Chapter XXIV: Part 2: , Three Boston object lessons in taxation; Part 3, Private (4)
+ − =Nation.= 88: 46. Ja. 14, ’09. 900w.
“Superlative praise for MacDowell’s best work does not seem too much to this critic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 320w.
“We could have chosen no one in America better fitted to write the authoritative biography of our greatest American composer.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 263. Ag. ’09. 330w.
“It is balanced and not uncritical.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 291. F. 6, ’09. 90w.
“There is a lack of balance, of just proportion and clear perspective.” D. G. Mason.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 6: 110. Ap. ’09. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 255. F. ’09. 70w.
=Ginzberg, Louis.=^{[6]} Legends of the Jews; tr. from the German
manuscript by Henrietta Szold. $2. Jewish pub.
9–14182.
=v. 1.= Bible times and characters from the creation to Jacob. This is the first instalment of a work whose aim is that of gathering from the original sources all Jewish legends, in so far as they refer to Biblical personages and events, and of reproducing them with the greatest attainable completeness and accuracy. Contents: The creation of the world; Adam; The ten commandments; Noah; Abraham; Jacob.
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“These tales are really expressions of the Hebrew mind wrestling with the problems of biblical interpretation and the difficulties of life itself, and offering solutions of all these difficulties as nearly as possible. The arrangement of the tales is excellent and the translation most happy.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 369. Ag. 12, ’09. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A word of special praise is due the translator, for her important share of the work, done so faithfully and acceptably.” A. S. Isaacs.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 443. Jl. 17, ’09. 930w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Gladden, Rev. Washington.=^{[11]} Recollections. **$2. Houghton.
9–28138.
The author announces at the start that his story is simply that of an average American; that its interest will not be found in any exploits of the narrator, but in whatever power he has possessed of looking sympathetically at the things he has seen and of accurately reporting them. “Most readers will agree that the best wine is put before them early.... Dr. Gladden’s memory of the rude early years is not only retentive, but intense and visualizing. The price which poverty had to pay for bread and books is set down with detail that sticks in the mind. For the rest, the ‘Recollections’ are discursive, part autobiography and part contemporary history, and stamped with that broad churchmanship and geniality, combined with the capacity to stand up stoutly for a firm conviction, which we have been accustomed to associate with the author.” (Nation.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 116. D. ’09.
“Biblical students will appreciate the recollections of the beginning of larger views of the Bible in America.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 431. D. ’09. 100w. + =Cath. World.= 90: 389. D. ’09. 500w.
“The chapters describing the nature of the struggle for livelihood and for education, in a family of artisans and farmers seventy years ago, are more interesting than the later ones.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 411. O. 28, ’09. 150w.
“The book is less a biography than an account of the progress of the last half-century by one who has had a very important part in making that progress possible. It is an important foot-note to the history of America in one of its most critical periods. On one important point only has the ‘Outlook’ as an interpreter found itself compelled to differ with Dr. Gladden. In his campaign against what was called ‘tainted money’ we thought, and still think, that he misinterpreted a wide spread popular prejudice, which he shared, for a fundamental ethical principle common to humanity.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 766. D. 4, ’09. 1500w.
“Dr. Gladden’s luminous style makes this book of ‘Recollections’ especially attractive.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 754. D. ’09. 160w.
=Glasgow, Ellen Anderson.=^{[6]} Romance of a plain man. $1.50.
Macmillan.
9–12083.
Ben Starr, son of an uneducated stone-cutter, at the age of seven or thereabouts is called “common” by a wee lass with red shoes and a drenched white coat who with her mother is storm sent to Benjy’s poor little home for shelter. Tho not quite understanding the haughtily pronounced epithet, Benjy is sensitive to the scorn in the child’s tone. From this moment Benjy’s development begins. He is not brilliant but determined, and taunts and jibes but increase his resolution. From the post of delivery boy for a meat and fruit dealer to the presidency of a railroad his course is one of unremitting hard work. It is nevertheless made a path of joy by the winning of the spirited heroine whose contempt for the boy is transformed into love and honor for the man.
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“One of the author’s best stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 187. Je. ’09. ✠
“The author has command of the story-teller’s art, and treats an old theme with a deft hand.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 424. O. 9. 180w.
“The earlier part of the book is worked out with much significant realism of detail; the latter part is more commonplace.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 682. N. ’09. 180w.
“Perhaps the simplest as well as the shortest way to define this book is to say that it belongs in the same general class with Professor Robert Herrick’s admirable ‘Memoirs of an American citizen.’” Philip Tillinghast.
+ =Forum.= 41: 616. Je. ’09. 650w.
“The author dramatizes in a perfectly truthful manner the difference between the temperament of an aristocrat and the character of a ‘plain man.’”
+ =Ind.= 67: 423. Ag. 19, ’09. 500w.
“A fine appreciation is shown by the author of the best in both the old aristocracy and the democracy of the plain people.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 102. Jl. 17, ’09. 240w.
“The subtle individuality of the writer invests the most hackneyed themes with a touch of her own originality.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 37. Jl. 8, ’09. 380w.
“Miss Glasgow’s intimate sketches of Southern scenes and people are always interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 374. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“Miss Glasgow, as always, has a story to tell, and knows how to tell it. She writes with a fine reserve and with a sure instinct for the dramatic situation and the telling phrase.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 402. Je. 26, ’09. 750w.
“It is a significant contribution to the literary interpretation of the new order in the South.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 309. Je. 5, ’09. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 50w.
“This is a fine novel, written with delicacy.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 173. Ag. 7, ’09. 170w.
“The book is an interesting specimen of the business novel.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 245. Ag. 14, ’09. 320w.
=Glaspell, Susan.= Glory of the conquered: the story of a great love.
†$1.50. Stokes.
9–6277.
A rugged scientist in the Chicago university weds a young artist, a woman who is the embodiment of exquisite femininity. Their dream of happiness ends when the husband thru a careless trick of rubbing his eyes inoculates them with the most virulent germ known to pathology; he becomes blind. There follows a period of struggle during which a mighty man succumbs to his fate; while the wife, all devotion, resolves to take up his laboratory work and be eyes for him. Then he is taken from her, and out of her poignant grief grows a resolution to go back to the soul of things, to fight, to work, to conquer seeming fate, to bring back to her world harmony and the light.
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“An intensely emotional story, but remarkable for its vivid realism and imaginative power.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 147. My. ’09.
“Unfortunately, the story requires more scientific and professional colouring than the author has supplied, but her heroine inspires some touching dialogue.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 358. S. 25. 130w.
“Frankly, while the attempted symbolism of the last chapter is obvious enough, it must be regarded as a distinct anticlimax to a book that otherwise is the best American novel of the month.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 317. My. ’09. 1000w.
“Nothing is spared our feelings in this narrative, and nothing but the richness and tenderness of the author’s sympathies makes it tolerable.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 183. S. 16, ’09. 330w.
“There is much that is morbid in Miss Glaspell’s first novel, ‘The glory of the conquered,’ and something that is fine.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 602. S. 9, ’09. 600w.
“Whoever can appreciate this point of view will find the story well told, even excellently told at times; and possibly be so captivated by its lachrymose lights and shadows that she will even overlook the utter superfluity of Georgia, Joe Tank, and some other characters.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 489. My. 13, ’09. 360w.
“In the telling of the story there is an unusual amount of beauty, grace, imagination, and emotional impressiveness. Unless Susan Glaspell is an assumed name ... ‘The glory of the conquered’ brings forward a new author of fine and notable gifts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 145. Mr. 13, ’09. 420w.
“It is not often that an author comes forward with a first book so worthy of serious attention as is Miss Glaspell’s notable romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 374. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“There is something unusually appealing about the scientific professor at the university and his artist wife whose noble passion lifts the story, despite some faults of style, into the class of great novels.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 760. Je. ’09. 110w.
“The character-drawing is good, and altogether the novel is a piece of sound and conscientious work.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 565. O. 9, ’09. 170w.
=Glover, Terrot Reaveley.=^{[10]} Conflict of religions in the early
Roman empire. *$2.50. Scribner.
9–27581.
An elaboration of certain lectures delivered at Mansfield college. “In the foreground is the life of Christ, the simplicity and directness of His example and His teaching.” (Ath.) The author “realizes clearly that Christianity created a new civilisation, and he shows also that it was not the conversion of the empire that destroyed the ancient civilisation.” (Sat. R.)
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“The volume before us does not pretend to completeness. It is even wanting in logical development. We thank him for his studies, and hope to read more of them.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 234. Ag. 28. 630w.
“This volume is, so far as it touches on theological problems, an essentially partisan work. Regarded as a denominational treatise it is worthy of careful attention, if only for the light that it throws on the theological tendencies of modern Nonconformity. Controversial matters apart, the book is interesting. Its author is a good classical scholar, and the chapters that discuss Lucretius, Vergil, and Plutarch make fascinating reading.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 293. S. 4, ’09. 570w.
=Glyn, Elinor.=^{[6]} Elizabeth visits America. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–13919.
A quarrel between Elizabeth and her Lord “Harry” sends him to Africa to shoot big game and her to the States. In a series of letters to her mother she gives with sprightly abandon her impressions of things American from New York to San Francisco. A reconciliation is happily effected upon the last page.
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“It is to be hoped that the Marchioness of Valmond will remain at home in the future if she can not use her eyes and ears to better advantage than she did during her recent visit to America.”
− =Lit. D.= 39: 441. S. 18, ’09. 270w.
“In short, Mrs. Glyn not only used her eyes and her imagination to her own great entertainment during her grand tour of the United States of America, but she has used her pen and her wits very cleverly in telling the Americans what she thinks it will amuse them most to have her say about them. Even when she is cruel she takes care to flatter the pet foibles of all but the grossly pork-prosperous and the smart set already mentioned.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 321. My. 22, ’09. 1000w.
“Makes very readable copy of her recent visit to the United States.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 374. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“After Mr. Wells and Mr. Henry James here is Elizabeth, with a picture of America which, if it lacks the philosophy of the one and the artistry of the other, will probably supply an illumination for many who would find more reasoned criticism intellectually inaccessible.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 728. Je. 5, ’09. 600w.
=Glyn, Margaret H.=^{[5]} Analysis of the evolution of musical form.
*$3.50. Longmans.
9–18572.
“Miss Glyn seeks an intelligible basis of music that will afford foundation and breadth of artistic criticism; a truthful, intellectual presentment of the growth of musical form.” (N. Y. Times.) “The chief value lies in the application of the comparative method. Musical evolution in Europe is contrasted with what we know of the development and present condition of the art in Oriental countries, and in this way new light is thrown on various disputed problems.” (Nation.)
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“A book such as the present, which sets one thinking, is valuable, even though one cannot agree in all points with the writer.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 537. My. 1. 850w.
“Frankly and briefly, the theory of Miss Glyn seems to be sound. The musical world will not revise its terminology to suit Miss Glyn, and it does not need to in order to understand her theory. There is not one thought in her pages that could not be expressed with perfect lucidity by the terms in common use.” F: R. Burton.
+ − =Forum.= 42: 270. S. ’09. 470w.
“It cannot be said that this is an entertaining book, or one in which it is easy to follow the author’s course of reasoning at all points. She indulges in an abstruse style of ratiocination which requires pages to explain what a more concrete and imaginative writer would more fully elucidate in as many paragraphs. Yet it is a stimulating and instructive book, which must be commended not only to students—and experts—in musical theory and history, but to composers as well.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 392. Ap. 15, ’09. 750w.
“There is much that is illuminating and suggestive in this book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 275. My. 1, ’09. 770w.
=Godfrey, Elizabeth, pseud. (Jessie Bedford).=^{[7]} Sister of Prince
Rupert, Elizabeth, princess palatine, and abbess of Herford. *$4.
Lane.
9–27771.
A life of the daughter of the King of Bohemia “decidedly worth reading, for it is that of a sweet and sane soul, despite a personality somewhat stiff and formal. She was essentially noble in spirit. The historical background is thoroughly picturesque, and the other members of her romantic family were adventurous and unusual to the highest degree. From the time that the numerous brothers and sisters played together in the King’s house at Rhenen to their scattered deaths here and there over Europe, the story is brimful of human life, and the writer seems to have hesitated at no trouble to make it complete.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Miss Godfrey’s work has considerable interest; but most of all it will be appreciated as a faithful and sympathetic picture of an unusual type of royal womanhood.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 240. O. 1, ’09. 330w.
“It cannot be denied that this biography has many of the crudities that mark this kind of writing to-day, but it is based on good knowledge of the sources, is, in general, despite its lapses, simply written, and has to its great advantage a thoroughly entertaining subject which is not much known to the ordinary English reader.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 608. Je. 17, ’09. 700w.
“If the author’s style lacks distinction, the book is yet very agreeable reading. The human element is felt and conveyed. The personages of the biography are no cold abstractions, but real men and women.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 338. My. 29, ’09. 1200w.
=Godfrey, Hollis.=^{[10]} For the Norton name. (Young captains of
industry.) †$1.25. Little.
9–24949.
The first of a new series of stories for boys entitled “Young captains of industry.” It follows the success of a young college man who puts to the test his inherited resourcefulness and acquired attainments in saving from ruin the Norton glass factory business left in a precarious state at his father’s death.
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“A clear, straightforward and interesting narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 583. O. 2, ’09. 150w.
=Godley, Alfred Denis.= Oxford in the eighteenth century. *$2.25.
Putnam.
E9–792.
Aiming to convey some idea of the conditions of life at Oxford in the eighteenth century, the author has chosen from a mass of material the salient aspects of the academic life of the period and presented them in “subject catalog” form. He deals with such subjects as university examinations, college and university teaching, social life in colleges and the amusements of undergraduates. Oxford’s attitude towards politics of the time is also revealed.
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“Oxford still has her wits; and here one of the brightest, whose verse has now delighted a whole generation, comes forth to tell in witty prose the ‘curiosities’ of a bygone age.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 65. Ja. 16. 1500w.
“A charming series of sketches of the academic long ago.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 97. Ja. ’09. 120w.
“Mr. Godley has gone through the material dutifully, he writes with a sense for English rather above the average, he has an attractive theme, but he mars all by the supposition that it is dull to be orderly, and that the reader’s mind cannot dwell on one subject more than five minutes.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 463. N. 12, ’08. 350w.
“To American readers those chapters which show how the undergraduates passed their time will be the most interesting in the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 600w.
“He has brought together in his pleasant Eusebian way most of the chatty information which a hurried and ugly age wants about that leisured and charming old Oxford which is so near us and yet so far away.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 671. N. 28, ’08. 920w.
“Whether he convinces us or not that the university of that maligned epoch was better than we thought it, at least he furnishes us with a good deal of material for forming or revising our judgment.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 946. D. 5, ’08. 1300w.
=Godsal, Philip T.=^{[5]} Storming of London and the Thames valley
campaign: a military study of the conquest of Britain by the Angles.
10s. 6d. Harrison & Sons, London.
9–4908.
“An attempt to reconstruct the story of the Anglo-Saxon conquest on the basis of ‘military principles’ and a study of topography and placenames. The conquest, [the author] believes, was undertaken and carried on by a highly organized nation, the Angles, occupying the Baltic shores from Sweden to the Elbe. Their neighbors, the Saxons, played a merely subordinate part as allies.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“The entire work is a series of conjectures and inferences, some of them quite plausible, but most of them highly improbable. To these conjectures the author gives the value of established facts. Evidently such a work can not be regarded as serious history. It rather belongs in that class of writings that we sometimes call historical fiction.” L. M. Larson.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 601. Ap. ’09. 300w. − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 540. O. 31. 880w.
“The author knows nothing of such work as Mr. F. Haverfield’s on the condition of Britain in this age, nor has he any adequate comprehension of the position of the Roman empire in the fifth century. He has no grasp of the succession of tradition, e.g. from Gildas to Bede. Most of the book is built upon ‘a priori’ reasoning from military considerations drawn from warfare of to-day.” T. N.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 606. Jl. ’09. 550w.
“His ample volume gives evidence of long and profound study of the subject and of deep interest in it, and will make an important addition to the historical literature dealing with the overflow of Britain by the Angles and allied tribes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 32. Ja. 16, ’09. 150w.
“Amid much that is tawdry and turgid there exists, however, considerable skill and ingenuity in the presentation of his case by the author.”
− + =Sat. R.= 107: 533. Ap. 24, ’09. 1000w.
“A theory, like a soldier, may be a good servant but a bad master, and we fancy most people will declare that Major Godsal has been mastered by his. We have certainly found it very interesting.”
− + =Spec.= 102: 342. F. 27, ’09. 1650w.
=Going, Charles Buxton.= Star-glow and song. **$1.20. Harper.
9–9808.
Among these eighty varied poems are poems of nature, love, hero-worship, subliminal fancy, sleepy-time melodies, and songs of the sea.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 165. Je. ’09.
“It is easy to say that it is good average magazine-poetry, workmanlike, earnest, and uninspired; but that sounds like faint praise; and the book deserves no condemnation. In its two hundred pages there is not a banal thought nor a slovenly line.” Brian Hooker.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 369. Je. ’09. 250w. − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 57. My. 13, ’09. 430w.
“These verses are marked by clear thought, a terse, compressed, yet perfectly lucid expression, born, it may be, of two or three writers whose manner still holds the public attention.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 367. Ag. 12, ’09. 320w. + =Nation.= 89: 54. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 503. Ag. 21, ’09. 250w.
“In his collection entitled ‘Star-glow and song’ there is a good deal of lyric and dramatic fervor.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 40w.
=Goll, August.=^{[12]} Criminal types in Shakespeare; tr. by Mrs.
Charles Weekes. *5s. Methuen, London.
The reason why the problem of the criminal is still unsolved is set forth in Mr. Goll’s introduction. “Society never seriously takes the trouble to penetrate the shell of the criminal’s actions, or find the path to his soul. He represents to the public simply a danger to be feared, to the jurist a crime to be punished, to the prison authorities a sin to be purged, and to no one is he a human being to be understood. Mr. Goll goes into the ‘why’ and ‘wherefore.’ He dissects and analyses the types he takes from the immortal genius of Shakespeare, puts them under a microscope, and shows step by step the minds at work, till one gets a new insight into criminal methods, and studies the poet’s characters in a new light.” (Spec.)
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“Practically Mr. Goll’s book does not enlighten as much, but as a literary study of a set of Shakespearean characters it is worth reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 572. N. 6, ’09. 300w.
“To all students of criminology this book should appeal; to all lovers of Skakespeare it should be a companion volume, for it is written by a student capable of exhibiting many of the poet’s characters in a new light. In addition, it is full of things that will entertain the general reader.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 980. Je. 19, ’09. 650w.
=Gomme, E. E. C.=, tr.^{[10]} Anglo-Saxon chronicle. *$2. Macmillan.
W9–269.
“The problem of making this work, in its various recensions, fully accessible to readers unacquainted with Old English, is not altogether easy. Mr. Gomme has adopted what seems on the whole the most satisfactory plan. He has translated the text of the Parker ms. (A) so far as it extends, inserting the additional or materially divergent entries of the other mss. in their chronological place, with due indication of their sources, and giving the minor variations, so far as they are significant in the foot-notes. After the year 1070, where the Parker ms. ends, the Peterborough chronicle (ms. E) takes its place as the basis of the translation, the variants and additions of other mss. being inserted under the respective years.”—Ath.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 15: 206. O. ’09. 40w.
“We think the translator has made an unfortunate mistake in leaving the Latin passages in that language. The translation, so far as we have compared it with the original, is substantially correct. It is very literal, often to the sacrifice of modern English idiom. Now and then the literal rendering is positively misleading. The first foot-note is copied verbatim from Mr. Plummer’s edition, the important correction at the end of that volume having been overlooked.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 151. Ag. 7. 400w.
“We can only thank Mr. Gomme for making this work accessible to ordinary students at a modest price. His volume is furnished with excellent notes and index, and his translation, though a critic ignorant of Anglo-Saxon cannot judge of its scholarship, is eminently readable.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 382. S. 11, ’09. 1250w.
=Goodnow, Frank Johnson.=^{[9]} Municipal government. **$3. Century.
9–23987.
A thorogoing handbook which aims both to treat the historical development of the city institutions in western Europe and to discover the characteristics that distinguish the social conditions of modern urban population, in the hope that help may be obtained in the solution of the problems presented by city life.
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“The best now in the field either for the student or the general reader. Not so detailed as Fairlie’s ‘Municipal administration’ but more readable; Munro’s ‘Government of European cities’ is more complete for foreign governments.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 74. N. ’09.
“Professor Goodnow has drawn an outline so harmonious and well proportioned as to form a text-book of non-partizan and masterly completeness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 537. O. 2, ’09. 420w.
“Almost half Mr. Goodnow’s book is devoted to subjects outside the range of Mr. Munro’s book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 642. O. 23, ’09. 630w.
=Outlook.= 93: 90. S. 18, ’09. 1450w.
“Those students and general readers who are familiar with Professor Goodnow’s book on ‘City government in the United States’ will find the present more comprehensive treatment of the subject extremely interesting as well as practically helpful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 110w.
=Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson=, ed.^{[7]} Epistle to the Hebrews. *50c.
Macmillan.
8–31485.
“The series of handy commentaries on the Old and New Testament of which this is the first volume to appear is addressed to the general reader seeking to put at his disposal the results of the best modern scholarship. The revised version of 1881 occupies the upper part of the page, the somewhat full comment standing below. In the introduction Hebrews is held to have been addresses to Roman Christians in the later years of Domitian.”—Bib. World.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 646. O. ’09. 140w. + =Bib. World.= 32: 440. D. ’08. 70w.
“The notes are compact and fairly comprehensive, the philological, historical, and theological phases of the study all receiving due attention. The comments also offer a more minute subdivision of the subject-matter than that given in the paragraph headings of the text.” S. J. Case.
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 64. Jl. ’09. 200w. + =Educ. R.= 37: 100. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“It is to be commended for the purpose designed.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 152. Ja. 21, ’09. 60w.
=Goodwin, Maud Wilder.=^{[10]} Veronica Playfair. †$1.50. Little.
9–24958.
The story of a spirited young woman of the shire of Somerset who is taken to London to have her hoydenish ways mended. The time is that of Pope, Lady Mary Montagu, Benjamin Franklin and Dean Swift, and the author takes occasion to set his heroine down at Twickenham to see how she will deport herself among the distinguished literary folk. Certain chapters connected with the heroine’s romance portray the social life of Bath in its heyday.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 90. N. ’09. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 584. O. 2, ’09. 350w.
=Gordon, Rev. George Angier.=^{[10]} Religion and miracle. **$1.30.
Houghton.
9–27433.
Five lectures delivered on the Nathaniel W. Taylor foundation at Yale university. Five lectures whose aim in a broad sense is that of contributing toward the final emancipation of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity from the cycle of signs and wonders. The author says: “I am concerned to show that where miracle has ceased to be regarded as true, Christianity remains in its essence entire; that the fortune of religion is not to be identified with the fortune of miracle; that the message of Jesus Christ to this world is independent of miracle.” Contents: The issue defined; Belief in God and miracle; Jesus Christ and miracle; The Christian life and miracle; An eternal gospel.
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=Bib. World.= 34: 431. D. ’09. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 761. D. ’09. 100w.
=Gordon, H. Laing.=^{[11]} Modern mother: a guide to girlhood,
motherhood and infancy. $2. Fenno.
A work that turns the attention of the mother to the rational means of preparing the body for its functions and of maintaining health during and after their performance. Prevention is the key note of the study.
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“‘The modern mother’ is absolutely sane and wholesome, and should be put in the hands of all who are likely to be the mothers of America. We recommend the work very highly.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 960. N. 27, ’09. 200w.
=Gordon, Kate.=^{[11]} Esthetics. *$1.50. Holt.
9–25958.
A text-book whose object is (1) to give to students a concise statement of some of the most important facts about esthetic experience and artistic activity and (2) to stimulate among students some interest in the experimental treatment of esthetic problems.
=Gordon, Lina Duff (Mrs. Aubrey Waterfield).= Home life in Italy:
letters from the Apennines. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–35752.
From the vantage point of an empty castle among the Carrara mountains the author has studied the people of Lunigiana, and has given “a succession of sketches, often dramatic in form, which have the cumulative effect of conveying a true idea of the characters and customs.” (Spec.)
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“A thoroughly enjoyable, yet informing book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 288. D. ’08. ✠
“One of the most delightful books of gossip about life in Italy that we have ever read. It has in itself, perhaps, but little claim to be called literature; it is without form, or any sort of order or construction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 700w.
“The chief merit of the book is its somewhat piquant way of describing the daily household incidents, those that involve the doings and sayings of children and servants, the marketing, the hours in the garden, etc., such minor but interesting things as we welcome in the well-written letters of a personal friend.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 231. Ap. 1, ’09. 250w.
“A book that represents the real home life in the Italian Apennines.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1461. D. 17, ’08. 120w.
“Mrs. Waterfield shows us all sides without prejudice or controversy, and with unfailing good humor. Here is the best book of the kind we have seen for a long time.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 196. F. 25, ’09. 210w.
“What a delightful picture we have here of the life of this particular little corner!” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 6: 238. My. ’09. 480w.
“Indeed, we have but one quarrel with her—her treatment of the country priest and of the actual religion of the country as she seems to have seen it. We strongly recommend every lover of Italy to read this book. It is excellent and it is absolutely true. But we must draw the reader’s attention to the last chapter, ‘Cherubina’s diary.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 424. O. 3, ’08. 900w.
“It is agreeable and graceful from beginning to end. But, unfortunately, her experience leaves out a very large slice of Italian life, and that the most notable in recent history.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 542. O. 10, ’08. 1700w.
=Gordon-Smith, Richard.= Ancient tales and folklore of Japan. *$6.
Macmillan.
9–8402.
These stories have been transcribed from voluminous diaries which the author has kept during twenty-five years of travel in many lands, and particularly during nine spent in Japan on a mission of collecting for the British museum’s department of natural history. “His pursuits have brought him into contact with all sorts of people—the fisher, the farmer, the priest, the doctor—and from these he has gathered and set down a wealth of folklore and legend.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“In spite of its gloom and weirdness, the effect of this volume is not entirely sorrowful. In one respect he has not satisfied our anticipations. His title led us to hope for special chapters on native rites and customs, on superstitions, games and songs, but on these topics we must be content with scattered allusions. Apart from this omission Mr. Smith has treated us liberally.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 698. Je. 12. 700w.
“We miss an introductory chapter, which should discuss the origin of the tales, their relation to western folk-lore, and their place in modern Japanese life.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 144. Mr. 1, ’09. 240w.
“Many of them are new to Eastern readers, and most of them will be found interesting to students of folk-lore and lovers of old-world myths.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 169. Ap. ’09. 140w.
“Mr. Smith writes the stories down in a straightforward manner ... with sufficient honest skill to keep the curiosity awake through a good many pages. It is a book to read at intervals, and not straight through. The illustrations vary greatly also in execution, and as a body are more interesting than correct. Altogether, the book can be recommended as one of the most attractive recent works of which Japan has been the theme.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 627. D. 24, ’08. 240w.
“A very beautiful book, which will come under the head of fairy tales for children or folk lore tales for any one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 128. Ja. ’09. 30w.
“I think that the chief delight of this book is its pictures.” Lord Dunsany.
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 472. O. 16, ’09. 1400w.
“The first thing that attracts our admiration in this volume is the illustrations. They are excellent reproductions of Japanese art.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 314. Ag. 28, ’09. 470w.
=Gorky, Maxim.= The spy: the story of a superfluous man. $1.50.
Huebsch.
8–33904.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“He offers us a series of extremely interesting pictures of this proscribed nook of Russian life.” Abraham Cahan.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 90. Mr. ’09. 1300w.
“It is well for the world to know these facts, and here we have no vain exhibition of ugly pictures, no frivolous retailing of salacious incidents, no silly and purposeless ‘Three weeks’ tantalizing the appetite.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 201. Ja. 28, ’09. 360w.
“The translator has completed his task in a workmanlike manner, and, moreover, has succeeded in communicating much of the spirit and temperament of the original.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 121. Ja. ’09. 160w.
“The book gives the picture of Russian life which the British public desires, and its longueurs and inconsecutiveness will probably be condoned in consequence.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 798. D. 26, ’08. 130w.
=Gostling, Frances M.=^{[10]} Bretons at home; with an introd. by
Anatole Le Braz. **$2.50. McClurg.
9–35859.
Six years of leisurely wandering thru Brittany prepared the author for this sympathetic portrayal of Breton life and character. He dips into the history, their legendary lore and quaint superstitions, and shows how even to-day the Bretons are a people upon whom old traditions, old customs and old views of life have a tenacious hold.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 74. N. ’09. ✠
“It is an excellent work of its kind, and the kind is almost unique.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 755. Je. 26. 800w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 1073. D. 11, ’09. 130w.
“Thus heralded and adorned, Mrs. Gostling’s book itself is a little disappointing. Possibly, the wide range of her reading and her interests has tended to impair the unity and effectiveness of Mrs. Gostling’s book. She makes too great a demand upon the flexibility of her reader’s mind.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 575. D. 9, ’09. 480w.
“Why cannot an American write such books? She is tremendously up, speaking generally, on anthropology and folk-lore, and her suggestions and interpretations are illuminating.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 840. D. ’09. 150w.
“Mrs. Gostling’s recent book on Brittany and the Bretons is one of the best that has been published in English.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 384. S. 11, ’09. 500w.
=Gould, George Milbry.=^{[8]} Righthandedness and lefthandedness; with
chapters treating of the writing posture, the rule of the road, etc.
**$1.25. Lippincott.
8–16710.
“The book’s eight chapters, two of which are reprinted from ‘Biographic clinics,’ and the others collected from medical and scientific journals, treat chiefly of writing and the writing-posture in relation to the eyes and to spinal curvature, with useful advice and information in other kindred matters.” (Dial.) They are as follows: The origin of righthandedness: Why is a particular child righthanded or lefthanded? The rule of the road; Study of a case of two-handed synchronous writing; Visual function the cause of slanted handwriting; Its relation to school hygiene, school desks, malposture, spinal curvature, and myopia; The pathologic results of righteyedness and lefteyedness; A patient’s struggle for right-eye function; and The nomenclature of dextral, sinistral, and attentional organs and functions.
* * * * *
“In Dr. Gould’s book the eminent oculist clearly, and for the first time so far as we know, shows the part played by the eye in determining which shall be the dominant hand and foot.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 118. S. 1, ’08. 350w.
“That the right or left hand should come to be used exclusively for all highly specialized actions, as a consequence of the right or left eye being more nearly emmetropic than the other, seems to the reviewer to be untenable for several reasons.” H. C. Stevens.
− + =Science=, n.s. 30: 182. Ag. 6, ’09. 1250w.
=Grace’s= Earthwork tables. $5. Spon.
“These tables give contents in cubic yards of ground on uniform transverse slope and uniform longitudinal grade, for lengths of one chain (66 ft.), roadway widths of 12, 15, 18, 20, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 50 ft. and side slopes of 1/4 on 1, 1/2 on 1, 1 on 1, and 1–1/2 on 1.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“For the limited field they cover, the tables should be of great value, as they are remarkably clear and concise, but the additional transformation from 66 ft. chains to 100 ft. stations necessary for American practice will somewhat hamper their usefulness in this country.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: sup. 541. My. 14, ’08. 100w.
“A book that will be useful to railway engineers wherever the British chain is the unit of measurement.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Graham, David.= Grammar of philosophy. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–26258.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The most stimulating thing about the book is its confidence that it outlines the way of truth. It is a vigorous galvanizing of the common-sense theory of knowledge, exhibited with a fair degree of originality.” H. A. Youtz.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 313. Ap. ’09. 210w.
“Anything more violent than his mode of argument we have seldom read.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 786. D. 19. 120w.
“It never seems to have occurred to him that the advice he so freely offers to others might be retorted on himself—‘he is to be most strenuously recommended to retain his seat in golden silence.’”
− =Ind.= 66: 706. Ap. 1, ’09. 270w.
“Not only is the title of this book misleading—for it gives no analysis of scientific method, and is merely a defense of the attitude of ‘common sense’ in philosophy—but there is so little argument in it, and so much abuse, that the philosophical student will hardly care to spend much time with it.” W. H. Sheldon.
− =Philos. R.= 18: 236. Mr. ’09. 120w.
=Grainger, M. Allerdale.=^{[11]} Woodsmen of the West. $2.50.
Longmans.
9–7388.
Partly autobiographical. “Mr. Grainger goes to Vancouver, becomes a ‘logger,’ and writes a narrative of ‘logging’ in those fretted inlets between Vancouver Island and the mainland, and writes it in the language of ‘loggers.’ His writing falls on your ear, as you say the words over to yourself, like a burst of conversation from a bar-room in the West. It seems very casual. But as you read on you become conscious that Mr. Grainger has really got his language and his ideas very well in hand; he makes his impressions as with the cut of an axe and with no waste of material.” (Spec.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 40. O. ’09.
“If literature is the art of using the right words in the right way to produce particular effects—and what else can it or ought it to mean?—Mr. Grainger has performed a literary feat. The narrative is real, and necessarily true.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 945. D. 5, ’08. 2650w.
=Grant, Robert. Chippendales.= †$1.50. Scribner.
9–9472.
A story which “shows the Old Brahmin Boston in the painful process of being engulfed by the modern Boston of commerce—a Boston which has little reverence for Harvard college, cares not a rap for the anti-slavery tradition and is as ignorant of the ethical standards which go with the New England conscience as the rest of commercial America.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A clever, laborious, lengthy study; of interest to only a small proportion of readers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09.
“Nothing is clearer than that the story as a whole has a kind of solidity and effectiveness. This is no more due to novelty of plot than to happiness of style.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 309. My. ’09. 800w.
“We have no doubt whatever that it is a contribution to our literature worth the attention of the thoughtful, and likely to be valued fifty years hence more highly than it will be valued to-day.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 370. Je. 1, ’09. 850w.
=Ind.= 66: 920. Ap. 29, ’09. 300w.
“It is a substantial novel, and in this day of flimsy fiction it is refreshing to be able to make a comment of this sort.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 208. Ag. 7, ’09. 150w.
“Judge Grant has here produced another of his careful, somewhat laborious studies of American life. He has no brilliancy or adroitness of style. His effectiveness is due rather to the working of a quiet and steady intelligence. He knows what he is driving at, and arrives, as it were, by force of sheer assiduity. One or two contradictions of detail may be noted.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 363. Ap. 8, ’09. 780w.
“Is, once you get into it, an interesting and human story about interesting and human people. Mr. Grant’s methods are somewhat laborious and overconscientious.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 198. Ap. 3, ’09. 950w.
“The book is admirable of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 374. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“The action is dramatic and the plot convincing. Because it is a study of real people its humor is appealing and its grasp of human frailties both amusing and instructive.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 763. Je. ’09. 60w.
=Grant, W. L.=^{[5]} Acts of the Privy council of England. (Colonial
ser.) v. 1. 1613–1680; ed. by W. L. Grant and James Munro, under the
general supervision of Almeric W. Fitzroy, clerk of the Privy
council. Wyman & sons, London.
“When completed, the five volumes covering the period from 1613 to 1783, will be as indispensable as are the ‘Calendars of state papers’ or the ‘Reports of the historical manuscripts commission’ and will take their place in the same class as the ‘Journals of the continental congress.’ Their value will lie not so much in the additional information furnished as in the view they will give of the Privy council at work and of the business that came into its hands for adjustment or adjudication.” (Am. Hist. R.)
=v. 1.= “In the pages of this volume there is a great deal of detailed narrative that relates to the continental and West Indian colonies, to Hudson’s bay and to South America. Scores of entries relate to the fisheries, the tobacco industry, plantation trade, merchant shipping, transportation of criminals, and the operation of the navigation acts.” (Am. Hist. R.) There are also governors’ commissions, details of annulling the Virginia company charter, letters to governors from the Council, entries of manifests and cargoes, and many reports relating to the Council’s business.
* * * * *
“Messrs. Grant and Munro, the editors, have done their work with excellent judgment and great thoroughness and in text and preface have left little to be desired.” C: M. Andrews.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 590. Ap. ’09. 760w.
“Read in conjunction with the State paper series, domestic and colonial, this series will be most valuable to students, who will find their work lightened by efficient indexing, clear arrangement, and admirable editing.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 180. Ag. 14. 260w.
“They have however endeavoured, they say, to give in every case the essentials in the words of the original and to condense only the verbiage, and they appear to have done their work admirably.” H. Lambert.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 799. O. ’09. 520w.
“Among the publications of the British government few are likely to be of greater importance for colonial history than the projected series of ‘Acts of the Privy council, colonial.’”
+ =Nation.= 88: 488. My. 13, ’09. 820w.
=Graves, Alfred Perceval.=^{[8]} Irish poems. 2v. *$1.50; lea. *$2.25.
Macmillan.
9–3415; 9–3414.
The first volume contains the songs of Gael and A Gaelic story-telling; the second, Countryside songs and Songs and ballads.
* * * * *
“He has a humour of his own, which may or may not be Irish—spontaneous and wholesome, if at times a trifle thin—and a keen ear for the musical possibilities of verse.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 570. N. 7. 420w.
“Racy, perhaps, rather than homely—at all events they are bound to seem so to the Yankee—are Mr. Graves’s ‘Irish poems.’ They have quite a different tang from ordinary Anglo-Irish poetry, while preserving all the shrewdness, naïveté, and mischievousness of their country.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
“Beyond the use of Irish names, stories and phrases, and an occasional imitation of the popular song, we see nothing essential which is not to be found in many a book of verse which is not Anglo-Irish. The narrative poems are lively and of the kind that is best in recitation. But as the narratives need recitation, so the lyrics need a tune.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 115. Jl. 25, ’08. 220w.
“Given a tune and a rhyming lexicon and few men would be unequal to writing a book like this, had they the courage to face the boredom of it.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 672. N. 28, ’08. 100w.
“To the critic one of the most interesting features of Mr. Graves’s work is its catholicity. The true magic often escapes him, and though his literalness is the accurate tradition of popular verse, it sometimes prevents him from writing poetry.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 543. O. 10, ’08. 1100w.
=Graves, Frank Pierrepont.=^{[5]} History of education before the
middle ages. **$1.10. Macmillan.
9–4932.
Traces the development of the ideals and aims which have dominated and shaped the education of the human race from the dawn of history down to the fall of the Roman power in the West. “This study makes two facts plain: (1) that education, whether in uncivilized or civilized society, has always aimed at preparation for life through adjustment of the individual to the social order into which he was born; (2) that in this process social progress has resulted from the development of individualism wherever permitted. Thus the experience of the race lays down the two lines on which sound educational method must base its further processes.” (Outlook.)
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“Professor Graves’s book is well written. Its statements are as plausible as could be expected of such a succession of affirmations and generalization about 2000 years of history, four or five civilizations, and three or four literatures. He seems to have consulted the recent authorities to which reference is made in the notes for supplementary reading at the end of each chapter. The book is a good one of its kind.” Paul Shorey.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 194. O. ’09. 370w.
“A full, scholarly text, mainly of interest to educators.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 138. My. ’09.
“The volume has the merit of stating succinctly the achievements of the various nations. The field is too big, however, for one man to cover satisfactorily in one volume.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 181. Jl. ’09. 110w.
“It is too little for a new scholarly interpretation of the period, and is too great to be of much practical use to the student of education in school and college. The book is well done, however, and shows abundant scholarship in spite of the fact that it appears to fall between two stools.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 37: 424. Ap. ’09. 80w.
“Dr. Graves is more careful than most such writers as to his historical facts but he fails as a literary artist in making the characteristics of each educational system stand out with sufficient distinctness strongly to impress elementary students. Considered in all respects, however, the book will rank high among histories of education.” E. A. Kirkpatrick.
+ − =El. School T.= 9: 484. My. ’09. 660w. + =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 30w.
“The plan is well carried out.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 110w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 523. S. 4, ’09. 400w. + =Outlook.= 91: 865. Ap. 17, ’09. 170w.
“Professor Graves has produced a book which gives evidence on every page of his ripe scholarship, breadth of view, and keen discrimination between significant things and mere detail.” F: E. Bolton.
+ =School R.= 17: 656. N. ’09. 450w.
=Gray, Asa.= Gray’s new manual of botany: a handbook of the flowering
plants and ferns of the central and northwestern United States and
adjacent Canada; rearranged and extensively rev. by Benjamin Lincoln
Robinson and Merritt Lyndon Fernald. 7th ed. *$2.50. Am. bk.
8–27398.
“An edition of Gray’s manual presenting the following changes: (1) a change in the geographical limits, namely by excluding the region west of the 96th meridian instead of the 100th, and in extending northeastward to include the maritime provinces and a portion of Quebec and Ontario; (2) the sequence of the families, which for the most part is in accordance with the system of Eichler as elaborated by Engler and Prantl; (3) the removal of the keys leading to the species, in the case of most of the larger genera, from the body of the text to a position immediately preceding the specific descriptions; (4) the introduction of numerous text—or marginal figures; and finally (5) in the use of a different system of nomenclature, namely the strict observance of the Vienna code, or the nomenclatorial rules adopted at the International congress held at Vienna in 1905.” (Bot. Gaz.)
* * * * *
“In its revised form will continue its usefulness as a convenient, reliable guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 277. N. ’08. ✠
“The value of this work as a text-book should not be overlooked. The discriminating text and complementary illustrations present the subject-matter in a satisfactory way for teaching purposes. The illustrations themselves are for the most part insufficient for the hasty determination of the species by the student, and they can be used to advantage only in connection with the brief but clear descriptions. In this regard the book has no equal. Thoroughly revised to date, incorporating the verified results of recent years of research, and fully accords with the most advanced and universally accepted views of taxonomy.” J. M. Greenman.
+ =Bot. Gaz.= 47: 153. F. ’09. 680w. + =Educ. R.= 37: 208. F. ’09. 40w. + =Ind.= 67: 301. Ag. 5, ’09. 100w.
“A convenient and scholarly work, fully abreast of the times.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 260w. + =Nature.= 79: 457. F. 18, ’09. 350w.
“In closing this very general notice of this important addition to the literature of systematic botany we wish to record our opinion that this is the right kind of a revision of such a standard work.” C: E. Bessey.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 688. N. 13, ’08. 760w.
“The writer cannot believe but that the illustrations of species published in connection with the ‘Manual’ will do away with most of the usefulness it may have had as a training subject preliminary to advanced studies upon plant life.” H: L. Bolley.
− =Science=, n.s. 29: 182. Ja. 29, ’09. 850w.
=Gray, B. Kirkman.=^{[6]} Philanthropy and the state. 7s.6d. King, P.
S., & son, London.
9–14963.
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