“Professor Mills’s book is the best study on the spiritual life of the Achaemenians which has so far been written. In a work so admirable it may seem ungracious to call attention to faults of detail, yet it must be said that the English style of Professor Mills’s book is not easy reading. Occasionally, also, there is a statement which is open to question.”
“Is a valuable essay in comparative religion.”
Mills, (Thomas) Wesley.Voice production in singing and speaking, based on scientific principles. **$2. Lippincott.
The results of a life study of the voice are set forth here, and they emphasize the author’s belief that practice and principle should be combined in successful voice development. Vocal physiology, breathing, and larynx and the laryngeal adjustment, registers, fundamental principles underlying voice production, elements of speech and song and physical and mental hygiene are among the phases of the subject presented.
Mills, Weymer Jay.Caroline of Courtlandt street. **$2. Harper.
Mills, Weymer Jay.Ghosts of their ancestors; il. by J. Rae. †$1.25. Fox.
“Its pages are redolent of the old-time flavor of the eighteenth-century Gotham in which its scenes are laid; and if its author has not fully availed himself of the opportunity afforded by his pleasing conceit of summoning the ghosts of long-dead Knickerbockers to advance the love and fortunes of a charming daughter of the house of Knickerbocker, he has at least written a little tale calculated to while away an hour or so in most agreeable fashion.”—Lit. D.
“The story is full of charm of a kind to be felt rather than defined. The satire is never bitter enough to offend, yet always keen enough to reach the mark.” Nancy Huston Banks.
Milyoukov, Paul.Russia and its crisis. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The work would be much improved for American readers if it could be re-edited and re-arranged. Although specialized in its treatment it is altogether too valuable a contribution to English books on Russia to be left unreadable.” C. E. Fryer.
“There is no other book in the English language which permits the reader to penetrate so far into the mysteries of that witch’s kettle boiling between the Baltic and the Black seas.” Ferdinand Schwill.
“Professor Milyoukov’s book gives an interesting, readable and, in all but one chapter, a logical, coherent explanation of the Russian crisis. On this important subject there is no work of equal merit and authority accessible to English readers.” James T. Young.
“It is difficult to find words strong enough adequately to express the inestimable value of Professor Milyoukoff’s book for every one desirous of understanding Russia in the past, the present, and the future.”
“It affords information not given elsewhere. There are apt comparisons at various points between Russian and American conditions.”
“Milyoukov’s book is not particularly well written, and in the opinion of the reviewer is ill-proportioned; yet it is beyond doubt the best, most instructive and most authoritative work on Russia ever published in English.” Vladimir G. Simkhovitch.
Mims, Edwin.Sidney Lanier.**$1.50. Houghton.
“The story of Lanier’s life is here told simply and sympathetically, and, so far as possible, by quotations from his own letters or from the writings of those who knew him intimately. The first third of the book takes him through his storm and stress period, out of the law office, and into the serenity that accompanied his settled devotion to art. The second portion deals with his musical and literary career and his work as teacher and lecturer, all in Baltimore; while the closing pages describe the New South, Lanier’s characteristics and ideas, the last months of his life, with a final chapter giving the author’s estimate of his achievement as critic and poet.”—Ind.
“The dignity and clearness both of the narrative and of the critical portions of the book are in pleasant harmony with its spirit. The volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
“Mr. Mims, however, has admirably accomplished the task he undertook, of setting before us a living picture of his friend’s charming personality.”
“Is the first complete and adequate life of Lanier.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
“The characteristics of this interesting volume are its picturesqueness, its simplicity, its fulness of detail and its dispassionate discussion of Lanier’s claims to a permanent place among our American poets of fame.” W. E. Simonds.
“With carefully balanced judgment Professor Mims refrains from indiscriminate praise.”
“In particular the biography makes a welcome contribution to the knowledge of his youth and ‘wanderjahre’ and the unfolding of his gifts and vocation.”
“The chief tests of a biography are accuracy and charm. The former this book seems to fulfil; we have not found any misstatement nor noted any omissions. Charm the book does not possess.”
Mitchell, John Ames.Silent war. $1.50. Life pub.
“The story deals with a group of multi-millionaires who become the victims of a socialistic movement—a popular awakening resulting in such radical measures as blackmail and assassination—and the plot is complicated by a love affair between one of the money kings and the daughter of one of the members of the People’s league.”—Outlook.
“The author somehow fails to rise to the full possibilities of his theme.”
“The story is interesting and probably will find many readers. It is to be hoped that it will circulate among people who will regard it as a story merely and not as a socialistic tract. Its effect on impressionable Socialists might be harmful.”
“The book as a whole is an extremely interesting social study, written with quiet charm but decidedly radical in its suggestion, although the closing action has none of the quality of a solution in that it falls back upon individual relationships and special instances.”
Mitchell, S. Weir.Constance Trescot. $1.50. Century.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
Mitchell, Silas Weir.Diplomatic adventure.†$1. Century.
Paris is the scene of this story, the time is that of the Civil war in America, and the incidents are recorded by a secretary to our legation in France. The plot is based upon an assumed incident of a stolen dispatch which fell into the hands of the American minister to France during the time when the emperor was trying to induce England to acknowledge the Confederate states as a nation. Besides the narrator and the American officer are a woman who seeks the protection of a stranger’s cab and three Frenchmen, nicknamed Athos, Porthos and Aramis. There are diplomatic mysteries, impulse with prospective duels to atone for it, and finally a merry issue from all complications.
“It is as an agreeable a book for an idle hour as one could wish.”
“Dr. Weir Mitchell contrives, as only an accomplished writer could contrive, to bring into his little novel, mystery, conspiracy, comicality, diplomacy and romance, with probability enough to keep unbelief at bay.”
“A very clever little skit.”
“The book is not quite up to Dr. Mitchell’s self-imposed standard.”
Mitchell, Silas Weir, ed. Pearl. *$1. Century.
The translation into modern English of a fourteenth-century middle English lyric.
“We could wish that he had given us the whole poem, but this need not preclude our thanks for his very charming version of the portions that he thought worthy of translation.”
“This beautiful old poem of the middle English period has never been translated with so delicate a sense of its tender beauty or with so much reverence for its spirit.”
Mitton, G. E.Jane Austen and her times.*$2.75. Putnam.
“But notwithstanding the ‘made-up’ nature of the book, it is very readable and the illustrations are interesting.”
“If the present work does not attain to, or claim, much originality, it is a clever and readable compilation, with something about it, of the sprightly freshness of Miss Austen’s own work.”
“Miss Mitton has made her book particularly interesting.”
Mitton, G. E.Normandy: painted by Nico Jungman. *$3. Macmillan.
“There seems to be throughout an attempt to imitate Cassier’s with disastrous results.”
Modern mystic’s way. †$1.25. Dutton.
The author was released from Huxleyan agnosticism before Professor James’ psychological discovery of the “subliminal” stratum of consciousness which opened the way to realms agreed upon by agnostics to be closed. “The revolutionized attitude and transfigured view of the world resulting from this are here exhibited. The confession of Jacob Behmen is adopted, ‘God is the place of the soul,’ and Jesus’ saying, ‘All live in him.’ With St. Francis, the mystic sees in bird and beast his brother. The problems of prayer and brotherhood clear up in his thought that all life is one, the life of God.” (Outlook.)
“She uses scientific knowledge in a way which only a vision could justify; and the vision is absent.”
“His little book is a valuable addition to the library of devotional thought, though it only presents the conceptions of the classic mystics in modern form.”
Moffat, Mary Maxwell.Queen Louisa of Prussia. **$3. Dutton.
The domestic, intellectual and inspirational characteristics of this favorite among Prussian queens are arranged with new material to fortify them. “She did not make poetry, she did make politics; but she made them poetically.... And just as the greatest of all poets is said to have been a good business man, this best of all queens could use feminine weapons to deal with him whom only such weapons could reach.” (N. Y. Times.)
“This is by no means the first life of Queen Louisa, but it certainly is one which will be read with delight by many who will take it as a mere incident in the Napoleonic drama, and by many more perhaps who will regard it as a clear exposition of a good and capable woman’s life.”
“If it can scarcely be said that Mrs. Moffat has risen to the heights of her opportunities, she has, at least written an unpretentious, careful, and fairly readable book.”
“This book is so clear and delightful that we should like to efface ourselves and quote it all.”
“Altogether this is a biography that appeals and stimulates and convinces, and as such should hold the interest of a wide and appreciative audience.”
“A mistress of her materials, and gifted with fine powers of reflection, the authoress commands a vigorous, original style equally adapted to personal portraiture and general description.”
Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louise (Stewart) (Ennis Graham).Wrong envelope and other stories. $1.50. Macmillan.
“The principal story is called ‘That girl in black,’ and tells, among other things how Despard Morreys—cool, contemptuous, blasé—all but died of brain fever on being refused by the mysterious Miss Fforde, who is afterward discovered to be no less a person than Lady Margaret Fforde, daughter to the Earl of Southwold.... The other stories are similar in tone and subject, with the exception of ‘A strange messenger,’ which forsakes society for a colliery district, and treats of the supernatural. The concluding tale of the volume ‘A ghost of the Pampas,’ is by the late Mr. Bevil R. Molesworth, the author’s son.”—Ath.
“These are tales of a bygone pattern, somewhat flavourless and abounding in italics.”
“A collection of extraordinarily commonplace tales.”
“The stories are fairly interesting, but are by no means on a level in execution, quality, or interest with Mrs. Molesworth’s admirable stories for young readers.”
“Although these are quite readable short stories, Mrs. Molesworth’s peculiar talent is in writing for children, not for grown-up people.”
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald.Russian court in the eighteenth century. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
“The atmosphere of Russia in the 18th century is the atmosphere of the Blasted Heath whereon the witches danced. ‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair.’” The Russian present is viewed through the schemes, plots and crimes of the reign of Catherine I., Peter II., Anna, a niece of Peter the Great, Elizabeth, Peter III., Catherine II., and Paul.
“The whole story is of absorbing interest to one who would watch the play of the elemental passions either in individual relations or in a barbaric state.”
“The interest of the subject, more especially at the present moment is so great that we have found it almost impossible to lay down his book.”
“The eighteen illustrations, finely reproduced from historical portraits of the principal actors in the drama, form the most unimpeachable feature of the book.”
“There is nothing new in this story. Mr. Molloy’s account is fluent and interesting.”
Molmenti, Pompeo Gherard.History of Venice: its individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; tr. from the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. Sold in 2v. sections, per section, *$5. McClurg.
Under the imprint of theIstituto Italiano d’arts grafiche,appears this important work which will be issued in three parts as follows: Part 1, Venice in the middle ages; Part 2, Venice in the golden age; Part 3, The decadence of Venice. The author is the leading historical writer of Italy to-day, and the translator knows his Venice well. The first part, now ready in two volumes, deals with the origin of the people, aspect and form of the city, the houses and churches, questions of constitution, lands, commerce and finance, the dress, manners and customs of the people, industrial and fine arts, and culture.
Moncrieff, Ascott Robert Hope (Ascott R. Hope, pseud.).Highlands and islands of Scotland; painted by W. Smith, jr.; described by A. R. Hope Moncrieff. *$3.50. Macmillan.
A delightful book upon the remoter West Highlands which contains chapters upon Tartans, The Holy isles, The land of Lorne, Pibrochs and Coronachs, Tourists, The outer Hebrides, Children of the mist, etc., in which Mr. Moncrieff describes little trips from one place to another ... the dialects of the people, their manners, etc. The many illustrations in color add much to the charm of the text and include pictures of Glen Rosa in Arran, Loch Linnhe, Glencoe, Ben Nevis, the Hills of Jura, some castles, natives and their homes, views of rivers, falls, lakes, islands, and other places.
“A lively, readable, rambling book of jottings, very pleasantly written.”
“Fine volume. The author has given us a great amount of mingled instruction and entertainment.”
Monroe, Paul.Text-book in the history of education. *$1.90. Macmillan.
“Mr. Monroe can certainly justify his selections, and, take it all in all, has given us a book that is the most useful textbook on the subject that has yet appeared. The work gives evidence of hurried preparation (in certain infelicities of style) and lack of careful proofreading.” George H. Locke.
“Very suggestive and helpful, in the reviewer’s opinion, is the treatment of education as adjustment, and an interpretation of the history of educational practice and theory from this point of view.” H. Heath Bawden.
“The book is thoroughly practical, being divided into well-marked paragraphs and sections; and as it aims to being rather suggestive than exhaustive, it should commend itself to teachers.”
“It is cause for genuine regret that a piece of work so well begun and with such great possibilities should be thus disfigured and damaged by a multitude of errors and blemishes. But with all its faults the book is probably the best thing available for college classes in the history of education.” Edward O. Sisson.
Montague, Elizabeth May.Beside a southern sea. $1. Neale.
Lorraine, beautiful and passionate, in the absence of her husband to whom she is but a mere doll, finds her soul’s mate in her husband’sbrother John. Together they talk of life and its meaning, together they strive to mend the broken lives of a woman who has sinned and a woman who was sinned against, and finally together they go hand in hand out of the story, leaving husband and society for life and love on a South sea island where John has established a Christian community among the natives.
Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr.Analysis of racial descent in animals. Holt.
Professor Montgomery of the University of Texas regards his work as a prologue rather than an exhaustive treatment of his subject. Giving the experimental method credit for everything that it can do in the direction of interpreting phenomena he turns to the value of the comparative method of which he makes critical tests.
“Has attained a large measure of success in presenting the general problems of evolution as they appear to-day, with the necessary technicalities succinctly and, on the whole, clearly presented.”
“A valuable contribution to the methodology of difficult problems in evolution.”
“Scholarly work.”
“The author’s intimate acquaintance with the great wealth of phenomena and with the extensive literature dealt with in this book, makes it one of particular importance and value to biological students.” E. G. Conklin.
Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morss.First view of English literature. *$1. Scribner.
“Certainly the work has the merit of making the study of literature seem a very easy and attractive thing; by no stretching of terms, however, can theViewbe called thoro. Moreover, as in theHistory, the suggestiveness of the writing is expected to atone for lack of definite statement, dates, etc.” G. C. D. Odell.
Moore, Charles Herbert.Character of renaissance architecture. **$3. Macmillan.
“An extremely clear and interesting account of a vast subject; authoritative, calm, instructive; an admirable handbook and book of reference.”
“A study both lucid and critical, of Renaissance architecture by one who may almost be classed as an avowed enemy, without sympathy for the aims and aspirations of the Renaissance architects.”
“He has discounted the legitimate weight of his argument, and given to what ought to have been a work of impersonal scholarship an atmosphere of carping provinciality.” Royal Cortissoz.
“A volume ... which for insight, scholarship and creative criticism will rank of equal value with the earlier work.”
“In spite, therefore, of his somewhat hackneyed subject, Mr. Moore’s book will be found full of original assertions, and the untiring industry of which it is the outcome will no doubt win a certain meed of admiration. But the illustrations are mostly commonplace, and fail to bring out the salient characteristics of the buildings they represent.”
“From such a promising title we expected at least an intelligent appreciation of this great historical movement in architecture. Instead we find ourselves hurled back into middle Victorianism of the deepest dye.”
Moore, Frank Frankfort.Jessamy bride.**$2. Duffield.
This new edition of Mr. Moore’s story of the days of Dr. Johnson and his tea-drinking companions is handsomely gotten up and includes seven illustrations in color by C. Allan Gilbert.
Moore, Frank Frankfort.Love alone is lord. †$1.50. Putnam.
Moore, Frederick.Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Frederick Moore has been the correspondent of the London Times in Turkey, Bulgaria, Servia, and Albania. He has seen at close range a great deal of the people of the Balkan peninsula, and he has the knack of describing his impressions in concise and vivid language. His book is a real help to the better understanding of countries now in a particularly interesting phase of their political and religious development.”—Outlook.
“The pictures are of remarkable interest.”
“Mr. Moore has succeeded in giving a very good idea of the various peoples of the Turkish part of the peninsula, of the various agencies at work among them and the general conditions of the country. He carried with him a camera, which he used effectively. The illustrations, from his photographs, are excellent, and really illustrate the text.”
“We have been so well supplied with the treatises of publicists on the Balkan question that we can afford to be grateful to a writer with so keen an eye and so modest an intention.”
Moore, George.Lake.†$1.50. Appleton.
“A dreamlike study of spiritual development.... The priest who in this story lives by the shore of the lake, has, in a moment of religious zeal, driven from his parish a schoolmistress who has fallen into the deadliest sin that a woman can commit in Ireland; he finds when she has gone that her personality has stamped itself upon his heart irrevocably; and the story told is the story of the gradual development of his nature through love of her, and the learning of the lesson that if he is to find the true life that exists somewhere for each of us, he must strip himself of his priestly office and find his soul in the world of men.... Finally ... it becomes inevitable that in order to leave his parish without scandal and hurt to the simple souls dwelling there, he should swim across the lake and allow it to be supposed that he is drowned.... In the moon light of a warm September night he leaves his priestly clothes and his priestly office upon one shore of the lake and swims across it to the other, where he assumes the habit and destiny of a man. This crossing of the Lake, of course, is at once the spirit and allegory of the book.”—Sat. R.
“He has never shown himself a more finished artist in words than in this book.”
“It is such a theme as was wont to appeal to him, but it is not satisfactory; it is all too cloudy. The form of the book is also difficult; and, indeed, the natural descriptions and the sensitive and vivid style are the only things that can be praised without reserve.”
“Mr. Moore, however, has not risen to the level of his opportunities. Compare ‘The lake’ for instance, with Mr. Temple Thurston’s ‘Apple of Eden,’ of which the subject is essentially the same, and you will see at once how far Mr. Moore has fallen from his former high estate.” H. T. P.
“His ‘later manner’ outranks his earlier.” Carolyn Shipman Whipple.
“The handling is not sensational, but it is not altogether free from the charge of unwholesomeness. We doubt if Mr. Moore has ever done a better piece of writing.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The book has much charm, especially in the first half, and some interest, especially in the second half.”
“From the point of view of thought and style, the book is certainly on a high plane. We are charmed in the poetical presentation of the picture.”
“If I dared to suggest a novelist of whom I was vaguely reminded when reading this book, I should name Tourgeneff.” James Huneker.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
“Mr. Moore’s work is notable for skill of analysis and for charm of style, but it is as free from moral feeling as if there were no guides in the world save instinct and impulse; herein lies the limitation which keeps it out of the class of lasting fiction.”
“With singular personages and circumstances unhackneyed, he yet contrives a tedious in lieu of a seizing story.”
“It is a very subtle piece of work, this that Mr. Moore has done; very fine and elaborate, very delicate and profound.”
Moore, George.Memoirs of my dead life.*$1.50. Appleton.
“An astoundingly frank book.... Frank and brutal and fascinating.... There is talk about art and literature; but the bulk of the volume is given over to narration of various events in the life of Mr. Moore, events as a rule published after a man has joined his forefathers.... It will be all very shocking to our American fiction-fed public, this outspoken declaration of a man who is not afraid to declare that the love passion is a blessing, good wine a boon, art alone enduring.... There are thirteen chapters. Several of them appeared in a Neo-Celtic periodical. Some are veritable short stories. One, the last, is charged with noble images; ‘The lovers of Orelay,’ is the most attractive tale; all are cleverly executed and ring as if sincere.”—N. Y. Times.
“He writes with freedom always, and nowadays with greater grace than he was wont to do. But we wish he would exercise his powers on a more worthy object than a too-elaborate parody; for after all we have really no interest in the sort of man and thing he portrays.”
“In the English edition and unexpurgated form, ‘Memoirs of my dead life’ is a shocking book, and its present reviewer delights in the statement.” James Huneker.
“When Mr. Moore is content to leave sexual subjects alone, he writes gracefully and effectively on art and music. Although his judgments sometimes appear hasty and superficial, and introduces into his descriptions a wealth they are always fresh and suggestive. He is particularly sensitive to the moods of nature of poetic imagery.”
Moore, J. Howard.Universal kinship. $1. Kerr.
The chief purpose of this volume “is ‘to prove and interpret the kinship of the human species with the other species of animals.’ The first eleven chapters are devoted to ‘a proof of the physical kinship,’ that is a statement of the idea of evolution leading up to man. In the second group—five chapters—the physical kinship is traced, and much that exists in modern society is but a holdover from mere primitive conditions.... Ultimately the author believes peace, justice, and solidarity will rule.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“Much of what the author says is true, but in the attempt to prove his thesis he is inclined to ignore the evil side of the brute’s nature and the noble side of human nature.”
Moore, John Bassett.American diplomacy: its spirit and achievements. **$2. Harper.
“Prof. Moore surveys and analyzes the field of American negotiation and treaty making, and insists upon the fair, square and direct methods in vogue from the beginning to the present time as contrasted with the European evasive and delusive art. Incidentally the book serves as a history of American expansion as well as a number of developments of usage, like the doctrine of expatriation and the falling into abeyance of the ‘right of search,’ in its extreme forms.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Moore clears up many misapprehensions and writes with a precision and clearness of judgment to which few writers can lay claim. This fact is all that redeems the book from the combined faults of brevity and comprehensiveness. Throughout the volume, Mr. Moore speaks with the authority derived from a thorough mastery of the sources, and with a refreshing disregard of views that have gained currency through mere force of repetition. His general treatment is free from conventional bias.” John Holladay Latané.
“Whatever he writes is both authoritative and interesting, and shows the most intimate knowledge.” James Wilford Garner.
“One may question his assignments of space or of historical importance to one topic or another, or his judgments of men and events, though to the reviewer these seem on the whole to be admirable.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
“The story of the struggle for this concession is told with the same masterful command of all the material which characterizes each of the essays in this most valuable volume.”
“We have found the book entertaining as a non-chronological narrative, but less valuable as an exposition of principles. Indeed, as an expounder of principles, the author writes in altogether too patriotic a vein to be weighty.”
“This book is stimulating to one’s patriotic ardor; it presents a fine record and it is certainly clearly set forth in sound and straightforward English. It would appear not unreasonable to suppose that such omissions as have been noted may have caused the emphasis to be improperly distributed.” William E. Dodd.
“Professor Moore’s own reputation as a diplomat is equaled by his ability to write forceful, clear, and fascinating essays.”
Moore, John Trotwood.Bishop of Cottontown: a story of the Southern cotton mills.†$1.50. Winston.
Child labor and the extent to which it was carried in the South after the close of the war, is described in grim detail in this story of the Acme cotton mills. Richard Travis, the man at their head, is a low creature who poses as a gentleman and lures pretty girls into his mill only to betray them. His underlings are as unscrupulous as he and persuade the poverty-stricken whites of the neighborhood to sell their little children into real slavery for a term of years at five cents a working hour. The book is a strong and terrible arraignment of child labor and in the end through the influence of the “Bishop” of Cottontown, the woman whom Travis really loved and lost, and other better souls, the mills become co-operative and the little children are given back their childhood.
“Gives us an excellent description of life in the Tennessee valley.”
Moore, Mabel.Carthage of the Phoenicians in the light of modern excavations. **$1.50. Dutton.
“This book is an interesting and succinct account of the work of excavation, being accomplished in the Punic tombs of Carthage by the Rev. A. L. Delattre, Archpriest of the Cathedral of St. Louis of Carthage, and his colleagues. In other words, the book gives the results of excavations in certain large tombs, especially the Necropolis of St. Louis and the Necropolis of Bord-el-Djedid.”—Spec.
“The book may be commended for its simple and straightforward description of the successful labours of the Fathers of Carthage on a spot where the depredations of the natives are fast destroying the ancient remains and monuments. But we cannot follow it in the suggestions and theories which it contains.”
“As an account of the diggings in three principal necropolises, the book is of real value to the student of archaeology, altho it contains no great treasures.”
“When the author passes from fact to comment and conjecture her work is not so valuable. But there is very little in the book that departs from the category of facts, and for the exhaustive care which has been displayed in compiling this record from the many publications of the White fathers and from other sources there can be nothing but praise.”
“The tourist who visits northern Africa today will find this volume worth taking along. Where the author diverges from her story of the finds to matters of history or ethnology some inaccuracies appear.”
“As an appetiser nothing could well be better than this little treatise.”
Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.
A half-dozen stories that portray fearless young heroines, some of whom are drawn from royalty of mediaeval times.
Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.Lace book. **$5. Stokes.
Moore, T. Sturge.Albert Durer.*$2. Scribner.
“The reader must go elsewhere for a full and formal narrative of Dürer’s career, but Mr. Moore will take him close to the secret of the German master’s art.” Royal Cortissoz.
More, Paul Elmer.Shelburne essays.4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
“It is soon apparent that Mr. More deals competently with all or nearly all of his topics; he writes on the basis of an uncommonly broad and serious general preparation, and after supplying himself specifically with the knowledge appropriate to each task.” George McLean Harper.
“Fully up to the standard of the two earlier books.”
More five o’clock stories in prose and verse. 75c. Benziger.
Mainly legends of saints written for the instruction of Catholic young people.
Morris, Charles.Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
A group of valiant and unconquerable men have their deeds exploited in these pages. They range from the daring Norsemen and Columbus to the indefatigable Peary. The author has caught the spirit of romance and adventure necessary to make these men fit subjects for our young American’s hero worship.
“A popular work of a most acceptable type.”
“It is well suited to the needs of young readers—particularly as collateral reading in school—and some of their elders will also enjoy the compact but graphic narrative.”
“These tales are interesting and inspiring, and furnish an adequate notion of what was accomplished in the great work of discovering a continent.”
“In the main his narratives are trustworthy but there are some striking exceptions.”
Morris, Clara (Mrs. Frederick C. Harriott).Life of a star. **$1.50. McClure.
“In her new volume, ‘The life of a star’, as in her earlier ‘Life on the stage,’ Clara Morris mingles with the natural vivacity of the artist’s attitude a certain charmingly feminine intimacy and frank egotism. It is quite as if the actress clothed her memory in a bewitching, much-beribboned house gown and sat down to enjoy a cup of tea with it. Happily it is a serviceable memory, flexible, and well provided with material. Years of entrances and exits, plaudits, receptions, and train-catchings brought the actress into flashing contact with many interesting people of the passing generation.”—N. Y. Times.
“It will bear comparison with some of the best of similar work by authors of acknowledged rank in literature.”
“In all this bright rush of recollection and easily voluble femininity one is always conscious of the writer. The tone is as conversational as a dinner talk—and, one is tempted to say at times as perceptibly elevated.”
“While there is nothing of vital importance recorded, the incidents are vivaciously related, and the spirit of the writer shows pleasantly.”
“Full of human interest, human pathos, and dramatic intensity.”
Morris, J.Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.
“To supply history through the medium of biography,” has been the author’s aim in preparing this volume, “to convey a general impression of Japan and her people: the workings of reform, as exemplified in the lives of some of her patriots.” Consequently the twenty-two chapters are each devoted to one of the makers of Japan. The part which His Majesty the Emperor, The last of the Shoguns, Marquis Ito, Enomoto, Okuma, Oyama, Togo and all the others played in the introduction of reforms is given in detail and “the situation in Japan now that those measures for which they were responsible may be said to have taken full effect” is discussed. There are 24 illustrations from photographs.
“His work is admirably successful: it is careful without being laboured, and learned without being dull.”
“A readable book. His materials are neither abundant, nor of first rate authority. The portraits in the volume are excellent, except the one of the Mikado, which is old and hackneyed.”
“Not a past master in literary composition is Mr. J. Morris. It is just the book needed, and often called for in vain at many libraries.”
“His book is invaluable because it turns from things of the spirit and gives what is virtually a biographical history of the new Japanese government and nation, laying emphasis upon the concrete and tangible.”
“Than this volume no more readable or reliable book on Japan has been produced of late years.”
Morris, Sir Lewis.New rambler, from desk to platform. $2. Longmans.
Twenty-eight short papers and addresses which deal “with the place of poetry in education, with provincial ‘institutes’ with a school of art, with the education of girls, with the teaching of science.” (N. Y. Times.) “Especially commendable are the remarks on ‘The place of poetry in education.’ Talleyrand’s warning to the youth who had no taste for whist,—‘Young man, you are preparing yourself for a miserable old age,’—he thinks might also be addressed to the young person insensible to the charms of poetry.” (Dial.)
“His experience of life and acquaintance with literature make his reflections and reminiscences and counsels well worth reading.”
“The picture which most of the discourses conjure up is that of an elderly gentleman whose juniors have asked him his opinion, more out of politeness than curiosity, on some subject about which he really knows no more than they do, and who therefore proceeds to expound with all the pomp of platitude, and the manner of one who has discovered the obvious after years of profound reflection.”
“Many of the essays—indeed, most of them—are excellent reading; the addresses bear unmistakably the mark of the British beast. You can see in your mind’s eye as you read the solid provincials listening to the words of the distinguished speaker. And the words are dull and the matter quite lacks the whimsicality and individuality, the personal note, which lends the essays charm.”
Morse, Edward Sylvester.Mars and its mystery.**$2. Little.
A book for the general reader. In approaching the interpretation of the markings of Mars the author gives a brief historical summary of what has already resulted from observation, shows in what proportion the constantly changing canals reveal evidence of life, and presents what he has been able to draw of the Martian details, with a transcript of his notes made at the time of observation, and finally has made an imaginary sketch of how the world would look from Mars.
“A fascinating question is here discussed in a plain and thorough treatment for the general reader.”
“The book is marred in one or two places by a rather savage personal attack upon a British astronomer in good standing, partly, apparently, on account of religious convictions. The book is interesting, and well worth reading to all these who wish to learn the opinions of various authorities on the most fascinating of all planets.” Wm. H. Pickering.
Morse, John Torrey, jr.Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee. **$3. Little.
“A timely contribution to Massachusetts biography.... The memoir, which is followed by selections from the writings and speeches of Colonel Lee, is hardly a biography, but rather a biographical sketch dealing with the subject’s early life, his career in the Civil war, and his connection with Harvard.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Morse has made an interesting book, much less local than a less skillful writer would have produced. It is disfigured by several mistakes on the part of the compiler, but none of them is of capital importance.”
Morse, Margaret Fessenden.Spirit of the pines. †$1. Houghton.
“In the solitude of the New Hampshire woods, two lovers of nature find more and more points of affinity until all the world is glorified by “The light that never was on sea or land.” But the great White terror has been present from the first, and the two souls are strong enough to heed its ‘Thou shalt renounce! Thou shalt renounce!’ Although a tragedy, the little romance is, upon the whole, far from tragic. The letters of the young people are as breezy as the mountain top. There are many touches of humor and wholesome wisdom.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is, to put it briefly, the story of love and renunciation that Miss Morse tells us, with a beauty of sentiment and language that stamps her work one of the daintiest products born of imagination in many a day.”
“Is a graceful little idyll.”
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
“While the romance is slight, it is refined and combines strength with pathos.”
Moses, Montrose Jonas.Famous actor families in America. **$2. Crowell.
Beginning with the Booths, the author has given a series of delightful sketches and stories of the Jeffersons, the Drews, the Barrymores, the Sotherns, the Hollands, the Hacketts, the Wallacks, the Boucicaults, the Davenports and the Powers. In connection with them many other noted names are dealt with, and the whole is illustrated with 40 full page plates and provided with a valuable bibliography. The volume is both authoritative and interesting and will appeal to theatre-goers, playwrights, critics, and readers in general.
“The volume has no index, but it needs one.”
“Of the information contained in this book there is much that is useful, much more that is trivial, but very little that is original, and of that little it must be added none is particularly valuable.”
“The material is abundant, and for the most part it has here been judiciously used. The perspective of praise is not always preserved, and the reader might infer that the living had often proved themselves equal to the dead.” Brander Matthews.
“It is delightful reading in a general way, full of attractive personalities and episodes connected with the most picturesque of professions.”
“This is perhaps the most useful and informing single volume on the American stage, past and present, that the general reader, who is also a lover of drama and of acting, can place upon his bookshelves.”
“It is written in a spirit of reverence and appreciation for the work of the past generation, and with generosity and sympathy for the living representatives.”
Moss, Mary.Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.
An unconventional poet weds a woman of rigidly Puritanical notions. His intolerance of her straight-laced ideas passes the ill-bred limit and reaches brutality. In the background are the members of the parish who with united voice cry out against his indiscretions. The rupture which the divergence in the temperament of husband and wife is bound to create is nevertheless averted and a reconciliation is effected.
“It is only in the latter chapters of the book that Miss Moss seems to fall away from the higher standard that she set herself at the outset. None the less, she has failed to spoil a book which contains much that is strong and fine and eminently true.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The story, we think, would have been more powerful, if not more immediately effective, if its tone had been less light and satirical. It should, perhaps, be enough that there are no dull or meaningless persons or events, and that a deeper note seems to sound beneath the trebles and tenors of the social-comedy strain.”
“She has written a novel of much originality, and has written it with such cleverness and spirit that whoever begins it will be unwilling to lay it down until the last word is read.”
“Good workmanship and entertaining qualities are happily combined.”
Mother Goose: her book, with pictures by Harry L. Smith. [+]75c. Duffield.
All the old rhymes which delight the nursery of today just as they delighted the nurseries of long ago are to be found unchanged in this comfortable volume in the new, tho not too modern, dress which Harry L. Smith has designed for them.
Mott, Lawrence.Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.
“We could readily spare much of the tiresome patois.”
“Stands out prominently among the books of the month.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
“It is strong, imaginative, and picturesque, and as the first work of a very young writer deserves to be specially noted. The dialect ... is about the thorniest we have ever had to cope withal, and is likely to discourage many readers.”
“Mr. Mott is to be congratulated at once on the way in which he has sketched the scenes of the old trapper’s labours and also upon his peculiar success in the management of the French-Canadian dialect.”
Mottram, William.True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam Bede,” giving the real life history of the more prominent characters; with 86 il. mainly from photographs by Allan P. Mottram and Vernon H. Mottram. **$1.75. McClurg.
Adam Bede, Dinah Morris, Mrs. Poyser and Seth Bede are set in the walks of life from which they emerged to the plane of book people. The author is “grand nephew of Adam and Seth Bede” holding that relation to the Evans family from which the Bedes are drawn. The sketches are intimate ones, biographical in nature, and include a wealth of incident.
“As a whole, the book is written in a tone of alternate religious devotion and personal panegyric that becomes tiresome to the less piously enthusiastic.” Percy F. Bicknell.