“A work of truly encyclopedic comprehensiveness, but nevertheless readable.”
Dexter, Edwin Grant.Weather influences; an empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions.**$2. Macmillan.
A monograph based upon a series of investigations of the committees of New York and Denver, and the effects of the weather changes of their divergent climates, upon their inhabitants. A comparison of the school, criminal, hospital, mortuary, and other records with the meteorological charts of the weather bureau gives the principal data for statistics as to the effect of wind and weather upon disease, drunkenness, insanity, crime, suicide, natural depravity of school children, errors of bank officials, etc.
Reviewed by E. T. B.
Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton.England and Holland of the Pilgrims.**$3.50. Houghton.
“The history of the Mayflower ‘Pilgrims’ is an important part of the history of the Protestant reformation in England.... Their most eminent historian was the late Dr. Dexter. The present volume, left unfinished at his death, completes their history by a full account of the environment and experience in which the reforming movement slowly struggled and groped towards the decisive venture, by which the door was opened at Plymouth rock to its great success.... Dr. Dexter’s draft of history, rewritten and edited by his son after further researches in England and Holland, now stands in a completeness to which it is likely that little can be added.”—Outlook.
*“It is a book made by bookmen. Sometimes, as we read, our vision is obstructed; we cannot see the forest on account of the trees. The grand human story seems lost in a mass of antiquarian detail.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
“A loving hand and diligent investigation of the original sources of information to the minutest details are apparent throughout the work.”
Dicey, A. V.Law and opinion in England.*$3. Macmillan.
Professor Dicey “lays bare to the general reader the dominating influences, intellectual and moral, which characterize the general body of law-making or operating to change it.” (Ath.) “His careful soundings and observations lead him to mark on his chart of the nineteenth century three main currents—the first, the period of old Toryism or legislative quiescence extending from 1800-1830; ... the second is designated as the period of Benthamism or individualism; ... the third is described as the period of ‘collectivism,’—the growth of opinion ‘which favors the intervention of the State even at some sacrifice of individual freedom.’” (Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Dicey adds a familiarity with English literature and a simplicity of style in dealing with the most intricate topics and summarising the most extensive developments that will save his work from being relegated to the shelves of law libraries alone.” Robert C. Brooks.
“A masterly exposition of the forces which have promoted the course of our modern legislation and a penetrating analysis of the counter-currents and cross-currents of opinion which have delayed or diverted it.” R.
“This is a careful examination of a complex subject.”
“We know no better piece of work of its kind.”
“His chapter on judicial legislation—a most difficult subject—is a model.”
“A work of unusual incisiveness and value.”
“We get a history of public opinion from a special point of view, and if it is far from being a history of opinion in its wider aspects during the nineteenth century, it deals with sufficient breadth and in sufficient detail with opinion as it affects the practical interests dealt with by legislation. Much of the best reading in Professor Dicey’s book consists of personal sketches.”
“Granted the difficulty of the subject, it may be fairly said that there is no other living scholar who could have handled it in a style so masterly and yet so attractive. Like all Professor Dicey’s books, it is easy to read, and the simplicity and orderliness of the narrative disguise the labour and thought involved in its preparation. There is no novel dogma propounded, but an accepted doctrine is brilliantly worked out in detail. For anyone who wishes a guide to that difficult thing, the intellectual life of a nation, we can imagine no more lucid and stimulating handbook.”
Dick, Stewart.Arts and crafts of old Japan.**$1.20. McClurg.
“If we would understand Japanese art we must accept the conventions,” says the author. The sympathetic attitude which grows out of a careful survey of the forces of Japanese development is necessary for connoisseur and beginner alike. Painting, color printing, sculpture and carving, metal work, keramics, lacquer, and landscape gardening and the arrangement of flowers are covered in the treatment.
“It is by far the best short introduction to the subject of which it treats that has yet appeared.”
*“He talks entertainingly and correctly, and yet rather as a student and reader in Europe, than as an observer in Japan itself.”
Dickberry, F.Storm of London. $1.50. Turner, H. B.
The earl of Somerville, weary of purposeless social life, decides upon suicide one night during a violent storm. When he awakens he looks upon a London from which every vestige of clothes and furniture had been swept away thus removing all outward signs of social distinction. “Yet even when we recognize that the book is in a way an allegory, and a satire upon the shams of modern life, nothing can alter the fact that here is a story which, chapter after chapter, pictures the fashionable life of London, the crowds in the street, the dinners and receptions and public functions, all thronged with men and women in the garb of Adam and Eve before the fall.” (Bookm.)
“The volume may have a certain incisive irony, but it is sadly deficient in good taste.”
“An elaborate and tiresome extravaganza, in which the author handles the idea of an unclothed society with cumbrous and offensive satire. There is enough ability in the book to suggest that the writer might do something better.”
“It is worth reading. It is undeniably smart.”
Dickens, Charles.Christmas carol, and Cricket on the hearth. $2. Baker.
The illustrations of George Alfred Williams add much to this very attractive edition of the two Dickens’ stories which have come to be perennially a part of the holiday season.
*“On the whole it is an excellent book to put into the hands of young people who are nevertheless old enough to appreciate the qualities both of literary and artistic workmanship.”
Dickens, Charles.Tale of two cities.$1.25. Crowell.
Dickens’ “popular and picturesque” and thoroly authentic aid to the understanding of the terrible days of the French Revolution has ever taken its place beside the histories. This reprint is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”
*Dickens, Charles.Tales from Dickens, ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives.†$1.50. Bobbs.
A short cut to the best selections from the best of Dickens’ works has been provided here for the uninitiated Dickens reader as well as the Dickens lover who desires to refresh his memory. On an average of four or five tales have been taken from each story, and many characteristic drawings reproduced.
*Dickerson, Mary Angela.Wonderful wishes of Jacky and Jean.†$1. Wessels.
The story of two children who had a fairy sparrow that made wishes realities for them. But the sport had trials too which mingle with the wonders of the tale.
Dickerson, Mary C.Moths and butterflies.*$1.25. Ginn.
An elementary text-book for use in the upper grammar grades and lower high school classes. The life histories of eighteen moths and nine butterflies are given in parts 1 and 2. Part 3 is devoted to Relationship—practical suggestions. There is also a chapter on how to collect, keep, and study moths, butterflies and caterpillars. The book contains a glossary, an index and over 200 photographs made from life, by the author.
“It will be found a very useful book for the nature study library in schools and for private ownership by pupils of the upper grammar and high school grades.”
“A great deal of useful general information is given in the book, and it seems on the whole to be careful and accurate.”
“None more suitable from thoroughness of treatment, photographic illustration, and moderate price to do its work in the schools for which it was intended.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
“The work is untechnical, and well adapted to cultivate the intelligent minds of young persons in America.”
Dickinson, Edward.Study of the history of music; with an annotated guide to music literature.**$2.50. Scribner.
An aid to the understanding of musical history and criticism prepared by the professor of the history of music at Oberlin. “This volume is intended to clear the way by indicating the problems, the method and the materials” necessary for the study; further, “the narrative and critical portions give a terse and comprehensive summary of music history, show what are the important subjects involved and their connections and relations. The bibliographical sections lead the student to the best critical commentaries in the English language on every phase and detail of the subject.”
“His book is certainly almost unique in its clearness of statement and general usefulness; it is a marvel of condensed information.”
“There is nothing else in English that is comparable in completeness and suggestiveness for students of musical history.” Richard Aldrich.
“We know of no short history of music which is its equal. This volume is about equally valuable for reading, for study, and for reference.”
“A very thorough and illuminating work on the development of music. The biographical and explanatory notes to this volume are very valuable, supplying, with the text, a consecutive narrative of the history of music.”
*Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.Modern symposium.**$1. McClure.
“This purports to be an account of a meeting of philosophers representing all the various political and social systems of the world. The Conservative, the Radical, the Socialist, the Anarchist, the Scientist, the Poet, and many more, each pleads his own cause. The closing speaker, noted simply as a man of letters, distinctly represents Mr. Dickinson’s theories of life, and attempts to sum up all the virtues of all the other systems.”—Dial.
*“The charm of his style adds a pleasing force to his arguments.”
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.Religion: a criticism and a forecast.**50c. McClure.
An attempt to discover a religious ideal that can be accepted by the logically constituted mind of modern man, which involves a keen, reverential analysis of the virtues and failings of established religions.
“Not merely is the writer a man of genius; not merely is he master of a style which seems to sweep the whole gamut of human emotion, and to make language rise and fall like the notes of a violin; but he has written a book which should make many think. Its importance lies in its object.”
“Mr. Dickinson is especially happy in stating certain general attitudes of mind in order to give us a clear glimpse of where we or others stand in so important a subject as religion.”
*“These articles were frank and definite discussions of the relation of religion to knowledge. Mr. Dickinson has a clear and suggestive style.”
Dickson, Harris.Ravanels. (†)$1.50. Lippincott.
The setting of this story is the South just after the reconstruction period, and its hero haunted by the memory of his father’s murder in those troublous times, feels called upon to avenge it. But his revenge is not sweet, for he is overwhelmed with the horror of his deed, and is only saved from insanity by the soothing influence of the girl he loves.
“Is even better than his first novel.”
“The novel has both strength and character, besides a romantic plot of much dramatic interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
“While Mr. Dickson possesses a peculiarly charming literary style and a gift for portraying genial human qualities, he has blundered in the symmetry of his story.”
“The tragedy of the story is admirably mellowed with its pathos. The characters are skillfully drawn and a genuine depth of interest is aroused which never flags until the books ends, amid all its sorrows, with happiness and cheer.”
“A dramatic and skilfully written romance of the South, exceptional for the conspicuous absence of all reference to the issues usually raised in novels of this section.”
“Is an interesting story, well told, which holds the reader’s attention to the end.”
“The book contains one of the best trial scenes in recent fiction.”
Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong.Book of the spiritual life, with a memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke.*$3. Dutton.
The larger part of this volume is taken up with the memoirs of Lady Dilke by her second husband. “It shows her as a girl, as an art student, as the wife of Mark Pattison, and the correspondent of many eminent persons, as an art critic, and as the cultured and kind friend of young people and of all movements for the amelioration of human life. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... is a series of Lady Dilke’s mature reflections on the problems of existence and our duty as sojourners here.”—Lond. Times.
“Not even her work, however, remarkable as it was, and in so many spheres of art and thought, will erect in the future such a monument to Lady Dilke as that raised to her by her husband in the brief memoir which precedes ‘The book of the spiritual life.’”
“Sir Charles Dilke, in writing the memoir, has accomplished his difficult task with tact and dignity.”
“The little memoir ... is a model of what such work should be—informing, sympathetic, and restrained. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... gives evidence of wide reading and a sympathetic outlook.”
“The memoir dwells (naturally) much upon spiritual and literary aspects, and will be found dull by readers who are not already immensely interested in the woman which it commemorates.”
“To come into appreciative touch with such a life as hers is to receive an inspiration.”
Dill, Samuel.Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius.*$4. Macmillan.
“Prof. Samuel Dill, in his new volume ... deals principally with the inner moral life of the time, and gives very little space to its external history and the machinery of government. He treats at some length of the relation of the senateto the emperor in the first century, and the organization of the municipal towns. He also gives a complete survey of the literature and inscriptions of the period.” (N. Y. Times). Each page is supplied with explanatory and reference notes.
“He has mastered with praiseworthy assiduity every authority on his subject, old and new. Yet, though this material is ample, the author makes no attempt to co-ordinate it in such a way as to give the reader a picture of the age as a whole, and of the great psychological laws which governed its development.”
“In view of the great importance of this book, and the certainty that it will be regarded as the best work on this period in English, we have taken some trouble to collect matter which will help towards its improvement.”
“Taking the volume as a whole, Professor Dill’s Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius must, it seems to me, occupy a place in the first rank of the histories of social life. That place is secured for it by the sanity of its judgments on social phenomena, by the vigour of its not-faultless literary style, and by its very great learning.” Henry Jones.
“Nowhere else can so full and true an account be found of the conditions of Roman society at this time as in this admirable book.”
“And, aside from its inherent importance, its thoughts are so lucidly and attractively expressed that no intelligent reader, whether a Latinist or not, can fail to find it pleasant reading.”
“There is an almost incredible richness and fulness of detail, and yet it is so presented that an intelligible and well-proportioned picture is the result.”
“Professor Dill has laid under lasting obligation those readers who seek to understand the inner life and moral condition as well as the political and external affairs of a given period. While Professor Dill’s prescribed limitation seems to forestall criticism, the question can hardly be repressed whether his picture of society in pagan Rome is quite complete without mention of the great regenerative force which was gathering strength within its bosom and advancing through bitter conflict to victory.”
“This is preëminently a book for scholars.”
“His style is rather that of an essayist than of an historian, and he lacks that precision, that careful explicitness, and, above all, that direct citation of authorities which in a learned work are indispensable, while in the selection and use of his materials he often disappoints our hopes. Mr. Dill has learning, industry, and, as numerous passages show, a brilliant pen. If his separate chapters had been published as single essays, they would most of them, we think, have been justly considered excellent. They are rich in what is interesting and delightful.”
“The author’s literary skill has enabled him even to make the dry bones of the inscriptions part and parcel of the literature of the period, with which he is indisputably more familiar than any other Englishman living. A work that deserves to rank with Lecky’s ‘History of European morals.’”
Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope.Samuel de Champlain. $5. Morang & co.
“For material, M. Dionne has gone chiefly to Champlain’s own writings and to the reports of missionaries. Designed as a contribution to a popular series [“Makers of Canada”] we do not meet in this book with any long discussion of disputed or technical points; but M. Dionne takes time to consider large issues such as the expediency of Champlain’s attack upon the Iroquois, and is not prevented from breaking a lance at intervals with Faillon. For us the most interesting portion of the narrative is concerned with the taking of Quebec by the English in 1629.”—Nation.
“We do not think that Mr. Dionne praises him too highly in a volume in which the only serious fault we detect is a certain lack of sequence.”
“These and all cognate topics are dealt with by M. Dionne with both sympathy and information.”
Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.Picturesque English cottages.**$2. Winston.
To “Old cottages and domestic architecture in southwest Surrey,” and “The old cottages, farm houses and other stone buildings of the Cotswold district” “must now be added Mr. Ditchfield’s ‘Picturesque English cottages,’ less technical than the others, equally well illustrated, and covering the field more broadly.... The text, covering as it does such subjects as methods of construction, influence of material, the evolution of the cottage, foreign influence upon it, the cottage garden and its flowers, is entertaining, and by no means too technical for the uninstructed reader.” (Nation.)
“Were it not for its binding, the book would be wholly without blemish. So tasteless, so utterly inappropriate a cover.”
Dix, Beulah Marie.Fair maid of Graystones.†$1.50. Macmillan.
Graystones is a great country house in Suffolkshire, and the action takes place in the time of Cromwell after the surrender of the Cavalier stronghold of Colchester to the Parliamentary forces. The story opens upon a group of Cavalier prisoners. “The hero, Jack Hetherington, prisoner, is fighting a big Roundhead for kicking a dying Cavalier.... All through the brilliantly told tale, Jack fights his way against great odds. He weds the Fair Maid, a neglected orphan, dependent of a great family, and the two young things go out penniless to seek a home.” (Outlook.)
*“The plot, which hinges on a case of mistaken identity, is ingenious, if scarcely probable, and the interest fresh and well sustained.”
*“The story reads agreeably, and adds another leaf to its author’s wreath of laurel.”
*“There is not much history to trouble about ... but there is good style here, and lively characterization in Miss Dix’s now known manner.”
“While there is nothing extraordinary about the plot, it has no tinge of the commonplace, and it is handled with so high an appreciation of artistic values and human interest that one wishes there were more writers like Miss Dix.”
Dixon, Amzi Clarence.Lights and shadows of American life. William H. Smith, 25 Stanhope St., Boston.
Christian talks which will find favor in many Christian homes because they combine orthodox thought, humorous expression, and broad common sense. Such subjects as: Our homes; Our money makers; Our boys and girls; Our amusements; Our Sabbath; Our politics; Our churches; and Our destiny, are discussed.
Dixon, Thomas, jr.Clansman.†$1.50. Doubleday.
“The clansman” is the second book of Mr. Dixon’s trio of historical novels. The first, “The leopard’s spots,” as the author states in his preface, “was the statement in historical outline of the condition of the negro from the enfranchisement to the disfranchisement.” “The clansman” is the sequel, and “develops the true story of the Ku Klux Klan which overturned the revolution régime.” The great issues of the reconstruction period create a giant force which the dignity and strength of Lincoln grapple with for a brief period, and which the evil genius of “The great commoner,” Austin Stoneman, Thaddeus Stevens in thin disguise, dominates thruout the story. Congress’ policy of revenge towards the new South, the impeachment of Johnson, the radical faction’s determination to bestow civic rights upon negroes, the resulting reign of terror in the South under the sway of negroes and carpetbaggers, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan provide stirring scenes thru which runs a double love story.
“The clansman may be summed up as a very poor novel, a very ridiculous novel, not a novel at all, yet a novel with a great deal to it; a novel that very properly is going to interest many thousands of readers, of all degrees of taste and education, a book which will be discussed from all points of view, voted superlatively good and superlatively bad, but which will be read.” F. Dredd.
“One reads not far in the present volume until he is convinced that Mr. Dixon is not to be waved aside as a mere argumentative pamphleteer, but that he has in him literary possibilities of a high order. The advance from the crudities of ‘The leopard’s spots’ is marked, and is seen in every feature.” W. H. Johnson.
“Book shows from beginning to end the effort of an unscrupulous partisan to become an artist. The story appears to have been got out of the Congressional Record and pieced together with two or three charming love affairs.”
“A thrilling romance. It is by no means equally certain that the book paints in any too vivid colors the chaos of blind passion that in the North followed Lincoln’s assassination or the reign of terror that resulted in the South.”
“Deliberately uses such talent as he has to arouse the worst passions in his readers. There is less vulgarity in the story than might be expected, but restraint has not yet done its full work. The best men, both North and South, will turn from this repellant portrayal of our country and our countrymen.”
“The dramatic intensity, the color, the incisiveness of Mr. Dixon’s style. It is in the expression of personal opinion, and the characterization of individuals that the strong partisan bias of the book is most plain. Three-fourths of the book are given up to the epoch-making events and radical legislation, that prepared the way for the Ku Klux Klan. ‘The clansman’ consists of a bitter arraignment of Thaddeus Stevens, some vivid portrayals of great scenes, some impassioned pleading, and a modicum of fiction. As a novel it may reinforce, but it will not displace the more artistic presentment of the reconstruction period that another Southerner has given us in ‘Red rock.’”
“Mr. Dixon ... is so impressed with the tremendous interest of his country’s history that he has lost his sense of perspective.”
Dixon, Thomas, jr.Life worth living.**$1.20. Doubleday.
This group of essays and papers sets forth the beauties of nature and the joys of country life. The opening chapter, Dreams and disillusions shows the “horrors of city life”; there are other chapters upon such subjects as—The music of the seasons, The fellowship of dogs, Some sins of nature, The shouts of children, In the haunts of wild fowl, and What is life?
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
“It is not often we are given such an insight into a public man’s private life.”
Dods, Rev. Marcus.Bible, its origin and nature.**$1. Scribner.
“This is the first volume published on the foundation which Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, provided in 1879, with a view to the defense of ‘the religion of the Bible ... as commonly received in the Presbyterian and other evangelical churches.’” (Outlook.) It contains the lectures given at Lake Forest college in May, 1904.
*“The book is a polemic, but a gracious polemic.”
“His work will be of service in disarming prejudice and allaying fears as to the critical study of the Bible.”
“What is peculiar to himself is the clarity of exposition, the brightness of sympathy, the sound sanity and sincerity of his treatment of a subject which more than anything lends itself to exaggeration and lip service.”
“He states his argument with great ability, and meets objectors with ingenuity and skill.”
Dole, Nathan Haskell.comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.
A companion volume to the author’s “Greek poets.” There have been included Latin poets from Plautus and Terence to Juvenal and Lucian. A sketch of each poet’s life followed by representative selections from his works, bringing together material for a complete survey of Roman literature.
*“As far as the originals are concerned, the selections are excellently made, but the versions are very uneven, and had to be.”
“It is, however, a charming collection in which few will miss any favorites.”
Dolly Winter: the letters of a friend which Joseph Harold is permitted to publish.†$1.25. Pott.
Letters from the hero to his friends give the romance of a man of the world who, while temporarily following the simple life in a secluded village, becomes interested in Dolly, whose mother as a result of ill doing, is insane.
“The letters are written in a graceful style and unfold a romantic story with much keenness of wit and other elements of the now almost lost art of letter writing.”
“An innocuous tale upon well-worn lines.”
Donne, William Bodham.William Bodham Donne and his friends; ed. by Catharine B. Johnson.*$3. Dutton.
“A volume of letters to and from ‘William Bodham Donne and his friends,’ ed. by Donne’s granddaughter, Catherine B. Johnson.... The letters selected attempt to give a connected idea of W. B. Donne’s life and to illustrate his character.... [He] numbered among his ‘friends’ the best-known literary personages of his day.... There are 16 illustrations, including portraits of William Bodham Donne, Fanny Kemble, FitzGerald, John Mitchell Kemble, Trench, Bernard Barton, Blakesley, and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“Considering the difficulty of the task before her, Mrs. Johnson has succeeded remarkably well.”
“Most of the letters in this book were written by Donne, but a great many were written to him, and it is hard to say which are the more interesting.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
“The workmanship of both editor and printer is good.” Percy F. Bicknell.
*“Miss Johnson has done her part admirably in editing the letters.”
“It is altogether a model of what such a record should be.”
“They are the letters of a true literary man, letters that are worth the permanent form in which they are now embodied.”
“These letters of Donne and his friends ... form a worthy memorial of him.”
Donnell, Annie Hamilton.Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in color by Mary Shippen Green.†$1.50. Harper.
Rebecca Mary, a little New England girl, figures thru these sketches. She lives with a prim severe aunt with whom she possesses in common certain family traits. “Being a Plummer meant a great deal. It meant that by no chance must one ever display any of the emotions that one experiences. Neither must one ever show one’s affection; one must have courage to do what is right, no matter how unpleasant; one must be conscientious to a fault, and above all one must do one’s duty if it kills one.” (N. Y. Times.)
“On the whole, Rebecca Mary is worth knowing.”
*“There is no doubt that Rebecca will find her niche in the affections of readers beside that occupied by the immortal Emmy Lou.”
*“A charming study of child life.”
Dopp, Katharine Elizabeth.Place of industries in elementary education.*$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
In this third edition a chapter upon “Ways of procuring a material equipment” and “Ways of using it so as to enhance the value of colonial history” is added in order to make the book serviceable as a teacher’s manual. The chapters are entitled—Significance of industrial epochs, Origins of attitudes that underlie industry, and Practical applications. The illustrations are from photographs.
“The most suggestive single work that can be placed in the hands of teachers.” W. I. Thomas.
“It is a great satisfaction to meet with a book that moves along an unbeaten path to new points of view on current problems. Such a book is this.”
Dorman, Marcus R. P.History of the British empire in the 19th century, v. 2. The campaigns of Wellington and the policy of Castlereagh (1806-1825).*$4. Lippincott.
“A consecutive account of British foreign and domestic policy.... Mr. Dorman pays little attention to affairs in France and central Europe. His point of view is always British and his desire is to elucidate the part played by British statesmen and soldiers in continental affairs.... He introduces a considerable body of new information drawn from the correspondence of British representatives in other countries. He throws light on the Welcheren expedition, on the part played by General Chitroff in betraying information to the British government, on the negotiations between Alexander and Napoleon in 1811, and on the position of Prussia in February, 1812.... The second portion of the history, dealing with the period from 1815 to 1825, is chiefly concerned with the policy of Castlereagh.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The attitude assumed throughout is that of a fair-minded and impartial narrator.” Charles M. Andrews.
Dorsey, George Amos.Mythology of the Wichita. $1.50. Carnegie inst.
A volume “collected under the auspices of the Carnegie institution by the Curator of anthropology of the Field Columbian museum of Chicago.... In this collection are sixty myths. The author has written an introductory chapter of twenty-four pages, telling of the history and social life of the Wichita, a group of the Caddoan stock who have stood high among the Indians as regards home life and morality.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
Dorsey, George Amos,ed. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee.*$6. Pub. for the American folklore society by Houghton.
“As a faithful narrator, Mr. Dorsey translates the indecorous into Latin. The stories he divides into several groups, the ‘Cosmogonous,’ the ‘Boy heroes,’ ‘Medicin,’ ‘Animal tales’; then comes ‘People marry animals or become animals.’ Then there are many stories which are placed under the general heading of ‘Miscellaneous.’ ... The Pawnee delighted in boy heroes.... Indian maidens figure as heroines. A fairly ideal one is ‘the girl who married a star.’ ... The coyote figures in many of the traditions.... The Pawnees have also their medicine bundles. Some of these bundles are believed to have the power of inducing rain to fall.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by Frederick Starr.
“The book is a very important contribution to American folk lore.”
“The notes at the conclusion of this volume add very much to one’s comprehension of the folk-lore of the Pawnees.”
Doub, William Coligny.History of the United States.*$1. Macmillan.
To show that civics forms an integral part of the history of a nation, Professor Doub combines the two subjects in one text, doing away with the necessity of separate books.