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“Mainly illustrative of sociological theory as given in his preceding works, and also in part an expansion of that theory. Its framework is an elaborate outline of theory given in definitionsand propositions. Its filling is composed of select readings illustrative of this, gathered from all times and from peoples in every stage of social development, as found in literature and laws, official records, legends, and newspapers.”—Outlook.
“The reviewer wishes to add that while these remarks are mainly critical in character, they express rather the deep interest which he has in the fundamental issues which Professor Giddings’ book raises than any desire to ignore the many positive merits which the book has, and which will certainly secure it a wide reading among those who are interested in the sources of sociological theory and in the author’s own theory of their value and interpretation for a science of society.” H. Heath Bawden.
“It is much more than its title indicates, for it contains, besides a careful selection of readings, an outline of sociological theory which, in many particulars, is new and interesting.” Charles A. Ellwood.
Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.
“The selections cover a wide field and show extensive and patient research. The greater part of these would probably be unavailable for the general student were he obliged to go to the sources himself.”
“The puzzle seems to be: Fit these extracts, if you can, into the author’s general scheme of sociological classification and terminology. The value of it all we shall leave to those who have the courage to try it.”
“The book will be of great value to the isolated student and teacher.”
Gilbert, Charles Benajah.School and its life. $1.25. Silver.
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“The fact that the book lacks continuity diminishes its value, but the treatment of some subjects ... shows a grasp of the real situation and a breadth of vision born only of real contact with a great system of schools. The benefits of co-operation applied to parent, teacher, and pupil are clearly shown.” J. Stanley Brown.
“This book, it seems to me, is one of the significant educational contributions of the year. What makes it significant is in large part the rare combination of philosophic insight with a wealth of practical experience.” Irving E. Miller.
Gilbert, George Holley.Short history of Christianity in the apostolic age. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
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“This is a proper sequel to ‘Constructive studies on the life of Christ’ by Professors Burton and Mathews.... That work was based on the gospels; this is concerned with the remainder of the New Testament. Its successive portions first narrate events and comment upon them, then propose questions and suggestions for study, with supplementary topics and references to literature.... The volume is finely illustrated.”—Outlook.
“The material is conveniently divided, and interestingly and ably treated.”
Gilbert, Nelson Rust.Affair at Pine Court: a tale of the Adirondacks. †$1.50. Lippincott.
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A fashionable house party at a New Yorker’s country home in the Adirondacks is made the scene of this tale of love, mystery and adventure. A Pomeranian count arouses the greed of the humble natives by exhibiting the wonderful “Lens of the Grau” in the presence of his host’s butler. These envious enemies of the rich pleasure seekers at the court put the house in a state of siege during which each guest displays his or her real character and all ends in safety and happiness.
Gilchrist, Alexander.Life of William Blake; ed. with introd. by W. Graham Robertson, il. *$3.50. Lane.
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A reprint of a standard source for facts and personal interpretation of Blake’s life. To the illustrations appearing in the original edition, Mr. Robertson has added a number of colour prints, drawings, etc. from his own notable Blake collection, thus emphasizing particularly the fame of Blake the painter.
Reviewed by A. Clutton-Brock.
“This reprint is admirable from the point of view of the general reader, and, by reason of its illustrations, necessary also to the special student.”
Gilchrist, Edward.Tiles from a porcelain tower. *$1.25. Riverside press, Cambridge, Mass.
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A volume of verse chief among whose poems are “those more expressly from the Porcelain tower, ‘the pride and symbol of Cathay,’ wherein the decaying splendors of the East are expressed with both imagination and humor.” (Nation.) There are also included some translations from the Greek, Danish, Russian and the Chinese.
“The lyrics of a reflective mind, but their flow is far from musical—a defect due in part to the frequent collocation of ill-matched vocables, and in part to the fact that the movement is too much clogged with ideas.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Mr. Gilchrist has plainly done a good deal of rather virile thinking, and as he has made his ingeniously plotted verse the vehicle rather for his notion than for his moods, his work has much of the peculiar pithiness that marked the work of the concettists in their less fantastic vein.”
*Gilder, Richard Watson.Fire divine. **$1. Century.
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This volume adds sixty new pieces to the poetry of the author, including memorial verses on Carl Schurz, George Macdonald, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich; poems to music and musicians; and a requiem for Augustus Saint-Gaudens, entitled “Under the stars.”
Gillespie, G. Curtis.Rumford fireplaces, and how they are made. $2. Comstock, W: T.
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“A reprint of Count Rumford’s essay on Fireplaces is here accompanied by a discussion of the same subject by Mr. Gillespie. In the course of his discussion ... Mr. Gillespie introduced a number or drawings and sketches of his own, illustrating fireplaces designed by him, of the so-called Rumford type ... also mantels of his own design, and reproductions of views of a large number of fireplaces, andirons, and the like, both mediaeval and modern.”—Engin. N.
Gilman, Bradley.Open secret of Nazareth. **$1. Crowell.
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“Ten letters written by Bartimaeus, whose eyes were opened, to Thomas, a seeker after truth.” A traveler in the Holy Land writes his impressions and conviction to a friend at home. “‘The open secret’ which Jesus strove to impart—the truth which, however evident, eludes so many—is that of the Consecrated will—the active endeavor on all the small or serious occasions presenting themselves at the cross-roads of daily life to identify one’s self with the divine will of pure goodness to all our fellows.”—Outlook.
“It is suffused with devotional feeling and animated with poetic imagination, but clear in moral insight.”
Gilman, Lawrence.Music of to-morrow, and other studies. *$1.25. Lane.
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Mr. Gilman “attempts to prophesy what will be the general character of the music of the next half-century. He admits the temerity of the attempt, but argues boldly and convincingly. His broad general dictum is that the permanent elements of the music of the future will have to do with ‘that region of experience which lies over the borderland of our spiritual consciousness.’ It will forsake the ‘incessant exploitation of the dynamic element in life’ and urge us to listen for ‘the vibrations of the spirit beneath.’”—R. of Rs.
“The general impression left by this book is that on the whole the title has been well chosen. Mr. Lawrence Gilman gives expression to some interesting ideas about music held by himself in common with enthusiastic modern thinkers.”
“The best written and conceived essay in Mr. Gilman’s interesting little volume is that devoted to Claude Debussy, the poet and dreamer. I do not care much for his Liszt essay. It does not dig enough into the subject. Mr. Gilman’s book is interesting, at times gracefully written, and strives to understand the music of to-day. This latter quality is in itself a critical feat, for in critic-land we usually face the setting sun.” James Huneker.
Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.
Gilman, Lawrence.Strauss’ “Salome;” a guide to the opera; with musical il. *$1. Lane.
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A guide containing a description of the drama, a full analysis of Strauss’s score, also musical illustration and examples.
“It will be a useful guide for those who desire to reach below the surface of Strauss’s remarkable book.”
*Giry, Arthur, and Reville, Andre.Emancipation of the mediaeval towns; tr. and ed. by Frank Greene Bates and Paul Emerson Titsworth. (Historical miscellany.) pa. 50c. Holt.
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A translation of chapter 8 of the second volume of Lavisse and Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale.’ It covers in four chapters the rise of towns in France: The origins, The communal revolution, The communes and Towns of burgessy and new towns.
“In this terse, closely compact monograph no space has been devoted to fine writing. We have here a concise and clearly intelligible account of those communities in the middle ages which were the precursors of our modern commonwealths.”
“In its field it is unsurpassed; and the general student will learn more by studying the vivid picture which it presents than he could hope to learn by attacking at the start the whole question of municipal organization, in all its uncertainties and complexities. The translators have done their work well; especially do they deserve commendation for accepting frankly the terms for which there is really no English equivalent.”
Given, John La Porte.Making a newspaper. **$1.50. Holt.
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“A detailed account of the business, editorial, reportorial, and manufacturing organization of the daily newspaper in a large city.” The author’s deductions are made from his own large newspaper experience. He shows how editors gain their information and how all classes of civilization contribute consciously or unconsciously, to the daily record of happenings. In addition to chapters covering the general workings of the newspaper, he discusses such subjects as preparing for journalism, getting a situation, prizes in journalism, with the printers, and the money-making department.
“Interesting, apparently trustworthy, journalistic in style.”
“Clearly and forcibly written for the most part, but somewhat painfully devoid of idealism.”
“Interesting and seemingly trustworthy account of all branches of his profession.”
“The book will occupy a place on the literary journalist’s shelf beside Mr. E. L. Shuman’s ‘Practical journalism,’ and, while it will not wholly supersede the Chicagoan’s brisk lively compendium, it possesses the peculiar merit of giving the most comprehensive and thorogoing account of New York newspaper making that has so far found its way into print.”
“Within its lines it is excellent.”
“Mr. Given’s style is clear and trenchant, his phrases well chosen, and the entire book is good reading for any one.”
“He understands his subject, or as much of it as he has cared to write about, as well as any one man could be expected to understand it, and his writing is lucid.”
Glazier, Richard.Manual of historic ornament.*$2. Scribner.
A second edition revised and enlarged. It is surprising how many examples of the ornament of past ages in many countries “have been collected together in this book, with its clear pen drawings. These include not only architecture, but glass, silver, ivory, carpets, furniture, china, and sculpture. There is a running commentary which clearly indicates the main outlines of the subject.” (Spec.)
“Useful handbook.”
“For a book devoted avowedly to ‘ornament’ there is an unexpected amount of care and thoughtful analysis given to architecture in the larger sense of construction, disposition, and ordonnance. There is no index of consequence. On this account one doubts the practical utility of the book. The general tendency of the book is to be praised.”
Gloag, M. R.Book of English gardens; il. by Katharine Montagu Wyatt. $2. Macmillan.
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An introductory sketch of gardening “from Eden onwards” precedes a description of thirteen famous English “out-of-door drawingrooms.” Among them are Abbotsbury, Beckett, Sutton Place, Brownsea Island and Wrest Park. “The author has interwoven with her various descriptions and appreciations historical and genealogical facts agreeable to a gossiping palate.” (Ath.)
“The writing is easy and unpretentious; and the illustrations are effective.”
“The book is full of laboriously collected information connected with the family history of the owners of the famous houses and gardens in England. They are the homes and gardens of the titled rich. The book has the interest of an old curio.”
“It is more than possible that the text of this attractive volume was written to fit the pictures, and hence it is not surprising that there is a misfit here and there. But despite the imperfect coördination, the treatment is admirable in its way.”
“Such a volume needs no recommendation.”
Glyn, Elinor.Three weeks.†$1.50. Duffield.
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A brief story which is an exaltation of sensuous fascination into an affair of the soul and which casts the moral law to the four winds of heaven. A titled young Englishman is sent away from home to be cured of his love for a rural English girl with red hands. In Paris he meets and falls in love with the queen of a Russian dependency, “infinitely sinuous and attractive” who is residing at his hotel incognito. They yield entirely to the sway of their love which the author’s art aims to transform into the poetry of sentiment. They suffer the agony of it in separation followed by tragedy.
“She is too desperately anxious to shock her middle-class readers and impress them with upholstery of her high-born heroine. The result is that you laugh a little and yawn a little and are not shocked at all, but only rather bored by a vulgar and extremely silly story.”
“It is not in the least amusing, and the sentiments it evokes in others are both cynical and disagreeable.”
“‘Misrepresentation and misunderstanding’ are bound to be her portion, because she has slapped down a host of immaturities on the most perilous of subjects, making the venture bravely with a limited capital of expression and insight.”
“The whole leaves a bewildering doubt—has Elinor Glyn become perfectly indifferent to her reputation or, by any mischance, is she beginning to take herself seriously?”
“Ethics may require that a tale be lewd; but it’s a crime for it to be stupid.”
“She sets out to write a story of mere animal passion, but she succumbed to the atmosphere of the moral idea, which is still characteristic of literature in these islands, and she ended in a melodrama.”
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence.Life and letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin; ed. by Rollo Ogden. 2v. **$4. Macmillan.
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An interesting biography written by one who knew Mr. Godkin personally and who writes appreciatively of the many phases of the man who left Ireland in his youth, was for 35 years a conspicuous figure in New York journalism, and exercised a great influence in American political and social life. The story of his life naturally throws many side lights upon the men and politics of his day.
“It is unfortunate that the arrangement of the display is so defective. There is no table of contents and no outline of topics. The division into chapters might as well have been omitted, or else made to mean something. The index seems imperfect, and worst of all, the chronology of the story is ofttimes in a hopeless jumble.” Charles H. Levermore.
“It has rarely been our pleasure to read a work at once so interesting and valuable as this.” Charles Lee Raper.
“The reader is now and then admitted with fair discretion into the privacies of Godkin’s life. But the book hardly, perhaps, does justice to its subject, and a slipshod index in no way atones for the absence of a table of the contents of its ill-arranged chapters.”
Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
“It is marvellously clever editing, but it lacks something which enters into really great biographies. We miss that full and intimate characterisation which Mr. Ogden is so admirably qualified to give. His method suggests either indolence or a wrong perception of what a book should be. Here we have pearls, not strung, perhaps, at random, but still suggestive of a too great self-suppression on the part of him who strung them. The book is immensely interesting.” Richard W. Kemp.
“The work of Mr. Ogden on these volumes has been admirably done. With an editorial self-suppression which finds its best parallel in the work of Professor Norton, he has given us Mr. Godkin’s story from Mr. Godkin’s ownpen, supplying only the connecting links without which that story could not be fully understood.” W. H. Johnson.
“Mr. Godkin knew every one who was worth knowing both in public and private life, and his comments are singularly keen, even when they are hasty and unfair. Moreover, these memoranda cover a long and interesting period of history.” Harry Thurston Peck.
“Taken collectively the correspondence forms an unusually instructive study of a man whose being was almost exclusively political.”
“[The volumes] have distinct value and interest.”
“There is far too much padding in his two volumes, consisting of copious extracts from Godkin’s early journalistic correspondence.”
“Both in the selection and in the arrangement of all this material, Mr. Ogden has performed his task with admirable taste and skill.”
“Mr. Ogden has done the work of editing with great modesty and with good judgment.” Edward Cary.
“Nothing within our knowledge compares with them in the vivid portrayal of current affairs during the last half of the last century. They will be for a long time to come a repertory from which the historian and the essayist will draw their facts.”
“This book of Mr. Odgen’s is less the biography of an individual than it is the revelation of just how the silent but irresistible forces of political and social change are fostered and directed until they have done their perfect work.” Harry Thurston Peck.
“Is a biography of the best, containing in its two plump volumes a minimum of excellent commentary, and a maximum of invaluable documentary material.” H. W. Boynton.
“We earnestly recommend every thinking man, who values the principles of honesty, decency and rationality in the public life of his country, to read every word of these two volumes, and ponder well upon their significance.”
“As a biography, indeed, it is open to some criticism. It does not follow the rules on which most memoirs are composed.”
Goe, David E., ed. Transaction of business, by Sir Arthur Helps [with], How to win a fortune, by Andrew Carnegie; [and other essays]. $1. Forbes.
These practical papers on business are offered to the merchant and manufacturers who will relish their wit, wisdom, and advice. Such subjects as; Choice and management of agents, Interviews, Secrecy, Our judgment of other men, Analyzing of a business proposition, Delays, and expense, are discussed by men who have succeeded.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.Goethe’s Faust, erster teil; ed. with introd. and commentary by Julius Goebel. *$1.12. Holt.
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The text of this edition of the first part of Faust is that of Erich Schmidt, in the Jubiläumsausgabe of Goethe’s works, to which the editor has added an illuminating introduction and excellent notes.
“Altogether, this edition of Faust is a credit to American scholarship and an important step in the development of sound methods in the academic study of German literature.”
“He has been able to vitalize rather than stifle the imagination in reading the poet’s pages, and to enrich the reader philosophically rather than tantalize him with evasive verbiage of metaphysical dissertation.”
Gomperz, Theodor.Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v. 3. *$4. Scribner.
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“In less than one hundred pages, and in a style eminently luminous and readable, the author has condensed a wealth of interpretation and criticism which can only be described as masterly.” Lewis Campbell.
Gonner, E. C. K.Interest and saving. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The two essays of which this volume is composed “attempt an analysis of the connection which exists between interest and the process of saving whereby wealth is accumulated and capital supplied.”
“The book offers, besides its theoretic interest, many common-sense remarks as to the standard of living and the natural objection felt to a drop in that standard.”
“Despite the scholarship of the author and the acuteness of some minor arguments, the book contains little new and that fallacious.” Frank A. Fetter.
“We confess that the issues involved seem often to be too much overshadowed by the number and magnitude of the hypotheses under which each case is considered. It is, for the student, an admirable exercise in dialectics.”
Goodchild, G. F., and Tweney, C. F., eds. Technological and scientific dictionary. *$6. Lippincott.