Chapter XVI: Part IV: gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am (2)

“Mr. Douglas’s vicarious autobiography of the mind of Theodore
Watts-Dunton is in plan and execution pretty much everything that a
study of a living man of letters ought not to be. The chief value of
the book is as an anthology of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s scattered and too
little known work in criticism, in fiction, and in verse.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 176. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1710w.

“Mr. Douglas in this book has chosen to represent Mr. Watts-Dunton as
critic by very few, and those for the most part badly selected,
specimens. This book does less than justice to the great position of
Mr. Watts-Dunton in contemporary English letters. He lays stress upon
the wrong thing, praises his hero for his lesser qualities, reproduces
too little of his criticism, and too much of his poetry. Whoever wants
to know Mr. Watts-Dunton in his capacity as poet and novelist will
find his merits more than sufficiently exemplified and insisted upon
in Mr. Douglas’s book.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 4. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2890w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 60w.

=Dowden, Edward.= Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.

The initial volume in the “French men of letters series.” With a
clever distribution of detail which Montaigne bequeathed to the world
about himself, Professor Dowden “seeks to interpret the author not
merely by the facts of his life but also by what he reveals of himself
in his writings. And ... Montaigne lays himself bare for the
inspection of the reader.” (Dial.)

“He has told the old tale clearly and simply, as far as possible in
Montaigne’s own words, and we know no handbook better fitted to
enlighten those readers who have not the time or industry to read the
essays themselves.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 975. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w.

* “In the admirable biography ... Montaigne’s life and work are
considered with sympathetic discretion.” Edward Fuller.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 566. D. ‘05. 790w.

“It is no cut-and-dried biography, but an illuminated record of the
mind and soul of the man whom Sainte-Beuve called ‘the wisest
Frenchman that ever lived.’”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 168. S. 16, ‘05. 790w.

“For the book itself is evidently no quickly commissioned and
machine-made production. It is the result rather of affectionate
assiduity, or serious collection of materials, and collation of
authorities.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 293. S. 15, ‘05. 1760w.

“What makes this volume specially pleasing is that, in the spirit of
‘entente cordiale,’ it shows the desire to appreciate, with the
graceful help of a winning style, the essentially French writer, who
nevertheless finds a literary home in all countries.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 300w.

“Prof. Dowden’s ‘Montaigne’ has the quality we always look for in the
work of that capable critic. This writer is not a virtuoso among
biographers; but what he lacks in brilliancy is more than made up for
in sober force.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 665. O. 14, ‘05. 2280w.

* “And it is the distinctive characteristic of Mr. Dowden’s work that
in it Montaigne lives for us again. This effect, moreover, is produced
with a deftness which defies analysis. The treatment is essentially
impressionistic but it is none the less convincing.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 280w.

“A critical and sympathetic account which every genuine lover of
Montaigne will prize.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 542. O. 21, ‘05. 390w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 40w.

“He makes Montaigne as interesting as a man’s biography can be made
whose real life is contained in his books. Our feeling about the book
is rather that it is too much biographic; and that more space should
have been given to the study of Montaigne’s influence on French and on
English literature.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 501. O. 14, ‘05. 1640w.

* “Professor Dowden’s work is entirely worthy of its attractive
setting. We do not think he has ever made a literary sketch so
satisfactory.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 908. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.

=Dowson, Ernest.= Collected poems. *$1.50. Lane.

This volume contains all of the poetical works of Ernest Dowson,
including “Verses,” published in 1896; “The Pierrot of the minute,” in
1897; and a posthumous collection entitled “Decorations.” Mr. Arthur
Symons has written an appreciative memoir to the book.

“[He] wrote in verse with sad sincerity, and in exquisite lingering
rhythms and a diction poignant in its reserved perfection.” Ferris
Greenslet.

+ + =Atlan.= 96: 416. S. ‘05. 700w.

“The delicate talent of Ernest Dowson is appraised with intelligence,
and the subtle sympathy which it so peculiarly needs, in the
introductory essay by Mr. Arthur Symons which accompanies the final
edition of Dowson’s ‘Poems.’” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 39: 272. N. 1, ‘05. 270w.

“We quote a poem which will illustrate both his musical grave way and
the destructive and unpoetical philosophy that he had acquired.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 177. Je. 9, ‘05. 910w.

“A volume of decadent poetry, so called, of exceptionally fine
quality.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 302. O. 12, ‘05. 440w.

“The poems before us justify the praise Mr. Symons bestows upon them.
They vibrate with feeling, and are stamped with reality, as having
been lived before they were phrased.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 660w.

“We may well believe that a few of these poems at least will live and
be treasured, never indeed by the many, but by those who are sensitive
to music and choice expression, and to sentiment that is genuine,
however fatally stamped with too much sadness, born of disease.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 808. Je. 17, ‘05. 1430w.

=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Return of Sherlock Holmes. $1.50. McClure.

Thirteen short stories which chronicle the last adventures of the
famous detective, who now retires from the public gaze to end his days
on his Sussex bee-farm. There is the story of the mystery of the
second stain, the adventure of the priory school, the adventure of the
six Napoleons and others of equal mystery.

“Mr. Holmes is so interesting that he might easily be more so.
Moreover, he is not so accurate as of yore.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 530w.

“The novelist has not shown anything like as much ingenuity in the
construction of fresh problems as the detective shows in solving
them.” Herbert W. Horwill.

+ + — =Forum.= 37: 106. Jl. ‘05. 1340w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.

“Speaking generally, this volume does not average as high as its
predecessors; but this is only because its best are not quite equal to
the best he has told before.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w.

“The stolen examination paper, the missing foot-ball player, and the
professional blackmailer, for all his miserable death, seem rather
small game for the redoubtable Holmes after the stirring scenes of his
earlier days.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 346. Mr. 4, ‘05. 380w.

“The new stories are not so fresh as the old, not so ingenious, nor do
they offer that full measure of breathless suspense without which the
fiction of crime is only weariness and vexation.”

+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 170w.

=Doyle, Edward.= Haunted temple and other poems. $1. Edward Doyle, 247 W. 125th st., N. Y.

“The haunted temple” by the blind poet of Harlem is a criticism of
life. The temple is builded of “the lifeless dross of the heart and
the spirit,” the law of construction is “antipodal—not one, with that
of the ascending stars and the sun.” Introspection and poetic fervor
mark this work and the accompanying poems.

+ =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 50w.

“A daring and somewhat unregulated imagination is the chief
characteristic.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ — =Dial.= 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“Many of his verses are deeply religious in tone and are healthily,
almost buoyantly trustful, with an entire absence of morbidness.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 270w.

=Drayton, Michael.= Poems. $1.25. Scribner.

“The latest edition to the ‘Newnes’ pocket classics.’ ... Instead of
attempting to show every side of Drayton’s work in so narrow a
compass, the editor has wisely selected only the best side, and has
accordingly presented a very full collection of his shorter
pieces.”—Outlook.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 80w.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015, Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.

=Driscoll, Clara.= Girl of La Gloria; il. by Hugh W. Ditzler. †$1.50. Putnam.

This love story of Texas, which pictures the rough but romantic life
on the plains, is the story of a young New Yorker who falls in love
with a girl who is the last of an old Mexican family whose estates
have gradually been taken from them by the Americans.

“Miss Driscoll can tell a tale with freshness and an engaging
individuality. She has not quite got the knack either of omitting
unessential details, or of saving essential ones from being a trifle
tedious.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6. ‘05. 310w.

“The author’s diction is commonplace, and her grammar none too sound.”

— — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 556. My. 6. 120w.

“The story is really too good, as stories go, to be treated altogether
flippantly.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ — =Bookm.= 21: 601. Ag. ‘05. 170w.

“It is a very little story and very simple.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.

“And nothing in particular to recommend or condemn it.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 20w.

+ — =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 90w.

=Drummond, William Henry.= Voyageur, and other poems. **$1.25. Putnam.

The new French-Canadian poems which make up this volume sing sadly and
gayly, by turns, of the hunter, and the pioneer, of home and of
country, of youth and of “The last portage” when “De moon an’ de star
above is gone, yet somet’ing tell me I mus’ go on.”

“It is only when the author forsakes his patois, and writes in the
English tongue, that he lays himself open to serious fault-finding.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 300. S. 2. 390w.

“Heartily can we commend every page of Dr. Drummond’s latest volume.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 190w.

“The patois is not beautiful in itself, and to many readers it may
seem a little barbarous; but it is Mr. Drummond’s true material, for
the dialect songs have a merit which is absent in the few pieces
written in ordinary English.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 391. S. 16, ‘05. 500w.

=Dubois, Dr. Paul.= Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.

The author both a psychologist and physician gives in this volume of
nearly 450 pages the experience and principles of psychic treatment of
nervous disorders based upon twenty years of successful specialization
and practice in this branch of medical skill. “The strong optimistic
tenor of the book, its simple untechnical language, and the directness
with which its philosophy is applied to life, make it capable of
becoming a vital fact not merely to physicians but to every one who
has pondered on the relations between the psychic and the physical.”

“The charm of Dr. Dubois’s style is preserved in spite of the
difficulties and occasional errors of translation. The entire absence
of pedantry, the constant good nature and wit, a marked dramatic and
rhetorical instinct and honest zeal make his book one of the most
readable in medical or psychological literature.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 497. O. 7, ‘05. 940w.

=Duckworth, W. L. H.= Morphology and anthropology: a handbook for students. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“Mr. Duckworth defines the subject-matter of his book as an inquiry
into (1) man’s zoölogical position: (2) the nature of his ancestry....
In the classification adopted by Mr. Duckworth, man retains the
position assigned to him by Huxley.... Nor has the evidence which has
accumulated in the last thirty-three years permitted Mr. Duckworth to
make a more definite statement as to the ancestral chain ... of man
than was made by Darwin in his first edition of the ‘Descent of man’
in 1871.”—Nature.

“Within the limits at his disposal he has been able to marshal his
facts and inferences in a methodical and convincing manner.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 533. Ap. 29. 740w.

“It would not be just to close this review without acknowledging the
number of original facts and fresh opinions that mark the pages of
this work. The opening chapters are perhaps too condensed. The
chapters on the cerebral organization are specially well done, and
contain the best exposition yet published of our knowledge of that
part of the Primate organization.” A. K.

+ + + =Nature.= 71: 433. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1690w.

“Duckworth’s observations strike us in the main very favorably, as
both candid and judicious. A very good and useful handbook.” T. D.

+ + =Science,= n.s. 22: 398. S. 29, ‘05. 680w.

“Is an invaluable piece of exact work, somewhat beyond the needs of
the general reader, but admirably adapted to those of the student.”

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 787, My. 27, ‘05. 180w.

* =Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson).= Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.

Madame Duclaux’s interesting description of France and the French is
now reissued as “a beautiful quarto with twenty reproductions of
water-color sketches by W. B. Macdougall, chiefly in illustration of
French dwellings from farm-houses to chateaux.... The seven divisions
of the book carry one from Normandy to Provence with apparently equal
sympathy and shrewd observation.” (Nation.)

* “One of the most gorgeous of holiday books, and one that deserves to
be read from cover to cover, not only because of its subject but for
its literary style as well.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 30w.

* “Altogether this is a delightful book.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 310w.

* “Altogether she has made an instructive and attractive book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 877. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.

* “The artist’s work is often amateurish and the arrangement of the
pictures awkward.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 692. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.

=Dudley, Albertus True.= In the line. †$1.25. Lee.

The third volume in the “Phillips Exeter” series tells the story of a
sturdy Boston boy who having worked up to the position of guard on the
football team is forbidden by his father to play in one of the crucial
games of the season. Opportunity is thus given for arguments on both
sides of the much-discussed football question.

“Except in so far as it lends encouragement to football ... the book
is bent to encourage all sorts of good things—honesty, democracy,
morality, courage, a harmless gayety.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 572. S. 2, ‘05. 230w.

=Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant.= Notes from a diary, 1896-1901. 2v. *$4. Dutton.

These volumes close the notes from a diary which contains the record
of half-a century ending as the reign of Edward VII. begins. Sir
Mountstuart has avoided the chief interests of his life, politics and
administration but has preserved “some interesting and amusing things
that would otherwise have soon disappeared,” anecdotes, bits of verse,
stories of travels, of dinners, and of visits among the most brilliant
men of his time.

“Very entertaining volumes. They paint the manners of the time more
graphically than any novelist has been able to do.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 356. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1090w.

“They are a treasure-house of entertainment. There is a good deal of
pleasant classical lore; there are riddles, too, and jokes galore, so
that the ordinary man as well as the scholar should be pleased.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 456. Ap. 15. 1610w.

* “A mirror of the times indeed and it is with sincere regret that I
read Sir Mountstuart’s ultimatum that these volumes are his last.”
Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 508. Je. ‘05. 950w.

“Though by no means dull reading are a little cloying if taken in
course and at a sitting.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w.

+ + =Nation.= 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w.

“They are bed-candle reading. As such they will divert, interest, and
offer diverse suggestion to different people.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 1350w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

“Not an unkind word enters these pages. The author is amiable both by
nature and grace. He is an accomplished raconteur.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 1020w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 130w.

“He has made such a contribution to the gaiety of the world as seldom
comes from a single pen.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 641. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1960w.

=Duignan, W. H.= Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.

A glossary which brings the history and place names of Worcestershire
down to date and “has more than a merely local interest; for the
English place names, which nearly all have their root in Anglo-Saxon,
occur again and again throughout the whole country, and in them
England’s early history is latent.” (Nation.)

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 250w.

“It is not surpassed in excellence by any other work of its class with
which I am acquainted.” Henry Bradley.

+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 603. Jl. ‘05. 590w.

=Nation.= 80: 501. Je. 22, ‘05. 200w.

=Dumas, Alexandre.= Three musketeers. $1.25. Crowell.

This novel running almost to the six hundred page limit, depicting the
court life of France during the closing years of Louis XII’s reign and
the opening years of the Grand Monarch is in this edition fashioned
after the “Thin paper classics” model. It offers a complete revised
translation with introduction and cast of characters by J. Walker
McSpadden.

=Dumas, Alexandre.= Twenty years after. $1.25. Crowell.

An edition of Dumas’ novel which is uniform with the “Thin paper
classics.”

=Dunbar, Agnes B. C.= Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4. Macmillan.

In volume one “the author has collected the facts and legends
concerning thousands of Catholic saints, canonized or beatified maids
and matrons, from ancient Britain to the Japan of the seventeenth
century, their austerities and charities, their martyrdoms and
miracles.” (Outlook.) Volume two draws its material mainly from the
“Acta sanctorum,” and “the author’s survey extends over the whole
church before the parting of the East from the West, the Western
church as a whole to the Reformation, and afterward the Roman church.
Besides being of value as a pious work, the dictionary will also be
useful as a work of reference.” (N. Y. Times.)

“It is written with ardent sympathy and with a highly respectable
erudition.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 843. S. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Every statement is accredited to a certain writer.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)

* “But Miss Dunbar has worked out the problem in each case, and made a
remarkably complete book—the only one of the kind in English we
think.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 899. D. 16, ‘05. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)

+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Dunbar, Charles Franklin.= Economic essays. **$2.50. Macmillan.

“The volume now before us brings together fifteen essays which had
been published in various journals, chiefly in the Quarterly journal
of economics, and adds thereto five others which have never before
seen the light. With the former, the task of the editor was
comparatively simple; the latter, by the pious care of a disciple,
have been brought ‘as nearly as possible into the form which the
author would have wished’ to give them. The introduction by Professor
Taussig, carefully avoiding mere eulogy, is the fit tribute of a
student to a revered master. While the book cannot repair, except in
slightest measure, the loss which economic science suffered in
Professor Dunbar’s death, it is a worthy memorial to one who
contributed so much, as teacher, editor, and investigator, to the
progress of economic study in the United States.”—Nation.

“Especially helpful are the chapters on the panic of 1857 and the
description of the state banking systems in the middle of the century.
Serve as admirable examples of interesting and intelligible
generalizations based upon trade and banking statistics.” D. R. D.

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 203. O. ‘05. 300w.

“Some of those essays are models of careful research. The easy
literary style in which they are written should make the volume one of
unusual interest to the general public as well as of value to the
student.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.

“He separates fact from fancy, and presents the results of scientific
inquiry, largely in the field of banking and currency, in an eminently
judicious and scholarly manner.” Arthur B. Woodford.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.

+ + =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“While it does not do full justice to his attainments, the present
volume gives sufficient evidence of Professor Dunbar’s firm hold upon
his science in its broadest relations, his skill in handling questions
of the day, and his special aptitude for patient and fruitful
historical research. All [the five now printed for the first time]
display the nice workmanship of the author, and must be reckoned with
by him who would write the definitive history of our banking system.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 159. F. 23, ‘05. 830w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.

* “It is hardly too much to say that an hundred pages may be selected
from Professor Dunbar’s writings which are as well worth preservation
and careful study as a similar number of pages in the works of any of
the great masters of the science since Adam Smith. Certainly there is
no American economist whose writings deserve a higher rank.” G. S. C.

+ + + =Yale. R.= 14: 328. N. ‘05. 1000w.

* =Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.

“In this collection of verse the ... many-gifted lyrist of his race
strikes again almost exclusively those chords of pathos and humor, in
purely dialect verse, which have won for the author a quite unique
position among America’s ‘minor poets’ of to-day. The publishers have
rendered the volume very attractive by adding to the racy metrical
text characteristic photographs and tasteful decorations; the former
by Leigh Richmond Miner; the latter by Will Jenkins.”—Critic.

* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 80w.

* “Mr. Dunbar’s part in the volume needs no description, save to say
that it is in his characteristic vein and well up to his usual
standard in quality.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 60w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 290w.

=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.

About eighty poems are grouped here which range from the grave to the
gay. The author keeps well to his special field of folk lore. A number
of the poems are in negro dialect, “portraying the pranks and
plottings of a rollicking pickaninny world.”

“His present volume is in no wise disappointing: as in its
predecessors we find in ‘Lyrics of sunshine and shadow’ a rich
sympathy with the homely characteristic themes treated and a happy
deftness in the management of rhyme and rhythm.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w.

“Mr. Dunbar’s poetic inspiration is slender but sincere. He is at his
best in simple ballad measures, writing of the common joys of health
and out-of-doors.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 190w.

=Duncan, Edmondstoune.= Schubert. $1.25. Dutton.

Modern methods of compilation are employed, modern demands for the
conditioning forces of a career are met, and the modern accompaniment
of illustrative matter is supplied in this complete life of Schubert
recently added to the “Master musicians series.” The biography of
Schubert, Schubert the man, and Schubert the musician constitute the
three divisions for treatment.

* “His little book is for the most part dull, flat and prosy,
overloaded with trivial details, in the midst of which the real
essentials are lost sight of.”

— — =Ind.= 59: 990. O. 26, ‘05. 250w.

“The chief fault of Mr. Duncan’s book is a curious habit of repeating
biographic details or criticisms in different sections of it. Some of
his best and most important things are printed in footnote type in the
bibliography.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 170. Ag. 24, ‘05. 700w.

“An agreeable and generally trustworthy biography.” Richard Aldrich.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 730w.

“It brings out facts not before known, though it is far from being an
ideal biography.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 330w.

* “His own observations are marked not only by the warm personal
affection which Schubert invariably inspires in his admirers, but by
excellent taste and sound critical judgment.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 763. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.

=Duncan, Frances.= Mary’s garden and how it grew. †$1.25. Century.

Mary is typically the child enthusiast, while her instructor, the kind
Herr Trummel, “gardener, horticulturist, retired florist, and above
all, Switzer,” teaches her the simple forms of practical, scientific
gardening. Aside from the tale of good comradeship existing between
the gray haired gardener and the little “Liebchen,” the book is a
practical handbook of instruction for all garden makers. It covers the
possibilities for the different months, showing what may be
accomplished in winter as well as in the favorable summer time. The
illustrations by Lee Woodward Zeigler are suggestively good.

“Miss Duncan’s little book, with its helpful illustrations, will do
the best sort of missionary work. Her knowledge of her subject is
intimate and her teaching technically sound; her graceful English....”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 160w.

=Duncan, Norman.= Dr. Grenfell’s parish, the deep sea fishermen. **$1. Revell.

In this book the author’s “freight is fact ... and the language is
vigorous. What he calls Dr. Grenfell’s parish is the long, rocky coast
of Labrador and of Newfoundland ... where Dr. Grenfell has labored,
and is laboring, sailing the icy seas in fog and storm and tending the
bodies (and minding somewhat also the souls) of the scattered dwellers
in a vast, drear, country, which is less desolate since he came into
it. Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell is an Englishman, and he is commissioned
by the ‘Royal national mission to deep sea fishermen.’ ... Mr.
Duncan’s account is chiefly concerned, not with the doctor, but with
his monster parish and the inhabitants of it.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is a better and more interesting piece of work than either of its
predecessors from the same pen.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 450w.

“By his literary gift Mr. Duncan opens the eyes of the least
imaginative to the significance of the work he describes.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 471. My. ‘05. 280w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w. (Condensed narrative
of book).

+ =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 170w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 130w.

“This is indeed a different, and a better tale from any figment of the
imagination. It reaches the heart with the force of verity.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 117. Je. ‘05. 460w.

=Spec.= 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w.

=Duncan, Norman.= Dr. Luke of the Labrador. †$1.50. Revell.

Mr. Duncan “has added a new province to the realm of literature. The
gray ice-bound fields of Labrador, those stern, grim seas, that
virile, simple folk, and its life of tragic monotony,—these things are
now possessions to the imagination, possessions of enduring value.”
(R. of Rs.) “Doctor Luke is a philanthropist, who, putting aside an
early career of dissipation, devotes his life to relieving distress on
the bleak coasts of Labrador.” (Ind.)

Reviewed by G. W. A.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 543. Jl. ‘05. 500w.

“With his keen faculty for seizing the essentials and dismissing the
superfluous, Mr. Duncan has brought us face to face not only with the
rigors and romance of life on the Labrador coast, but with its humor
as well—and a varying humor it is, now droll and again grim, but
always an accurate depiction. A romance full of interest and charm.”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w.

“There is a group of figures of excellent variety and of the best sort
of originality, self-stamped as made up of discovery and sympathetic
interpretation. The story is perfectly fitted into the strange, wild
surroundings.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 97. F. 2, ‘05. 540w.

“As an organic, thoroughly-developed novel, it is a failure.”

+ — =Reader.= 5: 789. My. ‘05. 210w.

“A novel of unusually high merit. But Mr. Duncan has not only a new
field to exploit, he has style. The swift yet long and undulating
sentences move with a distinctive rhythm that is as fresh as it is
new. They tell a strong, beautiful love story. Altogether, ‘Dr. Luke
of the Labrador’ is one of the season’s two or three best books.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 170w.

=Duncan, Norman.= Mother. †$1.25. Revell.

Mr. Duncan “lets heaven into the attic shekinah of a vaudeville
actress, where she kept her child. Her love for him was the holy
effulgence that covered her pitiful, painted life, and sanctified her.
It is a fine argument for the way to heaven in women, dramatically
expressed and quaintly proved, even if we leave out the philosophy of
the ‘dog-face’ man, which to appreciate one must read.”—Ind.

* “The treatment is at once realistic and idealistic, and the two
elements do not at all times blend quite harmoniously.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 170w.

“Norman Duncan’s new story, ‘The mother,’ gives the impression that he
wrote it with his light turned a trifle too high and with his keynote
of pathos taken an octave above where the reader’s sympathies reach
comfortably.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.

* “Altogether, in delicate balance of humor and pathos, in quick
clutch upon the heartstrings, in revealing vividness of imagination,
the art and spirit of ‘The mother,’ put it in the noble class of ‘Rab
and his friends.’”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 540w.

* =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.

* + — =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.

“Mr. Duncan has consistently progressed in his art, but in no instance
more than in ‘The mother.’”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.

=Duncan, Robert Kennedy.= New knowledge: a popular account of the new physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of matter. **$2. Barnes.

“A popular account of the new theory of matter and the relations of
the new physics and new chemistry to other sciences.... The discovery
of Becquerel and the Curies and its consequences form mainly the
subject matter of the book. The author treats of current conceptions,
the periodic law, gaseous ions, natural radio-activity, the resolution
of the atom, inorganic evolution, and the new knowledge and old
problems. There are numerous illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.

“Although some little fault might be found with the arrangement of the
book, Prof. Duncan has succeeded in his main object. When allowance is
made for the faults here enumerated, the book remains the best of its
kind that we have read.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 787. Je. 24. 1450w.

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 100w.

“It is not too much to say that no intelligent person can afford to
permit this book to go unread. We have failed to find in the book any
important inaccuracy, despite the fact that the field covered is so
large and the subject-matter so difficult.”

+ + + =Educ. R.= 30: 310. O. ‘05. 740w.

“The style out-flammarions Flammarion in its vividness and its
occasional verse quotations. So also is its all-embracing scope an
expression of the author’s literary enthusiasm rather than of his
scientific earnestness.”

+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 641. Je. 15, ‘05. 490w.

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1015. My. 4, ‘05. 360w.

“This work is the first attempt which I have seen to bring into
suitable compass, in an intelligible manner, the various problems
which are occupying the attention of many physicists and chemists.
There are few errors, and these are unimportant. Whether the author
might not have omitted much fine writing is a question of taste.” W.
R.

+ + — =Nature.= 72: 241. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1310w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 300w.

“His descriptions and explanations are clear even to a layman.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1060w.

“The author has the rare faculty of infusing life into scientific
discussion.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 210w.

* “Its author shows himself to be a man of wide reading, thorough
scholarship, broad horizon and unmistakable literary talent. I do not
find in it one single incorrect statement of fact.” R. A. Millikan.

+ + + =Science,= n.s. 22: 787. D. 15, ‘05. 520w.

“His book shows an admirable power of exposition, and the only fault
that one can find with it is that its proofs have not been read with
sufficient care, so that a certain number of slips have crept into its
pages.”

+ + — =Spec.= 95: 154. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w.

* =Dunham, Edith.= Jogging round the world. †$1.50. Stokes.

A book with an educational value for children. It is designed to give
an idea of interesting characteristics of many parts of the world; it
shows riders and drivers, with curious steeds or vehicles in strange
lands and at home. Their story is further told by the pictures which
give glimpses of the life and manners of remote people.

* + =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 30w.

=Duniway, Mrs. Abigail Scott.= From the West to the West: across the plains to Oregon. †$1.50. McClurg.

This account of a trip by wagon from Illinois to Oregon is too homely
to be romantic. The details or daily hardships are given, and there
are many characters each with its own story. The squaw-man, the
Indian, the run-away slave, and the Mormon all appear in the course of
the long journey. Death by the wayside, cholera, a stampede of cattle,
and other happenings accentuate the reality of the story and of the
long list of characters playing a part in it.

“The book affords an interesting though somewhat idealized picture of
the early days, but makes no pretensions to historical or geographical
accuracy.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 150w.

“The book is one which possesses no value as a novel, though it may
inspire interest as a curiosity, not of literature, to be sure, but of
story writing.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 370w.

=Dunkerley, S.= Mechanism. *$3. Longmans.

This new text book “opens with an introductory chapter in which the
usual definitions occur relating to machines, kinematic chains, lower
and higher pairs ... this is followed by a chapter ... on simple
machines and machine tools. Chapters 3 and 4 deal chiefly with
mechanisms of the quadric crank and double slider crank chain
forms ... the pantograph finds an important place here.... The next
two chapters deal with velocity and acceleration diagrams.... The
remainder of the book deals with gear wheels, non-circular wheels and
cams.... There is also a section devoted to gear-cutting machinery....
The illustrations are mainly line drawings.... A series of numerical
examples at the end of the book will be of much value to
students.”—Nature.

“A valuable text-book on mechanism.” E. G. C.

+ + =Nature.= 72: 4. My. 4, ‘05. 610w.

=Dunn, Henry Treffry.= Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his circle. **$1. Pott.

The author was at one time a pupil of Rossetti’s and an inmate of the
house on Cheyne walk, and he gives reminiscences of the painter-poet
and his circle, which are interesting, reliable, and full of anecdote.

“The editor has made too much of his function; the copiousness of his
annotation is out of keeping with the sketchy character of the text,
and his introduction is turbid and grandiloquent. Mr. Dunn’s
reminiscences are rendered engaging by a certain simplicity and
suavity. He gives a clear human outline to that figure of Rossetti of
which the commentators have seemed disposed to make a kind of
bogy.”—H. W. Boynton.

+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 422. Mr. ‘05. 760w.

“Simplicity of style. A graphic contribution to Rossettiana.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 60w.

=Dunn, Jacob Piatt, jr.= Indiana: a redemption from slavery. $1.25. Houghton.

“A revised edition of ‘Indiana’ in the ‘American commonwealth series.’
The author has increased its value in the revision by adding a chapter
of about fifty pages on the history of the state since its admission
to the Union. Otherwise, the changes made are slight.”—Am. Hist. R.

=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 724. Ap. ‘05. 60w.

=Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 50w.

+ =Nation.= 81: 64. Jl. 20, ‘05. 270w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.

=Dunn, Martha Baker.= Cicero in Maine, and other essays. **$1.25. Houghton.

Nine delightful essays republished from the “Atlantic,” including,
besides the title essay: A plea for the shiftless reader; The
meditations of an ex-school committee woman; Piazza philosophy; The
Browning tonic; The book and the place; Concerning temperance and
judgment to come; Book dusting time; and Education.

“Mrs. Dunn’s style is delightful.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 500w.

“Thorough comprehension of the value of a sound, sensible, and
cultivated upbringing for young people, added to clear-sighted
judgment of present conditions and the mellowing glow of good reading
spread over all, make an enviable equipment for a writer. All these
are evident.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 310w.

“Whether dispensing a mild dose of ‘Piazza philosophy’ or a strong
potion of ‘Browning tonic,’ Mrs. Dunn may be counted on to cheer and
not inebriate.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 150w.

* =Dunning, William Archibald.= History of political theories from Luther to Montesquieu. **$2.50. Macmillan.

This volume “carries forward to the middle of the eighteenth century
the work begun in the former volume, which was confined to ancient and
mediaeval history.... Beginning with the reformation, Professor
Dunning traces the history of anti-monarchic doctrines of the
sixteenth century, the work of the Catholic controversialists and
jurists, the law of nations as developed by Hugo Grotius, English
political philosophy before and during the Puritan revolution,
Continental theory during the age of Louis XIV., and finally, the
epoch-making work of Montesquieu himself.”—R. of Rs.

* “The book is a piece of sound and conscientious work, and bears
abundant testimony to the wideness of the Professor’s reading.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1134. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 550w.

* “The author is not obscure and is judicial.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 610w.

* =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 110w.

=Durham, M. Edith.= Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.

The author was sent to the Balkans by sympathetic English people to
distribute relief to the starving inhabitants. She gives an
interesting account of the discomforts she endured in the performance
of her numerous duties, and the things which she saw among the
peasants and in the hospitals. There is much of politics, and she
pictures vividly the “lava bed of raw primeval passion ... into which
no power dared thrust its fingers for fear of having them burned off.”

“It is easily and pleasantly written, and will give the reader who
knows not the Near East a clearer insight into an irritating and
unsolved problem than other more weighty and pretentious works.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 338. Mr. 25, ‘05. 610w.

“A parting tribute must be paid to Miss Durham’s nervous and idiomatic
English, characteristically that of an educated and refined woman,
unspoiled by grammars.” Wallace Rice.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 560w.

“Gives a positive picture of conditions there.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1370w.

“Her enthusiasm adds to the charm and does not detract from the value
of these descriptions by an intelligent eyewitness of little known
conditions in obscure places.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 310w.

=Dwight, Henry Otis,= ed. Blue book of missions for 1905. **$1. Funk.

A book containing detailed facts and statistics regarding all missions
and missionary societies, both Protestant and Roman Catholic thruout
the world. Its information is indexed in handy compendium form for
clergymen, missionaries and students.

=Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.

=Dwight, Henry Otis; Tupper, Henry Allen R.; and Bliss, Edwin Munsell=, eds. Encyclopedia of missions; descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical. **$6. Funk.

In this second and revised edition there is less than two-thirds the
amount of matter given in the first edition of thirteen years ago. It
contains “data relating to some 5000 cities and towns and villages
which are of present importance to the missionary enterprise.” There
is also a number of special articles of unusual value, prepared by
experts. Another excellent feature is the bibliography that follows
special articles upon countries, mission boards, religion and races,
as well as some other subjects. (Ind.)

“We commend the general appearance of the work, its clear typography
and evidence of careful editing. There is much in this new and
admirable encyclopedia to commend. The absence of an index is
inexcusable.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 614. Mr. 16, ‘05. 770w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 574. S. 2, ‘05. 680w.

=Dyer, Henry.= Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. *$3.50. Scribner.

The latest book on Japan by Dr. Henry Dyer, “a hard-headed,
thick-skinned Scotchman,” belongs to the literature of knowledge, and
will interest especially those who like unembroidered facts and plenty
of statistics and tables, and who hate anything like “fine writing,”
eloquence or “gush.” The author who established the College of
engineering in Japan, has since his return to Great Britain kept in
touch with the makers of modern Japan, and “out of the intellectual
kinship thus engendered has grown the present work, designed to afford
the foreign reader an adequate idea of the spiritual, moral, mental,
and material Japan of to-day.” (Outlook). The book does not aim to be
a history of Japan, but is rather a study of the influences which have
made the country “a member of the community of nations.” The subjects
discussed at length are education, the army and navy, means of
communication, industrial development, art industries, commerce, food
supply, colonization, constitutional government, administration,
finance, international relations, foreign politics, social results,
the future, and recent events.

“Excellent as the present volume is—among the most lucid and fruitful
that have appeared in recent years upon Japan—it is, of necessity,
uncritical—accepts the Japanese estimate of themselves and the
estimates of their perfervid admirers almost without examination.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 8. Ja. 7. 1430w.

“States all that he sees and knows in terms of plainest common sense.
In one point Dr. Dyer has excelled all other writers on Japan. He
shows clearly and forcibly, as well as copiously, what the great army
of Yatoi, hired assistants and salaried organizers and advisers, in
the days of their youth and strength thirty years ago, did for the
Japanese in raising their ideals and pointing the way to future
success.”

+ + — =Dial.= 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.

* “He marshals many facts frequently overlooked by writers on
twentieth century Japan, but essential to a proper appreciation of the
problems—social, religious, economic, and political—now confronting
the country.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.

“Untrustworthy in theories, perhaps no other single volume gives so
wide and correct a view of the main facts in the several phases of
Japanese national life.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 337. Ap. 27, ‘05. 2710w.

“A treatise of so comprehensive and illuminating a character as to
warrant its inclusion in the front rank of works aiming to present in
compact form an authoritative account of the evolution and present
stage of development of the Island empire. It is in the author’s
discussion of Japanese problems that the highest value of his work
lies. Mr. Dyer gives a far better idea than do the majority of writers
of the part played by foreigners in the growth of Japan. It is heavy
with repetitions not only of idea but of phrase; its diction is at
times strangely awkward and at times imbued with the flavor of the
‘blue book’; while inexactitudes of statement are occasionally to be
detected.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 497. F. 25, ‘05. 1720w.

=Dyer, Louis.= Machiavelli and the modern state. *$1. Ginn.

“The volume is made up of three chapters, originally delivered as
lectures in England in 1899, under the titles ‘The prince and Cæsar
Borgia,’ ‘Machiavelli’s use of history,’ ‘Machiavelli’s idea of
morals.’ The author was formerly an assistant professor at
Harvard.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“What we have is a series of remarks, some of them on Machiavelli and
none on the modern state.... The ‘brilliant allusiveness’ of the
style, the great number of irrelevancies, and the florid
overtranslations....” Edward S. Corwin.

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 685. Ap. ‘05. 240w.

“A valuable little volume.”

=Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 381. Ap. ‘05. 310w.

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 129. Ja. ‘05. 40w.

“Mr. Dyer, however, without any of Mr. Morley’s charm or Macaulay’s
zest, does contrive to say a good deal that is valuable in the course
of these most interesting lectures.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 462. Ap. 15, 510w.

E

=Earle, Maria Theresa (Mrs. Charles W. Earle).= Garden colour; with fifty full-page il. by Margaret Waterfield. *$6. Dutton.

“An English collaborated production ... fifty-one colored plates ...
which are from water colors by Miss Margaret Waterfield. Miss
Waterfield herself writes the garden notes for the various months,
giving advice in regard to cultivation only incidentally, but chiefly
in regard to artistic arrangement—those methods of planting whereby
each plant or shrub shows its own beauties to best advantage, while at
the same time enhancing those of its neighbors.... It is the
principles rather than the actual facts that the various writers wish
in this case to enforce. Miss Waterfield’s collaborators include Mrs.
C. W. Earle, Miss Rose Kingsley, and other well-known English garden
lovers and writers.”—Dial.

=Country Calendar.= 1: 109L. Je. ‘05. 90w.

“One who has considered the subject only casually will certainly get
some inspiring suggestions from both pictures and text.” Edith
Granger.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 380. Je. 1, ‘05. 480w.

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1257. Je. 1, ‘05. 130w.

“The contributed text is not so uniformly good as the plates.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w.

“This book is notable both from the standpoint of nature lover and
bibliophile.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 480w.

=Eastman, Charles A.= Red hunters and the animal people. **$1.25. Harper.

“In the red man’s philosophy, as interpreted by the author, himself a
full blooded Sioux, the beasts of the fields and the birds of the air
are the brothers of their human fellow creatures. The four-footed and
feathered tribes also, in the same philosophy, regard the red man as a
brother. They are the animal people, and these stories are stories of
them as such—stories which differ not as widely as might be wished
from the white man’s animal tales now so numerous.”—N. Y. Times.

“One of the most original and delightful books about animal life that
have appeared for a long time, full of interest and information not to
be found in text-books. The book is simply and pleasantly written,
with no affectation or mannerism.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 105. F. 4, ‘05. 210w.

“With no literary art whatever at his command, he has mistakenly
chosen to cast his material in the form of short stories, and has
failed with them.”

— =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 120w.

“Is likely at first to be a little disappointing, it is so plain, so
lacking in art or artifice. After Mr. Long and Mr. Thompson-Seton, it
is like bread-and-butter after dessert. But it nearly, if not quite,
justifies the simile, for if the reader sustains his interest long
enough his taste will approve the rather homely fare.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 230w.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 47. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.

“The book is entertaining as fiction, valuable because of the light it
throws on Indian life, and largely interesting as one of the few
contributions to our literature made by an Indian.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 230w.

“This is a very pleasing book.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 683. My. 6, ‘05. 180w.

=Eastman, Helen.= New England ferns and their common allies; an easy method of determining the species. *$1.25. Houghton.

“It is a merit of this book that it includes ... the lycopodiums and
equisetums, club-mosses and horse-tails. Each plant is provided with a
picture, from the press ... and even the unusual varieties and hybrids
are included.... The descriptions are good and brief.”—Ind.

“We wish the author had not given us so many fancy English names that
have no authority. But it is a good book, and we are particularly glad
for the horse-tails and club-mosses.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 320w.

=Eccles, Robert Gibson.= Food preservatives, their advantages and proper use; the practical versus the theoretical side of the pure food problem; with an introd. by E. W. Duckwall. $1; pa. 50c. Van Nostrand.

A volume which sets forth the pure food problem as it is found in
practice and theory. “A valuable part of the book is that devoted to
showing how little evidence there is for the assumption, commonly made
even by chemists, that the process of fermentation is so similar to
that of digestion that whatever prevents the one must impair the
other.” (Ind.)

“It contains much special pleading, but this is justified by the
excessive amount of special pleading that has been done, both in and
out of court, against the use of preservatives.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 960. Ap. 27, ‘05. 430w.

* =Eckel, Edwin C.= Cements, limes and plasters: their materials, manufacture, and properties. *$6. Wiley.

The composition and character of the raw materials, the methods of
manufacture, and the properties of the various cementing materials are
treated in this volume, which is designed for the use of the working
engineer. Complete reference lists are given for the benefit of those
who wish to make a further study of the subject treated.

* “This is an exceedingly valuable and well-nigh exhaustive work. It
is by far the most valuable work on the several subjects that it
treats that we have met, and in our judgment may be rightly considered
a masterpiece of compilation.”

+ + + =Science,= n.s. 22: 522. O. 27, ‘05. 450w.

=Eckenrode, Hamilton James.= Political history of Virginia during the reconstruction. 50c. Hopkins.

The author “concerns himself almost altogether with the political
parties of the reconstruction era. He relates the history of the

Alexandria government, ... and discusses quite fully President
Johnson’s attitude toward the Southern states at the close of the
Civil war.... He shows that the Republican party in Virginia was for
the most part opposed to unlimited negro suffrage, until the
Philadelphia convention of 1866, when ‘manhood’ suffrage became a
party measure.”—R. of Rs.

“The method of the author is truly critical, the use of the sources
satisfactory, ... and the conclusions arrived at are unquestionably
justifiable and as accurate as the nature of the subject will permit.”
William E. Dodd.

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 700. Ap. ‘05. 450w.

=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 140w.

=Eckman, George P.= Young man with a program, and other sermons to young men. *50c. Meth. bk.

The purpose of these sermons is to offer practical reasons to young
men for yielding themselves to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. They
treat of the young man and his capital, the young man in his house, at
his work, the young man with ambition, the young man and his
meditation, and his opportunities, and finally the young man and the
supreme passion.

=Edgington, T. B.= Monroe doctrine. $3. Little.

The author, an attorney of over forty years’ practice at the bar of
Memphis, Tenn., has brought to his task a long professional
experience and an extended study of original sources of information.
Altho new material abounds in this presentation of the Monroe
doctrine,—including the treaty establishing the Hague tribunal, the
Venezuelan boundary case, the settlement of the European claims
against Venezuela, and the Panama canal treaty and concession, “its
origin, its history, and its application to various exigencies are
in this book described with no little narrative skill, with
clearness, and with judicial spirit.” (Outlook).

“The book contains errors of fact as well as of judgment. The most
serious imperfections are due to a lack of experience in handling
sources, especially a lack of acquaintance with public documents.
Notwithstanding grave defects the book is interestingly written and
suggestive.” John H. Latané.