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"Finest and best of all is the noble and ennobling fairness in his treatment of all men and all ages." G. S. F.

"Great lectures as they are, they still are lectures only--knowledge cut up into sections to last forty-five minutes."

Reviewed by P. F. Willert.

"Are at once satisfactory and disappointing."

"The result is, on the whole, disappointing. To begin with, notes for lectures generally make poor books, and it is so in this case. Again, the subject is too large for the space in which it is treated, and suffers from overcompression."

"It is, in fact, a primer of history. Every sentence carries with it the conviction of truth, and every page creates an impulse to delve deeper into the subject-matter." Henry James Forman.

"In the main there can be little question of the soundness of his views, the correctness of his attitude. And, what is not unimportant, the lectures show that, 'scientific' historian though he was, he was keenly alive to the human element in history."

"Those who love the beauty of line, and the mysterious effect of chiaroscuro will enjoy these works to the utmost, and recognize them as masterpieces of the graphic arts."

"His judgment is always rational and his conclusions invariably just."

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by E. D. Adams.

"The book is not very accurately printed; some sentences are made unintelligible by errors of punctuation, and a large number of proper names are misspelt."

"Rather unfortunate introduction."

Autobiographical in form, this book follows in a matter-of-fact way "the career of a young man, who, after serving his four years in the Confederate army, made his way from his native Virginia to Texas, there to become foreman of the 'cattle drives,' and so by degrees ranchman and owner of many acres and many herds."

"The account of the cowman's worldly success is, let us admit, by no means free from exaggeration, but the book gives the best picture of the life of the times of any we know, and we heartily recommend it."

"This ingenuous bit of biography, like the author's earlier books, will be read not because it is so well done but because it pictures a passing phase of American life."

"In reading these pages, which bear the stamp of downright honesty, the reader feels that he is in contact with the actual history of an important formative period of national industry--a period which, tho outside of the beaten track of history, is not without significance."

"The pleasant thing about the narrative is its ingenuousness."

"In spite of the sameness due to the likeness of one year of the cattle business to any other year, the book is interesting with the interest which belongs somehow and anyhow to all that is genuine."

Including A college fetich, 1883; Shall Cromwell have a statue? 1902; Some modern college tendencies, 1906. In these addresses Mr. Adams arraigns many of the weaknesses of the present-day college r?gime. The license of electives leads to the "way of least resistance:" college athletics are but the "overgrowth of the superficiality which rules the curricula," etc. He offers helpful reform suggestions on the limitation of the number of subjects pursued, on the moral training of the student, and on the breaking down of our large colleges into smaller units.

"While they can hardly be said to make a book of history at the present time, they will certainly be regarded by the future historian of education in the nineteenth century as an important part of his source-material."

Reviewed by Wm. E. Dodd.

Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

"The period selected is the early part of the last century, and the plot revolves about the struggle between the Shogun and the Mikado, ending with the victory and restoration of the latter. Shibusawa, a true Japanese warrior, son of a daimio, fought well both in war and love, and in the end won honors and the maiden of his choice."--Outlook.

"The story, while for the most part descriptive, with little dialog and only ordinary fancy, lacks snap and fire, while perhaps a good general picture of old Japan."

"For the most part the people and their actions seem to belong quite in their Japanese frame."

"The style of the book is somewhat too serious and prolix for a successful artistic effect."

"An attempt to make Hebrew accentuation interesting and helpful to the average preacher and Bible student, for whom Wickes' treatises are too elaborate and wearisome."--Bib. World.

"As an introductory manual preparatory to the use of a more thorough and complete treatment the work may be recommended to the student beginning his studies."

A manual of instruction on life success, how to conceive it, and how to attain it.

A practical, thorogoing, working knowledge of electricity can be obtained from this handbook for boys. "It tells how to make cells and batteries, switches and insulators, armatures, motors and coils. It shows how easily experiments may be made with home-made appliances at small cost. Every-day uses of electricity are explained so that boys will understand and at the same time be stimulated to put forth their own skill and ingenuity." Numerous cuts of apparatus are given.

Instructive, above all things practical, this book is based upon experience, whose aim is to show boys how to do accurately all manner of out-of-door things within their powers. Beginning with the backyard, detailed information is given for such contrivances as pet shelters, windmills, a?rial toys; going farther afield the interest centers in coasters, skees, kites, fishing tackle, etc.; then come boat building and boat management; while the fourth part of the book is devoted to camps and camping, tree-huts, brush-houses, etc.

"We have seen no book of the kind so thoroughly practical and so well adapted to its aims as this."

"No book better suited to develop ingenuity and mechanical ability."

"It is a reference book that is worth while to have on hand."

"The title selection is an ode read at the annual meeting of the Tufts chapter of Phi beta kappa in 1902. It is an arraignment of American 'imperialism,' touched with that saeva indignatio which has stirred William Vaughn Moody, the late John W. Chadwick, and others of our poets in approaching the same theme. The cathedral poems, filled with the atmosphere of English closes, and reinforced by Mr. Adams's architectural studies, seem of the entire sheaf to be most truly characteristic."--N. Y. Times.

"Book of sincere and thoughtful verso." Wm. M. Payne.

"A collection of correct, derivative pieces in many modes."

"Throughout the book, indeed, technical variety and facility are to be noted, and if there be few striking lines, there are a certain reflective grace and fine traditions of men and literature."

"His private letters, of which Mr. Cushing has made a goodly collection are more illuminative of his character than his public papers. Mr. Cushing shows great industry in locating his material, but is much too sparing in his notes, leaving too many references unexplained. There are errors of dates and names, and a wrong committee of Congress is given in the note to p. 336."

"Like its predecessors, is a valuable addition to the documentary study of the revolutionary period."

For the dogmatic, even sentimental peace-notions bruited about the world by ardent advocates, Miss Addams substitutes the newer dynamic peace embodying the later humanism, whose meaning is implied in such words as "overcoming" "substituting," "re-creating," "readjusting moral values" and "forming new centers of spiritual energy." She offers the moral substitutes for war that are an outgrowth of a definite national background.

"I think in logical organization this book suffers more than her earlier writing. On the other hand, perhaps, nowhere can one find the social point of view, which we must assume, presented with so much inherent necessity as here." George Herbert Mead.

"The present book shows the same fresh virile thought, and the happy expression which has characterized her work."

"This is a very suggestive book. Its one weakness is that, though it does not quite neglect the ethical and spiritual standards of life, it allows them to be overshadowed by the economic and the merely utilitarian."

"As an immediate and effective solution of the main problem indicated by its title, this treatise may well prove less successful than as a manual of instruction in methods of mutual service and a plea for mutual sympathy and good-will." Percy F. Bicknell.

"Miss Addams's observations are so acute, and her criticisms often so well aimed, that her book is worth reading. We cannot but wish, however, that she had ploughed a little deeper, and shown us more clearly how the evils on which she dwells are to be removed."

"It is the expression of an exceptional citizen on subjects that concern everybody. Whatever may prove to be its concern for the student of literature, it should be tolerantly read by the student of affairs, for whom it was written." Olivia Howard Dunbar.

"'Newer ideals of peace' is not a felicitous title for Jane Addams's interesting and suggestive volume. It is imperfect because she has studied only one phase of our national life, and, in American fashion ... she draws too large generalizations from her too specialized observations."

"On the whole, Miss Addams has given us a presentation of the peace argument from a wholly new point of view."

A non-technical study of Israel's religion from the earliest times to the middle of the fifth century B. C. "The sections which treat of the primitive forms of Semitic religion and the early Jahveh worship are of special excellence." The volume includes a chronological table of Jewish history.

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