Chapter X: Preface (10)

“A contribution to the definitive life of Canning which has yet to be written. They illustrate, but they present no finished portrait. The letters published by him tell us little that is new, for example, about the birth and brief existence of ‘The Anti-Jacobin,’ though they give a curious sequel, namely, Canning’s peremptory suppression of a proposal to publish an edition of the poetry with plates by Gillray. No fresh light, again, is thrown upon those very important events, the bombardment of Copenhagen and capture of the Danish fleet in 1807; and thus the story of Canning’s first foreign secretaryship remains incomplete in an essential particular.”—Ath.

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“The general reader will find much to interest him in these fascinating pages, while the historical student will rise from them with the feeling that, though many points remain to be elucidated, he has yet gained a much more complete idea than was hitherto possible of a brilliant, but vulnerable statesman. As for Capt. Bagot’s editing, it is most ably done, though he might have curbed a tendency to repeat himself in the foot-notes.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 310. Mr. 13. 1300w.

“The running comment of this correspondence, most of it undress, and some of it highly confidential, is as amusing to the general reader as it is instructive to the historical reader.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 561. Je. 3, ’09. 1600w.

“Bagot has collected a vast deal of correspondence written by the statesman and his intimates, and has linked it together in an interesting and pleasing sequence.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 548. S. 18, ’09. 930w.

“Captain Josceline Bagot has edited these letters ... with a tact and knowledge of politics and society which place him amongst best biographers of the day.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 338. Mr. 13, ’09. 2000w.

“The present compilation ... will certainly prove indispensable to every future biographer. The selection and arrangement of this large mass of material leave very little to be desired; the reader is relieved to find in Captain Bagot an editor who is at once informal and informed,—a combination of qualities rare enough in these days of hasty and ponderous book-making.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 499. Mr. 27, ’09. 1800w.

=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.=^{[10]} Key of the unknown. †$1.50. Lippincott.

9–25183.

Altho the scenes described are those of modern English life, there is an old-fashioned flavor about this story, and it gives an impression of a much earlier time. Motor cars and other present day innovations seem quite out of place. The love affair of Craig Barstow, heir to a title, and Joan Leigh, beautiful and attractive, but poor, seems about to end disastrously because, according to the dictates of his family, he must marry money. Thru the opportune appearance of a will in the last chapter their marriage is made possible.

* * * * *

“Shows about the same quality as her previous books.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 674. O. 30, ’09. 220w. + =Sat. R.= 108: 572. N. 6, ’09. 160w.

“Miss Carey’s stories are restful, wholesome, constructed with sufficient skill, and not without touches of humor and pathos.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 610. O. 16, ’09. 320w.

=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= Sunny side of the hill. †$1.50. Lippincott.

8–26685.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“Though far remote from real life, the atmosphere of the book is soothing and sympathetic, and there is some clever characterization.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 90w.

“A welcome is due to a story which is mild, modest, interestingly eventful, and well-written.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 144. F. 11, ’09. 200w.

“A pretty little English love story of quite the approved pattern.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 110w.

=Carleton, Will.= Drifted in. **$1.50. Moffat.

8–11414.

“The rhymed narrative of a journey on a railroad train, with episodic songs developing thoughts by the way.”—Dial.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 45: 468. D. 16, ’08. 140w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1466. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 60w.

=Carlton, Frank Tracy.= Education and industrial evolution. (Citizen’s
lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.

8–28067.

“Part 1 discusses ‘The modern educational problem’ and Part 2 ‘Actual or proposed additions to the educational system.’ The author points out the fact that education to-day is greatly in need of ‘democratising’ in order that it may become ‘an integral and vital part of the experience of every future efficient member of the community.’ The book is permeated with the new social spirit that is abroad in the land to-day.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“A thoroughgoing study of the problem of education in the industrial state of civilization. One misses in the book the legal justification of class education, and the correlation of industrial education to the development of the higher culture interests. For purposes of ready reference this book is commendable and up to date.” H. P. J. Selinger.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 414. N. ’08. 330w.

“A helpful, up-to-date contribution to the literature of the ‘new education.’”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 7. Ja. ’09.

“The style is easy and forceful, the treatment broad minded, and constructive. Altogether, the book is of value to students of modern problems either in the field of education or of sociology.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 191. Ja. ’09. 120w.

“It will serve to concentrate attention upon the problems which are perhaps the most vital of all those connected with the schools to-day.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 30w.

“One may differ from the author in some of his interpretations of needs and tendencies but there is no question that the book is a real contribution to the situation.” F. A. Manny.

+ − =School R.= 17: 726. D. ’09. 650w.

Carlyle, Thomas. ^{[12]} Carlyle [selections]; ed. by A. W. Evans.
(Masters of literature.) *$1.10. Macmillan.

In keeping with the aim of the “Masters of literature” series this volume contains the finest passages from Carlyle’s writings, connected by editorial comment and prefaced by an introduction that includes a sketch of his life and critical estimates of his spirit of criticism, political and social teaching, style and influence.

=Carlyle, Thomas.= ^{[10]} Frederick the Great: abr. by Edgar
Sanderson. **$1.50. McClurg.

The main thread of the narrative as it runs thru the larger work is unbroken still in this abridged work. The aim has been that of cutting out the extraneous matter and bringing the work within reasonable length.

* * * * *

“Mr. Sanderson’s manageable volume will be found useful.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 271. F. 13, ’09. 70w.

=Carlyle, Thomas.=^{[5]} Love letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane
Welsh. 2v. **$8. Lane.

9–10960.

Letters written by the Carlyles during the period from 1821 to 1826. Their emotion “never rises into an all-absorbing and terrific force, shattering conventions, annihilating the ambiguous and the secondary, and seizing upon the secret springs of language with mysterious art. The emotion of the Carlyles expressed itself in a very different manner,—through the medium of moral exhortations, and metaphysical disquisitions, and immense argumentations, and a somewhat formal and pompous style.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 157. Je. ’09.

“We wish that Mr. Alexander Carlyle had not found it necessary to rake up the ashes which reticence had allowed to grow cold.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 553. My. 8. 1500w.

“If the last word has not now been said on the relations of Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle to each other the fault is not Mr. Alexander Carlyle’s.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ =Dial.= 46: 290. My. 1, ’09. 2000w.

“The world’s thanks are due to the editor of these two volumes for his courage and wisdom in printing all the letters, for his pains taken to insure complete accuracy, for the excellent notes, which are always clear and helpful, for the adequate illustrations, and for the extremely valuable appendices. No one can fully understand his position in the history of literature without reading these volumes.” W: L. Phelps.

+ =Forum.= 41: 594. Je. ’09. 1150w.

“It was time for these letters to be published in full.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 349. S. 4, ’09. 730w.

“So far as mere interest goes, these two thick volumes will be a disappointment to readers who know the writers from Froude and from their other letters.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 416. Ap. 22, ’09. 2400w.

“The courtship of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welch, as it is set forth in this long correspondence. is as interesting as a novel.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 285. My. 8, ’09. 1650w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.

+ =Outlook.= 92: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 3100w.

“The best reading the wretched Carlyle controversy has yet supplied.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 402. Mr. 27, ’09. 1800w.

“The real interest of the correspondence is not literary, but psychological.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 577. Ap. 10, ’09. 1350w.

=Carnegie, Andrew.= Problems of to-day: wealth—labor—socialism.
**$1.40. Doubleday.

8–32653.

A summary of Mr. Carnegie’s book may be found in the following: “First, the millionaire must be left alone during his life time, for his accumulation of wealth means an enterprise and a mobilisation of capital which do infinitely more good than harm. Secondly, as the millionaire’s enterprise dies with him, his wealth may fairly be taxed out of all recognition at his death. Thirdly, the land must be split up into small properties. Fourthly, the system of profit-sharing businesses must become universal. Fifthly, the family is the only training-ground for the good citizen, and socialism must nowhere be more furiously resisted than when it tampers with this holy of holies.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 7. Ja. ’09.

“To the conservatives this book will seem radical. To the radicals it will seem conservative.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 451. Mr. ’09. 500w.

“It will amply pay perusal.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 325. F. 11, ’09. 480w.

“His fondness for gross optimistic assertion precludes anything like true discussion. Mr. Carnegie’s habit of cutting discussion short by oracular utterance gives to his style a peculiar quality, that can only be described as pudgy.”

− =Nation.= 87: 628. D. 24, ’08. 320w.

“Mr. Carnegie’s argument as to the undesirableness of wealth really is just about as misleading as his representation that the American workingman bears no portion of the burden of the protective tariff. A book that should be rated as valuable and important. In placing this estimate on Mr. Carnegie’s book, we especially have in mind his views touching socialism. They are well considered and well expressed.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 797. D. 26, ’08. 1250w.
=Outlook.= 91: 65. Ja. 9, ’09. 250w.
=Pol. Sci.= Q. 24: 563. S. ’09. 120w.

“Mr. Carnegie’s book is really a sentimental romance. His Vicar of Wakefield simplicity is not credible.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 676. N. 28, ’08. 630w.

“Mr. Carnegie’s doctrines are so clearly and simply stated that the reader will have no difficulty in measuring other men’s opinions by them, or deciding what he can or cannot accept himself. We could summarize the book in five sentences. It would be easy to state certain doubts in as few sentences.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 1500w.

=Carotti, Giulio.=^{[9]} History of art. 4v. v. 2. *$1.50. Dutton.

8–36413.

=v. 2.= Early Christian and neo-Oriental art, European art north of the Alps. “Excluding Italy, after the thirteenth century, it includes what is usually called early Christian, Byzantine, Saracenic, Romanesque, and Gothic art.... The bibliography is full, though not exhaustive, the lists of typical monuments, in smaller type, very useful. The scope of the work may be inferred from the space given to Gothic art—something more than one hundred pages, as against about fifteen in Reinach’s standard manual, ‘Apollo.’” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Convenient texts for reference or study, fairly accurate, systematically arranged, fully illustrated.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 9. S. ’09. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) + =Ind.= 67: 94. Jl. 8, ’09. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)

“A great amount of information, generally accurate and up to date, has been packed within a small compass. The text has not had proper editorial supervision and needs a minute overhauling. It is fair to add that these defects are usually rather of taste than of substance.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 148. Ag. 12, ’09. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The value of his book does not depend on its fullness so much as on the stimulus afforded to more extensive researches.” E. F. Baldwin.

+ =Outlook.= 93: 598. N. 13, ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Carpenter, Edmund J.=^{[12]} Roger Williams: a study of the life,
times and character of a political pioneer. (Grafton historical
ser.). **$2. Grafton press.

A study of Roger Williams not in the light of the doctrinal considerations of his day but in the scientific, human-brotherhood spirit. He is viewed as a man among men; the times are considered “from a political and personal, rather than from a strictly religious point of view; his characteristics are studied impartially without the bias of adverse or favorable criticism of the centuries since he lived.”

* * * * *

“Mr. Carpenter has dug deeply and his researches have been rewarded.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 772. D. 4, ’03. 400w.

=Carpenter, George Rice.= Walt Whitman. (English men of letters.)
*75c. Macmillan.

9–8067.

A study of Whitman’s life under the following heads: Boyhood (1819–1841); Journalist (1841–1850); Workman and poet (1850–1860); Comradeship (1861–1873); Old age (1873–1892). The author places Whitman in the class of men who represent a new attitude, who bring a message to their brothers, a truth mainly expressed in their lives and only incidentally thru their writings. “These are the great accepters and unifiers of life; their teachings and examples pass beyond the confines of literature or politics; they show new and noble ways of living. Of this type, in his own degree, Whitman seems to me to have been.”

* * * * *

“The best of the brief works, but not to be chosen before Bliss Perry’s life when a single volume must suffice.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 133. My. ’09.

“Mr. Carpenter has given us a genuine biography, a thoroughly readable and vivacious life of one of the most picturesque in the group of our American writers, and one whose significance in the history of American literature is more and more clearly recognized with the passing years.” W. E. Simonds.

+ =Dial.= 46: 404. Je. 16, ’09. 650w.

“The whole book is broad and brilliant, clear, and calmly wise. In this biography the seer has found a seer, and is granted the great boon of being understood. It is a book to be not only read but pondered—a monument not merely to Walt Whitman, but to George Rice Carpenter as well.” Clayton Hamilton.

+ =Forum.= 42: 80. Jl. ’09. 2600w.

“The clearest, plainest, and least vexatious account of Walt Whitman in print.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 603. S. 9, ’09. 300w.

“This is an excellent and notably precise life of Whitman.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 349. S. 4, ’09. 220w.

“We cannot but believe that Professor Carpenter’s rejection of literary sources (despite his protests, Whitman was in some respects always a bookish man) for a vague theory of ‘impassioned speech’ based on a rather fine-spun psychology of language, is due in part to the necessity imposed on the later biographer of being different. As a whole, Professor Carpenter’s work is well-proportioned and pleasantly written.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 364. Ap. 8, ’09. 900w.

“The book is particularly welcome because it is such a good book to read.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 244. Ap. 17, ’09. 1000w.

“Is distinctly the best of those accounts of the poets which may be classed as appreciations rather than as critical estimates.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 420. Je. 19, ’09. 300w.

“It is refreshing to read the sober, sedate, and impartial appraisal.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 763. Je. ’09. 70w.

=Carpenter, Rolla Clinton, and Diederichs, Herman.=^{[5]} Internal
combustion engines, their theory, construction and operation. *$5.
Van Nostrand.

8–22568.

“Professors Carpenter and Diederichs have done a good service in extracting what is most valuable from German literature and incorporating it in their book.... There are four principal divisions to the book. The first five chapters are occupied with definitions and theoretical considerations; the next five with fuels and the phenomena of combustion; then follow four chapters on gas-engine construction and operation; finally there are four chapters on power estimation, testing, results of tests and costs.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Very complete and satisfactory treatment.”

+ =Engin. D.= 5: 416. Ap. ’09. 330w.

“The line drawings are sometimes fair, but the reproductions of photographs are uniformly poor. Altogether this book may be highly recommended to students and engineers. It covers its chosen field more thoroughly and more capably than any other book in the English language, and it appears to be remarkably free from inaccuracies. The only respect in which it is seriously lacking is in its failure to handle satisfactorily the subject of gas-engine construction.” L. S. Marks.

+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 533. N. 12, ’08. 1350w.

“Anyone wishing to obtain a good general idea of present-day practice in America will find this book a valuable work.” E. G. Coker.

+ =Nature.= 80: 124. Ap. 1, ’09. 220w.

=Carr, Clark Ezra.=^{[5]} Railway mail service: its origin and development. **50c. McClurg. 9–5707.

A brief history of the railway mail service from the time of its conception and inauguration to the present high state of efficiency.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 58. O. ’09.

“Clark E. Carr impressively sets forth the improvement that has taken place in the handling of mail in this country in the last half century.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 321. My. 22, ’09. 550w.

=Carr, Clark Ezra.=^{[11]} Stephen A. Douglas: his life, public
services, speeches and patriotism. **$2. McClurg.

9–28566.

A sketch and an appreciation of the great Illinois senator that aims to perpetuate a proper conception of his statesmanship and character. It is a searching and analytic review of Douglas’s career linked close with the stirring events in which he took part.

* * * * *

“The little volume, while far from being a thorough life of Douglas or a comprehensive estimate of his services, is a valuable and interesting contribution and will aid in placing in a truer light the man whose unfortunate lot it was to act as a foil for Lincoln and to be on the losing side in the final casting of the dice of chance.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 337. N. 1, ’09. 400w.

“An entertaining sketch of the career of that famous democratic statesman and a generous appraisement of his public services.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 783. D. 11, ’09. 550w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 754. D. ’09. 120w.

=Carr, Joseph William C.= Some eminent Victorians: personal
recollections in the world of art and letters. *$3.50. Scribner.

W9–193.

A book of pleasant recollections and stories of famous men of letters, actors and artists whom the author knew during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Among them are Tennyson, Browning, Irving, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Millais, Holman Hunt and Leighton.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 9. S. ’09.

“Is not only pleasantly and intimately reminiscent of many celebrated men of the last century, but also receives something of added weight and value from the interspersed expressions of a ripe judgment on divers questions of art, literature, and the drama.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ =Dial.= 46: 134. Mr. 1, ’09. 1500w.

“The pages on his life as a newspaper man in the old Bohemian days are the most entertaining in the book.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 167. F. 18, ’09. 330w.

“Among the many books of personal recollections that have come to our notice, none contains a more varied lot of interesting information about artistic and literary men.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 137. Mr. 6, ’09. 680w.

=Carr, Kent.= Rivals and chums. †$1.25. Lippincott.

A story of public school life in England, with side lights on athletics.

* * * * *

“English school stories are seldom anything but good reading, and this is no exception.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 40w.

“A first-rate story. The football in the school is quite peculiar. Has the author got his notions of sport from Ouida?”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. D. 12, ’08. 240w.

=Carr, Sarah Pratt.=^{[10]} Billy To-morrow. †$1.25. McClurg.

9–24957.

Billy is a little California boy whose spirit of procrastination earned for him the nickname of the title. In the weeks following the earthquake all his courage and manliness are called into action, and he wins for himself the new name, Billy To-day.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 70w.

=Carrington, Hereward.= Coming science; with an introd. by James H.
Hyslop. **$1.50. Small.

8–37615.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“At last we have a rational and well-written work on psychic research by an author who knows his business and keeps his feet on solid scientific ground. This is the highest possible praise and I am glad to give it.” R. E. Bisbee.

+ =Arena.= 41: 510. Jl. ’09. 280w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 200w.

“We discover in Mr. Carrington’s work nothing new which is of special value, and small justification for proclaiming the birth of ‘the coming science.’”

− =Nation.= 88: 70. Ja. 21, ’09. 1400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 400w.

“It lays too much stress on the alleged necessity for proving life after death as the main motive of psychical investigation. And it betrays a too obvious tendency to regard such proof as having been already obtained. It should be added that, regarding the book not as an appeal to the incredulous scientist but as a brief exposition of the nature, problems, and theories of psychical research, it affords a helpful introduction to the reading of more elaborate works, such as those of Myers and Podmore, dealing with the subject in detail.”

+ − =Outlook.= 91: 383. F. 20, ’09. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 572. Ap. ’09. 480w.

=Carruth, William Herbert.= Each in his own tongue and other poems.
**$1. Putnam.

8–37720.

“Mr. Carruth, who is the head of the department of Germanic language and literature in the University of Kansas, is widely known by his short poem, ‘Each in his own tongue,’ which is the initial number in this collection.” (N. Y. Times.) “We must think of Mr. Carruth as more than a man of a single poem, for he has just given us a collection of some fourscore pieces, many of which approach in seriousness of thought and felicity of expression the one widely-known example which provides his book with its title.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“A fine sense of the essential realities pervades Mr. Carruth’s verse. He is an academic poet, but one whose sensibilities the academic environment has not deadened.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 46: 50. Ja. 16, ’09. 420w.

“All of the poems are filled with the deep religious feeling and moral earnestness characteristic of the author.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 140w. + =Nation.= 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 150w.

“One finds the central interest in these verses to be their intense moral earnestness and their concern with the serious questions of life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 10. Ja. 2, ’09. 270w.

=Carson, Blanche Mabury.=^{[6]} From Cairo to the cataract. $2.50.
Page.

9–10281.

“The book is in the form of original letters, and gives a very good account of many of the things that one sees and experiences on the boat journey up the Nile and back again.... As a lively narrative of the doings and sight-seeing of a wide-awake American girl, the book is a success.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“A readable account of a familiar trip.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1138. My. 27, ’09. 380w. + =Nation.= 88: 512. My. 20, ’09. 220w.

“Her condensations will be found extremely useful to those who have not the leisure nor the inclination to make exhaustive studies of Egyptian history on their own account.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 170w.

=Carson, William English.=^{[11]} Mexico, the wonderland of the South.
*$2.25. Macmillan.

9–29345.

A volume of nearly four-hundred and fifty pages which pictures and describes very nearly all that is worth seeing and knowing in Mexico. Its picturesqueness, its romance, its contrasts; its rapid development into a modern country; its cities, its haciendas, gold and silver mines, health resorts; and its human interest to the modern economist—all claim a share of the author’s attention in his fresh, accurate, inclusive pen picture of Mexico of to-day.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 140w.

“The sure touch of the man who knows his subject intimately is evident throughout. A book of real human interest.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 140w.

=Carter, Ada.=^{[12]} Seamless robe: a twentieth century imprint of
the ideal. †$1.50. Wessels.

9–28693.

An American edition of a Christian science novel written by an English woman. It is a strong, serious argument for the faith of Christian scientists, made concrete by the psychological development and evolution of a young clergyman who rises, thru struggle, from his plane of traditional, orthodox belief to the heights of religion as a demonstrable science.

=Carter, Charles Frederick.= When railroads were new; with introd.
note by Logan G. McPherson. **$2. Holt.

9–9511.

An attempt “to gather the floating fragments of railroad history having a human interest into a coherent narrative of the work-a-day trials and triumphs of the pioneers in the planning and building of the railroad that would be neither a dry historical treatise nor a collection of anecdotes.” The suggestive chapter headings are: The dawn of the railroad era; America’s pioneer railroad; Early days on the Erie; Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania railroad; Genesis of the Vanderbilt system; Incubator railroads; The first transcontinental railroad; Through tribulation by rail; and Romance of a great railroad. Index.

* * * * *

“The absence of better books on the subject gives to this a real value. Its contents are not accessible elsewhere in any single volume.” F: L. Paxson.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 191. O. ’09. 320w.

“A decided tendency to realism and a wealth of local color will make it attractive reading for boys.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 133. My. ’09. ✠

“A little more attention to literary finish would not have hurt the book.”

+ − =Dial.= 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 200w.

“A few slips were noticed, but they were surprisingly few. All in all, the book may be commended to those who desire to read the romance of the railroads.” E. L. Bogart.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 128. Je. ’09. 250w.
=Engin. D.= 5: 667. Je. ’09. 100w.

“Much of the intimate and popular information (and the conversations) must be taken on trust or with some shadow of doubt.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 40. O. 14, ’09. 550w.

“A vast amount of curious information, hitherto left uncollected and in peril of being lost. And, in addition to all this, the book is good desultory reading for the layman.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1086. My. 20, ’09. 140w.

“It can scarcely fail to excite interest, and while many of the details are fictitious, or at the best used with considerable freedom, the main body of facts is essentially correct.” L. C. M.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 481. Jl. ’09. 260w.

“The story is told in a clear, accurate, and interesting manner in the present volume, which is enriched with many illustrations and should find a place in every popular library.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 898. My. 22, ’09. 200w.

“That he has cultivated his field assiduously is clear from the abundant harvest of new and fugitive material which he has garnered. Amid such an array of matter one expects to find occasional errors in dates and points of fact, but these could be more readily forgiven if the finality of statement so prevalent throughout the book, were supported by the evidence.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 350w.

“Mr. Carter’s very entertaining book is brim full of interesting records of the early days of railroading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 257. Ap. 24, ’09. 320w.

“This book is not a history of the development of railroad finance or railroad exploitation, but the fascinating story of the struggles, the fantastic failures and the final triumphs of the pioneer railroad builders.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 90w.

“It appeals to the general reader and will be to him a highly interesting narrative.”

+ =Yale R.= 18: 333. N. ’09. 160w.

=Carus, Paul.=^{[12]} Pleroma: an essay on the origin of Christianity.
$1. Open ct.

9–29363.

The editor of “The monist” conducts a scientific investigation of the causes of Christianity with the result that he finds Christianity to be not the result of accident, but of necessity. “There are definite causes and definite effects. Its doctrines, its ceremonies, its ethics are the product of given conditions and the result could not be different.” The divisions of the treatment are: Christianity predetermined by the needs of the age; Pre-Christian gnosticism; The bloom preceding the fruitage of Christianity; How the gentile Savior changed into the Christ; The origin of Judaism and its significance for Christianity; Conclusion.

=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.=^{[12]} Artists past and present: random
studies. **$2.50. Moffat.

9–25959.

Contains a dozen “random studies” of artists as follows: “Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Carlo Crivelli, Callot, Fantin-Latour and Louis Barye represent the past: Mary Cassatt, Max Klinger, Alfred Stevens, Carl Larsson and the recent exhibitions in New York of modern German paintings and of Zuloaga and Sorolla, the present.” (Ind.) “All are keen, penetrating, appreciative, and sensible.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“As attractive in appearance as it is stimulating in content.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 210w.

“The note is mostly that of the fugitive magazine article, which is often of considerable immediate helpfulness in giving first aid to the benighted, but generally of little permanent significance.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 1142. N. 18, ’09. 120w.

“There is little critical literature in English dealing with certain of these artists, and the group has been chosen in an unusual and interesting way.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 120w.

“To each of the studies, although they differ so widely in their appeal to both intellect and temperament, she brings the critical qualities of personal detachment, penetrating vision, breadth of view, and a keenly intellectual but at the same time warmly human appreciation of intention, content, and method.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 706. N. 13, ’09. 300w.

=Cary, Rev. Otis.=^{[12]} History of Christianity in Japan. 2v. ea.
**$2.50. Revell.

9–22916.

Tells the story of “how Catholic missions flourished in the sixteenth century, were cruelly extirpated in the seventeenth, and revived in the nineteenth, then the rise, vicissitudes, and expansion of Protestant missions since 1859.” (R. of Rs.) “Official documents, narratives of events, and relations of personal experience are skilfully woven together by the scholarly historian, now more than thirty years an actor on the scene.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Standard work of reference.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1316. D. 9, ’09. 820w.

“Throughout the 800 pages his statements are invariably unimpassioned, rational, and free from partisan spirit. At the same time it must be admitted that the book is somewhat ponderous in style and the manner it deals with the subject.” K. K. Kawakami.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 702. N. 13, ’09. 1400w.

“There is no other work on the subject which compares in interest or in value with this.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 560. N. 6, ’09. 260w.

“The official documents and personal memoranda in these two volumes make them valuable for reference.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 762. D. ’09. 80w.

=Casson, Herbert Newton.=^{[11]} Cyrus Hall McCormick: his life and
work. **$1.50. McClurg.

9–28139.

A life of the master builder of the modern business of manufacturing farm machinery. His life, coincident with the pioneer era of replacing muscle with machinery, has been devoted to inventions that have revolutionized farm labor, and it is one of those “rare life-histories that blazon out the peculiar genius of the nation under the stress of a new experience.”

* * * * *

“He has diligently collected and very attractively presented much historical and statistical matter concerning the development of agricultural implements and the recent rapid increase in the world’s wheat production. The life and personality of the great inventor are adequately set forth. The author makes an occasional error of fact.”

+ − =Dial.= 47: 184. S. 16, ’09. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 160w.

=Castaigne, André.=^{[9]} Bill-toppers. †$1.50. Bobbs.

9–21870.

A story which pictures the life of the “artistes” of the vaudeville circuit and which tells more particularly of Lily and the process by which her father P. T. Clifton, manager, endeavors to make her a star. The career has its beginning in the South seas, and runs its course in various parts of the world, from India to San Francisco, from Mexico to New York. The final height is at length reached in London where thru the efforts of her humble lover, Lily achieves the triumph which crowns her ambition—that of seeing her name at the top of the bill.

* * * * *

“The story is wholesome in tone and catches that decency and simple morality which, more often than the public believes, characterize these people of the vaudeville. Mr. Castaigne’s style of writing is deplorable.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 563. S. 25, ’09. 450w.

“The story is quite entertaining, and, in a sense, instructive.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. S. 25, ’09. 160w.

=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.=^{[11]} Diamonds
cut paste. †$1.50. Dodd.

9–24954.

“Sir Reginald Esdale returns from India, after several years’ absence from his family, with a splendid record behind him, a distinguished career ahead of him, and a mild and sentimental attachment to a pretty and clinging widow. The attachment is mild, but Sir Reginald is peculiar, and the widow is very clinging.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Judged as a comedy of manners, it should be a success: but from the point of view of fiction it has many shortcomings. Mr. and Mrs. Castle never leave the impression of discounting their own work; they are invariably conscientious and careful, and take a pride in their craft. We hope to see a dramatic version of this story.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 421. O. 9. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 50w.

“The reader ... will just get from the book what it was meant to give—an hour or two of perfectly sinless enjoyment.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 180w.

“Their latest venture may be considered to prove not only the wisdom in their selection of bygone periods but also how easily, when dressed in costume, the most moderate of talents may pass for something more considerable.”

− =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. O. 16, ’09. 820w.

=Catholic= church in the United States of America: an illustrative
history published in honor of the golden jubilee of His Holiness,
Pope Pius X. 6v. $90. Catholic editing co., 1 W. 34th st., N. Y.

9–7144.

“This initial volume of the series is devoted to the religious orders. The five succeeding volumes will deal with the secular clergy, v. 2 treating of the provinces of Baltimore and New York; v. 3 of Boston, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati; v. 4 of Chicago, St. Paul, and Oregon, and v. 5 of New Orleans, St. Louis, Dubuque, Santa Fé, and San Francisco. The sixth and concluding volume will be of general character, and will follow in broad lines the history of the Catholic church in this country. It will take up movements of the American church as a whole, and will be especially rich in statistics. Separate sections will deal with Catholic charities, education, literature, journalism, eminent men, societies, clubs, sports, and other subjects.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Offered as a history, it must be judged by modern critical standards, and by these this first volume may be set down as a remarkable collection of pictures, valuable and novel in their extent, rather than a record comprehensive in detail, exact in statement, and complete in scope. In going over this list of communities several serious omissions must be noted.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 200. F. 25, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 112. F. 27, ’09. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Catholic= encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the
constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic
church; ed. by C: G. Herbermann and others. 15v. ea. $6. Appleton,
Robert.

7–11606.

=v. 4.= Cland-Diocesan. Especially noteworthy in this fourth volume are the articles on the book of Daniel, The deluge, Constantinople, Congo Free State, Collectivism, Communism, and Cross and Crucifix in which archaeologically the Catholic attitude toward the use of images in worship is clearly stated and defended.

=v. 5.= Continues the scholarly excellence of the foregoing volumes. “Among the more notable contributions are those relating to evolution, excommunication, ecclesiastical art, dispensation, editions of the Bible, eschatology, extreme unction, dynamism, Ethiopia, England, and divorce.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The fourth volume fairly merits the praise of maintaining the high standard embodied in the preceding numbers.”

+ + − =Cath. World.= 88: 546. Ja. ’09. 930w. (Review of v. 4.)

“While microscopic criticism might find some opportunities for stricture, this volume fulfils the promise of the encyclopedia to be a work that will meet the reasonable standards of the learned without neglecting the claims of the uncritical.”

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 538. Jl. ’09. 900w. (Review of v. 5.)

“While splendid scholarship exists in the Catholic church, and appears to admirable advantage in the discussion of what we may call neutral matters, still as soon as it approaches the more delicate topics of modern criticism, it is either clouded by prejudice or paralyzed with fear.”

− + =Ind.= 66: 51. Ja. 7, ’09. 780w. (Review of v. 4.)

“What can a candid critic do but despair when important articles like ‘Esther,’ ‘Elijah,’ ‘Elisha,’ ‘Ecclesiastes,’ ‘Divination,’ and ‘Eucharist,’ are assigned to writers whose incompetence fairly takes one’s breath away?”

− =Ind.= 67: 657. S. 16, ’09. 730w. (Review of v. 5.) + =Lit. D.= 39: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“Contains a number of important articles, more or less popular, which exhibit in general the same spirit of fairness that characterizes the earlier volumes.”

+ + =Nation.= 88: 68. Ja. 21, ’09. 530w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The standard set by the earlier volumes is fully maintained in the present volume.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 35. Jl. 8, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 5.) + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 399. Je. 26, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 5.) + =R. of Rs.= 39: 383. Mr. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 4.) + =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)

“On the whole, the bibliographies are by no means a strong point in this instalment of ‘The catholic encyclopedia.’”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 532. Ap. 24, ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 4.) + =Spec.= 102: sup. 1005. Je. 26, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

=Catlin, George.=^{[11]} Boy’s Catlin: my life among the Indians; ed.
with biographical sketch by Mary Gay Humphreys. **$1.50. Scribner.

9–25173.

Contains the most interesting parts of Catlin’s book about the North American Indians, and their habits and customs, in war, peace and hunting. The writer gained his wide knowledge of Crows, Blackfeet, Assiniboines, Ojibbeways and other tribes first hand while painting among them; and he produces for the reader pictorial impressions that are very closely related to his work with the brush. Sixteen of his own drawings are used for illustration.

* * * * *

“From the cover design, with its dashing ‘brave,’ to the index, there are ‘real’ incidents more picturesque than, and equally as unbelievable as, incidents of fiction.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1016. D. 4, ’09. 130w.

“It is a book which boys will welcome heartily as being stranger than fiction, however careful the fact.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 50w.

“It should be a welcome addition to any boy’s library.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 30w.

=Caw, James Lewis.=^{[5]} Scottish painting, past and present,
1620–1908. *$8. Stokes.

“Mr. Caw, the director of the Scottish national galleries, has in this volume covered the entire field from the time of Jamesone to the present day. Encyclopædic in extent, and indicative of wide and accurate knowledge and much painstaking study and research, Mr. Caw’s history is a valuable and timely contribution to the literature of art.”—Int. Studio.

* * * * *

“If the informed reader may not at all times be inclined to accept Mr. Caw’s conclusions, he cannot but be impressed by their general accuracy, and above all by the fearlessness with which they are stated. One cannot read the book without admiring the keen perception, accurate information, critical acumen, ripe judgment, and well reasoned conclusions of the author.”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 36: 332. F. ’09. 700w.

“A comprehensive and copiously illustrated volume.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 120w.

“An inspection conveys the impression that while it deals with some works and some artists of real distinction, it is over-weighted with mediocrities.”

− + =Nation.= 88: 205. F. 25, ’09. 70w.

“As a history the book is excellent and worthy of its author’s position: as a book to read it is a little handicapped as all such complete accounts must be, by the necessity of covering so much ground and treating of so many minor men.” Laurence Binyon.

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 490. Ap. 17, ’09. 1500w.

=Cayley, George John.=^{[5]} Bridle-roads of Spain; or, Las Alforjas.
*$2. Estes.

A reprint of a book published in 1853. In the form of letters it records the author’s experiences while traveling in Spain, 1851–1852. “As he met with no exciting adventures, he drew largely on his imagination, represented himself as having killed a rogue in Seville, and eked out a volume with similar inventions, to which he confessed good-humouredly enough later. These flights of fancy seem to have irritated some of his critics, but irritation is out of place. Cayley as a traveler in Spain is not to be taken seriously. He was barely eight months in the country, knew little of the language, and was therefore not in a position to understand the national characteristics.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Some of the misprints in the text might have been corrected.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 405. Ap. 3. 280w.

“The chief blemish of the book is the introduction of imaginary adventures into the account of his travels. Still we forgive him, if only because few writers have described so well as he does the life, manners, and customs of the Spanish peasantry as they were when he saw them in 1851 and as they happily still are when once the traveler breaks away from railways and tourists’ routes.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 350w.

“For all its faults it is in many ways an original and entertaining work, based as much upon romantic imaginings and thoughts suggested on the road as upon actual fact.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 1104. D. 26, ’08. 580w.

=Cecil, Algernon.=^{[9]} Six Oxford thinkers. *7s. 6d. Murray, John,
London.

9–22567.

Holds up for critical inspection the careers of six typical Oxford men: Edward Gibbon, John Henry Newman, R. W. Church, James Anthony Froude, Walter Pater, Lord Morley of Blackburn.

* * * * *

“Although there is not much which is new in this volume, and in some cases the author betrays a rather inadequate acquaintance with well-known authorities, the essays contained in it are well worth reproduction. In the first place, the writing is good.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 235. Ag. 28. 600w.

“Mr. Cecil has given us a book full of interest and suggestion. In many places he carries us with him and in points where we differ from him we can still appreciate his point of view.” Wilfred Wilberforce.

+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 758. S. ’09. 6800w.

“A remarkable book, full of that subtle criticism and fine seriousness which are marks of his distinguished family. His standpoint is conservative, and, in the most liberal sense of the word, catholic; or rather, in his philosophy of history the two stand identified.”

+ Spec. 102: 940. Je. 12, ’09. 900w.

=Cesare, Raffaele de.=^{[10]} Last days of papal Rome, 1850–1870;
abridged with the assistance of the author and tr. by Helen Zimmern;
with an introd. by G. M. Trevelyan. **$3.50. Houghton.

9–25989.

A history of the papal states less for the amateur than for the student of modern Italian history and for the specialist in international politics of the past century. The narrative begins with the Pope’s return to Rome from Gaeta in 1850, and continues down to the entry of the Italian troops into the city on September 20, 1870.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 70. N. ’09.

“It is in a tone of impartiality that the whole of this splendid chapter in history is written.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 633. O. 16, ’09. 1000w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 692. N. 6, ’09. 210w. =Outlook.= 93: 601. N. 13, ’09. 260w.

“A monograph scientifically valuable but artistically of small consequence. He has, it is true, produced a work that can only be appreciated by collating it with other works written upon the same lines; but, at the same time, he has written a book that no student of papal history can afford to neglect.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 230. Ag. 21, ’09. 1300w.

=Cesaresco, Evelyn Martinengo.=^{[10]} Place of animals in human
thought. *$3. Scribner.

A volume of absorbing interest to students of animal psychology and those interested in man’s treatment of the inferior animals. “Mixed up with a large amount of perhaps somewhat irrelevant matter relating to the history of religions, the author has collected a vast store of information relating to the estimation or otherwise in which animals have been held by the ancient nations from Egyptian, Bhuddistic, and Græco-Roman times to the middle ages; while the concluding chapter deals with modern ideas on the subject. The objects, origin, and conception of sacrifice are each treated at considerable length, while folk-lore has been largely drawn upon to illustrate the subject from all points of view.” (Nature.)

* * * * *

“Though it is full of curious facts, they are not sifted with care, or co-ordinated with any consistency. But withal the book is both learned and entertaining—a very creditable combination.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 450w.

“The work sadly wanted revision by a well-educated proof-reader. If such blemishes occurred in many books, we could mention, we should pass them over without notice; the pity of it is that they mar the pages of such a thoroughly interesting volume as the one of which we now take leave.” R. L.

+ − =Nature.= 81: 276. S. 2, ’09. 600w.

“The huge mass of material which she has collected has anthropological value as well as human interest. As a source of accurate information as to the habits and capacities of animals, however, the old mythologies, and, indeed, all the so-called zoology produced more than a few score years ago, are, of course, quite useless. This obvious and unquestionable fact has escaped the attention of the Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, and if anybody ever told her of it she did not believe him. The book has the interest of very unintentional and consequently frank self-revelation. It is uninteresting, too, in another way. It rehearses dozens and dozens of the best of the old animal stories—stories that nowadays are grouped with the biographies of fairies, though they were once told with as much faith—and about as much accuracy—as the exploits of dawn-historic kings.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 669. O. 30, ’09. 1050w.

“The recital of this history by so well-informed and skilful a writer as the author is makes pleasant reading.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 142. Jl. 31, ’09. 300w.

“A fascinating book. It is a book full of miscellaneous information and entertainment, the sort of book which makes the reader idly long for Macaulay’s memory in which to store all the delightful things which the author has told and shown him. Stories, quotations, comments, and pictures are all alike good. The writer of this book has with extraordinary self-control avoided every temptation to put in foolish or sentimental or improbable stories.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 770. My. 15, ’09. 1550w.

=Chaimovitsch, Isaac.= Tables for calculating sizes of steam pipes for
low pressure heating. $2. Domestic engineering.

8–32657.

“Prepared for those who have not had enough experience to judge of the limitations of mere ‘rules of thumb’ in the design of steam pipes. These tables are calculated to show the loss of pressure per linear foot of pipe, in diameters of 3/4 to 24 ins., for various deliveries of steam under 1, 3, and 5 lbs. boiler pressure. The use of the tables is explained and illustrated.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

=Engin. D.= 5: 176. F. ’09. 100w.
=Engin. N.= 60: sup. 695. D. 17, ’08. 80w.

“Part of the book lacks clearness.”

+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 170w.

=Chamberlain, Arthur Henry.= Standards in education, with some
consideration of their relation to industrial training. *$1. Am. bk.
co.

8–37723.

A discussion of the factors in modern elementary education including aims of education, special elements of good character, the curriculum in the elementary school, the method of its presentation, the method of training teachers, and the duties of parents toward school work.

* * * * *

“It is to be regretted that the book is published without an index.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 177. Jl. ’09. 80w.

“A useful and stimulating book. Mr. Chamberlain has combined wide reading with his unusually valuable practical experience and his book bears the mark of both. It may be used in a normal school or as material for study and discussion at teachers’ meetings and associations.”

+ =Educ. R.= 37: 425. Ap. ’09. 70w. + − =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.

“Though there is nothing new in point of view or treatment it has some merits as a textbook.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 120w.

“On the whole the contents are representative of what one would say to a class rather than organized material for publication in a book.” F. A. Manny.

+ − =School R.= 17: 729. D. ’09. 210w.

=Chamberlain, James Franklin.= How we travel: a geographical reader.
(Home and world ser.) *40c. Macmillan.

8–19617.

A book for young readers that “provides a simple, entertaining, and attractively illustrated account of means of travel and communication in various parts of the world. Previous volumes have dealt with man’s activities connected with securing food, clothing, and shelter.” (Nature.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 308. D. ’08. ✠ + =Educ. R.= 37: 209. F. ’09. 30w.

“The little book should be popular in the lower classes of secondary schools.”

+ =Nature.= 78: 569. O. 8. ’08. 90w.

=Chamberlain, John Aldrich.=^{[6]} Principles of business law. $2.50.
Anderson.

8–28323.

“This volume undertakes to state clearly and with as few technical expressions as possible those rules and accepted principles of legal procedure which a business man should know when, for instance, he makes contracts, handles commercial paper, sells or buys real estate, enters into a partnership, or sustains one of the relations of landlord or tenant. The book is carefully arranged in sections, each with its particular head, and is indexed with completeness and clearness.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A useful compendium for the commercial man.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1142. My. 27, ’09. 120w.

“The prime usefulness of the volume is as a book of reference. Its value in this respect, however, is somewhat impaired because of the meager information given on very important topics.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 882. O. 14, ’09. 190w.

“It will not save the ordinary business man from employing a lawyer, but it will often save him getting into such a situation that it needs a lawyer to extricate him.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 180w.

=Chamberlain, Lucia.=^{[5]} Other side of the door. †$1.50. Bobbs.

9–14827.

A story built up about a murder which the heroine chances to be eye witness to and concerning which she furnishes the evidence that convicts the hero of the crime. He is not the real criminal and why he is loath to clear himself is revealed in a closing chapter in which the confession of a Spanish woman sets matters straight.

* * * * *

“It is not a very skillfully managed narrative.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 302. My. 15, ’09. 280w.