“For though I can no music make, I trustHere’s proof I love it.”
“For though I can no music make, I trustHere’s proof I love it.”
“For though I can no music make, I trustHere’s proof I love it.”
“For though I can no music make, I trust
Here’s proof I love it.”
Such does Mr. Gilder vouchsafe in the opening lines of his prelude. There are about thirty poems which show the “love that in him burns for the fair lady of Melody.” There are tributes to Mme. Essepoff, Paderewski. Macdowell, Beethoven, Rubenstein and others, there are lines to Handel’s Largo, the violin, and the ’cello, and there is a poet of music’s appreciation of the Music at twilight, in moonlight and in darkness.
Gilder, Richard Watson.In the heights. *$1. Century.
“Few know as well as he how to find the fitting word or a felicitous phrase with which to celebrate a friend, or a cause, or a memory.” Wm. M. Payne.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
Gilliam, Charles Frederic.Victorious defeat: the story of a franchise. $1.50. Roxburgh pub.
A political novel which deals with the rights of the laboring classes. Robert Barker, champion of the people, loves Irene, the daughter of Judge Henly who is pitted against him in a political contest. Irene is torn between her duty to her father and her love for the masterful young leader, who, her sense of honor tells her, is in the right. The election results in a defeat for the judge and his constituents, but a defeat which the losers themselves count victorious in the end.
Gillman, Henry.Hassan: a fellah. [+]75c. Little.
A new popular edition of this story which appeared in 1898.
Gilman, Daniel Coit.Launching of a university. **$2.50. Dodd.
A volume of papers and addresses, nearly a third of which are devoted to the founding and early years of Johns Hopkins University, and the remainder to educational addresses delivered on occasions such as the Yale Bi-Centennial and the dedication of the Princeton library building.
“In one respect, the reader of historical proclivities may be inclined to find fault with ‘The launching of a university.’ President Gilman resolutely keeps back all references to the occasional misfortunes and unpleasantnesses which harassed him and his colleagues.” Robert C. Brooks.
Reviewed by F. B. R. Hellems.
“Cicero would have given his approval to this book.”
“Taken as a whole, President Gilman’s book is notable alike as a history of the university with which he was so long connected, as a discussion of some vital questions of the day, and as a contribution to the story of American educational progress.”
Reviewed by Edward Cary.
“It is a rich ‘sheaf of remembrances’ that he has preserved in noteworthy reminiscences and characterizations of gifted men, set forth in finished literary form with here and there a gem of pleasantry and wit.”
Gilman, Lawrence.Edward MacDowell.*$1. Lane.
An eighty page monograph of the “American Grieg” uniform with the “Living masters of music” series. “That MacDowell is, ‘in a singularly complete sense the poet of the natural world,’ yet no less the ‘instrument of human emotion;’ that the range of his emotional expression is astonishing; that he has a remarkable gift for extremely compact expression; that his music is ‘touched with the deep and wistful tenderness, the primeval nostalgia;’ that much of its charm lies in its spontaneity and the utter lack of self-consciousness; that no musician has felt the spell of the ocean as has MacDowell ... these and other characteristic points, Mr. Gilman dwells on, thus giving his readers as good an idea of the music as can be obtained without hearing it.” (Nation.)
“In spite of some annoyances of style, a love of high-sounding but little meaning words and phrases, Mr. Gilman manages to depict the character of his subject’s work in such a way as to convey a distinct impression.”
“Mr. Gilman has given a sympathetic and reasonably comprehensive account of his life and work.”
“The least satisfactory of Mr. Gilman’s chapters is that on the songs, the most satisfactory that on the sonatas. It is to be regretted that no bibliographic note has been appended.”
“He has written in a high-pitched key of praise. His book would be more agreeable reading if he would improve his style, which is ‘precieux’ in the extreme.” Richard Aldrich.
“Mr. Gilman deserves all credit for his abstention from irrelevant personalities. The value of this sympathetic essay is considerably impaired by the laboured preciosity of its style.”
Gilpin, Sidney.Sam Bough, R. S. A.: some account of his life and works. $3. Macmillan.
“Sam Bough was a true Bohemian, who lived from hand to mouth, and threw away his best chances of worldly success for the sake of the indulgence of some passing whim.” (Int. Studio.) It is as a Cumberland painter of types native to his district that he demands recognition, and the biographer has produced from letters, anecdotes and personal estimates, a sympathetic sketch of the man and the artist.
“Nor are these documents remarkable except for the constant recurrence of a certain breezy jocularity, which doubtless was delightful to those who were in a position to appreciate the point of it.”
“It is an interesting record of a man of versatile powers. There are scarcely as many good stories in it as one might expect.”
Gilson, Roy Rolfe.Katrina: a story. †$1.50. Baker.
“The quaintly humorous middle-aged newspaper worker whose ability as a writer is joined with whimsical peculiarities of character, finds in the little girl Katrina, whom he accidentally meets, the child of the girl he loved many years ago. His friendship with the little girl and his care of her and her optimistic and intellectual but unpractical father make a delightful narrative.”—Outlook.
“He combines a sympathetic understanding of the young child’s point of view with an equally rare understanding of the sorrows and disillusions of age.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The author has such use of his faculties as a bird has of its wings in mid air, and he has told his story with that whimsical, bright movement of the mind which accounts in part for its indescribable charm and grace.”
“A tale full of naiveté and tenderness.”
“A satisfactory bit of writing.”
“It is written with a certain tenderness and quiet humor which may almost be said to give it distinction.”
Gilson, Roy Rolfe.Miss Primrose.$1.25. Harper.
The simple sweetness of Letitia Primrose, whose life was one long sacrifice of service to her father, to other people’s children, and finally to another woman’s home, gives to the book its dainty charm, while the characters of David, the boy who dreamed of Rugby, Butters, the editor who printed her father’s classic poems in the village paper, and others who came under the spell of her sweet innocent personality give to the story both young life and humor.
“The book is almost wholly devoid of plot, and although it is written with no little literary skill, the average reader will find it lacking in interest.”
“The story as a whole is rather cloying.”
“There are gentle pathos and quaint humor to be found throughout.”
Gissing, George Robert.House of cobwebsand other stories. $1.50. Dutton.
“The fifteen stories included in this posthumous volume are prefaced by an introductory survey of the work of their lamented author [by Mr. Thomas Seccombe].... The stories themselves, slight as is their texture, are ‘admirable specimens of Gissing’s own genre.’ They manifest the delicate tenderness of his feeling not for, but with those to whom life has not been kind.... As Dickens was the novelist of the recognized poor, Gissing is the novelist of those poorer poor who belong of right to another class.”—N. Y. Times.
“But what is certain, and is rendered positive by this book, is that he had little artistic sense of the short story. These are mere blotches of feeling, studies of atmosphere; they are never stories. They might have found their use in corners of a long novel. They have neither beginning nor ending, only being; and they might well leave off before or after their conclusion. Never was there a more glaring lack of the ‘dramatic’ than in Mr. Gissing.”
“Mr. Seccombe has prefaced this volume of remains ... with a discriminating essay of considerable biographical and critical interest.”
“The observation in these sketches is originally fine, and then highly selective; the English of great purity and incisiveness; and, that a certain thinness of tone and lack of humor are necessary results of gruelling personal experience with the matter in hand. It is a book for those who love impeccable workmanship.”
“The volume is well worth making one’s own, not only because of these last characteristic sketches by a dear and vanquished hand, but because of Mr. Seccombe’s illuminating essay, invaluable to all who care to enter into an intimate comprehension of Gissing’s novels as related to their author.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
“To us this collection of short stories is more valuable for the excellent and readable introductory survey of Gissing’s work, written by Mr. Thomas Seccombe, than for the stories themselves, although some of the latter are wrought out with care and have literary form.”
“In point of workmanship, observation, and the philosophy of life which they set forth they show him at his best and sanest.”
Gladden, Rev. Washington.Christianity and socialism. *$1. Meth. bk.
“Full of good advice to both employers and employed, and he endeavors to reconcile their differences in a truly irenic spirit.” Edward Fuller.
“Like all Dr. Gladden’s utterances, these discourses are characterized by what has been well termed ‘sanctified common sense’ and are thoroughly stimulating and suggestive.”
“It were well if all clerical pronouncements on social questions were marked by Dr. Gladden’s thoroness of information and his earnest sympathy with the problems of the men who work.”
Gladden, Rev. Washington.The new idolatry, and other discussions. **$1.20. McClure.
“A volume of discussions in protest againstcommercializing of government, of education, and of religion; against the growing tendency in church and state to worship power and forget the interests of justice and freedom; against the dethronement of God and the enthronement of Mammon.” The contents include the new idolatry; Tainted money; Standard oil and foreign missions; Shall ill-gotten gains be sought for Christian purposes? The ethics of luxurious expenditure; The church and the nation; Religion and democracy; Rights and duties; The new century and the new nation; The Prince of life.
“One does not have to agree with all that is said to appreciate the importance of the subjects discussed.”
“The essays are really adapted only for oral delivery. They verge upon platitude and will scarcely stimulate thought.”
“Its spirit and lessons are both needed by the American people.”
Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson.Wheel of life.†$1.50. Doubleday.
Miss Glasgow has taken a plunge with Mrs. Wharton into the very thick of New York’s smart set life. She throws upon her society screen a complexity of types, which with ingenious detachment appear at one time pathetically human, again beggarly moral, and most often impersonally conventional. “The three women represent as many types; Gerty a mondaine of the better sort ... holding her silken skirts above the soil of scandal, and underneath a mocking mask, keeping a pinioned soul; Connie Adams, a silly moth, fluttering in endless gayeties outside the more exclusive circles ... and the cloisteral Laura, not only a genius, but a consummate flower of womanhood. Of the men, Perry Bridewell and Arnold Kemper are not unlike—pleasure-seeking men of the clubs.... Bridewell is not much more than a well-groomed, handsome body; Kemper is Bridewell with intellect added. Adams, on the contrary, is the absorbed man of letters ... caring for no pleasure outside his work.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The average level of the tale is extraordinarily high, but it does not rise to anything that matters very much anywhere.”
“‘The wheel of life’ is a serious attempt. If it be only partially successful (as compared with the great works of all time), the quality of success is of the best, it is not cheap. The essentials are there.” Mary Moss.
“It is a pity that Miss Glasgow’s humor does not shine forth more abundantly; her work needs it.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
“As compared with ‘The deliverance’ for example, this work is an inferior production.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Miss Glasgow’s stories of her native South were better, and the little group of Southerners ... are decidedly the best thing in it.”
“Is not up to Miss Glasgow’s level, but this seems largely due to her trespassing upon an alien field.”
“Its reach is greater than that of its predecessors; its author has gone down into the deep places, and the distinction, the lift that is all its own is that in the last analysis it is the apotheosis of goodness.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
“There are broader contrasts of character than in ‘The house of mirth,’ though not quite the same sureness of touch, the same sense of intimacy with the most illusive aspects of a well-defined though loosely ordered social group.”
“All of these [four groups of characters] are faithfully and well wrought, and each adds its increment of genuine substance to the sum total effect of an admirable book.”
“The novel is a study of manners, and is extremely clever, very subtile, and slightly disagreeable.”
Glyn, Elinor (Mrs. Clayton Glyn).Beyond the rocks.†$1.50. Harper.
Danger ground is trodden from the first page to the last in Mrs. Glyn’s story of hearts. Theodosia Fitzgerald, young and beautiful, marries Josiah Brown, rich but fifty and stupid. In spite of her attempt to be faithful she falls in love with an English lord and the ardent love of the two runs a riotous course in the face of conventionality and duty.
“Mrs. Glyn’s picture of the unscrupulous, sensual, bridge-playing set would give a ludicrously false impression, both of that set and of English society in general, to any reader who was unable to correct it by his own observation. Nor is Mrs. Glyn much happier with more reputable people.”
“Lack of good taste and deficiency in technique are serious handicaps, and in fact this novel is drawn back by them from the domain of good art into the republic of the second-rate.”
“All the parents who were in doubt about letting their debutante daughters browse upon ‘The visits of Elizabeth’ may turn them loose upon ‘Beyond the rocks’ without a twinge of misgiving.”
“The whole moral atmosphere of the book is of a decidedly unwholesome and vitiated character.”
“Continues to be sprightly in her manner, but her latest story moves in conventional grooves, its characters are mere puppets, its plot is thin, and its emotionalism feeble.”
Goddard, Dwight.Eminent engineers: brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress. *$1.50. Derry-Collard co.
“In selecting the 32 subjects for these biographies, the honors were equally divided between American and European engineers. The American sketches are headed by Benjamin Franklin and John Fitch, and concluded by James B. Eads. Arkwright, Newcomen and Watt head the Europeans, and Bessemer and Sir William Siemens close the list.... In selecting the names, the object was to include men who had ‘accomplished something of importance in the development and application of power and machinery.’”—Engin. N.
“The volume, as a whole, brings together, in convenient and readable form, brief biographies of men whose careers are of interest to every engineer.”
“Mr. Goddard’s English is careless, but he has written a book of interest.”
Godfrey, Edward.Structural engineering, bk. 1. Tables. $2.50. E: Godfrey. Monongahela bank bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.
The author “has selected the most necessary elements of the ‘Pocket companion,’ of ‘Osborn’s tables’ and of other similar works, put some of the material into improved form, and added an equal amount of new matter, comprising diagrams, tables and drawings.”—Engin. N.
“Is in many respects distinctly ahead of anything yet published in the English language. As a whole, the book represents a very useful collection of structural tables, and a very compact one. But its varied contents are so heterogeneously mixed up, so lacking all orderly arrangement, as to excite one’s surprise.”
Godfrey, Elizabeth, pseud. (Jessie Bedford).Bridal of Anstace. †$1.50. Lane.
“Love, battling with race and religion, is the foundation of Elizabeth Godfrey’s latest romance. At the outset of her story London is astounded by the marriage of an English girl Anstace, with the Count Basil Leonides. The wedding is performed with the ceremony of the Orthodox Greek church. In the midst of the reception that follows, the bridegroom receives a telegram. He reads it, and without showing it to his bride, begs her to prepare for instant departure. While she is making her preparations, however, he slips from the house alone and disappears. Why he went, and where, the sudden reappearance of the earlier wife whom he thought dead, and all that followed therefrom makes up the substance of the story.”—N. Y. Times.
“Miss Godfrey tells her story in easy, flowing style, and handles her unwieldy cast skilfully.”
“The picture shows experience of life, powers of reflection, and a simple and flowing style which would cover more sins than are to be found here.”
“A plot somewhat over intense and morbid is relieved in this novel by much delightful character-study.”
“It would be easy to pick holes in Miss Elizabeth Godfrey’s novel. No amount of uncertainty of handling in minor matters, or allegiance divided between observation and convention, can destroy our pleasure in the gentle light that beams through an engaging, almost a childlike story.”
“Manners, customs, and pronunciations come in with the breath of research in their garments. But these easily-seen inequalities do not prevail over the fine and interesting features of the story. In construction and in omission, it is the most masterly novel Miss Godfrey has yet written.”
“Though most of the characters are well drawn and the style of writing is attractive, the fascination lies in the fact that the mystery is not solved until almost the last chapter.”
Gomperz, Theodor.Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v. 2 and 3. ea. *$4. Scribner.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
“I do not wish to lay down these learned, stimulating, and eloquently written volumes without saying that their writer, in a degree true of no other historian, has understood how to take the history of Greek thought out of its isolation, to relate it to the whole culture of the Greeks, and to illuminate it by the civilization of modern times.” Wm. A. Hammond.
Goode, John.Recollections of a lifetime, by John Goode of Virginia. $2. Neale.
Mr. Goode was a member of the secession convention of Virginia, the Confederate congress and the congress of the United States. His reminiscences, aside from including interesting phases of his life as lawyer, soldier, and statesman, give helpful side lights on the men and affairs of war times.
“Even the general public will find much to entertain, if it reads far enough.”
“Outside of the instances mentioned and some good anecdotes, there is little that will repay either the general reader or the historian in search of material.”
Goodhue, Isabel.Good things and graces. **50c. Elder.
“Has a flavor that escapes many a more pretentious effort of its class.”
Goodloe, Carter.At the foot of the Rockies. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Good as the stories are in themselves, they have gained much in the telling; for Miss Goodloe has just the right dramatic and artistic touch.”
Goodnow, Frank Johnson.Principles of administrative law of the United States. *$3. Putnam.
“It is the only book dealing with the entire scope of the subject.” Isidor Loeb.
“Work presents a breadth of view and a freedom from dogmatism which entitle it to a high rank in the literature of political science.”
“In a certain sense he has made the subject his own; but he has not made it ours.”
“The most serious defect in a work which is otherwise little exposed to criticism, and should win wide favor both among students and the general educated public, is the fact that, no attempt is made to examine the application of administrative principles to the government of the Territories and dependencies of the United States.”
“We have as a result a comprehensive discussion of administrative organization in the United States, in which the organization of the general, State, and local governments, the relation of the officials to the public, and the forms of control over official action are analyzed with a degree of clearness and force which give to the work a high position in the literature of American politics.” L. S. Rowe.
Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.Balance of power: a novel. $1.50. Outing pub.
This novel “deals with a factory situation and the rise of a strong young man whose ability is characterized by the word ‘inevitable’; but the excellence of the book is in its fiber ... and a statement of the plot conveys but little.” (Outlook.) “Among the characters which are many and diversified, the most interesting, probably, is the bluff old colonel who is a sort of self appointed oracle of the town. This Yankee Mars struts through the book with the air of a man who has smeltpowder and who knows a thing or two, and the way in which he imposes what he calls his opinions upon the yokels of Hampstead is very wonderful.” (Lit. D.)
“A good, readable story, and an interesting contribution to that modern type of American fiction which depicts our keen, progressive industrial life, alongside of the life of society and of the home.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Mr. Arthur Goodrich had a good story to tell. He has told it very cleverly, too, although with overmuch coquetry with his plot in the first third of the book.”
“It is one of the truest studies of the phase of American life of which it treats that have been made in fiction, and also one of the most interesting of the novels of the season.”
“The novel is overcrowded. There is excellent material, but too much of it. Yet there are evidences of marked ability—occasional touches which reveal the fine creative instinct.”
“The combination of industrialism and politics and love makes a book which rises above the level of most of its contemporaries.”
Gordon, William Clark.Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Following an introductory chapter on Literature and social science in which the author and literature he treats Social conditions in England in the time of Tennyson, Tennyson’s idea of man, Tennyson’s idea of woman, The family, Society, Social institutions, and Democracy and progress. Restating the main points of his summary and conclusions.
“His book is a creditable summary of the forces and conditions prevalent in Great Britain while Tennyson was writing.”
“It is a painstaking production, provided with many extracts and many more for reference.”
“As a thesis for the doctorate this essay is an instructive example of the bewildering effect of a study of sociology.”
“Really Mr. Gordon expresses himself very well, and most of what he says is true, but mayn’t we hope that a plain man reading his favorite poet may yet be permitted to do his own thinking?”
Gorky, Maxim, pseud. (Alicksel Maximovitch Preschkov).Creatures that once were men: a story; tr. from the Russian by J. K. M. Shirazi, with an introd. by G. K. Chesterton. 75c. Funk.
Mr. Chesterton in his introduction says: “This story is a test case of the Russian manner, for it is in itself a study of decay, a study of failure, and a study of old age.” “Gorky’s tale is pessimistic and contains all the hard, realistic word-painting which is characteristic of him.” (Ath.)
“Story one can hardly call it. It is just one of Gorky’s photographs.”
“Mr. Shirazi has rendered his author fairly well; perhaps he uses a little too much slang. The foot-notes are also meagre.”
“We have enjoyed Mr. Chesterton’s fifteen pages, however, much more than Maxim Gorky’s ninety-four. Anything more dismal ... we have never seen.”
Goschen, George Joachim.Essays and addresses on economic questions. $5. Longmans.
A statement of Lord Goschen’s economic creed as a business man and a statesman, besides being a survey of all the most important economic aspects of English history during the period covered, 1865–1893. “The most important ‘pieces’ in the present volume are not of a philosophical character, but are devoted to the discussion of specific remedies for specific economic evils.” (Lond. Times.)
“We confidently recommend this volume to every student of economics and political science.”
“Lord Goschen’s ‘Introductory notes’ will probably attract more attention than the essays to which they are prefixed.”
“In all of them he shows that firm grasp both of facts and of principles that has characterized his economic writing.”
“In all of [the various essays] will be found, combined with the gift of lucid and forcible expression, the sagacity and almost excessive caution, the careful attention to facts and the skillful analysis of figures to which the public is accustomed in their author.”
Gosse, Edmund William, ed. British portrait painters and engravers of the eighteenth century, Kneller to Reynolds. *$50; *$70. Goupil.
This volume “is not so much a history of the subject as it is a collection of plates after those mezzotints, ‘plain and colored,’ in which the enchanting portraits painted by fashionable artists who were also men of genius, were reproduced with an elegance and skill unsurpassed by the originals.... Mr. Gosse’s text provides an instructive accompaniment to the illustrations, but it is as a picture gallery in little that this will find its appreciative public.”—Atlan.
“The introductory essay on the status of the portrait painter during the eighteenth century has afforded Mr. Gosse a theme to which his wide knowledge of eighteenth-century literature has enabled him to do full justice.”
“The plates in their turn are so well made that in some, if not in all cases, they actually rival the qualities of the mezzotints from which they are taken.” Royal Cortissoz.
“A perfectly adequate introduction.”
“It is not very easy to say on what principle the illustrations are here chosen, and it certainly would have been better to arrange them according to the painters than to group them alphabetically according to the name of the subject. Mr. Gosse’s essay has two great merits. It is extremely readable, and it brings out with remarkable clearness the extraordinary change that passed over the position of the portrait painter after the advent of Reynolds.”
Gosse, Edmund William.Coventry Patmore. **$1. Scribner.
Reviewed by George Trobridge.
Gosse, Edmund William.French profiles. *$1.60. Dodd.
“All in all, Mr. Gosse’s ‘French profiles’ is a volume to strengthen the present ‘entente cordiale’ between English and French by contributing towards mutual understanding and appreciation.” Arthur G. Canfield.
Gosse, Edmund William.Sir Thomas Browne. **75c. Macmillan.
“To the master of exquisite expression Mr. Gosse does complete justice in the last and best chapter of a book which deserves warm praise for its judicial temper and fine insight.”
“An admirably balanced estimate of the author of the ‘Religio medici.’”
“It has been prepared with excellent taste and judgment.”
“Where Mr. Gosse fails in his estimate is in not sufficiently recognizing the essentially poetic quality of Browne’s work, apart from mere form or style. The absence of a bibliography is the grievous fault this book shares with the other volumes of the same series.”
“Is not particularly interesting.”
“It presents its subject in so attractive a light that one who has never read Sir Thomas Browne’s books will turn to them with eager interest, and one already acquainted with them will reread them with a new zest.” Horatio S. Kranz.
Gougar, Mrs. Helen Mar Jackson.Forty thousand miles of world wandering. $3. Helen M. Gougar, Lafayette, Ind.
The author’s recent tour of the world has furnished a wealth of travel material out of which she has constructed with great accuracy an informing, popular work of interest to the traveler who has covered the ground no less than the stay-at-home book tourist. The present-day phases of life and institutions appeal to her rather than the dead and buried aspects. In keeping with the heavy paper, clear type and handsome binding are numerous fine illustrations.
“This volume will not prove disappointing, and we can heartily and conscientiously recommend it to our readers.”
Gould, George Milbry.Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health of patients. *$1. Blakiston.
Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.Book of the Rhine from Cleve to Mainz; 8 il. in col. by Trevor Hadden and 48 other il. *$2. Macmillan.
“No attempt has been made to describe objects of interest that would be visited by the traveler or to give a complete history of the Rhine. Mr. Gould has attempted to supply information concerning ‘sights’ and the meaning and purpose of the objects as well as legends about them.... A good deal of the text deals with the history of the principal cities, taking up only the most significant events of their past and connecting these as closely as possible with their present condition and importance.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Baring-Gould is severely historical. When he does tell us a story, he is careful to say at the end that it is a fable; and he disproves it with dates. His book is a treasure-house of dates.”
“In a rather happy-go-lucky fashion, but always pleasantly and entertainingly, he discourses of kings and bishops, robber-bands, altar-pieces, vintages, and various other matters. It would be very easy to point out inaccuracies here and there, but it would be unfair to judge such a book from the severely scientific standpoint.”
“All told very simply and directly and in a dry-as-dust manner which will probably prevent the book from finding many readers except those who take the journey which it describes.”
“Mr. Baring-Gould’s book is, as all admirers of his genius would wish it to be, eminently characteristic. He has a keen eye for Nature, and a keener for objects of interest, archaeological and historical, and also a considerable gift of satire, for which, it must be allowed, Germany affords not a few occasions.”
Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.Book of the Riviera. **$1.50. Dutton.
Beginning with Provence the author lures his readers on to Le Gai Saber, then to Marseilles, Aix, Toulon, Hyères, Draguignan, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Mentone, San Remo, Alassio, and other places by the way, ending at Savona, describing the charm of each town, giving hints to travelers, telling little stories of the natives, and interspersing all with well chosen bits of history, literature and sentiment. Forty good photographs of scenery illustrate the volume.
“A good map and a better index would greatly improve this book.”
“‘The Riviera’ furnishes Mr. Baring-Gould’s facile pen with a subject full of variety. Whatever the theme, it seems to be equally at home.”
Graham, George Washington.Mecklenburg declaration of independence, May 20, 1775, and lives of its signers. $1.50. Neale.
A monograph upon the Mecklenburg declaration of independence which was read before the Scotch-Irish society of America in June of 1895. It has been enlarged and revised to meet the requirements of publication in book form.
“Will be found decidedly interesting. It is not equally convincing, for, altho it must be conceded that he adduces more documentary evidence than did any of his predecessors, Dr. Graham, has, like them, seen fit to rely largely on the testimony of assumption and hearsay already made familiar through their efforts but inadmissible in the court of history.”
“The work, as an effort to validate the document, is one of supererogation. As a historical monograph by a high authority, however, it deserves to be read.”
Graham, Harry (Col. D. Streamer, pseud.).Misrepresentative women.$1. Duffield.
In “this villainous collection of abominable verse” this modest author sings merrily of Eve, Lady Godiva, Marie Corelli, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Mrs. Grundy, Dame Rumor, andother good souls who have achieved fame in one way or another; then he passes on to, The self-made father to the ready-made son, and other extraneous matter.
“The point of view as well as the lines are nevertheless clever enough to cover a multitude of shortcomings in technique and mere construction.”
“Harry Graham’s jingles about ‘Misrepresentative women’ are in the same vein as those in his previous volumes of comic verse, and it bears some evidence that the vein has been slightly overworked.”
“Is the best kind of fooling.”
Granger, Anna D.Skat and how to play it. $1. Matthews.
Miss Granger has prepared the first real American treatise on skat, and offers the student the fundamental principles that govern the game.
Grant, Percy Stickney.Ad matrem, and other poems. Kimball.
“Something akin to Miltonic richness meets us in the outset of ‘Ad Matrem,’ in the lines depicting the rout of the Greek godheads, before the Lux mundi shining over Judean hills.” (Critic.) “The collection of poems is not large, but it is stamped throughout with elevation of tone, dignity, and often charm of manner.” (Outlook.)
Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.
“It shows unusual feeling for the resources of difficult meters and unusual skill in handling them.”
Grant, Robert.Law-breakers and other stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
Besides the title story there are six others in the group,—“George and the dragon,” “An exchange of courtesies,” “The romance of a soul,” “Against his judgment,” “A surrender,” and “Across the way.” They “belong to the literature of exposure.... Each story has a definite problem, or rather thesis, clearly stated and logically argued.... The question argued in the title story is one that might well form a topic for a debating society. It is this: Is a man who cheats the custom house officer so fundamentally untrustworthy in character that a good woman should not trust her life to him? For the particulars in the case and the verdict of the author we must refer our readers to the book.” (Ind.)
“The impression of the entire collection is one of discouragement.” Mary Moss.
“Is a distinctly stimulating book.”
“Upon the whole, they do not measure up to what we have learned to expect from him.”
“As a whole the stories will strike most readers as not up to the level of Judge Grant’s best work.”
Grant, Robert.Orchid. †$1.25. Scribner.
“You merely feel that he is stating a condition, never that he tells you the story of one person or group of people.” Mary Moss.
“The book, though it contains an appalling story, is written with persiflage and an irony, which is, from first to last, carefully concealed.”
Gratacap, Louis Pope.World as intention: a contribution to teleology. *$1.25. Eaton.
“The volume is written in a serious, straightforward manner.”
Graves, Algernon, comp. Royal academy of arts. per v. *$11. Macmillan.
“It deserves to rank with such an enterprise as the ‘Dictionary of national biography.’ to which, indeed it is a complement, and like it, should be in every institution, public or private, worthy of the name of library.”
“On the whole, however, Mr. Graves is continuing to perform his onerous task with every reasonable care, and the more frequently one refers to his volumes the more valuable do they seem.”
“We have noticed a good many slight slips, which are probably the fault, not of Mr. Graves, but of the compiler of the original catalogues.”
“As a work of reference for the historian, whether dealing with the Academy or with any one of a tremendous company of artists, this handsomely printed compilation commends the warmest praise.” Royal Cortissoz.
“Every page, indeed, bears witness to the painstaking accuracy with which the thousands of references have been extracted from the records.”
“We have said enough to indicate the curious interest of these laborious volumes. Much might have been added, both as to the earlier and the modern men.”
“Has all the interest of the first.”
“It will take its place among the indispensable works of reference.”
Gray, Charles H.Lodowick Carliell. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“His work is deserving of all praise.”
Gray, John Thompson.Kentucky chronicle. $1.50. Neale.
“Among the Virginia emigrants to The Falls, was Reginald Thornton, a stately, kindly gentleman of the old school.” He established himself at Lastlands, a few miles from The Falls, and it is the life of his children, his grandchildren, their friends and enemies that goes to make up this chronicle which is “more than a romance, it is a wisdom book.”
Gray, Maxwell, pseud. (Mary Gleed Tuttiett.)Great refusal. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The ‘great refusal’ is made by the hero, who renounces wealth and position to become a common workingman, and eventually embarks in a socialistic venture having for its object theestablishment of a Utopian commonwealth in Africa. These are not his only sacrifices, for love also is cast aside, and it is not until the end of much suffering that his early passion is replaced by one fixed upon far surer foundations. The characterization is excellent, alike of the two women, the devoted hero, and his masterful father, whose money seems to the son too tainted for legitimate enjoyment.”—Dial.
“The author fails chiefly because she has not defined exactly what she would be at. In regard to the condition of the poor, her hero is an ignoramus.”
“A singularly charming and appealing book. The style of the novel, also, is natural as to dialogue, and charmingly allusive as to description.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The tale is a really thoughtful one, written with a purpose; but buried so deeply beneath value the motive at its true worth.”
“Upon the whole, however, the characters are consistent with themselves, and the author shows her art by being just to all of them.”
“The best thing in the novel is the rapid-fire exchange of sociological epigrams and paradoxes between a group of Oxford undergraduates.”
“The book is certainly above the average in readability as well as in ideals; and though the workmanship does not always reach the level of the conception, the main part of the story amply repays the reader for wading through what must be acknowledged to be the extreme dullness of the first two or three chapters.”
Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” **$1.50. Harper.
The fleecy grayness of a Breton mist permeates this story of Pierrek, the child who is sent by the sea to the empty arms of a woman whose wits are wandering because of the loss of her own baby boy. With true Breton faith in the miraculous he is considered hers, grows to manhood on the Breton cliffs, marries the girl of his choice, becomes a loving husband, and a happy father, only to learn thru a woman’s jealousy that his mother of mothers is not his own and that his wife is his own sister. Then indeed the grey mist envelops him and he goes back to the gray sea leaving those he loves in sorrow and facing a hopeless future which the impenetrable mists of life and death envelope like a shroud.
“It cannot be called satisfactory as a whole, and the conclusion is too annoying to be tragic.”
“The whole tone of the present volume is as false as possible—little short of maudlin.”
“A pleasantly written story, but it is curiously deficient in the dramatic quality which justifies a tragic ending, and there is every reason for averting the final catastrophe.”
Greely, Adolphus Washington.Handbook of Polar discoveries. $1.50. Little.
Following the topical method of treatment, General Greely has compiled from original narratives “such data of accomplished results as may subserve the inquiries of the busy man who often wishes to know what, when, and where, rather than how.” All important Arctic geographic additions to knowledge are given as well as the more important scientific investigations. The table of contents includes; Early Northwest voyages to 1750, Nova Zembla, The northeast passage, Spitzbergen, Behring strait, The northwest passage, Franklin’s last voyages, North-polar voyages, The islands of the Siberian ocean, Franz Josef land, The Antarctic regions in general, and chapters upon the African, Australian, Pacific and American quadrants.
“It is a great public service to have these voluminous narratives studied, digested, criticised and reported by the foremost authority on the subject.”
“A few ... serious misstatements or misprints ... have crept in as the result of imperfect revision of the earlier text.”
“It is the polar vade mecum in English.” Cyrus C. Adams.
Green, Allen Ayrault.Good fairy and the bunnies; 11 full-page il. in col. and 10 chapter headings by Frank Richardson. $1.50. McClurg.
The purpose of this story is to relieve the grief of boys and girls who lose pets by suggesting to their minds the possibility that the good animals of the earth are, after death transported to a beautiful land on a star above.
“There are plenty of pictures in colors ... but their style is not of the best.”
Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).Circular study.*50c. Fenno.
A popular edition of a story which appeared first in 1900. It is a mystery story whose crime, discovered to have been committed in self defense, involves a dramatic tale of revenge and love.
Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).Woman in the alcove.†$1.50. Bobbs.
A mystery story which runs a rapid and exciting course to the inevitable solution opens upon a brilliant private ball. A gorgeously appareled woman with a diamond on her breast too vivid for most women is murdered in an alcove, and the gem hidden in the woman’s gloves is discovered later in the possession of innocent Rita Van Arsdale. Her lover is accused of the deed, and the interest of the story becomes identified with this determined young woman’s efforts to free him from the charge of guilt.