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“The story is told with delightful humor, but also with realism not altogether pleasing.”
“Pleasant is the word! Fantastic, improbable, impossible! Granted freely, that and more!” Mary Moss.
“It is delightful because it is full of the breath of springtide and Bohemianism.”
“The hero is one of the most genial and human figures ever encountered within the pages of a book. It would take a very stern moralist indeed to find him, despite his obvious faults, anything but sympathetic and lovable in all the phases—even in most sordid—of his picturesque end eccentric career.”
“There is many a novelist much better known who might well envy Mr. Locke the privilege of having written ‘The beloved vagabond.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“On the whole [Mr. Locke] must be congratulated on the skill, the spirit and the tact with which he has composed these exotic variations on a Rabelaisian theme.”
*Lockwood, Laura Emma.Lexicon to the English poetical works of John Milton. *$3. Macmillan.
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“Miss Lockwood has used the text of the Globe edition, and retained the modern spelling; in the arrangement and classification of the meanings of words she has followed the ‘New English dictionary.’ Except in the case of the very commonest words, she has aimed at making her record of occurrences complete, and she has laid particular stress on definitions.”—Nation.
“We have attempted to test the work by a single short poem, the ‘Lycidas,’ and we have only [a few] points of criticism on that difficult poem. Nevertheless, this is a very valuable work.”
“This is a welcome work and will henceforth be indispensable to any serious student of the poet. Of course, only systematic use can prove the accuracy of such a book in detail, but the impression which one gains from a cursory examination of its pages is that the task has been accomplished in a reliable and painstaking manner.”
Lodge, Henry Cabot.Frontier town and other essays. **$1.50. Scribner.
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The frontier town is Greenfield, Mass., the 150th anniversary of whose incorporation was celebrated in 1903. The other essays are on the Senate, Samuel Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hoar, The United States at Algeciras, etc.
“All of the essays are written in Senator Lodge’s agreeable manner; he, at least, has preserved a literary finish in these essays upon historical and allied subjects. It is often refreshing to find such a book, which does not pretend to add to the store of human knowledge, but presents old views and known facts in a pleasing and attractive form.”
“As a whole, the contents of the volume have less distinction than the same author’s ‘Fighting frigate and other essays,’ but that any man in public life should be able to write so much and so well is itself gratifying.”
“To our surprise we find Mr. Lodge at his clumsiest in speaking of the matters which concern him, or our interest in him, most.” H. W. Boynton.
Lodge, Sir Oliver.Substance of faith allied with science; a catechism for parents and teachers. **$1. Harper.
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Thru questions and answers the author formulates a way to achieve a harmonious condition in which the Divine Will is perfectly obeyed. His task has been that “of formulating the fundamentals. or substance of religious faith in terms of Divine Immanence, in such a way as to assimilate sufficiently all the results of existing knowledge and still be in harmony with the teachings of the poets and inspired writers of all ages.” The book is addressed to the many who experience some difficulty in recognizing the old landmarks amid the rising flood of criticism.
“We can hardly doubt that even his catechism, when preached by himself, is interesting and profitable; but we venture to suggest that if he seems to find it practically a source of inspiration, that is because any man so combining learning and good-will is worth listening to, whatever his topic.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
“We have rarely seen a simpler or clearer account of what science can teach us now on such fundamental problems as the formation of the earth and the development of life; it will be a real boon to the religious teacher; though, simple as it is, we doubt whether he could make it intelligible to children.”
“His book we are sure, will be a source of happiness and consolation to many who, confused by the new discoveries of history and of science, have become shaken in their religious faith.”
*Loftie, Rev. William J.Colour of London, historic, personal and local; with an introd. by M. H. Spielmann; il. by the Japanese artist, Yoshio Markino. *$6. Jacobs.
“Mr. Loftie has interpreted the term ‘colour’ in its broadest sense and has drawn extensively upon the wonderful traditions of the great metropolis; indeed, the most interesting chapter in the volume is devoted to the history and description of the Tower. To many, however, the most attractive feature of the book will be the series of delightful illustrations by Mr. Yoshio Markino, reproduced in colour and monotone, the originals of which were recently exhibited at the Clifford gallery in the Haymarket.”—Int. Studio.
“As for the letterpress by Mr. W. J. Loftie, its chief defect is that it has nothing to do with the pictures. From the antiquarian and topographical points of view it seems to us of very high interest, marked by strong common sense and enmity to popular fables.”
“The artist ... has given us a London which is new. Mr. W. J. Loftie as an antiquary, has naturally and properly given us in the text anecdotes which are old, though pleasantly treated.”
“Mr. Loftie writes of a few of the myriad aspects of London ... treating them all in a delightfully suggestive fashion, with a true feeling for the oddities and ramifications of his subject. The enterprising young Japanese seems to know all parts of his beloved London, and to have observed it with the stranger’s open-mindedness and the artist’s sensitiveness to effect.”
“Possessing a delicate sense of colour and tone harmony, the artist has been inspired by some typical scenes of London street life to produce a number of drawings which are extremely fascinating, and bear the stamp of exceptional ability.”
“Mr. Loftie has done his share of the work in a competent manner. These drawings, the larger part of them in color, ought to make the fortune of any book.”
“His drawings are equally admirable for simplicity, spontaneity, and sincerity—so much so, indeed, as quite to take all of one’s attention in opening the well-printed book, even though its text be by such an erudite authority as is Mr. W. J. Loftie.”
“Well above the colour-book average.”
Loliee, Frederic.Short history of comparative literature from the earliest times to the present day. *$1.75. Putnam.
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“M. Loliée’s aim is to present a picture of the literary output of all the centuries: to mark the periods of growth, florescence and decay, and to indicate the relations of one product to another.”—Spec.
“We have read this work with dismay and disappointment. And as for M. Loliée’s comparisons, they are fit only to be made at a penny-reading. It remains to add that the book is very ill-translated, and that it bristles with misprints.”
“As a result of such a gigantic undertaking, confined within the narrow limits of 350 pages, his book is conspicuous for broad surveys and vague generalities. By its lack of close individual characterization and accurate detailed description it lies at the very antipodes of Sainte-Beuve’s critical method. The translation is not so good as it might be.”
“Each step in his work is so carefully taken and the proportions so well maintained that one can have no possible doubt of the underlying truth of his whole theme.”
“It is certainly safe to say that the wider a reader’s acquaintance with the literature of the world, the more benefit he will get from M. Loliée’s work. It has been well translated by Mr. Power.”
Loliee, Frederic.Women of the second empire: chronicles of the court of Napoleon III; comp. from unpublished documents; tr. by Alice M. Ivimy. *$7. Lane.
In this volume “pageant ... defiles before you in all its magnificence. The empress Eugenie, who set the fashion to the women of Europe, the Countess de Castiglione, Madame de Rutz, Laure de Rothschild, the Princess Mathilde, Countess le Hon and many others—all pass on their way, and the place of each in the procession is defined. As each passes too you learn something of her character and attainments; and in a discreet whisper stories are told of her doings.... Moreover it is illustrated with fifty-one photographs of the celebrities, superbly reproduced.”—Acad.
“Exceedingly well written and interesting as gossip may be. But M. Loliée’s preface and work are more reasonable and without that desperate brightness—of a salesman exhibiting wares. He has been untiring in his search for information and successful. The translation is well done.”
“The volume appears ... like ‘the book of the opera,’ and a very light opera at that.”
“Amusing, shocking, interesting, disgusting, trivial, important, sometimes by turns and sometimes all on the same page is M. Frederic Loliée’s book of biographical sketches.”
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
“It all smacks too much of a society’s journal’s small talk about pretty faces and dresses.”
“Brilliant and amusing as M. Loliée’s book undoubtedly is, such a tone of cynicism rather repels any one who has ever had even a passing acquaintance with members of that long-dead society whose actual charm he does not, we think, quite succeed in perpetuating here.”
London, Jack.Before Adam.†$1.50. Macmillan.
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Mr. London sets about the novel task of deducing from the dream glimpses of the present day sleeper, evidences of his evolution from the ape. For instance, the falling-through-space dream is a racial memory which dates back to our remote ancestors who lived in trees and who experienced terrible falls. “It is decidedly ingenious, this story of tree dwellers, cave dwellers and fire makers, who are masters also of the bow and arrow—of three stages of human evolution going on side by side in a remote geological age.” (Ind.)
“In the subject of his latest story, ‘Before Adam,’ Mr. Jack London shows no diminution of his characteristic audacity. This is a brave endeavor to enlist our interest in these dim denizens; but it falls short of complete success. The story occasionally stirs our curiosity, but never our sympathy.” Harry James Smith.
“It may be the result of a good deal of scientific research into the latest accepted theories of evolution and atavism, but the popularity of a work of fiction is seldom in direct ratio to its scientific accuracy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The story fails to make a distinct impression upon the reader, who finds in it, in the last analysis, but another animal story of the type that has been so popular during the last decade or so.”
“Jack London’s unbridled imagination is here exhibited in full career.”
“Jack London has performed a wonderful feat in so describing the lives and passions of these rudimentary beings. He has builded a romance of the unknown ages, of the creatures that may have been, and endowed it all with poignant reality.”
“In one respect ‘Before Adam’ is weak; it is too truth-loving as regards scientific records to leave much room for the emotional aspects of life. The story is a sort of literary ‘tour de force,’ ably done and curiously fascinating.”
London, Jack.Love of life, and other stories.†$1.50. Macmillan.
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A group of characteristic Jack London stories set in “the rim of the polar sea.” Cold and hunger battle with the love of life, even humanity itself is often chilled into insensibility, and the animal instinct of self preservation at all hazards remains. The stories are Love of life, A day’s lodging, The white man’s way, The story of Keesh, The unexpected, Brown Wolf, The sun-dog trail and Negore, the coward.
“All good, some of them of distinctive merit. Not so brutal as some of his earlier stories of this author.”
“Taken altogether these stories have all the good points of their author’s work—strength, aliveness, vividness of colouring.” J. Marchand.
“They are quite equal to his previous accomplishments in this direction, and are not approached by the efforts of any other writers, save Elizabeth Robins’s ‘The magnetic north,’ which remains the chief achievement in arctic romance.”
“This is much the usual Jack London thing: wolf-dogs and miners and Indians; starving and freezing and killing.”
“Jack London certainly has the story-teller’s gift, and he uses it to the greatest effect when he tells us of the north.”
London, Jack.Moon-face; and other stories.†$1.50. Macmillan.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Of varying interest and merit they seem, by the natural limitations of the short story, to hinder the powers of the author from coming into full play.”
“These short stories of Mr. London’s are rather poor stuff, as lacking in quality as in imagination; and there is little to be said for them on the score of originality.”
*London, Jack.The road.†$2. Macmillan.
Jack London is the invincible tramp in these pages. Often enough the vulnerable heel is exposed to the arrows flying thick in “hobo” land, but by means of quick wits, his alertness and master strength he wards them off. “The road” records his round of underworld experiences which began at eighteen, and it abounds in tramp tricks, tramp scrapes, and tramp vernacular, interesting both to the curious reader and the student of sociology.
London, Jack.Scorn of women; in three acts.**$1.25. Macmillan.
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A three act comedy, with Dawson City in 1897 as its setting. “The heroine is a dazzlingly beautiful and very rich dancer, who is worshipped by all the men and suspected by all the women.... The incidents of Arctic life are portrayed with unmistakable veracity, and the humors and mystifications of a masked ball, under frontier conditions, are set forth with freshness and vivacity.” (Nation.)
“In the last act there is a touch of the wild which is, perhaps, a trifle too realistic, but the piece as a whole, is decidedly entertaining, and contains some well-drawn sketches of character.”
“The length of the second act and the numerous irrelevant episodes might weaken the play on the stage, but there can be no question about the dramatic effect of the conclusion.”
London, Jack.White Fang.†$1.50. Macmillan.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a capital story, marred a little by the brutality of detail given in the fight with the bull-dog.”
“His tale is packed full of absurdly precious idioms, literary ‘clichés’, and pompous little mannerisms.”
“The illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull are not the least good thing about the book. The virility of this artist is as strong and as alive as that of the author he companions, but there is a greater sense of self-control in it, a power of restraint and reserve which makes his work a lasting delight.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
“The manner in which the author manages to interest one in the history of the wolf is an achievement.”
“It would be an exaggeration to call this novel a socialistic tract in disguise, but it is certainly not the least clever stroke of its author’s that he has succeeded in interweaving into a dog-and-wolf story so subtle a reminder of the pressure of feral conditions in the midst of civilized human society.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“The Canadian wolf needs the rehabilitation which the Indian wolf owes to Kipling, and Mr. London is entirely successful in expressing his litheness, which is worthy of rikki-tikki at his best, his hardihood, and the germ of the fidelity which remains the master attribute in the dog. Some scenes are admirably vivid bits of natural history.”
“Done in this author’s best style.”
*Lonergan, W. F.Forty years of Paris, il. **$3.50. Brentano’s.
Contemporary Paris as seen thru the eyes of a newspaper correspondent. Mr. Lonergan “has attended sittings of the Chamber and the courts, met many politicians and men of letters, unhitched Boulanger’s carriage, talked with Clémenceau, interviewed Zola, corresponded with Halèvy, and had a squabble with Sardou. In the midst of his feverish existence, however, he found the time to read something else than newspapers, namely, some books on Taine, Renan, and Abbé Loisy, especially the latter; and he gives us the benefit of his readings.” (Nation.)
“The genial and observant spirit which is visible in Mr. Lonergan’s new volume on Paris inclines us to praise it, and to recommend its purchase to our readers.”
“There are a good many small mistakes, and some unnecessary passages.”
“While this narrative, covering the main events of recent history, does not take the place of Seignobos or Hanotaux, it supplements, thanks to its generous supply of gossip from the editorial rooms and the ‘brasseries,’ those more dignified and reserved chronicles.”
“It contains a good deal of more or less entertaining gossip, more or less valuable criticism, literary and dramatic, and some pages well worth reading on the conflict with the Vatican.”
Long, William Joseph.Brier-patch philosophy. *$1.50. Ginn.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A book somewhat different from his previous animal studies, but equally well worth reading.”
“When Mr. Long is describing the habits of animals, and telling us stories about them, he is interesting and readable; but when he puts his own ideas into the mouth of a wild rabbit, the result is apt to be a little tedious.”
*Long, William Joseph.Whose home is the wilderness: some studies of wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
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A book of intimate observations recorded at the end of a season of “Watching the wild things.” It aims first, to show some of the unrecorded facts of animal life exactly as the author has seen them; second, to reproduce as far as possible the spirit of the place and the hour, and to let one also feel something of that gladness and peace which the author has always found in the silent places.
Long day; the story of a New York working girl as told by herself.*$1.20. Century.
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Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Margaret Dreir Robins.
Loomis, Charles Battell.Araminta and the automobile. †50c. Crowell.
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Araminta and the automobile, The deception of Martha Tucker, and While the automobile ran down are three stories which reveal “cheerful Americans” in the act of testing the joys and sorrows of the motor car.
Loomis, Charles Battell.Bath in an English tub; il. by Robert A. Graef. †75c. Barnes.
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A series of letters written to the New York sun which give the author’s experiences in England.
“It is not a guide book, but is franker and funnier than most guide books and will be appreciated by all who have been there.”
“Mr. Loomis sees the absurdities of life and relates them with cheerful vivacity.”
Lorimer, Norma Octavia.By the waters of Carthage. **$2.50. Pott.