Chapter VI: discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and (8)

The author’s life-long acquaintance with Clay’s “career and
environment,” and his access to the private papers of the great
statesman, have put him in touch with the real facts for a biography,
which tells “the truth about Clay and his failures and successes.” He
is set forth in the light of the true builder for his country,—the
“economic development that has compelled the admiration of the world
had its beginnings in the policies of internal improvements and tariff
protection to which he stood, if not as father, at least as
sponsor.... The key to his career, to his failures and successes
alike, Mr. Rogers finds in his profoundly emotional nature. ‘While
physically and mentally Clay was a strong man, temperamentally he was
constituted like a woman.’” (Outlook).

“The loose rambling, repetitious style, running at times even into
errors of grammar, informs us at once that we are not to look here for
the minor accuracies of scholarship. Nor are all the errors minor.
Read as a whole the book produces an admirable impression. This
biography detracts no whit, from the value of Schurz’s account of the
national activities of Henry Clay, but it will give the general reader
a much better idea of the man.” Carl Russell Fish.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 900. Jl. ‘05. 880w.

“The emphasis is on the personal side. The author is an admirer of
Clay, yet he tells the truth about him, not glossing over his defects
and frailties or attempting to cover his blunders.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 204. Mr. 16, ‘05. 160w.

“There is an occasional slip of misstatement ... but on the whole a
painstaking care is evident.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 160w.

“Mr. Rogers is fair-minded in that he does not scruple to lay bare the
weaknesses as well as the strength of his hero. Nor has he any race or
sectional prejudices to air. Lack of a sense of proportion, a feeble
grasp of the subject as a whole, constitute, indeed, his chief faults.
The man Clay he sees and comprehends. Of positive errors there are, so
far as we have noticed, comparatively few.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 280w.

“Presenting a work markedly deficient in point of literary quality,
gives an account of the great Kentuckian that is vivid, impartial, and
philosophic, and that assists us to place him correctly among the
founders of the United States of the twentieth century.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 241. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1090w.

“By all odds, the most entertaining and intimate sketch of Clay that
has yet appeared.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 126. Ja. ‘05. 190w.

=Rohlfs, Mrs. Charles.= See =Green, Anna Katharine.=

=Rolfe, William James.= Satchel guide for the vacation tourist in Europe; a compact itinerary of the British isles, Belgium and Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Italy. *$1.50. Houghton.

In this first edition of 1905, the list of hotels has been revised,
corrections have been made in routes, fares, etc., and local changes
in London and Paris have been noted. Pockets in the covers contain a
plan of London and a railway map of the British isles.

* =Roosevelt, Theodore.= Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3. Scribner.

“The first three chapters of the President’s book describe hunting
trips in Colorado and Oklahoma, after bears, coyotes, cougars, and
bobcats. Other chapters some of which are reprinted, with additions,
from previous books, deal with other American big game, the wapiti,
white-tail and mule deer, antelope, and mountain sheep; chapters are
also devoted to wilderness reserves, books on big game, and the
outdoor life of the President and his family at their Long Island
home.” (Outlook.) The volume is illustrated from photographs by the
president himself or by members of his family.

* “All lovers of outdoor sport, all admirers of our strenuous
President will be delighted with this book.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 60w.

* “This latest volume of his own will take high rank among those for
the novelty of the sports it describes as well as for the freshness
and spirit of the descriptions. We may say in passing that the
President is as good a field-naturalist as a sportsman.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 381. N. 10, ‘05. 830w.

* “To the reader who will approach the book either with a healthy
interest in outdoor life or with an idle curiosity to read what a
President has written, the work should prove of interest. The book
should prove a valued addition to its class.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 1670w.

* “Altogether it is an unusual book, and of interest to every one.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

* “Each chapter of the book bears testimony to the vigorous,
wholesome, straightforward character of its author and to the
remarkable thoroughness and zest with which he undertakes the study of
any subject in which he is interested.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 610w.

* “Mr. Roosevelt’s literary method in treating of outdoor subjects is
well known. It is characterized by a thorough-going purpose to do
something more than merely narrate the author’s personal adventures.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 230w.

* “President Roosevelt’s most sensible remarks on the proper means of
preserving game in a democratic country are worthy of all attention,
and not less his analysis of the true hunter’s creed, with which every
sportsman must agree.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 868. N. 25, ‘05. 430w.

=Root. A. I.= A B C of bee culture; rev. by E. R. Root. $1.20. Root.

“A work of high value to all engaged in this fascinating pursuit. It
is a cyclopædia in form and arrangement, and is fully illustrated, and
the present edition has been so thoroughly revised as to be
practically a new book.”—Outlook.

“There is nothing more comprehensive and satisfactory obtainable on
this subject.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 50w.

=Rosadi, Giovanni.= Trial of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by Emil Reich. *$2.50. Dodd.

This work of Rosadi’s has been widely read in Italy and Germany, and
now appears in a translation by Emil Reich, who says of it—“Signor
Rosadi has approached his problem—apparently a purely legal one—with a
warmth of sympathy, with a breadth of philosophical view, with a
purity of religious sentiment that have rendered his book not only a
noteworthy contribution to the history of Jesus, but a stimulating and
(we say it unhesitatingly) an edifying work in the best sense of the
word.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 660w.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 288. S. ‘05. 120w.

“Is rich in information of court procedure among Jews and Romans in
the days of Pontius Pilate, but the total absence of criticism in the
use of the Gospels renders it unsafe as a guide in historical study.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 40w.

“We doubt ... if the best English and American scholarship will regard
Signor Rosadi’s work seriously, and we must admit that the work seems
to serve no particularly good purpose.”

— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 1080w.

“It is a thoroughly scholarly study.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 346. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.

“The particular significance of the work is perhaps due to the two
facts that it treats the famous trial as a matter of history and gives
it its proper legal standing, and also that it portrays the
personality of the man Christ in a way that appeals to a class of
readers usually indifferent to religious books.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 170w.

“To English readers it will appear rather too full and rhetorical. We
cannot praise the translation of the book. We have rarely seen a book
with more misprints.”

+ — — =Sat. R.= 99: 638. My. 13, ‘05. 440w.

“Is throughout deeply interesting.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 390w.

=Rose, Achilles.= Carbonic acid in medicine. $1. Funk.

The healing qualities of carbonic acid gas known centuries ago and
used for therapeutical purposes have been re-discovered in modern
science. The author has set forth the history and general usefulness
of the properties to medical science.

=Rose, John Holland.= Napoleonic studies. *$2.50. Macmillan.

Essays, based principally on materials found while working on the
author’s “Life of Napoleon I.,” which are of interest, with a few
exceptions, to Napoleonic scholars. These exceptions are found in the
chapters, “Wordsworth, Schiller, Fichte, and the Idealist revolt
against Napoleon,” “The religious belief of Napoleon,” and “The
detention of Napoleon by Great Britain.” The remaining discussions
relate to: “Pitt’s plan for the settlement of Europe,” “Egypt during
the first British occupation,” “Canning and Denmark in 1807,” “A
British agent at Tilsit,” “Napoleon and British commerce,” “Britain’s
food supply in the Napoleonic war,” “The Whigs and the French war,”
“Austria and the downfall of Napoleon,” and “The Prussian co-operation
at Waterloo.”

“While they vary in their temper and treatment as widely as the
subjects, yet the author’s personality gives them quite sufficient
unity to secure the interest of the reader and the continuity of the
subject. Incidentally they clear up several little mysteries of
antiquarian interest.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 658. Ap. ‘05. 1270w.

“Regarding the new essays, they serve to emphasize the value of the
research work which Mr. Rose has done in the British archives, and to
prove that in spite of the great number of scholarly studies of the
Napoleon era, large deposits of unused material still exist.” E. D.
Adams.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 41. Ja. 16, ‘05. 1520w.

“Mr. Rose’s essays are marked by the same wealth of information and
carefulness of statement which appeared in his book. He does not
dogmatize for the sake of amusing his readers by a sharp saying, and
inclines to caution whenever he ventures to put forth a
generalization.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 470w.

=Rose, Mrs. Mary.= Women of Shakespeare’s family. *50c. Lane.

“This book is largely made up of suppositions, as indeed might be
expected, so little beyond names and dates is known about
Shakespeare’s mother, wife, and daughters ... and it is only fair to
say that Miss Rose has been careful to do her best with the few facts
that she has to deal with.”—Spec.

+ =Spec.= 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 130w.

=Roseboro’, Viola.= Players and vagabonds. $1.50. Macmillan.

Nine short stories founded upon real incidents met with in the
author’s life upon the stage. Humor and pathos, episode and character,
are combined to show the life of the real player folk behind the
scenes. The first and longest story, “Where the ways crossed,” is the
pathetic tale of Darley, a young Englishman, who found his longed-for
chance to play the hero in a burning theatre. “The embroidered robe”
is a character sketch of two would-be actors, “Her mother’s success”
makes an unworldly mother the centre of a troupe of very worldly
actors, “Potent memories” is all pathos, “The clown and the
missionary,” all humor, “A bit of biography,” tells the story of a ten
year old boy who forsook his adopted home for the stage. “Our Mantua
maker,” “A marriage de covenance,” and “A glimpse of an artist,”
complete the volume.

“If the reader is not more than entertained, is not touched and
softened, then he, or she, is adamant.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 298. F. 25, ‘05. 190w.

“All of them are human and searching and tender, full of a changeful,
charmful quality that fascinates, brightened by brief triumphs,
darkened by long poverty and disappointment, warmed by self-forgetful
helping of others.”

+ =Reader.= 5: 257. Ja. ‘05. 220w.

“The pathos of her stories rings true and sound, and her all-embracing
charity engages the fullest sympathy. These tattered waifs and strays
of life, these, ‘players and vagabonds,’ have found one to plead for
them whose pleading it would hardly be possible to resist.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 121. Ja. ‘05. 100w.

* =Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier.= I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the cross, tr. by Elizabeth Lee. †$1.50. McClure.

“A poor German carpenter under sentence of death for an anarchistic
crime is supposed to write in his cell and from memory the story of
that other carpenter of long ago—who was condemned as a subverter of
the established order. Naturally the German carpenter’s own hard
experience and his own dreams color his story of the other—naturally
his memory plays him false, naturally (he is of a Catholic country) he
writes in ideas and incidents from lives of the saints and the like.
But it is his merging of his own bitter life into that of the Christ
which makes the book real as other stories dealing with this subject
are not.” (N. Y. Times.) There are six illustrations in color by Cowin
Knapp Simson in the Holy Land.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

* “The narrative is a strange and powerful one.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 500w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.

* “The story is told simply and colloquially, but with reserve and
dignity.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ‘05. 120w.

=Rosenthal, Herman,= tr. See =Ganz, Hugo.= Land of riddles.

Roses and how to grow them. See =Barron, Leonard=, ed.

=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.

It is claimed for Professor Ross that he interests especially
sociological heresy-hunters; it is also claimed that in this new work
this same following will find difficulty in singling out any
censurable utterances. It treats of the scope and task of sociology,
the sociological frontier of economics, social laws, “mob mind,” the
social forces, the factors of social change, recent tendencies in
sociology, the causes of race superiority, “The value rank of the
American people,” “The properties of group units,” and “The unit of
investigation in sociology.”

“This book is, on the whole, devoted to the method, rather than to the
content, of knowledge. It does much in the way of clearing the cobwebs
out of the sociological skies. It is, however, a general survey rather
than a treatise. The present volume can hardly fail to serve, for some
time to come, as one of the most effective path-breakers in
sociological inquiry.” Albion W. Small.

+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 129. Jl. ‘05. 1400w.

* “No one interested in the development of social theory, or in the
understanding of social phenomena can afford to leave it unread.” Carl
Kelsey.

* + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 759. N. ‘05. 540w.

* “Brilliant but somewhat capricious.”

+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.

“Easy to read, brief, comprehensive, and introducing the reader to
most of the conceptions of value. The book’s greatest fault is ...
that of undervaluing work which is too abstract to meet the conditions
of a real practical problem.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81:42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 250w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.

“His style is rather exuberant, but it is picturesque and rapid.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 1410w.

“The book is of value to the lay reader in that it clarifies not a few
of the foggy statements and definitions that have been associated with
this newly developed science to its popular detraction. Professor Ross
is a clear and forcible writer.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 140w.

=Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross).= Old Florence and modern Tuscany. *$1.50. Dutton.

The author, who has lived among the Tuscan peasants for over thirty
years, has written a series of fifteen papers, eleven of which have
already appeared in various magazines. The book opens with the history
of the Misericordia, the brotherhood of pity in Florence, then follow
chapters upon “A domestic chaplain of the Medici,” “Two Florentine
hospitals,” “A September day in the valley of the Arno,” “Popular
songs of Tuscany,” “Vintaging in Tuscany,” “Oil-making in Tuscany.”
“Virgil and agriculture in Tuscany,” “A stroll in Boccaccio’s
country,” “The dove of the holy Saturday,” “San Gimignano della Belle
Torre,” “Volterra,” “Mezzeria or land tenure in Tuscany,” and “The
jubilee of the crucifix.”

Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.

+ =Dial.= 38: 351. My. 16, 05. 760w.

+ =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 150w.

“Well deserve being collected into book form on account of their
historical research and of their keen observation of actual conditions
of peasant life in Tuscany. The most attractive article of all in this
volume is on the popular songs of Tuscany.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 218. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1150w.

“Written with a distinct and common inspiration and with undoubted joy
in transcription.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 490w.

“Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Hewlett have been enlightening us as to
Tuscany; now comes Mrs. Ross in a smaller volume but with almost equal
information, especially as to the Tuscan peasants. While we learn more
about modern Tuscany than about old Florence ... Mrs. Ross’s account
is noteworthy, although for a more exhaustive treatment one will turn
to the volumes by Mr. Gardner, M. Yriarte, and Mrs. Oliphant.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 260w.

=Rosse, Florence James.= Philosophy and froth. 50c. Broadway pub.

Almost 200 little epigrammatic sayings, some of which are clever and
some of which are not.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 552. Ag. 19, ‘05. 150w.

=Rouse, Adelaide Louise.= Letters of Theodora. †$1.50. Macmillan.

A girl, who has left a position in a New Jersey college and a faithful
lover to seek literary honors in unfeeling New York, writes of her
struggles to a girl friend. A life of grape-nuts in a hall bedroom
does not discourage her and she has many experiences and flirtations
which introduce various interesting characters; but in the end she
marries the original John.

“Though she really has nothing much to write about, her letters make
pleasant reading.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 420. Ap. 15, ‘05. 270w.

“‘The letters of Theodora’ do not constitute a psychological
brain-twister, but a light and pleasing romance.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 60w.

“It must be confessed that Teddy has a vivacious way about her which
makes her letters very pleasant reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 287. Ap. 29, ‘05. 630w.

“A clever entertaining book.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.

“May not appeal to a very large public. The public to which it does
appeal will be select and worth having.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 210w.

=Rouse, G. H.= Old Testament criticism in New Testament light. *$1. Union press.

An address given before the Bengali Christian conference of Calcutta
has been expanded into this volume which is addressed to the general
reader. It presents “modern views” upon subjects included under the
chapter headings, Our basis—Christ made no mistakes; Christ’s
treatment of the Old Testament; The relation of the Levitical law to
the prophetic history and teaching; The Pentateuch; The authorship of
Psalm cx.; The historicity, accuracy, and authoritativeness of the Old
Testament; The book of Daniel; Prophecy; and Critical methods.

“The higher critics will find in this work much to learn, and much to
moderate their views, while the uncritical Christian will find much to
deepen his faith and to strengthen his hold on the Old Testament as
well as the New Testament.” T. H. L. Leary.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1100. O. 21, ‘05. 710w.

=Spec.= 95: 56. Ag. 8, ‘05. 180w.

* =Routh, James Edward, jr.= Fall of Tollan. $1. Badger, R: G.

A dramatic poem in which Quetzal is sent by “the all-father, the high
Tonaca,” to rule over Mexican Tollan and become a power for good. The
god of darkness, “lest man should be all blessed,” took the form of
Lord Tezca who basely seized the throne and “scoffing all but
careless, jovial wit and witty joy,” ruled until “hostile tribes flung
down the bronze-wrought gates.” Kingdom followed kingdom, while the
people dumbly waited for “Quetzal’s hoped return.”

=Rowland, Helen.= Digressions of Polly. †$1.50. Baker.

Polly and her fiancé furnish the airy dialogue of this book. There are
twenty-three chapters, each a complete little chat, with its own
setting and its own amusing climax; but thru them all Polly, the
light-hearted, with her curls, her dimples and her chiffon ruffles,
and Jack the resourceful, very human and very much in love, are true
to their frivolous parts.

“The result is not equal to the effort.”

— =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 30w.

“One of the brightest volumes of dialogue of the season.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 260w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

“If it is lacking in originality ... the conversations of the fair and
frivolous Polly and her fiancé, never dull, are often unusually
diverting.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 60w.

“Her froth and her frills make her very good company, indeed, for
others than the agreeable young man who takes her balls and
occasionally sends back a very respectable one of his own.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 474. S. ‘05. 250w.

“She is certainly entertaining, though, perhaps for too many pages.”

+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.

* =Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Mountain of fears. †$1.50. Barnes.

“There are contained in this volume eight stories of adventure, having
a slender thread of connection in that all are narratives by Doctor
Leyden of strange experiences in his career as a collector for
museums.” (Pub. Opin.) “They deal with strange and exotic regions such
as Papua, the Orinoco, Borneo, Curacao, Sulu, the South Sea islands,
Hayti, and the Malay peninsula.... Drinking, murder, abduction, fraud,
brutality, cowardice—such are the contents of the book.” (Nation.)

* “Some of the most unpleasant short stories it was ever the fate of
an author to invent. There is no denying that in spite of some
exaggeration and tall talk, the stories are exceedingly well told, but
why tell them?”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 200w.

* “The tales are vivid and strange.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.

* “Joseph Conrad would have told the story differently, and doubtless
better, but it is doubtful if he could have created a more convincing
atmosphere of horror.”

— + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 200w.

=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Wanderers. †$1.50. Barnes.

The story of a young Irishman who, fearing that his father’s will has
given his yacht to a brother, runs away with the coveted boat. He
takes an artist friend with him, and later picks up an American
professor’s daughter, with whom both young men fall in love, and her
chaperone. After many and varied adventures, which include dueling and
piracy, Brian legally acquires both the yacht and the girl.

“The style is simple but adequate, there is plenty of humor, and the
book admirably fulfils its purpose.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.

“An unpretending tale, entertaining for an hour or two, agreeable in
its main personages, pleasantly written, abundantly varied in its
kinds of interest.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“Rollicking, jovial story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 520w.

“A light, breezy tale of the sea, with less of storm and stress than
is common to novels of a marine cast, but sufficiently spiced with
adventure to keep the interest alive. Leaving numerous improbabilities
out of mind, the book will serve well to while away a couple of
hours.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 100w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w. (Outline of plot.)

“The book will be acceptable to those who wish entertainment without
mental effort.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 180w.

=Rowlands, Samuel.= Bride. **$3.50. Goodspeed.

“An interesting reprint.... Save for an entry in the Stationers’
register under date of 1617, this work has hitherto been unknown to
bibliography. Last spring a unique copy was purchased from a German
bookseller for the library of Harvard university, and this is now
reprinted in partial facsimile, with a brief introductory note. The
poem ... a conversation between a bride and her attendant maidens
concerning the respective advantages of the single and married
estates ... is written in Rowlands’ habitual cleanly-turned six-line,
stanza.”—Nation.

“Will add little to Rowlands’ fame.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 329. Mr. 25. ‘05. 1030w.

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 720w.

=Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 90w.

“There is nothing in the poem either to add to the poetic treasures of
our literature or to furnish any new footnotes to literary history.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 220w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 160w.

=Rowntree, B. Seebohm.= Betting and gambling: a national evil. *$1.60. Macmillan.

“The preliminary chapter is devoted to the Ethics of betting and
gambling, and is by John A. Hobson, M. A. It is followed by The extent
of gambling, by John Hawke; Stock exchange gambling, by A. J. Wilson;
Gambling among women, by J. M. Hogge; Crime and gambling, by Canon
Horsley; The deluded sportsman, by a bookmaker; Gambling and
citizenship, by J. Ramsey MacDonald; Existing legislation, by John
Hawke; and The repression of gambling, by R. Seebohm Rowntree. In the
appendix are given some government bills on the subject, opinions of
prominent men on betting, a note on pedestrianism, tipping, betting
statistics, and a bibliography.”—N. Y. Times.

“We can at all events congratulate Mr. Seebohm Rowntree upon having
produced an amusing contribution to the faddist class of literature of
the day.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 623. Je. 10, ‘05. 410w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 505. O. 14, 670w.

* “Mr. Rowntree treats of the evil of betting in the thoro and
dispassionate manner he has employed in his other studies.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.

+ =Nation.= 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 350w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w.

“Such a book as this has long been needed. It is the work of
specialists for the abatement of a national evil.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 300w.

“As a study the book is very good reading.”

+ =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 260w.

“This volume will be found very valuable as a reference-book.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 504. O. 7, ‘05. 430w.

* =Rowson, Susanna Haswell.= Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth; with an historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.

This “true story of events in New York city during the Revolution,”
has seen over one hundred editions, and the present reprint corrects
many errors which have crept into the various texts and gives an
historical introduction showing that the people concerned in this
account of the beautiful and ill-fated Charlotte, who eloped at
fifteen with an English army officer and died broken-hearted and
deserted some two years later, concerns people well known in their
day. The language of the book is quaintly old-fashioned, and the
unpleasant truths are plainly treated. The story was originally
intended as a warning to young girls.

* “Mr. Halsey’s introduction is extremely interesting: a bit of
bibliographical work of high order, adding enormously to the literary
value of the volume.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 820w.

=Royce, Josiah.= Herbert Spencer; an estimate and review; together with a chapter of personal reminiscences by James Collier. **$1.25. Fox.

“Exactly one-half this volume is occupied by Professor Royce’s
estimate of Spencer.... Having sketched the general history of
evolution in bold and strong lines, he reviews the origin and
significance of Spencer’s own view of evolution.... The third quarter
of the volume is given to a criticism by Professor Royce of Spencer’s
educational theories.... The volume is brought to a close by some
personal reminiscences of Spencer by Mr. James Collier, who was for
nine years his secretary, and for ten his amanuensis.”—Nation.

“[Belongs] to the supplementary order of biographical material.” H. W.
Boynton.

+ + =Atlan.= 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 390w.

“This little volume is one of the best ... contributions to
Spenceriana which have been called forth by the publication of
Spencer’s Autobiography.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 254. My. ‘05. 570w.

“A most apt supplement to the ‘Autobiography.’”

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 50w.

+ + =Nation.= 80: 71. Ja. 26, ‘05. 2180w.

“Professor Royce has given us a rather dreary picture of the
Englishman, Mr. Collier ... gives a more sympathetic account in his
personal reminiscences in the latter part of the book.” H. Heath
Bawden.

+ + =Philos. R.= 14: 361. My. ‘05. 730w.

“One need hardly ask better help toward a just estimate of the great
career so lately closed than is afforded by this little book in which
historical, biographical and critical insights are happily blended.”
Edward H. Griffin.

+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 205. Je. 15, ‘05. 700w.

* =Rudy, Charles.= Cathedrals of northern Spain; their history and their architecture: together with much of interest concerning the bishops, rulers and other personages identified with them. **$2. Page.

The author of this well illustrated volume in the ‘Cathedral series’
“has an unbounded love not only for Spain but for the Spanish people.
He sees the cathedrals of the Castillian country with enthusiastic
eyes, and he writes as he sees.” (Ind.)

* + =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

* “The book, as a whole, will hardly appeal to any but the superficial
reader.”

— =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 210w.

* =Ruskin, John.= Complete works. $37.50. Crowell.

Thirty volumes containing besides the usual texts of Ruskin’s works at
least two volumes of author’s notes, bibliography and indices not
usually found in current editions. The volumes are strongly bound for
library purposes, the type is large and clear, and the illustrations
for the set include thirty photogravures, 341 half-tones, and 10 color
plates, some of which are reproductions of Ruskin’s own sketches, as
well as Turner’s. The books are boxed and appear in three styles of
bindings.

=Ruskin, John.= Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton; ed. by C. E. Norton. **$4. Houghton.

These letters, covering a period from 1855 to 1887, are edited by
Professor Norton himself. They are the intimate letters of a man to
his best friend, some, indeed, have been omitted as too intimate for
publication, and, beginning where “Praeterita” ended, they form a
sequel to it and a valuable addition to Ruskin’s autobiography. The
letters describe the changes which took place in Ruskin’s views of
art, religion, and life during that period, they show him as a social
reformer, and political economist, and give his opinions on American
and European politics. His sketches of the people and places that he
loved, his inner purposes, his work, and the doubts and perplexities
that beset him, reveal the writer to us in a new and more lovable
light. There are a number of illustrations.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 123. F. 11, ‘05. 1240w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

=Atlan.= 95: 425. Mr. ‘05. 590w.

“The graceful dignity and consummate skill of the comment which
accompanies them. Not only are they a continuous record of Ruskin’s
intellectual and emotional life from 1856 on, and thus almost
completely supplement the unfinished ‘Praeterita,’ but they have the
advantage over ‘Praeterita’ in being records contemporary to the fact,
and thus not subject to contamination through subsequent changes of
mood and of memory. In that of purest friendship, merely as the
spontaneous record of his inner as well as his outer life. With just
reticence and balance of judgment, Mr. Norton sums up the work of his
friend. Ruskin’s comments on his contemporaries are interesting.” G.
R. Carpenter.

+ + =Bookm.= 20: 455. Ja. ‘05. 1360w.

“He [Norton] has performed a delicate task with exquisite taste.”
Jeanette L. Gilder.

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 117. F. ‘05. 950w.

+ + + =Ind.= 58: 957. Ap. 27, ‘05. 560w.

+ + =Nation.= 80: 36. Ja. 12, ‘05. 2430w.

“Read with an eye single to the revelation of personality, there is
hardly a letter here included that does not yield something of value,
and the effect of the whole is to give us the conviction that we may
now approach closer to the real Ruskin than has hitherto been possible
even with the assistance of his ablest interpreters.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 139. Ja. 14, ‘05. 2170w.

“The letters are indeed revelatory, but, for the most part, they are
revelatory of a woeful instability of purpose and of a pitiful misery
of mind. Except incidentally and occasionally, they cannot be said to
add dignity to the name of the man they characterize.”

+ + =Reader.= 5: 497. Mr. ‘05. 710w.

“Professor Norton was one of Ruskin’s closest friends, and these
letters make an excellent biography of the great Englishman.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 150w.

“Fascinating as these letters are to read, their one subject is
Himself, his own troubles, his own work, his own knowledge: from
beginning to end it is I.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 407. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1930w.

=Russell, Charles Edward.= Twin immortalities, and other poems. *$1.50; special ed. *$2.50. Hammersmark.

The little ode and several other poems contain an interpretation of
music, but in Graubünden and Pigli, which are written according to the
classical form of the sonata, music and poetry are most closely
allied. The book is dedicated to President Loubet, the foremost
democrat of these times, and in such poems as “Adam’s sons” and the
“Coronation ode,” the brotherhood of man is set forth.

“That there is much in this volume to interest both the musician and
the verse-wright,—perhaps, chiefly, him who stands on the borderland
between the two arts, the composer of librettos.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 182. F. ‘05. 140w.

“Rich and varied volume of verse.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 197. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1110w.

“He has an admirable gift of phrase, which at its best is alive to its
finger tips.”

+ =Nation.= 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 850w.

=Russell, Constance, Lady.= Three generations of fascinating women, and other sketches from family history. *$10.50. Longmans.

“A gallery is presented in the volume of beautiful women of the past,
and of those in particular who were the leaders in the society of
former times.” (N. Y. Times). There are fourteen sketches dealing with
Lady Russell’s family history, including the families of Campbell,
Gunning, Lenox, Gordon, and Whitworth, besides side-light information
concerning contemporaries. There is the Hon. Mary Bellenden, who was
“incontestably the most agreeable, the most insinuating, and the most
likable woman of her time;” of the second generation, her daughter
Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury, a woman of rare charms, who numbered
among her friends the statesmen and men of letters of the day; of the
third generation, the Hon. Mrs. Damer, who in both London and Paris
was a social leader and the center of a host of literary personages.

=Critic.= 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 70w.

“You might call Lady Russell’s book a story of fleeting beauties. Are
not so much idealizations as realities.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1260w. (Survey of
contents.)

* “This is an admirable literary work now revised and reproduced in a
most admirable manner.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.

=Russell, George William Erskine.= Sydney Smith. **75c. Macmillan.

A volume in the “English men of letters series.” A full treatment of
the life and personality of a man celebrated for his wit, but whose
more solid qualities as a man of letters, a founder of the Edinburgh
Review, a lecturer on moral philosophy, a writer of pamphlets, a
politician, and a clergyman, deserve respect. His humor found him a
ready audience, and his keen shafts were used to point his morals more
effectively.

“Mr. George Russell’s biography is adequate and sympathetic. He has
selected his material with discretion, and has let Sydney Smith tell
his own story as far as possible. Now and again the biographer permits
his own prejudices to intervene, and so strikes a jarring note. The
book is a coherent, intelligible account of a great man.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 122. F. 11, ‘05. 1800w.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 234. F. 25. 1500w.

“He seems, in short, pretty thoroughly to have summed up the Sydney
Smith question; no more elaborate study of him is likely to be
needed.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 276. Ag. ‘05. 690w.

=Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 90w.

“Mr. Russell’s chief merit, then, consists ... in the shrewd and
kindly criticism which he bestows upon Sydney Smith’s energy,
goodness, wit and occasional foibles.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 410w.

+ =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 420w.

“If there is any fault to be found with Mr. Russell’s book, it is that
he does not dwell long enough on the purely social side of Sidney
Smith. Mr. Russell’s brief but interesting biography is well indexed,
and provides such copious extracts from Sydney Smith’s writings on all
possible subjects that it is not a bad substitute for his ‘Works,’
which are not easily accessible to the general reader.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 297. Ap. 13, ‘05. 1200w.

“If Mr. Morley made a mistake in selecting his subject he has shown
his editorial wisdom in his choice of author. No one is better suited
to treat of the great Whig wit than such a representative of the great
Whig family, the Russells. Having something of a conscience, Mr.
Russell does not say much about Smith’s literary qualities and
capacities.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 145. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1730w.

“A very readable life of the great English wit by an interesting
biographer. Suffers nothing by brevity; for Mr. Russell has succeeded
in conveying the personality of Sydney Smith and in making his pages
live in the light of that personality.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 200w.

“A very readable monograph.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 40w.

“Sydney Smith is essentially of those writers who speak for
themselves. The assistance he has received from Mr. Russell is judged
to a nicety.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 668. My. 20, ‘05. 1900w.

“Mr. Russell’s volume makes one of the best jest books we have ever
seen, for there is just enough flour of biography to keep the plums of
quotation properly apart. If we may hint a fault, it is that in the
matter of Smith’s churchmanship Mr. Russell seems to make the worst of
what he considers a bad job.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 441. Mr. 25, ‘05. 690w.

* =Ryan, Thomas Curran.= Finite and infinite. **$1.50. Lippincott.

The author says, “My purpose is to consider, first, such evidences of
God’s disposition towards the world, as may be found in the history of
nature; and, second, as to whether, in the light of science and
philosophy, we may conceive Him as other than a Person, having such
attributes as are, to human understanding, inseparable from
personality.”

* “Mr. Ryan seems to have read widely in philosophy, with a result
that should caution all readers to read no more than they can digest.”

— =Outlook.= 81: 939. D. 16, ‘05. 240w.

S

Sabbath-school teacher training course. 1st year: a series of thirty-nine lessons designed for use in normal classes. **25c. Presb. bd.

This volume “contains a course of study for three-quarters of a year,
and a forth-coming volume will complete the scheme. At the end of the
first course the Presbyterian board of publication, Philadelphia, will
arrange for an examination for such as desire it, and a teacher’s
diploma will be granted to such as satisfy the examiners.... Even if
the book is not used with a view to a diploma, many Sunday school
teachers will find it advantageous to make it the ground-plan of
private study.”—Ind.

“This first year’s course is admirable in every respect. The well
selected range of subjects is concise, but sufficiently
comprehensive.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1013. My. 4 ‘05. 110w.

=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= Beaufort chums. †$1. Crowell.

The real adventures of real boys are interestingly told here for young
readers. The Mississippi river furnishes the scene for camping,
hunting, fishing, and kindred fun. There is the full quota of
happenings, and live boys keen on the scent for them.

* “Real boy books are scarce these days, and ‘Beaufort chums’ ought to
be hailed as an acquisition to the juvenile library.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 140w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 80w.

=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= When you were a boy. †$1.50. Baker.

Humorously sympathetic recollections of the days when “you” played
ball with the North star nine, preferred illness to the awful
alternative of going to school, fought “your” fights, made a chum of
“your” dog, went fishing, swimming, and skating, or, amid “your”
companions’ jeers, saw “your” first “girl” home from a party. Fifty
real boy illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele illustrate the volume.

* “Will probably outrival most of their predecessors in popular favor,
since they treat of life from a boy’s standpoint.” Sara Andrew Shafer.

+ =Dial.= 39: 576. D. 1, ‘05. 660w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18. ‘05. 100w.

* “His boys are quite as ‘real’ as Judge Shute’s and a trifle less
coarse. The reflections of a man of mature years run between the
lines.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 180w.

* “It is all very amusing and to many of us reminiscent.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.

Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during the winter of 1904-1905. **$1.50. Lippincott.

An anthology of verses written about the horse, including selections
from Browning, Byron, Bayard Taylor, Scott, Kipling, Longfellow,
Kingsley, Quiller-Couch, and others. “No claim is made to have
exhausted the literature of the English language upon this subject,
but it is hoped that a sufficient variety, in respect to the types of
horses and the tasks accomplished by them, has been offered to enable
those who may read, each to find some horse to his liking or the story
of some gallant effort that must command his admiration.”

* =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 20w.

* “Within its limits the collection is a good one.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.

* =Sadlier, Anna Theresa.= Wayward Winifred. $1.25. Benziger.

A story of Ireland in which an American finds Wayward Winifred, a
mysterious child who lives in an out of the way castle with a blind
old woman, and takes her to America to be educated in a Catholic
school. In New York the child by chance meets her father and what
seemed a great mystery turns out to be a very little mystery after all
and the child and the father both return to Ireland to do honor to
their old Irish name and restore their old Irish estate.

* =Sage, Elizabeth, and Cooley, Anna M.= Occupations for little fingers: a manual for grade teachers, mothers and settlement workers. **$1. Scribner.

“This little manual illustrates and describes simple forms of
handwork; including cord and raffia-work, coarse sewing, paper-cutting
and folding, clay modelling, furniture and upholstery for a doll’s
house, and crocheting and knitting. The writers are teachers who have
worked out with their classes the things of which they write. Their
models are simple and useful articles that will interest the child and
give his work practical connection with the world about him.... They
give with each lesson the necessary cost.”—Nation.

* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. ‘05. 140w.

* “This is eminently a practical book of instruction and suggestion.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.

=St. John, J. Allen.= Face in the pool. **$1.50. McClurg.

A delightful fairy tale of mystery and gallant chivalry. The hero, a
young prince, is rewarded for kindness to the King of the Gnomes by
the privilege of beholding in the pool the face of a fair princess. He
seeks this much beleaguered Astrella, and wins her after many a
conflict with a wicked fairy. The illustrations are the author’s own
and include full page colored plates besides a number of pen and ink
drawings.

* “Will be read by advanced as well as by juvenile readers.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

* “In fact, nothing can be said against it except that it is not as
good as Grimm or Spenser, while challenging comparison with both.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.

=St. Luz, Berthe.= Black butterflies. $1.50. Fenno.

The occult is here blended with the ultra frivolous, and the arts of
Emoclew-Houssein Rao, a worshipper of Doorka, seem all the more
miraculous because he exercises them upon a group of modern and rather
vulgar society folk. He wipes the hateful letters, with which a
jealous husband has branded her, from Rosamond Arbuthnot’s forehead,
and he frees the deformed master of Castlewalls from his all-consuming
love for the beautiful Mrs. Demaris in such a manner that neither he
nor the reader can separate the hallucination from the real.

“It is not exactly clear what the author is driving at.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 499. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.

=Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin.= Portraits of the 17th century, historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley. 2 pts. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.

Sainte-Beuve’s historical and literary portraits of the 17th century
have been collected and translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, who says
of her work—“In the following volumes—taken from the Causeries du
Lundi, the Portraits de femme and the Portraits littéraires—some
passages have been omitted; these relate chiefly to editions that have
long since passed away, or to discussions on style that cannot be made
clear in English. Also, where two or more essays on the same person
have appeared in the different series, they are here put together,
omitting repetitions.” The volumes are handsomely bound and
illustrated.

“Our enjoyment ... has been greatly marred by the lamentable
inefficiency of the translation. Miss Wormeley has fallen a victim to
the fetish of an exaggerated literalness with the most distressing
result. Her structure is frequently not English; at times it is even
ungrammatical.” Horace B. Samuel.

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 60. Ja. 21, ‘05. 790w.

“Although the finer shades of his style have not always been exactly
rendered by Miss Wormeley, yet the translation, on the whole, is
fairly good. The value of the work is impaired by the absence of a
good index.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 14. 430w.

“Diverse as are the characters treated of, each one is examined with
the same charm, the same absence of exaggeration or trivial gossip.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 188. F. ‘05. 120w.

“It presents in sound, idiomatic English some of the best work of the
man who holds rank as one of the greatest critics in all literature.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 533. Jl. ‘05. 1510w.

+ + =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 75. Ja. ‘05. 190w.

“To those who have no French, Miss Wormeley’s volumes may be
commended. She has chosen wisely, and has translated accurately, if
without distinction.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 476. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1530w.

=Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman.= History of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. V. 3. *$3.50. Dodd.

The author, professor of rhetoric in the university of Edinburgh,
devoting this third volume to a survey of the nineteenth century,
includes a study of English criticism from 1860 to 1900, and gives
sixteen pages to American critics.

Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.

+ — =Atlan.= 96: 106. Jl. ‘05. 470w.

“A trial balance of the qualities and defects of this great work might
run somewhat as follows: Professor Saintsbury is unreliable, but
frequently admirable, on the authors who touch his heart—the
romantics; he is almost invariably inadequate and unfair to the
critics he dislikes—the doctrinaires, among them the Germans
especially; and he is safe only on the critics who bore him—the small
fry generally. The volume, although its matter is on the whole the
most attractive of the three, is less readable than its predecessors.
It is chiefly valuable because the deposit of facts, which careful
straining will separate, is considerable. Bad guide as he is for the
highroad, the byways of criticism become accessible through Professor
Saintsbury’s labors.” F. J. Mather, jr.

+ — =Bookm.= 20: 450. Ja. ‘05. 1820w.

“It is however, only fair to say that Professor Saintsbury never
allows his political or religious beliefs, strong as these are, to
interfere with his judgment. We are a little surprised, perhaps, to
find the section on Lamb one of the best of the book—a good piece of
writing without qualification. The poorest chapters of the book—and
they are poor beyond forgiveness—are those which deal with topics that
require ideas or the understanding of ideas. A book of irritating
qualities. He is interesting—despite the continual faults of taste and
despite the tedium of the subject, he never allows the reader’s
attention to flag, and that is high praise.”

+ + — =Ind.= 58: 501. Mr. 2, ‘05. 720w.

* “In spite of its author’s rather slap-dash fashion, is on the whole
a valuable, even an indispensable compendium for students of that very
special criticism which is concerned with books almost exclusively.”

+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 90w.

“One must always remember, in reading him, that he writes with the
strongest possible bias, and that, however useful and even
indispensable to the student of literature his history is, it is
rather a work of reference than as a storehouse of reliable literary
judgments. The style of the volume is deplorable. His offences against
taste are of various kinds; perhaps the most exasperating is his
reference to great men by their Christian names.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 155. F. 23, ‘05. 2570w.

“With all its wealth of material and faithful investigation of
original sources, it is the work of a cloudy and often incoherent
mind. ‘Exhaustive’ is the word which comes to the reviewer’s mind as
he surveys the range of this history. No work in this field covers the
ground so completely or with such wealth of knowledge.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 397. F. 11, ‘05. 860w.

=Saintsbury, George.= Minor Caroline poets. 2v. v. I. *$3.40. Oxford.

“This volume contains Chamberlayne’s ‘Pharonnida,’ a ‘heroick poem’ of
heroic length; Benlowes’ ‘Theophila,’ a ‘divine poem’ in many cantos;
the poems of Mrs. Katherine Philips, ‘the matchless Orinda;’ and the
poems of Patrick Hannay, a very obscure person of whom nothing is
known, and of whose book only six copies remain. Indeed all the
writers collected in this book are more or less obscure now, and you
must be interested in the history of English poetry before you can be
expected to read them.”—Lond. Times.

“It is well and judiciously edited as a whole, the notes being sparing
and adequate, while the prefaces—both the general preface and those to
single authors—if one can stomach the editor’s most unappetizing and
contorted style, are excellent in substance, alike critical and
informative.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 2: 168. Ag. 5. 1900w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 229. Jl. 21, ‘05. 2320w.

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 107. Ag. 3, ‘05. 400w.

“We can and do applaud the zeal for true literary criticism and for
scientific literary history, which prompted Professor Saintsbury to
reprint and edit the minor Caroline poets, but we cannot and do not
pretend to endorse all his conclusions as to the merits of the four
included in the volume before us.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 375. S. 16, ‘05. 960w.

=Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquis of.= Essays, v. 1, Foreign politics, v. 2, Biographical. ea. *$2. Dutton.

“If these essays were now to be reproduced as the work of a man who
had done nothing else, they would not command attention.... The
interest which attracts readers to them is the interest in the man
otherwise so remarkable who wrote them at a time when, as Lord Robert
Cecil, and as a private member of parliament at odds with his noble
parent, he found it necessary to do something for his living.... That
they are partisan goes without saying.... Although the essays are
divided by the present editor into those of biography and those of
‘foreign politics,’ they are all really political and polemical.”—N.
Y. Times.

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 450w.

“It is well worth while to collect them in two attractive volumes, not
only for their intrinsic value, but for the light they throw upon the
mind of the writer.” Edward Fuller.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 245. S. ‘05. 690w.

“The first volume is by far the more interesting.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1478. Je. 29, ‘05. 430w.

“It is patient, scholarly, and sound, and, taken at its own modest
pretensions, admirable.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 194. Je. 16, ‘05. 740w.

* “Regarded merely as historical studies, the contributions which Lord
Salisbury made to the ‘Quarterly review’ are not important. Thanks,
however, to the trenchant style and their author’s subsequent part in
foreign politics, they are worth reprinting.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 430. N. 23, ‘05. 1250w.