The wife of Marie de Rozel’s great-greatgrandsonhas written the true story of this brave little Huguenot maid and what befell her in the days when the people of her faith were persecuted in Catholic France. It is a pretty little tale and the author has given it to us unembellished, just as it came to her out of the dim past.
“Not quite so interesting as it should be, considering the material.”
Asser, Bishop of Sherbourne.Life of King Alfred, trans. from the text of Stevenson’s edition, with notes, by Albert S. Cook. *50c. Ginn.
The Bishop of Sherbourne’s quaint contemporary account of England’s greatest king is here given in a form which will appeal to students in schools and colleges as well as to the general reader. The Latin text, thru the critical labors of Stevenson, has been cleared of many Elizabethan interpolations, and the present translation is accurate and well annotated.
“Presents in convenient form a valuable document whose authenticity is now generally conceded.”
“The advantages which Professor Cook’s translation enjoys over previous ones is due mainly to the fact that he has been able to use the results of the investigations of these two scholars [Plummer and Stevenson.]”
Aston, W. G.Shinto: the way of the gods.*$2. Longmans.
Forty years of research and study in Japanese literature, language and history have provided material for this treatise. It is “chiefly intended as a repertory, for the use of students, of the more significant facts of Shinto, the old native religion of Japan before the introduction of Chinese learning and Buddhism.”
Reviewed by Henry Preserved Smith.
“So attractively written that the reader hardly appreciates at once the amount of learning, Eastern and Western, which it implies.”
“In his arrangement of the book, with its abundant translation of ancient text and ritual, all well indexed, we have just what the volume professes to be—a handbook for the study of Shinto.” William Elliot Griffis.
“This master of facts is very modest in theory and generalization. This is ‘the’ book on Shinto. There is no other.”
“It is the one complete monograph on Shinto.”
“No part of his subject has escaped his notice, and his materials are arranged in a logical sequence which makes them clear even to a casual reader. But the book is not for casual readers.”
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.).Travelling thirds.†$1.25. Harper.
“Incidentally points a moral, if she cannot be said always to adorn her tale.” G. W. Adams.
“Can scarcely be considered with its writer’s more serious work.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
“The book possesses its author’s characteristic faults of hardness and exaggeration; it is almost destitute of sympathy and moderation, while of the unusual virtues of bold plot and suspended creation that we have come to associate with Mrs. Atherton’s name, it has scant measure.”
“The book as a whole is rather too suggestive of the pages of a guide-book; but if slight, the story is amusing, and is written with Mrs. Atherton’s usual vivacity.”
Atkinson, Fred Washington.Philippine islands. *$3. Ginn.
“It attempts to cover the whole field, history, geography, commerce, government, religion and the characteristics of the people. The last is probably the most important part of the book, because in Filipino psychology lies the problem, and this is the hardest part of the book to write, and it is a part upon which the author’s experience should enable him to make a real contribution.” J. Russell Smith.
“This is a wholesome, stimulating, enjoyable book, the ripe fruit of an earnest worker, a lover of ideals, yet a master of facts. It is a real illuminator of the theme treated.”
“This latter section is by far the most valuable portion of the work, for here the writer has apparently felt at liberty to speak with somewhat less restraint than elsewhere, and to give expression to his own views. The book as a whole, especially in its earlier portions, gives the impression of having often been read before, and follows with minute care the official view at almost every point.”
“Is both valuable and interesting where it presents the author’s own observations and opinions, but is often inaccurate where sources of encyclopaedic and historic information which should now be discarded have been relied upon in the work of compilation.”
“This is one of the most interesting of the many books which have been published on the new possession of the United States. This book is indeed a manual of its subject.”
Atkinson, George Francis.College textbook of botany. *$2. Holt.
“Professor Atkinson has been exceptionally fortunate in accomplishing a very difficult piece of work. The studies have been carefully prepared and this scientific survey of the botanical field will be widely appreciated.” Carlton C. Curtis.
Atlay, J. B.Victorian chancellors. 2v. v. 1. *$4. Little.
“Mr. Atlay purposes to deal in two volumes with the careers of the Lords Chancellors during the reign of Queen Victoria. The first volume contains the memoirs of Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham and Lord Truro.... Mr. Atlay’s work is extremely interesting whether he is writing of men about whom there are voluminous biographies too cumbrous to be read pleasantly, or of men such as Lord Cottenham and Lord Truro about whom he has had to collect data for himself.... Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham have been much written about; but Mr. Atlay has used information either not open to Lord Campbell or used by him invidiously; and as to Lord Lyndhurst especially he corrects Campbell’s unfair sketch following Sir Theodore Martin’s biography.” (Sat. R.)
“To measure two men so dissimilar in character, opinion and temperament as Lyndhurst and Brougham, with an equal hand is no smallachievement, and Mr. Atlay deserves all the commendation that we can give him.”
“This volume is lively and entertaining, well compiled from a variety of authentic sources, and as regards Lyndhurst and Brougham much more trustworthy than the rather spiteful and far from accurate biographies which the late Lord Campbell wrote of his two contemporaries.”
“Mr. Atlay. though neither a subtle thinker nor a masterly writer, does provide his readers with a clear, sensible, and, above all, an honest narrative of the career of the men whose lives he undertakes to write.”
“To lawyer, politician, student of manners, and lover of good stories alike his book will furnish the best of entertainment.”
Aubin, Eugene.Morocco of to-day. *$2. Dutton.
“M. Eugene Aubin is a French observer of Morocco, with the gift of precise, delicate, sympathetic appreciation. This he is able to convert into words, and the result is a very good book.... There are ... some exceptionally good chapters, notably that on Du Hamara, in which Moroccan warfare is described.... The author describes many places, institutions, and customs, together with some of the internal incidents of the years 1902–3, but he does not deal with international questions save for a few trade statistics.”—Nation.
“His descriptions are vivid; the information he supplies is lucidly set forth, and upon the whole remarkably trustworthy. The number of equally informative English books about Morocco is extremely small.”
“Without doubt this book contains more information about modern Morocco than any other book to be obtained. To many M. Aubin’s explanations of the Sultan’s life and position will be in the nature of a revelation.”
“It suffers from a certain unevenness. The translation is fair and contains few slips.”
“An excellent translation.”
“A scholarly work.”
“It is the most complete book of its kind upon the subject, of to-day.”
Auchincloss, W. S.Book of Daniel unlocked.*$1. Van Nostrand.
“An ingenious but useless addition to the already extensive literature based on the desire to interpret the book of Daniel as literal predictions of dates and events far in the future.”
Audubon, John Woodhouse.Audubon’s western journal: 1849–1850.*$3. Clark, A. H.
This is a manuscript record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey thru Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California. There is a biographical memoir by Maria R. Audubon, daughter of the diarist, and an introduction, notes and index by Frank Heywood Hodder.
“Persons interested in early California history will find here some descriptions of the conditions in the early days really worth reading.” Edwin E. Sparks.
Reviewed by Theodore Clarke Smith.
“On the whole, the volume leaves nothing to be wished for, either in the editor’s or the publisher’s field.”
“The journal is of very great interest, and admirably edited.”
Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.).Door of humility. *$1.50. Macmillan.
A poem of 57 cantos in which a poet “is perplexed in youth with some obvious theological doubts, and his lady refuses him till he comes to a better frame of mind. He straightway proceeds upon a kind of grand tour, which gives him the opportunity to describe elaborately Switzerland, Rome, Greece, and other places. After much trite metaphysical speculation he arrives at a sort of solution, and returns home.... Humility, the poem, teaches, is the only gateway to truth.” (Spec.)
“Mr. Austin has read his ‘In memoriam’ too lovingly, and, in his poem, at least, has not been able to rid himself of the domination of the great mind and to stand on his own feet. This result is rendered the more conspicuous and deplorable by the thick sowing of the text with phrases that can only be described as journalistic.”
“The philosophy and its sentimental setting are patiently planned on the Tennysonian model, but unhappily it is not enough to succeed a poet in order to be successful in imitating him.”
“The piece is as a whole marked by a suavity and a kind of thin dignity, though not seldom there is a lapse into banality.”
“The most obvious excellence of Mr. Austin’s work is its metrical purity in the matter of rhythm he never offends. But his excellence is bought at the price of his liberty.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
“We have no wish to be unkind to a writer who is so transparently ingenuous and well-meaning, and we readily admit that he is not without his felicities.”
Austin, Louis Frederic.Points of view; ed, with prefatory note by Clarence Rook. **$1.50. Lane.
Essays selected from the author’s contributions to London newspapers compose this volume. Such subjects are treated as Sir Henry Irving, America at Oxford, Men and modes. Logic for women. Motor cars and nervous systems, A famine in books, etc. “Mr. Rook’s prefatory note contains an impressive idea of Mr. Austin’s strenuous life. It is, indeed, ironical that a man should be strenuous in chatting with his pen; but it is also tragic.” (Ath.)
“The papers collected in this memorial volume are fresh, witty, and shallow in the sparkling way of champagne.”
“There are in fact, few writers nowadays who can write this kind of essay, and fewer still who can make their own writing, on the whole, so much worth while as Mr. Austin.”
Austin, Martha Waddill.Tristam and Isoult. $1. Badger, R: G.
“The finished play appears to us possessed of acting possibilities. Besides being liberally endowed with no small measure of beauty in poetic figure and expression.”
“The workmanship throughout is excellent, with vigorous lines, pictorial imagery, and ease of movement.”
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.The flock; il. by E. Boyd Smith. **$2. Houghton.
Mrs. Austin’s flock is a literal flock of sheep. “This is a sort of epic of the sheep pastures. She begins with a sort of New Englandish landmark, the year of the Boston massacre, which was also the year Daniel Boone moved into the West east of the Mississippi, but the country of her pasture is the Pacific slope, where she has lived among the herders and their woolly charges. Mrs. Austin tells of the work of these herders in the mountain valleys, in rain and drought, of the shearing baile, of the dogs, of the struggle for the control of the feeding grounds. She tells how the wild beasts come down upon the fold or the grazing flock, and how the sheep are protected by the faithful shepherds. There are stories, too, of individual shepherds who have had adventures, an account of a particular old California sheep range, and a chapter on ‘The sheep and the forest reserves.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“The poetic temperament which so well fits Mrs. Austin for writing stories of the West has been of equal advantage to her in telling of the shepherd-life with ‘its background of wild beauty, mixed romance, and unaffected savagery.’” May Estelle Cook.
“The charm of the whole lies in three qualities: the novelty and interest of the subject, the picturesque texture of the author’s mind, and in a style which is both cultivated and racy, and adapted to conveying her unusual sense of beauty.”
“As a matter of fact the sheep are only an excuse for an outdoor book which takes on a certain pastoral stamp because of them, but rejoices chiefly in the open—the free earth, the sun, and the wind.”
Austin, Mary.Isidro. †$1.50. Houghton.
“A not too probable Spanish-American romance gaining color from a picturesque setting.” Mary Moss.
Avary, Myrta Lockett.Dixie, after the war.**$2.75. Doubleday.
A new picture of the period of reconstruction in the South drawn by one who has made a first-hand study of her subject. “The book is the aftermath of defeat described in poignant words, in sorrow rather than in anger, and without a trace of bitterness.” (Lit. D.) “Mrs. Avary sets forth in a serio-comic way the blunders and even the corruption incident to military dictatorship, and in the course of the volume throws many side-lights on what most Northerners now admit to have been the serious mistake of reconstruction policy.” (R. of Rs.)
“Probably about all we can reasonably expect in the way of fairness and soberness, in dealing with the reconstruction period, has been done in the volume under review. The book is written in a lively anecdotal style; the author has a keen sense of humor and a profound conception of the value of a good story.” Walter L. Fleming.
“A little judicious pruning, a little more care for style, a little more regard for accuracy in historical detail, would have made of this a really good book.”
“As a collection of anecdotes and observations the book may be found entertaining, but it should not profess, as it does, to be an exposition of social conditions in the South.”
“It vividly brings before the reader the way Southern men and women felt and talked in a most trying period.”
“An unusually vivid portrayal of the actual social conditions in the South during the years immediately succeeding the fall of Richmond.”
Avery, Elroy McKendree.History of the United States and its people. In 15 vol. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.
“A history that reflects and epitomizes the verified historic data of our preceding historians, and that is of special worth in that accuracy has been made the crowning aim of both author and publishers.”
“What is lacking is precisely the quality which makes Mr. Channing’s book noteworthy,—the impression of personality and individual authority.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
“In spite of a few trivial errors in the matters of date and the like, this second volume is in the highest degree satisfactory.”
“Excellently adapted for the public for which it is designed.”
“Maintains in general the level of its predecessor, and in some important respects shows improvement.”
“Throughout is evident the master desire for accuracy and impartiality, and both have been attained to a really remarkable degree.”
“As to the text of this history, while it has had the benefit of readings and suggestions by many historical experts, it retains the great advantage of a continuous narrative written by a single hand, and thus adhering to a well-proportioned scheme.”
Ayer, Mary Allette.Joys of friendship. **$1. Lee.
A companion volume to the author’s “Daily cheer year book.” The extracts are arranged under the following sub-headings: The love of friendship, Companionship, Sympathy, Influence, Immortality of friendship, and The Divine friendship.
“A book of this character, however, loses much through lack of an author’s index.”
Ayres, S. G.Complete index to the Expositor’s Bible, topical and textual.*$1. Armstrong.
“First, as to its general design, it undertakes to exhibit each book both in its general teaching and in the specific teaching of its several sections. Next, as to the school of criticism represented, it is composite, some of its volumes representing the older and others, especially in some Old Testament books, the newer school. The present ‘Index’ is by subjects, texts, and authors quoted; there are, for instance, forty-eight citations from Renan. The accompanying Introductions present an appreciative and discriminating review of the progress and general results of Biblical criticism up to the present time.”—Outlook.
“Seems to be quite adequate.”
“This ‘Index’ is very full and will be of great value to all users of the ‘Expositor’s Bible’.”