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Babelon, Ernest. [Manual of oriental antiquities.] New ed., with a chapter on the Recent discoveries at Susa. **$2.50. Putnam.
A reprint of Everett’s translation of Babelon’s work with a chapter which includes M. de Morgan’s discoveries in Susa. He “gives a chronology of the ruins according to recent discoveries, and describes the principles of building, stone sculpture, bronze metal work, jewelry, and the industrial arts. The region described in this chapter has hitherto been almost unknown.” (N. Y. Times.)
Int. Studio. 29: sup. 85. S. ’06. 480w.
“This added chapter only makes more evident the need of a revision or rewriting of the whole work.”
– Nation. 83: 84. Jl. 26, ’06. 910w. N. Y. Times. 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 520w.
Bacheller, Irving (Addison). [Silas Strong, emperor of the woods.] †$1.50. Harper.
A strong plea for the preservation of our forests. The author says “It is in no sense a literary performance. It pretends to be nothing more than a simple account of one summer life, pretty much as it was lived, in a part of the Adirondacks.” Silas Strong is a woodland philosopher, and his camp is the scene of the wooing of a wood-nymph by a young politician. “The incidents include a forest fire, while among the leading characters is a dog said to be particularly engaging.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ Acad. 71: 287. S. 22, ’06. 150w.
“Many will be unable to feel either great admiration for, or any unusual interest in, Silas.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 140w. + – Critic. 48: 571. Je. ’06. 90w.
“Altogether, it is a book that deserves to be read, and, having been read, to be pondered.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 540w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 320w.
“Strong, fine-flavored story of the woods.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“The actual story is not as impressive as it might be.”
– Outlook. 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 130w. + – R. of Rs. 33: 756. Je. ’06. 100w.
Bacon, Alice Mabel. In the land of the gods: some stories of Japan. †$1.50. Houghton.
“Ten true pictures of fairyfolk and phenomena set in the frame of a dainty English style.” (Ind.) They illustrate “Japanese beliefs and traditions which Miss Bacon regards as the sources of the Japanese qualities and traits which have been so clearly shown the world during the great crisis of the last two years.” (Outlook.)
“This book is a ‘Japanese fairy world’ to date, but with something of Hearn’s witchery of style.”
+ Ind. 59: 1478. D. 21, ’05. 110w.
“All are worth telling, extremely well told, and full of interest both for children and for their elders.”
+ Nation. 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 130w.
“There is certainly much pleasure to be had from reading these ten little stories.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
“These stories are very happily phrased, full of the spirit of intuition, and thoroughly sympathetic with the life which they describe.”
+ Outlook. 81: 682. N. 18, ’05. 60w.
Bacon, Mrs. Dolores Harbourg. King’s divinity. †$1.50. Holt.
They met at a ball given by royalty, he a cousin of royalty, she a charming American girl. The course of true love is interrupted by court conventions and obdurate counsellors, but the divinity of love finally proves itself more than that of majesty.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 470w.
“Is pleasant reading, but thin in quality and imperfect in its plot development.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew, and Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter. Nation builders: a story. $1. Meth. bk.
An appreciation of the itinerant preachers of Methodism who went out to possess the American frontier a century ago.
+ Outlook. 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’06. 200w.
“It is an inspiring record and the joint authors have well presented it.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 92. Ja. 20, ’06. 340w.
Bacon, Edwin Munroe. Connecticut river, and the valley of the Connecticut; three hundred and fifty miles from mountain to sea: historical and descriptive. **$3.50. Putnam.
Under the headings “Historical,” “The romances of navigation,” and “The topography of the river and valley” the author has “traced all the interesting movements and events associated with New England’s chief river down to the present day.” The book abounds in the picturesque and traditional no less than in well authorized historical fact.
+ Dial. 41: 327. N. 16, ’06. 510w. + Ind. 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 370w.
“Is a book of notable interest to New-Englanders.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 260w.
“The proportions of the long stretch have been duly considered, and the narrative, not unlike the river which it portrays, runs consistently, though compressed within brimming pages, from cover to cover—a happy concurrence of literary ease and historical severity.”
+ + Nation. 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 670w. R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 140w.
Bagley, William Chandler. Educative process. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“Students of schoolcraft and teachers will find that Mr. Bagley’s elaborate account of the processes of education repays careful study.”
+ Cath. World. 82: 555. Ja. ’06. 250w.
“The contribution in this book lies in the careful selection of biological and physiological principles which have educational bearings, and which can be seen as such by the average teacher.” Frederick E. Bolton.
+ + Psychol. Bull. 3: 369. N. 15, ’06. 560w.
“What has been especially needed for some time is just such a work as Dr. Bagley has written. It will be generally agreed that Dr. Bagley has given us here a sound and scholarly statement of educational theory.” Edwin G. Dexter.
+ + School R. 14: 464. Je. ’06. 460w.
Bagot, Richard. Italian lakes; painted by Ella Du Cane, described by Richard Bagot. *$6. Macmillan.
“Mr. Bagot gossips not unpleasantly, if with no great indication of profound historical research.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 427. Ap. 7. 170w.
“His book contains much valuable and interesting information, but the pleasure of reading it is somewhat marred by the uncalled-for apologetic tone adopted throughout, and the ever-recurrent use of the personal pronoun.”
+ – Int. Studio. 27: 373. F. ’06. 200w.
“Charming pictures—with a very inferior text. Indeed it would have been better had the sketches followed one another and the printed matter been condensed into notes.”
– + Lond. Times. 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 120w.
“We have found this the most pleasing volume of a class of books which appear now to have a certain vogue.”
+ Sat. R. 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ’05. 180w.
Bagot, Richard. Passport. †$1.50. Harper.
“Mr. Bagot’s style is clever and finished. It lacks a definite clear-cut motive that should give it force and value.”
+ – Dial. 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.
Bailey, Mrs. Alice Ward (A. B. Ward, pseud.). Roberta and her brothers; il. by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. †$1.50. Little.
A lively story with a wide-awake, ambitious young heroine who is mother, sister, housekeeper and counsellor in her father’s home. Her trials, her triumphs, and her longings offer wholesome entertainment to young readers.
“Is a book with plenty of life and vim between its covers.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 90w.
“The story is wholesome, lively, and sufficiently natural to arouse a response in the heart of all girl readers.”
+ Outlook. 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 120w.
“The characters are nicely differentiated, the expression fresh.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 768. D. ’06. 40w.
Bailey, Mrs. Alice Ward (A. B. Ward, pseud.). Sage brush parson. †$1.50. Little.
The sage brush wastes of Nevada furnish the general setting of Mr. Ward’s story while the particular interest centers in one of the little towns filled with rough miners. Among these carousing groups there appears one day an Englishman of deep religious zeal and culture bent upon the mission of saving souls. The reader’s sympathy is readily won for the lonely figure, whose apparent asceticism is not bred in the bone, but the outgrowth of a bitter heart load. The melodramatic touches are thoroughly in keeping with the locale of the story-drama.
“This is one of the strongest and most human stories we have read in months.”
+ Arena. 35: 557. My. ’06. 640w.
“It is a good example of how much weakness in a plot and in style may be pardoned, if the central characters win our affection and hold our interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 29. Mr. ’06. 480w.
“There is much strength in this vivid narrative, combined with humor, realistic description, and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 250w. + – Ind. 60: 1224. My. 24, ’06. 430w.
“The style is crisp, virile, incisive; and although there may be suggestions of Bret Harte, perhaps even of ‘The Virginian’ here and there, this is yet a new story, strongly told, with a character all its own.”
+ + Nation. 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 340w.
“Logic is not A. B. Ward’s strong point, but she ... writes a readable story and one that keeps the attention right up to the last word.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 1100w. + Outlook. 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 110w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 130w. R. of Rs. 33: 756. Je. ’06. 80w.
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Outlook to nature. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“We see that the writer is a passionate lover of nature with a strain of the poet in him, but we do not always find his treatment convincing.”
+ – Nature. 74: 315. Ag. 2, ’06. 430w. + R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Plant-breeding: being lectures upon the amelioration of domestic plants. **$1.25. Macmillan.
To this fourth edition of his volume in the “Garden craft series,” Prof. Bailey has added a new chapter on current plant-breeding practice. “For one who already knows something of garden plants ‘Plant breeding’ affords a royal road to modern evolutionary doctrine, while the changes in the text between the first and the present fourth edition show how rapid has been recent progress in this field.” (Atlan.)
“Gives a remarkably simple and readable account of current practice in this department of horticulture, interpreting every process in the light of recent theory.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + |Atlan. 98: 424. S. ’06. 150w.
“Most accomplished writer of pure horticultural English.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 448. Jl. 14. ’06. 1190w.
Bailie, William. Josiah Warren, the first American anarchist: a sociological study. **$1. Small.
“Warren’s anarchism was of a type different from that exemplified in the terrorists of today; was, in fact, philosophical anarchism in its purest form. Upholding the doctrine of the sovereignty of the individual and the abolition of all government but self-government, and cherishing the idea that the restraints of government are not needed to induce each individual to exercise his liberty with due regard to the rights of others, Warren spent many years in the endeavor to demonstrate in practice the validity of his theories.”—Outlook.
“Those who are interested in the growth of social theories in this country will welcome this little volume.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 173. Jl. ’06. 90w. Critic. 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“The story of the way in which Warren sought to put his teachings into practice makes entertaining and not unprofitable reading.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Bailie doesn’t succeed in conveying any impression of his personality.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 311. My. 12, 06. 540w. + Outlook. 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 240w. Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 565. S. ’06. 140w.
Bain, F. W. [Digit of the moon, and other love stories from the Hindoo.] $1.50. Putnam.
“As stories of an ancient civilization, these flowery, unhurried tales have a charm of movement and meaning. As love stores the tales are pure and ardent, mixing earthly and heavenly motive and passion in the intimate way of the early world.”
+ Lit. D. 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 230w.
Baird, Jean K. Cash three. 60c. Saalfield.
A little lad, as cash boy in a department store, fighting poverty with his father while his mother’s relatives are trying to find him. The tale, ending in a happy Christmas, is full of hardships, relieved by a father’s devotion and a child’s natural cheerfulness.
N. Y. Times. 11: 895, D. 22, ’06. 30w.
Baird, Jean K. Danny. 60c. Saalfield.
Goat Hill, an Irish washerwoman settlement, furnishes the setting of a story in which Mary Shannon, and Danny, the pride of her heart, are the principal characters.
Baker, Abby G., and Ware, Abby H. Municipal government of the city of New York. *90c. Ginn.
Altho written for eighth grade pupils in the New York schools, much of the discussion exceeds local interest and offers suggestions for every city’s government as well as help along the line of preparation for civil service examinations.
Baker, Cornelia. Queen’s page. †$1.25. Bobbs.
“Is one of the most delightful children’s books of the year.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + Arena. 35: 333. Mr. ’06. 190w.
Baker, Louise R. Mrs. Pinner’s little girl $1. Jacobs.
N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 40w.
Baldwin, May. Girls of St. Gabriel’s. †$1.25. Lippincott.
+ Sat. R. 100: sup. 8. D. 9, ’05. 50w.
Baldwin, May. That little limb; il. †$1.25. Jacobs.
A misunderstood, unconsciously naughty little girl lives a riotous life in her canon uncle’s home until he has to send her away to school. Her friendship for a young doctor just over the wall who is her prince and who understands her is the foil for all her childishly weird thrusts at life and people.
“Is rather a disappointing book.”
– Sat. R. 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ’05. 70w.
Baldwin, Simeon Eben. [American judiciary and judicial system.] *$1.25. Century.
+ Bookm. 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Baltzell, W. J. Complete history of music. Presser.
A book for schools, clubs and private reading. “The author begins at the beginning, with the prehistoric music of Assyrians and Egyptians, and follows down through Hebrew and Greek music, through the beginnings of mediaeval music, through the great period of the polyphonic ecclesiastical composers, and so to the modern schools, and the most modern schools There are chapters on musical instruments, on singing, on the origin and development of the opera and of the suite and sonata.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The most useful and up-to-date history of music in any language.”
+ + + Nation. 82: 414. My. 17, ’06. 340w.
“For its purpose, and within its limitations this history is unusually good, and an uncommon skill has been shown in its compilation and in the arrangement of its parts.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 350w.
“Especially full and informing are the early chapters dealing with the origin and primitive evolution of music.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 170w.
Baly, Edward Charles Cyril. Spectroscopy. *$2.80. Longmans.
“Briefly the volume may be described as an excellent scholarly compendium of terrestrial spectroscopy brought up to date. The subject of astrophysics is barely touched upon. Of the seventeen chapters which the treatment includes, the first seven are devoted to what might be called ordinary spectroscopic practice, including the theory and use of the prism and the diffraction grating; the remaining ten chapters are given to more advanced and special problems, such as those occurring in the infrared and ultra-violet regions, spectroscopic sources, the Zeeman effect, spectral series, etc. Concerning each of these chapters it may be said that the problem is always definitely stated, the English is clear and simple, and the references to original sources are ample.”—Astrophys. J.
“The volume as a whole is characterized by a fine perspective and by always putting the emphasis in the right place. It should find a place in the library of every student of physical optics.” Henry Clew.
+ + Astrophys. J. 23: 170. Mr. ’06. 810w.
“The book, indeed, fills a gap in spectroscopic literature which has long existed. Notwithstanding the few drawbacks to which attention has been directed, the book reflects the greatest credit on its author.”
+ + – Nature. 73: sup. 9. N. 30, ’05. 680w.
Bangs, John Kendrick. [R. Holmes & co.]: being the remarkable adventures of Raffles Holmes, esq., detective and amateur cracksman by birth. †$1.25. Harper.
The conflicting traits and characteristics of Raffles and of Sherlock Holmes are strangely blended in this new hero, Raffles Holmes, who introduces himself as the grandson of the famous cracksman and the son of the great detective. His history and adventures as recorded by Jenkins, who is his Dr. Watson and his Bunny in one, are highly amusing. In the double capacity of thief and detective he enjoys a successful and spectacular career, for while the Raffles in him perpetually cries “Take” the Holmes in him thunders “Restore” and he does both to his own advantage.
+ Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 90w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 200w.
“A parody needs to be remarkably well done to secure the forgiveness of the admirers of the original. It is to be feared that Mr. Bangs must go unforgiven.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 110w.
Banks, Rev. Louis Albert. Great promises of the Bible. $1.50. Meth. bk.
This is the fourth volume of a quartette, the first three of which are “The great sinners of the Bible,” “The great saints of the Bible,” “The great portraits of the Bible.” There are thirty sermons which comprise a complete survey of the Bible promises including the promise of a new heart, forgiveness, answers to prayer, sleep, home of the soul, victory, morning and immortality.
Barbey, Frederic. Friend of Marie Antoinette (Lady Atkyns). *$3. Dutton.
“Lady Atkyns an English actress, lived in France long enough to acquire violent Royalist sentiments, and to be presented to the lovely queen Marie Antoinette, to whose cause she forever swore allegiance. Her recently discovered correspondence reopens the puzzle of the disappearance of the Dauphin. However, the case remains as completely unsolved as ever.... Lady Atkyns seems to have been a monomaniac of very generous impulses, who was the dupe of excited French Royalists, and they appeared as eager for English gold as for the rescue of their king.”—Outlook.
“A most disappointing book. Indeed, one is tempted to ask oneself, when wading through the excellent translation of M. Barbey’s work whether that distinguished writer really made the best of his material.”
+ – Acad. 70: 401. Ap. 28, ’06. 790w.
“The translation is, as a whole, very tolerably executed.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 507. Ap. 28, 2430w.
“Although M. Barbey is a good compiler of evidence, he has no gift for vividness.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 132. Ap. 12, ’06. 1460w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 257. Ap. 21, ’06. 1460w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“There are more exclamatory passages by the author than authentic quotations from Lady Atkyns’s letters.”
– Outlook. 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 210w.
“It is a pretty romance anyway, and a few words at least of it might be given as a foot note to the history of France.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 300w. – Spec. 97: 235. Ag. 18, ’06. 1510w.
Barbour, Mrs. Anna Maynard. Breakers ahead. †$1.50. Lippincott.
This story outlines the life of a “sublime egoist.” A young Englishman, Thomas Macavoy Denning, leaves home because he has been expelled from school, and comes to America with the resolve to make in the new world, single-handed, a name which shall equal his father’s in the old. He succeeds in so far as wealth and position are concerned, by sheer will, force, and self confidence he succeeds financially; but on the eve of his political triumph, just as his election as governor of a western state seems assured, the results of a lax past, of a period when he sowed wild oats rises up to defeat him—and his was not a soul which could bear defeat.
“The effect as a whole is not convincing. The author’s style is rather stilted and the dialogue is somewhat less than natural.”
– Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 160w.
“Otherwise the story is exceptionally well put together, and rises steadily toward a climax of interest that proves fairly enthralling.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 230w. Ind. 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w. – N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
Barbour, Ralph Henry. [Crimson sweater.] †$1.50. Century.
Life at the Ferry Hill school as Roy Porter, brother of Porter of the Harvard eleven, found it, forms an interesting study of the smallness and the breadth of various boy natures as well as a series of pictures of football, hockey, cross country runs, boat racing, base-ball, and other sports as they were played there. Harry, daughter of the head-master, furnishes a wholesome girl element and is Roy’s comrade thru the various ups and downs that made up his school life from the time when, as a boy, he rescued her pet rabbit, to the time when, having won his place as leader of the school, he is carried on the shoulders of his triumphant classmates at the close of the game in which Ferry Hill at last beat Hammond.
Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 110w.
“Although the book was intended primarily for boys, the wholesome, outdoorsy girl will find it just as interesting on account of the hearty friendship between the boy and one of his girl schoolmates.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
“It is perfectly safe to predict a large reading for this book among American schoolboys.”
+ Outlook. 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 80w.
Barbour, Ralph Henry. Maid in Arcady. †$2. Lippincott.
An aimless Vertumnus drifts into Arcady and beholds Clytie, a daughter of the gods. He gazes spellbound. So begins a tale of love which has the stamp of Olympia upon it, but which in reality is very modern after all, and, true to the adage, does not run smoothly. Believing that she is Laura Devereaux the girl whom his friend loves, he takes himself miserably away striving to forget that he had ever stumbled into Arcady. After a long and weary waiting he discovers his mistake and a happy ending ensues.
“The new story is longer and somewhat more substantial than its predecessors, but equally graceful and amusing.”
+ Dial. 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The story is graceful and more spirited than one would expect from the emphasis given to its externals.”
+ Nation. 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 100w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
Bard, Emile. Chinese life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
+ Lond. Times. 5: sup. 3. F. 2, ’06. 150w.
Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Cecile Vincens) (Mrs. Charles Vincens). Louis XIV. and La Grande Mademoiselle. **$3. Putnam.
The present story continues the career of La Grande Mademoiselle where the author’s “The youth of La Grande Mademoiselle” dropped it, just at the close of the Fronde,—that protest of the French nobility against centralization. Mme. Barine’s heroine was related to Louis XIII., was the richest heiress in France, and aspired to be an empress, a political power and a nun. “Her mad vagaries and misguided impulses” furnish material for a comic as well as a tragic study of a fascinating period.
“It is a book of striking interest, and the rendering is tolerably well done, though it retains French idiom too much, and gives us occasionally but jerky English.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 70w.
“The proof of the merit of Mme. Barine’s work lies in the fact that one is eager to read it in spite of the very bad translation. To a subject replete with picturesque interest Mme. Barine has done full justice.”
+ – Critic. 48: 471. My. ’06. 220w.
“The narrative has all the vivacity of fiction, though at the same time its historical care and accuracy are evident at every turn. The translation, which is anonymous, is easy and unaffected.”
+ + Dial. 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 250w. + Ind. 61: 41. Jl. 5, ’06. 250w. + – Nation. 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 100w.
“Is, to say the very least, vastly entertaining.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 1280w. + + Outlook. 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 270w. + R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 70w.
“There is a lack of delicacy in some of the passages, which the translator would have shown better taste either by omitting or toning down, but the sketch given of the court and its manners is admirably drawn, and the pathos of the often ridiculous adventures of the heroine is well brought out.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 757. Je. 16, ’06. 880w.
“The story may be read at length in these pages, admirably told by the author, so far as a deplorable translation permits us to appreciate it.”
+ – Spec. 96: 265. F. 17, ’06. 470w.
Barnard, William Francis. Moods of life: poems of varied feeling. $1. The Rooks press.
A hundred and some poems which portray the grave as well as the gay moods of life.
Reviewed by William M. Payne.
– + Dial. 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 310w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. ’06. 50w.
Barnes, James. Outside the law. †$1.50. Appleton.
“A detective story with the detective left out.” (Outlook.) Lorrimer, a man of great wealth, imparts to an old servant the secret process by which he can reproduce the works of old engravers with great fidelity. The servant’s treachery in joining a band of counterfeiters starts a series of situations which implicate the innocent Lorrimer, and weave a relentless mesh about him.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 897. D. 16, ’05. 330w. + Outlook. 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.
Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith Huddleston. Cecilia’s lovers. †$1.50. Dodd.
A companion book to Mrs. Barr’s “Trinity bells.” New York life of to-day is portrayed, but Cecilia’s “Quakeress benefactor and Quaker home are the most pleasing and realistic features of the book. Her worldly friends and lovers are by no means satisfying to the reader.” (Outlook.)
“As regards the literary quality of the book there is not much to be said, but it is bright and pleasant, and likely enough to find readers.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 170w. + Outlook. 81: 380. O. 14, ’05. 60w.
Barr, Robert. [Speculations of John Steele.] †$1.50. Stokes.
“There is not a dull page in the story. It moves on to a happy ending and the situations are so well handled that the reader’s attention is held from the beginning to the end, while as he reads he begins to understand why the mere pursuit of unearned wealth in this country is so absorbing.” Mary K. Ford.
+ Bookm. 22: 366. D. ’05. 1020w.
“We cannot believe that Mr. Steele really did that which he is alleged to have done.”
– Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 140w.
Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.). [Triumphs of Eugene Valmont.] †$1.50. Appleton.
“Eugene Valmont is an addition to the large number of private detectives who have betrayed the confidence of their clients by recording their achievements.” (Ath.) His exploits carried thru a group of stories frequently reveal a deviation from English legal methods, and hence an opportunity for other than machine made results. “The story of how the famous diamond necklace brought ill fate to every one connected with it from Marie Antoinette down is capitally told and helps to explain why Valmont lost his place as chief of detectives in Paris.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The creation of Eugene Valmont may, indeed, be counted one of Mr. Barr’s best achievements.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 475. Ap. 21. 200w.
“The stories are readable but not absorbing.”
+ Critic. 48: 571. Je. ’06. 90w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.
“Some ingenious and amusing detective stories.”
+ Outlook. 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w. + Spec. 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 150w.
Barrett, Alfred Wilson. Father Pink. †$1.50. Small.
A wily tho good-natured priest enters a fight to secure for his niece, Lucretia, money and diamonds which, by right of an unsubstantiated claim, go to the heroine of the tale, a young French girl. Interested in righting the much-tangled up affairs of fortune is a young bachelor who, tho outwitted on several occasions and who sees Father Pink disappear thru a tiger’s cage with the coveted diamonds, none the less wins the heroine and restores to her her wealth.
Barrington, Mrs. Russell. Reminiscences of G. F. Watts. *$5. Macmillan.
“The author of this affectionately fashioned memorial reveals no critical qualifications for her task.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ – Atlan. 97: 277. F. ’06. 540w.
Barrows, Charles Henry. Personality of Jesus. **$1.25. Houghton.
Mr. Barrows is a successful lawyer who was formerly president of the International Young men’s Christian association training school. The author discusses the personal appearance, growth and education, intellectual power, emotional life, will, and unwritten principles of Jesus.
“This indifference to the large lessons to be learned from recent historical study of the Gospels is the more to be regretted, since the author proves himself so well qualified, in his general knowledge and by his warm religious feeling, to discuss the high theme upon which he has expended so much patient labor.”
+ – Ind. 61: 1056. N. 1, ’06. 310w. Lit. D. 32: 690. My. 5, ’06. 850w.
“The author has done as well as anyone could be expected to do without the aid of criticism.”
+ – Nation. 83: 87. Jl. 26, ’06. 740w.
“Its practical common sense, its freedom from theological predilections, its sincere spirit, and its unpretentious style combine to make it a useful aid.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 170w. + Putnam’s. 1: 128. O. ’06. 110w. R. of Rs. 33: 765. Je. ’06. 50w.
Barry, J. P. At the gates of the east: a book of travel among historic wonderlands. $2. Longmans.
“The information contained in the volume was not obtained from other books of travel, but derived at first hand. The places were visited in separate circular tours ... both in the spring and the autumn. The volume opens with descriptions of the capitals of Eastern Europe ... Cairo is the next city dealt with, after which come the cities of Southern Greece ... the eastern Adriatic towns ... and in the Western Balkans, Cettinje and the Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A chapter on ‘Ways and means,’ in which the author tells the prospective tourist how to plan the trip outlined in his book, where to start and at what time of the year, what places to see, a word concerning costs and money, guide books, etc., closes the volume.”—N. Y. Times.
“When the author becomes eloquent or sentimental, as he often does, he is apt to show imperfect knowledge, and make statements which jar on the educated reader. Yet ... the book is pleasant and often instructive.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 410w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 467. Jl. 21, ’06. 590w.
Barry, John D. Our best society. †$1.50. Putnam.
“It lacks Mrs. Wharton’s subtlety and finish, and is far from evincing great sophistication but it is none the less an accurate portrayal of certain phases of New York life.”
+ Bookm. 23: 341. My. ’06. 340w.
“A sprightly and acute narrative. Considered as a novel, the book lacks conventional structure and plot, but so does the life it discriminatingly portrays.”
+ – Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“Is written with some skill.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 23. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
Barry, Richard. Sandy of the Sierras. $1.50. Moffat.
Sandy, true to his name, is a red-headed Scotch lad who goes from the Sierras down to San Francisco to make his fortune. He rises from the lower rounds of the ladder to the heights of political fame. He “becomes boss of the Pacific coast, and is not above the tricks of his trade. You leave him happy in having at one stroke won his love and made his father-in-law Senator.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author has a better command of journalistic slang than of literary English.” Wm. M. Payne.
– Dial. 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 120w. Ind. 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 180w.
“Those who are familiar with the word-painting and lurid touches of Mr. Barry’s ‘Port Arthur: a monster heroism,’ will not miss them in his new story.”
– + Lit. D. 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Barry, no doubt, could write a better novel now.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 451. Jl. 14, ’06. 440w.
“Much as I like Sandy I should like him better if his creator liked him less.”
– + Putnam’s. 1: 111. O. ’06. 440w.
Barry, William (Francis). Tradition of Scripture: its origin, authority, and interpretation. *$1.20. Longmans.
“This is a volume of the ‘Westminister library,’ a series intended for the use of ‘Catholic priests and students,’ presumably ecclesiastical students.... The author’s preoccupation is theological, not scientific; and in his treatment of critical questions, he inquires, not what are the conclusions established by the evidence, but what proportion of these conclusions can be reconciled with the pronouncements of Roman authority.” (Acad.)
“The book is no doubt well adapted to those for whom it is intended, many of whom will learn from it much that they do not know, particularly about the Old Testament; and it will serve well enough as material for sermons. But priests and students will be well advised not to rely on Dr. Barry’s treatment of the critical problems of the New Testament, should they ever be called upon to discuss those problems with persons having a real knowledge of them.”
+ – Acad. 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w.
“It is an encouragement to find a Catholic writer thus generously and intelligently treating the critical study of the Bible, and thus ready to welcome the results of honest and truth-loving scholarship.”
+ + Cath. World. 83: 265. My. ’06. 390w. Spec. 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 3250w.
Bashford, Herbert. Tenting of the Tillicums; il. by Charles Copeland. [+]75c. Crowell.
“Tillicums,” the Indian word for “friends” is adopted by four boys who ran the round of camping adventure on Puget Sound. Their fearlessness is put to the test by wild animal as well as desperado, and is the real keynote to the spirited tale.
Bashore, Harvey Brown. Sanitation of a country house. $1. Wiley.
“This little book would form a useful, popular and non-technical guide on sanitary matters to anyone about to build a country house.”
+ Nature. 73: 437. Mr. 8, ’06. 50w.
“A clean-cut, authoritative little exposition.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 120w.
Bassett, Mrs. Mary E. Stone. Little green door. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“The story is pretty in its pale, anemic way, but there are so many lustier blossoms to be gathered.”
+ – Reader. 6: 727. N. ’05, 200w.
Bastian, Henry Charlton. Nature and origin of living matter. *$3.50. Lippincott.
“For the past thirty-five years Dr. Bastian has consistently upheld the doctrine that life not only in the past originated, but does at the present time originate, from dead matter—the doctrine once generally known as that of spontaneous generation.... The present book ... dwells particularly on the importance to medical science of proof that disease germs may arise de novo.... Our boards of health are proceeding on the assumption that one typhoid germ, for instance, is always the offspring of another similar germ, and that if we can exclude these germs we can exclude the disease.... If it be true that a typhoid germ may under certain conditions arise where no such germ existed before, our precautions, tho necessary, will often be unavailing. And that they are sometimes failures for this very reason is Dr. Bastian’s belief.”—Lit. D.
“That the author is convinced of the truth of what he sets forth in his book none can doubt, but that it will succeed in making converts among men of science is not to be expected.” W. P. Pycraft.
– Acad. 69: 1350. D. 30, ’05. 1420w.
“Whatever one may think of the group of opinions which Dr. Bastian has maintained for a generation, consistently and almost alone, he is at least a learned man and a skillful writer, so that his discussion of the general problem is most illuminating.” E. T. Brewster.
+ – Atlan. 98: 420. S. ’06. 370w.
“The observations and experiments are absolutely inconclusive.”
– Dial. 40: 392. Je. 16, ’06. 440w.
“No one will suggest that of the two hundred and forty-five micrographs reproduced in this book, a single one has been falsified; yet it will be almost universally held that the interpretation put upon them by their author and the inference drawn from them are incorrect.”
– + Lit. D. 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 750w.
“Dr. H. Charlton Bastian re-expounds his well known biological heresies with a vigour and industry worthy of a better cause.” J. A. T.
– Nature. 73: 361. F. 15, ’06. 1130w.
“Dr. Bastian’s work is an interesting one, both scientifically and, so to speak, psychologically. One cannot but feel in reading the work that the author is a man with an extraordinary amount of learning and industry, and it is not unlikely that the learning and industry will be useful at least, in drawing more attention to the subject of heterogenesis.” Charles Loomis Dana.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 424. Jl. 7, ’06. 1740w.
“If this author is not quite a Huxley, he is more readable than Haeckel: we wonder that it never struck him that proper ‘contents,’ page headings, and side summaries are indispensable accompaniments of a serious scientific book.”
+ – Spec. 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 610w.
Batten, Rev. Loring W. Hebrew prophet. $1.50 Macmillan.
“His treatment is interesting, fresh, and skillfully related to modern life.” John E. McFadyen.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 316. Ap. ’06. 410w.
“The closing chapters, on the prophet’s relation to the church and on the prophet’s vision, are somewhat one-sided and disappointing. As a whole, gives an excellent portraiture of one of the most remarkable figures in the history of religion.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ – Bib. World. 28: 155. Ag. ’06. 440w.
“It speaks well for the American pulpit that a work of such ability comes from the rector of an important city parish.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 370w.
Battine, Cecil. Crisis of the confederacy: a history of Gettysburg and the Wilderness. $5. Longmans.
“Captain Battine is a clever, a vivid and an engaging writer. But his judgments, both of men and of events, are often airy and unbased.”
+ – Ind. 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 270w.
“A confessed Confederate bias does not interfere with impartial treatment, and the work is quite worth study by those who are interested in our history as well as by professional soldiers.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 140w.
Baughan, Edward Algernon. Music and musicians. *$1.50. Lane.
The twenty seven articles included in “Music and musicians” are reprints of the author’s contributions to English periodicals. He treats such subjects as “The obvious in music,” “Richard Strauss and his symphonic poems,” “Richard Strauss and programme music,” and “Wagner’s ‘Ring.’”
“He has a way of his own in looking at men and things, and it is therefore not surprising if one cannot in all points agree with him. There are many excellent comments and criticisms in the volume.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 167. Ag. 11. 540w.
“He has ideas of his own, and his lucid style enables him to convey them to the general reader even when they relate, as they must now and then, to matters technical.”
+ – Nation. 83: 268. S. 27, ’06. 820w.
“In all these matters, Mr. Baughan writes interestingly and gives frequent fillips to thought and discussion, even if he has not all the conviction of an aggressive advocate.” Richard Aldrich.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 1260w. + – Spec. 96: 1039. Je. 30, ’06. 1720w.
Baxter, James Phinney. Memoir of Jacques Cartier, Sieur de Limoilou: his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534; with annotations, etc. **$10. Dodd.
“This volume contains a new translation from the original French of Cartier’s ‘Voyages’ in 1535–1536 and 1541, and the first translation of the manuscript discovered in 1867 in the Bibliotheque Nationale, of the voyage of 1534. A bibliography and a collection of all the pertinent documents thus far discovered in the French and Spanish archives and included, as well as an exhaustive memoir of Cartier.”—Am. Hist. R.
+ Am. Hist. R. 11: 745. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“Dr. Baxter has given us what may almost be regarded as the last word on the great navigator of St. Malo. His work is authoritative.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + + Dial. 40: 260. Ap. 16, ’06. 1600w.
“This volume, which seems to have been a true labor of love, is a worthy tribute to his memory.”
+ Nation. 83: 150. Ag. 16, ’06. 480w.
“His book is distinctly valuable and an important addition to any library aiming to keep up with the development of the knowledge of American history.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.
Bayliss, Sir Wyke. Seven angels of the renascence. **$3.50. Pott.
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 487. Ap. 21. 1560w. + + Contemporary R. 88: 903. D. ’05. 1230w.
“Unfortunately, however, it can scarcely be said that he has really contributed anything new to the vast mass of literature on the same subject already in circulation.”
+ – Int. Studio. 27: 278. Ja. ’06. 170w.
Bazan, Emilia Pardo. [Mystery of the lost dauphin], tr. with an introd. essay by Annabel Hord Seeger. †$1.50. Funk.
With a dramatic power which is moving in its forcefulness this Spanish author has written the story of the lost dauphin, the little son of Louis XVI, who was long supposed to have died in prison. It is a book of such realism that the reader feels thruout that it is the dread hand of fate and not the author who relentlessly orders the unhappy life of Naundorff, and forces him finally to give up voluntarily the recognition he has struggled a lifetime to gain. The story of his lovely daughter Amélie, whose happiness is sacrificed, gives to the book a deeper human interest.
+ Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 110w.
“This particular version of the imagined history of the Dauphin has a romantic atmosphere of hopeless unreality, and arouses only a languid sort of interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + Dial. 41: 113. S. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Her literary style is remarkable for clarity and simplicity.”
+ Ind. 61: 398. Ag. 16, ’06. 260w.
“It belongs to the highest type of the historical novel, drawing its inspiration from authentic sources and rich in those elements which invest the dry bones of history with flesh and blood.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w.
“The novel is so well constructed, there is so much rich color in the landscapes, and so much clever character drawing that, at first sight, it seems strange that it does not interest one particularly. But the reason is not far to seek. It is a novel of propaganda.”
+ – Nation. 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“Generally speaking, the English will do well enough. For the story, in spite of Senora Bazan’s reputation, it does not in the present version afford those thrills which one demands in fiction of the lost Dauphin school.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 454. Jl. 14, ’06. 410w. + R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 90w.
Beach, Rex Ellingwood. [Spoilers.] †$1.50. Harper.
A story which breathes the “wild west” atmosphere of Nome and the outlying mining camps, one whose brutality (of the daring Jack London order) proves the truth of Kipling’s “there’s never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-three.” The plot involves a conspiracy against the joint owners of the Midas, the richest mine of Anvil Creek. A charming girl is the unconscious agent of the villains, and is also the cause of bitter rivalry between one of the owners and one of the conspirators. There are brawls, shootings in the streets, riots, battles at the mines, and murderous hand-to-hand fights—all of which show elemental savage man free from moral restraint.
“The only trouble with his method is that it results in an absolutely false picture of life.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + Bookm. 23: 433. Je. ’06. 1100w.
“He mistakes vulgarity for strength and brute force for manliness; and he discusses without reserve matters which emphatically demand discreet treatment.”
– Critic. 48: 571. Je. ’06. 100w.
“Grips us by sheer brute strength, and almost makes us forget how devoid it is of anything like grace or delicacy of workmanship.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 220w. + Ind. 60: 1547. Je. 28, ’06. 280w.
“In turning his material into the form of the novel, however, the writer has won no success other than that of maintaining a high sensational tension.”
+ – Nation. 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 250w.
“He is chiefly intent on his story. That’s a thing full of dramatic incidents and dramatic figures. If the hero and heroine are less effective than the others, that is one of the proved penalties of the dignity.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 600w.
“The young novelist knows the men he writes of, and he knows, also, the place in which he has located them.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 600w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 270w. + Outlook. 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 190w.
“It is distinctly a man’s book, just as the north was a man’s country.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 210w.
Beach, Seth Curtis. [Daughters of the Puritans.] *$1.10. Am. Unitar.
“No one can read these lives without being renewed in spirit, and for young women we know of no works so instinct with spiritual virility or so potential for good as the ‘Daughters of the Puritans.’”
+ Arena. 35: 221. F. ’06. 390w.
“A collection of brief biographical sketches, characterized by a real interest of subject-matter and a pleasantly unconventional manner of treatment.”
+ Dial. 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 250w.
“The author has used pretty faithfully all printed matter relating to his subject; but there is absolutely no evidence of that added exploration of manuscript material which is now demanded by the thoughtful reader.”
+ – Nation. 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 940w.
“The author’s style and treatment are sufficiently fresh and original to justify publication.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli. Lord George Bentinck: a political biography; new ed; with introd. by Charles Whibley. **$2. Dutton.
“It seemed timely, amid the great free-trade electoral campaign just closed across the water to bring out on behalf of the losing side a new edition of Disraeli’s political biography.... It opens on the eve of the repeal of the Corn laws, of which it gives the Tory view. Bentinck forestalled Chamberlain in thinking that England’s commercial policy should be not free trade but reciprocity.” (Nation.) Mr. Whibley in his introduction “leads thru unsparing denunciation of Cobden and Peel up to a parallel between the leader of the Protectionists in 1846 and the leader of the Protectionists to-day. Thus it trenches so closely upon present politics that we, being non-political must leave Mr. Whibley’s opinions to speak for themselves.” (Ath.)
“An eloquent, not to say vehement, introduction. Frankly partisan in tone.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 610. N. 4. 150w.
“Mr Whibley has certainly managed to compress into a few pages an exhibition of a lack of political judgment and foresight, along with a degree of supercilious cocksureness which will not conduce to recommend his work to the reading public.”
– + Ind. 60: 804. Ap. 5, ’06. 450w.
“Mr. Whibley has written as if he had lost at once his temper and his sense of historical perspective.”
– + Lond. Times. 4: 348. O. 20, ’05. 1100w. Nation. 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 190w.
“From the historical standpoint, too, there is ample room for criticism. The sweeping statements common to campaign documents abound.”
– Outlook. 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 210w.
“Disraeli sums up the character and career of Peel with an impartiality and a penetration that make this biography an English classic. It is the only instance we know of contemporary history being written with a due sense of perspective. But Mr. Whibley is more than sympathetic: he is discerning.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 617. N. 11, ’05. 1330w.
Bearne, Catherine M. A queen of Napoleon’s court. **$2.50. Dutton.
A sketch of Désirée Bernadotte whose interest centers in “the picture it gives of her times rather than of her life, for she seems to have been an exceptionally dull product of a brilliant age.” (Acad.)
“Miss Bearne has put together a book which will appeal to the reader who is not particular in the matter of strict accuracy.”
+ – Acad. 69: 1342. D. 23, ’05. 200w.
“No more interesting book of gossip about famous and infamous people has appeared in recent years.”
+ Ind. 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 460w.
“A book that has caught something of the glamour of that extraordinary age. Mrs. Bearne is not always correct, she repeats herself, she will drag in a fine tale, gallantly regardless of any right it has to be there; but she is pleasant gossip, full of mirth and entertainment.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 62. F. 23, ’06. 1390w.
“It will please a class of readers unacquainted with Bourrienne and Madame Lenormand, indifferent as to criticism and judgment, unskilled in matters of grammar and rhetoric, intent merely on promiscuous anecdote and cheap sentiment.”
– + Nation. 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 110w. + Outlook. 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 160w.
“Out of these persons and adventures the author has made a readable volume.”
+ Sat. R. 100: 630. N. 11, ’05. 130w.
“Mrs. Bearne’s amusing book gives a capital picture of Napoleon’s France.”
+ Spec. 96: sup. 121. Ja. 27. ’06. 380w.
Bearne, Rev. David. Charlie Chittywick. 85c. Benziger.
The tale of a resolute little lad who battled against a whole family of idle, shiftless, worthless members, and step by step becomes a self-respecting bread-winner.
Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John. [Works.] Cambridge English classics; text ed. by Arnold Glover. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.
An edition of Beaumont and Fletcher in the series of “Cambridge English classics.” It gives the text of the second folio, which contained the thirty-four plays of the first folio with the addition of the wild-goose chase and all other known plays of the authors published previously to 1679. All the variant readings appear in the appendix, but there is no critical apparatus provided.
+ Acad. 69: 1169. N. 11, ’05. 1380w. (Review of v. 1.) + + Acad. 70: 376. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.) Ath. 1906. 2: 250. S. 1, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“Does not seem to us to possess any advantage over the Variorum edition ... except that of greater cheapness.”
+ Nation. 82: 344. Ap. 26, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 1.) + N. Y. Times. 10: 809. N. 25, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Within its restricted limits it seems to be well done. But it is not the twentieth century edition of Beaumont and Fletcher which is wanted by all students of the history of the English drama.” Brander Matthews.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The text ... is that of the second folio ... which causes us both wonder and regret.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work has been executed with scrupulous care, but the result is far from satisfactory.”
– + Spec. 96: 260. F. 17, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)
Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John. [Works.] Variorum ed.; ed. by A. H. Bullen. 12v. ea. *$3.50. Macmillan.
Mr Bullen’s variorum edition of Beaumont and Fletcher was some years ago announced to “include all that was of importance in the work of previous editors, together with such further critical matter as the investigations of the past half-century supplied, and also a fuller record of the variant readings of early texts.... It follows in the main the lines laid down by Dyce, and offers an excellent reading text, while much learning is accumulated in the notes; textually, however, it is hardly what the modern philological scholar will regard as altogether satisfactory.” (Spec.)
“Where all the old editions are unanimous in one reading, but that reading is to modern editors inexplicable, the Variorum edition does not hesitate to change it.”
– Acad. 70: 376. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.) Ath. 1906. 2: 250. S. 1, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The most striking of its deficiences is that it appears in what the general editor terms ‘modern spelling.’” Brander Matthews.
– N. Y. Times. 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“There is no astonishing amount of erudition displayed in the very concise introductions.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 2.) + – Spec. 96: 260. F. 17, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Beavan, Arthur H. Fishes I have known. $1.25. Wessels.
The author’s many and varied experiences in landing strange fishes in out-of-the-way abodes are given instructively enough for cyclopedia information and entertainingly enough to captivate the most indifferent angler. “Dolphins, turtles, pilot-fish—very seldom caught it seems—the Australian barracouta, the Murray cod, the catfish and other antipodean fishes, have been among his prey.... After experiences in faraway waters he comes back to England, and always an entertaining guide, conducts us to more familiar scenes.” (Spec.)
+ Dial. 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 140w.
“A pleasant non-technical little volume upon fishing in general and particular—from the British standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ N. Y. Times 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 320w.
“It is a book which any intelligent reader might presumably enjoy if he enjoys animate life, travel and adventure of any kind; but we imagine the average ten year-old boy would read it with keener interest and more profit than the angler.”
+ Outlook. 82: 269. Mr. 29, ’06. 160w. + Spec. 85: 764. N. 11, ’05. 180w.
Beck, (Carl) Richard. Nature of ore deposits; tr. and rev. by Walter Harvey Weed; with 272 figures and a map. 2v. $8. Engineering and mining journal.
The work “has that temper which has marked the Freiberg work for a century, and which took shape in the like work of his predecessor, Von Cotta, and the many successive scholars of that school.... The aim of the treatise is to give a compendium of what is known as to the origin and distribution of all those deposits which afford important metallic elements, with a measure of attention to each in some proportion to its economical importance, and by the means of a systematic classification of the occurrences.”—Engin. N.
“Coming to the matter of this work, it may summarily be said that within its limits it is almost beyond praise. What is essential of all the important metalliferous ore deposits of the world is briefly, yet clearly, set forth, and this with a surprising evenness of presentation. The present writer knows of no other treatise dealing with as varied and wide-ranging features which approaches it in its accuracy and sufficiency. The work of the translator in his emendations as well as his renderings from the German is generally excellent.” N. S. Shaler.
+ + + Engin. N. 55: 191. F. 15, ’06. 2120w.
“The subject of ore deposits is treated in an exhaustive way.” E. W. S.
+ + J. Geol. 14: 659. O. ’06. 160w.
Becke, (George) Louis. Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“Given a setting which includes a man or two, a ship and a stretch of the Pacific, Mr. Louis Becke may be relied upon to reel off yarns of adventure to any extent.... The young hero is caught by a ‘southerly buster’ while sailing in Sydney harbour, and driven out between the towering ironbound Heads which guard the entrance to that famous haven, we settle down with confidence to the perusal of a string of adventures in which no break is likely to occur.... A [story] that should find much favour among boy readers.”—Ath.
“The opening part of the present book inclines to dullness. The critic may quarrel with such books for their lack of any artistic scheme of construction, and upon many other grounds. But it is a fact that the adventures do not halt.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 300w.
“To enjoy the book to the full one should not be more than seventeen.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 133. Ap. 12, ’06. 400w.
“We imagine that ‘The adventures of a supercargo,’ although disappointing from the viewpoint of Mr Becke’s old admirers, will prove an enjoyable book to boys and those fond of taking their travels in such fictional form.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 304. My. 12, ’06. 610w.
Bedford, Randolph. Snare of strength. †$1.50 Turner, H. B.
A tale of Australia which “shows intimate acquaintance with Australian miners, politicians, company promoters, and prodigal sons.” (Ath.) The atmosphere of vitality, of invincible youth greedy of life and domain is fairly heroic. Three young men “run their race with extraordinary vigor and leave the reader breathless, as was the way of the early Australian novels of the bushranging days. Modern worship of athletics has resuscitated the old type of wild rider and bold lover, but he has the modern touch of self-consciousness and knows himself for the man he is.” (N. Y. Times.)
“But because there are signs of power in Mr. Bedford’s book, we would beg him not to squander his language as Ned the prodigal squandered his life.”
+ – Acad. 69: 1155. N. 4, ’05. 340w.
“In the matter of style he sometimes errs through striving after force of expression, but there are passages in the book that are admirably written. Taken as a whole ‘The snare of strength’ is a remarkable book.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 467. O. 7. 230w.
“If you can forget its shortcomings, you will find in it no small measure of rugged human nature, and you will get some new and interesting impressions of Australian life, physical, social and political.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 24: 117. O. ’06. 330w.
“No more man-book has appeared since Theodore Roberts gave us ‘Hemming the adventurer’ in ’94.”
+ Ind. 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 190w. N. Y. Times. 11: 153. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
“Is in its very being a book ‘worth while.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 460w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“While the book is defective in proportion and literary art in some respects, the author has a genuine knowledge of human nature, and often writes acutely and with a real grasp on his characters and their motives.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w. + – World To-Day. 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 130w.
Beebe, C. William. Bird: its form and function. **$3.50. Holt.
An untechnical study of the bird in the abstract, which, the author believes, with an earnest nature-lover, should follow the handbook of identification. Among the phases of physical life discussed are features, framework, the skull, organs of nutrition, food, the breath of a bird, muscles, senses, beaks, and bills, body, head and neck, wings, feet and legs, tails and eggs of birds. The book is handsomely made and copiously illustrated.
“A valuable contribution to nature study, for it is both scientific and popular.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1405. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“It is to the fascinating drama of the evolution of bird life that he devotes most attention, and it is this feature of the book that will probably be found the most interesting.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 120w. + + R. of Rs. 34: 761. D. ’06. 180w.
Beebe, C. William. [Log of the sun: a chronicle of nature’s year]; with 52 full-page il. by Walter King Stone; and numerous vignettes and photographs from life. **$6. Holt.
Fifty-two short essays form the text of a chronicle which deals with interesting forms of the twelve-months’ life including plant, fish, insect and the neighbor in fur and feather. The sketches are direct invitations to enjoy the wild beauties of out-of-door life, and the illustrations fully second the call. The volume represents perfection in book-making combining strength with artistic points of excellence.
“The most sumptuous nature book of the year. Anyone who absorbs this book will become in his own person a fairly accomplished naturalist, besides having a very good time in the process.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + Dial. 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 420w.
“A most useful handbook.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 140w. + + Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“We find only one false note in the present volume, and this was sung by a ‘bob-white’ in January.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 520. D. 13, ’06. 540w.
“His words should reach a larger audience than holiday buyers and recipients.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 890. D. 8, ’06. 380w.
Beebe, C. William. Two bird-lovers in Mexico. **$3. Houghton.
“A simple, unforced and delightful narrative.”
+ Acad. 70: 149. F. 10, ’06. 290w.
“They have made one of the most delightful of nature-books.”
+ + Critic. 48: 123. F. ’06. 120w. + Ind. 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.
“Mexico is an attractive country, and the account of the profusion of bird life, especially in the marshes of Chapala, is vividly written. But the book is not a work of great literary merit.”
+ Spec. 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 180w.
Beecher, Henry Ward. Life of Christ: without—within: two sermons. $1. Harper.
Two of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s strongest and most inspiring sermons. Christ’s life from without is sketched as it appeared to pharisee and publican; from within, as the greatest moral force the world has ever known.
Beecher, Willis Judson. Prophets and the promise. **$2. Crowell.
“The real strength and interest of Dr. Beecher’s book lie in the second part, ‘The promise.’” Kemper Fullerton.
+ – Bib. World. 28: 154. Ag. ’06. 340w. + Ind. 61: 101. Jl. 12, ’06. 280w.
Beet, Joseph Agar. Last things. *$1.50. Eaton.
A reprint, carefully revised and partly rewritten work published in 1897. The principal topics discussed are “The second coming of Christ,” and “The doom of the wicked.”
Beethoven, Ludwig van. [Beethoven, the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words]; compiled and annotated by Friedrich Kerst; tr. into Eng., and ed., with additional notes by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.
+ Critic. 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 110w. + Dial. 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.
“Of real value to the student of musical history.”
+ Ind. 61: 999. O. 25, ’06. 90w. + + Nation. 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 280w.
Reviewed by Richard Aldrich.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.
Beldam, George W., and Fry, Charles B. Great batsmen: their methods at a glance. *$6.50. Macmillan.
“We think [its value] considerable from every point of view save the pictorial.”
+ + – Acad. 71: 178. Ag. 25, ’06. 780w.
Bell, Lilian Lida (Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue). [Carolina Lee.] †$1.50. Page.
An ardent Southern girl brought up abroad refuses to be comforted when her father dies. “How can you believe in a God who punishes you and sends all manner of evil on you while calling himself a God of love” expresses the burden of her distracted mind. She loses her fortune, she falls from a horse and becomes a cripple. Life looks hard and bitter. To her, in this state comes the healing truth of Christian science with its deep revelations of the power that can bind up the broken hearted, make whole and restore harmony.
Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs Arthur Bell) (D’Anvers, pseud.). Paolo Veronese. $1.25. Warne.
Outlook. 83: 332. Je. 9, ’06. 250w.
Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur George Bell) (N. D’Anvers, pseud.). Picturesque Brittany; il. in col. by Arthur G. Bell. *$3.50. Dutton.
The text and illustrations work out a unity of presentation interesting from a descriptive, historical and artistic standpoint. It is the record of a summer holiday in Brittany, and the observations include scenery, people, their homes, customs and manners, with now and then a dip into the religious and political aspects.
“We think [Mr. Bell’s drawings], indeed, better than those of any other colour-book on Brittany that has yet been issued. Mrs. Bell reveals in the arrangement and proportion of her book the skill of a practised writer, if in the loose style we are sometimes allowed to see the author almost ‘en déshabille.’”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 636. My. 26. 400w.
“To journey through this romantic region with such accomplished guides is indeed a privilege.”
+ Dial. 41: 244. O. 16, ’06. 360w. + Ind. 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 120w.
“The text is agreeably written, and the pictures ... are sober, truthful, and sufficiently able, and are without any of those extravagances of color that have grown, of late, somewhat too familiar.”
+ + Nation. 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 80w. N. Y. Times. 11: 425. Je. 30, ’06. 280w. N. Y. Times. 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 420w. + R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 110w.
Bell, Ralcy Husted. Words of the woods. **$1. Small.
Verse, “ranging from patriotic addresses to our country, through appreciation of nature in many moods, and eulogiums of friends, to impassioned love-songs.” (Outlook.)
“Conventional verse of a rather commonplace kind, devoid of anything like originality and not noticeably felicitous in diction.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + Dial. 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.
“An impression is left upon the mind that prudent pruning would have made the volume smaller and saved the reader from occasional commonplaces both in thought and phrase.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 70w.
Benn, Alfred William. History of English rationalism in the nineteenth century. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
Mr. Benn’s book “includes intelligent summaries of the various systems of philosophy which have influenced English thought, and gives much detailed consideration to the influence of Coleridge and the neo-Platonists, to utilitarianism, and Benthamism, to the Oxford movement, and to all literary work of distinction which has influenced the spread of rationalism or tended to curb its spread.”—N. Y. Times.
“His book strikes us as neither amusing nor particularly instructive.”
– Ath. 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 440w.
“It is a singularly interesting and well written account of the movement of theological (and, to some extent, of philosophical) thought in England during the last century. The fulness and accuracy of Mr. Benn’s information regarding the books and writers whom he passes in review makes his survey instructive and suggestive even to those who dissent from the barren negativity of his conclusions.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 198. Je. 1, ’06. 2820w.
“The discussion is necessarily far less simple than Sir Leslie Stephen’s account of the eighteenth century, and its dramatic unity correspondingly weaker; but it has a richness and variety that are not without their compensating interest.”
+ – Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 2230w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 660w. Sat. R. 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1800w.
Bennett, John. Treasure of Peyre Gaillard. †$1.50. Century.
While Jack Gignillatt, a young civil engineering student is recuperating among his Southern relatives, an old box is found at the end of a secret stairway which contains the legend of treasure buried in an adjoining swamp by an ancestor in the Revolutionary days at the time of a Tory raid. Jack’s nimble mathematical wit, aided by a cousin’s intuition, is put to the test of unravelling a cryptogram’s secret, which when once revealed starts an excited group on its way to the sure unearthing of a fortune.
“A remarkable ingenious and vigorous yarn of mystery.”
+ – Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 420w.
“The manner of the book is unconventional, and its combination of poetic imagination with rugged, somewhat broken style gives it a peculiar charm. The author’s one love scene, although it is told with poetic beauty and elevation of feeling, is a serious fault in construction, because in it he makes the sole departure from the first person in which the rest of the book is written.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 863. D. 8, ’06. 440w.
“Will certainly hold a high place among tales of modern treasure-trove.”
+ Outlook. 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
Benson, Arthur Christopher (T. B. pseud.). [From a college window.] **$1.25. Putnam.
Eighteen essays whose subjects “are exceedingly diverse and unless they can all be brought under the heading, ‘criticism of life,’ there is no real bond of connexion amongst them.” (Ath.) The author writes upon religion, education, and literary subjects.
“He is always suggestive, and writes in a style that must commend itself to every lover of letters.”
+ + Acad. 70: 445. My. 12, ’06. 1550w.
“We find an ease and withal a grace, in these essays that charm out of the reader his sense of the pettiness of their reflections.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 420w. + + Critic. 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 260w.
Reviewed by C. H. A. Wager.
+ Dial. 41: 33. Jl. 16, ’06. 770w. + + Ind. 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 320w. Ind. 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“After reading ‘From a college window,’ it is still possible to hold that ‘T. B.’ is a more engaging and even a more ‘convincing’ person than Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 1570w.
“There is nothing musty about these essays. They are characterized by good sense, clear discrimination, and sane judgment, but they were written with scholarly ease, and they are invested with the atmosphere of well-bred leisure.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.
“The interesting and attractive personality of the author stands out from the discussions, which are clothed in the best of modern essay style.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 90w.
“The chief fault one finds in these agreeable papers is here and there a touch of sentimentalism.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 21. Jl. 7, ’06. 260w. Spec. 96: 741. My. 12, ’06. 1360w.
Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.). Peace and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.
Critic. 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Benson does not seek verbal felicities, and he has few lines that stand out from the rest, but all his writing is at a high level of thought and style. Sincerity and simplicity are too rare endowments at any time for us to pass them by lightly.”
+ + Spec. 95: 192. Ag. 5, ’06. 130w.
Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr and T. B., pseuds.). [Upton letters.] **$1.25. Putnam.
+ + Outlook. 84: 716. N. 24, ’06. 550w.
Benson, Arthur Christopher (T. B. pseud.). Walter Pater. **75c. Macmillan.
A life of Walter Pater written for the “English men of letters” series. The biography “is arranged chronologically in seven chapters; each chapter stands as a complete story either of events or of mental development. Pater’s early and long-forgotten writings are recalled, the raison d’etre of his Oxford life is clearly defined, the authorship of ‘Marius the Epicurean’ is analyzed with much care, and, finally, the fifty-odd pages devoted to ‘Personal characteristics’ are an achievement in graphic and intimate personalia which will doubtless be generously cited by reviewers of the book.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The life of Pater could not have fallen into safer, kindlier, or more sympathetic keeping than that of Mr. Arthur Benson.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 659. Je. 2. 1700w.
“The biographer has entered so thoroughly into the spirit of his work that he writes of Pater with almost Pater’s own felicity.”
+ + Critic. 49: 206. S. ’06. 860w.
“On the whole, however, the book is to be counted among the best of this excellent series.”
+ + – Dial. 41: 119. S. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Benson writes with the most scrupulous self-effacement. Throughout, he walks warily, reverently, seriously, decorously, and his admiration is so constant that in one or two passages, as in the opening pages and the last chapter of the book, he falls somewhat into the manner of the master. Pater has been given into uncommonly sympathetic hands.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + Forum. 38: 102. Jl. ’06. 1000w. + – Ind. 60: 1543. Je. 28, ’06. 490w. Lit. D. 32: 869. Je. 9, ’06. 1220w.
“It does not perhaps dig very deeply into Pater’s curious mind, and it has certain definite limitations; but it is a living sketch, vivid, tender, engaging, taken from a particular point of view, and touched off with real grace and ease.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 190. My. 25, ’06. 1220w.
“It is quite an ideal biography.”
+ – Nation. 83: 14. Jl. 5, ’06. 1530w.
“His book is readable. He has marshaled his facts and given them to us in an interesting style.” James Huneker
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 349. Je. 2, ’06. 3420w.
“Is, so far, the best expression of the life and mission of that Oxford dilettante in Roman English art and letters that we have.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Benson, with extraordinary skill, has caught the butterfly, and yet produced the impression upon our minds that it is still free and alive, still floating in the air that gave it being.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 460w.
“This little volume is the best summary of Pater’s life and work we have yet seen.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 50w.
“With a fine and delicate reserve he refuses to do more than to suggest how and in what spirit we should approach so lovable, so reticent, so shy a man. Just this, so it seems to us, is the chief value of his work.”
+ + Sat. R. 102: 146. Ag. 4, ’06. 1220w.
Benson, Edward Frederic. [Angel of pain.] †$1.50. Lippincott.
The hero of this new tale by the author of “Dodo” is a fine young Englishman, inheriting wealth and strength, but “a man with an iron hand who did not always remember to put on the velvet glove.” He proceeds in much too business-like a manner with his courtship, but is accepted by Madge Ellington chiefly through her ambitious mother’s persuasion. On the eve of the marriage, Madge finds that she loves a poor painter, and so begins a series of tragic happenings which lend hurried action to the story. There is a character worthy a Maeterlinck, Tom Merivale, who can give and receive messages from bird and beast.
+ – Acad. 70: 381. Ap. 21, ’06. 560w.
“We have no patience with the chapters in which the hermit appears.”
– + Ath. 1906, 1: 445. Ap. 14. 290w.
“The book is full of clever satire, trenchant analysis and a certain underlying vein of symbolism that is full of suggestion, but it lacks heart. There is not quite enough human nature in it, of the better sort, to make the characters convincing.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 31. Mr. ’06. 370w.
“Mr Benson has gained much in solidity; he can no longer be called merely clever. But he has lost in vitality.”
+ – Critic. 48: 483. My. ’06. 190w.
“He has simply spoiled a story of genuine human interest by a reckless indulgence in sensational imaginings.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + Dial. 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 220w.
“Is a good story and is something more.”
+ – Ind. 60: 458. F. 22, ’06. 350w.
“Leaves us with the impression that, for all its laboured length and solid paragraphs, the book is the result of incomplete imagination and undigested thought.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 480w.
“The book is undeniably a little disappointing at first, because somewhat lacking in the amusing qualities which we have learned to expect from its author but it grows upon one as the characters slowly develop and the theme is worked out through the medium of their lives.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 117. F. 24, ’06. 600w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.
“A singular mingling of the attractive and the disappointing. It is in its plot and situations distressing, but in its pictures of English society it is extremely interesting, and there are several characters worth knowing and rather carefully worked out.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
“It is unusual, and well executed in a way but it is decidedly not a cheerful tale.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 260w.
“Mr Benson would do well to shun the supernatural: it does not suit his style.”
– Sat. R. 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.
Benson, Edward Frederic. Paul. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Paul Norris and Norah Ravenscroft who had played together since childhood find that they love each other after Norah marries Theodore Beckwith, a mean-spirited shrivelled up specimen of mankind. Paul becomes Beckwith’s private secretary and incidentally is compelled to be a modern type of court fool, tho sacrificing none of his dignity and courage in playing an entertainer’s rôle to amuse a pagan, sensuous nature. Paul’s hatred for the man tempts him to run him down with a motor car, he repents at the last moment but too late to avert the tragedy. The second part of the story shows Paul’s remorse which would drown itself in drink, his conversion, his marriage with Norah, and his final reparation to a “calm, un-angry, inevitable justice” by saving the child of Theodore and Norah from certain death.
“An unpleasant laboured story.”
– Acad. 71: 398. O. 20, ’06. 150w.
“We are disposed to rank this novel as Mr. Benson’s best work accomplished since the public ear was captured by the specious cleverness of ‘Dodo.’”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 280w.
“The writing is hardly less slovenly and involved than usual, and, as usual, the minor characters are delightful.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 290w.
“The villain is too villainous to be true, and the hero too amiable to engage sympathy; the heroine is simply a nice girl in an awkward position.”
– Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 360w.
“It would be a safe prediction that the people who have liked Mr. Benson’s other books will like this new one even better.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 170w. N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“There is just a tinge here of that diabolism toward which Mr. Benson seems to have a bent.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
“Mr. Benson is a writer who never quite gets the effect at which he seems to be aiming. The book would be twice as interesting if it were half as long.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
Benson, Godfrey R. Tracks in the snow: being the history of a crime; ed. from the Ms. of the Rev. Robert Driver. †$1.50. Longmans.
The rector of an English country parish has recorded the story of the mysterious murder of his friend and neighbor, Eustace Peters and the unravelling of the mystery to which certain tracks of heavy boots found in the snow furnish the chief clue. It is from this manuscript that the present thrilling detective story with its mazes of suspicions, its strange adventures and narrow escapes is supposed to have been edited.
“We do not remember reading such a clever murder story since Grant Allen’s ‘The curate of Churnside.’”
+ Acad. 70: 429. My. 5, ’06. 440w.
“The book, in short, shows considerable crudeness, but also an imaginative faculty by no means contemptible.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 130w. N. Y. Times. 11: 371. Je. 9, ’06. 240w.
“It is the history of a crime set forth with much artistic literary ability.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“A good detective story of a somewhat novel kind. The book is really interesting.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 698. Je. 2, ’06. 220w.
Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh. [King’s achievement.] $1.50. Herder.
A piece of controversial fiction which portrays Elizabethan times and doings, and which specifically deals with the suppression of the monasteries and the proclamation of the Royal supremacy in religious affairs. “Father Benson frankly takes sides.... The good is all on the side of the monasteries, the bad on the side of Henry and Cromwell and their creatures.” (Acad.)
“An exceptionally good historical novel, as such things go. It is a clever, a thorough, and a powerful work; but, in our opinion, it was a mistake to write it.”
+ – Acad. 69: 1080. O. 14, ’05. 340w.
“The story, which is long, is mainly used as a vehicle for expressing the author’s decided views upon the religious and political matters of the day, and is rather overweighted by the historical detail which obtrudes itself too persistently in the foreground.”
– + Ath. 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 170w.
“The work does not, on the whole, show as much careful elaboration as its predecessor [‘By what authority?’]. In compensation, however, the story has more unity and proportion, chiefly because there are fewer characters to claim the attention.”
+ – Cath. World. 82: 848. Mr. ’06. 460w.
“He draws his characters with ease and sympathy, but not with that intensity of insight which creates a type and yet gives it the force of an individual. But they are not complete and striking human beings; and this is the flaw in what is a really beautiful and sensitive piece of work.”
+ – Lond. Times. 4: 359. O. 27, ’05. 500w.
“We gladly recommend the book not only as a romance but also as history, inasmuch as it gives a far more truthful picture of the great sacrilege of the sixteenth century than most of the (so-called) histories of the period.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 240w.
Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh. Queen’s tragedy. $1.50. Herder.
The court setting is a prominent feature of Father Benson’s portrayal of Queen Mary, against which background he outlines her as “human and a woman.... First love, a passion for Philip of Spain in the breast of a woman of thirty-seven, is tragedy in suspense from its commencement, and the novelist makes her foolish heart flutter before us till we need the annalist to reduce the temperature of our pity.” (Ath.)
“Whatever else may be thought of Father Benson’s latest historical novel, no one will fail to find it fresh, suggestive and interesting.” J. H. Pollen.
+ – Acad. 71: 63. Jl. 21, ’06. 1090w.
“The writing at the end of the book is fine and grandiose.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 37. Jl. 14. 310w.
“Though it is a creditable piece of work is scarcely on a level with either ‘By what authority?’, or ‘The king’s achievement.’”
+ – Cath. World. 84: 270. N. ’06. 360w.
“It is first and foremost an engaging book. The author has what is called ‘a way with him’ ... his humour is fresh ... then, too, though the style is firm and good, it is all so easy, so limpid, so light.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 259. Jl. 20, ’06. 790w.
“Two historic scenes are depicted with great power, the marriage of Mary and Philip at Winchester, and the burnings of Ridley and Latimer at Oxford.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
Benton, Joel. Persons and places. $1. Broadway pub.
“Mr. Joel Benton came into casual contact with many people we want to know about—Emerson, Thoreau, Matthew Arnold, Horace Greeley, Barnum and Bryant—and he chats about them in a pleasant way, tho without contributing anything very novel or important to our knowledge of these men.”—Ind.
“Writing largely of things a part of which he was and nearly all of which he saw, Mr. Benton can by no means be accused of producing merely the echo of an echo.”
+ Dial. 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 300w. + Ind. 59: 1113. N. 9, ’05. 90w.
“Most of the papers are not of serious importance.”
+ Nation. 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 310w.
Benziger, Marie Agnes. Off to Jerusalem. *$1. Benziger.
A happy account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem during which the narrator gained “many graces, deep and holy impressions, and an enthusiastic love for the Holy land.”
Berard, (Eugene) Victor. British imperialism and commercial supremacy; tr. by H. W. Foskett; with a pref. to the Eng. ed. by the author. *$2.60. Longmans.
Mr. Foskett says: “At the present time, the antagonistic opinions of free trade on the one hand, and the protection, fair trade, preference to the colonies on the other, are shaking to its very foundations the economic structure on which commercial Great Britain has rested and flourished undisturbed for the past fifty years. Under the circumstances the comprehensive survey made by M. Victor Bérard of the commercial and industrial situation of Great Britain among the leading communities of the day must undoubtedly appeal to the intelligence of all thinking Britons.” The translator’s aim is to emphasize the necessity for a thoro application of modern scientific methods.
“The analysis of the book is keen, its style lively, and it is interesting reading.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 173. Jl. ’06. 140w.
“On the whole, the translation is meritorious, and pains have been bestowed upon the book.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 228. F. 24. 880w. J. Pol. Econ. 14: 522. O. ’06. 160w.
“The figures are now so far out of date that an appendix bringing them down to within the year—if it be impossible to recast the text—is necessary. The translation is excellent.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 1410w.
“Suggestive and entertaining.” Alvin S. Johnson.
+ Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 718. D. ’06. 420w.
“M. Berard is at best an able journalist juggling with second-hand knowledge and snippets from Blue-books and consular reports. Seriously, M. Berard’s English friends ought to have revised this undoubtedly interesting volume before it was allowed to appear before the English public.”
– + Sat. R. 102: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 1860w.
“M. Bérard is a charming writer, but of English politics, of the English temperament, of Imperialism, of the personnel of English government, his conception is wholly farcical. The English version, in our opinion, might have been better done, for it is full of misprints, and many of the phrases are awkwardly rendered.”
+ – Spec. 96: 536. Ap. 7, ’06. 1240w.
Bergamo, Rev. Cajetan Mary da. Thoughts and affections on the passion of Jesus Christ for every day of the year taken from the Holy Scriptures and the writings of the fathers of the church; new tr. by the Passionist fathers of the U. S. *$2. Benziger.
“The principal object of this new translation is to rescue from oblivion a valuable work for many years out of print.”
Bernheimer, Charles Seligman, ed. Russian Jew in the United States: studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, with a description of rural settlements. **$2. Winston.
“All are written out of a wealth of precise information and, though deeply sympathetic, exhibit a perfectly sane and fair minded spirit.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + Dial. 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 340w.
“The book could still be rescued for the mass of American people who ought to read it, by careful editing, by the elimination of one third of its material, which is useless repetition, and by giving it that typographical dress in which the average reader expects a book of such popular value to appear.” Edward A. Steiner.
+ – Yale R. 15: 106. My. ’06. 440w.
Bernstein, Hermann. Contrite hearts. †$1.25. Wessels.
“In its pictures of facts and conditions the book is entirely convincing, but as a story is not signally impressive.”
+ – Critic. 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.
“The story has a curious interest, as an interpretation, from the inside, of a theory of life utterly foreign to the average reader’s ideas.”
+ Dial. 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 140w.
“Is a simple, affecting tale of Russian-Jewish life.”
+ Nation. 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 120w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 230w.
Bertin, L. E. Marine boilers: their construction and working, dealing more especially with tubulous boilers; tr. and ed. by Leslie S. Robertson, with a new chapter on “Liquid fuel” by Engineer-Lieutenant H. C. Anstey and a preface by Sir William White. *$5. Van Nostrand.
A second edition of this work by a Frenchman appears with such revision and extension as the strides in marine practice, make necessary. The editor says that “progress has been rather in the direction of concentrating practice, along well acknowledged lines, than by the introduction of any noticeable departure in the design of boilers. Considerable development has taken place in the application of steam turbines to marine propulsion, but it has not called for any change in the types of boilers already in use.” A notable addition to the volume is a chapter on “Liquid Fuel.”
Ath. 1906, 2: 218. Ag. 25. 620w.
“On the whole, the book is to be commended as the most satisfactory treatise on water tube boilers from the historical and constructive standpoint of which the reviewer has knowledge.” Wm. Kent.
+ + + Engin. N. 56: 51. Jl. 12, ’06. 700w.
Besant, Walter. Mediaeval London, v. 1. Historical and social. *$7.50. Macmillan.
This division of the posthumous work of Walter Besant on “The survey of London” will be complete in two volumes. “Mediaeval London, historical and social” to be followed by “Mediaeval London, ecclesiastical.” “The first volume discusses the history of the city in relation to our kings, whose dealings with the capital are succinctly recorded. The social condition of the town is also exhibited in its many and varied phases.” (Ath.) “The numerous and excellent illustrations are not the least attractive feature of the book. Many are taken from manuscripts in the British museum and elsewhere.” (Nation.)
“The great charm of these volumes is the individuality of the writer.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 65. Jl. 21. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His notes are exceedingly valuable, and no future historical novelist of London will, we imagine, ever pass them by.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 233. Je. 29, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Parts of the whole volumes are suggestive rather of a collection of materials than of the production of a literary artist.”
+ – Nation. 83: 101. Ag. 2, ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 1.) Sat. R. 102: 424. O. 6, ’06. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is impossible here to do justice to the ability with which this picture of the past is drawn. Sir Walter left out nothing that could help us to realize the vigour of the great city, its pride of patriotism, its wealth, its far-reaching commerce. His name will be linked with it in such a fashion as we can hardly find paralleled in the history of the world’s capitals.”
+ + + Spec. 97: 541. O. 13, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.)
Betts, Ethel Franklin. [Favorite nursery rhymes.] †$1.50. Stokes.
Some of the oldest and the best nursery rhymes are grouped here and charmingly illustrated in black and white with six full-page colored plates.
R. of Rs. 34: 766. D. ’06. 90w.
[Bible for young people]: arranged from the King James version; with twenty-four full page il. from old masters. $1.50. Century.
A need of the day is supplied in this volume of Bible stories which is a new and revised edition of a book originally issued at double the price. In making the text interesting to young readers, genealogies, doctrines and the hard-to-understand passages have been omitted. The illustrations are fine reproductions of the work of old masters.
“The present edition is in more popular form than when it first appeared.”
+ Ind. 61: 1406. D. 31, ’06. 30w.
“The compiler has shown discrimination and taste in her selection of material. While primarily appealing to young people, this admirable compilation will interest grown readers as well.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
Bible—Proverbs; tr. out of the original Hebrew and with former translations diligently compared and revised. $1. Century.
This little volume uniform with the “Thumb nail series” contains for introduction a chapter on “The proverbs of the Hebrews” from Dr. Lyman Abbott’s “The life and literature of the ancient Hebrews.”
Bible. Book of Ecclesiastes: a new metrical translation, with an introduction and explanatory notes by Paul Haupt. 50c. Hopkins.
“The translation here presented is a good one—accurate, fresh, suggestive, and rhymical. The conclusions embodied in this work ... seem to rest upon too uncertain and subjective grounds.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – Am. J. Theol. 10: 323. Ap. ’06. 190w.
Bielschowsky, Albert. Life of Goethe; authorized tr. from the German by W: A. Cooper. 3v. ea. **$3.50. Putnam, v. 1, ready.
A three-volume life of Goethe, with full critical estimates, designed for the student rather than for the general reader. The author devoted a life-time to the work and based it upon material made accessible by the opening of the Goethe archives and by recent philological investigation. The first volume covers the period from 1749–1788,—from Goethe’s birth to his return from Italy.
“Mr. Cooper approves himself a competent German scholar, and a writer of sound English as well. His rendering is now and then a trifle loose.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 321. Mr. 17. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.) + + Critic. 48: 364. Ap. ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Bielschowsky’s book, by reason of its fuller and more accurate information will now take the place in our libraries that Mr. Lewes’s held so long. Professor Cooper’s translation is, in general, a very satisfactory piece of work. The language is usually well-chosen, and renders the thought, and in some degree the style, of the original.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
+ + Dial. 40: 85. F. 1, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is remarkable for the impartiality with which, as a general thing, it keeps the balance between literature and scholarship.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Bielschowsky has brought to his task the two indispensable requisites: on the one hand, familiarity with the details of Goethe research, a world of scholarship by itself; on the other hand, the ability to think and feel and enjoy independently and to write with clearness and charm.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 430. My. 24, ’06. 2250w.
“Two things seem defective in this volume: Bielschowsky has been no more successful than his predecessors in getting at the details incident to Goethe’s administration of public office at Weimar, and less even than others has he appreciated the dramatic significance of Goethe’s first touch with Schiller when Goethe visited the military school in Würtemberg, which he disposes of in two lines.” J. Perry Worden.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 136. Mr. 3, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is probably the most complete and authoritative life of Goethe.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The story of the years covered by this installment—1749 to 1788—is told clearly enough, but with all his study, all his industry, all his admiration of Goethe’s genius Bielschowsky has not written a great biography.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 1.) + + – Spec. 96: sup. 640. Ap. 28, ’06. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.)
Biese, Alfred. [Development of the feeling for nature in the middle ages and modern times.] *$2. Dutton.
“It has been the author’s endeavor to trace in this volume the development of human thought in regard to the phenomena of nature from the introduction of Christianity downwards, in the same way that was done in a previous volume for the time of the Greeks and Romans. This has been done mainly by the study of writings, both in prose and poetry, in which natural phenomena, whether connected with scenery, weather, birds, or flowers, are spoken of with admiration.” (Nature.) “Ample quotations, pertinent notes, and a good index give point to Herr Biese’s discussions.” (Outlook.)
“The vague and unsatisfactory impression left by his generalizations is, no doubt, due in some degree to his style, though for this the translator may be to blame. On the whole, however, the translation is workmanlike.” C: H. A. Wager.
+ – Dial. 41: 235. O. 16, ’06. 1850w. + Nature. 74: 293. Jl. 26, ’06. 450w. + Outlook 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w. R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“Useful and comprehensive handbook.”
+ Spec. 95: 505. O. 7, ’05. 210w.
Bigelow, Melville Madison, and others. Centralization and the law; scientific legal education, an illustration, with an introd. by Melville M. Bigelow. **$1.50. Little.
Eight lectures delivered before the Boston university law school “on various recent occasions ... as part of the plan of legal extension now on foot there.” “The main lines of thought centre around the ideas (1) of Equality which according to the author, was formerly the dominant legal force in American life; (2) of Inequality, which is characteristic of present conditions; and (3) of Administration, which is the supreme end of legal, and, in fact, of all education intended to fit men for the practical affairs of life. Specifically, the more important subjects discussed are the extension of legal education, the nature of law, monopoly, the scientific aspects of law, and government regulation of railway rates.” (Dial.)
Dial. 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 130w.
“The economic philosophy underlying these essays is of a somewhat conventional, if not dangerously superficial order.”
+ – J. Pol. Econ. 14: 329. My. ’06. 1080w.
“The book is one that can be recommended to the general reader as well as to the lawyer and the law student. The historical presentation is excellent, and the citation of modern cases gives to the conclusions an immediate interest which either presentation by itself would not possess.” Worthington C. Ford.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 48. Ja. 27, ’06. 1880w.
“As an exposition of law regarded as a progressive science, ‘Centralization and law’ is a valuable contribution to real progress, and in a department where that contribution is greatly needed.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 478. Je. 23, ’06. 600w.
Bigelow, Poultney. History of the German struggle for liberty, v. 4. **$2.25. Harper.
“In the details of book-construction the volume is unusually faulty. A large proportion of the text, probably a third, consists of quotations worked in with so little skill that the volume suggests the note-book rather than the finished production. The worst feature of the book, however, is its unfortunate tone.” Frank Maloy Anderson.
– – Am. Hist. R. 11: 711. Ap. ’06. 490w. (Review of v. 4.)
“It contains the same slap-dash miscellaneous kind of matter as do its three predecessors, and does not deserve, any more than they, to be ranked as history according to any established canon, nor as literature if grace of style and a clear thread of consecutive narrative are to be regarded as necessary.”
+ – Critic. 48: 191. F. ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The tone of the work is throughout journalistic, often hysterical; but some later writer will doubtless find in this mass of material abundant matter for a single volume that will clearly and logically present the subject without sacrificing what has evidently been Mr. Bigelow’s paramount aim—the readableness and popular character of the narrative.”
– + Dial. 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Occurrences are treated rather in accordance with their picturesqueness or with the degree of attention which they excited at the time than with their permanent significance.”
+ – – Nation. 82: 301. Ap. 12, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 4.) + R. of Rs. 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
Bigg, Charles. Church’s task under the Roman empire. *$1.75. Oxford.
“They are delightful reading, fresh and breezy in their manner, with an ease of handling the material that speaks of long familiarity. The footnotes add very much both to the size of the book and to its value.” Franklin Johnson.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 337. Ap. ’06. 630w.
Bigham, Madge A. Blackie, his friends and his enemies: a book of old fables in new dresses; il. by Clara E. Atwood. †$1.50. Little.
Thirty-five stories made new with the furbishing suggested by the “Story lady’s” imagination are told a little street boy by way of compensation for his pet rat that died.
“An animal book which children will find very charming.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
Bindloss, Harold. [Alton of Somasco.] †$1.50. Stokes.
“It is interesting to compare with Mr. Beach’s novel the somewhat similar ‘Alton of Somasco.’ Here the scene is British Columbia instead of Alaska, and there is no political deviltry to impel the action, but otherwise the situation is the same, being evolved out of the conflict between legitimate settlers and unscrupulous schemers for the possession of valuable ranching and mining properties.”—Dial.
“A novel which is terse, powerful yet graceful, showing intimate knowledge and acute observation, never overweighted with description yet containing many delightful pictures of colonial life and manners.”
+ + – Acad. 69: 881. Ag. 26, ’05. 330w.
“We have no hesitation in pronouncing this his best story, nor in recommending it particularly to the attention of adventurous young England.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 235. Ag. 19. 400w.
“The interest of the plot is fairly well sustained, but the book is carelessly written.”
+ – Critic. 48: 571. Je. ’06. 50w.
“An admirable novel is the result, and one which introduces us to a territory hitherto almost unexploited in fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 364. Je. 1. ’06. 120w.
“In ‘Alton of Somasco’ Mr. Bindloss is seen at his best.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 279. S. 1, ’05. 380w. N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
Bindloss, Harold. [Cattle-baron’s daughter.] †$1.50. Stokes.
The transition-period when the boundless cattle-lands of the Northwest were first opened to the home-steader is well handled in this story of the cattle-baron’s daughter and her divided loyalty to her father, the champion of the old order, and to her lover, the leader of the homestead boys. The characters are well drawn Western types and the scenes of feud and riot, of miniature war and revolution, are stirring, because behind the hero is the spirit of the times, the steady march of the settler leading to the final triumph of the plow.
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 67. Jl. 21. 180w.
“A tale of thrilling adventure with plentiful humorous relief.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 626. O. 6, ’06. 240w.
“The interest is well sustained to the end of the story, which is much above the average and is well worth reading.”
+ Spec. 97: 237. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w.
Binns, Henry Bryan. [Life of Walt Whitman.] **$3. Dutton.
In Mr. Binns’ biography and interpretation it has been the aim to write about Whitman rather than to give Whitman’s work with running commentary. The author is an Englishman “who ‘loves’ the United States,” and thinks the time is not yet ripe for a final and complete biography, and therefore his work is suggestive rather than conclusive in the sense of literary decisions. “It is as a man that I see and have sought to describe Whitman. But as a man of special and exceptional character, a new type of mystic or seer.” (N. Y. Times.)
“As a biography, it will easily take its place as our most exhaustive and authoritative record of Whitman’s career.”
+ + Acad. 69: 1285. D. 9, ’05. 1520w.
Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ Atlan. 98: 849. D. ’06. 1280w.
“Both in biographical detail and in critical comment the book is an excellent piece of work, perhaps the fullest and best study of the poet’s life and writings that has yet appeared.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – Dial. 40: 145. Mr. 1, ’06. 850w.
“A book of some interest and value, which yet has a few of the faults common to most biographies. In the first place, it is too long.”
+ – Lond. Times. 4: 401. N. 24, ’05. 2880w. + – Nation. 81: 469. D. 7, ’05. 840w.
“The poet’s work is, indeed, vindicated simply and naturally by Mr. Binns, with no violence of argument, and it is a pleasure to acknowledge the fine quality of spirit which he displays.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 970w. + R. of Rs. 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 150w.
“Mr. Binns’ book, granted a few somewhat soulful peculiarities, is not at all bad.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 20. Ja. 6, ’06. 1760w.
Birney, Mrs. Theodore W. Childhood. $1. Stokes.
Believing that “discord in the home is in most cases due to a lack of comprehension of child nature and its needs,” Mrs. Birney offers parents and teachers the benefits of her earnestly acquired experience. “She is singularly free from fads; does not write as if she were the whole Law and the Prophets on the subject of children.” (Critic.)
“A careful perusal of the book should bring help to many households.”
+ Critic. 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 90w. + Outlook. 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.
Birrell, Augustine. [Andrew Marvell.] **75c. Macmillan.
“Very little is said of the poetry upon which his reputation rests.”
+ – Dial. 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 260w. R. of Rs. 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 100w. + Spec. 96: 582. Ap. 14, ’06. 1720w.
Birrell, Augustine. [In the name of the Bodleian, and other essays.] **$1.50. Scribner.
“A collection of short essays on a great variety of subjects by a writer who is, by nature and training, a spectator and commentator of the school though not of the genius of Charles Lamb.” (Outlook.) “He opens his service, so to speak, in the name of the Bodleian, and goes to tell us of book-worms—the literary bookworm, not the one with spectacles—confirmed readers, first editions, libraries, old booksellers, collecting, and some score of similar things of value to the bibliophile.” (Acad.)
“If his work is always slight, it is very nearly always agreeable.”
+ Acad. 69: 1191. N. 18, ’05. 1360w.
“Represents him favorably enough as a critic none the less stimulating because he touches his topics with a light hand.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 230w. + Critic. 48: 189. F. ’06. 310w.
“Is characteristically full of quaint fancies, brilliant sallies of wit and humor, keenly-calculated judgments of men and things, and an erudition that pointedly avoids beaten highways to cull its treasures from old nooks and dusty corners.”
+ + Dial. 40: 159. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.
“Without being in any sense of the word a great essayist, Mr. Augustine Birrell is a brilliant and lucid writer.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 426. D. 8, ’05. 1520w.
“It would be a limited taste indeed that could not extract from [these essays] several half-hours of entertainment.”
+ + Nation. 82: 41. Ja. 11, ’06. 640w.
“None of them will seem really trivial to lovers of ‘Obiter dicta’ and its successors. For they are all marked with the good-humored acuteness, the animated nonchalance, which engaged us in him long ago.” H. W. Boynton.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 879. D. 9, ’05. 1400w.
“This volume is more fragmentary and discursive than the earlier books from the same hand, and the papers are, on the whole, less valuable.”
+ Outlook. 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 120w.
“These essays, aside from the Arnold fling, are charming in tone and in their literary quality, which ranges from Baconian formality to a very effective use of modern slang.”
+ + – Reader. 7: 566. Ap. ’06. 450w. R. of Rs. 33: 256. F. ’06. 40w.
“It is always easy, but not always comforting, to read Mr. Birrell. When he is writing about books he is commonly delightful, though even here he cannot resist the temptation to ‘get his knife into’ something or somebody that he dislikes.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 97. Ja. 20, ’06. 1160w.
Birukoff, Paul. Early life of Leo Tolstoy, his life and work. **$1.50. Scribner.
The work of a man who was a friend of Tolstoi’s and in his employ. The outlines of M. Paul Birukoff’s biography were filled in by notes furnished by Tolstoi himself which fact lends a serious and authoritative value to the work. This first volume gives an account of the origin of the Tolstois, the novelist’s childhood, youth and manhood, and ends with his marriage. “A great deal of attention is devoted to the moral development of the young prodigy and very little to those amusements and external interests that probably were of far more importance in shaping his character.” (Acad.)
“It is indeed a most serious work and suggests that the author was much more anxious to exhibit Leo Tolstoy as a prophet and teacher than as a literary artist whose province it is to hold the mirror up to nature.”
+ – Acad. 70: 498. My. 26, ’06. 2030w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This most interesting publication ought to find many readers.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 178. Ag. 18. 1360w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There can be no doubt that this work will be a mine of information to the more critical biographer as well as in itself of much value.”
+ Critic. 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is an exhaustive analysis of the youth and early manhood of a personality of exceptional interest, with whose later years of achievement the reading-public is generally familiar.” Annie Russell Marble.
+ + Dial. 41: 59. Ag. 1, ’06. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)
“When completed bids fair to become one of the important contributions to our biographical knowledge during recent years.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + Forum. 38: 97. Jl. ’06. 1350w. (Review of v. 1.) + Ind. 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 1.) + Lit. D. 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One can pardon somewhat his lack of literary skill, in view of his transparent honesty, and modest attitude toward his work as ‘material’ for the use of more competent workers hereafter.”
+ – Nation. 83: 60. Jl. 19, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There is in his attitude towards his literary master a certain servility of indiscriminate admiration, a too thoroughgoing sympathy. The net result of which simplicity is that the eminent Russian’s worst enemy could have wished him no other biographer.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The undisguisedly autobiographic portions are exceedingly frank in places, and always intensely egotistical.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is thus chaotic and almost incoherent, yet most of the material is of intense interest.”
+ – Putnam’s. 1: 110. O. ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 1.) R. of Rs. 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)
Black, Rev. J. F. Bible way: an antidote to Campbellism. *50c. Meth. bk.
An argument in dialogue form which presents arguments against the doctrine of so-called Christian or Campbellite church.
Black, John Janvier. Eating to live, with some advice to the gouty, the rheumatic, and the diabetic: a book for every body. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Forewarned is forearmed” might be said to be the watchword of Dr. Black in his present work. He aims to save from pitfalls the mortals who eat and drink from instinct rather than from reason. He discusses the economics and values of different foods and gives dietary advice to people variously afflicted.
Blackmar, Frank Wilson. Elements of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“On the whole, the author has furnished us with a very serviceable text. It is a logical development of the principles of the science and the different branches have been brought into proper correlation. Its style is sufficiently simple for easy comprehension and the student will find it a working manual of great value.” George B. Mangold.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 243. Ja. ’06. 440w.
“Is a singularly ineffective and eminently mediocre book. It affords no real penetrating insight into the nature of society. It has no intrinsic coherence.”
– Atlan. 97: 852. Je. ’06. 230w. Bookm. 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“In general it may be said that Mr. Blackmar has made effective use of the new sources of material and new developments of theory that have become available since the publication of Mr. Fairbanks’ book.... Many pages of Mr. Blackmar’s book are marred by English not merely faulty, but incorrigibly and persistently so to such an extent that the sense may be recovered only with difficulty.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + – Bookm. 23: 100. Mr. ’06. 910w.
“The chapters on social pathology bring the science down to earth, and constitute probably the most valuable part of the book.”
+ – Dial. 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 210w. R. of Rs. 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 100w.
“Will serve a useful purpose ... for intelligent general readers and social workers who wish to gain a social attitude of mind in relation to all varieties of man’s activities.”
+ School R. 14: 542. S. ’06. 200w.
Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander, eds. [Philippine islands, 1493–1898.] 55 v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
“In eight volumes just under consideration, ninety documents ... are produced in translation, as are parts of the whole of seven old printed works. The editorial work upon these documents shows painstaking care and much discrimination. The translations—and this is important—appear generally to deserve the same commendation.” James A. LeRoy.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 681. Ap. ’06. 2900w. (Review of v. 21–27 and 29.)
Reviewed by James A. LeRoy.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 12: 143. O. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 28–38.)
“The volumes of 1905 are, all in all, the best edited and most carefully arranged and translated of the series thus far.”
+ + Ind. 40: 927. Ap. 19, ’06. 1090w. (Review of v. 21–27.) + + Ind. 61: 695. S. 20, ’06. 730w. (Review of v. 28–38.) Ind. 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 28–32.)
Blake, Katharine Evans. Hearts’ haven. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“A stirring romance, rich in lights and shadows, full of human interest and possessing the peculiar charm of new scenes and surroundings. Another excellence of this work is the remarkable knowledge of psychology displayed.”
+ + Arena. 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 1310w.
“The author of ‘Hearts’ haven’ has made clever use of her material, and the admission that the book leaves behind it a sense of depression is in itself a tribute to her strength.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 30. Mr. ’06. 160w.
Blake, William. Poetical works: a new and verbatim text from the manuscript engraved and letter-press originals; with variorum readings and bibliographical notes and prefaces by J. Sampson. *$3.50. Oxford.
“‘Blake’s final version is uniformly adopted as the text, while all earlier or cancelled readings are supplied in foot-notes.’ All the poems are arranged exactly as they are found, and each group is given, as far as is known, in chronological order. The two main MS. sources, the Rossetti and the Pickering MSS., are now printed for the first time from careful and accurate transcripts, made by the present owner, Mr. W. A. White of Brooklyn, N. Y.”—Ath.
“If it be desirable to possess a scholarly and complete edition of Blake, it would be impossible to imagine anything more suitable to the purpose than the edition before us.”
+ + Acad. 69: 1325. D. 23, ’05. 830w.
“Mr. Sampson’s edition of Blake is a masterpiece of editing and Blake, of all modern English poets, was most in need of a good editor.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 100. Ja. 27. 2150w.
“We cannot be too grateful for this beautiful and scholarly edition of the great mystic.”
+ + Dial. 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Sampson has compiled texts, compared different readings, grasped and illuminated obscure points, with all the tact and insight of the born commentator. His book should become the standard authority for all Blake students.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 5: 129. Ap. 12, ’06. 4030w.
“Is in point of laborious research and painstaking arrangement, one of the most admirable pieces of editing that we have lately seen.”
+ + Nation. 82: 99. F. 1, ’06. 280w. + + + N. Y. Times. 11: 298. Ap. 21, ’06. 3240w. (Reprinted from the Lond. Times.) + + Spec. 96: 259. F. 17, ’06. 1760w.
Blanchard, Amy Ella. [Four Corners.] †$1.50. Jacobs.
The three Virginia acres on which the somewhat impoverished Corner family lived formed the center of the stage upon which the four little Corners, Nan, Mary Lee, and the twins, a cousin, an old mule named Pete, an angora cat, a mongrel dog, and a few delightful grownups, act out a little family drama. In it, sad little economies, sickness, and trouble bravely met, are contrasted with the joys of healthy girlhood with homely adventures, and happy little surprises. It is a story that will make careless little girls thankful for their blessings.
“It is a peasant, homy sort of tale.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
Blanchard, Amy Ella. Little Miss Mouse. †$1. Jacobs.
Miss Hester Brackenbury in days of affluence adopts two little waifs, a small boy and a girl, and when a few months later, she becomes poor she refuses to give them up but moves into a cottage and supports them by making buttonholes. It is a pretty story for grown-ups as well as children, for in the background is an old love-story which throws a mellow light upon the children in the foreground, their joys, their contentions and their troubles. In the end, thru little Miss Mouse and an old receipt, Aunt Hester is restored to her old estate.
Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland). [Incomplete amorist.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
“A study of an accomplished and refined male flirt who plays the game of love with counters only to find that at last he must play with gold. Contrasted with this superfine trifler is a straightforward, even impulsive English girl whose common sense and simple ignorance of the early Empire. These last three studies her girl artist life in Paris. The story has movement, variety, and originality.”—Outlook.
“It is essentially bright, witty, superficial work, and we are sorry to be, more than once, confronted with problems and situations which demand a stronger treatment and a deeper insight into human nature.”
+ – Acad. 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 140w. Ath. 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 210w.
“There are several reasons why ‘The incomplete amorist’ is deserving of attention. To begin with, it treats old and well-worn material in a new and whimsical way.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 24: 119. O. ’06. 480w.
“To judge by the experiment her true vein would promise to lie not in the picturesque region of Bohemian romance, but on the quiet levels of rustic comedy.”
– Nation. 83: 263. S. 27, ’06. 340w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“‘E. Nesbit’ has shown that she understands grown-ups as well as she does children, and in ‘The incomplete amorist’ has written a novel original, clever, and full of interest.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 563. S. 15, ’06. 840w.
“It has the great affirmative merit that it never bores the reader.”
+ Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 120w.
“As this novel is a study in masculine psychology it is unsatisfying.”
– + Sat. R. 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 180w.
“The greater part of the story is extraordinarily vulgar, and to that part of it which is not vulgar it is impossible to apply any epithet but that of ‘stagy.’ The story cannot but remind its readers of the sentimental fiction of about twenty years ago.”
– Spec. 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 220w.
“In the midst of the inrush of novels it is one of the few that deserve a better fate than that of serving as a time-killer.”
+ World To-Day. 12: 1221. N. ’06. 130w.
Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland). [Railway children]; with drawings by C. E. Brock. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“By a family misfortune these children are for a time deprived of their father, compelled to leave their pleasant home, and obliged to live in a little cottage close to the railway. All their strange joys and troubles are in one way or another connected with this railway and its surroundings.”—Outlook.
“A fragrant and sweet story. It would be indeed difficult to find one better suited for reading around the nursery fire or one which boys and girls alike would more enjoy.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 510. O. 27. 70w.
“The interest—of which there is fair amount—is fortunately independent of the weak pen-and-ink drawings.”
+ – Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 150w.
“E. Nesbit has put into a book for children some of that cleverness and charm which characterize his grown up stories.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 735. N. 10, ’06. 130w.
“The incidents are worked out in a decidedly original way, and the story is strong enough to hold the attention of older readers as well as of young people”.
+ Outlook. 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 170w.
“It seems to us a pity that she has introduced into her latest story so very tragic and unpleasant a subject as imprisonment, whether wrongful or otherwise; to say nothing of implanting a premature distrust of British justice in the youthful reader’s mind.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: sup. 10. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“We can thoroughly recommend ‘The railway children’ as an excellent story.”
+ Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland). [Rainbow and the rose.] *$1.50. Longmans.
This volume of poems shows the author to be “Skilled in her craft.... We like her best in her village monologues, which are full of insight and humour and sound philosophy. But when she pleases she can write also graceful songs.” (Spec.)
“Full of clever things in the conventional condescending mood which ought not to succeed, but unquestionably does. For the rest, E. Nesbit is not a poet, not a minor poet, not even an exquisite maker of verse; but all that an able woman who is not these can do by means of verse, she can do.”
+ – Acad. 69: 902. S. 2, ’05. 170w.
“Many of the occasional pieces here tremble on the verge of success, and it seems as if a little more trouble and thought would have made them excellent.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 108. Jl. 22. 150w.
“Her work always pleases. It reaches about the level of Jean Ingelow’s thought and sentiment, but never quite achieves the distinction of Christina Rossetti.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 39: 273. N. 1, ’05. 140w.
“Has the same qualities that has given her other collections rather exceptional circulation. Mrs. Bland’s poetic sentiment is appealing rather than poignant with the true poetic poignancy; though she has no gift of verbal magic, she has verbal adequacy, and her verse is always readable.”
+ Nation. 81: 303. O. 12, ’05. 220w.
“The ‘Rainbow and the rose’ ... is neither decadent nor revolutionary, but fresh and individual in a simple way that makes agreeable reading of her more or less subjective verse.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 678. O. 14, ’05. 90w.
“Shows much dexterity in versification, and a wider range than is usual in modern lyrics.”
+ Spec. 95: 761. N. 11, ’05. 160w.
Bliss, Frederick Jones. Development of Palestine exploration. **$1.50. Scribner.
This book which presents in amplified form the lectures delivered before the Union theological seminary in 1903 “treats of the progress made in the art of identifying sites, of the shifting point of view of travellers of different times, of Edward Robinson, Renan and his contemporaries, and of the Palestine Exploration fund and the exploration of the future.” (Am. Hist. R.)
Am. Hist. R. 11: 728. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“The work, as a whole, is written in an admirable spirit. Justice is done to the labors of each writer mentioned, though Dr. Bliss does not hesitate to mete out fair criticism to each when it seems necessary. The book contains an occasional misprint.” George A. Barton.
+ + – Am. J. Theol. 10: 581. Jl. ’06. 580w.
“His tone is scholarly and his criticism remarkably just and well balanced. In a future edition Dr. Bliss might correct some misprints.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 790. Je. 30. 1340w. + Bib. World. 27: 399. My. ’06. 90w.
“An ambitious work covering in small compass a large tract of history.”
+ Dial. 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The book is full of important information, not only for the Bible student, but also for the modern traveller, who incidentally receives some good advice.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1161. My. 17, ’06. 260w. Ind. 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 40w. Lit. D. 32: 574. Ap. 14, ’06. 1100w.
“His work is neither a complete bibliography, with such notes as will enable a student to select what he wants for study, nor, on the other hand, is it a narrative of exploration. It falls midway between.”
+ – Nation. 83: 63. Jl. 19, ’06. 1500w. Outlook. 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 140w. R. of Rs. 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 40w. + + Spec. 96: 834. My. 26, ’06. 1740w.
Blomfield, Reginald. Studies in architecture. *$3.25. Macmillan.
Mr. Blomfield who is a “practising architect of distinction and enthusiasm sends a side-glance at Byzantium and Lombardy, but is chiefly occupied with the architecture (and architects) of the French and Italian renaissance.... Mr. Blomfield has not fallen into the faults he denounces: what he writes is full of interest because of his standpoint (and standing) as an architect, his personal knowledge of the buildings of which he writes, and his researches into their history. Above all, he has great enthusiasm for his art, a passion which archæology (while admitting others) tends, it would seem, to exclude.” (Spec.)
“A book as interesting as it is sound.”
+ + Acad. 70: 523. Je. 2, ’06. 620w.
“The volume is a real contribution to architectural criticism.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 220. Ag. 25. 1100w. + Int. Studio. 30: 90. N. ’06. 100w.
“Can be heartily recommended to layman and architect alike. Its literary flavour is delicate; its architectural criticisms are sound, to the point, and keen.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w. + + Nation. 82: 307. Ap. 12, ’06. 840w. + + Spec. 96: 151. Ja. 27, ’06. 160w.
Blundell, Mary E. Sweetman (Mrs. Francis Blundell). Simple annals. †$1.50. Longmans.
Natural simple stories of humble village life. “Mrs. Blundell says in her Foreword that a golden thread runs through the homespun of even the most commonplace life. In each of these stories she has followed the golden thread. The village girls are innocent and charming, the men are chivalrous—their purpose is invariably marriage, and courtships end, as they should, with wedding-bells.” (Acad.)
“Our only quarrel is with her claim in the Foreword to call these charming fables ‘studies.’ For that, they are surely too slight and too determinedly optimistic.”
+ – Acad. 70: 405. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.
“None of them reaches the high level which the best of ‘Dorset dear’ attained.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 667. Je. 2. 160w.
“It is as charming a book of the kind as we have come across in many a long day.”
+ + Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 120w.
“The book is full of delicately handled studies of the lights and shadows that fall across the existence of the modern workaday world.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w. + Outlook. 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 70w. + Sat. R. 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 120w.
“A collection of short stories, which are even better from a point of view of comprehensive description than her novels.”
+ Spec. 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
Blundell, Mary E. (Sweetman) (Mrs. Francis Blundell; M. E. Francis, pseuds.). Wild wheat: a Dorset romance. †$1.50. Longmans.
Another tale of the West country, which “carries its readers’ thoughts far afield on to the blue hills and into the wild woods.” (Spec.) “It has more of passion and sorrow in it than most of her romances, but is all the stronger for this, while there is enough of the humorous and cheerful to balance the whole. The love story is sweet and wholesome.” (Outlook.)
“‘Wild wheat’ is an admirable story and Peter’s character is finely handled, but in general interest it does not reach the level of some other Dorset tales.”
+ Acad. 69: 1130. O. 28, ’05. 580w.
“This is a very readable story of country life, though it is not equal to ‘The manor farm.’ The plot is a little thin.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 190w.
“A correct, pretty, unpretentious tale that will please those who love the primroses of literature.”
+ Cath. World. 82: 708. F. ’06. 130w.
“Inconsequent as the story is, it is readable, and perhaps we have found it the more provoking because indications are not wanting of the author’s capability of really good work.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 380w. + Outlook. 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 70w. + Spec. 95: 1090. D. 23, ’05. 200w.
Boas, Henrietta O’Brien (Owen) (Mrs. Frederick Samuel). With Milton and the Cavaliers. **$1.50. Pott.
“This book is a collection of biographical sketches relating to the chief personages in England at the time of the civil war. The only connection that binds them together is the common period of which they treat and the historical thread that runs through them. The political, military, religious, literary, and social figures of the time are all illustrated in these essays, which taken together, thus present in a way a sort of picture of the moving forces of the period.”—N. Y. Times.
“Is not an instructive or a well-written book.”
– Dial. 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 390w.
“She has written soundly and soberly and from abundance of information. She has not made her work abstruse, and it is a clear and consistent account of a momentous period in English history.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 679. O. 14, ’05. 510w.
Boggs, Sara E. Sandpeep. †$1.50. Little.
Keren Happuch Brenson, better known as Sandpeep, a child of the waves as well as the shore who “fished and lobstered for a living” and listened in ecstasy to the music of her fiddle string across the pane of her cobwebby loft, is a heroine “rustic from her finger tips to her innermost cerebral atom.” Her development from the moment she became young Geoffrey Warrington’s governess to the day that established her in Munich for musical study is characterized by fearless loyalty and keen devotion to purpose. With a “Jane Eyre heroine and a virtuous Rochester” the story also records the mercenary intrigue of a woman’s substitution, of herself and child for her departed twin sister and baby, out of which deception grows the plot.
Ind. 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 30w. N. Y. Times. 11: 273. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.
“Parts of it are really exciting.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 303. My. 12, ’06. 460w.
Boissier, Gaston. Tacitus and other Roman studies tr. by W. G. Hutchison. †$1.75. Putnam.
“This volume contains four essays: the first, occupying more than half the whole work, deals with Tacitus as an historian, the others with subjects connected with the same period carry her through some trying experiences and contain much instruction and not a little entertainment. The Roman ‘Schools of declamation’ are described with admirable point and refreshing humour.... The essay on ‘The Roman journal’ helps us to realize how a worldwide empire managed to survive without newspapers. The discussion of the poet Martial is a specimen of ... lively and illuminating literary criticism.”—Sat. R.
“The young student of the Imperial age ... can get to closer grips with the facts, even if he cannot deal with them so incisively and so elegantly as M. Boissier.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 251. Jl. 13, ’06. 470w.
“The translation is correct in the main, and reads fairly smoothly. We wish that the book might be read and pondered by lovers of Tacitus, writers of history, and any other scholars who are planning learned works.”
+ Nation. 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 670w.
“M. Boissier’s sympathetic essay will please all those who believe in the educational value of the ancient historians and who admire the greatest of them.” Robert L. Schuyler.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 511. Ag. 18, ’06. 1750w. + Outlook. 84: 288. S. 29, ’06. 170w.
“If consequently we advise all those students who can do so to read M. Boissier in the original, no offence is intended Mr. Hutchison, whose translation is readable and accurate, and will lead many to work at the subject who would be deterred by a French book.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 115. Jl. 28, ’06. 1530w. + Spec. 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1480w.
Bolton, Sarah Knowles (Mrs. Charles E. Bolton). Famous American authors. $2. Crowell.
“Entertaining, chatty, sympathetic essays.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 30w.
Bombaugh, Charles Carroll. Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature. **$3. Lippincott.
Nation. 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.
“The collection is large and varied, and the ‘chestnut’ is not more frequent than one would expect.”
+ Spec. 95: 1131. D. 30, ’05. 170w.
Bond, Francis. Gothic architecture in England. *$12. Scribner.
“Mr. Bond’s work is extraordinarily full, extraordinarily minute, and enriched by a wealth of illustrations, as well as most elaborate indexes, a very full bibliography, a chronological table, and many sheets of comparative mouldings drawn ... to a uniform scale.... Part 1 is introductory, and covers the whole origin and development of mediæval church architecture in this country; while Part 2 is an analysis in which the whole ground is gone over in detail, piece by piece.”—Spec.
“This is in every sense of the word, a great book. It is a book that at once steps to the front as authoritative, and it will be long before it is superseded.”
+ + + Ath. 1905, 2: 871. D. 23. 2890w.
“Weighty and eminently trustworthy volume. His language is never obscure, and the veriest novice can follow with ease the arguments that are the result of many years’ study and of the critical insight that is so rare a gift.”
+ + + Int. Studio. 26: 86. Mr. ’06. 300w.
“As a mine of erudition, of detailed analysis and information, and of criticism on English mediaeval church architecture, the book is worthy of all praise. It is no rival in persuasive literary style to the charm of Viollet-le-duc’s delightful mastery of lucid French.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 159. My. 4, ’06. 880w.
“This is a scholar’s book.”
+ + + Nation. 83: 126. Ag. 9, ’06. 990w.
“Altogether a volume very well worth having, worth inspecting, worth reading, even, up to a certain point, worth studying.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 301. My. 12, ’06. 2250w.
“Must stand for many years to come as the book of reference on the subject of ecclesiastical Gothic in England for all architects and archæologists.”
+ + + Spec. 96: 150. Ja. 27, ’06. 470w.
Bond, Octavia Zollicoffer. Old tales retold; or, Perils and adventures of Tennessee pioneers. *$1. Pub. House of M. E. Ch. So.
The annals of Ramsay and Putnam and later historical chronicles have been followed “with faithful and painstaking exactness” by the writer in these tales of pioneer life. “They will give the rising generation of Tennesseans more admiration and respect for the hardy and intelligent pioneers who invaded the wilderness and built up our western civilization.”
Bonner, Geraldine (Hard Pan, pseud.). Castlecourt diamond case. †$1. Funk.
Lady Castlecourt’s diamonds are stolen, and thereby hangs a detective tale in the relating of which six people participate. First the lady’s maid tells her story, then follow statements by the real thief, by Cassius P. Kennedy and his wife into whose innocent possession the stolen gems are thrust when the scared thief is forced to act quickly, by the private detective, and, lastly, by Lady Castlecourt herself who furnishes the key to a surprising situation.
“A detective novelette of some uncommon qualities.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 80w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ’05. 110w.
“An amusing detective story.”
+ Outlook. 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 50w.
Booth, Eva Gore-. Three resurrections, and The triumph of Maeve. **$2. Longmans.
Mythological and metaphysical parables based upon the themes of Lazarus, Alcestis and Psyche form the first part of this volume of poetry, while the second is a romance in dramatic form which is “filled with the haunting spirit of Celtic mysticism.” (Dial.)
“Miss Gore-Booth is a very thoughtful poet, who avoids affected diction, and combines depth with simplicity.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 460w.
“The bathos which is so frequently the result of a forced alliance between poetry and science, is a feature of ‘The three resurrections, and The triumph of Maeve.’”
– Sat. R. 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 110w.
“There is an unreality in the imagery and a monotony in the epithets which, in spite of all her art, affect the reader with weariness.”
– Spec. 96: 262. F. 17, ’06. 110w.
Borrow, George. [Romano lavo-lil]; word book of the Romany or English-Gypsy language. $2. Putnam.
“Altogether it is an entertaining book, full of the spirit that makes ‘Lavengro’ so attractive, and with a bit more of a serious definite character.”
+ Dial. 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 200w.
Bose, Jagadis Chunder. Plant response as a means of physiological investigation. *$7. Longmans.
“A substantial octavo volume of more than 700 pages, devoted to the elucidation and illustration of a single thesis. Although this thesis is here given in many forms and stated in connection with numerous associated topics, it is essentially simple in its outline. It is this: the plant is a machine; its movements in response to external stimuli, though apparently various, are ultimately reducible to a fundamental unity of reaction.... By means of ingenious delicate instruments which exaggerate the slightest motion at any spot, he has long been able to demonstrate that even the oldest tissues of a plant, so long as they are living are capable of responding in a marked degree to certain external stimuli. A special feature distinguishing this treatise from many of its class is the presentation, at the end of every chapter, of a summary which gives in a few short sentences the substance of the chapter.”—Nation.
“One which no plant physiologist, however much he may combat details in it, can afford to ignore.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 768. Je. 23. 2530w.
“The account itself is too detailed and too diffuse to be read straight through by any but a lover of plants or a student of the problem. It is however, simple and straightforward.” E. T. Brewster.
+ – Atlan. 98: 419. S. ’06. 560w.
“The book is not without errors, both of reasoning and fact, into which the author has fallen by reason of some unfamiliarity with his materials. But whatever the future may show as to the accuracy of details, this book may be acclaimed as a path-breaking one; for it shows a method of attack and a refinement of instrumentation for the study of the phenomena or irritable reactions in plants that are sure to be of the utmost service.” C. R. B.
+ – Bot. Gaz. 42: 148. Ag. ’06. 1170w.
“The treatise is stimulating and is likely to be fruitful in controversy.”
+ Nation. 83: 41. Jl. 12, ’06. 1120w.
Boswell, James. [Life of Samuel Johnson]; ed. with an introd. by Mobray Morris. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
The introduction sketches briefly the difficulties and perils which surrounded Boswell in the preparation of his lasting work, and concludes with “A great subject and a great picture! Nor can portrait and painter ever be dissociated. As long as the huge bulk of Johnson rolls down the stream of Time, so long will the queer little figure of his biographer be saluted with no unkindly laughter.”
Boswell, James. [Life of Johnson.] $1. Frowde.
A reprint of the third edition of this standard biography. It is similar in make-up to the handy classic volumes.
Critic. 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 20w. + + Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ’05. 80w. + + Educ. R. 30: 426. N. ’05. 80w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 675. O. 14, ’05. 90w.
Boulton, William B. Sir Joshua Reynolds. **$3. Dutton.
“If less vigorous in its ideas than Armstrong’s work, has the merit of telling the story of the painter’s life with much entertaining detail.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ Atlan. 97: 274. F. ’06. 150w.
“While the work of Leslie and Taylor must remain the best source for an original study of Reynolds, this volume is easily the best general survey that we know.” Charles Henry Hart.
+ + Dial. 40: 226. Ap. 1, ’06. 450w.
“He has something of Boswell’s gift. He knows what facts are worth telling and what are not. His style is unpretending, but not disagreeable.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 73. Mr. 2, ’06. 470w. + – Nation. 81: 509. D. 21, ’05. 150w.
Bourne, Henry Eldridge. History of mediaeval and modern Europe. $1.50. Longmans.
“In the volume under review, Professor Bourne aims to give an account of European history which shall accent the features of the development common to European peoples as a whole, and subordinate the details of the different countries. He has met with reasonable success in this aim as well as in the effort to adapt the narrative to the needs of secondary school students; for it is this audience rather than that of a college that the author appears to have had in mind.”—Yale R.
Reviewed by Earl Wilbur Dow.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 718. Ap. ’06. 890w.
“A conveniently arranged and well illustrated text-book for school.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 234. Ja. ’06. 30w. + Bookm. 23: 104. Mr. ’06. 260w. + Ind. 62: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“The geographical relationships have been carefully noted, and strict attention has been paid to chronology, the various events of history in several countries being arranged in respect to time, so that the pupil will be able to carry the general situation pretty clearly in mind, while studying some special detail.” Francis W. Shepardson.
+ School. R. 14: 68. Ja. ’06. 180w.
“The style on the whole is excellent, simple, remarkably free from technical terms, and abounding in effective illustrations.” Curtis Howe Walker.
+ + Yale R. 14: 435. F. ’06. 390w.
Bousset, Wilhelm. Jesus; tr. by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; ed. by W. D. Morrison. *$1.25. Putnam.
A book which “is a study of the mind of Jesus in its relation to the Jewish circle of His time, with its ideas and ideals, and also to the larger world of humanity.” (Ath.) “Bousset rejects the miraculous from the Gospel story and regards it as a later accretion. The only wonderful works of Jesus which he considers genuine are His miracles of healing. ‘His healing activity lies entirely within the bounds of what is psychologically conceivable.’” (Hibbert. J.)
“Translated into excellent English.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 700w. + – Hibbert J. 4: 934. Jl. ’06. 680w.
“Tho brief in compass and designed as a popular hand-book, could not be omitted from any fair list of recent scientific studies in the records of the past.”
+ Ind. 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“The character and teaching of the Saviour are treated by Professor Bousset with splendid sympathy, though he occasionally adopts a tone of patronage; and he frankly rejects some of His moral teaching as exaggerated and impracticable. But in spite of this, we welcome the book as being a real step back from mere criticism towards a deeper religious appreciation of our Lord and His gospel.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.
Bovey, Henry Taylor. Theory of structures and strength of materials. *$7.50. Wiley.
“The book, as its title indicates, is an attempt to cover, in one volume subjects which are generally and in the opinion of the reviewer, better, separated. It apparently aims to be a treatise on mechanics, the strength of materials, friction, framed structures, masonry, and, to some extent on machinery. The subjects of toothed gearing, dynamometers, belts and ropes appear, although they are usually included in works on structures.”—Engin. N.
“The book contains a very large amount of information, and will be useful as a book of reference for those familiar with the subject, but it is very poorly arranged and there is a lack of emphasis on fundamental principles.” George F. Swain.
+ + – Engin. N. 55: 425. Ap. 12, ’06. 1380w.
“We have no hesitation in saying that Prof. Bovey in thus practically rewriting his book has considerably improved its value, both to the engineering student and to the civil engineer, engaged in the design of all classes of structures in steel and iron.” T. H. B.
+ + Nature. 74: 243. Jl. ’06. 640w.
Bowen, Marjorie. [Viper of Milan.] $1.50. McClure.
“The viper of Milan,” written by a youthful novelist of sixteen, outlines against a mediaeval background the black intrigues of Gian Galeazzo Visconti. The plot centers about Visconti’s destruction of Verona, his abduction of the Duke of Verona’s wife and the efforts of the Duke to rescue her, necessitating a round of treacherous adventure.
“While making no special pretensions to historical accuracy, it attains, from the standpoint of romance, an unusually high level. We notice with regret the numerous grammatical slips which disfigure an otherwise excellent style.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 298. S. 15. 280w.
“The book represents an infinitesimal achievement, and it would not be serving Miss Bowen to pretend that we find special promise in it.”
– Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 240w.
“Della Scala and Visconti stand out most vividly in one’s memory of the characters, but there are many others drawn with admirable delicacy and skill. She has certainly triumphed along unconventional lines, for love is not the absorbing theme in ‘The viper of Milan,’ and the ending is most unhappy.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 780w.
“For so young a writer, Miss Bowen shows a remarkable sense of style, which, taken in conjunction with her energy and imaginative power, make her a welcome recruit to the ranks of adventurous romancers.”
+ Spec. 97: 578. O. 20, ’06. 1200w.
Bowne, Borden Parker. Immanence of God. **$1. Houghton.
The author says that “The undivineness of the natural and unnaturalness of the divine is the great heresy of popular thought respecting religion.” He would offset the heresy with the statement “God is the omnipresent ground of all finite existence and activity.” “Two ... characteristics are very apparent in this little book.... The first is his ability to see clearly the reality so often hidden behind a voluminous debate about words; the second is his literary knack in so expressing the truth that the non-scholastic reader can understand it.” (Outlook.)
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ Atlan. 97: 417. Mr. ’06. 310w.
“His volume is a very sane and a very readable book, at once profound in thought and intelligible in expression.”
+ Outlook. 81: 576. N. 4, ’05. 230w.
Boxall, George E. Anglo-Saxon; a study in evolution. $1.25. Wessels.
The aim of this volume is “to bring all the English-speaking peoples together by enabling them to realize their own characteristics.” And to this end the author “has covered the ground that the Anglo-Saxon occupies in anthropology, history, economics, art, theology, and everything else.... The privileged classes of England are a Latin survival, and so is the ‘boss’ of American politics. Nevertheless, Americans, Australians, and other Anglo-Saxons are far ahead of Great Britain in their progress towards true Anglo-Saxonism; but a revulsion is coming even there.” (N. Y. Times.)
“He goes on for page after page proclaiming statements, sometimes of the most far-reaching importance positive and negative, and sometimes completely reversing conclusions of the students of those subjects, without a rag of evidence except the statement of his own general impression.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 405. Je. 23, ’06. 670w.
“His observations are comprehensive and interesting, but rather cursory and superficial. In philosophizing upon them he is plainly amateurish.”
– + Outlook. 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 160w.
Boyce, Neith, pseud. (Mrs. Hutchins Hapgood). Eternal spring: a novel. †$1.50. Fox.
A drama full of youth and love is enacted by a group of Americans on an Italian stage. A young American of thirty whose struggle for a competence in the Chicago stock-market had worn him down to “the absolute essentials of physical being” goes to Italy to marry the woman he had secretly loved—eight years his senior and now a widow. While pursuing the course of a luke-warm wooing he falls in love with her cousin, a gifted girl made melancholy by a wrongly fostered idea of hereditary insanity. The courage of the woman who relinquishes her claim on him is only surpassed by his energy in dispelling the illusion of insanity that holds the woman he loves.
“‘The eternal spring,’ forms a curious and not altogether satisfactory antithesis to ‘The forerunner,’ insomuch as its plot is a much more conspicuous feature than its human nature. It is not so fine a piece of art as the author’s earlier novel, not so fine even as her short stories.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 190. Ap. ’06. 800w.
“Sentimentality runs riot in this story of young love in Italy.”
– Critic. 48: 474. My. ’06. 70w.
“The story is told with freshness and charm, in parts almost with distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 260w.
“Although we have found its leading characters not a little exasperating, ‘The eternal spring’ is a model of unusual originality and interest.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 94. F. 17, ’06. 610w.
“This story is not bad reading.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
“The absence of plot and incident seems to indicate that it was intended to be a psychological novel; but the absence of any real psychological analysis leaves it doubtful just where to place it.”
– Outlook. 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 50w. + R. of Rs. 33: 758. Je. ’06. 60w.
Boyd, James E. Differential equations. 60c. James E. Boyd, Columbus, O.
“The merit of the book consists in a large number of mechanical and electrical problems that are given. These ought to do much to stimulate the interests of the students for whom the author writes.” William Benjamin Fite.
+ + – Phys. R. 22: 62. Ja. ’06. 140w.
Boyd, Mary Stuart. Misses Make-Believe. †$1.50. Holt.
The Misses Make-Believe occupy a dilapidated London house, drive a victoria, jobbed for the London season on the most moderate terms, give “ghastly” receptions, the eve of which function finds them in the kitchen making half a dozen packets of table jelly and a bag of flour and a dozen shop eggs into supper for fifty. The guardian of these ambitious sisters at length persuades them to leave their stifling atmosphere and take up their abode in the country. The story really begins at this point, for when Belle and Eileen learn to live natural lives, their most coveted desires are within reach,—happiness, friends, and even husbands.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
“The book is not remarkable, nor is it, in style, to be called common-place.”
+ Outlook. 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 60w.
Boyesen, Bayard. Marsh: a poem. $1. Badger, R: G.
– Critic. 49: 282. S. ’06. 70w.
“Is a piece of rather shadowy symbolism, which has, withal, a continuity of poetic atmosphere that is distinctly of promise.”
+ – Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 20w.
“It contains some fine lines, but the average reader is too intent upon economizing his gray cortex to use it in deciphering allegories.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 80w.
“Is poetic both in feeling and expression, moving swiftly and easily in its dramatic form, but the symbolism is too pervasive and rather obscure and the setting is cumbersome for the matter.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 60w.
Bradford, Amory H. Inward light. **$1.20. Crowell.
“Altho these papers were written before the publication of Sabatier’s ‘Religions of authority and the religion of the spirit,’ they may be regarded as the doctrine and message of that remarkable book adapted to the religious situation in America.”
+ Ind. 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 430w.
Bradford, Gamaliel, jr. Between two masters. †$1.50. Houghton.
“A young man who suspects taint on money won in State street but is uncertain as to how it may be removed or avoided is the central figure of the tale. In addition there are three young ladies, one standing for ease of living and material comfort, one for charm and vivacity of manner, and the third for social service. In the end his feet stray into the paths of the social settlement.”—Pub. Opin.
Ind. 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 210w. + Nation. 82: 433. My. 24, ’06. 310w.
“An entertaining sentimental novel.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 380w.
“The social philosophy with which the book abounds is rather vague and ill-defined but the general idea has promise.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 573. My. 5, ’06. 90w.
Bradley, A. C. [Shakespearian tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.] $3.25. Macmillan.
“We are impelled to state our belief that we have here a criticism which, in its combination of profundity and brilliance, of subtlety and balance, of eloquence of expression and exactness of thought, surpasses any comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare since the great critics of the romantic revival.” William Allen Neilson.
+ + + Atlan. 97: 703. My. ’06. 370w.
Bradley, Arthur Granville. Captain John Smith; with a map of the Powhattan district of Virginia. 75c. Macmillan.
Relying chiefly upon Captain Smith’s personal narrative, the biographer sketches Smith’s early career in the high seas, his coming to America, his adventures here among the savages and his explorations, his return to the Old world and his quiet life there, and the end of his busy life.
“Admirable little book.”
+ Acad. 70: 70. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.
“The volume is to be commended.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 761. D. 2. 60w.
“With all the author’s credulity, however, we have in this work one of the best accounts of Smith’s life that has been written.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 399. Ag. 16, ’06. 340w.
“The whole story is agreeably told, and the book in every way pleasant to read.”
+ Nation. 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.
“Considering the range of the hero’s career and the advantages the subject affords, the book is astonishingly tame—but one may count it as a fairly truthful picture of the man as candid historians have come to see him.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 890w.
“Is undeniably interesting, but is extremely uncritical.”
+ – Outlook. 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 250w.
“Forms one of the best of the ‘Men of action’ series.”
+ Sat. R. 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 20w.
“Mr. Bradley tells the tale in a pleasantly ironic style, where enthusiasm for the subject is mingled with a sense of his amazing and whimsical fortunes.”
+ Spec. 96: 97. Ja. 20, ’06. 1540w.
Bradley, Arthur Granville. In the march and borderland of Wales. **$3. Houghton.
In this volume “Wales and its people and the eastern counties of England are happily described.... The book treats not only of the Marches of Wales, but of the English counties bordering on the principality.... Wherever Mr. Bradley wandered, he made notes and studied local history—not merely the history that one finds in books, but the history that is handed down by word of mouth.... Odds and ends ... that make this story vastly interesting to read.... Mr. Bradley was accompanied by a sympathetic artist, Mr. W. M. Meredith, whose pictures are pronounced excellent and accurate by the author.... A good index completes the volume.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + Critic. 48: 477. My. ’06. 70w. + Dial. 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 320w.
“Here is a long book, disfigured by blunders so numerous that they arrest the attention abruptly and make the act of reading far less agreeable than it ought to be.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 64. F. 23, ’06. 1260w.
“He knows how to write and what to write.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 95. F. 17, ’06. 970w.
“For the average American reader the treatment is sometimes over-minute and leisurely.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.
“Is a guide-book, a history, an atlas, and an appreciation of Wales, all in one.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 100w.
“The book is, we think, decidedly superior to the author’s two volumes of ‘Highways and byways’ and quite on a level with ‘Owen Glyndwr.’ Such slips notwithstanding, this itinerary is a brilliant piece of work for which all dwellers and tourists on the March should be duly grateful to the author.”
+ + – Sat. R. 102: 49. Jl. 14, ’06. 1340w.
“Every page has some new and various interest. And the pleasantest part of the whole thing, perhaps, is the waiter’s own fresh, good-humored, kindly, enthusiastic spirit.”
+ Spec. 96: 755. My. 12, ’06. 2100w.
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. My lady’s slipper. **$1.50. Dodd.
“Another charming love story.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 80w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Patriots. †$1.50. Dodd.
“General Lee is the noble figure put upon a fitting pedestal in this romance of our Civil war. A tangled love affair straightens itself out by the simple device of mismatched lovers seeing their error and turning to their soul mates before it is too late.”—Outlook.
“The writer has, moreover, a pretty knack of working up his historical argument, and he has really read widely and wisely in American annals.” W. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 270w.
“His last novel is, by all odds, the best he has ever written, but that is not saying enough to recommend it.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ – Ind. 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 350w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 296. My. 5, ’06. 270w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w. + Outlook. 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. True Andrew Jackson. *$2. Lippincott.
The “True biographies” series aims at no formal biography in chronological order. In keeping with this purpose the author says, “here is an attempt to make a picture in words of a man; to exhibit personality; to show that personality in touch with its human environment; to declare what manner of man was he whose name is on the title page. Not to chronicle events, therefore, but to describe a being; not to write a history of the time, but to give an impression of a period associated with its dominant personal force, has been my task.” Thus the work is an intimate personal sketch of the man, based upon years of study.
“Mr. Brady seems to have placed a rather uncritical dependence upon Parton and the two recent biographies of Colyar and Buell, and to have wholly ignored the collection of Jackson papers in the Library of Congress, a collection that is unique for the vivid insight it gives into Jackson’s character.”
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 975. Jl. ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Brady’s picture is neither true nor plausible.”
– Critic. 48: 569. Je. ’06. 270w.
“There is too much quotation, and the result is too much like a scrap-book. Mr. Brady has made a closer study of Jackson than most of the recent authorities quoted by him, and his judgment, not theirs, should have been given.”
+ – Dial. 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 520w.
“The historical background is weak, and the forces which shaped the hero’s life are but half understood.”
– Ind. 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 330w. Nation. 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 190w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 140w.
“He is uncritical and undiscriminating in the use of material. The book is, of course, not faultless in accuracy of detail. He is always fair.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 230. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.
“His work is further open to objection as ill-proportioned, abounding in extreme statements, and uncritical—defects which quite outweigh the considerations that it is vivacious, rich in anecdote, and thoroughly readable.”
– + Outlook. 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 220w.
“Little new knowledge is added to the work of previous biographers.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.
“Most readers will be indebted to him for not a few facts that they could not have gleaned from a reading of Parton or any other of Jackson’s numerous biographers.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 120w.
“With laudable impartiality, but without much claim to clearness of arrangement or distinction of style, Mr. Brady has brought together a mass of facts which fairly justify the title of his book.”
+ – Spec. 96: 871. Je. 2, ’06. 1870w.
Brady, Cyrus Townsend, and Peple, Edward Henry. Richard the brazen. $1.50. Moffat.
In this amusing comedy the vigorous hero, in the guise of a cowboy, rescues the heroine, who is the daughter of his father’s ex-partner in business, from a cattle stampede. Then he follows her to New York and, owing to a lucky accident, is enabled to masquerade as a young English earl and thus throw aside paternal prejudice and find time and opportunity to win the daughter. When all is explained the heroine does not regret her lost coronet but welcomes the discovery of her cowboy rescuer in the person of her audacious American lover.
“Clever and entertaining story.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 546. S. 8, ’06. 530w. N. Y. Times. 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“The tone of this novel will not commend it to those who appreciate work of the first order.”
– Outlook. 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 120w.
“A novel which makes good reading for a winter’s night, or, for that matter, for any time.”
+ World To-Day. 11: 1222. N. ’06. 110w.
Brain, Belle Marvel. All about Japan; stories of the sunrise land told for little folks. **$1. Revell.
“A pleasantly written book.”
+ Ind. 59: 1480. D. 21, ’05. 30w.
“The book would have been much better if it had not been leveled down, and if it had been expurgated of most of its piety—not its religion.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 9. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.
Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt. [Concerning Belinda.] $1.50. Doubleday.
“Any one who has followed the diverting ‘Nancy’ through her various ‘misdemeanours’ and other sensations will not be disappointed in the new character Belinda.” G. W. A.
+ Bookm. 23: 108. Mr. ’06. 340w.
Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt. [In vanity fair: a tale of frocks and femininity.] *$1.50. Moffat.
“A bright, chatty, and quite superficial account of certain phases of Parisian life, such as many newspaper people could throw off, and not a few could do better.” (N. Y. Times.) “She calls her views snapshots of the inner courts of Vanity fair, and the representation must be viewed entirely apart from any moral or ideal sentiment. Frocks, dining, races, sport, hunting, fashionable Paris in its most extravagant follies, with Americans following hard after, make up the record.” (Outlook.)
+ Critic. 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 100w. Dial. 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 270w.
“The book, whether or not satisfactory as a whole, is entertaining.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 321. My. 19, ’06. 270w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“The book of this season that most strongly commends itself as a gift to a traveler, especially to a woman, is ‘In vanity fair.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 410. Je. 23, ’06. 80w.
“Manages to treat a frail and trivial subject with much skill.”
+ Outlook. 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 90w.
“A very entertaining, gossipy book about French women.”
+ World To-Day. 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 50w.
Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. [Main currents in nineteenth century literature.] 6v. v. 4 and 6. v. 4, *$3; v. 6, *$3.25. Macmillan.
Volume six deals with “Young Germany,” and covers the period lying between the Congress of Vienna and the great revolutionary years of the mid-century.
+ + Acad. 69: 1222. N. 25, ’05. 1800w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The present volume is one of the most interesting and admirable in the series. It gives the author abundant opportunity for the display of his extraordinary psychological gifts.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 104. Ja. 27. 630w. (Review of v. 6.) + + Bookm. 24: 363. D. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“It is difficult to keep within bounds our admiration for the energy, the insight, and the profound philosophical basis of this masterwork of criticism.”
+ + + Dial. 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 540w. (Review of v. 6.) + – Ind. 61: 822. O. 4, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 4 and 7.) + + Ind. 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)
“He wrote in the full tide of liberalism, and his opinions are manifestly colored by political affiliations, but he writes always with spirit. The translation in the present edition is idiomatic, and, so far as we have examined, accurate.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Miss Morison, who has translated the last three volumes of the series, is responsible for much of the interest of the book; her translation is easy and fluent, to a very large extent, throwing down the bars between a foreign writer and an English reader, and much of the book’s interest is due to her.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 63. F. 3, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 6.)
“As a whole, the study shows literary insight, breadth of view, and treatment vitalized by deep human sympathies.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. On reading: an essay. *75c. Duffield.
Dr. Brandes answers the three questions why, what, and how to read, incidentally giving good advice on the subject of owning a library.
Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. [Reminiscences of my childhood and youth.] **$2.50. Duffield.
The reader follows this autobiography in the spirit of its synthetic presentation. Especially interesting is the transitional period when the formative forces became apparent, when religious, philosophical, and social ideas were vaguely demonstrating a resolving principle. It is a thoroughly subjective sketch, and its introspective character appeals rather to the philosophical student than the casual reader.
“Perhaps the most notable characteristic of the book is the address with which the writer manages to convey the impression of his own personality and at the same time to suggest the influences of his early environment.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 580w.
“What the most famous critic has to tell us is of interest in view of his position and personality, and it is charmingly told.”
+ + Bookm. 24: 361. D. ’06. 1730w.
“The vigor and the vitality which characterize his treatment of other writers are equally characteristic of this account of his own career, and in part even to the most trivial happenings a high degree of interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 41: 323. N. 16, ’06. 2600w.
“A two-fold value may be attached to this work. It is a piece of self-revelation by a master of psychological analysis, and it is a picture of events and personages prominent on the page of European history in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, seen through the prism of a very rich temperament.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 290w.
“The translation of the book is, unfortunately, not very good. Not only is Brandes’s nervous, individual style entirely lost, but the translator shows lamentable ignorance of idiomatic English.”
+ – Nation. 83: 489. D. 6, ’06. 450w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“While there is little in the narrative that is of permanent value, it is an interesting exercise to assume the writer’s point of view, and look out of the windows he opens toward the world of social, artistic, and literary movement.”
+ Outlook. 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 200w. + R. of Rs. 34: 639. N. ’06. 60w.
Breal, Auguste. Velazquez, tr. by Mme. Simon Bussy. *75c; lea. *$1. Dutton.
“He has plenty of enthusiasm in his heart, but he writes with moderation, and his little book forms an almost ideal introduction to the study of Velasquez.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + Atlan. 97: 280. F. ’06. 130w.
Breasted, James Henry. Ancient records of Egypt: historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest, collected, edited and translated with commentary. 5v. ea. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
A five volume work which when completed by the last volume next fall will constitute a full and reliable source book of Egyptian history. The work is intended as a companion to the author’s “History of Egypt,” and in scope covers chronologically arranged inscriptions from the earliest records to the final loss of Egyptian independence by the Persian conquest.
“The general arrangement of the work seems excellent, and Dr. Breasted’s translations leave nothing to be desired.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The series is admirably planned and executed and promises to be of immense value to all workers in these lines.”
+ + Bib. World. 27: 320. Ap. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1.) + + Bib. World. 27: 399. My. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.) + + Bib. World. 28: 80. Jl. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)
“No student of ancient history can be satisfied without access to this important work.”
+ + Bib. World. 28: 224. S. ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 4.)
“When the promised index to these translated records has been issued, Professor Breasted may be cordially congratulated on having begun and ended a great task, by the successful accomplishment of which he has put the study of Egyptian history on an entirely new footing.” F. Ll. Griffith.
+ + + Bib. World. 28: 345. N. ’06. 1430w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Such source-books are invaluable to the student of Egyptian history.” Ira Maurice Price.
+ + + Dial. 41: 17. Jl. 1, ’06. 550w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The fullest as well as the most vivid and interesting that has ever been written.” F. Ll. Griffith.
+ + + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 545. Jl. ’06. 960w. (Review, of v. 1.)
“It is time that such a work as this by Professor Breasted were provided.”
+ + + Ind. 60: 1106. My. 10, ’06. 830w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) Ind. 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Professor Breasted has accomplished a very difficult task never before accomplished, and one which is greatly to the credit of himself and of the Chicago university.”
+ + + Ind. 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 4.) + + N. Y. Times. 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 650w. (Review of v. 1.) + + N. Y. Times. 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 3.) Outlook. 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1.) + + + Outlook. 84: 285. S. 29, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1–4.) + + Sat. R. 101: 792. Je. 23, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“The whole series of volumes is indispensable not only to the Egyptologist but also to the historian, and will be found interesting even by ‘the general reader.’”
+ + + Sat. R. 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 4) Spec. 96: 952. Je. 16, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) Spec. 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 3.) + + + Spec. 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 4.)
Breasted, James Henry. History of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest. **$5. Scribner.
“This book fills a great want. The writer seems to me to view Egypt too often not as a critic but as an over-enthusiastic lover and admirer, a fault rather general with the older school of Egyptologists. The treatment of the transliteration of Egyptian names, abounding in unwarranted innovations and inconsistencies, is hardly suited to a popular work.” W. Max Müller.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 866. Jl. ’06. 1230w.
“Pitfalls have been avoided by Dr. Breasted, and in the result, and subject to the caution we have indicated, his book is the best so far at the disposal of the general reader.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 473. Ap. 21. 1680w.
“The best single-volume history of Egypt yet published. The work is intended for the general public rather than the specialist.”
+ + + Bib. World. 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“Professor Breasted has shown remarkable skill in weaving together the scattered fragments of information that we possess covering the whole period of his treatment; and the result is a vigorous, popular, and highly interesting narrative account—even though sometimes severely condensed—of the political, religious, and social life of the ancient Egyptians.” Ira Maurice Price.
+ + – Dial. 41: 15. Jl. 1, ’06. 750w.
“He has, in a word, and without abating a jot of authority, invested the most arid as well as the most intensely human topics of Egyptology with a fresh interest. To us its most serious defect lies in the unduly high valuation of the influence of the Nile valley people on the earliest civilization of Southern Europe.”
+ + – Lit. D. 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 610w.
“His style ... is singularly vigorous and lucid. Professor Breasted never forgets that his book is a history and not an archaeological treatise, and this is one of his great merits.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 1630w.
“The student will look in vain for any other one work so well adapted as this volume is to give him his first broad ideas and impressions of the beginning of civilization and of the great general tendencies of social evolution which have been exemplified in the development of all peoples ancient and modern.” Franklin H. Giddings.
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 529. S. ’06. 790w. + R. of Rs. 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“Little seems to have escaped his notice, and the story is put together out of it in a pleasant and readable way.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 793. Je. 23, ’06. 870w. + + Spec. 96: 792. My. 19, ’06. 1410w.
Brennan, Rev. Martin S. What Catholics have done for science: with sketches of the great Catholic scientists. 3rd. ed. $1. Benziger.
A general refutation of the two wide-spread notions that when a man devotes himself to science, he must necessarily cease to be a Christian and that the Catholic church is hostile to scientific progress.
Brent, Rt. Rev. Charles Henry. Adventure for God; six lectures delivered in 1904. **$1.10. Scribner.
Bishop Brent of the Philippine islands appeals to the intellect, thru the imagination in his six lectures, The vision, The appeal, The response, The quest, The equipment, and The goal.
+ Outlook. 82: 392. F. 24, ’06. 860w.
“Bishop Brent outlines in vivid, effective form the impetus, character, and purpose or goal of the active Christian life. The style is vigorous and direct and the thought is practical and helpful.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 92. Ja. 20, ’06. 90w.
Bridges, Robert (Droch, pseud.). Demeter: a mask. *85c. Oxford.
“In ‘Demeter’, a masque written for and acted by the ladies of Somerville College, Oxford, the author tells the old tale of the rape of Persephone, of Demeter’s quest for her, and of her return as queen of Hades, to live in this world only during the flower-time. His variation upon the simplicity of the tale is his mystical account of Persephone’s experiences in the nether-world, where she learns the hidden darkness of evil.”—Spec.
“The verse throughout is extraordinarily interesting, and there is much to rank with the best of modern verse, both in its novelty and in its excellence.”
+ + Acad. 68: 607. Je. 10, ’05. 850w. + + – Ath. 1905, 2: 6. Jl. 1. 1440w.
“It is but fair to observe that correctness and decorum usually attend the march of Mr. Bridges’s metrical battalions.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ Critic. 47: 571. D. ’05. 240w.
“He had things that were worth saying and he has said them; but they are not the mighty things that Milton had it in him to say, nor has he the organ voice at the sound of which all other voices know that their part is silence.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 189. Je. 16, ’05. 1960w.
“The versification, where he is content to be normal, is easy and flowing, the diction graceful and worthy of the subject, but the beauty of the myth is too often overlaid with philosophisings which are not startlingly original.”
+ – Sat. R. 100: 57. Jl. 8, ’05. 990w.
“In the main the verse has that grave perfection of form which Mr. Bridges almost alone of the moderns can achieve.”
+ Spec. 95: 191. Ag. 5, ’05. 270w.
Bridgman, Raymond Landon. World organization. 50c. Ginn.
“The present volume is an important contribution to the literature of peace and progress. In it Mr. Bridgman discusses the subject of world organization in the clear and able manner of one who has thoroughly mastered his theme.” (Arena.) The chief subjects discussed are: The world constitution, The world legislature, The world judiciary, The world executive, World legislation already accomplished, World business now pending. Forces active for world unity, and World organization secures world peace.
“It is an important contribution to the literature that makes for a permanent upward-moving civilization.”
+ Arena. 34: 445. O. ’05. 580w. Outlook. 80: 936. Ag. 12, ’05. 130w.
Brierley, J. (“J. B.,” pseud.). Eternal religion. **$1.40. Whittaker.
Making use of the “heritage of the past centuries, with their vast endeavors after ultimate truth, and at the same time of a scientific method for assaying their results” the author first sets forth principles, necessary to an understanding of the theme as a whole, then deals with some of the leading positions of Christianity, and devotes the succeeding chapter to application of religion, as he expounds it, to some of the prominent present-day problems.
“In Mr. Brierley’s treatment of his subject, breadth and discrimination are equally apparent. For all religious teachers, and for any who are perplexed with religious problems, it would not be easy to find a more stimulating and helpful book.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 320w.
“We have read this book with much interest and with frequent agreement. On the other hand, we find much that is impossible to accept.”
+ – Spec. 95: 821. N. 18, ’05. 280w.
Briggs, Charles Augustus. Critical and exegetical commentary on the book of Psalms. 2v. v. I. **$3. Scribner.
“This volume includes the introduction to the entire Psalter and the Commentary on Pss. 1–50.... Especial attention is given in the commentary to the poetical form, each psalm being translated with the due attention to the parallelism and recognition of the strophic structure. The critical position of the author might be called conservative in these days when many interpreters are denying the existence of pre-exilic psalms in the Psalter.”—Bib. World.
“The introduction is full and thorough, packed with learning.”
+ + Bib. World. 28: 351. N. ’06. 80w.
“His work upon it is not likely to be excelled in learning, both massive and minute, by any volume of the ‘International series,’ to which it belongs.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 300w.
“Dr. Briggs’s introduction is a monument of industry and learning.”
+ + Spec. 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 460w. World To-Day. 11: 1220. N. ’06. 320w.
Brinkmeyer, Rev. Henry. Lover of souls: short conferences on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. *$1. Benziger.
Nineteen helpful conferences which treat from a Roman Catholic standpoint of: Devotions in the church, Love manifested in creation, The exceeding great reward, The memorial, The bread of life, The sacrifice, Reparation, The malice of sin, The satisfaction for sin, and other kindred subjects.
Brinton, Davis. [Trusia: a princess of Krovitch.] †$1.50. Jacobs.
Of the same old ingredients, an obscure corner of Europe, a revolution, a beautiful and throneless princess, and an adventurous American, the author has made a stirring and interesting tale. He carries his readers and his hero in a touring car from a New York club to Krovitch, an ancient kingdom on the borderland of Russia, where there is bloodshed and treachery, war and intrigue, in plenty. There the hero’s valet becomes a king, and the hero wins the love of a princess, Trusia, who after all is better fitted to be the wife of a wealthy New Yorker than mistress of a crumbling medieval castle.
“The proceedings are by turns stirring, comic, and pathetic. If there were less real gore and real killing it would read like unstaged extravaganza. Even as it is it seems widowed without light music.”
– Nation. 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 290w.
“There are plenty of exciting incidents, which begin with the first page and end with the last, and they are woven together with a fair amount of skill into a plot that is coherent and sufficiently reasonable.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 220w.
Brooke, Stopford Augustus. On ten plays of Shakespeare. *$2.25. Holt.
“To the reader who has thought much about Shakespeare and is not new to Shakespearian criticism the book is disappointing in its meagreness. The author, while not going beyond what has been said by his predecessors, writes almost as if he had had none.”
+ – Acad. 70: 57. Ja. 20, ’06. 1050w.
Reviewed by William Allen Neilson.
+ Atlan. 97: 702. My. ’06. 310w.
“It is marked throughout by thorough scholarship, keen critical acumen, and refined taste.”
+ + Critic. 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 100w.
“To make us see more in Shakespeare, that is the writer’s desire. There have been few books so single-minded as this.” Edward E. Hale, jr.
+ + Dial. 40: 148. Mr. 1, ’06. 1770w.
“His inferences are generally reasonable, and his statements of facts accurate. But it is not clear that any very definite addition has been made by the publication of this book to the common stock of knowledge.” R. W. Chambers.
+ Hibbert J. 4: 920. Jl. ’06. 2010w.
“They consist mainly of moral and esthetic commonplaces interrupted by occasional flashes of original insight.”
+ Ind. 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 290w. + + Nation. 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 630w.
“The remaining plays chosen by Mr. Brooke are treated with equal individuality and insight, and with a finish and charm of style which would render the volume eminently readable, even to a jaded student of Shakespeare.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 45. Ja. 27, ’06. 940w.
“Unhappily Mr. Brooke’s insight and sympathy appear to be in an inverse ratio to the importance of the subjects on which they are exercised.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 205. F. 17, ’06. 1860w.
“They are all the product of a fresh and imaginative mind, alive to all the subtle influences of poetry, and capable of conveying its impressions to others. Perhaps the best of all are those upon ‘As you like it’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet.’”
+ + Spec. 96: 185. F. 3, ’06. 1400w.
Brookfield, Charles, and Brookfield, Frances. Mrs. Brookfield and her circle. 2v. **$7. Scribner.
“The work of the editors is well done, and the book is sure to take its place among remembered annals of the Victorian period.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + Atlan. 98: 282. Ag. ’06. 380w.
“Are quite as interesting as any other Brookfield volumes that have been published; and this is paying them the highest compliment.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + + Critic. 48: 84. Ja. ’06. 1170w.
“There are fifteen portraits, all remarkably good; so good in fact as to give a value to the book in spite of the lack of judgment and good workmanship which characterize the editing.”
+ – Ind. 60: 1285. My. 31, ’06. 370w.
“It is really in these letters that the claim of the book to be here noticed lies, for the connecting paragraphs and the descriptions of the principal personages which come from the pens of the two compilers, are done in a somewhat loose and careless fashion, which shows itself even in the numerous misprints or misspellings of proper names we encounter.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 76. Ja. 25, ’06. 2140w.
“The letters speak for themselves and are so complete in their reflection of the times and the people they represent that the slender thread connecting them is hardly more than a placing in order.”
+ Outlook. 82: 517. Mr. 3, ’06. 2450w.
Brooks, Hildegard. Larky furnace and other adventures of Sue Betty. $1.25. Holt.
Sue Betty worried about things in the nighttime and as a result she had many surprising adventures. She followed the larky furnace that went out nights and discovered what a really giddy creature he was, she met a pirate in the lighthouse where she went to see her cousin do light housekeeping, she rode delightedly on a saddle-moose, she interviewed the editor of the powder magazine in behalf of her uncle’s rejected manuscript, and she did many other interesting things all of which are found in this volume.
Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 166. Mr. 17, ’06. 290w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
Brooks, William Keith. The oyster; a popular summary of a scientific study. *$1. Hopkins.
“The book is of great interest as a contribution to both natural and industrial history.”
+ + Engin. N. 55: 192. F. 15, ’06. 260w.
“This book is interestingly written and well illustrated.”
+ Ind. 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w. + + R. of Rs. 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 260w.
Broughton, Rhoda. Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.
+ – Acad. 69: 1335. D. 23. ’05. 420w.
Brown, Alice. County road. †$1.50. Houghton.
“The thirteen stories that make this volume are excellent reading. Most of them are set in the kitchens and dooryards of New England houses; nearly all are enveloped in the young green of spring, and every one deals with a human predicament.”—Nation.
“There is no abatement of cleverness and there is an increase of rational motive, which both go to make a heartily agreeable volume.”
+ + Nation. 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 240w.
“Those to whom the stories are new have a rare pleasure before them. Those who have lingered lovingly over the tales as they appeared in the magazines will rejoice in their possession in permanent form.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 560w.
“They pass through pleasant places, they are free from haste, and they are frequented by quaint, simple, original people.”
+ Outlook. 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
Brown, Alice. Court of love. †$1.25. Houghton.
The Court of love “where everybody has what he likes and likes what he has,” was naturally looked upon by the world as a lunatic asylum, but it was merely the whim of a girl who had not found happiness and who wished to make other people happy. Julia Leigh’s unrestrained hospitality involves her in strange complications not of her planning, but by her fantastic masque she succeeds in re-uniting her best friend to a forgetful husband, in restoring a lost child to its uncle, in giving a burglar his deserts, in providing a real vacation for a houseful of strangers, and finally in securing for herself her heart’s desire. The whole is a pretty farce-comedy.
“No outline of its plot—if there be such a thing about it—could convey the least sense of its bubbling humor and joyously riotous course.” W. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 130w.
“It has the piquancy of plot and an ease of expression that are refreshing.”
+ Ind. 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 240w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“The plot is merry and farcical, quite absurd in fact, but some of the characters are cleverly amusing. On the whole, however, the little play is not up to the author’s usual high standard.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 80w.
Brown, Alice. Paradise. †$l.50. Houghton.
“It is a story of strong human interest, tender and humorous, and in its peculiar way strangely attractive.”
+ Acad. 69: 1362. D. 30, ’05. 230w. + Ath. 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 150w.
“The larger relations of life, with which the book professes to deal, it handles, after all, rather half-heartedly; its real delight lies in the pages of humorous observation, its delineations of eccentric character. Miss Brown has done bigger and more enduring work.”
+ Critic. 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 180w.
Brown, Anna Robeson (Mrs. C. H. Burr, jr.). Wine-press. †$1.50. Appleton.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
Atlan. 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 70w.
Brown, Arthur Judson. [New forces in old China]: an unwelcome but inevitable awakening. **$1.50. Revell.
“The most obvious omission is that of the vital matter of education, but with the help of the index even this defect may in a measure be supplied.”
+ + – Am. J. Theol. 10: 189. Ja. ’06. 500w.
Brown, Charles Reynolds. Social message of the modern pulpit. **$1.25. Scribner.
The Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching delivered at Yale during 1905–6. “The burden of the lectures is that it is the chief duty of the clergy, at least in the present situation, to inculcate true principles of social action and become leaders in the work of social reconstruction.” (Nation.)
“His appeal is rarely to facts of personal observation or to what might be called the original documents of sociological controversy, but is commonly to writers whose entire fairness and inerrancy have yet to be proved.”
+ – Nation. 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 490w.
“Vitalized throughout by a strenuous moral tone, insisting on the supremacy of spiritual ends and values, these lectures are characterized also by the breadth of view and sanity of judgment which comes of long and friendly contact with the interests both of trade and unionists and capitalists in California.”
+ Outlook. 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 310w. R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 90w.
“The man who thinks that the message of Christianity is an academic discussion of theological matters would do well to read this volume. For every clergyman the reading of it is a duty.”
+ + World To-Day. 11: 1220. N. ’06. 170w.
Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes. In and around Venice. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Other books may tell us much of Venice; Mr. Brown gives us Venice from the Venetian point of view.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 230w.
“Justifies all expectations. He does not write simply of its picturesque aspects. He is learned in all the lore of the region, historical, geographical, practical and artistic.”
+ + Dial. 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 310w.
Brown, John A. Harvie-. Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe: Norway, 1871, Archangle, 1872, Petchora, 1875. il. 2v. *$20. Wessels.
These two volumes contain the journals which Mr. Harvie-Brown, “an accomplished ornithologist and enthusiastic faunist,” kept from day to day during the expeditions to Norway, Archangle and Petchora. “The real value and purpose of the book, however, lie in the observations of the author and his companions on bird and animal life,—observations that are minutely correct and scientific, and will be of interest to those deeply versed in bird and animal lore.” (Dial.)
“The book is rather one for a naturalist’s library than for general reading, yet there are many passages of character and travel which no reader could fail to appreciate.”
+ Acad. 69: 1134. O. 28, ’05. 510w. + Ath. 1906, 1: 235. F. 24. 1350w.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ – Dial. 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 300w.
“There are some instructive notes on the habits both of birds and men, for all of which one is grateful, wishing only that there had been more of this wheat and less of the journalistic chaff.”
+ – Nature. 73: 50. N. 16, ’05. 980w. + – Spec. 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ’05. 430w.
Brown, Marshall, ed. Humor of bulls and blunders. **$1.20. Small.
A book of fun primarily designed to amuse, and negatively to suggest the importance of clear expression and simplicity of style. There are educational, parliamentary, political, and typographical bulls and blunders, there are humorous arraignments of advertisements, epitaphs, and letters, and there is comedy in careless sentence structure, punctuation and wrong use of words.
“A merry book, a book full of mirth-provoking passages. He seems to have captured everything in his line.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 310w.
Brown, Vincent. Sacred cup. †$1.50. Putnam.
“The title refers to the sacrament of the Communion. The central characters are a gentle clergyman, a young man, and a young woman.... Before the story opens a man has seduced a village girl, who dies after giving birth to a child. The child is brought up in the clergyman’s house, a fact which scandalizes many people. Presently the vicar hits upon the identity of the child’s father, who becomes engaged to the Lady Bountiful of the district. There comes a day when the vicar feels obliged to refuse to administer the sacrament to this unconfessed sinner, and upon that action the whole book hinges.”—Ath.
“We have found the novel extremely interesting, for the plot is well worked out and the characters are clearly developed.”
+ Acad. 69: 1082. O. 14, ’05. 240w.
“The conclusion is ineffective, and, notwithstanding a certain cleverness, the novel cannot be called a success.”
– Ath. 1905, 2: 890. D. 30. 230w.
“This is altogether the best piece of fiction written by Mr. Brown.”
+ + Critic. 48: 474. My. ’06. 100w.
“It may be occasionally dull, but it is never cheap; while in conception it is tender, and even noble, and it yields passages of real delicacy and sensitiveness to spiritual beauty.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 400w.
“There is decided ability and moving power in the scenes when the quiet, timid little rector stands true to his religious conviction and sacrifices his interests and his human ties.”
+ Outlook. 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 90w.
“The story is lacking in many essential elements of strength, as well as in a completely balanced development of the characters.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 120w.
Brown, William Garrott. Life of Oliver Ellsworth. **$2. Macmillan.
“Besides being a biography and concerned particularly with the career of Ellsworth, the book also presents a picture of life in New England in Colonial times—the life of the people, picturesque scenes, and many episodes.” (N. Y. Times.) “Much hitherto unpublished material is brought to light, the arrangement is as a rule excellent, and the impression left is that of a clean cut portrait of a fine old Connecticut and American patriot.” (Outlook.)
“I cannot venture to say that it is absolutely free from error, for I have not scrupulously sought for blunders; but those I have noticed are trivial. The book is well written because the English style is clear, straight-forward, and simple, not over-elaborated or striving for effect.” A. C. McLaughlin.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 690. Ap. ’06. 1350w.
“Much information which is not readily, if at all to be found elsewhere.”
+ + Critic. 48: 472. My. ’06. 80w.
“A clear and sane account of a worthy patriot and jurist is given by a practiced historian in this volume.”
+ Ind. 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 70w.
“The life story [is] ... unfolded clearly and in an interesting way. At times Mr. Brown troubles himself overmuch about petty details, and at others betrays an undue enthusiasm for his hero. But his work—which is based on original research and makes available not a little hitherto unpublished material—has the signal merit of affording a better insight not alone into Ellsworth’s character and activities, but into the temper of the times in which he lived.”
+ + – Lit. D. 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 530w.
“His biographer, accordingly, finds a dearth of material, and is forced to rely much upon that indispensable and most dangerous faculty of the historian—imagination. As a judicious and sympathetic study of a notable American statesman and jurist, the volume is heartily to be welcomed.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 329. Ap. 19, ’06. 930w. N. Y. Times. 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 270w.
“In William Garrott Brown’s book on his life and works the treatment is as ample as could be desired, if, indeed, it be not a trifle too detailed for easy reading.”
+ + – Outlook. 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 180w. R. of Rs. 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Brown, William Haig. Carthusian memories and other verses of leisure. *$1.60. Longmans.
“A little volume of occasional and other verses by the late head master of Charterhouse, collected by his daughter. These verses represent some of the thoughtful hours of ease crowning days of toil, and reflect a gentle, kindly man whether in serious or more humorous moods.... These pages contain no mere jingling rhymes, although they show the light touch of an accomplished versifier, the work being invariably easy and natural. Dr. Haig Brown is equally at home in English or Latin, French or Greek or German.... The many specimens of prologues for Old Carthusian theatricals show a pen as facile as that of Dryden, and the four-foot rhyming Latin lines, might have come from a skilful mediaeval monk.”—Ath.
“There is in all these sets of verses ... a warmth of heart and an affection ... for the school over which he reigned for thirty-four years together with a quiet sense of fun.”
+ Acad. 68: 646. Je. 17, ’05. 460w. + Ath. 1905, 1: 749. Je. 17. 260w.
“A congeries of scholarly good things.”
+ Critic. 49: 282. S. ’06. 120w.
“The general reader will find the book not without a peculiar charm, which it derives less, perhaps, from its graceful art than from its attractive humanity.”
+ Spec. 96: 498. O. 7, ’05. 600w.
Brown, William Horace. Glory seekers: the romance of would-be founders of empire in the early days of the Southwest. **$1.50. McClurg.
These true stories which read like romance are mainly of men who “standing on the rugged confines of civilization in America at an early period of our national life, sought distinction by attempting to hitch their wagons to the star of empire.” Here are recorded Wilkinson’s “treasonable enterprise,” “Citizen” Genet’s undertakings, disgrace of Senator Blount, Burr’s arrest, Philip Nolan’s expedition to Texas, the Magee expedition to Texas and Mexico and other glory-seekers’ efforts to invade the Southland.
“The book is well done and is interesting.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 338. S. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Brown narrates the facts fairly enough, but still with that due regard for the picturesque which the subject seems to demand.”
+ Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 160w.
“The stories are worth re-telling, and the author tells them most interestingly.”
+ Dial. 40: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 390w. N. Y. Times. 11: 284. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 200w.
“He has also sacrificed critical caution to the desire to be entertaining, and his work is further marred by a flippancy of style strangely out of keeping with the theme and in itself conducing to weaken any claim his book may have to serious consideration.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 200w. + World To-Day. 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 270w.
Browne, George Waldo. St. Lawrence river: historical, legendary, picturesque. **$3.50. Putnam.
“It is in delineating the picturesque that Mr. Browne is at his best, but even here we usually have rhapsody rather than sane description. It would be tedious even with space at one’s disposal to point the dozens of mistakes in the book. Enough has been written to show that Mr. Browne was not equal to the task before him.”
– – Canadian M. 26: 123. D. ’05. 1890w. + Spec. 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.
Browne, Nina Eliza, comp. Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. *$5. Houghton.
The initial volume in a series of bibliographies of prominent fiction writers. The author, the secretary of the American library association publishing board, has spent sixteen years upon her task, and has included entries of everything that can be found in print by and about Hawthorne, with references also to all the articles that were called forth by the recent Hawthorne centenary.
“The book is comprehensively arranged, and the items for the most part very completely covered, so that the volume stands as a genuine contribution to bibliographical literature, and must prove invaluable to the Hawthorne student.”
+ + + Bookm. 22: 647. F. ’06. 250w. Critic. 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“Miss Browne has done a remarkably good piece of work in her bibliography of Hawthorne.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 511. Ag. 5, ’05. 410w.
Browning, Oscar. Napoleon: the first phase: some chapters on the boyhood and the youth of Bonaparte, 1769–1793. *$3.50. Lane.
“He has carefully gathered the necessary materials and arranged them in excellent order for those to whom French books are sealed. The digest, too, is fair and discriminating.”
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 385. Ja. ’06. 900w.
“Does not claim to be more than a summary of MM. Chuquet and Mason’s works on Napoleon’s early years.” L. G. W. L.
+ Eng. Hist. R. 21: 415. Ap. ’06. 220w.
Browning, Robert. [Select poems]; arranged in chronological order, with biographical and literary notes by Andrew Jackson George. $1.50. Little.
Ind. 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 60w. + School R. 14: 231. Mr. ’06. 30w.
Browning, Robert. [Selected poems]; with biographical sketch by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. $1.25. Crowell.
Browning in the “Thin paper poets” edition is a companion for daily walks, easily pocketed. The fact that Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke contribute the biographical sketch vouches for its literary quality and authoritativeness. The frontispiece is a reproduction of his last photograph made in 1889.
Browning, Robert. [Selections from Browning]; ed. with introd. and notes by Robert Morss Lovett. *30c. Ginn.
A collection for the person who has not read Browning. The order in which they would easily appeal to such a reader has been followed, giving first poems of action and narration; second, poems of places; third, love poems; and fourth, poems of character.
Bruce, William Samuel. Social aspects of Christian morality. *$3.50. Dutton.
Believing that the social problems are at the foundation personal and moral problems, the author would solve them “in accordance with the principles of justice and equity.” He discusses the following subjects: Scope and method of social ethics. Christian ethics, The family, Marriage, Family life and relationships, The state, The national state, State intervention, The civic power, The Christian state, Public morality and the state, The social mind and the press, Ethics of war, Ethics of art, Science and Education.
“Dr. Bruce cannot be said to have made any real contribution to the discussion of his theme.”
+ – Nation. 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 310w.
“Simplicity, practicality, and sedate strength characterize these lectures.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 360w.
Brummitt, Daniel B. Epworth league methods. *$1. Meth. bk.
“The Epworth league movement is here set forth with such attention to detail that the book will be found a working hand-book, sufficient to give every chapter a complete and not easily exhausted scheme of work, with most of the plans worked out in full,” and it will be of interest and value to the thousands of young people of the Methodist church who are enrolled under the league’s banners thruout the United States.
Bryan, William Jennings. Letters to a Chinese official: being a western view of eastern civilization. **50c. McClure.
Written by way of reply to the “Letters from a Chinese official” by Mr. Lowe Dickinson. They have grown out of Mr. Bryan’s recent travels in the Orient, and discuss such subjects as Chinese civilization overrated, Western civilization underrated, The folly of isolation, Labor-saving machinery, Government, The home, Without a mission, and Christianity versus Confucianism.
Ind. 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 40w. + – Outlook. 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 60w.
“It is a serious and convincing argument that Mr. Bryan advances—rather more serious, perhaps, than was called for by so evident a satire as the first production.”
+ – R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 150w.
Bryant, Sara Cone. [How to tell stories to children.] *$1. Houghton.
Helpful instruction to mothers and teachers on the psychology of story-telling is followed by a group of stories prepared for use. “It is pleasant to realize that the author places more store by the imaginative force of the legend than its educative value, that she realizes the first requisite of the story is to give joy rather than to carry primarily useful information.”—Ind.
+ Bookm. 22: 534. Ja. ’06. 30w. + Ind. 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
“Suggestive to mothers and teachers.”
+ Outlook. 80: 344. Je. 3, ’05. 10w.
Buck, Gertrude, and Morris, Elizabeth Woodbridge. Course in narrative writing. *80c. Holt.
A course is here provided with an aim to definite practical results for the student of composition. The author discusses the structure of the story, finding the story, the point of view, the beginning and the end of the story, scenes and transitions, character drawing, and the setting, names and titles.
“It appears to us, that granting the propriety of the fundamental conceptions, as we do not, the development of the subject is in the right order, and the exercises, as is usual in the text-books of these authors, ingenious and good.” E. E. Hale, jr.
+ – Bookm. 23: 453. Je. ’06. 450w.
“Contains some interesting comment on the construction of the novel and might be useful in connection with the study of literature.”
+ Ind. 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis. Egyptian heaven and hell. 3v. *$5. Open ct.
“The first two of his three volumes are given to the transcription and interpretation of the two great books in which the ‘Learning of the Egyptians.’ as it is related to the life after death, was expressed; the third is a history and explanation of the two. These may be defined as rival theories of eschatology, or they might be described in more popular language as illustrated guides to the abodes of the dead. They represent respectively the popular and the educated view of the other world.”—Spec.
“Dr. Budge’s rendering of the very difficult texts with which he here has to deal is in every way adequate, and his third volume, in which he discusses their bearing, contains matter which it is incumbent upon every student of such matters to read.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 663. My. 26. 2610w. Lit. D. 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
“It is impossible to do full justice to this work in the space at our disposal, but it will certainly long form the standard work on the subject of Egyptian eschatology.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 5: 295. Ag. 31, ’06. 1310w.
“The conceptions of the rewards and punishments of the dead in the next world as given in these two books are also well worth the attention of the anthropologist.”
+ + + Nature. 74: 10. My. 3, ’06. 770w.
“None of the material has escaped Dr. Budge’s unwearied industry. The English reader now has before him all that can be known at present about the ‘Book Am-Duat’ and the ‘Book of gates.’”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 623. My. 19, ’06. 1510w. + + Spec. 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
Buell, Augustus C. Paul Jones: founder of the American navy. 2v. $3. Scribner.
Mr. Buell’s work on Paul Jones published six years ago appears in new edition form, with supplementary chapter by General Horace Porter of sixty-five pages devoted to a detailed account of the recent discovery and identification of the remains of this revolutionary hero.
“Unfortunately, the publishers have not taken advantage of the opportunity afforded by a new edition to correct the many inaccuracies of the first imprint.”
– Am. Hist. R. 11: 974. Jl. ’06. 120w.
“His book is quite good enough to deserve its splendid new setting.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 220. Ap. 7, ’06. 190w.
“Will probably take place as the authentic narrative relating to this early officer under the American flag.”
+ World To-Day. 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.
Buff: a tale for the thoughtful by a physiopath. $1. Little.
Buff, a frail wisp of humanity, passes thru interesting stages of development as thought, reason and observation bring him into harmony with the restorative power of nature. The aim of the sketch is to teach the beneficial results of co-operating with nature in developing useful lives.
“In the form of a biography, written in an unconventional but attractive manner.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 640. N. ’06. 130w.
Buley, E. C. Australian life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
“Australia is no longer a colony, but a nation. This is the keynote of Mr. Buley’s book on Australia.... It is a vivid picture that Mr. Buley presents of newly made cities humming with industry and business and filled with comfortable homes; great cattle and horse ranches, where every proprietor is a little lord of the manor; sheep farms in the back blocks fifty miles from a neighbor; gold fields where fortunes are made in a day and lost the same night; and wide, dreary stretches of the Never-Never land still awaiting irrigation and the consequent inrush of settlers.”—Pub. Opin.
“The book deals most entertainingly with Australian life, and is well illustrated.”
+ Dial. 40: 197. Mr. 16, ’06. 380w.
“The especial virtue of the book is its elementariness.”
+ Ind. 60: 806. Ap. 5, ’06. 270w.
“We have not, however, often read a volume in which solid information was conveyed in a more pleasing style.”
+ + Nation. 82: 61. Ja. 18, ’06. 750w. N. Y. Times. 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 230w. + Outlook. 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w. + Pub. Opin. 39: 725. D. 2, ’05. 240w.
“This is an interestingly written volume, with a particularly absorbing chapter on the ‘Never never’ country.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 70w.
Bullock, Charles Jesse, ed. Selected readings in public finance. *$2.25. Ginn.
A book which supplies the collateral reading needed to supplement the text-book and lectures in a general course in finance. It aims to introduce students to standard authors on subjects of finance, to draw upon modern monographic or periodical literature not easily accessible, to present other material of a statistical, historical and descriptive nature that is necessary to amplify a knowledge of the subject.
“Ought to prove of great value to teachers in small colleges.”
+ + J. Pol. Econ. 14: 520. O. ’06. 140w.
“The chief criticism to be passed upon what is in other respects a most useful work is the comparatively slight attention paid to specifically American problems.”
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 565. S. ’06. 160w.
“It is not often that a volume is found where the evils of such multiple authorship are so well overcome.” H. C. E.
+ + Yale R. 15: 334. N. ’06. 340w.
Bumpus, T. Francis. Cathedrals of England and Wales. **$4. Pott.
“Mr. Bumpus’s book is a valuable guide in the case of these buildings not only describing them very fully, but also pointing out what parts of them are original, and what new.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 903. D. 30. 170w.
“His book should be carefully read before any of the churches he describes are visited.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 426. Ap. 7. 140w.
“It is no mere dressing-up of old material and hackneyed views.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 150w.
“Mr. Bumpus has only one real fault in writing about our cathedrals. He is convinced that all the restorations of English cathedrals, since, say, 1840 have been justified.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 556. N. 3. 210w.
“Not merely a useful handbook, but a piece of real literature.”
+ + Int. Studio. 20: 180. Ap. ’06. 130w. + Sat. R. 102: 52. Jl. 14, ’06. 830w.
“We are not much struck by the illustrations, which are reproductions from very ordinary photographs such as any amateur might take, but the letterpress shows painstaking work, and the author is clearly well studied in architecture.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Bumpus writes, for the most part, with moderation and good sense. It is a pleasure to follow a guide so well informed and so enthusiastic.”
+ Spec. 96: 264. F. 17, ’06. 330w.
Bunyan, John. [Pilgrim’s progress]: with notes and a sketch of Bunyan’s life. *25c. Ginn.
Uniform with the “Standard English classics” this “Pilgrim’s progress” has been carefully edited and abridged for school use.
Burdick, Lewis Dayton. Hand. $1.50. Irving co.
A survey of facts, legends, and beliefs pertaining to manual ceremonies, covenants and symbols. The chapters include a historical study of the hand as “Executant of the brain,” “A symbol of life,” “A symbol of authority,” “An indicator of fortune,” “Trial by the hand,” “Laying on hands,” “Lifting the hand,” “Taking an oath,” “The social hand,” “The healing hand,” “The hand of evil,” and others related in idea.
Arena. 35: 335. Mr. ’06. 190w.
“An unusually interesting little monograph, prepared in a scholarly manner.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett. [Are you a bromide? or, The sulphitic theory expounded and exemplified] according to the most recent researches into the psychology of boredom, including many well-known bromidioms now in use. *50c. Huebsch.
In his satiric essay the sulphitic author raises a question without an answer, furnishing a classification by which the bores may be separated from the apostles of the unexpected which the few will apply and the many will indignantly condemn. But his theory is expounded with such conviction that if he reach a wide enough audience the stock phrases of the bromides here listed are doomed to become obsolete.
Ind. 61: 1353. D. 6, ’06. 130w. N. Y. Times. 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 190w.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett. Little sister of destiny. †$1.50. Houghton.
Margaret Million is a wealthy young heiress who plays the rôle of chorus girl, cashier, manicure, artist’s model, and serving maid in order to befriend and help less fortunate girls. Her Lady Bountiful methods demand that her beneficiaries never know the source of their good fortune—the idea of mystery enhancing the fairy-tale aspect of the book.
“The stories of her experiences are entertaining in spite of their unlikeliness.”
+ – Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“Is one of the most lovable books that have come to our table for many a long day.”
+ Ind. 60: 1686. My. 31, ’06. 150w.
“Everybody should read ‘The little sister of destiny.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 214. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“They vary in merit, but as a whole will not enhance the author’s reputation as a whimsical humorist.”
– Outlook. 83: 43. My. 2, ’06. 30w.
“After Mr. Burgess’s usual manner he mixes a good deal of sense with considerable whimsical nonsense.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 150w. – R. of Rs. 33: 761. Je. ’06. 70w.
Burgess, William Watson. Life sentence; or, Duty in dealing with crime. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
The scene of this story is Carson City. In commuting the life sentence of a woman who had murdered a villainous man there is opportunity for the author’s arguments of justification. He would reform the world by preventing instead of punishing crime.
Burke, John Butler. Origin of life: its physical basis and definition. *$3. Stokes.
This bulky volume is based upon the “experiments of J. Butler Burke of Cambridge, England, upon the effect of radium salts upon sterile solutions of bouillon and other organic media. Under the influence of the radiations, small bodies (termed ‘radiobes’) appear in the medium which appear strikingly like micro-organisms in that they grow in size and later exhibit nuclei and then divide. It is held that they are not bacteria nor even protoplasm, but that they are really alive, and represent transitional and evanescent forms of matter and energy lying between the common inorganic types of matter and stable living aggregates.”—Nation.
“We are indeed no nearer the solution of the problem of the origin of life than before this book was written.” W. P. Pycraft.
– Acad. 70: 500. My. 26, ’06. 1280w.
“He possesses neither the learning nor the clarity of mind which give value to Dr. Bastian’s treatment of the same topics, irrespective of his personal views.” E. T. Brewster.
– Atlan. 98: 421. S. ’06. 380w.
“It is to be hoped that he is more skillful with the test-tube than with the pen. His style is extraordinarily loose and awkward.”
– Lond. Times. 5: 123. Ap. 6, ’06. 1320w.
“While biologists generally will regard this presentation, like the earlier one, as failing to prove the author’s main thesis ... nevertheless, the volume will serve a valuable purpose as an excellent exposé of both old and new theories of the origin of life, and of a philosophy of nature which is growing in popularity.”
– + Nation. 83: 18. Jl. 5, ’06. 340w.
“An interesting book on a perennially interesting theme.” J. A. T.
+ – Nature. 74: 1. My. 3, ’06. 2200w.
“Mr. Burke may not have proved his points, but he is not dogmatical, and he certainly seems a very wholesome philosopher.” Charles Loomis Dana.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 1460w. R of Rs. 33: 766. Je. ’06. 120w.
“It is amazing that a man should dare to publish such a record of experiment, so slipshod, so uncritical, so destitute of scientific method; great must be his trust in the abundant and unfailing beneficence of popular ignorance.”
– – Sat. R. 101: 334. Mr. 17, ’06. 1560w.
Burland, Harris. Black motor car. †$1.50. Dillingham.
“The volume, contains indications of a gift for narrative, and some respectable powers of description; it is compact of energy and enthusiasm.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 210w.
Burland, Harris. Financier. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A new story by the author of “The black motor car.” “Briefly set down, the plot involves an African region, a promoter who is also an unscrupulous British patriot, a contest with Germany, a little war with heaps of slain, an impossible young actress, an equally impossible young civil engineer, a peer or two, a panic, gold mines, and members of the kaiser’s secret service—especially a lady spy, picturesquely named Mrs. Wooddevil. Mr. Burland has by the way, a curious taste in names.” (N. Y. Times.)
“His ‘Financier’ like his other stories, is readable in spite of the glaring inexpertness of the diction, the wretched quality of the puppets, and the exposed condition of the wires that pull them about to do the showman’s will.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.
“A crude story.”
– Outlook. 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 20w.
“Is an honest piece of sensationalism free from the most glaring vices of its class.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 212. Ag. 18, ’06. 150w.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend). [Dawn of a to-morrow.] †$1. Scribner.
A book which embodies the spirit of Christian science without the letter seems to be a sermon with the unannounced text “I if I be lifted up ... will draw all men unto me.” A king of finance just ready to “shuffle off this mortal coil” by act of suicide withdraws to the slum section of London to hide his deed in a pauper’s seclusion. Here he is found by a “little rat of the gutter,” an ugly girl of twelve years, with astonishing insight into human hearts. This child with her sure faith in God as a present unfeared reality; Jenny Montaubyn who had taught her this hope; Polly, a girl of the streets; and a hungry thief form a group who make a great capitalist take hope and desire to work out his own salvation.
“Is a simple, old-fashioned miracle-play, set forth in modern London with the sure, swift touch of a practised story-teller.” Mary Moss.
+ Bookm. 23: 299. My. ’06. 560w. + Critic. 48: 474. My. ’06. 130w. – Ind. 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 160w.
“The little story is tenderly told, leaving the reader with a softened heart and broader sympathies.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 147. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.
“It is an unusual little tale, written powerfully and dramatically.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“There is a decidedly tense air about the short story, which detracts from its intended effect.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 320w. + R. of Rs. 33: 761. Je. ’06. 40w.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend). [Little princess]: being the whole story of Sarah Crewe now told for the first time. †$2. Scribner.
“It is unusual to tell a story three times over, but all three versions are charming, and we accept them with gratitude.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 150w.
“Is written in that fascinating style which has won for the gifted author of ‘The little Lord Fauntleroy’ so many admirers.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: 375. F. ’06. 60w. + Spec. 95: 1042. D. 16, ’05. 140w.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend). Queen Silver-Bell. [+]60c. Century.
Silver-Bell, queen of the fairies, grieves because people have grown so stupid that they no longer believe in fairies. She is so agitated that her temper flies out of its golden cage, and the Dormouse, to whom she goes for advice, assures her that the only way she can atone for her loss is to encourage the writing of fairy stories. Into the ears of her amanuensis, apprenticed for life, she whispers these stories, which so far are three in number. “Queen Silver-Bell” and “How Winnie hatched the little rooks” are found in this first volume of the series.
“The little story will be warmly received.”
+ Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 50w. Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w. N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
“While Mrs. Burnett’s style is so pure that it makes easy reading, there is not in her subject matter in these books any very striking motive to make an impression on the child’s mind.”
+ – R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend). [Racketty-Packetty house.] [+]60c. Century.
The second volume of fairy tales dictated by Queen Silver-Bell to her amanuensis.
+ Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w. Nation. 83: 514. D, 13, ’06. 20w. N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w. + – R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.
Burney, Frances (Madame D’Arblay). Diary and letters of Madame D’Arblay; ed. by her niece, Charlotte Barrett. 6v. ea. *$2.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.
+ + + Living Age. 249: 268. Ja. ’06. 9790w. (Reprinted from Quarterly R.) + + + Nation. 81: 526. D. 28, ’05. 2060w. (Review of v. 4–6.)
Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.
+ + + Quarterly R. 204: 89. Ja. ’06. 9790w.
Burns, Robert. [Poems]; with biographical sketch by Nathan H. Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
One of the eight volumes in the “Thin paper poets” series. The book contains a biographical sketch and a glossary, and as a frontispiece reproduces the Peter Taylor painting of Burns in 1786.
Burr, Agnes Rush. [Russell H. Conwell], founder of the institutional church in America: the work and the man. **$1. Winston.
This is the sketch of a philanthropist still living, still doing active work for church, college, and hospital, in all of which three lines “he has blazed new paths ... has not only proven their need, demonstrated their worth, but he has shown how it is possible to accomplish such results from small beginnings, with no large gifts of money, with only the hands and hearts of willing workers.”
Burrage, Henry Sweetser. Gettysburg and Lincoln: the battle, the cemetery, and the National park. **$1.50. Putnam.
“His book is divided into three parts, the first dealing with the battle, the second detailing the circumstances connected with the inception, dedication, and completion of the cemetery and the third giving a record of the work of the park commission.” (Outlook.) “Of special interest are the chapters on Lincoln’s address, and the slightly different versions of it printed. He shows that many persons who heard the address were deeply impressed by it.... Mr. Burrage, with greater fulness than Nicolay or Hay, has gone into the circumstances in which Lincoln wrote the speech. He presents facts which are as new as they are interesting.” (Lit. D.)
“The sketch is well written and to the point.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ Dial. 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Burrage’s monograph was worth the doing, and he has performed this task fairly well.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w. Nation. 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 150w.
“A useful volume by Major Henry S. Burrage, himself a war veteran and imbued with obvious enthusiasm for his theme.”
+ Outlook. 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
Burrell, Joseph Dunn. New appraisal of Christian science. 50c. Funk.
An estimate of Christian science made according to the standard of mental science resulting in an adverse summary characterized by such expressions as “infantile logic, offensive pretentiousness, and slippery casuistry.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 30w.
Burroughs, John. Bird and bough. **$1. Houghton.
This collection of the nature verses which have been published in various periodicals is happily dedicated “To the kinglet that sang in my evergreens in October and made me think it was May.” “The freshness and precision of Mr. Burrough’s observation need no comment. He is a master of clean-drawn phrase, and ... has a good gift of short-lined metre. So far as his work is poetry rather than versified nature study, it is so by virtue of a certain single-minded affectionateness of interest in nature.” (Nation.)
Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.
+ Critic. 49: 139. Ag. ’06. 780w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 41: 206. O. 1, ’06. 190w. + – Nation. 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 230w.
“Quite free from such introspection, without a trace of the haunting melancholy that pervades ‘The Shropshire lad,’ John Burroughs makes his songs of ‘Bird and bough.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 280w.
Burroughs, John. [Ways of nature.] **$1.10. Houghton.
“In his latest book his observations are new and described with freshness and point.”
+ Acad. 70: 355. Ap. 14, ’06. 630w. + + Ind. 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 350w. + + Nation. 82: 59. Ja. 18, ’06. 1140w.
“Burroughs evidently proves his case to his own convincing, if not to a legion of his hearty friends and admirers.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 1610w.
“He has thought out the subject, and what he writes is fairly interesting.”
+ Spec. 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 110w.
Burry, B. Pullen-. Ethiopia in exile: Jamaica revisited. †$1.50. Wessels.
“It is a valuable contribution to the great racial problem which demands the serious attention of American statesmen. The author draws an instructive parallel between the condition of the negroes of Jamaica and those of the United States.” (Ath.) “The black man in republican America is vastly worse off than in monarchist Britain, she says; and no American has a right to gainsay her. The Jamaican is out of work because, owing to changed conditions, there is no work in Jamaica for him to do; the American negro is deliberately prevented from working by the whites, both North and South; they won’t have him.” (Nation.) “Miss Pullen-Burry sees the most hopeful sign in the work done by Dr. Booker T. Washington and his colleagues for the education and racial elevation of the negro, and gives a full and interesting account of this work.” (Ath.)
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 39. Jl. 14. 300w.
“We can commend Miss Pullen-Burry’s book; it is an excellent account of Jamaica, it is a fair study of the chief problem before us Americans.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 71. F. 3, ’06. 540w.
Burton, Richard. Rahab: a drama in three acts. *$1.25. Holt.
A drama made out of the story of the “Woman of Jericho” whose house was on the city wall. Dr. Burton’s quick imagination has given life and a distinctive dramatic energy to a Bible story that of itself is meager. His Rahab who has seen the glory of God of Israel in a vision and has dreamed of the downfall of Jericho is drawn in flesh and blood characters, and thru her and her three rival lovers a strong human interest is maintained.
“Dr. Burton brings to his task the faculty of clearly perceiving his ‘dramatis personæ’ of determining the interaction of his characters, and a skilled workmanship in the management of the verse-vehicle.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + Critic. 49: 219. S. ’06. 390w.
“Dr. Burton’s ‘Rahab’ is a pretty enough academic exercise. But it has about as much to do with existing conditions as has the megatherium.”
+ – Ind. 61: 758. S. 27, ’06. 130w.
“If the play lacks sufficient vigor to foretell for it length of days it has some qualities that are uncommon in contemporary verse.”
+ – Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.
“It is simply and fluently written, with many felicities of phrase, and with comparatively few passages to which the most super-sensitive critic might object.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 300w.
“It is not in any sense a great play, but it has movement, vivacity, color, and dramatic feeling.”
+ Outlook. 83: 769. Jl. 28, ’06. 240w.
Bury, John B. Life of St. Patrick and his place in history. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“His method can without hesitation be said to be sound, and his mind singularly unbiased. His mastery of the evidence, both in Latin and in Irish, is also unquestionable. The style, too, though rather compact and severe, is lucid and readable.” F. N. Robinson.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 633. Ap. ’06. 770w.
“The arrangement of the book is admirable. We hope that in a second edition we may be supplied with a complete index.” F. E. Warren.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 347. Ap. ’06. 2360w.
Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.
+ + – Hibbert J. 4: 447. Ja. ’06. 1310w.
“The text of Professor Bury’s book is clear, succinct, and well arranged chronologically.”
+ + Nation. 82: 19. Ja. 4, ’05. 930w.
“We cannot part from Professor Bury’s work without expressing our unfeigned admiration for his complete control of the original authorities on which his narrative is based, and of the sound critical judgment he exhibits in dealing with sources which present unusual difficulties.”
+ + + Spec. 95: 977. D. 9, ’05. 1830w.
Butler, Alford A. Churchman’s manual of methods: a practical Sunday school handbook for clerical and lay workers. $1. Young ch.
A practical handbook compiled wholly from the author’s experience as Sunday school teacher, superintendent, clergyman and professor of religious pedagogy.
Butler, Ellis Parker. [Incubator baby.] [+]75c. Funk.
The author of “Pigs is pigs” writes an incubator baby’s comments upon the change from her “paradise” to the big uncongenial world presided over by her indifferent father and mother.
“Here we have gentle satire at its best. It is a delightful story and will be enjoyed by old as well as young, though it will be especially pleasing to the little people.”
+ Arena. 36: 684. D. ’06. 240w. Lit. D. 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 80w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 670. O. 13, ’06. 140w.
“The satire is relieved by an abundance of sentiment and common sense.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
Butler, Ellis Parker. [Perkins of Portland; Perkins the Great.] †$1. Turner, H. B.
Seven adventures of Perkins of Portland leave nothing to be desired in the way of advertising-finesse. He seizes the moment to launch a ware upon a gullible public, and whether it be porous plasters or guinea pigs his success is obvious.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 670. O. 13, 06. 110w.
“Sequels and second books in the wake of a popular success, while they may be measurably good themselves, are usually dangerous experiments. This little book is, unfortunately, no exception to the rule.”
– Outlook. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 50w.
Byrne, Mary Agnes. Fairy chaser and other stories. 60c. Saalfield.
Five charming fairy tales for young readers: The fairy chaser, Kitty’s ring, The magic mirror, The old gray shawl, and Cecelia’s gift.
Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th baron. Poetical works; new and rev. ed.; ed. with a memoir by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. *$1.50. Scribner.
A complete edition of Byron’s poetry, containing all the new poems included in the 1898–1904 edition. The reader will find “a lively and well-written memoir by the editor, and judicious notes to the various poems, which explain all that one needs to know.” (Ath.)
“The introductory memoir ... is all that could be desired; in every way this is a most satisfactory edition of Byron to have on the bookshelf, and we think it will continue for many a long day, to deserve a place there.”
+ + Acad. 70: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“An admirable and probably final edition of the noble poet.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 14. Ja. 6. 130w. + – Critic. 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.
“It contains the gist of the editorial matter in Mr. Coleridge’s definitive seven-volume edition.”
+ Dial. 40: 240. Ap. 1, ’06. 100w. + Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The text is authoritative.”
+ Nation. 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 150w.
“In every way it is an excellent addition to one’s book shelves.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.
“This is an acceptable one-volume edition of Byron’s poems.”
+ Outlook. 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 130w.