Chapter XXII: Part 2: , Three Boston object lessons in taxation; Part 3, Private (2)

+ − =Nation.= 88: 284. Mr. 18, ’09. 130w.

“There is a great deal of really valuable information in the book. It is a handy volume to have on the library shelves, even if there is a good concordance there, also.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 101. F. 20, ’09. 280w.

“It is a summary of the conclusions which scholars have reached regarding the varied uses of English words in the Shakespearean plays, with abundant illustrations of those uses.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 816. Ap. 10, ’09. 200w.

=Foster, Joshua James.= Chats on old miniatures. *$2. Stokes.

9–35043.

“The book in the main, though not exclusively, deals with miniatures painted and owned in England, but its historic value is greatly enhanced by the concluding chapter, which gives an excellent account of the miniatures in the exhibition of works of art of the eighteenth century held at the French national library in 1906.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“His ‘chats’ are no mere gossip, but constitute a small handbook on miniatures which we can heartily recommend to those about to start collecting.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 564. N. 6. 370w.

“Contains a great amount of interesting information in a small space.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 40w.

“The book is filled with information of great value to the collector as well as to the general reader.” W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1458. D. 17, ’08. 60w.

“Amongst the many experts who have recently published books on miniatures, Mr. Foster takes high rank on account of his insight into the peculiarities of technique and appreciation of the difficulties with which the exponents of the beautiful art have to contend.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 79. Jl. ’09. 100w.

“For the serious student of the history of miniature painting there is much of interest in the text. To one whose interest in miniatures is just beginning ... the book should prove exceedingly useful.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 789. D. 19, ’08. 540w.

“No notice can give any idea of the charm of the volume.”

+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 160. Ja. 30, ’09. 320w.

=Foster, Maximillian.= Corrie who? †$1.50. Small.

8–30937.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“The book is amazingly clever of its kind.”

− + =Atlan.= 103: 704. My. ’09. 300w.

“This is a fairly well-written mystery story, but it is much too long and would gain greatly in strength if cut down at least one-third.” A. C. Rich.

+ − =Arena.= 40: 616. D. ’08. 200w.

“It is a story of mystery, handled very skilfully.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 250w.

“An unusually good story, cleverly worked out and well written.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 330w.

=Foster, William.=^{[8]} English factories in India, 1622–1623.
*$4.15. Oxford.

8–20865.

“The main events dealt with are the capture of Ormus by the English, and the retaliatory measures taken by the agents of the company which secured from the Mogul compensation for past injuries and more favourable terms for the future. The volume is full of complaints of the treatment of the English by the Dutch.” (Eng. Hist. R.) “Of the calendared documents a majority deal with the activities of the company on the west coast of India, some tell of the attempts to secure more trade on the east coast, near Madras, and of the failures of the English in the Far East; and others give much valuable information in regard to important events in the internal history of the Mogul Empire.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The excellent introduction provided by the editor and the useful index are good guides to the topics here treated.” A. L. P. Dennis.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 380. Ja. ’09. 550w.

“First and last, the student is again indebted to Mr. Foster for his excellent work as editor.” A. L. P. Dennis.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 135. O. ’09. 650w.

Reviewed by H. E. E.

=Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 196. Ja. ’09. 460w.

Reviewed by H. E. E.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 833. O. ’09. 200w.

“Documents [are] calendared with discrimination and indexed with care in this volume.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 98. Jl. 29, ’09. 300w.

=Foundations= of reform.^{[7]} *10s. 6d. Simpkin, Marshall & co.,
London.

Contains papers read before the Defence association and reprints from the Times and the National review bearing chiefly on army reforms, national defence and allied questions. “The details of certain campaigns, which are pertinent to the consideration of England’s insular position and liability to invasion, are dealt with minutely. Prominent amongst these is the Danish campaign of 1864.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“In most matters that are more important than such detail, students of the art of war will agree with Col. Repington.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 717. D. 5. 580w.

“As a collection of instances which show up the dangers by which we are encompassed through our haphazard manner of regarding our national responsibilities the work must always remain a most valuable handbook.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 692. My. 29, ’09. 450w.

“We must be content with commending to our readers this very full statement.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 1003. D. 12, ’08. 100w.

=Fournier D’Albe, Edmund.= New light on immortality. *$1.75. Longmans.

8–34723.

A book which “welds into a synthetic whole some arguments based on physics and physiology, with others drawn from spiritism, to prove the existence of the life beyond.” (Cath. World.) “Fournier frankly turns back to materialism, pure and simple. Upon the observations of continuity and of various grades of complexity in nature and life, he bases the assumption of the existence of attenuated, unobservable forms of matter which pervade the living body, and which still persist after death in forms which are of the essence of the individual during life.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The scholastic will find himself muttering repeatedly an uncompromising ‘nego majorem,’ or ‘nego conclusionem,’ though he cannot fail to be interested at the ingenuity of some of the speculations.”

− =Cath. World.= 88: 687. F. ’09. 320w.

“His conclusions prove to be entirely unworthy of serious consideration.” H. R. M.

− =Nation.= 87: 658. D. 31, ’08. 380w.

“It is a curious phase of human thought which can ignore metaphysics, morality, and faith, and base its ultimate consolations on the apparition of Katie King.”

− =Sat. R.= 107: 213. F. 13, ’09. 1400w.

=Fowler, Charles Evan.=^{[8]} Law and business of engineering and
contracting. *$2.50. McGraw.

9–6036.

“Not an extended treatise on specifications or contract law, but rather an instruction book to young engineers regarding the difficulties that beset contract work and the methods to avoid them.” (Engin. N.) The chapters based on a course of lectures delivered by the author to the engineering students of the University of Washington deal with the relation between engineer and contractor, specimens of ordinary and special forms of contracts and specifications, inspection of engineering structures, methods of estimating and bidding on work and upon the organization of contracting companies.

* * * * *

“Not so extensive as Johnson’s ‘Engineering contracts and specifications,’ but practical and up to date.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 165. Je. ’09.
=Engin. N.= 61: sup. 34. Mr. 18, ’09. 130w.

“The book is quite elementary, but undergraduate civil engineering students will find it a decidedly valuable introduction to an important feature of their future work.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 251. Ag. 28, ’09. 550w.

=Fowler, William Warde.= Social life at Rome in the age of Cicero.
**$2.25. Macmillan.

9–5190.

A book which meets a longfelt want by supplying a picture of life and manners, of education, morals and religion in the age of Cicero. The letters of Cicero, more than nine hundred in number, have been to the author a “rich treasure-house.” His chapters are suggestive of his plan of treatment: Topographical, The lower population, The men of business and their methods, The governing aristocracy, Marriage and the Roman lady, The education of the upper classes, The slave population, The house of the rich man in town and country, The daily life of the well-to-do, Holidays and public amusement, and Religion.

* * * * *

“The book will probably not be superseded for many years, and it deserves a place among the reference manuals of all students of sociology and economics as well as among those of students of classical antiquity.” S. B. P.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 795. Jl. ’09. 480w.

“A scholarly yet very readable work, of value to students but also of interest to the educated reader.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 103. Ap. ’09.

“We make these criticisms of detail because we have found the book excellent reading, and have noticed in it much that will be new to readers, and seems to us eminently true.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 552. My. 8. 1200w.

“He depicts Roman life in the last years of the republic in a manner at once interesting and informing.”

+ =Bib. World.= 33: 357. My. ’09. 50w.

“The work is admirably done, and the book will be of lively interest both to the general reader and to the special student of Roman life. The main criticism which one is inclined to make of it is that it deals almost exclusively with the upper classes.” F. F. Abbott.

+ − =Class. J.= 5: 45. N. ’09. 550w.

“For the general reader the treatment is adequate throughout: and to the student the volume may be recommended just as cordially, with the suggestion that he will often find in it a starting-point rather than a resting-place.” F. B. R. Hellems.

+ =Dial.= 47: 17. Jl. 1, ’09. 1800w.

“We find, as in all that Mr. W. Warde Fowler writes, the wealth and aptitude of illustration which spring from intimate knowledge of his subject, the ripeness of observation born of leisurely and independent thinking, and the admirable lucidity of expression which is his own.” H. S. J.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 603. Jl. ’09. 330w. + =Ind.= 67: 300. Ag. 5, ’09. 80w.

“He writes with sympathy and grace and has filled a gap in the library of Latin criticism and commentary which has long been deplored.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 537. O. 2, ’09. 770w.

“It is a popular book in the best sense of that term.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 215. S. 2, ’09. 1000w.

“The book is interesting and valuable, not only to the student but to the general reader. Its pages are livelier than those of many novels, and Mr. Fowler’s style is so pleasantly simple that the reading is a delight.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 133. Mr. 6, ’09. 1500w.

“So far as we can judge, he has succeeded, as few English scholars could, in presenting us with a perfectly faithful and vivid picture of Roman society at one of the great crises in history.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 498. Ap. 17, ’09. 1600w.

“It fails the student exactly where he most needs help and guidance.”

− + =Spec.= 103: 134. Jl. 24, ’09. 1000w.

=Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles.=^{[8]} Complete guide to heraldry. *$4.
Dodge.

9–23803.

A comprehensive guide to the law and practice of heraldry. “The intricacies of the subject mystifying to most of those who have not made a special study of it, are explained with admirable lucidity. The interest as well as the utility of the work is considerably enhanced by the coloured plates and multitudinous designs which Mr. Graham Johnston, Herald painter to the Lyon court, has executed expressly for it.” (Int. Studio.)

* * * * *

“The subject is as exhaustively treated as anyone outside the Heralds’ college could wish.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 336. Je. ’09. 100w.

“The book naturally contains a vast deal of curious information as to the pictorial side of heraldry, much about the Garter king of arms and the Lyon and the Ulster and the rest who have charge in such matters in the United Kingdom under the crown.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 512. Ag. 28, ’09. 850w.

“Here indeed are all the familiar errors of the handbooks masked in their familiar nonsense-language, a tongue which would have puzzled the mediæval knight as much as it confuses the pedant of the twentieth century.”

− =Sat. R.= 107: 817. Je. ’09. 1600w.

“Valuable and most interesting.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 615. Ap. 17, ’09. 500w.

=Francis, Alexander.=^{[11]} Americans: an impression. **$2. Appleton.

9–22216.

Equally as frank and friendly in his comments about Americans as Mr. Price Collier was in his impressions of the English, Mr. Francis is prepared, he declares, “to undertake the defense of Americans against themselves and of Americans against the world, and to prove, when occasion shall offer, that the prevalent opinion that America has a double dose of the original sin of materialism is the result of partial observation and mistaken judgment, and is due, in large measure, to the fallacious theory that a people which has proved itself practical and efficient in handling actualities must needs be devoid of spiritual vision, energy, and power.” His attention is confined to America’s social questions; of politics he has little to say.

* * * * *

“Although more serious studies than those in H. G. Wells’ ‘Future in America’ they lack the flashes of insight and suggestiveness which distinguish those essays.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 72. N. ’09.

“It lacks all those engaging qualities which an essay on international impressionism needs so much more than it needs a sound judgment. For with a sound judgment the impressionist would decide not to write it at all.”

− =Bookm.= 30: 326. D. ’09. 930w.

“The matter does not seem new and the manner is not distinctive. No American reviewer will lay hands on so friendly a book save in the way of kindness, but the hands of most readers will not be laid on it long.” F. M. Colby.

− =Forum.= 42: 477. N. ’09. 1100w.

“A globetrotter of such a range should see national life in proper perspective, and Mr. Francis does show a freedom from that insular narrowness which has sometimes spoiled the work of British critics of America. Least effective is the chapter on Race prejudice, which treats quite superficially America’s most distressing and complex problem.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 1208. N. 25, ’09. 300w.

“He has strictures to make upon certain aspects of American life: but his opinion of it in the large is sympathetic and optimistic.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 561. S. 25, ’09. 1600w.

=Frank, Henry.=^{[12]} Modern light on immortality: being an original
excursion into historical research and scientific discovery,
pointing to a new solution of the problem. *$1.85. Sherman, French &
co.

9–20216.

A book that “surveys all history, all biology, and all philosophy in its quest after evidence concerning the problem of life after death.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Since the author has no first-hand and little accurate knowledge in any of these provinces and manifests no sense for the distinction between guessing and reasoning, his book, which is written in pretentious and ungrammatical English, has only the merit of earnestness and of independence of traditional opinions.”

− =Nation.= 89: 519. N. 25, ’09. 70w.

“There is much in this volume which will stimulate rational thought and inquiry, even if it falls far short of offering anything positive. The author is to be commended for his industry, impartiality, and the generally successful way in which he handles his facts.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 622. O. 23, ’09. 1250w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 762. D. ’09. 80w.

=Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).=^{[5]} Sebastian. (Eng.
title, Incompleat Etonian). $1.50. Macmillan.

9–9253.

The study of the heart of a boy in which are traceable the same courage of conviction and independent development that one finds in the author’s “Heart of a child.” Sebastian is the son of mismated parents. The mother is distant and resigned; the father is a living apology for having asked so superior a woman to marry him. When the son at nineteen takes matters into his own hands, leaves Oxford, goes into business with his father and relieves him of the tired strain, he outrages his mother’s ambition but brings solace to a dying man. The mother’s eyes are opened to real living thru the uncompromising struggle of the boy, which is not, however, free from mistakes and suffering.

* * * * *

“With this wavering as to goal is combined an unevenness in execution, running all the way from the construction of plot, and the delineation of character, into the sentence-structure.”

+ − =Atlan.= 104: 684. N. ’09. 250w.

“Mrs. Frankau has begged the issue; but one does not seriously mind it because the real solution is sufficiently obvious. Only we sincerely hope that in her future books she will revert to her earlier attitude of indifference to the public and absorption in her art for art’s sake.” Philip Tillinghast.

+ − =Forum.= 41: 482. My. ’09. 3000w.
=Ind.= 66: 1343. Je. 17, ’09. 60w.

“She is interesting at all times, and, unlike the novelist Vanessa, her men and women are more than mere pen-and-ink puppets.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 441. S. 18, ’09. 230w.

“Is not in all respects a ‘pleasant’ story, but it is perfectly wholesome.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 583. Je. 10, ’09. 300w.

“Mrs. Frankau’s work in this book is curiously uneven. Sometimes she goes unseeingly past such obvious falsities or weaknesses that the reader marvels at her blindness to them. And again she creates scenes of remarkable force and truth. As a whole the book is a keen study of one sort of maternal feeling.’”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 270. My. 1, ’09. 480w.

“Compared with a score of the novels of the day, ‘Sebastian’ is worth while; it is when it is set beside its delightful predecessor that it fails to satisfy.”

+ − =Outlook.= 92: 390. Je. 19, ’09. 200w.

“An atmosphere of the consulting-room pervades the book, for which mentally or morally there are no compensations. The hero himself is a prig, and as a prig is quite courageously treated, and the best tribute to Frank Danby’s talent is the fact that one can read his story, however reluctantly, to the end. Is dreary from an absence of effective charm in any one of its characters.”

− + =Sat. R.= 107: 529. Ap. 24, ’09. 540w.

“The book is never dull, and is always cleverly, although often carelessly, written. But the pleasure it affords is intermittent, and the reader will close it with a slight feeling of dissatisfaction.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 671. Ap. 24, ’09. 240w.

=Fraser, David.=^{[8]} Short cut to India. *$5. Scribner.

9–17248.

“Gives an excellent account of the state of the Baghdad railway, of the reasons why construction has not been continued, and of the international significance of the line.” (Sat. R.) “The geographical interest of the book is considerable, for less is known of those regions in Asia Minor or Turkey in Asia, east of Aleppo and forming the northern part of Mesopotamia, than of the more remote deserts of Chinese Turkistan; whilst the description of the country passed through bears witness alike to the power of observation possessed by the traveller and his capacity for recording results.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Special interest—personal, geographical, and political—attaches to ‘The short cut to India.’”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 405. Ap. 3. 300w.

“So far as his chapters touch on politics, [the book] is already out of date. His book, however, does not depend for its value on political considerations.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 6. Jl. 17, ’09. 200w.

“It is safe to say that Mr. David Fraser’s story of his travels along the route of the Baghdad railway will be read as widely as any book of the kind that has been published for a long time.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 423. Mr. 13, ’09. 1400w.

=Fraser, John Foster.=^{[11]} Quaint subjects of the king. *$1.75.
Cassell.

9–19601.

A peep into the by places of the earth over which the British flag floats, with an inquiry into the customs and habits of the people who dwell there. “Africa, with as usual ‘aliquid novi,’ Australia, the Pacific Archipelagoes, North America, India are among the countries which contribute quotas of the strange and the picturesque. A book that is full of strange things, and amply illustrated.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Written in rather flippant, reportorial style and not based entirely on first-hand information, it nevertheless contains sufficient curious material to be useful in a public library. Not so comprehensive or authoritative as Keane’s ‘World’s peoples.’ but more popular.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 40. O. ’09. ✠

“This volume is, in its way, full of imperial interest. Mr. Fraser takes us to many places in the ‘wide, wide world,’ and shows us our brothers and sisters. He writes from considerable experience of his own, and he has gone to other sources of knowledge.”

+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1009. Je. 26, ’09. 100w.

=Fraser, Mary (Crawford) (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= Heart of a geisha. †$2.
Putnam.

8–31464.

The story of a Japanese girl who by a bewildering, fascinating dance beguiled an officer into sparing her lover who was under arrest.

* * * * *

“Sweetly pathetic story of a Japanese dancing girl.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 60w.

“A fascinating story of Japan.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 80w.

“Pretty little tale of a by-gone time. The story is not embellished by the drawings and marginal decorations.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 200w.

“Mrs. Fraser has done no better work in fiction than this moving and dramatic little tale.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 495. Ja. ’09. 150w.

“A well-sustained little story of Japanese social and political life which makes pleasant reading.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 122. Ja. ’09. 40w.

=Frazer, James George.=^{[5]} Psyche’s task. *80c. Macmillan.

“An expanded version of an evening discourse delivered by [the author] at the Royal institution. His theme is the soul of good in things superstitious and he declares that the folk-lorist, like Psyche, has to separate the nourishing grain out of the rubbish heaps of savage custom.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“This new book is indeed short, but also very long, in the sense of the famous aphorism of Hippocrates: ‘Life is short, but art long.’”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 443. Ap. 10. 950w.
=Dial.= 46: 407. Je. 16, ’09. 220w.

“The whole essay is as interesting reading as it is instructive and consolatory doctrine.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 360. Ap. 8, ’09. 170w.
=Sat. R.= 108: 144. Jl. 31, ’09. 180w.

=Freeman, Mary Eleanor (Wilkins).=^{[11]} Winning lady and others.
†$1.25. Harper.

9–27999.

Eleven stories of every day life, the first one of which, the title story, being a portrayal of the agony suffered by a naturally upright woman who cheats at bridge for the coveted first prize and bitterly repents her wrong-doing. During the humiliating adjustment that follows, she finds that the woman who ought to have won, cheated too, desiring the second prize, a set of Shakespeare, above the first, a cut-glass punch bowl; whereupon it transpires that the Shakespeare and the bowl were both among the dollar-and-something bargains, and that they proved irresistible to the hostess.

=French, Anne Warner.=^{[5]} In a mysterious way. †$1.50. Little.

9–10498.

In the background of Mrs. French’s story are her favorite “near neighbors,” one a sort of leaner, the other the cheerful, energetic, capable woman of many activities, whose constant refrain, “He moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform,” “fits everything and accounts for everything.” Embodying the spirit of this refrain in the “new life” sense is portrayed the young woman contemplating marriage with a man who, as the result of an accident, has only a brief span of life before him. Her spiritual development permits her to believe that bodies and what they suffer do not count: that love is eternal. When death separates them before the marriage takes place, there is an immediate and conscious reincarnation. The soul of the man regenerates a sin-burdened wayfarer, and so serves a needed end; but as for friendship between the new man and the young woman, it is torture to the bereft woman and she goes her own way.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 186. Je. ’09.

“Overflows with humor.”

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 689. Ag. ’09. 80w.

“Mrs. French has not succeeded in presenting a story sufficiently clear and coherent to make plain just what its message may have been. In the minor characters, Mrs. French comes into her own.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 319. My. 22, ’09. 200w.

=French, Anne Warner.=^{[11]} Your child and mine. †$1.50. Little.

9–25821.

Twenty-one stories for little people or grown-ups whose aim is to teach child values—the values that are bound to expand and develop into strong manhood and womanhood qualities. Mrs. French proves herself a past-master at covering the years from babyhood to the altar within the bounds of a few pages, and doing it so comprehensively as to include the chief conditioning factors of development.

* * * * *

“Although the charming preface is ‘For children only,’ some of the tales, certainly might be labeled ‘for grown-ups only,’ while all have under the surface an appeal to the mature reader.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 718. N. 30, ’09. 170w.

=French, George.=^{[7]} Art and science of advertising. *$2. Sherman,
French & co.

9–5894.

Mr. French “contends that the man who devotes himself to the advertising business is a professional man in the same sense and to the same extent as is a lawyer, minister, doctor, architect, engineer, or teacher.... It was part of Mr. French’s purpose in writing his book to show how the advertising business may be placed upon the scientific plane where he thinks it belongs.” (N. Y. Times.) “Emphasis on artistic taste in advertising chiefly distinguishes this book from other writings on advertising which the past few months have brought forth.” (J. Pol. Econ.)

* * * * *

“A well-proportioned work based on many years’ practice and study.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 12. S. ’09.

“Contains many helpful hints and suggestions for workers in this busy field of modern commercial life.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 185. S. 16, ’09. 330w.

“The author, too, seems to be at his best when he is discussing this same artistic aspect of the advertising problem. At other times his style often suggests the would-be essayist, and manner struggles to cover a paucity of matter.”

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 385. Je. ’09. 100w.

“All will agree that his book contains excellent advice and sound precepts for those who pay for advertising and those who write and place advertisements.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 289. My. 8, ’09. 350w.

=French, Lillie Hamilton.= House dignified: its design, its
arrangement, and its decoration. **$5. Putnam.

8–28317.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“Lovers of beautiful and spacious houses will find their knowledge and enjoyment increased by the volume, while those who are content with more humble dwelling places can learn from its expert criticism much which they can apply to their own uses.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 467. D. 16, ’08. 160w.

“The text is more useful than the illustrations in practical directions.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 4. Ja. 2, ’09. 280w.

“Midas cannot go far wrong in building his golden house, so long as he has the text and illustrations of this handsome book to guide him.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 495. Ja. ’09. 200w.
=Spec.= 101: 1003. D. 12, ’08. 110w.

=Frénilly, Auguste François F.= Recollections of Baron de Frénilly,
peer of France, 1768–1828; ed., with introd. and notes by Arthur
Chuquet. *$3. Putnam.

9–17249.

Of definite historical interest these memoirs throw light upon the last days of the ‘ancien régime,’ upon France of the revolutionary period and of the restoration. The Baron was “a man of quick and alert mind, possessed of true Gallic humor, a thorough aristocrat, and with an easy conversational style eminently suited to the sort of book he was occupying his last rather lonely years in writing, these memoirs rank among the most delightful which the French have given the world.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Once begun, will probably be read to the last page, and if read will not soon be forgotten nor regarded as without historical interest. The translator has been able to an unusual degree to preserve the liveliness of the original.” H: E. Bourne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 178. S. 16, ’09. 1000w.

“Most delightful and entertaining volume.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 473. Mr. 20, ’09. 700w. + =Nation.= 89: 160. Ag. 19, ’09. 360w.

“It would be difficult to find more charming reading than the volume of reminiscence, anecdote, and history written for his own amusement by the Baron de Frénilly. Whatsoever he touches upon lives for the reader in lively fashion, and the volume brims with a personality peculiarly winning.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 125. Mr. 6, ’09. 1450w.

“Is of extreme interest in its delineation of the life of a class who resented but ignored the world-shaking events amid which they were compelled to live.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 792. Je. 19, ’09. 120w.

“It is not a little to be regretted that neither editor nor translator gives us any bibliographical information about these ‘Recollections.’”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 670. Ap. 24, ’09. 430w.

=Friedländer, Ludwig.= Roman life and manners under the early empire.
2v. ea. *$1.50. Dutton.

8–37054.

“An authorized translation of the seventh edition of Ludwig Friedländer’s ‘Sittengeschichte Roms.’... The first volume translated by Leonard A. Magnus, has just been issued: the second volume translated by J. H. Freese, will be ready for publication early this year. Prof. Friedländer says that the text of the new edition of his classic work is essentially the same as that of the sixth edition; but at the request of his publisher in Germany he has omitted the footnotes and excursus and has supplemented, shortened, corrected and amplified many passages. Among the portions of the work subjected to revision he mentions those dealing with Christianity and belief in immortality.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“It is seldom that we have to complain of the last edition of a German work being chosen for translation into English; but in the present case it is distinctly a misfortune. The seventh edition omits all the foot-notes (even references to authorities) and appendixes which are among the most instructive and valuable parts of the original book. Without these an intelligent reader is at a loss to know what weight of authority even Dr. Friedländer has for many curious facts which occur on almost every page.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 616. My. 22. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)

“We cannot congratulate the translator, Mr. L. A. Magnus, on the success of his work, for his renderings are often singularly infelicitous.” H. S. J.

− =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 183. Ja. ’09. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)

“A book packed with information attractively presented.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 20w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The style of the book is choppy, not in good impressive paragraphs.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 150. Ja. 21, ’09. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 12. Ja. 2, ’09. 130w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The book is vastly entertaining as well as most informing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 489. Ag. 14, ’09. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)

“This is one of those companionable books which one can open at any point in its series of topics to occupy a leisure half-hour entertainingly and profitably.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 865. Ap. 17, ’09. 170w. (Review of v. 1.) + =Outlook.= 93: 277. O. 2, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Friend, John Albert Newton.=^{[12]} Theory of valency. (Text-books of
physical chemistry.) *$1.60. Longmans.

9–18465.

The latest addition to the “Text-books of physical chemistry.” “The first thirteen pages are of the nature of an historical introduction. This is followed by thirty-eight pages devoted to the theory of valency, valency and the periodic law, the valency of carbon, and Thiele’s theory. Ten further chapters covering sixty-nine pages are then devoted to a somewhat detailed discussion of the valency of the elements contained in each of the groups of the periodic system. Finally, forty-three pages are taken up in the consideration of Werner’s theory, electro-chemical theories, and the physical cause and nature of valency.” (Science.)

* * * * *

“It is to be heartily welcomed for there is no English treatise, and no very recent German one, dealing with the important subject of valency. The author’s exposition is careful and thorough.” J. C. P.

+ =Nature.= 80: 395. Je. 3, ’09. 580w.

“The introduction and the discussion of the various theories of valency form by far the best portions of the book.” L: Kahlenberg.

+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 648. N. 5, ’09. 450w.

=Frobenius, Leo.= Childhood of man; tr. by A. H. Keane. *$3.
Lippincott.

9–2054.

A popular account of the lives, customs, and thoughts of the primitive races of mankind. “In a succession of chapters he talks of adornment, tattooing, tests of manhood, the communication of ideas by dress, gestures, drums; and pictures of funeral ceremonies, worship of skulls and ancestors, the adventures of the souls of the dead, the origin of the world, the theft of fire, the stone and iron ages, cannibals, and war. On all these things he discourses in a lively and familiar way, with many shrewd observations.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The author’s desire to popularize his subject sometimes leads him to the verge of the frivolous.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 697. Je. 12. 700w.

“This unevenness of importance in the topics treated is a defect in the book. His best material and his real value in discussion is in the African and Melanesian field. He is at his worst in discussing American themes.” F: Starr.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 71. Ag. 1, ’09. 730w.

“It is a book to put into the hands of young people, even children and may be characterized as an unpretentious but masterly summary of its subject.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 900w.

“Not much of what he communicates is new, but his treatment of his subjects is fresh and suggestive.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 582. D. 10, ’08. 500w.

“It cannot be said that there is much sequence or arrangement in these studies such as would fit them to constitute in their entirety a treatise or a text-book. The whole constitutes a splendid work of reference, and one of interest to the general reader. The translation is satisfactory.”

+ − =Yale R.= 17: 459. F. ’09. 250w.

=Frost, Thomas Gold.=^{[11]} Man of destiny. $1.50. Gramercy pub.

9–23729.

In this novel, under the thin disguise of the name Samuel Burton, is traced the career of Grant from boyhood days to the age of 44. “The change of name has left the narrator free to provide dialogue, letters, and, above all, a ‘love interest’ departing widely from the facts of Grant’s life and character as stern history knows them.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“He has a love for his theme, and he means well by it. He has written out of a commendable enthusiasm for a great figure of our near past. The author evidently did not know quite what he intended it to be ‘primarily.’ Eventually, it is an odd mixture of fact, fiction, and panegyric.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 381. O. 21, ’09. 350w.

“Allowing a certain amount of poetic (or historic) license to the author, we think it unfair that he should have allowed his hero to become enamored of so shallow a damsel as the Sallie Custis of the story.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 504. Ag. 21, ’09. 200w.

=Frothingham, Arthur Lincoln, jr.= Monuments of Christian Rome, from
Constantine to the renaissance. (Handbooks of archæology and
antiquities.) **$2.25. Macmillan.

8–36410.

“The historical sketch contained in the first eight chapters is a history of the city, with the changes it underwent in the reigns of Constantine and his successors, after the Gothic invasion, under the Byzantine influence, as a Carlovingian city and in the dark age from the death of Pope Formosus in 896 to the accession of Pope Leo IX, in 1049, by the fire of Robert Guiscard, under the great mediæval popes, and during the papal exile. This survey of the city, derived from a careful and exhaustive study of the documentary history and from years of exploration in situ, enables the author to present, in the second part of his volume, some fascinating chapters on basilicas, campanili, cloisters, civil and military architecture, sculpture and painting, with accounts of some of the Roman artists and of art in the Roman province and the artistic influence of Rome.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“The only single book covering the period, and valuable as a reference work, but unattractive in style.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 77. Mr. ’09.

“These and other corrections of the same modest importance must not be taken as reducing the value of the volume. Prof. Frothingham is proof against serious criticism.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 591. My. 15. 1000w.

“The book is of inestimable value as an archæological handbook.”

+ + =Dial.= 46: 143. Mr. 1, ’09. 370w.

“The second section of the book is not only an invaluable vade-mecum for the student of archeology on the spot, but a mine of information for the general student of history.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1085. My. 20, ’09. 350w.

“For the space which the author has allotted to the treatment of his subject we consider the mass of information furnished to be marvelous. Whether for the tour or the study this book will prove of exceptional value to those who consult it. The whole work impresses us as scholarly and complete and as well adapted for the class-room as for private reading.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 38: 304. F. 20, ’09. 200w.

“To his writing Arthur L. Frothingham has brought wide and thorough knowledge, ardent interest, and the ability to take the comprehensive philosophical view, as well as to study detail.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 808. D. 26, ’08. 320w.

“The plan of the present volume is simple and admirable.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 775. Ap. 3, ’09. 300w.

“Mr. Frothingham’s book is not a handbook as are other handbooks. It is a really interesting study of Roman mediæval art, written by a man who has lived in Rome and worked in Rome, and written of Rome not because he wishes to say something but because he has something to say.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 170. Ag. 7, ’09. 850w.

“This is a book which the traveller will find very interesting if he desires to trace the building of the Christian churches out of the ruins of the Imperial city.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 689. O. 30, ’09. 270w.

=Fry, William Henry.=^{[8]} New Hampshire as a royal province.
(Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law,
v. 29, no. 2.) *$3. Longmans.

9–2759.

Deals with the colonial history of New Hampshire under the following heads: The executive; The legislature; The land system; Finance; Justice; Military affairs.

* * * * *

“The work in its entirety presents a view of colonial New Hampshire which will add a valuable contribution to its history and will afford fresh evidence of the abundance and value of the material which the author has found available for his present undertaking.” A. S. B.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 854. Jl. ’09. 380w.

“A careful treatment.” J. P. Bretz.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 130. Je. ’09. 480w.

“Deals with the constitutional history of the Province in a very careful and elaborate manner. The absence of an index is a drawback to the usefulness of the volume.” H. E. E.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 619. Jl. ’09. 60w.

=Frye, William Edward.= After Waterloo: reminiscences of European
travel, 1815–1819; ed., with a preface and notes by Salomon Reinach.
*10s. 6d. W. Heinemann, 21 Bedford st., W. C., London.

9–17187.

A reprint of a volume that appeared after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo. “Major Frye’s descriptions and observations relate for the most part to the various objects of interest which the ordinary traveler of his time was apt to encounter as he moved about in the Continental states. The Major gives us minute accounts of his visits to German, French, Italian, Swiss, Austrian, and Belgian cities, which are rather entertaining, because of the contrasts they suggest between his time and our own, in respect to means of locomotion, hotel methods and prices, municipal practices, and the manners and customs of the people. A more important portion of the Major’s book bears upon the politics of Europe in that period when the allied armies were endeavoring to accomplish the downfall of Napoleon.”

* * * * *

“We thank Mr. Salomon Reinach for presenting to the world a diary which gains high interest by his notes.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 678. N. 28. 900w.

“An interesting post-Napoleonic document.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1142. My. 27, ’09. 90w.

“He is often naïve, but still this account of his travels is pleasant reading.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 411. Ap. 22, ’09. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 560w.

“His psychology, when politics are put aside, is not uninteresting.”

− + =Sat. R.= 107: 276. F. 27, ’09. 1350w.

“Mr. Reinach has written an introduction to the book which is brief and unfortunate. The bigotry and hypocrisy of the Major are evident on every page in his book, and it is clear that Mr. Reinach is insufficiently acquainted with English history or with the aims and achievements of English Toryism.”

− =Spec.= 102: 98. Ja. 16, ’09. 1700w.

=Fuller, Hubert Bruce.=^{[10]} Speakers of the House. **$2. Little.

9–28103.

A brief, dispassionate story of the development of power by the presiding officer of the lower House of Congress from 1789, when the Speaker was merely a moderator, to the present day when the same officer is the most potent factor in American legislative life. The history is preceded by an introductory chapter wherein is traced the origin and development of this office in England and colonial America.

* * * * *

“Less valuable and scholarly than Follett’s ‘Speaker of the House of representatives,’ but covers a later period and is better adapted for public library use.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 115. D. ’09.

“The book improves decidedly when recent congressional history is reached.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 603. N. 09. 200w.

“A well-knit presentation of the history of the speaker’s office.”

+ =Cath. World.= 90: 391 D. ’09. 620w.

“Those to whom history is not merely past politics, but past gossip, past anecdote, and past scandal, will enjoy this book.”

− =Dial.= 47: 339. N. 1, ’09. 200w.

“The book will undoubtedly find a place in the unacademic and readable literature of American politics.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1092. N. 11, ’09. 600w.

“The book has been very well put together.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 635. O. 16, ’09. 210w.

“Errors of taste and style should not obscure the fact that the book is extraordinarily interesting; that it fills a want, that it is valuable, and that in the main the author has performed his task with great skill. It is entirely non-partisan in tone.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 626. O. 23, ’09. 1450w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 90w.

=Furlong, Charles Wellington.=^{[12]} Gateway to the Sahara:
observations and experiences in Tripoli. **$2.50. Scribner.

9–25983.

An informing book on Tripoli and Tripolitania. It includes “an insight into this most native of the Barbary capitals, its odd and fascinating customs, industries, and incidents; a view of those strange and interesting people who inhabit the oases and table-lands of Tripolitania, their primitive methods and patriarchal life; a narrative of some personal adventures which occurred during a trip alone with Arabs over some two hundred miles of the great Sahara: and a description of the daily life and vicissitudes of the camel and the Sahara caravans, of the trails over which they travel, and of the great wastes which surround them.”

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 73. N. ’09. ✠

“There is real insight into the unique fascination of the most unspoiled of the Barbary capitals, pictures, full of color and atmosphere, of its life and of the strange peoples who inhabit the oases and plateaus of Tripoli.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 461. D. 1, ’09. 230w.

“The book has local color, it is excellently written, the mixed population, its strange ways and methods of thought, as they reveal themselves to the unbeliever, receiving as much attention as the country itself.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1042. N. 4, ’09. 210w.

“Mr. Furlong’s readable narrative is accompanied by many admirable illustrations.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 558. N. 6, ’09. 200w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 100w. + =Spec.= 103: 796. N. 13, ’09. 190w.

=Futrelle, Jacques.=^{[10]} Diamond master. †$1. Bobbs.

9–27746.

When a young man proves to New York’s greatest diamond experts that he has in his possession enough diamonds to flood the market and when these diamonds are perfect and often duplicates of the great diamonds of the world, the experts are naturally excited. They have this young man shadowed by detectives and there are many interesting complications involving much mystery and even murder. When everything is at last made clear and the young man explains that his diamonds are manufactured, the secret process is already lost, and the danger to the diamond market past.

* * * * *

“An entertaining tale.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 653. O. 23, ’09. 10w.

“A breathlessly, interesting tale.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 783. D. 11, ’09. 270w.

=Futrelle, Jacques.=^{[6]} Elusive Isabel. †$1.50. Bobbs.

9–13428.

A story that deals with an international plot of war in which the “elusive Isabel” is a delicate and vital instrument. It involves the determination of the Latin countries to unite in ending the sway of England and the United States, and to dominate the world—socially, spiritually, commercially and artistically. How an American secret service man foils the plan, how he also falls in love with the woman who engineered the compact is told convincingly and with not a little verve.

* * * * *

“There is a lot of good detective work done in it of the romantic kind.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 425. Ag. 19, ’09. 130w.

“Mr. Futrelle certainly has a knack of making a tangled skein and unraveling it quite simply. The atmosphere of the story—whether it be real or not—takes the reader out of himself and away from his conceived notions of Washington as a ‘city of evasion and conventionalities.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 337. My. 29, ’09. 280w.

=Fyvie, John.=^{[5]} Tragedy queens of the Georgian era. *$4. Dutton.

9–22022.

Traces the “personal and artistic” career of the following actresses of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century: Elizabeth Barry; Anne Bracegirdle; Anne Oldfield; Mary Porter; Susannah Cibber; Hannah Pritchard; Mary Anne Yates; Anne Crawford; Elizabeth Pope; Elizabeth Inchbald; Sarah Siddons; Julia Glover; and Eliza O’Neill.

* * * * *

“The book necessarily savors somewhat of the scandalous chronicle, but is attractive, on the whole instructive, and furnishes information hitherto only obtainable from scattered sources.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 73. N. ’09.

“He furnishes in one attractive and, on the whole, instructive book, information hitherto obtainable only in a long course of miscellaneous reading.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 446. Ap. 29, ’09. 700w.

“Of each actress there is a good biographical sketch, full of gossip and anecdote.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 270. My. 1, ’09. 920w.

=Fyvie, John.=^{[11]} Wits, beaux and beauties of the Georgian era.
*$4. Lane.

Eight essays “illustrating social England in the eighteenth century.... They take the form of biographical sketches with the emphasis placed on the social aspects of life. Some of these were well worth writing: the introductory essay on Samuel Foote, the ‘English Aristophanes,’ is particularly interesting not only as a vigorous defence of the actor-dramatist, but also for the light that it sheds on the world that Foote satirized on the London stage. The author supports his conclusions by quoting liberally from Foote’s plays.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“A pleasant and instructive piece of work. If his style is not greatly alluring, it is at all events lucid and sober; and although he may not touch bed-rock on all occasions in his historical research, he marshalls his facts industriously and avoids serious mistakes.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 63. Jl. 17. 1050w.

“Mr. Fyvie’s work contains little that is new or original. His work is throughout a very readable one; the English is delightful, though at times somewhat informal.”

+ − =Dial.= 47: 289. O. 16, ’09. 270w.

“Mr. Fyvie’s chapters will be lively reading for those who are not too familiar with their themes; they will sound pretty stale to those who have kept up at all with the recent anecdotal literature of the eighteenth century. Mr. Fyvie writes conscientiously and with a fair degree of vivacity.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 385. O. 21, ’09. 230w.

“Mr. Fyvie’s book—which, by the way, contains a surprising number of typographical errors which careful proof-reading should have eliminated—is an admirable example of condensed literature, fortunately unknown to the period of which he writes.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 592. O. 9, ’09. 1150w.

G

=Gadow, Hans Friedrich.= Through southern Mexico: an account of the
travels of a naturalist. *$6. Scribner.

9–6066.

“The present volume is based on two journeys which [Professor Gadow and his wife] took during the period from June to September in 1902 and 1904, through some of the wilder portions of southern Mexico.... The material includes personal adventures, short dissertations on fauna and flora, and on the human inhabitants, past and present.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“More attractive to the general reader than Starr’s ‘In Indian Mexico.’”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 12. S. ’09.

“Dr. Gadow’s book is a valuable contribution to Mexicana, because he went where few have gone, and did what none have done.” F: Starr.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 176. S. 16, ’09. 850w.

“The style is clear, and the author’s observations reveal the keenness of vision of a thoroughly good field naturalist. A more serious defect is the lack of a good index. The seven pages devoted to one are almost wasted.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 633. D. 24, ’08. 670w.

“A collection of scientific observations and speculations of considerable value.” J. W. E.

+ =Nature.= 79: 252. D. 31, ’08. 1300w.

“A fascinating contribution to the travel books of the year.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 90w.

=Gairdner, James.= Lollardy and the reformation in England: an
historical survey. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.

8–34724.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“Though the facts adduced are almost invariably stated with accuracy, it is not always easy to see how they bear on the main question. No worthy student of the English reformation can feel otherwise than grateful that it has seen the light.” R. B. Merriman.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 573. Ap. ’09. 770w.

“Dr. Gairdner is neither so clear nor so satisfactory in his general remarks as in his criticism of evidence; here and there the work would have gained in clearness by expansion of short judgments. On the other hand, scattered throughout the book there are passages and notes containing corrections and accepted dates and received statements which give us an accomplished authority at his best.” J. P. Whitney.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 780. O. ’09. 2350w.

“No student can afford to neglect his book; but the foregoing incidents are only a few out of many which might be quoted to warn the reader that Dr. Gairdner’s bias is sometimes strongest where his tone is most judicial.” G. G. Coulton.

+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 693. Ap. ’09. 1750w.

“Many of Mr. Gairdner’s chapters are interesting reading, and he has done a real historical service in presenting the point of view of authority in the contest with the new forces that were impelling men to think for themselves and to protest against the abuses and encroachments of the Roman hierarchy.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 866. Ap. 22, ’09. 950w.

“His particular antipathy seems to be directed against the use of the Bible as a source of religious certainty to the individual soul. Even his style, generally dignified and objective, becomes contemptuous and ironical whenever he approaches this side of his subject.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 537. My. 27, ’09. 800w.

“Scholarly and valuable volumes.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 889. D. 19, ’08. 500w.

“Dr. Gairdner moves among his materials with a veteran’s ease. Diffuse and garrulously innocent of literary artifice, he is yet so learned and so honest that the scandal he causes by looking at things from the point of view of the people he writes about rather than from the conventional Liberal standpoint of the modern historian is almost forgiven him. The present book will be indispensable to students. Yet it has neither unity nor form.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 501. Ap. 17, ’09. 1100w.

=Gale, Zona.=^{[12]} Friendship Village love stories. $1.50.
Macmillan.

9–29428.