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Mystery and plot abound in this story. “The heroine leads a double life, and is suspected of leading a triple or quadruple one. Sums like £150,000 are juggled with airily as feathers; the properties include bicycles, revolvers, knotted cords, strychnine, (wholesale,) perfumed handkerchiefs, half-destroyed letters, watches stopped at dreadfully significant hours, and the southern European kingdom of Moritania—royal line extinct. There is a detective who is not likely to displace Sergeant Cuff or Mr. Sherlock Holmes in our affections.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Beginning with the title, the author furnishes us with a thrill if not in every line, certainly on every page. The plot does not unfold; it rolls up and accumulates like a snowball.”
“As a detective story the book suffers a little from the same thread of interest not being sustained all through. The end of the story is brutally horrible, and we are not convinced by the author’s production of the real criminal.”
Davis, Grace T.Hero tales of congregational history. *$1. Pilgrim press.
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“The characters sketched in this volume are all illustrious in the history of the Congregational churches for nearly three centuries. As pioneers of religion and civilization, and as builders of institutions, their names have gone into our national history, and their lives deserve the commemoration here bestowed. It is intended especially for adolescent readers, and is effectively illustrated.”—Outlook.
Davis, Hayne, ed. Among the world’s peace-makers: an epitome of the Interparliamentary union. $1.50. Progressive pub. co.
An epitome of the Interparliamentary union, with sketches of eminent members of this international house of representatives and of progressive people who are promoting the plan for permanent peace which this union of lawmakers has espoused.
“Will be to the future historian a trustworthy and most fruitful source of information.”
Davis, Henry William Charles.England under the Normans and the Angevins. *$3. Putnam.
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Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.
Davis, Latham.Shakespeare, England’s Ulysses: the masque of Love’s labor’s won, or The enacted will; dramatized from the sonnets of 1609. *$3. Stechert.
The masque, whose text is the sonnets of 1609, is really a legal document whose sole purpose is to convey and re-establish by a will the authorship of our Shakespearian literature. “The name of the new heir to the Shakespearian mantle, as revealed by the ‘star-like’ acrostic that ‘stands fix’d’ at the termination of thedramatis personæis that of ... Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex.”
“It is a queer book, an unreadable one, and to the ordinary mind quite unintelligible, but it is a book and it is printed, and it will comfortably amaze a few of the credulous. There’s not a bit of harm in it.”
Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn M.Price of silence; with il. by Griswold Tyng. †$1.50. Houghton.
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New Orleans furnishes the setting for this romance whose prologue deals with civil war times. “Then the tale passes over the intervening years to the present time and concerns itself with the love and complications of a grandniece of the mansions’s chatelaine, a son of the Union officer who commanded the looting provost guard, and young relatives and friends of the heroine.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Its interest is cleverly maintained, and its colouring is vivid and pleasing.”
“The story is told with unfailing animation, and pictures with great fidelity the traits of the old French society now rapidly passing from view as a distinctive element in the life of the ancient city of Bienville.” Wm. M. Payne.
“We suspect that the story is of a sort to be widely read, and to be generally taken, at least in the North, for a true and pleasing picture of southern types and southern life. We protest against such acceptance of it, and decline to believe that this colonel-myth is anything but a travesty of the truth.”
“It is very curious that an author who can write as well and with as much taste as Mrs. Davis should be so entirely lacking in artistic instinct. There is much in her book that is very charming. And along with it is much that is deplorably clumsy and grotesque.”
“The book is unsatisfactory, both as a picture of the times with which it deals and as a story.”
Davis, Michael M.Gabriel Tarde: an essay in sociological theory. $1. Michael M. Davis, 791 West End av., N. Y.
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An analysis of M. Tarde’s system. “After reviewing and summarizing Tarde’s positions the author introduces some evidence to show that Tarde only partly understood the role of imitation and has consequently over-estimated it. The criticism is well taken. So, too, is the criticism based upon Tarde’s neglect or ignorance of the work of others which might have saved some missteps. The author gives him great credit for original and suggestive discussions.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“A piece of clean critical workmanship. Mr. Davis is to be congratulated upon the catholicity of his discussion.” Albion W. Small.
“Students of social theory will find this monograph of interest and value.”
Davis, Norah.World’s warrant; with a frontispiece by F. C. Yohn. †$1.50. Houghton.
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“Briefly, it is the endeavor to get a wife by advertisement, and the resulting tangle in the lives of a number of persons whose characters, cultivation, and position in the world would ordinarily remove them far from any such complications.”—N. Y. Times.
“Miss Davis merits notice chiefly from her treating the South as a live country, inhabited by contemporary human beings, and not by a set of conventional lay figures left over from the tragedy of the last generation.”
“Miss Davis has evolved a plot of unusual ingenuity and dotted it with situations that are striking and unexpected. A good many of them must be taken at a gulp if they are taken at all. The author has developed the plot very cleverly.”
“Miss Davis not only makes very real both the atmosphere of somnolent Dixieland and the rattle and bustle and determined energy that are waking it up, but she also has the knack of weaving a plot and the ability to invent incidents and situations and to depict character.”
Davis, Richard Harding.Real soldiers of fortune. **$1.50. Scribner.
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Mr. Davis sketches “the kind of man who in any walk of life makes his own fortune, who, when he sees it come, leaps to meet it and turns it to his advantage.” The group includes Gen. William Walker, Baron Harden-Hickey, General MacIver, Winston Spencer Churchill, Capt. Philo Norton McGiffen, and Major Burnham.
“Written with the author’s usual spirit and dash.”
“A collection of biographical sketches of unequal merit.”
“The remarkable deeds of six remarkable men, told by a writer also accounted remarkable, furnish reading that should be and is remarkably interesting.”
“The exploits and adventures of these real soldiers of fortune are not a whit less interesting or astonishing than those of Mr. Davis’s ideal soldier of fortune.”
“Adventurous spirits are presented in the narrative, with anecdote, episode, and adventure, which reads like the wildest romance, and yet through the care of the author is not dissociated from the historical events in which these men played important, but, for the most part, thankless rôles.”
“The spirit and dash with which these biographical sketches are written will certainly attract young readers.”
“Mr. Davis’ study of Walker, the filibuster king, has resulted in a real contribution to our knowledge of that strange character, and many Americans, young and old, will read this new estimate of Walker with a fresh interest.”
“The best sketch in the book is that of ‘Major Burnham, chief of scouts.’”
Davis, Richard Harding.Scarlet car. †$1.25. Scribner.
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These sprightly stories, three in number, are brimful of adventure. A large red motor car furnishes the possibilities of romance which involves the affections of a charming Beatrice, young Peabody whom she drops unceremoniously, and Billy Winthrop, “the right man” of the scarlet car. “Knowing Mr. Davis’s taking ways where proper figured men and pretty women are concerned, and his ingenuity in finding interesting situations for them—noble, manly attributes for the men, graceful, girlish tricks for the women, sentiment for both—you do not need to be told any more details of the story of the scarlet car. You will find out for yourself.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A light, bright, little story for an idle hour or two.”
“Why should Mr. Davis, a man who knows Gallegher, make himself the literary chauffeur of such merely sleek, well-fed supernumeraries?”
“The amusing incidents which happen by the way are appropriate to the undisguisedly farcical nature of the whole affair.”
“Mr. Davis is not at his best in ‘The scarlet car.’ It is very distinctly destined for the most careless of summer readers. Frederick Dow Steele’s pictures are excellent.”
“An extravaganza-like tale, in which love, motoring, and adventure are carelessly mingled with a quite modern infusion of humor.”
Davis, William Stearns.Victor of Salamis: a tale of the days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles.†$1.50. Macmillan.
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This piece of historical fiction deals with the invasion of Greece by the Persians under Xerxes. Altho many of the characters are fictitious and the love story is purely imaginary, the scenes are apparently true to the times, and Athens and Sparta are made to tremble before the invader as history tells us they trembled, while her heroes of the hour play the glorious parts which history says they played. Perhaps the best chapters are those descriptive of Thermopylae and Salamis.
“Interest is well sustained by the incidents of war and fortunes of love.”
“We think that Mr. Davis might have been a little more careful in his proper names.”
“Knowledge and deep sympathy combine to make the book something more than readable, which is perhaps all that was to be expected of it.” Wm. M. Payne.
“It is a particularly grim story of war, with amply abundant details to satisfy, even to satiate, the most bloodthirsty reader who ever frequented a circulating library.”
“The leading historical personages are made to appear real men.”
“The weakness of the book is in some details, which count, it may be, for more than they are worth.”
Dawson, Alec J.The message.†$1.50. Estes.
A novel with a purpose which presumes to command a 1940 view point. “His standpoint is frankly imperial, and even partisan. He assumes that the trend of the present government is towards weakness and sentimentalism and the neglect of national interests; and from that postulate he has developed a pretty pickle for the country it governs. The Germans land in force on the coasts of East Anglia, and in an almost incredibly short time Great Britain is at their mercy. Thereafter comes the rebuilding—the re-edification which is implied in the title. This tack is initially undertaken by Canadian preachers, and indeed the entire regeneration comes from the colonies.” (Ath.)
“What remains of highest value in the story is the human current of interest, which is maintained from the first.”
“Is for the most part rather frankly boresome, with here and there a welcome oasis of something distinctly better, something that seems almost worthy of the author of ‘Hidden manna.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Mr. Dawson is afire with patriotic purpose, but he is so didactic as to be at times dull.”
“The whole book moves briskly, and is exciting reading, although in the earlier part anything but exhilarating.”
Dawson, Coningsby William.Worker, and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.
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The distinctive notes of Mr. Dawson’s verse are “passionate sympathy with contemporaneous experiences and conditions, ardent feeling, and a forcible though sometimes unmusical expression.” (Outlook.)
“The author of these poems possesses genuine lyrical feeling, and his thought, where abstract themes are dispensed with, is graceful and not too reminiscent. A more serious flaw is the tendency, constantly noticeable, to manufacture refrains, as it were, in season and out. By multiplying instances of this device, the author has gone far to defeat his own object, and incidentally, to disfigure a book of considerable promise.”
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
“Shows something of James Thomson’s poignant view of the world, something also of a pre-Raphaelite savor of phrase, but it is only intermittently visited by any real spell of verbal magic and compelling mood.”
“One reads this excellently cadenced verse, where never a note jars, but cannot recover it when lost to the ear. A certain tenuous, immaterial atmosphere pervades it all, leaving one uncertain as to what Mr. Dawson has said, or what has been won from his personal relation to life. Mr. Dawson is a poet of white light, but life is multi-colored.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
“His poetry is, so to speak, too close to the age in which it is written. For that reason it is likely to be heard, for it is the voice of the moment; for the same reason it is not likely to endure. It would be unjust to Mr. Dawson, however, to give the impression that he is simply a journalist in verse. Interesting and significant volume of verse.”
Dawson, Nelson.Goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ work. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
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“As befits the subject, this volume is beautifully printed and richly illustrated. It is intended not so much for the craftsman and worker in gold or silver as for the collector and art lover. Beginning with the gold and silver ore in the ground, the author follows the history of the manufacture of ornaments and articles of use in the precious metals from the very earliest dates, far back of the Greek and Roman period, down to our own times, with a specially full description of such little-known periods as that of the Irish metal-workers and of the early English renaissance.”—Outlook.
“There is really not one dull page in a publication that will no doubt appeal alike to the antiquarian, the student of ecclesiastical history, the artist and the craftsman.”
“On the historical side it is a little elementary; on the practical and artistic side it has the interesting personal touch that is only to be found in the notes of a man who knows from experience what the artist aims at, what means he employs, and what difficulties he has to face and overcome.”
Dawson, William Harbutt.German workman: a study in national efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.
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“A very readable account of that splendid system of ‘social policy’ by means of which the health and efficiency of the workman have been promoted as by no other people in the history of the race.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
Day, Emily Foster (Mrs. Frank R. Day).Princess of Manoa. **$1.50. Elder.
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Nine sketches from the folk-lore of Hawaii. Brown paper, black type, and full page illustrations in sepia, make a unique book daring in its oddity.
“The legends of old Hawaii are rich in romance and piquant charm, and Emily Foster Day puts into graceful English a few of the most interesting.”
“Very simply and sympathetically told, and in excellent taste.”
Day, Holman Francis.Rainy day railroad war.†$1. Barnes.
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A story for boys which “relates the history of a fight over the building of a railway through the timber lands of Maine. The young hero is an assistant engineer, and develops in this contest resourcefulness and courage.”—Outlook.
“Only fairly well done, but will be interesting to boys.”
“A spirited and vigorous story for boys.”
Day, James Roscoe.Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.
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Chancellor Day, the champion of corporate business, shows how trusts are logical, natural and consistent with the developing interests of the “new age.” He discusses corporations, the distribution of wealth, organized charity, tainted money and labor unions. Several interesting chapters are devoted to a defence of the Standard oil company.
Decharme, Paul.Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.
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“As a book of reference for the contents of Euripides’s plays, or a collection of passages bearing upon certain topics, Professor Decharme’s work will unquestionably be found useful; but for an introduction to the spirit of Euripides we should rather refer the student to Croiset, Dr. Murray, or Dr. Verrall.”
Deeping, Warwick.Woman’s war.†$1.50. Harper.
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The story of the contentions of two women whose husbands are rival doctors in a little English town. And in this game of chess, so maliciously carried on by the blacks, it is the queen that centers her energies, in the king’s behalf, on check-mating the king of the whites. The darkest moment for the white men is when the queen of the blacks attacks the castle of the white king’s reputation and sweeps it from the board, and it is only by steadily pushing a white pawn step by step to the king-row that the king and queen of the whites redeem the castle and check-mate the black king.
“In the effort to give greater life to the central figures the minor ones appear to have been neglected. Nevertheless we do not hesitate to commend the book.”
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Having chosen a painful but live contemporary theme, he proceeds to treat it with a childish superficiality.”
“A clever and forceful book this, but not entertaining, and hard as nails.”
“As a whole, both in seriousness of conception and in success of execution, the novel must be pronounced to have attained a high level of merit.”
De Garmo, Charles.Principles of secondary education: the studies. *$1.25. Macmillan.
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The fundamental principles of American secondary education are here set forth in the form of a text book for college and university classes. The object being “to reveal thru an analysis of the content of the studies themselves their inherent and comparative educational value, and upon a basis of the values thus established to determine the best possible combination of the studies into the various curricula now demanded by democratic society.” A second object is to show how secondary education can most effectively perform its proper functions.
“It is evident that such a systematic treatment by an authority so competent and respected as Professor De Garmo will be welcomed by students of education in America, and particularly by teachers of the principles of secondary education, who will find the book invaluable as text-book and reference.” Edward O. Sisson.
“The greatest value of the volume before us lies in the stimulus that it affords for classroom-work. An urgent need of this work, if it isto be truly serviceable, is a more extensive bibliography than the present meager references furnish.” Julius Sachs.
“So far as regards the distinctive study of secondary education, it must be said that Dr. De Garmo’s book is the first in the field. The name of the author and the title will arouse general interest in the volume, and this interest will be sustained by the contents.” Nathaniel Butler.
De Lancey, Magdalene (Hall), lady.A week at Waterloo in 1815. *$1.50. Dutton.