Chapter XV: Part IV: gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am (1)

J. Soc.)

“While a certain amount of repetition of thoughts already published
was inevitable in a systematic treatise, every chapter and paragraph
has its justification. Looking back over the literature of charity
produced during the last twenty years in America, we are bound to
place this volume in the very front rank, with few companions in the
specific field; and we must regard it as indispensable to the serious
student of the general subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 554. Ja. ‘05. 670w.

“In it are brought to consciousness, perhaps for the first time fully,
the underlying principles on which the charity organization society
movement is based. Moreover it undertakes to give a comprehensive
statement of the elementary principles upon which all relief giving,
whether public or private, should rest; and it correlates these
principles with the general facts of economics and sociology in such a
way as to leave no doubt in the mind of the reader that the author has
mastered his subject. The point of view of the book is constructive
throughout; and it is safe to say that for many years to come it will
be, both for the practical worker and for the scientific student, the
authoritative work upon the ‘principles of relief.’ I cannot help
feeling, after careful reading, that the book shows too much the bias
of the author’s personal field of labor. Its point of view is too
exclusively that of the charity organization society worker.” Charles
A. Ellwood.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 143. Ja. ‘05. 870w.

“No one who is interested either historically or practically in the
subject of charity can afford to neglect this volume.” Winthrop More
Daniels.

+ + =Atlan.= 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 340w.

“The book will help us to give a quantitative value to our vague
notions about the standard of living and the minimum wage; and no
writer has applied this definite standard to the methods of poor
relief more thoroughly. Especially valuable to a student is the
analysis of typical relief problems, which enables one to arrive at
principles of relief much as a study of court decisions takes one to
the heart of legal principles. The work will be recognized as one of
the chief contributions on this vital subject.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.

+ + + =Dial.= 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 330w.

“The book as a whole will be a standard to all charity workers and
professional philanthropists, but while not exactly over technical it
is too heavy for the average reader, and will probably not interest
him to any great extent.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 900. Ap. 20, ‘05. 300w.

“While Mr. Devine’s statement of principles is not very lucid, his
practical suggestions are instructive.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 610w.

“The first [volume] stirs the sympathies and supplies the motives for
Christian charity; the second broadens the horizon and shows the
problem in its world aspects; the third gives the practical and, so
far as we can judge, wise counsel in dealing with the problem as it
presents itself in American cities.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1440w.

“Dr. Devine’s book is a manual at once of theory and of practice.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w.

“Aside from these few passages [pp. 12, 13, 462], which appear
somewhat visionary, the book is eminently sane and practical.” David
I. Green.

+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 81. My. ‘05. 1190w.

=Devins, John Bancroft.= Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.

This report is the result of two months’ careful investigation in
Luzon. It gives interesting notes of travel and fully covers the
social, political and religious field. It tells what American
missionaries are doing and shows that many of the Americans in the
Philippines are of a type as greatly in need of missionaries as the
Filipinos themselves.

“Dr. Devins’s book is non-discriminating and simple-minded in a high
degree.” H. Parker Willis.

+ — =Dial.= 39: 37. Jl. 16, ‘05. 390w.

“Has included in his volume much useful information and much matter
interesting and entertaining for one reason and another.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 580. S. 2, ‘05. 1080w.

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘06. 140w.

=Dexter, Edwin Grant.= History of education in the United States. **$2. Macmillan.

The work comprises in less than seven hundred pages of text “a survey
of education in this country from the landing of the Cavaliers and of
the Puritans to the opening of the twentieth century, including in it
an historical survey and an analysis of contemporary conditions of
education in every state in the Union, of every stage of education
from kindergarten to popular lecture courses for adults, and of every
phase of educational activity from an account of early schoolbooks to
newspapers and periodicals of the various periods, the publication of
learned societies and the work of libraries.... The general
organization of the work is into three parts: the growth of the
people’s schools, higher and special education, and educational
extension.” (Educ. R.)

“This book is very attractive in its make-up, but it will prove
disappointing to those who hold that the history of education should
be history. The declared purpose of the author is to present a mass of
fact rather than discussions of historical trend. But instances are
far too numerous in which the fact is not even fact.” Elmer Ellsworth
Brown.

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 657. Ap. ‘05. 420w.

“To compress so much in one volume is a task of no small magnitude,
and to say that Professor Dexter has done this with excellent judgment
and discrimination is only to give due praise. It is no detraction
from the character of the text to say that the most valuable feature
of the work is the elaborate bibliography at the end of each chapter
and the marginal references which are to be found on every page.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 310w.

“The best work of its class yet published. So far as it goes, it is
most thoroughly and skilfully done.”

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 100w.

“The handling of statistics is skilfully done. There is no unity,
whole episodes in the history of education are absent, as are also the
majority of the important personalities. A more accurate title would
have been ‘A historical encyclopedia of American education.’” Henry
Davidson Sheldon.

+ — =Dial.= 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 330w.

“The merits of this book are those of comprehensiveness, organization,
accurate analysis and classification, and excellent selection of the
material to be included in a single volume dealing with so extended a
subject; its demerits are an unfortunate lack of accuracy in many
details, not all of them unimportant, and a tendency ... to accept
stereotyped generalizations without adducing facts to support them,
and the omission of any attempt to interpretation. No other single
work, of even more than one volume, has ever attempted so much, so
that there is little basis for comparison, and little room for
criticism, so helpful is the general result. It is easily first of
treatises upon the subject.” Paul Monroe.

+ + — =Educ. R.= 29: 202. F. ‘05. 2320w.

“A work of truly encyclopedic comprehensiveness, but nevertheless
readable.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 80w.

+ + =Nature.= 72: 147. Je. 15, ‘05. 1550w.

=Dexter, Edwin Grant.= Weather influences; an empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. **$2. Macmillan.

A monograph based upon a series of investigations of the committees of
New York and Denver, and the effects of the weather changes of their
divergent climates, upon their inhabitants. A comparison of the
school, criminal, hospital, mortuary, and other records with the
meteorological charts of the weather bureau gives the principal data
for statistics as to the effect of wind and weather upon disease,
drunkenness, insanity, crime, suicide, natural depravity of school
children, errors of bank officials, etc.

Reviewed by E. T. B.

=Atlan.= 95: 135. Ja. ‘05. 320w.

=Ind.= 58: 728. Mr. 30, ‘05. 510w.

=Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton.= England and Holland of the Pilgrims. **$3.50. Houghton.

“The history of the Mayflower ‘Pilgrims’ is an important part of the
history of the Protestant reformation in England.... Their most
eminent historian was the late Dr. Dexter. The present volume, left
unfinished at his death, completes their history by a full account of
the environment and experience in which the reforming movement slowly
struggled and groped towards the decisive venture, by which the door
was opened at Plymouth rock to its great success.... Dr. Dexter’s
draft of history, rewritten and edited by his son after further
researches in England and Holland, now stands in a completeness to
which it is likely that little can be added.”—Outlook.

* “It is a book made by bookmen. Sometimes, as we read, our vision is
obstructed; we cannot see the forest on account of the trees. The
grand human story seems lost in a mass of antiquarian detail.” Wm.
Elliot Griffis.

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 306. N. 16, ‘05. 860w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 600w.

“A loving hand and diligent investigation of the original sources of
information to the minutest details are apparent throughout the work.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 420w.

=Dicey, A. V.= Law and opinion in England. *$3. Macmillan.

Professor Dicey “lays bare to the general reader the dominating
influences, intellectual and moral, which characterize the general
body of law-making or operating to change it.” (Ath.) “His careful
soundings and observations lead him to mark on his chart of the
nineteenth century three main currents—the first, the period of old
Toryism or legislative quiescence extending from 1800-1830; ... the
second is designated as the period of Benthamism or individualism; ...
the third is described as the period of ‘collectivism,’—the growth of
opinion ‘which favors the intervention of the State even at some
sacrifice of individual freedom.’” (Lond. Times.)

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 727. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1130w.

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 5. Jl. 1, 1820w.

“Mr. Dicey adds a familiarity with English literature and a simplicity
of style in dealing with the most intricate topics and summarising the
most extensive developments that will save his work from being
relegated to the shelves of law libraries alone.” Robert C. Brooks.

+ + =Bookm.= 22: 282. N. ‘05. 1260w.

“A masterly exposition of the forces which have promoted the course of
our modern legislation and a penetrating analysis of the
counter-currents and cross-currents of opinion which have delayed or
diverted it.” R.

+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 829. O. ‘05. 250w.

“This is a careful examination of a complex subject.”

+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 500w.

“We know no better piece of work of its kind.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 214. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1930w.

“His chapter on judicial legislation—a most difficult subject—is a
model.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 102. Ag. 3, ‘05. 2180w.

* + + =Outlook.= 81: 884. D. 9, ‘05. 1000w.

“A work of unusual incisiveness and value.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 571. O. 28, ‘05. 460w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 90w.

“We get a history of public opinion from a special point of view, and
if it is far from being a history of opinion in its wider aspects
during the nineteenth century, it deals with sufficient breadth and in
sufficient detail with opinion as it affects the practical interests
dealt with by legislation. Much of the best reading in Professor
Dicey’s book consists of personal sketches.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 86. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1810w.

“Granted the difficulty of the subject, it may be fairly said that
there is no other living scholar who could have handled it in a style
so masterly and yet so attractive. Like all Professor Dicey’s books,
it is easy to read, and the simplicity and orderliness of the
narrative disguise the labour and thought involved in its preparation.
There is no novel dogma propounded, but an accepted doctrine is
brilliantly worked out in detail. For anyone who wishes a guide to
that difficult thing, the intellectual life of a nation, we can
imagine no more lucid and stimulating handbook.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 16. Jl. 1, ‘05. 880w.

=Dick, Stewart.= Arts and crafts of old Japan. **$1.20. McClurg.

“If we would understand Japanese art we must accept the conventions,”
says the author. The sympathetic attitude which grows out of a careful
survey of the forces of Japanese development is necessary for
connoisseur and beginner alike. Painting, color printing, sculpture
and carving, metal work, keramics, lacquer, and landscape gardening
and the arrangement of flowers are covered in the treatment.

“It is by far the best short introduction to the subject of which it
treats that has yet appeared.”

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 290w.

* “He talks entertainingly and correctly, and yet rather as a student
and reader in Europe, than as an observer in Japan itself.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 50w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.

=Dickberry, F.= Storm of London. $1.50. Turner, H. B.

The earl of Somerville, weary of purposeless social life, decides upon
suicide one night during a violent storm. When he awakens he looks
upon a London from which every vestige of clothes and furniture had
been swept away thus removing all outward signs of social distinction.
“Yet even when we recognize that the book is in a way an allegory, and
a satire upon the shams of modern life, nothing can alter the fact
that here is a story which, chapter after chapter, pictures the
fashionable life of London, the crowds in the street, the dinners and
receptions and public functions, all thronged with men and women in
the garb of Adam and Eve before the fall.” (Bookm.)

“The volume may have a certain incisive irony, but it is sadly
deficient in good taste.”

— =Bookm.= 22: 37. S. ‘05. 300w.

“An elaborate and tiresome extravaganza, in which the author handles
the idea of an unclothed society with cumbrous and offensive satire.
There is enough ability in the book to suggest that the writer might
do something better.”

— =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 40w.

“It is worth reading. It is undeniably smart.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 468. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.

=Dickens, Charles.= Christmas carol, and Cricket on the hearth. $2. Baker.

The illustrations of George Alfred Williams add much to this very
attractive edition of the two Dickens’ stories which have come to be
perennially a part of the holiday season.

* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.

* + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w.

* “On the whole it is an excellent book to put into the hands of young
people who are nevertheless old enough to appreciate the qualities
both of literary and artistic workmanship.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w.

=Dickens, Charles.= Tale of two cities. $1.25. Crowell.

Dickens’ “popular and picturesque” and thoroly authentic aid to the
understanding of the terrible days of the French Revolution has ever
taken its place beside the histories. This reprint is uniform with the
“Thin paper classics.”

* =Dickens, Charles.= Tales from Dickens, ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives. †$1.50. Bobbs.

A short cut to the best selections from the best of Dickens’ works has
been provided here for the uninitiated Dickens reader as well as the
Dickens lover who desires to refresh his memory. On an average of four
or five tales have been taken from each story, and many characteristic
drawings reproduced.

* + =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.

* =Dickerson, Mary Angela.= Wonderful wishes of Jacky and Jean. †$1. Wessels.

The story of two children who had a fairy sparrow that made wishes
realities for them. But the sport had trials too which mingle with the
wonders of the tale.

=Dickerson, Mary C.= Moths and butterflies. *$1.25. Ginn.

An elementary text-book for use in the upper grammar grades and lower
high school classes. The life histories of eighteen moths and nine
butterflies are given in parts 1 and 2. Part 3 is devoted to
Relationship—practical suggestions. There is also a chapter on how to
collect, keep, and study moths, butterflies and caterpillars. The book
contains a glossary, an index and over 200 photographs made from life,
by the author.

“It will be found a very useful book for the nature study library in
schools and for private ownership by pupils of the upper grammar and
high school grades.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 272. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.

“A great deal of useful general information is given in the book, and
it seems on the whole to be careful and accurate.”

+ + — =Nature.= 72: 76. My. 25, ‘05. 280w.

“None more suitable from thoroughness of treatment, photographic
illustration, and moderate price to do its work in the schools for
which it was intended.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05 100w.

“The work is untechnical, and well adapted to cultivate the
intelligent minds of young persons in America.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 919. Je. 24, ‘05. 130w.

=Dickinson, Edward.= Study of the history of music; with an annotated guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.

An aid to the understanding of musical history and criticism prepared
by the professor of the history of music at Oberlin. “This volume is
intended to clear the way by indicating the problems, the method and
the materials” necessary for the study; further, “the narrative and
critical portions give a terse and comprehensive summary of music
history, show what are the important subjects involved and their
connections and relations. The bibliographical sections lead the
student to the best critical commentaries in the English language on
every phase and detail of the subject.”

“His book is certainly almost unique in its clearness of statement and
general usefulness; it is a marvel of condensed information.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 780w.

“There is nothing else in English that is comparable in completeness
and suggestiveness for students of musical history.” Richard Aldrich.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 540w.

“We know of no short history of music which is its equal. This volume
is about equally valuable for reading, for study, and for reference.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 190w.

“A very thorough and illuminating work on the development of music.
The biographical and explanatory notes to this volume are very
valuable, supplying, with the text, a consecutive narrative of the
history of music.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 110w.

* =Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Modern symposium. **$1. McClure.

“This purports to be an account of a meeting of philosophers
representing all the various political and social systems of the
world. The Conservative, the Radical, the Socialist, the Anarchist,
the Scientist, the Poet, and many more, each pleads his own cause. The
closing speaker, noted simply as a man of letters, distinctly
represents Mr. Dickinson’s theories of life, and attempts to sum up
all the virtues of all the other systems.”—Dial.

* “The charm of his style adds a pleasing force to his arguments.”

+ =Dial.= 39:314. N. 16, ‘05. 160w.

* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 130w.

=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Religion: a criticism and a forecast. **50c. McClure.

An attempt to discover a religious ideal that can be accepted by the
logically constituted mind of modern man, which involves a keen,
reverential analysis of the virtues and failings of established
religions.

“Not merely is the writer a man of genius; not merely is he master of
a style which seems to sweep the whole gamut of human emotion, and to
make language rise and fall like the notes of a violin; but he has
written a book which should make many think. Its importance lies in
its object.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 230w.

“Mr. Dickinson is especially happy in stating certain general
attitudes of mind in order to give us a clear glimpse of where we or
others stand in so important a subject as religion.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 480w.

* “These articles were frank and definite discussions of the relation
of religion to knowledge. Mr. Dickinson has a clear and suggestive
style.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 180w.

=Dickson, Harris.= Ravanels. (†)$1.50. Lippincott.

The setting of this story is the South just after the reconstruction
period, and its hero haunted by the memory of his father’s murder in
those troublous times, feels called upon to avenge it. But his revenge
is not sweet, for he is overwhelmed with the horror of his deed, and
is only saved from insanity by the soothing influence of the girl he
loves.

“Is even better than his first novel.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 150w.

“The novel has both strength and character, besides a romantic plot of
much dramatic interest.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w.

“While Mr. Dickson possesses a peculiarly charming literary style and
a gift for portraying genial human qualities, he has blundered in the
symmetry of his story.”

+ — =Ind.= 58 :1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.

“The tragedy of the story is admirably mellowed with its pathos. The
characters are skillfully drawn and a genuine depth of interest is
aroused which never flags until the books ends, amid all its sorrows,
with happiness and cheer.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 246. Ap. 15, ‘05. 480w.

“A dramatic and skilfully written romance of the South, exceptional
for the conspicuous absence of all reference to the issues usually
raised in novels of this section.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 30w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 150w.

“Is an interesting story, well told, which holds the reader’s
attention to the end.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 350w.

“The book contains one of the best trial scenes in recent fiction.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w.

=Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong.= Book of the spiritual life, with a memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.

The larger part of this volume is taken up with the memoirs of Lady
Dilke by her second husband. “It shows her as a girl, as an art
student, as the wife of Mark Pattison, and the correspondent of many
eminent persons, as an art critic, and as the cultured and kind friend
of young people and of all movements for the amelioration of human
life. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... is a series of Lady Dilke’s
mature reflections on the problems of existence and our duty as
sojourners here.”—Lond. Times.

“Not even her work, however, remarkable as it was, and in so many
spheres of art and thought, will erect in the future such a monument
to Lady Dilke as that raised to her by her husband in the brief memoir
which precedes ‘The book of the spiritual life.’”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 774. Jl. 29, ‘05. 2300w.

“Sir Charles Dilke, in writing the memoir, has accomplished his
difficult task with tact and dignity.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 679. Je. 3. 3150w.

* + =Critic.= 47: 435. N. ‘05. 680w.

“The little memoir ... is a model of what such work should
be—informing, sympathetic, and restrained. ‘The book of the spiritual
life’ ... gives evidence of wide reading and a sympathetic outlook.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 179. Je. 9, ‘05. 730w.

+ + — =Nation.= 81 :305. O. 12, ‘05. 970w.

“The memoir dwells (naturally) much upon spiritual and literary
aspects, and will be found dull by readers who are not already
immensely interested in the woman which it commemorates.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 467. Jl. 17, ‘05. 530w.

“To come into appreciative touch with such a life as hers is to
receive an inspiration.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 240w.

+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 843. Je. 24, ‘05. 1450w.

=Dill, Samuel.= Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. *$4. Macmillan.

“Prof. Samuel Dill, in his new volume ... deals principally with the
inner moral life of the time, and gives very little space to its
external history and the machinery of government. He treats at some
length of the relation of the senate to the emperor in the first
century, and the organization of the municipal towns. He also gives a
complete survey of the literature and inscriptions of the period.” (N.
Y. Times). Each page is supplied with explanatory and reference notes.

“He has mastered with praiseworthy assiduity every authority on his
subject, old and new. Yet, though this material is ample, the author
makes no attempt to co-ordinate it in such a way as to give the reader
a picture of the age as a whole, and of the great psychological laws
which governed its development.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 47. Ja. 14, ‘05. 540w.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 125. O. ‘05. 1520w.

“In view of the great importance of this book, and the certainty that
it will be regarded as the best work on this period in English, we
have taken some trouble to collect matter which will help towards its
improvement.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 362. Mr. 25. 1600w.

“Taking the volume as a whole, Professor Dill’s Roman society from
Nero to Marcus Aurelius must, it seems to me, occupy a place in the
first rank of the histories of social life. That place is secured for
it by the sanity of its judgments on social phenomena, by the vigour
of its not-faultless literary style, and by its very great learning.”
Henry Jones.

+ + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 200. O. ‘05. 2800w.

“Nowhere else can so full and true an account be found of the
conditions of Roman society at this time as in this admirable book.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 870. O. 12, ‘05. 1070w.

“And, aside from its inherent importance, its thoughts are so lucidly
and attractively expressed that no intelligent reader, whether a
Latinist or not, can fail to find it pleasant reading.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 356. My. 4, ‘05. 2890w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w.

“There is an almost incredible richness and fulness of detail, and yet
it is so presented that an intelligible and well-proportioned picture
is the result.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 601. S. 16, ‘05. 1320w.

“Professor Dill has laid under lasting obligation those readers who
seek to understand the inner life and moral condition as well as the
political and external affairs of a given period. While Professor
Dill’s prescribed limitation seems to forestall criticism, the
question can hardly be repressed whether his picture of society in
pagan Rome is quite complete without mention of the great regenerative
force which was gathering strength within its bosom and advancing
through bitter conflict to victory.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 499. F. 25, ‘05. 880w.

“This is preëminently a book for scholars.”

+ + =R of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 40w.

“His style is rather that of an essayist than of an historian, and he
lacks that precision, that careful explicitness, and, above all, that
direct citation of authorities which in a learned work are
indispensable, while in the selection and use of his materials he
often disappoints our hopes. Mr. Dill has learning, industry, and, as
numerous passages show, a brilliant pen. If his separate chapters had
been published as single essays, they would most of them, we think,
have been justly considered excellent. They are rich in what is
interesting and delightful.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 2040w.

“The author’s literary skill has enabled him even to make the dry
bones of the inscriptions part and parcel of the literature of the
period, with which he is indisputably more familiar than any other
Englishman living. A work that deserves to rank with Lecky’s ‘History
of European morals.’”

+ + + =Westminster Review.= 168: 231. F. ‘05. 210w.

=Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope.= Samuel de Champlain. $5. Morang & co.

“For material, M. Dionne has gone chiefly to Champlain’s own writings
and to the reports of missionaries. Designed as a contribution to a
popular series [“Makers of Canada”] we do not meet in this book with
any long discussion of disputed or technical points; but M. Dionne
takes time to consider large issues such as the expediency of
Champlain’s attack upon the Iroquois, and is not prevented from
breaking a lance at intervals with Faillon. For us the most
interesting portion of the narrative is concerned with the taking of
Quebec by the English in 1629.”—Nation.

“We do not think that Mr. Dionne praises him too highly in a volume in
which the only serious fault we detect is a certain lack of sequence.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 314. S. 29, ‘05. 560w.

“These and all cognate topics are dealt with by M. Dionne with both
sympathy and information.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 490w.

* =Spec.= 95: 822. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.

=Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.= Picturesque English cottages. **$2. Winston.

To “Old cottages and domestic architecture in southwest Surrey,” and
“The old cottages, farm houses and other stone buildings of the
Cotswold district” “must now be added Mr. Ditchfield’s ‘Picturesque
English cottages,’ less technical than the others, equally well
illustrated, and covering the field more broadly.... The text,
covering as it does such subjects as methods of construction,
influence of material, the evolution of the cottage, foreign influence
upon it, the cottage garden and its flowers, is entertaining, and by
no means too technical for the uninstructed reader.” (Nation.)

“Were it not for its binding, the book would be wholly without
blemish. So tasteless, so utterly inappropriate a cover.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 267. S. 28, ‘05. 910w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.

=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Graystones is a great country house in Suffolkshire, and the action
takes place in the time of Cromwell after the surrender of the
Cavalier stronghold of Colchester to the Parliamentary forces. The
story opens upon a group of Cavalier prisoners. “The hero, Jack
Hetherington, prisoner, is fighting a big Roundhead for kicking a
dying Cavalier.... All through the brilliantly told tale, Jack fights
his way against great odds. He weds the Fair Maid, a neglected orphan,
dependent of a great family, and the two young things go out penniless
to seek a home.” (Outlook.)

* “The plot, which hinges on a case of mistaken identity, is
ingenious, if scarcely probable, and the interest fresh and well
sustained.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 160w.

* “The story reads agreeably, and adds another leaf to its author’s
wreath of laurel.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 260w.

* “There is not much history to trouble about ... but there is good
style here, and lively characterization in Miss Dix’s now known
manner.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 839. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.

“While there is nothing extraordinary about the plot, it has no tinge
of the commonplace, and it is handled with so high an appreciation of
artistic values and human interest that one wishes there were more
writers like Miss Dix.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.

=Dixon, Amzi Clarence.= Lights and shadows of American life. William H. Smith, 25 Stanhope St., Boston.

Christian talks which will find favor in many Christian homes because
they combine orthodox thought, humorous expression, and broad common
sense. Such subjects as: Our homes; Our money makers; Our boys and
girls; Our amusements; Our Sabbath; Our politics; Our churches; and
Our destiny, are discussed.

=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Clansman. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“The clansman” is the second book of Mr. Dixon’s trio of historical
novels. The first, “The leopard’s spots,” as the author states in his
preface, “was the statement in historical outline of the condition of
the negro from the enfranchisement to the disfranchisement.” “The
clansman” is the sequel, and “develops the true story of the Ku Klux
Klan which overturned the revolution régime.” The great issues of the
reconstruction period create a giant force which the dignity and
strength of Lincoln grapple with for a brief period, and which the
evil genius of “The great commoner,” Austin Stoneman, Thaddeus Stevens
in thin disguise, dominates thruout the story. Congress’ policy of
revenge towards the new South, the impeachment of Johnson, the radical
faction’s determination to bestow civic rights upon negroes, the
resulting reign of terror in the South under the sway of negroes and
carpetbaggers, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan provide stirring
scenes thru which runs a double love story.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.

“The clansman may be summed up as a very poor novel, a very ridiculous
novel, not a novel at all, yet a novel with a great deal to it; a
novel that very properly is going to interest many thousands of
readers, of all degrees of taste and education, a book which will be
discussed from all points of view, voted superlatively good and
superlatively bad, but which will be read.” F. Dredd.

— — + =Bookm.= 20: 559. F. ‘05. 920w.

“One reads not far in the present volume until he is convinced that
Mr. Dixon is not to be waved aside as a mere argumentative
pamphleteer, but that he has in him literary possibilities of a high
order. The advance from the crudities of ‘The leopard’s spots’ is
marked, and is seen in every feature.” W. H. Johnson.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 277. Mr. ‘05. 780w.

“Book shows from beginning to end the effort of an unscrupulous
partisan to become an artist. The story appears to have been got out
of the Congressional Record and pieced together with two or three
charming love affairs.”

— — + =Ind.= 58: 325. F. 9, ‘05. 1050w.

“A thrilling romance. It is by no means equally certain that the book
paints in any too vivid colors the chaos of blind passion that in the
North followed Lincoln’s assassination or the reign of terror that
resulted in the South.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1020w.

“Deliberately uses such talent as he has to arouse the worst passions
in his readers. There is less vulgarity in the story than might be
expected, but restraint has not yet done its full work. The best men,
both North and South, will turn from this repellant portrayal of our
country and our countrymen.”

— — + =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 230w.

“The dramatic intensity, the color, the incisiveness of Mr. Dixon’s
style. It is in the expression of personal opinion, and the
characterization of individuals that the strong partisan bias of the
book is most plain. Three-fourths of the book are given up to the
epoch-making events and radical legislation, that prepared the way for
the Ku Klux Klan. ‘The clansman’ consists of a bitter arraignment of
Thaddeus Stevens, some vivid portrayals of great scenes, some
impassioned pleading, and a modicum of fiction. As a novel it may
reinforce, but it will not displace the more artistic presentment of
the reconstruction period that another Southerner has given us in ‘Red
rock.’”

+ + — =Reader.= 5: 379. F. ‘05. 500w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w.

“Mr. Dixon ... is so impressed with the tremendous interest of his
country’s history that he has lost his sense of perspective.”

— =Sat. R.= 99: 636. My. 13, ‘05. 250w.

=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.

This group of essays and papers sets forth the beauties of nature and
the joys of country life. The opening chapter, Dreams and disillusions
shows the “horrors of city life”; there are other chapters upon such
subjects as—The music of the seasons, The fellowship of dogs, Some
sins of nature, The shouts of children, In the haunts of wild fowl,
and What is life?

Reviewed by G. W. Adams.

+ — =Bookm.= 22: 70. S. ‘05. 620w.

— =Ind.= 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.

“It is not often we are given such an insight into a public man’s
private life.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 160w.

=Dods, Rev. Marcus.= Bible, its origin and nature. **$1. Scribner.

“This is the first volume published on the foundation which
Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, provided in 1879, with a view
to the defense of ‘the religion of the Bible ... as commonly received
in the Presbyterian and other evangelical churches.’” (Outlook.) It
contains the lectures given at Lake Forest college in May, 1904.

* “The book is a polemic, but a gracious polemic.”

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 741. O. ‘05. 670w.

“His work will be of service in disarming prejudice and allaying fears
as to the critical study of the Bible.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w.

“What is peculiar to himself is the clarity of exposition, the
brightness of sympathy, the sound sanity and sincerity of his
treatment of a subject which more than anything lends itself to
exaggeration and lip service.”

+ + =N. Y. Times= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 750w.

“He states his argument with great ability, and meets objectors with
ingenuity and skill.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.

=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.

A companion volume to the author’s “Greek poets.” There have been
included Latin poets from Plautus and Terence to Juvenal and Lucian. A
sketch of each poet’s life followed by representative selections from
his works, bringing together material for a complete survey of Roman
literature.

* “As far as the originals are concerned, the selections are
excellently made, but the versions are very uneven, and had to be.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.

“It is, however, a charming collection in which few will miss any
favorites.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.

Dolly Winter: the letters of a friend which Joseph Harold is permitted to publish. †$1.25. Pott.

Letters from the hero to his friends give the romance of a man of the
world who, while temporarily following the simple life in a secluded
village, becomes interested in Dolly, whose mother as a result of ill
doing, is insane.

“The letters are written in a graceful style and unfold a romantic
story with much keenness of wit and other elements of the now almost
lost art of letter writing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“An innocuous tale upon well-worn lines.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 16w.

=Donne, William Bodham.= William Bodham Donne and his friends; ed. by Catharine B. Johnson. *$3. Dutton.

“A volume of letters to and from ‘William Bodham Donne and his
friends,’ ed. by Donne’s granddaughter, Catherine B. Johnson.... The
letters selected attempt to give a connected idea of W. B. Donne’s
life and to illustrate his character.... [He] numbered among his
‘friends’ the best-known literary personages of his day.... There are
16 illustrations, including portraits of William Bodham Donne, Fanny
Kemble, FitzGerald, John Mitchell Kemble, Trench, Bernard Barton,
Blakesley, and others.”—N. Y. Times.

“Considering the difficulty of the task before her, Mrs. Johnson has
succeeded remarkably well.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 233. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1120w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 431. Ap. 8. 770w.

“Most of the letters in this book were written by Donne, but a great
many were written to him, and it is hard to say which are the more
interesting.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 159. Ag. ‘05. 1580w.

“The workmanship of both editor and printer is good.” Percy F.
Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 10. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2380w.

* “Miss Johnson has done her part admirably in editing the letters.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 260w.

“It is altogether a model of what such a record should be.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 206. S. 7, ‘05. 720w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 170w.

“They are the letters of a true literary man, letters that are worth
the permanent form in which they are now embodied.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 570w.

“These letters of Donne and his friends ... form a worthy memorial of
him.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 593. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.

=Donnell, Annie Hamilton.= Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.

Rebecca Mary, a little New England girl, figures thru these sketches.
She lives with a prim severe aunt with whom she possesses in common
certain family traits. “Being a Plummer meant a great deal. It meant
that by no chance must one ever display any of the emotions that one
experiences. Neither must one ever show one’s affection; one must have
courage to do what is right, no matter how unpleasant; one must be
conscientious to a fault, and above all one must do one’s duty if it
kills one.” (N. Y. Times.)

“On the whole, Rebecca Mary is worth knowing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.

* “There is no doubt that Rebecca will find her niche in the
affections of readers beside that occupied by the immortal Emmy Lou.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

* “A charming study of child life.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 30w.

=Dopp, Katharine Elizabeth.= Place of industries in elementary education. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

In this third edition a chapter upon “Ways of procuring a material
equipment” and “Ways of using it so as to enhance the value of
colonial history” is added in order to make the book serviceable as a
teacher’s manual. The chapters are entitled—Significance of industrial
epochs, Origins of attitudes that underlie industry, and Practical
applications. The illustrations are from photographs.

“The most suggestive single work that can be placed in the hands of
teachers.” W. I. Thomas.

+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 272. S. ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 180w.

“It is a great satisfaction to meet with a book that moves along an
unbeaten path to new points of view on current problems. Such a book
is this.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

=Dorman, Marcus R. P.= History of the British empire in the 19th century, v. 2. The campaigns of Wellington and the policy of Castlereagh (1806-1825). *$4. Lippincott.

“A consecutive account of British foreign and domestic policy.... Mr.
Dorman pays little attention to affairs in France and central Europe.
His point of view is always British and his desire is to elucidate the
part played by British statesmen and soldiers in continental
affairs.... He introduces a considerable body of new information drawn
from the correspondence of British representatives in other countries.
He throws light on the Welcheren expedition, on the part played by
General Chitroff in betraying information to the British government,
on the negotiations between Alexander and Napoleon in 1811, and on the
position of Prussia in February, 1812.... The second portion of the
history, dealing with the period from 1815 to 1825, is chiefly
concerned with the policy of Castlereagh.”—Am. Hist. R.

“The attitude assumed throughout is that of a fair-minded and
impartial narrator.” Charles M. Andrews.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 664. Ap. ‘05. 1560w.

=Dorsey, George Amos.= Mythology of the Wichita. $1.50. Carnegie inst.

A volume “collected under the auspices of the Carnegie institution by
the Curator of anthropology of the Field Columbian museum of
Chicago.... In this collection are sixty myths. The author has written
an introductory chapter of twenty-four pages, telling of the history
and social life of the Wichita, a group of the Caddoan stock who have
stood high among the Indians as regards home life and morality.”—Ann.
Am. Acad.

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 120w.

=Nature.= 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 230w.

=Dorsey, George Amos,= ed. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee. *$6. Pub. for the American folklore society by Houghton.

“As a faithful narrator, Mr. Dorsey translates the indecorous into
Latin. The stories he divides into several groups, the ‘Cosmogonous,’
the ‘Boy heroes,’ ‘Medicin,’ ‘Animal tales’; then comes ‘People marry
animals or become animals.’ Then there are many stories which are
placed under the general heading of ‘Miscellaneous.’ ... The Pawnee
delighted in boy heroes.... Indian maidens figure as heroines. A
fairly ideal one is ‘the girl who married a star.’ ... The coyote
figures in many of the traditions.... The Pawnees have also their
medicine bundles. Some of these bundles are believed to have the power
of inducing rain to fall.”—N. Y. Times.

Reviewed by Frederick Starr.

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 166. S. 16, ‘05. 1570w.

“The book is a very important contribution to American folk lore.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 230w.

+ + =Nature.= 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 160w.

“The notes at the conclusion of this volume add very much to one’s
comprehension of the folk-lore of the Pawnees.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 540w.

=Doub, William Coligny.= History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.

To show that civics forms an integral part of the history of a nation,
Professor Doub combines the two subjects in one text, doing away with
the necessity of separate books.

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 217. O. ‘05. 30w.

“In the hands of a well-equipped educator this volume will render a
separate study of civics unnecessary.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 267. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.

“The author is successful, it appears to us, in his desire to make
government so completely an integral part of the history of a nation
that the people will rightly see and understand this relationship.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w.

* Double-knot and other stories. †$1.25. Benziger.

Mary T. Waggaman, Anna T. Sadlier, Magdalen Rock, Mary E. Mannix, Mary
G. Bonesteel, Eugene Uhlrich, Maurice Francis Egan, and seven other
Roman Catholic writers have written the thirty stories which make up
this volume. Nearly all of them are sweet, simple little love stories,
but some are merry ones, like the story of the pretty stenographer,
who, thru a misdirected letter, succeeded in marrying a millionaire,
and some are sad, like the story of the two lovers who, parted for a
life time, met at last as inmates of the Home which the Little Sisters
of the Poor provide for the needy and aged.

=Dougall, Lily.= Summit House mystery. $1.50. Funk.

The events recorded here transpire in the shut-away section of the
mountains of northern Georgia, where two women seek seclusion. “The
story concerns a mysterious crime, and a strong-willed, long-suffering
religious woman is the central figure. It recalls, in the solution of
the mystery, and in one powerfully dramatic passage, Miss Braddon’s
famous ‘Henry Dunbar.’ It also recalls (as vividly) superficial facts
of the Borden murder mystery at Fall River about sixteen years ago.”
(N. Y. Times).

“One class of fiction lovers will read it for the ‘mystery,’ while
another will care more for its delicate, and subtle observations of
nature and character, and the admirable English the author commands.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 220w.

“Miss Dougall’s frequently too fluent descriptive facility is freely
exercised. There is beauty, however, in her descriptive phrases, and
she can place a scene before the reader’s eyes with just the effect
she aims at. The plot is ingenious and sufficiently original, and is
remarkably well worked out. Miss Dougall is one of the cleverest of
contemporary story tellers. Better still are the studies of character.
The novel has value, too, as an impartial comparison by an outsider of
Northern and Southern traits of character. It is a readable book, and
it deserves success.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 280w.

“The plot is ingenious and original and remarkably well worked out.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“The plot of this novel is managed with much skill, holding one’s
interest without disclosing the solution of the puzzle until the very
end. It is a cleverly told tale, with many original points.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 80w.

“This book was published in England under the title ‘The earthly
purgatory,’ and the title was well chosen. For the lover of adventure
the book is to be commended.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w.

* =Douglas, Amanda Minnie.= Little girl in old San Francisco. †$1.50. Dodd.

“The little girl first reached San Francisco in its earliest days.
When the book closes, San Francisco is the great metropolis of the
West. Giving the life story of the ‘little girl’ from her childhood
past her wedding-day, the author also pictures the changes and growth
of the city.”—Outlook.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 80w.

* “The book has not only human interest but some historical value.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.

=Douglas, James.= Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.

This detailed description of Quebec in the seventeenth century forms a
study of the French occupation of Canada, their explorations into the
wilderness, and their struggle with England for supremacy. The volume
is fully illustrated with reproductions of old pictures, maps,
diagrams and portraits.

* “An important addition to the historical literature of Northern
America.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 80w.

“In fact, though Dr. Douglas has trod in paths that had been pretty
well blazed out and explored before him, he has achieved a work of
value.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 673. O. 14, ‘05. 630w.

“Dr. Douglas’s book may find fit place alongside Sir Gilbert Parker’s
‘In old Quebec,’ Sir John Bourinot’s ‘The story of Canada,’ and the
dozen volumes of Parkman’s histories.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 50w.

=Douglas, James.= Theodore Watts-Dunton: poet, novelist, critic. *$3.50. Lane.

Mr. Douglas has exhibited Mr. Watts-Dunton to the world mainly as a
novelist and poet. This view does not accord with Mr. Joseph Jacobs’
notion, for instance, which maintains that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s highest
place is one among the critics. “The work comprises: (1) Reminiscences
and anecdotes concerning Watt-Dunton’s distinguished friends and
associates; (2) Watts-Dunton’s last words about Rossetti, and the
campaign of slander in connection with his relations with his wife;
(3) Unpublished poems by Watts-Dunton; (4) Letters from George
Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and other distinguished men; (5) An account of
the life at the Pines, and the relations between Swinburne and
Watts-Dunton; (6) Extracts from Watts-Dunton’s articles in the London
Athenæum.” (Int. Studio). The illustrations include Welsh and English
landscapes, works of art by Rosetti and others, and both outside and
inside views of the Pines, the joint home of Watts-Dunton and
Swinburne.

“The volume is precisely what it claims to be—a biographical and
critical study, and the subject has been extremely fortunate in his
biographer; for Mr. James Douglas is not only a fascinating and
discriminating critic, but is in such perfect rapport with
Watts-Dunton and his dearest literary companions that the rare
sympathy of deep friendship lights up a story that even without warmth
would have been fair and fascinating, and gives to it a peculiar
charm.”

+ + + =Arena.= 33: 336. Mr. ‘05. 990w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

=Atlan.= 95: 426. Mr. ‘05. 510w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

=Atlan.= 95: 837. Je. ‘05. 1030w.

“The author is an enthusiastic admirer of his subject, not a calm and
critical biographer.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ — =Critic.= 46: 451 My. ‘05. 900w.

“The object of Mr. Douglas in this work is to give a general view of
the man and his writings. As far as the man is concerned, the work is
by no means a formal biography, but rather a series of dissolving
views of a strong personality. His [Douglas’] own commentary is
rambling and possibly overwrought, but will be found serviceable as a
sort of connective tissue whereby the reprinted passages are held
together.” W. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 78. F. 1, ‘05. 2880w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 157. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w.

* + — =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.

“There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences,
collected and arranged by one so eminently able as Mr. James Douglas,
form a very important addition to contemporary records of the leading
lights of the nineteenth century in the literature and art of America
and England.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 280w. (Detailed statement
of contents.)