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=Forel, August Henri.= Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and
disease; authorized tr. from the second German ed. by Herbert
Austin Aikens. (Science ser., no. 16.) **$2. Putnam.

7–20717.

The first part of the book contains an “outline of the author’s view
of mental phenomena, and of the relation of mind to brain, a
singularly brief but neat and clean cut account of the anatomy and
physiology of the nervous system, and an illuminating consideration of
development and of the significance of the Darwinian doctrines and the
mnemetic engraphy of Semon.... The second part treats of the pathology
of the nervous life.... Nervous hygiene in the most general sense is
treated in the last third of the book.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Dr. Austin Aikins has performed his task of translation well and
faithfully, and there is a good index.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 276. S. 7. 480w.

“With no unusual programme or originality of view, or indeed with any
notable message to deliver, Professor Forel has used his intimate
acquaintance with the phenomena from all sides to set forth in plain
language a convenient survey of the data now available for the
understanding of the hygiene of the mind.” Joseph Jastrow.

+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 583. O. 8, ’08. 520w.

“The work is a clear and sensible treatment of the questions involved,
and deserves to be widely read.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 220w.

=Forster, Hugh O. A-.= English socialism of to-day: its teachings
and its aims examined. *$1.25. Dutton.

8–17762.

A criticism of socialism, polemical in its nature, written from the
point of view of the British politician who maintains that he owes his
liberties to the protection of the British constitution: “but that the
constitution lends itself readily to legislation coercive of his
liberties where such legislation is thought to be necessary on behalf
of a depressed section of society.” The author deals only with the
socialism of the active propagandist who is negligible in his
practices however right his theories may be.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.

“The book shows throughout a woeful lack of understanding of economic
principles and is written in a prejudiced and bombastic style which is
as unscientific and blatant as the most extreme socialist pamphlets
which he criticises.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 440. S. ’08. 90w.

“When he discusses economical questions, they are handled so briefly
that the result is far from satisfactory.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 330w.

“In much of this discussion the argument is attenuated, being little
more than the assertion that a majority of the English people do not
desire such changes as the socialists favor.” F. A. Fetter.

− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 147. Je. ’08. 300w.

− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 130w.

“Mr. Arnold-Forster’s original contributions are not disparaged when
it is said that the main usefulness of his book lies rather in the
selections and arrangements of his authorities than in the original
additions, for nobody has done just this thing, and it is a thing
which much needed doing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 1700w.

“He does not help matters by the abuse, invective, and sarcasm with
which he assails socialism in general and English socialism in
particular.” W. A. Bruce.

− + =Outlook.= 89: 386. Je. 20, ’08. 1000w.

=Sat. R.= 105: 302. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.

“His criticism of the ordinary propaganda of socialism is most
effective, and as it is throughout documented by appropriate
references to socialist authorities, his book will be most useful.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 630w.

=Forsyth, Rev. Peter Taylor.= Positive preaching and modern mind:
the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching, Yale university, 1907.
*$1.75. Armstrong.

8–9053.

“The lecturer exalts the place of preaching with a fresh emphasis. It
is essential to worship. It is the creed of the church, expressed for
the stimulus and growth of the Christian body. It must be modern,
taking account of science and criticism, though it must not preach
these. But while all is conceded to criticism—Bible, historical Jesus,
theology—‘gospel’ is above criticism. And ‘gospel’ is that the divine
Christ through atonement expiates human guilt, so that in Him the holy
God actually redeems men.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

=Bib. World.= 31: 400. My. ’08. 120w.

“The book is stimulating and suggestive, and should especially be read
by those liberal divines who will most dissent from it.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 436. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.

“These lectures on preaching are throughout a keen struggle in favour
of reality, and it is hard to know which to admire more, their moral
earnestness or their intellectual grip.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 450w.

“It is a long time since the subject of Christian preaching has been
approached with such thoroughness and such deeply religious
earnestness as in these Yale lectures of Principal Forsyth.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 284. Mr. 26, ’08. 400w.

“Short, pithy, illuminative sentences, biting, clear, and sometimes
humorous, are what men want. And they will find them here. Yet it is
to be confessed that this style sometimes becomes monotonous. Its very
agility wearies the reader, who longs for a rest in the easy swing of
the discarded ‘period.’”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 250w.

“Though they provoked dissent as a harking back toward scholasticism,
these lectures are certainly virile and vitalizing, and quite up to
the high standard of the Yale lectureship. Notwithstanding their
defects, there is a note of moral life and inspiration throughout
these lectures which is both tonic and timely.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 560. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.

“It is refreshing to find someone courageous enough to say these and
other unfashionable things, and able to say them racily.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 24. Jl. 4, ’08. 460w.

=Foster, Maximillian.= Corrie who? †$1.50. Small.

8–30937.

The story of an orphan child’s struggle to discover her identity which
was craftily guarded by relatives who wished to control her money.

=Foster, William Trufant.= Argumentation and debating. **$1.25.
Houghton.

8–19899.

A book in which the author is concerned with the art and method of
debating rather than the formulation of the principles. “While it
insists rigorously upon method, order, and system, as the ‘back-bone
of argument,’ it avoids all pedantries of classification and
terminology, and addresses itself strictly to practical ends.... A
copious appendix gives specimens of analysis, briefs, material for
briefing, a forensic, and a complete specimen debate, a model for
instruction to judges and for the formation of a debating league,
together with 275 debatable propositions.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.

“It is scientific in method and helpful in suggestion to the student.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16. ’08. 40w.

+ =Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.

“Is one of the most satisfactory books in this field.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 230w.

=Four-Pools= mystery. †$1.50. Century.

8–8103.

The mysterious events here recorded take place on a Southern
plantation whither a New Yorker, a worn-out lawyer, goes for a
vacation. The series of uncanny happenings, culminating in a tragedy,
involve the prospects and honor of the youngest son of the house of
Radnor. The mystery is finally cleared up by a New York newspaper man,
a quick witted Irishman. Plantation life, negro superstition and fear
of the “ha’nt”, and the honor of the southern gentleman are clearly
portrayed.

* * * * *

“A rattling good detective story, not up to Conan Doyle’s best, but
with decided ‘go,’ and without the objectionable features which so
frequently attend the tale of mystery.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠

“This story is one of the best mystery tales of recent years.”

+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 200w.

“The story itself is a good one, but nothing positively astonishing.
The chief virtue of the book is that it introduces in the character of
Terry K. Patten an amateur detective of real individuality;
potentially the most entertaining figure of this kind that has
appeared since Sherlock Holmes.”

+ =Bookm.= 27: 235. My. ’08. 100w.

=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 150w.

“There is a verve to the story which, it seems, would survive
dramatization, for there is no waste of words, the padding being ‘blue
penciled’ to the skeleton.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08, 450w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.

“A rather clever specimen of its class, better written than many
crime-tales, and original in its subject.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.

* =Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin).= Miss Fallowfield’s fortune. †$1.50. Dodd.

8–29869.

A woman longing for wealth finally inherits it, weds late in life a
clergyman, is lost at sea on her honeymoon, supposedly the husband
too. Her property was to revert to a niece in case the wife survived
her husband; if he should be the last to die, it passed to his son.
The legal question of a successor, a romance, and the final return of
the husband furnish incidents in plenty.

* * * * *

“The plot is thin, and not devoid of what may be called common-place
improbabilities.”

− =Ath.= 1908. 2: 603. N. 14. 250w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.

“It has a better constructed and more reasonable plot than this author
has ever made use of before, and the incidents and characters are
woven together with rather more skill than she has heretofore shown. A
strong and earnest religious feeling permeates the book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 250w.

“It is an ill-assorted jumble of religious precept, misplaced
melodrama, and many amusing conversations between rather stupid
persons.”

− + =Outlook.= 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 230w.

“The author moralises at great length throughout this disjointed
story. The plot is not of sufficient interest to make us resent such
interruptions, but unfortunately the moralising is banal in the
extreme.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 230w.

=Fox, Edgar Alonzo.= Pastor’s place of privilege and power in the
Sunday school. 75c. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.

7–39010.

In this book is found “A compilation of ideas” expressed by prominent
writers on the subject of the pastor as a factor in the Sunday school
work.

=Fox, John, jr.= Trail of the lonesome pine. †$1.50. Scribner.

8–27497.

“The story, briefly told, is that of the growth and development of a
particularly beautiful and attractive mountain girl, ‘June’ Tolliver,
a fascinating and picturesque heroine who finally added the training
of the cities to the charm of the mountains. The development of her
mind and love for ‘John Hale, engineer’, the hero, a human man of
triumphs and mistakes, furnishes the thread around which is woven the
stirring tale of feuds and fighting in the Kentucky mountains and the
arousing of a mountain village to a realization of law and order
through the pluck and determination of the young engineer.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“Mr. Fox’s world is a wholesome one, and he inspires his readers with
an increased respect for the elemental things of life.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠

“Mr. Fox’s minor characters are more truly set forth than his hero and
heroine, and the incidents of the plot are more plausible than the
plot itself. For the enjoyment of such a book one must fall back on
the local colour.” Ward Clark.

+ − =Bookm.= 28: 364. D. ’08. 950w.

“The author presents very admirably the poetic side of mountain life,
even lifting the spirit of its feuds into something like rude knight
errantry.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 370w.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.

“It is melodrama—granted; but melodrama of so high a grade, so joyous
an enthusiasm, and so compelling an interest as to give its reader an
hour of uncritical pleasure.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 250w.

“He has invested a somewhat simple and not especially original tale of
the Southern mountains ... with a new sense of reality and a very
winning charm.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 570. O. 17, ’08. 570w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.

“It is one of the freest, most vigorous and interesting pieces of
writing that will fall into the hands of American readers this
autumn.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 350w.

Reviewed by Agnes Repplier.

=Outlook.= 90: 701. N. 28, ’08. 320w.

“In ‘The trail of the lonesome pine’ Mr. Fox has exceeded even the
strength and beauty of ‘The little shepherd of Kingdom Come.’”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 632. N. ’08. 1000w.

=Francis of Assisi, St.= Little flowers of St. Francis of Assisi;
newly revised and augmented version of the tr. by T. W. Arnold.
(Art and letters lib.) *$3. Duffield.

A collection of episodes or “the fairest and choicest flowers of the
seraphic life of St. Francis and his companions.” “In this popular and
mystical legend, St. Francis, encircled with a halo of love and
charity, and shining with pure glory which no cloud of criticism is
able to dim, appears like a knight of the San Graal in the immortal
legend of the north.” Contains some quaint illustrations reproduced
from a fourteenth century manuscript.

* * * * *

“We can recommend it to any one in search of a first-class edition of
this classic of religious literature.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 680. N. 28. 350w.

“These illustrations convey very happily the mediaeval atmosphere.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 70w.

=Frank, Henry.= Mastery of mind in the making of man. $1. Fenno.

8–24255.

A study of the practical application of the laws of psychic force,
telepathy, and mental magnetism to man’s mental, moral and physical
requirements. The first division of the study is devoted to the
psychic factors; the second, to the physical instruments; and the
third to the moral agents.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 110w.

=Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Heart of a child.
†$1.50. Macmillan.

8–11080.

From Sally Snape of the gutter to Lady Kidderminster, prominent in
London society, is a long way. Yet the author has spanned the chasm
with a development as convincing as it is phenomenal. A wondrous crown
of bronze hair set off the pallor of Sally’s face, the green of her
eyes and the slightness of her figure. In the tailor shop, in the
pickling factory, in the show-room of a London shop, and in a London
music-hall, Sally earned an honest living; immune from temptation, she
was sound to the core. Without wiles or affectation, she unconsciously
works her way to Lord Kidderminster’s heart, loves and is loved; with
his home for a background she loses her sharp outlines but nothing of
her truth and simplicity.

* * * * *

“A sense of reality in this novel overbears the incongruities and
improbabilities of conduct, character, and incident. The nature of the
girl shows originality of conception.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 300w.

“Mrs. Frankau has attempted to maintain the affirmative side of a
thesis.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 303. My. ’08. 1000w.

“The author’s realism, as exhibited in her earlier books, has often
come near to being disgusting, but in the present instance, save for a
few touches of vulgarity, it is realism of a good and honest sort.” W:
M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.

“It is a clever book and an entertaining one, and a welcome one for
its wholesome tone.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 90w

“The sordid cataloguing is done with brisk touch and with affronting
thoroughness.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 250w.

“The heroine’s childlike heart is rather difficult to believe in, but
otherwise the story is cleverly written.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.

“Few books of recent publication hold the reader’s attention more
closely.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 39. My. 2, ’08. 250w.

“Sarah Snape, the heroine of Mrs. Frankau’s story, does not prove her
case, because she is an impossible creature.”

+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 241. My. ’08. 300w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 765. Je. ’08. 100w.

“Though the book is rather the presentation than the interpretation of
character, and misses in more ways than one a breadth of handling, it
well deserves to be read for the very qualities that make Sally an
acquisition to her new station.”

− + =Sat. R.= 105: 442. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.

“It is a fine bit of work. The one scene which we should like to see
away is in chap. 21.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 582. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.

=Franklin, Fabian.= People and problems: a collection of addresses
and editorials. **$1.50. Holt.

8–14656.

Gleanings from the editorial work of a man who was called from the
chair of mathematics in Johns Hopkins university to become editor of
the Baltimore news. There are four addresses and about sixty
editorials. Of the latter many relate to conditions which have passed,
but the chapters are none the less valuable as sidelights on events of
the last decade and more.

* * * * *

“In these editorials, we find a distinctly refreshing viewpoint put
forth by a thinker of more than usual sympathy and breadth.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 624. N. ’08. 180w.

“There is enough of present interest in the book to give it life as a
whole, while every page is marked by a style so little ‘journalistic’
as to make the entire volume attractive.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 300w.

“These comments on current events are not merely of historical
interest, but are valuable as examples of the best style of American
editorial writing, sensible and well informed as well as pertinent and
readable.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 157. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.

“But the chief impress of Professor Franklin’s previous studies must
be sought in that moderation, with that striving after the just and
fair statement, which most strikes one in these collected writings.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 270w.

“It is a good thing, as a sort of monument to journalism, that the
work of one of its ablest exponents should thus be put into permanent
form.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 300. My. 23, ’08. 170w.

“We find the viewpoint that of the thoughtful, cultured American
student who has radical ideas but believes in applying them
conservatively and the clear, lucid style which characterizes all good
newspaper editorial writing.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 100w.

=Franklin, William Suddards, and McNutt, Barry.= Elements of
mechanics: a textbook for colleges and technical schools. *$1.50.
Macmillan.

7–23872.

“Contains many novel examples as a result of his determined efforts to
bring together the abstract and concrete which the average student
keeps in separate compartments of his brain. Thus we find that in the
laundry it is the force, 4π^2n^2rm which wrings the water from the
clothes, and that if a batsman will solve the equation Mxy = k he can
tell just where to hit the ball so that the bat will not sting his
hands.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The diagrams and sketches used in this book are new and to the point,
the problems are numerous, and the discussions logical and concise.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w.

“Does not present any new features worthy of notice, except that
inaccuracies and lack of precision in the statement of scientific
principles are numerous.” E. G. C.

− =Nature.= 77: 29. N. 14, ’07. 350w.

=Fraprie, Frank Roy.= Castles and keeps of Scotland. $3. Page.

7–39017.

Being a description of sundry fortresses, towers, peels, and other
houses of strength built by the princes and barons of old time in the
highlands, islands, inlands and borders of the ancient and Godfearing
kingdom of Scotland. History and romance as well as architectural
characteristics are brought together here and excellent illustrations
add to the value of the sketch. Uniform with Francis Miltoun’s
“Castles and chateaux of old Touraine” and “Castles and chateaux of
old Navarre.”

* * * * *

“The principal value of the book lies in its usefulness and
convenience, bringing together, as it does, information only to be
found by consulting many books.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 136. My. ’08.

“As the only popular hand-book on the subject, it will be sure to find
an eager welcome.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 130w.

+ =Nation.= 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 90w.

“Is a storehouse of Scotch history and romance.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.

“An interesting and, to the traveler, valuable handbook.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 190w.

=Fraser, Edward.= Champions of the fleet: captains and men-of-war
and days that helped to make the empire. *$1.50. Lane.

W8–35.

“It is made up of tales of the English navy and of the fighting men
who through the centuries since Elizabeth’s time have made for it a
long and glorious history. He tells how many of the famous names still
carried by English battleships were first chosen by the great Queen
herself in a characteristic combination of high-heartedness and shrewd
policy. Much space is given to stories of Trafalgar and to the fleet
in Nelson’s time. There is a chapter also on what the navy did for
Clive in India, and there are many stories of the building of famous
ships and of their deeds in battle.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.

“In painting his portraits of ships and men Mr. Fraser has made full
and skilful use of local colour.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 547. N. 2, ’07. 220w.

“Mr. Fraser, if he has not unearthed very much that is new, has
certainly rediscovered some things and given us fresh sidelights on
others. The illustrations are excellent and in keeping, and contribute
to the making of an eminently fascinating book.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 380w.

=Fraser, Edward.= “Londons” of the British fleet: how they faced the
enemy on the day of battle and what their story means for us
to-day. *$1.50. Lane.

“A well-written account of the six naval vessels which have borne the
name of London, from the time of Oliver Cromwell to Edward VII.
Incidentally there are woven into the thread of the story many bits of
fact and gossip which throw light on naval life and manners”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The volume is eminently readable and instructive.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 120w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 560w.

“Mr. Fraser has collected an astonishing amount of interesting
information concerning the building of the ‘Londons,’ their services
and their crews. He quite rightly tells us plenty of the naval history
of the time. Indeed, he almost loses his equanimity and sequence of
ideas in holding up Lord Sandwich’s administration to contempt,
running to so much repetition and redundancy as to impair our
appreciation of his ordinary lucidity.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 811. N. 21, ’08. 460w.

=Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.= Shoulders of Atlas. †$1.50. Harper.

8–18373.

Against the familiar New England background Mrs. Freeman portrays
another group of fascinating people. There are Sylvia and Henry
Whitman, who, when a windfall comes, regret the fashion in which Henry
had been wont to sour his shoe-shop drudgery with chronic discontent;
there is Sylvia’s boarder, the schoolmaster, reveling in the old
mahogany of the new home; his assistant, a beautiful woman whose brief
career and whose death are shrouded in mystery; there is the
altogether charming Rose Fletcher, who slips into the lives of East
Westlandites and lays siege to every heart; and there is Rose’s rival,
a passion-mad girl who resorts to tears for herself and poison for
others. Sylvia is the Atlas of the title. She bears a burden of
conscience which in the end proves unwarranted.

* * * * *

“This note of mystery is forced throughout, but none the less the book
is full of human interest.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 38. Jl. 11. 220w.

“This novel outranks ‘Jerome’ and ‘Jane Field’ and Mrs. Freeman’s
other dramas of conscience and of New England.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 280w.

“The book is disappointing, because it is disjointed and repellent.”

− =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 140w.

“In the Aunt Sylvia of this tale Mrs. Freeman has produced another of
her little masterpieces of New England portraiture.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 500w.

“An absorbing story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 320w.

“This study of the conscience of a plain New England woman will
interest any who have problems of their own and redeems the blemishes
of the book already mentioned.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 450w.

“Hard in style, but startling in its rendering of human nature in type
and individual.”

− + =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 150w.

=Freeman, William George, and Chandler, Stafford Edwin.= World’s
commercial products: a descriptive account of the economic plants
of the world and of their commercial uses; with contributions by
T. A. Henry, C. E. Jones and E. H. Wilson. *$3.50. Ginn.

7–22708.

“The subtitle of this work, ‘A descriptive account of the economic
plants of the world and of their commercial uses,’ indicates far more
clearly than does the title the scope and character of the book. The
work is not primarily for the specialist, technicalities and tables of
statistics being carefully excluded, while the illustrations, colored
plates, and maps run into the hundreds.”—J. Pol. Econ.

* * * * *

“It is to be hoped that the book in general is more accurate than the
chapter on corn which I have critically examined as a test.”

− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 709. My. ’08. 350w.

“The merit of the book is that it presents in the English language a
good general summary of information concerning the more important
economic plants, their cultivation and commercial utilization.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 644. D. ’07. 110w.

“An important omission is a summary of the commercial values and
exportable surplus of the agricultural staples of different lands. The
maps, together with the illustrations, are perhaps as valuable as the
letterpress itself.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 200w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.

=Freemantle, Elizabeth.= One and I. †$1.50. Jacobs.

8–23925.

In the form of a diary an engaged girl writes of her doubts and
misgivings on the subject of her feelings for “The One.” She believes
that “only an infatuation can make one content—nay, even eager—to
marry in comparative poverty, and thus couple with connubial bliss the
elevating companionship of saucepans and potato peelings.” How the
“big white love” creeps into her heart, and is fostered by the voices
of field and forest, the cries of pain and anguish, is recorded with
simplicity and fidelity to the human heart.

* * * * *

“It is simply the patter of a wide-awake, breezy, wholesome and vital
woman.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 360w.

=N. Y. Times=. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.

“A vein of quiet humor runs through it all.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.

=French, Anne Warner.= Original gentlemen. †$1.50. Little.

8–26824.

Twenty-two short stories brim full of life and humor. The initial
story, “An original gentlemen” tells of the experiences of a New
Yorker abroad who upon losing his letter of credit answers an
advertisement for “an original gentleman, speaking perfect English.”
His originality being called upon to extricate a young woman from a
trying situation is taxed beyond its powers and he bribes to his
assistance a resourceful head waiter. Complications once swept out of
the way, the field is left to romance as whimsical as it is serious.

* * * * *

“This is one of the very best, if not indeed the best of Anne Warner’s
books.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 100w.

“Miss Warner’s most charming quality is the way in which she lets her
characters talk, the while revealing themselves with apparent
unconsciousness.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 33: 548. O. 3, ’08. 200w.

* =French, Anne Warner.= The panther; a tale of temptation. †$1.25. Small.

8–29870.

An allegorical tale of temptation in which a panther, growing from a
furry ball to the huge proportions of a lion symbolizes the increasing
struggle in a young woman’s soul to overcome sin.

* * * * *

=Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 470w.

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 120w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.

=French, Anne Warner.= Seeing England with Uncle John. †$1.50.
Century.

8–8098.

A new chapter of Uncle John’s traveling experiences. He takes for a
companion a “living encyclopaedia” in the person of an old college
professor, sails for Liverpool, sending word ahead to Yvonne and Lee,
now living in Oxford, to meet him, but neglecting to give date and
name of steamer. The result is a merry gallop thru England with the
niece and nephew in close pursuit. The niece in her “‘letters home’
romantically presents the guide-book information that Uncle John
authenticates in his inimitable way.”

* * * * *

“This is the best work that has come from the pen of this popular
author, if we except ‘The rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.’”

+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 300w.

“An unusually entertaining example of this type. Some of the minor
characters are a little overdone.”

+ − =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.

“As the author states, the method is stenographic; it is therefore
inartistic. And consequently, as the native humor has little savor,
one prefers the twenty odd pages of index. Yvonne’s letters, it should
be said, are fairly pleasant feminine reading.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.

“The best thing about the book is that it improves steadily up to the
very last chapter.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w.

“‘Seeing England with Uncle John’ is not as funny as seeing France
with him, but Miss Warner has made it amusing enough, though it should
not be read at one sitting.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.

* =French, Lillie Hamilton.= House dignified: its design, its arrangement, and its decoration. **$5. Putnam.

8–28317.

A book designed to aid people of wealth in exercising taste in the
important matter of designing, arranging and decorating their homes.
“The method of the book is to take up separately the different parts
of the house—hall, salon, dining-room, stairway, library, fireplaces,
windows and doors, and so on—to study their relation to the whole
house and to one another, and the fitness or unfitness of different
plans of decoration, furnishing, and equipment.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Her suggestions, tho written for the rich, can profitably be read and
followed by any householder who has the large happiness ‘to be seated
in the mean.’”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1064. N. 5, ’08. 280w.

=Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 300w.

“A worthy treatment of a subject most desirable for consideration.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 150w.

=Frenssen, Gustav.= Peter Moor’s journey to Southwest Africa: a
narrative of the German campaign; tr. from the original with the
consent of the author, by Margaret May Ward. †$1.25. Houghton.

8–23712.

“Peter Moor is an average young German workman who joins the naval
corps and is well pleased with being a soldier in time of peace. He is
sent with his battalion in 1903 to quell the rising of the blacks in
Southwest Africa. In language simple and straightforward almost to
quaintness he tells the detailed story of the trip to Africa, the
march into the interior, the fighting, the journey home. It is like
looking thru a window into another’s soul. For he tells not only the
outer but the inner things, the feelings, the motives that govern
action, the sensations that fill the soul at important and at trivial
times.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Frenssen has in this work contrived to make an exceedingly
interesting story out of materials which provide little in the way of
romantic or sentimental appeal.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 160w.

“One of the most impressive peace documents ever prepared.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 420. D. 1, ’08. 100w.

“The translator has certainly well translated a little, simple tale
for the purpose of showing ‘the hardships and horrors and the
unnecessary cruelty’ of war.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 300w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.

“In the annals of war it ought to become a classic. It is a book that
ought to bring true the translator’s hope that it might aid the cause
of peace.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 470w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 60w.

“That the story is absorbingly interesting and beautifully told every
reader will agree, and we add with pleasure that the translation is
worthy of the book.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 360w.

“This is a notable book, both for what it actually tells and for the
questions which it suggests.”

+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 300w.

=Frothingham, Paul Revere.= Temple of virtue. **$1.25. Houghton.

7–29414.

“The emphasis placed on [temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude]
by Plato and Aristotle is pointed out, and their nature is explained
and illustrated. But the final discourse, ‘The altar of love,’ calls
attention to the pagan blindness to the highest virtue of all,
love—the love of God and one’s neighbor. The book is a help to right
living, and it is written in an unpretentious and pleasing style, with
occasional apt quotations from Bacon, Harnack, Aquinas, Paulsen,
Franklin, Pausanias, and a considerable range of other writers,
ancient and modern.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“Unity of design, however, holds together all the variety of detail,
and each chapter is succinct, simple, and direct. The little volume
can be read pleasantly and profitably at a single sitting, or it can
be digested piecemeal.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 180w.

“Mr. Frothingham writes in a gentle, pleasant style, with much
persuasiveness.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 80w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 50w.

=Frye, Prosser Hall.= Literary reviews and criticisms. **$1.25. Putnam.

8–27523.

Thirteen essays clear of discernment and sound of judgment dealing
with the Elizabethan sonnet, with French writers—Balzac, George Sand,
Zola, Maupassant, Corneille, Anatole France, Sainte-Beuve; with
Hardy’s naturalism, Hawthorne’s supernaturalism, with Swift, Dryden
and Emerson.

* * * * *

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 900w.

“Here are thirteen studies of the kind which some persons still think
impossible outside of France, studies which help deliver men now from
the flippancies of modish tastes and again from the solemn arrogance
of perverted scholarship. His charming variety has distracted him from
the deeper consistencies.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 365. O. 15, ’08. 1000w.

“There is intellectual grasp in cataloguing and classifying his
subjects which is in excess of his susceptibility to their charms. One
cannot take quite without protest some of the statements which Mr.
Frye tosses off as axiomatic truths.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.

“The thirteen essays here collected bring good entertainment and
profitable thought to the easy chair in one’s library. Instructive as
Mr. Frye is, he has his limitations.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 270w.

* =Fuller, Henry Blake.= Waldo Trench and others. †$1.50. Scribner.

8–23926.

Seven short stories dealing with the American colonies at Florence,
Rome, Venice and other Italian cities. Contents: Waldo Trench regains
his youth; New wine; A coal from the embers; For the faith; Eliza
Hepburn’s deliverance; Addolorata’s intervention; and The house-cat.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4; 269. N. ’08.

“Yet, in spite of the humor, the technical skill in the manipulation
of words and phrases (Mr. Fuller has not read his Henry James in
vain), we are left cold and critical. The author can do better work
than this; he has done it.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.

“Those who have not yet had the pleasure of reading any of Mr.
Fuller’s writings will be quite astonished when they discover how much
cleverness and fun is concealed between the Quakerish-looking covers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 90w.

“The ‘high dilutions’ of Henry James and Mrs. Wharton ... lack zest
and sparkle.”

− =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.

=Fuller, Robert Hart.= South Africa at home. *$1.75. Scribner.

8–22497.

“This volume, like Mr. A. Maurice Low’s ‘America at home,’ is
evidently part of a series intended to afford an intimate view of the
conditions obtaining in different countries.... Besides discussing
present-day social and political problems, Mr. Fuller’s volume covers
a wide range of topics, from descriptions of South African scenery and
town and country life, to chapters on the country’s resources and
industrial possibilities.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“His experience is wide and first-hand, his style very fair, his
temper admirable. Nothing could be more sympathetic and generous,
without sentimentality or lack of shrewdness, than his treatment of
the Boers.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 330w.

“So skillfully has he supplemented personal knowledge with the
knowledge accessible from reports, letters, and other documents, that
his book contains a great deal of information helpful to those who
would learn what the South African is like, what manner of land it is
in which he dwells, and what the future seems to hold for him.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.

=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Government by the people: laws and
customs regulating the election system and the formation and
control of political parties in the United States. **$1.
Macmillan.

8–13760.

“A convenient manual for the study of American government, so far as
it is conducted through the agency of political parties.... It
consists of an elementary discussion of the laws and customs governing
the holding of elections and the organization, methods, agencies and
means of control of political parties in the United States. It
contains a great deal of useful and well-arranged information
expressed in simple language, regarding the nature of elections, the
qualifications for voting, the nomination of candidates, primary
elections, corrupt practices and the part played by political parties
in our public life.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Useful for reference rather than for general reading.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08. ✠

“The facts here given are such as should be thoroughly known to every
voter.”

+ =Arena.= 39: 732. Je. ’08. 200w.

“A perfect mine of information which is of value to the American
citizen and voter. The book is particularly useful just at this time.”

+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 90w.

“It is a little book which deserves to be studied in the schools as a
part of the instruction in civil government.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 130w.

“The book should prove useful for reference, and for instruction in
college courses in government.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 170w.

“While the book is limited in its references, which are principally to
the state of New York, it has general value.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 572. S. ’08. 100w.

“A book that will be found interesting and useful to every American
citizen desirous of learning the mechanism of our political system.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 190w.

=Fulton, Charles Herman.= Manual of fire assaying. il. $2. Hill pub.

7–37731.

This manual “gives all the data necessary to teach the subject to
students or beginners, or to assist an experienced man in running an
office, including keeping the instruments and apparatus in the best
order, handling large amounts of work per day and new or unusual ores,
and making such corrections in the work as will give the highest
degree of accuracy.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“This is undoubtedly the best book upon the fire assay for gold and
silver, as well as the most scientific discussion of the subject, that
has yet been produced. It is written in a clear and easy style, which
is less tiresome to read than most treatises of so technical a
character. The index is as complete as a great majority of indexes to
scientific books, but it falls far short of what it should be.”
Bradley Stoughton.

+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 500w.

=Furnival, Frederick James.= Babees’ book: medieval manners for the
young, done into English with an introd. and notes by Edith
Rickert. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.

A reprint of one of the “divers treatises touching the manners and
meals of Englishmen in former days.” It is primarily a book on
courtesy as it was taught in homes of medieval England. The volume is
bound in brown leather with clasps.

* * * * *

“Miss Rickert has done her work with tact and scholarship.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 430w.

“[Has] a readable and decidedly entertaining introduction. The flavor
of these old poetical and prose exhortations to courtesy and good
manners has been preserved with all its quaintness.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 300w.

* =Furnivall, Frederick James, and Munroe, John.= Shakespeare’s life and work. Cassell.

An extra volume added to the “Century Shakespeare” series. It deals
with Shakespeare’s early life, and details of schooling, discusses the
chronological order of his plays, and his four periods of literary
activity; following which are chapters on “My experience in
Shakespeare work” and “Shakespeare as revealed in his works.”

* * * * *

“Dr. Furnivall indulges in his own form of spelling, and, we notice,
writes ‘Shakspere’ in his text, while the various title-pages have the
different spelling we give above.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 473. O. 17. 200w.

“No man knows his Shakespeare better than Furnivall, and a lively,
picturesque story he has made of the early life of the great
dramatist, the conditions about him, followed by a careful exposition
of his successive plays. A better manual for Shakespeare classes or
for private reading cannot be found.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 170w.

“We do not expect anything new, but we find not a little illustration
gathered from the writer’s very extensive acquaintance with the
literature of English life and manners. We may not be able to accept
all the writer’s conclusions, but they are eminently suggestive.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 592. O. 17. ’08. 670w.

=Futrelle, Jacques.= Simple case of Susan. †$1.25. Appleton.

8–13276.

A rollicking comedy. Susan, the wife of a lieutenant, lunches with
another lieutenant and is observed by a former suitor who, to the best
of his belief, informs Marjorie Stanwood, the young woman at his side,
that Susan’s companion is her husband. When Marjorie is wooed
persistently by Susan’s luncheon companion, complications arise, which
are finally swept away in an elopement in which Marjorie’s father and
his automobile unconsciously aid.

* * * * *

“For the most part the story bubbles frothily along, evoking an
occasional smile—a trifle much, much lighter than air.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 160w.

=Futrelle, Jacques.= Thinking machine on the case. †$1.50. Appleton.

8–9816.

A series of detective stories built up about Professor Augustus Van
Dusen, a scientific detective, who is introduced to the reader at a
game of chess, having been challenged by a champion as a result of
exploiting the theory that by the use of logic a man who had never
played the game could defeat the greatest master. The professor, after
a morning’s instruction, played, won and heard his antagonist exclaim
“you are a brain—a machine—a thinking machine.” It is this clever
“thinking machine” which we see at work on a series of detective
marvels.

* * * * *

“What, above all, marks Mr. Futrell’s work in this as well as the
earlier book, is not the cleverness of any particular tale, but rather
the consistent excellence and fertility of invention of them all.” R.
A. Whay.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 496. Jl. ’08. 770w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.

=Fynn, Arthur John.= American Indian as a product of environment;
with special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.

7–34805.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“Not a well-balanced book. Despite its amateurishness and some very
obvious padding, both useful and interesting to a student of the
subject, but not to the average reader.”

− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 12. Ja. ’08.

“From the standpoint of the general reader the book must prove
decidedly interesting and suggestive. It is well written in an easy
entertaining style, and must be regarded as a very acceptable
contribution to the growing literature popularizing the geographic
control of racial development.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 710. My. ’08. 250w.

“An instructive book that might well be used by high-school students
for collateral reading is Mr. Fynn’s study of the American Indian.
Both the text and illustrations are good.”

+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.

“This is, with certain reservations, a pretty good book; it takes hold
of the subject in the right way, and it is clear and simple.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.

“He has set forth only the salient features of the environment of
primitive life, and he has treated these with a view to the tastes and
capacities of the general reader and not of the student. It is a book
for popular consumption.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 250w.

“All of Doctor Fynn’s comments are of interest to the general reader
as well as to the student of anthropology.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.

G

* =Gaige, Roscoe Crosby, and Harcourt, Alfred=, comps. Books and reading. (Humanity essays.) **$1.50. Baker.

8–29755.

An anthology of the “most human things said about books” including
some eighty odd contributions. The groups into which the selections
are gathered are as follows: By way of preface; My book and heart;
Friends in council; The little ships; Some ancient worthies; The
glorious court; Philobiblon; To those who write; Beside the fire; and
Complete essays.

* * * * *

“Has been compiled with care and devotion, and contains some of the
choicest passages in literature.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 30w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 643. O. 31, ’08. 170w.

* =Gairdner, James.= Lollardy and the reformation in England: an historical survey. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.

8–34724.

An historical survey which is made under the following heads: The
Lollards, Royal supremacy, The fall of the monasteries, and The reign
of the English Bible. “The first of these deals, in a fairly full and
entertaining fashion, with the rise, spread, and subsequent decline of
Lollardy, and the general position of affairs on the eve of the
reformation.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The most severe critic would find it difficult to catch Dr. Gairdner
tripping on his own ground; but there is a curious lapse with regard
to an important religious house which played a significant part in the
story of the suppression. A work of the highest standard, wherein is
marshalled, with innate honesty of purpose, an abundance of facts
concerning a most complex and perplexing period of English history in
Church and State.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 499. O. 24. 2300w.

=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 100w.

“In most cases we disagree with his interpretation, and we have spoken
of his work as biassed. But his bias, while it governs his argument,
has not led him into anything of the nature of misrepresentation of
facts. His work is careful, conscientious, and learned.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 883. N. 28, ’08. 2000w.

* =Gale, Zona.= Friendship village. †$1.50. Macmillan.

8–30534.

A village of no definite geographical location is the scene of
happenings which are recorded by one who drops quietly into the life
and ways of the towns-folk for a short season. From the lowliest to
the village autocrat, the chronicler selects her types, and gathers
them into a sheaf for the reader. The volume has a large
brotherhood-of-man value in its lessons of neighborly kindness and
charity, in its substitution of the spirit of simplicity and
genuineness for superficial worldliness.

* * * * *

“We close the book, lingeringly, just as we should leave so friendly a
town, with the feeling that America is sound at the core, while it is
possible to recognize the truth of such affectionate portraiture.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 230w.

“We mean no offense by comparing the book with ‘David Harum,’ Calliope
being a feminine David, and many of the scenes being similar. This
book especially makes for higher thinking and better living, and
emphasizes the existence of these virtues in lowly places as well as
high.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 470w.

“Miss Gale is a newcomer who has quietly taken her place with those
who can bring a smile on the face of life.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 662. N. 28, ’08. 120w.

“There are genuine every-day Christian faith and hearty fellowship in
these pretty, homely, and decidedly clever sketches.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 200w.

=Gallizier, Nathan.= Sorceress of Rome. il. $1.50. Page.

7–36915.

The second volume in the author’s trilogy of romances on the medieval
life of Italy. Old monkish chronicles have furnished the material for
the story which in the main tells of impassioned love of Otto III, the
boy emperor, for Stephania, the wife of Crescentius, their deeds to
outwit friend and foe, the tragedy of their life and death.

* * * * *

“Undoubtedly the author is giving us only such facts as he deems
necessary to a clear understanding of the times and the events he
chronicles; but the average reader would have been better satisfied to
be somewhat less instructed and somewhat more entertained.” F: T.
Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 26: 673. F. ’08. 290w.

“Fantastic, over-drawn, surfeited with the extreme and the erotic, the
production was not worth the labor and research expended upon it.”

− =Cath. World.= 86: 834. Mr. ’08. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 160w.

“It is a well-written tale, full of color and action, whose pages teem
with weird wonders and gruesome surprises.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 210w.

=Galsworthy, John.= A commentary. †$1.50. Putnam.

8–33812.

“A series of little pictures, or idylls, strangely disquieting, of
misery and comfort, satiric, ironic, tragic. The chapters bear such
captions as ‘Old age,’ ‘Fear,’ ‘Fashion,’ ‘Sport,’ ‘Justice’; but
these abstractions are the shadows cast by characters of flesh and
blood.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“These sketches are determined etchings from life, but have been
bitten-in without much regard to art.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 126. Ag. 1, 120w.

“A series of stories that really deserve to be preserved because of
their literary merit, and because of the curious light they shed upon
the two natures of poverty.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 220w.

“Mr. Galsworthy’s animating motive, a desire to puncture the
thoughtless complacency of the comfortable classes, has produced in
this volume of organically related sketches a work of original
distinction.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1. ’08. 370w.

“He puts these reflections into various mouths, they occasionally miss
any particular illumination, they do not favor continuous reading, and
here and there they too obviously suggest the notebook. Yet there is
throughout the volume a clearness of thought, a fine treatment of
circumstance, a sane, sardonic humour which would atone for much more
serious defects and interest us even more in the author than in his
present material.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 826. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.

=Galsworthy, John.= Island Pharisees. Revised and rewritten. †$1.50.
Putnam.

8–27808.

Richard Shelton, a young Englishman born to the “ninety desiring peace
and comfort for their spirit ... who will have it that the fashions
need not change, that morality is fixed, that all is ordered and
immutable” joins the ten Pharisees who grope for a philosophy to
uphold the conviction that “All things that are, are wrong” in place
of “All things that are, are right.” This story depicts subjectively
the struggle of Shelton as he is torn between social conventionality
and allegiance to the tramp with whom and with whose philosophy his
whole nature sympathizes.

* * * * *

“Shelton falls immeasurably short of his purpose; he is too weak a
vessel for his message, emotionally and intellectually. Wishing to
strike at the fundamental evils of society, he succeeds only in
impeaching order and respectability. He is not virile, but puerile.”

− =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 420w.