Chapter XXXVIII: Book 1: , The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times (3)

“The tale is at once a good story and a faithful study of material and
spiritual conditions in American life. Its style is somewhat marred by
too much insistence upon the uncouth speech of many of its
characters—a thing that is always bad art, even if it is absolute
truth.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.

=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Bundle of myrrh. *$1. Outing pub.

8–1681.

“The title explains itself when you find the book is not just a
collection of short poems but a symphony with first keynote the
riotous joy of the flesh, working up in the last songs to the voicing
of penitence, the birth of the spirit and of the vision.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“It may seem at first as if the singer were straining a little
impotently in the modern way to feel for the feeling’s sake, yet the
expression is not wholly feeble or insincere.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 280w.

“You are distinctly conscious of something in Mr. Neihardt’s work
besides the observance of schoolish rules not to accent prepositions
nor introduce Alexandrines in iambics. You are conscious in every line
of great passion and great beauty, as well as the technique that is
good because it is unconscious of itself.” A. C. Laut.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 83. F. 15, ’08. 1100w.

“Mr. Neihardt has shown considerable daring in some of the poems. It
is to be hoped that he will not make the mistake of thinking that
nudity is strength, and that in order to show that one is independent
and virile he must exhibit all his emotions unclothed rather than
clothed upon by the imagination.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 260. My. 30, ’08. 750w.

=Neilson, Robert M.= Steam turbine. 4th ed. rev. and enl. *$4.20.
Longmans.

A book for the average engineer who is equipped with a fair scientific
knowledge. The text has been revised to square the presentation with
the development of the steam turbine during the past six years.

* * * * *

=Engin. D.= 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.

“The whole presentation is weak and ineffective for the needs of
engineers or students of engineering. It might serve very well as an
introduction to the subject, but even for such a purpose is too
voluminous.” C: E. Lucke.

− =Engin. N.= 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 1200w.

=Neumann, Angelo.= Personal recollections of Wagner; tr. from the
fourth German edition by Edith Livermore. **$2.50. Holt.

8–29008.

Boswellian intimacy pervades this volume, which reveals the great
master of music “behind the scenes”—both figuratively and literally.
The student of music gains a new and authoritative understanding—aided
by numerous letters—of the history of the Nibelungen cycle in various
European countries; he gets intimate glimpses of Wagner, and such
musicians as Wahnfried, Seidl, Nikisch, the Vogls, and others; and
above all he catches the meaning of the exaltation and its reaction
which the musical temperament can experience so intensely.

* * * * *

“The publication of this volume of memoirs is proof that the supply of
biographic literature on the subject of Wagner has not yet become
exhausted, and also that interest in it shows no sign of flagging.” L.
M. Isaacs.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 361. D. ’08. 500w.

“It has more interest than the novels of the day; it tells a moving
and heroic story; it abounds in characteristic anecdotes and
incidents; it places the master and his immediate entourage before us
in clear light; it brings us into close intimacy with the great people
and great artists of the place and period.” L: J. Block.

+ =Dial.= 45: 398. D. 1, ’08. 1850w.

“Here is material worth preserving and giving to the world, a valuable
chapter added to the definitive life of Wagner and to the history of
his music.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1177. N. 19, ’08. 50w.

“The translation by Edith Livermore is generally smooth and idiomatic,
but there are some strange and quite inexplicable errors.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 447. N. 5, ’08. 1000w.

“The translation preserves remarkably well the lively personal charm
of the original. A good index, which was lacking in the German
edition, adds to its value.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 100w.

=Newcomb, Charles Benjamin.= Principles of psychic philosophy.
**$1.40. Lothrop.

8–10430.

Principles which are intended to arouse one to a consciousness of the
power of his higher self to command his brain and body. Power,
unlimited activity, invincible might are the keynotes. His brief
chapters are devoted to the following subjects: God, nature, man,
psychism, suffering, selfishness, responsibility, adjustment, power,
freedom, healing, and fulfillment.

=Newman, Ernest.= Richard Strauss; with a personal note by Alfred
Kalisch. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.

8–30389.

“The story of Strauss’s life is told briefly, of necessity, for there
is little to tell, apart from his evolution from a conservative
composer of absolute music to the most audacious and grotesque of
programme-music makers. The symphonic poems are not analyzed in
detail, but considerable space is given to the operas, including
‘Salome.’”—Nation.

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 410. O. 3. 540w.

“A little perverse, perhaps at times, in its bestowal of praise and
stricture, yet one of the most interesting volumes publisht thus far
in the ‘Living masters of music’ series of monographs.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 40w.

“His little book on Richard Strauss is one of the best things he has
done, yet it is likely to exasperate both the detractors and the
admirers of that sensational composer; the one class because of what
they will regard as overpraise, the other because of what they will
resent as over-censure.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 420. O. 29, ’08. 800w.

“This is by far the best book that has yet appeared in this series,
and is one of the best discussions of the career and work of Strauss
that this much-discussed musician has evoked.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 720w.

“Altogether Mr. Newman has made a courageous and admirable
contribution to the literature of an engrossing subject—the amazing,
saddening, preposterous, inspired, incomparable tone-poet from
Munich.” Lawrence Gilman.

+ =No. Am.= 188: 934. D. ’08. 1700w.

=Newman, Richard Brinsley.= Belle Islers. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.

8–10613.

In a homely setting of a simple country town the writer has placed the
family of a pure-minded minister of the gospel. The story is told by a
son who recounts in a humorously satirical style the doings of the
people in the village. The losing fight which his father wages against
the sins of modern society is touchingly and truthfully portrayed.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.

=Newmarch, Rosa.= Tchaikovsky: his life and works, with extracts
from his writings, and the diary of his tour abroad in 1888; ed.
by Edwin Evans. *$2.50. Scribner.

To Mrs. Newmarch’s story of Tchaikovsky’s life published in 1899, six
chapters, covering two hundred pages have been added by Edwin Evans.
They are Instrumentation, Form, Idealism, Nationalism, Individuality
and Criticism.

* * * * *

“Mr. Evans gives long analyses of selected works, and these, from
certain expressions he uses, we take to have been originally delivered
as lectures to students, and in that shape, the illustrations being
played, they probably proved easier to follow, and therefore more
interesting.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 219. Ag. 22. 320w.

“Why write pages of explanations which are intelligible to those only
who do not need them?”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 380w.

“His career ... is carefully and understandingly set forth.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.

=Newsholme, Arthur.= Prevention of tuberculosis. *$3. Dutton.

8–33920.

Written primarily as a manual for medical officials, showing the
latest recognized methods for controlling tuberculosis. “While written
for an English public, it has no limitations, or style or expressions
which bar it from American circulation.” (R. of Rs.)

* * * * *

“Minor points detract scarcely at all from the value of a book which
is well worth reading.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 520w.

“Will be welcome to the lay reader as well as to the medical
practitioner.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 350w.

“The book should be found useful to all medical practitioners, members
of hospital boards, and to all persons interested in the progress of
preventive medicine.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 70w.

=Nicholas, Francis Child.= Power supreme: a novel of church and
state in South America. $1.50. R. E. Lee co., Boston.

8–20675.

“A romance of the rubber forest, not on the Kongo, but in the wildest
part of South America; a passionate indictment of the Church in her
dealings with the Indians, who, at the expense of frightful labor,
bring down the loads of rubber to the river; a description of a
revolution which the Indian helps win but is betrayed by his leader;
such is the story of ‘The power supreme.’”—Ind.

* * * * *

“The story is strong and realistic, unmistakably the work of one who
has been personally familiar with the country in which the scene is
cast, and the manners and character of the people who fill his stage.”

+ =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 200w.

“It is told in a simple and straightforward narrative style that does
not gloss over his own vices and failures, and is not devoid of
graphic force in its portrayal of anti-clerical and revolutionary
feeling.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 170w.

“As a sincere and serious record of a day and a race and an evil order
of things, it has a painful interest and a grim value.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 320w.

“The plot is kept well in hand, and the action is swift.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 442. Ag. 8, ’08. 340w.

=Nicholson, Meredith.= Little brown jug at Kildare. †$1.50. Bobbs.

8–25998.

“This tale takes up the important question of what the governor of
North Carolina really did say to the governor of South Carolina. Both
governors having disappeared from public view, their charming young
daughters take up the cares of administration, assisted each by a
young man who happens in. There follows a net work of plot and
counterplot, invasion and counter-invasion, which nearly precipitates
a war, but ends in wedding bells.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Wholesome in tone, full of excitement and some fun.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.

“‘The little brown jug at Kildare’ is to the novel what the
farce-comedy is to the drama.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 520w.

“We recommend [it] as a sovereign specific for loathed melancholy or
any other form of the blues.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 300w.

“If he does not write after the manner of George Barr McCutcheon, he
takes a certain whimsical quality of imagination from a very similar
source.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.

“Mr. Nicholson has written an amusing book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 640w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.

“The book aims to amuse—and it does.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 100w.

=Nicholson, Meredith.= Rosalind at Red Gate. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–38599.

Miss Patricia Holbrook to relieve herself of the persecutions of a
degenerate brother bent upon a settlement of the family fortune which
she has in trust takes the latter’s daughter and seeks seclusion at
St. Agatha’s school. Their champion and protector is one Larry Donovan
who is spending his summer at a nearby estate. The tale furnishes the
varied factors of rivals, doubles, a Cain and Abel, and an Italian or
two who instinctively ally themselves with the Cain of the story.
There are to be found humor, mystery, comedy and a narrowly averted
tragedy.

* * * * *

“This is we think the best American mystery story of the year.”

+ + =Arena.= 39: 125. Ja. ’08. 170w.

“A sprightly, agreeable story, with not the slightest pretensions to
originality.” Ward Clark.

+ − =Bookm.= 26: 665. F. ’08. 860w.

“The author does not quite repeat his earlier great success.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.

“For the invention of preposterous but fairly engaging plots the
author of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’ will suffer no loss of
reputation through this latest novel.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 260w.

“Although the mystery is a distracting affair and the love element
proportionately interesting, all but the most casual readers will
realize that the feature in which lies its greatest merit is the
delineation of character.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 868. D. 28, ’07. 260w.

=Nicolay, Fernand.= Napoleon at the Boulogne camp; based on numerous
hitherto unpublished documents; tr. by Georgina L. Davis. *$3.50.
Lane.

8–3124.

“An uncritical, but pleasantly discursive narrative, dealing with the
flotilla, the state of public opinion, the episodes of the struggle
along the coast, and the personality of Napoleon.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“This volume has gained in interest by modesty of purpose. The value
and interest of the volume is heightened by an excellent, thoroughly
idiomatic translation.” H. M. Bowman.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 641. Ap. ’08. 450w.

“This work, though lacking in critical insight and thoroughness,
abounds in interesting details; and it was well worth while to present
it in English.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 580w.

“For a task of this sort the author seems unfitted, for he gives more
credence to the random and inexact recollections of Constant than to
the results of the researches of Desbrière, based upon official papers
preserved in the Archives of war and marine.”

− =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 200w.

“The anecdotes he has strung together ... are not always entertaining,
or vital, or even plausible.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.

“We find accordingly much new material and considerable information of
a personal nature about Napoleon.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 80w.

“M. Nicolay has collected a vast quantity of details about the
Boulogne period. In fact, he somewhat overlays his subject with this
multitude of details.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 330w.

=Nicoll, Michael John.= Three voyages of a naturalist: being an
account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by
the “Valhalla” R. Y. S.; with an introd. by the Rt. Hon. the Earl
of Crawford. *$2.50. Scribner.

8–14717.

A diary of the observations made by a young naturalist who accompanied
Lord Crawford upon three cruises made in his splendid yacht, the
“Valhalla.” They circumnavigated the African continent in the first
voyage; went to the West Indies and back for the second; while the
third took them around the world. Remote islands are described and the
new contributions they offered to the naturalists’ realm of science.

* * * * *

“The most interesting part of the whole book, though not the most
satisfying, is the chapter on the author’s visit to Easter island, the
home of the colossal statues, facing the ocean from their platforms.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 860w.

“There is a simple realism which permits the reader to accompany the
author in thought to the various remote islands visited, to see them
more or less as he saw them, and to search with him for the rare and
new birds so many of them harbored.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ =Dial.= 44: 344. Je. 1, ’08. 800w.

+ =Nation.= 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 1050w.

“The work of an acute observer, who knows what to look for, and how to
describe in readable language what he has seen. Although containing
little that is absolutely new, may be commended as a well-written
narrative of the experiences of an eager naturalist in remote
islands.”

+ =Nature.= 78: 32. My. 14, ’08. 730w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.

“To the naturalist the book must be of quite unusual interest on
account of the many new species described.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 460w.

=Nicoll, William Robertson, and Seccombe, Thomas.= History of
English literature. 3v. **$6. Dodd.

7–37996.

Interpreting literature in a broad sense rather than in its more
technical aspects this is a work for the general public rather than
for specialists and scholars. It emphasizes the biographical part of
literary history at the expense of literary criticism and of literary
origins and movements.

* * * * *

“Those familiar with these pages will be able to give a fairly
intelligent opinion—or rather the echo of a fairly intelligent
opinion—upon almost any author or book that happens to be mentioned,
but the thoughtful reader will miss that suggestiveness which would
have set his own thoughts to work without perhaps furnishing him with
matter for superficial conversation.”

− + =Acad.= 71: 625. D. 22, ’06. 1500w.

“Makes a useful addition to the histories of English literature but
would be selected after the library owned old standards.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 227. Je. ’08.

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 1000w.

“With all its faults, of plan and execution, the book is not only
valuable, it is really readable.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 1400w.

“In a word, the book, as a whole, lacks greatness—it has not the large
perspective of Taine, nor is it written in the glowing style of
Jusserand, nor is it marked by the literary judgment of Courthope.”

− + =Outlook.= 89: 38. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.

“Will no doubt please all who like to read about books rather than
read the books themselves.”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.

=Spec.= 95: 764. N. 11, ’05. 150w.

“The work shows a most praiseworthy completeness. Omissions there are,
but we are not sure that they may not have been deliberately made.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 645. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.

=Nicolls, William Jasper.= Brunhilda of Orr’s Island. †$1.50.
Jacobs.

8–17253.

The romance of a New Yorker who aimlessly whiling away time in his
yacht steams into Casco bay where he picks up the fair-haired Valkerie
and carries her to her island. She is a merry minx and leads her
adoring Siegfried an exciting chase. There are touches of local color
which lend reality to the story for people who know Casco bay and its
islands.

* * * * *

“For some readers the setting of this love story—on the Maine
coast—and the lively conversation will compensate for lack of incident
and originality of plot.”

− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.

“The padding has accomplished its work, and the result is an amiable
little story which in shunning depth has also escaped sentimentality.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.

“The story ... is well told, and much charm is added to the narrative
by the frequent introduction of what seem to be real bits of Orr’s
island life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.

=Niecks, Frederick.= Programme music in the last four centuries: a
contribution to the history of musical expression. $8. Novello.

7–27022.

“Our author begins his book by asking the pertinent question, What is
programme music? Many, he tells us, regard it as music which imitates
sounds ... while others taking a wider view, look upon it as that
‘which not only describes, but expresses.’ Of these different kinds
the author traces the history from the sixteenth century down to the
present time. After two short chapters on early vocal specimens of
programme music, he turns to instrumental music.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Prof. Niecks’s book is a veritable cyclópædia of information on
programme music, and full of valuable comments and criticisms.”

+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 391. Mr. 30. 900w.

“Professor Niecks traces its development and gradual transformation
with much acumen and erudition; his book is the most elaborate and
valuable treatise on the subject in any language.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 800w.

=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Beyond good and evil: prelude to a
philosophy of the future; authorized tr. by Helen Zimmern.
**$1.50. Macmillan.

No philosopher since Hegel has acquired such influence over modern
European culture as Nietzsche. This work is meant on the one hand to
explain more clearly in prose form the ideas expressed poetically and
somewhat obscurely in “Thus spake Zarathustra”; and on the other hand
it is meant as a prelude to his great work “The will to power.” Making
the ethical end the highest excellence of society, favoring a true
aristocracy as the best means for elevating society, he discusses such
subjects as Prejudices of philosophers, The free spirit, The religious
mood, Natural history of morals, We scholars, Our virtues, and What is
noble?

* * * * *

“The book is to be read and meditated on by the few. To the multitude
it will be simply the massing of words, without coherence and almost
without meaning. The general impression made by the book is that it
emanates from a mind of tremendous individuality.” R. E. Bisbee.

+ =Arena.= 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 230w.

“This version should form a quite successful book and should have
considerable circulation.” G. R. T. Ross.

+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 517. Jl. ’08. 400w.

“As a protest against effeminacy, hyper-sentimentalism. misguided
sympathy, and exaggerated socialism, Nietzsche’s book mirrors certain
undercurrents in the thinking of our age, but as a serious
contribution to the science of ethics or as a practical guide to life,
it does not possess the value which the writer of the introduction
claims for it.” F. Thilly.

+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 75. Ja. 30, ’08. 1440w.

“Miss Zimmern ... has in the present volume turned his German into
fluent and easy English.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 12. Ja. 2, ’08. 140w.

“It will interest and instruct those who are unfamiliar with
Nietzsche’s philosophy to read what the philosopher has to say here on
the natural history of morals and other subjects.”

+ =Nature.= 77: 460. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.

“To the plain man, nourished on the precepts of the old-fashioned
morality, this latest deliverance of Nietzsche will seem to be made
‘behind the looking glass,’ in a topsy-turvy world of its own.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 4. Ja. 4, ’08. 1950w.

“The translation is in most respects all that could be desired.” G. N.
Dolson.

+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 557. S. ’08. 340w.

=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Human, all too human: a book for
free spirits; tr. by Alexander Harvey. (Library of science for the
workers.) 50c. Kerr.

8–7591.

Not a socialist book but one that “tells facts about human conduct to
those who are not afraid to read them.”

=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.

=Noble, Margaret E. (Sister Nivedita).= Cradle tales of Hinduism.
*$1.60. Longmans.

8–13677.

The author of “The web of Indian life” has reproduced here for the
school-room and nursery a number of stories from the Puranas and the
two great epics of India. “In the legends which Miss Noble has brought
to us across the sea [the snakes and monkeys, the forest boy and the
villagers] are steeped in an atmosphere which no European imagination
can ever counterfeit.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“It is not a book for children primarily; it will interest all lovers
of the magic and the human.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 120w.

“The reader will be well advised to accept these versions with some
reservation, for a double reason. In the first place, there is too
much of the Bengali spirit in them; secondly, all the eroticism and
coarseness which are unhappily so prominent in this literature, and
especially in that characteristic of Bengal, have necessarily been
rigidly suppressed, and the student who reads these stories for the
first time may be led to form an impression of their delicacy and
purity of sentiment which will soon be dissipated on acquaintance with
the originals.”

+ − =Nature.= 77: 605. Ap. 30, ’08. 450w.

“If we are to understand our fellow-subjects in the East we must begin
at the beginning, and this pleasant introduction to the lore of the
Hindu cradle will help where more ambitious books would fail.”

+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 360w.

=Nojine, E. K.= Truth about Port Arthur; tr. by Captain A. B.
Lindsay; ed. by Major E. D. Swinton. *$5. Dutton.

W 8–120.

The version of Port Arthur presented by the accredited Russian war
correspondent. “M. Nojine’s principal themes are the unpreparedness of
Port Arthur for a siege, largely due to the incapacity of General
Stoessel, and his contempt for the Japanese and the divided authority
and quarrels amongst the officers entrusted with the defence.” (Sat.
R.) “We learn little that is new about the actual fighting of the
siege, but a great deal about the almost incredible conflict of
authority between Stoessel and General Smirnoff.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25, ’08. 230w.

“M. Nojine’s book must stand on the shelves with the half dozen others
that tell the terrible story of that siege—but as a Philippic rather
than as a narrative.”

− + =Ind.= 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.

“M. Nojine’s book is the first to marshall details into broad lines
easily followed; and this without apparent effort at being vivid or
picturesque.”

+ =Nation.= 37: 100. Jl. 30, ’08. 640w.

“Must be read by all who would get a detailed knowledge of the famous
siege as seen by a Russian of the new school. Its general truth is
beyond question, but its partisanship is evident, and one somehow gets
from it the impression that it proves too much.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 820w.

“From his own point of view, the story is told with vigor and
picturesqueness.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 370w.

“This is the first really satisfactory connected story about the siege
of Port Arthur and its final fall that we have yet seen.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 220w.

=Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 300w.

=Nolhac, Pierre Giraud de.= Petrarch and the ancient world; ed. by
John W. Mackail. (Humanist lib., no. 3.) $6. Updike.

8–838.

“The author regards Petrarch as the initiator of the Renaissance, and
upholds this theme with knowledge and skill, although he recognizes
the poet’s obligations to his masters, Virgil and Cicero. Not the
least interesting and certainly the most novel part of his monograph
is that which deals with Petrarch’s library—its contents and character
as reconstructed from the references found in his own works.”—Outlook.

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 411. Ap. 4. 100w.

“Notable contribution.” A. R. Marble.

+ =Dial.= 44: 378. Je. 16, ’08. 450w.

“The work in its present form is the pleasantest of introductions to
the study of Petrarch’s relations to the revival of learning and to
the beginnings of modern classical culture.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.

“A real classic would have been more acceptable in this admirable
setting than this information and discussion about such a classic.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 31. Ja. 18, ’08. 480w.

“M. de Nolhac has written carefully and with enthusiasm about certain
aspects of Petrarch’s relations to the world of letters of his time.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.

=Noorden, Karl Harko von=, ed. Metabolism and practical medicine;
tr. by I. Walker Hall. 3v. v. 1, *$4; v. 2 & 3, ea. *$6. Keener.

Agr 7–2016.

A translation of the first volume of von Noorden’s “Handbuch der
pathologie des stoffwechsels.”

=v. 1.= The physiology of metabolism, by Adolf Magnus-Levy “treats of
normal metabolism in all its different phases.... It is a veritable
mine of numberless detailed facts and corresponding references to the
original literature.” (Science.)

=v. 2.= The pathology of metabolism, by Karl von Noorden and others,
deals with starvation, in over feeding, in fevers, and in diseases of
the digestive tract, respiration, the liver, the blood and the
kidneys.

=v. 3.= Metabolism of special conditions, by Karl von Noorden, Carl
Neuberg, L. Mohr, and others.

* * * * *

“There are marked differences of opinion among medical men as to the
utility of this line of study, but all will be glad to have the
enormous material in a fairly convenient and accessible form; and many
of the discussions will be found to be inspiring quite apart from the
validity of some of the conclusions. The translation is fresh and
often rather free, but appears to be adequate as judged by a dozen
comparisons quite at random.”

+ + − =Nation.= 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)

“[Volume 1] should prove exceedingly valuable to the investigator who wishes to look up definite facts with the minimum waste of time. It is to be regretted that the scholarly character of this valuable work should have suffered at the hands of the translators. They have evidently done their part in great haste, with little regard for English style, and sometimes without even bringing out the correct sense of the original.” Otto Folin.

+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 439. O. 4, ’07. 840w.

(Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Norris, Henry Hutchinson.= Introduction to the study of electrical
engineering. *$2.50. Wiley.

8–348.
(2d. ed. rev. 8–20679.)

“The author states that the plan of this work is to take the every-day
experience of the student as the basis of a general survey of
electrical application. The treatment covers fundamental electrical
and magnetic quantities, materials of electrical engineering and
magnetic circuits, construction and operation of generating station,
transformers and motors, and their applications, electric lighting and
heating, electrical measurements, and the transmission of
intelligence.” (Elec. World.)

* * * * *

“The book is lacking in depth ... but the accuracy of presentation
more than compensates for this deficiency.”

+ − =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.

“A very complete index adds considerably to the value of the book.”

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 417. Ap. ’08. 250w.

“The present book suffers seriously through a looseness and inaccuracy
of expression, especially in the earlier preparatory chapters, that is
often surprising.”

− + =Engin. N.= 59: 206. F. 20, ’08. 1400w.

“The volume is well illustrated and deserves a very careful study by
instructors in high schools and academies who wish to make their
courses of real value instead of a means of smearing the youthful
intellect with a skim coat of worthless generalities.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 167. F. 8, ’08. 600w.

“The writer has succeeded admirably in dealing with the side of the
subject which he has selected.”

+ =Phys. R.= 26: 545. Je. ’08. 110w.

=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Veil: a fantasy. $1.50. Badger.

8–444.

A theosophical tale which illustrates ideas of reincarnation held by
the cult.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w.

=North, Arthur Walbridge.= Mother of California; with an introd. by
Cyrus C. Adams, il. **$2. Elder.

An historical sketch of the little-known land of Baja California, from
the days of Cortez to the present time, depicting the ancient missions
therein established, the mines there found, and the physical, social
and political aspects of the country; together with an extensive
bibliography relative to the same. (Explanatory title.) It is fully
illustrated and makes its appeal to “those who look ahead beyond the
opening of the Panama canal and to all interested in California
history.”

* * * * *

“It contains a fairly full sketch of the history of the country from
the days of the Conquistadors to the present.”

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 684. Ag. ’08. 560w.

“Mr. North’s style is suited to his subject matter, mostly arid, but
blossoming at times into semi-tropical rhetoric. But the book is
timely and useful.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.

“The volume is one that will deeply interest all those who care for
geographical and historical research and also all those who take
delight in the romance of history. Mr. North writes in a graphic and
interesting style, although it is marred sometimes by indulgence in a
too florid rhetoric.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 231. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 636. My. ’08. 150w.

=Norton, Grace=, comp. Influence of Montaigne: his personal
relations to some of his contemporaries, and his literary
relations to some later writers. **$1.50. Houghton.

“Contains, drawn from French and English writers, comments
on Montaigne, allusions to him and plagiarisms from his
writings.”—Nation.

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.

“Is extremely interesting.” E: Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 260w.

+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.

=Norton, Grace=, ed. Spirit of Montaigne: some thoughts and
expressions similar to those in his essays. **$1.50. Houghton.

8–16222.

“Made up of parallel passages expressing thoughts like those of
Montaigne, among which the works of Bacon, Locke, and Rousseau stand
foremost.”—Nation.

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.

Reviewed by E: Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 400w.

+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.

* =Nott, Charles Cooper.= Mystery of the Pinckney draught. **$2. Century.

8–33815.

A work which may be considered authoritative and final concerning the
much mooted question of Pinckney’s draught of the constitution. The
author shows what the original document contained, shows why the
charges against the verity of the second document are false, in short,
covers step by step a course of vindication that solves the problem
and clears up the mystery.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 50w.

=Noyes, Alfred.= The Golden Hynde and other poems. **$1.25.
Macmillan.

8–5889.

This poetry is well symbolized by the Golden Hynde, the dream craft
that skims the glittering foam, sailing on to the golden gateway, over
golden seas. Many of the poems turn upon classical themes, with such
exceptions as A seventh birthday, In honor of Algernon Charles
Swinburne, To England in 1907, The call of the spring.

* * * * *

“He is certainly of the rank of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Watson, and he
surpasses the former in freshness of vision, the latter in facility of
utterance.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 45: 61. Ag. 1, ’08. 820w.

“For all his volubility he thinks deeplier and sanlier, feels with a
fresher ardor, and versifies with a more catholic skill than many of
the worthies did at his years. He has not, indeed, learned blank
verse; but he has already come near to it.” Brian Hooker.

+ − =Forum.= 39: 528. Ap. ’08. 600w.

“He knows how to include in his compositions something besides the
mere splendor of vision.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.

“‘The Golden Hynde’ will not enhance Mr. Noyes’s reputation, but it
should not detract from it.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 183. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.

“When an intellectual or moral purpose gets in his way, he usually
misses that perfect emotional fusion of content and expression which
is poetry. Mr. Noyes is by far the most promising of all the younger
English poets, because of his vigor and variety, his freshness of
personality, and his ease of art.” Clayton Hamilton.

+ + − =No. Am.= 188: 451. S. ’08. 1200w.

+ =Outlook.= 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 300w.

=Nuelsen, John L.= Some recent phases of German theology. *75c.
West. Meth. bk.

8–7161.

Three lectures by the Professor of exegetical theology in Nast
theological seminary covering the present state of modern biblical
criticism in Germany, the views of the person and work of Jesus
Christ, and the “modern-positive” school of theology. The author,
while not approving the conservatism of one class of theologians,
laments the radicalism which presents an almost obliterated and an
ineffectual Christ, and the vague mysticism which seeks no objective
basis—no foundation outside of ourselves.

* * * * *

“This is a meaty little book, not of equal value throughout. As a
report of the varying phases of German theology at present and less
recently, it is lucid and instructive, showing on one side a high and
dry conservatism, on another a reckless and arid radicalism, and
between these some mediating varieties.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 180w.

=Nutting, Mary Adelaide, and Dock, Lavinia L.= History of nursing,
the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the
foundation of the first English and American training schools for
nurses. 2v. **$5. Putnam.

7–41533.

Discusses the aid which animals render each other; the care of the
sick in primitive times; nursing in India, Ceylon, Egypt, Assyria,
Palestine, Greece and Rome; the hospitals of the early Christian
church; use of nursing among monastic orders; nursing orders of the
crusades; the rise of the city hospitals; Florence Nightingale’s work;
and the Treaty of Geneva and the Red cross.

* * * * *

“Perhaps no book that has been written in recent years brings out more
clearly the value of the Christian brotherhood of man in making life
more livable, under unfavorable circumstances, than this scholarly and
exhaustive history of nursing. We commend its really absorbing pages
to all those who are interested in what men and women have done and
may do to alleviate human suffering.”

+ + =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 550w.

“An instructive as well as entertaining story.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 221. Mr. 5, ’08. 550w.

“We could wish that every woman who is likely to be called to such
duties—and who is not?—should read it.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.

O

=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Guide to the West Indies and Bermudas. *$2.25. Dodd.

8–7374.

A guide, including illustrations and maps, to every island in the West
Indian archipelago. It gives descriptions of each one, its
attractions, resources, climate, history, hotels, as well as routes
thither from the Atlantic ports of the United States, Canada, England
and Europe.

* * * * *

“Indispensable to the traveler, as there is no other complete guide.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 107. Ap. ’08. ✠

+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 100w.

“An excellent book ... on an untouched subject.”

+ + =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 220w.

+ =Nation.= 86: 282. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.

“A thorough and reliable guide.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 150w.

“Tells us all that can be wanted.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 60w.

=Ober, Frederick Albion.= John and Sebastian Cabot. (Heroes of
American history.) **$1. Harper.

8–11834.

Mr. Ober clears up some of the doubts that have obscured the claim of
these discoverers to the mainland of North America. He narrates their
voyages, portrays vividly the thrill of enthusiasm that stirred
England, Venice and Spain when new world riches were the talk and
dream of king and peasant, and discusses the sturdy elements that
formed the character of the Cabots.

* * * * *

“Offers information but is not scholarly in treatment, nor distinctive
in style.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.

+ =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.

“He has taken great pains to make his sketch as nearly accurate as
possible, and he writes with judgment and impartiality.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.

=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Juan Ponce de Leon. (Heroes of American
history.) **$1. Harper.

8–9496.

Aside from the quest for the fountain of perennial youth which has
always lent romance to the name of Ponce de Leon, here are recorded
many daring adventures of the explorer among the islands of the new
world where he is revealed as a hardy soldier, an honorable cavalier,
and a noble man.

* * * * *

“The book is an entertaining one, and a contribution, in its way, to
historical literature.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 220w.

“Told in succinct and interesting narrative.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.

=O’Connor, Vincent C. S.= Mandalay, and other cities of the past in
Burma. *$5. Appleton.

8–20523.

“A resuscitation of the past of Burma as it finds expression in its
cities, the centers of a by-gone day.” “The spirit of the East
possesses him, and amid the deserted pagodas, the ruin-strewed
jungles, the mouldering scenes of vanished glories, he knows how to
discern and interpret the subtle charm that appeals to every traveller
whose footsteps have wandered among the relics of departed greatness
in Asia.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“Much that is both valuable and beautiful in Burma possesses also the
characteristic of impermanence, and the fact is of itself good
justification for this volume.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 733. D. 7. 720w.

“His book ought surely to be read with delight even by those to whom
the wonders of the Orient are but a vague vision.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 378. D. 13, ’07. 770w.

“His book is not easy reading, except to those familiar with the
country and its history.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 630w.

“Of hardly less interest than his story of Mandalay are the stories
Mr. O’Connor tells of the older cities of Burma.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 380w.

“The author knows his Burma from end to end; he writes with equal
sympathy of its past history and its wealth of natural and artistic
beauty.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 908. D. 7, ’07. 550w.

=Oesterley, William Oscar Emil.= Evolution of the Messianic idea: a
study in comparative religion. *$1.25. Dutton.

8–26835.

“The elemental emotions of fear, the sense of dependence on a higher
power, and the desire for happiness, accordingly give rise to three
primordial myths found among widely diverse peoples.... The spiritual
truths enveloped in these misty conceptions it was the mission of
Israelite teachers to clarify, and this process of development is Dr.
Oesterley’s theme.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“We must confine our remarks to criticism of a few leading ideas. We
must also remark that the apologetic parts of the book are by no means
happy all through. Dr. Oesterley’s work is, however, on the whole,
likely to prove very useful to a wide circle of readers. It is
stimulating, earnest, frank, and full of interesting information.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 662. My. 30. 1100w.

“It is an illuminative piece of scholarship in comparative religion.
It hardly needs saying that readers of the Testament will find profit
in this book.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 280w.

=Oesterley, Rev. W. O. E., and Box, G. H.= Religion and worship of
the synagogue. *$3. Scribner.

8–11732.

“The authors, both of them clergymen of the Church of England, write
with equal knowledge and fairness, in the belief that Judaism and
Christianity are complementary and belong together, and that the
advocates of each can only be true to their respective faiths by
mutual fellowship and respect for one another’s convictions. A survey
of Judaism from the New Testament to the present day necessarily
covers a great variety of subjects, the classic literature or sources,
the theology, the current practice; on all of these Mr. Oesterley and
Mr. Box give adequate information.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“The authors have approached the theme in a proper spirit of sympathy
and discrimination; they have made good use of the best authorities at
their command; and they have also done whatever was possible to gain
personal impressions of several of the customs they describe.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.

+ =Outlook.= 88: 325. F. 8, ’08. 510w.

“This excellent work supplies what has long been wanted, a clear and
dispassionate account of Judaism such as the ordinary reader can
understand.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 270w.

“Very instructive volume.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 650. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.

=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Grand army man. †$1.50. Century.

8–24451.

Mr. O’Higgins in novelizing David Belasco’s play has aimed to
translate into the form of fiction the flavor of Warfield’s acting,
and the charm of Belasco’s stage. Here as in the play the effort is
spent on the development of the simple, tender hearted Wes’ Bigelow
whose only shadow across a serene sky is due to the misdeeds of the
wayward foster-son.

* * * * *

“The book contains the essentials of the play, with enough fine
material replete in imaginative power and human interest to make an
absorbingly fascinating novel of human life.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 480. N. ’08. 200w.

“He has accomplished his task in as agreeable a manner as the process
will allow. He has poured his own originality into the work, rounding
out in word pictures that which Mr. Warfield so adequately brought out
in his acting.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 180w.

“Mr. O’Higgins has succeeded in turning out a little volume which will
be welcome to those who want an enduring record of a fleeting
playhouse impression, and which has some interest as fiction on its
own account.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 511. S. 19, ’08. 570w.

“The book will not disappoint the many friends of Wes’ Bigelow among
his Grand army comrades and others.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 70w.

=Okey, Thomas.= Old Venetian palaces and old Venetian folk. *$6.
Dutton.

W7–195.

A volume which grew, says the author, “from a pilgrimage about
Venetian streets and canals ‘for the purpose of identifying and
precisely indicating the position’ of the palaces referred to by
Ruskin, Fergusson, Street, and other students of Venetian
architecture. The chief examples are described in the order of their
erection, and grouped as Byzantine, Gothic, or Renaissance. From the
writings of the three great Venetian diarists has been drawn an
accompanying picture of life in the palaces in the days of Venice’s
greatest glory. There are fifty beautiful illustrations in color, and
others, possibly more valuable to the student, in black and white, by
Mr. Trevor Haddon, besides several reproductions from Ruskin’s studies
of Venetian architecture.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“A book that will delight all lovers of Venice.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 150w.

“Is the most important and the most valuable of all these new volumes
on Italian themes. This is a scholarly and a thoroughly workmanlike
book.”

+ + =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 200w.

“This book is not only much better intrinsically than his historical
sketch of Venice, but it also is free from the pot-boiler aroma that
pervaded that effort.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 330w.

+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 50w.

“Mr. Okey knows his Venice well. He has ransacked history and legend
for illustrative comment, using both with judgment, and indeed with
restraint.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 50. Ja. 11, ’08. 930w.

=Olcott, William Tyler.= Field book of the stars. **$1. Putnam.

7–26464.

This guide “is gotten up in very compact form, presenting in fifty
diagrams the appearance of the skies at different seasons and the
location of all the important constellations. Accompanying each
diagram is a brief explanation. There is nothing of either a technical
or a theoretical nature, and nothing has been included which cannot be
studied with either the naked eye or an opera glass.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.

“Of this sort the book is a model of simplicity and brevity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 130w.

“For assistance in the geography of the heavens, and for choosing
particular objects that are suitable for naked-eye or opera-glass
study this little book is the most complete and the most practicable
that has thus far appeared. The diagrams are simple, clear, and
admirably adapted to class or individual use. The author’s work is
excellently done. The book is timely and teachable, and there is
little of moment in it to criticize. Every high-school teacher of
astronomy ought to have it and to use it in his classes.” G. W.
Meyers.

+ + =School. R.= 16: 346. My. ’08. 1100w.

=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Aunt Maud. +$1.50. McClure.

8–20135.

Tells how a niece is so clever regarding her aunt’s announced
match-making schemes that she takes matters into her own hands and
swears the young man to secrecy over a compact to play a part for a
month during which time they are to seem engaged while in reality they
are only “taking each other’s measure.” “The result is a series of
emotional incidents, described with much vivacity and minuteness, and
leading to an event which amiably and not quite unexpectedly
vindicates the tactics of Aunt Maud.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“A book worth bringing to the attention of readers who like incursions
into the domain of sentiment that is not sentimentality.” F: T.
Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 69. S. ’08. 380w.

“It is a sensible book for young girls.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 70w.

=Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.

“The central love-story is treated with so much originality and
discretion that we are at a loss to understand the author’s fiasco
over his more ambitious portrait.”

− + =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 250w.

=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Virginie. †$1.50. McClure.

8–4038.

This story is really the continuation of a deus ex machina’s task to
bring happiness to the daughter of the woman whom he had loved and
lost. The protector is a chemist and he administers to Virginie, on
the eve of an odious marriage with a dissolute count, a Monte Cristo
potion which causes temporary suspension of life. He chooses a British
lover for her, an amateur archaeologist, to whom he delivers a wax
statue packed in ice with a silver trumpet in its hand. The statue
comes to life and is beautiful. As Virginie comes out of the trance of
body, the Englishman emerges from his trance of soul. The guardian
sees to it that there are plenty of adventures to test the lover’s
sincerity and heroism before he confesses the truth to him.

* * * * *

“The author writes with attractive lightness, and we have been amused
by the feats of the special maker of providence for the young people.
It is a pleasant story, except that too much is made, we think, of
eating and drinking.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 110w.

“The author has developed an absurd situation with a gravity that is
almost obtuse.”

− =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 300w.

“The story is written with much cleverness and skill, and is plausible
enough to be entertaining, even if the reader does not find the
evasive and resourceful Italian, who is really a famous French
scientist, entirely convincing.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 370w.

“A more improbable tale than ‘Virginie’ would be hard to find.”

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.

“Is all wrong from beginning to end. It is not merely the wild
extravagance of the conception, unworthy though that be of a writer of
Mr. Oldmeadow’s powers, but it is the whole atmosphere of false
sentiment in which the story is steeped that offends.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 140w.

=Oliver, Thomas.= Diseases of occupation from the legislative,
social and medical points of view. *$3. Dutton.

8–27120.

“Treats of the diseases incidental to a great variety of occupations
in factories, workshops, mines, potteries, and other employments where
many persons labor together.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“In every case the information supplied is ample, and the best-known
methods for abolishing or lessening the evils attendant on each
occupation are given with commendable brevity. Several statements and
facts are repeated at short intervals in almost identical words—a
blemish which can be easily removed in the next edition of what must
prove a highly useful book of reference. There is an excellent index.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 420w.

“It is an excellent, simple, and untechnical description of the
diseases due to gases, poisons, dust, etc.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 543. O. ’08. 50w.

+ =Nation.= 87: 216. S. 3, ’08. 540w.

“In a comparatively small book Dr. Oliver has succeeded in bringing
together a vast amount of useful information on all sorts of subjects.
The facts with which he has dealt are not drawn up in any very orderly
array, and throughout one finds a certain vagueness which may well
tend to make the reader feel that he is treading on ground too
uncertain to bear definite action. In some places where definite
directions are given they are contradictory.” A. E. B.

+ − =Nature.= 78: 627. O. 22, ’08. 1050w.

=Ollivant, Alfred.= The gentleman. †$1.50. Macmillan.

8–28993.

A continuous series of adventures both on land and sea that result in
thwarting the plot of Napoleon to kidnap Nelson just before the battle
of Trafalgar. Napoleon’s agent is an Irish rebel—the Gentleman—whose
charming personality and bravery won the admiration and respect of his
enemies. The rescuing party consists of a few sailors and fighting men
of whom a fifteen-year old midshipman is the first in valor and
resourcefulness.

* * * * *