Chapter XXXII: Part IV: gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am (18)

“The clear arrangement and concise style, the subordination of detail,
and the avoidance of a mere mechanical order in the presentation of
topics save it from stereotyped formality or dull abstruseness. On the
whole, we should expect to see McClain supplant Cooley to a
considerable extent in the schools and colleges.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 750w.

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

=McClellan, Elizabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607-1800; with an introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by Sophie Steel, **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.

“The work begins with the time of the earliest Spanish occupation of
the continent, and concludes with the opening of the nineteenth
century. Within this period the dress of men and women, nobles,
commoners, and soldiers, is minutely described, the illustrations
being from contemporary prints, old portraits and similar authentic
sources.”—Reader.

“The text is accompanied by excellent illustrations. Its attempt at
completeness and the care used in arrangement suggest that its
greatest value is as a book of reference. Therefore it is a matter of
regret that references for the large number of quotations are not more
frequent.”

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 715. Ap. ‘05. 130w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 610w.

“This exhaustive and well illustrated volume on the American dress of
the past should hold a position among the most authoritative works on
the subject.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 110w.

* “A valuable book of reference.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 70w.

“Nothing approaching the completeness of the present work has yet been
offered.”

+ + + =Reader.= 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 120w.

+ =Spec.= 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 270w.

=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Our presidents and how we make them. $2. Harper.

The present revised edition brings this book of reference down to
date. An account of the Roosevelt-Parker campaign is given with a
narrative of its various conventions.

“As a whole this is a convenient and reasonably accurate handbook of
American national politics, and only here and there does the author
make a statement that seems questionable.” H. T. P.

+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 84. S. ‘05. 860w.

“All these summaries, if not very critical in tone, are readable and
to the point.”

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

“It is not only a valuable record, but also interesting history.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 670w.

“The style remains involved and awkward and the diction careless.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.

=McCook, Rev. Henry Christopher.= Senator: a threnody. **$1.25. Jacobs.

This poem is a tribute to Marcus Hanna, written by a life-long friend.
It is divided into five parts: A prologue of a life; Village scenes;
Transformed villagers; A plea for immortality; and The life beyond.

“All conducted with a skill evidencing considerable homiletic
experience.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 90w.

=McCrackan, William Denison.= Fair land Tyrol. **$1.60. Page.

An enthusiastic description of “happy Tyrol,” in which are mingled
beauty of landscape, and quaint peasant charm: the toymakers and
innkeepers of to-day: the patriots and minnesingers of yesterday. The
traveller is shown where to find interesting sights and scenes and is
given a knowledge of the part that he may understand the Tyrolese of
the present. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs.

“The book is readable and interesting.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 791. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.

+ + — =Ath. 1905=, 2: 173. Ag. 5. 1270w.

“A pleasant account of one of the most delightful of European
districts.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 110w.

“Readable for itself, and giving an excellent notion of the country,
the book is also usable side by side with a guide book, as an
intelligent and interesting description of the principal places in the
country.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 528. Je. 29, ‘05. 660w.

“As a whole his book is disappointing, childishly enthusiastic, and
not at all convincing as either guide book or account of travel in the
Tyrol. It is full, however, and one will not go astray in following
Mr. McCracken as a guide.”

— + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 780w.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 70w.

“There is no distinction about the style, which is sometimes
slipshod.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w.

+ =Spec.= 95: 126. Jl. 22, ‘05. 90w.

=McCracken, Elizabeth.= Women of America. **$1.50. Macmillan.

As a result of several years of observation of the American woman as
she is found in the large towns and small all over the United States,
Miss McCracken gives her to us in all her phases, the professional
woman and the club woman; her ideals and her achievements.

“This misleading book.... Harmfully sentimental spirit in which the
fourteen articles ... are written. No information is offered to the
seeker after fact; and for the theorist there is no basis of
discussion. The book is simply a rambling series of unilluminating
anecdotes, strongly personal without being strongly vital in tone.” O.
H. D.

— — =Critic.= 46: 281. Mr. ‘05. 600w.

“The book is often unjust in its criticism, fulsome in its praise,
illogical in its attempts at argument. It could not be called a
serious contribution to sociological literature, partly because it is
a vitascope of photographs from a car window instead of the careful
canvasses of a Millet, who has known his subjects long, and loved them
well.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 439. F. 23, ‘05. 460w.

“The book has far too wide a title.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 338. Ap. 27, ‘05. 640w.

“Thus, the book is not made up of official statistics, but is the
fruit of personal meetings with women and visits to the scenes of
their occupations.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 140w.

“The art of making what has appealed to herself appeal to her reader
has been mastered by Miss McCracken.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 970w.

=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Nedra. †$1.50. Dodd.

The elopement of a young couple from Chicago who start for the
Philippines via New York and London, travelling as brother and sister,
forms the basis of this story which is turned into an amusing
extravaganza by a ship wreck in mid-ocean which leaves the hero
stranded upon the island of Nedra with a new heroine, a girl whom he
has rescued by mistake.

“He has given us the kind of story Americans like, incredible, daring,
delightful and a little absurd.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.

* “Like most of Mr. McCutcheon’s novels, ‘Nedra’ is not a matter for
critical appreciation. One may say it is ‘apart’ from it rather than
‘beneath it.’”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.

“It belongs to the novels of recreation pure and simple, and well
fulfills its purpose of robbing the reader of the sense of time.”

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

“The story is lively, entertaining, and very improbable.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.

=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Purple parasol; with il. by Harrison Fisher, and decorations by C: B. Falls. †$1.25. Dodd.

The owner of a purple parasol, a gray dress and a sailor hat is
shadowed by a young lawyer who hopes to pile up evidence for a divorce
case against the erring wife of an old husband. The story becomes a
romance when the owner of the parasol turns out to be a young and
beautiful girl.

+ =Bookm.= 21: 652. Ag. ‘05. 110w.

“Has the merit of lightness and brevity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 130w.

“A slight and rather foolish story.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.

=McCutcheon, John Tinney.= Mysterious stranger and other cartoons. *$1.50. McClure.

Over one hundred and fifty cartoons which have appeared during the
past year or so in the Chicago Tribune are gathered into this volume.
The author expresses the hope that his drawings “may have a permanent
interest because of the great historical importance of the period they
encompass” but aside from political matters much space is given to
genial take-offs of President Roosevelt as bear-hunter and
glad-hander, and satires of child life.

* “As a comic history of our own times they are not without value.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “The cartoons are well worth embodying in a form less transient than
the pages of a daily newspaper.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 250w.

* + + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

“Preserves too much that is trivial and vulgar (not in the most odious
sense), and would have been the better for a severe screening. On the
whole we find the collection rather dreary.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, 05. 190w.

=MacDonnell, John de Courcy.= King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and the Congo. *$6. Cassell.

The main object of this book “is to tell once more the story of the
origin and progress and methods of government of the Congo Free State,
and to refute the charge that Leopold has not fulfilled the pledges
made under the Berlin act.” (Nation).

“The writer’s arguments, however, are not convincing, and we wish we
could attribute their unreality to ignorance of the subject in hand.”

— — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 584. My. 13. 2800w.

=Nation.= 81: 62. Jl. 20, ‘05. 590w.

“The weakness of the book is its redundancy and its tendency to exalt
into great virtues the king’s most commonplace actions. Its attenuated
special pleading minimises but does not destroy whatever usefulness as
a record it may possess.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.

* =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.

=McDougall, W.= Physiological psychology. *40c. Macmillan.

This “tiny little volume ... presents a clear account ... of the
elements of scientific psychology, and is thoroughly up to
date.”—Acad.

“Small and unambitious though it be, this book is worth more than the
little space it would fill in the library of the student of mind.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w.

* =McFadyen, John Edgar.= Introduction to the Old Testament. $1.75. Armstrong.

“Mr. McFadyen sums up accurately and concisely the established results
in regard to each book of the Old Testament, avoiding positive
assertion where the facts do not warrant it. The inexpert reader will
get from this book in a small compass a clear idea of the results of
criticism and also of the common-sense method by which they have been
arrived at.”—Acad.

* “Mr. McFadyen writes in a most interesting style: and successfully
brings out both the human interest and the religious value of the
several books.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1222. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.

* + + =Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.

=MacFarland, Charles Stedman.= Jesus and the prophets; an historical, exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50. Putnam.

“Holding Jesus to be more than a prophet, Dr. MacFarland sees that he
was called to the work of a prophet, to meet a spiritual exigency, as
the ancient prophets in their time had done.... As Jesus’ disciples
misunderstood the prophets, so they misunderstood and still
misunderstand his use of them.” (Outlook.) The author is a
Congregational minister.

“No one should hereafter use Dr. Briggs’s or any of the older works on
Messianic prophecy as authorities without parallel reference to this
newer treatise.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 230w.

* “A careful and scholarly examination of the relation of Jesus to Old
Testament prophecy.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.

“Dr. MacFarland’s work is of unusual importance for the setting right
and clarifying of erroneous and confused notions, an excellent
specimen of the application of critical method for the realization of
religious values.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 370w.

=Macfarlane, Isabella.= Royal knight: a tale of Nuremburg. †$1.25. Dillingham.

A story of 15th century Nuremburg, and of twin sisters of a poor and
widowed mother, one betrothed to a wool-merchant’s son, the other,
loved by a young German officer whose father is chief magistrate.
Because the girl holds her honor above her love, the magistrate’s son
attempts to force her consent by accusing her mother of witchcraft.
Imprisonment and torture follow, but thru the loyalty of the daughters
and the advent of their champion, who is no other than Emperor
Maximilian, all ends happily.

=N. Y. Times.= 10:304. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.

=Macfarlane, Walter.= Laboratory notes on practical metallurgy: being a graduated series of exercises. *80c. Longmans.

“This little book is apparently intended as a first course for
beginners in practical work in a metallurgical laboratory.... It
consists of a series of practical exercises, all well within the grasp
of the average boy, graduated and well arranged with a view of
developing the habit of observation.... The student is introduced to
furnace work.... The preparation of the ordinary common alloys
follows.... Later, the more complex subject of the principles on which
the process for the extraction of copper, lead, gold, and silver from
their ores depend is dealt with. The book concludes with a few
elementary exercises in assaying gold and silver ores, and the
analysis of coal and coke.”—Nature.

+ =Engin. N.= 53: 639. Je. 15, ‘05. 170w.

“The book contains much useful information for junior students, and
can be recommended for their use.”

+ + — =Nature.= 71: 413. Mr. 2, ‘05. 220w.

=MacGowan, Alice, and Cooke, Grace MacGowan.= Return: a story of the sea islands in 1739. †$1.50. Page.

In a stirring romance the authors reproduce people and scenes of
colonial South Carolina and Georgia. In it Diana Chaters, the belle of
Charleston, and a young Virginian of the historic family of Marshall
figure prominently. This heroine, “the heartless coquette, is publicly
jilted as the result of a brutal wager. How she takes her shame, and
how she builds it into her life, is told by the authors with skill and
upon somewhat new lines.” (Outlook.)

“‘Return’ is a capital love-story, one of the very best romantic
novels of the year.”

+ + =Arena.= 34: 447. O. ‘05. 600w.

* “For the most part the story develops naturally, the characters have
actual personality, and the savour of romance is well maintained.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 220w.

“The book is written in an excellent literary style.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 98. Jl. 13, ‘05. 240w.

“A capital tale of love and adventure.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 420w.

“A book of fresh, wholesome romance.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.

“A love-story with plenty of color and movement. It is all very well
done, vivid, dramatic; but the story is too overcrowded with
characters; there are too many side issues. Not a little excision as
well as condensation would have greatly improved a vigorous story.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.

“A story with original strength and some novel situations. The
characters are admirably individualized, the action is lively, and the
whole picture excellently drawn.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1. ‘05. 90w.

“‘Return’ is a well told tale, and interesting from the first line.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.

“It is difficult to conceive of a story in which the element of
picturesqueness enters more effectively.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 220w.

=MacGrath, Harold.= Enchantment. †75c. Bobbs.

A group of Mr. MacGrath’s short stories which abound in daringly novel
situations. The five are “A night’s enchantment.” the adventure of the
lady in the closed carriage, “The blind madonna,” the adventure of the
golden louis, “No Cinderella,” the adventure of the satin slipper,
“Two candidates,” the adventure in love and politics, and “The
enchanted hat,” the adventure of my lady’s letter.

“Without being in any way remarkable ... will provide amusement and
entertainment.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.

“Is a collection of five of Mr. MacGrath’s stories—good ones too.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.

* =MacGrath, Harold.= Hearts and masks. †$1.50. Bobbs.

The sprightly record of a night’s adventure in which the principal
participants bent upon attending a masked ball thru a fluke are
mistaken for clever thieves. The plot which thickens about the
innocent imposters for a time, and which is later cleared up,
furnishes an exciting hour for the most sated fiction appetite.

* “Constructed with an art that holds the reader’s interest from the
first page to the last.”

+ =Dial.= 36: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.

* “It is a book to be read in a half hour, but it contains adventure
enough to last a lifetime.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 300w.

=MacGrath, Harold.= Princess elopes. †75c. Bobbs.

The chief figures in this story of rapid action are the madcap
Princess of Barscheit, her grumpy uncle intent upon a suitable
marriage for her, and a young American medical student. The American
consul tells the story of a series of adventures capped by the
princess’s escape from marrying the redfaced Prince of Doppelkinn.
That she finds the young American with her on this journey is
certainly not distressing to her, and that he turns out to be the long
lost heir of Doppelkinn and a much worthier suitor than the father are
facts which atone for her matrimonial hardships.

+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 510w.

“This tale ... will be found altogether diverting, if not convincingly
real.”

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

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 40w.

=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture, to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture. *$1.50. Bureau of University travel.

“Dr. von Mach’s book is not a ‘handbook’ in the ordinary sense of the
word, but a descriptive catalogue of five hundred plates and
forty-five text illustrations representing works of Greek and Roman
sculpture.... The description and discussion of each work is preceded
by a note giving the material, place, and date of discovery when
known, museum or other collection in which the work is now preserved,
and some bibliographical information.”—Nation.

“The author shows in this book the excellencies of his former work. He
states his conclusions boldly and independently.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w.

“Certainly Dr. von Mach’s style leaves much to be desired. While we
cannot recommend Dr. von Mach as a perfectly wise guide to such as
wish to know Greek art, we are glad to express our belief that the
university prints, accompanied by this handbook, will be of great
service to the student.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 417. My. 25, ‘05. 1220w.

=McIvor, Allan, pseud.= Overlord. $1.50. W. Ritchie.

This story of the peons of Canada is a frankly unhistorical tale of
the freeing of Canada from England in a great war in which the
“Habitans” and serfs under the leadership of the overlord defeat
“Pitchener,” the English general. The overlord, aside from his feudal
ownership along the upper St. Lawrence, owns several United States
railroads, consequently the president, tho ostensibly neutral, aids
him, and in return receives Canada as a gift from his grateful hands
when England is finally defeated.

“A history which is frankly fictitious. The most surprising thing in
the book is the bitterness toward England and the English.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 44. Ja. 5, ‘05. 370w.

“In this curiously heaped up and involved lot of fiction are a vast
number of tags and ends of stories and undigested ideas, the winnowing
of which would be hopeless here. It’s a very long, queer book.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 470w. (Outline of plot).

=Mackaye, Harold Steele.= Winged helmet. †$1.50. Page.

France in the sixteenth century when Charles of Bourbon was rebelling
against Francis I. is the setting. The story is one of fighting and
adventure, of a nobleman who ill-uses his lady, and of my lady’s maid
who saves her mistress from Saracen slavery by luring a villain into
quicksand, and does other daring things. In the end the lord and lady
are reconciled and the maid reaps as her reward the title of Lady of
Ravelle.

“An improbable tale, convincing as we read.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 158. Jl. 20, ‘05. 100w.

“A light romance—rather under average weight in fact. Nor in spite of
the wings on the helmet and the out-of-the-common incidents mentioned,
does it make up in spirit what it lacks in baser qualities. It cannot
carry even its own feathery self as a gallant should.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 370w.

“A spirited romance of the Weymanesque school. Characters and scenes
are well imagined and the story ingeniously contrived; but the flow is
unpleasantly interrupted by repeated transitions from the usual
narrative form to diary extracts and the like.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.

=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy. **$1.25. Macmillan.

“Fenris the wolf, son of Odin, troubles the serenity of Heaven with
his barkings of defiance, and with his wolfish desires for Freyja, the
betrothed of his brother Baldur. In the prologue, Odin ordains that
Fenris, Baldur, Freyja and himself shall leave their heavenly estate
and become four mortals. The action of the play consists in the
conversion of Fenris to charity and human love.... The action passes
before rune-stones in the northern forest at daybreak or twilight, in
prison chambers and by deep forest pools.”—Nation.

+ =Critic.= 47: 288. S. ‘05. 100w.

“There is much beauty in Mr. Mackaye’s work, beauty of poetry and
thought; he is strong, tender and imaginative, and the more we study
his play, the more we wish either that it were not a play at all or
that we might see it acted.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 340w.

“As a whole the play fails a little of tragic impressiveness precisely
because of a certain forcing of the note. It is, nevertheless, a
poetic venture, of a sincerity and magnitude for which there can be
nothing but admiration.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 460w.

=McKean, Thomas.= Vortex. †$1.50. Lippincott.

The serenity of two lives—Anna of the Titian red hair, and her artist
husband Paul—is jeopardized by a scheming Jesuit who plots to get
possession of the wife’s fortune for the Church. He uses as a foil
Elena, an actress, who serves as a model for Paul’s masterpiece
Spring. In the swirl of complications Father Lamian’s real relations
to Elena come to light, showing a misspent youth and a deeply
designing nature.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 270w.

“The story is weak and poorly written, annoyingly commonplace in
expression, and quite unnecessary.”

— — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.

=McKechnie, William Sharp.= Magna carta: a commentary on the great charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“Each chapter of ‘Magna carta’ is given in its original Latin, with an
English version by Dr. McKechnie following it in smaller type, after
which comes the commentary. The book includes a select bibliography
and a list of the authorities consulted by the author, a general
index, and an index to statutes. In appendices are documents relative
to or illustrative of King John’s Magna carta.”—N. Y. Times.

“One feels compelled to state that although for want of something
better this work will undoubtedly be consulted, nevertheless taken as
a whole it cannot be regarded as of more than mediocre value.” Henry
Lewis Cannon.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 137. O. ‘05. 920w.

“A scholarly and authoritative work based on the results of the latest
critical research, devoid of rhetorical flourish and meeting the
requirements of the lawyer and the historian. The book is well
planned. We are grateful to our author for clearing up the problems of
Magna Carta in so scholarly and definitive a fashion.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 635. S. 14, ‘05. 830w.

* “Very readable book.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

“He has given us what will long remain as the standard work on Magna
Carta, a book remarkable alike for its solid learning, its fertility
in suggestion, and its characteristic note of moderation and sweet
reasonableness.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 152. My. 12, ‘05. 1810w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 270w.

“The first exhaustive commentator on ‘Magna carta’ since the days of
Richard Thompson.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 280w.

“We should be disposed to dismiss his book as nothing more than a
text-book of unusual thoroughness were it not for one saving merit.
Mr. McKechnie is not afraid of discussing an abstract and complicated
question.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 250. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w.

“His conclusions, like his style, are not always inspired, or beyond
criticism or revision.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 642. Ap. 29, ‘05. 2120w.

=McKibben, Julia Baldwin.= Miriam. $1.25. Meth. bk.

Miriam, whose birth is hid in mystery, is brought up as a slave in an
old-fashioned southern household. She is freed by her master, and
educated in the north where no none knows of the taint in her blood.
After bravely renouncing love and happiness, confessing to her lover
and friends the truth, she learns that by birth she is an honored
daughter in the home where she was once a slave.

* “A story of the old South of no literary value, and as foreign to
fact as many others that have been written on similar lines.”

— =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.

=Mackie, Pauline Bradford.= Girl and the kaiser. †$1.50. Bobbs.

The presence of the kaiser upon the pages of this simple little love
story lends a certain dignity and makes the plot possible, but has no
real historical significance. Wilhelmina, who has been brought up in
America, comes to Germany to visit her uncle, the Admiral von Uhland,
and his pleasure loving French wife. Here she meets two young naval
officers, and upon the occasion of the kaiser’s visit to her uncle she
learns of the strict paternalism practiced in the German army and
navy, and that a rich wife is essential to a poor officer. This is
where the denouement comes in. In the end the kaiser, who has taken a
fancy to her, in his favorite role of destiny, points out to her the
sensible road where she finds both wealth and love.

“Is a charmingly bright and unconventional story. Though by no means a
great story, is one of the most clever little romances of the season.”

+ + =Arena.= 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.

=McKinley, Albert Edward.= Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.

The purpose of the author has been “to present the dynamic or
developmental aspect of the subject, rather than the analytic; he has
not been content with a mere summary of the suffrage qualifications in
the several colonies, but has endeavored to trace the growth of the
colonial ideals and practices respecting the elective franchise.”

“Mr. McKinley’s volume is full of interest. Taken in connection with
Mr. Bishop’s ‘History of elections in the colonies,’ the whole ground
seems thoroughly covered.” F. W. S.

+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 134. Jl. ‘05. 230w.

“In general there is shown the most conservative scholarship. The
immense amount of material consulted, the care in the verification of
its vast number of mere facts, and the patience shown in the
organization of the mass of data, calls forth the highest praise for
the author’s scholarship.” John L. Conger.

+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 608. My. ‘05. 530w.

=McKinley, Charles E.= Educational evangelism: the religious discipline for youth. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.

Clergymen, and all who are interested in the religious training of
boys and girls from 16 to 20 will find much of value in this essay,
which discusses the religious needs of youth and gives suggestions as
to how the church may meet them.

“It is one of the most sensible and thoughtful presentations of what
the spiritual discipline of youth should be, both through the pulpit
and in the school, that has recently appeared. He shows himself an
original thinker, a man of insight, and a true lover of youth.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 110w.

“Though a small book, this is full of judicious thought well worthy of
thoughtful consideration.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 150w.

=McKinley, William.= Tariff. $1.75. Putnam.

“The essay was written in 1896, when Mr. McKinley was governor of
Ohio, and while the information he had gained as chairman of the ways
and means committee was still fresh in mind. Naturally the legislative
and political aspects of the tariff are the ones to which most
attention is given. The author recognizes his difficulty of dealing
with the subject in a non-partisan way, but states, ‘It has been my
honest endeavor to do justice to all directly participating in the
events narrated. It has been my aim to present as completely as
possible a review of proposed tariff legislation since the close of
the Civil war to the present time, as well as a sketch of the measures
actually enacted, to the end that the student may observe the trend
and purpose of the leading political parties in respect to this
economic question.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“The essay was intended for general readers and its merits fully
justify its being put into book form.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 133. Ja. ‘05. 240w.

=McLain, John Scudder.= Alaska and the Klondike. **$2. McClure.

The author, who is editor of the Minneapolis Journal, accompanied a
special sub-committee of the Senate committee on territories to Alaska
in the summer of 1903 and in a series of articles for his paper
discussed the resources and possibilities of the country. These
articles now appear in book form revised, and including statistical
information on commercial and industrial operations down to 1904.

“His book is conservatively written, is interesting and seems to be
believable.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 420w.

“It is the most complete and also the most trustworthy book of its
class that has appeared up to the present time.”

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 70w.

“The book should serve for a long time ... in the capacity of an
authoritative reference work.” Wallace Rice.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w.

“A clear picture of Alaska—its history, population, occupations,
resources, and problems.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 428. S. 23, ‘05. 660w.

“Few of his statements can be designated as erroneous, and these are
mostly of slight importance.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 890w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w.

“An exceedingly interesting book of travel, which ... justifies the
claims of the publishers that it has practically the accuracy and
trustworthiness of a public document.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 1810w.

“Not only an entertaining record of travel, but a compact statement of
the conditions, resources, and needs of the territory. Unquestionably
the ground is not fully covered, but the amount of information
derivable from the work is such that for all general purposes the
treatment is adequate.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 210w.

“The present treatise is the best that has so far appeared. It is
broadly comprehensive.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 220w.

+ =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 260w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

=McMahon, Anna Benneson=, ed. See =Shelley, Percy Bysshe.=

=McManus, Thomas J. Luke.= Boy and the outlaw. $1.50. Grafton press.

The author, whose boyhood was spent in Harper’s Ferry, where he
witnessed the famous raid of John Brown, has woven his recollections
of that time into a story in which a Virginia boy discovers a wounded
mulatto, one of Brown’s men, the day after the raid, and attempts to
conceal the outlaw from the authorities. The resulting adventures
comprise the story, in which a Virginia squire, a doctor, a young
lawyer and others figure.

“A story that moves swiftly and directly and contains a good deal of
pleasant humor and excellent character-drawing.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 70w.

=Macphail, Andrew.= Essays in Puritanism. **$1.50. Houghton.

Taking Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman
and John Wesley as the subjects of his essays, the author has written
a series of sketches which give a better picture of the individual
types than of Puritanism.

“An uncommonly readable and instructive book.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 43. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w.

+ — =Ind.= 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.

“He mingles with his sharp and sometimes acrid treatment of Puritanism
a good deal of sound and discriminating comment on its more attractive
side, but on both sides of his view of Puritanism he leaves an
impression that he has not very thoroughly worked the matter out.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 280. Ap. 29. ‘05. 650w.

“These essays are bright, readable, entertaining, but they are also
sometimes smart and a trifle flippant in style, and, in their dealing
with philosophical thought, superficial. His view, no less than his
style, is journalistic.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.

“His book has many attractions; one of them is the pertinence with
which he makes reflections, called forth in the first instance by the
past, apply to the present. And he has a way of discerning the real
greatness of the men whom he describes.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 230w.

=Macquoid, Mrs. Katharine Sarah Gadsden.= Pictures in Umbria. *$1.50. Scribner.

“This is a volume of purely ‘impressions de voyage’ by an intelligent
observing woman inspired by the history and landscape of Umbria....
The author has a distinct liking for showing the life of the people by
describing their physical characteristics and relating their
conversation, and by throwing these things in contrast with the
characteristics of the ancient race.”—N. Y. Times.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 823. Ag. 12, ‘05. 530w.

* “This one is neither too historic nor too artistic to suit many
tastes.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w.

“The text is so trite and prosaic that it gives the impression of
being written merely for the sake of furnishing a setting for the
fifty original illustrations.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.

* “Written in a bright and picturesque style, and full of interesting
anecdotes.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 183. D. ‘05. 110w.

“When all has been said, the illustrations are by far the most
interesting features of the book. It is worth publishing for them
alone.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 380w.

“The book will form an entertaining companion for the fireside
tourist, for it is intimately written in unadorned, direct narrative
style.” Walter Littlefield.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 130w.

=Macquoid, Percy.= History of English furniture. 20 pts. v. I, pts. 1-3. per pt. *$2.50. Putnam.

“The history has been divided into four parts: ‘The age of oak,’
comprising furniture from 1500 to 1660; ‘The age of walnut,’ from 1660
to 1720, showing the varied influences of the Restoration and Dutch
designers; ‘The age of mahogany,’ lasting from 1720 to 1770, in which
the introduction from France of fresh ideas in design clearly marked
another change, and ‘The composite age,’ from 1770 to 1820, inspired
by an affectation of all things classical, combined with an unbalanced
taste.... There are nearly 1000 illustrations in the entire work, and
sixty of these are in the exact colors of the originals.”—N. Y. Times.

+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 631. My. 20. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)

“This book will be valuable, not only to lovers of old furniture, but
to art students interested in wood-carving.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 155. Jl. 20, ‘05. 560w. (Reviews v. 1., pt. 1.)

+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 230w. (Reviews vol. I., pts.
1-2.)

+ =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 240w. (Reviews vol. I., pt. 1.)

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 350w. (Reviews vol. I,
pts. 1-3.)

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 490w. (Review of v. 1.
pts. 4 and 5; v. 2, pt. 6.)

* “It is unnecessary to add anything to what we have already said
concerning the importance and elegance of this work, which is
absolutely unsurpassed in its field.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 2, pts.
6 and 7.)

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)

* =McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.

“The stories considered in this little volume are; Four from the
‘Ring’ dramas, also ‘Parsifal, the pure,’ ‘Lohengrin, the swan
knight,’ ‘Tannhauser, the knight of song,’ ‘The master singers,’
‘Rienzi, the last of the tribunes,’ ‘The flying Dutchman,’ and
‘Tristan and Isolde.’”—R. of Rs.

* “For the non-musical as legend and fairytale, for the young music
lover who has still in anticipation the Wagner music drama, it is a
capital little book.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.

* =McVickar, Henry Whitney.= Reptiles. †$1.50. Appleton.

“The story is based upon a wager made by three men that in five years
after marriage they will feel the same devotion to their wives that
they felt before marriage. Two, a wealthy young Englishman and an
American clergyman, were for the affirmative, one, a clever young
cynic, for the negative. When the bets were called, the clergyman was
prepared to pay the full amount like a man of honor, the young
Englishman to compromise with a third, but the cynic refused to take
the money, because he, too, lost, since he still loved his wife.”—N.
Y. Times.

* “The story is told in a rather impressionistic style, which
frequently leaves something to be desired.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 794. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.

* “A thoroughly disagreeable novel.”

— =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 40w.

=Macy, Jesse.= Party organization and machinery. *$1.25. Century.

Party organization is described in its relation to presidential,
congressional, and senatorial leadership. Professor Macy traces party
development pathologically rather than historically from its real
beginning in Jefferson’s administration, as a township or county
organization, up through state, congressional, and national
committees. The development of the committees is given, Tammany, and
the differing party management in various states are fully treated.

“Students of political and constitutional history will find it of
great service ... because it treats the problems wisely and brings
home to the reader forcibly the significance of party organization as
a fact.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

“Prof. Macy deals with his subjects sympathetically. The mode of
presentation is concrete.” F. I. Herriott.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 606. My. ‘05. 650w.

Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.

=Atlan.= 95: 552. Ap. ‘05. 300w.

“This study in political pathology will be a welcome addition to the
books available to the student of political science. There seems to be
nothing omitted from this little hand-book that any student of party
methods or management could possibly wish to know.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 660w.

“Survey is very broad. As a rule, Professor Macy is direct and
explicit but he is not always consistent, and we note occasional slips
liable to lead to misconstruction of his position. Whatever there is
of error, however, is not sufficient to vitiate the value of his
work.”

+ — =Outlook.= 78: 1043. D. 24, ‘04. 290w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 230w.

=Madison, James.= Writings; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. v. 5, 1787-1790. subs. *$5. Putnam.

“Mr. Hunt’s third and fourth volumes, consisting chiefly of Madison’s
notes of debates in the Federal convention, brought us down to the
date of its adjournment in September, 1787. The present volume carries
us but two years and a half farther.... Of a hundred and eight letters
printed by Mr. Hunt there are only a dozen that have not been printed
before.... Six came from the Madison papers, two from the collections
of the New York library, two from the Virginia historical society, one
from a North Carolina source, and one, a letter of some interest
written to Philip Mazzei, was once the property of Guizot and is now
in a private collection in Berlin.... Madison’s speeches in the
Virginia convention occupy nearly a fourth of the volume. His speeches
in the first two sessions of the First congress, running to nearly as
great extent, are also given.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Mr. Hunt’s annotations are apposite and intelligent.” J. Franklin
Jameson.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 691. Ap. ‘05. 330w.

“It is a disagreeable task to criticise a volume which shows so much
care and intelligent arrangement, but there is evidence of some hasty
proofreading, or perhaps of slovenly copying. The notes are full and
judicious.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 271. Ap. 6. ‘05. 560w.

* =Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Old-fashioned flowers, and other out-of-door studies. **$1.20. Dodd.

“Half a dozen studies of flowers in colors by Mr. Charles B. Falls,
and attractive type, paper, and binding lend to the small volume an
air of distinction which matches the unusual quality of M.
Maeterlinck’s style. Flowers, like animals, have distinct
personalities for M. Maeterlinck, but his frequent personifications
are aesthetically justified by the real feeling that they
express.”—Dial.

* “A delightful ‘little volume of nature sketches.’”

+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.

* “A little volume of his most subtle and characteristic essays.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

* “Characterized by the singular beauty of Maeterlinck’s style, the
tinge of mysticism, and the interpretation of thought by sentiment
which have given all his books subtle individuality.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 442. D. 16, ‘05. 40w.

=Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.= Prince of lovers. †$1.50. Little.

A story founded upon the secret chronicles of two states lying in the
midst of the Hungarian forest. The time is after the close of the
Thirty years’ war, when some two hundred of these independent states
existed in Germany. The princess of one state is about to be
betrothed, against her will, to the heir of the other, when the heir
disappears. Disguised as a young lieutenant, he comes to her father’s
court and wins her love. After nearly losing his life and his throne
in a series of daring adventures, he elopes with the princess and
comes to his own. A crafty chancellor, a soldier of fortune, and an
unscrupulous villain add to the plot.

“His story is commonplace, and the telling always undistinguished.”

— =Acad.= 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w.

+ =Ath. 1905,= 1: 746. Je. 17. 110w.

“Is full of exciting incident and of well-marked characters.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.

“The romance is not a bad specimen of its type.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w.

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.

“To label this novel as old-fashioned, is to pay a compliment, not
cast a slur. It is to say that the author has taken pains and time,
that his creation is shapely, and dignified.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 390w.

=Magnus, Hugo.= Superstition in medicine; tr. from the German by Julius L. Salinger. **$1. Funk.

A history of the erroneous ideas and fanciful beliefs that have
prevailed in the world with regard to sickness and its cure from the
days of ancient Rome to the present time.

=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Progress of Hellenism in Alexander’s empire. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

In a series of lectures, which represent the compendium of a long and
brilliant development of human nature, the author addresses not only
the general reader who wishes to know something of the expansion of
Greek ideas toward the East, but the specialist who needs general
views of the whole into a corner of which his particular field fits.
He treats Xenophon as the precursor of Hellenism, and brings the
influences down to the part they perform in modern Christianity.

“There is little in the book (beyond novelty of presentation) which
cannot be found elsewhere. It is less excusable that it treats too
exclusively of problems of the author’s own raising, too little of
those current at the present time.” W. S. Ferguson.

+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 189. O. ‘05. 310w.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 480w.

“Such occasional indistinctness does not, however, detract appreciably
from the general luminousness of the picture, from the inspiriting
nerve and freshness which we learnt long ago to associate with Dr.
Mahaffy’s utterances and which show no signs of failing.” E. B.

+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 822. O. ‘05. 320w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 159. My. 19, ‘05. 560w.

“Dr. Mahaffy has made a mistake in attempting to deal in so small a
compass with so vast a question as the spread of Hellenism.”

+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 344. S. 9, ‘05. 1420w.

“They are readable and discursive, but they would not convey a very
clear impression of the period which they profess to describe to any
save finished scholars.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 353. S. 9, ‘05. 1400w.

=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812. 2v. **$7. Little.

The authoritative and widely directed study of Captain Mahan on the
influence of sea power upon history has resulted in a series of most
important volumes. In turning his attention to this phase of the War
of 1812, he has brought to light some entirely new material from
government and private documents, has treated with special clearness
the subject of the imprisonment of American seamen, and has given
emphasis to the records of American privateers. The author traces the
train of causes of the war from 1651, in order to make clear Great
Britain’s course. The work is strongly bound and illustrated.

“No one who reads his latest work will hesitate to say that it is in
all respects worthy to rank on the same level as its predecessors. The
vein is as rich as ever, and it is worked with no abatement of skill
and no diminution of profitable output. He is occasionally prolix, and
the construction of his sentences is sometimes clumsy and involved.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 366. N. 3, ‘05. 2760w.

* “His discussion of the conditions which caused the war is the best
we know of anywhere.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 777. N. 18, ‘05. 1160w.

* “But whatever its defects, ‘Sea power in its relations to the war of
1812’ must be rated, like its distinguished predecessors, a
substantial contribution to the history of naval warfare and a
suggestive exposition of the force of the doctrine of ‘preparedness.’”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 831. D. 2, ‘05. 940w.

=Mahler, Arthur.= Paintings of the Louvre; Italian and Spanish, in collaboration with Carlos Blacker and W: A. Slater. **$2. Doubleday.

“A handbook of the Italian and Spanish sections of the celebrated art
gallery, and includes also a history of the art of Italy from the
early workers in the Byzantine manner to the Renaissance, while the
part devoted to the Spanish schools is given up mainly to Velasquez
and Murillo. The illustrations show examples of the work of these
artists as well as of Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and
others.”—N. Y. Times.

“The illustrations are numerous, but too much reduced and too
indistinctly printed to do more than remind one how inadequately they
represent the originals.”

— =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.

+ — =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 70w.

* “The criticism is of the old school, Vasari’s pleasing tales being
repeated with an apparent obliviousness of the incredulity into which
they have fallen through the researches of such moderns as Berensen,
Fry, and others.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.

“The book, as embodying the latest results of research, is to be
relied on. The criticism is unoriginal and often extremely
commonplace. It is well arranged, the English is smooth.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 190w.

“The only charge to be brought against his text is the overstudious
avoidance of anything like emphasis. The final chapter on Spanish
paintings shares the merits of the others—clearness, simplicity,
intelligence.” L. L.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 1030w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w.

* “The historical, biographical, and technical constituents of this
commentary are quite readable.”

+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 490w.

* =Maitland, John Alexander Fuller.= Joseph Joachim. *$1. Lane.

This volume in the “Living masters of music” series “is only some
sixty pages in length and is divided into five sections dealing with
Joachim’s career, violin playing, teaching, influence, compositions,
each of which is necessarily summarized in the briefest manner....
Having quickly disposed of the facts of his career, there is space
found for interesting personal reflections upon the playing and
influence of Joachim. His character, moral and artistic, which is one,
is well summed up.”—Acad.

* “Is a good specimen of condensed biography.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 110w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 450w.

=Maitland, J. A. Fuller=, ed. See =Grove, George.=

=Major, Charles.= Yolanda, maid of Burgundy. * †$1.50. Macmillan.

“The time is when Edward IV. reigned in England, and Louis XI. sat
upon the French throne. Then Charles of Burgundy, styled Charles the
bad, was feared as the richest and most powerful prince in the
country, and it was Mary, his beautiful and gentle daughter, who was
the pawn that the wicked prince would have gladly sacrificed for his
own ambitious aims.... It is a story bristling with intrigue and
adventure, with meetings after dark, and love and scorn and villainy
and fine ladies traveling unattended, and mystery galore, and always
through it all runs the theme of love—the love of a brave man for a
beautiful girl.”—N. Y. Times.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.

* “A readable story, though not a high literary achievement.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.

* “Is a very good story of its kind.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 210w.

* “Charles Major once more shines through brilliant incapacity when he
attempts ‘Yolande.’”

— =R. of Rs.= 32: 761. D. ‘05. 70w.

=Malcolm, Napier.= Five years in a Persian town. *$3. Dutton.

“This is an interesting description of Yezd, ‘in the very center of
Central Persia,’ where the author was for some time engaged in
missionary work, and enjoyed unusual opportunities of mixing with all
sorts and conditions of people. The experience of such a stay as he
says apologetically, is not a traveler’s experience, but what of
that?... the sympathetic picture of Yezd scenery, life, and manners
which he has drawn with minute and vivid accuracy is as memorable as
it is rare.”—Ath.

“The real value of ‘Five years in a Persian town’ lies in the
sympathetic study of native character and modes of thought. In this
respect Mr. Malcolm will not easily be surpassed, combining, as he
does, keen insight and a curious subtlety of imagination with an
incisive style relieved by delightful touches of dry humor.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 69. Jl. 15. 1680w.

“A keen, but quiet and unobtrusive, sense of the humorous aspects of
things runs thru the author’s pictures of Yezdi life and enhances the
attractiveness of the volume.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 190w.

“The book fulfils its purpose excellently, and makes a fair guess at
some Persian characteristics.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 286. O. 5, ‘05. 650w.

“Mr. Malcolm has given us a very interesting, amusing and instructive
account of Persian life.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.

* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Reconstruction of religious belief. **$1.75. Harper.

“Mr. Mallock attempts to aid ‘the thoughtful man of to-day,’ either
‘in justifying his old belief by supplying it with new foundations, or
in building up some new belief which may possibly take its place.’ Mr.
Mallock demonstrates that, when science has said its last word, it
inevitably leaves us in some region outside itself in which ‘an
intellectual solution of the contradiction between scientific and
religious principles must be found.’”—R. of Rs.