“Cassia is a most charming poem, but without the splendor, pomp, and grim reality of the ancient city in which the fable had its birth. Miss Thomas is most felicitous on her own ground, spending her abundant and chastened fancy upon the moods that arise from modern and personal associations.”
Thomas, Edward.Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E. Thomas.*$6. Macmillan.
A picturesque treatment of Wales with brush and pencil, by Mr. Fowler, with descriptions and quaint tales by Mr. Thomas.
*“Between the illustrations and the letterpress there is absolutely no connexion.”
“The illustrations are excellent; some of great beauty and admirably reproduced in color. Mr. Thomas is flippant and tiresome; in at least one place he is decidedly irreverent.”
“The color-pictures show a fine, strong sense of distance and perspective, and the artist is also to be praised for his restraint in his color-schemes. The literary part of the work is somewhat rambling and inchoate, and the note of jocosity is at times forced.”
“The illustrations have some merit. The author’s egoism and style are irritating.”
Thomas, Frederick Moy,comp. and ed. SeeRobinson, John R.Fifty years of Fleet street.
Thomas, Theodore.Theodore Thomas: a musical autobiography; ed. by George P. Upton. 2v.*$6. McClurg.
This work was well under way at the time of Mr. Thomas’ death January 4, 1905. Volume I., entitled “Life work,” tells in the great orchestral leader’s own words of his life, his back-sets, his determined struggles “to make good music popular,” and his final success. Mr. Upton, his friend for thirty years, adds a chapter upon “Last days of Theodore Thomas,” and there is further reminiscence and appreciation. Volume II., “Concert programmes” has an introduction by Mr. Thomas and contains selected programmes covering fifty years, beginning with the Mason chamber concerts and ending with the concerts of the Chicago orchestra. Both volumes are illustrated with portraits and views.
“To students of musical history in particular, as well as all music lovers and musicians, this record of the life and work of Theodore Thomas is of great and permanent value.” Lewis M. Isaacs.
“The interest of this book naturally centres in the hundred pages or so of the autobiography. These chapters constitute a very matter-of-fact statement, bare of all ornament, and devoid of the slightest literary pretense, yet highly important by virtue of their subject-matter.” William Morton Payne.
“A final record of ‘Works introduced into this country’ by Mr. Thomas is a disappointment and lacks the expected value because of its many inaccuracies and misstatements.”
*“Is a fascinating record of a noble life. It is accompanied by 1,200 of the great conductor’s programs, a collection of the highest value for its indication of the development of musical taste and appreciation in America.”
“His own writing is a highly characteristic expression of the man, and the book as a whole makes interesting and important contributions to American musical history, and to the knowledge of the part played in it by Theodore Thomas.” Richard Aldrich.
Thomas, W. H. Griffith.Apostle Peter: outline studies in his life, character and writings.**$1.25. Revell.
This is a suggestive handbook, which will be of value to anyone who is preparing sermons or lectures on this subject.
“It is well arranged and full.”
“His book is of a higher type than many manuals of Bible readings, and abounds in materials for expository addresses.”
Thompson, A. Hamilton, ed. SeeElton, Isaac.W. Shakespeare, his family and friends.
Thompson, Arthur Ripley.Shipwrecked in Greenland.†$1.50. Little.
A party of four boys and three men, one of whom is a sea captain and another black Caesar the cook, while camping near St. John’s, Newfoundland, find a steamer abandoned and adrift and set out to rescue her passengers and crew. They pass thru many thrilling adventures on the coast of Greenland and Labrador in which icebergs, sunken rocks, an arctic hurricane, shipwreck, fire and other perilous things have a part. They see life as it is lived in the Eskimos’ villages, but in the end the faithful Caesar succeeds in bringing Phil Schuyler safely home to his mother.
*“A capital book for boys and boys’ sisters.”
“An exciting story of life in the arctic regions based upon fact.”
Thompson, Garrett W.Threads.†$1.50. Winston.
A tragic tale of an unhappy marriage in which a wife sees only neglect of her interests in her husband’s devotion to his career. Her morbid imagination fraught with jealousy and hatred works her ruin. There is retribution in the visitation of her weakness upon her child. It is a negative lesson of psychological import.
Thompson, Vance.Diplomatic mysteries.**$1.50. Lippincott.
“Particular mysteries of which the veil is supposed to be rent away in this case include that of the madness of Ludwig of Bavaria.... Another story purports to relate what really happened when the powers took a hand in Crete and gave that island autonomy.... Yet other stories pretend to tell what really happened during that delightful comedy wherein the crown prince of Germany gave his grandmother Victoria’s ring to Miss Gladys Deacon; yet others are of how President Faure of France came to his end, and how the present great war between Japan and Russia ... was ‘made in England.’”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Thompson’s style may never be free from affectation and unnecessary embellishment, but at least he has done far better work than this.”
“The book is rather fascinating reading, in spite of the circumstance that the real truth is probably as different from Mr. Thompson’s version as Mr. Thompson’s version is from official history.”
“The chief thing that they lack, however, is verisimilitude.”
“The stories themselves are engaging and well told.”
Thonger, Charles.Book of garden design. (Handbooks of practical gardening, v. 25.)*$1. Lane.
“The author describes somewhat at length the different schools of garden designs.... Advocates first a general spirit of simplicity, avoiding both complexity and eccentricity. Then proceeds with suggestions for selecting or adapting a site, and for laying out drives and paths.... The kitchen-garden and orchard come within this scheme.... The last four chapters are devoted to perennials, aquatic plants, trees, shrubs, and hardy climbers, and include some suggestive lists for practical gardeners.”—Dial.
“Altogether, the little book is quite likely to be useful to those who take their gardening in earnest.” Edith Granger.
“The happier few who have the delightful task before them of making a garden—delightful, but not without trouble—will meet here with everything that they want.”
Thorndike, Edward L.Elements of psychology.*$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N. Y.
Prof. James says that this book “is a laboratory manual of the most energetic and continuous kind.” Further, “I defy any teacher or student to go through this book as it is written, and not to carry away an absolutely firsthand acquaintance with the workings of the human mind, and with the realities as distinguished from the pedantries and artificialities of psychology.” Intense concreteness is the watchword thruout the discussion, which falls into three parts; Descriptive psychology, The psychological basis of mental life: physiological psychology, and Dynamic psychology.
“Brings as its distinctive contribution the emphasis upon the practical reaction which the student is induced to make to the principles set before him. The excellence and completeness of the chapters on the nervous system deserve special commendation.”
“This book differs from other brief psychologies in being pre-eminently teachable. The book is distinguished from its rivals by its comprehensiveness and balance.”
Thorndike, Edward Lee.Introduction to the theory of mental and social measurements.*$1.50. Science press.
“Professor Thorndike has prepared this book primarily as an aid in doing statistical work of the sort required in laboratories of experimental psychology.... It begins simply, and by affording abundant material for the student to practice what the text preaches gradually develops in his capacity to master the more difficult later chapters. The writer makes a point of keeping within the comprehension of young students.... The topics to which most attention is given are the choice of units ofmeasurement; the measurement of individuals, of groups, of differences, of changes, and of relationships; and the reliability of measurements and sources of error. Strong emphasis is laid upon tables of frequency.... The last chapter contains references for further study, and the appendix a multiplication table up to 100x100, a table of square roots up to 1,000, and a collection of miscellaneous problems for additional practice.”—Am. J. Soc.
“In its special field the book is worthy of a man who is a teacher as well as a psychologist.” Wesley C. Mitchell.
“An extremely practical and well-planned volume.”
“The author has written in an attractive style ... and has made this one of the best products of his active pen.” Edward Franklin Buchner.
Thorpe, Francis Newton.Divining rod: a story of the oil regions.†$1.50. Little.
A romance which deals with the early days when oil was discovered in Pennsylvania. It follows the fortunes of a farmer in whom the divining rod which points out his first well awakens a thirst for the wealth to be gained by developing his own land. His daughter is the center of the love motive, but the strength of the story lies in the oil, the crowding out of the small producers by the large, the uncovering of unscrupulous methods, the mad desire for more land, more wells at any price.
Thorpe, Francis Newton.Short constitutional history of the United States.*$1.75. Little.
A brief “history of the state and federal constitutions, their origins, principles, evolution, and the interpretation of them by the courts.... As an appendix, the constitution of the United States, with citation of cases, is printed. There is a special index to the constitution, giving article, section, and page, as well as a general index to the work at large.... After a rapid survey of the early colonial unions and congresses, and of the Articles of confederation and their defects, there is a short chapter on the making of the constitution, followed by an analysis of The Federalist to show what were and are the fundamental principles of the constitution.”—N. Y. Times.
“The style is not attractive, though not often very bad; the arrangement is unsatisfactory, and the general method of presentation is not telling; the author’s conception of his subject, as in his early volumes on constitutional history, is limited. These faults might be passed over without too serious consideration if the book were accurate in details, and if, with all its apparent weight and sturdiness, it were done with care and circumspection.”
“The book is to be especially commended for its well assorted information upon recent constitutions in the various states.” Jesse Macy.
“There is a lack of digestion and a want of perspective. This failure to give proper emphasis makes the book sure to fail as a text-book—a use for which the author designed it—except in the hands of a very experienced teacher.”
*“Exhibits an immense amount of learning on that subject, ill arranged and almost devoid of historical sequence.”
“For so small a volume its scope is remarkable; and, notwithstanding the heaviness of his theme, and an occasional involved sentence which detains the reader, the author presents his matter in a manner to hold the interest of even the layman in politics.”
Thruston, Lucy Meacham.Girl of Virginia. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of this story of the lovable, light-spirited daughter of a professor of the University of Virginia, and a picture of college life from the towns-people’s point of view.
*Thurso, John Wolf.Modern turbine practice and water-power plants.*$4. Van Nostrand.
The author who has designed turbines both in America and in Europe and who has had charge of the hydraulic work in important constructions in Canada, says: “The object of this book is to give such information in regard to modern turbines and their installation as is necessary to the hydraulic engineer in designing a water-power plant, and no attempt has been made to treat of the design of turbines.”
Thurston, E. Temple.Apple of Eden.†$1.50. Dodd.
“The celibacy of the Roman Catholic priest; the fact that vows do not make a priest free from temptation; the struggle in a high-minded priest’s nature between right and passion; the serious meaning of duty and renunciation—all these things are clearly set forth. The author has intimate knowledge of the priesthood and has no intention of disrespect to the cloth. Father Tom, the elder of the two priests described, is a capital character—humorous, shrewd, and practical”—Outlook.
“It is one of the strongest pieces of psychological fiction that has appeared in English in many a long month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“In his zeal the author has introduced too many mechanical instances for the proving of his cherished point, permitted himself too many passages of didacticism and argument,—so that his novel, strictly speaking, is spoiled.”
“It is a story of considerable power, but its frankness exceeds the bounds of what is artistically permissible.” Wm. M. Payne.
“It is an interesting book and a clever pen picture.”
“A book of undoubted intellectual force, and one well written in point of style and manner.”
“He has treated his subject in a bold, firm, unhesitating fashion that lifts it above pruriency and the mire. The literary workmanship is of first quality.”
Thurston, Katherine Cecil.Gambler.†$1.50. Harper.
“The ‘gambler’ is an Irish girl whose father lives fast, gambles frightfully, and dies from an accident in a horse-race. Married to a noble-hearted but tiresome old archaeologist, Clodagh is introduced to some fashionable people in Venice; takes her first plunge into bridge whist and roulette; is solemnly warned by a young man called by his enemies ‘Sir Galahad’ ... withdraws for a time from the giddy whirl; but after her husband’s death plunges into fashionable gambling, compromises herself, though with no evil intentions with a scheming oldroué, and is saved from ruin and restored to her eminently respectable lover.”—Outlook.
*“If in no other way, Mrs. Thurston shows plainly that she belongs to the lesser ranks of novelists by the fact that she has not the courageto work out the theme of her newest story to a consistent end.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
*“The interest of this book is rather theatrical than real, and we could imagine it turned into a highly effective play.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The defects of Mrs. Thurston’s literary style and the crudity of her methods are more obvious here than in ‘The masquerader.’”
“Is not inferior in interest to her most widely known novel, while it greatly surpasses its predecessor in the vitality of its characters, the cohesion of its plot, the fidelity of both to possibility and its literary art.”
“The moral lesson is obvious, perhaps too obvious. As a story the book will not compare well in force and originality with ‘The masqueraders.’”
*“While it is not likely to run through as many editions as ‘The masquerader,’ it has a higher ambition than that absorbing modern fairy tale in that it tries to present a serious study of character as well as a series of more or less dramatic incidents.”
Thurston, Katherine Cecil.Masquerader.$1.50. Harper.
The chance meeting in a London fog, of a wealthy member of parliament, who is an opium eater, and a young writer in reduced circumstances, reveals the fact to each that he has a double. This strange revelation is seized upon by the former as a means of providing himself with a political substitute when the craving for the drug is upon him. They change places temporarily with the result that the masquerader wins political distinction and the affections of his double’s alienated wife, who fancies that she has fallen in love with her husband. In the end the drug does its work and the masquerader is made to see that his duty lies in quietly continuing the deception.
“The development of Loder’s character is so well shown and the interest of the story is so great that it is only when the book is finished that we realize the impossibility of the whole thing, an impossibility which militates very strongly against the artistic excellence of the novel.” Mary K. Ford.
“The story is so ingeniously told and cleverly constructed that its very boldness is in a measure justified.” W. M. Payne.
“The author performs the feat of fitting an impossible plot into the realities of daily life, and doing it in a way that deceives the reader and holds his interest—while he reads. There is a sense of strain about the whole thing—the style, as well as the plot, is artificial.”
“The quality of the particular adventure is delicate and perilous and the book’s evasion of pitfalls is not less admirable than its more positive qualities. The critical sense of the reader is stilled by the hypnotic and engrossing nature of the narrative. One is delightfully deluded and beguiled.”
“The ethical problem involved in the secret change of place is solved in a new and eminently sane manner. The gradual disintegration of Chilcote’s character is a strong piece of work, as is likewise the description of Loder’s inner growth.”
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed.Early western travels, 1748-1846: a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement. 31v. ea.*$4. Clark, A. H.
Thirty-one volumes containing accurate reprints of rare manuscripts. They have been carefully chosen from the mass of material descriptive of travels in the North American interior which this century of continental expansion (1748-1846) provided, and no manuscript has been included unless it possessed permanent historical value. The result is a series which the casual reader will find interesting, and the historian, teacher and scholar, will find invaluable, as it makes available sources of information without which the development of the West, its history and its people cannot be fully understood. The editor has provided numerous footnotes and an introduction to each volume which contains a biographical sketch of the author, an evaluation of the book reprinted and bibliographical data concerning it. The closing volume is devoted to a complete and exhaustive analytical index to the entire series.
*“Like their predecessors are amply and intelligently edited.”
“The works included naturally vary in literary merit and attractiveness, but many of them will compare favorably with the better class of modern books of travel, while some, like John Bradbury’s ‘Travels in the interior of America, 1809-11,’ to which vol. V. is devoted, are as fascinating as the best fiction.”
“Much of the material is as entertaining as it is quaint, and will be thoroughly enjoyed by the ordinary reader no less than the specialist.”
“Thus far the whole series of ‘Early western travels’ is worthy of hearty commendation.”
“He [Mr. Thwaites] leaves out dates.”
“The present editor has done little for it except provide an introduction and make clear a few points. He corrects a month date in a note,but seems unable to insert year dates at all.”
“His story is not often thrilling in its manner of telling, but it has some value as a record of early observation of Indian customs and of the primitive life of white pioneers.”
Thwing, Eugene.Man from Red Keg.†$1.50. Dodd.
This tale of the Red Keg lumber region sets well into the foreground the villainy of a country editor whose vicious attacks and blackmailing schemes all but wreck the happiness of a town. The “man from the Red Keg” is one of the many whose reputations have been hammered and slashed by the odious editor of “Chips,” but who determinedly resolves to reform his enemy. He works out his metaphysical problem patiently disregarding the call of his fellow townsmen to deal with the offender summarily, bides his time, and wins his reward.
*“It has all the charm and excitement of an absorbing novel, and the instructive value of a biography.”
*“The story is not quite as good as its predecessors.”
Tiffany, Mrs. Nina (Moore), and Tiffany, Francis.Harm Jan Huidekoper.*$2.50. Clarke.
An account of the life of this remarkable Dutch settler, who in 1796 at the age of twenty, landed in New York to seek his fortune and became a pioneer of progress, a philanthropist, and one of the founders of American Unitarianism. There is a full index and genealogy.
“A valuable piece of material for folk-history. Put together from family papers and by several hands, it must be acknowledged that the style of the narrative as a whole has suffered seriously from a literary point of view.”
“Parts of it have a somewhat archaic air. The appendix on the Holland land company should have some historical value.”
“A volume nominally biographical but ... picturing a vanished state of American society.”
“The book is full of instructive and charming reminiscences of those early days.”
Tigert, John James.Christianity of Christ and his apostles. 80c. Pub. house of M. E. ch. So.
A book provided as a shelter in the present storm of theological criticism.
Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.).Thistles of Mount Cedar: a story of school-life for girls.†$1.25. Winston.
Life at Mount Cedar seminary is vividly given in this story of its teachers and its students, their pranks, plays, merriment and misfortunes. Interest centres about the group of girls who call themselves “the thistles,” and especially about the wild little Hungarian, Verena.
“It is most refreshing to stumble over a book that can be safely handled by our children, or our sisters, without fear of antagonizing their morals or giving them a false idea of life in general.”
Tilley, Arthur Augustus.Literature of the French renaissance.*$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Tilley takes as his special field of inquiry the period lying between the date of Francis I.’s accession (1515) and the beginning of Malherbe’s movement (1606) to bring back to rule and order the French language and literature, disorganized, as he believed, by the rioters of the preceding century.... He shows a remarkable familiarity, not only with the important, but practically with all documents, literary or historical, accessible to the contemporary student.” (N. Y. Times). There are chapters on Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.
“Mr. Tilley’s contribution to the history of the movement is one which merits a high place among its fellows. Bibliographies are becoming fairly common in works of reference, but few of them approach those in this book either in accuracy or wide range of subject. The index is hardly so full as might be desirable.”
“The critical attitude of our author is judicious and eminently safe.”
“Thorough and scholarly work. Mr. Tilley’s style, which is singularly arid for one who treats literature, is at its worst in his treatment of Regnier. It is a pleasure, therefore, to turn from it to his conclusion, in which he ably sums up the results of his investigation. It is wholly admirable. In thoroughness and accuracy its supersedes all previous work in this department, and it is invaluable to students of this epoch in France. In evaluating influences, he very often makes much of little.” Christian Gauss.
Tindolph, Helen Woljeska.Woman’s confessional. 75c. Life pub.
Epigrammatic extracts from the diary of a woman who was born of a distinguished family in Vienna, came to America and “lived and loved and erred.”
*“All of the epigrams are worth reading, even if one does not always agree. The strong personality is pervasive and attractive.”
“The smartness of the woman’s sayings is indisputable.”
Tipple, Ezra Squier,ed. SeeAsbury, Francis.Heart of Asbury’s journal.
Tobin, Agnes.Flying lesson.**$2. Elder.
“This is a second series of translations from Petrarch—containing ten sonnets, twocanzoni, aballata, and a double sestina.... If they do not succeed in achieving the impossible, that is, in a perfect reproduction of the Petrarchian spirit, they have, at any rate, much of the rare atmosphere which pervades ‘The house of life’ and Rossetti’s translations from the Italian.”—Ath.
“These translations are of great poetical merit.”
“They are all vitiated in the same fashion. Some good lines occur, and we would not deny Miss Tobin the poetic gift; but she should not wrestle with Petrarch except in secret.”
*“Nothing since Christina Rossetti has risen so high in the pure beauty of the sonnet form as these renderings of Petrarch’s impassioned lament.”
Todd, Mary Ives.American Abelard and Heloise. $1.50. Grafton.
A young clergyman of orthodox faith, adored by the women of his congregation and respected by the men, falls in love with the daughter of a member of his church, who puts his wife from him because she could not believe in the fall of man. This daughter is like her mother and in his love for her, the young clergyman resigns his charge and starts forth to build up a new religion founded upon the equality of the sexes. The book closes with the sacrifice of love until this creed shall have become a reality.
“After carefully reading the 337 pages of arguments and rather dreary love story, one is inclined to ask of the author, ‘What’s the use?’”
“Mushy contents.”
Tolstoi, Lyof Nikolaievich.Anna Karénina.$1.50. Crowell.
This volume is one of the handsome but popular priced “Luxembourg” series, and contains Anna Karénina as translated by Nathan Haskell Dole.
Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.Soldier of the wilderness.†$1.50. Wilde.
Mr. Tomlinson’s third story in his “Colonial series” is based on history centering about the French and Indian war,—the fall of Fort Frontenac and the disaster under Abercrombie at Ticonderoga. The adventures introduce Abercrombie, Howe, Putnam and Montcalm, a young hero Peter van de Bogert, besides hunters, rangers and men prominent in those times.
Tomson, Arthur.Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon school. $2.25. Macmillan.
A new and cheaper edition of a book which describes the life of Millet and his relation to the other painters at Barbizon. It also deals with “the life and work of Jules Dupre, Narcisse-Virgilia Diaz, and Theodore Rousseau, and in a chapter on ‘The influence of the romantic school’ are briefly considered Paul Huet, Charles Jacque, Jules Bréton, Monticelli, Bastien-LePage, Adolphe Hervier, Harpignies, and two or three others. The illustrations number fifty-three, and include examples of some of the best known pictures of the artists studied.”—N. Y. Times.
Tooker, Lewis Frank.Under rocking skies.†$1.50. Century.
The captain of a sailing vessel takes his wife and daughter and a young minister on a voyage from the Long island coast to the West Indies. Thomas Medbury, a youth from their home village, who has always loved the girl, seizes the opportunity to ship as mate and in the course of the stormy voyage the captain’s daughter, in the light of great danger, comes to know her own heart.
*“Poet, sailor man, and born storyteller are written large on every page of ‘Under rocking skies,’ and the result is a picture of the sea and life aboard an old-fashioned sailing vessel that charms by its simplicity and absorbs by its vividness and reality.”
“Told with not a little spontaneity and incident.”
*“The author develops a very pretty romance and refreshes us with much charming sea-lore.”
Tooley, Sarah A.Life of Florence Nightingale.*$1.75. Macmillan.
A biography written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the famous mission to Crimea. The story of that two years’ service which made Miss Nightingale’s name a household word throughout the British empire is fully given, and the dignity which her noble and efficient labors give to the hitherto stigmatized profession of nursing is well described. There is a full account of her life from her birth in Florence, 1820, of her childish ministrations to dolls and animals, her labors in field and hospital, her work for the soldier after her return from the front, her friendships, her literary career, and her life at the present day. There are twenty-two illustrations.
Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.
“The story is here told with enthusiasm and vivacity.”
“The story has been well told by Miss Tooley.”
Townsend, Edward Waterman.Reuben Larkmead.†$1.25. Dillingham.
An unsophisticated young millionaire whose fortune was founded upon western beet sugar, comes east to New York and ingenuously relates his experiences. Ridiculed in society, fleeced in his business transactions, the prey of an army of grafters, he ends by marrying the widowed mother of the girl he failed to win.
“The supine insipidity of the hero destroys whatever interest might have been aroused in him at the beginning of the book. A thin plot of sentimentality runs through this recital of Reuben’s adventures.”
“A crude social satire.”
Townsend, Fitzhugh.Short course in alternating-current testing.*75c. Van Nostrand.
“Eight sets of experiments are outlined, in each case preceded by a concise discussion of the operating characteristics of the machine in question. They deal with: (1) Properties of circuits; (2) the alternating current generator; (3) the voltage wave of a generator or of a circuit; (4) the transformer (operation, losses and efficiency); (5) the induction motor (operation and efficiency); (6) the synchronous motor (operation and phase characteristic); (7) the rotary converter (operation when driven from either end); and (8) operation of alternators in parallel.”—Engin. N.
Tozer, H. F., tr. SeeDante Alighieri.Divina commedia.
Tozier, Josephine.Travelers’ handbook: a manual for Transatlantic tourists.**$1. Funk.
“A little book to be put in the handbag of all who are making their ‘first trip.’ Money values, how to buy tickets, send luggage, to tip the foreign hordes that have to be tipped, to avoid being overcharged by cabmen and hotel clerks ... all these things are intelligently explained, and many little hints given that will grease the wheels of a European trip most acceptably.”—Critic.
“Is one of the most intelligent of its kind. We have detected no error worth noticing in the writer’s advice to travellers.”
“Her book supplements the ordinary guide books admirably.”
Tracy, Louis.Great mogul.$1.50. Clode, E. J.
The exciting incidents of Mr. Tracy’s new story attend the adventures of two young Englishmen whom fortune has turned loose in the Indian realm of Akbar the Great. Roger Sainton, the giant who is called the man-elephant, and Walter Mobray, quick of wit are a unique pair as they encounter first the favor of Akbar, then the hatred of his son, and finally as they enter the fight for the rescue of the beautiful princess Nur Mahal.
“It will not bear close critical inspection of course—but it will reward reading.”
Trade unionism and labor problems, ed. by John R. Commons.*$2.50. Ginn.
This volume like Ripley’s “Trusts, pools, and corporations,” is “planned for use specifically as a text-book.... It denotes a deliberate attempt at the application to the teaching of economics of the case system, so long successful in our law books. With this end in view each chapter is intended to illustrate a single, definite, typical phase of the general subject. The primary motive is to further the interests of sound economic teaching with special reference to the study of concrete problems of great public and private interest.” The chapters are selected mainly from economic journals and cover a wide field successfully, while the introduction, index, and cross references render all the material easy of access to the casual reader as well as to the student.
Train, Arthur.McAllister and his double.†$1.50. Scribner.
“McAllister’s ‘double’ is a scamp of a valet who gets his master, a blasé clubman, into all sorts of scrapes, and extricates him cleverly at just the right moment.” (Outlook.) Their experiences are here told in eleven independent stories. The volume contains a dozen illustrations.
*“The McAllister stories are entertaining from start to finish, but the other stories in the book, with the possible exception of ‘Extradition’ show a decided falling off.”