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Cabell, James Branch.Gallantry.$2. Harper.

7–32561.

“An eighteenth century dizain in ten comedies with an afterpiece.” There is romance true to the times of the second George and there is also much strange love-making in these tales of a day when gallantry ranked with the arts, when wit was broad and the sword was ready. The illustrations in color by Howard Pyle add much to the volume.

“His descriptions of the gallant is a bit of very pretty writing in prose, pleasantly suggestive, as is the versified prologue, of Mr. Andrew Lang.”

“We may safely say that while not for an instant comparing with such a masterpiece as Mr. Hewlett’s ‘Stooping lady,’ it has infinitely more merit than many such popular successes as, to take one example, ‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”

“A vigorous romance ... with the swift spirit of love and swords.”

Cabot, Mrs. Mary Lyman.Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.

6–33635.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Teachers will find the book a practical and valuable aid.”

“Good sound principles, illustrated with a fund of illustrated matter, mark Mrs. Cabot’s chapters on ethics.”

“I suspect this book would not altogether win boys. But let not the book be altogether condemned, for it is after all one of the best that are to be met with, so full of the sense of real problems in the real life of the young of today.” Herbert G. Lord.

“This volume is both interesting and suited to actual moral needs.”

“Throughout, the spirit of the work is wholesome, and the discussions helpfully suggestive. Particularly noteworthy is the avowed and fulfilled purpose of avoiding ‘sentimentalism’ and the usual ‘sugar-coated’ moral stories.” A. R. Gifford.

“The success of the author in finding examples from real life is a chief merit of the book.”

“This book is a distinct contribution to both the science and the art of ethical instruction.” Anna Garlin Spencer.

Cadbury, Edward; Matheson, M. Cecile, and Shann, George.Women’s work and wages: a phase of life in an industrial city. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–11022.

“A record of investigation and philanthropic effort, principally in the city of Birmingham. The refrain of the whole is a complaint from the humanitarian point of view against existing conditions. It is a tale of honest effort to raise the standard of life.” (Spec.) “The book deals with conditions of work, life, recreation, and ameliorative agencies, wages, legislation, home life, recreation, clubs, trade union, legal minimum wage, and wages boards.” (Nation.)

“Three of the four aims which the writers of this book set before themselves have been successfully accomplished.”

“The plan of the present study has been well worked out.” S. P. Breckinridge.

“Contains a goodly array of facts interesting to the economist and social reformer. The value of these facts would have been considerably enhanced by a more scientific method of arrangement, and a clearer view on the part of the writers of the volume touching the kind of book they were setting themselves to produce.”

“The book is interesting and suggestive, and if it has not furnished any new or valuable statistical evidence on the subject of the employment of women, it has succeeded where some of the more detailed studies have failed—in giving the public a thoroughly readable account of an important social problem. The book undoubtedly loses in unity from the fact of its having had three authors, but it must also gain from the very special knowledge that each of the three possessed.” Edith Abbott.

“The volume we are considering contains a vast amount of suggestive and instructive material.”

“The concluding chapter, is for American readers probably the most valuable portion of the book.” Florence Kelley.

*Caffin, Charles Henry.Story of American painting. **$2. Stokes.

7–36959.

A fully illustrated work which “goes back to the earliest painters working in this country and traces the various influences that have played upon American art up to the present time. In accordance with his plan of showing the connection between our art and our national life and history, he concentrates his attention upon those artists who best illustrate the effect of these influences.” (Putnam’s.)

“The text ... shows much detailed observation, an impartial temper, and an orderly method of procedure that gives it value as a book of reference.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.

“He praises rather indiscriminately; but considering the difficulty of the subject ... he has put forth a volume that has surprisingly few mistakes in it, and in which the laymen will find a great deal of valuable information.”

*Cain, Georges.Nooks and corners of old Paris; tr. by Frederick Lawton. *$3.50. Lippincott.

7–37532.

Under the headings, The old city, The isle of Saint-Louis, The left bank of the Seine, andThe right bank of the river, M. Cain has set forth both the historic and artistic points of the city of by-gone days. “Though it is in no sense a guidebook, the prospective sojourner in Paris would do well to read the work, especially if he is at all interested in noteworthy sights outside the ken of the ordinary tourist.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The present translation cannot be praised, but the illustrations and the printing of the volume are admirable, and it thus forms an excellent gift-book.”

“There is nothing aloof or academic in M. Cain’s account of the landmarks of the Paris of by-gone days; he takes his readers on four delightful rambles through four divisions of the region that held the germs of the great city of to-day.”

*Caird, Edward.Lay sermons and addresses: delivered in the hall of Balliol college, Oxford. *$2. Macmillan.

“Of the twelve addresses which are here published, the first deals more especially with the opportunities and duties of college life; three discuss in a large-hearted way the great themes of national patriotism and civic service, while the last two, on ‘Immortality’ and ‘The faith of Job,’ touch impressively on the ultimate questions of Divine justice and human destiny, which lie behind all the creeds. A sermon on ‘Salvation here and hereafter’ gives the author’s general view of the nature of the religious ideal and the place of religion in human life; while the remaining discourses are devoted to the perennial themes of moral and spiritual experience—‘Freedom and truth,’ ‘Spiritual development,’ ‘The great decision,’ ‘True purity,’ and ‘Courage.’”—Lond. Times.

“With the sermon-form there goes in Dr. Caird’s discourse the Christian outlook at its broadest and best.”

“These discourses ... convey with a grave simplicity the counsels of a great teacher on the conduct of life, as well as his mature outlook on the problems of human destiny.”

“Addresses himself, with a rare combination of philosophic thought plainly and practically expressed, ethical keenness and vigor, and a finished literary style, to thoughtful young men confronted with the intellectual problems and moral temptations of university life. This volume should find place in all college libraries.”

Caird, Mrs. Mona.Romantic cities of Provence: il. by Joseph Pennell and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.

6–45159.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The excellence of the book lies chiefly in the illustrations.”

“The reader is brought face to face with the very spirit of the silent wilderness of stones known as La Cran, and with that of its even more melancholy neighbour, the deserted Camargue, whilst the idiosyncrasies of the travellers who are met by the way are humorously touched off. There is not one dull page in the book.”

“She is mortally afraid of being dull ... and in her panic lest she should commit this enormity she becomes chronically playful, almost depriving herself of the power to say anything simply. It is worse when Miss Caird is playful about dates. She shares the feminine tendency to include them in dulness, and only mentions them apologetically. Let us hasten to add, she takes us to fascinating places.”

“It is to the credit of the writer that she has managed to transfer to her pages something of the charm which lingers about these districts so unattractive at first sight and so enthralling when closely studied.”

“She has an easy style, though rather too abundant in long words and adjectives. Some of her pages, indeed, remind us of the plain of the Crau scattered over with stones, which she describes so picturesquely.”

Cairns, D. S.Christianity in the modern world. *$1.25. Armstrong.

7–15937.

Mr. Cairns discusses the mighty principle of Christianity as it has come thru the centuries, with such settings, mainly dogmatic, as people’s understandings have afforded, until today it stands for greater impersonal might with “the line of its hope lying in its power to moralize the selfishness of the individual by transforming private interest into the ideal of a common good.” (Outlook.)

“There can be no doubt that Mr. Cairns’s warning is needed; but his book is by no means free from an a-priori-coloring.” Gerald Birney Smith.

“These essays exhibit a thoroly modern spirit and both logical and literary ability of a high order.”

“As a piece of Christian apologetic, the effort of Mr. Cairns is on a higher plane than that of much recent work.”

“Rarely, if ever, has the subject of the book been better treated.”

Caldecott, W. Shaw.Solomon’s temple: its history and its structure. *$2.50. Union press.

A fresh treatment, the outgrowth of diligent research, which makes the Biblical narrative its own interpreter, and which dwells at length upon the architectural details of the Hebrew temple.

“Although we cannot accept all Mr. Caldecott’s conclusions we welcome his volume as a solid and thoughtful contribution to the subject; he has boldly departed from the hard, beaten track and struck out an original line, and his reward will doubtless be an increased interest in the investigation of the problem he has so vigorously attacked.”

“Though sometimes vivid and even dramatic, it is written in a confused and repetitive style, and occasionally we find contradictions ... and some uncertainty in treating of contemporary Egyptian history.”

“On his proper subject, the construction of the temple and the adjoining palaces, our author has much that is interesting to tell us.”

Calhoun, Mary E.Dorothy’s rabbit stories. †$1. Crowell.

7–24584.

A group of children’s stories which a little southern girl tells to her kitten Kim. “Neighbor rabbit” figures as a thoroly enjoyable hero, and seems to bear kinship to Uncle Remus’s “br’er rabbit.”

“For the child of this decade who has not read ‘Uncle Remus,’ ‘Dorothy’s rabbit stories’ will prove fascinating.”

Calkins, Franklin Wells.Wooing of Tokala: an intimate tale of the wild life of the American Indian drawn from camp and trail. †$1.50. Revell.

7–16943.

“With only a thread of a story in the conventional sense, this is a thoroughly competent study of a group of Dakotah and Sioux Indians. Their habits, traditions, and point of view are given with a detail which though painstaking is never tiresome.” (Nation.) His Tokala is a creature of her native environment. “He tells you here picturesquely how this maid was loved and won in the face of at least the usual allowance of difficulties.” (N. Y. Times.)

“He makes his Indians quite plain, as creatures in the toils of tradition and beliefs which they must obey. His style is clear and simple, attaining excellent effects by dint of completely avoiding self-conscious and labored efforts. In fact, the whole book contains matter of real interest, which is conveyed without parade of knowledge and with a total absence of trick or mannerism.”

“The story is well told, with not a little ingenuity and cleverness in the construction of the plot and throughout with a simplicity that adds to its charm.”

Calkins, Mary Whiton.Persistent problems of philosophy: an introduction to metaphysics through the study of modern systems. *$2.50. Macmillan.

7–11605.

“The professor of philosophy in Wellesley college has made a most useful résumé and exposition of the tendencies and doctrines of modern philosophy since Descartes. The bibliographies are especially good. Readers who desire to become familiar with the presentation of the movement called Pragmatism will find here succinct definitions and helpful references to recent literature on the subject.” (Educ. R.) “It differs from most introductions of the kind in that it is historical, and from most histories of philosophy in that it is critical.” (Nation.)

“The historical and critical portions of the volume are written with a facile pen. Few recent treatises on philosophy have combined so constant reference to the sources with so readable an expository style. The writer exhibits, moreover, a comprehensive acquaintance with the history of modern thinking, at the same time that she exercises independent historical judgment.” A. C. Armstrong.

“Professor Calkins not only criticises, but constructs, and sets forth her own doctrine with such ability that she should have a distinguished place among contemporary Hegelians.”

“Insight, poise, and a fine blending of clarity with brevity make this an eminently serviceable book for [serious students]. Such a work, in addition to her well-wrought ‘Introduction to psychology,’ gives Professor Calkins a distinction among American women as meritorious as it is unique.”

Call, Annie Payson.Everyday living. **$1.25. Stokes.

6–37967.

That the knowledge of God’s law of liberty is power to the person who will gain it, nay, use it, is the theme running thru Mrs. Call’s dozen and more essays. There is the note of impersonal freedom which everybody can catch if he but work. She sets forth working principles, approved by experiment, which clear away the mists of material existence.

“The statements are so bare as to read like platitudes in many instances, and the manner is unnecessarily didactic.”

Call, Annie Payson.Heart of good health. **30c. Crowell.

7–21545.

A monologue urging the training for the human body that corresponds to the progress of the soul in its regeneration. The little volume belongs to the “What is worth while series.”

Calthrop, Dion Clayton.Dance of love. †$1.50. Holt.

7–31413.

A romance of the days of the “dawn of intellect” with scenes shifting from France to England. It is a tale of a love quest upon which Pipin, the hero, meets a dozen women. Each one affords the author an opportunity to draw an individual type of the dame of yesterday. The dominant qualities of the “eternal feminine” are strikingly portrayed.

“Mr. Calthrop has sacrificed too much to high morality. It will certainly be much liked by those who value originality of idea and vivid, poetical expression, and we think that the insatiable readers of novels, who rather resent these merits, will forgive them in a short book full of attractive incidents related in an unusual form with considerable dramatic effect.”

“Picturesque charm and a real feeling for romance mark the story.”

“This is a romance to be enjoyed if one happens to be in the right mood, but one that does not command the reader’s satisfaction.”

Calthrop, Dion Clayton.English costume; painted and described by Dion Clayton Calthrop. 4v. ea. $2.75. Macmillan.

6–32380.

A history of English costume in four volumes which divide the subject into as many periods: 1, Early English; 2, Middle ages; 3, Tudor and Stuart; 4, Georgian. “The colored illustrations will appeal to everybody, but the little sketches in the letterpress will be invaluable to the costumier and the stage manager if not to many tailors and milliners as well. Scattered throughout the four volumes are also a series of word-pictures, of which mention must be made.” (Acad.)

“We confess to a preference for his pictures, which, it seems to us, are a valuable addition to English history, whereas his notes, for all his system, are at times irritatingly scrappy, and at others provokingly trivial.”

“He still exhibits a flippant style which is out of place in such a treatise, and he has obviously made careful studies of dress from old manuscripts and missals.”

“We cannot but feel that the author had somewhat tired of his task, particularly as he devotes a good deal of his space to quotations. The book is scrappy, and for fuller information we must still go to other authorities.”

“After the enormous amount of research, it is remarkable that he can handle his subject as lightly as he does. Interesting and readable he certainly is, in spite of an occasional slip in idiom or construction. He has a happy faculty for making his costumes live, as it were, in the times to which they belong.” May Estelle Cook.

“Unfortunately, however, it is impossible entirely to endorse this very high estimate of a book which, though brightly and humorously written, does not contain much that is new.”

“The full-page illustrations in colour are by no means satisfactory, the artist’s sartorial lore being far superior to his technical skill and knowledge of the anatomy of the human form. The best drawings in the book are the small reproductions after the Dightons.”

“If he had gone a little further and a little deeper, if he had kept clear of a certain annoying jauntiness of style, his book, valuable already, might have been of still greater worth.”

“As a book of reference it loses half its value from the absence of an index; as a serious history of clothes it suffers from the author’s attempt to be sprightly; as a book of entertainment, it is too learned. Taken as a whole, as a work at once moderately entertaining to read and moderately useful for study, it may serve a purpose.”

“This book will be invaluable to costumers and playwrights and of delight to the casual reader.”

“His facts are in the main accurate, and his research thorough, though he has a tendency to antedate changes of costume, and his method of division into reigns involves constant repetition and a too decided ascription of certain fashions to certain years. He is irritatingly chary of reference, but this omission is due to the popular design of the book, which is written throughout in a would-be entertaining way. If not a really valuable book of reference, still less is it an amusing book to read, merely as a piece of writing.”

*Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-.Petrarch: his life, work and times. (Memoir ser.) **$2.75. Putnam.

A popular life of Petrarch which keeps close to his mission as herald and prophet of the renaissance.

“The book is a work of a ripe scholar, and is evidently the fruit of years of patient study. Its chief defect is the complete absence of all references, even to Fracassetti’s standard edition of the letters, to which, nevertheless, the author acknowledges his supreme obligation. If we now mention a few points in which our author is hardly abreast of recent research, it is in no captious spirit, but with the hope that in the next edition, which must soon be called for, these slight blemishes may be removed.”

“An interesting sketch.”

Calvert, Albert Frederick.Alhambra of Granada. *$15. Lane.

The history which forms the background of this volume covers the Moslem rule from the reign of Mohammed to the expulsion of the Moors. “The Alhambra or the Red castle, will ever, in spite of its lamentable state of decay, take first rank, on account of the combined beauty and variety of its ornamentation, and the thrilling memories with which it is associated.... The author lays great stress in the preface to his first edition on the fact that he has given pride of place to the pictorial side of his volume, making his chief appeal to the public by the beauty and variety of the illustrations he has collected, which include nearly 500 reproductions in black-and-white of details of architecture, and over 100 in colour of typical decoration.” (Int. Studio.)

“Mr. Calvert has a profound knowledge of the Alhambra as it is now and as it was at every stage of its chequered life-story, and he has the gift of imparting that knowledge in an impressive and satisfying manner.”

Calvert, Albert Frederick.Escorial: a historical and descriptive account of the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.

7–32150.

In picture and text this proves the first exhaustive English treatment of the Escorial—the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum in one.

“The views of the garden of the Casita de Abajo and of the interior of the Escorial itself are satisfactory and characteristic; the photographs of pictures and tapestries are much less effective; while the reproductions of Alfonso’s ‘Cantigas de Sancta Maria’ and other literary rarities are on so reduced a scale as to be virtually useless. Mr. Calvert’s text is compiled from Rotondo’s work, but he has introduced a considerable number of errors which imply, we fear, insufficient knowledge of Spanish history and literature.”

“The text ... is the merest hack work ... though readable enough. One may gather from the whole some notion at least of what the Escorial is like and what it signifies in history.”

Calvert, Albert Frederick.Seville: an historical and descriptive account of The pearl of Andalusia. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.

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