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Nibelungenlied; translated by John Storer Cobb. *$2. Small.

6–37588.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The form is a rhymed four-line stanza in iambic octometer, the rhymes
being in couplets. It is a jog-trot movement, and grows very
monotonous after a few pages. But a great poem in the higher sense,
this epic is not, and a fair sense of its historical importance is
obtainable from the present version.”

− =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 70w.

“All in all, this effort seems praiseworthy; but a comparison of the
average of the verse with the Lachmann text shows more than one
radical departure from the sense of the original, departures that
other versions seem not to have required.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 720w.

“A fine swinging translation.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 40w.

=Nicholson, Frank C.= Old German love songs; translated from the Minnesingers of the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

A selection from Minnesong sufficiently varied and extensive to
illustrate roughly the nature and range of the art, indicating the
main lines of its development.

* * * * *

“On the whole, we have real admiration for the manner in which Mr.
Nicholson has carried out his difficult task, and are confident that
his book will prove a stimulus to the study of the subject.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 1170w.

=Dial.= 43: 314. N. 16, ’07. 60w.

“Mr. Nicholson’s book is the first attempt to deal with the Minnesang
as a whole, and to give to English readers specimens of the poetry of
all its more conspicuous masters. For this task he is in many ways
exceedingly well equipped; his work is evidently a labour of love, and
he has prepared for it by a very close and intelligent study of his
subject.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 237. Ag. 2, ’07. 2100w.

=Nicholson, Meredith.= Port of missing men. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–5062.

A stirring drama which involves the throne of Austria is here enacted
among the Virginia hills just outside of Washington. The love story of
the truly American heroine who, in spite of herself, follows her heart
against her reason, and of the hero, heir to much Austrian greatness,
who does his country service and then renounces all for the democratic
life of an American, in itself holds the reader enthralled. But there
are added to it many other interesting characters and some scenes of
war and strategy, which will endear the book to lovers of adventure.
The plot is well devised, the romance pretty, the encounters of both
sword and word are clever; in all the story is a worthy successor to
“House of a thousand candles.”

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.

“This tale not only lacks the element of probability ... but it is
wanting in the cleverness of ‘House of a thousand candles.’”

− =Arena.= 37: 447. Ap. ’07. 370w.

“Is frankly only a story of adventure builded on a shop-worn model,
but very well done of its kind.” Grace Isabel Colbron.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 85. Mr. ’07. 450w.

“The story is fashioned after the conventional romantic pattern, and
displays no little skill in both plot and characterization.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.

“Something more than a mere catalog of horrors is needed to produce
the thriller aimed at by this type of novelist.”

− =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.

+ − =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w.

“Except for an occasional pleasing passage of scenic description,
written with a poetic touch and an artistic restraint not evident in
other parts of the book, and now and then a bit of clever
conversational fencing, the novel offers nothing of intellectual
entertainment except its exciting story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 131. Mr. 2, ’07. 360w.

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

=R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 110w.

=Nicholson, Watson.= Struggle for a free stage in London. **$2.50. Houghton.

6–38899.

“Dr. Nicholson, who is instructor in English at Yale, traces the
history of nearly two centuries in which London tried to free herself
from the theatrical monopoly. The triumph was reached when the passage
(on August 22, 1843) of the parliamentary act known as the Theater
regulation bill deprived the two patent theaters, Drury Lane and
Covent Garden, of their monopoly of playing Shakespeare and the
national drama.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 72: 503. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.

“A record so satisfactory is a welcome addition to the libraries of
all who are interested in the drama and its varying fortunes.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 586. My. 11. 380w.

+ =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 310w.

“Evidence is scrupulously weighed, original documents are carefully
collated and minutely examined, the whole thing is done with
scientific precision: the artistic aspects of the matter are severely
let alone.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1080w.

“This book although not likely to prove very attractive to the
ordinary reader of theatrical biography or gossip, will be valuable to
the genuine student of dramatic history.”

+ + − =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 830w.

“Mr. Nicholson, who has approached his subject in a thorough and
scholarly manner, has drawn his material from a multitude of sources
including many old documents.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29. ’06. 600w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 90w.

“Mr. Nicholson has given a carefully constructed narrative.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 541. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.

=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Key of the blue closet. *$1.40. Dodd.

W 7–54.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“So wholesome and enjoyable a book as this little volume of essays
should find many readers.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16. ’07. 280w.

“It ought to be a compliment to say that this book is thoroughly
sound, genial and interesting, without being in the least clever, and
without any of the little tricks of paradox and epigram that appeal to
our decade.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 190w.

=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Lamp of sacrifice; sermons preached on special occasions. *$1.50. Armstrong.

“The keynote of Dr. Nicoll’s sermons is religious optimism.... The
preacher does not reckon without the sorrows of life ... but the book,
as a whole, and each chapter in particular, impresses upon the reader
the conviction of the writer that they are none of them incurable, and
are in some sense discounted by religious faith.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“The pen of a ready and vigorous writer is easily recognizable in his
pages. Equally so is an intensely evangelical spirit.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 150w.

=Spec.= 97: 1049. D. 22, ’06. 120w.

=Nielsen, Fredrik Kristian.= History of the papacy in the XIXth century. *$7.50. Dutton.

7–2580.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The weakness of the book is to be found ... in its narrowness of
treatment and in its lack of precision of detail. The book sins most
of all by its lack of breadth and of historical proportion.” R. M.
Johnston.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 377. Ja. ’07. 1080w.

“The reader is never pulled up by the difficulty of understanding some
obviously foreign construction, and is not often repelled by ugly
English. The work of a learned Lutheran bishop of broad sympathies and
massive erudition.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 460w.

“In all this Dr. Nielson gives evidence of wide reading and a sane
historical judgment. The book is a mine of interesting matter
collected from innumerable scattered memoirs, collections of
documents, and other works. But though these are presented with a
sufficient impartiality, little attempt is made to interpret their
deeper significance. His narrative is overloaded with detail and
obscured by digressions, which, however interesting in themselves,
would have been better relegated to notes or appendices. Certain
criticisms in detail remain to be made which may prove useful in the
event of a new edition of the book.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 9. Ja. 11, ’07. 2230w.

“Timely in the best sense of the word.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 316. Ap. 4, ’07. 470w.

“His two volumes make not only an interesting and careful narrative,
they are also a significant and important contribution to the history
of the past hundred years.” Christian Gauss.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 390. Je. 15, ’07. 2870w.

“We have to thank the Master of Pembroke college, Cambridge for his
excellent editorship of the English translation.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 176. F. 9, ’07. 1410w.

“Readers who are acquainted with the language of Holberg, Hans
Christian Andersen, and the Brandes of to-day, with its delightful
post-articles, passive verbs, and amusing numerals, will be well
satisfied with the present version of the Danish text.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 2100w.

=Noble, Edward.= The issue: a story of the river Thames (or Fisherman’s Gat). †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–5686.

(2d ed. with title. Fisherman’s Gat.

7–13441.)

“A story of the Thames estuary, a drama of London’s great river, a
romance of lives of those who come and go in the lesser crafts in
which deep-sea certificates are not required of a man.... Love,
treachery, passion, crime, the stress and strain of dangers afloat and
labour complications ashore; owners, sailors, good simple folk and
smug hypocrites, evil livers and honest dealers—all figure in this
story.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Horror is piled upon horror a little clumsily, so that strength gives
way at times to brute force, and brute force is never convincing. But
the book is essentially one to read. It grips, and its grip is rough
as a sailor’s grip may be.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 170w.

“A drama of real interest, strong in atmosphere, characterization, and
first-hand observation.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 350w.

“A strong and unusual story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 182. Ap. ’07. 430w.

“He has the rare gift of verbal dry-point which fixes a picture
indelibly upon both memory and imagination.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w.

“His drawings, which illustrate the book, give their messages better
than his words. But the whole is rich, vivid, comprehensive, and like
his picture of the lives and characters of his sailors, it has the
sharp realization that comes of knowledge.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 390w.

“His chief character, ‘Windbag’ Saunderson, just misses being a
remarkable achievement. But only a few telling artistic touches, a
little more here, and a little less there, would have made it a much
more striking figure and the book much more significant.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 135. Mr. 2. ’07. 510w.

“It needs compression and it lacks brightness, but it is ambitious in
its dissection of motives and character.”

− + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 80w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 767. Je. ’07. 50w.

=Noble, W. Arthur.= Ewa; a tale of Korea.

$1.25. Meth. bk.

6–36433.

“Mr. Noble shows two Korean heroes with their Asiatic prejudices and
beliefs crumbling away under the influence of western ideas. Both
Sung-Yo, a son of rank, whose chief duty had hitherto been idleness
and incapacity, and his friend, Tong-Siki, of a lower class but.
greater ability, devote their lives to their country and their hopes
of seeing it free.... This little story, with its love interest woven
about a slave girl who becomes a convert to Christianity and suffers
for her faith, may be relied on to find many eager readers.”—N. Y.
Times.

* * * * *

“The book is fairly readable.”

+ − =Ind.= 61: 1493. D. 20, ’06. 120w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. S, ’06. 160w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 50w.

=Nolhac, Pierre de.= Versailles and the Trianons; with 60 full-page il. in col. by Rene Binet. *$3.50. Dodd.

6–40558.

M. de Nolhac is the keeper of the Versailles museum and writes out of
the fulness of his historical information. “He has recorded in
connexion with various portions of the palace the remarkable events
they have witnessed, and in the course of this volume manages to tell
the whole story of the locality.” (Sat. R.) “M. de Nolhac indicates,
in a large and poetic description, how much artistic stimulus the
place contains and will increasingly disengage as ‘the art of
Versailles’ recedes into a softened perspective.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“There is ample guaranty of the historical correctness of the
information he imparts. He writes also with sympathy and enthusiasm.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

“It is a pity that no credit is given to the painstaking and able
translator.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 565. D. 27, ’06. 310w.

“An extremely interesting monograph, which might well be a model for
this kind of book.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w.

* =Nordau, Max Simon.= On art and artists; tr. by W. F. Harvey. **$2. Jacobs.

7–28523.

A series of detached essays thru which may be traced the development
of modern art as represented by the following painters and sculptors:
Whistler, Frank Brangwyn, Rodin, Puvis de Chavannes, Mounier,
Bartholomé, Carriès, Gustave Moreau, Carrière, Zorn, Zuloaga,
Bouguereau. Problems of art are illustrated thruout the treatment of
the classic school of David, the romantic school, the Barbizon clan,
and the realists, to the recent school of symbolism and impressionism.

* * * * *

“There is much that is instructive, much that irritates by its
bumptiousness, and not a little that seems tedious, in his book.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 410w.

“Despite its faults as a purely critical work, the book throughout has
one quality which ranks it with the most valuable art criticism, and
that is its author’s skill in stripping from his subjects those
pretensions to literary motive, which in so many cases obscure the
minds of thinking people as to the real issues in discussion of the
plastic arts and the nature of the motives which alone are responsible
for artistic success,”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 390w.

“Mr. Nordau has not made up his mind, which seems to vary with the
state of the weather, and he contradicts himself again and again. Yet
there is in the book a great deal of wisdom and not a little acute
criticism.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 69. Mr. 1, ’07. 900w.

“We may note also that Dr. Nordau has a keen nose for indecency, and
finds it both where it is and where no one else perceives it. There
are many bits of shrewd criticism and many remarks the soundness of
which leads one, temporarily, to think of the author as of a person
really equipped with some judgment and knowledge of his subject, until
the next incredible caprice upsets the notion and leaves one wondering
what Nordau would be at and what is the real basis of his confidently
pronounced opinions. The translator is to be congratulated on his
success in avoiding foreign idiom and in making his translation read
like a piece of original and only too vigorous English.”

− + =Nation.= 85: 502. N. 28, ’07. 2730w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

− =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 210w.

=Nordau, Max Simon.= Question of honor; authorized translation by Mary J. Safford. *$1. Luce, J: W.

7–18817.

A tragedy of present-day Germany in four acts, which deals with the
strong anti-Semite feeling of the Germans by presenting the case of a
young Jewish mathematician, and by showing the odds against which he
fights in his efforts to win a professorship, and finally the insults
to which he is subjected when he asks for the hand of the German
fräulein who loves him. It is a dramatic plea for the man who is
denied position, love, and even life itself because he is a Jew.

* * * * *

“Though the translator has done well, in a few places she might have
done better. The play is excellent reading, and offers food for
thought.”

+ − =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 360w.

“It is not at all likely that any manager here would dream of
producing anything at once so undramatic and contentious. But as a
study of one of the problems in European politics it is both
illuminating and interesting.”

− + =Nation.= 85: 42. Jl. 11. ’07. 300w.

=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Story of Christina. $1.50. Neale.

7–21537.

A western girl as unconscious of her beauty as of her great wealth
practices rigid economy during her four years at an Illinois college.
The serenity of her wholly satisfactory life is interrupted by the
co-executors of her estate, one a Chicago lawyer who wishes to marry
her, the other a New York cousin who plans to take her east to be
properly trained by wealthy relatives. She accepts the latter
proposition, becomes plastic to the touch of a skilled social artist,
is led into an engagement with an English duke, breaks it and weds the
man of her old college days who had devoted his life to becoming
worthy of her.

=Norton, Charles Eliot.= Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a sketch of his life, together with Longfellow’s chief autobiographical poems. **75c. Houghton.

7–1293.

Written for the Longfellow centenary. The book “can be read through in
less than two hours, and can be bought for less than a dollar; but
neither of these facts should be of use in measuring the amount and
duration of the impression it ought to make upon a receptive reader.
The poems chosen number thirty, and include ‘A psalm of life,’ ‘The
wreck of the Hesperus,’ ‘The bridge,’ ‘The cross of snow,’ and other
favorites, concluding with ‘Morituri salutamus.’... Perhaps the most
valuable point made by Mr. Norton is to be found in the paragraphs in
which he shows how completely Longfellow was the product of a simple
and refined New England, which had gently broken with the Puritan
régime and was filled with an optimistic belief in the orderly
evolution of men to individual and national felicity in a new and
favored world. Purity, naturalness and kindness were the fundamental
characteristics of Longfellow, and these were in the main, the
fundamental characteristics of the people who first welcomed his
self-revealing poems.” (Forum.)

* * * * *

=Current Literature.= 42: 285. Mr. ’07. 1900w.

“He has honored other friends in a more elaborate and impressive
fashion, but none, I think, with more true sympathy and reverent
poise ... than he has displayed in this brief memoir of Longfellow.
The essential facts are given, the right note of praise is struck,
there is no meaningless and confusing parade of literary references
and allusions.” W. P. Trent.

+ + =Forum.= 38: 555. Ap. ’07. 770w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 57. F. 22, ’07. 870w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.

“Mr. Norton’s centenary memorial of Longfellow is perfect in its
kind.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 106. O. ’07. 700w.

“This is a most pleading little book, and worthy of its author,—an
author whom we may fitly describe as one of the most cultivated men
who speak and write the English language, whether on his or our own
side of the Atlantic.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 268. Ag. 24, ’07. 240w.

=Noyes, Alfred.= Flower of old Japan, and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.

7–21391.

Poems in which “the feet of children are set dancing.” They deal with
the Kingdom of dreams in which a journey is made to old Japan. Back of
the fantasy are serious lessons and vivid pictures of Japan with
kaleidoscopic glimpses of pirates, mandarins, bonzes, priests,
jugglers, merchants, ghastroi, etc.

* * * * *

“There is a proficiency in the workmanship that, coupled with Mr.
Noyes’s humorous tenderness in approaching his theme, all but disarms
criticism. Yet if we look at the matter in a cool objective light, it
must be said that the attempt is only partially successful.” Ferris
Greenslet.

+ − =Atlan.= 100: 843. D. ’07. 620w.

“In ‘The flower of old Japan’ ... it is possible to see little but
futile ingenuity in the misdirection of poetic energy.” Wm. Aspenwall
Bradley.

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 539. S. 7, ’07. 1420w.

“Mr. Noyes has the instrument, the lute, in tune, but has not met the
revealing hour which shall give him a message for its strings.” Jessie
B. Rittenhouse.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 364. D. ’07. 260w.

=Noyes, Alfred.= Poems: with an introd. by Hamilton Wright Mabie. **$1.25. Macmillan.

6–38994.

The poems of an Oxford man, only twenty-six years of age, who is
looked upon in England as destined to “be of the greatest service in
the re-establishment of the great traditions of English song.” “Mr.
Noyes has ‘drawn inspiration from a rather exceptional range of
literature—classic poets, Celtic legends, travellers’ tales, English
ballads, Holy Writ, tales of the road, and Lord Rosebery on Napoleon;
but he has digested this heterogeneous beebread with the eupepsy of
vigorous poetic youth.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Acquaints us with a singer whose note is both fresh and vital.” Wm.
M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 390w.

“There is a gusto in his work, a savor of opulence, variety and ease
that is full of hope. As yet Mr. Noyes is a little too adventurous in
his quest of the striking subject, too proud of the mere muscles of
his verse.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 270w.

“Mr. Noyes does not show the faults usual in a young poet. You will
never be in any doubt about his meaning, but neither will you be
carried out of yourself by any exaltation of words, any intensity of
passion, any abandon of beauty.” Bliss Carman.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 230w.

“I am sure that [the reader] will not need me to point out their
spontaneous power and freshness, their imaginative vision, their
lyrical magic.” Richard Le Gallienne.

+ + =No. Am.= 183: 1179. D. 7, ’06. 1050w.

“He is ... a singer and not a thinly disguised philosopher or a
reformer who has possessed himself of a musical instrument. He has a
voice of compass and sweetness, and his tones flow clear and sweet,
with the courage of a real talent and the richness of a full nature.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 372. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 60w.

=Noyes, Carleton Eldredge.= Gate of appreciation: studies in the relation of art to life. **$2. Houghton.

7–15336.

A personal record of the author’s “adventures with the problem of
art.” He wishes “to suggest the possible meaning of art to the
ordinary man, to indicate methods of approach to art, and to trace the
way of appreciation.” He believes that the final meaning of art to the
appreciator lies in his sense of its relation to his own experience.

* * * * *

“The book is not a mere summary of art history and criticism, but the
outcome of original study and possesses real value.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 240w.

=Nugent, Maria, lady. (Mrs. George Nugent).= Lady Nugent’s journal: Jamaica one hundred years ago; ed. by Frank Cundall. *$2. Macmillan.

W 7–122.

Lady Nugent was the wife of the Governor of Jamaica a hundred years
ago and this journal was intended only for her children and friends.
“A great part of the journal is devoted to things personal and
domestic; hence the propriety of its private circulation when, five
years after the writer’s death, it first saw the light in a modest
way.... Historical, biographical, and bibliographical matter is
furnished in abundance.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“All that editorial skill could do to render attractive her sometimes
monotonous chronicling of unimportant details—for she had few others
to record—has been done.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 390w.

“The intrinsic interest of what she has to tell us is not a little
enhanced by the skilful and scholarly editing of Mr. Cundall.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.

“This journal [contains] ... pictures of social life drawn by a close
and delicate observer; shrewd comments upon the usages of a
civilization quite alien to everything in the writer’s former
experience; an elaborate account of the process of making sugar;
amusing stories of the ups and downs of diplomatic life; suggestive
sketches of character.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. My. 25, ’07. 500w.

“We think [Mr. Cundall] might have omitted far more than he has done.
But there are a good many passages ... which are informing and of
value.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 500. Ap. 20. ’07. 240w.

=Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.= Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, tr. by Fanny Bandelier. **$1. Barnes.

5–18321.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

=Ind.= 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 140w.

O

=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Amerigo Vespucci (Heroes of American history.) *$1. Harper.

7–7447.

His early life amid Florentine surroundings, the avidity with which he
absorbed accounts of Marco Polo’s wonderful journeys, his study of
charts, globes, nautical instruments for the sake of acquiring skill
in cosmography lead up to a very informing narrative of his four
voyages. His relations with Columbus, and the diverging
characteristics of the two explorers are interestingly sketched.

* * * * *

“Scholars will object to his interesting but irrelevant digressions.
It is a real contribution to popular history.”

+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 180w.

+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 140w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 60w.

“Within very moderate limits, and in a clear, attractive way, Mr. Ober
succeeds in presenting an interesting portrait of the man.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.

“For several reasons it is less satisfactory than its predecessors.
Far too much prominence is given to secondary figures. There is also
too liberal a piecing-out of the narrative by quotations. Mr. Ober has
paid scanty attention to the results of recent investigations.”

− + =Outlook.= 80: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 240w.

“The story is told in an entertaining way from original, authentic
documents, and is illustrated with portraits and maps.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w.

=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand De Soto, and the invasion of Florida. **$1. Harper.

6–32459.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“This little volume is neither dry nor dull, and in its pages is
recreated a good story of the adventures, dangers and thirst for gold
of De Soto and his sturdy band.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 550w.

=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand Magellan. *$1. Harper.

7–15946.

Magellan is the subject of this volume in the “Heroes of American
history” series. The story of the life and voyages and tragic death of
the great Portuguese explorer, his discovery of the Straits of
Magellan, Guam, and the Philippines in the first transpacific voyage,
is told in compact detail.

* * * * *

“Worth buying for the small library because of the brevity of material
found in the general works that most small libraries can afford.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07. S.

“The book is an instructive and interesting one to add to a boy’s
library.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 100w.

“In clear and convincing style, and with candor as well as sympathy,
Mr. Ober traces the short and stormy career of Magellan.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 420w.

“Is even more interesting than the excellent life of Vespuccius.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 440w.

“Mr. Ober’s volume is not the least interesting of an interesting
series.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 110w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.

=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Vasco Nunez de Balboa. **$1. Harper.

6–37625.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is a book for young readers and will undoubtedly hold their
attention. Its chief value is that it presents in rapid story form
facts affording a correct general idea of early Spanish exploration
and settlement.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 643. My. ’07. 110w.

“Young and old readers alike should be interested in the present
volume, especially in its chief dramatic episode, the discovery of the
Pacific.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w.

=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson.= Jay Cooke, financier of the civil war. 2v. **$7.50. Jacobs.

7–33957.

A complete biography of this great patriot and marvelous financier in
the preparing of which the author has had the interested aid of the
family and free access to the chests full of letters and documents
preserved by Mr. Cooke during his life. Dr. Oberholtzer presents an
open, good and honest career, and shows how impossible it would have
been for the Federal government to have carried on the civil war
without the help of so great and loyal a financier.

* * * * *

“The historian, who estimates accomplishments by their ultimate effect
rather than by the brilliancy of their execution, is certain to take
larger account of him as time goes on. To such students Dr.
Oberholtzer’s volumes offer themselves as a standard work of
reference.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 546. D. 12, ’07. 960w.

“Dr. Oberholtzer’s voluminous work will be found interesting, not only
to the financier, but to the ordinary reader in search of
entertainment. It should be many years before another life of this
honest man and patriot is called for.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 710. N. 9. ’07. 1940w.

+ =Outlook.= 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 70w.

“Always the view-point is that of an ardent, even an undiscriminating
admirer of Jay Cooke. This, indeed, constitutes the chief defect of a
work that is otherwise of real value.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 450w.

“Dr. Oberholtzer has made a valuable contribution to the history of
the civil war period.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 753. D. ’07. 350w.

=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Don-a-dreams. †$1.50. Century.

6–29530.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 99: 125. Ja. ’07. 210w.

=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Susan. $1.50. Luce, J: W.

7–22115.

“Susan, a beautiful and impossible maid, receives a letter proposing
marriage to her from a young and imaginative peer, who has presumably
fallen in love with her pretty face without ever having spoken to her.
Susan, greatly embarrassed ... consults her mistress, who ends by
conducting her correspondence for her, eventually falling in love with
her correspondent. The climax comes when the young lord—his love
fanned by the beauty of his lady’s letters—discovers that there has
been a mistake, and that the girl whom he saw and loved is the
mistress and not the maid.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“Mr. Oldmeadow knows how to write, and should entertain a wide circle
of readers this spring. His book has a sense of character, too, which
is the more effective for not being lost in a cloud of verbiage.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 90w.

+ − =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.

“The sprightly tale of ‘Susan’ is delicately, and at times humorously
feminine, in its grasp of that only constant theme, love, to which it
is a delightfully clever variant.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 330. My. 25, ’07. 470w.

“It has a unique and daring plot, and is written with an airiness and
humor that make its pages most entertaining and attractive.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“It is a dainty trifle, pleasantly written, but it has, in spite of
its modern setting, no relation to the life and action of to-day. The
story is developed with considerable skill and humour, and although it
is written in the literary diary form, it is never tedious.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.

“[Though] it strains the reader’s credulous powers to breaking-point,
is at any rate lightly and freshly written.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 30w.

=Oliver, Frederick Scott.= Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American union. *$3.75. Putnam.

6–16717.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“He ought to have enough discrimination to see the point of view of
the other side and to recognize that his own favorite had some
shortcomings. Neither of these things has Mr. Oliver done.” John
Spencer Bassett.

− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 398. Ja. ’07. 1090w.

“It is so broad, so generous, so just to both sides in its analysis of
the great struggle for liberty, its estimates of all the actors in
that picturesque drama, it is so evidently a labor of love in an
infinite leisure, above all so classic in style, and so interesting in
mere reading, that, in an era when the American public was more
addicted to serious books than now, it would have become a handbook at
once and exerted a powerful influence.” Gertrude Atherton.

+ + =No. Am.= 183: 407. S. 7, ’06. 1500w.

=Ollivant, Alfred.= Redcoat captain: a story of that country, il. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–29092.

A story fraught with tender symbolism which “contains the key to the
right of entry into ‘that country’—the country of those who have
learned to remain young in heart and to look out upon life with the
frank serenity of little children.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

“The form of nonsense that finds expression in ‘Redcoat captain’ does
not please us at all.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.

“Curious, alluring and altogether unique volume.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 271. N. ’07. 280w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 70w.

“Those who bring the heart and mind of a boy will discover that it is
a striking piece of work, and also that it is a very beautiful
parable.”

+ + =Outlook.= 87: 473. N. 2, ’07. 690w.

* =Olmsted, Frederick Law.= Journey in the back country in the year 1854. 2v. *$5. Putnam.

“This book, originally published in 1860 on the eve of the war of
secession, is one of the most remarkable indictments of negro slavery
to be found in the arsenal of abolitionist literature. It records a
personal study of the conditions and habits of the people of the
south ... [in order] to obtain and report the facts of ordinary life,
not to supply arguments. Mr. Olmstead[Olmsted] was no
abolitionist, ... he aimed at emancipation through the gradual
cultivation and education of the capacities of the slaves, and the
awakening of the masters to the economic waste of the existing system.
His most interesting pages are not those devoted to the sordid
realities of the cotton-fields and the varied conditions of life in
the cabins of the ‘darkies;’ but those which contain a searching and
pitiless analysis of the southern planter and the ‘mean’
whites.”—Spec.

* * * * *

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 310w.

“Negro slavery has gone forever, but the negro problem is still acute,
and those who would understand both the real nature of the ‘peculiar
institution’ and the causes of the great war should study this very
opportune reprint of Mr. Olmstead’s work.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 826. N. 23, ’07. 640w.

=Olney, Oliver, pseud.= Novelty circus company. †$1.50. Jacobs.

7–29151.

How some school boys organized a company and gave a series of circus
performances for the benefit of their town library provides material
for a capital story.

=Oman, Charles William Chadwick.= Great revolt of 1381. *$2.90. Oxford.

6–42914.

“The late André Reville had projected a work on this movement, and had
got together a vast collection of records of trials, inquests,
petitions, and escheators’ rolls for this purpose. Professor Oman has
enjoyed the use of all of these documents, and also includes some new
and unpublished material regarding the poll-tax. He thinks he has
discovered why that impost met with such universal detestation, how
the poorer classes in England conspired to defeat its operation, and
how the counterstroke made by this government provoked the rebellion.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Oman has written his account without prejudice, and its value, we
imagine, lies less in any thesis it may be thought to establish, than
in the picture it gives of England in 1831.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 57. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.

“It is because Prof. Oman’s book, as we have said, supplies a want for
teachers and students, that we have drawn attention to certain points
which will require revision if he should undertake a fresh edition.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 124. Ag. 4. 1810w.

“We have dwelt at what may appear disproportionate length upon his
treatment of the poll tax returns because it is here that he specially
lays claim to originality. What is valuable in his suggestions is not
materially affected by the inaccuracies pointed out above, but we rise
from the examination with a somewhat shaken confidence in the
scientific exactitude of his methods of research. The narrative of the
rebellion itself can be more unreservedly commended. It is full, well
digested, and spirited. But even here we must not look for pedantic
accuracy in details.” James Tait.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 161. Ja. ’07. 2300w.

“Alike from its summing up of recent results, and from the new
material it contains and the freshness and suggestiveness of its
style, this book will be indispensable to the student of the
fourteenth century. It will also find readers beyond the ranks of
professional historians, for it narrates a dramatic story, and
Professor Oman has told it well.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 277. Ag. 10, ’06. 930w.

“The most interesting, if not the most valuable feature of Prof.
Oman’s book, is the diversity of material which it contains. The whole
episode assumes new meaning under his skilful analysis of the causes
which prompted such a widespread and spontaneous uprising.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 557. D. 27, ’06. 940w.

“Brilliant narrative.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 429. O. 6, ’06. 1240w.

“A valuable historical study, picturesque and compact.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 464. O. 6, ’06. 2190w.

=Oman, John Campbell.= Problem of faith and freedom in the last two centuries. *$2.75. Armstrong.

7–29073.

“A critical review of two centuries of debate upon the problem of
faith and freedom, which arose in the Protestant reformation....
Jesuitism and Pascal’s ‘Pensées,’ English deism and Butler’s Analogy,
Rationalism and Kant on Pure reason, Romanticism and Schleiermacher’s
Discourses on religion, The French revolution, and Newman’s
‘Apologia,’ the Development theory, and Baur’s Church history, the
Theory of experience and Ritschlianism ... make up a conspectus of a
highly diversified field.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“He has ... the defects of individualist Protestantism; but he has
also its good qualities, and that makes his book suggestive and
interesting.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 122. F. 2. 470w.

“His book is full of courage and hope, accepting joyously and eagerly
the results which the best scholarship has attained, and yet cheered
with the outlook for true religion and for the higher interests of
humanity.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 460w.

“It will be seen at once that the lecturer had fixed upon a subject of
great interest and importance, both to the speculative thinker and to
the common man. His selection of material for study and discussion
indicates no less discernment. As an analyst and critic, Professor
Oman exhibits marked ability.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 800w.

=Outlook.= 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 350w.

=Omar Khayyam.= Rubaiyat: a new metrical version; rendered into English from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes. **$1.50. McClurg.

6–41520.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“He has caught the spirit of Omar—though not, we think, so completely
as FitzGerald—and his translation, though it is not likely to bring
many new worshippers to the shrine of the old tentmaker of Naishapur,
should be welcomed by scholars. Much learning and research have gone
to its making, and the marginal and other notes are valuable; but
judged as literature, it is—inevitably—vastly inferior to
FitzGerald’s.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.

“Workmanlike little book.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 240w.

=Omond, Thomas Stewart.= English metrists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; being a sketch of English prosodical criticism during the last two hundred years. *$2.40. Oxford.

7–37517.

A book for students which not merely enumerates and summarizes but
traces “the gradual development of sound views of verse-structure.”
Mr. Omond divides the two hundred years of his survey into four equal
periods, to each of which he devotes a chapter, as follows: The old
orthodoxy, Resistance and rebellion, The new verse, and The new
prosody.

* * * * *

“In recommending the present pamphlet to our readers, we do not intend
to indorse Mr. Omond’s conclusions, nor to subscribe to his criticism.
We have not yet examined the pamphlet with all the care and thought
which it deserves, and there are points on which we distinctly
disagree with Mr. Omond.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 945. S. 28, ’07. 650w.

“The finest part of Mr. Omond’s book consists in the exposition of his
own ideas.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 465. Ap. 20. 1790w.

“Is one of the most important books on versification that have
appeared since Sidney Lanier’s ‘Science of English verse.’” Edward
Payson Morton.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 33. Jl. 16, ’07. 2210w.

“But neither these strictures nor some omissions and slips and even
misjudgments, which are inevitable in such a work, can change the fact
that the work is carefully done, and is to be received with
gratitude.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 144. Ag. 15, ’07. 1020w.

“Has no competitor in this history of prosody save Prof. Saintsbury.
It is eminently scholarly and conscientious, and a noteworthy and
valuable contribution to this much-debated and still debatable
subject.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 660w.

=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Enoch Strone. †$1.50. Little.

A new illustrated edition. Enoch Strone, mechanic and inventor, in a
moment of humiliation caused by a rejected suit, marries an impossible
factory girl. His struggle between relinquishing his career as member
of parliament and saving his wife from herself ends in his facing his
duty and in finding definite reward.

=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Lost leader. †$1.50. Little.

6–18998.

“The prolific Mr. Oppenheim has again brought forth a mouse.”
(Nation.) It is a story of English politics in which one Mannering
retired from the political arena, is dragged back to the scene of his
former successes by the villain of the plot, there to suffer intrigues
of both love and politics.

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 150w.

“Mr. Oppenheim is one of the few writers who can make a political
novel as interesting as a good detective story where the reader is
expecting some one to be shot on every page.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 210w.

“This is a story that grips one from the start, notwithstanding its
opening, which contains a dialog of platitudes.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 480w.

“The truth is, Mr. Oppenheim’s manner is a bit too candidly
professional. He has done the trick many times, and is confident of
doing it many times more; one may imagine him blandly aware of the
fact that it is not much of a trick after all.”

− + =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 440w.

“There is at least one person in the book—Mrs. Phillimore—which is a
well conceived and convincing character. This is the best thing in the
way of character study that Mr. Oppenheim has done. His hero is a weak
man, and most of the other characters are far from taking the flesh
and bone of reality.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“The story is readable enough, but not of great importance.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 160w.

=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Malefactor. †$1.50. Little.

7–984.

One finds In the malefactor of Mr. Oppenheim’s story a companion study
to the hero of his “Prince of sinners.” Grown ascetic and bitter
during a period of unjust imprisonment, Sir Wingrave Seaton, at the
end of his confinement, slips into the world incognito for purposes of
revenge. His nature is too generous to permit him to carry out his
scheme of injury. Under the mask of indifference, even cruelty, he is
a philanthropist. After numerous logical digressions the love interest
shapes itself into a typical bachelor’s romance.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07.

“Had Mr. Oppenheim been content to make the outcome of the story a
little less obvious from the beginning, the novel would have gained in
strength.” Amy C. Rich.

+ − =Arena.= 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.

“Mr. Oppenheim’s latest venture will bring no discredit upon his
reputation as a storyteller.”

+ =Cath. World.= 86: 404. Je. ’07. 440w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 240w.

“This is a typical example of the modern realistic novel which,
without any pretence to literary art, contrives to hold the interest
of the reader.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.

“An amusing yarn, and not without a moral.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 100w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 340w.

“It is the most enticing excuse for suspended mental activity that has
yet come from Mr. Oppenheim’s gifted pen.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 47. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.

“Is a frankly sensational story with little pretence to literary art
but constructed with all that skill in development of power and
exciting interest of which the author is an acknowledged master.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 140w.

=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Sleeping memory. †$1.50. Little.

A new edition with frontispiece. The story records a physician’s
experiment of performing an operation upon a willing patient which
results in a loss of memory. With the memory disappears also the soul
of the girl leaving only a superficial, pleasure-loving, heartless
coquette. A second operation restores her to her former self, and
eliminates any memory of her seven months of changed identity.

=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“The part of the book dealing with the development and present state
of the law of neutrality is perhaps the most valuable.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The general arrangement is admirable; the style is careful, though
sometimes a little cumbrous. Solid merit is the distinguishing
characteristic of these volumes.” T. Raleigh.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 388. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Orczy, baroness.= Beau Brocade. †$1.50. Lippincott.

7–28961.

The daring incidents which give life to this tale take the reader back
to the days of the Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart. Beau Brocade, a
cashiered army officer of high birth, is dropped from the army for
justly chastising a superior officer. He becomes a chivalrous
highwayman, robbing rich men and extortioners and dropping many of the
guineas so secured into Wirkworth’s poor box. His heroism, his
chivalry, all his qualities of knighthood are called into play in
aiding one Lady Patience Gascoyne to free her brother from the charge
of traitorship to the king. As a reward he is restored to the army and
wins the hand of the heroine in spite of the machinations of a titled
rival.

* * * * *

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

“Baroness Orczy writes in a breezy, galloping style, which does not
scorn any amount of meretricious adornment.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 320w.

=Orczy, Baroness.= Gates of Kamt; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.

7–21538.

“In ‘The gates of Kamt,’ two young Englishmen discover ancient Egypt
hidden away beyond the desert, with language, customs, Pharaohs,
embalming and all just as it used to be. The author out-Haggards
Haggard in riotous and luxuriant description.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“There is no question that ‘The gates of Kamt’ ranks high in its own
class as a piece of pure imaginative audacity.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 25: 601. Ag. ’07. 520w.

“Granted her situation, the author has made the human heart terribly
convincingly true to it.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 515. Ag. 29, ’07. 270w.

“Baroness Orczy has a vivid imagination and a fertile fancy, and she
has woven a gorgeous web of splendid pageants and beautiful scenes and
no end of exciting adventures.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.

=Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.

=Ormond, Alexander T.= Concepts of philosophy. 3 pts. *$4. Macmillan.

6–35520.

The three parts to Professor Ormond’s book are, “(1) an analysis which
sets forth the two methods by which man seeks to realize his world:
the method of external observation ... and the method of inner
reflection ... (2) a synthesis which, while it justifies the two
methods revealed by the analysis, sets forth the necessity of a
synthesis of them and an attempt to realize it; (3) a series of
deductions, which might more properly be called corollaries, dealing
with a number of themes of general philosophical interest.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 69. Jl. 20. 300w.

“It is remarkably free from blemishes of the polemical spirit, a
thoroughly notable and helpful addition to our standard works on the
philosophy of religion. It is to be hoped that the next edition of the
work will give us a good index.” J. Macbride Sterrett.

+ + − =J. Philos.= 4: 46. Ja. 17, ’07. 2160w.

“We confess that Professor Ormond’s book has aroused in us the
suspicion that he has—without malice, we may admit—developed his
philosophy in support of certain beliefs, but has not exhibited it as
a source from which those beliefs spontaneously sprung.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 108. Ja. 31, ’07. 1900w.

“Clear and straight thinking characterizes Dr. Ormond’s work
throughout.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 340w.

“Professor Ormond’s last book takes, in the opinion of the reviewer, a
very high place among recent systematic works of philosophy. A large
measure of agreement with his conclusions may emphasize this judgment;
but the powers of analysis and the philosophical insight which the
book reveals, any unprejudiced critic must recognize. Compared with
the remarkable clear cut treatment of the scientific concepts, the
religious concept is largely taken on trust, and this seems to me the
point in which the book is weakest.” A. K. Rogers.

+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 425. Jl. ’07. 3980w.

“To many, and especially to non-professional readers, is likely to
seem much fresher and more interesting than [‘Foundations of
knowledge’].” Arthur O. Lovejoy.

+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 339. N. 15, ’07. 1200w.

“The book may well be read by those who are not philosophical
specialists, for, unlike much American philosophical work, it is
written in lucid English, and is largely free from the preposterous
terminology affected by certain modern metaphysicians.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 630w.

* =Orr, Rev. James.= Virgin birth of Christ. (Bible teachers’ training school lectures, 1907.) **$1.50. Scribner.

7–31231.

“The aim of these lectures is ‘to establish faith in the miracle of
the Lord’s incarnation by birth from the Virgin, to meet objections,
and to show the intimate connection of fact and doctrine in this
transcendant mystery.’ The purpose is not to discover truth but to
defend it.” (Bib. World.) There is an appendix giving the opinions of
living scholars.

* * * * *

=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.

“He never quotes an opponent’s position unfairly, nor intentionally
presses his own argument beyond his honest conviction of its worth.
His book is probably the clearest and strongest defense of the
traditional view that can be made at the present time.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 590w.

“Dr. Orr is a past master in argument. He keeps the main point at all
times clearly in mind, marshals his facts in effective order, is
shrewd in the discernment of an opponent’s weak points, understands
how to make his adversaries appear to refute each other, and, above
all, lends to the weight of his reasoning the force of sincere and
positive religious conviction. His attitude however, is that of a
doughty defender of the faith, a polemic theologian. not of an
historical critic or a seeker after light.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 750w.

=Osborne, Duffield.= Angels of Messer Ercole: a tale of Perugia. (Little novels of famous cities.) il. †$1.25. Stokes.

7–28457.

The scenes of this series of novels are all laid in some city of the
Old world vitally interesting from the standpoint of history. “Mr.
Osborne has selected Perugia and the period of Vannucci Perugino as
the place and time of his romance. The artist and his pupil,
Raffaello. appear as characters, but mostly the tale is devoted to the
love of the Lady Ottavia, daughter of the noble house of Baglioni, for
Messer Ercole, another pupil of Perugino.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

=Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.