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7–16755.

Nine simply told tales of the civil war time. Several of them are in southern dialect, and they deal with the county squire, the soldier, the old negro, and other southern types.

Richardson, Frank.2835 Mayfair: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.

A detective story which has a double identity mystery in it, and one in which the author “takes care to discount the criticism that his story is not credible by making it absolutely impossible.” (Spec.)

“Regarded as satire or melodrama, ‘2835 Mayfair’ must be considered unsatisfactory. There is, however, plenty of ingenuity in the manner in which Mr. Richardson develops his tale, and his admirers will find no lack ofthose inconsequent humours which he has taught them to expect.”

“Mr. Richardson’s efforts in what may be called his satirical manner are rather laboured in the present book, which may be best described as a sensational extravaganza and, as our American cousins would say, not very successful at that.”

Richardson, Leon Josiah.Helps to the reading of classical Latin poetry. *50c. Ginn.

7–6757.

The book is intended for students of classical Roman poetry, primarily that of Virgil and Ovid. The book outlines the part that reading should play in the field of classical study, compares Latin and English rhythms, and explains simply the nature and structure of Latin verse, with special reference to the dactylic hexameter and the elegiac meter.

“In all probability it contains rather more than the average student, or perhaps even the exceptional student, if he be an undergraduate, will take the time to read with care. On the other hand, one who is more advanced will scarcely find here anything that is new to him. Some of the illustrative material is ... well selected; and the first twenty pages or so may be read by any one with interest and pleasure.” H. T. P.

“A helpful little volume for the sympathetic reader of Latin verse.”

Richardson, Rev. Willard S., ed. David: warrior, poet, king. il. $2.50. Appleton.

7–31970.

In this narrative told by means of various passages of scripture, special stress is laid upon the qualities of the man David, the frailties over which the might of character triumphed, the friendship for Jonathan, and the anguish and grief over Absalom. The character development is traced thru the experience of exile, thru the early years of opposition to his rule over the two tribes, and thru the years of prosperity and adversity as king over Israel.

Rickaby, Rev. Joseph, S. J.Free will and four English philosophers; a study of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. *$1.25. Benziger.

“Father Rickaby believes that, though men are slow to see and loth to own it, free will still remains the hub and centre of philosophical speculation. The four philosophers whose views are here criticized are Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. His method is to quote a passage from these authors and then discuss it.”—Ath.

“A long matured volume abounding with acute criticism and close reasoning. The most original feature of Father Rickaby’s treatment of the question is his theory on the working of free-will.”

“A vigorous and interesting book.” St. George Stock.

Rickert, (Martha) Edith.Golden hawk. †$1.50. Baker.

7–15544.

“A modern romance in the picaresque style, steeped in the sunshine of Provence.... Trillon, the hero, has a lordly disdain for commercialism.... We meet him ... fascinating the daughter of the inn-keeper by his audacious flattery, and after a courtship conducted with lightning rapidity in the teeth of every sort of opposition, going off to seek his fortune, while his betrothed is left to the untender mercies of her parents and the priest.... She enters a nunnery. But the irrepressible Trillon returns from the sea, abducts his betrothed ... sets himself to perform a labour of Hercules imposed by the priest as the condition of his consent to the marriage,—the conversion of a rocky wilderness known as the Pit of Artaban into a farm. Trillon’s exploits as a farmer ... make a most entertaining recital; and the final scene, in which he plays the part of a Provençal Lochinvar, brings a fantastic story to an appropriate close.”—Spec.

“The only fault we have to find in her work is that it needs pruning.”

“The sort of thing that could easily be turned into operetta.” Harry James Smith.

“It is not a book to be judged by ordinary standards; it must be read indulgently, sympathetically, softly laughed over for the sake of its fantastic humor, its unexpected mingling of sunshine and of shadow.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“A pretty story, full of surprises for even the seasoned reader of summer fiction.”

“Her portraits with all their charm seem sometimes a little stiff, sometimes over flamboyant But there are fine, airy landscapes in plenty; the action is spirited throughout; and few of the incidents fail of the graces of pathos, humour, enthusiasm, and, above all, imagination.”

“She escapes the danger of letting her picaresque hero seem hackneyed and mediocre, by tracing his mental processes from within out, here and there giving a genuine touch of character study, instead of relying entirely upon description of his fantastic dress and twinkling hawk-like eyes.”

“Miss Rickart has undeniable talent, a grace of style, a keen sense of verbal felicity and skill in reproducing a superficial effect. She has not yet learned the lesson that to be a real artist one must not go too far afield from one’s own life and temperament.” Florence Wilkinson.

“The tale is told with dash and spirit, and has unity of conception. There is buoyancy and there is color, and the reader’s interest is swept along impetuously from beginning to end.”

“The ‘bravura’ style is at times somewhat forced.”

Rickett, Arthur.Vagabond in literature.*$1.50. Dutton.

7–35194.

A volume “made up of ‘papers’ on Hazlitt, De Quincey, Walt Whitman. Robert Louis Stevenson, George Borrow, Henry Thoreau, and Richard Jefferies.”—N. Y. Times.

“These agreeable essays are not epoch-making—how few books are!—but they offer many a page of good reading, none the worse for being on well-worn themes.”

Ricketts, Charles S.Art of the Prado: a survey of the contents of the gallery, together with detailed criticisms of itsmasterpieces and biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them. *$2. Page.

7–30412.

A finely illustrated volume which deals with the paintings of the Prado—Madrid’s famous treasure house of masterpieces. Here are found at their best the gold of Titian, the silver of Velasquez. the glow of Rubens and the magic and awe associated with Rembrandt. In what manner and to what extent these pictures are an unchallenged “congress of masterpieces” the author essays to enlighten the reader.

“He understands how to give his criticism a turn which is at once illuminating and suggestive.”

“This is a real book, containing real opinions, which may be read with profit and pleasure by any one who cares for the serious study of art.”

“At best the book is an excellent and readable guide to a collection not too widely known, and considered as such the author is deserving of unqualified attention.”

Rideal, Samuel.Sewage and the bacterial purification of sewage. $4. Wiley.

A third and enlarged edition of a work which “consists chiefly of a statement of the problem of sewage treatment and of the principles involved and methods employed in the solution of that problem, together with a review of some of the large number of experiments on sewage.... It covers some events and literature well into 1906.”—Engin. N.

“By means of the present revision, Dr. Rideal’s book becomes the most up-to-date and the best general work on sewage treatment now available.”

“It seems to be generally acknowledged among sanitary engineers that this work is the most comprehensive treatise on the subject in the English language, and the appearance of a third edition recently is only natural in view of the high standing which the book has won.”

*Rideout, Henry Milner.Admiral’s light.†$1.50. Houghton.

7–36092.

The shores of New Brunswick and Maine furnish the setting of a story in which are brought together a girl reared by Yankee gypsies, a lad, hungry for things of life, the recluse grandfather who keeps a lighthouse, an Italian sailor, and a Chinaman whose portion of the tale is one of mystery. The sea-change of the heroine into something rich and strange which breathes sacrifice is the absorbing part of the story.

Rideout, Henry Milner.Beached keels. †$1.50. Houghton.

6–38551.

Three stories of the sea and shorefolk. The first is a “strange tale of curious people in an unusual setting; the second, a tragic, pathetic tale of two brothers; the third, humorous.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)

“All are striking, and more than usually well told.”

“Mr. Rideout’s construction is faulty; his stories short as they are, seem to ramble needlessly. But he has the gift of vividness and a rare sense of the value of little things; he can paint the crest of a wave or a trait of character with an admirable terseness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“His fancy is fertile and it imagines large canvases. He almost fills them, but not quite. It is in dealing with the emotions of his characters in the powerful situations in which he places them that Mr. Rideout still falls short: he leaves a little too much to the collaboration of the reader.”

“‘Wild justice’ stands out with almost startling distinctness against the pale mediocrity of current magazine fiction.”

“All of these three tales, but more especially the first have quite unusual vigor and originality. The author’s chief fault is a somewhat abrupt manner.”

Rideout, Henry Milner.Siamese cat; il. by Will Grefe. †$1.25. McClure.

7–15114.

A love story in which a Siamese cat and a pigeon-blood ruby figure largely. It “swings along at a high speed and there is plenty of Asiatic coast atmosphere, of the semi-tourist, semi-native sort. The local color, appears veracious with its mixture of bad smells and pink mists and ruined temples and calm homicides and pigin English and poisonings and stabbings while you wait.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The setting is oriental, and adds not a little to the attractions of a light, swift-moving ingenious, and altogether entertaining tale.”

“This is a book which tempts the reviewer to cast propriety to the winds and call it in cold print a thundering good story.”

“It is a merry tale, for all its trifling with human life.”

Riedl, Frigyes.History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.

7–2035.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1996.

“This book with Dr. Reich’s ‘Historical survey of Hungarian literature’ covers the subject comprehensively.”

“An extremely readable volume, exhibiting scholarship without pedantry, and resisting the temptation to dwell at too great length upon the formative period of the literature.”

“This is a remarkable book, as it is the first history of Hungarian literature in the English language.”

Riemer, J.Shaft-sinking in difficult cases; tr. from the Germ. by J. W. Brough. *$3.50. Lippincott.

“The volume is confined to a description of means that have to be resorted to when ordinary methods of sinking cannot be applied on account of excessive influx of water, the means described being shaft sinking by hand, boring shafts, the freezing method of sinking, and the sinking-drum method.” (Nature.) “The book is divided into four main sections, devoted respectively to (1) Shaft sinking by hand, (2) Shaft sinking by boring, (3) The freezing method, and (4) The sinking drum process. Concrete examples are given of the application of each method. The folding plates in the back of the book amply illustrate the constructive details involved.” (Engin. N.)

“It is not a book for elementary students, but one that deserves the careful study of advanced students and of experienced engineers. The translation has been carefully made.”

Ries, Heinrich.Clays, their occurrence, properties, and uses, with especial reference to those of the United States. *$5. Wiley.

6–37212.

“The author treats his subject under the following heads:—The origin of clay, chemical properties, physical properties, kinds of clay, methods of mining and manufacture, distribution of clay in the United States, Fuller’s earth.”—Nature.

“The only work summarizing the scattered literature on American clays.”

“Notwithstanding defects in matter and manner, Dr. Ries has rendered a distinct service to ceramics in producing this work. It more nearly meets the general need than any other English book in the field, and will doubtless awaken in many aspiring minds an enthusiasm to know more than the book pretends to tell, and will thus lead to research and scholarship, which has so far groped in vain for lack of a guide.” Edward Orton, jr.

“This book is very well produced and free from slips.”

“The most comprehensive and evenly balanced, if not the only, presentation of the subject as a whole that we have.” Eugene A. Smith.

Riley, James Whitcomb.Morning. $1.25. Bobbs.

7–26127.

The keynote of this latest group of Riley poems is struck in the following:

“Let us see as we have seen—Where all paths are dewy-green,And all human-kind are kin—Let us be as we have been.”

“Let us see as we have seen—

Where all paths are dewy-green,

And all human-kind are kin—

Let us be as we have been.”

“It is doubtful if his admirers will find in it quite the charm of his earlier work.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

Riley, James Whitcomb.While the heart beats young. $2.50. Bobbs.

6–36414.

Under this title are included “all the best of Mr. Riley’s child-verses, with many pictures in color by Ethel Franklin Betts.”—Dial.

“Riley still makes the same heart-felt appeal to the people that he did more than a quarter of a century ago.”

Ripley, William Z.Railway problems: a collection of reprints with maps and introd. $2.25. Ginn.

7–6187.

Uniform with “Selections and documents in economics.” While the book is primarily intended to serve as a college text in the economics of transportation, it also aims to offer in convenient form for the general reader and student of American public questions authoritative information upon this important economic and political question.

“Of use to the interested public, the student, the college instructor, and the debator.”

“Is by far the best compendium of papers on railway transportation that has yet been made.” Emory R. Johnson.

“The book is invaluable for college work, and to all who would take up the history of American railways.” Ralph Albertson.

“We can very heartily commend this book to anyone desiring to make a study of the economic relations of the railways to the public.”

“Professor Ripley makes it easy for the student to get a view of the more important of our railway problems.” William Hill.

“One of the great advantages of the material presented in this volume for pedagogical purposes is that it deals so largely with debatable questions. With its aid there should be no difficulty in making college courses on railway problems interesting as well as profitable.”

“Has been edited with great care. The book fully meets the aim of the editor and is all that can be desired.” Albert I. Frye.

Ristori, Adelaide.Memoirs and artistic studies of Adelaide Ristori; rendered into English by G. Mantellini. **$2.50. Doubleday.

7–26130.

“Besides the biographical matter furnished by Signor Ventura, the present book of memoirs consists of two parts: in the first, Madame Ristori gives her reminiscences of her stage career, commencing with her first appearance before the footlights at the age of two months, and extending over sixty-three years to her farewell performance, which was given twenty-two years ago at the New York Academy of music in a memorable production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth,’ Edwin Booth taking the title-role on that occasion. The second part of her Memoirs is devoted to an analysis of six of the principal parts in her répertoire: Schiller’s ‘Mary Stuart,’ Giacometti’s ‘Queen Elizabeth,’ Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Macbeth,’ Legouve’s ‘Medea,’ Alfieri’s ‘Myrrha,’ and Racine’s ‘Phaedra.’”—Lit. D.

“To the already published lives of Adelaide Ristori this new edition of her memoirs, with its appended letters coming down nearly to the date of her death, is a useful supplement. But there is still room for a final, full, and critical account of the remarkable actress, prepared with far more care than the volume under review.” Percy F. Bicknell.

“Her autobiography has not literary quality, and it is marred in the translation by a faulty English that editing might, it would seem, easily have bettered.”

“Not only is the arrangement of the matter slovenly ... but the English translation supplied by Signor G. Mantellini reflects but little credit upon the original composition.”

“The work of the translator is utterly inadequate. His mistakes, due to a very evident lack of familiarity with the conventions and idioms of the English language, are sometimes ludicrous, sometimes annoying, sometimes obscuring; and many of them would never have passed even a moderately good proof-reader, who was compelled to wade through the ridiculous pi of commas strewn thicker than Vallombrosan leaves.” Anne Peacock.

“The story of her life is here told in a simple and informal way, without boasting, but with intelligent appreciation of men and things.”

Ritchie, Rev. Arthur.Spiritual studies in St. Luke’s gospel. 2v. *$5. Young ch.

6–39459.

“The general character of these volumes is homiletical. and their aim is to feed the altar flame of the consecrated heart.” (Outlook.) “Dr. Ritchie has arranged his commentary in short sections, and divided each study intoan exposition and a series of three ‘thoughts,’ thus adapting his work to quick reference and ready comprehension.” (Nation.)

Rivers, W. H. R.Todas; with il., map and chronological tables. *$6.50. Macmillan.

7–18149.

The author says that his book is not merely a record of the customs and beliefs of a people who amount to fewer than a thousand individuals all told, but is also a demonstration of anthropological method. These people occupy the well-watered plateau of the Nilgiri hills in Southern India, and their life, character, customs, ceremonials and factors upon which their social organization rests are informingly discussed.

“A work as laborious as it is original.”

“An exhaustive study.”

“As an example of scientific method, this is the best socio-religious monograph of a special community yet published.” A. C. Haddon.

“An admirable study of savage life.”

“Thanks to Dr. Rivers’s energy and care we have a complete and scientific account of one of the most significant phenomena in the history of that varied organism, religion. A monument of industry and care, not without insight, and the results of comparative study, and is an invaluable record of which Cambridge and the new anthropology may be proud.” A. E. Crawley.

“Mr. Rivers’ careful monograph will thus win and retain a central place, that between the preliminary and more or less amateurish anthropological observers whose works he practically supersedes, and the deeper interpretation for which he does so much to prepare.”

“Mr. Rivers’s learned book will remain the chief authority on the interesting race with which he deals.”

Rives, Hallie Erminie.Satan Sanderson.†$1.50. Bobbs.

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