Chapter XVIII: Part IV: gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am (4)

“It is on the whole, a well balanced piece of work. The book opens
with an absurdly bad genealogical table, and continues to practically
a dateless limit.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 125. F. 25, ‘05. 780w.

“Indeed we cannot but feel that, if only through an excess of
impartiality, he paints the shadows at times all too deeply. And, for
a similar reason, we gain the impression that here and there the pagan
receives more and the Christian less than his due. We could wish, too,
less disquisition regarding the untrustworthiness of the annalists of
the period, less detailed picking of flaws—a habit so pronounced as to
become tedious. These blemishes, however, are not vital defects. The
work is well arranged, well written, and, with the exceptions noted,
well balanced.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 501. F. 25, ‘05. 290w.

* “We have little but praise of the writer’s treatment of the
ecclesiastical and theological side.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 528. O. 21, ‘05. 810w.

“Mr. Firth’s account of him is an excellent performance.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 360. S. 9, ‘05. 460w.

“Is an interesting biography and an excellent study of an important
phase in the earlier history of Europe.”

+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 90w.

=Firth, John Benjamin.= Highways and byways in Derbyshire. $2. Macmillan.

“Mr. Firth remarks that his book is of ‘narration rather than
description.’ He tells the reader where he may profitably go, and what
he may expect to see ... [and] takes occasion to mention the literary
and historical associations of the places which he visits.”—Spec.

“Mr. Firth’s ‘Derbyshire’ is to the full as thorough and as
companionable as any of its predecessors.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 609. Je. 10, ‘05. 1040w.

“Mr. Firth, has, beyond doubt, produced some five hundred pages of
attractive and interesting reading.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 551. My. 6, 2160w.

“Above all, there is a style that stamps the book as more than a
guide, yet takes nothing away from its usefulness.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 210w.

* “Mr. Firth has a talent for description.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 1220w.

“There are a few other references to people and scenes of especial
interest to the scientific world, but the book will not be valued by
these so much as for its bright narrative of literary and historical
centers of Derbyshire, and its fine illustrations.”

+ =Nature.= 72: 100. Je. 1, ‘05. 320w.

“The drawings ... are singularly charming—are, in fact, when all is
said, the best part of a very good book.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.

“The book is rich in literary associations and personal anecdotes, and
is decidedly readable.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 60w.

“If a little slapdash at times and opinionated, Mr. Firth writes with
real spirit.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 748. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.

“Full of interesting matter.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.

=Fischer, George Alexander.= Beethoven: a character study; with Wagner’s Indebtedness to Beethoven. **$1.40. Dodd.

In this study of the great composer’s life and character is given not
only the influences under which he developed but the effect which his
work had upon the music of to-day and upon the work of Wagner.

“Is perhaps the most rational, convincing, shrewd, and sympathetic
estimate yet made.”

+ + + =Dial.= 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 350w.

“His method is straightforward enough, but his style is an
exasperating journalese, without distinction of any kind. It is not of
any special value or significance.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.

“It is a character study rather than a biography and criticism. The
chapter on humor is one of the best in the book.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 190w.

“It is presented in a straightforward style, though without much
distinction; and what the author has added in the way of critical
estimate is unimportant. Nor has he thrown any new light upon the
character and artistic nature of Beethoven.” Richard Aldrich.

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.

“A simple, straightforward, and readable biography. An excellent and
useful book for the young amateur of music.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.

=Fisguill, Richard, pseud. (Richard H. Wilson).= Venus of Cadiz. †$1.50. Holt.

An American novel with a decided French twang. The scene is laid in
Kentucky with an unsophisticated country girl for a heroine and a
mushroom grower for her Adonis. Impossible situations follow one
another in rollicking succession which involve cases of mistaken
identity, mishaps, and weird meetings of moonshiners in caves. It is
rightly called an extravaganza.

“The plot is nought, and the manner everything. A racy and rollicking
book it is, warranted to dispel the most chronic case of blues.” Wm.
M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.

“It is a rollicking and impossible tale, in which the author gets
rather beyond his depth, while the reader is just sufficiently amused
to flounder after him in astonishment.”

— =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 80w.

“Mr. Fisguill’s story is one which might well have remained in
manuscript.”

— =Pub. Opin.= 29: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 60w.

=Fish, Carl Russell.= Civil service and the patronage. *$2. Longmans.

“This volume deals with a subject which primarily concerns the
citizens of the United States ... the history of the ‘Spoils
system.’”—Spec.

“The most valuable part of the book is the second section, dealing
with the genesis of the spoils system. This is a genuine contribution
to the history of the subject.” L. M. S.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 172. O. ‘05. 1260w.

“This book is distinctly a history of the patronage, and as such
deserves recognition as a valuable contribution in this particular
field.” Ward W. Pierson.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 606. S. ‘05. 380w.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 420w.

“His book is brief but thorough.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.

=Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 170w.

* =Fisher, Ruth B.= On the borders of Pigmy land, **$1.25. Revell.

“A record of missionary experiences in Central Africa, with
interesting descriptions of the country and its people.”—Outlook.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 15w.

* “Very interesting is the story she tells in this volume—tells with
an admirable combination of the humorous and the serious.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 294. Ag. 26, ‘05. 450w.

=Fitch, William Edwards.= Some neglected history of North Carolina, including the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American revolution. $2. Neale.

“North Carolina’s claim to be the first battleground of the Revolution
is zealously advocated in this monograph, which is, briefly, a study
of the ‘viper’ episode of 1765.... In it also is incorporated some
interesting documentary matter in the way of legislative acts,
Regulator’s ‘Advertisements,’ and contemporary letters and
addresses.”—Outlook.

“The work is flimsy, incoherent, prejudiced.”

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 951. Jl. ‘05. 270w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 960w. (Abstract of
contents.)

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 709. Mr. 18, ‘05. 260w.

* =FitzGerald, Edward.= Euphranor: a dialogue on youth. *75c. Lane.

This fifteenth volume of the “New pocket library” contains Euphranor
“very fitly presented after the text of the first edition of 1851. Mr.
Frederick Chapman, who supplies a preface, dwells upon the value of
the little work ... not only as a classic specimen of English prose,
but as reflective of Cambridge and its contemporary life, and the
author as a part of them.” (Nation.)

* “To possess ‘Euphranor’ in the present convenient form will give
pleasure to many lovers of the famous letters and the more famous
quatrains.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =Atlan.= 96: 850. D. ‘05. 390w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 339. O. 26, ‘05. 90w.

* “A pleasing preface. There are some sixty Greek words and more than
twenty mistakes.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 397. S. 16, ‘05. 160w.

=Fitzgerald, Edward and Pamela.= Edward and Pamela Fitzgerald; being an account of their lives; compiled by Gerald Campbell. $3.50. Longmans.

“A volume compiled by Gerald Campbell [their great grandchild] from
the letters of those who knew them, in which is told the ‘life story’
of the Irish rebel leader and his wife. Unlike other memoirs of Lord
FitzGerald, this is not founded on Thomas Moore’s ‘Life and death of
Lord Edward FitzGerald,’ which appeared in 1831. The letters cover in
all a period of sixty years—from 1770 to 1831. The object of the first
part of the volume is to give a picture of the home life of Lord
Edward’s family, and incidentally portraits of the writer of the
epistles. No attempt has been made to give a connected account of the
story of his life. The letters have been left to show how he was
regarded by those who knew and loved him best.”—N. Y. Times.

“On the whole the work of the editor has been well done.” G. H. O.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 613. Jl. ‘05. 590w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 10. Ja. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Outlines contents).

=Fitzgerald, Percy.= Lady Jean, the romance of the great Douglas cause. *$3.60. Wessels.

A revival of the famous Douglas case, the story of Lady Jean Douglas,
who at the age of 50 married a broken down gambler in order to provide
heirs for her brother’s estates. The author takes the side of the
Hamiltons and contends that Lady Jane’s twin boys were hers not by
birth but by purchase.

“Mr. Fitzgerald has, in fact, given us a somewhat repellant chapter of
gossip, narrated in a style so slipshod as to suggest doubts as to its
accuracy in other points.”

— =Acad.= 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 650w.

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 779. Je. 24. 490w.

* =Fitzgerald, Sybil.= In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.

“These essays contain no personal reminiscences; they are
interpretative rather than descriptive, and they often run far afield
into legend, history, politics, race characteristics and development,
the inter-play of one race upon another, and other problems remote
from the point of view of the guide-book.... It is as a luxurious and
leisurely commentary upon travels past or to come, as a collection of
delightful essays and beautiful pictures, that ‘In the track of the
Moors’ should be judged and enjoyed. The book is the result of
collaboration by Sybil and Augustine Fitzgerald, the former furnishing
the essays and the latter the pictures. There are sixty-three
full-page illustrations excellently printed in color.”—Dial.

* “If the author displays here no great erudition, she certainly shows
a real and sympathetic acquaintance with the lands in question,
considerable powers of observation, and a pretty taste in the
literature of travel.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.

* “The essayist is equipped for her task by a thorough knowledge of
the subject, a gift for analysis, and the ability to put the results
of analysis into trenchant and finished form.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 382. D. 1, ‘05. 480w.

* “The feature of ‘In the track of the Moors’ lies essentially in its
illustrations.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

* “The pictures, much the more satisfactory element, are often
charming, although also at times very trivial in subject.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 463. D. 7, ‘05. 240w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.

=Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty.= Life of Granville. 2v. $10. Longmans.

The materials used for Lord Fitzmaurice’s biography are mainly
extracts from Lord Granville’s diaries and correspondence, from
letters from his mother, from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and
from a large group of his political colleagues. “The most striking
letters which it contains are those which explain the relations of
Queen Victoria to her ministers in respect of the conduct of foreign
affairs.... The pleasantest portion of the first volume consists of
the diary jottings of Lord Granville contained in his letters to the
Governor-General of India.... The most important matter treated in the
second volume is Home rule, and here again we find new facts which are
material.... There are many interesting passages scattered throughout
the portions of the book which deal with modern politics.”

“Impartiality is a virtue of which he never loses sight, and though
his book does not give us a clear portrait of Lord Granville, it holds
within its covers a mass of facts and documents, with which the
historian of the nineteenth century will never be able to dispense.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1121. O. 28, ‘05. 1650w.

“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice’s book is both interesting and important.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 497. O. 14. 2800w.

“Lord Edmond has put together a vast amount of interesting and
entertaining information about many people besides Lord Granville.
Lord Granville’s own personal charm was perhaps too evanescent a
quality to be reproduced on paper.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 338. O. 13, ‘05. 3880w.

“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice has done a very good piece of work in his
life of Lord Granville.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 1270w.

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 558. O. 28, ‘05. 2320w.

“Even Mr. John Morley has not drawn so full a picture of the
unfortunate Cabinet of 1880 as Lord Edmond has been able to supply,
and it is certain that no future writer will be able to address
himself to this period unless he has thoroughly studied Lord Edmond’s
volumes.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 609. O. 21, ‘05. 1760w.

=Flandrau, Rebecca Blair=, tr. See =Kielland, Alexander.= Professor Lovdahl.

=Fletcher, A. E.= Thomas Gainsborough. *$1.25. Scribner.

A volume in the “Makers of British art” series. “If, in the present
volume, we are not taught much as to Gainsborough’s technique we gain
a good picture of Gainsborough’s age and its degradation in taste; of
Gainsborough’s family; of the famous Bath period (the turning point in
the painter’s career of Gainsborough’s landscape work) and its
relation to Constable’s; of the London life, the king’s favor, the
Academy, and, finally, the noble passing. Of the great triumvirate of
English portrait painters—Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney—working
at the same time, Gainsborough was not only the most brilliant artist
in, but also the founder of the English landscape school.” (Outlook).

“Excellent thought and carefully gauged appreciation is conveyed in a
too dramatic, one might almost say, journalistic, tone.”

+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05, 190w.

“Mr. Fletcher has nothing new or important to tell us of
Gainsborough’s art, but he has succeeded, in spite of the handicap of
a wordy and inefficient style, in writing a fairly entertaining
biography.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 140w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 550w.

“Mr. Fletcher’s is the latest of the rapidly increasing number of
Gainsborough biographies. His is a good biography, but not a
remarkable book of criticism. For that one will seek Sir Walter
Armstrong’s book; not that entire satisfaction is to be had from it
either.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.

=Fletcher, Banister, and Fletcher, Banister Flight.= History of architecture. *$6. imp. Scribner.

A fifth edition, revised and enlarged. The volume is intended for
students, craftsmen, and the general reader. It contains over 2000
illustrations including photographs of buildings, exteriors and
interiors, maps, plans, and diagrams, and includes a bibliography, a
glossary, and a full index.

“The present edition is certainly an improvement on the former ones in
clarity and fulness of information.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 440. Ap. 8. 300w.

“Is a veritable encyclopedia of its subject, and presents in compact
form an immense amount of information.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 70w.

“The peculiar excellence and convenience of this work....”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 169. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w.

=Fletcher, Charles Robert Leslie.= Introductory history of England, from the earliest times to the close of the middle ages. *$2. Dutton.

“Mr. Fletcher’s book is ‘introductory’ in a double sense. Besides
being intended for boys, it stops at the beginning of the Tudor
period. In style, it is explanatory, and the author is enabled, by
excising a large number of subjects, to treat those that remain with
tolerable fulness of detail.”—Nation.

“He gives a fresh and really interesting connected narrative of
England’s emergence from barbarism and the beginnings of her national
and institutional life. There are surely very many older readers who
will find the book more fascinating than most novels.”

+ =Ind.= 58:671. Mr. 23, ‘05. 490w.

“Mr. Fletcher’s avowed object is to avoid intolerable dulness, even
when discoursing of the Norman conquest; and without further delay we
may as well state that he has succeeded. The dry-as-dust critic might
pick holes in some of his statements. But Mr. Fletcher has a grasp of
essentials, and some lapses may well be condoned in the case of one
whose light touch really does lend interest to the mediaeval history
of England.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80:235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 560w.

“The book he has now given us is eminently characteristic, full of his
own energetic, practical activity, his love of health, fresh air, and
good exercise. Mr. Fletcher’s story is, in the main, highly
intelligible and adequately consecutive. He has certainly given us
here a sketch of living men by a living man. Peculiarly interesting is
the picture attempted of an imaginary village in pre-Norman, Norman,
and post-Norman times. A word must also be said in praise of the
capital little chapter of geological history.”

+ + =Nature.= 71:385. F. 23, ‘05. 470w.

=Fletcher, Margaret.= Light for new times: a book for Catholic girls. 60c. Benziger.

Four essays which aim to help Catholic girls to enter upon the life
which succeeds school days with some practical warning as to what the
realities of life will be. They are entitled, Without the way there is
no going; Liberty; Responsibility; and Professional life.

* “Miss Fletcher really meets a serious want. Her work is of a high
order; her aim is in the right direction.”

+ =Cath. World.= 82:262. N. ‘05. 540w.

=Flint, Austin.= Handbook of physiology. *$5. Macmillan.

The author states that this book is the outgrowth of “a desire to
present to students a work that may serve to connect pure physiology
with the physiology especially useful to physicians.... I have
endeavored to adapt it to the curricula of medical schools where the
subject is taught in the English language.... The subject has been
treated from a medical standpoint, not unduly neglecting, it is hoped,
pure physiology and biology.”

“We cannot leave it without a word of recognition for the
extraordinarily lucid style which this veteran professor ... has
achieved. It might well be the envy if not the despair of professional
writers.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10:649. O. 7, ‘05. 680w.

=Flint, George Elliot.= Power and health through progressive exercise. *$1.50. Baker.

In a plea for heavy work in the gymnasium, the author lays aside light
weight systems, and outlines a course in heroic strength-development.
He maintains that “it is not much work requiring many slight efforts,
but much less work requiring great efforts that make the best quality
of brain and brawn.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w.

* =Flood, William H. Grattan.= Story of the harp. *$1.25. Scribner.

The history of the harp is given in this volume, from its earliest
form in Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia, also its use in the
Jewish temples and Christian churches, its appearance in Ireland, with
a full description of Irish harps and harpists, and a discussion of
the increasing use of the harp in the orchestra. There are appendices
upon the Æolian harp, and Epochs in the history of harp-making. The
volume is illustrated.

* + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 190w.

* “A more definite plan, a more skillful presentation, a more detailed
and critical discussion and description would have made a book more
valuable to the student and not less agreeable to the general reader.”
Richard Aldrich.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 360w.

=Flower, Elliott.= Best policy. †$1.50. Bobbs.

Dave Murray, special insurance agent, is the central figure about whom
center the incidents which fill these twelve stories. All phases of
the life insurance plea are presented, including comedy, tragedy,
speculation, failure, error, sacrifice and grievance.

“Considered as fiction the book is one of the brightest and best
volumes of short stories of the season.”

+ + =Arena.= 34: 551. N. ‘05. 180w.

* “The insurance companies of the country should pay Mr. Flower a
royalty on this book.”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 360w.

“This is a timely book, unique and interesting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 200w.

“It would make an excellent guide for young insurance agents in the
art of soliciting business.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 40w.

“The fact that his stories are good ones, or would be if it were not
for the trail of the serpent of bitter knowledge that lies over them,
only adds to the seriousness of his offense.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.

=Flower, Elliott.= Slaves of success. †$1.50. Page.

These eight short stories form a study in state politics. The grafter,
the boss, the spoilsman, the reformer, the honest country member of
the legislature, all are true to their parts and serve to bring out
the various phases of American business and political methods as
viewed from the inside.

“The eight chapters of ‘Slaves of success’ are rather as many
narratives than stories.” Churchill Williams.

+ — =Bookm.= 22: 173. O. ‘05. 1030w.

“Is rather a series of sketches than a novel, and the chapters have
very unequal merit.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 70w.

“One of the many merits of his book is that it is not one of unalloyed
pessimism. ‘Slaves of success’ is not only of absorbing interest, but,
if as widely read as it deserves, cannot fail of being a power for
good.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 480w.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 40w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.

=Flux, A. W.= Economic principles: an introductory study. *$2. Dutton.

Prof. Flux has written an introductory text book and has rendered it
unsatisfactory for advanced work by giving no references, save in a
general way. His object is to avoid introducing controversies which
would interest only students more advanced than those for whom he
wrote, and to give himself more freedom of expression than would be
possible if he gave credit for each point of doctrine to those who
first defined it. The work is, on the whole, of the classical point of
view, as found in Marshall, but whatever the economic prejudices of
the reader, he will find the work accurate and thoro, as well as
modern.

* + — =Ind.= 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 230w.

“It is not too much to say that the book is pretty nearly everything
else than a textbook could be fairly expected to be; but it is not
that. It is accurate, thoughtful, forceful, thorough, critical,
logical, learned, temperate, clear; but it is difficult, abstract, and
over-condensed; even for the practised economist it is hard reading.
This is not to imply that it is not surpassingly well worth while, a
positive contribution to the literature and thought of the science—it
is all of this; but that only very advanced classes will find the book
possible of handing; and for these it covers too wide a field, and can
be of great service only for reference purposes or for collateral
reading. On the whole, a work of great merit and significance. So much
the more could better treatment from the publisher, especially in
point of binding, have fairly been expected.” H. J. Davenport.

+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 114. D. ‘04. 660w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines scope of
book).

“It is in some important respects one of the most satisfactory
systematic treatises on economics to appear within recent years.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.

=Forbes, J. T.= Socrates. $1.25. Scribner.

The latest in the “World’s epoch makers” series. The political
conditions of Socrates’ time, the civic ideal, and the religion of the
Greeks are discussed in the introduction. With the environment of the
philosopher’s activity established, the author shows how he developed
his great system which looks upon the individual as the moral unit.

“Mr. Forbes has done a real service to the educated public by issuing
a bright, sound estimate, biographical and critical, of the charm and
limitations attaching to the Greek primal path.” James Moffatt.

+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 227. O. ‘05. 760w.

“While his work is conscientious and sufficiently thorough, it is not
always interesting, nor do the discussions leave a clean and clear
impression.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 247. S. 21, ‘05. 630w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w.

“It is an exacting as well as a fascinating subject, and its demands
for a comprehensive view and critical insight are well met in the
present volume.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.

* =Ford, Paul Leicester.= His version of it. †$1.50. Dodd.

“The pretty little fiction of the horses’ interest in the love affairs
of Miss Fairley—who was ‘a beauty, but not what her mother was at her
age’—and the noble Major, while the odious Mr. Lewis played the
despicable role of villain, is told with great vivacity by the prime
movers, the horses.... The book is attractively illustrated by Mr.
Henry Hutt, and should be a pretty addition to any Ford
collection.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Charming story.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.

* + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.

* “One of the cleverest of this author’s short stories.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

* =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.

=Forman, Justus Miles.= Island of enchantment. †$1.75. Harper.

A romance of Italy in the fourteenth century. The hero is a young
captain sent by the Doge of Venice to rescue the island of Arbe from
the forces of the Ban of Bosnia. “The story is full of passionate
doings and conflicts of love and honor.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Told with gentle and straightforward English that must surely charm.
The very simplicity and directness of the plot and prose give the
volume its chief character.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 60w.

* “Mr. Forman knows how to mingle love, war and intrigue in a way to
compel his reader’s interest, and he has never succeeded better than
in this novelette.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14. ‘05. 50w.

=Forman, Justus Miles.= Tommy Carteret. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“The story, which has its beginning in a New York ballroom, goes far.
It takes Tommy from his first lovemaking, and assigns him to the
nobler role of volunteer scapegoat for the amatory sins of a handsome
and heedless father. It exiles the young man ... to ... the back
country. It exposes him to weird temptations, comes within an ace of
marrying him to a dark-eyed, black-haired hill beauty, threatens him
with tar and feathers, puts a bullet into his head, and when hospitals
and the doctors....”—N. Y. Times.

“‘Tommy Carteret’ is poor stuff. It is a réchauffé.”

— — =Acad.= 68: 984. S. 23, ‘05. 280w.

“This story is fundamentally unsound, superficially clever, and for
the most part entertaining.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 298. S. 2. 280w.

“The story is one of unusual cleverness, and full of surprises to the
end.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 517. Jl. ‘05. 520w.

“‘Tommy Carteret’ is quite readable, even entertaining, though it is
the kind of book some superior persons sneer at and consign to the
limbo of nothingness.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 390w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.

“The book is full of sentimental absurdities and affectation, and in
the end degenerates into a most unpleasant pseudo-pathological study.”

— =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.

“A book that unites so much power and charm, so much insight and
kindliness and truth.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 260w.

“In spite of its faults, therefore, it is impossible to condemn the
novel entirely, though it is difficult to read it without feelings of
sorrow that so vigorous a pen should be employed in so vulgar a
manner.”

— + =Spec.= 95: 532. O. 7, ‘05. 180w.

=Forman, Samuel Eagle.= Advanced civics: the spirit, the form, and the function of the American government. *$1.25. Century.

Dr. Forman says, “I have constantly kept in mind the truth that
instruction in Civics should have for its aim the indoctrination of
the learner in sound notions of political morality.... In Part I. the
underlying principles of our government are presented. The essentials
are placed first in order.... In Part II. is an account of the
governmental machine. In Part III. the every-day work of government is
considered and the practical problems connected with the work are
discussed.”

“A thoughtful, compact, direct, and comprehensive account of the
machinery, operation, and problems of the governmental system.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 110w.

=Fortier, S.= Progress report of co-operative irrigation investigations in California.

“One of the most interesting lines of work here described is an
investigation of pumping water for irrigation, by Prof. J. N. Le
Conte, of the University of California, and others. Thus far
descriptions of 750 pumping plants have been secured. Both field and
laboratory tests of pumping plants have been made. These are here
summarized briefly, but will be reported on more fully at a later
date. Studies of evaporation and methods of applying water to land are
also described in the pamphlet.”—Engin. N.

=Engin. N.= 53: 185. F. 16, ‘05. 100w.

=Foster, John Watson.= Arbitration and the Hague court. **$1. Houghton.

“A brief review of events dealing with arbitration up to the
convention of The Hague peace conference. It gives the circumstances
under which that conference was called, the reasons why The Hague was
appropriate for such an assemblage, and the eminent men employed and
spirit of the conference.”—Bookm.

“The exposition is clear, the conclusions logical.”

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 100w.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 190w.

“This is a valuable hand book. His book, however, has the peculiar
value of being historical and impersonal.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 269. F. 2, ‘05. 350w.

“His publication, important in more than one respect, is, so far as we
know, the first to give, in a small compass and an interesting way,
the present status of arbitration and its practice under the Hague
convention.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 19. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1390w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 80w.

=Fox, Frances Margaret.= Rainbow bridge. †$1.25. Wilde.

From the “little pilgrims’ home” Marian Lee traverses her rainbow
bridge to the ideal home of her dreams where love and privileges
abound.

* “Another interesting, natural story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 40w.

=Fox, John, jr.= Following the sun-flag: a vain pursuit through Manchuria. **$1.25. Scribner.

One of our war correspondents who never reached the front gives his
impressions of Japan and her people. The account of his experiences in
Tokio and in Manchuria, which he traversed in the trail of the
Japanese army, is amusing and interesting.

“A book very pleasing in its literary finish. Mr. Fox is very guarded,
and is as self-controlled as a Japanese in his intimations.” William
Elliot Griffis.

+ =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 170w.

“He has made the work interesting by the sketchy, breezy manner in
which it is written, although it is imbued with ... race prejudice
against men of darker skin.” Wallace Rice.

+ — =Dial.= 38: 416. Je. 16, ‘05. 550w.

+ =Nation.= 81: 42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 540w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.

“Mr. Fox has made some very pretty copy out of his four months’ stay
in Tokio.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 600w.

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

— + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 130w.

“There are some bits of very fine description in this volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 140w.

“The book is written in an amusing high-coloured style, and as a
record of nothing at all is, in its way, an achievement.”

— =Spec.= 95:51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 130w.

=Fox, Middleton.= Child of the shore; a romance of Cornwall. (†)$1.50. Lane.

Eery incantations on the Cornish shore bring to a farmer’s wife one of
the “merry-maids” of the sea as her longed-for child. The girl’s
strange beauty and her sympathy with the sea’s moods cause the
villagers to regard her with suspicion, and when she is gone they
believe the story that she and her sea-sisters have avenged her life’s
tragedy by pulling down to the depths of the sea her aristocratic
betrayer. Smugglers, wreckers and fisher-folk enter into the story.

“Mr. Fox’s novel is atmospheric, with the result that in spite of
occasional passages of some beauty in the actual writing, and an
attractive way of introducing his story ... it is tedious.”

— =Acad.= 68:785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 320w.

“The book, however, is pleasingly written.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1:651. My. 27. 210w.

* “It is, perhaps, unfortunate, that material of such unusual
possibilities should have been squandered in a ‘first book,’ for as
yet the writer’s equipment is lacking in dramatic force.”

+ — =Critic.= 47:477. N. ‘05. 80w.

“Mr. Fox tells his story well, in a way to touch both the heart and
the imagination, but in addition to the story there is the interest of
the vivid picture of a quaint, old village and a mode of life long
past.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:584. S. 2, ‘05. 550w.

=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Words of St. Francis; sel. and tr. by Anne MacDonell. *60c. Dutton.

“Friends of St. Francis have left records of what in other men might
be called ‘Table talk.’ Others of his sayings have come down to us at
one further remove, from friends of the Saint’s friends. Some of these
things Miss MacDonell has put together in this volume, trying, as she
tells us, ‘to reflect his spirit, his temperament, and his attitude to
life rather than his doctrine.’”—Spec.

“An admirable little book.”

+ =Spec.= 94:23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 160w.

=Francis, M. E., pseud.= See =Blundell, Mary. E. (Sweetman).=

=Frankau, Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Eighteenth century artists and engravers. 2v. *$1.50. Macmillan.

“In the regal portfolio of forty engravings, which forms part of her
work, [Mrs. Frankau] gives most of her plates to William Ward, who
reproduced paintings like Hoppner’s famous Miranda in noble fashion,
when he was not designing and stippling dainty circular or oval
portraits of feminine types. But in the octavo which contains her
text, she fills much of her space with a biographical sketch of James
Ward, who valued his gifts as a painter.... The thirty photogravures
from his works, which she scatters through her text, are important to
the student.”—Atlan.

Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.

+ + =Atlan.= 95:274. F. ‘05. 530w.

=Franklin, Benjamin.= Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin; ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.

One of the thirteen new titles lately added to the “Handy volume
classics.” There is an introduction, which sketches the life of
Franklin, and notes by the editor.

“The selections in the book are well chosen.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:730. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.

=Franklin, Benjamin.= Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald. *$1.25. Dutton.

The editor has made this book a complete biography by providing a
biographical preface and an account of Franklin’s later life and his
relation to the history of his time.

=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 947. Jl. ‘05. 30w.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w.

“The editor seeks to describe Franklin as the complete citizen—of his
city, his country, and the world. The task is superficially done, and
is marred by the strong prejudices of the writer.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 180w.

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 90w.

=Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 140w.

=Fraser, Edward.= Famous fighters of the fleet. $1.75. Macmillan.

These “Glimpses through the cannon smoke in the days of the old navy,”
set forth the gallant fights fought by the insignificant little
English crafts which used to rule the sea. The past and present is
strikingly contrasted in the opening chapter, and then follow accounts
of the capture of the French ship Foudroyant by a little Monmouth
whose namesake today makes her seem a mere toy, the famous ships that
bore the name Formidable, the Zebra, whose fighting captain, Faulkner,
carried, by storm, a French fort in the West Indies, and others. The
requiem of the Téméraire. the subject of Turner’s picture and Ruskin’s
oration, is fittingly sounded and the book closes with an account of
how Lord Charles Beresford successfully took the little Condor into
action during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.

+ — =Nation.= 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 350w.

=Fraser, Mary Crawford (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= Maid of Japan. †$1.25. Holt.

The tale of a Japanese girl with the music of the sea and the glory of
the cliffs in her nature. Sixteen years before, her mother had walked
into the sea because the Englishman who had wed her sailed away and
left her. The young girl’s simple life as shell gatherer is disturbed
one day by the coming of a young Englishman who sings love songs to
her over the water, clears up the mystery of her parentage, and takes
her back to his England.

“She has a wonderful vocabulary, mastery of language, fine literary
finish, and a keen sense of the dramatic. There is no false step or
slip of the pen in her word drawing and shadings of Japanese life.”
William Elliot Griffis.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 140w.

“The volume is quite unworthy of the author of the ‘Letters from
Japan.’” Adachi Kinnosuké.

+ — =Ind.= 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w.

+ =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 310w.

“The plot is slight, but the story is told with surpassing grace, and
possesses to a rare degree both atmosphere and temperament.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 446. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1400w.

“The moral tone is high, the literary finish good, the general effect
idyllic, and the typographical presentation unique and agreeable.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 592. Jl. 1, ‘05. 80w.

“Whatever this author does is done well, and when she touches Japan
she is securely at home. There is nothing sensational or thrilling in
the book, but it is bathed deep in Japanese atmosphere.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 200w.

=Fraser, William Alexander.= Sa’-Zada tales. †$2. Scribner.

“Stories supposed to be told by the animals in a ‘Zoo’ in India. The
keeper, Sa’ (or Sahib) Zada, in the warm summer nights lets the
animals out of their cages, and brings them together to tell
stories.... Each of the animals in turn tells of his life in the
jungle and how he came to be captured.... They indulge in repartee and
sometimes in bad temper, but they are on the whole a happy family,
united by their love for their keeper. The book is strikingly
illustrated by Arthur Heming.”—Outlook.

* + — =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “Will be a treasure-trove to children who love animals and who love
to hear them talk.” May Estelle Cook.

+ — =Dial.= 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.

* “Though not a brilliant story-teller, is interesting, and apparently
knows a great deal about the creatures that he presents to us.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 511. D. 21, ‘05. 140w.

* “The author’s knowledge of natural history, his skill in story
telling, and his humorous sympathy, enable him to thrill the lover of
forest creatures and even to thrall jaded readers who may scorn all
popular nature books.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.

=Free, Richard.= Seven years’ hard. *$1.50. Dutton.

A record of the Rev. Richard Free’s seven years of pioneer missionary
work in that section of the London slums known as the Isle of Dogs, or
Millwall. The author himself calls it “a city of desolation,” and he
and his wife fight a long and gallant fight against rowdyism and
intemperance. Tho the Thames flows through that section, “its waters
have become loathsome by human selfishness and folly,” and young and
old toil from dawn till dark for a mere pittance; factories fill the
district, and dirt and foul odors are everywhere. The erection of the
mission building, the establishment of guilds, and the problems to be
met with, are well described in this volume.

“It is not a story and it is not a system of sociology, but a series
of snap-shots of the life of people ground to earth by employers,
debased by drink and ignorance, and indifferent to art, science,
history, morals, and religion.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of contents).

“For a picture or series of pictures of an unknown people living in
the midst of a Christian civilization, we have seen nothing so graphic
as this book of Mr. Free’s since Jacob A. Riis’s ‘How the other half
lives.’”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 180w.

=Freeman, Edward Augustus.= Western Europe in the eighth century and onward. *$3.25. Macmillan.

The late Professor Freeman left the manuscript of this work in the
rough, some chapters being merely fragmentary and the editors who are
first publishing the book, twelve years after the author’s death, can
give it only in an unfinished form; but it is a welcome addition to a
period upon which there is little historical light. The period covered
opens with the rise and fall of the British Constantine and closes
with Theodoric and Chlodowig. It is put before us with the great
historian’s usual breadth of view, and accuracy of detail; it is
learned and even heavy, but it contains many beautiful and vivid
passages, and is the result of the faithful researches of one who was
thoroly steeped in the subject and in the times.

“The volume is plainly meant for the specialist, who will find profit
in the discussions of the patriciate and donation and in the detailed
account of Pippin’s campaigns, in spite of the amount of more or less
relevant comparison and allusion with which the author was in the
habit of overloading his writings.”

+ + — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 913. Jl. ‘05. 450w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 43. Ja. 14. 540w.

“Excellent as is Freeman’s work, even without his own revision, it is
unfortunately impossible to say the same of the editing.” E. W.
Brooks.

+ — =Eng. Hist.= R. 20: 548. Jl. ‘05. 1330w.

“This book is thoroughly readable, even if all critics may not find it
thoroughly convincing from beginning to end.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 222. F. 11, ‘05. 420w.

“The task of editing the MS. has been performed with scrupulous care.
Its difficulty could hardly be exaggerated, for Mr. Freeman had at
times only indicated the sources of the references. Our knowledge of
this period is so meagre that we are grateful for the light thrown on
it by the researches, unfortunately incomplete, of one who had made
the subject peculiarly his own.”

+ + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 231. F. ‘05. 180w.

* =Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins).= Debtor. †$1.50. Harper.

“The ‘Debtor’ preys upon his fellow-men because he has himself been
ruined in business by a scoundrel, and has not the skill and strength
to make an honest fight. His amiable, unreasoning wife, who thinks all
creditors mean and vulgar persons; his worn and disillusioned sister,
who knows all his faults, but fights for him to save the family; his
queer little son with impish instincts and inherited traits ... and,
above all, his innocent and faithful daughter, who really saves her
father by the intensity and unselfishness of her love—all these are
real people. So, too, are the creditors.”—Outlook.

* “As it is the novel seems to lack unity, and in spite of much
subtlety and fine workmanship the effect is that of a succession of
disconnected studies of character rather than of a single
well-proportioned whole.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 396. N. 17, ‘05. 400w.

* “The first interest of the book lies in its fidelity to the small
things that make up manners and customs.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 490w.

* “One misses the crispness of style that marked ‘Pembroke’ and
‘Jerome’; one sometimes finds involved sentences and careless
phrasing; but the reality, intensity, and force of the novel are
remarkable.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25. ‘05. 270w.

=Freer, A. Goodrich-.= Inner Jerusalem. *$3. Dutton.

In telling “what Jerusalem is like” Miss A. Goodrich Freer commands a
view from the Holy City itself, with her vantage ground right under
the shadow of the Russian tower. Among other noteworthy facts brought
out as to life in modern Jerusalem is one which the author presents in
these words: “While we sing ‘They call us to deliver their land from
error’s chain,’ let us realize that here we may send out our youngest
maid, with no further caution than not to get her pocket picked; we
may take a cab, certain that our driver, unless he be a Christian,
will not get drunk.” (R. of Rs.) There are many full-page
illustrations, chiefly from photographs.

“Has contrived to answer a great many interesting questions regarding
life in the Holy City, so that the reader rises from the work with a
sense of having at last learned just what Jerusalem means to its
widely assorted inhabitants, especially to those who comprise the
European colonies there. The knowledge displayed in the book is such
as could have been acquired only by long residence, and is used with
discrimination and a sympathetic outlook upon the curious
ramifications of temporal and spiritual power.” Wallace Rice.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.

* “She has withal, a very pretty wit, racy descriptive power and a
clever knack of relating her subject to its graver scientific issues,
with the sure result that we are both informed and entertained.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 992. O. 26, ‘05. 430w.

“The style, however, is the same throughout—amusing and light, without
being irreverent. The book gives a pleasant and entertaining and, in
spite of its limitations, probably the best available picture of
actual living conditions in Jerusalem at the present day.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 340. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1380w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 120w.

=French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French).= Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary. †$1.50. Little.

Aunt Mary, “dreadfully deaf and fearfully arbitrary,” is also seventy
years old, immensely wealthy, and unreasonably devoted to her nephew
Jack. After getting him out of various scrapes, she becomes
discouraged and disinherits him. The body of the book is taken up with
an account of the good time which Jack and his college chums give the
old lady when she comes to New York on a visit. Knocking about town,
indulging in late suppers, motorcar spins and other joys prove so
alluring that she forgives Jack, who promptly marries a beautiful
young widow, who has played an important part in the story, and Aunt
Mary goes to New York to live with them and continue to enjoy the
giddy whirl offered by the metropolis.

“Considered as a bright and humorous story, this tale is incomparably
superior to the author’s previous work, ‘Susan Clegg and her friend
Mrs. Lathrop.’ The general moral atmosphere, especially of the earlier
part of the story, leaves much to be desired.”

+ + — =Arena.= 35: 556. N. ‘05. 780w.

* “There is plenty of dialogue in this story, and the plot is lively
enough to hold the most frivolous spirit.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 250w.

* “Clever little comedy.”

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

“She has only succeeded in producing a broad farce.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.

=Frenssen, Gustav.= Jorn Uhl; tr. by F. S. Delmer. †$1.50. Estes.

Jörn Uhl was the youngest son of a drunken brute. His mother died
neglected, his brothers followed his father’s mode of living and Jörn
worked the great farm while the others caroused. His career is
followed in detail as his character unfolds and he dully plods toward
the light, until at last he comes to be a man of mark.

“Really is a fine novel and deserves to be taken seriously. The
present translation is good, but fails, we think, to reach the highest
excellence.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 588. My. 13. 450w.

“It is a rich, homely book, seemingly artless in its simple sincerity,
intensely human in its appeal, touched with poetic feeling that can
glorify the humblest material, and genuine in the best sense of the
word.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 40. Jl. 16, ‘05. 650w.

“The translation shows remarkable poetic insight and is faithful
rather than literal.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 1311. Je. 8, ‘05. 280w.

“Freely offered advice to the reader of Jorn Uhl is to skip the story
and read the reflections and sermons.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 430w.

“On the whole not ill translated.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 430w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.

“Unusual story. For many chapters the reader is absorbed in quiet but
intensely vivid pictures full of real poetry and throbbing with
convincing truth.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 220w.

“Is powerful rather than original, deliberately thoughtful and
carefully wrought rather than striking; ... it is the culmination, not
the creation, of a genre.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 320w.

“There are tedious passages. There is a want of proportion; there are
abrupt transitions from tragedy to a somewhat childlike jollity. But
it is for all its artlessness, an attractive story.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 340w.

“While Mr. Delmer’s translation is in the main workmanlike and
straightforward, his method of occasionally representing the Low
German dialect by using Scotch forms is most disconcerting.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 1150w.

=Friedenwald, Herbert.= Declaration of independence. **$2. Macmillan.

“Dr. Herbert Friedenwald has written an interpretation and analysis of
‘The Declaration of independence.’ As preliminary to his chapters on
adopting and signing of the declaration its purpose and philosophy,
Dr. Friedenwald points out the close interrelation between the
development of the authority and jurisdiction of the Continental
congress and the evolution of the sentiment for independence. He shows
that as the authority and jurisdiction of congress were extended it
adopted various means to further the desire for independence; that the
highest point of power was reached by the congress on July 4, 1776,
and that it was never again so powerful as on the day it declared
independence of England.”—R. of Rs.

“The independence campaign has never been so carefully studied as in
this valuable monograph. The book as a whole represents an amount of
study that gives great credit to the author’s conscientious
scholarship.” C. H. Van Tyne.

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 148. Ja. ‘05. 910w.

“Very suggestive study.” Winthrop More Daniels.

+ + =Atlan.= 95: 550. Ap. ‘05. 700w.

“An elaborate and careful monograph.” H. E. E.

+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 612. Jl. ‘05. 250w.

“This is the most scholarly study of the Independence campaign that
has been made. The book is a credit to the author’s conscientious
scholarship. Written in a rather heavy style.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 320w.

* “A careful and deep study of the evolution of the spirit that
produced that famous document.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

“It is the first attempt to give the general reading public an
adequate treatment of the period concerned, and within its compass it
does what has been pressingly needed. Here we have knowledge kept
within bounds, original authorities sifted and their pith extracted.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 460w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 110w.

=Friedlander, M.=, tr. See =Maimonides, Moses.= The guide for the perplexed.

From servitude to service: the history and * work of Southern institutions for the education of the negro. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.