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The initial volume in a series to be devoted to leading Americans. Thirteen soldiers from George Washington to Joseph E. Johnston are sketched here in the light of their military fitness and attainment. “Their principal battles are treated in considerable detail, which makes the book, as a whole, a composite military history from the interesting view-point of dominant personalities.”
“Neither his sanity nor his splendid lack of bias enables him to weed out the sheep and the goats; he makes no allowance for contemporary—and therefore untrustworthy—records.”
“From fifteen to sixty-five pages are given to each subject, including the main facts of his life and an outline of his campaigns, with intelligent criticism of them. This criticism, tho briefly expressed, is the valuable feature of the book and makes it worth a careful reading, especially by those who have accepted the traditional opinions found in the popular histories.”
“Though many things in the story of American soldiers strike us differently we do not fail to recognize in this narrator knowledge, fairmindedness, and good sense.”
“In spite of the number of contradictions and many inaccuracies in this book, the arrangement is scholarly, brief, precise, and contains in a very few pages the most important events which have made the men whose lives are described from the point of view of the American reader, historical characters. I am placing this book in my library as a useful index to other books in which the lives of the same men are described more in detail. I would recommend it to every military student as a material addition to his military library.” W. G. Haan.
“This also is a valuable compendium for those who wish to know our wars in outline but have not the time or inclination to read of them in detail.” Montgomery Schuyler.
“For the reader who is puzzled to know how to choose between the numerous and voluminous biographies of the great captains of our Civil war period this compact volume performs a real service in preserving the essentials.”
“This is an excellent book.”
Jones, Chester Lloyd.Consular service of the United States, its history and activities. $1.25. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is a timely and scholarly monograph based on a careful study of documentary sources, interviews with officials of the consular service and on personal observation of American consulates in Europe.” J. W. Garner.
Jones, Harry Clary.Electrical nature of matter and radioactivity. $2. Van Nostrand.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A book which on the whole justifies its existence by the treatment, found in the last seventy-five pages, of the results of investigations and discussions so recent that they have not yet found place in other books on radioactivity. The book as a whole lacks somewhat in unity of treatment, the different sections differing considerably in value and in method of presentation.” R. A. Millikan.
*Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.Love and loyalty. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
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A book of sermons preached to boys and girls which “represent a cross-section of twenty-five years of a busy city ministry.”
Jones, John William.Life and letters of Robert E. Lee, soldier and man. $2. Neale.
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An intimate sketch of Lee which has been the result of a personal study of the man and a careful handling of the mass of facts contained in letters and various papers and documents.
“The few pages of personal reminiscences of Lee are perhaps the most interesting part of the book.”
“Dr. Jones’s volume gives a fairly readable collection of letters and other data regarding General Lee. But it is marred by a narrow partisanship and a good deal of inaccuracy of statement.”
“Dr. Jones writes with excellent spirit as to the bitterness of the past.”
“His title is imposing, his fulfilment scant. He does not in the least accomplish the purpose announced in his preface of giving his subject fresh treatment. Unfortunately, he fails all along the line. He has a few unpublished letters to set out, but these are all of slight importance; they are buried under a mass of other letters reprinted from previous books on the subject, and there is no system to indicate to the reader which letters are hitherto unpublished and which not.”
Jordan, David Starr.College and the man: an address to American youth. 80c. Am. Unitar.
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A book addressed to students who look forward to making the most they can of themselves. It is a plea for higher education, for better preparation for the duties of life.
*Jordan, David Starr.Human harvest. *$1. Am. Unitar.
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A revision and an enlargement of Dr. Jordan’s “Blood of the nation,” which gives a more extended exposition of “the decay of races thru the survival of the unfit.”
Jordan, David Starr.Philosophy of hope; originally published under the title of The philosophy of despair. *75c. Elder.
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A robust optimism is preached in this brief monograph, which searches the sources of pessimism, discovers their weakness, and finds a surer foundation for “that philosophy of joy and hope which must be the mainspring of successful life.”
Jordan, David Starr, and Kellogg, Vernon L.Evolution and animal life. **$2.50. Appleton.
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An elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories relating to the life and evolution of animals. “The first three chapters are occupied with preliminary definitions of evolution and discussions of the physical basis of life, the simplest form of life, the meaning of species, and similar fundamental points. The next eight chapters deal with the various theories as to the methods of evolution which have been proposed, and the facts and supposed facts of nature on which they have been based. The remaining ten chapters are devoted to special topics related to the subject of evolution.” (Dial.)
“It would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a better work to put into the hands of serious students of evolution, to be used either as a text-book or for so-called ‘collateral reading.’” Raymond Pearl.
“Lack of care in the legends is characteristic of the illustrations. This apparently petty criticism of the English has as its excuse the well-known fact that both the authors are, when they try, masters of literary style. One cannot escape the convictions that this book was hurriedly, even somewhat carelessly, ‘reeled off,’ out of the abundant knowledge of the busy authors. Mistakes of fact are rather few.”
“Notwithstanding the extreme condensation, the text is clear and pleasant reading, brightened by original similes.”
“The book is perfectly capable of being understood by the reader who is not trained technically in science, provided that he will give it his fair and careful attention.”
Joseph, Horace William B.Introduction to logic. *$3.15. Oxford.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Joseph’s work as a whole shows much learning, industry and acuteness; and we can only express our regret that a logician of such evident ability has restricted his researches within the narrow traditional limits and neglected to avail himself of the powerful instrument which modern symbolic logic has placed at his disposal.”
“The author has attempted to escape the reproach of dryness, which is proverbial in books of this character, by introducing controversial matter. The book as a whole is well knit together and certainly not without value, but it cannot be recommended as a text-book for beginners.” Adam Leroy Jones.
“The strength of the book lies in the sound judgment which the author has displayed in knowing whom to follow than in any new ideas of his own. A good book and worth reading, though we think it would have been better if the author could have brought himself to compress it.”
Joutel, Henri.Joutel’s journal of La Salle’s last voyage, 1684–7. *$5. McDonough.
6–14763.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A fine historical volume.”
“This edition of Joutel’s Journal is so admirable in many respects that it seems ungrateful to offer any criticism. At the same time it does appear somewhat regrettable that in selecting the text for it the most complete one available was not taken.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
Jowett, Benjamin.Interpretation of Scripture, and other essays. *$1. Dutton.
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“The present essays are nearly all on Biblical and theological topics.... They reveal the keenness and force as well as the limitations of the great Master of Balliol, a character sketch of whom by Sir Leslie Stephen appropriately introduces them.”—Outlook.
“It would be difficult to find a volume containing more valuable material on Biblical subjects in cheaper form than is here offered.”
“An endeavor altogether deserving of commendation.”
“This collection is of historical importance as well as of intrinsic value.”
Joyce, Patrick Weston.Smaller social history of ancient Ireland. *$1.25. Longmans.
“An abridgment of the author’s large and important work on the same subject.... He has treated very fully and in an interesting way the government, military system and law, the religion, learning, and art, the trades, industries, and commerce, the manners, customs, and life of the ancient Irish people as they were before the Anglo-Norman invasion.”—N. Y. Times.
“Certain criticisms which were made with reference to the larger work hold true in equal measure of the abridgment, though they are perhaps less fairly urged against a popular production.”
“The main traits of this early society are clearly and convincingly portrayed, and, in spite of certain minor defects of treatment, such as the too frequent introduction—for the non-Celtic reader—of the old Irish terms, and of the unnecessary comparisons with Greek and Roman customs, it is the most instructive sketch of ancient Irish society that has yet appeared.” A. C. Howland.
“Dr. Joyce’s work has been done with due regard for the methods and responsibilities of scholarship.”
“It is a valuable composition, accurate and full of sound learning.”
“The author ... has not made his book a mere array of dry facts. It is all told interestingly, and with comment and allusion, and occasional entertaining reference to tradition or literature.”
*Judd, Charles Hubbard.Psychology; general introduction: volume one of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to the methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50. Scribner.
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“Professor Judd indicates in his preface the four basic principles which characterize the treatment of mental phenomena in this work. 1. The functional view is adhered to thruout. 2. The genetic method of treatment is followed.... 3. The physiological conditions of mental life have been emphasized.... 4. The dominant importance of ideation as a unique and final stage of evolution is strongly insisted on. ‘The work is intended to develop a point of view which shall include all that is given in the biological doctrine of adaptation, while at the same time it passes beyond the biological doctrine to a more elaborate principle of indirect ideational adaptation.’”—Educ. R.
“While the language of the discussion may be a trifle difficult for the teacher, yet if he perseveres and masters the thought he will be amply repaid in the new and stimulating outlook on mental life here presented.” J. Carleton Bell.
“On the whole, the book is an excellent treatment of the general principles of psychology, and may be confidently recommended to all earnest students of the science.” W. B.
Jude, Alexander.Theory of the steam turbine. *$5. Lippincott.
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“The theory of the steam turbine forms altogether the least essential part of the book, whereas the principles that should govern the design form its most important portion. There cannot be any question but that the book has been written for the use of the designers of turbines.... The most important chapter titles are: Historical notes on turbines; Velocity of steam; Types of steam turbines; Practical turbines; Efficiency of turbines; Turbine vanes; Disk and vane friction in turbines; Strength of rotating disks; Governing steam turbines; Steam consumption of turbines; The whirling of shafts; Speed of turbines.”—Engin. N.
“The book is, on the whole, very satisfactory. It is well gotten up and the large number of numerical examples worked out add materially to its value.” Storm Bull.
Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules.Literary history of the English people, from the renaissance to the civil war. v. 2. *$3.50. Putnam.
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“M. Jusserand continues his English version of the ‘Histoire littéraire du peuple Anglais;’ the present instalment is half the original second volume, which appeared in 1904, and went from the Renaissance to the Civil war. This stops just before the drama; it takes in Spenser, Sidney, and ‘Euphues,’ but the predecessors of Shakespeare are kept for the second part.”—Lond. Times.
“He may be heartily welcomed by every lover of English literature as a well-formed sympathetic and brilliant critic.” Edward Fuller.
“A work of solid merit and a valuable contribution to the history of English literature.”
“Brilliant in every chapter and every page, it puts forward an original view, drawn from life—from the life that M. Jusserand brings into all his writings. There is never any suspicion here of ‘index-learning’ or merely law-abiding criticism. M. Jusserand does not go out of his way to traverse ordinary accepted judgments, but his opinions, even when they agree with the majority, are uttered with such a zest as commonly goes with paradoxes and extravagances.”
“Owing partly to the liberty of selection which the design of the book permits, and still more to an unfailing charm of style, there is not a dull page in the volume. As regards the style of the book in its English dress, we may remark that the natural order of subject and verb is inverted with a frequency which is irritating and opposed to English idiom. On the whole, however, the work is satisfactorily executed.”
“The translation is so nearly perfect that, but for a few phrases here and there, in which the French idiom overcomes the English, the book gives the impression of being written in English, and in a sort of English as unusual as the French from which it is set over. It may be said, indeed, that this is a literary history in the very obvious sense that its form is touched with the indefinable, unmistakablecharm of literature, and thus contributes to and continues the noble development which it traces.” Edward Cary.
“It is not too much to say that if the third volume is equal to its two predecessors, M. Jusserand will have given us what is on the whole the best history of the literature of our language which has yet been written.” Brander Matthews.
“The volume is never dull and never superficial; but it is very long and very diffuse; it deals with an enormous variety of subjects; and at last, after five hundred and fifty pages, it stops short without having reached the confines of mature Elizabethan literature, and without having touched upon Elizabethan drama at all.”