“A more revolting denouement can only be imagined by Bernard Shaw.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
“Except for a certain artificiality in the handling of some of the situations and the resulting dialogue, the story is a good one, and well told.”
“The difficult theme is worked out with reserve and discrimination.”
Rickett, Arthur.Personal forces in modern literature. **$1.25. Dutton.
Papers which “are not intended as contributions to critical literature ... but are concerned rather with the ‘personal equation’ of the writers discussed than with the purely literary aspects of their work.” Newman and Martineau represent the moralist type; Huxley, the scientist; Wordsworth, Keats, Dante and Gabriel Rossetti, the poet; Dickens, the novelist; Hazlitt and De Quincey, the vagabond.
“Despite shortcomings, however, Mr. Rickett’s book is the agreeable work of a man of taste and many sympathies; while he himself hastens to deny that it is profound.”
“Mr. Rickett has, we think, indulged himself too far in the method of ‘intermittent bursts;’ he leaves with us no impression of a well-considered singleness of aim. There are few errors in matters of fact.”
“It is in the detail of his several subjects however, that Mr. Rickett is most entertaining. Without being actually profound, he is occasionally shrewd and suggestive, if not always quite accurate or just.”
“As a whole, however, they are a good piece of work.”
Ridgeway, William.Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse. *$3.75. Macmillan.
“Some failings notwithstanding, no one who takes an interest, scientific or otherwise, in the origin and descent of the horse should fail to read this brilliant book on these subjects.”
“It is the simple truth that no such addition has been made in biology to the study of a domesticated animal since Darwin wrote.”
“This long argument would gain greatly if the book were divided up into shorter chapters, each with its due table of contents.” G. Le Strange.
“Recommending him to make a better study of that portion of his subject which relates to Arabia, if he would establish his theory on really solid ground.” W. S. Blunt.
Riedl, Frederick.History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.
A volume uniform with “Literatures of the world” series. “In no country in the world is literature so much a part of history, of its patriotic feelings, and of the struggle to preserve the liberties as in Hungary.... It mirrors throughout the simple, unsophisticated feelings and thoughts of men who loved their country wholly, sincerely, faithfully, and were ready to lay down their lives to preserve its freedom. Here if ever, the soul of the people is revealed in its literature.”
Ries, Heinrich.Economic geology of the United States. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“The aim of the author ... is to give the reader in an encyclopaedic way an account of the economic geology of the United States, including Alaska, but excluding our insular possessions. As the main object is to set forth the facts of occurrence and the production of minerals he has to assume that those who follow his work have some general knowledge concerning the origin, structure and accidents of rocks.... Dr. Ries begins his presentation with a study of American coals.... After coal, petroleum and natural gas are briefly and well-treated, then building materials, clays, limes and cements. Next in succession, salines, gypsums, fertilizers, and abrasives, followed by the usual amount of minor minerals, and of mineral waters, closing with a singularly insufficient account of soils and road materials.... The second part of the book is devoted to ore deposits.... The book is amply illustrated.”—Engin. N.
“As a whole the book is excellent as it now is; with the revisions of later editions which itsgoodness should ensure it, it is likely to become a standard work.” N. S. Shaler.
“The book has many well selected maps and plates and an excellent bibliography.” Robert Morris.
“Altogether the work is an admirable one, and we strongly commend it to teachers in this country as a source of concise, accurate, and recent information regarding the mineral deposits of the United States.”
“On the whole, the book may be pronounced excellent—one that every broadminded business man should have, and that deserves the wide acceptance in the colleges that it is finding.” A. C. Lane.
Riley, James Whitcomb.Riley songs o’ cheer. $1.25. Bobbs.
Riordon, William L.Plunkitt of Tammany hall.†$1. McClure.
Ripley, William Zebina, ed. Trusts, pools and corporations. *$1.80. Ginn.
“These selected readings and cases admirably supplement the usual text-books, and put the essence of the most suggestive collateral material in the hands of every student. As labor-saving devices alone, they will amply repay their cost.” Winthrop More Daniels.
“Most of the contributions attain, each in its own way, a high standard of merit.”
“Some chapters are of high individual merit, and all as individual bricks contribute to the making of a solid and useful whole.” H. C. E.
Roach, Abby Meguire.Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.
Thoroly modern matrimonial problems are illustrated seriously, humorously and realistically in this group of stories. Tact, loyalty, man’s and woman’s philosophy all enter into the illustrated give-and-take process necessary to the harmonious adjustment of wedded lives along understood lines of liberty.
“Its limitation is a lack of humor, which results in a self-conscious style from time to time, and leads one to suspect that the characters are not quite average—as they are intended to be—but ultra-introspective, thinking their way through difficulties that over and over should dissolve in fun.”
Roads, Charles.Bible studies for teacher training: analytical, synthetic side lights; a normal class text book. *60c. Meth. bk.
Suggestive outlines to be followed in both analytical and synthetic study of the Bible.
Roberts, Charles George Douglas.Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.
When Jim Calder is made mate of the good ship G. G. Goodridge he does not marry Luella Warden as he has promised, but, stinging under the evil insinuations of a forged letter which a designing woman has shown him, he sails out of the Bay of Fundy and away leaving Luella to her shame. How he fares on the high seas, and how Luella brings up her son alone and undefended, and how this son after twenty years finds the father who wronged his mother and himself, loves him and brings him home, is the story of the book.
“It is a bold, compelling piece of work, intimately realistic, except where the author has occasion to transport two of the leading characters to eastern seas.”
“We forget the improbability in the joy of the workmanship.”
“Mr. Roberts’s new novel has all the characteristics of his previous work, with some additional distinction.”
“We have a right to expect better things than this from Mr. Roberts or nothing at all.”
“We find it less satisfactory in plot than in its delightful scenery and delineation of character.”
“It is not so much a story, however, as a series of cameo-like character studies of a small town.”
Roberts, Charles George Douglas.Red fox: the story of his adventurous career in the Ringwaak wilds and of his final triumph over the enemies of his kind.†$2. Page.
“Among the many writers of nature-books none is more satisfactory than Mr. Roberts.” Amy C. Rich.
“It isn’t a sincere piece of work. There isn’t enough to a fox; his psychology, his interests, his daily round is too limited to sustain him throughout a volume. The author has tried to meet the lack of substance with style.”
“It is a good specimen of the work of a well-known author.”
Roberts, Morley.Idlers. †$1.50. Page.
“A very modern tale, dealing very modestly with British society—with true love, unsanctified passion, stark madness, and many vanities and pretences of this wicked world.... The hero is intellectually a fool ... a fine strapping young chap of true English meat, dull, but sound. Being the only son and heir of a baronet, his mother, who believes firmly in mustard plasters, has kept him out of the army and the university. Therefore going up to London, he promptly falls a victim to the wiles of a certain charmer of the town ... very beautiful and very, very wicked.... The book is full of malign caricatures of British types, the malignity lying largely in the closeness of the caricature to the living original.”—N. Y. Times.
“This tale of intrigue is well handled, and sometimes well told. It is always told with power; and it has the merit of being essentially interesting.”
“The book would be melodrama, if not for the atmosphere of reality it exhales, and the fine sanity of the lesson it teaches.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“There is nothing to redeem ‘The idlers’ from being the worst of fungus fiction except this element of masculine health in closing the situation.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
“It is a good story for people who like their romance spiced with wit and anchored to a sense of things as they are.”
“The present story seems to us deplorable, if not reprehensible, because it is cynical andtoo realistic in its presentation of viciousness and decadence in fashionable London society.”
Robertson, Florence H.Shadow land: stories of the South. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
Two of these three tales of the South reveal the “Old mammy” of slavery days, showing her unfailing loyalty and devotion to her “mistis.” Two “Knobite” waifs of the Southwest Virginia mountains “who had paired off with the birds,” ignorant of everything save humanity’s heart-throbbings give the title to the third, “Children of the woods.”
Robertson, John Mackinnon.Short history of free thought, ancient and modern.2v. *$6. Putnam.
“This outspoken and admirable work first published in 1899, has now been re-written, and enlarged to such an extent that it fills two stout volumes instead of one.”—Dial.
“Mr. Robertson is always stimulating and often amusing: and these two volumes are no exception.”
“He writes fluently with a pen that never falters, always with a felicity of phrase that make his writing agreeable reading.”
“It might be termed the history of unbelief. It is comprehensive. But it is not marked by any notable philosophical insight or dramatic power.”
Robertson, Morgan.Land ho! †$1.25. Harper.
Angus McPherson, otherwise known as Scotty, “a man with a face like a harvest moon and the soul of a Scotsman” is the principal figure in several of the adventures narrated in Mr. Robertson’s new book of sea tales. “The sea, as Scotty and the rest of Mr. Robertson’s heroes know it, is a hard mistress, exacting a heavy toll of labor and sorrow and making little return; and as a whole Mr. Robertson’s book does not make cheerful reading.” (Dial.)
“His style is powerful, but his insight is always exercised on gruesome situations.”
“As a whole the stories are very readable.”
“The book is always interesting.”
“The tales are remarkable rather for ingenuity than for any convincing quality.”
“A rattling, rousing, salty story.”
Robie, Virginia.Historic styles in Furniture. *$1.60. Stone.
“The title indicates the special point of view of this new ‘furniture book.’ Sometimes the century made the style, as in the fifteenth century; sometimes the period, as with the Italian Renaissance; sometimes the monarch, as with Louis XV. Taking each style as a chapter division, the author writes clearly of its development, highest type, and merger into other styles. The illustrations are admirably chosen and well printed.”—Outlook.
“For a convenient and well-balanced account of the general trend and development of styles this book is to be commended.”
“Mistakes, however, are discoverable, and some of them seem as if caused by a lack or knowledge of the actual pieces.”
“The book which is popularly written, adequately serves two purposes—an introduction to those elaborate monographs by specialists already mentioned: a text-book by the means of which the modest house holder may be inspired to beautify his home in many artistic ways.”
Robins, Edward.William T. Sherman. *$1.25. Jacobs.
“It is designed for popular reading, a somewhat slight work but at the same time unpretentious. While by no means a scientific military biography, it yet gives the main facts in the life of Sherman correctly, and in as much detail as the ordinary reader requires.” J. K. Hosmer.
“Quite up to the creditable standard of its predecessors.”
“He has made an excellent portrait of the great soldier, giving the shadows as well as the lights.”
“His is distinctly not a biography, but a military memoir.”
“There is a pleasant atmosphere of fairness about his book.”
“It presents a truthful and striking portrait, and is very acceptable as a military memoir. It is to be wished that in his presentation he had attained a higher level of literary quality.”
“The book is written attractively and with due regard to the official and standard authorities.”
Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes).Dark lantern; a story with a prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
Robinson, Edward Kay.Religion of nature. **90c. McClure.
“A scientific attempt to justify the ways of God to man.... The seeming ruthlessness, the cruelty of nature has been a stumbling-block to many patient thinkers. Mr. Kay Robinson, having found a haven of refuge, is anxious that others should share it.... The key of his solution is simply this—that real suffering can only be experienced when it is ‘conscious’; and that since man is the only animal that has attained consciousness man alone can suffer pain.”—Ath.
“He has in no sense taken a survey of the vast and varied considerations that would occur to one who had read widely and thought deeply on the growth and development of religious ideas.”
“This book deserves serious consideration. In the end we must find a verdict of ‘not proven,’ at the same time acknowledging with lively gratitude the suggestiveness and the admirable ideal of this interesting book.”
“The essay is an interesting one, but to many persons it will not seem that it is possible to follow the author in all his deductions.”
“A book that is sure to interest a large number of readers. In the opinion of the present writer, though, Mr. Robinson fails to prove his thesis.”
“The motive and spirit of the writer are more commendable than his reasoning.”
Robinson, Edwin Arlington.Children of the night.**$1. Scribner.
“Shows real poetic insight and a fine touch.”
Robinson, Emma Amelia, and Morgan, Charles Herbert.Short studies of Old Testament heroes. *50c. Meth. bk.
Bible heroes are treated in text book manner for any who wish a short and simple Bible course.
Robinson, Frederick S.English furniture. *$6.75. Putnam.
A late addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The subject is treated historically from the collector’s point of view, covering the entire period of furniture-making in England down to the beginning of the nineteenth century. “After the different styles of furniture have been dealt with and their characteristics compared and their particular points shown, Mr. Robinson provides a few notes on the materials, manufacture, and care of furniture made of oak, walnut and mahogany, giving instructions for polishing, the retaining of the color of the wood, etc.” (N. Y. Times.) There are 160 collotype plates and one photogravure all appearing at the end of the work.
“On a subject crowded with sociological interest and aesthetic pleasure, Mr. Robinson has given us a book that should form the type and pattern for future volumes in the ‘Connoisseur’s library,’ and at the same time, be the last word on English furniture for at least a generation.”
“Mr. Robinson’s book is indispensable to a connoisseur.”
“Furniture collectors and dealers will find helpful and valuable information in this book.”
“Mr. Robinson’s may be described as a very useful general survey of the history of this branch of art, and as a worthy successor to Mr. Dillon’s book on porcelain, published in the same series.”
“It may be stated as a general truth that the book is written throughout with a strong personal character impressed upon it, as being the work of one who has collected or at least studied and gathered material on his own account.”
“Altogether the book is a valuable and attractive addition to the series.”
Robinson, James Harvey.Readings in European history. Abridged ed. *$1.50. Ginn.
A high school text which is a collection of extracts from the sources chosen with the purpose of illustrating the progress of culture in Western Europe since the German invasions. Each chapter is accompanied by a carefully chosen bibliography.
“The book is so admirably adapted to its purpose of aiding the imagination and rendering more vivid the history of Europe from the period of the German invasions that it is gratifying to have it in a form in which it will find its way into the hands of many pupils who would not otherwise have known it.”—F. G. B.
“Selected with a wide knowledge of the field, and nice judgment of the needs of youthful learners.”
“Good judgment has been used in the abridgment, but the omission of so many important and interesting extracts is a cause for regret. The book fills a long-felt want.” M. W. Jernegan.
Roche, Francis Everard.Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The period of this poem is fixed sometime prior to the Trojan war and the action extends thru eighteen days and part of the miraculous three days and nights of continued darkness over the land of Egypt. The fable which deals with the oppression of the Israelites by the Egyptians assumes that liberty—inseparable from the redemption and happiness of mankind—looks to the Exodus from Egypt as the true turning point in its triumph over the ills of slavery and despotism.
Roden, Robert F.Cambridge press, 1638–1692: a history of the first printing press established in English America, together with a biographical list of the issues of the press. *$5. Dodd.
The second volume in a series on “Famous presses.” The author deals historically and bibliographically with the history of the first printing press established in English North America. “The treatment of the subject comprehends a list of the publications of the Cambridge press; sketches of the several printers whose names are connected with its history; and matters of interest connected with the rare volumes published at this early date, the history being given in many instances of their transmission from purchaser to purchaser and of the constant appreciation of the market value of these much-sought-after treasures. This method of treatment brings the reader in contact with many collectors of Americana during the last century whose names are as familiar as household words to librarians and students.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“The book has a meagre index, but on the whole is a satisfactory piece of work, the only serious blemish being the unnecessary attack on the Boston collectors.” Andrew McFarland Davis.
“He certainly has made a valuable and useful book, and if it is in parts rather barren reading, it is because the history of the first press established in English America is not a very fruitful theme. It is to the historian of early presses in America and to the bibliographer and the collector of early American imprints that this book must of necessity appeal.”
“It will prove itself a necessity in the library of any collector.”
Rogers, Bessie Story.As it may be: a story of the future. *$1. Badger, R. G.
“As it may be” jumps to the year 2905 and shows how sickness and consequently doctors have been eliminated not thru spiritual freedom but thru liberty that results from nourishing the body according to a set of Utopian principles.
Rogers, Joseph Morgan.The true Henry Clay. **$2. Lippincott.
Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
Rogers, Julia Ellen.Tree book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation. 16 plates in color and 160 in black and white from photographs by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. **$4. Doubleday.
“One of the fruits of efforts recently made to bring the literature of popular science and nature-study to a sane and solid basis.” (Dial.) Pt. 1 contains an introduction, names of trees, a sketch of tree families, and a key to the principal ones followed by fifty biographical chapters, each treating one family; pt. 2 is devoted to the subject of forestry; pt. 3 deals with the uses of the products of the forest; and pt. 4 describes the life of the trees.
“The style is pleasing and popular, while on the whole the work is scientifically accurate.” Bohnmil Shimek.
“The technical arrangement of the book is admirable and most practical.” Mabel O. Wright.
Roosevelt, Theodore.Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3. Scribner.
“His pages are alive with healthy incident and an observant criticism of birds and beasts, together with an admirably expressed appreciation of the wild and beautiful districts he visited in search of sport. From a British point of view this work is enhanced by being written in good readable English.” P.
“Mr. Roosevelt’s style is, as usual, practical and prosaic, almost unimaginative. But the volume is well-nigh cyclopaedic upon the ground that it covers. The author gathers large stores of information, and does not jump at conclusions. He is scrupulous as to the accuracy of the smallest details.”
“It would be hard to put one’s finger on another writer on sport who is so keen an observer as President Roosevelt, or who gives us in his chapters on hunting so many interesting and good observations on natural history.”
“It is written by a man who is a delightful ‘raconteur,’ and who has an intense conviction of the virile reality of his own life and of the deep integrity of the life around him.”
“The volume that records his adventures is straightforward, vigorous and pithy, with no wasted words and no ineffective ones.”
Roosevelt, Theodore.Square deal. $1. Allendale press.
Ideals of citizenship, success in life, nobility of parenthood, the problem of the South, the Chinese question and the essence of Christian character are among the subjects treated here. It is a book of cullings from the President’s addresses. A new photogravure portrait appears on the frontispiece.
Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root).Does God comfort? by one who has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.
Thru sorrow, loss, and temptation has come to the author the assurance that all that God has given to him He will give to every soul that honestly seeks Him.
Ropes, James Hardy.Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.
“The author, a professor at Harvard, in 1904 delivered a course of Lowell institute lectures on the apostolic age. The publication of these lectures places within reach of those who may be inquiring what New Testament criticism has done with the reputations of Paul and Peter, a clear, graphic account of the happenings of the apostolic days as at present understood by historians.... The aim is to describe the currents of thought, and life which made the apostolic age so great, and the success of the endeavor is notable.”—Ind.
“A concise and scholarly discussion, in attractive popular form, of the history and literature of the apostolic age.”
“Considering the field covered the work is brief, but more than a compensation for inadequacy of space to certain details is offered in the clarity and vividness in which the whole movement is portrayed. The résumé of recent criticism bearing on the period is fair and impartial.”
“The poetical element in the character of the man of Tarsus has rarely found more sympathetic and forceful exposition.”
“Examination of the work reveals not only a thorough and painstaking scholar, but also a writer of no little skill in holding material well in hand, in suppressing overplus of detail and bringing salient points into the clear, and also in presenting critical results with a minimum of offence to the traditionalist. There are occasional blunders in proofreading.”
“Professor Ropes gives an admirable survey of Jewish Christianity, an admirable character sketch of the Apostle Paul, and an admirable summary of the modern view respecting the date, origin, and form of composition of the four Gospels. His interpretation of Paul’s theology is, unfortunately, couched too much in modern theological phraseology, and he seems to us to fail to bring out the most fundamental characteristic of Paul’s teaching, namely, its subjective character.”
Roscoe, Henry Enfield.Life and experience of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe written by himself. *$4. Macmillan.
“There is a refreshing old-time atmosphere about the volume of reminiscences recently written by the famous English chemist.... There is much ... in the way of illuminating recollections of later giants of the nineteenth century—the illustrious Bunsen, who pointed him the path to success in chemical research; Faraday, Pasteur, Huxley, Tyndall, Lister, Kirchoff, Helmholtz, Dalton, Jevons, and, outside the realm of science, Gladstone, Martineau, Francis Newman, Richard Hutton, John Bright, and Sir Leslie Stephen. But perhaps the most interesting aspect of this volume lies in the light it throws on the progress of scientific investigation in Great Britain.”—Outlook.
“It should also be available at all public libraries as the story of one who has made use of his life and health to do work which has benefited his fellow-citizens, his fellow-countrymen, and the world at large.”
“Not for a long time has there come from England an autobiography of more all-around interest.”
“It contains pleasant references to numerous men of mark, but it is as a valuable contribution to the history of education that it claims lasting recognition.”
“The index is so meagre as to be almost worthless.”
“An unassuming and leisurely narrative.”
Rose, Arthur Richard.Common sense hell. **$1. Dillingham.
Mr. Rose, a practical business man, proves that hell fire is an absolute absurdity, and then reveals the reasonable, logical, sane and adequate hell which awaits each person who dies in his sins.
Rose, John Holland.Development of the European nations, 1870–1900. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
A two-volume work by the historian of the Napoleonic period. The author says: “After working at my subject for some time, I found it desirable to limit it to events which had a distinctly formative influence on the development of European states.” The two great impulses of the world—Democracy and Nationality as developed in the nations of Europe during the past four decades—are fully discussed and criticised from the vantage point of a twentieth century observer.
“Though Mr. Rose’s essays have considerable value, they are very far from justifying his title or constituting a history of the period.” Victor Coffin.
“Dr. Rose has a sound judgment and a clear lucid style. Our only doubt is whether in every case he can have obtained certain data on which to found his conclusions.”
“It must be said that the second volume is of a distinctly lower grade than the first. There is in it a note of weariness of the task. It is correct and up to date, but the language is less vivid. But both volumes are always and everywhere absolutely simple and clear, so that concise and correct information on whatever of importance pertains to modern European history, within the period covered, is available to anyone.” E. D. Adams.
“Combining wide reading, sound judgment, and an absence of party spirit not often found together.” W. Miller.
“The title-page of Dr. Rose’s latest book is full of promise. The book itself, however, disappoints the hopes thus invoked. It is an eminently readable book. Dr. Rose is a craftsman of experience, who, on the whole, does his work well.”
“The substantial merits of this volume, which contains a large amount of useful information laboriously compiled, are obscured by a slipshod, sometimes almost illiterate style.”
“Mr. Rose is somewhat uneven in style. Yet the period he deals with is so important and so interesting, and reliable works upon it are so few, that his volumes deserve a warm welcome.”
“As a pioneer work this must rank very high. The author shows great independence of thought as well as judgment and discretion.” R. L. Schuyler.
“Taken as a whole, the volume offers an interesting if not valuable insight into the attempts of old régimes to adjust their policies to the irrepressible growth of internal liberty of thought and action.”
“Until the private papers of great personages and state documents now locked up shall come to light, the sources of history used by Dr. Rose can hardly be enlarged. The reader cannot fail to see in his work the hand of a careful and sympathetic student of the struggle of nations toward the realization of their ideals.”
“His work is singularly valuable for an understanding of the international relations of contemporary Europe.”
“A period of European history as yet only cursorily treated ... has been graphically summed up in a scholarly manner.”
“Dr. Rose has the faculty of writing history in an entertaining way and making the essential facts stick in the memory.”
“It is skilfully planned, carefully executed, and exhibits on every page a sincere desire to master the problem and present it fairly and accurately.”
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of.Lord Randolph Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.
Lord Rosebery, tho a political opponent yet from the point of view of intimacy and affection presents a reminiscence and a study rather than a life of Lord Churchill. He sets this “brilliant half-success” in the field of high politics, reveals the qualities that made for mastery and also those that marred a brilliant career. There are side lights thrown upon such men as Gladstone, Beaconsfield, Salisbury, Parnell, and others.
“The best literary work, in our opinion, which he has produced.”
“In literary quality and in the human interest of its pages, this book will bear comparison with the former monographs of the distinguished author.”
“The book is small, but every page attracts, instructs, and inspires.”
“One cannot but wonder, on closing this fascinating yet disagreeable volume, why its author wrote it. At the end, you are conscious, more than anything else, of a bad taste in the mouth.” Edward Cary.
“What this monograph lacks in care and polish is more than made up for by its spontaneity, and by the vital interest of Lord Rosebery’s comments on the political parties of his own day, and on a career which has some striking points of resemblance to his own.” Arthur A. Baumann.
Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier.I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the cross, tr. by Elizabeth Lee. †$1.50. McClure.
“Powerful and admirably translated story.”
Ross, Edward Alsworth.Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“Like Professor Ross’s previous studies ofthe influence of social control upon human society, his work of analysis and criticism of the foundations of sociology deserves universal recognition as a contribution of the first order to both sociological literature and sociological science.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.
Ross, Henry M.Her blind folly. $1.25. Benziger.
The story of a girl’s unhappy marriage and its attending trials relieved by the Roman Catholic faith.
Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross).Florentine palaces; with 30 il. by Adelaide Marchrist. **$1.50. Dutton.
“It is with the historic and literary associations of the Florentine palaces—the bold, massive, rusticated buildings, so characteristic, Fergusson says, of the manly energy of the republic in the Medicean era—that Mrs. Ross is chiefly concerned.” (Ath.) “She gives to us suprisingly scant information concerning architecture, but a great deal about the important events which happened within the buildings she describes or in connection with them.” (Outlook.)
“The style is somewhat dry, but the book is none the less a delightful one to dip into here and there.”
“Her book is a mine of valuable information, gathered not only from the standard works of Villari and other writers, but also from little-known contemporary records inaccessible to the English reader.”
“Mrs. Ross has every qualification for writing a book of this kind.”
“The volume will be found more interesting for reference than for consecutive perusal.”
“A solid study, a reference book for any one who may purpose spending intelligently a winter in Florence.”
“She writes history admirably well, having a due consideration for the general reader, and not shrinking from recounting, in a fresh and pleasant way, old stories which the superior person may sniff at as stale. The work is not free from small inaccuracies.”
Rossetti, William Michael.Some reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti. 2v. *$10. Scribner.
Interesting recollections and anecdotes concerning founders of the Pre-Raphaelite movement that bring the reader in touch with a procession of famous artists and men of letters. “Of course, we want, too, illuminating gossip about our remarkable figures. That is why we welcome Mr. Rossetti’s reminiscences. We need to know all we can about humanity—not because humanity is Pre-Raphaelite, but because it is interesting.” (Acad.)
“It would be difficult to find a commentary more useful to those interested in the men and movements of the last sixty years.”
“Next to the outspokenness with which we have dealt ... the most striking attribute of the confessions is common sense.”
“The general tone of these memoirs is a little disappointing. Mr. Rossetti is so afraid of saying something that he has said already, as well as seeming either to blow his own trumpet or to cast undue blame on someone else, that his chapters decidedly lack color and movement as compared with much of his previous writing.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
“Taken as a whole the book is far too diffuse; a single volume would have been enough and, possibly, too much.”
“It may as well be said explicitly that these memoirs are a disappointment. The fact is that Mr. Rossetti has in various memoirs and introductions given out all his wheat and that only the chaff is left for this garnering.”
“Delightfully written.”
Rothschild, Alonzo.Lincoln, master of men. **$3. Houghton.
Mastery over different types of men as well as over self serves as the keynote to this eight-chapter biography. “‘A Samson of the backwoods’ gives an account of Lincoln’s early struggles and triumphs; ‘Love, war, and politics,’ carries him to his leadership of the Whig party in Illinois; ‘Giants, big and little’ narrates his rivalry with Douglas from their young manhood to the day of Lincoln’s great triumph when Douglas held his hat through the inauguration ceremonies; ‘The power behind the throne’ is of course Seward, and ‘An indispensable man’ is Chase; while ‘The curbing of Stanton’ conveys an altogether wrong impression of Lincoln’s relations with his great war minister; ‘How the pathfinder lost the trail’ tells the story of Fremont and his lamentable failure as general and politician; ‘The young Napoleon’ is General McClellan.” (Dial.)
“This method of writing biography is exposed to peculiar hazards. Mr. Rothschild has not escaped these pitfalls, though his portraiture of Lincoln is fairly successful.” Allen Johnson.
“The story is well and forcibly told and the style is admirably terse.”
“The author tells his story with zest and force. It abounds with well-chosen anecdotes, and with the interesting personal items that give life to biography. The bibliography and citations of authorities are indeed fuller and better than any other that we know.” Charles H. Cooper.
“All the details have been studied, and have been handled with skill and judgment; and the result is a picture that both charms and convinces.”
“It is scholarly, without being pedantic; is on the contrary, intensely readable, being liberally punctuated with anecdote. It is sane, it is stimulating. Above all, it makes for keener appreciation of the immensity of Lincoln’s task and of the greatness of his achievement.”
“I believe that Mr. Rothschild’s book is the best of all for the Lincoln student to begin with, to keep to hand during his course, and to rely on as help in reviewing at the end. The faults are but few. The greatest is the disrespect shown Douglas, one of the ablest men of his day.” John C. Reed.
“He is open to criticism in his delineation of the men whose policies and purposes at times crossed with Lincoln.”
“Mr. Alonzo Rothschild premises an acquaintance with American political history which is beyond the equipment of the ordinary Englishreader; he is unduly redundant. But he has a definite theme and he keeps to it.”
Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.Trail of the dragon, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty and more short stories by such writers as Marion Ames Taggart, Anna T. Sadlier, Jerome Harte and others.
Round the world: a series of interesting illustrated articles on a great variety of subjects. 85c. Benziger.
The following subjects are treated in an interestingly informing manner: Climbing the Alps, The great wall of China, Nature study and photography, The making of a newspaper, Rookwood pottery, The magic kettle, Some wonderful birds, Ostriches, Skis and ski racing, The marvel of the New World, Triumphal arches, and Venders in different lands.
Routh, James Edward, jr.Fall of Tollan. $1. Badger, R: G.
“The author of ‘The fall of Tollan’ displays considerable aptitude in his wielding of blank verse, and a fair degree of the ability to ‘visualize’ the scene.” Edith M. Thomas.
Rowe, James W.Hand-book on the newly-born. *75c. J. W. Rowe. (For sale by U. P. James, 127 W. 7th st., Cincinnati.)
A book for young physicians and nurses.
Rowe, Stuart Henry.Physical nature of the child, and how to study it. *90c. Macmillan.
The fifth edition of a useful book on “child study.” The author acquaints a child’s sponsors with everything they should know for the best possible development of the child. “The treatise is based upon the principle that activity is the cause of growth, that individuals vary enormously in their capacity for different kinds of mental and physical action, and that physical conditions affect fundamentally that power of action in most various ways in different children. Therefore, the teacher, and the parent as well, should know and pay constant attention to the physical condition of their children.” (Bookm.)
“The revised edition ... is justified by its serviceableness to teachers in general.”
“We heartily agree with Superintendent Maxwell’s praise, cited in the preface to the second edition, and wish that every teacher and parent might read the book.” Edward O. Sisson.
“Is an admirable guide in this line of work both for teachers and parents.”
Rowell, George Presbury.Forty years an advertising agent, 1865–1905. Printers’ ink pub.
“This is a most engaging volume—this breezy gossipy story of the life and observations of an advertising man.... You will find mentioned among Mr. Rowell’s acquaintances most of the names that you have ever seen associated with pills, lotions, hair restorers, and panaceas generally. Mr. Rowell speaks quite familiarly of these great men and supplies much curious inside information—all in the friendliest spirit. His anecdotes are not, however, confined to patent medicine people; he tells stories of famous newspaper publishers all over the country, beginning with Boston of forty years ago and ending with New York of last year; he reveals a number of prison-house secrets and supplies gossip about many statesmen and men of affairs.”—N. Y. Times.
“Truth is, Mr. Rowell is the Horace Walpole of the world of ‘business’ during the past four decades.”
“The book is a mine of anecdotes of publishers, authors, advertisers, and advertising agents, written in a breezy, chatty style.”
“Even to the ordinary reader, with only a remote interest in advertising and its problems, Mr. Rowell’s book will hold a lasting charm.”
Rowland, Henry Cottrell.In the shadow. †$1.50. Appleton.
“This is a study, rather powerful and chiefly depressing, of a ‘pure bred African,’ a native of Hayti, who goes to England to be educated.” (N. Y. Times.) He “has a certain social standing there, and dreams of becoming a revolutionary hero, and of making a great nation of Hayti. Under the pressure of a series of frightful incidents he ‘reverts to type’ and becomes a semi-savage with pathetic helplessness and alternating moods of brutal ferocity and shrinking cowardice.” (Outlook.) The author’s evident theory that any one of these primitive races can not have the qualities necessary to a leader is worked out to a logical conclusion in the story.
“A study of the real negro, and a wonderfully powerful and convincing study it is.”
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
“We simply refuse to admit that the magnificent specimen of cultivated manhood who appears in the opening chapters can be one and the same person with the cowering wretch who makes his exit from the stage at the close of the book.” Wm. M. Payne.
“On the whole, we may say that if Mr. Rowland’s story is of the story-with-a-moral sort, its characters are by no means therefore puppets.”
“There is a great deal that is unpleasant about the tale, and, although it is told with vividness, one doubts whether such a psycho-physiological analysis is really desirable.”
“The story as a whole impresses the reader with a sense of futility.”
“This is a remarkable novel in every way. It possess unusual grip and vital human interest. Written in terse, nervous language it is the work of a man who has made an intimate study of psychology.”
“For all these artistic blemishes, the book shows originality and power; its interest heightens as the narrative advances, and the terrible scenes in Hayti and the cypress swamp, gruesome as they are, yet lift the romance from the level of melodrama to that of real tragedy.”
Rowland, Henry Cottrell.Mountain of fears.†$1.50. Barnes.
“In this particular volume Mr. Rowland has revealed himself as one of the few writers who can tell a tale ‘just so’ when he wants to do so.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Is an unusual book, albeit morbid, as tales of the uncanny need must be.”