“It is entirely original in conception, and the plot is carried out with great skill. The conversations are particularly clever.”
“Unusual, striking, and brilliant to a degree is this story.”
“The changes of scene are frequent, the note of passion is dominant, and the conclusion, if not unexpected, is gratifying.”
“The story is unconventional, it is interesting, and it is well written.”
Lockhart, John Gibson.Life of Robert Burns.*60c. McClurg.
Uniform with the “Library of standard biographies,” this volume contains in handy compact form the text of the edition of 1820. It has been annotated, and an index added for the use of students and readers.
Lockhart, John Gibson.Life of Sir Walter Scott.*60c. McClurg.
The Lockhart life of Scott has appeared in an abridged form, newly edited with notes for the student’s use. It is uniform with the “Library of standard biographies.”
Lodge, George Cabot.Cain: a drama.**$1. Houghton.
A drama dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth. It presents Cain as an heroic defender of free thought, to whom is revealed:
“The power of life, the glory of rebellion.The fire and love of liberty, the prideOf freedom, poverty, solitude, and pain.”
“The power of life, the glory of rebellion.The fire and love of liberty, the prideOf freedom, poverty, solitude, and pain.”
“The power of life, the glory of rebellion.The fire and love of liberty, the prideOf freedom, poverty, solitude, and pain.”
“The power of life, the glory of rebellion.
The fire and love of liberty, the pride
Of freedom, poverty, solitude, and pain.”
He kills his brother that he may not live to pollute humanity by spiritual bondage, and for the sake of the light he carries, willingly becomes “an outcast from the laws of men.”
“The diction of the poem is almost as severe as its outline, and is sustained throughout at a lofty pitch.” Wm. Morton Payne.
“Is a veritable volcano of poetry, pouring out real fire, mingled with smoke and ashes. What Mr. Lodge lacks is the saving sense of humor. He has undoubted force and passion. The whole play gives the impression of reversed dynamics.”
“His mastery of poetic structure is still imperfect. Yet, when all due abatement has been made, ‘Cain’ is a book of interesting promise. There is here, moreover, in both substance and form, much to reward attention.”
“Mr. Lodge’s drama is a personal and passionate reading of the story of Cain and Abel, in which Cain is presented as a Biblical Prometheus daring the wrath of heaven to bring light to the souls of men. He is the archetype of the modern free-thinker, while Abel is the cowardly formalist.”
London, Jack.The game.†$1.50. Macmillan.
A story of the prize ring showing two types of fighters,—one a fine specimen of manhood, the other fashioned after the brute order. There is an idyllic romance too, which of course concerns the higher minded boxer and a very human young maiden who grows jealous of her rival “the game.” The author has drawn the savage side with deft realism, both from the participant’s and the spectator’s viewpoint.
“Mr. London has in this book made a very decided advance in the matter of style.”
“This book is simply a good and spirited little report, rather too loud for quiet tastes. There is nothing elemental here; this is sheer street-bred sensuality, if it is anything.”
“He has produced at least one story which of its kind seems to the present writer very nearly flawless—‘The game.’”
“It is of the most banal and ordinary stamp, utterly lacking in the dramatic power with which its author has been credited hitherto.”
“Mr. London seems for the first time unaccountably out of his element and outside of the verities.”
“Mr. London’s stories are never lacking in power, dramatic quality, and picturesqueness, but his love for the strenuous and the tragic has led him to end his story in a way that is fairly brutal.”
“The description of the fight itself which forms the greater portion of the book is skilfully done. But it is only good journalism.”
London, Jack.The sea wolf.$1.50. Macmillan.
“A ferryboat sinks in the San Francisco harbor, the passengers perish, but Humphrey Van Weyden, critic, æsthete, typical specimen of hyper-civilization, is picked up by the ‘Ghost,’ and compelled by the captain of that ‘hellship’ to become cook’s scullion. Van Weyden is a creature of overdeveloped brain-power, physically a plaything in the hands of Wolf Larsen, the ship’s captain, and thus arises a struggle between the primitive brutalities of the natural man and this last product of the twentieth century.... The plot has further and rather more conventional ramifications, but it is primarily the fight between the beast in man and the man who has worked out the beast that holds our attention, and, secondarily, the overshadowing personality of Wolf Larsen.”—R. of Rs.
“We do not wish to deny the cleverness of much in ‘The sea-wolf,’ but we must protest against this picture of rampant inhumanity and brutality.”
“This romance is one of the strongest and most original stories by an American novelist that has appeared in recent years. The story though powerful and quite out of the ordinary lines of romance, is not a novel that we can heartily recommend to the general reader.” Amy C. Rich.
“Thus the story becomes essentially an account of the development of character under extraordinary conditions, and its aspect as a narrative of adventure is obscured by its aspect as a psychological study. It is not a pleasant tale to read—it is too strongly seasoned to be that,—but it acquires a certain fascination in the course of its telling, and fairly grips the attention in its culminating passages.” W. M. Payne.
“Altho thousands read in ‘The sea-wolf’ nothing but an exciting tale, yet the ethical theorem is developed by argument and illustration with a symmetry and completeness rare even in a serious treatise.”
“This latest book is the high-water mark of the author’s power. Virile, forceful, dashing though he has been from the first entry into literature, he can do nothing more memorable than this story of a hellship, manned by brute beasts, under a sea-wolf. It is in the cruelty, the peace, the awfulness, the beauty of the sea, that Mr. London has outdone himself as well as others. The book is not food for babes, but for lovers of the sea. He must own strong nerves who would ship with Wolf Larsen, but the Iliad of the ocean is opened before him.”
“In depicting that fatal struggle between him and Van Weyden, Mr. London remains entirely impartial. The book is neither a glorification of the ‘overman’ nor of his opposite. We are told of the two, and of their fight for life, with swift directness, with sincerity and strength.”
London, Jack.Tales of the fish patrol.†$1.50. Macmillan.
“The broad bays about San Francisco, and the rivers that run into them, are sources of revenue of fishermen of several diverse nationalities—Chinese, Italians, and Greeks. The life of the fish patrol, whose duty it is to enforce the fishing laws, furnishes plenty of opportunities for adventures, exciting and often dangerous. The stories in this volume describe some of these adventures simply but dramatically.”—Outlook.
“It is ostensibly a book for boys, but it is good reading for others as well.”
*“Have the freshness and vigor of the sea and not a little of its heroism.”
*“The stories have a fresh realism and a curt vigor which show first-hand work.”
London, Jack.War of the classes.**$1.50. Macmillan.
The book is made up of six socialistic studies entitled: “The class struggle,” “The tramp,” “The scab,” “The question of the maximum,” “A review,” “Wanted: a new law of development.” and “How I became a socialist.” It is Mr. London’s purpose, he declares in his preface, to “enlighten, to some slight degree,” the minds of a few capitalists.
“It is an interesting thought-provoking volume, to be read and pondered, but truths and half truths are so interwoven that it is scarcely a safe guide.”
“It is marred somewhat by repetition and lacks the coherence and cogency of a logical whole. With all these defects, however, the ‘War of the classes’ is no whit inferior in the vigour of its style and the sweep and rapid movement of its thought to any of Jack London’s work.” Robert C. Brooks.
“Some of Mr. London’s best and most lasting work is to be found in these pages. It is regrettable, however, that certain discrepancies in the text have not been more carefully edited.”
*“Develops the socialist attitude on modern social antagonisms in his characteristically forcible and striking style.”
“The essays are full of half-truths, and half-truths that need statement. We advise the student of modern industrial problems to read this book; but to be slow about accepting either its picture of conditions or its proposals for remedies.”
Loney, S. L.Elements of trigonometry; with answers.*90c. Macmillan.
This volume “is mainly taken from pt. 1. of the author’s ‘Plane trigonometry,’ and is designed as an easier text-book.”—Nature.
“Altogether an admirable piece of work, and we can pay it no higher compliment than to say it is well on the level of those other text-books for which Professor Loney is so well known.”
“The subject is treated in the usual way, and there is nothing to call for special mention.”
*Long, John Luther.Heimweh and other stories,†$1.50. Macmillan.
“Eight stories, or rather novelettes.... In the first of these, which gives its title to the book, we are told the story of a day labourer and his wife, from the day of their marriage to their death.... ‘The siren’ ... describes a courtship carried on by two bold swimmers, who, at last, swim out too far from land, and are drowned.” (Ath.) The remaining stories are: The loaded gun; Liebereich; “Jupiter Tonans;” “Sis;” Thor’s emerald; and Guile.
*“His aims are right, and so, for the most part, are his methods.”
*“Too much sentimentality, not enough humor, and an unfortunate lack of compression. Mr. Long’s ingenuity and facile expression prevent them from being wholly bad.”
*“These stories do not lack imagination, but at times the gayety seems forced, and the conversations are jerkily vivacious.”
*“He has a sense of atmosphere, his point of view is individual, and he is not without that kindly humour which laughs while it sympathises. But he is terribly sentimental.”
*Long, John Luther.Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo.†$2.50. Lippincott.
A reincarnation of this Japanese romance, in which wide margins, Japanese flowers and fancies which wander across the text, and various full page illustrations, some of which are in color, lend to the interesting story of Sakura-San and the “excellent barbarians” from England and America who play at cross purposes thruout its pages a new and subtle charm.
*“In this and ‘Madame Butterfly’ he is seen at his best.”
*“The author has contrasted Oriental and Occidental traits in his well-known style.”
*“Told with charm and well-rendered Oriental atmosphere.”
*Long, John Luther.Seffy; a little comedy of country manners.†$1.50. Bobbs.
Old Baumgarten, a Pennsylvania-German and Maryland farmer, has set his heart upon marrying his great slow going son, Seffy, to a red-headed, tempestuous girl, named Sally, who owns the lands lying between his farm and the railroad. He almost brings this about, but Seffy’s reticence allows another lover to come between him and his sweetheart. Sally marries out of spite and comes to bitterly repent of it, while old Baumgarten curses his son, knocks him down and sends him out into the world where he learns to fight for things and to get them. In the end he comes back to claim all that he lost in his youth.
Long, William Joseph.Northern trails: stories of animal life in the far north.*$1.50. Ginn.
“Mr. Long takes the reader with him ... to the barren shores of Labrador and Newfoundland. Wolves, we meet, that guide lost children home, and then disappear into the wilderness; a wild goose that caresses his mate goodbye at the approach of the hunter, before going out to fight for his home and young; and Pequam, of the weasel family, that tempts an Indian to abandon his trail, by killing a deer and leaving it across the track. These animals and many more—whales, polar bears and salmon—are all introduced to us in the midst of their wild, unfrequented haunts. All are endowed with almost human intelligence and reason, after the manner of interpreting their actions which Mr. Long has made so popular.”—Ind.
*“There is a charm about Mr. Long’s book that few writers for children attain.”
*“His stories have a charm and an excellence of their own.” May Estelle Cook.
“We are willing to let the disputed question of instinct or intelligence go, however, and on the strength of the splendid descriptions of nature and the always evident love of the wild, accord this volume a high place among ‘books of the trail.’”
“Mr. Long assures us of the accuracy of his data, and maintains the reasonableness of his inferences.”
*“Aside from the controversial side as to whether these eight stories are to be classified as natural history or fiction, these tales of the Northern trails are dull and lifeless.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
“His this year’s story is vigorous, delightful, and refreshing.”
Long day. SeeRichardson, Dorothy.
Loomis, Charles Battell.Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a return to nature.†$1.50. Barnes.
A novel which “recounts the experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Vernon and their city-reared colored cook, Minerva, during a summer sojourn in the country.... A fine silk thread of a plot runs through the book, stringing together the many humorous situations.”—Pub. Opin.
“It is a good book to read aloud, but only a chapter or two at a time.”
*“The unexpected endings of the many humorous situations will keep the reader in a gale of mirth, and when he lays the book down after the last chapter, he will feel that he has found a new friend in Minerva.”
*“Is more in the nature of a vaudeville show than anything else, and it is not possible to describe all of the attractions which Mr. Loomis offers. They are surely worth a reading.”
“It is not an uproarious story; its humor is quiet; it possesses the subtle turn which is symptomatic of its author.”
Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June.Italian in America. $1.50. Buck.
“The pretty evident purpose of this volume is to reverse the prevailing American prejudice against the Italian as an immigrant and material for United States citizenship.... [It] uses ... the argument ... of statistics, and its authors ... attempt to show first of all that the Italian settler is economically a good thing for the country.... Secondly, they produce evidence that in the particulars of disease and crime he does not supply more than his quota ... and, thirdly, they argue from data which they present that he ... adapts himself very completely ... to American ways of doing and thinking.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book as a whole is general in its treatment, somewhat objectionable because of frequent quotations, and partakes too much of the loose character of magazine articles. The spirit of the book is much to be commended.” Emily Fogg Meade.
“The book is optimistic, discriminating and instructive.”
“Is of normal simplicity and clearness.”
“There is room for believing that ‘The Italian in America’ will be a potent instrument in molding a saner public opinion.”
“But the labors of others are here presented in logical sequence and in a sympathetic spirit, resulting in an interesting and readable book. The book is not free from dubious assertions.”
“It will strike many perhaps that Messrs. Lord, Trenor, and Barrows have omitted some essential facts, but both the facts presented and the inferences drawn are interesting in substance—even when the manner of presentation is dry. Taken all together the cumulative evidence for the Italian collected by the authors is impressive.”
“Welcome as a wholesome corrective of fallacy and prejudice.”
Lorenz, Daniel Edward.Mediterranean traveller,*$2.50. Revell.
A compact practical guide-book which covers southern Spain, Morocco, Algiers, the chief cities of northern Africa, Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt. Much historical and general information is given, a bibliography precedes each chapter, and there are many maps and pictures.
“This compact work ‘fills a long felt want.’ The proof reading has not been done by a classical expert.”
“The text is in some portions accurate and business-like, but in others it reveals amateurishness, and some inaccuracies and misprints.”
“The excellence of its method and treatment of the many countries bordering on the great interior sea of Europe are unquestionable.”
“‘The Mediterranean traveler’ will find here in one volume what elsewhere must be picked out of several.”
Loring, Andrew.Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by George Saintsbury.*$2.50. Dutton.
“The lexicon is divided into three parts—Finals, Penults, and Antepenults. The words have been grouped according to the accented vowel sound and placed in columns in the alphabetical sequence of the letters which follow this sound.... Each part of the lexicon has fourteen vowel divisions, adopted for reference purposes; and the divisions are enumerated in a table of contents, which also includes key words illustrating the vowel sounds.”—N. Y. Times.
“In size and arrangement it is admirable; it might have been larger still without being any better.”
“Altogether an able book, full of aid to those who make rhymes.”
“The arrangement is novel, at first sight a little intricate, but truly scientific.”
“This may be a very useful book.”
Loring, J. Alden.Art of preserving animal tracks, $1. J. A. Loring, Owega, Tioga co., N. Y.
“Mr. Loring describes in this pamphlet a very ingenious and apparently effective method of making molds, and from the mold, casts of the tracks of mammals and birds, large and small.... The operation itself is clearly and minutely described, and seemingly could be easily managed by any intelligent boy.”—Outlook.
*Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone (Margaret Sidney, pseud.)Ben Pepper.†$1.50. Lothrop.
This is the tenth volume in the popular “Little Pepper” series. “The hero is Ben, Mother Pepper’s first-born, her ‘steady-as-a-rock’ boy. Christmas shopping in which the Little Peppers take a lively hand, Christmas philanthropies, the usual quota of accidents and pranks, and, finally, Ben’s decision as to whether he will go to college or enter a business office, ‘beginning at the very bottom,’ are the features of the story.”—Outlook.
*“Mrs. Sidney has made him as interesting as others of the Pepper family.”
Lott, Noah, pseud.SeeHobart, George Vere.
*Lottridge, Silas A.Animal snap-shots and how made.**$2. Holt.
A simple narrative concerning the birds and mammals which the author has come to know in the course of various vacations spent in studying and photographing them. The pictures illustrate the facts and some of the series represent the work of years. The object of the book is to arouse, especially in young people, a living interest in the animals about them. There are chapters on the woodchuck, skunk, muskrat, fox, mouse, squirrel, blue bird, robin, bobolink, crow, owl, hawk and others.
Lovett, W. J.Complete class book of naval architecture; practical, laying off, theoretical, with numerous il. and nearly 200 full, worked-out answers to recent education department examination questions.*$2.50. Longmans.
“This work is intended primarily for British students attending technical classes.” It “covers the whole field of naval architecture, theoretical and practical.”—Engin. N.
“In this country its field as a text-book will necessarily be limited, and as a reference book its treatment of the various subjects, except elementary ship calculations, is inadequate.” D. W. Taylor.
Low, Berthe Julienne.French home cooking.**$1.20. McClure.
The author, tho a Frenchwoman by birth, has lived in this country twenty-five years. She says: “This is not a book for restaurants, hotels, or people who can afford a chef. Most Americans have formed their ideas of French cooking from hotels, restaurants, or formal dinners, and have never known the home cooking, which is more simple and more wholesome. It is also less complicated.... The recipes which I shall give are used in well-to-do families and constitute what is called in French the ‘bonne cuisine bourgeoise.’” She starts with the very arrangement of the kitchen and instructs in those little tricks by which the French are able to obtain distinction and flavor in their cookery.
“Mrs. Low’s formulas are in the main so excellent that it would be invidious to discriminate. Her success is unequivocal and decisive.”
Low, Sidney.The governance of England.*$2.25. Putnam.
“A well-informed, well-written, and interesting description of the government of Great Britain, beginning with a definition of the British constitution, so difficult of characterization, but explained by Mr. Low in a thoroughly rational and comprehensive way.... Mr. Low gives a very interesting account of the place and function of the prime minister, of the cabinet, of the privy council, of both houses of parliament, and of every other form and function of government in Great Britain.” (Outlook). “The main view of Mr. Low is that of Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, that the power of the house of commons is declining and must continue to decline, while that of the cabinet, and especially of the inner cabinet, is increasing.” (Ath.)
“Is a most able and valuable production, marked, too, by unusual excellence of style. If we name points on which we have doubts as to whether Mr. Low is right, it is with the profound feeling that he has given great attention to a subject in which he evidently takes much interest, and the facts of which, so far as they are generally available, he has mastered.”
“There can be little but praise for the author’s literary style. It is easy, strong and clear, and with a light touch and aptness of allusion that never detract from the weighty theme.” John William Russell.
“There are many clever and some acute observations in the book; but, in our judgment, the view given of the English constitution is superficial, and in some cases erroneous.”
“Very admirable book. The plan of the work is so excellently conceived and executed that only one or two objections are suggested by a first reading. One is to the title. The other objection is to an occasional drop into triviality and the college graduate habit of quoting mere hackneyed phrases and tags from other languages. There are occasional slips in the printing and in the statements. The particular excellence of this work has already been indicated as being an interpretation of the English constitution as it operates to-day. The value of this book is very greatly increased for American readers by the frequent comparisons instituted between the English and American political systems.”
“Probably no book has yet appeared which, in so untechnical and comprehensive a way, places before the reader the elaborate, highly complex, and thoroughly democratic governmental system.”
*Lowell, Mrs. Carrie Thompson, comp. Art lovers’ treasury; famous pictures described in poems; forty-eight reproductions of famous pictures accompanied by poems of noted writers, with text by Carrie Thompson Lowell.**$1.20. Estes.
“Forty-eight pictures are reproduced in half-tone, and the editor writes a running comment, treating a group of paintings and sculpture under some general heading, such as ‘Mythology in poetry and sculpture,’ ‘Legends of the saints,’ or ‘Pictures translated into verse.’” (Dial.) “An attempt has been made to assemble famous pictures and pieces of sculpture, and to bring into association with these certain poems that have been inspired by the various works of art that are pictured, or which have been written descriptive of them.... Many of the best artists are represented, as well as poets such as Dante, Keats, Browning, Longfellow, Whittier, Markham, and some others.” (Ind.)
*“An excellent companion volume to Miss Singleton’s ‘Great portraits’ is this compilation of Mrs. Lowell.”
*“Pictures and poetry are thoroughly representative, and the arrangement, though necessarily loose holds the reader’s interest.”
*Lowery, Woodbury.Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562-1574.**$2.50. Putnam.
“This, the second of Mr. Lowery’s monographs on the history of Spanish colonization within the present limits of the United States, deals with the Florida settlements of the period 1562-1574, and like its predecessors, is based on a careful study of original sources.... An interesting feature is—comprehensive exposition of the tribal organization, characteristics and customs of the Florida Indians. The work contains several maps, more than thirty bibliographicaland critical appendices, and a good index.”—Outlook.
*“Scholarly work.”
*“A treatise not only of prime interest but of solid value, as embodying a broader and more than usually judicial statement of the vexed themes involved.”
*“So cautious is he, and so frequent are his references to and citations from authorities, that from the narrative standpoint his book is at times arid and tedious. But it is unquestionably of distinct value to the historical student.”
Lowrie, Rev. Walter.Gaudium crucis: a meditation for Good Friday upon the seven words from the cross.*90c. Longmans.
Meditations upon mercy, judgment, love, joy and sacrifice, confirmation, accomplishment and duty, and filial trust. The book is designed for those who are unable to attend the Good Friday services, and to assist the clergy in preparing their sermons.
*Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe Loyson).To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews, Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.
“‘A tour of Christian exploration.’ Pere Hyacinthe and his wife (who is an American) travelled from Algeria to Jerusalem, by way of Arabia and Egypt, and the travels are described in a lively and vigorous style.... The idea of the book is not the travel, so much as the relativity of religions of the peoples studied ... and Madame Hyacinthe Loyson’s point is the universal brotherhood of ... the religions of Allah and Jehovah and the Christian religion. In the co-operation of the three—and in the honouring by modern Christianity of some of the grander and simpler elements of the other two faiths, she sees the regeneration of the world.”—Acad.
*“There is a breadth of view in the book, enthusiasm and some little of that spirit which sees good in ‘every country but its own.’ It will not please theologians, but it may stimulate the thoughts of the ordinary religiously-minded man or woman.”
*“Everywhere in the book there is the intense spiritual earnestness of a good woman holding conferences with the leading representatives of Islam.” H. E. Coblentz.
Lucas, Abner H.Call of to-day.*50c. Meth. bk.
Sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Montclair, N. J. They include: The religion for to-day; Work for to-day; The commanded strength; Joy for the morning; The mighty appeal of usefulness; Re-enlisted strength; and The complete life.
Lucas, Edward Verrall, comp. Book of verses for children. $1. Holt.
Some 200 verses which Stevenson, Browning, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Lewis Carroll, Riley, Longfellow, Scott, Rossetti, and many others have written for little folks are gathered into this delightful volume, with old ballads, rhymes and songs of Christmas.
“Altogether, the little volume is one of the most desirable of such collections (in small space) now to be got at. There seems to be something in it for all good juvenile tastes.”
*Lucas, Edward Verrall.Life of Charles Lamb. 2v.*$6. Putnam.
Mr. Lucas “has tried as far as possible to keep the story of the life to the words of the original performers and their contemporaries.... At a wave of his hand witness after witness gets up to testify in his own words and tell the reader what he knew of Lamb during the period in question.... We are able to see the actual environment of Lamb between 1815 and 1825, surrounded ... by the normal frequenters of these ‘noctes’ such as George Dyer, Fenwick, Robert Fell, Martin Burney, G. Burnett, Randal Norris, George Dawe, Ayrton, Phillips, Alsager, and Barren Field. The portraits of most of these intimates of the Mitrecourt and Inner Temple-lane are limned with a delicate and artistic curiosity. Lamb is depicted in this circle as he lived.... For all the very happiest things that have ever been said about Lamb the enthusiast will find a happy-hunting-ground in these two volumes.”—Lond. Times.
*“Only once, so far as we have noticed, is he betrayed into something like over-confidence in his minute research.”
*“Of the man Charles Lamb—the ‘human mortal,’ as distinguished from the thinker and writer—Mr. Lucas’s pages reflect a true and lively image. He is less successful in reproducing the intellectual features of his subject; while his portraits of certain of Lamb’s contemporaries—notably that of Coleridge—are not far removed from travesty.”
*“Is likely to prove of more importance than the recent edition of ‘The works and letters of Charles and Mary Lamb,’ of which he was the editor. It will not supersede the ‘Life and final memorials’ of Talfourd, but it contains, mainly in the form of letter and anecdote, much of supplementary value, and some matter which is absolutely fresh.” H. W. Boynton.
*“Taking Mr. Lucas’s biography as a whole there is a wealth of entertainment in its pages which it would be difficult to overestimate. The part that we are least sanguine of recommending is the appendix, which seems to us a heavy incubus upon a book which ought to carry not an ounce of superfluous material.”
*“Mr. Lucas has drawn upon a large fund of fresh material, and has so generously told the story of both lives in the language of his subjects that this biography is really an autobiography.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
*“Above all other things Mr. Lucas’s work is one which abounds in the essential characteristic of biographical work—sympathy. The vast compilation of tiny details of personality and character are not thrown together haphazard but are arranged chronologically, and indexed in a masterly manner.”
*“The first really complete and adequate Life of that singularly delightful writer and admirable man.”
Lucas, Edward Verrall.Wanderer in Holland.*$1.75. Macmillan.
“The combination of Mr. Lucas as narrator with Mr. Herbert Marshall as illustrator has given us a charming volume.... It was a happy idea to intersperse photographs of some of the more famous Dutch pictures. Mr. Lucas is an admirable guide and visitors to Hollandcould not have a more agreeable commentator on their travels past or future.... He not only abounds in wise and quaint comments himself, but is the cause of our remembering the wisdom of others.”—Sat. R.
“‘A wanderer in Holland’ is, of course, no substitute for Murray or Baedeker, rather is it their essential complement.”