Maartens, Maarten (Jozua Marius Willem Schwartz).Healers. †$1.50. Appleton.
The healing of mind and body is dealt with in this novel in which nearly every character stands for some variety of scientific or religious opinion. Chief among them are “Professor Baron Lisse, of Leyden, the great bacteriologist in religion a conforming Protestant skeptic; his wife, a poet, converted, in the course of the story, to Roman Catholicism; their son Edward, who from childhood has hated his father’s vivisection, and who wins fame as a follower of Charcot; Sir James Graye, an idiot on whose skull Edward operates, enabling him to regain sufficient reason to learn the wickedness of the world and escape from it by suicide ... Kenneth Graye, James’s devoted uncle and guardian, who—so far as we understand mental ailments—went mad because he believed madness to be hereditary in his family, and recovered his sanity, partly on receiving proof that it was not, completely on receiving proof that he had misjudged a tragic event in his own life.” (Lond. Times.)
“Is a striking, interesting book, not altogether satisfactory, but one that all should read.”
“This is a story one can read twice on first acquaintance, to use a Hiberianism.”
“It is a complex book, with a great deal in it worth reading slowly and thoughtfully.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“There are many brilliant passages in the book, but as a whole it leaves a confused impression upon the mind of the reader.”
“We are thus bound to repudiate the book in its would-be serious aspect, and fall back upon the entertaining invention, the acute characterization, and the combined humor and pathos that it offers.” Wm. M. Payne.
“His wanderings from one prickly topic to another sorely tries the patience. Yet he never bores. He has too keen a sense of humor and of human interest.”
“The novel is not strongly constructed; our interest is asked for one character and suddenly shifted elsewhere, and the several stories touch each other but slightly. That defect—if defect it be—is inherent in a novel of this kind. For the truth is that, in spite of Mr. Maartens’s care, his humour and his power of expressing character, this is not a novel of persons but of opinions. The fortunes of persons may be settled, happily or unhappily; thought goes on.”
“The characters in ‘The healers’ are real people battling with real forces, no two agreeing. Maarten Maartens is not a serious singer, but he sings of serious things.” Stephen Chalmers.
“The men and women described are alive and interesting in an unusual degree.”
Mabie, Hamilton Wright.Great word. **$1. Dodd.
In a group of twenty-one essays, “Mr. Mabie has written broadly and wisely and deeply of love, not as Michelet did, mixing grossness and delicacy of thought together, but with all daintiness and fineness of touch, so that the issue is fine.” (N. Y. Times.) “For,” says the author, “there is no word infinity and immortality in any language, divine or human, save the word love; for nothing save love has compass enough to hold and to express the life of the gods.”
“This book, like his others, will be valued for its sane and charming conservatism.”
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed.Myths every child should know: a selection of the classic myths of all times for young people.**90c. Doubleday.
“The book is well suited for both home and school reading.”
McAdoo, William.Guarding a great city. **$2. Harper.
Mr. McAdoo, formerly commissioner of police in New York city, takes a courageous stand in presenting in detail the inner workings of the police system of that great city. He discusses, with suggestions for reform, in their sociological, political and economic aspects the problems which grow out of the supervision of vice and crime. The chapters on “Police imposters and fakirs,” “The East side,” and “The poolroom evil” are especially revelatory.
“Quite apart from its value in the discussion of purely administrative problems of police management, the book is very readable. Mr. McAdoo knows his subject and handles it with great directness. One criticism which might be made is that when discussing the problems of the police he assumes that his readers possess rather more information regarding the police organization than they are likely to have, but these lapses are only occasional.”
“Has a human interest that places it in a class apart from the ordinary category of manuals and treatises on good government. Mr. McAdoo writes clearly and fearlessly, as one who has nothing to conceal from the public.”
McCall, Sidney.Breath of the gods.†$1.50. Little.
McCall, Sidney.Truth Dexter. †$1.50. Little.
A new illustrated edition. Ever refreshing is the charming naïvete of the Southern girl who goes to Boston as a bride and has only her innocence and clarity of soul to offset intrigue on the one hand and culture on the other, until, indeed, she is subjected to a rigid course of intellectual training which conventionalizes her.
“In spite of what seem to us defects, the romance has so much in its favour that we can heartily recommend it to our readers.”
McCarthy, Justin.History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40. Harper.
“Although these volumes may at times be handy books of reference, they must not be depended upon for fullness or accuracy.” A. G. Porritt.
“Mr. McCarthy makes good reading for the ordinary, unhistorical man who is often astonishingly ignorant of earlier Victorian events.”
“The author takes advantage of his opportunity to review the reign of Victoria as a whole, and this is the most valuable part of the work.” Edward Fuller.
“Mr. McCarthy’s last volumes are very delightful, eminently readable, and valuable. Nor does their fairness make them colorless.”
McCarthy, Justin Huntly.Flower of France. †$1.50. Harper.
Simplicity, steadfastness, and a tender human sympathy characterize Mr. McCarthy’s Maid of Orleans. She is the same Joan of dreams and visions that history portrays her, the unyielding warrior who fights the dauphin’s cause because of a direct command from her God, yet as she rides forth in her shining armor, she is after all the Maid whom Lahire loves and not the fanatic whom the evil Cauchon sent to the stake. She is a heroine who might have yielded to the entreaties of her lover had she not impersonally espoused the high and divinely directed cause of her country’s good—higher than which is no other allegiance.
“Mr. McCarthy has been uncommonly successful in reproducing the life of that distant century.”
“One sees all too plainly throughout the volume the earmarks of prospective dramatisation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The story is a fairly good one of its kind, but it has no reason for existence.”
“We need not waste much time on a production that exhibits such appalling vulgarisms as ‘won out’ and ‘downed all opposition’ and is cheaply sentimental or sensational from first to last.” Wm. M. Payne.
“He has been lifted up, as a literary artist, out of pagan piety, and pretty glamour of words that have characterized his other books into a region of sterner spirituality and courage. This gives the story a gravity and power which his novels have always lacked in spite of their charm.”
“Sufficiently well written to be very pleasant reading.”
“A graceful, pleasantly written story.”
“On the whole, the effect of the book is to bring out the merits of Mr. Andrew Lang’s historical novel of the same period.”
McCarthy, Justin Huntly.Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.
Pure romance, with a proper alloy of adventure is found in this story of the two O’Hagens, the twin brothers whose swords were always ready to defend their honor and fair ladies. Dorothea, the unhappy wife of a dissolute prince of an eighteenth century German principality, has as a child played at love in a garden with one of the brothers and this old memory calls them both to her side where amid court intrigue and the clash of swords one wins happiness and the other dies a good death.
“Mr. McCarthy is at his buoyant best.”
“The story is a pleasant piece of work.”
“Lacks some of the historical interest and the odd situations that were the strong features of ‘If I were king’ but the new novel has a touch of the originality of construction which made a success of the François Villon book.”
“Lightly amusing, but of very little weight or force, is this novel.”
“It is altogether an admirable historical novel of the lighter type, written with a jaunty elegance which is most effective.”
McCash, Isaac Newton.Ten plagues of modern Egypt. *$1. Personal help pub.
The ten plagues of modern Egypt herein discussed are divorce, amusements, municipal misrule, corrupt journalism, lynching, social impurity, our city carnivals, murder, gambling, and intemperance. A concluding chapter discusses the civic conscience.
McCaughan, William J.Love, faith, and joy. $1. J. Gosham Staats, Chicago.
A group of sermons delivered in the Third Presbyterian church, Chicago.
McClellan, Elisabeth.Historic dress in America, 1607–1800; with an introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by Sophie Steel. **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
“The work is, in fact, of great, practical value both to the art student and to the costumier.”
“The letterpress is rather scrappy and disconnected, but it is full of valuable information derived from undeniably accurate sources, and occasionally transcribed without acknowledgment.”
“Very handsome and interesting volume.”
McClure, Alexander Kelly.Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8. Winston.
A connected and chronological record of the commercial, industrial and educational advancement of Pennsylvania, and the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838; illustrated with portraits of over 100 distinguished men of Pennsylvania, including all the governors, senators, judges of the courts of today, leading statesmen, railroad presidents, business men and men of note.
“It will be regarded as a valuable contribution to such a history, a contribution that no other man could make.”
“Throughout his work the element of human interest is strong, its distinctive characteristics, in fact, being its striking pen-portraits and its abundance of illustrative anecdote. He shows an evident desire to be just, and usually writes with such restraint that blame must yield to admiration.”
M’Clymont, Rev. J. A.Greece; painted by J: Fulleylove; described by the Rev. J. A. M’Clymont.*$6. Macmillan.
These descriptions of Greece have been written by one who has observed as he travelled, who has read the latest books, and studied Grote and Mr. Frazer; while the seventy-five colored pictures give some beautiful views of Athens and all Attica. There is also a sketch map of Greece and an index.
“Some of the pictures are decidedly pretty, and there are good sky and cloud effects in many of them; but the ‘tout ensemble’ is not like Greece. There is also a want of proper distribution in the subjects. If the author could not supply more than a few scanty observations of his own, why not have recourse to the dozens of excellent picturesque books of travel.”
“One of the finest of the many fine books written about Greece. The descriptive text is admirably written. There is some thing like chaos in the spelling of proper names.”
“The artist is indeed thoroughly in touch with his subjects, which appear to have appealed to him with even greater force than those of his native land.”
“Neither illustrations nor letter press have any right to be put forward as representing a land among the two or three most interesting and influential in the whole history of mankind.”
“The literary portion of this book is something of a disappointment. The pictures are highly pleasing.”
MacCunn, Florence.Mary Stuart. **$3. Dutton.
A biography, based upon an accurate knowledge of recent developments along the line of Mary Stuart controversy, “while making no attempt to give any detailed account of it.” (Lond. Times.) “It does not pretend to be anything more than a romantic story of a woman told by a woman.... Mrs. MacCunn looks upon Mary as simply an intensely passionate woman. So her volume, if not the authoritative book on Mary, is perhaps one of the most readable that have yet been produced. Its charm is enhanced by numerous portraits and other illustrations, which are of the best quality.” (Spec.)
“We have only indicated the attitude of Mrs. MacCunn towards her heroine: it is candidly historical and perfectly womanly.” Andrew Lang.
“The author had not space enough for controversy, but exhibits complete balance of judgment. Her narrative is vivid, and avoids rhetorical pursuit of the picturesque. She is extremely sympathetic.”
“Miss Maccunn ... has subordinated everything else to her main figure, and the result is a portrait glowing with animation.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
“Without omitting any salient facts or distorting any critical situation, she has written a book which is real biography, and not a mere contribution to controversy.”
“Among a host of technical and controversial monographs, it stands out a simple lively narrative of the remarkable adventures through which Mary Stuart passed.”
“Her book is an admirable piece of work, and we think should remain the standard short history of one of the most familiar of the many Queens of tears.”
“Her book is well written ... and if her conception of Queen Mary’s character be correct, it is admirable.”
McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).Cowardice court.†$1.25. Dodd.
“Apparently the chief matter [of this tale] is the feud—a paltry quarrel over some five hundred acres of Adirondack woodland, which the young American refuses to sell even to a buyer of such distinction as her ladyship of Baslehurst. Really, however, the chief matter is the interest the English-bred Penelope takes in the American enemy. The story goes of itself, runs away with itself almost. There is a storm, a haunted house, some dog shooting, much trespassing, and more lovemaking.”—N. Y. Times.
“Altogether absurd in incident and psychology, but decidedly readable and engagingly romantic.”
“Has somewhat too heavy a hand for his slight material.”
McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).Jane Cable; il. in col. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.
“‘Jane Cable’ is a love-tale with the strenuous sweep of the Western metropolis for its atmosphere. The principals of the story are a very flawless pair who enter the primrose path of romance under promising auspices. Their roseate dream receives a rude awakening by reason of certain family revelations which seem to put a blot upon the girl’s birth and which blast the reputation of the young man’s father. Some very ugly, tho not uninteresting, characters are brought upon the scene. Chief among these is the lawyer, Elias Droom, a character probably suggested by Uriah Heep, but uglier.”—Lit. D.
“It is interesting to record, from personal observation, that readers of ‘Jane Cable’ seem to evince the same absorption, the same oblivion of time and space which a few years ago marked the readers of ‘Beverly of Graustark.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“As a good melodrama should, the story takes hold in the first pages with a grip that releases the interest only when the problems are all solved.” Paul Wilstach.
“The characters are fairly well drawn and there is much diversity of plot and incident.”
“‘Jane Cable’ is a well-told story, within the limitations of its class.”
“Is on the whole the best piece of work he has done.”
McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).Nedra.†$1.50. Dodd.
“So farcical a plot demands a light and humorous touch and here the author fails, for though he gets amusing situations, the treatment of them is poor, and the dialogue is conspicuously without humor.”
Macdonald, Ronald.Sea-maid. †$1.50. Holt.
Once upon a time the Dean of Beckminster and his prim wife were cast shipwrecked upon a lone sea island, and when after twenty years a certain ship’s company were marooned upon the same island they found, with the Dean and his wife, their beautiful daughter who dressed in savage garb and was eager to know of a world she had never seen. This is the setting of a veritable farce-comedy enacted by an English lord, a commonplace person with whom he has changed names to avoid the advances of a passée fortune hunter, the ship’s doctor, a girl who is “good sort,” an actor, and several other people both good and bad. The book is frankly intended to “draw smile and laugh.”
“There is somethings deliciously attractive in the serious manner in which he handles the subject.”
“An uneven book, genuinely amusing in parts, distinctly tiresome elsewhere.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Of its kind ‘The sea-maid’ is good.”
“For sheer entertainment this story is one of the best of the year, and it is by no means devoid of the qualities that appeal to the literary sense.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Is, in itself a harmless and in parts an entertaining and refreshing story, showing touches of imagination and of humor; but is none the less tainted with that peculiar flavor of cheapness—coming perilously near vulgarity.”
“The fault of the story is that it mingles the romantic, the burlesque, and the melodramatic rather indiscriminately.”
“The book is an ingenious fantasy, and the reader will find that the time he spends in reading it passes very pleasantly.”
MacDonnell, John de Courcy.King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and the Congo. *$6. Cassell.
“Though the work has the character of special pleading, still it is not of the unusually low order of such partisan publications.”
McFadyen, John Edgar.Introduction to the Old Testament.$1.75. Armstrong.
“The style is easy, clear, concise, and fulfills the purpose laid down. It is a good piece of modern, up-to-date pedagogical work.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
“To each book of the old Testament he furnishes an introduction which is written in the free critical spirit characteristic of modern scholarship, and written, too, with a power to stimulate the interests of his readers, and satisfy their just and reasonable demands for information concerning the history and character of writings regarded by so many as sacred Scriptures.”
“The book supplies a recognized need.”
“By its brevity, clearness and interest the book is a good one to serve as a manual for the student.” L. W. Batten.
“Utterly unfit to be put into the hands of the unsophisticated readers for whom it is prepared. Hundreds of his statements are either incorrect or rest upon a very unsubstantial foundation.”
“For a readable account of what scholars hold regarding the Old Testament without discussion of what is still problematical and uncertain, Professor McFadyen’s treatise can be heartily recommended.”
Macfall, Haldane.Sir Henry Irving. *$1. Luce, J: W.
A character sketch of Sir Henry Irving, the man, his career and his art. The volume is illustrated by Mr. Gordon Craig and includes sketches of Irving in the characters of Robespierre, Macaire, Dubrose, Badger and others.
“Though a trifle laudatory, Mr. Macfall has produced a lucid portrait of his subject.”
“In itself the little book, with its excellent paper, admirable typography, and abundant margins, is attractive and artistic, but as a tribute to Irving it is in almost all respects insufficient.”
“The criticism is pitched in a high key of praise; and is too much a panegyric to be always valuable as criticism; yet there is much that is true said about Irving’s excellences.”
“An extremely interesting character sketch.”
MacFarland, Charles Stedman.Jesus and the prophets; an historical, exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50. Putnam.
“For the ground which it covers, Dr. MacFarland’s book is without doubt the best popular work on the subject in English, and cannot fail to be helpful to all students of the Bible who prize exact knowledge.” William R. Schoemaker.
“It will stimulate even where it does not carry full conviction.” John H. Strong.
“The design of this book is excellent. Yet we cannot praise the book unreservedly; the author is well up in the German critics and shows a tendency to assimilate their conclusions rather too readily. It is good to know German if one is going to write a book on the Greek Testament; but it is better to know Greek.”
Macfarlane, Walter.Principles and practice of iron and steel manufacture. *$1.20. Longmans.
Written by one who understands teaching, this book is designed primarily for technical students, metallurgists and engineers.
“It has the advantage of being short and, in general, accurate and clear. Much of the data has not appeared in print before, but is evidently taken from personal experience. Of the individual chapters, those on the puddling process and tool steel are the best, while the discussion of steel castings and the short chapter on malleable castings are very far below the general standard.” Bradley Stoughton.
MacGrath, Harold.Half a rogue.†$1.50. Bobbs.
There is a curious mixture of elements in Mr. MacGrath’s new story. Play writing, municipal politics, social enmity, strikes, and always love—from beginning to end it is the one quality which leavens sordid states and makes burdens bearable. Katherine Challoner leaves the stage to marry John Bennington, Richard Warrington gives up playwriting to enter politics, and incidentally, to woo Patty Bennington. A malicious busy-body, who tries to recall ghosts of past indiscretions, fails, but not until Warrington loses in the mayorality race. Yet he does win Patty.
MacGrath, Harold.Hearts and masks.†$1.50. Bobbs.
“The tale is not so good a story as ‘The man on the box’ but it will doubtless prove almost as popular.”
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture. $1.50. Bureau of university travel. [Ginn.]
A handbook prepared to accompany a collection of five hundred reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture.
“What he has done is both too little and too much; and the faults that have been indicated tend to make any scholar view the book with a distrust which, on the whole, it does not merit.”
“The impression made by the book is satisfactory, and it will undoubtedly be of service, especially to the beginner in the study of classic art. Mr. von Mach shows a thorough knowledge of his subject, and there is a pleasing independence of view, although the influence of the great teachers is plainly seen. There are a number of typographical errors.” James C. Egbert.
Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.Outlines of the history of painting, from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.
An arrangement which aims to aid art students in obtaining a comprehensive view of the whole field of painting. The first part comprises twenty-eight chronological tables of painters; the second part, an alphabetical list of artists; the third, a brief account of the history of painting.
“This should prove a convenient class summary and in general a useful tabulation of painters and periods.”
“Another who has helped us the better to understand Greek art, Professor Edmund von Mach, has published a useful book.”
Machen, Arthur.House of souls.†$1.50. Estes.
“This volume includes some previously published stories, notably ‘The great god Pan’ and ‘The inmost light,’ which some twelve years since appeared in ‘The keynote series;’ also ‘The three impostors,’ which we best remember as a deft derivative from Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’ The rest of the items are new, but the same note of horror is struck with more or less emphasis in all, and with a varying measure of success.”—Ath.
“Mr. Machen is a very clever writer—so clever that it seems almost a pity that he should persistently envelope his talent in cerements of the bizarre.”
“Whatever may be said for the making of gargoyles in general (or satyrs in particular) as a question of art or of morals, whatever your own taste may be in such matters, Mr. Machen is a master of his method.”
“As regards the execution of the stories, Mr. Machen has style, and a talent for the fantastic ... but he has not the power of creating horror.”
M’Kay, William D.Scottish school of painting. *$2. Scribner.
“Although Mr. McKay does not succeed in giving any clear definition of what constitutes the Scottish school, or how it differs from other schools, his well-written volume is full of interesting details about the lives and works of Scottish painters, and tells us something, though not quite enough about the organization of painting in Scotland since it began to exist at all.”—Lond. Times.
“As a compact and compendious record of the work of painters of Scottish nationality the book occupies a distinct place in art history, and its standard of execution is uniformly high.”
“In a sense this is a pioneer work. It is one which no student of art should fail to own and to read with great care.”
“A smaller book dealing with the few leading painters of Scottish birth and leaving out the nobodies would have been more acceptable.”
“We have no hesitation in commending this excellent volume, not only to the art lover, but also to the student.”
“We turn to his book for a retrospect rather than for a comment upon the things of to-day. He knows what painting is, he is well acquainted with the collections, public and private, he is a sound critic, and he writes in an interesting way.”
“The author ... writes with knowledge and confidence of technical matters, and the volume is fairly illustrated.”
“Excellent book.”
MacKaye, James F.Economy of happiness. *$2.50. Little.
Dr. Mackaye’s universal panacea for the cure of all ills which man is heir to is common sense, susceptible to tests which are independent of the convictions of any man or assemblage of men. Book 1 analyses common sense to disclose these tests; and Books 2 and 3 treat of the theoretical and practical technology of happiness.
“A book which deals with the ethical foundations of the subject in a way that is both novel and profound. In fact the book is a revolution in philosophy and aims at one in economics. He lays a deeper and safer foundation for his socialism than Marx laid, and he undermines most thoroughly the system of ethics upon which the political and economic dogmas of competition and ‘laissez faire’ have been based.” Ralph Albertson.
“Every socialist, sociologist, economist and serious journalist should examine this book. For the wayfaring man it is perhaps too solid, tho it is enlivened by brilliant, unforced epigrams and humorous phrases.”
“It would have been better if he had condensed some and omitted other parts of the earlier chapters which are unnecessarily long and discursive.”
“While the ethical doctrines of this work are thus objectionable, there is much in its economic scheme for the promotion of social happiness that is worthy of thoughtful consideration.”
MacKaye, James.Politics of utility: the technology of happiness—applied; being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c. Little.
Book 3 of James MacKaye’s “Economy of happiness” is published separately, in inexpensive form because of its greater popular interest, the hope being that the reprint may reach a wider circle of readers than would care for the larger work.
Mackaye, Mrs. James Steele.Pride and prejudice: a playfounded on Jane Austen’s novel. $1.25. Duffield.
A four-act play founded upon Jane Austen’s eighteenth century novel.
“Few of the peculiar excellences of the book survive in the play, in which the lack of action, or of anything like real dramatic interest, until the very end, is only too apparent.”
“A pleasing play.”
“So far as the literary side is concerned, Mrs. Mackaye has done her work well.”
Mackaye, Percy Wallace.Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy.**$1.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
McKechnie, William Sharp.Magna carta: a commentary on the great charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. McKechnie may justly claim to have provided us with a most adequate commentary on Magna Carta. His notes ... show that he is widely read in the literature of his subject;and they are admirably lucid. The book will be the more useful because it is mainly a summary of the researches and theories of the best modern critics.” H. W. C. Davis.
“The most detailed and satisfactory examination of Magna Carta.”
McKim, Rev. Randolph Harrison.Problem of the Pentateuch. **$1. Longmans.
“Lectures in reply to the ‘higher criticism’ of the Bible.... The attractiveness of Dr. McKim’s book for the general reader, not particularly interested in homiletical literature or the disputes of theology, lies in its well-sustained tone of urbanity and its fairness to the ‘higher critics.’ Dr. McKim does not hesitate to state their arguments clearly. His own argument is interesting merely as a revelation of the theories of the Pentateuch put forth by persons who deny the inspiration and Mosaic origin of the five books.”—N. Y. Times.
“Doubtless every serious reader who picks up this book will find that his curiosity has been aroused rather than that his mind has been set at rest. But, for its scope, this brief volume is fairly well put together.”
“Despite the pains he has taken in the investigation of these matters, it cannot be said that he has comprehended the case put forward by historical criticism.”
McKinley, Albert Edward.Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.
“Mr. McKinley’s book must of necessity become the standard authority on this subject. The only lack is a bibliography.” Edward Porritt.
MacKinnon, James.History of modern liberty. set, **$10. Longmans.
“The first volume consists of chapters chiefly on the governmental institutions of the countries that once formed the Western Roman empire; the second consists of chapters on the course of the reformation in England and Scotland, France and Germany, with a brief chapter of twelve pages on Spain in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A single chapter on mediaeval political thought ‘in relation to liberty,’ which closes the first volume, is balanced in the second by one on the writers on political theory in the sixteenth century. For the rest, the strict adherence to geographical divisions forbids an international and comparative treatment, and no continuity of subject or idea is maintained.”—Ath.
“Taken all in all, his book is both readable and instructive. It may safely be commended to all whose enthusiasm for liberty needs a stimulant.”
“Had the writer been willing to use more care and restraint, he could have produced a better book, for he has zeal and industry, a wide range of interest and knowledge, ambition and ability.”
“It may be seriously questioned whether the usefulness if the work would not have been increased by the topical method of treatment rather than the chronological. Professor MacKinnon’s style in places is characterized by lucidity of statement, forcefulness of expression, and even by brilliancy; but too often the detail which mars his discussions is dry and prolix.” James Wilford Garner.
“Dr. Mackinnon has, we fear, somewhat fluctuating ideas as to the exact scope of his theme. It is the result of much careful study, especially in French historical literature, and it is marked by a sanity of judgment and a true love of freedom of which Dr. Mackinnon desires to be the historian.”
“The author is on the whole judicious and scholarly without attaining real distinction. His book will not add to our sum of knowledge and will not open new avenues of thought.”
“They contain much of interest and value, but yet they fall short of what we should wish the story of human liberty to be.”
“The serious defect of the work, however, is that it lacks organization. The process of the development of liberty is not clearly delineated. On the whole, the work despite its shortcomings, must be pronounced a notable one.” George L. Scherger.
McLaws, Emily Lafayette.Maid of Athens. †$1.50. Little.
A romance based upon Byron’s brief wooing of Lady Thyrza Riga, the Maid of Athens, whom he immortalized in verse. Count Riga gives his life for Greece, and Countess Riga rather than fall into the hands of the Turks slays herself, while the child Thyrza was sent to Constantinople and was brought up at court by a renegade uncle. Here Byron found her, and was seriously minded in his love-making, but a rival Turkish suitor brought disaster through a forged letter. Lady Thyrza’s death, and later Byron’s passing away at Messolonghi bring the story to a tragic close.
“Exceptionally well written and giving delightful glimpses of Turkish and Greek life.” Amy C. Rich.
“It cannot be said that Miss McLaws reflects much of the Byronic heat and light, while her Oriental atmosphere is distinctly of a kind never made in the East.”
“On the whole this is a better piece of work than either ‘Jezebel’ or ‘When the land was young.’”
MacLean, Frank.Henry Moore, R. A. *$1.25. Scribner.
“This volume in “The makers of British art” series is a thoroly workmanlike ‘life,’ narrating the details of Moore’s rather uneventful career, describing and characterizing all his works of importance and certainly in its estimate of those works, doing full justice to the painter—comparatively few of whose pictures have been seen on this side of the Atlantic. Numerous halftone blocks help to give some faint idea of the man’s power and versatility in depicting his chosen theme.... A final chapter touches briefly but illuminatingly on the work of the few noteworthy painters of the sea with whom Henry Moore was contemporary—John Brett, Whistler, Claude Monet, Mesdag—and several lesser British marine artists.” (Ind.)
“Doubtless will long remain the standard biography of England’s foremost marine painter.”
“An interesting analysis is made of Moore’s work in marine painting.”
“A sound and unpretentious piece of work which will supply all the information that the general reader will care for about this thoroughly competent if not quite great painter.”
McMahan, Anna Benneson, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.
From the letters and poems of Byron, written during the most mature and productive period of his life while under the spell of the Italy that he loved and that loved him in return, the editor has made wise selection and she has arranged the chosen parts chronologically, and illustrated them with sixty reproductions from photographs.
“The alluring title of this book will not disappoint lovers of Byron.”
MacManus, Anna (Mrs. Seumas) (Ethna Carbery, pseud.).Four winds of Eirinn. **75c. Funk.
This posthumous book of verse is indeed a legacy to all who love Ireland. The poems ring with strong-heart energy and anticipation, and in their buoyancy teach fine lessons of loyalty and patriotism to the land of Erin.
“A small but precious volume.” Wm. M. Payne.
McMaster, John Bach.History of the people of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.
Volume six of this history covers the years from 1830 to 1842. Dr. McMaster discusses affairs under the following headings: Our federal union, State rights maintained, Social conditions, The election of 1832, Nullification put down. The deposits and the panic of 1834, Politics at home and abroad, Activity of the abolitionists, Proceedings of Congress, Speculation and surplus, The end of Jackson’s term, The panic of 1837, Along our borders, A free press and the right of petition, Buckshot, Aroostook, and anti-rent war, The log-cabin, hard-cider campaign and The quarrel with Tyler.
“This author has made to general United States history the most notable original contribution his generation has seen.”
“With all its faults this history is undoubtedly the best that has been written of the twelve years. It is a storehouse of fact, and brings to light a mass of material which will be as useful to the historian as interesting to the general reader.”
“Two objections to this method of treatment naturally arise. The first is the lack of definiteness, of finality which every great work of reference ought, in a measure to possess. The second objection, which may not necessarily inhere in the method of the author is the preponderant reliance on the debates in congress and the leading newspaper discussions.” William E. Dodd.
“His industry in accumulation is greater than his skill in arrangement. His work lacks in wise adjustment and true perspective. He is embarrassed by the enormous amount of his material and has not the courage to omit the non-essential.”
McMurry, Charles Alexander.Course of study in the eight grades. 2v. ea. *75c. Macmillan.
“Our educational machinery has to be made more compact and efficient, and ... [these two little volumes] tell how it is being accomplished. The author gives in detail just what ought and can be done in each grade by a judicious combination of the policies of enriching and pruning. He is not a man of one idea, but is open-minded and progressive in all lines. The very full and carefully selected list of textbooks and side reading for each grade are especially valuable, and would be a safe guide for school-room libraries.”—Ind.
“[In] chapters devoted to the theory and practice of education ... the author is so overpoweringly verbose that his meaning is frequently lost in a cloud of words.”
“It appears to me that the greatest objection to Dr. McMurry’s course of study lies against the conception that it tends to dissipate the energies of the pupil, rather than concentrate his mind on a definite portion of knowledge that constitutes a part of a subject.” James M. Greenwood.
“A very valuable volume.” Frederick E. Bolton.
McMurry, Mrs. Lida Brown, and Gale, Mrs. Agnes Spofford (Cook), comps. Songs of mother and child. $1.25. Silver.
A collection of about a hundred and fifty poems grouped under the following divisions: “The mother’s heart,” “Evening songs,” “The father’s love,” “The child world” “Child pictures,” “Ministry,” “The empty nest,” “Ideals,” and “The long ago.” The songs are contributed by about a hundred well-known authors.
“The book is so conscientiously edited and so well-arranged that the gems are easy to find and re-find.”
Macnaughtan, S.Lame dog’s diary.†$1.50. Dodd.
“The writer is supposed to be an officer, lamed for life in the Boer war, who settles down in his own village to get what comfort may be found in a humdrum existence. After a few pages we are at ease in the village of Stowel ... and find the match-making and tea-parties positively exciting.” (Sat. R.) “There are the two Miss Traceys, models of appropriate deportment; there is Mrs. Lovekin, self-appointed and embarrassing co-hostess at every tea-table; there is sweet, faded Miss Lydia Blind, and her sister Belinda, ... there are Anthony Crawshay, frank and free, and Ellicomb, the ‘artistic;’ there are the Darcey-Jacobs, ... and last, but not least, there are the Jamiesons, four spectacled young ladies, and Maud, ‘the pretty one,’ all upon matrimony and goodworks intent. But all these are after all, but a screen under cover of which Hugo, our diarist, may weave a half-unconscious day-dream unobserved.” (Lond. Times.)
“The author has succeeded with his heroine as well as with the rest of his cast.”
“An unassuming bit of fiction, which possesses a certain quiet charm quite its own.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“A pleasing bit of fiction which does not draw too heavily upon the reader’s nervous endurance.”
“The ‘lame dog’ has worked up his diary into a delightful book.”
“One must read the companionable, pleasant book, warm at the heart with neighbor feeling and radiant with gentle humor.”
“The romance glowing beneath the light tone of the diary is delightful and novel enough to insure the reader’s attention to the end. The author has a good sense of humor.”
“Is refreshing and individual.”
“One of the shortest and most attractive novels we have read of late years.”
MacPhail, Andrew.Vine of Sibmah: a relation of the Puritans. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The heroine is a beautiful Quakeress, the hero a brave captain in Cromwell’s disbanded army, and about the two central figures are grouped King’s men and Roundheads, Puritans and pirates, Quakers and Jesuits, Indians and soldiers as the scene shifts from old to New England. To save the reader a tiresome search for the title, ‘The vine of Sibmah,’ is found in Isaiah, xvi, 8, and is the text of a sermon preached by Mr. Increase Mayhew as the little fleet led by the ‘Covenant’ started on its voyage to Salem: ‘O, vine of Sibmah, thy plants are gone over the sea.’”—Ind.
“The story is something more than readable, although it is long-winded throughout and drags not a little toward the end. A critic of the more microscopic sort might pick many flaws in his narrative.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Here is a good historical novel, one of the best since ‘Hugh Wynne,’ by Dr. Mitchell.”
“The lover of historical romance will be glad to illuminate the years around 1662 by passing through them with Mr. MacPhail’s well-imagined characters.”
Macquoid, Percy.History of English furniture. 20 pts. 4v. per pt., *$2.50. per v., *$15. Putnam.