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Book Review Digest

Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature

January-December, 1908

A

=Abbott, Ernest Hamlin.= On the training of parents. **$1. Houghton.

8–12208.

The first chapter on Spasm and habit urges mothers to forsake the
collision and spasm methods of governing children. The author preaches
the practice of regularity to insure health, contentment, and that
obedience which marks the beginning of the child’s moral training.
Other chapters follow on The will and the way, By rule of wit, Peace
at a price, For it is their nature to [quarrel], and The beginning of
wisdom.

* * * * *

“A popular but sound book.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠

“Mr. Abbott’s pleasant and profitable little book illustrates this
truth [that ‘self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,—these three
alone lead life to sovereign power’] with much shrewdness, humor, good
sense, and evidence of actual and often perplexing experience.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 277. My. 1, ’08. 450w.

“There is an hour of genial reading, not without its minutes of
instruction and more sober reflection, in Mr. Abbott’s little book.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.

“It should be in the hand of every parent and teacher of the young.
The tone is genial, and a vein of pleasant, sympathetic humor lightens
every page. Mr. Abbott’s little book cannot be too heartily
commended.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 305. My. 30, ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Abbott has a keen power of observation and the faculty of being
serious without being dull.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.

=Abbott, George Frederick.= Israel in Europe. *$3.25. Macmillan.

7–37533.

A synopsis of the history of the Jews in Europe, from the earliest to
the present times, which tells the “story of suffering, partial
degradation, and petty general victory of the better elements of
humanity.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“With this reservation, the author may be praised for a concise and
brightly written presentment of a singularly tragic and often
repulsive story, a presentment which only degenerates into special
pleading when the latter-day developments of the Jewish question are
approached.” Rowland Strong.

+ − =Acad.= 73: 730. Jl. 27, ’07. 1650w.

“Obsessed by his idea of persecution, the author can not spare the
space to recount the positive labors of the Jew in the field of
letters, journalism, finance, invention and pure science. These
defects are offset by a personal enthusiasm and vivacity of tone
unusual in a work of encyclopedic character.” Ferdinand Schwill.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 320. Ja. ’08. 740w.

“An excellent history, only slightly biased (because of association in
modern questions with the English Jew’s viewpoint). Does not replace
Graetz, but is more readable.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 253. N. ’08.

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 174. Ag. 17. 580w.

“Admirable as are its tone and purpose, suffers from the fact that the
authorities consulted are chiefly those on the Jewish side; that, in
fact, what is needed is again to return to original authorities,
whether Latin or Hebrew, and from them to reconstruct the history to
which this book serves as a finger-post. Mr. Abbott also is unfair in
his attitude to the medieval church.” E. R. Y.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 823. O. ’07. 200w.

“It is interesting in subject, comprehensive in material, and lucid in
expression.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 270. S. 6, ’07. 690w.

“As to the future, Mr. Abbott is not hopeful—he believes that ‘there
is no rest for Israel.’ This note of hopelessness is the only
unsatisfactory feature in a work which will do much to popularize the
knowledge of Jewish history and lead to a juster and kindlier estimate
of the Jew’s place in modern civilization.”

+ + − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 350w.

“It has knowledge, fairness, industry, and a lucid, pleasant style.
And many besides those who can claim descent from the unconquerable
race whose tribulations it chronicles will be glad to have a summary
of Jewish history in a form so easy to handle and so agreeable to
consult.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 530. O. 12, ’07. 1260w.

=Abbott, Katharine M.= Old paths and legends of the New England
border: Connecticut, Deerfield, and Berkshire. **$3.50. Putnam.

7–40881.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 35. F. ’08.

+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 110w.

“Miss Abbott is anxious to relate, not what actually occurred, but
what the country-folk have believed or fancied as occurring; and, in
pursuing this end she pours out a lavish store of things amusing,
pathetic, often in a high degree romantic.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 210w.

“It would be impossible to find, probably impossible to create, a book
more fully saturated with the spirit of old New England.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 140w.

“To any one in the least interested in the old days of our Yankee
ancestors this volume would prove an extremely satisfying gift.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 140w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 90w.

=Abbott, Leonard D.= Ernest Howard Crosby: a valuation and tribute.
*50c. Ariel press.

A tribute to a Tolstoyan reformer whose life of service was the
outgrowth of a rebirth experienced on the way from “stolid
conservatism to extreme radicalism.” By profession, a judge, Mr.
Crosby ceased to care to judge men but wished rather to love and serve
them. His life was broad, sane, spiritual: he studied real values; his
creed, if creed it may be called, seems to be summed up in the
following:

“Love others; love them calmly, strongly, profoundly,
And you will find your immortal soul.”

* * * * *

“Mr. Abbott has rendered a service to the cause of human progress by
writing this beautiful and worthy tribute.”

+ =Arena.= 39: 500. Ap. ’08. 850w.

=Ind.= 64: 260. Ja. 30, ’08. 160w.

=Abbott, Lyman.= Home builder. **75c. Houghton.

8–30941.

Short chapters portraying in the highest sense of idealism the
daughter, the bride, the wife, the mother, the housekeeper, the
philanthropist, the saint and the grandmother. This ideal woman is
capable of sure practical results; is spiritual, wise, provident;
obeys Heaven’s laws of order and cleanliness; in short, rises to the
stature of Solomon’s word portrait of the virtuous woman.

=Abercrombie, Lascelles.= Interludes and poems. **$1.25. Lane.

“The chief poems in the book are tales in verse after Browning’s
fashion,—the story of the girl turned by God into His own likeness,
the tale of the sophist Peregrinus from Lucian, a beautiful little
eclogue called An escape, and Blind, which tells a hideous tale with
uncommon power. This last is the story of a woman and her blind son
who wander through the world looking for the boy’s father.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“It is ‘Sordello’ uninspired; full of wanton tortuosities of syntax,
vain gleaning of rare and obsolescent words, and a versification which
congratulates itself upon flouting scansion. The book leaves an
impression of Buddhistic philosophy, seeming to preach the dissolution
of self-mannerism hymning Nirvana.” Brian Hooker.

− =Forum.= 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 200w.

“This book is interesting aside from its failure, for some human
nature shows in it, despite a turgid diffuseness of language, an
apparently willful avoidance of simplicity.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 130w.

“He has no prettinesses; he has a most defective ear; he works to
death the trick of the extra syllable in the pentameter line; he is a
true ‘spasmodic,’ and takes a delight in saying the simplest thing in
the most extravagant way, with the result that he is as often as not
forcible-feeble. Yet he has great merits. He has thought, imagination,
and a rude gusto of style.”

− + =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.

=Abraham, George D.= Complete mountaineer. **$4.80. Doubleday.

8–16910.

Full of hints and rules and suggestions for accoutrement, this is a
book for beginners in mountain climbing which is occupied with a
detailed description of the footholds of the celebrated peaks of Great
Britain and the Continent.

* * * * *

“A very readable and admirable survey of the principal climbing
districts in the world.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠

“His style is of the journalistic order, in which a cow is called ‘a
bovine quadruped,’ and so forth. The ‘greased pole’ aspect of a
mountain was never so remorselessly set forth.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 351. Mr. 21. 900w.

“Written with a great intimacy of detail. The philosophy of choice of
guides especially, and when to do without them, is set forth with
gratifying lucidity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.

“We have never before seen so many faithful and beautiful mountain
pictures in one volume. The technical information is sound, and
luminously set out, and the point of view throughout will secure the
approbation of all climbers. The one fault is a tendency to minor
jocularities. But the author is surely insufficiently appreciative of
the merits of a good guide.”

+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 900. D. 7, ’07. 1500w.

=Acton, Sir John Emerich.= Historical essays and studies; ed. by J:
Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3. Macmillan.

8–2757.

A volume of bibliographical and biographical essays consisting of
articles and reviews contributed to magazines and societies during the
period between 1858 and 1892. “The two types may best be illustrated
by the masterly article on German schools of history ... and the
pronouncement on Cavour contributed to The Rambler in 1861.” (Ath.)
Other topics are dealt with such as Wolsey and the divorce of Henry
VIII. The secret history of Charles II. The causes of the
Franco-Prussian war, and the war of 1870. A particularly scholarly
essay is the one on George Eliot.

* * * * *

“They may be divided roughly into bibliographical and biographical
essays, the former excellently instructive to the student, the latter
often rather dull reading for scholar and layman alike.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 220. F. 22. 1100w.

“The editors have contributed an interesting introduction, but they
have not done much besides. The actual words of Lord Acton had to be
retained; but some small inconsistencies might have been remedied.” P.
V. M. Benecke.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.

“Not only give us glimpses of the awe-inspiring scholarship of Lord
Acton, but diffuse some quality of biography and reveal the
personality of the man.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.

=Acton, Sir John Emerich.= History of freedom and other essays; ed.
with an introd. by J: Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence.
*$3. Macmillan.

8–2560.

In the introduction the editors have summed up Lord Acton’s
personality, the character of his work, and the influence which he
exerted upon historical scholarship. The body of the book gives all
that was realized of a projected work on the history of liberty. It
consists of an address on The history of freedom in antiquity, and one
on The history of freedom in Christianity, to which has been added an
article on Erskine May’s “Democracy in Europe.”

* * * * *

“It is a book which does more than add to our information: it
strengthens and inspires.”

+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 68. Ja. 18. 1450w.

“The greater part of the work shows those characteristics which are
generally associated with the late Lord Acton: reading that seems to
be limitless, and elusive style which is the despair of the ordinary
man.” P. V. M. Benecke.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.

“What is remarkable in these generalizations is not so much their
inconsistencies as their air of unreality. They are the work of a man
with a passion for truth, indeed, but a one-sided passion.” Sydney
Waterlow.

− =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 506. Jl. ’08. 1150w.

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 220w.

“Sufficient to convince us, if we had needed conviction, of the
prodigious learning, the consummate literary ability, and the
unfailing candour of the writer.”

+ + =Spec.= 100: 265. F. 15, ’08. 1800w.

=Adam, James.= Religious teachers of Greece: being Gifford lectures
on natural religion delivered at Aberdeen; ed. with a memoir by
his wife, Adela Marion Adam. *$4. Scribner.

8–25723.

“A splendid piece of work on the great thinkers of Greece from Homer
to Plato. Five lectures are devoted to the latter, two each to Homer,
Heraclitus, Socrates, and Euripides, and one each to Pindar,
Aeschylus, and Sophocles.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“Exhibit throughout the fine qualities which mark all Adam’s work:
soundness of scholarship, fullness and accuracy of knowledge,
clearness and vigour of expression. Apart from a few slips of
printing, the revision has been executed ... with commendable care.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 146. Ag. 8. 1050w.

“The lectures display the master’s control of the subject and its
literature, a fine literary charm and distinction, and profound
appreciation of the problems of the religious view of the world.”

+ =Bib. World.= 32: 152. Ag. ’08. 100w.

“Dr. Adam’s book is likely to hold its place for long, not only
because of its learning and philosophic insight, but as a complete and
worthy memorial of a life of constant and conspicuous devotion to the
study of Greek literature and thought.” G. F. Barbour.

+ + =Hibbert J.= 7: 198. O. ’08. 2850w.

“A work of unusual merit, the opus magnum of a man who literally put
his life into it.”

+ + =Ind.= 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 450w.

“Not the least of Professor Adam’s merits then has been his steadfast
hold upon common sense, even at the risk occasionally of appearing
commonplace. His comparisons, as far as they go, are generally
excellent, but we could wish that he had not confined one side of his
parallel so closely to a Christianity of Anglican hue. Once or twice
this tendency draws him, we think, into false or forged analogies.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 55. Jl. 16, ’08. 1550w.

“[His method of taking each author singly] is defective, inasmuch as
it fails to bring out satisfactorily the general trend of Greek
religious thought, to show how one system is connected with another.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 272. Ag. 29, ’08. 1750w.

* =Adams, Elizabeth Kemper.= Aesthetic experience: its meaning in a functional psychology: a dissertation. pa. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–2424.

“From data furnished by analytic psychology and descriptive sociology,
the author of this excellent monograph attempts a philosophical
interpretation and estimate of the aesthetic experience from a single
and definite point of view. Among the important topics treated with
special suggestiveness are: The relation of the aesthetic to the
intellectual; its relation to fundamental life interests, instincts,
and activities; its social characteristics; and a reinterpretation of
the aesthetic categories from the functional and social point of
view.”—Philos. R.

* * * * *

“Among its commendable features are its arrangement, its
connectedness, its grasp of essential problems in their bearings. The
monograph should have considerable value for all who are interested in
aesthetics or functional psychology.” E. L. Norton.

+ =Philos. R.= 16: 660. N. ’07. 400w.

“The reviewer is unable to harmonize the conclusions of the final part
of the monograph with the preceding parts.” W. D. Furry.

+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 363. N. 15, ’08. 1650w.

=Adams, Rev. John.= Sermons in syntax; or, Studies in the Hebrew
text: a book for preachers and students. *$1.50. Scribner.

8–5282.

A guide to students who desire “to gain a clear insight into the
varied and often picturesque use of verbal forms in Hebrew, and to
employ the knowledge thus obtained for homiletical purposes.... The
first chapter treats of the value of Hebrew study; the second gives a
brief account of Hebrew grammarians, Jewish and Christian; and the
remaining twelve deal with the Hebrew tenses in all their forms and
moods.... It is in the elucidation of the special texts introduced to
illustrate the grammatical propositions that the expository and
homiletical element of the treatise appears.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“We have rarely seen a book which, under a title apparently stiff and
uninviting, provides valuable instruction in so attractive a manner.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 230w.

“The non-Hebraist even will often obtain here illuminative hints for
the treatment of biblical texts.”

+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w.

“It offers sermon-stuff to all expositors who care for the finer lines
of thought.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 130w.

“The student of Hebrew will doubtless find in it a valuable supplement
to the grammar which he may be in the habit of using.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 193. F. 1, ’08. 70w.

=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s electricity book for boys. $1.75.
Harper.

7–37737.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“An excellent book for the ordinary boy who has only ordinary
resources.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 21. Ja. ’08. ✠

“The boy who goes through this admirable book with vim and zest stands
an excellent chance of making a good electrical engineer in the long
run.”

+ + =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 230w.

“The book is not so historical as Mr. Jenks’s; on the other hand, it
is more practical.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 100w.

=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s indoor book for boys. $1.75. Harper.

8–12775.

A companion to Harper’s outdoor book for boys which, equally practical
and comprehensive, shows how leisure time indoors may be spent
pleasantly and profitably. Clear instruction and simple equipment
commend the book to every active boy. Work is outlined under four
general headings: Wood-working, Metalworking, Household arts, Round
about the house.

* * * * *

“A practical and comprehensive book.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 225. Je. ’08.

“Ought to be in every school library and wherever else there are boys
who like to make things.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.

“Is even a better handbook of its kind than the ‘Outdoor book.’”

+ + =Nation.= 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.

+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 20w.

“It is quite up to the high mark set by its predecessors. A world of
boys could be kept busy and interested with the help and instruction
afforded by this thick volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 120w.

+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 368. D. ’08. 320w.

=Adams, Samuel.= Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. by H. A. Cushing. 4v.
ea. *$5. Putnam.

4–18620 Additions.

These volumes contain an accurate collection of the writings of Samuel
Adams during the first ten years of his public career, and afford the
student of history “the opportunity of examining critically the work
of the foremost democratic leader of the great democratic movement of
the last century.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The productions of his pen were
among the most powerful and persistently active forces that brought
about the American revolution.... [And his opinions are recorded in]
legislative reports, in instructions of the Boston town meeting, in
circular letters to the other colonies, in controversies over
constitutional points with the governors, in petitions and protests to
the home government, in elaborate statements of principles to the
agents of Massachusetts resident in England, and in trenchant
newspaper articles.” (Pol. Sci. Q.)

* * * * *

“There was in fact no wisdom in hoping that this third volume would
contain the wealth of material found in the earlier ones. The private
letters are in a good many instances, if not in all, not very
illuminating.” A. C. McLaughlin.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 367. Ja. ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The usefulness of the four volumes is much diminished by the very
imperfect index, which is, in fact, all an index should not be.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w. (Review of v. 4.)

“There are a good many interesting and instructive letters in this
volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 720w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The absence of an adequate topical index is to be regretted.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 4.)

=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 174. Mr. ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Adams, Samuel Hopkins.= Flying death. †$1.50. McClure.

8–3520.

Montauk Point, the tip-end of Long Island is the scene of a series of
casualties which baffle the guests at Third House. After a sailor, an
aeronaut, a newspaper man, and a coast-guard are stretched upon the
sands, with evidence of having suffered a similar fate, a crusade is
instituted to solve the mystery of the ravages. A pteranadon, a huge
arrow-beaked bird, known only to the beginning of the race, is laid
low after an encounter which results in the loss of one man of the
party. In addition to thrilling adventure there are two romances which
relieve the weight of the tragedy.

* * * * *

“One smells the lamp here and there; the effort the book has cost is
perceptible.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 130w.

“Mr. Adams has written quite an interesting story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 72. F. 8, ’08. 160w.

“Mr. Adams has written a readable story, and has offered for his
mystery an explanation at the same time impossible and eminently
satisfying.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 20, ’08. 140w.

=Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf.= Arts and crafts in the middle ages: a
description of mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments
of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in
the early renaissance. $3. Page.

8–19089.

Examines mediaeval artistic crafts for the original processes which
are being restored in the great handicraft revival in America to-day.
Fully illustrated, the chapters touch upon gold and silver work,
jewelry and precious stones, enamel, tapestry, embroideries, sculpture
in stone, carving in wood and ivory, inlay and mosaic, illumination of
books. Bibliography and index.

* * * * *

“Necessarily, the accounts are fragmentary, but they serve their
purpose.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 340w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 70w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.

* =Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf.= Mrs. John Vernon: a study of a social situation. $1.25. Badger, R: G.

8–32645.

When Mrs. John Vernon faces the question of consenting to the marriage
of her daughter, born out of wedlock, with the young scion of a Boston
family, she takes her secret to her clergyman, asks advice and is
counseled on the side of silence. Tho the author intimates little good
from a disclosure, the secret comes to light thru outside sources, the
lover is constant, the daughter dies ignorant of the cloud, and the
mother purges her life thru hard work and good deeds.

* =Adventures= at sea, by F. H. Converse and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.) †60c. Harper.

8–32331.

A story for boys and girls which reproduces the fascination of the
sea. There are fourteen chapters including strange stories of
whale-hunts, shark-encounters, wrecks, fires, storms, castaways and
heroic rescues whose dramatic incidents are actual facts.

* * * * *

“A number of stories, all worth reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 20w.

=Adventures= of pirates and sea-rovers, by Howard Pyle, Rear-Admiral
J: H: Upshur, Paul Hull and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.)
†60c. Harper.

8–18406.

The wild life of the seventeenth-century buccaneers pictured vividly
by Howard Pyle, Rear-admiral Upshur, Paul Hull and others. The first
part gives strange glimpses of colonial conditions along our Atlantic
seaboard from New England to Carthagena, with colonial pirates bent
upon treasure hunts; the second part gives a series of pictures of the
great sea-rovers in the times of Queen Elizabeth and James I.

* * * * *

“Satisfy the demand for pirate stories without being too sensational.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 272. N. ’08. ✠

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 789. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.

=Adventures= with Indians, by Philip V. Mighels and others. il.
†60c. Harper.

8–3518.

Pioneer life in the middle west is pictured here in stirring tales of
ambush, battle, and adventure in which the wit and courage of the
white man struggle against the stealth and savage instinct of the
Indian. Many of the stories are based upon fact, and many contain
actual historical incidents, while together they reveal Indian life
and character as represented by tribes from the Montagnais of Canada
to the Seminoles of Florida and to the Piutes of the Rockies. The
contributors include eleven well known writers of stories.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 112. Ap. ’08. ✠

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.

=Ady, Cecelia M.= History of Milan under the Sforza. (Historic
states of Italy.) *$3.50. Putnam.

8–5826.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“As a monograph on the Sforza it seems to us one of the very best
books ever written by a foreigner about Italy. A bibliography at the
end of the volume, however full it may be, is not enough. We must have
notes.”

+ + − =Acad.= 73: 266. D. 21, ’07. 1350w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.

“In point of construction, narrative skill, and judgment on men and
matters, it would do credit to a far more experienced historian.”

+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 316. Mr. 14. 950w.

“Miss Ady’s book will take a prominent place among the histories of
Italy in the English language, and this largely because of the care
and accuracy with which she has studied her subject. A few slips are
to be noticed.” K. H. Vickers.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 781. O. ’08. 1400w.

“With reasonable fulness, it is intended to be popular, but not
shallow.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 200w.

“Is the first in English to describe on an adequate scale the dramatic
events in Milan under the house of Sforza. It is to be hoped, however,
that future writers in this series will be more generous in their
notes and less chary of dispensing with authorities.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 470. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.

“Here, if anywhere, one can find an account of a particular historical
period affecting one of the Italian states, an account as clear and
concise as it is brilliant and forceful.”

+ + =Outlook.= 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 240w.

“This book is painstaking to a degree and full of information about
the Sforza dukes. But it does not kindle; it does not warm; it does
not incite to further study. If not exactly argumentative in itself,
yet the style has at times an argumentative cast which spoils its
narrative quality.”

− + =Sat. R.= 105: 271. F. 29, ’08. 1000w.

=Agger, Eugene E.= Budget in the American commonwealth. (Studies in
history, economics and public law, v. 25, no. 2.) *$1.50.
Longmans.

7–16495.

The misuse of public funds with attendant carelessness in auditing
them has sent many an economist to the root of evil. Dr. Agger’s book
brings together the constitutional and statutory provisions and the
various customs affecting the budget right. “He points out the
differences between American and European procedure; he describes the
budget as a report and as a project of law; he sets forth the
conditions of voting the budget, the collection of revenue and its
centralization, the safe-keeping of the public funds and their
disbursement; finally he treats of the control of the budget, in which
the subject of auditing is emphasized as above.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“It will prove a very useful contribution to our knowledge of a much
confused and bewildering subject.” C. C. Plehn.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 142. Je. ’08. 570w.

“Dr. Agger’s book gives a valuable general survey of the American
system.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 612. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.

=Aglionby, Francis Keyes.= Life of Edward Henry Bickersteth, poet
and bishop. $2.50. Longmans.

A biography of the “poet and bishop” who is best known thru his two
hymns, “Peace, perfect peace,” and “Yesterday, to-day, and for ever.”
He is portrayed more as a saint than a man of intellectual powers. “It
will be said that by tradition and by choice Bishop Bickersteth was a
strong party man of the Evangelical persuasion, and that partisanship
is too often inimical to saintship. Some would reply that the
evangelicalism of a man whom Mr. Gladstone promoted twice within a few
weeks must have been of a doubtful quality. The true answer is to be
traced through this sketch of his life which shows how he was saved
from the perils of partisanship by a genius for friendship with men of
the opposite school.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

=Ind.= 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 220w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 315. O. 18, ’07. 580w.

“Mr. Aglionby draws an attractive picture of the man, of his zeal for
good works, his devoutness, his generous sympathy with all efforts
that made for the benefit of others.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 380w.

=Aitken, Robert.= Golden horseshoe. il. $1.50. McBride, J.

7–34306.

“A mysterious advertisement calling for adventurers willing to enter
blindly upon a hazardous undertaking [is answered by three young men],
an American, an Englishman and an Irishman—[who] get mixed up in the
villainous doings of a Central American dictator and his plots against
his beautiful niece.” (Ind.) “The predicaments are magnificently many
and ingenious, full of novelty to even the well-inured reader.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“It is distinctly American, and is full of exciting incident.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 474. Ap. 18. 270w.

=Ind.= 64: 209. Ja. 23, ’08. 80w.

“There is everything in the book to recommend it as a fantasy in
exploit. It may be added that it makes appeal mainly to the reader who
likes that kind of thing and likes a good deal of it.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 400w.

=Aitken, Thomas.= Road making and maintenance: a practical treatise
for engineers, surveyors, and others; with an historical sketch of
ancient and modern practice. 2d ed. *$6. Lippincott.

Agr 8–366.

This new edition has been prepared to keep pace with changed
conditions. The new matter relates chiefly to the question of damage
done to roads by motor-cars, and the nuisance arising from dust caused
by the speed at which these vehicles are driven. The author who has
been actively identified with the movement to prevent dust believes
that the system of tar macadam offers the best solution to the dust
problem.

* * * * *

“The volume as a whole might serve in many respects as a model for a
technical book. The book should find a place in every engineering
library which makes any pretense of including the best works on roads
and pavements.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 295. Mr. 12, ’08. 600w.

+ + − =Engin. Rec.= 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 150w.

“The book deals in an exhaustive and practical manner with [16]
subjects.”

+ + =Nature.= 77: 244. Ja. 16, ’08. 600w.

=Aix, pseud.= Adventures of a nice young man. †$1.50. Duffield.

8–26194.

The adventures of a genteel, pedantic youth, who, impressionable and
unqualified for struggle, goes to New York to seek his fortune. The
incidents of the story are strung together upon a slight thread of
plot relating to a valid will and a forged one.

* * * * *

“One reads it, a chapter at a time ... for the sake of the rather
whimsical humor of what happens from page to page.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 265. N. ’08. 260w.

“The interest of the book is entirely in the manner of its telling,
which is whimsical, quaintly audacious in its irreverence for literary
tradition, sometimes as romantically impossible as a fairy tale in its
narrative of events, and again crudely realistic.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 180w.

* =Aked, Charles Frederic.= Old events and modern meanings, and other sermons. **$1.25. Revell.

8–29641.

A group of sermons preached from the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue
Baptist church. “They are evangelical, and they are also distinctly
modern in their wide outlook upon the things and thoughts of the
world’s work, and play, and folly, and wrong. Their ethical tone and
temper are incisive and stirring. Their felicitously modernized
interpretation from an ethical and religious standpoint of Lord
Bacon’s famous aphorisms concerning the ‘idols of the tribe, the cave,
the market-place, and the theatre’ is thoroughly characteristic of the
preacher.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Dr. Aked occasionally offends against good taste. When all’s said Dr.
Aked is a strong man and has published a good book. The kind of
preaching in these sermons is not only what people want, but what they
need.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 720w.

“The discourses in this volume are not merely sermons; they are also
literature.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 110w.

=Albanesi, Effie Adelaide Maria (Effie Adelaide Rowlands, pseud.).=
Forbidden road. 75c. Cupples & L.

7–42010.

“The story of what happened to a man when wealth came to him at the
age of 30 and found him rather simple in his tastes, good looking,
intelligent, right meaning, and with an unspoiled capacity for
enjoyment. The two chief women characters are a gay, fascinating,
light-minded young widow and the capable and lovable young woman who
is the governess of the widow’s children.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“It is rather regrettable, a bit of shoddy sufficiently smooth of
surface to engage the eye, but with no real substance. The governess,
the baronet, the millionaire, all have human attributes, and even an
air of individuality; but they really are, and are meant to be,
nothing more than wax figures designed with sufficient cunning to
deceive the ignorant or indolent patron of the show.”

− =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 230w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.

=Alden, Henry Mills.= Magazine writing and the new literature. **$2.
Harper.

8–28839.

Writing out of the fulness of fifty years of close association with
literature, forty years of which have been spent on the editorial
staff of Harper’s magazine, the author has two objects in view:
“First, to show the intimate relations of periodical to general
literature, as to authorship and aim; secondly, to present certain
characteristic features of a new life and literature, beginning two
centuries ago with the emergence, in the natural course of evolution,
of the distinctively modern physical era.” The keynote of the study is
the ever-developing relation of modern literature to life itself.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 30w.

“The present work is a symmetrical and impressive whole, a harmonious
composition, with a distinctive historical and critical meaning.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 400w.

“Minor differences of opinion, however, and the intellectual effort
required in following the argument should prejudice no one against the
important and startling major conclusions.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 520w.

“If anything were needed to complete the extraordinary character of
the new volume by the editor of Harper’s magazine it would be supplied
by the fact that a veteran in letters, such as Mr. Alden, is the
author of it.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 585. O. 24, ’08. 1350w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 90w.

=Aldis, Janet.= Queen of letter writers, Marquise de Sévigné, Dame
de Bourbilly, 1626–1696. *$3. Putnam.

8–9535.

The letters cover, as Sainte-Beuve said, “twenty-seven years of the
most delightful period of the most agreeable French society”—the time
of Corneille and La Fontaine, Moliere and Racine, the time when court
and society set the example of good breeding to all the world, when
“the church [was] rich in great preachers as she never was before or
since ... and the king [was] at last really on his throne and
preparing France for the only century of freedom from the civil war
she has ever known.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“Shows in a lively way Madame de Sévigné’s relation to her times and
her connection with the important people and the events of her day.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08.

“Miss Aldis’s style lacks distinction and sometimes correctness.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 205. Ag. 22. 640w.

“A full, readable, and altogether excellent account of Madame de
Sévigné and her times.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w.

“Mrs. Aldis has gathered much of interest.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 381. Ag. 13, ’08. 230w.

“The fault of Mr. Lucas is that he has given nothing of this
‘delightful creature’; and of Miss Aldis that she has allowed her to
be too much buried under the pomps and vanities of a ‘Life and
times.’”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 380. D. 13, ’07. 970w.

=Nation.= 86: 238. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.

“Miss Aldis evidently loves the image of the brilliant and amiable
Marquise, for she writes of her with a deft and understanding pen.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 850w.

“The author has been wonderfully successful in throwing into relief
and rendering attractive to readers of our own day just those things
which made up the social and literary associations which surrounded
Madame de Sévigné and her friends. The story, as told here, is lively
and even brilliant.”

+ + =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 160w.

“An excellent example of its class.” E. J. Putnam.

+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 364. Je. ’08. 400w.

“An excellent piece of work.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 860w.

“With such a subject and such materials, of which she has made the
fullest use, it is no wonder that Mrs. Aldis should have written a
delightful book. To our mind, its defect is a necessary one: the
amount of translation from Madame de Sévigné’s letters.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 66. Je. 11, ’08. 550w.

* =Aleramo, Sibilla, pseud.= A woman at bay; translation of the Italian “Una donna” by M. H. Lansdale. †$1.50. Putnam.

8–30133.

A woman’s troubled life revealed thru the process of subjective
analysis becomes a human document from very introspection. The story
depicts the agony resulting from marriage with a dull, brutal man, and
deals with the problem of separation which involves separation also
from her child, the one being she loves devotedly.

* * * * *

“The chief fault of the book is not merely that it is a purpose novel,
but that it flaunts its purpose rampantly on every page.” F: T.
Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 383. D. ’08. 280w.

“It is hard for an American woman, however she may pity the
protagonist of the book, to sympathize with this morbid,
‘oversexed’—if we may coin such a word—passionately complaining
creature; but the story of brutal physical tyranny and abuse, however
hysterically told, is not negligible when we consider that it
represents an actual condition of the present day, permitted—one might
almost say enforced—by law.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 330w.

“Signora Aleramo knows how to enlist the warmest human sympathies in
behalf of the wronged woman’s right to freedom and to support her view
of the matter by reason and the fervor of her eloquence.”

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

“Of calm logic there is little; and hysteria flavors the emotional
passages.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 140w.

“It has been very happily rendered.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 366. D. ’08. 100w.

=Alexander, Archibald B. D.= Short history of philosophy. *$2.60.
Macmillan.

8–1778.

A history of philosophy from the beginning to the present time,
showing the characterizing features of each system and its place and
influence in the evolution of thought. The plan involves “a very
cursory treatment of Greek, patristic, and scholastic philosophy; a
fairly extended treatment of that of the seventeenth century; and then
a very full account of the English, French, and German enlightenment,
of Kant, and of the movement, from Kant to Hegel. Post-Hegelian
thought is touched lightly.” (Philos. R.)

* * * * *

“As for Mr. Alexander’s method in particular the various philosophies
he expounds appear to us bereft of life and actuality in a peculiar
degree. The whole treatment of ancient philosophies strikes us as
uncritical.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 321. Mr. 14. 350w.

“One feels that the secondary sources have been the main inspiration
of the book. It can hardly be said that the book offers anything which
can not be had as well, if not better, in already existing works,
though written by Germans or even by Americans.” Norman Wilde.

− + =J. Philos.= 5: 527. S. 10, ’08. 1050w.

“For the most part the author’s explanations and criticisms are clear
and just. He is, however, less happy in his chapters on German
philosophy from Kant to Hegel than in any other part of his work.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 354. O. 17, ’07. 450w.

“The accounts which Mr. Alexander gives of the various systems of
philosophy are clear and sound, and in all important cases have the
vital quality that comes from first-hand acquaintance with the
classics of his subject. The pages which we grudge to the lesser
Teutonic lights might well have been used to make more adequate the
author’s picture of recent philosophical discussion in this country.”

+ − =Nature.= 78: 443. S. 10, ’08. 430w.

“In point of execution, the work is uneven. While the book is
unreliable on delicate matters throughout, candor demands the
recognition that much of it is instructive and effectively written,
and presents material not otherwise so readily available.” E. L.
Hinman.

− + =Philos. R.= 17: 219. Mr. ’08. 1500w.

=Allaben, Frank.= John Watts de Peyster. (Allaben biographical ser.)
2v. *$2.50. Frank Allaben genealogical co., 3 W. 42 st., N. Y.

8–21542.

A complete biography of General de Peyster, “the first notable
military critic produced by America—the first to treat the battles and
campaigns of our great conflicts in the spirit of a true philosophy of
the art of war.” Ten chapters are devoted to his ancestors of Flemish
origin, nine to early recollections, ten to military career, and
twenty-three to literary work.

* * * * *

“A work which will prove of high interest to many countrymen of Gen.
de Peyster, especially if they are New Yorkers.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 360w.

=Allen, Alexander V. G.= Phillips Brooks. *$2.50. Dutton.

7–41554.

An abridgment of the two volume biography which appeared six years
ago. It is authoritative and concise and “is a history of the
evolution of a character of a spirit, and that rather under the
influence of the events which affected all men whose allotted term of
life was the latter half of the nineteenth century, rather than under
that of the special events which befell the individual, Phillips
Brooks.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 35. F. ’08. ✠

“It will be welcomed by many who found the two large volumes too
expensive.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 60w.

=Dial.= 44: 111. F. 16, ’08. 100w.

“The abridgment is of sufficient compass to tell the story of the man
and his work, and the most valuable and interesting portions of the
letters have been retained.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 81. Je. 23, ’08. 60w.

“Dr. Allen has allowed Phillips Brooks to furnish this explanation
largely in his own words, following discriminately revealing journals,
memoranda, and letters ... and the result is a personal revelation as
fascinating in its way as the ‘Confessions of Augustine’ or the
‘Journal intime of Amiel.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 829. D. 14, ’07. 700w.

=Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 100w.

“The process of condensation ... has not in any way detracted from the
clearness of the picture which Professor Allen draws of the man and
his ministry. This, like the more elaborate biography published eight
years ago, is an inspiring and compelling human portrait.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 130w.

“We may commend it generally to our readers.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 300w.

=Allen, Annie Winsor.= Home, school and vacation; a book of
suggestions. **$1.25. Houghton.

7–36254.

A book of detailed rules for bringing up children written for the
average parent who is not able to cope with the terminology of the new
psychology. “The opening chapters are devoted to generalities and
‘what to avoid’; and the rest is constructive, with appended tables
telling what should be accomplished at the various ages, both
physically and mentally. The underlying principle in Mrs. Allen’s
scheme of education is well expressed by her phrases: ‘Not a month
must be unheeded—the child will never come to that age again.’”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“Rather dogmatic at times, and not thoroughly based in scientific
research, but on the whole, sane and wholesome, and will be read when
more critical books will be passed over.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 127. My. ’08.

“There are qualities which all will admire on all her pages—the sanity
of her judgment, the sincerity of her feeling, and the evidence
visible everywhere that the writer has gathered her conclusions from
an experience unusually rich and varied.” J. G. Croswell.

+ =Educ. R.= 35: 512. My. ’08. 550w.

+ =Nation.= 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 200w.

“Its suggestions, broadly conceived and evolved from a long and
valuable experience as a teacher, cannot fail to lead to saner
educational processes and to more fruitful results, if intelligently
grasped and applied in the homes and schools of to-day.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 150w.

=Allen, Charles C.= Engineering workshop practice. *$1.25. Dutton.

“The first 30 odd pages are given up to a general discussion of
materials and kinematics, as involved in machine-shop practice....
About 20 pages hold descriptions of gages, micrometer and vernier
callipers, and their proper field and use. The following 18 pages
treat of tool steels and their manipulation, and the next few pages
contain practical directions for brazing, soldering, riveting, etc.
The rest of the book is mainly composed of chapters on chipping,
filing and scraping, on lathe work, boring, planing, milling,
grinding, screw cutting, gear cutting, etc.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The volume as a whole may be indicative of British instruction in
metal working, but it cannot be taken as representative of American
methods and could not well serve as a guide in manual-training schools
and technical-school workshops on this side of the Atlantic.”

− + =Engin. N.= 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 300w.

“This book, good as it is, would have been much more useful if no
attempt had been made to write for the information of both the
beginner and the skilled workman; their needs are so different that
the result cannot be satisfactory to either class.”

+ − =Nature.= 77: 28. N. 14, ’07. 450w.

=Allen, Grant.= Evolution in Italian art. *$3.50. Wessels.

An introductory chapter suggesting some of the forces affecting the
painters of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries precedes
a detailed study of the set subjects of Italian art. In his study the
author shows “the stream of development by which, thru the hands of
various artists and various schools, the dry and lifeless picture in
the rude native manner was vivified and spiritualised into the art of
Fra Angelico, of Bellini, of Leonardo.” Some of the subjects studied
are the marriage of the Virgin, the visitation, the annunciation, the
madonna and child, the madonna and saints, the adoration of the Magi,
the presentation, and the Pietà.

* * * * *

“His cogent argument is pleasant to read and by the aid of a large
number of excellent illustrations is made easy to follow.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 407. D. 1, ’08. 500w.

+ =Nation.= 87: 395. O. 22, ’08. 170w.

“Evolution in art is of course taken into consideration by every
serious historian of art, but it has never been so systematically
studied as in the present volume.” E. L. Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 557. O. 10, ’08. 1650w.

“Whether one agrees with the Grant Allen idea or not, Mr.
Cruickshank’s introductory chapter is pertinent reading for anyone.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 570w.

=Allin, C. D.= Early federation movement of Australia. $1.50.
British Whig pub. co., Kingston, Ontario.

8–17801.

Deals with the beginnings of this movement in Australia, continuing to
1863. “Mr. Allin traces successively the federal policy of Lord Grey,
which he treats with great fulness and sympathy; the proposals of
constitutional committees in New South Wales and Victoria; and,
lastly, the conclusions arrived at in parliamentary reports.” (Eng.
Hist. R.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Allin’s work is a clear exposition of his theme and has the merit
of being well written. It is not free of occasional slips, but the
only objection of consequence to which the volume as a whole appears
to be open, is a too exhaustive treatment.”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 350w.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 707. My. ’08. 200w.

“A sound and accurate, but somewhat arid survey.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 150w.

“Mr. Allin’s work is generally of a sound and trustworthy character,
but a few slips have found admission.” H. E. Egerton.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 389. Ap. ’08. 600w.

“The work will prove illuminating to those who have regarded
federation as a recent idea and who are unaware of the long and
arduous work which precedes any considerable political achievement.
Dr. Allin has marshaled the results of his thorough researches with
mature and sober judgment, while the vigor of his style lends color
and charm to a theme naturally lacking in these qualities.”

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 173. Mr. ’08. 150w.

=Allingham, William.= William Allingham: a diary; ed. by H.
Allingham and D. Radford. *$3.75. Macmillan.

8–9512.

Literary small talk, quips and jests bring the reader into touch with
the companionable side of such men of letters as Tennyson, Browning,
Carlyle, and many of their contemporaries. “One does not see why this
diary is not the Boswell’s Johnson of its time, as authentic and
interesting a delineation of literary London during the Victorian as
the other during the Georgian period.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“In literary charm the book suffers from being so largely a ‘rudis
indigestaque moles’—for which, however, no one is to blame, unless we
choose to quarrel with the dead poet for dropping so soon the
autobiography that he had begun to frame out of his diary material.
This too-short portion, indeed, does possess a very readable quality.
Mrs. Allingham and Mrs. Radford have done good editorial work.” P. F.
Bicknell.

+ + − =Dial.= 44: 69. F. 1, ’08. 1470w.

“The volume might yield many more stories than those we have taken;
and most of them are true in the best sense of the word.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 820w.

“A good deal of this is entirely trivial, and ought to have been
suppressed. There would still be sufficient left to fill a fair-sized
volume.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 700w.

“A fascinating book as well as a most instructive document.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 841. D. 21, ’07. 3420w.

“This is a book with a pleasant literary flavour, though some of the
entries from Allingham’s diaries seem rather small beer.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 250w.

“The little sketches of the man [Tennyson], of his looks and ways, the
little scraps of his talk, have a convincing air of truth about them.
After Tennyson come Browning and Carlyle, and after these again a
multitude of literary men, every one being happily touched off.”

+ + =Spec.= 89: 713. N. 9, ’07. 450w.

=Almack, Edward.= Bookplates. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.

8–34675.

An introduction treats of the different kinds of blocks or plates from
which bookplates were first produced and the styles of _ex libris_
early predominating in Germany, France and England. This is followed
by chapters on bookplates chronologically, bookplates with mantling,
some specimens found in the British museum, Chippendale and
crestplates, modern bookplates, various bookplates, and bookplates in
America.

* * * * *

=Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 200w.

“Unfortunately the volume does not deserve the same commendation that
may freely be given to the rest of the series. Although it contains
much information, particularly concerning armorial book plates, it is
ill-balanced.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 60w.

=Alston, Leonard.= White man’s work in Asia and Africa: a discussion
of the main difficulties of the colour question. *$1. Longmans.

8–1381.

With a broad grasp of the situation, thru optimistic and eclectic
doctrines, Mr. Alston treats the political, social, and religious
factors which combine to make the color problem a complicated one.

* * * * *

“No one interested in civil administration of colonies, or in foreign
mission work can afford to overlook this modest essay.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 616. N. ’08. 130w.