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A portrait, sketched by his son, of a rugged yet unvaryingly tender hearted New Englander who plied his shoemaker trade in winter and followed a skipper’s life in summer.
“In spite of some looseness of style the book is spell binding from start to finish.” Robert E. Bisbee.
“This little biography will be treasured not alone by those who revere its author’s memory, but by the wider public who will find in it a sympathetic yet discriminating characterization of a life well worth telling about, but of a kind not often described outside of fiction.”
Chamberlin, Georgia Louise, and Kern, Mary Root.Child religion in song and story: a manual for use in the Sunday schools or in the home. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
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Believing in unity in lesson, songs, prayers and memorized texts the authors of this book have arranged a series of thirty-nine lessons for children from six to nine in the Sunday school. The development of a general religious theme is aimed at in each group, and the groups follow each other in logical arrangement. The book is suggestive thruout and may be used in the home as well as in the Bible school.
Chambers, Robert William.Fighting chance. †$1.50. Appleton.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Deeply interesting as it is, ‘The fighting chance’ is not without flaws and imperfections.”
“Mr. Chambers has achieved another success.”
“How far Mr. Chambers is correct in his representation of the ways and manners of wealthy and ‘exclusive’ New Yorkers, especially of those who contrive to combine business with pleasure, must be left to the judgment of critics equipped with expert knowledge; but at any rate it is brisk and credible.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“Mr. Chambers has handled a problem, unpleasant in itself, with exceptional skill and delicacy in this story.”
Chambers, Robert William.Tracer of lost persons.†$1.50. Appleton.
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“All the light side of his nature, the fun and the cleverness, go into such a collection of stories as this, and the world is the better for getting so much wholesome laughter and tender sentiment.”
“Though cast in the guise of a continuous narrative, this volume consists in reality of short stories and should be read as such.”
“The humor is quite delicious, and the whole thing is carried through with great spirit.”
Chambers, Robert William.Tree of heaven. †$1.50. Appleton.
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“The occult in everyday affairs is the theme of this new book.... Each one of the stories of which the volume is composed tells the tale of some mysterious happening, some supernatural experience, beyond the power of material reasoning to explain, which comes into the life of some ordinary everyday man.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Trim, carefully upholstered, and perfectly imaginable tales. Very good of their extravagant kind.”
“Some of the separate stories are excellent in their mechanism and in the way of their telling. Nearly all of them suffer from opulent adjectivitis. Mr. Chambers too often marches along with his head in rainbowlike clouds, which he scatters like fragments all over his pages until the reader fairly longs for a nice gloomy page or two in which nothing will sparkle or flash or flame or dazzle or scintillate.”
Chambers, Robert W.Younger set.†$1.50. Appleton.
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“In the ‘younger set’ from which he gets his title Mr. Chambers finds much that is buoyant, much that augurs well for the future of the social development of New York. His hero is a gentleman and a soldier; his heroine a clear-eyed pure-minded young girl, the embodiment of faithfulness, good breeding, and true-heartedness; while there is a really charming family picture of father, mother, children, and dogs—Mr. Chambers’s dogs are always capital, by the way. The more serious purpose of the book is to discuss certain aspects of the divorce problem.”—Outlook.
“It is this vicious, sordid element which, we think, spoils the genuine love story that runs through the book. But Mr. Chambers is a clever writer and a close student of character.”
“Under a veil of pseudo-realism can no more disguise its fundamental melodrama than cottonseed oil can escape notice in a salad dressing.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The treatment is marred by the note of insincerity, and the virtuous types that the author contrasts with the vicious ones are too unreal to be taken seriously. It has certain elements of positive excellence, such as constructive art, poetical elegance of diction, and a sympathetic touch.” Wm. M. Payne.
“A sort of perverted Sabbath school story about the younger set in New York society.”
“This argument is the weakness in his story, because it is out of place, and it is not sustained by the lives of the characters portrayed.”
“The purpose of the novel—the inculcation of the idea that divorce does not terminate all the obligations of marriage—is clearly and interestingly evolved, in spite of the exaggerations and artificialities of expression with which it is at times obscured.”
“The author has taken plenty of space and filled his stage with more men and women, girls and boys, than we can enumerate. But they are all drawn with such skill and knowledge that one closes the book with a pleasant sense of its abundant vitality, breadth, and charm.”
“An absorbing story.”
“The present volume is a genuine piece of work, alive and tingling with nervous energy, although it is inferior in some respects to Mr. Chambers’s best work.”
“It is in more than one respect far more pleasant than the average novel of American society.”
Champlain, Samuel de.Voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain(1604–1616) narrated by himself; tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with introd. and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. 2v. ea. **$1. Barnes.
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“The translation is readable, the introduction excellent, and the notes, though not numerous, frequently offer original and valuable suggestions.”
“A very detailed account, which should be found in any considerable collection on the early period of American and Canadian history.”
“The editing and translation show painstaking care and appreciation of the work of the author. Disputed points, obscure references and seeming contradictions are satisfactorily explained in succinct foot-notes. An index, also, would have been of value.”
“The present translation by Mrs. Bourne is a boon to the reading public as well as a tribute to the great explorer and the acute observer whose fame grows as the knowledge of his service becomes more generally known.”
Champney, Elizabeth W.Romance of the Italian villas. **$3. Putnam.
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“From the vast storehouse of Italian legendary lore the author has collected a dozen or so stories identified with as many villas and has retold them, mostly in archaic form, so as to present an illusion of the past.” (N. Y. Times.) “She writes not so much of buildings as of the romantic and dramatic events which have taken place within their walls, not to mention other interesting incidents in the lives of famous people who dwelt there.” (Lit. D.) Numerous fine illustrations which are reproductions of paintings emphasize the value of the work.
“Carefully selected and delightfully told.”
“Will not take high rank either as a collection of tales or a literary guide-book. The style is undistinguished, and the author’s version of the histories attaching to the villas of which she writes is tame and undramatic.”
“She writes with verve, communicating to her reader the charm she feels herself.”
“It is a book such as only careful research could have produced well, but Mrs. Champney can be trusted to be sure of her ground. Having done this, she proceeds to write in a manner that is always felicitous.”
“The reader, for whom many personages of history are perhaps but names, is brought, as it were, into close intimacy with them in their very palaces.”
“It is a question whether anyone has the right to change facts even though they have no securer foundation than legend. These things Mrs. Champney has done. There is not the slightest doubt that she has improved the dramatic qualities of several of the stories she has handled.”
“Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney has made some very careful selections from the treasures of Italian legends, and has presented them in a manner most attractive to foreign readers.”
“With the subjects she has chosen it would be hard not to make a readable book, and this one is eminently so.” Charlotte Harwood.
Chancellor, Edwin Beresford.History of the squares of London: topographical and historical. *$5. Lippincott.
A history of London squares thru time and change with anecdotes of their famous occupants, omitting present or recent owners. In interesting succession are presented Berkeley square with its statue which Herbert Spencer maintained is better than the Venus de Milo; Grosvenor square with anecdotes of Alvanley and Nelson, Thrale and Wilkes; Cavendish square, with its reminiscences of the Marquis of Steyne and Princess Amelia, and Selwyn and Lord Bessborough.
“This book, which Mr. Chancellor has compiled with remarkable skill and industry, appears at a fitting time.”
“Mr. Chancellor’s account of his style is too modest. There is very little indeed in his book that can accurately be called ‘dull enumeration,’ and there are plenty of anecdotes, bits of forgotten history, and curious reminiscence.”
“There may be nothing new in it—and indeed it is the kind of book that can be written only by grace of the books that have preceded it; but it is never dull, and that is saying much of a work which contains 400 large pages and weighs 3 lb.”
“A work of considerable research and replete with curious and often valuable historical information.”
“Very entertaining is a good deal of the information the author has piled together about all the principal squares in London.”
Chandler, Frank Wadleigh.Literature of roguery. (Types of English literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.
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The second work of a series whose plan is to deal with all the important literary forms in English by a division according to types rather than a division into chronological periods. A concise description is given of the earlier appearances of the rogue as a typical figure in the literatures of Spain, France, Germany and Holland; then follows the rogue of the mediaeval time as he appears in drama, legend, and jest book, and the rogue of the picaresque novel of Elizabethan time. Criminal biographies, prison chronicles, drama, opera, sociological studies, and lyric verse are shown to yield their rascals, and the authors who have portrayed them are discussed.
“Its greatest charm lies in its peculiar combination of authority with human interest, of scholarly methods and an imposing bibliography with a fine sense of proportion,—a large grasp of the matter as a whole and in its relation to other lines of literary research.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
“His work is unique in its scope.”
“Whoever has the courage to plow through or the inspired wisdom to skip that dismal first volume will find that in the second, beginning with Defoe and coming down to Thackeray, there is a really interesting account of the Englishliterature of roguery, punctuated with pertinent critical remarks, and delivered like a man of this world.”
Channing, Elizabeth Parsons.Autobiography and diary: gleanings of a thoughtful life. *$1. Am. Unitar.
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A diary kept by the author during more than thirty years. The aim of Miss Channing’s friends in offering the volume is to lead to a “closer realization of the value of clear thinking and sincere feeling in things religious ... to promote reverence for things deep and true, love for things high and holy, patience in trial, and above all, faith in God.”
“Her diary is the simple record of a thoughtful mind, essentially womanly, carrying on homely tasks with patience, yet capable of sharing in the world’s movements.”
Chapin, Anna Alice.Heart of music: the story of the violin. **$1.60. Dodd.
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“Beginning far back in the region of legend, the story of this most ancient of all stringed instruments grows from the turtle shell to the marvel of Stradivarius, and is enthroned as the one perfect thing—‘the heart of music incarnate and triumphant.’”—Outlook.
“Her book is good of its kind, replete with curious information, and well written.”
“This vivid style and her faculty for choosing and setting forth lucidly and logically the salient characteristics of an epoch, a nation, or an individual makes her pages very readable.”
“An attractive book for all passionate lovers of the violin, and yet one that, by reason of the great mass of facts collected will hold the attention of students.”
Chapman, Frank Michler.Warblers of North America, by Frank M. Chapman, with the cooperation of other ornithologists; with 24 full-page colored pls., il. every species, from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall, and half-tones of nests and eggs. **$3. Appleton.
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“The first untechnical monograph on a single group of American birds,” including Gerald Thayer’s notes on songs and habits of birds. The special treatment of the warbler family, each species and subspecies being taken up in turn, is followed by a list of biographical references which “rounds out the treatment in a way that leaves nothing to be desired.” (Nation.)
“To the technical ornithologist, as well as to the amateur with only the myrtle and yellow warblers on his ‘list,’ this volume will be of constant use.”
“Its plan is easy of grasp and tends to make the book not only a pleasant reference volume, but gives it a place as a work of permanent and authoritative value.”
“Its title would much better have been ‘The wood warblers of North America,’ for the true warblers, family Sylviidae, also represented in North America, are not treated at all.” Harry C. Oberholser.
Chapman, J. Wilbur.S. H. Hadley of Water street: a miracle of grace. **$1.25. Revell.
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The narrative of the thoro evangelization of a man who spent a wild youth, became a drunkard, thief and gambler, but who after the transformation devoted twenty years to a useful life.
“Dr. Chapman has yielded somewhat disproportionate space to the eulogies pronounced over Mr. Hadley at the time of his death.”
Charles, R. H., ed. Ethiopic version of the book of Enoch; ed. from 23 Mss., together with the fragmentary Greek and Latin versions. (Anecdota oxoniensia, Semitis ser., pt. XI.) *$4. Oxford.
The author “holds that parts of the book were originally composed in Hebrew, parts in Aramaic, and that some at least of the original was in poetic form. The text is clearly printed and there is an ample apparatus of variant readings.”—Bib. World.
“Professor Charles’s long-expected critical text of Enoch constitutes a marked advance upon previous editions of that important work.”
“In the present careful text and very full apparatus the task seems done with tolerable finality.”
Chart, D. A.Story of Dublin; il. by Henry J. Howard. (Mediaeval towns ser.) $2. Macmillan.
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This is a story of Dublin from the year 150 A.D., in which the author does his surest work when he reaches mediaeval Dublin with its wealth of reliable material. He writes of the city, its topography, its buildings, of the variety and picturesqueness of the outlying country, of people and incidents; and lends to the whole a historical background. The illustrations are principally from pen-and-ink sketches and give value to the work.
“It is unfortunate that in his desire to write a popular tourists’ book Mr. Chart should have spoilt the history which, so far as it goes, has evidence of a real interest, research, and, we venture to say, promise of better work.”
“There are plenty of truths in this book—plenty of learning also; but there are grave gaps and often annoying inaccuracies.”
“A narrative at once agreeable to read and of historic value.”
Chaucer, Geoffrey.Stories from Chaucer, (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
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A faithful prose rendering of the best of the “Canterbury tales” written for young readers with the hope of stimulating a later study of Chaucer in the original text.
“When one re-tells the Canterbury stories, adding to them material which is not part of them, the result is of doubtful value. Mr. McSpadden’s introduction is in many ways worthy, and he shows a sincere effort to retain the spirit of the master genius.”
“The best that can be said about ... ‘Stories from Chaucer’ ... is that [it is] a literary impertinence. They are written, it is true ... with skill and cleverness, and with a limpid style that brings them quite withinthe limits of ten-year-old understanding. But why should mayhem be committed upon the literary body of a subtle, suggestive, and intellectual poet in order to make a holiday for babes?”
Cheney, John Vance, ed. Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States from Washington to Polk, from Taylor to Roosevelt. 2v. *$3. Reilly & B.
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Two handsome volumes which print collectively for the first time the inaugural addresses of our presidents.
“The bindings are simple and chaste, and the presswork unexceptionable. The addresses themselves form a subject well suited to be clothed in the form in which they here appear.”
Reviewed by Edward Cary.
Cheney, Warren.His wife. †$1.50. Bobbs.
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A group of Russian peasants among Alaskan snows enact here a drama impossible in its primitive passions to a more conventional setting. The wife of Luka dies in the first chapter, and he, crazed by her loss, wanders away to search for her. He fancies he has found her in his brother’s promised bride, wins her love, is wounded in the quarrel with his brother for her possession, and awakes after an illness to a realization that she is not the much loved wife he has lost. How these two souls so oddly met, so strangely bound together, work out their own happiness is the story of the book.
Chesson, Nora.Father Felix’s chronicles; with introd. by W. H. Chesson. *$1.50. Wessels.
“If ‘Father Felix’s chronicles’ suggest Maurice Hewlett, it is by no means in the ways of imitation, conscious or involuntary.” (Nation.) “Father Felix is a priest of the order of St. Benedict in the early part of the fifteenth century, and he has knowledge, in one way or another, of the loves and hates and desires and revenges of the men and women who surround the throne of King Henry IV. The author makes him tell the story of these vanished people so vividly that the dust of their passions seems touched with the fire of actual life.” (N. Y. Times.)
“She had in fact, assimilated the period as few novelists of to-day have done. Her tale is somewhat disjointed and episodic, but its vitality keeps interest for it. It is very learned in the times, but its learning is never an obsession.”
“It may well be said that the introduction to this remarkable story will create antagonism. Nevertheless, in spite of this serious handicap, the book itself shows ability of so rare an order as to point an instructive difference between a real creation and the flimsy stuff passing current as historical fiction.”
“The volume is well worth reading for the vivid picture which it leaves upon the mind, of life at the beginning of the fifteenth century.”
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.Charles Dickens.**$1.50. Dodd.