Chapter 39

7–29553.

An interesting tabulation of superstitions gathered from students in two California normal schools. With each superstition furnished, the student was asked to express belief, partial belief, or disbelief. The results are classified and presented statistically.

Dressler, Friedrich August.Moltke in his home. *$2. Dutton.

7–29134.

A sketch of Moltke written, by a musician. “The book has little to do with the creator of the modern German army. Instead it emphasizes the domestic side of the Field-Marshall’s character, his charming home life, his simplicity and refinement.... We learn to know, not only Moltke more familiarly, but also other Germans—the emperors, Bismarck, Richard Wagner, for instance.” (Outlook.)

“Herr Dressler tells us nothing very new, and a good deal of what he has to say is very small beer, yet his book is interesting because he has excellent opportunities, as a musician in great favour, of observing Moltke in every respect of private life.”

“The book will interest musicians, and also admirers of quiet family life.”

“Herr Dressler’s story, charming in its simplicity and the whole-hearted devotion, is adequately translated by Mrs. Charles Edward Barrett-Lennard.”

“The picture of life in the Moltke home is full of the homeliest German flavor, the quaint figure of the marshall himself as fresh and vivid and human as possible. A monument to the musician-author’s harmless vanity and his deep affection for the great man in whose glory he sunned himself.”

Drew, Gilman A.Laboratory manual of invertebrate zoölogy. *$1.25. Saunders.

7–21555.

A manual prepared in conjunction with the members of the zoölogical staff of the Marine biological laboratory in Wood’s Hole. “The invertebrates are here considered under twelve headings, and detailed directions are given for the study of each division. Following this,come suggestions and questions in regard to allied form.” (Nation.)

“This book possesses the unusual qualification of originality and great practical value. From a pedagogical point of view, the manual answers all requirements.”

“A rather careful reading of several sections reveals no serious faults, while typographical errors are few.” J. S. Kingsley.

Driver, Rev. Samuel Rolles.Book of the prophet Jeremiah: a revised translation, with introd. and short explanations. *$1.50. Scribner.

7–15938.

“The aim of Dr. Driver’s book as he tells us is ‘to assist an ordinary educated reader to read the Book of Jeremiah intelligently and to understand the gist and scope of its different parts.’ To this end a new translation is given which aims to be ‘idiomatic, dignified, accurate, and clear.’ This aim is attained. An introductory sketch of the life of Jeremiah and a characterization of his style is given and brief notes at the foot of the page and in an appendix supply the most needed elucidations of the text.”—Am. J. Theol.

“The book is a good illustration of the author’s well-known caution in the matter of literary and textual criticism.” Kemper Fullerton.

“A very useful handbook.”

“The reader with an ordinary education may read the book intelligently.”

“It all looks so simple and easy that we cannot help asking why no one ever did it before; but the very simplicity is the sign of the master mind.”

Druce, George C.Dillenian herbaria: an account of the Dillenius collections in the Herbarium of the University of Oxford, together with a biographical sketch of Dillenius, selections from his correspondence, notes, etc.; ed., with introd. by S. H. Vines. *$4.15. Oxford.

“Mr. Druce has drawn up this account of the collections left by Dillenius, and has critically examined the specimens preserved as vouchers, illuminating many doubtful passages in the third edition of Ray’s ‘Synopsis,’ and practically disposing of the dubious entries which have troubled many subsequent botanists. For studies of this character the facilities offered at the Botanic garden, Oxford, are extremely good, and only to be excelled by the Sloane volumes in the department of botany, Cromwell road.... The introduction by Prof. Vines is an appreciative essay on the position of Dillenius as regards his contemporaries; then, with a single page of preface, Mr. Druce gives a life of Dillenius and bibliography.”

“The technical account of these three herbaria would not in itself be interesting to the general reader, were it not for the sundry introductory notes and fragments of letters. But these fragments have the charm which clings to a great part of eighteenth-century science, and carry one back to the days when naturalists did not confine themselves to single and restricted fields.”

“This volume is a valuable contribution to the history of the botanic preeminence of Oxford in the first half of the eighteenth century.” B. D. J.

Drummond, Henry.Natural law in the spiritual world.35c. Crowell.

A reprint uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”

Dry, Wakeling.Giacomo Puccini.(Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.

7–14600.

The man and his history are sketched as fully as is possible in the case of a “living master.” The author offers an analysis of Puccini’s operas down to and including “Madame Butterfly.” There are portraits of the composer, views of his various dwelling places and facsimiles of his musical autographs.

“Personal intercourse with the composer has enabled the writer to give point and life to his narration of certain events in the life of Puccini.”

“A biographer should, of course, be sympathetic to his subject, but critical insight would make the book more helpful to those who have not arrived at his standpoint. This attitude and the fact that it is evidently very hastily written—a haste which too often shows itself in the use of slipshod English and badly corrected proof-sheets—make the first chapters, which are biographical and include some personal reminiscences, the most interesting reading.”

“Mr. Wakeling Dry possesses little distinction as a writer, and his book is a purely journalistic compilation.” Richard Aldrich.

DuBois, Elizabeth Hichman.Stress accent in Latin poetry. **$1.25. Macmillan.

6–30472.

Dr. Du Bois’ aim has been “to establish an explanation of the purely quantitative Latin poetry which shall reconcile the opposing views as to an apparent clash between word accent and verse accent.” Her work “consists of ninety-six pages only, but every paragraph is closely reasoned, and the writer supports her argument in each case with copious quotations.” (Acad.)

“We are inclined, indeed, to say that Miss du Bois attributes too much importance to accent as an element in language. We find it difficult to believe that any one will be nearer to scholarship for studying Miss du Bois’s book, though we do not deny that she may render service incidentally.”

“We have said nothing of the thoroughness and breadth of the author’s scholarship, to which, however, each page of this monograph bears abundant witness.” Harry Thurston Peck.

“The little book of ninety-six pages fairly justifies Professor Peck’s imprimatur, notwithstanding a too frequent looseness of statement, careless proof reading, and the small ratio of original discussion to mere summarizing of the views of others.”

“All the authorities on the subject have been carefully scrutinized and are duly cited, and the book is full of evidence of the most elaborate and careful research on the part of the author into a region of classical scholarship which is practically unexplored by the average Latinist.”

DuBois, Patterson.Culture of justice: a mode of moral education and social reform. **75c. Dodd.

7–16993.

“Justice is here presented as the root-principle of the moral life—the, rather than, as theGreek and Roman philosophy esteemed it,acardinal virtue.... Wisdom and justice, as Plato taught, are mutually involved and inseparable. This is finely exemplified in Mr. Du Bois’s treatment of ‘the culture of justice.’ His ‘basal rule of practice is tothink justice—to do this as an acquiredhabit of mind.’... Mr. Du Bois draws largely upon facts both of adult and childish experience to illustrate by discriminating criticism what justice is and is not, both in large matters and in small, down to keeping dirty shoes off of car-seats.”—Outlook.

“If there is any better book on this subject in our language than this small volume, we would like to know it. To magistrates and lawyers, to teachers and parents, to all who care for progressive morality, social and personal, this admirable treatise cannot be too strongly commended.”

Du Bose, Horace M.Symbol of Methodism; being an inquiry into the history, authority, inclusions, and uses of the twenty-five articles; with introduction by Bishop E. E. Hoss. $1. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.

7–22109.

A frank treatment which refutes the charge of inadequacy brought to bear upon the Confessional articles of Methodism, and contributes to a correct understanding of the present doctrinal situation.

DuBose, William P.Gospel according to St. Paul. **$1.50. Longmans.

7–11043.

“Humanity, he says, ‘was predestined for the gospel in the sense that the gospel, which is Jesus Christ himself, is the natural, more than natural, supernatural or ultimate highest natural end or completion, and so predestination, of humanity.’ His work is designed to emphasise the divinity of Christ. ‘I bow,’ he says, ‘not only before the work of Jesus Christ as truly God’s, but the worker in Jesus Christ as truly God.’ This was, he thinks, Paul’s gospel.”—Spec.

“We agree heartily with Dr. Du Bose’s interpretation of Paul as far as we understand it. But we find it hard reading, and the interpretator of Paul should make his interpretation easy reading to the thoughtful reader.”

*Duckworth, Lawrence.Encyclopaedia of marine law. $2. Pitman.

An encyclopaedia including the main principles of marine law. The latest authorities have been consulted, and the latest statutes and decisions are incorporated in the text. The volume makes an appeal to all who deal with shipping in any shape or form.

Duer, Elizabeth.Prince goes fishing. †$1.50. Appleton.

6–35453.

“The story, one of ‘yesterday,’ has a familiar background in the mythical European kingdom. There is the prince who has the not unnatural wish to study the princess selected as his bride; as to the Princess Hélène, she fills well the part of an adorable heroine. What befalls this royal pair is sufficiently diverting, and the life at the toy court of Palatina is also amusingly described.”—Ind.

“The novel will while away a leisure hour or so very pleasantly.”

“Really it is a very entertaining little story, very cleverly put together, and not without a pretty wit.”

“The dialogue is vivacious, and many of the situations are cleverly managed.”

Duff, Edward G.Printers, stationers, and bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535. *$1.50. Putnam.

7–7493.

“In these lectures the first half-century of book-making in England is covered. The Westminster printers, Caxton, Wynken de Worde, and Notary; the London printers, Pynson, Lettou, and William de Machlinia; foreign printers and the books they made for the English market; the early English bookbinders—these are some of the subjects touched upon. The lectures are narrative in form, not technical, and are filled with interesting allusions and notes on old printers and their ways, old books, and old bindings.”—Nation.

“The Act of 1534 was passed, we may imagine, not (as was professed) for the protection of printing, but in the interest of the royal censorship of the press. The one may be defended and the other condemned with excellent reason, but to defend and condemn them on the grounds put forward by Mr. Duff seems to us a curious aberration in an otherwise very sane and scholarly book.”

“His knowledge of early English printing and bookbinding is probably unequalled, and his power of putting his material into an attractive and interesting form is very great. We congratulate booklovers on this important addition to their library.”

“They are in the nature of outlines of that larger work on the history and development of printing in England which is yet to be written.”

“Without questioning the author’s knowledge or the value of his contributions to the history of English printing, on this point alone it is not unjust to ascribe his reasons for the deterioration of protected bookmaking to his zeal as a free trader. This is a matter of history, and Mr. Duff should not have caused its misinterpretation to form the one blemish on an otherwise important and valuable work.”

Duff, Mildred.Novelties and how to make them. 50c. Jacobs.

7–29717.

Hints and helps in providing pleasant occupation for young and old. Directions are included for making every thing from an ark full of animals to furniture.

Duke, Basil W.Morgan’s cavalry.$2. Neale.

6–18975.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Duley, G. Wilson.Dream of hell. $1. Badger.

6–46743.

“The poem is not geographical but psychological, having for its object the teaching of retributive justice, and how utterly nugatory is self justification.”

Dumas, Alexandre.Novels, 10v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.

The ten volumes of Dumas’s novels included in this set are Monte Cristo, two volumes, Marguerite de Valois, Dame de Monsoreau, Forty-five guardsmen, Three musketeers, Twenty years after, Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere and Man in the iron mask. They are uniform with the thin paper sets and each volume contains an introduction and frontispiece.

Dumas, Alexandre.My memoirs; tr. by E. M. Waller, with an introd by Andrew Lang. 6v. ea. $1.75. Macmillan.

The first appearance of this work in English. This initial volume deals with the first nineteen years of Dumas’ life chiefly spent at Villers-Cotterets. “He was beyond doubt a lazy boy, hugely fond of bird-snaring and of hunting, and it is with accounts of these pastimes, related with the charm of a poet, the skill of a dramatist and the knowledge of a woodsman, that some of the best chapters of these memoirs are occupied.” (N. Y. Times.) The central historical figure of this volume is Napoleon under whom Dumas’ father served in various campaigns.

v. 2.The second volume continues the biography thru the days of the drudgery of a clerkship to Dumas’ emancipation when on “the threshhold of success, he is surrounded by his new-found friends of literature and the drama.” (Outlook.)

“A most entertaining book. The translation is easy and fluent, but the last sentence of the book reads oddly.”

“No element of completeness and accuracy should be wanting in the present English form.”

“A series of chapters of unending and ever varying interest.” George S. Hellman.

“Everything is preserved, even the nauseating passages that may be characteristic of their writer but can only disgust readers of any delicacy. Aside from this the ‘Memoirs’ form an admirable addition to our biographical literature.”

“No book that we know of beats these memoirs for a vivid, thrilling account of the state of France from 1812 to 1815. Scientific history may have its corrections to make, but the general impression is not to be effaced.”

Dunbar, Paul Laurence.Joggin’ erlong. **$1.50. Dodd.

6–37888.

“‘Joggin’ erlong’ and other dialect poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar are here bound in attractive form and illustrated with good photographs of negro life.”—Outlook.

“Will add nothing to the laurels won by the young negro poet.”

*Dunbar, William.Poems of William Dunbar; with introd., notes and glossary by H. Bellyse Baildon. *$2. Putnam.

A book intended for the ordinary reader or student which throws much light upon the life and poetry of this fifteenth century Scottish poet.

“Mr. Bellyse Baildon has given us an excellent edition with an admirable preface, most suggestive notes, and a useful vocabulary. Lovers of poetry are greatly indebted to him.”

“We are not so ready to allow that it will be useful to ‘the ordinary reader or student.’”

“Mr. Baildon acknowledges his obligations to the Scottish and German savants who have edited Dunbar. His own work contains quite as much erudition as the ardent reader of poetry requires in a light and handy volume.”

“Prof. Schipper’s complaint that the text and glossary are taken bodily from his work appears substantially justified; and one may add that whatever value the notes possess is in the main due to the same authority. As it is, we have, of course, a good text and glossary, and, in the main, adequate notes, but discredited by the circumstances which we have just recited. Various passages in both introduction and notes cast doubt on the editor’s philological knowledge.”

“All the assistance that can be given has been supplied by Mr. Baildon, a glossary being the chief of the reader’s help.”

Duncan, Norman.Cruise of the “Shining Light.”†$1.50. Harper.

7–15117.

The skipper of the Will-o’-the-Wisp steers his craft upon a reef in a furious gale, drowning seven men and surrendering his own life in order that the “pot o’ money” in the undertaking may “make a gentleman” of his little Dannie. He hastily bequeaths Dannie to Nick Top, a ship-mate, charging him to “fetch un up as his mother would have un grow.” True to his oath, Nick, the seamed and scarred survivor of many wrecks, assumes the education of Dannie, comes to love him and to abhor the rascality and the crime involved in securing the “pot o’ money.” “I’ll not be sorry—not even in hell—for I’ll think o’ the years when you was a wee little lad, an’ I’ll be content t’ remember.” “A story of mystery, of love, of quaint humor and vigorous action.”

“The characters are real, the action vigorous, the mystery really illusive, the love theme well handled, and all is touched with a quaint and delightful humor.”

“This is distinctly the most ambitious, and, we think the best, book that Mr. Duncan has written. The matter is original, and the whole is entertaining, despite the fact that the author overdoes such locutions as ‘the boy that was I’ to an extent which sometimes becomes irritating.”

“An achievement that marks a long forward stride in Mr. Duncan’s career.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“To the accentuated reappearance in this book of the unmodern style which characterized Dr. Luke we are less reconciled. A romance beautiful and strong. If inwoven with the quaintness of an older literature, its style is none the less an unfailing delight, so lucid, so vivid, so picturesque, so infused with the quality of charm that among contemporary writers of fiction in English few outrank Mr. Duncan in literary technique. Mr. Duncan’s fool almost persuades us that his creator belongs in the glorious company of geniuses.”

“A novel that may truly be said to make waste paper of much modern fiction.”

“May lay definite claim to be considered as a real book, that indefinable result of original personal impulse and conservative literary tradition.”

“If old Nicholas Top does not become a permanent member of the honor roll in fiction it will be a marvelous case of non-appreciation.”

“The cruise with Norman Duncan as skipper is invigorating, and it ends in a sunny haven.” Philip Loring Allen.

Duncan, Robert Kennedy.Chemistry of commerce: a simple interpretation of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry. **$2. Harper.

7–31986.

A work which directs the attention of educatedlay-folk to science in its subservience to the practical needs of the human race. The author develops the theory that modern science is applicable to the economy and progress of manufacturing and agricultural operations. He shows, among other illustrations of his theory, how the fixation of nitrogen and how industrial alcohol may operate to increase the success of a series of operations to which they are applied.

“It is a book for the open shelves of the public reading-room and one that the manufacturer and business man will profit by perusing, for it contains information on a great variety of topics impossible to get elsewhere in such convenient form.”

“Has explained in a clear and interesting way many of the chemical processes used in the manufacture of common and uncommon things.”

“This book has the rare qualification of being needed, for nowhere else can the average reader find recent discoveries and manufacturing processes so clearly and accurately explained.”

“To a reader who is not over-fastidious as regards literary style, or whose sensitiveness has been dulled by daily perusal of the journalism of Kansas there is much in this book to interest and amuse.”

“A book full of appeal to the lay reader.”

“Mr. Duncan’s book sets out some of the triumphs of science in this direction in a manner to fire the imaginations of students and men of affairs alike.”

Dunham, Edith.Fifty flower friends with familiar faces: a field book for boys and girls. $1.50. Lothrop.

7–17393.

Fifty wild flowers are described and pictured in this volume which not only gives an accurate description of each plant, tells where to find it, but adds little sketches and quotations from flower poems, which will awaken interest in each flower’s distinct personality.

“The boy or girl into whose hands this book is placed can hardly fail to acquire a real and lasting interest in our every-day wild flowers.”

“The grown-ups of the family will find many things that possibly had escaped their attention.”

*Dunmore, Walter T.Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.

The subject of ship subsidies is considered by Mr. Dunmore from an unprejudiced, non-partisan standpoint, and he endeavors to decide what is the best policy from the point of view of the commercial and economic interests of the United States; and also what is best, considering the question in its bearing on the national defense. The study is well tabulated and is provided with a bibliography of books and articles consulted.

Dunn, Robert.Shameless diary of an explorer; with il. from photographs by the author. *$1.50. Outing pub.

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