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“Professor Tyler’s recent book ... comes, with rather unusual
authority on account of the high scientific standing of the writer,
and it is enriched by a broad view of the subject, and a certain
warmth of treatment which adds greatly to the value of a book intended
for teachers. We recommend it heartily to the library of every
teacher.” Edward O. Sisson.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 400w.

“To the defects and mistakes of current educational practice, this
enlightening volume brings sound scientific and practical
correctives.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 747. Ag. 3, ’07. 420w.

* =Tyndale, Walter.= Below the cataracts. il. **$3–50. Lippincott.

“Mr. Walter Tyndale is a painter who has spent some years at work in
the Nile valley and is interested in both the mysterious beauty of the
ancient monuments and in the picturesqueness of the Egyptian life of
to-day. Cairo with its winding streets, beautiful mosques, and
tempting bazaars, Thebes with its tombs and temples, and Karnak with
its wonderful wall-inscriptions and reliefs, furnish most of the
material for the sixty beautiful colored plates and the chapters of
description and personal reminiscence of travel in Egypt which make up
his recently published volume ‘Below the cataracts.’”—Dial.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

* =Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Much-abused letter. *90c. Longmans.

7–15463.

In this volume Father Tyrrell explains and defends his letter to a
perplexed scientist which resulted in the Pope’s recent encyclical and
caused Tyrrell’s excommunication from the church.

* * * * *

“Its essence is certainly radical, and is intended to meet the
esoteric needs. And it is an illustration—very important and
interesting—of a movement of thought in the Catholic as well as the
Protestant church.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 250w.

=Outlook.= 87: 564. N. 16, ’07. 1000w.

=Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Through Scylla and Charybdis; or, The old theology and the new. *$1.50. Longmans.

An exposition by a broad and spiritually minded Catholic upon both the
dogmatic and the political position of priests. “It deals with the
difference between revelation and theology, and leaves the reader with
the impression that in Father Tyrrell’s mind dogma can now only be
accepted metaphorically, as the changing expression of the truth,—as
if one were to say, for instance, that remorse is a revelation and
hell a metaphor, forgiveness a revelation and absolution a metaphor.”
(Spec.)

* * * * *

“The book makes its appeal to every one at all modern in sympathy who
is at the same time not disposed to cut the Gordian knot and let
religion altogether go by the board.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 395. O. 5. 1320w.

“His book, though addressed to Catholics, is profitable reading for
Protestants also, many of whom need some of its lessons.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 340w.

=Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 600w.

U

=Underwood, Rev. John Levi.= Women of the confederacy. $2. Neale.

6–37621.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Ind.= 62: 332. F. 7, ’07. 340w.

=Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 130w.

=Underwood, Loring.= Garden and its accessories. **$2. Little.

6–45023.

A book full of suggestion to people who make their gardens out-door
living rooms. Points of comfort and beauty are adapted to the
individuality of the maker and the character of the corner to be
developed and adorned. Heavy plate paper and some charming
illustrations add attractiveness to the instruction of the text.

* * * * *

+ + =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 270w.

=Ind.= 62: 500. F. 28, ’07. 240w.

“So far as it goes, it is practical and carries many hints of
first-rate importance, but it aims rather to open the subject
intelligently than to publish directions.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 54. Ap. ’07. 420w.

“To one who is interested in gardens this work will be found to
contain many suggestions of value.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 60w.

“Is full of suggestion for rendering the garden more homelike, more
livable, and more picturesque by the appropriate addition of
accessories.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 90w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 30w.

=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard operas: their plots, their music, and their composers; new enl. and rev. ed.; il. $1.75. McClurg.

6–38906.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠

“The book, being full of errors ... is untrustworthy.”

− =Ath.= 1906. 1: 711. Je. 9. 110w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28. ’07. 50w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 30w.

=Ussher, Sir Thomas, and Glover, John R.= Napoleon’s last voyages; being the diaries of Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher, R. N., K. C. B. (on board the Undaunted), and John R. Glover, secretary to Rear-admiral Cockburn (on board the Northumberland); new ed., with introd. and notes by J. Holland Rose. *$3. Scribner.

7–15907.

“The personality of Napoleon is as fascinating to the present
generation as it has been to any since his death. And no part of his
life is more fascinating than the story of his adversity. The two
books before us, of very unequal value, illustrate this period of his
career. The first contains the journal of his voyage to Elba, and of
his slow progress to his prison-island, the other gives the history of
his reign at Elba.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“It is annotated, illustrated, indexed and confessed—if the word may
serve us—in a manner which disarms criticism.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 631. D. 22, ’06. 1040w.

“The notes are not abundant but are pithy and to the point. By what
seems an excess of conscientious editorship Mr. Rose has translated
back into what he surmises to have been Napoleon’s actual words the
language attributed to him by the diarists.” J. W. T.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 691. Ap. ’07. 240w.

+ =Dial.= 42: 257. Ap. 16, ’07. 80w.

“Dr. Rose’s introduction is of no particular importance, but several
of the illustrations are new and interesting.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 50w.

“These documents are historically valuable, because they were written
without partisan bias, or the desire to prove anything.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 580w.

“Dr. Rose will not enhance his reputation by his editing of this
volume. His notes consist mainly of pen-knife digs at the hero of the
narrative, and in the emphatic denial of everything asserted by
Napoleon in the slightest degree favourable to himself.”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w.

=Uzanne, Louis Octave.= Ingres. (Newnes’ art lib., no. 23.) *$1.25. Warne.

W 7–57.

A brief sketch of Ingre’s life and works is followed by reproductions
of sixty-five of the artist’s paintings.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07. 20w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 310w.

V

=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Face of clay: an interpretation. †$1.50. Dodd.

6–24581.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The story is delightfully written, and the people and places stand
clearly before us.” Mary K. Ford.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 83. Mr. ’07. 960w.

“The book must be called successful, if only for the very striking
background which Mr. Vachell gives to a drama otherwise lacking in
intrinsic interest.”

+ − =Spec.= 96: 836. My. 26. ’06. 290w.

=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Her son: a chronicle of love. †$1.50. Dodd.

7–31481.

The story of a foster-mother’s devotion to the illegitimate son of the
man whom she was engaged to marry. The compromising situations that
arise from her determination to shield the boy leave in the reader’s
mind “two ideas: first, a strong doubt as to the wisdom of too much
self-sacrifice, and secondly, the enormous advantage, even from the
point of view of expediency, of the open and straightforward course of
action.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

“This is a story which grows in interest from the first to the last
page. It is well constructed and full of dramatic situations which
nowhere develop into melodrama, in fact the more intense and strained
these situations become the more naturally and simply does the author
treat them.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 415. Ap. 27, ’07. 290w.

“For a novel so well written, the theme, as we have said, is
disappointing. People do make wrecks of their lives, but not in this
wantonly sentimental manner.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 240w.

“The book is interesting, the characters have a life and personality
of their own and it is written in that pleasant, tranquil narrative
style which is destined to flourish and charm long after the present
morbid and neurotic school shall have disappeared.” Mary K. Ford.

− + =Bookm.= 26: 278. N. ’07. 600w.

“He has the credit of elaborating what is probably a new situation in
the old triangular plot, and earns gratitude thereby, even if the
characters, especially the actress and the journalist, suggest only
the properties of his art.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 118. Ap. 12, ’07. 300w.

“No doubt the action turns upon sentiment; but, as readers of the ‘The
hill’ well recall, Mr. Vachell’s sentiment is not of the watery kind.
It consorts very well with sensible thinking and a plain and sturdy
way of speech.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 420w.

“Is an unusual novel and will be deeply relished by those who think
and feel. There is enough of a problem in it to arouse warm
discussion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19. ’07. 670w.

“A highly dramatic and human story by one of the five best writers in
England.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

“The book goes beneath the surface in its study of motive and
character and although it sometimes touches on delicate ground, it
holds up a high standard of honor, faithfulness, and nobility of
purpose.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 80w.

“We readily admit that the novel is well written, that the dialogue is
bright, and the narrative well handled. But viewed as a whole the
story stands or falls with the character of Dorothy Fairfax ... and we
fear that a good many readers, instead of regarding her, with Lady
Curragh, as ‘a heavenly fool,’ will be tempted to pronounce her an
unearthly idiot.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 721. My. 4, ’07. 1000w.

=Vambery, Arminius.= Western culture in eastern lands: a comparison of the methods adopted by England and Russia in the Middle East. *$3.50. Dutton.

6–25742.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“However frequently one may be disposed to take issue with Prof.
Vambéry in his assumptions and conclusions, the scholarly merits of
his work must be recognized at every turn. He occasionally falls into
a panegyrical strain which is ill advised.... But these lapses are not
frequent, and they probably flow from the author’s vivacity of style
rather than from any inherent faults in his thought.” Frederic Austin
Ogg.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 2400w.

* =Vance, Rev. James Isaac.= Eternal in man. **$1. Revell.

7–13923.

An appeal to higher living based on the conviction that man is a
citizen of the eternal world.

* * * * *

“A vigorous and rhetorically effective appeal to higher living.”

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 716. O. ’07. 20w.

“Such regrettable extravagance, akin to the ‘mother of God’ doctrine
of the fourth century, is offset, but not atoned for, by many an
excellent statement of moral and religious verities.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.

=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Brass bowl. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–12274.

A charming young New York girl who assumes the role of a burglar for
the purpose of securing papers that will bring comfort to a grief
stricken father; a real burglar, as dangerous as he is clever; and a
young millionaire who is an exact counterpart of the burglar are the
chief actors in this drama, whose exciting situations grow out of the
resemblance of the two men.

* * * * *

“A more amusing and ingenious ‘shocker’ than this we have seldom read.
Can be recommended for railway journeys and for all who wish to be
amused without being made to think; incidentally it gives interesting
glimpses into American life.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 193. N. 30, ’07. 220w.

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07.

“Will hold the breathless interest of the reader who is seeking only
to be amused, as the action is rapid and the dialogue well written.”
Amy C. Rich.

+ − =Arena.= 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 150w.

“A reader may protest, may resent the undue strain upon his sense of
probability, but he will be tolerably sure to follow the story to its
end.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 229. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.

=Vanderlip, Frank Arthur.= Business and education. **$1.50. Duffield.

7–17640.

A collection of Mr. Vanderlip’s addresses and speeches dealing
authoritatively with financial, industrial and educational questions.
The author is vice-president of the National city bank, New York, and
writes out of the fulness of a long commercial experience, made
valuable by a broad knowledge of his fellow-man and a soundness of
business judgment.

* * * * *

Reviewed by J. C.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 440. Jl. ’07. 470w.

“We would not gainsay the right of successful business men to their
literary diversions, but will venture the delicate suggestion that not
every article contributed to popular magazines needs to be reproduced
in more permanent form.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 21. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.

“Mr. Vanderlip’s book is a good qualification for his doctorate in
finance.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 1250w.

“Mr. Vanderlip’s conclusions are well thought out and clearly stated.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 160w.

* =Van Dresser, Mrs. Jesmine Stone.= How to find Happyland: a book of children’s stories. il. **$2. Putnam.

7–16944.

A book of fairy tales written by a mother for her son.

* * * * *

“Charmingly written.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12. ’07. 70w.

“A pretty wholesome fairy book, sufficiently mysterious to awaken
interest in the children, yet very gracefully written, and having nice
little morals tucked craftily away within its pages. The writer has
the true gift of story-telling for little folks, and the pictures by
Florence E. Storer quite suit the text.”

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

=Van Dyke, Henry.= Americanism of Washington. 50c. Harper.

6–34847.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Dr. van Dyke’s practised and graceful pen has made a book by no means
without literary charm. If, from the literary point of view, one were
to criticise this volume, such criticism would surely involve a
discounting of the effectiveness of the peroration, which is more
smoke than flame, and never rises beyond the mere rhetoric of
patriotism and moral enthusiasm.” Horatio S. Krans.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 110. Ap. ’07. 720w.

=Van Dyke, Henry.= Battle of life. **30c. Crowell.

7–20955.

This sermon, preached from the text, “Overcome evil with good” appears
uniform with the “What is worth while series.”

=Van Dyke, Henry.= Days off, and other digressions. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–33932.

Uniform with “Fisherman’s luck” and “Little rivers.” The “days off”
are “more or less occupied with fishing, with now and then a bit of
hunting, one long drive over the glorious English roads among the
Quantock hills, one woodland excursion between the lupin and the
laurel with no record of killing, and one or two chats on bookish
subjects.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Van Dyke writes of these jaunts with a taking measure of
fancifulness, and a flavour of bookishness which is agreeably
elusive.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 130w.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 250w.

“It is mighty pleasant to take a ‘day off’ with the parson.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 70w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 2, ’07. 260w.

“One does not need to read far in ‘Days off’ before he comes upon the
secret of its vitality and interest; it is revealed in a phrase—‘no
vacation is perfect without a holiday in it.’”

+ + =Outlook.= 87: 765. D. 7, ’07. 720w.

“Altogether, this is a readable book, but it would have been more
prudent not to invite, as on p. 37, a comparison with Charles Lamb.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 120w.

=Van Dyke, Henry.= Good old way. **30c. Crowell.

7–20954.

An addition to the “What is worth while series.” The good old way is
the path of faith and duty which runs amid the tangle of sensuality,
avarice, social ambition, intellectual pride, moral indifference,
hypocrisy and indecision.

* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Music lover. **$1. Moffat.

7–35629.

“Dr. van Dyke describes the emotions of the true lover of music, as he
sits in his chosen place and hears a great orchestra render a great
symphony. Generous margins appropriately decorated in color, and a
colored frontispiece by Sigismund de Ivanowski, whose work has lately
attracted much attention, are the decorative features.”—Dial.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.

“A beautiful prose poem.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Story of the other wise man. $5. Harper.

A special holiday edition containing a new preface by the author. “He
tells us that he had studied and loved the curious tales of the three
wise men of the East as told in the Golden legend of Jacobus de
Voragine and other mediæval books; but of the fourth wise man he had
never heard until the long, lonely night when the story came to him.”
(Outlook.)

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

“Particularly well printed and illustrated.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.

=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Opal sea. *$1.25. Scribner.

6–8871.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Since Ruskin no more charming guide to the beauties of nature has put
himself at our disposition than Professor Van Dyke.”

+ =Cath. World.= 85: 408. Je. ’07. 400w.

=Van Dyke, John C.= Studies in pictures: an introduction to the famous galleries. **$1.25. Scribner.

7–9576.

The service which Mr. Van Dyke renders is that of aiding the student
of painting in seeing truly, comprehending adequately, and judging
justly. There are ten chapters as follows: Old masters out of place;
Pictures ruined, restored and repainted; False attributions, copies,
forgeries; Themes of the masters; Workmanship of the old masters;
Figure painting; Portrait painting; Genre painting; The animal in art;
Landscape and painting.

* * * * *

“To his credit be it said he is never irrelevant, he relates
historical facts which have bearings on certain cases, he makes
suggestive comparisons, but ultimately when he wishes to explain
beauty of a certain piece of drawing, of a harmony of color, or of a
composition of masses, he perforce refers his reader to the picture
itself.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 726. Jl. 27, ’07. 930w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07. S.

+ =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.

“Professor Van Dyke is a helpful cicerone, for he does not overpower
the reader with his theories, or force upon him his tastes, or crush
him with the weight of his learning, but talks clearly and sensibly
about what pictures are painted for and how we can get the most out of
them.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.

“The passenger who expects to take a look at the famous galleries will
take a far more sensible, comprehending look if he has scanned these
brief, chatty pages; the passenger who, picking up a friend’s copy,
had planned to waste no time poking about under European skylights
will probably conceive some curiosity for the art treasures abroad.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 52. Ap. ’07. 440w.

“Mr. Van Dyke is a most trustworthy guide, who knows what he is
talking about, with a knowledge rare indeed even amongst those who
enjoy a great reputation as critics.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 150w.

“Not only useful to the unsophisticated, to whom it is admirably
adapted, but valuable to those who have a tendency to lose themselves
in technicalities. The treatment is popular, almost casual [and] is
based on a sympathetic attitude toward ignorance, which is rare in the
writing of a specialist and a mark of mental breadth.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 940w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 280w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 50w.

“Is just the kind of work that is wanted to put the uninstructed lover
of pictures on the right track.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.

=Van Eps, Frank S., and Van Eps, Marion B.= Rejoice always: or, Happiness is for you. $1. Frank S. Van Eps, 144 W. 123 st., N. Y.

7–514.

A little book which preaches the gospel of happiness, sets forth its
value and explains how it may be attained. Its chapter headings show
its scope and trend of argument; Rejoice, The consciousness of God, No
anxiety, Prayer and supplication, Thanksgiving, and The peace of God.

* * * * *

“Very optimistic little book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

“Its fundamental positions are true psychologically and ethically, as
well as in the mystical religious life. It may be heartily commended
to all who would reach the high levels of ‘the life that is life
indeed,’ where no cloud or storm is that the sun does not quickly
dissipate.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 45. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.

=Van Norden, Charles.= Yoland of Idle Isle. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–29008.

Idle isle is one of the Bermudas whither a New England college
president and his granddaughter go to live in seclusion. The
adventures that befall the heroine who is being reared away from the
wicked world and the madding crowds suggest those of Miranda before
Ferdinand awakens her.

* * * * *

“The one extraordinary thing in the book is the language in which its
characters converse and soliloquize. It is surely the strongest
mixture of grandiloquence and nonsense ever put down in sober print
and attributed to people in their right minds. He promises quite
plainly that there are further ‘annals yet to be written.’ It is to be
hoped that he will think better of it and continue his ‘leisure.’”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 900w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

=Van Norman, Louis Edwin.= Poland, the knight among nations; with an introd. by Helena Modjeska. **$1.50. Revell.

7–32871.

“Because of his intimate relations with Poles of the best class, Mr.
Van Norman’s opportunities for studying both town and country life in
all sections of the tripartite kingdom were exceptional, and his
comments on Polish music and art, the national psychology and
political and social problems are well worth considering; but his
account of his pilgrimages to the scenes of Sienkewicz’s three great
historical novels, and his picture of the great interpreter of Poland
himself in his home among the Carpathian mountains are perhaps of the
greatest interest to readers of contemporary literature.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“If Madame Modjeska has briefly prepared the reader for much, Mr. Van
Norman has made himself admirably accessory after the fact, by telling
the whole story in a vivid, impressive and scholarly manner.” Dolores
Bacon.

+ + =Bookm.= 26: 414. D. ’07. 590w.

“A sympathetic, first-hand study of a noble race of vigorous virtues
and lovable faults.” Arthur Guiterman.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 632. O. 19, ’07. 1820w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“Mr. Van Norman has had unusual opportunities of studying Poland at
first hand, and his sympathies for the people are naturally keen, as
he married a Pole. On every page of the present volume we are
conscious of that knowledge and sympathy.”

+ + =Outlook.= 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 640w.

“It is in the portrayal of modern Polish activities and
accomplishments that Mr. Van Norman’s book performs its most distinct
service.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 270w.

=Van Sommer, Annie, and Zwemer, Samuel M.=, eds. Our Moslem sisters: a cry of need from lands of darkness interpreted by those who heard it. **$1.25. Revell.

7–16363.

“In this book is collected a mass of testimony and undoubted facts
that merely lift the edge of the sad truth as to the lives of women in
Mohammedan communities.... The universality and ease of divorce, the
absolute freedom of the husband, and the utter helplessness of the
wife, are revelations to many. A mere sentence, repeated three times,
is irrevocable, and the wife is cast out to a life of sorrow, shame,
and poverty very often.... Egypt, all Africa, Palestine, Turkey,
Bulgaria, Persia, India, Java, and all Malaysia are darkened by this
unholy revelation to Mohammed.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The conditions of women in Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Northern Africa,
India, and Southeastern Asia are described forcibly and clearly.”

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

+ =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 320w.

=Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.

=Van Vorst, Bessie.= Letters to women in love. †$1.50. Appleton.

6–36049.

Four groups of advisory letters written to four American women
“occupying quite different places in the historical development of
love.” Mrs. Van Vorst “thinks that the thing which counts about a
woman more than anything else, from beginning to end, is her age.” She
spends half her life “not being old enough and the rest in being too
old.” And she tempers her advice accordingly. For example, “if a woman
is over thirty-eight she must have patience in dealing with the man
she loves; if she is less than twenty-five she may risk defiance in
order to bring him to terms.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Few women will like the book, it is so pertinent, but most of them
over thirty years of age could profit by Mrs. Van Vorst’s suggestions
without injuring society.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.

“There was abundant material here for the making of an interesting
book. Mrs. Van Vorst has done little with it beyond discovering its
possibilities. The cases she presents are not lacking in human
interest, but the deeper note is lacking.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 290w.

“Her conscientious efforts to be ‘guide, philosopher, and friend’
result admirably—in the book—but in real life we fear her
dissertations would be relegated to the same high shelf whither every
guide, philosopher, and friend has retired from time immemorial.”

+ − =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 90w.

=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.

5–8736.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.

=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sin of George Warrener. †$1.50. Macmillan.

6–20363.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“As the excellent study of a thoroughly vain, vapid, and at the same
time utterly unscrupulous creature, Mrs. Warrener stands out
distinctly among this year’s novelistic figures. ‘The sin of George
Warrener’ is executed with distinguished artistic feeling.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 240w.

=Vasari, Giorgio.= Stories of the Italian artists; collected and arranged by E. L. Seeley. *$3. Dutton.

W 6–323.

A collection of extracts from Vasari’s monumental work dealing chiefly
with anecdote and biography, and designed evidently, for young
readers. The volume is illustrated with 25 half tone reproductions in
sepia and 8 colored plates.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 320w.

“A digest of Vasari’s biographies, which is amply sufficient for
artist and critic and intensely interesting for the general lover of
Italian art history. The editor and translator manages the subject
with consummate skill. What is of notorious inaccuracy is deftly
suppressed, and what is of permanent value in the lives of the artists
or in the surroundings in which they worked is quite as skillfully
emphasized. The style, too, has a touch of the archaic, which while
everywhere intelligible, gives a charming illusion of antiquity.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 560w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 60w.

=Vaughan, Charles Edwyn.= Romantic revolt. (Periods of European literature.) *$1.50. Scribner.

7–32815.

A monograph which treats of the rise and progress of the Romantic
revolt against classicism in Great Britain; of a group of German
writers, including Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller and Goethe; of the
romantic movement in France and Italy; and of the history of
romanticism in Spain, the Netherlands, the Slav countries,
Scandinavia, Bohemia, Poland and Russia.

* * * * *

=Acad.= 72: 181. F. 23, ’07. 1520w.

“The book is exceptionally readable.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 110w.

=Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w.

“It is unusual to find so large an amount of important literary
history and of sound literary criticism within the compass of a book
which may be read within a comparatively short time.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 261. Ap. 20, ’07. 440w.

=Vaughan, Herbert M.= Last of the royal Stuarts. 2d ed. *$3.50. Dutton.

7–28488.

“A footnote to history” which is conceded to be one of the most
interesting of recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.
“Henry Stuart was born in 1725, became a wealthy Cardinal-Bishop, had
to flee from Napoleon, accepted, in his need, a pension from George
III., and died in 1807.” (Lond. Times.) “A good account is given of
the cardinal’s place as an historical figure. Genius is not claimed
for him, but his piety, bounty, and kindness are pointed out, and the
author perhaps wisely omits to quote the ill-natured gossip of Henry
Swinburne.” (Eng. Hist. R.)

* * * * *

“It is doubtful if any more interesting record of the life of the
Prince Cardinal has ever been produced.” W. F. Dennehy.

+ + =Am. Cath. Q.= 32: 1. Ja. ’07. 8000w.

“That the Duke scarcely deserved a biography is our opinion; while the
biography is written without much research, and with rather inadequate
references.”

− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1090w.

“The author has put together whatever is worth knowing about the
rather uneventful career of Henry IX.” A. F. S.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 201. Ja. ’07. 380w.

“Much good and careful work has gone into Mr. Vaughan’s history of the
Cardinal Duke of York, and the book is of value as rounding out the
literature of the Stuart family. The references in Mr. Vaughan’s
footnotes are curiously indefinite, and consequently lose much of
their value and usefulness.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 450w.

“A life of Cardinal York, though it could not be a work of great
historical import, was yet worth writing, and Mr. Vaughan has written
it well.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 320. S. 21, ’06. 1210w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 599. S. 29, ’06. 1210w. (Reprinted from
Lond. Times.)

“This life of the Cardinal Duke is one of the most interesting of
recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 286. Mr. 30, ’07. 430w.

“Interesting and carefully prepared book.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 327. S. 7, ’07. 1350w.

=Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= The Naples Riviera. il. $2. Stokes.

W 7–197.

“Mr. Vaughan gives a generous interpretation to the Naples Riviera,
including the Islands of the Blessed that float in a pellucid
atmosphere in the enchanting bay. Everywhere he is resuscitating a
dead past, from Herculaneum submerged in volcanic mud, and Pompeii
long buried in a shroud of ashes, to Salerno of the once famous
medical schools, to Pæstum with the temples that were dilapidated when
S. Paul landed at Puteoli, and to Amalfi which was for a time supreme
at sea till the now moribund Pisa contested the supremacy.” (Sat. R.)
“The reader of these pages, therefore, will collect, with a minimum of
effort, a little history, a little folk-lore, a little biography, a
little literary reminiscence, and a little appreciation of the places
which interest him in these parts.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“‘The Naples Riviera’ is a paradise of colour. It is therefore an
ideal subject for a colour-book, and an artist so conspicuously clever
in seizing and reproducing an effect as Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen
could be trusted to make the most of such an opportunity.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 573. My. 11. 380w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

“This is an agreeable book upon a well-worn theme.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 110w.

“Altogether the book, though written with verve and sympathy, is
somewhat melancholy reading. We are disappointed in Mr.
Greiffenhagen’s drawings. They show evident traces of haste, and in
some is a sad lack of perspective.”

− + =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 240w.

=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Balthasar Hubmaier. **$1.35. Putnam.

5–37146.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“If much of the material were relegated to foot-notes or appendixes,
the reader would feel more directly the charm, the tragedy and the
great significance of the career to which Dr. Vedder has devoted so
much sympathetic study.” William Walker Rockwell.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 364. Ja. ’07. 1160w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 60w.

=Velvin, Ellen.= Behind the scenes with wild animals. **$2. Moffat.

6–40578.

“Interesting talks about the ways of animals, wild and tame, the
perils behind the scenes in animal shows, the curiosities of animal
life, the methods of animal trainers, and other kindred
topics.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S.

“The disjointed way in which anecdote follows anecdote, and the lack
of coherence between chapters and parts of chapters leave in the
reader’s mind only a blur of disconnected facts. The single thing that
approaches lasting value is the list of various species of mammals
which have been bred in captivity.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.

“She writes with animation and directness, and her narrative is
enlivened by many capital photographs.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

* =Velvin, Ellen.= Wild animal celebrities. **$1 Moffat.

7–31196.

Here are told the life stories of celebrated animals in which “the
author has sketched for us the events befalling the lions, bears, and
elephants, from their wild days to the time of their captivity; and
besides that, she has given us good insight into the dangers
encountered by the men who are responsible for the animals on
exhibition.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Such a book ought to be read by every one who visits collections of
wild animals.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 120w.

+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 110w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 150w.

=Vernon, Ambrose White.= Religious value of the Old Testament in the light of modern scholarship. **90c. Crowell.

7–10032.

A comparison of the earlier attitude toward the Old Testament with the
present view of modern scholarship. While in sympathy with the higher
criticism, the author holds to the belief that the Bible, every word
of it, is true, and that it is the inspired word.

* * * * *

“Those who agree with the author will thank him for setting forth what
they feel, with such eloquence. To those who are hesitating between
the older and newer views the book will make a strong appeal through
its spiritual earnestness and suggestiveness. But what will its effect
be upon those who love the old wine of the ‘Infallible word?’ To them
many of his epigrammatic expressions will appear irritating.” Kemper
Fullerton.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 666. O. ’07. 280w.

“The discussion is concise, clear, and interesting, and should be read
by every minister and Bible student.”

+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 399. My. ’07. 90w.

“Mr. Vernon ... has studied the problems of the Old Testament with
conscientious thoroness, with painstaking use of the best literature,
and with a singular faculty of discerning salient and significant
facts and assembling details into a consistent picture.”

+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1032. My. 2, ’07. 1520w.

=Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.

“Professor Vernon writes with eagerness, with evident sincerity and
intensity of conviction, and there is a certain tension and activity
in his style, which, while it may not leave his sentences always
smooth, keeps one’s interest alert.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.

“The aim of this little book is so admirable and the spirit is so
praiseworthy that we regret to speak of it in criticism rather than in
commendation. But it appears to us to be inadequate in its treatment
of a theme where inadequacy is tantamount to error.”

− + =Outlook.= 86: 300. Je. 5, ’07. 340w.

=Vianney, Joseph.= Blessed John Vianney. (Saints ser.) *$1. Benziger.

“In the life of the Curé d’Ars we have a story of devotion and
self-sacrifice, of magic influence over others, of shrewd common-sense
and humour, so wonderful as to be almost past belief.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“A well-written and interesting sketch. It is clear, however, that the
narrative is not free from exaggeration.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 240w.

“The admirable life of the Curé of Ars, written by his nephew, has
been translated into English so idiomatic that one would scarcely
suspect that the version is not an original.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 555. Ja. ’07. 230w.

=Sat. R.= 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 230w.

=Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 170w.

=Victoria, queen of Great Britain.= Letters of Queen Victoria: a selection from Her majesty’s correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861; ed. by Arthur C. Benson and Viscount Esher. 3v. **$15. Longmans.

7–36986.

While there is to be found political history in plenty in these
letters, they constitute, in the main, a document “whose chief
importance consists in revelation of character.... Even in her
prejudices the queen commands admiration, while proof appears on every
page of her innate rectitude; the masculine discernment which kept her
feminine susceptibilities under control, her knowledge of business,
which neither excused slackness nor pardoned obscurity, and her grasp
of detail are all emphasized.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The general editing is worthy of the documents which it elucidates,
though in the third volume Mr. Benson and Lord Esher lead their
readers into one or two blind alleys, whence foot-notes might have
extricated them.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 509. O. 26. 1820w.

“The care and skill shown in editing and annotating this great
quantity of miscellaneous matter are all that could be desired. Dr.
Eugene Oswald has done good work in translation.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 368. D. 1, ’07. 1870w.

“If it were not for the greatest interest that attaches to the
letters, their reading would be somewhat wearisome and would give
little enjoyment.”

+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1366. D. 5, ’07. 1950w.

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 150w.

“There is, therefore, no use in denying that the interest of these
volumes lies rather in the substance than in form. They do not give us
quite the vivid and brilliant picture of the times, as they appeared
when seen from the Throne, which a ‘Life’ might and probably would
have given us. The book is, in fact, pre-eminently ‘a book for
students of political history;’ it is a mass of material for the
future historian of the reign.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 313. O. 18, ’07. 5420w.

“It is, accordingly, the public aspect of the Queen which alone can
give much interest to these volumes of her letters.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 422. N. 7, ’07. 1600w.

“It is absorbing as history; it is, if possible, more absorbing as a
revelation of the inner life of the great family of sovereigns.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 673. O. 26, ’07. 3320w.

“It is in reality a human document of unusual value.”

+ + =Outlook.= 87: 608. N. 23, ’07. 940w.

“Those who only know Queen Victoria’s gifts as a writer through her
Highland journals will be astonished when they read these volumes. To
say that the book is of absorbing interest does it scant justice, for
it is one of the great books of the century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 703. D. ’07. 2180w.

“Despite the suppressions, enough has been left in the correspondence
to render it not only interesting, but piquant and amusing. Mr. Benson
and Lord Esher have received very efficient assistance. The
introductory notes to the chapter, giving an historical summary of
each year, are models of compression and accuracy.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 514. O. 26, ’07. 1800w.

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 545. N. 2. ’07. 2370w.

“Besides providing an intimate portrait of the Queen’s mind, it gives
a fascinating picture of her times, and incidentally of the chief
figures of the Victorian epoch. In our opinion, not a little of the
success of the book—and from the historical and literary point of view
it is a very great success—is due to the fact that the documents are
as a rule quoted entire, and we are not put off with scrappy extracts
and excerpts from letters.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: 611. O. 26, ’07. 2540w.

+ + =Spec.= 99: 667. N. 2, ’07. 3500w.

=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Game at love and other plays. †$1.25. Brentano’s.

6–28417.

“A series of short prose dramatic studies.... Of the six subjects
treated, four are ... suggestive ... of a contempt for all the
restrictions which prevent human society from relapsing into barbaric
animalism.... The last two pieces, grouped under the single title,
‘The butterfly,’ are cast in the shape of the old moralities.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The volume is remarkable not only for its promise but also for its
accomplishment.”

+ =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 320w.

“They may be dismissed at once as naught.”

− =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 550w.

“What Mr. Viereck may achieve in the future, if ever his rankly
luxuriant boyish fancies acquire the ballast of solid learning and
common sense, it would be hazardous to predict. At present, he is
devoting precious gifts to futile and unworthy ends.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 370w.

“It is this collection that has now come to us ... as the first
adequate representation in our tongue of a poet who has been compared
with Shelley and Keats and Swinburne, Baudelaire and Heine.” Wm.
Aspenwall Bradley.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.

“These little plays, cynically catching life at some unnatural angle,
as they do, and cleverly, even brilliantly, done as they are, scarcely
amount to a raison d’etre.” Richard Le Gallienne.

+ − =No. Am.= 184: 421. F. 15, ’07. 1060w.

“Quite evidently not the result of experience but due to a somewhat
decadent outlook upon life.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 180w.

=Viereck, George Sylvester.= House of the vampire. †$1.25. Moffat.

7–28969.

“His vampire is a personage of immense literary distinction, who moves
among his contemporaries like a god, yet all of whose works are
actually the product of others whose minds he enters, whose mental
creations he steals, and whose vigor he saps.” (N. Y. Times.) Every
note of originality which he discovers in any one he appropriates,
reproduces as his own, justifying himself with this: “I carry the
essence of what is cosmic ... of what is divine.... I am Homer ...
Goethe ... Shakespeare.... I am an embodiment of the same force of
which Alexander, Cæsar, Confucius, and the Christos were also
embodiments.”

* * * * *

“Only in a few pages does Mr. Viereck succeed in producing the effects
he strives for; the rest of it is crude and commonplace.”

− + =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 200w.

“The difficulty with Mr. Viereck’s treatment lies in purely
melodramatic conception of character, an utter lack of subtlety in
dealing with the whole situation, and a distressing congestion of
large words.”

− =Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 350w.

“Except in the final scene, where its extravagances are in keeping
with the subject, the style of the book is quite impossible. ‘The
house of the vampire’ may be described as a tale of horror, keyed from
the first word to the last in the highest pitch of tragic emotion.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 400w.

=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Nineveh and other poems. **$1.25. Moffat.

7–17378.

“In this volume of verse the author’s theme is, for the most part, the
anguish and the joy of adolescence. Some of the best poems are
glorious riots of purely sensuous passion; others are despairing cries
to some solidity of stay amid the turbulence of sense. The poet and
the immoralist are at war in many verses, but the poems are sane
because the poet is the stronger.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

“We have spoken unkindly of Mr. Viereck, because we feel that he has
fine poetic possibilities; and all his self-confidence fails to
convince us that he is not wrong in adopting the now too conventional
part of defiant Titan.”

− + =Acad.= 73: 58. O 26, ’07. 230w.

“Perhaps no poet now writing is more proficient in the loud
symphonious lay, and the quality of Mr. Viereck’s vigorous, if
unhealthy imagination is of a sort to be expressed very perfectly in
his reverberating verse.” Ferris Greenslet.

+ − =Atlan.= 100: 845. D. ’07. 500w.

“Mr. Viereck owes something to the world. His recent volume proves him
to be indisputably a poet. It also indicates the lines along which he
must develop in order to fulfil his promise. As yet his genius is
greater than his talent. His verse has spontaneity, but not perfected
art; and it behooves him to study carefully the master poets and grow
to greater sureness of technical effect.” Clayton Hamilton.

+ − =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 520w.

“Despite the note of sensuality only too apparent in these
compositions, they are remarkable productions, and we trust that their
licentiousness illustrates what will prove but a passing phase of
their writer’s expression.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ − =Ind.= 43: 91. Ag. 16, ’07. 600w.

“At times he is amazingly clever; tho, like clever children, he pays
up for it by periods of dire fatuity.”

− + =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 250w.

“With the exception of the amazing cleverness of this youthful verse
there seems little promise in it.”

− + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

“Even Mr. Viereck’s sustained energy of phrase and the fine orotund
music of his verse hardly avails against this vicious monotony of
subject. The subject, however, is fortunately taken not so much from
life as from a rather narrow segment of poetic literature.”

− + =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 330w.

Reviewed by Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.

“He speaks in spontaneous and eloquent verse, melodious with the
memories of the recurrent haunting harmonies of Poe, the sea-surge of
Mr. Swinburne and the plangent tenderness of Oscar Wilde, and ringing
also with a certain hammer-blow of passion which is entirely his own.
He speaks with authority of the half-sensuous and half-religious
hysteria of adolescence. Mr. Viereck is as yet only a possibility; but
his possibility is glorious.” Clayton Hamilton.

+ + − =No. Am.= 185: 556. Jl. 5, ’07. 1180w.

“It will never set the poetic world on fire by its originality, for
the writer has but a note and a half at best, and follows closely
certain poets whom he obviously admires with extravagance. Mr. Viereck
has as yet accomplished only a fair imitation of the real thing. A
near-poet of twenty-two has still so much to learn.”

− =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 220w.

“He has not developed the ‘rhythmic effects’ he talks of by any device
more essential than ingenious systems of indentation, which gives the
printed pages a resemblance to parts of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or a
long-division sum. Similar affectations spoil his sense as well as his
form.”

− + =Sat. R.= 104. sup. 5. S. 28, ’07. 280w.

* =Villani, Giovanni.= Villani’s chronicle; being selections from the first nine books of the Chronicle Florentine of Giovanni Villani; tr. by Rose E. Selfe and ed. by P. H. Wicksteed. *$2. Dutton.

“Within the compass of twenty pages the author retells the tangled
tale of Florentine political history, from the days of the Countess
Matilda to those of Cosmo Pater Patriæ, handling his subject in a
fashion which leaves the reader better informed as to the real forces
at work throughout that troubled period than the perusal of many bulky
volumes is likely to make him.” (Ath.) It throws light upon the
historical allusions in the “Divine comedy.”

* * * * *

“Of the translation we can speak in terms of high praise, not only for
its fidelity, but also for the admirable manner in which it reflects
the garrulous grace and lively movement of the original.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 604. My. 18. 500w.

“Like Rambaldi’s Latin commentary on the ‘Commedia,’ Villani’s
chronicle is a perfect mine of information in regard to the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries in Tuscany, although less personal and not so
anecdotal as the work of the Imola professor.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 310w.

“Mr. Wicksteed’s introduction shows all the qualities that might be
expected from one of the most widely read of English Dantists. In a
few pages he manages to throw a really searching light on the confused
struggle of Florentine politics.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 230w.

=Villari, Luigi.= Fire and sword in the Caucasus. **$3.50. Pott.

7–7543.

“A vivid picture of the revolutionary outbreaks and the racial strife
that have made many a scene of horror in parts of the Caucasus within
the past year and a half.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“By his new book he will add considerably to his reputation.”

+ + =Acad.= 71: 8. Jl. 7, ’06. 1140w.

“Mr. Villari tells his story well. In his present volume the author
makes few mistakes.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 699. Je. 9. 1050w.

“We have no hesitation in commending it to all who seek a competent
guide with whose assistance they may penetrate behind the veil of
silence or exaggeration which hides or distorts the truth as regards
the situation in Russia.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 230. Je. 29, ’06. 530w.

“The numerous reproductions of the author’s photographs are
interesting, and add substantially to his narrative.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 488. D. 6, ’06. 650w.

“It is of permanent value because it is a careful study of the chief
races living there—a study that was necessary to make some aspects of
the political situation clear.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 570w.

“Unlike the generality of writers upon Russia in the present day,
however, he displays no animus against either government or people.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 303. D. 8, ’06. 520w.

“He has a facile pen, and is a master of the special correspondent’s
variety of the ‘graphic’ style.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 430w.

=Vincent, Charles John=, ed. Fifty Shakespeare songs. (Musicians’ lib., v. 21.) $2.50. Ditson.

6–37861.

The Shakespeare songs to which this volume is devoted are grouped as
follows: Songs mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays, Songs possibly
sung in the original performances, Settings composed since
Shakespeare’s time to the middle of the nineteenth century, and Recent
settings.

* * * * *

“Many of the selections are practically unobtainable for the average
seeker in any other form.”

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 214. N. ’06.

“The editor has furnished excellent historical and critical notes on
the songs.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 235. F. 23. 140w.

=Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 110w.

=Nation.= 83: 491. D. 6, ’06. 140w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 40w.

=Vincent, James Edmund.= Highways and byways in Berkshire; with il. by Frederick L. Griggs. $2. Macmillan.

W 7–45.

Nothing of guide book order and inclusiveness is found in Mr.
Vincent’s description. He goes out of the beaten path, in fact, and
“the reader is introduced to many an old country house not magnificent
enough to be mentioned in the ordinary guide-books, but adorned each
with its own legends and private tragedies.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“His style is weighed down with mannerisms; and there is in the book
too much about Mr. Vincent, with the result that Berkshire often comes
off second best.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 260w.

“A volume of less than five hundred pages is bound to be an imperfect
record of a county; but Mr. Vincent, who is an engaging guide as far
as he goes, leaves too large a tract of the county out of his
itinerary for this commonplace to do him service.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 347. Mr. 23. 710w.