Chapter XXXI: Part IV: gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am (17)

“Mr. Long takes the reader with him ... to the barren shores of
Labrador and Newfoundland. Wolves, we meet, that guide lost children
home, and then disappear into the wilderness; a wild goose that
caresses his mate goodbye at the approach of the hunter, before going
out to fight for his home and young; and Pequam, of the weasel family,
that tempts an Indian to abandon his trail, by killing a deer and
leaving it across the track. These animals and many more—whales, polar
bears and salmon—are all introduced to us in the midst of their wild,
unfrequented haunts. All are endowed with almost human intelligence
and reason, after the manner of interpreting their actions which Mr.
Long has made so popular.”—Ind.

* “There is a charm about Mr. Long’s book that few writers for
children attain.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.

* “His stories have a charm and an excellence of their own.” May
Estelle Cook.

+ =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“We are willing to let the disputed question of instinct or
intelligence go, however, and on the strength of the splendid
descriptions of nature and the always evident love of the wild, accord
this volume a high place among ‘books of the trail.’”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 873. O. 12, ‘05. 250w.

“Mr. Long assures us of the accuracy of his data, and maintains the
reasonableness of his inferences.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 290w.

* “Aside from the controversial side as to whether these eight stories
are to be classified as natural history or fiction, these tales of the
Northern trails are dull and lifeless.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 560w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.

“His this year’s story is vigorous, delightful, and refreshing.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.

Long day. See =Richardson, Dorothy.=

=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a return to nature. †$1.50. Barnes.

A novel which “recounts the experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Vernon
and their city-reared colored cook, Minerva, during a summer sojourn
in the country.... A fine silk thread of a plot runs through the book,
stringing together the many humorous situations.”—Pub. Opin.

* + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 80w.

“It is a good book to read aloud, but only a chapter or two at a
time.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 696. S. 21, ‘05. 130w.

* “The unexpected endings of the many humorous situations will keep
the reader in a gale of mirth, and when he lays the book down after
the last chapter, he will feel that he has found a new friend in
Minerva.”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 520w.

* “Is more in the nature of a vaudeville show than anything else, and
it is not possible to describe all of the attractions which Mr. Loomis
offers. They are surely worth a reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 460w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 88. S. 9, ‘05. 50w.

“It is not an uproarious story; its humor is quiet; it possesses the
subtle turn which is symptomatic of its author.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 384. S. 16, ‘05. 230w.

=Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June.= Italian in America. $1.50. Buck.

“The pretty evident purpose of this volume is to reverse the
prevailing American prejudice against the Italian as an immigrant and
material for United States citizenship.... [It] uses ... the
argument ... of statistics, and its authors ... attempt to show first
of all that the Italian settler is economically a good thing for the
country.... Secondly, they produce evidence that in the particulars of
disease and crime he does not supply more than his quota ... and,
thirdly, they argue from data which they present that he ... adapts
himself very completely ... to American ways of doing and
thinking.”—N. Y. Times.

“The book as a whole is general in its treatment, somewhat
objectionable because of frequent quotations, and partakes too much of
the loose character of magazine articles. The spirit of the book is
much to be commended.” Emily Fogg Meade.

+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 609. S. ‘05. 460w.

“The book is optimistic, discriminating and instructive.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 532. My. 18, ‘05. 110w.

“Is of normal simplicity and clearness.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 120w.

“There is room for believing that ‘The Italian in America’ will be a
potent instrument in molding a saner public opinion.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 800w.

“But the labors of others are here presented in logical sequence and
in a sympathetic spirit, resulting in an interesting and readable
book. The book is not free from dubious assertions.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 361. My. 4, ‘05. 1040w.

“It will strike many perhaps that Messrs. Lord, Trenor, and Barrows
have omitted some essential facts, but both the facts presented and
the inferences drawn are interesting in substance—even when the manner
of presentation is dry. Taken all together the cumulative evidence for
the Italian collected by the authors is impressive.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1050w.

“Welcome as a wholesome corrective of fallacy and prejudice.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 460w.

=Lorenz, Daniel Edward.= Mediterranean traveller, *$2.50. Revell.

A compact practical guide-book which covers southern Spain, Morocco,
Algiers, the chief cities of northern Africa, Greece, Asia Minor,
Palestine, and Egypt. Much historical and general information is
given, a bibliography precedes each chapter, and there are many maps
and pictures.

“This compact work ‘fills a long felt want.’ The proof reading has not
been done by a classical expert.”

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 160w.

“The text is in some portions accurate and business-like, but in
others it reveals amateurishness, and some inaccuracies and
misprints.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 370w.

“The excellence of its method and treatment of the many countries
bordering on the great interior sea of Europe are unquestionable.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w.

“‘The Mediterranean traveler’ will find here in one volume what
elsewhere must be picked out of several.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18. ‘05. 60w.

=Loring, Andrew.= Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by George Saintsbury. *$2.50. Dutton.

“The lexicon is divided into three parts—Finals, Penults, and
Antepenults. The words have been grouped according to the accented
vowel sound and placed in columns in the alphabetical sequence of the
letters which follow this sound.... Each part of the lexicon has
fourteen vowel divisions, adopted for reference purposes; and the
divisions are enumerated in a table of contents, which also includes
key words illustrating the vowel sounds.”—N. Y. Times.

“In size and arrangement it is admirable; it might have been larger
still without being any better.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 678. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 450w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 290w.

“Altogether an able book, full of aid to those who make rhymes.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w.

“The arrangement is novel, at first sight a little intricate, but
truly scientific.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.

“This may be a very useful book.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 791. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.

=Loring, J. Alden.= Art of preserving animal tracks, $1. J. A. Loring, Owega, Tioga co., N. Y.

“Mr. Loring describes in this pamphlet a very ingenious and apparently
effective method of making molds, and from the mold, casts of the
tracks of mammals and birds, large and small.... The operation itself
is clearly and minutely described, and seemingly could be easily
managed by any intelligent boy.”—Outlook.

=Outlook.= 79: 757 Mr. 25, ‘05. 130w.

* =Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone (Margaret Sidney, pseud.)= Ben Pepper. †$1.50. Lothrop.

This is the tenth volume in the popular “Little Pepper” series. “The
hero is Ben, Mother Pepper’s first-born, her ‘steady-as-a-rock’ boy.
Christmas shopping in which the Little Peppers take a lively hand,
Christmas philanthropies, the usual quota of accidents and pranks,
and, finally, Ben’s decision as to whether he will go to college or
enter a business office, ‘beginning at the very bottom,’ are the
features of the story.”—Outlook.

* “Mrs. Sidney has made him as interesting as others of the Pepper
family.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 70w.

=Lott, Noah, pseud.= See =Hobart, George Vere.=

* =Lottridge, Silas A.= Animal snap-shots and how made. **$2. Holt.

A simple narrative concerning the birds and mammals which the author
has come to know in the course of various vacations spent in studying
and photographing them. The pictures illustrate the facts and some of
the series represent the work of years. The object of the book is to
arouse, especially in young people, a living interest in the animals
about them. There are chapters on the woodchuck, skunk, muskrat, fox,
mouse, squirrel, blue bird, robin, bobolink, crow, owl, hawk and
others.

=Lovett, W. J.= Complete class book of naval architecture; practical, laying off, theoretical, with numerous il. and nearly 200 full, worked-out answers to recent education department examination questions. *$2.50. Longmans.

“This work is intended primarily for British students attending
technical classes.” It “covers the whole field of naval architecture,
theoretical and practical.”—Engin. N.

“In this country its field as a text-book will necessarily be limited,
and as a reference book its treatment of the various subjects, except
elementary ship calculations, is inadequate.” D. W. Taylor.

+ — =Engin. N.= 53: 529. My. 18, ‘05. 1030w.

=Low, Berthe Julienne.= French home cooking. **$1.20. McClure.

The author, tho a Frenchwoman by birth, has lived in this country
twenty-five years. She says: “This is not a book for restaurants,
hotels, or people who can afford a chef. Most Americans have formed
their ideas of French cooking from hotels, restaurants, or formal
dinners, and have never known the home cooking, which is more simple
and more wholesome. It is also less complicated.... The recipes which
I shall give are used in well-to-do families and constitute what is
called in French the ‘bonne cuisine bourgeoise.’” She starts with the
very arrangement of the kitchen and instructs in those little tricks
by which the French are able to obtain distinction and flavor in their
cookery.

+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 60w.

“Mrs. Low’s formulas are in the main so excellent that it would be
invidious to discriminate. Her success is unequivocal and decisive.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 78. Ja. 25, ‘05. 490w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w.

=Low, Sidney.= The governance of England. *$2.25. Putnam.

“A well-informed, well-written, and interesting description of the
government of Great Britain, beginning with a definition of the
British constitution, so difficult of characterization, but explained
by Mr. Low in a thoroughly rational and comprehensive way.... Mr. Low
gives a very interesting account of the place and function of the
prime minister, of the cabinet, of the privy council, of both houses
of parliament, and of every other form and function of government in
Great Britain.” (Outlook). “The main view of Mr. Low is that of Lord
Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, that the power of the house of commons is
declining and must continue to decline, while that of the cabinet, and
especially of the inner cabinet, is increasing.” (Ath.)

“Is a most able and valuable production, marked, too, by unusual
excellence of style. If we name points on which we have doubts as to
whether Mr. Low is right, it is with the profound feeling that he has
given great attention to a subject in which he evidently takes much
interest, and the facts of which, so far as they are generally
available, he has mastered.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 79. Ja. 21. 1980w.

“There can be little but praise for the author’s literary style. It is
easy, strong and clear, and with a light touch and aptness of allusion
that never detract from the weighty theme.” John William Russell.

+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 57. S. ‘05. 1400w.

“There are many clever and some acute observations in the book; but,
in our judgment, the view given of the English constitution is
superficial, and in some cases erroneous.”

— + =Nation.= 80: 400. My. 18, ‘05. 2010w.

“Very admirable book. The plan of the work is so excellently conceived
and executed that only one or two objections are suggested by a first
reading. One is to the title. The other objection is to an occasional
drop into triviality and the college graduate habit of quoting mere
hackneyed phrases and tags from other languages. There are occasional
slips in the printing and in the statements. The particular excellence
of this work has already been indicated as being an interpretation of
the English constitution as it operates to-day. The value of this book
is very greatly increased for American readers by the frequent
comparisons instituted between the English and American political
systems.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1650w.

“Probably no book has yet appeared which, in so untechnical and
comprehensive a way, places before the reader the elaborate, highly
complex, and thoroughly democratic governmental system.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 448. F. 18, ‘05. 200w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 70w.

* =Lowell, Mrs. Carrie Thompson=, comp. Art lovers’ treasury; famous pictures described in poems; forty-eight reproductions of famous pictures accompanied by poems of noted writers, with text by Carrie Thompson Lowell. **$1.20. Estes.

“Forty-eight pictures are reproduced in half-tone, and the editor
writes a running comment, treating a group of paintings and sculpture
under some general heading, such as ‘Mythology in poetry and
sculpture,’ ‘Legends of the saints,’ or ‘Pictures translated into
verse.’” (Dial.) “An attempt has been made to assemble famous pictures
and pieces of sculpture, and to bring into association with these
certain poems that have been inspired by the various works of art that
are pictured, or which have been written descriptive of them.... Many
of the best artists are represented, as well as poets such as Dante,
Keats, Browning, Longfellow, Whittier, Markham, and some others.”
(Ind.)

* “An excellent companion volume to Miss Singleton’s ‘Great portraits’
is this compilation of Mrs. Lowell.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 30w.

* “Pictures and poetry are thoroughly representative, and the
arrangement, though necessarily loose holds the reader’s interest.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 130w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 100w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.

* =Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562-1574. **$2.50. Putnam.

“This, the second of Mr. Lowery’s monographs on the history of Spanish
colonization within the present limits of the United States, deals
with the Florida settlements of the period 1562-1574, and like its
predecessors, is based on a careful study of original sources.... An
interesting feature is—comprehensive exposition of the tribal
organization, characteristics and customs of the Florida Indians. The
work contains several maps, more than thirty bibliographical and
critical appendices, and a good index.”—Outlook.

* “Scholarly work.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.

* “A treatise not only of prime interest but of solid value, as
embodying a broader and more than usually judicial statement of the
vexed themes involved.”

+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 600w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.

* “So cautious is he, and so frequent are his references to and
citations from authorities, that from the narrative standpoint his
book is at times arid and tedious. But it is unquestionably of
distinct value to the historical student.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.

=Lowrie, Rev. Walter.= Gaudium crucis: a meditation for Good Friday upon the seven words from the cross. *90c. Longmans.

Meditations upon mercy, judgment, love, joy and sacrifice,
confirmation, accomplishment and duty, and filial trust. The book is
designed for those who are unable to attend the Good Friday services,
and to assist the clergy in preparing their sermons.

=Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w.

* =Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe Loyson).= To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews, Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.

“‘A tour of Christian exploration.’ Pere Hyacinthe and his wife (who
is an American) travelled from Algeria to Jerusalem, by way of Arabia
and Egypt, and the travels are described in a lively and vigorous
style.... The idea of the book is not the travel, so much as the
relativity of religions of the peoples studied ... and Madame
Hyacinthe Loyson’s point is the universal brotherhood of ... the
religions of Allah and Jehovah and the Christian religion. In the
co-operation of the three—and in the honouring by modern Christianity
of some of the grander and simpler elements of the other two faiths,
she sees the regeneration of the world.”—Acad.

* “There is a breadth of view in the book, enthusiasm and some little
of that spirit which sees good in ‘every country but its own.’ It will
not please theologians, but it may stimulate the thoughts of the
ordinary religiously-minded man or woman.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1237. N. 25, ‘05. 260w.

* “Everywhere in the book there is the intense spiritual earnestness
of a good woman holding conferences with the leading representatives
of Islam.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 340w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 60w.

=Lucas, Abner H.= Call of to-day. *50c. Meth. bk.

Sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Montclair,
N. J. They include: The religion for to-day; Work for to-day; The
commanded strength; Joy for the morning; The mighty appeal of
usefulness; Re-enlisted strength; and The complete life.

=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Book of verses for children. $1. Holt.

Some 200 verses which Stevenson, Browning, Shakespeare, Goldsmith,
Lewis Carroll, Riley, Longfellow, Scott, Rossetti, and many others
have written for little folks are gathered into this delightful
volume, with old ballads, rhymes and songs of Christmas.

“Altogether, the little volume is one of the most desirable of such
collections (in small space) now to be got at. There seems to be
something in it for all good juvenile tastes.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 575. S. 2. ‘05. 230w.

* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Life of Charles Lamb. 2v. *$6. Putnam.

Mr. Lucas “has tried as far as possible to keep the story of the life
to the words of the original performers and their contemporaries....
At a wave of his hand witness after witness gets up to testify in his
own words and tell the reader what he knew of Lamb during the period
in question.... We are able to see the actual environment of Lamb
between 1815 and 1825, surrounded ... by the normal frequenters of
these ‘noctes’ such as George Dyer, Fenwick, Robert Fell, Martin
Burney, G. Burnett, Randal Norris, George Dawe, Ayrton, Phillips,
Alsager, and Barren Field. The portraits of most of these intimates of
the Mitrecourt and Inner Temple-lane are limned with a delicate and
artistic curiosity. Lamb is depicted in this circle as he lived....
For all the very happiest things that have ever been said about Lamb
the enthusiast will find a happy-hunting-ground in these two
volumes.”—Lond. Times.

* “Only once, so far as we have noticed, is he betrayed into something
like over-confidence in his minute research.”

+ + — =Acad.= 95: 999. S. 30, ‘05. 1810w.

* “Of the man Charles Lamb—the ‘human mortal,’ as distinguished from
the thinker and writer—Mr. Lucas’s pages reflect a true and lively
image. He is less successful in reproducing the intellectual features
of his subject; while his portraits of certain of Lamb’s
contemporaries—notably that of Coleridge—are not far removed from
travesty.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 756. D. 2. 880w.

* “Is likely to prove of more importance than the recent edition of
‘The works and letters of Charles and Mary Lamb,’ of which he was the
editor. It will not supersede the ‘Life and final memorials’ of
Talfourd, but it contains, mainly in the form of letter and anecdote,
much of supplementary value, and some matter which is absolutely
fresh.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 844. D. ‘05. 1080w.

* “Taking Mr. Lucas’s biography as a whole there is a wealth of
entertainment in its pages which it would be difficult to
overestimate. The part that we are least sanguine of recommending is
the appendix, which seems to us a heavy incubus upon a book which
ought to carry not an ounce of superfluous material.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 297. S. 22, ‘05. 2440w.

* “Mr. Lucas has drawn upon a large fund of fresh material, and has so
generously told the story of both lives in the language of his
subjects that this biography is really an autobiography.” Hamilton W.
Mabie.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.

* “Above all other things Mr. Lucas’s work is one which abounds in the
essential characteristic of biographical work—sympathy. The vast
compilation of tiny details of personality and character are not
thrown together haphazard but are arranged chronologically, and
indexed in a masterly manner.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 820. D. 23, ‘05. 690w.

* “The first really complete and adequate Life of that singularly
delightful writer and admirable man.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 653. O. 28, ‘05. 1550w.

=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in Holland. *$1.75. Macmillan.

“The combination of Mr. Lucas as narrator with Mr. Herbert Marshall as
illustrator has given us a charming volume.... It was a happy idea to
intersperse photographs of some of the more famous Dutch pictures. Mr.
Lucas is an admirable guide and visitors to Holland could not have a
more agreeable commentator on their travels past or future.... He not
only abounds in wise and quaint comments himself, but is the cause of
our remembering the wisdom of others.”—Sat. R.

“‘A wanderer in Holland’ is, of course, no substitute for Murray or
Baedeker, rather is it their essential complement.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 920. S. 9, ‘05. 1050w.

“If the success of a book of travels is to be measured by the
travel-fever it excites in the veins of its readers, this volume
should have a warm welcome.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2:571. O. 28. 2300w.

“And now we have found all the fault we care to find with this
charming guide. To say that it ranks a long way after ‘The inland
voyage’ is only to say that Stevenson is dead. We welcome in it a like
sense of intimacy—it wears the face of a friend—it talks.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 292. S. 15, ‘05. 1150w.

* “Mr. Lucas makes no pretension to connoisseurship, but his
untechnical remarks on pictures are nearly always interesting, and, to
one reader at least, prove the most attractive part of his writing.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.

“The fact is Mr. Lucas comes near being in his book exactly what one
would like a well-informed and companionable fellow-traveler to be if
one were seeing Holland with one’s own eyes.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 920w.

“In short the book is notable among books of travel and description
for its readable qualities and discriminating and individual taste.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 120w.

* “A book of more than ordinary merit—a book with genuinely original
qualities.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 150w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 60w.

“As we might have expected from his record, he neither bores nor
dogmatises but his book is full of information and not a little wise
reflection.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 370w.

“It is as a critic of character and manners and a chronicler of art
that Mr. Lucas interprets his function as a guide.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 468. S. 30, ‘05. 1330w.

=Luccock, Rev. Naphtali.= Royalty of Jesus and other sermons. *50c. Meth. bk.

Beauty of thought and simplicity of language mark these sermons which
apply the teachings of Christ to the conditions of to-day under the
titles: The royalty of Jesus; The fullness of Christ; The power of a
surrendered life; The face of Jesus Christ; The brook in the way; The
gospel for an opulent civilization; The cry of the disinherited; The
song of Moses and of the Lamb.

=Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis).= Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans, by H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.

Four handy volumes in which the translators have happily rendered
idiom by idiom and “literary allusions, quotations, and technicalities
of law, philosophy, or art are neatly turned to apt analogues. They
sound every note in Lucian’s compass, from the mock-heroic
serio-satiric eloquence of the Nigrinus, the angry contempt of the
False prophet and the Death of Peregrine ... to the solemn trifling of
the Fly ... and the demonstration by Socratic induction in the
‘Parasite’ that dining out is better than dining.” (Dial.) The fourth
volume contains a list of notes which explain all allusions to
classical biography and mythology.

* “The renderings of Messrs. Fowler have all the ease and ‘élan’ of a
work originally written in English.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 846. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1680w.

“Their translation is decidedly good; they have ventured on some
daring modernisms, but these we can tolerate if only lightness is
secured.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 294. S. 2. 2420w.

“The translation is admirably executed in the freer manner of Jowett’s
‘Plato.’” Paul Shorey.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 233. O. 16, ‘05. 1850w.

“The editors ... deserve high praise for the clearness and vigour of
their translations.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 265. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1520w.

“This Fowler translation is a work of high art, for which its authors
are to be thanked.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 610w.

“The translators have with admirable fidelity, vigour, and vivacity
reproduced the writings of one whom such a critic as Erasmus reckoned
not only among the most entertaining, but also the most instructive,
of ancient authors.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 713. N. 4, ‘05. 1870w.

=Lucke, Charles Edward.= Gas-engine design. **$3. Van Nostrand.

“The book is divided into three parts: 1, Power and efficiency, with
rules for deciding on the necessary piston displacement; 2, Stresses
on the various parts of the engine and also with the various cylinder
arrangements as affecting the turning effort and balance; 3, The
necessary dimensions of the various parts to resist the stresses with
both empirical and theoretical formulæ for the computation.”—Engin. N.

“It is a very notable addition to the literature on the gas engine.”
Storm Bull.

+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 526. My. 18, ‘05. 1170w.

=Lützow, Francis, count.= Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. Oxford.

The Ilchester lectures for the year 1904 “have their origin in a wish
to do something for the Bohemian cause by illustrating before a
foreign audience the wealth of Czechish traditions.... While Count
Lützow alludes briefly to his contemporaries, the chief of his
attention is devoted to the chronicles of the Middle ages and the era
of the Reformation. Here the conditions fixed by a popular course of
lectures compel him to be brief in his notice of all save the now
famous authorities like Cosmas, Benes of Weitmil, Lawrence of Brezof,
Sixt of Ottersdorf, and Paul Skála.... He gives us simply and tersely
the results of the most recent research on technical points in
conjunction with Palacky’s views on the larger issues.” (Nation.)

“The count, who is a master of our language, goes through the list of
Bohemian historians, estimating their merits and furnishing
characteristic extracts. These are translated into very clear and
succinct English. Excellent book.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1860w.

“To many of our readers we can best convey an impression regarding the
style and quality of his work by stating that it resembles a
compressed Wattenbach with an element of current political interest
added.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 85. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1300w.

=Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn.= Lord Dufferin, the life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. *$7.50. Scribner.

The life of a man to whom fate gave great opportunities, and who was
big enough to handle and hold them. He was a central figure in many of
the political events of the last half of the nineteenth century, he
served as Governor-general of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to
St. Petersburg, to Constantinople, Rome and France. This biography is
compiled from his journal, his letters, and the recollections of his
friends.

“But the real value of the book lies in the information it supplies in
regard to the great movements in foreign and colonial politics that
have been going on during the last thirty years.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 144. F. 18, ‘05. 1580w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 201. F. 18. 1560w.

“Making every deduction for the imperfections inseparable from even
the best biographies, one reaches the conclusions that here a really
great subject has been treated both adequately and effectively.”
Lawrence J. Burpee.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 58. Ag. 1, ‘05. 1520w.

=Ind.= 58: 1358. Je. 15, ‘05. 1040w.

* “His book is frank yet discreet, and marked in all its parts by
delicacy of perception.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 3370w.

Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 193. Ap. 1, ‘05. 3250w.

“What is to be regarded as the official biography. It is official also
in its discreetness—a discreetness at times carried to extremes,
dimming perception—and in the highly eulogistic tone maintained
throughout. It may safely be said that Sir Alfred, while presenting a
work obviously open to criticism, has also presented one of direct
value to the historical student, and of interest to the general
reader.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.

“Sir Alfred Lyall seems to us to have chosen the best way in which to
tell the story of Lord Dufferin’s life.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 253. F. 18, ‘05. 930w.

=Lydston, G. Frank.= Diseases of society. **$3. Lippincott.

“A study of social conditions in this country. The police criminal,
the anarchist, and the large number of moral and physical law-breakers
are here discussed. The author also deals with such questions as the
oppression of wealth, the rights and wrongs of organized capital and
labour, the negro question, and the offences of society at large. The
book is well illustrated.”—Bookm.

“The style, although brilliant at times, is open to much criticism. It
is verbose, often disconnected and rambling. In spite of many
blemishes the book is of great value. With the general thesis of the
book and a large percentage of the conclusions, the reviewer is in
hearty sympathy and heartily commends it to students of social
problems.” C. Kelsey.

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 350. Mr. ‘05. 1040w.

“His examination of the question of crime seems exhaustive, his
inferences inevitable.” Albert Warren Ferris.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 528. Jl. ‘05. 660w.

“While here and there is much that is interesting, although at times
crudely presented, the author like many others who write upon the
subject errs in trying to prove too much from insufficient premises
and newspaper gossip, and this is especially true when he treats of
craniometry and physiognomy.” Allan McLane Hamilton.

+ — =Critic.= 47: 183. Ag. ‘05. 1140w.

“It has not the air of a serious book of science, and indeed contains
here and there a misplaced facetiousness.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.

“As monographs the parts are incomplete, and the whole is neither
sufficiently unified for the ordinary reader, nor clearly cut for the
student. Nor is the style attractive.”

— + =Nation.= 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 680w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 600w.

“This is really a study of the vice and crime problem from a medical
standpoint.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 170w.

=Lyle, Eugene P.= Missourian. †$1.50. Doubleday.

Mr. Lyle finds material for his first story within the tottering
Empire of Maximilian. The hero is one of Jo. Shelby’s band who,
refusing to surrender after the fall of the Confederacy, offered their
services to Maximilian in Mexico. Din Driscoll, Missourian,
Confederate officer, the “storm center” in every fight, and the
exquisite, capricious Jacquelin d’Aumerle, secret emissary of Napoleon
on business of state, figure almost grotesquely in a series of
thrilling adventures which result from defending each other from
intrigue and death. In the end this airy coquette of two imperial
courts chooses to find her happiness within the confines of a
shut-away Missouri farm.

* “The fact is Mr. Lyle has been absorbed by his material, instead of
absorbing it.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 200w.

“Here, for instance, is an example of literary over-seasoning, which,
far from being exceptional, is fairly characteristic of the book’s
style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ — =Bookm.= 22: 135. O. ‘05. 550w.

“We should be grateful to Mr. Lyle for having given in this novel a
new and adequate setting for the American hero of love and war.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 930. O. 19, ‘05. 860w.

“Yet, dramatic, picturesque, brilliant in attack and technique as the
book undoubtedly is, the interest in it is largely spectacular.”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 510w.

“It is crude enough in certain details, but its reading leaves no
doubt as to the fact that Mr. Lyle possesses extraordinary vision and
power to communicate what his imagination sees.” L. L.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 880w.

* “Admirably fresh and lively tale.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

“The history is accurate, but unimportant; the romance is of vast
importance and fairly accurate.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w.

=Lyman, Olin Linus.= Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Lakes. $1.25. Amsterdam.

The brief career of Commodore Perry (1785-1819), midshipman,
lieutenant, commander of Lake Erie, and the American squadron in the
Mediterranean is given in this volume which is “a eulogy rather than a
biography.” (N. Y. Times.)

“As an elementary history the book is good. It should make rather a
good ‘reader.’ Mr. Lyman has padded his book tremendously, and has
indulged in ‘fine writing’ of the worst sort. The author is very chary
of dates.”

+ — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w.

=Lynch, Frederick.= Is life worth living? **30c. Crowell.

A new volume in the “What is worth while series.” A message of comfort
showing that life in God’s world is truly worth living, that there is
but one answer to the question for those who believe in the life
eternal.

=Lytton, Lord Bulwer-.= Last days of Pompeii. $1.25. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this pocket volume is printed
on opaque “Bible” paper in large clear type, is bound in limp leather,
and contains a frontispiece of the author.

M

=Maartens, Maarten (J. M. W. van der Poorten-Schwartz).= My poor relations. †$1.50. Appleton.

Fourteen unpleasant stories of life in a little Dutch village, where
the people are degraded and low in mind and morals. In “The mother”
Mary Quint vainly struggles to help her son conquer his inherited love
of drink. “Jan Hunkum’s money,” “Fair lover,” “The summer Christmas,”
“The notary’s love story,” “The banquet,” and the rest, are all
horridly true, and are told in a vivid style that makes them almost
too real.

“The book is as oppressive as a nightmare.”

— =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 90w.

“Most of the fourteen stories herein told are pathetic almost to
tragedy.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.

“All the stories, while not calculated to make one laugh, will
undoubtedly keep one’s interest alive.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

“It would be hard to name a book in which the characters are so
uniformly disagreeable as in this collection of short stories.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.

“One may go so far as to compare them to De Maupassant’s though hardly
to that master’s best.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 120w.

=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Fairy tales every child should know. **90c. Doubleday.

Twenty four “once upon a time” fairy tales collected from various
countries to amuse and stimulate the imagination of the child of
today. They include such familiar stories as, Hans and Gretel, Ali
Baba, The golden goose, One eye, two eyes, three eyes, Blue beard, Red
riding hood, The ugly duckling, Tom Thumb, Jack the giant killer, Jack
and the bean stalk, and Puss in boots.

=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w.

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 160w.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.

“In one respect the book appears to us defective, in that it does not
state by whom the particular version of each of these child classics
was written.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.

* + — =R. of Rs.= 32: 768. D. ‘05. 80w.

* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright,= ed. Myths every child should know: a selection of the classic myths of all times for young people. **90c. Doubleday.

“This volume is uniform with ‘Fairy tales every child should know.’ It
collects for children’s reading and for school use sixteen
myth-stories which belong to the world’s literature and appeal to the
young imagination. Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder-book’ and ‘Tanglewood tales’
furnish half the material.... Charles Kingsley’s ‘Greek heroes,’ Mr.
Brown’s ‘In the days of the giants,’ Mr. A. J. Church’s ‘Stories from
Homer,’ Mr. Mabie’s ‘Norse stories,’ and Miss Emerson’s ‘Indian myths’
are the other sources. Mr. Mabie furnishes an introduction.”—Outlook.

* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 40w.

* “We could wish that Mr. Mabie had put his interesting preface before
a more consecutive and less heterogeneous collection.”

* + — =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 230w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 120w.

* “They are rather stiffly told and frequently the style is too
difficult and elaborate to be easily understood by children.”

— + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.

=McAlilly, Alice.= Hilda Lane’s adoptions. $1.50. Meth. bk.

Hilda Lane, kept from the man she loves for twenty years by a war time
misunderstanding, adopts a sturdy waif named Robert, and a negro girl,
Liberty, and educates them. Liberty grows up to offer her life to
white fever sufferers, and Robert, on the eve of a successful career
and engaged to marry a lovely southern girl, discovers that there is
negro blood in his veins and nobly consecrates his life to the
uplifting of the black race. The book is chiefly occupied with the
negro question.

=McAlilly, Alice.= Larkins wedding. $1. Moffat.

“An apotheosis of good nature and neighborly kindness. A worthy
washerwoman related grammatically to Mrs. Partington arranges the
wedding of her daughter. The respect both have won in their town
inspires the interested villagers of higher social position to make
the pathetic efforts of Mrs. Larkins turn out a happy success. A
change in bridegrooms adds to the general jollity, and the two
Larkins, mother and daughter, disappear in a haze of prosperity and
sentiment.”—Outlook.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:650. O. 7, ‘05. 340w.

“The story is told with many touches of humor.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.

=Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st baron.= Essays; ed. by Lady Trevelyan. $6. Putnam.

These six compact little volumes contain nothing but the text of the
essays and preface as edited by Lady Trevelyan, the author’s sister.
There are several illustrations in each volume—mainly engravings and
portraits.

“Edition is as satisfactory for the purposes of the reader of Macaulay
as a modest man can desire, handy enough to permit you on occasion to
put a volume in your coat pocket and take it with you upon a journey,
yet entirely fit for the library shelves. For it sacrifices to
compactness not size of type (and the eyes of the reader) but an
easily dispensable surplus of margin.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10:92. F. 11, ‘05. 250w.

“Admirably planned for thoroughly comfortable reading, and to take up
small space in a library. For a good edition which meets all the
requirements of the average reader, and of a size which makes it
possible to carry the volumes about when one travels, we do not recall
a better edition than this.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 120w.

=Macbean, L., and Brown, John.= Marjorie Fleming. **$1.40. Putnam.

The famous account of “Pet Marjorie” by Dr. John Brown is here
reprinted, with much later information and her journals and letters
hitherto unpublished. There are fourteen illustrations, including
pictures of the little girl taken alone and with Scott.

* “We commend this book, sure that it will become a precious
possession.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1098. O. 21, ‘05. 1000w.

“Should be welcomed by all admirers of Dr. Brown’s earlier story of
her.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 50w.

+ =Dial.= 38:52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 120w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 390w.

=McCall, Sidney.= Breath of the gods. †$1.50. Little.

Little Yuki, a samurai’s daughter, the last of her honorable race, has
been educated in Washington and returns to Japan with the American
minister to Tokio, his wife and daughter. Her story is the story of
the heart of Japan, the nobility, the love of country, the cruelty;
and when she tramples on her own love and the love of the young
Frenchman, Pierre, and marries Prince Haganè at the command of her
father and the call of her country, she typifies the cheerful
sacrifice of the individual to the system, which is, perhaps, the
keynote of Japan. The time is that of the present war with Russia, the
tragedy is horrid and occidental.

“‘The breath of the gods’ is one of the most artistic novels of the
year. We doubt if any American writer has given us a truer or more
intimate insight into the life and the spiritual and intellectual
concepts of the Japanese than has the author of the ‘Breath of the
gods.’”

+ + =Arena.= 34: 331. S. ‘05. 1190w.

“The genre painting, although too crowded with details, is good; but
the end is disappointing.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 575. O. 28. 310w.

“In her work one sees an unbounded admiration of traits not fully
comprehended, rather than a keen and sympathetic understanding of the
Japanese ideals and their visible exponents.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.

“Putting aside the truth or improbability of the story, the book is
interesting in all parts and thrilling in some.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 670w.

“‘The breath of the gods’ is worthy of the author of ‘Truth Dexter.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

“As a story the book is written in a somewhat hectic and turbulent
fashion, and its early promise is hardly fulfilled by the melodrama of
its conclusion.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 50w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.

+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 210w.

=McCarthy, Justin.= History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40. Harper.

“These two volumes conclude the ‘History of our own times,’ begun by
Mr. McCarthy some twenty-five years ago. The five volumes taken
together cover the entire reign of Queen Victoria.... This work ... is
rather a series of essays than a continuous history. All of the
important events of the period come in for consideration. The greatest
of these for the empire at large was the Boer war.... The interest and
value of these volumes rests upon the fact that they are the work of a
man who knows intimately what he is writing about.”—N. Y. Times.

“Looking at the work as a whole, we can only describe it as glib,
fluent, popular—not by any means as a thoughtful and far-reaching
study of men and the events of our time, and of the tendencies of
those great movements which they have generated.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1118. O. 28, ‘05. 1940w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 110w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

* “But Mr. McCarthy is always readable, and the entertaining quality
of his work will undoubtedly be of value in bringing to the negligent
reader some familiarity, at least, with the main features of later
English politics.” E. D. Adams.

+ =Dial.= 39: 435. D. 16, ‘05. 1390w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“It does not read like the work of a man behind the scenes, or tell us
anything that we have not already read in the newspapers. Mr. McCarthy
writes without any sense of proportion, and freely scamps the
essential in order to make room for padding. All that can truthfully
be said is that Mr. Justin McCarthy has the trick of being mildly
readable even when he is platitudinous and obvious.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 371. N. 3, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“He tells the story in a simple, intelligible way. He is never dry,
tedious, discursive, labored, or involved. It is not adverse criticism
to say that he has not written a weighty history.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 1050w. (Review of v. 4 and
5.)

“He is always interesting, and though sometimes gossipy and sometimes
affected by personal prepossessions, he writes with singular fairness
of temper. His history is journalistic rather than scientific.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 190w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

* “It is very interesting and of considerable use to students of
recent events.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

* “We are sorry that we cannot say that it is even a good book of
reference, for Mr. McCarthy is not methodical enough, nor detailed
enough, nor accurate enough to make himself an authority on facts. The
English is slovenly.”

— =Sat. R.= 100: 726. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

* + — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 300w.

=McCarthy, Justin.= Irishman’s story, **$2.50. Macmillan.

An autobiography giving the author’s experiences in newspaper work,
his visits to America, and his parliamentary career (1879-1902),
covering the Parnell period with its sudden close and the breaking up
of the Nationalist party.

“Historical students who may turn to either of these volumes will be
compelled continuously to keep in mind the nationality and political
environment of the writers; for with both Davitt and McCarthy every
Irishman on the popular side is a patriot, an orator, or a statesman.”

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 170w.

“A record sufficiently varied and full of incident to have a sure
claim on public interest. It would rank with such a narrative as Mr.
Riis’s rather than with literary autobiographies, or with intellectual
documents like Spencer’s account.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + =Atlan.= 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 270w.

“A delightful melange of reminiscence, description, autobiography and
anecdote, and will be read with genuine enjoyment.”

+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 820w.

“From first to last these autobiographical chapters have a charm.”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1310. Je. 8. 670w.

=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Dryad. †$1.50, Harper.

“The hero is the son and heir of Duke Baldwin of Athens, who ruled
near the close of the thirteenth century. The heroine, Argathona, is a
dryad, who remained in the Eleusinian wood after the gods departed.
There are numerous adventures—joustings, conspiracies, battles,
enchantments—related with cheerful disregard of everything except the
interest of the reader.”—Pub. Opin.

“He has not succeeded in creating the right atmosphere. Mr. McCarthy
has found a beautiful theme and in spite of his cleverness has handled
it so roughly that he has deprived it of its external charm and has
not developed the possibilities of its inherent beauty”

— =Acad.= 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 570w.

“Mr. McCarthy must be congratulated on having so deftly handled the
supernatural that one hardly feels the impossibility of Argathona.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w.

“Decidedly the best that Mr. McCarthy has done.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.

+ — =Ind.= 58: 958. Ap. 27, ‘05. 240w.

* + — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.

“A very readable tale after its own unreal fashion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 50w.

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 50w.

“Selecting a somewhat vague historical period, he devises an
impossible plot, worked out by impossible characters. A rather
pleasing piece of make-believe.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.

“It may be said indeed that he has woven in this story a tapestry
whose grace of design and exquisite harmony of color all lovers of
this kind of story will approve. There is something Tennysonian in the
silken softness of his style and in his imagery.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 210w.

“The story is told with Mr. McCarthy’s usual verve and lightness.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.

“Mr. McCarthy contrives to get a real touch of poetry into his
descriptions of the forest.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.

=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Lady of Loyalty house. †$1.50. Harper.

“A story of Cromwell’s time, with the brilliant Lady Brilliana Harby
as the storm centre. Dangers without end beset the lady and her
admirers true and false, the whole ending happily when the clang of
wedding bells replaces the clash of swords.”—Critic.

=Critic.= 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 40w.

“A pretty tale and a merry one. This is mostly a skipping,
happy-go-lucky story, a seventeenth century scherzo.”

+ =Reader.= 5: 787. My. ‘05. 330w.

“Is a brisk and breezy romance. There is little or no attempt at
historical accuracy or minute coloring, a fact that is quite
refreshing. Mr. McCarthy is content to tell a swift and fascinating
story, in which effort he succeeds thoroughly.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 110w.

=McCaul, Ethel.= Under the care of the Japanese war office. $1.50. Cassell.

An English woman’s account of her recent visit to Manchuria to inspect
the work of the Japanese Red cross society. Their efficient system is
given in detail and there are many incidents and descriptions typical
of the land and the people.

“Gives many interesting glimpses of the kindly side of war.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.

“Miss McCaul is an honest, straightforward writer, and her book is a
tonic.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 170w.

“The practical advantages to be derived from a study of the volume
under review cannot be questioned.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1230w.

“Her letters here collected have in them much of interest, but are
overloaded with too detailed narrative of personal experiences.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 140w.

“Unpretentious, but able and interesting little book. It contains much
that is valuable to a student of military medicine.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.

=McClain, Emlin.= Constitutional law in the United States. *$2. Longmans.

“This text book on American constitutional law is published in the
“American citizen” series, edited by Prof. Hart.... The classical
bibliography and references at the beginning of each chapter together
furnish opportunity for a more extended study of the subjects dealt
with in the text.... The volume is divided into eight parts ...
first ... the System of government.... Part II. explains how the
government is organized. Parts III., IV., and V. deal with the nature
and scope ... of the legislative, the executive, and the judicial
branches of the government; Part VI. concerns itself with the
relations of the states to each other and to the federal government.
The last two parts are on the relations of the individual to the
government and on civil rights.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is an able, fresh, vigorous treatment of the subject, handled with
assurance and with considerable novelty in method.”

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

“Covering in a cursory way so vast a field, the book is necessarily in
many respects unsatisfactory. It has, however, the decided merit of
containing a selected general bibliography, topical bibliographical
references for each chapter, an analytical table of contents, and a
fairly satisfactory index.”

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 591. My. ‘05. 220w.

“The volume is very well adapted either for private reading or for
classes of civics or history in our schools.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 120w.