Racster, Olga.Chats on violins. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“Space hardly permits detailed examination, but what she does present in the way of history and theory she sets forth clearly and in a form well adapted to meet the approval of the casual reader upon such a subject.”
Rae, John.Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint of the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical sketch and notes by C: Whitney Mixter. **$4. Macmillan.
“Concerning the present reprint, Professor Mixter deserves much credit for the labor he has bestowed on the original work to make it more readable.” Lester W. Zartman.
“In preparing for publication a reconstructed edition of ‘The new principles of political economy’ by John Rae, the editor has rendered economic science a real service.” Isaac A. Loos.
“Neither as radical nor as original as it was in 1834. Professor Mixter ought not to have given to the public such a volume as this without adding an index.”
Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).Queen of the rushes, a romance of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.
The drowning of Jonathan Rees of Scethryg and his band of reapers forms the tragic opening of this story of the Welsh country and the Welsh country people. Little Gwenifer, watching for her mother on the shore, sees her go down when the boat is overturned and is struck dumb by the shock. Gildas, the young son of the old mishteer, takes his father’s place on the estate, and cares for the little dumb girl who is known thruout the neighborhood as queen of the rushes. She loves Gildas with a mute devotion, and on the night when his wife leaves him, pleads dumbly with her to return, is thrown upon the rocks, and, in the shock of it, recovers her speech. This of course, opens the way for her happiness and that of her benefactor.
Ramanathan, Ponnambalam.Culture of the soul among western nations. **$1.25. Putnam.
“The author of this book is Solicitor General for Ceylon. His recent visit to this country will be recalled in many cultured centers—in colleges, churches, and the better class of clubs. His aim here is to show that, in the Western countries, people have wandered far away from the early conceptions of Christianity when chief importance was attached to oral teachings of the faith by men who had reached perfection or sanctification, through the development of perfect love in the soul.”—Lit. D.
“The little book may be recommended to those who wish to become acquainted with the higher religious life of present-day India. They will find little to surprise or repel them; a good deal to attract.”
“The spirit of Mr. Rámanáthan’s teaching is admirable, and his use of the Scriptures for confirmation is ingenious. What he speaks from a profound spiritual experience is incontestable. His doctrine that the knowledge of God reaches its acme in a state of feeling disjunct from thought and will is psychologically impossible, as well as rationally untenable.”
Ranck, George Washington.Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1. Grafton press.
Randall, Edward C.Life’s progression: research in metaphysics. *$1.60. Henry B. Brown co., 496–8 Main st., Buffalo, N. Y.
A book which makes no use of creeds nor faith, which believes that positive knowledge has displaced them both and also the idea of death, that origin and destiny are not beyond the grasp of mortals, that in the spirit world laws are fixed and are immutable, that dissolution is not annihilation but liberation and opportunity and that God is universal good and dwells in the heart of all mankind.
Rankin, Carroll Watson.Girls of Gardenville. †$1.50. Holt.
“The sweet sixteen,” club and the doings of its sixteen girlish members, the three Stones counted as one because they were triplets and couldn’t all leave home at once, fill this book with wholesome young life from cover to cover. How two of them tried to paper a room so as to give their mother something which she could not give away, how one of them played fireman; how they held a rummage sale; how they secured a Hallowe’en pumpkin; all this and more is told in the course of the story.
“The tone of the book is commendable; it teaches sound principles without being priggish.”
“The tales are not vigorous or interesting enough either in content or in style to have other than the negative value of supplying harmless and diluted amusement to young readers.”
Ransom, Caroline Louise.Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Raper, Charles Lee.Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.
Professor Raper says in the preface of his book: “It is only a simple and elementary discussion of the more important principles which are involved in the consumption, production and distribution of wealth ... as a means to an end—a means to human welfare in all of its manifold aspects.”
“It appears to the reviewer that the author fails to put in a clear light the principle of decreasing returns in relation to land. The best part of this volume is found in its descriptions, as description is ordinarily understood; however, in the higher realm of description, where description resumes under the briefest formulæ the widest range of facts, the work is not strong.”
“A more distinctly American book has hardly ever come into our hands. Not only the spelling, but also the mode of regarding events, the standpoint from which the different aspects of life are viewed, is distinctly that of the other side of the Atlantic. Besides stimulating our thoughts, the work has also the advantage of being written throughout in a simple and easy style.”
“By way of special criticism of ‘Wealth and welfare,’ it may be noted that economic terms are used without sufficient accuracy of definition. The text is happily written, less in the once-upon-a-time style than much high-school economics, and does in fact give a ‘simple and elementary discussion of the more important principles’ of the science.”
“The style is clear, if sometimes oracular; and the doctrine generally sound.”
Rashdall, Rev. Hastings.Christus in ecclesia. *$1.50. Scribner.
Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.
Raven, John Howard.Old Testament introduction, general and special. **$2. Revell.
“An introduction written from the traditional point of view, dating the Pentateuch, e.g., from 1300 B. C., Job, Proverbs, and Song of Songs from 1000 B. C., and the Psalms from 1075–425 B. C.”—Bib. World.
“The conservatism of this book is of an extreme type and lacks good scholarly foundation.”
“The book is antiquated in its methods as well as in its results.” L. W. Batten.
“A fair and manly argument, to which is appended a select bibliography impartially referring both to allies and adversaries.”
Rawling, C. G.Great plateau. $5. Longmans.
“An excellent record of two remarkable expeditions, one in company with his friend Captain Hargreaves to central Tibet in 1903.... The other through eastern Tibet after the British Indian force had occupied Lhassa. The first journey was undertaken at a time when Tibet was rigidly closed to foreigners; the second was rendered possible by the success of the Younghusband mission.... After the occupation of Lhassa, Captain Rawling travelled with Captain O’Connor, the agent of the Indian government, through Shigatse and Holy Manasarowar to Gartok. Armed with orders from the Tibetan authorities they were admitted to audiences and places that would otherwise have been impossible. The hardships and inconveniences were many but the expedition was unique and of considerable scientific importance.... His volume is fully illustrated.”—Sat. R.
“The reader in search of novelty will hardly fail to obtain a book of travel among people who for the most part had never seen a European before, and Capt. Rawling’s modest narrative will be found full of interest and variety.”
“To those who are interested in the development and the geography of Tibet the volume will contain some new features, but the general reader will find small profit in the book. The story of the first expedition is a weary tale of countless marches and camps, but the account of the Gartok expedition has at least the grace of vivacity and freshness.” H. E. Coblentz.
“The story of the journey through the villages and among the fruitful fields could scarcely be spoiled even by dull narration, and this book is brightly written.” Cyrus C. Adams.
“To all who are interested in Tibet in particular and geography in general, Captain Rawling’s book makes strong appeal.”
“The style of the book is throughout clear and modest, the descriptions are full of vigour, and the interest of the subject is of the highest.”
Rawnsley, Rev. Hardwicke Drummond.Months at the lakes. $1.75. Macmillan.
“Canon Rawnsley gives the impressions he has derived from his study for twenty years of ‘the changes in the face and mood of Nature.’”(Ath.) “Although the Canon devotes a chapter to every month, the dazzling colors in which he sees them prevent us from realizing which stage of the year we have reached, and the individual features of plant and tree are wholly lost in a shower of light. If there are any dark days they are cheered by ‘Bands of hope meetings, parish room concerts, magic lantern entertainments, and tea drinkings.’ In December, finally, we feel that we have passed a very innocent and brightly coloured year, although we are not quite sure that we have been at the lakes.” (Lond. Times.)
“Canon Rawnsley is an amiable observer of men and manners; he has an eye for natural beauty, and an ear for every echo of folk-tale or tradition that lingers in the dale; but he seems to be almost incapable of expressing himself in precise and straightforward English.”
“If we are inclined to ‘skip’ some of his descriptive matter, we read with pleasure every word concerning local tradition and custom, of which the Canon is evidently a master.”
“The Canon’s style, moreover, starred as it is with a great variety of pretty words, and fashioned into innumerable conceits, seems, if not impertinent, at least irrelevant when you remember the respect with which Wordsworth subordinated his pen to the truth.”
“Canon Rawnsley’s volume will be a delight to many readers,—to those who may yet test the truth of his pictures, and to those who must be content with using them to call back the past.”
Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.).Hearts and creeds. †$1.50. Little.
There is real strength in this story of an English-Protestant girl who marries a French-Catholic. Both are typical of their race and creed, altho both are extremists and both have strong personality. The scene is laid in Quebec, where the two races abide like oil and water, and the love which brought Arline and Armédie together, the prejudices which all but wrecked their married life, and the epidemic which thrust aside all barriers and by leaving them face to face with death brought them together again are strongly drawn. The social and political life of Quebec is well handled and there are many interesting characters.
“For once, Miss Ray’s usual brisk fashion of telling a story has apparently deserted her.”
“For readers whose imaginations are not abreast with the times this is a good story, and it is exceedingly well delivered.”
“An unusually good story.”
“An attractive love story.”
Ray, Anna Chapin.Janet: her winter in Quebec. †$1.50. Little.
Ronald Leslie and his sister Janet, on whom has suddenly fallen the care of their mother thru the wreck of their father’s mind and fortune, become fast friends of Day Argyle, a New York girl and her brother Rob, invalided from Exeter by an accident at foot-ball. Together, in spite of their troubles, they spend a delightful winter in Quebec, and thru Mrs. Argyle and Sir George Porteous, a most amusing Englishman of much heart and money if little brain, Janet and Ronald become self-supporting.
Raymond, Evelyn (Hunt) (Mrs. John Bradford Raymond).Sunny little lass.†$1. Jacobs.
Glory Beck, her blind grandfather, and Bo’sn, the dog, lived happily together in “the littlest house in New York” and did many odd jobs, until one day Glory heard that her grandfather was to be taken to “Snug Harbor,” the seamen’s home, where they never took little girls. But she went bravely on serving and peddling peanuts with this fear in her heart until one day Bo’sn came home without her grandfather. Then she set out to find him, and the story is not allowed to end unhappily for either the old sailor or his sunny grandchild.
Rea, Hope.Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.
The latest volume of the “Great masters series,” edited by G. C. Williamson furnishes a fifty-page life of Rubens with another hundred pages devoted to a critical estimate of his paintings. There is a well selected and carefully reproduced group of illustrations.
Read, Carveth.Metaphysics of nature. *$2.75. Macmillan.
“The work, may be classed with the most important works published in this generation.” David Phillips.
“No short notice like this can do justice to the closeness of the argument, the soundness and comprehensiveness of a book which must be ranked with the most important of recent years.”
“I have found it the most stimulating and entertaining work in philosophy that I have read for some time, and this in spite of the fact that I find its most ambitious undertaking unsupported by argument, vague and futile.” Charles M. Bakewell.
Readers’ Guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.
The cumulative system of indexes, which resulted from the consolidation of the Cumulative index to a selected list of periodicals and the Readers’ guide to periodical literature begins with this volume a series of five year indexes. It is a 1640 page volume indexing sixty-seven magazines. Since an index to periodicals is used primarily to find out what the magazines contain on a particular subject and is less frequently consulted for questions of authorship and title, this index is first of all a subject index. An author entry is given to each article, and title entries have also been given in the case of fiction, unusually distinctive titles, and sometimes poetry. Book reviews are indexed under the name of the author of the book and are usually given a subject entry also.
“The scope of the work is so extensive that it well deserves its name, and should prove of perennial usefulness to the writer, the clergyman, the debater—in fine, to all who have occasion or desire to enlarge their understanding of any subject.”
“We have always used Poole, and were prepared to swear by it. But the new volume absolutelydiscounts the older as a book of reference.”
“The ‘monthly guide’ and the cumulated annual volumes are in constant use in this office, and are highly valued for their comprehensiveness, accuracy, and general mechanical excellence.”
Reagan, John Henninger.Memoirs with special reference to secession and the Civil war. $3. Neale.
By offering his memoirs to the public Judge Reagan is but discharging what he believes to be a duty to brave, self-sacrificing and patriotic people. His growth along the lines of rugged self-dependence has made him an honest, unprejudiced interpreter. He hopes by example to stimulate young readers to honorable aspirations, and further to show by authentic documents, Confederate and Federal, the justice of the cause of the late Confederate states.
Reddall, Henry Frederic (Frederic Reddale, pseud.).Wit and humor of the physician, a collection from various sources classified under appropriate subject headings. **50c. Jacobs.
Anecdotes, jokes and jingles concerning the profession of medicine. Such things as a doctor and his friends would enjoy, after dinner stories which would bear fruit in “that reminds me.” They are classified under such headings as: Some neat replies, The ignorant patient, Peculiar cases, Strange situations and Hospital anecdotes.
Redesdale of Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st baron.Garter mission to Japan. $1.75. Macmillan.
In passing from the Old Japan which filled the author’s “Tales” fifty years ago to the New Japan of the present volume the author says: “As for me, when I see these things I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I have been asleep and centuries have passed over my head.” The record deals principally with the chief object of the expedition which was that of carrying the insignia of a Knight of the garter to the Emperor of Japan. “To live as a youth in feudal Japan and to gather up the lore about tycoons, ronins, etc., and of gods, men and things which have utterly vanished, and then again in life’s afternoon and as a king’s envoy, to enter the same land when panoplied in modern steel and machinery, is a rare privilege.” (Ind.)
“The narrative is one of sustained interest. The circumstances and environment are described with the grace and restraint proper to a record of what took place on Japanese soil. Lord Redesdale’s hand has lost none of its cunning.”
“The author’s pages have a richness of suggestion and interpretation which is absent from those of most writers on Japan.”
“Most wonderful of all, and most to be commended to those of our readers who have never seen Japan, is the picture which Lord Redesdale conjures with singular vividness and convincing force, of a people trained to greatness, because trained to the pursuit of great ideals, under a code of national ethics unique in the history of the whole world, of which the first and last commandment is that where Japan is concerned ‘self entirely disappears.’”
“With such companions as Kuroki, Togo and Asano, and with sport, travel and novel experiences with people, country gentlemen and palace occupants, all told of so pleasantly, one must call this little book a garden of delights.”
“There is a great deal more in Lord Redesdale’s book than a mere account of ceremonials and the general doings of the mission. It is an impressionist sketch of the difference between the old and the new in Japan, written by one who is no mere globe-trotter but has seen both.”
“Lord Redesdale’s account of the Garter mission to Japan is interesting for more reasons than one. In the first place it describes a ceremony unique in history. In the second place ... is interesting because the author is better able than most living Englishmen to compare the new Japan with the old.”
Reed, Helen Leah.Amy in Acadia.†$1.50. Little.
“The travellers are not very attractive in themselves, but their conversation is often full of interest.”
Reed, Helen Leah.Brenda’s ward; il. †$1.50. Little.
Brenda now becomes mistress of her own manse which is no more pretentious than a charming Boston flat where she houses and looks after the welfare of a bright lovable Western girl.
“A readable story.”
Reed, John Calvin.Brothers’ war.**$2. Little.
“It is a valuable contribution to its subject, in both philosophy and fact, and it deserves a wide circulation.” F. E. Chadwick.
“This book should have a large place in the thought of the future historian.”
“A wealth of personal reminiscences helps to render his discussion of topics fresh and original, though, it must be said, too, somewhat desultory.”
“Certainly the book deserves attention, whether the proposed solution does or not. It is not exactly well written, but it is distinctly impressionistic and first-hand.”
“The book is valuable because it is written by one who is familiar with much that he writes about; but there are many who will hardly agree with some of the conclusions presented.”
“Its economic bases are usually sound, tho they serve too frequently as starting points for extravagant assumptions; there are shrewd judgments set off against mere collocations of words, and there is restrained and measured expression mingled with wild hyperbole. Yet for all its shortcomings, it is a book well worthy a larger audience in the North.”
“Is most remarkable for the large modern view which informs it as a whole.”
“Its most noteworthy contribution to the subject is the clear and illuminating exposition of ‘national’ feeling in the South before the war.”
“Taken all in all, it is a fair, informing, and impressive presentation of the southern attitude.”
“The tendency of his book is to make each section more fully recognize the other’s point of view.”
Reed, Myrtle.Spinner in the sun.**$1.50. Putnam.
There is a mystery in Miss Reed’s new story. “It is a tale of village tragedy working out the purification and redemption of its actors” (Lit. D.) among whom are the woman who behind a chiffon veil had for twenty-five years brooded over her wrongs and unhappiness, a “whimsical old maid with a sour hatred of all men-kind” and Piper Tom, who pipes love notes in the wood.
“Nothing but humor could redeem the extravagant, sentimental presentment offered as a reading of life. But humor is nowhere present.”
“We prefer the author as she showed her wit in ‘The book of clever beasts.’”
Reeve, Sidney Armor.Cost of competition: an effort at the understanding of familiar facts. **$2. McClure.
The theory that competition is the one great curse of to-day is vigorously advanced in this volume. “As a remedy Mr. Reeve puts forward the abolition of all rent, all interest, all commercial competition and barter, and the return to first principles, when friendly savages exchange fish for hare without regard to profit or cost.... The chapters upon sweatshops and prostitution, upon congestion in great cities with the resultant evils of landlordism, upon the effect of competition in debasing the pulpit, the stage, and literature will fix the attention even of those who dissent from some conclusions.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Its social vision may be astigmatic, but it is unmistakably penetrating.” Winthrop More Daniels.
“It is written with all the zeal of a missionary, and upholds the cause of socialism with vigor and earnestness.”
“We commend it to all who are interested in the grave economic, labor and humanitarian problems of the day, and who are possessed of time and courage sufficient to follow through what for these busy days is a long and somewhat technical discussion.”
“His book is worth attention by students of our social pathology, and deserves a sympathetic reception as a sign of the times and as a contribution toward their amendment.”
“The economist, concerning whom a good deal that is disparaging is here said, will not be hard put to expose the fallacies underlying the structure so laboriously erected, while the ‘non-technical’ reader is likely to beat a hasty retreat before the heavy artillery of mathematical formulae with which the argument is supported.”
Reeves, Jesse Siddall.Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in American diplomatic history, 1815–1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.
Review by Kendric Charles Babcock.
Reich, Emil.Failure of the “higher criticism” of the Bible. *$1. Meth. bk.
Critical articles written during the past two years, and lectures delivered during a recent tour thru England and Scotland appear here in book form for the purpose of destroying the scientific support of higher criticism, and of constructing “the right method of comprehending the Bible.”
“He resorts to rhetoric and claptrap, and appeals less to reason than to ignorance and prejudice.”
“Dr. Reich is quite ignorant of his subject, he is unacquainted with the objects, methods, and views of higher criticism, and admittedly considers it unnecessary to treat the study seriously.”
“We cannot congratulate the anti-critics on their new ally.”
Reid, G. Archdall.Principles of heredity, with some applications. *$3.50. Dutton.
“Although addressed largely to medical men this volume will be found of great value to all students of human progress and social problems. The work begins therefore with a clear statement of the various theories of heredity and evolution. The reviewer knows of no book in which the significance of these differences is more plainly shown. The reviewer has seldom seen a more carefully worked out thesis.” Carl Kelsey.
“Of the three general characters which distinguish Mr. Reid’s book, this ‘real lucidity’ ... is the first and the most valuable. The second general feature of this volume is what the sportsman would call its keenness. The third feature ... is the mere fact that it is written by a medical man.” C. W. Saleeby.
“If true at all, the reasoning is in advance of our general knowledge.”
“It is this quality of suggestion, of imagination, and the ability to compel history to contribute facts to his arguments, that make his work valuable to the student, and also readable to the unscientific thinker.”
Reid, George Winston.Conscience. $1. W. F. Brainard, N. Y.
“Heat is the common bond of the separate sciences, and binds them into one science. Since the Latin ‘cum’ or ‘con’ signifies ‘together,’ the sciences united or the philosophy of the sciences may be called ‘Conscience.’” So thru the following chapter the author evolves his conception of conscience, Matter, or the science of chemistry, Energy, or the science of physics, The heavenly bodies or the science of astronomy, Life, or the science of biology, Consciousness, or the science of psychology, and Conscience, or scientific philosophy.
“The volume is a queer jumble of natural physics, metaphysics, epistemology and religion, in which the method is that of piecing together brief quotations from the greatest variety of diverse sources.”
Reid, Sir (Thomas) Wemyss.Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842–1885; ed. with introd. by Stuart J. Reid. $5. Cassell.
“This is a book the last page of which leaves us in an Oliver Twist-like state of asking for more.” (N. Y. Times.) “Wemyss Reid was notable as a literary man, a biographer, and a writer of fiction. But his Memoirs are chiefly important as those of the editor of the Leeds ‘Mercury,’ a powerful paper of the moderate Liberal school in a stirring time. He flourished in what was perhaps the palmiest epoch of British journalism, when the editor of a great journal himself directed its policy and was a statesman of the pen, not a mere organist or the manager of a Yellow concern.” (Nation.)
“Not even the promise of ‘revelations,’ not even the prospect of the day, when Liberal policy will throw reticence to the winds, can atone for the banality of the present sad and sorry instalment.”
“The interesting matter in the volume could be presented in less than a score of pages.”
“There are too many records of personal adventure, tours, and so on, which were hardly worth preserving in print. But on the whole the book is interesting.”
“The author’s acquaintance with most of the leading English statesmen and literary men of the past two generations makes his memoirs not only a valuable addition to the modern English history, but fills them to the brim with delightful bits and anecdotes.” Elizabeth Banks.
“Sir Wemyss Reid is an excellent example of a good second-class ranker.”
“Perhaps the most important, though not, in our opinion, the most interesting or attractive, sections of his volume are those which deal with the internal divisions in the Liberal party.”
Reinsch, Paul Samuel.Colonial administration. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“The author has no theories to exploit, and makes but few criticisms in the condensed space at his command.” Edwin E. Sparks.
“The author, in fact, seems to be less well prepared to deal with the Philippines than with the colonial possessions of Great Britain, France, Germany, and even Java.”
“A work that not only shows wide reading, but presents a careful study of the ultimate as well as the immediately practical character of the problems to which a colonial policy gives rise.” W. F. Willoughby.
“It is, of course, largely expository, but it is also constructive to a high degree, and every one engaged in colonial administration might wisely keep it near at hand for ready reference. Every chapter is compact and readable, and is rendered the more valuable by concrete illustrations from the practices and experiences of colonial governments the world over.”
Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.
“It is a valuable epitome of the administrative methods of the great colonising powers as they exist to-day, and it contains also some interesting speculations upon the ethical basis of activity.”
“It is as valuable a comparative study as was its predecessor [‘Colonial government’] which is high praise.”
Reinach, Salomon.The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by Florence Simmons. **$2. Scribner.
“Taken as a whole, the work is a masterpiece of taste, of judgment, and of condensation, and should be in the library not only of every lover of art, but of every cultivated person.” George B. Zug.
Remington, Frederick.Way of an Indian. *$1.50. Fox.
“In the form of a story Mr. Remington has reproduced his popular pictures of Indian life. He has taken the period between the discovery of gold in California and the death of General Custer in the battle of the Little Big Horn, and has given us the life story of a Cheyenne boy with all the ambitions and aspirations of his race.... The story ranges from conflicts with rival tribes to massacres of immigrants, and, of course, in the last chapter civilization triumphs over savagery.” (Pub. Opin.) 15 pictures by the author illustrate the book.
“A remarkably realistic life-history of a typical Indian.”
“As a story, is singularly strong, if crude and simple, and, as a study in primitive instincts, and an epitome of the struggle that attended the coming of the whites into the buffalo country, is a wonderfully effective piece of work.”
“Has told a very effective story of the tragic clash of the Indians of the Northwest with the resistless onward movement of the white man.”
“If he does not fully succeed in making us feel as if we had been inside the skin of a redman ... at least we are given ... a vivid and picturesque exhibition of this typical Indian and his ways.”
“It is written from the Indian point of view, and is vivid, picturesque, and truthful.”
“The literary quality of Remington’s stories may be a matter of dispute, but whose canvases rank before his in America’s gallery of historical painters?”
Remsburg, John E.Six historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant: the fathers and saviors of our republic, freethinkers. $1.25. Truth seeker.
To the five names generally conceded as first among the historic figures of the first century of national existence the author adds that of Thomas Paine fortifying this patriot’s claim to prominence and setting straight his misinterpreted religious views.
Repplier, Agnes.In our convent days.**$1.10. Houghton.
“Miss Repplier writes with a grave humour which makes easy reading, but naturally her chronicle is somewhat ‘small beer.’”
“Miss Repplier, in her latest volume, has recalled the past years, and presented them with such living power that, in all the charm, the frankness, the mischievousness, and romance of childhood, they live again.”
“Her admirable little stories are written to entertain, not to ‘improve’ ... they are free from the slightest suggestion of the sentimental or the banal.”
“A book of charming autobiographical tales.”
Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by William Tenney Brewster. *$1.10. Macmillan.
“The essays are most excellently chosen.”
Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
At the death of her father a young girl leaves her artistic and literary set in Florence with its Bohemian culture and goes to live with her guardian in England. Orme with his shaggy strength first repels than attracts Aldyth, eventually he plays the Rochester rôle and she that of Jane Eyre.
“Once the characters are staged—and this process is somewhat long drawn out—the dénouement is inevitable to those who know their ‘Jane Eyre.’ We cannot bestow higher praise than to say that this does not detract from our sustained interest in the characters and their story.”
“We have read few recent novels with greater pleasure.”
Reynolds, John Schreiner.Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865–77. $2. State co., Columbia, S. C.
“Beginning with a rather brief sketch of the provisional government set up by President Johnson, the author next exhibits in detail the workings of the administrations of the ‘carpet-bagger’ Governor Scott, of Governor Moses the ‘renegade secessionist,’ and of Governor Chamberlain, the ‘reform’ Republican. One chapter is devoted to the Ku Klux trials, another to the disgusting story of the ‘public frauds,’ and two chapters to the election of Hampton in 1876, the bargain with the Washington administration, and the overthrow of the rule of the ‘carpet-bagger’ and the negro.”—Dial.
“Mr. Reynolds loses sight of the philosophy of history in the combat of opposing parties.” Frederick W. Moore.
“Mr. Reynolds has unusual qualifications for writing the history of that chaotic period; he was an observer of much about which he writes, he knew many of the leaders of the opposing forces, and he is familiar with the periodical and pamphlet literature from which the history of the Reconstruction must largely be drawn. It is much to be regretted that he did not see fit to indicate for the benefit of other students the sources from which he drew his information.”
“In spite of certain faults of temper and attitude, the book is, in many respects, worthy of high praise. A patient care in the gathering and use of its voluminous and minute data is everywhere observable, and a judicial method is attempted thruout, tho unfortunately not always maintained.”
“Mr. Reynolds endeavors to be fair, temperate in statement, and sure in his conclusions. He has succeeded in a high degree but not entirely.” William E. Dodd.
“This history is not judicial. It abounds in statements of fact, but is sparing of references to sources.”
Reynolds, Sir Joshua.Discourses; with introd. and notes by Roger Fry. *$2.50. Dutton.
A new fully annotated and illustrated edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ lectures delivered to the students of the Royal Academy. “The enduring value of the ‘Discourses’ arises from the fact that they attempt to expound the laws of artistic expression from the artist’s point of view, and as Mr. Fry observes, it is rare that a writer has at once the requisite practical knowledge and the power of generalization.” (Ath.) Each lecture receives a critical introduction explaining by biographical or other data the artist-lecturer’s attitude on a given subject. There are 30 illustrations from the works of painters most frequently cited.
“Mr. Fry has paid the book a greater compliment by letting it speak for itself, and in his introductions to the various discourses and above all in his little notes to the illustrations he has shown himself to be imbued with all the better side of Reynold’s catholic criticism, besides proving himself an independent critic, whose observations are pregnant, illuminating and just.”
“To the serious student it is rendered of great value by the critical introductions which it contains.”
“There is much good reading in this celebrated book, for the student who knows how to make the proper deductions for himself or can use caution in taking advantage of Mr. Fry’s guidance.” Royal Cortissoz.
Reviewed by Charles Henry Hart.
“A good edition.”
“Injustice, however, is very rare in Mr. Fry, and this one example of it is the only fault to be found with an excellent book.”
“Mr. Fry’s contributions, whether in the shape of contradiction, reinforcement, or explanation, are always able and intelligent.”
“Mr. Roger Fry, the most recent editor of the literary Reynolds ... has presented an interpretation which is full of interest for the student of art.”
“A most interesting edition of ‘Reynolds’s Discourses.’”
Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina Rhoades).Polly’s predicament: a story; il. by C: Copeland. †$1.50. Wilde.
Polly, young, bright and just out of school, accepts the invitation of a shallow-minded woman to spend three months in Europe. While at Carlsbad Polly is bound to a foolish promise which results in continuing the separation of a father from his little girl whom he supposes dead.
Rhodes, James Ford.History of the United States from the compromise of 1850. Vol. 5. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is full, exact and impartial. Controversial questions are weighed judicially with an unfailing and laborious effort to get all the best evidence available. If Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of such subjects is at times somewhat prolix, that proceeds from his extreme desire to lay the whole case for each side before the reader.” J. A. Doyle.
“Although Mr. Rhodes’s discussion of the treatment of prisoners leaves something to be desired, we welcome it as one of his most important contributions to correct understanding and sane judgment on a topic concerning which a dispassionate view is still difficult.” C. H. Smith.
Rice, Cale Young.Plays and lyrics.$2. McClure.
“A stout and very handsome volume containing the better of the author’s early lyrics, many new ones, and two plays in verse, ‘Yolanda’ and ‘David.’”—Dial.
“To our taste, Mr. Rice’s lyric work in this volume far outvalues his dramatic. There is vital motive, touchingly rendered.” Edith M. Thomas.
“His work in this larger compass and maturer form deserves far more praise than could be accorded to those first fruits and gives us much sincere and conscientious workmanship. The old straining for effect is still apparent although far less so than formerly.” Wm. M. Payne.
“If Mr. Rice had used his brain a little more, not only on ‘minutiæ’, but on the meaning of his poems, his book would have been half as long and twice as good.”
“Occasionally he writes in simplicity as well as sincerity, without labored linguistic bravuras, or moody excesses: at such times, if not impeccable, he is often pleasurably poignant.”
“Mr. Rice’s lyrical poetry has not in general the distinction of his dramatic.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
Richards, John Morgan.With John Bull and Jonathan. **$4. Appleton.
The author of this book of personal reminiscences is the father of “John Oliver Hobbes” (Mrs. Craigie), and was for a time the owner of the London academy when the London times gave it up. An American’s life in England and the United States, is the theme, and regarding it the foreword states: “In putting on record my reminiscences of life on both sides of the Atlantic I do so from a British-American point of view. I have not attempted to give advice to ‘pilgrims’ about to visit England or the United States. There are no descriptions of climate and scenery ... nor statistics ... nor do politics enter into any of my observations. My narrative concerns my own personal experiences in both countries.”
“He has not, however, the literary art of his brilliant and accomplished daughter, and mixes trivialities not worth publication with the more solid portions of his narrative.”
“An odd book, which, indeed, judged by a literary standard is no book at all.”
“A more attractive topic in his recollections is the contrast between London as it was when he first came over to this country in 1867 and as it is now, and generally between England and America. Now and then Mr. Richards’s memory is a little at fault.”
Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe).Silver crown: another book of fablesfor old and young. †$1.25. Little.
Patience, obedience, hospitality, duty promptness, and selflessness are among the lessons taught in these forty or more short fables. The keynote is the universality of good without time and space limitations.
“Forty-five simply written little fables, each one with its own delightful conception, and bearing its own little moral, fragrant with aspiration.”
Richards, Thomas Cole.Samuel J. Mills, missionary pathfinder, pioneer and promoter. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
The life of Samuel J. Mills follows closely the founding and promulgating of American foreign missions. The influences brought to bear upon his awakening to the subject of missionary work, his education, and contemporary plans for the beginning of definite work in heathen lands, and later his own untiring efforts at home and on the Dark continent which was his passion, furnished material for a full and thoroly subjective study of the man and his work.
Richards, William Rogers.God’s choice of men; a study of Scripture. **$1.50. Scribner.
This book “is not a volume on theology, but a book of sermons; and if it does not succeed in justifying the Westminster doctrine of election, it does what is much more important, it interprets a Scriptural doctrine of election which is both rational and inspirational. Besides courage and clearness, these sermons have another characteristic—very clear-cut portraiture of modern characters typified by Scriptural characters.”—Outlook.
“Full of sound, practical argument and exhortation to Christian faith and duty.”
“This volume of sermons is characterized by clearness of thought and a quiet courage of conviction. These sermons are worth reading by laymen for their spiritual instructiveness and by clergymen as suggestive models.”
Richardson, Charles Francis.Choice of books. **$1.25. Putnam.
A revised edition of Professor Richardson’s practical book which among other additions contains a lengthy appendix on “Suggestions for household libraries.”
“After the passage of a full quarter-century, Professor Richardson’s treatise on the choice and use of books remains the most complete, the most reasonable, and one of the most readable of books hitherto written on that head.” H. W. Boynton.
“A valuable and practical book on reading.”
Richardson, John.Wacousta: a tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy. Illustrated ed. $1.50. McClurg.
To the reissue of the text of Richardson’s thrilling old romance have been added some spirited illustrations, the work of C. W. Jeffreys. Pontiac’s treachery to gain possession of the English posts in the West, foiled by a beautiful Indian girl who forewarned the commandant at Detroit, makes possible a tale of adventure full of dramatic situations.
Richman, Irving Berdine.Rhode Island; a study in separatism. **$1.10. Houghton.
“The most enjoyable of the books on RhodeIsland. It will not displace the solid history by Arnold, but the changes of a half-century will give it a place of its own.” Wm. B. Weeden.
“A compact and useful summary.”
“A welcome fruitage of the accurate researches into American history so earnestly pursued of late.” Louis Dyer.
Rickert, (Martha) Edith.Folly; with a front. by Sigismond de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Baker.
Folly, the frivolous, whose wealth of hair tones with the “coppery gold of unfolding peach-buds ... never pretty ... but with the smile that would turn the head of the devil himself” furnishes an unusual study of the alluring feminine type. The ban of human opinion would relegate her to outer darkness for leaving her home and husband and placing her love in the keeping of a man to whom she is irresistibly drawn, one upon whom disease had passed the death sentence. In spite of the inverted moral perspective, Folly works out her own salvation, gathers force and courage in her negative struggle and in the end rights her stand in a manner to free the reader from the story’s depression. Thruout her freakish career she is never deserted by a “complaisant, upright and at times stupid” husband, a tender sympathetic mother-in-law and a staunch and loyal friend of her school days.
“The book is written with brightness and fluency, but it is repulsive.”
“The book is interesting as being the product of a vigorous but undisciplined talent.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“This is one of those books that deliberately enlist our sympathies on the side of wrong-doing, yet maintain throughout a hypocritical pose in defence of morality.” Wm. M. Payne.