This third and last volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” takes the Indian guide and his two boy companions in a whirl of adventure from the Pacific ocean to their home in Ohio. The recapture of Deerfoot’s wonderful stallion, Whirlwind, a single handed encounter with five ferocious braves, and a hair breadth escape in a raging mountain torrent, are among the incidents which will recommend this story to all boy readers.
*Ellis, Edward Sylvester.Deerfoot on the prairies†$1. Winston.
In this second volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” the popular Indian hunter accompanied by his two boy friends and his Blackfoot guide makes the dangerous journey from the Ohio to the mouth of the Columbia river successfully, altho the hostile Indians, wild horses, grizzly bears, and other dangers of one hundred years ago beset their path and create many strange adventures for them.
Elton, Charles Isaac.William Shakespeare, his family and friends; ed. by A. H. Thompson.*$4. Dutton.
A series of papers, disconnected and sometimes unfinished, which would doubtless have been expanded into an exhaustive work had the author lived, have been collected by and published by Mr. Thompson, with a memoir written of the author by Mr. Andrew Lang. There are chapters on Shakespeare’s early life, on Stratford and London in Shakespeare’s time; on his family and descendants; on the history of Blackfriars’ theatre, and many other subjects of both interest and value. There is a complete and accurate index, which renders this work, with its wealth of facts, of great value to the student.
“Indeed, so much material is furnished, and the learned antiquary ranges so very far afield, that the drift of his argument is not seldom obscured. The book abounds in the best kind of biographical material. It is a work of the very greatest value to the student of Shakespeare.” Charles H. A. Wager.
“This work is a large and scholarly one, with perhaps more of detail about the great poet’s life and surroundings than would be essential to such an idea of the man himself as is given by Mr. Mabie in his picture. Mr. Elton’s volume, however, will be welcomed by scholars.”
Ely, Helena Rutherford.Another hardy garden book. $1.75. Macmillan.
A book which is not intended to be a treatise upon any of the subjects referred to, or to take the place of other books upon gardening. It is, the author states in the preface, “a brief statement of simple methods of conducting gardening operations, particularly in the small home garden,” and it contains the result of the author’s own experiences in raising vegetables, fruits and flowers. There are chapters on the vegetable garden, fruits, trees—deciduous and evergreen, perennials and other flowers, a garden of lilies and iris, autumn work in the flower garden, and the flower garden in spring. There are many half-tone illustrations from photographs of flowers, trees and gardens, taken at various seasons of the year.
“The new book is wider in its scope than its predecessor.”
“Her books are far from being sentimental, but are infused with a very vigorous personality, and with occasional touches of humor that prove she is not taking herself too seriously.” Edith Granger.
“The charm of the book rests in the reader’s companionship with an intelligent, agreeable woman, who loves her garden.”
“The author of this work places before us her quiet statements in an unobtrusive and instructive manner, and, here and there, gives touches to her sketch which makes the book more than usually readable.”
“It seems a quite practical book for the amateur gardener.”
Ely, Richard T.,ed. SeeAdams. T. S.andSumner, Helen L.Labor problems.
Ely, Richard Theodore.Labor movement in America.*$1.25. Macmillan.
A new and enlarged edition of a standard authority first issued nearly twenty years ago.
*“At present we have no book that could be a satisfactory substitute for Professor Ely’s volume.” A. W. S.
Emch, Arnold.Introduction to projective geometry and its applications: an analytic and synthetic treatment. $2.50. Wiley.
“The first chapter derives the usual theorems of projective ranges and pencils, perspective and involution by means of the anharmonic ratio.... The second chapter deals with collineation.” There is “a chapter on the theory of conics.... The next chapter discusses the conics which pass through four fixed points; ... the cubic curve, defined by a pencil of conics and a projective pencil of lines, is treated at some length.... The fifth chapter, of over forty pages, is devoted to applications to mechanics.”—Engin. N.
“A knowledge of trigonometry and plane analytical geometry is all that is required to understand the book, which is clearly and carefully written.” Virgil Snyder.
“The author is a very clever draughtsman, and his skill as a writer is equally pronounced.”
“The exposition of the interesting connection between collineations and the surprisingly beautiful doctrine of linkages deserves special mention, as do also the clearness, directness and swiftness of style in which the book is written.” Cassius J. Keyser.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.Works. 12 vol. ea. $1.75. Houghton.
Edward Waldo Emerson has carefully edited this twelve volume centenary edition of his father’s works, culling some valuable new material from the author’s note books, “his savings-bank,” he called them. The three volumes recently added to complete the twelve are, “Lectures and biographical sketches,” “Miscellanies,” and “Natural history of intellect and other papers.” “The last of them is provided with an elaborate general index to the entire edition. No less than five papers in this closing volume are now printed for the first time. The editing of these volumes, done by the pious hands of Mr. Edward Waldo Emerson, offers a shining example of what such editorial work should be, and makes the present form of the writings far more desirable than any of the earlier ones.” (Dial).
“The present edition, in its Notes by Dr. Emerson, contains the first complete commentary on the author’s writings.”
“Is manifestly the definitive edition, since it is the most comprehensive and perfect in matter and form.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.Emerson calendar; ed. by Huntington Smith.**50c. Crowell.
Suggestions for each day of the year taken from Emerson’s works. By giving cullings which show clear perception of life and its obligations, the editor hopes to render an aid along the line of simpler living.
English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson.*$1.25. Holt.
The chief purpose of this book is to cultivate a liking for good English prose in the college student who is taking introductory work in literature. The material chosen is therefore interesting in thought and style and the selections are complete in themselves even when entire chapters or essays are not given. Essays by Bacon, Milton, Swift, Addison, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle, Macaulay, Ruskin, Newman, Stevenson and others are included, and the volume is fully annotated for class use.
Erasmus, Desiderius (surnamed Roterdamus).Epistles of Erasmus, arranged in order of time: English translations from the early correspondence, with a commentary confirming the chronological arrangement and supplying further biographical matter, by Francis Morgan Nichols. 2v. ea.*$6. Longmans.
“The first volume published in 1901, contained a selection of the letters of Erasmus up to the date of his receipt in Rome of the news of the death of King Henry VII of England (April 21, 1509).... The second volume carries the extant correspondence of Erasmus to the year 1517, when he took up his residence at Louvain. Many of the later letters are not those of Erasmus himself but were written by his correspondents.”—N. Y. Times.
“On the whole this volume fairly maintains the interest roused by the first and must be regarded as a highly important contribution to the whole subject of the new learning.” E. E.
“These minor writings of the great humanist are chiefly valuable for the light which they shed upon his intensely interesting career. They are strongly marked with the well-known Erasmian characteristics, an easy elegance, a classical spirit, a strong tendency to flattery, a decided turn for quiet irony, and an impulse to break out once in a while into sarcastic flings at religious orders and the Roman Curia.”
“The same qualities of careful rendering and intelligent conjecture mark the work of this as of the first volume, and the same little formalities and tricks of usage occur here as there. It offers an indispensable starting-point for every future study of the great humanist.”
“The appendices contain many hitherto inaccessible documents of value to the student of the Reformation epoch.”
Erskine, Mrs. Steuart.London as an art city.*$1. Scribner.
In her little monograph Mrs. Erskine “shows why London is a field for her artistic study on account of its wonderful architecture and wonderful art collections; a literary center with a past as the home of such writers as Dickens, Thackeray ... Goldsmith ... and others, and the home of present workers in art—George Frampton, T. Brock, A. Gilbert, and other sculptors; while among the painters are Sir Edward Poynter, Luke Fildes, John S. Sargent, and a number of others. The volume is fully illustrated with half-tone pictures of buildings, reproductions of well-known paintings, &c.” (N. Y. Times).
Esty, William.Alternating current machinery. $6. American school of correspondence at Armour institute of technology, Chicago.
“The author of the present volume declares that it has been prepared with the special object of giving the beginner, and the so-called practical electrician, a working knowledge of alternating current apparatus, so that he may know how to install and operate it intelligently.... The book is divided into nine different headings, and treats of the alternator, commercial types of alternators, synchronous motor, switchboard and station appliances, special switchboard apparatus, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by David B. Rushmore.
Evans, Henry Ridgely.Napoleon myth. bds.*75c. Open ct.
The Napoleonic myths in both literature and art the author measures according to historical fact. The book also contains an introduction by Dr. Paul Carus and a reprint of “The grand erratum” by Jean Baptiste Peres. “The whole is a summary of the results of ‘higher criticism’ as applied to the Napoleon of the popular imagination.” (R. of Rs.)
*“The author does little or nothing to emphasize the difference between fact and legend, or point out the means of distinguishing between the two spheres.”
Everett, William.Italian poets since Dante. $1.50. Scribner.
The author has converted his lectures, delivered in the famous Lowell course in Boston, into book form with slight revision. His aim is “to show that Italy from the ‘trecento’ down to the end of the eighteenth century gave forth a literature which is great without thecontributions of Dante, but which is often neglected and thought of lightly owing to the transcendent genius of that one man. Petrarca, Pulci, Boiardo, Berni, Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, Tasso, Marino, and the dramatists Goldoni and Alfieri are among the writers concerning whom Dr. Everett discourses with fine academic appreciation and a charming disregard of modern criticism.” (N. Y. Times).
“His attitude towards his subjects is sympathetic, his appreciation is sincere, his criticisms are just and moderate. It is therefore all the more regrettable that he should have allowed his work to stand disfigured by so many slip-shod, loosely constructed and even absolutely ungrammatical sentences.”
“Dr. Everett’s survey, indeed, embraces only about a dozen names, and treats those for the most part rather sketchily.”
“The work is luminous and vivid in style, and a delight to the instinct of every lover of literature. Eloquent panegyric upon Milton, and many another purple patch revealed in these pages. From the point of view of the scholar, little exception is to be taken to this work. To say that the book is readable is to do it much less than justice.”
“A carelessness in the use of language which is often slovenly and sometimes ungrammatical. The most vexatious quality of the book, however, is due to Dr. Everett’s scorn of all methods and opinions save his own. We admit that his views are sometimes refreshingly independent. But his egoism, which is piquant when it wanders away from his subject, is disastrous when he attempts a serious comparison of the Italian poets. Dr. Everett’s short biographies of the poets are generally interesting and clever. His criticisms are erratic, but the copious extracts from Italian poetry with which he illustrates them are very valuable to the general reader.”
“His textual illustrations show him to be not only a translator in the finest sense, but also a poet of broad and subtle imagination and of a most delicate harmonic sensibility. The torch of classical effulgence dropped from the hand of Ticknor, of Longfellow, and of Lowell, he has caught up and illuminates anew what once passed for history. On one point, however, we think the doctor might have made a concession to the moderns as a gentle hint for his own permanency. He might have furnished an index. He is also cruel to kill off the poet Carducci, who at this writing is very much alive.”
“Mr. Everett’s sketches of their lives and works seem adequate and the translations, some of which are original, are vigorous. The author would have improved his work if he had pruned the rhetoric, more suitable for lectures than essays.”
“He is generally just. We do not much like the fun that he makes of the romances. It is somewhat cheap.”
*Eytinge, Rose.Memories of Rose Eytinge.**80c;**$1.20. Stokes.
Into her own autobiography Rose Eytinge has introduced a wealth of sidelight information on the American drama of the past fifty years. She was an associate and personal friend of Edwin Booth, J. W. and Lester Wallack, E. L. Davenport and Augustin Daly, and her observations are all from the vantage point of first hand knowledge.
Fairless, Michael, pseud.Grey Brethren, and other fragments in prose and verse.$1.25. Dutton.
Four fairy tales, five papers and five poems make up this posthumous volume. “‘The grey brethren,’ which gives its title to the volume, is a tenderly and reticently touched reminiscence of two maidenly ladies.... A German Christmas eve is a descriptive sketch of characteristic domestic charm. A Christmas idyll is an imaginative fantasy full of fine feeling and thoughtful religion.... Luvly Miss ... is the simple record of a poor child, dying from an accident, and her devout worship of an altogether ridiculous doll.” (Acad.)
“Though slender and unambitious, they are written in a refined style. The poems, as a whole, are the least successful work in the volume.”
“This little volume will be welcome to all lovers of ‘The road mender.’ It has, not, indeed, the finished perfection of that book, but some of the stories and poems display the same fine artistic sense, and the same sacramental reverence for natural glory, the same deep tenderness and sympathy.”
“Is marked by an exquisite simplicity of diction and a delicacy of spiritual insight that are far out of the common.”
Fairlie, John Archibald.National administration of the United States of America.**$2.50. Macmillan.
Written chiefly from official records such as the Constitution of the United States, statutes of Congress, administrative reports and judicial decisions, this volume gives an account of the administrative system, treating the legislative and judicial branches only in their direct relations to the executive administration. There are chapters on the powers of the president, the senate, congress, the cabinet, and the various departments and bureaus. A complete bibliography is provided.
“Dr. Fairlie’s treatise on this subject is marked by all the scholarly treatment, painstaking accuracy and thoroughness which characterized his work on municipal administration.”
“The book is written in a readable style. For the most part it is easily understood.” David Y. Thomas.
“A book that is at the same time full, readable and authoritative.”
“The author has done his work carefully, and his book may be accepted as a generally trustworthy guide.”
“In style the work is direct and incisive, in treatment accurate and objective, in presentation logical.”
“Is perhaps the first comprehensive work on this subject that has ever been published.”
*Fairweather, Rev. William.Pre-exilic prophets.*35c. Lippincott.
In this volume in the “Temple series of Bible handbooks” “Mr. Fairweather treats of the prophets from Amos down to Jeremiah—Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Jeremiah. The general character ofthe eighth century before Christ is discussed in the opening chapter, which is followed by a consideration of the value of written prophecy in relation to the Israelitish history of the period, the significance of prophecy for Divine revelation, ‘The older and the new prophecy,’ ‘The golden age of Hebrew prophecy,’ ‘The religious ideal of the prophets,’ ‘The century before the exile.’”—N. Y. Times.
*“In the brevity prescribed for it could not be easily improved upon.”
Falkiner, C. Litton.Illustrations of Irish history and topography. $7. Longmans.
The period covered by this book is mainly that of the 17th century. The author treats of the history and development of Dublin, and “follows the history of the counties of Ireland giving their origin, constitution, and gradual elimination. What to us is of the greater interest are the accounts of the Irish people by contemporaneous authors. Fynes Moryson describes Ireland as he saw it at the close of the reign of Elizabeth.... The convivial habits of the Elizabethan Irish are dwelt on.... Luke Vernon’s “Discourse of Ireland” it is believed was written about 1619.... The last two chapters give the impressions of Sir William Brereton and a rather dandy Frenchman, M. Jorevin de Rocheford. The latter giving this account of his impression of Ireland, 1666.” (N. Y. Times).
“The notes to these papers are numerous and characterized by scholarly care. In general Mr. Falkiner must be credited with a volume which will be permanently serviceable to students of Irish history.” Edward Porritt.
“For the rest Mr. Falkiner writes with such exceeding care that he has left little for a critic to find fault with. Here and there, we think, he might with advantage have developed his subject more fully.” R. Dunlop.
“Mr. Falkiner has been successful in his choice of descriptions determined by their rarity, representative character, and difficulty of procurement by the ordinary reader.”
Famous battles of the nineteenth century, 1875-1900, ed. by Chas. Welsh.**$1. Wessels.
This fourth and last volume of “Famous battles of the nineteenth century,” contains an account of the famous battles fought from 1875 to 1900. It includes descriptions of The storming of Kars by Major Arthur Griffiths, The Boer war of 1881, by Archibald Forbes; The bombardment of Alexandria, by Max Pemberton; Port Arthur, 1894; The battle of Manila; and With Roosevelt on San Juan hill, by A. Hilliard Atteridge and other descriptions by these and other authors.
*“The book is designed for boys, who will undoubtedly find it quite to their taste.”
*“It is not possible to name the collection one of absorbing interest or to praise always either the fairness or the dramatic quality of the battle-pieces, but the book has considerable interest and some value.”
Fandel, Peter.Judgment of Paris. $1. Badger, R. G.
The story of the judgment of Paris cast in dramatic form. The awarding of the apple, the chariot race which brings Paris to the notice of his father, Priam, the indignation of princes and people, and the flight of Paris are dealt with in four short acts.
Fanshawe, Anne Harrison (Lady Richard Fanshawe).Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bt., embassador from Charles II to the courts of Portugal and Madrid, written by herself; containing extracts from the correspondence of Sir Richard Fanshawe; ed. with introd. by Beatrice Marshall, and a note on the illustrations by Allan Fea.*$1.50. Lane.
“The memoirs were first published in 1830, and were well worth a place in ‘The crown library’ series.... Both Sir Richard and his wife were representative of the highest type of Royalist—cultured, refined and humane. Sir Richard, who died in 1666, devoted his leisure years under the Commonwealth to literary labours of love.... The memoirs yield much information as to the events and social practices of a most interesting period in history.”—Ath.
“Attractive memoirs, which we have read with very great pleasure in the delightful form in which they now appear.”
“Certainly the memoirs have a charm which is by no means dependent on the time of which they treat.”
*“Holds a high place in the biographical literature of the Stuart era.”
“Her memoirs are bright and full of good stories of the doings of two and a half centuries ago.”
“The editing might have been done with greater skill and energy than Miss Marshall has brought to her task.”
Farmer, James Eugene.Versailles and the court under Louis XIV.*$3.50. Century.
A beautiful book profusely illustrated. The sketch is a four-fold one including The palace, The park, The king and The court, each of which divisions presents the subject inductively and so prepares the way for the next. Beginning with the plans for the palace and the laying out of the grounds the author leads up to the finished work. With this for a back-ground, the king is presented and viewed from the standpoint of his daily life, methods of work, personal appearance and character, and the intricacies of court etiquette. Then the stage throngs with the gay and the wicked courtiers who were as perfect in manners as corrupt in morals.
*“Our author has given us a volume of real value as an admirable pen-picture of the court.”
*“An interesting subject is interestingly handled.”
*“He does, indeed, depend upon the memoir writers very largely, but he uses them with intelligence, and makes his book a study in the physiology of court life.”
*“Mr. Farmer has joined his threads skillfully; there is no suggestion of patchwork about his book, which is entertaining to its last page.”
*“The reader feels that he has been in excellent company when he lays the volume down with a regret that it isnot longer, or one of a series.”
Farmer, John S., and Henley, William Ernest.Dictionary of slang and colloquial English.*$2.50. Dutton.
This is an abridgment of the seven-volumework by the same authors entitled “Slang and its analogues.” It contains slang expressions and their analogues in English and American usage. A list of more than fifty books to which reference and acknowledgment is made in this volume, is given. The first of these is dated 1440.
“For ordinary use the present book is ample.”
Farquhar, Edward.Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
Under three divisions, History, Man and nature, and Devotion, are included poems as varied in length and verse as in subject. They range from long poems such as “King Herod,” and “Christianity in the apostles,” which are cast in poem-drama form, to little verses such as “Microcosm,” and “Clouds and dawn.”
“In his volume of collected poems Mr. Farquhar takes a deeper plunge into the psychological mysteries of youthful hearts, and now and then succeeds in striking a truly poetic note.”
Fenn, Frederick, and Wyllie, B.Old English furniture.*$2.50. Scribner.
Mr. Fenn has written the chapters on oak furniture, the walnut period, and the introduction of the making of furniture, while those upon chairs, sofas, painted furniture, and inlaid mahogany and satinwood, are by B. Wyllie. There are ninety-four illustrations of articles either owned by the authors or in collections to which they have access. The volume belongs to the “Newnes library of applied arts.”
“Is ... trustworthy, but it leaves us with a somewhat unpleasant feeling of having been ‘taken in hand.’” Edith A. Browne.
“The accompanying text is full of valuable information and pregnant hints to the inexperienced amateur.”
“What we like especially about the text is its reserve, and quiet tone, and plain statement of the impossibility of fixing dates very closely.”
“Its style is intimate rather than didactic, impressionistic rather than scientific.”
Fernández Guardia, Ricardo.Cuentos ticos.$2. Burrows bros. co.
These ten short stories of Costa Rica, have been translated into English by Gray Casement. The author, who is a writer of reputation among Central Americans has strikingly set forth the social, political and religious ideas of Costa Rica in these brief narratives, which combine both pathos and humor. There is a good introduction by the translator; there are also many illustrations of street and country scenes.
“Although here and there reminiscent of Castillian story tellers, the tales and the style in which they are related make one wish to know more of Señor Ricardo and his works.”
Ferree, Barr.American estates and gardens. $10. Munn.
The title of this book misleads one, as the author writes of the country houses, or rather palaces, of our American millionaires. These houses are monuments, not of the taste and personality of the owners, but of the skill and training of the architects and decorators, and there is much grandeur and little domesticity. What is lacking in “Estates,” however, the author amply makes up to us in “Gardens,” and gives most delightful illustrations, many of which are drawn from the well-known Falkner and Bellefontaine farms.
“Whether we regard his book as a record of contemporary and domestic architecture of a certain sort, or as a contribution to sociology, it will be of scarcely less interest a hundred years hence than it is to-day.”
Fetter, Frank Albert.Principles of economics; with applications to practical problems.*$2. Century.
A book which will be particularly valuable to students and teachers, as it represents the course of instruction which Dr. Fetter has given in his classes. “The theory is illuminated by constant references to practical life, and to such sides of life as college students are likely to come into contact with, and it is also used to shed light on the larger problems of our current social life.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
“In the wealth of material treated, in the judicious employment of all methods of economic study, in the sanity and lucidity of discussion, the book has hardly an equal. Moreover, it is the most readable book on economics that the reviewer has had the good fortune to peruse.” A. S. Johnson.
“Professor Fetter’s book may challenge comparison, on the ground of its intrinsic excellence, with any systematic treatise on economics that has appeared since the days of John Stuart Mill.” Winthrop More Daniels.
“Tho having acquaintance with the new, his philosophy is essentially of the old and reveals but few modifications due to an understanding of modern thought and modern conditions.”
“Among the numerous text-books of economics which have appeared in England and America in the last year or two, Professor Fetter’s book is likely to take high rank. For those who share his views on fundamental economic doctrines, his work may well serve as a first-class text-book. The present writer, while admiring the structure of Dr. Fetter’s course, and appreciating the fact that students following such a course are likely to have a keen interest in economics developed, finds himself in the position of a critic compelled to assail the very foundations of Dr. Fetter’s economic system.” A. W. Flux.
*“As an economic synthesis bottomed on the accepted modern theory of value and extended to all phases of economic analysis, it stands unsurpassed.”
Fiebeger, Gustave Joseph.Civil engineering.*$5. Wiley.
A book intended to give military cadets who have to master many sciences and languages as well as military science and tactics an elementary knowledge of civil engineering.
Reviewed by H. N. Ogden.
Field, Edward Salisbury. (Childe Harold, pseud.).Child’s book of abridged wisdom.**75c. Elder.
A little book of rhymed advice amply illustrated with humorously grotesque drawings. The binding is artistic and the wisdom will amuse the parent rather than edify the child. It is upon this order,