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THE

BOOK REVIEW DIGEST

[ANNUAL CUMULATION]

VOLUME III

BOOK REVIEWS OF 1907 IN ONE ALPHABET

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES WRITTEN BY

JUSTINA LEAVITT WILSON

DIGEST OF REVIEWS BY

CLARA ELIZABETH FANNING

MINNEAPOLIS

THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY

1907

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
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PREFACE

This volume is the third annual cumulation of the Book Review Digest. It includes principally the books of 1907 that

have been reviewed by the best book critics in England and America. It aims first to record with unprejudiced exactness
the scope, character and subject content of books as they appear, and further, to supplement this descriptive information
from month to month with excerpts culled from the best current reviews appearing in forty-seven English and American
magazines which give prominence to book criticism, thus furnishing to the librarian a basis for the valuation of books.
Frequently the best reviews of a book appear during the year following its publication, so in this volume will be found
supplementary excerpts relating to books which were entered in the 1906 annual. It will be observed that a number of
entries include only the descriptive note. Reviews for these books have not yet appeared; 1908 will furnish the material for
appraisal, and excerpts will be included in current numbers of the digest as fast as reviews are published.

In sending out this annual the publishers wish to emphasize the coöperative phase of the undertaking. From three to

six people have been engaged during 1907 in the work of preparing descriptive notes to approximately 2,800 books, and
clipping from 1,000 copies of magazines sentences most helpful for book selection. This card-index information furnished
to libraries for five dollars per year would cost them many hundred times this sum should they do it themselves. For the
time thus given to a valuable and indispensable part of library work the publishers look for an equivalent in the support of
libraries all over the country. The justice of the statement “Time is Money” is commensurate with its economic terseness.

Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made

Acad.—Academy. $4. 20 Tavistock St., Covent Garden, London.
Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. Macmillan Company. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
A. L. A. Bkl.—A. L. A. Booklist. $1. A. L. A. Publishing Board, 34 Newbury St., Boston.
Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. $6. 36th and Woodland Ave.,

Philadelphia.

Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Princeton Avenue, Trenton, N. J.
Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C., London.
Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St., Boston, Mass.
Bib. World.—Biblical World. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Bookm.—Bookman. $2.50. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave, N. Y.
Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $5. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.
Critic—Merged into Putnam’s on October 1, 1906.
Dial.—Dial. $2 Fine Arts Building, 203 Michigan Blvd., Chicago, Ill.
Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia University, N. Y.
El. School T.—Elementary School Teacher. $1.50. University of Chicago Press. Chicago.
Engin. N.—Engineering News. $5. 220 Broadway, New York.
Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green, and Co., 39 Paternoster Row London, E. C.
Forum.—Forum. $2. Forum Publishing Co., 45 East 42d Street. New York.
Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $3. Williams & Norgate, London.
Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics. $2.50. 1415 Locust St., Philadelphia.
Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 110–114 West 32d Street, New York.
J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods. $3. Science Press, Lancaster, Pa.
J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $3. 44–60 East 23d Street, New York.
Lond. Times.—London Times (literary supplement to weekly edition), London, England.
Mod. Philol.—Modern Philology. $3. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, Ill.
Nation.—Nation. $3. P O Box 794, New York.
Nature.—Nature. $6. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review, New York.
No. Am.—North American Review. $4. North American Review Pub. Co., Franklin Sq., New York.
Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
Philos. R.—Philosophical Review. $3. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Phys. R.—Physical Review. $5. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon St., Boston.
Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. $2. 41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.
Putnam’s—Putnam’s Monthly and the Critic. $3. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 27 & 29 W. 23rd St., New York.
R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $3. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor Place, New York.
Sat. R.—Saturday Review. $7.50. 33 Southampton St. Strand, London.
School R.—School Review. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $5. Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y.
Spec.—Spectator. $7.50. 1 Wellington St., Strand, London.
Yale R.—Yale Review. $3. New Haven. Conn.

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:

Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names will be found in the Publishers’ Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.
An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates those books sold at a limited discount and commonly known as net books.

Books subject to the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a double asterisk (**) when the
bookseller is required to maintain the list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed at 20 and 10
per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.

The plus and minus signs preceding the names of the magazines indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire

review.

In the reference to a magazine, the first number refers to the volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.
Books noticed for the first time this month have an asterisk (*) immediately below the author’s name in entry heading.
A Maltese Cross (✠) indicates that the A. L. A. Booklist suggests the books for first purchase. The letter S indicates that

the same publication recommends the book for small libraries.

The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading reviews of the English-speaking world.

Few libraries are able to subscribe for all and the smaller libraries are supplied with comparatively few of the periodicals
from which the digests are to be culled. For this reason the digest will be of greater value to the small libraries, since it
places at their disposal, in most convenient form, a vast amount of valuable information about books, which would not
otherwise be available.

We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and the digests so full and accurate, that

librarians who do not have access to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at substantially correct appreciations of
the value of the books reviewed.

This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which are practically out of the reach of the

ordinary library, we shall endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there will be little occasion to refer
to the original publications.

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Book Review Digest

Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature

Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December 1907 magazines

A

Aanrud, Hans. Lisbeth Longfrock; trans. from the Norwegian by Laura E. Poulsson. *65c. Ginn.

7–21362.

Norwegian farm life is pictured with quaint detail in this story of Lisbeth, the little peasant who came to Hoel farm as its

herd girl and by faithful service won the proud position of head milk maid.

“Gives the best picture we have of Norwegian farm life.”

+
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 205. N. ’07. ✠

“A very neat translation of a very pretty little Norwegian story.”

+
N. Y. Times. 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 180w.

“A simple and delightful story.”

+
Outlook. 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.

Abailard, Pierre. Abelard and Heloise: the love letters: a poetical rendering, by Ella C. Bennett. **$1.50. Elder.

7–30637.

True only to the sentiment “upon which thread this rosary of love letters has been strung” the author has rendered the

letters of Abelard and Heloise in rhyme.

“A sympathetic setting forth in English verse, of the letters of these historic lovers.”

+
N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. Syllogistic philosophy or prolegomena to science. 2v. **$5. Little.

6–29755.

A posthumous work that represents a life time of study. “The determining principle of the whole structure is that

‘whatever is evolved as consequent must be involved as antecedent.’ The outcome of this ‘principle of absolute logic’ is
that personality, in the philosophic sense of the word, is ‘both the source and outcome of all that is,’ and that philosophy
at last becomes ‘theology modernized as scientific realism and scientific theism.’” (Outlook.)

“We confess that we have found in his work little to clarify the problems of philosophy and nothing besides the author’s

own earnestness and enthusiasm which we can call uplifting. In no way does the book appear to us to be a prolegomena
to science or an important contribution to philosophy.”

−
Nation. 84: 180. F. 21, ’07. 530w.

“The novel terminology once mastered, the new method becomes interesting.”

+ −
Outlook. 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 390w.

“They are erudite and earnest, but dogmatic and ineffective. We do not question the earnestness and sincerity which

have produced these two volumes, but we do question whether the absolute unit-universal will save his philosophical
children from their sins through the message of the syllogistic philosophy.” R. B. C. Johnson.

− +
Philos. R. 16: 447. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Well equipped with wide and careful reading as Dr. Abbot evidently was, he seems to have fallen upon an arid

formalism which forces him to serve up afresh, and with reiterated emphasis, many of the contingent features peculiar to
idealistic absolutism in the nineteenth century.”

+ −
Science, n.s. 25: 854. My. 31, ’07 1550w.

Abbott, David Phelps. Behind the scenes with the mediums. *$1.50. Open ct.

7–27622.

From the point of view of the worker of magic, Mr. Abbott, who is not a medium, reveals all the tricks of the séance.

“The ardent believers whose faith no number of exposures can disturb, the skeptics whom no sort of séance has been able

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to convince, and the scientific investigators toward whom the author is a bit contemptuous, will all find in its pages matter
in plenty either interesting or irritating.” (N. Y. Times.)

“All those who have a kind of shamefaced desire to know just what spiritualists do and how they do it will be

entertained by his exposures. Even those who go full of faith to consult palmists, clairvoyants, fortune-tellers, and other
modern sorcerers, will find him interesting.”

+
Nation. 85: 212. S. 5, ’07. 840w.

“There will be racy reading for a good many different kinds of people in Mr. Abbott’s leisurely turning inside out of

mediumistic tricks.”

+
N. Y. Times. 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 1110w.

R. of Rs. 36: 511. O. ’07. 40w.

Abbott, Rev. Edwin A. Apologia: an explanation and defense. *$1. Macmillan.

7–25561.

“In reply to friendly dissentients from his views, especially as expressed in his previous book, ‘Silanus the Christian,’

the author publishes this ‘explanation and defense’ of them as an introduction to two volumes of a technical and critical
character to appear presently. His view of the Biblical miracles is ‘that some are literally true, but in accordance with what
are called laws of nature; others are not literally true, but are metaphorical or poetical traditions erroneously taken as literal;
others are visions that have been erroneously taken as non-visionary facts.’”—Outlook.

“It may be pointed out that Dr. Abbott’s reason for calling Christ supernatural has nothing to do with the evidence

furnished in the New Testament and it is therefore not easy to see why there should be such a waste of interpretation as
there is in his books.”

+ −
Ath. 1907, 2: 363. S. 28. 640w.

Outlook. 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 130w.

Abbott, Rev. Edwin A. Silanus the Christian. *$2.60. Macmillan.

7–25561.

Dr. Abbott addresses himself to readers who are not ready to accept the miraculous element in the New Testament and

who at the same time do not reject the doctrine of Christ’s divinity. He shows that the belief is not rendered impossible by
the disbelief. The book is in the form of an autobiography of an educated Roman. “The gist of its teaching—and it is solely
intended to teach—is summed up in the words of Clemens. It has been said, he tells Silanus, that the religion of the
Christians is a person—and nothing more. ‘I should prefer to say the same thing differently. Our religion in a person—and
nothing less.’” (Spec.)

“Dr. Abbott’s writing is itself interesting on account of the literary skill with which he presents innumerable points of

exposition and criticism, and on account, too, of the beauty and strength of many of its passages.”

+ −
Ath. 1906, 2: 766. D. 15. 1040w.

“While the book aims to be popular, the author’s wide knowledge and competent scholarship lift his efforts entirely

above the level of the usual endeavor to teach Biblical and Christian history by means of fiction.”

+
Ind. 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 210w.

“The book is interesting; it is ably written; it is in parts striking; and yet one feels that somehow it misses effect as a

whole. And we think that the reason is obvious. Dr. Abbott in writing it had two diverse ends in view and each interfered
with the other.”

− +
Lond. Times. 6: 25. Ja. 25, ’07. 740w.

+
Nation. 84: 180. F. 21, ’07. 560w.

Outlook. 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 180w.

“It would be unfair to lay stress upon the weaknesses of a really impressive book, and after all they are only prominent

in one part of its argument where the writer has been carried away by his own pet theories.”

+ −
Sat. R. 103: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 530w.

“As to whether he has succeeded or failed in his religious purpose his readers will no doubt form diametrically opposite

conclusions. We think, however that those who are most convinced of his theologic failure will not deny him a literary
success. He has written a deeply interesting theological book in the form of a story.”

+ −
Spec. 97: 569. O. 20, ’06. 2110w.

* Abbott, Katharine M. Old paths and legends of the New England border: Connecticut, Deerfield, and Berkshire.

**$3.50. Putnam.

In Miss Abbott’s rambles one may live over again the delights of many of New England’s quaint byways. “She has

caught the spirit of New England, and introduces incidentally curious and charming out-of-the-way places, historic spots,
Indian legends and New England folklore.” (Ind.)

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“She has traced it all with a literary skill which is above the average, and has succeeded in charging her text with

animation and entertainment without the loss or historical accuracy.”

+
Ind. 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 140w.

+
N. Y. Times. 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 150w.

Abbott, Lyman. Christ’s secret of happiness. **75c. Crowell.

7–10562.

Eleven essays are included here whose keynote is sounded in the first, “Three kinds of happiness.” “There are three

kinds of happiness,” says Dr. Abbott, “pleasure, joy, blessedness. Pleasure is the happiness of the animal nature; joy, of
the social nature; blessedness, of the spiritual nature. Pleasure we share with the animals, joy with one another,
blessedness with God.”

+
Ind. 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 60w.

Abbott, Lyman, ed. Parables. $2.50. Appleton.

7–31966.

A very illuminating introduction shows that Jesus resorted to the parable to allay the wrath which his plain truth-

teaching had stirred up against him. “He veiled the truth which unveiled had been rejected with such wrath, and he did so
that they might listen to him without perceiving the truth to which they would refuse to listen if they did perceive it.” The
scriptural version of the parables follows, with a well-executed illustration here and there suggesting the modern prodigal,
the modern foolish virgin and the present-day house builded upon the sand, etc.

Abendschein, Albert. Secret of the old masters. **$1. Appleton.

6–40200.

How did the old masters produce their results? How have these results defied time and atmospheric changes? Twenty-

five years of study have been devoted to these questions by the author and “he has proved to his own, and we may say, to
our satisfaction, that the great Venetians and Flemings used no mysterious varnishes whatever, their vehicle being plain
linseed oil, and their reliance for permanence and brilliancy being plenty of time for drying between successive paintings
and upon prolonged exposure to direct sunlight to burn out the excess of oil.” (Nation.)

“Few serious workers in oils, though they omit the book, will fail in the next year or so of coming upon the track of his

researches.”

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Int. Studio. 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 400w.

+ −
Nation. 84: 43. Ja. 10, ’07. 660w.

+ −
N. Y. Times. 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

R. of Rs. 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 110w.

Abhedananda, Swami. India and her people. $1.25. Vedanta.

6–24887.

A book which aims to “give an impartial account of the facts from the stand point of an unbiased historian, and to

remove all misunderstandings which prevail among the Americans concerning India and her people.” It sets forth for
popular reading phases of Vedanta philosophy. “In this system the people of India, according to the author, find the
ultimate truths of all sciences, philosophies, and religions. There are instructive chapters upon the religion of present-day
India, the social status and the system of caste, political institutions, education, the influence of Western civilization, and
woman’s place in Hindu religion.” (Lit. D.)

“This compact little volume, written in an attractive style, and dealing with the life, philosophy and religion of India

should prove a useful addition to the literature of a fascinating and as yet largely unknown subject.”

+
Lit. D. 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 140w.

“From the historical point of view, which is assumed by the Swami, it is to be regretted that the author has not made

himself better acquainted with chronology.”

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Nation. 84: 40. Ja. 10, ’07. 920w.

Acton, Sir John. Lectures on modern history; ed. with an introd. by J: N. Figgis, and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3.25.

Macmillan.

7–2153.

“In the present volume we find Acton’s inaugural lecture as Professor, his scheme for ‘The Cambridge modern

history,’ and nineteen of his lectures, covering in giant strides the ages of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Counter-
Reformation. the wars of religion, the rise of political parties, the creation of the Prussian and the Russian powers, and the
American revolution.”—Ath.

“Finest and best of all is the noble and ennobling fairness in his treatment of all men and all ages.” G. S. F.

+ +
Am. Hist. R. 12: 621. Ap. ’07. 980w.

“Great lectures as they are, they still are lectures only—knowledge cut up into sections to last forty-five minutes.”

+ + −
Ath. 1906, 2: 359. S. 29. 1990w.

“The highest form of art in historical writing is that which narrates events without specifying directly the ideals it is

sought to convey, and yet does emphatically convey such ideals to the reader. Of this form, Lord Acton’s lectures are
excellent illustrations; while that on Luther may well stand as an almost perfect example.” E. D. Adams.

+ +
Dial. 42: 222. Ap. 1, ’07. 580w.

Reviewed by P. F. Willert.

+ + −
Eng. Hist. R. 22: 164. Ja. ’07. 1200w.

“Are at once satisfactory and disappointing.”

+ −
Lond. Times. 5: 325. S. 28, ’06. 1130w.

“The result is, on the whole, disappointing. To begin with, notes for lectures generally make poor books, and it is so in

this case. Again, the subject is too large for the space in which it is treated, and suffers from overcompression.”

− +
Nation. 83: 397. N. 8, ’06. 990w.

“It is, in fact, a primer of history. Every sentence carries with it the conviction of truth, and every page creates an

impulse to delve deeper into the subject-matter.” Henry James Forman.

+ +
No. Am. 184: 306. F. 1, ’07. 790w.

“In the main there can be little question of the soundness of his views, the correctness of his attitude. And, what is not

unimportant, the lectures show that, ‘scientific’ historian though he was, he was keenly alive to the human element in
history.”

+ + −
Outlook. 85: 45. Ja. 5, ’07. 640w.

“Those who love the beauty of line, and the mysterious effect of chiaroscuro will enjoy these works to the utmost, and

recognize them as masterpieces of the graphic arts.”

+ +
R. of Rs. 36: 760. D. ’07. 170w.

“His judgment is always rational and his conclusions invariably just.”

+ +
Sat. R. 103: 205. F. 16, ’07. 1480w.

Acton, Sir John. Lord Acton and his circle; ed. by Abbot [Francis Aidan] Gasquet. *$4.50. Longmans.

6–42915.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by E. D. Adams.

+ +
Dial. 42: 221. Ap. 1, ’07. 1080w.

“The book is not very accurately printed; some sentences are made unintelligible by errors of punctuation, and a large

number of proper names are misspelt.”

+ −
Eng. Hist. R. 22: 410. Ap. ’07. 650w.

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Ind. 62: 272. Ja. 31, ’07. 620w.

“Rather unfortunate introduction.”

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Lond. Times. 5: 325. S. 28, ’06. 1140w.

Adams, Andy. Reed Anthony, cowman. †$1.50. Houghton.

7–16751.

Autobiographical in form, this book follows in a matter-of-fact way “the career of a young man, who, after serving his

four years in the Confederate army, made his way from his native Virginia to Texas, there to become foreman of the
‘cattle drives,’ and so by degrees ranchman and owner of many acres and many herds.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The account of the cowman’s worldly success is, let us admit, by no means free from exaggeration, but the book

gives the best picture of the life of the times of any we know, and we heartily recommend it.”

+ −
Acad. 73: 732. Jl. 27, ’07. 270w.

“This ingenuous bit of biography, like the author’s earlier books, will be read not because it is so well done but because

it pictures a passing phase of American life.”

+ −
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 175. O. ’07.

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Ath. 1907, 1: 790. Je. 29. 240w.

“In reading these pages, which bear the stamp of downright honesty, the reader feels that he is in contact with the

actual history of an important formative period of national industry—a period which, tho outside of the beaten track of
history, is not without significance.”

+
Lit. D. 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 230w.

“The pleasant thing about the narrative is its ingenuousness.”

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Nation. 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 400w.

+
N. Y. Times. 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 250w.

“In spite of the sameness due to the likeness of one year of the cattle business to any other year, the book is interesting

with the interest which belongs somehow and anyhow to all that is genuine.”

+ −
N. Y. Times. 12: 315. My. 18, ’07. 820w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 375. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.

Adams, Charles Francis, jr. Three Phi beta kappa addresses. **$1. Houghton.

7–17400.

Including A college fetich, 1883; Shall Cromwell have a statue? 1902; Some modern college tendencies, 1906. In these

addresses Mr. Adams arraigns many of the weaknesses of the present-day college régime. The license of electives leads to
the “way of least resistance:” college athletics are but the “overgrowth of the superficiality which rules the curricula,” etc.
He offers helpful reform suggestions on the limitation of the number of subjects pursued, on the moral training of the
student, and on the breaking down of our large colleges into smaller units.

“While they can hardly be said to make a book of history at the present time, they will certainly be regarded by the

future historian of education in the nineteenth century as an important part of his source-material.”

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Am. Hist. R. 13: 192. O. ’07. 170w.

Dial. 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 100w.

Reviewed by Wm. E. Dodd.

N. Y. Times. 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 1060w.

Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

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Putnam’s. 3: 229. N. ’07. 470w.

Adams, Henry. Cassell’s engineers’ handbook; comprising facts and formulae, principles and practice in all branches of

engineering. $2.50. McKay.

“Not a mere formula book nor an ordinary student’s text-book, but rather an aide memoire for those who have passed

through their elementary training, and are now in practice.”

Adams, I. William. Shibusawa; or, The passing of old Japan; il. by E. Dalton Stevens. †$1.50. Putnam.

6–41721.

“The period selected is the early part of the last century, and the plot revolves about the struggle between the Shogun

and the Mikado, ending with the victory and restoration of the latter. Shibusawa, a true Japanese warrior, son of a daimio,
fought well both in war and love, and in the end won honors and the maiden of his choice.”—Outlook.

“The story, while for the most part descriptive, with little dialog and only ordinary fancy, lacks snap and fire, while

perhaps a good general picture of old Japan.”

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Ind. 61: 1493. D. 20, ’06. 70w.

“For the most part the people and their actions seem to belong quite in their Japanese frame.”

+ −
N. Y. Times. 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.

“The style of the book is somewhat too serious and prolix for a successful artistic effect.”

− +
Outlook. 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 90w.

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R. of Rs. 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 20w.

Adams, Rev. John. Sermons in accents: studies in the Hebrew text: a book for preachers and students. *$1.80.

Scribner.

“An attempt to make Hebrew accentuation interesting and helpful to the average preacher and Bible student, for whom

Wickes’ treatises are too elaborate and wearisome.”—Bib. World.

“As an introductory manual preparatory to the use of a more thorough and complete treatment the work may be

recommended to the student beginning his studies.”

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Bib. World. 29: 159. F. ’07. 50w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 65. F. 2, ’07. 110w.

Adams, John Coleman. Honorable youth. *75c. Universalist pub.

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6–45015.

A manual of instruction on life success, how to conceive it, and how to attain it.

* Adams, Joseph Henry. Harper’s electricity book for boys. $1.75. Harper.

7–37737.

A practical, thorogoing, working knowledge of electricity can be obtained from this handbook for boys. “It tells how to

make cells and batteries, switches and insulators, armatures, motors and coils. It shows how easily experiments may be
made with home-made appliances at small cost. Every-day uses of electricity are explained so that boys will understand
and at the same time be stimulated to put forth their own skill and ingenuity.” Numerous cuts of apparatus are given.

Adams, Joseph Henry. Harper’s outdoor book for boys; with contributions by Kirk Munroe, Tappan Adney, Capt.

Howard Patterson, Leroy Milton Yale and others. $1.75. Harper.

7–21249.

Instructive, above all things practical, this book is based upon experience, whose aim is to show boys how to do

accurately all manner of out-of-door things within their powers. Beginning with the backyard, detailed information is given
for such contrivances as pet shelters, windmills, aërial toys; going farther afield the interest centers in coasters, skees,
kites, fishing tackle, etc.; then come boat building and boat management; while the fourth part of the book is devoted to
camps and camping, tree-huts, brush-houses, etc.

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“We have seen no book of the kind so thoroughly practical and so well adapted to its aims as this.”

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Nation. 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 280w.

“No book better suited to develop ingenuity and mechanical ability.”

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N. Y. Times. 12: 305. My. 11, ’07. 120w.

“It is a reference book that is worth while to have on hand.”

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N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 120w.

Adams, Oscar Fay. Sicut patribus, and other verse. $1.60. Oscar F. Adams, The Hermitage, Willow st., Bost.

6–7734.

“The title selection is an ode read at the annual meeting of the Tufts chapter of Phi beta kappa in 1902. It is an

arraignment of American ‘imperialism,’ touched with that saeva indignatio which has stirred William Vaughn Moody, the
late John W. Chadwick, and others of our poets in approaching the same theme. The cathedral poems, filled with the
atmosphere of English closes, and reinforced by Mr. Adams’s architectural studies, seem of the entire sheaf to be most
truly characteristic.”—N. Y. Times.

“Book of sincere and thoughtful verso.” Wm. M. Payne.

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Dial. 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 460w.

“A collection of correct, derivative pieces in many modes.”

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Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 130w.

“Throughout the book, indeed, technical variety and facility are to be noted, and if there be few striking lines, there are a

certain reflective grace and fine traditions of men and literature.”

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N. Y. Times. 11: 335. My. 26, ’06. 280w.

Adams, Samuel. Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. by H. A. Cushing. 4v. *$5. Putnam.

4–18620.

v. 2. “The second volume ... covers the years 1770 to 1773.... The volume contains ninety-two pieces in all; of these

forty-one are newspaper articles, twenty are reports or memorials prepared in committee, and thirty-one are private
letters.”—Nation.

Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)

“His private letters, of which Mr. Cushing has made a goodly collection are more illuminative of his character than his

public papers. Mr. Cushing shows great industry in locating his material, but is much too sparing in his notes, leaving too
many references unexplained. There are errors of dates and names, and a wrong committee of Congress is given in the
note to p. 336.”

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Nation. 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Like its predecessors, is a valuable addition to the documentary study of the revolutionary period.”

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“By thus carefully collecting and editing these writings, Dr. Cushing has rendered a distinct and meritorious service to

American history.” Herbert L. Osgood.

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Addams, Jane. Newer ideals of peace. (Citizens’ lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.

7–4377.

For the dogmatic, even sentimental peace-notions bruited about the world by ardent advocates, Miss Addams substitutes

the newer dynamic peace embodying the later humanism, whose meaning is implied in such words as “overcoming”
“substituting,” “re-creating,” “readjusting moral values” and “forming new centers of spiritual energy.” She offers the
moral substitutes for war that are an outgrowth of a definite national background.

“I think in logical organization this book suffers more than her earlier writing. On the other hand, perhaps, nowhere can

one find the social point of view, which we must assume, presented with so much inherent necessity as here.” George
Herbert Mead.

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A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.

“The present book shows the same fresh virile thought, and the happy expression which has characterized her work.”

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Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 409. Mr. ’07. 310w.

“This is a very suggestive book. Its one weakness is that, though it does not quite neglect the ethical and spiritual

standards of life, it allows them to be overshadowed by the economic and the merely utilitarian.”

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Current Literature. 42: 417. Ap. ’07. 1080w.

“As an immediate and effective solution of the main problem indicated by its title, this treatise may well prove less

successful than as a manual of instruction in methods of mutual service and a plea for mutual sympathy and good-will.”
Percy F. Bicknell.

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Lit. D. 84: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 370w.

“Miss Addams’s observations are so acute, and her criticisms often so well aimed, that her book is worth reading. We

cannot but wish, however, that she had ploughed a little deeper, and shown us more clearly how the evils on which she
dwells are to be removed.”

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“It is the expression of an exceptional citizen on subjects that concern everybody. Whatever may prove to be its

concern for the student of literature, it should be tolerantly read by the student of affairs, for whom it was written.” Olivia
Howard Dunbar.

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No. Am. 184: 763. Ap. 5, ’07. 1490w.

“‘Newer ideals of peace’ is not a felicitous title for Jane Addams’s interesting and suggestive volume. It is imperfect

because she has studied only one phase of our national life, and, in American fashion ... she draws too large generalizations
from her too specialized observations.”

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Outlook. 85: 720. Mr. 23, ’07. 300w.

“On the whole, Miss Addams has given us a presentation of the peace argument from a wholly new point of view.”

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R. of Rs. 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 220w.

Addis, Rev. William E. Hebrew religion to the establishment of Judaism under Ezra. *$1.50. Putnam.

7–2577.

A non-technical study of Israel’s religion from the earliest times to the middle of the fifth century B. C. “The sections

which treat of the primitive forms of Semitic religion and the early Jahveh worship are of special excellence.” (Nation.)
The volume includes a chronological table of Jewish history.

“Well suited to the needs of the nonspecialist reader for whom it is intended.”

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Bib. World. 28: 351. N. ’06. 30w.

“His discussion is marked by the precision that his volumes on the Hexateuch would lead us to expect. While exception

may be taken to a few points, they leave the essential value of Mr. Addis’s volume unimpaired.” Crawford H. Toy.

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Hibbert J. 5: 702. Ap. ’07. 1400w.

“On the whole, Professor Addis keeps well within the safe ground of established fact, with caution to the reader when

opinion is uncertain. His graphic style and ability to render a situation clear in a few words make his essay suitable for
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Nation. 83: 289. O. 4, ’06. 400w.

“We fear we cannot follow him ... in some of his critical assumptions; but yet we can recommend his book.”

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Sat. R. 102: 650. N. 24, ’06. 260w.

Addison, Julia De Wolf. Art of the Dresden gallery. (Art galleries of Europe ser.) *$2. Page.

6–42448.

This sixth volume in “The art galleries of Europe” is Miss Addison’s third contribution to the series. “In the plan it is

similar to its predecessors; it consists of notes and observations upon a large number of the finest paintings, both ancient

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and modern, in the royal collection at Dresden, arranged in schools or grouping together the works of one or two great
masters.” (Dial.)

“From beginning to end there is no evidence of any personal knowledge or understanding of the art of painting, there is

no lucid explanation of its virtues, no independent analysis of the peculiar charms and merits of a master.”

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“The text furnishes as much detail as the ordinary traveller will care for, and he will find it of a more manageable and

useful sort than that offered by most guides and catalogues.”

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“One might spend half a life-time with catalogues and yet gather less real knowledge than may be pleasantly acquired by

a perusal of this book, every essential fact of which is dressed out with episode, anecdote, and pertinent criticism.”

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“In the present handy volume the American authoress exhibits the instincts, knowledge and merits of style that

characterised her former works.”

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Spec. 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 870w.

Ade, George. In pastures new. †$1.25. McClure.

6–38894.

Mr. Ade’s “pastures new” are chiefly in London and Egypt. He characterizes humorously without his usual slang. “The

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tiresome side as well as its joys—all these and other phases of ‘being abroad’ are dealt with in an amusing way.”
(Outlook.)

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Nation. 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 150w.

“We get here fun of the real Ade flavor.”

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“The secret of American humour is perhaps to exaggerate and travesty realities with a serious countenance. When this

is well done it is amusing: and Mr. Peasley does it well.”

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Ade, George. Slim princess. †$1.25. Bobbs.

7–17384.

The slim Princess Kalora of Morovenia is the despair of her father and fat younger sister because there is a Turkish law

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venturesome young Pittsburgh millionaire. The story is breezy, clever and full of cheerful irony.

“Is one of the brightest phantasies of the season.”

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Arena. 38: 216. Ag. ’07. 250w.

“Was in his best comic opera mood when he wrote ‘The slim princess.’”

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N. Y. Times. 12: 320. My. 18, ’07. 220w.

“A highly amusing bit of grotesquery.”

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Adventures of Uncle Sam’s sailors by R. E. Peary, A. V. Wadhams, Molly Elliot Seawell, Franklin Matthews, Kirk

Munroe and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.) †60c. Harper.

7–24286.

A group of spirited sea stories that shift scene from the Arctic circle to the tropics and from China to Hatteras and the

West Indies. The stories mingle wholesome excitement, fascinating fact and entertaining fiction and lend an undertone of
courage and endurance.