Chapter LIX: Book 3: , The self, presents the nature of self as part of consciousness (19)

“Will puzzle most people, and to the few who grasp the author’s intention will provide great entertainment. The rough ‘fescennine’ verse suits the odd humor of a fable, which is sufficiently original and subtle to make us desire, and also despair of, a wide public for it.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 20. Jl. 3, ’09. 120w.

=Trevena, John.= Arminel of the west. †$1.50. Moffat.

9–7571.

A story of Dartmoor in which are contrasted the characters of two young women; one the sheltered daughter of a rector who has the cloister in view for her; the other, of doubtful origin, a maid of the moor, strong, sturdy with an inborn sense of self-protection.

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“The pity is that an author, keen in perceiving, undoubtedly clever in plotting situations, does not approach in a somewhat different manner the situations he has created.”

+ − =Atlan.= 103: 710. My. ’09. 330w.

“There is much truthful portraiture in this newly issued volume, much subtle understanding, also, of human nature, and a power of visualisation both of action and of setting that promises well for the author’s future work.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 189. Ap. ’09. 580w.

“The book is as good as Phillpotts could do, with this advantage, that over and above the tragedies, fate smiles rather than frowns, as we are accustomed to having fate do in Phillpotts’s novels.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1082. My. 20, ’09. 170w.

“As engaging a heroine as one would be likely to come across in a shelf full of fiction is ‘Arminel.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 28. Ja. 16, ’09. 200w.

=Trevena, John.= Heather. †$1.50. Moffat.

W9–216.

The second part of a moorland trilogy of which “Furze the cruel” was the first. “Heather typifies endurance, and the last book is to deal with Granite as embodying strength.... It begins at a tomb, whence the scene shifts to a sanatorium for consumptives, an institution that, as portrayed by Mr. Trevena, savors strongly of an asylum for the insane.... Among all the characters only three are represented with a thoroughly sane and healthy outlook on life—Gregory Breakback, the clean-hearted peasant visionary; Tobias, the fox-terrier; and Bubo, the one-legged owl.” (Nation.)

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“He has learnt to see with understanding, and should appeal to those who would leap the barriers of city horizon and class distinction to meet on intimate terms, face to face, the children of the earth. True this is not by any means milk for babes; but we are inclined to believe that the ugly patches are essential to the true delineation of the picture.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 149. Ag. 8. 180w.

“‘Heather’ does not have the strong personal appeal of the earlier volume.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 525. Jl. ’09. 400w.

“The tale moves consistently through disease, filth, madness, discouragement, and degradation indescribable of body and mind. The characters are for the greater part entirely unconvincing.”

− − =Nation.= 88: 92. Ja. 28, ’09. 370w.

“‘Heather,’ aside from its powerful predecessor and its probably able successor, is itself a contribution to literary excellence.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 240w.

=Tripp, Howland.=^{[6]} In whaling days. †$1.50. Little.

9–15087.

A group of seventeen stories which have grown out of the author’s keen interest in the bravery and toil of the whaler and which reproduce events contemporaneous with the heyday of the relating industry.

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“Mr. Tripp appears to have been a diligent student of human nature in its humbler types, and to have recovered from that insatiate past which is ever devouring the present; a multitude of personal anecdotes and character-sketches that are well calculated to amuse the lover of homely New England stories.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 24. Jl. 1, ’09. 250w.

“To read [the sketches] is to get an impression of real life as it was lived in the staid New England coast towns sixty and seventy years ago.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 493. Ag. 14, ’09. 160w.

=Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes.=^{[11]} Beau sabreur: Maurice
de Saxe, marshal of France; his loves, his laurels and his times.
*$4. Brentano’s.

Cast in an autobiographical form, this is the recreated personality and atmosphere of the world in which he lived. “It is a chronique scandaleuse of the lives of the reigning sovereigns in mid-Europe during the first half of the eighteenth century, intermingled with those of their illegitimate children, such as Maurice de Saxe and of the hordes of great ladies who, with sublime effrontery, played the concubine to the various rulers, princes, warriors and statesmen of the period.” (Sat. R.)

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“He disclaims having attempted anything but ‘a veracious and popular record.’ As to the veracity, if we leave out of account the consideration hinted at above, the claim may probably be conceded; and for the rest, we have found the book readable throughout, and piquant in places.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 417. O. 9. 1550w. − =Sat. R.= 108: 540. O. 30, ’09. 250w.

“The book is curious and readable, and the underlying tragedy of such a life, brought to an end by the hero’s own vices at fifty-five, will not escape those who read with understanding.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 793. N. 13, ’09. 500w.

=Trubetzkoi, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.=^{[12]} Trix and
Over-the-moon. †$1. Harper.

9–27264.

A young woman who quotes Horace and trains horses, a natural, unaffected, buoyant woman is married to a writer whose stilted method gets on her nerves. Her advice to him is “Catch ’em alive, Catch ’em alive. Take living, breathing men and women that you’re interested in and plump ’em into a book.... Don’t fuss so about their clothes ... the style you dress ’em up in, you know. Just be natural ... just be easy ... just be simple.” Over-the-moon is Trix’s favorite horse who comes to a tragic end through the lunacy of an old Scotch servant who thought that the wife’s love for horses was breaking up home happiness.

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“The story is gemmed with exquisite bits of description, and it is all written with that gift for the telling use of words which its author long ago proved herself to possess.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 818. D. 25, ’09. 280w.

=Tucker, Alfred Robert.=^{[7]} Eighteen years in Uganda and East
Africa. 2v. *$8.50. Longmans.

8–36142.

A history of the Uganda protectorate which is “concerned in the first instance with strictly missionary matters, and with politics as incidental to them—for the affairs of the British East Africa company and the events connected with the annexation are inextricably intertwined with the history of the mission.... Other parts of the enormous diocese are dealt with besides Uganda proper: we get graphic pictures of the Kilimanjaro district; the missions at Freretown and Rabai, behind Mombasa; the Mpwapwa and Mamboya country, Bunyoro and Mount Elgon, and the Masai.” (Ath.)

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“This book is really a history of the Uganda Protectorate, and deals with so many and such weighty issues that an adequate notice within narrow limits is difficult. Some misspelt proper names and Swahili words have escaped correction in the reading of the proofs.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 728. Je. 19. 520w.

“This fascinating chapter of modern church history is well written. The Bishop’s style is that of a strong man who has much to say and wants to say it fairly. The book would be improved and mercifully shortened if two-thirds of the poetic quotations were cut out.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 499. Ap. 17, ’09. 1000w.
=Spec.= 102: sup. 1000. Je. 26, ’09. 1600w.

=Tucker, Samuel Marion.=^{[10]} Verse satire in England before the
renaissance. (Columbia univ. studies in English. Series 2, v. 3, no.
2.) *$1. Macmillan.

9–8396.

“A survey of satirical literature in several languages, with an attempt to trace the influence of foreign satire upon the English. The author states that ‘no treatment of the evolution of the satire as a genre in English has yet been attempted.’” (N. Y. Times.) The author’s five great epochs of the rise and progress of verse satire in England are: from the goliardic satire and satire in Anglo-French, 1200, to the work of Lyndsay, 1540; from Sir Thomas Wyatt to the decadence of classical satire, 1620; the satire of the Cromwellian period; the Dryden period of revived classical satire; and the period of anti-Jacobin satire extending to Byron.

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“The faults of this history of satire in England are not inconsiderable. Yet, in the main, the work has decided merit. It is scholarly and is accurate in details. The general student and reader will find it helpful. Its wealth of illustrative quotations makes the perusal stimulating.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 277. S. 23, ’09. 1600w.

“Should be invaluable as a textbook for the student who desires a basic knowledge of the subject.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 402. Je. 26, ’09. 940w.

=Tucker, T. G.=^{[5]} Introduction to the natural history of language.
10s. 6d. Blackie & son. London.

“An admirably arranged account of the great families of language. He distinguishes them by the methods of their formation. He begins with introductory matter, first defining his subject, giving as its division (1) phonology, the physical production of speech sounds; (2) morphology, the formation of words (inflexion in our family of languages, and the processes which answer to it in others); (3) comparative syntax, the formation of sentences; (4) semasiology (a term less familiar than the others), in which we have to do with the modification of meaning. Chap. 2 is given to phonology; 3 to alphabets. Then come what will be found by the general reader the most interesting portions of the work,—the very clearly expressed and illuminating accounts of the various language families.”—Spec.

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“In view of the vastness and intricacy of the subject and the eccentricities of many of his authorities, Prof. Tucker has made surprisingly few false steps, and a little judicious pruning would raise his work to a high grade of excellence.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 192. F. 13. 800w.

“As it stands the treatise has, if the expression may be used, a somewhat forbidding look.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 467. Mr. 20, ’09. 300w.

=Tupper, Edith Sessions.= Stuff of dreams. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

8–32647.

A modern prodigal son is the hero of this story. “He is a very naughty and very rich young man, the son of a New York financial magnate who is the soul of justice and honor. The young man’s misdeeds tangle him up wretchedly, and when his father learns of his wild oats he insists that the boy shall eat their fruit. He obeys the parental order, and then rushes forth angry and revengeful. But after some years the prodigal returns and everybody forgives and is forgiven.” (N. Y. Times.)

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“This novel of New York society life, although highly melodramatic and not free from the element of improbability, displays much ability of the kind that is demanded by the general lover of romantic fiction in the weaving and developing of the story.”

+ − =Arena.= 41: 89. Ja. ’09. 440w.

“Mrs. Tupper writes with unusual facility, and one cannot avoid the conviction that she could do much better work than this if she chose.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 32. Ja. 16, ’09. 180w.

=Turneaure, Frederick Eugene=, ed. Cyclopedia of civil engineering: a
general reference work on surveying, railroad engineering,
structural engineering, roofs and bridges, masonry and reinforced
concrete, highway construction, hydraulic engineering, irrigation,
river and harbor improvement, municipal engineering, cost analysis,
etc. 8v. hf. mor. $24. Am. school of correspondence.

8–33936.

A compilation of various instruction books issued for students by the American school of correspondence. “There are many sections in which the electrical engineer will find data and detail of great direct utility, but we may specify the section by Professor Turneaure himself on hydraulics and that by Mr. A. Black on water-power development. The cyclopedia is a most welcome addition to an engineering library.” (Elec. World.)

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“This cyclopedia is altogether worthy of praise, not the least of its merits being the originality of treatment and the freshness of contents.”

+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1411. D. 26, ’08. 180w.

“This effort to make the subject clear to the elementary student gives to nearly all of the papers in this cyclopedia a superficial nature. As the text-book for the home student we can imagine that the cyclopedia will have a valuable place, although the separate volumes might serve his purpose better, for in the cyclopedia he has to take the good with the bad. But to the practising engineer we cannot see that the collected volumes will serve any useful purpose.”

− + =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 536. N. 12, ’08. 930w.

=Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Black, Adolph.= Hydraulic
engineering: a practical treatise on the principles of water
pressure and flow and their application to the development of water
power, including the calculation, design and construction of water
wheels, turbines, and other details of hydraulic power plants. $3.
Am. school of correspondence.

9–35099.