Taggart, Marion Ames.Daddy’s daughters. †$1.50. Holt.
Daddy’s daughters are four in number,—Rosamund, sweetly even-tempered; Gaynor, quick as a flash of steel, but big-hearted and loyal; Sibyl, fretful and petulant of disposition, and Austiss, sunny, cheerful and loving. Daddy himself is a dreamer, a student, a poet, an ultra-refined and lovable man. The story records the lively doings in the family with the household ballast reposing in Mary Frances, the housekeeper.
“A pleasant story.”
“Is quite as pleasing a book for girls as its suggestive title indicates.”
Taggart, Marion Ames.One afternoon, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty-one short stories, each of which gives sure, strong touches of real life—its romances, its strifes and its triumphs.
Taggart, Marion Ames.Pussy-cat town; il. in colors by Rebecca Chase. $1. Page.
A tale for young people. It gives a brisk account of a band of cats that built the city of Purrington in the river Meuse, a place where all poor, abused cats could come and live happily all their nine lives.
Taggart, Marion Ames.Six girls and Bob: a story of patty-pans and green fields; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
A mother, six girls, and a son make up the spirited group that lived first in patty-pans—so they called their New York flat because the rooms resembled the cups of a patty-pan—and later in the country. The children are the lively wholesome sort and reflect health and happiness well tempered with bits of wisdom.
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe.Balzac: a critical study tr. with an appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke. *$1. Funk.
The excellent appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke which occupies the first part of this volume adds much to the reader’s appreciation of Taine’s critical study of Balzac which follows. The great critic treats of the great novelist as both man and artist, giving his life and character, estimating his genius, discussing his style, his world, his character and his philosophy until he and his work stand forth as tho re-created.
“The translator of this minor work of the great French critic has done his original into, easy, flowing English, which retains the clearness of the French. Mr. O’Rourke has placed his meritorious piece of criticism at a great disadvantage by putting it into such close juxtaposition with Taine’s estimate of Balzac.”
“Taine’s study of Balzac combines biography and criticism, and the translation seems excellent.”
Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert.My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.
Let no one think that because the book is written by an Episcopal bishop it is an account of ceremonies and sermons. It is a human not an ecclesiastical document and the pictures it gives of pioneer life in Wyoming and Idaho, among cattlemen, gamblers, adventurers, Indians and army men are full of life and interest. The personal element is modestly subordinated and we think we can understand why the bishop was everywhere welcomed—even so cordially as by the old Indian with his limited cow-boy English. “Me damned glad to see you, heap-sleeve bishop.”
“It is not amiss to call this one of the most cheerful books of the year. In a sense, it is the best of Christmas stories. The book is a lesson in simplicity. It is more vital than any essay on the art of living.”
“The literary style is effective and the book adds a new chapter to the history of American missions.”
“The reader will lay this book down with the feeling that he has listened to a pleasant and instructive talk from a genuine man.” Cameron Mann.
“An excellently written little volume.”
Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.
The articles of the Apostles’ creed are taken up separately here and simplified to serve as instruction for Catholic little people.
Tallentyre, S. G., pseud. (E. V. Hall).Life of Voltaire.2v. **$3.50. Putnam.
A third and illustrated edition of this life of Voltaire, the man of strong and varied emotions. “His life was a long conflict ... but when in old age he had become the acknowledged leader of European thought ... he was born with a genius for friendship; he was a man of heart and of feeling.... He took a low, some might say true, view of human nature, but he constantly sought to relieve miseries of humanity.... The attack upon oppression was the true work of his life. In this he was absolutely sincere. He told lie after lie, but he never descended to that most insiduous form of falsehood under which a man forsakes his own convictions.... He never deserted the cause to which he was devoted.” (Nation.)
“The book lacks perspective and proportion. The author’s painting is the reverse of the impressionist.... But it does not lack material carefully collected. It does not lack clearness, precision, a rational judgment, and occasional brilliance in expression. It may prove to be, we are not sure but that it will, the best life of Voltaire, in the English language for the student, just because of its amplitude of detail.”
Tapp, Sidney C.The struggle. †$1.50. Wessels. (Am. Bapt., Southeastern distributing agts.)
An arraignment of trusts. The author makes use of a quadruple romance to furnish characters and setting for his exposure of the evils of organized wealth. He drawls a living picture of the inside of Wall street and the great gambling institutions of the country which are overthrowing and destroying our civilization.
Tappan, Eva March.Short history of England’s literature. *85c. Houghton.
“To write a short history of a vast subject in the form of animated story is so difficult a task that its successful achievement is specially commendable. Miss Tappan has done this skillfully, singling out the things most worth knowing, and showing them in a succession of flashlights that stay in the memory.”
Tarbell, Mrs. Martha (Treat).Tarbell’s teachers’ guide to the international Sunday school lessons for 1906. $1.25. Bobbs.
In this large and comprehensive volume Dr. Tarbell presents something more than a mere guide; she gives the Bible texts of the lesson, explains their words and phrases, quotes suggestive thoughts from helpful writers, explains phases of Oriental life, and adds valuable suggestions for teaching the lessons under which are included: Three lesson thoughts with illustrations; Sentence sermons; The Bible its own interpreter: The lesson summary; Subjects for Bible class discussion; and Work to be assigned. The lesson course forms an outline of the life of Christ, gives the purpose and authorship of the gospels and the geography of Palestine. The volume is illustrated with maps, diagrams and pictures.
“For orthodox Sunday-school teachers and workers we know of no work of equal value.”
“It will not replace Peloubet or the ‘Sunday school times,’ for it is antiquated and uncritical but its numerous quotations will often be suggestive and convenient.”
“Ranks with the best of its class. It would be difficult to excel it in the line which passes over all critical problems to illustrate and apply to pupils of all ages the teaching of the text as it stands.”
Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.Beautiful lady.†$1.25. McClure.
“Delightful in name as well as in nature.”
Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.Conquest of Canaan.†$1.50. Harper.
“Is one of the best of popular novels, a book that even the person of superior mind can read with secret joy, and that more ordinary and honest mortals can devour with open and avowed delight.” Edward Clark Marsh.
“The chief beauty of Mr. Tarkington’s novel is its intense sincerity. Its value as a historical document is not inconsiderable and there are parts, at least, of the story whose artistic excellence is solid and indisputable.”
“Is a thoroughly readable book.” Wm. M. Payne.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
“Nothing that Mr. Tarkington has written so clearly shows his gain in power as ‘The conquest of Canaan.’ Is a beautiful story, and it has the distinction too, in this day of clamorous and ill-judged titles, of possessing one that is exceptionally simple, strong and fitting.”
Taylor, Bert Leston.Charlatans. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A young neophyte of the provinces is one day visited by Enlightenment, more substantially known as Mrs. Maybury, who discovers in the country maid great musical genius. This story tells of the planning and sacrifices on the part of the farmer parents to send their Hope to the city for instruction, of her kindly reception there, many friends, and hard work. There is a fresher atmosphere with the Bohemian setting and a more spiritual sympathy for fellow mortals, than tales of the artist’s world usually possess.
“This is a bright, entertaining novel that will appeal to the general reader as a pleasing story of present-day life.”
“Any one who is familiar with the manners and habits of a certain class of musicians will realize how excellent is Mr. Taylor’s portrayal of this phase of life in a large city. The book, therefore, is veracious, and it is both satirical and amusing.”
“For the blasé reader of novels it is genuinely refreshing.”
Taylor, C. Bryson.Nicanor, teller of tales.†$1.50. McClurg.
Great Britain under Roman rule furnishes the setting for this romance. Nicanor inherits from Melchior, his grandfather, so great a gift of telling tales that he casts a veritable spell over his hearers. Among those who learn of his fame is Veria. a Roman lard’s daughter, who forgets that Nicanor is a slave and yields to his enchantment. Then there is the love of Eldris, one of Nicanor’s own class. The spirit of the period as expressed in the sharp inequalities of the noble and the slave class is drawn with many a passionate, dramatic touch.
“The author deserves credit for conceiving out of the dry pages of half-written history and out of the dust of traditions a character so consistent with both.”
“The author ... can cast a spell with his words that seems to be of something more than the mere story.”
“A pure romance, in well sustained style.”
Taylor, Henry Charles.Introduction to the study of agricultural economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“This volume is scientific in its substance, although for the most part popular in style.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
“In addition to the theoretical discussions, the book contains a few tables of prices, of tenancy, and other data which add to its convenience as a text book.” William Hill.
“The book contains many statistical details relating to the United States that are not readily accessible to the general reader.” E. H. G.
“The book is certainly full of suggestions, and will doubtless serve well enough its purpose of introducing American students to the further study of agriculture. There is too little information in the book about existing conditions, and too little explanation of those conditions.” G. S. C.
Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-.Molière: a biography; with an introd. by Thomas Frederick Crane. *$3. Duffield.
A life of Molière for English readers “both scholarly and popular in which the man stands out in the midst of his managerial and literary labours.” It depicts Molière, the man, the actor and the dramatist with the political, social and literary background of Louis the Fourteenth’s time. The author’s intention has been to interpret Molière’s life by his plays and his plays by his life rather than to write an exhaustive criticism of his dramatic works.
“It is not simply a biography of Molière, but as complete a presentation as is needed by the general public of the history, the sources and the contents of his masterpieces.” Adolphe Cohn.
“This book most certainly comes nearer to absolute accuracy than many volumes of the kind: and hostile criticism of the book will be aimed less at the matter which it contains than at the style, the form and way in which it is presented.”
“This new biography shows the careful student’s attention to details. More emphasis might have been placed upon the mechanism of Molière’s theater, which was the germ of a national home for French drama. There might likewise have been a deeper consideration of the special genre of play which Molière created. But despite all this, the volume, which is sumptuous in form, deserves special consideration.”
“Is a volume of some real note in Molière literature.”
“Slips are comparatively few in this book. The extracts from the plays are judiciously chosen and felicitously, translated.”
“It is disfigured by the back-number orthography, which is still used by most British printers, although denounced by most British scholars. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has set an example to all who deal with foreign authors. He has not assumed in his readers any knowledge of French: therefore, whenever he is moved to quote he has turned the French verse into English.” Brander Matthews.
“It is from a failure in sympathy and insight that the book suffers most grievously—from a seeming incapacity to sound the tragic depths in the nature of the great comic master.”
“A serious piece of work from the pen of a student who has spared neither time, nor trouble, nor care to produce the picture of a man of genius in his proper historical and social setting, and its reflection in and influence upon his life and his work.”
“A conscientious, thorough piece of biography.”
Taylor, Ida A.Life of Queen Henrietta Maria; with 32 il. and 2 photogravure fronts, 2d. ed. **$7.50. Dutton.
“The object of these volumes is to present to us, not a period of history, but a living personality, to whom for the nonce the whole period is a skillfully sketched background, subordinated but true to nature. Not an unnecessary figure or point of view is introduced. We are intended to see the face, and hear the voice, and mark the thoughts, the woes and joys, of that Queen of England who called herself ‘La Reine Malheureuse,’ and it can truly be said that when the book is at last laid aside, a new Henrietta Maria is recorded in the mind—a queen intensely human, intensely living and wonderfully lovable.” (Spec.)
“The last word to the author must be one of sincere congratulation.”
“The book is brightly and pleasantly written.”
“We must call this work a much more finished and interesting performance than the same writer’s ‘Revolutionary types.’”
“The author of these volumes has told his story well and sympathetically; but he has not proved that it was really worth telling.”
“There is about the work a certain freshness of interest due in part to the facility with which the Royalist point of view is apprehended. The narrative is, as has been said, unnecessarily extended; it is also discursive, and otherwise bears marks of an unaccustomed hand, and it is animated by an exaggerated sentimentalism which affects almost every personage discussed.”
“Whether Miss Taylor altogether satisfies the critical reader in this or that deduction, the fact remains that she has achieved an artistic triumph,—her canvas is alive. A complete sense of proportion is preserved throughout.”
Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor).On two continents. **$2.75. Doubleday.
“If the volume does not take its place with biographies of commanding importance, at least it will do its part in preserving the memory of a significant name and personality.” M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
“The volume brings much that is new, and what was previously known has been well retold. There is, in general, a wise discrimination as to content.”
Taylor, Mary Imlay.Impersonator. †$1.50. Little.
An art student in Paris is invited by her aunt to make a three weeks visit in Washington. For certain reasons she sends a friend to impersonate her. The one chosen is really too sincere and honest to enjoy the rôle, but when once launched upon it, the fear of being discovered is subordinate to the joy of social popularity. Among the characters portrayed are the businesslike tho unrefined aunt, a young congressman and a trust magnate who both declare their love for Mary, a prying social secretary who makes mountains of scandal out of molehills of evidence, and a French ambassador who averts a painful crisis by claiming the heroine as his daughter and giving her rightful title of countess.
“Readers who still hold to the old-time standards of honor in fiction as well as in real life, and who reject the modern American dictum that success is the main thing, no matter how it is won, may find it a bit disconcerting to be expected to admire and sympathize with a heroine who wins through by means that are not in the least debatable. Otherwise they may find ‘The impersonator’ a moderately entertaining story, written with vivacity and occasional mild humor.”
“A superfluous story of Washington society.”
Taylor, Talbot Jones.Talbot J. Taylor collection: furniture, wood carving, and other branches of the decorative arts. **$6. Putnam.
“This handsome volume, which contains 187 splendid illustrations, is designed to reveal to the world the decorative treasures hidden in Mr. Taylor’s house, Cedarhurst, Long Island. Talbot house, of which a photograph is given, is built in Elizabethan style, and is by no means pretentious, but its contents are invaluable. It would seem as if its owner had made a hobby of buying, not so much for the purposes of use as for ‘a collection.’... The house is especially rich in old carved woods, and in German and French furniture.”—Ath.
“This book will, therefore, be mainly of interest to collectors, who are not always the same as connoisseurs.”
Taylor, W. Purves.Practical cement testing. *$3. Clark, M. C.
A book for the expert or the novice which will increase the accuracy and simplify the routine of testing work. “With the exception of the chapter on ‘Classification and statistics’ and the one on ‘Cement manufacture,’ comprising together barely 30 pages, the entire book is devoted to the discussion and description of methods of cement testing. The tests considered are those employed in ordinary routine work to determine whether a particular shipment of cement is of a quality sufficiently good for construction work.” (Engin. N.)
“A unique book, which promises to be of great value to cement testers and to all others interested in seeing that cement conforms with the best standards of the day.”
Tchaikovsky, Modeste Il’ich.Life and letters of Peter Il’ich Tchaikovsky; ed. from the Russian with an introd. by Rosa Newmarch. *$5. Lane.
Reviewed by Joseph Sohn.
“A book of more absorbing human as well as artistic interest has seldom been written.”
“Mrs. Newmarch has retained quite enough to give a complete view of Tschaikovsky’s life and activities, even his intimate relations.” Richard Aldrich.
“The great Russian’s musical work is so full of the sincerely emotional and human elements of his character that the story of his life and selections from his letters make reading almost as attractive as that of a novel.”
Temple, Most Rev. Frederick (Archbishop of Canterbury).Memoirs of Archbishop Temple by seven friends; ed. by E. G. Sandford. *$9. Macmillan.
The life story of a man who “seemed cast in a heroic mould, more than life-size,—colossal ... good and simple, of uncommon force of mind, and power of acquiring knowledge.” (Spec.) The sketch is in seven parts, commented upon in the preface as follows: “Its different divisions are clearly marked and defined; the mental characteristic of the man was breadth, and the fact that different types of mind are represented in the writers may help to preserve this feature of breadth in the general portrait. The subject of it was many-sided, and a mistake would be made if the view presented were contracted.... These memoirs accordingly regard his life as far as possible under its more public aspects; they are not a biography, but records of a career.”
“The seven contributors as well as the editor, have been perhaps too industrious. They have, no doubt, given the salient features of Archbishop Temple’s life but they have also added many that are insignificant, and the two large volumes would, if they had been boiled down into one, have presented a biography more likely to endure.”
“Unless compounded expressly for clerical consumption, the book lacks proportion.”
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
“Remembering the difficult conditions under which these volumes have been prepared, I think that the editor and his helpers are to be congratulated upon their success in having subordinated the individual portions of the work into such just proportion that the personal force, characteristic energy, and life-story of Archbishop Temple are felt to constitute the real interest of these volumes.” W. B. Ripon.
“In spite of its length, ill-proportion, and abundance of repetition, the book is quite readable, and is to be commended as a contribution of no small importance to the ecclesiastical history of the England of the past half-century.”
“In respect of the fulness of its public detail this memoir may take its place beside those of Tait, who was Temple’s tutor, and of Benson, his colleague and friend.”
“On the whole Is well done.”
“More serious is the inability of the writers to secure that detachment of vision necessary to a correct estimate of their subject.”
“We could wish that someone had been found able to weld into one whole the mass of material collected in these two volumes, with a critical tact to know what to omit, and with skill in grouping and arranging material. As it is, there is much repetition. But the critical reader may find advantages in compensation. There is a unity in the volumes.”
“This life is a record of work and business. It is so many chapters in English educational and ecclesiastical history. Viewed as such, it is admirably done by experts whose judgment is most valuable, and who express it excellently.”
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st baron.In memoriam; annotated by the author. **$1. Macmillan.
A little volume whose green covers recall “those which of yore made so many Christmastides or New Year’s days memorable.” It is an important edition because it contains Tennyson’s own notes on the poem: “notes,” says the present Lord Tennyson, “left by my father partly in his own hand-writing, and partly dictated to me.”
“The interest, after all, of the commentary, is, partly, that we see, so to speak, the dust and chips of the workshop, and partly, too, that we discover the thought which underlies the poems to be really neither abstruse or recondite at all.”
“I note a few misprints on the commentary.” W. J. Rolfe.
“A very precious little book.”
“Their great value is that we feel that we have been in contact with a great mind, of which the force lay not in intellectual grasp so much as interpretative insight, a mind which worked not by logical processes, but rather in a visible substance of beauty.”
“A rather unsatisfactory piece of book-making.”
“The notes themselves are not always of importance, but frequently they do throw light on the meaning and association of particular lines.”
“But what is before all valuable is to read rightly the message of the poem as a whole.”
Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron.Alfred Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his son, new ed. **$4. Macmillan.
“This one-volume edition is of convenient size and attractive make-up.”
Thackeray, William Makepeace.History of Henry Esmond: ed. by Hamilton Byron Moore. 60c. Ginn.
“Unusually helpful notes.”
Thackeray, William Makepeace.Letters to an American family; with an introd. by Lucy D. Baxter and original drawings by Thackeray. **$1.50. Century.
“The charm of the contents of this book, giving as it does such an unusual insight into the attractive personality of Thackeray, together with the successful make-up, combine to make a volume that is to be doubly valued.”
That reminds me: a collection of tales worth telling.**75c. Jacobs.
Thayer, William Roscoe.Short history of Venice. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“Is a pleasantly written and quite adequate epitome.” H. F. B.
Thomas, Carl Clapp.Steam turbines. $3.50. Wiley.
“A thoroly scientific as well as practical treatment of steam turbines which is designed as a text-book for technical colleges.”
“As a text-book it is quite satisfactory. The only other book in the English language with which it could be compared is that of Dr. Stodola. The reviewer is of the opinion that Professor Thomas’ book will fill a want that has been felt by a great many technical educators.” Storm Bull.
Thomas, Edward.Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E. Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.
Thompson, Charles Willis.Party leaders of the time; character studies of public men at Washington, Senate portraits, House etchings, snapshots at executive officers and diplomats, and flashlights in the country at large. **$1.75. Dillingham.
The excellent photographs of over thirty of the public men sketched in this volume add much to this popular account of those figures prominent in the Senate and the House, at “the other end of the avenue,” and “out in the field.” The author has aimed to make clear the personalities of our public men, “to make visible human beings and not mere names out of them,” and he has done this by means of a wealth of anecdote and a newspaper correspondent’s observant eye and ready pen.
“His studies are liberally punctuated with anecdote and afford lively as well as instructive reading.”
“Now that they are hung in a gallery together, the complete effectiveness of each single picture destroys more or less the total effect, and gives an impression of exaggeration. Everybody is painted large, and each much of the same bigness.”
Thompson, Holland.From the cotton field to the cotton mill: a study of the industrial transition in North Carolina. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Thompson’s study goes back to colonial days in North Carolina. He carries it down to as recent a date as March, 1906; and not a phase of the social and industrial development of the state has escaped his careful attention. Besides the study of the cotton industry there are informing chapters dealing with present day social and religious conditions in North Carolina; and much more than local interest attaches to Mr. Thompson’s admirable presentation of all these conditions.”—Ind.
“From many points of view the work was well worth doing, and it has been well done. The spirit that characterizes Mr. Thompson’s book is that of the trained investigator.”
Thompson, John.Hither and thither: a collection of comments on books and bookish matters. Jacobs.
The librarian of the Free library of Philadelphia has made various summaries and comments upon many of the volumes, rare and curious, which he has examined from time to time. The results of his observations are presented in a series of chapters which include “The ten lost tribes,” “Early chronicles,” “British essayists,” “A polyglot psalter,” “Sevres porcelain,” “Palestrina’s music,” “Alexandre Dumas,” etc.
“Writes entertainingly and instructively on matters chiefly of antiquarian interest.”
Thompson, Osmund Rhodes Howard, and Rauch, William H.History of the “Bucktails,” Kane rifle regiment of the Pennsylvania reserves, 42nd of the line: published by H. W. Rauch, historian, for the regimental association; with a dedicatory note by the Hon. E: A. Irvin. $2. William H. Rauch, 2141 N. Park av., Phil.
A volume which “contains the muster rolls of the regiment and a full account of the organization of the Bucktails from the excellent material furnished by the mountaineers of Northern Pennsylvania.”—N. Y. Times.
“Unhappily its authors were plainly inexperienced both in the art of bookmaking and of writing history. Hence, it does not add much to the growing collection of valuable regimental histories.”
“Not a very satisfactory volume altogether, the ‘History of the Bucktails’ ... contains, nevertheless, some material which will be of use to the future historian of the civil war and much that is interesting to the friends, kinsfolk, and descendants of the men who made up a celebrated body of Pennsylvania troops.”
Thompson, Robert John, comp. Proofs of life after death. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
The opinions of eminent thinkers on the subject of life after death are grouped about such headings as science, psychical research, philosophy and spiritualism. The book contains many arguments from a scientific standpoint that will interest all who wish evidence other than theological.
Thomson, John Arthur.Herbert Spencer. *$1. Dutton.
“This biography is useful for two reasons: it presents a concise but luminous account of the human side of the great philosopher, and it gives the reader an idea of the position of the scientific world today in regard to the views which Spencer formulated or championed. The biographical portion proper consumes a comparatively small space—fewer than one hundred pages—the remainder of the volume being occupied with exposition and discussion of Spencer’s work, with special reference to his ‘Principles of biology’ and his attitude to the evolution idea generally.”—Outlook.
“Prof. Thomson’s criticism is always clear and suggestive, and his book is stimulating.”
“All is so well presented, and is so significant in relation to the thought of our day, that one is tempted to class the book among the comparatively small number of those which ‘everybody’ should read.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
“The subject could not have fallen into better hands than those of Prof. Thomson, who writes clearly, argues cogently, and never fails to leave his reader interested and informed.”
“He writes sympathetically yet critically in his judgment both of the man and his results.”
“Some of his passages are difficult reading indeed.”
Thomson, William Hanna.Brain and personality; or, The physical relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.
“The object of this book is to acquaint the general reader with the remarkable discoveries of modern physiological science of the specific relations of certain areas on the surface of the brain to special mental functions. One of the first results of these discoveries is to impart an entirely new aspect to the important subject of Education.”
“This work on ‘Brain and personality’ ought to be of interest to every person who possesses either of those entities. Aiming to acquaint the general reader with the remarkable discoveries of modern physiological science, it is eminently clear and readable. Confusions and inconsistencies in ontology do not invalidate the author’s contributions to physiology, for, like the brain itself, while one part may be useless in solving problems, the other half is indispensable.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
“Volumes like the present, that fail of this through fundamental lack of fitness, do not aid the cause which they espouse with good faith and earnest intention.”
“His book treats the subject in a purely scientific manner, but it is written in a peculiarly lucid style, and can be easily understood without expert knowledge by the thoughtful layman.”
Thoreau, Henry David.Excursions: with biographical sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 35c. Crowell.
One of the season’s additions to the “Handy volume classics.”
Thoreau, Henry David.Friendship. **50c. Crowell.
This essay, originally a part of “A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers” is Thoreau’s estimate of what he called “the secret of the universe.”
Thoreau, Henry David.Maine woods; with an introd. by Annie Russell Marble. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classic” series.
Thorndike, Edward L.Elements of psychology. *$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N. Y.
“Of the elementary books on psychology which have appeared in recent years, this volume by Professor Thorndike seems, to the present reviewer, to be one of the most useful and interesting. Its arrangement and distribution of the subject matter; its adequate and lucid exposition and its well formulated definitions make it useful; while its wealth of examples drawn from common life makes it interesting.”
“It not only ensures to the student a clear grasp of the science as a theoretical whole, but is well calculated to make it vital and real to him, and helpful in the understanding and conduct of his own practical life.” Edmund B. Delabarre.
Thorndike, Edward L.Principles of teaching. *$1.25. A. G. Seiler, New York.
The author says, “The aim of this book is to make the study of teaching scientific and practical—scientific in the sense of dealing with verifiable facts rather than attractive opinions, practical in the sense of giving knowledge and power that will make a difference in the actual work of teaching.”
“The most striking qualities of the work are richness of content and balance and sanity of treatment. On the whole we do not know any single book more to be recommended for giving young teachers a scientific conception of their work.” Edward O. Sisson.
“The book does clearly what it, in the main, sets out to do—to couple up closely psychological theory with the theory of practice. It is a valuable addition to educational literature.” W. S. J.
“It is a good book for normal school classes, and its numerous and apt questions and exercises will be found provocative of profitable discussion in teachers’ meetings and institutes.”
“Gives the same evidence of vigor, virility, and originality that characterizes all his other writings.” Frederick E. Bolton.
“In spite of these possible weaknesses, this book must be regarded as one of the very best of its kind.” J. L. Meriam.
Thorndike, Lynn.Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe. *75c. Macmillan.
A monograph in the historical series of Columbia university. “The noteworthy point in the resume is that magic among the educated was always associated with science, and is related to it as the guesses of the child to the positive knowledge of the man.” (Outlook.)
“He has dipped for himself into the ancient writers, has gathered much curious information, and has set it forth with gusto and with considerable sprightliness of style; but his study, though intelligent, is sadly lacking in thoroughness and yet more so in closeness of thought and precision of diction. Of magic itself his conception is confused in the extreme.”
“An interesting monograph.”
Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
Thread of gold, by the author of “The house of quiet.” *$3. Dutton.
“We should deal with life in a generous and high-hearted mood.... Nor must we aim at mere tranquility ... our peace must be heartened by eagerness, our zest calmed by serenity.” Such is the burden of this anonymous author’s book. The essays treat such subjects as prayer, the pleasure of work, the beetle, the hare, the artist, Westminster Abbey, the Apocalypse, the statue and music.
“In what superficially appears a volume of fugitive essays on the most desultory and often trifling themes, we have really the revelation, by significant flash-lights, of a high-minded nature solitarily and often doubtfully feeling its way towards truth and right.”
“Its fault is a complacent fluency. But no inquiring mind could fail to find something vital and suggestive in its pages.”
“For the most part, the book is the sincere, spontaneous talk of a man of culture who has observed and felt keenly, and who expresses himself in simple, limpid, captivating style.”
“Is indeed a beautiful book, one that will give the reader a realization of the joy of life. It is a succession of exquisite sketches presented by an artist gifted with the elusive literary touch and a delicate instinct for the beautiful.”
365 tasty dishes: a tasty dish for every day in the year. *40c. Jacobs.
The full gamut of the simple menu is run in these 365 dishes which follow the season’s changes beginning with prune snowballs for New Year’s day, providing rhubarb fool for April 1st, raspberry foam for the Fourth of July, and plum pudding croquettes for Christmas.
Thruston, Lucy Meacham.Called to the field. †$1.50. Little.
A story which looks out upon the Civil war from a Southern home corner. The heroine is a newly wed Virginia girl who, with the exception of a risky visit to the enemies’ camp, instead of dipping into the daring undertakings of most war story heroines stays at the home helm, where in spite of Northern foraging bands, skirmishes at her very door, a wounded husband to nurse back to life, she suffers duty, citizenship and sacrifice to argue their case against the menace and terror of battle.
“Is really a fine piece of work.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
“But for tropical zones of language and landscape. ‘Called to the field’ is a well-made book—all the more historically correct, perhaps, for those very exaggerations.”
“The charm of it lies in its perfect naturalness, and there also is the secret of its intensity.”
Thurso, John Wolf.Modern turbine practice and water-power plants. *$4. Van Nostrand.
“The whole book is thoroughly up to date in its information, the facts and data are well marshalled, and it should be consulted by every engineer who may be called upon to deal with the problem of the utilisation of water-power.”
Thurston, E. Temple.Apple of Eden. †$1.50. Dodd.
“No English novel by a new writer, for serious, restrained ability, bears comparison with ‘The apple of Eden.’” Mary Moss.
Thurston, Ernest Temple.Traffic, the story of a faithful woman. †$1.50. Dillingham.
In his arraignment of society in general and certain phases of human nature in particular, the author takes his reader over the ground of an old question—the Roman Catholic denial of divorce. “The noble-hearted Irish girl of the story is most cruelly confronted with the fact that unless she would lose what is to her the only hope of heaven, she may not put away finally and by divorce her drunken, brutal, and bestial husband, and in plain fact may hold more hope of final salvation in a life of sin than in a marriage of the truest affection following a divorce.” (Outlook.)
“The writing is vigorous, and the exposition courageous, and the book is better in parts than as a whole.”
“A forceful, pathetic, but most unpleasant book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Mr. Thurston does not suggest the possession of the imaginative sympathy or even the ordinary knowledge of life that would warrant him in attempting so tremendous a task as this. He writes easily, but there is not in all these 450 pages any indications of vision, any profound sense of human nature. The book is smooth and superficial, and, shorn of its coarseness, conventional in every line.”
“Mr. Thurston more than accomplishes his object of rousing the sympathy and indignation of the reader. His characters also are both lifelike and interesting. But the incessant painfulness of the situation is continuously distressing, so that the book is anything but a restful novel, while the plain speaking in describing coarse viciousness exceeds good taste and sound literary judgment.”
“The story is written in the spirit of rancour, and of obstinate prejudice, and is therefore useless as a protest against the imagined wrongs which have inflamed its author’s spirit.”
“It is seldom one meets with a book so wholly disagreeable as this novel.”
Thurston, Katherine Cecil.Gambler.†$1.50. Harper.
“The author throws herself too ardently into the thick of the fight to judge the relative importance of scenes and incidents. But the story is told with warm sympathy and with much insight into motive and character.”
“It interests us as showing, we fancy, a zeal for the portrayal of character which the writer’s last success did not display.”
“If ‘The gambler’, which is a better book than ‘The masquerader’, shall prove to be less popular, we shall personally ascribe the fact to the very unfortunate illustrations that misrepresent the text.” R. W. Kemp.
“It falls short of the standard which ‘The circle’ and ‘The masquerader’ have established for their author. ‘The gambler’ is a work that interests you, but it does not vastly enhance Mrs. Thurston’s fame.”
“The characters are conventional through and through, in body, heart and soul. The style of the book is diffuse, inexact, inelegant. The writer has no very clear idea of what is her plot.”
“The strongest situations and the best character-drawing are to be found in the early part of the book.”
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed.Early western travels, 1748–1846; a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
An editorial preface; Wyeth’s Oregon; or A short history of a long journey from the Atlantic ocean to the region of the Pacific, by land; and Townsend’s narrative of a journey across the Rocky mountains to the Columbia river; form the contents of volume 21 of this interesting series.
“The style in translation is singularly clear and simple. No small portion of the narrative is of historical value. The editing appears to have been done with exceptional fullness and care, the notes are abundant and supplement the text with information of a scientific and historical character. Few volumes of travels have received such careful attention from the editor. The amount of information thus given on places and persons that are incidentally mentioned by the author is very large.”
“The introduction and notes of the editor add much to the interest of the reprint, as throughout the series.”
“In spite of rare slips ... the notes themselves are among the most valuable of the contributions to American historical scholarship presented by this excellent series.” Frederick J. Turner.
“Not merely useful to the historian, but filled with tales of such strange and thrilling adventures as to hold the attention of the veriest schoolboy.”
Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin.History of higher education in America. **$3. Appleton.
“The story of the oldest and the newest foundations, the picture of the environing conditions in former and in later times, and of the advancing development, is given with many an enlivening touch of biographical notice and historical incident. Religious and ecclesiastical influences come into view together with the patriotic, scholarly, and scientific. The financial side of the history is not omitted, nor is the architectural. Of course the libraries and the graduate and professional schools have their appropriate chapters, and so do undergraduate affairs, including the Greek-letter societies and athletics. All this, however, is no mere chronicle: the lessons it yields are interwoven with it.”—Outlook.
“The book is conceived and executed in a large and generous spirit, combines accuracy and interest in an unusual degree, and is a notable addition to the literature of our educational history.” Edward O. Sisson.
“Instructive and entertaining volume.” Charles Elliott Fitch.
“What others have given either in outline or in fragments is here given in detail and completeness. No work on American history is more worth reading.”
Thwing, Eugene.Man from Red Keg. †$1.50. Dodd.