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“The wilderness of Mr. Lucy’s title is the wilderness of brick and mortar and multitudinous human beings struggling for existence, fighting for fame and fortune.” (N. Y. Times.) “His specialty has been his reports of parliament.... He takes the right points and gives them just the proper prominence. And he is admirably equitable in his treatment of party matters. The virtue of English political life on which he enlarges in this volume, the personal friendliness which is unshaken by the storms of party, is exemplified by his method.... For a book dealing almost wholly with politicians, their ways and their doings, the element of political opinion is amazingly small.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“We heartily commend this pleasant book.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 462. Ap. 17. 520w.

“Written in a brisk and effective style, though with many of the lapses and inelegances of the current journalistic manner, ‘Sixty years in the wilderness’ is likely to meet with such favor as to encourage the issue of a second volume.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 91. Ag. 16, ’09. 1200w.

“Humor and lightness of touch are Mr. Lucy’s outstanding characteristics. It is these characteristics that will secure for Mr. Lucy’s autobiography its widest acceptance.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 365. Ag. 12, ’09. 850w.

“Good nature, a gentle humor, absence of bitterness or of style that bites—these are the qualities which the writer has long identified with his name, and they mark this latest book of his.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 90w.

“A cheerful book, and pleasant reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 405. Je. 26, ’09. 1300w.

“There are some passages, we must own, which it might have been better to omit. But the volume is eminently readable.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 582. Ap. 10, ’09. 340w.

=Lutz, Mrs. Grace (Livingston) Hill-.=^{[10]} Phoebe Deane. †$1.50.
Lippincott.

9–25180.

When the fates endowed Phoebe Deane with a love of beauty and a delicate refinement that craved books, and a pleasant environment they offset their kindness by leaving her, orphaned in a New York state farm house, a drudge dependent on the bounty of her half brother and his sharp-tongued wife. The dismal life the young girl led here is pictured in an appealing and pathetic fashion, and when a wicked old widower, who is their neighbor, begins to persecute her with his attentions and she is made the object of false scandal to further his suit it seems that she must marry him and lose all hope of happiness. But the man who is worthy of her rescues her at the right moment and all is well. The time of the story is 1830, and there is a vague historical background.

* * * * *

“A pretty wholesome story of the frankly artificial kind.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 627. O. 23, ’09. 180w.

=Lützow, Franz H. H. V.=^{[8]} Life and times of Master John Hus. *$4.
Dutton.

9–23750.

A painstaking biography of Bohemia’s famous national hero, Jan Hus. “In this goodly volume of about four hundred stately octavo pages we have a picture of the real Hus drawn by a patriotic hand, impartially presented, with the opinions of friend and foe carefully analyzed, and all religious bias eliminated.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“We hope that this book will find many readers; it is the record of a great and glorious life, the details of which have been unduly ignored by western Europe.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 666. Je. 5. 820w.
=Ind.= 67: 1140. My. 18, ’09. 110w.

“It is written in a spirit of ardent admiration for the man who stands in the author’s mind as the chief representative of their common fatherland, yet with admirable temper and evident anxiety to do justice to all reasonable opposition.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 436. N. 4, ’09. 620w.

“Had Count Lützow been less impartial, his work might be passed with slight notice. Writing in the spirit he has, it is hard to see how any reader can follow the narrative without a tribute to its logic and sense of justice.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 485. Ag. 14, ’09. 1000w.

“Though it suffers somewhat from repetition and amassed detail, is yet scholarly and reliable and is the best English life there is of Hus.”

+ − =No. Am.= 190: 559. O. ’09. 300w.

“A volume of standard worth.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 917. Ag. 21, ’09. 320w.

“A learned historian, whose competence has been shown by earlier English works, he writes our language with ease and accuracy, though we would have wished that a more careful reading of the proofs had removed some slight blemishes and some errors in the printing of Bohemian names.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 478. O. 16, ’09. 1950w.

“In this volume he has added to his reputation by placing before English readers a well-informed and pleasantly written account of one of the two episodes in the history of Bohemia which have special interest for this country, and both of which have stood in need of being retold in English from the Bohemian standpoint.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 202. Ag. 7, ’09. 1200w.

=Lyman, William Denison.=^{[8]} Columbia river: its history, its
myths, its scenery, its commerce. (American waterways.) **$3.50.
Putnam.

9–15979.

Belongs to the “American waterways” series and gives an authoritative narrative of the series of events in the history of the Columbia and presents the remarkable scenic features from the headwaters to the mouth of the river.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09.

“It is in all respects an excellent book.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 829. O. 7, ’09. 250w.

“He writes with the historical sense. At the same time he has by no means neglected the scenic aspects of his subject.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 540. O. 2, ’09. 110w.

“For the most part, we find him trustworthy, and hold his book to be not only fascinating but thoroughly studied and packed with valuable knowledge.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 207. S. 2, ’09. 170w.

“Prof. Lyman tells the story exceedingly well. He is very full and precise in his presentation of what may be called the early history of the Columbia valley.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 600w.

“We advise all visitors to the Seattle fair to familiarize themselves with Mr. Lyman’s book.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 160w.

=Lynd, Robert.=^{[11]} Home life in Ireland. *8s. Mills and Boon.

A book written “with the laudable object of showing that the differences and contrasts and quarrels of Irishmen are not essential, as resulting from an ineradicable difference of race, but temporary and curable. Mr. Lynd has strong hopes that with the allaying of these causes of dissension the future of Ireland will be different from the past, and that a new patriotism will combine all the forces of the nation into a noble harmony by resolving the present discords.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“This is a book full of interesting gossip—in the main, too, a very fair book. In most of his estimates of classes we agree with Mr. Lynd; regarding the landlords we fancy that he has no great store of knowledge at first hand, and takes his cue from the political press.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 488. O. 23. 830w.

“We naturally have said more about points of difference than about points of agreement; but our criticisms do not touch the real value of the book. It is the work of a close and interested observer. Keep the grain of salt at hand and all will be well.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 652. O. 23, ’09. 480w.

=Lynde, Francis.= King of Arcadia. †$1.50. Scribner.

9–6573.

An enclosed valley in the middle Rockies is the scene of the story in which a young irrigation engineer, representing the interests of the farmer wars against a cattle king, a Virginian of true Southern type, who is greedy for the isolation of his vast tract of grazing land. The story grows into unity through the influences that are brought to bear upon the ambitious southerner to relinquish his selfish scheme and to transform his tract into a sure-enough kingdom of Arcadia, and the leisurely but definite progress sustained by the engineer in his wooing of the Arcadian king’s daughter.

* * * * *

“A dramatic, well told tale, full of adventure and mystery.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 27. S. ’09. ✠

“It all makes an entertaining, good-humored, and perfectly superficial story, well supplied with dramatic incident, and told, for the most part, in a form of dialogue too smart to bear much relation to ordinary human speech.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 46: 264. Ap. 16, ’09. 240w.

“The sentiment does not go very deep, the characterization is on the surface, but the incidents are many, and the story has a wholesome atmosphere of activity, determination, courage and manliness.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 200w.

“There is the breath of out-of-doors in every page, while the general tone of the novel is clean and wholesome.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 726. Ap. 24, ’09. 230w.

=Lyndon, Lamar.= Development and electrical distribution of water
power. *$3. Wiley.

8–11462.

A book for engineers whose “object is to show the relations between the available water power, the works and machinery for developing it, and the final use to which the energy will be put. Accordingly, the author first explains the nature of the hydraulic development, including dams, canals and flumes and water-wheels; then the features of the electrical equipment, including dynamos, transformers, conductors, pole line, lightning protection, switching and controlling apparatus, and finally describes two foreign and seven American developments as typical of the results of the study.” (Engin. Rec.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Lyndon’s book possesses some features of novelty, and the work should be of particular interest to those engineers whose activities do not tend to give them knowledge and experience in the trend of hydraulic and electrical power developments.”

+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 74. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.

“The volume brings together in compact form a large amount of information previously available only in technical journals.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 308. Mr. 13, ’09. 240w.

=Lyon, Harris Merton.= Sardonics: sixteen sketches. $1.25. Stuyvesant
press.

9–12878.

A book of unpleasant sketches material for which, manipulated according to the school of realism, has been selected from wretched, degraded walks of New York life. “Take for instance such a story as the one bearing the laconic title, ‘In the Black-and-Tan.’ It pictures with such pitiless frankness the promiscuous, unclean, befuddled crowd who constituted a lively evening at Yellow Mamie’s, that you fairly smell the reek of whiskey and rank tobacco.” (Bookm.) “In a number of the stories, notably the opening one, ‘The father,’ in which a man who had deserted his wife and child tries years afterward to make things up with the son, there is clever sketching of character in broad outlines.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“There is much strength, much grimness, and a good deal of irony packed away in these sixteen brief sketches, which in spite of a certain youthful crudeness, are more promising than the maturer work of many a successful writer. Mr. Lyon has something of the Maupassant attitude toward life.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 79. Mr. ’09. 500w.

“They are faithful enough pictures of the fetid and sodden life that ferments and rots in the deeps of a big city, and they are written with considerable skill, although at times the straining after effect is too manifest.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 28. Ja. 16, ’09. 150w.

=Lyons, A. Neil.=^{[9]} Sixpenny pieces. †$1.50. Lane.

A story of “the lower phases of life from the consulting-room of an East End doctor. These tersely written sketches of the patients of Dr. Brink—an outspoken, kindly, and capable man, who contrives to make an income of 1,200 l. a year out of the modest sixpences his patients pay him—are full of humor and pathos, sometimes rather painful in their realism, but never wanting in sympathy and tolerance.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“He conveys the impression that he has lived among the people whom he describes, so intimate is his knowledge of their modes of thought and speech, so swift and certain is his touch in picturing their peculiarities.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 93. Jl. 24. 210w.

“The author’s deep sympathy never obviously expressed but all-pervading, his unusual power of observation, the humor and the penetration shown, make the book of unusual value, while the occasional over-audacity or flippancy of expression never for a moment conceals the seriousness of the work.”

+ =Atlan.= 104: 684. N. ’09. 240w.

“The reader can concern himself with the misery of it if he likes. Otherwise, the humor is the obvious thing. The stories are all cleverly written and show keen observation and a graphic pen.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 170w.

“He is an artist, yet his human concern for his material is always discernible under his occasionally relentless handling. For the few false notes in the book the poor in it are not responsible.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 21. Jl. 3, ’09. 400w.

=Lyons, Andrew W.=^{[5]} Grammar of lettering. *$2.50. Lippincott.

9–15107.

“We can commend this book very heartily to those who are interested in lettering on a large scale, such as sign-writing, mural inscriptions, etc. They will find in it not only a very clear account of the principles on which the form of letters depends, but also a practical course of construction in the actual writing, or rather painting, of the letters themselves, and a full account of the materials and implements to be used.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“More useful for sign-painters than for architects or art students.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 173. Je. ’09.

“It should be in the library of every school of art and architecture in the country.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 21. Ja. 2. 140w.

“It is thus a book for the sign-writer and student in Trade schools, rather than for the art student and architect, who should be interested in the history and philology of the alphabet and of literal forms.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 332. My. 16, ’09. 100w.

“It is a useful volume in spite of the misnomer.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 243. Ap. 17, ’09. 90w.

M

=Maartens, Maarten.=^{[7]} Brothers all. †$1.50. Appleton.

9–21861.

A collection of stories dealing with Dutch peasant life which the author “presents in a most repellent aspect. They are nearly all quite odious people in these short stories—morose, stupid, and rigidly, offensively Calvinistic; lumpish country folk, hard, dishonest business men, repulsive clerics.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“The grimly facetious turn of most of the sketches is less successful than the soberer and more sympathetic vein of a few.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 56. O. ’09.

“The tales are of unequal merit, but on the whole it cannot be said that the author shows at his best in them. Though he can sentimentalize on occasion, we cannot help feeling that he is often out of sympathy with his subject.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 435. Ap. 10. 120w.

“Differs little from its predecessors—unless perhaps, as it makes smaller display of his versatility, and over-represents a type of humorous tale in which he does not excell.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 163. Ag. 19, ’09. 330w.

“Though these stories concern themselves with people of small horizons and isolated communities where the great tides of life do not wash, yet, being so true and so living, they reach out and touch each of us, fulfilling the title under which they appear.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 453. Jl. 24, ’09. 420w.

“A volume of short sketches of Dutch peasant life admirably drawn, largely painful, but good reading because they give a sense of truth and reality.”

+ =No. Am.= 190: 124. Jl. ’09. 70w.

“The motives of the tales are far-fetched, the procedure seems artificial, the humour strained. There is not even the glamour of local colour.”

− =Sat. R.= 107: 373. Mr. 20, ’09. 160w.

“But quite apart from the fact that the author has here resorted to the highly reprehensible device of exploiting the imaginary sufferings of children in order to play upon the heartstrings of his readers, he has done his fellow-countrymen a grave disservice by the well-nigh continuous disparagement of his portraiture.”

− =Spec.= 102: 268. F. 13, ’09. 1000w.

=Maartens, Maarten.=^{[11]} Price of Lis Doris. †$1.50 Appleton.

9–28113.

Lis Doris, the son of a Dutch grocer, looks out upon the world with an artist’s eye, rejoicing in the colors of his first soap bubbles and making surreptitious sketches on his father’s wrapping paper. Yetta, the minister’s daughter, loves the artist’s soul in him and mothers and encourages it, finally marrying a man of wealth that Lis may have the money for an education. Unconscious of the price, he becomes the artist she dreamed of; but, before he has shown his work, her jealous husband comes to him and tells him the secret, claiming as a return that Lis shall let him have the credit for painting the pictures that he may win his wife’s respect and thus make her happy. Lis pays the price and condemns himself to be a painter of the portraits he hates and to give up his real life as a painter of nature and the great out of doors. Thus he and Yetta sacrifice their lives for each other and nothing comes of it save the momentary revelation of their great love in the end and their hope of love and eternal life.

* * * * *

“In places there is a regrettable straining after thrilling effects but no imperfection can blind the reader to the charm of the author’s humour and satire.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 220w.

“The book is sunny with a delightful humor and filled with character studies that are inimitable, running the scale of the social chord from high to low. Every page is rich with human life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 742. N. 27, ’09. 1250w.

“Strong and picturesque as his studies are, they arouse the suspicion that it is not merely because they are Dutch that they seem unfamiliar to us. There is something disproportionate in their semblance of life, they are in some instances distorted from their true outline, whether wilfully to suit the purpose of the plot, or unconsciously through the limitations of Mr. Maartens’ powers of expression.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 506. O. 23, ’09. 600w.

=Mabinogion.= Wonder stories from the Mabinogion, by E: Brooks.
(Classic stories for boys and girls.) †$1.25. Penn.

8–15724.

A volume of Welsh wonder tales, full of heroic adventure and supernatural incidents. The stories had their origin as early as the fifth or sixth century.

* * * * *

“It is better illustrated and cheaper in price, and also in appearance, than Lanier’s. The latter is preferable for a library that can have but one.”

− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 311. D. ’08.

“The present book seems to have been carefully done and should find a considerable audience.” M. J. Moses.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1475. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.

=McArdle, Fred, and Helmholtz, Henry=, eds.^{[6]} Air brake text for
engineers and firemen: a complete treatise on the Westinghouse and
New York air brake and signal systems, air brake practice and train
handling. $2.50. McArdle & Helmholtz.

9–9355.

“The work contains a treatise on all of the old air brake equipment, in addition to a complete description and treatise of the latest Westinghouse and New York equipments, which are briefly explained and cover all the points necessary to qualify the engineman to pass a thorough examination on air brake operation and train handling.”—Preface.

=McArdle, Fred, and Helmholtz, Henry, eds.=^{[6]} Locomotive text for
engineers and firemen: a complete treatise on the engine, electric
headlight and standard code of train rules. $2.50. McArdle &
Helmholtz.

9–9356.

Aims to assist the inexperienced engineman as well as those more advanced in the service in becoming more proficient in the care and management of the locomotive. The first part deals with locomotive firing; the second with locomotive injectors, and the third with the standard code of train rules and signals.

=McAulay, Allan.=^{[10]} Eagle’s nest. †$1.50. Lane.

W9–318.

“Mr. McAulay has chosen a period and conditions which are new to us in fiction. The eagle’s nest is Corsica, and it is the Corsica of Napoleon’s young days. The hero, however, is not Napoleon, but his friend Domenico Tirolani, who becomes involved in the intrigues which grew up in the island after the French occupation.... The character of the young Bonaparte is deftly kept in tone with that of the Napoleon who was to be evolved from him. The love-interest also is excellent and pathetic.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The author’s familiarity with past conditions of Corsican life is remarkable, and his story is spirited and interesting. Nor does it affect the interest in any way that is tragic. We should describe the book, in fine, as a brilliant ‘tour de force.’”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 325. S. 18. 120w.

“This happy art, added to a fine dignity of construction, puts the novel quite above the too fluid current of modern historical romance.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 434. N. 4, ’09. 270w.

“The beginning of a Corsican story provides distinct thrills and is not without promise of sustained interest. The author, however, seems to have wearied of his task just as the climax was in sight.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 525. S. 4, ’09. 400w.

“‘Allan McAulay’ is greatly to be congratulated on turning his faithful study of a generally neglected period of Napoleon’s early career to such fruitful purpose. For this is one of those illuminating and stimulating romances which set people reading history.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 692. O. 30, ’09. 830w.

=Macaulay, Mrs. Fannie C. (Frances Little, pseud.).=^{[11]} Little
Sister Snow. **$1. Century.

9–27380.

A charming story about a little Japanese maiden written by the author of “The lady of the decoration.” In early childhood Yuki Chan resolves upon drowning a naughty kitten, but is interrupted in her plan by an American boy. When she grows up, after her parents have engaged her to a middle-aged Japanese officer, the American youth returns and she falls in love with him. There is much of pathos and sweet womanliness in her quiet struggle to overcome this impossible love, in portraying which the author uses great delicacy of touch.

* * * * *

“In revelation of character and Japanese bearing the story bears the mark of verisimilitude.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 133. D. ’09. ✠

“Thanks to a perfect understanding on the author’s part of the boundary line between pathos and tragedy, tenderness and sentimentality, this is, for English readers at all events, an admirable story.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 489. O. 23. 140w.

“Full of charm and beauty, this little book has a message for the thoughtful far beyond its more obvious motive.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 721. N. 20, ’09. 420w. + =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 100w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 50w.

“A charming story of modern Japan.”

+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 924. D. 4, ’09. 170w.

=McCabe, Joseph.=^{[11]} Iron cardinal; being the romance of
Richelieu. *$3.50. McBride, J:

A personal story of the Cardinal de Richelieu. “Mr. McCabe frankly admits, both in the subtitle and in his preface, that he has maintained a special point of view throughout his book; he presents Richelieu’s character and career in a light as romantic as even Bulwer-Lytton ventured to throw on the hero of his recurrently popular drama.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Upon the whole our impression remains that the author has fallen between two stools. While not sufficiently equipped or enough interested to treat of Richelieu as the European statesman, he has not concentrated himself with adequate care upon the literary and romantic aspects of his subject.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 66. Jl. 17. 700w.

“The complete life of this wonderful man remains to be written. Meanwhile this less serious and far less voluminous study of his character, with its many portraits and other attractive features, is welcome.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 511. D. 16, ’09. 210w.

“There is evidence of more kindliness, more human feeling, in this book than we are accustomed to look for in the character of Richelieu. It is a fresh and interesting conception of the man, and as such merits a secure place in literature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 640. O. 23, ’09. 900w.

“This one contains more genuine history than most of them, but there is no reference to authorities and no means of checking the statements made except through a general allusion to a large number of works dealing with Richelieu.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 824. Je. 26, ’09. 780w.

“Mr. McCabe’s study of the life and career of Richelieu is to some extent a satisfactory book. It is certainly interesting. One cannot help expressing regret that so lively and interesting a book on a subject so important and absorbing should be marked by defects so easily avoided, defects which matter all the more perhaps because it is not every reader who will be aware of them.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 60. Jl. 10, ’09. 1850w.

=McCarthy, Callaghan.=^{[10]} Causes of poverty. *2s. King, P. S., and
son, London.

9–5476.

A work that emphasizes less the maladjustment theory of poverty than the physiographic and social causes looked at from a national standpoint. “The present volume, says Mr. McCarthy, ‘might be described as an effort to evolve a mental picture of the world we live in, to behold before us a working model of this earth and all its belongings, and to realise, from an examination of that model, the causes responsible for human poverty.’” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“The presentation of the problem as one of exchange is suggestive, but Mr. McCarthy’s treatment of it is magniloquent rather than illuminating.”

− =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 400w.

“Even if the proportion of unproductively consumed income has been overstated, Mr. McCarthy has written an interesting and suggestive study of poverty looked at from the standpoint of the nation as a whole.” C. C. Carstens.

+ − =Survey.= 22: 802. S. 11, ’09. 430w.

=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.=^{[11]} God of love. †$1.50. Harper.

9–28000.

Florence the beautiful and her gorgeous, pleasure loving, quarrelsome Florentines form the setting for the story of the love of Dante and Beatrice. A note tells us that the archives of the Abbey of Bonne Aventure in Poitou have yielded to the author this version of the greatest love story of all Italy, the story of the obscure young poet, the beautiful etherial girl and their great love which to the end was of the spirit. A wicked suitor, a hard father, and the wild times in which they lived brought about the early death of Beatrice and left Dante, in the words of his chronicler, in “a kind of moral torpor in which all sense of things righteous and things evil was confused.”

=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Gorgeous Borgia: a romance. †$1.50. Harper.

9–5203.

A night, a morning, an afternoon and an evening in the life of Cæsar Borgia, are depicted here, tho many moons apart. It is a tale of his cruelty, his tyranny, his professed loyalty to Italy, and his one great passion, the love for Lavinella Orsini. The great Borgia woos her in ignorance of her lineage, while in turn she knows not that he is the tyrant of a rival house. When her people elect her to slay the hated Borgia, she little dreams that it is her lover. The story is true to history in its plots and betrayals, and its delineation of lawless, sensual Roman life.

* * * * *

“His book does not suggest an intimate knowledge of Cæsar’s times. The events of history are very cavalierly dealt with.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 677. N. 28. 150w.

“An exciting tale.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1034. My. 13, ’09. 220w.

“As a story, the book is weak, its slender thread of a plot being over-weighted with long pages of description and narrative. As a historical picture, an attempt to revivify the mad, strenuous, shameless life of the time, it is hardly more successful, although now and then there is a brilliant page.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 145. Mr. 13, ’09. 230w.

“Mr. McCarthy knows how to tell a story well, and, with considerable allowance for the bad taste the characters leave in the mouth of the reader, the tale itself is a good one.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 120w.

“There is plenty of brisk incident, but the spirit of the renaissance is hardly renewed in these pages.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 765. D. 19, ’08. 200w.

=MacCartney, Mervin.=^{[5]} English houses and gardens in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. *$6. Scribner.

“Consists of a selection of birdseye views of English country houses, made for the most part by Dutch engravers at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, admirably reproduced by means of photography.... The period is a fascinating one, the houses, though in some cases Tudor, being chiefly of the time of Inigo Jones and Wren, and either the work of those masters or of their pupils and followers; while at no time, perhaps, has garden design reached so high a level.... There is an interesting introduction, the greater part of which is devoted to garden design; and in addition there is a short description of each plate, containing much useful information.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The material the author had to draw upon was large, and he has made an excellent selection. We notice one or two slight misprints. While the plates reproduce with remarkable fidelity both the spirit and detail of the originals, the considerable reduction in scale is a distinct loss.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 470. Ap. 17. 440w.

“To those who desire to get a strong impression of the formality and dignity of life in the good days of Queen Anne and the neighboring periods, we recommend this volume.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 151. F. 11, ’09. 200w.

=McCasland, Charles Orville.=^{[6]} Right and riches. $1.50. Wilbur
pub.

8–18383.

A scientific study of wealth in its relations to producer, consumer and society; the cause of want and its amelioration; the nature and laws of money and the dangers of our centralised system of banking and corporate control; the elements of collective prosperity and individual success.

* * * * *

“Taking things as they are and allowing Mr. McCasland his definitions of terms, it is hard to find any flaw in his reasoning. The trouble with the book lies in the fact that it is too technical for the ordinary reader, and scholars may not be willing to acknowledge Mr. McCasland as an authority.” R. E. Bisbee.

− =Arena.= 41: 395. Mr. ’09. 500w.

=McClelland, Thomas Calvin.=^{[8]} Mind of Christ: an attempt to
answer the question what did Jesus believe? **$1.25. Crowell.

9–21685.

In the following chapters the author sets forth in simple speech the belief of Jesus: Jesus’ idea of God; Jesus’ idea of himself; Jesus’ idea of man; Jesus’ idea of religion; Jesus’ idea of sin; Jesus’ idea of salvation; Jesus’ idea of prayer; Jesus’ idea of immortality; The proof of Jesus’ idea of God; How a man may know Jesus’ God; The seriousness of believing in the fatherhood of God.

* * * * *

“The theology involved in it is distinctively modern, and it is luminous both in thought and in expression.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 762. D. ’09. 60w.

=McClung, Robert Kenning.=^{[12]} Conduction of electricity through
gases and radio-activity. *$1.50. Blakiston.

9–29406.

A combined text-book and laboratory manual that aims to present in simple form the fundamental facts of the subject and explanatory theories, accompanied, where possible, by the description of suitable experiments. The desire has been uppermost to give a student a working knowledge of the main facts and principles of the subjects.

=MacColl, Alexander.= Working theology. **75c. Scribner.

9–6470.

A body of doctrine for the orthodox layman which has resulted from a revision and readjustment of old ideas subjected to the present-day examination and criticism of traditionary dogmas. The chapters are: The religious attitude toward the newer conceptions of truth; God the loving Father, Man the erring child; Divine providence in the play of cosmic processes; Prayer in a world of law; Miracles in a scientific age; The Bible in the light of modern revelation and inspiration; The sense of sin in modern life; The great gospel of the cross; and Things to come.

* * * * *

“In general the spirit is that of honest facing of difficulty. The volume is calculated to help many toward a ‘theology that will work.’”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1298. Je. 10, ’09. 200w.

=McComb, Rev. Samuel.=^{[12]} Making of the English Bible; with an
introductory essay on the influence of the English Bible on English
literature. **$1. Moffat.

A work whose purpose is not to give a history of the English Bible, but to point out in the light of recent investigation the debt that the latest revision owes to its predecessors, and to estimate the contributions to it from all sources. Contents: William Tindale—the father of the English Bible; The contribution of Miles Coverdale; The contribution of the Genevan version; The contribution of the Bishop’s Bible; The Roman Catholic contribution; The contribution of the authorized version; The contribution of the Anglo-American version.

* * * * *

“Though popular in style and treatment, it will be of most use to the student of the text.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 78. N. ’09.

“The story is succinctly told, yet with emphasis where it belongs, and with sufficient illustration by way of parallel texts and exhibition of relationships.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 362. O. 14, ’09. 140w.

“It is not clear to what the sub-title of this book refers. There is no essay on the influence of the English Bible on English literature. Otherwise the volume is admirable.” E. S. D.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 400w.

=McComb, Rev. Samuel.=^{[10]} Power of self-suggestion. **50c. Moffat.

9–14535.

“A small volume containing an address which reviews in the spirit of the movement connected with the Emmanuel church the varieties of aid to be derived from a vigorous and confident appeal to the best within one.”—Dial.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09.
=Dial.= 47: 24. Jl. 1, ’09. 50w.

=McCook, Rev. Henry Christopher.=^{[12]} Ant communities and how they
are governed: a study in natural civics. **$2. Harper.

9–27978.

A distinctly informing work that covers mainly those phases of ant life that are developed around ants’ behavior as social animals. A secondary feature of the book is the indication of parallels, more or less distinct, between the communal actions of ants considered simply as natural history, and the communal actions of man, considered in their relations to the highest welfare of the race.

* * * * *

“This is a fresh and original book. A book delightfully written and delightfully illustrated.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 964. N. 27, ’09. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 806. D. 18, ’09. 850w.
=Outlook.= 93: 830. D. 11, ’09. 200w.

=McCord, Peter B.= Wolf: the memoirs of a cave dweller. $1. Dodge, B.
W.

8–33782.

Purported to be the transcript of an old priest’s work in piecing together meagre scraps of information concerning the cave dwellers. It is in the form of a cave-dweller’s autobiographical sketch and throws light on this half man, half animal tribe, and the development which characterized its evolutionary progress.

=MacCorkle, William Alexander.= Some Southern questions. **$1.75.
Putnam.

8–36695.

“Mr. MacCorkle, who is an ex-governor of West Virginia, has a good deal to say about the negro in his series of valuable papers on Southern questions. He accepts the localization of the negro in the South as a permanency, and dismisses all kinds of colonization talk as idle. The Southern whites want and need the negro, he maintains. Considerable space is given to a record of Southern efforts for negro education. The repression of the negro vote is admitted, but the author maintains that the best Southern opinion insists only upon an intelligence qualification, and wishes to disfranchise the ignorant white as well as the black.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“A man’s desire to preserve his own utterances is easily understood. To understand our difficult social and race problems we need careful studies—not after-dinner oratory. This indicates the strength and weakness of the book.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 720. My. ’09. 100w.
=Ind.= 66: 485. Mr. 4, ’09. 120w.

“Although Gov. MacCorkle’s oratorical style may belong to a past age, his political views are decidedly modern.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 221. Mr. 4, ’09. 460w.

“Is entitled to special consideration as witness of what these problems actually appear to the South to be and of the angle in which the South as an active and practical entity looks at them.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 78. F. 6, ’09. 640w.

=McCormack, Mary Anna.=^{[11]} Spool knitting. *$1. Barnes.

9–18381.

Tells of the numerous articles that can be made out of the cord or flat web that is made by knitting worsteds over pins stuck into an empty spool.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 44. O. ’09. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 503. Ag. 21, ’09. 90w.

=McCullough, Ernest.=^{[6]} Engineering work in towns and cities. 2d
ed. $3. Clark, M. C.

8–28611.

“In the first edition of this book the author divided his subject-matter into two parts, for the technical and for the non-technical reader, placing the two treatments of each sub-division at opposite ends of the book. In this second edition, just issued, this scheme has been abandoned and all the matter on any one subject is to be found at one place. While removing one of the assumed virtues of the old edition—the benefit of the book to non-engineering city officials—this scheme tends much toward the general betterment of the work and makes it more in keeping with its title. Various other changes might be noted, but they are of a somewhat minor character.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The typography is extremely poor.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 146. D. ’09.

“In its field the work can be commended.”

+ =Engin. D.= 5: 537. My. ’09. 180w.

“The general impression of the second edition is that, while not differing materially in its matter from the first, the arrangement is much more useful and there is an absence of a certain colloquial style, brought about probably by the removal of many not altogether appropriate chapter heading quotations.” C. G. Barth.

+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 691. D. 17, ’08. 180w.

“Taken as a whole, the book will probably be more helpful to an engineer undertaking to manage for the first time the engineering department of a small city than anything else that has been published.”

+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 475. O. 23, ’09. 330w.

=McCutcheon, George Barr.=^{[7]} Alternative. †$1.25. Dodd.

9–10493.

A light-weight story of a father and son in which the son improves upon his father’s generation and ideals. Having squandered their fortune Van Pyckes senior sees continuance of his life of ease only thru a wealthy marriage. The son halts before the alternative to such a scheme which presents itself in the idea of entering upon a business career. He chooses the latter course, pursues his own domestic ideas about marriage and witnesses a father’s agitation over the fact that his son should be the first of the old family of Van Pyckes to do any work.

* * * * *

“Another book whose atmosphere fails to carry conviction.”

− + =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 100w.

“The farcical swing with which he carries his story swiftly through makes amends for defects in construction and characterization.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 200w.

“It is an airy little tale, full of amusing situations and crisp, delightful dialogue.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.

=McCutcheon, George Barr.=^{[11]} Truxton King: a story of Graustark.
†$1.50. Dodd.

9–24451.

“Truxton King, big, handsome, good-natured and young, ranges over the face of the earth looking for romance and adventure and finding none, until at last he comes to the natural home of such things—Graustark. There he jumps over the palace wall and meets Prince Robin, and first sets eyes on the heroine.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“This most recent addition to the Graustark series will be welcomed by all those who have made the acquaintance of that stirring little principality.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 636. O. 16, ’09. 280w.

“Those who like exciting tales of intrigue, adventure, and heroism of the Zenda school may look here for such a one, and not look in vain.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 170w.

=Macdonald, Duncan Black.= Religious attitude and life in Islam: being
the Haskell lectures on comparative religion delivered before the
University of Chicago in 1906. *$1.75. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–5544.

Ten lectures which outline the religious attitude and life of Muslims, as opposed to the systematic theology of Islam. The author has turned to the occult for interpretative analogies. He makes himself clear as to his own stand, stating that he is driven to regard telepathy as proved, that the proof of telekinesis—the movement of objects at a distance without contact, approaches certainty; but that there is no satisfactory proof of communication by discarnate spirits. By means of his analogies he sketches the essential outlines, leaving it to the future to make additions and corrections.

* * * * *

“A scholarly study from original sources; of limited appeal to the average reader.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09.

“Altogether the volume is an excellent book.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 185. Jl. ’09. 90w.

“We are indebted to Professor Macdonald for a valuable exposition of one phase of Moslem thought, and we would suggest that the value of his work would be increased by distinguishing between the three sections of Islam, the Semitic, the Aryan, and the Berber. It is only the Aryan that has developed mysticism.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 164. Ag. 19, ’09. 950w.

“Prof. Macdonald gives a deeply interesting view of the religious life in Islam.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 177. Mr. 27, ’09. 700w.

=Macdonald William.=^{[11]} Dry-farming: its principles and practice.
**$1.20. Century.

9–27125.

Sets forth in a straightforward way the principal facts of the new branch of agricultural science known as dry-farming or dryland agriculture. It deals with the conservation of soil moisture during long periods of dry weather by means of tillage together with the growth of drought-resistant plants.

* * * * *

“A valuable contribution to agricultural literature.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 120. D. ’09.

“We believe that this is the first book to be published on the subject.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 80w.

=Macdonnell, Anne.=^{[12]} In the Abruzzi. *$2. Stokes. W9–26.

A record of a pilgrimage in a land, “strange, uncouth, primitive, little distant from Rome in mileage, incalculably distant in everything else.” The author “discourses of past and present, of brigands and the simple, unquestioning faith of the mountaineers, of their singers and improvisatori, their folk-lore, repeating several legends well worth adding, on account of their charming ‘naïveté’ clothing simple wisdom.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 79. N. ’09.

“Interesting from beginning to end.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 516. D. 16, ’09. 250w. + =Ind.= 67: 1143. N. 18, ’09. 180w.

“Her book is by no means a mere guide-book, but is full of information on all sorts of subjects. We should have indeed nothing but praise for this volume, which, as we have said, is within its limits excellent, if it were not for two matters which go far to spoil its worth. Painstaking and sincere as Miss Macdonell’s work is, it seems to us quite lifeless. The book has some queer mis-spellings and translations.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 179. F. 6, ’09. 780w.

=McDougall, William.= Introduction to social psychology. *$1.50. Luce,
J: W.

9–8413.

A presentation which presupposes no familiarity with psychological treatises, but which aims to provide students of all social sciences “with the minimum of psychological doctrine that is an indispensable part of the equipment for work in any of these sciences.” The author discusses the conceptions of instinct and of instinctive processes; elaborates the principle that all emotion is the affective aspect of instinctive process; combats the current view that imitation is to be ascribed to an instinct of imitation; and interprets Mr. Shand’s doctrine of the sentiments; and applies it to the description of the organization of the life of emotion and impulse. The second part of the book treats “The operation of the primary tendencies of the human mind in the life of societies.”

* * * * *

“A work for students and general readers.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 79. N. ’09.

“He has no great acquaintance with social facts, and hence the second section of the book ... offers far less than the first section.” E: A. Ross.

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 438. S. ’09. 250w.

“This book has both charm and originality. It forms, in fact, as fresh and stimulating a contribution to psychology as has been made by any writer in recent years.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 754. D. 12. 1600w.

“All in all, Mr. McDougall’s book is well fitted to render a great service to students of the social sciences by giving them a correct psychological point of view and the indispensable minimum of modern psychological doctrine.” C: A. Ellwood.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 168. Je. ’09. 900w.

“Mr. McDougall has made good his claims to a fresh and original treatment of his subject. Whether he is presenting new material or elaborating familiar themes, his grasp is sure and his exposition lucid.” G: E. Vincent.

+ =Hibbert J.= 7: 930. Jl. ’09. 930w.

“My quarrel with Mr. McDougall will not be so much with what he says, nearly all of which I find excellent, as with some omissions to which he himself points.” Frank Granger.

+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 512. Jl. ’09. 1250w.

“The author’s psychology is notably sound, his mode of procedure thoroughly scientific, his illustrative examples happy and his criticisms cogent and moderate in tone.”

+ =Nation.= 99: 331. O. 7, ’09. 630w.

“In bringing together emotion and instinct, Mr. McDougall has made an original contribution to psychological science of the highest value and importance, and even if he does not succeed in carrying his fellow-psychologists all the way with him in his identification of the two, he will have set the problem of their relation in a form which is itself at least half the solution. The book is full of close reasoning, but is written in so lucid a style that it makes very pleasant reading. Its importance is more than academic; there are political theorists at the present day who would do well to take some of its teachings to heart.” W: Brown.

+ =Nature.= 80: 245. Ap. 29, ’09. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 520w.

“The most disappointing chapter in the book to the reviewer has been that on development of self-consciousness.” G: H. Mead.

+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 385. D. 15, ’08. 2800w.

=McElroy, John.=^{[10]} Struggle for Missouri. $2. National tribune
co., Washington, D. C.

9–19864.

A work of historical significance that gives in swift narrative the story of the struggle between Unionists and Secessionists in Missouri for the supremacy in the early sixties.

* * * * *

“The author shows just familiarity with his subject and his story is entertaining and instructive, in spite of the fact that he writes as a partisan.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 280w.

=MacFadyen, Allan.= Cell as the unit of life, and other lectures; ed.
by R: Tanner Hewlett. *$3. Blakiston.

9–22255.

“The volume consists of four courses of lectures delivered by Dr. MacFadyen at the Royal institution, whilst he was Fullerian professor of physiology there. They are entitled ‘The cell as the unit of life,’ ‘Cellular physiology,’ ‘Recent methods and results in biological inquiry,’ and ‘Toxins and antitoxins.’ A final lecture on ‘The effects of physical agents on bacterial life’ is included.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Will be ranked as one of the most important recent works dealing with interesting problems of modern physical science and medicine from the materialistic view-point.”

+ =Arena.= 41: 397. Mr. ’09. 300w.

“The whole series is characterized by clearness of thought and accuracy of statement, and the subject-matter is presented in an attractive form. It is some years since these lectures were delivered, but under the careful editorship of Prof. Hewlett they are as valuable now as when first uttered.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 170. F. 6. 600w.

“For those who are interested in getting at the present position of progressive biologists with regard to the mystery of life and its theoretic and scientific explanations, Professor MacFadyen’s book will have a distinct appeal.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 102. Ja. 14, ’09. 550w.

“The treatment is popular in the best sense of the word and without reference to the literature.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 82. Jl. 22, ’09. 220w.

“The style is always interesting, and the book may well claim to form an introduction to a study of some of the fundamental problems of biology, if not to biology itself.”

+ =Nature.= 80: 123. Ap. 1, ’09. 550w.

“The difficult task, undertaken ‘con amore,’ has been well performed by the editor, and a very readable and acceptable, although from its very nature somewhat out-of-date, ‘introduction to biology’ lies before us.” G. N. C.

+ − =Science, n.s.= 29: 667. Ap. 23, ’09. 400w.

=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians;
with notes and comments. (Interpreter’s commentary on the New
Testament, v. 6.) $1.50. Barnes.

9–4565.

“The commentaries of Lyman Abbott on the gospels, Acts, and Romans, first published 1875–88, are now continued in this volume, published under the joint general editorship of Dr. Abbott and Professor McFadyen. The Corinthian letters are assigned, though not positively, to 57 A. D. McFadyen inclines to the view that our I Cor. is the painful letter referred to in II Cor., and that II Cor. is one epistle, not a combination of two or more. Galatians he holds to have been written probably about 55 A. D., which view practically implies the acceptance of its North-Galatian destination.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“The notes are copious and skilfully wrought into a continuous expanded paraphrase. The use of the Authorized Version, even to its printing of each verse as a paragraph, is unfortunate.”

+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 288. Ap. ’09. 120w.

“The strength of the work lies in its appreciation of the apostle’s thought. It gives in a more popular form such exposition as one would find, say, in the ‘Expositor’s Greek Testament.’” S. J. Case.

+ =Bib. World.= 34: 67. Jl. ’09. 180w. + =Outlook.= 91: 535. Mr. 6, ’09. 560w.

=Macfall, C. Haldane.= Beautiful children immortalized by the masters;
ed. by T. Leman Hare, **$5. Dodd.

9–28434.

“Contains fifty full page illustrations in colors of unusually good reproductions of famous paintings of children. The author in his text has not attempted technical criticism of the pictures, but has told entertainingly the history of the painters and the sitters and has filled in the background with some account of the times they lived in.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“It is unfortunate that in an art-book the publishers have not avoided using different styles of type on the same page, but for the rest these beautiful children are in a beautiful setting.” Algernon Tassin.

+ − =Bookm.= 30: 344. D. ’09. 380w.

“The colored plates delightfully carry out the color schemes in the originals from which they were derived.” W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 67: 1353. D. 16, ’09. 70w.

“Written, if not exactly down to the child’s level, yet in a simple and easy vein. The reproductions are generally good, though we notice occasionally the messiness that almost inevitably goes with this form of printing in its present state of development.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 583. D. 9, ’09. 100w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 801. D. 18, ’09. 130w.

=Macfarland, Charles Stedman=, ed.^{[12]} Christian ministry and the
social order: lectures delivered in the Course in pastoral functions
at Yale divinity school, 1908–1909. *$1.25. Oxford.

9–15877.

A volume of lectures on social questions dealing “with the relation of the minister to human society and indicating the definite, concrete tasks and problems which face the Christian ministry.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

* * * * *

“This work is a valuable contribution to social science, indicating the desire of modern theology for a comprehensive grasp of social problems by the ministry.” S. E. Rupp.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 621. N. ’09. 250w. + =Outlook.= 93: 646. N. 20, ’09. 300w.

Reviewed by J: H. Holmes.

+ − =Survey.= 22: 848. S. 25, ’09. 1550w.

Reviewed by Graham Taylor.