Chapter XXXI: Part 1: , deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of (16)

“Correctness, orthodoxy, can be had for the asking at any academic
counter; Miss Paget deals in something better.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 250w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 704. N. 28, ’08. 600w.

=Lees, Dorothy Nevile.= Tuscan feasts and Tuscan friends. *$1.75.
Dodd.

8–18700.

The author’s experiences while living as governess in Florentine
families who spent their summers among the hills of Tuscany have
furnished the material for this description of life in and about a
villa. “She draws a delightful picture of certain Tuscan children....
Among the particularly good chapters are those giving an account of a
Tuscan fair, of the funeral of a contadina’s baby, of the exquisite
Tuscan irises and the preparation of the orris-root perfume.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“Two defects in the book are excessive sentimentality and the literal
translation of Italian remarks.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.

“Without any appreciable gift for writing, the author is yet able to
bring before us the well-known scenes she describes just because she
has felt their beauty and loved them.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 200w.

“The book has two irritating blemishes. Miss Lees is so stirred by
Italy’s fatal gift of beauty that she pauses continually to
soliloquize in platitudes with exuberant sentimentality. The other
defect is her habit of translating the remarks of her Italian
acquaintances literally from the Italian idiom and in the Italian
order, and by this libellous method making the most graceful appear
the most imbecile of tongues.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.

“There is richness of legend, story, and customs in [this book].”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.

“The style becomes rather commonplace and monotonous.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.

“An agreeable book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.

+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 100w.

“These bright vivacious sketches of hers call for no review, only for
commendation. They are instinct with the true everyday life of
Tuscany. The writer has a quick ear, a quick eye, the faculty of
appreciation, the gift of enthusiasm and a very agreeable humour.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 100w.

=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Little dinners with the Sphinx, and other
prose fancies. **$1.25. Moffat.

7–36411.

Mr. Le Gallienne resumes his conversation with the lady of the opals,
bridging a separation of four years since the last “little dinners.”
In addition to the title story there are other prose fancies as
follows: The death of the poet; The butterfly of dreams; My castle in
Spain; Once-upon-a-time; The little joys of Margaret; What’s in a
name; Revisiting the glimpses of the moon; Eva, the woodland and I;
and The dream documents.

* * * * *

“Mr. Le Gallienne’s hand has not lost its dexterity as long as he can
fashion tales like these, and if his gift of philandering has a little
failed it may be replaced by a more masculine and robust genius, and
both he and his readers may be the richer.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 250w.

“These stories, in fact, with their exquisite images and lovely
language, are like those creations of Norse mythology that appeared
beautiful women when they faced you, but should they turn their backs,
proved to be no other than empty shells. To be sure, if one kept the
right point of view they were fair to look upon—and that is something
to be thankful for.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 259. D. 28, ’07. 270w.

=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Omar repentant. *75c. Kennerley.

A temperance sermon embodied in a poem. It serves as a warning to
youth losing itself on “the vine-trellised path to hell.” It is an
antidote to the Rubaiyat in setting forth the subtle harmfulness of
the vine instead of its glory.

* * * * *

“No matter the duration of the author’s mood, it is good sense and not
bad poetry.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 300w.

“It is a book in a different vein from the author’s other volumes,
perhaps, yet it possesses the distinct flavor of his art, and could
not have come from another’s hand.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.

=Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors.
*$3. Neale.

7–25045.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.

“Haiti, at last, has a champion who is entitled to be heard; for he
speaks from fullness of knowledge, and from a position of political
eminence sends forth no uncertain sound.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 450w.

“This book deserves to be widely read.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 180w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 120w.

=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Pilgrim jester; a poem. **$1.25. Lane.

A poem whose subject is “contemporary society, the fermenting must of
modern circumstance.” “‘The pilgrim jester,’ a symbolic blend of
Socrates and ‘The beloved vagabond,’ walks through modernity wisely
smiling, contemplating all forms of creeds. To the sandspinning
multitude, the blind mouths of Law, Church and State, to the
philosopher, the demimondaine, the poet, the frustrate woman, the
laborer, he holds up in turn amid appropriate surroundings the mirror
of a gently sympathetic scepticism.... He shadows forth a philosophy
not unlike the clearer teachings of Stevenson, of Browning, of
Whitman: that living is worth life, and only fear is evil.” (Forum.)

* * * * *

“Though his indictment of established modes of thought is not free
from little touches of self complacency ... and his philosophy, in one
of its aspects at least, recalls the unassailable optimism of Dr.
Pangloss, the book shows much observation and humour, and its
technique is admirable.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 796. D. 21. 120w.

“For all its casual beauties his book remains a breathless body, his
idea a disincarnate ghost; great in conception, perhaps—but
unexpressed for want of artistry in the expression.” Brian Hooker.

+ − =Forum.= 39: 525. Ap. ’08. 400w.

“The characters, including the jester, would have lived more intensely
had the author been less hobby-haunted than he is. But there is
vivacity in it all which proves the thought sincere, and gives it a
value in spite of its being unoriginal.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 760. Je. 13, ’08. 650w.

“Mr. Arthur Legge is that rare thing among modern writers, a satirist
who is also a poet. His ‘Pilgrim jester’ has passages which are not
unworthy of the author of ‘Don Juan.’ Great skill in versification, a
keen sense of the ironies of life, and something of prophetic wrath
are joined with a delicacy of imagination and a capacity for sustained
melodious flights which make his little book worthy of note by all
lovers of good literature.”

+ + =Spec.= 100: sup. 119. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.

=Leith, W. Compton.= Apologia diffidentis. *$2.50. Lane.

8–16412.

A pathological study of the disease of shyness written in an
autobiographical strain that carries conviction.

* * * * *

“The matter of the book, unfortunately, is not sufficient to carry all
its superstructure. There are passages of pathos, and here and there a
touch of insight; but on the whole the writer has scarcely enough to
say to justify the decorated way in which he says it.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 282. Mr. 7. 1550w.

“Distinguished on every page for beauty of style. The shy fraternity
will need no word of ours to lead them to this book. But we hope that
what has been said here will turn the lover of literature to the
volume also, knowing as we do that it holds for him a pleasure not
often vouchsafed in these days of universal scribbling.” J: J. Holden.

+ + =Dial.= 44: 101. F. 16, ’08. 2000w.

“The style is so carefully elaborated, at times so precious, that it
suggests insincerity. Perhaps the book, if taken in small doses, would
seem a thing of firmer texture.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.

“This is a study in style as well as a study of shyness. It is a very
flower of culture. One hardly finds anywhere in English prose a
happier faculty of sympathetic description of nature, that nature
which the solitary finds his refuge from man.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 700w.

“The book has high literary merit; the style is full of melody and
colour, and the rich dreamy sentences rise into the air like wreaths
of fragrant incense-smoke.” A. C. Benson.

+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 368. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.

=Leland, John.= Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years
1535–1543. ed. by Lucy Toulmin Smith. 2v. ea. $4. Macmillan.

7–25493.

=v. 1.= Contains pts. 1 and 2. It “comprises the antiquary’s journeys
through twenty-three counties. Some of these are touched upon but
slightly. The western counties, however, of Somerset, Dorset, Devon,
and Cornwall are dealt with at considerable length.” (Ath.)

=v. 2.= Contains pts. 3 and 4, and an appendix consisting of the
detached part of Leland’s ‘Collectanea’ found in Cheltenham. “Notes,
chiefly concerned with men and lands, culled from rolls and pedigrees
or set down by Leland from hearsay, go to make up part 4; Part 5 is
narrative ‘Itinerary,’ but, the original being lost, Miss Toulmin
Smith has been obliged to rely here on Stow checked by Burton.” (Sat.
R.)

* * * * *

“Forms an indispensable book of reference to those interested in the
history and antiquities of the west of England. Deserves a place in
every well-furnished library.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)

“For the editorial part of the work we have nothing but praise. The
notes are few, but to the point.”

+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 540. My. 2. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The text of these two excellently printed volumes seems to be above
reproach, and all students of English history will be grateful to Miss
Toulmin Smith for the immense care she has devoted to the preparation
of it. It would be a great pity if Miss Toulmin Smith’s excellent work
were to suffer from the want of an adequate index.” A. G. Little.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 569. Jl. ’08. 730w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

“We congratulate Miss Toulmin Smith upon the manner in which she has
edited this valuable work, which is admirably printed, with a
satisfactory index.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 246. Ag. 9, ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)

“His ‘Itinerary’ will always stand as a work indispensable to the
student of English topography and life of the sixteenth century. Its
value is chiefly for the scholar and the local antiquarian.”

+ + =Nation.= 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 980w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 175. Ag. 10, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The editing is well done, and though a proper name has here and there
been allowed to escape, the index is satisfactory.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 638. My. 16, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)

* =Leland, Walter S.= Boiler accessories: a complete and authoritative treatise on the various accessories of the boiler room and engine room essential to economical operation, together with practical instruction in their use. $1. Am. school of correspondence.

8–30357.

A handbook prepared for self-instruction and home study. Its three
divisions are: Special constructions and mechanical aids, Control and
supply devices, and Boiler troubles and tests. “The subjects embrace
settings for boilers, types of furnace construction, forced and
induced draft, steam and water gauges, safety valves, feed and
blow-off apparatus and piping, including fittings and insulation.”
(Engin. Rec.)

* * * * *

“One usually expects something more pretentious, however, when the
words ‘complete and authoritative treatise’ are employed.”

+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 180w.

“The book seems to well serve its purpose of a not-too-technical
manual of boiler appurtenances.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 480w.

+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 190w.

=Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Jeanne Mairet,
Madame Charles Bigot. **$2.50. McClure.

7–39534.

M. Lemaître holds the view of the majority of critics “that Rousseau,
in the last analysis, was a madman, rendered insane by the cumulative
effect of prolonged disease and real and imaginary persecution; that
his ‘pathology’ was the foremost factor in determining his career and
ideas; and that it is impossible to acquit him of gross and
unpardonable inconsistencies between his theories and his manner of
life.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Has faithfully presented all facts which are necessary for a complete
picture of the man’s character and mind.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.

“They are written in a free-and-easy style, and are rather familiar
talks than formal addresses.”

+ − =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 240w.

“Interesting and very readable volume. Not a little of the decided
charm of the book lies in the fact that the author reveals himself
quite as much as he does his subject. The fatal defect of his argument
is his neglect of—or shall we say unfamiliarity with?—the progress of
thought during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” G: H.
Casamajor.

+ − =Forum.= 40: 57. Jl. ’08. 1250w.

“A rather awkward translation. In the light of the Macdonald
documents, M. Lemaitre would seem to be an unduly harsh commentator;
and, granting their invalidity, he still is certainly most
unsympathetic. It is unquestionably most readable and most
stimulating. It possesses many passages of high analytical value.”

− + =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 320w.

“Well worth reproduction in English. On the whole they have been
adequately translated.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 641. N. 21, ’08. 270w.

“Treats the generally odious details of his countryman’s life with
more philosophical indulgence, dwelling more insistently on that
strain of madness which is the kindest explanation of some of
Rousseau’s extraordinary actions.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 70w.

=Lenk, Dr. Heinrich von.= Marie Antoinette’s youth; tr. from the
German of Dr. Heinrich von Lenk by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for
young people.) **60c. McClurg.

8–23568.

A story from childhood to the perilous days of the Reign of terror
gives a clear insight into the unfortunate queen’s character and the
circumstances which led up to her death.

=Lenôtre, Gosselin.= Daughter of Louis XVI: Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte
de France, duchess d’Angoulême. *$4. Lane.

8–33929.

The story of the daughter of Louis XVI, her tragic separation from her
father, mother, brother, and aunt who were sent to the guillotine, her
release and her exchange on the Swiss frontier for Austrian prisoners,
and her residence in Austria and marriage to the Duc d’Angoulême.

* * * * *

“M. Lenôtre’s latest revolutionary study, though not perhaps so
interesting as some of those that precede it, is marked by the same
excellent qualities of exhaustive research, calm judgment, and lucid
narrative. Mr. May’s translation has merit; but ‘sapiential work’ (p.
313) is scarcely happy.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 471. O. 17. 1150w.

“Enough new material has been included to make the work interesting,
even to those who are already tolerably familiar with the general
facts of Marie Thérèse’s career.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 980w.

“Those who are fascinated—may we not say as Shakespeare was?—with the
tragedies of royal houses are under obligation to M. Lenôtre, the
writer, and Mr. J. Lewis May, his translator.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 470w.

+ =Spec.= 101: 545. O. 10, ’08. 450w.

=Lenz, Max.= Napoleon: a biographical study; tr. from the German by
Frederic Whyte, il. *$4. Putnam.

8–3126.

A biography which aims to interpret phases of Napoleon’s character
rather than to present an exhaustive history of the man or his times.
Emphasis is placed upon the development of his mind, his literary
attempts, his dreams and early ideals, his philosophy that man exists
for the state, and the character of Napoleon as he reveals himself in
documentary material.

* * * * *

“Details are not the matters in which Professor Lenz was interested.
His eye is ever on the Titanic struggles of Napoleon’s genius amid the
maelstrom of historic forces. The translation is of uncertain merit.”
G. S. F.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 868. Jl. ’08. 950w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08. ✠

“The fact is that Dr. Lenz has narrated in too great detail the early
part of his story.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 40. Jl. 11. 580w.

“Although it is not free from errors that one does not look for in the
writings of a distinguished Berlin professor, it delights the reader
from time to time by its felicitous summaries of complex situations.
The attitude of sympathetic observer, which Dr. Lenz assumes, often
results also in well-balanced interpretations of Napoleon’s motives
and plans, impossible to those who are always hunting for evidences of
Satanic intrigue.”

+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 400w.

“One must on the whole conclude that, although the book is not
entirely without interest on the side of the character of Napoleon the
non-combatant, it was hardly worth the honor of translation.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.

“A comprehensive study.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

“The translation is rather indifferently executed by Mr. Frederick
Whyte. There are many ‘lives’ of Napoleon far more informing than this
latest one—Rose’s, Fournier’s, Sloane’s, to mention a few of the best.
Moreover, the value of Dr. Lenz’s work for the student is much
diminished by the absence of bibliography or references.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 500w.

“We do not recall any biographer of Napoleon who has recognized more
clearly the psychological change wrought in his character by the
process of events than has Max Lenz in this biography.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 530w.

“From the trail of the serpent of Anglophobia this volume is certainly
not free.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 642. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.

=Le Queux, William.= Lady in the car. †$1.50. Lippincott.

A collection of magazine stories. “This volume recounts a series of
episodes in the career of a person known as ‘the Prince’—a species of
Raffles on an international scale. Both in England and abroad he
masquerades as the Kaiser’s cousin with striking impunity, and,
fortified by a bewildering array of magnificent motor-cars, effects
divers sensational swindles and robberies, contriving incidentally to
deceive many confiding females in an apparently heartless manner,
despite the author’s tribute to him as one who ‘has never, to my
knowledge, played an honest woman a scurvy trick.’” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The first chapter shows some sense of comedy, but those which follow
are on conventional lines, and can hardly be considered up to the
standard of average sensational fiction.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 160w.

“Most of the stories are tiresome, and none of them are convincing.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.

=Le Queux, William.= Pauper of Park lane; a mystery of east and
west. 75c. Cupples & L.

8–8090.

A tale of mystery which centers about a Jewish financier’s methods of
trapping a murderer—a secret agent in the employ of the Servian
government.

* * * * *

“The threads of the narrative are many; and as some seem taken up only
to be dropped, we are soon reduced to a fitting state of
bewilderment.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 283. Mr. 7. 130w.

=Leroux, Gaston.= Mystery of the yellow room: extraordinary
adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, reporter. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

8–19097.

“Here is a room with all its windows barred on the inside, no chimney,
no openings of any kind but one door, which is locked on the inside by
a young woman, whose father is in the next room and close to the
outside of the door, a servant with him. Suddenly from inside the
yellow room come shrieks and shots. When the door is broken down the
daughter is found wounded on the floor, the furniture thrown about,
and absolutely no one else is there. The girl could not and did not
make all the wounds on her. Query, who did it?”—Outlook.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.

“‘The mystery of the yellow room’ has all but one thing. It fails to
carry entire conviction.” Beverly Stark.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 603. Ag. ’08. 500w.

“The interest lasts to the end of the book.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 250w.

“For sheer originality and ingenuity we reckon this the best detective
story published for some time.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.

“The publishers advertise it as suited to reading on a railway
journey. It is a correct appreciation, and places the book accurately
as a literary effort.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.

“The plot is elaborately worked out, and few can guess the answer
before the author chooses.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 150w.

=Lescarbot, Marc.= History of New France; with an English
translation, notes and appendices by W. L. Grant, and an introd.
by H. P. Biggar. 3v. v. 1. Champlain society, Toronto.

A reprint of Lascarbot’s “Histoire de la Nouvelle France,” published
in 1609. “An introduction, by Mr. Biggar, gives briefly and clearly
the little that is known of Lescarbot’s life, of his personal
connection with New France and of the motif of his book. Then the
translator of the book, Mr. Grant, describes the method and the aim of
the translation, the various accessory materials and some further
details of consequence.... There follows the translation of the first
two books, made from the edition of 1618, immediately after which is
an exact reprint, in smaller type, of the corresponding French
original.” (Am. Hist. R.)

* * * * *

“It seems ungracious to note flaws in a work so good, and indeed they
are few. We miss a bibliographical account of Lescarbot’s book, though
we naturally expect it, and the notes, especially upon Lescarbot’s
sources, are at times unsatisfyingly brief. And the system of
connecting the pagination of translation and French is not the most
convenient.”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 602. Ap. ’08. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It must not be forgotten, however, that Lescarbot’s history possesses
an importance of its own as literature, and that in this respect it
has no rival in the early books of New France. Mr. Grant’s translation
as a whole is admirable, and worthy of a place beside Otis’s
‘Champlain’ and Shea’s ‘Charlevoix.’ The text, however, offers
opportunities for many more useful notes than Mr. Grant has seen fit
to give, and Mr. Biggar’s introduction might have been considerably
enlarged.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Lesdain, Count de.= From Pekin to Sikkim, through the Ordos, the
Gobi desert, and Tibet; with a preface by John Murray; with maps
and illustrations. *$4. Dutton.

W8–118.

A remarkable wedding journey made by Count de Lesdain and his nineteen
year old bride, from Pekin across Northern China, the Ordos and the
Gobi desert, then south over the highlands of Tibet into India. It was
undertaken to gratify a wish to cross country hitherto unknown, and to
increase the geographical knowledge of the day.

* * * * *

“The interesting portion of his book seems to us to be that relating
to the fairly well-known Chinese province of Kansuh.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 178. Ag. 15. 1200w.

“The narrative lacks color and action, and even the real geographical
contributions are not clearly set forth.”

− =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 180w.

“It gives a vivid picture of life and conditions in little known parts
of the empire.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 320w.

“The blessed sense of humor was not absent, and the book is brightened
by many pages of reflected experience, which must have served to ease
the days and weeks of hardship.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 320w.

“Adds a new chapter to geographical information.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 958. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.

=Letters= from a workingman, by an American mechanic. **$1. Revell.

8–28322.

“Familiar talks in the most unconventional and occasionally even
slangy diction, directed to workingmen at large by a man who had
actually been a mechanic and worked side by side with the men whom he
was addressing.... Such titles as “Human nature in the shop,” “Spies
in the shop,” “Exploiting the working class,” “Tenement-house
neighbors,” “Settling the strike,” “Labor and the saloon,” and “The
workingman and the church,” give a fair idea of the field covered by
this book.”

* * * * *

“The writer is a man of intelligence who takes pride in his work and
has a sturdy independence of character. His point of view is always
interesting and instructive, although his comments on men and things
and conditions may not be always of much value.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 180w.

“It is not necessary to agree in every point with the views put forth
in this book to appreciate its earnestness and its sympathy with the
worker and the unemployed, and especially with the worker who belongs
to the skilled class, and whose intelligence is lively and active,
though not infrequently misdirected.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 400w.

=Lewes, Vivian Byam.= Liquid and gaseous fuels, and the part they
play in modern power production. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van
Nostrand.

8–13632.

“Treats the subject of liquid and gaseous fuels from a popular but
comprehensive point of view, and it is not intended to take the place
of the standard treatises on the several branches of the
subject.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 280w.

“The author is a master of his subject, writes in a clear and often
interesting style, and he has made a useful book which is worthy of a
place in any engineer’s library.” W: Kent.

+ =Engin. N.= 60: 432. O. 15, ’08. 400w.

“There is one point which Prof. Lewes appears to have overlooked. He
considers that the alcohol will be either manufactured from potato
starch or saw-dust.”

+ − =Nature.= 77: 98. D. 5, ’07. 930w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 80w.

=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= An American patrician; or,
The story of Aaron Burr. **$2. Appleton.

8–5600.

A biography of Aaron Burr which in the form of fiction includes also a
group of contemporaries. “Adopting the view that Burr’s scheme of
western conquest involved no traitorous designs, Mr. Lewis contrives
to arouse a good deal of sympathy for his hero.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“This is an ultra-lively galloping picture of the times. No modern
newsboy could call the day’s news on the highways with more disregard
of classic forms. That there is a vividness which puts the wars,
factions, and policies of the day in gay colors before us is not to be
gainsaid. The truth of the colors may well be questioned. As to the
method of putting on colors there can be no question.”

− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 200w.

“Apart altogether from the truth or falsity of his portrait of Burr,
he draws a grossly distorted picture of the times and of the historic
personages with whom Burr had to do. For this reason Mr. Lewis’s
latest adventure in ‘fictional’ biography is far more deserving of
censure than of praise.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 882. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w.

=Lewis, Alfred Henry.= Wolfville folks. †$1.50. Appleton.

8–16469.

The honor of Wolfville reposes in the keeping of the Old Cattleman,
who is the narrator of the “doings” of Wolfvillites; to Doc Petts,
“the genteelest sharp, an’ the best eddicated, that ever dwells in
Arizona”; to Sam Enright, “the soul of fairness”; to Cherokee Hall,
“predestined kyard-sharp”; and other frequenters of the Red Light.
This chapter of Wolfville excitement records the disappearance of the
landlady’s husband, her willingness to install a successor and the
alacrity with which the hunting for the lost man begins.

* * * * *

“Rollicking sketches.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08.

“We like these gentlemen of imaginative, figurative speech, and
welcome ‘Wolfville folks.’”

+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.

“Taking dialect and story together, the book more nearly than any
other we can recall tugs at those muscles of mirth that Artemus Ward
first played upon. One feels almost like an Englishman discovering
American humor.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.

“They are much more interesting and amusing than if they and their
purely imaginary dialect were true to life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 140w.

=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Genesis of Hamlet. **$1.25. Holt.

7–39507.

A discussion which brings into composite view the theories of
Coleridge and Werder in explaining the Hamlet of Belleforest, Kyd, and
Shakespeare. The author in his summary says: “Coleridge finds that
Hamlet’s delays are due to internal difficulties, for which he is to
blame. Werder finds that they are due to external difficulties for
which he is not to blame.... We will say with Coleridge that Hamlet’s
difficulties are internal, and with Werder that he is not to blame for
them; but we must add, in disagreement with both disputants that these
difficulties are not the causes of the delay. The causes of the delay
are those external difficulties which have vanished into the fourth
dimension.”

* * * * *

“An eminently sane and readable essay toward a rational appreciation
of Shakespeare.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 340w.

“The method employed in this book is suggestive of the process of
qualitative analysis in the chemical laboratory.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 730w.

“The book has none of the dulness which so often characterizes the
discussion of pedantic problems and is as interesting to the layman as
to the Shakespearian scholar.” S. R. Cook.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.

=Lewis, George Randall.= Stannaries: a study of the English
tin-miner; awarded the David A. Wells prize for the year 1906–07,
and published from the income of the David A. Wells fund. (Harvard
economic studies, v. 3.) **$1.50. Houghton.

8–5604.

“The tin mines of Britain appear at the very dawn of our historic
knowledge of the island as its special attractiveness to foreign
traders; accompany its whole story as an influential and picturesque
element; and are still today an essential part of the life of the
southwestern counties, and a factor in the national policy. Moreover
the tin mines and the tin miners have always stood in a peculiar and
far from easily understood position; in a certain sense monopolized
and exploited by the crown; in another sense privileged and favored
beyond other interests and other classes of inhabitants. It is this
interesting and obscure history that Mr. Lewis has elucidated in the
present volume.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“In this book, historians have at their service, for the first time, a
clear, adequate and interesting explanation of what has formerly been
a poorly comprehended institution, and the narrative of a previously
unwritten chapter of English history.” E. P. Cheyney.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 841. Jl. ’08. 850w.

“Very scholarly study.” R. V. Phelan.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 634. N. ’08. 400w.

“For some topics, Dr. Lewis has not given sufficient definitions,
assuming a knowledge of the terminology on the part of the reader. But
this is due to his own intimate knowledge of the whole subject, which
is apparent throughout the work.” D. C. Munro.

+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 120. Je. ’08. 640w.

“A piece of sterling work. It is true that the book lacks distinction
of other than a workmanlike order. His conception of his task is
scholarly rather than scientific; and while he sets forth minute
details upon certain matters of minor import, he does not make clear
what manner of man the Cornish tinner has been and is to-day, and how
he has developed into his present estate.” W. C. Mitchell.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 387. Je. ’08. 800w.

“His treatment of economic and social conditions in the tinmining
counties is a distinct contribution to the social history of
England—in some sections worthy of Green; while his book as a whole
must for a long time to come be ranked as the standard work of
reference in its field. The bibliography is especially commendable for
its inclusiveness.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 220w.

“A subject well worth attention, and he has treated it in a manner
reflecting credit on himself and on the ‘Harvard economic studies.’”
C. D.

+ + =Yale R.= 17: 240. Ag. ’08. 430w.

=Lewisohn, Ludwig.= Broken snare. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

8–28063.

“More than most works of fiction, this is a story of a man and a
woman, to the exclusion of all other personalities; of their love and
its consequences, to the exclusion of all other interests. The woman
is an ardent creature, cramped by the conditions of a peculiarly mean
and sordid existence; the man has the artist’s temperament, and what
he imagines to be deep convictions concerning the futility of the
marriage-bond. The two agree to join their lives without the usual
legal proceedings, and set out for a honeymoon in the South.” (Dial.)
Then come a break, separation, suffering, reconciliation, and reunion
according to the demands of human society.

* * * * *

“This is a strong and well-written study of one phase of the marriage
problem.” A. C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 500w.

“It is not a book for the young person to read, but it is one from
which the mature mind can get nothing but good, and one which offers a
singular satisfaction to the artistic perceptions.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 300w.

“It is a novel of rather unusual quality in its serious intent, its
clearness of vision, and its workmanship. The author might sometimes
have developed his story, it is true, with more reticence and equal
power, and so have run less risk of offense.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 300w.

=Lidgett, John Scott.= Christian religion: its meaning and proof.
*$2.50. Meth. bk.

7–37982.

“‘An attempt to explain and verify the Christian religion by means of
the fatherly-filial relationship.’... The author divides his work into
three books, of which the first deals with the history and task of the
Christian evidences.... [His second book on Christianity as the
absolute religion] outlines the content of the Christian religion;
for, as he says, we must know what a religion is before we can
vindicate its truth.... The third and last book is entitled The proof
of the Christian religion. The primary argument advanced for the truth
of Christianity is that it is indispensable to the full realization of
the noblest human life, and that its consciousness of filial
relationship to God gives abounding satisfaction and spiritual
power.”—Am. J. Theol.

* * * * *

“The author takes a comprehensive view of his subject, and his main
thesis is consistently, even though somewhat awkwardly, worked out.”
B: L: Hobson.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 499. Jl. ’08. 1250w.

“The volume clearly evinces the author’s cultured and vigorous mind.
But while it may seem that its arrangement of topics might be recast
with advantage, our time requires a more radical betterment of it—a
clear and consistent distinction between the constant and the variable
elements with which it is concerned, the religion and its associated
theology.”

− + =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 340w.

=Liebich, Louise (Mrs. Franz Liebich).= Claude-Achille Debussy.
(Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.

8–8847.

A critical and biographical sketch of Debussy which emphasizes the
originality of his genius. The contents are as follows: Hand and soul,
in which his personality is described; Modus operandi; Choral,
orchestral and instrumental works; Songs and piano pieces; Pelleas and
Mélisande; As writer and critic. A chronological list of Debussy’s
works and several portraits makes the undertaking but more complete.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 134. Ag. 1. 280w.

=Dial.= 44: 316. My. 16, ’08. 50w.

=Nation.= 86: 223. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.

“We have on many occasions expressed our objection on general grounds
to the issue of biographies of living celebrities, musical or
otherwise, while they are still in mid-career. Subject to this
reservation, we can cordially commend Mrs. Liebich’s genial and
enthusiastic sketch of the most advanced living representative of
French music.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 339. F. 29, ’08. 250w.

=Lilley, Alfred Leslie.= Modernism: a record and a review. *$1.75.
Scribner.

8–13710.

Mainly a collection of newspaper and magazine articles on the present
problems of Roman Catholicism. “Although Mr. Lilley has confined
himself in this volume to comment on the Modernist movement in the
Roman Catholic church, and more specifically to the exponents of that
movement in France, he has made it clear that modernism is a movement
affecting the whole of Christendom.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Whatever may be thought of Mr. Lilley’s opinions—and we are far from
sharing them all—he has done extraordinarily good service in calling
attention to the present condition of thought and feeling.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.

“Mr. Lilley understands and appreciates the ‘Modernists’ position far
better than anyone else outside their communion.” H. C. Corrance.

+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 930. Jl. ’08. 300w.

“Mr. Lilley is thoroly acquainted with his subject, and writes
agreeably and kindly.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 70w.

“It is remarkable for the lucidity of its exposition and for its
complete freedom from intellectual and religious frivolousness.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 1300w.

+ =Outlook.= 89: 364. Je. 20, ’08. 700w.

=Sat. R.= 105: 376. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.

“Mr. Lilley gives us the results of a careful and sympathetic study.
We do not agree with all that he says.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 581. Ap. 11, ’08. 380w.

=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Dissolving circle. †$1.50. Dodd.

8–11084.

An impressionistic study of the life among a group of men and women in
the “divorce colony” of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The principal
character is a struggling doctor who, tho not a member of the colony,
is working painfully to divorce himself spiritually from a girl who
had given up his love for that of an unregenerate man. The doctor’s
mission becomes that of compelling the unworthy suitor to be true to
the wronged girl.

* * * * *

“Aside from a tendency to indulge in fantastic flights of fancy, the
author on the whole keeps himself commendably in the background.” F:
T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 306. My. ’08. 270w.

“A want of unity in the plot and the heavy handling of a delicate
theme are the most conspicuous faults.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 190w.

=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Quest eternal. †$1.50. Dodd.

8–22346.

The story of a boy’s and later a man’s reserve, struggle and self
denial to see the playmate of his youth and finally the deity of his
dreams become a famous singer.

* * * * *

“A prologue, which, taken by itself, is one of the best things he ever
wrote. Taken as a whole it preaches a sane and wholesome optimism. And
this, in a measure, suggests the technical shortcoming of the
book—namely, that its mood is not sufficiently sustained.” F: T.
Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 28: 381. D. ’08. 370w.

“The story has originality, both in conception and development, and
its pages carry something of that significance in which too much of
American fiction is lacking.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 578. O. 17, ’08. 360w.

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

“The situation may be strained at times, but the author never fails to
absorb the reader’s attention and command his respect for the
characters he draws.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 200w.

=Lilly, William Samuel.= Many mansions: being studies in ancient
religions and modern thought. *$3. Benziger.

8–21815.

“As a general introduction we find the sacred books of the East
briefly tabulated under Max Müller’s guidance, but with special
reference for Buddhism to Professor Rhys Davids, for the Avesta to M.
Darmesteter, for the Chinese religious classics to Dr. Legge, and for
the Koran (we prefer this accepted spelling) to H. E. Palmer.... Mr.
Lilly is concerned with metaphysics, not with popular religion ... and
quotation from experts overflows in his pages, which describe the old
Hindu creeds merely in passing, while they are copious on Buddhism and
Islam, and furnish monographs on Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer. The
concluding essay sums up and appraises ‘the newest view of Christ,’ as
set out in Professor Pfleiderer’s work, ‘Die entwickelung des
Christenthums.’”—Acad.

* * * * *

“A learned volume. He employs a somewhat academic, though very
readable style. Mr. Lilly’s authorities in every instance are the
best, and commonly the latest.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 135. N. 16, ’07. 900w.

“In riper quality, and with more mellow sympathy, Mr. Lilly presents
or re-presents in his latest volume a good deal of the material which,
nearly a quarter of a century ago, he published in his ‘Ancient
religion and modern thought.’”

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 248. My. ’08. 300w.

=Spec.= 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 250w.

=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.= Cy Whittaker’s place. †$1.50. Appleton.

8–27807.

Bayport, in the Cape Cod region, is the scene of this tale of village
doings. Cy Whittaker after years of absence comes back rich to
Bayport, effaces every bit of modern improvement in his old home, and
restores it to the old homely, quaint conditions of his boyhood days.
Cy’s village cronies, the child that walks into his home and heart,
and the school teacher are the principal characters in a tale full of
humor and human kindness.

* * * * *

“Here is a pleasant, homely, simple-minded story that gives the reader
much the same sort of enjoyment he would get from a performance of
‘Shore acres’ or ‘The old homestead.’”

+ =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 230w.

“On the whole, if you haven’t been down Cape Cod way this summer—or
even if you have—you may do worse than take a trip some quiet evening
to Mr. Lincoln’s Bayport.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 500w.

“Humorous, human, and wholesome.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 10w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 160w.

=Lindsay, C. H. A. Forbes-.= Daniel Boone, backwoodsman. †$1.50.
Lippincott.

8–24465.

A preliminary chapter is devoted to a survey of the country in which
Boone’s life was passed and to a brief statement of the facts of his
early career. The narrative proper begins with Boone’s migration with
a band of forty neighbors to Kentucky, and continues with facts and
some fiction to illustrate the trials and achievements, the disasters
and triumphs of frontier life.

* * * * *

Reviewed by K. L. M.

=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.

“Would be commendable as a biography, if it were not partly fiction;
where there is a paucity of authentic data, the author feels compelled
to invent. But Mr. Forbes-Lindsay has a picturesque style.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 40w.

“To cast much of the story into conversational form ... has its
drawbacks, in the uncertainty of the reader who likes to be sure as to
just where fiction ends and fact begins. It all weaves in together to
make a vivid picture of the toils, perils, pleasures, and heroisms
that went into the conquering of the frontier.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 280w.

“Interesting historical tale for boys.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 630. O. 24, ’08. 20w.

=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Narcissus, and other poems. **$1. Putnam.

8–12552.

The volume “takes its title from the initial poem, which fills
two-thirds of the book’s sixty pages, a narrative in rhymed pentameter
of the life and death of the ill-fated youth. A dozen or more short
poems on varied themes fill out the book.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.

“The Greek story is told with grace and skill.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 70w.

“Miss Litchfield’s muse really sings, no matter what the measure, and
there is fire in the love poems, and in the descriptive lines there is
rich and beautiful color.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 270w.

=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Supreme gift. †$1.50. Little.

8–9529.

The portrayal of a ruined man’s daughter staggering under the burden
of her father’s debts. The scene is Washington, and poor people with
small savings are the ones most involved in the failure. Joan’s
supreme gift is honor which she preserves at the expense of happiness
and finally health. While it is not the custom now-a-days for a
heroine, glorious in her young strength and beauty, to lay down her
life for a cause, it seems the only logical way out of this sea of
difficulties.

* * * * *

“A well-intended book with a wrong-headed thesis.”

− =Ind.= 64: 1147. My. 21, ’08. 350w.

“One searching earnestly for the novel ‘as she is advertised to be,’
must be bitterly disappointed in this volume.”

− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.

“If the emotional values had been more carefully considered the result
would have been a novel of some intensity and strength.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.

=Litta, Duke.= Soul of a priest. †$1.50. Doubleday.

8–33161.

A polemical story whose attack is made against the Roman Catholic
church. It describes first the influences which induced a young
Italian nobleman to enter the priesthood, and then gives the progress
of his disillusionment, and the rejection of his vows.

* * * * *

“The bitterness of the author’s strictures is of a nature to awaken in
the fair-minded reader a considerable degree of sympathy with the
institution attacked.”

− =Acad.= 73: 953. S. 28, ’07. 80w.

“Occasional statements betray imperfect acquaintance with rules and
customs of the Roman church.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 230. S. 21. 300w.

“The interest of the story lies in the struggle and awakening of a
soul, not in an indictment of the Roman Catholic church. As it is, the
Duke Litta has succeeded in marring what is otherwise an unusually
forceful book.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 305. My. ’08. 350w.

“Less a work of literary art than a pamphlet to promote deplorable and
un-Christian prejudice.”

− =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.

“The bitter and even petulant spirit in which the book is written
detracts from its value as a contribution to anti-clerical literature.
The narrative, however, in spite of some inconsistencies and its lack
of incident, has a certain unity of effect and holds the attention
throughout.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.

“Psychological analysis worked out unusually well and narrative of a
simple, straightforward style, combined in the form of a novel.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.

“The story is well written, serious in tone, and an admirable study of
spiritual conflict.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.

* =Little, George.= Life on the ocean; or, Twenty years at sea; with an introd. by W. Clark Russell. †$2. Lippincott.

The republication of a book of sea adventure which appeared nearly a
century ago, and which “to the marine archaeologist,” says Mr. Russell
in his introduction, “must prove extremely interesting.”

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.

“There is an old-fashioned flavor about the book ... which gives us a
strikingly convincing picture of that life on the ocean which filled
our grandfathers with the wild longing to run away to sea.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.

=Lloyd, Francis Ernest.= Physiology of stomata. $1.50. Carnegie
inst.

8–9545.

“Lloyd has given us a careful study of the behavior of the stomata in
two desert plants, _Fouquieria splendens_ and _Verbena ciliata_, made
at the Desert botanical laboratory of the Carnegie institution. He
addressed himself particularly to the question of the regulation of
transpiration by stomatal movements, and furnishes conclusive evidence
that the stomata in these plants, where there are no complications in
the way of pits, plugs, or other contrivances, are not able to adjust
the transpiration to the ‘needs’ of the plants.”—Bot. Gaz.

* * * * *

“This is a careful and thorough piece of work, highly creditable to
the laboratory from which it comes.” C. R. B.

+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 62. Jl. ’08. 350w.

=Nation.= 87: 57. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.

Reviewed by C. C. Curtis.

=Science=, n.s. 28: 409. S. 25, ’08. 800w.

=Lloyd, John.= Captain’s wife. $1.50. Kennerley.

8–15725.

A story with an Arizona setting in which army officers, their
families, ranchmen, miners, and savages figure. The heroine is an
eastern girl who secretly marries an army captain, then during a lapse
of memory, induced by a terrible fight, forgets him and marries
another. A final readjustment follows misunderstanding and suffering.

* * * * *

“The writer’s touch is light and keen, and his little novel ... runs
along at full speed.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.

“A good story of army life. The plot, though not very intricate, is
well contrived.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.

=Loane, M.= From their point of view. $2. Longmans.

8–35515.

Social studies in which the author’s conclusions are deduced from
first-hand impressions of life among the poor. As a district nurse and
the superintendent of district nurses she has come close to people’s
problems, and her stories of “the lives in the squalid homes, of the
daily struggles for progress, of the neglect which breeds unhappiness
and disease will find their counterpart in the experiences of the
district worker whether her activities are confined to East End,
London, or New York.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠

“Where she is guided by her own experiences, her conclusions are
almost always shrewd and sound: where she generalizes they seem less
well founded.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 645. N. 21. 250w.

“The particular value of the book is its freedom from sentimentality.
Students in sociology will find much in the book to repay them for the
time spent in reading it, and the general reader will be entertained
by a constant succession of good stories.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 270w.

“In Miss Loane we find the happiest combination of the qualities
required for the task she has undertaken—the task of making the
British people understand what should be their true attitude towards
poverty.”

+ + =Spec.= 105: 503. Mr. 28, ’08. 1900w.

=Locke, James.= Stem of the crimson dahlia, il. †$1.50. Moffat.

8–3426.

“A thrilling story of conspiracy that plunges the reader from the
first chapter, when the hero picks up the stem of a faded and torn
dahlia on the Bridge of Galata, in Constantinople, into a whirl of
strange adventures and breathless happenings. A charming American
girl, anxious to put a king on the throne of Bulgaria, a king to lead
his people to a glorious freedom, comes soon and startlingly into the
story.... The setting is picturesque; Russians, Bulgarians, Americans,
peasants, and aristocrats rub elbows from page to page.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The exciting beginning is well kept up throughout, and we are
grateful to Mr. Locke for a steady supply of sensation which does not
give time to think over improbabilities.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 60w.

=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.

“He plays fair to the last page. A good, stirring plot will often hold
one if there be nothing or little else to recommend it. But in ‘The
stem of the red dahlia’ there is the added fascination of the thing
well done.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 250w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.

=Lockwood, George Browning.= New Harmony movement, by G. B.
Lockwood, with the collaboration of C. A. Prosser, in the
preparation of the educational chapters. *$1.50. Appleton.

5–16517.

“Concerned with the history of two important communities which had
their seat at the village of New Harmony, Ind. The first of these was
the settlement of the Rappites, early in the nineteenth century, which
after ten years gave place to the society founded by Robert Owen....
It is claimed for the New Harmony community that it was a pioneer in
the establishment of infant schools, kindergartens, trade schools, and
industrial schools and a part of the free public-school system.”—R. of
Rs.

* * * * *