Chapter 2: , on ‘Production,’ some of the world’s production tables and (4)

“The central object of Mr. Young’s work is to reveal to the reader
what he conceives to be the personality of Columbus. He has tried to
discover, from a reverent examination of monographs, histories,
essays, memoirs, and controversies, what Columbus did and what he was.
In order that his portrait might not lack reality, he has endeavored
to bring out even his hero’s defects.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“It is picturesquely, vivaciously and vigorously written, with here
and there a touch reminiscent of Carlyle. He does not, however, strike
us as an infallible witness, and ‘modern historical research,’ which
may dispose of Washington Irving, is not perhaps always on the side of
Mr. Filson Young.”

+ − =Acad.= 71: 627. D. 22, ’06. 1150w.

“The most serious deficiency in Mr. Young’s work is not its occasional
errors, but its great lack of the true historical spirit of
interpretation. It is the work of a clear and versatile writer, but
not of a historical scholar. It will amuse and interest the general
reader and not seriously mislead him as to the career of Columbus, but
from it he will gain little instruction in historical interpretation.”
E. G. B.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 656. Ap. ’07. 630w.

“Is deserving of high praise, and upon the whole it is trustworthy,
notwithstanding the conjectural details which are introduced in order
to impart life and colour to the little that is known of the early
days of Columbus.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1390w.

“The one great and glaring defect of Mr. Young’s work lies in the
spirit of levity that more or less pervades it.” Anna Heloise Abel.

− + =Dial.= 42: 342. Je. 1, ’07. 1000w.

“The knowledge of motives and mental processes of Columbus which
Filson Young displays in his new two-volume life of the navigator is
enough to make the world of Columbian scholarship stand aghast.”

− =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 340w.

=Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 230w.

“Mr. Young can tell a story tersely, rapidly and vividly when he
chooses. But he seldom chooses so to tell it. He is too prone to
listen to that demonic whisper which bids him tell it with abundance
of florid embroidery; so that where we look for Columbus and his
deeds, adventures, and sufferings, we too often find Mr. Filson Young
and his words, conjectures, and fond inventions.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 1730w.

“The defects of his own work illustrate the inevitable weakness of
history written by one who has not saturated himself with its
materials. No student of the Columbus narratives will fail to find in
[the Earl of Dunraven’s] valuable essay an explanation of many things
left partly or wholly in the dark by the editors of Columbus’s
writings.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 271. Mr. 21, ’07. 1180w.

“Nothing has come from the presses recently which is able to give a
deeper insight into the character of the discoverer of America than
the two-volumed work of Filson Young just issued.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12:26. Ja. 19, ’07. 360w.

“It is our opinion that he has pressed the theories of the picturesque
school to a dangerous extreme, and he could have attained his purpose
with even greater surety, and without any sacrifice of the dramatic
elements of the story, by writing with more restraint.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 855. Ap. 13, ’07. 1330w.

“The book, take it for all in all, is interesting although badly
written, and its unflinching, almost infernal honesty of purpose
places it far above the too-abundant crop of ‘Memoirs,’ ‘Lifes’ and
‘Notes’ about the doings of quite unimportant men, which literally
stuff the libraries.” R. B. Cunninghame Graham.

+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 576. N. 10, ’06. 1750w.

=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Mastersingers. *$1.25. Lippincott.

“A republication, with some additions, of a series of essays on
musical subjects which appeared several years ago and which has
therefore won something more than ephemeral recognition in England and
America.... Some of the essays are ‘programme’ interpretations of
great symphonies like Beethoven’s Pastoral and Tschaikowsky’s
Pathetic; ‘Tristan and and Isolde’ is a more objective description of
Wagner’s great drama of love and death; and ‘The spirit of the piano’
is a very just appreciation of Chopin’s genius.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“As the work of so youthful a writer ... these papers display a
remarkable maturity of thought and even world wisdom; and the fervid
intensity of many passages is intelligible and excusable.” Josiah
Renick Smith.

+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. 1, ’07. 170w.

“They are agreeable and somewhat highly wrought examples of the
‘subjective,’ literary criticism.” Richard Aldrich.

− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 763. N. 17, ’06. 320w.

=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Wagner stories **$1.30. McClure.

The stories of the Wagner operas from “Flying Dutchman” to “Parsifal”
are told “for the benefit of those idle people who go to the opera
without having taken the trouble to read the poem on which the music
is founded. They are the larger proportion of audiences, and this
handy guide to knowledge ought to help them. They will get not only a
very good idea of the stories themselves, but a fairly definite idea,
in Mr. Eric Maclagan’s metrical translations of detached passages, of
that curious amalgam which Wagner constructed out of partly poetical
and partly musical elements.”—(Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“Both useful and attractive.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 615. My. 18. 140w.

=Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 150w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“A serious book for young people but the old tales are well told in a
manner that older people will find interesting.”

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

“The writing of Mr. Young’s book is done with fluency, and is best
when it tries least to ‘be inspired with some breadth of the emotional
atmosphere which it is the peculiar quality of Wagner’s music to
produce.’”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.

=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Battle of the bears. †$1.50. Wilde.

7–27029.

Mr. Young’s stories of life in the northland all aim to catch and hold
aspects of life which are fast disappearing as civilization penetrates
the wilderness haunts of wolves and bears. “His pictures of nature as
he saw it in that frozen world are remarkable, while the makeshifts to
which he was forced to resort, the privations which he had to endure,
give to the reader an insight into life in this north country such as
has never been before portrayed.”

=Young, Rida Johnson, and Coleman, Gilbert P.= Brown of Harvard. †$1.50. Putnam.

7–18595.

“The quite simple story of Brown, who is wrongfully suspected by his
sweetheart and her mother, suffers in silence to shield the quite
stereotyped villain, who would have been much more wisely dealt with
if his weakness had had the tonic of publicity, and who inevitably
wins the boat race.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The lively plot, full of ingenious and surprising incidents, and the
very striking dénouement make the reader unwilling to lay down the
book until he has finished it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

Z

=Zangwill, Israel.= Ghetto comedies. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–15120.

Fourteen stories of the Jew. Some are little comedies but in some the
comedy element is pathetically lacking. The model of sorrows,
Anglicization, The Jewish Trinity, The Sabbath question in Sudminster,
The red mark, The bearer of burdens. The Luftmensch, The tug of love,
The Yiddish Hamlet, The converts, Holy wedlock, Elijah’s goblet, The
hirelings, and Samooborona.

* * * * *

“Strong, artistic, short stories of the Jew.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.

“We are grateful to him for a book of interesting stories, which give
his readers problems to ponder—and some, maybe, also reason for
despair.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 390w.

“Never has he proved more plainly that a special theme in no way
hampers an artist, if only the artist be sufficiently strong and
fecund to resist over-specialization and to remain alive and sentient
within his chosen field.” Mary Moss.

+ + =Bookm.= 25: 430. Je. ’07. 1120w.

“The reader feels as tho he has been wandering in a land of
grotesques. More than a touch of exaggeration mars some of his best
tales.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 360w.

“Although in one way the book may be taken as an ironical open letter
to the Christian nations, showing them what their centuries of
oppression have done to debase their victim, it is also a work rich in
understanding and humor, a very quick and true sympathy, and that
fearless satirical directness which, when it comes (as it does so very
infrequently) from one of this race, is always so telling.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 158. My. 17, ’07. 670w.

“In reading these stories (fourteen in all) it is impossible not to
feel that merely as a writer of fiction Mr. Zangwill has gained
greatly in the past decade. Moreover, his point of view has broadened,
and while his sympathies and enthusiasms are as distinctively national
as ever, while he still loves so tenderly that he can find fault, or
even laugh, he never falls into that partisan sentimentalism which
would rob his Jewish pictures of their unflinching sincerity.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 420w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 70w.

“They have all the realism, the almost grim impartiality of their
predecessors.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

“They have the compelling force of reality.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.

“When a writer of fiction sets out to defend or attack some system of
religion or philosophy or politics or social economy, he must beware
of producing a lecture instead of a tale. Mr. Zangwill, an
enthusiastic Zionist, has frequently yielded to this weakness, and his
‘Ghetto comedies’ show that he is not done with it yet.”

− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 280w.

“What one is perhaps most conscious of when reading Mr. Zangwill is
the sureness of his level. His stories are not all of the same value
but one is sure when beginning each of them that it will lead
somewhere.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 624. My. 18, ’07. 540w.

“Alike in matter and manner this is a book of singular and engrossing
interest.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 1470w.

=Zartman, Lester William.= Investments of life insurance companies. **$1.25. Holt.

7–451.

A book which does not attempt to reflect any of the agitation
attending the recent official investigation of life insurance
companies, but undertakes the “more congenial task of tracing the
beneficent influences which life insurance accumulations have
exercised upon the economic development of the country and the
relation of those accumulations to social welfare.”

* * * * *

“Will interest readers of thoughtful mind, although it is somewhat
restricted in scope, and does not consider many of the most
interesting aspects of insurance. Extremely well done.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.

“The author’s conclusions appeal to the reader as thoroughly sane and
the recommendations as wise and salutary.” H. J. Davenport.

+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 184. Mr. ’07. 220w.

“His method is rigorously scientific, and the result is a most useful
contribution to the subject.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 164. F. 14, ’07. 380w.

Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 180. Mr. 23, ’07. 2020w.

“There is much information in his book concerning the character and
cost of insurance investments.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 120w.

“This little hand-book should be of much interest and value to those
who are responsible for the safe and profitable investment of trust or
other funds, and to the policy-holder, now somewhat alive to insurance
problems who desires to know how his savings are being cared for.” J.
M. Gaines.

+ =Yale R.= 16: 213. Ag. ’07. 490w.

=Zimmern, Helen.= Italy of the Italians. *$1.50. Scribner.

7–6779.

“Her aim is not so much to describe the Italy of the past as actual
conditions in the peninsula. In that description she is thoroughgoing,
she dips beneath the surface. She has interesting things to say about
the court, artists, authors, archæologists, scientists, inventors.
dramatists, and journalists. But, what is more striking, she seems
equally at home whether putting such a poet as Ada Negri or such an
archæologist as Giacomo Boni in their proper places, or in discussing
agrarian and fiscal conditions. Her treatment of those conditions
should commend it to students of economics.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07. S.

“Miss Zimmern’s facts appear to be almost wholly drawn from her
knowledge of the northern and central districts of the peninsula, with
the result that the peculiar difficulties of administration with which
the government is confronted in the South and in Sicily are passed
over in silence. The book bears signs of having been written in a
hurry, and evidences of careless proof reading abound. This
indifference to style is particularly to be regretted in the case of
an author who can write well when she pleases. A word of commendation
must be given to the unusually complete index.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 840w.

“Her equipment as a scholar and writer on many subjects, artistic,
philosophic, and literary, has given her a power of condensed
generalization.”

+ + =Dial.= 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.

“The least successful chapters are those on art and literature. Where
facts are concerned. Miss Zimmern is instructive; where personal bias
filters through, her position is radical, anti-church.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 412. D. 13, ’06. 290w.

“An interesting and valuable book on Italy.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.

“The whole volume is one of remarkable interest.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 280w.

=Zueblin, Charles.= Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

6–674.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.

=Charities.= 17: 508. D. 15, ’06. 770w.

=Zuylen van Nyevelt, Suzette van, barones.= Court life in the Dutch republic, 1638–1689. *$4. Dutton.

7–11547.

A history of Holland from 1638–1689 in which “we have family life in
the upper classes, religious influences, literature and art, society
and diplomacy! The bitterness between the Orangeists and
anti-Orangeists, the strife of parties, the cumbrousness of the Dutch
system of government, are all sympathetically explained.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt pilots the reader ably through the
complicated genealogy of the house of Nassau. Her grasp of her subject
and her wide sympathy both for the ill-fated and lovable Stuarts and
the harder-headed and somewhat uncompromising Princes of Orange, would
make a less dramatic period interesting.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 545. D. 1, ’06. 910w.

“The book fills a gap in the popular historical library, and is
excellently written. It should be widely read.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 379. Mr. 30. 700w.

“On the whole this is an admirable historical study.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 580w.

“The real value of this excellent book, illustrated and indexed as it
is, consists in its descriptions, rich in coloring, of the social life
of the period, the Dutch golden era.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 540w.

“Though the Baroness van Nyevelt writes in strained and dignified
style, the picturesqueness of her subject matter gives vividness to
every page of her interesting narrative.”

+ − =Outlook.= 84: 844. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

“The baroness’ book is a painstaking and readable contribution to the
understanding of the great age of the Dutch republic. If we compare
Mr. Barker and the Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt when they cover the
same ground, it seems fairly clear not merely that the baroness is
better acquainted with the best literature of the subject, but is more
accurate, more fair and more critical in the proper sense of that
term.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 750w.

=Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, Wherry, Elwood Morris, and Barton, James Levi=, eds. Mohammedan world of to-day: being papers read at the first missionary conference on behalf of the Mohammedan world held at Cairo, April 4th–9th, 1906. **$1.50. Revell.

6–41773.

“These papers exhibit the actual state of things both for better and
for worse, as seen by eye-witnesses long conversant with the facts.
They report both the difficulties in the way of betterment and the
encouraging successes here and there achieved. For an understanding
merely of the problems in world-politics which grow out of
Mohammedanism these papers are valuable, much more for those which
appeal to humanitarian and Christian sympathy. They effectually
dissipate the allusion that Mohammedanism is on the whole, a
beneficent religion, suited to the character of its adherents.
Statistics, maps, and illustrations enrich the volume.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“As in all books of this character the essays vary greatly in merit.
Especial mention should be made of those treating Arabia and India,
which are excellent.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 631. My. ’07. 610w.

“The book has many serious blemishes: it omits North Africa from the
field of view; its index is of little use; and its illustrations, good
enough in their way, are hastily collected from the stock in general
circulation. But its defects do not destroy its interest nor its
profound importance as a careful exhibit of the practical results of
Islam upon the races that have committed themselves to its guidance.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 801. Ap. 4, ’07. 830w.

“They correct some widely current misinformation.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 150w.

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