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“Mr. Day’s story stands up like a mountain peak among lesser fellows
for its large proportions and virile treatment.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.

“It has the breath of the woods in it, not nature faking woods, but
the real thing, and is moreover an excellent tale, with love that
suits the wild setting, rough humor and a philosophy that has the
merit of vitality. There is a sense of bigness about it, whether of
muscle or environment; a deep breath taken into lusty lungs, the full
sound of a man’s voice.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 150w.

“Like all Mr. Day’s stories and poems, it is fresh and is inspired by
honest love of the woods and the woods-people. It is sure to be widely
read.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 120w.

=Day, James Roscoe.= Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.

7–36714.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“Presents a side of the vital question of trusts on which little is
written, and is, therefore, useful for debates particularly.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.

“The chancellor of the Syracuse university has made himself a foremost
champion of the Standard oil company and its confederates, with the
result that public antagonism has roused his temper, and his style has
become furious. Dr. Day must produce a substitute policy more
consistent with economic progress and actual conditions if he is to
command the respect we would fain give to all college presidents.”

− =Ind.= 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 300w.

“It is not argument at all. It is extreme glorification on the one
hand, and bitter denunciation on the other.”

− =Nation.= 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.

=Putnam’s.= 3: 754. Mr. ’08. 150w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 100w.

=Day, Lewis Forman.= Enameling: a comparative account of the
development and practice of the art. *$3. Scribner.

W8–71.

“In this volume enameling is dealt with from its historic rather than
from its technical point of view. Mr. Day treats the beginnings of the
art in early times as the result of the goldsmith calling in the
glassmaker to help him. The different varieties of Champlevé,
Cloisonné, Limoges, and other enamels are all clearly described in
separate chapters of the book.” (Spec.) “To quote almost his own
words, he has sought to put in a handy, readable, and intelligible
shape the gist of what he has learnt from the works of many able
specialists; to write a book for the beginner which shall smooth his
way to understanding; and to point out the progress of one of the most
ancient of the arts.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Lewis Day ... avoids, on the one hand, the appearance—it is often
no more—of great learning; on the other, triviality and misleading
platitude.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 805. D. 21. 870w.

=Int. Studio.= 33: 337. F. ’08. 50w.

“In this book he has produced a model work of its kind.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 200w.

+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 70w.

=Dean, Sara.= Travers: a story of the San Francisco earthquake.
†$1.50. Stokes.

7–24768.

Travers, driven from service as a British army officer under suspicion
of theft, tires of braving the odium of his accusation and determines
to reap the profits of his reputation. He turns burglar and is in the
act of robbing a Palace hotel guest of her diamonds when the
earthquake shocks him to his better senses and effects a moral
revolution. He rescues the girl, administers to her wants during the
days following, and even wins her love through service.

* * * * *

“That the author has a big theme, one may even say without fear of
contradiction, a tremendous theme, becomes evident before we are a
third of the way through the volume. That she has handled certain
phases of it with real power and an intelligent recognition of what
she is trying to do must also be conceded. And if, at the end, we are
forced to admit that the plot was bigger than the execution of it,
that is not to the author’s discredit, because only one of the giants
among the makers of fiction could have told that story as it deserves
to have been told.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 101. Mr. ’08. 700w.

“The relation of the man and the girl, however fancifully brought
about, is a sound and credible one. In short, though the tale is not
of power, it is of interest both as a story and a document.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 153. F. 13, ’08. 180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 330w.

=Dearmer, Mabel White (Mrs. Percy Dearmer).= The sisters. (English
title, The alien sisters.) †$1.50. McClure.

8–8089.

“The two sisters of the title are daughters of one father; one the
delicately nurtured and fine-natured child of a wife of supreme
sweetness and beauty of character; the other the illegitimate daughter
of a vulgar and avaricious courtesan, who is presented only too
realistically. The two love the same man. Hypnotism and the subliminal
consciousness are dragged in to give a modern touch.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“With bolder handling the story, which is full of incident, might well
have been dramatic; from a coarser pen it would certainly have been
offensive; but Mrs. Dearmer’s work is neither the one nor the other.
The plot is evolved with too great elaboration of detail to be
specially effective.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 200w.

“The scenes that hurt are not introduced in the detestably ‘knowing
and showing’ manner of lesser novels, but a greater writer, we think,
would have conveyed the moral with less offence.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.

“The study of the two characters is detailed and interesting. The
story is told with much strength and skill and shows a good deal of
power.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 80w.

“Most painful in character, and the undoubted intellectual ability of
the author, and even her genuine moral intention, do not compensate
the reader for the sorrow and suffering he is called on vicariously to
suffer.”

− =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.

“Mrs. Dearmer’s new novel, though its ultimate lessons are sound
enough, probes the seamy side of nature too deeply to suit the
requirements of all readers, and cannot be recommended without
reserves.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 674. Ap. 25, ’08. 550w.

=Deeping, (George) Warwick.= Bertrand of Brittany. †$1.50. Harper.

8–12223.

This is a story of mediaeval adventure. The hero is the neglected son
of an unloving mother who blasts his youth with her heartless taunts.
The faith and trust of a little maid of seven spurs him on at last to
a vindication of himself in a tournament at Rennes. After that through
the changing fortunes of war Bertrand carries with him this memory
which causes him to perform deeds of heroism by which his manhood is
finally triumphantly revealed.

* * * * *

“The book gives a faithful picture of the times, but is neither
inspired nor has it much atmosphere.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.

“Mr. Deeping has a good story to tell and he tells it well.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 90w.

“This is the author’s success that he has created an illusion of the
life in ancient Brittany that is faithful to the modern imagination of
that period.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 149. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.

“It has a certain youthful gusto which should commend it to the honest
citizen.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.

“The action is rapid, and the coloring rich and vivid. Warwick Deeping
does this sort of thing better than he does stories of modern life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.

=Deering, John Richard.= Lee and his cause; or, The why and how of
the war between the states. *$1.50. Neale.

7–41770.

Historical items “more or less involved in the solution of questions
which have arisen as to the rightfulness of secession; the origin and
conduct of its cause; the character, motives and sentiments of the
people who espoused and defended it as well as of those who forced
them to fields of blood.” (Preface.)

* * * * *

“The book belongs to that increasing group of works by Confederate
veterans in which, thru iteration and allusion to the perfect
character of General Lee, the attempt is made to save the South from
infamy in history.”

− =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 200w.

“Perhaps this little volume of memorial day sentiment and of countless
purple patches made up of fancy and fact, is not entirely worthless.”

− =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.

=De Guerin, E. W.= Malice of the stars. †$1.50. Lane.

A woman somewhat inclined towards a crooked path is wooed and won by a
man who believes her to be good and honest. “Thankful to be rescued
from all that impended, she was a good wife, and a good mother both to
their own children and to his by a former marriage. But finally came
the time of revelation and retribution for the misdeeds of her youth.
Then her husband’s love saved the day, and out of something that came
near to being wreckage for every one concerned, his devotion wrought a
salvation that turned out to be ‘somehow good.’” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“There is much that is good in this story and a little that is bad. It
is written with a charming humour and a real and sympathetic knowledge
of, at any rate, womankind. The plot is weak and sensational and
smacks strongly of a serial in a halfpenny paper, and even a marked
unconventionality of treatment ... does not save it from mediocrity.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 298. D. 28, ’07. 100w.

“He offers us no little entertainment: a story of mystery and
complexity of motives, of unhappy passion and abiding repentance,
woven around a plot of cunning structure, told, too, with much
delightful humour and some real insight into human character. Defects
of style ... will, we trust, be remedied in future volumes from the
same pen.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 684. N. 30. 90w.

“Related with much lifelikeness and with a certain mastery of touch
and charm of manner that make it a very readable tale.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 250w.

=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.

7–26962.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“Here is the generous one, the impulsive one, the good one, the shoddy
one. With such characters it is not a surprise to find the narrative
developing mechanically—a striving to be clever.” M. J. Moses.

− =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.

“It is very interestingly told; the characters depicted in it are
natural and are developed in a lifelike manner. There is plenty of
incident, and the author evidently understands girls and school-girl
life thoroughly.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 90w.

=Deland, Margaret Wade.= R. J.’s mother, and some other people.
†$1.50. Harper.

8–15300.

Six short stories as follows: R. J.’s mother, The Mormon, Many waters,
The house of Rimmon, A black drop, and The white feather. Here are
portrayed the simple tho deep things of common experience that lie
close to universal suffering and awaken in the reader a sense of
sympathy and kinship.

* * * * *

“None, with the possible exception of the title story, comes up to her
best work.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08. ✠

“Skill and invention are shown in all but one of the six stories.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 695. Je. 6. 150w.

“If ‘R. J.’s mother’ has its shortcomings, they are more than offset
by the fine workmanship in such a story as ‘Many waters.’” F: T.
Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 577. Ag. ’08. 570w.

“The tear they bring to the easy eye is not, one reflects, a tear to
be proud of. The fact of artifice is too readily apparent, the means
employed too patent.”

− =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.

“The stories may be taken very seriously by serious persons, or they
may be read merely for their interest by the frivolous. But the tales
will live in memory even as did the story of Helena Ritchie’s
temptation and her triumph.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 600w.

“The new volume holds a bit of quiet tragedy, more than a hint of
comedy, and an insight into silent grief and an outlook upon final
joy.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.

+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 40w.

“A book of delightful short stories.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 980. Je. 20, ’08. 220w.

=De La Pasture, Elizabeth.= Deborah of Tods. †$1.50. Dutton.

8–23924.

An American edition of the author’s first book written before “Peter’s
mother” and “The lonely lady of Grosvenor square.” “A self-reliant
Devonshire young woman, who owns and works her own farm, marries an
elderly Major, a typical clubman and worldling. Under the glamour of
the fact that he knew her father as a brother officer, and even lent
him money, poor Deborah takes her Major for a noble soul. The tale of
her disillusionment is told with simplicity, and she is to the end a
wholesome, large-hearted, lovable woman.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“The character is unusual and well drawn, and the delicacy and
refinement of the author’s earlier stories are prominent.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠

“In stories like this, with their naïve waiver of those psychological
and pathological problems which encumber our fiction, there is much to
content and soothe, if not profoundly edify, the old-fashioned reader
who resents, now and then, the increasing claims of the story-teller
to be guide and philosopher as well as friend.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 500w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 130w.

“There is, however, no sign of immaturity in the workmanship, no
indication of extreme youth in the tale as a whole—unless a certain
sober freshness, a clear-eyed idealism be thus accepted. The entire
novel leaves behind it a scent as sweet and comfortable as wild herbs
and balsam, young grass and ripe fruit.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 300w.

“A little compression would have improved the book.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 130w.

=De la Pasture, Mrs. Elizabeth Bonham.= Grey knight. †$1.50. Dutton.

8–15880.

The story of a titled Englishman of sixty who weds the woman of
thirty-three who in the capacity of trained nurse had cared for him
thru a critical illness. Family oppositions and misunderstandings run
their course before affairs are turned into a placid channel. “The
most attractive parts of the story are the descriptions of the Welsh
country in which most of the action passes, and of the fine old Norman
castle which is the property of Sir Harry Gwynne, the elderly hero.”
(Spec.)

* * * * *

“The descriptions of Wales and of life in an old manor house are
good.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08. ✠

“Though constructed from unpromising materials, the story has much of
Mrs. de la Pasture’s usual charm.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 130w.

“Depends for its interest on delineation of character rather than on
construction of plot.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 398. Je. ’08. 400w.

+ − =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 250w.

“An excellent field for her delicate scrutiny of human motives in the
everyday relations of life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.

“The author has proved herself so unmistakably serious by her previous
work as to deepen the sense of disappointment in her lack of
craftsmanship.” E. L. Cary.

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 391. Jl. 11, ’08. 1350w.

“The sketches of the ordinary persons in the book are drawn with Mrs.
de la Pasture’s accustomed skill, and the whole volume is eminently
readable.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 834. My. 23, ’08. 250w.

=De la Pasture, Elizabeth.= Unlucky family. il. †$1.50. Dutton.

8–8101.

Thirteen members constitute the family whose misfortunes are amusingly
set down in this story. They inherit a country estate and a deal of
money and enter upon a course of blunders in assuming the
responsibilities of their luxurious surroundings “with dukes and
admirals and mayors as calling neighbors.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The humor is rather English, and of the kind that will be
irresistible to one and tiresome to another, as humor is apt to be,
English or American.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠

“Her gifts of delicate humour and characterization are thrown away in
the region of broad farce, and the conjunction with Mr. E. T. Reed
seems to us unfortunate.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 728. D. 7. 100w.

“Capital fun.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.

“The series of ridiculous contretemps involved have the kind of
virtual plausibility which distinguishes good nonsense from mere
inanity.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 170w.

“A humorous story which smiles and chuckles.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.

“A diverting blend of extravaganza and reality.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 150w.

“Of course, neither the story nor the pictures can be said to have
much to do with life or nature; but this does not prevent them from
being amusing.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 150w.

=De la Ramée, Louise (Ouida, pseud.).= Helianthus. †$1.50.
Macmillan.

8–26831.

Ouida’s last story, published, as she left it, in its incomplete form.
Helianthus is a land, supposedly Italy, in which is enacted an
international drama whose poignant note is liberty. The characters
include the royal family; the action turns on the situation of Prince
Elim, the people’s idol, when he finds himself brought by accident
into the direct succession to the throne at a time when he is
engrossed in the cause of the revolutionists. Many rulers of Europe
figure in the story.

* * * * *

“Resembles her earlier books in many of its flamboyant qualities, its
exaggeration, but also in its revelation of a continued power of a
beautiful talent.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 80w.

“In spite of defects, perhaps because of them, it smacks of ‘Ouida’ on
every page, and is another interesting revelation of her remarkable
talent.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 700w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.

=De La Warr, Constance, countess.= Twice crowned queen. *$3.
Appleton.

7–42478.

The life story of Anne Duchess of Brittany, wife first of Charles
VIII. of France and afterwards of Louis XII. Her rather dull life
takes something of color from its settings, but first to last she was
conceded to be a great lady.

* * * * *

“Although Lady De La Warr has made diligent use of the best available
material, the result of her efforts is a somewhat pale presentment.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 610. N. 17. 1570w.

“The Countess De La Warr is not a very lively historian, though she
describes the costumes and trappings worn at pageants with great
accuracy and particularity, and records faithfully all the essential
facts.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.

“Lady De La Warr has written a pleasant and careful monograph vividly
reproducing contemporary life, on one of the most interesting
personalities of the period when the Borgias reigned at Rome.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 780w.

=Deledda, Grazia.= Ashes; tr. from the Italian by Helen. H. Colvill.
†$1.50. Lane.

A Sardinian story of peasant life in which the hero, illegitimate of
birth and deserted by his mother, is brought up in his father’s
household. “He grows up ardent, ambitious, and idealistic, the two
great aims of his life being to win a position which shall enable him
to marry his patron’s daughter, and to find and reclaim the mother who
had deserted him in his childhood. The conflict of these aims makes up
the drama of ‘Ashes.’” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“A profoundly melancholy book, but its sadness is tempered by many
passages of great idyllic charm, and it would be unjust to call it
morbid.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 200w.

“Most readers will feel that the story wanders through its fascinating
setting too slowly, with too many dreamy pauses and backward looks. It
is, as a whole, a readable and adequate rendering of ‘Cenere.’”

− + =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 340w.

“Is tense with the tragedies born of love and of hate and of the
destiny man makes for himself.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.

* =Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Canyon voyage: the narrative of the second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming, and the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872. **$3.50. Putnam.

8–30303.

A narrative of a government expedition which is practically a
continuation of the author’s “Romance of the Colorado river.” It
contains the full story of the Powell’s second expedition under the
direction of the Smithsonian institution, and gives the daily
experiences and actual camp life of the explorers at the same time
furnishing in its accuracy of statement a trustworthy guide for
navigating the river as far as Kanab canyon. The book is handsomely
illustrated.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 260w.

=De Morgan, William Frend.= Somehow good. †$1.75. Holt.

8–4365.

A headstrong girl had gone from London to India to marry a young
officer. On her way she falls into evil hands and is betrayed. She
continues her journey, marries her lover who is awaiting her; after
the ceremony, the truth of her wrong to him becomes known and a
separation follows. After nearly twenty years of absence from his
wife, during a complete suspension of memory and loss of identity, the
husband, thru an accident, finds shelter in the wife’s home, now in
London. At this point the story opens, and is an intimate analysis of
the peculiar situations that would attend such a lapse of memory no
less than a handling of the Magdalene’s wrong, from the standpoint of
him who for spiritual charity’s sake would not cast the stone rather
than from the scribes’ and Pharisees’ condemnatory point of view.

* * * * *

“It is characterized by deliberation, quiet, often quaint, humor,
remarkable character drawing, and delightful literary style.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.

“The book has real charm. One of the good things in it is the
description of a London fog. This is so well done that the seasoned
Londoner may almost catch his breath.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 252. F. 29. 500w.

“‘Somehow good’ makes me fully aware of Mr. De Morgan’s as a solid
corporeal head and shoulders, set square and calm above the fiddling
impatience and impotence which shrills its wares in the popular market
place of letters.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + =Bookm.= 27: 176. Ap. ’08. 1050w.

“The plot, while simple in one sense, is extremely ingenious and
complicated in another. And the writer’s style—simple and natural,
freighted alternately with rich humor and warm-hearted philosophy—is
so enjoyable on its own account that it makes garrulity a virtue, and
gives point to the most pointless of digressions.” W: M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 44: 132. Mr. 1, ’08. 970w.

“The book is not one to be swallowed at a gulp like most novels of the
day. It is to be leisurely sipped, so as to enjoy the flavor. Every
paragraph has its charm, and after reading it one wants to read it
aloud to those few friends who share one’s own good taste in
literature.”

+ + =Ind.= 64: 369. F. 13, ’08. 860w.

“The fact that we have to record is that on this theme Mr. De Morgan
has written a book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any
in the range of fiction.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 152. F. 13, ’08. 900w.

“If you are of those that know not Joseph, the son of Christopher
(builder, drains promptly attended to) and Alice that was short for
Alicia, yet love your Thackeray, you may chance it safely enough—and
have your reward. If you know Joseph and Alice you do not need to be
told anything more.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 67. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.

“Those who like leisurely narrative, shrewd observation, and gentle
satire will find the novel mellow and quietly entertaining. It is a
book to read at one’s ease, not to rush through in order to kill an
idle hour.”

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 511. F. 20, ’08. 300w.

“An extraordinary example of creative power.” E. L. Cary.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 4: 617. Ag. ’08. 350w.

“Though granting his style to be lightly touched by Meredithian
eccentricity, one must avow of this man that the distinction belongs
to him of having written some real English literature.”

+ + − =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.

“It is formless, it is prolix, it is magnificently old-fashioned, it
is built up on improbabilities and coincidences.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 241. F. 22, ’08. 450w.

“To define the secret of Mr. De Morgan’s success is not easy. But we
should be inclined to attribute it, first and foremost, to his
unfeigned and wholehearted enjoyment in the exercise of his great
gifts as a born storyteller. He loves his characters.... He is an
inveterate optimist.... He is an _improvisatore_ with a touch of the
clairvoyant; and as he is entirely on the side of the angels, and at
the same time a most entertaining companion, the popularity of such a
benefactor may be welcomed without misgiving or reserve.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 230. F. 8, ’08. 570w.

=Dennis, Rev. James Shepard.= New horoscope of missions. (The John
H. Converse lectures on missions, 1907.) **$1. Revell.

8–15498.

Lectures which summarize from a missionary point of view the
significance of the awakening and development in principal mission
fields. The titles are as follows: A new world consciousness;
Strategic aspects of the missionary outlook; A new cloud of witnesses;
Fresh annals of the kingdom; The message of Christianity to other
religions. Index.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 130w.

“Such a book as this should be put especially into decadent churches,
of which there are far too many. It might rouse them from shameful
stagnation.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.

“Students of the subject will find interesting and valuable this
summary.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.

* =Dennistoun, James.= Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino; illustrating the arms, art and literature of Italy from 1440–1630; new ed., with notes by Edward Hutton. 3v. **$12. Lane.

Reprinted verbatim in the original three-volume form. While finding
most of Dennistoun’s facts sound, the editor disagrees as to critical
estimates. “In the divisions dealing with art Mr. Hutton has found it
necessary frequently to disagree both with the facts and views
expressed by Dennistoun. When the work was first published, it was
these divisions which called forth most praise from critics, but many
of the opinions he gave utterance to, especially those concerning
modern tendencies, will fail to find general acceptance now.” (Int.
Studio.)

* * * * *

“The work as a whole, containing as it does much matter of interest
that cannot easily be found elsewhere, will prove a desirable
acquisition to the library of the student of Italian history.”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 36: 166. D. ’08. 400w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Hutton’s notes, written as they are with wide knowledge and with
the greater steadiness of the present day, add so much to the value of
the work as to increase one’s regret that he did not produce an
original volume. Pleader though he may be, and not always in the best
cause, Dennistoun is still a charming writer.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 669. N. 28, ’08. 1500w.

“Dennistoun’s book is valuable chiefly as a storehouse of curious and
varied information, collected with great industry from a multitude of
out-of-the-way sources; and it has the additional merit of being
written in a distinguished and pleasant, though a slightly pompous,
style. As Mr. Hutton points out, the chapters upon art are the weakest
part of the book. Not only do they suffer from inevitable deficiencies
in knowledge, but their whole point of view strikes the modern reader
as curiously out of date.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 838. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.

=Denys, Nicolas.= Description and natural history of the coasts of
North America (Acadia); tr. and ed., with a memoir of the author,
collateral documents, and a reprint of the original, by W: F.
Ganong. (Publications of the Champlain society, v. 2.) Champlain
society, Toronto.

8–19184.

One of a series of reprints elucidating the history of French
exploration and occupation of what is now British North America.

* * * * *

“We are under especial obligations to Professor Ganong for this
excellent translation of Denys’s work, and for the painstaking and
scholarly manner in which he has accomplished his difficult task. Some
readers will doubtless wish that the bracketed English words intended
to clear passages from ambiguity, as well as the French words likewise
in brackets, which are readily found in the French text, had been left
out altogether or placed at the bottom of the page, leaving the page
clear. These however are minor blemishes in a good piece of work.” J.
P. Baxter.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 161. O. ’08. 830w.

“Denys gives admirable simple descriptions.” J. P. W.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 828. O. ’08. 150w.

“Denys’s book possesses no charm of style; but his omnivorous eye and
his painstaking, businesslike method of observation and narrative have
resulted in a mass of information in regard to the geography,
resources, and fauna of the old Acadia.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 800w.

=Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 150w.

=De Saix, Tyler.= Man without a head. †$1.50. Moffat.

8–22800.

A detective story which “has to do with two murders widely separated
in time and place, but strikingly similar in method. The victim’s head
is removed with surgical skill and taken away by the murderer. In each
case a respectable and honored gentleman is suspected of the crime,
but each time he has disappeared.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“It is good of its class.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 160w.

“It is not only ingenious to the _nth_ degree, but it is written with
a knowledge of human nature and a touch of imagination rarely found in
these stories of murder and mystery.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 270w.

“The story is gruesome but readable.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.

=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Great Ralegh; being the life and times of Sir
Walter Ralegh. (Memoir ser. v. 40.) *$3.50. Putnam.

8–34204.

Written for the general reader this biography aims “to make the
character of Ralegh live again, and draw a picture of the times in as
lively a manner as the author sees it.” “There are several chapters in
the book which alone would make its perusal worth while—particularly
the chapters dealing with the friendship of Ralegh and Spenser,
Ralegh’s trial, and his life in the Tower.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“On the whole, the volume must be pronounced a most readable
contribution to the lighter side of Elizabethan history; and some
peculiarities of style and taste should not be allowed to depreciate
the excellent work of selection, and, we may add, criticism, which it
represents.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 327. S. 19. 880w.

“The liveliness with which the story is told will recommend it to one
already familiar with the facts.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 256. O. 16, ’08. 260w.

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 566. O. 17, ’08. 320w.

“A book which is written professedly for the general reader rather
than for the special student must be judged as a piece of literature,
and as such the present work is typical of the times in its failure to
distinguish between vivacity and a cheap smartness and between
legitimate illustration and irrelevance.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 750w.

“It is not critical ... and it is spun out to an unconscionable
length. Yet it is impossible to read it without real enjoyment, so
full is it of ‘atmosphere,’ so rich in philosophic touches and flashes
of terse, vivid characterization.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 250w.

“We cannot say that the author before us has added anything of value
to the controversy. He gives us no new facts.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. O. 24, ’08. 1950w.

=De Selincourt, Hugh.= High adventure. †$1.50. Lane.

“In intention, this is a delicate and very serious study of an
idealistic temperament perplexed by the facts of sex till, under the
stress of an innocent love and marriage, the problem solves
itself.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The disjointed quotations from the classics have an air of being
dragged in, and the various specimens of gush would come more aptly
from the lips of an Early Victorian maiden than an advanced folk here
portrayed.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 204. Ag. 22. 150w.

“From no point of view can much be said for it as a novel.”

− =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 350w.

“Mr. De Selincourt is a very thoughtful writer. He is, indeed, rather
too thoughtful, like his hero, who is apt occasionally to bore us with
his perpetual concern about his state of mind and his lack of
purpose.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 582. N. 7, ’08. 90w.

=Desmond, Harry W., and Frohne, H. W.= Building a home. **$1.80.
Baker.

8–35360.

A book of fundamental advice for the layman about to build. In a
thoroly practical manner the authors discuss the selection of a site,
the respective duties of architect and builder, materials, methods of
construction, details of equipment, drainage, plumbing, heating,
ventilating, and decoration.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 177. Je. ’08. ✠

“The book is a strong presentation of the architect’s side of the
case.”

+ − =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 400w.

“The work seems to us indispensable to a home seeker who intends to
build for himself.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 562. O. 17, ’08. 150w.

“In general, it may be said that estimates of cost can scarcely be
held to be of value.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 475. My. 21, ’08. 200w.

“A book brimming full of sensible, practical, and most wholesome
advice.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 281. My. 16, ’08. 180w.

“A book which will be invaluable to any one who purposes to build a
home now or hopes to do so at some future time.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.

“The suggestions made are practical and based upon sound architectural
principles.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w.

* =Dewe, Rev. Juhl Adalbert.= History of economics; or, Economics as a factor in the making of history. *$1.50. Benziger.

8–14737.

“An elementary textbook on general economic history, and economic
thought.... The writer declares that the influences which shape the
events of history, may be summed up under three categories: physical
surroundings, religion, and economics; and he seeks to show how the
first and last named (for religion is rather slighted) have affected
history from Greek and Roman times to the present.” J. Pol. Econ.

* * * * *

“It is scarcely adequate as a history of economics; there is too much
vagueness in the facts collected; their significance and correlation
are not brought out with the fullness required by even an introductory
scientific study of economics.”

− + =Cath. World.= 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 100w.

“It will be of service as a companion to the ordinary textbooks in
which, especially in the older ones, this feature is almost entirely
neglected.”

− + =Cath. World.= 88: 263. N. ’08. 120w.

“His style is clear and succinct, and his scholarship admirable. The
book may be found valuable either for general reading or for a
textbook.”

+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 80w.

“It would be difficult to say much in favor of the volume. Though of
the most elementary character, it shows a lack, not only of
scholarship, but even a fair knowledge and grasp of the subject,
besides being poorly written, especially as regards arrangement.”

− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 635. N. ’08. 120w.

=De Weese, Truman A.= Principles of practical publicity; being a
treatise on the art of advertising. 2d ed. **$2. Jacobs.

8–31176.

A valuable practical complement to W. D. Scott’s “Psychology of
advertising.” It is a treatise on the successful adaptation of
advertising to all lines of commercial enterprise. “Its aim is to
cover the broad field of commercial publicity, showing the relation of
advertising to modern business without elaborating any abstruse or
far-fetched theories that are advanced to explain its influence upon
the public mind.” (Preface.)

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 60w.

=Dewey, John, and Tufts, James Hayden.= Ethics. *$2. Holt.

8–22532.

A text whose significance lies in its effort to awaken a vital
conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of
reflective thought in dealing with them objectively and definitely.