“Mr. Davies’s work is a fine example of what a sympathetic, imaginative, and withal a learned man may produce from very slender accepted data.”
Davies, Rev. John Llewelyn,ed. Workingmen’s college, 1854-1904.*$1.25. Macmillan.
Records of its history and its work by members of the college. For half a century the workingmen’s college has played an important part in the sociological evolution of England, and its history and development are of general interest. The editor has written a chapter on F. D. Maurice, who was the real founder of the college. Mr. G. W. Trevelyan writes a chapter on “The college and other universities.” Mr. J. P. Elmslie describes “Art teaching in early days,” Mr. C. B. Lucas tells of “The college clubs.” There are many other chapters illustrating the development of this great work from a simple night school to a model institution of its kind.
“The value of the book is enhanced by some excellent portraits; but it lacks an index.”
Davies, W. W.Codes of Hammurabi and Moses.*75c. Meth. bk.
A comparison of the laws of Hammurabi and Moses which is designed to help all Bible students. To this end the text of the Hammurabi code is given in small pica type, selected parallels from the Old Testament in long primer, and remarks and comments in brevier.
Davis, Foxcroft.Mrs. Darrell.†$1.50. Macmillan.
In this novel of Washington life Elizabeth Brandon marries Darrell and finds out too late that she loves his friend and cousin Hugh Pelham. Upon Darrell’s death his estate goes to Pelham, who is in Africa, and his lawyers pressElizabeth sorely. This destroys her faith in Pelham and she all but falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous senator, who wishes to divorce his wife and marry her, when Pelham returns. The senator’s daughter also plays an important part in the story.
“The story is slight, the characters shadowy, and the style, except for a strange abundance of ‘non-sequiturs,’ exceedingly commonplace.”
“Not only does he reveal the actions of his characters, but also the train of thoughts that lead up to those actions. Nevertheless ‘Mrs. Darrell’ is a book full of interest.”
“The book as regards plot and constructive power and development cannot be praised highly, but the love story is in some ways unusually interesting.”
*Davis, John Patterson.Corporations: a study of the origin and development of the great business combinations and their relation to the authority of the state. 2v.**$4.50. Putnam.
“This treatise is of great helpfulness to the student of what is now familiarly known as the ‘corporation problem.’ ... The subject is here attacked chiefly from the historical standpoint, from the earliest manifestations of corporate activity in the ecclesiastical organizations of the primitive Christian church to the colonial companies, forerunners of the development companies of to-day. There are, however, chapters dealing with contemporary phenomena at a length sufficient to make the writer’s views concerning the structure, operation, and future of the modern corporation clear.”—Lit. D.
*“Without fully concurring with him, we find his views highly suggestive and stimulating, and ... ‘a particularly welcome addition to economic literature.’”
Davis, Norah.Northerner.†$1.50. Century.
The hero of Miss Davis’ first published book is a young New York capitalist who buys a street railway and a lighting plant in an Alabama town. Titanic and aggressive, young Falls underrates the momentum of sectional prejudice even where it carries with it the sanity of a whole town. Mob violence, strikes, and a lynching form the dramatic phase of the story whose other side portrays the loyalty and courage of Joan Adair. This southern girl, tho reared to the fanatic prejudice of her townsmen, could, one is led to believe, champion right and justice impersonally, even tho the process had not been terribly confused with her love for the much misunderstood and ostracized hero.
*“The supreme merit of the book lies, however, in the subtle delineation of Southern life with its love, its fear, its pride, its idealism, and its prejudice.”
*“The serious questions of the Northerner are vigorously stated, and some characters and scenes very forcibly presented. The construction is bad, and there is a lot of tiresome talk.”
“The principal value of the story is in its depicting of the life of the half-asleep, half-awake southern town with its new-formed ambitions obscured by the rubbish of old traditions.”
Davis, Richard Harding.Miss Civilization.**50c. Scribner.
“A comedy in one act, founded on a story by the late James Harvey Smith. By means of strategy, the daughter of a wealthy man succeeds in holding three thieves in her home until the arrival of the police, whom she had summoned by telephone when she first heard the burglars trying to file their way into the house.”—Bookm.
“This playlet is admirably suited for parlor and amateur theatricals, where it will furnish both to actors and audiences unalloyed delight.”
“This is a lively and amusing play. It is not badly suited for amateur rendering.”
Davison, Charles.Study of recent earthquakes.$1.50. imp. Scribner.
“This copiously illustrated volume ... gives a popular account of the results which have been arrived at by modern seismology.... Rather than grouping seismic phenomena, as we should expect to find them in a text-book, the author has given a concise history of eight disturbances, each of which has a special interest.... A subject attractive to the general reader which is referred to in several chapters asan account of signs which have given warning of a coming earthquake.”—Nature.
“Mr. Davidson’s book is well worth reading, whilst the manner in which its contents have been arranged should obtain for it a circulation amongst those who seek for general information.”
Davitt, Michael.Fall of feudalism in Ireland.**$2.50. Harper.
“The land league revolution of the Irish people, their struggles to regain possession of the lands confiscated under Cromwellian settlement,—which was virtually continued during two hundred and fifty years,—is set forth in this book.... Parnell is, of course, Mr. Davitt’s hero; and the personal portraiture he gives is both interesting and valuable.”—Critic.
“He writes from a partisan viewpoint and, as might have been expected, makes no attempt to conceal his partisanship. Despite this fact he has done good service to contemporary history by the care he has bestowed on the documentary part of his exhaustive work.” E. P.
“Is of great value both as a record and as literature.”
*Dawson, Miles Menander.Business of life insurance.**$1.50. Barnes.
“Mr. Dawson writes as an actuary of long experience, addressing himself primarily to those holding or contemplating the purchase of life insurance. The comparative merits and defects of the various systems of insurance and forms of policy, the methods whereby rates are or should be fixed, the ‘schemes’ adopted by companies to increase their business—in short, almost every topic connected with the subject is discussed with a mingling of criticism, advice, and warning.”—Outlook.
*“Practical suggestive, and soundly informative, this book should find a wide audience.”
Dawson, Samuel E.Saint Lawrence, its basin and border-lands.*$1.35. Stokes.
“In orderly fashion and in often luminous phrase Dr. Dawson sets forth the story of the discovery, exploration, and occupation of the northeastern part of the North American continent. The text is accompanied by some good illustrations and by some especially good maps.”—Outlook.
“This learned Canadian not only enjoys a wide personal knowledge of the region he deals with but is likewise possessed of the critical faculty,which has enabled him to deal satisfactorily with a subject involving a good many disputed points.”
“His present volume is a critical and scholarly study of the most fruitful era of early North American exploration.” Cyrus C. Adams.
“This volume should appeal to the student of history and to the lover of romance.”
“It is a rare treat to read Dr. Dawson’s scholarly and delightful volume.”
Dawson, Thomas C.South American republics, pt. 2.**$1.35. Putnam.
“Descriptive rather than analytical,” this work presents “an excellent summary of the events leading up to the independence of the South American republics. The first volume, dealing with Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil, was written during the period when he [Mr. Dawson] was secretary of the United States legation to Brazil. During the interval between the appearance of the first and second volumes the author was appointed minister to Santo Domingo. This second volume deals with Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“His exposition of contemporary history is disappointing. There are too many names and dates and too few explanatory remarks. There is a tendency to dwell on the period of the conquest and to leave untouched the difficult business of untangling the innumerable revolutions of the past eighty years. Even as a collection of historical primers its value is seriously impaired by evidences of hasty or inaccurate compilation. To attempt to read the volume through is sufficiently confusing, but the publishers have not improved matters. The illustrations do not illustrate. Moreover, the maps are inadequate and out of date.” Hiram Bingham.
“The author has shown great skill in the presentation of the economic situation in compressing the history of eleven republics into two small volumes. In the presentation of the political situation the author has been careful to keep himself free from partisanship or bias. This work when read in connection with Stanford’s ‘Geographical compendium of South America,’ will furnish a clear-cut picture of the present situation in the South American republics.”
*“Excellent, useful, and most readable book. Mr. Dawson, however, largely owes the remarkable completeness of this work to his familiar acquaintance with the Spanish literature on the subject, and his great personal opportunities for compiling the history of the nineteenth century in South America.”
Dawson, W. J.Evangelistic note,*$1.25. Revell.
A book of addresses on evangelical topics by a man well known as a successful international revivalist. He resigned the pastorate of the Highburg quadrant church in England to enter a more evangelistic field, and his sermons defend liberal theology and set forth the value of his work.
“His sermons are models of manly appeal to the thinking people of to-day.”
“Among the various essays, addresses and sermons in the book the one which gives the whole its title is the best and most adequate, with the additional advantage of being written in clear, forceful, convincing English such as is seldom found in current literature.”
Dawson, William James.Makers of English fiction.*$1.50. Revell.
Dr. Dawson begins with Daniel Defoe and discusses the writers of novels of sentiment from Richardson to Fielding, and to Jane Austen, then he takes up the works of Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Charles Reade, Charles Kingsley, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, closing the book with chapters on “Religion in fiction” and a “Concluding survey.”
“He is a patient and systematic reader; his powers of analysis are considerable, his sympathies are broad, and he has, what is an extremely valuable gift, the historic sense.” E. C.
*“The book is well worth reading, as a comprehensive survey of a development, and as painstaking a work of criticism as has come to us for many a day.”
Day, Emily Foster.Menehunes.*75c. Elder.
A folklore tale of the Menehunes, the tiny dwarfs of Hawaii, illustrated by Spencer Wright.
Day, Thomas Fleming.Hints to young yacht skippers.$1. Rudder pub.
Mr. Day says this handbook is offered in response to many letters from boys and young men “asking for hints on all manner of subjects relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small yachts.” Being a practical sailor and yachtsman himself, he knows the necessity of the sort of information he compiles, in fact declares that had he owned such a book in the beginning, it would have saved him time, money, hard work and anxiety.
“The book is full of useful information.”
(Detailed statement of contents.)
Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank.Text book of sociology.*$1.30. Macmillan.
A text book founded upon the sociological writings of Dr. Ward, and especially upon his work, “Pure sociology.” This epitome is stamped with the same characteristics that are emphasized thruout Dr. Ward’s study, viz., the mastery of the impersonal tone over the human. “He carries from his work in physical science a certain abstractness of statement which is partly inseparable from all generalization, but which has the effect of holding the interpretation farther aloof from actual life than is desirable or necessary.” (Am. J. Soc.)
“Comes nearer than any predecessor to satisfying reasonable demands for an elementary textbook in general sociology.” Albion W. Small.
*“The abridgment has been excellently done.”
“It is therefore a wide field that is traversed here under the lead of a stimulating if not always convincing teacher.”
Decennial publications of the University of Chicago. 1st series, 10v.*$40. Univ. of Chicago press.
Ten imposing quarto volumes, well bound in red cloth, compose the first series of the Chicago university decennial publications and contain two volumes of reports and eight volumes of investigations, the latter consisting of a collection of articles representing the work of research of the several departments of the university, organized during the decennium. Vol. I and II contain President Harper’s report for the first ten years of the life of Chicago university; vol. III contains, part I, Systematic theology, Church history, Practical theology; part II, Philosophy, Education; vol. IV is devoted to Political economy, Political science, History, and Sociology; vol. V includes the Semitic languages and literature, Biblical and patristic Greek; vol. VI deals with the Greek language and literature, the Latin language and literature, Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology, classical archæology; vol. VII turns to the province of Romance languages and literatures, the Germanic languages and literatures and to English; vol. VIII invades the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics; vol. IX treats the subjects of Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology; and vol. X deals with Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, Neurology, Botany, Pathology, and Bacteriology.
“The whole series is a remarkable presentation of the intellectual activity which has prevailed at this youthful university during the brief period of its existence.”
Deecke, W.Italy: a popular account of the country, its people, and its institutions (including Malta and Sardinia); tr. by H. A. Nesbitt. $5. Macmillan.
A book which gives a German professor’s account of Italy. “Beginning with the boundaries of the country and the ancient attempts at geographical description, it proceeds to treat of the orography and general features of the surface, goes on to the geology and the climate, giving incidentally an account of the volcanic phenomena and touching briefly on the animals and plants. The various elements of the population are then described, with a short sketch of the history, and a fuller account of products, trade and manufactures, political institutions, finance, internal communications, and education, the church, language, and science, and a topographical description of various parts of the peninsula and the adjoining isles.” (Nation.)
“It is popular in the very best sense of the word. In the first place, it is comprehensive. In the second place, it is compact. The work is simply a marvel of condensation. In the third place, the book is exceedingly readable. The only adverse criticism we have is that the statistics are not quite up to the present, and the reader will want constantly to refer to later tables. But in other respects we do not know of another book on Italy at once so comprehensive, so accurate, and so interesting.”
“Is all done carefully and well.”
“That the book is dull is therefore not surprising; but that it is also full of errors is both surprising and inexcusable.”
“It is really nothing more than a compilation of the facts that may be found in condensed form in a half dozen well selected books.”
“When we turn to subjects wherein the element of time does not enter so immediately we find reason for little save praise.”
“An elaborate account of Italy, worked out with true German thoroughness. It covers pretty nearly every aspect in which the land and its inhabitants can be regarded. Taking the book as a whole, it is a careful and intelligent piece of work, clearly and simply written, and generally accurate. We have noted a certain number of errors in fact, but none of great importance, though there are some errors in nomenclature, and some mistakes in the accounts given of particular places. A book which amounts to an encyclopaedic description of Italy from so many points of view. The topographical part is really something between a gazetteer and a guidebook, fit to be used for reference rather than to be read continuously.”
Deeping, Warwick.Slanderers.†$1.50. Harper.
“Gabriel Strong is the son of a tea merchant ... is a dreamer, an idler.... Partly to please himself, partly to please his father, partly to save trouble, he makes love to and marries a fine sleek tiger-cat of a woman, and as soon as it is too late repents.” He finds that he loves the daughter of a miser, but swears to love this Joan only in spirit. “Meanwhile the sleek, handsome wife gets bored, goes off elsewhere, and the gossips of the village get busy with the greenwood meanderings of Gabriel and Joan. Hence the name of ‘The slanderers.’ ... They are the parson’s wife, the doctor’s wife, the members of the church guilds, and like fine charitable organizations. And these women are allowed no virtues at all to temper the malignity of their tongues and their feminine proneness to think evil of other people.” (N. Y. Times).
“The style is good and the texture of the English is durable.”
“Mr. Deeping is somewhat crass and crude in his methods with these slanderers. You get the idea that Mr. Deeping imagines religion is a mere cloak for hypocrisy, or a grindstone for sharp knives to slay the reputations of indiscreet idealists. Really the trouble with Mr. Deeping is the lack of enough humor to adjust his burning ethical sentiments, his opulent fleshly imaginings, to each other and to the meridian of average sanity. The story is dragged violently by the hair of its head into an ending which satisfies—if it does nothing else—the average reader’s supposed demand for a happy outcome, but it is distinctly disappointing in spite of patches of purple language.”
“Mr. Deeping’s tapestry has not acquired that soft glory which makes its best beauty. And as for the modern design, it is quite atrocious.”
“Many of his pages glow with genuine romantic beauty.”
Dekker, Eduard Douwes.(Multatuli, pseud.).Walter Pieterse: a story of Holland.$1.50. Friderici & Garies.
“Walter is in a way a Dutch ‘Sentimental Tommy,’ and the growth of his vivid imagination and literary aspiration among rather sordid surroundings and stolid people is told with minuteness and perhaps a little over-elaborated humor. ‘Multatuli’ is not exactly a Dutch Dickens, but he has some Dickensy qualities.”—Outlook.
“His story is immensely detailed and told in a bygone style of confidentialness, but a style highly animated and frequently witty. The translator, though a Ph. D., affronts style and even grammar at moments.”
“In fact, you may see in Dekker now touches of Fielding, now of Heine, (he has been called the Holland Heine), now the contemporary iconoclast. Bernard Shaw, whose hatred of ‘respectability’ he shares. Adherents of the new school of novelists, Ibsenites, &c., who are not already familiar with Dekker’s work will not regret a perusal of Mr. Evans’s rendering, nor will the more catholic seekers after real life in fiction—real, yet divorced from sentiment.”
De la Pasture, Mrs. Henry.Peter’s mother.†$1.50. Dutton.
“The realm of the wholesome commonplace” is chosen for this story. There is Peter’s widowed mother, Lady Mary, whose gentleness is contrasted with the tyrannical selfishness of her son; there is the brilliant Sarah who adores the mother, and to spare her the suffering inflicted by the caddish son, sets to work to wind the youth about her finger. How she succeeds forms one side of a story whose other phase deals with a middle-aged romance involving Lady Mary and two men—“one strong, serene, patient, understanding, the other with a passion so lofty as to sacrifice itself upon its own altar.”
“It is a delightful story, told with a certain distinction and much charm. The whole thing is in harmony.”
“This book is a good illustration of the fact that normal characters can be made interesting.”
“An excellent entertainment in which sentiment and humour are most agreeably blended.”
Deledda, Grazia.After the divorce.†$1.50. Holt.
The author, a young Sardinian, has written a sad story of Italian peasant life. The hero is condemned to twenty-seven years imprisonment for the murder of his uncle. During his confinement, before the confession of the real murderer frees him and establishes his innocence, his baby dies and his pretty young wife, who lacks both money and character, secures a divorce, under the new law which liberates the wife of a convict, and marries a wealthy lover whom she had once rejected. The story is a pitiful one, and when at last the two are reunited they are saddened, disillusioned, and their young happiness is gone forever.
“In style she is as simple and unaffected as Verga himself. She effaces herself almost wholly, she makes you see the primitive life of her little island almost as vividly as though you were there in person.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The translation appears competent and sympathetic.”
“As a picture of peasant characteristics and modes of thought it is perfect.”
“As a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the book is a failure; as a manifesto against divorce, it might be adopted by all good Catholics.”
“It is a human story, and the fact that it apparently has lost something in the translation does not alter the fact that it is still well worth reading.”
“The translator has apparently preserved the color and flavor of the original; her chief fault is a too slavish following.”
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.Breaking the wilderness: the story of the conquest of the far West.**$3.50. Putnam.
It is the aim of this book to “present a review in chronological order of the important events which contributed to breaking the wilderness that so long lay untamed west of the Mississippi, mentioning with as much detail as possible in a single popular volume the principal persons and happenings in proper sequence, but paying special attention to the trapper and trader element, which, more than any other, dispelled the mysteries of the vast region.”
“Barring the deficiencies which mar its critical value, Mr. Dellenbaugh has produced a fairly satisfactory work.” Isaac Joslin Cox.
“The greatest interest of the book will probably be found to lie in the innumerable and fully authenticated tales of trappers and traders with which its pages abound.”
“In most, if not all, respects Mr. Dellenbaugh’s book is admirable. The text is a rare combination of history, observation and story telling, and it is beautifully illustrated. The ‘breaking of the wilderness,’ the once savage region west of the Mississippi, by explorer, fighter, trapper and settler is pictured to us as by a vitascope.”
“Is naturally one of great interest and value.”
“The chief value of Mr. Dellenbaugh’s work is the presentation of the chronological review of Western exploration in unbroken sequence.”
“His style is too abrupt, and the separate phases of the history have the appearance of being thrown together.”
*Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.).Violin maker; trans, by Sara Trainer Smith. 45c. Benziger.
The story of the gentle, pious Matthias Klotz, son of a poor tailor of Mittenwald, of how he herded his father’s goats and how Jacob Strainer found him, discovered his ambition to become a violin maker, and took him away to his own school at Absam. From him Matthias went to other masters in Italy, and after years of faithful work returned to his father and his old home and founded his own celebrated school in Mittenwald.
Dent, Edward J.Alessandro Scarlatti: his life and works.*$3.50. Longmans.
“An ambitious work dealing with the Neapolitan composer.... Without blind adoration of his hero, he has brought himself into thorough sympathy with Scarlatti’s personality, and has studied all his circumstances and his relations to Italian art.”—Acad.
“Appreciation of Mr. Dent’s adventurous excursion into a new path is called for by the attempt as such, and the result of his labours is a handsome volume which should find a place in every music-lover’s library. Accuracy, not elegance of style, has been aimed at, yet there are occasional sentences where Mr. Dent has endeavoured to impart interest to the manner as well as the matter.”
*“A work of high importance, which must be accepted as the standard authority on the life and writings of the Verdi of his time.” W. J. Henderson.
“An exhaustive study at first hand from original documents and scores.” Richard Aldrich.
De Pue, Edward Spence.Dr. Nicholas Stone.†$1.50. Dillingham.
An exciting detective story in which Dr. Stone and the Pacific coast manager of a great life insurance company discover that several policy holders have been skilfully murdered. Their investigations bring them thrilling adventures in the Chinese quarter, Dr. Stone narrowly escapes cremation; but they relentlessly follow the strange evidence of strange drugs until they discover the criminal, a wealthy and respectedold man, who devises unusual methods of murder for the mere joy of achievement without detection, letting the life insurance money go to an accomplice. There is also a love interest.
“To those who crave in the reading the temporary excitement that attends the perusal of a story filled with murders and murder plots, the detection of crimes in spite of highly scientific methods employed to divert suspicion, and the tragic self-death of the murderer when he discovers that his deeds are known, this book may possess interest.”
De Selincourt, Beryl D.Home of the first Franciscans in Umbria, the borders of Tuscany and the Northern Marches.*$1.50. Dutton.
“The author describes Assisi, the district of Lake Thrasymene, Monte Casale, and Vallingegno, two Umbrian solitudes, the valley of Rieti, the Marches and La Verna. She has also written an introduction in which she touches on the influence of the personality and temperament of St. Francis, of the places to which he retreated. The thirteen half-tone illustrations are reproductions of photographs taken by Mildred Bicknell.”—N. Y. Times.
“Discriminating and sympathetic introduction. Mrs. de Selincourt’s style, in any liberal spirit of criticism, is of a high average.”
“A successful attempt to show to what a degree the character and teachings of St. Francis of Assisi were shaped and illustrated by his surroundings.”
“A manifest labor of love.”
“Shows much diligence and contains some interesting and out-of-the-way information.”
“The book is full of beauty and pathos, but it leaves us with but a vague idea of what St. Francis really thought.”
Deutsch, Leo.Sixteen years in Siberia, tr. by Helen Chisholm. $3. Dutton.
A new and cheaper edition of “this well-written and convincing account of penal methods and conditions in Siberia by one who has known them to his cost ... the new edition contains ... a preface, in which the translator seeks to estimate the influence of recent events in giving impetus to the reform movement in Russia” and “an appendix, ... a reply by Count von Bülow to a Reichstaginterpellationconcerning the Königsberg trial of last July, when certain German subjects were prosecuted for smuggling revolutionary literature into Russia.” (Outlook.)
“The volume deserves a wide reading.”
“Very interesting and informing book.”
Devine, Edward T.Principles of relief.**$2. Macmillan.
Dr. Devine’s experience as general secretary of the New York charity organization society has put him in vital touch with the practical aspects of a great cause. His convincing treatment is arranged under four heads: Part I “is a strong, clear, logical presentation of the essential ‘principles of relief.’ The fundamental and most fruitful idea of this discussion is that there is a normal standard of living which can be known and approximately measured, and that all relief work is to be judged by its success in aiding social debtors to find their place in a normal and well-balanced life.... In Part II is printed a most interesting and instructive collection of typical relief problems.... Part III is a sketch of certain aspects of relief. Part IV gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am. J. Soc.)
“While a certain amount of repetition of thoughts already published was inevitable in a systematic treatise, every chapter and paragraph has its justification. Looking back over the literature of charity produced during the last twenty years in America, we are bound to place this volume in the very front rank, with few companions in the specific field; and we must regard it as indispensable to the serious student of the general subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
“In it are brought to consciousness, perhaps for the first time fully, the underlying principles on which the charity organization society movement is based. Moreover it undertakes to give a comprehensive statement of the elementary principles upon which all relief giving, whether public or private, should rest; and it correlates these principles with the general facts of economics and sociology in such a way as to leave no doubt in the mind of the reader that the author has mastered his subject. The point of view of the book is constructive throughout; and it is safe to say that for many years to come it will be, both for the practical worker and for the scientific student, the authoritative work upon the ‘principles of relief.’ I cannot help feeling, after careful reading, that the book shows too much the bias of the author’s personal field of labor. Its point of view is too exclusively that of the charity organization society worker.” Charles A. Ellwood.
“No one who is interested either historically or practically in the subject of charity can afford to neglect this volume.” Winthrop More Daniels.
“The book will help us to give a quantitative value to our vague notions about the standard of living and the minimum wage; and no writer has applied this definite standard to the methods of poor relief more thoroughly. Especially valuable to a student is the analysis of typical relief problems, which enables one to arrive at principles of relief much as a study of court decisions takes one to the heart of legal principles. The work will be recognized as one of the chief contributions on this vital subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
“The book as a whole will be a standard to all charity workers and professional philanthropists, but while not exactly over technical it is too heavy for the average reader, and will probably not interest him to any great extent.”
“While Mr. Devine’s statement of principles is not very lucid, his practical suggestions are instructive.”
“The first [volume] stirs the sympathies and supplies the motives for Christian charity; the second broadens the horizon and shows the problem in its world aspects; the third gives the practical and, so far as we can judge, wise counsel in dealing with the problem as it presents itself in American cities.”
“Dr. Devine’s book is a manual at once of theory and of practice.”
“Aside from these few passages [pp. 12, 13, 462], which appear somewhat visionary, the book is eminently sane and practical.” David I. Green.
Devins, John Bancroft.Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.
This report is the result of two months’ careful investigation in Luzon. It gives interesting notes of travel and fully covers the social, political and religious field. It tells what American missionaries are doing and shows that many of the Americans in the Philippines are of a type as greatly in need of missionaries as the Filipinos themselves.
“Dr. Devins’s book is non-discriminating and simple-minded in a high degree.” H. Parker Willis.
“Has included in his volume much useful information and much matter interesting and entertaining for one reason and another.”
Dexter, Edwin Grant.History of education in the United States.**$2. Macmillan.
The work comprises in less than seven hundred pages of text “a survey of education in this country from the landing of the Cavaliers and of the Puritans to the opening of the twentieth century, including in it an historical survey and an analysis of contemporary conditions of education in every state in the Union, of every stage of education from kindergarten to popular lecture courses for adults, and of every phase of educational activity from an account of early schoolbooks to newspapers and periodicals of the various periods, the publication of learned societies and the work of libraries.... The general organization of the work is into three parts: the growth of the people’s schools, higher and special education, and educational extension.” (Educ. R.)
“This book is very attractive in its make-up, but it will prove disappointing to those who hold that the history of education should be history. The declared purpose of the author is to present a mass of fact rather than discussions of historical trend. But instances are far too numerous in which the fact is not even fact.” Elmer Ellsworth Brown.
“To compress so much in one volume is a task of no small magnitude, and to say that Professor Dexter has done this with excellent judgment and discrimination is only to give due praise. It is no detraction from the character of the text to say that the most valuable feature of the work is the elaborate bibliography at the end of each chapter and the marginal references which are to be found on every page.”
“The best work of its class yet published. So far as it goes, it is most thoroughly and skilfully done.”
“The handling of statistics is skilfully done. There is no unity, whole episodes in the history of education are absent, as are also the majority of the important personalities. A more accurate title would have been ‘A historical encyclopedia of American education.’” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
“The merits of this book are those of comprehensiveness, organization, accurate analysis and classification, and excellent selection of the material to be included in a single volume dealing with so extended a subject; its demerits are an unfortunate lack of accuracy in many details, not all of them unimportant, and a tendency ... to accept stereotyped generalizations without adducing facts to support them, and the omission of any attempt to interpretation. No other single work, of even more than one volume, has ever attempted so much, so that there is little basis for comparison, and little room for criticism, so helpful is the general result. It is easily first of treatises upon the subject.” Paul Monroe.