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7–11038.
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A translation, slightly abridged, of a well known German work. “This volume, of absorbing interest, outlines a life which was intimately bound up in the life of the scientific world during the last century.” (Nation.)
“Care has been taken to retain what is essential, and the work has therefore suffered but little. The translation has been carried out with skill, and the writing is on the whole good.”
Kraus, Edward Henry.Essentials of crystallography. *$1.60. Wahr.
6–38911.
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A book intended for beginners. “A bibliography of forty-one titles of important reference books and articles is at the beginning of the book. This is followed by a sixteen-page general discussion of the properties of crystals their arrangement into systems, the symbols used, the symmetry, and tractional forms. The systems are then taken up in order, beginning with the cubic and following through to the triclinic. The relations of axes, symmetry, and possible classes are taken up with considerable care in each system.” (J. Geol.)
“The book seems well suited to its purpose, and puts in a concise and compact form that part of its subject which is absolutely essential for an understanding of crystallography.” J. C. J.
“The six pages devoted to compound crystals will seem to many inadequate. Not the least valuable part of the work is an appendix.” Wm. Herbert Hobbs.
Kropotkin, Petr Alexeivich.Conquest of bread. *$1. Putnam.
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The undertone of Prince Kropotkin’s discussion is that “every society which has abolished private property will be forced to reorganize itself on the lines of communistic anarchy.” “He attempts to demonstrate that communistic and socialistic ideals, despite setbacks and reactions have ever been approaching nearer to practical realization.” (R. of Rs.)
“The translator has done his work well, but has been unable to conceal the extent to which the plausibility of the book rests upon a large use of vague words and of the fallacy of composition and division when talking about ‘the people’ and ‘the workers.’”
“He is a close reasoner, a learned traveller, a keen observer, and he brings into brilliant light uninterpreted truths.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
“Kropotkin’s chapters lack the charm and the scientific serenity of his ‘Autobiography’ and his ‘Fields, factories and workshops.’”
“An extremely interesting exposition of the gospel of anarchy.”
“The present volume adds nothing to what he has said elsewhere and it is hard to understand why it has been brought out in American dress.”
“Prince Peter Kropotkin lives in another world and talks another language.”
Krusi, Hermann.Recollections of my life; ed. by Elizabeth S. Alling. **$2.50. Grafton press.
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An autobiographical sketch supplemented by extracts from the educator’s personal records and a review of his literary productions together with selected essays. The record of the author’s educational career chiefly identified with the Oswego normal school, is enlivened “record book” material which afford glimpses into his intellectual life and his character.
Kuhn, Franz.Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
6–35590.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar.John Huss: The witness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–23894.
7–23894.
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In this volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series it has been the author’s aim “to give a plain, straightforward, and concise account of the life, death, and influence of one of the world’s most inspiring witnesses of the truth.”
Kyle, George A.Morning glory club.$1.25. Page.
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The women of a northern New England town are seized with the spirit of club organization and the “Morning glory club” is the result. General improvement, a definite force for good in the town seem to be their theoretical watchwords yet they go far afield for bits of gossip to retail indiscriminately at their meetings. An equally gossipy group of husbands in the background, a village parson who believes that the club is the devil’s own disguise, a charming young school teacher, misunderstood and much maligned, and the parson’s son, dismissed from college for his pranks, furnish some of the personalities with which the story deals. Comic as well as tragic happenings abound, but all ends well amid wholesome reform and reconciliation.
“He has displayed no startling originality, but the story is readable.”