Dickinson, Edward.Study of the history of music; with an annotated guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.
“It will be a vade mecum for all musicians, students, and music lovers.” W. J. Henderson.
“It offers a straightforward and scholarly treatment of the subject.”
“In its field there is probably no book in any language that can compare with this one in completeness, suggestiveness, clearness and general usefulness for the student of musical history.”
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.Greek view of life.3d ed. (new issue). **$1. McClure.
“It is an investigation and explanation of the attitude of the Greeks toward life, nature and humanity, based upon a study of the Greek classics.” (N. Y. Times.) “The book has five chapters.—1. The Greek view of religion, 2. The Greek view of the state, 3. The Greek view of the individual, 4. The Greek view of art, 5. Conclusion. Each chapter has its divisions carefully planned and succintly treated, and concludes with a useful summary.” (Dial.)
“A well-balanced and well-written book from the hands of a competent author.” F. B. R. Hellens.
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.Modern symposium.**$1. McClure.
“It is impossible, without more quotation, to do justice to the security and ease, the lightness and penetration combined, of Mr. Dickinson. The book is as charming as it is suggestive. In its author we have one of the few living Englishmen who can really write prose.”
“A suggestive little volume, well worth reading.”
“The book has a genuinely literary character and is entertaining in the best sense. The dramatic setting increases the interest; but there is a lack of spontaneity in the arranging of the speakers which mars the artistic effect; the chairman is too much in evidence.” David Phillips.
“We have to thank Mr. Dickinson for several pleasing epigrams, and the brilliant comparison of America and Europe, put into the mouth of Ellis the journalist, makes by itself the slender book worth reading.”
“He does his best for all, and he shows remarkable versatility in doing it.”
“It is, of course, the work of a critic, and its use is to interpret men of different opinions to each other. The defect of it is that while it throws much light upon opinions, it throws none on the problems.”
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.Religion: a criticism and a forecast. **50c. McClure.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
Dickson, Harris.Gabrielle, transgressor. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The scene of this romance, by the author of “The Ravanels,” is laid in the colonies. Gabrielle, daughter of a sturdy Frenchman, is married at the age of five and left to grow up in a convent. When she has reached a woman’s years, but while still a child in mind, she is taken forth to meet her husband. Before he arrives, however, an exiled prince of Turkey comes into the life of this impulsive young woman and, by his mystic suggestions of the Orient, takes her heart captive. The love story is especially ardent and has an unexpected ending.
“The author’s treatment of the theme makes the yarn rather less absurd than might have been expected.”
“It is an ‘Arabian nights’ tale without the simple faith of the narrator which conquers the incredulity of the reader. Hence the interest it excites is languid, and it is not easy to follow it to its finish.”
Dignan, Frank W.Idle actor in Aeschylus. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
In his monograph Mr. Dignan shows that the fault of Aeschylus’s technique, if it really exists, is due to material limitations and to the restraints of tradition.
Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong.Book of the spiritual life, with a memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.
“Should be read by everyone interested in the literature of art.” Royal Cortissoz.
Dill, Samuel.Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius.*$2.50. Macmillan.
“The work is a magnificent piece of historical synthesis. It is drawn from many sources, and presents a comprehensive view of the intellectual, social, moral and religious conditions of an important epoch. Whether the author’s opinions will receive universal acceptance may be doubted.” Patrick J. Healy, D. D.
Dillon, Mary.In Old Bellaire. †$1.50. Century.
A quaint old Pennsylvania town with its cavalry school and dashing young officers at the east end and its students and intellectual mentors at the west end furnishes the scene of his story of the early sixties. The heroine is a prim little Puritan maiden whom it takes four years to convince that Quaker teaching and Northern prejudices can be made compatible with her love for a handsome, fastidious, daring, Southern-bred lover.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
“Treats of the war time with the admirable poise and impartial spirit we have learned to expect.”
“To our ears the conversations have an unreal, stilted sound.”
Dillon, Mrs. Mary C.The leader. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The story is concerned mainly with the career of a statesman, in whom it is the author’s evident intention to picture William J. Bryan, who has made himself the leader and the idol of the masses of his party. A large part of the narrative is taken up with events connected with the last Democratic national convention. There are some spirited descriptions of convention scenes, and a very good picture is presented of the convention as a whole.”—N. Y. Times.
“All in all, ‘The leader’ is a great political work—a matchless campaign document. It were superfluous to dwell on the evidence that its author is as unskilled in the use of the English language as most makers of political documents; that the construction of her novel, considered merely as a novel, is as shaky as that of many a party platform.” Edward Clark Marsh.
“One feature of the book, however, is distinctly offensive; that is the affectation of British phrasing for the common details of American life.”
“The veil of fiction cast over these incidents is of the thinnest; the writer’s art gives them no fresh meaning.”
“Mrs. Dillon’s sole equipment for the writing of fiction is a knack for descriptive narrative. The plot of her story could hardly be more flimsy or more hackneyed.”
“A very good story in a conventional way, although the politics are rather bookish, and the social background is not specially true to any American locality.”
Discrepant world: being an essay in fiction by the author of “Through spectacles of feeling.” $2. Longmans.
“The scene is a Scottish village; there is a real story; there are several real characters from a lord to a pussy-cat that purred ‘three threads and a thrum;’ there are incidents as startling as a murder, and there are many deaths.... The author puts his folks into promising dilemmas, then ... has recourse to nature’s method—always ready. Fortunately the story is told with nature’s own simplicity, and the resultant for the reader is a vast cheerfulness in woe.”—Nation.
“This book is really good.”
Dix, Beulah Marie.Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The book is alive; now and again it may border on the melodramatic, but it is all wholesomely good and healthily sentimental. The presentation shows power, skill, and sympathy, and we congratulate the author.”
“Miss Beulah Dix is an accomplished artificer of historical romance.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Is really interesting.”
Dix, Morgan, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York; compiled in large part from original documents, by order of the corporation. 4v. **$5. Putnam.
The last volume of the four devoted to the history of Trinity church brings the account of the earliest Episcopal church in the city of New York down to the accession of the author who is the present rector.
“An interest ... far wider than the limits of the parish, albeit the largest and most influential parish in the land.”
“When the time shall come for the history of this period to be written, let us hope that the historian will go back over the contents of this fourth volume, and, using the material therein collated, will place it in its true historic perspective and in its proper relation to the times now present.”
“The work now finished is rather the collection of material for history than history itself.”
“A variety of incidents that attracted much public interest in their time occur in this record.”
Dixon, Richard Watson.Last poems of Richard Watson Dixon. Selected and ed. by Robert Bridges. *$1.40. Oxford.
“There are less than two-score pages in this final sheaf of song, and more than half of them are occupied by ‘Too much friendship,’ a miniature epic having for its hero an Athenian whose fortunes (or misfortunes) suggest those of both King Candaules and Job.” (Dial.) “Though this little volume holds the last gleanings of a poetic field, the ears of corn are firm and sound.” (Acad.)
“The first-piece, a tale of Roman friendship, is indeed unsuccessful, but the more intimate poems have a directness which at once arrests attention.”
“His lyrical faculty which was considerable, shows here somewhat laboriously, and yet it is from the purely lyrical pieces that the book derives such value as it may possess.”
“A poet of sincerity and thoughtfulness.” Wm. M. Payne.
Dixon, Thomas, jr.Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.
Doat, Taxile Maximin.Grand feu ceramics; tr. by S: E. Robineau. *$7.50. Keramic Studio pub. co., Syracuse, N. Y.
The series of articles by the well-known French authority on pottery which appeared in the “Keramic studio” during 1903. Part 1 is a view of the position of porcelain at the beginning of the twentieth century: Part 2 covers the ground of the technical instruction in the making of the Grandfeuporcelain andgrès.
“Comprehensive handbook.”
Dodd, Lee Wilson.Modern alchemist, and other poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The author says:
“I would not have you think me all I seemIn these illuding mimicries of dream.”
“I would not have you think me all I seemIn these illuding mimicries of dream.”
“I would not have you think me all I seemIn these illuding mimicries of dream.”
“I would not have you think me all I seem
In these illuding mimicries of dream.”
Further
“My art, you see, is just to take a hintExpand and make it permanent in print.”
“My art, you see, is just to take a hintExpand and make it permanent in print.”
“My art, you see, is just to take a hintExpand and make it permanent in print.”
“My art, you see, is just to take a hint
Expand and make it permanent in print.”
Observations of men and things, and retrospect in history’s and fancy’s realm have furnished most of the hints of his poems.
“There is stuff in these poems—deep thought and deep feeling. And conjoined with them is a delicacy of touch that shows the artist keeping the upper hand of his emotions.” Wm. M. Payne.
“There is brain work behind Mr. Dodd’s verse, and poetic information. There is at present a certain overemphasis in Mr. Dodd’s phrasing which blunts his fineness.”
“It is a pleasure to take up ‘A modern alchemist.’ It gives no hint that a great poem has arisen; but there is an agreeable certainty that the author has something to say and has not disdained to learn the art of saying it.”
Dodge, David Low.War inconsistent with the religion of Jesus Christ; with an introd. by Edwin D. Mead. 75c. Ginn.
This volume contains both of Mr. Dodge’s famous old pamphlets, with an introduction which tells the story of his remarkable life and reviews his pioneering work in the peace cause in the early part of the century.
Dodge, Henry Irving.Other Mr. Barclay; drawings by Nella Fontaine Binckley. †$1.50. Consolidated retail booksellers.
A tale of Wall street. “The plot concerns a certain Mr. Barclay, who was a bear, and went short to such an extent that he was ruined. After that he retired to a country town called Cosburg, and filled the place with frenzy. For he got the inhabitants interested in a pool, and later admitted them all as partners with himself in a joint stock grocery concern.” (N. Y. Times.) “The devastation wrought in a sleepy village by one stock gambler who fans the spirit of greed is forcibly depicted.” (Outlook.)
“The author knows his subject and handles it with directness and spirit.”
“With the narrative goes much shrewd country humor and more than a passing insight into the rustic temperament.”
Dodge, Henry Nehemiah.Mystery of the West. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
A book of stirring verse dedicated to “sea lords strong of soul” who boldly discovered new lands, to “the heroic dead” who bled for freedom, and to the faithful who guard the state from wrong.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Dole, Charles Fletcher.Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c. Crowell.
The Ingersoll lecture for 1906. Mr. Dole maintains that the hope of immortality arises out of a unity of thought, feeling and conduct, and he gives cumulative facts in which human life consists and which point to the hope of future life.
“The perusal of this little volume leaves one questioning whether any better argument will ever be addressed to doubters of the future life.”
Dole, Charles Fletcher.Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.
A timely work dealing fairly and hopefully with the leading problems of present-day democracy and showing what real democratic government is.
“Though the book is full of suggestive and helpful thoughts and on the whole is a valuable contribution to social progress, it is far inferior, we think, to Mr. Henry George’s latest work ‘The menace of privilege,’ in which democracy is treated in a far more fundamental and able manner.”
“We need an accurate, clear and thoroughgoing description of actual social conditions, and a sound, practical, restrained indication of ways in which we may better ourselves. To the satisfaction of the first of these needs, Mr. Dole has made a worthy and suggestive contribution, but we cannot think that his treatment of the second has permanent significance.”
“Its style is clear; its principles are simple and put with great simplicity. It embodies many wise suggestions. But it lacks intellectual coherence. On the whole, the book must be described as an expression of the author’s social and political ideals, many of which are admirable, rather than as an interpretation of historical facts or a study of fundamental social principles.”
Dole, Nathan Haskell, comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.
“The selections from the various English translators have been most judiciously made.”
Donaldson, James.Westminster confession of faith and Thirty-nine articles of the Church of England: the legal, moral, and religious aspects of subscription to them. *$1.20. Longmans.
“By the decision of the House of Lords the vast properties of the Free church of Scotland pass over to the “Wee Frees,” a little company of belated ministers who in 1900 refused to acquiesce in the union of the Free church and the United Presbyterian. The ground of the verdict of the last court of appeal is that the Free church has departed from the literal and rigid terms of the Confession of faith, thereby forfeiting its belongings of whatever sort to the insignificant minority who still accent the Confession in its original bare, bald literalness. This, with its manifold implications is the theme to which the principal of St. Andrews addresses himself.”—Am. J. Theol.
“Principal Donaldson’s volume ought to awaken serious inquiry in the minds of all Christians who are fettered by creed subscriptions, for it all goes to show how unwise it is, and how dishonest and how morally ruinous, to cling to an outworn creed and outwardly to maintain religious tenets which the subscriber knows are no longer tenable.” Eri B. Hulbert.
“This is a deeply interesting book dealing with subjects which are smouldering to-day and may be burning to-morrow. We would offer to the writer of so thought-provoking a book not polemics but thanks.”
Doney, Carl G.Throne-room of the soul: a study in the culture of the spiritual. $1. Meth. bk.
The synopsis of thirty sermons on the culture of the soul.
Donnell, Annie Hamilton.Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.
“As a whole the story is an admirable example of that American school of fiction which esteems simplicity in art as its highest achievement.”
“And she deserves to live in our hearts along with Mrs. Rice’s ‘Lovey Mary.’”
Donnell, Annie Hamilton.Very small person; il. by Elizabeth Shippen Green. †$1.25. Harper.
The stories here are about children but their lesson is entirely for grown ups who have in their trust the developing child. The little comedies as well as the heart tragedies of children grow pathetic when there is no one near with whom to share them. It is to such a lonely group of children that the author turns in her sketches. It is a book for every mother.
“They are written, for the most part, with a delicate art, with a keen sympathy for the needs of the childish heart, and a humorous appreciation of the workings of the childish mind. The central theme of most of the stories, however, lacks freshness both in idea and method of treatment.”
“The effect is decidedly morbid.”
Dorsey, George Amos.Cheyenne. 2v. ea. 50c. Field Columbian museum.
An extensive monograph on the ceremonial organization of the Cheyenne which appears in the anthropological series of publications of the Field Columbian museum.
“A most interesting and valuable account of some of the social organizations of the Cheyenne Indians.”
Doub, William Coligny.History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.
“The author has carried the grouping system to the extreme. Among the commendable features are the following: the space given to the life of the people; comparatively few pages given to accounts of the wars; and the large number of well-executed maps.” J. A. James.
Dougherty, John Hampden.Electoral system of the United States; its history together with a study of the perils that have attended its operations; an analysis of the several efforts by legislation to avert these perils, and a proposed remedy by amendment of the constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.
Mr. Dougherty’s book “deals with the counting of votes for president and vice-president of the United States. Mr. Dougherty tells the story of debates over the question and of the settlement of the dispute between the Senate and House of representatives in 1877; he reviews the judgments of the Electoral commission in Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina, and criticises the law of 1877. There are also discussions of the dangers of the electoral system and the ‘evils’ of the general election ticket system. The book closes with a remedy and explanation of it.”—N. Y. Times.
“While we cannot but think that Mr. Dougherty’s work would have profited by condensation, particularly in its summaries of the opinions of members of Congress, its historical merits are both sound and considerable. So far as he has gone, his work is not likely to need doing over again.” Wm. MacDonald.
“Invaluable as a historical treatise.”
“The one adverse criticism that can be passed upon the book is that the author’s rigid ideals of historical exposition have led him to employ such wealth of detail that only the trained scholar will be able to keep a clear notion of what is essential in the work.”
“It is a searching review and criticism of the electoral system now in vogue, and altho it undoubtedly fails to take sufficient account of the obstacles in the way of radical reform proposed, it is a critique of no small value in reference to a subject which has hitherto received too little attention considering its importance to the Republic.”
“Mr. Dougherty has done an excellent piece of work in pointing out the evils of the present system.”
“All will not agree with his proposed remedies for the defects in the existing method of choosing the National chief executive, but none can fail to find suggestive value in the successive chapters.”
Douglas, James.Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.
“The book as it stands is well worthy of careful consideration.”
“Despite all that has been written on Quebec, Dr. Douglas manages to give us a fresh, unhackneyed and characteristic volume.”
Dowd, Alice M.Our common wild flowers of springtime and autumn. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
While this volume will undoubtedly hold the interest of all young nature lovers it is intended primarily for school use and to this end is divided into four parts for use in four successive school years, and excludes those plants which blossom only during vacation days. The plants chosen are common to the northeastern part of the United States, and their classification follows the sequence of families adopted by the most recent botanical works.
“There is nothing of a scientific value to be derived from the use of such a text. But judged by the existing standards of nature study as it actually exists in our schools, the book has much to commend it.”
“We do not feel quite so sure that the writer is a safe guide in matters of teleology, or the doctrine of final causes.”
“Its author has contrived by careful condensation to pack much literary and artistic reference and allusion into its small space.”
Dowden, Edward.Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Professor Dowden’s volume is by no means contemptible, but it is unfortunate, like most of this serial piecework, in doing again what has been better done already.”
Downey, Edmund.Charles Lever: his life and his letters.2v. *$5. Scribner.
The author of “Harry Lorrequer,” and “Charles O’Malley” contributes somewhat to his own biography, thru letters and autobiographical prefaces to early stories which primarily show him to be a “typical good fellow,” with an amount of spring in his temperament and the power of enjoying life. The social and literary man, with a warm interest in politics, was a “good husband and father; he was honest (though his sincerity was sometimes under suspicion from the rapidity of his conclusions); he was kind; but he always got through more than he earned, and the result is a record of perpetual struggle to meet the claims upon him.... His extravagance led to a growing discontent, which reached unreasonable proportions. He was incapable alike of correcting his proof-sheets and his indulgences and grew embittered, unable to keep friends with himself, as the ‘good fellow’ is expected to do.” (Ath.)
“One would think it were an impossible feat to write a dull life of such an author, and yet, we fear, it has very nearly been accomplished by Mr. Edmund Downey.”
“It consists of materials for such a biography, but needs ... rigorous selection. There is a fair index, but the proof-reading has not been well done.”
“On the whole the brilliant passages in these letters are much fewer than would have been expected.” H. W. Boynton.
“He wisely decided to base the work almost entirely upon the letters and other autobiographicalmaterial at his disposal, and the result is very satisfactory, though it might perhaps have been more so if the matter had been condensed into half the space.”
“Not even its careful workmanship gives it the flavor of an ideal biography. Mr. Downey’s index ... leaves much to be desired.” Percy F. Bicknell.
“Mr. Downey’s biography is a great improvement on the previous one by Dr. Fitzpatrick. He is much more careful than his predecessor about his facts, and he has had the advantage of using new documents.”
“These two volumes will probably be read when his novels are never taken from the shelf.”
“These letters reveal the man. Nothing, in fact, could give posterity a better idea of the Irish novelist.”
“Mr. Downey’s volumes, however, are avowedly rather a supplement and corrective than a substitute [for Mr. Fitzpatrick’s Life.]”
“He kept his fun for his books. We cannot blame him; but his biography suffers.”
Downs, Sarah Elizabeth (Forbush) (Mrs. George Sheldon).Step by step. †$1.50. Dillingham.
An unusually wholesome, possible story for young people. It sketches the upward career of an orphan lad who early learns how to operate in his life a demonstrable principle of success.
Dowson, Ernest.Poems, with a memoir by Arthur Symons. *$1.50. Lane.
Reviewed by P. H. Frye.
Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.Green flag.*50c. Fenno.
A new popular edition of stories of war and sport which include besides the title story: Captain Sharkey, which recounts certain adventures in the career of a notorious pirate; The crime of the brigadier, in which the criminal himself tells of his strange fox hunt; The Croxley master; The “Slapping Sal”; The lord of Châteaunoir; The striped chest; A shadow before; The king of the foxes; The three correspondents; The new catacomb; The début of Bimbashi Joyce; and A foreign romance.
Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.Sir Nigel; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.
“Paladin deeds crowd one on another in this story. The plot is highly colored, and concerns principally three deeds which Nigel swears to perform before he will return from Brittany to claim the Lady Mary Buttesthorn. Forced marches and the taking of robbers’ castles, and joustings for love of fighting, and real battles for the king, all befall on the way. How young Nigel captured ‘The Red Ferret’ and took the castle of La Brohiniere, and finally at the battle of Poitiers took prisoner King John II. of France, thus accomplishing his vows, and how he was knighted by the ‘Black Prince’ and sent home to get married is clearly and graphically told in this book.”—N. Y. Times.
“He has taken pains with his authorities, and the result is an unqualified success.”
“As a narrative pure and simple, Sir Nigel deserves unstinted praise.” Beverly Stark.
“Excellent as the story is in general, it is not flawless—what story is? The author is not immune from the besetting sin of the Celtic temperament—exaggeration.”
“Nor does Sir Arthur ever quite fall between the two stools of explanation and action. It is only that the constant jumping from one to the other is not always deftly executed. But that is our only criticism. The spirit of the fourteenth century is well interpreted.”
“As a picture of the times, the book is successful, though the story does not seem so gripping as ‘The white company.’”
“The novel is not only a spirited story, but a very carefully drawn picture of the age of chivalry, bringing out both the heroism and the brutality of that period and interpreting its spirit in its activities, ideals, dress, and social organization.”
“He can give you, in short, everything in the time and of the time but the time itself. That eludes him.”
Dozier, Orion Theophilus.Poems. $1.25. Neale.
The third edition of Mr. Dozier’s poems including “A galaxy of southern heroes” and other poems of former publications.
Dresser, Horatio Willis.Health and the inner life: an analytical and historical study of spiritual healing theories; with an account of the life and teachings of P. P. Quimby. **$1.35. Putnam.
“Mr. Dresser’s book is primarily devoted to rehabilitating the memory of Mr. P. P. Quimby whom the author declares to have been the founder of the new movement in this country.”—Pub. Opin.
“Mr. Dresser’s last book has the great virtue of presenting abstract truths concretely, in good literary style.”
Driscoll, Clara.In the shadow of the Alamo. †$1.50. Putnam.
“Local color rather than plot is the most conspicuous element in these half-dozen sketches of the San Antonio valley. The spirit of the grim old Alamo pervades all of them and in one of them, Miss Driscoll tells once more the tale of soul-stirring bravery forever associated with its walls.”—Critic.
“Pathos and passion are both to be found in the stories, but it is the atmosphere which is most delightful.”
“They stray from probability and lack skill in the telling.”
“A lack of literary finish and artistic proportion makes the reading somewhat tedious.”
Dubois, Rev. Leo. L.St. Francis of Assisi, social reformer. *$1. Benziger.
A purely sociological study of St. Francis in which “an effort is made to describe the steps by which he became a reformer, the work accomplished by him, the processes of his mind andthe traits of his character as far as these affected his reform work, the racial ideas and principles on which his reform work was grounded.”
“In many ways it does not compare favorably with the well-known biography of Sabatier, to which the author gives high praise.”
Dubois, Paul.Influence of the mind on the body; tr. from the 5th Fr. ed. by L. B. Gallatin. **50c. Funk.
The education of the reason to control physical health is the watch word of Dr. Dubois’ little volume. In his discussion of the reciprocal influence which the spirit and body, the moral and the physical, exert upon each other, he believes that religion can be efficacious only when it creates a living philosophy in him who practices it, that such a philosophy has power to order harmony.
Dubois, Dr. Paul.Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.
“He does not make any exaggerated claims.”
Du Bose, William Porcher.Gospel in the gospels. **$1.50. Longmans.
“‘The gospel in the gospels’ is their revelation of God in humanity and of humanity in God. Christianity is described ‘in its largest sense to be the fulfillment of God in the world through the fulfillment of the world in God.’ In these three stages are marked—(1) the gospel of the earthly life of Jesus, the common humanity; (2) the gospel of the resurrection, expressive of the new power communicated by Jesus as the conqueror and destroyer of sin and death; (3) the gospel of the incarnation, presenting the works wrought by Jesus as no mere act of an exceptional humanity, but a work of God, fulfilling and completing himself in humanity. These three stages constitute the main divisions of the work.”—Outlook.
“The former publications of Professor W. P. Du Bose ... have raised high expectations, which are justified in this his latest work.”
“The strong point of Mr. Du Bose’s book is, to the mind of the present writer, that it offers a logical position to metaphysically-minded persons who are already emotionally and spiritually convinced.”
Du Cane, Col. Herbert, tr. War in South Africa. **$4. Dutton.
An authorized translation of the German official account of the war in South Africa. Following a four part narrative of the war’s events is a “Tactical retrospect” of the conflict “in which are considered the skill of the Boers in the employment of their weapons, the defects of their methods of fighting, ‘innocuous’ bombardments, misapplied manoeuvres, the ‘essence’ of war, the difficulties confronting the offensive, the essential need for mental development.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Colonel DuCane’s translation of the German history has its place marked in the library of all soldiers who study their profession in a serious manner.”
“While the book is written primarily for military purposes, it serves admirably as a history of the war for more general reading.”
“A book of considerable value to students of military matters, whether for tactical or historical purposes.”
“The text is clear, sober, and balanced throughout.”
“Admirable translation.”
Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson).Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.
“Those who have wandered much in France will enjoy this book, and those who have not may by it conceive a desire to do so.”
Dudden, F. Holmes.Gregory the Great: his place in history and thought. 2v. *$10. Longmans.
A biography which portrays “distinctly the Gregory of his own time.” (Lond. Times.) The sketch follows a three-fold division: (1) a detailed history of the life of Pope Gregory the Great; (2) a systematic exposition of Gregory’s theological opinions; (3) an account of the political, social and religious characterization of the Gregorian age. “Mr. Dudden has fairly faced his difficult task, and his industry has been equal to his courage. The book rests upon a thorough analysis of the original sources to which, by the way, an admirable index serves as guide, whether one use the narrative or not. On the other hand, modern authorities, unfortunately, have been almost entirely ignored.” (Lond. Times.)
“His book is a solid piece of genuine historical work which bears witness to conscientious and laborious research. So thorough is his method that he scarcely leaves room for a future writer to add anything to what will be henceforth the standard work on the subject.”
“It rests everywhere sanely and safely on a personal study of the sources, guided and corrected by a wide knowledge of the researches of modern scholars.” George L. Burr.
“Mr. Dudden must be congratulated upon the ample and well-devised scheme of his work. He cannot be congratulated upon his omission of all reference to the work of other scholars. In the more general field of thought and theology of the age Mr. Dudden fails, if at all, in completeness. He does not take a wide enough sweep. Gregory’s mental peculiarities are treated too much as isolated phenomena. It seems ungracious to dwell so much upon what is absent from so laborious, honest and interesting a book. Had Mr. Dudden allowed himself more time and more liberty of judgment it would have been fully successful.” E. H. Watson.
“Adequate knowledge of the things Gregory said and did, and the sound sense to estimate their value; also an intimate acquaintance with the men and policies of the pope’s period, and sane historical judgment to test them, are conspicuous characteristics of Mr. Dudden’s work: and if the biographer has given us many pages—more than are necessary to satisfy our bare necessities—we may well forget to grumble, and may say our grace with thankfulness.” John Herkless.
“The style is clear and without affectation.”
“Mr. Dudden has succeeded in bringing out in clear relief the truly constructive aspects of his work, and in leaving on the reader’s mindan adequate impression of one of the greatest of Christian prelates.”
“For so thorough and informing a piece of historical labor it is wonderfully entertaining.”
“An abler apologist than Mr. Dudden it would be impossible to find; because his defense is indirect and implicit, it is all the more convincing.”
“By reason of its literary merit, its vitalising power over the past, its successful relation of ancient springs of action to living and universal movements, and its strictly scientific use of difficult and often obscure material, will remain the standard work on the spiritual significance of the sixth century in the West.”
Dudeney, Mrs. Henry E.Battle of the weak: or, Gossips Green; il. by Paul Hardy. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A story of love of nearly a hundred years ago is set in a scene furnished by a little town of southern England near the sea. “Quaker Jay was always a Southerner, passionate and voluble, delighting in colour, music, and sunshine. Lucy Vernon, in love with love and with Quaker, and as much a child of the summer and sunshine as he, was married by arrangement to a husband whose gods were decency, self-restraint, and domestic order.” (Lond. Times.) From this romantic chaos unanticipated order finally emerges.
“Lovers of ‘Susan’ will turn eagerly to ‘Gossips Green’, and they will not be disappointed.”
“Its author, in true modern fashion, is concerned less with the theme of the story ... than with the manner of telling it; and this manner, is in the main, admirable—sympathetic, humorous, artistic, yet conveying withal a slight suggestion of insincerity.”
“There are many poignant pages in Mrs. Dudeney’s new book, and for their sake she may be pardoned the palpable effort she had to make at last to secure a happy ending.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The story ... is not always pleasant reading, and it is extremely difficult to believe in the reality of Quaker Jay, the foundling.”
Dudley, John William Ward, 1st earl of.Letters to “Ivy” from the first Earl of Dudley; ed. with introd. and notes, by S. H. Romilly. *$5. Longmans.
“All who are interested in the politics of the period between Pitt’s death in 1806 and the great Reform bill of 1832 will be delighted with these letters of Lord Dudley to Mrs. Dugald Stewart.” (Sat. R.) “Speaking broadly, one-third of the papers may be called unimportant, since they are but hasty notes illustrating merely the writer’s filial affection for Mrs. Stewart. The other two-thirds consist of moderately long epistles—epistles, at any rate, which are long enough to disclose the nature of Ward’s tastes and mind.... The correspondence here published runs parallel during the greater part of its course with the ‘Creevy papers,’ and covers some of the ground traversed by the first volume of Grenville.” (Nation.)
“The book is efficiently edited ... the one objection that we have to make against it is its title.”
“Mr. Romilly’s chapter-prefaces are, in general, excellent, but his notes are too exclusively political.”
“In these letters he is seen at his best. They are a rich feast for all who enjoy the lighter phases of politics, literature, society and travel.”
“The interest attaching to these letters is much greater than that belonging to the average volume of eighteenth-century correspondence, and, quite apart from their service in recalling the memory of an extraordinary man, they bring us much nearer to Dudley himself than do any of his other writings.”
“As a lively contemporary view of the men and events of that critical period they possess something of the attraction which belongs to those of Horace Walpole himself for a period slightly earlier.”
“Next to their keenness and geniality, their predominant note is extreme sanity. Written in an easy and affectionate style, and full of shrewd judgments on politics and society. We cannot praise too highly the editorial work of Mr. S. H. Romilly.”
“Not only are they excellent in themselves, but they reveal a strange and curiously attractive figure, somewhat of a mystery to his generation, and almost forgotten nowadays save by diligent students of memoirs.”
Dudley, M. E.Tangled threads: a tale of Mormonism. 50c. Badger, R: G.
An anti-mormon poem which in nine cantos of rhymed couplets tells the direful story of the handsome Mormon Rolland, of the wives he married, and of his death which finally set them free.
Duignan, W. H.Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.
Duke, Basil W.Morgan’s cavalry.$2. Neale.
Gen. Duke “who has fought under John Morgan gives some accounts of various raids in which he took part. His point of view is that of a Kentucky man who went South; and what is of most interest in the volume is the description of the straits to which the Kentucky secession regiments were driven in the last period of the war, especially after the secession of Lee and Johnston.” (Nation.)
“It is really a long time since there has come into this office a Civil-war book affording such unmixed satisfaction.”
“It contains, moreover, a vast deal of interesting and picturesque matter—in spite of the fact that Gen. Duke is not always cunning at narrative—and throws as much light on the actual state of affairs in the Western army, especially as to the weaknesses of that army, as any contribution to the subject that we now recall.”
“His is a well-written narrative, direct, simple, aglow with human interest, rich in anecdote, and free from animosity against those who brought his leader’s and his own efforts to naught. As a military history it is somewhatopen to criticism, but corrective readings can easily be obtained, and it is undoubtedly deserving of a wide audience.”
Dumas, Alexandre.Count of Monte Cristo; complete rev. tr. with biographical sketch by Adolphe Cohn. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Compactness and utility are foremost among the characteristics that recommend the thin paper two volume sets. This “Monte Cristo” with its two thousand pages will occupy no more than two inches of shelf space. A biographical sketch of Dumas and an introduction make the book desirable from a student’s viewpoint.
Dunbar, Agnes B. C.Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4. Macmillan.
“We have found the references, as far as we have been able to verify them, exact and correct. No Catholic library ought to be without this useful work.”
Dunbar, Paul Laurence.Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.
“Tho they are songs without notes, they have a lilt by which they sing themselves for the reader. Mr. Dunbar’s poems are much the better of the two, but some of the photographs reproduced in ‘Banjo talks’ have the greater artistic merit.”
Dunbar, Paul Laurence.Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.
“Every poem in this little collection counts.”
Duncan, Norman.Adventures of Billy Topsail.†$1.50. Revell.
The second edition of a book that can delight the heart of a real boy. The author says “All Newfoundland boys have adventures; but not all Newfoundland boys survive them.” Billy Topsail is among the lucky survivors of prank and adventure. He captures a huge devil fish, goes whaling, is lost on a cliff, runs away to join a sealer, and is equally ready in calm or gale, high tide or low to beat any companion’s emergency record. A wholesome book with the right spirit for boys.
“A rare style marks the book.”
“‘The adventures of Billy Topsail’ ... are not in themselves of absorbing interest, and Mr. Duncan’s style is rather spasmodic and impressionistic, but they have the virtue of being out of the ordinary.”
Duncan, Norman.Mother.†$1.25. Revell.
Duncan, Robert Kennedy.New knowledge: a popular account of the new physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of matter. **$2. Barnes.
“Is a book on science for the layman that will rank among the best of its kind.”
Dunham, Curtis.Golden goblin; or, The Flying Dutchman, junior: a pleasant fantasy for children based on the most fascinating of all undying legends; told in prose and verse; pictures by George F. Kerr. †$1.25. Bobbs.
A fantastic tale of the experiences of two little shipwrecked Dutch children who were picked up by the phantom ship, the Flying Dutchman. Even the most imaginative child will have to exert himself to keep pace with the swift panorama of sea adventures.
Duniway, Clyde Augustus.Development of the freedom of the press in Massachusetts. *$1.50. Longmans.
A monograph which won the Toppan prize of Harvard University in 1897. “After the preliminary chapter on the control of the press in England, the author transfers his investigations to Massachusetts, and traces in chronological order the events which marked the decline of authority over the press in the New World.” (Dial.)
“A valuable addition to the ‘Harvard historical studies’ series in which it is published.” Andrew McFarland Davis.