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“Is of course the most important religious novel of the year, though, to be frank, it is less a novel than a protest. Purely as fiction it lags far behind his earlier work.” Mary Moss.
“‘The saint’ stirs up in the heart so much that is worthy and generous that one is apt to look leniently upon its technical shortcomings.”
Fogazzaro, Antonio.The sinner, tr. from the Italian by M. Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.
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The soul of Piero Maironi, the sinner, is rent thruout these pages by the conflict within him of sensuality and asceticism. His young wife is living, but in an asylum hopelessly insane. He strives to be true to her memory but is beset by temptations of the flesh until in his spiritual struggle he develops a religious mania which leads him to give his wealth to the poor and devote his life to God. His sufferings are thrown upon a background of the Italian, political, social and religious life of today.
“It must be acknowledged that Miss Prichard-Agnetti’s task has been a hard one, and she has acquitted herself, if not as well as possible, at least very fairly. The author’s masterly faculty of delineating character is displayed in the studies, not only of the important personages of his story, but of household dependants and all the many minor characters of the book.”
“Allowing for the inevitable loss that must result thru even a good translation from the delicate, impassioned Italian into the sterner, less flexible English, Fogazzaro’s novel is still a masterpiece.”
“The title is rather misleading, since the author has apparently intended to represent not so much the moral life of an individual as the working forces distinctive of a period.”
“As far as general interest as opposed to Italian interest in concerned, ‘The sinner’ far surpasses its predecessor, ‘The patriot’—‘Piccolo Mondo Antico.’”
“A work of art both high and clean. It is the first half of a two-volume novel, a work of power, which needs to be read entire.”
“The work is veritably great.” Vernon Atwood.
Fogazzaro, Antonio.Woman; translated from the Italian by F. Thorold Dickson. †$1.50. Lippincott.
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The action of this novel, filled with a strange mixture of spiritual discernment, theories of reincarnation, and the idea of the vendetta, takes place at a castle hermitage owned by the count Caesar d’Ormengo. There falls to the count the care of a beautiful niece Mariana, morbid in fancies and self-analysis. She learns from a secret compartment in her escritoire that she is the reincarnation of an ancestor who went mad in those very walls because of inhuman treatment, and who commands that the one whose eyes shall fall upon the memorandum of her agony find the way for revenge. Involved in the scheme of vendetta are the count, Corrodo Silla, a young secretary whose life is linked to Mariana’s as the reincarnated lover, a German secretary and his daughter. The story waxes horrible as Mariana executes her mission of vengeance: she causes the death of the count, kills Silla and drowns herself. But through all is inexorable fate, to which, not conscious of her own power to baffle it, she yields.
“In bare outline the story would appear merely a morbid tragedy. It is the treatment of Fogoazzaro that redeems and gives to it distinction.”
“An experiment in mystic melodrama which is only saved at times from sinking to the level of pure sensationalism by the author’s fine delineation of certain personages.”
“The translation is in excellent, idiomatic English.”
“The translation by Mr. F. Thorold Dickson is unusually good; but ‘The woman’ will hardly have the popularity of ‘The saint,’ even at this second attempt.”
Follows, George Herbert.Universal dictionary of mechanical drawing. *$1. Eng. news.
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“Mr. Follows bases his dictionary on the fundamental proposition that ‘Mechanical drawing is a language,’ with analogies to the English language, ‘for the positive conveying of exact information,’ and he defines its alphabet or lines, its words or views, and its books, or complete drawings. Numerous good examples are given of the uses and customs of the language (to continue the analogy) which are shown in 22 full page reproductions of standard drawings.”—Engin. N.
“Taken as a whole the book is a distinct step towards standardizing the usages and practice of mechanical drawing.” George O. Oriok.
Foolish almanak for anuther year. 75c. Luce, J: W.
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This almanac is “the furst cinc the introdukshun ov the muk-rake in magazeen gardning, and the speling reform ov our languig by Theodor Rosyfelt.”
“Shows no falling off from the excellent standard of foolishness set by its predecessor last year.”
Foord, J.Decorative plant and flower studies for the use of artists, designers, students, and others, containing 40 col. plates; with prefatory note by Lewis F. Day. *$12. Scribner.
Miss Foord’s “second series of full plates and analytical details, showing the pictorial elements in forty plants. The whole plant, the striking features of the branches, the details of inflorescence, the structure of the bud and flowers, and so on, are presented faithfully.” (Nation.) “Each subject is illustrated by a full-page coloured plate and numerous drawings of details in black and white, the former reproduced by a French stencil process as was the case with the first series.” (Int. Studio.)
“Though intended primarily for artists and designers, the beauty of the plates makes the volume one to be enjoyed for its aesthetic quality alone.”
“We may say at once that excellent as were her first series of drawings, those now published show a distinct improvement.”
“The volume can be heartily commended to designers as a safe reference-book, and probably students, likewise, can get good out of it; but just how flower-artists themselves are to be helped by it is another matter. No book ought to stand between an artist and the plants he sees.”
Forbush, William Byron.Boy’s life of Christ. Teachers’ ed. $1.25. Funk.
To the original edition of this life of Christ have been added notes, an index, and a section devoted to a series of suggestions and questions bearing on the text. It makes a complete text book for the teacher’s use.
Forbush, William Byron.Ecclesiastes in the metre of Omar, with an introductory essay on Ecclesiastes and the Rubaiyat. **$1.25. Houghton.
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“It is not so much a consecutive rendering of the words of Koheleth as an imaginative construction of the Rubáiyat he might have written, made by a very eclectic assembling of words, phrases, and images from the Scripture, woven to a single texture and skillfully colored and cadenced to resemble the manner of FitzGerald.”—Nation.
“The metrical version of Ecclesiastes is a piece of clever work, and furnishes many touches of genuine poetic insight.”
“It is adapted rather to those of sufficient literary training to read a book by its feeling and atmosphere, as one listens to music.” George F. Genung.
“But forbearance ceases to be a virtue when called upon to applaud the forcing of any other piece of literature into the justly famed form of Omar’s quatrain.”
“Despite some roughness, a successful bit of work—in its sympathetic insight as well as in its technical ability.”
“Our one complaint is that many of the phrases in the original are in themselves poetry of so pure a quality that any other version seems odd and irreverent.”
Ford, James L.Wooing of Folly. †$1.50. Appleton.
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“Folly is the daughter of a miner, who, having ‘struck it rich,’ comes to New York withthe money and the ambition to ‘move’ among the Four Hundred. It is not a pleasant story, altho the heroine escapes into the arms of the right man. The purpose of the book is to expose the methods by which social sharks of New York live at the expense of their victims.”—Ind.
“He writes well and venomously.”
“The book is neatly named, and the slight plot is well handled, but the whole would have gained in general interest as well as humor had it been based on a more sympathetic observation.”
Ford, Jeremiah D. M., and Ford, Mary A., eds. Romances of chivalry in Italian verse: selections with introduction and notes. *$2. Holt.
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“From these specimens one can trace (1) the development of the romantic epic as a literary genre; (2) the growth of the Orlando story; (3) the characteristic qualities of Pulci, Boiardo, Berni, Ariosto and Tasso. There are also fragments of the early ‘Orlando’ and of the ‘Libro volgar.’”—Nation.
“The selections have been made with excellent judgment.”
“Have well realized their aim to furnish appropriate reading material relating to this period.”
Ford, Sewell.Truegate of Mogador, and other Cedarton folks. †$1.50. Scribner.
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Twelve amusing tales including besides the title-story; Of such as spin not, The king gander of sea-dog shoal, Captain’s folly, Across a picket fence, “Shiner” Liddel’s revel, The impressing of Looney Fipps, Seed to the sower, Julius, The romance of Windy Bill, The ride for his life, and Through the Needle’s eye. There are eight illustrations.
“Vary greatly as to subject and value, but all are written with humor and occasional pathos.”
“Mr. Ford produces his artistic effects and wins the reader’s interest more by his portrayal of character, which is all done in sharp, vigorous outlines, and by his swift, vivid touch in setting forth backgrounds and surroundings than by the stories he has to tell.”
Foreman, John.Philippine islands.3d ed. *$6. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Like the rest of the book, the new part has scarcely a page free from important errors (not to mention vital omissions). The bad arrangement and lack of revision involves much duplication, which the index but poorly remedies. The orthography is sometimes freakish, and Spanish terms are sometimes mistranslated. The statistical tables are very inaccurate in places; the chronological table also, as well is incomplete.” James A. LeRoy.
“The volume is both lucid and impartial. It is, indeed, written in a spirit too purely academic to be altogether interesting.”
Forman, Justus Miles.Stumbling block. †$1.50. Harper.
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David Rivers is wrested from his young love-making by old Robert Henley, a self-constituted guardian, and is sent away to develop a promising literary talent. The success and failure of an impersonally detached ambition become the keynote of the story. Rosemary Crewe whom David left behind is the embodiment of the strong love motif of the tale while Violet Winter, the fascinating New York woman whom he marries, is the stumbling block. Violet contemplates full reparation to David in allowing a threatening disease to go unoperated upon. How complete may have been her sacrifice is left entirely to the reader’s imagination.
“The style is distinguished, and the undercurrent of passion delicately handled. The hero, perhaps, is hardly worthy of the devotion he inspires; but the work should be successful as a study character.”
“Mr. Forman’s practise in writing novels is shown in his easy management of technical construction. His ideas have become mature; and his way of expressing them remains quite the most curious that is seen in any fictionist addressing the American reader. Rosemary is a dream heroine, faultless in all points. If only Mr. Forman applied the taste that chose her to his manner of writing, he would have written naturally, not corruptly, in a London patois, which is neither the King’s English nor that of William Dean Howells.”
“This novel belongs to that class turned out in quantity every year, to which no possible objection should be made, if—merely this—if any one can discover the smallest reason for reading them.”
“The story has some idyllic and romantic passages which are pleasant enough reading in their way—though it is all very artificial—but two-thirds of the book is distressingly dreary and futile.”
“Original, but not really jolly.”
Forrest, Rev. David William.Authority of Christ. *$2. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“An exceedingly able treatment of an all-important theme.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
“This book is reverent and conservative. It concedes considerable to modern criticism, and will probably be read with profit by a section of the church whose orthodoxy would preclude a more thorough discussion. But it has no new message, it makes no real addition to biblical or dogmatic theology, and I doubt if it proves of great value to the scholarly world.” W. C. Keirstead.
Forrest, J. Dorsey.Development of western civilization: a study in ethical, economic, and political evolution. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
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A history in which the course of social evolution is traced. The analysis of the conditioning facts of European social history is made on the basis of their ethical, economic and political values. The work is the outgrowth of a demand for a fit setting of present-day development and conditions, and has entailed a vast amount of careful selection of materials.
“The author’s method and treatment offer little ground for objection. What there is of it must be a matter of difference of emphasis rather than attack upon fundamentals. The thing of real moment is that he has given a new and important elucidation of the continuity of history.” John H. Coney.
“If he had not stated its purpose in the preface no one would have ever discovered it.”
“He fails to develop clearly the origins of modern states, the specific contributions of the renaissance and the reformation and the continuing activity of the religious and ethical impulse after the breakdown in the authority of the church. This last, indeed, is the most serious blemish in his scholarly work.”
“It is unfortunate that the author’s style falls below the dignity of his conception, the careful marshalling of his authorities and the breadth of his learning.”
“The book is of value, not because it makes any substantial contributions to our knowledge of the past, but because it does reiterate the reasonable demand that our knowledge of the past should be put in such form that it can be used to explain the processes of social development, and to illuminate the problems of the present.” C. D.
Forster, H. O. Arnold.Army in 1906: a policy and a vindication. *$4. Dutton.
War 7–45.
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A two-part survey dealing first with the problems and measures brought before Parliament by the author from October 1903, to December, 1906, as representation of the War department in the House of Commons; second with the impressions which the writer has been led to form of some of the more important of the British military problems.
“Will no doubt be serviceable to American students of military economy who are desirous of knowing just how the British army stood before Mr. Haldane brought out his latest scheme of reform.”
“It is much to be regretted that a clever man who has enjoyed such exceptional opportunities for studying the administration of the army as a Minister of the Crown should not have been able to clear his mind of the dust and heat of contemporary politics and past controversies, and should not have treated his whole subject in the same spirit as that in which he has approached the question of the artillery.”
“Those civilians and military men who are endeavoring to study the various schemes should not fail to add Mr. Arnold-Forster’s book to their libraries—special pleading though it be for a régime and policy of the past.”
“Whatever the views we may hold on the desirability of Mr. Arnold-Forster’s venture, there can be no question that an exceedingly interesting volume is the outcome. The book is unfortunately marred by the expression of some of the unduly arrogant sentiments to which Mr. Arnold-Forster is prone.”
“Whether we agree with his view or no, his attack on the linked-battalion system is extremely well argued, while his impartial examination of arguments for and against an experiment with a Second line field artillery is of first rate importance.”
Foss, Sam Walter.Songs of the average man. **$1.20. Lothrop.
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Plain poems for plain people. They strike the popular note, need no interpretation, and are written for the people who do the world’s work. Librarians who assembled at Narragansett Pier will remember “The song of the library staff” included in the group.
Foster, Agness Greene.You, and some others. **60c. Elder.
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A little booklet of verse which sings of truth triumphant, of love the way and God the light.
Foster, Frank Hugh.Genetic history of the New England theology. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
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A genetic history and not a mere record of opinion, in which are traced the rise, course and culmination of New England theology as a distinct school of thought. The concluding chapter discloses the secret of its collapse which began in 1880.
“He has achieved a notable success. His analysis of the contributions of the several leaders of the movement is keen, his judgments are fair, and his grasp of the stream of thought as a whole and in its relation to the life of the nation is clearly evident.”
“Prof. Foster has appreciated his subject, and bestowed upon it the labor and pains which its importance deserves. His criticism of the work and writings of the successive theologians is clear and penetrating.”
“We miss, perhaps, the eager insight into certain meritorious aspects of the abandoned theology which characterized, for instance, Phillips Brooks’s book on Jonathan Edwards, but we are impressed by the conscientiousness of the trained historian.”
“Some unguarded expressions ... raise doubt whether he has yet fully freed himself from the pull of the system whose collapse he records.”
Foster, George Burman.Finality of the Christian religion. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
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“Every serious thinker ... may not accept all the solutions offered here, but at least he can form no judgment which is worthy of the respect of intelligent men unless he has weighed these in relation to his other beliefs.” C. A. Beckwith.
“In the volume under consideration one finds a combination of a genuinely philosophical and scientific temper with a warmth of religious feeling that makes the problems discussed living issues, and that gives a reasonable ground for the hope that in his constructive treatment the author will find a satisfactory solution of the problem which he has set himself.” Amy E. Tanner.
Foster, John Watson.Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a whole, it must be said that the book is a very successful presentation of the field the author sets out to discuss.”
“This is a pleasing, sensible, and useful book. If one were to pick flaws at all, it would be in regard to some of the references to European practices and personalities.”
“A commendable feature of the work under review is that it clearly states not only general diplomatic questions but indicates some that are liable to become acute or perilous and that its author suggests solutions that seem eminently reasonable.” George R. Bishop.
“Historically valuable, as well as interesting to the general reader.”
“There is little to criticise in the book either as regards the point of view or the content.” J. W. Garner.
“It cannot fail to be of much interest to every American who takes an active interest in the affairs of the world.”
Foster, William.English factories in India, 1618–1621: a calendar of documents in the India office, British museum and Public record office; published under the patronage of His Majesty’s secretary of state for India in council. *$4.15. Oxford.
A sequel to the documents appearing in the six volumes of “Letters received by the East India company from its servants in the East.” “International rivalry, oriental politics, the economics of Asia, and the conduct of Europeans under alien conditions, can all be studied to advantage in Mr. Foster’s book. The student of American exploration and history will find much to interest him.... Here he can find further light on the character of Sir Thomas Dale, trace the later voyages of Martin Pring, his successor in command of the East Indian fleet, or learn of the work of William Boffin in the tropics.... Here are made clear both the varied interests and the unity of British expansion in the early seventeenth century.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“These are rich additions to the earlier Calendar of state papers, East Indies, for which the student has long been indebted to Mr. Sainsbury.” Alfred L. P. Dennis.
Fournier, d’Albe, Edmund Edward.Electron theory: a popular introduction to the new theory of electricity and magnetism; with a preface by G. Johnstone Stoney. *$1.50. Longmans.