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A narrative of the hardships of Jack Henderson, a Minnesota boy, in company with two master-trailers, who together brave the dangers of the old Telegraph trail to the Yukon gold fields. “Cold and heat, hunger and thirst, the love of gold, and the rivalry of fierce men go to make up the vivid and varied life.”
“Interesting to men and boys especially.”
“This is an excellent book for a boy’s holiday reading, thoroughly wholesome and stimulating, and in no part dull.”
“Has the healthful, breezy traits that mark Mr. Garland’s other western tales.”
“It is perfectly safe, however, to say that if ‘The long trail’ does prove to contain the quality which tickles youthful palates, it may be given to the young without a shade of misgiving as to their finding it entirely wholesome provender.”
“The striking quality of this new book ... is the startling and realistic effect of its utter simplicity.”
Garland, Hamlin.Money magic: a novel.†$1.50. Harper.
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By the magic of money, Bertha, a true type of the girl of the new West, is lifted from the hot office of her mother’s wayside hotel to the giddy heights of mistress of a millionaire’s establishment. This change of fortune however, brings with it a helpless old cripple of a husband, an ex-gambler whom she had pluckily married out of loyalty when she thought him dying. Her story is one of development and character expansion under these strange conditions until she is at last free to call her own that happiness which she has so long and nobly denied herself.
“By some the story may be thought a trifle too long; but it is good stirring narrative thruout, and the development of character through incident and emotional crises is highly interesting.”
“Is far and away the best and most significant novel that Mr. Garland has written in many years. It has perspective, it is firm of plot, rich in colour, full of movement, unflaggingly interesting, its characters are deftly and understandingly individualised—it has the semblance of life.” A. Schade van Westrum.
“There is a certain amount of truth in this narrative, and fairly effective characterizations, although the latter must be described as crude rather than subtle. Mr. Garland, has done much better work than this, and will, we trust, do it again.” Wm. M. Payne.
“His people, however, will disappoint the expectations raised in their favor, and will, somehow, show coarse streaks in their composition of which the author is hopelessly unconscious.”
“An interesting study of the mixed life in a western city.”
Garland, James Smith.New England town law: a digest of statutes and decisions concerning towns and town officers. *$6.50. Boston bk.
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“This valuable volume consists of two very distinct parts. The first eighty-three pages are taken up with in an interesting review of the origin, development and present status of the New England town. The second part of the book presents the first systematic compilation of the laws of the New England states in relation to towns and town government.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“Intended mainly to serve a practical purpose.”
“The volume is an excellent beginning in a sort of work in which as yet but little has been accomplished in the United States.”
“The introduction ... is of interest to many persons other than the officers and lawyers who will use the body of the work.”
“A complete, although succinctly written and compactly arranged, compendium of the law of the different states of New England relating to towns and town government.”
Garratt, Herbert A.Principles of mechanism: being a short treatise on the kinematics and dynamics of machines. $1.10. Longmans.
“A book for students who are under the guidance of an instructor, rather than a complete treatise for general use. It is divided into two general parts, Kinematics of machines and Dynamics of machines. In the former the principles of the forms of mechanisms are considered, no attention being given to the efficiencies of such mechanisms, to the masses moved or to the forces exerted. In the latter part, the dynamics of certain simple mechanical motions are considered.”—Engin. N.
“For the class-room work, as a text to be supplemented by extensive lectures, the book has a use, but it is not complete enough forthe general student. Too much has been left out for the purpose of affording ‘a clear perception of the anatomy of the skeleton.’” Amasa Trowbridge.
Garrick, David.Some unpublished correspondence of David Garrick; ed. by G: Pierce Baker. *$7.50. Houghton.
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Some forty letters and manuscripts are included with an interesting reproduction of portions of the marriage agreement between Garrick and Mlle. Violette. “If of somewhat less moment than the author deems it as a contribution to Garrick lore, it will nevertheless be sought eagerly by theatrical connoisseurs for the excellence of its typography and the beauty of its illustrations, which show the great actor at different periods of his life and in various characters, and afford material for an interesting study in physiognomy. Several of the portraits will be new to most readers.” (Nation.)
“In lack of an index, page-headings to show who is being addressed by the writer would have been very welcome; sometimes it is impossible to determine this without some search, or to ascertain at once the probable date of a letter.” Percy F. Bicknell.
“With Mr. Baker the work of editing evidently has been a labor of love, as is proved by his ample explanatory notes, but it is unlikely that the ordinary reader will find in the letters the significance which the editor seems to attach to them.”
“This volume of hitherto unpublished letters contains a sufficiently interesting collection to make it worth owning, although not a few of the epistles, as one invariably finds in the books of ‘correspondence,’ suggest no particular reason for publication beyond their signature and quaint style.”
Garrod, H. W.Religion of all good men, and other studies in Christian ethics. **$1.20. McClure.
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In the main a paradoxical contention that Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah.
“I think that the worth of the book very far outweighs such faults as it may possess—these latter being, indeed, such necessary accompaniments of perfect straightforwardness that we could not wish them absent. It will do any man good to read such virile words,—and if they harm him, he is not worthy to withstand the gods.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
Reviewed by St. George Stock.
“The spectacle of a sincere man disavowing Christianity because it is not good enough is sufficiently novel to pique one’s interest, and whoso is drawn by curiosity to Mr. Garrod’s pages will find his attention kept alert.”
“The title of the book is distinctly attractive, and the book itself is decidedly interesting. There is learning in it, and undoubted ability behind it. Written from a frankly naturalistic standpoint, it is singularly free from bitterness and narrowness.” James Lindsay.
“This thesis Mrs. Garrod defends with much skill and it can scarcely be denied that important truth at least lies close beside his propositions.”
“These ‘studies in Christian ethics’ one chapter of which gives this volume its attractive but quickly disappointing title, are not such as to call for serious consideration.”
“A volume of five attractively written essays on religious subjects.”
“He has written a smart book, in which the flippant theology is not meant perhaps to be taken very seriously. But was it worth while printing these essays merely to make elderly dons’ flesh creep? What he takes for audacity and courage may be regarded by his readers as only impudence.”
Garst, Rev. Henry.Otterbein university. *75c. Un. breth.
The story of the founding of a Christian college, the evolution of the thoughts, opinions, convictions that are back of its material growth and progress.
Garvie, Alfred Ernest.Guide to preachers. *$1.50. Armstrong.
“Laymen who would qualify themselves to preach acceptably and effectively—and there is need of many such—will find this an eminently helpful book. It covers the whole subject—the Biblical, doctrinal, homiletical, rhetorical conditions of preaching and reasoning suitable to the needs of the modern world. Such subsidiary matters as language, literary style, elocution, and delivery receive proportionate treatment.”—Outlook.
“Its counsels are in harmony with sound scholarship and conform to good taste.”
“There is no other book that so well meets the present want.”
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).Works of Mrs. Gaskell. 8v. ea. $1.50. Putnam.
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“The edition, with its informing introductions, will take its place in all well-constituted libraries.”
“Excellent new dress.”
“Dr. Ward ... has performed his task with exquisite taste, grace, and zeal.”
Gates, Eleanor.Good-night; il. by Arthur Rackham. †50c. Crowell.
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The quaint story of a very human parrot that scattered the padre’s fuchsias but fought desperately with the cat to save a little canary’s life.
Gates, Eleanor.Plow-woman.†$1.50. McClure.
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“This is decidedly a book to read.”
“Is a capital story, in spite of an indulgence in contrast amounting almost to an abuse.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“There is distinction, refreshment and reality about her descriptions of the Dakota prairie, an original charm also about Dallas, theplow-woman, so long as she follows the lean mule in the brown furrow, but that is the best that can be said.”
Gates, Herbert Wright.Life of Jesus: a manual for teachers. 75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
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A manual designed to accompany the outline course on the life of Jesus which has been prepared for intermediate grades of the Bible school.
“The ‘Manual’ and ‘Note book’ taken together promise to be a valuable aid in teaching the life of Christ to children.”
“Deserves commendation.”
Gayley, Charles Mills.Plays of our forefathers. **$3.50. Duffield.
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An account of the origin and development of the early miracle and morality plays of which “Everyman” has become so famous an example, illustrated with reproductions of old wood-cuts. The author’s scholarship is everywhere in evidence as well as his keen delight in histrionism, for, he says, “to laugh and weep, to worship and to revel for a season, in the manner and spirit of our ancestors, were infinitely more pleasing than the pride of controversy or the pursuit of scientific ends.”
“His book is not only one to be commended to the scholar but to be enjoyed by the general reader.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
“As a reference work, it is hard to exceed this for completeness, but its interest is for the specialist alone.”
“A charming book, which may be recommended to the general reader as the best introduction to the subject at the same time that it possesses a value for the specialist.”
“He has made a good book which every one interested in the theatre will be glad to own, and the borrowing fiend loathe to return.” Anna Marble.
Genung, John Franklin.Hebrew literature of wisdom in the light of to-day: a synthesis. **$2. Houghton.
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An interpretation of the inner and spiritual menacing of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes which can be applied to the life of to-day.
“The style sometimes offends a severe taste, and we had rather not believe that monstrosities like ‘factual’ belong to the literary idiom of to-day—or to-morrow.”
“Presented in a thoroughly readable and interesting form.”
Genung, John Franklin.The idylls and the ages. **75c. Crowell.
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A companion study to “Stevenson’s attitude to life.” It is an inquiry into the permanent value of Tennyson’s epic “The idylls of the king.” The primary aim of this volume “is neither eulogy nor criticism, but what Walter Pater has taught us to call appreciation.”
“Our quarrel with it is chiefly for its literary cant and esoteric eloquence, its lack of the prose point of view.”
George, 2d duke of Cambridge.George duke of Cambridge: a memoir of his private life based on the journals and correspondence of His Royal Highness, ed. by Edgar Sheppard. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
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“Born a few years after Waterloo, in 1819, the Duke of Cambridge lived in four reigns, and was actually present at two coronations. At the time of his birth he was the first direct descendant of George III., and but for the birth of the Princess Victoria, a few months later than his own he might have reigned as George V., and there is good reason to suppose that he would have proved an excellent sovereign. This memoir not only tells the story of a long life of usefulness and honor, but it also reveals with much clearness an interesting and lovable personality, and gives us, incidentally, many suggestive portraits of military and political leaders.”—N. Y. Times.
“Dr. Edgar Sheppard might have done well to condense the ‘memoirs of his private life’ into one volume instead of filling two.”
“The editor has done his work with taste and discretion. The portraits are interesting, and there is a satisfactory index.”
“The book has some interest and even value, but these scarcely correspond to its size and what we may even describe as its pretensions.”
George, Henry, jr.Romance of John Bainbridge. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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Part of the incidents in Mr. George’s story are taken from the life of his late father. “Being the son of his father and also himself, it was doubtless inevitable that Mr. George should attempt to make out of his novel a lesson in economics. His theme is the iniquity of giving public service franchises to private individuals or corporations, and the resultant political corruption.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Dealing as this novel does with the questions which are pressing for immediate solution, makes it one of the really important romances for all reformers and patriots to read.”
“This is a wholesome novel of the life of to-day. It is we believe, the author’s first long work of fiction, altho there is nothing in the style to indicate this fact.”
“He might have cut and slashed and blue penciled a fourth of his copy with advantage to the rest. Wrapped up in the plot of Mr. George’s novel there is a good story, an exceedingly good story.”
“While there are parts of the story that too thinly for artistic effect disguise the especial message that Mr. George feels himself commissioned to utter, the tale is well told and worth telling.”
Geronimo (Apache chief).Geronimo’s story of his life; taken down and edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.
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Gibbs, Josiah W.Scientific papers of J. Willard Gibbs. 2v. v. 1. *$5; v. 2. *$4. Longmans.
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Professor Gibbs’s scattered papers on scientific subjects have been collected and published in two imposing volumes. The first includes his papers on the equilibrium of heterogeneoussubstances and on thermodynamics; the second contains twenty-one papers, chief among which are those occupied with the author’s calculus called “vector analysis.”
“For profound thought and power of generalization and abstract formulation no American scientist has equaled Willard Gibbs.”
“The work of Gibbs may be said to round off the constructive stage of one of the most far-reaching scientific advances of the nineteenth century—the unravelling of the formal scheme of relations which guides the transformation of dead matter, as it is now set forth in the doctrine of thermodynamics.”
“In every way (except by an index) recommends itself to the liking of friends of American science.”
“The papers have been edited with great care by Henry Andrews Bumstead and Ralph Gibbs van Name, and the former, in the biographical notice prefixed, discusses with knowledge the scientific work done by Willard Gibbs and gives a clear-cut picture of the man himself.” C. G. K.
Gibbs, Philip.Men and women of the French revolution. *$7. Lippincott.
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Not a history but a psychological study of some of the actors in the great drama, so arranged that the thread of the narrative is not confused or lost.
“A readable, but rather sketchy account of a number of the leading personages of that period.”
“In thus deviating from the beaten path of history and giving rather free play to his own fancy in this ‘psychological study,’ the author has produced a work more attractive in some respects than the formal chronicles of the period.” Percy F. Bicknell.
“Mr. Gibbs has succeeded in producing a book that is more readable (especially to those who dote on adjectives) than our old friend Dryasdust’s, but there is a certain persistent striving for dramatic effect and high phrases that gives the narrative a false note very often.”
“Although the value of Mr. Gibbs’s work is seriously impaired by an extremely florid and somewhat popular style, it is to some extent redeemed by his dramatic power, while in spite of some inaccuracies it is manifestly clear that he has obtained his information from no second hand sources.”
“The book, though somewhat grandiose in style, is just the sort to spur on an indolent reader to make the acquaintance of other, and possibly more accurate, works on the French revolution. But the inaccuracies are manifold and distressing, and not the less so that, in some cases, they seem to be the result of pure carelessness.”
“Its style is popular, vivid and realistic. Mr. Gibbs has a command of strong epithets, and knows how to describe what his imagination presents to him.”
*Gibson, Charles R.Romance of modern photography. **$1.50. Lippincott.
No attempt is made in this volume “to offer suggestions to the picture-taker, but again step by step the growth of the art is discussed through the changes, from daguerrotypes to the latest improved methods; and from the toy known as the zoetrope—with which children used to amuse themselves—to the latest moving picture.” (Nation.)
“We have found some of the most interesting pages in Mr. Gibson’s book to be those describing the processes of reproduction for illustrations. A great deal of space and pains have been devoted to colour-photography and its difficulties, and some of this description has not attracted us much. Once or twice, in the earlier pages, Mr. Gibson might have been a little clearer if he had been a little more categorical.”
Gibson, Thomas.Pitfalls of speculation. *$1. Moody pub.
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“The author of this little treatise undertakes to demonstrate that business methods are applicable to speculation, and that, when so applied, speculation itself becomes a ‘safe business.’... Chapters are devoted to Ignorance and over-speculation, Manipulation, Accidents, Business methods in speculation, Market technicalities, Tips, Mechanical speculation, Short selling, What 500 speculative accounts showed, Grain speculation, and Suggestions as to intelligent methods. The book treats mainly of speculative deals on margins, which are regarded as entirely legitimate forms of speculative trading.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“Mr. Gibson’s reasons against speculating are unanswerable, but we part company with him in the idea that he can teach successful speculation to any considerable number of scholars.” Edward A. Bradford.
*Gibson, W. R. Boyce.Rudolph Eucken’s philosophy of life. 2d ed. *$1.40. Macmillan.
This second edition includes an appendix dealing with Professor Eucken’s doctrine of “activism” whose difference from pragmatism is explained in the following: “The pragmatism which has lately made so much headway, especially among English-speaking peoples, is more inclined to shape the world and life in accordance with human conditions and human needs, than to invest spiritual activity with an independence in relation to these, and apply its standards to the testing and sifting of the whole content of our human life.”
“In point of form the book suffers manifestly from the circumstances of its origin. In spirit and tone, however, it is attractive, and the reader can hardly fail to be favourably impressed by the competence of the author for his task, both in the matter of zeal and of knowledge.” Alexander Mair.
“An excellent statement of Eucken’s practical philosophy.”
“But whether or not we assent to the author’s conclusions concerning the future influence of Eucken’s philosophy, this statement of it should find many readers, as a very compact and useful résumé of the interesting and stimulating point of view.” Edmund H. Hollands.
Giddings, Franklin Henry, ed. Readings in descriptive and historical sociology. *$1.60. Macmillan.