Chapter XXXII: Part 1: , deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of (17)

“It is a good supplement to the volumes of Mr. Podmore, the books
together setting forth this important episode of nineteenth century
life as has not been done before.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 356. Ap. 16, ’08. 50w.

“The most important chapter in this book is devoted to his educational
experiment.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 252. F. ’08. 150w.

=Locy, William Albert.= Biology and its makers. **$2.75. Holt.

8–21045.

An untechnical account of the rise and progress of biology, which aims
to bring under one view the broad features of biological progress, and
to increase the human interest by writing the story around the lives
of the great biological leaders. The first part deals with The sources
of biological ideas except those of organic evolution; the second
treats of The doctrine of organic evolution.

* * * * *

“It is entertainingly written, and, better than any other existing
single work in any language, gives the layman a clear idea of the
scope and development of the broad science of biology.”

+ − =Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 420w.

“Professor Locy meets the demand for an up-to-date, reasonably
complete and interesting account of the development of biology
tolerably well. While in the main, in regard to essential points, the
book is entirely accurate, minor errors in the spelling of proper
names occur with annoying frequency.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 320w.

“The drawback to the division into two parts is the necessity of
cross-references and repetitions, for no phase of biological progress
can logically be separated from the doctrine of organic evolution.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 268. S. 17, ’08. 470w.

“Professor Locy has made a good selective use of an embarrassing
wealth of material, and has not neglected to give their place to the
important subsidiary sciences.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 260w.

=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Immortality of the soul. (Eng. title,
Man and the universe.) *$1. Ball pub.

8–29637.

In substance given as a Drew lecture in Hackney college, October,
1907. The discussion deals first with The transitory and permanent—the
bodily presentment, and the essence or intrinsic reality; and second
with The permanence of personality.

* * * * *

“We think that Sir Oliver Lodge’s friends and admirers—and their name
is legion—cannot but be sorry that he should have published this book.
A well-deserved reputation in one branch of science does not enable
its possessor to speak ex cathedra on others in which he is not
expert.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 686. N. 28. 2250w.

=Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.

=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.

“What, another new-modelled religion from the ever-ready knight? No,
only some old ‘Hibbert journal’ and ‘Contemporary’ friends, the
familiar cheap thought in a more expensive dress.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 580. N. 7, ’08. 1300w.

=Lomas, John.= In Spain. *$2. Macmillan.

8–26238.

A revised, rewritten and enlarged edition of “Sketches in Spain.” It
aims to furnish information on the spot, may be used as “sole guide
and counsellor.” “It is a full but utterly uninspired account of what
the traveller would encounter in passing from the Spanish frontier at
San Sebastian to Cadiz in the South, and thence from one to another of
the Mediterranean seaports, up to Barcelona; afterwards, to Zaragoza,
Bilbao, Leon, and Santiago.” (Nation.) A folding map and illustrations
add to its value.

* * * * *

“As a rule, Mr. Lomas is well informed, his judgments are sensible,
and, though a little verbose, he avoids the rhetoric to which most
writers on Spain seem prone.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 230w.

“Will be most helpful to the traveller, and more especially to the
antiquarian or the ecclesiologist.” G: G. Brownell.

+ =Dial.= 45: 115. S. 1, ’08. 760w.

“The whole is thoroughly pedestrian. Scarcely one illuminating remark
is met with in the 344 pages. There is not even anything absurd, or
glaringly incorrect, to flag one’s interest.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 180w.

+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 240w.

=London, Jack.= Iron heel. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–3084.

The manuscript which furnishes the story of the Iron heel records
events occurring between the years 1912 and 1932 but from the
view-point of seven centuries in the future. Mr. London portrays the
terrors of a supposititious oligarchy—the monstrous offshoot of
capitalism—with its reign of the iron heel; his spirit of prophecy
guides him to revolutionary crises, brought about by socialism, that
break the rule of the capitalist oligarch, and, after three centuries,
usher in the era in which the world-movement of labor comes into its
own—the era of the brotherhood of man.

* * * * *

“Considered from a literary and imaginative point-of-view, is one of
his greatest works of fiction. He has seen and felt the tragedies of
the poor to-day throughout Christian lands; and those things have, we
think, made him unduly hopeless and have unfortunately so colored his
thought as to make his book a detriment rather than a help to the
cause of social justice in our days.”

+ − =Arena.= 39: 503. Ap. ’08. 2000w.

“Such books as this ... have a mischievous influence upon unbalanced
minds, and we cannot but deplore their multiplication.” W: M. Payne.

− =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.

“Semi-barbarians, to whom this sort of stuff appeals, may possibly
tear down our civilization; they will never lay a single brick of a
nobler civilization.”

− =Ind.= 64: 865. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.

“The gore through which, in the course of these pages, we are invited
to wallow, is far more of his taste [than peaceful conquest]; three
hundred years of it is not a day too much for him.”

− =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.

“This is not a pleasant book to read; as a work of fiction it has
little to commend it; and as a socialist tract it is distinctly
unconvincing.” H. A. Bruce.

− =Outlook.= 89: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 150w.

=London, Jack.= The road. **$2. Macmillan.

7–39522.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“Mr. London’s book is far from pleasing reading, but it carries a
tremendous lesson with it—a lesson that men of conscience and
high-minded patriots cannot afford to overlook. It is a book that will
help on the social revolution that is making for a better and nobler
civilization.”

+ + − =Arena.= 39: 124. Ja. ’08. 270w.

“One has to search diligently through the book to find any quality or
trait (not purely physical) that is not vicious.” E: E. Hale, jr.

− + =Dial.= 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 400w.

“In spite of his frankness he does not give the impression of
sincerity and strict accuracy. He is too smooth a story-teller to be
altogether plausible and he takes such manifest delight in his skill
and success as a liar when he was beating his way across the continent
that we involuntarily wonder at what date he abandoned the habit.”

− + =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 170w.

“Written with Mr. London’s usual command of clear, incisive English
and powers of terse, vivid description.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 470w.

=London municipal society.= Case against socialism: a handbook for
speakers and candidates; with a prefatory letter by A. J. Balfour.
*$1.50. Macmillan.

8–21561.

“This work was prepared in England as a handbook for use there in the
campaign against the spread of socialism. It comprises a compact
statement of the main points in the dispute, with abundant footnote
references to authorities.” (R. of Rs.) “This useful compilation
contains a mass of sound arguments and useful facts and figures, and
should prove of no little value, not only to speakers and writers, but
to all who wish to acquaint themselves with the great controversy of
the hour.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Although the volume is directly intended for ‘candidates,’ there are
statements inviting consideration from many who are not partisans of
either side.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 507. Ap. 25. 360w.

+ − =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.

“As a campaign textbook it is of more than usual value.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 50w.

“The best feature of the work is the moderation with which it is
written. Except for an occasional outburst of indignation at the folly
of some particularly ridiculous socialistic paradox, the writer shows
a commendable coolness and absence of rhetoric. ‘Socialism and
religion,’ [is] the only chapter which we regret in the book.”

+ + − =Spec.= 100: 747. My. 9, ’08. 2350w.

=Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies
of wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.

7–37000.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“Written in the author’s usual interesting manner.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 115. Ap. ’08. ✠

“Seems to us a little thin in comparison with previous volumes from
the same hand; but there is no denying the talent of Mr. Long, who is
one of the best present-day writers on the world of living things.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 764. D. 14. 60w.

“He usually manages to turn his shooting into a joke, and to tell
entertainingly how his interest in his intended victim overcame his
desire for meat.” M. E. Cook.

+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 350w.

“Many passages in this attractive volume bear equally eloquent
testimony to the closeness with which its author has observed the
habits of the creatures he loves so well and describes so
graphically.” R. L.

+ =Nature.= 77: 393. F. 27, ’08. 350w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.

“Though Mr. Long is a prolific writer, his standard of excellence has
not fallen off.”

+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 210w.

=Longueville, Thomas.= Marshall Turenne; by the author of “A life of
Sir Kenelm Digby,” etc.; with an introd. by Brigadier-general
Francis Lloyd. *$4.50. Longmans.

8–10271.

A biography of this contemporary of Cromwell and Condé which is “drawn
mainly from Ramsay, but is seasoned by Napoleon’s comments and
enlivened by anecdotes from contemporary memoirs. Turenne is one of
the men who are always worth reading about, and we are given a vivid
picture of him.” (Eng. Hist. R.)

* * * * *

“The author leans heavily on Ramsay, and quotes largely from
Napoleon’s ‘Abstract of the wars of Marshal Turenne.’”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 861. Jl. ’08. 540w.

“The record of affairs at the French court is too long in a work which
should deal mainly with military matters. In the account of these the
lack of the critical faculty is only too apparent.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 207. Ag. 22. 230w.

“The account of Turenne’s operations is not always easy to follow. It
is a pleasure to turn the pages of a book so well printed and
illustrated, but the map at the end should have shown western Europe
as it was in the seventeenth century, and omitted railways.” E. M. Ll.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 408. Ap. ’08. 300w.

“The author has exercised extreme discretion and sound common sense.
He has never permitted himself to become so immersed in the
seventeenth century maze of politics and warfare as to neglect the
more humanly appealing biographical elements to be found in character
study.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 229. Ap. 18, ’08. 1400w.

“In these days when personal aims and objects supply the place of
worthier motives, the life of a man of character is exactly the kind
of literature which our young officers should read, and for this
reason especially we welcome the appearance of this book. As a
military history we are not by any means so well pleased with it.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.

“Though the author struggles manfully with an extremely difficult
period, he is evidently less successful as a writer of civil and
political than of military history. The figure of Turenne stands out
plainly enough, but against a background which seems unnecessarily
confused and vague.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 639. Ap. 25, ’08. 1500w.

=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Holiday touch, and other tales of
undaunted Americans. †$1.25. Holt.

8–29333.

“America ahead” is the note which sounds out in this group of
entertaining stories—the buoyant, invincible, never-say-die note of
the ingenious Yankee. Here are accounts of a joke played upon a
prestidigitator just arriving in Boston; of the generosity of a
well-known American philanthropist; of a penniless artist’s experience
with a New York dinner invitation which omitted to mention the place;
and of a bride’s unwillingness to be daunted by the non-appearance of
the bridegroom on two successive occasions named for the ceremony.

=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Knack of it: some essays in optimism.
**75c. Revell.

8–23515.

A collection of essays which descant upon the leavening knack of self
mastery, and of bringing harmony out of our every day affairs. Mr.
Loomis says, “Wake up. Live. Be happy. Let us all be happy together.
Hands all round. It’s only a knack.”

* * * * *

“It is written with that kind of artificial cheerfulness often
observed in the professionally happy. But this should not discredit
the performance, since nine-tenths of those who read it will never
discover that what Mr. Loomis calls ‘The knack of it’ is really a
jack-in-the-box performance at so much a jump.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1243. N. 26, ’08. 180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 80w.

“Just the sort of vigorously optimistic advice that fits in with this
vigorous age of ours.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 170w.

=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Poe’s “Raven” in an elevator, and other
tales, il. †$1.25. Holt.

7–29153.

The third edition of “More cheerful Americans.” The initial story
which gives the book its title, tells of a reader’s mishap in being
hung up in an elevator with only his head visible to the audience that
poured out of the apartment into the halls when the hostess announced
the accident and also the fact that the entertainment would proceed.
From the sub-level of the cage he renders the “Raven” to the
accompaniment of the rapping and tapping of tools. Other tales as
humorously conceived follow.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 53. F. ’08.

“The incongruous is what appeals to Mr. Loomis, the juxtaposition of
unfamiliar ideas, the truly American quirk that finds humor in the
most unlikely materials and maintains all the while a deceptive
gravity. There is a deal of healthy philosophy incorporated in the
book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856 D. 21, ’07. 220w.

=Lorey, Eustache de, and Sladen, Douglas.= Queer things about
Persia, il. *$3.50. Lippincott.

8–1464.

“The simple, but entertaining, record of the experiences and
impressions gained during two years’ residence in the Persian capital
by a young member of the French legation. M. de Lorey describes his
house, his servants, street scenes, bazaars, a dinner at the palace of
the Grand Vizier, a reception by the late Shah, and a religious play,
‘Kassem’s marriage,’ a veritable Mohammedan Oberammergau.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“A curious and acute observer with a pleasant gift of story-telling.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 430w.

“This is the sort of book which will appeal to the casual reader of
books of travel, and it will not be uninteresting even to the
well-read student of Persian life and manners.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 300w.

“The book, together with the views and photographs from life, gives as
faithful a presentation of the mysteries of the land of Xerxes as an
Occidental can hope to achieve.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.

“Much interesting and valuable information is given in regard to
marriage and divorce, and the position of woman.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 460w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“He has made good use of his opportunities, and there are few phases
of Persian life which he has not described in graphic language. Still
these faults, and the jerky style which Mr. Sladen often affects,
cannot quite destroy the reader’s interest in one of the most complete
accounts of Persian life ever written.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 660w.

“If you want to know the Persian as he is, read M. Eustaehe de Lorey,
from whose dictation Mr. Douglas Sladen has presented us with a
fascinating and most instructive book.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 190w.

=Lorimer, George Horace.= Jack Spurlock—prodigal; by F. R. Gruger.
†$1.50. Doubleday.

8–16951.

By the author of “Letters of a self-made merchant to his son.” “The
story relates, in the picturesque language of the young man himself,
the last act in the sowing of a crop of wild oats and the successive
steps in the reaping of it. In the course of the harvesting the boy,
with the aid of a delightful old reprobate of a colonel of Southern
extraction, manages to gather in a pretty fair crop of domesticated
grain as well. When the prodigal finally returns to the parental fold,
he does not come empty-headed if he does come empty-handed.”
(Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Humorous extravaganza.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 200w.

“One cannot believe that anything of the kind ever happened, or could
happen, but it is very distinctly funny, and the happy phrase, the
neat epigram, or the jest in earnest, invariably arrive at the moment,
when credulity threatens to grow tired.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 900w.

“A lively and well-told story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.

“The story is told rapidly and in racy language.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 536. Jl. 4, ’08. 180w.

“When it is translated into English, we shall be better able to give
it critical attention.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 80w.

“There are two reasons why English readers will like this book,—first,
because most of the episodes are delightfully droll in themselves; and
secondly, because the writing is a liberal education in the American
language.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 169. Ag. 1, ’08. 1200w.

=Loughnan, R. A.= New Zealand at home. *$1.75. Scribner.

8–22496.

A volume of a series dealing with various countries “at home.” “Mr.
Loughnan in an unpretentious way manages to leave a well-defined
impression on the reader’s mind of the forces which go to make the New
Zealander-born as loyal to the Empire as he is to his colony. His
chapters cover town life and country life, wealth, agriculture,
mining, labour, religion, literature, art, sport, the position of
woman and the rest of it, and their special merit is that they can be
read by those who know New Zealand as well as by those who want to
know it.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Loughnan’s book is one in which, in spite of the interest of the
subject, it is difficult to take much pleasure. His geographical
chapters are so ill-planned as to be almost unintelligible in the
absence of a map, his opening chapter on the population tells the
reader absolutely nothing about it.”

− =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 260w.

“Some of the most interesting chapters of the book relate to the
characteristics and treatment of the Maoris, the inhabitants of the
country before the advent of the European.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.

“If the book has a fault it is that its eulogy is unrelieved; the New
Zealanders have done things deserving of the praise he gives, but the
things that could be criticised he either ignores or dismisses with a
humorous touch.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.

=Lounsberry, Alice.= Garden book for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.

8–12186.

Information about the making of a garden, about the names, habits, and
seasons of plant life in story form “after the model of the Rollo
books.” The book is fully illustrated.

* * * * *

“It is useful especially because of a good index to flowers. The style
is too diffuse. Children would enjoy it more and find it more
practical if it contained less story.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 226. Je. ’08.

=Ind.= 64: 1299. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.

=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Standard of usage in English.
*$1.50. Harper.

8–12736.

In this volume of essays the dictum is laid down that the standard of
speech is the usage of the cultivated. They are the law givers whose
edicts it is the grammarian’s duty to record. The writer further
affirms that usage must also be good usage and present usage. Good
usage is something which must be learned, and in the acquisition
grammars often hinder more than they aid. Knowledge of good usage can
be acquired only by association with the best speakers and writers.
Much space is taken up in illustrating these principles.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.

“A dash of humor, with occasionally a bite of sarcasm, gives flavor
and relish to Professor Lounsbury’s pages. The book is excellent
reading as well as sound doctrine.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 16. Jl. 1, ’08. 400w.

“The reader, whether or not he agrees with the author’s general
principles, is bound to be pleased by his treatment of his special
instances.” G: P. Krapp.

+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 195. S. ’08. 2600w.

“But there is delight in every chapter, some for readers of one kind
and some for readers of another.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 148. Jl. 16, ’08. 650w.

“It is hard to conceive what audience Professor Lounsbury’s volume of
essays in popular philology will benefit. A volume of protest against
‘schoolmastering the language’ should give better evidence that the
writer has mastered his language.”

− =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 670w.

“It would be a bold man who should assume to differ with the professor
on his specialty, and the newspaper writer who should do so would be
ungrateful as well, considering the professor’s generous treatment of
newspaper usage.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 275. My. 16, ’08. 800w.

“Pleasantly written little book, as unpedantic and as unpedagogic as
possible, as full of good-humor as it is of humor.” Brander Matthews.

+ =No. Am.= 188: 300. Ag. ’08. 900w.

“The net influence of these scholarly and entertaining essays makes
for the encouragement of educated independence in preferring language
that is idiomatic and natural to what is formal and precise.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 270w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 100w.

=Lovell, William H.= Plane table and its use in surveying. *$1.
McGraw.

8–22566.

“While not containing any additional information than the usual
chapter on the plane-table in any of the standard works on surveying,
the compact form of this little book by Mr. Lovell may make it useful
for those learning map plotting by use of the plane-table.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The present book could have been very much improved as well as made
more nearly worth the price asked, by the inclusion of more examples
and illustrations of the methods of use, and a more detailed
explanation of the methods of a solution of the various problems.”

+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 418. O. ’08. 170w.

“The instructions regarding the practical use of the instrument and
its equipment are much better than the treatment of the three-point
problem, which is rather too confused to convey a clear understanding
to the student approaching for the first time this most important
factor of plane-table surveying.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.

=Lovett, James D’Wolf.= Old Boston boys and the games they played.
**$1.50. Little.

“A book which grew out of memories recalled at a dinner given by
Samuel Cabot to a group of the old boys “who had known early-day
athletic prowess.” It tells all about how the boys and youths enjoyed
themselves playing ball on the Common, running with the fire engines,
rowing on the Charles river, snowballing, playing tricks, and
otherwise putting in vigorous days. Incidentally, too, there is a good
deal of description to the life and times of the Boston of those
days.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“For the history of cricket, football, baseball, and rowing, Mr.
Lovett’s chapters are of value; and as giving a picture of
mid-nineteenth-century open-air pastimes in Boston, they are highly
entertaining. One small error, or seeming error, noteworthy because so
unexpected, may be mentioned. In commenting on the unvarying order of
boys’ games, the year round, Mr. Lovett makes marbles come after tops.
Is it possible that the present cheerful sign of spring, the nimble
marble, has not always made its appearance with the retreat of snow
and mud?”

+ − =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 330w.

“The book will be of much interest to the boys of to-day, especially
the Boston boys.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 200w.

=Low, A. Maurice.= America at home. *$1.75. Scribner.

8–26412.

A book written for Englishmen which the author says “does not pose as
a profound critique of American psychology, nor a minute investigation
into social and political conditions in the United States, but rather
as a rapid presentation of the phases of life which have appealed to
me, and I trust may interest the reader.” Some of the chapters are:
The American political system; Bosses, big and little; The American
girl; Washington, the republican court; The almighty dollar; and
Social customs.

* * * * *

“Mr. Low’s book is of very unequal merit, and the best chapters, those
which deal in a clear and accurate way with our political
institutions, are of no especial value to the American reader. In
short, this book is not at all valuable, but it contains some
effective summaries and a few good anecdotes.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 650w.

“Rapidly sketched, but in the main shows an intelligent understanding
of conditions and ambitions.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6. ’08. 150w.

“All chapters are characterized by a trenchant style and entertaining
subject-matter. Mr. Low supplies a corrective ... for the most of his
generalizations which, if considered alone, might leave an erroneous
impression.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.

=Lowell, Abbott Lawrence.= Government of England. 2v. **$4.
Macmillan.

8–16501.

A book of detailed information rather than one of political philosophy
which is a survey of Great Britain’s present political system. The
most important divisions of the work are The organization and
construction of the government, The working of the political parties
and The courts of law; other sections deal with Social government,
Education, The colonies and dependencies and Foreign relations.

* * * * *

“It stands in distinguished isolation by reason of its comprehensive
plan, the masterly way in which the plan has been developed, and the
sympathetic insight with which Mr. Lowell has described and analyzed
the spirit in which English people work their Parliamentary and
municipal institutions.”

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 140. O. ’08. 1250w.

“A work of the first magnitude, accurate and full as to facts and
evidence, and impartial and dispassionate in treatment.”

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.

“We think it is not too much to say that this is the most important
historical work of the year.”

+ + =Arena.= 40: 380. O. ’08. 970w.

“Prof. Lowell is so firm an admirer of Whig principles and the British
constitution as created and explained by Whigs that he hardly makes
sufficient reservation of still-existent and important old Tory
views.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 760. Je. 20. 950w.

“In this important book Professor Lowell has done for England what Mr.
Bryce has done for the American commonwealth.” T. Raleigh.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 809. O. ’08. 860w.

“The comprehensiveness of Mr. Lowell’s book, the insight into English
character by which it is so signally marked, and the accuracy which so
generally characterizes definite statements, all contribute to make it
of the highest permanent value to students of political science the
world over.” E: Porritt.

+ + =Forum.= 40: 123. Ag. ’08. 1900w.

“Of the greatest value as a work of reference, and is a book that can
be read from beginning to end, and there are sections which will amply
repay re-reading.”

+ + =Ind.= 65: 375. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.

“The reader will acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the author of this
really remarkable work, not only for its wealth of learning and
boldness of reasoning, but for its topical arrangement and the
scholarly simplicity of its style.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 900w.

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 120w.

“He gives us literally a handbook of English government brought up to
date. It sustains every test of accuracy. If one were to hesitate a
fault, or rather a defect in interest, it would be that Prof. Lowell
does not often enough make biography a handmaiden to his exposition of
constitutional rule and procedure.”

+ + − =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 850w.

“One of the chief features of the value as well as the charm of Prof.
Lowell’s admirable volumes ... is that he treats the government as a
‘going concern,’ or, in the more dignified language of science, as a
living organism. The author’s style is happy. It fits the work, is
simple, direct, lucid, sober without undue gravity, and lightened by
touches of humor that deepen the impression of the writer’s easy
command of his subject matter.” E: Cary.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 403. Jl. 18, ’08. 2250w.

“It is free from those prejudices from which an English political
writer could hardly be free. It is free from American prejudices.”

+ + =Outlook.= 90: 839. D. 12, ’08. 1350w.

“Few criticisms can be made upon a work at once so well conceived and
so admirably executed. Some matters, however, that one might expect
the author to discuss are passed over.” J. M. Mathews.

+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 712. D. ’08. 880w.

“A study of British government comparable in thoroughness and insight
with Mr. Bryce’s monumental work on the American commonwealth.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 230w.

“Apart from many other useful qualities, the main value of this book
lies in its text-book nature.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: 268. Ag. 29, ’08. 1700w.

* =Lownhaupt, Frederick.= Investment bonds, their issue and their place in finance: a book for students, investors, and practical financiers. **$1.75. Putnam.

Covers for the first time investment bonds as a separate subject. “The
contents of this book have been developed with reference to two
principal ideas, that of the relation of the bond to its issuing
corporation, and the general investment aspect of the instrument.
These central ideas have been developed to treat of classification of
issuing corporations and specific issues; process of issue and the
practices of negotiation; market, in its extent and general
conditions; interest, in its definition, methods, and times of
payment; security, in its relationship to various types; default and
its effects; reorganization and how accomplished, etc., together with
other important features.” (Preface)

=Lucas, Bernard.= Fifth gospel: being the Pauline interpretation of
the Christ. $1.50. Macmillan.

8–26838.

A psychological rather than a philosophical method has been adopted in
this study. “The assertion is possibly true, though it suggests
strange problems, that ‘It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the
gospel of apostolic times was not the teaching of Jesus, but the good
news about Jesus, His life and death and resurrection, looked at from
the point of view of their religious significance.’ The author
proceeds, true to his psychological method, to examine the effect of
this gospel on the soul of St. Paul, and also the form or expression
of the gospel after the apostle has analyzed that effect.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The unnamed writer of ‘The fifth gospel’ has as qualifications for
theological work a method which is not hackneyed and a reasonable
comprehension of difficulties.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 2. 540w.

“A spirited and skilful sketch of the main elements in the religious
experiences and thought of Paul, psychologically investigated.”

+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w.

“This little book is a real contribution to Christian Apologetic, in
view of present difficulties. Its success does not lie in
well-arranged arguments, but in the strength of its thought, which
finds full expression in a masculine, straightforward style.” R. A. C.
MacMillan.

+ + =Hibbert J.= 6: 688. Ap. ’08. 850w.

“The work is a strenuous, tho not very logical and consistent defense
of the physical resurrection as an historic fact and an essential of
Christianity.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 100w.

“If our writer’s attitude to the apostle and his Christian development
is open to criticism at all, we should be inclined to see its
vulnerable point in a tendency to forget how near Saul of Tarsus was
to the actual date of Jesus of Nazareth.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 1130w.

“It is a vigorous piece of writing throughout and deserves the
attention and the thanks of theologians.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 340w.

* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Anne’s terrible good nature, and other stories for children. †$1.75. Macmillan.

A group of wholesome stories about healthy, natural children.
“Roderick, the small boy cricketer; Christina, who disobeyed and
spoiled her doll; Mary Stavely, who became one of a pair of
Anti-Burglars, and kept a most entrancing account of her proceedings;
the Little Mother who kept a Christmas shop for a day—every one of
these children, led by the ‘terrible’ Anne, is absolutely convincing.
Though her adventures may be rather unusual, as children they always
keep their own place—and that is in our hearts.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Delicate traits of fancy are not entirely lacking, but the narrative
thread is mostly exiguous, and the humour scarcely seems of the
description which appeals successfully to children.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 80w.

“Whimsical enough to amuse a child, and yet never baffling him by a
subtle wit intended for an older audience, these stories are
inimitable.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 400w.

=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Ladies’ pageant. *$1.25. Macmillan.

A collection of prose and verse whose theme is woman. It is prefaced
by F. W. Bain’s account of Twashtri’s materials used in compounding
woman. Woman appears in this volume as the poets have seen her,
understood her, and eulogized her in all phases, times and climes.

* * * * *

“The theme offers plenty of scope for variety, and there is no lack of
that quality in Mr. Lucas’s book.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 120w.

“There has been gathered much that is very interesting.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 80w.

“There is no index (a sad fault).”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 230w.

“It most surely would make an acceptable present to any woman.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 130w.

=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Over Bemerton’s: an easy-going chronicle.
†$1.50. Macmillan.

8–28632.

“The narrator in Mr. Lucas’s new book ... is a man of fifty-five, who
after thirty-three years in the Argentine, returned to London, with a
modest competence.... In our opinion he never left London at all but
fell asleep, like Rip Van Winkle, in a second-hand bookseller’s shop
or at the Oval when he was two-and-twenty, and woke up at fifty-five
with precisely the same tastes, the same love of London, old books,
cricket, the music-halls, and eccentric goodness.... When it is added
that his lodging-house-keeper is a waiter of the old school; that his
son is a famous music-hall singer, and his daughter ‘dresser’ to a
fascinating actress; that an honest but vitriolic editor lives in the
rooms overhead; that one of his nephews is a journalist and the other
a county cricketer; that his elder niece is an angel and the younger a
‘suffragette’ who studies at the Slade school and consorts with
Fabians,—it is not difficult to guess what use Mr. Lucas makes of his
opportunities.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“Naturally the whole narrative saunters through a bookish atmosphere
at a pace of leisured ease, with here and there a gleam of gentle
humour, alternating with nice points of observation and kindly human
touches.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 120w.

“Irrelevance and discontinuity are here a legitimate device, but it
does seem at times as if Mr. Lucas was irrelevant from haste rather
than from design.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.

“There is no author in England or America to-day who can equal Mr. E.
V. Lucas in the ability to write about Things in General with charm
and cleverness, and that sure, delicate touch which can always reveal
some new interest in ordinary things, and can always do it gracefully
and entertainingly.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 450w.

+ =Outlook.= 90: 661. N. 28, ’08. 140w.

“It’s excellence is contemplative, speculative, reminiscent; at times
somnolently reminiscent.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 480w.

+ − =Spec.= 101: 548. O. 10, ’08. 1500w.

=Lucas, Reginald.= Colonel Saunderson, M. P.: a memoir. *$4. Dutton.

A sketch of the country gentleman in politics—an Irish land-holder, a
strong Unionist and a bitter opponent of home rule. “The first thing
about him was that he was a country gentleman, a landowner who loved
his duties, a sportsman, a man with intense local affections. His
patriotism was based on Castle Saunderson as the unit, Ulster,
Ireland, Britain, the Empire being the larger multiples.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 370w.

“Though he was not in the first rank, to read this book puts one in
close contact with men of the first rank and with the momentous events
in English history for the past forty years.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 250w.

“A vivid picture of the human side of a man who endeared himself to
the heart of the English people.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 110w.

“Mr. Reginald Lucas writes this biography as ‘an avowed personal
partisan,’ and he is equipped with an intimate knowledge of his
subject. But though a frankly affectionate, Mr. Lucas is also a
discerning critic, and duly notes the foibles of his hero.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 693. My. 30, ’08. 1230w.

“One of the most successful specimens of a not very easy form of
literature. It is just such a tribute as the wisest kind of friend
might prepare to a long friendship, very sincere, human, and
straightforward.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 130. Jl. 25, ’08. 1350w.

=Lucas, St. John W. L.= Oxford book of French verse, XIIth
century-XIXth century. *$1.90. Oxford.

8–9513.

Concerned mainly with the poetry of Renaissance and the nineteenth
century. There is a noticeable leaning toward the romantic to the
exclusion of narrative and dramatic verse.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.

“Excellent anthology of French verse.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 1051. D. 21, ’07. 300w.

=Lucy, Henry W.= Memories of eight parliaments, 1868–1906. **$2.50.
Putnam.

Memories which have grown out of a close and constant observation of
parliamentary life in its many aspects. The first part of the volume
is devoted to men whom the author has known, including a group of five
prime ministers besides Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr.
John Morley, Lord Hugh Cecil, Lord Courtney and Lord Randolph
Churchill. The second part deals with manners, and treats of the drama
at Westminster, Parliamentary manners, Procedure in two hemispheres, A
new house for the Commons, The lungs of the House of Commons, and
Bulls in the Westminster china shop.

* * * * *

“The careful reader is rewarded by many good things, generally, but
not invariably, kind.”

+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 285. Mr. 7. 650w.

“The value of Mr. Lucy’s book lies precisely in its informal
miscellaneousness.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 1000w.

“It is not history in the ordinary sense that he writes, nor does that
sort of history seem to possess very keen interest for him. It is the
game that delights him, and as a game he describes it. Mr. Lucy is
nothing if not readable. Perhaps he is most readable where he is most
in earnest.” Edward Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 273. My. 16, ’08. 1400w.

“There is none of the cant of false modesty about the writer of this
book. He looks you in the face from his frontispiece and you are
assured straightway on his title-page that ‘on anything relating to
Parliament Mr. Lucy speaks as an expert.’”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.

“A master of the written word and descriptive phrase.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 903. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.

=Ludlow, James Meeker.= Jesse ben David: a shepherd of Bethlehem.
il. **$1. Revell.

7–38030.

The story of the Christ birth as shepherds, seers, soldiers, Jews and
Romans saw it and commented upon it, with curious illustrations and
marginal decorations in color.

* * * * *

“The English is modern but dignified and adequate and the incidents
worked out in the vivid form of fiction, gain a fresh interest.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 110w.

“Something of the mysticism and light of Bethlehem’s star finds
lodgment in the story that goes to make up the book.” W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 63: 1465. D. 19, ’07. 70w.

− =Nation.= 86: 15. Ja. 2, ’08. 280w.

=Lungo, Isidoro del.= Women of Florence; tr. by Mary C. Steegmann.
**$2.25. Doubleday.

8–2186.

Lives over the old days of Florence, revealing the influence that
woman has exerted upon Florentine life and history. “The author simply
presents a picture of Florentine women, authentic and vivid, largely
drawn from the Paradiso, for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and
from private records which show domestic life in the Italian Commune
with exquisite reality. These women are studied from three
standpoints—historical reality, legend or tradition, and poetical
idealization.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 652. N. 7, ’08. 1500w.

“A book for the curious and leisurely reader. The author, if he errs
at all, leans to the side of idealism. The work is translated
sympathetically.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 500w.

“The book is really interesting, though the originally rather
high-flown and pompous style does not gain in naturalness through
translation.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.

=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–33211.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“The story offers little more than a variation of a few well-worn
themes, but the action moves rapidly from point to point, and the
dramatic effects are skilfully contrived.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 44: 45. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.

“Mr. Luther is as devoid of literary genius as a hen is of musical
sense, but he has produced a popular story because he has written
literally of things about which people like to gossip.” Mrs. L. H.
Harris.

− + =Ind.= 64: 184. Ja. 23, ’08. 510w.

=Luther, Martin.= Letters of Martin Luther; selected and tr. by
Margaret A. Currie. *$3.75. Macmillan.

8–18069.

“The five hundred letters [contained in this volume] include a period
of thirty-nine years from his ordination to the priesthood to the week
of his death in 1546. The Pope, the Emperor, princes, church
dignitaries, his fellow-workers and bosom friends, his wife, and many
others, each serve to reflect a view of his strenuous, eventful life,
both inner and outer, in all the changes of thought, feeling, and
experience.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“It is a pity that the worth of so good a selection as has been made
by the present translator should be largely impaired by her
unscientific method and imperfect acquaintance with the subject, as
well as by numerous errors in form and rendering.” Preserved Smith.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 899. Jl. ’08. 770w.

“The edition is not scholarly. The volume is worth having, in spite of
its shortcomings.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 333. S. 19. 180w.

“Mrs. Currie has ... on the whole been wise in her selections. It is a
great pity that a volume otherwise so handsomely and carefully
prepared should not have been submitted to thorough criticism by an
expert German scholar.”

+ − =Dial.= 44: 381. Je. 16, ’08. 500w.

“We have here an amiable attempt to do a really worthy piece of work
with an altogether insufficient equipment.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 660w.

“Naturally [the letters] do not give a complete picture of the man or
of his stormy career, but they have been chosen with judgment and
sympathy, and are intensely interesting. The notes accompanying them
are useful though somewhat insufficient. Their value would be enhanced
by a fuller and more careful index. It is to be noted with gratitude
that these letters are rendered into most satisfactory English,
simple, flexible, expressive, and natural. They constitute a work
unique in its value and interest.” E: Cary.

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 193. Ap. 11, ’08. 1600w.

“Readers of the history of the reformation are here provided with a
most valuable companion-book.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 170w.

+ − =Spec.= 100: 900. Je. 6, ’08. 1500w.

=Lutz, Grace Livingston H.= Marcia Schuyler. †$1.50. Lippincott.

8–5229.

Set in the times of full skirts and poke bonnets this story opens upon
the wedding preparations for the marriage of a winsome, willful Kate
to a strong and good David. On the eve of her marriage she elopes with
a young lieutenant and her angry father urges the benumbed lover to
wed in her place the younger sister, Marcia. After a period of trials
and heartaches Marcia wins her husband’s love when he comes to
understand her worthiness and Kate’s heartless frivolity and
duplicity.

* * * * *

“Girlishness is the key-note. Little new, brilliant, or finished in
the way of narrative writing can be discovered. The book needs a very
hot day and a hammock.”

− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.

=Lynn, Margaret=, ed. Collection of eighteenth century verse.
*$1.10. Macmillan.

7–39508.

This volume of verse includes the poems which are the landmarks of
eighteenth century development in poetry. The anthology is concluded
by notes which furnish terse estimates of the peculiar service
rendered to the world of letters by each author represented.

* * * * *

=Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 60w.

=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.

“Worth while. The selections are well chosen, abundant, and are edited
with sufficient notes. Secondary schools will find the book excellent
for reference work or supplementary reading.”

+ =School R.= 16: 419. Je. ’08. 100w.

=Lyon, Thomas Lyttleton, and Montgomery, Edward Gerrard.= Examining
and grading grains; new ed. *60c. Ginn.

7–17674.

A handbook which gives the methods for testing the germinating of
seeds and their purity. Corn, oats, barley, and wheat chiefly are
treated.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Bertha Chapman.

=El. School T.= 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.

“Is worth notice as a pioneer in an important development of
agricultural science.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 220w.

=Lyster, Mrs. Gertrude Agnes=, ed. Family chronicle; derived from
notes and letters selected by Barbarina, the Hon. Lady Grey. *$5.
Dutton.

8–18702.

“This chronicle of an English family and its connections represents
English life at its best. In it we see sturdy physical and mental
vigor, simplicity, sincerity, and straightforwardness of manner,
unaffected devotion to morals, and an impressive measure of
accomplishment.” (Outlook.) “Besides personal, social, and literary
matters, it furnishes vivid sights of the Crimean war, where Grey
served on the Hannibal, and of Cape Colony, to command which station
he was appointed in 1857.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 41. Jl. 11. 400w.

“Such a volume is naturally desultory; therein lies much of its charm.
This one gives us, however, some interesting side-lights on historic
events.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 620w.

“The letters in this volume ... are often full of juicy anecdote and
pithy opinion. They reveal such shrewdness and acuteness that we seem
to see the Gallic united with the Anglo-Saxon.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 330w.

“It is a pleasant gossipy book, charmingly illustrated, and full of
readable items.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 239. F. 22, ’08. 950w.

M

* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Christmas to-day. **75c. Dodd.

8–31020.

“The substance of Mr. Mabie’s ‘Christmas to-day’ is an imaginary talk
of a group of friends before a Christmas fire, and touches those
changes of condition and feeling, those transformations of thought and
sentiment, which separate the men and women to-day as by a great gulf
from the men and women who heard the story of Bethlehem as a
contemporary event.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“It is handled in Mr. Mabie’s accustomed easy and readable style.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 60w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 60w.

=Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 160w.

=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, ed. Essays that every child should know.
(Every child should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.

8–7181.

Essayists from Addison and Steele to Charles Dudley Warner and Thomas
Bailey Aldrich are represented in this child’s book. “Though these
essays would by no means all rank as among the greatest works of the
kind in the language, many of them are justly famous, and all of them
have been chosen with a view to meet the appreciative faculties of
comparatively young readers.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Extracts from various sources, all of a high standard and valuable to
those interested in developing the minds of young people; but not at
all likely to meet any demand made by a child visiting a library.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 150w.

“The essays or narratives are, in every case, written simply, and most
of them would appeal to the young imagination vividly.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.

=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, comp. Stories new and old: typical
American and English tales; selected with introductions by
Hamilton W. Mabie. †$1.50. Macmillan.

8–18574.

A selection made in the interest of good reading with the purpose of
presenting material for comparison of the earlier and later style of
short stories and for the study of leading short story types or
varieties. The stories are taken from Dickens, Hawthorne, Stevenson,
Poe, Wister, T. B. Aldrich, William Austin, Dr. John Brown, J. Henry
Shorthouse, and James Lane Allen.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.

“A very delightful reading for boys and girls, as well as for men and
women.”

+ =Educ. R.= 36: 525. D. ’08. 60w.

+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.

“The ten he has selected are stories worth reading, studying, and
comparing one with another.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.

=Outlook.= 89: 622. Jl. 18, ’08. 330w.

=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, and Stephens, Kate=, eds. Heroines that
every child should know; tales for young people of the world’s
heroines of all ages. (Every child should know ser.) il. **90c.
Doubleday.

8–5881.

A stimulating volume for young readers including among its heroines
the following: Alcestis, Antigone, Iphigenia, Paula, Joan of Arc,
Catherine Douglas, Lady Jane Grey, Pocahontas, Flora MacDonald, Madame
Manon Jeanne Philipon, Grace Darling, Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison and
Florence Nightingale.

* * * * *

“An interesting volume, and a useful one.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08. ✠

+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 50w.

“Sure to interest children and written with literary charm.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.

“The book will, of course, appeal especially to girls, and seems, in
our judgment, to be one of the very best of the series.”

+ + =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.

=Macaulay, George Campbell.= James Thomson. (English men of letters
ser.) **75c. Macmillan.

8–9515.

More valuable than the inclusion of some new facts concerning the
production of Thomson’s plays, his relations with Lyttelton, and the
tenure of his successive posts under the government “are the author’s
contributions, in the way of appreciative comment, toward a better
understanding of Thomson as a poet of nature, and a more accurate
determination of his influence on the poetry of his century, not only
in England but also in France and Germany.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“The poet has found in Mr. Macaulay a sober, sympathetic, and
scholarly biographer, and a critic who does not allow his reasoned
judgments to be impaired by any passion for brilliant paradox.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 597. My. 16. 1400w.

“As a careful study of a not superlatively prepossessing theme, the
little volume deserves nothing but praise.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 300w.