Fox, John, jr.Following the sun-flag: a vain pursuit through Manchuria.**$1.25. Scribner.
One of our war correspondents who never reached the front gives his impressions of Japan and her people. The account of his experiences in Tokio and in Manchuria, which he traversed in the trail of the Japanese army, is amusing and interesting.
“A book very pleasing in its literary finish. Mr. Fox is very guarded, and is as self-controlled as a Japanese in his intimations.” William Elliot Griffis.
“He has made the work interesting by the sketchy, breezy manner in which it is written, although it is imbued with ... race prejudice against men of darker skin.” Wallace Rice.
“Mr. Fox has made some very pretty copy out of his four months’ stay in Tokio.”
“There are some bits of very fine description in this volume.”
“The book is written in an amusing high-coloured style, and as a record of nothing at all is, in its way, an achievement.”
Fox, Middleton.Child of the shore; a romance of Cornwall. (†)$1.50. Lane.
Eery incantations on the Cornish shore bring to a farmer’s wife one of the “merry-maids” of the sea as her longed-for child. The girl’s strange beauty and her sympathy with the sea’s moods cause the villagers to regard her with suspicion, and when she is gone they believe the story that she and her sea-sisters have avenged her life’s tragedy by pulling down to the depths of the sea her aristocratic betrayer. Smugglers, wreckers and fisher-folk enter into the story.
“Mr. Fox’s novel is atmospheric, with the result that in spite of occasional passages of some beauty in the actual writing, and an attractive way of introducing his story ... it is tedious.”
“The book, however, is pleasingly written.”
*“It is, perhaps, unfortunate, that material of such unusual possibilities should have been squandered in a ‘first book,’ for as yet the writer’s equipment is lacking in dramatic force.”
“Mr. Fox tells his story well, in a way to touch both the heart and the imagination, but in addition to the story there is the interest of the vivid picture of a quaint, old village and a mode of life long past.”
Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).Words of St. Francis; sel. and tr. by Anne MacDonell.*60c. Dutton.
“Friends of St. Francis have left records of what in other men might be called ‘Table talk.’ Others of his sayings have come down to us at one further remove, from friends of the Saint’s friends. Some of these things Miss MacDonell has put together in this volume, trying, as she tells us, ‘to reflect his spirit, his temperament, and his attitude to life rather than his doctrine.’”—Spec.
“An admirable little book.”
Francis, M. E., pseud.SeeBlundell, Mary. E. (Sweetman).
Frankau, Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).Eighteenth century artists and engravers. 2v.*$1.50. Macmillan.
“In the regal portfolio of forty engravings, which forms part of her work, [Mrs. Frankau] gives most of her plates to William Ward, who reproduced paintings like Hoppner’s famous Miranda in noble fashion, when he was not designing and stippling dainty circular or oval portraits of feminine types. But in the octavo which contains her text, she fills much of her space with a biographical sketch of James Ward, who valued his gifts as a painter.... The thirty photogravures from his works, which she scatters through her text, are important to the student.”—Atlan.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
Franklin, Benjamin.Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin; ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.
One of the thirteen new titles lately added to the “Handy volume classics.” There is an introduction, which sketches the life of Franklin, and notes by the editor.
“The selections in the book are well chosen.”
Franklin, Benjamin.Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald.*$1.25. Dutton.
The editor has made this book a complete biography by providing a biographical preface and an account of Franklin’s later life and his relation to the history of his time.
“The editor seeks to describe Franklin as the complete citizen—of his city, his country, and the world. The task is superficially done, and is marred by the strong prejudices of the writer.”
Fraser, Edward.Famous fighters of the fleet. $1.75. Macmillan.
These “Glimpses through the cannon smoke in the days of the old navy,” set forth the gallant fights fought by the insignificant little English crafts which used to rule the sea. The past and present is strikingly contrasted in the opening chapter, and then follow accounts of the capture of the French ship Foudroyant by a little Monmouth whose namesake today makes her seem a mere toy, the famous ships that bore the name Formidable, the Zebra, whose fighting captain, Faulkner, carried, by storm, a French fort in the West Indies, and others. The requiem of the Téméraire. the subject of Turner’s picture and Ruskin’s oration, is fittingly sounded and the book closes with an account of how Lord Charles Beresford successfully took the little Condor into action during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.
Fraser, Mary Crawford (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).Maid of Japan.†$1.25. Holt.
The tale of a Japanese girl with the music of the sea and the glory of the cliffs in her nature. Sixteen years before, her mother had walked into the sea because the Englishman who had wed her sailed away and left her. The young girl’s simple life as shell gatherer is disturbed one day by the coming of a young Englishman who sings love songs to her over the water, clears up the mystery of her parentage, and takes her back to his England.
“She has a wonderful vocabulary, mastery of language, fine literary finish, and a keen sense of the dramatic. There is no false step or slip of the pen in her word drawing and shadings of Japanese life.” William Elliot Griffis.
“The volume is quite unworthy of the author of the ‘Letters from Japan.’” Adachi Kinnosuké.
“The plot is slight, but the story is told with surpassing grace, and possesses to a rare degree both atmosphere and temperament.”
“The moral tone is high, the literary finish good, the general effect idyllic, and the typographical presentation unique and agreeable.”
“Whatever this author does is done well, and when she touches Japan she is securely at home. There is nothing sensational or thrilling in the book, but it is bathed deep in Japanese atmosphere.”
Fraser, William Alexander.Sa’-Zada tales.†$2. Scribner.
“Stories supposed to be told by the animals in a ‘Zoo’ in India. The keeper, Sa’ (or Sahib) Zada, in the warm summer nights lets the animals out of their cages, and brings them together to tell stories.... Each of the animals in turn tells of his life in the jungle and how he cameto be captured.... They indulge in repartee and sometimes in bad temper, but they are on the whole a happy family, united by their love for their keeper. The book is strikingly illustrated by Arthur Heming.”—Outlook.
*“Will be a treasure-trove to children who love animals and who love to hear them talk.” May Estelle Cook.
*“Though not a brilliant story-teller, is interesting, and apparently knows a great deal about the creatures that he presents to us.”
*“The author’s knowledge of natural history, his skill in story telling, and his humorous sympathy, enable him to thrill the lover of forest creatures and even to thrall jaded readers who may scorn all popular nature books.”
Free, Richard.Seven years’ hard.*$1.50. Dutton.
A record of the Rev. Richard Free’s seven years of pioneer missionary work in that section of the London slums known as the Isle of Dogs, or Millwall. The author himself calls it “a city of desolation,” and he and his wife fight a long and gallant fight against rowdyism and intemperance. Tho the Thames flows through that section, “its waters have become loathsome by human selfishness and folly,” and young and old toil from dawn till dark for a mere pittance; factories fill the district, and dirt and foul odors are everywhere. The erection of the mission building, the establishment of guilds, and the problems to be met with, are well described in this volume.
“It is not a story and it is not a system of sociology, but a series of snap-shots of the life of people ground to earth by employers, debased by drink and ignorance, and indifferent to art, science, history, morals, and religion.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
“For a picture or series of pictures of an unknown people living in the midst of a Christian civilization, we have seen nothing so graphic as this book of Mr. Free’s since Jacob A. Riis’s ‘How the other half lives.’”
Freeman, Edward Augustus.Western Europe in the eighth century and onward.*$3.25. Macmillan.
The late Professor Freeman left the manuscript of this work in the rough, some chapters being merely fragmentary and the editors who are first publishing the book, twelve years after the author’s death, can give it only in an unfinished form; but it is a welcome addition to a period upon which there is little historical light. The period covered opens with the rise and fall of the British Constantine and closes with Theodoric and Chlodowig. It is put before us with the great historian’s usual breadth of view, and accuracy of detail; it is learned and even heavy, but it contains many beautiful and vivid passages, and is the result of the faithful researches of one who was thoroly steeped in the subject and in the times.
“The volume is plainly meant for the specialist, who will find profit in the discussions of the patriciate and donation and in the detailed account of Pippin’s campaigns, in spite of the amount of more or less relevant comparison and allusion with which the author was in the habit of overloading his writings.”
“Excellent as is Freeman’s work, even without his own revision, it is unfortunately impossible to say the same of the editing.” E. W. Brooks.
“This book is thoroughly readable, even if all critics may not find it thoroughly convincing from beginning to end.”
“The task of editing the MS. has been performed with scrupulous care. Its difficulty could hardly be exaggerated, for Mr. Freeman had at times only indicated the sources of the references. Our knowledge of this period is so meagre that we are grateful for the light thrown on it by the researches, unfortunately incomplete, of one who had made the subject peculiarly his own.”
*Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins).Debtor.†$1.50. Harper.
“The ‘Debtor’ preys upon his fellow-men because he has himself been ruined in business by a scoundrel, and has not the skill and strength to make an honest fight. His amiable, unreasoning wife, who thinks all creditors mean and vulgar persons; his worn and disillusioned sister, who knows all his faults, but fights for him to save the family; his queer little son with impish instincts and inherited traits ... and, above all, his innocent and faithful daughter, who really saves her father by the intensity and unselfishness of her love—all these are real people. So, too, are the creditors.”—Outlook.
*“As it is the novel seems to lack unity, and in spite of much subtlety and fine workmanship the effect is that of a succession of disconnected studies of character rather than of a single well-proportioned whole.”
*“The first interest of the book lies in its fidelity to the small things that make up manners and customs.”
*“One misses the crispness of style that marked ‘Pembroke’ and ‘Jerome’; one sometimes finds involved sentences and careless phrasing; but the reality, intensity, and force of the novel are remarkable.”
Freer, A. Goodrich-.Inner Jerusalem.*$3. Dutton.
In telling “what Jerusalem is like” Miss A. Goodrich Freer commands a view from the Holy City itself, with her vantage ground right under the shadow of the Russian tower. Among other noteworthy facts brought out as to life in modern Jerusalem is one which the author presents in these words: “While we sing ‘They call us to deliver their land from error’s chain,’ let us realize that here we may send out our youngest maid, with no further caution than not to get her pocket picked; we may take a cab, certain that our driver, unless he be a Christian, will not get drunk.” (R. of Rs.) There are many full-page illustrations, chiefly from photographs.
“Has contrived to answer a great many interesting questions regarding life in the Holy City, so that the reader rises from the work with a sense of having at last learned just what Jerusalem means to its widely assorted inhabitants, especially to those who comprise the European colonies there. The knowledge displayed in the book is such as could have been acquired only by long residence, and is used with discrimination and a sympathetic outlook upon the curious ramifications of temporal and spiritual power.” Wallace Rice.
*“She has withal, a very pretty wit, racy descriptive power and a clever knack of relating her subject to its graver scientific issues, with the sure result that we are both informed and entertained.”
“The style, however, is the same throughout—amusing and light, without being irreverent. The book gives a pleasant and entertaining and, in spite of its limitations, probably the best available picture of actual living conditions in Jerusalem at the present day.”
French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French).Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.†$1.50. Little.
Aunt Mary, “dreadfully deaf and fearfully arbitrary,” is also seventy years old, immensely wealthy, and unreasonably devoted to her nephew Jack. After getting him out of various scrapes, she becomes discouraged and disinherits him. The body of the book is taken up with an account of the good time which Jack and his college chums give the old lady when she comes to New York on a visit. Knocking about town, indulging in late suppers, motorcar spins and other joys prove so alluring that she forgives Jack, who promptly marries a beautiful young widow, who has played an important part in the story, and Aunt Mary goes to New York to live with them and continue to enjoy the giddy whirl offered by the metropolis.
“Considered as a bright and humorous story, this tale is incomparably superior to the author’s previous work, ‘Susan Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop.’ The general moral atmosphere, especially of the earlier part of the story, leaves much to be desired.”
*“There is plenty of dialogue in this story, and the plot is lively enough to hold the most frivolous spirit.”
*“Clever little comedy.”
“She has only succeeded in producing a broad farce.”
Frenssen, Gustav.Jorn Uhl; tr. by F. S. Delmer.†$1.50. Estes.
Jörn Uhl was the youngest son of a drunken brute. His mother died neglected, his brothers followed his father’s mode of living and Jörn worked the great farm while the others caroused. His career is followed in detail as his character unfolds and he dully plods toward the light, until at last he comes to be a man of mark.
“Really is a fine novel and deserves to be taken seriously. The present translation is good, but fails, we think, to reach the highest excellence.”
“It is a rich, homely book, seemingly artless in its simple sincerity, intensely human in its appeal, touched with poetic feeling that can glorify the humblest material, and genuine in the best sense of the word.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The translation shows remarkable poetic insight and is faithful rather than literal.”
“Freely offered advice to the reader of Jorn Uhl is to skip the story and read the reflections and sermons.”
“On the whole not ill translated.”
“Unusual story. For many chapters the reader is absorbed in quiet but intensely vivid pictures full of real poetry and throbbing with convincing truth.”
“Is powerful rather than original, deliberately thoughtful and carefully wrought rather than striking; ... it is the culmination, not the creation, of a genre.”
“There are tedious passages. There is a want of proportion; there are abrupt transitions from tragedy to a somewhat childlike jollity. But it is for all its artlessness, an attractive story.”
“While Mr. Delmer’s translation is in the main workmanlike and straightforward, his method of occasionally representing the Low German dialect by using Scotch forms is most disconcerting.”
Friedenwald, Herbert.Declaration of independence.**$2. Macmillan.
“Dr. Herbert Friedenwald has written an interpretation and analysis of ‘The Declaration of independence.’ As preliminary to his chapters on adopting and signing of the declaration its purpose and philosophy, Dr. Friedenwald points out the close interrelation between the development of the authority and jurisdiction of the Continental congress and the evolution of the sentiment for independence. He shows that as the authority and jurisdiction of congress were extended it adopted various means to further the desire for independence; that the highest point of power was reached by the congress on July 4, 1776, and that it was never again so powerful as on the day it declared independence of England.”—R. of Rs.
“The independence campaign has never been so carefully studied as in this valuable monograph. The book as a whole represents an amount of study that gives great credit to the author’s conscientious scholarship.” C. H. Van Tyne.
“Very suggestive study.” Winthrop More Daniels.
“An elaborate and careful monograph.” H. E. E.
“This is the most scholarly study of the Independence campaign that has been made. The book is a credit to the author’s conscientious scholarship. Written in a rather heavy style.”
*“A careful and deep study of the evolution of the spirit that produced that famous document.”
“It is the first attempt to give the general reading public an adequate treatment of the period concerned, and within its compass it does what has been pressingly needed. Here we have knowledge kept within bounds, original authorities sifted and their pith extracted.”
Friedlander, M., tr. SeeMaimonides, Moses.The guide for the perplexed.
From servitude to service: the history and*work of Southern institutions for the education of the negro.*$1.10. Am. Unitar.
A book for students of Southern educational institutions and their problems. There is an outline of the history and work of six of the leading Southern institutions engaged in negro education: Howard university, Berea college, Tuskegee institute, Hampton institute, Atlanta university, and Fisk university.
*“A book of great interest.”
*Frost, Arthur Burdett.Book of drawings; with introd. by Joel Chandler Harris, and verse by Wallace Irwin. $3. Collier-Fox.
“A new edition of the happy combination of the humor of these men already firm in the hearts of their public.”—Critic.
Frost, Thomas Gold.Incorporation and organization of corporations created under the “Business corporation acts” of all the states and territories of the United States.*$3.50. Little.
“A treatise describing and comparing the incorporation laws of the various states and territories of the Union. Every step in obtaining a charter, incorporating, issuing stock, and going into bankruptcy is fully described for every class of corporation and with reference to the statutes of every commonwealth. The legislative, judicial, and executive powers of the various branches of the federal and state governments over corporations are given clearly and succinctly, and 185 pages are devoted to a synopsis-digest of the incorporation acts of the several states and territories.”—N. Y. Times.
“It teaches the whole important art of incorporation in a very satisfactory way, and without an excess of citations.”
“This digest is remarkable for its careful condensation of the very wordy acts into a form available for quick and reliable reference. Nothing essential is omitted, and nothing unnecessary is included. As a book for the reference of the lawyer and the information of the prospectiveincorporator, we do not know of any work comparable to this.”
Fuchs, Carl Johannes.Trade policy of Great Britain and her colonies since 1860, tr. by Constance H. M. Archibald.*$2.50. Macmillan.
“An admirable translation by Miss Constance Archibald of the well-known work of Prof. Fuchs on the fiscal question.... The drawback to the book is that the original was published in 1893, and that the figures are out of date.”—Ath.
“With the exception of a few blemishes, the book is one which it was right to translate. The work of translation and editing has been admirably performed.”
“It is a drawback that the book is not brought up to date; Dr. Fuchs has changed his mind at least as to one point since he wrote.”
“We unreservedly welcome this translation of a Freiburg professor’s work.”
Fuller, Anna.Bookful of girls.†$1.50. Putnam.
“A half-dozen sketches of as many different types of winsome young womanhood—Blythe, enthusiastic and lovable; Madge, the artistic; Olivia, the young philanthropist; Polly, capable and devoted sister; Di, the dear peacemaker; but best of all, Nannie, who floured her face and did Lady Macbeth in a nightgown to an admiring audience of one—Miss Becky Crawlin, seamstress, whom she afterward took to a real theatre, with many amusing results.”—Outlook.
“The book is adapted for young girls’ reading and has a wholesome and stimulating tone. It should be popular.”
“A very rare and pleasing collection of girls are these.”
Fuller, Robert Higginson.Golden hope: a story of the time of King Alexander the Great.†$1.50. Macmillan.
An accurate picture of the life of the time, with the wars and conquests of Alexander as a background. The story follows the adventures of Clearthus, a rich young Athenian, in his search for his betrothed, Artemesia, who had been taken from him on the eve of their wedding, thru the influence of a relative who covets the young Greek’s fortune. A Theban and a Spartan accompany him and they become involved in Alexander’s campaigns.
“The characters are conventional, the plot is laboured, and an air of unreality hangs about the whole.”
“The book ends peacefully, and is one to absorb the attention.”
“It is as good as many other historical novels of the day.”
“To readers with a predilection for historical fiction this romance of Alexander’s wars of conquest will more especially commend itself. Others may find it over long and rather too heavily freighted with descriptive detail.”
“Not without signs of ability and interest.”
Fullerton, Edith Loring.How to make a vegetable garden: a practical and suggestive manual for the home garden.**$2. Doubleday.
“The illustrations!—truly, they illustrate—everything from seedlings and tools to the aspect of the garden in winter.” (Dial.) “Besides being a good picture book, it contains practical and detailed directions for making the best use of a small garden from the preparation of the soil to the cooking of the vegetables.”—Ind.
“Mrs. Fullerton’s book is a pleasing record of experience.”
“The writer has managed to avoid everything dull and prosy, without omitting anything essential.” Edith Granger.
“A very worthy contribution to the world’s sanity.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
Furness, Horace Howard, ed. SeeShakespeare, Wm.New variorum edition of Love’s labour’s lost.
Fyvie, John.Women of wit and beauty of the time of George IV.**$3. Pott.
The lives of eight famous women are dealt with in this volume: Mrs. Fitzherbert; Lady Hamilton; Mrs. Montagu; Lady Blessington; Mrs. Lennox; Mrs. Grote; Mrs. Norton; and Lady Eastlake. Excellent portraits add much to the interest of this collection of biographies.
“We must be grateful, however, for Mr. Fyvie’s addition to our materials, although we still await the wizard who shall transform them into flesh and blood.”
*“As a whole, Mr. Fyvie’s sketches are agreeably and discreetly written, but they contain little evidence of original research.”
“The biographies are told con amore, the women placed before us with firm strokes and careful shading; and the result is wholly pleasing.”
*“In all, Mr. Fyvie, who is indefatigable in research and clever in arranging his ‘finds,’ makes the best of his theme.”
Gallatin, A. E.Whistler’s art dicta and other essays. $3.50. Goodspeed.
A collection of five essays which originally appeared in the International studio, the Lamp, the Critic, the Weekly critical review of Paris, and the Literary collector. The title essay deals with Whistler’s “Gentle art of making enemies,” “Aubrey Beardsley: man of letters,” contains a review of his last writings as found in “Under the hill, and other essays in prose and verse,” (John Lane). “Notes on three hitherto unpublished drawings by Beardsley,” describes three unfinished sketches here reproduced, a border design for Mallory’s “Le morte d’Arthur.” The closing papers are “Whistler’s realism” and “Whistler’s memorial exhibition,” in Boston, February and March, 1904.
“The volume has little interest but for those already much interested in Whistler and his work.”
“The title of this little volume is somewhat misleading, and its price out of proportion to its value.”
“This exquisite volume will be a valuable keepsake to those who admire Whistler. It is remarkable, first, because of its superb print, secondly, because of some remarkable facsimiles, and, thirdly, because of a criticism which may well be a vade mecum to those who would better understand Whistler—to those who have thought him an impressionist, for instance.”
Gallizier, Nathan.Castel del Monte; a romance of the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in Italy.†$1.50. Page.
A novel with a most involved and exciting plot which concerns a wicked duke and ex-monk, his lovely kinswoman, Lady Helena, and the beautiful Francesca whom he has taken from a nunnery. There are witches and sorcerers, plots and counterplots, murders and battles. A young nobleman, who loves Lady Helena, is again and again entangled by the wicked duke and dies in her arms at the tragic close of the story.
*Ganz, Henry F. W.Practical hints on painting, composition, landscape, and etching.*$1. Lippincott.
This volume “supplies the advice and suggestion, hung on the frame work of graded lessons in drawing and painting, that are ordinarily to be had only in class.... In twelve preliminary lessons the author sets the beginner various tasks in drawing and in painting, with representative illustrations.”—Int. Studio.
*“While perhaps a trifle categorical to the reader, this book should prove a convenient walking stick to many who start along the road of painting alone.”
Ganz, Hugo.The land of riddles. $2. Harper.
This book is translated from the German and edited by Herman Rosenthal. The author, a German journalist of Vienna, sent his work originally to the Austrian newspapers in the form of letters. It gives in detail his visit to Russia, the land of riddles, early in 1904, and his conversations with men of all classes of social and official life. He treats of the war; the political situation; the universities, which are “only political camps awaiting the call to arms, and nothing more”; the Jewish question, which there seems no hope of solving, and the unsteady financial standing of Russia, whose foreign credit is a mere bubble. There is a chapter on Ryepin, the great Russian painter, the sale of whose paintings is forbidden abroad, and an account of a visit to Tolstoy. The book as a whole gives a vivid and unpleasing picture of corruption and riddles to which there is at present no answer.
“After reading the introduction, one is apt to get the impression that Mr. Ganz went to Russia with a mind receptive, to say the least, to ‘horrors,’ and that quite naturally he was horrified. The volume has the defects usually inherent to a collection of letters written for popular consumption—prolixity. The writer assumes that his readers are ignorant of everything east of the Vistula.”
“Toward solving the ‘riddles,’ the author’s guesses imply only average insight or acumen, but the book is readable, and the style is pleasing.”
“There is little in the book that adds to the recent knowledge poured forth so profusely concerning that unhappy land. The translation, by Mr. Herman Rosenthal, is into excellent English.” Wallace Rice.
“In its present English dress the book contains, however, much additional matter, and some of it valuable. He states throughout the truth boldly, as he sees it, and in most cases gives his authority, or authorities, for his facts and conclusions.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
“Mr. Rosenthal’s translation is excellently well done. The style is smooth and interesting.”
Gardenhire, Samuel M.Silence of Mrs. Harrold. $1.50. Harper.
The author is a New York lawyer and has chosen his home town as the setting for his novel. The plot hinges upon a marriage in which both a man and a woman promise to ask no questions relative to their respective pasts. The compact is kept, but the husband’s jealousy is aroused, and finally it develops that “Mrs. Harrold” in her youth had eloped with a member of a circus troupe. Her father, following them to the man’s home in Austria, kills her husband, whose own father suffers imprisonment for the crime, the real murderer being shielded by his daughter. There are many complications but the book ends with the complete vindication of the silent wife.
“Had it been half as long, ‘The silence of Mrs. Harrold’ might have been twice as good.”
“A novel of strong and complex interest.” W. M. Payne.
“I am firmly inclined to believe that the new novel of intricate plot which Mr. Gardenhire has given us in ‘The silence of Mrs. Harold’ will be warmly welcomed and meet with as wide an appreciation as its merit deserves. Mr. Gardenhire possesses remarkable constructive ability. He knows how to tell a story. The author has handled this question with a dignity and justice and fine feeling that will make the book appeal strongly to women.” James MacArthur.
“He knows much that is behind the scenes to the general, and yet his novel lacks atmosphere. One looks on at a carefully constructed Coney Islandish reproduction of New York; one does not feel the throb of ‘the mighty heart’ of the living city. The chief defect of the book is the one most surely fatal to fiction—it is tedious. The author is fluent, ingenious, inventive; but the long and stilted conversations ‘get on to our nerves.’ Now and again we applaud, but before the last page is reached we are exceedingly weary. In short, the novel is not the work of an artist, and so fails to take the reader with it.”
“It has rarely been our fate to read more prolix, tiresome, and unnatural dialogue than that in this book, while in substance and plot the story is valueless.”
“The book is carefully and easily written.”
“The discovery of relationships, the linking together of scattered and seemingly unrelated facts, the many ramifications, show constructive skill of a high order. As a study—thorough, logical and strong—of some complex, sophisticated aspects of New York life the book will rank high.”
Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.Heart of a girl.†$1.50. Barnes.
A book about a child, but one whose contemplative phase belongs to grown-ups. The story traces the workings of a silent, lonely, albeit resourceful girl’s heart from childhood thru her High School days. “We follow Margery to Margaret, and know we are always with a real girl, independent, faulty, sensitive, and generous, imperious among her fellows, yet a favorite and a born leader.” (Outlook.)
“Mrs. Gardiner’s story represents a phase in the psychology of childhood to the study of which such writers as Kenneth Grahame, George Madden Martin, and Marion Hill have contributed.”
“The book is well written, with much sympathy for the little joys and sorrows that loom so large in childhood, and for the intense loves, ambitions, disappointments, triumphs of the older schoolgirl.”
“The strength of this little story lies in the frequent responses it calls up in the mind of the reader, if that reader knows girls.”
Gardner, Percy.Grammar of Greek art.**$1.75. Macmillan.
This volume “presents an attempt to set forth the underlying conventions of Greek art, and the changes which ... they gradually underwent. The mental fashions of the Greek mind in building and sculpture and in painting, are presented with a discussion of the relation between epic, lyric and dramatic poetry to painting and vase decoration. An informing chapter is devoted to the subject of dress and drapery.... Such sculptural problems as the decoration of pediments are carefully analyzed. Interesting light is thrown upon the formation of sculptural types and the Greek tendency to impressionalism.... Illustrations in outline and half tone are sufficiently plentiful to point in every case the discussion and argument.”—Int. Studio.