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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 799. Jl. ’09. 620w.

“A very scholarly study of administration.” R. V. Phelan.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 27. Ap. ’09. 1200w.
=Ind.= 66: 1298. Je. 10, ’09. 280w.

“Quite apart from her main purpose of showing the operation of the system set up to enforce the statute of laborers she has accomplished an exceedingly useful result in calling attention to sources misplaced or unknown and of orienting the entire mass of material necessary for a further investigation of the subject.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 520. N. 26, ’08. 450w.
=Spec.= 103: sup. 715. N. 6, ’09. 120w.

=Putnam, George Rockwell.= Nautical charts. $2. Wiley.

8–28865.

A series of lectures delivered at Columbia university. Includes an account of nautical surveying and chart-making, historical notes, and explanation of the use of charts. “The book is written in non-technical language to as great an extent as is feasible. The general reader will find it clear and concise.” (Science.)

* * * * *

“Bears the characteristics of a semi-popular work. But it is clear and instructive as far as it goes, and the fact that it leaves the wish that the author had taken time to go more into detail may be due to his success in engaging the reader’s interest. That the book deserved to be written is further grounded in the fact that there exists no general writing on nautical charts.”

+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 31. Mr. 18, ’09. 200w.

“Unnecessary alike to the hydrographer and the sailor, this little book may yet prove attractive to the curious in maritime matters.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 659. D. 31, ’08. 120w.

“A valuable addition to books dealing with hydrographical surveying.” H. C. Lockyer.

+ =Nature.= 79: 365. Ja. 28, ’09. 100w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 352. Je. 5, ’09. 250w.

“For mariners, yachtsmen, surveyors and shippers it is of special interest. The expert in the lines treated will find it valuable in furnishing a good general view of the subject by any expert. The book is up to date, is written in an interesting manner, and yet is especially to be commended for laying emphasis upon matters which are really important to the users of charts, rather than the matters which are merely interesting.” J. F. H.

+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 766. N. 27, ’08. 860w.

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=Querido, Israel.=^{[11]} Toil of men. **$1.35. Putnam.

The wretched, sordid life of some Holland slaves of toil is portrayed in this story. Whether it be the sodden, passion-seized man or woman, or the creature whom grim toil has plunged into stupor, the author reproduces the type with marvelous realism. There is no progress, no development in the story; it ends where it began. It is a cross section of actual life, among the very animals of human society, sharply scrutinized and clearly analyzed. It contains a description of a thief’s passion for stealing that has no parallel. The book suggests Zola and Gorky.

* * * * *

“Able translation. In striking contrast with the deplorable human element is the beauty of the setting.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 493. O. 23. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 40w.

“Much that must seem coarse appears in the tale. It is grim, but never uninteresting, and some of the descriptions of nature in varying moods are beautifully written.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 380w.

=Quick, Herbert.=^{[12]} American inland waterways. **$3.50. Putnam.

9–31048.

“The present work is not only a description of places, but a work on commerce and transportation. Among the eighty fine illustrations most represent harbors, docks, levees, and elevators. The writer, in fact, may be said to hold a brief for the waterways as means of transportation, as against, or rather supplementary to, the railways. He suggests a plan for a system of water communication coextensive with the continent and he states, with many arguments in support of his thesis, the country’s ‘bitter need for better transportation facilities’ as likely best to be met by ‘a more complete use of our inland waterways as a complementary system of free highways to carry the tonnage which in good times the railways can not bear.’”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

=Lit. D.= 39: 1080. D. 11, ’09. 210w.

“Mr. Quick’s text is of the sort which stirs the blood of Americans with either imagination or patriotism, and makes a hardly less convincing appeal to that class—neither small nor uninfluential—which is moved most by thrills of the pocket nerve.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 763. D. 4, ’09. 770w.

=Quick, Herbert.=^{[10]} Virginia of the air lanes. †$1.50. Bobbs.

9–26671.

Miss Virginia Suarez, cruising above the Gulf of Mexico in her uncle’s aërostat, the Roc, steps into a helicopter while its inventor is explaining the mechanism. Unintentionally she touches the wrong lever, the intricate machinery is started in motion, the helicopter rises from the deck, and before the startled bystanders can prevent, the little car with its one occupant shoots off into space. So this exciting tale of adventure in mid air begins. Succeeding chapters tell of Virginia’s rescue by Theodore Carson, of the perfection of his own invention, the aëronef, of his fight with the girl’s uncle for the monopoly of the skies, and of the final happiness of the young people. The time of the story is, naturally, some few years hence.

* * * * *

“The author enables you to interpolate several bright, irresponsible hours into the drab calendar of your days.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 719. N. 20, ’09. 500w.

=Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas.=^{[9]} True Tilda. †$1.50. Scribner.

9–35790.

A youthful heroine with nine years to her credit pursues her shrewd, energetic way thru the pages of this story. Tilda is a circus girl and when the story opens is lying in a hospital ward impatiently biding the healing of a bruised thigh-bone. With true sleuth cleverness she pieces together the incoherent sentences murmured by a dying woman near her, takes advantage of a half hour granted for an airing and slips away, steals a wronged child from a prison orphanage, and with the aid of coal-stokers, show-people, bargemen, a “Pooh-bah” of the wharf, and a determined lady bountiful conducts the child to his home and brings justice upon the head of a depraved orphanage superintendent.

* * * * *

“A story with much originality, an abundance of strong human interest, and full of the charm of the unexpected and unusual.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 54. O. ’09. ✠

“The touch of the poet is felt throughout the book, and the description of some of the waterways over which the children travel would alone make it worth reading.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 357. S. 25. 220w.

“Although a book about children, it is distinctly designed for their elders to read, and is one of the happiest of the author’s whimsical inventions. So much humor, entertaining adventure, and unconventional life is not often packed within a single pair of covers.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 237. O. 1, ’09. 250w.

“Is not at his best in ‘True Tilda.’”

− =Ind.= 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 160w.

“The plot is simply all that it needs to be. The unlucky thing is the sketchiness and inclusiveness of the persons. ‘Q’-land is peopled with creatures of paper and ink as well as of flesh and blood; a large number, more particularly, of figures bearing the mark of ‘Boz.’ It is not so much that ‘Q,’ like De Morgan, thinks in terms of the middle-Victorian novelist, as that his brain seems to be persistently haunted by the spooks of Gadshill.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 329. O. 7, ’09. 450w.

“There is something of a treat in store, so long as [the readers] will only leave the thing they call their critical sense behind them.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 386. S. 25, ’09. 1000w.

“A very delightful and genial book and the best tribute that we can pay to its many merits is to say that it suffers from its brevity.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 650. O. 23, ’09. 1250w.

=Quinn, Daniel.= Helladian vistas. $1.50. Daniel Quinn, Yellow
Springs, O.

8–30697.

“In effect this is rather a book of travel, a sort of personally-conducted tour. We are taken to the Acropolis of Athens, to an Athenian cemetery, to the regions about Mycenae, and to the vale of Tempe. We are also shown the Olympic games, and, so far as may be, the mystic rites of Elevsis are unfolded to us. But it is to those places to which our classical studies less often lead us that our author oftenest conducts us—to ‘The land of the Klephts,’ to ‘Mega Spelaeon or the Monastery of the great cave,’ to ‘The Phaeaks’ island,’ to Zakynthos (‘The flower of the East’), and to other localities, among which Arkadia and Mesolonghion are not to be forgotten. History, ancient, medieval and modern, mingles with the description of natural scenery and characterizations of the people.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“The ‘tone’ is a delightful one and even those who are not classical students will find the book full of interest.”

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 375. Ja. ’09. 250w.

“Is very entertaining reading.”

+ =Cath. World.= 88: 693. F. ’09. 130w.

“Neither grace nor fashion in the narrative ... neither thoroughness nor learning. A due regard for the quick and the dead should have allowed these brief and breathless essays to remain in the holy sleep of the magazines where they first appeared.” J. G. Winter.

− =Class. J.= 4: 336. My. ’09. 130w.

“Some of the essays are very readable.” F. B. R. Hellems.

+ =Class. Philol.= 4: 335. Jl. ’09. 130w.

“We may prophesy that when this book once gets into circulation it will receive high praise.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 868. Ap. 22, ’09. 460w.

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=Radau, Hugo=, ed. and tr. Letters to Cassite kings from the Temple
archives of Nippur. (Babylonian expedition of the Univ. of
Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform texts, v. 17, pt. 1.) $6. Dept. of
archaeology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phil.

8–33646.

“Contains 103 letters—mostly fragmentary—of the Cassite period (about 1750 to 1210 B. C.), dealing with the business and other official affairs of the chief temple at Nippur. This collection forms a supplement to the two volumes, also on the business affairs of the Nippur temple during the Cassite period, which have been so admirably published by Professor Clay of the University of Pennsylvania.” (Nation.) “Dr. Radau has added an unusually full introduction of over 150 large pages, which gives evidence of careful study of the texts. There is a full index of names of persons, professional and gentilic, places, houses, gates, temples, rivers, canals and gods.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Dr. Radau is a young and capable scholar, and this volume is of great value for its texts and translations, and considerable of its discussions. What we criticise are matters of judgment and in part of courtesy.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 636. Mr. 25, ’09. 800w.

“Altogether the introduction, though giving evidence of much study and showing the ingenuity and learning of the author, is marked by hazardous hypotheses that will not endure a critical test; and it would have been far better if Dr. Radau had confined himself to a summary of the actual data to be gleaned from these letters.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 338. Ap. 1, ’09. 800w.

=Raffety, Charles W.=^{[8]} Introduction to the science of
radio-activity. *$1.25. Longmans.

9–35781.

“A concise and popular account of the properties of the radio-active elements and the theoretical conceptions which are introduced by the study of radio-active phenomena.” “The book is divided into three parts: a descriptive part of eight chapters, a theoretical part of eight chapters, and a practical part of five chapters. An appendix contains a summary of the several rays and radio-active elements. The index is very good.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“A clear and logical account. Not exhaustive but useful as an elementary reference work.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 21. S. ’09.

“The arrangement is such as to introduce unnecessary obscurity into the subject. We note several inaccuracies and misstatements.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 72. Jl. 17. 670w.

“Is so written that lay readers will find little or no difficulty in its study.”

+ =Engin. D.= 6: 56. Jl. ’09. 130w.

“The book forms an excellent introduction to the subject; yet, one cannot but feel the needlessness of a book of the scope of this one, when we have Makower’s ‘The radioactive substances,’ Bottone’s ‘Radium,’ and Levy and Willis’ ‘Radium.’ The value of even a popular treatise could be enhanced by the addition of references to the literature.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 62. My. 13, ’09. 130w.

“The book can be heartily recommended to mathematical, as well as non-mathematical, readers who desire an acquaintance with the subject of radio-activity.”

+ =Nature.= 81: 485. O. 21, ’09. 330w.

=Ragg, Rev. Lonsdale.=^{[10]} Church of the apostles; being an outline
of the history of the church of the apostolic age. *$1.40.
Macmillan.

“An attractive and discriminating sketch of the spread of Christianity in the first century. Mr. Ragg has not confined himself to canonical sources, but has included in his survey the whole field of the earliest Christian literature and other contemporary materials.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“His study of the primitive church shows him to be a well-read and discriminating scholar with a strong literary sense. The indices are full and useful. On some critical matters Mr. Ragg’s positions do not altogether satisfy.” E. J. Goodspeed.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 617. O. ’09. 300w.

“The positions taken are generally intelligent though not always critical. There is a curious disagreement between pp. 7 and 284.”

+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 288. O. ’09. 70w.

“It is not his knowledge or his style that we feel bound to criticise; it is his point of view and the way in which he has approached his work.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 574. N. 6, ’09. 230w.

“It is a careful piece of work, which may be read with pleasure and profit. We cannot always accept Mr. Ragg’s explanations.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 387. S. 11, ’09. 280w.

=Railway signal association.= Railroad signal dictionary; comp. by
Braman B. Adams and Rodney Hitt under the supervision of the
following committee: C. C. Anthony, Azel Ames, jr., J. C. Mock. $6.
Railroad age gazette.

8–23071.

An illustrated vocabulary of terms which designate American railroad signals: their parts, attachments and details of construction, with descriptions of operations and some illustrations of British signals and practice.

* * * * *

“Altogether the authors have accomplished a very difficult and ungrateful task in highly commendable manner. If it should reach a second edition, as is to be hoped, there will be opportunity for simplification and shortening, and for covering also European practice.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 32. Mr. 18, ’09. 650w.

“Really the first complete textbook on modern signal apparatus. Because of its completeness and the care which has been taken to make all of the descriptions clear and simple in wording, the book is of value alike to the trained signal engineer, the operating officer who knows the functions of signals but not the details of their operation, and the student who is ignorant of first principles.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 279. S. 5, ’08. 320w.

=Raine, William MacLeod.=^{[6]} Ridgway of Montana. †$1.50.
Dillingham.

9–11151.

A story in which a loveless engagement is terminated for the hero when he falls in love with the girl-wife of his septuagenarian business rival and for his fiancée when she realizes her insincerity in permitting masterful force whetted by predatory greed to substitute for ideal manly requirements. A rough struggle for mining rights and a fight for life in a mountain snow storm and avalanche, emphasize the western quality of the story.

* * * * *

“A brisk, melodramatic story of big things and big men. The story is well told.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 344. My. 29, ’09. 170w.

=Rainsford, Rev. William Stephen.=^{[12]} Land of the lion. **$3.80.
Doubleday.

9–29437.

“Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford, the well-known former rector of St. George’s, in New York, recently spent thirteen months in East Africa, hunting big game, and his book describes in detail, and with many pictures from photographs, the things he did and saw and heard about in that huntsman’s paradise. Keen on the scent for game though Dr. Rainsford is, it is not the mere butchery that engrosses him. Among the divers excursory speculations and reflections that the book contains is a little homily on the degeneration of the rhinoceros under the too-easy conditions of his modern life.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“The literature of African hunting, already abundant, is increasing in these days; but a more variously interesting book for the stay-at-home general reader than Dr. Rainsford’s will not soon make its appearance.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 516. D. 16, ’09. 200w.

“This admirable narration is written with candor, simplicity, and an absence of rhetorical effort. The hunting-incidents are graphic and convincing from their very boldness in description.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1080. D. 11, ’09. 110w.

“He tells hunting stories that are vivid and thrilling, describes picturesquely the varied country through which he traveled.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 788. D. 4, ’09. 240w.

“Rather unusual illustrations from photographs by the author complete the volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 758. D. ’09. 100w.

=Rambuteau, Claude Philibert, comte de.= Memoirs of the Comte de
Rambuteau; ed. by his grandson; tr. from the French by J. C. Brogan;
with an introd. and notes by Georges Lequin. *$3.50. Putnam.

9–5497.

“A record of the experiences of the Chamberlain of Napoleon I. This admirable master of ceremonies saw the Emperor in his familiar and every-day relations, and gives in this volume an animated account of the way the court entertained officially and publicly, as well as the way it informally amused itself.” (R. of Rs.) “If he does not show us a Napoleon ‘intime,’ he at least gives us glimpses of the warrior at leisure, and of the ways in which he spent it.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“In spite of some imperfections the translation reads smoothly, and must have entailed a great deal of labour.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 129. Ja. 30. 800w.

“In the later pages of the ‘Memoirs’ is a detailed analysis of the improvements which Rambuteau introduced in Paris as prefect. To students of Parisian history this will be particularly interesting.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 230. Ap. 1, ’09. 380w. + =Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 70w.

“The translation is edited with the usual care of American and English publishers and has a sufficient index. Few mistakes can be charged to the translator.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 64. Ja. 21, ’09. 520w.

“While the Comte de Rambuteau is not primarily a raconteur and has little of the French volatility, the light and intimate touch which constitutes the usual charm of memoirs, he has a keen sense of values and knows how to analyze a character or an epoch, so that his reminiscences, as dictated in old age to his grandson, are full of material for the historian.” J. B. Rittenhouse.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 784. D. 19, ’08. 1600w.

“Chiefly valuable in the incidental light thrown upon the Emperor.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 382. F. 20, ’09. 70w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 128. Ja. ’09. 80w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 144. Ja. 30, ’09. 950w.

“Unhappily the light which they throw on Napoleon’s life and character is neither very new nor very penetrating.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 1101. D. 26, ’08. 280w.

=Ramsay, Rina.= The straw. $1.50. Macmillan.

9–5527.

“Called ‘The straw’ in reference to a gentle girl, weak of will, who allows herself to be sacrificed to a vicious brute, thereby in the end bringing about a murder tragedy, the mystery of which is solved only by the very last words of the book.” (Outlook.) “As a brisk, graphic, panoramic picture of English country life of to-day among the gay and reckless hunting set, with the tingling excitement of breathless, break-neck dashes after the hounds, disastrous tumbles and broken limbs, the book certainly achieves what the author meant it to.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

“Although this novel may be read appreciatively as a Leicestershire hunting and racing romance, it is more interesting and imaginative than such a description would imply.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 284. Mr. 6. 100w.

“A book which just misses deserving a place in the class of stories that we mentally catalogue as ‘worth while.’ Its weakness lies in the plot construction.” F: T. Cooper.

− + =Bookm.= 29: 77. Mr. ’09. 480w.

“Is the best riding romance that has appeared lately, if indeed there ever was another like it. The book abounds in that peculiarly flagrant wit of society people who have no reputations worth preserving.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 1083. My. 20, ’09. 280w.

“The zest of the book lies in the crisp, racy style, and in the fact that one is kept most of the time in the saddle, galloping furiously after the hounds.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 418. Ap. 22, ’09. 230w.

“A very fair rainy night’s entertainment, indeed. The persons in the drama are by no means stock figures, and the drama itself is made of good material rather skillfully and effectively developed.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 310w.

“Miss Ramsay’s story provides a singularly fresh and pleasing entertainment for those of us who are jaded with much reading of fiction.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.

“The story has action, color, and out-of-doors atmosphere, and will attract a large class of readers.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 534. Mr. 6, ’09. 120w.

=Ramsay, Sir William.=^{[5]} Essays, biographical and chemical.
*$2.50. Dutton.

9–10278.

Fourteen essays as follows: Historical essays: The early days of chemistry; The great London chemists: 1, Boyle and Cavendish; 2, Davy and Graham; Joseph Black: his life and work; Lord Kelvin; Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot; Chemical essays: How discoveries are made; The Becquerel rays; What is an element? On the periodic arrangement of the elements; Radium and its products; What is electricity? The aurora borealis.

* * * * *

“On account of their lucid and delightful style the essays make excellent reading aside from the valuable information which they convey.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 48. O. ’09. + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 158. Ag. 7. 130w. + =Ind.= 67: 367. Ag. 12, ’09. 250w.

Reviewed by C. Simmonds.

+ =Nature.= 81: 122. Jl. 29, ’09. 970w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 306. My. 15, ’09. 750w.

“We hope the book, which is pleasantly written, and calls for no technical knowledge in the reader, may have a wide circulation, for the indifference of our politicians and public officers to science is one of the most dangerous features in the state.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 82. Ja. 16, ’09. 320w.

“The most attractive essay of the whole is ‘Lord Kelvin.’”

+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 640. Ap. 24, ’09. 500w.

=Ramsay, Sir William Mitchell.= Luke the physician and other studies
in the history of religion. *$3. Armstrong.

9–13276.

“This bulky volume bears the simple title ‘Luke the physician’ on its back, but only the first hundred pages are directly concerned with that evangelist and with Harnack’s vindication of his authorship both of the Acts and of the third Gospel; the remaining three-fourths of the book consists of reviews, lectures, and magazine articles on subjects connected with Asia Minor, the New Testament, and early Church history.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 588. N. 13. 750w.

“They form a rather miscellaneous collection, those dealing with Lycaonia in the fourth century probably carrying most weight. The illustrations are admirable.”

+ =Bib. World.= 33: 288. Ap. ’09. 80w.

“The bias of Professor Ramsay’s estimate of Luke, however, does not detract from the great value of his careful descriptions of the physical conditions of Asia Minor and their influence on its political and religious history, nor from the indebtedness under which all students are placed by his study of the monuments and inscriptions of that interesting meeting-place of East and West.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 196. F. 25, ’09. 420w.

“He is a little too fond of throwing stones at ‘prejudice,’ and needs occasionally to look to his own windows.” E. S. D.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 271. My. 1, ’09. 240w. + − =Sat. R.= 107: 250. F. 27, ’09. 400w.

“Whatever Sir William Ramsay writes has a deep interest and a real fascination, even though his theories seem at times to be a little fantastic or extreme. His attitude towards modern criticism of the Bible is, as his readers know, strongly reactionary.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 132. Ja. 23, ’09. 1000w.

=Rankin, George A.=^{[10]} American transportation system: a criticism
of the past and the present, and a plan for the future. *$1.50.
Putnam.

9–28107.

The author probes to the disease of the American railway system, shows what attempts have been made to eradicate it, and then offers remedial suggestions that have grown out of careful investigation of the system as it is operated. For the wrongs of accident, waste, dishonesty, inefficiency, and corrupt influence upon American life, the author maps out a constructive policy that will lessen accidents, serve all classes impartially, require a fair return to capital invested, provide sound and stable securities and at all times be free from politics.

* * * * *

=R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 100w.

=Rankin, (James) Reginald (Lea).= In Morocco with General d’Amade.
*$2.50. Longmans.

8–34793.

A newspaper correspondent’s account of the operations of the French army in Chaóuiya during the early part of 1908. “For the military student who will do a little sifting for himself, there is valuable first-hand information. The author has nothing but praise for the French soldier in action. Campaigning in a wild country like Morocco provides temptation for the soldier, and especially, one may suppose, for the Latin soldier of excitable temperament. Major Rankin, writing from close observation, gives the lie direct to those hostile critics who have made accusations of cruelty or barbarity against the French troops.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Besides detailed accounts of the campaign, in which the author is loyal to the French, there is valuable information about the country, its inhabitants, resources and future.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 108. Ap. ’09.

“It is a sufficiently good book to make one resent its not being much better, so far as craftsmanship goes. Its value is considerable; but its right appreciation makes too great a demand upon the reader’s patience.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 12. Ja. 2. 270w.

“On the whole, a readable and useful volume.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 171. F. 18, ’09. 650w.

“A very clear and comprehensive account.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 38. Ja. 23, ’09. 800w.

“The book gives a good idea of the campaign and the lives of the people affected by the fighting.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 6. N. 21, ’08. 220w.

“The attractive attributes of ‘A Subaltern’s letters to his wife’ reappear in this,—the literary efficiency, the botanical knowledge which makes us see the colour and smell the scents of the ground over which we follow him, and the ability to read history in language, architecture, and human faces.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 999. D. 12, ’08. 1850w.

=Rasmussen, Knud.= People of the Polar north; compiled from the Danish
originals and ed. by G. Herring. *$5. Lippincott.

8–36704.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“The book is not only a valuable contribution to the study of primitive folklore, but is at the same time highly interesting as a portrayal of Polar life. The entire book is fascinating reading.” W. S. Tower.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 211. Jl. ’09. 400w.

“While pointing out slight errors, we gladly acknowledge that Mr. Herring has capably discharged a difficult editorial task. He has had to choose his material, without help from the author, from two separate books—a collection of the northern folk-lore and a narrative of travel; and we wish that he could have kept these two subjects more completely apart. It is a pity that so large a volume is not furnished with an index, as the table of contents is far from complete.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 18. Ja. 2. 1050w.

“This work deals in a very thorough fashion with the psychology and culture of the three distinct branches of the Eskimos which make up the population of Greenland.”

+ =Nature.= 79: 311. Ja. 14, ’09. 1100w.

“The artist of the expedition has a gift of portraiture, and succeeds in showing the individuality and humanity of the native people in a way which makes the illustrations very sympathetic interpreters of the text.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 433. Ap. 3, ’09. 570w.

“He is a careful and scientific inquirer, but he is also alive to the romance of this ultimate people, and he has a gift of vivid and memorable description.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 134. Ja. 23, ’09. 1500w.

=Rastall, Benjamin McKie.=^{[6]} Labor history of the Cripple Creek
district. (Bulletin of the Univ. of Wis., no. 198. Economics and
political science ser. v. 3, no. 1.) 50c. Univ. of Wis.

8–14740.

“This is an accurate, scholarly account of the two spectacular conflicts between capital and labor that have occurred in an extremely rich mining district located in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, nine thousand or more feet above sea level. The monograph divides itself into two parts. The first, comprising four chapters, deals with the strike of 1893; the second, covering six chapters, describes the important struggle of 1903–1904.”—Econ. Bull.

* * * * *

“The volume, however, lacks scholarly finish and smacks too greatly of the easy flowing, and at times careless, newspaper style of composition so frequently found in popular accounts of such matters.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 628. N. ’08. 90w.

“As a careful narrative of an industrial war, stubbornly and bitterly fought on both sides, and as a stirring chapter in the history of the American labor movement, this monograph will be of interest to all students of industrial conditions.” W: Kirk.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 212. S. ’08. 880w.

“The author exhibits throughout, however, such fairness and good judgment in weighing contradictory testimony as to give entire confidence in the accuracy of his narrative. He may justly be said to have put upon record a definitive account of the two disturbances. The main point of interest in any account of the miners’ strikes of the West is the explanation of the violence and terrorism by which they have been almost uniformly characterized. Unfortunately Dr. Rastall has considered this aspect of his subject less fully than would have been desirable.” G: E. Barnett.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 379. Je. ’09. 320w.

=Rawlings, Gertrude Burford.=^{[5]} Coins and how to know them.
*$1.50. Stokes.

9–2023.

A book “for collectors and others newly taking up the study” which supplies a demand for a general and comprehensive introduction to the science of numismatics. It offers “concise epitomes of the coinages of ancient Greece and Rome, of the British Islands and their dependencies, and of the United States.”

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 109. Ap. ’09.

“To those who wish to obtain a general knowledge of the various classes of numismatics, we can recommend a perusal of this work. Though the subject has been treated somewhat tersely, the information throughout is accurate. It is singularly free from those misstatements which often detract from the value of handbooks of this description.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 220. Ag. 21. 700w.

“The arrangement undoubtedly corresponds more closely to the chronological sequence; but it is somewhat disturbing not to have the same order as that adopted in the standard books and museum collections, because this handbook is in no wise independent of them.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 263. S. 16, ’09. 250w.
=Spec.= 101: sup. 811. N. 21, ’08. 530w.

=Rawnsley, Rev. Hardwicke Drummond.=^{[8]} Round the lake country.
*$1.50. Macmillan.

“The places and sights of which Canon Rawnsley writes in his latest volume ... lie for the most part upon the extremities of the lake district, on the coast of Lancashire north of the sands. Of the lily-woods of Arnside and the seabirds’ nesting-place near Muncaster he writes with genuine enthusiasm, as of Gowbarrow and Aira Force, in the business of securing which for the public under the direction of the National trust he took a large and praiseworthy part.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“There are few people who, however well they know the lake country, will not know more after reading these essays.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 520w.

“Though of less value, no doubt, than his ‘Literary associations of the English lakes,’ this book should be pleasant reading for leisurely folk who like to go on imaginary journeys, maps in hand.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 489. N. 18, ’09. 320w.

“Is little more than ornamental reporting. The book is put together with so little care that not only do repetitions of matter scarcely varied in form occur, but paragraphs are copied and even a whole chapter bodily lifted from an earlier work of the author’s, which is advertised in this volume.”

− =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 6. Jl. 17, ’09. 200w.

“All through we have delightful descriptions, written with the enthusiasm of a true lover of the country, of lake country landscapes, whether foregrounds or distances.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 982. Je. 19, ’09. 280w.

=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Bridge builders. †$1.50. Little.

9–3333.

Against her favorite Quebec background Miss Ray writes a story in which mingle romance and the building of the ill-fated Quebec bridge. The sprightly young heroine, Jessica West, is the daughter of a new-rich Arizona miner, and is dubbed Miss Woolly-West by a group of conservative English people who “look upon her as a species of natural curiosity, as exotic as a mastodon.” Her friendships, romances, and social triumphs are entertainingly recounted.

* * * * *

“Will interest girls of high school age.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 92. Mr. ’09. ✠

“An interesting group, even if a little conventional, with no great moral or religious struggles, but with active life lit by beams of humor.”

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 822. S. ’09. 230w.

“The style is admirable, the product of good taste and a cultivated mind, and the book is written from intimate knowledge of the scenes and social conditions which it portrays. It is the sort of book that may be read with much quiet satisfaction.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 183. S. 16, ’09. 210w.

“Miss Ray has unusual insight into human nature, and among American novelists her skill in the depiction of character is notable. And in this respect she has done in this book the strongest and most interesting work that has come from her pen.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 302. My. 15, ’09. 200w.

=Ray, Anna Chapin.=^{[10]} Janet at odds. †$1.50. Little.

9–25391.

In this, the fifth of the “Sidney” books, a group of the young people, already familiar to readers of the series, spend the summer of the tercentennial at Janet’s house in Quebec. They take part in the pageants, entertain a “Lady” from England, and have all the good times that Miss Ray’s boys and girls know how to have. Janet, placed between two groups of friends, the old and the new, finds it hard to conform to the social standards of both. In the end she is true to her higher ideals and learns that the differences between the Canadian and American are not so fundamental after all.

* * * * *

“Is one of the natural human stories of girl life—and boy life, too—which Anna Chapin Ray always writes.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 597. O. 9, ’09. 160w. + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. D. 7, ’07. 80w.

=Ray, Perley Orman.=^{[7]} Repeal of the Missouri compromise. *$3.50.
Clark, A. H.

9–7530.

“Takes issue with the opinion held by all the leading historians of this country that Stephen A. Douglas was the original instigator of the repeal. The conclusion to which he comes is that it was Senator David R. Atchison of Missouri who was chiefly responsible for the bringing forward of the Kansas-Nebraska bill with all its momentous consequences.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The investigation of the western antecedents of the Kansas-Nebraska bill was decidedly worth while. If Dr. Ray has not attained a new point of view, at least he has presented a fresh and suggestive account of the Missouri factional struggle between 1852 and 1854, and he has established successfully the contention that there was a popular demand in the trans-Mississippi country for the organization of the Nebraska territory.” Allen Johnson.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 835. Jl. ’09. 620w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 179. Je. ’09.

“The author has spared no effort to get together all the available material, and fortifies his statements with abundant footnote references to the authorities on which he relies.” C. L. Jones.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 212. Jl. ’09. 270w.

“We think Professor Ray attaches too great importance to the recollections of W. C. Price. Men who have outlived their influence habitually exaggerate their earlier exploits.” F. H. Hodder.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 120. S. 1, ’09. 2000w.

“A sound piece of historical work and a contribution of first-rate importance.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 385. O. 21, ’09. 400w.

“A careful study. Mr. Ray has brought forward so much evidence, and has marshaled it so well, that his conclusions will merit at least respectful attention from historians hereafter, while his investigation into the causes of the repeal throws some new light upon that firebrand piece of legislation.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 174. Mr. 27, ’09. 250w.

“It is an undeniable fact that Dr. Ray, in the volume before us, has exposed the influence of individuals and of facts to which no previous writer has given adequate attention.” W. A. u.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 527. S. ’09. 550w.

=Read, C. Stanford.= Fads and feeding. *$1. Dutton.

W9–188.

“Dr. Read does not concern himself with prescribing diets in disease, that is properly left to the medical attendant; he deals merely with the underlying scientific principles which regulate, or ought to regulate, the diet in health. There are, however, a few useful general hints laid down regarding the foods suitable in dyspepsia and in obesity. The golden rule for diet is to take in moderation the kind of food which experience has shown can be easily digested.”—Nature.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 67: 1091. N. 11, ’09. 120w.

“This is an admirably clear, well reasoned, and sensible little book. A mass of facts is boiled down and presented in a nontechnical and palatable form.” W. D. H.

+ =Nature.= 79: 248. D. 31, ’08. 400w.

“The book contains much that the ordinary reader will find of value in the ordering of his daily diet.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 230w.

=Reade, W. H. V.=^{[6]} Moral system of Dante’s Inferno. *$4.15.
Oxford.

9–18619.

“This is the most exhaustive analysis that has ever been made of Dante’s morals.... Mr. Reade’s task is to discover the rules which guided Dante’s verdicts. He begins, very properly, with an examination of two modern theories, which may be regarded as both representative and weighty—those of Witte and of Dr. Edward Moore. Having disposed of these, he goes back to the two great bodies of moral teaching—Aristotle’s and Thomas Aquinas’s—from which Dante drew directly.... He traces, further, the origin of such of Dante’s verdicts as correspond with neither the Aristotelian nor the Thoman model.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“One hesitates to pass judgment upon a work so elaborate and erudite.” C: A. Dinsmore.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 625. O. ’09. 1100w.

“He has evidently a profound knowledge of Aquinas but he has hardly begun to understand Dante. On one point, however, we are wholly with him.”

− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 423. O. 9. 970w.

“Mr. Reade’s treatise, therefore, may interest also students of comparative morals who are not primarily concerned with Dante. It could scarcely be more careful, thorough, or open-minded. He has produced a work which every exhaustive student of Dante will turn to and which will not need to be undertaken again on so elaborate a scale.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 468. My. 6, ’09. 430w.

“It is not distinguished by learning only but also by ingenuity and originality. He admits his book is one for experts, and to them we cordially recommend it.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 469. Ap. 10, ’09. 330w.

=Redmayne, Richard A. S.= Modern practice in mining; for the use of
mining students, prospectors, colliery managers, and others. v. 1.
Coal: its occurrence, value and methods of boring, etc. *$2.
Longmans.

9–14528.

“This volume is put out as the first of a series of comparatively small books which shall constitute a complete library on modern practice in mining. It is purposed to make each volume take up some particular phase of mining and not to attempt to cover in any volume a very broad field. This volume in hand, after some forty odd pages of general matter on coals, passes to bearing or core drilling as the main topic. The volume may then be considered as an exposition of present European and American practice of small-hole boring as a part of mining exploration.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The author’s experience has enabled him successfully to present a careful blending of theory with practice, and shown him the desirability of avoiding the description of out-of-date methods and machinery, excepting as present practice requires reference thereto.”

+ =Engin. D.= 5: 54. Ja. ’09. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Engin. N.= 60: sup. 690. D. 17, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Reed, Helen Leah.= Irma in Italy. †$1.25. Little.

8–31686.

A new “Irma” book in which the young heroine travels with an aunt and uncle in Italy. Her experiences in the best known and even in the lesser known cities, entertaining and informing, are woven into a travel book that all young readers will profit by.

* * * * *

Reviewed by K. L. M.

=Bookm.= 28: 501. Ja. ’09. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 50w.

=Reed, Myrtle.=^{[10]} Old rose and silver. **$1.50. Putnam.

9–35850.

Melody, fragrance, soft and warm color, and characters suggestive of these: a beautiful old lady, an “old Rose” heroine of forty, a musical genius, ten years her junior, and in contrast to these characters, a young girl of twenty, beautiful in outline, but without warmth and color, a silver girl—these are the principal elements of a story told in the author’s impressionistic manner. An automobile accident in which the young violinist all but loses his left hand, serves both to introduce a refreshing young doctor who sets at naught the counsels of his elders, and to bring to the disconsolate patient a revelation of the right woman’s love.

* * * * *

“A harmless tale, dedicated to sentiment and millinery, but redeemed for adult reading by a humorous old lady and the ‘Crosby twins,’ sporting enthusiasts.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 93. N. ’09. ✠
=Nation.= 89: 512. N. 25, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 616. O. 16, ’09. 350w.

=Reich, Emil.=^{[7]} Woman through the ages. 2v. ea. *$3.50. Dutton.

W9–105.

“May interest those who are in search of facts about women dissociated from the political, social, and literary movements of their times.” (Nation.) The two volumes include the Egyptian women, the Greek woman, the Roman woman, the woman of the renaissance, the woman in the convent, Englishwomen of the Tudor period, Englishwomen of the Stuart period, the women of the time of Louis XIV and Louis XV, women of the salons, women of the French revolution, Englishwomen of the eighteenth century, women of the time of the French empire, and literary women of the nineteenth century.

* * * * *

“The value of Mr. Reich’s work is marred by passages which reveal narrowness of view and prejudices; otherwise it would be an authoritative contribution to sociology.” A. R. Marble.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 124. S. 1, ’09. 1800w.

“Although first-hand sources have been drawn upon, readers familiar with other compendia of the history and literature of classical antiquity, the middle ages, and the renaissance, and of France and England in the following centuries, will find little that is new in this book.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 580. Je. 10, ’09. 480w.

“While this work must be accorded a high place in the reference library of the historian, it may as well be admitted at once that it is chiefly interesting to the casual reader in this country on account of the final chapter, that on ‘Woman in America.’ As to the merits of the views expressed therein there will be a wide divergence of opinion.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 425. Jl. 10, ’09. 1500w.

“There is no question as to the interest he has imparted to the subject, for he writes with picturesque vigor, and never hesitates to inject into descriptions of either ancient or modern life his own individual prejudice or opinion. That makes lively reading, and keeps the reader on the alert.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 278. O. 2, ’09. 800w.

“There is no learning in the book except such as any literary hack might display who was intelligent enough to collect at the Museum the traditions about ancient women and the ordinary accounts of the position of women in ancient and mediaeval times. Such a book as this accuses him of a want of serious purpose.”

− + =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 3. N. 21, ’08. 1550w.

=Reinsch, Paul Samuel, ed.=^{[6]} Readings on American federal
government. *$2.75. Ginn.

9–12092.

A source book whose aim is to bring the student into first hand contact with political facts and forces. The selections are accounts by people who have engaged in or witnessed the occurrences described. They embrace speeches by representatives and senators on the powers of the executive, relations of executive to Congress, the legislative process, and departmental activities; addresses by prominent federal judges on the organization and work of the courts, selections from executive messages, departmental reports, court decisions, and essays by eminent publicists on phases of the actual operation of government.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 15: 218. O. ’09. 50w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 179. Je. ’09.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 610. N. ’09. 230w.

“Professor Reinsch’s volume contains much useful information that can be found in no formal description of the American government and will prove most useful as an aid to an understanding of its rather complex operations.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 186. S. 16, ’09. 230w.

“It is hard to imagine a better book on which to base a university course in that subject.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 303. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.

“For the present the serviceableness of Professor Reinsch’s book to the teacher and student, whatever the range of library facilities at command, can hardly be over-estimated, and we are glad to give the work hearty commendation.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 234. S. 9, ’09. 200w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 476. Ag. 7, ’09. 340w.

“It would be difficult to imagine a better book on which to base a splendid university course in federal government.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 554. S. ’09. 210w.

“A useful compilation.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 70w.

“There is a distinct place for such a volume of readings as Professor Reinsch has edited; and teachers of American government will be quick to recognize its merits.”

+ =Yale R.= 18: 221. Ag. ’09. 230w.

=Repplier, Agnes.= Happy half-century, and other essays. **$1.10.
Houghton.

8–27522.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“She occupies a position which in some respects is analogous to that of Mr. Birrell in this country; yet one doubts if that statement does her full justice.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 311. Mr. 13. 700w.

“Just a baker’s dozen of essays now before us, every one of which has its own peculiarly delicious savor.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 537. Mr. 11, ’09. 420w.

=Reuterdahl, Arvid.=^{[5]} Theory and design of reinforced concrete
arches: a treatise for engineers and technical students. *$2. Clark,
M. C.

8–26688.

“Valuable as giving in detail, with reasons for it, every step in the design of a typical arch.... The first chapter is devoted to a theoretical discussion of the general subject, including detailed demonstrations of all theorems used in the actual procedure of arch computation, which forms the second chapter. The third chapter is on the determination of fiber stresses. In the appendix are full specifications for reinforced concrete arches prepared by the Concrete-steel engineering company, and the St. Louis regulations regarding reinforced concrete structures.”—Engin. Rec.

* * * * *

“For the student who wishes to get in one book the whole theory, to its minutest details, of the reinforced concrete arch, and who is not overawed by a succession of formula-filled pages, we can commend the book.”

+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 692. D. 17, ’08. 370w.

“About the only adverse criticism of the book that can be made is that it has nothing to show how a single load on any part of the arch can be treated.”

+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 526. Ap. 17, ’09. 200w.

=Revelation= to the monk of Evesham abbey; in the year of our Lord
eleven hundred and ninety-six, concerning the places of purgatory
and paradise, rendered into modern English by Valerian Paget.
*$1.50. McBride.

9–24243.

A rendering into modern English of a classic which is important in a historical, religious and literary sense. The monk is a sort of Dante who “conducts the reader thru the pains and tortures of a mediaevally-constituted purgatory, and thru those pleasant fields of paradise wherein the purged souls of the departed wander, when the price of worldly evil-doing has been paid.” Its historical significance is apparent in the light it throws upon the religious life and problems of the twelfth century.

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 46: 268. Ap. 16, ’09. 80w.

“Mr. Paget’s rendering, based on Prof. Arber’s reprint of the fifteenth century English version of the vision, reads smoothly and will doubtless satisfy the public to which it is addressed, but the preface shows a woful ignorance of mediæval literature and even of the history of the book itself.”

− + =Nation.= 85: 560. Je. 3, ’09. 380w.

“The style of the rendering, the work of Valerian Paget, is very suitable to the matter, and the matter is interesting for the sake of the reflection of the contemporary ecclesiastical mind if for nothing else.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 51. Je. 5, ’09. 380w.

=Rexford, Eben Eugene.= Home garden: a book on vegetable and
small-fruit growing, for the use of the amateur gardener. **$1.25.
Lippincott.

9–6489.

Not a scientific treatise but a brief, practical handbook for the use of those who have a little piece of land for the growing of vegetables and small fruit, and who, from lack of experience, do not know how to go to work in the right way.

* * * * *

“Very sensible and useful manual for the amateur.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 144. My. ’09. ✠

Reviewed by G: Gladden.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 546. Jl. ’09. 250w.

“Good sense, and long experience both in gardening and in writing, lie at the foundation of this helpful book.” S. A. Shafer.

+ =Dial.= 46: 368. Je. 1, ’09. 120w.

“This volume contains, to paraphrase, the practical thoughts of a practical fellow.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1244. Je. 3, ’09. 100w.

“This treatise is a convenient, untechnical, but not encyclopædic, aid to beginners. Although it is very small, it ought to have an index.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 468. My. 6, ’09. 480w.

“It is written for the man who seeks to find in outdoor exercise a relaxation from the cares of professional life and would like to have that exercise one in which pleasure and profit may be successfully combined.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.

=Reynolds, Gertrude M.=^{[9]} False position. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

“The story of a young girl of good family, who is reduced to poverty and who accepts marriage with a man whom she does not love as the only way out of her difficulties. She has had an innocent love affair with the nephew of her husband, several years previous to her marriage, and through a mistaken sense of duty, both she and the young man in question agree to hide the past. From this arise complications which are only straightened out in the last chapter. There are many pleasant pictures of life among the upper class in England, and some well-drawn character studies.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“One is left with the comfortable sense of having been amused and interested without a waste of time or an aftermath of unpleasant recollection.”

+ =Nation.= 69: 186. Ag. 26, ’09. 250w.

“The book has a refreshing sanity and cleanliness of thought, and should appeal to those readers who are a trifle weary of problem novels and stories of hair-breadth adventures.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 403. Je. 26, ’09. 150w.