Chapter LX: Part 1: , by Dean Turneaure, treatise of abstract hydraulics. Part 2, by (1)

Professor Black, deals with the development of power from falling water.

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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 183. Je. ’09.

“This book is of value chiefly to students who are beginners in the study of this branch of hydraulic engineering. It also possesses a considerable value to young engineers practicing in the same line, who have not worked long enough to be familiar with elementary principles and some of the examples illustrating them. To such it is a valuable book of reference if used with a proper amount of caution.” F. C. Finkle.

+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 15. F. 18, ’09. 1550w.

“The book as a whole should prove of value to the class of ‘correspondence’ students for whom it is intended, but for engineering readers of more experience and knowledge it will appear uneven in treatment.”

+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 140. Ja. 30, ’09. 340w.

=Turner, Charles C.=^{[12]} Aerial navigation of today. *$1.50.
Lippincott.

W9–306.

A lucid statement of the laws that govern aerial navigation. “The chapter explaining these truths [the important laws of the ‘stream-line’ form, the concavo-convex form of plane, and the proportion of the width of the plane to its length] leaves little to be desired, and cannot fail to excite the interest and wonder of all, for it at once unfolds a mechanical law of great beauty and simplifies the construction of aeroplanes. The members of a flying-machine must conform to the same rule, and a concavo-convex section enables the planes to be constructed hollow, ensuring the same strength with lightness.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“A very full and painstaking elaborate work.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 80w.

“It is with some difficulty that we leave the fascinating subject of the aeroplane to draw attention to the scarcely less important chapters on the condition of the atmosphere.”

+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 718. N. 6, ’09. 630w.

=Turner, Claude Allen Porter.=^{[12]} Concrete steel construction, pt.
1, Buildings: a practical treatise for the constructor and those
commercially engaged in the industry. $20. C. A. P. Turner, 816
Phoenix Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn.

9–25657.

A work whose practical helpfulness is emphasized particularly in the chapters “on economic design, on handling concrete at different temperatures above and below zero, on placing and protection of pipes in concrete work, on plastering over reinforced concrete work, on floor finish, on commercial conditions affecting the safe and rapid introduction of concrete steel construction, wherein are discussed with exceptional vigor the conditions exacted by building laws and the responsibilities incumbent on engineers, contractors and owners.” (Engin. Rec.)

* * * * *

“This book can be regarded as nothing more than a handbook advertising and advocating this particular type of construction. Two flagrant defects in the book should be mentioned. The book lacks an important essential of any scientific or technical treatise, namely, an index. Another fault, recently referred to by a writer in ‘Engineering news’ as all too common in text-books and other technical works, is a want of clearness of expression, shown not merely in long, involved sentences, but also in loose and unintelligible language.” R. P. Miller.

− =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 60. D. 16, ’09. 1900w.

“The book is full of exceedingly practical points. In fact the last half of the book is of a high order of usefulness, which cannot be said, however, with so much emphasis as to some other sections. The whole book should be read with a knowledge of the prejudices of the author, and the reasons given by him in his preface for presenting the book and the reasons for charging a large price for the work, as set forth near its end, be considered.”

+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 364. S. 25, ’09. 500w.

=Turquan, Joseph.=^{[7]} Love affairs of Napoleon; tr. from the French
by James L. May. **$5. Lane.

In which new material on the love affairs of Napoleon is generously interspersed with the old. “Among these is some verse, written to Mme. de Saint Huberti, and credited to Napoleon. There is also new light thrown on the attitude of the Emperor towards Josephine immediately before and after the divorce, which places the former in a pleasanter position.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1909, 2: 124. Jl. 31. 170w.

“Although there is perhaps nothing unnecessarily offensive in M. Turquan’s method of handling it, we have ‘chronique scandaleuse’ from the first page to the last. Eminently readable.”

+ − =Dial.= 47: 104. Ag. 16, ’09. 100w.

“Has not the slightest claim to original research. The work is decidedly interesting. Several of the anecdotes, and the book is fairly stuffed with them, will find an excuse for their presentation, in spite of their sadly unedifying details, in the light they shed, not only on the social turpitude of the time, but on certain political events.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 38. Jl. 8, ’09. 450w.

“The writer’s French sentimentality runs away with him on occasions. The book is not precisely a valuable one, but it takes its place as a clever account of the frivolous side of the great Corsican’s life.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 467. Jl. 31, ’09. 800w.

“Such books as these deserve no attention from any serious reader. Though there is no grossness, there is an exploiting of sex in these books which is disagreeable. His wives have their place in his serious life, but we can dispense with his mistresses treated as a separate topic at length.”

− =Sat. R.= 107: 634. My. 15, ’09. 100w.

=Turquan, Joseph.= Sisters of Napoleon: Elisa, Pauline and Caroline
Bonaparte; after the testimony of their contemporaries; tr. and ed.
by W. R. H. Trowbridge. *$3.75. Scribner.

9–13598.

A sketch of the lives of Napoleon’s three sisters in which their difficulties and failures are the important considerations; important for the reason that they thwart every step of the trio’s advance into the good graces of the student of history.

* * * * *

“The book was written without knowledge of recent publications which change the story of the lives of the Grand Duchess Elisa and of Murat’s Queen.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 718. D. 5. 660w.

“It must be said in praise of the English version, whatever may have been true of the French original, that the lives of three very disreputable women are told with good taste, without either prudery or coarseness.”

+ − =Dial.= 47: 22. Jl. 1, ’09. 320w.

“It is interesting, but makes no serious contribution to scholarship.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 411. Ap. 22, ’09. 110w.

“One is conscious of a certain animosity in the writer’s attitude, and it wearies one. Possibly their lives will be told more sympathetically some day. The present volume, at least does not lack interest.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 700w. + − =Sat. R.= 106: 734. D. 12, ’08. 250w.

“M. Turquan’s volume, adequately translated into English by Mr. Trowbridge, is a compact and artistic whole, made up of studies of Napoleon’s sisters, and written throughout with liveliness and skill. One feels that M. Turquan, when he began to write, knew exactly what he wanted to do, and that he has done it; his object was to amuse, and he does amuse, and if at the same time he is somewhat unsympathetic and not always too careful as to his facts, these are faults which only the most scrupulous and serious of his readers would wish to remember against him.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 1100. D. 26, ’08. 580w.

=Two-family= and twin houses; consisting of a variety of designs
contributed by leading architects in all parts of the country;
selected and comp. by the editor of the Architects’ and builders’
magazine. $2. Comstock.

9–3219.

Consists of designs, shows latest ideas in planning this class of houses in the city, village and suburbs, gives descriptions covering latest improvements in sanitation, heating, etc., and gives detailed estimates of cost.

* * * * *

“The book will be found a useful reference to the architect, builder, contractor and owner, and should suggest methods of improvement which will furnish better homes to the average family without necessarily involving larger cost.”

+ =Engin. D.= 5: 175. F. ’09. 240w.

“The text is a very well considered discussion of the problems presented by such houses, and describes the designs in some detail.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 130w.

=Tyler, Royall.=^{[11]} Spain: a study of her life and arts. *$3.50.
Kennerley. W9–296.

“To the student of mediæval Spanish architecture the book, with its detailed descriptions, careful ground plans, and well-chosen photographs, should prove of immense value. It is from this standpoint of stern fact, as opposed to romantic tradition, that, when dealing with the rivalry of north and south, the author devotes but one chapter to Andalusia, which, according to popular prejudice encouraged by Richard Ford, has always been considered the most interesting part of Spain.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“His views are deliberately formed as well as temperately stated, and he certainly introduces his readers to many out-of-the-way buildings well worth a visit. Mr. Tyler’s digressions into politics and literature are less happy. Fortunately they are brief and few.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 499. O. 23. 170w.

“Should not be overlooked in view of a visit to any of the monuments it describes.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 234. Ag. 21, ’09. 350w.

U

=Under= Petraia with some saunterings; ^{[5]} by the author of “In a
Tuscan garden.” **$1.50. Lane.

9–35804.

“The author, who has made herself most favourably known to many readers by her earlier book, tells us how she had to quit her ‘Tuscan garden’ through a change of proprietors—the new people were too high and mighty to have a neighbour—and how after not a little searching she found another resting-place. She makes this change, and various incidents following upon it the occasion of much pleasant talk. Gardening is her chief subject we may say; but she has something to tell us about many matters, some of them quite serious,—the very serious estimate of Italian character, for instance.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“Spicy and entertaining, if somewhat desultory chronicles.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 52. O. ’09.

“The volume is frankly unambitious; but if one cares to read in the writer’s spirit, an hour with its pages will give much quiet enjoyment.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 180w.

“A volume of dreary commonplaces, nay, intolerable, unless you take it as a revelation of the point of view, taste, and knowledge of that species which has for half a century packed the cheap ‘pensions’ of the European continent.”

− =Nation.= 88: 511. My. 20, ’09. 300w.

“Some pleasing pictures of Italian life and scenery, and some rather entertaining notes of travel are to be found in [this] little volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 486. Ag. 14, ’09. 120w.

“This is a very pleasant book to read. Open it where you will, you will find something that holds your attention.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 468. Mr. 20, ’09. 140w.

=Unwin, George.=^{[5]} Gilds and companies of London. *$2. Scribner.

9–29581.

“Mr. Unwin’s book abounds with all the ‘curiosities’ of the London trade companies and their social and religious customs over six or more centuries.” (Sat. R.) “The plan is clearly influenced by two aims, first to give a clear account of ‘the continuous organic development of the gilds and companies of London from the days of Henry Plantagenet to those of Victoria’ and, second, to bring out ‘the significance which the gilds and companies as a whole have had for the constitutional history of the city, and for the social and economic development of the nation at large.’” (Am. Hist. R.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Unwin has given us a most interesting general account of the numerous gilds and companies of the great English metropolis and has supplied a valuable work of reference for students of municipal, social and industrial history. A very timely and important contribution to English history.” N. M. Trenholme.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 565. Ap. ’09. 970w.

“Although we may not always see eye to eye with Mr. Unwin, we have no hesitation in saying that he has produced the best book of its kind that we have seen, and we heartily commend it to every student of municipal as well as gild history.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 125. Ja. 30. 1250w.

“Within the limits which his space permits Mr. Unwin has accomplished his object, though, as is inevitable in so vast a subject, with somewhat varying degrees of success. The whole of this narrative is a valuable contribution to London constitutional history.” C. L. Kingsford.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 336. Ap. ’09. 800w.

“Despite blemishes, the general verdict on the book must be favorable. It is the work of a scholar and teacher of considerable reputation in his chosen field, who knows the printed literature of his subject ‘au fond’; it deserves to be taken seriously. Mr. Unwin’s treatment of his subject is such as to make it far more attractive and human than it is usually given credit for being, and perhaps also to induce others to follow in his footsteps.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 254. Mr. 11, ’09. 550w.

“A thoroughly scholarly production, which will prove at the same time interesting to the general reader.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 561. S. ’09. 220w.

“Mr. Unwin has caught their spirit, and he presents the London gilds in their broadest and most important aspects; and his book is one of the best possible introductions to a study which is full of interest to every intelligent reader and necessary to a student of political and economic history.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 182. F. 6, ’09. 380w.

“We know of no series in which the purchaser gets better value for his money than he does in the ‘Antiquary’s books,’ and the volume now before us is a signal instance. It is an exhaustive study of its subject.”

+ + =Spec.= 102: sup. 643. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.

=Upham, Alfred Horatio.=^{[8]} French influence in English literature
from the accession of Elizabeth to the restoration. *$2. Macmillan.

8–21953.

In which Dr. Upham has investigated, verified, grouped and interpreted the influences of French literature and society upon the literature of England from Elizabeth to the restoration.

* * * * *

“The whole discussion is thoroly lifeless and unreal. It cannot be denied that Dr. Upham has manipulated his card catalog conscientiously, but even the elastic card catalog has its limitations.”

− =Ind.= 67: 199. Jl. 22, ’09. 350w.

“The nature of the subject precludes forever a definitive treatment, yet it is, perhaps, worth while to point out a few places at which this work would be improved by condensation or amplification. In spite of all deductions the book is thoroughly interesting, substantial, and of indispensable value to the student of comparative literature.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 390. O. 22, ’08. 600w.

=Upham, Alfred Horatio.=^{[10]} Old Miami: the Yale of the early West.
$1. Republican pub.

9–20773.

A history written for the centennial celebration of the founding of Miami. It “gives a series of pictures of the life of the students at Miami in its early days, of pranks and discipline of societies and fraternities, of the coming of educational institutions for women to nestle under Miami’s wings; and closes with chapters on the civil war, whose conclusion brought the end of the first phase of the university’s existence.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“An unexpectedly delightful book. Mr. Upham vividly glimpses a page in the life of the West that has already passed into history.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 711. S. 23, ’09. 180w.

“Though the style of the book is familiar and tinged with slang, and though the substance is unnecessarily slight, there are not wanting little flashes of light into the dark background of western culture.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 283. S. 23, ’09. 360w.

“Mr. Upham has done a real service to the history of the young West of those days.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 522. S. 4, ’09. 150w

=Upton, George Putnam.=^{[9]} Standard concert repertory and other
concert pieces: a handbook of the standard overtures, suites,
symphonic poems, rhapsodies, fantasies, etc., in the modern concert
repertory, for the use of concert goers. $1.75. McClurg.

9–25249.

A handbook containing short sketches of standard overtures, suites, symphonic poems, rhapsodies, fantasias, etc., which the concert goer most frequently hears. It is less a book for musicians than for concert audiences.

* * * * *

“A useful volume, though too slight to satisfy readers having any considerable knowledge of music.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 87. N. ’09. ✠

“A thoroughly judicious and trustworthy guide for the layman who loves music.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 290. O. 16, ’09. 80w.

“Is marked by the author’s thoroness and painstaking care in compilation; is, in short, a useful and handy book of reference.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1045. N. 4, ’09. 100w.

“The works chosen for analysis are selected judiciously and with catholic taste; the analyses are brief, lucid, and free from technical jargon or pedantic ‘parsing’; and concert-goers will be able to find here information regarding most of the concert pieces they are likely to hear.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 415. O. 28, ’09. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 702. N. 13, ’09. 110w.

=Upward, Allen.= East end of Europe; with a preface by Sir E:
Fitzgerald Law. *$4. Dutton.

9–5987.

Concerns Greece, Constantinople and the Black Sea provinces. With frankly Hellenistic sympathies the author enlarges upon the race feud between the Greeks and Bulgarians in their contention for power in Macedonia.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 128. D. ’09.

“The book is ‘avowedly Greek,’ also refreshingly frank.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 786. D. 19. 300w.

“His book continues to be of value so far as his report on the complicated situation in Macedonia is concerned. Mr. Upward is a Philhellene of almost early nineteenth century hue, however, and for this his readers must make allowance.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 1243. Je. 3, ’09. 260w.

“Mr. Upward’s account of racial and economic conditions in the disputed region should be of value for a long time to come.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 123. Ag. 5, ’09. 250w.

“Gathering his evidence with the scrupulous care of an attorney preparing for a trial in court, Mr. Upward holds a brief for Hellenism and argues from it. Portions of his work seem to be a reply to ‘Macedonia,’ by H. N. Brailsford, a book enlarging on the Bulgar side of the controversy.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 189. Ap. 3, ’09. 600w.

“Mr. Upward has an excuse for putting his views before us in that his conclusions differ entirely from those of every writer who has dealt with the Macedonian imbroglio during recent years.”

− =Sat. R.= 107: 563. My. 1, ’09. 650w.

=Urner, Mabel Herbert.=^{[8]} Journal of a neglected wife. *$1.10.
Dodge, B. W.

9–5215.

“The specific case in the book deals with the particularly tragic and peculiarly uninviting situation in which the wife has already reached an unlovely middle age—has lost her art of charming largely by neglecting it—when she discovers that her husband has found elsewhere what she has ceased to give.” (N. Y. Times.) “We recommend the book to any tired-out husband who is fortunate enough to get away from a hysterical wife for a few days’ peace and recreation.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“The cleverest thing about the book is the ‘dénouement.’”

+ =Ind.= 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 200w.

“A morbidly truthful volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 323. My. 22, ’09. 380w.

V

=Vachell, Horace Annesley.=^{[6]} Drama in sunshine. *$1. Fenno.

A new edition of a dramatic story of love and hate whose scenes are enacted in southern California.

=Vachell, Horace Annesley.=^{[11]} Paladin as beheld by a woman of
temperament. †$1.50. Dodd.

9–24959.

“Mr. Vachell describes his subject as ‘beheld by a woman of temperament,’ and she it is who makes the story interesting, for romance gains little by the reflection of so commonplace a type as that of the paladin—a young man brought up to believe himself a great deal more than the stupid good fellow he really is. When an opportunity of playing the hero occurs, he makes a tolerable success of it, but owing to a fatal habit of marking time, fails in his legitimate love-suit. Later he succeeds to the peerage, and is married by a lady of the Jollity theatre. The marriage turns out a failure, and the wife, becoming seriously ill, is taken to a nursing home, where she is tended by the woman of temperament, who, after battling alone in various callings, has found work as a nurse. A foil to the paladin is provided in the doctor in attendance on the case, and thus a dramatic situation is created, of which good use is made.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“While the story on the whole has the reader’s approval, it fails to win his sympathy.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 135. D. ’09.

“The study of the paladin is admirable, and two pairs of women and men are vividly contrasted.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 422. O. 9. 190w.

“Altogether the book is an entertaining novel as well as a clever study of character.” M. K. Ford.

+ =Bookm.= 30: 394. D. ’09. 520w.

“The impression survives that it is not only the Harry Ryes who are arraigned, but the whole sex, especially such of them as play untimely golf on honeymoons.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 573. D. 9, ’09. 300w.

“The story is distinctly clever, and Mr. Vachell has drawn the character with unmistakable lines. Mr. Vachell’s humor is keen and his satire is clever. The story is well worth reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 607. O. 16, ’09. 380w.

“If George Meredith had never written ‘The egoist’ Mr. Vachell in ‘The paladin’ would have produced a notable work. As it is, his book suffers inevitably by comparison, not only because he has chosen the theme of Meredith’s masterpiece, but because he has adopted—not always very happily—some of his mannerisms and tricks of style. It is not possible to say of many pages of the book ‘These might have been written by George Meredith.’ But it is impossible to avoid detecting the resemblance in many turns of phrases and ideas.”

− + =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 7. O. 16, ’09. 700w.

“Once, however, the reader has made up his mind to accept Mr. Vachell’s point of view, he will not be able to help admiring the cleverness with which it is presented. The story is well and vigorously written, though the character of Napier, the modern doctor, is perhaps a little conventional.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 651. O. 23, ’09. 60w.

=Vaile, Mrs. Charlotte M.=^{[11]} Orcutt girls; or, One term at the
academy; new ed. †$1.50. Wilde.

A new and attractive edition of a popular story for girls, relating the experiences of Bertha and Sue Orcutt thru one term at an old-fashioned New England academy.

=Vaile, Mrs. Charlotte M.=^{[11]} Sue Orcutt; new ed. †$1.50. Wilde.

The story of Sue, begun in “The Orcutt girls,” is in this second book brought to a happy ending.

=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Bronze bell. †$1.50. Dodd.

9–7439.

A young American off for a duck hunt on Long Island becomes the hero in a strangely assorted series of happenings. A babu who mistakes him for a rajah puts into his hands a bronze box of wonderful Indian craftsmanship. This hero, “the ant-heap of crowded Indian life, the Anglo-Indian secret service, native trickery, the mysterious East—adventure, danger, treachery, mystery, love, bravery, all the old material, which are the only ones we know, are used with satisfying success.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Has no literary merit, but possesses the same qualities that made the author’s ‘Brass bowl’ and ‘Black bag’ popular.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 189. Je. ’09.

“It is not great art, it does not pretend to be, but it is a rattling good story.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 762. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.

“Persons of mature years will sit up to read Mr. Vance’s story and prove how the heart of man never grows old.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 607. Je. 17, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 201. Ap. 3, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.

“The book is at least picturesque and exciting, though the adventures are sometimes a little confused.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 100w.

=Vance, Wilson J.=^{[10]} Big John Baldwin. †$1.50. Holt.

9–24322.

In the quaint English of the seventeenth century big John Baldwin sets down from time to time in this journal all that befell him as a youth busied with his dogs and his sports, and, later, his experiences at the court of Charles I, and still later at that of the Lord Protector. As an officer in Cromwell’s army he saw active service and won glory; as a man he won his lady; and in later life, removing to the new colony of Virginia, he won much from that new land. It is a tale of a noble gentleman told in a style which quaintly blends piety and humor.

* * * * *

“A lengthy, leisurely, naïve chronicle that reproduces successfully the life of the period and furnishes a tale of considerable interest.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 135. D. ’09. ✠

“Mr. Vance has copied the conventional pattern of Roundhead style with fair success, and invested his book with something of the garb of its period.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 387. N. 16, ’09. 230w.

“In spite of lavish portions of Presbyterian preaching and of mutual admiration among kings and commons, the book gives an interesting picture of the time in old world and new, with more of the domestic than the military.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 628. D. 23, ’09. 400w.

“It is a novel considerably apart from the ordinary, and Mr. Vance deserves praise for his faithful presentation of the literary style of Cromwell’s time and following.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 636. O. 23, ’09. 210w.

=Van Dyke, Henry=, ed.^{[11]} Poetry of nature. **$2.50. Doubleday.

“The sixty ‘Nature poems’ which Dr. Van Dyke has put together in this volume include, as might be expected, various old favourites. Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils,’ Browning’s ‘Oh, to be in England,’ Herrick’s ‘Get up, get up, for shame!’ Shelley’s ‘Ode to the skylark,’ and Lord Tennyson’s ‘Tears, idle tears,’ are among them. On the other hand, we have some pieces that will be less familiar to most readers. Dr. Van Dyke has drawn upon poets of his own country for some of the material. ‘The titmouse,’ by R. W. Emerson; ‘To a water-fowl,’ by W. C. Bryant; and ‘The marshes of Glynn,’ by Sidney Lanier, are among them.”—Spec.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 684. O. 30, ’09. 80w.
=Sat. R.= 108: 542. O. 30, ’09. 40w.

“The selection is excellent, and there are some good photographic illustrations.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 566. O. 9, ’09. 130w.

=Van Dyke, Henry.=^{[12]} White bees and other poems. **$1.25.
Scribner.

9–28299.

Dr. Van Dyke “knows his birds and flowers thoroughly, but the secret of his poetic and graphic celebration of them lies in his love for them. They do not flutter in his hand, but are content to make their shyness and wild music his; so it has happened that he has written a little group of lyrics of convincing fidelity to nature and to art. He is afraid neither of deep conviction nor of deep emotion, and he has given his verse that quality which in a somewhat skeptical age, with its overemphasis of the purely intellectual element in art, is so often missed.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The group ‘In praise of poets’ has especial interest.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 128. D. ’09.

“A little group of songs which are likely to hover above the horizon of our workaday American world for many decades.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 651. N. 27, ’09. 130w.

=Van Dyke, John Charles.=^{[9]} New New York; a commentary on the
place and the people. *$4. Macmillan.

9–24461.

New York as an expression of the new civilization; New York with its life, its vitality, its tremendous energy kept forever in action by commerce; New York of high bridges, colossal sky-scrapers, huge factories and enormous waterways; New York as an educational, art and trade center is the author’s theme. The illustrations in colors and black and white lend reality to the larger aspect of present day New York with which the author has chosen to deal.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 87. N. ’09. ✠

“The illustrations are clever but insubstantial. They fail to give us any feeling of the tremendous force and vitality of the city which is the keynote of the book.” Algernon Tassin.

+ − =Bookm.= 30: 355. D. ’09. 489w.

“But if occasionally ‘The new New York’ strikes the level of mere information, as a whole it moves on a much higher plane, forming a significant, if over-weighted, impression of our New World metropolis, with its unique conception of municipal beauty, realized and to be realized in years to come—for the New York is still very much in the making.” E. K. Dunton.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 453. D. 1, ’09. 520w.

“To the interpretation and to the appreciation of New York he has brought knowledge and understanding, insight and sympathy.” Brander Matthews.

+ =Forum.= 42: 474. N. ’09. 1000w.

“An extremely interesting and entertaining book. Mr. Pennell’s pictures, regrettably, are not on a par with the text. They are disappointing.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 821. O. 7, ’09. 900w.

“This book of Professor Van Dyke’s is intensely modern, intensely of to-day.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 640. O. 16, ’09. 600w.

“Mr. Pennell’s pictures leave no doubt upon the skeptic’s mind that New York is picturesque, in spite of its rectangularity. Not the least merit of them is that they invite the reader to seek out the places the illustrator has shown, and thus discover with his own eyes what formerly may have escaped him.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1084. D. 11, ’09. 240w.

“Taking the book as a whole, sensible text with its innumerable spirited suggestions and stimulating criticisms, and the illustrations, charming portraits of familiar places, it would be difficult to find anything more appropriate to its subject or more successful in the carrying out of the thing attempted.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 627. O. 23, ’09. 1050w.

“Mr. Pennell’s etchings have done for the New York of to-day what Mr. Whistler’s etchings did for the London of twenty years ago. Ought to be a text-book for the study of Americans who want to discover the New York of to-day.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 291. O. 9, ’09. 650w.

“Professor Van Dyke’s text is that of a man who thoroughly knows and loves his subject. As for the Pennell illustrations, they are beyond praise as an accurate interpretation of the life and architecture of the city.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 511. O. ’09. 100w.

“The book as a whole will be stimulating to all who are working in any way at the problems of the city and especially of the city of New York.”

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

=Van Dyne, Frederick.=^{[7]} Our foreign service: the “A B C” of
American diplomacy. $2.50. Lawyers’ co-op.

9–3311.

A survey of the diplomatic and consular service by the American consul at Kingston, Jamaica. An appendix is added containing important regulations, governing examinations, appointments and promotions, forms and present members of the service.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 183. Je. ’09.

“In comparison with the space devoted to the text of the book the prominence given to technical and changing subjects is disproportionate.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 613. N. ’09. 170w. + =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 652. N. ’09. 100w.

“The work appears to have been executed in a thorough and painstaking manner.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 99. Jl. 29, ’09. 60w.

“It is intended for the use of those preparing for our foreign service as well as to be informing and useful to the general reader.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 510. Ap. ’09. 60w.

=Van Rensselaer, Mariana (Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer).=^{[6]}
History of the city of New York in the seventeenth century. *$5.
Macmillan.

9–14587.

Two volumes of some five hundred pages each of which trace the history of the settlement planted by the Dutch on the island of Manhattan during a period of eighty years, from the earliest days until the accession of William and Mary to the throne of England. It is the author’s intention to continue the history in two later volumes thru the colonial and revolutionary periods.

* * * * *

“The author has been unable to avoid one very serious source of error; this arises from the method she has adopted in prosecuting her investigations. Mrs. Van Rensselaer is evidently quite fitted to have taken up her theme ‘de novo’ from the original documents. Relying instead upon her predecessors of various degrees of merit, she has been frequently led to incorporate in her work their inaccuracies. Of more importance are many positively wrong statements which the author has culled from careless authorities.” J. H. Innes.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 155. O. ’09. 2100w. + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 52. O. ’09.

“If the volumes to follow fulfil expectations thus created we shall have indeed a ‘magnum opus.’” F. I. Herriott.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 626. N. ’09. 400w.

“One can hardly point to a longer felt want in historical literature than that which this volume and its successor supply. It has none of the portraiture for which one looks, and which she is evidently qualified to produce.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ − =Bookm.= 30: 57. S. ’09. 1450w.

“The work, so far as it goes in these two volumes, is one of those authoritative achievements of an enthusiastic yet well-poised specialist, which must be accepted as it stands, and left for scrutiny of details to sub-specialists.” A. Schade van Westrum.

+ − =Forum.= 42: 187. Ag. ’09. 3200w.

“The impression left by the work upon the reviewer, is one of sound historical balance, of well-seen proportions and well-drawn conclusions.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 143. Jl. 15, ’09. 970w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 789. N. 6, ’09. 420w.

“Her pages are never dull. On the contrary, they are frequently brilliant.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1084. D. 11, ’09. 160w.

“We feel compelled to say that the weakness of Mrs. Van Rensselaer’s work is its super-abundant detail. Detailed as it is, however, the book is a notable piece of work, honorable alike to its author and to the city whose story it authoritatively sets forth.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 120. Ag. 5, ’09. 2000w.

“Now comes Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, delving into greater minutiae of historical detail than Fiske ever essayed to do with New York.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 545. S. 18, ’09. 1800w.

“A well-compacted, beautifully rounded narrative, attractive and impressive to all intelligent readers.” Elizabeth Wallace.

+ =Outlook.= 92: 40. S. 4, ’09. 1350w.

“Mrs. Van Rensselaer’s illuminating work should go far to counteract such misconceptions as have been perpetuated from Irving’s day to this.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 200w. + − =Spec.= 103: 314. Ag. 28, ’09. 350w.

=Van Vorst, Marie.=^{[11]} In ambush. †$1.50. Lippincott.

9–28121.

A handsome, broad-shouldered young robber, murderer and outlaw in general is the hero of this tale whose main purpose seems to be one of proving that even so desperate a character, once under the right reformatory influence may be regenerated. “The beautiful young Kentuckian, Helena Desprey, crossed his erratic path on her ‘finishing’ tour, and lo! that Denver bank received back the sum (plus interest) stolen from it fifteen years before; the states of Colorado and California, which Flanders had upset a good deal, got two million dollars between them for local charities, and Tom Moody’s Irish relatives came into a little fortune. He was a splendid fellow, despite the warrants out against him, and twice saved Moody’s life, besides rallying the Lancers in that charge at Omdurman; and the more Helena learned about his past the more she forgave him.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“There are some good descriptive paragraphs scattered through the pages, which will please those who like personally conducted novels, while the various entanglements of the plot are sufficiently exciting.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 771. D. 4, ’09. 280w.

“The book is capital melodrama, ingeniously devised, as we have seen, to win the vote of that large section of novel-readers every unit in which believes herself to be the Right Woman for somebody or other.”

− =Sat. R.= 108: 416. O. 2, ’09. 250w.

=Varney, George Reuben.=^{[7]} Out of the depths. **$1.25. Am. Bapt.

9–16444.

A story which deals with the experiences of a young minister who becomes the pastor of a large church in a city of the Northwest. The author includes Christian science in the long list of “evils” which his pastor militant meets and downs.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 501. Ag. 21, ’09. 500w.

=Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII).
**$4. Putnam.

8–37694.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“For any serious estimate of papal statesmanship we look in vain. He gives on the whole a very fair judgment of Leo, and does not much extenuate his faults of levity and dissimulation.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 225. F. 20. 130w.

“The biography is, in fact, an excellent piece of characterisation, pleasantly written from well-known sources, and without any affectation of research. When writing directly upon Leo, Mr. Vaughan is accurate, and he evidently has the advantage of familiar knowledge of both Rome and Florence. In the more general history mistakes are too numerous.” P.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 404. Ap. ’09. 500w.

“This is, above all else, an amiable book. It is written as nearly without partisan bias as one could ever expect in a work treating of a subject that involved religious considerations of any sort.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 386. Ap. 15, ’09. 750w.

=Vaughan, Owen (Owen Rhoscomyl).= Vronina. †$1.50. Dodd.

8–22545.

A story of Wales which reflects the “strength and mysticism of the Welsh hills and moors.” “The author has marked his people by subtle characteristic touches—the traces of superstition in their minds, the influence upon them of the sea, and the grandeur of the scenery, their impatience of pretense, their almost fanatical sense of loyalty, their freedom from futile, bustling activities. It is an intensive study of a place with its traditions, its native types of people, its standards of living, and its habits of thought, and the conflict which is unfolded in the drama is the natural outcome of these local and racial characteristics.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The novel suffers from starting out at too high an emotional pitch, and the style is very rhetorical. Mr. Rhoscomyl has, however, written with great sincerity about people who are impossibly good, bad, beautiful, strong and primitive.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 200w.

“There are points in the tale which are disappointing, but, on the whole, it is an admirable story, written with style and force; the author’s conception is sure, his hold on the narrative is close and strong, and the sympathy of the reader is immediate.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 370w.

=Vay de Vaya and Luskod, Count.= Inner life of the United States. *$4.
Dutton.

9–35102.

A book of impressions of America gained by a Hungarian ecclesiastic who accompanied a band of emigrants.

* * * * *

“The Monsignor’s observations on religious conditions are disappointingly superficial. If his appreciations are not quite correct—and this is the case in many instances—the errors arise from hasty generalizations, in which special conditions in some places, or among some classes, are taken as typical. In many instances, too, he has not thoroughly digested his information.”

− + =Cath. World.= 88: 688. F. ’09. 760w.

“One of the fairest and friendliest books on the American people that has been written in German. So far as it goes it is suggestive and entertaining. His style is clear and agreeable.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 460w.

“Possibly it is designed for circulation among immigrant circles in the United States. It is a regret to say that its usefulness will hardly extend beyond those circles. The book is not bad enough to condemn nor good enough to praise. On the contrary it is well worthy of a success of esteem among countrymen of the author.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 370w.

“A readable account of American life for persons who know little about it. The book is a broad survey: although it always has the impress of a cultivated and good-tempered observer, it is necessarily superficial.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 184. Ja. 30, ’09. 340w.

=Vedder, Henry Clay=. Church history handbooks. 4v. ea. *40c. Am.
Bapt.

9–6577.

=v. 1.= Early period.

The first of a series of handbooks designed for study classes and training schools, rapid consultation in the busy pastor’s study, and for collateral work among Bible students. This little volume discusses the following subjects: The apostolic age, The anti-Nicene church. The union of church and state, The age of dogma, The rise of the papacy, The growth of papal pretensions, The popes supreme in Europe, and The great schism and the reforming councils.

=v. 4.= Baptist history.

In one hundred and twenty-four pages it gives the essential facts of Baptist history, and the principles underlying the church belief.

=Veitch, Henry Newton.= Sheffield plate; its history, manufacture, and
art. *$8. Macmillan.

9–35441.

“The author has spared no pains to make his work an exhaustive and comprehensive treatise on this lost craft. After tracing the historical and economic conditions which led up to a demand for metal ware which should be cheaper than solid silver and superior to the ‘treene’ and pewter vessels and table ware then in common use, he tells us how the art of Sheffield plating was discovered by Thomas Bolsover in 1742 and successfully developed by his apprentice, Joseph Hancock.” (Int. Studio.) “He divides Sheffield plate into two main periods: 1750–90, before the introduction of the silver mount; and 1790–1840, with a transitional period indicated from about 1770 to 1790.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Valuable as the first serious attempt at a comprehensive history of this branch of metal work.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 111. Ap. ’09.

“This is a useful and fairly complete account of this typically English ware. Mr. Veitch is so completely a master of his subject that it is a pity he felt compelled to prefix an introduction of ill-digested facts. No collector of Sheffield plate can afford to be without this important handbook.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 140. Ja. 30. 170w.

“To the scanty literature already in existence dealing with the Sheffield plate, Mr. Veitch’s book forms an important and very valuable addition. The book is interesting to the general reader, but will be of special value to the connoisseur and collector.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 36:335. F. ’09. 320w. + − =Sat. R.= 107: 632. My. 15, ’09. 680w.

=Vernon, K. Dorothea (Ewart) (Mrs. H. M. Vernon).=^{[8]} Italy from
1494 to 1790. (Cambridge historical ser.) *$1.75. Putnam.

9–8028.

“Comprises two unequal periods, that which ended in 1559, and that which followed; and to the latter, which is less generally known than any epoch of modern Italian history except that which began with 1870, the author has wisely devoted the larger part of her book.”—Eng. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“Mrs. Vernon has produced a useful book. She saw clearly what she wished to do, and she has done it clearly. In the main the book excels in perspective. It abounds in thumb-nail portraits, many of which are striking likenesses.” W: R. Thayer.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 125. O. ’09. 700w.

“The work is accurate, fair, abounds in excellent pen portraits, and fills a gap in historical manuals for English readers.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 129. D. ’09.

“This book is not up to the high standard of most of the other works in the series to which it belongs. Of actual errors of fact there are few, though minor inconsistencies and infelicities in nomenclature abound; but the work as a whole gives an impression of being patched together, of lack of unity, and of absence of historic background.” R. B. Merriman.

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 627. N. ’09. 400w.

“An excellent text-book on a difficult and neglected period of Italian history.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 234. Ag. 28. 200w.

“Considering the great mass of facts involved, the narrative shows marked skill, and the three chapters of social history are particularly interesting.” W. Mi.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 614. Jl. ’09. 260w.

“It is authoritative, scholarly, essentially political, and dry.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 303. Ag. 5, ’09. 60w.

“Mrs. Vernon, we think, makes a very common mistake in attempting to write a purely narrative history in chronological order of the events of these centuries, with additional chapters on their society, literature, art and political institutions.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 549. S. 18, ’09. 1000w.

=Verplanck, William E., and Collyer, Moses W.= Sloops of the Hudson:
an historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the last
century, with a record of their names; together with personal
reminiscences of certain of the notable North river sailing masters.
**$1.50. Putnam.

9–687.

A brief history written to preserve the memory of the inland merchantmen that were the forerunners of the establishment of the Hudson’s vast commerce. The author writes out of the fulness of his own experience covering the following subjects: The sloop as a packet vessel, The sail in competition with steam and Personal reminiscences of Captain George D. Woolsey.

* * * * *

“Of some value to students of transportation and of considerable local interest.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 111. Ap. ’09.
=Ind.= 66: 378. F. 18, ’09. 60w.

“The book contains much that is interesting to the lover of domestic history of a homely form, and also to the students of transportation problems of bygone days. There is much in it that is entertaining in the way of reminiscences, together with considerable valuable information bearing upon the tides and currents of the Hudson.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 73. F. 6, ’09. 730w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 509. Ap. ’09. 80w.

=Vielé, Herman Knickerbocker.=^{[11]} On the lightship; introd. by T:
A. Janvier. **$1.50. Duffield.

9–24696.

Ten short stories that remained unpublished at the time of the author’s death.

* * * * *

“Ten delicately humorous and cleverly constructed tales, as fantastic and whimsical as the author’s previous work.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 94. N. ’09.

“Sometimes of an undisguisable slightness, these tales are, collectively, stamped with the cosmopolitanism of the author no less than with his good taste.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 628. D. 23, ’09. 330w.

“The tales are of the half satirical, fantastic genre in which Mr. Vielé excelled.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 645. O. 23, ’09. 380w.

=Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro.= Aeneid; tr. into English verse by
Theodore C. Williams. *$1.50. Houghton.

8–31831.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 258. My. ’09. 550w.

“Mr. Williams has over Morris the advantage of closer texture and a style more comfortable to the general ear. We had not supposed a new Virgil in English could prove so welcome.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 52. Ja. 16, ’09. 470w.

“Tested by a number of well-known passages, the rendering is both scholarly and of sound literary feeling.”

+ =Educ. R.= 37: 98. Ja. ’09. 50w.

“We have no fault to find with the care and accuracy with which Mr. Williams’ version has been executed.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 227. F. 6, ’09. 100w.

“Mr. Williams has attempted the impossible with high success. He has built the lofty rhyme of blank verse and kept it lofty. His version is essentially exact; few important meanings are lost, and few intruded. The quality is poetic throughout, and the movement is sustained. We have tested the work minutely for important points, and have read large sections at a stretch; it reads.”

+ + − =Nation.= 88: 201. F. 25, ’09. 750w.

“Very creditable blank verse.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 40w.

“The present writer knows no version which equals it either in faithfulness to the original or in literary ease. This book is a piece of literature and no ‘pony.’”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 450w.

“Of Mr. Williams’ translation it will be said, ‘This is noble, and it is Virgil.’” W: C. Collar.

+ =School R.= 17: 439. Je. ’09. 1200w.

=Vogt, Paul L.= Sugar refining industry in the United States: its
development and present condition. (Pub. of the Univ. of Pa. Series
in political economy and public law, no. 21.) $1.50. Pub. for the
Univ. of Pa. by Winston.

8–13956.

“This is a study of the growth of combinations in the cane and beet sugar refining industry in the United States. The material in most of the chapters is cast in historical form.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) It gives revealing information upon competition, combination, tariff influences, manipulation of price, and the development of a new industry, making great inroads upon the older type of production.

* * * * *

“As a study of a combination, the results are disappointingly hesitating and negative. The chief themes for which the reader looks viz., the evolution of capital instruments, profits of promoting and financing, effects of the tariff, influence of the combination upon legislation, prices, and labor, are either not presented at all or else presented with no definite and forceful conclusions. There is, however, in the monograph abundance of material upon certain aspects of the subject, and the purpose, to present a study of an industry, which taken with other like studies, may provide the basis for a comprehensive policy of control of combinations, is laudable.” E: D. Jones.

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 465. Mr. ’09. 140w.

“The book makes no pretension to being a complete history but it does set forth in available form the essentials of this phase of our economic history.” F. L. McVey.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 201. S. ’08. 600w.

“The author has been most successful in the historical part of his study, which, though not pretending to be complete and intensive, still does succeed in bringing out quite clearly some of the more fundamental causes leading to the growth of this trust. But when one comes to the part discussing capitalization, prices, and profits, one cannot but question whether some of the conclusions are justified on the basis of such evidence as is presented.” C. W. W.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 730. D. ’09. 580w.

W

=Wagner, Charles.=^{[7]} Home of the soul; tr. from the French by
Laura Sanford Hoffmann; with an introd. by Lyman Abbott. **$1.20.
Funk.

9–18053.

First messages delivered in the author’s institutional church in Paris, known as “The home of the soul.” The pastor’s religion as embodied in these sermons is summed up by Lyman Abbott as follows: “To find God, study your fellow men: to serve God, serve your fellow men; to teach men the Fatherhood of God, inspire in them a sense of human brotherhood.”

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 47: 127. S. 1, ’09. 230w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 448. S. 18, ’09. 270w.

“The translation is for the most part devoid of literary merit, though it must be confessed that Pastor Wagner is not himself a literary artist. His appeal, however, is not strictly to the intellectuality; rather it is to the emotion of righteousness.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 476. Ag. 7, ’09. 700w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 40w.

=Wagner, Richard.=^{[5]} Richard to Minna Wagner: letters to his first
wife; tr. with preface by William Ashton Ellis. 2v. *$7. Scribner.

9–20264.

Letters which reveal the fatal significance of the union of Richard and Minna Wagner. “Mr. Ellis contributes an introduction of fourteen pages, in which he discusses various points in the tragic conjugal life of Richard and Minna Wagner, the most ill-mated couple that were ever brought together. ‘My marriage—not a soul knows what I have suffered through that,’ he wrote to his sister in 1866. Now all the world can read the story. The fact that Minna preserved these letters, containing so many lamentations and reproaches, is noted by Mr. Ellis as one of her good traits.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The world shows a pardonable curiosity to learn as much as possible about the lives of men who have distinguished themselves. Hence these letters will be perused with interest.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 446. Ap. 10. 770w.

“The letters of Richard Wagner constitute a history of his intellectual life astonishing and unique.” L: J. Block.

+ =Dial.= 47: 231. O. 1, ’09. 2200w. + =Nation.= 88: 494. My. 13, ’09. 450w.