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“Mr. Mallet writes a plain style, even a trifle stiff at times, but he spares eulogy and evidently purposes to tell the truth.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 439. Ap. 29, ’09. 470w.

“The very attempt which he makes to recognize [Lord Northbrook’s grave defects of temperament and imagination, of judgment and insight] candidly yet with such discretion as not to detract from the impressiveness of the picture which it is his business to present, gives the work the note of insincerity inseparable from such an undertaking conceived and approached in such a spirit.” W: A. Bradley.

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 7. Ja. 2, ’09. 400w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 116. Ja. 23, ’09. 300w.

“The book is well proportioned, it is written with unerring taste, it is graceful, and, above all, it succeeds in giving a clear picture of its subject.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 736. N. 7, ’08. 2000w.

=Mallock, William Hurrell.= An immortal soul. †$1.50. Harper.

8–31158.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“From the novelist’s standpoint Mr. Mallock’s book is a clever piece of work, full of action, sparkling dialogue, and vivid pictures of character and manners. He manages the mystification element dramatically enough to make the story not a bad second to ‘Jekyll and Hyde.’ From the philosophical point of view his close is rather impotent.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 685. F. ’09. 580w.

“Readers who do not expect this sort of thing in a novel may well complain that he does not play the game, and will be justified if their quest is for entertainment only. But if they are sufficiently serious of mind to enter into the spirit of the author’s speculations, they will give, if anything, a more absorbed attention to his psychological discussion than to the fictive framework in which it is set.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 46: 84. F. 1, ’09. 700w.

“Much of the time we might fancy ourselves in a laboratory rather than a studio. Yet the story is not without a leisurely, whimsical, well-nigh Peacockian flavor.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 67. Ja. 21, ’09. 440w.

“A story which at no stage fails to hold, both in point of plausibility and deep intellectual interest. Of the supplementary characters it is proper to say that they are far more than ordinarily well done, and that the arguments of science and of the church are fairly presented.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 250w.

“We read on, won by the thoroughness of his work.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 107. Ja. 16, ’09. 400w.

“A really clever romance.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 122. Ja. ’09. 60w.

“The book is extremely interesting. It will bore the matter-of-fact, distress the orthodox, and send the inquisitive to works on psychology.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 360w.

“The net result of this dovetailing of alleged scientific fact with fiction is extremely artificial.”

− + =Spec.= 102: 100. Ja. 16, ’09. 700w.

=Mallory, Herbert Samuel.=^{[7]} Tempered steel. $1.50. Fenno.

9–13967.

A story set in the time of the strife between Stephen and Matilda for the English crown. “One hears the cry of battle, and the clash of lances in single combats, and there are maidens in trouble and renegade Knights. The story will make one think of Tennyson and his ‘Idylls of the king,’ and the characters will at once remind one of Lancelot and Guinevere, Modred and Arthur, Paolo and Francesca.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.

“If the reader—steeped in naturalism—declines to see much reality in the characters, he is nevertheless entertained in an agreeable and workmanlike manner.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 450. Jl. 24, ’09. 200w.

=Maltzahn, Curt L. W., baron v.= Naval warfare: its historical
development from the age of the great geographical discoveries to
the present time; tr. from the German by J: Combe Miller. *75c.
Longmans.

“The Admiral’s treatise is founded upon lectures he delivered at the German naval academy, of which he for a time was the head. It gives the history of naval development from the earliest times to the present, from the point of view of one who believes thoroughly in the strong navy. With respect to his own country, the Admiral says: ‘The backbone of all success is a navy powerful for combat.’”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“He is especially competent to treat naval warfare from the German point of view, and what he says is of interest, in presenting the case of those who urge a great navy as necessary to a nation, which is largely engaged in commerce. When these war scares and bugaboos become recognized as figments of the imagination and treated as maladies, this little book will find its true place, for it is a symptom rather than a treatise.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 333. Ap. 1, ’09. 550w.

“An excellent translation.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 230w.

=Manchester, Arthur Livingston.= Twelve lessons in the fundamentals of
voice production. (Music students’ lib.) $1. Ditson.

8–33831.

A students’ handbook of the essentials of good tone-production, teaching the recognition of the conditions, comfort and firmness which accompany the producing of good tones.

* * * * *

“A beginner in the study of voice culture may find valuable help in the handy and sensible little treatise.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 869. Ap. 22, ’09. 90w.
=Nation.= 88: 368. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.

=Manly, John Matthews, comp.=^{[7]} English prose (1137–1890). *$1.50.
Ginn.

9–12184.

A companion volume to Manly’s “English prose” and, like it, is intended chiefly for use in a general survey of English literature. It is such an anthology of poems important either historically or for their intrinsic merits, as will permit a teacher to make his own selection in accordance with his tastes and the needs of his class. Whole selections rather than excerpts have been chosen in order to show sustained power and control of organic structure.

* * * * *

“A convenient volume for the small library wishing to have a compendium of representative examples and for any library that has many student demands.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 45. O. ’09. ✠
=Dial.= 46: 375. Je. 1, ’09. 60w.

“In the absence of cheap and reliable single texts, such books make a valuable acquisition for student or even general reader.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 298. Ag. 5, ’09. 80w.

“All things considered—abundance, variety, interest, range, compactness, and legibility—this is decidedly the most useful thing of its kind in the field.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 283. S. 23, ’09. 320w.

=Mannix, Mary Ellen.=^{[5]} Cupa revisited. 45c. Benziger.

9–8573.

“Introduces young folk to the Californian Indian as he is to-day; and incidentally gives them a lesson in history by drawing their attention to the contrast between the Indian’s condition to-day and that which he enjoyed while the missions flourished.”—Cath. World.

* * * * *

=Cath. World.= 89: 260. My. ’09. 40w.

=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).=^{[10]}
Italian highways and byways from a motor car; with pictures by
Blanche McManus. $3. Page.

9–13515.

“In the space of 370 not over closely printed pages, diversified by Blanche McManus’s suggestive illustrations, we are hurried from the Genoa Riviera to Naples by way of Tuscany, round through Romagna to Venice, Lombardy, and back to Piedmont.... The book is full of helpful hints, not only regarding byways to seek out, but when these have been sought and found, other directions of a more practical nature concerning distances and inns, garages, and gasolene.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The information is of necessity fragmentary and unrelated. It all has a somewhat rushed, sixty-miles-an-hour effect.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 822. O. 7, ’09. 350w.

“The illustrations are always interesting, those in colors being particularly striking.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 442. S. 18, ’09. 130w.

“It may well be a literal ‘vade mecum.’”

+ =Nation.= 89: 24. Jl. 8, ’09. 200w.

=Mantzius, Karl.=^{[6]} History of theatrical art in ancient and
modern times; authorized tr. by Louise von Cossel. 5v. v. 5. *$3.50.
Lippincott.

5–18107.

=v. 5.= Great actors of the eighteenth century.

“The fifth volume maintains the reputation of the work, and is rightly styled, inasmuch as the time of which it treats was more an age of acting than of dramatic fecundity, ‘Great actors of the eighteenth century.’ The players covered in this survey include Carolina Neuber, Konrad Ekhof, Schröder, Iffland, and Adrienne Lecouvreur among continental celebrities; and such persons of mark on our own stage as Betterton, Cibber, Anne Oldfield, Quin, Macklin, and Garrick.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Herr Karl Mantzius knows, as few men do, how to write interesting stage history—knows how to arrange and group his material, and also how to conceal scholarship that is wide and thorough under a style of delightful vivacity. Herr Mantzius is a little unfair to our comedy of the eighteenth century, and indulges, we venture to think, in rather hasty generalizations. Our old comedy writers seem to annoy him by their lack of ‘architetonic mastership.’ Here we seem to strike upon a certain defect of sympathy in an historian who is otherwise admirably catholic in his taste.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 474. Ap. 17. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)

“If the historical acumen of Dr. Mantzius is occasionally dimmed and his sense of proportion dwarfed by Germanic influence, he is nevertheless a painstaking student who has made the history of his craft his life-work. His work is almost monumental; indeed, it should find a place in the dramatic alcove of every library, for in no other single work has so much information concerning the stage been brought within reach of the student and thoroughly indexed.” H. C. Chatfield-Taylor.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 122. S. 1, ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 5.)

“As an interesting, chatty conspectus the book will be useful to the casual reader; to the student of the stage it offers little save collocation of accepted opinion on the great names of three national stages. The translation is uneven; usually it is competent, but at moments the pronouns squint badly.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 334. O. 7, ’09. 350w. (Review of v. 5.)

“Karl Mantzius is a painstaking historian of the dramatic stage, and his voluminous history is a serviceable work. As a history of English acting in the eighteenth century, Mantzius’s few chapters are woefully deficient.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 269. My. 1, ’09. 1500w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Sat. R.= 107: 758. Je. 12, ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 5.)

=Manucci, Niccolo.= Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653–1708; tr.
with introd. and notes by W: Irvine. (Indian texts ser.) ea. *$3.50.
Dutton.

8–17330.

“With the support of the Government of India and under the ægis of the Royal Asiatic society the elaborate ‘Storia do Mogor,’ sent to Europe by Niccolao Manucci more than two hundred years ago, now first reaches the public as he wrote it, allowing for the change from Portuguese and French and Italian into English.” (Acad.) “Manucci’s story is an exceedingly valuable contribution to the literature of India, less on account of its historical data, however, than for the light it throws on the social conditions of Hindustan and the early missionary efforts of the Roman Catholic church.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“It was well worth the research and trouble, for the work is unique in its way, is valuable to students of India, and indispensable to the historian or collector.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 922. S. 21, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Except for the unquenchable charm of French prose, Manucci’s original memoirs are as superior in interest to Catrou’s adaptation ‘after the model of the Greek and Latin historians’ as the ‘Collects’ are to Knight’s ‘Family prayers.’ When it comes to a question of veracity, there is even less room for argument.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 147. Ag. 10. 2850w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“The merits and attractions of the book far outweigh its faults. As a history, it is full of obvious defects; as a picture of certain aspects of Indian life at the close of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, it is wonderfully vivid and real.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 690. Je. 6. 2250w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Mr. Irvine has spent ten years to good purpose over the work.” G. Le Strange.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 369. Ap. ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Mr. Irvine’s footnotes are a mine of information on the subject-matter of the text.” G. Le S.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 406. Ap. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

“The book is full of good stories and keen-sighted observation of character and manners. As a picture of Mogul life in the seventeenth century, not only at court, but in camp and in the bazars, it is unique; and readers of all kinds, as well as historians, will be grateful to Mr. Irvine for recovering this long-lost author and delivering him from the ingenious disguise of Father Catrou. The authenticity of the illustrations seems incontrovertible. Even in black and white they are an interesting addition to an extremely valuable work.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 254. Ag. 23, ’07. 1750w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

“It is essentially a book for the student rather than the casual reader. The translator’s notes, which exhibit wide knowledge and exhaustive research, add greatly to the value of the work.” Forbes Lindsay.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)

=Mapes, Victor.=^{[8]} Partners three: a novel. †$1.25. Stokes.

9–8997.

A story “neither tragical, comical, historical, criminal, sociological, nor even romantic-comical-sociological” (Nation.) purporting to be told by a convict serving sentence in Sing Sing for counterfeiting. The incidents chosen out of the latter’s past experience are connected with a benevolent man, a waif who had been picked up in Switzerland and the narrator himself. These are the “partners three.”

* * * * *

“The whole affair has a freshness of savor for which the dutiful follower of current fiction must be grateful.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 101. Jl. 29, ’09. 430w.

“An idyl of kind hearts that are more than coronets.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 360w.

=March, John Lewis.= Theory of mind. **$2. Scribner.

8–25725.

“The theory, in brief, is that all essential traits are in the nature of impulses and instincts; that psychology must be written wholly in the terms of such instincts and impulses, and that we may use such terms as ideal impulses, home-building impulses, and other specialized impulses, to account for every phase of social, personal, or material action.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“For the general student of psychology it will carry but moderate meaning and less conviction.”

− =Dial.= 46: 54. Ja. 16, ’09. 270w.

“The book as a whole impresses the reviewer as essentially a piece of closet thinking. The earlier chapters strike her as open to considerable criticism from the philosopher, the psychologist, and the scientist; but the later chapters seem worthy of the attention of the student of social psychology and of ethics.” E. K. Adams.

− + =J. Philos.= 6: 361. Je. 24, ’09. 1050w.
=Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 120w.

“Mr. March offers a new solution of the riddle of mind and matter—a solution which is admirable for ingenuity and may well commend itself to the serious student of such problems in right of qualities of logic and common sense.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 214. Ap. 10, ’09. 1000w.

=Marden, Orison Swett.= Peace, power and plenty. **$1. Crowell.

9–4136.

Another helpful book that preaches the gospel of optimism and love in their potential aspect. Some of the chapter headings are suggestive: Power of the mind to compel the body; Poverty, a mental disability; The law of opulence; Character-building and health-building during sleep; Health through right thinking; Why grow old?; The miracle of self-confidence; Destructive and constructive suggestion; Worry, the disease of the age; Fear, the curse of the race; Good cheer—God’s medicine; and “As ye sow.”

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 80. Mr. ’09.

“The book as a whole cannot fail to be helpful to the general reader, especially to young men and women and those who are becoming discouraged after long grappling with the grave perplexities of present-day life.” B. O. Flower.

+ =Arena.= 41: 595. Ag. ’09. 2800w.

“Teaches in sententious, forceful style the wisdom of compelling the thoughts to keep always in lines of sanity, harmony, brotherly love, and aspiration.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 47. Ja. 23, ’09. 160w.

=Marden, Philip Sanford.=^{[12]} Travels in Spain. **$3. Houghton.

9–29222.

While mainly the record of a wide-awake traveler’s experiences during a springtime journey from Gibraltar across the Spanish peninsula this book is valuable for the historical and art information running thru its pages. For the prospective tourist in Spain, there is an introductory chapter on “Spanish travel.” The volume is generously illustrated with pictures of the author’s own making.

* * * * *

“To the stay-at-home traveller, no less than to him of more adventurous mood, the book may be commended.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 514. D. 16, ’09. 180w.

“Art and history and legend, city and country are described in a manner that will make the book of value to whoever follows its author’s itinerary.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 130w.

“Vividness, indeed, is not wanting in his description of a most inspiring country.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1078. D. 11, ’09. 150w.

=Margolis, Max Leopold.= Holy Scriptures with commentary. Micah. 75c.
Jewish pub.

9–3898.

The first volume in a series of commentaries intended primarily for the teacher, the pupil and the general reader who need help to obtain an understanding of the Scriptures, at once reliable and Jewish.

* * * * *

“The translation is good and the comments good enough to make us wish for more.”

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 644. O. ’09. 130w.

“Professor Margolis’ name is a guarantee of the high quality of the scholarship at the basis of this volume. But his attitude toward the textual and the historical criticism is unexpectedly timid. The text of Micah needs much correction, but receives little. The unity of the book is here maintained, though surrendered by practically all recent commentators.”

+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 287. Ap. ’09. 150w.

=Mario, Jessie White.=^{[12]} Birth of modern Italy: posthumous papers
of Jessie W. Mario; ed., with introd., notes, and epilogue, by the
Duke Litta-Visconti-Arese. *$3.50. Scribner.

The memoirs of an Englishwoman who married an Italian patriot. They are full of the spirit of the Italian revolution, and amount, in reality, to a memoir of Mazzini. “Madame Mario follows the career of Italy’s arch-patriot from his birth to his death, and, as is natural in a woman of English birth, dwells especially upon the years of Mazzini’s exile in England.” (N. Y. Times.) The volume gives inside information from the view point of the revolutionary party of the events from 1830 to 1870.

* * * * *

“The latest book on this engrossing theme, by the late Signora Mario, is at once attractive yet unsatisfactory. Signora Mario’s prejudices are manifest in her book.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 356. S. 25. 1450w.

“Her last volume which has been admirably compiled by Duke Litta, is less autobiographical than those of us who knew Signora Mario would like to have it. To make her acquaintance through her books is to feel the very pulse of the cause to which she consecrated herself. Through her veins throbbed the great Emotion which has the lifeblood of the Italian Risorgimento.” W: R. Thayer.

+ =Nation.= 89: 564. D. 9, ’09. 2700w.

“If the course of the stream of events is lost among the shifting scenery and higgledy-piggledy incidents, the scenes and the incidents themselves are interesting and often vivid. This is especially the case with Madame Mario’s reminiscences.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 692. N. 6, ’09. 650w.

=Mariti, Giovanni.=^{[8]} Travels in the island of Cyprus; tr. from
the Italian by Claude D. Cobham; with contemporary accounts of the
sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta. *$1.25. Putnam.

“This second edition is increased and improved by translations of contemporary accounts of the final sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta, written respectively by Giovanni Pietro Contarini and Count Nestor Martinengo.”—Eng. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“Mariti was an industrious traveller, but not a very scientific or over-well-informed recorder. His geographical description is rather curious than valuable.” D. G. H.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 620. Jl. ’09. 200w.

“The narrative is minute and careful in its description, and evidences the mind of the trained observer and of a painstaking recorder.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 398. Je. 26, ’09. 270w.

=Marius, G. Hermine.=^{[12]} Dutch painting in the nineteenth century;
tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$3.75. Lippincott.

9–9583.

“Beginning with a brief review of the prosaic eighteenth century, so barren of art production in Holland, the author gives a most eloquent account of the great revival of painting in the nineteenth century, inaugurated by Israels and Jongkind and carried on by Mesdag, Mauve, the brothers Maris and others less celebrated. Due consideration is also given to the romanticists, of whom Ary Scheffer was the chief, and to the minor interpreters of genre and landscape subjects, but it is in the chapters on the great Hague school that the interest of the volume culminates.”—Int. Studio.

* * * * *

“The editing is careless and there is only one index, of artists’ names without dates, which restricts the book’s usefulness in reference work. This is the only book available in English on nineteenth century Dutch art as a whole.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 80. N. ’09. ✠

“That three good books on Dutch painting should appear simultaneously—each, it is to be feared, to the detriment of the other two—is a striking illustration of the keen competition in the literary market. Of these the best is perhaps the one from the pen of Hermine Marius, but it is unfortunately considerably spoiled by the inadequacy of the translation, which throughout retains a foreign ring.”

+ − =Int. Studio.= 37: 253. My. ’09. 160w.
=Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 40w.

=Markham, Christopher Alexander.=^{[10]} Pewter marks and old pewter
ware, domestic and ecclesiastical. *$7.50. Scribner.

W9–70.

“A mass of information which all collectors of old pewter will find of utmost value. While disclaiming any intention of going deeply into the history and other aspects of pewter work, which have been fully dealt with by other writers, he gives in the preliminary sections a brief historical survey of the craft, followed by descriptive accounts of domestic and ecclesiastical pewter, together with some useful notes on the manufacture, composition, cleaning and repairing of pewter.”—Int. Studio.

* * * * *

“Scholarly work.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 273. S. 4. 1200w.

“From the collector’s point of view, the value of the book centres in the concluding four sections occupying more than half the volume, for these contain important lists which should be of material service to him in making selections.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 162. Ag. ’09. 180w.

=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.=^{[8]} Life of Admiral Sir Leopold
McClintock, K. C. B. *15s. Murray, John, London.

“A worthy and affectionate record of the facts of Sir Leopold’s life” (Sat. R.) which follows him “from his starting to join the ‘Samarang’—with a bag of marbles and a bottle of apple-juice in his bag—till his retirement.” (Spec.) It is as the discoverer of the fate of Franklin and the creator of Arctic sledge-traveling that Sir Clements is chiefly known.

* * * * *

“Sir Clements makes just complaint of the many errors committed during the relief expeditions; but on one point his strictures are unjust. With this reservation, we think this book by far the best ever written on the Franklin search. The story groups itself naturally round the discoverer of the record; the style is lucid and vigorous; and the illustrations and maps are well chosen.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 410. Ap. 3. 1300w.

“He has done the work—and no other living man could have done it—with fine affection and with sailorlike modesty. The tribute to a great Englishman’s memory is worthy.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 564. My. 1, ’09. 500w.

“Admirable narrative.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 21. Jl. 3, ’09. 300w.

=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.=^{[7]} Story of Majorca and Minorca.
*7s. 6d. Smith, Elder, London.

A history of the past and present of the two islands, Majorca and Minorca, which will serve as a guide-book for the tourist, and an illuminating text for the student. The author “has set before us with simplicity and enthusiasm the deeds of the brave islanders, and of those whom war and politics have driven to their coasts. He writes always as one who remembers the beauty of the landscape and the manifold associations of church and castle.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Sir Clements Markham has delved into the records with results which he sets forth simply and unpretentiously. His volume will be useful to the many visitors to these romantic islands, and particularly to the student of Mediterranean history.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 730. Je. 5, ’09. 120w.

“The tale of these two islands, which have played their part upon the stage of history, was well worth telling, and it has been well told by Sir Clements Markham in an unpretentious little work. We wish the author had read his proofs with greater care, and preserved a better uniformity in the spelling of names.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 617. Ap. 17, ’09. 1300w.

=Marks, Jeannette Augustus.= English pastoral drama from the
restoration to the date of the publication of the “Lyrical ballads”
(1600–1798). *$1.50. Stechert.

9–2006.

Summarizes the history of the pastoral as a literary form, from the lost idylls of Stesichorus, B. C. 600, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus thru Virgil, Calpurnius and Baptista Mantuanus to Spenser and the acclimatization and naturalization of the pastoral drama in England.

* * * * *

“The one complaint to be urged against her volume is that it too often reads like jottings from a notebook.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 23. Ja. 2. 350w.

“The earlier and more general chapters are feeble and sophomoric. The latter part of the book ... has some value in so far as it gives brief notices of plays that very few even among professed students of the drama have read. The most valuable section of the book is the bibliography in the appendixes.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 562. Je. 18, ’08. 80w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 410. Jl. 25, ’08. 660w.

“A needful though not highly important work for students of English literature. Scholarly volume.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 863. Ag. 15, ’08. 130w.

“The book as a whole is too much like an annotated catalogue to make easy and agreeable reading, whilst it is not sufficiently complete to make a really useful catalogue.”

− =Sat. R.= 105: sup. 6. My. 2, ’08. 320w.

=Marks, Jeannette Augustus.= Through Welsh doorways. **$1.10.
Houghton.

9–7949.

Eleven excellent stories ranging from the humorous to the pathetic. One tells of an ambitious townsman who after thirty years of failure to win an election secures it finally by presenting the town with its first hearse. Then follows a period of rivalry between the Wynnes and the Joneses over the matter of the first funeral—each having a member at death’s door. One other story looks in upon a dying man who wishes above all else to hear the cuckoo note once more. Being “over early for the cuckoo” the aged wife patiently practices the note among the hills, returns to her garden and softly sings it, granting to Davie his dying wish.

* * * * *

“They have the charm of the new and remote and are well written.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09. + =Atlan.= 104: 687. N. ’09. 30w.

“Too quiet and sombre perhaps to exert a wide appeal, yet unmistakably the product of a rare and finished art.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 403. Je. ’09. 450w.

“This small volume is quite worth while.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 727. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.

“The author has done her work well. If you like quaint and sympathetic sketches of out of the way folk—if the ‘Bonny brier bush’ and its company please you, you should find these Welsh doorways worth looking into.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 10, ’09. 400w.

“The tone of the book is refined, tender, and eminently full of the grace of truth.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 120w.

=Marks, Jeannette Augustus, and Moody, Julia.=^{[6]} Little
busybodies: the life of crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other
busybodies. (Story-told science.) 75c. Harper.

9–10975.

Here is set down what five children learn on a journey in search of locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, dragon-flies, May-flies, leaf-hoppers, lace-wings, caddis-worms, butterflies, beetles, bees, wasps and numerous other six-legged creatures. Story interest is combined with the wonders of insect life.

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“Entertaining story. The children’s questions and remarks break up the instruction in a manner that may serve to hold the child’s interest, but that becomes annoying to the grown-up and suggests possible confusion.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 191. Je. ’09.

“Either as a treatise on certain insects or as a story book it is an insult to a normal child’s intelligence or imagination.”

− =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 70w.

“The whole assemblage of incidents and facts is well managed and falls naturally into the author’s purpose. The technical knowledge conveyed is accurately as well as pleasingly given. There is really nothing to criticise seriously, only here and there a questionable slip.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 124. Ag. 5, ’09. 370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 807. D. 18, ’09. 70w.

=Marks, Lionel Simeon, and Davis, Harvey Nathaniel.=^{[10]} Tables and
diagrams of the thermal properties of saturated and superheated
steam. *$1. Longmans.

9–17588.

Includes six tables as follows: “the first gives the properties of saturated steam for even Fahrenheit degrees, the second gives the same properties for even pounds, and the third gives the properties of superheated steam.... Tables 4, 5 and 6 will be found convenient in the solution of certain problems and several pages are devoted to an explanation of their use. The last 20 pages of the book are devoted to a discussion of the sources from which the matter for the tables was taken.”—Engin. Rec.

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=Engin. D.= 6: 155. Ag. ’09. 350w.

“The book is commendable in every respect, and it will prove an invaluable companion to those who have to make accurate computations in which the properties of steam are involved.” W: Kent.

+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 11. Ag. 12, ’09. 800w.

“A remarkably well arranged and complete utilization of the results of the latest investigations on the properties of steam.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 250. Ag. 28, ’09. 270w.

=Marquand, Allan.=^{[7]} Greek architecture. (Handbooks of archaeology
and antiquities.) *$2.25. Macmillan.

9–8999.

A handbook with full bibliography, 400 illustrations, list of abbreviations and index. The subjects treated are as follows: Materials and technique; Forms; Proportions; Decoration; Composition and style; Monuments.

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“A scholarly treatment by an authority and a valuable addition to the literature of archaeology.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 174. Je. ’09.

“The book will, however, be very useful to students, who will not easily find elsewhere so much information about Greek architecture in so small a compass.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 245. Ag. 28. 370w.

“One who already knows the styles and the general history of Greek architecture will find the work valuable, interesting, instructive, and suggestive. It would seem to be primarily intended for such a student, and not for a beginner.” W: C. Poland.

+ − =Class. J.= 5: 94. D. ’09. 750w.

“The illustrations are unusually good.”

+ =Educ. R.= 38: 314. O. ’09. 20w.

“The long needed book on Greek architecture is now before us. First principles, which some might slightingly regard, are now thoroly dealt with.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1247. Je. 3, ’09. 500w.

“The power of condensation and lucid arrangement could not be shown in a more striking degree than this work presents. Professor Marquand has done his work so clearly, so well, and so completely that the student receives from his book quite enough to serve as a clue of Ariadne in finding his way through the labyrinth.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1074. Je. 19, ’09. 400w.

“Altogether the book, composed of clear, concise, straightforward statements even on such points as still remain open to dispute, contains much valuable information and is singularly free from theoretical opinion.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 430w.

“Professor Marquand’s book is a disappointment. It is unpedantic, detailed, long and very dull. It takes up practically the same matters twice or thrice and says nothing that the reader can remember afterwards.”

− =No. Am.= 190: 259. Ag. ’09. 200w.

“Heavy to the hand and heavy in style. It is not a book of general discussion, but of reference, valuable to the archæologist, the architect, and the student of history.” E. F. Baldwin.

+ − =Outlook.= 93: 597. N. 13, ’09. 150w.

“One looks in vain for anything but the severest succession of well-authenticated facts set down like carefully arranged paving stones of equal size and equal importance. The effect is depressing.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 264. Ag. 28, ’09. 270w.

“Professor Marquand has marshalled his facts, diagrams, and photographs admirably, and the mass of information is put clearly and accessibly before the reader.”

+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 924. D. 4, ’09. 110w.

=Marriott, Charles.= Kiss of Helen. †$1.50. Lane.

“The story told in this novel is a love story in which none of the elements of lovemaking commonly so-called enter. It is the essence, the inward flame we are given, the first, fresh, utterly new meeting of man with absolute woman. Woman only possible now, after ages of fragmentary sketches. It is a story, moreover, in which the personal equation of each reader will affect his interpretation. Joan will mean to him, in the last analysis, what woman means to him when he forgets women.”—N. Y. Times.

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“Though the novel has no ethical label, it leaves an impression of a good word said on behalf of the innocence which disregards conventional morality.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 180w.

“Inordinately clever novel. A shining feature of the book is the exceeding freshness and lustre of the conversations. In them, as in narration and in comment, banality has no tiniest part.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 337. Ap. 1, ’09. 550w.

“In breadth of outlook, in a deeper comprehension of modern life and the elements which are now in process of evolution, it is an immense advance upon ‘The column.’ It is a book singularly worth while.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 29. Ja. 16, ’09. 850w.

“The ordinary reader will feel merely provoked by the whimsical perversion of sentiments, which have on the whole a moral foundation, here set forth. It is a pity that Mr. Marriott should not have a more worthy gospel to preach.”

− =Spec.= 100: 754. My. 9, ’08. 180w.

=Marriott, Charles.= Spanish holiday. *$2.50. Lane.

W9–179.

“The account of an unconventional sort of trip taken by the author and his friend ‘James’ thru out-of-the-way corners and through cities and towns in Spain. James has an energetic disposition, and a most efficient faculty for making things happen, as well as a picturesque resourcefulness in getting both into and out of unusual and interesting situations, while the author has a sense of humor, a gift for quaint, amusing or pleasing statement and the knack of effective narration.”—N. Y. Times.

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“Written with no serious intent and suited to the reader who desires impressions rather than information.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 45. O. ’09. ✠ + − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 405. Ap. 3. 130w.

“The author has a pleasant discursive style, and his comments upon the things he saw, the places he visited and the people he met are often amusing and almost invariably interesting.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 163. Ag. ’09. 150w.

“While Mr. Marriott’s volume is not one of great permanent value, it is both intelligent and interesting, and will well repay reading.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 574. D. 10, ’08. 340w.

“James made their journey a very joyous one and the author makes it possible for the reader to get almost as much fun out of it as they did.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 200w.

“Mr. Charles Marriott is the usual man in a hurry who takes his holiday in Spain or anywhere else and produces a book illustrated with well-known photographs of the postcard type and some sketches in monochrome of more or less merit.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 140w.

=Marriott, Charles.=^{[11]} When a woman woos. †$1.50. Lane.

“The book is, on the whole, a study of the relations of men and women in the particular institution of marriage. It is an attempt to define what a real marriage is, and it shows very decidedly what it is not.” (N. Y. Times.) “The interesting part of his new book, however, is not the question whether the heroine does or does not marry the hero, but the study of the heroine’s mother, Mrs. Tregarthan. With almost morbid fidelity Mr. Marriott pictures for his readers the terrible consequences to a middle-class household of even a slight tendency to drink on the part of the mother of the family.” (Spec.)

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“There is an amorphousness about ‘When a woman woos’ which might have been averted with a little care. Also, we note a provinciality of tone to which we have referred before. On the other hand. Mr. Marriott has always sympathy and atmosphere and sincerity.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 525. My. 1. 140w.

“The book is worth reading more than once.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 687. N. 6, ’09. 950w.

“In its fidelity, its insight into the intricate workings of a woman’s mind the book is an amazing achievement. The novel is a fine instance of true realism as opposed to the stuff, alternately foul and glaring, which often passes under the name. ‘When a woman woos’ is in many ways the best thing Mr. Marriott has done.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 633. My. 15, ’09. 350w.

“The whole description of the life which may go on in out-of-the-way places under the calm surfaces of middle class existence is horrifying in its realism.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 823. My. 22, ’09. 190w.

=Marsh, Richard.=^{[7]} Interrupted kiss. $1.50. Cassell.

A thrilling mystery tale in which “a wealthy usurer is murdered by a burglar, and a number of perfectly innocent persons, including even the heroine, are each made to believe that they struck the fatal blow. The circumstances that create this confusion are neatly devised, and the narrative moves swiftly along to the closing scene, where, in accordance with tradition, all the figures in the story appear unexpectedly in a body.” (Ath.)

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“A story of this description is to be enjoyed all the more because the author makes it clear that he is not wholly unconscious of its absurdity. Mr. Marsh, unlike many writers of melodramatic fiction, has a sense of humour.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 220. F. 20. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.

=Marshall, Edward.=^{[12]} Writing on the wall. †$1.50. Dillingham.

A novel founded on Olga Nethersole’s play written by William J. Hurlburt. It portrays relentlessly the terrible state of things existing in a tenement house district of New York. A tenement-house landlord and a young man devoting his life to tenement-house reform are rivals for the hand of a New York society girl. The former wins her and then follows a revelation of her husband’s irresponsibility and greed coupled with infidelity to her. The tangled threads are finally untwisted thru a tragic fire in one of the tenements in which the little son is killed.

=Marshall, H. E.= Story of Napoleon. (Childrens’ heroes ser.) 50c.
Dutton. W8–156.

A story of Napoleon told for children.

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“A particularly interesting account of Napoleon the soldier.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 31. Ja. ’09. ✠

“The story is well and fairly told, but we must own that to a child asking whether Napoleon was a ‘true hero’ we should have made a more decisive answer than Mrs. Marshall gives.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 909. Je. 6, ’08. 80w.

=Marshall, Henry Rutgers.=^{[11]} Consciousness. *$4. Macmillan.

A serious and scholarly discussion in a systematic form of the psychological doctrines which have formed the basis of the author’s previous writings. Book 1, Of consciousness in general, treats of the general nature of human consciousness and of other than human forms of consciousness; Book 2, The general nature of human presentations, is an analytic study of the general qualities common to all presentations;