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A thorogoing handbook covering the following points: Geography, area and population, boundaries, topography, orography, hydrography, climatology, flora and fauna; Government and constitution, citizenship, rights of foreigners, education, judiciary, army and navy; Political divisions, the capital, its resources, means of communication, banks, public buildings, etc.; Provinces and territory; Agriculture, government lands, land laws; Mining and metallurgy, mining laws; Manufacturing industries, immigration; Commerce, imports and exports, ports, etc.; Finance and banking; Means of communication.

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+ =Ind.= 67: 830. O. 7, ’09. 110w.

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+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 645. O. 23, ’09. 250w.

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“The work cannot fail to be very useful as a reference work to students and those who have a commercial interest in the Southern continent.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 50w.

=International conference on state and local taxation.=^{[5]} State
and local taxation: second international conference under the
auspices of the International tax association, held at Toronto,
Ontario, October 6–9, 1908: addresses and proceedings. International
tax assn., Columbus, O.

9–6973.

A volume which contains a discussion of methods of taxation and assessment, by officials and educators from all parts of the United States and Canada. Problems of administration and the economic effects of legislation are considered from different viewpoints. This volume and that published after the foregoing conference, represent the latest conclusions of administrators in regard to practical problems and the best modern thought.

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“An examination of the volume ... impresses the reader with the variety of subjects considered, the varying degrees of excellence in the papers and the irrelevancy of a too considerable part of the discussion. The International tax association has given us two excellent volumes well edited well arranged and attractively printed.” F. L. McVey.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 546. S. ’09. 1000w.

=International congress of applied chemistry, 7th.=^{[8]} Rise and
progress of the British explosive industry. *$5.25. Macmillan.

“The joint product of a number of authorities on the subject which on account of this multiple authorship does not attempt to preserve unity of treatment. It is a series of papers, fairly consecutive, in which the hitherto hidden stories of the development of the explosives trade are given. The titles of the chapters, as follows, will probably give the best idea of the contents: History of gunpowder, Researches of gunpowder, Nitrocellulose, Nitro-glycerine, Permitted explosives, Percussion caps, Safety fuses, Fireworks, Legislation, Bibliography and Chronology. In the latter part of the book there are given short descriptions of all the public and private explosives factories on the British Isles.”—Engin. N.

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+ =Engin. D.= 6: 430. N. ’09. 160w.

“The history of the early days of the industry will have much of interest even to the laity.”

+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 4. Jl. 15, ’09. 220w.

“It is one of the finest examples of what can be done by a committee of scientists and engineers co-operating with intelligence. As a reference book on the history of explosives, it has a unique and permanent value.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 448. O. 16, ’09. 220w.

“It hardly fulfils the expectation that its appearance arouses, for more than half the book is occupied with bibliographical and chronological tables and statistics of the governmental and private factories now existing in England, useful for reference, no doubt, but unreadable.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 82. Jl. 22, ’09. 160w.

“A valuable addition to the literature of explosives.” J. S. S. B.

+ =Nature.= 81: 190. Ag. 12, ’09. 930w.

“A large part of the text could have been omitted without serious loss, yet the research student must examine it in detail. The book is a disappointing one and most so in the matter of statistics.” C: E. Munroe.

− + =Science=, n.s. 30: 309. S. 3, ’09. 700w.

=Irwin, Louise Godfrey.=^{[11]} Secret of Old Thunder-head. †$1.50.
Holt.

9–26808.

A story of a summer spent by a city boy and girl with cousins on a Vermont farm. To the joys of out-of-door life are added the interest of hidden treasure and the excitement of finding it.

=Irwin, Wallace Admar.= Letters of a Japanese schoolboy. †$1.50.
Doubleday.

9–4915.

“I am a Japanese Schoolboy age 35 years & I come to this Free Country for some following reasons: (1) To save up money for old age; (2) To learn so much I can; (3) To wait on table 14 hours Daily at Boarding house of Mrs. C. W. O’Brien, honorable lady.” So the first letter opens. There pass under his scrutiny America’s practices, tolerated evils, fads and foibles. In his series of observations, included in some forty letters, he touches upon such subjects as The yellow peril. Lady suffergetts and how they do it. Hon. Niggers, was they freed by Lincoln, Hon. Simple life among ambassadors, Hon. Modesty: is it a disease. Hon. Gasolene, My conception of the presidency, High tariff on princes, The servant problem, The Hon. Bomb, The Alcoholic temperance movement, and Fall hats and the ladies inside of them.

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“Clever, humorous, sometimes enlightening.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 114. Ap. ’09.

“Their humour stands the test of continuous reading and survives the passing events that furnished the subjects. They belong to humorous literature as distinct from humorous journalism.” John Macy.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 311. My. ’09. 1050w.

“The book is wholesome in tone, as well as mirth-provoking.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 300. My. 1, ’09. 270w.

“In some of the later letters the Oriental point of view is quite lost sight of. For rapid or intermittent reading, it is not a bad book; it will add to the wholesome laughter of the passing hour.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 309. Mr. 25, ’09. 400w.

“Assisted by an eminent author, poor Togo lost the characteristic naïveté and charming simplicity of his own style, and these letters of his are burdened with words and phrases that he never dreamed of using. This, of course, is not to deny that the book is a fine example of what clever verbal jugglery can produce. Droll, grotesque, humorous, the book makes us merry as we turn its pages.” K. K. Kawakami.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 180. Mr. 27, ’09. 680w.

“Mr. Irwin knows his Japs as well as Mr. Dunne knows his ‘Mr. Dooley,’ and that is saying a great deal.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 255. Ag. ’09. 100w.

=Irwin, William Henry.=^{[12]} Confessions of a con man: as told to
Will Irwin. *$1. Huebsch.

9–21868.

A “con” man’s confessions with the value of a human document; for Mr. Irwin takes us into his confidence and tells us that they are real experiences of a real dweller in the underworld. The confidence man tells how he learned to cheat at cards; how the largest profits of a circus came from the confidence outfits and gambling games that accompany it, how new devices are unnecessary for catching the unwary, that three-card monte and the gold brick game are still perpetrated with success.

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“The con man’s revelations of his life and the tricks of his trade are of much curious—and human—interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 525. S. 4, ’09. 600w.

=Irwin, William Henry.= Pictures of old Chinatown, by Arnold Genthe;
with texts by Will Irwin. **$1. Moffat.

8–33429.

Dr. Genthe’s fifty-six reproduced photographs making a picture record of Chinatown as it was before the great San Francisco disaster, are supplemented by Mr. Irwin’s word pictures, impressions and recollections of “this bit of the mystic, suggestive East, so modified by the West that it was neither Oriental nor yet Occidental—but just Chinatown.”

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“The pictures are remarkable for the artistic quality of their lights and shades, and of their composition, although the reproductions are not of the best. Mr. Irwin’s text is decidedly readable, but the mellow haze of memory coupled with the gift of words seem to carry him off his feet very frequently and set him floating in a roseate mist of things that never were.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 260w.

=Irwin, William Henry.=^{[11]} Warrior, the untamed; the story of an
imaginative press agent. †50c. Doubleday.

9–24019.

Upon the pegs of a well-nigh impossible lion story Mr. Irwin hangs some of the trials and tribulations of the publicity member of a circus aggregation. Warrior, the untamed, is a decrepit old lion, and he is used in a balloon ascension and a parachute drop to advertise the show and amuse the crowds. The comedy ends merrily in spite of a few serious moments that threaten catastrophe.

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+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 120w.

=Isham, Frederic Stewart.=^{[8]} Half a chance. †$1.50. Bobbs.

9–25179.

Deals with the regeneration of a debauched but unjustly convicted man, who tho of good New England stock, had battled from pillar to post since childhood. In the hard school of life he had learned one lesson,—“Fight or be beaten.” His soul’s awakening came thru the compassion of a little English girl. The confidence and innocent faith placed in him by this child, caused the good in his nature to take root when by shipwreck he was saved from a convict’s exile in Australia and made an inhabitant of a solitary island. Rescued, he returned to London and became a criminal lawyer sharing his happiness with the girl who had been his good angel.

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“A story of interest for its plot rather than its psychology.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 200w.

=Ivins, William Mills.= Control of public utilities; in the form of an
annotation of the public service commission’s law of the state of
New York. *$7. Baker, Voorhis.

8–33023.

“Gives the Public service commission law of New York, together with the text of the Interstate commerce act and the Rapid transit act of New York, all carefully annotated, with citations of leading American cases. The whole is a bulky volume of nearly 1200 pages, which, with its full indexes, cross-references and judicial precedents, is itself an obvious public utility.”—Nation.

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“To legislators as well as lawyers, this work is of timely interest.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 652. D. 31, ’08. 170w.

“It is possible to praise Mr. Ivins’s presentation of his thesis without assenting to his conclusions.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 790. D. 19, ’08. 1650w.

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=Jackson, Andrew.= Statesmanship of Andrew Jackson, as told in his
writings and speeches; ed. by Francis Newton Thorpe. $2.50.
Tandy-Thomas co.

9–13909.

A collection of the writings and speeches of Andrew Jackson selected to show every aspect of his representative statesmanship, to which have been added an introduction, notes, chronology, bibliography and complete analytical index.

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“The student wishing to make a special study of Jackson will find in this volume a handy collection of his official papers, together with occasional comments selected from Benton’s ‘Thirty years’ view.’”

+ =Dial.= 47: 127. S. 1, ’09. 200w.

“The eminent author of this book has done his work well and faithfully, and we have here the best portrait and the best justification of Jackson as a statesman and a patriot which has yet appeared.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 447. S. 18, ’09. 300w.

“It is a question of whether Prof. Thorpe’s book has by itself a sufficient ‘raison d’être.’”

− =Nation.= 89: 12. Jl. 1, ’09. 200w.

“Particular attention is directed by the professor to seven letters on nullification which are included in his collection; we feel sure these letters are printed now for the first time. They constitute, of course, the item of greatest interest in the Thorpe collection, and their publication will be very gratifying to students of American history and biography.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 350. Je. 5, ’09. 800w.

=Jackson, Frederick Hamilton.= Shores of the Adriatic, the Austrian
side: The Küstenlande, Istria and Dalmatia. *$6. Dutton.

9–35521.

“Beginning with an eloquent general description of the physical characteristics of the Austrian sea-board and of its inhabitants, Mr. Jackson, who has supplemented his own observations by close study of the work of his predecessors in the same field, tells in succession the chequered story of the various districts, noting the traditions and superstitions, customs and costumes of each, deftly weaving his personal experiences into a narrative of unflagging interest, every section of his text being copiously illustrated with excellent reproductions of good photographs of streets and churches, art treasures, groups of natives, etc., and original drawings of architectural details, the latter from his own hand.”—Int. Studio.

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“The style is rather dull, but in the arrangement history is agreeably commingled with description, and much attention is paid to architecture and archeology.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 139. My. ’09.

“This is one of those solid undertakings which once completed, stand for years as the absolute authority on their subject, unlikely to be superseded, rendering, indeed, further literary exploitation of it unlikely, except for additional discoveries and finds.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1242. Je. 3, ’09. 140w.

“Will be welcomed with enthusiasm, not only by the ordinary tourist ... but by all who are interested in the still unsolved ethnological and archaeological problems connected with the Küstenlande, Istria and Dalmatia, as well as by students of architecture and the pictorial arts, folk-lore and costume. It is, perhaps, in the descriptions of notable buildings that the writer’s expert knowledge is most clearly revealed, so well is the significance of every peculiarity of structure brought out.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 335. F. ’09. 320w.

“The thread of personal narrative is barely discernible in the mass of tediously minute historical detail which alternates with the plans of basilicas and the enumeration of the mosaics, embroideries, chalices, croziers, monstrances, plate, and vestments enshrined within the cathedrals. Pictorially, Mr. Jackson’s volume is rather attractive.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 563. Je. 3, ’09. 920w. + =Nature.= 80: 274. My. 6, ’09. 350w.

“A useful guide to the treasures of art contained in the little towns.” W: A. Bradley.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 94. F. 20, ’09. 270w.

“So far as we know, there is no single volume which comprises so much information as does this on so many subjects in connection with these provinces.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 70. My. 8, ’09. 240w.

“Travelers and students who are interested in that marvelous, unfamiliar region on the east shore of the Adriatic sea will find a great deal that is new and fascinating in Mr. Jackson’s book.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 766. Je. ’09. 100w.

“Handsome and interesting book.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 662. My. 22, ’09. 800w.

=Jackson, Rev. George.= Fact of conversion; Cole lectures for 1908.
**$1.25. Revell.

8–24446.

“This is an attempt to restate the doctrine of conversion and to interpret it to this generation.... Can a modern man believe in conversion? Mr. Jackson thinks so and he makes it seem so in his book. In none of the recent valuable studies of the psychology of conversion and of religious experience has it been so conclusively shown that spiritual facts are as much facts as those which occur in the natural world.”—Ind.

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“A valuable feature of the book is the estimation of his predecessors in this line of study, Coe, Starbuck and James. The book is worthy of its predecessors in the Cole lectureship.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 590. Mr. 18, ’09. 210w.

“Mr. Jackson’s book is well worth study.”

+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 161. Ja. 30, ’09. 150w.

=Jackson, George Leroy.=^{[12]} Development of school support in
colonial Massachusetts. (Teachers college, Columbia univ.
Contributions to education, no. 25.) $1. Teachers college.

9–18945.

A study whose aim is, first, to trace the various methods thru which the early schools of Massachusetts were supported; and second, after partial support by general taxation had become customary, to point out the main causes which made general taxation the sole method of school support and hence gave rise to the “free school”—publicly controlled and publicly supported.

=Jackson, Samuel Travena.= Lincoln’s use of the Bible. *25c. Meth. bk.

9–2241.

“The brochure on Lincoln’s use of the Bible shows how the backwoodsman acquired prose style which touched the people and astonished scholars, a point worth emphasizing now the Bible is not the daily food of the masses.”—Ind.

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=Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 40w.
=Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 80w.

=Jackson, Wilfrid Scarborough.=^{[12]} Trial by marriage. †$1.50.
Lane.

“The hero marries a chorus-girl, who deserts him, and, by a newspaper report of her death, convinces him that he is free to marry again. His second marriage reintroduces him to his legal wife as a blackmailer, and to prevent exposure and the impoverishment of his family he fabricates evidence of suicide and lives under an assumed name, while the mother of his children, thinking herself a widow, idealizes him for their benefit, without regretting his absence. Her engagement to an officer in the army causes a new situation, in which the attitude of her daughter is of much importance. The closing note is in harmony with the idea that parents may find unlimited compensation in filial love for their indifference to each other.”—Ath.

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“Mr. Jackson’s new novel, though provided with a plot of studious improbability, is not so much a work of humour as of philosophy. It lacks momentum and magnetism, and the reader has occasionally to infer what might have been told with advantage. The character-drawing is generally good; and here and there we note felicities of humorous expression.”

− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 457. O. 16. 180w.

“A too highly seasoned novel of English life. The novel is rather commonplace and dull.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 707. N. 13, ’09. 340w.

=Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob).= Irresolute Catherine. †$1.
Doubleday.

“The background is Welsh, and the atmosphere has an element of primitive fierceness not lacking in charm. The heroine, a simpleminded farm-servant, lives, and appeals to our sympathy; but, owing perhaps to the limitations imposed by the form of the ‘shorter novel,’ we have no clear pictures of the shepherd and the cattle-dealer who contend for her affections. The first scene of the book, representing an open-air meeting for the purpose of adult baptism, is one of the most impressive.”—Ath.

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“Mrs. Jacob has contrived to invest the situation with a certain freshness.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 100w.

“The work as a whole has a restraint, compactness, and finish which mark it for a bit of literary art, as distinguished from the amusing catchpenny fiction of the popular book-mart.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 583. Je. 10, ’09. 170w.

“The story has not the importance which a more detailed treatment and a better construction would have given it.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 176. Mr. 27, ’09. 270w.

=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams=, ed. Standard Bible dictionary,
designed as a comprehensive guide to the Scriptures, embracing their
languages, literature, history, biography, manners and customs, and
their theology; ed. by Melancthon W. Jacobus, E. E. Nourse, and
Andrew C. Zenos, in association with American, British and German
scholars. *$6. Funk.

9–2531.

Complete in one volume, this dictionary, the joint work of thirty-seven Bible scholars in America, Great Britain and Germany, is a thesaurus of Scriptural knowledge, and a dictionary of archaeology, ethnology and natural history combined. The typographical arrangement, the pictorial illustrations and the valuable new maps have all been determined upon for their points of practical value.

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“It is made for use. It will find a large clientage to whom it will soon come to seem indispensable.” D. A. Hayes.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 275. Ap. ’09. 700w.

“A reference work that has long been needed for smaller public libraries that cannot afford the expensive dictionaries in several volumes.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 139. My. ’09. ✠

“The weakest feature in the treatment of the Old Testament is probably found in the theological articles. Here the historical and comparative method and spirit do not find free play, nor is the amount of space assigned to these themes adequate to their prime significance.” J: M. P. Smith and S. J. Case.

+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 283. Ap. ’09. 770w.

“The editors have been diligent in securing a generally trustworthy discussion of the topics belonging to a Bible dictionary, and in a compact form making it useful for the Bible scholar who has no access to more pretentious works.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 377. F. 18, ’09. 530w.

“To say nothing of the excellence of this work as a pastor’s study handbook, it should win for itself a place in every Sunday-school library, for it is the Bible dictionary of all in existence best suited to that purpose. The cross references are sometimes inexact and obscure.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 38: 730. Ap. 24, ’09. 830w. + =Nation.= 89: 102. Jl. 29, ’09. 350w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 114. F. 27, ’09. 200w. + =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 160w.

“Even a cursory examination of the pages of this book by a layman would seem to bear out the modest claims of the publishers and editors.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 382. Mr. ’09. 210w.

=Jacomb, A. E.=^{[11]} Faith of his fathers: a story of some
idealists. †$1.50. Dodd.

9–35907.

“The story deals with life in a small English manufacturing town, and the two families who furnish most of the characters are Methodists of the strictest and narrowest sort. The elders in the Alexander family, especially the father, exemplify the stern and literal faith of an earlier day. But the children are not able to fit this faith upon life as they see and long for it. In consequence come struggle, tragedy, heartbreak.”—N. Y. Times.

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“It makes no appeal to the average fiction reader, but as a character study is worth while.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 133. D. ’09.

“An interesting, if rather laborious story. The story is carefully written, and gives a realistic, but not too highly coloured picture of a certain class of provincial society.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 193. F. 13. 200w.

“The skill with which the dignity of the Puritan character is cumulatively impressed upon the reader marks this story, with all its dreariness, as a sincere and fruitful piece of interpretation.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 380. O. 21. ’09. 420w.

“The plot is managed with much skill, the inherent tragedy slowly culminating and reaching its climax in the final lines.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 612. O. 16, ’09. 280w.

“The book will leave a sensation of intense dreariness on the mind of its readers. It is written with considerable power, but the atmosphere is of well-nigh continuous gloom, and as a work of art it decidedly lacks the saving gift of humour.”

− + =Spec.= 102: 269. F. 13, ’09. 90w.

=James, Alice L.=^{[12]} Housekeeping for two: a practical guide for
beginners. **$1.25. Putnam.

A little volume packed with information for beginners in housekeeping in a small way. The author’s attention has been given largely to the minute details concerning which the young housekeeper finds no information and is too inexperienced to settle for herself. The effort has been made to cover ground not usually included in books on housekeeping.

=James, George Wharton.= Through Ramona’s country. **$2. Little.

8–34801.

An attempt after painstaking investigation to answer authoritatively the question as to how much of fact and how much of fiction entered into the story, “Ramona,” by Helen Hunt Jackson.

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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 78. Mr. ’09.

“All those who have read Helen Hunt Jackson’s ‘Ramona,’ and many who have not will find Mr. James’ book a delightful complement of that famous novel.”

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 545. Jl. ’09. 200w.

“Aside from its value as a contribution to a literary discussion, furnishes a unique description, in text and picture, of the southwest as it is to-day.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 140w.

“The most interesting pages in this book are those describing the astonishing changes that have taken place in California since Ramona’s day.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 140. F. 11, ’09. 270w.

“Mr. James’s effort has constantly been to get at the facts upon which Mrs. Jackson based her story. He falls short of the truth, however, in not admitting the exceedingly romantic and idealizing point of view from which she considered her Indian hero.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 766. D. 12, ’08. 260w.

=James, Gertie De S. Wentworth-.= Wild widow. $1.50. Empire book co.

8–17250.

“The plot is ingenious though artificial; the lady described in the title incurs a risk of penal servitude, but, by dint of bribery and payment to a black-mailer, maintains a position among those whose visits and dresses are chronicled in ‘society papers.’ She is vividly presented. The stinginess of her friend Lady Chesham is mechanically funny, and there are many passages of smart writing.”—Ath.

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“This novel is written in a mood of bountiful optimism and by no means straightened morality.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 693. Je. 6. 80w. − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 60. Ja. 30, ’09. 140w.

=James, Henry.=^{[12]} Italian hours. **$7.50. Houghton.

9–29605.

“Among the two or three hundred handsomest travel books of the season must be placed Henry James’s ‘Italian hours.’... The chapters on the various cities were for the most part written at earlier dates (those on Venice, for instance, go back to 1872, 1882, 1892, and 1899), but they are now first brought together so as to give a picture of Italy as a whole.” (Nation.) “The novelty of the present volume consists in the fact that ‘the notes on various visits to Italy are here for the first time exclusively placed together,’ to quote once more the preface. ‘I have not hesitated to amend my text, expressively,’ the traveller adds. There has, however, been little attempt to bring the chapters ‘down to date,’ unless it be in the addition of papers recording later impressions.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“Italy is at once too simple and too complex to yield her secret readily. Disarmed by her open heart, Mr. James thinks he has found that secret on the first railway platform, and, deceived once, he is blind to it when it shines before his eyes.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 689. D. 4. 850w.

“The pictures much more than justify themselves as glosses of the text by Mr. James. When the time comes to evaluate these travel-sketches of a subtler sort, one is prompted to quote, without consciousness of malice, one of Mr. James’s own sentences, occurring in ‘Roman neighbourhoods.’ ‘The great thing in art is charm, and the great thing in charm is spontaneity.’” W. B. Blake.

+ =Dial.= 47: 450. D. 1, ’09. 900w.

“The combination of Henry James and Joseph Pennell in ‘Italian hours’ was exceedingly happy.” W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 67: 1352. D. 16, ’09. 100w.

“We feel glad that the publishers have reprinted the essays in this attractive and permanent form. The illustrations by Joseph Pennell are exactly suited to the vague suggestiveness of the text.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1073. D. 11, ’09. 100w.

“Free from the involved ambiguity of hesitation that makes of his later writings, such as his recent impressions of America, a task rather than a pleasure.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 569. D. 9, ’09. 240w.

=James, Henry.=^{[10]} Julia Bride. †$1.25. Harper.

9–24962.

A remarkably analyzed situation in which a beautiful girl wakens to the fact that she deeply loves a conservative young man whose training and family traditions are likely to render it impossible for him to overlook her mother’s many divorces and her own several-times-broken engagements. She implores one of her ex-fiances to go to the new lover and explain away her apparent fickleness and to assert her worthiness. The man uses the opportunity for selfish social aims with the result that the girl suffers pitiful humiliation.

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“If he had written none of the books that appear in his bibliography since ‘The tragic muse,’ this would be accounted a slight but sufficiently pleasant short story.”

+ =Bookm.= 30: 322. D. ’09. 260w.

“The average busy man or woman of to-day will hardly read a novel of this sort with enthusiasm. It is too much of a psychological puzzle to prove either instructive or entertaining.”

− =Lit. D.= 39: 962. N. 27, ’09. 220w.

“There are sordid features in the story—it is not quite pleasant reading. One feels that Mr. James is a little unsympathetic, a little sarcastic, perhaps. It is possibly a comedy by reason of its treatment. And, be it added, a one act comedy—merely a curtain-raiser. It will delight Mr. James’s admirers.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 613. O. 16, ’09. 370w.

“It is a piece out of life, wonderfully done, with no single detail slurred.”

+ =No. Am.= 190: 836. D. ’09. 250w.
=Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 200w.

=James, William.=^{[11]} Meaning of truth: a sequel to Pragmatism.
**$1.25. Longmans.

9–27102.

This series of articles, comprising all the work of his pen that bears directly on the truth question, Professor James has published as a refutation of various arguments used against Pragmatism in so far as it has to do with defining truth. “What our critics most persistently keep saying,” he writes, “is that though workings go with truth, yet they do not constitute it. It is numerically additional to them, prior to them, explanatory of them and in no wise to be explained by them.... But once establish the proper verbal custom, let the word ‘truth’ represent the property of the idea, cease to make it something mysteriously connected with the object known and the path opens fair and wide, as I believe, to the discussion of radical empiricism on its merits.”

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“This genuine logic, the counterpart and complement of a no less genuine psychology, affords the only ground on which Dr. James, being thoroughly at home, can expect to bring his fight with the Rationalist school to a finish. As it is, he skirmishes about with incomparable ingenuity, but little practical effect.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 549. N. 6. 1350w.

“The development of pragmatism by William James reads like the plea of a skillful attorney for a criminal with every ‘prima facie’ evidence of guilt against him.” T: V. Moore.

− =Cath. World.= 90: 341. D. ’09. 4100w.

“Prof. James’s pragmatic explanation of truth grows clearer and clearer through the successive essays, so that the last ones are the best. Prof. James, with all his attractive personality and his charming style, in lecture room and in book, has the bad habit of using words and phrases that antagonize, of giving some objectional name to a perfectly innocent state of mind, all because of his wit and strong feeling.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 691. N. 6, ’09. 700w.

=James, William.=^{[5]} Pluralistic universe: Hibbert lectures at
Manchester college on the present situation in philosophy. **$1.50.
Longmans.

9–9478.

Eight lectures as follows: The types of philosophic thinking; Monastic idealism; Hegel and his method; Concerning Fechner; The compounding of consciousness; Bergson and his critique of intellectualism; The continuity of experience; and Conclusions.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 170. Je. ’09.

“We are treated to what is substantially a disquisition, on the shortcomings of Absolutism, as compared with Pragmatism, in all respects, though notably in respect of its failure to provide Theism with a satisfactory foundation.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 577. My. 15. 1750w.
=Cath. World.= 89: 679. Ag. ’09. 850w.

“Into this type of philosophical nicety, as into matters of artistic technique, only the professional will care or dare to follow; and the discerning and interested amateur, as he follows the conversation or the exhibition with appreciation and respect, is peculiarly grateful for the illuminating and refreshing personal touches of the expositor. The hearers of Professor James doubtless had this advantage to a greater extent than his readers; but the latter will be repaid for the effort to secure an intelligent insight into the Jamesian point of view.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 22. Jl. 1, ’09. 270w.

“The negative or critical side of the Jamesian vision contains much that is of value. The fault I have to find with it is, that it identifies intellect with one form of intellectualism. Of the positive side of his method it is not easy to speak.” W. R. Sorley.

+ − =Hibbert J.= 8: 204. O. ’09. 2600w.

“Much of it will be found difficult to follow by those who are not well read in modern philosophy and familiar with the language of the various schools. But Professor James’s unconventional manner and touches of personal experience render anything he writes of interest to a wide audience.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 1031. My. 13, ’09. 680w.

Reviewed by P. E. M.

+ − =Nation.= 88: 457. My. 6, ’09. 3700w.

“Perhaps the most interesting portions of the present volume are those in which Prof. James points out the theological implications of his metaphysical doctrines. We are not called on in this place to discuss the absolute merits of Prof. James’s sketch of his new philosophy and theology; its mode of presentation is more directly our concern. The subject matter has hindered Prof. James from displaying that lucidity and lightness with which his name is associated among students of philosophy. Not that the present volume is without flashes of insight or brilliancy.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 419. Jl. 3, ’09. 1700w.

“More and more it becomes clear that our author has found his own ‘métier’ in the rôle of the popular essayist in philosophy, that his writing is dominated by the essayist’s desire to interest and surprise, by the essayist’s concern for picturesque effect, by the essayist’s ‘art de bien dire.’ The result is a brilliant literary effort rather than a substantial contribution to philosophical discussion.” James Seth.

+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 536. S. ’09. 3200w.

“We differ profoundly on many points from the author, but we welcome any man who can so freshly and forcibly restate world-old problems, and who strives so valiantly to make philosophy a true lamp to the human path.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 898. Je. 5, ’09. 1700w.

=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American
history, ea. **$3. Scribner.

=v. 8.= Narratives of New Netherland, 1609–1664.

9–24463.

“Contains, if not all, certainly the most important of the contemporary representations of New Netherland, from Van Meteren’s and Juet’s accounts of Hudson’s voyage to Peter Stuyvesant’s report of the surrender of the province, fifty-six years later. De Laet, Wassenaer, De Vries, Father Jogues, Megapolensis, Domine Selyns—all the early authorities are here, the editor deserving special thanks for printing in full the ‘Privileges and exemptions for patroons, masters and private individuals who will settle any colonies and cattle in New Netherland’ (1630), and the historic ‘Representation’ of 1650.”—Ind.

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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 216. O. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Dial.= 47: 291. O. 16, ’09. 80w. (Review of v. 8.)

“Apart from its service in placing within easy reach of the student sources of early American history which would otherwise have grown increasingly difficult of access, the series continues to be a growing storehouse of true romance, as our historical novelists of a decade ago well knew.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 751. S. 30, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 8.)

“There is no gainsaying the charm that lies in such intimate accounts as these of the way the world looked to men who ventured forth upon its unknown face three centuries ago.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 564. S. 25, ’09. 900w. (Review of v. 8.)
=R. of Rs.= 40: 639. N. ’09. 70w. (Review of v. 8.)

=Janvier, Thomas Allibone.=^{[9]} Henry Hudson: a brief statement of
his aims and his achievements, to which is added a newly-discovered
partial record now first published of the trial of the mutineers by
whom he and others were abandoned to their death. **75c. Harper.

9–22208.

Gives first a life that is a condensation of what has been recorded by Hudson’s authoritative biographers, and second some fresh material in the form of documents, until recently undiscovered and of high value in that they exhibit the sworn testimony of six eye-witnesses who confirm Prickett’s narrative of the Hudson mutiny.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6:42. O. ’09. ✠

“Altogether, aside from its merit of timeliness, the little book has a real and permanent value for all admirers of the brave explorer and great discoverer.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 763. S. 30, ’09. 200w.

“The book makes charming reading, whether one be familiar with the facts already, or whether he approaches the subject for the first time.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 442. S. 18, ’09. 180w.

“The contemporary documents are a valuable addition to Hudson memorabilia.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 259. S. 16, ’09. 280w.

“Mr. Janvier is at some pains to make out a case for Hudson as deserving of the monument which fate has given him in the City of New York. He is at pains also to spin out his book—little as it is—by going over all the ground twice and most of it thrice and by indulging in those arguments and speculations which are the license of the reconstructors of history.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 540. S. 11, ’09. 400w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 510. O. ’09. 150w.

=Jefferson, Charles Edward.=^{[12]} Christmas builders. **50c.
Crowell.

9–22920.

From a protest against the frenzy of Christmas, “when the world is embarrassed and really injured by a desire of people to be loving, and to manifest their love by giving gifts,” the bearer of this Christmas message moves rapidly over the way that he trod hunting for architects and builders competent to build a Christmas great enough to satisfy and bless a world. He knocked at the doors of all universities, went to the palaces of kings, turned to the parliaments of the world, stole into the study of philosophers, sought help from the aged; and all in vain. Finally he found the answer in the heart of a child, where standing radiant were seven angels: Wonder, Humility, Trust, Simplicity, Purity, Joy and Affection. Thru these builders Christmas may return to old-time ideals and cover the whole year.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 40w.

“Dr. Jefferson’s striking little book ought to be in everybody’s hands when the day of the Nativity comes.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 763. D. 4, ’09. 230w.

=Jefferson, Charles Edward.=^{[9]} My father’s business: a series of
sermons to children. **$1.25. Crowell.

9–25794.

Ten simply worded sermons preached to the children of the Broadway tabernacle. They are as follows: Line upon line; How to grow; The duty of asking questions; The beauty of obedience; My father’s business; The silent years; Work; The will; Honesty; Being a Christian.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 808. D. 18, ’09. 80w.

=Jekyll, Gertrude.= Children and gardens. (Country life lib.) *$2.
Scribner.

9–4186.

“The twelve chapters that go to make up the book give much advice and useful information regarding children’s gardens and the flowers they should grow, and of the play-house that every child must covet for its own, together with various dissertations as to weeds and seeds, and botany. The chapter called ‘Cowsliptime,’ with its instructions on the making of cowslip balls, is especially attractive; and the conversion of a snapdragon pod into the semblance of an old woman is nothing less than the solution of a puzzling problem.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Her advice is both practical and pleasant reading.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 29. S. ’09.

“Will be a welcome gift to children who are fortunate enough to have gardens of their own, while even to those who have not it should present many points of interest.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 18. Ja. 2. 200w.

“No better book—none so good, indeed—could be placed in the hands of the children to whom the gardens of the future must look for care and preservation.” S. A. Shafer.

+ =Dial.= 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 180w.

“A strange medley of odds and ends, put together in rather a whimsical but attractive fashion. It has a good deal of sound elementary botany, for the most part so completely sugar-coated as to make the disguise perfect.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 71. Ja. 21, ’09. 200w. + =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. D. 12, ’08. 140w.

“No one could write a pleasanter book on a more harmless subject.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 861. My. 29, ’09. 120w.

=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Life questions of high school boys. 40c. Y.
M. C. A.

8–30285.

“Makes some suggestions to young men on how to meet liberally and manfully the problems and temptations likely to assail them during the first years of their high school life.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“Is wholly admirable and would be found exceedingly useful by parents and teachers.”

+ =Educ. R.= 37: 96. Ja. ’09. 30w.

“A helpful little brochure.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 126. Ja. ’09. 50w.

“A reading of the book resulted in considerable disappointment. A skilful teacher well acquainted with boys can make some good use of it, but such a teacher has most of the material it furnishes already in hand. We hope that the author will undertake the same task again with less limitations as to size of the work, precedents of publishers, etc.” F. A. Manny.

− + =School R.= 17: 576. O. ’09. 400w.

=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.=^{[6]} Principles of politics from the
viewpoint of the American citizen. *$1.50. Macmillan.

9–10657.

The George Blumenthal lectures for 1908. “They are marked, as were the lectures of Dr. Shaw and of President Wilson, by intense practicality and by a host of concrete illustrations and of applications of political principles. This fact is itself worthy of notice, for it indicates how wide of the truth is the crude generalization that asserts a lack of practical knowledge on the part of academic students and teachers of political subjects.” (Educ. R.)

* * * * *

“Too general to be of great value to the close student.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 43. O. ’09.

“This book of Professor Jenks deserves a place in every collection of books on contemporary politics.”

+ =Educ. R.= 38: 96. Je. ’09. 200w.
=Ind.= 67: 303. Ag. 5, ’09. 110w.

“The book was written in haste, and the reader suffers who peruses it at leisure.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 119. Ag. 5, ’09. 280w.

“This lucid and interesting volume both readable and instructive to the man of fifty, gives a clear idea of the need of taxation and takes away some of its bitter taste.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 108. My. 15, ’09. 150w.

“To the student of political science the lectures contain little that is unfamiliar. For the popular audience for which they are intended they are valuable as the contribution of a man of wide experience and sound judgment in the matters with which he deals.” T: R. Powell.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 525. S. ’09. 420w.

“While the theoretical basis of his lectures is sound and well-considered the real value of his conclusions comes from the fact that they have been tested in actual life.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 140w.

=Jenks, Tudor.=^{[9]} Book of famous sieges. **$1.50. Doubleday.

9–23997.

Treats the following typical sieges and shows the various methods of taking cities from the beginning of history to our times: Troy, Babylon, Platæa, Tyre, Saguntum, Syracuse, Alesia, Jerusalem, Constantinople, 717 A. D., Paris, Antioch, Orleans, Fall of Constantinople, Rhodes, Gibraltar, Antwerp, Vicksburg, Paris, and Port Arthur.

* * * * *

“The accounts are necessarily very sketchy, and the style is rather perfunctory and spiritless, but the book will be useful for boys who are interested in the development of modern welfare.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 137. D. ’09.

“It is a genuine pleasure to come upon such a clear, forceful style, simple enough for a boy of twelve, yet highly interesting to mature readers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 583. O. 2, ’09. 130w.

=Jenks, Tudor.=^{[9]} When America won liberty; Patriots and
Royalists. **$1.25. Crowell.

9–24275.

A companion volume to the author’s “When America was new.” It begins with the establishing of the colonies and their main communities and tells the story of how the nations of the old world came into conflict on the new continent and how, when the struggle was reduced to a contest between the French and English, the English gained the leadership and took possession of the principal colonies along the Atlantic coast.

* * * * *

“This is a worthy departure from the stereotyped school history.” M. J. Moses.

+ =Ind.= 67: 1364. D. 16, ’09. 110w.

“When his series is completed, he will have executed a compact and agreeably told account of the building of a nation.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 180w. + =Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 60w.

=Jepson, Edgar.=^{[12]} Arsène Lupin; from the play by Maurice Leblanc
and Francis de Croisset. †$1.50. Doubleday.

9–28119.

Novelized from the play by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, this story follows the daring adventures of Lupin, the brilliant, the mysterious gentleman-burglar who hides his own identity under a title and woos a wealthy American’s daughter in Paris only for the access it affords to objects which he may steal with little chance of discovery. Finally, when he is under suspicion and is at the point of being caught, the curtain rings down upon his escape. Like Raffles, he possesses a strange magic that foils apprehension.

* * * * *

“The translation is easy and dramatic, and the whole offers excellent entertainment.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 122. Jl. 31. 110w.

“Arsene is still the same brilliant, charming, uncannily clever person, while the other characters, by reason of the more detailed treatment are better rounded and more lifelike.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 721. N. 20, ’09. 260w.

“It is most entertaining, lively, and unexpected; a book of the moment, but a very clever one.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 643. N. 20, ’09. 90w.

=Jerome, Jerome Klapka.= Passing of the third floor back. †$1. Dodd.

8–30014.

Six stories as follows: Passing of the third floor back; The philosopher’s joke; The soul of Nicholas Snyders, or, The miser of Zandam; Mrs. Korner sins her mercies; The cost of kindness; and The love of Ulrich Nebendahl.

* * * * *

“Most of the stories have a sentiment and delicacy, also a seriousness of thought, that place them in a different class from Mr. Jerome’s humorous volumes. They will interest educated readers.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 24. Ja. ’09.

“Out of these half dozen short stories the one that gives its title to the book is without doubt the best—in fact, is the one that is most worthy of its author. Even in this the moral seems rather transitory.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 200w.

“The book as a whole strikes strangely. It seems the work of a man of great cleverness, some fancy, and a shrewd humour; but one who has never tried his hardest to find out what is in him, and who speaks too often easily from the surface through ignorance or fear of what the depths may contain. We believe that the depths are there.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 166. My. 24, ’07. 330w.

“The other stories of the book are of no especial distinction, but these that we have cited will suffice to endear it to those who have wished to go deeper than laughter with this modern master of fooling.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 308. Mr. 25, ’09. 300w.

=Jerome, Jerome Klapka.=^{[12]} They and I. †$1.50. Dodd.

9–24947.

“Mr. Jerome makes plenty of amusement out of the adventures of a middle-aged father and his family. His method is something like Mark Twain’s, and he manages to hit off with skill some of the trials which beset the ordinary man in the course of selecting a house, losing his way in the dark, satisfying his wife’s demands, &c. The difficulties of the literary man in search of truthful detail are also lightly touched on.”—Ath.

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“This book is presented to us as a maturer ‘Three men in a boat,’ and being in the same vein, it shows a distinct advance in taste and style. All is easily told, and we merely object to the attribution of some of Browning’s best-known lines to Swinburne. If an author is to rise early to get a sunrise described properly, he might as well go to a book to verify his quotations.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 90w.

“Very amusing.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 750. N. 6, ’09. 30w.

=Jerrold, Walter Copeland.=^{[12]} Highways and byways in Middlesex.
(Highways and byways ser.) *$2. Macmillan.

9–29191.

“Middlesex, the ‘homeliest of the home counties,’ as Mr. Jerrold aptly calls it, never could lay claim to much natural beauty, and can do so still less now when such orchards, pastures and other rural amenities as it possesses, are fast being invaded by the speculative builder and converted into suburbs. Still, for its shortcomings in this respect ample compensation is afforded by its associations with notable personages and great events, and herein, as the author justly points out, the country can claim its strongest individuality. Into these old associations Mr. Jerrold has delved with good effect.”—Int. Studio.

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“A volume abounding in interest. Of the sketches which Mr. Thomson has contributed—one hundred and twenty odd in number—we may say that they are among the best we have seen from his pencil; the point of view is always selected with judgment, and actuality is achieved without any superfluity of detail.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 39: 170. D. ’09. 150w.

“Mr. Jerrold has done his work with admirable industry and diligence. Novelty in such a subject is almost impossible—the expert, indeed, is wearied by the repetition of familiar matter—but the various points of interest for which we have looked are generally well taken up. In church architecture alone Mr. Jerrold disappoints us, omitting noteworthy details, though he is particularly strong on mortuary inscriptions.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 3. N. 13, ’09. 1600w. + − =Spec.= 103: sup. 925. D. 4, ’09. 220w.

=Jerrold, Walter Copeland.=^{[6]} Thomas Hood: his life and times.
*$5. Lane.

8–21534.

An entertaining and informing book on Hood the man, poet, and humorist. It brings to light new material including hitherto unpublished letters among which are several from Lamb. “Mr. Jerrold’s book is deserving of high praise; it is conscientious as to facts, it contains a wealth of material, and it presents a most human and satisfying portrait of the lovable, witty Hood.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The book is sufficiently entertaining for a popular biography, always accurate and, though not complete in the fullest sense of the term, contains enough material old and new to serve as the standard reference life.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 43. O. ’09.

“If Mr. Jerrold is not always impeccable in his handling of literary matters, he does full justice to the human, domestic, and social sides of his subject.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 441. Ap. 11. 2300w.

“Accuracy seems usually to have been attained. Completeness in the fullest measure has not. This life of Hood will properly go to its place upon many library shelves as the standard reference book for an author whose fame, though small, is constant. It is trustworthy, and it contains much not elsewhere to be found.” H: S. Canby.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 43. Jl. 16, ’09. 1250w.

“The biography is the result of honest painstaking, and has the solid merit of correcting traditional errors and of offering a considerable amount of new material.” P. E. M.

+ =Nation.= 89: 179. Ag. 26, ’09. 3200w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 301. My. 15, ’09. 1900w.

“Mr. Jerrold has done his work in a thorough and conscientious way. He has spared no pains to sift all the available material, and has probably written the best account of Hood there is.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 670. N. 30, ’07. 750w.

=Jervey, Theodore Dehon.=^{[8]} Robert Y. Hayne and his times. *$3.
Macmillan.

9–12869.

“A misunderstood statesman—that is the burden of Theodore D. Jervey’s book about Robert Y. Hayne, and his effort is toward the clearing away of the misunderstanding and the creation of an understanding of the real Hayne.” (N. Y. Times.) It is maintained that “from the very beginning of his service in the Senate and throughout the nullification debates Hayne was the undisputed leader of his faction, while Clay succeeded Webster as the leader of the opposing faction, the Protectionists.” (R. of Rs.)