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“Dr. McTaggart is a master of clear definition and concise ratiocination. Indeed, his clearness and conciseness are of such exquisite quality that almost of themselves they afford the impression of wit.”
“This arbitrary method of criticism seems to us to vitiate a good deal of the book. It is undeniably clever, and very many good things are said; and it fully sustains Dr. McTaggart’s reputation as a clear thinker and a lucid writer; but much of it is likely to produce irritation rather than reflection.” David Phillips.
“This very curious volume has interest as disclosing a personality and as illustrating a phase of thought. It is written in a simple almost childlike style, without the slightest pretence. The author does not seem to be aware of the conflict and incompatibility of the various elements in his mind.”
MacWhirter, John.MacWhirter sketch book; being reproductions of a selection of sketches in color and pencil from the sketch book of John MacWhirter, designed to assist the student of landscape painting in water color. $1.50. Cassell.
“Wonderfully exact reproductions of sketches in color and pencil by a famous Scotch water colorist, designed to assist the student. There are no fewer than twenty-four full-page reproductions of water color studies, the landscape being generally either Scotch or Swiss or Italian.... There is an introduction by Edwin Bale, and some interesting notes by the artist are also included.”—N. Y. Times.
“The pencil sketches, even the slightest of them, will be found of value by the student.”
“In spite of this flavour of a bygone time, there are one or two sketches which have in them that freshness and charm which are so often worried out of finished exhibition pictures.”
Macy, Arthur.Poems.*$2.25. Clarke, W. B.
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“A memorial volume of an unusually pleasant quality.... Mr. Macy was essentially the poet of good-fellowship. If such an impulse does not produce, in his own phrase, ‘Poetry with a big P,’ yet ... it does possess a very comfortable and lasting appeal.”—Nation.
“It is informed with a genuine warmth of sentiment, a Thackerayan humor, and a mellow morality, and is expressed with a clean music of phrase.”
“Mr. Macy showed a felicity in the choice of words and an almost unerring ear for perfection of rhyme, combined with an unusual exactness in the use of difficult meter.”
Madden, John.Forest friends: the woodland adventures of a boy pioneer. †$1.25. McClurg.
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It is of a little lad of seven with a passionate, enduring love of the forest and its wild inhabitants that Mr. Madden writes. The experiences that result from a child’s quick fascination of things of the woods are told reflectively out of the fulness of the man’s memory.
“A good example of the static drama. It fills a real need in supplying a record of the animal life of regions near at hand in the early days of man’s occupation.” May Estelle Cook.
“Will be read with profit by many other men’s sons.”
“Although no new facts are added to our store of knowledge, it is a relief to read a book treating of just ordinary creatures with ordinary habits.”
“Not necessarily for the boy, but quite as attractive to the boy’s father.”
Madison, James.Writings; comprising his public papers and private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed: ed. by Gaillard Hunt. *$5. Putnam.
v. 6.“This volume covers the years 1790 to 1802. There is little that is new.... About half of it consists of Madison’s speeches in the First Congress, ... his various contributions to Freneau’s ‘National gazette,’ ‘Helvidius,’ his speech on the Jay treaty, and his Virginian report of 1799–1800. The rest is correspondence, embracing a dozen or so of family letters.... There are also a few new letters, and from Madison’s assumption of the secretaryship of state in May, 1801, an important series of instructions to the American representatives in England, France, and Spain. The footnotes, though not numerous, are almost uniformly good.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“The printing of so many speeches is of doubtful utility, as the reporting of that day was notoriously defective, and these summariescan only be comprehended from their context in the ‘Annals.’ The space thus occupied could have been better employed by including more of the correspondence, and especially the letters to Jefferson. The notes of the editor are judicious and accurate.”
Madison, Lucy (Foster) (Mrs. Winfield Scott Madison).Maid of Salem towne. †$1.25. Penn.
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Into this story of the charming little maid who came so near being hanged for a witch, and who was rescued in dramatic fashion by her friends at a critical moment, are woven sketches of the good old colony folk including Cotton Mather himself. The whole forms a vivid picture of life in a time more picturesque than comfortable.
“Most happily told.”
Madonna of the poets; an anthology of only the best poems written about the Blessed Virgin. *85c. Benziger.
“An anthology covering a long period of literature. Many of the verses ... are far from being widely known to-day. Robert Grosseteste, William Forest, Richard Rowlands, Ben Jonson, Sir John Beaumont, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, represent the inspiration of the Madonna in English life, from the middle ages till long after England had ceased to be Catholic. Among the modern contributors are Wordsworth, Newman, Hawker, Aubrey de Vere, Coventry Patmore, George Macdonald, Father Tabb, Alice Meynell, Louise Imogen Guiney, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling.” (Cath. World.)
“A very curious mingling of pieces.”
Maeterlinck, Maurice.Measure of the hours; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Dodd.
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Some new essays and others lately appearing in magazines are included among the twelve of this group. The collection “is somewhat heterogeneous, and ranges over questions of morality, social duty, literary appreciation, scenery and popular science.” (Nation.)
“A book of fragments, not all of equal value.”
“All of them are admirably translated, so far as one may judge without comparing the French, by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of them offer something novel and worthy of more than a moment’s pondering.”
“The main interest of nearly all these essays is essentially that of the earlier volumes; the aim is still to combat insensibility to the possibilities of unguessed mysteries in what lies around us.”
“Maeterlinck can weave mysticism, educe a moral, out of whatever comes to his hand. The merit of his style, of its pellucid originality, is the metaphor and that metaphor generally a single type, personification. It is no willful trick of style, no imposed elaborateness of location. It is the simple expression of his vision.” Florence Wilkinson.
Maffitt, Emma Martin.Life and services of John Newland Maffitt; il. $3. Neale.
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A sympathetic sketch of Captain John Newland Maffitt, seaman, surveyor, commander, author and patriot.
* Magda, queen of Sheba; tr. into French from the original Ghese, by Hugues Le Roux, and from the French into English by Mrs. John Van Vorst; with an introd. by Hugues Le Roux. **$1.20. Funk.
The alleged romance of the historic Queen of Sheba translated from “The glory of the kings,” an ancient royal Abyssinian manuscript.
“Textually it is a remarkable book—curiously compounded of stately phrases imitated from the authorized version and other phrases singularly bald, modern, and pedestrian.”
“The volume, which is half story, half study, has an undoubted literary charm as well as historic value.”
Magill, Edward Hicks.Sixty-five years in the life of a teacher. **$1.50. Houghton.
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“Dr. Magill’s career as a teacher began when he was sixteen. He is now over eighty, so that his career as an educator literally spans the whole history of the development of American education.”—Lit. D.
“The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal, and professional.”
“Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting chapters of American educational history.”
“Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”
“To those interested in educational matters his book would have been of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the personal note.”
“It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.
Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.
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“If it had been handled with considerably more restraint, and if the characters concerned had been a little more like ordinary human beings and not quite such impossible combinations of superlative virtue and cleverness, vindictiveness and villainy, it might easily have made a better book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Is the strongest novel yet written by Sir William Magnay.”
Mahaffy, John Pentland.Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
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“After all, it is the only book of its kind. Nowhere else can one get a connected survey of what the Greeks were doing and thinkingand saying under the dominance of that empire whose social life has been depicted in such a scholarly and yet fascinating manner by Professor Dill.” B. Perrin.
“It is much to be regretted that a scholar of distinction should have published a work which everywhere exhibits the wide range of his learning, but which seems to bear clear signs of hasty compilation and an imperfect appreciation of what readers may justly look for in a costly and, it might have been presumed, authoritative work.”
Mahan, Alfred Thayer.From sail to steam: recollections of naval life.**$2.25. Harper.
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This narrative of naval affairs, much of it in the form of personal reminiscences, tells of the change from sail to steam power, and so becomes a history of the old navy and the new. It is an authoritative account and although intimate, none the less permits of impersonal conclusions and generalizations.
“A very attractive book, which albeit devoid of much striking incident or much stirring adventure, is full of Captain Mahan himself.”
“A capital book, this, to take up of a winter’s evening, when the day has been long and trying.”
“The author has, indeed, ‘let himself go,’ which must have been a very pleasant change from his usual austerity of construction and argument, and the reader shares the delights of the escapade. The mixture of autobiography, anecdote and essay is only less casual than the autobiography Mark Twain is publishing.”
*Mahan, Alfred Thayer.Some neglected aspects of war; together with The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.
“A group of articles demonstrating the necessary and righteous part played in modern civilization by war, broadly considered, and the impossibility of replacing it shortly by any other agency, the conditions of the world remaining as they now are.”
Maine, Sir Henry James.Ancient lawwith introduction and notes by Sir Frederick Pollock. **$1.75. Holt.
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Maitland, Frederic William.Life and letters of Leslie Stephen. *$4.50. Putnam.
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The biographer holds the reader’s attention close to the moral and intellectual qualities “which gradually made Leslie Stephen the first among English critics and thinkers and one of the most influential among English moralists.” (Nation.) “Quite apart from the admirable literary form of the record, Professor Maitland has presented us with the portrait of an intensely human character, who took life, sunshine and thunder alike, with a free forehead and a free heart.” (Sat. R.)
“Will amply repay reading.”
“The biography now published should be the most welcome of books to all whose interests are engaged in the highest ideals of thought and conduct.” Wm. M. Payne.
“It may be doubted if the present year will bring us from England a biographical work surpassing this in real literary distinction and literary value.”
“Mr. Maitland has done as well for Leslie Stephen as Leslie Stephen did for Fitzjames, and the only possible ground of complaint is that he has not given us quite enough of himself.” Sir Frederick Pollock.
“He has composed a biography which thrills in every line with affection and admiration for his hero, but never lies.”
“Part of its charm is the unconscious subsidiary portrait that the biographer has done of himself.”
Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.
“For American readers the book would have been better had the author, or editor—for he is more editor than author—given a little more historical background. Historically the letters need some interpretation.”
“It has not a trace of the cant of conventional biography. He has the double advantage of having known Stephen intimately and of having deserved to know him.” H. W. Boynton.
“Professor Maitland’s book is neither a criticism, nor an appreciation, nor a panegyric; it is a living and breathing portrait of a modest, strong, active-minded, melancholy, tenderhearted man. The lights are not heightened, the shadows not deepened.”
“It would be difficult to overpraise the merits of Mr. Maitland’s work. Written in a style which rivals Stephen’s own in nervous strength, and excels it, perhaps, in colour and certain whimsical humour, it presents a most living portrait of a most vital being.”
Malet, Lucas, pseud.SeeHarrison, M. S. K.
Malim, Margaret F.Old English woodcarving patterns; from oak furniture of the Jacobean period. *$4.50. Lane.
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“A large portfolio containing reproductions of facsimile drawings from rubbings, designed especially for teachers, students and classes. Thirty examples are shown on twenty plates.... All the patterns given in this portfolio have been collected from genuine pieces of old oak furniture from various parts of the country.”—Int. Studio.
“A really useful portfolio.”
*Mallock, William Hurrell.Critical examination of socialism.**$2. Harper.
A controversial treatment of the entire subject of socialism which may serve as a first introduction to the subject and which points out with equal fairness the strong and weak points of the system as it exists at the present time. The author discusses the historical beginning of socialism, Marxian socialism, the proximate and ultimate difficulties, individual motive and democracy, Christian socialism, the just rewardof labor, interest and abstract justice, equality of opportunity and the social policy of the future.
“The book contains some crudities of plan and detail and an inexcusable number of grammatical or typographical errors.”
*Malvery, Olive Christian.Soul market. †$1.50. McClure.
The experiences and observation of Miss Malvery who impersonated various types of slum folk for the sake of studying their lives at close range.
“The cleverly delineated views from an inner standpoint are more fresh and impressive than methodical statistics.”
Manly, John Matthews, comp. English poetry, 1170–1892. *$1.50. Ginn.
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A high school and college text which includes between fifty and sixty thousand lines of poetry from the beginning of the Middle-English period down to the death of Tennyson. Intrinsic worth and beauty, and special significance in the history of English literature have determined the choice of the poems.
Mann, Charles Riborg, and Twiss, George Ransom.Physics. *$1.25. Scott.
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In Professor Mann’s thoroly modern textbook, “intended for third or fourth year high school or freshman collegiate students ... he has abolished such problems as ‘let the forces a, b and c meet at the point q’ and substituted real concrete examples of the applications of physical formulae. He has substituted photographs of modern machinery, such as turbine engines, motors and loop-the-loop, for the antiquated and diagrammatic illustrations of the old text-books.” (Ind.)
“Professor Mann has made a special effort to make the student realize that physics is a practical subject and necessary to the understanding of the operations of daily life. Some of his pictures seem unnecessary and somewhat kindergartenish.”
Mann, Horace K.Lives of the popes in the early middle ages. v. 2 and 3: The popes during the Carolingian empire, Leo III. to Formosus, 795–891. ea. *$3. Herder.
These volumes “include a period of thirty-three years and six pontificates,—Popes in those days very seldom even approached the ‘annos Petri.’ This was the time of the ‘false decretals,’ and Mr. Mann is at great pains to show that the Popes with whom he is concerned did not use the evidence which these forgeries offered to support their claims.”—Spec.
“He has gone over his sources with painstaking care, and has thrown an extensive mass of historical erudition into an easy and well-ordered narrative. If there is anything in this volume against which one might feel inclined to utter an adverse criticism, it is the polemical note which strikes us as over-assertive in Father Mann’s pages.”
“As Mr. Mann has given us the facts, we need not be in any way prejudiced by his deductions. But here we think the value of the work before us ceases. It will be known as a handy and compendious book of reference (it would be still more handy if the index were not so inadequate), and though we cannot deny that the author has, to some extent, read himself into the atmosphere of the early middle ages, he gives us little that is new or original in the encyclopaedic knowledge which he has so diligently culled from well-known sources. To literary style he disclaims all pretension, but by the want of it his volumes miss the charm which might otherwise surround his subject.”
“Though we differ from Mr. Mann on various points, we may sincerely congratulate him on bringing this learned work to a successful conclusion.”
Manners and social usages: revised and corrected. $1.25. Harper.
A complete revision of a standard work which offers suggestions for proper conduct in all the ordinary walks and emergencies of life. It is based on broad principles of good taste and consideration for others, and on the social conditions of our country.
“We know of no other book that so amply meets the need.”
“The present volume is excellent of its sort, well-written, clear, tactful. It tells the social aspirant all he needs to know.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
Mannix, Mary Ella.Patron saints for Catholic youth. 60c. Benziger.
v. 3.Includes St. Francis Xavier, St. Patrick, St. Louis, St. Charles, St. Catharine, St. Elizabeth, St. Margaret and St. Claire.
Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield).Our little Dutch cousin. †60c. Page.
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“The visit of a little New York boy to his cousin in Holland is the pretext for much interesting information that an American child would most enjoy.”
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).Automobilist abroad; with il. and decorations by Blanche McManus. *$3. Page.
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“Mr. Miltoun ... might have called his book ‘The automobilist’s hotel abroad,’ for in his running commentary on the roads and routes of Europe he lays special emphasis upon the methods of catering to motorists, and he has no hesitancy in mentioning by name the good and inferior inns one may meet in different towns.... The European motorist will find considerable practical information in the closing chapters of the book. One gives a short account of the leading European races and winners; another tells how to join the touring club of France, and another gives a comprehensive digest of the automobile regulations, custom duties, and methods of securing drivers’ licenses and registrations in different countries.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Miltoun’s enthusiasm for the motor-car, however, does not overbalance the practical and practicable problems of touring abroad. Every point of such a tour ... is adequately and interestingly recounted by the author of this book.” H. E. Coblentz.
“His book has the distinction of being one of the first satisfactory volumes of travel written by an automobilist.”
“While not exactly an automobilist’s vade mecum, it contains all the essential elements of a motor guide through Europe, presented through the medium of a personal and very practical experience.”
Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country; il. by Blanche McManus. $3. Page.