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A handy pocket volume of information which will interest the traveler. The picture accompaniment does full justice to the historic university town.
“It is as unreadable as a guide-book, and more like one than anything else, yet we imagine it would be an inefficient guide. For those who love dessicated information it may have its place, but its place is not in a series of art monographs.”
“That peculiar rhetoric which guide books almost infallibly possess does not taint the language here. Considering the shortness of the book ... its amount of information is amazing. It does not seem possible that one single art treasure can have been omitted.”
“In many ways it would be vastly superior to the ordinary guide-book.”
*Masson, Thomas Lansing.Bachelor’s baby, and some grown-ups. **$1.60. Moffat.
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“Here are to be found short stories, dialogues, whimsical-serious essays, strings of modern apothegms, bits of verse, and what not.”—Nation.
“To speak of the volume comprehensively is not easy, considering its hodge-podge make-up, nor are any of the component elements important enough in themselves to need particularization. Mr. Masson’s wit is facile, occasionally smart, often pungent, never very penetrating.”
“There is always a touch of whimsicality in the treatment, whether the author is writing a treatise on the decadence of husbands or a pathetic short story. There is always also vivacity of style, a sense of humor, and much good-natured irony intertwined with warm human feeling.”
Masson, Thomas L., comp. Humor of love: an anthology. **$2.50. Moffat.
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A two-volume anthology; one, a selection of humorous writings on love in verse, the other, a similar treatment in prose.
“Two more delightful volumes could scarcely be conceived.”
“Is done from a full knowledge of the lighter erotic literature in English with an excellent ‘flair’ for the things that are at once graceful and amusing.”
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
Masson, Thomas Lansing.Von Blumers; il. by Bayard Jones. **$1.50. Moffat.
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The Von Blumers are a young suburban couple whose efforts to accommodate “their prejudices and their tempers to one another” result in numerous capitulations of serio-comic aspect. “Mr. Masson’s novel fairly bubbles with humor of the quiet kind, but none the less effective because of its homeliness and truth to nature.” (Lit. D.)
“The characters are well drawn and there is much innocent entertainment in this thoroughly wholesome book.”
“Tom Masson is in his best vein of humor in this story.”
“A quietly humorous semi-story.”
Master-man. †$1.50. Lane.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a book that will win its way quietly. There is about it a persuasive and unmistakably feminine touch.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“This is a story that will interest some people and disgust others.”
Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.In peril of change: essays written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
Masterman, Charles F. G., Hodgson, W. B. and others.To colonise England: a plea for a policy. *$1. Wessels.
The first portion of this volume consists of a series of sketches by Mr. Hodgson “graphically describing the loneliness of rural England; the waste of its fertile lands given up to rough pasture, wide hedges, and coppices carefully preserved for the sake of the game, while cottages fall in ruins, and small farms are swept out of existence.... The second section by Mr. Masterman ... is occupied with details of schemes which offer a remedy for the creeping paralysis of English rural life.” (Nation.) The third part of the volume consists of contributions on the land question from thirteen Liberal members of Parliament, and part four gives a summary of official testimony issued by the Board of agriculture.
“The second section by C. F. G. Masterman has a literary value that should give its author high rank among modern essayists. The third part ... is the least valuable and least interesting part of the book.”
“Worth reading but [it seems] to leave out of account not a few considerations which have to be reckoned with in attempting a solution of the question of the labourer and the land.”
Matheson, George.Representative men of the New Testament. **$1.50. Armstrong.
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The author has taken the representative men just as they are presented and has attempted “without inquiring whence or how they come, to find the special thought which each reveals.” He discusses John, Nathaniel, Peter, Nicodemus, Thomas, Philip, Matthew, Zaccheus, James, Barnabas, Mark, Cornelius, Timothy and Paul.
“Well adapted for private reading.”
*Matheson, George.Representative women of the Bible. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
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A volume supplementary to the author’s three books on “Representative men of the Bible.” After completing ten of the studies the author died suddenly. The ten with the outline of the eleventh are: Eve the unfolded, Sarah the steadfast, Rebekah the far-seeing, Rachel theplacid. Miriam the gifted, Deborah the drastic, Ruth the decided, Hannah the pious, Mary the guiding, Mary the thought-reading, and, in the appendix, Notes to the study of Mary Magdalene.
“The religious spirit, the poetic genius, and the literary skill of Dr. Matheson are indisputable. The excessive idealizing into which such qualities are prone to run appears in his portrait of Rebekah.”
Mathew, Frank.Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.
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“Mr. Mathew exhibits a very strong feeling for the picturesque and a very ardent desire to be exact, complete and impartial.”
“Mr. Walker’s pictures are admirably reproduced. but their coloring gives no true impression of Ireland’s tender greens and browns and grays.”
Mathews, Frances Aymar.“Allee same.” †50c. Crowell.
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A slum worker in New York takes a Chinese child away from its parents and the latter to retaliate steal the American’s baby. Seventeen years of separation lead to a dramatic reunion of parents and children.
Mathews, Frances Aymar.Undefiled. †$1.50. Harper.
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“Judith’s story is abundantly supplied with exciting incident: this is about all that may possibly be said in its favor, for it is both unreal in characterization and preposterous in invention.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Seems to aim at the popular suffrage by means of what we might call the megaphonic method.”
Mathews, Shailer.Church and the changing order. **$1.50. Macmillan.
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Mr. Matthews believes that the church in its broad significance of institutional Christianity is facing a crisis, namely, the need that it define its attitude toward formative forces now at work. He looks to the church to correct these forces, to inspire them with its own ideals, to insure that the results shall bring about a better to-morrow. He discusses the church in its relation to scholarship, to the gospel of the risen Christ, to the gospel of brotherhood, to social discontent, to the social movement and to materialism.
“Broad minded, yet conservative, and highly readable.”
“He has diagnosed the disorders of the modern world with a skill and range rare indeed.”
“Perhaps the most important chapters in the book are those which deal with the church and social discontent and the church and the social movement. These chapters are deserving of serious consideration by clergy and laity alike.”
Matthews, (James) Brander.American character. **75c. Crowell.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A beautifully written and beautifully printed essay.”
*Matthews, (James) Brander.Inquiries and opinions.**$1.25. Scribner.
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“The inquiries, which range from ‘Invention and imagination’ to ‘The art of the stage manager,’ and the opinions, which are expressed upon such various subjects as Mark Twain and Maupassant, are the inquiries and opinions of a writer who is shrewd, clear-headed, well-informed, ‘au courant,’ a craftsman.”—Nation.
“They are comparatively devoid of temperament, of the discursive touch, of charm; they afford us no unexpected lights or sudden vistas, but they furnish us many interesting facts and just observations set forth with singular lucidity and coherence.”
“His essays are models of that interior logic which follows the line of vital unfolding of a subject, and his style is lucid to a degree.”
Matthews, Irma B.Under a circus tent. †75c. Jacobs.
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Instruction and entertainment are furnished in the stories or life before captivity which the animals of the circus menagerie tell to a little boy brought up among them.
Mauclair, Camille.Antoine Watteau. *75c. Dutton.
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“M. Mauclair sets out with a double aim; to show that Watteau by his discovery of the decomposition of tones was ‘the inventor of impressionism and the link that connects Ruysdael and Claude Lorrain with Turner, Monticelli and Claude Monet;’ and ‘that in reality Watteau was no painter of gay and laughing scenes,’ but that underneath this decorative exterior lay a great soul that had ... been stricken by what has been called the “malady of the infinite.””—Acad.
“Brief but stimulating monograph. The illustrations to the volume are well chosen, but the printing leaves much to be desired, subtleties of modelling and daintiness of brushwork alike being lost in vague blurs.”
“Excellent little book for the price.”
“This biographer, like many another admirer, seems to have fallen a little under the spell of a painter peculiarly liable to hypnotize those who approach him.”
Maud, Constance Elizabeth.Felicity in France. *$1.50. Scribner.
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“This book is really a guide-book in disguise, being concerned with the travels of two ladies through Brittany and Touraine, and the shorter voyage of one of them in Provence.” (Spec.) “Felicity, the younger of the natives of England, undertakes to ‘chaperon’ an admirable lady, Aunt Anne, who, in spite of her threescore years and the fact that she has a granddaughter of 8 years of age, has neither white hair, nor a lace cap, nor spectacles. Being slight and active, yet she is athletic. She is ‘a curious compound of an abnormally intelligent and active boy of 16, and an exceedingly dignified, stately, and somewhat sarcastic little lady of 60.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“The reader must turn for himself to these enchanting pages. If he does not feel the charm of Felicity’s progress through Mistral’s Provence, he is to be pitied.”
“Not remarkable as to style but lively and sympathetic, and gives enchanting glimpses of French life.”
“It is a pity that in spite of all the literary gifts this volume indicates, the author should write in such a slovenly style as she does. We feel sure that these bright sympathetic, clearly seen glimpses of French life deserve a little more care from their author in this presentment.”
“The book represents a personally conducted tour of much charm—rich in the revelation of pleasing characteristics.”
“The narrative style is constantly pleasing, and there are many choice bits in the way of ancient legends and modern peasant studies.”
“Miss Maud writes with a light touch eminently suited to her subject.”
Maugham, Reginald Charles Fulke.Portuguese East Africa; history, scenery, and great game of Manica and Sofala. *$4.50. Dutton.
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“Mr. Maugham has collected into book form the knowledge and experiences gained during an official connexion with the country which has lasted for some twelve years.... The earlier chapters dealing with the history, scenery, flora and fauna are followed by others on the great game and on personal adventures in pursuit. These in turn are succeeded by what will be to many the most interesting portion of all, some sixty pages devoted to native customs, characteristics, and dialects.”—Lond. Times.
“Should be interesting to naturalists at home as well as to travellers in search of game.”
“As Mr. Maugham has more than ordinary skill in narration and description, his book will interest the casual as well as the confirmed reader of records of travel.” H. E. Coblentz.
“In the earlier part he seems to be rather too general, and not always quite accurate, in his descriptions; he leaves us with the sort of feeling that we might be reading of many other portions of tropical Africa just as well as of the strip which lies along the east coast immediately south of Zambesi.”
“Mr. Maugham makes a valuable contribution in this book to the not very easily obtainable existing stock of knowledge about Portuguese East Africa.”
Maurin, M. J.Pauline Marie Jaricot, foundress of the order for the propagation of the faith and the living rosary; tr. from the French by E. Sheppard. *$1.35. Benziger.
“A biography based on that of Mlle. Maurin, a friend of Mlle. Jaricot in her later years.... The life of one of those women who recall, in a less conspicuous way, St. Catherine of Siena.... The daughter of a wealthy bourgeois of Lyons, she was just one of those ladies who, devoting themselves at an early age to religion, spend their lives in the quiet practice of good works.... She died in obscurity, and to most people this biography will be the first revelation that she ever existed.”—Ath.
“The style of the book, we may add, is for the most part plain and simple, without dryness, as religious biography should be, and the English rendering is idiomatic and good.”
“[The author’s] devoted zeal for the honor of his pious heroine manifests itself in the frankness and enthusiasm which enhance the intrinsic interest possessed by the story of this remarkable life.”
Maxey, Edwin.International law; with illustrative cases. *$6. Thomas law bk.
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A volume which “embodies the results of Professor Maxey’s many years’ experience as a teacher.... In treatment the emphasis is thrown upon peace and neutrality rather than upon war. The questions arising out of the recent Russo-Japanese war are discussed freely and impartially. There is also a very complete chapter on contraband.”—R. of Rs.
“On the whole, the work is inaccurate and ill-digested.”
“The analysis and the style are clear and concise.”
Maxse, Frederick I.Seymour Vandeleur. *$4. Longmans.
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Brevet-Lt.-Col. Vandeleur, soldierly and daring as he was, is engulfed in the events which surrounded him and the problems which he faced. “The record of his life is therefore the record of our Imperial development during the past decade.” (Spec.)
“If in his admirable chapters on Uganda and Nigeria he leads us a long way from his hero, we are contented by the excellence of his narrative, and his easy presentation of facts which, in a less skilful hand, might easily be tedious; he becomes on more general subjects, such as education, so discursive as to call attention to the disadvantages of the method he has adopted. This, however, is a slight defect in a delightful book.”
“A book which combines literary merit with all the special historical value arising from the important share which the author himself took in many of the campaigns which he passes in review.”
“Col. Maxse presents with animus, vigor, and ability, the whole case against the people called ‘Little Englanders,’ and in particular shows what dry rot has done for the British army between Waterloo and the beginning of the Boer war.”
“We do not know any other book which sets out so succinctly and clearly Imperial achievements which are wholly creditable, and which are too apt to be forgotten in the present windy war of theories. And in addition there is the portrait of the brilliant soldier, done with all the sympathy and knowledge of long friendship.”
Maxwell, Donald.Cruise across Europe: notes on a freshwater voyage from Holland to the Black sea. *$3. Lane.
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“A light, humorous chronicle of a freshwater voyage in a small boat, from Holland to the Black sea, by way of Ludwig’s canal, a waterway begun by Charlemagne which unites the basins of the Rhine and Danube, but is seldom used and little known.”—Acad.
“The author writes entertainingly of the people he met, the country he passed through, and the incidents of his voyage; and Mr. Collington Taylor’s illustrations are delightful.”
“He writes brightly and naturally, and makes little attempt to be laboriously funny—no small merit nowadays.”
“The entire voyage ... is well narrated, and still better illustrated by the author himself and another artist.”
“The book is a notable one, proving, for the first time, the possibility of sailing from the west to the east of Europe by a fresh water route.”
Maxwell, Gerald.Miracle worker. $1.50. Luce.
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The scene of this story is laid in and about Leipzig. A young Afghan doctor combines the hypnotic power which is his oriental heritage with wizard skill in surgery to produce a most remarkable change of identity. By drugs he keeps alive a German countess, dying of burns, until the day of the execution of a girl who is the exact counterpart of the countess. By skilful manoeuvering he effects a substitution, having prepared the countess’ body by means of drugs so that the tissues would not pass into the death rigour for a prolonged time. He transfers the memory section of the brain from the dead countess to the girl whose life he has saved, restores her to health and to the count who believes only that a restoration was effected by a skin-grafting operation.
“The story exhibits considerable constructive ingenuity, but is spun out too much, while the motive of several reprehensible transactions seems inadequate.”
“It is ingenious and up to a certain point interesting, but credulity and sensibility finally rebel.”
“In the articles of novelty, audacity, and ingenuity of plot this story ... so far surpasses the average of the fiction which strains after these things, that it needs only certain refinements of the story teller’s art and condensation, by a half—or even a third—to be more than a mere thriller and time-killer. There are skilful minor touches once in a while, and suggestions of humor even. And the elements of the gruesome and horrible are played for all they are worth.”
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace.Memories of the months. $2.50. Longmans.
In which the year’s happenings are recorded month by month. “Readers will be able to share with the author of the memories his ‘delight in the open field, the woodland, and the riverside,’ and if they prove willing disciples they may in time experience the joy of original observation for themselves—at least they will learn to study and appreciate the boundless beauties of nature.” (Nature.)
“The overriding of a harmless hobby is apt to become wearisome. The illustrations are charming, and are uncommonly well reproduced: whilst errors of print are few and not of great consequence.”
“In such a volume one desires perpetually to pencil notes on the margin, an inclination that generally implies three qualities in the work; it is pleasant, suggestive and incomplete.”
“The ability to combine literary grace with scientific accuracy, and the power to interest, and at the same time to impart useful information, is unfortunately rare, and we are grateful to Sir Herbert Maxwell for placing his gifts at the disposal of a large audience by means of these pages.”
“Another volume, of delightful rambling along nature lanes, here, there, everywhere.”
“Literary excellence and scientific accuracy, two qualities which often do not accompany each other, combine to increase the value of these notes.”
Maxwell, William Babington.Guarded flame. †$1.50. Appleton.