Chapter XXXIV: Part IV: gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am (20)

“The author was a delegate from Switzerland to the Hague international
conferences, and this very thorough discussion was at least in part
suggested by those conferences. The book of course deals with
international private law as distinguished from international public
law, and is in the main concerned with the continental views of this
branch of jurisprudence.” (Outlook). “Mr. Kuhn has not only translated
the work, but has supplemented it with additions from American and
English law. Very useful lists, annotations, and bibliographies
complete the work.” (R. of Rs.)

“It is a convenient, if not very skilfully planned survey of the whole
field. The information which it furnishes as to bibliography is not
the least recommendation of the book. But the omissions are far from
few.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 340w.

“Its exactness of method and thoroughness of research evidently make
it a work of lasting value to the jurist accustomed to deal with large
legal topics in a scientific manner.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.

“Professor Meili has written a very useful book for students of
comparative politics, as well as for lawyers.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 351. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.

“A very handy and valuable legal work.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

=Mellor, J. W.= Crystallization of iron and steel: an introduction to the study of metallography. *$1.60. Longmans.

“It is certainly a convenience to possess such a book.... In six short
and lucid chapters—originally lectures delivered in 1904 to the
engineering students of the Staffordshire county technical classes of
the Newcastle high school—we are taken from a well-put statement of
what is known respecting the solidification and cooling of alloys in
general to the consideration of the phenomena recognized in iron and
steel in particular, and, lastly, to practical directions for the due
preparations of specimens for microscopic examination.”—Ath.

“It must be regarded as an ‘ad interim’ report only. Looking at Dr.
Mellor’s little volume in this light, we have nothing but praise to
award it.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 310. S. 2. 540w.

* “This second chapter is the only unsatisfactory one of the book.
Confining himself to limited space, the writer has sacrificed
conciseness to mere brevity. The two predominant features of the book
as a whole are the great concentration of information into a small
space, and the interesting manner in which it is presented, which
latter never fails to attract. This clouding of the main issue by the
introduction of data not absolutely necessary is one of the principal
weaknesses of the book. When all has been said, this book is the best
popular introduction to the study of metallography that we have.”

+ + — =Engin. N.= 54: 528. N. 16, ‘05. 1690w.

“The presentation is without bias, and each theory and method is
described and examined as clearly and fairly as the author’s evident
lack of practical acquaintance with the subject as a whole will
permit.” A. McWilliam.

— + =Nature.= 72: 532. S. 28, ‘05. 610w.

=Melville, Lewis.= Thackeray country. $2. Macmillan.

A volume in the “Pilgrimage series.” “Mr. Melville treats of those
localities which are of primary interest to those who are acquainted
with the life and writings of the great novelist. He deals with
Thackeray’s London homes and the features and associations of their
neighborhood; his homes in Paris, and other places on the European
continent, and in America. Special attention is paid to those places
that form a background of the scenes of Thackeray’s novels.
Biographical information is also supplied connected with the
novelist’s residences from his arrival in England from India at the
age of six until his death in 1863. The volume contains fifty
full-page illustrations mostly from original photographs by C. W.
Barnes Ward.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The author has not tackled his task in the right spirit or performed
it in the right way; all that he has given us is a rather disconnected
short life of Thackeray. There are many distinct mistakes. A large
portion of the book has not anything to do with its supposed subject.
It is a poor production.”

— — =Acad.= 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w.

“He has written an interesting book, which will please the reader the
more, the better he knows the author.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.

=Menpes, Dorothy.= Brittany. *$6. Macmillan.

“The latest of the ‘Menpes books’ is devoted to ‘Brittany.’ Mr.
Mortimer Menpes has made a specialty of traveling with a water-color
box and a literary daughter, and the results of these travels appear
each year in time for the holiday trade.” (Nation.) There are some
seventy-five illustrations, and they show different parts of Northern
France—peasants, scenes in the markets, street scenes, etc.

“Her best descriptions, her brightest sketches, are spoilt for the
reader by unnecessary blots of sloppiness.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 312. S. 2. 160w.

“Text and illustrations have a common facility and a common lack of
seriousness which is welcome, or the reverse, according to one’s point
of view.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 279. O. ‘05. 240w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 501. Jl. 29, ‘05. 260w.

=Meredith, Katharine Mary Cheever (Johanna Staats).= Wing of love. †$1. McClure.

“A charming child in this book, and a nice young journalist chap, her
staunch friend from the day she and her mother find their way to the
top floor of the New York lodging house where he and two other
bachelors have their abode. This friendship is quite disinterested,
the mother receiving only courteous attentions from him, his heart
being in another’s keeping—facts concerning which subsequently develop
very prettily to connect them with his romance.”—Outlook.

“The chief fault in its development lies in the fact that, instead of
making it a short story, she has padded her little tale until it has
lost much of its charm.”

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380 Je. 10. ‘05. 310w.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.

=Merington, Marguerite.= Cranford: a play. $1.25. Fox.

A comedy in three acts made from Mrs. Gaskell’s well-known story of
the same name. The full charm of the story is retained in the
dramatization.

* “Written with Miss Merington’s usual sprightliness.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 40w.

“A not unskillful dramatization for amateur theatricals of Mrs.
Gaskell’s ever fresh and delightful tale.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 15w.

=Merriman, Charles Eustace.= Self-made man’s wife: her letters to her son: being the woman’s view of certain famous correspondence. †$1.50. Putnam.

“In her letters the mother advises her son on the treatment of his
wife, on the retention of his ideals, on the writing of books and on
the reading of them, on quarreling and making up, on the fallacy and
folly of aphorisms, adages, and other epigrammatic usages, on economy
in households, and a number of other living topics, and aptly
illustrates her points by instances taken from her own domestic
experiences or observations of the experiences of her neighbors.”—N.
Y. Times.

“Upon the whole these letters are tedious and disappointing.”

— =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 300w.

“A cup of cambric tea is this book.”

— =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

“If they are not as entertaining as those of her husband it is only
perhaps because the reader has already consumed two volumes of his
epistolary lore and is perhaps a trifle satiated.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 530w.

“The number of old jokes and the weary waste of platitudes in this
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— =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.

“The letters have a masculine ring. They exhibit a terse expression, a
worldly acumen, a sense of humor, and an anecdotal wealth, that
strongly resemble the style of the self-made man.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 440w.

=Merriman, Mansfield.= Mechanics of materials. $5. Wiley.

A tenth edition, re-written and enlarged, of this text-book which
“deals with the elastic and, to a limited extent, with the plastic
properties of materials of construction and the application of the
laws of strength of materials to the simple machine parts and
structures. The treatment is essentially theoretical.”—Nature.

* “The present book is in some respects an excellent treatise. The
first point which strikes a reader is the great looseness of
terminology. The author has an aggravating way of describing a thing
at first very crudely and inaccurately, but without any reservations,
giving a revised statement much later on and a further revision later
still, and this in the case of quite simple matters.”

+ + — =Nature.= 73: 25. N. 9, ‘05. 1180w.

=Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= Text-book on roof and bridges, pt. 1, Stresses in simple trusses. $2.50. Wiley.

“Those ... who are familiar with the first edition of this book,
published in 1888, will hardly recognize the present volume as being a
revision of the same book.... We now have the dead load stresses, the
live load stresses and the stresses due to wind and other causes
treated in separate chapters for the common forms of simple trusses.
The fifth chapter takes up the consideration of long-span bridges....