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“There is something fresh and original about this book of travel. The writer ... expresses herself in letters to her husband, and her observations are full of personal bits and scrappy digression.... The Oriental life of Tunis is presented in all its color and variety, and the ruins of Carthage are suggested with quite an imaginative touch.... The photographs, by Garrigues, a Tunis photographer, are unusually fine.”—Outlook.
“The book is open to many criticisms, with its bits of improbable romance and its free and easy style; but it is really interesting.”
Loti, Pierre, pseud.Disenchanted. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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“The work is written in Loti’s beautiful style, but is less superficial in character than many of his stories.” Amy C. Rich.
“As a matter of fact, M. Loti conspicuously fails to present the case of the contemporary harem in its most telling light. It strikes the present reviewer that the author’s taste runs somewhat excessively, for once, to the sentimental.” H. G. Dwight.
“Superbly translated by Clara Bell, the new book by Pierre Loti is no less than irresistible.”
Lottridge, Silas A.Familiar wild animals. *60c. Holt.
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Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.Text of Shakespeare; its history from the publication of the quartos and folios down to and including the publication of the editions of Pope and Theobald. **$2. Scribner.
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The third instalment of Prof. Lounsbury’s work on “Shakespearean wars.” “An elaborate account of an eighteenth-century literary controversy, of which the protagonists were Alexander Pope, author of ‘Dunciad,’ and the Shakesperean scholar, Lewis Theobald, the original hero of that famous and infamous poem.” (Forum.)
“Dr. Lounsbury, with a learning, a penetration and a scholarly thoroughness beyond all praise, has added to his already invaluable Shakespearean labours by attacking the thorny subject of Pope, Theobald, and the text of Shakespeare; has cleared the tangled brake and disclosed matters which had been long forgotten.”
“His style is heavy, and he writes at unnecessary length, labouring points that have long been pretty clear to those who know anything about the subject.”
“In style, this volume is delightfully clear and entertaining, despite some rather painful ‘longueurs.’ Professor Lounsbury wears his learning lightly, and the reader, therefore, feels no burden.” Charles H. A. Wager.
“He has rendered a new critical edition of the ‘Dunciad’ and a revising of Pope’s biography necessary, and a fuller life of Theobald desirable—despite the fulness and excellence of his own treatment of the great commentator’s career; and, all the while, he has been steadily nearing the goal he originally set himself of tracing the history of the works and fame of William Shakespeare.” W. P. Trent.
“Much of this investigation of necessity wanders far from Shakespere; but it is difficult to see how it could have been avoided, and the substantial results of the author’s researches ought to silence the critic who is inclined to quibble over the appropriateness of the title of the volume.”
“It is for these additions to exact knowledge and for the tedious labor spent in exhaustive investigation of dusty sources that students will be grateful to a volume condensing for them the results of ardent toil. But the general reader will find it almost equally rewarding for its extraordinarily vivid representation in the surroundings and atmosphere of their age of two notable figures.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
“While scholars and students will gratefully acknowledge Professor Lounsbury’s notable contribution to Shakespearean literature, the lasting importance of his work in this field lies in the clear light it throws on the conditions in which the dramatist lived, and the method or order of his growth.”
“Another book that must take an eminent place among recent contributions to Shakespeare literature—if, indeed, it be not by far the most important and the most interesting in itsspecial field of criticism—is ‘The text of Shakespeare.’” Wm. J. Rolfe.
Reviewed by George H. Browne.
“A book which deserves the attention of every one interested in the history of English literature.”
Louthan, Hattie Horner.“This was a man:” a romance. $1.50. Clark.
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The author emphasizes the sentiment that “the only safe principle in our American life lies in ignoring social distinctions and in paying homage to what each man really is.”
“The vulgarity of it consists in the author’s effort to interpret the scandalous lives of two Don Juans by the free use of their own vocabularies.”
“It is a very tangled skein of events that this novel presents to the reader to unravel, and there is little unity of plan or plot, but these faults are partially atoned for by a certain freshness and exuberance of feeling and expression that give the book the stamp of human interest.”
“The principal incidents of the story border on melodrama. There are some parts of genuine dramatic interest and the character of the rector is well drawn.”
Lovett, Robert M.Winged victory. †$1.50. Duffield.
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The whole story is animated by the spirit of the heroine who champions thru early life the cause of a feeble-minded brother, and later that of an unsuccessful man whom she marries because he needs her. She was “winged in her hope; armed in her faith. In the presence of the great fulfillment of life all individual complications of mere living seemed contemptible and petty. She walked firmly, exulting in her strength.”
“The book ... is rich in interest.”
“The story is interesting and cleverly wrought, but is marred by a vein of the sort of sentimentalism that affects the modern amateur sociologist, and by a false sense of values in the social life of the college community.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The climax is long in coming, and when it does arrive one fails to see clearly its relation to most of what has gone before.”
“While the book is seriously lacking in unity and coordination, it has features of genuine merit.”
“All the virtue of this story lies in the first of its three parts. Here is an affectionate and reverent study of child-nature, grateful enough in the midst of our sentimental or facetious or condescending manipulations of the child as literary ‘copy.’”
“The book as it stands is excellently written, in a style free from literary self-consciousness; American in its ideals, and full of firsthand interest in human character. Because of this very freshness the title is not quite fortunate; used here it gives an academic touch in spite of its real beauty.”
Low, Sidney James Mark.Vision of India as seen during the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales. *$3.50. Dutton.
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A general picture of the life and social conditions in India today. Beginning with Bombay, the author takes us thru the cities of Rajputana, to Punjab and the borders, past the cities of the Moghuls on to Bengal, Madras and the Southland. There is an account of the Mohammedan college at Aligarh, a discussion of the Indian army, and a concluding chapter which raises the question of the endurance of the present strange form of Indian government.
“Mr. Sidney Low, in ‘A vision of India,’ ... is admirable: thoroughly detached and non-official, but conservative in the best sense, in spite of a good deal of criticism of British faults.”
“A book so profitably full and accurate, so acute in observation, and so enlivening, that it may be called a remarkably illuminating book about India.” H. E. Coblentz.
“Mr. Low’s book is full of facts; it is brightly and ably written; and we hope that many members of our ‘not too attentive democracy’ will turn over these pages to see what our Indian empire is like.”
“Our only quarrel is with the title Mr. Low has chosen, for there is more careful study than ‘vision’ in his book; but it is better for that.”
“Mr. Low’s [book is valuable] because England’s course for the future is clearly and impressively disclosed.”
Reviewed by F. A. Steel.
“The book might with advantage have been considerably shortened. But, on the whole, it is an excellent piece of work, showing India as it appears to a keen observer, whose mind has been trained in the study of peoples and politics.”
Lowell, Percival.Mars and its canals.**$2.50. Macmillan.
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On the hills of northern Arizona, Mr. Lowell built an observatory and equipped it with apparatus for a life study of Mars. He offers in this volume the deductions from his observations to date. Not only does he convince the reader that Mars is inhabited but “that the inhabitants of Mars are carrying on a system of irrigation for agricultural purposes on an immeasurably larger scale than has ever been dreamed on our planet, that they possess a high degree of agricultural and mechanical intelligence, and a degree of moral development so far in advance of any we have yet reached that in all probability war is among them unknown.” (Outlook.)
“A longer and rather more serious book than that of Morse on Mars.”
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
“With all respect, then, to Professor Lowell, and with all trust in the accuracy of his observations, they seem explicable enough without any idea of Mars being inhabited. It seems pretty clear that he has let his imagination run away with him.” George M. Searle.
“Whether the reader can accept the author’s conclusions or not, he will at least be forced to admit, after reading ‘Mars and its canals,’ that the book is an exceedingly able and interesting exposition of the subject.” Herbert A. Howe.
“In every way the work is a worthy presentation from a recognized Martian leader. Mr. Lowell’s observations have every claim to acceptance. The theories propounded are by no means so clear.”
“The most adverse critic cannot but admire the tireless industry with which the planet has been scanned night after night, every noteworthy appearance regarded, and the mass of facts thus acquired moulded into a consistent whole.”
“Written in a very clear style, free from scientific technicalities, and illustrated by maps and diagrams, so that the non-expert layman can understand it.”
“While this book is published as a popular exposition of the most recent investigations, it presents practically all that is known, or thus far suspected, presumably, concerning this planet and its inhabitants.” Herman S. Davis.
Lowery, Woodbury.Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562–1574. *$2.50. Putnam.
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Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Lucas, Charles Prestwood.Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“That the results do not present much that is novel is due rather to the diligence of Mr. Lucas’s predecessors than to his own lack of zeal. The few errors ... do not bear directly upon the narrative.” Carl Russel Fish.
Lucas, Charles Prestwood.Historical geography of British colonies, v. 1. *$1.25; v. 2. *$1.90. Oxford.
v. 1.The Mediterranean and Eastern colonies revised and brought up to date by R. E. Stubbs.
“This volume begins with Gibraltar, and travels through the Mediterranean by way of Malta and Cyprus to the Asiatic islands of the Far East. Except for the three European possessions and Somaliland in Africa, the book deals exclusively with the islands in the Indian ocean and the minor Asiatic possessions.”—Nation.
v. 2.West indies rev. and brought up to date by Chewton Atchley.
“This volume deals not only with the West Indian islands proper, from Jamaica round to Trinidad, but also with the Bermudas, the Bahamas, the mainland colonies of Guiana and Honduras, and even the far distant possessions in the Cape Horn region—the Falkland islands and South Georgia.”—Nature.
v. 6.Australasia, by J. D. Rogers.
A history of the southern continent and the islands of the Pacific.
“Its revision has been most carefully carried out, and the politician will be as grateful for the precise statement of recent changes as the historical student will be for the more ample scale on which the earlier stages of exploration and settlement are treated.” W.
“The work of revision has been satisfactorily accomplished.”
“Mr. Rogers himself has apparently taken great delight in the writing of the book. Every page seems to be a labor of love, with its clever descriptions, witty allusions, apt quotations, Biblical and classical, and swift judgments of men, of policies, and of events.”
“Mr. Lucas has accomplished his task most successfully.”
Lucas, Edward Verrall, ed. Another book of verses for children, il. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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An anthology of “Poetry-for-children” which is capable of a many-sided appeal to the imagination, and which, the author hopes, will serve as a preparation for the real poetry of the grown-up. A poem’s fitness for being read aloud has been a principal consideration for including it.
“Is a delightful compilation, and noticeably excellent in the method of its arrangement.”
“Mr. Lucas has a sound taste in humor and in literature at large, and he seems equally to have good judgment in his choice of what will please children.”
“It would be difficult to get a more valuable edition for household use.”
“Altogether a most suitable and acceptable nursery, schoolroom, and playroom anthology.”
*Lucas, Edward Verrall.Character and comedy. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The first part of this book “consists of pleasant little essays of a Lamblike gentleness and humor, but the best of the book is the second part, ‘Life’s little difficulties,’ in which by means of life-like letters the tiny social tragedies of small places are told with exquisite dexterity and good nature.” (Ind.)
“Mr. Lucas is a pretty humorist, and in this dainty volume he shows, very prettily, the variety of his range.”
“A most delightful book.”
“Mr. Lucas knows how to write trifles with something much better than dignity; with a cheerful communicativeness and transparent candour that make every reader his warm friend.”
“The informality, intimacy, unaffected humor, of these unpretentious papers make them delightful reading.”
“Mr. Lucas’s last, but not least charming, book of essays.”
Lucas, Edward Verrall.Fireside and sunshine. **$1.25. Dutton.
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Nineteen “Lamb like” essays upon such subjects as; breakfast, squirrels, clothing old and new, the days of the week, and letter writing.
“His pages not only have the expected Elian air, but also something of a sybaritic savor, a more than suggestion of the gourmet, a Dickens-Lamb-Scott enjoyment of the things of sense as embodied in certain favorite eatables and drinkables.”
“This writing is in Mr. Lucas’s well-known vein—agreeable, vivacious, with bits of interesting observation of men, women, and beasts, and with touches of gentle humor. The matter, however, is rather thin, good enough for a casual contribution to the London ‘Outlook’ or ‘Country gentleman,’ but much of it hardly worth preservation in permanent form.”
“Among the best collections of essays of this day of their popular revival.”
“Whether old or new or half new, the essays may be commended to the public as excellent reading.”
Lucas, Edward Verrall, comp.Forgotten tales of long ago.$1.50. Stokes.
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Twenty stories, from early writers for children, of a period ranging from 1790 to 1830, with three later contributions. “In the discovery of an anonymous production entitled ‘Lady Anne’ the editor finds his reward for much fruitless rummaging. We share his gratification, for it is a gem well worth preserving.” (Ath.)
“Interesting to the occasional child who fancies quaint tales, and to all students of children’s literature. Well printed and illustrated, and attractively bound.”
Lucas, Edward Verrall, comp. Friendly town: a little book for the urbane. $1.50. Holt.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Among anthologies the book deserves an exceptional place.”
“It would be difficult to find a collection of more appealing verse and prose than this.”
Lucas, Edward Verrall, ed. Gentlest art: a choice of letters by entertaining hands. **$1.25. Macmillan.
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The gentlest art, according to Mr. Lucas’ interpretation, is that of letter-writing. This anthology of letters is varied in content and includes a wide range of letter-writers, many of them well-known eighteenth and nineteenth century English people. There are eighteen headings under which letters are grouped, some of them being Children and grandfathers, News bearers, The grand style, The little friends, Urbanity and nonsense, Literature and art, Humorists and oddities, The pen reflective, Rural recluses, and Shadows.
“A more charming volume it would not be easy to find.”
Lucas, Edward Verrall.Listener’s lure: a Kensington comedy. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is the best of England, old and new, told at random in letters which also serve to piece out one of the prettiest love stories of the year.”
Lucas, Edward Verrall.Wanderer in London. **$1.75. Macmillan.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He here shows himself to be an uncommonly shrewd observer of the many and varied aspects of the great metropolis, and the no less heterogeneous ways and moods of its teeming population.”
“Mr. Lucas takes his London lightly, skims the cream, revives the reader with the most modern frivolous bits of information, and never oppresses him under a load of facts. A good modern map is needed.”
Luce, Robert.Writing for the press: a manual. 5th ed. pa. 50c. Clipping bureau press.