*“Mr. Moore has increased our dislike to positive hatred; all the worst qualities of this pernicious breed of book are accentuated in his present novel.”
*“Mr. Moore’s is one of the books worth reading.”
“Somehow the book leaves us cold.”
“As a novel the book has vigor and interest; as a presentation of Byron the poet it is a failure.”
“Mr. Moore has written an interesting story, but it has nothing to do with the hero and heroine, Lord Byron and Mary Ann Chaworth.”
*“Byron’s character is sketched sans prudishness by an author whose every book guarantees a few hours’ lively entertainment.”
*“We do not blame Mr. Moore for his failure, but for the impudence of his attempt.”
*Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.Children of other days.†$1.50. Stokes.
The notable pictures of children of various countries and times after paintings of great masters are accompanied by little sketches intended to interest the child reader in the portrait. The book is an art book of real value to little people.
Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.Lace book.**$5. Stokes.
The author “tells us in ‘The lace book’ in a concise form, all that is interesting in the history of the evolution and production of lace in the countries which have given the world the finest examples of this delicate fabric. This handsome volume is illustrated with engravings from famous pictures of distinguished personages, showing how lace was employed in costume at different times; well-chosen, full-size examples are also given of the various kinds of lace; and an index endows the collector and connoisseur with a book of reference.”—Nation.
“A very handsome and interesting book.”
*“A more engaging example of the combination of the useful with the agreeable could not easily be found than is provided by this volume.”
*“A most interesting and readable account of lace from the earliest days.”
Moore, T. Sturge.Albert Dürer.*$2. Scribner.
An original study rather than a conventional biography. The artist’s paintings, drawings, metal engravings, and wood cuts, are critically considered, the philosophy of his art is discussed, and the details of his life are given. The book is illustrated with half-tones and four copper-plates.
“A very stimulating essay, with sufficient fact, date, and specific criticism attached, as is helpful to that study, but no more. As an illustrated record of Dürer’s work, the book is a welcome supplement to the little volume by Lina Eckenstein, ... though it will not replace that as an admirable and business-like summary of the artist’s life and work. It must be admitted, first and foremost, that the volume is concerned with Mr. T. Sturge Moore’s outlook on life and the arts; the author has not lost himself in his subject.”
“The style is vigorous and picturesque, and, on the whole dignified. There seems, further, a lack of cohesion between the various parts of the book.”
“An excellent book marred by an involved and slipshod style.”
“His book is worthy of its place in the series by reason of his sympathetic interpretation of Dürer’s work.”
“Its writing and point of view make it a model of what an art book, written for lay readers, should be.”
“A singularly illusive book. While all the words in it are intelligible, the exact thing that was intended to be expressed somehow escapes one.”
“What Prof. Thausing, Allihn, Zahn, and Scott never suspected we find brought forth with the pride of discovery and illuminated in the language of a poet by Dürer’s latest and youngest biographer. In the history of biographical writing, of art criticism, and connoisseurship, ‘Albert Dürer,’ by T. Sturge Moore, is an epoch-making work. Its form and execution present a new model for study and imitation. He lays bare the mind, the soul of the artist, and shows the inevitableness of what Dürer achieved.”
“Mr. Moore is always interesting, and perhaps never more interesting than when he is least convincing. His work is certainly a stimulating addition to the series in which it finds place.”
Moorehead, William Gallogly.Outline studies in the New Testament, Philippians to Hebrews.**$1.20. Revell.
“These studies will be deemed scholarly and sound by such Christians as are unreconciled to the scientific and critical doctrines now dominant, and disposed to stand by the verbal inerrancy of the Scriptures.”—Outlook.
More, E. Anson.Captain of men.†$1.50. Page.
Merodach, the Assyrian, is the hero of this story of Tyre in the days when David was outlawed. Miriam, a slave in the household of the richest merchant of Tyre, who is engaged in the tin trade, is the heroine. The action is involved, there are many characters and there is much cruelty.
*“It is fairly well written and fairly exciting, but nothing more.”
“Has some effective scenes, with long wastes of dullness.”
More, Paul Elmer.Shelburne essays.3 ser. ea.**$1.25. Putnam.
The author, an ex-professor of Sanskrit, received his call to the work of literary criticism during the course of two years in which he lived a life of solitary meditation. In Series one, of his essays the hermit of Shelburne devotes himself to the problems of the soul, he treats of Hawthorne, Emerson, Carlyle, Symons, Tolstoy and others, and discusses the religious and literary movements of to-day. Series two contains papers on English sonnets, Lafcadio Hearn, Hazlitt, Lamb, Kipling and FitzGerald. Crabbe, Meredith, Hawthorne, Delphi and Greek literature, and Nemesis. The third series treats of Cowper’s correspondence, Whittier the poet, Sainte-Beuve, Scotch novels and Scotch history, Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Brownings’ popularity, Byron’s Don Juan, Laurence Sterne and Mr. Whitehouse.
*“Mr. More is a critic of many merits, and his ‘Shelburne essays’ reveal a penetrating and cultivated intellect. But it is obvious that he is less comfortable in the æsthetic environment of the sixteenth century than in that of the eighteenth.” Edward Fuller.
“Is a collection of literary, psychological, and ethical studies, of unusual seriousness and power. Our essayist may be thought at times to take himself and his hermit experience, and his ‘long course of wayward reading,’ a little too seriously. He has certainly read widely and wisely, and his essays are unquestionably full of meat.”
“Both in his fine classical scholarship and in his carefully wrought sentences, Mr. More calls to mind the lamented Walter Pater, although the Oxford scholar’s reading and literary sympathies, wide as they were, strike one as less comprehensive than Mr. More’s.”
“The second series of Mr. Paul Elmer More’s ‘Shelburne essays’ is likely to win the favor of book lovers in no less degree than its predecessor. Mr. More’s freedom from provincialism is manifest even in his style.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“If Mr. More is able to realize his ideal of the high calling of the critic he will eventually be able to exert an influence on American literature like that of Brunetiere on French.”
*“The Lafcadio Hearn and the Sainte-Beuve [essays] are, perhaps, the most remarkable for the depth and penetration of their analysis.”
“His is the criticism that takes infinite pains, dissects out every nerve.”
“Are marked by charm and insight. They are not unduly discursive.”
“He is sound and sane, and he can penetrate sympathetically to inner realities of the works and the men he is studying. He is independent and he thinks for himself.”
“Mr. More has the instincts of the scholar and the tastes of the man of culture; but his feet are on the ground. And he has a generous endowment of that common sense which is the conservator of art, as genius is its inspiration.”
“Whatever his subject, the stamp of leisurely scholarship, of well-backed, first-hand knowledge, of that indescribable something called ‘style’ attests the writer’s kinship with the best of the old-school essayists.”
Morgan, Lewis Henry.League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois; ed. by Herbert M. Lloyd.**$5. Dodd.
This new edition contains not only an accurate re-print of the edition of 1851, but also copious editorial notes, and introduction, personal reminiscences of Morgan by Charles T. Porter, a brief biography of Morgan with a bibliography of his writings, a sketch of the lives of Ely S. Parker and Charles T. Porter, an excellent index, and many illustrations.
“One-volume reprint of the two-volume original lacks nothing desirable in the way of critical apparatus.”
“Still remains the best and most authoritative work on the subject. For his editorial notes Mr. Lloyd has drawn upon every source of information, and they reveal his wide and discriminating reading of literature on the Iroquois. Not only a work of prime importance to all students of Indian life and character, but a book that one reads with genuine enjoyment for its own sake.” L. J. Burpee.
Morris, William O’Connor.Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England.**$1.35; hf. lea.**$1.60. Putnam.
“This is the most recent volume of the “Heroes of the nations” series.... The book is in no sense a biography of Wellington, but almost entirely a military history. The Peninsular war forms, as it were, the kernel.... But Wellington’s early career is not neglected. The promise of his youth ... is well indicated in the first chapter, and in the second, the seven years spent in India are ... treated.... The ninth chapter deals with the campaign of 1815.... The remainder of the book, on the duke’s political life, is not so detailed.... There are 16 portraits of the principal personages, and 16 maps and plans.”—Nation.
“This is a hopelessly mediocre book. The book has not even ... a correct, agreeable, and lucid style. It cannot be recommended even for the instruction of the general public and school-boys.” R. M. Johnston.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
“This seems to us the first really satisfactory account of his career and his influence on the military power of England that has been given in compact and popular form.”
“Mr. Davis remarks in the concluding sentence that ‘the judge’s conclusions, although they have been challenged by some high authorities, deserve the attention due to acute independent study of the original sources of information’; a statement which will probably be indorsed by most readers of the book.”
“But on the whole, those who like a résumé of a period will find in this book more than a good example of its kind.”
Morrison, Arthur.Green diamond.†$1.50. Page.
The pursuit of a lost diamond, which is stolen from the Rajah of Goona and sent to England in a magnum of Tokay wine; an American buys the wine, and not suspecting its value, sells it. Adventures thrilling and blood-curdling follow thick and fast until at last the breathless author and reader give up the chase.
“Arthur Morrison is entitled to rank among the better writers of mystery or detective-stories of the present time. ‘The green diamond’ is, we think, the best of Mr. Morrison’s mystery-stories. It is one of the best mystery tales of the present year.” Amy C. Rich.
*Mortimer, Alfred Garnett.It ringeth to evensong.*$1.25. Whittaker.
The trials and blessings of old age are discussed helpfully here for people of advancing years. The same optimism of the book commends it to the healthy minded no less than to the mortal who looks out drearily upon old age.
Mother Goose.Only true Mother Goose; ed. by Edward Everett Hale.†60c. Lothrop.
A facsimile reprint of “The only true Mother Goose” as published in Boston in 1833, including the odd-looking woodcuts. Dr. Hale has furnished an introduction to the book “which setting aside the Goose fable, is really a valuable collection of political squibs and old songs, any where from a century and a half to three centuries old.” (N. Y. Times.)
*“A quaint little volume.”
Mother-Light: a novel.†$1.50. Appleton.
“This book places in the suburbs of Trenton, New Jersey, the headquarters of an extraordinary religious cult, something after the Theosophical order. Three hundred pages are devoted to describing its mummeries and the emotions and experiences of a young woman from Ida Grove, Iowa, its chosen high priestess, or ‘Mother-Light’.”—Outlook.
Mott, Frederick Blount.Before the crisis.†$1.50. Lane.
A book dealing with America before the outbreak of the Civil war, and during the campaign of John Brown and his sons. “The book is full of graphically told adventures; but though these are exciting reading, the picture of slavery is even more interesting. The slaves depicted are under good masters, yet in spite of this the author shows conclusively how the characters of both owners and slaves were corroded by an institution which involved the absolute dependence of one human being on the caprice of another.” (Spec.)
“Mr. Mott’s romance is a moderately deft piece of workmanship on familiar, melodramatic lines.”
“It is a thrilling story, however, and well enough told for those readers living too far North to detect the author’s egregious errors in representing negro character and negro dialect.”
Mott, Lawrence.Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson bay region in the early days.†$1.50. Century.
Jules Verbaux, a gaunt French-Canadiantrapper, outlawed by the Hudson Bay company, which has put a price upon his head, lives the life of the hunted, cleverly avoiding capture. He flits like a shadow over the frozen north and thru the fury of its storms, trapping where he can, but wherever he rears his lone hut some relentless enemy reduces it to ashes. A prey to brute passions in a cruel world with all hands against him, the great heart of the man still beats warm beneath the “petite” cap of his “enfant” who is dead, which he carries constantly with him, the sole reminder of the wife whom he believes has deserted him. Again and again it prompts him to noble action while his whole being calls for vengeance. In the end he is given a bleak sort of happiness—but it suffices, and his great heart sighs, “Je suis content.”
*“The book offers interesting reading for boys, and even older readers may enjoy the vivid descriptions of the hard life of the trapper.”
*“It is not too much to say that this book is splendid: it might not be too much to say that it is great.”
*“It is a strong story, happily free from much of the brutality and dreariness that have marked so many stories of the frozen north.”
*“They are strong stories of strong men who lived full-blooded lives and died in whatever way ‘le bon Dieu willed.’”
Moule, Rt. Rev. Handley C. G.Second epistle to Timothy: short devotional studies on the dying letter of St. Paul.*$1. Union press.
The bishop of Durham “has taken up this heart-moving Epistle with the single intention of expounding it after the manner of a Bible reading, not for literary criticism or enquiry but in quest of divine messages for heart and life.” As the verses are treated in the commentary, they are noted in the margin of each page. A poem upon “The martyrdom of St. Paul,” written in 1876, is appended.
Moyer, James Ambrose.Descriptive geometry for students of engineering. $2. Wiley.
This is the second edition of this book. “It is far more than a slight revision.... The text has been more than doubled, and the number of diagrams increased from 33 to 77.... The text is placed on the left-hand pages, and the diagrams, instead of being massed at the end of the volume, as in the former edition, are placed on the right hand pages, the space not thus used being available for notes by the student.” (Engin. N.)
“As a whole, the book is well adapted to the needs of engineering colleges, and in a number of important features is the most satisfactory one now available.” Henry S. Jacoby.
“We believe that the interests of both theory and practice would be better served if the instruction offered by Mr. Moyer were combined with such a course as that afforded by Professor Emch’s book.” Cassius J. Keyser.
Muirhead, Rev. Lewis A.Eschatology of Jesus; or, The kingdom come and coming: a brief study of our Lord’s apocalyptic language in the synoptic Gospels. $1.75. Armstrong.
“The volume is composed of lectures given on the Bruce foundation, and is subject to the limitations of its origin. The first lecture considers the pre-suppositions of the study; the second, the relation of the Jewish apocalypses to Jesus; the third, the actual teaching of Jesus concerning the consummation of the Kingdom; and the fourth, inclusively, the Son of man.”—Am. J. of Theol.
“The treatment, as a whole, however, can hardly be called more than sketchy. Taken altogether, the book, though stimulating, suffers from the fault which besets all exegetical studies dominated by pre-suppositions. Mr. Muirhead has said some very sensible things, but his volume presumes an attitude of mind ... that one may go the length of literary criticism and yet refrain from dogmatic or historical changes.” Shailer Mathews.
Reviewed by H. B. Sharman.
“Mr. Muirhead submits this view to careful investigation, in excellent spirit, cautious yet receptive, and his work is one of the most valuable of recent contributions to the understanding of the synoptic gospels.”
Muirhead, Lewis A.Times of Christ.*60c. Scribner.
“The author of this handy volume is favorably known by his scholarly and fruitful work on ‘The eschatology of Jesus.’ To meet the needs of junior students he has here expanded and simplified a former edition of this manual, which some older students may value as an inexpensive and convenient substitute for Schürer’s voluminous work on ‘The Jewish people in the time of Christ.’”—Outlook.
Mulets, Lenore Elizabeth.Stories of little fishes.†$1. Page.
This sixth volume in the series of “Phyllis’ field friends” opens with the statement that one who goes a-fishing with Phyllis may expect to catch strange things, and that under the general title of fishes the reader may chance upon an eel, a turtle, or a frog. Then follows a mixture of fact and fiction which will delight the young, altho the combination of scientific truth and fairy story is rather daring.
*“They are entertainingly written.”
Mulock, Miss, pseud.SeeCraik, Dinah Maria.
Mumford, Ethel Watts.Joke book note book.**75c. Elder.
This note book for jokes is a clever little conceit, cleverly carried out. It is in pocket size with pages left blank for the instant jotting down of the illusive joke. An illustrated thumb index makes reference to the different divisions easy, while the head pieces, which are real heads, the tail-pieces, which are real feet, and the general make up, are jocose enough to fit whatever may be recorded.
Mumford, Ethel Watts; Herford, Oliver, and Mizner, Addison.Complete cynic’s calendar of revised wisdom for 1906.**75c. Elder.
The same cynicisms applied to a new calendar. The book is made as attractive as its predecessor, with marginal drawings done in red ink.
*“This 1906 edition is better as a whole than any of its predecessors. The cream of the old ‘twister’ proverbs has been retained, and the new ones are equal to the best of the old.”
*Munk, Joseph Amasa.Arizona sketches.**$2. Grafton press.
Dr. Munk “describes not only the Grandcañonof the Colorado, with which we are all more or less familiar from former accounts, but also such little-known phenomena as the Meteoritemountain and the oddities of desert vegetation.... There are also interesting chapters on the structures of the cliff dwellers, and entertaining accounts of the habits and customs of the snake dancers, the modern Moquis. The book is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—R. of Rs.
Munro, Dana Carleton, and Sellery, George Clarke, eds. and trs. Medieval civilization: selected studies from European authors.*$1.25. Century.
“The compilers of this volume designed it as an aid to instructors and students in mediaeval history. The book includes samples of many authorities bearing on the points on which the student of mediaeval history will be likely to need special illumination.”—N. Y. Times.
“The volume is especially adapted to institutions where the libraries are limited in scope.”
“Prepared with praiseworthy care and good judgment.”
“Each student may use it as an auxiliary. The volume will be practically serviceable for the purpose for which it is intended. Even readers with fairly correct general conceptions of the period will find much that is new to them.”
*Munro, Hugh Andrew Johnstone.Criticism and elucidations of Catullus; also Ætna revised, amended and explained.*$4. Stechert.
A reprint of a volume which “first appeared in 1878, and has for some time been a rare book, not easily procured. Mr. J. D. Duff contributes a prefatory note to the effect that three short papers, printed by Munro in ‘The journal of philology’ after the publication of his book, have been added, a few misprints have been corrected, and a few fresh notes by Munro himself included. Reference has also been made occasionally to discussion of points since Munro’s day. But the book, as at present printed, is only two pages longer than in the old form. This masterpiece of Munro, with all its liveliness of style, knowledge of Latin, and feeling of poetry, ought to be known to every classical scholar.”—Ath.
*“Our best thanks are due to those who have made it available for the present generation.”
Munsterberg, Hugo.Americans; tr. by Edwin B. Holt.**$2.50. McClure.
“A translation of Professor Munsterberg’s ‘Die Amerikäner,’ recently published in Germany. It aims to be a general explanation of the American people—their history, their customs and their political and social life. He discusses the methods used by the Americans in meeting such vital problems as the silver question, trusts, the negro question, divorce, huge fortunes, displays of wealth, etc.”—Bookm.
“The work, in spite of its undoubted merits, lacks the keen incisiveness that distinguished the ‘American traits.’ At times the style is rather diffuse, and in place of brilliant generalizations one gets somewhat barren generalities.”
“We regard the work as one of the most subtly dangerous books, if one is not on the alert to detect its fallacies, that has appeared in years. Apparently liberal, it is in fact ultra-reactionary in so far as its attitude toward true democracy is concerned. The author’s desire to make the Americans appear to the best advantage to the aristocratic and cultured of monarchial Germany leads him at times to indulge in the same sophistical special-pleadings that mark his treatment of democracy and the genius of free government which we have dwelt upon in our editorial.” Amy C. Rich.
“Excellently translated. His work deserves to find an honourable place in all libraries as a supplement to the more solid volumes of Mr. Bryce.”
“By plan, selections of topics, and perspective of presentation, the work seems measurably suited to its objective purpose. The self-assertive American cannot refrain from expressing with regret but with conviction, his inability to endorse the judicial pronouncements or the philosophic standpoint of ‘The Americans.’ It is possible that we lack the gift to see ourselves as others see us; but we cannot candidly laud the lifelikeness of the portrait when we are introduced into its presence.” Joseph Jastrow.
“The translation is ... written in a fluent style and betraying little of the awkwardness which attaches to so many translations and at once betrays them as such, a cursory examination of passages taken at random reveals not a few infidelities, inaccuracies and inaptitudes.”
“The tone of the work is essentially optimistic. Of the two [’American traits’ and ‘Americans’] the latter is by far the most pretentious. It is comparable rather with such a work as Emile Boutmy’s ‘The English people.’ To defect of method must be added blemishes of misstatement and even errors of prejudice. There can be no doubt that it renders a distinct service to the readers of both countries. Seldom have we seen such a complete record of American achievement, individual and national, as is embodied in the pages dealing with the concrete facts of our development.”
“One of the most thoughtful, valuable dissections of American national character by a foreigner is ‘The Americans.’”
“The book is a typical specimen of the best German method. The whole book is an admirable defence of what is best in American life, but at the same time there is a wholesome suggestion of that other side.”
Munsterberg, Hugo.Eternal life.**85c. Houghton.
“Two friends are sitting at the hearth after a funeral, and one gives the other his thoughts on immortality, as recorded here in an imagined monologue. There is an Oversoul, whose will-attitudes are the norms of the good, the beautiful, and the true. These are eternal. These will-attitudes we may make ours, yet they become ours ‘only in so far as our consciousness, is the over-individual consciousness, the Oversoul.’”—Outlook.
“His interpretation of life in terms of will is done with extraordinary skill and perspicuity, considering the small space allotted to the problem in his paper. But his application of the theory of will-values to individual immortality appears to us unsatisfactory and weak.”
“It is a spiritual structure built upon the sands of speculation.” Edward Fuller.
“It is written in a charming manner, and is really a description of the author’s philosophy. The fault I find with Professor Munsterberg’s philosophy is really this: that it pretends to get rid of time and space in considering personality, and yet does not do so, and cannot, in the nature of things.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
Murfree, Mary Noailles.SeeCraddock, Charles Egbert, pseud.
Murray, A. H. Hallam; Nevinson, H. W.; and Carmichael, Montgomery.Sketches on the old road through France to Florence.*$5. Dutton.
Mr. Murray has pictured his journey thru Normandy, central and southern France, and Italy in a series of sketches which the equally artistic descriptive work of Mr. Nevinson on France, and Mr. Carmichael on Italy rounds into a volume pleasing and instructive to both the mind and the eye.
“His book is beyond doubt the best colour-book yet issued.”
“The illustrations by A. H. Hallam-Murray are full of the romance and charm of the places he has pictured.”
Murray, Grace Peckham.Fountain of youth.**$1.60. Stokes.
The relation of personal hygiene to health and longevity, all along the way from the commonplace in looks to genuine attractiveness is set forth clearly and professionally in this very fully illustrated handbook.
Mustard, Wilfred Pirt.Classical echoes in Tennyson.**$1.25. Macmillan.
Volume III in the “Columbia university studies in English series.” A book which sets forth the classical influence in Tennyson’s writings by showing the kinship between many of his passages and those of the old Greek and Latin authors. There are many explanatory and reference notes, including the texts of the passages quoted both in English and the original.
“This attractive little volume, it should be understood, is something very much better than the mere digging out of such verses of Tennyson as show resemblance to lines in Greek or Latin literature. The erudition of the compiler is accompanied everywhere by an exact and critical scholarship. Here and there he corrects errors of Tennysonian editors and biographers—once a misquotation from memory by Tennyson himself. For this and other reasons this book cannot safely be missed by any student of Tennyson’s work in general, whether or not he happens to be especially interested in its particular subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“The author is often prone to seek for origins in specific things which for centuries have been generalities in thought and language. Prof. Mustard writes without prejudice and with a wholesome perception of the idiosyncracies of the poet’s mind, of his knowledge, and his imagination.”
Muther, Richard.Jean François Millet.*$1. Scribner.
Although but a brief monograph, this addition to the “Langham series,” gives a fair and concise study of Millet’s work. The volume is pleasing in size, shape, and illustrations.
“Is especially notable for the justice of its point of view.”
“If the account somewhat lacks the picturesque phraseology which we find in Mrs. Ady’s biography, it has a greater note of authority.”
My garden in the city of gardens. SeeCuthell, E. H.
Myers, A. Wallis, ed. Sportsman’s year book for 1905.*$1.25. imp. Scribner.
“There are chapters by different writers on the horse racing during the year, cricket, football, rugby, motor racing, motor boating, polo, lawn tennis, croquet, hockey, lacrosse, amateur athletics, rowing, coursing, cycle racing, and yacht racing. These are followed by biographies of well-known English sportsmen and sportswomen. The illustrations, in black-and-white, include photographic reproductions of portraits of English champions, boats, horses, dogs, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
Myers, Albert Cook, ed. Hannah Logan’s courtship: a true narrative; the wooing of the daughter of James Logan, colonial governor of Pennsylvania, and divers other matters, as related in the diary of her lover, John Smith, esq., 1746-1752. $2.50; ¾ lev. $4. Ferris.
In the diary of John Smith of Philadelphia, Quaker and business man, is recorded the story of his quiet life and of his courtship of Hannah Logan, whom he married in 1748. The book is illustrated by facsimiles, autographs, silhouettes, and portraits, which aid the diary in giving an interesting view of colonial Philadelphia.
“The extreme frankness and naïveté of the diary, which was intended for no eyes but those of Smith himself, add to the pleasantness of the book, for which we are grateful to Mr. Myers.”
“A volume exceedingly attractive to students of our colonial history, and not unattractive to the general reader.”
“The diary is not only a charming and perfectly un-self-conscious record of a courtship of those days; it is worth much as a picture of the manners and daily life of the Quakers of ‘the Province’.”
“As the medium of presenting an excellent picture of colonial home life the book also has value.”
“The plan of the book is original and it will interest many readers.”
Myers, Frederick William Henry.Fragments of prose and poetry.*$2.50. Longmans.
A volume edited by the wife of this high minded scholar, poet and leader in the work of “Psychical research” three years after his death. There is an autobiographical sketch which sets forth his struggle with doubt and faith, followed by tributes to Ruskin, Gladstone, Watts, Stevenson and other friends who passed before him into the unknown. The last section of the volume contains sixty of his poems. The whole is well illustrated.
“But here is less an argument than a ‘document,’ the inner life of a poet and thinker. His poems which fill nearly half the book, ... are so good they should be better; but his congenital sin, perhaps, of rhetoric— ... too often gets the best of them.”
*Myrick, Herbert.Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.
On the slender thread of the story of a young New Yorker who in unmerited disgrace disappears from his home, reappears as a western tenderfoot, serves under Custer, and wins reputation and a bride, are strung pictures of the crude life and thrilling scenes found in northern Colorado, Wyoming and Montana in the early seventies. The book altho both novel and historical,is not a typical historical novel. The numerous illustrations from paintings by Charles Schreyvogel, Edward W. Deming, and Henry Fangel, with many photographs not only supplement the author’s descriptions but overshadow the text. The fact that they represent real people about whom the appendix provides further facts, gives the book an added value. There are portraits of Custer, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-face and other characters, and pictures of various scenes from cow-boy life.