Chapter XLII: Part 1: of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York (14)

− + =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 1000w.

* =Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Children’s books and reading. *$1.50. Kennerley.

7–38221.

A practical, workable guide to children’s books and reading prepared
after consultation with leading librarians. There are chapters
covering the history of children’s books from early times to the
present day and others dealing with the general purpose of the books
besides a sixty-seven page appendix of book-lists carefully arranged
and classified.

* * * * *

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 50w.

=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Famous actor families in America. **$2. Crowell.

6–34709.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Contains much useful material, but little that is new; some of it is
trivial. In spite of it, it will be referred to often in reference
work and will interest readers who care for the drama.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.

“Not many of the books which have been published about actors have had
the interest or the literary merit of ... ‘Famous actor families in
America.’”

+ =Ind.= 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 440w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 90w.

=Moss, Mary.= Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.

6–34369.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 380w.

=Mother Goose.= Mother Goose in silhouettes cut by Katharine G. Buffum. †75c. Houghton.

7–30443.

Mother Goose uniquely illustrated in silhouettes that have a taking
way of speaking for themselves.

=Mott, Lawrence.= To the credit of the sea. †$1.50. Harper.

7–17361.

Eight dramatic stories of the sea and the fishermen of the Labrador
coast: To the credit of the sea, The white squall, The world of
waters, The leaving of a dory, The best man out of Labrador, Uncle Sam
Simmons, To’mie’s luck, and Adrift.

* * * * *

“Will interest the lover of sea yarns.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.

“We are glad to recommend this book as the best its author has
produced.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 200w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 359. Je. 1, ’07. 120w.

“The stories ... are quite brutal, yet lightened by attempts at
current popular sentiment.”

− + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.

=Mott, Lawrence.= White darkness and other stories of the great Northwest. $1.50. Outing.

7–4162.

Sixteen “tales of the blood-and-iron men of the Northland.” Stories of
the trappers and the brave hearts that beat beneath their rough
exteriors, stories of the Indians and the work of the Canadian mounted
police; all are intensely dramatic and are told with much feeling and
few words as befits the lonely snow-curtained land where passions are
elemental and death is a matter of daily encounter. The tales include
beside the title story; Jaquette, The silver fox, The current of fear,
Wa-gush, Follette, The talking of Almighty voice, and others.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.

“The stories are all picturesque, and some contain really vivid
descriptive writing. There is a photographic quality about them.
Clean-cut and clever, they have craft, but not art, except, perhaps,
in two cases.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 110w.

“What differentiates the stories of Lawrence Mott from those of Mr.
London is the occasional unforseen flash of generosity and
self-sacrifice, the revelation of tenderness in unexpected quarters,
that shines out like a beacon light across the gloom of the pictures
he draws.”

+ =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 440w.

“These stories are all of the type known as ‘magazinable;’ which means
that the chances are against their proving (to invent a similar verbal
horror) really ‘bookable.’”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 120w.

“They have less of that strength, boldness, and incisiveness which
make London’s life pictures stand out like silhouettes against a full
white moon, but they have more appreciation of the lights and shadows
in the picture, more gentleness of mood, and a more poetic
appreciation of nature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 114. F. 23, ’07. 300w.

“Mr. Mott writes incisively with no waste of words, and he has the
dramatic sense in a high degree, but tragic bloodshed is much more
frequent in his pages than in Parker’s tales of the same sort.” Vernon
Atwood.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 160w.

=Mottram, William.= True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam Bede.” *$1.75. McClurg.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The reader who picks up the volume in search of a sensation will be
sorely disappointed. It is a jumble of family traditions, diffusely
written, and displaying a marvellous lack of transition: but it is a
genuine production nevertheless.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 860w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 100w.

=Moulton, Forest Ray.= Introduction to astronomy. *$1.60. Macmillan.

6–14049.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A good text book. Its chief distinctive feature is the exposition of
the ‘planetesimal theory’ propounded as a substitute for the nebular
hypothesis of Laplace.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.

“Prof. Moulton’s point of view is his own, in many ways unlike that of
the textbooks in general use. Although the order and emphasis of
presentation may be sometimes criticized, there can be no question
that the book is throughout suggestive and stimulating.” Mary W.
Whitney.

+ + − =Astrophys. J.= 25: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w.

Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

+ =Atlan.= 100: 263. Ag. ’07. 160w.

=Moulton, Richard Green.= Modern reader’s Bible: the books of the Bible with three books of the Apocrypha presented in modern literary form; ed. with introds. and notes. **$2. Macmillan.

7–34574.

A one-volume edition of the reader’s Bible. The text used is that of
the Revised version and the chapters and verses of the King James
version are noted in figures on the margin. The general divisions
follow the topical arrangement used in the volumes of the smaller
separate editions.

=Moulton, Richard Green.= Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy. *$1.50. Macmillan.

7–29024.

The introduction of Dr. Moulton’s study considers “What is implied in
‘The moral system of Shakespeare.’” Following his preliminary
observations he conducts his inquiry along three lines of thought: the
first presents particular dramas to illustrate what may be recognized
as root ideas in the philosophy of Shakespeare; the second surveys the
world of Shakespeare’s creation in its moral complexity; the third
considers the forces of life in Shakespeare’s moral world, so far as
these express themselves in dramatic forms from personal will at one
end of the scale to overruling providence at the other end.

* * * * *

“The weakness of the book lies chiefly in just this neglect of the
oft-despised sources. The reputation of the work as suggestive and
stimulating is of course deserved, and it will doubtless long continue
to serve as a useful guide in a fruitful kind of study.”

+ − =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 130w.

=Mozart, Johann.= Twenty piano compositions; ed. by Carl Reinecke. (Musician’s lib., v. 26.) $2.50; pa. $1.50. Ditson.

7–1326.

The twenty selections from Mozart composition are prefaced by a
sympathetic biographical sketch by Dr. Reinecke.

* * * * *

“There is probably no one volume better fitted to arouse the piano
student’s interest in Mozart.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.

+ =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 190w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 319. Ap. 4, ’07. 420w.

=Mudd, Samuel A.= Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd; ed. by his daughter, Nettie Mudd; with preface by D. Eldridge Monroe. $3. Neale.

7–3.

Containing his letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas island, where
he was imprisoned four years for alleged complicity in the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with statements of Mrs. Samuel A.
Mudd, Dr. S. A. Mudd, and Edward Spangler regarding the assassination
and the argument of General Ewing on the question of the jurisdiction
of the Military commission and on the law and facts of the case, also
“diary” of John Wilkes Booth.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 80w.

=Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 50w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 330w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 120w.

=Mudge, James.= Fenelon: the mystic. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

7–14595.

An appreciative treatment of Fénelon, his life, character, and
influence is contained in this volume of the “Men of the kingdom”
series.

=Mulford, Clarence E.= Bar—20. $1.50. Outing.

7–23640.

“Twenty-five chapters of gunpowder smoke, of shanty towns in New
Mexico or Texas, thick with dust, pierced with bullets, strewn with
prostrate forms of cowboys. Terse descriptions of alkali plains, of
Gila monsters cayuses and the playful manners of the Bar–20
outfit.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Delightful one dollar and a half ‘dime novel.’”

+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.

“The narrative is full of swing, so full as to swing past at top speed
without making any particular impression beyond the fact that Bar–20
invariably worsts its enemies.”

− =Nation.= 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 310w.

“A rattling good story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 380w.

* =Mumby, Frank Arthur=, ed. Letters of literary men. 2v. ea. *$1. Dutton.

7–18132.

Two volumes of letters which begin with Frances Burney and end with
Robert Buchanan. The collection is divided into four groups as
follows: The age of Wordsworth and Scott, The age of Byron, The early
Victorian age and The age of Tennyson.

* * * * *

“Mr. Mumby might have left his work to responsible critics, without
suggesting that it was thorough and painstaking. It is both, and the
volumes afford some of the most interesting reading which we have come
across of late. The editor’s short notes by way of introduction are
capable, and his taste in selection, on the whole, admirable.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 99. Ja. 26. 280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“A very attractive and companionable book. In these two volumes you
have not only an index museum to most of the best letter writers of
the last two centuries, but also a quantity of invaluable material for
testing and revivifying many of the salient or amusing passages in
literary annals.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 426. D. 21, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

“There is a wealth of good reading which is of exactly the right kind
to take up and dip into at any place for a half-hour’s rational
enjoyment.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Mr. Mumby has done his work well. One or two letters could have been
spared.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.

“It is the autobiographical interest of these letters that appeals
most to the reader.”

+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 643. Ap. 27, ’07. 1800w.

* =Munn, Charles Clark.= Boyhood days on the farm: a story for young and old boys. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.

7–38603.

In which the old gambrel-roofed farmhouse with open fireplace, big
woodshed and tall well-sweep, the meadow and stream, and the isolated
school at the cross roads are rescued from oblivion and made the
environment of a farmer lad of the old New England type. The winter
and summer humdrum is pictured with all a youngster’s resentment of
the irksomeness of so tame a life yet it is made the all-important
factor in the sturdy development of a type that has ever been
prominent in the nation’s development.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 150w.

=Munro, Neil.= Bud. †$1.50. Harper.

7–20870.

Bud is a little Chicago girl who steps serenely into the home of her
staid aunts in a Scottish village. She is a contradictory mixture of
owlish wisdom and baby ignorance, and whenever she expresses her
thoughts it is with a goodly bit of slang that shocks her newly found
relatives. It is a charming book with a freshness entirely its own.

* * * * *

“We cannot readily forgive Mr. Munro for permitting the child to have
the inevitable attack of pneumonia in chapter thirteen, and his
descriptive style when elated is like that of Dickens at his worst.
But, after all, Bud is the thing, and Bud, if we may use an expression
that might have come from her lips, is a peach with a stone in it.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 562. Je. 8, ’07. 230w.

“Although the child is overdrawn and speaks a language too
picturesque, and the story has no particular merit, there is a
freshness about it that many will find charming.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠

“Not perhaps a book of solid merit, or dazzling wit, but neither is it
in the least dull or in the least pretentious.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 270w.

“A pretty story this, but badly constructed.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.

“She is a fascinating child, and though the book is spun out
unnecessarily, and Mr. Munro’s humour is at times strained, her
dealings with her neighbors make a very pleasant story.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.

“Though the little American play-actress is the central figure of this
high-spirited and wholesome entertainment, its abiding charm resides
in the portraiture of the ‘people of the placid, old, half-rustic
world, that lives forever with realities, and seldom sees the passions
counterfeited.’”

+ =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 700w.

=Munro, William Bennett.= Seigniorial system in Canada: a study in French colonial policy. *$2. Longmans.

7–11561.

“Beginning with an introductory chapter on the European background of
French colonization. Dr. Munro traces the history of the seigniorial
grants from 1598 to 1760. After this, with the elaborate critical
apparatus and bibliography of the ‘scientific historian,’ he describes
the relations of the seignior to his superiors and his dependents, and
the fiscal and religious systems of New France. He concludes with
chapters on British Canada which strengthen our growing conviction
that the American revolutionists were uninformed when they made the
famous Quebec act a chief grievance against Great Britain.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Within the limits he imposes on himself he has done his task
extremely well. He is always accurate. The bibliographical apparatus
is excellent and altogether the book attains to a very high standard
both of historical insight and of scholarship.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 171. O. ’07. 1040w.

“For the student of colonial history this book offers a valuable
sidelight; for the Canadian student its direct value must be great. It
will be long before the work has to be done again.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 240w.

“It has been reserved for Professor Munro not only to coördinate
materials which were brought together fifty years ago with those which
have been accumulated by his own efforts, but to supply the proper
perspective, enliven obscure details by critical insight, and set
forth the seigniorial system, as an organic whole.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 283. S. 26, ’07. 1530w.

“The foregoing criticisms, it will be noted, deal with minor matters,
Professor Munro’s book is to be heartily recommended to all students
of Canadian institutions.” F. P. Walton.

+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 729. D. ’07. 960w.

“It is indeed a mine of information, all the more valuable that it is
written throughout with absolute dispassionateness.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 517. O. 26, ’07. 1000w.

“We congratulate the author on the success with which he has
accomplished his task. The only portion of his work that seems to fall
below the high level reached in the earlier chapters is that which
deals with the period of British control, a phase of the subject which
might well receive separate and fuller treatment.” Charles M. Andrews.

+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 321. N. ’07. 600w.

=Munson, John William.= Reminiscences of a Mosby guerrilla. **$2. Moffat.

6–40255.

Mr. Munson became one of the Partisan rangers at the beginning of
their career and remained until the final surrender. “The spirit of
the author is fair and his admiration of courage impartial. Every one
who rode with Mosby has exciting experiences, hot fighting, fast
riding, and narrow escapes.” (Outlook.) “It is hardly history that he
gives, but rather adventure with a historic setting. Or if it be
called history, it must be classified as of that specialized type
produced south of Mason and Dixon’s line among a people imaginative
and emotional, but not analytical or introspective.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Contains much repetition, but is otherwise interesting in the manner
of telling as well as matter, and is characterized by considerable
humor.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.

+ =Dial.= 42: 145. Mr. 1. ’07. 590w.

“Tells in a spirited and captivating way the story of Mosby’s
guerrillas.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 618. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w.

=Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 160w.

“This is a plain, clear narrative, told with no pretense of literary
grace or historical accuracy, but with abundance of stirring
incident.”

+ =Outlook.= 84. 842. D. 1. ’06. 80w.

=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.

5–11083.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“It is conceived in a somewhat sentimental fashion. The argument,
though expounded in an attractive and popular manner, is, however,
essentially metaphysical.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 377. Mr. 30. 110w.

=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Science and idealism. **85c. Houghton.

6–15720.

“This little book gives the text of a lecture delivered last winter
before the students of Yale university. In it Professor Munsterberg
indicates in brief compass his position in regard to certain
fundamental philosophical problems, restating in somewhat popular form
the theories of the relations of science to experience, and of the
classification of the sciences, which are already familiar to readers
of the books and articles which he has published during the last few
years.”—Philos. R.

* * * * *

“This little book is remarkable in that it presents in clear and
simple outline a system of transcendental philosophy that is
admittedly both abstruse and elaborate.” W. P. Montague.

+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 161. Mr. 14, ’07. 1370w.

“The form of this presentation is admirably clear and direct.
Moreover, it is throughout dignified and earnest, as becomes an
address on serious topics, and does not seek to gain popularity and
effectiveness by the adoption of slang or phrases caught up from the
man on the street.” J. E. C.

+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 95. Ja. ’07. 520w.

=Murray, A. M.= Imperial outposts, from a strategical and commercial aspect; with special reference to the Japanese alliance; with a preface by Earl Roberts. *$3.50. Dutton.

7–38236.

“Colonel Murray makes a strategical and commercial survey of imperial
outposts with a special eye to the obligations of the Japanese
alliance. His book is the result of a journey to the Mediterranean,
Aden, Hong Kong and other British fortified stations, as well as to
Japan and Canada. It is based on first hand-information which should
be useful to all who wish to make a study of the conditions in which
the Empire would find itself on the outbreak of a great war. When
Colonel Murray wants to express an opinion, as a rule he gives that of
an expert whose views he has had the advantage of obtaining
direct.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“If we note those opinions from which we differ, it must be with the
preliminary remarks that there is still more in the book with which we
thoroughly agree, and that the whole of it is suggestive and worthy of
the most careful consideration.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 533. My. 4. 1140w.

“He knows how to put things shortly, and he does not hesitate to state
the conclusions which his information has led him to form, whether
they are or are not favourable to the existing state of things.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1300w.

“The number of material points touched on is great; the work is one of
much value.” George R. Bishop.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. Ag. 17, 07. 1250w.

“Colonel Murray’s is a volume of peculiar interest to the military
strategist of whatever country.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 720w.

“It is in no sense of the word authoritative and is but a slight
contribution to our knowledge.” G: Louis Beer.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 70w.

“This book will materially assist the study and closer knowledge of
the Empire from Malta round the world to Halifax.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 230w.

“The book has made us feel two things: first, that we should like to
see every officer in the British army with the wide vision and
interest in the strategical and commercial organization of the empire
which Colonel Murray displays; and secondly, that we should desire
more evidence before accepting all the very definite conclusions of
the author.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 831. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.

=Murray, David.= Japan; rev. ed. (Story of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.

6–37650.

Continuing the history to the close of 1905, with the provisions of
the Treaty of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan, and supplementary
chapters by Baron Kentaro Kaneko.

* * * * *

“Yet deserves a place in a popular library, however, for its
comparative freedom from sentimental and moral judgment of the things
narrated, as well as for its wealth of descriptive, though
uncritically presented data. Mr. Vorse’s two supplementary chapters on
the constitution and the Chinese and Russian wars seem to possess
singularly strong and weak points. Baron Kaneko’s two lectures cannot
be said to deserve a place in a book of history. They are pleas of an
advocate, as well as amenities of an envoy.” K. Asakawa.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 152. O. ’07. 1230w.

“The real claim of the book depends not on the revised features so
much as on the whole view it gives of Japanese history from the
beginning of the empire down to the present time.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 220w.

=Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.

+ =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12. ’07. 230w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.

=Murray, James Erskine-.= Handbook of wireless telegraphy; its theory and practice: for the use of electrical engineers. students, and operators. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.

7–37604.

A handbook which is not encyclopedic yet is more than a simple
exposition of the subject. It is intended for those who understand
something of the theory and practice of wireless telegraphy and who
are familiar with the technical terms.

* * * * *

“The author has arranged what may be fairly considered a most thorough
general treatise of wireless telegraphy, and one bringing together the
latest knowledge and theories.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 540. N. 14, ’07. 490w.

“With all due respect to Dr. Erskine-Murray, we submit that this
handbook is a striking example of how not to write on wireless
telegraphy or any other subject. [Contains] much of intrinsic value
and interest, particularly, for example the seventeenth chapter, on
theories of transmission.” Maurice Solomon.

+ − =Nature.= 76: 563. O. 3, ’07. 660w.

=Murrell, Cornelia Randolph (Mrs. David Gamble Murrell).= What Marjorie saw abroad. $1.50. Neale.

6–43797.

A bright, wide-awake account of a trip abroad in which are given
helpful bits of information for the prospective traveler. “It is not
intended for a guide-book—only a forerunner.”

* * * * *

“The descriptions are accurate and good, and not so long drawn out as
to be tiresome.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 120w.

=Muther, Richard.= History of modern painting; rev. ed. continued by the author to the end of the 19th century. 4v. *$25. Dutton.

A revision of the first German edition, appearing in 1894, which has
been continued to the end of the nineteenth century. “Besides all the
old illustrations from woodcuts and photographs, each of the new
volumes contains about a dozen full-page plates in color—a fine
gallery in themselves.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“For a survey of so wide a field this is just what is wanted; a bold
rather than a subtle vision and a valuable style that carries the
reader along to the next chapter before he thinks of criticising the
last.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 693. Jl. 20. ’07. 790w.

“Suffers precisely from a certain determinism which prevents him from
realizing the artistic life of this period in relation not only to the
past, but also to the future.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 160. Ag. 10. 1480w.

“The whole latter portion of the second volume is inferior to the rest
of the work, and gives the effect of having been written in a much
more hurried and perfunctory manner.” Elizabeth Kendall.

+ + − =Bookm.= 25: 619. Ag. ’07. 1430w.

Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.

+ =Dial.= 43: 11. Jl. 1. ’07. 130w.

“It is not often that one is permitted to write with unqualified
enthusiasm of a history of art that is encyclopedic in its range, for
the reason that few men who have written upon the subject combine
Professor Muther’s profound erudition, sureness of judgment,
excellence of taste and grace and fluency of expression.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 550w.

“At the end of the English survey only does he fail us.”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.

“The author, though there is a certain originality in his method
(which is rather psychological than chronological) does not take the
very high rank amongst art critics of the day claimed for him. In
spite, however, of certain peculiarities of style, he has brought
together in a convenient form a vast amount of information, and now
and then hits on a very apt comparison.”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 230w.

“Nowhere else can the student turn for an exhaustive critical study of
the nineteenth century, a statement which, in itself, declares the
unique value of this work.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 700w.

“Every one—artist, connoisseur, and critic—who desires to learn the
real mission of modern art and comprehend its present status as
individually and still more or less nationally expressed should read
Prof. Muther’s work.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 349. Je. 1, ’07. 1620w.

“Americans ... will feel some sense of disappointment, therefore, in
not finding more pages devoted to American art in Dr. Muther’s books.
Dr. Muther writes with an incisive phrase, far removed from the
ponderous, involved style of some of his compatriots.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 550w.

=Muther, Richard.= History of painting; tr. from the Germ. and ed. with critical notes by George Kriehn. **$5. Putnam.

7–11026.

An “attempt to explain from the psychology of each period its dominant
style and to interpret the works of art as ‘human documents.’” “The
work is in two volumes and contains eighty illustrations. It deals
with the entire development of European paintings from the ‘downfall
of the antique world,’ the fourth century, to the early years of the
nineteenth.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“A valuable book.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07.

“The excellent bibliography and the index of artists are additional
merits of these exhaustive, original, sumptuous volumes.” Anna B.
McMahan.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 12. Jl. 1, ’07. 1920w.

“It is only by comparison with the larger work that this two-volume
‘history of painting’ elicits criticism. There is hardly another work
of similar scope that is at once so compact with information and so
pleasant to read.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 110w.

“He seeks the explanation of the painter’s work as a product of the
times. Though Dr. Muther has not been the only writer to employ this
method in the study of art, it is not the general fashion, and his
development of it is conspicuous particularly for the breadth of the
field to which he has applied it. The style is, for a book of the
kind, unexpectedly spontaneous and free from the pedantic touch.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 51. Ap. ’07. 880w.

“His book reveals considerable familiarity with a very wide range of
art, and may be read with as much advantage as entertainment, if the
reader will constantly remain on his guard and take frequent
opportunities of testing the author’s statements, especially when they
strike him as particularly clever.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 182. Je. 7, ’07. 680w.

“Dr. Muther’s faults are what seem to us the faults of broad
philosophical generalizations based on erroneous or insufficient
premises—the faults of a man who would take a large view of things
without allowing himself to be hampered by inconvenient or tedious
facts, who would, in a word, evolve his camel from his inner
consciousness.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 85. Jl. 25, ’07. 2110w.

“It is more elaborate and less encyclopaedic than ‘The story of art
throughout the ages,’ by S. Reinach, and is hardly a ‘history’ in the
general acceptation of the term. Its principal features are
exposition, criticism and connoisseurship.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 80w.

“His criticism is entirely modern—his appraisements justified by the
effect produced on the modern mind. Vain endeavor, idiosyncrasy,
custom—all are gauged according to the modern standard of satisfying
results.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 580w.

“His books are distinguished from others because, as far as possible,
their author approaches every great movement and every great man from
a purely psychological point of view. The result is gratifying.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 480w.

“From a strictly scientific standpoint the work as a whole is somewhat
lacking in a due appreciation of the racial element in art, for the
author is manifestly more of a psychologist than an ethnologist. And
yet so grateful is one for these fresh, vital and inspirational
volumes that criticism is almost disarmed.” Christian Brinton.

+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 124. Ap. ’07. 590w.

“Scholarly work.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 50w.

=Myers, Frederic William H.= Human personality and its survival of bodily death; ed. and abridged by his son, Leopold H. Myers. **$3. Longmans.

7–1302.

An abridged editions of a work whose aim “is principally, to collect
evidence of the phenomena discussed. Nevertheless, the author enters
to some extent, on the more difficult and dangerous path of
interpretation and theory.” (Cath. World.) Following an introduction
the chapter headings are as follows: Disintegration of personality,
Genius, Sleep, Hypnotism, Sensory automatism, Phantasms of the dead,
Motor automatism and Trance, possession and ecstasy.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 144. My. ’07.

“One of the most valuable contributions that has been made to the
literature of psychic science.”

+ + =Arena.= 36: 671. Je. ’07. 520w.

“Without eliminating anything characteristic or typical, the editor
has compressed the original into this one volume.”

+ =Cath. World.= 85: 254. My. ’07. 280w.

N

=Naish, Ethel M.= Browning and dogma; seven lectures on Browning’s attitude towards dogmatic religion. *$1.40. Macmillan.

7–6792.

In this volume the author “takes half a dozen poems—‘Caliban upon
Setebos,’ ‘Cleon,’ ‘Bishop Blougram’s apology,’ ‘Christmas eve and
Easter day,’ and ‘La Saisaz’—and subjects them to minute running
analysis.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“In all her two hundred pages there is no note of freshness or
originality, and she has nothing of importance to contribute to our
knowledge either of the special works selected or of Browning’s poetry
in general.”

− − + =Acad.= 70: 328. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.

“The style is clear and workmanlike, the matter often thoughtful, and
the plan most patiently elaborated. The reader whose concern is with
poetry, the reader, that is to say, who can hop with catholic delight
from Milton to Shakespeare and from Keats to Wordsworth, will not get
through this book. It is too conscientious.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 398. Mr. 31, ’06. 1090w.

=Naylor, James Ball.= Scalawags. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

7–11210.

This story opens upon a wintry afternoon in a district school house
when a class reciting in “Green’s grammar” is interrupted by a tramp
and his dog who beg shelter and warmth for an hour. The tramp finds
among the pupils a kindred soul who one day joins the wanderer and
casts in his lot with him. Their experiences end in the boy’s
reforming the “bad man,” who in turn plans for the education of the
lad whose mother had been his sweetheart and had found him unworthy.

* * * * *

“Some of the descriptions are fairly well done, but the incidents are
often extravagant, and the characterization cannot be highly praised.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 200w.

=Neame, L. E.= Asiatic danger in the colonies. *$1.25. Dutton.

7–32192.

Six years of study in Asia and South Africa lie back of Mr. Neame’s
portrayal of the subject. He shows “how insidiously the patient and
stable races of the Orient are at work undermining the white man’s
boasted power, and how concrete is the peril.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Undoubtedly the facts presented by the author lead to the conclusion
that the only effective method of securing that a land equally adapted
for Europeans and Asiatics should be made a home for European settlers
is that of almost total exclusion, adopted by Australia, joined to a
fixed determination on the part of Europeans to engage in all forms of
manual work themselves.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

=Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 642. D. ’07. 260w.

“Mr. Neame’s book is one of very great value to anybody desirous of
understanding this question, not only in South Africa, but also in
Australia and Canada.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 450w.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 413. Je. 29, ’07. 1480w.

* Near East: the present situation in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Turkey and Macedonia. il. *$3. Doubleday.

W 7–173.

An anonymous publication which reveals the author in close touch with
European rulers and prime ministers. “He sipped coffee, smoked
cigarettes, and talked with the ‘various kings and princes of the
Balkan states,’ the Sultan of Turkey, and nearly all the members of
the various cabinets, as well as with people of the middle class and
with peasants, in order to form some conclusion as to the real
situation—political, economical, social, and financial—in this
European hotbed of discord.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“The author is animated by strong, though obviously unconscious, bias
against the Hellenic element in the Balkans, as well as against
Germany and Austria.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 661. Je. 1. 550w.

“Every page reveals the author as one who investigates his subject
thoroughly, discriminates his information carefully, and writes
convincingly.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 690w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

“The book is specially valuable in the light it throws upon Servia.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 200w.

“A trenchantly written volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w.

“That he has been told the whole truth and nothing but the truth on
all occasions he does not himself contend. But by separating the grain
from the chaff of official information and relating it to his own
private investigations he claims to have obtained a uniquely accurate
insight into Balkan affairs.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 320w.

=Neely, Thomas Benjamin.= South America, a mission field. *35c. West. Meth. bk.

6–42354.

A compact presentation of South American missions intended to awaken
interest in the field and its evangelical possibilities.

* * * * *

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 20w.

=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Lonesome trail. †$1.50. Lane.

7–19597.

Twenty short stories which are concerned with the Indians of the Omaha
and Ponca tribes, with French and Indian half-breeds, with gamblers
and trappers and ranchmen and [various] types of the frontier.

* * * * *

“One or two of the stories, regarded from the point of view of art,
pure and simple, are excellent specimens of their class. We should be
reluctant to pass judgment on Mr. Neihardt on the strength of this
collection of stories, and we are inclined to think that he will do
better work when he has learnt restraint.”

− + =Acad.= 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.

“Despite their undeniable charm and the vivid manner in which they
picture the life of the Indian and the half-breed trapper of the west,
they leave a distinctly depressing effect on the mind.” Amy C. Rich.

+ − =Arena.= 38: 222. Ag. ’07. 130w.

“[The stories] have good workmanship in them; strength of incident and
feeling, and no padding. The author has more feeling for style than
usually falls to the man who knows the extreme limits of
civilization.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29, 60w.

“Mr. Neihardt overdoes his effects very frequently, and he is much
given to allowing his people to talk in grandiloquent style.... It
will be a pity if he continues to allow his excellent endowment of
strength and vividness of imagination to be marred by such obvious
faults of taste and style.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

“He gives us an over-accumulation of vivid detail which defeats its
own ends. He is original, he is frequently haunting and inspiring, but
somehow he just ‘misses.’”

− + =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 80w.

Nelson’s encyclopaedia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman. 12v. $48. Nelson.

7–7496.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“On the whole, we think highly of this encyclopedia, which fairly
realizes the German ideal of a konversation-lexicon, and which is
published at a price moderate enough to place it within the means of a
large number of readers.”

+ + =Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 17, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 1–12.)

+ + − =Ind.= 63: 338. Ag. 8, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1–12.)

“The blurred and badly printed illustrations, the poor maps, and the
comparatively large proportion of space given up to subjects of
‘current interest’ are still the points that most seriously detract
from the permanent value of the books.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 56. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 5–10.)

“In general, the most obvious faults appear to be (1) too great a
condensation resulting sometimes in vagueness, but oftener in a
failure to bring out properly the comparative importance of real
significance of facts and events, (2) a lack of proportion from which
no encyclopedia is ever free, but which is here possibly more marked
as a result of its bi-national origin, and (3) too great emphasis on
matters of current or contemporary interest, both as to text and
illustration. No great reliance should be placed on the atlas feature
of the work.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)

“Searching through this book at random we are pleased with the
articles, however on the whole.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 1320w. (Review of v. 1–10.)

“Some of the longer articles are comprehensive and as nearly
exhaustive as encyclopedia articles can well be made. The minor
subjects are treated in a terse and condensed manner.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 255. F. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1–12.)

=Nernst, Walter.= Experimental and theoretical applications of thermodynamics to chemistry; with diagrams. **$1.25. Scribner.

Ten lectures delivered on the Silliman foundation at Yale university
in 1906.

* * * * *

“The chief value of the work is its suggestiveness and stimulus to
thought and research. It will be of that value to every one who will
‘read, mark, learn and inwardly digest’ its contents.” J. W. Richards.

+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 180. Ag. 15, ’07. 790w.

=Nation.= 85: 256. S. 19, ’07. 480w.

“Whether the reader is interested in the fundamental theoretical
speculations or the practical application of the derived formulae,
Prof. Nernst’s series of lectures cannot be too warmly recommended.”

+ + =Nature.= 77: 52. N. 21, ’07. 230w.

“Nernst has here produced a thoroughly interesting and readable book
on a very abstruse and difficult subject. As a résumé of the question
of chemical equilibria at high temperatures it will have a distinct
value.”

+ + =Technical Literature.= 2: 579. D. ’07. 540w.

=Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Land of make-believe, and other Christmas poems. **$1.40. Harper.

7–36127.

Mr. Nesbit weaves in rime the fancies of make-believe land that every
child loves to cherish. His poems are all about Christmas and the
unrealities and impossibilities that make a veritable stalk to meet
the sky

“And Jack goes up and down it—we have seen him, you and I.”

* * * * *

“Children will like them, but grown people will like them even
better.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.

“Taking it as a whole the book is a trifle tiresome.”

− =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.

=Nettleship, Richard Lewis.= Memoir of Thomas Hill Green, late fellow of Balliol college, Oxford, and Whyte’s professor of moral philosophy in the university of Oxford; with a short preface specially written for this edition by Mrs. T. H. Green. *$1.50. Longmans.

7–15903.

“The writings of Thomas Hill Green lie in the three fields of
philosophy, religion and politics. Mr. Nettleship in this memoir ...
brings out the development of the author’s thought in each of these
three fields.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“The estimate of the thought and personality of the
statesman-philosopher is sympathetic. and appreciative.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 90w.

+ =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.

“I do not know where one could look for a worthier portrayal of the
philosopher’s life and mind nor for a simpler statement of the central
position of idealism, than in this short biography.” B. Bosanquet.

+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 117. O. ’07. 1600w.

“So admirable an account of a great man well deserves the wider
circulation which one hopes it may obtain in this independent form.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.

“It is indeed a singularly frank and faithful, and yet loving
account.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 986. D. 15, ’06. 1420w.

* =Nevill, Lady Dorothy.= Leaves from the note-books of Lady Dorothy Nevill; ed. by Ralph Nevill. *$3 75. Macmillan.

Mr. Ralph Nevill, aided by the note books and the good memory of Lady
Nevill, has produced a book of reminiscences which reflects the
current thought of the period and pictures its prominent men. It is a
supplement to the “History of the Victorian era.”

* * * * *

“There are only slight blemishes on some very bright recollections.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1150w.

“Full of sidelights on many great characters affording with its
cheerful gossip a picture of the times such as the more formal
historian seldom attempts.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 140w.

“Mr. Ralph Nevill would have discovered a more tactful care of his
mother’s literary reputation if he had resisted the temptation to
publish these notes.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 580. N. 9, ’07. 680w.

“Lady Dorothy Nevill’s memory yields a valuable picture of her times.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 777. N. 16. 1800w.

=Nevill, Dorothy, lady.= Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill; ed. by Ralph Nevill. *$4.20. Longmans.

7–9818.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.

+ =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, ’07. 280w.

“She chats pleasantly through the pages of this book—always in good
humor and always bright and entertaining.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 506. Ja. ’07. 360w.

=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Dawn in Russia; or, Scenes in the Russian revolution. *$2.25. Harper.

6–35593.

The author has included in this volume “a diary of the revolutionary
acts which have followed in all parts of Russia the disasters of the
war with Japan.... A catalogue of well-known horrors ... and much
personal evidence of his own, drawn from visits, necessarily short, to
widely separated parts of European Russia.” (Ath.) The volume is
illustrated with cartoons and photographs.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07.

“We should prefer a treatment of the subject in which the record of
the writer’s own observations was distinct from his chronological
account of events which passed during his journeys, but of which he
was not a witness.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 280w.

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1290w.

“The all-pervading melancholy of Russian life as it manifests itself
in the music and the literature of the nation—all this is treated with
the sympathetic insight and the charming sincerity of true art, yet
with a conversational informality, liberally interspersed with humor,
which gives the reader a pleasing sense of intimacy with the writer,
as well as with an irresistible subject.” Abraham Cahan.

+ + =No. Am.= 183: 668. O. 5, ’06. 1520w.

=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Modern slavery. **$2. Harper.

6–18826.

Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.

“Mr. Nevinson’s account is very interesting, the illustrations are
good and the total impression is that it is an account of a truthful
eye-witness.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 250w.

=Newberry, Percy Edward, and Garstang, John.= Short history of ancient Egypt. **$1.20. Estes.

4–21092.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“Opinions may differ as to some of the author’s conclusions, but they
give in concise form material which is practically unobtainable
elsewhere in so small a compass, and the book will be found useful. A
defect which might be remedied in future editions is the absence of a
bibliography.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 65. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.

=Newbolt, Henry John.= The old country: a romance. †$1.50. Dutton.

“The story begins at the present time, and suddenly shifts to the year
in which the battle of Poictiers was fought, The characters for the
most part remain the same, nor does the scene change. Stephen Bulmer,
in the early chapters, is a young Englishman, of Colonial upbringing,
who ‘speaks of things to come as if he saw them.’ In the later
chapters, he is the same Englishman, modified by an Italian education.
But the sense of time has vanished from his brain.” (Acad.) “He is
taken into ‘the backwoods of time,’ where ‘the real work of men was
going forward, with sweat of the brow and blistering of hands, with
action and agony and endurance in place of talk and speculation.’ He
sees that all his doubts are long descended, that Ralph Tremur, the
eternal dissident, is an image of himself, and that the future must
lie with the constructive minds, who serve under discipline and keep
close to the earth in their toil.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Ingenious as is Mr. Newbolt’s thesis, it is not for that that we
would most highly praise his book. The story is told with a tact and
delicacy rarely found in the modern novel.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 810w.

“In his dedicatory epistle he frankly acknowledges that he has a
purpose and we as frankly state our conviction that that purpose is
wrong. Nor can we commend the machinery of the novel.”

− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 240w.

“Beautiful romance.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1770w.

“The end far more than atones for the stiffness of the beginning.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12. 548. S. 14, ’07. 110w.

“Very clear indeed is the picture of rural mediaeval England set
before us in the unfolding of the tale.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.

“An uncommonly thoughtful and interesting novel. The style is
distinguished, and there is no lack of good images. It is an admirable
expression of the genuine Tory spirit.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 340w.

“Mr. Newbolt reads his countrymen an eloquent lesson, none the less
profound because it is decked with all the graces of romance.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 789. N. 17, ’06. 1210w.

=Newcomb, Simon.= Side-lights on astronomy; and kindred fields of popular science. **$2. Harper.

6–34834.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 834. D. 29. 500w.

“Dr. Newcomb’s clear generalization of the progress of astronomy has
great interest and reveals some romance in the work of the
‘far-seekers’ which is lost in the tracing of the details.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1568. D. 27, ’06. 190w.

“A volume which is at once interesting and instructive.”

+ + =Nature.= 75: 294. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.

“He is certainly a star of the first magnitude in the astronomical
world.”

+ + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 440w.

=Newman, Ernest.= Wagner. (Music of the masters ser.) $1. Brentano’s.

5–40985.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“Done in a clear terse style, avoiding technical jargon.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 130w.

=Newman, George.= Infant mortality: a social problem. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.

7–32191.

Dr. Newman studies the distribution and extent as well as the causes
of infant mortality, and directs attention to the best means of
prevention.

* * * * *

“His familiarity with his theme is unquestionable, and the volume of
the facts and statistics that he has arranged and co-ordinated is a
proof of painstaking effort.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 450w.

“It is written well and clearly, and should be read by every one who
is interested in preventing the waste of child life which is occurring
not only in England, but also throughout every civilized country.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 17. Jl. 7. 360w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 240w.

“Dr. Newman has gotten together an immense amount of statistical data
bearing upon infant mortality-rates, of which data he makes most
effective use.”

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 247. Ap. ’07. 150w.

=Lond. Times.= 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 230w.

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 1280w.

“These thoughtful and intelligent studies cannot fail to interest all
who apply themselves to sociology, political economy and
philanthropy.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 310w.

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.

+ + =Spec.= 96: 951. Je. 16, ’06. 500w.

=Newmarch, Rosa.= Poetry and progress in Russia. *$3.50. Lane.

W 7–152.

“In five chapters Miss Newmarch considers the literary development of
Russia from Pushkin to the present. In the empire of the Czar,—as,
indeed, throughout the rest of the civilized world, the poets have
been the pioneers of liberty and enlightenment. This phase of Russian
culture is represented by the poets Pushkin, Koltsov, Nikitin,
Nekrassov, Khomiakasov, and Nadson. Translations of a number of the
representative poems from these masters supplement the essays.”—R. of
Rs.

* * * * *

“Her book is practically a re-writing of what is generally known about
Pouschkin, his life and works. Of the translations ... by Mrs.
Newmarch and others perhaps the less said the better.”

− + =Acad.= 73: 698. Jl. 20, ’07. 320w.

“We wish all success to this book: we know of none which will give the
reader more just ideas of what is good in Russian poetry.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 205. Ag. 24. 850w.

“The translations by the author and Prof. Morfill are, for the most
part, without much distinction; those of Miss Helena Frank are
somewhat better. The value of the book lies in its clairvoyant and
interpretive criticisms, which should do much toward creating a
deserved interest in Russian poetry.” Anne Peacock.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 566. S. 21, ’07. 2400w.

=R. of Rs.= 36:. 512. O. ’07. 110w.

“Candidly speaking, the reviewer must allow that the fault is more
with the title than with the actual scope of the book. But when all is
said and done, Mrs. Newmarch deserves to win readers for the poets to
whose humour she has devoted so much scholarly pains and ingenuity.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 454. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.

=Newmarch, Rosa.= Songs to a singer and other verses. *$1.25. Lane.

“A small collection of verse, mainly concerned, as its title
indicates, with the emotions evolved by another’s singing, and suffers
somewhat from the consequent lack of variety.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“These songs might pass muster, as being well up to the average, if
read between staves of music. Considered as poetry, or even verse,
they are weak.”

− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 183. Ag. 18. 430w.

=Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 100w.

“Miss Rosa Newmarch’s lyrics are very slight and quite unambitious;
they flow pleasantly and are free from solecisms and self-conscious
oddities. Just why any one of them was written would perhaps be
difficult to say, for none show much individuality or depth of
feeling.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 389. S. 29, ’06. 120w.

=Newton, Samuel Donald.= Dolorous blade: being a brief account of the adventures of that good knight of the Round Table, Sir Balin, called “Le Savage,” done into rhyme by Samuel Donald Newton. $1. Badger, R. G.

7–10041.

A new poetic version of the tragic story of Sir Balin, Le Savage, and
his fateful dolorous blade.