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The fifth edition revised. It is a guide for beginners, furnishing information and instruction on all matters relating to the preparation of copy for the press.
“The book is worth its room, were it only for the copious lists of words and phrases—correct and incorrect—common mistakes, and trite expressions, which it contains.”
“The handiest and most useful work of reference in its line we have ever seen.”
Lupton, Arnold, Parr, G. D. A., and Perkin, Herbert.Electricity as applied to mining. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
“Electrical theories and principles are dealt with at considerable length.... Less than one third of the book is given over to the applications of electricity to mining.... For the mining engineer, colliery manager, or others who are contemplating the adoption of electricity for power or lighting and who know little or nothing of electricity, the book presents many valuable features.”—Engin. N.
Lusk, Graham.Elements of the science of nutrition. *$2.50. Saunders.
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“Scientific analysis of the processes of nutrition, and the chemical constituents of various foods, together with numerous explanatory tables. Contains separate chapters on ‘The food requirements during the period of growth’ and on metabolism under abnormal and diseased conditions, including anaemia, diabetes, fever, and gout.”—N. Y. Times.
“The discussion is usually illuminating, but here and there a more liberal summary of generalization would be most helpful to students at least to beginners, who need broad statements rather than an enumeration of facts whose bearing they do not easily apprehend.”
“Prof. Graham Lusk is to be congratulated on having produced a very interesting and important book.” W. B. H.
Luther, Mark Lee.Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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Jean Fanshaw is right as a trivet, though wilful and a born fighter. Her ungovernable temper sends her to the reform school, she escapes, but is persuaded by a clean, strong young artist rusticating in near-by woods to return and serve out her time. She does it, goes forth with a clear record, and enters the maelstrom of shopgirl life in New York. Her fight against the temptation on every hand is finally rewarded when her artist hero of long ago finds her and makes her castles in Spain a reality.
Lyford, James Otis.Life of Edward H. Rollins: a political biography. $1.50. Estes.
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“The political activities of New Hampshire, which state Rollins represented in both Congressional houses, are here set forth in sufficient detail to make the book of interest as a study in that field. But it chiefly aims to set Senator Rollins, an able, conscientious, useful man rightly in history.”—Ind.
“His style is clear and graceful, and skill is shown in the selection and arrangement of salient facts, as well as due sense of proportion. It is the only book which has thus far appeared which gives a clear, orderly and accurate narrative of the political life of New Hampshire during this important epoch, and by his painstaking labor Mr. Lyford has made a distinct contribution to the history of the state.” James F. Colby.
“This is a good example of the political biography.”
Lyle, Eugene P., jr.Lone star. †$1.50. Doubleday.
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A tale of the winning of Texas which begins with the Mexican exclusion of Americans and ends with the battle of San Jacinto. The book is autobiographical in nature, the narrator figuring “as blunderer and sometimes as dupe, but always retrieves himself by candor and a high courage.” (Nature.) Such personages as Crockett, Houston, Bowie and Austin figure in the narrative.
“Mr. Lyle has chosen to open his novel with a few pages of rather aggressive smartness; but once in motion, he flings aside spangles and rides gallantly to the close. His tale is a captivating one.”
“He has marked individuality of style, he understands the mechanics of plot construction, he has considerable skill in the portrayal of character, and he can write English without making a blunder on every other page.”
Lynde, Francis.Empire builders.†$1.50 Bobbs.
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A story for would-be captains of industry which follows the enterprise of putting thru a difficult section of railroad, with no obstacle wanting that “nature, rivals, inside treachery and high finance” could present. The young engineer with the determination of a Titan surmounts them all. He “outgeneraled and outfought the unscrupulous old grafters and finally brought some of the more decent among their enemies over to his own way of thinking.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Fairly good reading for its class.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“This story is not so powerful as the title intimates.”
“Capital reading, even if it may seem wildly exaggerated at points.”
“The book is crisply written, has action and life, and holds the interest throughout.”
Lysaght, Sidney Royse.Her Majesty’s rebels. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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“Back in the days of tumult and shouting, of bitter strife and fostered crime, of no-rent manifestos and coercion bills, Her Majesty’s rebels, led by one of the greatest political leaders of the century, had Ireland in a ferment.” (Ath.) In this time of unrest the story has its setting, and the hero is Parnell in the disguise of Michael Desmond, “a notable hero, compounded of giant strength and strange weakness—a man, in fact, and a man full of magnetic force to draw men and women to him, now the victim of a passion he would not stop to control, now cold, reserved, and unscrupulous.... It is seldom we are given a picture of the Ireland of the early eighties half so finished, or so just as Mr. Lysaght’s.” (Ath.)
“Few Irish books of such good parts have come into our hands since Carleton’s days, for few authors hold the balance so accurately or write so restrainedly and so simply as Mr. Lysaght, content to fill their pages with the moving figures of men, animated by the spirit of life itself.”
“Compelling story.”
“The worst fault, indeed, of the story is a certain want of what journalists style actuality.”
“Mr. Lysaght often shows a keen perception of character without the art of sustained development. Many of his people are quite shadowy. He is likewise guilty of self-indulgence in the matter of length.”
“Apart from its general fairmindedness, the book is notable for many passages affording welcome relief to its prevalently serious character.”