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Cabell, James Branch.Line of love.†$2. Harper.

“An interesting contribution to romantic literature, not beyond popular understanding and enjoyment.”

“Altogether Mr. Cabell’s book is unusual in style, poise, and dramatic fervor.”

Cable, George Washington.Old Creole days; with 8 full-page il. and head and tail pieces in photogravure by Albert Herter. $2.50. Scribner.

In reprinting “Old Creole days” eight full-page drawings and fourteen smaller ones add new charm to the contents.

“The mechanical features are all of a high grade of excellence, and the volume has an air of dignity and beauty that well fits the charm of the contents.”

Cabot, Mrs. Ella Lyman.Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.

Both teacher and general reader will find in this volume the rudiments of right choosing and well doing. The moral aspects of the soul’s activities—memory, imagination courage, feeling and the sense of honor are discussed in detail with the special aim of serving the teacher’s needs.

“It is a book that every child might read with profit if it were not forced upon him in the form of ‘lessons.’”

Cadogan, Edward.Makers of modern history: three types: Louis Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck. **$2.25. Pott.

Caffin, Charles Henry.How to study pictures. **$2. Century.

“Regarded as a frank imitation, however, the book is well enough of its kind.”

“Mr. Caffin helps people to look at pictures with their eyes, a not too common thing with writers on art, who mostly see pictures with their minds, which is quite a different matter.”

Caird, Edward.Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers. *$4.25. Macmillan.

Reviewed by George Burman Foster.

Caird, Mrs. Mona.Romantic cities of Provence; il. by Joseph Pennell and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.

“This is a book bred of a sojourn in Provence and attesting an awakened eye and sympathy. It aims to catch the spirit of the place, the indefinable quality lost in a hurried railway passage, and succeeds best, perhaps, in imparting the reflex effects produced upon the traveller. The book is illustrated from over two dozen pen sketches by Joseph Pennell and about twice the number by Edward M. Synge, who draws with a similar preoccupation with the effect of sunlight, but with a more downright stroke, a generally wider interspace in shading and a greater use of outline.”—Int. Studio.

“Mrs. Mona Caird brings a romancer’s love of sentiment and an artist’s powers of description to her ‘Romantic cities of Provence,’ with the happiest of results.” Wallace Rice.

“Certainly no one of the season’s volumes is better worth owning than is this.”

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro.Eight dramas of Calderon; freely tr. by E. Fitzgerald. $1.50. Macmillan.

The eight dramas included here are as follows: The painter of his own dishonor, Keep your own secret, Gil Perez the Galician, Three judgments at a blow. The mayor of Zalamea, Beware of smooth water, The mighty magician and Such stuff as dreams are made of.

“His versions appeal neither to the scholar nor to the general reader: the one is irritated by constant omissions, amplifications, and liberties of every kind, while the other is disappointed at finding that the Spanish atmosphere has vanished.”

“It will save searching in a general collection, and can be comfortably held in the hand.”

“The Eversley imprint, owing to its cheapness and excellent typography, will appeal to many lovers of the Spanish poet.”

Calvert, Albert Frederick.Moorish remains in Spain. **$15. Lane.

“Taken altogether, Mr. Calvert’s book is most disappointing, and we think that the Alhambra plates should be withdrawn.” A. J. Butler.

“The coloured plates reproduce admirably the delicate devices characteristic of Moorish workmanship at its best. Mr. Calvert habitually confounds legend with fact, and fails to distinguish between the random assertions of a tourist and the statements of a scholar.”

“His book, so complete in other respects, is without an index, a fact that detracts very greatly from its value to the student.”

“With regard to the Moorish ‘architecture and decoration’ in these three cities, the main theme of the book, Mr. Calvert is himself rather prone to superlatives and gush; and, moreover, does not clearly see that architecture is something altogether different from decoration.”

“The book seems worthy of its subject, and we would gladly give a more effective description of its many beauties.”

Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.

“There are unhappily gaps filled with second-rate productions, which detract considerably from the value of the whole.”

“As a book of reference this one has a certain value, though it is neither a monument of British scholarship nor of Continental, there being neither continuity nor unity in the product of a well-meant effort to weld the two. There is little charm of style anywhere, no quality of mysterious evolution in the subject which compels attention, no magisterial character in the book to command the highest respect. As to the bibliography, no arrangement could have been invented more forbidding to the searcher after authors, titles, or subjects.”

Reviewed by W. E. Lingelbach.

“It contains a great deal of good work by capable writers and if it does not reach Acton’s ideal, it does not fall far below that of M. Ernest Lavisse.”

“The weakest part of the scheme is its treatment of great men.”

“In the assignments of topics to their European associates, the editors of this important series have been especially happy. The division of the subject-matter into topics has been accomplished satisfactorily.” Henry E. Bourne.

“One is naturally tempted to compare the two volumes with the corresponding ones of their predecessor, the ‘Histoire generale.’ They are full of well-attested facts. But from the point of view of attractiveness of style and matter the English books fall behind the French. Its writers have not the French knack of dovetailing a striking incident or quotation into a perforce heavy narrative. All of them possess learning and industry; but taken as a whole their product is but dull reading, though there are exceptions.” W. E. Rhodes.

“It is in relation to international affairs, and especially to war, that the co-operative method breaks down worst. In a volume of such dimensions, with a scheme which drags most things away from chronological order, the lack of a thoroughly good index is especially unfortunate.” Hereford B. George.

“The volume is ample for clear views of Napoleon the man, the soldier, the statesman, and for his effect on the world in government, religion, society and art.”

“It is hard to see who will read the book, for the expert can get little from the disconnected monographs, while the layman is confused by the overlapping divisions, where there is no charm of style and no evolution which holds the attention.”

“The volume before us is inferior to none of its predecessors. Some of the chapters are of conspicuous merit, and throughout a very respectable standard is maintained, while, as the editors observe, ‘the dominance of an overwhelming personality gives the events narrated cohesion and unity.’”

“That part which deals with the literature printed and manuscript, including pamphlets and news letters, relating to the Thirty years’ war is likely to be of great service to students.”

“The general level of quality is well-sustained. It is perhaps not so high as in the first two volumes—‘Renaissance’ and ‘Reformation’—but it strikes us as rather higher than in the last preceding volume, that on the French revolution.”

“It must be acknowledged that the volume on Napoleon is not so uniformly excellent as the volumes on earlier epochs—the renaissance, the reformation, and the wars of religion.” Christian Gauss.

Reviewed by J. H. Robinson.

“There is not only a lack of general cohesion in the fragments but most of them are far from complete in themselves.”

Campbell, Douglas Houghton.Structure and development of mosses and ferns. *$4.50. Macmillan.

A recently re-written and enlarged edition of Professor Campbell’s work.

“That the book is fairly brought up to date goes without saying, though one may differ from the author as to the relative values among some of the newer researches, and may wish that some of the old figures had been replaced by new and better ones. Proof-reading throughout the volume has been very bad. The index is really absurd. Spite of defects ... we welcome the new edition and commend it to every botanist as a necessary reference work, even though he have the first.” C. R. D. and C. J. C.

“Professor Campbell is an ardent investigator, to whom cryptogamic botany is much indebted for substantial advance in certain directions, and he is, moreover, a clear expositor.”

“This edition without question must prove to be as helpful and suggestive as the one it supplants, and will be used by all students who wish to obtain a clear notion of the structure and relationship of higher plants.” Charles E. Bessey.

Campbell, Frances.Dearlove, the history of her summer’s make-believe. †$1.50. Dutton.

“Dearlove is a little maiden of eleven years, portrayed in a charming frontispiece. She holdssway over a family consisting of her grandfather, the Earl of Amherst; her uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady Inverona, and her young widowed mother Lady Margaret Gordon. The ‘Summer’s make-believe’ takes place on the Isle of Guernsey, where the family is spending a happy holiday. The ‘make-believe’ is an invention of Dearlove (otherwise Philomena,) who decrees that for the summer all the grownups shall become her age—except ‘Ganpa,’ who may be twenty-five—shall be called by their Christian names, and shall disport themselves like eleven-year-olds. How they do this, whom they meet, and what comes of it all makes a fanciful book.”—N. Y. Times.

“She tells her tale with a complete understanding of children and their ways; and heart as well as skill goes to make it the charming book it is.”

“The author can do better than this, but her gifts appear to us to lie in the direction rather of pure fantasy than fiction.”

“Will make grown-ups young again, if any book can.”

“The book is written in a style so limpid and pleasant, and tells about such true-hearted sweet people, besides having that indefinable thing we call ‘atmosphere,’ that, albeit with some grumbling, we fare on to the end.”

“Readers who like a series of charming sketches with a delicate thread of plot connecting them are cordially recommended to send for ‘Dearlove.’”

Campbell, Frances.Measure of life. **$1.50. Dutton.

“In her dedication Mrs. Campbell alludes to these tales and dreams as her ‘spiritual adventures,’ and that is perhaps the clearest description that can be given of them. Dreams, legends, and visions have each a golden thread of spiritual meaning woven into them. All the author’s eloquence is upon the side of right and goodness; her pages are full of counsels of perfection, of the wisdom of endurance, of the salutary effect of patience under pain, suffering and loss, of the value of self-sacrifice and tribulation in the discipline of life. Throughout she glorifies those bracing qualities which ordinary human nature is least inclined to go out of its way to cultivate. Some of the tales are charming in their tenderness and gaiety.... Others, of dreams and second sight, are curious and interesting.”—Acad.

“Ideas flow easily and find expression in a wealth of imagery that transforms familiar truths into something new and strange.”

“While her symbolical personages, such as the ‘master of illusion,’ are charming, her contemporary characters, whether English ladies or Irish peasants, do not entirely carry conviction. This criticism does not, however, hold good with regard to the still-life of the picture, which testifies to an intimate and sympathetic acquaintance with Irish landscape, and to a notable gift of description.”

Campbell, Scott, pseud. (Frederick William Davis).Below the dead line. †$1.50. Dillingham.

When Inspector Byrnes commanded New York police he issued an order demanding the instant arrest of every crook found by day or night in that part of the city lying south of Fulton street. This order soon earned for the district the title “Below the dead line.” This story records the operations of clever criminals who tried to evade the order.

Campbell, Wilfred.Collected poems. **$1.50. Revell.

A collection of Mr. Campbell’s poems that have appeared in American and English periodicals. They are prefaced by an introduction by the author in which he says “After all, the real root of all poetry, from Shakespeare to the latest singer, is the human heart.... It is man the hoper, man the dreamer, the eternal child of delight and despair, whose ideals and desires are ever a lifetime ahead of his greatest accomplishments, who is the hero of nature and the darling of the ages. Because of this true poetry will always be to him a language.”

“A poet whose inspiration is both strong and sustained.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Is marked neither by exquisite craft nor by great imaginative power.”

“His ‘Collected poems’ would have gained in poetic value by a more rigorous standard of selection, and by the drastic pruning of some of the pieces selected.”

“They have a pleasant ease and a very true and sensitive feeling for nature.”

“Some of his patriotic verses are as good as anything we have seen of the kind.”

Canning, Albert Stratford George.History in Scott’s novels. **$3.15. Wessels.

“Mr. Canning takes up fifteen novels in chronological sequence, from ‘The talisman’ to ‘Red-gauntlet.’ and runs through such portions of the plot as bring authentic personages into view.” (Nation.) “In each he explains the allusions, expands the references to historical facts, and in general connects romance with actuality.” (Outlook.)

“Is not without, some merit.”

Capart, Jean.Primitive art in Egypt; tr. by A. S. Griffith. *$5. Lippincott.

“M. Capart’s own part in the book appears to have been mostly confined to the selection of the matters to be reproduced, and this task has been discharged with both skill and judgment. The translation by Miss Griffith is adequate to its purpose.”

“It appeals, with its wealth of illustration and its sober judgment, to all who concern themselves in any wise with the civilization of primitive man. A word of praise should be said for the admirable work of the translator of the book, Miss Griffith ... her version reads like a bit of original English.” L. H. Gray.

Capen, Oliver Bronson.Country homes of famous Americans. **$5. Doubleday.

Capes, Bernard.Bembo: a tale of Italy. $1.50. Dutton.

“The tale opens in 1476, with the introduction of the heroine and a cavalier and their attendants going toward Milan. Later on in this chapter comes Bernard Bembo, who ‘mouths parables as it were prick-songs, and is esteemed among all as a saint.’ He is very youngin appearance and ‘pretty.’ And he is a ‘child propagandist interpreting and embodying in himself the spirit of love.’ The story is not based on fact, Mr. Capes points out in preface, but ‘the fundamental fact of nature.’”—N. Y. Times.

“In the novel Mr. Bernard Capes is quite at his best.”

“Not even Mr. Hewlett has so successfully reproduced the mediæval atmosphere. The whole characterization is of a piece with the swing and virility of the style. It is a fine work, and reaches the high-water mark of living romance.”

“Mr. Capes has produced in this moving and opulent work something that comes near to being a masterpiece.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The story is well told.”

“Extravagance and violent over-emphasis are the greatest faults of his style, which is always strained to top-pitch, and glaringly over-coloured.”

“His euphuism sometimes gets out of hand and mars the poetry of his tale, and sometimes he lingers so long on an emotion that the reader is a little repelled. But for the work as a whole we have nothing but praise.”

Carducci, Giosue.Poems of Italy: selections from the odes of Giosue Carducci; tr. with an introd. by M. W. Arms. **$1. Grafton press.

A half dozen pieces selected from “Odi barbare,” translated, introduced and annotated by M. W. Arms.

Carey, Rosa Nouchette.No friend like a sister. †$1.50. Lippincott.

Sister Gresham, the strong, capable, contented woman, who establishes a model nurses’ home and finds her life’s happiness in it is a friend to the other characters in the book, in times of stress or trouble. They all lean upon her; her favorite sister Eleanor, who is made happy by the chance confession of the man who dares not aspire to her, her brother Lyall who goes as a missionary to Africa, and his child-like wife who refuses to go with him and later wakes to a realization of her love and duty. There are other characters also, some of whom stand alone, and there is another love affair in which the daughter of an old country family throws aside conventional barriers to marry the man of her choice.

“Her popularity is no doubt deservedly due in great part to the extreme wholesomeness of her tone, which makes her stories eminently suitable for the young girl, and also a love of detail which appeals to a certain order of mind in old and young alike.”

“It is her complacency, and the apparent conviction that she is conveying the truest and best in life to her twenty-five thousand readers that make Miss Carey’s books irritating.”

Carey, Wymond.“No. 101.” †$1.50. Putnam.

“No. 101” is a spy of the time of Louis XV, who betrays the secrets of the French ruler to the British. The identity of this spy is a mystery, and anyone so unfortunate as to discover the secret perishes within twenty-four hours. An English captain, a French nobleman, Louis XV, and Mme. de Pompadour figure prominently in the story.

“Few of the figures have the indefinable quality of vitality, but perusal brings the not altogether unsatisfactory sensation of having assisted at a well-staged historical drama while still enjoying the comforts of the domestic hearth.”

“He has allowed himself considerable liberties with the facts of history. But in view of the capital tale he has produced, the reviewer can not but readily forgive him.”

“Taken by and large it is a good deal better (merely as an excuse for passing superfluous time away) than most of its kind.”

“The story is entertaining.”

“The book is well above the average, but lovers of Dumas need feel no anxiety.”

Carl, Katherine A.With the empress dowager. **$2. Century.

“If she has been led away by gratitude and kindly feeling, it is difficult to find fault with her. And we may add that the skill and insight needed for literary portraiture are not often combined with the painter’s craft.”

“Reveals one of the most important steps in the transformation now going on in that giant empire.” John W. Foster.

“Beside being fascinating in itself, reveals very much of historical and antiquarian interest to those who have read widely and critically in the court life of the vassal kingdoms around the Middle country.” W. E. Griffis.

“She is not to be blamed for writing of the empress as she found her. But she must not expect her readers to accept her estimate at face value.”

“Cannot boast of any special literary attractions. The book is worthy of what it has not, an index.”

“It is interesting in a way and up to a certain point. But all that one cares to read might have been put into a smaller compass.”

Carleton, Will.Poems for young Americans. $1.25. Harper.

The verses of Will Carleton that are peculiarly adapted to younger readers have been grouped under three headings as follows: Poems for young Americans, Poems of festivals and anniversaries, and Humorous verse.

“They have the trick of rime, but somewhere there is the false ring of patriotism, that comes whenever one tries hard to write patriotically.”

Carlile, Rev. Wilson, and Carlile, Victor.Continental outcast: land colonies and poor law relief; with a preface by Rt. Rev. E. S. Talbot. *60c. Wessels.

An account of a visit to some of the labor colonies of Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark by two men engaged in the work of the Church army of England, and actually interested in the improvementof the English poor law. “How the unemployed of every sort, able-bodied or infirm, honest or criminal, men in search of work or vagrants and beggars, are treated in Continental Europe is the subject of this instructive volume.” (Outlook.)

Carling, George.Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.

Trained in an unscrupulous school of finance, the hero of Mr. Carling’s tale shows how material success can be attained by very corrupt practices. An eavesdropping stenographer rises to the position of trust magnate and the rounds by which he did ascend materially are scathingly marked off. It is a sort of “crack o’ doom” warning to “high finance” aspirants.

“The book is not pleasant reading, but may be a faithful picture. The story part of it is closely, carefully, and skillfully woven. Its satire is perhaps rather too patent to be as biting as satire ought to be.”

Carling, John R.Viking’s skull. 75c. Little.

A popular edition of “The viking’s skull.” Mr. Carling has written a peculiarly interesting and thrilling story which involves the mystery centering about a crime, and the meaning of a runic inscription on an old Norse altar ring. The hero promises his mother before her death to find the criminal in whose stead his father is serving a life sentence. The father’s escape from prison and disappearance add to the mystery to be solved.

Carlyle, Thomas.French revolution.2v. $2.50. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets.” The books are pocket size, with flexible leather binding, and are printed in large clear type on Bible paper. The frontispieces are respectively portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Carman, (William) Bliss.Pipes of Pan. *$2. Page.

Five recent collections of Mr. Bliss Carman’s poetry make up this substantial volume. They are as follows: From the book of myths, From the green book of the bards, Songs of the sea children, Songs from a northern garden, and From the book of valentines.

“There is scarcely a piece in the present volume that is devoid of melodious cadences and poetic imagery, yet the effect of the whole is of sunrise on a foggy morning at sea. Mr. Carman’s later work lacks poetic intensity, and the reader of it takes little away with him.”

“It is the chief fault of this fluent and often charming verse that it, too, is singularly soulless.”

Carman, (William) Bliss.Poetry of life. **$1.50. Page.

Carmichael, Montgomery.In Tuscany: Tuscan towns, Tuscan types and the Tuscan tongue. **$2. Dutton.

“The author has lived long in the Tuscan cities and has learned to admire the Tuscan character. His book is a series of expositions of that character in various manifestations. First, there are some chapters about the temperament of the people in general; then descriptions of types, such as the priest, the cook and the coachman; then accounts of less-known localities—Portoferraio, Mont La Verna, Orbetello—and of the national sport and the national lottery.”—Ind.

“No English reader, who thinks of visiting Tuscany or taking up residence there, should fail to read his book.”

Carmichael, Montgomery, ed. Life of John William Walshe as written by his son Philip Regidius Walshe. *$1.50. Dutton.

“John Walshe, says his son, was a splendid scholar and a devoted servant of God. Of his scholarship he has left as a monument many volumes of material relating chiefly to St. Francis of Assisi; of his devotion to God, impressive evidence is given in this narrative of his quest to know God, a quest that began in England in his earliest youth and found its consummation in distant Italy, whither he had fled from his merchant father’s counting-room, and where he entered upon a life of study, love and religion that was to lead him to the purest and most profound mysticism. The phrase a nineteenth-century mystic sounds strange indeed, but such was John Walshe, and a mystic whose influence, as diffused by his son’s filial zeal, must touch with uplifting power all who read the story of his painful pilgrimage.”—Outlook.

“A most unusual, fine, eloquent, sincere, even inspired piece of writing.”

“It is not a great biography, indeed, it has sundry obvious defects from a purely literary standpoint. But whatever of blemish it may seem to us to hold is lost from sight in contemplation of the saintly figure it reveals.”

Carpenter, Edmund Janes.Long ago in Greece: a book of golden hours with the old story tellers. $1.50. Little.

The atmosphere and literary excellence of the old Greek tales are preserved in these twenty and more simplified stories. Among them are Homer’s “Battle of the frogs and mice,” a portion of Aristophanes’ “Birds,” the wooing of Pelops, the tale of Hero and Leander, Ovid’s version of Narcissus and his shadow, Hesiod’s account of Pandora’s curiosity, and Pindar’s sketch of Thetis and many others.

“It has the particular merit that it follows the originals very closely and preserves something of the atmosphere as well as the subject matter of the famous old stories that it presents.”

“They are retold simply and in every way made attractive to the youthful reader.”

Carpenter, Edward.Days with Walt Whitman. $1.50. Macmillan.

“Mr. Carpenter, an English gentleman, made the poet’s acquaintance in the sixties through his writings; but met him only in 1877. Seven years later they met again. The notes made by the disciple were written out carefully, and have been published in an English magazine, but now only in book form.... The book has a chapter on Whitman as a prophet, one on the poetic form of ‘Leaves of grass,’ and another, and by no means the least interesting, on Whitman and Emerson. The new volume should please the ever-widening circle of lovers of the ‘Good gray poet.’”—N. Y. Times.

Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

“What one misses most in the book is any evidence that the author saw and felt Whitman as a poet.”

“But while Traubel’s face to face likeness of Whitman in all his moods is more interesting, Carpenter’s book contains a more definite literary appreciation of the man and his genius.”

“Mr. Carpenter’s attitude and language are those of an entirely sane person; he writes entertainingly and interestingly, without gush. Yet that his opinion of Whitman was that of a pupil toward a chosen master appears on every page.”

“Pleasantly written, reminiscent book, in the entertaining style of Mr. Carpenter’s other books.”

“It is a pity so much of this book should be mere tittle-tattle.”

Carpenter, Edward Childs.Captain Courtesy, a story of Old California. *$1.50. Jacobs.

The struggle between Mexico and the United States in old California is intertwined with the story of Captain Courtesy whose Spanish mother and American father were killed by the Mexicans and who for six years waged a warfare of his own upon his enemies by becoming an outlaw whose name spelled terror, a daring road agent with a great price upon his head. After a series of bold adventures he wins an American wife and American citizenship.

“This is evidently a first book, and it shows many of the faults of the ’prentice hand. He merely skims over the surface of things, as if he were in haste to tell his slight little story with the fewest words possible.”

Carpenter, Joseph Estlin.James Martineau; theologian and teacher. *$2.50. Am. Unitar.

“The work is really a model of what a work of this kind should be.”

Carpenter, Rt. Rev. William Boyd, bp. of Ripon.Witness to the influence of Christ; being the William Belden Noble lectures for 1904. **$1.10. Houghton.

“The author demands scientific examination of the religious facts, and shows himself well informed in the latest literature on the psychology of the religious experience.” Thomas C. Hall.

“Its chief excellence is its suggestiveness; its chief defect, its lack of orderly treatment of the subjects undertaken.” Henry Thomas Colestock.

Carr, Clark Ezra.Lincoln at Gettysburg. **$1. McClurg.

Written primarily as an address and delivered before the State historical society of Illinois, Mr. Carr’s effort may be considered an appreciation well worth the time of any student and reader. He sketches the transition from the disappointment of the assembled Gettysburg multitude, over Lincoln’s speech to the dawning realization that it was a masterpiece of oratory, and a “crowning triumph of literary achievement.”

Reviewed by Edwin Erle Sparks.

Carrington, FitzRoy.Pilgrim’s staff: poems divine and moral, selected and arranged by FitzRoy Carrington. **75c. Duffield.

The aim of the compiler has been to choose from the verse of three and a half centuries a “handful of poems, beautiful in thoughts and spiritual import, which should reflect, as well as might be, in a space so limited, all moods for self abasement of utter unworthiness, to the courage born of a firm faith in the divinity of man, which can face, unafraid, the Great Unknown.”

“Though there are lacking some poems that one might expect in even so small a collection as this, those that are included have been discriminatingly selected.”

Carroll, Phidellia Patton.Soul-winning: a problem and its solution; with an introd. by C: H. Fowler. *50c. Meth. bk.

A seven part discussion of the problem of soul-winning treats The importance of soul-winning, Personal effort in soul-winning, A successful method, Steps leading to Christ, Children won by personal effort, A revival not absolutely essential to soul-winning, and Preparation for soul-winning.

“To all who follow Dr. Carroll in his apparent contention that winsomeness consists in words fitly spoken, this book will be of great and interesting and in some respects a difficult sub-permanent value.” Edward Braislin.

Carter, E. Fremlett.Motive power and gearing for electrical machinery: a treatise on the theory and practice of the mechanical equipment of power stations for electricity supply and for electric power and traction. *$5. Van Nostrand.

“The first edition of this book was issued in 1896.... The book is essentially a compilation of principles, theory and results of experiments of the mechanical engineering features of electrical power plants, with some illustrated descriptions of existing plants.... [It includes] many subjects which are usually treated in separate books. It is neither a textbook nor a work of reference but practically an encyclopaedic compilation, from various sources, of descriptions and data on mechanical engineering which are supposed to be of interest to the electrical engineer.”—Engin. N.

“The engineering student will find each of the subjects of this book treated in far better shape in numerous standard works, and the general reader who is not a student will find the book in many cases too difficult of comprehension for him.” William Kent.

Carter, Jesse Benedict.Religion of Numa, and other essays on the religion of ancient Rome.*$1. Macmillan.

In order to facilitate presentation, Mr. Carter divides Roman history into five epochs, those of the legendary kings and the semi-historical kings, the first half of the republic, the last half of the republic, the beginning of the empire, and the renaissance of religion under Augustus. It “is less a handbook than a sketch of the change by which the original agricultural and secluded mythology of Rome and its gods who had their proper home within the Pomerium, developed into the prevailing mythology of the classical period.” (Ind.)

“Gives, perhaps, as clear a general view as the reading public either desires or deserves. The work is entirely destitute of reference to authorities.” Andrew Lang.

“Mr. Carter gives no authorities and not too many details; hence his book will not supply the needs of real students of the subject. Nevertheless, the book will serve well as an introduction to the subject, being clearly and forcibly written.”

“This is a very valuable short study of an interesting and in some respects a difficult subject.”

“This little volume is full of suggestion and value.”

“The society may be congratulated on a carefully prepared and valuable volume.”

“Involves some interesting excursions in the bypaths of classical learning.”

“A readable sketch ... based on the recent critical work which has pieced together many isolated indications and filled numerous gaps by illuminating conjecture.”

Carter, Thomas.Shakespeare and the Holy Scriptures, with the version he used. *$3. Dutton.

“The good intentions and industry of the author of this volume are, of course, worthy of all respect, but we cannot avoid the feeling that they have been wasted on a tedious piece of work.”

Cartrie, Count de.Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F: Masson, and appendices and notes by Pierre Amédée Pichot. *$5. Lane.

A record of the extraordinary events in the life of a French royalist during the war in La Vendée, and of his flight to Southampton, where he followed the humble occupation of gardener.

“A work which reflects credit on all concerned.”

“As a tale of adventure, the work cannot fail to attract. It also has value as a side-light thrown on a memorable epoch in French history.”

“The interest of these memoirs is very great, great everywhere and they have considerable historic value.”

“Its limitations in interest are its best guarantee of genuineness: and in genuineness as a human document typically illustrative of personal fortunes during the French revolution its chief interest lies.” G: S. Hellman.

“This story of suffering and hairbreadth escape shows the nature of the struggle in a way that historians as well as students will welcome.”

Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady).Raphael. *75c. Dutton.

This little manual on the life and art of Raphael is the fourteenth volume in “The popular library of art.” The author tells about the “birth of Raphael and his life and studies at Perugia, Florence and Rome. She describes his Madonnas, the Vatican Stanze, his portraits of contemporaries, his work as architect and decorator, and his cartoons, the last of which, she says, ‘mark the final stage of Raphael’s artistic development.’” (N. Y. Times.)

“Mrs. Ady seems to have been helped by the rigid limitations of space to give us her very best. The essential acts of Raphael’s life and art could not have been stated more concisely. Nor has the necessary compression of the material made for dullness.”

“Within its limited compass, a singularly complete account of the character and development of Raphael’s work. She is of course thoroughly familiar with modern critical opinion, and as far as it goes her work is exact and scholarly.”

“The volume is a worthy successor to its forerunners.”

Carus, Paul.Friedrich Schiller. **75c. Open ct.

In Mr. Carus’ memorial volume fittingly contributed at the time of the Schiller centenary, a biographical sketch is followed by two essays on Schiller as a philosophical poet and on Schiller’s poetry. There are illustrative selections from the poet’s works given in both German and English.

“A concise but scholarly sketch of Schiller’s life and an appreciation of his poetry.”

“It is a book of popular character, and very interesting in its presentation of the subject.”

Carver, Thomas Nixon, comp. Sociology and social progress: a handbook for students of sociology. *$2.75. Ginn.

A book designed to be used as the basis for class-room discussions or to furnish collateral reading to a course of lectures. The author has gone out-side of systematic treatises on sociology for observations upon the phenomena of society, upon the laws of social growth and decay, and upon the problems of social improvement, and has presented them in form for the student and the general reader as well. The discussion is in three parts: part 1, The nature, scope and method of sociology; part 2. Sociology as a study of social progress—the direction of social progress; part 3. The factors of social progress.

“The general purpose is admirable, and Professor Carver’s book will be welcomed by sociologists as a distinct enlargement of library facilities.” G: E. Vincent.

“The compiler has produced a volume which will be of very great service to those of his readers who wish to get a general conception of the ideas of the best thinkers and students of society, but who have not the time to read the works inextenso, nor the wisdom to choose well.”

“The volume does not, accordingly, show us much of its compiler’s personal opinions, and can hardly, we think, be of great usefulness to the general reader.”

“The book is a timely one and should both promote and assist the teaching of sociology.”

Cary, Elisabeth Luther.Novels of Henry James: a study. **$1.25. Putnam.

“Miss Cary is not quite an ideal interpreter.”

“Elisabeth Luther Cary would appear to have done, in her study of Henry James, pretty much all for him that it is possible for an ardent disciple to do at this time.” H. W. Boynton.

Cary, Elisabeth Luther, and Jones, Annie Maria.Books and my food. **$1. Moffat.

Mental and physical aliment in the form of quotations and recipes for every day in the year.

“We hope that the culinary taste of the authors is in keeping with the literary.”

“On the whole, the object has been attained; but now and again an exception must be taken to the compiler’s accuracy.”

“The quotations will be a godsend to the harassed makers of menus for public occasions.”

Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Edgerton.Heart of Lady Anne. †$1.50. Stokes.

“It is very dainty, amusing and inconsequential.”

“The texture is of the lightest, but skilfully woven.”

“The book is gracefully written and is easy reading, but it will strike many readers as being as artificial as the age which it is intended to represent.”

Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Egerton.If youth but knew.†$1.50. Macmillan.

The time and rule of Jerome Bonaparte furnish the “occasion and material of this romance.... The period chosen by the authors is just anterior to the fall of Jerome, and the critical part of the narrative passes in Cassel at the King’s court. The atmosphere clothes this story as a garment from the very outset, when we make the acquaintance of the young Anglo-Austrian count and his chance companion, the wayfaring fiddler, Geiger-Hans. It begins to be romantic, it continues in the true vein of romance, and ends sweetly upon a proper romantic note, to the accompaniment of Geiger-Hans’s fiddle.” (Ath.)

“From the opening pages of the present story the stage and its machinery are always in sight. But once accept the book as a glorified libretto of a romantic opera, clever, dainty, delicately treated, and all runs smoothly and delightfully to the end.”

“It is a story throbbing with life, instinct with poetic feeling, and bearing the stamp of a creative power that is closely akin to genius.” Wm. M. Payne.

“This is one of the prettiest of the stories of Agnes and Egerton Castle.”

Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

Castleman, Virginia Carter.Roger of Fairfield. $1.25. Neale.

With picturesque and historic Virginia for a setting, reflecting the spirit of ante-bellum days, Miss Castleman follows the fortunes of Roger of Fairfield thru college and the theological seminary to his ordination and marriage.

Cather, Willa Sibert.Troll garden.†$1.25. McClure.

“For cultivation and distinction of style, Miss Cather may even rank with Mrs. Edith Wharton, but she is far more sympathetic, far deeper. Although her stories are short and unpretentious, they seem to me quite the most important in recent American fiction.” Mary Moss.

Catherine of Siena, St., tr. by Vida D. Scudder. *$2.50. Dutton.

Cator, Dorothy.Everyday life among the head-hunters, and other experiences from East to West. $1.75. Longmans.

“Without making any pretense to being scientific this plain and unvarnished but eminently readable, narrative ... contains a large amount of interesting information with regard to the customs and modes of life of both Dyaks and the less well known Muruts.” R. D.

Cattell, J. McKeen, ed. American men of science: a biographical directory. *$5. Science press, N. Y.

A “who’s who” for the men who work in the field of pure science.

Cavaness, Alpheus Asbury Brenton.Rubaiyat of hope. *$1. Meth. bk.

Omar’s red rose, wine-dyed, gives place to the lily which waves with a palm, symbol of victory. The author of this poem sounds a triumphant note of hope mastering despair, man mastering destiny. He teaches that “nothing can unhinge us but ourselves.”

Cawein, Madison Julius.Nature-notes and impressions, in prose and verse. **$1.50. Dutton.

Brief sketches in prose and verse taken from the author’s note book. “A memorandum of moods, of accents in nature, caught at the moment, to be elaborated later into a picture.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The whole output tends to give the impression that the successes themselves are not spontaneous but the mere chance triumphs of a highly self-conscious and wholly artificial method.”

“One of the qualities, indeed which in poetry serves to give him distinction, a remarkably affluent and picturesque imagery, in prose has a tendency to become a defect, rendering the style too poetic and imaginative and the periodsover-sustained. This is, indeed the chief limitation to the volume, but a limitation redeemed by the delicate picturing to be found on every page.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

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