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“A dreamy prose idyl; the scene, that most unromantic spot, a London lodginghouse; the persons, a middle-aged spinster and an elderly bachelor. Yet with these unpromising materials the author succeeds in awakening sympathetic attention. The pleasant mystification running through these pages will not bear too close analysis; nor do we feel inclined to put it to such a test. Lucilla is the name of the heroine. She is as agreeable as her name, and lives in an atmosphere of flowers, music, and firelight, with pets as ill-assorted as a tortoise, a cat, and a parrot.”—N. Y. Times.
“Interesting, not for its plot, but for the character sketches and conversation and the originality of the two main characters. Unusually well written.”
“The dreamy and half-mystical charm characteristic of the author is stamped on every detail of the story, imparting to it an individuality and persuasiveness of its own.”
“Hers is the method, rare, indeed, among English writers of fiction, which constructs without letting the reader see the processes of construction. There is such comedy or tragedy or fantasy on every page that the reader soon feels that to skip even a single sentence is to run the risk of missing something essential to the general effect, and at once to defraud himself and to do injustice to the writer and there is something of the fineness of thought which is rarely absent from good work.”
“This is a frankly sentimental book, without being at all mawkish. There are no laughs to be gained from it, but many comfortable smiles. The author’s style has grace and distinction.”
“It is very well done but was it worth doing?”
“A volume in which the delicate simplicity of the style is happily attuned to the gracious distinction of the author’s thought.”
Colestock, Henry Thomas.Ministry of David Baldwin. †$1.50. Crowell.
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David Baldwin, a young minister, just out of the divinity school, receives a call to a conservative pulpit in a Minnesota town, one condition being stipulated, viz., that he shall take with him a wife. He fulfills the letter of the call, and enters upon a mission full of stress and opposition. The pillars of his church denounce his ideas on the inspiration of the Bible, evolution and the higher criticism as unsound. How he holds to his principles and wins out in the conflict furnishes an interesting solution to a present day problem.
“The author designates his book a novel, but he would be better justified in calling it a novel once or twice removed.”
“The author, having arranged his pieces and set his problems, having made sundry moves as if he were going to play the game according to the rules, finally falls back on an act of God for his solution, which leaves the whole business where it began.”
“While there are many homely scenes sufficiently true to life in this tale ... it lacks grace, and fails to awaken complete sympathy for the somewhat ordinary young preacher.”
Collings, Jesse.Land reform, occupying ownership, peasant proprietary, and rural education. *$4.20. Longmans.
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This volume by “the well-known supporter of Mr. Chamberlain and president of the Rural laborers’ league ... opens with a discussion of the principles of the purchase of land bills, introduced into the house of commons by theauthor two years ago. Next follow seven excellent chapters containing a fairly full history of the origin and growth of the present English land system, and particularly of the gradual disappearance of peasant proprietorship. Lastly, a third division of nine chapters sets forth the arguments for and against the various proposals which have been made for the revival of British agriculture and the encouragement of small holdings.”—Nation.
“Mr. Jesse Collings will carry a larger public with him in his attempt to supply material for a history of the land question, from the point of view of the occupying owner, than he will in his definite proposals.”
“Valuable and instructive work.”
“A book of which certain parts are extremely interesting, though they appear in somewhat confused array.”
“Those who are interested in the problem of English land tenure, whether they agree with Mr. Collings in his main contention or not, will find his book instructive; those who are interested in rural education will find it suggestive, and all who are interested in social and economic problems should find it worth reading.” Henry C. Taylor.
“Ought to have been wholly authoritative, and yet throughout must be read with caution.”
Collins, Thomas Byard.New agriculture. $2. Munn.
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“A popular outline of the changes which are revolutionizing the methods of farming and the habits of farm life. The writer maintains that farm life was never so attractive as it is today, although he admits that present methods of production and distribution outside the farm leave much to be desired.”—R. of Rs.
“The book is a treatise rather than an experience and savors considerably of poetry as well as of business, and he makes some mistakes. It will be of use, however, to anyone who wishes to easily inform himself of recent progress in agriculture or cheer that ever-increasing hope that lies in urban hearts and makes men think of a farm home.” J. Russell Smith.
“An interesting volume.”
Collyer, Robert.Father Taylor. *80c. Am. Unitar.
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Father Taylor lived and preached the principles of universal brotherhood. “An untutored son of nature, rugged of build, endowed with keen power of wit and repartee, scathing in his rebuke of everything low or mean, a father to his homeless sailor ‘boys,’ frank, generous, outspoken, fearless, owning no man his master in thought or action, lovable always, with an emotional nature generous in all its impulses, set aflame in the cause of those to whom he devoted his life, who made useof his Seamen’s Bethel in the port of Boston.”
“In his ‘Father Taylor’ Robert Collyer is at his best.” Robert E. Bisbee.
Colquhoun, Archibald Ross, and Colquhoun, Ethel Maud.Whirlpool of Europe, Austria-Hungary and the Habsburgs; with maps, diag. and il. **$3.50. Dodd.
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“Not merely a travel book, nor yet one purely geographical or political, but a combination of the two.” (R. of Rs.) “In this ‘Whirlpool of Europe’ may be studied the eddying currents of five or six different races, religions, and national ambitions. Every phase of European civilization, every question, racial political, or social, that has agitated Europe in the last two centuries may be here studied.” (Lit. D.)
“The book is the more important because of the scarcity of material on Austria available at the present time.”
“The value of the book—and it is great—does not consist in reply to the questions which the reader will put, but in the fact that a vast mass of material helping him to construct answers for himself is to be found in the pages of Mr. and Mrs. Colquhoun.”
“The book is highly interesting to all who wish information about the problems of the dual monarchy. The shortcomings of the book are in the conclusions and the observations of the near past and the present-day life. The intimate knowledge which cannot be taken from books, but which can be obtained only by an extended sojourn in the country, is often lacking, and in its place there are categoric statements not always reliable.”
“As regards political personages and living issues, such as Pan-Germanism, Pan-Slavism, etc. the volume is instructive and interesting. Very interesting also is the authoritative account of the emperor’s personality.”
“Mr. Colquhoun’s book appears to us to suffer to some extent from the attempt to cover too much ground; and we believe that it would have been more useful if he had devoted rather more space to the history of the last forty years and rather less to that of the Middle Ages.”
“It is pleasant to lay hands on a serious study of an interesting problem by writers who can bring to the task the essential historical perspective and a capacity for making the event of the day relate to what came before it.”
“As they have immeasurably accomplished their object, they are fairly entitled to a vote of thanks, even if they have failed to make their narrative quite as interesting as the picturesqueness of the material might persuade one to hope it might be.”
“A distinct contribution of value to political literature.”
“The chief weakness in the book lies in the want of arrangement, and an unfortunate tendency to go off at a tangent at any moment. Contains the makings of an excellent book on Austria-Hungary, but a great deal of revision and further study is necessary.”
*Colton, Arthur Willis.Harps hung up in Babylon.**$1.25. Holt.
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A lyrical offering whose verse rings on, sings on as do the loosened strings of his “harp of Babylon.” “Brief, happily-fashioned records of a mood, such as ‘Let me no more a mendicant’ or ‘To-morrow,’ show his characteristic touch, but the ‘Canticle of the road’ is perhaps more delightful, with its marching measure and breath of ozone. Mr. Colton’s work does not interpret a wide range of experience nor formulate a philosophy, though the Eastern morality poems are thoughtful and true in ethics, but it has a touch of its own and a charm of personality.” (Putnam’s.)
“He did well, however, to associate his collection with the name and the charm of its opening lyric, for here is as lovely a bit of melody as one will find in recent poetry.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
Colvin, Sir Auckland.Making of modern Egypt. 3d ed. *$4. Dutton.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A well-written digest of official reports, skillfully edited by a ‘Financial adviser’ who had a fair share in the ‘making.’”
Commander, Lydia Kingsmill.American idea. $1.50. Barnes.
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“In which the following question is considered: “Does the determination of the American people to establish a small family point to race suicide or race development?” The author discusses the question from first hand observation, search and interview and concludes that unless there is a social adjustment of industrial and social conditions, race suicide is inevitable.”
“A volume in which one of the gravest questions of the hour is treated in a most entertaining yet deeply thoughtful and wisely suggestive manner.”
“The discussion bears none of the dogmatic traits which usually characterize subjects of this nature; it is conducted in a fair and dispassionate manner.”
“Is valuable chiefly for the large amount of first-hand testimony it contains touching the causes of our falling birthrate.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
Commons, John Rogers.Proportional representation. 2d ed.; with chapters on the initiative, the referendum, and primary elections. **$1.25. Macmillan.
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The main portion of the work remains unchanged; in addition to it are several appendices, embracing articles written by the author since 1896, and dealing with the system of direct primary election, the initiative and referendum—“measures designed to make popular government in very reality government by the people, through enabling the people on the one hand to propose and on the other to veto legislation.” (Outlook.)
“Certain statistical information might advantageously have been brought closer to date. We observe, also, a few tabular errors that should have been corrected.”
Commons, John Rogers.Races and immigrants in America.**$1.50. Macmillan.
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“Prof. Commons believes that the dominant factor in American life, underlying all our political, legal, economic, ecclesiastical, and moral problems, is the conflict and assimilation of races. He has shown how the heterogenous elements that go to make up the American people have influenced our institutions, pointing out the characteristics of the various races and nationalities, their part in self-government, their effect on wealth and its distribution, the forces of Americanization, and the barriers against inundation.”—N. Y. Times.
“A popular study with scientific basis.”
“The work is scientific as to method and popular in style, and forms a very useful handbook about the American population.”
“Well fortified throughout by statistics, and evidencing a wide range of observation, the great merit of the volume is its sensibleness.”
“Prof. Commons has managed to set forth an immense amount of condensed information about these many-colored threads that have gone into the weaving of our Joseph’s coat and has found room also to discuss, with a remarkable breadth of view and an unusual amount of common sense, the causes of immigration, the instruments of assimilation, and the effect of the new conditions upon the immigrants.”
“Professor Commons has used the last census to good advantage, and gives much interesting information as to the constituent elements of this heterogeneous population, and also regarding the continuous displacing of one group by another with a lower standard of life.” G. Louis Beer.
“We do not recall another book of its size that presents so much important and essential information on this vital topic.”
Commons, John Rogers, ed. Trade unionism and labor problems. *$2.50. Ginn.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
Compayre, (Jules) Gabriel.Pioneers in education; tr. by M. E. Findlay, J. E. Mansion, R. P. Jago and Mary D. Frost. 6v. ea. **90c. Crowell.
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A series of six studies on the rise and growth of popular education as shown in the efforts of the following pioneer educators: J. J. Rousseau and education by nature; Herbert Spencer and scientific education; Pestalozzi and elementary education; Herbart and education by instruction; Montaigne and education of the judgment, and Horace Mann and the public-school system of the United States.
“M. Compayré possesses keen insight into the significance of the educational leaders and their contributions to educational thought, and both his critical and expository writing about them are most excellent.”
Comstock, Anna Botsford (Mrs. J: H: Comstock) (Marian Lee, pseud.).Confessions to a heathen idol; il. from photographs, by Fred Robinson. †$1.50. Doubleday.
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An irresponsive confidant in the form of an ugly little teak-wood idol hears the nightly heart-confessions of a woman of forty. Even thru her puzzled wonderings there is the wholesome sanity of a well-poised woman who says, “life with all its blisses and sorrows, its ecstasies and commonplaces, is mightily worth while to us mortals, because, good or bad, it is ever and always so surprisingly interesting.”
“A refreshingly unusual and whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The book has in it much to please and interest besides its rather thin little story. It is written with a refinement of taste and a distinction of manner that are to be found all too rarely in American fiction. But it lacks vital connection with life. It is pleasing, interesting, refined, but purely academic.”
“It is, in fact, a very good mechanism for telling a love story.”
Comstock, Harriet T.Meg and the others. †75c. Crowell.
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“Seldom have we read a sweeter or more natural and wholesome tale for little folks of from six to ten years of age than this charming story.”
Conant, Charles Arthur.Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4. Harper.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a work that marks an epoch and it is a work to influence that epoch—would that it might have that careful reading and study that it deserves, for the result would be a better America, because a more intelligent one!” E. S. Crandon.
Connolly, James Bennet.Crested seas. †$1.50. Scribner.
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A new volume of sea stories is added to Mr. Connolly’s other three. “Many of the old characters of his previous books appear in new rôles and scenes; Martin Carr, the good-natured veteran; Tommie Clancy, the reckless sail carrier; Dan Coleman, the soft-hearted skipper, and such familiar hands as Peter Kane, Sam Leary and Eddie Foy. To a farmer who has never seen the ocean these stories would be full of interest, but to one who knows a seine-heaver from a bite-passer, who realizes what it is to carry full sail when the water stands to the helmsman’s waist, and has himself heard the rattle of reef points on a tauted sail and the groaning of riggings under a press of canvas, these tales of the sea weave a spell that is difficult to throw off for some time.” (Ind.)
“The romance of a sailor’s life is not a new theme, but Connolly has lived and talked with these rough men of the banks, and has discovered the softer, sweeter side of their lives.”
“That the author possesses a real, if not too versatile, narrative gift is undeniable.”
“Mr. Connolly appears to understand the psychological make-up of sea-faring men, and he is hypercritical who would ask too many questions of a tale teller who always spins a good yarn and frequently one that has in it the elements of permanent value.”
“Has the spirited style that befits the sea tale of danger, romance and adventure.”
Connor, Ralph, pseud.The Doctor; a tale of the Rockies.†$1.50. Revell.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A rather conventional tale, but will be very popular with readers of earlier stories by the same author. Like them, it has a strong religious bias.”
“A worthy successor of the ‘Sky-pilot.’”
“But out of the total impression left on me by this story two facts emerge which seem to have significance of the right sort. One of these is the religious tone that pervades the book. The other significant fact is what I am compelled to call the immorality of portions of the book.” Ward Clark.
“Is written in his usual stringent style and abounds in thrilling situations.”
“A narrative that throbs with human interest.”
“Yet there is an artistic weakness, and it lies in the reiterated appeal to the reader’s finest sentiment.”
“The plot is a little involved and intricate, and therefore not easy to follow, and the character drawing is not very strongly marked.”
Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski).Mirror of the sea.†$1.50. Harper.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In a manner Mr. Conrad’s book marks an epoch, since it is written in praise of ships, by a man who has sailed them, whose style and shapes shall be sailed no more.”
Conrad, Joseph.Secret agent.†$1.50. Harper.
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A skilfully written story which looks into the lives of anarchists and the machinery of their organization. It tells of a secret agent in the employ of the Russian embassy in London, and of his relations with his employers, with anarchists, with an inspector of police, and with the sluggish members of his own family.
“It is a masterly study, the raw material of which would have been turned into crude melodrama by some writers. Mr. Conrad has made it the vehicle for some of the most telling characterization he has accomplished.”
“We approach Mr. Conrad’s ‘The secret agent’ with anticipations that are not fulfilled.” Wm. M. Payne.
“We do not consider ‘The secret agent’ Mr. Conrad’s masterpiece; it lacks the free movement of ‘Youth’ and the terrible minuteness of ‘Lord Jim,’ while it offers no scope for the employment of the tender and warm fancy that made ‘Karain’ so memorable; but it is, we think, an advance upon ‘Nostromo,’ its immediate predecessor.”
“The characters stand forth clearly enough, but you cannot get interested in them till you have gone through the first half of the volume. This is too heavy a draft on the faith of the reader.”
“There is, nevertheless, a vast gulf fixed between Mr. Conrad and the melodramatist, between the human tragedy of ‘The secret agent’ and the detective story of commerce.”
“The book will not compare favorably in narrative and descriptive ability with some of Mr. Conrad’s early work, but it has, in its strange way, notable tragic intensity.”
“In an Idle Reader’s opinion he is the best man at present telling stories.”
“There are certain obvious blemishes in this book.”
*Conway, Katherine Eleanor.In the footprints of the Good Shepherd, New York, 1857–1907; from the Convent annals and from personal study of the work. $1.25. Convent of the Good Shepherd. N. Y.