Chapter XIV: Part 2: is divided into five sections which cover the western movement (4)

Principal Salmond has compiled this treatise in Old Testament theology
from the manuscripts left by Dr. Davidson. Under the doctrine of God,
of man, of sin, of redemption, and of the last things, is given his
theological interpretation of the Old Testament.

“It is a pleasure to note throughout both volumes the keenness of
observation, the gift of interpretative insight, and the incisive
style which are conspicuous in all the writings of the lamented
biblicist. It treats the Old Testament as not only a literary, but a
moral unit. This is really the essence of the inadequacy and
untimeliness of the book. The fact is that these lectures must be
repudiated by biblical science in as far as they fail to indicate
Israel’s progress in religious thought and make the Old Testament
literature an illustration either of the New Testament teaching of our
modern creeds. They must also be disowned by the ‘higher criticism,’
of which Mr. Davidson was more or less an exponent, because they fail
to apply an ethical test to religious belief.” James Frederick
McCurdy.

+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 346. Ap. ‘05. 5160w.

“There are many fine discussions of particular problems, and many
brilliant individual passages that one would like to quote; but there
is no history of the religion of Israel. Will be useful to the
preacher who wishes to gather up the teachings of the Old Testament on
any given point; but it will be of little value to the student who is
trained in modern historical methods.”

— + =Bib. World.= 25: 283. Ap. ‘05. 2340w.

“Containing incisive, profitable, and helpful discussions of some of
the fundamental doctrines of the Old Testament.” Ira M. Price.

+ =Dial.= 38: 45. Ja. 16, ‘05. 600w.

“The book contains much good material and is of real value.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 320w.

=Davidson, Rev. John.= St. Peter and his training. *30c. Lippincott.

“Following the New Testament account of the apostle, and setting aside
the critical questions it raises, the author finds evidence of its
truth in its consistent realism as a portrait from life.”—Outlook.

“The psychological problem involved in the story of Peter’s denial of
his Master is better handled, and more justly to Peter, than by most
expositors.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 452. F. 16, ‘05. 70w.

=Davidson, John.= Selected poems. *$1.25. Lane.

“Mr. Davidson has drawn from his seven earlier volumes with a shrewd
critical sense.... Unusual mastery of narrative construction in verse,
his energy of conception and readiness in the fundamental mind-work of
poetry, are all shown here at their best in the ‘Ballads,’ which make
the bulk of the book.”—Nation.

“He handles the metre with masterly skill, filling it with imaginative
life and power. The chief virtue of his ballads is the virile energy
of the shaping strength that we feel working in them.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 329. Mr. 18. 850w.

“Mr. John Davidson’s poetic view of the world is as tragical as Ernest
Dowson’s; but there is a grim irony of intellectual strength in his
work that marks him of a different race of men.” Ferris Greenslet.

+ =Atlan.= 96: 417. S. ‘05. 340w.

“Uncommonly masculine volume.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 330w.

=Davidson, Rt. Rev. Randall Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury.= Christian opportunity. **$1.50. Macmillan.

The sermons, addresses and speeches delivered by the Archbishop of
Canterbury during his recent visit to America make a volume not only
temporarily significant but monumental. “The most interesting contents
of the volume, of course, are the sermons in Trinity church in Boston,
and the address at Faneuil hall. None however, surpasses in excellence
of material or stamps Dr. Davidson as a broader scholar than his
cordial address to the evangelical ministers at Boston university. ‘We
in England,’ he said, ‘have learned in these latter days to recognize
better than ever before how splendid an element in the growth of
English life and character is due to our Puritan forefathers, and you
in New England have come to see that even among those whom your
great-great-grandfathers thought were very black, there is something
worth having and holding and thus we join hands in behalf of the
common cause—the setting forward of our Master’s kingdom in the old
world and in the new.’” (Pub. Opin.)

=Atlan.= 95: 705. My. ‘05. 180w.

“The title is happy, for the burden of them all is the greatness of
the opportunity here in this new continent. Their level judgment,
catholic spirit, and fraternal feeling ...”

+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= : 7. F. 10, ‘05. 160w.

+ =Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 90w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 190w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w.

=Davidson, Thomas.= Education of the wage earners. *75c. Ginn.

“The record of a unique experiment among the Russian Jews of New York
city. As the result of a challenge at the close of a lecture,
Professor Davidson organized a class composed almost exclusively of
wage-earners from the tenement houses. With them he successfully
studied the history of civilization, modern literature, and the
history of philosophy.... The volume which is edited by Mr. Charles M.
Blakewell, contains a brief biography and characterization of
Professor Davidson by the editor.”—Dial.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 80w.

“With the interpreting touch of the editor, the inspiring letters of
Davidson, and the final words from the pupils, we have a book of very
real and personal force.” Lucy Wright.

+ + =Charities.= 14: 642. Ap. 1, ‘05. 540w.

Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.

=Dial.= 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 210w.

Reviewed by J. Lawrence Laughlin.

* + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 611. S. ‘05. 370w.

=Davies, D. Ffrangçon-.= Singing of the future; with an introd. by Edward Elgar. *$2.50. Lane.

“In the old warfare between technique and intelligence as regards
musical interpretation, Mr. Ffrangçon-Davies declares himself, as we
might expect, on the side of intelligence. With him the meaning is
everything, and he contends that if the singer thinks the words he is
singing, all the rest will follow of itself.... Far from despising
vocal technique, the author lays great stress on a sound method, and
explains what the basis of that method should be.”—Lond. Times.

“It is a pity that by the copious use of footnotes and parentheses the
author should have weakened his case, for by these and other means he
qualifies almost everything he says till the reader is at a loss to
keep the main drift of his argument in view.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 306. S. 22, ‘05. 610w.

* + + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 420w.

=Davies, Gerald Stanley.= Franz Hals. $1.75. Macmillan.

This latest addition to the “Great masters in painting and sculpture
series” is devoted to that Dutch artist of the early 17th century,
Franz Hals. All that is actually known or surmised concerning his life
is given and there are 35 half-tone reproductions of the author’s best
known paintings. There is also a chronological list of his most
important pictures, and a catalog of his works arranged according to
the galleries in which they are hung.

“Mr. Davies’s work is a fine example of what a sympathetic,
imaginative, and withal a learned man may produce from very slender
accepted data.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 520w.

=Davies, Rev. John Llewelyn,= ed. Workingmen’s college, 1854-1904. *$1.25. Macmillan.

Records of its history and its work by members of the college. For
half a century the workingmen’s college has played an important part
in the sociological evolution of England, and its history and
development are of general interest. The editor has written a chapter
on F. D. Maurice, who was the real founder of the college. Mr. G. W.
Trevelyan writes a chapter on “The college and other universities.”
Mr. J. P. Elmslie describes “Art teaching in early days,” Mr. C. B.
Lucas tells of “The college clubs.” There are many other chapters
illustrating the development of this great work from a simple night
school to a model institution of its kind.

“The value of the book is enhanced by some excellent portraits; but it
lacks an index.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w.

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 337. Mr. ‘05. 100w.

=Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w.

=Spec.= 94: 18. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1520w.

=Davies, W. W.= Codes of Hammurabi and Moses. *75c. Meth. bk.

A comparison of the laws of Hammurabi and Moses which is designed to
help all Bible students. To this end the text of the Hammurabi code is
given in small pica type, selected parallels from the Old Testament in
long primer, and remarks and comments in brevier.

=Outlook.= 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 150w.

=Davis, Foxcroft.= Mrs. Darrell. †$1.50. Macmillan.

In this novel of Washington life Elizabeth Brandon marries Darrell and
finds out too late that she loves his friend and cousin Hugh Pelham.
Upon Darrell’s death his estate goes to Pelham, who is in Africa, and
his lawyers press Elizabeth sorely. This destroys her faith in Pelham
and she all but falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous senator,
who wishes to divorce his wife and marry her, when Pelham returns. The
senator’s daughter also plays an important part in the story.

“The story is slight, the characters shadowy, and the style, except
for a strange abundance of ‘non-sequiturs,’ exceedingly commonplace.”

— =Nation.= 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 310w.

“Not only does he reveal the actions of his characters, but also the
train of thoughts that lead up to those actions. Nevertheless ‘Mrs.
Darrell’ is a book full of interest.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 379. Je. 10, ‘05. 610w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 210w.

“The book as regards plot and constructive power and development
cannot be praised highly, but the love story is in some ways unusually
interesting.”

— + =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w.

* =Davis, John Patterson.= Corporations: a study of the origin and development of the great business combinations and their relation to the authority of the state. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.

“This treatise is of great helpfulness to the student of what is now
familiarly known as the ‘corporation problem.’ ... The subject is here
attacked chiefly from the historical standpoint, from the earliest
manifestations of corporate activity in the ecclesiastical
organizations of the primitive Christian church to the colonial
companies, forerunners of the development companies of to-day. There
are, however, chapters dealing with contemporary phenomena at a length
sufficient to make the writer’s views concerning the structure,
operation, and future of the modern corporation clear.”—Lit. D.

* “Without fully concurring with him, we find his views highly
suggestive and stimulating, and ... ‘a particularly welcome addition
to economic literature.’”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 580w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 680w.

=Davis, Norah.= Northerner. †$1.50. Century.

The hero of Miss Davis’ first published book is a young New York
capitalist who buys a street railway and a lighting plant in an
Alabama town. Titanic and aggressive, young Falls underrates the
momentum of sectional prejudice even where it carries with it the
sanity of a whole town. Mob violence, strikes, and a lynching form the
dramatic phase of the story whose other side portrays the loyalty and
courage of Joan Adair. This southern girl, tho reared to the fanatic
prejudice of her townsmen, could, one is led to believe, champion
right and justice impersonally, even tho the process had not been
terribly confused with her love for the much misunderstood and
ostracized hero.

* “The supreme merit of the book lies, however, in the subtle
delineation of Southern life with its love, its fear, its pride, its
idealism, and its prejudice.”

+ =Arena.= 34: 664. D. ‘05. 500w.

* “The serious questions of the Northerner are vigorously stated, and
some characters and scenes very forcibly presented. The construction
is bad, and there is a lot of tiresome talk.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 340w.

“The principal value of the story is in its depicting of the life of
the half-asleep, half-awake southern town with its new-formed
ambitions obscured by the rubbish of old traditions.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 200w.

=Davis, Richard Harding.= Miss Civilization. **50c. Scribner.

“A comedy in one act, founded on a story by the late James Harvey
Smith. By means of strategy, the daughter of a wealthy man succeeds in
holding three thieves in her home until the arrival of the police,
whom she had summoned by telephone when she first heard the burglars
trying to file their way into the house.”—Bookm.

“This playlet is admirably suited for parlor and amateur theatricals,
where it will furnish both to actors and audiences unalloyed delight.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w.

“This is a lively and amusing play. It is not badly suited for amateur
rendering.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 30w.

=Davison, Charles.= Study of recent earthquakes. $1.50. imp. Scribner.

“This copiously illustrated volume ... gives a popular account of the
results which have been arrived at by modern seismology.... Rather
than grouping seismic phenomena, as we should expect to find them in a
text-book, the author has given a concise history of eight
disturbances, each of which has a special interest.... A subject
attractive to the general reader which is referred to in several
chapters as an account of signs which have given warning of a coming
earthquake.”—Nature.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 710w.

“Mr. Davidson’s book is well worth reading, whilst the manner in which
its contents have been arranged should obtain for it a circulation
amongst those who seek for general information.”

+ + =Nature.= 71: 532. Ap. 6, ‘05. 630w.

+ + =Spec.= 94: 677. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.

=Davitt, Michael.= Fall of feudalism in Ireland. **$2.50. Harper.

“The land league revolution of the Irish people, their struggles to
regain possession of the lands confiscated under Cromwellian
settlement,—which was virtually continued during two hundred and fifty
years,—is set forth in this book.... Parnell is, of course, Mr.
Davitt’s hero; and the personal portraiture he gives is both
interesting and valuable.”—Critic.

“He writes from a partisan viewpoint and, as might have been expected,
makes no attempt to conceal his partisanship. Despite this fact he has
done good service to contemporary history by the care he has bestowed
on the documentary part of his exhaustive work.” E. P.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 230w.

“Is of great value both as a record and as literature.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 230w.

* =Dawson, Miles Menander.= Business of life insurance. **$1.50. Barnes.

“Mr. Dawson writes as an actuary of long experience, addressing
himself primarily to those holding or contemplating the purchase of
life insurance. The comparative merits and defects of the various
systems of insurance and forms of policy, the methods whereby rates
are or should be fixed, the ‘schemes’ adopted by companies to increase
their business—in short, almost every topic connected with the subject
is discussed with a mingling of criticism, advice, and
warning.”—Outlook.

* “Practical suggestive, and soundly informative, this book should
find a wide audience.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 320w.

=Dawson, Samuel E.= Saint Lawrence, its basin and border-lands. *$1.35. Stokes.

“In orderly fashion and in often luminous phrase Dr. Dawson sets forth
the story of the discovery, exploration, and occupation of the
northeastern part of the North American continent. The text is
accompanied by some good illustrations and by some especially good
maps.”—Outlook.

“This learned Canadian not only enjoys a wide personal knowledge of
the region he deals with but is likewise possessed of the critical
faculty, which has enabled him to deal satisfactorily with a subject
involving a good many disputed points.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 116. Jl. 22. 1210w.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w.

+ + =Ind.= 49: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 230w.

“His present volume is a critical and scholarly study of the most
fruitful era of early North American exploration.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 1920w.

“This volume should appeal to the student of history and to the lover
of romance.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.

“It is a rare treat to read Dr. Dawson’s scholarly and delightful
volume.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 478. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.

=Dawson, Thomas C.= South American republics, pt. 2. **$1.35. Putnam.

“Descriptive rather than analytical,” this work presents “an excellent
summary of the events leading up to the independence of the South
American republics. The first volume, dealing with Argentina,
Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil, was written during the period when he
[Mr. Dawson] was secretary of the United States legation to Brazil.
During the interval between the appearance of the first and second
volumes the author was appointed minister to Santo Domingo. This
second volume deals with Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador,
Venezuela.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“His exposition of contemporary history is disappointing. There are
too many names and dates and too few explanatory remarks. There is a
tendency to dwell on the period of the conquest and to leave untouched
the difficult business of untangling the innumerable revolutions of
the past eighty years. Even as a collection of historical primers its
value is seriously impaired by evidences of hasty or inaccurate
compilation. To attempt to read the volume through is sufficiently
confusing, but the publishers have not improved matters. The
illustrations do not illustrate. Moreover, the maps are inadequate and
out of date.” Hiram Bingham.

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 671. Ap. ‘05. 520w.

“The author has shown great skill in the presentation of the economic
situation in compressing the history of eleven republics into two
small volumes. In the presentation of the political situation the
author has been careful to keep himself free from partisanship or
bias. This work when read in connection with Stanford’s ‘Geographical
compendium of South America,’ will furnish a clear-cut picture of the
present situation in the South American republics.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 338. Mr. ‘05. 250w.

+ =Ind.= 58: 1189. My. 25, ‘05. 200w.

* “Excellent, useful, and most readable book. Mr. Dawson, however,
largely owes the remarkable completeness of this work to his familiar
acquaintance with the Spanish literature on the subject, and his great
personal opportunities for compiling the history of the nineteenth
century in South America.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 696. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.

=Dawson, W. J.= Evangelistic note, *$1.25. Revell.

A book of addresses on evangelical topics by a man well known as a
successful international revivalist. He resigned the pastorate of the
Highburg quadrant church in England to enter a more evangelistic
field, and his sermons defend liberal theology and set forth the value
of his work.

“His sermons are models of manly appeal to the thinking people of
to-day.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 180w.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 958. Ap. 15, ‘05. 230w.

“Among the various essays, addresses and sermons in the book the one
which gives the whole its title is the best and most adequate, with
the additional advantage of being written in clear, forceful,
convincing English such as is seldom found in current literature.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 390. Mr. 11, ‘05. 640w.

=Dawson, William James.= Makers of English fiction. *$1.50. Revell.

Dr. Dawson begins with Daniel Defoe and discusses the writers of
novels of sentiment from Richardson to Fielding, and to Jane Austen,
then he takes up the works of Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Dickens,
the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Charles Reade, Charles Kingsley,
George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others,
closing the book with chapters on “Religion in fiction” and a
“Concluding survey.”

“He is a patient and systematic reader; his powers of analysis are
considerable, his sympathies are broad, and he has, what is an
extremely valuable gift, the historic sense.” E. C.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 1070w.

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.

* “The book is well worth reading, as a comprehensive survey of a
development, and as painstaking a work of criticism as has come to us
for many a day.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 664. N. 18, ‘05. 280w.

=Day, Emily Foster.= Menehunes. *75c. Elder.

A folklore tale of the Menehunes, the tiny dwarfs of Hawaii,
illustrated by Spencer Wright.

* + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 100w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 210w.

=Day, Thomas Fleming.= Hints to young yacht skippers. $1. Rudder pub.

Mr. Day says this handbook is offered in response to many letters from
boys and young men “asking for hints on all manner of subjects
relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small yachts.”
Being a practical sailor and yachtsman himself, he knows the necessity
of the sort of information he compiles, in fact declares that had he
owned such a book in the beginning, it would have saved him time,
money, hard work and anxiety.

“The book is full of useful information.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 39. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w.

(Detailed statement of contents.)

=Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank.= Text book of sociology. *$1.30. Macmillan.

A text book founded upon the sociological writings of Dr. Ward, and
especially upon his work, “Pure sociology.” This epitome is stamped
with the same characteristics that are emphasized thruout Dr. Ward’s
study, viz., the mastery of the impersonal tone over the human. “He
carries from his work in physical science a certain abstractness of
statement which is partly inseparable from all generalization, but
which has the effect of holding the interpretation farther aloof from
actual life than is desirable or necessary.” (Am. J. Soc.)

“Comes nearer than any predecessor to satisfying reasonable demands
for an elementary textbook in general sociology.” Albion W. Small.

+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 266. S. ‘05. 1190w.

* “The abridgment has been excellently done.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

“It is therefore a wide field that is traversed here under the lead of
a stimulating if not always convincing teacher.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 887. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w.

Decennial publications of the University of Chicago. 1st series, 10v. *$40. Univ. of Chicago press.

Ten imposing quarto volumes, well bound in red cloth, compose the
first series of the Chicago university decennial publications and
contain two volumes of reports and eight volumes of investigations,
the latter consisting of a collection of articles representing the
work of research of the several departments of the university,
organized during the decennium. Vol. I and II contain President
Harper’s report for the first ten years of the life of Chicago
university; vol. III contains, part I, Systematic theology, Church
history, Practical theology; part II, Philosophy, Education; vol. IV
is devoted to Political economy, Political science, History, and
Sociology; vol. V includes the Semitic languages and literature,
Biblical and patristic Greek; vol. VI deals with the Greek language
and literature, the Latin language and literature, Sanskrit and
Indo-European comparative philology, classical archæology; vol. VII
turns to the province of Romance languages and literatures, the
Germanic languages and literatures and to English; vol. VIII invades
the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics; vol. IX treats the subjects
of Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology; and vol. X deals with
Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, Neurology, Botany, Pathology, and
Bacteriology.

=Bib. World.= 25: 240. Mr. ‘05. 50w. (States contents of v. 5.)

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 44. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 760w. (Survey of
contents).

“The whole series is a remarkable presentation of the intellectual
activity which has prevailed at this youthful university during the
brief period of its existence.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 593. Ap. 15, ‘05. 410w.

=Deecke, W.= Italy: a popular account of the country, its people, and its institutions (including Malta and Sardinia); tr. by H. A. Nesbitt. $5. Macmillan.

A book which gives a German professor’s account of Italy. “Beginning
with the boundaries of the country and the ancient attempts at
geographical description, it proceeds to treat of the orography and
general features of the surface, goes on to the geology and the
climate, giving incidentally an account of the volcanic phenomena and
touching briefly on the animals and plants. The various elements of
the population are then described, with a short sketch of the history,
and a fuller account of products, trade and manufactures, political
institutions, finance, internal communications, and education, the
church, language, and science, and a topographical description of
various parts of the peninsula and the adjoining isles.” (Nation.)

“It is popular in the very best sense of the word. In the first place,
it is comprehensive. In the second place, it is compact. The work is
simply a marvel of condensation. In the third place, the book is
exceedingly readable. The only adverse criticism we have is that the
statistics are not quite up to the present, and the reader will want
constantly to refer to later tables. But in other respects we do not
know of another book on Italy at once so comprehensive, so accurate,
and so interesting.”

+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 378. Ap. ‘05. 250w. (States contents of
Vol. V.)

“Is all done carefully and well.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 588. My. ‘05. 100w.

“That the book is dull is therefore not surprising; but that it is
also full of errors is both surprising and inexcusable.”

— — =Dial.= 38: 95. F. 1, ‘05. 410w.

“It is really nothing more than a compilation of the facts that may be
found in condensed form in a half dozen well selected books.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.

“When we turn to subjects wherein the element of time does not enter
so immediately we find reason for little save praise.”

+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. 760w.

“An elaborate account of Italy, worked out with true German
thoroughness. It covers pretty nearly every aspect in which the land
and its inhabitants can be regarded. Taking the book as a whole, it is
a careful and intelligent piece of work, clearly and simply written,
and generally accurate. We have noted a certain number of errors in
fact, but none of great importance, though there are some errors in
nomenclature, and some mistakes in the accounts given of particular
places. A book which amounts to an encyclopaedic description of Italy
from so many points of view. The topographical part is really
something between a gazetteer and a guidebook, fit to be used for
reference rather than to be read continuously.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 250. Mr. 30, ‘05. 2290w.

=Deeping, Warwick.= Slanderers. †$1.50. Harper.

“Gabriel Strong is the son of a tea merchant ... is a dreamer, an
idler.... Partly to please himself, partly to please his father,
partly to save trouble, he makes love to and marries a fine sleek
tiger-cat of a woman, and as soon as it is too late repents.” He finds
that he loves the daughter of a miser, but swears to love this Joan
only in spirit. “Meanwhile the sleek, handsome wife gets bored, goes
off elsewhere, and the gossips of the village get busy with the
greenwood meanderings of Gabriel and Joan. Hence the name of ‘The
slanderers.’ ... They are the parson’s wife, the doctor’s wife, the
members of the church guilds, and like fine charitable organizations.
And these women are allowed no virtues at all to temper the malignity
of their tongues and their feminine proneness to think evil of other
people.” (N. Y. Times).

“The style is good and the texture of the English is durable.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

“Mr. Deeping is somewhat crass and crude in his methods with these
slanderers. You get the idea that Mr. Deeping imagines religion is a
mere cloak for hypocrisy, or a grindstone for sharp knives to slay the
reputations of indiscreet idealists. Really the trouble with Mr.
Deeping is the lack of enough humor to adjust his burning ethical
sentiments, his opulent fleshly imaginings, to each other and to the
meridian of average sanity. The story is dragged violently by the hair
of its head into an ending which satisfies—if it does nothing else—the
average reader’s supposed demand for a happy outcome, but it is
distinctly disappointing in spite of patches of purple language.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 117. F. 25. ‘05. 610w.

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 120w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w.

“Mr. Deeping’s tapestry has not acquired that soft glory which makes
its best beauty. And as for the modern design, it is quite atrocious.”

— — =Reader.= 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 370w.

“Many of his pages glow with genuine romantic beauty.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 477. S. ‘05. 170w.

=Dekker, Eduard Douwes.= (Multatuli, pseud.). Walter Pieterse: a story of Holland. $1.50. Friderici & Garies.

“Walter is in a way a Dutch ‘Sentimental Tommy,’ and the growth of his
vivid imagination and literary aspiration among rather sordid
surroundings and stolid people is told with minuteness and perhaps a
little over-elaborated humor. ‘Multatuli’ is not exactly a Dutch
Dickens, but he has some Dickensy qualities.”—Outlook.

“His story is immensely detailed and told in a bygone style of
confidentialness, but a style highly animated and frequently witty.
The translator, though a Ph. D., affronts style and even grammar at
moments.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 520w.

“In fact, you may see in Dekker now touches of Fielding, now of Heine,
(he has been called the Holland Heine), now the contemporary
iconoclast. Bernard Shaw, whose hatred of ‘respectability’ he shares.
Adherents of the new school of novelists, Ibsenites, &c., who are not
already familiar with Dekker’s work will not regret a perusal of Mr.
Evans’s rendering, nor will the more catholic seekers after real life
in fiction—real, yet divorced from sentiment.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 39, Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 248. Ja. 28. ‘05. 50w.

=De la Pasture, Mrs. Henry.= Peter’s mother. †$1.50. Dutton.

“The realm of the wholesome commonplace” is chosen for this story.
There is Peter’s widowed mother, Lady Mary, whose gentleness is
contrasted with the tyrannical selfishness of her son; there is the
brilliant Sarah who adores the mother, and to spare her the suffering
inflicted by the caddish son, sets to work to wind the youth about her
finger. How she succeeds forms one side of a story whose other phase
deals with a middle-aged romance involving Lady Mary and two men—“one
strong, serene, patient, understanding, the other with a passion so
lofty as to sacrifice itself upon its own altar.”

“It is a delightful story, told with a certain distinction and much
charm. The whole thing is in harmony.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 149. F. 18, ‘05. 210w.

— =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 30w.

=Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 120w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 430w.

“This book is a good illustration of the fact that normal characters
can be made interesting.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w.

“An excellent entertainment in which sentiment and humour are most
agreeably blended.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 258. F. 18, ‘05. 720w.

=Deledda, Grazia.= After the divorce. †$1.50. Holt.

The author, a young Sardinian, has written a sad story of Italian
peasant life. The hero is condemned to twenty-seven years imprisonment
for the murder of his uncle. During his confinement, before the
confession of the real murderer frees him and establishes his
innocence, his baby dies and his pretty young wife, who lacks both
money and character, secures a divorce, under the new law which
liberates the wife of a convict, and marries a wealthy lover whom she
had once rejected. The story is a pitiful one, and when at last the
two are reunited they are saddened, disillusioned, and their young
happiness is gone forever.

“In style she is as simple and unaffected as Verga himself. She
effaces herself almost wholly, she makes you see the primitive life of
her little island almost as vividly as though you were there in
person.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 270. My. ‘05. 400w.

“The translation appears competent and sympathetic.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 340w.

“As a picture of peasant characteristics and modes of thought it is
perfect.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1007. My. 4, 05. 270w.

“As a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the book is a failure; as a
manifesto against divorce, it might be adopted by all good Catholics.”

— + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 190w.

“It is a human story, and the fact that it apparently has lost
something in the translation does not alter the fact that it is still
well worth reading.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 267. Ap. 22, ‘05. 690w.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 20w.

“The translator has apparently preserved the color and flavor of the
original; her chief fault is a too slavish following.”

+ + — =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 390w.

=Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Breaking the wilderness: the story of the conquest of the far West. **$3.50. Putnam.

It is the aim of this book to “present a review in chronological order
of the important events which contributed to breaking the wilderness
that so long lay untamed west of the Mississippi, mentioning with as
much detail as possible in a single popular volume the principal
persons and happenings in proper sequence, but paying special
attention to the trapper and trader element, which, more than any
other, dispelled the mysteries of the vast region.”

“Barring the deficiencies which mar its critical value, Mr.
Dellenbaugh has produced a fairly satisfactory work.” Isaac Joslin
Cox.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 169. O. ‘05. 840w.

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 620w.

“The greatest interest of the book will probably be found to lie in
the innumerable and fully authenticated tales of trappers and traders
with which its pages abound.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16, ‘05. 290w.

“In most, if not all, respects Mr. Dellenbaugh’s book is admirable.
The text is a rare combination of history, observation and story
telling, and it is beautifully illustrated. The ‘breaking of the
wilderness,’ the once savage region west of the Mississippi, by
explorer, fighter, trapper and settler is pictured to us as by a
vitascope.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 50w.

“Is naturally one of great interest and value.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1110w.

“The chief value of Mr. Dellenbaugh’s work is the presentation of the
chronological review of Western exploration in unbroken sequence.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 250w.

“His style is too abrupt, and the separate phases of the history have
the appearance of being thrown together.”

+ — — =Spec.= 94: 923. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.

* =Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.).= Violin maker; trans, by Sara Trainer Smith. 45c. Benziger.

The story of the gentle, pious Matthias Klotz, son of a poor tailor of
Mittenwald, of how he herded his father’s goats and how Jacob Strainer
found him, discovered his ambition to become a violin maker, and took
him away to his own school at Absam. From him Matthias went to other
masters in Italy, and after years of faithful work returned to his
father and his old home and founded his own celebrated school in
Mittenwald.

=Dent, Edward J.= Alessandro Scarlatti: his life and works. *$3.50. Longmans.

“An ambitious work dealing with the Neapolitan composer.... Without
blind adoration of his hero, he has brought himself into thorough
sympathy with Scarlatti’s personality, and has studied all his
circumstances and his relations to Italian art.”—Acad.

“Appreciation of Mr. Dent’s adventurous excursion into a new path is
called for by the attempt as such, and the result of his labours is a
handsome volume which should find a place in every music-lover’s
library. Accuracy, not elegance of style, has been aimed at, yet there
are occasional sentences where Mr. Dent has endeavoured to impart
interest to the manner as well as the matter.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 1470w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 538. Ap. 29. 470w.

* “A work of high importance, which must be accepted as the standard
authority on the life and writings of the Verdi of his time.” W. J.
Henderson.

+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 852. D. ‘05. 240w.

“An exhaustive study at first hand from original documents and
scores.” Richard Aldrich.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 780w.

=De Pue, Edward Spence.= Dr. Nicholas Stone. †$1.50. Dillingham.

An exciting detective story in which Dr. Stone and the Pacific coast
manager of a great life insurance company discover that several policy
holders have been skilfully murdered. Their investigations bring them
thrilling adventures in the Chinese quarter, Dr. Stone narrowly
escapes cremation; but they relentlessly follow the strange evidence
of strange drugs until they discover the criminal, a wealthy and
respected old man, who devises unusual methods of murder for the mere
joy of achievement without detection, letting the life insurance money
go to an accomplice. There is also a love interest.

“To those who crave in the reading the temporary excitement that
attends the perusal of a story filled with murders and murder plots,
the detection of crimes in spite of highly scientific methods employed
to divert suspicion, and the tragic self-death of the murderer when he
discovers that his deeds are known, this book may possess interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 420w.

=De Selincourt, Beryl D.= Home of the first Franciscans in Umbria, the borders of Tuscany and the Northern Marches. *$1.50. Dutton.

“The author describes Assisi, the district of Lake Thrasymene, Monte
Casale, and Vallingegno, two Umbrian solitudes, the valley of Rieti,
the Marches and La Verna. She has also written an introduction in
which she touches on the influence of the personality and temperament
of St. Francis, of the places to which he retreated. The thirteen
half-tone illustrations are reproductions of photographs taken by
Mildred Bicknell.”—N. Y. Times.

“Discriminating and sympathetic introduction. Mrs. de Selincourt’s
style, in any liberal spirit of criticism, is of a high average.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 387. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1190w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 143. Jl. 29. 340w.

“A successful attempt to show to what a degree the character and
teachings of St. Francis of Assisi were shaped and illustrated by his
surroundings.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 225. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.

“A manifest labor of love.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 100w.

“Shows much diligence and contains some interesting and out-of-the-way
information.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 502. O. 14, ‘05. 970w.

“The book is full of beauty and pathos, but it leaves us with but a
vague idea of what St. Francis really thought.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 320w.

=Deutsch, Leo.= Sixteen years in Siberia, tr. by Helen Chisholm. $3. Dutton.

A new and cheaper edition of “this well-written and convincing account
of penal methods and conditions in Siberia by one who has known them
to his cost ... the new edition contains ... a preface, in which the
translator seeks to estimate the influence of recent events in giving
impetus to the reform movement in Russia” and “an appendix, ... a
reply by Count von Bülow to a Reichstag interpellation concerning the
Königsberg trial of last July, when certain German subjects were
prosecuted for smuggling revolutionary literature into Russia.”
(Outlook.)

“The volume deserves a wide reading.”

+ + =Ann.= Am. Acad. 26: 588. S. ‘05. 120w.

“Very interesting and informing book.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 505. Jl. 29, ‘05. 410w.

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 170w.

=Devine, Edward T.= Principles of relief. **$2. Macmillan.

Dr. Devine’s experience as general secretary of the New York charity
organization society has put him in vital touch with the practical
aspects of a great cause. His convincing treatment is arranged under
four heads: Part I “is a strong, clear, logical presentation of the
essential ‘principles of relief.’ The fundamental and most fruitful
idea of this discussion is that there is a normal standard of living
which can be known and approximately measured, and that all relief
work is to be judged by its success in aiding social debtors to find
their place in a normal and well-balanced life.... In Part II is
printed a most interesting and instructive collection of typical
relief problems.... Part III is a sketch of certain aspects of relief.