Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q.” pseud.).Shining ferry.†$1.50. Scribner.
John Rosewarne, a stern, proud old man, looking back upon a reckless youth, his son, who follows the Bible after reading into it his own desires, the gentle Peter Benny and his eleven children, a blind boy, and many others enter into this story of a sleepy little sea port town.
“In the last third or so of the book the interest, to our mind, suddenly filters away. The fault is one of structure. The interest of the novel dribbles out along several lines, none of which assumes a principal position and concentrates attention. And such is the reason why we are disappointed with what is in large measure a well-written book, with plenty of character and written in excellent English.”
“In this book he seems, for the first time, to have achieved a novel really complete in character, incident, and construction.”
“Admirable studies of character. Its charm resides in the touches of gentle sentiment, of quaint humor, and tender feeling with which it is enriched in every chapter. It is a wholesome and human book, to be read with keen delight from beginning to end.” Wm. M. Payne.
“There is a savor in it—a distinction not only of style, but of thought and temper—which will enable it to outlive much fiction that is more strongly wrought.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“Is one of the best stories of the year.”
“These figures are all well drawn—not over-drawn—neither too diabolical nor too angelic.”
“Quiller-Couch has a deft hand at character sketching, and in this latest story of his, one finds many character sketches and little story. Mr. Quiller-Couch has a goodly humor which saves his story from a certain melancholy gloominess which it might otherwise possess too abundantly.”
“There is not a forced or a strained note anywhere. The sense of proportion is everywhere evident in the book, so that when one closes it one is in possession of a little corner of the tapestry of life where not a stitch has been dropped.”
“One of those novels made to be enjoyed rather than criticised.”
Coudert, Frederick René.Addresses, historical—political—sociological.**$2.50. Putnam.
The twenty-one addresses of this eminent international lawyer, which his editor has selected for this volume include: International arbitration; The Anglo-American arbitration treaty; The rights of ships; Christopher Columbus; Louis Kossuth; Andrew Jackson; Charles O’Conor, Montesquieu; Chief Justice Waite; France, Morals and manners; Reply to Dumas’s advocacy of divorce; Lying as a fine art; The bar of New York from 1792 to 1892; Young men in politics; and Columbia college.
*“In selecting from among his subject’s addresses those for use in this book ‘P. F.’ has been wholly successful, and has made a volume of much interest.”
*“They are valuable as specimens of a style worth studying by nascent writers and speakers.”
Course of Christian doctrine; a handbook for teachers. 50c. Dolphin press.
“The aim of the new Sunday-school manual is, as stated in its preface, ‘to bring the new education to bear on the old sacred and unchangeable truths, and to lead the children not only to know, but to love and practice them.’ ... The book suggests such new features as blackboard work, historical tablets, the use of the sandboard, pictures, poems, and the like.... The course mapped out is divided into eight grades, each including instruction in prayers, catechism, Bible history—both Old and New Testament—and Catholic devotions and practices.”—Cath. World.
“The scholarship and originality which mark the first chapter prevail throughout the work.”
Coutts, Francis.Musa verticordia.*$1.25. Lane.
From the first poem of this group the volume takes its name. The trial of Dreyfus furnishes the theme of one poem; two others are interpretations of Parsifal and Meistersinger; still others are commemorative in nature. There are also some interesting Spanish folk rhymes.
“Mr. Francis Coutts stands out head and shoulders from the generality of our modern minor poets in that in addition to its technical excellence his verse strikes a strong individual note.”
“Mr. Coutts’ muse would to us be austere were he not somewhat too vague, too nebulous, for austerity. A mastership of whatever form of verse he essays, a lofty purpose, withal a rooted fealty to poetic sorrow, must be conceded to Mr. Coutts.”
“This attitude of intellectual challenge is characteristic of the entire volume, and it is such touches of ‘sæva indignatio’ that give the author’s work its most distinctive quality.” Wm. M. Payne.
“It is impossible to read Mr. Coutts without admiration. But he lacks, through nearly all this volume, the human sweetness that is the preservative of poetry.”
“Mr. Coutts is always thoughtful and always sensitive to the imaginative import of his ideas.”
“He has extreme simplicity and chastity of style, what Stevenson has called ‘the piety of speech,’ a perfect taste, and an instinct for rendering in delicate poetry, evasive moods and fancies. There is also a gravity and austerity. The slightly forced reflectiveness seems to us to be a blemish in much of his work.”
Cowan, Rev. Henry.John Knox, the hero of the Scottish reformation, 1505-1572.**$1.35. Putnam.
In this seventh volume in the “Heroes of the reformation” series, the writer has aimed to “describe those portions of the career of Knox which are most likely to be of general interest: to place his life-work in its historical setting.” This he has done, giving a clear picture of the reformer and his times. References to original authorities are given in foot-notes and there is a complete index.
“Both popular and scholarly.”
“While less piquant than Lang’s, is perhaps the better book for the student. With a quick penetration into the particular subject or episode in hand, a strong grasp of the situation, and with clear and rapid movement of style, he makes a good story as well as a trustworthy one.”
“The author is an advocate, but he is fair, dignified, and moderate in his advocacy of Knox’s side of these questions and of the general course of his conduct as a Puritan leader.” Charles H. Cooper.
“Dr. Cowan’s way of looking at Knox is, of course, not Mr. Lang’s way. Naturally Dr. Cowan’s biography is less interesting.”
“Dr. Cowan’s work is that of a professor unable to apprehend the spirit of a religion outside his sphere of thought.”
Cowen, Thomas.The Russo-Japanese war: from the outbreak of hostilities to the battle of Liao Yang.*$4.20. Longmans.
“A trained observer, for many years a war correspondent, describing for newspapers the Boer war, the Japanese-Chinese war, phases of the Spanish-American war, both in Cuba and the Philippines, the Boxer in China, and the siege of Peking, Mr. Cowen treats of the war in the East with exceptional facilities for getting at the facts.” (N. Y. Times). He analyses the reasons for Japanese success, he sums up the cause for Russia’s failures in the statement that “Indecision in emergency has been a characteristic weakness of Russia.” He follows the steps taken by Japan in her preparation for war, showing the methods adopted for meeting the peculiar difficulties to be overcome in opposing the host of Russia’s forces. “Remarkably effective as word pictures are his descriptions of the naval operations in the early days before Port Arthur.... And with it all there is a constant succession of pictures of army and navy life that is positively fascinating in the simple old-fashioned manner in which it is told with no attempt at ‘fine writing.’” (N. Y. Times).
“With the simplicity of a tactical primer the reasons for success and the causes of failure are alike made plain.”
“He writes with a graphic touch and an intimacy with affairs Japanese that give a value to his volume which it otherwise would not possess.”
*Cowley, Abraham.Poems: Miscellanies, The mistress, Pindarique odes, Davideis; verses written on several occasions.*$1.50. Macmillan.
“A very convenient single-volume edition printed in large type, the text edited by Mr. A. R. Waller from the first collected edition of Cowley’s works, published in 1688, the year after his death. This volume presents the variations noted in a collation of the 1668 text with the folio of 1656, the volume of 1663, and the edition of ‘The mistress,’ which appeared in 1647. Errors which have been discovered in the poems are indicated by brackets and are explained in the notes.”—Outlook.
Cox, Kenyon.Old masters and new: essays in art criticism.**$1.50. Fox.
“This volume makes no pretensions to be a history of art. It is, as Mr. Cox explains, a series of appreciations of individual masters, and, incidentally, gives a view of the course of painting since the sixteenth century. The artists principally discussed are Michelangelo, Dürer, Rubens, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, William Blake, F. M. Brown, Burne-Jones, Meissonier, Baudry, Puvis de Chavannes, Whistler, Sargent, Saint-Gaudens, Veronese, Perugino, and the Venetian artists, the Pre-Raphaelites,some of the lesser painters of the nineteenth century, and the sculptors of the early Italian renaissance.”—N. Y. Times.
“Kenyon Cox is a master of essays in art criticism, and this collection ... shows him at his best.”
“If his style lacks that brilliancy which marks the man of great genius ... we have in their stead the sound technical knowledge of the artist, coupled with a keen sense of discrimination.” Albert E. Gallatin.
“Keen insight and a peculiar warmth of description.”
*“In its new dress, therefore, and with its score of excellent half-tones, the book should find a wider public than ever.”
“Taken altogether, perhaps the most notable and significant book of art criticism pure and simple, not only of the year, but of several years.”
*“For incisive analysis and illuminative appreciation Mr. Cox’s little book of essays, ‘Old masters and new,’ is the most significant and the most valuable work in art criticism pure and simple issued in many a long day.”
“Mr. Cox’s ideas are sound and put with candour and balance.”
“Where Mr. Cox speaks as an artist (and he nearly always does), it is not easy to take issue with him, for he knows remarkably well what he is talking about. Now and then one may disagree with him about other matters.”
“Short as they are, these ‘Essays in criticism,’ expressed in an excellent style, may be warmly recommended to lovers of art.” Charles de Kay.
*“The author knows his subject, and expresses his thoughts in simple and concise language, so as to make himself intelligible to those of limited observation and experience.”
“There is in all the essays a most unusual clarity of style and probity of judgment.”
*“Mr. Cox’s essays are vivid, delightful, and spirited discussions of great events in art, and they have a vivacity and surety of judgment which can not but delight the more matured art student.”
*“Is a practical book of art criticism. It ought to be helpful to novices in art appreciation.”
Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).Storm center.†$1.50. Macmillan.
A Civil war story whose scene is laid in the mountains of Tennessee. “The Federal officers who court Southern women in Charles Egbert Craddock’s new story ... are more credible types, and it is the first time in its history that the Civil war has been reduced to a neighborhood affair, but the story of their wooings is the best this author has written in years.” (Ind.)
“This sincere feeling for style, though occasionally it is overdone, is certainly the best thing about a story which barely misses being exceedingly dull. Suffers from a general vagueness and faulty construction.”
“The outline of the story has scarcely a single point of novelty, and yet the narrative does maintain its interest.”
“Slight in substance, and of moderate interest only.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The machinery of the story seems to creak at times. But there are elements of power in the novel; ‘it goes.’”
“It hardly has the force and depth of the author’s earlier books. Its plot is a little conventional, but there are novel and entertaining incidents.”
Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.Successful men of today, and what they say of success. $1. Funk.
A new edition, revised, enlarged, and made thoroughly up-to-date, of this popular description of the road to success, based on facts and opinions gathered by letters and personal interviews from five hundred prominent men who tell of their experience along this royal highway, and give helpful hints for those who would follow.
Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).Flute of Pan.†$1.50. Appleton.
The author has converted her play, which was produced in England with small success, into a novel, which, while entertaining, retains the weakness of the stage comedy. The plot hinges on a slight misunderstanding between a young English earl who has gone to Venice to paint and lead the simple life, and the Princess of Siguria who comes to ask him to be her prince consort; other aristocratic characters enter into and complicate the story.
“From the beginning of the book to the end we have not met with a stroke of genuine drollery, or of the humour that is composed of mingled laughter and sympathy.”
“It is indeed, impossible to criticise ‘The flute of Pan’ away from the footlights. Its plot is thin, and it may be styled a comedy of intrigue. But it is very readable and bright and pleasant.”
“The story is without background; it is a collection of sketches and notes, giving the impression that the writer has never quite made up her mind as to what she is aiming at.”
*“In the present story we miss the clever epigrams and the brilliant dialogue which characterized much of her previous work, and there is nothing to take their place.”
“It is as a psychologist that she would make her appeal. But psychology is not her strong point. Her methods are those of the dilettante.”
Craik, Dinah Maria (Miss Mulock, pseud.).John Halifax, gentleman.$1.25. Crowell.
All friends of John Halifax will be pleased to see it as one of the attractive “Thin paper classics” series.
Cram, Ralph Adams.Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied arts.**$2. Baker.
Ten papers which show the development of Japanese art and help the Western mind to a better understanding of it makes up “this series of impressions of the esthetic voicing of Japanese civilization.” Beginning with The genius of Japanese art, the author covers the early and later architecture of Japan; Temples and shrines; Temple gardens; and Domestic interiors. There are also chapters upon The minor arts; A color print of Yeizan; A note on Japanesesculpture; and the Future of Japanese art. The volume is illustrated with some original plans and many unusual pictures.
*“At last we have a volume doing justice to Japanese architecture.”
*“It is rare that in a discussion of this sort one finds such brilliant diction, fervent imagery, and such a reverent attitude as Mr. Cram manifests. Judged from the standpoint of its purpose the book is beyond criticism. Mr. Cram’s book is one of the most important of the year.”
Cram, Ralph Adams.Ruined abbeys of Great Britain.**$2.50. Pott.
“The ruins described and illustrated are Glastonbury, Whitby, Lindisfarne, Beaulieu, Netley, Tintern, Gisburgh, Bolton, Jedburgh, Kelso, Rievauix, Byland, Melrose. Dryburgh, Kirkstall, Malmsbury, York, and Fountains. In the concluding chapter Mr. Cram ... estimates the position of the abbeys in English social and economic life and the effect of their suppression upon the moral and religious condition of the people. The book is fully illustrated and has a full index of names and places.”—N. Y. Times.
*“The subject is pursued rather with an interest in the significance of the religious houses in English life and their fortunes in their relations with the State than from an exclusively artistic standpoint.”
Cramp, Walter S.Psyche, a romance of the reign of Tiberius. $1.50. Little.
The horrid cruelty of Tiberius and his time is graphically set forth. The story is of Psyche, a beautiful Greek dancing girl, and her lover Gyges, a charioteer in the Roman circus, and the troubles which came upon them through their knowledge of a fatal secret connected with the ambitions of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian guards, to make himself emperor. The story is the result of a careful study of the times, and consequently is unpleasant and full of horrors.
“Mr. Cramp’s story is the result of considerable study and painstaking care, but it lacks ... that strong imaginative quality that makes its characters convincing.”
“An ambitious and gratifying bit of interpretation.”
“Written with conscientious care, but rarely touched by the charm of imagination.”
Craven, John J.Prison life of Jefferson Davis.**$1.20. Dillingham.
A former edition of this book was published in 1866. The author was surgeon at Fortress Monroe during the time of Mr. Davis’ imprisonment, and the volume gives a full account of the “details and incidents of his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together with many conversations on topics of great public interest.” Copies of the official reports sent by the author to the commanding officer, concerning the prisoner’s physical and mental condition are given in full.
Crawford, Francis Marion.Fair Margaret: a portrait.†$1.50. Macmillan.
“Margaret Donne is an English girl, daughter of an Oxford don and his American wife—a girl the description of whose parentage implies a career of unusual interest. When the book opens her parents are dead and she is in Paris with a close friend of her mother cultivating her voice. Three men figure as her admirers, one of them mysterious and probably royal. Margaret becomesan opera singer and meets with success.”—N. Y. Times.
*“Abounds in action and shows its author at his best—and his best is very good.”
*“Mr. Crawford is a born story-teller, but a good deal of the writing in this volume is very commonplace and lacking in distinction of any kind; but the book is worth reading for the sake of the picture of the old artist.”
Crawford, Francis Marion.Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v.**$5. Macmillan.
“Brushing aside the didactic history formed by a rapid succession of events and the chronological sequence of great and little names, Mr. Crawford extracts from tradition and monument a narrative which reveals the life of the islanders, the causes of their rise and glory and of their dismal decay, far better than a formal history even when accompanied with skillful and enlightening commentary. Concerning the stories revealed by the monuments, Mr. Crawford’s text is set off with a series of illustrations by Joseph Pennell—splendidly true in their grasp of art and history and delightful as pictorial records of a dying race and its dead culture.”—N. Y. Times.
Crawford, Francis Marion.Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman.*$2.50. Macmillan.
“No one should by any chance visit Sicily or southern Italy without first having read Mr. Crawford’s book. This new edition puts into one volume, not at all bulky or inconvenient, what was formerly presented in two. The illustrations are capital and are well printed.”—Outlook.
*“Countless touches show that Mr. Crawford thoroughly understands his ground and his people, with a psychological insight that renders especially interesting his theories and deductions.”
*“Indeed, it is hard to see wherein, within the limits, the work could have been better done. Mr. Crawford’s work is an unexcelled resumé for the historical scholar, the student of history, or for just the lover of good literature.”
“In every way the edition is satisfactory.”
Crawford, F. Marion.Whosoever shall offend.†$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Crawford’s technique becomes, if anything, more refined with each new work that he puts forth, but his substance grows thinner than ever. A forced mechanical invention marks the plot of ‘Whosoever shall offend,’ and the characters are but slightly modified variations of the types that he has been fashioning for the past score of years. The new novel is concerned with a polished villain, who murders his wife and seeks to murder his stepson, all with the sordid object of gaining their fortune for himself, and in the end is trapped and punished according to his deserts. It is all very cleverly managed, but the interest is of the mildest.”—Dial.
“It is a well-written, highly interesting melodrama.... The characters are all good types, the plot is strong, and the Italian atmosphere tempers the sensational occurrences to the colder northern imagination.”
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
“In this last novel Crawford is at his best. He writes with the charm and the originality of a man at the full tide of his powers.”
“The story is ingenious, the sketches of scenery and peasantry admirable, the comments by the way philosophic and thoughtful; the English, of course, of the best-regulated. The reader for the most part, however, remains outside.”
“Notwithstanding its horrors, and partly on account of them, ‘Whosoever shall offend’ is simply an agreeable and diverting story, the work of an accomplished writer, who always turns out his creations in graceful form and who has established the right to be called the ‘Norris’ of American fiction.”
“His theme, as in not a few of his earlier books, is a particularly grewsome and mysterious crime. He appears to tell the story not for the sake of its sensational elements, however, but for the sake of character and social analysis. Contains a fascinating story, a puzzling mystery and its solution, elements in a book which, if well handled, as here, have never yet been known to fail of their effect.”
Crehore, Albert Gushing.Synchronous and other multiple telegraphs: some methods of obtaining independent telegraph circuits on a single wire both with and without synchronism.*$2. McGraw pub.
“The multiple telegraph systems other than synchronous systems discussed in the book are modifications of the Edison Phonoplex, the Varley and other somewhat similar systems; sometimes termed superimposed systems.... The first part of the book is taken up with a description and discussion of instances of the type of telegraph systems just mentioned. The second and third parts of the book relate to methods of obtaining synchronism at distant points; and to synchronous telegraphs, respectively.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Wm. Maver.
Creighton, Louise (Mrs. Mandell Creighton).The life and letters of Mandell Creighton.*$9. Longmans.
The “Life and letters” of Bishop Creighton, the English Phillips Brooks, given to the public by Mrs. Creighton, portray a broadminded, steadfast man, a man who was “intensely loyal to the church and its mission.” “It is a long time since there was published any memoir or volume of letters which shows the Church of England on its best and most lovable side than do these memoirs of Creighton. But their interest is by no means confined to the Church of England. They contain many social studies of England in the second half of the old century; and in particular the chapters which deal with Creighton’s life at Emberton will long be remembered as a classic study of mining, fishing and farm life in the villages on the bleak northeast coast of England.” (Ind.)
“In the hands of Mrs. Creighton the English language is not as apt and flexible an instrument as in those of Lady Burne-Jones, but she shows an equal skill in the selection and arrangement of her material, and perhaps a somewhat greater readiness to admit the weaknesses and limitations of her subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“His widow and biographer, ... has not, although a lady of distinguished literary ability, succeeded in presenting an entirely coherent and harmonious portrait. Mrs. Creighton’s biography is a model of sound literary judgment particularly in its accurate proportion. She has also displayed tact.”
Crewdson, Charles N.Tales of the road.$1.50. Thompson & Thomas.
“The author’s object is not merely to tell amusing anecdotes about his own and others’ experiences as commercial travellers ... but to give some practical hints and suggestions to young men just beginning to ‘go on the road’; yet the book is, after all, chiefly a collection of anecdotes.”—Outlook.
*“Some of these are amusing; others are rather tedious. Perhaps it may most aptly be compared with such a book as ‘Letters from a self-made merchant to his son,’ but it lacks the originality and shrewd homely humor which made that book so deservedly popular.”
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.Cherry ribband: a novel.†$1.50. Barnes.
“Raith Ellison, the son of a grim, blind, old Scotchman, lets his eyes rest on Ivie Rysland, the daughter of Sergeant Grif Rysland of his majesty’s dragoons, quartered in Scotland for the express purpose of suppressing the conventicles. For this he is cast off by his father and enlists in Rysland’s troop. In the course of time he comes to be one of the jailers of his majesty’s prison on the Bass, where his own father and brother are confined. Later on, by an unexpected turn of events, he assists at a jail delivery by which his father and brother gain their freedom again. Of course it ends happily.”—Pub. Opin.
*“Is a thrilling drama-novel of the joyous old type of Dumas and Hope—and Crockett.”
*“This romance is full of charm and vigor. The story shows the author at his best.”
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.Loves of Miss Anne. $1.50. Dodd.
“The story is on the old theme of the apprentice’s love for his master’s daughter—in this case a shepherd boy and a very capricious and spirited girl, who treads the narrow path between fun and ill-breeding with rather uncertain steps. The boy becomes a land-agent, helps to rescue the girl from the insults of a drunken brother, and marries her after some pretty love-making on the hills by moonlight. The tale is told by Miss Anne’s faithful companion.”—Spec.
“Her story may be read with a good conscience.” W. M. Payne.
“There is about the whole book a good humour and good health. It is a pity that Mr. Crockett will not realize that vulgarity is in itself bad art, and in no way contributes to the realism of a narrative.”
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.May Margaret.†$1.50. Dodd.
The heroine of Mr. Crockett’s story is the Scottish May Margaret of the famous house of Douglas. The tale reveals how this high-spirited, quick witted maiden presides in turn over the destinies of three wooers. “It is all a fearful matrimonial tangle, but history and not Mr Crockett, is responsible for that, andcanonical laws find a way for the legalizing of it—as is with much sly humor set forth in the text.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is in Mr. Crockett’s best vein. It may be doubted whether the author has made the most of this Æschylean drama; but he has emphasized the actors, and his additions to history tend to fix the picture in our memory.”
“While not a masterpiece, the tale is strong in its appeal to the two elemental human passions, war and love, viewed through the magic mirror of imagination and set in the enchanted land of Long Ago.”
“This is not, perhaps, one of his best, but it goes with the gait of the ‘true romance’ ... and is good to read.”
“Liberties are taken with history, and there are a hundred flagrant anachronisms of style and matter; but the real blemish is that the whole atmosphere is sham antique, and aggressively false.”
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.Raiderland: all about Grey Galloway, its stories, traditions, characters, humors.**$2. Dodd.
“A sort of literary guide-book to that part of Galloway which is the locale of the bulk of his fiction. The result is a pleasant medley of facts and fiction, of descriptive touches and old legends, of character sketches and those intuitions which a land gray with history is certain to arouse.” (Pub. Opin.) Of his purpose, the author says: “It is my desire not so much to write a new book about Galloway as to focus and concentrate what I have already written for the use of Galloway lovers and Galloway travelers.”
“A collection of more or less doubtful history but of excellent literary material. The drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell are, as always, delightful.” Wallace Rice.
“To a native of Galloway, or to a person steeped in Mr. Crockett’s books as some are steeped in Stevenson or Scott or Thackeray, the whole may well be delightful. To the ordinary Philistinic reader much of it will appear superfluous—though even he must catch at times the infection of Mr. Crockett’s enthusiasm and feel the charm of this bit and that of panegyric, of reminiscence or local color.”
*Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.Sir Toady Crusoe. (†)$1.50. Stokes.
This new story for boys of all ages tells how that very charming little fellow, Sir Toady Lion, became Sir Toady Crusoe, and of the many remarkable adventures which he and Saucy and Dick and some others had on Isle Crusoe on the Scottish coast, how he befriended a poacher in his father’s covers, how he played the part of local assistant to Providence in behalf of his big brother, Hugh John, and Cissy Carter, by threatening Cissy’s father with two large pistols, and how he did many other strange things in a way very unlike any one else and very like Toady. There are many illustrations by Gordon Browne.
*“He is an amusing, if improbable little chap, but other children will certainly learn from him neither good English nor good manners.”
*“Is superior to the ordinary story for children, in its style, humour, characterisation and atmosphere. And yet Mr. Crockett’s tale is not altogether satisfactory, there is too large a mixture of grown-up sentiment in it.”
Croiset, (Marie Joseph) Alfred, and Croiset, Maurice.Abridged history of Greek literature; authorized tr. by G. F. Heffelbower.**$2.50. Macmillan.
“This manual is a compression of the great history of Greek literature, which the authors of this work have published in five volumes, appearing 1887-1899. In accord with this conception of Greek literature as a whole we find their admirable development of each period.... It is the peculiar excellence of this work that it gives no partial and incomplete view of Greek literature, but carries the account of it not only through the Hellenistic period, but through the Christian writers of the first three centuries as well.... Their closing chapters on the Hellenic revival and the last days of Hellenic literature are most illuminating and valuable.”—Educ. R.
“The subject is developed with the beautiful French lucidity which makes readable an account of the dullest epoch, and the brilliant phrasing which is a Frenchman’s birthright cannot be altogether lost, even in translation. The translation by Professor Heffelbower exhibits some curious phenomena.” Grace Harriet Macurdy.
“Mr. Heffelbower’s translation is fluent enough, but full of infelicities when reproducing MM. Croiset’s rendering of gems of Greek literature.”
“The translation preserves the spirit, while giving us the idiomatic English so necessary for the young student.”
“In spite of these lapses—which, after all, are few in number considering the extent of the work—the book as a whole may be commended to students of Greek literature, who are unable to use the original, as a measurably satisfactory presentation in English of a work of unquestioned excellence.” John C. Rolfe.
Crosby, Ernest.Broadcast.*75c. Funk.
Mr. Crosby, the poet reformer and Tolstoyan, shows thru his verses, pictures, messages and meditations, the tyranny which the world’s systems exercise over its powerless victims. His remedy for the times so out of joint lies in making “men pull together” as only “love, cooperation, equal service, true honor and honesty” can accomplish.
“The present volume, though inferior to ‘Plain talk in Psalm and parable’, contains much that is thought-stimulating and helpful. The more we read Mr. Crosby’s writings, the more profoundly are we convinced that he is above all else a moralist and a teacher, and that prose is the field of literature in which he is most effective.”
“But in spite of unpoetic poetry and illogical logic to be found in abundance on the strident little pages of this outcry against our social organization, there are also the results of observation definitely outlined.”
*Crosby, Ernest.Garrison the non-resistant. 50c. Public pub. co.
Mr. Crosby, the disciple of Tolstoy, has taken the facts relating to the life of Garrison as related in “The story of his life by his children” and explains thru them the anomaly that the cause of abolition fathered by a non-resistant was at last decided by the greatest war of history.
Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson.Wild Irishman.**$1.25. Appleton.
As Mr. Crosland has numbered the “Egregious Englishman,” and the “Unspeakable Scot” among the scalps of his satire, so now does he display just such designing intentions towards the “Wild Irishman.” His attacks are merciless, and “such chapters as those on ‘Pigs,’ ‘Potatoes,’ ‘Dirt,’ ‘Whiskey,’ and ‘Blarney’ are not exactly calculated to make the native of Erin enthusiastic in the writer’s praise.” (Dial.)
“As an exercise in literary pyrotechnics the work is out of the ordinary—but we cannot help a disappointment in that Mr. Crosland has not devoted an unusual brilliancy to better uses than mere display.”