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To my mom and dad, who got me here
 Contents at a Glance
About the Author ................................................... xi
About the Technical Reviewer .................................... xii
Acknowledgments ................................................... xiii
Introduction ....................................................... xv
Chapter 1 Developing Your First Game ......................... l
Chapter 2 Writing Your First Game, Again ................... 43
Chapter 3 Understanding Object-Oriented Programming
from the Start ...................................... 89
Chapter 4 More OOPing Around ................................ 123
Chapter 5 Understanding Polymorphism ....................... 177
Chapter 6 Using Polymorphism via Interfaces ............... 209
Chapter 7 Creating Multiplayer Games ....................... 247
Chapter 8 Using DirectX ...................................... 279
Chapter 9 Learning other Object-Oriented
Programming Topics ................................ 319
Appendix A The Basics of Visual Basic ....................... 341
Appendix BUsing POV-RAY and Moray .......................... 347
Appendix C Using the BMPStitch Utility ...................... 357

Index .............................................................. 367

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About the Author ................................................... xi
About the Technical Reviewer .................................... xii
Acknowledgments ................................................... xiii
Introduction ....................................................... xv

Chapter 1 Developing Your First Game .................... 1

Learning the Basics of Object-Oriented Programming ............ 2

Overview of the .NET Framework ................................... 5
Class Is in Session ................................................ 6
Designing the Die Roller Form ................................... 12
Coding the Die Roller ............................................ 17
Adding Your OWn Property ......................................... 19
Setting Up Events, or Making the Program Do Something ........ 21
Setting Up Methods ................................................ 24
Rolling the Die ................................................... 24
Where to Draw the Die? ........................................... 32
Putting the Die in Its Place .................................... 37
Moving the Die .................................................... 38
Tying the Functionality Together ................................ 40
The End? ........................................................... 42

Chapter 2 Writing Your First Game, Again ............. 43

Understanding the Benefits of Rewriting ........................ 44

Creating the Die Class ........................................... 45
Putting the Die Class to Work ................................... 60
Version 3: Creating the DicePanel Class ........................ 64
Testing the Classes ............................................... 81
Adding the DicePanel Class to the Toolbox ..................... 83
Now That's Reusable Stuff 1 ....................................... 86

Chapter 3 Understanding Object-Oriented

Programming from the Start................... 89

Starting the NineTiles Project .................................. 90

Looking Back on the Design ...................................... 118

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Chapter 4 More DOPing Around ............................ 123

Setting Up the Graphics ......................................... 124

Creating the Base Tile Class ................................... 125
Developing Brain Drain Concentration .......................... 139
Developing DeducTile Reasoning ................................. 146
Developing Lose Your Mind ....................................... 163
Summary ............................................................ 176

Chapter 5 Understanding Polymorphism .................. 177

Seeing Polymorphism in Action .................................. 178

Understanding Life and Something Like It ...................... 179
Developing Conway's Game of Life ............................... 187
Developing Rainbow Life ......................................... 194
Developing the Voting Game ...................................... 199
Building the Main Cellular Automaton Program ................. 203
Expanding the Cellular Automaton Games ........................ 207

Chapter 6 Using Polymorphism via Interfaces ........ 209

Seeing an Example Interface in Action ......................... 210

Using More Complex Interfaces .................................. 215
Finally, Seeing the Polymorphism in Action ................... 243
Additional Interface Topics ..................................... 245

Chapter 7 Creating Multiplayer Games .................. 247

Understanding Network Communication ............................ 247

Creating the Player Class and Subclasses ...................... 248
Developing the ReversiPiece Class .............................. 256
Developing the ReversiGame Class ............................... 257
Setting Up the Game .............................................. 262
Sending Game Data ................................................ 272
Receiving Game Data .............................................. 274
Debugging Network Code .......................................... 275
Moving Forward ................................................... 276

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Chapter 8 Using DirectX ................................... 279

Installing DirectX 9 ............................................. 280

Understanding DirectDraw Basics ................................ 280
Building an Arcade Game ......................................... 289
Summary ............................................................ 318

Chapter 9 Learning Other Object-Oriented

Programming Topics ............................ 319

Understanding Structured Exception Handling .................. 319

Understanding Garbage Collection ............................... 323
Understanding Object Serialization ............................. 328
Understanding Threading ......................................... 332

Appendix A The Basics of Visual Basic ................. 341

Getting Started with Basic Programming ........................ 342

Looking at an Example Project .................................. 346

Appendix BUsing POV-RAY and Moray...................... 347

Introducing Persistence of Vision .............................. 347

Creating the Ray-Traced Die ..................................... 348
Summary ............................................................ 355

Appendix C Using the BMPStitch Utility ................ 357

Using BMPStitch .................................................. 358

Using the BMPStitch Code ........................................ 360
Summary ............................................................ 366

Index ............................................................. 367

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 About the Author
matt tagliaferrl has been developing soft-
ware since his high school obtained its
first computers-six TRS-80 Model 3s-in
1982. matt (who prefers his name in
lowercase) has developed software in sev-
eral industries, including retail, insurance,
corporate finance, and trucking before
(somewhat miraculously) landing a senior
analyst position with the Cleveland
Indians baseball organization. matt has
been with the Indians for six years and is now the manager of application
development.
Currently, matt lives in the Cleveland area with his wife and two daughters.
He enjoys collecting The Simpsons action figures and "family stuff" such as
American Idol and Friday Pizza Nights.

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 About the Technical
Reviewer
MIKE BURGESS started writing software on computers back when they took up
whole rooms and had less memory than an average digital watch today. He has
worked for small to large corporations (including Microsoft) and has been work-
ing with Visual Basic since the beta of version 1. He's written many different types
of software including small business accounting and inventory, real estate, emer-
gency management, corporate communication, multimedia, medical diagnosis,
and some hush-hush stuff for the government.
He currently resides in northern Utah with his wife and five (yes, five) chil-
dren. He enjoys Family Game Night, Mountain Dew, and a good round of Ghost
Recon with his kids and brothers.

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 Acknowledgments
WRITING A BOOK IS DEFINITELY not a solo project-and there are numerous people
to thank for the opportunity and the work put into this project. I'd like to thank
the entire Apress team. This is my first Apress title, and I've found it to be a first-
class organization. Individually, my list of acknowledgments probably reads like
the internal Apress organizational chart: thanks to Gary Cornell for listening to
and shaping my initial pitch, thanks to Dan Appleman for some overall direction
in finding the correct audience, and thanks to Laura Cheu and Nate McFadden
for serving as project managers and keeping the project on track. Mike Burgess
served as technical editor for the book and did a great job not only making sure
the code was complete and that everything compiled but also making sugges-
tions to help improve code clarity and readability. Kim Wunpsett filled the role of
editor, keeping my i's dotted and my gerunds gerunding. Finally, Beth Christmas
filled a multitude of roles from making sure I had the correct screen-capture soft-
ware to getting me advance copies of Visual Studio. I thank all of them for turning
a simple idea into the organized pile of pages you now hold in your hands.
On the home front, no project gets far without the understanding of my wife,
Janet, who has to put up with me running to the computer to check email as soon
as I get home from work and with the clack clack of the keyboard as she tries to
read every evening. I hope she doesn't need to read this to know how much her
love and support mean to me.

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 Introduction
A FEW YEARS AGO, Microsoft raised a few eyebrows (my own included) when it
announced that the next version of Visual Basic (VB) would not be backward
compatible with the current version, VB 6. There were many valid reasons for
breaking the compatibility, but many people still thought Microsoft was taking
a considerable gamble. After all, there were thousands of VB programmers crank-
ing out millions of lines of code in the modem workforce, and suddenly Microsoft
was announcing that this mountain of code would someday be considered "old"
technology.

Introducing the New VB

Would the development community take to the new VB? The answer to that,
of course, depended on what the new language had to offer. Community revolt
would be the result if it were perceived that VB was changing simply for the sake
of change. No, Microsoft had to make sure that the newVB was bringing enough
to the table to get developers to want to make the change and make a concerted
effort to plan upgrade paths for their production VB code.
Fortunately (for Microsoft and its stockholders), the newVB delivered against
these goals. The new VB, called Vzsual Basic .NET, supported a full object-oriented
paradigm-much better than the object-oriented features "bolted on" to VB along its
prior development cycle. Furthermore, VB was only one of many possible languages
that built upon the .NET Framework-an enormous library of classes from which
your new programs would be based. Browser-based development took a major leap
forward in the new release, as well-allowing the developer to do much of the devel-
opment outside of the Web page in "standard" classes that could be accessed from
the browser. These classes could be accessed through standard means or referenced
remotely using Web Services, which allow full.NET Framework objects to be passed
via Extensible Markup Language (XML) across the Internet. So much to leam! Where
to start?
I've had many different people ask me about the best way to get into pro-
gramming or the best way to learn a new language such as VB .NET. I've always
found that I can't learn a new language unless I have a specific task that I want
to solve by writing a program. I'm not of the camp that believes one can sit down
with the compiler, the development environment, and the help file and then stand
up many hours later an "expert" in the language. I need to learn by doing.
With that in mind, an important choice becomes the type of program to
develop. Choose a program too small, and you won't have enough opportunity

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to learn anything. A program too large doesn't work, either-you end up spend-
ing too much time bogged down in the complexity of the task, which takes away
time from learning the features of the language. like Goldilocks, you're looking
for the program not too small, not too big, but instead "just right."
I discovered a few years ago that the "small game" program fit nicely into
the "just right" category for learning the basics of a programming language.
A small game is one that fits on a single screen and can usually be played by
a single player in a few minutes. Examples of a small game include card games,
dice games, and some simple board games. Many qualities make programs
such as these good learning subjects. Programs of this type usually need to keep
track of one or more types of game piece, and these pieces are often required to
change state (such as a die rolling or a board element changing color). These
game elements often come in groups (52 cards in a deck, five dice for Yahtzee) ,
so you'll have to learn how the language stores a group of similar elements. The
user interface requirements of such games are usually more interesting (and
therefore more challenging) than the usual button/listboxl combo box interface.
Finally, when you've succeeded and completed the program, you've got a fun
game to play.
The goal of this book is to teach you how to get started programming in VISual
Basic .NET by developing games. This book doesn't intend to be a complete treatise
of all the features and capabilities of this latest version ofVB. Instead, it provides
a series of example programs that illustrate basic features of the language and begins
the huge task of introducing you to the contents of the .NET Framework. In addition,
I introduce one more important programming concept-the concept of design. Now
that object-oriented languages are more common, people have found that the vari-
ous objects in a program can be designed to interact with each other in different
ways; these interactions can make the program more or less complex or more or less
adaptable to future features or enhancements. To illustrate the importance of design
on a program, I've taken the time to walk you through the development process of
several of these programs rather than simply presenting you with the final version
of the game. By learning how to solve a program one way, then improving upon that
design in a second or third version of the program, you'll begin to recognize when your
own designs might be headed down a wrong path and some redesign is in order.

Where Are You Now?

This book assumes you've had at least some experience in software development
before diving into the first chapter and that you now want to learn Visual Basic
.NET. Perhaps you're a VB 6 programmer, for example, in which case this book
will help describe the syntactical differences between the languages, as well as
introduce you to the .NET Framework classes that will be new to you. Perhaps
you're experienced in an older technology such as mainframe programming and

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 Introduction

are looking to update your skill set to something more modem. Or perhaps
you've picked up software development as a secondary skill at your job (you're
the office "Excel macros guru"), and now you want to learn something more for-
mally. Whatever the case, my assumption is that as you crack open Chapter 1,
"Developing Your First Game," you've written programs in some other language
so that you have a jumping-off point. Specifically, the following concepts should
be familiar to you:

• Simple variables such as integers and strings to hold pieces of information

• Manipulation of data through expressions using elements such as mathe-

matical operators (plus, minus, multiply, divide) or string operations (left,
right, substring, uppercase/lowercase)

• Flow statements such as If .. Then •. Else blocks, For loops, and While
statements

• The use of procedures and functions and how to get information into and
out of them

• The event-driven nature ofWmdows programming and how many programs

remain in an "idle state" until the user does something, at which point some
type of code runs

Getting Up to Speed
If the previous little review list gives you a queasy feeling, or you simply think you
might need a refresher on some of these topics, then you'll be happy to know that
Appendix A, "The Basics of Visual Basic" contains some introductory material.
Specifically, it covers these topics while describing how to write a simple Visual
Basic .NET program. Becoming familiar with the topics in the appendix should
give you enough background to dive into Chapter 1, "Developing Your First Game,"
and start the game writing.

Downloading the Code

If you want to follow along with the examples in the book, you can download the
code for all the games developed in the book. It's available from the Downloads
section of the Apress Web site (http://www.apress.com) . The code is divided into
the chapter folders described in Table 1.

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Introduction

Table 1. Download the Source Code

FOLDER NAME USED IN
Art Graphics/sounds used throughout the book

BMPStitch AppendixC
CellularAutomata ChapterS

Cellul~tomata~thSave Chapter 9

Common Modules/ classes used by multiple projects

DicePanel Chapter 2

DicePanelNew Bonus, used by the Yahtzee game

DirectXDemo ChapterS

FirstApplication Appendix A

GarbageDemoOne Chapter 9

GarbageDemoTwo Chapter 9

GuessTheDieRoll Chapter 1

GuessTheDieRoll2 Chapter 2

GuessTheDieRoll3 Chapter 2
lnterfaceEbGinlple Chapter 6
NetReversi Chapter 7
NineTiles Chapter 3
PCOpponent Chapter 6
PolymorphismEbGinlple ChapterS

ShapeTileGames Chapter 4
SpaceRocks ChapterS
ThreadParametersOne Chapter 9
ThreadParametersThree Chapter 9
ThreadParameters1\vo (broken) Chapter 9
Yahtzee Bonus game

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Very useful lists, annotations, and bibliographies complete the
work.” (R. of Rs.)
“It is a convenient, if not very skilfully planned survey of the
whole field. The information which it furnishes as to
bibliography is not the least recommendation of the book. But
the omissions are far from few.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 340w.
+
—
“Its exactness of method and thoroughness of research
evidently make it a work of lasting value to the jurist
accustomed to deal with large legal topics in a scientific
manner.”
+ Outlook. 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
+
“Professor Meili has written a very useful book for students of
comparative politics, as well as for lawyers.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 351. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.
+
+
 “A very handy and valuable legal work.”
+ R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
+
+

Mellor, J. W. Crystallization of iron and steel: an introduction to

the study of metallography. *$1.60. Longmans.
“It is certainly a convenience to possess such a book.... In six
short and lucid chapters—originally lectures delivered in 1904
to the engineering students of the Staffordshire county
technical classes of the Newcastle high school—we are taken
from a well-put statement of what is known respecting the
solidification and cooling of alloys in general to the
consideration of the phenomena recognized in iron and steel in
particular, and, lastly, to practical directions for the due
preparations of specimens for microscopic examination.”—Ath.
“It must be regarded as an ‘ad interim’ report only. Looking at
Dr. Mellor’s little volume in this light, we have nothing but
praise to award it.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 310. S. 2. 540w.
+
* “This second chapter is the only unsatisfactory one of the
book. Confining himself to limited space, the writer has
sacrificed conciseness to mere brevity. The two predominant
features of the book as a whole are the great concentration of
information into a small space, and the interesting manner in
which it is presented, which latter never fails to attract. This
clouding of the main issue by the introduction of data not
absolutely necessary is one of the principal weaknesses of the
book. When all has been said, this book is the best popular
introduction to the study of metallography that we have.”
 + Engin. N. 54: 528. N. 16, ‘05. 1690w.
+
—
“The presentation is without bias, and each theory and method
is described and examined as clearly and fairly as the author’s
evident lack of practical acquaintance with the subject as a
whole will permit.” A. McWilliam.
— Nature. 72: 532. S. 28, ‘05. 610w.
+

Melville, Lewis. Thackeray country. $2. Macmillan.

A volume in the “Pilgrimage series.” “Mr. Melville treats of those
localities which are of primary interest to those who are
acquainted with the life and writings of the great novelist. He
deals with Thackeray’s London homes and the features and
associations of their neighborhood; his homes in Paris, and
other places on the European continent, and in America.
Special attention is paid to those places that form a
background of the scenes of Thackeray’s novels. Biographical
information is also supplied connected with the novelist’s
residences from his arrival in England from India at the age of
six until his death in 1863. The volume contains fifty full-page
illustrations mostly from original photographs by C. W. Barnes
Ward.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author has not tackled his task in the right spirit or
performed it in the right way; all that he has given us is a
rather disconnected short life of Thackeray. There are many
distinct mistakes. A large portion of the book has not anything
to do with its supposed subject. It is a poor production.”
— Acad. 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w.
—
 N. Y. Times. 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w.
“He has written an interesting book, which will please the
reader the more, the better he knows the author.”
+ Spec. 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.

Menpes, Dorothy. Brittany. *$6. Macmillan.

“The latest of the ‘Menpes books’ is devoted to ‘Brittany.’ Mr.
Mortimer Menpes has made a specialty of traveling with a
water-color box and a literary daughter, and the results of
these travels appear each year in time for the holiday trade.”
(Nation.) There are some seventy-five illustrations, and they
show different parts of Northern France—peasants, scenes in
the markets, street scenes, etc.
“Her best descriptions, her brightest sketches, are spoilt for the
reader by unnecessary blots of sloppiness.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 312. S. 2. 160w.
+
—
“Text and illustrations have a common facility and a common
lack of seriousness which is welcome, or the reverse, according
to one’s point of view.”
+ Nation. 81: 279. O. ‘05. 240w.
—

N. Y. Times. 10: 501. Jl. 29, ‘05. 260w.

Meredith, Katharine Mary Cheever (Johanna Staats).

Wing of love. †$1. McClure.
“A charming child in this book, and a nice young journalist
chap, her staunch friend from the day she and her mother find
 their way to the top floor of the New York lodging house where
he and two other bachelors have their abode. This friendship is
quite disinterested, the mother receiving only courteous
attentions from him, his heart being in another’s keeping—
facts concerning which subsequently develop very prettily to
connect them with his romance.”—Outlook.
“The chief fault in its development lies in the fact that, instead
of making it a short story, she has padded her little tale until it
has lost much of its charm.”
— N. Y. Times. 10: 380 Je. 10. ‘05. 310w.
+

+ Outlook. 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.

Merington, Marguerite. Cranford: a play. $1.25. Fox.

A comedy in three acts made from Mrs. Gaskell’s well-known
story of the same name. The full charm of the story is retained
in the dramatization.
* “Written with Miss Merington’s usual sprightliness.”
+ Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 40w.
“A not unskillful dramatization for amateur theatricals of Mrs.
Gaskell’s ever fresh and delightful tale.”
+ Outlook. 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 15w.

Merriman, Charles Eustace. Self-made man’s wife: her letters

to her son: being the woman’s view of certain famous
correspondence. †$1.50. Putnam.
“In her letters the mother advises her son on the treatment of
his wife, on the retention of his ideals, on the writing of books
and on the reading of them, on quarreling and making up, on
 the fallacy and folly of aphorisms, adages, and other
epigrammatic usages, on economy in households, and a
number of other living topics, and aptly illustrates her points
by instances taken from her own domestic experiences or
observations of the experiences of her neighbors.”—N. Y.
Times.
“Upon the whole these letters are tedious and disappointing.”
— Acad. 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.

+ Ath. 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 300w.

“A cup of cambric tea is this book.”
— Critic. 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
“If they are not as entertaining as those of her husband it is
only perhaps because the reader has already consumed two
volumes of his epistolary lore and is perhaps a trifle satiated.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 530w.
“The number of old jokes and the weary waste of platitudes in
this book are positively depressing.”
— Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.
“The letters have a masculine ring. They exhibit a terse
expression, a worldly acumen, a sense of humor, and an
anecdotal wealth, that strongly resemble the style of the self-
made man.”
+ Reader. 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 440w.
+

Merriman, Mansfield. Mechanics of materials. $5. Wiley.

A tenth edition, re-written and enlarged, of this text-book
which “deals with the elastic and, to a limited extent, with the
 plastic properties of materials of construction and the
application of the laws of strength of materials to the simple
machine parts and structures. The treatment is essentially
theoretical.”—Nature.
* “The present book is in some respects an excellent treatise.
The first point which strikes a reader is the great looseness of
terminology. The author has an aggravating way of describing
a thing at first very crudely and inaccurately, but without any
reservations, giving a revised statement much later on and a
further revision later still, and this in the case of quite simple
matters.”
+ Nature. 73: 25. N. 9, ‘05. 1180w.
+
—

Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester. Text-

book on roof and bridges, pt. 1, Stresses in simple trusses.
$2.50. Wiley.
“Those ... who are familiar with the first edition of this book,
published in 1888, will hardly recognize the present volume as
being a revision of the same book.... We now have the dead
load stresses, the live load stresses and the stresses due to
wind and other causes treated in separate chapters for the
common forms of simple trusses. The fifth chapter takes up
the consideration of long-span bridges.... Chapter VI. discusses
portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and plate girder
design. Chapter VII. treats of deflections.... The final chapter
takes up cranes, bents, towers, viaducts, and other
miscellaneous structures. A notable feature of the new edition
is the extensive use of illustrations, including half-tone views of
notable truss bridges, folding plates and numerous text
drawings.”—Engin. N.
Engin. N. 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
* Mertins, Gustave F. Storm signal. $1.50. Bobbs.
Two intertwined love stories provide the romantic interest in
this story of the South and the negro. The conditions in the
South after the Civil war are vividly presented, the good old
negro type is well drawn, but the real story is that of the negro
uprising, when black fiends, driven to desperation by the
recital of their wrongs in their secret meetings, attack and are
repulsed. There are strong dramatic scenes and characters
which, tho unpleasing, are strikingly portrayed.

* Merwin, Samuel. Road builders. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“To make an achievement in railroad building dramatic and
exciting and to hold the reader’s interest in suspense from
beginning to end is a feat in fiction writing which few men
would attempt.... The young engineer who with bulldog
determination and ever-ready invention puts his engineering
feat through on time, in the face of cunning enemies, natural
obstacles, and stupid and criminal employees, is a type, but he
is also a rousing good fellow.”—Outlook.
* “There is no lack of well contrived incident, and on the whole
the book is true to life.”
+ Engin. N. 54: 534. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
+
* “The tale is clear-cut, terse and thrilling. Altogether the book
is an industrial romance bristling with human interest.”
+ Outlook. 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
+
* “More important than the adventures and incidents of the
feat that is finally accomplished, is the evidence Mr. Merwin
gives of his own growth in character delineation. Each man is
 different from every other, and all are real, whether good or
bad.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 260w.
+

Metcalf, Maynard Mayo. Outline of the theory of organic

evolution. *$2.50. Macmillan.
A series of lectures given by Professor Metcalf before the
Woman’s college of Baltimore, expanded and put in book form.
It is not a technical biological book, but it is an introductory
survey of the biological theory of evolution and is intended for
the general reader. It gives well established facts in their
general outlines, and deals with some of the most striking
phenomena of anatomy.
“It is a treatise so clear, simple and fascinating withal, that the
subject can not only be readily grasped by the most slow-
thinking reader, but few who peruse the opening pages will be
content to lay it aside. This book is precisely the work that
general readers need. It is a volume that should be read by
every young man and woman in America.” Amy C. Rich.
+ Arena. 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
+
+
“Presents in a clear and simple style the fundamental principles
of organic evolution in a form very well adapted to the needs
of the general reader and to those who wish an outline of the
theory of Darwinism. Perhaps the most striking feature of the
book is the wealth of clear and very well selected illustrations.”
+ Bot. G. 39: 301. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
+
+
“Two features of the book are especially praiseworthy: first,
the clearness and distinctness with which essentials are
presented; second, the wealth of illustration. It is safe to say
that no previous popular treatise on evolution has been so
completely and so well illustrated as this. The chief criticism to
be made regarding the book as a whole is its failure to give
any adequate account of the important results of many of the
recent investigations in the field of evolution.”
+ Dial. 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.
+
—
“The volume under consideration will find its own place,
because it is far better than the least technical books on
evolution previously published. It will form an excellent
introduction to the classical books on evolution. The author has
very successfully attempted to write in a non-technical and
popular style. No other book in the same field is so lavishly
illustrated. Without hesitation the reviewer recommends the
book to those who want information about the theory in its
non-technical bearings.”
+ Ind. 58: 323. F. 9, ‘05. 520w.
+
+
“This is one of the best popular accounts of the theory of
evolution that have come under our notice. An excellent
feature of the book is its wealth of pictorial illustration. A few
points call for criticism.”
+ Nature. 71: 509. Mr. 30, ‘05. 450w.
+
—

R. of Rs. 31: 256. F. ‘05. 70w.

* Metchnikoff, Elie. Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from
the French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.
Metchnikoff’s theory “is familiar enough now to the reading
public with its protective forces in the body; leucocytes ready
to mass together to repulse the assault of germ organisms as
well as their toxic products; but the work is not primarily on
macrophages and microphages, but on the great question of
immunity from infection. This extends through immunity of
protozoans, metazoans (multicellular plants), and finally of
animals—immunity either natural or acquired. The
ramifications of the work extend over a vast area of
experimentation and citation of contemporaneous work, but
the immunity always is attributed, in one way or another, to
the protective activity of the leucocytes. This makes the work a
very agreeably unified one, and clearly drawn colored
illustrations of the leucocytic activity do much to enhance the
value of the treatise.”—Pub. Opin.
+ Engin. N. 54: 646. D. 14, ‘05. 600w.
+
+
* “The present book, however, justifies itself adequately from a
purely practical point of view.”
+ Lit. D. 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 600w.
+
* “While the work is primarily for scientific use, there is no
reason why an intelligent layman should not acquire from its
reading a very clear and comprehensive idea of immunity in its
varied forms.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 603. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.
+
Meyer, Rev. F: Brotherton. Epistle to the Philippians; a
devotional commentary. *$1. Union press.
The author has not attempted mere criticism, but has
“endeavored honestly to ascertain the meaning of the epistle,
and to beat out but pure and unalloyed gold.” Each chapter
covers a few verses, the commentary is full and clear and the
verses covered are noted in the margin of each page.

* Meyer, Hugo Richard. Government regulation of railway

rates; a study of the experience of the United States,
Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
“Professor Meyer, in his preface, declares that he ‘has become
firmly convinced of the unwisdom of government regulation of
railways or their rates’; and he has hurried into print with this
book lest Congress ‘may be led to enact ill-considered laws
granting dangerously enlarged powers to the Interstate
commerce commission.’ Part I. of the book describes Prof.
Meyer’s studies of the state-owned and operated railways in
Europe and Australia.... In part II. Prof. Meyer takes up
conditions in the United States.”—Engin. N.
* + Engin. N. 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 520w.
—

* + Outlook. 81: 936. D. 16, ‘05. 330w.

* “Apart from the matter of personal opinion on this subject,
however, Professor Meyer’s book contains much valuable
material, which is summarized in a way which cannot fail to
interest all students of the railroad question, whatever may be
their views as to the expediency of federal legislation.”
+ R. of Rs. 32: 637. N. ‘05. 200w.
* Meyrick, Rev. Frederick. Memories of life at Oxford and
experiences in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, and
elsewhere. *$3.50. Dutton.
“The most noticeable feature of this book is in the sidelights it
throws on the ‘Tractarian movement’ at Oxford, in 1833-41, as
well as on the ‘Old Catholic reform movement’ on the
continent, and incidentally on this history of the Church of
England during the last fifty years or so.... Aside from this, the
book contains a considerable fraction of entertaining matter
connected with university social life at Oxford.”—Critic.
* “We recommend a revision of the index: for several names
and incidents demanding mention the reviewer has been
compelled to hunt laboriously through the pages of the book.”
+ Ath. 1905, 1: 741. Je. 17. 1920w.
—

* + Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 90w.

* “We cannot rate his book very high, even in the class to
which it belongs, for it is neither very interesting nor very
good-natured.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 500w.
—
* “The real value of the book lies not so much in the
impressions, the appreciations or depreciations, which are
given of Newman and Pusey, of Keble and Gladstone, and
other well-known and great figures, as in the incidental
vignettes of persons of less note whose portraits are more
seldom drawn.”
+ Spec. 95: 469. S. 30, ‘05. 1120w.

Miall, Louis C. House, garden and field. $2. Longmans.

 This collection of short nature studies by Professor Miall of the
University of Leeds covers a multitude of subjects and gives a
wealth of useful and interesting information upon fresh air, the
dog, the cat, birds, bookworms, flies, trees, and whatever
chances to attract his attention at the moment. The book
seems to open our eyes to an interested observation of the
things around us.
“It is packed with scientific facts, with clear and practical
suggestions for class room and study club, and with eye-
opening and thought-stimulating questions. No arrangement or
lack of arrangement can destroy the value of the good sense
and clarity with which these and all the other subjects are
treated.” May Estelle Cook.
+ Dial. 38: 386. Je. 1, ‘05. 220w.
+
—
“There is no attempt to be consecutive, and he writes
concerning whatever for the moment strikes his attention. The
object in view is to teach teachers rather than pupils.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 37. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1360w.
(Survey of contents.)

Michael Angelo Buonarroti. Sonnets; now first tr. into

rhymed English by J. Addington Symonds. 2d ed. *$1.25.
Scribner.
The second edition of J. A. Symonds’ translation of Buonarroti’s
sonnets, with the Italian in alternating pages. The notes
following the text explain the circumstances, as far as known,
in which the sonnets were written, and make note of the
various manuscript versions over which Buonarroti worked.
— Nation. 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.
 “Such as they are, [the translations] are ingenious word
renderings, which, while not entirely devoid of fine lines, for
the most part lack color and lightness of rhythm.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 199. Ap. 1, ‘05. 270w.
—
“The volume in which they are placed represents both dignity
and taste.”
+ Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.

Michael, Oscar Stewart. Sunday-school in the development of

the American church. *$1.50. Young ch.
“The ‘American church’ of the title is the church of which the
author is a minister—the Protestant Episcopal.... The book will
be of interest to persons engaged in Sunday-school outside as
well as within the Episcopal church. It brings especially
emphatic testimony to the value of Sunday-schools as
propagators of churches.”—Outlook.
“He gives an adequate and interesting account of the Sunday-
school work of a great church which has always espoused
warmly the cause of Christian nurture.” William Byron Forbush.
+ Bib. World. 26: 394. N. ‘05. 140w.

Outlook. 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w.

Michaelis Karin (Katharina Marie Bech Brondum). Andrea,

the tribulations of a child; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik. $1.
McClure.
The famous Danish author has written the story of a young girl
whose father and mother are unhappily estranged. The little
heroine devotes her life to bringing them together and her
 tribulations and soul struggles as revealed in her diary finally
accomplish this end, when her parents read the pitiful little
book together after her untimely death.
“The book has been rendered into ungrammatical American.
This story, though quite short, contains proof that Karin
Michaelis is an artist.”
+ Acad. 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 280w.
—
“The story is a classic.”
+ Ind. 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 450w.
—

Michelson, Miriam. Madigans. †$1.50. Century.

Six high-spirited, clever, mischievous youngsters, whose very
names—among them Split, Sissy, Bep and Fom—suggest the
hostile brevity that often characterizes the sisterly relations,
riot in the foreground of this family stage, while a father deep
in too-much-for-me perplexity, and an irresponsible aunt figure
in the rear. Tho there are slights, digs and taunts, deep down
in the heart of each is an untrained affection for the other, and
staunch loyalty. It is a lively story for young readers, many of
whom will discover a fellow feeling for some Madigan. Mr.
Orson Lowell’s illustrations are happily in keeping with the
author’s portrayal.
“Their escapades are brightly told and they are very human.”
+ Critic. 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 30w.
“Miss Michelson’s humor has rare freshness and charm.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
+
* Mifflin, Lloyd. Collected sonnets of Lloyd Mifflin; revised by
the author. *$2.60. Oxford.
Over 200 selections of verse are included in this volume which
contains, in addition to work which has previously appeared in
the author’s various books of poetry, several new sonnets
which appear for the first time in this collection.
* “A little of Mr. Lodge’s sincerity of passion would have helped
Mr. Mifflin’s book. Yet no recent collection of verse has been
more instinct with poetic love of beauty or has shown more
ability at communicating it in verse.”
+ Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 390w.
—
* “In spite of inevitable lapses from the simplicity and strength
of the best examples there is a remarkable uniformity of
excellence in both the technical achievement and the dignity
and interest of the phases of feeling expressed.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
+
—
* “Written on any conceivable subject, they rarely rise above
the platitudinous, and at their best are sonorous without being
in any way impressive.”
— Spec. 95: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.

Mifflin, Lloyd. Fleeing nymph and other verse. **$1. Small.

A group of about fifty poems whose themes include life, love
and nature. “None of the shorter pieces in Mr. Mifflin’s volume
is very notable. All have the grace that comes from the
sparing, delicate use of words, many are picturesque and
pleasing in conception; but there is a certain softness of tone
in them that is not wholly a pleasant softness.” (Nation.)
 + Critic. 47: 384. O. ‘05. 170w.
—
“There is much delicate art in these songs, and they are
freighted with a rich burden of thought.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 39: 67. Ag. 1. ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Mifflin’s poetry is distinguished by its admirable technical
qualities.”
+ Ind. 59: 458. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w.
+
“On occasions he is out in his scansion and in his grammar. But
this is to show Mr. Mifflin at his worst. His best, though never
quite free from the intrusion of the second-best word, shows a
power of sympathetic description, usually sad, that leaves its
mood behind it.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 224. Jl. 14, ‘05. 300w.
—
“If there is a lack of pith and fibre in Mr. Mifflin’s lyrics that
makes against the permanence of the impression left by them,
his narrative poetry ... is, after all, admirable.”
+ Nation. 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 360w.
—
“‘The fleeing nymph, and other poems,’ by Lloyd Mifflin, have
the light and graceful touch characteristic of their author.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 210w.

Mighels, Philip Verrill. Ultimate passion: a novel. † $1.50.

Harper.
An honest young politician with high ideals accepts the support
of a corrupt political ring in his race for the presidency in order
that he may learn their methods and thus combat them. Three
women come into his life, the foolish daughter of the “boss”,
an adventuress, and a real woman who arouses the “ultimate
passion” which survives when his political campaign fails.
“If you want a good example of the book which overreaches
itself by deliberate exaggeration, you will find it in ‘The
ultimate passion.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
— Bookm. 21: 602. Ag. ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Mighels has the meagrest equipment as a novelist, and his
performance as a whole is so crude that it is scarcely worth
while to consider its details.”
— Critic. 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Has style (of a sort), an interesting framework, and
characterizations of no mean order of merit. This is a very
vigorous book, inspired by genuine passion, and making a
skilful progress to its logical conclusion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 240w.
+
“Mr. Mighels’s work seems to us faulty in conception as well as
execution, and to serve no particular purpose.”
— Ind. 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 30w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 150w.

“A hysterical novel of political corruption.”
— Outlook. 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 6w.
“Is a masterpiece among political novels.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 180w.
+
+
Miles, Eustace Hamilton. Boy’s control of self expression.
*$2. Dutton.
“The introductory chapters are written chiefly for those who
have the care of boys.... These are followed by chapters on
‘Physical and external helps’ toward self-control, mental helps;
and the book closes with some general remarks, the ‘opinion
of a mother,’ a letter to a boy, ‘A defense of Latin—rightly
taught,’ and ‘A theory about excessive blood pressure.’ The
volume has illustrations and diagrams.”—N. Y. Times.
+ Nation. 80: 436. Je. 1, ‘05. 330w.
—

N. Y. Times. 10: 297. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 290w.

—
“There are valuable ideas and suggestions in this book on the
training of boys, but the author attempts to cover so much
ground, and does it in so haphazard a way, that it is almost
impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff.”
+ Outlook. 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 40w.
—

+ Spec. 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 280w.

—

Millar, A. H. Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1. Scribner.

In establishing the reasons for difficulty in understanding
Queen Mary’s character, the author says: “Any natural
determination toward tolerance which Mary’s character may
have originally possessed was warped and distorted by her
 early education; and her disposition, once gentle and
confiding, may have been changed by her experience of the
faithlessness of mankind into that form of stolid distrust which
suspects the truest friend and questions the least interested
motives.” His biography is based on this view of things. “Mr.
Millar believes and most readers will believe, that the errors
committed by Mary Stuart were more of the heart than of the
head.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Millar’s book is a careful presentation of facts, with a due
regard for the bearing of the political questions of the time. It
is, in truth, a well-written piece of history. He is not her
partisan through thick and thin.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 1140w.
+
“Well written volume.”
+ Outlook. 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
+

Miller, Rev. James Russell. Beauty of kindness. **30c.

Crowell.
This volume in the “What is worth while series,” sets forth the
beauty of kindness, “the small coin of love.” It is a plea for the
unselfish service, for simple kindness in daily life and in little
things.

Miller, Rev. James Russell. Inner life. *50c. Crowell.

In this new volume in the “Chiswick series,” Dr. Miller shows
that if the heart be given to Christ, if the inner life be made
beautiful, this beauty will show in the deeds of our outer life
and the world for us will be re-created.
Miller, Rev. James Russell. When the song begins. **65c.
Crowell.
Another of Dr. Miller’s devotional books. Its object is to help
people in learning how to live more beautifully, more
victoriously, more usefully. It contains twenty chapters upon,
The mystery of suffering, The joy of the cross, Friendship with
Christ, Courage to live nobly, Under the All-seeing Eye, and
other similar subjects.
Outlook. 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.

* Miller, Olive Thorne, pseud. (Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller).

Kristy’s surprise party. †$1.25. Houghton.
“On her birthday Kristy’s uncles and aunts, and some adult
friends besides, call in a body, and each in turn relates a story,
which Kristy enjoys very much, and which other little girls may
enjoy also.” (Outlook.) “In one is a stirring picture of a girl in
the Chicago fire, another describes a western blizzard and a
young girl’s rescue of a schoolmate. A good Indian story and
sundry others of domestic adventure.” (Nation.) The volume is
well illustrated by Ethel N. Farnsworth.
* Ind. 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “A group well written, full of interest, and suited to middle
youth.”
+ Nation. 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 140w.

* “The stories are clean, bright, and of considerable variety.”
+ Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.
Miller, Peyton Farrell. Group of great lawyers of Columbia
county, New York. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.
Mr. Miller, a lawyer of Hudson, has filled a volume with
“interesting reminiscences and gossipy personal sketches of
such men as Martin Van Buren, Samuel J. Tilden, Robert
Livingston, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, Edward Livingston,
and others. It also contains a brief account of the Anti-rent
war.” (Am. Hist. R.)
Am. Hist. R. 10: 722. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
“An entertaining series of personal sketches. Members of the
bar of New York state will find Mr. Miller’s pages crowded with
interesting reminiscences of the great lawyers of the past.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.
+

Mills, Edmund James. Secret of Petrarch. *$3. Dutton.

“The volume is the work of a literary scholar of analytic type
who has turned his lenses upon certain disputed points in the
lives of the lovers and has brought forward various proofs to
attest his own theories.” (Dial.) “A series of prose studies
supplemented by some translations and some original verse
interpretative of the life and genius of Petrarch. The prose
consists of small but rather discursive chapters touching
various points in connection with Laura, her identity, her
birthplace, her character, and incidents in her relations with
Petrarch.” (Outlook.)
“The reader can hardly accept all the author’s conclusions.”
+ Dial. 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 340w.
—
“To one acquainted with ... ‘My secret’ ... Mr. Mills’s book is a
sad disappointment. We suspect that the critical discussions
 were only designed to introduce the drama.”
+ Nation. 80: 180. Mr. 2, ‘05. 460w.
—
—
“Has quite unconsciously given false values to internal
evidence. He found in Petrarch’s verse what he wished to find
there, and where twist, quibble, and distortion fail him he sets
down his theory as a self-evident truth. Candor forces us to
praise Mr. Mills’ ingeniousness rather than his scholarship. We
can freely applaud his poetry, however, which gives a far
stronger illusion of reality than do Landor’s Conversations
between the same persons.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w.
—
“The volume lacks coherence.”
+ Outlook. 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 190w.
—

Mills, Edmund Mead. Only a profession and other sermons.

(Methodist pulpit. 2d ser.) *50c. Meth. bk.
Eight sermons including, besides the title sermon, How to
know, The all-conquering Christ, The nation’s memorial, As he
thinketh in his heart, What makes a nation great? Unconscious
deterioration, and A withered hand.

* Mills, Weyman Jay. Caroline of Courtlandt street. **$2.

Harper.
“A highly idealized story of New York life when the eighteenth
century was young. Caroline of Courtlandt street, the daughter
of an actress, yearns for her mother’s profession and by way of
proving her right to enter it plays a pretty little comedy in
 which her father’s aristocratic and snobbish relatives take
unconscious but highly important parts. The stage fails to gain
her in the end, but in the meanwhile she has furnished us with
a diverting little drama.”—Pub. Opin.
* “A slight but spirited novelette.”
+ Dial. 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* “An elaborately decorated romance, both as to the narrative
and setting. The style is flowery.”
+ Outlook. 81: 833. D. 2. ‘05. 120w.
—

* + Pub. Opin. 39: 733. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.

Milyoukov, Paul. Russia and its crisis. *$3. Univ. of Chicago

press.
In interpreting the Russian present by the Russian past, the
author produces the results of long years of study. Professor
Milyoukov is a representative of the branch of the liberal party
known as the “Intellectuals,” and his work for freedom has
already brought him calumny, imprisonment and exile. The aim
of his discussion is to reveal the internal crisis in Russia as an
outgrowth of the historical circumstances under which Russian
civilization has developed. The author has explained the
permanent and lasting elements in the political, social and
religious life of a great world-power.
“Our pleasure at the thought and learning displayed in the
lectures of which this volume is composed is marred by the
extraordinary fancies of its author on the transliteration of
names.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 810w.
+
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