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“It is apparent that this work violates the most fundamental
requirements of modern scholarship. Nor is it in minor points more
satisfactory. Gross blunders, glaring inconsistencies and
ill-considered conclusions abound. While the narrative is lively, its
style is more undignified than that usually countenanced by the Muse
of history.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 1000w.

“Thoroughness, fullness, and fairness are the distinctive
characteristics [of the book] which into the bargain is written with a
keen sense of the dramatic value of the great events of twenty years
whose history she narrates.”

+ + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 350w.

“Miss Marks has studied the period thoroughly, and her work can hardly
fail to take a permanent place among the authorities on the subject.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 330w.

=Marriott, John A. R.= Life and times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland. *$2.25. Putnam.

7–25683.

“Mr. Marriott has not only written a life of the young statesman whose
career and character inspired one of Matthew Arnold’s most brilliant
essays, but he has also given us a masterly treatise upon one of the
most absorbingly interesting periods of English history,” (N. Y.
Times) viz., “the times of Laud and of Strafford, of vexed issues in
church and state, of the petition of rights and the grand
remonstrance.... Among the most charming of his chapters are those
describing Falkland’s existence before the revolution, in his
well-loved home at Great Tew.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Marriott has done a real service in conveying to us in a volume
of absorbing human interest so much of the vital charm and personality
of the man. He has managed in masterly fashion to disentangle the real
points at issue. He has given us an estimate of Falkland’s character
that bears the impress of truth.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 383. Ap. 20, ’07. 1470w.

“In the industrious and sympathetic analysis of Falkland himself, of
his character and the part he played, Mr. Marriott’s work appears to
us to suffer from the fact that he sets out with a strong
preconception, a preconception founded, no doubt, upon close and
loving study before he began his book.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 61. Jl. 20. 2060w.

“This is a delightful book, on a delightful subject. Mr. Marriott is a
historian of the new school in so far as he is a student and scholar;
but, unlike many of his contemporaries, not so far as to be a
scientific pedant. He never forgets the importance of the personal
element, and is a painter no less than a critic.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 153. My. 17, 07. 2300w.

“The facts are well presented, the characters clearly drawn, but the
transmuting skill is not present that would make literature of one of
the richest themes in English history.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 1100w.

“May well be deemed a representative type of the highest literary
scholarship of our time.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 500w.

“There is thus ample reason for the biography now written by Mr. J. A.
R. Marriott. It is not a book of inspiring interest.” H. Addington
Bruce.

+ =Outlook.= 87: 783. D. 7, ’07. 3250w.

“We have no fault to find with Mr. Marriott’s graceful biography of
one of the most interesting figures in a fascinating age except the
air of confessorship and greatness eclipsed by a conspiracy of
detraction which he throws around the ‘apostle of moderation and
martyr of the via media.’”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 751. Je. 15, ’07. 1290w.

“In pleading the claims of Falkland to consistency and foresight he
has produced a sober and well-balanced study of those times, so sorely
out of joint, against which his hero was doomed to struggle in vain.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 2550w.

=Marsh, Harriet B.= Point of view in modern education. 60c. Public school.

“Consists of a collection of lectures delivered before Mothers clubs.
It is an attempt to state in simple concrete terms the changes in
ideas in education brought about by fundamental, philosophical,
scientific, social and religious thought.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“Despite the naïve manner in which most complex problems of science,
of ethics, or of social, practical or economic relationships are
settled, the lectures are at least suggestive and give a point of view
of education differing from the formal and mechanical one.”

+ − =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w.

“There is much sound advice and instruction in these pages, which will
repay the study of a teacher.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 823. Mr. ’07. 360w.

=Marsh, Richard.= Who killed Lady Poynder? †$1.50. Appleton.

7–26342.

“‘Who killed Lady Poynder?’ is a story of nearly 130,000 words,
constructed on the principle which has produced so many rattling
stories in the past, that of supplying really damning evidence against
every person, male or female, who has any connection with the plot at
all. Lady Poynder was shot in her own house in London. The author’s
ingenuity is expended in showing how many persons had or might have
had the opportunity and motive for the murder.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Granting one tremendous coincidence—a coincidence of coincidences, in
fact—the reasoning is plausible and the tale entertaining enough. But
in respect to method it is a horrible example of the effect of trying
to put a novel of mystery and a novel of manners between the same
covers.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 280w.

“A promising situation, surely, for a vigorous minded novelist, and
Mr. Richard Marsh is quite equal to it in the remainder of the book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 633. O. 19, ’07. 140w.

=Marshall, H. E.= Island story: a child’s history of England; with col. pictures by A. S. Forrest. *$2.50. Stokes.

7–35150.

A child’s history of England to be placed not at the lesson-book end
of the shelf, but with “Robinson Crusoe” and the like,—so the preface
suggests.

* * * * *

“The especial value of this book is that the stories include legendary
as well as historical events. Well written, though with no particular
quality of style; beautifully made as to paper and print, but
illustrated by poor colored pictures.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.

“It is not a history, if by that we mean facts and dates alone, but if
we want motives as well, and the personality of the chief actors, then
this thick ornamental book accomplishes its aim admirably.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.

“It is eminently readable, a success, we would say, in what looks much
easier than it is, telling a story in simple words.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 80w.

* =Marshall, Herbert Menzies, and Marshall, Hester.= Cathedral cities of France. *$3.50. Dodd.

7–32829.

A finely illustrated book of French cathedral cities which serves to
enlighten the stay-at-home tourist and to refresh the memory of one
who has covered the ground.

* * * * *

“Is one of the best of its class. [The authors’] very lack of
familiarity with the country might make their original notes of travel
the more valuable, as they are evidently intelligent as well as
artistic observers.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 580w.

“The author seems oppressed by the weight of her authorities.”

+ − =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 1, ’07. 140w.

“Her knowledge of architecture is singularly accurate and
discriminating.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.

“The writing is simple and dignified; the pictures are in some cases
clear and attractive, but in others show that blotchy, messy surface
which is still the bane of most color printing.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 80w.

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

“The pictures have a charm of their own, even to those who are
familiar with the most famous of the buildings with which they deal in
so original and unconventional a way.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 330w.

“The authors of this book have been more successful than many of their
predecessors. They have lingered in the localities and have fortified
their observation, by some study of what others have written.
Unfortunately, though they always indicate quotations, they by no
means always mention whence they came. We regret that Mr. Marshall’s
great skill as a draughtsman is often neutralized by the failure of
the medium he has chosen to convey what he was clever enough to
perceive.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 230w.

=Marshall, John.= Constitutional decisions; ed. by Joseph P. Cotton, jr. 2 v. ea. *$5. Putnam.

5–39509.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A compilation of the constitutional decisions of Marshall is well
worth the making. It seems captious to mention two typographical
errors—in volume one, page 255, where, ‘1858’ is printed for ‘1758,’
and in volume two, page 1, where ‘1875’ appears instead of ‘1775.’”
Frederick C. Hicks.

+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 475. N. ’06. 990w.

=Marston, Edward.= Fishing for pleasure and catching it, and two chapters on angling in North Wales, by R. B. Marston. *$1.25. Scribner.

6–34385.

“The book is quite varied in its contents, turning aside from the
author’s own angling experiences to extracts from the nature books of
William J. Long, paraphrases of portions of ‘The song of Hiawatha,’
and other not very intimately related subjects.”—Nation.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 40: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 120w.

“Readers who know how pleasantly Mr. E. Marston can write need not
have his new volume any further recommended.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 546. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.

=Marti, Karl.= Religion of the Old Testament: its place among the religions of the nearer East. (Crown theological lib., no. 18.) *$1.25. Putnam.

7–37540.

“A sketch giving a bird’s-eye view of the development of Israel’s
religion in its relation to other religions of western Asia. The point
of view is that of the historical school of which Marti is a leading
representative.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“An interesting and suggestive sketch.”

+ =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.

“The novice will scarcely appreciate the skill with which Professor
Marti has selected salient facts and the features which need to be
kept prominent, and avoided confusing the learner by a mass of
details.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 330w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.

“It is a pity that so good a book should be published without an
index.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 140w.

“It is a valuable contribution to a great theme by one who has devoted
his life to its study. Not only the general reader, for whom it is
especially intended, but the theologian will learn not a little from
its pages.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: 127. Jl. 27, ’07. 1390w.

=Martin, Benjamin E., and Martin, Charlotte M.= Stones of Paris in history and letters. $2. Scribner.

6–35587.

A new edition of a book which traces the history and letters of Paris
thru its structures. There are numerous illustrations from
photographs.

* * * * *

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 251. Mr. 2. 530w.

“An entirely admirable book.” Harriet Waters Preston.

+ =Atlan.= 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 710w.

“The streets of Paris have also been carefully scanned and a most
entertaining story has been created out of the assembled material and
has been skillfully synthesized.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 110w.

“In all essential respects the work holds its own.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 90w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 682. N. 17, ’06. 20w.

“We have a good deal more of the real social and political history of
the French capital than is found in many a more pretentious historical
work.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w.

“The charm of these records is unquestionable, and for this reason, as
we have said before, the faults in their construction may be
overlooked.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 201. Ag. 10, ’07. 1390w.

=Martin, George Madden.= Abbie Ann. †$1.50. Century.

7–29096.

Abby Ann, Emmy Lou’s successor, is a little Coal City inhabitant, who
with only a father’s care has not made much headway towards the
graces. She is a spirited little miss who is finally sent away to
school, to the school that had once claimed her mother as a pupil.
Children will take keen delight in the part Abbie Ann plays in
bringing about a reconciliation between her father and two very
austere aunts.

* * * * *

“The story is told with much of the sympathy and humor that
characterizes ‘Emmy Lou’ by the same author, but the incidents of this
book will appeal more to a child than those of its charming
predecessor.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07. ✠

“‘Abbie Ann’ skips into our affections as gaily as she skipt along the
railroad station at the opening of another bright story by the author
of ‘Emmy Lou.’”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 260w.

“The little girl is sure to be warmly welcomed by other little girls
outside the story books.”

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

+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 60w.

“Not only shows that she understands her art thoroughly, but, like
Mrs. Burnett, she lets the facts move the reader, and abjures
adjectives.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.

=Martin, Mrs. Helen Reimensnyder.= Betrothal of Elypholate, and other tales of the Pennsylvania Dutch. †$1.50 Century.

7–30437.

The sturdy qualities of Mennonite men and maidens are revealed in
their life and lovemaking with which these stories deal.

* * * * *

“Decidedly more interesting than the longer stories by the same
author.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07. ✠

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

“The contrasts that she depicts by bringing in now and then an
outsider from the city, or a son who has gone into the outside world
and won success and culture, are almost too vivid to be artistic.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 130w.

“The tales are charmingly written and disclose a phase of unusually
interesting life.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 120w.

=Martin, Helen R. (Mrs. Frederic C. Martin).= His courtship; il. by Alice Barber Stephens. †$1.50. McClure.

7–15920.

A professor of psychology rusticating among the Pennsylvania Dutch
during his vacation, becomes interested in a much persecuted slave of
the kitchen. That the girl proves to be the daughter of cultured
parents and had been kidnapped in infancy, that during her bondage she
had found solace and books in a haunted room suggest the lines along
which the professor may make some impersonal observations for the
cause of psychology but more especially for his own personal cause of
happiness.

* * * * *

“The author is certainly more successful when she confines herself to
Dutch characters, and has in this case spoiled an excellent short
story by expanding it into the more ambitious novel.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07.

“The book is a curious mingling of keen-eyed observation, great
naturalness in narrative and dialogue, and exasperating artificiality
of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 26: 80. S. ’07. 440w.

“A story marked by unusual powers of penetrating observation.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 220w.

“This is a short story which made up of its mind to grow into a novel,
and got spoiled in the process.”

− =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 300w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

“The author’s management of the dialect is commendable, for she does
not overdo the matter and put in dialect for its own sake.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.

“As long as she portrays the Mennonites, or the ordinary Dutch, she
has a field unique and worthy of her talents, but in introducing
outsiders from the gay world she strikes as ordinary a note as did the
fascinating Jubilee singers of long ago when they tried to sing our
concert pieces.”

− =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.

=Martin, Louis Adolphe.= Text-book of mechanics. *$1.25. Wiley.

6–17261.

=v. 1.= Statics. “This is the first part of a text-book designed for
an introductory course to applied mechanics, for use in colleges and
technical schools. The author has arranged the book so that statics
only is covered in this volume.”—Engin. N.

=v. 2.= Kinematics and kinetics. “Chapters are included on the
following subjects: Kinematics—Rectilinear motion of a particle;
curvilinear motion of a particle; motion of a rigid body;
Kinetics—Kinetics of a particle and of the mass-center of a rigid
body; application of the equations of motion for translation and for
rotation; work and energy; impact.” (Technical Literature.)

* * * * *

“The book is a very good one for class work in technical schools.”
Amasa Trowbridge.

+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 50. Jl. 12, ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The fundamental principles of elementary mechanics are presented in
simple manner and in logical order in this volume.”

+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07, 60w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Martin, Martha Evans.= Friendly stars. **$1.25. Harper.

7–14831.

A personal friendship with the stars which the author shares with her
readers. It is an untechnical study and points out to the naked eye
the most interesting facts about the stars. Their rising and setting,
their number, colors, distances, movements and distinguishing
characteristics are made clear to the observer who has had no
preparatory instruction.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.

“The delicate, yet sure and accurate touch of the author, and her
genuine love for the sky, combine to charm the reader, and to make him
wish to have the book within reach, in case he too is a lover of the
heavens.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w.

“The graceful introductory note of commendation from Doctor Jacoby
leaves nothing more to be said as to the scientific accuracy of the
author’s work.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 160w.

“This volume will appeal to the beginner in astronomy and to the
general reader quite as much as to the astronomer.” W. E. R.

+ =Nature.= 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 180w.

“[Told] in a plain simple way, quite free from the technical language
which baffles the unscientific mind.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 254. Ap. 20. ’07. 620w.

“A useful and even interesting study.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.

=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Mexico’s treasure-house (Guanajuato): an illustrated and descriptive account of the mines and their operations in 1906. $3. Cheltenham press.

6–40260.

“A full account, with many illustrations, of the mines of a region
which has been pronounced more ‘thoroughly mineralized’ than any equal
portion of the globe.... Perhaps the most suggestive parts of the
volume are those which tell of the new methods, mostly devised by
Americans, to draw fresh wealth from the old workings.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The story of what has been done, and the discussions of present
conditions in the Mexican labor market and in industry are the
features that render the book valuable. These subjects are treated in
an interesting manner, and so far as the reader can judge, with
impartiality and accuracy.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 641. My. ’07. 500w.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 250w.

“The description is technical and highly detailed.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 80w.

=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Through five republics (of South America); a critical description of Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela in 1905; il. *$5. Dodd.

6–18334.

The subtitle furnishes the scope of this book of which the author
says: “First, I believe it is timely, in view of the enormous advances
made by the South American republics of late years, and the amount of
British capital invested therein. Secondly, I have in my journalistic
capacity been enabled to gather much information of value, which I
have found no opportunity for utilising in the newspapers I have
represented, but which, accompanied by illustrations and somewhat
fuller descriptions, should be acceptable as a critical account of the
countries visited.”

* * * * *

“The book contains a great deal of information—though it lacks
arrangement.”

+ − =Acad.= 69: 1366. D. 30. ’05. 270w.

“A book which will be found of some value by commercial men and
possibly by politicians. In matters apart from trade and figures Mr.
Martin is hardly a safe guide. There are minor inaccuracies scattered
throughout the volume.”

+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 760. D. 2. 1300w.

“The industry with which Mr. Martin has collected his figures and
endless minutiae is commendable in spite of the rather deadening
effect when they are all massed and offered you in lieu of
entertainment.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.

“Perhaps no book ever was written the illustrations to which more
completely supplemented the shortcomings of the letter-press.” George
R. Bishop.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 2580w.

“If only Mr. Martin had ‘boiled down’ these four hundred and
sixty-five closely printed pages, and set forth plainly his
conclusions, it would have been better. As it is, we do not quite know
what he means.”

+ − =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 240w.

=Martin, Sir Theodore.= Monographs: Garrick, Macready, Rachel and Baron Stockmar. *$3.50. Dutton.

6–41036.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07.

“In less than a hundred pages this accomplished man of letters and
wise commentator on things dramatic has produced a model brief
biography [of Garrick].” S. M. Francis.

+ + =Atlan.= 100: 490. O. 19, ’07. 110w.

“Each is interesting, the paper on Stockmar having many touches of
intimacy.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.

=Martin, William A. P.= Awakening of China, il. from photographs. (Geographical lib.) **$3.80. Doubleday.

7–19477.

Written as a result of close-range study this work represents China as
“the theater of the most important events now taking place in the
world.” It is an optimistic study, and the author “aims to explain
those subterranean forces which seem to be raising the China of to-day
from the bosom of the deep. Political agitation, whether periodic like
the tides or unforeseen like the hurricane, is in general superficial
and temporary, and the present reform movement in China, the author
believes, has its root in forces more deep seated than such sporadic
phenomena.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Optimistic in tone, philosophic in temper.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07.

=Ath.= 1907, 2: 439. O. 12. 700w.

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 690w.

“‘Awakening of China’ maintains Dr. Martin’s reputation as a leading
authority on Chinese affairs, and though some allowance must be made
for the optimism of a writer whose deep sympathy and interest have
induced him to spend the evening of his days among the people where
his life work has been done, it is a valuable and interesting
contribution to our knowledge.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1200w.

=Nation.= 85: 60. Jl. ’07. 580w.

“Not many authors are so well qualified as Dr. Martin to write a great
book on the movement now taking place in China.” K. K. Kawakami.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 440. Jl. 13. ’07. 1960w.

“It is safe to say that no volume yet issued in this valuable series
is of such immediate importance as Dr. Martin’s work. But it is
rounded out by an index so hopelessly inadequate as to be a burden
rather than a help to the student who would use the work for reference
purposes.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 266. O. 5, ’07. 1900w.

“A well informed work, and describes, in a readable, though somewhat
succinct manner, the process of transformation now going on in China.”
G: Louis Beer.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 30w.

“Dr. Martin’s book is scarcely equal to the expectations which the
reader naturally forms from its title and its general appearance.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 743. N. 16, ’07. 1290w.

=Marx, Karl.= Capital: a critique of political economy. $2. Kerr.

6–43940.

=v. 2.= This second volume devoted to the circulation of capital is
edited by Frederick Engels and is translated from the second German
edition by Ernest Untermann. Pt. 1, deals with The metamorphoses of
capital and their cycles, pt. 2, with The turn-over of capital, and
pt. 3, The reproduction and circulation of the aggregate social
capital.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Ernest Untermann.

+ =Arena.= 38: 457. O. ’07. 3480w. (Review of v. 1.)

“This edition is well made, and easy reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Outlook.= 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Marx, Karl.= Revolution and counter-revolution; or, Germany in 1848. 50c. Kerr.

Articles collected and brought forward from the years 1851–1852. They
form an “invaluable pendant to Marx’s work on the coup d’état of
Napoleon III.,” and give readers some idea of the conditions under
which Marx was working and under which he prepared the papers as well
as his “Achtzehnte brumaire” and “Zur kritik der politischen und
oeconomie.”

=Marx, W. J.= For the admiral. †$1.50. Jacobs.

7–28959.

A story for young people which turns back to France in the 16th
century when Catholics and Huguenots were engaged in hostilities. The
hero is a youth who enters upon the perilous undertaking of carrying
an important packet to the Huguenot leader, Admiral de Coligny, and
later joins him in a campaign filled with daring adventure.

* * * * *

“It is by much the best book of its kind sent us for review this
season, and stands head and shoulders above its rivals.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 140w.

=Marzials, Sir Frank Thomas.= Moliere. $1. Macmillan.

Illustrated with reproductions of portraits and title-pages this
little volume contains “a bibliographical criticism of the man of
letters.” (N. Y. Times.) “The literary criticism is particularly good.
The great dramatist’s genius has never been better appreciated.”
(Spec.)

* * * * *

“It is a seemly little book.” Brander Matthews.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 792. D. 1, ’06. 990w.

“Sir F. T. Marzials writes with unflagging spirit, and shows a sane
and sober judgment.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 250w.

=Masefield, John=, ed. Sailor’s garland. $1.50. Macmillan.

7–12996.

An anthology of sea poems. Miscellaneous poems, poems based upon
historical fact, poems of mermaids and sea spirits, of pirates and
smugglers and love poems are found here. The last thirty pages are
devoted to a collection of sea chanties with a goodly bit of
interesting folk-lore.

* * * * *

“The exercise of a little judgment might have made it so much better.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 490w.

“The selection is good and wise, one we should like to see in the
forecastle, as well as in the saloon of every British ship afloat.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 660w.

=Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 30w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1170w.

“Containing a surprising amount of good seaverse.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 1170w. (Reprinted from
Lond. Times.)

+ − =Spec.= 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 210w.

* =Mason, Alfred E. W.= Broken road. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–37552.

An Indian prince educated at Eton and Oxford and a young Englishman
continuing the work of opening the great road thru Chiltistan begun by
his father, are the principal figures in this story which deals with
the English rule over India.

* * * * *

“It is a vigorous story, and a strong story—an earnest story also. The
lights and shades are cleverly put in, and the narrative in Mr.
Mason’s hands becomes a veritable fragment of Doom.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 682. N. 30. 270w.

“The style suffers from a touch of the overemphatic, a slight
suggestion of parade in its implication of significances, which the
story does not go deep enough to warrant. But in spite of these
shortcomings, the author succeeds in conveying to us his own regretful
sense of life’s contrasts, ironies, and frustrations.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 450w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

“His new book will rank with his ‘The four feathers’ as a capital
piece of clear, direct, romantic narrative—intensely exciting, yet not
unduly sensational.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w.

=Mason, Alfred E. W.= Running water. †$1.50. Century.

7–7196.

Whatever of deep sentiment, of resolution and also of villainy there
is in the tale is magnetically associated with the ice fields of the
Alps above Chamonix. There is an unrelated company of people upon the
stage of the little drama, chief among whom is a brave-hearted girl
who took her lesson of life from the Alpine guides—“If you have
knowledge that can save a life—well you have got to use it, that’s the
law.” Tired of her mother’s vain life, she hunts up her father, whom
she has never seen, and tries to operate the law she had learned by
saving a soul from the net which her dissolute father had drawn about
it. The tale is one of her failures and successes.

* * * * *

“Here it would seem that all the elements that go to make a novelist
of the highest rank were present, and yet the novel itself belongs to
the hopeless second grade of literature.”

− + =Acad.= 72: 205. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.

“The characters are more than ordinarily well-drawn, but the
situations are painful, and, on the whole, the book leaves an
unpleasant impression.”

− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.

“It is a sheer melodrama on one side, but so treated as to appear a
human document.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 270w.

“A thoroughly readable story.” Grace Isabel Colbron.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 300. My. ’07. 750w.

“Elements of human and natural interest combine to make a tale of
singular fascination, over which the mountain glamour is cast with
such compelling effect that it acts as a shaping influence upon the
lives of all the persons chiefly concerned.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.

=Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 350w.

“The book ends tamely, and leaves an impression of casual
workmanship.”

− =Lond. Times.= 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 270w.

“The story is told with great fluency—too much, in fact. Throughout it
resembles the last act of those congenitally three-act plays to which
a fourth is added, to lengthen the entertainment till supper-time.”

− =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 390w.

“It is a pretty and pleasing tale notwithstanding the numerous
extremely repulsive people who move through its pages.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 500w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.

“While he always interests his reader’s mind, does not always convince
him as to the plausibility of the incidents.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.

“The author is really more concerned with telling his story than with
portraying character and interpreting experience, but the very story
he selects to tell proves how wide-spread, for the moment, is the grip
of the ideal upon the mind of the novelist.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 180w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 40w.

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 369. Mr. 23, ’07. 810w.

“Happily named, but unequal, romance.”

− + =Spec.= 98: 377. Mr. 9, ’07. 1320w.

=Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Romantic composers. **$1.75. Macmillan.

6–43759.

Following an introductory chapter on Romanticism in music, there are
studies of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt.
“In his two previous volumes Mr. Mason has already dealt with
Beethoven and his forerunners, and with the development of composition
from Grieg to Brahms; in his present volume he fills the gap, and
traces the wandering paths which led from one to the other of these
frontier lines.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.

“That Mr. Mason so singularly misapprehends the essential significance
of modern music seems little short of lamentable, for it vitiates what
would otherwise be an influential and important body of critical
writing.” Lawrence Gilman.

− + =Bookm.= 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1460w.

“To the study of the widely varying natures. Mr. Mason brings acute
musical perception, a sure grasp of his thesis, and an intelligent
sympathy which never weakens into partisanship.” Josiah Renick Smith.

+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. ’07. 270w.

“This series of essays, tho they would be both servicable and
satisfactory to the professional musician, are quite intelligible to
the average reader, and will find their best public among
concert-goers who wish to get the most out of their concerts.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 497. F. 28, ’07. 330w.

“His book is an excellent piece of work throughout; delicate and
sensitive in criticism, clear and often felicitous in style, marked by
wide knowledge and carefully considered judgment. Now and again his
taste appears to us a little fastidious.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 650w.

− + =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 280w.

“This book is written with more flexibility and interest of style than
his earlier one on ‘Beethoven and his forerunners.’” Richard Aldrich.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 1030w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 70w.

* =Mason, Edith Huntington.= Real Agatha. **$1. McClurg.

The will which leaves a man’s millions to his step-daughter contains a
clause intended to thwart fortune-hunting husbands. The Honorable
Agatha must surround herself by “not less than five nor more than six”
young women of her own age each of whom is to be known as the
Honorable Agatha. The caprice of the real Agatha moves her to assume
the rôle of private secretary to her chaperon, leaving the field to
the six Agathas and the puzzled suitors. Of course the real romance
concerns the secretary and a young lord who in the face of convention
woos her.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w.

=Masse, Henri Jean L. J.= Oxford. (Langham series of art monographs.) *$1. Scribner.

6–46316.

A handy pocket volume of information which will interest the traveler.
The picture accompaniment does full justice to the historic university
town.

* * * * *

“It is as unreadable as a guide-book, and more like one than anything
else, yet we imagine it would be an inefficient guide. For those who
love dessicated information it may have its place, but its place is
not in a series of art monographs.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 185. F. 21, ’07. 70w.

“That peculiar rhetoric which guide books almost infallibly possess
does not taint the language here. Considering the shortness of the
book ... its amount of information is amazing. It does not seem
possible that one single art treasure can have been omitted.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 390w.

“In many ways it would be vastly superior to the ordinary guide-book.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 6, ’07. 90w.

* =Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Bachelor’s baby, and some grown-ups. **$1.60. Moffat.

7–29740.

“Here are to be found short stories, dialogues, whimsical-serious
essays, strings of modern apothegms, bits of verse, and what
not.”—Nation.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 40w.

“To speak of the volume comprehensively is not easy, considering its
hodge-podge make-up, nor are any of the component elements important
enough in themselves to need particularization. Mr. Masson’s wit is
facile, occasionally smart, often pungent, never very penetrating.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w.

“There is always a touch of whimsicality in the treatment, whether the
author is writing a treatise on the decadence of husbands or a
pathetic short story. There is always also vivacity of style, a sense
of humor, and much good-natured irony intertwined with warm human
feeling.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 715. N. 9, ’07. 160w.

=Masson, Thomas L.=, comp. Humor of love: an anthology. **$2.50. Moffat.

6–45700.

A two-volume anthology; one, a selection of humorous writings on love
in verse, the other, a similar treatment in prose.

* * * * *

“Two more delightful volumes could scarcely be conceived.”

+ + =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 220w.

“Is done from a full knowledge of the lighter erotic literature in
English with an excellent ‘flair’ for the things that are at once
graceful and amusing.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 50w.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1110w.

=Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Von Blumers; il. by Bayard Jones. **$1.50. Moffat.

6–41275.

The Von Blumers are a young suburban couple whose efforts to
accommodate “their prejudices and their tempers to one another” result
in numerous capitulations of serio-comic aspect. “Mr. Masson’s novel
fairly bubbles with humor of the quiet kind, but none the less
effective because of its homeliness and truth to nature.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

“The characters are well drawn and there is much innocent
entertainment in this thoroughly wholesome book.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 6, ’07. 230w.

“Tom Masson is in his best vein of humor in this story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 873. D. 15, ’06. 130w.

“A quietly humorous semi-story.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 40w.

Master-man. †$1.50. Lane.

6–28224.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Is a book that will win its way quietly. There is about it a
persuasive and unmistakably feminine touch.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 588. F. ’07. 440w.

“This is a story that will interest some people and disgust others.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 320w.

=Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.

6–6975.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.

=Charities.= 17: 463. D. 15, ’06. 770w.

=Masterman, Charles F. G., Hodgson, W. B. and others.= To colonise England: a plea for a policy. *$1. Wessels.

The first portion of this volume consists of a series of sketches by
Mr. Hodgson “graphically describing the loneliness of rural England;
the waste of its fertile lands given up to rough pasture, wide hedges,
and coppices carefully preserved for the sake of the game, while
cottages fall in ruins, and small farms are swept out of existence....
The second section by Mr. Masterman ... is occupied with details of
schemes which offer a remedy for the creeping paralysis of English
rural life.” (Nation.) The third part of the volume consists of
contributions on the land question from thirteen Liberal members of
Parliament, and part four gives a summary of official testimony issued
by the Board of agriculture.

* * * * *

“The second section by C. F. G. Masterman has a literary value that
should give its author high rank among modern essayists. The third
part ... is the least valuable and least interesting part of the
book.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 262. S. 19, ’07. 1080w.

“Worth reading but [it seems] to leave out of account not a few
considerations which have to be reckoned with in attempting a solution
of the question of the labourer and the land.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup: 463. O. 5, ’07. 340w.

=Matheson, George.= Representative men of the New Testament. **$1.50. Armstrong.

5–26910.

The author has taken the representative men just as they are presented
and has attempted “without inquiring whence or how they come, to find
the special thought which each reveals.” He discusses John, Nathaniel,
Peter, Nicodemus, Thomas, Philip, Matthew, Zaccheus, James, Barnabas,
Mark, Cornelius, Timothy and Paul.

* * * * *

=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

“Well adapted for private reading.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 60w.

* =Matheson, George.= Representative women of the Bible. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.

7–33919.

A volume supplementary to the author’s three books on “Representative
men of the Bible.” After completing ten of the studies the author died
suddenly. The ten with the outline of the eleventh are: Eve the
unfolded, Sarah the steadfast, Rebekah the far-seeing, Rachel the
placid. Miriam the gifted, Deborah the drastic, Ruth the decided,
Hannah the pious, Mary the guiding, Mary the thought-reading, and, in
the appendix, Notes to the study of Mary Magdalene.

* * * * *

“The religious spirit, the poetic genius, and the literary skill of
Dr. Matheson are indisputable. The excessive idealizing into which
such qualities are prone to run appears in his portrait of Rebekah.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 130w.

=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.

5–35680.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“Mr. Mathew exhibits a very strong feeling for the picturesque and a
very ardent desire to be exact, complete and impartial.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.

“Mr. Walker’s pictures are admirably reproduced. but their coloring
gives no true impression of Ireland’s tender greens and browns and
grays.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 130w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.

=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= “Allee same.” †50c. Crowell.

7–22821.

A slum worker in New York takes a Chinese child away from its parents
and the latter to retaliate steal the American’s baby. Seventeen years
of separation lead to a dramatic reunion of parents and children.

=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Undefiled. †$1.50. Harper.

6–29094.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Judith’s story is abundantly supplied with exciting incident: this is
about all that may possibly be said in its favor, for it is both
unreal in characterization and preposterous in invention.” Wm. M.
Payne.

− =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 380w.

“Seems to aim at the popular suffrage by means of what we might call
the megaphonic method.”

− =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 140w.

=Mathews, Shailer.= Church and the changing order. **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–18117.

Mr. Matthews believes that the church in its broad significance of
institutional Christianity is facing a crisis, namely, the need that
it define its attitude toward formative forces now at work. He looks
to the church to correct these forces, to inspire them with its own
ideals, to insure that the results shall bring about a better
to-morrow. He discusses the church in its relation to scholarship, to
the gospel of the risen Christ, to the gospel of brotherhood, to
social discontent, to the social movement and to materialism.

* * * * *

“Broad minded, yet conservative, and highly readable.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 169. O. ’07. S.

“He has diagnosed the disorders of the modern world with a skill and
range rare indeed.”

+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 50w.

+ =Nation.= 85: 145. Ag. 15, ’07. 680w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 470w.

“Perhaps the most important chapters in the book are those which deal
with the church and social discontent and the church and the social
movement. These chapters are deserving of serious consideration by
clergy and laity alike.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 110w.

=Matthews, (James) Brander.= American character. **75c. Crowell.

6–17850.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A beautifully written and beautifully printed essay.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 30w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 639. F. ’07. 130w.

* =Matthews, (James) Brander.= Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25. Scribner.

7–29534.

“The inquiries, which range from ‘Invention and imagination’ to ‘The
art of the stage manager,’ and the opinions, which are expressed upon
such various subjects as Mark Twain and Maupassant, are the inquiries
and opinions of a writer who is shrewd, clear-headed, well-informed,
‘au courant,’ a craftsman.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“They are comparatively devoid of temperament, of the discursive
touch, of charm; they afford us no unexpected lights or sudden vistas,
but they furnish us many interesting facts and just observations set
forth with singular lucidity and coherence.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 100w.

“His essays are models of that interior logic which follows the line
of vital unfolding of a subject, and his style is lucid to a degree.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 520w.

=Matthews, Irma B.= Under a circus tent. †75c. Jacobs.

7–29099.

Instruction and entertainment are furnished in the stories or life
before captivity which the animals of the circus menagerie tell to a
little boy brought up among them.

=Mauclair, Camille.= Antoine Watteau. *75c. Dutton.

W 7–64.

“M. Mauclair sets out with a double aim; to show that Watteau by his
discovery of the decomposition of tones was ‘the inventor of
impressionism and the link that connects Ruysdael and Claude Lorrain
with Turner, Monticelli and Claude Monet;’ and ‘that in reality
Watteau was no painter of gay and laughing scenes,’ but that
underneath this decorative exterior lay a great soul that had ... been
stricken by what has been called the “malady of the infinite.””—Acad.

* * * * *

“Brief but stimulating monograph. The illustrations to the volume are
well chosen, but the printing leaves much to be desired, subtleties of
modelling and daintiness of brushwork alike being lost in vague
blurs.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 330w.

“Excellent little book for the price.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.

“This biographer, like many another admirer, seems to have fallen a
little under the spell of a painter peculiarly liable to hypnotize
those who approach him.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 671. Je. 1. 480w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 36. Ja. 19. ’07. 400w.

=Maud, Constance Elizabeth.= Felicity in France. *$1.50. Scribner.

W 6–392.

“This book is really a guide-book in disguise, being concerned with
the travels of two ladies through Brittany and Touraine, and the
shorter voyage of one of them in Provence.” (Spec.) “Felicity, the
younger of the natives of England, undertakes to ‘chaperon’ an
admirable lady, Aunt Anne, who, in spite of her threescore years and
the fact that she has a granddaughter of 8 years of age, has neither
white hair, nor a lace cap, nor spectacles. Being slight and active,
yet she is athletic. She is ‘a curious compound of an abnormally
intelligent and active boy of 16, and an exceedingly dignified,
stately, and somewhat sarcastic little lady of 60.’” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The reader must turn for himself to these enchanting pages. If he
does not feel the charm of Felicity’s progress through Mistral’s
Provence, he is to be pitied.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 10. Jl. 7, ’06. 710w.

“Not remarkable as to style but lively and sympathetic, and gives
enchanting glimpses of French life.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.

“It is a pity that in spite of all the literary gifts this volume
indicates, the author should write in such a slovenly style as she
does. We feel sure that these bright sympathetic, clearly seen
glimpses of French life deserve a little more care from their author
in this presentment.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 170w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 280w.

“The book represents a personally conducted tour of much charm—rich in
the revelation of pleasing characteristics.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 360w.

“The narrative style is constantly pleasing, and there are many choice
bits in the way of ancient legends and modern peasant studies.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 90w.

“Miss Maud writes with a light touch eminently suited to her subject.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 171. Ag. 4, ’06. 120w.

=Maugham, Reginald Charles Fulke.= Portuguese East Africa; history, scenery, and great game of Manica and Sofala. *$4.50. Dutton.

7–10990.

“Mr. Maugham has collected into book form the knowledge and
experiences gained during an official connexion with the country which
has lasted for some twelve years.... The earlier chapters dealing with
the history, scenery, flora and fauna are followed by others on the
great game and on personal adventures in pursuit. These in turn are
succeeded by what will be to many the most interesting portion of all,
some sixty pages devoted to native customs, characteristics, and
dialects.”—Lond. Times.

* * * * *

“Should be interesting to naturalists at home as well as to travellers
in search of game.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 410w.

“As Mr. Maugham has more than ordinary skill in narration and
description, his book will interest the casual as well as the
confirmed reader of records of travel.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.

“In the earlier part he seems to be rather too general, and not always
quite accurate, in his descriptions; he leaves us with the sort of
feeling that we might be reading of many other portions of tropical
Africa just as well as of the strip which lies along the east coast
immediately south of Zambesi.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 385. D. 16, ’06. 550w.

“Mr. Maugham makes a valuable contribution in this book to the not
very easily obtainable existing stock of knowledge about Portuguese
East Africa.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 80w.

=Maurin, M. J.= Pauline Marie Jaricot, foundress of the order for the propagation of the faith and the living rosary; tr. from the French by E. Sheppard. *$1.35. Benziger.

“A biography based on that of Mlle. Maurin, a friend of Mlle. Jaricot
in her later years.... The life of one of those women who recall, in a
less conspicuous way, St. Catherine of Siena.... The daughter of a
wealthy bourgeois of Lyons, she was just one of those ladies who,
devoting themselves at an early age to religion, spend their lives in
the quiet practice of good works.... She died in obscurity, and to
most people this biography will be the first revelation that she ever
existed.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The style of the book, we may add, is for the most part plain and
simple, without dryness, as religious biography should be, and the
English rendering is idiomatic and good.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 180. Ag. 13. 1600w.

“[The author’s] devoted zeal for the honor of his pious heroine
manifests itself in the frankness and enthusiasm which enhance the
intrinsic interest possessed by the story of this remarkable life.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 419. D. ’06. 450w.

=Maxey, Edwin.= International law; with illustrative cases. *$6. Thomas law bk.

6–11647.

A volume which “embodies the results of Professor Maxey’s many years’
experience as a teacher.... In treatment the emphasis is thrown upon
peace and neutrality rather than upon war. The questions arising out
of the recent Russo-Japanese war are discussed freely and impartially.
There is also a very complete chapter on contraband.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“On the whole, the work is inaccurate and ill-digested.”

− =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 210w.

“The analysis and the style are clear and concise.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 160w.

=Maxse, Frederick I.= Seymour Vandeleur. *$4. Longmans.

War 7–22.

Brevet-Lt.-Col. Vandeleur, soldierly and daring as he was, is engulfed
in the events which surrounded him and the problems which he faced.
“The record of his life is therefore the record of our Imperial
development during the past decade.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“If in his admirable chapters on Uganda and Nigeria he leads us a long
way from his hero, we are contented by the excellence of his
narrative, and his easy presentation of facts which, in a less skilful
hand, might easily be tedious; he becomes on more general subjects,
such as education, so discursive as to call attention to the
disadvantages of the method he has adopted. This, however, is a slight
defect in a delightful book.”

+ + − =Acad.= 69: 12. Ja. 6, ’06. 610w.

“A book which combines literary merit with all the special historical
value arising from the important share which the author himself took
in many of the campaigns which he passes in review.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 620w.

“Col. Maxse presents with animus, vigor, and ability, the whole case
against the people called ‘Little Englanders,’ and in particular shows
what dry rot has done for the British army between Waterloo and the
beginning of the Boer war.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1420w.

“We do not know any other book which sets out so succinctly and
clearly Imperial achievements which are wholly creditable, and which
are too apt to be forgotten in the present windy war of theories. And
in addition there is the portrait of the brilliant soldier, done with
all the sympathy and knowledge of long friendship.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 1390w.

=Maxwell, Donald.= Cruise across Europe: notes on a freshwater voyage from Holland to the Black sea. *$3. Lane.

7–19483.