“In the ‘Man from Red Keg’ we are given the raw material for a great novel. Much of the dialog is badly written and deals in the baldest commonplaces, showing that ruthless revision and condensation would have strengthened the book, but we do get the atmosphere of the Michigan woods, of a country town, and of live men with vital interests.”
Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.).Thistles of Mount Cedar: a story of school-life for girls. †$1.25. Winston.
“The story is not marked by any special strength and impresses us as being stilted and artificial in treatment. The moral atmosphere, however, is excellent.”
Tilton, Dwight, pseud. (George Tilton Richardson, and Wilder Dwight Quint).Golden grayhound. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“The improbability of a man in his senses, but without a cent in his pocket following a pretty face seen ‘in a snow-storm outside Tiffany’s’ even to the jaws of the Golden greyhound, which turns out to be not a dog but an ocean liner, is followed up in its turn by other improbabilities of varied and amusing as well as amazing sort.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A very human story of hearts and fortunes.”
“Is a particularly silly example of its silly class.”
Tilton, Theodore.Fading of the mayflower, a poem of the present time; drawings by W. J. Enright: decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1.50. Marquis.
“A rhythmic lamentation over the decay of the ideals of the early New Englanders and the rise of the passion for money-getting. The book, however, closes with a temperately optimistic prophecy of a better day to come.”—World To-Day.
“The homiletic value of the sonnets is considerable and they embody much quaint information and homely wisdom, but they almost never appeal to us as poetry.” Wm. M. Payne.
“He tells again, in flowing verses that are easily read, the old Colonial tales, and his poem is full of apt historical allusion and pertinentmoral reflections. It is quite worthy of its fine setting.”
Titchener, Edward Bradford.Experimental psychology: a manual of laboratory practice, v. 2. pt. 1, *$1.40; pt. 2, *$2.50. Macmillan.
This second volume of Professor Titchener’s work is a manual of “Quantitative experiments” as was its predecessor of “Qualitative.” It comprises two parts, an instructor’s manual and a student’s manual. The student’s manual contains chapters “on Preliminary experiments, comprising experiments in tone and pressure discrimination, leading up to demonstrations of Weber’s Law; on the Metric methods—historical notes accompanying the experiments; on the Reaction experiment, the Psychology of time and the range of Quantitative psychology. The Instructor’s manual contains, in addition, appendices giving examination questions, bibliographies and a list of important instruments for psychophysical research with prices and names of makers.” (Bookm.)
“Lucid, methodical and business-like in the extreme.”
“It is safe to say that Professor Titchener’s ‘Experimental psychology’ is much the most important general work on the subject yet published by an English writer.” H. B. Alexander.
“Professor Titchener’s is the most complete guide to quantitative work in psychology that we have in English, and will be indispensable as a reference book in laboratories where the course as a whole cannot be followed.”
“Professor Titchener may congratulate himself not only on having completed a long and arduous labor, but also upon having produced a veritable bible for his experimental colleagues.” Edmund C. Sanford.
“The work amply deserves to be adopted, for firstly, it is specifically planned to afford just that discipline that American psychology to-day lacks, and secondly, this plan is worked out to the last practical detail with remarkable skill and a prodigious amount of care.” Edwin B. Holt.
“The author has accomplished the most arduous and difficult task with such distinguished success as to put the coming generation of psychologists under lasting obligation to him.” James R. Angell.
Todd, Charles Burr.In olde Connecticut. **$1.25. Grafton press.
“The byways of history often have a fascination denied to the highlands. In these interesting pages Mr. Todd discourses pleasantly upon various episodes in the past of an old New England commonwealth. He takes us to Fairfield, to Lebanon, to New London, and gives us glimpses of matters not often set down.... There were dinners and dances at Lebanon, the home of Trumbull, when the French officers were there, and ‘the fair Connecticut girls’ were considered attractive by the visitors. The volume is the first in ‘The Grafton historical series,’ designed, as the editor remarks, to ‘provide an effective background for our Americanism and a welcome perspective to patriotism.’”—Critic.
“If the succeeding volumes are as well written as Mr. Todd’s the object will be attained.”
“The little book will prove of especial interest to persons connected by birth or kinship with Connecticut, and will also be read with pleasure and profit by the general public.”
“It is all pleasing to read, but wants the importance of coherent narrative working toward some definite result—a book for the fireside and not for the historian’s shelves.”
“Entertaining little book.”
“The reader will be agreeably surprised by the amount and variety of information unearthed by Mr. Todd in his sojournings in Connecticut, much of it admittedly legendary and traditional, but all of it rich in human interest.”
Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.Four boys in the Yellowstone; how they went and what they did; il. by H. C. Edward. †$1.50. Lothrop.
With “Four boys in the Yellowstone” Mr. Tomlinson launches his new series of tales about the scenic wonders and beauties of our own land. Four boys from as many quarters of the country who are chums at a New England school share the joys of a vacation trip to the Yellowstone.
Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.Young rangers: a story of the conquest of Canada; with il. by Chase Emerson. †$1.50. Wilde.
The concluding volume in the “Colonial series,” without lessening the glory of the attack on the stronghold of Quebec, portrays some of the heroic acts of the regulars and their comrades of the provinces in the lesser known but equally important events that contributed to the final victory.
Tooker, Lewis Frank.Under rocking skies.†$1.50. Century.
“Distinctly a readable story.”
Torrey, Bradford.Friends on the shelf. **$1.25. Houghton.
The friends of the library shelf who have inspired part of these essays are Hazlitt, FitzGerald, Thoreau, Stevenson, Keats and Anatole France. Not alone of men does Mr. Torrey write for in the volume are such subjects treated as “Verbal magic,” “Quotability,” “The grace of obscurity,” “In defense of the traveler’s notebook,” and “Concerning the lack of an American literature.”
“Human personality emerging from the page of genius is the thing that has had most attraction for him, and is also the feature of the book which has the strongest appeal to the reader.”
“A very pretty style. It is lithe and simple. Within its own limits it is resourceful, too, and full of variety; but its bounds are narrow.”
“These papers contain, in fact, much sensible talk on bookish matters. It is, I say, sensible rather than in any way brilliant or original; and it is talk rather than finished literature.” H. W. Boynton.
Tosi, Pier Francesco.Observations on the florid song; or, Sentiments on the ancient and modern singers; written in Italian; tr. into English by Mr. Galliard. *$1.75. Scribner.
One of the chief authorities on the singing of the older Italian period. Tho written in 1743 and especially valuable for historic interest, the foibles arraigned and the problems discussed are of interest to present day students.
“This reprint, with all practical fidelity of the quaint English translation, offers a curious and in some ways entertaining addition to the library of the musical student.” Richard Aldrich.
Townsend, Malcolm, comp. Handbook of United States political history for readers and students. **$1.60. Lothrop.
“The attempt is made to arrange chronologically, and when possible to tabulate all the facts and dates of American political history from the time of the first visit of the Norsemen (985) to the present.” (Ind.) “Prepared under the stimulus of the merciless questioning of the author’s boys, this work gives complete tables of information of all species. Genealogies, nicknames, autographs, lists of the writings of all the Presidents; accounts of their educational advantages, and descriptions of their inaugurations and burial places; a political history of the Confederate States; the province of each department of the general Government, are some of the contents of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is one of the most useful reference books for teacher and student alike, and the amount of out-of-the-way information which it collects and classifies is simply amazing.”
“The arrangement is excellent, and the quantity of detail assembled and classified is remarkable. Sufficient care has not been taken on the score of accuracy.”
“It is by no means always correct.”
Tracy, Louis.Karl Grier: the strange story of a man with a sixth sense. †$1.50. Clode, E. J.
“Karl Grier has not only all the advantages physical and mental that a young man can desire, but he possesses the power of projecting his consciousness into any part of the world according to his wish.... Mr. Tracy’s hero ‘presented an unrecorded phase of hypertrophy of the brain,’ the unnatural growth being ‘permitted by the occasional bursting of a distended membrane.’ Of course every novel reader knows that such happenings would have extraordinary results. Twice his marvellous knowledge almost costs Karl his life; it drives one villain to suicide and the other to stand on his head in a large and fashionable restaurant. That same villain, too, subsequently makes a murderous attack upon Karl, which by fracturing his skull and causing a lesion of the middle and lower lobes of the brain renders his future life perfectly normal by knocking ‘the sixth sense’ out of him.”—Sat. R.
“Remarkably interesting novel.”
“We do not find much to please us in such stories.”
Traubel, Horace.With Walt Whitman in Camden: a daily record of conversations kept by Horace Traubel. **$3. Small.
The author, an Englishman, makes no claim to biographical completeness, but simply gives daily jottings on talks with Whitman extending over a period of four months together with many letters of the period. “One may hazard a prophecy that the unbeliever will be a convert before he closes its pages; not from any propaganda on the poet’s part, but from the sheer human affection which his companionship inspires.” (N. Y. Times.)
“In all the mass of chaff there is quite enough of true grain—of sage and admirable thoughts and sayings—to have made a smaller book which would have done the fame of Whitman a laudable service.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
“The fact that Mr. Traubel has not trusted to his memory, but took down Whitman’s words, hot from his lips, gives this book its great value and interest. It is a pity, however, that he took down so many ‘hot’ words.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
“The whole book, unstudied and unpolished, conveys a realistic impression of the poet and the man, such as only a devoted Boswell is able to give.” Percy F. Bicknell.
“Though the book itself is well arranged and beautifully printed, it leaves the reader in a somewhat dreary wonder whether it faithfully records even the declining and enfeebled years of the poet.”
“The book should be distinguished in importance sharply from the mass, not only for its charm, but as a complete self-revelation of the man who is likely to hold the ultimate place among our poets.”
“One of the most remarkable biographical volumes that have appeared in many years.”
Travis, Elma Allen.Pang-Yanger. †$1.50. McClure.
Abijah Bead, the Pang-Yanger, who with his four-year-old Rob had been deserted by the woman whom he had secretly married takes his boy to the town where the young woman is the wife of a prominent citizen. His purpose is revenge, for the startling resemblance of the child to the mother must reveal her story and be a witness to her infidelity. This forms one thread of the story whose other phase pictures Abijah and an irresponsible tho charming Southern girl in the light of an ill-assorted pair.
“The book is a strong one, but we are fain to ask ‘Cui bono?’ Certainly, it does not leave us the better or the happier for the reading; it does not invoke admiration for the truly admirable; it presents situations repulsive and painful, and we are glad to think that it fails as a presentation of life.”
“Its technical faults are of the kind that the author, with greater experience, will be unlikely to repeat, and the main outlines of the plot are strong and interesting. The material is somewhat sensational.”
Trent, William Peterfield.Greatness in literature, and other papers. **$1.20. Crowell.
“Upon all these subjects the author has excellent things to say, and the manner of his discourse is both persuasive and engaging.”
“A most thoughtful and interesting volume.” Christian Gauss.
“They are transparently sincere, and more than ordinarily suggestive.”
Trevelyan, George Macaulay.England under the Stuarts. *$3. Putnam.
“It is, on the whole, abreast of the times. It is, on the whole, accurate. It is well conceived, well written, and eminently readable, and is without doubt the best, if not the only, single-volume history of the seventeenth century.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
Trevelyan, George Macaulay.Poetry and philosophy of George Meredith. *$1.50. Scribner.
“A manifest labour of love, the work of an enthusiastic admirer, as appreciative criticism should be.... The volume aims at being a kind of guide to Meredith the poet, a Meredith manual. It studies the poems in all their varieties, and the poet, in all his aspects.... A good and helpful book, which really expounds Mr. Meredith’s strength, without shirking the acknowledgment that he is more trying than a poet should be.”—Ath.
“Mr. Trevelyan’s is the most detailed and elaborate study of Mr. Meredith’s poetry that has yet appeared. It is also mainly just and discriminating in temper. It is not brilliant or subtle, and its treatment is not always exhaustive.”
“A scholarly and sympathetic study.”
“This book ought to be of great service to those of Meredith’s readers ... who wish to grasp a view of life that seems to them at once impressive, sane, and extremely perplexing.” F. Melian Stawell.
“Mr. Trevelyan is never the merely literary critic; he has no concern with fine lines considered apart from their meaning; he deals little with verbal niceties, with questions of rhythm and metre. He is more at home, he writes with more authority on the philosophy of the subject. His judgments of poetry have less insight and persuasion.”
“It is a very sincere and generous tribute from a disciple to a teacher.”
Treves, Sir Frederick.Highways and byways of Dorset. $2. Macmillan.
“The praise of Dorset is the theme of this volume, in which Sir Frederick Treves tells us what most to admire in that pleasant land of green vales and breezy gorse-clad down, of purple heath and rocky coast.... In describing the highways and byways of Dorset he writes of places known to him from childhood ... and thus, with a facility which comes with knowledge, he sometimes gives us in a few lines a sketch of a spot which is so true that we overlook its slightness, and wish for no detailed description. This faculty makes ‘Highways and byways in Dorset’ something more than a glorified guidebook.”—Ath.
“The illustrations to the book are numerous, but unequal, and, on the whole, somewhat disappointing; some of them are trivial.”
“The author has a keen eye for picturesque anecdotes and antiquities. All this archaeology is borne up and carried along by an easy, flowing style, so it does not weigh upon the reader, and Pennell’s pen-sketches come just at the right time.”
“Mr. Pennell’s sketches serve as an admirable supplement to the great surgeon’s interesting narrative.”
“He writes gracefully with a knack of vivid phrasing, and the great variety of things which have appealed to him gives an ever-changing interest and charm to his pages.”
“This book is ideal in its way.”
“The pen of Sir Frederick Treves and the pencil of Mr. Joseph Pennell make a very powerful combination for dealing with such a subject, and the subject is one which amply repays the labour that is spent upon it.”
Triggs, H. Inigo.Art of garden design in Italy. **$20. Longmans.
The planning and arrangement, the architectural features and accessories of the old Italian gardens of the best periods are described in this sumptuous volume which also contains an historical introduction tracing the development of garden planning and description and critical accounts of the principal gardens of Italy. Numerous plates, plans and sketches illustrate the text.
“This is a splendid volume which equals, if it does not surpass in interest the author’s former work on the gardens of England and Scotland.”
“Magnificent volume.”
“In spite of its imposing appearance the book is not an interesting one. The descriptions, like the photographs, are commonplace and superficial. There is little or no illuminating criticism and no entering into the spirit of the artists who designed the beautiful gardens of Italy.”
Trinks, Willibald, and Housum, Chenoweth.Shaft governors. 50c. Van Nostrand.
A little pocket book uniform with “The Van Nostrand science series.” It covers the statics of shaft governing which forms a self-contained part of the theory but does not claim to cover the entire ground.
Trollope, Anthony.Autobiography.$1.25. Dodd.
Trollope, Henry M.Life of Moliere. **$3.50. Dutton.
“It is a model of cautious erudition and sound criticism.”
“As for Mr. Trollope’s very long, very painstaking, very accurate, and infinitely circumstantial ‘Life of Molière,’ it should, we think, be given an excellent place as a book of reference and detailed information.”
“Relying chiefly on French authorities, this work is a full and elaborate compilation of facts, whether important or trivial.”
“A complete and sympathetic analysis of the man and his genius.”
“The book is very interesting; it is a conscientious piece of work which was well worth doing, and it represents a considerable amount of careful research. It is a mine of usually correct information as to Molière’s life and the world he lived in.”
Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.Augustine the man. **$1.50. Lane.
The scenes of this dramatic poem are laid in Carthage, Milan, Lago Maggiore, and Tagaste. “The struggles of the saint after conversion between his devotion to Christ and his love for his former mistress and his son is displayed with insight and sympathy.” (Spec.)
“Her blank verse is often delightful and always melodious, and she reaches heights of passion which affect the reader with the sense of yet greater powers restrained.”
“While as a whole, it does not rise to the dramatic height it was meant to keep, is full of passages of equal intensity and beauty.”
“The four scenes make a moving story, very gracefully told in sensitive, sympathetic verse, and rising at times ... into dramatic intensity. It is a pity perhaps, that in the first scene the author did not keep more strictly to her subject, Augustine the man.”
“The piece is written in fluent and highly flavored verse, and is not devoid of a good deal of Euripidean poignancy.”
“Miss Rives has an exceedingly sure, firm touch, no hesitancy, no experimentation. Her work moves as if by first intent, first impulse, copious, colorful, forceful.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
“The blank verse is not the mere vehicle of the tale, but the work of a genuine poet.”
Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.Selene. **$1.20. Harper.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes, jr.Court beauties of old Whitehall: historiettes of the restoration.*$3.75. Scribner.
“The book takes up and gives rather full biographies of the lives of eight of the beautiful women who graced, and disgraced, the English court at the time of the Restoration. Each ‘historiette’ is illustrated by remarkably well made portraits, prints from famous pictures, of its subject, and of famous people connected with her career.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is no better and no worse than its fellows. There seems no reason why it should ever have been written. Its author displays neither knowledge of his period nor sympathy with the men and women, whose names irrelevantly decorate his page.”
“After a bowing acquaintance of a good many years’ standing with the women of the Restoration, we cannot but feel that any attempt to deal with them after Mr. Trowbridge’s manner would be, to ourselves, a thankless task, and must, with any one result in disappointment.”
“Will take no prominent place either for original research or for naughty piquancy of style.” Percy F. Bicknell.
“Mr. Trowbridge has written these chronicles very vividly and with a clear wide view of the backgrounding history. His style is so lacking in the elusive but crowning quality of distinction that sometimes it is almost offensive.”
Truesdell, Ella M.Over the bridge and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
A book of dainty verse that sings of love, of life, of flower and field, and of sunshine and showers. A fine quality of imagination gives color and delicacy to the volume.
Turley, Charles.Maitland, major and minor. †$1.50. Dutton.
A story which “deals with the adventures of two brothers at a small private school, and should appeal to the class of boy readers for whom it is especially written. There are the usual fights, and the usual cases of bullying, and all the plots and counter-plots of school-life as lived in the private school. Mr. Turley understands boys. The book contains six illustrations by Mr. Gordon Browne.”—Sat. R.
“A rather favourable example of the school story.”
“Mr. Turley has harked back and given us a study of life at a private school, of which it is enough to say that it is as true, as wholesome, and as entertaining as his first venture. Thoroughly delightful book.”
Turner, Henry Gyles.History of the colony of Victoria from its discovery to its absorption into the commonwealth of Australia. 2v. $7. Longmans.
Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester.Reminiscences of a missionary bishop. **$2. Whittaker.
Bishop Tuttle writes helpfully of his twenty years as missionary bishop in the Rocky mountains. His preparatory training in a New York parish taught him organization principles and methods and the real duties of pastor and rector. The main portion of the sketch deals with church work in the mountains and its associated hospital and school interests.
“A candid and often naïve way has disclosed those attributes of his personality and conceptions of the functions of his office which have made him effective as bishop since 1866.”
“It is a solid contribution to American history. These reminiscences abound in quotable stories: but their value is for much more than amusement.” Rt. Rev. Cameron Mann, D. D.
“Well worth reading.”
Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie).Maker of modern Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.
Mrs. Tweedie’s sketch furnishes an Interestingpersonality thru which to view the history of modern Mexico. President Diaz himself gave the author diaries, letters, told her anecdotes about himself and associates, related events and described battles and various incidents of his life. With this first-hand information, Mrs. Tweedie received her charge, “Write as you will, but speak good of my country.”
“By leaving out a number of entirely unnecessary exhibitions of personal admiration for the great statesman, the work would have greatly gained in value and the subject himself would have stood forth in nobler proportions.”
“A book which begins badly, but becomes most interesting when we reach the man himself.”
“The book rises to the distinction of being the first adequate biography of the greatest man Mexico has produced.” Arthur Howard Noll.
“The only portions of value are the descriptions of Diaz in his home and of social life among certain of the prominent social families of Mexico city.”
“Her history is not scientific but it is interesting. The faults are perhaps the too constant intrusion of a rather pleasant personality, a rather careless and a rather diffuse style. It is not a deep or an original reading of a remarkable man, but it is a pretty good sketch.”
“It is neither a real Mexico nor a real Diaz which is set before us.”
“This man’s work, unique of its kind, is set forth in a wonderfully fascinating, coherent, and authoritative manner.”
“The book is interesting reading and, like most biographies of living men, it is exceedingly one-sided.”
“The work is full, clear and written in the authoress’ well-known interesting style.”
“Enthusiasm, without doubt, exudes from every page and paragraph of Mrs. Tweedie’s work, and had she only brought discretion to her task, she might have given to the public a book as solid as it undoubtedly is interesting.”
“Mrs. Tweedie’s book can best be described as a romantic biography.”
Tyler, Henry Mather.Selections from the Greek lyric poets with a historical introduction and explanatory notes. *$1. Ginn.
The revised edition of this text is characterized by the audition of selections from Bacchylides and a few other short poems, and the inclusion of more illustrative and parallel references in the notes.
Tyrrell, Rev. George.Lex credendi; a sequel to “Lex orandi.” $1.75. Longmans.
“‘Lex credendi, in substance is a treatment of the Lord’s Prayer viewed as the rule and criterion of pure doctrine—as the living expression of that Christian spirit whereof faith in God and his kingdom, together with hope and charity, is a constituent factor.’... The book consists of two parts. The first is a treatise on the spirit of Christ.... Father Tyrrell proceeds in the second part, to a profound analysis of the spiritual and moral content of each petition of the prayer.”—Cath. World.
“We find this volume an altogether worthy continuation of the previous work published with full theological censorship and ecclesiastical sanction.”