled
like a panorama, the course of which is stayed from time to time,
while author and artist bring up something from the past which may
pleasurably instruct without a too heavy laying on of archæology,
history or architectural technique.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 769. N. 24, ’06. 450w.

“Both in pictures and text much of interest and value is furnished.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1. ’06. 160w.

“This is a pretty and attractive but rather confusing book. Though
very pleasant reading, the book as a whole, rather lacks proportion,
repetition is not absent, and the wanderings become a little
bewildering.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 641. N. 2, ’07. 380w.

=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Rambles on the Riviera: being some account of journeys made en automobile and things seen in the fair land of Provence; il. by Blanche McManus. $2.50. Page.

6–29989.

Not a book of historical or archaeological importance, not a
conventional book of travel or a “glorified guide book,” but a record
of personal observations on the picturesque, romantic and
topographical aspects of the French Riviera proper.

* * * * *

Reviewed by William Rice.

=Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 572. S. 15, ’06. 580w.

=Mantle, Beatrice.= Gret: the story of a pagan. †$1.50. Century.

7–29091.

An Oregon lumber camp furnishes the setting of this story whose young
heroine is more the daughter of the camp than of her selfish father
who spends his wealth in the cities and returns home now and then to
nag and to criticise the unrestrained manner in which his wife is
bringing Gret up. The wild free life of the camp, Gret’s unthinking
joy in its content suffer never an interruption until love comes when
she is changed into a thoughtful woman.

* * * * *

“A sterling book unmarred by convention.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 270. N. ’07. 580w.

“With so much of the smart and the tailormade in our fiction, it is a
pleasure to come now and then upon a novel which holds one such human
breathing creature as Gret.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 590w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“But vivid as Gret’s personality is made and absorbing as is the story
of her triumphs, there is never a moment when either gets out of the
realm of romance into commonplace reality.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 300w.

“Altogether the story has a refreshing novelty, and is well worth
reading.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 180w.

* =Marble, Annie Russell.= Heralds of American literature: a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

The aim of this book is to recount in detailed study, and largely from
original sources, the lives and services of a group of typical writers
during the pioneer days of national growth, who revealed the standards
and aspirations of their time, and who announced the dawn of a
national literature, although their own products were often immature
and crude. The group includes Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Philip
Freneau, John Trumbull, a group of Hartford wits, Joseph Dennie,
William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown.

=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= By wit of woman. †$1.50. Stokes.

6–16736.

“Given the ingredients of the girl, the prince, the
kingdom-in-the-mountains, garnished with palaces, gold-laced
officials, and highly spiced with an unprincipled lady spy, one can
stir together a romantic pudding that is sure to appeal to the average
appetite.... The author ... has sought to do nothing more than to turn
out precisely such a readable yarn.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“A novel devoid of evidence of artistic ambition.”

− =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 150w.

“Obviously one need claim nothing strikingly new for the book.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 250w.

=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= In the cause of freedom; with a front. in colors by Archie Gunn. †$1.50. Stokes.

7–16375.

“A travelling Englishman comes upon a Polish maiden, in the company of
a notorious conspirator, both pursued by the police, in a village of
Russian Poland. The conspirator is dispatched early in the game, and
the maiden is left on the Englishman’s hands. Being highspirited and
impressionable, the Englishman is nothing loth to accept the charge,
and the pair lead the police a merry chase all the way to Warsaw,
where the action culminates in street riots and other forms of
excitement.”—Dial.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

=Dial.= 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 110w.

“The pages fairly sizzle with excitement from beginning to end.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.

“If our credulity had not been strengthened by much similar strong
food, it would be overtaxed to learn of the succession of hairbreadth
escapes and gallant rescues credited to Robert Anstruther, the hero.
But, if we must read these romances, it is less fatiguing to believe
than to question.”

− =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.

=Marden, Orison Swett.= Optimistic life; or, In the cheering-up business. **$1.25. Crowell.

7–27001.

Thirty-eight chapters of optimistic wisdom which constitute what might
be termed the “scriptures of the toilers.” The keynote is the higher
success, and Mr. Marden points out how and when it may be discovered
in all phases of business. He discusses such subjects as business
integrity, the need of proper vocations, leaving one’s troubles at the
office, the difference between work and drudgery, the cost of an
explosive temper, and the habit of not feeling well.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 180w.

* =Marden, Philip Sanford.= Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3. Houghton.

7–36985.

A book of travel and description which will serve as a guide to many
who have the Grecian archipelago in view and as a book of reminiscence
to all who have taken the journey. Entering Greece by “the front door
of the kingdom”—by way of the Piræus—the tour includes Athens, Delphi,
Mycenæ, Nauplia, Epidaurus, Olympia, and among the islands, Delos,
Samos, Cos, Cnidos, Rhodes, and others. The book is handsomely
illustrated.

=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.= Richard III, his life and character reviewed in the light of recent research; with a portrait and a map. *$3.50. Dutton.

7–10996.

In which the character of Richard III is rehabilitated, and this last
of the Plantagenets is made to appear as “a good son, a devoted
husband, and a loving father;” in which it is affirmed “that he
cherished his relatives, was a kind and trusty friend, and an
honorable and magnanimous foe.” (N. Y. Times.) The defense goes to
prove that the two sons of Edward IV. did not die in the reign of
Richard III. but survived until after the accession of Henry VII.

* * * * *

“He seems to imagine that to repeat a statement over and over again
makes it true, and that citations from earlier writers take the place
of original documents.”

− =Acad.= 72: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 1220w.

“The reasoning that Sir Clements Markham uses is very ingenious but
hardly convincing, and he does not improve his case by attempting in
his closing chapter to show that Mr. Gairdner is inconsistent in his
portrayal of Richard.” N. M. Trenholme.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 134. O. ’07. 870w.

“His book is ingenious, bright and readable; he marshals his arguments
cunningly, and he scores some good points. But it is not too much to
say that he approaches the whole subject in the spirit of an advocate,
and consequently his essay can hardly be considered a serious addition
to historical literature.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 220. F. 23. 750w.

“Had Sir Clements been content to show that the allegations of Tudor
historians were in some matters unfounded, we might have been more
ready to accept a verdict of not proven on the serious charges; more
than this he has not after all been able at the best to establish.” C.
L. Kingsford.

− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 579. Jl. ’07. 1190w.

“Shakespeare students as well as those interested in English history
cannot afford to neglect the volume. It is based upon critical
research, and makes out a strong case against Henry.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 380w.

“He has shown us how very uncertain any verdict must be, and he has
done good service in sweeping away many of the myths with which Tudor
prejudice and falsehood have obscured the reign of Richard III.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1570w.

“If he could have imposed upon himself something of the cynical temper
and cool judgment with which Horace Walpole, first of Richard’s
defenders, wrote his ‘Historic doubts,’ his book would have been
doubled in value to the general reader.” Florence Finch Kelley.

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 226. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w.

=Outlook.= 87: 350. O. 19, ’07. 3900w.

“Sometimes the chain of argument is really pitiable. That most
fallacious method of writing history is adopted, that of treating
official versions and transparent pretexts as actual facts.”

− − =Sat. R.= 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 840w.

“Though we judge him to have failed in his main contention, the author
has painted a vivid picture of the epoch between the battles of
Northampton and Bosworth; he has bestowed the skill of a trained
geographer in elucidating the topography of Towton, and Wakefield, and
Barnet; and he was swept into limbo a mass of crude absurdity.”

− + =Spec.= 97: 175. F. 2, ’07. 1720w.

=Marks, Edward C. R.= Mechanical engineering materials: their properties and treatment in construction. 60c. Van Nostrand.

“A very useful little volume of information on methods of manufacture,
properties and tests of steel, iron, copper and the various copper,
manganese, tin and aluminum alloys used, for the most part, in
machinery.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The one criticism of this book is that the author has selected a too
pretentious title.”

+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 60w.

* =Marks, Mrs. Mary A. M.= England and America. 1763–1783. 2v. *$6. Appleton.

7–34222.

Something of the spirited attitude which Mrs. Marks assumes toward her
work is summed up in the statement that her book is the Tory reaction
against the monopoly of office by the Whigs and the consequences of
that reaction, the loss of American colonies and an addition of
£129,000,000 to the national debt. “The years covered by this history
are those in which the final effect of the causes of the American
movement toward independence are studied, as well as the conduct of
England brought to face the new situation. A characteristic of the
book, its determining characteristic, is that it keeps to the point of
view of the time and the point of view of the English.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“To students of history this book should be invaluable; it puts things
in a clear, simple light, and is the work of one who has made careful
research into the records of the period.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 675. Jl. 13, ’07. 420w.

“A spirited piece of work, to which much conscientious search has been
devoted and which displays sobriety of judgment in dealing with the
motives of individuals placed in desperate circumstances. Though Miss
Marks as a rule writes clearly, if rather colloquially, she is guilty
of an obscure allusion or two.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 209. Ag. 24. 680w.

“She has produced a book which is very readable and interesting in
spite of obvious faults. The style, which is equally free from the
dignity which was formerly and the dullness which is now thought
appropriate to history, is too often careless and even slipshod. The
arrangement is not happy. There is a disregard of proportion and not
seldom a superfluity of unimportant detail. It is the most serious
defect of the book that the author writes throughout as a partisan.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 265. S. 6, ’07. 1800w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. ’07. 240w.