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“As a result of an Indian raid, with its trail of smoking ruins and scalped and tortured victims, only two human beings were found alive by the rescue party in the whole devastated settlement—a white girl baby and an Indian boy, scarcely older or larger. These two waifs are taken in charge by Colonel Bill Lander, the cattle king, and brought up together with the same impartial care that he would have bestowed upon children of his own.” (Bookm.) The story mainly concerns these two, their ill-assorted union, and an inevitable tragedy.
“A book that needs no borrowed glory to bolster it into notice, a book which may well stand on its own merits, both for novelty of situation and keen picturing of character.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
Lincoln, Abraham.Complete works of Abraham Lincoln.12v. ea. $3.75. Tandy.
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“This is the edition which should be selected for purchase by any public or private library of importance on account of its completeness and reliability.”
“Altogether, this Gettysburg edition takes its place worthily among the great editions of our statesmen.”
“These two volumes bring to an end a publication of permanent value, not only in American political history, but to American literature.”
Lincoln, Charles Henry.Naval records of the American revolution, 1775–1788; prepared from the originals in the Library of Congress. $1. Supt. of doc.
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“More than half of this volume is occupied by a list of the bonds filed under the letters of marque, in which are indicated all who are concerned in the vessels, as master, bonder, owner, or witness. This is a valuable contribution to history, as the bonds also give the nature of the ship, and the size of crew and armament, as well as the state to which she belonged. It will now be possible for investigators to identify the ship, and from local records trace her performances.”—Nation.
“We note some obvious misprints of names.”
Lincoln, Charles Z.Constitutional history of New York from the beginning of the colonial period to the year 1905. 5v. $15. Lawyers’ co-op.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Expressions of his own opinion on questions of law and conduct are rare and usually sound. There are few accessible authorities which have not been examined and digested. The absence of cross-references to earlier and later pages imposes much needless labor. Except in the ease of law reports and session laws, there are hardly any citations of the original authorities, not even of the pages of the convention reports, from which quotations are made. The book is indispensable to all constitutional lawyers, legislators, and statesmen in New York. It will be the standard authority upon the subject for at least a generation.” Roger Foster.
Lincoln, Joseph C.“Old home house.” †$1.25. Barnes.
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Eleven stories told by a longshore skipper who watched the goings-on at “Aunt Sophrony’s wind plantation” and plied his trade of “amputating the bank accounts of the city folks.”
“In these entertaining yarns Mr. Lincoln succeeds in expressing the true salt humor of the Cape-Codder.”
“Presenting eleven of the best tales recently written by the well-known Joseph C. Lincoln.”
“Joseph C. Lincoln has not yet come to the end of the fresh strain of humor.”
Lindsay, Anna R. B.Spiritual care of a child. **30c. Crowell.
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Some suggestive thoughts for the guidance of a child’s spiritual growth which are based upon definite and continuous teaching. Uniform with the “What is worth while” series.
Lindsay, Mrs. Anna Robertson.Warrior spirit in the republic of God. **$1.50. Macmillan.
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“A plea for the virile element in Christianity, which has too often been denied an equal emphasis with the feminine.... The outlook is comprehensive, optimistic, and martial. The conquest to be won is the molding of the modern environment to spiritual uses. This is the point in view throughout. Practical suggestions for all social groups show insight, sympathy, and good sense.”—Outlook.
“Altogether it is a thoroughly wholesome and tonic book.”
Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.America’s insular possessions. 2v. $5. Winston.
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A two-volume photogravure edition of a work devoted to America’s island possessions. The first volume includes the Great Antilles, Porto Rico, Guam, and Hawaii, while the second is devoted entirely to the Philippines. The history, growth, political development, industries, and resources of the islands are treated with little attention to controversial questions. For which omission in the second volume the author inserts a chapter of extracts from public addresses of the former governor, William H. Taft.
“With all its possible weaknesses and omissions, from the point of view of historical, economic and sociological science, the work is nevertheless the most comprehensive general treatise on some of our outlying possessions in relatively small space and for the ‘general reader’ that exists in the English language.” Carl C. Plehn.
“In short, as to the past and present, this book is interesting and valuable. As to the problem of the near future it is almost voiceless.”
“The author’s views are frankly stated, but we see no indication that they have led him either to misreport any facts, to omit in his report any facts of significance, or to present the facts in false proportions on false relations.”
Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.John Smith, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50. Lippincott.
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Over the story of John Smith the author has thrown the glamour of romance. He has written a historical novel in which all that is history and all that is novel is alike familiar to our ears. It is a tribute to this early hero which will help to keep him before a coming generation as a man, a gentleman and an adventurer.
Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.Panama: the isthmus and the canal. **$1. Winston.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Every feature of this vast undertaking is pictured in detail with simplicity and intelligibility, and without undue argumentative discussion. Although the book is written in topical style, an index would enhance its usefulness.”
Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.Philippines under Spanish and American rules. $3. Winston.
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In this volume “The Philippine islands are treated, descriptively, historically, industrially, commercially, and politically, ... Twenty-six photogravure illustrations from photographs are given.”—Dial.
Lindsay, Thomas Martin.History of the Reformation.2v. ea. *$2.50. Scribner.
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v. 2.Tracts of the Reformation outside of Germany, of the ante-pedo-baptist denominations of the period, and of the counter-Reformation in Roman Catholicism that reached its limit in the Council of Trent.
“We have dwelt too long on the defects of an excellent book; many of them are superficial and can be easily remedied. The total impression left by the two volumes of Principal Lindsay is very favorable; they are the best thing we have in English on the subject. They combine scientific worth with literary charm, and will appeal strongly not merely to students but also to the thoughtful layman.” William Walker Rockwell.
“When the author works from the sources, he is able, vigorous and stimulating, but when he trusts his general impressions, he is sometimes liable to error. On the whole, his volume is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.
“The bias against everything Catholic both in form and spirit, and the belief that Luther made ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ as superior to the mediæval conception as light to darkness, is unfortunate. No reader will be misled if he bears in mind that the writer is Principal of the Free church college in Glasgow.”
“The heroic elements in the life of the great leader are magnified in a way to satisfy the most devout Lutheran; while the extravagances, inconsistencies, intolerance, and cruelties of the hero are passed over as lightly and dealt with as apologetically as anyone could desire. It is probable that no modern, scientific, Lutheran writer has presented on the whole so sympathetic an account of Luther.” Albert Henry Newman.
“The book is good reading; in parts, absorbing. Dr. Lindsay’s history deserves to be widely read by ministers and theological students, who will find it full of ethical and religious suggestions; and the swing of its style and its subordination of the technical to the vital will make it for the general reader the standard English work on the subject.”
“Is taking its place as the standard English work on its important theme.”
“There are but few and slight blemishes in these masterly volumes.”
“It brings forth new information for many who regard themselves as sufficiently familiar with the subject.”
Linville, Henry R., and Kelly, Henry A.Text-book in general zoology. *$1.50. Ginn.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Besides being comprehensive and accurate, is readable. In place of the old stock cuts, it has been freshly illustrated with a large number of original drawings direct from nature.”
“The introduction to the science which they have presented seems to us, not only interesting, but educationally wholesome.”
“This is a distinct addition to the many textbooks of general zoology for secondary schools. The plan adopted by the authors seems not only interesting, but educationally wholesome.” Robert W. Hegner.
Lippmann, Friedrich.Engraving and etching. 3d ed. rev. by Dr. Max Lehrs; tr. by Martin Hardie. *$3. Scribner.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Altogether the book cannot be commended too highly for its educating value on the subject of which it treats.” Laurence Burnham.
“The translation ... is all that could be desired.”
Lithgow, William.Totall discourse of the rare adventures and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travayles from Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Africa.*$3.25. Macmillan.
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Lithgow’s work “contains many picturesque descriptions of cities and customs as they seemed in the early seventeenth century to the eyes of a roving Englishman. He was tortured in Spain as a spy, and thereafter ceased his wanderings, which covered, he tells us, over 36,000 miles, chiefly traversed on foot.” (Outlook.)
“It is a record of the most varied and often diverting character, written with a spirit and in a style which should ensure a large sale for the reprint before us.”
“The publishers have treated a book of great interest in their usual sumptuous fashion.”
“The narrative is well worth reprinting in the ‘Library of travels.’”
“His rare adventures are well worth reading.”
Littlehales, George W.Altitude, azimuth, and geographical position; comprising graphical tables for finding the altitude and azimuth, the position-line, and the variations of the compass; and for identifying observed celestial bodies, and finding the course and distance in great circle sailing. *$25. Lippincott.
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“An attempt to bring within the grasp of the ordinary navigating officer those more recondite methods of his art, which, for their complete understanding, involve a considerable knowledge of mathematics and nautical astronomy. Great circle sailing, astronomical determinations of the compass error, Sumner’s method for finding the position of a ship, all involve the solution of spherical triangles, and it is the function of the present work to substitute for the conventional logarithmic solution of these triangles the use of certain diagrams here published in great detail.”—Engin. N.
“The labour undergone in the preparation can only be appreciated by those used to such matters; and the result in the saving of labour and time to practical navigators, by a graphical process easy to understand and follow must lay them under a deep debt of gratitude to the author. We feel sure that his method will be extensively adopted.”
“As respects accuracy, the charts appear adequate to all demands of nautical practice.” George C. Comstock.
Livingstone, Alice.Sealed book. $1.50. Fenno.
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Much mystery and some adventure complicate the already tangled plot of this story which is built upon the old melodramatic plan. The hero, who is supposed to have attempted the murder of his father, disappears and is thought to be dead, the beautiful heroine lives on, a society queen accepting the attentions of the villain. Eighteen years later the villain’s true character is exposed and it is found that the hero and heroine have all this time been secretly married and their grown daughter appears in time to have a love affair of her own before the book reaches its happy ending.
“Usually in modern sensational literature, books are not sealed unless they contain something of a particularly startling nature, and we approach this one, prepared to revel in hairbreadth escapes, dark plots, and thwarted villainy. We are not disappointed.”
“A long story of mystery and extraordinary coincidences which is tolerably exciting.”
“Four [stories] are skillfully tangled together into a whole mystery as gloomy as the old English castle of Wrendlebury Towers. And in the end every thread is as satisfactorily untangled again as heart could desire.”
“The interest grows more intense to the end.”
Lloyd, Albert B.In dwarfland and cannibal country: a record of travel and discovery in central Africa. *$3. Dutton.
The author is a missionary-explorer with more than ordinary zest for thrilling adventure. This record follows his course far into the wilderness of Central Africa to the “forest of pygmies in whom Stanley was so much interested, and he had the best of opportunities for studying and describing this strange nation of dwarfs, who have kept their identity as a race from time immemorial.” (Outlook.) “With boatmen of the cannibal Bangwa tribe he sped down the Aruwimi, and at night in the villages saw their savage dances and the orgies of their warriors over the kola-nut pot.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The reader who gets beyond the common place narrative and reflections of the opening chapters will be likely to continue to the end.”
“It is rather a pity that he did not find some literary friend to edit his book and correct his weird ideas as to the form and function of the sentence. Otherwise his naive and straightforward style adds to the charm of his work and makes it all the more vivid.”
“The book is, as a personal narrative of experience, decidedly readable, but it has the usual fault of books of this kind in that it relates too minutely and without careful discrimination the unimportant as well as important matters.”
Lloyd, Albert B.Uganda to Khartoum: life and adventure on the upper Nile with pref. by Victor Buxton. *$3. Dutton.
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An English missionary’s account of five years’ experience in the northern provinces of the British Uganda Protectorate.
“One of the most fascinating books we have come across for a long time. He has the art of selection. He knows how to convey a vivid impression, and refrains from burdening the reader’s memory with unnecessary details.”
“Alike for readers interested in missionary work in Africa, and for those interested in it as a land of adventure, Mr. Lloyd’s book will be satisfactory. H. E. Coblentz.”
“It is written without system or plan, and is artless and inconsequent in its style—sometimes almost ludicrously so.”
“As a record of travel, sport and adventure the book has considerable interest, and the author gives a clear idea of the customs and superstitions of the natives.”
“Mr. Lloyd is a missionary and something more; he seems to blend the qualities of a Livingstone with those of a Selous.”
Lloyd, Henry Demarest.Man, the social creator. **$2. Doubleday.
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“Whenever they were written, at intervals during the last ten years of his life, it was when he was at his best. The loftiness of spirit and sententiousness of style indicate moments of exceptional clarity of vision and elevation of soul.” Graham Taylor.
“As a whole the book is a germinal, thought-provoking book. It is deeply religious and ethically lofty. It is written in Mr. Lloyd’s luminous, eloquent style, with many flashing epigrams and keen strokes of wit. Occasionally the thread of the thought is not quite as smooth as if Mr. Lloyd had lived to finish it, but the work of the editors is exceedingly well done. Probably no two people in more complete sympathy with Mr. Lloyd’s thought and work could be found than his sister and Miss Addams.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
“The painful labor of compiling a posthumous volume has been performed with tact and skill, and the book is a precious contribution to the thought of the new century.” Florence Kelly.
“Naturally the treatment is somewhat fragmentary and at times vague; as a whole, however, the editors have succeeded in giving to the exposition both symmetry and connectedness. The book, as a whole, contains deeply suggestive writing in a style which curiously recalls both Emerson and Carlyle. It is a pity that the proofreading should have been so wretchedly done.”
Loane, M.Next street but one. $2. Longmans.
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“This book, mainly about the poor who are always with us and may be supposed to live in the next street but one, is the work of a trained nurse.... The book is a collection of studies of family and economic conditions; each chapter contains a wonderful variety of personal illustrations and is entertainingly written.... The conclusions and deductions are convincing, as they are drawn from specific incidents.”—N. Y. Times.
“She has a great gift for telling stories.... There is no attempt at formal or systematic treatment; the author puts down her experiences and reflections, just as they occur to her, in an easy, natural way. A little overstatement does not appreciably detract from the value of her charming and enlightening book.”
“The mere data contained in this work is wonderful. The method of chatty and sympathetic treatment is even more to be admired.”
“[One] will find Miss Loane’s womanly common-sense and robust humour an admirable corrective to the pleas for sapping the strength of the nation which are the evil fashion of the hour.”
Lock, Robert Heath.Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution. *$2. Dutton.
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“The book begins with an introduction in which are briefly discussed: Linnaean species, Jordan’s species, variation, mutation, discontinuity of species, the work of Mendel and evolution theories. Later chapters are largely given to a fuller discussion of the topics here introduced. The first half of the book is rather elementary.... Natural selection, evidences of evolution and ‘biometry’ are treated in detail.”—Science.
“The style is clear, but in many sections so many highly technical terms are used that the lay reader will be in trouble. The concluding chapter at least, however, should be carefully read by all who are dealing with problems of human progress.”
“On the whole, this is probably the best available book from which the layman may get a reasonably complete and nontechnical account of recent investigations in the last two of the three fields covered. Unfortunately, the treatment of the subjects is not strictly even and impartial.” Raymond Pearl.
“The subjects and their facts are well arranged, but are set forth with a heaviness of diction which makes it difficult for any one except a biologist already familiar with the subject properly to correlate the facts as he reads. The sphere of usefulness of this volume will be among senior biological students rather than among either advanced scientists or general readers.”
“An elementary but generally clear and skilful exposition of the present aspects of the evolutionary problem.” F. A. D.
“Even in the driest parts of the work there are sharp and valuable criticisms of the theories of the day.” Francis Ramaley.
“The author is no Miss Agnes Clerke; but he is at his best in his somewhat discontinuous sketches of the history of the idea of ‘mutation.’”
Locke, William John.Beloved vagabond.†$1.50. Lane.