Chapter XL: Part 1: of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York (12)

“A light, humorous chronicle of a freshwater voyage in a small boat,
from Holland to the Black sea, by way of Ludwig’s canal, a waterway
begun by Charlemagne which unites the basins of the Rhine and Danube,
but is seldom used and little known.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“The author writes entertainingly of the people he met, the country he
passed through, and the incidents of his voyage; and Mr. Collington
Taylor’s illustrations are delightful.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 120w.

“He writes brightly and naturally, and makes little attempt to be
laboriously funny—no small merit nowadays.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 170w.

“The entire voyage ... is well narrated, and still better illustrated
by the author himself and another artist.”

+ − =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 220w.

“The book is a notable one, proving, for the first time, the
possibility of sailing from the west to the east of Europe by a fresh
water route.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 334. Je. ’07. 240w.

+ =Spec.= 93: 146. Ja. 26, ’07. 390w.

=Maxwell, Gerald.= Miracle worker. $1.50. Luce.

7–15322.

The scene of this story is laid in and about Leipzig. A young Afghan
doctor combines the hypnotic power which is his oriental heritage with
wizard skill in surgery to produce a most remarkable change of
identity. By drugs he keeps alive a German countess, dying of burns,
until the day of the execution of a girl who is the exact counterpart
of the countess. By skilful manoeuvering he effects a substitution,
having prepared the countess’ body by means of drugs so that the
tissues would not pass into the death rigour for a prolonged time. He
transfers the memory section of the brain from the dead countess to
the girl whose life he has saved, restores her to health and to the
count who believes only that a restoration was effected by a
skin-grafting operation.

* * * * *

“The story exhibits considerable constructive ingenuity, but is spun
out too much, while the motive of several reprehensible transactions
seems inadequate.”

− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w.

“It is ingenious and up to a certain point interesting, but credulity
and sensibility finally rebel.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w.

“In the articles of novelty, audacity, and ingenuity of plot this
story ... so far surpasses the average of the fiction which strains
after these things, that it needs only certain refinements of the
story teller’s art and condensation, by a half—or even a third—to be
more than a mere thriller and time-killer. There are skilful minor
touches once in a while, and suggestions of humor even. And the
elements of the gruesome and horrible are played for all they are
worth.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 219. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace.= Memories of the months. $2.50. Longmans.

In which the year’s happenings are recorded month by month. “Readers
will be able to share with the author of the memories his ‘delight in
the open field, the woodland, and the riverside,’ and if they prove
willing disciples they may in time experience the joy of original
observation for themselves—at least they will learn to study and
appreciate the boundless beauties of nature.” (Nature.)

* * * * *

“The overriding of a harmless hobby is apt to become wearisome. The
illustrations are charming, and are uncommonly well reproduced: whilst
errors of print are few and not of great consequence.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 160w.

“In such a volume one desires perpetually to pencil notes on the
margin, an inclination that generally implies three qualities in the
work; it is pleasant, suggestive and incomplete.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 540w.

“The ability to combine literary grace with scientific accuracy, and
the power to interest, and at the same time to impart useful
information, is unfortunately rare, and we are grateful to Sir Herbert
Maxwell for placing his gifts at the disposal of a large audience by
means of these pages.”

+ =Nature.= 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 120w.

“Another volume, of delightful rambling along nature lanes, here,
there, everywhere.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 70w.

“Literary excellence and scientific accuracy, two qualities which
often do not accompany each other, combine to increase the value of
these notes.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.

=Maxwell, William Babington.= Guarded flame. †$1.50. Appleton.

6–27707.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The impressiveness with which its ethical teaching is enforced is the
justification for much that seems at the time intolerable in the
presentation.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1 ’07. 560w.

“There is far too much scientific terminology and a rather incredible
amount of human perfection, but there is also intellectual breadth and
maturity, finely expressed intensity, high moral sensibility.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 230w.

=Maynadier, Gustavus Howard.= Arthur of the English poets. *$1.50. Houghton.

7–15547.

“The purpose of Mr. Maynadier’s book is to trace Arthurian legends to
their sources, to tell more fully of their origin and growth, and to
keep more closely to English countries than MacCallum had done. The
new book has grown from a course of lectures delivered at Harvard
university and Radcliffe college in 1900.... The author examines the
sources of Arthur’s immense literary fame and sets forth the divergent
views of various contemporary scholars. Separate chapters deal with
Lancelot, Tristram, and Iseub and the Holy Grail.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“For literary students—as distinct from specialists—who wish to gain a
good general view of the rise and flourishing of the legend the book
will be most useful. The writer is evidently ignorant of the valuable
assistance rendered by the Welsh hagiology in estimating the various
elements which went to the formation of the wonderful story of the
Graal.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 182. N. 30, ’07. 3200w.

“Dr. Maynadier’s treatment of his subject is most scholarly and
sympathetic, and nowhere is it more so than in his discussion of
Tennyson’s presentation in modern form of this old world legend.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 270w.

“Despite some few errors, is the best popular account in the language
of the growth and vicissitudes of the Arthurian legend, particularly
with reference to its earlier development.”

+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 40w.

“It is in general a work of original research, and is a contribution
of value to one of the most interesting departments of English
literature.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 220w.

“The book, taken as a whole, is one of decided value. It is very
agreeably written, and has a basis of accurate scholarship.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 584. Je. 27, ’07. 1080w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 2: 426. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.

“Is the most complete treatment of the origin, development, and
history of the Arthurian legends in English poetry that we have.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.

“It is not a work of original scholarship, nor of genius living in its
princely fashion upon other men’s scholarship, but something between,
and in its kind admirable. Once or twice we have been surprised by the
gaps in Mr. Maynadier’s knowledge ... and by his excessive respect for
Tennyson and his misunderstanding of Morris.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 364. S. 21, ’07. 1630w.

“The work was well worth doing and the author has done it well. No
teacher of English can afford to miss reading this delightful book. It
is most scholarly in tone and treatment, and sympathetic in a just
appreciation.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ + =School R.= 15: 768. D. ’07. 450w.

=Mayor, Rev. Joseph Bickersteth.= Epistle of St. Jude and the Second epistle of St. Peter; Greek text, with introd., notes and comments. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“Professor Mayor’s commentary presents the Greek text of these
epistles, abundantly annotated, together with an extended
introduction. The propriety of treating these two epistles together is
obvious in view of their close literary relationship. Professor Mayor
discusses fully the relationship of II Peter to I Peter, concluding,
with most scholars, that they are from different hands.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

=Bib. World.= 29: 480 Je. ’07. 50w.

“His notes here are marked by sound learning and accurate
scholarship.”

+ + =Nation.= 34: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 450w.

=Mazzotto, Domenico.= Wireless telegraphy and telephony; tr. from the original Italian, by S. R. Bottone. *$2. Macmillan.

6–16742.

“Prof. Mazzotto, a countryman of the inventor Marconi takes up the
subject of what is now called radiotelegraphy, and discusses it
historically and technically ... and places at the service of both
scientific and ordinary readers in clear language all that is known on
the subject up to the present.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Some of the descriptions remain obscured by somewhat longwinded—and
therefore involved—sentences. This defect possibly results from
translation.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 630w.

“Mr. Bottone’s translation is clear and well done.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 403. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

=Meade, Richard Kidder.= Portland cement; its composition, raw materials, manufacture, testing and analysis. *$3.50. Chemical.

6–32139.

“A book ... which fairly represents to date the American Portland
cement industry, as seen from the standpoint of the technical
staff.... While the chapters on ‘Proportioning raw material’ and on
‘Analytical methods’ are naturally the strongest in the book ... yet
Mr. Meade deals with machinery and processes of manufacture extremely
well.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Mr. Meade is to be congratulated on a really notable effort.
Undoubtedly the book will be well received by the many people
interested in cements, and will occupy a place in cement literature
which every body has known was vacant and which should be filled by
some one competent for the task.” Frederick H. Lewis.

+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 87. Ja. 17, ’07. 720w.

+ + =Nature.= 76: 123. Je. 6, ’07. 610w.

=Meakin, Annette M. B.= Russia, travels and studies. *$4. Lippincott.

W 6–316.

“Starting with Rousseau’s view that Naples should be visited in summer
and St. Petersburg in winter, Mrs. Meakin makes the Russian capital
the starting-point for a literary, if not literal, journey all over
the European dominions of the Czar, closing with Kieff and the
Caucasus. She gives a great deal of information—historical,
topographical, sociological—which is of considerable interest and
value.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“Contains much more definite information on a wider range of subjects,
than the usual personal narratives of travel.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 212. N. ’06.

“This book is a valuable contribution to the too small list of good
books on Russia, because it contains so many first hand observations,
put in such a clear and attractive form.” Samuel N. Harper.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 661. My. ’07. 630w.

“The slips and little errors in the earlier pages are, though
unimportant so numerous that we began to suspect the qualifications of
the writer for the task undertaken. But we gladly admit that in
reading on we found reason to change our view.”

+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 891. D. 30. 980w.

“They are somewhat desultory and discursive, but they contain nothing
uninteresting, and they cover fields ordinarily left untouched even in
a country so voluminously written of as Russia.” Wallace Rice.

+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

“This volume is an interesting and enlightening narrative of Russia’s
many-sided life, by a woman whose investigations have been thorough
and discerning.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 110w.

“The thing that strikes the reader of Miss Meakin’s ‘Russia’ is a
certain inconsequence of matter and style. We know of no popular book
in English that deals so fully with the treasures of the Russian
monasteries and museums, both public and private. There is a
regrettable weakness in the matter of the names of the Russian
governments.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 151. F. 14, ’07. 450w.

“Every chapter is solid without sacrifice of entertainment. The author
rather skillfully avoids the hackneyed.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 410w.

“We look in vain for a glossary to explain the interesting text in
this well printed, illustrated, and mapped book, brimful of
little-known facts about Russian towns.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 522. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 525. Ap. 28, ’06. 1500w.

“The chief charm of this book is that one can take it up at any time
and find something, if not positively new, at once informing and
non-controversial.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 390w.

=Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett.= Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond. *$3. Dutton.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 300w.

=Meakin, Walter.= Life of an empire. *$1.80. Wessels.

7–38582.

A work whose aim is “to give clear and definite expression to some of
the problems which confront the British Empire.... [The author] first
traces the growth briefly, with compact and vivid narrative, of the
empire from the time of the Romans to the present, presents the
salient features of its different parts, discusses the problems and
the tendencies of each locality, and in the final chapter considers
the necessity of the unity of the empire and how it can be attained.”
(N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Meakin ... displays sound principle and good feeling generally
expressed in commonplaces. On many of the grave questions of which he
writes at length Mr. Meakin has failed to clear his mind. We find also
a good many trifling errors which seem to show some deficiency in the
equipment of our author.”

+ − − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 164. F. 9. 630w.

“His discussion of the color problem in the different localities of
the empire has interest and some practical value for Americans. But
when he finds the cause of race hatred in the southern United States
to be in the struggle for existence the American reader will begin to
feel some doubt as to the keenness of his observation.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 420w.

“His book is as flimsy as it is pretentious. His ideas are
cosmopolitan, his economics are childish, and his ways of expressing
himself would not redound to the credit of a schoolboy essayist.”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 190w.

=Meany, Edmond Stephen.= Vancouver’s discovery of Puget Sound: portraits and biographies of the men honored in the naming of geographic features of northwestern America. **$2.50. Macmillan.

7–14804.

The volume deals with the broad general subject of western Canadian
discovery, and is based principally upon the second edition of the
journal of Captain Vancouver, published in London in 1801. Many
interesting portraits supplement the text, and there are biographies
of a number of men whose names now appear conspicuously upon the map
of the North American continent.

* * * * *

“In the main the work is trustworthy. If the portion of Vancouver’s
‘voyage’ had been faithfully reproduced it would require no comment in
this review. But there are numerous errors in copying (changes,
omissions, and insertions) which should have been corrected in
proof-reading.” William R. Manning.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 160. O. ’07. 520w.

“It is disappointing to find so much genuine scholarship expended to,
comparatively speaking, so little purpose.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 800w.

“It would be difficult to exaggerate the interest and charm of these
vivid pages, written, as they were, under the spell and inspiration of
a new world.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 390w.

“This is a valuable contribution to the early history of Puget sound
region of the State of Washington.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 147. Ag. 15, ’07. 960w.

“A volume which adds materially to the early history of this
continent.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 180w.

“A distinctly original and helpful historical monograph, valuable not
only for the information it affords concerning Vancouver’s voyage
itself and the significance of the names applied to prominent
geographical features of the Oregon country, but for the light it
throws on the operations of Spain in that region and negotiations
which ended in the relinquishment to England of the Spanish
territorial claims.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.

“A noteworthy addition to the subject of Americana in its largest
sense.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w.

“This volume is of definite historical importance in the literature of
geographical biography, and a handsome tribute to the memory of a
great Englishman.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 440w.

=Mears, Mary M.= Breath of the runners; a novel. †$1.50. Stokes.

6–37599.

One of the runners is a large-souled, unselfish girl, the other a
jealous, narrow-minded, self-constituted rival. Beulah Marcel’s art
career from the lowly rounds of a cameo-cutter’s apprentice to the
point of distinction as a sculptor is unselfishly subordinated to that
of Enid Rahfield spares no effort, good or evil, to win much-coveted
fame. The scene shifts from New York to Paris, and at every pause of
the runners, the love interest creeps in, and with it,
misunderstandings which are fully accounted for at the mention of
“artistic temperament.”

* * * * *

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.

“There is much knowledge of the art world, much keen insight into the
hearts of men and women, and no small amount of healthful philosophy
of life in this unpretentious story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 310w.

=Ind.= 62: 621. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w.

+ − =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 560w.

“There is something in the youth and freshness, the first poetic
outlook upon dawning life, never to be seized a second time, but which
permeates ‘The breath of the runners.’” Louise Collier Willcox.

+ =No. Am.= 183: 1058, N. 16, ’06. 1460w.

“The characters are unusual and significant, and they are alive. The
writer has much to learn in the matter of construction.”

+ − =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 200w.

=Meline, Jules.= Return to the land. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–19755.

Senator Jules Méline, sometime minister of agriculture, President of
the representative chamber of France, and Prime Minister, has here
given minute and careful instruction on manufacturing and industrial
questions in a most interesting manner. “The great object of the
book,” says Justin McCarthy in his preface “is to convince the world
that the return to the land, and the work that the land still offers
in all or most countries, is now the nearest and the surest means for
the mitigation or the removal of the troubles which have come on the
working populations everywhere, and that the present is the
appropriate time for the beginning of such a movement.”

* * * * *

“M. Méline ... is a statesman of the highest rank, who approaches the
question in a manner that is at once widely philosophic and highly
practical.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 326. O. 6, ’06. 690w.

“He is a clear thinker, and presents his arguments in an attractive as
well as convincing form. He has graced his pages with artistic, at
times almost poetic language, and from cover to cover the book is sure
to interest the reader. To many of his conclusions few would give
assent. The remedies he proposes are foreign to all our habits of
thought. This does not render the argument any the less interesting
and thought-provoking.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 642. My. ’07. 250w.

“It is not likely that we shall learn much that can bear on the land
problems of Great Britain from the leading French Protectionist.”

− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 405. O. 6. 280w.

“Its thorough, though general, and suggestive treatment, promises
interesting reading for Americans.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238: Ap. 13. ’07. 200w.

“Senator Meline discusses most interestingly an interesting thesis,
with blemishes in detail which are apart from the merits of the idea.”
Edward A. Bradford.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 331. My. 25, ’07. 1270w.

“It is, in fact, in his recommendations, and in his review of the
present state of French agriculture, that his work is most valuable,
for here, by reason of long experience and thorough study, he is
master of his subject.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 474. Je. 29, ’07. 380w.

“We have much to learn from France, and M. Méline by constantly
drawing examples from England makes his book as instructive reading
for Englishmen as for his own countrymen.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 809. D. 29, ’06. 310w.

− =Spec.= 37: 933. D. S, ’06. 250w.

* =Melville, Lewis, pseud.= Farmer George: a study of the life and character of George III. 2v. **$7.50. Brentano’s.

“George III.’s home and court life, his relations with his ministers
and other prominent persons of his reign are presented. Fully
described, too, is the king’s trouble with Wilkes, as well as the
attitude of his court and subjects toward the American colonies, from
the Stamp act down to the acknowledgment of the United States of
America.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“In their unambitious style Mr. Melville’s pages are readable enough.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 653. N. 23. 290w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

“The book may be popular, and, as it is better that people should know
something about George III. than nothing, it will serve a purpose in
the libraries.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 612, N. 16, ’07. 570w.

=Mendelssohn, Felix.= Thirty piano compositions; ed. by Percy Goetschius, with a preface by Daniel Gregory Mason. $2.50; pa. $1.50. Ditson.

7–5083.

Uniform with the “Musician’s library.” The volume includes eight
“Songs without words,” the Sonata in E major, the Rondo capriccioso,
besides various preludes, fugues, studies, etc.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.

+ =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 90w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 207. F. 28, ’07. 430w.

=Menpes, Mortimer.= Paris; painted by Mortimer Menpes; text by Dorothy Menpes. 24 full-page il. in color and line drawings. *$2. Macmillan.

W 7–110.

Here the reader finds less of the art galleries, churches, and museums
than of the “life of Paris, and above all, the joy of the life of
Paris.... The streets and boulevards, the cafés and restaurants, the
various forms of amusement, the poverty and the picturesqueness of the
shiftless and generous students of the Latin Quartier, and many other
phases of Parisian existence, are rendered in all their lights and
shades with astonishing accuracy.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“It is a great accomplishment to have caught as much of it all within
the pages of one book as the Menpes have done.” May Estelle Cook.

+ =Dial.= 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 390w.

“The ‘Paris’ of Mortimer and Dorothy Menpes may not have much of that
practical quality of serviceableness which we look for in a guide, but
it has a brilliant impersonal style and will supplement in a very
pleasant fashion a work more purely utilitarian. The illustrations in
color, as well as those in line, are smooth and harmonious. The former
are not glaring, but faithful and delicate, with subtle gradations of
tone that are very striking.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 1356. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.

“She writes in a somewhat abrupt style; her series of pictures of
Paris life have been jotted down in short, terse sentences, which
somehow fail to match the grace and humour that float everywhere in
the golden, hazy atmosphere of that city. But her book, with its vivid
descriptions, is a pleasant contribution.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 541. Je. 13, ’07. 350w.

“Miss Menpes takes up various manifestations of Parisian ways of
thinking, acting, and living, and manages to invest her subject,
hackneyed though it is, with a great deal of freshness and charm. The
two dozen full-page illustrations in color, devoted to street scenes
and famous buildings, are not equal to the former publications of Mr.
Menpes’s work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 160w.

=Meredith, Ellis.= Under the harrow. †$1.50. Little.

7–12976.

All about three brave hearted girls’ struggles for success on Grub
street in the city of New York. There is a touch of pathos in the
penury that fills the life of these “attic geniuses;” their little
successes, more often reverses, their simple romances, above all their
naturalness and love of life are well worth following thru the pages
of the story.

* * * * *

“Amusing here and there, but unimportant as a whole.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 60w.

“The older generations of readers, who remember Murger’s ‘Scènes de la
vie de Bohème’ and Du Maurier’s ‘Trilby,’ will find Mr. Meredith’s
little story of Bohemian life in New York insipid and futile but it
will not be without interest and encouragement for the younger
generation.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.

“The story has its good points, but produces an uncomfortable
impression at times from the effort of the author to incorporate in it
like patchwork all the smart things possible to collect. Many of the
patches are incongruous.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.

=Meredith, Owen, pseud. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton).= Personal and literary letters of Robert, first earl of Lytton, (Owen Meredith); ed. by Lady Betty Balfour. 2v. *$6. Longmans.

7–26424.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The present winter season has produced at least an average crop of
biographical works, but none of them, so far as we have seen, can
surpass this one for attractiveness and interest.”

+ + + =Blackwood’s M.= 181: 36. Ja. ’07. 5910w.

“It is a far more touching and interesting record than the biography
of many a greater man.” Charles H. A. Wager.

+ + =Dial.= 12: 182. Mr. 16, ’07. 2320w.

=Ind.= 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 290w.

“Considering her object—a picture of the man rather than of his
times—Lady Betty Balfour must be congratulated on a model
achievement.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 88. Ja. 10, 07. 1060w.

“A very interesting book this, and a very interesting man Lord Lytton,
and one who, notwithstanding his distinction as a diplomat, earns our
sympathy because of his ungratified ambition in other directions.”
Jeannette B. Gilder.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 504. Ja. ’07. 1300w.

=Merejkowski, Dmitri.= Peter and Alexis; tr. by Mr. Herbert Trench. $1.50. Putnam.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“In this last volume of the trilogy the faults of the author’s style
become intolerably exaggerated. A lack of symmetry, subordination and
clarity seems to be a general fault with Russian literature and
doubtless also of their life, for a like confusion and aimlessness
appear to characterize their politics.” Edwin E. Slosson.

− =Ind.= 61: 1148. N. 15, ’06. 910w.

=Merrill, George Perkins.= Treatise on rocks, rock-weathering and soils; new ed. rev. throughout. *$4. Macmillan.

6–46275.

“There has been very little attempt to harmonize conflicting views,
and almost none at independent interpretation. The pages devoted to
rocks and to soils reflect current views rather than suggest new ones.
The chapters devoted to rock-weathering are the best in the book, and
constitute in the aggregate our most authoritative treatise on this
subject.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“The book is especially useful to readers who desire a knowledge of
the general facts and principles involved in the study of rocks and
their change into soils.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 180w.

“Combines a large amount of matter of a purely categorical and
descriptive scientific character with an almost equally large amount
of matter of interest and value to any wide-awake person wishing to
know about the earth on which he lives.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.

“Having used it for years, the present reviewer has yet to find it
fail him in his classroom needs.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 440w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 5. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.

=Merriman, Mansfield.= Elements of sanitary engineering. 3d ed. *$2. Wiley.

7–6418.

A new edition of a book published in 1898. “Few changes of importance
have been made in the first 180 pages of the present edition.... The
two chapters on ‘Disposal of sewage’ and ‘Refuse and garbage’ have
been rewritten and extended to cover some of the advances of the past
eight years, and an appendix has been added which contains matter on
water supply and purification supplementary to that in the first
edition.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“Not only a creditable production but practically the only one
covering just its field.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13. ’06. 530w.

=Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= Text-book on roofs and bridges, pt. 4, Higher structures. 3d ed., rev. and enl. $2.50. Wiley.

7–6418.

“Not a treatise, but only a text-book, and only an elementary
text-book. The authors nowhere pretend to thoroughness in treatment.
They discuss only the principal types of ‘higher structures:’ the
continuous girder, the drawbridge, the suspension bridge, and the
metal arch (the inclusion of the cantilever bridge and three-hinged
arch, which are statically determinate, seems somewhat
inappropriate.)”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The book has many excellences, both in plan and detail. A few minor
faults also remain.”

+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 442. Ap. 18. ’07. 490w.

“Despite its brevity and limitations, the work on higher structures by
Merriman and Jacoby is the best general work in America to-day.
Indeed, there is no other one book of the same size that gives so
general a treatment. The volume is worthy of the attention of every
student and designing engineer. It indicates the trend of modern
analysis.” C. Derleth, jr.

+ + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 268. Je. ’07. 1660w.

* =Merritt, Albert Newton.= Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1. Houghton.

7–37945.

This discussion was awarded first prize in the 1906 Hart, Schaffner
and Marx prize essays in economics. The phases of the subject
presented are the following: Are American railway rates excessive?
Federal control of rates is necessary. Objections to rate-fixing by a
commission, The interstate commerce act and its interpretation by the
commission and by the courts, and A rational plan for public control
of rates.

=Merwin, Samuel and Webster, Henry K.= Comrade John. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–33593.

The subtle satire upon our modern tendency to embrace newly coined
religions which underlies this story will not mar the tale for mere
lovers of romance but will make it for those who see the humor in
today’s sects and religious colonies. One Herman Stein has invented a
religion of “toil and triumph” and associates with him in the creation
of a fitting setting for his community a young architect with a
showman’s instinct. To this combined Mecca and Luna Park comes the one
woman. The two men contend for her favor and the one by sacrificing
all to save her gains her love.

* * * * *

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

“Altogether the book, while it cannot be very strongly praised as a
novel of character and motive, has the story-interest strongly
developed and well maintained.”

+ − =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 270w.

=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.

5–41797.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

=Current Literature.= 42: 332. Mr. ’07. 990w.

=Meyer, Balthasar H.= History of the Northern securities case. pa. 60c. Univ. of Wis.

6–37905.

“The ten chapters in eighty-two pages give a clear, concise, and
readable history of the litigation [in the Northern securities case],
including the genesis of the idea of a holding company and the causes
of organization, the action of the state authorities and the federal
government, with an analysis of the decisions in the main case, and in
the ancillary litigation over the liquidation of the company. The
appendix gives a number of the briefs or documents of the litigation
in a form convenient for reference.”—Yale R.

* * * * *

“It is fortunate that the greatest attempt to effect railroad
consolidation should have had so able a historian as Professor B. H.
Meyer.” Emory R. Johnson.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 618. N. ’07. 520w.

“A careful and scholarly treatment from the economic view-point.” Wm.
Hill.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 182. Mr. ’07. 370w.

“The style is clear and forcible. In some places, particularly in the
introductory chapters it would seem that the author had studied
conciseness at the expense of the clearness which would have been
gained by fuller amplification of the narrative. The author is
manifestly familiar with the material and thorough and accurate
research is shown throughout. Full justice is done to the dissenting
as well as the prevailing opinions.” Frederick N. Judson.

+ + − =Yale. R.= 16: 208. Ag. ’07. 1040w.

=Meyer, Ernst von.= History of chemistry from the earliest times to the present day; being also an introduction to the study of the science; tr. with the author’s sanction by George McGowan. 3d Eng. ed., tr. from the 3d Germ. ed. *$4.25. Macmillan.

This third edition includes additions and alterations which bring the
work down to date.

* * * * *

“The work is convenient, because there is no better one (except
Ladenburg’s, which is too small), and in spite of its numerous
inconveniences. Among these is the avoidance of dates.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 181. F. 21, ’07. 1090w.

“The work is a perfect treasure-house in its wealth of bibliographical
and biographical detail. Its literary charm lies in the simplicity and
directness of its style, characteristics which Dr. McGowan has well
preserved in his admirable rendering into English.”

+ + =Nature.= 75: 169. D. 20, ’06. 1100w.

“An unbiased historical research study.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.

=Meyer, Hugo R.= British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–33625.

Prof. Meyer here resumes his study of the history of public ownership
in Great Britain. It is a two-part story which the author tells of the
British state telegraphs: the purchase of the telegraphs, in 1870,
from the companies that had established the industry of telegraphy;
and the subsequent conduct of the business of telegraphy by the
government. “Both parts contain a record of fact and experience of
importance to the American public at the present moment, when there is
before them the proposal to embark upon the policy of the municipal
ownership and operation of the so-called municipal public service
industries.”

=Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Municipal ownership in Great Britain. *$1.50. Macmillan.

6–10877.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“So far as it goes, the book is a model in its way. No one need feel
any doubt as to where the author stands. It shows an excellent grasp
of the subject and is a scholarly, though somewhat uninteresting,
presentation of the evidence from his own point of view. He no longer
assumes the attitude of the judge, but rather that of the special
pleader.” Garrett Droppers.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 370. Je. ’07. 1850w.

“The best that can be said of Professor Meyer’s book is that it is an
able ‘ex parte’ statement of the case against municipal ownership in
Great Britain.” Delos F. Wilcox.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 528. S. ’07. 1950w.

“A noteworthy contribution, to a vexed question. It is a careful and
minute study, showing vast research and erudition. The work
notwithstanding its appearance of great learning, will, in the opinion
of the reviewers, fail to carry conviction to the reader. The
prejudice of the author crops out too plainly at every turn. The book
smacks more of the library than of the world of affairs.” John H.
Gray.

+ − =Yale R.= 16: 102. My. ’07. 650w.

=Meyer, Hugo R.= Public ownership and the telephone in Great Britain. **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–31983.

Still a further continuation of Professor Meyer’s history of public
ownership in Great Britain. It gives the history, written from
original documents, of the efforts of the British government to
administer the telephone service in England.

=Michael, Mrs. Helen C.= Studies in plant and organic chemistry, and literary papers; with biographical sketch. *$2.50. Riverside press.

7–17319.

“The volume contains an extended biographical sketch; an introduction
to Mrs. Michael’s work in chemistry, by Dr. Wiley; sixteen papers on
organic chemistry, four of them in German; and four literary papers
which discuss such themes as ‘Science and philosophy in art,’ ‘The
drama in relation to truth,’ Whitman Browning, etc. A photogravure
portrait forms the frontispiece and shows the face of a most
attractive woman.”—Dial.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w.

“The sketch itself is well proportioned and discriminating, and is
thoroughly appreciative of Mrs. Michael’s remarkable powers. Every
student of plant-physiology will be glad to have in this compact form
the scattered papers which, under her maiden name of Abbott, Mrs.
Michael contributed to many scientific publications.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 127. Ag. 8, ’07. 320w.

=Michel, Emile.= Rembrandt: a memorial; il. with seventy plates in color and photogravure. *$5. Lane.

7–28517.

This volume has grown out of the renewed interest in Rembrandt which
was awakened by Holland’s tercentenary celebration of the birth of the
great master.

* * * * *

+ + =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.

“Altogether this ‘Rembrandt’ will be a book that all lovers of art
will want to have on their shelves and in their hands; and when it is
complete with the special plate that is to be presented to
subscribers, it will be one of the most artistic productions of the
time.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 461. My. 12, ’06. 490w.

“The omission of an index is the great blemish on the work; and this
is intensified by the not over-careful way in which the list of plates
in colour and in photogravure has been drawn up.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 163. Ag. 11. 2550w.

“The book as a whole is one of the best of the art books of the
present season.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w.

+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: 274. S. ’06. 210w.

=Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 240w.

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8. ’06. 80w.

=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Sunnyside Tad. †$1.25. Harper.

7–30440.

Sunnyside Tad and Diogenes, the tawny little pup that he rescued from
drowning, are outcast chums who suffer and rejoice together. The two
in their David and Jonathan relations teach a lesson brimful of love
and fearlessness.

* * * * *

“A first-class boy’s story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.

* =Mijatovich, Chedomille.= Royal tragedy; being the story of the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga, of Servia. *$2.50. Dodd.

A full story of the Servian tragedy with all the elements that entered
into the plot and its execution.

* * * * *

“He writes of matters which almost involve passion, but he writes (as
might be expected of him) dispassionately. The story that he has to
tell is full of interest, and he tells it admirably.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 760w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

“The writer is frankly a partisan of King Milan. Its chief defect lies
in the excessive intrusion of the author’s personality.”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 160w.

“M. Chedomille Mijatovich tells the tragic story in a remarkably
interesting book.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 293. F. 23, ’07. 2340w.

=Miles, George H.= Said the rose, and other lyrics; with an introd. by John C. Collins. **$1. Longmans.

7–18559.

“Poems of a writer who died forty years ago. They have been rescued
from the past, and have met with appreciative comment. “The titular
lyric is the plaint of a rose, plucked by a lady to wear upon her
bosom for an hour, and then cast ruthlessly away.... A number of the
poems in this volume are impressions of Italy, particularly of Italian
art, and the influence of Browning is very evident.” (Dial.) A
graceful biographical and critical introduction by Mr. Churton Collins
will serve to acquaint the present generation with the amiable and
gifted man who, in the preceding one, adorned the chair of English in
Mount St. Mary’s college, Emmetsburg.” (Cath. World.)

* * * * *

+ =Cath. World.= 85: 827. S. ’07. 410w.

“Reading the fifty pages of Mr. Collins’s appreciative essay, we learn
anew the lesson of fame’s caprice, for we become acquainted with a
writer of admirable qualities, whose performance certainly deserved
something less than the entire forgetfulness that seems to have become
its portion.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 580w.

Reviewed by Christian Gauss.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.

“All of the work is accomplished, but none save perhaps ‘Beatrice,’
shows any trace of original talent.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 120w.

=Mill, John Stuart.= Subjection of women; new ed.; ed. with introductory analysis by Stanton Coit. *40c. Longmans.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 50w.

=Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax.= New Far East. **$1.50. Scribner.

6–10925.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Is written a little too much in the spirit of a man who feels that he
is tilting against generally accepted opinions, but his volume is none
the less an excellent one, indeed one of the most enlightening we have
on the present Far Eastern situation.” Archibald Cary Coolidge.

+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 136. Mr. ’07. 560w.

=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= Saul of Tarsus; a tale of the early Christians; with il. by Andre Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.

6–36043.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Vivid and absorbing narrative.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.

“One of the most interesting and well-written novels of the year.” Amy
C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 37: 218. F. ’07. 610w.

“As far as historic truth is concerned, there is little fault to be
found with the novel. It is a pity that as much can not be said of the
style. It is lacking in life, and the interest of the reader often
flags.”

− + =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Christmas-making. **30c. Crowell.

7–22861.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A good, optimistic little book, but with nothing very striking about
it, either in contents or style.” Robert E. Bisbee.

+ − =Arena.= 37: 334. Mr. ’07. 40w.

=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= For the best things, pa. bds. **65c. Crowell.

7– 26992.

“A trumpet call for striving ‘for the best things,’ an appeal to the
best impulse in the human heart.”

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 80w.

=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Glimpses of the heavenly life. **30c. Crowell.

7–20953.

Belonging to the “What is worth while” series, this little book aims
to give some of the glimpses of the heavenly life which the Bible
reveals.

=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Morning thoughts. **65c. Crowell.

7–21332.

Page sermons for every day in the year, whose aim is to start the
reader out upon his new day with some actively helpful thought.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 60w.

=Miller, John Henderson.= Where the rainbow touches the ground. †$1. Funk.

6–44370.

A Kansas cyclone is responsible in a freakish way for the restoration
of property to a man who had surely known the hardships of the
“submerged tenth.” The book is full of local color in which herbs and
simples, and homely philosophy abound.

* * * * *

“We do not share the high opinion of this story which the publishers
seem to entertain nor can we agree with them that the author is a
writer of exceptional power. The ethical tone of the work is good and
the lessons of practical value.”

− + =Arena.= 37: 221. F. ’07. 120w.

“The story is told with a quaint sort of art which will appeal to the
jaded novel-reader.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30. ’07. 160w.

=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= Harry’s runaway. †$1.25. Houghton.

7–32035.

A sure cure for the runaway malady. The good work of parents in
restraining dissatisfied boys is helpfully supplemented in Mrs.
Miller’s story. Harry Barnes persuades a playmate to run away with
him. Their experiences lead to a half starved condition in which their
parents find them. To make Harry’s lesson more impressive each night
some one drops in and tells a runaway story which shatters some
youthful ideal of heroism and reduces the would-be hero to the
suppliant state.

=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= What happened to Barbara. †$1.25. Houghton.

7–15599.

A little girl of thirty years ago is the heroine of Mrs. Miller’s
story. “The story has the air of being autobiographical, and is
interesting for two reasons, and two only: It furnishes a kind of
proof that there is a type of healthy child life in which the thing we
know as sentiment is non-existent: and it demonstrates the possibility
of converting into quasi-literary form the amazing gift of being able
to discourse ‘ad libitum’ about absolutely nothing.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

− + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.

“It might be, and doubtless is, in the main, a carefully expurgated
account of the part of the author’s own life which lies in the
schoolgirl stage.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 430w.

=Millet, Jean Francois.= Drawings of Jean Francois Millet: 50 facsimile reproductions of the master’s work with an introductory essay by Leonce Benedite. *$20. Lippincott.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The disappointment is in the selection. Now and then there is an
obvious blunder in the title given. If a competent technical study of
the merits of Millet’s drawing, as drawing, was unattainable, why not
omit the text altogether and publish a portfolio? Well worth more than
the price asked, if one has the money to spend.”

− − =Nation.= 84: 90. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.

“The volume before us is a really desirable possession, and not merely
another so-called ‘art book.’”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 620. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.

=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Gale, Henry Gordon.= Laboratory course in physics for secondary schools. *40c. Ginn.

6–31644.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A possible objection to the proposed course lies in the introduction
of the vernier and the micrometer calimeter. The use of these
instruments seems contrary to the authors’ attempt to avoid the
‘creeping-over’ of the methods and the instruments of research and
specialization from the university into the high school, where they
have absolutely no place. The same objection might be urged against
the use of per cent. errors and discussion of accuracy of
measurements. The book is to be commended, not only for its
improvements over older manuals, but also as part of a _completed_ and
_tried_ course.” F. R. Watson.

+ + − =School R.= 15: 168. F. ’07. 280w.

=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achaemenides and Israel. *$4. Open ct.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“From the first words of the preface ... to the end of the book, there
is so much involved construction and verbiage, combined with misprints
that the author’s ‘reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two
bushels of chaff.’”

− =Ind.= 62: 217. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w.

=Mills, (Thomas) Wesley.= Voice production in singing and speaking, based on scientific principles. **$2. Lippincott.

6–38905.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07. S.

+ + =Nation.= 84: 18. Ja. 3, ’07. 450w.

“It is scientific in the best sense.” Richard Aldrich.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 580w.

=Milton, John.= Complete poetical works; with a biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.

Milton’s poetical works uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” The
introduction by Mr. Dole aims to elucidate the circumstances, motives
and intention of each of the poems individually.

=Minchin, George M., and Dale, J. B.= Mathematical drawing. *$2.10. Longmans.

An exposition of the subject which presupposes a knowledge of analytic
geometry and the calculus so far as methods are concerned, but which
makes no use of theorems proved by them. Nearly half of the book is
devoted to a discussion of conical and parallel projection.

* * * * *

“This book is of rather more interest to the mathematician than the
engineer; it has several features that are of value to both, but is
too brief to be of greatest service to either.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 480w.

=Mitchell, John Ames.= Silent war. $1.50. Life pub.

6–38893.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Is no more impressive as a warning than it is interesting as a
romance. The interest of the reader is aroused at the very beginning
and held in leash throughout until the final denouement.” Ellis O.
Jones.

+ + =Arena.= 37: 446. Ap. ’07. 350w.

“The book is in many ways strong. It is original, improbable, and not
so well written as ‘Amos Judd’ and others of Mr. Mitchell’s books.”
Madeleine Z. Doty.

− − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15. ’06. 250w.

=Mitchell, William.= Structure and growth of the mind. *$2.60. Macmillan.

W 7–111.

“A treatise on descriptive and genetic psychology in four main parts:
The direct explanation of the mind, Sympathetic and aesthetic
intelligence, The growth of intelligence, and Extension of direct
explanation and the direct explanation.”

* * * * *

“It is, however, frankly technical: it is a book to be studied, not to
be read. It has the discursive form of lectures, yet, after all, of
written lectures that reflect the slow and careful growth of his
phrasing and presentation, and assume a like attentive and painstaking
attitude on the part of the student in the class-room or the study. To
the circle of those specifically minded to follow the pursuit the work
is enthusiastically recommended as a notable addition to the modern
literature of psychology.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 350w.

“The fact that the views which are supported are throughout reasoned
views gives it an unusually stimulating quality. And this quality
would be still more in evidence were it not for a certain occasional
elusiveness in the presentation of the argument, which is not
altogether removed by the detail analysis that is provided.” W. G.
Smith.

+ + − =Hibbert J.= 6: 218. O. ’07. 1300w.

“It is an abstruse, laborious book, the work of one who is not
fanatically attached to either school, who studies both the direct and
indirect explanations of the structure and growth of mind.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 680w.

“The discursive style and the absence of prominent landmarks would
often give the reader a rather vague idea of the plan of exposition,
were it not for the table of contents, which is a model of scientific
analysis, and almost makes up for the absence of an alphabetical
index.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 1050w.

“Mr. Mitchell’s work will compare very favourably with the best
philosophical books of recent years.”

+ + =Nature.= 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 350w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w.

“A stimulating and serviceable guide-book in psychology, devoted to
elaborate and searching criticism for the benefit of readers who are
not in a hurry to run while reading.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 170w.

“One of the most interesting chapters in this book is on the power of
suggestion, or the power of a thought to determine a course of
thought.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 365. S. 21, ’07. 1080w.

=Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.

6–2322.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 230w.

=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Life of Japan. **$3. Baker.

7–28500.

Dr. Miyakawa was educated in America and returning to Japan became
interpreter for the imperial army. He reveals intimately “to millions
of American homes” a knowledge of Japan and Japanese conditions. The
book is dedicated to Commodore Perry whom the author calls the
“national redeemer of Japan.” “The bulk of the book is devoted to
tracing the rapid growth of Japan since the making of the treaty with
the United States, in the reform of its financial system, in the
development of its domestic industry and its foreign commerce, the
expansion of its army and navy, the establishment of a constitutional
form of government, and the adoption of American methods in education
and journalism.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“For the most part, however, the book is accurate and well suited to
the needs of readers who do not care to go deeply into the subjects
treated.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 250w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 1000w.

=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Powers of the American people. Congress, president, and courts. *$3. N. Hayes, cor. N. Y. ave. & 15th st., Washington, D. C.

A manual of instruction which points out the various powers and duties
which are imposed by the constitution, written by a Japanese
attorney—the first to be admitted to the American bar.

* * * * *