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Ibsen, Henrik.Collected works of Henrik Ibsen; rev. and ed. by William Archer. 11v. ea. $1. Scribner.
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An edition of Ibsen to be complete in eleven volumes, translated by Mr. Archer whose version was approved by the late poet. All the volumes have new introductions by Mr. Archer. The volumes are as follows: Feast at Solhang, Lady Inger, Love’s comedy; Vikings, Pretenders;Brand; Peer Gynt; Emperor and Galilean (2 parts); League of youth; Pillars of society; Doll’s house; Ghosts; Enemy of the people; Wild duck; Rosmersholm, Lady from the Sea; Hedda Gabler, Master builder; Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When we dead awaken.
“It will be long before these handsome and cheap red volumes are likely to be superseded as the standard edition of Ibsen.”
“Mr. Archer makes good use of the material that has appeared since the first editions.”
“This new copyright edition is indispensable to the student or reader of Ibsen for two reasons, it is the only complete and authoritative translation in English, and the series of introductions which William Archer has contributed forms the best exposition and analysis of the dramas that we have in the language.”
“Is particularly timely, not only for the comprehensive view of that playwright which it presents thru the introductions as well as in the rounded mass of his writing, but also for the example offered by one who, with all his faults, is nevertheless one of the great modern dramatic technicians.”
“Mr. Archer’s work gives notable distinction to this edition of Ibsen’s writings. Exceptional care has been taken to secure accuracy of text.”
“Ibsen’s language is much more direct—much more English, one might almost say—than that of his translator. The diction of Mr. Archer is too often circuitous and stilted. The introduction to each play throws valuable light both on the plays and their author. Together, these introductions will form a pretty complete review of Ibsen’s life, as well as of his art. His introductions form the first systematic survey of Ibsen in English.”
“Of the translations, that by Mrs. Marx-Aveling ... is by far the most successful. Mrs. Archer’s [translations] show unmistakable kinship to those undertaken by William Archer himself. There is in them the same stiff and stilted language, the same conventional artificiality, the same failure to make the tone of the original audible.”
“Where [revision] appears it has been done with good judgment.”
Ibsen, Henrik.Letters of Henrik Ibsen; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik and Mary Morrison. *$2.50. Duffield.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is impossible within the limits of a review to suggest a tithe of the interesting things in this valuable human document. Suffice it to say ... that the translators have done their work in a most praiseworthy fashion.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
Iles, George.Inventors at work; with chapters on discovery.**$2.50. Doubleday.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is a very superficial but also very inclusive collection of references.”
“It is a contribution to popular rather than technical literature, but in the main fails to fulfil the promise of its title in that it does not show us the inventor at work, but aims rather to catalog the results of invention in certain departments of the world’s work.”
*Inchbold, A. Cunnick.Under the Syrian sun; the Lebanon, Baalbek, Galilee, and Judæa. il. *$6. Lippincott.
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Pictures and descriptions of Syrian countries with a great deal of sunshine and warmth in both.
“The chief merit of this book lies in the coloured plates, most of which are interesting, while a few are of great beauty. The letterpress, oddly unconcerned with the pictures, is a lady’s account of her travels—pleasant, but much too wordy—interspersed with a lot of trite and often worthless information which simply embodies the commonplaces of social intercourse in a land where every one sets up for an authority.”
“[Has] a compelling charm.”
Indiana state teachers’ association.In honor of James Whitcomb Riley. 50c. Bobbs.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Ingalls, Walter Renton, ed. Lead smelting and refining, with some notes on lead mining. $3. Eng. and mining journal.
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A reprint of various articles pertaining to the mining, smelting and refining of lead.
“Notwithstanding the number of different authors who have discussed the various questions, the whole book is very concise in its treatment, and there is an astonishingly small amount of duplication. The book is not a complete textbook of the subject of which it treats, but presupposes a knowledge on the part of the reader of the fundamental principles involved. For the use of practitioners and as a supplement to textbooks of the subject it is of great value.” Bradley Stoughton.
Inge, William Ralph.Truth and falsehood in religion. *$1.50. Dutton.
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In six lectures delivered to undergraduates of the University of Cambridge, Mr.Inge’s object “is to commend Christianity as a religious system to the attention of thoughtful young men.... He candidly admits the difficulties of the subject, and recognizes the defects of much of the current Christianity and the value of modern scientific and philosophical thought. Religion, he holds, is not chiefly an affair of the intellect; the necessary postulate, or act of faith, is the belief that our higher reason is in vital ontological communion with the power which lives and moves in all things, and most chiefly in the spirit of man.” (Nation.)
“Though we cannot regard his treatment of the Logos idea as convincing, we can heartily commend the spirit of his lectures.”
“Thoroughly judicious and constructive.”
Ingersoll, Ernest.Eight secrets. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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“This is the life story of an ingenious American boy who works out his destiny despite all sorts of difficulties and dangers and who is helped in his struggle by a wideawake girl. Both live in a simple Pennsylvania village and both are endowed with unusual inventive talent, which enables them to do things of a rather extraordinary nature.”—Lit. D.
“The story is full of varied incidents. It will instruct as well as amuse young readers, for whom it is intended.”
“We unhesitatingly pronounce this one of the best boys’ books of the season. Mr. Ingersoll is always to be depended upon for faithfulness to nature, and whether he deals with animals or with boys he gives us the genuine thing.”
Ingersoll, Ernest.Life of animals: the mammals. *$2. Macmillan.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We do not expect that this book will be successful in this country: we have already many publications of a similar sort which are as good, and which avoid, of course, the spelling and diction of our neighbors.”
“The book has great merits, and we do not know of anything by an English zoologist which exactly covers the same ground.”
Ingersoll, Robert Green.Philosophy of Ingersoll, ed. and arranged by Vera Goldthwaite. **$1.50. Elder.
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“The pungent quotations are arranged under various headings, so that it is possible in a few moments to get the gist of Ingersoll’s views on any main subject of human interest.” (Dial.) “The subjects are arranged under such titles as Life, Cause and effect, Nature, Man and woman, Marriage, Love, Home, Children, etc.” (N. Y. Times.)
“In brilliant epigram, in exquisite imagery, and flashes of wit and humor, it shows the hater of superstition and cant in a manner impossible to be revealed by a prejudiced perusal of his entire works, where the finest thoughts are very often turned to unworthy abuse and ostentatious irony.”
Inman, Herbert Escott.Did of Didn’t-think: a fairy story for boys and girls; il. by W. Tayler. †$1. Warne.
The “didn’t-thinks” of the young hero of this tale result in such things as his wiping the fluff from a butterfly’s wings, locking the kitten in the coal bin, and melting the nose of his sister’s doll. He is visited by the fairy queen who punishes him by taking him to the land of Didn’t-think to find the Did.
Innes, Charles Herbert.Air compressors and blowing engines, specially adapted for engineers. *$2. Van Nostrand.
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“The book begins with the application of thermodynamics to the compression of air under various circumstances.... The second chapter is concerned with experiments on compressors.” (Nation.) The remainder of the book is concerned with descriptions of various valves, blowers, and compressors.
“While the book contains no distinctly new matter, it is distinctly valuable because of the scarcity of literature dealing with this subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.
Innis, George S.Wycliffe: the morning star. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
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This volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series is an adequate answer to the question “What would a busy, earnest man want to know about John Wycliffe and his work?”
“It is the story of a great man, told in a spirited style for plain, busy, and earnest people by one who has imbibed all that history relates of that ‘morning star of the reformation,’ and has reproduced it in a well-digested and graphic abridgment, from which nothing essential seems omitted.”
Ireland, William W.Life of Sir Henry Vane. *$3. Dutton.
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“The story of this remarkable Puritan is told with vigor and effect by Mr. Ireland, who, tho not a ‘professed’ historian and decidedly in sympathy with his hero, writes with good judgment under his frank recognition of the many sides to the Puritan-Royalist controversy.”—Ind.
“While finding Mr. Ireland’s book lacking in some ways, its good purpose, scholarship, and sound republican spirit lead the reviewer to commend it as throwing much light upon its hero and the age in which he moved.”
“There are many minor inaccuracies in the book, but its main defect is the want of a firm, definite outline, which is due to imperfect comprehension of the man and the period.” C. H. F.
“His volume bears evidences of careful and independent research, and tho the style is sometimes pedestrian, interest is readily sustained to the end.”
“Dr. Ireland’s limits require a severe process of selection, yet he includes much that is almost offensively superfluous. It would be impossible in this review to point out all the faults of type, faults of phraseology, faults of grammar that disfigure these pages. A single rapid reading has shown no less than sixty in four hundred and forty pages. The history is by no means immaculate.”
“The book, we grant, is a scholarly and interesting presentment of a noted man and a glorious period. We believe it would have been better had the author considered if, only to confute them as unsound and extravagant, the conclusions of his co-laborers.”
“Mr. Ireland has said the final word, and incorporates in his volume a vast amount of original literature which, although familiar to students of English history, has not hitherto been employed in elucidating the character of the fourth Governor of Massachusetts.”
“Dr. Ireland succeeds in making his portrait singularly attractive without the use of flattering or adulatory phrases.”
“If his conclusions must largely be rejected, his book is nevertheless substantially helpful in some respects. It has certain corrective value, and—albeit in a rambling way—brings together from many scattered sources a quantity of interesting data shedding new light on the period.”
“It abounds in all the stale old schoolboy rants and third-hand formulas about liberty and tyranny, about priestcraft, Protestantism.”
*Irving, Henry Brodribb.Occasional papers, dramatic and historical. **$1.50. Small.
Eight essays on subjects as follows: The English stage in the eighteenth century, Colley Cibber’s apology, The art and status of the actor, The calling of the actor, The true story of Eugene Aram, The fall of the house of Goodere, The Firalder case, and The early life of Chief Justice Scroggs.
“Mr. Irving’s [defense of the profession and art] is one of the best yet written.”
“‘The English stage in the eighteenth century,’ being decidedly the most able and interesting paper in a volume which deserves these epithets in no common degree.”
Irwin, Wallace Admah.Random rhymes and odd numbers. il. **$1.50. Macmillan.
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“Humorous verse on timely subjects.... In the best we find not only remarkable deftness in the use of rhyme and meter, but much good-humored and shrewd comment in verse on questions and incidents of recent news interest.”—Outlook.
“Shows the range of his humor and metrical skill, and is always good reading. But it fails to show quite the poetic energy of the volume of ‘Chinatown ballads,’ of which we lately had to speak.”
“It is after all the vein of seriousness running through the volume of gay verse that makes Mr. Irwin’s ‘Random rhymes and odd numbers’ more than the light amusement of a passing hour.”
“Mr. Irwin is really a sort of poetic Dooley.”
Irwin, Wallace Admah.Shame of the colleges. $1.25. Outing pub. co.
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In these days of the muck rake almost everything has figured in the literature of exposure and now the dread instrument is run “over the field of waving rah-rahs.” Dedicated to Leland Stanford Junior, this little volume with its amusing illustrations makes its witty accusations in a series of papers entitled Harvard, the crimes of the amalgamated-gentleman trust; Vassar, delicious but dyspeptic; Princeton, frenzied but unashamed; The University of Chicago, a self-made antique; Yale, the democratic machine at Yale; and West Point, a reign of drill-terriers.
“Might almost be described as a small body of liquid verse entirely surrounded by dull prose.”
Irwin, William Henry.City that was: a requiem of old San Francisco. *50c. Huebsch.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It deals with facts as well as feelings, but he wrote from the heart, and every word shows it. He caught and expressed something of the spirit of a light-hearted city whose charm even the most casual visitor never failed to feel.”
Island stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
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A good deal of geography is entertainingly taught here. Robinson Crusoe’s island as it is to-day is sure to interest boys to whom it has been bequeathed as a “playground for the imagination.” Then there are the Philippines, the Hawaiian islands, the Cannibal islands, Madeira and Samoa, and interesting experiences that fall to the lot of the story-teller while sojourning in them.
“This book contains ... stories that every normal boy will read with avidity.”
Ives, George Burnham.Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. *$5. Houghton.
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“By means of a series of classifications, the bulk and detail of Dr. Holmes’s work have been made accessible from several points of approach. There are six lists concerned with Holmes’s own work and four relating to matter written about him.... There is subjoined information as to the circumstances under which the poem or book was written and first published, with other relative items. Such a work is of course essentially a guide book.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Ives’s work has been done well.”
“This is a very careful piece of work, and while absolute completeness is not claimed for its data, one may be confident that nothing of great importance is likely to have been omitted. The present task has not been performed in the spirit of meticulous yet critically undiscriminating diligence of which the bibliographer is sometimes guilty.” H. W. Boynton.