Chapter LVIII: Book 3: , The self, presents the nature of self as part of consciousness (18)

“On Thompson’s essay we have but one stricture to make, which, perhaps, will best be made and disposed of at once. Thompson wrote as a Roman Catholic for Roman Catholics; consequently he adopted a tone of religious patronage which, though not offensive, is hardly artistic.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 490. Ap. 24. 1700w.

“A manuscript worthy a place among English prose masterpieces.” A. B. McMahan.

+ =Dial.= 46: 399. Je. 16, ’09. 2900w.

“Well worth reading and preserving.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 439. Ap. 29, ’09. 200w.

“Even the general reader, to whose limitations reference has been made, can hardly fail to get from the essay real light on Shelley, and what will certainly be as gratifying and rewarding, light on the essentially beautiful nature of Francis Thompson.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 340. My. 29, ’09. 900w.

“It is unfortunate that Thompson limited Shelley in so far as to test him by churchly standards on the ground of his once-considered atheism. This concession to the organ for which the essay was intended, though made reluctantly, as one perceives, mars the criticism as literature and cannot but destroy its universality.” J. B. Rittenhouse.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 770. D. 4, ’09. 540w.

“Together with the Swinburne essays on Shelley, it forms the most complete and perfect commentary on Shelley the poet and Shelley the man.”

+ =No. Am.= 190: 407. S. ’09. 420w.

=Thompson, James Westfall.=^{[5]} Wars of religion in France,
1559–1576; the Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II. *$4.50.
Univ. of Chicago press.

9–14063.

A work of over six hundred pages which falls in the epoch of the French reformation but which treats the political, diplomatic and economic activities of the period rather than the religious aspect. The author has interpreted the times in the light of the progress made in economic history during the past twenty years, presenting “some of the results of recent research into the economic history of sixteenth century France to English readers.”

* * * * *

“Mr. Thompson’s book is not only newer but also broader than Baird’s excellent work on the ‘Rise of the Huguenots,’ where the author limited his field by his title. And most important of all, in describing that bitter turmoil of interests and ideals Mr. Thompson is scrupulously impartial. He has put the general reader and the scholar under obligations to him by this excellent work.” Paul van Dyke.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 131. O. ’09. 1200w. + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 127. D. ’09.

“The serious student of the period will be impressed not merely by the author’s fairness, but even more by his large command of the literature of the subject, both printed books and manuscript material.” H: E. Bourne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 335. N. 1, ’09. 1350w.

“In the main Professor Thompson has told his story well. The style, which is inclined to drag in the beginning, becomes clearer and more fluent as the narrative progresses.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 463. N. 11, ’09. 970w.

“In addition to being readable and scholarly, it also is a modern work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 579. O. 2, ’09. 400w.

“Though not a book of great originality and power, it condenses in a clear form and enforces the views of the best authorities upon the period.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 537. O. 30, ’09. 1150w.

=Thompson, Reginald Campbell.=^{[11]} Semitic magic: its origin and
development. (Luzac’s original religious ser.) *$4. Bloch.

9–8888.

“This interesting book does not deal with Semitic magic as a whole, but treats only of certain aspects of it illustrated by the cuneiform texts, derived for the most part from Assurbanipal’s library at Nineveh, as compared with certain parallel beliefs implied rather than fully described in the Bible.” (Ath.) The five chapters of the book are concerned with (1) The demons and ghosts, (2) Demonaic possession and tabu, (3) Sympathetic magic, (4) The atonement sacrifice, (5) The redemption of the first born.

* * * * *

“An important book.”

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 202. O. ’09. 30w.

“Limited space forbids further discussion of many things of interest suggested by his book.” H: P. Smith.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 605. O. ’09. 900w.

“When all is said, he has got together a large mass of facts which can—and probably will—be used by hundreds of scholars who are unable personally to consult the rather recondite sources from which they are drawn. Generally, it may be said that Prof. Campbell Thompson might have done better had he spread his net wider. There are occasional infelicities of diction which rather surprise us in what is evidently a well-thought-out book; but there are extremely few misprints. A very honest as well as a very ably-written book.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 638. My. 29. 1250w.

“The author has read widely in the literature of his subject and constantly reveals his intimate and first-hand acquaintance with the Babylonian magical and religious texts. His application to the biblical institution of atonement of the idea gained from the magical text of Babylonia that the sacrificial animal is intended to lure the demon from the afflicted man or sinner into said victim where it may be destroyed or prevented from doing further harm is interesting and ingenious but not altogether convincing. However, students of the Old Testament may learn much from this book.”

+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 360. My. ’09. 130w.

“His book is not an exhaustive treatise; it can be regarded simply as an introduction to the subject. As it stands, his book is an authoritative contribution to anthropology, which will be found of very great use by all students of the beliefs of primitive mankind.”

+ =Nature.= 81: 514. O. 28, ’09. 550w.

=Thomson, Edward William.=^{[7]} When Lincoln died, and other poems.
**$1.25. Houghton.

9–7942.

Contains in addition to the Lincoln poem a group under the caption “The world-wide brotherhood” and some miscellaneous ballads, lyrics and meditations.

* * * * *

“A pleasing collection. The two poems on Lincoln are easily first in point of interest, and have sufficient merit to warrant comparison with Lowell’s and Whitman’s classics.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 128. D. ’09.

“Mr. Edward William Thomson is a person worth knowing; and the value of his ‘When Lincoln died and other poems’ is that he has so thoroughly transfused it with his own large and tonic personality. But unfortunately, half the book is after the style and manner of Browning, and the remaining half has no style at all.” Brian Hooker.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 369. Je. ’09. 180w.
=Nation.= 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 140w.

“Contains some admirable ballads on American and Canadian subjects, and one or two delightful lyrics. It also contains the best rendering we have seen of Victor Hugo’s ‘Gastibelza.’”

+ =Spec.= 103: 21. Jl. 3, ’09. 40w.

=Thomson, James.= Complete poetical works; ed. by J. Logie Robertson.
(Oxford ed.) *75c. Oxford.

A complete variorum edition of Thomson’s poetical works.

* * * * *

“A good and careful piece of work. There are a few misprints, mostly in the notes.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 253. F. 27. 650w. + =Spec.= 102: 66. Ja. 9, ’09. 180w.

=Thomson, John Stuart.=^{[11]} The Chinese. **$2.50. Bobbs.

9–22219.

Authoritative studies of the Chinese by an agent of the allied steamship lines at Hong-Kong. Some of the chapters deal with antiquity, daily life, art and literature, humor and philosophy, politics and international position, religions and superstitions, resources, scenery and climate of the land, commerce, business and future possibilities.

* * * * *

“Interesting chapters on certain picturesque and unhackneyed aspects of life and letters in China from the standpoint of a cultured American resident, rather than an all-round survey like Baird’s ‘Chinese life in town and country’ or an exhaustive special study like Smith’s ‘Village life in China.’”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 86. N. ’09. ✠

“A book of readable quality, pleasantly enlivened with incidents and anecdotes.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 456. D. 1, ’09. 300w.

“There is a great deal that is new and informing about the family and social life of the Chinese people in these studies.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 60w.

=Thonger, Charles.=^{[7]} Book of the cottage garden. (Handbooks of
practical gardening.) *$1. Lane.

9–17663.

“Sounds the praises of the small patch of ground surrounding one’s humble home in the country. He explains in a very convincing manner how, by using simple methods and not endeavoring to obliterate nature in striving after unnatural and foreign effects, the cottage garden may become one of the most beautiful spots on the landscape. Speaking particularly of the English cottage garden, he says there is nothing prettier, and they often teach lessons that great gardeners may learn.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 80w.

“This is a useful book. It is planned on lines which make it available for the average householder.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 544. Ap. 3, ’09. 100w.

=Thorold, Algar Labouchere.=^{[8]} Six masters in disillusion.
**$1.50. Dutton.

9–21002.

Mr. Thorold’s six masters in disillusion are Fabre, Huysmans, Maeterlinck, Fontenelle, Mérimée, and Anatole France. “The disillusion of which he treats is largely based on theological—or anti-theological—skepticism.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Thorold is a critic of considerable ability. He possesses two faculties seldom found together: the faculty for discussing in a sound and agreeable way works of foreign literature, and the faculty for canvassing in an entertaining manner new ideas in philosophy. Unhappily, in the present book these two faculties are not displayed in co-operation. The result is that the work falls into two pieces which have no connexion with each other.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 431. Ap. 10. 800w.

“The final summary of the modern philosophic pose is keen and wise, and the book as a whole has a literary quality unusual in works of its kind, which makes it agreeable reading.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 387. N. 16, ’09. 360w.

“Mr. Thorold writes unusually well, and if, as has been intimated, all his theories do not quite hold water, he has succeeded in presenting a study well worth while.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 452. Jl. 24, ’09. 950w.

=Thorpe, Sir Edward.=^{[12]} History of chemistry. (History of the
sciences.) 2v. ea. 75c. Putnam.

=v. 1.= From the earliest times to the middle of the nineteenth century. This volume, uniform with the “History of the sciences” series, treats the history of chemistry to the middle of the nineteenth century under the following chapter headings: The chemistry of the ancients; The chemical philosophy of the ancients; Alchemy; The philosopher’s stone; Iatro-chemistry; “The special chemist”; The dawn of scientific chemistry; Phlogistonism; Lavoiser and la révolution chimique; The atomic theory; The beginnings of electro-chemistry; The foundations of organic chemistry; The rise of physical chemistry; Bibliography; Index.

=Thursfield, James Richard.=^{[8]} Nelson and other naval studies.
*$4. Dutton.

9–29190.

“Resumes and systematises the teaching on Great Britain’s naval problems which for a great many years he has been expounding in the fleeting columns of a daily paper, or in the scarcely more lasting pages of our multitudinous magazines, and allows us to see the principles and reasons of his naval faith.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“He goes a good deal further in his eulogy of Jones than seems reasonable.” C. T. A.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 834. O. ’09. 600w.

“Mr. Thursfield certainly ought to be widely read in this country, if for no other reason than because of his just appreciation of Admiral John Paul Jones, ‘Father of the United States navy.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 522. S. 4, ’09. 1050w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 511. O. ’09. 100w.
=Sat. R.= 108: 20. Jl. 3, ’09. 1000w.

“Mr. Thursfield’s new volume will be welcomed by all serious students of naval affairs. His authority to speak is unquestionable. The chief fault that we have to find with this volume is that it shows some signs of its journalistic origin, notably in a habit of repeating the same phrases, or even the same arguments.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 133. Jl. 24, ’09. 1200w.

=Thurston, Ernest Temple.=^{[10]} City of beautiful nonsense. †$1.50.
Dodd.

9–28691.

“‘The city of beautiful nonsense’ is about a young fellow in London who apparently has much talent as an author, but is delightfully improvident and impractical enough to be but half his age. He meets a very dear girl in a most unconventional way, and the acquaintance continues and grows more and more unconventional, while at the same time it is wholesome and true to the best in both of them. Their love story meets with obstacles and touches upon tragedy and plunges deep into pathos.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“A charming idyll.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 135. D. ’09.

“It is good sound sentimental comedy, not always very real, but always very readable and charming, and plausible. We have only to object to the impersonation of a living author by one of the characters, as out of keeping with the delicate fabric, and we are at an end of our adverse criticism.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 493. Ap. 24. 140w.

“Grammar too often suffers, and proofreading has failed to alleviate; but delightful sayings bubble freely and certain scenes have the lustre of fine enamel.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 210w.

“Is as pretty and as fairylike as a dew-besprinkled cobweb in the morning sun. And at the same time he makes it seem real and as true to all the best and the finest in human nature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 565. S. 25, ’09. 380w.

“A fanciful, sweet-hearted tale.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 80w.

=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Mirage. †$1.50. Dodd.

8–32388.

Here “the stock figure of the French nobleman of the ‘ancien régime’ has received honourable treatment. He is a little more ‘ideal’ than usual, a little more courteous, a little more imaginary. But we like him; he is as pretty as a picture, and steps straight out of fairy tales. His faithful servant belongs to the same category of ideals—that faithful servant who followed his master to London, took a position as waiter in a restaurant to be near the Comte, and put sixpences into the master’s pockets.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“An idyllic tale, full of pathos, but with many happy touches.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 55. F. ’09. ✠

“It is a nice story, and its pathos is clean and wholesome, as the pathos of a fairy tale should be.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 361. S. 26. 170w.

“It is a delicate and charming tale, with soft lights and subtle characterizations. There is also a vein of happy humor running through the pages, which notably relieves the burden of their essential pathos.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 46: 263. Ap. 16, ’09. 260w.

“If ‘Mirage’ were less well-written, it would be less exasperating.”

+ + =Nation.= 88: 20. Ja. 7, ’09. 220w.

“In the delicacy, firmness, and grace of the thousand and one artistic little touches by which the author compasses his complete effect the book is more akin to French than it is to English art.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 803. D. 26, ’08. 340w.

“A quiet romance, full of sweetness, and charm.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 245. Ja. 30, ’09. 190w.

=Thurston, Mrs. Ida Treadwell (Marion Thorne, pseud.).=^{[10]} Big
brother of Sabin street; continuing the story of Theodore Bryan “The
Bishop’s shadow.” **$1. Revell.

9–24265.

The sequel to “The bishop’s shadow.” It relates the temporary relinquishment of Theodore Bryan’s plan to go into the ministry when at the end of his Harvard course he loses his voice, and, despondent, suffers his faith in God to cease. After a time he returns to his former state of mind, and altho he cannot preach, he goes into settlement work, shaping and furthering plans for the development of street boys.

* * * * *

“It depends on the personal equation whether any given reader shall find it rather grownup for a boys’ book, or rather saccharine for adult taste. But of its fine aspiration and healthful import there can be no question.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 541. D. 2, ’09. 160w.

=Thwaites, Reuben Gold.= Wisconsin; the Americanization of a French
settlement. (American commonwealth ser.) **$1.25. Houghton.

8–34125.

Dr. Thwaites begins with early days of “Ouisconsin,” when French voyageurs often at the mercy of Indians made their first settlements. He continues the narrative thru the later periods of industrial, agricultural and political development. Twenty years of research and study have prepared Dr. Thwaites for this task.

* * * * *

“The student of the history of the middle west finds in Mr. Thwaites’s work an epitome of the latest results of the research that is constantly developing materials as the French and English archives are becoming available. One could desire fewer facts and a larger discussion of leading topics, such as, for example, the Indian policy of Lewis Cass, which is dismissed with a few words of implied censure.” C. M.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 629. Ap. ’09. 400w.

“Dr. Thwaites contributes one of the most interesting volumes of the ‘Commonwealth series’ in his scholarly work on Wisconsin.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 21. Ja. ’09.

“The history forms an excellent referencebook.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 224. F. 6, ’09. 210w. + =Nation.= 88: 336. Ap. 1, ’09. 650w.

“A book of considerably more consequence than the mere annals of a state. Perhaps the book’s greatest fault is that the author very rarely gives his authorities.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 15. Ja. 9, ’09. 300w.

“An account of his State that is as entertaining as it is scholarly. In some respects, particularly with regard to the period of exploration and first settlement, his little volume both amplifies and corrects existing knowledge. His book carries the history of the State to an astonishingly recent date.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 385. F. 20, ’09. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 124. Ja. ’09. 100w.

=Thwing, Charles Franklin.=^{[7]} Education in the Far East. **$1.50.
Houghton.

9–16809.

A study growing out of President Thwing’s recent extended tour and first-hand examination of the relations of education and civilization in Japan, China, India, Korea, the Philippines, and Egypt. It is “an interpretation of forces, tendencies and movements” in which the author presents the educational problems confronting the different countries and shows what has been done and what still remains to be done, and what part modern, improved educational methods may take in the civilization of the Far East.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 52. O. ’09.

“The doctor’s analysis of the situation is not minute; his forecasts somewhat vague and conjectural.”

− =Cath. World.= 89: 838. S. ’09. 130w.
=Ind.= 67: 309. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.

“The test of value in a book of this sort might indeed be whether its scope and insight were large enough to interest any lover of general history and of mankind. The history of education is the history of thought and progress. A book of such general interest, and which makes a special appeal to our modern curiosities, is ‘Education in the Far East.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 523. S. 4, ’09. 700w.

“Written in his usual interpretative, thought-provoking style.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 70w.

“The author’s attitude is altogether altruistic and to all those entertaining a wide interest in the education of the world his book elucidates many problems.” Y. S. Tsao.

+ =Yale R.= 18: 331. N. ’09. 400w.

=Ticknor, George.=^{[10]} Life, letters, and journals. *$5. Houghton.

9–12410.

A reissue of a work that has passed thru twelve editions since it first appeared thirty years ago. The five services which George Ticknor rendered for America’s intellectual development suggest why his life is of such many-sided importance: he was America’s first cosmopolitan scholar; he originated the university idea in American higher education; he was founder of the greatest public library; he was the author of a true magnum opus; he was an American gentleman whose life gave a new dignity to letters.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 150. D. ’09.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 639. O. 16, ’09. 180w.

“The first volume of memoirs is delightful reading, and one of the richest treasures in the language for anecdote and characterization of the period.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 361. O. 14, ’09. 200w.

“The passage of time does not, and for a long while can not, dull the interest or lessen the value and the charm of this original record, rich and delightful equally in its disclosure of Mr. Ticknor’s character and of the characters of so great a number of distinguished contemporaries. It is a work entirely ‘à part.’ There is none that covers the same field, American and European, and none that covers any part of that field more attractively and usefully.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9. ’09. 1000w.

“They belong on the shelf beside Crabbe Robinson’s ‘Diary.’ They are also important to all students of American political and literary history.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 317. O. 9, ’09. 320w.

=Tilley, Arthur Augustus.=^{[5]} From Montaigne to Molière. 5s.
Murray, John, London.

W9–145.

Treats of the little known period which intervened between the close of the renaissance and the triumph of the classical spirit. “Mr. Tilley does not divorce literature from politics, and deals in an instructive chapter with the restoration of order in France by Henri IV after the religious wars. This period opens with the revival of Catholicism and the preciosity of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, which coincides with a complete reorganisation of society. The establishment of the Académie Française gave a literary tribunal to France which has never lost its power; originally a small gathering of literary friends, it became under the guidance of Richelieu almost what it has since remained, and perhaps never could have become in any other country. Corneille ushers in the remarkable series of French dramatists which has never failed since. The great names of Descartes and Pascal adorned the close of the period which saw French prose, as employed by Pascal, established as the complete and supple vehicle for clear expression.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“The book is well and clearly written, and though the result of much reading, is neither pedantic nor prolix.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 20. Ja. 2, ’09. 200w.

“He is at his best when he is tracing the rise and fall of some literary fashion, when he is appraising the influence of some school of forgotten writers, or indicating the connexions between social changes and the formation of ideals in art.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 182. Ja. 30, ’09. 1350w.

=Toffteen, Olaf Alfred.=^{[12]} Historic exodus. (Researches in
Biblical archaeology, v. 2.) *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–27106.

When Dr. Toffteen’s “Ancient chronology” appeared two years ago, there was a promise to conduct later an inquiry into the age of the documents and their historicity. This volume is the fulfilment of that promise. In it, he discusses, according to an entirely independent line of thought, the component parts of the Pentateuch, dates and their historical authenticity.

* * * * *

“Professor Toffteen lays himself open to serious criticism by the use he makes of the material of other scholars without giving them proper credit. The whole method of the book is totally unreliable. As to the treatment of historical data it is safe to say that there is no scholar of any standing in the scientific world who could possibly agree with the distorted and positively misleading interpretation of the Egyptian and Babylonian monuments which is here presented.” D. D. Luckenbill.

− − =Bib. World.= 34: 422. D. ’09. 2200w.

“Professor Toffteen is well acquainted with the Egyptian and cuneiform material, and seems to be embarrassed by its richness—in the dense collection of facts he fails to get the perspective. Professor Toffteen has brought together many facts of importance; as to his theory, we must agree with him that it ‘may and probably will have to be modified on future investigation.’”

− + =Nation.= 89: 438. N. 4, ’09. 900w.

=Tollemache, Lionel Arthur.= Old and odd memories. *$3.50. Longmans.

9–3082.

“With a good memory, wide reading, and a lifelong habit of ‘casting about,’ as he calls it, for old-world stories, Mr. Tollemache has filled his three hundred pages with more than twice as many anecdotes, epigrams, quotations and similitudes. In so vast an accumulation of witticisms, some must be better than others; the treasure house contains things old as well as new.” (Ath.) Two chapters are devoted to a sketch of the author’s father who is painted “as three parts Sir Roger de Coverley, and one part Richelieu.”

* * * * *

“In proportion as he is careful to say nothing that is false and all that is true, he ministers to the biographer’s craft, and sheds light on the manners of an age. This task M. Tollemache’s ‘Memories’ have discharged; for the labour lavished on their compilation he deserves the thanks of all who value an amusing and instructive book.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 5. Ja. 2. 1300w.

“There is a lot of tiresome matter in it; but if one cares to take it hit or miss, opening it here and there in a casual way, one will be apt to find a good many very amusing paragraphs.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 151. Mr. 13, ’09. 800w.

“Conveys unimpaired to its readers the best and most characteristic humour of the many notable men whom Mr. Tollemache has known, and yet reveals its author’s own personality in a hundred happy phrases and thoughts.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 1101. D. 26, ’08. 1350w.

=Tolman, Herbert Cushing.= Ancient Persian lexicon and the texts of
the Achaemenidan inscriptions transliterated and translated with
special reference to their recent re-examination. (Vanderbilt
oriental ser., v. 6.) *$1.25. Am. bk.

9–3515.

Besides the lexicon proper the volume includes the transliterated and translated texts of the famous Behistan inscriptions and other Akhaemenian texts.

* * * * *

“An unusual piece of scholarly work. We miss references to the sources for the inscriptions in weights, vases and seals, by which the correctness of the transliteration can be tested.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 378. F. 18, ’09. 120w.

“Must be regarded for many years to come as the best edition thus far made, not only of the Behistun texts, but of the entire body of Old Persian inscriptions.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 13. Jl. 1 ’09. 440w.

=Tolman, William Howe.= Social engineering: a record of things done by
American industrialists employing upwards of one and one-half
million of people; with an introd. by Andrew Carnegie. *$2. McGraw.

9–6279.

“A record of various things done along the line of uplift by American industrialists, who employ 1,500,000 of people.... The various subjects taken up by Dr. Tolman are those of efficiency promotion; the social secretary; hygiene; safety and security; mutuality; thrift; profit sharing; housing; education; reaction; communal or social betterment; and finally the pertinent inquiry, ‘Does it pay?’ Under these heads each chapter presents a mass of facts and details, instancing in each case the company or firm and the number of people employed.”—Elec. World.

* * * * *

“As the first work of the kind and as an argument in favor of organizing welfare work into a profession and so increasing its efficiency, the book has a large value.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 182. Je. ’09.

“So far as we are aware, the facts and data have never before been collected. One of the most interesting chapters is that on profit sharing.”

+ =Elec. World.= 53: 581. Mr. 4, ’09. 550w. + =Engin. D.= 5: 541. My. ’09. 200w.

“It is worth reading from cover to cover—with judicious skipping—by any one who is interested in the great social problems of the day. But its value would have been increased if the author had written an introductory chapter, setting forth some of the general principles involved in his main subject.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 51. Ap. 15, ’09. 450w.

“The most important chapter is the last, in which a large number of employers state their experience with welfare work.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 278. Mr. 6. ’09. 320w.

“The book is written in a strictly scientific method and deals with facts, figures, and actualities.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 857. My. 15, ’09. 220w.

=Tolstoi, Liov Nikolaevich, graf.=^{[7]} Teaching of Jesus. (Harper’s
library of living thought.) **75c. Harper. W9–148.

“Two years ago the Count formed a class of village children of from 10 to 13 years for the study of the Gospels. He ‘wished to impart to them in a way they would understand, and that would have an influence on their lives, Christ’s teaching,’ and he told them in his own words those parts of the four Gospels which seemed to him most understandable, most suitable for children, and at the same time most necessary for moral guidance in life.” (N. Y. Times.) It is with these teachings the volume deals.

* * * * *

“A beautifully simple narration, useful for Sunday school teachers in liberal denominations.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 182. Je. ’09.

“The work of the translators has been admirably done, and they have left in this earnest and forceful style its strong personal accent and its touch of the prophet’s naïveté. It is a striking example of how the greatest truths can be told in the simplest language.” C. G.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 387. Je. 19, ’09. 500w.

=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.=^{[11]} Ward Hill—the teacher. (Pastime
and adventure ser.) †$1.25. Jacobs.

9–23809.

Readers who have followed Ward Hill thru the various stages of preparatory and college life will find that “he makes good” during this first year out of college while on the staff of Weston Hill teachers. His life lessons in obedience to law and order stand him in good stead now when it is his business to command and control others. School athletics figure largely in the story.

=Tompkins, Eugene, and Kilby, Quincy.= History of the Boston theatre.
**$5. Houghton.

8–33893.

Compiled from the records of the play-house this “history ranges from grand opera stars to minstrels, from statesmen and clergymen to pugilists.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“In a sense, he has compiled a vade mecum of the drama in America for the last half century.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 144. Mr. 1, ’09. 350w.

“Will be valuable as a work of reference in theatrical libraries, and will be treasured by collectors for the sake of its gallery of portraits—many of which are rare.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 660. D. 31, ’08. 330w.

“Mr. Tompkins’s book is not a work of literature. It is a record, a catalogue of dates and names, a collection of playbills. It comprises, in some way, a history of the American theatre for nearly half a century.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 320w.

=Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor.= Open house. †$1.50. Baker.

9–2262.

The story of the development of a young woman who upon the death of supposedly wealthy parents finds herself penniless. She is towed home with a doctor’s other derelicts, tho her malady is mental—the disease of idleness, ennui, discontent. During a rebellious period of office apprenticeship she gradually learns from the tactful, humorous, hard-working doctor and the cheerful patients of this “open house” lessons of real service, discovers latent executive ability, and finally achieves a healthy, happy, normal outlook on life. The doctor as an honest, boyish lover, tho forty and a widower, is quite as convincing as in the professional rôle.

* * * * *

“The character delineation is good, there are many humorous incidents, and the several romances are happily disentangled.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 93. Mr. ’09. ✠

“Is not only a fairly readable book, but a well-constructed book also, because it also assigns to love and courtship the degree of relative importance that they ought to possess in the average sane, well-regulated life. Shows a substantial advance upon the same author’s earlier novel, ‘Dr. Ellen.’” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 76. Mr. ’09. 220w.

“One can do without a plot now and then for the sake of such a well-realized and delightful character as Dr. Diman or the skillful handling of proud, self-willed and egotistical Cassandra under the influence of her new environment.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 520w.

=Tower, Walter Sheldon.=^{[10]} Story of oil. (Library of useful
stories.) **$1. Appleton.

9–16457.

A popular concise history which portrays the enormous developments in the petroleum industry during the last half century and points out the important part that petroleum and its products play in every day life. A chapter devoted to the Standard oil company refrains from any comment upon the legal and moral aspect of its operations but confines the discussion to its place in the growth of the oil industry.

* * * * *

“The first book for the small library to buy.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 23. S. ’09. ✠

“We know of no better written and more interesting or generally satisfactory account of this industry, aside from the economic problems involved than is to be found here.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 731. D. ’09. 300w.

“Entertaining and instructive book. Practically all the ordinary person needs to know about petroleum is in Mr. Tower’s book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 414. Jl. 3, ’09. 370w.

=Towles, John Ker.=^{[5]} Factory legislation of Rhode Island.
(American economic association quarterly. 3d ser. v. 9, no. 3.) pa.
$1. Am. economic assn.

8–32401.

“Dr. Towles discusses his subject under the four general headings of Child labor, Hours of labor, Factory acts, Fire escapes and elevators, treating each topic both historically and administratively, and concluding with a chapter on the Bureau of industrial statistics, of which he feels obliged to speak disparagingly, as hardly ‘worth its cost to the state.’ As to enforcement of the various provisions of the Factory code the usual variation, from good to bad, is observable. One gains additional confidence in the author’s conclusions, and in his suggestions for improvement, from the firsthand knowledge obtained by him through actual employment in various factories of the state.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“The work is well done, and gives renewed emphasis to the importance of the investigations which the Carnegie institution is making possible.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 725. My. ’09. 140w.

“It is greatly to be hoped that similar work will be published for all the industrial states.” J: R. Commons.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 47. Ap. ’09. 300w.

=Towne, Charles Hanson.=^{[12]} Manhattan [poems]. *$1. Kennerley.

9–28429.

“A serious effort to express in ‘numbers’—they are ‘mournful numbers,’ too—the essence of the ‘giant city.’... [He reveals] the sufferings of the poor in hot summer nights, of the men and women who work and live in loneliness in the midst of the crowds, the callousness of the rich who, hurrying out from the opera ‘to find their motors,’ ‘seldom toss a coin to the poor newsboy shivering near the door,’ and the pathos of the industrial army on its daily march to and from work.”—Survey.

* * * * *

“The social problems touch the writer with pity and hopelessness only, for which he finds here and there a really poetic phrase, though ‘Manhattan’ will be far from finding a place among the immortal poems of cities.”

− =Survey.= 23: 377. D. 18, ’09. 170w.

=Townsend, Edward Waterman.= Climbing Courvatels. †$1.50. Stokes.

9–4192.

When Dick and Betty Courtney, known to the stage as the Courvatels of the sleight-of-hand fame, achieve independence thru severe economies and carefully made investments they use wit and audacity to enter good society. This story tells of their success, the menace of discovery that threatened for a time, and the activity of an old stage associate to avert it while he played the rôle of family butler.

* * * * *

“The pleasing tale abounds with pictures of high life and low life, and is served with a sauce piquante of slang in the author’s inimitable manner. The story does not pretend to be literature, and as regards meaning or moral, is as bald as a billiard ball—and none the worse for that doubtless in the opinion of those who most fancy a book of this class.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 400w.

=Toynbee, Paget Jackson.=^{[7]} Dante in English literature from
Chaucer to Cary (c. 1380–1844). 2v. *$5. Macmillan.

9–21846.

Traces the influence of Dante in English literature and incidentally “illustrates the association of England with Italy, varying in strength and in character during the centuries since the poet was laid in his tomb at Ravenna; and, not less significantly, it illustrates the tone of the literary world of England, its attitude towards romance, religion, mediaevalism, and epic poetry itself.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 86. N. ’09.

“In [the Introduction] is contained all that the average reader will demand. It is an excellent piece of work and should be reproduced presently in a separate form. As for the body of the work, it is written by an enthusiast, and will, we fear, appeal only to enthusiasts.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 423. O. 9. 400w.

“Although Dr. Toynbee’s work will naturally appeal more to the scholar and the student, many parts of it will not fail to arouse the interest of the general reader.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 161. Ag. 19, ’09. 1650w.

“It will be seen that Dr. Toynbee gathers both bad and good fishes within his copious net—which, we would suggest, is a little too widely extended. His work, indeed, seems almost exhaustive; but he is surely wrong in asserting that there were no English attempts at writing in terza rima between Surrey and Milton.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 756. Je. 12, ’09. 130w.

“Dr. Toynbee renders a direct service, and it is one which we can hardly too highly praise. His book is a treasure-house of English ‘Dantism.’ It is a marvel, too, of accuracy. That the headline of p. 135, v. 1, is misprinted is almost the only textual slip we have observed; and the mass of illustrative matter that has been utilized is, without exaggeration, enormous.”

+ + − =Spec.= 102: 1034. Je. 26, ’09. 1400w.

=Toynbee, William.=^{[7]} Glimpses of the twenties. *12s. 6d.
Constable, A., & co., London.

A book of “that type which stands on the borderline between history and memoirs, and which owes its inspiration to Mr. Justin McCarthy.... Round the last of the Four Georges, and Brougham, and Canning, and ‘the Duke,’ and ‘Prosperity Robinson,’ and Madame de Lieven, he has woven an entertaining narrative in which contemporary gossip and modern revelations are happily blended.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“A readable, but superficial survey of the reign of George IV. Mr. Toynbee deals freely in scandal, and is no believer in elevated motives; but he has a good general knowledge of the period, and if many of his stories are old, they bear re-telling.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 528. My. 1. 120w.

“They are pleasant, informative, occasionally brilliant conversations about a very interesting period, seasoned with scandal, and with spite against certain individuals, to which we do not object, for we like a good hater. Slovenliness is the infallible mark of the book-maker, who may be all the same, and in this case is, very good company by the way.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 530. Ap. 24, ’09. 680w.

“Mr. Toynbee has produced another readable and well-illustrated book. He is much too fond of settling disputed questions off his own bat.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 1004. Je. 26, ’09. 650w.

=Tracy, Frank Basil.= Tercentenary history of Canada: from Champlain
to Laurier, 1608–1908. 3v. *$4. Macmillan.

8–19228.

“The recent celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Quebec has naturally suggested the idea of a new history of the Canadian dominion.... The first volume gives us the story of the early settlers, and is full of almost romantic detail. The war with the United States is described in the second, while the third contains a great deal of valuable information with regard to the subsequent history of the colony. The value and brightness of this history are enhanced by the illustrations in the shape of photogravures, and photographic reproductions, which Mr. Tracy has lavishly employed, as well as by the beautiful map and ample index with which the work is equipped.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“Although the author’s jaunty style and aggressive self-satisfaction excite some prejudice, the history, considering the extent of ground covered, does not appear to contain many mistakes.” H. E. Egerton.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 391. Ap. ’09. 500w.

“We are not surprised to find that with all its completeness the present work is somewhat partizan in its summaries, altho it is written in an interesting and readable style. This is the best Canadian history up to date which we have met with.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 988. D. 26, ’08. 130w.

“A clear and interesting narrative of the upbuilding of Great Britain’s most important colony.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 799. D. 26, ’08. 580w.

“This is a history which Canadians should appreciate, and it may well be read by all Americans who would gain a better understanding of their neighbors to the north.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 584. Mr. 13, ’09. 450w.

=Tracy, John Clayton.= Plane surveying. $3. Wiley.

7–33942.

A practical text-book to the preparation of which the author has brought fifteen years of experience. “It is intended as a reference book for field use and has accordingly been published in pocket size on thin paper. There is, of course, very little new information in the book, for surveying has been covered by too many admirable works to afford an opportunity for originality, and such a volume must be judged mainly by its usefulness for its purpose.... It covers the whole field of plane surveying, computations, mapping and the use and care of instruments with thoroughness and lucidity.” (Engin. Rec.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 21. Ja. ’09.

“This book is based on an unusually thorough study of what students need. A book of high merit, equally adapted for the classroom, for home study and for field use.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 55. Ja. 9, ’09. 170w.

=Tracy, Louis.=^{[11]} Message. $1.50. Clode, E. J.

9–4189.

“A breezy tale of what happened to a young English Deputy commissioner from Africa, home on leave of absence, after he met a pretty girl in the Isle of Wight during regatta week. Or, rather, after the two of them in a rowboat picked up from the sea a bit of flotsam, a hideous figurehead which had been knocked loose from some sunken wreck. Inside it is a parchment, of human skin, many, many years old, which tells about a priceless ruby secreted in ruins far in the interior of Africa. This is the message, and it enfolds a mystery whose gradual development the reader follows with breathless interest until he reaches the last page.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Is in some respects an improvement upon his previous books, excellent romances though they were.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 500w.

“Mr. Tracy writes with a sustained power that grips the attention, while the vividness of his narrative makes the story seem very real.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.

“Mr. Tracy always tells a very good story, and in ‘The message’ he gives his readers an exciting mixture of high politics and attacks by savages.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 517. O. 2, ’09. 110w.

=Tracy, Virginia.=^{[5]} Merely players: stories of stage life.
†$1.50. Century.

9–8996.

A dozen stories in which players drop the mummer’s mask and tinsel and are seen as longing, hoping, suffering human men and women. The author, an actress herself and the daughter of an actress, writes from out a full knowledge of behind-the-scene comedies and tragedies.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 188. Je. ’09. ✠

“It was well worth while rescuing these stories from the ephemeral existence of the magazines and preserving them in the permanency of book-form.” C. I. Colbron.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 414. Je. ’09. 580w.

“It is evident that the stories are penned by a sympathetic and interested observer.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 903. My. 22, ’09. 230w.

“The picturesque value of the player’s existence is used legitimately and the humor and pathos of the stories have for a setting that Bohemia which is not a place, but a state of mind.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 367. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.

“It is readable everywhere.” B. L. Israels.

+ =Survey.= 22: 622. Ag. 7, 09. 110w.

=Train, Arthur Cheney.= Butler’s story. †$1.25. Scribner.

9–7139.

A butler’s story of the unreal life of an unhappy New York family of wealth and the disasters that overtook its members. “The tale may be recommended also to the climbers, rich and poor alike.... The elaborate scheme of the number and duties of servants in a first-class establishment and his schedule of tips expected from week-enders are alone worth the price of the book.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 114. Ap. ’09. ✠

“This is an interesting contribution to sociological fiction from the point of view of the servant.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 419. Ap. 27, ’09. 110w.

“There is plenty of action, and the story is told with briskness and fun. It is a pleasant hour’s reading for upstairs and downstairs alike, whether or not they want or need instruction in the art of serving like a good servant or being served like a gentleman or lady.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 241. Ap. 17, ’09. 400w.

=Trask, Kate Nichols (Mrs. Spencer Trask).= King Alfred’s jewel.
**$1.25. Lane.

9–18966.

A dramatic poem in which “Alfred, the religious idealist, is presented as the pearl of chivalry, the paragon of Christian manhood, in speech and act that recall the reader to the ‘Idylls of the king.’ A few of his authentic sayings are aptly interwoven with his utterances. His Queen, Elswitha, purer than Arthur’s Guinevere, becomes the victim of a brief, blind jealousy, in which she nearly murders the little maid who twice had saved his life. Around these two the action of the play moves quickly on in war with the Danes and treachery in the palace, lightened by the innocence and drollery of minor characters, to its issue in the reconciliation of the Queen, and the public thanksgiving for the King’s escape from the assassin.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Though not a great drama, one that has decided interest and considerable merit.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 52. O. ’09.
=Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 20w.

“Fails to breathe the breath of life into the somewhat dry bones of the Saxon monarch.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 50w.

“The play will stand, not alone upon the grateful response it wins from the English national heart, but as a work of art.” H: M. Alden.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 205. Ap. 10, ’09. 2400w.

“A fair piece of good artistic work by a poet of no common, if not of superior, rank.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 130w.

“That the book succeeds in its main purpose, the vivid presentation of Alfred as a man, strong in passion, high in reason, great in soul, there can be no doubt. This was something that needed to be done, and by doing it in this fashion the author has earned both admiration and gratitude.” H: Van Dyke.

+ =Outlook.= 92: 567. Jl. 3, ’09. 2200w.

“Character and action alike become inarticulate under the influence of a dreamy and elegiac rhythm.”

− =Spec.= 101: 999. D. 12, ’08. 150w.

=Tremayne, Eleanor E.= First governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of
Austria. **$3.50. Putnam.

8–37696.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“A serious and sober volume fortified by research in the archives of Brussels, Malines, and Lille, to which however more definite references are desirable. A few mistakes call for correction.” H.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 830. O. ’09. 650w.

“A welcome addition to the lighter biographical literature of the sixteenth century. It is not free from errors of fact and judgment, which betoken hasty composition and lack of background. But her account is vivid and interesting. And the book as a whole is well worth perusal.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 170. F. 18, ’09. 700w.

“Mrs. Tremayne, whose conscientious care is evident on every page of this valuable chronicle, portrays Margaret with such clear-cut and broad lines that she stands before us, rising from the distant years a real flesh and blood woman.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 66. Ja. 9, ’09. 500w.

=Trench, Herbert.= Apollo and the seaman: the Queen of Gothland,
Stanzas to Tolstoy, and other lyrics. *$1.50. Holt.

“Apollo and the seaman” was written for a musical accompaniment which Mr. Joseph Holbrooke is supplying in a complete symphony. Among the more pretentious pieces are The queen of Gothland, Stanzas to Tolstoy, and The shepherd.

* * * * *

“The Meredithian glow and opulence, the Meredithian swiftness of intellectual motion, are evident throughout Mr. Trench’s volume.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 97. Ag. 16, ’09. 630w.
=Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 20w.

“The volume contains at least two poems of unusual size and pretensions, the titular piece itself and ‘The queen of Gothland.’”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 41. Ja. 14, ’09. 250w.

=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.=^{[11]} Garibaldi and the thousand.
*$2.25. Longmans.

“The survey taken includes a sketch of Garibaldi’s life from 1849–1854, and an account of the political conditions in Naples and Piedmont before the war of 1859. Garibaldi’s share in the campaign against Austria is described in sufficient detail to make us appreciate at their full value the military qualities that made him turn the mistakes of the enemy to such signal advantage. An analysis of the situation in different parts of the country after the Peace of Villafranca brings us down to Garibaldi’s expedition. Particulars are given of the incidents that helped to pave the way for it, the preparations made, and the chapter of accidents on the voyage from Quarto to Sicily. The last five chapters deal with the astounding campaign which delivered the island into the hands of Garibaldi and his ‘Thousand.’”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The points which one can dispute with Mr. Trevelyan are no less rare than insignificant, and we revert to the pleasant task of recording our satisfaction with the book as a whole.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 485. O. 23. 1600w.

“Will be hailed by scholars as one of the most important contributions to modern history recently published.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1083. D. 11, ’09. 160w.

“While Mr. Trevelyan writes history with his eye glued to his authorities and skillfully extracts the meat from personal impression as well as from scientific judgment, he has a fine sense of proportion and a gift of style which entertains while it imparts information.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 788. D. 11, ’09. 800w.

“He is the equal of Froude in his research among original authorities, in his dramatic skill in narrative, and in his effective use of minor but significant incidents, and he appears to be more painstaking and more scrupulously conscientious in his study and use of details.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 830. D. 11, ’09. 300w.

“Any expectations which may have been raised by Mr. Trevelyan’s former volume will certainly not be disappointed by this continuation of it. In conception and in execution we think he has surpassed his earlier standard. As we venture to offer him our congratulations, we desire to thank him for the extraordinary and vivid pleasure which is conveyed by his pages.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 604. O. 16, ’09. 2000w.

=Trevelyan, Robert Calverley.=^{[7]} Sisyphus: an operatic tale.
*$1.50. Longmans.

A tale in which “classic gods are handled in the manner of Lucian, and made to clown at the bidding of a mortal. Sisyphus, after a career of brigandage, dies, but by a trick deceives the gods of the lower world, and is allowed to return to earth. He makes a bid for the empire of the world, uses Hermes as a dupe, and shuts up Death in a coffin. But Hermes outwits him in the end, and he goes down to hell with his head high, the only creature, mortal or immortal, who can make a jest of Death.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“It will be seen that Mr. Trevelyan treats his theme in a satirical mood. His meter frequently changes, and if his verse is often little more than rhymed prose, and contains no passages of profound beauty, it at least is serviceable and is endowed with the sophisticated touch. ‘Sisyphus’ is worth reading.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 130. Mr. 6, ’09. 400w.

“We would there were more such poetry, for comedy and song are of the great sisterhood, and the fantastic is often the frolicking of happy genius.”

+ − =No. Am.= 190: 708. N. ’09. 340w.