Chapter VI: discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and (7)

“But it would be unfair to regard Dr. Rhodes’s slips in military
matters as impairing the value of his work. The present volume is a
perfect storehouse of valuable facts and records. If anything, it is
too full of material and not sufficiently ordered.” A. R. Ropes.

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 640w.

“I cannot think of another historian who so constantly produces the
effect of complete candor, who is so indefatigably minded to tell all
that can be reckoned of consequence, and to display unreservedly the
sources of his knowledge and the grounds of his opinions.” W. G.
Brown.

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 181. O. ‘05. 2800w.

“As a whole it comes up fully to the high standard set in the
preceding volumes. In the treatment of the controversial questions of
the time Mr. Rhodes shows the same spirit of impartiality and breadth
of view which has won for him the admiration of students.” James
Wilford Garner.

+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 352. Mr. ‘05. 920w.

“To the specialist, the work will appeal as authoritative until more
evidence is forthcoming. The author has performed a distinct service
in showing that a non-partisan account of our great Civil war need not
be colorless.” David Y. Thomas.

+ + + =Dial.= 38: 230. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1020w.

“It is hardly possible that the theme will ever be treated with fuller
detail, more skilfully wrought into a dramatic story. Concerning this,
as concerning the whole work, it must be said that it will be most
authoritative among those who are most familiar with the sources of
information. The general reader may grow to believe fully in the
author’s conclusions, but the specialist will be convinced by the
unquestionable force of the testimony offered.”

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 151. Ja. 19, ‘05. 680w.

* “This masterful accomplishment entitles Mr. Rhodes to the first
place among American historians.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 120w.

“The writer’s method and his even narration make pleasant reading.
There is the same painstaking examination of authorities, the same
skilful arrangement of facts, the same balanced (sometimes hesitating)
judgment, and the same desire to be eminently fair to all parties in a
controversy.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 177. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1800w.

“Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of the war itself, and of the issues growing
out of the war, is that of an unbiased historian, and will meet, we
think, with the cordial approbation of southern as well as northern
participants in that great struggle.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 180w.

“A considerable part of this volume is given to a chapter describing
the conditions of society in the northern states during the war, and
another chapter to society in the southern states. These are among the
most important and interesting contributions to our historical
literature. They are hardly entitled to be called brilliant, but they
are full of good sense, of sound judgments, and of well-proportioned
groupings of facts. They are likely to be read as long as any
historical writings of our time. His style is not brilliant, but it is
a good working style, with the fundamental merits of clearness and
dignity; and his judgments are the judgments of a man of great common
sense. All preceding books have at best been materials for such a
history. Mr. Rhodes’s work is the best narrative of this stirring
time.”

+ + + =World’s Work.= 9: 5982. Mr. ‘05. 700w.

=Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell Hegan (Mrs. Cale Young Rice).= Sandy. †$1. Century.

In turning away from Mrs. Wiggs and Lovey Mary, Mrs. Rice has chosen
to import the irresponsible, hot-headed, impulsive Irish boy, Sandy.
All the way from stowaway on an American liner to the successful
college graduate, and the hero of an ambitious romance, he runs a
curious round of chance which claims him for a boot-black, newsboy,
peddler, and finally drops him into the keeping of a kind-hearted old
judge, who starts him along the road to fortune.

“The story is a good deal more than readable.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 684. Je. 3, 210w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w.

“The book possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of her two earlier
volumes. There is no denying Mrs. Rice’s pleasant manner of telling a
story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 630w.

“It possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of the philosophy of the
Cabbage patch.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.

“A simple, lifelike story full of quiet humor, pathos, and charm.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 80w.

“An interesting study of the stuff that Americans are made of, and of
a variety of cleverly drawn Kentucky types.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 872. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w.

“Mrs. Rice’s reputation will receive a fine impetus from this
delightful little story.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 95. Je. ‘05. 140w.

“Mrs. Rice has given too much attention to the outsiders in ‘Sandy,’
and the boy and the girl who are the chief actors suffer. The story is
sketchily drawn; too sketchily, the average reader will think.”

+ + — =Reader.= 6: 243. Jl. ‘05. 300w.

“Nothing but the dreariest herbage of sentimental commonplace.”

— =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.

=Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow (Mrs. R. H. Richards).= Art of right living. *50c. Whitcomb & B.

This small volume proffers much commonsense advice on the limitations
of food, the need of air, exercise, amusement and work.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My. 6, ‘05. 70w.

=Outlook.= 79: 398. F. 11. ‘05. 30w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 50w.

=Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe. Mrs.= Tree’s will. †75c. Estes.

“The reader of Mrs. Richard’s series beginning with ‘Captain January’
will meet old acquaintances here. Mrs. Tree herself, though dead,
seems more alive than anybody through her will, its effects, and the
anecdotes her survivors narrate.”—Outlook.

* “The book is a gem in its own way.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 80w.

* “Is a worthy successor to ‘Mrs. Tree’ in affording quiet amusement
for an idle hour. Mrs. Richards writes brightly, humorously, and with
excellent taste.”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 350w.

“There are certain touches of pleasant humor here and there in the
book that almost give it a reason for existence.”

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 310w.

“The picturing of village life, though amusing and touching at times,
lacks strength and body, seems trivial and fantastic.”

— =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14. ‘05. 60w.

=Richardson, Clifford.= Modern asphalt pavement. $3. Wiley.

This book successfully covers a field hitherto but inadequately dealt
with. It is “the first authoritative presentation of the subject by a
representative of the asphalt paving companies, thus making public the
results of long and patient investigation by them, not heretofore
accessible to the municipal engineer.... Structurally, Mr. Richardson
divides an asphalt pavement into three parts or courses; the base, the
intermediate course and the surface course.” (Engin. N.) He treats his
subject exhaustively from the selection of materials to the proper
execution of the work.

“In conclusion it not too much to say that Mr. Richardson’s book
should be classed with those which appear too infrequently, but whose
appearance marks epochs in the industry to which they relate. Even if
the dictums of the authors are not always accepted or vindicated, they
set people to thinking and mark out new paths for future progress.” S.
Whinery.

+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 633. Je. 15, ‘05. 4240w.

“The book is likely to prove of great value to municipal authorities.”
T. H. B.

+ + + =Nature.= 72: 316. Ag. 3, ‘05. 600w.

=Richardson, Dorothy.= Long day: a true story of a New York working girl as told by herself. *$1.20. Century.

A country bred girl tells of her experiences in New York city. She
came friendless and unskilled with but a few dollars in her pocket,
she sought honest work, and found short jobs as a box maker, a
sweat-shop worker, a liner of jewel-boxes, a “shaker” in a steam
laundry and at various other occupations all equally unpleasant and
equally underpaid. The pictures she draws of the working girls’ home
are painfully sad and realistic.

* “The book deserves a reading.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 749. N. ‘05. 170w.

* “Written with so much understanding and insight.”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 890w.

“The woman who tells her own story is terribly in earnest about it
all.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 330w.

* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 150w.

* “A story that is nothing less than fascinating.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 180w.

=Richardson, Norval.= Heart of hope. †$1.50. Dodd.

“This story of the Civil war offers drama and romance in about the
usual proportions, but the former of a quality quite unusual—the siege
of Vicksburg being pictured with cycloramic realism.”—Outlook.

+ =Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 30w.

“This is an uncommonly interesting story of the Civil war. The
sentimental motive is skilfully woven into the account of the siege.”

+ — =Reader.= 6: 475. S. ‘05. 240w.

=Richey, Harry Grant.= Handbook for superintendents of construction, architects, builders, and building inspectors. $4. Wiley.

“The subjects which receive particularly thorough and careful
treatment are: excavating, laying out foundations, testing and
analysis of stone, stone and bricklaying (which is especially well
illustrated), testing of soil, piling, timber specifications, steel
sheet piling, building stones, etc.... A fair amount of space is
devoted to cement and concrete.”—Engin. N.

“In general, the book is meritorious and well presented, almost all of
the matter being of value to building inspectors or superintendents.
The book compares very well with other books of its kind.” Wm. W.
Ewing.

+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 642. Je. 15, ‘05. 560w.

=Richman, Irving Berdine.= Rhode Island; a study in separatism. **$1.10. Houghton.

A volume in the “American commonwealths” series. “There can be no
doubt that the distinctive characteristic of Rhode Island as a
political entity has been its separatist tendencies. Founded as a
protest, it has clearly demonstrated its innate individualism in every
crisis of its history.... There is reason for Mr. Richman’s assertion
that even to-day the influence of the old-time thought is making
itself keenly felt in the political life of the state.... Mr. Richman
writes with enthusiasm [and gives] concise retrospective
summaries.”—Outlook.

* “Mr. Richman has made one of the most instructive and readable
contributions to the ‘American commonwealths’ series.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ‘05. 580w.

* “His conclusions, on the whole, show discrimination, and his
treatment is adequate, developing the social and economic as well as
the political and constitutional history of the state. The most
serious defect—and it is serious—is an occasional obscuration of
salient facts in a mass of detail.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.

* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 280w.

=Richmond, Grace S.= Indifference of Juliet. †$1.50. Doubleday.

An “account of Juliet’s repeated refusals of a nice, tall,
broad-shouldered young man named Anthony. Anthony had been rich, but
unfortunately lost all his money. Nevertheless he continued to love
Juliet.... At last, goaded to desperation, he worked out a pretty
little plan of arousing the lady’s jealousy, which was quite
successful. With Juliet’s aid he fitted and furnished a dear little
box of a house in the country, ostensibly for a lovely California
girl.... After it was all ready for its new mistress Juliet permitted
herself the luxury of going over it all alone one evening and crying.
And there Anthony found her. But this is not the end of the story. In
fact it is only the beginning, and several other romances crop up
before it is finished.”—N. Y. Times.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 380w.

“A pleasant little love story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17. ‘05. 220w.

=Rickert, Edith.= Reaper. †$1.50. Houghton.

A story of the primitive life of the Shetland islands where the sea is
“the great fact of life.” The hero reaps his harvest of content after
years spent in patient service to a widowed mother, whose fondness for
drink he strives by eternal vigilance to hide from others. The call of
the sea is forever in his ears, but in the end, when he is free to go,
he finds that the desire is conquered and his real happiness lies at
home in the love of a woman and a little child.

“The dialect is not particularly unintelligible, but there is a good
deal of it.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 50w.

“It is worth reading for itself, and those who love the sea,
especially, will like it because it is full of the atmosphere of the
sea, of the simplicity and the mysticism and primitiveness of true
sea-dwelling people.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 503. Mr. 2, ‘05. 290w.

“A new field, and a new strong writer in that field. There is much
quiet power in the story.”

+ =Reader.= 5: 256. Ja. ‘05. 280w.

“As to its intrinsic interest and picturesqueness there can be no
doubt whatever.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 717. My. 13, ‘05. 670w.

* =Ridgeway, William.= Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse. *$3.75. Macmillan.

“Treats not only of all the chief breeds of British domestic horses
known in historical times, but also takes a survey of all the other
living equidae, as well as of the ancestors of the genus. He has made
an attempt to treat historically the origin of the various colors
found in English horses; at the same time indicating the influence
exercised on the history of the chief nations of the ancient,
mediaeval, and modern world by the possession of horses.... Besides
all this he has ‘also tried to point out the lessons of supreme
importance to the breeder.’ ... A supplementary chapter has been
included considering ‘The development of equitation.’ There are also
addenda and a full index, besides numerous illustrations.”—N. Y.
Times.

* “He marshals evidence for you as a special pleader, and hammers it
in as a violent partisan. But at the same time he does not carry his
audience away. There are too many slips of fact, too many circular
proofs, too many violations of logic. At the end you are interested,
stimulated, but not won.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 313. S. 29, ‘05. 1710w.

* “Prof. Ridgeway on the other hand, has primarily attacked the
problem from the point of view of the historian and the archaeologist,
and it must be acknowledged that naturalists owe him a large debt of
gratitude for bringing into prominence lines of evidence with which,
from the very nature of the case, they are unfamiliar.” R. L.

+ + =Nature.= 73: 126. D. 7, ‘05. 1950w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 731. O. 28, ‘05. 240w.

* =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 36, ‘05. 100w.

* “It is also an encyclopedia of information on the history of the
‘Equidae’, collected from every source, from post-Pliocene deposits to
modern sporting newspapers. Professor Ridgeway, when merely setting
down information, is apt to flit among countries and ages with a
dexterity which perplexes the reader.”

+ + — =Spec.= 95: 655. O. 28, ‘05. 1540w.

=Ridley, Alice, Lady.= Daughter of Jael. $1.50. Longmans.

With the spirit of a Brutus, Frances Cary, the heroine of this story,
kills her niggardly and cruel grandfather in order to free her
brother, the lawful heir, from a rule of terrible bondage. The act was
inevitable to her philosophy of youth. The book goes on to show that
retribution will not be restrained by the mitigating circumstance of
unselfishness in actuating a crime. One has his fill of deep problems.

“This story deals with the shadow of a very dark deed involving a
question of casuistry in morals. The book is interesting in a dismal
way. The odor of chloroform pervades it and hangs heavy on every
page.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 21. Ja. 14, ‘05. 490w.

“It fairly bristles with problems. In spite of the undercurrent of
gloom the story is light and even gay in some of its passages.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 26. Ja. 5. ‘05. 250w.

=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Riley songs o’ cheer. $1.25. Bobbs.

Over fifty of Mr. Riley’s happiest verses have been collected into
this volume which is profusely illustrated by Will Vawter. The
all-golden; A Christmas carol; The first bluebird; Mister hop-toad; A
passing hail; The twins; A song of the road; and While the heart beats
young, are included among other old favorites.

* + + =Arena.= 34: 660. D. ‘05. 480w.

* “There is a good deal of commonplace work in the book, but there are
also bits here and there of Mr. Riley at his best.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.

* “It is a great pity that Mr. James Whitcomb Riley’s publishers
should persist in vulgarizing verse so fine as his by cheap and silly
illustrations.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 150w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.

* “Wholesome verse, it is, and tinged with a sentiment that is genuine
though often commonplace.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 70w.

=Riley, Theodore Myers.= A memorial biography of the Very Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman. $5. Priv. ptd. at the Marion press, Jamaica, Queensborough, N. Y.

A biography which covers fully the facts of a life upon which the
author comments as follows: “He was never primarily a theologian, or
indeed primarily anything but an admirably well-balanced man, in whom
the note of our common nature was always predominant.... He wrote no
great books; he ventilated no schemes of sociological or of
theological improvement to the world; he offered no advice to the
public for the reconstitution of human society. He simply abode in the
path of achievement marked out for him by his office as a priest, and
by his gifts of constitution and rule.... And so he became great,
because he was faithful, humble, wise, modest.”

“It is appreciative, orderly, and so full that its 795 pages of noble
type leave nothing to be desired except an index.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 154. F. 23, ‘05. 290w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 57. Ja. 28, ‘05. 170w. (Statement of
contents.)

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 580w. (Abstract of
contents.)

=Riley, Thomas James.= Higher life of Chicago. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.

A study of the culture interests of Chicago has resulted in the
exposition of some of the agencies that are working for the betterment
of the city, including the schools, libraries and the press, civic
associations and women’s clubs, social settlements, charities, etc.

“To many who think of Chicago as a great commercial centre merely,
this account of the higher life will be a revelation.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 594. S. ‘05. 100w.

“It is a book of much value both for reference and for the further
stimulation of cultural and altruistic endeavor.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 327. My. 1, ‘05. 80w.

=Ringwalt, Ralph Curtis.= Briefs on public questions, with selected lists of references. *$1.20. Longmans.

A book which “is sure of favor with the young debating community, but
is also well calculated to enlarge the understanding and settle the
convictions of journalists and legislators. Its themes are logically
ordered under three heads, Politics, Economics, and Sociology.”
(Nation.) Twenty-five individual topics are treated, among them
Naturalization, Woman suffrage, Negro suffrage, Restriction of
immigration, Reciprocity with Canada, Government ownership of
railways, single tax, etc.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 56: 594. S. ‘05. 170w.

“Great judgment and fairness have been displayed by the author, who
has been able to sink personal considerations to a marked degree in
his effort to impartially present a brief outline of the principal
arguments on each subject discussed.”

+ + + =Arena.= 34: 329. S. ‘05. 250w.

“High-school and college students will give this book a warm welcome.”

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

“The scheme and the execution are to be commended, and Mr. Ringwalt
has had in mind in his bibliography the resources of ordinary public
libraries.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 150w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 1160w.

“Within its chosen field a valuable reference book. The work has been
done with much care and thoroughness, and the book is not by any means
limited in its usefulness to those preparing for debates, although its
peculiar adaptability to that purpose is evident.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 442. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

=Riordan, William L.= Plunkitt of Tammany hall. †$1. McClure.

A series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by
ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from
his rostrum—the New York county courthouse bootblack stand—and
recorded by William L. Riordan. “For more than forty years he has seen
the political game played in New York city.... His has been the
peculiar distinction of holding four offices at one and the same time
and drawing salaries for three of them.... He is the old-fashioned
type of the professional politician, even in Tammany Hall, but he has
a shrewd, homely sense that is not to be learned from books and that
would be invaluable in a man without the moral crookedness that
afflicts this man.”—Pub. Opin.

=Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 477. O. 7, ‘05. 370w.

* =R. of Rs.= 32: 638. N. ‘05. 170w.

=Ripley, William Zebina=, ed. Trusts, pools and corporations. *$1.80. Ginn.

This volume is “a compilation of special articles, mainly by other
well-known legal writers, on the great cases which have arisen
relative to the status of corporate bodies. These cases extend over a
period of thirty-five years, from the Michigan salt association ... in
1868 to the recent Northern securities company and the United States
shipbuilding company.”—N. Y. Times.

“Doubtless the book will prove a valuable adjunct to the equipment of
the student. But a further compilation and classification of cases
would have been more reassuring to the student.”

+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 593. My. ‘05. 170w.

=Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 50w.

“An important and valuable contribution to economic literature.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 295. Mr. 16, ‘05. 540w.

* “A book of very considerable value.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.

+ + =Nation.= 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 290w.

“The introduction is a clear and unbiased discussion of the trust
problem.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.

=Rishell, Charles Wesley.= Child as God’s child. 75c. Meth. bk.

A discussion of “baptism and church membership and the teaching of the
home and Sunday school from the point of view of one who believes in
gradual growth into the religious life.” (Ind.)

=Ind.= 58: 1013. My. 4, ‘05. 50w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 144. Mr. 4, ‘05. 210w.

=Rives, Amelie.= See =Troubetzkoy, Amelie.=

=Rives, Hallie Ermine.= See =Dickens, Charles=

=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Red fox: the story of his adventurous career in the Ringwaak wilds and of his final triumph over the enemies of his kind. †$2. Page.

“The history of a hero fox of singular beauty and strength, united
with rare intelligence, adaptability and foresight.... His range was
the forest, rocky slopes, and backwoods farms of the Ringwaak country
in eastern Canada. Here he ran the full gamut of fox-experience ...
leading a joyous and adventurous life till the brightness of his
renown made him a shining mark for capture. Then, taken by a trick
formidable for its simplicity, he was sent to the states to make a
Roman holiday for a fashionable hunt club, but escaped by almost
super-vulpine sagacity and found safety in the mountains.” (Nation.)
Fifty full page drawings by Charles Livingston Bull illustrate the
volume.

* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 50w.

* “Has the fascination of a real jungle story, without owing any
apparent debt to Mr. Kipling.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9, 210w.

* + =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.

* “It is as charming in style as it is in atmosphere.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

* “It is intensely interesting throughout; it ends happily; the
natural history is sound; and the pictures are numerous and worthy.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 150w.

“Mr. Roberts appears to tell his story chiefly for its own sake, but
he impresses us quite as deeply as if he had tried to enforce it by
didacticism.”

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

“Is a rare thing among animal biographies. The interest, at least, is
quite human.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 410w.

* “Certainly the story is entertaining, and wins and keeps the
sympathy of the reader for the four-footed hero.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.

Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 120w.

* “Red Fox is one of the most interesting characters in all the annals
of woods life.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 170w.

“The treatment is sufficiently literal to answer all that the author
claims for his book, and certainly nothing is lost in charm by the
insertion of what Mr. Roberts considers the animal psychology.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.

=Roberts, Edmund Willson.= Automobile pocketbook: a compendium of the gasoline automobile. $1.50. Gas engine pub.

The object of this little book is “to place before the designer and
the operator, in a brief manner, a few general notes on the design and
the operation of the gasoline automobile.” “Somewhat more than
one-half the book is devoted to the design of various parts, such as
valve mechanisms, mufflers and axles; and detailed descriptions of the
best forms now in use are given, accompanied by lettered drawings,
which enable the average reader to grasp the idea at a glance....
Several chapters are devoted to the care of various parts of the
automobile, how to locate troubles and how to make repairs.” (Engin.
N.)

“This pocketbook fills a place in automobile literature occupied by no
other book.”

+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 636. Je. 15, ‘05. 280w.

=Roberts, George Simon.= Old Schenectady. *$4.50. Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N. Y.

A book which “carries the reader back to 1682, when the Dutch Van
Curlers, the Vedders, the Tellers, and other Dutch families settled
there. The author does not attempt a historical narrative, but gives a
series of pictures of the quaint town in the early days: its pioneer
settlers; its defenses against Indian attack; its French and Indian
massacre; its Dutch heirlooms. The value of the book is much enhanced
by appropriate and well-executed cuts and halftone illustrations.”—Am.
Hist. R.

=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 722. Ap. ‘05. 80w.

“Some history, more genealogy, and a modicum of biography well served
by the compiler of the neatly printed volume, make an interesting
story. The book bristles with anecdote, reminiscence, and tradition of
the families ... whose names still count for much in the Mohawk
valley.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 61. Ja. 28, ‘05. 520w.

=Roberts, Isaac Phillips.= Horse. **$1.25. Macmillan.

This book “includes an account of the development of the horse from
the early times and the introduction of improved breeds; a description
of kinds and grades now in use; a careful study of the different gaits
and paces of the horse; and many chapters dealing with the most
approved and practicable methods of training, feeding, driving,
breeding, and caring for horses.”—Outlook.

“Even the man who breeds horses for the market may find helpful
suggestions here. Told in an entertaining way, with an enthusiasm for
the subject that adds sparkle to the story.”

+ + + =Country Calendar.= 1: 223. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

Reviewed by Charles Tracy Bronson.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 570w.

“The book has unquestioned value, and contains in compact form but in
clear language much that is valuable.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 100w.

=Roberts, Morley.= Lady Penelope. †$1.50. Page.

The lady Penelope Brading, orphaned daughter of an English earl and an
American heiress, is a young woman of ideas, and ideals. From a host
of suitors, and there are many as she possesses all things save a
sense of humor, she chooses eight; a poet, a captain, a successful
Jew, a young nobleman, a war correspondent, a balloonist, an artist,
and an American millionaire, and puts them in training, finally
announcing that she has married one of them secretly. Each pretends to
be the one and the reader is thoroly mystified even when a baby
arrives to further complicate the situation.

“In the present book we find neither matter nor manner.”

— =Acad.= 68: 151. F. 18, ‘05. 320w.

“‘Lady Penelope’ is the best book we have seen for the use of those
newspapers which a few years ago offered prizes for guessing how the
story would end.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 673. Mr. 23, ‘05. 440w.

“It is all in its airy way an amazingly clever satire, touching upon
an astonishing number of solemn and respectable matters in a manner of
cheerful and spontaneous audacity, which disarms resentment.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 146. Mr. 11, ‘05. 790w.

“This is an amusing and audacious comedy of cross purposes and
dramatic situations.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.

“Original, clever and amusing.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.

+ =Reader.= 6: 478. S. ‘05. 170w.

“Witty and ingenious.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 140w.

=Roberts, Theodore.= Brothers of peril. †$1.50. Page.

The two brothers of peril are a brave Indian boy and a young English
cavalier seeking adventure in the New world. The scenes are laid in
Newfoundland among the Beothic Indians. The author says: “I have dared
to resurrect an extinct tribe for the purposes of fiction. I have
drawn inspiration from the spirit of history rather than the letter.
But the heart of the wilderness, and the hearts of men and women, I
have pictured in this romance of olden time as I know them to-day.”

* “A well-fancied tale of old Newfoundland.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 50w.

“We admire Mr. Roberts’s modesty, and commend him for his temperate
description.”

+ =Bookm.= 22: 182. O. ‘05. 200w.

“A rarely good tale of adventure in which the characters are vividly
drawn and the interest is never allowed to fall below the properly
breathless point.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 870w.

“A fabric pulsing with thrills, jealousy, pirates, Indian treachery
and other necessities of a thoroughly good story of adventure.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 221. Ag. 12. ‘05. 90w.

=Robertson, Charles Grant,= ed. Select statutes, cases and documents to illustrate English constitutional history, 1660-1832; with a supplement from 1832-1894. **$3. Putnam.

“The book is the outgrowth of the author’s own needs in teaching
modern history at Oxford, where he found that ... there was a hiatus
that needed to be filled by a collection of documents for the epoch
that opens with the restoration of Charles II.... Among the statutes
and documents included may be mentioned the Act of uniformity, the
Test act, the Coronation oath, the Bill of rights, the Act of
settlement, the Act for the union with Scotland, the Act for the union
with Ireland, the Abolition of the slave trade. All of the most famous
cases in English legal history, within the period treated, are
included.”—N. Y. Times.

“Careful notes indicate when statutes have been repealed, though the
system employed does not always make clear just what portions. It is
spread out too thin to suit the needs of intensive work. The value of
the bibliography and of many of the page references is much lessened
by the failure to give the date and place of publication of the
editions cited. Other examples seem to indicate that the editor’s
knowledge of the general history of at least part of his period is
somewhat faulty.” Arthur Lyon Cross.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 877. Jl. ‘05. 790w.

“In his selection and editing of the statutes and cases that were
available Mr. Robertson has certainly displayed excellent judgment and
sound learning.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22, 230w.

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 540w.

“Is indispensable to the reader and student of modern English history.
The volume forms altogether one of the very best collections of
documents illustrative of English history.” Stanhope Sams.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 300w.

=Robertson, James Alexander.= See =Blair, Emma Helen=, jt. auth.

=Robertson, Morgan.= Down to the sea. †$1.25. Harper.

Fourteen stories on various subjects, but all of men whose real home
is not on land. Under such titles as—“A cow, two men, and a parson,”
“The mutiny,” “The vitality of Dennis,” “Fifty fathoms down,” “The
enemies,” “The rivals,” and “A hero of the cloth,” we hear of war
vessels and other craft, of humorous and exciting happenings, and come
to know some most enjoyable characters.

+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 180w.

“Are in the last degree ingenious in construction and clever in the
telling. They have, however, two serious faults: they are so
far-fetched ... and, except for the adventures of Finnegan, they are
painful to the point of being disagreeable.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 200w.

“In his characterization of the men whom he brings into these stories
there is all the vigor, simplicity, and natural unforced humor that
would be expected from one who has been called the ‘Kipling of the
sea.’”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 860w.

“Some amusing, some vividly realistic, and others impressive by virtue
of the style, even when farthest from the probable.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 30w.

“There are a directness and freshness about the mere way in which Mr.
Robertson sets about telling a story, that only come when one is
master of his whole subject, a close observer and friend of his
characters, a master of the ship, and of the words to describe both
men and ships. But it is in the humorous that Mr. Robertson excels.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w.

“These stories of his have the genuine salt savor and the salt sting.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 140w.

“A volume of thoroughly good and amusing stories of many seas.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 60w.

=Robertson, T. W.= Society and Caste, ed. by T. Edgar Pemberton. 60c. Heath.

A volume in section III. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The texts are
printed from the English acting editions which follow the original
manuscripts. A life of Robertson, an introduction, notes and a
bibliography are included.

=Robertson, William Graham=, il. French songs of old Canada; with translations into modern English verse. *$10. Dutton.

A beautiful gift book of colored drawings which illustrate the stories
found in these old songs of the French-Canadians. A separate pamphlet
contains good English translations of the songs.

+ + + =Int. Studio.= 24: 368. F. ‘05, 400w.

+ + =Spec.= 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 150w.

=Robins, Edward.= William T. Sherman. *$1.25. Jacobs.

Altho there is not room for great detail in this brief account of the
life of Sherman, many interesting conversations and anecdotes have
been included which add both to its historical and biographical value.
The volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and contains
chronology, bibliography, and index.

=Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes).= Dark lantern; a story with a prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“London society, within the last ten years, makes the surroundings of
the intrigue and passion that are here dealt with ... Katherine
Dereham, the heroine, and the ogre doctor, Garth Vincent, however,
concentrate most of the reader’s attention. Katherine is a beautiful
girl, who falls desperately in love with a prince, who cannot marry
her ... and wastes much of her youth in a harmful thralldom to a
fancy. After her escape from her passion for the prince, burdened with
a serious illness, she becomes the thrall of the ogre doctor,
described as ‘the man with the dark-lantern face.’”—N. Y. Times.

“It is a striking, though scarcely a satisfactory book, and widely
remote in every respect from the ordinary machine-made novel of
commerce.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 651. My. 27. 250w.

“Besides the vigor with which the main theme is handled, the striking
quality of the book is a certain kind of bigness.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 516. Jl. ‘05. 820w.

“Her characters certainly have vitality, and an extraordinary power to
interest us.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 340w.

“Grotesque in its violation of the elementary principles of art and
literature.” Herbert W. Horwill.

— — =Forum.= 37: 103. Jl. ‘05. 610w.

+ — =Ind.= 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 370w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.

“‘A dark lantern’ at once sustains the writer’s reputation for
competent craftsmanship.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 153. My. 12, ‘05. 460w.

— =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 660w.

“It must be called, plainly, a distorted picture. But it is full of
sincerity, and has much fine detail. In strength, in originality, in
emotional force it is far out of the common.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 360. Je. 3, ‘05. 830w.

“Is not what is sometimes called a pleasant book, but it has the
strength of interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 50w.

“In the New England sense, it is not a nice story, but the able
characterization and the intense plot give it the right to be.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 230w.

“Miss Robins may see life awry,—the reader clings to the hope that she
does,—but she sees it strongly and brilliantly.”

+ — =Reader.= 6: 357. Ag. ‘05. 320w.

=Robins, Rev. Henry Ephraim.= Ethics of the Christian life; or, The science of right living. **$2. Am. Bapt.

“Part. I. deals with the nature of the ethics of the Christian life:
the moral agent and the disorder of the moral nature, the remedy for
moral disorder. Part. II. discusses the scope of the ethics of the
Christian life: all duty rests on the holy will of God, duty to self,
duty to society, duty to nature, duty to God. Part. III. considers the
method of the ethics of the Christian life.”—Am. J. of Theol.

“Valuable work. The work under review is a contribution to only one
tract of that larger field.” C. R. Henderson.

+ =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 387. Ap. ‘05. 440w.

“Grant Dr. Robins’ premises, and you can not escape his conclusions.
His is not a twentieth century ethical system.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 26, ‘05. 190w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 100w.

=Robinson, Albert Gardner.= Cuba and the intervention. **$1.80. Longmans.

A book which “falls roughly into three divisions: a review of
peninsular misrule in Cuba and of the efforts of the Cubans to throw
off the Spanish yoke; a survey of the American occupation of the
island, with especial attention to the work of reconstruction; and a
statement of the conditions prevailing since the Cubans attained
self-government. An eye-witness of many of the events he describes,
Mr. Robertson writes with vivacity and warmth.... His point of view,
however, is primarily and frankly Cuban.”—Outlook.

“The volume covers the various phases of American activity and gives
valuable insight into the difficulties of the task confronting the
American authorities.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 60w.

“This is a clear and unbiased account of one of the most interesting
incidents in our national history.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 729. Mr. 30, ‘05. 280w.

“While his volume is in some respects extremely useful—notably ... in
assisting to a better appreciation of the Latin-American character—it
can scarcely be said to fulfill its main purpose of giving a clear and
unbiased account of the methods and results of American intervention.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 260w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 319. S. 2, ‘05. 240w.

“Mr. Robinson sums up the whole case of the United States and Cuba
with admirable impartiality.”

+ + =Spec.= 91: 644. Ap. 29, ‘05. 190w.

=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Modern civic art. **$3. Putnam.

A consideration of the problem of civic improvement as applied to all
cities, their business centres, streets, residences, tenements, parks,
and parkways. This second edition is illustrated with numerous
half-tones and photogravures presenting architectural arrangements for
city squares, water fronts, and other places of decorative importance.

“Though flowery in style on occasion, the author handles his subject
both widely and concretely.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 50w.

Reviewed by Ralph Clarkson.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 15. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1070w.

“The author’s analysis is exhaustive, and his treatment is as complete
and authoritative as our present knowledge of the subject makes
possible.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 268. Ap. 6, ‘05. 220w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 300w.

“We are glad that a second edition, with the addition of designs, has
been published of this valuable volume.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 130w.

=Robinson, E. Kay.= Country day by day. **$1.75. Holt.

In his garden on the coast of Norfolk, the author has studied bird
life and plant life and he gives an account of an English year, the
drama which the observant one may see enacted day by day, by the
things of feathers and of petals.

“It forms a vade mecum of pleasant information for all the passing
hours of the rolling year.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 367. Mr. 25. 570w.

* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 60w.

+ =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 60w.

Reviewed by May Estelle Cook.

* + =Dial.= 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 210w.

“As a rule, the author has nothing specially new to tell, and his book
may be regarded as a guide to what the observant country resident
ought to see and notice, rather than as an exponent of fresh facts.”
R. L.

+ + — =Nature.= 71: 418. Mr. 2, ‘05. 250w.

“It is one of the great merits of the book that this appreciation of
nature is never allowed to degenerate into sentimentalism.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.

“This is a delightful record of a year in the country day by day. It
is written with a keen sympathy with nature and a true instinct for
the beautiful.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 621. Ap. 29, ‘05. 710w.

* =Robinson, Edwin Arlington.= Children of the night, **$1. Scribner.

“President Roosevelt has praised this book of poems, finding in them
‘an undoubted touch of genius.’ To this fact no doubt is due the
reprinting of a little book now eight years old.” (Critic.) “The mood
is usually serious, and quite removed from the too sweet and pensive
sadness of one who invokes grief as a becoming adjunct to his
verse.... The numerous poems of religious feeling are the product of a
wholesome faith.”—N. Y. Times.

* “We do not dispute the President’s dictum; but we suspect that he
has not kept ‘au courant’ with the flood of American minor verse. Had
he done so, he would think twice before applying the word ‘genius’ to
Mr. Robinson, notwithstanding the author’s ‘curious simplicity and
good faith.’”

+ =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 80w.

* “Mr. Robinson’s work has never got half the attention it deserved.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.

* “Is a very pleasant little book. No minor poet of the day is less
indebted to poetic conventionalisms than Mr. Robinson, or more
securely himself.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ‘05. 250w.

* “They are nearly always individual, and show little tendency to echo
poets of a larger gift which too often is the hall mark of the minor
poet.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 290w.

* “There is an undoubted touch of genius in the poems collected in
this volume, and a curious simplicity and good faith, all of which
qualities differentiate them sharply from ordinary collections of this
kind.” T. Roosevelt.

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 913. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1270w.

* =Robinson, Harry Perry.= Black bear. *$2. Macmillan.

“The black bear tells the story of his cubhood, his joys and his
troubles, his games and adventures with his sister ‘Kahwa.’ Then comes
the first terrible experience of his life, a forest fire.... But
‘Kahwa’ escapes the fire only to be taken prisoner by men.... She
tries to escape, but is killed in the attempt. Then follows period of
loneliness, and in process of time the first great fight and the
winning of a wife. All this is told with much spirit, and illustrated
by some excellent pictures. One is quite sorry to leave him sitting
disconsolately behind the bars of his cage; but then we could not
otherwise have had his autobiography.”—Spec.

* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.

* “Mr. Robinson’s bears live on his pages. The reader begins early to
feel an active interest in their fortunes and it is maintained to the
end.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 404. N. 24, ‘05. 500w.

* =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 50w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 731. O. 28, ‘05. 310w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 890. D. 16, ‘05. 350w.

* + + =Spec.= 95: 692. 4, ‘05. 190w.

=Robinson, Sir John Richard.= Fifty years of Fleet street: being the life and recollections of Sir John R. Robinson; comp. and ed. by F. Moy Thomas. *$4. Macmillan.

Forty-seven years as manager of the “London daily news” earned for Mr.
Robinson, in the words of Mr. John Morley, “the respect and honor of
everybody who cares for the tradition of English journalism.” Failing
health was doubtless responsible for the failure of his intention to
write his autobiography. From the fragmentary diaries, journals,
jottings, and impressions, the compiler, Mr. Thomas, has constructed
his “Life and recollections.” “Most of the conspicuous persons in the
world of politics, literature, art, and music during the past fifty
years had been the personal friends and associates of the great
journalist.” (N. Y. Times). Among them were: Queen Victoria,
Gladstone, Disraeli, Cobden, Mill, Rosebery, Landseer, General Grant,
Cyrus Field, “Mark Twain,” Artemus Ward, Bret Harte, Archibald Forbes,
Charles Dickens, Lord Coleridge, Charles Kingsley, Arthur Sullivan,
Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Sankey, Sarah Bernhardt, Bismarck, Labouchere.

“The text is interesting and at times absorbing. A vein of good nature
and social enjoyment is distinctly visible throughout it.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 56. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1190w.

“A volume of great interest and considerable value. There can be no
two opinions of Mr. Thomas’s fitness for the accomplishment of the
task he undertook in compiling and editing these recollections, for
during a quarter of a century he was a worker with and a close friend
of Sir John Robinson. The whole book, though a disappointment to those
of us who expected a carefully prepared, witty, instructive volume of
memoirs written by the chieftain’s own hand and with proofs corrected
and revised by him, is nevertheless one that we have every reason to
feel grateful to Mr. Frederick Moy Thomas for having compiled and
edited.” Elizabeth Banks.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 49. Ja. 28, ‘05. 2330w.

=Robinson, Rowland Evans.= Hunting without a gun, and other papers. $2. Forest & stream.

A posthumous volume of sketches and stories in which the blind writer
tells of the joys of the lover of nature, who seeks the creatures of
the woods, but does not harm them.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 407. Je. 17, ‘05. 380w.

=Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w.

=Robinson, Rowland Evans.= Out of bondage. $1.25. Houghton.

Seventeen short dialect stories, many of which have already appeared
in various magazines, are collected under this title. “Out of bondage”
is a story of the “underground” railroad, in which a Quaker family
save an escaped negro from his pursuers. A little Quaker maid and her
lover, and a revengeful disappointed admirer complicate the plot. “A
letter from Hio,” is another idyll of country life, with a simple love
motive. “The shag back panther,” a creation of an old Canuck,
frightens its inventor from the berry patch. “A story of the old
frontier” is an account of an Indian’s gratitude in liberating a woman
who had nursed him. Altho the subjects are varied, they all concern
men, animals, and country life. The treatment is mainly humorous.

“The very rusticity of his humor increases the verisimilitude of his
portrait.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 312. Ap. 20, ‘05. 100w.

“The shrewdness and pointed humor of the different characters are
revealed with a keenness and delicacy of touch that show long,
personal acquaintance among these people.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 284. Ap. 29, ‘05. 340w.

“Surprisingly even in their interest and freshness. Mr. Robinson’s
stories bring back old Vermont days and show us typical village and
country people in all their native ruggedness, kindliness, and
neighborly qualities.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18. ‘05. 150w.

=Rodd, Sir James Rennell.= Sir Walter Raleigh. 75c. Macmillan.

“To Englishmen of to-day,” Sir Walter Raleigh “represents the genesis
of British imperialism in the modern sense. To Americans, he stands
for that sixteenth-century daring and love of adventure to which the
English colonies in the new world owed their existence. The sketch of
Raleigh ... is a well written account of a career that was full of
dramatic incident.”—R. of Rs.

“Sir Rennell Rodd has a sure grasp of his documents and has used them
with much skill.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 483. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w.

“He has done his best as far as study goes, toward the solution of
many mysterious actions on the part of the gallant Englishman. Sir
Rennell Rodd’s record of social life during the two decades of the
reign of Queen Elizabeth gives a clear insight into actual
conditions.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1570w. (Survey of contents.)

“A study rich in atmosphere. There are times when he assuredly assumes
the role of a special pleader. The proportion is not so well
maintained as we should desire. But, on the whole, he has acquitted
himself well, giving us a book which is at once enjoyable and a
creditable addition to a series of which it forms part.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 310w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 80w.

=Rogers, A. W.= Introduction to the geology of Cape Colony; with a chapter on the fossil reptiles of the Karroo formation, by R. Broom. *$3.50. Longmans.

A handbook which contains results of investigations made public as
recently as 1904. There is a geological map and an introduction which
connects the geological structure with the scenic features.

“It is a work which will be found of much use to the student of South
African geology, since it contains in a compact form a good deal of
information to be found otherwise only by reference to numerous
scientific journals and official reports.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 504. Ap. 22. 570w.

“Is sure to remain a standard treatise. Compact and highly attractive
handbook.” Grenville A. J. Cole.

+ + + =Nature.= 72: 35. My. 11, ‘05. 830w.

=Rogers, Joseph Morgan.= Thomas H. Benton. **$1.25. Jacobs.

This addition to the “American crises biographies” contains a detailed
account of the Missouri statesman, and gives the chief political
events from 1820 to the repeal of the Missouri compromise with which
his public work ended.

“Rogers did not entirely shake off his editorial habit of popular
statement when producing a serious historical work.” W. H. Mace.

+ — =Am. Hist.= R. 11: 176. O. ‘05. 650w.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 80w.

“The work is careless and superficial.”

— =Dial.= 38: 325. My. 1, ‘05. 340w.

“Mr. Rogers in this account of Thomas H. Benton has assumed more than
properly belongs to the biographer.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 420w.

“In point of literary quality, a decided advance on his ‘The true
Henry Clay.’ While the treatment is, as a rule, open-minded, it is
marred at times by invidious and unnecessary comparisons between
Benton and his notable contemporaries, and by occasional overstatement
to a degree constituting a serious defect.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.

“Mr. Rogers has presented an accurate and impressive picture of Thomas
H. Benton.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 230w.

“The author has avoided, rather than sought after, popular effects;
his own opinions are held in abeyance, and he sometimes assumes too
large a knowledge on the part of his reader.”

+ + — =Reader.= 6: 593. O. ‘05. 470w.

=Rogers, Joseph Morgan.= The true Henry Clay. **$2. Lippincott.