Gale, Zona.Romance island.†$1.50. Bobbs.
The charm of this story does not lie in the plot, indeed one does the book an injustice in sketching the course of St. George’s love affair with the New York heiress whose father has been made king of Yaque, a mysterious island in the eastern seas, which has been ruled by hereditary monarchs since 1050 B. C. and whose civilization is what the world will be a thousand years from now. St. George, an ex-newspaper man now a millionaire, meets the heiress thru an attempt to murder her, and follows her in behalf of his old paper, to Yaque where she is offered her father’s throne and a royal husband. All this, however, is merely a framework about which Miss Gale winds a series of charming fancies. It is a dainty and illusive romance from cover to cover in which pure sentiment, vivid imagination, practical newspaper routine, humor, satire and good character drawing are marvelously blended.
“The story is thrillingly exciting from cover to cover. Those readers who do not demand the element of probability, or even of possibility, in their novels, will enjoy ‘Romance island.’” Amy C. Rich.
Galloway, Julia Rebecca.When the lilacs bloom, and other poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
Songs of springtime give place to poems of feast days, and these to patriotic themes in this little volume of unpretentious verse.
“There are echoes of many greater poets on the pages, yet sincerity is manifest.”
Galloway, Thomas Walton.First course in zoology: a text-book for secondary schools, normal schools and colleges. *$2.50. Blakiston.
A thorogoing text-book whose plan of treatment has been tested in the author’s own class room. By its use he has secured good interest and fine spirit in the study of animals and animal life on the part of beginners ranging from the third year of the preparatory school to freshmen in college.
Gannett, Henry,Garrison, Miss Carl Louise, andHouston, Edwin James.Commercial geography. *$1.25. Am. bk.
This three-part text book on trade treats commercial conditions, commercial products and commercial countries respectively. Numerous illustrations accompany the text.
“Teachers of geography will find the book most useful.” W. S. J.
“One of the faults of this generous inclusiveness is the difficulty in the logical distribution of emphasis. Some errors have crept in.” J. Paul Goode.
Gapon, Father George.Story of my life. *$3. Dutton.
“A valuable and interesting contribution to the history of the Russian revolutionary movement. All suspicious sensationalism is avoided.... The story of a great organization is convincingly, straightforwardly, and clearly told.” (Lond. Times.) “The story of Gapon’s boyhood, the description of the massacre of January, 1905, the account of his escape are good. So are the pictures, which, though few in number, give interesting glimpses of Russian life in town and country.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Told with vigor and deep feeling.”
“It is instructive also as to the motives and methods of the revolutionists, and as to the corruption, cruelty, and tyranny of the autocracy.”
“His book is very modest in tone.”
“The opportunity thus furnished for the study of a curious character has considerable value, from a psychological point of view.”
“The story of Gapon’s life is told without dates, or without more than the vaguest reference to time. This deficiency greatly diminishes the value of the book.”
Gardenhire, Samuel Major.Long arm. †$1.50. Harper.
Le Droit Conners, artist from inclination and training, non-professional detective from pure “love of the game” figures in a series of fascinating mysteries upon which he brings to bear not clumsy machine-made discretion and discernment, but a finer quality of penetration which expresses itself as an original art study well worth etching. He is an apologist for erring humanity up to the point of a crime’s outraging even the primal instinct then he becomes pitiless. There are eight baffling mysteries in the group.
“Personally, we do not find LeDroit Conners as entertaining as Old Sleuth, although perhaps his methods are more subtle.”
“In every instance the plot is ingeniously and skilfully worked out, while the ‘dramatis personae’ from Conners himself to the humblest fourth villain, reflect on Mr. Gardenhire’s part an intimate knowledge of human nature.”
“All of the stories are good not only from the detective point of view, but from the novelist’s as well, and their ingenuity by no means overshadows their human interest.”
“This new member of the detective fraternity is quite worthy to succeed his illustrious predecessors.”
“The book belongs to that large category which is suitable for reading in railway trains or in other places of detention; but Le Droit Conners cannot be called a very noteworthy creation.”
Gardiner, John Hays.Bible as English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A work which confines its attention to the literary character of the Bible as it appears in the authorized version, though recognizing and indorsing the main principles and results of historical criticism.” (Bib. World.) The larger portion of the book is given to the Bible itself “in the original tongues,” and the remaining part to the translations.
“An excellent work of its kind.”
“Has a value limited only by the extent of its circulation, which cannot be too wide. What one particularly enjoys about it is, that though distinctly scholarly, it is distinctly not academic. It is literary as distinguished from, and opposed to pedagogic.” Montgomery Schuyler.
Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.Heart of a girl. †$1.50. Barnes.
“All of Mrs. Gardiner’s gifts of intuition, memory, imagination, and observation have been marshalled in the depiction of Margaret Carlin, and her years of training in the art of writing stand her in good stead.”
Gardner, Alice.Theodore of Studium: his life and times. $3. Longmans.
“Miss Gardner presents her present volume as ‘a sketch of a notable man, who lived in notable times,’ as one in whose life ‘were focussed many great historical tendencies which gave their character to the Churches and the civil societies of the Middle Ages.’” (Am. Hist. R.) “The iconoclastic controversy, though its history is much less well-known than that of the great theological controversies which preceded it, is yet, as Miss Gardner points out, of more practical interest to us at the present day; and the other conflict in which Theodore was engaged, that as to the marriage of Constantine, ... was based upon a true moral principle.... After an introductory chapter dealing with the earlier history of iconoclasm we have a detailed narrative of Theodore’s life, followed by an account of his services to hymnology and calligraphy, translations of some of his hymns, a short sketch of the succeedinghistory to 1057, and a bibliography of Theodore’s works, while the book is embellished by excellent photographs of the remains of the Studite monastery.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
“Miss Gardner is at her best—as is natural in one of her training and associations—in vivid presentation of the history of the time, yet she never fails to perceive its psychological bearing upon the individuality of her subject. In a future edition the author will doubtless correct some errors and omissions in the index, and a few mistakes of facts and nomenclature pardonable in an author not personally acquainted with the Orient.” H. H. Spoer.
“Is an attractive narrative, well put together and based upon careful study, especially of Theodore’s own works.” E. W. Brooks.
“Whether, however, we agree or disagree with Miss Gardner’s estimate of the merits of the controversy, we can be wholly grateful to her for a work which submits the documents to a fresh examination and draws from them an account so lucid, so discreet and readable, of a little-known age.”
“This is above all a scholarly work. With all her skill in handling her topic she has not succeeded in turning out an interesting book.” W. v. S.
“This is a very learned work, if somewhat marred in execution by the writer’s prepossessions.”
Gardner, Percy.Grammar of Greek art. **$1.75. Macmillan.
Gardner, William.Life of Stephen A. Douglas.$1.50. Eastern pub.
Garland, Hamlin.Witch’s gold; il. by W. L. Taylor, with colored decoration by H. A. Linnell. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A recast of “The spirit of Sweetwater.” It has been restored from its cut down serial form to meet the more expensive requirements of a holiday edition.
“In its present form is a simple healthful love-tale of the West, adapted to beguile an idle hour.”
“The story does not represent Mr. Garland at his best; it is simply an amiable frontier romance, altogether barren of the grim power of ‘Main-travelled roads.’”
“The tale probably most attractive in a cruder and more elusive form, suffers in the lengthening.”
Garnett, W. H. Stuart.Turbines. *$2.75. Macmillan.
This volume “while written with a view to interest amateurs, calls special attention to those points and problems deserving the more particular notice of students. It has been the author’s object to trace the development of the science of turbines as it appears to have grown in the minds of the inventors responsible for its material manifestations. The two parts into which the book is divided deal respectively, with water and steam turbines. Appendices contain tables, notes on the ‘Behavior of gas,’ some mathematical principles, and other matter. There are eighty-three illustrations in the book.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a popular work of a most excellent sort—the sort that is calculated to instruct rather than merely to interest or amuse, and in which the instruction is given in such plain and simple terms that it can be understood by the non-technical reader. On the whole the book is one which we can heartily recommend to American purchasers.”
“A book which will do much, it is probable, to make the layman take a more intelligent interest in this the latest and most striking development of the skill of the mechanical engineer.”
Garrett, John Henry.Idyllic Avon: being a simple description of the Avon from Tewkesbury to above Stratford-on-Avon; with songs and pictures of the river and its neighborhood. **$3. Putnam.
A fifty mile pilgrimage which the author and some companions made up Shakespeare’s Avon. “With songs and anecdotes and riverside pictures, John Henry Garrett has written a half-personal, half-historical volume to show that the Avon has other personalities than that of Shakespeare, other towns of interest than Stratford.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is pathetic that a man who can make such good pictures and write pretty good prose should be tempted into making such very bad verse.” Anna Benneson McMahan.
“Will be a valuable guide for anyone who wishes to follow his steps.”
“Is one of the most thorough of its kind.”
“All in all, he has written a delightful book—anecdotal, historic, poetic, and especially personal and intimate.”
“We hear about the history, about the antiquities of the country, about its natural beauties, about the inhabitants and their manners and customs, and hear it in such a way and in such proportions that we are never tired. It is not a book to criticise; it is one to enjoy.”
Garriott, E. B.Long-range weather forecasts. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
“The bulletin is a formal denunciation on the part of the Government’s meteorological bureau, of weather forecasters and forecasts that pretend to describe the main features of the weather for long periods ahead: periods much longer than those covered by the geographical progression of storms, floods, cold waves, and the like across the corresponding areas of observation.”—Engin. N.
“The bulletin may serve many an engineer as an interesting bit of reading for hours of relaxation.”
Garrison, William Lloyd.Words of Garrison. **$1.25. Houghton.
“With what Garrison said and with what he did, admirably summarized, the reader is now provided with something worthy of the name of ‘A reformer’s handbook.’” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
“It is impossible to believe that a richer selection could not have been compiled, even if also this were attained partly by omission of what is here presented.”
Gasiorowski, Waclaw.Napoleon’s love story; tr. by the Count de Soissons. $1.50. Dutton.
The romantic relations between Madame Walewska and Napoleon furnish the subject for this novel, written by a follower, of the school of Sienkiewicz. “The scenes are in Warsaw, Vienna, Paris. The plot shows how the Polish patriots sought to use the emperor’s interest in Mary for their own ends, and for those ends inspired in a noble and tender girl a sort of sacrificial fire—a sacrificial fire which was transfigured in due time to something quite different.” (N. Y. Times.) “The central, all-compelling figure of the book is Napoleon; whether present or absent he is the determining force, the master-spirit in whom everyone is merged.” (Acad.)
“We have read every word of the story with the greatest pleasure and interest.”
“The translation is well done, but for a certain spasmodic method of conversation and a few slips of idiom.”
“This romance is chiefly remarkable for its length, caused by a remorseless spinning out of dialogue and elaboration of descriptive detail.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Even a translation rendered utterly inadequate by a purely mechanical knowledge of the English tongue fails to conceal the fine skill and dramatic power of the author and the romantic and human interest of the story.”
“It is too long and treats of an unpleasant theme ... but it is a strong piece of work, with passages of rare dramatic power and some fine characterizations.”
“The novel is very long-winded, full of somewhat tedious conversations: the dialogues translated do not run at all easily, and for an understanding of the intrigues which surround the heroine a knowledge of Polish politics is required which few Englishmen possess.”
“M. Gasiorowski, in short, has shown delicacy as well as power in his treatment of a difficult theme.”
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).Works of Mrs. Gaskell. 8v. ea. $1.50. Putnam.
There will be eight volumes to complete the “Knutsford edition” of Mrs. Gaskell’s works. The old favorites are being recast in modern book form and the preparation is in progress under the editorial supervision of Dr. Adolphus W. Ward, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, who contributes a general introduction to the issue and a special one to each volume based upon material of important biographical and critical interest. The volumes are as follows, “Mary Barton;” “Cranford;” “Ruth;” “North and South;” “My Lady Ludlow;” “Sylvia’s lovers;” “Cousin Phyllis;” “A dark night’s work;” etc.; and “Wives and daughters.”
“The ‘Knutsford edition’ of the works of Mrs. Gaskell, to which we had looked forward eagerly, is, it must be confessed something of a disappointment. The paper is so thin that the print shows through from one side to another. ‘The Life of Charlotte Bronte’ is omitted ... the introductions, though breathing a very sympathetic spirit of admiration, contain little that we did not know already.”
“This attractive edition, is substantial and tasteful without being too elaborate.”
“The ‘Knutsford edition,’ well printed and in convenient-shaped volumes, will prove a real godsend both to those who have not read Mrs. Gaskell, and to the older generation who are anxious to revive their memories of her pure and admirable style.”
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).Cranford; ed. with an introd. and annotations by William E. Simonds. 30c. Ginn.
A student’s edition of “Cranford” prepared for college entrance purposes.
Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis A.Henry the Third and the church. *$4. Macmillan.
“Dr. Gasquet shows a wide acquaintance with the sources for this period, and seldom makes serious mistakes, but there is evidence here and there that he has hardly concerned himself sufficiently with the criticism of the authorities which he had used, while there are also to be found some indications either of unfamiliarity with the details of thirteenth-century history or of carelessness in passing his book through the press.” T. F. Tout.
Gates, Eleanor (Mrs. Richard Walton Tully).Plow-woman.†$1.50. McClure.
“Two girls with their crippled father come up from Texas to settle on a ‘section’ in Dakota. One, the plow-woman has to be the man of the family, and her strong body and brave, steadfast spirit carry her nobly through many hardships. The evil intrigues of the man who asserted a prior claim to their section, the dangerous outbreak of Indian captives from the near-by fort, the menace of disorderly ‘Shanty town’ filled with camp followers, all combine to prevent anything like monotony in the active lives of three Lancasters.”—Outlook.
“Ingenuity is one of the author’s conspicuous endowments. Situation after situation keeps interest expectant up to the last. No less is her skill in definition of character, although here and there a bit may be judged out of drawing.”
“Altogether the varied group of men and women, the graphic descriptions of scenery and conditions in the West, indicate the unusual powers of the author, and her wisdom in writing about what she knows so well.”
Gates, Errett.Disciples of Christ. **$1. Baker.
“This is the first adequate statement of the history of the Disciples of Christ since the Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, published in 1868. Will be counted a distinct contribution, not merely to the understanding of the Disciples of Christ, but of the religious life of America as well.” E. S. Ames.
“This is the first real history of this religious body. It is written in a clear style, with impartial judgment.”
Gates, Mrs. Josephine (Scribner).Little Red, white and blue; il. by Virginia Keep. †$1.25. Bobbs.
The author of the “Live dolls” series hasoffered in this story book for children a delightful sketch of an army captain’s child. Her babyhood loyalty to the stars and stripes furnishes a bright lesson in patriotism.
Gates, Mrs. Josephine (Scribner).Live dolls’ house party; il. by Virginia Keep. †$1.25. Bobbs.
In continuation of the “Live dolls” doings Mrs. Gates tells of a doll’s house party in the little town of Dollville, the hostess being the queen of the dolls. A pretty story, prettily told, with enough of doll romance to satisfy the most imaginative child.
Gaussen, Alice C. C.Woman of wit and wisdom: a memoir of Elizabeth Carter, one of the “Bas-bleu” society. *$3. Dutton.
All those who care to know more of eighteenth-century literature and life in England will be interested in this sketch of the long and uneventful life of the scholar, linguist, and translator of Epictetus. “It has been made chiefly through the unpublished letters and papers possessed by members of the family today and by the Carter institute at Deal where Elizabeth Carter lived. Johnson, Fanny Burney and Richardson appear in these pages.... Poulteney was another friend of hers.” (Sat. R.)
“Miss Gaussen’s book is disappointing: her narrative is so desultory and broken that we have found it difficult to derive a clear impression of the central figure.”
“Miss Gaussen has made little of excellent material.”
Reviewed by J. H. Lobban.
“Her volume is handy and attractive and shows evidence of zeal and industry.”
“Rather a flimsy volume.”
“Is an easy and pleasant sketch. On the whole the memoir is well worth reading.”
Gauthiers-Villars, Henry, and Tremisot, G.Enchanted automobile; tr. from the French by Mary J. Safford. $1. Page.
In this addition to the “Roses of Saint Elizabeth series,” is told the story of Coco and Touton, the twin boy and girl of King Crystal IX of Bohemia, who lived a long time ago in the days of the fairies. The twins were ignorant little things and hated study until one day they went out into the world in the enchanter Merlin’s wonderful automobile and there they met many interesting people and learned the true value of work.
Gautier, Theophile.Russia, by Theophile Gautier, and by other distinguished French travelers and writers of note; tr. from the French, with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far East, by Florence MacIntyre Tyson. 2v. **$5. Winston.
“In general, it may be said that it stands the test of time wonderfully well.”
Gaye, R. K.Platonic conception of immortality and its connexion with the theory of ideas. *$1.50. Macmillan.
Gayley, Charles Mills, and Young, Clement C.Principles and progress in English poetry. $1.10. Macmillan.
“Everything may be readily pronounced excellent; many of the ideas stated or implied are debatable ... but everything is well and carefully done. It is a book that any student of literature will find useful.” Edward E. Hale, jr.
Geffroy, Gustave.National gallery (London); with an introd. by Sir Walter Armstrong. ¼ vel. *$10. Warne.
“Is a book of intelligent and pleasant talk. Printed in handier form and with better illustrations, ... it would make a first-rate popular guide; but under the circumstances it is unlikely to deprive Mr. Edward T. Cook’s well-known volume of its vogue.” Royal Cortissoz.
“(His) method has the merit of keeping the text within reasonable limits ... but it does not bring the collection vividly before one and fails to give a measure of the extraordinary variety of the old masters brought together in this particular one of London’s museums.” Charles de Kay.
“M. Geffroy’s brief introduction is pleasant and unpretentious, and marked with knowledge and good sense. A handy book of reference.”
Geiermann, Rev. P.Manual of theology for the laity: being a brief, clear and systematic exposition of the reason and authority of religion and a practical guide-book for all of good-will. *60c. Benziger.
The plan followed in this volume is first, to investigate the fundamental ideas of religion as proposed by reason and history; second, to study the revealed religion both in its supernatural truths and in its divinely ordained practice; and third, to show how the true religion of to-day logically follows from these two premises.
Geikie, James.Structural and field geology for students of pure and applied science. *$4. Van Nostrand.
“The different chapters seem of unequal value.”
Geil, William Edgar.Yankee in pigmy land. **$1.50. Dodd.
In his bright, fully illustrated narrative of a journey across Africa from Mombasa through the great pigmy forest to Banana, Mr. Geil touches mainly upon the lion hunters, the sleeping sickness and its victims, the lost caravan, nights alone with savages, the greatest wild-game region of the earth, The Congo rule, the work of missionaries including a biographical sketch of Bishop Tucker, and the “Land of laughter” itself with its tiny inhabitants and their simple life.
“Both text and pictures are tremendously realistic, and, to be frank, excite both disgust and pity.”
“The real value of his journey lies in his account of the home and habits of the littlebrown Tom Thumbs of the great Pigmy forest.” H. E. Coblentz.
“A narrative that never flags, dealing in a fresh way even with the homes of which much has already been said by others.”
“The humor in which he indulges in his narrative is carried too far and becomes wearisome.”
George, Henry, jr.Menace of privilege: a study of the dangers to the republic from the existence of a favored class. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The author “begins with the assertion that ours is a land of inequality, and, proceeding to an analysis of that inequality, he distinguishes between various types of ‘princes of privilege.’ A somewhat pessimistic chapter describes the physical, mental and moral deterioration of the masses. Mr. George devotes a chapter to the danger of unionism, and several chapters to what he calls weapons of privilege, chiefly the use of the courts, and corruption in politics. The proposed remedy of all these inequalities and wrongs, as one would naturally infer from Mr. George’s well-known predilections, is to be found in the single tax.”—R. of Rs.
“The book is clear in presentation and logical arrangement. It is a valuable contribution to the study of our social and industrial problems—a book of unusual merit and interest.” Scott E. W. Bedford.
“One need not agree with all the conclusions of the author to profit by his arguments. The volume deserves careful study.”
“No more important work dealing with the grave problems that confront the American republic to-day has appeared in months than Mr. George’s strong, clear and logical work.”
“In the analysis of social conditions, it is not a whit in advance of ‘Progress and poverty.’” Winthrop More Daniels.
“Mr. George’s book is to be chiefly condemned, not because it is essentially an aggregation of all sorts of material, largely gathered from newspapers and magazines, but because this miscellaneous stuff has been arrayed and employed, with no little rhetorical skill and dexterity, to simulate an honest investigation and a comprehensive discussion of the great questions with which the author professes to deal.” R. W. Raymond.
“It is a challenge clothed with dignity, as well as a plan of reform that is not devoid of charm. If the work may serve to awaken the public seriously to the tendencies which are so fraught with danger, one will readily pardon the faults of logic and exaggerated inferences which it contains.”
“This is an able, sincere and elaborate indictment of modern society, resting fundamentally on the highly questionable assertion that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
“In detail, his pages contain little or nothing that will be new to the careful observer of prevailing conditions, or the student of contemporary magazines and newspapers from which he has derived most of his abundant illustrative material.”
“In developing his thesis, Mr. George has given us a book of first-rate interest and importance. It is written forcefully and brilliantly, and, merely as good reading, it will take a high place in the literature of economic and political discussion. As a picture of present-day conditions it is a remarkable piece of description and analysis.” Franklin H. Giddings.
“The style is excellent, the spirit earnest, the
Geronimo (Apache chief).Geronimo’s story of his life; taken down and edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.
The atmosphere of legend and incident pervades this story of Geronimo, the seventy-seven-year old Apache chief. He begins his story with the account of the origin of the Apaches. “One finds in these grandiose legends traces of the familiar mythical cosmogonies of the East, and it might be of advantage if scholars gave them more attention.” Geronimo’s object in telling his life story is to secure freedom and justice for his people.
“The narrative of the fierce old chief’s bloody career in his struggle with the invading whites is a moving one, and is as full of exciting and picturesque incident as any of Cooper’s novels. It is told with that wealth of imagery for which the Indian is noted.”
“His story is simple, straight-forward, and interesting, and should find a large number of readers.”
“It goes without saying that the old chief has an interesting autobiography, and the work is further important as giving the Indian side of a long and notable controversy with our government.”
Gerould, Gordon Hall.Sir Guy of Warwick. $1. Rand.
“A fine old story of knighthood, recast and retold in plain modern English for those who find the ancient romances archaic and stilted to read.”—Outlook.
Gerstacker, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian.Germelshausen; tr. from the German by Clara M. Lathrop. *50c. Crowell.
In this quaint little German classic, which has been excellently translated, a young artist in the course of his wanderings in the forest, comes upon a beautiful girl who is waiting on the highway for a lover who never comes. She leads him into her village where he sups, dances, and falls in love with her. But just before midnight she takes him into the outskirts of the town and leaves him,—until the hour shall strike. Then, when it is too late, he discovers that the village was Germelshausen, which lies forever sunk in the swamp save for one day in a hundred years when it comes to life, and this was the day, the village has sunk again, and Gertrude is lost to him forever.
Gettemy, Charles Ferris.True story of Paul Revere. **$1.50. Little.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
“The book is a fine example of acute historical criticism, not cynically applied to overthrowing the basis for a healthy patriotic sentiment,but good naturedly correcting the facts, while leaving the sentiment intact.”
“Mr. Gettemy’s reserved but commendable study does not probe deep, but it is truthful and scrupulous in its intent. He has not, however, over-stated his indebtedness to E. H. Goss’s previous work.”
Gibbon, Perceval.Vrouw Grobelaar and her leading cases.†$1.50. McClure.
In this new volume of tales the author “deals with the back-world of Boer superstition, the kind of story we may believe to be told round winter fires on lonely farms. The Vrouw Grobelaar, the narrator, will capture the affections of every reader with her shrewd common sense, her sharp tongue and trenchant philosophy of life.... The tales themselves range over every variety of subject, from the idyllic to the purely horrible.” (Spec.) The collection includes The king of the baboons, Piet Naude’s trek, The sacrifice, Vasco’s sweetheart, Avenger of blood. A good end, Her own story.
“His English is as plain as the English of the Bible, and the Boer men are like the men of the Old Testament.”
“On the whole ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ presents the most gripping and vision-enlarging group of stories since Kipling’s ‘Plain tales from the hills.’”
“Some transplantations and an occasional forgetfulness to make the old narrator speak in character are not a serious detraction from the attraction of the stories. They are deftly woven together; and the humour of the vrouw and the liveliness of her little circle qualify their love of horror.”
“In ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ lies waiting a genuine sensation for the lover of short Stories. Unless the reviewer is at fault, they will recall to the reader the hour wherein he tasted his first Maupassant, and that other hour when the new Kipling swam into his ken.”
“In the light they throw upon a unique people, the Vrouw Grobelaar’s leading cases are worthy of careful reading. They are full of informing hints as to the Dutch of the Transvaal, their attitude towards the Kafirs, their mingled superstitions and piety, their courage and obstinacy.”
“The Leading cases which long observation of her would have supplied as guides to conduct cover most sides of South African life.”
“Altogether, it is a collection to be heartily commended, for to most readers it will open up a new world, and the style and method are those of a true artist in fiction.”
Gibson, Charles.Among French inns: the story of a pilgrimage to characteristic spots of rural France. **$1.60. Page.
“The guide-book information with which the story is interrupted, is generally sound.”
“A substantial volume which might well serve as a guide to travelers eager to get off the beaten tracks and to see France in its most characteristic features; and is also a very readable and interesting volume.”
Gibson, Charles Dana.Our neighbors. **$4.20. Scribner.
“The present volume is a worthy companion to those that have preceded it.”
Gibson, Charlotte Chaffee.In eastern wonderlands. †$1.50. Little.
What all writers who know the east are doing for a grown-up world to-day the author has tried to do for little people, she has helped them to an understanding of what is to be found nowadays in eastern lands by describing a real trip around the world as taken by three real children. She has deftly blended those things which interest with those things which instruct, and has illustrated her account with photographs, until Japan, China, Ceylon, India, the Red sea and Egypt lose their vague outlines and become as familiar to her little readers as they did to Alice, Fred and Charlotte who saw them all.
Gifford, Mrs. Augusta Hale.Italy, her people and their story. **$1.40. Lothrop.
A popular history of the beginning, rise, development, and progress of Italy from the time of Romulus down to the reign of Victor Emanuel III.
“The history is given with considerable attention to details and altogether the volume is of exceptional value, both from its historical accuracy and its popular style.”
“It has little of the literary distinction of the other, pays inadequate regard to the dignity of historical writing, and is not always as critical as could be desired. Nevertheless, it, too, conveys much substantial information in respect to the past and present of the Sunny Peninsula and its vein is ... decidedly entertaining.”
“A readable volume. In the latter part, written in Italy and under the direct influence of contemporaneous conditions, she very often succeeds in giving us observations and impressions which bring her narrative to a commendable, authoritative, and vital end.”
“This volume may find popular acceptance. As a discriminating writer, however, the author is open to criticism.”
“For the person who has not time to take up history in a professional way and who wishes to get a fairly comprehensive idea of the Italian situation, Mrs. Gifford’s book will be a valuable auxiliary.”
“A well-sustained, complete history of Italy.”
Gilbert, Charles Benajah.School and its life. $1.25. Silver.
“This volume, the fruit of wide experience both as a teacher and school superintendent, deals with life rather than the mechanism of schools. It conceives of teaching as a spiritual process, of education as the wholesome development and adaptation of life to its environment, and finds the conditions of successful teaching in conforming to the common laws of life and growth. Its aim is to secure to children the educative influence of a natural, sane, and wholesome school life as a part of the larger world-life. Its successive chapters discuss the vital problems arising in the management and organization of schools and school systems.”—Outlook.
“A sane, practical, and comprehensive work on school management.”
Gilbert, Rosa Mulholland (Lady John Thomas Gilbert).Life of Sir John T. Gilbert. $5. Longmans.
Lord Gilbert’s unusually fortunate career is felicitously sketched by his wife. “Copiouscorrespondence, embracing letters from scholars, historians, archæologists, Irish Franciscans in Rome and in Portugal, noblemen, and public officials enliven the narrative, and, incidentally, bear witness to the conscientious, painstaking method of the historian.... The curtain that screens the sanctities of domestic life is drawn aside just enough to give us a glimpse of the fine, noble, sunny gentleman, an earnest Catholic, of high culture and simple tastes, ambitious only of a competence sufficient to guarantee him the opportunity to prosecute his work of study and composition, which he loved, not for the fame that it brought him, but for itself.” (Cath. World.)
“Well-written and delicate panegyric of a notable man.”
“Lady Gilbert has discharged her task with excellent taste.”
“His widow, besides giving some account of her husband’s career, prints copious selections from his correspondence, with the object of illustrating the character of his work, and the interest of his ‘unusual and many-sided personality.’ We do not think Lady Gilbert has been very successful in achieving this object.”
“We have never taken up a ‘life’ so distended by trivial and ephemeral letters.”
“The facts are here, but they should have been put together for readers who will not, and indeed cannot, search for them. We see the pictures of a single-minded-worker, but have but a vague idea of what he actually did.”
Gilder, Richard Watson.Book of music: poems. **$1. Century.