“Witty and ingenious.”
Roberts, Theodore.Brothers of peril.†$1.50. Page.
The two brothers of peril are a brave Indian boy and a young English cavalier seeking adventure in the New world. The scenes are laid in Newfoundland among the Beothic Indians. The author says: “I have dared to resurrect an extinct tribe for the purposes of fiction. I have drawn inspiration from the spirit of history rather than the letter. But the heart of the wilderness, and the hearts of men and women, I have pictured in this romance of olden time as I know them to-day.”
*“A well-fancied tale of old Newfoundland.”
“We admire Mr. Roberts’s modesty, and commend him for his temperate description.”
“A rarely good tale of adventure in which the characters are vividly drawn and the interest is never allowed to fall below the properly breathless point.”
“A fabric pulsing with thrills, jealousy, pirates, Indian treachery and other necessities of a thoroughly good story of adventure.”
Robertson, Charles Grant,ed. Select statutes, cases and documents to illustrate English constitutional history, 1660-1832; with a supplement from 1832-1894.**$3. Putnam.
“The book is the outgrowth of the author’s own needs in teaching modern history at Oxford, where he found that ... there was a hiatus that needed to be filled by a collection of documents for the epoch that opens with the restoration of Charles II.... Among the statutes and documents included may be mentioned the Act of uniformity, the Test act, the Coronation oath, the Bill of rights, the Act of settlement, the Act for the union with Scotland, the Act for the union with Ireland, the Abolition of the slave trade. All of the most famous cases in English legal history, within the period treated, are included.”—N. Y. Times.
“Careful notes indicate when statutes have been repealed, though the system employed does not always make clear just what portions. It is spread out too thin to suit the needs of intensive work. The value of the bibliography and of many of the page references is much lessened by the failure to give the date and place of publication of the editions cited. Other examples seem to indicate that the editor’s knowledge of the general history of at least part of his period is somewhat faulty.” Arthur Lyon Cross.
“In his selection and editing of the statutes and cases that were available Mr. Robertson has certainly displayed excellent judgment and sound learning.”
“Is indispensable to the reader and student of modern English history. The volume forms altogether one of the very best collections of documents illustrative of English history.” Stanhope Sams.
Robertson, James Alexander.SeeBlair, Emma Helen, jt. auth.
Robertson, Morgan.Down to the sea.†$1.25. Harper.
Fourteen stories on various subjects, but all of men whose real home is not on land. Under such titles as—“A cow, two men, and a parson,” “The mutiny,” “The vitality of Dennis,” “Fifty fathoms down,” “The enemies,” “The rivals,” and “A hero of the cloth,” we hear of war vessels and other craft, of humorous and exciting happenings, and come to know some most enjoyable characters.
“Are in the last degree ingenious in construction and clever in the telling. They have, however, two serious faults: they are so far-fetched ... and, except for the adventures of Finnegan, they are painful to the point of being disagreeable.”
“In his characterization of the men whom he brings into these stories there is all the vigor, simplicity, and natural unforced humor that would be expected from one who has been called the ‘Kipling of the sea.’”
“Some amusing, some vividly realistic, and others impressive by virtue of the style, even when farthest from the probable.”
“There are a directness and freshness about the mere way in which Mr. Robertson sets about telling a story, that only come when one is master of his whole subject, a close observer and friend of his characters, a master of the ship, and of the words to describe both men and ships. But it is in the humorous that Mr. Robertson excels.”
“These stories of his have the genuine salt savor and the salt sting.”
“A volume of thoroughly good and amusing stories of many seas.”
Robertson, T. W.Society and Caste, ed. by T. Edgar Pemberton. 60c. Heath.
A volume in section III. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The texts are printed from the English acting editions which follow the original manuscripts. A life of Robertson, an introduction, notes and a bibliography are included.
Robertson, William Graham, il. French songs of old Canada; with translations into modern English verse.*$10. Dutton.
A beautiful gift book of colored drawings which illustrate the stories found in these old songs of the French-Canadians. A separate pamphlet contains good English translations of the songs.
Robins, Edward.William T. Sherman.*$1.25. Jacobs.
Altho there is not room for great detail in this brief account of the life of Sherman, many interesting conversations and anecdotes have been included which add both to its historical and biographical value. The volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and contains chronology, bibliography, and index.
Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes).Dark lantern; a story with a prologue.†$1.50. Macmillan.
“London society, within the last ten years, makes the surroundings of the intrigue and passion that are here dealt with ... Katherine Dereham, the heroine, and the ogre doctor, Garth Vincent, however, concentrate most of the reader’s attention. Katherine is a beautiful girl, who falls desperately in love with a prince, who cannot marry her ... and wastes much of her youth in a harmful thralldom to a fancy. After her escape from her passion for the prince, burdened with a serious illness, she becomes the thrall of the ogre doctor, described as ‘the man with the dark-lantern face.’”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a striking, though scarcely a satisfactory book, and widely remote in every respect from the ordinary machine-made novel of commerce.”
“Besides the vigor with which the main theme is handled, the striking quality of the book is a certain kind of bigness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Her characters certainly have vitality, and an extraordinary power to interest us.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Grotesque in its violation of the elementary principles of art and literature.” Herbert W. Horwill.
“‘A dark lantern’ at once sustains the writer’s reputation for competent craftsmanship.”
“It must be called, plainly, a distorted picture. But it is full of sincerity, and has much fine detail. In strength, in originality, in emotional force it is far out of the common.”
“Is not what is sometimes called a pleasant book, but it has the strength of interest.”
“In the New England sense, it is not a nice story, but the able characterization and the intense plot give it the right to be.”
“Miss Robins may see life awry,—the reader clings to the hope that she does,—but she sees it strongly and brilliantly.”
Robins, Rev. Henry Ephraim.Ethics of the Christian life; or, The science of right living.**$2. Am. Bapt.
“Part. I. deals with the nature of the ethics of the Christian life: the moral agent and the disorder of the moral nature, the remedy for moral disorder. Part. II. discusses the scope of the ethics of the Christian life: all duty rests on the holy will of God, duty to self, duty to society, duty to nature, duty to God. Part. III. considers the method of the ethics of the Christian life.”—Am. J. of Theol.
“Valuable work. The work under review is a contribution to only one tract of that larger field.” C. R. Henderson.
“Grant Dr. Robins’ premises, and you can not escape his conclusions. His is not a twentieth century ethical system.”
Robinson, Albert Gardner.Cuba and the intervention.**$1.80. Longmans.
A book which “falls roughly into three divisions: a review of peninsular misrule in Cuba and of the efforts of the Cubans to throw off the Spanish yoke; a survey of the American occupation of the island, with especial attention to the work of reconstruction; and a statement of the conditions prevailing since the Cubans attained self-government. An eye-witness of many of the events he describes, Mr. Robertson writes with vivacity and warmth.... His point of view, however, is primarily and frankly Cuban.”—Outlook.
“The volume covers the various phases of American activity and gives valuable insight into the difficulties of the task confronting the American authorities.”
“This is a clear and unbiased account of one of the most interesting incidents in our national history.”
“While his volume is in some respects extremely useful—notably ... in assisting to a better appreciation of the Latin-American character—it can scarcely be said to fulfill its main purpose of giving a clear and unbiased account of the methods and results of American intervention.”
“Mr. Robinson sums up the whole case of the United States and Cuba with admirable impartiality.”
Robinson, Charles Mulford.Modern civic art.**$3. Putnam.
A consideration of the problem of civic improvement as applied to all cities, their business centres, streets, residences, tenements, parks, and parkways. This second edition is illustrated with numerous half-tones and photogravures presenting architectural arrangements for city squares, water fronts, and other places of decorative importance.
“Though flowery in style on occasion, the author handles his subject both widely and concretely.”
Reviewed by Ralph Clarkson.
“The author’s analysis is exhaustive, and his treatment is as complete and authoritative as our present knowledge of the subject makes possible.”
“We are glad that a second edition, with the addition of designs, has been published of this valuable volume.”
Robinson, E. Kay.Country day by day.**$1.75. Holt.
In his garden on the coast of Norfolk, the author has studied bird life and plant life and he gives an account of an English year, the drama which the observant one may see enacted day by day, by the things of feathers and of petals.
“It forms a vade mecum of pleasant information for all the passing hours of the rolling year.”
Reviewed by May Estelle Cook.
“As a rule, the author has nothing specially new to tell, and his book may be regarded as a guide to what the observant country resident ought to see and notice, rather than as an exponent of fresh facts.” R. L.
“It is one of the great merits of the book that this appreciation of nature is never allowed to degenerate into sentimentalism.”
“This is a delightful record of a year in the country day by day. It is written with a keen sympathy with nature and a true instinct for the beautiful.”
*Robinson, Edwin Arlington.Children of the night,**$1. Scribner.
“President Roosevelt has praised this book of poems, finding in them ‘an undoubted touch of genius.’ To this fact no doubt is due the reprinting of a little book now eight years old.” (Critic.) “The mood is usually serious, and quite removed from the too sweet and pensive sadness of one who invokes grief as a becoming adjunct to his verse.... The numerous poems of religious feeling are the product of a wholesome faith.”—N. Y. Times.
*“We do not dispute the President’s dictum; but we suspect that he has not kept ‘au courant’ with the flood of American minor verse. Had he done so, he would think twice before applying the word ‘genius’ to Mr. Robinson, notwithstanding the author’s ‘curious simplicity and good faith.’”
*“Mr. Robinson’s work has never got half the attention it deserved.”
*“Is a very pleasant little book. No minor poet of the day is less indebted to poetic conventionalisms than Mr. Robinson, or more securely himself.”
*“They are nearly always individual, and show little tendency to echo poets of a larger gift which too often is the hall mark of the minor poet.”
*“There is an undoubted touch of genius in the poems collected in this volume, and a curious simplicity and good faith, all of which qualities differentiate them sharply from ordinary collections of this kind.” T. Roosevelt.
*Robinson, Harry Perry.Black bear.*$2. Macmillan.
“The black bear tells the story of his cubhood, his joys and his troubles, his games and adventures with his sister ‘Kahwa.’ Then comes the first terrible experience of his life, a forest fire.... But ‘Kahwa’ escapes the fire only to be taken prisoner by men.... She tries to escape, but is killed in the attempt. Then follows period of loneliness, and in process of time the first great fight and the winning of a wife. All this is told with much spirit, and illustrated by some excellent pictures. One is quite sorry to leave him sitting disconsolately behind the bars of his cage; but then we could not otherwise have had his autobiography.”—Spec.
*“Mr. Robinson’s bears live on his pages. The reader begins early to feel an active interest in their fortunes and it is maintained to the end.”
Robinson, Sir John Richard.Fifty years of Fleet street: being the life and recollections of Sir John R. Robinson; comp. and ed. by F. Moy Thomas.*$4. Macmillan.
Forty-seven years as manager of the “London daily news” earned for Mr. Robinson, in the words of Mr. John Morley, “the respect and honor of everybody who cares for the tradition of English journalism.” Failing health was doubtless responsible for the failure of his intention to write his autobiography. From the fragmentary diaries, journals, jottings, and impressions, the compiler, Mr. Thomas, has constructed his “Life and recollections.” “Most of the conspicuous persons in the world of politics, literature, art, and music during the past fifty years had been the personal friends and associates of the great journalist.” (N. Y. Times). Among them were: Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Disraeli, Cobden, Mill, Rosebery, Landseer, General Grant, Cyrus Field, “Mark Twain,” Artemus Ward, Bret Harte, Archibald Forbes, Charles Dickens, Lord Coleridge, Charles Kingsley, Arthur Sullivan, Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Sankey, Sarah Bernhardt, Bismarck, Labouchere.
“The text is interesting and at times absorbing. A vein of good nature and social enjoyment is distinctly visible throughout it.”
“A volume of great interest and considerable value. There can be no two opinions of Mr. Thomas’s fitness for the accomplishment of the task he undertook in compiling and editing these recollections, for during a quarter of a century he was a worker with and a close friend of Sir John Robinson. The whole book, though a disappointment to those of us who expected a carefully prepared, witty, instructive volume of memoirs written by the chieftain’s own hand and with proofs corrected and revised by him, is nevertheless one that we have every reason to feel grateful to Mr. Frederick Moy Thomas for having compiled and edited.” Elizabeth Banks.
Robinson, Rowland Evans.Hunting without a gun, and other papers. $2. Forest & stream.
A posthumous volume of sketches and stories in which the blind writer tells of the joys of the lover of nature, who seeks the creatures of the woods, but does not harm them.
Robinson, Rowland Evans.Out of bondage. $1.25. Houghton.
Seventeen short dialect stories, many of which have already appeared in various magazines, are collected under this title. “Out of bondage” is a story of the “underground” railroad, in which a Quaker family save an escaped negro from his pursuers. A little Quaker maid and her lover, and a revengeful disappointed admirer complicate the plot. “A letter from Hio,” is another idyll of country life, with a simple love motive. “The shag back panther,” a creation of an old Canuck, frightens its inventor from the berry patch. “A story of the old frontier” is an account of an Indian’s gratitude in liberating a woman who had nursed him. Altho the subjects are varied, they all concern men, animals, and country life. The treatment is mainly humorous.
“The very rusticity of his humor increases the verisimilitude of his portrait.”
“The shrewdness and pointed humor of the different characters are revealed with a keenness and delicacy of touch that show long, personal acquaintance among these people.”
“Surprisingly even in their interest and freshness. Mr. Robinson’s stories bring back old Vermont days and show us typical village and country people in all their native ruggedness, kindliness, and neighborly qualities.”
Rodd, Sir James Rennell.Sir Walter Raleigh. 75c. Macmillan.
“To Englishmen of to-day,” Sir Walter Raleigh “represents the genesis of British imperialism in the modern sense. To Americans, he stands for that sixteenth-century daring and love of adventure to which the English coloniesin the new world owed their existence. The sketch of Raleigh ... is a well written account of a career that was full of dramatic incident.”—R. of Rs.
“Sir Rennell Rodd has a sure grasp of his documents and has used them with much skill.”
“He has done his best as far as study goes, toward the solution of many mysterious actions on the part of the gallant Englishman. Sir Rennell Rodd’s record of social life during the two decades of the reign of Queen Elizabeth gives a clear insight into actual conditions.”
“A study rich in atmosphere. There are times when he assuredly assumes the role of a special pleader. The proportion is not so well maintained as we should desire. But, on the whole, he has acquitted himself well, giving us a book which is at once enjoyable and a creditable addition to a series of which it forms part.”
Rogers, A. W.Introduction to the geology of Cape Colony; with a chapter on the fossil reptiles of the Karroo formation, by R. Broom.*$3.50. Longmans.
A handbook which contains results of investigations made public as recently as 1904. There is a geological map and an introduction which connects the geological structure with the scenic features.
“It is a work which will be found of much use to the student of South African geology, since it contains in a compact form a good deal of information to be found otherwise only by reference to numerous scientific journals and official reports.”
“Is sure to remain a standard treatise. Compact and highly attractive handbook.” Grenville A. J. Cole.
Rogers, Joseph Morgan.Thomas H. Benton.**$1.25. Jacobs.
This addition to the “American crises biographies” contains a detailed account of the Missouri statesman, and gives the chief political events from 1820 to the repeal of the Missouri compromise with which his public work ended.
“Rogers did not entirely shake off his editorial habit of popular statement when producing a serious historical work.” W. H. Mace.
“The work is careless and superficial.”
“Mr. Rogers in this account of Thomas H. Benton has assumed more than properly belongs to the biographer.”
“In point of literary quality, a decided advance on his ‘The true Henry Clay.’ While the treatment is, as a rule, open-minded, it is marred at times by invidious and unnecessary comparisons between Benton and his notable contemporaries, and by occasional overstatement to a degree constituting a serious defect.”
“Mr. Rogers has presented an accurate and impressive picture of Thomas H. Benton.”
“The author has avoided, rather than sought after, popular effects; his own opinions are held in abeyance, and he sometimes assumes too large a knowledge on the part of his reader.”
Rogers, Joseph Morgan.The true Henry Clay.**$2. Lippincott.
The author’s life-long acquaintance with Clay’s “career and environment,” and his access to the private papers of the great statesman, have put him in touch with the real facts for a biography, which tells “the truth about Clay and his failures and successes.” He is set forth in the light of the true builder for his country,—the “economic development that has compelled the admiration of the world had its beginnings in the policies of internal improvements and tariff protection to which he stood, if not as father, at least as sponsor.... The key to his career, to his failures and successes alike, Mr. Rogers finds in his profoundly emotional nature. ‘While physically and mentally Clay was a strong man, temperamentally he was constituted like a woman.’” (Outlook).
“The loose rambling, repetitious style, running at times even into errors of grammar, informs us at once that we are not to look here for the minor accuracies of scholarship. Nor are all the errors minor. Read as a whole the book produces an admirable impression. This biography detracts no whit, from the value of Schurz’s account of the national activities of Henry Clay, but it will give the general reader a much better idea of the man.” Carl Russell Fish.
“The emphasis is on the personal side. The author is an admirer of Clay, yet he tells the truth about him, not glossing over his defects and frailties or attempting to cover his blunders.”
“There is an occasional slip of misstatement ... but on the whole a painstaking care is evident.”
“Mr. Rogers is fair-minded in that he does not scruple to lay bare the weaknesses as well as the strength of his hero. Nor has he any race or sectional prejudices to air. Lack of a sense of proportion, a feeble grasp of the subject as a whole, constitute, indeed, his chief faults. The man Clay he sees and comprehends. Of positive errors there are, so far as we have noticed, comparatively few.”
“Presenting a work markedly deficient in point of literary quality, gives an account of the great Kentuckian that is vivid, impartial, and philosophic, and that assists us to place him correctly among the founders of the United States of the twentieth century.”
“By all odds, the most entertaining and intimate sketch of Clay that has yet appeared.”
Rohlfs, Mrs. Charles.SeeGreen, Anna Katharine.
Rolfe, William James.Satchel guide for the vacation tourist in Europe; a compact itinerary of the British isles, Belgium and Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Italy.*$1.50. Houghton.
In this first edition of 1905, the list of hotels has been revised, corrections have been made in routes, fares, etc., and local changes in London and Paris have been noted. Pockets in the covers contain a plan of London and a railway map of the British isles.
*Roosevelt, Theodore.Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter.**$3. Scribner.
“The first three chapters of the President’s book describe hunting trips in Colorado and Oklahoma, after bears, coyotes, cougars, and bobcats. Other chapters some of which are reprinted, with additions, from previous books, deal with other American big game, the wapiti, white-tail and mule deer, antelope, and mountain sheep; chapters are also devoted to wilderness reserves, books on big game, and the outdoor life of the President and his family at their Long Island home.” (Outlook.) Thevolume is illustrated from photographs by the president himself or by members of his family.
*“All lovers of outdoor sport, all admirers of our strenuous President will be delighted with this book.”
*“This latest volume of his own will take high rank among those for the novelty of the sports it describes as well as for the freshness and spirit of the descriptions. We may say in passing that the President is as good a field-naturalist as a sportsman.”
*“To the reader who will approach the book either with a healthy interest in outdoor life or with an idle curiosity to read what a President has written, the work should prove of interest. The book should prove a valued addition to its class.”
*“Altogether it is an unusual book, and of interest to every one.”
*“Each chapter of the book bears testimony to the vigorous, wholesome, straightforward character of its author and to the remarkable thoroughness and zest with which he undertakes the study of any subject in which he is interested.”
*“Mr. Roosevelt’s literary method in treating of outdoor subjects is well known. It is characterized by a thorough-going purpose to do something more than merely narrate the author’s personal adventures.”
*“President Roosevelt’s most sensible remarks on the proper means of preserving game in a democratic country are worthy of all attention, and not less his analysis of the true hunter’s creed, with which every sportsman must agree.”
Root. A. I.A B C of bee culture; rev. by E. R. Root. $1.20. Root.
“A work of high value to all engaged in this fascinating pursuit. It is a cyclopædia in form and arrangement, and is fully illustrated, and the present edition has been so thoroughly revised as to be practically a new book.”—Outlook.
“There is nothing more comprehensive and satisfactory obtainable on this subject.”
Rosadi, Giovanni.Trial of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by Emil Reich.*$2.50. Dodd.
This work of Rosadi’s has been widely read in Italy and Germany, and now appears in a translation by Emil Reich, who says of it—“Signor Rosadi has approached his problem—apparently a purely legal one—with a warmth of sympathy, with a breadth of philosophical view, with a purity of religious sentiment that have rendered his book not only a noteworthy contribution to the history of Jesus, but a stimulating and (we say it unhesitatingly) an edifying work in the best sense of the word.”
“Is rich in information of court procedure among Jews and Romans in the days of Pontius Pilate, but the total absence of criticism in the use of the Gospels renders it unsafe as a guide in historical study.”
“We doubt ... if the best English and American scholarship will regard Signor Rosadi’s work seriously, and we must admit that the work seems to serve no particularly good purpose.”
“It is a thoroughly scholarly study.”
“The particular significance of the work is perhaps due to the two facts that it treats the famous trial as a matter of history and gives it its proper legal standing, and also that it portrays the personality of the man Christ in a way that appeals to a class of readers usually indifferent to religious books.”
“To English readers it will appear rather too full and rhetorical. We cannot praise the translation of the book. We have rarely seen a book with more misprints.”
“Is throughout deeply interesting.”
Rose, Achilles.Carbonic acid in medicine. $1. Funk.
The healing qualities of carbonic acid gas known centuries ago and used for therapeutical purposes have been re-discovered in modern science. The author has set forth the history and general usefulness of the properties to medical science.
Rose, John Holland.Napoleonic studies.*$2.50. Macmillan.
Essays, based principally on materials found while working on the author’s “Life of Napoleon I.,” which are of interest, with a few exceptions, to Napoleonic scholars. These exceptions are found in the chapters, “Wordsworth, Schiller, Fichte, and the Idealist revolt against Napoleon,” “The religious belief of Napoleon,” and “The detention of Napoleon by Great Britain.” The remaining discussions relate to: “Pitt’s plan for the settlement of Europe,” “Egypt during the first British occupation,” “Canning and Denmark in 1807,” “A British agent at Tilsit,” “Napoleon and British commerce,” “Britain’s food supply in the Napoleonic war,” “The Whigs and the French war,” “Austria and the downfall of Napoleon,” and “The Prussian co-operation at Waterloo.”
“While they vary in their temper and treatment as widely as the subjects, yet the author’s personality gives them quite sufficient unity to secure the interest of the reader and the continuity of the subject. Incidentally they clear up several little mysteries of antiquarian interest.”
“Regarding the new essays, they serve to emphasize the value of the research work which Mr. Rose has done in the British archives, and to prove that in spite of the great number of scholarly studies of the Napoleon era, large deposits of unused material still exist.” E. D. Adams.
“Mr. Rose’s essays are marked by the same wealth of information and carefulness of statement which appeared in his book. He does not dogmatize for the sake of amusing his readers by a sharp saying, and inclines to caution whenever he ventures to put forth a generalization.”
Rose, Mrs. Mary.Women of Shakespeare’s family.*50c. Lane.
“This book is largely made up of suppositions, as indeed might be expected, so little beyond names and dates is known about Shakespeare’s mother, wife, and daughters ... and it is only fair to say that Miss Rose has been careful to do her best with the few facts that she has to deal with.”—Spec.
Roseboro’, Viola.Players and vagabonds. $1.50. Macmillan.
Nine short stories founded upon real incidents met with in the author’s life upon the stage. Humor and pathos, episode and character, are combined to show the life of the real player folk behind the scenes. The first and longest story, “Where the ways crossed,” is the pathetic tale of Darley, a young Englishman, who found his longed-for chance to play the hero ina burning theatre. “The embroidered robe” is a character sketch of two would-be actors, “Her mother’s success” makes an unworldly mother the centre of a troupe of very worldly actors, “Potent memories” is all pathos, “The clown and the missionary,” all humor, “A bit of biography,” tells the story of a ten year old boy who forsook his adopted home for the stage. “Our Mantua maker,” “A marriagede covenance,” and “A glimpse of an artist,” complete the volume.
“If the reader is not more than entertained, is not touched and softened, then he, or she, is adamant.”
“All of them are human and searching and tender, full of a changeful, charmful quality that fascinates, brightened by brief triumphs, darkened by long poverty and disappointment, warmed by self-forgetful helping of others.”
“The pathos of her stories rings true and sound, and her all-embracing charity engages the fullest sympathy. These tattered waifs and strays of life, these, ‘players and vagabonds,’ have found one to plead for them whose pleading it would hardly be possible to resist.”
*Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier.I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the cross, tr. by Elizabeth Lee.†$1.50. McClure.
“A poor German carpenter under sentence of death for an anarchistic crime is supposed to write in his cell and from memory the story of that other carpenter of long ago—who was condemned as a subverter of the established order. Naturally the German carpenter’s own hard experience and his own dreams color his story of the other—naturally his memory plays him false, naturally (he is of a Catholic country) he writes in ideas and incidents from lives of the saints and the like. But it is his merging of his own bitter life into that of the Christ which makes the book real as other stories dealing with this subject are not.” (N. Y. Times.) There are six illustrations in color by Cowin Knapp Simson in the Holy Land.
*“The narrative is a strange and powerful one.”
*“The story is told simply and colloquially, but with reserve and dignity.”
Rosenthal, Herman,tr. SeeGanz, Hugo.Land of riddles.
Roses and how to grow them. SeeBarron, Leonard, ed.
Ross, Edward Alsworth.Foundations of sociology.*$1.25. Macmillan.
It is claimed for Professor Ross that he interests especially sociological heresy-hunters; it is also claimed that in this new work this same following will find difficulty in singling out any censurable utterances. It treats of the scope and task of sociology, the sociological frontier of economics, social laws, “mob mind,” the social forces, the factors of social change, recent tendencies in sociology, the causes of race superiority, “The value rank of the American people,” “The properties of group units,” and “The unit of investigation in sociology.”
“This book is, on the whole, devoted to the method, rather than to the content, of knowledge. It does much in the way of clearing the cobwebs out of the sociological skies. It is, however, a general survey rather than a treatise. The present volume can hardly fail to serve, for some time to come, as one of the most effective path-breakers in sociological inquiry.” Albion W. Small.
*“No one interested in the development of social theory, or in the understanding of social phenomena can afford to leave it unread.” Carl Kelsey.
*“Brilliant but somewhat capricious.”
“Easy to read, brief, comprehensive, and introducing the reader to most of the conceptions of value. The book’s greatest fault is ... that of undervaluing work which is too abstract to meet the conditions of a real practical problem.”