Biography - Individual, continued. Dostoyevski, F. M. Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his family and friends; translated by Ethel Colburn Mayne. 19 ? Faber, F. W. Father Faber; by T. Hall Patch, with a foreword by His Eminence Cardinal Bourne. 1914. Gallatin, James. A great peace maker: the diary of James Gallatin, secretary to Albert Gallatin, 1813-1827; with an introduction by Viscount Bryce. 1914. Havemeyer, John Craig. Life, letters and addresses of John Craig Havemeyer. 1914. Lehmann, Lilli. My path through life; translated by Alice Benedict Seligman. 1914. Morse, S. F. B. His letters and journals; edited and supplemented by his son, Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reproductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph. 2 v. 1914. Napoleon I. The story-life of Napoleon: hundreds of short stories from the greatest variety of sources reconciled and fitted together in a complete and continuous biography, by Wayne Whipple. 1914. Pardow, W. O. William Pardow of the Company of Jesus, by Justine Ward. 1914. Parnell, C. S. Charles Stewart Parnell; a memoir by his brother, John Howard Parnell. 1914. Pasteur, Louis. Pasteur and after Pasteur, by Stephen Paget. 1914. Roberts, Lord. The life of Lord Roberts, by Sir G. W. Forrest. 1914. Stanford, Sir C. V. Pages from an unwritten diary. 1914. Taft, Mrs. William H. Recollections of full years, by Mrs. William Howard Taft. 1914. Victoria, queen of Great Britain. The training of a sovereign; an abridged selection from The girlhood of Queen Victoria; being Her Majesty's diaries between the years 1832 and 1840; published by authority of His Majesty the King; edited by Viscount Esher. 1914. Wilhelm II. The real Kaiser; an illuminating study. 1914. city at night. Gardens. The feast of the dead in the seventh month. Thoughts on the sea. Cities. The theater. Tombs and rumors. The entrance to the earth. The religion of letters. The banyan. Toward the mountain. The great sea. The temple of consciousness. Painting. The solitary. December. Tempest. The pig. The source. Doors. The river. Night on the verandah. The splendor of the moon. Dreams. Heat. The vision of a city. Descending the river. The tomb. The melancholy water. The night voyage. The halt on the canal. The pine-tree. The arch of gold in the forest. The Salusedentary. The earth viewed from the sea. tation. The hanging house. The spring. The tide at noon. The peril of the sea. Hours in the garden. Leaving the land. The lamp and the bell. The deliverance of Amaterasu. The toast to a future day. The day of the feast of all the rivers. The golden hour. Dissolutions, and other chapters. Cobb, Stanwood. The real Turk. 1914. Douglas, G. M. Lands forlorn; a story of an expedition to Hearne's Coppermine river; with an introduction by James Douglas; with photographs by the author. 1914. Ferguson, Emily. Seeds of pine, by Janey Canuck. 1914. About Canada. Fraser, M. C., and H. C. FRASER. Seven years on the Pacific slope, by Mrs. Hugh Fraser, and Hugh C. Fraser. 1914. Fujimoto, T. The nightside of Japan; with illustrations in colour and tone, specially executed by Japanese artists. 19—? Hughes, S. L. The English character. 1912. Jackson, C. T. The fountain of youth. 1914. About Louisiana. James, G. W. California, romantic and beautiful. 1914. Lange, Algot. The lower Amazon: a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon, with a record of archæological excavations on Marajó island at the mouth of the Amazon river, and obervations on the general resources of the country with an introduction by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh. 1914. Leeds, E. T. The archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon settlements. 1913. Lucas, E. V. A wanderer in Venice; with illustrations in colour by Harry Morley, 1914. and photographs from paintings. Matthews, C. H. Bill, a bushman. 1914. Omond, W. T. Liége and the Ardennes; painted by Amedée Forestier. Pennell, E. R. Our Philadelphia, illustrated by Joseph Pennell. 1914. Pratt, H. M. Westminster Abbey; its architecture, history and monuments. 2 v. 1914. Priestley, R. E. Antarctic adventure; Scott's northern party. 1914. Reid, W. A. The young man's chances in South and Central America; a study of opportunity. 1914. Steveni, W. B. Things seen in Sweden. 1914. Street, Julian. Abroad at home; American ramblings, observations and adventures of Julian Street, with pictorial sidelights by Wallace Morgan. 1914. Contents: Stepping westward. Michigan meanderings. Chicago. "In Mizzoura." The beginnings of the West. The mountains and the coast. Vrooman, C. S., and J. S. VROOMAN. The lure and the lore of travel. 1914. Contents: A royal road to knowledge. Picking up a language. Living as Europeans do. The best side of Paris. Jean Jaures, prophet of social redemption. An apostle of light. Charles Wagner; a social mystic. Uses and abuses of Italian travel. A revised version of Venice. The Assisi of St. Francis and Sabatier. Touring Tuscany à la Bohéme. The Italy of our dreams. Rambles in Switzerland. An awakening. A political pilgrimage. The strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Simoneau. Stevenson in San Francisco. Arrivederci. In my Dudley, Robert, pseudonym. youth; from the posthumous papers of Robert Dudley. 1914. Dunsany, Lord. The book of wonder; a chronicle of little adventures at the edge of the world. 1913. Not a book for the matter-of-fact person, as he will say that there isn't any sense in it,' - a statement quite obviously true. Baker's "Guide to the best fiction" says: "Lord Dunsany has invented a new mythology, and may be almost said to have devised a new language to describe it. He skims the cream of old and new romance, giving a concentration of all that is most strange, poetical, grotesque, and glamorous, in his tales of unknown gods, untravelled deserts, ghostly peoples, cities, and temples, and cataclysms of which no echo has hereto fore been heard. Mr. Sime's ghoulish and grotesque illustrations are, as a rule, finely in harmony with the sense." Fedden, K. W. D. Mrs. Romilly Fedden. Shifting sands, by 1914. Helston, John. Thracian Sea. 1914. Herzog, Rudolf. Sons of the Rhine (Die Wiskottens); translated by Louise T. Lazell. 1914. House, (The), of deceit. 1914. Housman, Laurence. The royal runa1914. way and Jingalo in revolution. Sequel to "King John of Jingalo." Leacock, Stephen. Arcadian adventures with the idle rich. 1914. Contents: A little dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe. The wizard of finance. The arrested philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson. The Yahi-Bahi oriental society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown. The love story of Mr. Peter Spillikins. The rival churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph. The ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing. The great fight for clean government. Lucas, E. V. Landmarks. 1914. Lutz, G. L. H. The best man. 1914. McCall, Sidney, pseudonym. The strange woman. 1914. Adapted from William J. Hurlbut's play of the same name. McFee, William. Aliens. 19-? Martin, George Madden. Selina; her hopeful efforts and her livelier failures. 1914. Miller, H. R. The house of toys. 1914. Norton, Roy. The boomers. 1914. Pollock, A. W. A. In the cockpit of Europe. 1913. Ryan, M. E. M. The House of the Dawn; illustrated and decorated by Hanson Booth. 1914. Sinclair, May. The three sisters. 1914. Snaith, J. C. Anne Feversham. 1914. Stephens, James. The demi-gods. 1914. Strindberg, August. Fair haven and foul strand. 1914. Tracy, Virginia. Persons unknown. 1914. Trevena, John. Wintering Hay. 1914. Vance, L. J. The Lone Wolf; a melodrama. 1914. Van Dyke, Henry. The lost boy. 1914. A story of the first visit of Jesus, as a boy, to Jerusalem. Wason, R. A. Happy Hawkins in the Panhandle. 1914. Whitaker, Herman. West winds; California's book of fiction, written by California authors and illustrated by California artists; edited by Herman Whitaker. 1914. Young, F. E. Valley of a thousand hills. 1914. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AT 476 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY EDMUND L. PEARSON, Editor CENTRAL CIRCULATION. CHILDREN'S ROOM. LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND. CHATHAM SQuare. * 33 East Broadway. HAMILTON FISH PARK. * 388 East Houston street. HUDSON PARK. 66 Leroy street. BOND STREET, 49. Near the Bowery. OTTENDORFER. 135 Second avenue. Near 8th street. TOMPKINS SQUARE. * 331 East 10th street. CATHEDRAL, 123 East 50th street. HOURS OF OPENING CENTRAL CIRCULATION Open 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. every week day, 2 to 6 p. m. on Sundays. 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Many of the notes are taken from critical reviews; others are verses or excerpts from poems typical of the poet's best work, or of the scope of the volume. In the cases of a few of the better known poets annotations have been thought superfluous. Much of the best poetry of to-day has first appeared in the magazines, and some of it has been collected in anthologies. Among the latter may be mentioned the two volumes of "The Anthology of Magazine Verse," edited by W. S. Braithwaite; "The Little Book of Modern Verse," compiled by Jessie B. Rittenhouse, and "Georgian Poetry 1911-1912." Some of the poems inspired by the present war are in "Songs and Sonnets for England in War Time." The list was compiled by Forrest B. Spaulding. NEW BOOKS UNDER the title of "Fear and Conven tionality," Elsie Parsons discusses, though in scientific manner, such interesting subjects as: hospitality, caste, calling, entertaining, not taking to strangers, marriage, ghosts and gods. The finances of the City of New York are the subject of a treatise by a Chinese writer, Yin Ch'u Ma. The books on the war include James M. Beck's "The Evidence in the Case," an analysis of the diplomatic records submitted by four of the belligerent countries. An important work is, "The Diplomatic History of the War," by M. P. Price. No less than three volumes are concerned with the German Emperor, whom one of the books declares to be the most interesting man in Europe. The actual conduct of the war in its different phases is described in Roger Ingpen's "The Fighting Retreat to Paris," Marr Murray's "The Russian Advance," and G. W. Young's "From the Trenches; Louvain to the Aisne; the First Record of an Eye-witness." A scientific book of a popular nature, classed among the works on Industrial Arts, is "The Discoveries and Inventions of the Twentieth Century," by Edward Cressy. Sheldon Cheney has written "The New Movement in the Theatre." Its contents are given, with its entry, under the head of Sports and Amusements. Another book dealing with the modern drama. considered as literature, is F. W. Chandler's "Aspects of Modern Drama." "The Defendant," by Gilbert K. Chesterton, is one of this writer's earliest and most amusing books of essays, recently added to the Library and unknown to many of Mr. Chesterton's readers. "The Oxford Book of American Essays," chosen by Brander Matthews, is a thoroughly interesting volume from beginning to end, and includes the work of American writers from Benjamin Franklin to the present day. There are in it essays by William Dean Howells. John Burroughs, Henry James, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Cabot Lodge, E. S. Martin, Dr. Crothers, Theodore Roosevelt, and Nicholas Murray Butler. The most noticeable single volume of poems listed this month among the new books is probably Thomas Hardy's "Satires of Circumstance," but the general reader will probably find the greatest amount of pleasure in W. S. Braithwaite's “Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914.” Six volumes of plays are mentioned under the heading "Drama," and Shaw's "Pygmalion" will doubtless be the one in greatest demand. The biographies include a life of Lord Avebury, better known as Sir John Lubbock, as well as the life of Florence Nightingale. The latter is by Annie Matheson. Mr. McCall's life of "Tom" Reed will attract a great many readers. For a man who had so great a reputation as a humorist as Speaker Reed, however, the biography is a little disappointing on the anecdotal side. A list of books in the Bohemian language is printed at the end of the News. |