Chapter XVI: Part 1: , deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of (1)

morality; Part 2, treats of the different types of theoretical
interpretation; and Part 3, discusses some typical social and economic
problems which characterize the present.

* * * * *

“If this is not the ideal text-book in ethics for which we have been
waiting so many years, it is, at least, a very good substitute for it.
These perhaps inevitable omissions can weigh little against the
general utility of the work both as to form and content. The
references are abundant and interesting, the index and table of
contents adequate, and the style fresh and vigorous. It should appeal
not only to the special student of ethics, but to those in economics,
politics, and sociology as well.” Norman Wilde.

+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 636. N. 5, ’08. 1600w.

“Above the level of textbooks. The choice and arrangement of material
are admirably calculated to indicate the methods and the general
direction of ethical analyses. From the teacher’s point of view the
work is of singularly even merit throughout; but its second and third
divisions are most attractive to the general reader.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 560w.

“In several respects this work, among the many of its kind appearing
in recent years, is eminently valuable, especially for the ample
treatment given to ethics in the world of action in civil society,
amidst the relations of political, economic, and family life.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 500w.

=Dewey, Thomas Emmet.= Poetry in song, and some other studies in
literature; with an introd. by Charles Moreau Harger. $1.50. C. M.
Harger, Abilene, Kan.

7–41998.

“This volume contains essays on poetry in song (a somewhat extended
piece of work), on literary truth, on several of the world’s
recognized great poets, and on Masonry in its aspects to the state and
the individual (the author had long felt the charm of Masonry, and
stood high in the craft), together with a few simple, earnest poems
which were unquestionably worth preservation in this form.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“These lectures were deservedly very popular, and they bring out with
great clearness the beauties and characteristics of true poetry. The
selections are made with admirable appreciation of what is choicest
and best.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 160w.

+ =Outlook.= 88: 327. F. 8, ’08. 140w.

=Diamant, Sidney.= Curves for calculating beams, channels and
reactions; a manual for engineers, architects, designers,
draughtsmen, builders and contractors. *$2. McGraw.

8–21493.

A set of diagrams for computing graphically the sizes of beams and
channels used in floor construction and their reactions. “Separate
diagrams are given for the various intensities of loading, which range
from 80 to 500 lbs. per sq. ft. Full instructions are included for
using the diagrams and the assumptions made in their preparation are
stated. Tables for live and dead loads and general values for combined
live and dead loads accompany the instructions.” (Engin. D.)

* * * * *

“The book should prove decidedly valuable to those having many such
computations to make.”

+ =Engin. D.= 4: 306. S. ’08. 120w.

“When the designer has become familiar with the use of the tables, as
he should in a short time, they should prove very convenient and,
since a nicer adjustment between size and spacing may be made, quite
economical.”

+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 80w.

=Dick, Stewart.= Heart of Spain: an artist’s impressions of Toledo.
il. *$1.25. Jacobs.

7–42350.

“The ‘Heart of Spain,’ to the author, is the city of Toledo, and the
graphic way in which the grim old capital is shown to epitomize the
life history of the peninsula justifies the choice of words. The book
is avowedly a series of personal impressions, not a guide book, yet
one could use it for the latter purpose and get a much better insight
into the spirit of the place than by seeking the list of
double-starred attractions usually brought to the attention of the
tourist.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“Light but interesting.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 100w.

“Mr. Dick is an artist as well as a devotee, and his slight
descriptions of the scenes he loves are often charming pieces of
word-painting.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 270w.

* =Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Justice and liberty: a political dialogue. **$1.20. McClure.

Argument characterizes this dialogue which is conducted by a
philosopher, a banker and a gentleman of leisure. “Martin and
Harington are both idealists, while Stuart [the banker] is the
practical man of the world. Harington’s ideal is an aristocracy of the
Platonic type, which is founded on status, or hereditary caste....
Martin’s ideal is a democracy, which shall neither be an ochlocracy
nor an official oligarchy, but shall be founded on equity or equality
of opportunity, to be obtained, so far as we can discover, by making
everybody ‘life-tenants’ or life-owners of the products of their
faculties, and abolishing bequest. The State is to be owner of all
property, but is to lease its various forms for life to individuals,
if they choose and are capable of management, while the lazy, the
timid, and the incapable are to receive State wages.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“Is far below a book he wrote in 1895, ‘The development of
parliament.’ Mr. Lowes Dickinson does not solve the problem. The
cultivated democracy of Athens still haunts his mind, but he forgets
that it was founded on slavery.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 643. N. 21, ’08. 520w.

=Diehl, Alice Mangold.= True story of my life: an autobiography.
**$3.50. Lane.

Mme. Diehl, novelist, writer, musician, writes unreservedly of her
precocious childhood days, her debut in Paris, her return to England
where she engaged in “a brave and unflagging struggle to care for her
growing family. There are apparently no reserves in the story: her
mother’s imperiousness, her husband’s foibles, her own failures and
triumphs in fighting off the ‘wolf,’ are recorded with such fidelity
that we seem to be turning the pages of a diary.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“One of those discursive autobiographies of non-famous persons which
chronicle an immense amount of unimportant private history and must
rely chiefly on their realism for their charm.”

+ − =Dial.= 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.

“Lovers of the chronicles of music cannot fail to be interested in
Mme. Diehl’s stories.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 480w.

+ =Nation.= 86: 245. Mr. 12, ’08. 500w.

“There are times when we fancy that we have found our way into a
‘Palace of truth.’ For the most part she is sufficiently kindly in her
notices of events and people. Sometimes, however, it would have been
better for her to have held her hand, when for instance, she tells us
about the stormy period of her marriage.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 160w.

=Dillon, John M.= Motor days in England. **$3. Putnam.

8–20148.

An illustrated account of a motor trip thru the southwestern part of
England—east of London, north to Leamington. Instead of the guide book
with its impersonal note, the reader enjoys the glow of personal
enthusiasm along the journey. In town and countryside, architecture
and landscape are commented upon, as well as places and buildings,
sacred and profane, of historical interest.

* * * * *

“There is no justification for its being offered to the general
public.”

− =Ind.= 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 300w.

“Mr. Dillon has read widely and appreciatively; and the literary and
historical associations are always uppermost in his mind. His remarks
on these subjects, however, are rather obvious, his quotations
familiar.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 576. Jl. 2, ’08. 140w.

“A document of considerable general interest, with informing
descriptions of places of historic or architectural interest and of
literary associations, which every intelligent traveler and sight-seer
will want to know.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.

“These journeyings are very pleasantly described.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 330w.

=Dinger, Henry C.= Handbook for the care and operation of naval
machinery. *$2. Van Nostrand.

8–8476.

A practical handbook which “gives concisely, but clearly, very
complete information as to the best methods used in the engineering
department of naval vessels and contains a great deal of information
as to the current practice of the Bureau of steam engineering of the
navy department in regard to the design of details, fittings and
auxiliaries. In addition to the main engine and its auxiliaries ... it
deals with joints and packing, stuffing boxes, feed and filter tanks,
feed-water heaters, evaporators and distillers, refrigerating plant,
gages and thermometers, piping, valves, and all other machinery or
fittings connected with machinery on naval vessels.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“There is no doubt that this book will be of great use to those for
whom it is intended, and of interest to all who have to deal with
naval machinery.” D. W. Taylor.

+ =Engin. N.= 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.

=Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 250w.

=Dinsmore, John Wirt.= Teaching a district school: a book for young
teachers. *$1. Am. bk.

8–21614.

A book whose object is that of helping the district teacher in solving
his problems and discharging his duties. It is based on long research
and careful investigation, and while offering specific help on the
organization and maintenance of a good school, it urges high ideals
and worthiness for the profession of teaching.

* * * * *

“The earnest, conscientious spirit of the work is as admirable as its
practicable, detailed instructions are valuable.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.

“A practical, comprehensive, and exceedingly lucid treatise.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 260w.

=Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.= Charm of the English village. *$3.
Scribner.

8–20520.

A volume “in which churches, manor houses, rectories, farms, inns,
mills, bridges, cottages, barns, crosses, greens, dovecotes, and even
such minor details as sundials and weathercocks, are described and
pictured. The writer pleads with eager eloquence for the preservation
of time-honored survivals of the long ago, and mourns over the
reckless destruction of buildings that should have been treasured as
heirlooms of the nation.”—Int. Studio.

* * * * *

“We do not wish to undervalue Mr. Jones’s work, which strikes us as
adequate and interesting; but the constant attention which the author
pays to it is distracting. The result is that the letterpress is
disjointed and scrappy.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 728. Je. 13. 260w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 167. Ag. ’08. 230w.

“An attractive collection of descriptions and comments.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 244. S. 10, ’08. 200w.

“The charm of the elder England has a kind of sturdiness, a downright
dependence on tangible and visible qualities that make it
comparatively easy of definition, and this definition is what Mr.
Ditchfield attempts and accomplishes in his handsome little volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 463. Ag. 22, ’08. 760w.

“This is a very pleasing book.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 908. Je. 6, ’08. 180w.

=Diver, Maud.= Great amulet. †$1.50. Lane.

A story of Anglo-Indian life in which a British army officer weds an
artist, permits a misunderstanding to separate him from her on their
wedding day, and effects a reconciliation five years later. “Such
wider issues as frontier warfare, Himalayan exploration, and cholera
camps play a large part in the action, and are handled with sympathy
and power.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The story errs perhaps on the side of length. The author’s men and
women are clearly drawn, and nearly always impress us as real people;
and her style shows refinement and distinction.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 600. My. 16. 120w.

“There are too many climaxes, and the tendency is toward hysteria
rather than realism.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.

=Dixon, E.=, ed. Fairy tales from the Arabian nights. il. *$250.
Putnam.

Edited and arranged from the version based on Galland, with numerous
illustrations by John D. Batten.

* * * * *

“A capital selection of fairy tales.”

+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 30w.

+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 90w.

=Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 60w.

=Dobson, (Henry) Austin.= De libris. *$1.50. Macmillan.

8–30143.

A volume dealing with books and matters relating to books,
interspersed with the author’s poetry “gay with wit” and bearing upon
the themes of his essays. Some of his chapters are as follows: Books
and their associations; The parent’s assistant; Modern book
illustrators; A French critic on Bath; Thackeray’s “Esmond”; and Fresh
facts about Fielding.

* * * * *

“Yet though he shows little desire to marshal facts in set order and
sequence, only dull readers will fail to perceive that he is writing
from a fullness of knowledge, which many professors might envy.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 608. N. 14. 600w.

“He is not at his best in it, but even so he is worth reading.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 60w.

“Of the papers as a whole, it may fairly be said that they lack
distinction of substance or style. The verse is even farther below the
standard.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Dobson belongs among the most charming poets and the most
agreeable prose writers of our time.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 200w.

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 100w.

=Dock, Christopher.= Life and works of Christopher Dock, America’s
pioneer writer on education; with a translation of his works into
the English language by Martin G. Brumbaugh, and an introd. by S.
W. Pennypacker. **$5. Lippincott.

8–17821.

“Interesting in point of time, this, the earliest American book about
school teaching, is remarkable for insight into human nature, for the
admirable character which it revealed, and for its minute statement of
an educational method which substituted the law of love for the rule
of force, long before the change had been made in the school
world.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“His writings possess a special interest for all who are engaged in
educational work, and they are, moreover, one of the foundation-stones
of American culture.” I: R. Pennypacker.

+ =Dial.= 45: 166. S. 16, ’08. 900w.

“Probably the educational historian will find interest in the ‘Life of
Christopher Dock,’ but the general reader will wonder at the attempt
to rescue Dock from the sleep of oblivion.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.

“Dr. Brumbaugh ... has shown fine editorial taste and skill in the
making of the book, and in writing the life of the pious schoolmaster
he seems to have left no source of information uninvestigated.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 320w.

=Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 230w.

=Dodd, Anna Bowman.= On the knees of the gods. †$1.50. Dodd.

8–3428.

A tale of Athens during the time of Alcibiades. It tells of the
romance of a slave girl and an Athenian nobleman. The parents of Ion
come between the lovers and send the youth off to war where he is
captured and enslaved. His ransom is paid by his sweetheart who has
been made free, and whose final happiness includes the discovery that
she, too, is descended from a royal house of Athens.

* * * * *

“To the last chapter the description is sustained. There are some
errors to correct. The chief blemish is the curious spelling.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.

− =Nation.= 86: 236. Mr. 12, ’08. 430w.

“The story is, indeed, not without interest and excitement, but there
is a feverishness in the manner in which it is imparted that wearies
the reader. Yet there is a fresh passion in some of the love passages
and a delight in pictorial scenes and natural beauty, with enough
feeling for plot to make the reader heartily wish Miss Anna Bowman
Dodd would care enough for her art to put better work into it.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 260w.

“The effort to make an impression of mild gayety, unlimited luxury of
living, and pagan beauty is too apparent. Something more should have
been left to the imagination of the reader.”

− =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.

=Dodd, William Edward.= Jefferson Davis. (American crisis
biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.

8–820.

A sketch of Jefferson Davis intended “not to justify or even defend
the course of the foremost leader of the Confederate cause; but simply
to relate the story of that remarkably tragic life and to correlate
his career to the main current of American history.”

* * * * *

“The author is not always accurate in his statements. Deserving of
wide and thoughtful consideration.” C: F. Adams.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 878. Jl. ’08. 1050w.

“As a biography the book is satisfactory; as a history it is not
adequate.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.

“Notwithstanding his superior qualities, Professor Dodd must take heed
lest his errors furnish hostile critics with weapons for his own
destruction.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 700w.

“Prof. Dodd has written this history with a scholarly grace and manly
sympathy that makes it in itself delightful reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 150w.

“Professor Dodd has performed a difficult task well, writing
sympathetically of the President of the short-lived Confederacy, yet
not allowing his sympathies to run away with his judgment.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 230w.

=Dodge, Theodore Ayrault.= Napoleon: a history of the art of war.
(Great captains.) 4v. il. ea. **$4. Houghton.

4–13231.

=v. 3.= Covers the period of Napoleon’s decline from the beginning of
the peninsular war to the end of the Russian campaigns.

=v. 4.= Deals with the history of the art of war from the battle of
Lutzen thru Napoleon’s last campaign.

* * * * *

“This work constitutes an invaluable addition to military literature;
certainly there is nothing else in English possessing the same scope
and exhaustiveness, and, perhaps, it is not too much to say that the
student may search every other language in vain for a general military
history of the most consummate of the great captains which is better
than Colonel Dodge’s ‘Napoleon.’” F: L: Huidekoper.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 578. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)

“A scholarly work.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

“The thoroughness with which he has carried out his task is apparent
even to the civilian reader.” R: W. Kemp.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 167. Ap. ’08. 1550w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

“Colonel Dodge marshals facts and figures with passionless veracity.
In the concluding volume, the author has put forth to the utmost his
powers of profound investigation and lucid description.” J. R. Smith.

+ =Dial.= 44: 173. Mr. 16, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

“The author lacks the balanced judgment, wide information, and sense
of preciseness in language, without which the attempt at framing
historical generalities becomes a snare.”

− =Nation.= 86: 397. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

“These volumes confirm the very high reputation of Gen. Dodge as a
military historian. It is to be regretted that the illustrations and
maps, though notably frequent, are scarcely worthy of the general
merits of the book.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)

“These volumes present a broader, clearer, and more illuminating study
of military development as affected by the Napoleonic wars than can be
found in the writings of any of the earlier essayists.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 836. Ap. 11, ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 3 and
4.)

=R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Pilgrims, and other poems, priv. ptd. pa.
$2.50. Dole.

7–42340.

The lengthy poem of the title is an illustration of the application of
the symphonic form to English poetry. The historical theme is carried
thru four movements, each of which includes “a number of motifs or
passages or whatever may be their technical designation, with their
pace and rhythm rather superfluously indicated by such comments as
presto, agitato, and the like—an odd instance of linguistic involution
or potenzierung, as the Germans would call it.” (Nation.) A group of
short poems complete the volume.

* * * * *

“Beyond this amusing transference of nomenclature and a kind of
lowering of intellectual tone, it is impossible to see anything
characteristically musical in Mr. Dole’s research or to take it for
more than an entertaining experiment.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 400w.

“At times he has, and again he seems to have lost, that magic which
transmutes the things of everyday into the everlasting possession.”
Christian Gauss.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23, ’08. 220w.

=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Teacher of Dante, and other studies in
Italian literature. **$1.75. Moffat.

8–11089.

Seven studies in Italian literature. The first gives the title to the
volume and relates to Brunetto Lattini whose influence is traced in
“The inferno.” The remaining essays are Dante and the picturesque,
Lyric poetry and Petrarch, Boccaccio and the novella, The rise of the
Italian drama, Goldoni and Italian comedy, Alfieri and tragedy.

* * * * *

“Seven delightful chapters.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.

“On the whole, however, our impression is rather unsatisfactory; for
we cannot escape the feeling that the book might have been made much
more valuable by its well-known author, as well as more attractive.”

− + =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 130w.

“A volume that, considered either as a contribution to knowledge, or
as a summary of familiar facts, might be justly dismissed as of little
value.”

− =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 270w.

“He never fails, also in keeping a clear background of the social and
political life of the time and in showing how out of this grew the
characteristic forms of literary expression.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 170w.

“All the chapters afford interesting and profitable reading.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 450w.

=Dorland, W. A. Newman.= Age of mental virility: an inquiry into the
records of achievement of the world’s chief workers and thinkers.
**$1. Century.

8–26841.

In which the author answers the question, What has been the age of the
acme of mental activity as shown by the records of the famous men of
modern times? He gives the results of investigation into the lives of
400 workers and thinkers, and his conclusions show that the average
initial age of mental activity is twenty-four, and that its acme lies
between forty and sixty.

* * * * *

“The handling of the theme is light, indeed statistically quite
inadequate; but the gathering of data of first notable achievements,
of the period of the ‘magnum opus’ of the length of productive
activity of the world’s great workers, does leave in its wake a
realistic sense of notable accomplishment in the later years.”

− + =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 120w.

=Dorner, Herman B.= Window gardening. il. **$1. Bobbs.

8–11765.

A book of cultural directions based upon an extended experience in
handling house plants which suggests methods of treatment that will
enable one to care for his plants intelligently and to be confident of
success.

* * * * *

“There is no extraneous matter, and for the inexperienced the little
volume will be a real help.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 352: Je. 1, ’08. 250w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 30w.

“The instructions are succinct and clear.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 70w.

=Doubleday, Roman.= Hemlock avenue mystery. †$1.50. Little.

8–6663.

A new edition of a popular mystery story in which a young attorney
comes to sudden death, the supposition being that his rival and enemy
killed him. The story involves two women suspected of participation in
the crime, while a third one who had really slain the man by accident
was wholly unconscious of the deed. A young newspaper reporter
unravels the tangle which suspicion and doubt are alone responsible
for.

* * * * *

“This is, we think, the best detective story by an American author
that has appeared in recent years.”

+ =Arena.= 39: 733. Je. ’08. 200w.

=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 80w.

“We must demur against a disposition in the present entertainer to
disregard the rules of the game. The erroneous suspicions should not
depend on a series of coincidences, each alone credible enough, but in
the mass impossible; nor should we in the end be mocked by finding
there was no murder at all.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.

“Mr. Doubleday’s plot is ingenious, and the solution is well concealed
and theoretically possible although certainly extremely improbable.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 50w.

=Doughty, Charles Montagu.= Wanderings in Arabia: an abridgment of
“Travels in Arabia deserta”; arranged with introd. by E: Garnett.
*$4.50. Scribner.

8–21785.

An abridgment of an important travel book published twenty years ago.
The excision extends to the scientific matter chiefly, while the
author preserves with care the charm and picturesqueness of the
original volume.

* * * * *

“His book fully deserved reprinting, and we are grateful to Mr.
Garnett for making it accessible, now that the original edition cannot
be had, and for making it less unwieldy. Had he been a little more
ruthless, he would have done perhaps an even greater service to the
literature of travel: for to literature, in the true sense, Mr.
Doughty’s book belongs.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1300w.

“His style has an oddly archaic flavor, but it is wonderfully direct
and trenchant, in fit correspondence with the incisive quality of his
insight.”

+ + =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.

“The work is an achievement in the realm of pure literature apart from
its interest as an account of remarkable journeys.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 500w.

“A book containing the most intimately true and penetrating account of
desert life ever written.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 114. Jl. 25, ’08. 1500w.

“Not since the Elizabethan voyagers has there been any parallel to it
either in style or in Quixotic adventure. A man taking it up casually
might imagine that he was reading one of Hakluyt’s volumes.”

+ + =Spec.= 100: 377. Mr. 7, ’08. 2000w.

=Douglas, Hugh A.= Venice on foot. *$1.50. Scribner.

W 8–12.

Leaving the gondolas to the sightseers who are satisfied with the
usual course of waterways, Mr. Douglas sets out on foot and explores
bridges and back alleys. “He contents himself with showing the way to
palaces, churches and galleries, and then leaving us at the door, to
the tender mercies of our Baedekers. But in his own way, he does cover
very completely the entire maze of streets in ten well-arranged walks,
each calculated to occupy a couple of hours. Any one with ten days at
his disposal could spend a portion of each day in no better way than
by intrusting himself unreservedly to Mr. Douglas’s guidance.”
(Bookm.)

* * * * *

“So far as we have tested it we have found it accurate; its type is
clear, and its form convenient for the pocket, and no visitor to
Venice should be without it.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 150w.

“Should do some useful missionary service, in disseminating the simple
truth that there is no more direct, thorough and altogether
instructive way of exploring the city than by walking.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 300w.

“It is a model of clearness, conciseness, and concrete information.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 250w.

“The maps are clear and the directions explicit, so that no one of
ordinary intelligence should have any difficulty in following them.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 190w.

=Dow, Earle Wilbur.= Atlas of European history. *$1.50. Holt.

7–29562.

Especially useful to teachers of history in schools and colleges. This
atlas gives a history almost exclusively by maps and charts of the
different peoples of Europe.

* * * * *

“While on the whole the work is to be highly commended, yet it is not
entirely above adverse criticism.” W. R. Manning.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 668. Ap. ’08. 600w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08. ✠

“The presentation is made in detail great enough to meet the needs of
one intent upon a special field and embodies the results of the best
historical map making.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 270. Ja. ’08. 100w.

=Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 20w.

“Excellent work.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 87: 254. F. ’08. 140w.

“While the work is not faultless, it is a very creditable and valuable
undertaking and should greatly stimulate the study of place in
connection with the development of history.” G: L. Scherger.

+ − =School R.= 16: 690. D. ’08. 300w.

=Dowd, Jerome.= Negro races: a sociological study. 3v. ea. *$2.50.
Macmillan.

7–40054.

=v. 1.= The first of a series which in three volumes will cover “a
sociological study of mankind from the standpoint of race.” This
instalment treats of the life of the most primitive of the black
races: the Negritos (pygmies and Hottentots of South Africa), the
Nigritians (Ashantis, Dahomans, and Central African blacks), and the
Fellatahs (of Central Sudan).

* * * * *

“The chief criticism against the book from a sociological standpoint
is that it makes the total social life depend too exclusively on
economic conditions. On the whole, however, the book is deserving of
high praise. If Professor Dowd succeeds in keeping the other volumes
up to the high standard of the first, the complete work will be one of
great value to every serious student of sociology.” C: A. Ellwood.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 855. My. ’08. 1200w.

“Mr. Dowd has given us the best description of the African negroes in
brief compass yet produced. The book should be carefully read by all
who have to deal with negroes in any way, or who are interested in
social studies.” Carl Kelsey.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 518. Mr. ’08. 550w.

“It is in high degree valuable.”

+ =Educ. R.= 35: 207. F. ’08. 50w.

“Of the book as a whole it must be said that it leaves on the mind of
the reader the impression of a conscientious inventory.” C. H. Hawes.

+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 442. Jl. 30, ’08. 1200w.

“The volume contains considerable interesting material on the economic
life of these primitive races.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 390. Je. ’08. 260w.

“The author has assumed rather light-heartedly a task too difficult
and encyclopædic for any save the hand of a profound and highly gifted
scholar.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.

“The material presented is sadly deficient in accuracy and in
completeness, and the point of view is vague and one-sided.” Franz
Boas.

− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 729. D. ’08. 930w.

“An important work.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 100w.

“The whole deserves careful study, though we must not be understood as
accepting the author’s conclusions and suggestions.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 350w.

=Downes, Alfred M.= Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50.
Harper.

7–38206.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“Not written for children, but will interest boys particularly.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 11. Ja. ’08. ✠

“The tragedy and the heroism in the work of our firemen, and the
comedy, and sometimes the tragedy too, of the mascots to which they
are so devoted, are set forth in stirring style.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 49. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.

=Doyle, A. Conan.= Round the fire stories. †$1.50. McClure.

8–28056.

“If an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the
light and hanging of his picture,” says Mr. Doyle, “these tales might
well be read ‘round the fire’ upon a winter’s night.” They deal with
the grotesque and the terrible. Among the seventeen stories are the
following: The pot of caviare, ingenious in its horror; The
club-footed grocer; The sealed room; The Brazilian cat; and The lost
special.

* * * * *

“Two or three of the tales are so uncompromisingly artificial that one
regrets their inclusion in the collection. Again and again the sly and
highly intellectual humor of the author is in evidence, even in his
quite seriously conceived tales.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 440w.

“There is not a page of the book which the most timorous of his
admirers might fear to read at midnight, though there are murders,
ghosts, visions, and spiritualistic materialisations. Sir Arthur
reduces them all by his methods to a condition of ponderable solidity
in which they can be handled without a tremor. These things are not of
his genre, he should not attempt them.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 547. O. 31, ’08. 400w.

“The reader who takes up the book may make sure of having quite enough
thrills to last him for some time.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 140w.

=Doyle, A. Conan.= Through the magic door. **$1.25. McClure.

8–16226.

The magic door is the portal thru which one passes from the outer
world to the world of books where stand comrades for every mood and
aspiration. In a series of essays Mr. Doyle gives in a “hurry-never”
fashion an account of his literary tastes and experiences. It is a new
role for Mr. Doyle to assume before the public, but one likes it
because it is the idealistic background from which could emerge even
the eminently practical Sherlock Holmes.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08. ✠

“As a genial introduction to literature it has a certain value; but
from another point of view its interest is greater as a revelation of
the author’s own literary history.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 450w.

“To the mind of the present reviewer one must hark back to Thackeray’s
‘Roundabout papers’ to find more ingenuous, agreeable reading of this
kind.” A. B. Maurice.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 597. Ag. ’08. 1200w.

“As an essayist and critic his style is informal and agreeable.” P. F.
Bicknell.

+ − =Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.

“Here is ... the country gentleman of ripe reading, and sound, if not
very profound scholarship.” A. B. Maurice.

+ =Forum.= 40: 128. Ag. ’08. 1450w.

“The present book is merely a rambling account of what he likes and
what he does not like.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 550w.

“It is all pleasant gossip, bearing the impress of a clever, wholesome
mind; an alert and many sided mind, too, if not essentially profound.
A writer who can and will make a whole chapter out of the joy of
reading Macaulay’s essays, who can still glory in Gibbon’s ‘Decline
and fall,’ is unspoiled by cheap, modern ideas, and untouched by
pedantry.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 265. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.

“It has an enjoyable quality which is sometimes more agreeable than
greatness.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 812. Ag. 8, ’08. 350w.

=Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.

=Drake, Allison Emery.= Discoveries in Hebrew, Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon,
Latin, Basque, and other Caucasic languages; showing fundamental
kinship of the Aryan tongues and of Basque with the Semitic
tongues. *$6. Herrick bk.

8–448.

A book whose “discoveries” are addressed to comparative philologists
in which the author concludes that Hebrew is the mother tongue from
which both Aryan and Semitic languages have been derived.

* * * * *

“Scholars who are acquainted with ‘Authorship of West-Saxon gospels’
will probably be disposed to hope that the author’s new book deserves
consideration. If such is their expectation, it will be, we fear,
disappointed.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 475. Ap. 18. 220w.

“The conclusion is in direct conflict with the findings of every
scientific student of comparative philology.”

− =Bib. World.= 32: 223. S. ’08. 70w.

=Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 50w.

“With such limber license of comparison and all the dictionaries to
resort to, any conclusion desired can be reached, and would justify
the definition of comparative philology as that science in which the
vowels count for nothing and the consonants for very little.”

− =Ind.= 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.

“His work bristles with philological impossibilities. The volume is
unworthy of serious attention, and its only interest arises from its
being one of those strange works that spring from the union of a
certain kind of learned industry with misdirected ingenuity.”

− =Nature.= 78: 77. My. 28, ’08. 200w.

=Draper, George Otis.= More: a study of financial conditions now
prevalent. **$1. Little.

8–8153.

A book of theories derived from twenty years of practical experience
in creation and investment. He discusses after a novel fashion such
subjects as the following: the many that are less rich, division of
profits, dishonesty, incomes, law not justice, socialism, antagonism
to property, how wealth increases, millions, trade unions, trusts,
tariff, expenditure, savings, currency, reform, destroying confidence,
public ownership, lack of track, retail profits and possible
perfection.

* * * * *

“The author’s purpose is commendable, and many of his observations are
just and useful, but we cannot think that he has been successful in
making either a readable or very helpful book.”

− + =Educ. R.= 35: 521. My. ’08. 50w.

“Positive, plain-spoken and somewhat superficial.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 20, ’08. 100w.

“A volume well worth reading by either wage earners or wage payers, or
whoever buys or sells.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.

=Draper, William Franklin.= Recollections of a varied career. **$3.
Little.

8–26882.

Personal reminiscences whose range is suggested in the following
excerpt: “My public experience,—as a soldier in time of war, a member
of Congress while great questions were under consideration, and a
diplomat, also in war time,—would be hard to equal in variety; and my
private life covers invention in important lines, and a business
career, commencing as an employee and closing as the head of a large
industrial establishment, perhaps the largest in Massachusetts that is
owned by its managers.”

* * * * *

=Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 350w.

=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.

“It is the quality of directness and plain common sense as applied to
the narrative of a notably successful and varied career which gives to
the book an interest really genuine and quite exceptional.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 700w.

“The story of a life that is interesting and remarkable.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 530w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 620. O. 24, ’08. 1300w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 50w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 70w.

=Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Philosophy of the spirit: a study of the
spiritual nature of man and the presence of God, with a
supplementary essay on the logic of Hegel. **$2.50. Putnam.

8–16563.

“Taking account of the present positions reached by psychology, and
advancing beyond these, Mr. Dresser devotes himself to a study of the
higher nature of man as related to the creative life, or spirit, the
dynamic ground of all existence, activity, and reason.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.

=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 40w.

* =Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Physician to the soul. **$1. Putnam.

8–30363.

A book for “teachers, ministers and others who wish to become
physicians to the soul,” in which the author applies the idealism of
his previous volumes to individual problems. The chapter headings are
as follows: An ideal occupation; Mental attitudes; Besetting
self-consciousness; Persistent fear; Spiritual quickening; A letter to
a skeptic; The Emmanuel movement; The power of the spirit; and The
true Christian science.

* * * * *

“The position he takes is in the main so eminently sane, reasonable,
and convincing that his ‘A physician to the soul’ must be reckoned one
of the most helpful books of its kind issued within the year.” H. A.
Bruce.

+ + =Outlook.= 90: 704. N. 28, ’08. 260w.

=Drewitt, Frederick G. D.= Bombay in the days of George IV: memoirs
of Sir Edward West, chief justice of the king’s court during its
conflict with the East India company; with hitherto unpublished
documents. $3.50. Longmans.

8–3992.

“In the main an account of an almost forgotten episode in Indian
history, the quarrels between the king’s judges and the executive
government in Bombay in the second quarter of the last century.... The
present work places the case of the king’s judges before the public.
It is an attempt to vindicate the action of Sir Edward West, who was
the last recorder and the first chief justice of Bombay.” (Eng. Hist.
R.) “Aside from the light thrown upon West’s personality by Dr.
Drewitt’s volume, students of economic thought will be interested in
the occasional references therein to West’s economic writings.” (Econ.
Bull.)

* * * * *

“Altogether the volume fills, in the most acceptable manner, a
conspicuous gap in the personal aspect of ‘the first, though not the
name-father and greatest of the Ricardian school.’” J. H. Hollander.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 31. Ap. ’08. 830w.

“This book may well be recommended to those who take an interest in
the study of English life and society in India. The copious extracts
from Lady West’s diary give considerable insight into the way in which
Europeans lived in India in the beginning of the last century. In this
respect the book will repay perusal.” E. J. T.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 411. Ap. ’08. 280w.

=Drucker, Aaron P.= Trial of Jesus, from Jewish sources. 25c. Bloch.

8–10427.

“Jewish traditions, as indicated by Rabbi Drucker, while they differ
from the New Testament narratives, do not really oppose or contradict
those narratives, but rather confirm and corroborate them. The learned
Rabbi stoutly maintains that Jesus was not tried by a Jewish court,
that the charges brought against him were un-Jewish, and that the
Jewish people were betrayed by the Romans.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

=Bib. World.= 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 130w.

“Highly interesting brochure.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 170w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.

=Drummond, William Henry.= Great fight: poems and sketches; ed. with
a biographical sketch by May Harvey Drummond. **$1.25. Putnam.

8–28424.

A volume which brings together the poems and sketches which remained
unpublished at the time of Drummond’s death. Some are connected with
his life at Kerr Lake, in the Cobalt district, where he died; some are
in dialect, and deal with the French-Canadian life; and still others
relate to his own people, the Irish. Mrs. Drummond has contributed a
biographical sketch including facts of his life and comment upon his
poems.

* * * * *

“Will be welcome to the many readers, on both sides of the line, of
‘The habitant’ and ‘Johnnie Courteau.’”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.

=Du Bois, Mary R. J.=, comp. Poems for travelers. *$1.50. Holt.

8–33902.

Poems selected from literature of all ages whose themes are associated
with historic and classic localities in the track of the tourist in
France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Greece.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 110w.

“In breadth of choice, ‘Poems for travellers,’ is superior [to ‘Poetic
old-world,’] but its arrangement is not so good.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 80w.

=Duncan, David.= Life and letters of Herbert Spencer. 2v. **$5.
Appleton.

8–17798.

By request of Herbert Spencer expressed in his will, Dr. David Duncan
supplements Mr. Spencer’s “Autobiography” by means of this objective
study including the biographical materials that were omitted from the
philosopher’s own record of his life. “The sixty-two years included in
the autobiography have been treated by Dr. Duncan in just about
one-half of the present volume of five hundred and fifty pages. The
rest contains the subsequent twenty years which Spencer had not dealt
with. In addition there are several appendices, one by Spencer
entitled ‘Physical traits and some sequences’ which would have found
its proper place in the ‘Autobiography’; another entitled ‘The
filiation of ideas.’” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“It includes a great deal of valuable new matter.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08.

“This is one of the most important biographies of the year; a work
that should find a place in all well-ordered libraries.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 267. S. ’08. 1200w.

“On the whole, we cannot say that Mr. Duncan’s portrait is more vivid
or more interesting than Spencer’s own self-revelation.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 5. Jl. 4. 2350w.

Reviewed by T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ =Dial.= 45: 10. Jl. 1, ’08. 1400w.

“It is a work well worth doing, for it is the permanent and authentic
record of a man, who, by his individual life work, created a new era
of philosophical thought. And Mr. Duncan has done the work well.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 261. Jl. 30, ’08. 1600w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 330w.

“Dr. Duncan ... has prepared them in workmanlike manner, and does
succeed in giving the reader a somewhat more intimate view of
Spencer’s character.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 1150w.

“Mr. Duncan’s book contains a good deal of new matter that was well
worth printing. Much of the first volume is merely a weakened
paraphrase of the ‘Autobiography.’”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 534. Je. 11, ’08. 2250w.

“It is the chief merit of this book that it displays all his traits in
the just proportion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 800w.

“Dr. Duncan’s editing has been skillfully done.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 121. Jl. ’08. 900w.

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 520w.

“He seems to me to have performed a task of infinite difficulty, with
admirable spirit and skill.” R. M. Wenley.

+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 760. N. 27, ’08. 2200w.

“The biographer has shown remarkable judgment in what he has included
and excluded.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 232. Ag. 15, ’08. 1800w.

=Duncan, Edmondstoune.= Story of minstrelsy. (Music story ser.)
*$1.25. Scribner.

7–40289.

Facts in the history of minstrelsy are recorded from the times of
Druid bards, Saxon scalds and gleemen down to the end of the Stuart
period, comprising “references to the first Christian church, Saint
Cecilia, monks and miracle plays, the Elizabethan period, music in the
time of Chaucer, old glees and madrigals, etc. There is, besides, an
interesting chapter on songs and a bibliography of the literature of
minstrelsy, including a very complete list of collections of old
songs.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“In a rambling yet agreeable style, Mr. Duncan gives much curious
information about minstrelsy.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.

“His style is rambling; he does not aim at framing a regular history,
but like Ritson in his ‘Dissertation,’ links together ‘little
fragments and slight notices’ that may ‘serve to gratify a sympathetic
curiosity.’”

+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 200w.

“On the widely inclusive subject he has discoursed agreeably, without
parade of scholarship, yet with evidences of wide if not always
accurate reading.” Richard Aldrich.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.

=Duncan, Norman.= Every man for himself. †$1.50. Harper.

8–26677.

Out of the mouths of Newfoundland fisherfolk proceeds the ordained
strength of wise philosophy, the religion of helpfulness and human
kindness. One of the best of this group of Mr. Duncan’s stories is
“The wayfarer” in which Tumm, the clerk of the trader Good Samaritan,
tells all about the perplexity of Abraham Botch of Jug Cave in
fathoming the mystery of his soul. Botch says: “’Tis all come down t’
this, now: that I _is_. An’ if I _is_, I _was_ an’ _will be_. But
sometimes I misdoubt the _was_; an’ if I loses my grip on the _was_,
Tumm, my God! what’ll become o’ the _will be_?”

* * * * *

“The difficult dialect will deter many people from reading them.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08.

=Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 370w.

“The author is at his best, on the whole, in such a strange and
haunting tale as that of Abraham Botch ... and in the grim tragedy of
‘slow Jim Tool.’”

+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 360w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.

“Wintry gleams of humor play about some of the narratives, but the
compelling interest in all, cruel or kind, is the undercurrent of
steady faith in God and man.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 230w.

“The same rare sympathy, knowledge of the human heart, and appeal to
healthy sentiment that won us in ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’
characterize these tales.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 80w.

=Duncon, John.= Lady Lettice, vi-countess Falkland; ed. with introd.
by M. F. Howard. *$2. Dutton.

W8–115.

A companion to the Life of Lord Falkland. It is a reprint of the 1649
edition, the principal part of which is a biography written by Lady
Falkland’s chaplain in the form of a letter to her mother. This letter
is interspersed with extracts from correspondence between Lady
Falkland and her chaplain, embodying a discourse on spiritual grief
and comfort.

* * * * *

“The account given in these pages of her prayers and works of charity,
of her struggles with herself, and of her kindness and generosity to
all about her is very pathetic, and it is also of historical value and
interest as a more or less typical picture of the life of a devout
churchwoman of the seventeenth century.” Eva Scott.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 794. O. ’08. 260w.

“There is altogether too much pious ejaculation and too little
narrative in the good chaplain’s memorial, but through all his
religious platitudes there shines the image of one of those beautiful
and unworldly women of the seventeenth century.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 520w.

=Dunkerley, S. Hydraulics.= 2v. ea. *$3. Longmans.

W 8–14.

=v. 1.= Hydraulic machinery.

This volume discusses in seven chapters the following subjects: The
flow of a perfect fluid; Fluid friction; Hydraulic pressure machines;
Reciprocating pumps; Simple machines—turbines; Centrifugal pumps; and
Researches on flow in pipes and on the theory of lubrication.

=v. 2.= Resistance and propulsion of ships.

“It brings together in a clear and compact form the modern theories of
stream-lines and wave-motion, and summarises experimental
investigations on resistance and propulsion.” (Nature.)

* * * * *

“The details of Prof. Osborne’s researches and the descriptions of
certain apparatus before-mentioned make the work a desirable addition
to recent hydraulic literature. Some misspellings of proper nouns will
doubtless be corrected in future printings.”

+ − =Engin. D.= 3: 71. Ja. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Engin. D.= 4: 666. D. ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Chapter 7 is devoted to Professor Reynolds’ researches on flow in
pipes and on the theory of lubrication, and for those not having
access to the ‘Transactions of the royal society,’ this chapter is
worth the price of the book, if the loose methods of citation and
proof-reading which are apparent elsewhere have not vitiated the
material it contains.” G. S. Williams.

+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 1.)

“This book has a great many typographical errors. For the purposes of
the ordinary student the treatment of plane stream lines around a
cylinder and of waves of translation is quite as adequate as the
original papers by Rankine and Scott Russell.” D. W. Taylor.

+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 535. N. 12, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)

“It is one of the best resumés of British research in hydraulics that
has yet appeared. Its defects, outside of the poor proof-reading, lie
in the references to machinery that can hardly be considered typical
of the state of engineering at present.”

+ − =Engin. Rec.= 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)

“On its merits the book deserves, and will receive, favourable
recognition from all interested in the subjects of which it treats.
Certain errors in mathematical formulae occurring in the book should
be corrected in future editions. There is evidence, too, that the book
was, for the most part, completed some time ago; as it gives no
account of valuable experimental investigations made during the last
two or three years in this country and the United States.”

+ − =Nature.= 78: 659. O. 29, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Dunmore, Walter T.= Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy
of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.

7–39520.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *