Chapter L: Book 1: , The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times (15)

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.

=Tracy, Louis.= Wheel o’ fortune. $1.50. Clode, E. J.

8–25370.

A story of a hunt for buried treasure which, to vary it from the stock
variety, is “tangled up with mystery and archaeology and Roman
triremes and loot taken from the land of the Queen of Sheba and
Bedouins and camels and the Abyssinian desert.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“This fluent sensational story ... is devoid of humor and
characterization.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 30w.

“It is a good tale, entertaining and well told. The author adds much
to its interest by his cleverness in keeping the story moving along a
blind trail.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 450w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.

=Train, Arthur (Cheney).= True stories of crime. †$1.50. Scribner.

8–17543.

Thirteen stories of crime. “As assistant to Mr. Jerome Mr. Train has
had great opportunities to meet interesting criminals and know their
careers. The stories are guaranteed true to the facts. They are very
interesting and valuable.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

* * * * *

“The style is interesting and the tone is wholesome.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠

“The author is a good story-teller.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 40w.

=Tratman, E. E. Russell.= Railway track and track work. 3d ed.
*$3.50. Eng. news.

8–23881.

“Mr. E. E. Russell Tratman ... not only treats this subject in an
exhaustive and comprehensive manner, but provides a most valuable
addition to the literature on the American railway track.” (Engin. N.)
“This new edition contains some fifty pages and several illustrations
more than the previous edition. There are two more chapters, some of
the subjects having gained so in importance as to demand more
exhaustive treatment and some of the combinations of subjects, treated
in one chapter, being changed.” (Engin. D.)

* * * * *

“Its comprehensive and representative treatment of the subject is most
commendable and assures the book of a continued recognition as the
standard authority on railway track work.”

+ =Engin. D.= 4: 300. S. ’08. 1350w.

“Outside of the official publications of the American engineering and
maintenance of way association, there is no single work which contains
between its covers such a broad and comprehensive treatment of the
subject.” J: F. Wallace.

+ =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 340w.

“There is not anything written in the book which a railway engineer
would desire to have left out.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 540w.

=Travis, Elma Allen.= The cobbler. $1.25. Outing pub.

8–17997.

In the main this is a character sketch of a will o’ the wisp youth, a
victim of his temperamental moods. He is a poet, a dreamer and an
irresponsible lover whose life, a thing of shreds and patches, is
symbolized by the cobbler heritage transmitted by his father. It is a
life abounding in atmosphere whose structural poise and practicality
it becomes a woman’s mission to supply.

* * * * *

“The story is told gracefully, and is unburdened by moralizing or
flippancy. The eminence of the hero seems to consist far less clearly
in what he does or is than in what his creator says of him.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 600w.

“Barring the occasional evidences of feminine pedantism, the style is
admirable, and the author has a fine gift for descriptive writing. It
is a book which should win success, for it reflects knowledge and
thought.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 358. Je. 20. ’08. 380w.

=Travis, Thomas.= Young malefactor: a study in juvenile delinquency;
with an introd. by Judge Ben B. Lindsey. **$1.50. Crowell.

8–12983.

A book which no library can overlook. The introduction contributed by
the widely-known authority on children’s courts emphasizes the
necessity for a better understanding of the subject of juvenile
delinquency. The body of the book resting upon facts collected during
six years of investigation in Europe and America urges that inasmuch
as the child criminal of to-day becomes the man criminal of to-morrow,
the important task is to reach the child thru study of individual
cases and causes.

* * * * *

“The bibliography has important defects, but indicates significant
books. Apprentice work, but work full of promise.” C. R. Henderson.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 130. Jl. ’08. 90w.

“A thoroughly scientific study. Clearly written, well arranged,
reliable in its statements, and temperate in tone.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08. ✠

“The style is very diffuse, there is a decided lack of logical order,
and repetitions are numerous.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 200w.

“This is a thorough, scholarly, honest work. Its importance consists
not only in what it teaches but also in that it shows us the
limitations of our knowledge of one of the great vital questions of
the hour.” R. E. Bisbee.

+ =Arena.= 40: 386. O. ’08. 530w.

“Mr. Travis’ book is a most able work and, considering the importance
of the subject, it fills a much needed want in literature.”

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 401. Je. ’08. 400w.

“May be commended to superintendents and principals of schools, to
judges in the criminal courts, and, indeed, and unhappily, to not a
few parents.”

+ =Educ. R.= 36: 522. D. ’08. 40w.

“A volume which will enable a more careful study of causes of juvenile
delinquency and dependency, and consequently of better trained
application in the development of these youths toward straight paths
in life. It is regrettable that the author has not put his matter in
somewhat better style, so as to be attractive to the general reader
and to those who are not students.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.

“A good study.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 636. N. ’08. 280w.

“It contains much trustworthy information usually couched in simple,
direct language, and seldom swamped under the purposeless erudition
which Mr. Travis occasionally displays.”

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

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 170w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 40w.

+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 477. O. 3, ’08. 260w.

* =Tremayne, Eleanor E.= First governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria. **$3. Putnam.

A biography painstakingly produced from reliable material for which
Mr. Hume, editor of the “Romantic history series,” to which this
volume belongs, writes an introduction containing a resumé of certain
letters throwing light upon the life of Margaret of Austria.

* * * * *

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 606. N. 14. 1100w.

“Mrs. Tremayne’s biography is well written and interesting, but she
lacks the vitalizing, constructive imagination which enables the
historical writer to make past scenes and events and long dead men and
women live again, in all their native warmth and color, before the
reader’s eyes.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 380w.

=Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.= American revolution. pt. 3. *$2.50.
Longmans.

=pt. 3.= Covers Howe’s inactivity during the early months of 1777 and
his subsequent capture of Philadelphia; Burgoyne’s long march from
Canada and his enforced surrender at Saratoga; Washington’s
tribulations at Valley Forge during the dismal winter of 1778;
Clinton’s evacuation of Philadelphia and his successful retreat to New
York despite the obstacles placed in his way by the American army at
Monmouth; and concludes with the steps that led up to the alliance of
1778 with France.

* * * * *

Reviewed by John Bigelow, jr.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 874. Jl. ’08. 1200w. (Review of pt. 3.)

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 108. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 3.)

“The book is scholarly and free from vulgar errors of fact, and will
have a permanent place in the literature of the subject both for the
scholar and the more general reader.” C. R. Fish.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 532. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“Hardly a page is to be found in the volume where a careful
proof-reader would fail to mark peculiarities, or even errors.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 541. N. 2. 2200w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“The most touchy of patriots can find nothing to complain of in the
treatment measured out in this volume to the worthy American leaders
and the Americans as a nation.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 399. D. ’07. 1150w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“Sir George Trevelyan possesses to a peculiar degree the art of
portrait-painting, and no more human or satisfying description of Howe
has probably ever been written than that presented in these pages.” H.
E. Egerton.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 167. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“It ranks equally high as history and literature.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 586. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“The rounded and highly sustained style of the earlier volumes, which
some have likened to that of Trevelyan’s uncle, Lord Macaulay, is
maintained, and there is just enough of the British point of view to
give new zest to a subject so frequently treated by our own writers.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 96. Ja. 18, ’08. 600w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“If Sir George scarcely has that rare talent which can take a
wilderness of scattered and rather disorganized military actions, and
show plainly what was done in each case, and why, and with what
result, he can rise admirably to the big situations where the
professional interest is lost in the greatness of the human tragedy.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1450w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“His point of view is so catholic, his reading so wide, and his likes
and dislikes so positive that he confers upon the story a semblance of
novelty, due to his own personal qualities as a writer.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 194. F. 27, ’08. 1120w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“It is obvious from this that Trevelyan is not always a safe guide,
and that the reader must make allowances for the personal equation.
His work, though ranking high as a piece of literature, is but a
slight contribution to historical knowledge.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 741. N. 23, ’07. 270w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“It is as interesting as Lord Macaulay’s ‘History of England.’”

+ + =Outlook.= 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“Those who have read the fascinating earlier volumes of Trevelyan’s
‘American revolution’ will find in this new volume the same quaint and
personal touch, the same exquisite satire, the same easy mastery of
what the author knows about his subject, and epigrams fitted as nicely
as ever into the serious portions of the text. There is, too, the old
way of rambling, which carries the reader irresistibly along, but just
as surely causing him to lose the logical development of the story.”
C. H. Vantyne.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 134. Mr. ’08. 950w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“The book is truly a Washingtoniad.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 490. Jl. ’08. 570w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“This is the best of the four published volumes of Sir George
Trevelyan’s history.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. O. 19, ’07. 1250w. (Review of pt. 3.)

“Sir George Trevelyan proves himself an admirable military historian,
showing merits of lucidity, arrangement, and criticism which his
earlier work has not prepared us for. It is true that he has lost the
charm of his first manner, with its astounding plentitude of lightly
borne knowledge and its allusive grace of style, but he has acquired
another kind of charm.”

+ + =Spec.= 99. 710. N. 9, ’07. 1720w. (Review of pt. 3.)

+ =Yale R.= 17: 355. N. ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 3.)

=Trevena, John.= Furze the cruel. †$1.50. Moffat.

“Furze,” “Heather” and “Granite” are the titles of a contemplated
trilogy. Furze symbolizes cruelty, heather endurance, and granite
strength. This first volume “is a strenuous upheaval of the mire of
the moors.” The flesh and blood characters include a quixotic boy, a
girl of doubtful origin, the half-witted Mary and Peter Tavy, a
vice-sodden deacon and his victim, the simple, dull Thomasine.

* * * * *

“Since Charles Kingsley’s ‘Yeast’ we cannot recall any picture of
rural life in England that approaches within any measurable distance
of this ghastly description of the Dartmoor peasant. It is undoubtedly
a great book—almost a masterpiece.”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 66. O. 26, ’07. 550w.

“The characters live and move, and are so nicely balanced in their
relations as to make them seem the result of their environment.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 170w.

“There is good reason to believe that Mr. Trevena is one of the few
men of real promise among the new recruits of English fiction.” F: T.
Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 304. My. ’08. 650w.

“He strips bare the ugliness of Dartmoor life with a merciless candor
that shows too much schooling from Zola, Ibsen, and Tolstoy.”

+ + − =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Trevena’s handling of Thomasine’s misfortunes is Zolaesque in
treatment, and her scene with the brutal Pendoggat suggests a page of
‘La terre’ in its realism.” Lewis Melville.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 1650w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 1000w.

=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Cradle of the deep: an account of a voyage
to the West Indies. *$4. Dutton.

8–21129.

Beginning with Barbados, the author visits in turn the islands of the
West Indies. “Everywhere against the back drop furnished by the
present scene Sir Frederick throws all sorts of pictures from the
magic lantern slides of history and legend.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Buccaneers, explorers, and great captains, Dampier, Hawkins, Drake,
Rodney, and Nelson are among the dramatic personae of the story he has
to tell, and the incidents alternate between the convulsions of
nature—he has a vivid account of Kingston after the earthquake—and the
crash of great fleets in the struggle for world empire.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“This book is, of its kind, excellent. We note a few small
inaccuracies in the author’s account of Capt. Kidd’s voyages.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 782. Je. 27. 1100w.

“If the reader takes it up for what it is, a rambling descriptive
account of a recent voyage in the West Indies, written at leisure and
with great gusto and packed with historical and romantic anecdote, he
may spend a very pleasant hour.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 237. S. 10, ’08. 400w.

“He has read widely and he has read in a spirit which enables him to
make the record of his course as different from a guide-book as
possible.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 930w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 90w.

“It is the work of a keen observer who is able to express his thoughts
in picturesque English.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 280w.

* =Trowbridge, John.= Story of a wireless telegraph boy. †$1.25. Houghton.

8–26832.

The exciting story of a Russian boy who fled from Russia with his
father and physics teacher when it is discovered that they are
promoting revolutionary plots by means of wireless telegraphy.

* * * * *

Reviewed by K. L. M.

=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.

=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Mirabeau, the demi-god, being the true
and romantic story of his life and adventures. *$3.75. Scribner.

7–41576.

A eulogistic sketch of Mirabeau in which the author calls Mirabeau a
“demi-god,” a “hero” and states that he prefers “to see in him only
his noble and what he believed to be his fundamental self.” “The
greatness of Mirabeau is displayed during the last period of his life,
and not in his love affairs and low intrigues. To justify his title,
Mr. Trowbridge should have passed lightly over Mirabeau’s early years
and filled his canvas with the dramatic scenes of the national
assembly in which Mirabeau showed himself truly great. In giving but
seventy pages to this important period, he had little opportunity to
justify his title.” (Am. Hist. R.)

* * * * *

“The book is not, then, a serious biography, nor is it a good
historical novel.”

− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 902. Jl. ’08. 650w.

“Will satisfy the class of readers whose higher education is being
taken care of by the writers of Sunday supplements.”

− =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.

“Is an attempt to strike a happy mean between a novel and a biography,
and is not altogether successful.”

− + =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 270w.

“The exaggeration and disorder of Mirabeau’s nature seem in many
respects to have infected his latest biographer.”

− =Spec.= 100: 379. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.

=Trowbridge, William R. H.= Seven splendid sinners. **$4.50.
Brentano’s.

The lives of the Duchess of Chateauroux, Duchess of Kendal, Catherine
II of Russia, Duchess of Kingston, Countess de Lamotte, Duchess de
Polignac, and Lola Montez.

* * * * *

“A handsome volume against which much might be written without
diminishing the large number of readers that such a book is certain to
attract.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 472. O. 17. 850w.

“The sketches in no wise fall behind the initial promise.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 570w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.

=Trubetzkoi, Amelie (R.) C.= Golden rose. †$1.25. Harper.

8–15326.

The struggle of a woman to possess the golden rose in place of the
ordinary painted apple of Eden. A woman is portrayed who having had an
unhappy marriage none the less believes in love, but love idealized
and purified of its material association, too exalted to permit of a
fulfilment in marriage. To her wooer she offers her golden rose which
he fondles for a time ecstatically. When he would exchange it for the
painted apple she refuses and so sacrifices her material happiness for
a principle’s sake.

* * * * *

“Miss Rives commands a lush and poetic diction. The book is keyed a
good third above concert pitch.” E: C. Marsh.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 413. Je. ’08. 900w.

“The wickedness of such books as the ‘Golden rose’ is that they appeal
to an element of insincerity in women readers, especially young women
readers. The one really vigorous and fine thing in this story is her
description of a summer storm in Virginia. The rest of it should never
have been written.”

− − + =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.

“On the whole, the abnormal, however loftily treated, is
unsatisfactory.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 300w.

“There are all tastes in the world, and love is such a universal
sentiment that the book appeals even to those who cannot take the
author’s point of view.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.

“A charmingly told emotional story.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 40w.

“The little book is well written and attractive, and the pictures of
southern life charmingly drawn.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.

=Trubetzkoi, Prince Michael.= Out of chaos: a personal story of the
revolution in Russia; tr. by Edith Livermore. $2. Longmans.

8–17556.

From an investigation into the deplorable condition of the Russian
peasantry who pay most of the taxes—nobility, officials and clergy
being exempt—the author became identified with the revolutionary
movement. His narrative of the unendurable conditions in Russia, the
suffering caused by them and their great injustice to human activity
is the straightforward account of a man who is yielding up wealth and
position for the salvation of the masses thru whom, he maintains,
oppression must eventually cease.

* * * * *

“The extreme simplicity of a boyish narrative is disconcerting to the
reader of the earlier pages of this book, but if he has the courage to
go on he will be rewarded for his pains.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 200w.

“It will do no one any harm to read this book, and it is possible that
even we, here in America, can learn very much from it—more than we are
likely to learn from anything we are ourselves writing in the cause of
humanity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 680w.

“This is a vivid picture of the difficulties which a young Russian,
who is not content with accepting things as they are in Russia, is
sure to encounter.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 340w.

* =Trubetzkoi, Pierre.= Passer-by. †$1.50. Doubleday.

A story which portrays the complications resulting from a business
man’s unintentional neglect of his wife and the advantage taken of her
loneliness by two foreigners who make love to her.

* * * * *

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 604. N. 14. 160w.

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

“It is done with remarkable skill and knowledge of human nature and
unusual artistic insight.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 240w.

=Tschudi, Clara.= Ludwig the second, king of Bavaria; tr. from the
Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. *$2.50. Dutton.

8–18336.

The life story of a half-witted ruler. “He was the pupil and supporter
of Döllinger, the patron and intimate of Richard Wagner; and his
wonderful palaces, his queer habits, his associations with
‘Lohengrin,’ his tragic and in a way mysterious end, all help to
surround him with an unusual, if unedifying atmosphere.” (Nation.)
“The real value of such a volume as this is found not so much in the
narration of certain romantic episodes in Louis’s life as in the
incidental light thrown upon the development of the Bavarians
themselves.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“One or two slight slips we have noticed in the text. Miss Hearn’s
translation is far from satisfactory.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 153. F. 8. 1400w.

“The sole interest of the book for normal persons will be in the
chapters dealing with Ludwig’s service to Wagner.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 240w.

“It will serve its purpose for the general public.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 200w.

“It is well and readably compiled, but, as usual, has suffered in the
translation.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 230w.

“A rather gossipy biography.”

− + =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w.

“Full of interesting personal anecdotes.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 250w.

“The narrative is compact, and as complete as is necessary, and if it
is not very penetrating, it is interesting because Ludwig’s history is
interesting.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 188. F. 1, ’08. 2000w.

=Turley, Charles.= Playmate. il. †$1.50. Dutton.

A wholesome spontaneous book which “relates how the ‘playmate,’ a
grown-up of thirty-four years, and his half-dozen godchildren, whose
ages range, we take it, from eight to eleven, form a club, among
themselves for the better enjoyment of life, and thereafter hold
various meetings, discussions, and excursions.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Intended to be a very amusing book, but is only rather so.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 50w.

“The whole thing is charmingly done, for Mr. Turley has a thorough
understanding of the juvenile point of view, and presents it with an
unobtrusive art that is altogether admirable.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 726. D. 7. 250w.

“Is written with a gentle sense of humor and an appreciation of the
vivacities and whimsicalities of childhood.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.

=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 100w.

“There is the same kindly humor, the same intimate appreciation of the
boyish standpoint, the same easy, unaffected style [that one finds in
‘Maitland Major’].”

+ =Spec.= 99: 873. N. 30, ’07. 200w.

=Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Maurer, Edward Rose.= Principles
of reinforced concrete construction. $3. Wiley.

7–36223.

Principles of mechanics underlying the design of reinforced concrete
and the result of available tests of these principles are presented
here. “About three-quarters of the book is devoted to development of
methods of design and the remainder to very condensed descriptions of
recent American constructions in reinforced concrete.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 85. Mr. ’08.

“Apart from such points of minor detail as have been mentioned above,
it is difficult to see how, in the present state of the art, a better
and safer exposition could have been made, and the task was not a
small one nor the dangers few. The book will be found indispensable by
all workers in reinforced-concrete design. The authors have performed
a distinct service to the profession, and are to be congratulated upon
their success.” L. J. Johnson.

+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 910w.

+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 6. Mr. 5, ’08. 750w.

* =Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Russell, Harry Luman.= Public water-supplies: requirements, resources, and the construction of works; with a chapter on pumping machinery by D. W. Mead. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. $5. Wiley.

8–25128.

A thoroly revised and enlarged edition, treating the subject as
follows: Pt. 1 contains seven chapters on the quantity and quality of
water required for public supplies, the sources of supply, evaporation
and percolation, the examination and quality of water, and the
relations between communicable diseases and water supplies. Pt. 2 is
on the construction of water works.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.

“The book is a most excellent elementary summary of the fundamentals
underlying the subject, and is altogether up to the high standard
established by the author in the longer work on ‘Public water
supplies’ written by him in collaboration with H. L. Russell.”

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 418. Ap. ’08. 230w.

“The lapse of seven years, during which no competing work has
appeared, and the revision which has now been made, establish the book
more firmly than ever in its position among American texts on
water-supply.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 541. N. 12, ’08. 670w.

“Great progress has been made of late in the purification of water,
and the book is well up to date in this important branch, imperfectly
covered in most general books on water supply. It will be difficult to
mention any detail of water works design not covered in this admirable
book, which has its value materially enhanced by a short bibliography
appended to each chapter.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 594. N. 21, ’08. 340w.

=Tuttle, Hudson.= Arcana of nature, or, The history and laws of
creation; with an introd. by Emmet Densmore. *$1.50. Stillman pub.

8–31129.

A reprint of a book that was written about fifty years ago by a farmer
boy of seventeen, together with an introduction giving an account of
the phenomena of its authorship, and the “superior condition” of
Andrew Jackson Davis, Emanuel Swedenborg, and other psychics. The
interest attached to Hudson Tuttle’s work lies mainly in the psychic
influence that was brought to bear upon his writing it, a matter
worthy the consideration of students of psychical research.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 160w.

=Tweedie, Ethel B.= Hyde Park; its history and romance. **$4. Pott.

8–34713.

A book of memories which are associated with Hyde park’s history for
four centuries, during which time the fashionable resort of today has
evolved from a royal hunting ground. The narrative covers the uses
made of this park, the associations with social and political life of
England, the duels fought there, and the hangings at Tyburn. The
volume is illustrated from old engravings.

* * * * *

“Mrs. Tweedie has brought together a good many interesting facts
relating to London’s chief park, and has produced a volume of easy and
agreeable reading; but it is rather a collection of scraps than a
consecutive history.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 118. Ag. 1. 640w.

“While it cannot be regarded as anything but a compilation, it is the
work of a compiler who had the good grace to saturate herself in the
atmosphere of her subject before jotting down a line, with the result
that the book, even to its most colourless parts, bears the
unmistakable marks of zest and freshness.” Firmin Dredd.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 272. N. ’08. 1500w.

“Its merit is that it is written in an easy and attractive style, and
that it contains reproductions of a lot of old prints that are very
interesting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 200w.

“Mrs. Alec Tweedie has given us a pleasant book, full of anecdote and
description.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 340w.

=Tyler, John Mason.= Man in the light of evolution. **$1.25.
Appleton.

8–29749.

From a biologist’s point of view, yet intended for lay readers, this
study is concerned with the light that evolution throws upon the
problems of man’s moral, religious, social and family progress. The
chapters are as follows: Evolution and Darwinism; Stages of human
evolution; Family and society; The logic of evolution; The survival of
the fittest; Evolution and faith; Racial experience; Conformity to
environment; and Social environment. Bibliography and index.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 20w.

“An important and excellent book, this, and in a line not often taken
by a professor of biology.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 160w.

“Professor Tyler is to be thanked for presenting thus a wholesome
picture of the progress of the ages from a somewhat new standpoint.”
H. W. Conn.

+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 844. D. 11, ’08. 600w.

=Tyler, Lyon Gardiner.= Williamsburg, the old colonial capital.
$2.50. Lyon G. Tyler, Richmond, Va.

7–38428.

A complete history of the town from its first settlement, full
information concerning “public buildings, political and social
conditions, and much interesting data in reference to the prominent
families of Virginia.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“President Tyler has given us the best and fullest account of
‘ancient’ Williamsburg and its fine old college that we are likely to
have in years to come.” W: E. Dodd.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 650. Ap. ’08. 250w.

“Bears the stamp of careful research, and is evidently the work of a
scholar as well as of an enthusiastic Virginian.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 180w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 170w.

“Dr. Tyler has collected a quantity of facts about the place and its
people. And quite worth collecting they were, though, of course, the
interest is mainly local.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 305. F. 22, ’08. 250w.

=Tyndale, Walter.= Below the cataracts. il. *$3.50. Lippincott.

8–5821.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

“Is written in good English and published in good print with numerous
and prettily coloured illustrations. Remember this is a guide-book—a
very luxurious one to those going to Egypt, and a well illustrated one
to those who don’t or can’t go there.”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 296. D. 28, ’07. 630w.

“Mr. Tyndale has done well himself to write the letterpress required
as a setting for these Egyptian pictures; for he has thus secured a
harmony rare in this sort of publication, in which the artists’s work
and the author’s often cry against each other. This pleasant
narrative, taken in conjunction with the pictures, gives a life-like
impression of Egypt which works more pretentious have utterly failed
to convey. We note some errors.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 774. D. 14. 420w.

“The work of an artist possessing not only technical ability, but a
facile pen. To visitors of the Metropolitan museum in New York his
text will have a special interest.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 520w.

“He writes simply and naturally, giving for the most part an account
of his own experiences, and what he writes is consequently pleasant to
read.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 341. Mr. 14, ’08. 1000w.

=Tyrrell, George.= Medievalism: a reply to Cardinal Mercier. *$1.25.
Longmans.

W8–175.

“Last Lent Cardinal Mercier issued a Pastoral to the diocese of
Malines in which he condemned the errors of modernism; it was a
document of no great ability, and its interest for English readers lay
mainly in the fact that it branded Father Tyrrell as a typical
Modernist. Father Tyrrell has not unnaturally taken up the gauntlet,
and he now gives Cardinal Mercier his opinion of him, of the Roman
church, and of the Modernist movement, with great freedom and at
considerable length.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 340w.

“Personally courteous to the Cardinal, this reply is a fine and manly
specimen of British straight-hitting at the power that backs him.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 200w.

“We think that this reply would have gained in power had it been more
restrained, and had the author been content to explain and defend his
own position without denouncing the government and morality of Rome,
or holding up to scorn the weaker paragraphs of the Cardinal’s
pastoral.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 426. O. 3, ’08. 360w.

“In more than one respect ‘Medievalism’ may be compared to Newman’s
‘Apologia’; in its occasion, its fine literary form, and its crushing
polemic it recalls that famous work.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 329. S. 5, ’08. 1800w.

U

=Underwood, Joseph Harding.= Distribution of ownership. (Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law.) pa. *$1.50. Longmans.

8–832.

“Dr. Underwood attempts to give the history of ownership from the most
primitive times, thru the eras of Hebrew, Greek, Roman and Teutonic
civilizations, to the present day conception of corporate ownership
and the beginnings of a return to restrictions of individual
ownership, not only of land, but also of chattles.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“It is to be regretted that it is not written in a clearer and more
readable style, and that it is marred by a number of historical errors
which, while perhaps not of serious consequence to the substance of
the work, shake the reader’s confidence in its accuracy.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 435. Ag. 20, ’08. 370w.

“He makes indiscriminate use of a variety of works, good, bad, and
indifferent, upon economics, jurisprudence, and sociology, but nowhere
shows a firm grasp of his subject.”

− =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 450w.

“Without proposing any concrete reforms, and weakened at times by an
unjudicial impatience, it at least indicates valid reasons for
cheerfulness and confidence.”

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 323. F. 8, ’08. 380w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 60w.

=Unwin, William Cawthorne.= Treatise on hydraulics. *$4.25.
Macmillan.

W8–47.

A thorogoing class text-book as well as a work of reference. The
chapters are as follows: Properties of fluids, Distribution of
pressure, Principles of hydraulics, Discharge from orifices, Notches
and weirs, Compressible fluids, Fluid friction, Flow in pipes,
Distribution of water, Later investigations of flow in pipes, Flow of
compressible fluids in pipes, Uniform flow of water in canals, and
conduits, Gaging of streams, and Impact and reaction of fluids.

* * * * *

“Considered as a whole, the treatment, from the scientific point of
view, is terse, accurate and concise, but the many admirers of
Professor Unwin will close the book with a feeling of disappointment
that the writing of it has been permitted to partake of the nature of
pastime rather than of strenuous work.” G. S. Williams.

+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 77. Ja. 16, ’08. 2930w.

“The book will answer the expectations of all but the most critical,
for the mistakes, in it are very few and refer mainly to experimental
results with which American readers are apparently more familiar than
the author.”

+ + − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 960w.

=Updike, Wilkins.= History of the Episcopal church in Narragansett,
R. I., including a history of other Episcopal churches in the
state; 2d. ed. ed. by Daniel Goodwin. 3v. *$15. Updike.

8–266.

A revision of a work appearing in 1847. “Dr. Goodwin has retained the
text of the original work in its entirety, merely making necessary
corrections and dividing into chapters. The addition of new matter he
has made in the form of notes, segregated in the back of each volume,
and bulking as large as the original text. The book contains a history
of the Episcopal church in Narragansett and of other Episcopal
churches in Rhode Island, and of all the principal families of that
region, a transcript of the parish register, and reprints of many
interesting old documents, letters and diaries.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Dr. Goodwin’s editing of the present edition shows his eminent
fitness for the work.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.

“The work throws so much light upon the social and ecclesiastical
history of Rhode Island in the eighteenth century, and gives so many
intimate, self-made pictures of the life of the time that it will be
sure of a warm welcome from all students of that period.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 370w.

Upson, Arthur Wheelock. Tides of spring, and other poems. $1. Small.

8–3140.

The titular piece is a brief one-act drama for whose theme Mr. Upson
“has gone to Scottish history, that almost unworked dramatic quarry;
and about a picturesque incident in the early life of Malcolm
Ceannmor, one of the ancient Scottish kings, has created an idyl of
youth.... The contrast between the cautious wisdom of experience and
the daring intuition of youth lies the philosophical motive of the
play.” (N. Y. Times.) The volume also contains a group of lyrics to
friends.

* * * * *

“Mr. Upson’s lines are full of germinal thoughts.” J. B. Rittenhouse.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 196. Ap. 11, ’08. 700w.

=Upson, Henry Swift.= Insomnia and nerve strain. *$1.50. Putnam.

8–18289.

A discussion which urges physicians to hunt for a physical basis in
the cause of mania, melancholia and dementia precox. The author’s main
contention, supported by innumerable cases, is that the nerve strain
of those cases almost always associated with insomnia is not
degenerate and is not incurable. He describes in this connection the
action of the nervous system, in vascular control, in inhibition,
nutrition and shock; and he formulates the difference between vital
and non-vital matter, and between nerve cells and lower tissues.

* * * * *

“The author’s views concerning the action of the nervous system are
not altogether clear and rest upon an interpretation of nervous
phenomena which few students of these subjects are ready to accept.”

− =Nation.= 87: 145. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 400w.

“A very wilderness of words and well up to the high standard of obscurity adopted by writers on psychology.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 306. S. 5, ’08. 150w.

=Upton, George Putnam.= Musical memories. *$2.75. McClurg.

8–30387.

“The ‘memories’ relate to those stars, of various magnitudes, and now
chiefly extinct, that were in their glory, on the operatic stage and
in the concert hall in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and
that cast some rays of their effulgence on the Chicago of that
period.” (Dial.) Patti, Ole Bull, Wieniawsky, Rubinstein, Christine
Nilsson and Theodore Thomas are among the celebrities who call back
from the past pleasant reminiscences. Five chapters treat of the
history of musical societies in Chicago, beginning as far back as the
year 1833.

* * * * *

“Professional criticisms and judgments add to the value of the book,
and there are many amusing anecdotes and crisp characterizations.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.

“A book of unusual interest to those of his own community, and hardly
less attractive to music-lovers and readers generally.” P. F.
Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 45: 206. O. 1, ’08. 2200w.

“Mr. Upton’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to
American musical history ever issued, and the numerous personal
sketches and anecdotes interspersed make it as interesting as a novel
to music lovers.”

+ + =Nation.= 87: 367. O. 15, ’08. 1100w.

“The ‘memories’ are on the whole entertaining. There are people and
things about whom and which Mr. Upton feels impelled to write when he
has little or nothing to say; some of his critical remarks will call
forth doubt or dissent.” R: Aldrich.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 543. O. 3, ’08. 950w.

=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard concert guide: a handbook of the
standard symphonies, oratorios, cantatas and symphonic poems for
the concert goer. $1.75. McClurg.

8–23575.

A combination and condensation of the author’s “Standard oratorios,”
“Standard symphonies,” and “Standard cantatas” in a single volume for
concert and library purposes. New matter has been added to bring it
down to date, including notices of works by Brücker, Cowen, Dvorák,
Elgar, Franck, Mackenzie, Parker, Parry, Sinding, Richard Strauss, and
Tchaikovsky. Contains portraits of the composers included.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08. ✠

=Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 50w.

“[The reader] will be puzzled only by one strange thing. In the Index
reference is made to ‘Bürckner.’ His real name is Bruckner.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 321. O. 1, ’08. 300w.

“The index appears to be quite full and serviceable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w.

“This ‘Guide’ is sufficiently safe and authoritative if one can accept
the seemingly arbitrary method of selection.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 200w.

=Urusov, Sergiei Dmitrievich, kniaz.= Memoirs of a Russian governor;
tr. by Herman Rosenthal. **$1.50. Harper.

8–3431.

“A prince of an ancient Russian family, a member of the first Duma,
tells in these memoirs the secrets about czardom; lays bare the
intricate machinery of the autocracy, the schemes of the police
department, and the intrigues and corruption that underlie the fabric
of government. Prince Urusov is not a revolutionist, not a destructive
agitator, but a constructive patriot, typical of the new Russia “now
rising from the wreckage of the old.” The memoirs form a permanent
document of Russian history.”

* * * * *

“An excellent book and of more value, though of limited scope, than
half the books that set out to give the American reader a general idea
of Russia and the Russians.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 213. Je. ’08.

“Because of the light it throws upon the inmost workings of the
Russian government it is a book which every one will read with
interest.” L. W. Tower.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 464. S. ’08. 430w.

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 400w.

“Here is a book of rare interest written from a rare point of view—an
account by a native official of the intricate workings of the Russian
bureaucracy.” I. W. Riley.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 274. My. ’08. 1300w.

“It is the details of this absurd and anarchic system which Prince
Urusov sets forth most convincingly, and at times in a highly amusing
manner.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1035. My. 7, ’08. 250w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 461. Jl. 27, ’07. 2500w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 130w.

“A permanent and vitally valuable historical document.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 600w.

“These records and impressions are bound to take their place among the
permanent documents of Russian history.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 300w.

“This is one of the books that count. It tells us more of the inner
history of Russia in recent years than has been told, we venture to
say, by any other volume.”

+ + =Spec.= 101: 332. S. 5, ’08. 1350w.

=Urwick, W. E.= Child’s mind, its growth and training; being a short
study of some processes of learning and teaching. $1.50. Longmans.

E 8–29.

“Mr. Urwick’s object is to found the right teaching and training of
scholars from infancy (for which he substitutes the ungainly
expression infanthood) to adolescence on the results of psychology and
biology, so far as these sciences have explained the development of
children’s minds.” (Ath.) “Mr. Urwick’s treatment is based upon the
modern conception of connation. Human behavior can be analysed largely
into connative processes which set towards or away from objects of
positive or negative ‘immediate value.’” (Nature.)

* * * * *

“We cannot admit that he has succeeded in setting forth ‘in simple and
untechnical language’ the results obtained by the investigation of
‘mind-growth as an organic process’; but he has derived from them much
sound advice to teachers in their practical work.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 763. D. 14. 650w.

“We find in the book elementary matter set forth in a complicated and
difficult style; in consequence, the reader who is in need of such a
book will find this one obscure and perplexing, while those who can
readily understand the book do not need to read it.” E: O. Sisson.

− =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 150w.

“One of the most useful pedagogical treatises of recent years.” T. P.
N.

+ =Nature.= 77: 410. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.

“It is rather in its scattered suggestions and its point of view than
in its completed statements that it has most value. The reader feels
that the author is on a good trail but needs to follow it out further.
Altogether we commend the book as a most suggestive presentation of
certain phases of educational theory from the point of view of
functional or activity psychology.” Irving King.

+ − =School R.= 16: 686. D. ’08. 600w.

V

=Vacandard, Elphege.= Inquisition: a critical and historical study of the coercive power of the church; tr. from the 2d ed., by Bertrand L. Conway. **$1.50. Longmans.

8–7862.

Discusses the origin and development of the coercive power of the
Catholic church in matters of faith. The author “proves that the
primitive church has a horror of persecution for conscience sake, and
declares that the church’s departure from her early tradition is not
only revolting in itself but has far-reaching and lamentable
consequences.... In his concluding chapter M. Vacandard endeavors to
explain the atrocities of the inquisition from the standpoint of a
loyal Catholic.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.

“A much-needed counterpoise to Mr. Lea’s ‘History of the
inquisition.’”

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 246. My. ’08. 830w.

“A book worthy of special notice. Vacandard is a historian first, an
apologist afterward.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.

=Vaizey, Jessie Mansergh.= Pixie O’Shaugnessy. †$1.50. Jacobs.

7–39197.

A little Irish child from Knock castle, the ugly duckling among
conspicuously pretty sisters, with no nose to speak of, and a mouth of
enormous proportions, is the youthful heroine of this boarding-school
tale. Honest, brave-hearted, loyal, witty, she is an unwavering
example to school-mates and teachers.

=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Black bag. †$1.50. Bobbs.

8–980.

The same hurried action and absorbing strain of romance are found here
as in “The brass bowl.” At the center of the plot is a rascally
diamond smuggler who pretends to be the long absent father of Dorothy
Calendar, an English girl, who has just inherited a large fortune. He
connives with the mother of the next heir in line and between them,
hoodwinking Dorothy into aiding them, they attempt to rob the girl of
her property of which the part most immediately desirable is a black
bag of jewels. A young Californian takes a hand in the game, outwits
the plotters and accidentally delivers Dorothy into the hands of the
real George Burgoyne Calendar, her father.

* * * * *

“The book, if ingenious, is wanting in imaginative power, literary
worth or striking elements of novelty which might to some extent
compensate the reader for the extraordinary demand on his credulity.”

− =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 250w.

“Is one of the best specimens of modern adventure that we have read
lately.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 100w.

+ =Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.

“‘The black bag’ is probably not a masterpiece, but it has certain
very pleasing qualities. The most engaging thing about it is its
youthfulness, its buoyancy, its joy of motion.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 320w.

“There is an amount of adventure, movement, danger, and excitement
that might almost surfeit the appetite were it not for a certain
delightful whimsicality on the part of the author, who never takes
himself too seriously.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 180w.

“As a sensational narrative of crime attempted and frustrated it is
ingenious enough, but it does not come within sight of the remotest
borders of real literature.”

− + =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 50w.

=Vandewalker, Nina Catharine.= Kindergarten in American education.
*$1.25. Macmillan.

8–10422.

A book for teachers and all students of social and educational
problems. It “gives a history of a half-century of kindergarten
development, exhibits its relation to other movements that have been
significant in American life and education, and shows how its practice
is being gradually modified by the new educational psychology.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“Because of its contemporaneousness the book is unusually concrete and
explicit, and not in the least speculative.” M. V. O’Shea.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 124. Jl. ’08. 900w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.

“The book is encyclopedic in nature. The student of almost any phase
of the subject will find an abundance of material well selected and
well organized.” F. A. Manny.

+ =El. School T.= 9: 54. S. ’08. 600w.

“She overestimates the importance of the movement and fails to see the
future decline, or at least great modification, of the kindergarten.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.

=Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 180w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 120w.

=Van Dyke, Henry.= Counsels by the way. **$1. Crowell.

8–21627.

A group of Dr. Van Dyke’s most stimulating short papers and addresses.
The following are included: Ships and havens, under which general
heading are Pilgrims of the sea, whither bound? The haven of work, The
haven of character and the last port; The poetry of the Psalms; Joy
and power; The battle of life; and The good old way. A general note of
optimism is sounded thruout, the warranted optimism of one who knows
true service, struggle and conquest.

* * * * *

“They are excellent in point of style and permeated with a helpful
optimism.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08. ✠

“The author hardly meets our expectations at times. The work as a
whole, however, is one of the finest volumes of ethical, literary and
religious essays of the year.”

+ − =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 260w.

+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 160w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 110w.

* =Van Dyke, Henry.= House of Rimmon: a drama in four acts. **$1. Scribner.

8–30293.

A drama whose scene is laid in Damascus and the mountains of Assyria
in 850 B. C. Naaman, the Damascus captain, is the central figure, who,
a leper, and a victim of an unfaithful wife’s plotting is cared for by
the Israelitish maid, Ruahmah, thru whose aid he is healed by the
prophet Elisha.

* * * * *

“Its pre-Christian setting is sympathetically imagined; the psychology
of character is bound up in some haunting poetry; but when that is
said, all is said. His scenes are fragmentary and his material is
shaped for imaginative effect, not for externalizing.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 200w.

“Its lines throughout are rhythmic prose, lacking the impassioned
beauty, the unity of word and emotion, which are the essence of true
poetic drama. In action ‘The house of Rimmon’ shows an instinctive
sense of dramatic effectiveness, of the value of spectacle and climax,
but its psychology is in several places so defective that its most
impressive scenes are open to impeachment when considered as other
than a spectacle. The points in which Dr. Van Dyke has shown most
strength are in the delicate and beautiful characterization of the
Hebrew captive Ruahmah, in his portrayal of the fine spirit of Naaman,
the hero, and in the generally high ethical standard of the drama.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 720w.

“Must be counted among the most important recent achievements in the
poetic drama. In idea and feeling it is unaffectedly religious, in
interest it is engrossingly dramatic, in form and phrase it is deeply
poetic.”

+ + =Outlook.= 90: 746. N. 28, ’08. 1200w.

* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Out-of-doors in the Holy Land: impressions of travel in body and spirit. **$1.50. Scribner.

8–29361.

The record of a journey thru Palestine which was “a religious
revelation to the author.” “Dr. Van Dyke has discovered that
‘Christianity is an out-of-doors religion,’ and journeys in the faith
that ‘the shut-in shrines and altered memorials are less significant
than what we find in the open among the streets and on the surrounding
hill-sides.’ His ‘impressions of travel in body and spirit’ (his
sub-title) are therefore not heavy with human creeds and contentions,
but breathe the spirit of the land itself. His writing always combines
poetry, religion, and the love of nature, and this threefold felicity
could not be more appropriately displayed than in celebrating the
birthplace of Christianity.” (Dial.)