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*Jacberns, Raymond.Discontented schoolgirl. †$1.50. Lippincott.

The story of the English school days of an impish little girl of French and English parentage. “In the Juvenile fiction of a bygone generation Marcella would have been held up as an awful warning to young readers, and would probably have incurred some terrible fate as a punishment. Now her disobedience, insolence, ingratitude to a kind guardian, and general insubordination, are gleefully related as being rather amusing than otherwise, and the happy ending to the story is indirectly due to her bad behaviour.” (Ath.)

Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams.Persia past and present. **$4. Macmillan.

6–33596.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“For the general reader the work possesses all the elements that go to make books of travelin strange lands interesting reading. For the scholar the book is valuable both for the richness of its bibliographical references and for its own contributions to the subject.” George Melville Bolling.

“An exhaustive and scholarly work, well illustrated, fully indexed.”

“It is a book of travel and of research, and is of interest and value alike to the scholar and the traveler,—an unusual combination, for few travelers are scholars, and few scholars are travelers.” Dora Keen.

“It is hardly possible to overpraise the vivid representation by Prof. Jackson of what he actually saw.”

Reviewed by George R. Bishop.

“It has enduring value. It has scientific power. It has historical interest and, what is rarer, the feeling for what is genuinely interesting in history. It has a sense of the humanity of life, the poetry, the mysticism.” Charles Johnston.

“A volume which has a permanent value, and will take its place by the side of those of Sir Robert Ker Porter and Lord Curzon.”

“The information which he gives is to a certain extent limited by his absorption in his own studies.... He is however fully conversant with the work of his predecessors, and he does not fail to provide an excellent general survey of the ground they have covered. The excellent photographs of the Sassanid rock-cut monuments reproduced in this book will be of great value to archaeologists.”

Jackson, Charles Ross.Sheriff of Wasco. †$1.50. Dillingham.

7–16754.

Wasco County, Oregon, terrorized by an outlaw of numberless crimes and unheard of cruelty elects a young railroad man its sheriff. The story follows the trail of the outlaw with the determined young officer until he brings down his inhuman prey and wins the love of a millionaire’s daughter whom he has rescued from the bandit’s clutches. It is a wild tale in which brute passions are described with a strength and vividness that does not admit of delicacy.

Jackson, Frederick Hamilton.Shores of the Adriatic: the Italian side.*$6. Dutton.

7–13428.

“The twenty-two chapters treat of the seaboard provinces ... and small, well-known places. Mr. Jackson describes the churches, dwellings, and other places and things of archaeological and artistic interest, telling something, too, about the people and their characteristics in the various towns. There are also extracts from the histories of churches, pictures or persons, the towns themselves, as well as the political and national history of the places visited. The illustrations ... are photographic reproductions, drawings, plans, etc. of buildings, natives, scenes, interiors, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

“His descriptions of architecture are exceedingly close and careful, though at times rather too technical for the layman to follow quite clearly: and the historical matter which he gives suffers from a compression which perhaps was unavoidable. He has spared neither time nor labour in his work, and has produced a valuable and delightful book.”

“If this volume has a few weak points—one of which is a very imperfect index—these are more than counterbalanced by many and solid merits.”

“A good book; in fact, the only fault one is inclined to find with it is that it is too monotonously good. A little more liveliness would atone even for a lapse in grammar.”

“Lovers of fine architectural construction and decorative detail will delight in the many fine drawings that enrich Mr. Jackson’s delightful volume.”

“His work from the mere fact of its bulk could never serve as a guide-book. The want of maps, too, is a serious drawback in a practical hand-book. On the other hand, for those who ask for charming impressions, the volume is too practical, too conscientious. Very different and full of detail are his architectural descriptions, and here we feel him thoroughly at home.”

“Mr. Jackson has discovered and described three or four times as many things as the ordinary traveler would find out for himself, unless he were, indeed, a many-sided man.”

“It contains much information clearly and compactly put. Nevertheless, we wish that the author’s manner were more vivacious, and that the color of the history described were as equally evident as its outline.”

“Mr. Jackson has described and drawn with a care worthy of all praise. One regrets a little this somewhat stolid tone as one turns over the only work of value which an Englishman has ever written on this region.”

Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle E. S.Wee Winkles and her friends. †$1.25. Harper.

7–30868.

Another chapter in Wee Winkles’ life telling of her dolls, the little baby kittens, and of Jerry, the fire-engine horse, that rescued Wideawake from an old tumble down house where an accident had befallen him. Any child might profit by the lesson of love for animals that is taught thruout the story.

“The author has mastered this art, and her story deals with simple incidents, in simple language, well suited to hold the interest of the little readers.”

Jackson, Henry Latimer.Fourth gospel and some recent German criticism. *$1.10. Putnam.

“The present volume takes up in detail the authorship, historicity, criticism of the gospel according to St. John, the identification of John the beloved apostle and John of Ephesus, and the Fourth gospel and the Synoptics. The footnotes are numerous and full.”—N. Y. Times.

“A very useful compendium. The frequent summaries are helpful to the reader and make amends for some needless repetition.”

“A careful, judicial, and up-to-date examination of the Johannine problem.”

“The book may be strongly commended, especially for its accuracy of information and impartiality in presentation of both sides of a controversy, and it is hoped that it will receive attention from any who may suppose that Professor Sanday and Principal Drummond have spoken the last word on this important subject.”

“The book is a valuable supplement to Ernest F. Scott’s essay on the theology of the fourth gospel.”

Jackson, Holbrook.Bernard Shaw. *$1.50. Jacobs.

W 7–187.

“Mr. Jackson discusses Shaw in the fourfold aspect of man, Fabian, playwright and philosopher and proves to his own satisfaction that Mr. Shaw is the incarnation of all that is best in modern thought.” (Nation.) “Mr. Jackson shows that the real Shaw is a serious man with a serious purpose, ‘that all his art has been an evolution toward a means of expression for the sake of propaganda,’ and quotes his admirable Fabian tracts to prove that if Shaw has undertaken to transform sociology from a ‘dismal into a joyous science,’ it is from no lack of earnestness but from a fine sense of the adaptation of means to ends.”—N. Y. Times.

“Truth to tell, Mr. Jackson has so soaked himself in the Shaw drama, the Shaw economics, ethics, and politics, and the Shaw philosophy, that he is not able to stand sufficiently away from his subject to see him objectively. His whole book is oppressed with the weight of Mr. Shaw’s personality.”

“The book is well written, and, in its biographical pages especially, highly entertaining.”

“Still, since ‘it is obvious that’ Mr. Shaw, like Alice, is incapable of explaining himself and needed some one to write him down to the level of the hyper-self-conscious middle class, Mr. Jackson has performed the kind office very fairly well.”

“The book is also likely to prove interesting to connoisseurs in human intellectual vagaries, not only because it is cleverly written, in a way that often reflects what the faithful call the Shavian attitude and manner but because it gives an apparently authoritative summary of Mr. Shaw’s various theories, social, political and the like, and furnishes some significant facts which may help to account for a good many of them.”

Jackson. Lucie E.Feadora’s failure; il. by J. Macfarlane. $1. McKay.

7–22917.

A book for young people which records the rebellion of six spirited children against the rule of their wilful, inexperienced, eighteen-year old sister who insists upon managing the household and servants when the mother dies.

*Jacob, Robert Urie.Trip to the Orient: the story of a Mediterranean cruise.**$1.50. Winston.

7–9812.

In the main a revised and elaborated personal journal of the happenings incident to a seventy-day tour of the Mediterranean districts.

“The book itself is likely to interest few, if any, outside of the restricted circle of those who happened to take the same tour or are planning to take a similar one in the future. The book has lost much through the inferior quality of the illustrations.”

Jacobs, William Wymark.Short cruises; il. by Will Owen. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–16484.

“These cruises, largely by sailors, but of the land or at the most, of the port, are in the author’s familiarly amusing vein.... The practical joke, the admonition by craft, the object lesson through wile have their perfect work in these pages. If the fun possibly makes especial appeal to masculine readers, feminine ones should observe that it is always the woman who gets the best of it.”—Nation.

“This volume is fit to stand on the shelf beside ‘Many cargoes’ and ‘Sea urchins.’”

“To be frank, the sailormen we meet with in these pages—at all events, where they are deepwater sailormen—are not in the least the real thing; but they are much more amusing than the real thing is wont to be, and so we welcome their appearance.”

“There are, we regret to say, signs in his latest book that Mr. Jacobs is tiring. He is still funny, but he has receded further from life.”

“His invention is varied, his humour on his chosen lines of cartoon and caricature, boundless, and his mastery supreme of what in respectful homage we venture to term slanguage.”

James, George Wharton.Wonders of the Colorado desert (southern California). **$5. Little.

6–43916.

Two volumes, each containing over two hundred and fifty pages, tell of “strange, wonderful and beautiful things ... unknown to cities and to the unobservant eye.” Mr. James locates the desert with a good deal of exactness because the world at large is misled by the word “Colorado.” He has gathered together in the volume twenty-four years of observations and experiences all characterized by the vague sense of mystery surrounding an untamed, unused and unnourished stretch of country. There is a wealth of pictures attending his sketch of rivers and mountains, cañons and springs, life and history.

“It is a book that it is a genuine pleasure to recommend to discriminating readers.”

“A remarkable and valuable work.”

“To many people who are quite ignorant of the Colorado desert, and this includes nearly every one outside the desert and vicinity, the book will be full of pleasant surprises. Perhaps the chapters on the wild animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plant life of the desert contain as many surprises as any in the book.”

“A very comprehensive and interesting work.”

“Written ‘con amore’ and under the immediate inspiration of the unwonted scenes which they describe, the volumes will have an intimate appeal for those interested in the wonders of their own land.”

“Actual perusal inspires a wish that the author had limited his field and compressed his material into one volume. He should remember that a plethora of superlatives only weakens a eulogy.”

“He has gifts of observation far above the common and the literary art of vivid and picturesque description.” Cyrus C. Adams.

“Occasionally the reader feels that the author is giving a little too much detail, and, is even inclined to question whether the material might not to advantage have been presented in a single volume.”

James, Henry.American scene. **$3–Harper.

7–5704.

After an absence of nearly a quarter of a century Mr. James viewed once more his native land, and wrote in the style which he has made his own, of what his eyes, fresh after long absence, saw in her. New England, in the autumn, New York in the spring, The Bowery, Newport, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, and sunny Florida, the beauty of them, the very atmosphere and air of them are to be found between these covers.

“The book is undeniably difficult to read; full of psychological subtleties, involved expression, baffling to the average reader.”

“Throughout four hundred and sixty-five broad pages there is no oasis in the level, unbroken expanse of Jacobean style. Nor has his style improved with years. In this latest example it has an irritation once absent; for to the defects of his own qualities he has added carelessness.”

“Despite his consummate analytic power, perhaps not the one after all to whom we should willingly allow the last word on what America stands for.” James F. Muirhead.

“Mr. James is, if at his worst, also at his best in this book.” Edward Clark Marsh.

“The book is one to read in at length, if not to read through. Its pages are strewn with the happiest phrases and turns of expression. They teem with passages of exquisite artistry, which, without reference to the scenes and objects so delicately depicted, are a joy to the lover of the gracefully elaborate, the subtilely expressive and still more subtilely suggestive, in English prose.” Percy F. Bicknell.

“No book which Mr. Henry James has written makes so severe a tax on the loyalty of even his most enthusiastic readers as his ‘American scenes.’”

“Crowded, sensitive, intricate book, probably the most remarkable book of impressions of travel which we possess. It cannot be pretended that it can be read without considerable concentration of attention; once drop the finespun thread, and you are lost. But to follow it out to the end is to have a positive revelation of the amount of insight and exactness of expression which can be packed between the covers of a single book.”

“A work of marvellously keen and subtle analysis; it transfixes the defects and shortcomings of American civilization with unerring thrusts; but it is less successful on the positive and synthetic side. Its vision is, if anything, too personal, too microscopic.”

“It would be impossible within reasonable limits to give much idea of the rich and fantastic humor that plays about the revisited towns of America, leaves behind it suggestions to awaken our serious thought.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.

“There is but one way in which to read ‘The American scene:’ refuse to let it antagonize you, remember constantly that it is the utterance of a ‘restored absentee;’ and with every page you will come more and more under the charm of his descriptions and the subtlety of his judgments.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“He has written not a guide-book, but a drama, the drama of a continent: and he has contrived with illuminating subtlety that the ‘persons’ of it shall be not the varieties of humanity upon its surface, but the evidences, the more or less enduring records of their aspiration and their content.”

“The faults we have to find with it are only the faults which cling to all Mr. James’s work. He is exceedingly difficult to read. Mr. James writes with such urbanity and so genuine a love for the land that the most nervous patriot could not take offence at his pages, while to a certain limited class of readers they will be a source of acute intellectual pleasure.”

James, William.Pragmatism: a new name for some old ways of thinking. **$1.25. Longmans.

7–20643.

“A popular presentation of pragmatism. Professor James claims Socrates, Aristotle, Locke, Berkeley and Hume as pragmatists. But these “forerunners of pragmatism used it in fragments; they were a prelude only. Not until in our time has it generalised itself.” The volumes teach that truth comprises all principles, ideas, and beliefs that lead in the long run to the best practical results. Pragmatism is the same method in philosophy that utilitarianism is in ethics, which pronounces monogamy right and gambling wrong, not by previous intuition, but by the test of experience. What wears best is good; and, because proved good, is true.” (Outlook.)

“We should not be doing justice to Professor James’s style did we not refer to the colloquialisms and American slang which abound in the book.”

Reviewed by I. Woodbridge Riley.

“His presentation of the pragmatic method is of course unique by reason of the author’s own charming literary style, comprehensive knowledge of philosophy, literature and philosophy, literature and philosophical principles, and great skill as an expositor.”

“The lectures contain nothing new, and, on the whole, nothing that was not more concisely put in some of these previous pronouncements; but it is always a pleasure to hear Professor James talking.”

“Professor James has an unconventional way of dealing with philosophical questions, so that by graphic illustrations and by simple language he attracts attraction and wins assent.”

“It is scarcely possible to exaggerate one’s appreciation of the lucidity and skill with which so abstract a topic has been treated.” Joseph Jacobs.

Reviewed by Carolyn Shipman.

“His well-known, vivacious and breezy style of address, garnished here and there with racy colloquialisms, working, as it does, to enliven attention to his arguments, is itself felicitously pragmatic.”

“Professor James’s volume is interesting and stimulating throughout, and it is needless to add that it contains a deal of practical wisdom and much useful advice which all philosophers would do well to heed. And it seems to me to be much stronger in what it affirms than in what it denies.” Charles M. Bakewell.

“I am therefore bound to record the opinion that the present volume fails to rise to the level of its author’s reputation. There is something too much of ‘the large loose way’ about it.” R. M. Wenley.

James, Winifred.Bachelor Betty. **$1.25. Dutton.

7–23302.

“Bachelor Betty is a vivacious young Australian girl who comes over to England to seek her fortune as a journalist. She is an independent young person who means to make the best of things, and for this purpose she adopts an aggressively cheerful attitude, extracting fun out of all sorts of unpromising material.... ‘There is not,’ she writes, ‘one woman in a hundred who chooses an independent life because she prefers it’.... We know full well that whimsical Betty with her continual babble and chatter, her delicate philanderings with the ‘youngest man,’ the ‘oldest man’ and other admirers will come at last into the safe haven of matrimony.”—Sat. R.

“All her characters are made living by some touch or phrase which renders the least important of them a personality.”

“Here is an author who takes herself not too seriously, and knows how to entertain us. We find sanity and humanity also in the development of the story.”

“What redeems it entirely from the commonplace is the author’s lively turn of phrase and fresh, untrammelled observation.”

“Her talk is quite pleasant, too, and every now and then she says quite womanly-characteristic things in a quite womanly-characteristic way. There is nothing very remarkable about it, but there have been worse love stories—many of them.”

“We should have found ‘Bachelor Betty’ much more amusing but for the author’s obvious determination to be humorous at all costs. Is full of promise and we feel sure is only an earnest of better work to come.”

Jameson, E. M.Peggy Pendleton. $1.25. West. Meth. Bk.

A first rate story for young readers. The heroine, Peggy Pendleton, found favor with those who enjoyed “The Pendletons,” and here she continues the fulfillment of numerous budding promises, among them good cheer, generosity, and quick thoughtfulness for others.

Jameson, John Franklin, ed.Original narratives of early American history.per. v. **$3. Scribner.

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