Gosse, Edmund William.Coventry Patmore.**$1. Scribner.
This fourth volume of the “Literary lives series,” contains a sketch of the poet’s life by one who knew him well in his later years. There is an account of his childhood, his life in London, and his later years, with a description of his personality, his work, and an estimate of his place in the world of letters.
“His volume is not without its limitations. But it is, on the whole, able, at times brilliant. Among Mr. Gosse’s faults dulness has no place. His book shows discriminating taste.”
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
“Mr. Gosse’s biography is highly interesting; explaining much that is mysterious in Patmore’s poetry through the strange personality of the poet, the biographer adds something of distinct value to the critical estimate. But his conclusions are at least open to debate.”
“Though he says too little about Patmore’s prose essays, which have singular merits of style, his attractive little volume, with its excellent illustrations, can be recommended to all to whom the more exhaustive Life by Mr. Champneys is not accessible.”
“A delightful little book.”
“A well-balanced and interesting biography. There is a careful, sympathetic, but entirely clear-sighted estimate of Patmore’s poetic gifts and of the value of his work.”
“Having the helpfulness neither of hostility nor of enthusiasm, and being needlessly apologetic both for Patmore’s domesticity and his mysticism.”
Gosse, Edmund William.French profiles.*$1.60. Dodd.
Sketches of French writers nearly all of whom are still living or only lately dead. They are given “in profile” not “from the front” or “from a direct and complete point of view,” and are chiefly “snap-shots, as it were, at authors in the course of their progress.”
“Biography and criticism are deftly blended into an intermediate something and the last thing that the reader need apprehend is to be bored.” Richard Garnett.
*“Mr. Gosse owed it to his readers to rewrite and revise more diligently. But his book is an agreeable and profitable one.” Edward Fuller.
“It is far from being an indispensable book, but it is decidedly a useful one.”
“A successful book, very agreeable to read, and more likely than any we have lately seen on the subject to attract that difficult creature, the general reader. If not infallible the book is full of interest. Any one who cares at all for French literature, and does not mind a little intellectual irritation, will read it both with pleasure and advantage.”
*Gosse, Edmund William.Sir Thomas Browne.**75c. Macmillan.
This volume in the “English men of letters” series, a monograph on Sir Thomas Browne, “bears every sign of care and of minute and skillful investigation. Browne himself is set before us with fullness of detail, his work is analysed with scholarly patience.... Browne was that rare favorite of the gods, a happy man of genius. His serene and serious mind was ever preoccupied with high, impersonal, ‘un-mating things.’ His daily life was that of a fond husband and father; a perfect friend; an alert citizen; a busy and successful doctor. But ... no man of letters ever tasted more deeply the lonely and exquisite gratifications known to the vividly inquiring, experimentalizing mind.” (Lond. Times.)
*“Mr. Gosse has made a careful study of the materials at his disposal and in a comparatively short space embodies all that is known of the famous writer and physician. The faults of the book lie on the surface and may be briefly dismissed.”
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
*“To put it crudely, what we miss in Mr. Gosse’s estimate of Browne is a feeling of pleasure. This is a very skilful biography; very intelligent criticism; but it is not the fine, the suggestive, the liberal, and illuminating criticism which we expected from a writer of Mr. Edmund Gosse’s accomplishments.”
Gould, George Milbry.Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health of patients.*$1. Blakiston.
These essays fully cover the ground indicated by the subject, and in them numerous common ailments are unhesitatingly traced to defective eyesight, and much good advice is given for school children and men engaged in literary or clerical work, all of which is borne out by illustrations from life. The technical terms used in the table of contents need not alarm the casual reader, who will find the text clear and easily understood.
Gower, Edward Frederick Leveson.Bygone years.*$3.50. Dutton.
Memoirs written by the Honorable F. Leveson-Gower in his 86th year. As he never kept a diary, he chats merrily from memory of well-known people and things he has met with in the course of his long life.
“The author’s style is pleasant, though singularly familiar.”
Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.
“Good humor, good sense, good birth and breeding, an entire absence of airs and pretensions, these are among the qualities that commend him to the reader.”
“The volume is worth the attention of those who delight in the pleasant gossip of a genial and generous-hearted man of vast experience and wide information.”
“His book is like him, and it will therefore attract and give pleasure to a large number of readers.”
“It is never dull: it is never absorbing.”
“The book is characterized by good sense and wit and an agreeable conversational style.”
Grafton, Rt. Rev. Charles Chapman.Christian and Catholic.*$1.50. Longmans.
“The aim of the good bishop ... is ‘not controversial’ but to help souls who are in honest doubt to come into closer union with Christ ... The mass of Christians ... he designates as ‘the sects’ in distinction from ‘the church’ ... To secede from the Anglican church to the Roman is pronounced to be ‘the most terrible sin we believe a Christian man can commit.’”—Outlook.
Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.Mother of czars.*$3.50. (*12s.) Dutton.
“This ‘Mother of czars’ was the princess Dorothea of Würtemberg who married the Czarevitch Paul, son of Catherine II.... The czar’s two sons were Alexander I. and Nicholas I.... Mrs. Grant’s book consists largely of details of a tour made by the Grand Duke Paul and his wife during the years 1780-81. The most enjoyable time was spent in France.”—Spec.
“A very innocuous sketch of the wife of Paul I. of Russia.”
“Neither as a study of personality nor as an historical monograph can this volume be praised with much heartiness.”
“Here related in an agreeable, sympathetic, unpretentious way.”
“With merits as an entertainment this book is marred as an authoritative portrayal of local colour by certain inaccuracies.”
Grant, Robert.Orchid.†$1.25. Scribner.
The orchid is a society belle in a set where money counts for everything. She marries a wealthy man whom she does not love, then comes to care for a poor man, secures a divorce and the custody of her child, which she later relinquishes to the father in return for two million dollars, and is thereby established once more upon a secure social foundation.
“Clever as it is in its scenes, its dialogues, its enjoyable diversity of types, the real merit of the little volume lies not so much in what it actually gives as in what it suggests. ‘The orchid’ is an interesting example of a psychological problem, worked out along lines almost purely realistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The novel is as empty of psychological content as a headline. In this novel his style seems to be even more hard and colorless than formerly, his phrasing even more stereotyped and inaccurate.” O. H. D.
“Judge Grant’s characters are like chessmen: they are well defined and they move in a straightforward and logical manner. This simile does not imply that his characters are wooden, or that the situation lacks complexity.”
“Told ... in this accomplished writer’s crispest and most interesting style.”
“It is a story which not only makes one think, but holds the interest as well.”
“A more thoroughgoing study of feminine selfishness and lawlessness is not to be found in American fiction.”
“Judge Grant’s sure touch and craftmanship are here, but ‘The orchid’ is hardly a worthy successor to ‘The undercurrent.’”
Grant, Robert.Undercurrent. $1.50. Scribner.
“His theme is the very modern problem of the divorce evil, and he shows us how the undercurrent of emotion eventually triumphs over reason, and sweeps away the intellectual objections which stand in the path of a woman’s happiness. The situation is subtly handled, and one of the oldest of stories thereby acquires new distinction. It is the familiar story of marriage without much thought, the husband’s rapid development into a vulgar brute, and his final desertion of wife and children. Then the right man appears upon the scene, and the deserted wife is torn by the conflict between desire and duty. The plea of duty is voiced by the representatives of church and society, and their argument convinces her intellect, yet it takes only a slight mishap to the man whom she loves to bring about her surrender.”—Dial.
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
“The opposing claims of church and state to the regulation of marriage have never been more interestingly presented than in the debate between the rector and the lawyer in this book.”
“As a carefully considered, well-rounded, unimpassioned treatment, this book deserves attentive reading and deep pondering. The legal clearness with which Judge Grant has analyzed the question, and the thoroughness and skill with which he has embodied all its aspects in the individual characters and the action of the story, make ‘The undercurrent’ a constructive master-piece. Its interest is timely, therefore, rather than literary, and its value practical and ethical, not artistic. Neither of these facts, nevertheless, derogates from its literary importance. A notable literary expression of conviction among the books of its day.”
“Deals with two insistent problems of American society—the problem of enormous wealth and the problem of divorce. Judge Grant treats both with calmness and sanity. The characters and the story by means of which Judge Grant illustrates his views are thoroughly attractivefrom the point of view of literature. ‘The undercurrent’ is first of all a novel, and an excellent one, and only secondarily a book of purpose.”
“A sane and two-sided view of this problem. The author is master of many of the secret traits of woman’s nature, he rises with dramatic force to a crisis, and his method is always wholesome. But one must regret his excessive use of monologue, as though he could not let his characters interpret themselves.” J. R. Ormond.
Granville, W. A.Elements of differential and integral calculus. $2.50. Ginn.
To meet the need of a modern text-book on calculus which is at once rigorous and elementary, is the rather difficult task of the author. “On the one hand it is necessary to avoid the worthless and even vicious forms of reasoning which mar so many elementary treatises and which are simply intolerable to one educated according to modern standards of rigor. On the other hand, the author must not introduce subtleties of reasoning and logical refinements beyond the needs and comprehension of those who are to use the book. The volume under review is an attempt to solve this problem.” (Science).
“Its first quality is clearness; its second, judicious accentuation. The ground notions are admirably handled, and throughout, the nature and limitations of important theorems are conscientiously indicated.” C. J. Keyser.
“This is a book the main object of which seems to be to enable the student to acquire a knowledge of the subject with little or no assistance from a teacher; and, after a very careful study of it, we are enabled to say that the work is admirably constructed for the purpose.” George M. Minchin.
“In perusing Dr. Granville’s book one feels throughout that the author has in mind the requirements of modern rigor. We believe the present volume is eminently a safe book to put in the hands of the beginner. He will get no false notions which afterwards will have to be eradicated, with much difficulty; he will, on the other hand, acquire a considerable acquaintance with the principles of the calculus and a good working knowledge of its methods. The relatively few blemishes in this work, the reviewer is glad to state, will be removed in the next edition.” James Pierpont.
“As well in its scope as in its spirit, the work is distinctly more than its author modestly styles it ‘essentially a drill book.’” Cassius J. Keyser.
Gratacap, Lewis Pope.World as intention: a contribution to teleology,*$1.25. Eaton.
“Under this title the author exhibits the movement which the world shows towards a purposed end. His aim is to help perplexed thinkers out of a state of mind which can neither get on without religion, nor get on with much that is claimed in the name of religion.”—Outlook.
“Mr. Gratacap is certainly an independent and vigorous thinker; though his reading has evidently been more thorough in scientific lines than in philosophical. For lack of proportionate equipment in the latter his contribution to the problems of modern thought is hardly equal to the need.”
Graves, Algernon, comp. Royal academy of arts. v. I.*$11. Macmillan.
This “complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904,” is compiled with the sanction of the president and council of the Royal academy. The artists’ names are arranged alphabetically and their works are listed under their names. Volume I. now issued, covers Abbayne to Carrington.
Gray, Charles H.Lodowick Carliell.*$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Lodowick Carliell was a courtier dramatist of the reigns of Charles I and II. The name of Carliell is a conspicuous one in English literature, having as a later representative Thomas Carlyle. The present work includes a sketch of Carliell’s life, a discussion of his plays, and “The deserving favorite.”
“He has shown a German thoroughness of work.”
“This is an interesting contribution to the history of the English drama.”
Green, Anna Katharine.Amethyst box.†75c. Bobbs.
The spiriting away of an amethyst box in which was hidden a tiny vial containing a drop of deadly poison is followed by a sudden death. This furnishes the plot for one of Mrs. Green’s characteristic mystery stories into which is woven a double romance. The volume is uniform with the “Pocket book” series.
*“This American writer ... builds better puzzles and controls her surprises more skilfully than any living sensation writer we can call to mind.”
“It is an absorbing story.”
*“They are utterly improbable, and full of extravagances and absurdities.”
Green, Anna Katharine.House in the mist.†75c. Bobbs.
The first of these stories, “The house in the mist,” is the tale of vengeance which a wealthy testator wreaks upon his debauched heirs. According to the will they assemble, are apportioned their shares, and then trapped to their death. The harrowing succession of events is relieved only by the escape of the one worthy heir. The other story, “The ruby and the caldron,” shows the steps taken along the wrong scent in recovering a lost ruby.
Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).Millionaire baby.$1.50. Bobbs.
The spiriting away of a baby, the heiress to three fortunes, furnishes a plot for a unique detective story. The detective himself, in the race with others for the fifty thousand dollar reward, narrates the steps that lead up to the mystery-solving stroke,—this latter involving a surprise even for the wily disciple of Sherlock Holmes. The book is illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
“She is, we think, the best American author of detective tales of the present, and in ‘The millionaire baby’ we have one of her very best books. It is clever in conception and treatment, it holds the interest.”
“Granted its fundamental improbability, the plot is skilfully constructed, and the interest of the story is successfully maintained.”
“As a detective story, ‘The millionaire baby,’ is as clever as anything Anna Katharine Green has written. You will not lay it aside until you know the whole story.”
“As a detective story it is ingenious; as fiction in any other sense it is worthless.”
“A good story of compelling and sustained interest. Is quite the equal of any of the long line of stories which she has created.”
Green, Evelyn Everett-.Secret of Wold Hall.†$1. McClurg.
The marriage between Marcus Drummond and Lady Marcia Defresne was for the one the fulfillment of a ten-years’ dream—dating back to a moment when a bronzed traveler boy of sixteen rescued a child from her fall over a precipice—for the other, a release for herself and family from pecuniary predicaments. The man loves his wife, and the course of events which awakens her love for him is strongly associated with a mystery. The story has a strong dramatic interest.
Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly Williams.With spurs of gold.†$1.50. Little.
The boy and girl whose galaxy of heroes for special worship includes many knights of chivalry will find some absorbing details given here. The work is authentic, based on histories, chronicles and legends, and sets forth such characters as Roland and Oliver, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, the Chevalier Bayard, and Sir Philip Sidney.
“A number of famous poems accompany the excellent prose in which these tales are set.”
Greenidge, Abel Henry Jones.History of Rome during the later republic and early principate. 6 vols. v. I,*$3.50. Dutton.
“The first volume of the six volumes in which Dr. Greenidge plans to compress his history covers some twenty-nine years, from the time of Tiberius Gracchus to the consulship of Marius, B. C. 133 to 104.... In that short period occurred the two agrarian movements, led by Tiberius Gracchus, and, ten years later, by Caius Gracchus, and the Jugurthine war.”—N. Y. Times.
“It will appeal strongly to the general reader ... but it is addressed also to the scholar, as based on the original sources and presenting the results in accordance with the most advanced ideals of history writing.” Joseph H. Drake.
“Both the specialist, who looks for laborious research and painstaking erudition, and the ordinary reader, who sets the main value on perspicuity and brilliancy of narrative, will alike be gratified.” W. A. Goligher.
“The present volume sustains his reputation for accuracy and penetration, while proving him to possess gifts of a different order. It discloses a large grasp of facts and a weighty style.”
“It may be said at once that Dr. Greenidge revivifies Rome, which had been reduced to the deadness of classicality. He creates the Eternal city in the sixth century of its existence, and with exactness and grace shows us its life, its politics, the causes of its troubles, how it met them, and what the final issue was.”
*Greenslet, Ferris.James Russell Lowell, his life and work.**$1.50. Houghton.
“A concise view of the life of Lowell, which the author frankly admits to be mainly based on printed sources, chief among which has naturally been the collection of his letters edited by Charles Eliot Norton; but the work was nevertheless worth doing and is very well done.... The book is illustrated with portraits, local views, etc.”—Critic.
*“The author has made judicious use of his abundant and rich material, his personal additions to which have been considerable and valuable.”
*“A little difference of emphasis here and there may suggest itself as possible; but in substance the narrative is exactly what it should be. He writes from a firm critical theory, and knows how to back his own opinions. Yet his speech lacks something of firmness and consistency.” H. W. Boynton.
*“Conspicuously free from provincialism of standards and of feeling, conspicuously competent, dispassionate, and, therefore, authoritative.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
*“Beyond any other biography recently written among us, this book gives, by its execution, the impression of a distinct addition to the literary resources of our younger authors.” Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Gregg, David; Goodrich, William W., and Carney, Sidney Howard, jr.Makers of the American republic: a series of patriotic lectures. $2. Treat.
Sixteen historical lectures on the early colonists; The Virginians, Pilgrims, Puritans, Hollanders, Scotch, Huguenots, Quakers, and the old-time doctors, lawyers, and ministers. Columbus, Washington, our patriotic dead, and the black forefathers are also treated.
“Characterized for the most part by a degree of intellectual hospitality and breadth of thought rarely found in similar discussions by trinitarian clergymen.”
Gregory, J. C.Short introduction to the theory of electrolytic dissociation,*50c. Longmans.
“This is a useful little book for those students who, after taking a course of systematic chemistry, wish to know something of the behaviour of electrolytic solutions.” (Nature.) Its four chapters are entitled The condition of dissolved substances; Ions and precipitation; Hydrogen and hydroxyl ions; Electrolytic and general considerations.
“The language and mode of presentation are simple, and although one might take exception to many points of detail, the book, on the whole, should prove a trustworthy guide.”
Grenfell, Bernard Pyne; Drexel, Lucy Wharton; and Hunt, Arthur Surridge,eds. New sayings of Jesus, and fragments of a lost gospel, from Oxyrhynchus, Part IV.*40c. Oxford.
“The present volume contains for the most part papyri found in the second excavations atOxyrhynchus in 1903. It will not be as amusing to the general reader as certain of the previous volumes, since it includes but few of the non-legal and non-literary, but excessively human, documents that gave in them such a sparkle of life to the pages of a very dead subject.... The volume contains a goodly number of interesting legal documents, which increase our knowledge of details of Egyptian administration and Graeco-Egyptian law. The number of personal letters is, as we have indicated, very few.”—Nation.
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason.Harvest of the sea: a tale of both sides of the Atlantic.**$1. Revell.
Dr. Grenfell, who for twenty years has worked among the deep sea fishermen on both sides of the Atlantic, gives a picture of these men, their lives, and the revolution, social and religious, wrought by the coming of the mission ship among the fishing fleets.
“Dr. Grenfell’s narrative of the North Sea fishers especially—considered quite without reference to its value as a record of evangelization—is stirring, full of the life and tragedy of the sea. The account of the Labrador men is briefer and less picturesque.”
Griffith, J. Quintin.Helps and hints in nursing.*$1.50. Winston.
A text-book for nurses, and a guide for the family which gives the ordinary details of nursing which the doctor wishes carried out in everyday maladies, tells what to do in cases of emergency, gives directions for caring for infants and children, and for preserving the health.
“A practical and sensible book which may be commended to use in families and by all who have to do with illness.”
Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick.Fifty years of public service.*$5. Cassell.
Born in India and entering the English army at the time of the Crimean war, as a mere youth, the author saw military service in Crimea, Nova Scotia, Montreal, Gibraltar, and Abyssinia, and civil service in charge of prisons at Gibraltar, Chatham, and Milbank. This account of his career suggests that the material for his novels and detective stories was taken from life.
“The author’s style has the unstudied fluency of one who is used to writing with the din of the printing-press in his ears and the boy at his side waiting for copy. The book is a worthy addition to the major’s long list of works, grave and gay.”
“You would say Major Griffiths had enjoyed his ‘Fifty years of service’ in the living at least as much as you enjoy it in reading.”
Griggs, Edward Howard.Moral education.*$2. Huebsch.
Professor Griggs points out the aim and scope of his work in the following: “a study, as exhaustive as I could make it, of the whole problem of moral culture: its purpose in relation to our society, and all the means through which that purpose can be attained. My aim has been sanity and not novelty, ... to see ‘steadily and whole’ both human life and the process of moral culture that leads to it and make possible the happiest and most helpful living.”
“This volume should be carefully read by every parent and teacher in the land. It is a work at once eminently practical and yet nobly idealistic. He has considered his subject deeply and treats it as only a man of rare insight, a true philosopher and a practical teacher could present a theme.”
“He writes with beauty and almost invariably with marked clearness; he develops very instructively and applies to the work of ethical formation the leading results of modern educational investigation.”
“This book by Mr. Griggs is one of the significant indications of the trend of education in the present time, while in itself it is a decided contribution to the philosophy and method of education. Unlike much of current educational discussion, the parent is not here made subservient to the teacher or entirely ignored.” Leslie Willis Sprague.
“The present volume seems to have reached the root of the difficulty which confronts modern educators, for it points out wherein they err by casting aside the old systems and giving entire precedent to new and untried methods. The book is written in a masterly style.”
“The book addresses itself especially to the teacher, but will be found interesting and helpful to all who are concerned in any way with the rearing of children.”
Gronau, Georg.Titian. $2. Scribner.
The monograph of the great painter not only tells a graphic story of the artist’s life, but describes the picturesque conditions under which he worked, the emperors, dukes and bishops who gave him commissions, forming a romantic background. The book gives the results of the most recent investigations of the authorship of disputed masterpieces, is copiously illustrated with fifty odd half-tones, has a fine bibliography, and a complete index.
“Is not so specialized a piece of work as is the standard biography by Crowe and Cavalcaselle. It is tersely and vividly written, precisely the book for the general reader.” Royal Cortissoz.
“It is quite up-to-date in its attributions. The side on which their usefulness does not seem to increase or greatly enlighten is that of a new word concerning the technical performances of great colourists, draughtsmen and virile painters. But this lapse Gronau has in common with others who write of artists and their work. Such books as these become, in a sense, a kind of superior guidebook to galleries, palaces and churches, but they are not quite what a student or a connoisseur would desire when wishing to be enlightened on the methods, ways, and practices of a master painter. Present book is excellent of its kind.” Frank Fowler.
“Dr. Gronau’s volume, marked by cautious accuracy and disinterested love of truth, is a model for works of its class. It is a thing of high art in itself, and is certainly the best life of Titian that has appeared.” George Breed Zug.
Grout, Abel Joel.Mosses with hand-lens and microscope. 26. ed. $1.75 A. J. Grout, 306 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.
This second edition “which follows the same general plan as the first edition, is expanded to include 169 of the ‘more common and more easily recognized mosses of the northeastern United States,’ as well as fifty-four of thehepaticæof the same region.... The text containssomething like 118 figures and 39 full-page plates.”—Science.
“In the matter of typography and illustrations, the work is so much of an improvement over its predecessor that it deserves special commendation.”
Grove, Sir George, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland.**$5. Macmillan.
In undertaking the revision of Sir George Grove’s dictionary which appeared twenty-five years ago, the editor aims mainly to bring the work down to date. Mr. Maitland, “a man of erudition, good taste and sound judgment, has critical acumen, and while he is inclined to a thoroughly safe conservatism, such critical remarks as have been admitted are for the most part such as are likely to give the reader a general idea of the special characteristics of the musicians dealt with.” (Ind.)
*“If the succeeding volumes contain as many valuable additions and amplifications as the first, the work will suffice for many years to come, and will remain for all time a monument to the learning, patience, and judgment of the editor.” W. J. Henderson.
“At last we have an English musical dictionary not only worthy to be compared with the French and German dictionaries, but surpassing them all in the lateness of its information and in its comprehensive scope. Some of the portraits are unworthy of the general high standard.” George P. Upton.
*“Ably and judiciously edited, and it promises to be an indispensable compendium for those who are genuinely interested in music or in music-makers.”
“The editing has on the whole been admirably done, and ... Mr. Fuller Maitland has amply proved, not only his great ability in dealing with a difficult task, but the foresight of those responsible for his selections.”
“Unquestionably the most valuable work of the kind in English, and at present superior to any other in any language, considering its encyclopaedic character and the substantial quality of its most important articles.”
Guiney, Louise Imogen.Hurrell Froude: memoranda and comments.*$3. Dutton.
This volume is in two parts, the first, a sketch of Hurrell Froude and his life, consisting mainly of letters and journals, the second, a collection of comments upon him and his connection with the Oxford movement. Outside of those interested in English religious movements, Hurrell Froude, brother of the historian, and John Henry Newman’s most intimate friend, is perhaps little known, and this book gives in detail the man’s influence upon his associates and the religious movements of his time, as well as his personality and character.
“The author’s style is not always unintelligible and precious, and by dint of a great deal of quotation we are brought fairly near to that strange inspirer of Newman.”
“It is a work of unusually distinguished merit. In the first place, Miss Guiney allows Hurrell Froude to tell his own story. And a second feature of this book which calls for praise is that in the pages which the biographer has written herself, the style is splendid.”
“As a whole the book lacks literary unity, but it is initiative and gives an intimate glimpse into a circle of singularly real and fervent men. Valuable it is as being illustrative of a phase of the nineteenth century.”
“She has brought to her task abundant sympathy and much careful preparation. If her judgment is at fault, she has furnished us the means of correcting it in no halting fashion. Her collection of comments is no mere device for confirming her own views.”
“Miss Guiney’s book, which she does not call a biography, though in effect it is one, is a sympathetic account of his life, his character, and his work.”
“The editing has been done sympathetically, and, in spite of the opportunity offered for the exercise of a rich and rather over-refined literary style, with restraint.”
Gulick, Sidney Lewis.Evolution of the Japanese.**$2. Revell.
A fourth edition, revised and enlarged. “It contains a new preface and numerous changes in the text, which have been turned into notes and placed at the end of the chapters to which they belong.” (N. Y. Times.)
Gulick, Sidney Lewis.White peril in the Far East.**$1. Revell.
The author, an American missionary who has lived long in Eastern Asia, discusses the significance of the Russo-Japanese war, which he considers a turning point in the world’s history. He holds that there is no cause to fear the yellow peril, that Japan is western in spirit and civilization, but that the white peril menaces the Orient to-day.
“While in no way profound, it is rich in novel and suggestive points of view. It contains one of the best statements of the real causes of the war with Russia yet published, and gives an interpretation of the Japanese attitude toward the conflict that is agreeably clear, concise, and illuminating.”