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With the same method of literary investigation that the author
employed in “Dante and the English poets” he traces the evidence to
the transcendental element in the literature and religion of the
Western world from the time of Plato to the present. The book is
addressed to the general reader. Following an introduction which lays
out the lines along which the discussion moves there are chapters on
What is the infinite, The transcendental view of nature, Romantic lore
and the transcendental sense, Plato and Plotinus, Platonism past and
present, Mediaeval mysticism, Renaissance and reformation, The
Pietistic movement and its influence, The transcendental element and
modern life.

* * * * *

“In few popular works of the present time has the essential
spirituality of mystic exaltation been so consistently maintained.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 400w.

“It is written with unusual simplicity, in every-day language, with
ease and dignity of style.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 200w.

=Kunz, George Frederick, and Stevenson, Charles Hugh.= Book of the
pearl: the history, art, science and industry of the queen of
gems. **$12.50. Century.

8–29321.

The combined work of a gem expert and a member of the United States
fish commission. It is a handsomely made volume of five hundred and
thirty pages covering the entire field of the pearl. It illustrates
the use of pearls as objects of art and ornamentation; notes their
decorative value as shown in portraiture and in imaginative designs by
great artists; assembles theories and facts concerning their origin,
growth and structure; sets forth their values, artistically and
commercially; describes proper treatment and care; gives the history
of pearl fisheries; and emphasizes the importance of conserving the
resources and the possibilities of cultivating the pearl-oyster.

* * * * *

“Encyclopaedic in character, and representing an appalling amount of
the most laborious research, the book is nevertheless thoroughly
readable.”

+ + =Dial.= 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 440w.

“The book is a very great success in every way.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 164. D. ’08. 300w.

“Must be pronounced as fascinating as it is learned and
authoritative.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 674. N. 7, ’08. 950w.

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 90w.

“The work as a whole, however, is fairly readable. In quantity and
quality of information it should be accounted as one of the most
notable works yet produced on a topic connected with jewelry.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 830w.

“Once in a while there is produced a book so comprehensive in its
treatment of the subject with which it deals, so manifestly the
product of infinite pains in an author eminent in his chosen field,
and artistically so beautiful in its finished form, that the reader
can hardly help but exclaim at the skill, patience, and labor involved
in its production. Such a work is ‘The book of the pearl.’”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 604. O. 24, ’08. 2350w.

“For those who own pearls, and for those who love pearls, and for
those who want to know all about pearls.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 20w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 150w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 220w.

L

=L.= Dark ages and other poems. $1. Longmans.

Fifty-five religious and secular poems. “Of the sacred poems we should
put ‘Lethe’ first, and of the others ‘The English gipsies’ and the
charming ‘Cottage inscription.’ Not all of the lyrics are Arcadian.
Some are passionate outcries against contemporary follies.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“A cultivated and reflective mind, dwelling upon themes of art,
religion, history, and the legendary past, finding for its thoughts
and fancies a striking form of individual expression.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 45: 62. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.

“Uniformly effective work. Many examples of two tempers—that of the
image maker and that of the meditative listener—mingled in a composite
strain of sensitiveness to aesthetic and spiritual impressions.” E. L.
Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.

“A serious and sensitive mind, with many deep affections, and his
composition is both skilful and painstaking.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 728. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.

“A little lacking in rhythmical finish, but has the merit of ideas,
and now and then of fine verse.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.

=Ladd, Frederic Pierpont.= The woman pays. $1.50. Kennerley.

8–18368.

A melodramatic story in which the principal characters are a young New
York newspaper writer, his wife and a clergyman. The latter,
egotistical, self-loving, casts a spell over the woman, wins her from
her husband and betrays her honor.

* * * * *

“It is a tale that is told with some power. Some of the descriptions
of a phase of metropolitan life are interesting.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 320w.

=Ladd, George Trumbull.= In Korea with Marquis Ito. **$2.50.
Scribner.

8–7156.

A study including statements of fact based on personal observation;
expressions of opinion based upon the fullest obtainable knowledge of
the facts; and certain conjectures ventured after facts have been
studied and opinions weighed. Prof. Ladd went to the country to
lecture and staid to absorb matters pertaining to international
affairs and race psychology. His work is first a narrative of personal
experience, and, second, a critical and historical inquiry with many a
sidelight on Japan’s greatest statesman.

* * * * *

“Though he has an obvious pro-Japanese bias, it is impossible to doubt
that his story, in the main, is accurate.”

− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 140. My. ’08.

=Ath.= 1908, 1: 635. My. 23. 470w.

+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 60w.

“The volume is well illustrated, and is in every respect a valuable
work of its kind.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.

“Because Professor Ladd clearly shows the vital relation of mission
work to its environment (and he is the only writer so far as we know
who has done this needed work with such ability), he has done a most
valuable and timely service to the growing science of missions. A well
written book.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 749. Ap. 2, ’08. 500w.

“The work is timely, the information fresh and reliable, the style is
charming. The book is laid down with a feeling that the clouds have
been cleared away from a very interesting and hitherto very obscure
passage in contemporaneous history.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 200w.

“For the serious student Dr. Ladd’s book by no means supersedes the
works of Dallet, Hulbert, and others who have studied Korea in the
perspective of history, language and literature.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 850w.

“Can hardly be accepted as [an account] of a disinterested and
impartial student. Undoubtedly honest, sincere, and convinced, his
book is nevertheless an ex parte statement of a professed friend of
Japan.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 214. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.

“From a competent observer and fair-minded critic and reporter, with
very unusual opportunities for correct information, we have the truth
about Korea, and Japan in Korea. So enlightening a volume should not
lack a good map.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 500w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 200w.

“However much careful readers might disagree with the author in
several of his opinions on things Korean and Japanese, they will not
fail to appreciate the sincerity of his views, and wish that another
equally sincere and able work showing the other side of the question
might, if that is possible appear to enlighten them.” K. Asakawa.

+ − =Yale R.= 17: 350. N. ’08. 760w.

* =La Farge, John.= Higher life in art: a series of lectures on the Barbizon school of France. **$2.50. McClure.

Six lectures which inaugurated the Scammon course at the Art institute
of Chicago, in 1903. They are as follows: The school; Delacroix;
Millet; Decamps and Diaz; Rousseau, Dupré, Daubigny; Corot. Index.

* =Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Christ legends; tr. from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard. **$1.25. Holt.

Mainly from the apocryphal New Testament writings are borrowed legends
of the early life of Christ which Miss Lagerlöf has made over and
expanded into stories near of kin to Swedish folk lore tales. The
miracle-working power of the child Jesus is revealed with spiritual
discernment from which the ardor of her imagination does not detract.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 130w.

“All the stories, no matter what their claim may be to authenticity,
are eloquent of that spirit of joy and imaginative fervor which from
time immemorial has imparted its zest to the celebration of
Christmas.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 100w.

=Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Wonderful adventures of Nils; tr. by Velma
S. Howard. il. †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–33213.

A book which is the result of “years of study of animal and bird life
by the author, with legends and folk-lore, which are woven together in
the charming story of little Nils, turned into an elf, traveling on
the back of a goose with a flock of wild geese, understanding the
speech of birds and animals.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Will interest children who like George Macdonald’s fairy tales and
the like; will make a place for itself but not be popular.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠

“I should advise parents to give the book an examination, for its
foundation is built upon national characteristics.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 110w.

“Said to be the best book of Sweden’s great fiction writer.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 140w.

=Lair, Jules.= Louise de la Vallière and the early life of Louis
XIV. (Memoir ser., no. 39.) *$3.50. Putnam.

The story of Louise de la Vallière who “was a favorite of Louis XIV.,
who bore him four children, was discarded for another favorite, and
ended her days as a Carmelite nun. The narrative woven around this
tale is a revoltingly minute description of the doings of court
libertines and intriguers.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 300w.

“The book has all the appeal of the romantic novel. To such M. Lair’s
careful and accurate work cannot be too strongly recommended.” G: H.
Casamajor.

+ + =Forum.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 1800w.

“If there were any scheme of social regeneration that would put to
hard labor the people who write and read such unnecessary, and to say
the least, unesthetic rubbish, it ought to be welcomed by those who
have a kindly interest in humanity.”

− − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 400w.

“We have nothing but praise for a charming work charmingly printed.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 420w.

“The translator of this interesting volume seems to have done her work
faithfully, though her style is occasionally marred by unfortunate
solecisms.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 640w.

“The story of her life is neither instructive nor inspiring, and as
told by M. Lair it is so burdened with unsavory detail and false
sentiment as to make thoroughly unpleasant reading.”

− =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.

“M. Lair treats his subject with good taste and delicacy, fairness and
candour.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 480w.

=Lake, Rev. Kirsopp.= Historical evidence for the resurrection of
Jesus Christ. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.

8–5811.

“An examination of the evidence from the critical point of view, with
a result unfavorable to the material view of the resurrection.”—Bib.
World.

* * * * *

=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 20w.

“Even those who are unable to follow the author in all his criticisms
and exegesis must admit the force of his reasoning, and the reverence
with which it is presented.” G. E. French.

+ − =Hibbert J.= 6: 691. Ap. ’08. 1000w.

+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 200w.

“The work as a whole is an able piece of historical criticism,
conducted in a reverential spirit, and recognizing to the full the
limits of historical investigation and the privileges of religious
faith.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.

“Has a fair claim to be reckoned as one of the really important works
upon its subject.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 97. Ja. 11, ’08. 330w.

=La Monte, Robert Rives.= Socialism: positive and negative. 50c.
Kerr.

7–21308.

A group of essays dealing with such subjects as Science and socialism,
Marxism and ethics, and The nihilism of socialism.

* * * * *

“There is no connection between the essays and, on the whole, they do
not present as satisfactory a statement of the socialistic doctrines
as does Mr. Spargo’s book.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 280. Ja. ’08. 50w.

“He has studied his books, and he writes with dash and cleverness. But
his tolerance of persons who do not see with him is by no means
gentle.”

− + =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 6, ’07. 200w.

=La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich H. K.= Undine; tr. from the German by G:
P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.

8–23095.

“He takes the reader through enchanted forests and among mysterious
gnomes and spirits. The malicious Kühleborn, the quaint old fisherman
and his dame, good father Heilmann, the worldly Bertalda, the gallant
but fickle Huldbrand, are characters full of interest; but most
beautiful and lovely in her form of water sprite, and afterwards in
the suffering wife when she had found a soul, is Undine.”

* =Lancaster, G. B.= Altar stairs. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“A novel which tells a tale of the South seas, in which a dominating
man suddenly finds himself in love with a woman who is bound to
another. The hero holds for months in his power the man to whom the
woman he loves is bound, but ultimate happiness comes out of it
all.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The grip of the story can in no way be conveyed by an outline of the
plot, each incident being so firmly built into the general structure
that the whole must be envisaged in detail to be appreciated. It would
seem as if there might be less wading in gore without sacrificing the
sweep and vigor of the story.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 250w.

“Mr. Lancaster’s style is not good, and in his endeavor to be
characteristic he occasionally becomes unintelligible. But there is a
fresh wind blowing through the book that sets the blood dancing.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 583. O. 17, ’08. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.

=Lancaster, G. B.= Tracks we tread. †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–28459.

A story which “leads us into the sheep-country of New Zealand, among a
class superficially more like our Western ranchers than the official
Englishman. Yet it is the Briton bearing the sacred torch to the
farthest ends of the earth whom we are once again called upon, not
unwillingly, to admire; the type of those ‘who go away many times to
endings unchronicled; men who love, who conquer, and serve, on the
downs, the harsh mountains, the unhandled plains.’” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“A book of uncommon calibre, rugged, sincere, tremendously virile—a
book that pictures the rough, hard men of a rough, hard country
frankly, without illusion or euphemism, but with a deep understanding
of human nature that makes it a book to linger over.” F: T. Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 450w.

“Kipling’s hall-mark is upon it as a whole. Its salient traits are
terseness and vividness of phrase, a grim humor prone to deal with the
less savory aspects of the theme, and an unconquerable instinct for
the romantic aspects.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 380w.

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

=Lanchester, F. W.= Aerodynamics; constituting the first volume of a
complete work on aerial flight. *$6. Van Nostrand.

8–26416.

“For the first time, as far as we know, this volume brings together in
one place all that theory and practice have to contribute to our
knowledge of the conditions which govern true flight. The final
chapters, dealing with the experimental work of Langley and other
investigators, is probably the most interesting to the ordinary
reader, who will realise from it how complex are the problems that the
aviator has yet to solve.”—Spec.

* * * * *

=Engin. D.= 4:55. Jl. ’08. 330w.

“Had the author extended the last chapter to include the work of
continental writers ... and excluded some of the more shaky
theoretical chapters, the work might without exaggeration be called a
complete treatise on aerodynamics.”

+ − =Nature.= 78: 337. Ag. 13, ’08. 780w.

“A sound and conscientious piece of work which should be invaluable to
the practical builder of aeroplanes.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 199. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.

=Landor, Arnold H. Savage.= Across widest Africa. 2v. *$10.50.
Scribner.

7–37937.

An account of the country and people of eastern, central, and western
Africa, as seen during a twelve months’ journey from Djibuti to Cape
Verde. Mr. Landor’s book is not devoted to adventure, “it is concerned
with the characteristic features of that country.... The rivers,
mountains, elevations and deserts, the flora and fauna, the various
complicated tribal divisions and names, the languages and the customs
of the tribes, and the host of details which of necessity must
constitute the study of the observing traveller, are the objects which
appeal to him.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“All due qualifications being made, there is a large amount of
interesting reading in these two handsome and well-illustrated
volumes.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 430w.

“Abyssinia and the Emperor Menelik form the subject of some very
interesting chapters of the book” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 43: 415. D. 16, ’07. 1870w.

“Apparently ignorant of those sciences with which an explorer ought to
be thoroughly familiar, Mr. Landor states his observations, his
deductions, his impressions, and also those of other people, as if
they were infallible dogmas. The result of this, and of his inability
to sift evidence in a scientific way, is a tissue of absurdities,
enunciated with such a semblance of authority that an unwary reader
would assume them all to be well-ascertained facts. Notwithstanding
his many errors of fact and of inference ... it is only fair to admit
that Mr. Landor’s book makes interesting reading all through; that in
no single work is it possible to find so many details of the customs
of so many central African tribes; and that, if the author lacks many
of the qualities of an historian, he, at any rate, possesses those of
a traveller in a high degree.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 330. N. 1, ’07. 1560w.

“Though much of the book is tedious, there is also much that is
entertaining, and it enables one to realize vividly how life in the
heart of Africa appears to the traveller.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 289. Mr. 26, ’08. 700w.

=Lang, Andrew.= Tales of Troy and Greece. **$1.50. Longmans.

7–34175.

The author has regrouped the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” into two
cycles, one called “Ulysses the sacker of cities,” and the other “The
wanderings of Ulysses.” “Three other sections recount the tales of the
Fleece of gold from traditional matter, being supplemented by
Apollonius Rhodius and the fight between Polydeuces and the giant from
Theocritus; and the stories of Theseus and Perseus, which depend
mainly on summaries contained in Plutarch and Apollodorus.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Delightfully told in the fairy-tale manner.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠

“Mr. Lang, though as simple in style as Mr. Church, differs from the
latter in that he pauses to describe customs, arms, and mode of life.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 340w.

“Mr. Lang ... puts into his text more substance than is found in the
ordinary adaptation or rewritten classic.” M. J. Moses.

+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 50w.

“Will prove a sheer delight to any boy or girl of imagination and a
feeling for adventure.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 140w.

“Mr. Lang has attempted a sort of Biblia innocentum version of the
Grecian Book of books. The result is an excellent narrative that often
vividly recalls the original. The rest of the book is made up of the
stories of Theseus, of Perseus, and of the Golden fleece, which are
equally interesting, though marred with one or two misplaced modern
touches.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 150w.

“Professor Church’s book is story pure and simple; Mr. Lang’s is story
embroidered upon, and given a moral, philosophical, and historical
complexion by turns. Yet Mr. Lang’s language is quite simple, and the
child could accept the narrative at its face value with perfect
comprehension.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1220w.

* =Lang, Leonora Blanche (Mrs. Andrew Lang).= Book of princes and princesses; ed. by A. Lang. **$1.60. Longmans.

8–28404.

True stories “almost as interesting as fairy tales.” They are
concerned “with people, little people indeed, yet people of real flesh
and blood.... The subjects of the stories, taken from English and
French history, deal with the early lives of young persons, some of
whom died young, while others grew up to be famous personages.” (Cath.
World.)

* * * * *

“Mrs. Lang writes effectively, but has not altogether succeeded in
attaining simplicity of style. The volume is an attractive collection
of real stories.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 120w.

“Though the stories are strictly historical in the main, Mrs. Lang has
embellished the cold data with lively conversations, and parenthetical
comment to suit the story to juvenile taste.”

+ =Cath. World.= 88: 407. D. ’08. 200w.

=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 90w.

“The young people who are bored by these stories, even though they are
true, must be very hard to please.”

+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 706. N. 7, ’08. 880w.

* =Lanier, Sidney.= Poem outlines. **$1. Scribner.

8–27138.

“This slender volume is a poet’s note-book. It records ideas,
impressions, figures, pictures, which the poet proposes to use at some
future time in a more complete way. It is a collection of fragments,
of quick studies, such as a painter makes out of doors when the light
is rapidly changing, and which he works up at leisure in his
studio.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A little book of poetic outlines that lets [the world] into some of
the vagrant moods of one of the most sensitive and sweet-spirited
singers of our Southland.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 220w.

Reviewed by Bliss Carman.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 605. O. 24, ’08. 730w.

=Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 400w.

=Larard, C. E., and Golding, H. A.= Practical calculations for
engineers; for the use of engineering students, apprentices,
draughtsmen, mechanics, foremen, and others practically engaged in
engineering work. *$2. Lippincott.

W8–140.

“The general character of this work places it somewhere between the
engineering pocket-book and the college text-book. The methods,
formulæ, and appliances which a student encounters during a good
college course in mechanical engineering are here, not demonstrated,
but collected and described, systematically, and applied to such
practical examples as are likely to occur in an engineering
workshop.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“It can do best service to men who lack an education in engineering
theory, but even many of these, technical college graduates, may find
it a guide to improvement.”

+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 400w.

“The authors give some most striking examples of the great value of
squared-paper work in the systematic plotting of variable quantities
in all branches of a manufacturing establishment, and the lessons to
be learnt therefrom. This section is extremely suggestive, and will
well repay the careful study of all practical engineers.”

+ =Nature.= 77: 555. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.

=Lathrop, Elise L.= Sunny days in Italy. **$2.50. Pott.

7–29872.

“An unpretentious volume of agreeable, familiar gossip about a dozen
or more of the chief points of interest to which the average tourist
sooner or later finds his way. It is a sort of pot-pourri of
miscellaneous impressions and information, vivid little pen pictures
of a building, a landscape, a crowd at a railway station; useful
advice, gleaned from experience, regarding the hiring of apartments,
bargaining with cab drivers, traveling in third-class carriages; an
accumulated store of observations regarding Italian traits and social
customs.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“Differs from other books on Italy in describing the little things
about the life and customs which other writers have not mentioned, and
yet are the things a traveler likes to know about.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.

“Miss Lathrop has not any real gift of expression; her observation
does not seem to have been more than superficial; and apparently her
knowledge of Italy is merely that of a tourist.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 447. Àp. 11. 300w.

“Flung together with a well-intentional sincerity, a pleasant and
quite feminine enthusiasm which makes agreeable reading.” F: P.
Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 100w.

“Unfortunately, at least two-thirds of the book is a perfunctory
performance without ‘raison d’être.’ The worst defect of the book,
however, is found in the errors in style, with which its pages
bristle. Nor is the book free from errors in statement. Yet, in spite
of these defects, the book may be recommended for its practical,
sympathetic, and in many respects novel account of the Italian customs
of to-day.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’97. 430w.

“This is a pleasant book, giving intelligent descriptions of rural
Italy as well as of the Italian cities.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 120w.

Reviewed by Charlotte Harwood.

=Putnam’s.= 3: 494. Ja. ’08. 450w.

=Lauck, William Jett.= Causes of the panic of 1893. (Hart, Schaffner
and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1. Houghton.

7–22103.

“Reviews the industrial and financial history of the decade preceding
1893, and then describes the panic itself. In the account which Mr.
Lauck gives of the conditions in Germany, France, and Great Britain
his work supplements usefully A. D. Noyes’s ‘Thirty years of American
finance’; but in his discussion of events in the United States he adds
substantially nothing to Mr. Noyes’s narrative.”—Nation.

* * * * *

=Nation.= 86: 90. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.

“It may seem left-handed praise to hint that it is more interesting
and useful as prophecy than history, when it purports to be purely and
merely history. Yet we doubt that any such treatise could serve a more
useful purpose than to light the way to avoidance of past errors and
sufferings by the lessons of experience.” E: A. Bradford.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 565. S. 21, ’07. 510w.

* =Launay, Louis de.= World’s gold: its geology, extraction, and political economy; tr. by Orlando Cyprian Williams; with an introd. by Charles A. Conant. **$1.75. Putnam.

8–32340.

A work which examines the problem of the future supply of gold from a
scientific standpoint and correlates the influence of this supply with
prices and the movement of capital from the financial standpoint. The
four divisions of the treatment are: The geology of gold; The
geographical distribution of gold in the past and present; The
extraction and dressing of gold; and The economy of gold.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 100w.

=Launspach, Charles W. L.= State and family in early Rome. *$2.50.
Macmillan.

“Mr. Launspach ... devotes about a quarter of his book to the history
of the constitutional struggle; his account is not, as the accounts
given by lawyers frequently are, a mere string of facts and dates; he
has tried to make the story intelligible.... The legal chapters on
marriage, patria potestas, and succession, which follow the
constitutional sketch, aim at doing no more than summarizing the legal
aspect of the family.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“Is one of those books, far too common in England and America, which
possess no particular value for scholars, yet do not serve the general
reader. The author’s mind is legal and schematic, rather than
historical, and he does not seem to realize that many of the
foundations upon which he builds ... have been seriously shaken by
anthropology and by historical criticism. The most substantial
chapters are those on family law.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 350w.

“There appears to be a singular lack of proportion in the space
devoted to the various controversial topics, and also great
arbitrariness in the distinction between those points which are
discussed and those others which are dealt with dogmatically.”

− + =Sat. R.= 106: 205. Ag. 15, ’08. 1400w.

“There is much of value in Mr. Launspach’s volume. We do not always
agree with him. He makes too little, we think, of legend and
tradition.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 550. O. 10, ’08. 140w.

=Laur, Francis.= Heart of Gambetta; authorized translation by
Violette M. Montagu; with an introd. by J. Macdonald. *$2.50.
Lane.

8–13688.

“The heart of this book is the love-letters of Gambetta written to
Madame Léonie Léon. Around them are grouped a certain amount of
history, a larger amount of inference or conjecture, and a still
larger amount of tearful sentiment by M. Laur.” (Nation.) “The new
historical fact in the letters here translated is the revelation of
the truth that Gambetta deliberately pretended to favour a schism such
as would detach the Gallican church from Rome, in order to bring the
pope to accept his proposals for the separation of church and state.”
(Ath.)

* * * * *

“The translation is hardly good enough for the letters, which when
they first appeared in Paris were praised, above all things, for their
style.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 1130w.

“M. Laur’s method is throughout too gushing to pass for that of sober
history. He reminds one of a lachrymose Victor Hugo: ‘I wept. All
France wept.’ The style is staccato drowned in emotion. But
disregarding most of M. Laur’s sentimental embroidering, these letters
of Gambetta must be taken as a real contribution to our knowledge of
the man.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 520w.

“The book is too good, too thoroughly an analysis of two human hearts,
too personal, too intimate not to arouse suspicion that the author has
frequently used his imagination in order to seek out dramatic causes
for known suggestive results.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 129. Mr. 7, ’08. 1450w.

“The letters in this volume ... constitute an important, but in parts
slightly hysteric, contribution to the history of an extremely
interesting period in the political development of France. It must be
confessed that, from the English point of view, and as a transcript of
human emotion presumably at its highest, they are rather
disappointing.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 369. S. 12, ’08. 1450w.

* =Laut, Agnes Christina.= Conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the adventurers of England known as The Hudson bay company; new pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and western states. 2v. *$5. Outing.

Tireless examination of records and documents, many of which are
unclassified and inaccessible, lies back of Miss Laut’s 800 page story
of the Hudson bay company. Beginning with the voyages of Henry Hudson,
the author omits none of the exploration that precedes the organizing
of the Hudson bay company, and then exploits the company “as
adventurer, pathfinder, empire-builder, from Rupert’s land to
California—feudal lord beaten off the field by democracy,” pausing for
historical details where the empire-builder merges with the colonizer
and pioneer.

* * * * *

“Unfortunately there is no index. Both author and publisher are to be
congratulated on a most important and careful work, which is yet alive
with human sympathy and full of vivid character drawing.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 700. N. 28, ’08. 2100w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 200w.

=Lawson, W. R.= American finance; part first—Domestic. $2.
Macmillan.

7–28928.

Mr. Lawson—not the author of “Frenzied finance”—is an Englishman who
has written a number of books of this nature including “British
economics.” This is a history and discussion of American financial
methods in four parts: Evolution, Organization, Creative powers, and
Destructive powers.

* * * * *

“The book seems to want a definite purpose. The writer betrays a lack
of economic training and judgment, and at the end one is in doubt as
to what Mr. Lawson really thinks about our monetary system and
financial methods. Its value as descriptive material is vitiated by
bad arrangement and incoherence.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 370w.

“In general the discussion of these questions as of our financial
experience as a whole is suggestive and stimulating. It is, however,
rather picturesque than analytic.” James Cummings.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 438. Jl. ’07. 580w.

“A very readable account.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 192. Mr. ’08. 150w.

“Though we do not regard Mr. Lawson as a safe guide in matters
economic, we gladly recognise that ... he has selected an excellent
subject in which he seems to be much more at home.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 118. Ja. 26, ’07. 110w.

“The book is frankly popular and does not pretend to be a contribution
to our knowledge on the subject. The author’s style is breezy and his
treatment somewhat superficial, but the book is well written and
decidedly interesting. The author possesses a clear and sympathetic,
if not very profound, understanding of American financial
institutions, and his attitude is remarkably broad-minded and fair.”

+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 444. F. ’08. 250w.

=Lawton, Frederick.= François-Auguste Rodin. *$1. Kennerley.

8–35518.

A sketch of the celebrated French sculptor, written from first hand
materials-from conversations with Rodin, from consultation with his
friends and from his correspondence. It is neither a copy nor an
abridgement of the larger “Life” but a fresh treatment thruout. The
forces which have operated in Rodin’s career, his peculiar genius, and
illustrations of his success are discussed with understanding.

* * * * *

“A good book for the library that cannot afford the larger life by the
same author.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.

“Mr. Lawton is keenly interested in the artist of whom he writes, but
is so close to his subject that it somewhat overawes him.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 200w.

=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 30w.

+ =Outlook.= 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.

“This little book is written with sympathy and insight, and will be
appreciated by those who have not time to read the author’s longer
book treating of the greatest figure in European art of the present
age.”

+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.

=Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of Punch; his life, letters
and diaries. *$3.50. Holt.

8–6092.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“His life, though in no sense dramatic, was an interesting one; for
years he rubbed elbows intimately with all that was best and most
brilliant in the upper circles of London’s Bohemia.” Beverley Stark.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 517. Ja. ’08. 970w.

“London of the sixties and early seventies and ‘Punch’s’ inner
editorial circle, besides many more intimate matters, live again in
its pages.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.

“His letters are of the kind that must have filled the recipient with
joy, but that somehow in cold print, half a century later, sound
forced and schoolboyish.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 270w.

“Mr. Layard, bound apparently to make a portly volume, has not
digested, selected, and rejected from among his material as carefully
as one might wish.”

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 340w.

“Mr. Layard is sometimes more expansive in this volume than the
occasion demands. But on the whole ‘Shirley Brooks of Punch’ is highly
entertaining, and a book for which we should be grateful.” H. S.
Krans.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 752. Mr. ’08. 500w.

“We do not wish that it had been shorter or substantially other than
it is.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: 1056. D. 21, ’07. 400w.

=Layard, George Somes.= Suppressed plates: wood engravings, etc.;
together with other curiosities germane thereto; being an account
of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector. *$4.
Macmillan.

8–18752.

In bringing out old books in new dress, plates have been discarded for
moral reasons, for lack of artistic merit, and for failure to
illustrate the text adequately. The author discusses these suppressed
plates, includes many of them in his illustrations, tho none whose
moral tone is questioned, and deals at length with palimpsest
plates—plates which have had objectionable portions burnished out and
which have been adapted to their new use by re-engraving the erased
sections.

* * * * *

“Mr. Layard writes with such extensive knowledge that it is not easy
to find holes in his armour. The facts are brought together with so
much skill that this volume will rank, both with those who sell and
those who buy books, as an acceptable work of reference, entertaining
as well as instructive.”

+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 750w.

“He treats in a most entertaining manner of a subject which cannot
fail to be of the greatest interest to every ardent book-hunter,
print-collector, and artist.” G: W. Cole.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 161. Ap. ’08. 1750w.

Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.

=Forum.= 39: 529. Ap. ’08. 2000w.

“People who care for the bypaths and curiosities of the pictorial side
of literature will be much interested in Mr. Layard’s new book.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 53. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.

=Lea, Frederick Charles.= Hydraulics. *$5. Longmans.

8–10845.

“In this work the author has endeavored to embody the results of the
large amount of experimental hydraulic work which has been
accomplished during the past decade—especially on the subject of the
flow of water—and to indicate the methods used in obtaining these
results.”—Engin. D.

* * * * *

=Engin. D.= 3: 526. My. ’08. 300w.

“The author writes as one having authority and altogether the book
appears to the reviewer as the most satisfactory treatment of its
subject for the English speaking student that has yet appeared.” G. S.
Williams.

+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 541. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.

“Altogether the work forms an excellent textbook, and is cordially to
be recommended to students of this most interesting and useful
science.”

+ + =Nature.= 77: 530. Ap. 9, ’08. 700w.

=Lea, Henry Charles.= Inquisition in the Spanish dependencies,
Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, The Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New
Granada. **$2.50, Macmillan.

8–1774.

A volume which supplements the author’s series of histories on the
inquisition. It throws light on the workings of the inquisitorial
system as operated by the colonial tribunals in the new world, and the
retarding effects upon the development of the Spanish-American
colonies.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 689. Ap. ’08. 30w.

Reviewed by G: L. Burr.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 847. Jl. ’08. 1350w.

“The volume is marked by the characteristic excellences of its
predecessors: a style which is useful, without possessing much
literary charm, an inexhaustible knowledge of his subject, and an
organization of his materials so exact, and so natural that the reader
easily follows the narrative.”

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 311. Ap. ’08. 100w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.

“Throughout the work, a closer chronological arrangement at times
might have conduced to greater clearness.” J. A. Robertson.

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 455. S. ’08. 550w.

“Ranks easily with his strongest and best.” L. M. Larson.

+ + =Dial.= 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 80w.

=Ind.= 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 450w.

“He has always the great advantage of looking at the subject as a
whole, and viewing it against the background of the parent
institution.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 500w.

“The ground to be gone over is so large and the records are so scanty
that the treatment is necessarily less detailed and vivid than in the
other volumes.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 1000w.

=Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.

“To those who are interested in the theme it seems unfortunate that
Dr. Lea should have omitted the history of the Spanish inquisition in
the Netherlands, Chile and the La Plata provinces. An inclusion of
these areas would have rounded out the view most admirably.” W: R.
Shepherd.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 328. Je. ’08. 550w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 50w.

=Sat. R.= 105: 563. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.

+ − =Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.

=Lea, Homer.= Vermilion pencil: a romance of China. †$1.50. McClure.

8–9531.

A young Breton priest, detailed to instruct the wife of a wealthy
mandarin, falls in love with her and they elope. They are caught, the
husband subjects his wife to the terrible torture of the lyngchee,
while the lover identifies himself with the “Deluge family,” a secret
revolutionary society, whose symbol draws to him crowds who aid in
rescuing the condemned woman. “The book is more than a novel—it is a
human document.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“A lurid and grotesque impression of China.”

− =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 230w.

“The most remarkable piece of fiction the year thus far has brought.
The story itself is not overpowering in its ingenuity, but in its
opening of glimpses into a world all but unknown to the west, it is of
very great interest, and in its undeniable penetration of character
and power of description it merits the wide attention which beyond
doubt it will receive.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.

“A story full of exciting scenes and revelations about China and the
Chinese.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.

“Mr. Lea’s story is rather too tragic and too horrible in its
descriptions of Chinese tortures to be agreeable but it is a sincere
picture of a beautiful character in the person of its heroine, and of
her influence over a great Chinese official through her loveliness and
brilliant mind in abolishing evil and injustice.”

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.

“This appears to us the most valuable novel on the subject of China as
yet penned in the English language, none existing, besides, that so
well combines instruction with entertainment.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 400w.

=Lear, Edward.= Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord
Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave; ed. by Lady
Strachey of Sutton court. *$3.50. Duffield.

8–28968.

Edward Lear, the pioneer limerick maker, caricaturist, and landscape
painter, is self revealed in these letters in which “mingle
tenderness, a whimsical humor, and the power to see the visible world
as pictorial material.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Lady Strachey is to be congratulated on the publication of letters
which reveal a pleasant personality. We have no doubt that Lady
Strachey’s venture will come to a second edition, and offer some
corrections in view of that event.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 760. D. 14. 830w.

“A volume of characteristic and amusing letters.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 217. O. 1, ’08. 300w.

+ =Ind.= 65: 787. O. 1, ’08. 400w.

“We have read these letters with continuous delight. They fully
satisfy such expectations as may have been aroused by Lear’s
long-famous ‘Book of nonsense’; in other words, they justify Lear’s
reputation.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 562. O. 17, ’08. 1250w.

“These are delightful letters and fully satisfy any expectations about
them which might have been aroused by Lear’s long famous ‘Book of
nonsense.’”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 80w.

+ =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 90w.

“They reflect the temper and interests of his prime, and are so
personal in their tone that we gain from them a vivid picture of the
quaint personality that so continually suggests Thackeray’s.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 493. S. 12, ’08. 2050w.

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

“The book is exactly of the kind which one can pick up from a shelf in
an odd minute of spare time and dip into here and there with
enjoyment.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 230. S. 26, ’08. 240w.

* =Leaves= from a life. *$3.50. Brentano’s.

8–31145.

Supposedly from the pen of a daughter of William P. Frith, the English
painter, these sketches contain anecdotes of Browning, Tennyson, Du
Maurier, Leighton, Dickens, Trollope, and many other celebrities in
arts and letters.

* * * * *

“It is a good-natured, simple-minded, humorous presentation of a great
slice of mid-Victorian England, a canvas full of figures rendered with
practically no technique at all. The slipshod condition of the
author’s style is almost incredible.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 400w.

“Laughter-loving pages. They are the record of a woman who has seen
much of life, who loved it in its full course and loves it now in
retrospect. Her book will amuse people from the first page to the
last.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 1100w.

=Leavitt, Sheldon.= Paths to the heights. **$1. Crowell.

8–15159.

The record of the work of a physician who abandoned drugs and entered
the field of mental healing. His experience lies between orthodox
theology and Christian science and is full of practical suggestion.

* * * * *

“We read the book and find it rational and instructive in many
respects.” R. E. Bisbee.

+ − =Arena.= 40: 387. O. ’08. 450w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.

=Le Blond, Elizabeth A. F. (Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond) (Mrs. Main).=
Mountaineering in the land of the midnight sun. *$3.50.
Lippincott.

A narration of the author’s experiences in climbing thirty-three
mountains. “It was delightful,” she writes, “to think that we could
start when we liked, return when we liked, and have the cheering rays
of the sun always visible. In the north, too, we found all the
picturesqueness of Lapp and reindeer, all the repose of a land where
no tourists are seen, all the magnificence of ice-clad mountains and
spires of rocks mingled with the softer beauty of lake and fjord.”

* * * * *

“There is much detail which can interest only the keen mountain
climber. The interest for other readers lies in the fact that the book
shows, as no other within our knowledge does, how delightfully a
summer can be passed in camp or in one of the little settlements in
this region. To the vivid word pictures are added 71 reproductions of
photographs, which show not only the wondrous scenery, but also many
of the stirring incidents of the ascents.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 260w.

“There are some very interesting passages in ‘Mountaineering in the
land of the midnight sun,’ for the author, besides being a good
climber, is a charming writer, who relates her experiences wonderfully
well.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 220w.

=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Inspired millionaires: a forecast. $1.25.
Mount Tom press.

8–17551.

Mr. Lee looks forward to the time when some millionaire will conduct a
factory that “will rank with Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Homer’s Iliad, and
the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah.” He believes that the question of
human labor is one that belongs to the arts and humanities, and not
merely to the sciences; that the factory, if enough soul is poured in,
should be as spiritual as a church and as educational as a school.
“His fresh way of putting some old facts and truths is not unlike the
wholesome freshet that leaves behind it a fertilizing deposit.”
(Outlook.)

* * * * *

“These essays are as light as gossamer in substance, and their
intellectual quality will not appeal to the common mind at all. The
spirit of the book is wholesome, the manner is pleasing, it is surely
harmless, and it may have more than an aesthetic influence.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.

“The author puts much that has been said on social problems into a
breezy and original form which holds attention through all the
amplification and reiterations of his central idea.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.

=Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of
Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.

7–32577.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“It is not a safe book for beginners.”

− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.

“The ingenuity she displays in demonstrating her thesis is equaled
only by her success in draining the plays of red blood and humanly
vital signification.” Archibald Henderson.

− =Atlan.= 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 360w.

+ =Educ. R.= 36: 209. S. ’08. 40w.

“Will be of value to many readers, especially elementary Ibsenites,
not because it tells what the symbols are and mean, but because it
tells how to track them.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 922. Ap. 23, ’08. 180w.

“As a whole, Mrs. Lee’s little treatise strikes one more as a series
of somewhat iterative talks, loosely strung together and considerably
too dilute for grown folks. Her ideals are sound and helpful for
earnest young people desirous of writing papers on Ibsen.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 670w.

=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Limbo and other essays; with a
new drama, Ariadne in Mantua. *$1.50. Lane.

A new edition of Limbo and other essays which also includes the new
drama Ariadne in Mantua. “This is a little play in which the forces of
Tradition, Discipline, and Civilization ‘triumph over the mere forces
of =Nature.=’ It is a closet drama, and the action is improbable;
nevertheless it rises to a moving, even pathetic climax.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ seems to us an exceptionally charming closet
drama.” F. B. R. Hellems.

+ =Dial.= 45: 82. Ag. 16, ’08. 860w.

=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 70w.

“It is not always apparent what Miss Paget is talking about, and she
is frequently guilty of rhetorical indiscretions which mar an
otherwise pleasant style, but her essays contain much agreeable
suggestion of an aesthetic nature.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.

“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ is treated, we need hardly say, with ‘Vernon
Lee’s’ own peculiar distinction, and both in refined thought and
beautiful prose the drama is worthy of her.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 869. My. 30, ’08. 470w.

=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Sentimental traveller: notes
on places. *$1.50. Lane.

8–3114.

Vernon Lee takes her readers into Italy, Germany, Switzerland and
France and thru her impressionistic word-painting helps them to catch
and retain “portraits set in frames of their own familiar scenery.”
“Many interesting and important personages are mentioned or met with,
and anecdotes are told of most of them. Churches and castles and
peasant abodes are entered and admired, and works of art receive words
of commendation or disapproval.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The descriptions are still admirably done; but there is a surfeit of
them. The reflections are still those of a highly cultivated mind, but
nothing new or moving.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 220w.

“It is all the work of a woman of wide and easy culture, possessing a
pleasing fancy and no imagination. The book is obvious, but kindly,
for all its condescension, a condescension none the less marked that
it is probably unconscious.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 9. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.

“The charm of her writing lies in its lightness of touch, a quality
particularly evident in her slight but sure comment upon now this, now
that place, as a butterfly might go from flower to flower.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 320w.

“‘Vernon Lee’ has written many delightful things, but nothing perhaps
more keenly suggestive and charmingly convincing than the first
chapter of her new book. Full of human as well as artistic interest.
No one will question their originality and charm.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 550w.

=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Studies of the eighteenth
century in Italy; new ed. *$6. McClurg.

A new edition for whose unchanged text the author offers some
apologies, yet refuses “to lay indifferent hands, and even skeptical
eyes upon it.” It was written out of the fulness of youthful fancies,
and is permitted to remain the log-book of the author’s exploration,
the inventory of her enchanted garret. A new thirty-five page preface
“expounds and glorifies” the phase of her study dealing with music.
See Cumulative book index for contents.

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 681. N. 28. 250w.

“The illustrations are excellent and contribute their share to the
vividness that is perhaps the salient characteristic of the work.” F.
B. R. Hellems.

+ =Dial.= 45: 401. D. 1, ’08. 2500w.