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Bacheller, Irving A. [Eben Holden’s last day a-fishing.] †50c. Harper.
7–29429.
Two pictures of an old favorite are presented in this slight volume; one of fishing on a June day and the other of Christmas-time in Eben Holden’s old-fashioned country home. He is still the kind, wise, humorous companion of earlier days.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | ||
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07 200w. |
Bacon, Edwin Munroe. Connecticut river, and the valley of the Connecticut. **$3.50. Putnam.
6–27342.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The familiar story is well told and gives the lie afresh to the complaint that picturesque America is lacking in historical associations. A few minor slips occur.” Kate M. Cone.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 693. Ap. ’07. 460w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 38. F. ’07. | ||
| + | Spec. 98: 1039. Je. 29, ’07. 340w. |
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam. Domestic adventures. †$1. Scribner.
7–29425.
“The present story sets forth both the erotic and culinary experiences of three bachelor girls from New York, who decide that their combined resources justify the setting up of a modest establishment in the suburbs somewhere ‘out Greenwich way.’”—Bookm.
“Here is something to be strongly recommended as a panacea for the peculiarly debilitating effects of the servant problem. Somewhat in the form of a diary presumably jotted down from day to day, but occasional lapses into a reminiscent mood, as of one writing it up several years later, considerably disturb the continuity and befog the chatty atmosphere.” G. W. Adams.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 278. N. ’07. 480w. |
“Mrs. Bacon has scored so often by virtue of sheer hard cleverness that it is not to be wondered at if the note grows yet harder and thinner as time goes on.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 220w. |
“The plot is of soap-bubble texture ... and the whole is told with abundant humor in a style of exceptional simplicity and good taste.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 120w. |
“The book is full of fun.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“A mild plot is cleverly managed by the author.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 60w. |
Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.) In high places. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–31212.
The “high places” are the risky elevations from which scrupulous and unscrupulous actors in high finance manipulate the money market. A business woman of to-day occupies the center of the stage.
“‘In high places,’ in fact, inspires a hope that Mrs. Bacon may go on rather than back, that she may succeed in ridding herself of the shopworn, obvious side of her talent and by clearing her mind of a residue of stock phrases and characters, leave it free to receive her own unhackneyed and genuine impressions.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 390w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“In many respects the novel is disagreeable—in some unnecessarily so—but the plea that it is true to life can be supported, without doubt.”
| − + | Outlook. 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 150w. |
Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.), ed. Songs every child should know. **90c. Doubleday.
6–35301.
More than a hundred songs with music are grouped here. They include songs of sentiment, folk song, cradle songs, songs of war, national hymns, nonsense songs, patriotic songs, Shakesperian songs and miscellaneous songs. Introductory notes to each song add enlightenment for the child.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 189. O. ’06. |
“The judgment used in the selection of these songs is as good as the taste displayed is broad and catholic.”
| + + | Bookm. 24: 295. N. ’06. 780w. | |
| + − | Ind. 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 50w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 50w. |
“Such a book should be graded rather than arranged artificially into groups. Mrs. Bacon is too generous, though her idea is excellent.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 120w. |
“One of the best books in the ‘Every child should know’ series.”
| + | Putnam’s. 1: 377. D. ’06. 30w. | |
| R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 40w. |
Badger, George Henry. Water-star. *80c. Am. Unitar.
7–29693.
Four essays, The water-star, Landscape of the soul, The haunts of the hind, and Do we see nature? In the first one the water lily is used for a lesson. The author shows that in sending forth above the surface of the water so wonderful a flower the roots do quiet work in the murky depths; so in life, if crowning success be attained, there lies back of it the commonplace pegging away at stale duties.
Bagley, William Chandler. Classroom management: its principles and technique. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–15629.
“Useful to any teacher who has not solved all his practical problems, and particularly valuable to the young teacher. The great virtue of the book is its actuality; its material has been gathered mainly from experience and observation. The writer constantly sums up the best expert opinion upon the question in hand.... The contents of the book may be suggested by a few of the chapter titles: ‘The daily program,’ ‘Hygienic conditions in the school-room,’ ‘Order and discipline,’ ‘Penalties,’ ‘The problem of attention.’”—Dial.
“The thought is sane and illuminating throughout, and the form is always clear and strong. We know of no other book that will bring more varied and abundant help to the teacher in actual hand-grips with his task.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 160w. |
“While the book is written primarily for students of education in schools and colleges, it will be helpful to all teachers and will appeal to the most thoughtful and ambitious.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 255. S. 19, ’07. 210w. |
“The high standpoint of the author is strikingly evident in his noble chapter on ‘The ethics of schoolcraft,’ whose seven pages, separately printed, are well worth wide distribution among teachers at public expense.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w. |
Bagot, Richard. Temptation. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–37716.
Italy furnishes the stage, and her people the actors for this study in psychology. A very unhappy Italian woman moved by the sinister fascination of an ancestor’s homicidal act of killing her lover by poison resorts to the same means to rid herself of a husband whom she loathes. “Ugo, the hapless count, his wife Cristina, the Duchess of San Felice, and Fabrizio, the guilty cousin, are all human figures.” (Ath.)
“Mr. Bagot observes keenly, but a little hastily; he is rather sharp than wise in his judgments, and his people are drawn without the subtle shades which would make them interesting in themselves.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w. |
“It is a powerful drama, and discloses Mr. Bagot at his best.”
| + + | Ath. 1907. 1: 286. Mr. 9. 210w. |
“Like Mr. Crawford, also Mr. Bagot never lets you forget that he is writing of an alien race, with habits and temperaments and language quite foreign to that of the Anglo-Saxon; and yet, at the same time, he interprets them so skilfully that the sum total of your impressions is rather that of the brotherhood of the two races than of the gulf between them.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 162. O. ’07. 590w. |
“Mr. Bagot spends so much care on the few characters whom he introduces, and offers so close an explanation of their motives, that we are prepared both for greater vigour of action and greater subtlety of speech. But he seldom drops his attitude of the grave observer pondering wide issues. In any case, however, it is an interesting book; you lay it down not infrequently, but you open it with respect.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 390w. |
“The facts are bald enough, but they are interpreted with much skill.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 420w. |
“There are few gleams of fascination in ‘Temptation’.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 120w. |
“That which may be most cordially praised in this novel is the author’s evidently exact and always interesting depiction of Italian country life and social customs and manners.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 100w. |
“Although the main theme of the story is gloomy, there are many pleasant passages. The book is always interesting.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 401. Mr. 30, ’07. 380w. |
“Though ‘Temptation’ cannot be pronounced a pleasant book, the author must be acquitted of any desire to palter with the principles of right and wrong.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 422. Mr. 16, ’07. 840w. |
Bailey, Edgar H. S. Text-book of sanitary and applied chemistry; or, The chemistry of water, air, and food. *$1.40. Macmillan.
6–32422.
In which the author emphasizes the fact that a knowledge of the relations of health to pure air, unpolluted water, and wholesome food will greatly improve sanitary conditions of students as well as people at large. Part 1 discusses air and fuel in their relation to heating and ventilation, lighting by the various agents now in use, water supply and purification, and disposal of household waste. Part 2 deals with food, food-materials, food accessories, preservatives, beverages and dietaries.
“Professor Bailey has brought together much of the material which he has used for his lectures on domestic economy in the University of Kansas, and made of it a practical class textbook.”
| + | Nation. 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 150w. |
Reviewed by Ellen H. Richards.
| Science, n.s. 24: 338. S. 14, ’06. 900w. |
“The field covered by the work is so very great that it is hardly to be expected that thoroughness can be attained in a book of 345 small pages. There are many things in the book which will interest the student reader, but he must remember that it is essentially elementary.”
| + − | Science, n.s. 25: 419. Mr. 15, ’07. 290w. |
* Bailey, Elmer James. Novels of George Meredith: a study. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–34148.
In five chapters Mr. Bailey deals with the development of Meredith’s genius, the best known characters in his stories, and the analogies between his work and that of his predecessors.
“Neither the style nor the matter is of a kind to inspire confidence. The new and interesting part of the book is a sketch of Meredith’s influence upon other novelists.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 200w. |
“The volume can be used as a companion to Trevelyan’s work on Meredith’s poetry and philosophy.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07 40w. |
Bailey, Liberty Hyde, ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the United States and Canada. 4v. $5. Macmillan.
7–8529.
A work whose purpose is to sift the literature in which scientific farming finds expression and to “embody its most important and permanent results.” (N. Y. Times.)
v. 1. Deals with “Farms.” Discusses agricultural regions, their soils, temperature; the selection, laying out and culture of farms; farm machinery irrigation, sanitation, etc.
v. 2. Considers the subject of crops under three divisions: “the first deals with the plant in general, its life processes, its response to such stimuli as artificial light, weak poisons, and electricity, insects and diseases which harm it, plant breeding and introduction, the management of weeds, crop rotation and crop yields. Part second describes the manufacture of various crop products from pickles to denatured alcohol. The third section, which is a general discussion, alphabetically arranged, of American farm crops, fills the main portion of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A monumental work of interest to a much larger class than farmers only.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 117. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Is indispensable to public and reference libraries, and it should be extensively purchased for circulating and school libraries in the rural districts.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| + − | Nature. 76: 315. Ag. 7, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“A truly magnificent, coherent and exhaustive work.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Bailey, Temple. Judy. †$1.50. Little.
7–30439.
Two motherless girls of contrasting types are joint heroines in this story. One happy hearted girl who had been brought up on fresh air, simple food, sunshine and flowers teaches the other child, cloyed with things of life to the point of youthful ennui, a wholesome life lesson.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Bailey, William Bacon. Modern social conditions. $3. Century.
6–34864.
“The field covered by this volume is part of that treated in Mayo-Smith’s ‘Statistics and sociology.’ The first chapter is an elementary treatise on the history of statistics. The other chapters give statistical information in relation to sex, age, conjugal conditions, births, marriage, death and the growth of population.”—Am. J. Soc.
“The author has rendered a service to students by bringing up the figures as nearly as possible to date.” C. R. H.
| + | Am. J. Soc. 12: 571. Ja. ’07. 90w. |
“Judged intrinsically the book not only justifies its appearance, but strongly commends itself to the use of every student of demography. The author’s style is simple, and the volume is crowded with information. In fact the data are often compelled to speak too largely for themselves. A stronger emphasis upon their interpretation and practical bearing would have heightened the interest of the book. On the other hand, the theoretical discussion avoids all irritating mathematical complexities.” George B. Mangold.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 473. N. ’06. 390w. |
“It is undoubtedly the most excellent compilation of more or less familiar population statistics that has been done by an American. Yet the question may be seriously raised as to the essential value of such treatises for the student of social conditions. Several sections are included in the treatise under consideration, which are abstruse and difficult, and ... the reader is not led up carefully to a full comprehension of those sections.” J. C.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 14: 641. D. ’06. 790w. |
“I am compelled to conclude that the book is not based upon the best authorities, that the authorities followed have not been used critically, and that it is not an adequate presentation of the present condition of American vital statistics.” Walter F. Wilcox.
| − − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 169. Mr. ’07. 2690w. |
“As a text for students, its most serious fault is the constant resort to an off-hand, ready-made explanation of every conceivable situation. Comments are too facile and correlations too readily assumed. The style of the book is loose in the extreme.” D. C. Wells.
| − + | Yale R. 16: 95. My. ’07. 1050w. |
Baillie, James Black. Outline of the idealistic construction of experience. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–11048.
The general purpose of this volume “is to expound the essential principles of British Neo-Hegelianism in fairly systematic fashion and with reference to the present problems of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)
“The book will not be found easy even by the trained student of philosophy, but we know no English work in which there has been a more successful effort to give clear and convincing meaning to those abstract phrases in which alone idealist doctrines can be expounded.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 400w. |
“Its debt to the ‘Phanomenologie des Geistes’ is so avowedly extensive, and yet its hold upon modern problems—psychological and epistemological, social and religious—is so vital, that the reader is hardly able to say whether the work is strongest as a fresh treatment of these problems or as an exposition of Hegel; the fact being that it is both things—the one because it is the other.” J. W. Scott.
| + + − | Hibbert J. 5: 933. Jl. ’07. 2280w. |
“If his object is to make an effective appeal to common sense and the scientific mind, we are inclined to think that his method is not well chosen for the purpose. To render Hegel is one thing, to do the work of the great idealists ‘all over again’ is another. Each is sufficiently difficult by itself, and they would be best attempted independently; to combine the two in a single volume is almost to court disaster.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 1480w. |
“The book is as accurate, in nearly all essential respects, as it is dry and colorless; and it is really helpful in assisting one to think out again the idealistic problem and its solution. But it fails exactly where Mr. Haldane’s Gifford lectures (1902–4) were so preëminently successful,—in impressing the reader with the very important bearing of modern idealism upon the most recent problems of science and philosophy, as well as upon the more practical but not less perplexing, problems of modern life.” Ernest Albee.
| + − | Philos. R. 16: 538. S. ’07. 2480w. |
“In this lucid volume the profound difficulties that underlie an idealistic theory of experience are analyzed with great elaboration, and the idealistic position placed in a new and more helpful environment.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 649. Ap. 27, ’07. 700w. |
Baily, J. T. Herbert. Emma, Lady Hamilton; a biographical essay with a catalogue of her published portraits. *$3.50. Stokes.
A record of Lady Hamilton, the prominence of whose pictorial phase but emphasizes the avenue thru which she made so many conquests, namely, her beauty. The text serves only as a setting for the pictures.
“Mr. Baily’s narrative, short and readable, is apologetic and even warmly eulogistic in tone, and may well be supplemented and corrected by some less favorable presentation of the famous courtesan.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + − | Dial. 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 300w. |
“Although the book is not an authoritative life or a critical essay on her portraiture, it is quite the best pictorial record.”
| + | Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 180w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 40w. |
Baker, Cornelia. [Court jester]; with il. by Margaret E. Webb and Margaret H. Deveneau. †$1.25. Bobbs.
6–28221.
The story of the journey of the Princess Marguerite to Spain to become the wife of the son of Ferdinand and Isabella.
“Well-told and interesting but too drawn out to hold the average child’s attention throughout.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 206. N. ’07. |
“A book well worth while. The publishers are to be congratulated on this successful collaboration.”
| + + | Bookm. 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 70w. |
“A well-written historical novel for children. The illustrations ... are excellent in portrayal of character and costume.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 130w. |
Baker, Ernest A. History in fiction. 2v. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–29857.
An enlargement of an earlier work, “Guide to the best fiction.” It is classified, arranged and indexed for the convenience of the student. “Its two small volumes deal, the first with English historical fiction, the second with American and foreign subjects.... The general arrangement is chronological under the various countries, but a novel and acceptable feature is that, wherever possible, there is added, in the fashion of a foot-note, information about fiction actually written in the time treated by the books in the regular text.” (Outlook.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 157. O. ’07. S. |
“These two volumes are the result of an enormous amount of labor well expended. The brief notes appended by Mr. Baker to the titles of the books he enumerates are generally informing, and occasionally not without a touch of humour.” A. Schade van Westrum.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 82. S. ’07. 790w. |
“So far as we have tested the accuracy and inclusiveness of the work, it seems capital, and a special word of praise should be given for the index.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 310w. |
“Very carefully compiled catalogue.”
| + | Spec. 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 50w. |
Baker, Etta Anthony. Youngsters of Centerville. il. †$1.50. Holt.
7–30441.
Stories for children which deal with real boys and girls, their games, their pranks, their school and their faith in each other. There is wholesome patriotic sentiment in the doings of these youngsters, the sort that any school boy may profit by.
Baker, George Pierce. Development of Shakespeare as a dramatist. *$1.75. Macmillan.
7–22387.
A comprehensive modern analysis of Shakespeare’s growth as a playwright. Comprehensive, inasmuch as it omits no step of the great dramatist’s development, and modern “in the generous citations from the most recent critics of the drama in England, France, and America; in the omission of the well-known facts of Shakespeare’s life, and the disregard of the familiar quibbles over the text.” (N. Y. Times.) “The illustrations constitute a valuable feature of the book. They embrace the most authentic maps of Elizabethan London, all illustrations that throw light on the construction of the Elizabethan stage, and many other things that help us to an understanding of the drama of the period.” (Nation.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 158. O. ’07. S. |
“The book may well be read in conjunction with Professor Raleigh’s, as supplying precisely the information which is lacking in that.” Edward Fuller.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 156. O. ’07. 970w. |
“The book throws more light on Shakespeare’s intellectual and artistic development than many others written with less regard for external conditions and for the part other playwrights played in preparing the way for Shakespeare.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 390w. |
“There are certain points in Professor Baker’s study that one is tempted to disagree with; but on the whole his book is extremely valuable because of the sound common sense of his attitude toward the playwright and his work.” Walter Clayton.
| + + − | Forum. 39: 259. O. ’07. 1060w. |
“We wish to recommend the general sanity of Professor Baker’s work and his thorough sympathy with his author.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 980w. |
“The enthusiastic analyst gets the better of that poetic sense so desirable in the Shakespearean critic. Excepting this limitation, however, the viewpoint of the book is wholly admirable, and a lover of the poet’s plays cannot fail to extract from it both profit and inspiration.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 513. Ag. 24, ’07. 1180w. |
“His conclusions may seem radical to readers who are not familiar with the more recent discussions; but they are in accord substantially with those held by nearly all later investigators.” Brander Matthews.
| + + | No. Am. 186: 281. O. ’07. 1140w. |
“This study ... is full of light and leading in the confusion of uneducated opinion.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 320w. |
“It is to be regarded as an exceptionally interesting and valuable addition to recent Shakespeare literature.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 728. S. ’07. 220w. |
Baker, James Hutchins. American problems; essays and addresses. **$1.20. Longmans.
7–7477.
In which American ideals are depicted and problems of sociology and education discussed. “The main emphasis is laid on moral ideals, and on moral culture as ‘the corner-stone of all culture.’” (Outlook.)
“Professor Baker’s style is clear and pleasing, his large range of illustrations are aptly applied while the general tone of the work is vigorous and even inspiring.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 630. My. ’07. 270w. | |
| Cath. World. 85: 257. My. ’07. 90w. |
“The author firmly believes that the world is growing better on the whole, and sets forth his belief in an interesting if not strikingly original manner.” Max West.
| + | Dial. 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 170w. | |
| Ind. 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 90w. |
“The only distinction of the book is its style, which has a crispness and vigor that many readers, especially such as are neither thoughtful nor well read, will doubtless find attractive.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 160w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + − | Putnam’s. 3: 229. N. ’07. 230w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 30w. |
“If it lacks style, it is also without pedantry—a virtue not to be despised in this day of the making of many books.” Edward C. Elliott.
| + − | School R. 15: 473. Je. ’07. 950w. |
Baker, John Cordis, ed. American country homes and their gardens; introd. by Donn Barber. $5. Winston.
6–38345.
“A folio of over two hundred pages, whose plates exhibit the best features of nearly fifty American country-places, scattered from Maine to California and from Massachusetts to North Carolina. The owners’ and architects’ names are generally given, and a plan of the estate often supplements the pictures of its most attractive aspects. All of the houses are of the more pretentious kind of country-seat, such as ‘Blair Eyrie’ at Bar Harbor and ‘Biltmore’ at Asheville; but they are artistic rather than showy, and prospective builders may get many hints from the book, even though they may be working on a much smaller and less ambitious scale.”—Dial.
“Mr. Donn Barber packs into three pages a tremendous amount of information about the status and development of American architecture and landscape gardening, and puts the reader in the way of appreciating and profiting by the pictures.”
| + | Dial. 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 200w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 130w. |
Baker, Louise R. Bettie Porter, boardwalk committee. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–27611.
A wholesome story for girls which tells of the enterprise of a group of girls in a country town who undertake the building of a board walk. It contains a lesson for the easily discouraged.
“Is a little out of the ordinary run of stories.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 80w. |
Baldwin, James Mark. Mental development in the child and the race: methods and processes, with figs. and diagrams. 3d ed. *$2.25. Macmillan.
6–44351.
Third edition with improvements and enlargements.
“Professor Baldwin’s book deserves high commendation even though one cannot agree in all details with the particular theory of mental development which he sets forth. The book gathers together a wealth of data regarding mental development, and is so well grounded upon biological facts and principles that one who is not a specialist in genetic psychology hesitates to criticise it. Nevertheless, the particular theory of mental development which Professor Baldwin champions—the imitation theory—seems to the writer decidedly weak at certain points.” Charles A. Ellwood.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 651. My. ’07. 1000w. | |
| + | Dial. 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 260w. | |
| Ind. 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 40w. |
“One thing that impresses the reader most favorably, apart from the obviously astute observation of the author, is his personal attitude of interest and appreciation. Analytic though his study of children must be, it contains a notable trait of appreciative humanity.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 38. Ja. 19, ’07. 260w. |
“As a book of genesis, biological and psychological, the present work is of distinctive and permanent value.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w. |
Baldwin, James Mark. Social and ethical interpretations in mental development: a study on social psychology. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“The whole argument of Professor Baldwin’s book is that society is a product of self-consciousness; that it depends in all phases of its evolution upon the development of the self-thought. Accordingly, he finds the matter of social organization to be thoughts; and he denies that animal associations constitute true societies, since animals do not possess self-consciousness.”—Am. J. Soc.
“In spite of all criticisms, however, Professor Baldwin’s book is an invaluable one to every student of sociology, and it remains, up to the present, the only systematic attempt in the English language to apply modern genetic and functional psychology to the interpretation of social organization and evolution.” Charles A. Ellwood.
| + − | Am. J. Soc. 13: 281. S. ’07. 530w. |
“It is a book for students, and should be approached in a purely studious spirit, as the matter will require gradual assimilation and cannot well be hastily scanned.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 580w. |
Baldwin, James Mark. Thought and things: a study of the development and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. v. I. *$2.75. Macmillan.
6–44293.
The first volume treats of “Functional logic” or “Genetic theory of knowledge.” The author looks upon it as “an inductive, psychological, genetic research into the actual movement of the function of thought.”
“We opened this volume in the expectation of an intellectual treat; we close it with a feeling of disappointment.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 1790w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“It is a work of much learning and research, and of very considerable interest.” J. S. Mackenzie.
| + + | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“I cannot see that anything is gained by [his] methodology; on the contrary, I think this method is largely responsible for an excessive complexity of details, a lack of simplicity, directness, clearness and thorough system in the handling of the subject-matter. The other embarrassment I have suffered in reading this book is due to the author’s terminology. I do not make these criticisms without having at the same time a very great willingness to record my fullest appreciation of a notable book, one that cannot fail to add to its author’s already splendid reputation, and one which will enlarge not a little our knowledge in a great field of science.” John E. Russell.
| + − | J. Philos. 3: 712. D. 20, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“We will say at once that this is a most earnest, profound, laborious, systematic analysis of cognition, such as cannot fail to be of continual utility to students of psychology. But this does not mean that the work is fundamentally sound; for the imperfection that belongs to all human works necessarily appears in a philosophical doctrine in the form of error.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 203. F. 28, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The terminology of the book is not of the simplest but behind it one finds that the writer, has something true and important to say.”
| + + − | Nature. 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Doubtless some of these perplexities represent, as usual, the reviewer’s ‘personal equation’ and some may disappear in the other volumes. At all events ... the significance of the aim, the standpoint and general method of the treatment, together with the suggestive special features mentioned and others unmentioned, make the work a notable one.” A. W. Moore.
| + + − | Psychol. Bull. 4: 81. Mr. 16, ’07. 3750w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Seriously, we protest against the German and American tendency to turn divine philosophy into a jargon comprehensible only to an inner ring.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The methodological difficulties of the subject are unusually great and have been handled with a remarkable degree or success.” G. A. Tawney.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 25: 177. F. 1, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Baldwin, May. Peg’s adventures in Paris: a school tale. †$1.50. Dutton.
The adventures of a “high spirited, good-hearted, but much spoilt young lady” who “rides roughshod over the few rules and regulations of the particularly undisciplinary pensionnat in which she is placed, and eventually finds herself in a French court of law.” (Ath.)
“Points of difference in matters social and educational are well brought out, but ‘Madame’ is considerably overdrawn, and careless revision has permitted numerous errors in French to pass.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w. |
“It is told in a sprightly manner, and the incidents follow so rapidly upon one another’s heels that a very lively interest is maintained through all its 400 pages.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w. |
“Tells of an almost fatiguingly sprightly young woman whose ‘adventures’ are stimulating but rather improbably thick upon the ground.”
| − + | Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 130w. |
Balzac, Honore de. Père Goriot; ed. with introd. and notes by R. L. Sanderson. *80c. Heath.
7–15141.
A student’s edition of Père Goriot uniform with Heath’s “Modern language series” and supplied with generous editorial material.
Banks, Louis Albert. Sinner and his friends. **$1.30. Funk.
7–23975.
This volume of thirty evangelistic sermons represents Dr. Banks’ mature thought characterized by force and unerring judgment.
Barber, Edwin Atlee. Salt glazed stoneware. (Primers of industrial art, v. 2.) **90c. Doubleday.
7–19048.
An authoritative treatment which “attempts to clear certain disputed points and correct some long-accepted traditions of ceramic writers which have been found to be erroneous. The characteristics of real salt glazed stoneware are briefly outlined and the origin of its manufacture related. The three divisions in the volume take up the stonewares of Germany and the low countries and other continental centres, the salt glazed wares of England—Fulham, Nottingham, Staffordshire, and Lambeth—and the stoneware of the United States.”—N. Y. Times.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 191. N. ’07. | ||
| + | Nation. 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 350w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w. |
Barber, Edwin Atlee. Tin enamelled pottery: maiolica, delft, and other stanniferous faience. (Art primer. Pennsylvania museum and school of industrial art, Phila.) **90c. Doubleday.
7–18108.
The first of a series designed to furnish in condensed form reliable information based on the latest discoveries relating to various industrial arts. In this first volume “descriptions are given of the maiolica of Italy, Spain, and Mexico; the delft wares of Holland and England, and the stanniferous faience of France, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden. The pottery of the United States also comes in for brief consideration. A list is added of marks on pottery that are most familiar. Preceding the index is a table giving the principal features of tin enameled pottery in the different countries named in the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 192. N. ’07. |
“The latest handbook of pottery usually reflects in epitome the taste of collectors of thirty years ago—a defect, if it is such, from which Dr. Barber’s monographs are not free.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 215. S. 5, ’07. 760w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w. |
“An authoritative work; indeed, so far as we know, it is the first complete work on the subject.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 350w. |
Barbour, Ralph Henry. [Crimson sweater.] †$1.50. Century.
6–34684.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“While not so satisfactory as some of the earlier stories of school life by the same author, it is wholesome, fairly well written, and will certainly be liked by boys.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 19. Ja. ’07. |
“The best he has done.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
* Barbour, Ralph Henry. Holly: the romance of a southern girl. †$2. Lippincott.
7–33207.
A very pretty southern romance in which Holly Wayne, eighteen and a true daughter of the confederacy, is wooed by Robert Winthrop, thirty-eight and a northerner. The book is a holiday offering from its very name to its full-page colored illustrations and the blue and gold binding.
“Being longer and more ambitious than his previous efforts, it is natural that it should not be quite so well finished. Nevertheless ‘Holly’ is a pretty story.”
| + | Dial. 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 160w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Barbour, Ralph Henry. [Maid in Arcady.] †$2. Lippincott.
6–34813.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | Ind. 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w. |
“This is a commonplace little volume which strives to be idyllic. The story and the marginal photographs are equally inartistic and lacking in suggestive quality.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 20w. |
* Barbour, Ralph Henry. [Tom, Dick and Harriet.] †$1.50. Century.
7–32158.
The final syllable of the last name in this trio is responsible for the element of dignity which added to the rollicking abandon implied in “Tom, Dick and Harry” makes as wholesome a tale as any young reader could wish. Ferry Hill is once more the scene of schoolwork and play, and especially true to life is the account of a track meet between Ferry Hill and Hammond with a victory for the former which means the winning of a much needed endowment fund.
| + | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w. |
“The book is worth reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 110w. |
Barclay, Armiger. King makers. †$1.50. Small.
The kingmakers are certain financiers who, for business reasons, undertake to put a new king on the throne of Sergia, one of those misty European kingdoms at which Russia glowers and England looks askance. While this is being accomplished two pretty love stories are worked out and, the revolution safely over, an English girl is persuaded to ascend the throne with the young king, and his princess cousin is left free to marry the Irish officer she loves. But there is much fighting and intrigue and much chagrin for the kingmakers before all this is safely brought about.
“As long as invention can produce stories as good as this, we shall not greatly object to them on the score of being mere variants upon a well-worn theme.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 120w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 120w. |
“The author of ‘The kingmakers’ has really written a battle which is worth while.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w. |
Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens). Life of Alfred de Musset; done into English by Charles C. Hayden. Il. subs. Hill, E. C.
6–26201.
“Arvède Barine’s little book shows a curious grasp of essentials in both biography and criticism. In the former she presents only that which influenced or found expression in the poet’s verse and prose; in the latter she preserves sufficient contemporary criticism which is essential in defining de Musset’s place today in French letters, rightly conjecturing that the future will still further qualify and reduce the essential fragments of to-day.”—N. Y. Times.
“Creditable English version. Mr. Barine had access to intimate sources, and his work is marked by literary finish and sympathetic insight into the extraordinary epoch of French romanticism.”
| + | Lit. D. 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 450w. |
“The account of the liaison with George Sand, on which his life turns and which might prove an attraction for the desultory reader, is anything but satisfactory from any point of view. Nor is the translation itself, though well enough in general, such a masterpiece of English as to merit a setting quite so luxurious.”
| − + | Nation. 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 300w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 580w. |
Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens). Princesses and court ladies; authorized Eng. version. **$3. Putnam.
6–45155.
The third of the author’s series on the lives of royalties translated from the French. The five women who are sketched here and who played parts in the history of Europe are Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin; Christina of Sweden; the Duchess of Maine, granddaughter of Le Grand Condé; the Margravine of Bayreuth, Frederick the Great’s sister; and “An Arab princess.”
“It is unfortunately only one more instance of the poor standard of translation now prevalent.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 420w. |
“Writes in a popular style that does not obtrude its background of scholarship, but nevertheless depends upon it to avoid any suspicion of cheapness or superficiality.”
| + | Dial. 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 210w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 120w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 560w. |
“The text is vivacious and sprightly, and is heightened by many interesting pictures.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 60w. |
“It is as vivid as a gypsy dance, as entertaining as a fairy tale.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 670w. |
“The chapter on ‘An Arab princess’ ... is as interesting a piece of biography as we have seen for some time.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 70w. |
“A very attractive style which, we are glad to say, is adequately represented in the translation.”
| + | Spec. 97: 221. F. 9, ’07. 220w. |
Barker, Ernest. Political thought of Plato and Aristotle. $3.50. Putnam.
7–15512.
“Two most desirable qualities appear in Mr. Barker’s exposition—a just perception of parts as related to the whole, and insight into the spirit within the letter.”—Nation.
“Mr. Barker is to be congratulated on having taken so broad a view of his subject.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 780w. |
“Mr. Barker’s book is not only particularly competent, but in every respect a masterly presentation of its subject. Mr. Barker’s book is much more than a contribution to an understanding of Greek political thought; it is an admirable text-book on political science, as well as an admirable popularization (in the best sense) of the best theory, both of ancient and modern.” Sydney Ball.
| + + + | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 517. Jl. ’07. 2220w. |
“A lucid, sane, and rightly proportioned presentation of the entire subject, scholarly but free from excess of erudition and extravagance of hypothesis, philosophical but not expressed in equivocal Hegelian verbosity or pseudo-scientific sociological terminology, apt and suggestive in the use of modern illustrations without strained and fantastic analogies.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 290. Mr. 28, ’07. 1810w. |
“Mr. Barker’s work is no mere translation, it is a masterly exposition of the two chief constructive thinkers of ancient civilization. The universities to which we look for future statesmen may be congratulated on the addition of this volume to their apparatus for political studies.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 139. Ja. 19, ’07. 860w. |
“As a whole is a satisfactory, truthful and interesting treatment of its subject, and should find readers wherever political science in its historical aspects receives attention.” Wm. A. Dunning.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 545. S. ’07. 1050w. |
“Mr. Barker has many of the qualifications for an excellent critic, but he does not possess the art of presenting a luminous running analysis. He has given generously of his deep study, and written a book that will be necessary to future students of Greek philosophy.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 591. My. 11, ’07. 1570w. |
“Illuminating volume.”
| + + | Spec. 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 860w. |
Barker, J. Ellis. Rise and decline of the Netherlands: a political and economic history and a study in practical statesmanship. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–6776.
“It is a political pamphlet, in which the author makes use of material professedly furnished by the history of the Dutch republic for the purpose of a long invective against the evils of democratic and party government, and especially against the particular form of government which exists in Great Britain. Mr. Ellis Barker also writes undisguisedly as an advocate holding a brief on behalf of the necessity of Great Britain’s adoption of a strong imperialist and federal policy based on the maintenance of a powerful navy and army.”—Lond. Times.
“Mr. Barker’s book will itself divide men into two parties: tariff reformers will applaud its conclusions, whilst free traders will say that the colours are laid on thickly for the very party purpose which Mr. Barker denounces.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 57. Ja. 19, ’07. 920w. |
“The over-abundance of quotations, apt and inapt alike, are wearisome and weaken the argument which contains some wheat to a large proportion of chaff.”
| − + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 922. Jl. ’07. 420w. |
“By the historian it can be safely passed over. Even for the general reader of moderate historical training it will be of little value.”
| − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 410w. |
“In style he certainly does not approach Motley, nor does he impress the reader with the feeling of a first-hand contact with the fresh sources of information opened up of recent years. But our chief objection is to having our history bent to the shape of a political tract. Considered as a history, the book is too evidently biassed not to inspire suspicion; as a political tract it is twenty times too long.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 230w. |
“Mr. Barker’s style is bright and vivid. His references to authorities are numerous, and there is an excellent analytical index of thirty-six pages. The book is well worth reading by Americans interested in the study of national federation and state-rights.” William Elliot Griffis.
| + − | Dial. 42: 250. Ap. 16, ’07. 1340w. |
“Despite his claim to originality and freshness many pages have an antiquated air. On the whole, a vigorous, suggestive book. Despite the author’s limitations, it provokes thought.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 913. Ap. 18, ’07. 320w. |
“With the aim that Mr. Ellis Barker sets before him it is possible to be in entire sympathy and at the same time to hold that his arguments are unsound and untrustworthy, because they are based on false premises and bad history. It is, in short, evident throughout this book that the author has failed to make himself acquainted with the intricate machinery of the Netherland system of government on which he dogmatizes.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 41. F. 8, ’07. 1970w. |
“From an artistic as well as from an historic point of view there are very grave defects in Mr. Barker’s volume. Petty inconsistencies in reasoning, repetitions of statement, and above all the over-abundance of citation, all combine to make it tiresome reading.”
| − | Nation. 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 700w. |
“Mr. Barker writes with the firmness and steady conviction of a man who is perfectly sure, in his own mind, of the ground he stands on, and his style is remarkably lucid, forceful, and incisive.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 319. My. 18, ’07. 1220w. |
“Although intended as a stirring appeal to the people of England, it is written throughout from the view-point of an uncompromising critic of popular government and all its ways.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 530w. |
“One of the most fascinating bits of historical interpretation we have read for some time.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 507. My. ’07. 180w. |
“We are not concerned here to argue the merits or defects of Mr. Barker’s political and economic creed with reference to current controversies, but the wearisome reiteration of it in season and out of season in what professes to be a sober historical narrative is fatal to the very object that he himself desires.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 1480w. |
“The warmest devotee of Clio in her traditional garments must admit the writer’s thorough familiarity with the best literature of his subject, the high intellectual tone of his ideas and generalizations, and the polish of his epigrammatic style, reflections, and warnings that give many of his pages a verve and colour of which his great American predecessor [Motley] would not have been ashamed.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 1010. Je. 29, ’07. 530w. |
Barksdale, Emily Woodson. Stella Hope. $1.50. Neale.
7–20866.
Stella Hope is early left an orphan and lives, like Cinderella, in the home of an austere aunt and her three daughters. To this house comes a wealthy invalid cousin and his companion, who after being snubbed as a paid assistant by the socially ambitious family, is discovered to be a cousin and joint-heir. A number of love stories combine to create the plot and bring to each character deserved reward or punishment.
Barnes, Howard Turner. Ice formation, with special reference to anchor-ice and frazil. $3. Wiley.
6–37871.
The book deals with the problems of physics which the ice-packs of the St. Lawrence give rise to. The ice-formations known as sheet-or-surface-ice, frazil-ice, and anchor-ice are discussed in relation to their mode of formation, general appearance, position they occupy in the river, and the effects they produce.
“The subject-matter of Professor Barnes’ book is of unusual interest, and as a pioneer work of the author’s effort deserves the more consideration. That the arrangement of the matter and the progression of the argument are sometimes lacking in directness, and that at a few points the language is a bit awkward, is therefore of minor import. To our view a serious fault of the book is its total silence on the subject of trouble with ice at water-works intakes.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 90. Ja. 17, ’07. 1430w. | |
| + + − | Nature. 75: 267. F. 17, ’07. 880w. |
Barnett, T. Ratcliffe. Blessed ministry of childhood. *50c. West. Meth. bk.
The lessons that a little child can teach to “scholars of the heart rather than to the scholar of the head—to wayfaring men and women ... who look out upon life with wistful eyes, desiring to know God, to win goodness, and to learn patience amid the shadows.”
Barr, Martin W. King of Thomond. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.
7–14249.
The pitiful tale of an insane patient’s life written by herself during her perfectly lucid moments. A joyless childhood, a lonely girlhood, and the speedy wrecking of the happiness that finally dawned for her, produce a wail on every page. It forms an intense human document.
“A weird tale, apparently half in and half out of the region of reality. It is quite as fantastic and as full of creepy horrors as such a tale might be expected to be.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w. |
Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.). [Rock in the Baltic.] 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
6–16737.
“The ‘rock’ is used as a prison by those supposed monsters of iniquity the Russian Grand Dukes, and there, in process of time, two enthusiastic seekers for trouble, one a young Englishman and the other a titled Russian, are incarcerated. Finally they are taken away on a yacht, on which two American girls are conveniently placed.”—Ind.
“This is a commonplace book written in a commonplace way about commonplace people.”
| − | Acad. 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 110w. |
“It is not often that the elusive grace and humor of modern girlhood are so well reproduced as they are in these pages.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 230w. |
“Reads as if it had been written against time.”
| − | Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 70w. |
Barrett, Howard. Management of children. *$2. Dutton.
7–29143.
“Treats of the physical care of infants and children, in both disease and health, from the time of birth into and past the early teens. All of the usual problems of food, drink, clothing, and sleep, the ordinary diseases, contagious and other, to which children are liable; accidents, malformations, and many possibilities of unusual disease are discussed in a plain, common sense, untechnical way for the enlightenment and guidance of those who have the immediate care of the young.”—N. Y. Times.
| N. Y. Times. 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 260w. |
“We offer our hearty congratulations to Mr. Barrett, and we may add, to those for whom he writes.”
| + + | Spec. 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 200w. |
Barrie, J. M. [Little minister.] $1.25. Crowell.
A thin paper edition with limp leather binding which contains a reproduced photograph of Maude Adams.
Barrington, Emilie Isabel (Mrs. Russell Barrington). [Life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton.] 2v. *$10.50. Macmillan.
7–13427.
“This work is said to have the approval of the family of the late President of the Royal Academy, and may be considered authoritative, if not official. A friendship existed between Frederick Leighton and the author for more than thirty years, and so the pages which deal with personal characteristics will be found peculiarly intimate.... The book includes Leighton’s diary, covering a period of fifty years, and among the mass of interesting correspondence incorporated is to be found a number of letters from George Eliot, Ruskin, Browning, Henry Greville, and Charles Dickens. Besides many of Leighton’s finest works reproduced especially for this publication are several fac-simile drawings and paintings never before published.”—N. Y. Times.
“Unsatisfactory as biography, these volumes are entirely valueless as criticism. Instead of disentangling the real merits of Leighton’s work from less admirable characteristics, Mrs. Barrington vaguely couples him with Phidias and the old masters, and urges claims so absurd as to tax severely the patience and perseverance of all educated readers.”
| − − | Acad. 72: 91. Ja. 26, ’07. 1120w. |
“It is disfigured by one or two hasty figures of speech ... and the printer’s reader has been unusually neglectful of his duties. It is a pity to leave such blemishes on a book of sterling value, indispensable to all students of modern English life and art.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 140. F. 2. 860w. |
“Unfortunately Mrs. Barrington is not as skilful in arranging and adapting her material as she has been industrious in collecting it.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
| − + | Dial. 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 1980w. | |
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 363. F. ’07. 500w. |
“Interesting as are many of Leighton’s letters, and multifarious as are the details with which the book is filled, the reader would have been able to gather a truer impression of Leighton, his development, his artistic character, and his work as an administrator if the biographer had been more rigorous in selecting and had been a better critic.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 61. F. 22, ’07. 1500w. |
“It cannot be called a worthy monument to its subject. Its author has little critical acumen or severity of taste; it is rambling and repetitious; padded with much matter of little interest as presented; marred by mistranslations of foreign tongues, misunderstanding of technical terms, faulty transcription of proper names, and careless proofreading.”
| − − + | Nation. 84: 275. Mr. 21, ’07. 1510w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 190w. |
“On the whole the book disappoints one in the lack of letters from the interesting people Leighton knew. A more serious matter is the failure of the biographer to offer a plausible pen-portrait of Leighton, or even to allow him to describe himself.” Charles de Kay.
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 2490w. |
“Small points and insignificant matters are grossly inflated, but the real issue is never faced. The flawless impeccable Leighton remains so to the last, though we are not told why he was, or, what is rather more important, why he was really not so.” Christian Brinton.
| − | Putnam’s. 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 340w. |
Barron, Elwyn Alfred. Marcel Levignet. †$1.50. Duffield.
6–36038.
“A detective story laid in Paris and including all the elements needed for profound sensation. The author is skilled in keeping apparently tangled threads in his hands, and unties several hard knots with all the ease of a practiced novel writer.” (Outlook.) “The hero is a sort of modern Cyrano de Bergerac.... He is bon vivant, editor, amateur detective, student of life as it is lived. His kinship with Cyrano is sentimental.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A refreshing variant on the old detective story. To readers of a certain vein, in fact, ‘Marcel Levignet’ will furnish a particularly agreeable light evening’s pastime.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 500w. |
“The tone of the story is essentially French—sentiment, situation, and characters, and most especially the climax.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 60w. |
“As fantastic as the generality of detective stories, ‘Marcel Levignet’ differs from said generality in being readable by grown-up persons.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 50w. |
Barry, Richard Hayes. Events man; being an account of the adventures of Stanley Washburn, American war correspondent. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–15132.
In which Mr. Barry records some of Mr. Washburn’s adventures on a newspaper dispatch-boat between Corea and Port Arthur during the first part of the war between Russia and Japan.
“The story is rich or tiresome in detail, according to taste, but is an exciting picture of conditions in war time on the water around Port Arthur.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 130w. |
“The book has evidently been written in a great hurry, not even time enough having been given to have the chapter headings all spelt correctly.”
| − + | Lit. D. 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w. |
“The author indulges himself in a diction so plentifully sprinkled with slang that it often becomes unintelligible to the reader accustomed to ordinary English. It is a story full of dogged perseverance and unbounded pluck, and it was well worth telling.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 500w. |
“On the whole the good ‘stuff’ ... far outweighs the bad. The story is a bit of real life; vivid, strong and picturesque. It remains to be recorded that the proof reading of the volume is unbelievably bad.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 257. Je. 1, ’07. 1830w. |
“Mr. Barry may always be counted upon for graphic power.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 765. Je. ’07. 60w. |
Bartholomew, John George, ed. Atlas of the world’s commerce. *$8. Scribner.
A new series of maps, with descriptive text and diagrams showing products, imports, exports, commercial conditions, and economic statistics of the countries of the world, compiled from the latest official returns at the Edinburgh geographical institute.
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 42. F. 8, ’07. 170w. |
“So excellent is the idea, and so good the execution by devices of colorings and diagrams, that whoever wants information of this description can hardly be directed to a better source for satisfaction. This cordial recognition of the volume’s merits must be accompanied with regrets that the figures are some years old, and that all figures of this sort are incomplete and contradictory.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 310w. |
Barton, Clara. Story of my childhood. 50c. Baker.
7–35389.
A simply told story of the childhood of Clara Barton, which is really written for the school children of the country after repeated appeals from them for bits of her early life.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 192. N. ’07. S. |
“Is as wonderful as its writer: it is extremely interesting, and yet it hardly touches on those aptitudes and activities that all the world associates with her remarkable personality.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 171. S. 16, ’07. 250w. |
“Will be found interesting to all persons who have followed her beneficent career.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 60w. |
Barton, George. Mystery of Cleverly. 85c. Benziger.
7–19594.
A story in which the example of the hero finally wins to a manly life a good-for-nothing son of an indulgent father.
Barton, James Levi. Missionary and his critics. **$1. Revell.
6–43768.
In which the author has brought together a “large number of testimonies favorable to missions and missionaries from witnesses of competence and character.” (Ind.)
| Ind. 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w. |
“It deserves a place among the books of reference found in every well-furnished editorial library. It is not only an enlightening but a thoroughly interesting book, and greatly needed also.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w. |
“Rev. James L. Barton has admirably infused into readable form the opinion of different nationalities, particularly in the Orient, as to the worth of Christian missions.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 70w. |
Barton, Mrs. Marion T. Experiment in perfection. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–11589.
The story of a young woman “of great beauty, much intensity of character, and an unfortunate penchant for logic on all occasions, who starts out with the idea that all she needs to round out her life to perfection is one woman friend and one man friend, both, of course absolutely without the flaws to which human flesh is commonly heir.” Her perfection system has its vulnerable points, and is mutilated in part by an estrangement, an unfortunate love affair, and a second marriage.
“About the best that can be said for it is that its author possesses the story-telling instinct without the still more important possession of a story worth telling.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 520w. |
“The working out of the story shows skill and insight, and the reader is always interested. But there is a repellant hardness in Persis, and certainly an improbability in the episode upon which the friendship between the girls hangs.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 180w. |
Bashford, James Whitford. China and Methodism. *35c. West. Meth. bk.
7–524.
A brief outline which will enable American Methodists to understand the problem which confronts them and to make preparation for a suitable participation in the centennial celebration of the founding of Protestant missions in China which will occur in Shanghai, April 25 to May 6, 1907.
Bashore, Harvey Brown. Outlines of practical sanitation, for students, physicians, and sanitarians. *$1.25. Wiley.
6–33610.
Improved sanitation with regard to habitations; water, milk and food supplies; the collection and disposal of waste; schools and cars. There are chapters on vital statistics, municipal, rural and suburban sanitation, and personal hygiene.
“Clear, convincing, and simple; but, covering as it does so wide a range of subjects in 198 pages, is of course, only suggestive.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 5. Ja. ’07. |
“Within the limits indicated by its sub-title, this is one of the best and most practical books on sanitation that has ever come to our attention. Perhaps it is surprising that in attempting to cover so wide a range of subjects in a popular manner, more slips and questionable statements were not made.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 56: 417. O. 18, ’06. 260w. |
“The book should be found useful as a means of imparting sound ideas of the laws of healthy living to teachers and citizens.”
| + | Nature. 76: 125. Je. 6, ’07. 100w. |
Baskerville, Beatrice C. Polish Jew: his social and economic value. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–15500.
Eight years’ residence and study in Poland lie back of Miss Baskerville’s presentation of the Jew of that country. She throws light upon the Polish Jew immigrant by revealing the conditions of his native economic and social environment.
“The author is very frankly unfavorably impressed by the Jews, and, although it is to be hoped she has exaggerated the dark side of the situation, her volume is of great importance. The style is good and the thought clear.”
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 204. Ja. ’07. 500w. |
“Such a book as this deserves a hearty welcome, and for valuable matter contributed on Poland—a country very little known—it may be classed with that of Dr. George Brandes, which appeared a short time ago.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 95. Jl. 27. 870w. |
“Would have enhanced value if the author ... would have shown more sympathy with the population she describes.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w. |
“It is so obvious that she knows a great deal that we cannot help regretting a certain lack of clearness in the impression which her book produces. It would almost seem as though Miss Baskerville had unconsciously written rather for a Polish than for an English public.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 359. O. 26, ’06. 880w. |
“The substantial truth is there, but it is truth without sympathy, and with much distortion. By itself the volume would be open to severe censure on the point; but as a study of the restless Hebrew energy that is so active in stirring Slav indifference and hesitation towards fruitful action, it serves its purpose.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 680w. |
“What she has to say is, in the first place, interesting in itself. In the second place it can hardly fail to throw light upon some of the problems which immigration (too rapid for easy digestion by our own not too settled civilization) is fastening upon the United States.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1190w. |
“Her immediate contact with the representatives of parties, as well as with actual facts and events in Poland, enables the writer to speak with authority.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 330w. |
“An elaborate, dispassionate study.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 90w. |
“It has the very rare merit among its contemporaries of being impartial both from a Russian and a Jewish standpoint. From a political point of view, in connexion with the present struggle of revolutionary parties for power, the chapters on the strikes and the Bund contain facts little known outside Russia; facts particularly instructive for the serious and unprejudiced reader.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 368. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w. |
Bastian, Henry C. Evolution of life. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–33603.
“A detailed and somewhat belated statement of his side of the controversy over the spontaneous generation of life, which followed the publication, in 1872, of his book on ‘The Beginnings of life.’”—Dial.
“Ingenious and striking some of the new experiments cited certainly are; but it will be very difficult to find any biologist who will be convinced that they demonstrate the truth of the conclusion drawn from them by Dr. Bastian.” Raymond Pearl.
| − | Dial. 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 210w. | |
| Ind. 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 60w. | ||
| Lond. Times. 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 1140w. |
“With practically all the eminent bacteriologists of the world flatly denying such a postulate of spontaneous generation, we can only add, in deference to Dr. Bastian’s evident sincerity, that his experiments must be at fault in some way; there is some loop-hole unguarded.”
| − | Nation. 85: 192. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w. |
“It is impossible not to admire the author’s strong desire to get at the truth, the courage of his convictions, and his incomparable good humour.” J. A. T.
| − + | Nature. 76: 1. My. 2, ’07. 1070w. |
Batcheller, Mrs. Tryphosa Bates. Glimpses of Italian court life: happy days in Italia adorata. **$4.80. Doubleday.
6–41530.
“Dedicated by permission to Queen Helena, this sumptuous book is a worthy record of an American woman’s visit to Italy, of her experiences in aristocratic social circles of Rome, and of her impressions of the natural and artistic wonders of the Peninsula. Her story is told in letters written to friends at home, a literary form well adapted to books of this kind, and giving opportunities for naïve description and impressions caught on the wing.”—Lit. D.
| Current Literature. 42: 162. F. ’07. 1500w. |
“The personal note is therefore strong, and the narrative is rambling, informal, and thoroughly readable.”
| + | Dial. 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 340w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 190w. |
“The book would have been improved by more careful editing.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 650w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w. |
“Of special interest and value are her comments on and appraisement of the various vocal teachers in the eternal city.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w. |
“The personal tone is so strenuously evident throughout that it becomes wearisome. The book is ingenuously written.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 80w. |
Bates, Arlo. [Talks on teaching literature] **$1.30. Houghton.
6–37886.
“Talks founded on lectures delivered before the Summer school of the University of Illinois in 1905. Concerns the problems, conditions, and some difficulties of the subject, the inspirational use of literature, the study of prose and of the novel, criticism, literary workmanship, literary biography, and voluntary reading.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 6. Ja. ’07. |
“It is a very interesting and suggestive book, and we particularly recommend to the teachers into whose hands it falls the chapter which tells how Blake’s ‘Tiger’ was brought by the author within the comprehension of a boy of eight. We have rarely seen as sensible a book upon the subject with which it deals.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 90w. |
“The suggestions and criticisms contained in this volume will be found extremely helpful to school and college teachers of English subjects.”
| + + | Educ. R. 34: 105. Je. ’07. 60w. |
“The virtue of Professor Bates is that his remarks and experiences are always copious and illuminating. As such, the book should be read by every teacher, if for no other reason than the fresh and invigorating common-sense with which Prof. Bates approaches his subject. It is not an easy book, however. Occasionally Prof. Bates’s earnestness leads him to fall into a mild fremescence of style not good for clearness. But mainly the book is excellent.” William T. Brewster.
| + + − | Forum. 38: 389. Ja. ’07. 860w. |
“The points about which those in the main agreeing with Professor Bates are most likely to feel a little dissatisfied with the book are his suggestion that vocabulary be studied independent of context, and his failure to recognize in his discussion, though he doubtless recognizes in his own mind, the difference between the psychology of the adolescent and that of the child.” William Morse Cole.
| + + − | School R. 15: 236. Mr. ’07. 950w. |
Bates, Carroll Lund. The Master; a rosary of Christian verse, il. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–7479.
Sixteen poems whose themes are drawn from incidents in the life of Christ.
“Some fairly good and illustrated by well-chosen half-tones.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 20w. |
Bates, David Homer. Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2. Century.
7–32385.
Mr. Bates was manager of the War department telegraph office from 1861 to 1866. This book is one of reminiscences in which Lincoln plays an important part, being an almost daily visitor to the office where cipher despatches were sent and received during the war.
“His account of happenings in the telegraph-office during the strenuous days of the war is Well ordered in arrangement and simply and naturally written.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 320w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“It cannot be said that Mr. Bates’s book of reminiscence is very important, but it is certainly fresh and original, and contains not a few incidents of Washington life and some stories about Lincoln himself which are decidedly worth preservation.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 170w. |
“Aside from the revelations that he makes of Lincoln’s relations with the military telegraph corps during war time, Mr. Bates imparts in his books a great deal of information concerning important military movements.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 754. D. ’07. 140w. |
Bates, Katharine Lee. [From Gretna Green to Land’s End: a literary journey in England.] **$2. Crowell.
7–32870.
In which the author visits the Border, the Lake country and the heart of England and reviews, with many a fresh allusion, the connection which historic places have with tradition, story and song. The work is based upon wide reading and careful observation.
“A book that readers who look forward to a trip abroad will enjoy and that returned travellers will thoroughly appreciate.”
| + | Dial. 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 130w. |
“As she hurls herself through the length and breadth of England, easily making two moves to any other pilgrim’s one, she pours out a lively stream of fact and comment that keeps the reader amused and only too well instructed. The information, literary and historical, is thoroughly got up.”
| + | Nation. 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 180w. |
“She has a keen sense of the picturesque and the worth-while, and she knows well how to find color in what might appear but gray to others.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w. |
Battersby, Harry F. P. Avenging hour. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–37929.
A novel which involves an unusual treatment of a man’s seduction of the wife of another. “We follow the progress of this rapid lovemaking not only without disgust but with entire sympathy. The man and woman we feel are not mad or bad but only intensely human—winning personalities of great charm. The author has managed to convey a sense of that intuitive power which in a flash makes people recognise their true affinities.” (Sat. R.)
“The teller of this story disguises its essential repulsiveness by a skillful use of the casuistry of sentiment and the grace of literary composition.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 410w. |
“The book has many good points, but unfortunately they do not counteract its unpleasant features.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 250w. |
“Mr. Battersby has done a daring and remarkable thing and his book should place him high among contemporary novelists.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 440w. |
Baxter, William, jr. Switchboards for power, light and railway service, direct and alternating current, high and low tension. $1.50. Derry-Collard co.
6–45714.
“In the first third of the book the way in which switchboards are connected for single generator and multiple generator plants, and also for the three-wire system, is shown.... Somewhat over a third of the book following the matter just mentioned is devoted to switchboards in actual practice.... The remaining portion of the volume is devoted to switches, circuit breakers, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.
“With the exception of [three] omissions ... the book is an ideal one from a didactic standpoint.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 305. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w. |
Bayley, R. Child. Complete photographer. $3.50. McClure.
7–35187.
A guide to photography which deals thoroly with the science of photography from its earliest beginnings to its most recent developments and adaptations.
“The completeness of his book, however, lies more in the fact that scarcely a single point is left untouched, than that any particular point is exhaustively treated; and in this respect the work, admittedly, does not challenge comparison with cheaper specialised brochures already on the market. Of many good pictures it would be invidious to mention a few; but it may safely be said that their praiseworthy selection and adequate printing will give the book a great value.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 634. D. 22, ’06. 520w. |
“The book is much in advance of most works in completeness and attractiveness.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 94. Ap. ’07. |
“As an historical review of photography it seems to merit its title, the whole subject being treated with a great deal of method. For the beginner ‘Complete photographer’ should serve as a textbook, and he will do well to follow the author’s advice.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 350w. |
“There is hardly a difficulty which besets the practice of photography, on which valuable advice is not given in it.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 850w. |
“There are some opinions with which we do not agree. To those who know enough about photography to appreciate it, and there must be a very large number of persons so qualified, the volume will prove both entertaining and instructive.”
| + + − | Nature. 75: 75. N. 22, ’06. 590w. |
“The book treats of the subject thoroughly and is of value to the beginner as well as the expert.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 180w. |
“The book is clearly written and the descriptions are easily followed, and not too technical, each particular subject being dealt with in a separate chapter in a most thorough and practical manner.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 70w. |
“It is as an art that Mr. Bayley prefers to deal with his fascinating hobby, and his book should meet a widely felt want in this respect.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 270w. |
Beale, Harriet S. B. Stories from the Old Testament for children. il. $2. Duffield.
7–30462.
A sure help to mothers and Sunday school teachers who wish to present Old Testament characters in an attractive light with nothing lacking of the historical and religious significance. The book is interestingly illustrated.
“The Old Testament is practically retold in a way to interest children.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 40w. |
“For a book which might be kept in a household and referred to every other Sunday, the volume seems well compiled, though we think the author has unnecessarily preserved the phraseology of the Bible. We would suggest that since her narrative is in the language of today, the conversation should be also; it would then seem truer to the child reader.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w. |
Beale, Joseph Henry, jr., and Wyman, Bruce. Law of railroad rate regulation, with special reference to American legislation. *$6. Nagel.
6–36405.
“This is a legal treatise of twelve hundred pages. It contains the full text of the Interstate commerce act and decisions of both of the courts and of the commission under this act, as well as a discussion of the general principles of public service law and the primary obligations of these in public employments, particularly of carriers. In brief, it covers comprehensively the whole law, both common and statutory, with respect to railway rate regulation.”—Outlook.
“The book appears to us a valuable addition to the editor’s library, and with its companion book of ‘Selected cases’ on the same general subject, to be well nigh indispensable to the lawyer who has to deal with this subject.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w. |
“The authors intrude some assertions not supported—and in some cases not supportable—by citations of authorities. But Professors Beale and Wyman have been wofully betrayed by him who compiled the index. Lawyers will be dismayed to find the text rendered so inaccessible. The impression left by the book is of hasty compilation and absence of just proportion.” Roberts Walker.
| − + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 333. Je. ’07. 1080w. |
Beard, Charles Austin. Introduction to the English historians. *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–37646.
“In this book Mr. Beard tries to solve a problem very real to teachers of large history classes—the twofold problem of introducing each member of the class to a number of great authorities on special periods and topics at the same time, and of securing a critical examination of the materials in the class-room. His work differs from the well-known source-books in that it consists of excerpts from the secondary sources only: e. g., Maitland, Freeman, and Stubbs. Thirty-six authors are represented and a larger number of works. The difficulty of making a wise selection from abundant materials is recognized and fairly met. Each chapter is prefaced by a brief, explanatory statement concerning the citation, which is divided into sections with topical headings. These form a brief, clear analysis.... A short bibliographical note concludes each chapter, and an index at the end of the volume gives easy access to the material.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“A collection of this kind is open to two serious objections: (1) the subject matter is in a sense ‘pre-digested’ ... (2) the personality of the author becomes blurred.” C. T. Wyckoff.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 416. Ja. ’07. 460w. |
“An excellent reference book. Nothing else like it available at present.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 94. Ap. ’07. |
“The usefulness of the volume should be considerable. The extracts are all well within the grasp of college students, and the larger number can be profitably used in secondary schools. To teachers the book will be of service as a guide in the selection of suitable matter for collateral reading, while for the many schools which lack access to good libraries the volume will be a real boon.” William MacDonald.
| + + | Educ. R. 34: 101. Je. ’07. 680w. |
“Both from the pedagogical and the research points of view the volume deserves unqualified commendation. It is intelligently discriminating in its selections, liberal and mature in its comment, and in its arrangement it shows the results of thoro scholarship and fruitful classroom experience. It should save both teachers and students of English history a vast amount of labor and time.”
| + + | Ind. 61: 1291. N. 29, ’06. 370w. |
“Even outside Mr. Beard’s own classroom it is an open question how far such a collection will find a following. We are inclined to think his selections somewhat severe for college freshmen.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 438. N. 22, ’06. 120w. |
“The good effect of its use would probably overbalance any counter tendencies.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 897. D. 22, ’06. 420w. |
“Time alone can demonstrate the success of his experiment from the pedagogical point of view, but there can be no doubt as to the value.”
| + + − | Outlook. 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 360w. |
Beard, Daniel Carter. Field and forest handy book: new ideas for out of doors. $2. Scribner.
6–40572.
In furnishing to boys a year-around guide for equipping themselves for out-of-door pursuits Mr. Beard has drawn only upon his own outing experiences. “The book is not a ‘re-hash’ of old ‘stunts,’ but is full of brand-new things, cleverly arranged according to the seasons to which they are appropriate.” Some of the problems solved are: How to cross a stream on a log, How to make a bridge for swift waters, How to make a real hunter’s clothes and moccasins, and How to build a real log house.
“The material is almost wholly new.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 19. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
“It is simply indispensable to any wide-awake, real boy.”
| + + | Bookm. 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w. |
“There is nothing, from airships to flying birds, from boating to camping, from loghouse to snowhouse, that has escaped this born sportsman of our time.”
| + + | Ind. 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 60w. | |
| Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w. |
“A treasure for all boys and not without its use for men.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w. |
“The boy or man who has heard the ‘call of the wild’ will do well to entrust himself to Mr. Beard’s guidance.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 34: 762. D. ’06. 220w. |
Beard, Lina, and Beard, Adelia Belle. [Things worth doing and how to do them.] $2. Scribner.
6–40580.
Clear directions accompanied by pen drawings are given for all manner of clever things at home. The book is designed for girls, and one part is devoted to things for parties, shows and entertainments, and the other to things for home, gift days and fairs.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 19. Ja. ’07. |
“The ideas are novel and easy to make, for the authors are thoroughly practical and actually make the things they describe.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 50w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 110w. |
Beardsley, Rufus C. Design and construction of hydroelectric plants; including a special treatment of the design of dams. *$5. McGraw pub.
7–18823.
“This work presents in a very thorough and practical manner the method of the design and construction of hydro-electric power plants, taking up in detail, in the order in which they are met by the practical engineer, most of those points which must be considered in designing or constructing a complete waterpower development. The purpose of the work seems to be to give to the designing engineer, in as short and as concise manner as possible the method in which the various problems are attacked, including under each topic most of the data and tables which he is required to use in connection therewith.”—Engin. N.
“Altogether the book will be found to contain much of value to the student and to teachers and will be a valuable addition to the engineer’s reference library.” A. W. M.
| + + | Engin. N. 58: 75. Jl. 18, ’07. 780w. |
Beare, John Isaac. Greek theories of elementary cognition, from Alcmæon to Aristotle. *$4.15. Oxford.
7–29076.
“This volume deals with the various theories entertained in regard to the five senses, sensation in general, and lastly the Sensus Communis, and its method is under each head to give as consistent a view as possible of what was severally taught by Alcmaeon, Empedocles, Democritus, Anaxagoras, Diogenes of Appollonia, Plato, and Aristotle.”—Nature.
“Mr. Beare’s scholarship is sound.”
| + + − | Nation. 83: 121. Ag. 9, ’06. 660w. |
“The statement is very clear, the discussion of disputed points scholarly, the facts are well arranged, and the literature—to judge from the foot-notes and the list of books consulted—seems to have been thoroughly studied; although one misses a reference to one recent work on the ‘De anima’—that of Rodier, whose commentary, if not his translation, has been regarded by competent judges as indispensable. On every account this volume is to be commended to those interested in the development of theories of sense-perception.”
| + + − | Nature. 75: 122. D. 6, ’06. 630w. |
“The present volume should be of the greatest service not only to Greek scholars, but to all psychologists who take an interest in the history of their science.” A. E. Taylor.
| + + − | Philos. R. 16: 205. Mr. ’07. 1360w. |
“A learned and elaborate disquisition which will be welcome not only to students of ancient Greek psychology, but also to readers who desire to know what the Greek philosophers accomplished in this particular line of psychological investigation.”
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 252. N. ’06. 130w. |
Bearne, Mrs. Catherine. [Heroines of French society in the court, revolution, empire and restoration.] *$3. Dutton.
7–25682.
“Contains sketches of the lives of four women: Madame Vigée Le Brun, La Marquise de Montagu, Madame Tallien, and Madame de Genlis. Scraps of contemporary history are interwoven; a number of photogravure portraits are scattered here and there; and the whole makes a fairly readable volume.”—Nation.
“The book is one which deserves more attention than we can give it.”
| + | Acad. 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 210w. | |
| Ind. 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 260w. |
“As an historical study the work has little value; as a group of biographical sketches it adds nothing to what has already been published in a much more useful and entertaining fashion.”
| − | Nation. 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 180w. |
“A chatty book, filled with anecdotes and incidents that illustrate the manners, morals, and ideas of the upper classes of France previous to and following the years of the revolution.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 165. Mr. 16, ’07. 460w. |
“Mrs. Bearne writes fluently, and opens here and there a door through which the lover of personal anecdote and gossip can get a glimpse of characteristic French court society.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 310w. |
“The volume is full of stirring pictures of the terror and moves with spirit.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w. |
* Bearne, Rev. David. Guild-boys’ play at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.
More glimpses of Ridingdale boys and this time they try their skill as actors in Shakesperian rôles.
* Bearne, Rev. David. New boys at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.
Another Ridingdale book whose events take place at a Catholic school for boys. Wholesome lessons are taught between the lines of fun and frolic.
Bearne, David. Ridingdale flower show; il. by T. Baines. 85c. Benziger.
6–46345.
A story of real live boys who “talk as boys and act as boys.”
Bearne, David. Witch of Ridingdale; il. by T. Baines. 85c. Benziger.
6–46344.
A spiritual story for boys whose hero, Lance Ridingdale, has become a favorite among young readers.
Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John. [Works.] Cambridge English classics; text ed. by A. R. Waller, 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Nation. 84: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 4.) | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 111. F. 23, ’07. 1560w. (Review of v. 4.) |
Beazley, Charles Raymond. Dawn of modern geography. 3v. ea. *$6.75. Oxford.
v. 3. A history of exploration and geographical science from the middle of the 13th to the early years of the 15th century (c. A. D. 1260–1420). In it the author tells of the great inland-trade pioneers and of the daring challenge that they made for the “open door” in Hind and Cathay.
“Mr. Beazley’s work is most timely. It is without doubt the best that has yet appeared on the subject. It is not only a work belonging to geographical literature, it has an important place in historical literature. Such a work serves well to impress the importance of historical geography, an importance which receives commendable recognition in the European countries, but which we in America are slow to appreciate.” E. L. Stevenson.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 869. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“The most interesting and easiest to master of the series.” G. Le Strange.
| + + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 573. Jl. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“The form and arrangement of the book undoubtedly leaves something to be desired. After surmounting a long list of abbreviations and corrections, a very ill-knit preface, and an introduction which reads like an after-thought, the reader flounders heavily amid footnotes, supplementary notes, appendix notes, and bibliographical notes. The references are often rather bewildering, and one misses a capable summary at the close. One is easily reconciled to the lumbering of the wheels by the novelty of the outlook and the strange vision of these outlandish regions, so seldom penetrated by modern book.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 98. Mr. 29, ’07. 2860w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“In the completion of his great work Mr. Beazley has done and more than done for the middle ages what Bunbury did for ancient times in his ‘Ancient geography.’”
| + + | Nation. 85: 330. O. 10, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“A credit both to him and to his university.”
| + + | Nature. 75: 343. F. 7, ’07. 2410w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“A work which will be the standard authority in English on a very important subject.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 1–3.) |
Beck, Otto W. Art principles in portrait photography, composition, treatment of background, and the processes involved in manipulating the plate. **$3. Baker.
7–19429.
The “good straight photography” descended from Daguerre is elevated into the realm of art away out of the “lifeless groove” into which “commercialism has enslaved it.” “In the treatise before us. Mr. Beck has shown, by description and pictorial illustration, that if creative work is to enter into photography it must be possible to make on the negative a line of any character and to control the light and shade with the facility of one who paints. In fact, his illustrations show that those powerful resources of the graphic arts, light lines and dark lines, can be made on the negative as readily as on paper and canvas.” (Dial.)
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 159. O. ’07. |
“The book is worthy of perusal by amateur as well as professional photographers.”
| + | Dial. 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w. |
“Mr. Beck’s ‘principles’ are generally very good, but we cannot say as much for his practice.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 380w. |
“Mr. Beck’s book is the work of a man who knows pictures for their full value.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 310w. |
Becke, Louis. Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.
W 6–235.
“Reminiscences of a happy-go-lucky wandering along quiet French byways.... The dog furnishes most entertaining diversion all along the way, but so does Jimmy Potter, with his sophomoric proclivities; Mrs. Basker, with her mania for ‘doing things cheaply’ at somebody else’s expense ... and a dozen other quaint and interesting personalities that stand out with remarkable distinctness, considering the highly unconventional mode of their introduction.”—N. Y. Times.
“Delightfully humorous sketches. Fortunately Mr. Becke’s love of fun is tempered by discretion.”
| + | Int. Studio. 31: 334. Je. ’07. 90w. |
“Doubtless there is little to be said for these casual and garrulous sketches, except that they are unusually readable.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 250w. |
“Not the kind of book of which it is possible to give outlines or digests, since its very beauty and charm consist in its utter disregard of sequence or logic or of any substantial subject matter, but every chapter is a fresh delight to an appreciative mind, and the whole quite reconciles even Mr. Becke’s old acquaintances to his taking a ‘day off,’ as it were, from his bounden duty in regard to the South Seas.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 283. My. 4, ’07. 560w. |
Becke, Louis. Settlers of Karossa Creek and other stories of Australian bush life. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Three stories of Australian bush life which reveal the evil in man, as old as Adam, pitted against refining integrity. Here are shown the crude beginnings of selectors, their trials and small victories as they battle with the avarice of men mightier than they.
Beckwith, Clarence A. Realities of Christian theology; an interpretation of Christian experience. **$2. Houghton.
6–37867.
An interpretation of Christian experience in the light of modern intelligence. “His object is to construct doctrines that are certainly vital and real from the facts of life to which the saints of the Christian ages bear testimony.” (Ind.)
“It will carry a ministry of mental peace and satisfaction to many earnest thinkers in this field. It is an interpretation of the Christian religion in terminology and thought-units that will be comprehensible to the student of the present generation. It is a book for the transition period in Christian theology.” Herbert Alden Youtz.
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 694. O. ’07. 1210w. |
Reviewed by George Hodges.
| Atlan. 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 300w. |
“The statement of the author in his preface, that there is universal agreement that, ‘whatever the differences of the past or present explanations of Christian belief; the Christian experience of to-day is essentially the same that it has been from the beginning,’ will hardly find so universal an assent as he supposes. Leaving this fundamental criticism of the method of the book, we may express our admiration of the vital way in which Professor Beckwith, with genuine historical sympathy, has penetrated beneath the formal elements of doctrine and has discovered the essential reality of the great spiritual issues with which theology deals.” Gerald Birney Smith.
| + − | Bib. World. 30: 300. O. ’07. 630w. | |
| + − | Ind. 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w. |
“The principal themes of the usual doctrinal systems appear in the discussion, but it can hardly be said that new light is thrown upon them.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 180w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 255. F. ’07. 70w. |
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Poems; ed. with an introd., by Ramsay Colles. (Muses’ lib.) *40c. Dutton.
“This single and handy volume of Beddoes’ poems contains all his published poems, with the exception of ten, which may be found in the standard two-volume edition of Edmund Gosse. It is not conceivable that Beddoes will ever be popular, yet there will always be a few who will savor the peculiar mingling of the gruesome and the beautiful that runs thru his dramas, and who will not be deterred by his incoherence. His most famous play, ‘Death’s jest book,’ is best described as a mixture of Webster and John Ford, mitigated by ‘Festus’ Bailey.”—Nation.
“Since Dr. Gosse’s edition is not to be had by all, we offer a hearty welcome to the little reprint before us. May it sell far and wide, and bring Beddoes many new admirers.”
| + | Acad. 72: 360. Ap. 13, ’07. 1780w. |
“Mr. Colles’s introduction, though rather carelessly written, gives a good many interesting facts about his obscure life, and he has been at considerable pains to produce a correct text.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 209. Jl. 5, ’07. 2160w. | |
| Nation. 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 120w. | ||
| + | Sat. R. 104: 334. S. 14, ’07. 680w. |
Beebe, C. William. Bird: its form and function. **$3.50. Holt.
6–37592.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“But not only is this volume crowded with new and interesting facts: it is also profusely illustrated, and most of these illustrations are extremely good.” W. P. Pycraft.
| + + | Acad. 72: 431. My. 4, ’07. 1050w. |
“Written in so interesting a style as to be enjoyed by the general reader as well as by the specialist.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 6. Ja. ’07. |
“Each chapter is the work of the born lecturer, holding the attention of his audience from beginning to end, suggesting here, illustrating there, and always stimulating the appetite for further investigation.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907. 1: 293. Mr. 9. 1700w. |
“Of substantial merit and permanent value for every lover and student of denizens of the air.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 370w. |
“Mr. Beebe’s style is in itself pictorial: but in clothing his facts with ‘living interest,’ as he says in his preface, he occasionally passes the boundary line between warrantable deduction and pure fancy. Considering the wide field covered, actual errors are infrequent.”
| + + − | Nation. 83: 566. D. 27, ’06. 850w. |
“The book will take and hold a distinct place in the literature of the subject for it is quite original and stands alone. His book is of worldwide interest.”
| + + | Nature. 76: 489. S. 12, ’07. 820w. |
“Side by side with a perfection of scientific detail, Mr. Beebe fans to a vital flame an exquisite appreciation of the ethical value of bird life.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 730w. |
“It thus covers ground that has been but little worked. Here and there slips occur. The book abounds in information and represents a large amount of original work.” F. A. L.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 25: 142. Ja. 25, ’07. 920w. |
“It is with real satisfaction that we recommend a book which is thoroughly popular, very suitable for youthful naturalists, and at the same time scientific.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 1035. Je. 29, ’07. 530w. |
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.
6–41017.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is one of the best nature-books we have had from America.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 210w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 38. F. ’07. |
“He has imagination and a keen sense of extracting the artistic from matters of fact, but he never allows these accomplishments to distort the truth.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 880w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 170w. |
“This is a beautiful book, and good to read.”
| + | Spec. 98: 96. Ja. 19, ’07. 200w. |
Beeching, Rev. Henry Charles, and Nairne, Alexander. Bible doctrine of atonement. *$1. Dutton.
These six lectures, five of them by Dr. Beeching, were given in Westminster abbey. Three of them trace the idea of atonement as it appears in the Old Testament, and three treat the New Testament aspects of the subject.
“All [lectures] are interesting and easily read. Prof. Nairne’s lecture is a valuable piece of exposition, but is not such easy reading as the rest of the volume.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 382. My. 30. 160w. |
“The treatment is popular, but in touch with the results of modern investigation.”
| + | Bib. World. 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w. |
“When we get to what he rightly calls ‘the very centre of the subject’ ... we have a feeling of disappointment, a feeling that after all Dr. Beeching has failed to take us to the centre. We believe Dr. Beeching to be true and correct so far as he goes, but we believe that he has not gone far enough or deep enough; he has given us but part of the doctrine of the atonement.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 360w. |
“A short book upon the atonement which shall be at the same time learned and popular, will, we are sure, be eagerly read by many persons whose views in regard to this difficult doctrine have become unsettled as a result of recent criticism. Such a book lies before us at the present moment.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 210w. |
Beer, George Louis. British colonial policy, 1854–1865. **$2. Macmillan.
7–30451.
A work which in presenting the British colonial policy from 1754 to 1765 covers the fundamental cause of the revolution. It is a work which “has not for its purpose the glorification of revolutionary patriots or motives, but which is content to view the facts of the period as facts.” (Ind.)
“We commend this book to persons who desire a fairer view of the ultimate causes of American independence.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 310w. | |
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 570. N. ’07. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 720w. |
“This is a book that Fourth of July orators will have to reckon with, sooner or later.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 100w. |
Beet, Joseph Agar. Manual of theology. *$2.75. Armstrong.
“Professor Beet’s ‘Manual of Christian theology’ expounds the views on the intermediate state which brought him into difficulty with the English Methodists some years ago, but otherwise it follows well-worn paths to conclusions which are now familiar and trite.”—Ind.
“Dr. Agar Beet’s is, no doubt, a good specimen of its class, but its main result is only to afford one more proof, if such were needed, of the futility of this kind of literature.”
| − + | Acad. 73: 278. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w. |
“The value of Dr. Beet’s work—and it has considerable value—lies in its minute knowledge and skilful use of the words of the Biblical writers, and in the systematizing of the thoughts he finds in those words.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 500w. |
“The religious tone of the treatise prevents it from being a dry compendium of proof-texts. But one who has accepted the historical method of studying the Bible will be unable to use the book for anything more than an expression of Dr. Beet’s own convictions.” Gerald Birney Smith.
| + − | Bib. World. 30: 77. Jl. ’07. 430w. | |
| Ind. 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w. | ||
| + − | Nation. 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 200w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 320w. |
“We cannot follow his expositions, but we may say that they are characterised by lucidity and moderation.”
| + | Spec. 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 70w. |
Begbie, Harold. Penalty. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–14251.
A story whose plot rests upon a woman’s determination to have a certain bishop reinstate her in English society. By means of the theft and later the loss of a certain book, she planned to show to the world that this bishop now aspiring to the archbishopric of Canterbury formerly belonged to a secret order that was proselyting for the Roman Catholic church. “There results a comedy of errors which in the end very narrowly escapes becoming a tragedy.” (Bookm.)
“A novel of unquestionable cleverness.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 220w. |
“The welcome feature ... is a distinct originality of theme. Taken altogether, a very readable volume, full of veiled irony, and plainly written with a certain underlying seriousness of purpose.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 286. My. ’07. 300w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 336. My. 25, ’07. 190w. |
“The dignity and serious tone of the book make it quite worth while.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 160w. |
Belcher, John. Essentials in architecture: an analysis of the principles and qualities to be looked for in buildings. *$2. Scribner.
“Everybody who wishes to be able to distinguish between a good building and a bad, to recognize at a glance the best and worst points of the houses he passes in the street, is under a debt of deep gratitude to Mr. Belcher.” (Acad.) “Dividing the work into four main parts, entitled respectively principles, qualities, factors, and materials, Mr. Belcher discourses pleasantly on each, illustrating the points he makes by reference to well-known buildings.” (Ath.)
“Uncompromising in his denunciation of vital defects, Mr. Belcher is as broad-minded as he is sound in his judgments, and his book is remarkably free from whims, fads, and that irrelevant mass of fuss and metaphysics which Ruskin in later years detected in his ‘Seven lamps.’”
| + + | Acad. 73: 769. Ag. 10, ’07. 1030w. |
“The interest of the book lies less in the correctness or otherwise of the principles formulated than in the intimate view of architecture presented, which is not that of the historian or the art critic, but one of the practising architect.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 277. S. 7. 370w. |
“Every line is pregnant with interest alike to the cultured general reader and to the professional student, whose attention is called to those first principles and ultimate ideals which he is apt to overlook in the maze of practical details.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 32: 335. O. ’07. 190w. |
“One has only to regret the too obvious and every-day tone of the criticism. It is an odd fault to find with a book devoted to analysis—but one does really long for a little more subtlety, a little finer splitting of hairs, and here and there something unexpected.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 500w. |
“It is as to contents only a fair average specimen of a class of historical ‘rewrite’ (to use a newspaper term) of which there has been an oversupply of late.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 280w. |
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian. Desert and the sown; a record of travel from Jericho through the unfrequented parts of Syria to Antioch. *$5. Dutton.
7–35188.
“The book describes the converse with all sorts of Syrians enjoyed by Miss Bell on a journey through the country east of Jordan to the Jebel-ed-Drûz, and thence, by Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, and Antioch, to the coast of Iskenderun.” (Ath.) “We get stories of shepherds and men-at-arms as they ‘passed from lip to lip round the camp fire, in the black tent of the Arab and the guest chamber of the Druze, as well as the more cautious utterance of Turkish and Syrian officials.’ She eschews politics, and points out that the wise traveller in Syria will avoid being drawn into the meshes of the Armenian question.... Much of her time was given to archaeological matters, but they are not her chief consideration in this book.” (Sat. R.)
“It is not too high praise to say that the book before us is the most charming addition to the literature of travel that has been published for many years—we had almost said, and we think we should be justified in saying, for many decades.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 210. Mr. 2, ’07. 2460w. |
“A most delightful account of travel in Syria in which the author shows a wide knowledge of desert lore and desert peoples, of archaeology and Asiatic politics, an unusual power of description, which, together with a keen sense of humor and fine dramatic touch, conveys the whole scene in a quite remarkable way.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 95. Ap. ’07. |
“But after a searching criticism this book remains one of the best of its kind that we have ever read. A valuable map is appended, but, alas! there is no index.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 159. F. 9, 1540w. |
“The author has made a distinct contribution to the literature of travel, and has put her name far up on the list of women who have written good travel-books.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | Dial. 42: 391. Je. 16, ’07. 670w. |
“One thing is wanting: Miss Bell has not sufficiently absorbed the medieval associations of Syria.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 28. Ja. 25, ’07. 2510w. |
“I cannot quote it all and unless all is quoted you have lost the better part.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 1020w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 240w. |
“A book of unusual atmosphere and charm.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 530w. |
“A charmingly written, fully illustrated account.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 270w. |
“An enchanting example of travel literature. To her power of describing scenery and people, and of recording the living talk of men who, though they belong to the wilderness, have shrewd and capable brains, Miss Bell adds a wide knowledge of archaeology and a sound instinct for the politics of Asia.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 253. F. 16, ’07. 3000w. |
Bell, John Keble (Keble Howard, pseud.). The Smiths: a comedy without a plot. †$1.50. McClure.
7–16483.
“It is a simple, agreeable story of the lives of two affectionate and well-behaved people from the day when they come back from their wedding journey and begin housekeeping in a snug suburban cottage, to the time when they become grandparents.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Keble Howard has shown us again his keen insight into ordinary human nature and with his sympathetic touch has brought to the surface valuable jewels from unsuspected sources.”
| + | Acad. 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 320w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w. |
“The record of two honest young people who marry on a small income and lead the uninspired life of the solid British middle class, may be quite as tiresome in print as it appears in its suburban villa.”
| − | Nation. 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w. |
“Mr. Howard is not only in earnest, but he has also an old-fashioned, tender reverence which is refreshing at a time when that high quality has become somewhat rare. His people are fairly representative of the best members of that great, sterling middle class which at all periods has been the safeguard of English social life.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 450w. |
“We are warned that the Smiths are neither superior nor fashionable, but it would have been more kind to warn us that they are absolutely uninteresting. We object to the inference that superiority and fashion are required in order to be interesting.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w. |
“Many a person who is genuinely depressed by the mere sight of a suburb from a train-window, and who would be utterly bored by half an hour’s companionship with the Smiths in real life, will find himself oddly interested in Mr. Howard’s little story, until he comes to the love affairs of Phyllis, when the conversations become tedious.”
| + − | Sat. R. 101: 210. F. 17, ’06. 200w. |
“The story of ‘The Smiths of Surbiton’ is not told with any distinction of literary style or any subtlety in the analysis of the human heart. The want of literary artifice in the treatment makes it therefore obvious that the approval with which the book has been greeted is due solely to its subject.”
| − + | Spec. 96: 226. F. 10, ’06. 460w. |
Bell, Lilian. Why men remain bachelors, and other luxuries. **$1.25. Lane.
6–38991.
A group of half humorous half philosophical essays which deal with such subjects as The management of wives, The management of husbands, The luxury of being stupid, How men propose, The broken engagement, Modern mothers, etc.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 220w. |
“These very personal little essays are amusingly frank, and clever in a journalistic way, but they have none of that delicacy of form—and spirit—which pleases the artistic sense.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 60w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
Bell, Malcolm. Old pewter. (Newnes’ lib. of the applied arts.) *$2.50. Scribner.
W 6–139.
Contains little if any new information but deserves recognition on account of the numerous carefully chosen illustrations.
“His various brief chapters show a considerable mastery of, and love for, his subject. One of the weak points of the letterpress is the ‘Useful books of reference,’ a list which occupies only a single page immediately before the index. The only works named in this insignificant list that deal with church pewter are wrongly cited.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 803. Je. 30. 550w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 186. D. ’06. 60w. |
“Treats its subject very successfully.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 179. Mr. 24, ’06. 420w. |
Bell, Nancy R. E. Historical outskirts of London. **$2. McClure.
“Mrs. Bell conducts her readers on a tour of the places situated on the fringe of London, recalling the historic associations in which they abound and noting the changes they have undergone down to the present time when these once isolated hamlets and townships have become practically merged in the great metropolis.” (Int. Studio.) Highgate, Hampstead, Woolwich, Epping Forest, Epsom, Fulham, Hammersmith, Greenwich and other places are described with interesting anecdotes of people whose history is associated with them.
“The general reader should be glad to have so much put before him in a compact and readable form. The ‘proofs’ have occasionally been badly read.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 240w. |
“The book should not fail to stimulate interest in these time-honoured spots.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 336. O. ’07. 160w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
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.
6–35603.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | Ind. 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 70w. |
“The charm of her writing entirely dispels from her pages, full of carefully-acquired information as they are, that suggestion of the guide-book which is not always inseparable from works of this kind.”
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 278. Ja. ’07. 170w. |
“The truth is that writers like Mrs. Bell do not possess a tithe of the information necessary to draw a real picture of Brittany.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 720w. |
Bellamy, Charles Joseph. Wonder children, their quests and curious adventures. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–38395.
Here are quests that frequently terminate where the rainbow touches the earth, and which permit the wanderer children to open the bags of gold and live in peace forever after.
| Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 17w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w. |
“The material is not new and the use of it is not marked by any especial charm.”
| − + | Outlook. 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 40w. | |
| R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w. |
Belloc, Hilaire. [Hills and the sea.] *$1.50. Scribner.
7–13406.
“Mr. Belloc’s book opens with one marvelous sea voyage and ends with another, while the intervening pages are occupied with observations of places and persons encountered along untraveled paths of England, France, Spain, and countries which are not named and whose identity only the initiated can recognize. There is information, too, strewn through these pages—information that some day may serve as footnotes to more serious and less personal books of travel.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is in tense narration, touched with fantasy, that his strength lies.”
| + | Acad. 71: 659. D. 29, ’06. 390w. |
“None the less, if not wholly a satisfactory book, this is a book that is filled with a fine spirit and has no slovenly writing in it, and has many passages of pellucid and admirable prose often direct and simple as Bunyan’s. At its best ... it has radiance and gusto, both very rare qualities, and a pleasant wayside Borrovian flavour.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 1310w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 554. D. 27, ’06. 320w. |
“The book abounds in sweetness and light, and one must be something more than human or something less not to find therein some congenial and sympathetic message—possibly many.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 260w. |
“It is because these sketches contain so much good matter that their failings are worthy of note. The faults are mainly faults of manner, and it must be admitted that as the excellencies seem for the most part due to French influences, the badnesses are solidly Britannic.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 840w. |
“He has none of the serious and brooding passion of Mr. Conrad. He sneers at all that he does not understand, whereas the other writer is reverently silent. He postures and swaggers, and, for all his hatred of imperialism, betrays much of the boastful ‘mafficking’ spirit which he repudiates. He falls into mannerisms and catch-words which weary us from their repetition. And yet he has the charm against which all criticism is powerless.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 370w. |
Belloc, Hilaire. [Historic Thames.] *$6. Dutton.
“Mr. Belloc ... severely avoids the Thames of the pleasure seeker, and deals almost exclusively with the place of the river in the topographical and commercial system of early England, as well as incidentally, but at great length, with the dissolution of the Thames-side monasteries. From this branch of his subject he is lead, by digressions worthy of Victor Hugo, to the family history of the Cromwells. Mr. Belloc writes as an anti-Protestant, and even gives some slight colour to the popular belief that a curse follows the possessors of abbey lands.”—Ath.
“With all its faults of omission ‘The historic Thames’ is a thoughtful and stimulating essay—in the strict usage of the word. The publishers have made a bad mistake in sending out this volume without maps or plans. No good word can be said of the illustrations; many of them are very badly drawn.” W. T. S.
| − + | Acad. 72: 599. Je. 22, ’07. 1240w. |
“Mr. Belloc’s letter-press may disturb the ordinary Thames public, and is perhaps too good for its place. The drawings have little or nothing to do with it, and are chiefly of scenes attractive to the artist, without special connexion in his mind with history.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 390w. |
“In spite of the evident efforts to the contrary he becomes involved in the tangle of the Thames’s history with that of England and ends in a tedious recital of the destruction of the monasteries, which has little to do with his subject.” May Estelle Cook.
| − + | Dial. 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 180w. |
“Naturally his book will call down reprobation from certain high quarters, but it can not by any one be denied the qualities of interest and vivacity.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 810w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 70w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w. |
“While he has performed his task with thoroughness and conscientiousness he has missed, whether purposely or not, it is impossible to say, the tone of romance and æsthetic delight which one naturally expects with this subject.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w. |
“Mr. Belloc’s book is a serious contribution to history. The illustrations are very attractive, but they do not illustrate the book, and they are arranged, or scattered about, with a more than usually provoking irrelevance.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 340w. |
Bement, Alburto. Peabody atlas: shipping mines and coal railroads, in the central commercial district of the United States, accompanied by chemical, geological and engineering data. $5. Peabody coal co., 125 Monroe st., Chicago.
Maps 7–25.
In which are set forth conditions in the coal-carrying railways and their relations to the coal mines. “The atlas contains some valuable information and illustrations on smokeless furnaces and smoke prevention, analysis of combustion gases and improvements in boiler designs.”—Engin. N.
“To the investigator in this field, the statistics of the various bituminous mines and contributing railways throughout the central states, which is given in this atlas, should be of as great value as they also are to the various dealers for whom the book will serve the purpose of a trade directory.”
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 120w. |
Benham, W. Gurney. Book of quotations: proverbs and household words. $3. Lippincott.
A collection of quotations from British and American authors, ancient and modern, with many thousands of proverbs, familiar phrases and sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other languages.
“The collection shows an advance on those available, including material from more recent authors, and from some now adorning or amazing the world with their pens. A fairly thorough search has convinced us of the general suitability and accuracy of the English section. The section of miscellaneous quotations and other odds and ends is good, but we are unable to praise the various lists of foreign quotations.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 222. F. 23. 1230w. |
“We know of no other book of the kind that contains so much matter, and we can heartily recommend it as an addition to the reference shelf.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 130w. | |
| + + | Nation. 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 180w. |
“Upon the whole, while it is not to be expected or desired that the new book will supersede the old [Bartlett], it may very conveniently supplement it, and is very well worth having, if one may say so without applying to it the only real test, that of habitual use.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w. |
“A slight examination will show that a good deal of original research has been employed in the work. The arrangement, classification, and indexings of the book are all commendable.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 170w. | |
| + + | Spec. 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 190w. |
Benjamin, Charles Henry. Machine design. *$2. Holt.
6–45053.
“A text-book for the use of students, and while very useful for that purpose is not complete enough for the requirements of the practical designer.... The principal things in the book which are valuable are the results of experiments performed on various springs, journals, fly-wheels, etc.”—Engin. N.
“It has the fault that is common to most books bearing its title; that is, it covers only a small part of the subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 86. Ja. 17, ’07. 250w. |
“The faults of the book are faults of omission rather than of commission; to a large extent the matter given is original and cannot fail to be of great value to designers of machinery. The analytical treatment of some of the problems dealt with is both new and ingenious. We have noticed a few slips, but they are mostly unimportant.”
| + + − | Nature. 76: 564. O. 3, ’07. 500w. |
Benjamin, Charles Henry. Modern American machine tools. *$5. Dutton.
7–33555.
A book written from the purchaser’s point of view which gives “a good outline of the principal characteristics of modern machine tools, as manufactured in the United States, the various points in which they differ, the advantages and disadvantages of different styles, and some data in regard to their capacity and performance.” (Engin. N.)
“The book is a valuable one and well worth consulting. There is, however, one important fact to be remembered which lessens the value of the book to the buyer of machine tools and that is the impossibility of getting the latest and best information from a book. In this case, it would be safe to say that this book is now two years behind the times.” W: W. Bird.
| + + − | Engin. N. 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w. |
Bennett, Enoch Arnold. [The ghost]: a novel. †$1.50. Small.
7–24288.
“The Ghost” by the author of the fantastic “Hugo” “is an exciting story of opera singers and railway accidents and channel-boat disasters and trapdoors and revenge and jealousy that is strong enough to be carried beyond death, and of love that triumphs even over such fatal jealousy.”—Acad.
“Whether his mood be fantastic or serious, his work is always first-class, and though his output is enormous, signs of haste are never apparent in the writing or construction.”
| + | Acad. 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 160w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. | ||
| Sat. R. 103: 274. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w. |
Bennett, Enoch Arnold. [Hugo]; a fantasia on modern themes. $1.50. Buckles.
6–41708.
One feels that Mr. Bennett fairly slaps his canvas with a Kipling brush of comet’s hair. The result is a fantastic, panoramic “improvisation.” “Hugo is proprietor of an immense shop in London. He falls in love with a milliner in one of his innumerable ‘departments.’ She weds another, is pursued by a third, officially dies, is bereft timely of her spouse, and returns in due season to life and Hugo.” (Nation.)
“He never makes an attempt to modify or explain: he piles improbability upon improbability with calm assurance, and mortars it all together with clever little facts and truths in a style which is always restrained and neat, and by its very lack of ornaments convincing.”
| + | Acad. 70: 92. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w. |
“The plot has been deliberately and cunningly designed to sustain the reader’s excitement from chapter to chapter, and, this being admitted as the author’s aim, the book may fairly be pronounced a success.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 1: 131. F. 3. 210w. |
“It is all very absurd and pleasant; all the more so that the writer appears to be regarding his own fable with merely good-humored toleration.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 160w. |
“An Italian novel with the plot laid in the sixteenth century is tame in comparison, and though Mr. Bennett has used all kinds of incongruously modern stage machinery along with his melodramatic characters, he does it with a seriousness that seems to bridge the difficulty.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 11. Ja. 5, ’07. 440w. |
“The book, in fine, is an amusing skit on the vastness of modern commercial enterprises; but in it Mr. Arnold Bennett has by no means touched the level of his delightful comedy, ‘A great man.’”
| + − | Spec. 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w. |
* Benson, Arthur C. Alfred Tennyson. **$1.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Benson thus formulates his object in the present volume: “(1) I have given a simple narrative of the life of Tennyson, with a sketch of his temperament, character, ideals, and beliefs; (2) I have tried from his own words and writings to indicate what I believe to have been his view of the poetical life and character; (3) I have attempted to touch the chief characteristics of his art from the technical point of view, here again as far as possible using his own recorded words.””
“A quiet sympathy, a genial appreciation, pervades the book and makes it most enjoyable, even inspiring, reading.”
| + | Dial. 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 380w. |
“Few readers, indeed, one would say, can read the volume without deriving from it both a clearer and a higher estimate of its subject than they had before.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 650w. |
* Benson, Arthur C. [Altar fire.] **$1.50. Putnam.
7–32854.
Wholly reflective “this volume contains, in the form of a friend’s diary, Mr. Benson’s conclusions upon many things, from the doctrine of the atonement to the Browning letters, but chiefly on the processes of personal religious life.” (Ind.)
“One feels there is a message, but hardly formed and loosely articulated and lacking the virile note. One cannot but wish the book a larger reading than its somber monotony will invite.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 340w. |
“To his usual characteristics, with which the public is well acquainted by this time, his new volumes add a rather unexpected extension of scope.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 310w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“This generation can hardly have too many books of this temper put into its hands.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 560w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 759. D. ’07. 120w. |
“As an artistic whole ‘The altar fire’ suffers from the use of too ambitious a scene. The book is sure of a large and respectful public; but the remnant of reactionaries, the classical people whose eyes have been dazzled by gazing upon the sun, will still see patent blots in Mr. Benson’s work—if indeed it is Mr. Benson and not the mask which comes between.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: sup. 5. N. 16, ’07. 980w. |
Benson, Arthur C. Beside still waters. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–15922.
“Meditations and recollections of a man who, after a busy life, settles down into a kind of epicurean seclusion from the world. ‘He found a small, picturesque, irregularly-built house crushed in between the road and the river, which, in fact, dipped its very feet in the stream.’... Could a better lodge be found for a recluse who likes to season his days of solitude with an occasional dinner in Hall with his old college friends! And presently the college takes him back into its fold, while the house by the waters is kept as a place of retreat and quiet work.”—Nation.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 159. O. ’07. |
“It is difficult to write so completely introspective a book as this. We wonder at the end of it how we have interested ourselves with it for so long, till we reflect on Mr. Benson’s easy flow of undistracting thoughts, raised just a little above commonplace by a certain sanity or breadth of view which no doubt is a gospel in itself.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 1: 539. My. 4. 330w. |
“Those who have enjoyed the charm of ‘From a college window,’ with sweet spirit, lofty thought, and exquisite tenderness expressed in limpid delightful English, will find a similar treat in Mr. Benson’s present work.”
| + | Cath. World. 86: 117. O. ’07. 470w. |
“Notwithstanding a tendency to repetition and undue elaboration—a conspicuous lack of epigrammatic terseness,—this book is the ripest, thoughtfullest, best piece of work its author has yet produced.”
| + + − | Dial. 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 350w. |
“Gives us a scholar’s philosophy of life.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 700w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 160w. |
“Mr. Benson’s polished prose and his mastery of style and language serve only to throw into bolder relief the thinness of the substance.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 84. Mr. 15, ’07. 1060w. |
“Remind one of ‘The private papers of Henry Ryecroft,’ graceful and wise and sober, a delightful refreshment in the bustle of modern literature, but lacking in the last incalculable touch of style and insight that make Gissing’s book so memorable.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 330w. |
Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 360w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w. |
Benson, Arthur C. [From a college window.] **$1.25. Putnam.
6–17648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 560. F. ’07. 1060w. |
Benson, Arthur C. Gate of death; a diary. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–43770.
The author says that the book is not a treatment of death “the saddest, darkest, most solemn, most inevitable, most tremendous fact in the world.” It is merely “the record of the sincere and faltering thoughts of one who was suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with death, and who, in the midst of a very ordinary and commonplace life, with no deep reserves of wisdom, faith, or tenderness, had just to interpret it as he best could.”
“Naturally a great deal in the book will not be agreed with by Catholics; but, making allowances for this, we must say we have here a book of more than ordinary interest and power.”
| + + − | Cath. World. 85: 111. Ap. ’07. 260w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 196. F. ’07. 2460w. |
“He has great power of attention and analysis, a great interest in ideas, and considerable culture, and in addition he is master of an easy and picturesque style; so that he has no difficulty in putting upon paper what he feels and thinks and sees. What he seems to lack as an artist is power of selection.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 346. O. 12, ’06. 1290w. |
“A work not of didactic effect, but of singularly pure and elevated sentiment; of melancholy in the old sweet sense.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 560w. | |
| Putnam’s. 1: 768. Mr. ’07. 190w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w. | ||
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 531. Ap. 7, ’07. 300w. |
Benson, Arthur C. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, extracted from his letters and diaries, with reminiscences of his conversation by his friend Christopher Carr of the same college. $1.25. Holt.
The quiet story of the life of a “thoroughgoing determinist who was still faithful to the voice of duty, still striving upwards,” who trusted “in an invisible all-ruling Father who really was ordering the world in the smallest details when He seemed to be ordering it least and who wished the best for His children.” It is a character study with a moral, for Arthur Hamilton “in spite of every trial and every rebuff, preserved at heart a serenity that was not thoughtlessness, a cheerfulness that was not hilarity, a humor that was not cynicism.”
“It is a curious piece of intellectual dissection and has many of the graces of style that characterized the author’s recent volumes.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 469. Mr. 29, ’07. 460w. |
Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 160w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w. |
Benson, Arthur C. [Upton letters.] *$1.25. Putnam.
5–34654.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 560. F. ’06. 1060w. |
“We honestly thank him for painting his portrait so well. It is good work no less than a good likeness. The touch is firm and easy; the treatment broad and yet very delicate. There are a few patches of prettiness which should be painted out; but they do not much mar the effect of the whole.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 103: 144. F. 2, ’07. 1670w. |
Benson, Edward Frederic. Paul. †$1.50. Lippincott.
6–37196.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a purposeless book and an unpleasant one. Its interest suddenly drops at the halfway point, like an underdone loaf of cake, and what is meant to be its most solemn chapter is more apt to provoke a desire to laugh.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − | Bookm. 24: 487. Ja. ’07. 540w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 345. Mr. ’07. 660w. |
“He deliberately constructs the first half of his plot in such a way as to produce the maximum of irritation, not to say resentment.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + − | Forum. 38: 542. Ap. ’07. 1260w. |
“Escaped by a hair breadth writing a novel of the first rank.”
| + | Ind. 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 340w. |
“The individuality and distinction of phrase are maintained, but the obtrusive ‘smartness’ which marred the first novel [‘Dodo’] has been carefully eliminated.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 210w. |
Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh. [History of Richard Raynal: solitary.] $1.25. Herder.
“The story purports to be the translation of an ancient Latin MS., discovered by Father Benson in a library of Rome, and containing an old English priest’s account of a young solitary, who lived somewhere near London in the earlier part of the fifteenth century.”—Cath. World.
“The rare qualities of Father Benson’s mind find here their perfect expression.”
| + | Acad. 70: 229. Mr. 10, ’06. 400w. |
“The quaint beauty of the archaic style adopted by Father Benson in his recital is beyond praise.”
| + + | Cath. World. 84: 412. D. ’06. 340w. |
Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh. [Mirror of Shalott, being a collection of tales told at an unprofessional symposium.] *$1.25. Benziger.
7–21227.
Fourteen stories which a group of Reverend Fathers told, one tale each evening. They are largely gathered from their professional experiences and concern incidents which cannot be explained without recourse to the supernatural. The evil spirit which was exorcised, the man who offered himself for his brother’s unbelief, the artist whose art founded on corruption was lost when he regained his faith, these and the others have the charm of the unusual.
“There is one that suggests a better capacity on Mr. Benson’s part as a writer than anything else we have read from his pen.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 310w. | |
| Cath. World. 86: 257. N. ’07. 210w. |
“In truth, qualities that are admirable elsewhere rather prevent Mr. Benson from telling his tales so as to excite the feelings which people, whatever their faith, cherish for the supernatural. He is too surefooted, too painstaking. His method is too robust to deal with such intricate and at the same time poignant emotions; he sets everything in order, tells you how the basket chair clicked, and what happened next, and works out the situation methodically with the desire clearly to get at the truth. But it is a great matter that every story makes an impression of sincerity and intelligence.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 189. Je. 14, ’07. 500w. |
“Father Benson, like the other brilliant sons of the late archbishop, is a fluent and spirited writer.”
| + | Nation. 85: 167. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w. |
“The author displays in the narration a skill as subtle and as charming as his imagination has been subtle and weird in the conjuring up of incidents. Each narrator is distinctly individualized by the character of his experience and his manner of telling it.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 460w. |
“Father Benson’s language comes as near as language can to making his readers realize by analogy spiritual experiences which are incapable of being translated into the words and phrases of a material world.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1038. Je. 29, ’07. 380w. |
Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh. Papers of a pariah. **$1.25. Longmans.
7–14565.
“The ‘Pariah’ is an actor, who has been educated however at Rugby and Oxford, and the ‘papers’ reveal the mental process by which he finally arrived at the Catholic faith.” (Acad.) “Their point of view is of one who regards the Catholic church from without not from within, though with a favourable eye.”
“If only he could bestow his style, and humaneness, and clearness of exposition on converts we would wish him many of them as the result of this brilliant little book.”
| + | Acad. 72: 314. Mr. 30, ’07. 140w. |
“The tenor of the reflections witnesses to a deeply religious nature and the aesthetic temperament, reminding one of the books of Huysmans, though displaying more of the religious and less of the aesthetic than did that strange Frenchman.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 542. Jl. ’07. 780w. |
“‘The papers of a pariah,’ while they will appeal to religious zealots of the Roman Catholic faith, and, to a certain extent, to all who are deeply interested in discussion of abstract creeds, loses in literary value by virtue of these very tendencies. The discussion, moreover, is one of sentiment rather than of reason, an argument of dreams rather than of realities.” Florence Wilkinson.
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 490w. |
“The reader will note that in the early part of the book emphasis is laid on the unchangeableness of the teaching in the Roman church, while later this argument is dropped in favour of development.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 210w. | |
| + | Spec. 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 330w. |
Benziger, Marie Agnes. Off to Jerusalem. *$1. Benziger.
6–36010.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Though she modestly refuses to enter into competition with other pens, which have described the scenes through which she has passed, she evinces good capacity for observation and for describing whatever came under her notice.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 837. Mr. ’07. 230w. |
Bergen, Joseph Y., jr., and Davis, Bradley, M. Principles of botany. $1.50. Ginn.
6–35475.
Following an introduction devoted to a definition of botany and its subdivisions, the subject is treated in three parts, viz., 1, the structure and physiology of plants, 2, The morphology, evolution and classification of plants, and 3, Ecology and economic botany. Part 2 is Dr. Davis’ portion of the work.
“While the book as a whole is too heavy for the average high-school work, it will be almost indispensable as a reference work because of its large amount of information, its abundant illustrations, and its helpful suggestions as to the significance of structures and their relationship to one another.”
| + + | Bot. Gaz. 43: 64. Ja. ’07. 720w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 380. N. 1, ’06. 440w. |
“The book can be confidently recommended to students and teachers, and the latter will find the arrangement well worthy of consideration.”
| + | Nature. 76: 124. Je. 6, ’07. 200w. |
“The whole revision has been toward greater precision and succinctness of statement, and has resulted in a more scholarly work.” I. N. Mitchell.
| + + | School R. 15: 305. Ap. ’07. 850w. |
“To ‘touch the high points’ and yet to keep up the connection between them is the difficult task of the writer of an elementary text-book. In some portions of the book before us this has been accomplished, while in others a good deal of matter has been admitted which might well have been left out.” Charles E. Bessey.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 25: 144. Ja. 25, ’07. 780w. |
Bernhardi, Frederick von. Cavalry in future wars. *$3. Dutton.
War 7–19.
“This book was written at the outbreak of the late war in South Africa.... In the course of the first few chapters, Gen. Bernhardi analyzes the functions of the cavalry as modified by the changes that have occurred since the war, and later explains the difficulties which in the future will confront all cavalry operations unless the cavalry leader and his men have been ‘perfected down to the minutest detail.’”—N. Y. Times.
“His views are entitled to more than ordinary consideration, even though in all his conclusions we may not concur. Perhaps there is no other German soldier so well equipped for handling this subject.” Peter C. Hains.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 606. N. ’07. 440w. |
“This book will be read by soldiers, but is needed by a wider public.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 573. N. 10. 1360w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 26. Ja. 25, ’07. 560w. |
“Gen. von Bernhardi’s ... rank and experience entitle his views to great respect, the more from the earnestness with which he pleads his cause. Barring a few slightly obscure passages, and a faint trace here and there of Teutonic roughness, Mr. Goldman’s translation is smooth and flowing.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 479. My. 23, ’07. 110w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 875. D. 15, ’06. 290w. |
“An exhaustive summary.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 70w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 50w. |
“It may fairly be called the last word on the subject.” Grey Scout.
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 197. F. 16, ’07. 1310w. |
Bernhardt, Sarah. Memories of my life: being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist. **$4. Appleton.
7–34323.
The whimsical, rhapsodical, patriotic woman of temperament is revealed in almost every line of these memories. The autobiography “exhibits the true woman in clearer relief than it does the largely mythical superwoman whom it labors to depict. Rich as it is in minor details and vivacious descriptions it adds but little to the common knowledge of the career of the best advertised actress in the world.” (Nation.)
“In her very characteristic and brightly entertaining memoirs we have on every page the Sarah Bernhardt of the stage, the eccentric and versatile woman of genius, very much as she is already known to the world.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + | Dial. 43: 279. N. 1, ’07. 2150w. |
“Self-revelations such as these give, as we think, a real documentary value to this first volume of Sarah Bernhardt’s memoirs, though no doubt the general reader will prefer the narratives of travel and adventure wherein everything appears to be turning around in a mad farandole.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1600w. |
“One of the most successful books ever written. To tell the plain truth, the monstrous egotism of the book greatly weakens the pleasurable impression created by its vivacity, its cleverness, and its abundance of interesting material.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 403. O. 31, ’07. 1140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“An invaluable addition to the library, dramatic and otherwise.” Anna Marble.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 733. N. 16, ’07. 2230w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 77: 611. N. 23, ’07. 210w. |
Besant, Walter. Mediaeval London, v. 2: Ecclesiastical. *$7.50. Macmillan.
This second volume of the posthumous work of Walter Besant on “The survey of London” treats of the ecclesiastical life, institutions and influence of the Norman and Plantagenet centuries. The first eight chapters deal with the rise of London’s municipal government.
“When the nature of the material permits the story is unfolded with agreeable literary effect. We notice here and there a lack of references, usually associated with a passage of minor historical importance. These pages form a good example to tesselated history.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 113. F. 2, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“There are various heedless and more or less incorrect statements in the general description of ecclesiastical London, apart from the religious houses. The accounts of hermits and anchorites, as well as of pilgrimage and sanctuary, are insufficient. But enough of adverse criticism has been offered. We cannot help thinking that if Besant had lived a little longer, this portion of his work would have been revised by him or by friends who were competent to aid him.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 157. F. 9. 1710w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Sir Walter Besant’s ‘Mediaeval London’ has unfortunately, found no more capable editor than his ‘London under the Stuarts’ and his ‘London in the time of the Tudors.’ The illustrations are for the most part of real value.” G.
| − + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“It is largely a work of paste and scissors, and they have not been applied with intelligence.” M.
| − + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 832. O. ’07. 410w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It is impossible to regard this volume as a work which Sir Walter Besant would have presented to the public in anything like its present form.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“We select a single passage for quotation, not only because it is significant in itself, but because it gives, we think, a fair idea of the broad and readable way in which this work treats what many might expect to prove a dry-as-dust, antiquarian record—words which precisely describe the exact contrary of the present volume.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 374. F. 16, ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Is sure to take its place among popular works on the subject.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 115. Ja. 26, ’07. 920w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Bevier, Isabel. The house; its plan, decoration and care. (Library of home economics.) *$1.25. Am. school of home economics.
6–41738.
“In the early chapters on the development of the house, domestic architecture is shown to be closely allied to the larger problems of state and nation.... Chapters on house planning, construction, decoration and furnishing, and the care of the house follow, and from them may be obtained much useful information. Throughout the book emphasis is laid upon appropriateness, beauty and simplicity of form and color. The book is suggestive to the home builder; plans, materials and cost and the various subdivisions of these are taken up concisely. The home-operator will find here definite suggestions concerning fabrics and furnishings, their cost and durability.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“Valuable because of its consideration of basic principles, and of conditions attainable by the average householder.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 160. O. ’07. S. |
“For its size this little book contains a great deal of that which tends to raise the standards of the householder and to make the home the real center of national life which the author claims should be its real purpose.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 632. My. ’07. 280w. |
Bevier, Isabel, and Usher, Susannah. Home economics movement, pt. 1. *75c. Whitcomb & B.
7–5679.
A three-part discussion including Home economics in agricultural colleges and state universities, Cooking schools, and Home economics in the public schools.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 95. Ap. ’07. |
Bible. Gospel of Barnabas; ed. and tr. by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg, with a facsimile. *$5.25. Oxford.
This manuscript was probably written in the middle of the sixteenth century. It is a “rather careless sixteenth century copy, made by a Venetian scribe, of an earlier and apparently Tuscan document.”
“The editors deserve the greatest praise for the thoroughness and skill with which they have performed their task. They have been extremely careful in editing the text, and they have supplied an excellent translation, for it is accurate and reads as if it were an original work. They have also written a good introduction, which contains all the information that the reader requires.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 230. Ag. 31. 840w. |
“It is to be said that the gospel is interesting reading not only because of its doctrines, as, for example, the view that Paul wrongfully teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus disclaimed Messiahship, that Mohammed is Messiah, not only because of the restraint manifested in the story of the virgin birth, but also because of the positive beauty of some of its sayings and parables.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 261. S. 19, ’07. 940w. |
Bielschowsky, Albert. Life of Goethe; tr. by W. A. Cooper. 3v ea. **$3.50. Putnam.
v. 2. This volume covers the period from the Italian journey to the War of liberation, 1788–1815, comprising the last two chapters of the first volume and the first twelve of the second of the German edition.
“Mr. Cooper is an American, and he writes ‘American,’ or, at any rate, a dialect of the Anglo-Saxon tongue, which is often forcible and picturesque, but is quite as often not pure English.” Rowland Strong.
| + − | Acad. 73: 93. N. 2, ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Though Bielschowsky displays remarkable skill in interweaving critical analysis with personal details concerning the poet, yet one who is unfamiliar with the actual works will probably find the chapters devoted to them a trifle dull. After all, these defects are really exaggerations of a good quality—the desire to enter into full sympathy with and understanding of Goethe’s point of view.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 600w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“In general it seems that here there is a marked improvement [in the translation]; it is very faithful and at the same time the English is usually free from the influence of the foreign idiom. Occasionally the rendering does not allow for the difference in the connotation of the same word in the two languages.”
| + + − | Dial. 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It is to begin with, erudite; one feels confident that the author has sifted the enormous mass of material accumulated about every step of Goethe’s career. In the metaphysical parts it is excellent, almost impeccable. We commend heartily the translation of this work and recognize its undoubted value; but we must add frankly that it is in no sense of the word in the tradition of great literature.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 514. Ag. 29, ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
Reviewed by J. Perry Warden.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 464. Jl. 27, ’07. 2210w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The work lacks the supreme test of the biographer as interpreter. In this respect this ‘Life of Goethe’ remains incomplete, but in all else it is a masterly production. Crowning merit of a notable achievement, the biography, with all its scholarly thoroughness, is yet even better adapted to the needs of the general public for which it has been primarily written than to those of the special student.” A. Schade van Westrum.
| + + − | No. Am. 186: 442. N. ’07. 1640w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Bierer, Everard. Evolution of religions. **$2. Putnam.
6–42349.
“The particular animus of the author is against the doctrine of the trinity, which assumes altogether too large a place in his survey of the development of religious doctrines.”—Putnam’s.
“Is amateurish in character, unreliable in statement of fact, incomplete in outlook, and disproportionate in consideration of the phenomena under discussion.”
| − | Ind. 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w. |
“Shows an excellent spirit, and the greater part of its material is taken from good sources. The title, however, is too large for the contents, and the book suffers somewhat from the author’s insufficient acquaintance with the general history of religions.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 50w. |
“Although its author, under his limitations as a layman in the subjects of his criticism, takes himself rather too seriously, the book is written with a sincere interest for a devoutly spiritual religion, and for this is commendable.”
| − + | Outlook. 84: 939. D. 15, ’06. 250w. |
Bigelow, Edward Fuller. Spirit of nature study: a book of social suggestion and sympathy for all who love or teach nature. **$1. Barnes.
7–14642.
“A book of social suggestion and sympathy for all those who love or teach nature.” It is intended to strengthen faith in outdoor education.
“In which the author has many effective and deserved flings at the stupidity and inanity of much that passes for the study of nature in schools and elsewhere.” George Gladden.
| + | Bookm. 25: 625. Ag. 5, ’07. 90w. |
“[Suggestions that are] sensible enough, and their light personal style would make them effective as informal talks at a teachers’ institute but they cannot be regarded as permanent contributions to the over abundant literature of the subject.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w. |
“The ear-marks of the pedagogue are rather too prominent for the most enjoyable reading.”
| − | Nation. 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w. |
Bigelow, John. Peace given as the world giveth. **75c. Baker.
The author writes out of the fulness of a long experience in state craft and diplomacy. He views the Portsmouth peace conference in the light of an “international calamity,” and makes a plea for the “righteousness and wisdom” of war.
“A remarkable historical document.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 352. Je. 1, ’07. 450w. |
Bindloss, Harold. [Cattle-baron’s daughter.] †$1.50. Stokes.
6–34082.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is some good character drawing but the book cannot lay claim to artistic merit.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 51. F. ’07. |
Bindloss, Harold. [Dust of conflict]; with il. in color by W. Herbert Dunton. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–7189.
The stormy period just preceding the Spanish-American war furnishes the setting for this story. The hero, “hurried out of England under a cloud,” is wrecked on the coast of Cuba, and in that country becomes a leader of some insurrectionists. “Peril, disaster, and rescue chase each other in such quick and picturesque succession as to give the impression of a grown-up boy’s book.... The military conflicts carry more conviction than the moral one which sets the story in motion.... Yet the moral dilemma is well enough as a means of sending the hero to Cuba and the Cuban part is admirably successful.” (Nation.)
| Acad. 72: 168. F. 16, ’07. 310w. |
“Not particularly well written but rather lively in interest.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 107. Ap. ’07. |
“It is a rattling good story, told briskly and with zest. It lacks subtlety, and is not notable for refinement of diction; but it also lacks dull pages.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 130. F. 2. 160w. |
“It would be hard to find a book which is so complete a satire on all the faults of the so-called ‘novel of adventure.’ For the sort of book this present volume typifies there is no legitimate use in literature. Probably it will sell very well, however.” J. Marchand.
| − | Bookm. 25: 429. Je. ’07. 1020w. |
“A story which is rich in dramatic interest, and which exhibits remarkable powers of characterization and description.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 350w. |
“Though of little artistic merit, is exhilarating reading.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + − | Forum. 38: 549. Ap. ’07. 220w. |
“The many-sided struggle in Cuba constitutes the strongest part of the novel. In the main, the characters stand well apart from one another, and firmly on their own feet as well.”
| + | Nation. 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w. |
“It is a rattling good story exceedingly well told.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
“The book is well written and brisk.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 275. Mr. 2, ’07. 170w. |
Bindloss, Harold. [Mistress of Bonaventure.] *$1. Fenno.
Cattle raising in the Northwest, its difficulties and the dangers from man and nature that beset it, is the burden of this tale. The Canadian mounted police figure in the story which combines love, adventure and practical business. In the end the railroad penetrates that wild country and it finds the rancher hero successful both in love and labor and the frank little mistress of Bonaventure happy in her hero and her prairies.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Bindloss, Harold. [Winston of the prairie.] †$1.50. Stokes.
7–29150.
The hero of Mr. Bindloss’ story of the Canadian northwest is a young man under unjust suspicion of murder who has traded names with a man of low caliber and who when he wishes to return to his own name finds it stained with crime. This “impersonation of another man leads to exciting complications, and it is difficult to see how he is going to extricate himself from the false position in which he is placed. But his services to the little farming community, which he teaches to win prosperity out of seeming disaster, are so substantial that when the hour of disentanglement comes, he both clears his name and finds condonation for his deception.” (Dial.)
“In the wheat-raising region of western Canada, Mr. Bindloss has found a field almost as virgin to the novelist as to the agriculturist, and so subdued it to his purposes that his work will not easily be matched.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“His doings are sufficiently thrilling to while away some dull hours, but the book is not well enough written to commend itself to a reader of particular taste.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 150w. |
Binns, W. Moore. First century of English porcelain. *$12.50. Lippincott.
6–33521.
After outlining clearly the leading principles of connoisseurship “Mr. Binns relates with great minuteness the story of the evolution of English porcelain, beginning with the foundation of the first factory at Stratford-le-Bow, and passing thence to consider in chronological order the various establishments which in course of time brought the art to a perfection that aroused the admiration even of the most exacting foreign critics, and also of those later manufactories in which was inaugurated the inevitable decadence.” (Int. Studio.) The work is made complete by a chronological schedule of English ceramics and an index.
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 488. Ap. 21. 330w. |
“The book will be prized as a real art treasure by its fortunate possessors, quite as much as for its store of information.”
| + + | Dial. 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 500w. |
“A work that will be of great value to collectors and connoisseurs, as well as to all who are interested in what may be called the human side of every successful national industry.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 29: 89. Jl. ’06. 350w. |
“While essentially for the collector, the book is written in general, popular phrasing, and the techniques of the art, and some of its secrets are revealed in a pleasantly instructive manner.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 490w. |
“The historical side of Mr. Binns’ book is sound as far as it goes; the author has digested a certain number of text-books, and reproduces facts with a commendable air of spontaneity. There are some serious omissions in Mr. Binns’ history.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 101: 590. My. 12, ’06. 1480w. | |
| Spec. 96: 467. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w. |
Birch, Mrs. Lionel. Stanhope A. Forbes, A. R. A., and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, A. R. W. S.; with 8 reproductions in color and 32 other il. *$1.50. Cassell.
6–45369.
A monograph from the standpoint of personal friendship on two living artists. It reflects the characteristics of two personalities and the environment in which their work has been done.
“Contains a concise and interesting record, pleasantly tempered by anecdote, of the lives and various works of the two painters of whom it treats.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 440w. |
“There is, indeed, not one dull page in the book, and the numerous illustrations are thoroughly representative.”
| + | Int. Studio. 29: 272. S. ’06. 290w. |
“She deserves her readers’ thanks for having filled the record carefully, while avoiding the reproach of overexcitement and an exaggerated sense of the import of her task.”
| + | Int. Studio. 30: sup 25. N. ’06. 710w. |
Birdseye, Clarence Frank. Individual training in our colleges. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–18833.
A study of a college student’s problems from the standpoint of the graduate. In his discussion the author deplores the loss of the direct personal influence exerted by professors and instructors over the students of fifty years ago. He deals with the fraternity question and its related problems.
“His book shows more knowledge, clearer vision, deeper devotion, and more rational hope regarding the American college, than any other book we know of.” Edward O. Sisson.
| + + | Dial. 43: 285. N. 1, ’07. 940w. |
“Upon his own ground the place in our educational machinery which the Greek letter fraternities have already taken and the higher place which, thru the influence of their alumni, they may be made to take, on this ground, Mr. Birdseye speaks with the authority of the constructive reformer and for this reason, if for no other, his book deserves and should receive the careful study of every man who has at heart the welfare of the American college.” F. P. Keppel.
| + + − | Educ. R. 34: 325. N. ’07. 4300w. |
“The book is too long-drawn out, and in parts is repetitious; but it contains much important material in the form of documents and reports, as well as of the author’s own observations.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 190w. |
“To make his study effective, the author undertakes to enter the student’s college home life. He searches diligently for facts and deals frankly and candidly with the facts as he finds them.”
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 126. Jl. ’07. 170w. |
Birukoff, Paul. Leo Tolstoy, his life and work. v. 1. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–22384.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If we are to take ... [the translation] seriously as an attempt to give English readers as intelligible a narrative as that enjoyed by readers of the original, we have to point out that the work has been carelessly done, and that the English reader often finds himself mystified where the Russian finds himself enlightened. When in his old age Tolstoy tells us what he thinks we ought to know of his reminiscences, no one has any right to interpose between him and the English reader. Least of all, has anyone a right to do this anonymously and secretly.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 51. Ja. 12, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Bishop, Emily M. Seventy years young, or The unhabitual way. *$1.20. Huebsch.
7–20745.
A sensible outlook on life whose purpose is “‘to put it into the heads’ of its readers that they can add (1) life to their years and (2) years to their life.” The keynote is the admonition to “keep out of ruts.”
“A very suggestive, thought-provoking volume.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 756. D. ’07. 40w. |
Bisland, Elizabeth. [Life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn.] 2v. **$6. Houghton.
6–44374.
“Less than one-fifth of this work contains the record of Hearn’s life. The rest is pure Hearn—even more intimate than the books he has written, dealing with the themes which always moved his imagination. His strange origin, his troubled boyhood and years of apprenticeship, his pursuit of the weird, the exotic among tropical peoples, and finally his departure for Japan in 1890 resulting in permanent expatriation, are recorded in more or less brief compass.” Lit. D.
“The facts of his later life Miss Bisland tells with exactly the brevity and precision with which such facts should be told. Indeed, it is a pleasure to feel that too much praise cannot be given for the ability and reverence with which she has done her work.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 88. Ja. 26, ’07. 1810w. |
“It is certain that no letters reveal more vividly or subtly the inner feeling—the essence, one might say—of the writer, than do these.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 9. Ja. ’07. |
Reviewed by Paul S. Reinsch.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 607. N. ’07. 1230w. |
“Perhaps the worthiest thing to say of these two volumes of some nine hundred pages is that there is not a page too much. Indeed, one page more would have been welcome—containing a bibliography and a glossary of Japanese words.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 126. F. 2. 2170w. |
“It is certain, at any rate, that this vivid, affectionate, one might almost say motherly, record of Hearn’s fugitive and feverish life affords a view of him in more illuminating consonance with the quality of his work than any that has been offered by his friends of his own sex.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + + | Atlan. 99: 261. F. ’07. 7490w. |
Reviewed by Harrison Rhodes.
| + | Bookm. 25: 73. Mr. ’07. 1990w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 49. Ja. ’07. 1890w. |
“It would be impossible to give in a few words any adequate impression of the rare quality of the letters that make up the larger part of this book. It is impossible to read them and not feel acquainted with the writer—with the real man behind the mask.” Frederick W. Gookin.
| + + | Dial. 41: 448. D. 16, ’06. 2370w. | |
| + + | Ind. 62: 560. Mr. 7, ’07. 800w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 130w. |
“No reader of Hearn’s books can do without this work.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 100w. |
“In these days when our shelves are crowded with trivial biographies, it is rare to come across a book so full of human interest, so suggestive, so valuable as a contribution to history as the ‘Life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn.’”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1440w. |
“Of the biographical chapters, it is possible to speak with praise, while admitting considerable reservations. Unquestionably these letters of Hearn’s are among the most interesting that have appeared for a number of years—probably the most valuable since the publication of FitzGerald’s.”
| + + − | Nation. 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 1350w. |
“The most entertaining, self-revealing, even fascinating literary correspondence published since the death of Robert Louis Stevenson.” James Huneker.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 803. D. 1, ’06. 2380w. |
Reviewed by Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + | No. Am. 184: 417. F. 15, ’07. 1860w. |
“His letters are good to read because they are hearty, spontaneous, lacking in all those reticences and poses with which we are familiar in the correspondence of literary persons of minor note.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Putnam. 1: 636. F. ’07. 500w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 110w. | |
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 174. F. 9, ’07. 2050w. | |
| + + | Spec. 98: 501. Mr. 30, ’07. 1530w. |
Bittinger, Lucy Forney. German religious life in colonial times. **$1. Lippincott.
7–12674.
An interesting account of the general course of ecclesiastical life among the Germans in America during the Colonial era. The subject is treated under the headings, The Separatists, The church people, The Moravians, The Methodists, The German churches during the Revolution, and it is dealt with in a purely historical manner.
“Her work shows much care and pains, and full sympathy with its subject.”
| + | Nation. 84: 498. My. 30, ’07. 100w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 525. Mr. 2, ’07. 200w. |
Bjorling, Philip R., and Gissing, Frederick T. Peat: its use and manufacture. **$2. Lippincott.
A practical account of the different methods of preparing peat for commercial purposes and the uses to which peat can be applied. A subject which is claiming more attention as the American coal supply diminishes.
“It is doubtful if there is possible a more comprehensive view of the field in a small volume than is given in this one. The material is of course largely compiled, but with more detail than one would think possible.”
| + + | Engin. N. 58: 425. O. 17, ’07. 460w. | |
| + | Nature. 76: 562. O. 3, ’07. 1020w. |
Black, Rev. Hugh. Listening to God: Edinburgh sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
6–42404.
Brief sermons by the professor of practical theology in Union seminary.
“The sermons are not brilliant, but they are manifestly the expression of the personality and experience of the preacher. And that after all is the only preaching that counts.” Theodore G. Soares.
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 711. O. ’07. 140w. |
“The sermons are full of ideas, without being in the least sensational, and cannot fail to stimulate thought.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 110w. | |
| Ind. 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 40w. |
“Some of them put fresh points to their texts, and all of them are characterized by simplicity, earnestness, and moral vigor.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 110w. |
Blackmar, Frank Wilson. Economics; new ed. *$1.40. Macmillan.
7–12998.
A new edition which extends bibliographies and brings its tables down to date.
“In preparing his book on economics, the author has obviated both of these general criticisms by stating his problems in a clear and interesting manner, and by placing on the market a text book which is both elementary enough and cheap enough to be accessible to average beginners.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 180w. |
“Beyond being simply and well written, the book is without any very marked distinguishing characteristic. Its presentation of the doctrine of socialism in chapter 8 is excellent.”
| + | Educ. R. 33: 535. My. ’07. 70w. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 376. Je. ’07. 50w. |
“The whole is a moderate and common-sense exposition of the subject, not always set out in the happiest terms.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 646. N. 2, ’07. 110w. |
Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander, eds., and trs. [Philippine islands, 1493–1898.] 55 v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
3–6936.
Descriptive note for series in December, 1905.
“There is no other comprehensive treatment of this subject to compare with it. It is a most praiseworthy piece of editorial work.” James A. LeRoy.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 912. Jl. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 39–46.) | |
| + + | Ind. 63: 878. O. 10, ’07. 740w. (Review of v. 39–50.) |
Blaisdell, E. Warde. Animal serials. **$1. Crowell.
6–34712.
In which animals are drawn to express the “foibles, fancies, weaknesses, and conceits that are noticeable in human beings.”
“A unique and mirth-provoking collection of droll drawing.”
| + | Arena. 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 50w. | |
| + | Dial. 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 140w. |
Blake, Mary Elizabeth. In the harbour of hope. **$1.25. Little.
7–37236.
A volume of verse by one to whom Dr. Holmes once said, “You are one of the birds that must sing.” Her poems touch upon religion, nature, humanity and ideals, and voice the sturdy yet peaceful notes of the simple life.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Blake, William. Letters: together with a life by Frederick Tatham; ed. from the original manuscripts by Archibald G. B. Russell. *$2. Scribner.
7–15910.
From all the material furnished in this “life and letters” one gathers a story of Blake’s life “quite apart from his poetry, his painting and his mysticism, and full of human interest.”
“A collection of letters as complete as it can be made at present.” A. Clutton-Brock.
| + + | Acad. 71: 524. N. 24, ’06. 900w. |
“No more simple and straightforward letters were ever written, nor any in which an intimate ecstasy has found such immediate expression. The other part of Mr. Russell’s book, the life of Frederick Tatham, is of no literary value, but is invaluable as a document.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 611. N. 17. 910w. | |
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 12. Ja. 11, ’07. 120w. |
“Mr. Russell’s introduction is written from large knowledge, and is a really valuable essay on Blake as an artist.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 350w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 150w. |
“These letters give us a better idea of the man than any biography.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 708. D. 8, ’06. 500w. |
“Mr. Russell has made amends for some want of editorial judgment by restoring the true reading in one line of poetry, misprinted in Gilchrist, and consequently in every edition of the poems.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 826. N. 24, ’06. 680w. |
Blanchard, Amy E. Four Corners in California. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–30993.
In which the four Corners go on a trip to California where new scenes and experiences call forth all their young enthusiasm. There are bits of instruction which the young reader may cull from the story.
Blanchard, Amy E. [Three little cousins.] (Little maid ser.) †$1. Jacobs.
7–28974.
One from England, one from the east and one from the west, three little cousins meet for the first time at their aunt’s cottage by the sea. This story tells of the good times they had during a summer together.
Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland). Railway children; with drawings by C. E. Brock. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–34371.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Told with something of the humor and originality of the ‘Would-be-goods’ but overdrawn, inclined, to sensationalism, and not nearly so good.”
| − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 80. Mr. ’07. |
“It must be confessed, however, that the incidents in ‘The railway children’ are quite as conventionally melodramatic as in many of the American stories.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 34: 763. D. ’06. 270w. |
Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland). Story of the amulet; with 48 il. by H. R. Millar. $1.50. Dutton.
7–32330.
“Here we have what we may call ‘Alice in Wonderland in excelsis.’ A family of children, whose father has gone as a war correspondent, while their mother is on a health voyage, discover a wonderful creature called a Psammead. By his help, together with the amulet which figures in the title, they are transported to various scenes in the past, after the fashion of the king who lived a life while he was dipping his head in a pail of water. They go to pre-dynastic Egypt, when palaeolithic man was in the Nile valley; they see Babylon, whose queen has an opportunity of expressing her views about social conditions in London; they see the vanished Atlantis, and Julius Caesar when he was in Britain, and then, by a backward leap, a Pharaoh, one of the special devotees of the Amen-Ra.”—Spec.
“A delightful book, destined to be read and re-read by (or to) her small admirers.”
| + | Acad. 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 70w. |
“Children who like fairy tales will enjoy the book and unconsciously acquire a certain amount of knowledge.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 206. N. ’07. |
“Characteristic of E. Nesbit are skillful delineation of childish individuality and facility in charging the most impossible situation with a current of sweet reasonableness, and these features distinguish ‘The story of the amulet.’”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 70w. |
“Very delightful book which is interesting for old as well as young.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 130w. |
“A fascinating narrative, and one which has beneath the surface a gentle satire and also a kindly human sympathy.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 180w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w. |
“The general result is a very clever extravaganza, which an intelligent young person will hardly be able to read without acquiring, unconsciously, or even against his or her will, a certain amount of knowledge.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 200w. |
Bland, Hubert. Letters to a daughter. *$1.25. Kennerley.
“A staid book of imaginary letters” in which the writer “instructs a young woman in that mysterious art, in which all that is subtle, all that is beautiful, all that is morbid, all that is delicate, all the all of all, can be expressed—the art of being a woman.” (Acad.)
| + | Acad. 71: 406. O. 20, ’06. 220w. |
“He drags Epicuranism over the ultimate precipice of cynicism, and it is only because he does it with humor and an eyeglass that we forgive him. Our admiration in any case must follow him.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 654. N. 24. 350w. |
“One thing Alexa’s father did not have, and that was keen sense of humor, a thing hardly to be forgiven in a letter writer.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 400w. |
“They are eminently readable. How far the instruction they contain is suited to the age of their supposed recipient—a girl of nineteen—is another matter.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 529. O. 13, ’06. 1940w. |
Blunt, Reginald. Paradise row; or, A broken piece of old Chelsea. *$3.50. Macmillan.
7–25145.
Being the curious and diverting annals of a famous village street newly destroyed, together with particulars of sundry notable persons who in former times dwelt there, to which are added likenesses of the principal of them and their several houses; the whole collected and presented by Reginald Blunt.
“Our author’s style does not always please us, and is sometimes complicated.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 616. N. 17. 480w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 300w. |
“He tells his story very agreeably.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 780. D. 22, 06. 220w. |
Boardman, Rosina Cox. Lilies and orchids. *$2.50. Cooke.
7–24620.
“A guide to those interested in this particular branch of floral and botanical study, and is of use also to all lovers of wild flowers. The flower families are illustrated by specimens chosen mainly in the United States east of the Rockies, but with a few also from Canada and California.”—Outlook.
“A timely and attractive publication.”
| + | Dial. 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 60w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 190w. |
“A really unusual book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 60w. |
“The color-studies are notable for their exquisite tints and faithful reproduction of the originals.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 90w. |
Boigne, Comtesse de. Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne; ed. from the original ms. by M. Charles Nicoullaud. **$2.50. Scribner.
7–21749.
v. 1. “This new collection covers the period extending from the last days of the old monarchy, through the revolution and the first empire, to the restoration of the Bourbons by the allied sovereigns of Europe.... The pages are filled with lively reminiscences and amusing anecdotes in which figure all the famous folk of this wonderful time, men and women distinguished in society, politics, and literature, from Mme. Récamier and Lady Hamilton to Guizot and Lamartine, from Lafayette to Mme. de Staël.”—N. Y. Times.
v. 2. “The reminiscences of the Comtesse are continued during the Hundred days, Napoleon’s return from Elba, the events of Waterloo, and the restoration down to the year 1819. During this period the Comtesse returned to England with her father, who was French ambassador. Anecdotes of the English court and aristocratic society abound, and much criticism of English manners and customs, pointed by comparisons with French social and political life, makes highly entertaining reading.”—Sat. R.
“These memoirs are exactly what memoirs should be—to be of value and interest. No attempt is made to write history; there is nothing pretentious about them, nothing dull.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 532. Je. 1, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“A volume which, while here and there open to doubts as to accuracy, is everywhere attractive.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 64. Jl. 20. 1160w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Reviewed by S. M. Francis.
| + | Atlan. 100: 492. O. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The translator, modestly anonymous, has succeeded in giving to his version the agreeable effect of an original work.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 43: 84. Ag. 16, ’07. 1630w. (Review v. 1.) |
“This second volume is inferior in interest to the first, owing to the lesser importance of its subject-matter.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1376. D. 5, ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“This volume is one of exceptional readableness.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 271. Ag. 24, ’07. 2480w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The Comtesse de Boigne is a good talker, and we cannot have too much of her. She is not as piercingly clever as Madame du Deffand, or as steely in her philosophical content as Madame Geoffrin, or as sensitive as Madame de Beaumont, or as sensible as Madame d’Epinay. But she is what the frontispiece tells us—a shrewd, sagacious, witty, unexaggerative Frenchwoman, with enough heart to serve our turn and enough experience to make her wise—not enough, perhaps, to make her lovable. She may have been more trenchant than profound, but to quarrel with her is impossible.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 188. Je. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The work contains much distinguished trifling, and is interesting for desultory reading or as a mine for quotation.”
| + | Nation. 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The appendix is stored with some interesting correspondence, which the judicious editor has carefully sifted from the text in order to make the latter coherent. Everywhere his literary skill and historical knowledge are in evidence but never intrusive.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 509. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Decidedly, these memoirs are among the best and most valuable published this autumn. No lover of biography and personalia can afford to forego the pleasure of their perusal. No historian of the period can ignore them. Incidentally, both will be under deep obligation to M. Charles Nicoullaud, the editor, whose literary adjustments have undoubtedly added to the coherence of the book and whose running commentary and appendices make its authority complete and secure.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Delightful reading of their kind.”
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 370. D. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“What makes these memoirs so interesting is that Madame de Boigne describes, with pitiless fidelity, the intimate life of three successive régimes, that of Louis XVI., that of Buonaparte, and that of Louis XVIII.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“She was a shrewd observer, wrote cleverly, and her little cynicisms, mingled with aristocratic complacency, are extremely amusing.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“A readable translation, though it appears to miss the point of one of Madame de Boigne’s best stories.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Bolce, Harold. New internationalism. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–6637.
The financial and commercial amalgamation of the nations is the central theme of Mr. Bolce’s discussion. The following comparison between this book and Miss Jane Addams’ “Newer ideals of peace” is enlightening: “Mr. Bolce is material; Miss Addams spiritual. He puts his trust in the development of international trade; she detects the development of cosmopolitan friendship. One sees, in the financiers and merchants, the architects of the new internationalism; the other finds among the feeblest immigrants the harbingers of the new ideals. But the books are complementary, not contradictory.” (Ind.)
“The book is scrappy and somewhat superficial, but clever, interesting and emphasizes a note that needs emphasis at the present time, that of reciprocity and the economic interdependence of modern nations.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 118. My. ’07. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 855. Ap. 11, ’07. 680w. |
“Though written primarily for English readers, it has interest for American students of the subject, but it does not pretend to be a book for experts. If it can lay claim to no striking merits, the volume is also free from striking defects.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 553. Je. 13, ’07. 320w. |
“There is nothing visionary or academic about Mr. Bolce’s economics. His sympathies are all with the men who do things, and he thinks them competent to teach the closet theorists.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 58. F. 2, ’07. 320w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 50w. |
Bölsche, Wilhelm. Haeckel; his life and work; tr., with an introd., by Joseph McCabe. *$4. Jacobs.
6–24940.
A “plain study” of Haeckel’s personality and the growth of his ideas which is intended in its approximately true appreciation to replace “a hundred Haeckels grotesque in their unlikeness to each other” which “circulate in our midst today.”
| + | Current Literature. 42: 96. Ja. ’07. 1780w. |
“The distinguished German biographer brings to his task not merely literary style and imaginative qualities, but a technical and intimate knowledge of science in its latest development.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 160w. |
“This is an unusually successful work in a difficult field. While we must give credit to the author for teaching us a great deal of zoology in a pleasant manner, the most difficult part of his task, he has hardly done justice to an exceptionally interesting individuality.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 392. Ap. 25, ’07. 790w. |
“Prof. W. Bölsche’s study of Ernst Haeckel is, like the frontispiece of the book, a picture in warm colours. The author is nothing if not enthusiastic, and indeed no one can think over the achievements of Haeckel’s life without sharing the author’s admiration for his hero.”
| + | Nature. 74: 26. My. 10, ’06. 680w. |
“In the nature of things—and the German professional point of view and literary manner—the total is rather hard reading. Yet there is much of real interest.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 43. Ja. 26, ’07. 1120w. |
“Is a model biography for the unprofessional, but cultured reader.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 110w. |
“Very lucid and interesting account of this veteran biologist’s life and work.”
| + + | Spec. 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 260w. |
Bond, Beverly Waugh, jr. Monroe mission to France 1794–1796. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–22912.
A detailed account of this important diplomatic incident, which is based upon the Monroe papers and gives the inner history of the mission, definitely establishing the circumstances and the motives of the actors.
Bonner, Geraldine. Rich men’s children; il. by C. M. Relyea. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–37925.
A western story in which a multimillionaire’s son marries an adventuress, takes to the mountains to win back his peace of mind, falls in love with a bonanza king’s daughter and hopes for developments that will permit an honorable marriage. The way appears when the former husband of the unfit wife appears, and is a welcome factor in straightening the tangle.
“Is one of the strongest romances of the year.”
| + + | Arena. 36: 687. D. ’06. 280w. |
“All things considered, it is rather the best piece of fiction that has yet come from Geraldine Bonner’s pen, the clearest character drawing, the strongest situations, the most thoroughly human appeal from first to last.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + − | Bookm. 26: 78. S. ’07. 710w. |
“Miss Bonner’s book is primarily about the children of two of these bonanza families, but its best and most interesting, parts are those that treat of the parents.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 871. D. 15, ’06. 460w. |
Booth, Mrs. Maud Ballington. Twilight fairy tales. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–38892.
Mrs. Booth’s tales follow the fortunes of a little boy “who found the magic land of ‘Maybe’ the more readily for faithfulness in the land of ‘Is,’ and so lived cheek by jowl with fairies when he had behaved himself properly.” (Nation.)
“The stories are new and ‘different.’”
| + | Bookm. 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 70w. | |
| Ind. 61: 1408. D. 22, ’06. 20w. | ||
| Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 60w. |
“Mrs. Booth writes fluently and gracefully. The pictures are somewhat strained in effect and badly drawn.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 70w. |
Booth, William H. Water softening and treatment, condensing plant, feed pumps, and heaters for steam users and manufacturers; with figs., diags. and tables. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
7–4532.
The work is divided into five sections as follows: 1, Treatment of water by softening, together with the separation of oil and filtration; 2, Air pumps, condensers, and circulating pumps; 3, Feed heating and stage heating; 4, Water cooling; and 5, Feed pumps and injectors.
“From those portions of the book more closely related to its title the American engineer will learn but little. The methods of analysis given are inadequate and the forms of softening apparatus described are evidently less efficient than those in common use in this country.” George C. Whipple.
| − | Engin. N. 56: 187. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w. |
“Altogether, the book contains complete information with respect to the purification and supply of water to steam boilers, which will be valuable to users of steam; whilst the first portion on water softening, will be very useful in indicating the methods by which hard water may be rendered available for various manufactures requiring pure water.”
| + + | Nature. 74: 464. S. 6, ’06. 570w. |
Booth, William Stone. Practical guide for authors in their relations with publishers and printers. *50c. Houghton.
7–14814.
“A clear and terse exposition of ‘those questions and difficulties which may arise during negotiations for the sale of a manuscript to a publisher, or in the relations which exist between a publisher and an author after a work has been accepted.’”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Booth writes with authority, having full and very helpful knowledge of his subject.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 80w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 70w. |
“He writes of the practical side of things with sanity and clearness.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 50w. |
“The best book of its kind we have seen, both for its simplicity and its comprehensiveness. It is in reality an excellent ‘style-card’ for printers and proof-readers, as well as a book of directions for writers.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 359. Ap. 18, ’07. 40w. |
“Should prove of great service in making the creators and publishers of books more often walk the primrose path.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 160w. |
“Aside from the scholarly work everywhere evident in the book, there is an interest not usually associated with books of a similar kind—in fact Mr. Booth’s book makes entertaining instruction of a very dry subject.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | School R. 15: 556. S. ’07. 270w. |
Borden, Spencer. Arab horse; with preface by Prof. Henry Osborne; il. **$1.20. Doubleday.
6–36199.
“An interesting history of the animal, both on his native heath and in the countries to which he has been exported. Considerable space is given to the Arabs in America; and their pedigrees and history are interesting to the lovers of the breed.”—Nation.
| + | Nation. 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 50w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 110w. |
Borden, Stephen Whiley. How to check electricity bills: containing methods of charging for electricity with directions for reading and testing electric meters. *50c. McGraw pub.
7–31191.
“The first part of this little volume is given over to a non-technical definition of a watt, by considering how many watts the common forms of apparatus use. Chapters are included on general principles of meters, troubles and systems of charges and discounts.”—Engin. N.
| Engin. N. 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 160w. |
Bosanquet, Helen (Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet). Family. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–11569.
“This book is a sociological study in which the ethical interest is clearly recognized throughout as the dominant interest. It is the history of an institution considered as embodying certain moral ideas. In tracing the development of the family, in examining its various forms, and in tracing its relation with other institutions, Mrs. Bosanquet keeps unfalteringly the human point of view. The book is quite uncontroversial in tone.... The first part is historical.... The second part treats of the modern family—its bases, economic function, its constituent parts, its outlook.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Mrs. Bosanquet gives us a rich collection of truths; but they are not the whole truth; and without the whole truth the whole picture of the family becomes distorted,” C. S. Devas.
| + − | Acad. 71: 573. D. 8, ’06. 1400w. |
“Preserving throughout the ethical interest, the optimistic view. Written in a luminous, easy style.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 192. N. ’07. |
“The author has done a valuable work in bringing together the results of the most careful investigators into the early history of the institution as well as a study of the modern family.” Emily Fogg Meade.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 173. Jl. ’07. 450w. |
“With an easy, luminous style, ready but unobtrusive humor, and a warmth that grows into eloquence, almost into passion towards its close, the book is in its fundamental attitude an admirable contribution on a most important subject.” Mary Gilliland Husband.
| + + | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 399. Ap. ’07. 740w. |
Reviewed by Mary L. Bush.
| J. Philos. 4: 468. Ag. 15, ’07. 1010w. |
“Some chapters compare favorably with anything to be found elsewhere on the same subjects. Many of the reflections are perhaps not very profound. There are rather too many formless generalities; the conclusions lack precision; they do not always escape being platitudes. Mrs. Bosanquet raises many problems, physical and moral, only to leave some of them much as she found them. These drawbacks notwithstanding, there is a rare vein of reflection, there are delicate observations, perception of circumstances which escape the eye of the ordinary observer; and we are constantly in the company, if not of an acute economist, of a moralist who has an eye for much to which the latter is apt to be blind.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 1400w. |
“It should be said that this volume contains occasional passages of rare eloquence, such as those on p. 160 and onwards, on the very real and spiritual entity of the family.”
| + + | Nature. 75: 78. N. 22, ’06. 340w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 898. Ap. 20. ’07. 2330w. |
“It would be possible to deal rather roughly with various aspects of family life, but her general tone is one of gentle optimism, and we are afraid it is the glorified ideal of the family rather than its materialised form that she traces for us.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1200w. |
“Mrs. Bosanquet’s book is remarkably restrained and uncontroversial in tone.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 825. N. 24, ’06. 1590w. |
“An interesting volume.”
| + | Yale R. 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w. |
Bose, Jagadis Chunder. Plant response as a means of physiological investigation. *$7. Longmans.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A biologically equipped reader with no special knowledge of plant physiology will experience dazzled admiration for the logical, progressive way in which the author builds up, not in words, but actually experiment on experiment, a complete functioning plant from three simple conceptions. A student of plant physiology, who has some acquaintance with the main classical ideas of his subject, will feel at first extreme bewilderment as he peruses this book. It proceeds so smoothly and logically, and yet it does not start from any place in the existing ‘corpus’ of knowledge, and never attaches itself with any firm adherence. This effect of detachment is heightened by the complete absence of precise references to the work of other investigators.” F. F. Blackman.
| + − | Nature. 75: 313. Ja. 31, ’07. 2170w. |
| − + | Acad. 72: 393. Ap. 20, ’07. 480w. |
“There are 340 pages in it, and not one of them is a page wasted or spoilt. It is a fine sober piece of literary workmanship, as well as an entertaining novel.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 220w. |
“The story is smoothly and competently told, and while its basis lies in the realm of mediocre, respectable fiction, the observation of detail, if a shade shopworn, is always sufficiently correct and agreeably expressed to make the whole fairly readable—if no better novel be at hand.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07, 260w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 110w. |
“The reader will find the story completely satisfactory until the moment comes when he is told what is the particular talent to which the heroine is going to devote herself.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w. |
Boulting, William. Tasso and his times. *$2.75. Putnam.
A biography full of side-lights on the history of Italy during the latter part of the sixteenth century. Tasso’s personal history is a succession of failures and troubles; it is a record of one too weak to buffet his way among despots and courtiers identified with Italy’s decline and corruption.
“We may have appeared to have criticised Mr. Boulting severely, but we have done so because his book seems to deserve careful consideration, and we desire to recommend it to many readers whom its more conspicuous merits will instruct and entertain.”
| + + − | Acad. 73: 965. O. 5, ’07. 2080w. |
“From every point of view, historical, biographical, literary, and critical, ‘Tasso and his times’ will be found most satisfactory.” Walter Littlefield.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 598. O. 5, ’07. 1320w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“It is rather because this volume gives us a clear picture of Italy in the latter part of the sixteenth century than because it is a biography of Tasso that it will be welcome to a large circle of readers.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 220w. |
“This book, heralded so loudly, is a popular and superficial account, not so much of Tasso as a poet as of Tasso at court, without a single note or an allusion in the text to any authority save a reference in the last chapter to Professor Solerti. Mr. Boulting mistakes the whole dream and purpose of the Italian renaissance.”
| − − | Sat. R. 104: 397. S. 28, ’07. 1320w. |
“Mr. Boulting does a biographer’s duty without partiality, and makes an effective picture of the man. On Tasso’s poetry Mr. Boulting gives us some excellent criticism; this is, we think, the best part of his book. Of the ‘times’ he has much to say. He has gathered materials with unsparing industry, sometimes, it may be going too far afield, and bringing back what it might have been better to leave behind. Still, he has written a very readable book.”
| + + − | Spec. 99: 402. S. 21, ’07. 230w. |
Boulton, William B. Thomas Gainsborough, his life, work, friends, and sitters. *$2.75. McClurg.
This is as complete and comprehensive as a study of every bit of available material can make it. The interesting stages of Gainsborough’s development are followed, facts concerning his friends and the subjects of his portraits are recorded, and a good summary of the achievements of the artist and the characteristics of the man fills the last two chapters. The evolution of his genius is also traced in the forty reproductions of his paintings.
“In spite of unavoidable gaps and deficiencies, even the early chapters of the book are not dull. He has utilized the accepted sources of biographical material, marshalling his facts in simple orderly fashion, and dealing with them in a dignified and yet thoroughly genial and appreciative way.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
| + | Dial. 43: 247. O. 16, ’07. 1140w. |
“Mr. Boulton has a very uneven style, and the proofreader is guilty of several slips, but these little blemishes do not prevent a reader from enjoying the absence of dryness, one of the common failings of ‘art books’ in all ages. He feels that he has come perceptibly nearer to an understanding of the impetuous yet shrewd, Thomas Gainsborough.” Charles de Kay.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 585. S. 28, ’07. 1430w. |
Bourchier, Dr. Helen. Darry’s awakening. †$1.50. Warne.
A book for girls which tells the story of a child’s loveless training among grandparents and aunts who were “doing their duty” by the daughter of the departed member of their family who had married a man unfit, so they believed, to be responsible for the child. The father returns, carries his daughter off to India with him, and there, thrown upon her own resources, she tries and succeeds in righting a life whose warped beginnings furnish but poor encouragement.
“This might have been an innocuous book for girls just turning up their pigtails, had not the author apparently believed Darry’s truthfulness justifiably wrecked for life by the tinned salmon.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 380w. |
Bourke, S. Ten Eyck. Fables in feathers. il. †$1. Crowell.
7–24036.
Children will be delighted with these fables, which tell them why the swallow wears a forked tail, why the robin wears a red breast, why the woodpecker goes a-tapping, why the owl can’t see in the sun, why the peacock wears eyes on his tail, why the crow’s feathers are black, how the mocking bird got his name, and how the parrot came to wear a hooked beak, and why the jackdaw hides everything bright.
Bousset, Wilhelm. Jesus; tr. by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; ed. by W. D. Morrison. *$1.25. Putnam.
6–21195.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“On the whole the work is not extremely radical: it seeks to be constructive, is written in good spirit.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1571. D. 27, ’06. 390w. |
Bowen, Marjorie. [Master of Stair.] †$1.50. McClure.
7–15924.
“A story of Scotland at the close of the seventeenth century, dealing in the main with a plot to overthrow William of Orange, but more specifically with the hereditary feud between the clans of Campbell and Glencoe, and the treachery by which the latter clan was finally exterminated.”—Bookm.
“The author has a sense of style and a fertile imagination. Against [several] slips may be set the vivid portraiture of many characters (those of William of Orange and Lady Dalrymple would redeem a far worse book) and the general truth of the local colour.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 260w. |
“While quite distinctly not in the same class with Maurice Hewlett, she nevertheless shares with him the rather uncommon gift of infusing the thrill of life into vanished centuries, and making men and women, long since a handful of dust, seem to us, for the time being living breathing realities.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 393. Je. ’07. 520w. |
“Her second novel is so much more creditable a work that its merits are in no need of puffery.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 170w. |
“While we admire her spirit, it is difficult to feel that all this ‘slightly grandiloquent magnificence’ is satisfactory; it is a rich cloak, but it does not take the place of bones and flesh.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 166. My. 24, ’07. 380w. |
“The author has decided descriptive ability. Has also dramatic power.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 320w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 280w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 190w. |
“Exhibiting a total ignorance of technique, of the rudiments of her art, she contrives to emerge safely and successfully from all kinds of difficult situations.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 400w. |
Bowen, Marjorie. [Viper of Milan.] $1.50. McClure.
6–41272.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not so much the clever blending of history and fiction which makes Miss Bowen’s book remarkable; it is the rare atmosphere of reality which permeates it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 24: 487. Ja. ’07. 390w. |
“The story makes up in action for the shortcomings of its style.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 140w. |
“There is not a philosophical sentence in the book, not a single appeal to religion, it is simply a gorgeous fairy tale of human life with a diabolical hero, worked out thru every imaginable irony of circumstance, and considered within these limitations, it is almost beyond criticism in style, construction and fascination.”
| + | Ind. 62: 97. Ja. 10, ’07. 640w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w. |
Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair). Her prairie knight, and Rowdy of the “Cross L.” il. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–23641.
A reissue of two good western stories. In the former a New York society girl is influenced by the sky, the air and the plains, to be true to herself and marry for love rather than for a title. The second tells of the devotion of a little school teacher of the plains to her cowboy brother, whose trickery and dishonesty are run to cover by the man she loves.
“He has a sense of humor, especially in the situations he contrives and he has written an entertaining story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 515. Ag. 24, ’07. 130w. |
Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair). [Range dwellers.] †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–6407.
The breezy, dare-devil, son of a San Francisco millionaire tells in his own amusing way of how he was rusticated on his father’s Montana cattle ranch, in the hope that it would make a man of him, how he fell in love with the daughter of a neighboring rancher, who had enjoyed thirty years of feud and enmity with his father, and how he carried her off in a motor-car. Altogether he demonstrates that he is a wholly “good sort” capable of winning the good comradeship of his fellow cowboys altho handicapped by being “the son and heir.”
* Boxall, George E. Awakening of a race. *$2.75. Wessels.
7–32830.
“In this work the author has traced out briefly the tendencies of thought in civilized countries at the present time with a view to estimating the probable trend of events in the near future. He notes the decay of ideals in this and in other civilised lands, and prophesies a new development of the religious idea. Man, he says, always has had and always must have a religion as a guide to conduct, and the lesson we learn from the past is that a new religion grows gradually out of an older one as man’s knowledge increases. According to him Christianity has about reached its ultimate capacity for division, and, as ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand,’ a new development in religion, based on a scientific view of the world, is absolutely necessary.”
“A person who dares to jeer at a faith of whose history he has not a textbook knowledge, who sets his conclusions in matters of ethnological research against those of the acknowledged leaders of the science, without so much as a schoolboy’s equipment, calls rather for contempt than criticism, laughter than logic. When he enters the domain of sociology and religion he becomes merely ridiculous, and his essays in the reconstruction of human origins are too silly to be entirely dull.”
| − − | Acad. 73: 789. Ag. 17, ’07. 2350w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Boyles, Kate, and Boyles, Virgil D. [Langford of the Three Bars.] †$1.50. McClurg.
7–15542.
This tale of South Dakota follows the trials of a young ranchman, Paul Langford, who undertakes to put an end to cattle-rustling in his section. The county attorney takes up the fight for Langford against the thieves, and the terrifying happenings that result provide a wild west thrill for every page. Langford’s energy, determination and sense of justice win the day finally, tho not without tragedies.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 200w. |
“Their collaborative work is remarkably smooth and even and shows little trace of its double authorship.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w. |
Brace, Benjamin. Seventh person. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–34686.
Jerry Chambers is a young collegian who as a member of a fraternity is obliged at the end of his course to perform whatever task might be outlined in the envelope that he draws from a mysterious black bag. “Obeying its imperative mandate, against which parental wishes count for naught, he departs for South America, where in a marvelously short time he wins great renown, a love affair with a beautiful señorita, developing meanwhile. The scenes of his subsequent adventures are in Mexico and the South and West of the country.” (Ind.)
“The conclusion is carefully manipulated.”
| + | Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 100w. |
“Mr. Brace has the gift of imagination in a most frantic form.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 11: 831. D. 1, ’06. 390w. |
Bradby, Godfrey Fox. Great days of Versailles; studies from court life in the later years of Louis XIV. il. $1.75. Scribner.
7–6786.
Based chiefly upon the memoirs of Saint-Simon, the letters of Mme. de Maintenon and of Madame the Princess Palatine, Mr. Bradby’s picture serves as “an introduction to the period for those who wish to pursue a more extensive study of eighteenth century memoirs, and will also be sufficiently complete and vivid to be of interest and value to those who have not the time and opportunity for more detailed reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Bradby presents a sombre picture of this distinguished formal period, without any brilliance but with too much care to be at all disappointing, though at times we wish for the lightness and gaiety of style which were the feature of his charming story ‘Dick’ and his flippant farce ‘The Marquis’s eye.’”
| + − | Acad. 72: 35. Ja. 12, ’07. 770w. |
“Mr. Bradby’s book gives a fair account of phases of life and thought which are now as extinct, and seem almost as remote, as the ways and usages of the Pharaohs, and in the study of them one can find much interest and some profit.” James Breck Perkins.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 883. Jl. ’07. 760w. |
“On the whole, however, Mr. Bradby’s book is a scholarly and agreeable piece of light historical reading.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 250w. |
“Mr. Bradby has overcome the vast difficulties of the subject, and written a book that makes for learning as well as for amusement—a fine thing to be able to say, when we consider how very amusing it is! He has—or he has acquired—the priceless gift of proportion.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 5. Ja. 4, ’07. 850w. |
“The value of his work would have been enhanced, perhaps, especially for those who wish to carry their studies further, if he had more frequently footnoted his authorities.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 67. F. 2, ’07. 580w. |
“The last few years have seen a great outpouring of books about history, but it is not often easy to find among them one that is written in decent English and is evidently a well-arranged epitome of wide reading as this is.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 290w. |
Bradley, Ernest. Seven steps to the cross, being seven meditations suitable for Lent, and more particularly for Good Friday. **60c. Whittaker.
7–4780.
It is the object of these meditations to “carry a deep spiritual message on the sufferings of our Lord to those who may hear or read them.” The seven steps are; The last supper and the new commandment, Gethsemane, Caiaphas, Herod, Pilate, Out by the Jaffa gate, and Golgotha.
Bradley, Shelland. American girl in India. $1.75. Macmillan.
The experiences of a lively American girl who goes to India principally to attend the “great Durbar” at Delhi. “She reckons and guesses with equal aplomb, and has certain idioms of her own invention, such as ‘I don’t catch right on to the people straight away,’ and ‘Say, though, I’m shying off the main point,’ not to speak of a touch here and there of untimely cockney.” (Nation.)
“There is of course fiction and fiction—the kind which aspires to be a fine art (and so seldom, alas! attains its aspirations) and that which aspires among other small things mainly to amuse (so often failing too). To the latter class belongs ‘An American girl in India;’ but far from being a failure, this novel contains so much knowledge of character, and such a light and sure touch in the sketching of passing personalities, that we regret the trivialities which condemn it to a place in the second category.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 410w. |
“When one has mastered the jargon one finds her an amusing person in a mild way.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 240w. |
“The book is written with a good deal of vivacity, much of it of a cheap sort, and with facility in the use of the English language.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w. |
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Blue ocean’s daughter. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–29001.
“It is about an Amazonian sort of young woman who was born on board her father’s ship, grew up on it in his company, was as good a sailor as the skipper, and if need was could fight with swords and pistols as well as if she had been a man. The time of the story is laid in the latter part of the revolutionary war and the ship is pursued by an English frigate. Out of the pursuit and the fight there grow all manner of exciting incidents.”—N. Y. Times.
“Has a plethora of strange and exciting incident and is written in his most rattling style.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 170w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Patriots. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–9278.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Strong alike in incident and character-drawing.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 110w. |
Brady, Cyrus Townsend, and Peple, Edward Henry. Richard the brazen. †$1.50. Moffat.
6–28452.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We have a suspicion that the tale, like the Adelphi melodrama, was written for the gallery, and an American gallery into the bargain.”
| − | Acad. 73: 778. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w. |
Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt. Bettina. †$1.25. Doubleday.
7–3184.
Of the following ingredients the story is composed: “a genial brother, a doctor with the orthodox Abernathy manners, a providentially effaced friend, whose non-appearance causes the case of mistaken identity upon which the story hinges, and a child of revealing prattle. A railway wreck, the wise scheme of a self-abnegating nurse, a thunderstorm, an overdose of medicine—all serve to bring about a happy ending foreseen from the first.”—N. Y. Times.
“Not recommended for small library with limited means.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 77. Mr. ’07. |
“As we read the bright little sketch of American social life, we forget to cavil at its elaborate setting.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 160w. |
“Slight but cleverly handled story.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 100w. |
“‘Tis foolish,’ as our friend, Mr. Hennessy, says, but it is told in a pleasant, sprightly fashion, and it will furnish beguilement for many readers.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 67. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w. |
“The story [is] too slight to make into a book.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 40w. |
Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. On reading: an essay. **75c. Duffield.
6–32694.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by William T. Brewster.
| Forum. 38: 384. Ja. ’07. 1160w. |
Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. [Reminiscences of my childhood and youth.] **$2.50. Duffield.
6–34030.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Unhappily, however, the translation is not first rate, particularly in the Englishing of original turns and phrases, nor is the volume lacking in typographical errors.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 500w. |
“It is interesting partly though its naïve and refreshing candour—partly through its revelation of the narrow parochialism of Scandinavian life.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 431. D. 28, ’06. 980w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 1040w. (Published by arrangement with Lond. Times.) |
“There is not a dull paragraph, not a single dry-as-dust element in this highly instructive autobiography, for which I earnestly wish many readers in this country.” Paul Harboe.
| + + | No. Am. 183: 917. N. 2, ’06. 1300w. |
“The reader of the ‘Reminiscences’ finds Brandes not dry, certainly not unproductive, but assuredly ‘a creature with thoughts ground keen.’”
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 700w. |
Brastow, Lewis O. Modern pulpit: a study of homiletic sources and characteristics. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–35521.
An interpretation of the teaching of our day. The influences that are at work upon the ministry, the problems that are before it, and the demands that are urged upon it are all viewed in the light of the present day unification of the denominations.
“Dr. Brastow, always calm, rational, deep-sighted and analytical, is especially so in this volume.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + + | Arena. 36: 685. D. ’06. 170w. |
Reviewed by George Hodges.
| Atlan. 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 240w. |
“A book about preaching of decided merit.”
| + + | Ind. 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 50w. |
“The notable feature of this volume, however, is not its descriptions of personalities, but its examination of the more general agencies that have wrought upon modern preaching, together with its discrimination of the distinctive qualities in homiletical practice in the various Protestant nationalities and communions.”
| + | Nation. 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 480w. |
“Men of all churches will recognize his work as one of remarkable attractiveness and ability.”
| + + | Outlook. 84: 631. N. 10, ’06. 600w. |
“Among new works on preaching and the modern pulpit, perhaps the most noteworthy volume of the past few months is ‘The modern pulpit.’”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 110w. |
Breasted, James Henry. Ancient records of Egypt: historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest; collected, edited and translated with commentary, v. 1–4 ea. *$4; v. 5. Index number. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–5480.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In a work of such extent and difficulty there is inevitably much to criticize: and one cannot in reading it avoid the reflection that six months of steady revision of the whole of it are required in order to bring the work up to the high standard at which the author aims and which is to be looked for from one endowed with his comprehensive insight. The English throughout is crude, there are many mistakes in renderings and descriptions, and many hasty judgments.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 116. F. 2, ’07. 1770w. (Review of v. 1–4.) |
“The translation exhibits the same careful attention to matters of detail that is everywhere apparent. In wideness of scope, thoroughness of treatment extending to the minutest details, systematic arrangement and conscientious scholarship Professor Breasted’s ‘Ancient records’ takes high rank, and it cannot be doubted that it will have a most important influence upon Egyptological studies in the domains both of history and philology.” Christopher Johnston.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 858. Jl. ’07. 1720w. |
“One half of the corrigenda which Dr. Breasted announces in his fifth volume are caused by the uncouth and barbarous system of transliteration which forms the trade-mark of Berlin Egyptology, and which Dr. Breasted admits must be ignored by the general reader, it will be seen that he has suffered in no slight degree by his devotion to his innovating teachers. This is, however, the only fault we have to find.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 599. My. 18. 1320w. (Review of v. 1–4.) |
Reviewed by Christopher Johnston.
| + + + | Bib. World. 29: 233. Mr. ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1–4.) |
“A great saver of time and energy to the student.”
| + | Bib. World. 29: 400. My. ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“A great work ready at hand with one of the best indexes ever constructed, making every fact available by its comprehensive system for quick, and easy reference.”
| + | Dial. 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1–4.) | |
| Ind. 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“These volumes form a monument of the author-translator, which will give his name a permanent place in the literature of the subject.”
| + + + | Nation. 83: 558. D. 27, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 1–4.) | |
| Nation. 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“It is a monumental work, of which any country might be proud, and the University of Chicago is to be congratulated upon finding the scholar to achieve it and providing the means to give it to the world.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 104: 270. Ag. 31, ’07. 1270w. (Review of v. 5.) |
Breasted, James Henry. History of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest. **$5. Scribner.
5–34978.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Throughout Dr. Breasted writes clearly and lucidly. He tells his story in a straightforward and spirited manner and, while no detail of importance is omitted, he is never prolix. This happy combination of judicious conciseness with ample fulness of treatment is a distinguishing feature of the book.” Christopher Johnston.
| + + + | Bib. World. 29: 234. Mr. ’07. 560w. |
“The best and most readable English history of Egypt.”
| + + + | Nation. 83: 558. D. 27, ’06. 260w. |
Brebner, Percy. Knight of the silver star. *$1. Fenno.
7–34776.
An English traveler slides inadvertently down a mountain side on the borderland of Russia and finds himself in a strange kingdom where mediæval customs prevail. Here, welcomed as a heaven sent knight, he wields a sword in behalf of the beautiful princess, passes safely thru many wondrous adventures, and at last in a miraculous fashion escapes from his enemies. He returns to our modern London carrying with him the princess who, as his wife, remains the one proof of the time when he tilted for her in the lists wearing the armour of the knights of the silver star.
Brebner, Percy James (Christian Lys, pseud.). [Princess Maritza]; il. by Harrison Fisher. $1.50. McBride, T. J.
6–32119.
“It is the old story of the little kingdom and the succession and the ‘peace of Europe’ on the verge of collapse. As in all such stories, there are tricky ministers, intriguing women, swash-buckler soldiers and the lovers—a princess and a soldier of fortune.”—N. Y. Times.
“The incidents are numerous though unconvincing. The personages do not live, we are indifferent to their fates.”
| − | Nation. 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 230w. |
“Usually, in such stories, there are lay figures, but Mr. Brebner has injected hot blood into them, and the result is a story, the stirring action and situations of which may cause Anthony Hope to tremble for his ‘Zenda’ laurels.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w. |
Breed, Charles Blaney, and Hosmer, George Leonard. Principles and practice of surveying. $3. Wiley.
6–39471.
“Not a treatise, but a text-book, and an elementary rather than a comprehensive text-book. They [the authors] deal with the simpler branches of the surveyor’s work in a clear and simple explanatory style. The subject is covered in four main divisions, headed, respectively: Instruments (use, adjustment and care); Surveying methods: Computations: Plotting: followed by a rather good collection of tables.”—Engin. N.
“Good manual of the simpler branches of surveying. Especially careful in pointing out possible sources of error.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 160. O. ’07. S. | |
| + + | Engin. N. 56: 528. N. 15, ’06. 400w. |
“The usual tables complete the volume, which is probably as satisfactory a text-book under present methods of technical school instruction in surveying as can be written.” H. N. Ogden.
| + | Science, n. s. 26: 17. Jl. 5, ’07. 600w. |
“The book as a whole is worthy of a place on any beginner’s desk, and merits success.” Arthur D. Butterfield.
| + + − | Technical Literature. 1: 222. My. ’07. 1490w. |
Brent, Rt. Rev. Charles Henry. With God in prayer. **50c. Jacobs.
7–11202.
Bishop Brent’s purpose in writing this little book is to suggest prayerful thoughts and to promote the prayerful spirit.
Bridge, Norman. House health, and other papers. **$1.25. Duffield.
7–29539.
The titles of the papers included in this volume are suggestive: House health, Human talk, The blind side of the average parent, Some commencement ideals, A domestic clearing house, The true gospel of sleep, Some unconceded rights of parents and children, and The trained nurse and the larger life.
“Contains much good advice, and some that is perhaps not so good because the counsel of an extremist.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 250w. |
“He says so much that is sensible and practical that almost any parent might find himself chastened and enlightened by a perusal of the volume.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 310w. |
Brierley, J. (“J. B.,” pseud.) Eternal religion. *$1.40. Whittaker.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His outlook is broad, his sympathies are wide.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w. |
Brierley, Jonathan. Religion and experience. *$1.40. Whittaker.
7–37539.
“The brevity of his essays, rarely exceeding eight pages, commends them to a world that prefers short sermons, and to preachers who would learn to say in fifteen or twenty minutes much that will both hold the attention and stick in the mind afterwards. The standpoint is that of a devoutly Christian thinker fully responsive to the intellectual demands of the modern world. The introduction compresses into a short statement, clear and simple, the modern argument for experience as the test of reality, whether in science, philosophy, or religion.”—Outlook.
“The chief value of the book consists in the facts that the writer combines a truly liberal with a deeply religious spirit: that he is steeped in the thoughts of the world’s highest thinkers, ancient and modern, and that he is able to place their ideas before his readers in such telling fashion that they may be ‘understanded of the people.’”
| + + | Acad. 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 260w. |
“The various subjects are well exploited, and the conclusions, while marked by an optimism that is too easy-going to bear a searching criticism, are unquestionably honest, kindly, and wholesome.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 125. Ag. 8, ’07. 500w. |
“The gifted British essayist ... evidently, as the present volume like its predecessors shows, reaps a rich-soiled field.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 160w. |
Briggs, Charles Augustus. Critical and exegetical commentary on the book of Psalms. 2v. ea. **$3. Scribner.
v. 2. This volume contains the commentary on the Psalms from the fifty-first to the one hundred and fiftieth. “The special student and the ordinarily intelligent reader are both provided for: the former in full measure. The latter will find some strikingly new translations superseding the old.” (Outlook.)
“Is one of the most notable books of the year in the field of Scripture study.”
| + + | Cath. World. 85: 406. Je. ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“This work is encyclopaedic in character. The introduction, covering 110 pages, is the fullest treatment we have seen on all the questions that concern a critical study of the Psalter.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The possibility of accidental or deliberate changes of reading must constantly be remembered in dealing with such a book as the Psalter. It is in this respect that Dr. Briggs is perhaps deficient, and this deficiency, for me, throws much doubt on his metrical arrangements of the psalms. I consider his work of great educational use, and that even for very advanced students it will save much trouble to have the book near at hand.” T. K. Cheyne.
| + − | Hibbert J. 5: 453. Ja. ’07. 3040w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Dr. Briggs is hardly critical enough, nor has he sufficient experience in the use of all the newest and best methods.” T. K. Cheyne.
| + − | Hibbert J. 5: 944. Jl. ’07. 1530w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Dr. Briggs’s ‘Commentary on the Psalms’ is dominated by the author’s interest in their metrical structure. There is no harm in arranging a Psalm in strophes and lines, if one so desire, but when enthusiasm for metre dictates important textual emendations, as is frequently the case with Dr. Briggs, the matter is more serious.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 330. F. 7, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Quite up to the highest German standard. No other writer has paid more attention to poetic structure, and he has used its laws in his correction of the text.”
| + | Ind. 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Much in his volume demands most careful consideration; but we cannot but think that a verdict of ‘not proven’ will have to be returned on many of his most confident and dogmatic conclusions as regards both the text and the development of the Psalter.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“These volumes command respect as a work of immense industry. No existing commentary on the Psalms can be compared with them for exhaustive thoroughness.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 61. Jl. 18, ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Briggs, Charles Augustus, and Hugel, Friedrich H. von. Papal commission and the Pentateuch. *75c. Longmans.
In which the author and his friend Friedrich von Hugel exchange letters on the decision of the Pontifical commission concerning the Pentateuch. Professor Briggs expresses his “surprise and grief that the Commission should have put such a burden on the church, and restates the critical conclusions as to the composite authorship of the Pentateuch, as against the Commission’s conclusion that Moses wrote it, with the use of pre-existing documents and some later scribal additions. Von Hugel replies, defining the liberty of Catholic scholarship in the church, agreeing with Professor Briggs as to the folly of the Commission’s action, even altho approved by the Pope, and both agree that the decision should not forbid critical research and freedom.” (Ind.)
| Cath. World. 84: 707. F. ’07. 1260w. | ||
| Ind. 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w. | ||
| Lond. Times. 5: 410. D. 7, ’06. 770w. | ||
| Nation. 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 150w. | ||
| Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w. |
Brinton, Selwyn. Correggio. Forty-eight plates with biography. (Newnes’ art lib.) *$1.25. Warne.
W 7–47.
A biographical sketch, a list of the most celebrated works with descriptive, critical and historical matter, and forty-eight half-tones of paintings.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S. |
Reviewed by Charles de Kay.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 881. D. 22, ’06. 200w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 160w. |
Brode, Heinrich. Tippoo Tib, the story of his career in Central Africa. *$3. Longmans.
Tippo Tib is an Arab trader well known to all who took an interest in East Africa or the Congo fifteen or twenty years ago. This sketch is a transcription made from Tippo Tib’s own story of his life. “He was a species of African Cortez, brave as a lion, utterly unscrupulous, avid of wealth, shrewd and masterful. Like the Spanish adventurers, he accomplished prodigies with a handful of men.” (Lit. D.)
“It is a fascinating chronicle.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 350w. |
“A valuable addition to the scanty records of East African history.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 940w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 250. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w. | |
| Spec. 98: 904. Je. 8, ’07. 490w. |
Bronson, Walter C., comp. English poems. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–29839.
The last volume in a projected series of four, devoted to English poems. The first volume will include Old English poems in translation, Middle English poems, specimens of the pre-Elizabethan drama and old ballads; the second will cover the Elizabethan and Caroline periods; and the third will include poems of the restoration and the eighteenth century. The present volume is devoted to poetry of the nineteenth century. The series is designed for use in survey courses covering the entire field of English literature.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 192. N. ’07. |
“Should be warmly welcomed as [an] adjunct to the work of teaching English literature in both colleges and secondary schools.”
| + | Dial. 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 100w. |
“The excellence of the selection of individual poems is beyond dispute.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 200w. |
Brooke, Emma Frances. Sir Elyot of the woods. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–15923.
Sir Elyot Ingall of Ingalton, young, handsome, and on the eve of a literary career, finds his estates hopelessly encumbered and is obliged to let his manor house and strive by personal effort to keep a mortgage off his Dower woods, the woods he loves, the trees of which offer the only source of revenue for him. He struggles against the woodman’s axe and finds inspiration for his writings in his forest. When thru a legal tangle it is all but lost to him he recovers it, and in recovering learns that the girl he loved and trusted had played the trees false and planned to sacrifice them for the gold she craved. In his agony his heart returns to his first love thru whom he and his estate come once more to their own.
“If the whole book did but carry out the promise to be seen in the opening pages it would be a remarkable and interesting production.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 150w. |
“As the faults of the novel are popular, they will not interfere with its circulation.”
| + − | Ath. 1907. 1: 693. Je. 8. 230w. |
“It lacks but little of achieving distinction of style; it just misses success in portraying one of those rare women characters that really count.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 391. Je. ’07. 460w. |
“On its merely human side, this is a singularly impressive and well-managed story; to the lover of trees, who can share in Elyot’s passion, it is an inexpressibly poignant tragedy.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 800w. |
“The book escapes being what it might have been, a notable piece of work; as written it is nothing but a fairly readable ‘minor novel.’”
| + − | Ind. 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 180w. |
“With a subtler art than that of the descriptive writer, Miss Brooke contrives to pervade her story with the beauty and sanctity of the woods, showing them to us through the eyes of her characters, and keeping them always before us.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 280w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 130w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 120w. |
Brooke, George H. Story of a football season. **$1. Lippincott.
7–29718.
Steeped in the atmosphere of the athletic field, this story of a foot-ball season, written with all the life-likeness and authority which inside knowledge can afford, makes its appeal to every champion of a college eleven. All the stages of team development are interestingly set down and gridiron encounters, including the great end-of-the-season victory are realistically described.
Brooke, Stopford A. Life superlative. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.
W 6–183.
A collection of Mr. Brooke’s sermons and addresses which are characterized by their moral outlook, their grasp of things unseen and eternal, their practical appeal to the highest and best in human nature, and a high note of optimism. They are grouped under the following headings: Religion and conduct, Lessons by the way, Social problems, The outlook—here and hereafter, The foundations of life and The city of the soul.
“This is a book good to have on the table for leisure moments and their opportunities of refreshment for the higher self.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 160w. | |
| + | Spec. 96: 545. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w. |
Brookfield, Frances (Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield). Cambridge “Apostles.” *$5. Scribner.
7–13938.
“A record of the talk and a study of the character of a large group of gifted people who enlivened their intercourse with one another with unfailing gaiety of mood and unflagging humor. High spirits and abounding wit are generally found in the company of men of genius; and the madness theory of Nordau is set at naught by the sanity and love of fun of the apostles’ who gave the University of Cambridge distinction between 1830–1840.”—Outlook.
“The book, indeed, is full of blunders—some due probably to slack reading of proofs, some to want of familiarity with the details of the life of the time.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1320w. |
“An index, whose five pages, however, do not contain all the entries one might have occasion to look for—not even all the names of persons mentioned in the work. If the book has still another fault, it may by the more serious be thought to be an unduly generous inclusion of pleasant trivialities. However, they entertain—or, if not, they may be skipped.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + − | Dial. 12: 134. Mr. 1, ’07. 1500w. |
“To one behind the scenes this is not a good book.”
| − | Nation. 84: 205. F. 28, ’07. 890w. |
“A few typographical errors disfigure a volume unusually excellent in its format, a joy to both eye and hand. It is of the nature of an accolade to be admitted to this elect circle. Mrs. Brookfield’s readers cannot but have a sense of distinction conferred upon them.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 25. Ja. 19, ’07. 930w. |
“It is loosely put together and not always carefully written, but it is starred with great names and full of delightful glimpses of that rare kind and quality of society which charms, refreshes, and liberates.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
| + + − | No. Am. 181: 528. Mr. 1, ’07. 1470w. |
“A more interesting and witty book has not come from the press for a long time.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 164. Ja. 26, ’07. 1900w. |
Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 613. Ag. ’07. 1270w. |
“We may complain that her proofs have not been read, and that her pages bristle with inexcusable misprints. We may object that many of her statements are inaccurate. But, when all deductions are made, we cannot deny the merit of Mrs. Brookfield’s book, and we have read it from beginning to end with a pleasure which its faults have done no more than temper.”
| + + − | Spec. 97: 988. D. 15, ’06. 1270w. |
* Brooks, Mary Wallace. A prodigal. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
7–22410.
This story tells how the goodness of a sweet maid reformed the prodigal son of a brokenhearted minister. It contains reproof for the unthinking people of the world who lift their voices in popular condemnation of every son among them who feeds on husks, people who not only do not offer a more Christian diet but who scoff at those who have the courage to offer it.
Broughton, Rhoda. Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Is no more than a sketch, verging here and there on caricature. It is light, unpretending, avowedly skimming over the surface of things. It is amusing to an unusual degree.” Mary Moss.
| + | Atlan. 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 510w. |
Brown, Alice. County road. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“None of the tales touch upon the darker aspects of life, all are optimistic in tone, and delicately humorous in treatment.”
| + | Acad. 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 160w. |
“The title of the book is well chosen, carrying with it a leisurely pace, happy endings, unforced homely dialect, Yankee talk as it really is.” Alice Durant Smith.
| + | Bookm. 24: 598. F. ’07. 920w. |
“The people in the book are mainly earth creatures, dimly aware of, but in no wise intimate with their own mental processes, and they are handled with insight and unfailing charm.”
| + | Ind. 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 220w. |
“All lovers of New England studies are cordially advised to read this collection.”
| + | Spec. 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 130w. |
Brown, Arthur J. Foreign missionary: an incarnation of a world movement. **$1.50. Revell.
7–23292.
A text-book for the student contemplating going into the field. “Beginning with a statement of the missionary motive and aim, he describes simply and clearly the essential qualifications for the work, then passes on to a detailed account of the missionary’s relations to the society which sends him out, his duties to it, and its obligations to him. The principal arguments against foreign missions are briefly stated and answered, and the book closes with a striking portrayal of the modern missionary, not as a saint on a pedestal with a halo about his head, but as ‘preëminently a man of affairs.’” (Nation.)
“We only regret, and it is our single criticism, that he has not given some information as to the way in which young English, German, and Swiss candidates are prepared for missionary work in Asia and Africa.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 380w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“A thoroughly sane book is a thing of beauty and a joy. Such is Dr. Brown’s book on missions. This book is especially adapted for two classes of persons—those who believe in foreign missions and those who don’t.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 746. N. 23, ’07. 110w. |
Brown, Charles Reynolds. Main points: a study in Christian belief. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
7–19461.
“The present work puts before thoughtful laymen the main points of evangelical doctrine as now held by what twenty years ago began to be known as ‘progressive orthodoxy.’ It is for these who desire a statement of fundamental Christian truths more accordant with modern thought and experience than what they find in the historic creeds.”—Outlook.
| + | Ind. 62: 504. F. 28. ’07. 150w. |
“It is a luminous help to the clear thinking that grasps essential reality. It is also sane in stopping at the line where it is more reasonable to wait for more light before exploring further. This quality, however, is not so manifest in its discussion of the divinity of Christ.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 352. F. 9, ’07. 170w. |
Brown, Charles Reynolds. Social message of the modern pulpit. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–32406.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
| Atlan. 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 110w. |
“The main interest in the volume lies in the method by which the Biblical story of Exodus is made to suggest moral factors in the labor problems of our own time and land.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + | Dial. 42: 12. Ja. 1, ’07. 400w. |
Brown, Francis. Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament. *$8. Houghton.
Professor Brown has brought an enormous undertaking to its completion, aided by Professors Driver and Briggs. It is “the most important contribution to Hebrew lexicography since the ‘Thesaurus.’ When it is added that the gains of three-quarters of a century in Semitic philology, in textual criticism, geographical exploration, and archaeological research, as well as in Biblical exegesis, have been brought to bear on the lexical problems of the Old Testament, it will be understood that the lexicon has no need to commend itself by even the greatest names of former generations.” (Nation.)
“It is, indeed, a veritable thesaurus, and will not fall far short of meeting the most exacting requirements. It is safe to predict that it will be a long time before it is superseded; and in the meantime it will remain what it is now, an indispensable helper.” Charles C. Torrey.
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 510. Jl. ’07. 2990w. |
“We regret that the price of this essential dictionary will conduce to the further neglect of the Hebrew language in our theological seminaries.”
| + | Ind. 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 310w. |
“Let the place of honor among the religious books of the year be given to a monument of patient toil and exact and searching scholarship. Professor Francis Brown’s ‘Hebrew and English lexicon of the old Testament.’”
| + + + | Ind. 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 130w. |
“Scholars of the English tongue have now in their hands an instrument not only unsurpassed, but unrivalled in any other language.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 200w. |
Brown, Sir Hanbury. Irrigation: its principles and practice as a branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.
A work of some three hundred pages which sets forth the guiding principles that should govern the practice of irrigation, and furnishes illustrations of their application in existing canal systems. Many of the illustrations have been taken from material supplied by the irrigation experience of India and Egypt.
Brown, Helen Dawes. Mr. Tuckerman’s nieces. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–32838.
Mr. Tuckerman, a professor and bachelor, learns one day that three nieces have been bequeathed to him. His sense of duty demands that he open the doors of his colonial home, sacred to study and repose, to these doubtful western girls. The story tells how they slip into his home life and soften the callous spots of his nature and by their freshness and ingenuousness teach him to love youth, and, further, how this training turns him into the channels of neglected love making.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Brown, Hiram Chellis. Historical bases of religions, primitive, Babylonian and Jewish. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–33632.
A chapter on the origin and development of the religious sense, introduces a study of the Babylonian and Jewish religions. Babylonian civilization receives friendly, almost enthusiastic treatment. The chapters on Jewish religion, which occupy over half the volume, give a résumé of the results of the higher criticism and recent research, and attempt to prove that Judaism retarded rather than advanced religious progress.
“Is a well-written but misleading book. It is the product of wide reading rather than of close study or original investigation.” Kemper Fullerton.
| − + | Am. J. Theol. 16: 666. O. ’07. 250w. |
“We have no opportunity to verify at this time the author’s statement of historic facts concerning the teachings of the monuments, but assuming them to be correct we feel that the conclusions drawn therefrom are not entirely warranted. In our opinion the author lacks power of historic perspective.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + − | Arena. 37: 107. Ja. ’07. 870w. |
“Throughout the volume the wrong is so mingled with the right, and there is such a distortion (doubtless unintentional) of the history, that the general reader may often get an impression not in accordance with the facts. A proper estimate of Hebraism and Judaism calls for wider knowledge and a calmer and more Judicial attitude than are to be found in this volume.”
| − | Nation. 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 540w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 160w. |
Brown, John Mason. Lecture on the law of contracts. $1. John M. Brown, Washington, D. C.
7–23481.
“The subject-matter of the book was prepared by Mr. Brown for delivery before the Association of American Government Accountants, the aim and desire of the author being to correct some of the misconceptions of law and some of the errors of practice which have so largely characterized the government contract and those who have had to deal therewith.”—Engin. N.
“The presentation of the matter—especially those features and branches with which contractors are so frequently harassed and annoyed—is exceptionally clear. The language is entirely untechnical and the book is so arranged as to give the layman a thorough grasp of the main principles of the law.”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 320w. | |
| + | Technical Literature. 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 230w. |
Brown, John Pinkney. Practical arboriculture: how forests influence climate, control the winds, prevent floods, sustain national prosperity: a text book for railway engineers, manufacturers, lumbermen and farmers; how, where and what to plant for the rapid production of lumber, cross-ties, telegraph poles and other timbers, with original photographs by the author. $2.50. J. P. Brown, Connersville, Ind.
6–23171.
A thorogoing handbook sufficiently well outlined in the sub-title.
“The work can in no proper sense be called a text-book, since it is utterly lacking in systematic arrangement, but it will doubtless prove of no little educational value. It is a pity that the book has no index, what is called such being merely a table of contents.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 56: 525. N. 15, ’06. 310w. | |
| R. of Rs. 34: 761. D. ’06. 80w. |
Brown, Katharine Holland. Dawn. †50c. Crowell.
7–21225.
An overworked surgeon goes to the northern wilds to rest and to avert a nervous breakdown. While there the miracle of restoration is wrought thru a night of service to a woman whose life he fought for and won.
Brown, Kenneth. Sirocco: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.
6–19771.
“This tale is described as ‘a thrilling story of the Arabian desert;’ and as dealing with the ‘most uncivilized of North African despotisms.’ It deals with a country existing only in the author’s rather unbridled imagination. His ‘Sirocco’ is clearly meant to be Morocco; but, while it may resemble a tourist’s dream of that country, it is far from resembling the real Moghreb.”—Ath.
“‘Thrilling’ the story may possibly prove to the unfastidious reader who likes his fiction hot and strong; but its glaring impossibilities, not to mention improbabilities, will militate against appreciation of such merits as it possesses. It owes something to the ‘Naulahka,’ but lacks the artistry of that ingenious extravaganza.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w. |
“It is written in a crisp, virile style, and the contrasts between the Americanisms of the American and the very Oriental situations in which he finds himself are brought out in a racy and picturesque fashion.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 300w. |
Brown, William Adams. Christian theology in outline. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–44353.
A textbook of doctrinal theology for those who feel themselves attached to the historic forms of faith. “He has succeeded in stating several of the doctrines of historic Christianity, notably that of the Trinity, in a manner to relieve dogma of some of its difficulties, while retaining largely the classic form of expression.” (Nation.)
“It may be questioned, however, whether Professor Brown is altogether justified in retaining the orthodox terminology for his modern doctrine.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 884. O. 10, ’07. 330w. |
“Professor Brown is a careful scholar, who has trained himself to avoid exaggeration, and whose chapters never offer rhetoric in the place of thought.”
| + | Nation. 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 280w. |
“This conception of the relation of the Bible to theology, of which Dr. Brown observes it is not the only source, underlies his entire work, and gives it distinctive character. It is undeniably the true conception. In the fidelity, the fullness, and the freedom with which he has applied it he is not surpassed by any contemporary theologian.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 565. Je. 13, ’07. 1650w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w. |
Browne, Edward G. Literary history of Persia from Firdawsi to Sa’di. (Lib. of literary history.) $4. Scribner.
7–2590.
The second volume of Professor Browne’s “Literary history of Persia,” the first volume of which appeared four years ago. The period covered is from the beginning of the eleventh century to the middle of the thirteenth, the Golden age of Persian poetry.
“The virtue or the defect of his book is that it is an encyclopaedia of the results of firsthand research. It is designed for the benefit of the man of learning rather than for the delectation of the lover of letters.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 9. Ja. 5, ’07. 1530w. |
“Prof. Browne’s translations in verse are generally excellent, but it is a pity that they are now and then marred by the use of false rhymes. Altogether this book is a monument of ripe learning and bounteous exposition.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 822. D. 29. 2520w. |
“More generally interesting than its predecessor, although it is not so weighted by the enormous erudition of the author as to be anything but light reading.”
| + + | Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 110w. |
“Is the most important work on Persian literature that has appeared in years.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 280w. |
“In point of workmanship, the book is ill-composed. To the student and scholar it will be a fund of prolonged delight, and to such the faults which detract from its literary workmanship will seem almost merits. The Persian scholar will find it a stout staff to lean on in all matters of biography, bibliography, and textual apparatus. The ‘mere reader’ may perhaps wish for a more balanced and consecutive treatment of the literature, and will probably be alarmed by the sternly scholarly spelling of the names.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 341. O. 12, ’06. 2190w. |
“The author has conscientiously omitted nothing. If ever [the reader] comes across the name of some obscure ‘littèratur’ of Persia, he will find all that can be said about him in the Cambridge Professor’s book.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1090w. |
“He deserves hearty thanks for the delightful anecdotes with which his book is garnished. He has penetrated into the soul of Oriental story-telling, and he realises, with the East that a fact flies the further when winged with an epigram. Admirable, too, are his short biographical notices of his authors, compiled from materials that his critical sense knows well how to use, and just as admirable are his appreciations of their works from a Western point of view, and even from an Eastern.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1570w. |
Browne, George Waldo. Comrades under Castro; or, Young engineers in Venezuela. 75c. McKay.
A new edition of the second volume in “The round world series.” It is an interesting account of the part which two American lads played in the revolution in Venezuela, being comrades under Castro thruout his fight to maintain his own against the enemies of his government.
Browne, J. H. Balfour. Essays, critical and political. 2v. *$5. Longmans.
The greater part of these essays appeared in the Westminster review between the years 1876 and 1886. Among subjects discussed in the “Political” volume are: Russia, 1877; Afghanistan, 1881; African slave trade; English supremacy, and England in Egypt. They are principally valuable for the historical interest of opinions expressed. The “Critical” volume includes among its subjects Michael Angelo, Machiavelli, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Landor, Dickens and Macready.
“A writer of substantial merit, though hardly of the first rank. He is too fond of putting his subjects into the box as it were, and submitting them to a severe cross-examination.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 590w. |
“The ‘Political’ volume is too far outdated to have any particular value in this twentieth century.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 90w. |
“The essays on Landor, Dickens, Michael Angelo, and Machiavelli all show an insight and are written with a force quite out of the common.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 330w. |
“Harmless in their original form they may have served well enough to occupy the leisure hours of an aspirant to legal fame, but it is hard on the reader that they should be forced again upon his notice under the cover of a name now well known in a sphere not that of literature.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 528. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w. | |
| − + | Spec. 98: 1014. Je. 20, ’07. 210w. |
Browne, Sir Thomas. Religio medici: Letter to a friend; and Christian morals; with introd. by C. H. Herford. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Complete poetical works; with a prefatory note by Robert Browning. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
The complete poetical works of Mrs. Browning uniform with the limp leather “Thin paper poets.”
Browning, Oscar. Fall of Napoleon. *$5. Lane.
7–32141.
“Mr. Browning’s new book is a personal history of Napoleon between the years 1813 and 1815, and the author does not claim therein to bring to light new facts, but to summarize the results of other people’s researches. His book, is, however, more valuable than might be expected, because he gives for the first time in English a view of Napoleon’s character and conduct, largely founded upon the work of M. Albert Sorel, rather different from that generally accepted in this country.”—Acad.
“As a whole the book is useful. The tale is clearly told but without the help of maps, and it is told moreover with rare, self-restraint. The opinions of the author seldom intrude. Is decidedly an advance on the same author’s work on the youth of his hero.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 482. My. 18, ’07. 610w. |
“Taken as a study of the politics of these stirring months, and as a sketch of by far the strongest actor in the momentous drama, the work can be highly commended. It is one that the worshippers of Napoleon will welcome.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 138. O. ’07. 820w. |
“Mr. Browning begins his story rather abruptly. In another matter of high significance Mr. Browning’s narrative is unsatisfactory. We refer to his account of the relations between Napoleon and Pius VII. early in 1813.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w. |
“One noticeable feature of Mr. Browning’s work is the sense of proportion which he has maintained throughout his treatment of these singularly troubled years.” Henry E. Bourne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 660w. |
“Mr. Browning’s narrative is often vivid and interesting, but it is a pity that inaccuracies and misprints which a little care in revision would have removed should give an impression of hasty, or, shall we say, over-facile composition.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 750w. |
“Shows no very distinctive merit, save that it is not marred by the extreme carelessness of his last book on the same subject.”
| + | Nation. 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 1190w. |
“It is in this matter of the physical and mental changes which for some years had been taking place in Napoleon that Mr. Browning’s book shows a serious lack, mine of information though it is upon other matters.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 580w. |
“Our chief criticism of Mr. Browning’s book is that there is too much mere narrative and too little comment and explanation.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 500w. |
“Without doubt he has produced a book which should have its place in any library of Napoleonic literature.”
| + | Spec. 98: 910. Je. 8, ’07. 380w. |
Bruce, Audasia Kimbrough. Uncle Tom’s cabin of to-day. $1.50. Neale.
6–46250.
The new order of things as it exists today in time of freedom for the negro is pictured in this sketch of the Berney family, “in the heart of the black belt of Alabama.”
Bruce, George A. Twentieth regiment of Massachusetts volunteer infantry, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–18330.
Popularly known as the Harvard regiment because officered by young men just out of the university, the Twentieth Massachusetts was a part of the Second corps of the Army of the Potomac. Among the engagements especially dealt upon are Ball’s Bluff, Fair Oaks, the Seven days’ battles, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness and Spottsylvania.
“One of the best of recent regimental histories. The narrative is full of valuable sidelights.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 210. O. ’06. 70w. |
“This volume deserves large folded maps to replace the meagre ones it offers, and it is too valuable to remain, like a novel or a fairy tale, without an index.”
| + + − | Nation. 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 630w. | |
| R. of Rs. 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 70w. |
Bruce, Jerome. Studies in black and white. $1.50. Neale.
6–43783.
The subtitle states that this is a novel in which are exemplified the lights and shades in the friendship and trust between black and white—slave and master—in their intercourse with each other in antebellum days.
Bruce, Philip Alexander. Robert E. Lee. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
7–29102.
More side-lights are here furnished on the great American sectional struggle. Following the early life and education, the sketch presents Lee, the patriot and soldier, fighting gallantly for his convictions, and, at the war’s close, Lee, the reconciler, whose watchwords were conciliation, forbearance, and oblivion of the surviving hatreds of the past.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 193. N. ’07. S. |
“We know of no better or fairer statement of the Virginian theory of constitutional law and secession than that which here prepares the readers’ mind for Colonel Lee’s resignation of his command in the United States army, and his refusal of the proffered command of the northern army of invasion.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 290w. |
“It is well worth the few hours required for its perusal. It presents in brief outline one of the great and tragic figures of world history.” W: E. Dodd.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 1250w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 635. N. ’07. 100w. |
Brunetiere, Ferdinand. Honore de Balzac. **$1.50. Lippincott.
6–43793.
The second volume of a series which aims to do for French literature what has been achieved for the English and American men of letters. The sketch deals not so much with the biographical facts of Balzac’s life, as with the elemental points that define, explain and characterize his work. The life is subordinated to the creative energy that appeals to the critic and historian of literature.
“In this volume we have an excellent example of M. Brunetière’s work.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 30. Ja. 12, ’07. 1240w. |
“Scholarly, of course, in treatment, compact, finished, and readable. Not equally well translated throughout.”
| + + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 6. Ja. ’07. |
“He has gone over fields trodden by many predecessors, without discovering either new flowers or new weeds. When we come to specific judgment on particular novels, M. Brunetière is inclined to be too arbitrary. It is surprising to find such a critic as M. Brunetière confusing real persons with the creatures of fiction.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 1390w. |
“Can hardly be disregarded in any study of Balzac’s literary art.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 230w. |
“Whoever cares for literary morphology, whoever delights in following the organic evolution of literary form, will find in Brunetière’s ‘Balzac’ a work of genuine fascination. The book appeals to one with all the delightful freshness of a work of creative art.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 1030w. | |
| Ind. 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 140w. |
“Less brilliant than the celebrated study by Taine, to which it frequently refers, this work is marked by the more exhaustive and comparative criticism made possible by a wider perspective and greater distance of time.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 16. Ja. 3, ’07. 850w. |
“It is a sober, solid, piece of workmanship, not especially illuminating, though surprisingly liberal in its attitude toward and in its judgments of Balzac’s moral influence for a man of Brunetière’s narrow, hard, and dogmatic temperament. The translation is idiomatic.” James Huneker.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 280w. |
“The book will certainly rouse much controversy. There are whole chapters that ring like a challenge, and many who will accept the author’s conclusions will refuse to follow him through the steps of his demonstrations. Interesting and important as his book is, we feel that it would have carried farther had its author never become involved in literary Darwinism.” Christian Gauss.
| + + − | No. Am. 184: 532. Mr. 1, ’07. 1580w. |
“As a piece of writing it lacks grace and ease: but as a piece of literary analysis nothing so exhaustive, so penetrating, and so decisive has been written about the author of ‘Père Goriot.’”
| + + − | Outlook. 85: 280. F. 2, ’07. 230w. |
“Solid and brilliant this monograph is, yet dry, dogmatic, and partial.” Horatio S. Krans.
| + − | Putnam’s. 1: 751. Mr. ’07. 1180w. | |
| Sat. R. 104: 83. Jl. 20, ’07. 2180w. |
* Bryant, W. W. History of astronomy. **$3. Dutton.
“The work contains 345 pages, and after a few words on the early and primitive notions of antiquity, the first 95 carry the purely historical (or almost biographical) portion, through Copernicus, Tycho Brahé, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and his successors in gravitational astronomy, and Flamsteed and his successors in observational astronomy, to Herschel, Bessel, and Struve. The different departments of the science, solar, planetary, cometary, and stellar, are then successively treated. A chapter is also devoted to observatories and instruments, and a concluding one to stellar systems and celestial evolution.”—Ath.
“Altogether this highly interesting book is remarkably free from inaccuracies; care has evidently been taken all around.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 623. N. 16. 360w. |
“Is neither so long as to repel a reader whose time is limited, nor so short as to be unsatisfactory.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 230w. |
Bryce, James. Studies in history and jurisprudence. 2v. *$3.50. Oxford.
A reissue made timely by Mr. Bryce’s recent appointment to the British embassy at Washington. Thruout his treatment of varied topics there runs “a common thread, that of comparison between the history and law of Rome and the history and law of England.”
“The essays ... are weighty studies of fundamental principles.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 50w. |
“The distinguishing feature of Mr. Bryce’s temper in the discussion of the subjects in history and jurisprudence which he has chosen is the sense he preserves of the actuality of these subjects. He approaches them as he would matters of current practical interest, say, in the house of commons, or even in conversation. He is as cautious of extreme or dogmatic statements as if he expected to be brought to book by a gentleman on the other side of the table as well informed as himself.” Edward Cary.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 1150w. |
Buchanan, Alfred. Real Australia. **$1.50. Jacobs.
Australia’s political, social and intellectual standards are set forth with some good portrayals of men and women most closely identified with them. The author knows his Australia, and understands well the relation between that continent and Great Britain. “The bond is not one that has grown strong by reason of political adjustments or of commercial necessities. Its virtue consists in the fact that it has not been manufactured in the mills of diplomacy. The more it is tampered with, the weaker it becomes. It is made of impalpable materials—of such materials as memory, sentiment, self-abnegation, heredity, pride. To attempt to trim it in one place and to buttress it in another is to attempt to alter its character and thus bring about its decay.”
“Rather cynical, inclined to be pessimistic, somewhat too wordy, Mr. Alfred Buchanan has nevertheless a decided gift of vigorous expression, and is capable of writing terse and racy English.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w. |
“Mr. Buchanan’s style is dignified and his narrative informing.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 638. N. ’07. 70w. |
“He is not by any means foolishly partial to the land of his adoption. On the contrary, he is even severely faithful.”
| + | Spec. 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w. |
Buckell, G. T. Teasdale. [Complete English wing shot.] *$3.50. McClure.
A complete manual of bird shooting. It covers the subject of weapons old and new with recommendations of those suited for different kinds of game; it treats of the breeding and breaking of dogs; and it gives valuable hints regarding the preparations for the pursuit of game birds.
“There is much more within the covers of ‘The complete shot’ than its title would lead one to expect.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 360. S. 28. 1070w. |
“The first 200 pages or so of this book, the part on guns and dogs, seem to us good and useful. They are evidently written out of a long and practiced experience, and will, no doubt, win the attention they deserve. But, frankly, the rest of the book does not go very far to justify so ambitious a title. It is written in a pleasant and natural style and is admirable journalism; but those, we think, are its limits.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1430w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The fact is that what is wanted in a new book about shooting, or any sport about which much has already been written, is the direct personal note. This is why Mr. Buckell is so successful in writing about dogs. He is not less instructive on the various methods of bringing up pheasants and partridges.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 711. N. 9, ’07. 1500w. |
Buckham, James. Afield with the seasons. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–23873.
The author reads nature like an open book and imparts the messages learned with the bloom of truth and poetry still fresh upon them. Flowers and birds and tiny animals are his friends, and as he wanders among their haunts he betrays the intimate enthusiasm of the true nature-lover. The book suggests leisure, the “hurry never” manner of forming an acquaintance with nature.
“Sympathy without undue philosophy or moralizing characterizes these meditations.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
* Budge, E. A. T. Wallis. Egyptian Sudan: its history and monuments. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.
7–24130.
A cyclopædic work which on the one hand includes the history of Sudan from its earliest mention in Egyptian history down to the close of independent Egyptian rule; and on the other, contains an account of the temples and other antiquities written after four archaeological expeditions, during which the author studied these monuments in their natural surroundings and became acquainted with the people whose ancestors built them and worshipped in them.
“Few scholars can compete with Dr. Budge in the learning and opportunities necessary for relating the monumental history of the Sudan. Dr. Budge is too indifferent to the graces of style, and, whether from contempt or natural defect, he never allows imagination or humour to shine in his clear but awkward paragraphs. The arrangement of the book also might have been better.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 625. My. 25. 2780w. |
“What we complain of is that the ideas might have been expressed in a quarter the space and with twice as much point. A work which is essential to everyone who wants to know nearly all that is to be known about a great province which England has rescued from outer barbarism and is steadily, surely, indomitably leading into the path of prosperity.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 146. My. 10, ’07. 2230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“Combining, as they do, pertinent and luminous observations on travel with information concerning archaeological research and history, these books are not less interesting to the general reader than to the student.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 761. N. 30, ’07. 1490w. |
“One of the most valuable books ever written on an African subject.”
| + + | Spec. 99: sup. 744. N. 16, ’07. 1690w. |
Buel, Albert Wells, and Hill, Charles Shattuck. Reinforced concrete. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. *$5. Eng. news.
6–41296.
This revision includes sixty-five pages of additional matter entirely accounted for by the two years of progress in methods and their application.
“The book retains the excellent features of the first edition. The index is good. In the field it attempts to cover this book should rank among the standard books and should continue to be of service to designer, constructor, and general reader.” Arthur N. Talbot.
| + + | Engin. N. 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 960w. | |
| + + | Nature. 73: 458. Mr. 15, ’06. 530w. |
Bullen, Frank T. [Frank Brown, sea apprentice.] †$1.50. Dutton.
7–25665.
“It is a good tale, full of action and incident, with a steady progress of the main theme and the constant growth in character of the lad of 14, who first steps aboard the Skylark, into the young man of force and intelligence and dignity, second mate of a fine ship. The privations, suffering, and hardships of boys who go to sea get no glossing over from Mr. Bullen’s pen, but he does show not a little literary skill in making them all help in the evolution of his young hero’s character and in doing this without making him anything more than a natural, healthy, right-minded, ambitious boy.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is the real thing put on paper with authoritative skill.”
| + | Ind. 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w. |
“The present book is pretty frankly a tract written for boys who have the sea-craving. It is a random patchwork of selected adventures, lessons in seamanship, criticism of the methods of captains, owners, and marine boards, and pious moralizing.”
| − | Nation. 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w. |
“Young boys without exception, and all old boys who care about sea yarns, will find the book entertaining.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. |
“As a story strictly speaking the book lacks proportion and construction; but as a picture of the sailor’s life in port and on board ship, and a narrative of adventure and incident that might easily befall a boy apprentice, the book is capital, and will be relished by young readers.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 766. Je. ’07. 110w. |
“A tale of unflagging interest, admirably told from beginning to end.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 656. N. 3, ’06. 700w. |
Bullen, Frank T. Our heritage—the sea. *$1.50. Dutton.
W 7–129.
Lying back of these essays is “a mass of information and of personal observation upon the nature, the features, the characteristics, and the movements of the sea.” “It is intended specifically for the British public, and the author’s constant aim is to hammer well into the minds of that public the conviction that the very existence of the British empire depends upon her sea supremacy, and that this can be maintained only by a general national interest in the ocean heritage and a widespread knowledge of all it means to the country.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Bullen has reached that point in the literary career at which the author begins to think it is necessary to take himself very seriously. Accordingly whenever he thinks about it he puts on an air of great profundity. But ordinarily Mr. Bullen forgets his pose as soon as he gets well warmed to his subject, and writes with almost the simplicity and clarity which made it possible for even a child to understand and enjoy his early works.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w. |
“A peculiarly novel and fascinating volume in a book which is at once scientific without the burden of scientific nomenclature, and romantic without being at all a romance.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 744. Ag. 3, ’07. 270w. |
“Is solid, competent, and most useful work, and forms an admirable companion to Mr. Conrad’s more esoteric studies.”
| + | Spec. 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 220w. |
Bullock, Charles Jesse. Selected readings in economics. *$2.25. Ginn.
7–31981.
A volume which supplies collateral reading needed for a general course of study in economics. “It makes no effort to present selections upon all the topics treated in such a course, but endeavors merely to provide supplementary material, historical, descriptive and theoretical which will enrich the instruction offered.”
“The work is carefully, thoroughly, and serviceably done, and should respond to a real need, especially in institutions lacking adequate library facilities.”
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 570. N. ’07. 100w. |
Bullock, Charles Jesse, ed. Selected readings in public finance. *$2.25. Ginn.
6–6286.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The studies are very carefully selected. The book is of great value alike to teachers and students of public finance.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 463. N. ’06. 230w. |
Bulpett, C. W. L. Picnic party in wildest Africa: being a sketch of a winter’s trip to some of the unknown waters of the upper Nile. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–19053.
“The chief object of the expedition was to explore and survey the Musha and Roma plateaux, which lay to the South of the Akobo, between that river and Lake Rudolph in Central Africa. That object seems to have been accomplished with some thoroughness, and in describing the journey the authors afford their readers a good deal of useful information.... Starting from Khartoum in January in a flotilla of launches and boats, they found it possible to navigate the Sobat and Baro rivers as far as Gambela, on the Abyssinian frontier, and then, bearing south towards Lake Rudolph, traversed a well-watered and interesting region of which little is known.”—Spec.
“In the latest account of the marvels of this fascinating country a great deal of new and suggestive information is offered. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the volume is the chapter which deals with Abyssinia.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w. |
“The story of this unusual picnic is told in a very simple and straightforward way.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 460w. |
“They are ... observant of their surroundings, and discourse agreeably upon their progress and adventures.”
| + | Spec. 98: 903. Je. 8, ’07. 340w. |
Bumpus, T. Francis. Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy. *$5. Pott.
Mr. Bumpus introduces his subject with an instructive essay on Italian church architecture, after which he proceeds to his field—northern Italy. “The region Mr. Bumpus covered in his tour is roughly bounded by Trent on the north, Venice on the east, Ravenna on the south, and Turin on the west, and includes, besides those cities, Milan, Verona, Vincenza, Padua, Bologna, and others—some twenty or twenty-five in all. Each chapter is illustrated with photographs and colored reproductions of the cathedrals, churches, and basilicas described therein.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Full of information that he has evidently been at some trouble to collect, yet his work is unsatisfactory—an almost futile attempt to explain, to make allowances for, something he has failed altogether to understand.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 1140w. |
“Whatever one’s interest in churches, be it devotional, historical, or artistic, it will be quickened by a perusal of this entertaining and instructive book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 280w. |
“He is sympathetic, taking, it is evident, a keen delight in gorgeous ritual and ornamentation; and he is sufficiently well read, in ecclesiastical history. His detailed descriptions ... are always full of spirit and vigour.”
| + | Spec. 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 300w. |
Burbank, Luther. Training of the human plant. **60c. Century.
7–15628.
Mr. Burbank’s investigation into plant life—“creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others”—has impressed him with the points of similarity between the development of plant and human life. He shows that the human plant needs the environment of love, sunshine, air, and nourishing food; he discusses heredity, predestination, training, growth and character. It is a sane and earnest treatise on life and its possibilities.
“Speculations in regard to the training of the child sensible as to recommendations of fresh air, nourishing food, proper environment, differentiation in training, but illogical at times in the application of the principles of plant growing, and not important.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 161. O. ’07. |
“The volume is to be commended to those in charge of old-fashioned Sunday school libraries.”
| − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 151. Jl. ’07. 90w. |
“It opens new vistas of thought to parents and teachers. Its every page is pregnant with suggestions of the gravest importance. It would be difficult to overestimate its value, and we heartily recommend it to our readers.”
| + + | Arena. 38: 110. Jl. ’07. 690w. |
“The book appeals to parents just as strongly as to teachers and it should be very widely read, for it exposes clearly the dangers and fallacies both of false education and of over-education.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 210. S. ’07. 100w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 400w. |
“Originally issued in magazine form, the matter in this volume well deserved separate publication.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 100w. |
Burgess, Gelett. [Heart line.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–32840.
If it were not for the prologue the reader might be mystified over certain psychic revelations which the hero as palmist and clairvoyant makes to the heroine concerning her past life and her future. As it is, the trick of the clear seeing is bared, and one is prepared to enjoy the human side of this tale of the Golden Gate which deals as much with the froth of a San Francisco smart set as with the longings of a so-called charlatan bent upon learning his origin and winning the girl he loves.
“Is a good love story and something more—a really clever exposition of the methods of charlatanry among clairvoyants, spiritualistic mediums, ‘healers,’ and other deceivers of the credulous.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 100w. |
Burgess, Gelett. [White cat.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–10048.
A tale which suggests “Double trouble.” The possessor of the dual personality is a young girl, charming and womanly one day, and hoidenish and cruel the next. She is under the spell of a hypnotist who makes use of his power over her to the end of extorting money from her. A prince in the form of a broad-shouldered young architect is thrust upon the mercies of the “white cat” as the result of a motor car accident. His mission, as in the fairy tale of old, is that of destroying the fatal work of the fairies and annihilating the lower personality.
“An exciting and rather well written story.” Amy C. Rich.
| + | Arena. 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w. |
“The story is a fascinating one, tho not so interesting as Dr. Prince’s ‘Dissociation of a personality.’”
| + − | Ind. 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w. |
“His imagination runs wild at the last. The book is certainly entertaining, nevertheless.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 490w. | |
| Outlook. 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 762. Je. ’07. 80w. |
Burkett, Charles William, and Poe, Clarence Hamilton. Cotton; its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.
6–26066.
The complete story of cotton culture. “The value of the book lies in section II, which contains a description of how the cotton-plant grows and is grown. To cotton farmers this section alone is worth the price of the book. It treats of the botanical structure of the plant, seed selection, environment, climatic conditions, fertilizers, farm tools required, injurious insects, planting, cultivating, picking, and the cost of making cotton.” (Nature.)
“Much valuable information is conveyed in an interesting way.”
| + | Nation. 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 80w. |
“The book would be more correctly described by the title of ‘American cotton,’ for India, Egypt and other cotton fields, and the efforts of England to widen the source of supply by producing cotton within the British empire, are little more than subjects for the authors’ derision.”
| + − | Nature. 75: 27. N. 8, ’06. 1160w. |
“The volume is recommended to the attention of those who raise the staple, or trade in it, or manufacture it.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 603. S. 29, ’06. 150w. |
“Although the style is of the cheap-magazine variety, the book contains so much exact and interesting information on every phase of the cultivation and marketing of cotton that it will be found useful by the special student. The chapters on cotton manufacture are less full and satisfactory.”
| + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 560. S. ’07. 140w. |
“It is intended mainly for the expert, but is written in a popular—occasionally too popular—style, and may be skimmed with interest by the reader who desires to know the history of cotton.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 270w. |
Burkitt, Francis Crawford. Gospel history and its transmission. *$2.25. Scribner.
7–31392.
“Ten lectures on the origin, mutual relations, and historical value of the four gospels and the history of their adoption into the canon, delivered in the spring of 1906.”—Nation.
“It is a book to put into the hands of the nonspecialist who desires to know something of what scholars are thinking about the gospels; yet it is not without its measure of service to one who already has done much reading and reflection on the subject.” Henry Burton Sharman.
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 683. O. ’07. 1030w. |
“Not one of Mr. Burkitt’s arguments is frivolous, though his conclusions may sometimes be startling: and his book deserves high praise as the work of a fearless, competent and reverent critic.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 795. D. 22. 720w. | |
| Bib. World. 29: 240. Mr. ’07. 80w. |
“The volume is one of the best in English on the sources of information concerning the life of Christ.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w. | |
| Ind. 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w. |
“The volume evinces ripe scholarship and good critical judgment.”
| + | Nation. 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w. |
“He is always interesting, original, and so ingenious that slower minds grow alarmed as to what he may not undertake to prove next; but in this book he is on the whole conservative.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 500w. |
Burland, J. B. Harris. Gold worshippers. †$1.50. Dillingham.
6–42432.
“What profit hath a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” fittingly furnishes the text for a sermon, preached, be it said, in no orthodox way. A band of Chinamen lose thru theft, a little metal ball, which when touching gold reveals a formula for converting cheap metals into gold. It comes into the possession of a young Englishman who is seized with a mania for gold, which, he learns to his later sorrow, is the curse of the god, Kiao Lung upon the possessor of the metal globe. His thrilling experiences make a full chapter of horrors. The book is a travesty on the greed for money and material power.
Burne, Sir Owen Tudor. Memories. *$4.20. Longmans.
7–28493.
Recollections of an old soldier who was in Crimea and was present at the capture of Lucknow of which he gives a spirited description. “The reader of Sir Owen Hume’s ‘Memories’ will find ample evidence as to the large part he took in shaping the external policy of India during a long period of years.” (Ath.)
“He has written a delightful volume of reminiscences which every one who has the good sense to skip the tedious parts will feel the better for reading.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 185. F. 23, ’07. 1760w. |
“From first to last there is not a disparaging remark or unkind word about anyone. The author in looking back on his eventful life has managed to remember only the pleasant incidents, and the consequence of this general good feeling is that his ‘Memories’ will be read with unqualified pleasure by those who do not share his political views, as well as by those who do. The book is certain to secure a wide public.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 247. Mr. 2. 1690w. |
“In some respects it is difficult to avoid the feeling that the writer has missed a great opportunity of producing a really valuable book, the great authority of which could not have been denied.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 182. Je. 1, ’07. 620w. |
“A welcome addition to the numerous works of the same nature which form so important a part of our modern literature.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 510w. |
“We wish that he had been content to avoid a fashion too common in published diaries, and had not scattered so many ancient jokes and so much indifferent poetry about his pages. The whole tone and spirit of the book, in its optimism and kindliness, is instinct with charm, and there can be no lack of interest in the details of a life so full and distinguished.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 463. O. 5, ’07. 450w. |
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. [Cozy lion.] †60c. Century.
7–29094.
A continuation of the magic of Queen Silverbell which in this instance reforms a lion and makes him a fit companion for the village youngsters.
“By far the most delightfully spirited story for young folks.”
| + | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w. |
“A nice little children’s story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 120w. |
“A jolly invention.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w. |
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. [The shuttle.] †$1.50. Stokes.
7–29574.
There is much that is food for thought in this tale of the socially elect of the England and America of today. Reuben Vanderpoel of New York has added greatly to the millions his father wrested from the new world, and his two daughters carry that wealth to the old world to re-build two fine old English estates. The elder daughter, Rosie, is the victim of a dissipated fortune-hunter who abuses her and neglects his property. It is left for her sister, Bettina, the best product of American birth and European schools, to come to her rescue twelve years later with a clear head and a large bank account. While at work upon this task she finds that all poor noblemen are not mercenary and that one is both a man and noble.
“The present author has quite frankly adopted the method of the chromo-lithograph, with its violent contrasts and over-colored brightness. But, in spite of the method used, Mrs. Hodgson Burnett has succeeded in at least endowing her work with some semblance to life.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 145. N. 16, ’07. 600w. |
“The last chapters fall off deplorably, being both sentimental and sensational.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠ |
“Here and there we notice discrepancies chronological and otherwise. The story, though rather long drawn out, maintains its interest well.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 140w. |
“Fundamentally ‘The shuttle’ is ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ over again. And be it understood that this is said in a spirit, not of disparagement, but of candid admiration. For as ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ was good, this book is good, and added to the ‘Fauntleroy’ idea there is a great deal more.” Beverly Stark.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 272. N. ’07. 1150w. |
“The story is a long one, and might be shortened to its advantage.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 400w. |
“The force of Mrs. Burnett’s book lies in its detail. There is detailed pathos, detailed joy and grief, detailed melodrama even; but it is all frankly discussed and accounted for, and the writer’s knowledge of various kinds of life serves her in good stead.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 325. O. 25, ’07. 550w. |
“It is a story which would have a mild interest for most people and about which nobody could conceivably have much to say. Exception might be taken to the villain as a shade more diabolical then even the code of melodrama permits. He is an extravagant caricature of the sufficiently absurd wicked baronet of legend.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 430w. |
“Mrs. Burnett’s plot is stark nonsense, her American father a wierd exaggeration, her villain a Jack-in-the-box goggling on a coil of wire—but what of that? She is so kind, so honest, so free and splendid with her fairy gold, she loves her heroine, she admires her hero with such thoroughgoing ardor, that we want with all our hearts to make believe with her.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 625. O. 19, ’07. 1330w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“Mrs. Burnett is a born story-teller, and her best is very good indeed; it is a pity that her judgment as to what is true art in fiction is sometimes seriously at fault.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 220w. |
“The book indeed is over-loaded with the sociology of two countries, and we hear far too much about the power of the everlasting dollar.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 190w. |
Burnham, Clara Louise. [Opened shutters.] †$1.50. Houghton.
Mrs. Burnham has chosen her favorite summer haunts, the islands of Casco Bay, for the setting of this story. Silvia Lacey, orphaned and bitter against her relatives, finally accepts the hospitality of her mother’s cousin “Thinkright” Johnson, so called because of his faith in a happy solution of all life’s problems if only one’s thoughts are right and harmonious. Under the influence of Thinkright’s fine example of brotherhood love, Silvia scripturally finds herself, thru losing her rebellious vanity and self-love. An old disused tide-mill with its closed shutters is symbolic of Silvia’s discordant outlook on life, but with her transformation even the shutters open and let the sunlight in.
“It can no more be called a novel than a plate of bread and butter can be called a meal—even though the bread and butter be good of its kind.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 168. F. 16, ’07. 120w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 245. D. ’06. |
“The heroine of the novel, Sylvia, is one of Mrs. Burnham’s best-drawn figures. There are some amusing situations in the book, and the humor is plentiful and genuine.”
| + | Lit. D. 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 240w. |
“Is surpassed by none which she has produced in her twenty-five years of work.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 691. O. 20, ’06. 220w. |
“It Is written in her own pleasant style, with a strain of symbolism which reminds one of Mrs. Whitney.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 853. D. 8, ’06. 140w. |
Burr, Anna Robeson. Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton.
This story intense as it is from the human interest standpoint has a more vital significance in the warfare between a clergyman who permits the cloth to shield dishonesty and a frank youth who knows no religion other than that of high thinking and right living. Bennet Sherrington conniving with the intimidated Reverend Wynchell tampers with death records to throw a fortune into the hands of Wynchell’s granddaughter, Diana Jessop. Anthony Brayne, Sherrington’s secretary, unable to endure his employer’s trickery leaves him and becomes the champion of justice through whom the girl’s dignity and honor are spared, the grandfather’s weakness revealed and Sherrington’s villainy punished.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Burrage, Champlin. True story of Robert Browne, father of Congregationalism, including various points hitherto unknown or misunderstood, with some account of the development of his religious views. *85c. Oxford.
7–6783.
Some lately discovered manuscripts throw new light upon the history and views of the founder of Congregationalism which the author offers as corrective and supplementary to the work of older biographers, especially Dr. Henry M. Dexter.
“The whole monograph is painstaking and workmanlike.” Williston Walker.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 419. Ja. ’07. 360w. |
Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.
| Am. J. Theol. 11: 346. Ap. ’07. 110w. |
“Has the merit of modesty in tone and of brevity and clearness in method.”
| + | Nation. 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 210w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 120w. |
Burrage, Henry Sweetser. Gettysburg and Lincoln: the battle, the cemetery, and the National park. **$1.50. Putnam.
6–34848.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is clearly written, and should be of much interest to those who have taken part in the preservation of our most famous battlefield.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 140w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w. |
Burrill, Katharine. Loose heads. *$1.25. Dutton.
In these chatty essays “every-day matters, and some others, are treated with good sense, cheerful philosophy, and literary skill.” (Dial.) “Rusty needles, Chloe in the kitchen, Joys forever, People who have nothing to do, are among the titles.”
“Fresh and bright and eminently readable are most of the little essays.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w. |
“The style is agreeable, but it might be wished that there were fewer split infinitives.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 103. F. 16, ’07. 230w. |
Burroughs, Dwight. Jack, the giant killer, jr.; being the thrilling adventures, authentically told, of a worthy son of the celebrated Jack, the giant killer. il. †$1. Jacobs.
7–31422.
The mantle of the traditional Jack falls to a worthy successor whose adventures are no whit less thrilling, only more wholesome. The adventure entitled “The automobile race” suggests the modern note in Jack, junior’s experiences.
Burroughs, John. Bird and bough. **$1. Houghton.
6–10676.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 7. Ja. ’07. |
Burroughs, John. [Camping and tramping with Roosevelt.] **$1. Houghton.
7–31186.
A two-part sketch, the first of which being an account of the camping trip in the Yellowstone which the President and Mr. Burroughs made together in the spring of 1903, the second being an account of a visit to Oyster Bay in which the author gives his impressions of the President as a nature-lover and observer. He shows how Mr. Roosevelt can stand calm and unflinching in the path of a charging grizzly, with the same quality of coolness and determination with which he confronts predaceous corporations and money powers of the country; he claims for the President the power of observation “to see minutely and to see whole;” above all, shows how his interest in wild life is at once scientific and thoroughly human—making of him the rarest kind of sportsman.
“The book is as sincere as it is frankly the work of an admirer, but it is such a tribute as any man might be proud of.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 340w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 712. N. 9, ’07. 1170w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 755. D. ’07. 110w. |
Burrows, Ronald M. Discoveries in Crete, and their bearing on the history of ancient civilisation. *$2. Dutton.
7–37534.
Professor Burrows’ book becomes an “Ariadne’s thread in a bewildering labyrinth.” He “has rendered signal service not only to the public at large, but also to the cause of archæological research by his little book. He has read, as it would seem, everything which has been published concerning the Cretan discoveries, and has had access to a great deal of information at first hand which has not yet found its way into print at all. And from this enormous mass of material, which has been the bewilderment even of many of the elect, he has drawn out the main threads of argument and has woven them into a work which has more than the mere colour of cohesion and continuity.” (Acad.)
“It is ungracious to cavil at Homeric criticism in a book whose main object is so well and so modestly achieved. We can say without hesitation that this little work is almost a necessary introduction to the unwieldy mass of material with which the author has had to deal. And if the illustrations are few and far between, they are admirably chosen.”
| + + − | Acad. 73: 674. Jl. 13, ’07. 2140w. |
“Prof. Burrows, like Ariadne, offers to the adventurous a clue through the labyrinth. But, to avail ourselves of it we need the labyrinth itself—the archæological library.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 1380w. |
“Will be welcomed to a limited circle for its painstaking summary of the present situation, its impartial balancing of probabilities, and its valuable bibliography.”
| + | Dial. 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w. |
“It is presumed that his main function is to set forth the results achieved by the workers; but no man with such a theme can bridle his tongue, and we may be glad that Burrows has not done so.” Rufus B. Richardson.
| + + | Ind. 63: 755. S. 26, ’07. 1170w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 252. S. ’07. 130w. |
“It must be also said that those readers who are not able to procure access to the dozen or more volumes referred to will find this book of very little use, while those who open it in hope of gaining a preliminary idea of the subject at small cost of time and money will almost certainly be disappointed.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 1650w. |
“Two criticisms may fairly be made upon the book. The English expression is often careless, and the tone in which the author refers to views with which he disagrees is unpleasant; what might pass in a familiar lecture is out of place here.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 2000w. |
“He is like editors who write for one another instead of the public.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 518. Ag. 24, ’07, 1300w. |
“The book contains much valuable and carefully thought out ethnological speculation, and, by dint of what he modestly terms ‘balancing probabilities and opening up lines of inquiry,’ Mr. Burrows gives in practicable volume that adequate guidance which is so necessary to a study of the complicated racial problems with which the history of Aegean civilization is bound up.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 330w. |
Burton, Theodore E. John Sherman. (American statesmen, 2nd ser.) **$1.25. Houghton.
6–43551.
A close acquaintance with Sherman, also a full understanding of the public measures with which Sherman was identified lie back of Mr. Burton’s sketch.
“As a history of national politics in the last quarter-century, the volume is highly creditable. Criticism is directed against the editorial plan of the publishers rather than to individual shortcomings of Mr. Burton.” Davis R. Dewey.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 905. Jl. ’07. 540w. |
“A brief, scholarly, readable and wholly admirable work. Ranks as one of the best accounts of reconstruction finance.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S. |
“The book is rather hard reading for the ordinary person who has no great liking for figures and financial history. But it gives a good account of a real statesman, and a history of several important phases of our national development during the last half century.”
| + + − | Dial. 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w. |
“It is creditable biography, written by one in full sympathy with the political ideas of Mr. Sherman, but free, on the whole, from undue bias.” Eugene B. Patton.
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 311. My. ’07. 680w. |
“Candor is perhaps the most noteworthy quality displayed by Mr. Burton—a candor which personal friendship was powerless to eliminate. And yet the book is sympathetic and its attitude that of one who sincerely admired Sherman.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w. |
“Mr. Burton’s plain and unimpassioned style does little to make Sherman interesting, and his book will not, we fancy, be much read except for reference.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 906. D. 29, ’06. 660w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 102. O. ’07. 560w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 150w. |
Buskett, Evans Walker. Fire assaying. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.
7–7504.
A practical treatise on the fire assaying of gold, silver and lead, including description of the appliances used.
“This little book has nothing against it except its brevity. It is clearly and concisely written and well illustrated.” Bradley Stoughton.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 170w. |
Busquet, Raymond. Manual of hydraulics; tr. by A. H. Peake. *$2.10. Longmans.
7–28954.
Rather ancient theories and discussions are included upon such subjects as Fundamental laws, Flow of liquids in delivery pipes, Flow of liquids in open canals, Hydraulic engines, and Construction of a waterfall.
“In the opinion of the reviewer, however, it is an unsafe guide for both students and engineers.”
| − | Engin. N. 56: 639. D. 13, ’06. 280w. |
“The translator appears to have done his work well, and to have given the meaning of the author in English terms and phrases. The writer does not know of any book that deals with this subject in so practical a way as the one under notice.”
| + + | Nature. 75: 29. N. 8, ’06. 390w. |
Bussell, Frederick William. Christian theology and social progress; the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–12985.
“The general aim, expressed in the eight statutory lectures, and more fully developed in the supplement, is to show the identity of interest which unites the various ideals of Christianity and democracy. The writer sets himself to prove that society in its advance towards the goal of social reform is dependent for its sanction and its vital force alike upon the teaching, the beliefs, the influence of Christian faith.... Man’s duty in the world—the nature of his being—the motive power behind its actions—his consequent relations with the state—such are some of the riddles that demand attention.”—Sat. R.
“This fascinating, though difficult book is, in the reviewer’s opinion, the most important contribution to apologetics which has been published in recent years. It is more interesting, and in some ways more valuable, than the writings of Abbé Loisy and Father Tyrrell, and more suggestive even than the work of Dr. Schiller and other ‘humanists,’ of whose school Dr. Bussell is a convinced though independent member. It is brilliant, paradoxical, amazing, and ill-arranged.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 434. Ap. 13. 1740w. |
“Is the ripe fruit of prolonged reflection and often learned investigation.”
| + | Dial. 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 220w. |
“Throughout the book—the original and supplementary lectures—Mr. Bussell speaks as a scholar, albeit a true churchman, and in discourse of great charm.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 370w. |
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 1410w. |
“The whole is a finely wrought piece of literature rather than of dialectics. One important point deserves criticism: the priority ascribed, to rights rather than to duties must be contested as a clear inversion of the ethical relation between the two.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w. |
“With much that is included in this volume we are already familiar; but there is originality of treatment which marks it as a valuable contribution on this side of thought.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 429. Ap. 6, ’07. 1590w. |
Butler, Ellis Parker. [Confessions of a daddy]; illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory. 75c. Century.
7–18096.
The “daddy,” “a rank amateur in the baby business” confesses the heart-breaking blow of the first glance at the wrinkled, red little thing that the nurse brings for his proud expressions of joy. He further records the agony of the first “spank” administered after the “98 per cent of sweetness” grown to twenty-two months, cries all day for “laim,” and the grief that follows when the discovery is made that the baby only wanted to say “Now I lay me.” It is the common experience of all parents told simply and to the point with Mr. Butler’s inimitable humor that makes the book worth reading.
“There is a certain suspicion of obvious humour here and there; and some notes, which seem taken from child-life, may please. But the book is a disappointment.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 2: 403. O. 5. 100w. |
“If, as a whole, the volume is not as overwhelmingly funny as his ‘Pigs is pigs,’ it is still a delightful bit of humor.”
| + | Nation. 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 70w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w. |
Butler, John Wesley. Mexico coming into light. *35c. West. Meth. bk.
7–14569.
A brief sketch of the physical conditions, inhabitants, pre-colonial dynasties, sixteenth century tragedy, reform movements, etc., leading to the Macedonian cry and the planting of the mission.
Butler, Nicholas Murray. True and false democracy. **$1. Macmillan.
7–20888.
Dr. Butler’s aim has been to hasten the day when “every member of a self-governing community has a clear understanding of what democracy really means and implies, as well as a character strong enough to fix his own relations to his fellows in accordance with moral principle.” The three papers discuss respectively True and false democracy, Education of public opinion, and Democracy and education.
“Three sane and simple addresses.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 161. O. ’07. | |
| Dial. 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w. | ||
| + | Ind. 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w. |
“The papers are admirably phrased and merit thoughtful reading.”
| + | Nation. 85: 229. S. 12, ’07, 150w. |
“The addresses are worthy of their audiences, being considered and cultured deliverances upon the general topic of the value of knowledge in politics and the duty of educated men to assume their share in cultivating a public sentiment which shall distinguish the mob from the people.” Edward A. Bradford.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 470w. |
“The conversance with affairs which we have just noted as an indispensable part of the equipment of the modern university president gives particular point to these thoughtful and suggestive addresses.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 227. N. ’07. 360w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 384. S. ’07. 100w. |
“This is a book full of sound sense from beginning to end.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 204. Ag. 10, ’07. 430w. |
Butler, Pierce. Judah P. Benjamin. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
7–21376.
A sketch of the life of Judah B. Benjamin, the Jewish lawyer and statesman who, “after conspicuous success at the bar in this country, after continuous service in the leadership of the Confederacy, again achieved the most honorable triumphs at the bar of England.” The biographer’s main difficulty in approaching his work has been insufficiency of material upon this great advocate’s private life. A few letters with such details as members of Mr. Benjamin’s family could furnish, constitute the information for the personal side of the sketch. For his public and professional activities ample records make possible accuracy even to the smallest details.
“The only great contribution of the volume is in its orderly assembling of materials which are familiar, in detail, to the average historian.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1000. O. 24, ’07. 200w. |
“Mr. Butler has succeeded pretty well in collecting his material, and nothing of value known to be extant seems to have escaped him. No attempt is made to portray Mr. Benjamin as a faultless character. But the true greatness of the man is appreciated and will be felt by all who read these pages.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w. |
“His is not a book of any marked literary merit (suffering especially from an undue tendency to quotation), but it is careful, conscientious and convincing. With few exceptions, too, it is free from rancor and partisanship.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07, 420w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 103. O. ’07. 290w. |
Butler, William. Golfer’s guide; with an introd. by Dr. Macnamara. *$1. Lippincott.
A thorogoing hand-book of golf for beginners. Uniform with “The complete bridge player,” and “The complete fisherman.”
Butler, William Francis. Lombard communes. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–9819.
“In no very picturesque phrase, but at the same time in easily understood language, Mr. Butler recounts the history of the city-states of Lombardy, the rule of the early bishops, the rights of the communes, the history of Milan, Lombardy’s natural capital, the first and second Lombard leagues, and the final struggles of the communes.”—Outlook.
“The book is not a work of research, based upon the original resources; but it is scholarly and well written. There is, indeed, no other book in English which covers the ground so satisfactorily.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 917. Jl. ’07. 240w. |
“While heartily commending his industry, accuracy, and general level of attainment, we may fairly warn the reader that his treatment is such as is ordinarily characterized by the term ‘popular.’ We have rarely seen a better book written by an Englishman about Italy.”
| + | Nation. 84: 391. Ap. 25, ’07. 370w. |
“The work would be improved by topical side notes giving dates. The author’s style is clearly intelligible and soberly dignified; it will win respectful attention, although it may not compel enthusiasm.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 520w. |
“A book to be read in connection with Symond’s ‘Age of the despots’ has long been a desideratum—a clear and comprehensive account of North Italy from the Roman times down at least to the middle of the fourteenth century. Such a book is now at hand in Mr. Butler’s ‘Lombard communes.’”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w. |
Butterworth, Hezekiah. [Story of the hymns and tunes], by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth. *$1.50. Am. tract.
7–6630.
In this volume have been combined Mr. Butterworth’s “The story of the hymns” and “The story of the tunes.” There have also been added modern hymns and tunes that “have won recognition since the books were first published.”
| Dial. 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w. |
“Mr. Butterworth himself passed over his manuscript to Mr. Brown, who has executed his difficult task not only with sympathy for his subject, but with no little original research. This work is more valuable than most popular books on hymns and also more readable.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1209. My. 23, ’07. 180w. |
“Many helpful historic and biographic facts are given; nor do the authors disdain anecdote.”
| + | Nation. 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w. |
Buxton, E. M. Wilmot-. Stories of early England. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–22918.
Tales retold for children which reflect the English and Celtic social life and manners up to the fifteenth century. Such old favorites are included as the story of Beowulf, of Cynewulf and Cyneherd, of Alfred and Guthrum, and of Caedmon; stories of “Old English charms,” of Richard Lion-Heart, of Olger the Dane and many another. The author has preserved the glamour of knighthood and chivalry sure to delight the young reader.
* Bynner, Witter. Ode to Harvard. **$1. Small.
7–22080.
This ode limns the impression of a graduate revisiting his Alma mater in after years. “The poem rises by thoughtful and natural stages from the discursive and anecdotal early passages to the heightened concentration of the close, where, with a fine idealism, he evolves the precise nature of the debt which every man owes to his Alma mater.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is a lengthy composition of jocose patter, lacking in both dignity and restraint. The miscellaneous poems ... make a somewhat better impression, although their artistic quality remains inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 230w. |
“A poem that succeeds in spite of his deficiencies, by virtue of the genuineness of its emotional content, and, too, by a certain air of elegance which comes fresh upon us at every turn and creates a very distinct impression of the personality of the poet.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 539. S. 7, ’07. 500w. |
“Clever and sprightly reminiscence is this, yet not altogether born of a gay insouciance, for the inscrutable light peers out of the jester’s eyes. His lyrics show the same duality, the light note pierced through with the poignant.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + − | Putnam’s. 3: 367. D. ’07. 130w. |
Byrne, Austin Thomas. Treatise on highway construction; designed as a textbook and work of reference for all who may be engaged in the location, construction, or maintenance of roads, streets, and pavements. 5th ed. $5. Wiley.
7–20713.
The author has set himself to the task of collating the varied mass of scattered information on highway construction and working it over into an accessible work of reference. It is the fifth edition revised and enlarged.
“The book is full of anachronisms and antiquated statements, and the reader may be unable to separate the ancient from the modern. Parts, at least, of the book give one the impression that they have been written hastily and with too little regard for the precision of statement one naturally expects in engineering books; and the qualifications necessary to make statements of fact accurate and reliable are often wanting. It seems a great pity that a book designed to be a vade-mecum, and otherwise so admirable, should be marred by such faults. Nevertheless it is a book that should be in the library of every municipal engineer.” S. Whinery.
| + − | Engin. N. 58: 177. Ag. 15, ’07. 2390w. |