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A pretentious work on tapestry from the earliest times to the present day. “Its records throw valuable side-lights on history. In the present volume we find many more instances than are generally known where national events have been commemorated and where sovereigns and princes have paved the way to negotiations and treaties desired by them by the timely gift of a costly tapestry. Finally, tapestries give us a wonderfully graphic idea of house construction and decoration, of folk and home life of old times.” (Outlook.) Over eighty color and half-tone illustrations enhance the value to students of tapestries.
“We are not sure if the definition of tapestry given by the author is faultless.”
“It is not only a treasury of information, but so cleverly have the innumerable details been woven into the narrative that it is readable as well as interesting.” Frederick W. Goodkin.
“Full of interest, full of surprises and always spiced with romance, and Mr. Thomson has not spoiled the story in its telling.”
“We take leave of the author, then, with admiration of his power as a faithful draughtsman, and with respect for his diligent search among original sources of information.”
“It is impossible not to grumble especially at the information withheld by Mr. Thomson.”
Thomson, William Hanna.Brain and personality; or, The physical relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is printed in the United States, the illustrations are poor, and there is no Index.”
Thoreau, Henry David.Works. Bijou, ed. 5v. $2.50. Crowell.
These five volumes of the selected works of Thoreau are furnished with introductions by Nathan H. Dole, Annie Russell Marble, and Charles C. D. Roberts, while Emerson’s biographical sketch prefaces “Excursions.”
Thoreau, Henry David.Writings of Henry David Thoreau. (Walden ed.) 20v. ea. $1.75. Houghton.
A monumental undertaking which becomes an atonement to a mighty soul for lack of appreciation during the most of life. The first six volumes include Thoreau’s miscellaneous writings and the remaining fourteen are devoted to his journal which is published for the first time. The edition furnishes “a record of the life-work of one whose observations of the phenomena of nature were most thorough and untiring and whose descriptions are among the best in literature.”
“On the whole this ‘Walden edition’ is every way satisfactory in its different forms for different purchasers and prices.” F. B. Sanborn.
“Have the interest of an autobiography, and will be read for more light upon one of the most piquant and romantic careers among American scholars and reformers. For the full understanding of this part of the copious work, many more notes and explanations are needed than the editors had room to afford even had they the needful knowledge.” F. B. Sanborn.
“If we should quarrel with it for anything it would be for its too great abundance. Much is trivial, yet much also is of extraordinary interest.”
“Mr. Torrey is an accomplished writer as well as a well-known naturalist. His introductions are of a quality rare in such performances. They are free from the spirit of hero-worship or of hero-manufacture; now and then they perhaps approach the other extreme.” H. W. Boynton.
Thoreau, Henry David.Cape Cod; with an introd. by Annie R. Marble. 35c. Crowell.
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Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
Thorndike, Lynn.Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe. *75c. Macmillan.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is based on independent study and ... it abundantly proves its point.” A. G.
Thorp, Frank Hall.Outlines of industrial chemistry: a text-book for students. 2d ed. *$3.75. Macmillan.
The second edition, revised and enlarged, and including a chapter on metallurgy. “This work has been prepared for the purpose of comprising in a single volume of moderate dimensions an outline treatment of the more important industrial chemical processes.... It is divided into three parts: Inorganic industries, Organic industries, and Metallurgy.” (Technical Literature.)
“Gives in one volume a comprehensive and clearly written description of all branches of chemical industry.”
“The work is well suited to the instruction of students in engineering and will be found of value to engineers in all branches, who are often confronted with problems requiring a knowledge of industrial chemistry for their solution.”
Thorpe, William Henry.Anatomy of bridgework.$2.50. Spon.
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A book which treats “of the behavior of bridges under traffic so as to show the weak points in their design and their effect upon the cost of maintenance.” (Engin. N.)
“The book will be of relatively small service to American engineers.” Henry S. Jacoby.
Throckmorton, Josephine Holt.Donald MacDonald. $1.25. Murdock McPhee & Co., 221 Pennsylvania av., Washington, D. C.
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In this story which begins at West Point and later depicts army scenes during the civil war, the characters of two men are brought into sharp contrast. Red Tracy, the selfish boy who becomes a false lover, a thief, and an officer untrue to his friends and ashamed of his old father, is a fitting foil for MacDonald, the best type of gentleman and soldier.
Thrum, Thomas G.Hawaiian folk tales: a collection of native legends; il. from photographs. **$1.75. McClurg.
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In this group are twenty-five folk lore tales contributed by recognized authorities including Rev. A. O. Forbes, Dr. N. B. Emerson, J. S. Emerson, Mrs. E. M. Nakuina, Dr. C. M. Hyde and others. The volume rescues from oblivion tales of mythology, religious functions, tradition and cosmology, and preserves their native poetic quality.
“Of this collection some [of the legends] are obviously sophisticated and treated in a literary manner, others are crude and dry.”
Thruston, Mrs. Lucy (Meacham).Jenifer. †$1.50. Little.
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The Carolina mountains form the setting for this story of the development of the character of Jenifer, a poor country lad, who discovers kaolin upon some land which he promptly buys from the needy owner, who does not suspect its value. This makes him rich and he goes to the city to see life and there marries Alice the frivolous clerk of a glove counter. This is but the beginning. How he comes back to his land, awakes to the responsibility of his position and re-orders his life, forms the story.
“Is a firm, smooth piece of work, without those early marks of the amateur.”
“The plot itself is not very original, but the literary handling of it is worthy of all praise. Spontaneity and genuine imagination mark the book, and the descriptions of mountain scenery are admirable.”
“As charming and as open to criticism as the vivacious yet irregular features of a pretty girl.”
Thureau-Dangin, Paul.Saint Bernardine of Siena; tr. by Baroness G. von Hugel. *$1.50. Dutton.
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“Two centuries after St. Francis of Assisi, his followers labored for a revival of religion contemporaneously with the revival of learning known as the Renaissance. A leading promoter of it was the saintly preacher of whom this volume is a memorial. An account of the moral and civic anarchy of the time forms the historical setting of the story of the revivalist’s missionary life, the popular enthusiasm he kindled, his trials with ecclesiastical opponents, his sermons, and, finally, of the two orders of the Franciscan brotherhood, from the less to the more rigorous of which he went over.”—Outlook.
“Admirable life.”
“Two temptations seem to beset the biographers of a saint: one is to idealize the subject, ... and the other is to attribute to Divine intervention every extraordinary event associated in any way with his career. The volume before us, because it contains but few evidences of these imperfections, merits special commendation.”
“By the time M. Thureau-Dangin’s French has been transmuted into the Baroness’s English, the sayings of the saint are often barely recognizable.”
“The volume which tells of his life will be chiefly interesting to students and to the devout,”
“A delightful book. It is characterized by a limpid felicity of style, a quiet power of objective presentment, complete sympathy with its subject, and a serene impartiality which, however—a great gift this—takes none of the fire and life out of the book. Of the Baroness von Hugel’s translation we can say that it is eminently readable and writ in passable English. But it bristles in inaccuracies, and the translator’s fear of being fettered by the original causes her at times to take undue liberties with the text.”
Thurston, Ernest Temple.Katherine. †$1.50. Harper.
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Katherine Crichton marries a big-hearted, broad-minded man whose work principles she does not understand, and therefore nurses unhappiness as a result of fancied neglect. An accident results in a physical state that promises her only two years of life, and she determines to give herself up to happiness and the romance which had been denied her. How her husband spares her the ignominy of dishonorand restores her to her home is handled with keen perception and an understanding of genuine nobility of heart.
“Men and women do not speak and think as Mr. Thurston writes. Of the evolution of Katherine we see nothing; what we see of the evolution of Mr. Thurston does not inspire us with any confidence as to his future. His characters bear much the same relation to life as do the emerald woods in a penny shooting-gallery.”
“Mr. Thurston continues to display a familiarity with feminine psychology which is unusual in English fiction. Will no doubt soon shed his Meredithian manner. At present he has a bad attack.”
“‘Katherine’ differs from his earlier books in portraying Protestant England rather than Catholic Ireland; but it conveys the same impression of being the outcome of direct, keen observation of flesh-and-blood men and women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“This story, weighted with much futile philosophizing, is not exactly edifying, and its dulness is relieved by few flashes of brilliancy.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Mr. Thurston takes it out of the class to which it apparently belonged, and cloaks it with the dignity of a grave psychological problem.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“It is characteristic of the horror-minded present that a writer like Mr. Thurston should dramatize the diagnosis of cancer and call it a romance.”
“The most striking and most interesting thing about Mr. Thurston’s book is the manner in which it is written.”
Thurston, Ernest Temple.Traffic, the story of a faithful woman. †$1.50. Dillingham.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As in ‘The apple of Eden,’ Mr. Thurston dissects deep and pitilessly as the modern Frenchman: but even in this candidly repellant theme, he keeps a certain fervor which makes his work worth while for adult readers of firm nerves and serious mind.” Mary Moss.
Thurston, Katherine Cecil.Mystics, il. †$1.25. Harper.
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A strong young man loving life and freedom serves an ascetic uncle for seven years. The uncle dies bequeathing his vast wealth to a sect known as the Mystics. A sense of deep wrong leads the nephew to violate the uncle’s dying request to guard the sacred book of the sect until it could be turned over to one of the leaders. He copies it word for word, finds that the Mystics look forward to the appearing of a prophet, decides to play the rôle himself and to appear at the proper moment, his one aim being to secure the money out of which these people had defrauded him. His course leads to a dramatic though logical dénouement.
“The characters are mere puppets without a semblance of life, and the episodes of the story are vague and loosely put together.”
“She has taken her public too cheaply.”
“The story is not only short, but jejune and projected on a low level; though it may be granted, freely, that the presentation is powerful, the few characters well marked, and the plot simple and logically worked out.”
“The wild improbability of the plot and the essentially childish nature of the whole story make it barren as a subject for criticism.”
“Mrs. Thurston possesses imagination and a laudable desire to skip the dull parts; explanations, for instance.”
“Is rather a disappointment to those who have read ‘The gambler’ and ‘The masquerader.’”
“A piece of manufacture and not particularly interesting at that.”
“It might have been written by an incompetent understudy so far as interest is concerned, and no amount of oxygen in the reader’s blood can make it seem to him other than hopelessly wooden.” Vernon Atwood.
“The contents are so vapid and drearily profitless that it seems unfair to seek a type for them in any semblance to humanity.”
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.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“These volumes, as is usual in the series, are well edited. The reviewer suspects—only suspects because he has not been able to compare the reprint with the original edition—that there are a few errors in proof-reading; but these would not be worth mentioning were it not for the high standard already set for the workmanship of the series.”
“Continue to reach the standard of value and interest found in the earlier issues.”
“Is the most valuable of the five or six volumes published in the series this year.” Webster Cook.
Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin.History of higher education in America. **$3. Appleton.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“One cannot but regret that the author has not seen fit to describe the highest type of university as it exists today in this country, and to present a view of higher education in its latest and finest aspects with the particularity and appreciation which he devotes to its beginnings in the early colonial days.” J. B. P.
“An eminently readable and human account of the history of higher education with especial attention to the story of the older colleges.” J. H. T.
Tilley, Arthur Augustus.François Rabelais. (French men of letters, v. 3.) **$1.50. Lippincott.
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A biographical and critical study of Rabelais written for the “French men of letters” series. The author’s familiarity with his subject and his comprehensive study of sources, have resultedin an authoritative narrative which assumes less knowledge on the part of readers than as tho it had been written for Frenchmen.
“Let it be said at once, and with all frankness, that it is the very work to be consulted by anyone who wants to be well instructed in the known facts concerning Rabelais. It is when we cease to consider facts and dates and such matters that Mr. Tilley becomes tiresome and quite ineffectual.”
Tillson, Benjamin Richards.Complete automobile instructor. $1.50. Wiley.
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A timely companion for every one who drives a car, containing over six hundred questions with answers. It covers the ground of the principles, the operation and the care of gasoline automobiles.
“The possession of the book obviates the necessity for the new car owner’s ‘cramming’ with a mass of befuddling details at the outset, and enables him gradually to acquire a working knowledge of his machine as necessity demands it.”
“Of the crop of automobile instruction books that have appeared in the last two or three years this seems to us the one the automobile owner who knows little of mechanics will find it easiest to master.”
Tinney, W. H.Gold mining machinery; its selection, arrangement and installation: a practical handbook for the use of mine managers and engineers, with a chapter on the preparation of estimates of cost. *$5. Van Nostrand.
The volume includes a concise treatment of steam generation, water motors, gas and oil engines, engine erection, the various kinds of pumps adapted to mining work, winding machinery, air compressors, air drills, reduction of ores, transmission of power by shafting belts, compressed air and electricity, transport, piping, joints, etc.
Reviewed by Walter R. Crane.
“Mr. Tinney’s production fails in its purpose, for it is out of date and superficial.”
Titsworth, Alfred Alexander.Elements of mechanical drawing. *$1.25. Wiley.
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“This book is divided into two parts. In the first part, for beginners, the various drawing instruments in common use are described, and a series of exercises is given to illustrate the use of each of the instruments. The rest of this section is devoted to examples in simple projection, to intersections, of solids, and development of surfaces. Part 2, for more advanced students, comprises problems in descriptive geometry, isometric projection, oblique projection, shadows, and perspective work, and concludes with a series of problems.”—Nature.
“Its mechanical make-up is unusually neat.”
*Tittle, Walter.First Nantucket tea party, il. **$2. Doubleday.
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“This is a letter written in 1754 by Ruth Starbuck Wentworth to her mother. Besides relating the amusing story of the first teabrewing that ever took place on Nantucket, it traces the romance of Ruth Wentworth and Captain Morris, which began and ended while the letter was being written in those delightful daily portions that our grandmothers used to indite as painstakingly as they did their other daily stints.”—Dial.
“A curious little document.”
“The illuminated illustrations and decorations by Walter Tittle, reproducing the style of some medieval manuscript, form an admirably appropriate setting to the pretty little colonial romance.”
Toch, Maximilian.Chemistry and technology of mixed paints. *$3. Van Nostrand.
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“Intended for the student in chemistry who desires to familiarize himself with paint, or the inquirer who desires a better knowledge of the subject, or for the paint manufacturer and paint chemist as a work of reference.” “The whole effect of the book will be towards improvement of manufacture and in the mutual relations between makers and users.... The microphotographs are excellent, and inserted on calendered paper, the print is large and clear, paper good, binding attractive.” (Technical Literature.)
“Authoritative. Contains much useful information. Only book on the subject.”
“Taken as a whole, the book will be found instructive and useful. Naturally, it does not give away trade secrets, but on the other hand, it contains much that is very little known by the general public, and it will well repay careful study.” Robert Job.
“Altogether, a credit and an ornament to American technological literature.” Joseph W. Richards.
Todd, Charles Burr.In olde Massachusetts. **$1.50. Grafton press.
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In these sketches of old times and places during the early days of the commonwealth are included descriptions of Cambridge in midsummer, a day in Lexington, autumn days in Quincy, Marblehead scenes, Martha’s Vineyard, and tales of Nantucket’s first tea-party, wrecks and wrecking, historic Deerfield, Pittsfield, the Hoosac tunnel, Lenox, and other historic places, many of which are pictured by photographs.
“An entertaining volume.”
Todd, Margaret Georgina (Graham Travers, pseud.).Growth. †$1.50. Holt.