Chapter L: Part 3: is a very extended list of contributions to periodicals.... An (4)

A third and enlarged edition of a work which “consists chiefly of a
statement of the problem of sewage treatment and of the principles
involved and methods employed in the solution of that problem,
together with a review of some of the large number of experiments on
sewage.... It covers some events and literature well into
1906.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“By means of the present revision, Dr. Rideal’s book becomes the most
up-to-date and the best general work on sewage treatment now
available.”

+ =Engin. N.= 57: 667. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.

“It seems to be generally acknowledged among sanitary engineers that
this work is the most comprehensive treatise on the subject in the
English language, and the appearance of a third edition recently is
only natural in view of the high standing which the book has won.”

+ + =Technical Literature.= 2: 333. O. ’07. 370w. (Reprinted from
Engin. Rec.)

* =Rideout, Henry Milner.= Admiral’s light. †$1.50. Houghton.

7–36092.

The shores of New Brunswick and Maine furnish the setting of a story
in which are brought together a girl reared by Yankee gypsies, a lad,
hungry for things of life, the recluse grandfather who keeps a
lighthouse, an Italian sailor, and a Chinaman whose portion of the
tale is one of mystery. The sea-change of the heroine into something
rich and strange which breathes sacrifice is the absorbing part of the
story.

=Rideout, Henry Milner.= Beached keels. †$1.50. Houghton.

6–38551.

Three stories of the sea and shorefolk. The first is a “strange tale
of curious people in an unusual setting; the second, a tragic,
pathetic tale of two brothers; the third, humorous.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)

* * * * *

“All are striking, and more than usually well told.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠

“Mr. Rideout’s construction is faulty; his stories short as they are,
seem to ramble needlessly. But he has the gift of vividness and a rare
sense of the value of little things; he can paint the crest of a wave
or a trait of character with an admirable terseness.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 24: 691. F. ’07. 330w.

“His fancy is fertile and it imagines large canvases. He almost fills
them, but not quite. It is in dealing with the emotions of his
characters in the powerful situations in which he places them that Mr.
Rideout still falls short: he leaves a little too much to the
collaboration of the reader.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w.

“‘Wild justice’ stands out with almost startling distinctness against
the pale mediocrity of current magazine fiction.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 190w.

“All of these three tales, but more especially the first have quite
unusual vigor and originality. The author’s chief fault is a somewhat
abrupt manner.”

+ − =Outlook.= 84. 1080. D. 29, ’06. 120w.

=Rideout, Henry Milner.= Siamese cat; il. by Will Grefe. †$1.25. McClure.

7–15114.

A love story in which a Siamese cat and a pigeon-blood ruby figure
largely. It “swings along at a high speed and there is plenty of
Asiatic coast atmosphere, of the semi-tourist, semi-native sort. The
local color, appears veracious with its mixture of bad smells and pink
mists and ruined temples and calm homicides and pigin English and
poisonings and stabbings while you wait.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The setting is oriental, and adds not a little to the attractions of
a light, swift-moving ingenious, and altogether entertaining tale.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠

“This is a book which tempts the reviewer to cast propriety to the
winds and call it in cold print a thundering good story.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 380w.

“It is a merry tale, for all its trifling with human life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 360. Je. 4, ’07. 280w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

=Riedl, Frigyes.= History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.

7–2035.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1996.

+ =Acad.= 71: 652. D. 29, ’06. 940w.

“This book with Dr. Reich’s ‘Historical survey of Hungarian
literature’ covers the subject comprehensively.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07.

“An extremely readable volume, exhibiting scholarship without
pedantry, and resisting the temptation to dwell at too great length
upon the formative period of the literature.”

+ + =Dial.= 42: 115. E. 16, ’07. 320w.

“This is a remarkable book, as it is the first history of Hungarian
literature in the English language.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 635. S. 12, ’07. 710w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 386. Ap. 25, ’07. 330w.

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

=Riemer, J.= Shaft-sinking in difficult cases; tr. from the Germ. by J. W. Brough. *$3.50. Lippincott.

“The volume is confined to a description of means that have to be
resorted to when ordinary methods of sinking cannot be applied on
account of excessive influx of water, the means described being shaft
sinking by hand, boring shafts, the freezing method of sinking, and
the sinking-drum method.” (Nature.) “The book is divided into four
main sections, devoted respectively to (1) Shaft sinking by hand, (2)
Shaft sinking by boring, (3) The freezing method, and (4) The sinking
drum process. Concrete examples are given of the application of each
method. The folding plates in the back of the book amply illustrate
the constructive details involved.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

=Engin. N.= 58. 178. Ag. 15, ’07. 180w.

“It is not a book for elementary students, but one that deserves the
careful study of advanced students and of experienced engineers. The
translation has been carefully made.”

+ + =Nature.= 76: 291. Jl. 25, ’07. 380w.

=Ries, Heinrich.= Clays, their occurrence, properties, and uses, with especial reference to those of the United States. *$5. Wiley.

6–37212.

“The author treats his subject under the following heads:—The origin
of clay, chemical properties, physical properties, kinds of clay,
methods of mining and manufacture, distribution of clay in the United
States, Fuller’s earth.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“The only work summarizing the scattered literature on American
clays.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07.

“Notwithstanding defects in matter and manner, Dr. Ries has rendered a
distinct service to ceramics in producing this work. It more nearly
meets the general need than any other English book in the field, and
will doubtless awaken in many aspiring minds an enthusiasm to know
more than the book pretends to tell, and will thus lead to research
and scholarship, which has so far groped in vain for lack of a guide.”
Edward Orton, jr.

+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 437. Ap. 18, ’07. 1380w.

=J. Geol.= 14: 459. Ag. ’06. 230w.

“This book is very well produced and free from slips.”

+ =Nature.= 75: 411. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w.

“The most comprehensive and evenly balanced, if not the only,
presentation of the subject as a whole that we have.” Eugene A. Smith.

+ + =Science=, n. s. 25: 999. Je. 28, ’07. 1370w.

=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Morning. $1.25. Bobbs.

7–26127.

The keynote of this latest group of Riley poems is struck in the
following:

“Let us see as we have seen—
Where all paths are dewy-green,
And all human-kind are kin—
Let us be as we have been.”

* * * * *

“It is doubtful if his admirers will find in it quite the charm of his
earlier work.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 363. D. ’07. 200w.

=Riley, James Whitcomb.= While the heart beats young. $2.50. Bobbs.

6–36414.

Under this title are included “all the best of Mr. Riley’s
child-verses, with many pictures in color by Ethel Franklin
Betts.”—Dial.

* * * * *

+ − =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 130w.

“Riley still makes the same heart-felt appeal to the people that he
did more than a quarter of a century ago.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 90w.

=Ripley, William Z.= Railway problems: a collection of reprints with maps and introd. $2.25. Ginn.

7–6187.

Uniform with “Selections and documents in economics.” While the book
is primarily intended to serve as a college text in the economics of
transportation, it also aims to offer in convenient form for the
general reader and student of American public questions authoritative
information upon this important economic and political question.

* * * * *

“Of use to the interested public, the student, the college instructor,
and the debator.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07. S.

“Is by far the best compendium of papers on railway transportation
that has yet been made.” Emory R. Johnson.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 616. N. ’07. 460w.

“The book is invaluable for college work, and to all who would take up
the history of American railways.” Ralph Albertson.

+ =Arena.= 38: 219. Ag. ’07. 330w.

“We can very heartily commend this book to anyone desiring to make a
study of the economic relations of the railways to the public.”

+ =Engin. N.= 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w.

“Professor Ripley makes it easy for the student to get a view of the
more important of our railway problems.” William Hill.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 435. Jl. ’07. 320w.

“One of the great advantages of the material presented in this volume
for pedagogical purposes is that it deals so largely with debatable
questions. With its aid there should be no difficulty in making
college courses on railway problems interesting as well as
profitable.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 559. S. ’07. 210w.

“Has been edited with great care. The book fully meets the aim of the
editor and is all that can be desired.” Albert I. Frye.

+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 269. Je. ’07. 1050w.

=Ristori, Adelaide.= Memoirs and artistic studies of Adelaide Ristori; rendered into English by G. Mantellini. **$2.50. Doubleday.

7–26130.

“Besides the biographical matter furnished by Signor Ventura, the
present book of memoirs consists of two parts: in the first, Madame
Ristori gives her reminiscences of her stage career, commencing with
her first appearance before the footlights at the age of two months,
and extending over sixty-three years to her farewell performance,
which was given twenty-two years ago at the New York Academy of music
in a memorable production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth,’ Edwin Booth
taking the title-role on that occasion. The second part of her Memoirs
is devoted to an analysis of six of the principal parts in her
répertoire: Schiller’s ‘Mary Stuart,’ Giacometti’s ‘Queen Elizabeth,’
Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Macbeth,’ Legouve’s ‘Medea,’ Alfieri’s ‘Myrrha,’
and Racine’s ‘Phaedra.’”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:171. O. ’07. S.

“To the already published lives of Adelaide Ristori this new edition
of her memoirs, with its appended letters coming down nearly to the
date of her death, is a useful supplement. But there is still room for
a final, full, and critical account of the remarkable actress,
prepared with far more care than the volume under review.” Percy F.
Bicknell.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 160. S. 16, ’07. 1770w.

“Her autobiography has not literary quality, and it is marred in the
translation by a faulty English that editing might, it would seem,
easily have bettered.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 1003. O. 24. ’07. 210w.

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 452. S. 28, ’07. 1200w.

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w.

“Not only is the arrangement of the matter slovenly ... but the
English translation supplied by Signor G. Mantellini reflects but
little credit upon the original composition.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 239. S. 12, ’07. 1000w.

“The work of the translator is utterly inadequate. His mistakes, due
to a very evident lack of familiarity with the conventions and idioms
of the English language, are sometimes ludicrous, sometimes annoying,
sometimes obscuring; and many of them would never have passed even a
moderately good proof-reader, who was compelled to wade through the
ridiculous pi of commas strewn thicker than Vallombrosan leaves.” Anne
Peacock.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 537. S. 7, ’07. 1400w.

“The story of her life is here told in a simple and informal way,
without boasting, but with intelligent appreciation of men and
things.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 200w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 130w.

=Ritchie, Rev. Arthur.= Spiritual studies in St. Luke’s gospel. 2v. *$5. Young ch.

6–39459.

“The general character of these volumes is homiletical. and their aim
is to feed the altar flame of the consecrated heart.” (Outlook.) “Dr.
Ritchie has arranged his commentary in short sections, and divided
each study into an exposition and a series of three ‘thoughts,’ thus
adapting his work to quick reference and ready comprehension.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 170w.

=Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 120w.

=Rivers, W. H. R.= Todas; with il., map and chronological tables. *$6.50. Macmillan.

7–18149.

The author says that his book is not merely a record of the customs
and beliefs of a people who amount to fewer than a thousand
individuals all told, but is also a demonstration of anthropological
method. These people occupy the well-watered plateau of the Nilgiri
hills in Southern India, and their life, character, customs,
ceremonials and factors upon which their social organization rests are
informingly discussed.

* * * * *

“A work as laborious as it is original.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 551. N. 3. 1350w.

“An exhaustive study.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w.

“As an example of scientific method, this is the best socio-religious
monograph of a special community yet published.” A. C. Haddon.

+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 680. Ap. ’07. 1560w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 406. D. 7, ’06. 960w.

“An admirable study of savage life.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.

“Thanks to Dr. Rivers’s energy and care we have a complete and
scientific account of one of the most significant phenomena in the
history of that varied organism, religion. A monument of industry and
care, not without insight, and the results of comparative study, and
is an invaluable record of which Cambridge and the new anthropology
may be proud.” A. E. Crawley.

+ + =Nature.= 75: 462. Mr. 14, ’07. 960w.

“Mr. Rivers’ careful monograph will thus win and retain a central
place, that between the preliminary and more or less amateurish
anthropological observers whose works he practically supersedes, and
the deeper interpretation for which he does so much to prepare.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 1380w.

“Mr. Rivers’s learned book will remain the chief authority on the
interesting race with which he deals.”

+ + =Spec.= 98: sup. 120. Ja. 26, ’07. 300w.

=Rives, Hallie Erminie.= Satan Sanderson. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–26018.

Plot and action abound in this story of confused identity. In his
college days, only four years past, the Reverend Harry Sanderson was
known to his fellows as Satan Sanderson. There crosses his path one
day an old associate, Hugh Stires, the degenerate son of St. James’
richest parishioner, and so closely resembling Sanderson as to cause
all the trouble that ensues. The ghosts of the past appear, but are
downed by the invincible might of the young rector. The degenerate
weds the woman Sanderson loves, proves unworthy of her, and throws
himself upon Sanderson’s mercy, and the latter in attempting to save
him meets with an accident that robs him of his memory. The climax and
the fall grow out of the confusion of identity that follows, and a
ne’er-do-well’s one impulse of manhood.

* * * * *

“The thrills follow thick and fast as in melodrama by Theodore Kremer.
They follow in good sharp English, moreover, with only occasional
tiptoe reaches into preciosity.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 590w.

“Miss Rives writes well, though without much restraint upon her native
luxuriance of expression, and with none whatever upon her
imagination.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 960w.

=Rix, Herbert.= Tent and Testament; a camping tour in Palestine with some notes on Scripture sites. *$2.50. Scribner.

7–15906.

“This record of a camping tour in Palestine is from the hand of a
scholarly and critical traveler.... Throughout a route which lay in
part aside from the common track of tourists his interest in verifying
Biblical sites and Biblical allusions fully justifies the title of his
record.... The prolonged discussions required by controverted
questions as to Nazareth, Bethlehem, Capernaum, and other localities
are set off into appendices ... and the whole is indexed and
illustrated.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A thoughtful, well-written, even learned work, far from the vain
outpouring of the tourist. The narrative, though heavily charged with
information, is wonderfully unembarrassed: and the word-pictures which
abound are true to life.... We are sorry that Mr. Rix should have left
so much perishable matter [Protestant theories with regard to holy
places] in a work which has permanent interest.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 351. Mr. 23. 150w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 70w.

“The narrative is sufficiently enlivened with incident and anecdote to
give it continuous interest.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 282. F. 2, ’07. 110w.

“His narrative of travel is that of an intelligent and well-informed
traveller who went without prepossessions and was both able and
willing to weigh evidence. His observations were careful. Now and then
he is able to correct even so great an authority in Palestinian
topography as Dr. George Smith.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 300w.

=Roach, Abby Meguire.= Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.

6–37923.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The author is evidently a close observer of human nature and a clever
analyst.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 352. Mr. 22. 180w.

=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Haunters of the silences. $2. Page.

7–18302.

In the course of these eighteen short stories of the wild, Mr. Roberts
not only introduces us to types of animal life in the earth’s silent
places but takes us down into the depths of the sea to meet the orca,
the shark, the narwhal, and the ocean cuttlefish.

* * * * *

“The book is very well worth buying and keeping for the illustrations
alone, and again it is well worth buying and keeping even had it no
illustrations. It will be a world dull of appreciation which does not
recognize great qualities in this volume.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 106. N. 9. ’07. 620w.

“Charming stories of creatures of the air, the deep sea, of the
northern forests and silent wastes.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠

“The book is full of good reading, and it is well written.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 587. N. 9. 270w.

“It has remained for Mr. Roberts to crystallise into a series of brief
and vibrant character-studies the really salient features of the
horizonless life of the outer worlds.” Thomas Walsh.

+ + =Bookm.= 25: 305. My. ’07. 270w.

“For this large-minded fairness, as well as for other reasons, the
book belongs to the small but fortunately growing class of the best
nature story-books.” May Estelle Cook.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 369. Je. 16. ’07. 840w.

“The stories are said to be in a line with accurate natural history.
However, it is not concerning questions of observed facts so much as
the interpretations that scientific men will have a quarrel with the
author of this and with those of similar books.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 350w.

“It is the most ambitious work of the kind that Mr. Roberts has yet
written, and deserves to be placed in the first rank of nature books.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 300w.

“Of these nature writers, as they have come to be called, Mr. C. G. D.
Roberts ... is far the most charming, the most literary, the most
interesting. As for the illustrations by Mr. Bull, they merit an
article in themselves. It is difficult to see how they could be more
full both of imagination and accuracy.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1610w.

“He writes of his subjects with sympathy and imagination, while his
descriptions of their ways and hunts are scientifically exact.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

“He talks about wild life from the standpoint of a man who knows it
well and is also a writer of refinement and of literary instinct.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 100w.

=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.

6–30929.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Current Literature.= 42: 110. Ja. ’07. 440w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w.

=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= In the deep of the snow; il. by Denman Fink. †50c. Crowell.

7–21228.

A short Christmas story of the northern frontier in which a
stout-hearted father takes a long snow-shoe journey to bring Santa
Claus to his wilderness cabin.

=Roberts, George Simon.= Historic towns of the Connecticut river valley. Il. *$3.50. Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N. Y.

6–24568.

“The history of each town is given, some anecdotes of some of its
distinguished sons and their careers told, old houses are described,
landmarks pointed out, and places of historical interest shown.
Pictures, too, are given of houses, sites of buildings, etc., and
there are portraits, views of the town, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The towns are taken up one by one, in an order extending from the
mouth of the river northward. There is, however, little other order;
repetitions are frequent, and in the selection of information to be
included or excluded no clear purpose appears beyond that of
furnishing entertaining reading matter.”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 434. Ja. ’07. 60w.

“He writes pleasantly, but he has not written a chronicle, for he has
written loosely. Names are spelled wrongly, dates are awry, and now
and again some statement amazes those familiar with the old towns.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.

“Its wealth consists mostly in the assembling of anecdotes, and of
certain of the vital historical facts appertaining to each of the
towns. A more analytic index would have greatly relieved the
congestion of the text, and served to reveal its riches.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 440w.

“The volume is entertaining and authoritative.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 380w.

=Roberts, Margaret.= Saint Catherine of Siena and her times; by the author of “Mademoiselle Mori.” *$2.75. Putnam.

7–10561.

“St. Catherine, surnamed Benincasa, was born in the year 1348 when
Siena lay in the grip of the black death, the daughter of a well-to-do
citizen, a dyer by trade. She grew to be the peacemaker of Italy and
the revered friend of popes and princes. The present narrative of her
life, without being remarkable in any special way, gives a measurably
adequate picture, as biographical pictures go, of this remarkable
woman.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“We have already devoted a considerable amount of space to this
inaccurate book only because it is about the worst specimen of its
class which we have seen.”

− − − =Acad.= 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1900w.

“An excellent life of Saint Catherine written in a tone as far removed
from blind enthusiasm as from faint-hearted apology.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 890w.

“Her pages present no evidence of her right to undertake the serious
task in question; rather they give us reason to think that neither the
faculty of clearly and logically presenting facts, nor the power of
sympathetically appreciating Catherine Benincasa, has been granted to
the saint’s latest biographer.”

− =Cath. World.= 86: 254. N. ’07. 100w.

“Miss Roberts ... brings a large store of knowledge and no small
literary skill to her congenial task.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1416. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.

“The way in which this new ‘Life’ of her absorbs one, seeming to
transmit her force and charm, is the best proof of the author’s
excellence. It would, indeed, be hard to find an historical biography
better done.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 630w.

“Readable, vivacious life. References to volume and page of the works
quoted are rarely given and, on the whole, one is forced to the
conclusion that the historian’s well-documented life of St. Catherine
is yet to be published. Throughout the book there are evidences of
careless proof-reading.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 800w.

“The book, in short, is more interesting than informing. It fails to
leave a distinct impression of St. Catherine.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w.

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w.

Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 629. F. ’07. 630w.

“For one reason or another, perhaps because of some rather lengthy
sentences, the present book has not quite the romantic—one might
almost say the dashing—interest of others on the subject. Still, the
book given to us by the well-known and accomplished author of
‘Mademoiselle Mori’ has very great merits of its own, and it will be
read with interest by all who love the Italy of the fourteenth
century.”

+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w.

=Roberts, Morley.= Flying Cloud: a story of the sea. $1.50. Page.

7–15115.

Young Jack, the greenhorn, at the opening of this tale leaves his
school and his angry uncle and embarks upon the Flying Cloud to seek
his fortune in Australia. But neither school nor uncle could have
given him the training he received from the brown men of the crew, the
two brave mates, the old Malay bo’s’n, and the captain, the victim of
opium. It is a thrilling tale, the story of how Jack learned the ways
of the sea and the seamen.

* * * * *

“We advise Mr. Roberts to let the sea alone for a while; he will only
anger her by his florid compliments, and she has already a superfluity
of verbose admirers. He can do better than this, and he might do
excellent work if he were content to think a little more and write a
great deal less.”

− =Acad.= 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 260w.

“As story pure and simple has faults. When warmed to his work, he
throws aside all that is pretentious and mannered, sloughs his
colloquialism as a writer, and deals in sound, moving, graphic
English.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 535. My. 4. 180w.

“If the reader can once get over the rhapsodical opening chapters of
this very good tale of the sea, he is probably in no danger of
abandoning the gallant Flying Cloud.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 150w.

“This new marine tale by Mr. Morley Roberts has the tang of authentic
brine and the swift pulse of life in it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 690w.

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 593. My. 11, ’07. 200w.

=Roberts, Morley.= Painted Rock, tales and narratives of Painted Rock, South Panhandle, Texas, told by Charlie Baker, late of that city and also of Snyder, Scurry county. †$1.50. Lippincott.

A collection of ten short stories dealing with the citizens of Painted
Rock, their “histories and their affairs.” There is a good deal of
bloodthirsty revenge portrayed, and life seems to be cheap. The
realism and its primitive setting will no doubt prove fascinating to
people who look for the kernel of humanity amongst the waste of
savagery.

* * * * *

“Mr. Roberts’s intimate knowledge of Texas and its people enables him
to reproduce both the atmosphere and the personalities of that strange
country.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 290w.

“This sort of record will ... always be interesting to English
readers.”

+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 351. Mr. 23. 280w.

“Mr. Roberts seems to have caught most admirably the spirit of the
southwest, its ethics, its code of manners, and, best of all, its
inimitable breeziness of speech.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 670w.

“The stories (of the familiar Alfred Henry Lewis stuff) in the present
volume seem hardly up to Mr. Roberts’s mark.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 393. Je. 15, ’07. 430w.

=Roberts, Theodore.= Red feathers. $1.50. Page.

7–26602.

A story of the Island of Newfoundland before it had a name, of the
days when chiefs and their warriors made prayers to the sun, the
winds, the frost and the stars, when magicians were abroad in the
land, evil as well as good ones, practicing their witchery to
terrorize or to bless their tribes.

* * * * *

“Mr. Roberts who has much real knowledge of Indian lore, tells his
story in a delightful way that will please both little people and
adults.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 90w.

=Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w.

* =Roberts, William.= Sir William Beechey. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.

W 7–140.

The honesty of the work of Beechey is emphasized in this study. “The
task of tracing out the identity of Beechey’s sitters, which included
most of the celebrities of his time has been pursued by Mr. Roberts
with most patient industry and he has unearthed a mass of information
of great value to future biographers. He sifts out carefully different
versions of the same period of the artist’s life, and gives the
evidence in their favour without insisting on the acceptance of one or
the other.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“The book was well worth publishing for its information not only about
Beechey but about many of his distinguished contemporaries.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 602. Je. 22, ’07. 220w.

“This expanded catalog of the work of that rather commonplace
portraitist is both commonplace and dull.”

− =Ind.= 63: 1176. N. 14, ’07. 120w.

“Mr. Roberts’s monograph is expository rather than critical, and
particular interest attaches to the chapter of forty pages in which he
gives a series of extracts from Beechey’s account books.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w.

=Robertson, Alexander.= Discourses on the history, art and customs of Venice. *$3. Scribner.

A group of discourses which contain interesting information as to the
religion of the early Venetians. The volume “is remarkable for two
things—its seventy-three half tones reproduced from some of the most
attractive photographs that we have yet seen of modern Venice and the
attempt of the author to read into Venetian monuments Presbyterian
texts as to their inspiration, building, and perpetuation.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* * * * *

+ − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 130w.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 294. My. 1, ’07. 520w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 120w.

* =Robertson, Archibald Thomas.= Epochs in the life of Jesus: a study of development and struggle in the Messiah’s work. **$1. Scribner.

7–35611.

“These lectures, delivered at a Missouri summer assembly in 1906,
present in popular form the main facts of Jesus’ life. The writer
seeks to give ‘a straight-forward constructive discussion of the
career of Jesus as set forth in the Gospels’ putting the emphasis upon
the pivotal points in the movement of Jesus’ ministry, and avoiding
critical discussion.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“The point of view is conservative.”

+ =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Robertson, James Peter.= Personal adventures and anecdotes of an old officer. **$3.50. Longmans.

An octogenarian’s reminiscences of deathdealing adventures. In spite
of the fact that his mother predicted early death unless he reformed,
Colonel Robertson is hale and hearty at the age of eighty-four. “The
volume is full of good stories, telling anecdotes, gallant exploits
and hair-breadth adventures, related in a manner which at once
fascinates and compels admiration for the old officer and his
comrades. Like Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir John French, and Sir Henry
Hildyard, Colonel Robertson was a middy before he took to soldiering,
and a love for the sea and life afloat bore fruit in many stirring
episodes in his subsequent career, while to the credit of the seaman’s
instinct thus early imparted may be placed that readiness of resource
so frequently exhibited during the vicissitudes of his military
life.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“Our readers will find it as exciting as any adventure story, and
described with a naturalness and simplicity as delightful as they are
unusual.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 36. Ja. 12, ’07. 1730w.

“An eminently readable and entertaining book.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 287. Mr. 9. 560w.

“The startling exploits with which the book is packed ... make the
ordinary sensational novel seem tame in comparison.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 450w.

“Something exciting, of one sort or another, happens in nearly every
paragraph. And it is all told with a naive sort of charm, in blunt,
simple, and straightforward statement, with no more attempt at
literary embellishment than you would find in a Quartermaster’s
report. And the narrative gains much in interest and dignity by this
soldierly simplicity in the telling of it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 540w.

“Colonel Robertson writes with energy and natural force, and his
anecdotes are lively as his adventures.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.

“Colonel Robertson leaves us with a most agreeable impression of
soldierly qualities.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 380w.

=Robertson, John Mackinnon.= Short history of free thought, ancient and modern. 2d ed. 2v. *$6. Putnam.

W 7–14.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“On the whole this is an excellent book, and yet it has one
characteristic—for the author perhaps, an unavoidable one—that may
limit its usefulness. It is written with a purpose additional to the
scientific recording and explaining of facts, namely, to spread
free-thought as above defined.” Carveth Read.

+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 513. Jl. ’07. 1480w.

“He writes in narrative style and enlivens his thesis with humor.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 139. Mr. 3, ’06. 90w.

“It is desirable to caution the unwary reader against accepting too
confidingly his conclusions; but the skill with which he marshals the
luminous points in a difficult subject is worthy of all praise.”
Edward Fuller.

+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 127. Ap. ’07. 1200w.

=Robertson, Louis Alexander.= Through painted panes, and other poems. *$1.50. Robertson.

7–16926.

Consists chiefly of poems reprinted from earlier volumes, the plates
of which were lost at the time of the San Francisco destruction.
“Resurgam,” a new poem of the collection, grew out of the earthquakes
ravages, and contains a prophecy for the rearing of earth’s fairest
city where the old one stood.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 130w.

=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= The convert. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–35623.

“The convert” is not merely a novel, it is a strong plea for woman’s
suffrage. The work of the suffragettes of London with their open air
meetings in squares and on wharfs crowded with rude and unsympathetic
mobs is glaringly described until the heroine, if not the reader, is
drawn over to them and their cause. The heroine, now a splendid woman
moving in society’s inner circle, was, when a young girl, deceived by
the man she loved and led to sacrifice the child which was to have
been hers. Now, with this burning loss in her heart and the cause of
down trodden woman strong in her soul, she meets the man once more
and, closing the past forever, gives him to the girl he now loves but
asks in return his help in the cause, that by helping other women he
may expiate his guilt toward one.

* * * * *

“Extremely clever and well written.”

+ =Acad.= 73: sup. 113. N. 9, ’07. 320w.

“The play was said to have had its dramatic movements; but the novel
is one long welter of talk.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 649. N. 23. 130w.

“A sterling example of the bigger, worthier sort of book.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 26: 406. D. ’07. 770w.

=Ind.= 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 230w.

“With the fullest admiration for much that is good in ‘The convert,’
we regard it as an opportunity missed, not only by Miss Robins the
novelist, but by Miss Robins the advocate of female suffrage.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 660w.

“It is a strong book in many senses of the word. It is difficult,
however, to speak of ‘The convert,’ as a novel. The conditions
portrayed in the book, however, are British rather than American, and
thus in this country ‘The convert’ will make its appeal to the
critical judgment more as a work of fiction than as a brilliant and
possibly accurate account of a burning political question.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 727. N. 16, ’07. 1300w.

“An interesting book written with skill.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 180w.

“Its weakness as a novel lies in the fact that this girl had such an
extraordinary past that she is not a typical figure.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16. ’07. 180w.

“Successful as a story it is not, and it may be doubted whether is
makes any serious contribution to the literature of the struggle.”

− =Spec.= 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 270w.

=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Modern civic art. **$3. Putnam.

3–13052.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.

+ + =Charities.= 17: 509. D. 15, ’06. 1100w.

=Robinson, James Harvey.= Readings in European history. Abridged ed. *$1.50. Ginn.

6–6250.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 455. Je. ’06. 190w.

=Robinson, William.= English flower garden and home grounds. 10th ed. *$6. Scribner.

A volume of nearly a thousand pages which sets forth the design and
arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and
Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs for the
open-air garden and their culture.

* * * * *

“To those who love to plan their own pleasure-grounds and make their
own choice of plants, this is one of the best treatises within reach.
It is moreover, written in such a pleasing style that it might even
serve to wean from idleness those who now depute to professional
gardeners the task of selection and care of plants.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w.

“Exhaustive, detailed authoritative, and immensely practical, this
book is one that has come to be regarded as indispensable to every man
having such a piece of work in hand.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.

=Robinson, William.= Garden beautiful: home woods, home landscape. *$4. Scribner.

Agr 7–1170.

A book of good counsel particularly for those who own large estates.
The reader is told how to beautify his grounds, and the treatment of
both forests and flower gardens is considered in detail. A plant
dictionary is appended.

* * * * *

“The author has a final chapter defending his use of common English
names of plants and trees; and here we must differ with him.” Edith
Granger.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 367. Je. 16, ’97. 550w.

“This book is most valuable in England, as it is written for that
climate, but his careful list of trees with directions where each
should be planted, his list of shrubs, and the true love of nature
that runs thru the book will make it one that owners of woodlands or
large estates will enjoy and find useful in spite of the mustard and
pepper with which it is highly seasoned.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 500. F. 28, ’07. 420w.

“Mr. Robinson is an attractive writer, who knows how to put sound
advice in a telling form.... The only trouble with his books is the
marked tendency to repetition.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 250w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.

=Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 40w.

“Undoubtedly the best modern book of reference for flower gardens.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.

“Mr. Robinson’s chapters are full of interesting suggestions about
landscape gardening. He can give some practical as well as aesthetic
advice, moreover, to owners of woodlands and parks.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 583. N. 9, ’07. 170w.

=Spec.= 99: 714. N. 9, ’07. 580w.

=Robinson, William Henry.= Golden palace of Neverland. il. †$1.50. Dutton.

7–21222.

“Mr. Robinson’s story tells of the transporting of a girl and boy to a
fairy island on a magic raft. Numerous exciting adventures befall them
there, leading them into the society of gnomes and other interesting
beings; also into Mother Goose’s domain, where they encounter
well-known friends, such as Tom the piper’s son, Little Jack Horner,
etc.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“An excellent new fairy story book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 80w.

=Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 60w.

=Roche, Francis Everard.= Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

6–16205.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Is lacking, in poetic elevation, although it has seriousness and
animation.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 90w.

=Rodd, Sir James Rennell.= Princes of Achaia and the chronicles of Morea: a study of Greece in the middle ages. 2v. *$7. Longmans.

7–29135.

What Gibbon would not undertake Sir Rennell Rodd has accomplished,
namely to give life and form to the “obscure and various dynasties
that rose and fell on the continent or in the isles.” “There is a
clear-cut introduction dealing with historical authorities. A readable
account of the fourth crusade, including the sack of Constantinople
and the partition of the empire, is given as a sort of prologue....
The history from the time of Otho of Brunswick to the Greek
restoration is summarized as an epilogue. There are three appendices,
the third of which contains helpful genealogical tables; also a
map ... and an index.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“It may safely be said that the volumes under notice are valuable for
the parts relating to the Morea though they show traces of haste
elsewhere. If the author could find time to cut the two volumes down
to one, omitting such parts as have no immediate connection with his
subject and revising the rest, his book would be improved and have a
distinctly greater historical value.” Edwin Pears.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 130. O. ’07. 1710w.

“It is a conscientious and critical work. The author does not strain
after effects, though he is fully alive to the interest of his
subject.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 375. Mr. 30. 960w.

“Our author has spared no effort to reach available sources, or to
make his results perfectly clear. The style is simple and direct.” F.
B. R. Hellems.

+ =Dial.= 42: 306. My. 16, ’07. 2850w.

“Sir Rennell Rodd possesses almost every qualification for writing the
history of Frankish Greece.” W. Miller.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 570. Jl. ’07. 1060w.

“Though this history of medieval Achaia has certain limitations which
the specialist will detect, it is based on sound and large
foundations.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 82. Mr. 15, ’07. 1080w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 342. My. 25, ’07. 380w.

“As a narrative his work is not likely to be superseded. Unfortunately
the most interesting part of the book comes first.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 334. Mr. 16, ’07. 1910w.

“A coherent narrative such as has not been offered to us before in
English, though we do not forget Finlay.”

+ + =Spec.= 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1600w.

+ + =Yale R.= 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 420w.

=Rodocanachi, Emmanuel.= Roman capitol in ancient and modern times. *$1. Dutton.

7–29082.

In which are considered the citadel, the temples, the senatorial
palace, the palace of the conservators and the museum. “The first part
tells the story from the foundation of the city down to the sixth
century. At this time a period of darkness set in. The place was
practically forgotten. Then in the eleventh century it emerged again
into light. The second part tells the story of the locality as it was
in the period of the revival.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“It must be admitted that the task of translating the mass of
ill-digested material of which the book consists cannot have been
otherwise than tiresome, but the shortcomings of the translation make
the work in its present form still more tiresome to read.”

− =Acad.= 72: 189. F. 23, ’07. 510w.

“The translation is faithful, but not attractive. We notice a good
many misprints. The shortcomings of the book do not seriously
interfere with its general interest and usefulness.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 546. My. 4. 500w.

“It is, of course, scholarly and scientific—too much so, perhaps, for
the traveler who has neither time nor inclination for a minute
examination of the antiquities, buildings and ruins of the famous
hill; for such as have, the volume cannot be excelled.”

+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 90w.

“At first sight the book, with its multitudinous footnotes and wealth
of historical erudition, may appear to be more acceptable by the
student than by the ordinary reader. For the special kind of reader
mentioned as being bodily on the capitol it must be invaluable, being
a guide book informed with this peculiar charm, that, although no
information is omitted which the pilgrim might be expected to possess
already, the style conveys a delicate compliment in being far above
the comprehension of the vulgar ignoramus.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 1210w.

+ =Spec.= 97: 544. O. 13, ’06. 80w.

=Roe, Fred.= Old oak furniture. **$3. McClurg.

The author says “If any apology is needed for what may be termed old
oak worship, I may say that the final aim of art is—or ought to
be—beauty, and that the cult of old oak is really only one aspect of
the pursuit of beauty.” He discusses English archaic rarities, Gothic
styles of medieval time, styles of the renaissance and after, oaken
chairs and stools before the renaissance, coffers and chests,
cupboards and sideboards, bedsteads and cradles, panelling and filled
furniture, furniture with hiding-places, vicissitudes of old
furniture, and forgeries in old oak.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 260w.

“Written rather for the inexperienced than the expert, his book will
be an excellent aid to the neophyte; but it also contains much new
information of value even to the accomplished antiquarian.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 130w.

=Rogers, Arthur Kenyon.= Religious conception of the world; an essay in constructive philosophy. **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–5078.

“In the opening lines of his introduction the author tells us that he
set out to defend a view of the world which is frankly religious and
theistic.... With grace and skill he discusses the eternal problems of
philosophy regarding the relation of God and nature, God and man, the
purely metaphysical question concerning the nature of God. In plain
language he tries to explain the greatest historical mystery, the
permission of evil on the part of God. He also dwells at some length
on the problems of freedom and immortality.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Treats of religion in a logical and constructive manner. Despite the
abstract nature of the topics, the author uses simple language,
carefully avoiding the technical expressions of the philosophical
schools.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 820w.

“An acutely and cautiously reasoned work. It is addressed to earnest
thinkers, it presumes patient consideration, and may weary those who
are disinclined to intellectual exercise.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 420w.

“Perhaps the strongest chapters in the book are those devoted to
theism proper. A less satisfactory part of the book is that dealing
with the foundations and validity of knowledge.” H. W. Wright.

+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 555. S. ’07. 700w.

=Rogers, Arthur Kenyon.= Student’s history of philosophy. *$2. Macmillan.

7–27624.

A new edition whose revision includes some corrected errors of fact,
“a large number of mistakes of judgment,” says the author, “and
infelicities of expression.” The exposition itself has also been
rewritten, references have been added in connection with quoted
passages, and the bibliographies have been brought down to date.

* * * * *

“Is not in any sense noteworthy and the author’s style is decidedly
heavy.”

− =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 70w.

“Next to the comprehensiveness of the treatment and the clearness of
the exposition, the most remarkable characteristic of the book is the
accuracy of the bibliography.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 390w.

• =Rogers, Gertrude.= Cobwebs. $1. Badger, R. G.

7–26605.

A little book of dainty verse whose silvery texture is enhanced by the
sunshine of youth, buoyancy and possibility.

* * * * *

“A pale distillation of old poetic symbols.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 110w.

=Rogers, Robert Cameron.= Rosary and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.

6–32395.

Four classical idyls in blank verse.

* * * * *

“Are distinctly out of the common. But the talent of Mr. Rogers is for
the most part lyrical, and a very charming talent it is.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ =Dial.= 41: 205. O. 1, ’06. 390w.

“With all its variety and intelligence, the volume just misses
distinction, chiefly, we should guess, because of a certain limitation
of sentiment and because the life in it has been strained through too
many books.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’07. 210w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 30w.

=Roller, Frank W.= Electric and magnetic measurements and measuring instruments. *$3.50. McGraw pub.

7–6710.

“A summary of the instruments and methods used or proposed for all
kinds of measurements of electrical and magnetic quantities.”—Engin.
N.

* * * * *

“It is not a treatise that will be useful to a student, unless
accompanied by very careful directions from a competent instructor.
The descriptions appear to be accurate and a vast amount of
information is rendered accessible.” Henry H. Morris.

+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 660w.

=Rollins, Frank West.= What can a young man do? **$1.50. Little.

7–32570.

Over fifty possible careers are here sketched for the benefit of the
young man with his life work before him. There are chapters upon the
professions, various branches of business, politics, consular service,
the sailor, the actor, the chauffeur, the farmer and many other ways
of earning a living.

* * * * *

“The book will be read with interest and profit by the heads of
families and by their sons who are about to choose their life work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9. ’07. 170w.

* =Rollins, Montgomery.= Money and investments: a reference book for the use of those desiring information in the handling of money or the investment thereof. *$2. Estes.

7–31980.

“The object of the book is essentially to furnish to the layman
information about the simple forms of financial transactions, to
explain the slang of the stock market, and to guide him in his
investments. The foreword of 36 pages gives a general review of the
financial situation with suggestions to investors. The remaining 436
pages are in the form of an encyclopedia, with headings alphabetically
arranged.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“We have received many letters lately from our subscribers asking us
to recommend an elementary book of finance. The present volume ...
seems to fill the bill.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 270w.

“Is a workmanlike compilation of little financial essays, cast in
dictionary form. The book is rather suitable for reference than for
counsel in action.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 110w.

=Romanes, Ethel (Mrs. George John Romanes).= Story of Port Royal. *$5. Dutton.

7–28621.

“An attempt to give an account of the remarkable religious movement
known as Port-Royal—which ... in the seventeenth century ... touched
French life at almost every point.”—Lond. Times.

* * * * *

“We cannot commend the style of the writing. The sentences are jerky
and the paragraphs disjointed. There is a running comment of religious
and moral sententiousness which is both irritating and tedious. We
have, however, nothing but praise for Mrs. Romanes’s industry and
enthusiasm for her subject.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 696. Je. 8. 940w.

“Sainte-Beuve’s great book, ‘Port Royal,’ is, as every one knows, the
one supreme work on the subject. No substitute for it exists in
English, nor can we honestly say that Mrs. Romanes’s book will occupy
that place. It is written in a rambling, inconclusive style, which
wanders from subject to subject, from biographical sketches of the
principal actors in the story to long theological disquisitions and
back again in a way which is most confusing to the reader.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 2000w.

“It is to be regretted that Mrs. Romanes did not submit her manuscript
to somebody competent to correct her French.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 550w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.

“Perhaps her seemingly unnecessary fullness of detail is essential to
give a complete picture, but occasionally one feels that the text
might have been condensed. This, however, if it be a blemish, is
certainly a minor one. Her volume is to be heartily commended to all
students of religious development.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.