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G., A. E.Whistler: notes and footnotes and other memoranda. $2.50. Collector and art critic.

“In the Whistler part of the book the author discusses the painter as a man of letters, as a realist, as a master of the lithograph, as a draughtsman, and the Whistler memorial exhibition held in Boston in 1904.... Following the Whistler Notes and footnotes’ come discussions of grotesques by Leonardo, Puvis de Chavannes as a caricaturist, Arthur Symons on Aubrey Beardsley, a bookplate by Otho Cushing, the colored etchings of Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the art of Everett Shinn, the English caricaturists, a ‘note’ on Childe Hassam, and some notable criticism.” (N. Y. Times.) Nine tinted plates share the honors with the text.

“Mr. Gallatin’s notes are thoughtful and suggestive, and have the merit of brevity.”

Reviewed by Christian Brinton.

Gainsborough, Thomas.Drawings. *$2.50. Scribner.

Uniform with the other volumes of the “Drawings of the great masters” series, this volume contains 44 drawings by Gainsborough printed in various tints, with a number mounted on dark colored backgrounds. These are prefaced with a brief introduction by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower.

Gairns, J. F.Locomotive compounding and superheating: a practical text-book for the use of railway and locomotive engineers, students and draughtsmen. *$3. Lippincott.

7–32868.

A help to the understanding of both compounding and superheating, and an aid in preparing the way to a choice or design of those types of locomotives best suited for the region and traffic to be handled.

“It is to be regretted that the author seems not to have fully appreciated the rapidly-growing economic and operating importance of superheating for locomotives, and hence did not go thoroughly into the theory and practice on the subject. Mr. Gairns gives us probably the best book on compound locomotives which has appeared since Barnes-Woods in 1892. As a whole, the book is worthy of a place upon the railway engineer’s and locomotive designer’s shelves.” H. Wade Hibbard.

Gale, Zona.Loves of Pelleas and Etarre. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–30832.

Every year of Pelleas and Etarre’s fifty together has heaped new graces upon them thru the ministry of love. They are two who never have known that youth had gone because love staid. They are never happier than when making the conditions of young love-making brighter. For, hand in hand they wander in fancy thru lanes and gardens of long ago of which the lanes and gardens of to-day are but a continuation. A most delightful story which attributes to love the alchemy power of effacing time and change.

“The story is told with quaint humor and much delicacy.”

“She sees the little things in life that make what is called atmosphere, and she is able to paint her mind’s pictures clearly for the restricted vision of the rest of us.”

“To all who know the hidden sources of human joy and have neither grown old in cynicism nor gray in utilitarianism. Miss Gale’s charming love stories, full of fresh feeling and grace of style, will be a draught from the fountain of youth.”

Gallon, Tom.Cruise of the make-believes.†$1.50. Little.

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A romantic idyl of a modern prince and a beggar maid. The girl drudges in a poor quarter of London to support a shiftless father and brother, but she dreams and keeps her soul alive by a make-believe Eden. A young millionaire becomes interested in her and in trying to help her tangles things sadly. The father and brother drain him financially, the girl he would help is made unhappy; but in the end he is fortunate enough to lose his money and in love and poverty he and Bessie find a real land of make-believe.

Gallon, Tom.Tinman.†$1.50. Small.

A young artist deliberately murders the slanderer of Barbara Patton, the woman he loves, gives himself up, covers the real motive of his crime and is imprisoned for life. After twenty years he is freed only to be drawn into a reenactment of the crime for the sake of Barbara’s daughter. Thruout the entire dramatic course of the tale the love motif is strongest, it sounds out above the grim note of crime, suffering and domineering will.

“The first portion of the book, though somewhat lurid in method, would have made a strong and unusual short story; but the further development of events ... conveys an unmistakable flavour of nothing higher or nobler than the typical dime novel.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“Notwithstanding an important manner, ‘Tinman’ has only been strung out to store size by the ingenious device of repeating the heroine’s adventures in the person of her daughter, merely giving a happier outcome to the fortunes of Barbara number two.”

“Is about as dolefully sensational as anything that has hitherto come from his feverish pen.”

“The plot of the story is complicated and well managed, and notwithstanding the dark and lurid coloring, the tale holds the reader’s interest from the start.”

“A gleam or two of brightness would have vastly improved the story. But that the reader is held by the situations and that those situations are ingeniously thought out cannot be denied.”

Galloway, Thomas Walton.First course in zoology: a text-book for secondary schools, normal schools and colleges. *$2.50. Blakiston.

6–35707.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“In point of careful balance and commonsense use of questions, few recent text-books bear comparison with this volume.”

“For the average school course the book includes too much, and too difficult work; while for the college course it seems to fall as far short. For the normal school, and this is probably the grade of work more directly aimed at by the author, the book would seem to be well suited. Of actual errors in statement of facts or principles there seem to be relatively few.” C. W. H.

“It is evident that a good deal of thought and effort have gone into its making, and it has consequently a degree of character and individuality which is rare among the members of its genus.” S. J. H.

Galsworthy, John.Country house.†$1.50. Putnam.

7–15919.

“Two graphic pictures of the racecourse are all that [the author] gives of definite action; the remainder of the book is concerned with the entry into the self-deluding community of Worsted Skeynes of a natural, lawless passion which, attacking one of its members, exercises a paralyzing effect upon the whole.... The portraiture in the author’s gallery will reward the attention of all who love the mirror of truth.”—Ath.

“His work has many qualities of greatness: but it is not yet great. A slight tendency to bitterness and to sentimentality is the one blemish in an extraordinarily well-written, well-observed piece of work.”

“Occasionally, in an effort to extract the last drain of satire from a situation, Mr. Galsworthy is biting and mordant to an almost painful degree. His insight is keen, and he seems to enjoy the irony underlying the affairs of men.”

“It is a wonderful, vivid and detailed picture of stolid and complacent British conservatism, a consistent worship of the God of things as they are.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“Mr. Galsworthy’s forte lies in depicting traditional prejudices, and the types which represent them, rather than in the creation of individual characters.”

“Few novelists are as successful as Mr. Galsworthy in adapting their means to their purposes, with the result, as in the present instance, of giving vivid reality to a group of commonplace people and of reproducing the very atmosphere of the scenes in which they move.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The pervading tone of indulgent irony justifies the classification of this volume with the fiction which in a true sense is a criticism of life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“Is a better novel, better constructed and better written, than either ‘The island Pharisees’ or ‘The man of property,’ its plot especially, while still apparently slight, being in reality of much firmer and closer texture.”

“Mr. Galsworthy has not produced a real hero. He has given us his Troilus. Let us hope that in his next novel he will give us his Hamlet.”

“The development of the story is workmanlike and plausible, and the whole is unfolded in a brisk, competent narrative, with savor and discretion, through the medium of a perfectly satisfactory style.”

Reviewed by Lewis Melville.

“The faults of this unusual and interesting novel lie upon its surface. For the sake of Mr. Pendyce alone ‘The country house’ is well worth more than one reading.”

“When his characters come to develop some consciousness, one of another, when they come to be more closely and significantly linked together, this brilliant portrayer of manners may easily come to produce something of permanent value.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

“Clever beyond anything we have seen lately is this most artistic story. We could wish it were happier.”

“He is far from being detached and indifferent toward human nature in its finer manifestations, even if he does choose to make us feel its beauty chiefly by delineating the sordid, pathetic opposite.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.

“Here is not a mere slice of life, a personal affair, a particular instance; it is a slice from a nation, a base of interests, an enduring condition. It is, of course, the central problem in a book of the kind to prevent undue domination either of the situation or of the story, and the author, conscious perhaps that in a previous work he permitted the situation to dictate terms to him, has in this been too much inclined to restrict its scope.”

“He has devoted a great deal of skill and energy to the presentation of three or four characters who are especially designed to win, not only the sympathy, but even the affection of the reader. It is true that perhaps the most admirable and delightful of all is a spaniel.... John, an adorable personage; indeed, many readers would rather share a dog-biscuit with him than eat six courses in the company of the squire’s guests.”

Galsworthy, John.Man of property. †$1.50. Putnam.

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“A rather unusually thoughtful novel of English social life, which deals in a large, intelligent way with the development of character, the sordidness of wealth without graciousness, and the narrowness of upper middle class London society a generation or so ago.”—Outlook.

“The book is remarkable: it has strength without the least taint of sensation; and is written with a finish that is both rare and delightful. Two points only are there to which we take exception: that Mr. Galsworthy at times lingers unnecessarily over the Forsytes; and that he has, in one passage at least, mistaken brutality for strength.”

“There is a story of a kind, connecting the long series of carefully finished pictures. But the pictures, the characterization, are the main thing. They are minute, vivid, and steadily interesting. The whole is a sound and equable piece of work, deserving high praise.”

“A novel of this character is new; it shows thought and determination and an unflagging alertness with its companion, ease, that make Mr. Galsworthy’s career a matter of some importance to English fiction.”

“His style is admirable, his humor incisive, and his description of the less pleasant characters in his books splendid; but he lacks tenderness. He sees all weeds in the garden, and in his vision the rose is scarcely visible for the thorns.” Lewis Melville.

“Altogether a novel well worth the reading.”

“Mr. Galsworthy’s grip on the point of view of Forsyte and his way of action, is something quite terrible. To read a chapter about Soames Forsyte, the typical ‘man of property,’ is to feel oneself literally gasping for oxygen at the end of it. It is not an especially pleasant experience, but it occasions a profound respect for the writer who brings it about.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.

“A novel at once so able that it cannot be overlooked, and so ugly in places that it cannot be recommended without a serious caution.”

Galton, Arthur.Church and state in France, 1300–1907. *$3.50. Longmans.

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“Mr. Galton ... begins his exposition with the struggle between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII., where he finds the seeds of Gallicanism. He traces their development through the sixteenth century, till the growth reached its full expansion in the eighteenth. When he enters on the revolutionary period he devotes a great deal of attention to the Constitution Civile, ... He treats, with amplitude, the genesis, character, and scope of the Concordat, and, very properly, with more brevity, the course of events through the restoration, the second republic and the second empire. The last chapter, about eight-five pages, relates the campaign during the third republic down to the law of separation.”—Cath. World.

“It is a lack of the historic sense which is the fault of the Rev. Mr. Galton’s work on the relations between church and state in France. He has written an elaborate pamphlet rather than an historical study.”

“The book is one which on literary grounds we cannot commend.”

“Mr. Galton’s book is of considerable value, as far as it is an exposition of historic fact. Nor is it valueless, as far as it is an interpretation of these facts, for it provides a good subject for any one who would study the influence of prejudice in the writing of history.”

“The subject is treated of with splendid knowledge, with a fine sense of coherence and proportion, and with a style that is altogether captivating.”

“He has an exceptional amount of historical learning ... as well as a pithy and lucid style. His toleration is noticeable.”

Gambier, J. W.Links in my life on land and sea. **$3.50. Dutton.

A career which began its adventures in the Baltic fleet during the Crimean war, subsequently continued in Norfolk Island, Rio de Janeiro, Egypt, Cyprus, New Zealand, the AndamanIslands, New Caledonia, China and Japan. After his retirement Captain Gambier acted as correspondent for the London “Times” during the Russo-Turkish war.

“To read his book is to imagine oneself in the privacy of Captain Gambier’s smokingroom, listening to very pleasant after-dinner gossip.”

“A lively volume written in a sprightly style.”

“Commander J. W. Gambier is an unconventional writer; and the rules of grammar are included among the conventions which he overrides. That matters little, however, for he is a breezy writer, with plenty of stories to tell. The book is one to be read by all who enjoy rollicking relations of adventure.”

“He writes in a free off-hand manner, and is frequently unrefined, even to coarseness. If the book has literary merit, we have failed to discover it; or any mark of distinction. The author’s comments are, as a rule, commonplace.”

Gamble, William.Straight talks on business. **$1. Jacobs.

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Talks for the young man contemplating a business career, for one who is unafraid to think, to work, to sacrifice, who looks upon business not as a pastime, nor as an unpleasant necessity, but as a human duty. The advice has grown out of the experiences of a man who has followed a strenuous business life. He claims no new business philosophy, but puts principles which time has tested into new form better suited to present day needs.

“Though unquestionably ‘straight,’ the advice is rather platitudinous than subtle, and is too informal and discursive to have any considerable technological value.”

Games book for boys and girls; a volume of old and new pastimes. $2.50. Dutton.

7–35045.

A volume “full of directions for playing scores of indoor games and pastimes for the playground. There are also directions for the collection and preservation of plants, ferns, and seaside objects, for the care of home pets, for indoor gardening, for the making of toys, the tying of knots of many sorts, and for the doing of many other interesting things.”—N. Y. Times.

Gant, L. W.Elements of electric traction for motormen and others. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

A practical handbook intended to serve as an introduction to the more advanced works on electric traction and to supplement various existing handbooks for motormen and others.

“The style is readable and as clear as could be expected in view of the limited space, the large range of topics, and the presumably meager preparation of the reader. The book lacks attractive illustrations.” Henry H. Norris.

Gardiner, John Hays.Bible as English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.

6–33638.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Perhaps the most interesting and theologically suggestive section of Professor Gardiner’s work is that devoted to the wisdom literature of the New Testament epistles.” Kemper Fullerton.

“An admirable manual for the use of students.”

“Professor Gardiner brings to his task an acquaintance with the accepted results of historical criticism and instead of rhapsodizing upon a few selected passages of rhythmical scripture, he investigates the complex sources of that literary charm which it is easier to praise than understand.” John R. Slater.

“From the beginning to the end of the author’s discussion of his great subject, the treatment of it is not only intelligent and reverent; it is singularly vital and inspiring.” M. H. Turk.

“Prof. Gardiner is occasionally led to press his conclusions further than his facts will warrant.” William T. Brewster.

Gardner, Edmund G.King of court poets; a study of the work, life and times of Lodovico Ariosto. *$4. Dutton.

7–6794.

In which Mr. Gardner has combined a sequel to his “Dukes and poets in Ferrara” with a somewhat full study of the life and works of Lodovico Ariosto.

“Mr. Gardner takes a good deal of pains with his authorities, and puts his information together as well as can be expected of any one except a highly trained historian in dealing with that complicated time. The main fault of the book is a certain tendency to verbosity.”

“The chapters dealing with the poetry of Ariosto are pleasing, but on the whole rather inconclusive. The style of the book is without distinction, and it occasionally lapses into elegance.”

“The work of Mr. Gardner is not only a biography of Ariosto, and the finest biography of the author of the ‘Orlando furioso’ that has yet appeared in English, but it contains a complete and luminous picture of the political and literary condition of Ferrara from 1500 to 1530.”

“The work is admirably done, most useful for reference; but it is laboured, and there are barren spaces in which the dry bones of history do not live.”

“Different portions of the book, as they deal with political or literary history, read as if they belonged to different studies, and were bound together by mistake.”

“Is a book in which the scholar may find more to his purpose than the reader who, without any very keen appetite for detailed history and unimportant biographical detail, reads for pleasure and for general information.” Horatio S. Krans.

“It is with a very sure hand, with all the sobriety of a scholar, albeit not untinged with the agreeable glow of an admirer, that Mr. Gardner writes of Alfonso I. ... and Ludovico Ariosto.”

Gardner, Percy.Growth of Christianity. $1.75. Macmillan.

“The theme of the present volume, which is in the form of ten popular lectures, is the relations of Christianity with the various forms of culture and thought with which it has come into contact. The germ of Christianity is found in the Lord’s prayer, and specifically in the petition, ‘Thy will be done,’ and its essential spirit is defined accordingly as a passionate devotion to the will of God as operative in the world.”—Nation.

“No one can read Professor Gardner’s book without respect. It is earnest and lucid, and bears witness of the profound scholarship of its author.”

“His new book is an able and striking interpretation of the history of the church, from a somewhat unusual point of view.”

“The scope and purpose of the book, cast originally for popular lectures, do not allow space for anything more than drawing the broad obvious outlines. When, however, this is done by anyone as deep-versed in antiquity as Dr. Gardner, there is something in the summary presentation by which even professed students may have their vision cleared.”

“Dr. Gardner has surveyed the growth and progress of the Christian faith from a very interesting point of view.”

“The reader will see therefore, that the author’s view of Christian doctrine is not quite that of the ordinary orthodox Churchman. The strongest part of the book is ... where he is displaying his splendid knowledge of Greek and Roman antiquities and their bearing on church life and belief.”

Garland, Hamlin.Long trail. †$1.25. Harper.

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