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Abby Ann, Emmy Lou’s successor, is a little Coal City inhabitant, who with only a father’s care has not made much headway towards the graces. She is a spirited little miss who is finally sent away to school, to the school that had once claimed her mother as a pupil. Children will take keen delight in the part Abbie Ann plays in bringing about a reconciliation between her father and two very austere aunts.
“The story is told with much of the sympathy and humor that characterizes ‘Emmy Lou’ by the same author, but the incidents of this book will appeal more to a child than those of its charming predecessor.”
“‘Abbie Ann’ skips into our affections as gaily as she skipt along the railroad station at the opening of another bright story by the author of ‘Emmy Lou.’”
“The little girl is sure to be warmly welcomed by other little girls outside the story books.”
“Not only shows that she understands her art thoroughly, but, like Mrs. Burnett, she lets the facts move the reader, and abjures adjectives.”
Martin, Mrs. Helen Reimensnyder.Betrothal of Elypholate, and other tales of the Pennsylvania Dutch. †$1.50 Century.
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The sturdy qualities of Mennonite men and maidens are revealed in their life and lovemaking with which these stories deal.
“Decidedly more interesting than the longer stories by the same author.”
“The contrasts that she depicts by bringing in now and then an outsider from the city, or a son who has gone into the outside world and won success and culture, are almost too vivid to be artistic.”
“The tales are charmingly written and disclose a phase of unusually interesting life.”
Martin, Helen R. (Mrs. Frederic C. Martin).His courtship; il. by Alice Barber Stephens. †$1.50. McClure.
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A professor of psychology rusticating among the Pennsylvania Dutch during his vacation, becomes interested in a much persecuted slave of the kitchen. That the girl proves to be the daughter of cultured parents and had been kidnapped in infancy, that during her bondage she had found solace and books in a haunted room suggest the lines along which the professor may make some impersonal observations for the cause of psychology but more especially for his own personal cause of happiness.
“The author is certainly more successful when she confines herself to Dutch characters, and has in this case spoiled an excellent short story by expanding it into the more ambitious novel.”
“The book is a curious mingling of keen-eyed observation, great naturalness in narrative and dialogue, and exasperating artificiality of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“A story marked by unusual powers of penetrating observation.” Wm. M. Payne.
“This is a short story which made up of its mind to grow into a novel, and got spoiled in the process.”
“The author’s management of the dialect is commendable, for she does not overdo the matter and put in dialect for its own sake.”
“As long as she portrays the Mennonites, or the ordinary Dutch, she has a field unique and worthy of her talents, but in introducing outsiders from the gay world she strikes as ordinary a note as did the fascinating Jubilee singers of long ago when they tried to sing our concert pieces.”
Martin, Louis Adolphe.Text-book of mechanics. *$1.25. Wiley.
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v. 1.Statics. “This is the first part of a text-book designed for an introductory course to applied mechanics, for use in colleges and technical schools. The author has arranged the book so that statics only is covered in this volume.”—Engin. N.
v. 2.Kinematics and kinetics. “Chapters are included on the following subjects: Kinematics—Rectilinear motion of a particle; curvilinear motion of a particle; motion of a rigid body; Kinetics—Kinetics of a particle and of the mass-center of a rigid body; application of the equations of motion for translation and for rotation; work and energy; impact.” (Technical Literature.)
“The book is a very good one for class work in technical schools.” Amasa Trowbridge.
“The fundamental principles of elementary mechanics are presented in simple manner and in logical order in this volume.”
Martin, Martha Evans.Friendly stars. **$1.25. Harper.
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A personal friendship with the stars which the author shares with her readers. It is an untechnical study and points out to the naked eye the most interesting facts about the stars. Their rising and setting, their number, colors, distances, movements and distinguishing characteristics are made clear to the observer who has had no preparatory instruction.
“The delicate, yet sure and accurate touch of the author, and her genuine love for the sky, combine to charm the reader, and to make him wish to have the book within reach, in case he too is a lover of the heavens.”
“The graceful introductory note of commendation from Doctor Jacoby leaves nothing more to be said as to the scientific accuracy of the author’s work.”
“This volume will appeal to the beginner in astronomy and to the general reader quite as much as to the astronomer.” W. E. R.
“[Told] in a plain simple way, quite free from the technical language which baffles the unscientific mind.”
“A useful and even interesting study.”
Martin, Percy Falcke.Mexico’s treasure-house (Guanajuato): an illustrated and descriptive account of the mines and their operations in 1906. $3. Cheltenham press.
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“A full account, with many illustrations, of the mines of a region which has been pronounced more ‘thoroughly mineralized’ than any equal portion of the globe.... Perhaps the most suggestive parts of the volume are those which tell of the new methods, mostly devised by Americans, to draw fresh wealth from the old workings.”—Nation.
“The story of what has been done, and the discussions of present conditions in the Mexican labor market and in industry are the features that render the book valuable. These subjects are treated in an interesting manner, and so far as the reader can judge, with impartiality and accuracy.”
“The description is technical and highly detailed.”
Martin, Percy Falcke.Through five republics (of South America); a critical description of Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela in 1905; il. *$5. Dodd.
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The subtitle furnishes the scope of this book of which the author says: “First, I believe it is timely, in view of the enormous advances made by the South American republics of late years, and the amount of British capital invested therein. Secondly, I have in my journalistic capacity been enabled to gather much information of value, which I have found no opportunity for utilising in the newspapers I have represented, but which, accompanied by illustrations and somewhat fuller descriptions, should be acceptable as a critical account of the countries visited.”
“The book contains a great deal of information—though it lacks arrangement.”
“A book which will be found of some value by commercial men and possibly by politicians. In matters apart from trade and figures Mr. Martin is hardly a safe guide. There are minor inaccuracies scattered throughout the volume.”
“The industry with which Mr. Martin has collected his figures and endless minutiae is commendable in spite of the rather deadening effectwhen they are all massed and offered you in lieu of entertainment.”
“Perhaps no book ever was written the illustrations to which more completely supplemented the shortcomings of the letter-press.” George R. Bishop.
“If only Mr. Martin had ‘boiled down’ these four hundred and sixty-five closely printed pages, and set forth plainly his conclusions, it would have been better. As it is, we do not quite know what he means.”
Martin, Sir Theodore.Monographs: Garrick, Macready, Rachel and Baron Stockmar. *$3.50. Dutton.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In less than a hundred pages this accomplished man of letters and wise commentator on things dramatic has produced a model brief biography [of Garrick].” S. M. Francis.
“Each is interesting, the paper on Stockmar having many touches of intimacy.”
Martin, William A. P.Awakening of China, il. from photographs. (Geographical lib.) **$3.80. Doubleday.
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Written as a result of close-range study this work represents China as “the theater of the most important events now taking place in the world.” It is an optimistic study, and the author “aims to explain those subterranean forces which seem to be raising the China of to-day from the bosom of the deep. Political agitation, whether periodic like the tides or unforeseen like the hurricane, is in general superficial and temporary, and the present reform movement in China, the author believes, has its root in forces more deep seated than such sporadic phenomena.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Optimistic in tone, philosophic in temper.”
“‘Awakening of China’ maintains Dr. Martin’s reputation as a leading authority on Chinese affairs, and though some allowance must be made for the optimism of a writer whose deep sympathy and interest have induced him to spend the evening of his days among the people where his life work has been done, it is a valuable and interesting contribution to our knowledge.”
“Not many authors are so well qualified as Dr. Martin to write a great book on the movement now taking place in China.” K. K. Kawakami.
“It is safe to say that no volume yet issued in this valuable series is of such immediate importance as Dr. Martin’s work. But it is rounded out by an index so hopelessly inadequate as to be a burden rather than a help to the student who would use the work for reference purposes.”
“A well informed work, and describes, in a readable, though somewhat succinct manner, the process of transformation now going on in China.” G: Louis Beer.
“Dr. Martin’s book is scarcely equal to the expectations which the reader naturally forms from its title and its general appearance.”
Marx, Karl.Capital: a critique of political economy. $2. Kerr.
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v. 2.This second volume devoted to the circulation of capital is edited by Frederick Engels and is translated from the second German edition by Ernest Untermann. Pt. 1, deals with The metamorphoses of capital and their cycles, pt. 2, with The turn-over of capital, and pt. 3, The reproduction and circulation of the aggregate social capital.
Reviewed by Ernest Untermann.
“This edition is well made, and easy reading.”
Marx, Karl.Revolution and counter-revolution; or, Germany in 1848.50c. Kerr.
Articles collected and brought forward from the years 1851–1852. They form an “invaluable pendant to Marx’s work on thecoup d’étatof Napoleon III.,” and give readers some idea of the conditions under which Marx was working and under which he prepared the papers as well as his “Achtzehnte brumaire” and “Zur kritik der politischen und oeconomie.”
Marx, W. J.For the admiral.†$1.50. Jacobs.
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A story for young people which turns back to France in the 16th century when Catholics and Huguenots were engaged in hostilities. The hero is a youth who enters upon the perilous undertaking of carrying an important packet to the Huguenot leader, Admiral de Coligny, and later joins him in a campaign filled with daring adventure.
“It is by much the best book of its kind sent us for review this season, and stands head and shoulders above its rivals.”
Marzials, Sir Frank Thomas.Moliere. $1. Macmillan.
Illustrated with reproductions of portraits and title-pages this little volume contains “a bibliographical criticism of the man of letters.” (N. Y. Times.) “The literary criticism is particularly good. The great dramatist’s genius has never been better appreciated.” (Spec.)
“It is a seemly little book.” Brander Matthews.
“Sir F. T. Marzials writes with unflagging spirit, and shows a sane and sober judgment.”
Masefield, John, ed. Sailor’s garland. $1.50. Macmillan.
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An anthology of sea poems. Miscellaneous poems, poems based upon historical fact, poems of mermaids and sea spirits, of pirates and smugglers and love poems are found here. The last thirty pages are devoted to a collection of sea chanties with a goodly bit of interesting folk-lore.
“The exercise of a little judgment might have made it so much better.”
“The selection is good and wise, one we should like to see in the forecastle, as well as in the saloon of every British ship afloat.”
“Containing a surprising amount of good seaverse.”
*Mason, Alfred E. W.Broken road.†$1.50. Scribner.
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An Indian prince educated at Eton and Oxford and a young Englishman continuing the work of opening the great road thru Chiltistan begun by his father, are the principal figures in this story which deals with the English rule over India.
“It is a vigorous story, and a strong story—an earnest story also. The lights and shades are cleverly put in, and the narrative in Mr. Mason’s hands becomes a veritable fragment of Doom.”
“The style suffers from a touch of the overemphatic, a slight suggestion of parade in its implication of significances, which the story does not go deep enough to warrant. But in spite of these shortcomings, the author succeeds in conveying to us his own regretful sense of life’s contrasts, ironies, and frustrations.”
“His new book will rank with his ‘The four feathers’ as a capital piece of clear, direct, romantic narrative—intensely exciting, yet not unduly sensational.”
Mason, Alfred E. W.Running water.†$1.50. Century.
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Whatever of deep sentiment, of resolution and also of villainy there is in the tale is magnetically associated with the ice fields of the Alps above Chamonix. There is an unrelated company of people upon the stage of the little drama, chief among whom is a brave-hearted girl who took her lesson of life from the Alpine guides—“If you have knowledge that can save a life—well you have got to use it, that’s the law.” Tired of her mother’s vain life, she hunts up her father, whom she has never seen, and tries to operate the law she had learned by saving a soul from the net which her dissolute father had drawn about it. The tale is one of her failures and successes.
“Here it would seem that all the elements that go to make a novelist of the highest rank were present, and yet the novel itself belongs to the hopeless second grade of literature.”
“The characters are more than ordinarily well-drawn, but the situations are painful, and, on the whole, the book leaves an unpleasant impression.”
“It is a sheer melodrama on one side, but so treated as to appear a human document.”
“A thoroughly readable story.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
“Elements of human and natural interest combine to make a tale of singular fascination, over which the mountain glamour is cast with such compelling effect that it acts as a shaping influence upon the lives of all the persons chiefly concerned.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The book ends tamely, and leaves an impression of casual workmanship.”
“The story is told with great fluency—too much, in fact. Throughout it resembles the last act of those congenitally three-act plays to which a fourth is added, to lengthen the entertainment till supper-time.”
“It is a pretty and pleasing tale notwithstanding the numerous extremely repulsive people who move through its pages.”
“While he always interests his reader’s mind, does not always convince him as to the plausibility of the incidents.”
“The author is really more concerned with telling his story than with portraying character and interpreting experience, but the very story he selects to tell proves how wide-spread, for the moment, is the grip of the ideal upon the mind of the novelist.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
“Happily named, but unequal, romance.”
Mason, Daniel Gregory.Romantic composers.**$1.75. Macmillan.
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Following an introductory chapter on Romanticism in music, there are studies of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt. “In his two previous volumes Mr. Mason has already dealt with Beethoven and his forerunners, and with the development of composition from Grieg to Brahms; in his present volume he fills the gap, and traces the wandering paths which led from one to the other of these frontier lines.” (Lond. Times.)
“That Mr. Mason so singularly misapprehends the essential significance of modern music seems little short of lamentable, for it vitiates what would otherwise be an influential and important body of critical writing.” Lawrence Gilman.
“To the study of the widely varying natures. Mr. Mason brings acute musical perception, a sure grasp of his thesis, and an intelligent sympathy which never weakens into partisanship.” Josiah Renick Smith.
“This series of essays, tho they would be both servicable and satisfactory to the professional musician, are quite intelligible to the average reader, and will find their best public among concert-goers who wish to get the most out of their concerts.”
“His book is an excellent piece of work throughout; delicate and sensitive in criticism, clear and often felicitous in style, marked by wide knowledge and carefully considered judgment. Now and again his taste appears to us a little fastidious.”
“This book is written with more flexibility and interest of style than his earlier one on ‘Beethoven and his forerunners.’” Richard Aldrich.
*Mason, Edith Huntington.Real Agatha. **$1. McClurg.
The will which leaves a man’s millions to his step-daughter contains a clause intended to thwart fortune-hunting husbands. The Honorable Agatha must surround herself by “not less than five nor more than six” young women of her own age each of whom is to be known as the Honorable Agatha. The caprice of the real Agatha moves her to assume the rôle of private secretary to her chaperon, leaving the field to the six Agathas and the puzzled suitors. Ofcourse the real romance concerns the secretary and a young lord who in the face of convention woos her.
Masse, Henri Jean L. J.Oxford. (Langham series of art monographs.) *$1. Scribner.