“This book, written by Hawker’s son-in-law with such fairness and discretion as may well eradicate even the memory of an unhappy effort by another hand.”
Byron, George Gordon.Complete poetical works; ed. by Paul Elmer More. $3. Houghton.
For this Cambridge edition of Lord Byron’s poems, the editor has chosen the text of 1832-33 in preference to that of 1831 because of its more satisfactory use of capitals, italics and punctuation marks. It is unexpurgated and contains the recently resurrected poems of Byron.
“A thoughtful and scholarly estimate of Byron’s genius and character introduces the volume.”
“Mr. Paul Elmer More edits the book with judgment and restraint.”
Byron, George Gordon.Confessions of Lord Byron; sel. and arr. by W. A. Lewis Bettany.*$2.50. Scribner.
In discussing this compilation the London Times says: “There is nothing new in it; but it gives a convenient synoptic view of the poet in his various relations with his times and his contemporaries. Thus seen, Byron strikes one chiefly as that distinctively English product—the brilliant amateur who can beat the professionals at their own business, likes to do so, but absolutely refuses to take the business seriously.”
“The whole tone of his writing is more that of the literary ‘gobemouche’ than of the man of letters. The reader gains no very clear idea of Lord Byron as a letter-writer, and may be well advised to skip the introduction and proceed to the letters themselves. Mr. Bettany’s volume is only a piece of book-making pure and simple, and has very little claim to be dignified by the title of a scientific analysis of correspondence.”
*“These excerpts give a rather more favorable impression of him as a man and a man of letters than he desired to give his contemporary public.” H. W. Boynton.
Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.
“These editorial lapses are not, however, very numerous; and the compilation is on the whole satisfactory and instructive.”
*“Mr. Bettany’s selections are, however, judicious, and, in spite of frequent detachment from illuminating context, do the writer no injustice.”
“The selections are full of interesting matter for those who wish to approach Byron’s personality in this way.”
“Mr. Bettany has made an excellent arrangement of the matter with which he deals.”
Byron, George G. N.Love poems of Byron. 50c. Lane.
Among the sixty poems found in this group are “When we two parted,” “She walks in beauty,” “Maid of Athens,” “Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa,” “She walks in beauty like the night,” and “There be none of beauty’s daughters.” “This volume is one of a series of little works entitled ‘The lover’s library’ which constitutes a veritable treasure-house of poetry sentiment.” (Arena).
“Love poems of Byron is a dainty little volume, bound in flexible violet cloth, stamped in gold, with gilt edge, and of vest-pocket size, contains more than sixty poems and selections from Byron’s verse devoted to love.”
*Cabell, James Branch.Line of love.†$2. Harper.
“The tales have been culled from French ‘romans’ and dull English chronicles, and the mediaeval atmosphere has been preserved by the quaintly, though never obscurely, archaic style of narration. Ten pictures and cover vignette by Mr. Pyle, richly colored and ... perfectly in keeping with the literary atmosphere, together with conventional floral borders in color, make a singularly attractive giftbook.”—Dial.
*“Is worthy of its predecessors.”
*“They are written in the richly colored, tapestry-like style. Unfortunately in the present volume the tapestry gives the impression of being machine-made and a little threadbare.”
*“A collection, told in exquisite poetical way, of some of the most picturesque but less-known love-stories of history.”
*Cadogan, Edward.Makers of modern history: three types: Louis Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck.**$2.25. Pott.
“The struggle between conservative principles and revolutionary forces constitutes the framework of the history of the nineteenth century. With this great movement are closely associated the names of Louis Napoleon, Cavour, and Bismarck, the subjects of the three essays included in this volume.... It is on the epoch making, the history making, actions of these men that emphasis is here laid.”—N. Y. Times.
*“The volume contains no new materials, but it summarises the careers of the three Machiavellian personages in question clearly and sensibly.” W. M.
*“In general, however, these essays may safely be recommended to the unprofessional reader, who will be dull indeed if he does not discover in them the absorbing interest of the three dissimilar men whom they describe.”
*“The faults of the book are greatly those of immaturity, and the writer may possibly in time produce historical work of permanent value.”
*“The author’s statements and interpretations of facts are clear, vigorous, original, and sufficiently tinctured with philosophy, and he never slides into what Mommsen called the ‘dressing-gown’ style of narrative.”
Caffin, Charles Henry.How to study pictures.**$2. Century.
Mr. Caffin unfolds the gradual progress of art from its liberation from the shackles of Byzantine traditions down to the impressionist school of Monet. A comparative method of study is employed, contrasting the motives and methods of two artists in each of the twenty-eight chapters, sometimes of the same school, often of different schools. And the author maintains that the first necessity for the proper seeing of a picture is to try and see it thru the eyes of the artist who painted it, that it is an understanding of the individuality of the artist’s experience and feeling that enables one to be an intelligent judge of merit.
*“While possessing a simplicity of method which conveys to the average reader a general insight into pictorial methods and motives, the author’s work is characterized by elegance of style, grace of feeling, and elevation of thought; it will do as much good in the direct service of art as any treatise published in recent years.”
*“Mr. Caffin’s book was needed and will be found to contain much information not easily obtainable elsewhere.”
*“Except for this driving ideas in double harness, the material and judgments are not unfamiliar; but the task is done thoroughly and many things are happily put.”
“What Mr. Caffin has to say is always worth reading, for he puts each painter’s character forcibly before one, and manages to be entertaining as well as instructive.” Charles de Kay.
*“It is the one most completely adapted to the needs of the person entirely ignorant of art, its history and its development.”
Caffyn, Mrs. Kathleen Mannington (Iota, pseud.).Patricia, a mother.†$1.50. Appleton.
Patricia, whose husband, a hypocrite and a humbug, leaves both his son and his estate to the guardianship of his mother, goes to live with her mother-in-law and sees her son slowly estranged from her because she will not speak and blacken the character of her dead husband to the mother who reveres his memory. There is much of gossipy country society and in the end an old family servant sets things right and Patricia comes to her own.
“A most moving story, full of feeling and insight into human character. Certainly it is a story that ‘counts.’”
“The cleverness of the novel lies not so much in its plot as in the graphic characterization. It is a piece of work of which the author has reason to be proud.”
*“Her story makes a thoroughly interesting book.” Wm. M. Payne.
“There is considerable strength in this novel. There is some lack of artistic proportion in the general working out of the story.”
Cahan, Abraham.White terror and the red. $1.50. Barnes.
A story of inner Russia by a member of the Revolutionary party who was forced to flee from Russia to avoid Siberia. The plot concerns the tragic events of a quarter of a century ago, when czar Alexander II. was assassinated by the Nihilists and an antisemitic outbreak followed, but it is the Russia of to-day that we see, drawn from a practical knowledge of the subject. The hero of the book is a Russian prince who steps out of his class to uphold the cause of the people, marries a Hebrew woman and finally suffers imprisonment.
“The intelligent reader will find in it much sound workmanship and no little insight into the psychology of the Russian intellectuals.”
“But the style has a curious impenetrability about it, which reminds one of a bad translation.”
“In ‘The white terror and the red’ we have something far more interesting than a narrative of sensational episodes, or a gallery of interesting types, more valuable than a vivid picture of melodramatic history in the making. We have a work of art of the highest class. As a guide to the full understanding of Russian political and social life it is probably the most valuable ever written in the English language.” Edwin Lefevre.
“It is a sound, firm piece of work; and it shows an easy familiarity with the subject and with the method. Asan addition to its historical importance, a sweet, fully realized piece of fiction.” Hutchins Hapgood.
“This book gives one a more realistic and vivid impression of the Terrorist movement than any we have read. It has no definite plot or literary coherency, but consists of a series of sketches written in an unexaggerated and impassioned style.”
“To those who seek an education on underground’ Russia Mr. Cahan’s latest novel can be recommended.”
“A well-constructed, forceful, and ably sustained piece of work. Has given us a picture of Russian conditions which we may accept as essentially correct. Of no small merit from the purely literary standpoint.”
“It would be more exact to characterize this book as a study of Russian social conditions than as a work of fiction, although there is a story as a whole.”
“The book is written in an admirable style,—keen, quiet, full of reserve power. The book is a valuable contribution to present-day literature, considered either as fact or fiction. It tells with judgment, with conviction, with emotion, the sad story of a sad people.”
“A book that impresses one with its power, competence, and fairness. It is a profoundly interesting sociological document that the public may thank Mr. Cahan.”
Caine, Hall.Prodigal son.†$1.50. Appleton.
This latest of Hall Caine’s novels has all the strength and the heart sadness found in his other works. Iceland is the home of the tragic story and its characters are the simple folk of the Northland: the factor and his daughters, Thora and Helga; the old governor and his sons, Magnus and Oscar. Magnus resigns Thora, his promised wife, to Oscar, his more fascinating brother, bearing the odium of the broken betrothal that they may be happy. Helga, however, breaks in upon this dearly bought joy, and wins Oscar’s love. The sad death of Thora and the wanderings of the exiled Oscar are strong and dramatic, and his final return home as the renowned Icelandic composer has not the joy of that first prodigal’s home coming, but holds the full sorrow of the years.
“The story shows a confused sense of moral values, and fairly reeks with cheap sentimentality. Its style is common and its situations theatrical. Altogether it is a poorer performance than was to be expected even from the author of ‘The Christian’ and ‘The eternal city.’” W. M. Payne.
“Though the plot is horribly tragic, there are no melodramatic climaxes to detract from the dignity of the style in which it is written. There are exquisite touches of pathos in the descriptions, and in the delineation of character the author shows a keen knowledge of the various phases of human nature. It is intensely emotional, and certainly the strongest book that Hall Caine has ever written.”
“Here, as in all his books, Mr. Caine has the power of wringing his readers’ vitals, yet not the power of convincing them that he is working out a tragedy rather than a melodrama.”
Caird, Edward.Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers.*$4.25. Macmillan.
This second course of Gifford lectures is closely allied to the first, delivered ten years earlier at the university of St. Andrew’s, which treated of the evolution of religion. This course treats of the evolution of theology in its first great period. There are lectures upon the relation of reason to religious faith; the three stages in the evolution of theology; the precursors of Plato, the two distinctive tendencies of Plato; Aristotle; post-Aristotelian philosophies; Stoicism; Neo-Platonism; Philo; and Plotinus.
“The theology of the earlier Greek philosophers seems inadequately treated. There is attimes a tendency to interpretation which seems formal and doctrinaire. The book is entirely free from pedantry. Nevertheless statements occasionally occur which stand much in need of a reference to authorities. It may be questioned whether the author’s horror of mysticism does not lead him into misunderstanding and exaggeration. The advantages of a point of view steadily maintained throughout a discussion ... gives lucidity to the exposition and is a constant challenge to investigation of its adequacy.” H. N. Gardiner.
Cajori, Florian.Introduction to the modern theory of equations.*$1.75. Macmillan.
“The present work falls into two nearly equal parts. The first 103 pages treat the following topics: Elementary properties and transformation of equations; location and approximation of the roots of numerical equations; solutions of cubic, biquadratic, binomial and reciprocal equations; the linear and Tschirnhausian transformations. The remaining 120 pages are devoted to substitution groups and Galois’s theory of the solution of algebraic equations.”—Science.
“The work has much that may be praised; in particular, its very moderate size, its choice of topics, copious references for further study, and a large number of illustrative examples and problems. Lack of explicitness is manifest.” James Pierpont.
Caldecott, Alfred, and Mackintosh, H. R., eds.Selections from the literature of theism.*$2.50. Scribner.
Professor Caldecott has edited selections from Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, the Cambridge Platonists, Berkeley, Cousin, Comte, and Janet. While the sections under Professor Caldecott’s care include Kant, Schleiermacher, Mansel, and Latze. There are full notes and references.
“A well-selected collection.”
“The plan of this book, therefore, is excellent, and the careful notes and introductions show that it has been well carried out.”
“The editing of these selections fell into excellent hands. The misgivings of the editors as to the wisdom of the selections made are quite needless, for nothing better could have been desired. The notes and biographical notices are very fine—fresh, scholarly, interesting. Though I have deemed it necessary to say some things of more or less critical character, yet, taking the work as a whole, it is a welcome and highly useful addition to theological literature.” James Lindsay.
Caldecott, Rev. W. Shaw.Tabernacle—its history and structure; with a preface by Rev. A. H. Sayce.*$1.75 Union press.
A study of the Old Testament itself has furnished the material for this unconventional, original, and withal, scholarly work on the history and architecture of the tabernacle. The book is divided into four parts: The history of the tabernacle. The triple cubit of Babylonia, The triple cubit of Babylonia as used in the construction of the tabernacle. The triple cubit in Babylonia and in Palestine. The index is complete and the illustrations are good.
Caldwell, Otis William.Handbook of plant morphology.*$1. Holt.
This volume is based upon the handbook of plant dissection, by J. C. Arthur, Chas. R. Barnes, and John M. Coulter, which Prof. Caldwell has revised, rewritten and extended in order to bring it down to date. There is a preliminary chapter for both teacher and students upon the use and equipment of the laboratory. Eight lessons are devoted to the cyanophyceæ and chlorophyceæ, five to the fungi and lichens, five to the bryophyta, three to the pteridophyta and five to the spermatophyta.
“The types selected illustrate very well the probable steps in the evolution of plants, and the discussions are exceedingly clear and suggestive.” R. B. Wylie.
“A preliminary chapter on the use and equipment of the laboratory contains some very practical suggestions for the teacher and student. The comparison of the morphological characters that appear in the concise annotations attached to each exercise materially enhances the value of the book.” Carlton C. Curtis.
“It is an excellent guide for study of plant structures in a college course.”
Calhoun, Alice J.When yellow jasmine blooms. $1.50. Neale.
A story of the southland, with a heroine of the old-fashioned type, of rare beauty and unyielding pride, and a hero who, when he is not trusted without explanation, seeks to hide his wounded heart at the ends of the earth. By the aid of an opal which foretells disaster, and a railroad wreck, all is happily ended “when the jasmine blooms.”
Calkins, Ernest Elmo, and Holden, Ralph.Modern advertising.**$1.50. Appleton.
“‘According to various estimates the amount of money spent to-day in America for advertising ranges from six hundred to one thousand million dollars a year.’ This statement gives some measure of the important part which the art of advertising has come to play in the methodsof business in the twentieth century. This volume gives an interesting account of the methods of modern advertising, and attempts to formulate some of the principles which underlie successful publicity.” (Outlook.) The volume belongs to Appleton’s “Business series.”
“Is overloaded with a special plea for the general advertising agent. Yet the authors have their subject practically and thoroughly in hand, and supply an illustrated manual that will be of value particularly to the business man who is planning a campaign of publicity.”
“It is as interesting to read as a novel.”
“Though the authors have not succeeded in supplying a concise and altogether satisfactory definition of their subject, they have certainly produced a very readable book.”
“The book is written primarily for the general reader, and as such it will be found to be a most interesting exposition of the subject of advertising and sales-management.”
*Calkins, Harvey Reeves.Mind of Methodism.*25c. Meth. bk.
“This littletractatewas written by a British Wesleyan missionary for his people in India. It is an excellent description of a catholic Christianity that in general is not particularly distinctive of Methodism from other evangelical ‘isms’ as known among us.”—Outlook.
Call, Annie Payson.Freedom of life.**$1.25. Little.
“Interior freedom rests upon the principle of non-resistance to all things painful to our natural love of self,” sums the trend of Miss Call’s arguments. Many of the chapters contain comfort, and good advice, and are the result of sure insight: among them are ‘Self-consciousness,’ ‘Human sympathy,’ ‘Dependence and independence,’ ‘Self-control,’ ‘About Christmas,’ and ‘To mothers.’
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
“Contains sound logic—and some sophistries; much good sense—and just a little nonsense. Although we have entered a demurrer in regard to certain parts of the book, be it understood that we criticise only the universal application which the author makes of her fundamental principle of non-resistance. The excellent little volume should be widely and thoughtfully read; it is written in a style at once succinct and limpid, and it holds much truth upon which it is safe to build.”
“‘The freedom of life’ is directed not so much against the bondage of doing wrong as against the bondage of doing right in the wrong way.”
“It is a pity that a book always excellent in intention and usually in performance should be marred by such absurdities.”
Call, Annie Payson.Man of the world.**50c. Little.
The man of the world as Miss Call characterizes him is one who must know evil in order to renounce it, must be capable of understanding all phases of life, must recognize the beauty and power of the things of this world as servants to our highest law, must be in the process of gaining freedom from the world’s evils, must be a citizen of the world sustained by the mind and heart of God.
*“A little book, but sound and sensible as its larger predecessors.”
Calthrop, Samuel R.God and his world: sermons on evolution.*$1.25. Ellis.
Eight scholarly sermons by this venerable Unitarian minister which set forth the doctrine of evolution and “fill that idea full of God.” The sermons are entitled: God, Religion and evolution, One Lord and His name One, Jesus and the evolution of the kingdom of God, Experimental theology and experimental religion, Fate and freedom, God minus man and God in man, and Immortality.
“Dr. Calthrop is a theist, and more thoroughgoing than very many theists. He is also a Christian theist, and distinct as such from many who share with him the name of Unitarian.”
Calvert, Albert F.Life of Cervantes. $1.25. Lane.
This story of Cervantes’ romantic life and adventures was written for the tercentenary of the publication of the first part of “Don Quixote.” The illustrations of the first edition of that book are reproduced, and there is a bibliography, a list of proverbs traceable to Cervantes, and a table giving the editions of “Don Quixote” as brought out in various countries.
“Is a little too obviously written for the tercentenary.”
“Mr. Calvert is evidently unacquainted with the recent literature of his subject.”
“The first brief and satisfactory monograph to be written in English. This narrative is compact and well considered.” H. W. Boynton.
“With some simulation of scholarship, however, this ‘Life’ lacks its essence.”
“It contains a good short account of Cervantes’s adventurous and romantic life, about the only one of convenient size and real fullness known to us.”
Reviewed by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.
*“The ‘Life’ is sufficiently well done.”
*Calvert, Albert Frederick.Moorish remains in Spain.**$15. Lane.
A brief record of the Arabian conquest and occupation of the peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration in the cities of Cordova, Seville, and Toledo, illustrated with eighty-four colored plates and over four hundred black and white illustrations and diagrams. A series of two hundred designs to illustrate the composition and development of various schemes of Arabian ornament, will be found of especial interest to students of Moorish art.
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea.**$4. Macmillan.
A comprehensive history of modern times which will be complete in twelve volumes. Two volumes will be published each year, appearing in two series beginning respectively with vol. I and vol. VII. Volumes I, II, III, VII, and VIII have already appeared. The series will consist of—vol. I, The renaissance; vol. II, The reformation; vol. III, Wars of religion; vol. IV, The thirty years war; vol. V, Bourbons and Stuarts; vol. VI, The eighteenth century; vol. VII, The United States; vol. VIII, The French revolution; vol. IX, Napoleon; vol. X, Restoration and reaction; vol. XI, The growth of nationalities; vol. XII, The latest age.
(Vol. II). “The present volume is quite up to the standard of the first: it has the same virtues and the same defects. In only two of the chapters, the first and the last, are those results of clarification which come from the highest kind of specialization really clear.” J. H. Robinson.
(Vol. VIII). “Whatever doubts remain concerning the construction of the book, it should be welcome for the wealth of information it supplies and for the impartial review of fiercely-debated questions which it affords. As a rule it exhibits the tested results of sound scholarship.” A. L. P. Denis.
“The length of some of the chapters and paragraphs is somewhat disproportionate to the importance of the matters of which they treat. And there are some rather startling omissions. There are moreover a considerable number of misprints and minor errors. Despite all these minor defects, however, there can be no doubt that the third volume of this great work is in every way worthy of the high standard set by the earlier ones.” Roger Bigelow Merriman.
(Vol. VIII). “No single-volume history of the French revolution in the English language, and possibly none in the French, contains so much and such well-organized information as that embodied within the compass of this book. In breadth and accuracy of treatment, in the opinion of the reviewer, it is superior to any that has yet appeared in the series.” James Westfall Thompson.
“Presents too much accidental selection and grouping. The paramount excellence of some of the chapters is so evident that the weakness of the others is made especially evident.” Wm. E. Lingelbach.
“The index of the present volume is, we are glad to see, a great improvement on its predecessors.”
“With one exception, beyond painstaking fidelity and unflagging industry which gathers in every scrap of fact that can be crammed into the work, there is nothing remarkable in the treatment of the subjects. And the devotion to detail seems to have been carried too far.”
“There is a certain lack of homogeneity, produced partly by divergencies both in opinion and in style, and partly by repetitions due to the treatment of a single subject in its different phases. A graver objection is the absence, both from this volume and from that devoted to ‘The reformation,’ of a sufficient statement of the Roman Catholic side. The work would be indispensable to students for its bibliographies alone.”
Reviewed by E. D. Adams.
Reviews Vols. III and VIII.
*“A fine, scholarly catalog of events, with little sense for literary form or emphasis. It is learned and fair, but cold and unsympathetic; useful as an encyclopedia, and having little dramatic interest.”
“It is generally accurate; it is critical; it is clearly written; it is dispassionate. The attitude of pure science is worthily maintained.”
“It is everywhere conscientious and never hurried.” Christian Gauss.
Cambridge natural history.*$4.25. Macmillan.
This new work upon systematic ichthyology, “in line with modern concepts respecting the vertebrates or chordates, includes not only the lower types of the vertebrates of the old naturalists, but also the hemichordata and urochordata or tunicates. The old class of fishes ... is replaced by the three classes for more than a generation past adopted in America, that is, the ‘cephalochordata’ (leptocardians), the ‘cyclostomata’ (marsipobranchs) and the ‘pisces’ (teleostomes or fishes proper).” (Science.)
“As a whole the work is good; it ranks higher than any of its forerunners on the same lines of comprehensiveness and in the general quality of its contents. The third section ... is most open to attack; in places it bristles with vexatious little errors, indicating lack of acquaintance with the subject, and shaking one’s faith in portions better treated.”
“Surveyed as a whole, both authors and editors alike are to be congratulated on having produced a work of sterling merit. The psychologist and the student of evolution will find in these chapters of Mr. Boulenger a perfect mine of information.”
“We shall be grateful, also for the new light which the co-authors of the ‘Cambridge natural history,’ and especially Dr. Boulenger, have thrown and will continue to throw on mooted questions of morphology and classification.” Theo. Gill.
Campbell, Gerald, comp. SeeFitz Gerald, Edward and Pamela.Letters and portraits of.
Campbell, Reginald John.Sermons addressed to individuals.**$1.25. Armstrong.
As the author states in his preface, these eighteen sermons “are not literature, they are extempore speech.” Each one was suggested by some life story or called out by some confession, or some cry for pastoral aid, and to the text of each sermon is prefixed a short account of the particular case which it was designed to meet. Mr. Campbell is an evangelist, and minister of the City Temple of London.
“But these occasional sermons are not sermons for an occasion merely. Their appeal is a very wide one.”
Candler, Edmund.The unveiling of Lhasa.$5. Longmans.
An account of the Lhasa mission from the standpoint of the correspondent of the Daily Mail. He relates the predetermining causes, the diplomatic and historical matters bearing upon the expedition, and a detailed account of the actual journey and of the encounters with the Tibetans. A vivid description of Lhasa, of the monasteries, and of the people follows.
“A series of clear-cut sketches depicting the every-day life of the people ... form the most striking feature of that portion of Mr. Candler’s book given over to Lhasa.” H. Addington Bruce.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
“There is in his pages a breezy personal element, which lends the charm of reality to all he sees and does. His descriptions are brief, and his summing up of the results of the mission clear and forcible.”
“A book of remarkable interest. The manner of writing is as admirable as the matter. Other books on the expedition may be written fuller of detailed information, but none can be more thoroughly imbued with its romance. One of Mr. Candler’s most notable gifts is a power of vivid, sympathetic delineation of scenery.”
Canfield, Dorothea Frances.Corneille and Racine in England: a study of the English translations of the two Corneilles and Racine with special reference to their presentation on the English stage.**$1.50. Macmillan.
“A valuable feature of this book is the presentation of well-chosen excerpts from the various translations, illustrative of the author’s critical comments. These selections are accompanied by the original text.... Pleasantly suggestive sketches are given of the writers who figured as translators from the time of Charles I to the earlier years of the nineteenth century. Among a crowd of obscure hacks may be noted the names of Katharine Philips (the ‘Matchless Orinda’), Waller, Cotton, Otway,Steele, Young (of the ‘Night thoughts’), and Colley Cibber.”—N. Y. Times.
“A quiet, high-bred humor and a marked felicity of phrase brighten many of these pages.”
Canfield, William Walker.Legends of the Iroquois: told by the Cornplanter.**$1.50. Wessels.
The legends and bits of folk-lore here reproduced were told by the Seneca chief, the Cornplanter, to a pioneer of western New York, whose note-book with the valuable jottings came into the possession of Mr. Canfield. Enough of the wild poetry, religious undertone, and imagination was transmitted to enable the author to catch the spirit of the tales, which he has preserved with full understanding and sympathy.
“A valuable and entertaining edition to the literature of our aboriginal folk-lore.”
“Present what is from several points of view the most fascinating side of Indian character, the poetic and imaginative side. It has a distinct value to the student of ethnology, or anyone who is interested in the study of Indian life and character, it will also appeal with equal force to the reader who seeks only entertainment; for we venture to say that anyone who dips into this book of legends will find them as fascinating as a book of verses or a metrical romance.” L. J. Burpee.
Canning, Albert Stratford George.Literary influence in British history.*$2.25. Wessels.
In a prefatory note the author states that “In this republished and revised volume I endeavor to trace the influence of literature in British history, with the hope that the book may be of use to readers not familiar with larger works on the subject.” Then follows a review of representative English literature in every period of England’s history from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Scott and Froude. There is much not only of historical and literary but also of biographical interest.
Cannon, Edwin, ed. See Smith, Adam. Wealth of nations.
Capart, Jean.Primitive art in Egypt; tr.*by A. S. Griffith.*$5. Lippincott.
“This exhaustive volume dealing with the early decorative work of the Egyptians on implements and buildings, deals with its subject more from an archaeological than from an artistic standpoint.” (Critic.) The work is largely based upon the discoveries of Prof. Flinders Petrie, and is richly illustrated.
*“Has been ably translated.”
*“M. Capart’s own part in the book appears to have been mostly confined to the selection of the matters to be reproduced, and this task has been discharged with both skill and judgment. The translation by Miss Griffith is adequate to its purpose.”
*“For the student of the problem of the origin of art the author has probably made a valuable contribution, with his clear text, and plentiful illustrations. For the casual reader, however, the often insisted upon details are liable to become wearisome.”