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Mr. Dunn “was one of a party that strove to reach the summit of Mount McKinley, crowned with everlasting snow and ice in the sub-arctic solitudes of Alaska. Day by day he kept a diary of the movements and adventures of the party, noting the smallest details. After the unsuccessful attempt had ended, and those concerned in it had returned to civilization, the idea of publishing the diary occurred to its author, and he determined to lay before the public an unvarnished tale.”—Dial.
“The author might advantageously have omitted some of the profanity and coarseness which he has retained, but apart from this blemish the book is a vivid account of exploring the strange wilds of the remote northwest.”
“As with many a predecessor, the result of his self-conscious determination to avoid the posing of which he imagines all others guilty has been his perhaps unconscious transformation into the worst sort of poseur himself. None the less, the volume contains here and there a bit of effective description.”
Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley).Dissertations by Mr. Dooley. †$1.50. Harper.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a whole the Dooley philosophy is a work of excellent innuendo, of polished and admirably concealed artistry.”
“Beneath his joyous gift of extravagant ridicule, he is perhaps the wisest man now writing, and America should be very proud of him.”
“The quality of the entertainment furnished by the new volume is quite on a level with that of its predecessors; indeed, in some respects it is better, in that it is less parochial in outlook and terminology, and consequently appeals to a wider audience.”
Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Windham Thomas, 4th earl of.Outlook in Ireland: case for devolution and conciliation. *$3. Dutton.
“Lord Dunraven makes, in measured and fit language, a strong case for the moderate fashion in which Irish affairs have been approached by the committee known by his name.”—Ath.
“Lord Dunraven’s book has an inevitable air of being born out of due time.”
“The book is a statesmanlike consideration of the present status of affairs in Ireland and of the most pressing needs of the unhappy isle, and a masterly plea for fair play, friendliness, tolerance, and justice on both sides of the Irish channel.”
“From the beginning to the end of his book there is hardly a chapter in which he does not either shut his eyes to palpable facts, or at least regard them through some distorting medium of national prejudice, with the result that, however well intended his advice, it will scarcely commend itself to those who have given calm consideration to the Irish problem.”
During, Stella M.Disinherited; with a frontispiece by Paula B. M. Himmelsbach. †$1.50. Lippincott.
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Set in England this story with its tangled threads and continuous action shows how an inheritance proved a pitfall. A naive, unconscionable girl marries the gouty old Sir Peter—of a less irascible temperament, tho in many points not unlike Sheridan’s Sir Peter—and does it to save herself from the battle for bread. After the sudden death of Sir Peter a daughter is born, and the mother, finding that the bulk of the estate had been willed to a nephew, beginsa long series of sham proceedings which, to hold the property for herself, require that the child be brought up as a boy. At sixteen the child takes things into her own hands, apparently drowns, reappears as a twin sister who, so the fiction ran, had for family reasons been sent to California in infancy, restores to the cousin his property, falls in love with this cousin, and, heart-broken because it is not returned and because she has all thru life served only as her mother’s tool, drowns herself. Plot and counter-plot abound.
“The ultra crudities of the opening, where Avice makes her entrance into society, so little prepare the reader for any display of ingenuity that the latter absurdities prove a rather welcome relief.”
*Durland, Kellogg.Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year in Russia.il. **$2. Century.
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Russia of today as an American sees it. Mr. Durland spent a twelve-month traveling thru European Russia, Poland, the Caucasus, and a part of western Siberia. Mr. Durland’s presentations are not only picturesque descriptions of a traveler, nor yet merely thrilling stories of an active journalist, but contain accurate and authoritative observations on the social, economic and political conditions of the country. The volume is fully illustrated.
Dutton, Maude Barrows.Little stories of Germany. *40c. Am. bk. co.
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“Separate stories arranged so as to form a connected account of the history of Germany, beginning with the mythological heroes and extending to Kaiser Wilhelm. There are stories of the great masters of music and painting, as well as of kings and warriors, of the invention of printing as well as of the conquest of land.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
Dye, Eva Emery.McDonald of Oregon; a tale of two shores. †$1.50. McClurg.
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A story which “deals first with the occupation of Oregon by American settlers, and later with McDonald’s expedition to Japan, undertaken in a spirit of adventure, and resulting in the Perry expedition, of such international consequence.” (Outlook.)
“Although the narrative is based ... upon an exhaustive examination of historical material, the volume can hardly be ranked as a historical publication.”
“There is so much vitality in the material upon which this book is based, and the writer expresses herself with such enthusiasm, that the volume holds the interest in spite of the fact that it is too loosely knit for a historical novel, and lacks the unity of a good biography.”
“This is history where the substantial facts are so woven with romance and restored to vitality by vivid imagination as to give atmosphere, color and life.”