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Eight stories, each of which deals with some sort of adventure. “‘A man hunt’ seems the modern New York equivalent for the complicated expeditions with which du Boisgobe thrilled Paris in the seventies; but ‘A study of sociology,’ with its sinister termination, gives a welcome glimpse of Mr. Train’s special knowledge, and approaches more nearly to the realistic interest of ‘A prisoner at the bar.’” (Nation.)
“Within their obvious limits, these stories are good. They are quick, lively, ingenious, better written than the majority of their class, more competently worked out, less childish.”
“[There is] piquancy which will commend the group to the most indifferent reader.”
Train, Arthur Cheney.Prisoner at the bar: side-lights on the administration of criminal justice.**$2. Scribner.
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“The object of Mr. Train’s book is to give a concrete idea of the actual administration of criminal justice in large cities. The book is by no means an academic essay in criminology, but the result of actual observation and experience, the author having been associated for some years with District Attorney Jerome as prosecutor in the criminal courts of New York city.”
“It is not too much to say that this volume is easily one of the most important books on penology of the last decade.” Carl Kelsey.
“He has written an authoritative description of the machinery of criminal justice and has done his work so well that even he who runs may see the wheels go ’round.” Frederick Trevor Hill.
“Although thoroughly serious in purpose, he lightens his chapters with amusing anecdote and thus gives us an entertaining as well as a strikingly suggestive book.”
“Let no one think that because Mr. Train has written a book lightly readable and brimming with humor that it has no significance.”
“An instructive and interesting account of the actual administration of criminal law in the largest of American cities.”
“A set of most interesting sidelights on the actual administration of criminal justice in our large cities. The voice is the voice of the expert, though the hand is rather that of the journalist.”
“The book as a whole belongs to the same class as Mr. Francis Wellman’s ‘Art of cross-examination.’”
“Mr. Train’s greatest service, perhaps, lies in his showing partly intentionally but partly unconsciously, the extent to which we tolerate mediaeval methods ill-adapted to modern conditions, and the extent to which, in practice at least, we hold the mediaeval theory that vengeance is the object of punishment.”
“We hope that Mr. Train’s book will meet the reception in this country which it deserves.”
Trask, Kate Nichols.In my lady’s garden; pages from the diary of Sir John Elwynne. **$1. Lane.
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A love idyl whose background is a tangle of fragrance. The capricious Mary is wooed by the staid Sir John and is simply waiting for him to conquer her caprice. When the conquest is made the feminine question comes, “O, Jack, why did you let us waste so much time?”
“The fragrance and beauty of the English garden in May are in the book. There is wisdom in it, too.”
Trask, Kate Nichols.Night and morning. **$1.25. Lane.
A side-light on the divorce problem. It upholds the “higher inner law of love itself which in itself is the highest freedom,” and which is “a Beatitude rather than a law.” It “is the story of the woman taken in adultery retold in picturesquely colored blank verse, with the imaginative addition of the personality of her lover, a ‘subtle Greek’ Leonidas.” (Nation.)
“Its development and constructive power indicate a mind of very uncommon order. There is a continuous upbuilding of interest until the last words are spoken. The poem is didactic, but its artistic form is preserved, in spite of the extreme difficulty of the situation which might easily have resulted in the art being, at all events, obscured by theological discussion.” D. Frangcon-Davies.
“The story is told with picturesque beauty and adorned with happy imagery. Avowedly a didactic composition, the poem is nevertheless deeply moving, and its spiritual message is high and clear.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The mood of the poem is admirable throughout, and the workmanship respectable.”
“Here and there an occasional false quantity is found, but the poem, as a whole, is of surpassing beauty and Miltonic dignity. This quality of its verse and the high quality of its philosophy should destine ‘Night and morning’ to become immortal.” U. W.
Traubel, Horace.With Walt Whitman in Camden: (March 28–July 14, 1888). **$3. Small.
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“Is as revealing in character as it is unconventional in its literary make-up.”
Treffry, Elford Eveleigh, comp. Stokes’ encyclopedia of familiar quotations. **$2.25. Stokes.
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“A work that can be easily consulted for phrases and sentiments, as the quotations are arranged under subjects. A general index gives the usual reference for every important word in every quotation, making it available for fugitive line or passage. The author index, with its long list of mere page references to authors, is of little value. An effort has been made to include quotations by modern authors, Kipling, Hay, Roosevelt, Stedman, Henry Van Dyke, and others.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
“The work will supplement but not replace Hoyt’s ‘Cyclopaedia of practical quotations’ and Bartlett’s ‘Familiar quotations.’”
Trent, William P., and Henneman, John B., comps. Best American tales. 35c. Crowell.
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Tales from Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Fitz-James O’Brien, and Edward Everett Hale have been selected for this addition to the “Handy volume classics.”
Trevelyan, George Macaulay.Garibaldi’s defence of the Roman republic. *$2, Longmans.
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“This volume has to do with Mazzini’s short-lived Roman republic in 1849.... The volume is divided into three parts, the first ... tells the story of Garibaldi’s childhood at Nice, of his adventurous life in South America, and his romantic marriage ... of the condition of the Roman states from 1815 to 1846, and of the reform movements and democratic protests. This prepares the way for part second, which describes the defense of Rome, and part third, which treats of Garibaldi’s retreat and escape.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is at once illuminated by enthusiasm and clarified by faithful scholarship. It is a worthy English monument to one of the noblest periods in the life of a noble nation.” H. S.
“He deserves the warmest thanks for his picture of a period which suits excellently his vivid style.”
“Mr. Trevelyan does not display much knowledge of Italy as she is to-day.” W. Miller.
“A book of literary distinction and genuine utility.”
“It is to be hoped that a serious historical work, at once so authoritative, so well written, and so romantic, will do much to dispel the popular illusion that history must needs be ‘dull.’”
“It is when he enters into communion with the soul of his hero that Mr. Trevelyan is at his best, and that is to say that he excells at a point where even the greatest historians have failed.”
“The author’s attitude is that of sympathetic admiration, but he does not permit enthusiasm to blind him to the mistakes and errors of his hero.”
“We wish that Mr. Trevelyan would write another volume like this, of exceptional merit, recounting Garibaldi’s later triumphs.”
“An interesting and scholarly—a rare juxtaposition of adjectives—account of this strenuous patriot’s heroic defence of the short-lived Roman republic.” G: Louis Beer.
“Mr. Trevelyan has walked over every inch of the ground; he has described the country and the military problem in a clear and picturesque narrative.”
Trine, Ralph Waldo.In the fire of the heart. **$1. McClure.
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The author “has collected a vast quantity of statistics and quotable facts upon social conditions in America and woven them together in the web of his own enthusiasm for humanity.” (Outlook.) The subjects are as follows: With the people: a revelation; The conditions that hold among us; As time deals with nations; As to government; A great people’s movement; Public utilities for the public good; Labor and its uniting power; Agencies whereby we shall secure the people’s greatest good; The great nation; and The life of the higher beauty and power.
“With strong moral undertone, the book presents rather strikingly a number of the vital facts of our modern industrial system and the problems resulting from it.”
“This work is a very important addition to the rapidly growing literature of social progress that is emanating from our younger men of clear mental vision, of heart and of conscience.”
“The simple reassertion of opinions is not proof of their soundness, and the reader can easily discover that the arguments on one side are here urged without much consideration ofthose on the other side. With the ethical ideals of the author it would be difficult to take issue.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
“A deep and fervent sympathy with the toilers characterizes the book.”
“Abounds in suggestive ideas bearing upon present-day life.”
Trine, Ralph Waldo.This mystical life of ours; a book of suggestive thoughts for each week through the year. **$1. Crowell.
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An even fifty-two helpful thoughts selected from the works of Dr. Trine. They exhort the one striving for success to come into harmony with the higher laws and forces, to come into league and to work in conjunction with them, for only then is the wayfarer in a position to test and to be benefited by the “ever present Help.”
Trobridge, George.Emanuel Swedenborg: his life, teachings, and influence. 25c. Warne.
A reliable life of Swedenborg which “is not only a mine of original information, but provides the means of correcting many current misconceptions concerning this remarkable man.”
Trow, Cora Welles.Parliamentarian. 75c. Wessels.
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A manual of parliamentary procedure, extemporaneous speaking and informal debate.
Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes, jr.Court beauties of old Whitehall: historiettes of the restoration.*$3.75. Scribner.
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“Merely a superfluous piece of book making, badly done. Its style is journalese of a poor type”
Trumbull, William.Evolution and religion: a parent’s talk with his children concerning the moral side of evolution. **$1.25. Grafton press.
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In these brief religious talks on evolution the author touches upon all the great facts of life, in a simple, wholesome way that will prepare the child mind for larger and more scientific works upon prolonged infancy, race survival, government, human beliefs, animal worship, selection, and the hundred other topics here suggested.
Tucker, T. G.Life in ancient Athens: the social and public life of a classical Athenian from day to day. *$1.25. Macmillan.
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Athens during the hey-day of its classical period is portrayed, the time when Athenian life stood for vigorous vitality and unblemished character. It is mainly of the things that have been too well preserved in antiquities for time to efface that Mr. Tucker writes; actual events, actual buildings; knowledge of manners, customs, ideals; of Attic virtues, vices, weaknesses, humors, drolleries; and knowledge of what law and society allowed.
“If we must criticise, we would cast a doubt upon the statement that the Athenians were a mixed race. We can find no evidence of an Achaean strain in their ancestry. Nor do we hold that the Greek tongue was a Homeric importation. And to speak of the Propylæa as a ‘triumphal arch’ is surely misleading to the novice in these matters. Apart from these points, our only quarrel with Professor Tucker is the complete absence of all references.”
“On the whole, the volume achieves its modest aim, which at once disarms criticism; but it rather suffers from the inevitable comparison with some of the other members of the same series.”
“Humor bubbles up from time to time. It is perhaps ungracious to note errors. What are they compared with the Attic salt of the author which leaves a pleasant taste?”
“It is no easy matter with a book to make an ancient people live again. For either the writer’s learning clouds his sense of style to the dusty detriment of the reader’s interest, or love of style, dangerously liable to profit by lack of industry, is indulged in at the expense of solid learning. But Prof. Tucker of the University of Melbourne has fairly steered between that Scylla and this Charbydis.”
“Nothing can be found covering so satisfactorily and completely the subject here treated as does this book.”
“A most instructive and illuminating book.”
Tuker, M. A. R.Cambridge; painted by William Matthison. *$6. Macmillan.
A “businesslike” volume which in addition to descriptive information which one desires is the “inspiration which we expect in one who writes about an ancient home of learning, haunted by the associations of great names.” (Spec.) “The origin and history of the schools of Cambridge, an account of their social and intellectual life, and of their distinguished graduates, together with seventy-seven full-page illustrations in color of the colleges and grounds, painted by William Matthison are the principal features of the work.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Miss Tuker has put a quart of solid information into her pint pot, but her text is as a whole much above the standard hitherto reached in these ‘colour’ books.”
“If Mr. Tuker chose to write a reference book instead of evoking a spirit, perhaps there is nothing to say except that he has performed his task well.” May Estelle Cook.
“Contains nearly a hundred colored illustrations, as to the excellence of which tastes will doubtless differ. The text, however, may be commended as an intelligent and careful exposition of the mysteries of an English university, sound, discriminating, and readable.”
“The pity is that this middle portion has not been expanded to shut out both the beginning and end of the book.”
“Topics that have been handled not once or twice only before become fresh under the author’s vigorous treatment. And a new topic, which has hitherto been but casually referred to, receives the full attention which it requires. The pictures themselves are very attractive, finely finished, and always pleasant to look at. One might say that the imaginative element is wanting. We see the places to the very best advantage, but there is no hint of anything more. There is nothing Turneresque about them.”
Tunison, Joseph Salathiel.Dramatic traditions of the dark ages. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
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Mr. Tunison’s aim is “to popularize the investigations of the learned, cumbrous, and eccentric Sathas, who sought to show that whatever dramatic tendencies appeared in western Europe during the middle ages were directly inspired by Byzantium.” (Nation.) “The book is a mine of interesting facts about social, religious, and literary life, as connected with or influencing the stage, during the centuries of the Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is obvious, then, that Mr. Tunison’s evidence cannot always be accepted without examination. But the book is ... distinctly interesting and valuable. It is the work of a scholarly and independent mind; but unfortunately the lack of sound methods produces as strange results in literary history as it used to produce in etymology.” John Matthews Manly.
“The author commands plain facts enough to make up a useful popular history of dramatic tendencies in Byzantium and the Western empire, but owing to his vitiated method, he merely gives the impression of being widely misinformed.”
“Mr. Tunison has the skill and liveliness of method which enable him to marshall this wonderful array of facts which he has got together into a readable thesis of mingled narrative and argument. His own vigorous intellectual personality, evident in the assurance with which he sets forth his surmises, convictions, and arguments, gives a pleasurable tang to his scholarly production.”
Turgenieff, Ivan Sergieevitch.Novels and stories of Ivan Turgenieff; tr. from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. 14v. English ed. in 16v. ea. $1.25. Scribner.
A complete translation of Turgénieff’s works, “The present version by Miss Hapgood is more extended [than Mrs. Garnett’s] as it includes all the well-known works, with the addition of a few writings of minor importance which had not been before translated.” (Ath.) Mr. Henry James has furnished the set with an introduction which is “a sympathetic study of the great author as a man.” (Spec.)
“On the whole, the translation is distinctly good.”
“In any proper sense of the word, Turgénieff is one of the most real of writers. We feel, though we cannot test the feeling as we could in the case of a story of English life, that the characters are truly drawn, that their creator knows a great deal more about them than they know about themselves, and that they are at once individuals and types.”
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“A great service to the younger generation of readers.” Florence Finch Kelley.
“Miss Hapgood knows Turgénieff as thoroughly as she knows the language in which he has written.”
“The translator, an accomplished Russian scholar, appears to have done her work as well as possible”
Turner, George Frederic.Frost and friendship. †$1.50. Little.
At the court of his friend, King Karl of Grimland, a rich young Englishman, a draper’s son encounters an amazing series of adventures and in the end, of course, wins a wife. Winter sports, tobogganing, and curling furnish amusement and also play their part in the drama in which frost and friendship melt beneath the warmth of love.
“Comes dangerously near the superfluous.”
“There are exciting incidents, but improbabilities end by becoming absurdities.”
Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester.Reminiscences of a missionary bishop. **$2. Whittaker.
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“The author records his experiences with no word of complaint for the hardships he was called upon to endure, and his book cannot fail to be an inspiration to the younger members of the ministry of his church, to whom he gives useful advice upon a variety of topics.”
Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie).Maker of modern Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.
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“The style is clear and entertaining, and, though the numerous byways through which the author leads us, destroy the logical arrangement and proportion of the book, still she tells us much that is welcome concerning Mexico which it would have been necessary to omit had she confined herself more strictly to her subject.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
Twelvetrees, W. Noble.Concrete-steel buildings; being a companion volume to the treatise on Concrete-steel. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“In this book, detailed accounts are given of various buildings in reinforced concrete which have been built in Europe and America, the original data for which have for the most part appeared in the technical press. The descriptions are very complete, entering into all the details of design and construction, and are very well illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs.”—Engin N.
“The book presents a very satisfactory compilation. Great care has been taken to acknowledge all indebtedness to British publications; to French, German and American authors small consideration is shown.”
“An excellent index adds much to the value of this book for reference purposes, which will prove a welcome addition to the library of every architect and civil engineer.” T. H. B.
Tybout, Ella Middleton.The smuggler. †$1.50. Lippincott.