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B., T. [Upton letters.] [**]$1.25. Putnam.
“To those of us who, with Stevenson, pray for the quiet mind, ‘The Upton letters’ by ‘T. B.’ are a help in that direction. Simple and natural, sane and human, these reflective utterances on literary, moral, and educational themes, and on the commonplaces of daily life, have the charm that belongs to the genuine expression of a good mind and heart. They are the letters of a master in an English public school to a friend (’Herbert’) sojourning in Madeira for his health; and they run through the year 1904, being brought to a close by the friend’s death.”—Dial.
“For all its timidity the book is a bugle-call.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 703. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1420w. |
“The comments on certain aspects of modern life are always very readable, sometimes valuable; but the book is notable mainly for its poetical outlook and unfailing facility of expression.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 1280w. |
[*] “The book is delightful enough to stand on its own merits.” H. W. Boynton.
| + | Atlan. 96: 849. D. ‘05. 580w. |
“It is an intimate narrative, but the intimacy is of a highly self-respecting sort, and the picture of the writer which the book leaves upon the reader’s mind is very winning.”
| + | Critic. 47: 476. N. ‘05. 110w. |
“The little volume will create no sensation (heaven forbid!), but it will greatly content a choice few among the readers of books.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 310w. |
[*] “The letters are truly literature, and every page gives evidence of broad and careful scholarship, wide reading and a soul concerned with high and serious things. As a whole the volume is intensely satisfactory and is one that may be read and read again by those who care to think and know how to think.”
| + + | Educ. R. 30: 530. N. ‘05. 310w. |
“‘The Upton letters’ makes excellent quiet reading for those to whom such a mind as the author’s is attractive.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 370w. |
“These letters depend solely upon their intrinsic merit. This is unquestionably high. Without literary affectation, the style is that of a literary man.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 200w. |
“Barring a slight stiffness and an occasional assumption of weariness and ennui, the letters are as good as anything of the kind that have appeared since Huxley’s were given to the world.”
| + + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + | Spec. 95: 289. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1740w. |
Bacon, Benjamin Wisner. Story of St. Paul. [**]$1.50. Houghton.
This book is the outgrowth of a series of university extension lectures delivered at Providence, R. I., and New Haven, Conn. It is a comparison of the accounts of the life of St. Paul, as found in the acts and the epistles, and Professor Bacon’s object is to point out the differences in these two sources in order that the records may later be harmonized.
| + + — | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 542. Jl. ‘05. 920w. |
“Excellent book.”
| + + | Atlan. 95: 704. My. ‘05. 390w. |
“Although intended for popular reading, is less a life of the great apostle than a critical inquiry into the disputes and controversies connected with his life.”
| + | Cath. World. 80: 540. Ja. ‘05. 550w. |
[*] “Is the clearest and ablest presentation of this subject yet made by an American.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
“A misnomer. It should rather be called A study in St. Paul, for Dr. Bacon is a critic rather than a historian. Certainly his mind is analytical rather than dramatic. For the student who desires to get the latest information which a fearless and reverent scholarship has to give respecting our sources of information concerning Paul and his Epistles, we know of no book better than this volume of Dr. Bacon, but it is distinctly the work of a student, and requires for its appreciation a student’s thoughtfulness.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 192. Ja. 21, ‘05. 310w. |
“Although this is in the province of criticism, Professor Bacon’s treatment is of a popular nature. His book is, indeed, a union of constructive biography and scientific criticism.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 253. F. ‘05. 120w. |
“Dr. Bacon observes carefully and writes well; but he seems to us to be constantly getting a little more out of the text than is warranted; while the amount and complication of the alterations made in the history by ‘Luke’ (as he is called, in inverted commas) form a very serious objection to his theory.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 532. O. 21, ‘05. 430w. |
“His book will make the student think, and so far will be of service; but he is not a safe guide.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 444. Mr. 25, ‘04. 420w. |
Bacon, Dolores M., ed. Diary of a musician. [†]$1.50. Holt.
A record of the experiences, hopes, and longings which lie all the way from the depths to the heights of a genius’ career. Short, terse sentences that sum up a heart full of joy or anguish, characterized all thru by Bohemian irresponsibility, are no more brief than were the moods of this interesting Hungarian. With all his musical power, he is human enough to say: “I adore my father; but who could keep faith with his father when such a woman smiles.... It is Marie Alexeievna. There is no superior allegiance.”
“A decidedly clever and piquant tour de force. In very few books is the note struck at the beginning successfully kept up to the end, as here. Of its not ambitious order, the book is admirable.”
| + | Critic. 46: 285. Mr. ‘05. 110w. |
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. Narragansett bay; its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting. [**]$3.50. Putnam.
This sumptuous volume is “illustrated by the author’s sketches and a few photographs, and is well indexed. As the title implies, it is a collection of superficial descriptions and colonial legends woven into readable form.” (Nation.)
“Is a worthy successor to the author’s attractive work in a similar style on the Hudson river.”
| + | Critic. 46: 479. My. ‘05. 100w. |
“The book is chiefly deficient in failing to show the powerful influence of the bay on the social and economic development of the state. The volume contains many egregious lapses from fact.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 299. Ap. 13, ‘05. 540w. |
Bacon, Gertrude. Balloons, airships and flying machines. [*]50c. Dodd.
“The plainest narrative of a balloon trip told strictly from the airman’s point of view, in perfect equanimity, never mounting into any purple clouds, never soaring above any reader’s head, but sticking to the terra firma of plain fact, makes a far stronger impression upon the imagination than in any other style it ever could.” (Nation.) Such a narrative is Miss Bacon’s.
“Is a little triumph, due to a bright fresh mind drawing from the headwaters of information ideas that sparkle with genuine interest in the subject, which is allowed to run on in its own natural babble.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 330w. |
“Her story is well told, and, as technicalities are avoided, is interesting as well.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 441. Jl. 1, ‘05. 320w. |
Baddeley, St. Clair. Recent discoveries in the Forum. $1.25. Macmillan.
Books and pamphlets have appeared in great numbers furnishing technical details, measurements, etc., of the “revelations of pick and spade” about this historic site. “But the average English or American traveler has very much needed a smaller work, of equal accuracy but more popular and practicable, as a guide among these new-old stones and pillars and pavements. Such a book is now to be had in Mr. Baddeley’s ‘Recent discoveries.’ The author has been in close touch with all the work as it went on, and fortunately has seen fit to give us many incidents of the eventful days, and illustrations showing the scenes of transition.” (Dial).
“He is wanting in style and scholarship; almost every page is disfigured by odd mistakes in English or inaccuracies of reference.”
| — + | Ath. 1905, 1: 598. My. 13. 270w. |
“The book is interesting beyond the rule of guide books.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 129. F. 16, ‘05. 520w. |
“The expression is so poor that one rarely reads so small a book with such great difficulty.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 1366. Je. 15, ‘05. 180w. |
Baedeker, Karl. London and its environs: a handbook for travellers. [*]$1.80. Scribner.
“The fourteenth edition, fortified with four maps and twenty-four plans, its list of the principal streets, public buildings, etc. The total bulk has been but slightly increased. It is almost a pity that these successive editions could not graphically record the chief changes in the general aspect of the metropolis, which of late have been as imposing as they are extensive.”—Nation.
| Nation. 80: 228. Mr. 23, ‘05. 70w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 180w. | ||
| Outlook. 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 20w. |
Baedeker, Karl. Northern France: handbook for travellers. [*]$2.10. Scribner.
“A new edition (the fourth) of this well-known handbook, brought up to date with such revision regarding hotels, routes, and places of interest to travelers as has been made necessary by the changes of the last four or five years.”—Outlook.
| Nation. 80: 289. Ap. 13, ‘05. 60w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w. | ||
| Outlook. 79: 1060. Ap. 29, ‘05. 40w. |
Bagley, William Chandler. Educative process. [*]$1.25. Macmillan.
A lucid exposition of the basal principles of pedagogy with illustrative matter showing the limits and methods of the application. “Its fundamental theses are, that the function of the educative process is to secure the transmission to each generation of the experience of the race, and that its end in view is to secure the development of socially efficient individuals—an end inclusive, as here defined, of livelihood, knowledge, culture, harmonious development, and morality.” (Outlook.)
“His exposition of the responsibilities and duties of parents and teachers can be accepted with little or no reservation, but some of his illustrative statements and subsidiary generalizations are open to question.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 395. S. 23. 1080w. |
“All in all, it must be considered one of the best contributions of its kind to the literature of educational theory and should find an extensive use as a text-book in normal schools and colleges for covering the ground of general method.” Guy Montrose Whipple.
| + + | Educ. R. 30: 418. N. ‘05. 1650w. |
“While Dr. Bagley is mainly concerned to teach the principles of pedagogy he has not failed in adequately illustrating the limits and methods of their rational application.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w. |
“In spite of these and some other less important mistakes and misplacements of emphasis, the book is a fresh, stimulating and generally correct organization of the principles of education.” Wilbur S. Jackman.
| + + — | Science. n.s. 22: 565. N. 3, ‘05. 1730w. |
[*] Bagot, Richard. Italian lakes; painted by Ella Du Cane, described by Richard Bagot. [*]$6. Macmillan.
“In the pages of this beautiful book there have been gathered enough pictures of the Italian lakes ... to make those who read ... realize at least somewhat of the wonderful beauty of the lakes of Italy, even when they have not seen them.” (Ind.) “The lakes of Como, Lugano, Lecco, Maggiore, Orta, Isco, and others of northern Italy are described and painted.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The illustrator ... has given us a series of pictures which, though quite pretty, do not help the reader to realise the general character of the North Italian lakes. The material with which Mr. Bagot had to deal was far too extensive for the space at his disposal; and on the whole he has made a wise selection.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1236. N. 25, ‘05. 340w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 140w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 809. N. 25, ‘05. 470w. |
Bagot, Richard. [Passport.] [†]$1.50. Harper.
“Mr. Richard Bagot has written a stirring melodrama of love and intrigue. He has laid on his colours with a trowel. He gives us the lovely maiden wooed by the handsome lover whose suit is forbidden by the stern stepmother. He tells of wicked priests, cynical and scheming villains, faithful servants, secret hiding-places and sliding panels—all the stock-in-trade of regulation melodrama.... The scene of the book is laid in Rome and the ‘local colouring’ is admirable.”—Sat. R.
“It is a pleasure to read so well-conceived and well executed a tale as this. This is a book that will certainly bear reading twice.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 927. S. 9, ‘05. 500w. | |
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 200w. |
“Frankly, the story makes rather better reading than an epitome of it would warrant one to expect.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 22: 234. N. ‘05. 280w. |
[*] “A conscientious, elaborate and able narrative. Within certain limits, ‘The passport’ may be honestly commended.”
| + | Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 90w. |
“The characters in ‘The passport’ stand out very well in the Italian ‘atmosphere’ which Mr. Bagot has the secret of portraying.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 330w. |
“The book is one of much interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 420w. |
“Is unusual in the strength of its plot and the artistic and continuous development of the story. Here, as in former books, Mr. Bagot occasionally offends the taste of his readers quite unnecessarily.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 100w. |
“But he writes well and picturesquely and his characterization, although totally devoid of subtlety, abounds in cleverness.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 442. S. 30, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin. Peter Newell Mother Goose. [†]$1.50. Holt.
A prose Mother Goose which contains some of the old rhymes as Debby, “a real little girl with gingham aprons and stubby shoes and sunbonnets,” hears them in her wanderings among the Gooselanders. She meets the same old people of Gooseland: Dame Trot; Wee Willie Winkie; Jack Horner; Bo Peep; Simple Simon; and all the rest, but they are modernized and made almost too commonplace for imaginative children. There are twenty-two illustrations by Peter Newell.
[*] “The text rings so true in spirit that one cannot tell which way first to look, at the printed pages or at the woodcuts. All in all the combination forms a most happy volume for children.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “Altogether a very excellent Peter Newell book with a good story to picture.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 540w. |
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Outlook to nature. [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
“The outlook to nature is, of course, the outlook to optimism, for nature is our governing condition and is beyond the power of man to modify or to correct.... The outlook to nature is the outlook to what is real and hearty and spontaneous.” The author applies the foregoing text to the four essays: The realm of the commonplace, Country and city, The school of the future, and Evolution: the quest of truth.
“They exhort to public-spirited endeavor in the cause of rural education and they tend to foster a wholesome love of the soil and to replace the restlessness and discouragement of the country-bred boy and girl with a reasonable contentment and an impulse to improve existing opportunities.”
| + + | Country Calendar. 1: 330. Ag. ‘05. 90w. |
“Some of the passages are delightful. Nor is it a one-sided view of life that is presented.”
| + | Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 250w. |
[*] “If there is nothing altogether new in the book, there is nothing that is not sensible, and very little that is not also inspiring.”
| + | Dial. 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 370w. | |
| + + — | Nation. 81: 306. O. 12, ‘05. 590w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 500w. |
“His exhortations ... are hearty, spontaneous, and optimistic, and full of the love of nature which he wants all the world to share.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 886. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 120w. |
Bain, Alexander. Autobiography. [*]$5. Longmans.
“The autobiography, as Professor Bain left it, ended with an account of the events of the year 1890; a supplementary chapter, relating to the last thirteen years of his life, has been added by his literary executor, Prof. W. L. Davidson. The chief feature of interest in this volume is its clear and candid account of the stages in the writer’s mental growth, under the circumstances of the time.” (Int. J. Ethics). His early religious life was one of unrest and doubt, but coming under the influence of Comte’s teachings, he soon rejected all theology, and found himself a thorogoing empiricist. His greatest originality lies in the realm of analytic psychology, and his works on this subject are among the classics. In logic, he was a close follower of Mill, also his two volumes show some important advances on the Mill method. In ethics, too, he is consistently empirical and utilitarian, believing that “General happiness or welfare is a sufficient statement of the final end.”
“The plan is logically formed and elaborately carried out.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 150w. |
“Will undoubtedly be a disappointment to the reader who is looking for literary charm or for any strong infusion of human interest. It is a dry, concise chronicle, in which first place is given to facts about the writer’s own scientific activity and published work—professedly a record of his intellectual history first of all.”
| + | Dial. 38: 94. F. 1, ‘05. 440w. |
“Curious lights are also thrown on the past history of university education in Scotland. Specially attractive is the account given in the first two chapters of the way in which the difficulties of the author’s early education were overcome, and of the manner in which his native intellectual tendencies began to show themselves.” S. H. Mellone.
| + | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 241. Ja. ‘05. 1600w. (Abstract of book.) |
“The autobiography is much too long. What is really valuable in it is overlaid by a multitude of details which can interest but few.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 720w. |
Bain, F. W. [Digit of the moon, and other love stories from the Hindoo.] $1.50. Putnam.
“A digit of the moon,” “A heifer of the dawn,” “The descent of the sun,” and “In the great God’s hair” are four stories found in this volume, translated and adapted from the Hindoo by one who professes to have received the manuscript from a Brahman. “They possess a somewhat greater refinement, according to Western notions, than one often finds in tales of Oriental life and love as told by Orientals.” (Outlook.)
“The fascination of the stories lies in their almost hypnotic slowness of movement, their lavish use of color, and the delicate mixture of wit and sentiment that animate them.”
| + | Critic. 47: 476. N. ‘05. 90w. |
“The native atmosphere has been rather cleverly caught, and the author has adopted several Hindu tricks of story-telling. Many persons will deem his stories charming. At any rate, they are touchingly sentimental and written in extra-florid English.”
| + | Nation. 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 453. Jl. 8, ‘05. 380w. |
“The stories have an undeniable charm both of matter and of language.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 580w. |
“Are characteristically Eastern in delicacy, tenderness, vividness, gorgeousness of imagination, and floridity of language.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w. |
“Mr. Bain has made us all his debtors by presenting us with this book.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 350. S. 9, ‘05. 370w. |
Bain, Robert Nisbet. First Romanovs, 1613-1725. [*]$3.50. Dutton.
An account of “the rise of socialism in Russia in its early days, coming down to the end of the reign of Peter the Great. So far as we know, the book takes new ground in that it is less a history of war and political convulsions than of the underlying conditions—social, racial, and moral as well as political—which give shape and form to the Muscovite civilization. Dramatic episodes and incidents have large place in the narrative.... There are several portraits and maps.”—Outlook.
“Mr. Nisbet Bain is too faithful a chronicler. He tells his story in such detail that we miss the broad features and lack some perspective of Russia’s relationship to the rest of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 799. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1010w. | |
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 940. Jl. ‘05. 40w. |
“But is perhaps unfair to carp at these minor inaccuracies (as they seem to us), and it is a more congenial task to praise this interesting book for the many pictures of old Russian life with which it abounds.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 133. Jl. 29. 1770w. |
“It is seldom that a book combines in so high a degree the charm of imaginative writing with the graver interest of history.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 246. Ag. 4, ‘05. 2040w. |
“‘The first Romanovs’ is a work which covers less ground than is traversed in the Scandinavian volume, and is marked not only by a greater fulness of detail, but by greater concentration of purpose. The present volume is in many respects the best he has given us.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 151. Ag. 17, ‘05. 530w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 390w. |
“It is a conscientious, well-balanced history of that remarkable century. The whole story is well and interestingly told in fluent and often pictorial English.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 1140w. |
“The work is essentially readable. Such a book as this is valuable as affording insight into what was really a formative period of European history.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 130w. |
“Upon the reader’s acceptance or rejection of Peter’s role as a mighty regenerator will necessarily depend the value and interest of Mr. Bain’s work. At the same time we fail to find that he brings any really new light to bear upon the subject.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 23. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1330w. |
Bain, Robert Nisbet. Scandinavia: a political history of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. $2. Macmillan.
The period from 1513 to 1900 is treated in this volume which deals with the rise, decline, and fall of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as powers.
“The most comprehensive that has yet been written.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 172. F. 25, ‘05. 1000w. |
“In his conclusions he frequently differs from earlier writers, but, though his generalizations are often dangerously bold, his statements, as a rule, are well supported.” Laurence M. Larson.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 190. O. ‘05. 470w. |
“We have found Mr. Bain’s narrative clear and very readable. It is throughout a scholarly production.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 773. Je. 24, 2120w. |
“Mr. Bain’s narrative, however, is usually vivid and sometimes even eloquent. Inaccuracy rather than obscurity is the fault of the book. As is natural when the scope of the work is so wide, many of the author’s views are open to question.” W. F. R.
| + + — | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 608. Jl. ‘05. 590w. |
“His epitome of Scandinavian annals is clear and well arranged giving about equal prominence to Denmark and Sweden.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 150. Ag. 17, ‘05. 520w. |
“Mistakes are rare, and those that may be found are too insignificant for exposure. And he tells a good story. This failure of Mr. Bain to enter into the spirit of the time is glaringly apparent in his treatment of Christian II. of Denmark. On the whole his judgments of present-day men and measures are correct and well balanced.” Edwin Bjorkman.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 508. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1760w. |
“Keen insight into causation is manifest; social as well as political movements are studied, not a little light being thrown on hitherto neglected phases of Scandinavian history; and the facts presented have been carefully verified. The style, without being impressive, is fluent and agreeable.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 290w. |
“A very useful historical volume.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 230w. |
“Mr. Bain’s story is, by force of circumstances, highly compressed, but he has succeeded in making it both clear and attractive.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 435. S. 23, ‘05. 170w. |
Baker, Cornelia. Queen’s page. [†]$1.25. Bobbs.
This story is all about Pedro and Petronilla, twins of Béarne, who at the start could not understand why when Aunt Catalina said that they had some blue blood in their veins should see only red blood start from a knife wound. They themselves thus remind the reader that they are very much flesh-and-blood little mortals. Their experiences at the court of Francis the First, and their travels and adventures are full of interest for the young reader. The illustrations are the clever work of Fanny Y. Cory.
“A pleasant way for any boy or girl to get acquainted with the sixteenth century is to read ‘The queen’s page.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 140w. |
Baker, George P. Forms of public address. [**]$1.12. Holt.
This little volume is offered by Mr. Baker as a needed supplement to the ordinary oratorical work done in colleges. It is designed for school use, and sets forth its purpose in an introduction addressed to teachers. The book consists of famous historical letters, both private and open, editorials, inaugural addresses, speeches of eulogy, commemoration, dedication, welcome and farewell, and after-dinner speeches. There are an appendix and explanatory notes.
| + + | Nation. 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 550w. |
“The selections presented as models give a value to the volume that the general reader, as well as instructors and students, will appreciate for their historical or personal as well as literary worth.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 195. Ja. 21, ‘05. 120w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 250. F. ‘05. 50w. |
Baker, Henry B. Relation of preventable disease to taxation. Michigan State board of health.
“We have here a valuable analytical study of local expenditures in Michigan during 1903 on account of indigent sufferers from dangerous communicable diseases: also computations of the money values of the lives apparently saved in 1903 through the lowered death rate from smallpox, typhoid fever, scarlet fever and consumption since the organization of the State board of health.”—Engin. N.
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 185. F. 16, ‘05. 210w. |
Baker, Louise R. Mrs. Pinner’s little girl $1. Jacobs.
A pretty story of a little orphan, Mary Daingerfield, who is separated from her sister and brothers and adopted by the rich and kind-hearted Pinners. Thru her sweet unselfishness she succeeds in bringing home to them their son, Dave, and also in reuniting her orphaned family—Kit, Buz, the baby, and their faithful old black Aunty.
Baker, Moses Nelson. Sewerage and sewage purification. 50c. Van Nostrand.
A second revised and enlarged edition of this valuable little volume which was first published in 1895.
Baker, Rev. P. Short instructions; or, Meditations on the Gospels for each day in Lent; ed. by Rev. W: T. Conklin. 75c. Christian press.
“These instructions were first published in 1834 ... [and] are based on the holy Gospels for every day in Lent. The Gospel for the day is given; then follows a short instruction on the same, concluding with a prayer.”—Cath. World.
| + + | Cath. World. 80: 691. F. ‘05. 180w. |
Baker, William Henry. Cement-worker’s handbook. 50c. W. H. Baker, Wadsworth, O.
More than 50 most important subjects on cement and its uses in construction are covered in this volume, which is compiled to meet the requirements of the common workman.
“The description of the proper way to make cement walks is the best that we have seen in print.”
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 636. Je. 15, ‘05. 200w. |
Baldwin, Charles Sears, ed. American short stories. See Wampum library of American literature, v. I.
Baldwin, Charles Sears. How to write, [*]50c. Macmillan.
Taking the English Bible as a model of style, the author has written a practical little book which tells “plain people” how to prepare essays, how to tell stories, and how to describe.
“The book will be very useful as a practical rhetoric.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 217. Jl. 27, ‘05. 130w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 169. Mr. 18, ‘05. 150w. |
“The author has succeeded in making his directions practical and untechnical enough really to help the people for whom they are designed.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] Baldwin, May. Girls of St. Gabriel’s. [†]$1.25. Lippincott.
“A sprightly story of the experiences of an English girl of fourteen, who spent two years at a convent school in the north of France, on the Belgian frontier.... The heroine’s interests were varied by the neighborhood of a French uncle with a haunted château.... There are illustrations and a good deal of minor detail of the life of a French country house.”—Nation.
[*] “The tale has incident enough to make it good reading for any girl under eighteen.”
| + | Nation. 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “The theme is a good one, and well worked out.”
| + | Spec. 95: 693. N. 4, ‘05. 120w. |
Baldwin, Simeon Eben. [American judiciary and judicial system.] [*]$1.25. Century.
This is the sixth volume in the “American state series” whose object is to describe “comprehensively the manner in which the Governmental agencies of the American state are organized and administered.” The subject matter falls under two heads: Part 1. The nature and scope of the judicial power in the United States, and Part 2. The organization and practical working of American courts.
[*] “So far as description goes, it is here and there loosely written.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 471. D. 7, ‘05. 310w. |
“His work maintains the high standard set by the other published volumes of the ‘American state series.’” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 600w. |
“Is characterized by thoroughness, accuracy, and readableness. Laymen and jurists alike will find this book interesting and helpful.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 390w. |
“He has accomplished his difficult task admirably.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 140w. |
Balmforth, Ramsden. Bible from the standpoint of higher criticism. 2v. ea. [*]$1.25. Dutton.
Two volumes devoted respectively to the Old and New Testament, which discuss in popular and non-technical form the results of the higher criticism. “The true basis of religious union is shown to be where Jesus put it, not in the speculative doctrines which divide men, but in the moral effect which unites them.” (Outlook.) Illustrations are drawn from the various classes of literature and periods of history.
“Its object is to show that, after all, the Bible is worth studying.”
| + | Am. J. Theol. 9: 742. O. ‘05. 190w. |
“Some of the principal facts brought to light in recent study are presented fearlessly and with no little skill.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Mr. Balmforth’s discussions are bold, almost blunt, but they are reverent and well considered, and they will do good service in promoting familiarity with the achievements of Biblical scholarship in its most important field.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 640. S. 14, ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“A lucid and popularly written account of the results of modern critical study.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Bandelier, Fanny, tr. Journey of Cabeza de Vaca. [**]$1. Barnes.
A new volume in the “Trail-makers library” which narrates the experiences and adventures of the first white man to cross the continent. “His journey begun in Florida in 1528 ended on the Pacific in 1536. The translator and editor have had a valuable idea in extracting from the original confused and garrulous narrative what was essential and important.” (Outlook.)
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 217. O. ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 382. O. ‘05. 160w. | |
| Nation. 80: 458. Je. 8, ‘05. 90w. | ||
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 300w. |
“The work is edited by no less an authority than Ad. F. Bandelier, the foremost in this line, and the translation is by his wife, whose quick intelligence and absolute familiarity with the Spanish language has enabled her to fathom many intricacies of the vague and confused record.” F. S. Dellenbaugh.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 509. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2070w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Bangs, John Kendrick. [Mrs. Raffles; being the adventures of an amateur cracks-woman narrated by Bunny.] [†]$1.25. Harper.
“In his well-known humorous style Mr. Bangs has portrayed Mrs. Raffles, the widow of the famous cracksman, and her never-to-be-consoled admirer ‘Bunny.’ The yarns ... contain material for detective stories that quite surpass the plots invented for the original thief by Mr. Hornung.”—Critic.
[*] “The yarns one and all are amusing.”
| + | Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “A parody of Mr. Hornung’s stories of Raffles, the amateur cracksman, very badly done.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 15w. |
Bangs, John Kendrick. Worsted man: a musical play for amateurs. [†]50c. Harper.
Eight lonely women at a summer hotel in New Hampshire attempt to get even with Fate for not sending a single youth their way. They construct a worsted man from an afghan, stuffing it with cotton. A certain famous spring-water brings this man of wool to life, and he becomes an unmanageable flirt.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 349. My. 27, ‘05. 210w. | ||
| Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 80w. |
Banks, Nancy Huston. Little hills. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
Phoebe Rowan is widowed shortly after the ceremony which joins her in a loveless marriage with the village minister. It becomes a duty to her to call to her “wren’s nest” the destitute parents of her husband,—a father who is a cripple and a drunkard, and a step-mother “austere, ignorant, narrow-minded, with a faculty for ruling all around her with an iron will.” The story follows a thorny path with a triumphant turn out into the open.
“It is not given to her, as it is to Mr. Howells, to write an interesting story about nothing. The various characters to which Mrs. Banks introduces us are not convincing.”
| — + | Ath. 1905, 2: 171. Ag. 5. 260w. |
“The score of characters who move through Mrs. Banks’s pages are quaint, charming, whimsical, by turns, but never exaggerated or burlesqued. The central thread of the story, which binds the whole together with a strength surprising in a plot of such fragile delicacy, is imbued with a simple pathos that at times evokes an almost painful sympathy.” F. T. Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 21: 599. Ag. ‘05. 510w. |
“The author has a riotous sentimentality, no sense of humor, and an over-worked knack of detaching scenic bric-a-brac from the landscape.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 284. S. ‘05. 90w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w. |
“The book is somewhat cumbered with description, and several of its characters have toppled over into caricatures, but it will be read with interest both because of a plot out of the ordinary and of the freshness and spontaneity of its treatment.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 230w. |
“There are bits here which are gently provocative of a smile, and always the sentiment is sweet and gracious, but the total effect is rather faint.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 504. O. 14, ‘05. 160w. |
“Appears as a frank imitator of Miss Mary Wilkins, and the imitation is not very successful.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w. |
Barbour, Ralph Henry (Richard Stillman Powers, pseud.). Orchard princess. [†]$2. Lippincott.
How Miles Fallon, bachelor, becomes a ready target for Cupid’s dart when April sunshine and the scent of apple blossoms lure him on to the orchard princess is lightly sketched in this love tale with a pastoral setting. The man is a novelist, and the girl is an artist, yet these two idealists are very human in the “little nothingnesses” that pave the way for their romance.
| * | Critic. 47:577. D. ‘05. 10w. | |
| * | + + | Dial. 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “The heroine is a real girl, which cannot always be said of romantic heroines.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 10w. |
Bard, Emile. Chinese life in town and country. [**]$1.20. Putnam.
Viewing China and the Chinese “with the eyes of a man of affairs,” and avoiding “exaggerated optimism”, the author has treated of Chinese traits, customs and character, of their religions, education, government, history and economic and social life. The book is concise and interesting, and contains over a dozen illustrations and a good index.
“Altogether this is a clever and readable book.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 266. S. ‘05. 160w. |
“The book has no air of hasty generalization; the chapters, though brief, are full of information, set forth in the clearest possible manner.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 200w. |
“The characteristic and chief value of the book is its freedom from bias. The little volume is singularly free from inaccuracies.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 753. S. 28, ‘05. 210w. |
“The translation, or rather adaptation, is one that takes away all stiffness and puts the reader at his ease. With index and illustrations, this makes one of the books on China most pleasant for reference and reading.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 227. S. 14, ‘05. 1210w. |
“He is a kindly, though just, observer.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 2100w. |
“The translation seems well done.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 250w. |
“He has come as near to an understanding of the Chinese character as is possible for an occidental.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 382. S. 16, ‘05. 300w. |
Barnes, James. Blockaders. 60c. Harper.
Thirteen short stories for girls as well as boys. The “Blockaders” is a tale of a Confederate blockade runner which is captured by the Federals and turned into a United States gunboat. Then there are stories of flying machines, cannibal kings, and adventures in Africa, where savages pursue the finders of certain diamonds. There is a story of an ice boat, where two boys carry a bag of money fifty miles to save a bank, and of harrowing experiences in an apparently inaccessible village of the cliff dwellers. There are many others equally varied.
“The stories are well written; the plots are worth writing about; the boys who figure in them are real flesh and blood boys; and the style is crisp, direct, and natural.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 408. Je. ‘05. 130w. |
“The sort of thing boys like to read.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w. |
“They are of all sorts—adventurous, amusing, and pathetic—and all good.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 30w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 60w. |
Barr, Martin W. Mental defectives; their history, treatment, and training. [*]$4. Blakiston.
An interesting and practical treatment of the subject by one who has had long and successful experience in the training of the mentally deficient. The modern methods of sifting and classifying these children, are given in detail, and the work suitable for each class is described. It is an interesting book for everyone, but is intended primarily for teachers and parents. There are 152 illustrations.
“In his interesting study, Dr. Barr has spoken to an audience of teachers and parents, rather than to scientists.” Albert Warren Ferris.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 65. Mr. ‘05. 700w. (Abstract of book.) |
“It is by all odds the most thorough and well written treatise upon the subject with which we are familiar, not excepting those of Ireland, Doun, or Seguin; besides it is modern.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 210w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 524. Je. 29, ‘05. 460w. | |
| School R. 13: 649. O. ‘05. 10w. |
Barr, Robert. Speculations of John Steele. [†]$1.50. Stokes.
John Steele, the hero of this story, runs the entire gamut of financial adventure. He starts as station master in the “lone shanty” known as Hitchen’s Siding where his bravery in side-tracking a freight train without the dispatcher’s orders, thus averting a collision, was the beginning of a series of promotions. He becomes the owner of a railroad, dabbles in wheat, loses a fortune, wins it again with the woman he loves thru a coup de force.
Barrett, Mrs. Charlotte, ed. See Burney, Frances. [Diary and letters of Madame D’Arblay.]
Barrington, Mrs. Russell. Reminiscences of G. F. Watts. [*]$5. Macmillan.
Conversational reminiscences of the sculptor-artist jotted down by one who was his friend and neighbor. Many interesting details are given, which reveal his character and his attitude toward his own work and the work of other artists.
“An extremely readable story of her long and intimate friendship with Watts.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 790. Je. 24. 1820w. |
“Comprehensive volume.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 474. N. ‘05. 170w. |
“At times it must be admitted she rather overloads her pages with minor details. The book is written pleasantly, interestingly, tho without any great distinction of style—but it is only fair to add that there is no pretension to style.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 809. O. 5, ‘05. 800w. |
[*] “The most important book about that painter yet published.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “Mrs. Barrington combines in an unusual degree the literary and artistic gift.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 27: 181. D. ‘05. 390w. |
“We cannot help thinking that the author would have done better to hand over her notes to the biographer who, under the general direction of Mrs. Watts and with access to the painter’s private papers, is at work upon a complete biography.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 183. Je. 9, ‘05. 720w. |
“Mrs. Barrington’s book, with all its enthusiastic fervor and intimate outpourings, adds practically little to what has already been published.”
| + | Nation. 81: 367. N. 2, ‘05. 830w. |
“Mrs. Barrington’s is not a biography, but a personal work, which incidentally reveals a good deal of the writer’s personality.” Charles de Kay.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 617. S. 23, ‘05. 2230w. |
[*] “A noble biography of a noble man.”
| + | Outlook. 81:703. N. 25, ‘05. 420w. |
[*] “This volume, while perhaps not exhaustive, is certainly accurate.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 100w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 100: 150. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1110w. | |
| Spec. 95: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 210w. |
Barritt, Leon. How to draw. [**]$2. Harper.
The author “here sets forth, in a simple and practical manner, the basic principles of illustration in pen and ink and pencil.” After describing fully the materials necessary, he outlines the steps of procedure. The first lesson is on a block letter alphabet. Next are rules for drawing the human head and features, the hands, feet, and the human figure. “How to measure an object by the eye” is followed by an explanation of how to draw from life, studies in expression, animal drawing, perspective, landscape drawing, spatter work, water studies, comics, cartoons, wash lampblack drawing, drawing on silver prints, distemper drawings, lettering, foliage study, and the reproduction of drawings. The last part of the book is devoted to the well-known American illustrators and cartoonists.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 22. Ja. 14, ‘05. 260w. |
Barren, Leonard,, ed. Roses and how to grow them. [**]$1. Doubleday.
Omitting everything that does not bear directly upon the subject of practical rose growing, this manual teaches the American amateur all that is necessary for him to know “in order that he may intelligently make a rose garden, select his varieties and grow a harvest of bloom.” A number of half-tone illustrations accompany the text. The book belongs to the “Garden library.”
“The book is freely and attractively illustrated, most of the inscriptions being amply descriptive of the purpose of the pictures.” Edith Granger.
| + + | Dial. 39: 110. S. 1, ‘05. 310w. |
“To those who desire roses and know nothing about them this little volume will be an especial boon, so precise and unveiled by the drapery of unnecessary words are the instructions.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 537. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w. |
Barry, Richard. Port Arthur: a monster heroism. [*]$1.50. Moffat.
Under such chapter headings as, The city of silence, A battle in a storm, Cost of taking Port Arthur, and A contemporary epic, are told the horrid things, pitiless and true, which the author saw in the East on the field and in the trenches where the little brown men fought so bravely.
“Barry knows how to tell a story in words and sentences that seem part of the war itself.” William Elliot Griffis.
| + + | Critic. 47: 265. S. ‘05. 140w. |
“This book is that of an eye-witness profoundly and sympathetically impressed, still young enough to have every impression deep and clear, and old enough to set it down justly and vividly.” Wallace Rice.
| + + | Dial. 38: 417. Je. 16, ‘05. 900w. |
“Not strictly a well-written book, this is nevertheless full of the vitality of the field, and the impression that it gives of a record made on the spot is heightened by the numerous illustrations from the author’s own camera.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 144. Ag. 17, ‘05. 520w. |
“The book is on the whole more to be commended for its material than the manner in which the material is used.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 470w. |
“He gives a series of vivid pictures of Japanese methods of warfare, of life in the besieging trenches, of the characteristics of the Japanese soldier and his commanding officers.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 120w. |
Barry, William (Francis). Life of Ernest Renan. [**]$1. Scribner.
Beginning with a chapter which discusses the widely known scholar and writer as “The Breton peasant,” Mr. Barry traces the career of Renan, describing his youthful struggles to understand the Catholic faith, his giving up the priesthood, his lectures as a teacher of Hebrew, the influence of his sister, his travels and his work upon his “Life of Jesus,” and his other books.
“Is in many respects an excellent and most instructive biography, but he is somewhat too prone to argue with Renan’s opinions without trying to ‘place’ him amid the powerful influences of the nineteenth century.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 585. Je. 3, ‘05. 1060w. |
“It chiefly consists of translation or paraphrase of books within reach of every one, and the moment Dr. Barry essays to be original he falls into blunders.”
| — | Ath. 1905, 2: 271. Ag. 26, 1000w. |
“This work is finely wrought as a piece of literature, is judicious, brave, and reverent.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 527. Jl. ‘05. 1220w. |
“From the able pen of a keen and sympathetic critic.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 283. S. ‘05. 40w. |
“He has written a superficial book on a subject worthy of more intelligent treatment.”
| — | Lond. Times. 4: 169. My. 26, ‘05. 650w. |
“The thesis is cleverly maintained, and the book, in spite of its obvious dogmatic purpose, is interesting throughout.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 36. Jl. 13, ‘05. 270w. |
“Falls several points short of being satisfactory as an exposition of the reality behind the man who was an atheist, ‘devoutly and with a sort of unction.’”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 1220w. |
“Interesting, well written, appreciatively critical.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 210w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 120w. | ||
| Sat. R. 100: 278. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1290w. |
“It says much for the wealth and variety of Dr. Barry’s resources, both as a scholar and as a literary artist, that he has achieved this task with eminent success.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: 526. O. 7, ‘05. 1000w. |
Barton, George Aaron. Year’s wandering in Bible lands. [*]$2. Ferris.
This volume is made up of home letters written by the director of the American school of Oriental research, and it contains no dry archaeological detail, but is an account of the experiences of the author and his party, and a description of the localities visited, including Athens, Corinth, the churches of Asia, the Holy land, Alexandria, Italy, and the Alps. There are 145 illustrations in half-tone, from views taken during the trip.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
| + | Dial. 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 140w. | |
| + + | Ind. 58: 901. Ap. 20, ‘05. 190w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 350w. (Survey of contents). |
“Its fine and numerous illustrations give it special value as a pictorial companion book to the Bible.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 655. Mr. 11, ‘05. 40w. |
Barton, Samuel Marx. Elements of plane surveying. [*]$1.50. Heath.
To form a connecting link between the mathematical branches as taught in the secondary schools and the practical work of surveying is the author’s chief purpose in presenting this text. It is subdivided into the following chapters: (1) Instruments, their adjustments and uses; (2) Chain surveying; (3) Compass surveying; (4) Computation of areas; (5) Transit surveying; (6) Leveling; and (7) Tables. The last 111 pages are devoted to several useful and practical tables: a table of squares, cubes, square roots, and cube roots; of chords; stadia tables; six-place logarithms of numbers and of trigonometric functions; the natural functions to five places; and an auxiliary table for small angles. The author enters a plea against the insertion of six-place tables in texts on plane surveying as wasteful of time and labor.
“He has quite well met the needs of one class. The class whose interests seem to have been consulted, in the main, is that of the strong high-school, or early college, student of mathematics who feels he would like to know for what all these years of barren formalism are supposed to prepare one, at any rate. From a mathematical student’s point of view the book is a clear, simple, and educative treatment of the fundamental problems of surveying.” G. W. Myers.
| + + | School R. 13: 85. Ja. ‘05. 550w. (Detailed statement of contents.) |
Bashore, Harvey Brown. Sanitation of a country house. $1. Wiley.
“This little volume tells simply and clearly how to locate and build a country house to insure the most healthful conditions, how to provide a pure water supply, and how to dispose of the waste in an economical and sanitary manner.”—Outlook.
“The suggestions that he offers to the prospective builder of a country house are eminently practical, based on a scientific study of rural conditions.”
| + + | Country Calendar. 1: 492. S. ‘05. 80w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] Bassett, Mrs. Mary E. Stone. Little green door. [†]$1.50. Lothrop.
“A French romance of the time of Louis XIII. The scene is partly placed in a retired garden belonging to the King and entered by a ‘little green door.’ The book is not of the swashbuckling type, although there is an occasional clash of swords.”—Outlook.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 557. Ag. 25, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “The attempt is for quiet charm rather than for strenuous dramatic effect.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 50w. |
Bate, Percy. English table glass. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
“The early pages tell of the author’s own proceedings as a collector and his growth as a connoisseur.... There are 254 separate glasses illustrated, all arranged upon the black backgrounds of sixty-seven half-tone plates.... There are many historical curiosities among these pieces, and of course Jacobitism in abundance.” (Nation.) 1586 is the date of the earliest glass shown.
“A book at once pleasing and packed with information, personal and yet of broadest application.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 440w. |
“The author is very enthusiastic, and has much knowledge of his subject, and his guidebook will be a welcome help to the large body of students of an attractive subject. We rarely find Mr. Bate at fault.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 442. S. 30. 510w. |
“As far as it goes, however, the book is a careful account, rather by way of classification than of historical or technical discussion, of English table glass up to 1800.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 219. Jl. 7, ‘05. 260w. |
“Full of the knowledge and the insight of the enthusiastic collector.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 530. Je. 29, 05. 1130w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 405. Je. 17, ‘05. 430w. |
Bates, Oric. Madcap cruise. [†]$1.50. Houghton.
The story of a young Harvard man whose uncle refused to supply him with funds for a trip to Europe. As the girl he loves is already there, nothing can stop him, so he takes his chum with him, steals his uncle’s yacht, cruises from Maine to the Mediterranean, wins the girl and comes home to be forgiven. There are many amusing and stirring adventures, such as a race with an English yacht, smuggling art treasures out of Italy, and a storm at sea.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
“Lively narrative and clearcut description, written for the most part in excellent English. A thoroughly wholesome and readable book.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 200w. |
“It is light, but simple and pretty.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 460w. |
“The story is cleverly told, remarkably so for the author’s first attempt, and is entertaining in spite of the superabundance of slang.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w. |
“The author’s style is buoyant, and he rides blithely over choppy seas that have brought to grief many an older writer.”
| + | Reader. 6: 360. Ag. ‘05. 310w. |
Batten, Rev. Loring W. Hebrew prophet. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Dr. Batten seeks to realise the actual conditions under which the Jewish prophets lived and worked. He inquires how they gained a subsistence, what they did for their countrymen, what was thought and expected of them, and whether they wrote down their utterances in advance.... These and other questions are discussed with an open-mindedness and sobriety which are not always in evidence on either side of the ‘Higher criticism controversy.’”—Spec.
“An excellent handbook for the use of intelligent Bible students. The method of presentation is clear and simple, and the underlying principles are scholarly and safe.”
| + + | Bib. World. 26: 239. S. ‘05. 30w. |
“The book is popular yet critical, neglecting neither the problems of scholars nor the practical applications of the history.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 140w. |
“A very sensible and seasonable book.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 229. Ag. 12, ‘05. 110w. |
Battine, Cecil. Crisis of the confederacy: a history of Gettysburg and the Wilderness. $5. Longmans.
“This volume is substantially a history of the American civil war, though special attention is given to the Gettysburg campaign (June 27th-July 14th, 1863), and to Grant’s operations in the Wilderness in May and June, 1864.... The story of years of serious fighting is compressed into something less than four hundred pages. Then comes a chapter in which the lessons of the war are drawn in a very instructive way.” (Spec.) There are six maps in the book, and a colored frontispiece showing the battle flags of the confederacy.
“Captain Battine has done faithful and able work in his book, and it must remain a permanent contribution to the history of the crisis of the Confederacy.” J. P. S.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 178. O. ‘05. 1330w. |
“If he has nothing very new to say on the subject, he has the gift of writing a clear narrative. Would be improved by a better index and by more references to authorities.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 590w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 201. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w. |
“Capt. Battine tries to be fair, and is on the whole.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 258. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1270w. |
“Excellently lucid narrative. Our readers can hardly find a more satisfactory narrative, with so much matter in so moderate a space.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 411. Mr. 18, ‘05. 100w. |
Battle of Maldon, and short poems from the Saxon chronicle, ed. by Walter John Sedgefield. 40c. Heath.
A volume in section I. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The text of The battle of Maldon has been collated with Hearne’s transcript of the lost Cotton MS. and the variants noted. Notes, bibliography and glossary are provided.
Bauer, G. Marine engines and boilers; their design and construction: a handbook for the use of students, engineers and naval constructors, based on the work, “Berechnung und konstruktion der schiffsmachinen und kessel.” [*]$9. Henley.
“The work as a whole is divided into eight parts.... Part 1. deals with the main engine.... Part 2. deals with pumps.... Part 3 takes up shafting, resistance of ships and propulsion.... Part 4. treats of piping and connections.... Part 5. deals with steam boilers.... Part 6. is occupied with measuring instruments.... Part 7. deals with various details.... Part 8. comprises a large collection of tables and tabular matter.... Illustrative material has also been most generously furnished.”—Engin. N.
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 115. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1040w. |
“This work constitutes an addition of the highest value to the available literature on the subject.” W. F. Durand.
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 636. Je. 15, ‘05. 1270w. |
“The book has been excellently and competently translated. The general arrangement of the book is convenient.”
| + + + | Nature. 72: 453. S. 7, ‘05. 1100w. |
Baum, Lyman Frank. Queen Zixi of Ix. [†]$1.50. Century.
Printed in large type, which will attract child readers, and profusely illustrated in color by Frederick Richardson, this story of the magic cloak which gave to each of its wearers the fulfilment of one wish will delight all who read about the fairy-folk, the witch queen, Bud, the little boy who became king of Noland, his charming sister, the invading Roly-rogues, Aunt Rivette, who wished for wings and got them, and all the rest.
[*] “Is more of real fairy-tale than the ‘Wizard’ but just as delightful.”
| + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 40w. | |
| * | Ind. 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 40w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 50w. |
“It bids fair to be a popular holiday book for children.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + — | R. of Rs. 32: 768. D. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] Bayliss, Sir Wyke. Seven angels of the renascence. [**]$3.50. Pott.
“The ‘Angels,’ or messengers, are: Cimabue, Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Titian, Raphael, Correggio and Claude. The author opens his book where his earlier volume, ‘Likeness of Christ Rex Regum,’ closed.... Each chapter has prefixed to it a portrait of the artist discussed, with a facsimile of his signature. The other illustrations (all are, by the way, in half-tone) are reproductions of some of the works of the masters.”—N. Y. Times.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “It is also a pity that he clings to convention and regards Cimabue as ‘the first painter of the renaissance,’ when that honor rightly belongs to Giotto.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 470w. |
Bayly, Elizabeth Boyd. Under the she-oaks. [†]$1.25. Union press.
Opening with a bushman’s hut and ending with a heaven sent rain which delivers the parched country from the great drought, this love story of Australia tells of the hardships which the gently-bred English gallantly encounter in that new country, where the wind wails drearily thru the long spines of the she-oaks.
Beach, Rex Ellingwood. [Pardners.] [†]$1.50. McClure.
Ten stories of life in Alaska and the West, including besides the title story, The test, North of forty-three, The scourge, The shyness of Shorty, The thaw at Silsco’s and others.
“There is no faint-hearted mincing of words in them, the pictures they present are sometimes repulsive, but always virile.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 560w. |
“Strenuous tales of the wild West and the frozen North, ranging from the grimly tragic to the grimly humorous.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 20w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Beach, Seth Curtis. [Daughters of the Puritans.] [*]$1.10. Am. Unitar.
The group of women whose biographies are sketched here includes Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Mary Lovell Ware, Lydia Maria Child, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott.
[*] “In writing about them, therefore, the author assumes a frankly New England point of view, judges men, women, and things by New England standards, and takes all his saints seriously.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 420w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 140w. |
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, earl of. [Endymion; with a critical introd. on his writings by Edmund Gosse.] $1.50. Cambridge soc., 135 5th av., N. Y.
“In ‘Endymion’ ... the hand of the author has dealt with matters with which he was more than familiar, the political complications and developments of the thirties and forties of the last century. It is in reality an autobiography, and the figures which move through the varied scenes of the story are thinly disguised personages of high rank and great importance.”—Pub. Opin.
“Despite its priggish tone and frequent sneers, the book has a human quality which is likely to give it a life that even the great fame of its author could not have assured it had those qualities been wanting.”
| + + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 290w. |
Beale, Joseph Henry, jr. Law of foreign corporations and taxation of corporations both foreign and domestic. sh. [*]$6. W: J. Nagel, 6 Ashburton place, Boston.
“In this country alone of great modern commonwealths, every state jurisdiction is a ‘foreign’ jurisdiction in every other state; and every corporation chartered by one state is a foreign corporation in every other.... It is made more complicated still by the concurrent existence of still a third (federal) jurisdiction.... The subject of taxation is naturally involved.... The author has devoted considerable space to the statutory provisions of states and territories, as well as of Great Britain and Canada.”—Nation.
“There is, we believe, no other which covers the field explored by Mr. Beale, to the exclusion of other topics, and this fact alone would make the work professionally important.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 339. Ap. 27, ‘05. 590w. |
Beard, Lina, and Beard, Adelia. [Indoor and outdoor handicraft and recreation for girls.] [**]$1.60. Scribner.
“When the eye and hand can be trained, the mind informed, and the child at the same time entertained, a needed work is indeed being accomplished; and in ‘Handicraft and recreation for girls,’ the parents will find a valuable aid in accomplishing this triple task. The first half of the volume ... is devoted to the handicrafts. Here the most explicit directions are given for spinning, weaving, ... as well as for making complete miniature copies of a Japanese village, a Russian village, an Indian village and an old colonial kitchen.... Besides these there are numerous suggestions for the very tiny folk.... The second half ... contains many delightful suggestions for Easter and Hallowe’en games as well as for simple amusements for very small children.”—Arena.
“All the directions in the book are so detailed and simple, and the illustrations are so copious that the work is far more valuable than many similar volumes. One would search far to find a book of this kind so varied in its interests and so clear and explicit in its practical directions.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + | Arena. 33: 221. F. ‘05. 440w. |
Beardsley, Aubrey. Last letters of Aubrey Beardsley: with an introductory note by the Rev. John Gray. [*]$1.50. Longmans.
“A series of notes and letters written by Aubrey Beardsley during the last three years of his life.”—N. Y. Times.
| + | Cath. World. 81: 250. My. ‘05. 240w. |
“In a sketchy way, these indicate something of the writer’s mind and tastes.”
| + | Critic. 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 130w. |
“Altogether the book seems to throw some light on the artistic temperament in general, as well as upon the character and ways of thought of the young artist. For all that, it is quite impossible to see how the inclusion of many of the utterly trivial notes of thanks or regret adds to the light the book affords, and the trouble is that such idle conclusions are apt to make the reader scoff at the rest, much of which is not matter for scoffing.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 660w. |
“These letters are interesting as throwing side-lights upon that remarkably sensitive, artistic soul.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 60w. |
Becke, (George) Louis. [Tom Gerrard.] [†]$1.50. Lippincott.
A series of episodes in the life of an Australian stockman who, after many and varied misfortunes, finds happiness thru a lovely girl whom he has rescued from an alligator. The setting is Queensland, and there is much local color.
“His new manner, because of its inequality, is inferior to the old: here and there he climbs almost to the heights; a moment later he has fallen into the mud of the ridiculous.”
| — | Acad. 68: 857. Ag. 19, ‘05. 320w. |
“If his people are stereotyped, the incidents of Mr. Becke’s tale are numerous, and mostly picturesque.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 74. Jl. 15. 300w. |
“The story contains the usual Australian elements of interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 404. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w. |
“But for the local colour, in fact, the novel would be entirely commonplace.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 251. Ag. 19, ‘05. 230w. |
Becke, Louis. Under tropic skies. [†]$1.50. Lippincott.
“Mr. Becke, like Mr. Kipling, Mr. Lafcadio Hearn, Mr. Norman Duncan, and some few other fortunate ones in this generation, discovered a new corner of the earth with which he had a special talent for making the rest of mankind acquainted.... His element is, without doubt, the throwing of just such flashlights upon the far Paumotos, the Carolines, Fiji, and other fascinating dots in the Pacific solitudes as fill the pages of the volume which is called ‘Under tropic skies.’”—N. Y. Times.
“Has returned to the writing of those delightful sketches of life in the remote islands of the South Pacific that first brought him into favorable notice. But one cannot read through to the end of this volume without coming to the conclusion that Mr. Becke still writes very good stories, that his store of incidents is simply enormous, and that he knows the South Sea Islands—natives, traders, and all their ways, past and present. He makes us know them too.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 27. Ja. 14, ‘05. 500w. |
Beebe, C. William. Two bird-lovers in Mexico. [**]$3. Houghton.
These two bird-lovers, the writer and his wife, spent a winter camping in the Mexican interior and here they found not only birds, but mammals, insects, flowers, and scenery worth observing. This record of the things they saw includes ornithological information, new material upon the food-habits of the Mexican species, and also incidents of travel and camp life and glimpses of the natives whom they met while “roughing it.”
[*] “His observations and his pictures will be of great value to the scientist as well as a pleasure to the untrained reader.” May Estelle Cook.
| + + | Dial. 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 230w. |
“He has aimed at an interesting running narrative and commentary, rather than an exhaustive study. He may justly be proud of the information gathered on the habits of birds.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 341. O. 26, ‘05. 270w. |
“The whole story is told with much good humor and with evident enthusiasm.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 940w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 943. D. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 636. N. 1, ‘05. 130w. |
Beecher, Willis Judson. Prophets and the promise. [**]$2. Crowell.
The substance of this theological text-book is that of the lectures delivered by the author 1902-03 on the L. P. Stone foundation in the Princeton theological seminary. It presents a scholarly study of the prophets of the Old Testament and their messages relating to the coming of the Messiah. The author has searched for the truth unhampered by considerations of the orthodoxy of the results; but he feels that the truth as he found it while it contains some new elements is “simply the old orthodoxy, to some extent transposed into the forms of modern thought.”
“The point of view is essentially conservative.”
| + | Bib. World. 26: 398. N. ‘05. 40w. |
“Among recent books adverse to the modern critical view of the Old Testament, Dr. Beecher’s work has the rare and distinctive merit of commanding the respect of the critics whom he opposes.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 230w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 752. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] Beeson, Rebecca Katharine, comp. Child’s calendar beautiful. $1. Burt-Terry-Wilson co., La Fayette, Ind.
A collection of poems and prose selections to be memorized by children. The selections are arranged to cover the eight years of the grammar school course and each of these years is divided into months beginning with the first school month, September. This arrangement makes the book ideal for a teacher’s use. The selections are not only appropriate to the time of year but they include the thoughts of our best English writers upon subjects which appeal to the child’s patriotism, love of nature, human sympathy, and ideals.
Beldam, George W., and Fry, Charles B. Great batsmen: their methods at a glance. [*]$6.50. Macmillan.
A series of six hundred instantaneous photographs illustrating the stages by which the best cricket batsmen make their most characteristic strokes.
“It is the most scientific work and the most practical work on batting that has yet appeared, a combination of example and precept which could not be bettered.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 1036. O. 7, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “An intensely interesting book, and it will be found invaluable by all who are concerned with the higher philosophy of cricket.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 683. N. 18, 680w. |
“The cricketers of the future, when the present giants of the game are but memories, may find in Mr. Beldam’s marvellous photographs and Mr. Fry’s concise and lucid descriptions much fascination.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 275. S. 1, ‘05. 440w. |
[*] “The book is full of a great variety of most interesting and instructive points.” C. G. K.
| + + | Nature. 73: 82. N. 23, ‘05. 1680w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 625. S. 23, ‘05. 310w. |
Beldam, George W., and Vaile, P. A. Great lawn-tennis players. [*]$4. Macmillan.
A book of action photographs illustrating the positions taken by players for particular strokes, with comments by Mr. Vaile, who calls attention to their good or bad points. There is a chapter on “advanced tactics of the single game,” by Mr. E. G. Meers, and one upon “The half-volley,” by Mr. C. A. Caridia.
“Mr. Vaile can play lawn-tennis and can talk about it, but he certainly cannot write. However, Mr. Beldam’s photographs make an excellent album.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 148. F. 18, ‘05. 790w. |
[*] “The book is in fact spoilt by the text.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 683. N. 18, 420w. |
“Valuable contribution to the literature of lawn tennis. The lawn tennis reader will find, therefore, much to think over in these pages, and particular attention is drawn to the first chapter, in which the racket, per se, and the methods of holding it are discussed.”
| + + | Nature. 71: 436. Mr. 9, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + | Spec. 94: 186. F. 4, ‘05. 160w. |
Bell, Archie. Scarlet repentance. 50c. Broadway pub.
A beautiful Italian woman plays upon the weakness of a young American whom she meets in a sleeping car in the Rockies, “where the mountains cover their sins.” They spend one day at Banff together, a day in which the young man learns much, and, having eaten of this tree of good and evil, he returns to the East where, at the written command of the woman he has left, he confesses all to his innocent young fiancee, and receives her forgiveness and, incidentally, an Italian estate.
Bell, John Joy. Mr. Pennycook’s boy, and other stories, [†]$1.25. Harper.
A dozen short stories of Scottish child life. Wee Macgreegor himself reappears in this volume, and there are others as wee and canny as he.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 80w. |
“They are very good stories of their kind—informed by the appropriate sentiment and not too much obscured by dialect—humorous also in the sad Scottish fashion of humor.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 220w. |
“The undercurrent of tenderness serves to bring out in higher relief the sometimes unconscious humor of the sketches.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 60w. |
“It would be difficult to find a volume more refreshing than ‘Mr. Pennycook’s boy.’”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 130w. |
Bell, Lilian Lida. [At home with the Jardines.] [†]$1.50. Page.
“In this volume the heroine of ... ‘Abroad with the Jimmies’ appears in the role of a young matron seeking to establish a home in New York city. The efforts of herself and her husband to secure ... peace and quiet amid the vicissitudes of flat-life in the great metropolis prove so futile that at last they conceive the idea of withdrawing to a beautiful little town on the Hudson, where they find a delightful old-fashioned house which they transform into an ideal country home.”—Arena.
“The book is written in a bright, breezy style and abounds in humorous situations. It is just the volume for an idle summer afternoon.” Amy C. Rich.
| + | Arena. 33: 455. Ap. ‘05. 180w. |
Bell, Malcolm. Sir Edward Burne-Jones. $1.25. Warne.
A volume in the “Newnes’ art library.” The book contains a tinted half-tone frontispiece and fifty-seven plates in black and white illustrating Burne-Jones’ work. There is an introductory essay by Malcolm Bell, who describes the pictures and tells of the artist’s struggles for public recognition.
| Critic. 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 50w. |
“In his undoubtedly triumphant accomplishment of the difficult task of writing with freshness on a subject he has already treated exhaustively, the author ... assumes, perhaps, rather too much knowledge on the part of his readers. But for this small drawback, ... the brief account of the prolific artist must satisfy his most ardent admirers.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: 181. Ap. ‘05. 110w. |
“... Ten page preface, lightly but clearly, sketching his life and work.”
| + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 39. Ap. ‘05. 190w. |
“As the text is the work of Mr. Malcolm Bell, however, it bears the marks of the same authority and illumination which we find in his other and larger volumes. The execution of the illustrations is of rather unequal merit, but they are well chosen and are deeply interesting.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 80w. |
Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs Arthur Bell) (D’Anvers, pseud.). Paolo Veronese. $1.25. Warne.
An addition to the “Newnes’ art library.” The volume contains a sketch of Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, and his works, a list of his paintings and their present locations, and sixty-four illustrations in half-tone, reproduced from photographs.
“Here the introduction by Mrs. Bell is clear and direct. The half-tones do not average as well as in other volumes.”
| + + — | Critic. 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 110w. |
“Is typical of that writer’s clear insight into the salient characteristics of the painter.”
| + | Int. Studio. 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 130w. |
“This text is much above the average of these publications, and gives some real idea of the range and force of Paolo’s genius, though Mrs. Bell seems entirely to have missed the humor of the artist’s defence of himself before the Inquisition, and to sympathize altogether with the inquisitors.”
| + | Nation. 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 60w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w. |
“Interesting text. We could wish that the many illustrations in the present volume were more adequate in quality.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 230w. |
Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur Bell) (N. D’Anvers, pseud.) Tintoretto, bds. $1.25. Warne.
About sixty illustrations well reproduced, with an introductory essay on the painter and his work.
“In the introductory essay Mrs. Arthur Bell, from her extensive knowledge of Italian painting, throws much light on the surroundings of the painter, giving, by her interesting way of writing, a chapter which adds greatly to the value of the book.”
| + | Int. Studio. 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 120w. |
“The text is of no value.”
| — | Nation. 80: 523. Je. 29, ‘05. 470w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w. |
Belloc, Hilaire. Emmanuel Burden, [†]$1.50. Scribner.
The days of Butler and his memorial “Hudibras” are suggested thruout Mr. Belloc’s brilliant satire with its exaggerated gravity. It satirizes the speculative methods developed by the modern imperialistic movement in England. “No small part of the humor of his satire lies in its travesty of many contemporary biographies, in which the values of small incidents is greatly exaggerated, uninteresting details of family are furnished, and insignificant pedigrees traced back as if they led to royal sources.” (Outlook).
“Mr. Belloc has drawn his characters with a delicate irony.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 407. Je. ‘05. 310w. |
“No piece of social and political satire was ever more elaborately worked out in each incident, reference and detail, even to the titles of the amusing pencil sketches.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1191. My. 25, ‘05. 100w. |
“A brilliantly written satire. An Englishman would appreciate the satire much more than an American, because of more intimate knowledge of the conditions with which it deals; but the story is sufficiently distinct in its satirical outlines to make the purpose of the author clear to an American reader and to give the story, for an American, interest.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 94. Ja. 7, ‘05. 120w. |
Bennet, Robert Ames. [For the white Christ; a story of the days of Charlemagne.] $1.50. McClurg.
Oliver the northman, and his foster brother, Roland, are the heroes of this dramatic story, which is filled with stirring scenes and wartime adventures. The Danes, joining with the Franks in their cry of “Christ and the king,” repulse the Saracens; and Oliver, by his chivalrous daring, wins King Karl’s daughter, in spite of the beautiful and wicked Fastrada, who, by means of spells and poisons, succeeds in making herself a queen. It is a story true to those rough times in all details, and is an old time romance rather than an historical novel.
“The author has taken pains over his work, and should content readers who enjoy that kind of fare. The delineation of character is conventional. A defect ... is the tendency to force the heroic note too insistently.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 75. Jl. 15. 280w. |
“All this portentous historical material, blended with much intrigue and passion, together with some of the gentler elements of romance, is skilfully brought into a tale of much action and dramatic vigor, couched in language that makes a fair pretense of archaism (of the conventional type, naturally), and brought to a satisfactory issue.” Wm. Morton Payne.
| + | Dial. 38: 390. Je. 1, ‘05. 250w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 237. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w. |
“This story is somewhat high-flown and super-romantic in style, but its intensity is not without dramatic force.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 50w. |
“He has covered dry bones with rosy flesh.”
| + | Reader. 5: 788. My. ‘05. 610w. |
Benson, Allan L. Socialism made plain. Social Democratic publishing company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“A simple explanation of the principles of socialism as advocated by American socialists—a work suited for the busy man on the farm, in the shop, the factory and the store, who has little time to give to abstract treatises.... This work contains fifteen chapters” in which “the various phases of socialism are so elucidated as to be easily grasped by the individual.”—Arena.
“The treatment of the subject is so admirable that we take pleasure in recommending it to our readers.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + | Arena. 33: 454. Ap. ‘05. 350w. |
Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.). Life of Edward FitzGerald. [**]75c. Macmillan.
A volume recently added to the “English men of letters” series. The life of the man known to the world mainly thru his “Omar Khayyám” is a “fair subject of public discussion, not only because he was a poet of special charm and fineness, but also because he was a peculiarly interesting specimen of human nature.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Benson has analyzed the mind of FitzGerald with rare penetration.”
| + | Acad. 68: 677. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1390w. |
“Mr. Benson has perhaps made of the brief biography required by the scheme of this series all that could be made of it.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 198. Ag. 12. 1610w. |
“Mr. A. C. Benson was a capital choice for the writing of this book. Not only is he sympathetic with FitzGerald, but he is a delightful writer.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 47: 158. Ag. ‘05. 1090w. |
“This new life of FitzGerald ... meets no crying need. The literary strictures, however just, seem not exactly called for in ‘Old Fitz’s’ case; and all else is a twice-told tale.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 69. Ag. 1, ‘05. 480w. |
“The biographical sketch and general characterization are excellent, the specific criticisms of FitzGerald’s writings sound and fair.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 697. S. 21, ‘05. 200w. |
“If he is not quite a satisfying biographer, he is certainly a satisfying editor, and often a very clever commentator upon FitzGerald’s literary achievements.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 197. Je. 23, ‘05. 2760w. |
“Mr. Benson’s book will be found to contain all that any reader needs to know about FitzGerald, and it is an excellent cheap substitute for those who cannot afford Mr. Wright’s massive illustrated volumes.”
| + | Nation. 81: 126. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1340w. |
“His treatment on the whole, scarcely touches us with quite that personal and affectionate feeling for FitzGerald that doubtless most of us have involuntarily formed.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 560. Ag. 26, ‘05. 840w. |
“A literary portrait simple and direct in its method of treatment, but full of expression and character.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 450w. |
“Mr. Benson sets forth very clearly and succinctly the noteworthy facts in a career that was decidedly lacking in the spectacular, whatever may be said of its deeper notes.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 509. O. ‘05. 120w. |
“We do not of course deny to Mr. Benson’s work such merits as may always be found in his biographical efforts—care in the weighing of facts, an educated taste, and a practised hand in the manipulation of phrases.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 500. O. 14, ‘05. 1410w. |
“He has marshalled the facts which are already known with considerable skill; he has criticised FitzGerald’s few works with sound judgment and surprising moderation.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 48. Ag. 8, ‘05. 1540w. |
Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.). Peace and other poems. [*]$1.50. Lane.
“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s not only in its culture, but in its gentle brooding over the dark and mysterious facts of life, and in the strong resolution which confronts the mischances of human experience.... Most of the poems in this volume [about forty in number] record Mr. Benson’s own reflections upon nature and life.”—Forum.
“The longer poems as a rule are the most successful, elegy and not epigram being Mr. Benson’s forte.”
| + | Ath. 1905: 2: 107. Jl. 22. 300w. |
“Tender, sincere, and refined, Mr. Benson’s verse appeals to our highest spiritual nature, and delivers its message with persuasive grace.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 272. N. 1, ‘05. 460w. |
“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s: there is in it a warmth of sympathy redeeming it from austerity and even imparting to it a tone of friendliness and geniality.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + | Forum. 37: 247. O. ‘05. 560w. |
“Mr. Benson maintains a deliberately chosen level of good verse. He is always correct, always perfectly plain.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 267. Ag. 25, ‘05. 320w. |
“Maintains the even comfortable level of his earlier books.”
| + | Nation. 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 380w. |
Benson, Edward Frederic. Act in a backwater. $1.50. Appleton.
“Mr. Benson has given us a slight but pleasing study of life in a small cathedral town. The brother and sister of a poor nobleman settle there, and introduce a novel element into the placid life of the place which gives many opportunities for comedy. The son of a canon, an artist, and therefore a rebel against the tyranny of the close, falls in love with the sister, and the progress of their romance is the main interest of the book.”—Spec.
“All this has the makings of a capital light comedy, which no one could have done better than Mr. Benson. But for some obscure reason he has seen fit to introduce episodes entirely out of all harmony that ruin his effect. They give the impression of heartlessness and, what is worse, are bad art.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 106. F. 4, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 203. F. 18. 590w. |
“A flat little story without construction or sustained interest.”
| — | Critic. 46: 477. My. ‘05. 80w. |
“As an example, not of Mr. Benson’s power, but of his wit, cleverness, and knowledge of human nature, ‘An act in a backwater’ is a delightful bit of work.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1030w. |
“It has some pleasant bits of human nature and one or two lovable characters, but, considered as a novel, it is wretchedly constructed.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 604. Mr. 4, ‘05. 60w. |
“A novel which starts out admirably and ends in sheer vacuity.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 100w. |
“It is a pleasant, wholesome story.”
| + | Spec. 94: 184. F. 4, ‘05. 260w. |
Benson, Edward Frederic. Image in the sand. [†]$1.50. Lippincott.
A love story dealing with the occult. “It is in fact the old story of the struggle between the powers of light and darkness, the black magic and the white for the possession of a girl’s soul—a Faust legend in effect, or its parallel expressed in terms of ancient and modern occultism.” (Acad.)
“The climax, itself, however, the struggle of Ida’s friends and household with the demoniac, has a vivid force, and, if the tale is to stand by its power to conjure up horror, Mr. Benson must be credited with a considerable success in a difficult ‘genre.’ His detail is effective, his society sketches are admirable.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 710. Jl. 8, ‘05. 520w. |
“The story is carefully conceived and well written, and with excellent restraint. Mr. Benson wanted to ‘make our flesh creep,’ and he has not.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 73. Jl. 15. 200w. |
“That he has failed ludicrously, pathetically, merely marks his limitations by proclaiming his total innocence of the one quality that would make success possible. The machinery of the story is clumsy, its progress slow, and its conclusion an absurd evasion of whatever problem might conceivably be raised. Whether from carelessness or sheer ignorance, the book is a storehouse of weak, awkward, slovenly writing.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| — — | Bookm. 22: 69. S. ‘05. 1560w. |
“The reason why Mr. Benson has not succeeded better is that he lets us too much behind the scenes.”
| — | Ind. 59: 575. S. 7, ‘05. 190w. |
“In the would-be serious parts the author carries no conviction, and in lighter passages he is far below his own best level.”
| — | Lond. Times. 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 540w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w. |
“The quiet, intense conviction of Mr. Benson’s pages cannot fail entirely of a certain impressiveness.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1100w. |
“This tale is cleverly written, but disappointing.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 150w. |
“His quick, vivacious talent is not well adapted for a tale of intangible mystery, which wants an atmosphere beyond Mr. Benson’s powers. The second part of the story would be convincing and powerful were the reader properly impressed by the first.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 261. Ag. 19, ‘05. 400w. |
Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh. By what authority? [*]$1.60. imp. Benziger.
“Mr. Benson, after making an effort at religious impartiality, abandons the attempt, and frankly turns his novel into a Roman Catholic historical pamphlet.... [He] takes for his subject the religious persecutions of the Roman Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth.... The greater part of the novel is occupied by theological discussions.... Mr. Benson has a gift of word-painting which enables him to give vividly lifelike pictures of the court of Elizabeth, and particularly of the queen herself.”—Spec.
“Is an unusually fine piece of work. In fact we regard it as one of the most excellent Catholic stories that we possess in English, and by far the best that has appeared for a long time.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 403. Je. ‘05. 970w. |
“On the whole, the book is well worth reading, though spoilt, if judged from the standpoint of a work of fiction, by the intrusion of too much theology.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 221. F. 11, ‘05. 340w. |
Benton, Josiah H. Notable libel case: the criminal prosecution of Theodore Lyman, jr., by Daniel Webster, in the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, November term, 1828. [**]$3.50. Goodspeed.
“The trial here described was on an indictment alleging that Lyman had charged Webster with having conspired with other leading Federalists in 1807-‘08 to break up the union on account of the Embargo acts, and to re-annex the New England states to the mother country.” (Dial). The case was submitted to the grand jury in the supreme judicial court, and an indictment returned. It was then tried with the result that the jury disagreed, and when the solicitor-general proclaimed that every resource had been exhausted, the case was dropped. The trial, based as it was upon political rather than personal motives, did not disturb the relation of friendship between the two men.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 718. Ap. ‘05. 100w. |
“The history of the episode is well worked out by Mr. Benton, and the letters and other documentary materials are so skillfully employed in the text that the story almost tells itself from the records.”
| + | Dial. 38: 128. F. 16, ‘05. 590w. |
Berenson, Bernard. Lorenzo Lotto: an essay on constructive art criticism. [*]$2.50. Macmillan.
A reprint of a book which was first published ten years ago. It catalogs and describes Lotto’s paintings and attempts to present the man, Lotto, altho there is little material available for his re-construction. There are a large number of full-page reproductions of Lotto’s works.
| + | Acad. 68: 368. Ap. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“A model of systematic investigation.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 398. My. 18, ‘05. 270w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 600w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 100w. |
Bernheimer, Charles Seligman, ed. Russian Jew in the United States: studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, with a description of rural settlements. [**]$2. Winston.
A series of papers contributed by well-known Jewish writers who “present the rise and development of the Russian Jews who have come to the United States during the past twenty-odd years, to show the qualities they brought with them, to present the facts as to their adjustment to the conditions here, and to look a little into the future.”
“The manner of presentation of the papers is not uniformly happy, and for the whole we wish for a specific statement of dates. In spite of this, however, Dr. Bernheimer has undoubtedly done a service in bringing out this book. Considering its structure, he is to be congratulated on having it so free of injudicious statements and as complete as it is in the important matter on this serious subject of the assimilation of so alien a people.” Walter E. Kruesi.
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 598. S. ‘05. 560w. | |
| Critic. 47: 380. O. 90w. |
“It is a splendid argument for the Jew.”
| + | Ind. 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 240w. |
[*] “Naturally, the authors speak from the inside, and as each deals with conditions which have come within his own observation and experience, there is a variety of intimate information not easily obtainable by alien investigators.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 300w. | |
| Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Bernstein, Hermann. Contrite hearts. [†]$1.25. Wessels.
The life of a group of Russian Jews is here pictured in a fashion simple to the point of crudeness. The two daughters of the orthodox cantor, Isroel Lambert, follow their own hearts and become outcasts from both the faith and the home of their father. Later, contrite in heart and chastened in spirit, they are reunited with him in America. Thruout the book strict observance of Jewish rites seems to bring a happiness denied to those who merely love.
Berry, Charles William. Temperature-entropy diagram. $1.25. Wiley.
“Mr. Berry’s book ... presupposes a knowledge of thermodynamics, also of the working and behavior of the various kinds of heat engines, ... it ... is divided into twelve chapters. The first chapter treats of reversible processes and cycles, and in the following eleven chapters the T Phi diagram is applied to the following processes and engines: perfect gases, saturated steam, superheated vapors, the flow of fluids, hot-air engines, the liquefaction of gases, compressors and refrigeration, the actual steam-engine cycle as recorded by the indicator.”—Engin. N.
“The book is very clearly written. The author has covered quite an extensive field, and on the whole he has done it very well.” Storm Bull.
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 527. My. 18, ‘05. 420w. |
Berton, Guy. Art thou the man? [†]$1.50. Dodd.
A Denver murderer who daintily strangles a trio of women and in each case leaves behind thirteen carnations as a clue is sought thruout this detective story. The adventures of a “cub reporter” who becomes involved in the search, the clearing of an innocent man by a skilful lawyer who holds a mob at bay to protect his client, and the influence of Elise, the wicked and beautiful woman of the French quarter, are vividly drawn.
“The gloom is not lightened by any gleam of humor, but the style has the force which comes from a lurid intensity of feeling.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 844. Ap. 13, ‘05. 140w. |
“Local color has been laid on here in great crimson splashes.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 237. Ap. 8, ‘05. 380w. |
“A rather clever detective story couched in somewhat overwrought language.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w. |
“The tale is lacking in action, compactness, and sequence.”
| — | Pub. Opin. 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 110w. |
“Lacks neither freshness nor power.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 110w. |
Bertouch, Beatrice, Baroness de. Life of Father Ignatius, O. S. B. [*]$3. Dutton.
The life of this “devout but pugnacious Anglican monk” is interwoven with questions of church doctrine and church union so as to represent an episode in church history. His biographer reveals him as “a son of thunder,” “magnificently human,” and with an “oceanic personality.”
“Will be received with grains by those not of the fold.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 154. F. 23, ‘05. 750w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 630w. |
“The story of his life is a curious episode in the history of the modern church, an interesting study for the psychologist, and an instructive commentary on the worth of a formal sort of church union that is too much thought of.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 150w. |
“A book which, so far as it is a narrative of facts and an exposition of opinions, has an unquestionable interest. It, too, answers in its way the question about the Anglican ideal. The author has a copious vocabulary of slang, but cannot write English.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 170w. |
Besant, Walter. London in the time of the Tudors. [*]$7.50. Macmillan.
“The gravitating point in this great historical period lay principally in London.... As London was England to so large an extent, we are naturally curious to learn all that we can about the city at that interesting period. The late Sir Walter Besant’s quarto volume on ‘London in the time of the Tudors’ goes far towards gratifying our curiosity. It is in the same sumptuous form as the same author’s ‘London in the eighteenth century’.... The illustrations are for the most part reproductions of contemporary prints; chief among them is a panorama of the city, extending over three double pages of the book, originally drawn by Anthony Van den Wyngaerde, in 1543, well illustrating the map folded into the cover, embracing 12 pages, and being a reduced reproduction of Ralph Agas’s map of about 1560.”—Dial.
“Work is rightly called a survey. It is not a history; it is not a story. It is especially happy in its accounts of how people lived and dressed, what they ate and drank, what customs they pursued at their weddings and at the burial of their dead,—from the king and queen down to ‘prentice. The author has drawn largely upon contemporary authors.” Arthur Howard Noll.
| + + | Dial. 88: 121. F. 16, ‘05. 1230w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 143. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1450w. |
Best, Kenelm Digby. Rosa mystica: the fifteen mysteries of the most holy rosary, and other joys, sorrows and glories of Mary. [*]$6. Herder.
A book written in honor of the Immaculate conception jubilee. It is illustrated with 46 full-page illustrations, copies of the rosary frescoes of Giovanni di San Giovanni and other artists.
“It contains nothing fresh, original, or thoughtful that we have discovered. Its occasional references to history are grotesquely false: its theology is often repulsively extravagant; and its general method and spirit make it impossible for intelligent people to read it with either profit or patience.”
| — — — | Cath. World. 80: 830. Mr. ‘05. 220w. |
Bevan, Edwyn Robert. Jerusalem under the high priests. $2.50. Longmans.
Five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament. “Into his attractive narrative of political events Mr. Bevan weaves a sketch of the development of Jewish thought, including therein notices of the Book of Daniel and of all the great Apocryphal works of the time except the Wisdom of Solomon.... One of the most noteworthy works of the period is Ben-Sira or Ecclesiasticus.... Mr. Bevan’s account of the book is full and interesting. He properly devotes much space to the invasion of Jewish society by Hellenism, including the attempt of Antiochus Epiphanes to Hellenize his realm.... Other important points forcibly brought out are: the character of Judas Maccabæus, the results of the Hasmonean rule, the conflicts between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the policy and character of Herod. The volume is provided with an index and tables of the Hasmoneans and the Seleucids.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Bevan’s picture of the period, while popular in style, is thorough and accurate in matter.” C. H. Toy.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 681. Ap. ‘05. 320w. |
“The style is clear and sympathetic, and occasionally even brilliant. The topics dealt with by Mr. Bevan are so successfully worked out that we should have liked to see the book enlarged so as to embrace other pertinent points as well.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 522. Ap. 29. 610w. |
“It is not a comprehensive work; but a scholar who knows a period of history deeply and scientifically, can put a great deal of information into a small book. And beyond doubt, Mr. Bevan’s acquaintance with his subject is thorough and methodical. We only regret that he did not add a little bibliographical detail to his interesting pages.”
| + + | Cath. World. 80: 829. Mr. ‘05. 230w. |
“The author has certainly succeeded in his purpose of giving ‘in a few strokes the general outline and colour’ of the period.” G. B. G.
| + + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 604. Jl. ‘05. 180w. |
Beveridge, Albert J. [Young man and the world.] [**]$1.50. Appleton.
“The young Indiana senator writes of young men from the point of view of a young man who has found success coming his way. These papers are collected from the periodical in which they first appeared.... Learn your limitations, and start out in the direction for which you are fitted, is his first suggestion. Also keep working, and working hard, and don’t worry. Read, and mingle with people, and cultivate nature. Take vacations. Courage, nerve, faith in one’s self are necessary. Mr. Beveridge has given a great deal of good advice that ... will stimulate and help to strengthen.”—N. Y. Times.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 669. O. 14, ‘05. 530w. | |
[*] “It is all on good, safe, and sound commonplace ground.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 777. N. 18, ‘05. 370w. |
[*] “His book covers a great deal of ground, and covers it well; it contains sayings to think over, sayings to remember, sayings to follow; it is a book decidedly worth having.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 140w. |
“The writer’s terse, vigorous style is well suited to his text.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “Will occupy a permanent place with books of their general character.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 639. N. ‘05. 100w. |
Beveridge, W. History of the Westminster assembly. [*]$1. imp. Scribner.
“In a very clear and orderly manner, within a brief compass, this volume sets forth the events leading up to the calling of the assembly, its character, deliberations, and findings.”—Bib. World.
“The calling, the personnel, and proceedings of the assembly are concisely related.”
| + + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 376. Ap. ‘05. 170w. |
“Of the many histories of the assembly this seems to us best suited to the needs of the general reader.”
| + + | Bib. World. 25: 316. Ap. ‘05. 80w. |
Bharati, Baba Premanand. Sree Krishna, the Lord of love. [*]$2. Lane.
This work prepared by the distinguished Brahman of Calcutta, who was recently elected vice-president of the Peace congress, is intended to interpret the Hindu belief as to the origin and meaning of life and the evolution of the universe. It purports to be “the history of the universe from its birth to its dissolution. Baba Bharati has aimed to impress his readers with the substance of Hindu thought on religion and philosophy, in purely Eastern dress. The volume is really a clear history of the origin, nature, and evolution of the universe as the Oriental mind perceives it; it is a clear statement of the doctrine of Karma; an exposition of the caste system; a beautiful story of the Oriental Christ, and perhaps the clearest statement ever published of the Hindu cosmogony.” (R. of Rs.)
“Style is direct, simple, and clear, and his thinking high and sane. It is an extraordinary book,—the fascinating exposition of an exalted philosophy.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 255. F. ‘05. 250w. |
Bible. Book of Ecclesiastes: a new metrical translation, with an introduction and explanatory notes by Paul Haupt. 50c. Hopkins.
“A rhythmical rendering and rearrangement of the contents of Ecclesiastes, involving many transpositions of verses and many excisions of glosses. The notes are numerous and suggestive. The book belongs to the ‘Polychrome’ series.”—Bib. World.
| + | Bib. World. 26: 398. N. ‘05. 30w. |
“A highly valuable companion to the popular versions.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 170w. |
Bible, Twentieth century New Testament [*]$1. Revell.
“‘The twentieth century Testament’ is a translation into modern English made from the original Greek by a company of about twenty scholars representing the various sections of the Christian church.” (N. Y. Times). In spite of the radical efforts of religious and literary formalists the world over to oppose modernizing the form of the Scriptures, “the demand of the people for a Gospel in their own tongue is too strong to be checked.” (Ind.)
“There can be no question that this work is equaled by few, if any, in its earnestness, scholarship, and success. It deserves to be studied and publicly read, not in the place of, but along side of, the American standard revision.” C. W. V.
| + + | Bib. World. 26: 76. Jl. ‘05. 350w. |
“The most popular [modernized translations], and in our opinion deservedly so, is the Twentieth century New Testament. It is not an old version patched up so as to last a little longer, but a new rendering expressed in words and style such as might be used if it were written for us of to-day, as, indeed, we believe it was. The translators write idiomatically, not pedantically.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 435. F. 23, ‘05. 360w. |
“There need, we suppose, be no real fear that this book will make any progress in displacing that of which it is in effect a part burlesque, or that it will be otherwise valued than as a literary curiosity.”
| — — — | N. Y. Times. 10: 88. F. 11, ‘05. 143w. |
Bicknell, Edward. Territorial acquisitions of the United States, 1787-1904: an historical review. 3d ed. rev. and enl. [**]50c. Small.
“A clear and concise statement of the superficial facts concerning our accessions of territory.”—Am. Hist. R.
“It contains a few errors. The style is too colloquial, but as a whole the book is better than many more pretentious ones.”
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 445. Ja. ‘05. 160w. |
[*] Bigelow, Poultney. History of the German struggle for liberty. v. 4. [**]$2.25. Harper.
With the appearance of this fourth volume of its series the “History of the German struggle for liberty” stands complete from the battle of Jena in 1806, to the rebirth of national spirit in 1848. This latest volume contains a spirited account of the stirring events in Germany during 1844-1848, culminating in the declaration of Frederick William IV. and the meeting of the German national assembly at Frankfort. It brings out the similarity in the character of the Vienna, Berlin, and Munich revolutions, and discusses the growth of the influence of the laboring classes, and of socialistic doctrines.
[*] “Is refreshingly unconventional, spasmodically clever, and interesting throughout. Taken as a whole, this latest piece of work of Poultney Bigelow’s is most stimulating, breezy, entertaining, and yet instructive as well.” Wolf Von Schierbrand.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 846. D. 2, ‘05. 1600w. (Review of v. 4.) |
[*] “Comprises a succession of vivid pictures of persons and events rather than a sober, detailed, and connected history.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 4.) |
[*] “A return to the orderly arrangement of the earlier volumes of the history would afford a deserved relief to those who have been forced to flounder about in the disorder, back tracks, and false leads of Mr. Bigelow’s fourth volume.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 4.) |
Bigg, Charles. Church’s task under the Roman empire. [*]$1.75. Oxford.
The four lectures brought together here are “Education under the empire,” two on “Religion under the empire,” and “Moral and social conditions of the empire.” The object is the directing of attention “to the extreme importance of studying the relation between the Empire and the Church even in those days which preceded the recognition of Christianity by Constantine, and further, of ascertaining as clearly as possible the conditions, intellectual, moral and material of the people who filled the rank of the church.”
“Written with an ease of style which at times almost disguises the author’s profound knowledge and with a charm that rarely falls to the lot of scholarly writers.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 262. Ag. 26. 1010w. |
“Dr. Bigg is, of course, master of his subject, and able to handle it with lightness of touch, breadth of sympathy, and gentle humour.” Alice Gardner.
| + + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 547. Jl. ‘05. 510w. |
Bilse, Oswald Fritz (Fritz von der Kryburg, pseud.). Dear fatherland. $1.50. Lane.
“The story of a young lieutenant in the German army, from the time he entered the service to his downfall, the result of a debt brought upon him by the false standard of living prescribed by army life. The novel is a pen picture of the evil social and moral effects of army life existing in Germany.”—Bookm.
“Besides being an interesting story of the realistic school, the work has a two-fold value. It presents a striking picture of present-day garrison-life in Germany and illustrates how degrading and subversive of all that is worthiest in man is such an existence.”
| + | Arena. 33: 673. Je. ‘05. 350w. |
“The chief interest and the strongest conviction are found less in the story than in the talk.”
| + | Nation. 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 400w. |
“Its revelations are sordid and sickening to the last degree, and there is no obvious excuse for its English publication, except as that of giving an awful warning to the English-speaking nations to guard their own war machines from ever sinking into such abysmal depths of immorality and inefficiency as are here charged against the soldiery of Germany. The book seems to be written by a man of devoted and intelligent patriotism, who has risked what he prized most in order to remedy the evils which he deplores. To say that the narrative is of any value as an example of the novelist’s art would be a decided stretching of the truth.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 50. Ja. 28, ‘05. 740w. |
Bingham, Joel Foote, tr. See Manzoni, Allessandro. Sacred hymns and Napoleonic ode.
[*] Birrell, Augustine. [Andrew Marvell.] [**]75c. Macmillan.
This volume in the “English men of letters” series, contains a biography of the man who is remembered as “a colleague and friend of Milton, a wit, a diplomat, a traveler, and a member of Parliament from the Stuart Restoration until his death in 1678.... But ... ‘a more elusive non-recorded character,’ laments Mr. Birrell, ‘is hardly to be found.’ Consequently, it is not surprising to find the biographer dwelling mainly on his subject’s writings, quoting from them freely, and relating much of the history of the day necessary to explain them and assist in forming some idea of the writer’s personality.” (Outlook.)
[*] “On the whole, it may be said that ‘Andrew Marvell’ holds its own successfully against any other volume in the new series of Messrs. Macmillan’s ‘English men of letters.’”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 976. S. 23, ‘05. 1440w. |
[*] “We have not space here to enter into his treatment of Marvell; it is admirable; we should end by quoting too much from Mr. Birrell himself, as a delightful performer in the intimate style.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Atlan. 96: 844. D. ‘05. 360w. |
[*] “But the book is not a good one for it falls between two stools. If it was to deal only with the permanent part of Marvell’s charming poetry it is nearly two hundred pages too long; if it was really to explain the politics of his day (which heaven forbid!) it is not long enough. And we resent some of the conversational ease of Mr. Birrell’s manner.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 303. S. 22. ‘05. 840w. |
[*] “Whatever may be thought of the truth of this style of biographical writing, it must be admitted that Mr. Birrell is master of its art, and that when provided with a favorable opportunity he is at least invariably entertaining.” Wm. A. Bradley.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 842. D. 2, ‘05. 3010w. |
[*] “A study which is not so much a biography as a contribution to the history of English politics and literature. As such it deserves a cordial greeting, for it is scholarly and sound.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 714. N. 2, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “A pleasant ramble with an intelligent and illuminating guide through a time of great interest.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 34: 765. D. 9, ‘05. 170w. |
Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Eduard Leopold von. Bismarck’s speeches and letters; by Herman Schoenfeld. [*]$1.50. Appleton.
A worthy addition to historical literature. The introduction is a biography and a philosophic interpretation of the character of Bismarck, and is supplemented by a chronology and a bibliography. The book is indispensable to the study of contemporary history as affected by Germany, but especially to the study of the unification of Germany itself, an accomplishment due, in most part, to Bismarck’s genius. Much has been learned about Bismarck’s personality thru the various biographies by Lowe, Headlam, Stearns, and Jacks by M. Adler, by Herr Busch, thru Mr. Ford’s edition of “The correspondence of William and Bismarck.” and thru Bismarck’s own “Reflections and reminiscences,” above all thru his “Love letters,” but no one serves to sum up Bismarck’s life work as does Schoenfeld’s.
| + + | Outlook. 79: 448. F. 18, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] Blackmar, Frank Wilson. Elements of sociology. [*]$1.25. Macmillan.
This working manual for students is divided into seven parts: Nature and import of sociology; Social evolution; Socialization and social control; Social ideals; Social pathology, dealing with practical subjects such as charity, poverty, crime, social degeneration; Methods of investigation; and History of sociology, in which are brought out the ideas found in the works of Spencer, Gumplowicz, Schaeffle, Lilienfeld, Mackenzie, Tarde, Le Bon, Letourneau, De Greef, Giddings, Small, Ward, Ross, Ely, Mill, Malthus, Warner, Henderson and others.
[*] “The chief merit of the book from the theoretical side is that it gives an intelligent statement of the view-points of all the leading sociological writers. The chief merit from the practical side is that it touches upon a variety of vital and interesting problems in such a way as to tempt the student to go forward and specialize. The style of the book is easy, and free from any ambitious flights or phrasing, but clear and agreeable.” Jerome Dowd.
| + + + | Am. J. Soc. 11: 422. N. ‘05. 720w. |
[*] “It is comprehensive in scope, is written in simple and direct diction, and the arrangement of its parts is sequential and orderly.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. | |
| * | Outlook. 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 30w. |
Blackmore, Richard D. [Lorna Doone.] $1.25. Crowell.
This tale of the deeds of the outlaw Doones sheltered in the depths of the Bagworthy Forest appears in new dress almost every year. Here the reader has it in handy volume form, bound in limp leather, with clear type and thin paper.
Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander, eds. [Philippine islands, 1493-1898.] 55 v. ea. [*]$4. Clark, A. H.
The purpose of these 55 volumes is to set forth as briefly as possible from original sources the whole history of the Philippine islands and their people, that all who are interested in their future may be able to form their own opinions with a full understanding of the conditions that exist to-day and that have existed since the discovery of the islands. To this end the volumes are mainly devoted to exact translations from rare original manuscripts, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, etc., illustrated with facsimiles of manuscripts, portraits, maps, and views. There is an analytical index, and notes and an historical introduction have been provided by Edward Gaylord Bourne, and special contributions by well known scholars and bibliographers. The whole covers the history of the islands from their discovery to the present time, including explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history, and records of the Catholic missions as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the end of the nineteenth century.
“The work of the editors has ... shown steady improvement. The translating staff is, ... as nearly as one may judge without having the original texts for comparison, doing more effective work than at the beginning.” James A. Le Roy.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 392. Ja. ‘05. 1230w. (Review of XVI, XVII and XVIII.) |
Reviewed by James A. Le Roy.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 875. Jl. ‘05. 1140w. (Review of v. 19 and 20.) |
“It is an indispensable addition to every large library and collection of American or Spanish history.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 50w. |
“Much of this matter is by no means light reading, but it is all a valuable contribution to the early history of the islands.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 21.) |
| Ind. 58: 264. F. 2, ‘05. 650w. (Review of vols. XVIII, XIX and XX.) | ||
| Nation. 80: 231. Mr. 23, ‘05. 430w. (Review of v. 19.) | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 21. Ja. 14, ‘05. 510w. (Survey of contents of vols. XIX and XX.) |
[*] Blake, J. M. Reasonable view of life. [*]35c. Meth. bk.
Essays towards the understanding of the methods and working of eternal love. A late addition to the “Freedom of faith” series.
Blake, Katherine Evans. Heart’s haven. [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
The Rappite community of celibates first in Pennsylvania and later in Indiana furnishes the setting for this story. It portrays the struggle between the Rappite conscience which repudiates all sentiment relating to ties of flesh, and the natural cravings of the human heart. First in the love of a parent for her child, later in this son’s love for a fair girl, is shown the triumph of governable sanity over religious fanaticism.
[*] “There are a number of flaws easily apparent in Miss Blake’s scheme of the Harmonists. The author has made the mistake of padding too heavily in spots.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 857. D. 2, ‘05. 450w. | |
| + | Outlook. 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 100w. |
Blanchard, Amy Ella. Frontier knight. [†]$1.50. Wilde.
Miss Blanchard’s new “Pioneer series” story follows the fortunes of a young man and his two sisters who emigrate from Kentucky to Texas shortly before the Mexican war breaks out. There is excellent use made of the opportunities to portray border life, in which the Mexican peasant, the rancher, and the Texas ranger all have part.
Blanchard, Amy E. Little grandmother Jo. $1. Jacobs.
A story of school life fifty years ago, when a grandmother of to-day left a happy southern home to endure the hardships of the old-fashioned boarding-school where the methods were cruel, the teachers unjust, and many of the little girls, the products of this system, were spiteful.
Blanden, Charles Granger. Chorus of leaves. [**]$1.25. Elder.
In this gift-book, artistic and attractive in both print and binding, are to be found some fifty verses very slight and very sentimental.
[*] “It strikes no lofty note, but it is singularly graceful in rhythm and dainty in conceit, and makes no pretension to be more.”
| + | Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] “Has written some pleasing verse under the title of ‘A chorus of leaves.’”
| + | Ind. 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 100w. |
Blind, Mathilde. [George Eliot.] $1.25. Little.
This new edition of Mathilde Blind’s “George Eliot” “has been greatly enhanced in value by the introduction of able and carefully prepared chapters by Frank Waldo, and G. A. Tarkington, in which we have a charming description of the friends and home-life of George Eliot, and a critical estimate of her place in literature, together with an exhaustive bibliography.” (Arena).
“The excellent life of George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind, will remain a standard biography. It is a volume that we take pleasure in recommending to our readers as a book which should find a place in all well-ordered libraries and a work that every young person should read as a part of his general culture.”
| + + | Arena. 33: 109. Ja. ‘05. 260w. |
“The very full bibliography, filling some thirty pages, is to be particularly noted and commended.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 60w. | |
| R. of Rs. 30: 755. D. ‘04. 90w. |
Blondlot, (Prosper) Rene. “N” rays, tr. by J. Garcin. [*]$1.20. Longmans.
A collection of papers communicated to the academy of sciences; with additional notes and instructions for the construction of phosphorescent screens.
| Nation. 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 400w. |
Reviewed by John G. McKendrick.
| Nature. 72: 195. Je. 29, ‘05. 780w. | ||
| Spec. 94: 780. My. 27, ‘05. 100w. |
Bloomfield, Maurice. [Cerberus, the dog of hades: the history of an idea.] 50c. Open ct.
“This essay ... is concerned with the origin and meaning, judged by comparative mythology, of Cerberus.”—Acad.
“Interesting and suggestive little essay.”
| + | Acad. 68: 337. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w. | |
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 227. Jl. 14, ‘05. 590w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 568. Ag. 26, ‘05. 90w. |
Blundell, Mary E. (Sweetman) (Mrs. Francis Blundell; M. E. Francis, pseud.). Dorset dear: idylls of country life. $1.50. Longmans.
“The seventeen tales reprinted here from various periodicals ... embrace a variety of incidents and emotions, grave and gay, no one trenching upon the borders of another; and the characters are distinct types of Dorset-folk.... ‘Witch Ann’ gives a pretty and touching account of the way a harmless old woman came to be considered a witch.... ‘The spur of the moment,’ and ‘The worm that turned,’ present amusing pictures of unromantic rustic wooings. ‘A woodland idyll’ and ‘Postman Chris’ are charming love-stories.”—Acad.
“There is something in it better than cleverness and skill: the truth, charm, and goodness of it leave a grateful memory of pleasant hours in delightful company.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 494. My. 6, ‘05. 480w. |
“All the stories are well worth reading.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 200w. |
“They are fascinating from their unpretending simplicity, their pure goodness, and their warm, human interests.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | + | Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 20w. |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 340w. |
“The movement of the tale is slight, but not without its dramatic incidents and occasional tragedies.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w. |
“It has a charm and interest.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 70w. |
“It is a book into which one may dip with pleasure, but the stories are for the most part so slight that it is unwise to handle the whole string of beads at once.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 813. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w. |
“Seldom has it been the present writer’s fate to read so delightful a collection of country idylls as Mrs. Francis Blundell’s new volume of short stories, ‘Dorset dear.’ ... The characters in the little sketches are vividly drawn.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 789. My. 27, ‘05. 170w. |
Bocock, John Paul. Book treasures of Maecenas. $1. Putnam.
“It is rather startling to pick up a volume with this title and open immediately to a poem on ‘Funston of Kansas.’ It appears, however, that the book’s title is that of the first poem, and that the volume includes many fugitive verses on all sorts of topics, which have been welcome to the columns of many newspapers and magazines.”—Outlook.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 280w. | ||
| Outlook. 79: 501. F. 25. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Bölsche, Wilhelm. Evolution of man; tr. by Ernest Untermann. 50c. Kerr.
“This is a little work of real value in which an able German scholar gives a succinct, graphic and general outline of the evolution of man. It contains in the briefest possible compass a summary of the demonstrations brought out by the revolutionary school of physical scientists.”—Arena.
[*] “The subject matter is presented in lucid style, easy of comprehension, and the book is valuable as a short exposition of a subject about which no well-informed man of the present day can afford to be ignorant.”
| + + | Arena. 34: 553. N. ‘05. 80w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 40w. |
Bolton, Charles E. [Harris-Ingram experiment.] $1.50. Burrows.
By far the greater portion of Mr. Bolton’s book is devoted to an account of the domestic, social and financial affairs of the Harris and Ingram families. The process of accumulating millions, descriptive journeys thru Europe, matrimonial schemes, a strike which involves the use of dynamite and firebrands furnish subjects for the first 395 pages. The remaining forty pages are occupied with the “Experiment,” a Utopian scheme for establishing mills on the co-operative plan to demonstrate that capital and labor can unite on a common basis. The reader is introduced to a “Utopian mill in a Utopian village where there were no politicians, no saloons, no graft, no crime, nothing but that which was serene and restful and frightfully educational and instructive ... in that land of Somewhere to which there are no railroad guides.” (N. Y. Times).
| — — | N. Y. Times. 10: 112. F. 18, ‘05. 690w. |
Bolton, Henry Carrington. The follies of science at the court of Rudolph II., 1576-1612. [*]$2. Pharmaceutical review pub. co., Milwaukee.
A book which “occupies itself with a medley of charlatans and charlatanism in the sixteenth century and with the most splendid patron of such matters, Rudolph II., King of Bohemia and Hungary, and Emperor of Germany.” (N. Y. Times). This ruler, a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth, neglecting his royal duties, drew around him a strange company of men, more or less learned in the occult sciences. These various personages, couched in the oriental luxury of the court, work amazing tricks of alchemy, discover formulas for wonderful elixirs, and claim a recipe for the philosopher’s stone. Incidentally, there is given much information concerning the manners of the time, the people, and their mental characteristics.
| Ind. 58: 1073. My. 11, ‘05. 160w. |
“Rather extraordinary volume. Altogether the book contains a deal of queer information about queer people and things of a time (in some ways) more credulous than ours. Readers with a taste for the out-of-the-way, for historical junk, in short, will find much to entertain them.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 39. Ja. 21, ‘05. 350w. |
[*] Bolton, Sarah Knowles (Mrs. Charles E. Bolton). Famous American authors. $2. Crowell.
These essays were first published in 1887, and they are now re-issued “in a handsomely bound volume with two dozen illustrations portraying in fine half-tone reproductions the persons and the homes of six representatives of the old New England school, ... Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes.” (Dial.)
[*] “Aside from its literary interest, it ought to be popular as a holiday gift-book.”
| + | Critic. 47: 573. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “She manages to tell the familiar facts in a genial, lively way, interlarding them with anecdotes or personal impressions, and making her main theme in every case the essential quality of the author discussed.”
| + | Dial. 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] Bombaugh, Charles Carroll. Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature. [**]$3 Lippincott.
“Forty-five years ago Dr. Bombaugh published the first edition of his famous book, ‘Gleanings for the curious.’ ... An entertaining collection of curious things in letters. His book lasted for nearly fifty years; it would have lasted longer had not its plates been destroyed by fire. Instead of merely resetting the book, Dr. Bombaugh has made a second volume along the same lines only with more recent matter.... The new volume contains the results of the most recent discoveries in many branches of literature ... and presents various jokes that have a very recent ring.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The total amount of curious information is so vastly greater than the amount compressible within a single volume that a book of this type is more useful for random reading than for reference purposes.”
| + | Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 845. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
Bonner, Geraldine. Pioneer. [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
A story of the early days of California and Nevada when fortunes were made and unmade daily among the mines. There are many characters typical of those mixed times, but the real hero is the old colonel, who for the sake of his love for the woman who jilted him twenty years before, devotes himself to her two daughters, and allows their weak father to unscrupulously rob him. He finds happiness in serving the girl who resembles her mother, and seeing her safely thru a heart crisis.
“Though her treatment is perhaps too conventional to please the realist the story is thoroughly unhackneyed, while the human interest is strong throughout.”
| + | Arena. 34: 551. N. ‘05. 420w. |
“It is an unpleasant and rather sensational narrative.”
| — + | Critic. 46: 477. My. ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Bonner, Robert John. Evidence in Athenian courts. [*]75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Mr. R. J. Bonner, ‘formerly of the Ontario bar,’ deals with the subject from the point of view of a man trained in English law. The material is classified accordingly under such heads as Irrelevant, Hearsay, Written, Oral, Real, and Expert evidence, Evidence of slaves, Competency of witnesses, Challenges, Oaths, etc. In a number of cases the view presented in Meier-Schömann’s ‘Der Attische process’ is disputed.”—Am. Hist. R.
[*] “The work is carefully done, and will be found interesting and suggestive by teachers who have not had the advantage of a legal training.” A. G. L.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 187. O. ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “Mr. Bonner seems to have exhausted his sources, both original and secondary. He has shown acuteness in his deductions. The only real doubt as to his conclusions arises from the fear that he was overzealous in his search for a body of law on evidence in Athens.” Clarke B. Whittier.
| + + — | Am. J. Soc. 11: 424. N. ‘05. 880w. |
Boole, Mrs. Mary E. Preparation of the child for science. [*]50c. Oxford.
The author’s purpose thruout this volume is to offer “suggestions as to the means by which the scientific condition of mind can be induced” in children. Five chapters deal respectively with the scientific mind, the unconscious mind, hygienic sequence in development, mathematical imagination, and ethical and logical preparation.
“Information and salutary wisdom are to be drawn from it everywhere.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 18. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1570w. |
“Her book may be warmly recommended to parents anxious to adopt sane methods of educating their children and to teachers responsible for the training of the lowest classes of schools.”
| + + | Nature. 71: 316. F. 2, ‘05. 300w. |
Booth, William H. Steam pipes: their design and construction. $2. Henley.
“This book ... is a compilation of various formulas and tables having to do with steam piping, together with such individual practice or designs as have been adopted by several large English corporations or manufacturers.... The author does not attempt to give any but English practice, and the book would not necessarily meet the exact demands of American engineers.”—Engin. N.
“For the American engineer the perusal of the book, considering that the title seems to promise well, leaves a keen sense of disappointment, and a feeling that little of value has been added to our scanty knowledge of steam piping.” Charles K. Stearns.
| + | Engin. N. 53: 340. Je. 15, ‘05. 970w. |
Borrow, George. [Romano lavo-lil; word book of the Romany or English-Gypsy language.] $2. Putnam.
“‘Romano lavo-lil’ contains not only Borrow’s remarks on the history of Romany, and his vocabulary of the language, occupying fifty-odd pages, but a batch of Gypsy proverbs, in Romany and English, some scraps of the scriptures rendered into Gypsy, the “Book of wisdom of the Egyptians,” a list of favored Gypsy names of countries and towns, and many quaint odds and ends of folk-lore.” (N. Y. Times.)
| + | Acad. 68: 751. Jl. 22, ‘05. 2260w. |
“It is in fact, a book in which the admirer of Isopel Berners may find much to entertain him for an hour or so.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 180w. |
“A very serviceable edition in size, weight, and typography.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 170w. |
Bosanquet, Rev. Bernard Hugh, and Wenham, Reginald A. Outlines of the synoptic record. [*]$1.70. Longmans.
This volume “sets forth present opinion as to the synoptic question, and gives an outline of the life of Jesus and a summary of his teaching according to the first three gospels.”—Ind.
[*] “The object of the writers of the book was to prepare a narrative based strictly on the three gospels which would embody the results of recent investigations in England unobtrusively and impartially, and their efforts have been successful.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 460. Ap. 15. 470w. | |
| Ind. 58: 1013. My. 4, ‘05. 40w. |
“A reticence is observable in dealing with miraculous narratives which contrasts with the freedom exercised in the non-miraculous. With this limitation, the book, while not professing to be a life of Jesus, is a good critical outline of his career as exhibited in the first three Gospels.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 196. Ja. 21, ‘05. 70w. |
Bosworth, Edward Increase. Studies in the life of Jesus Christ. 90c; pa. 60c. Y. M. C. A.
“In two parts: the first based on the synoptic Gospels, following Mark with supplementary references to the other two Gospels; the second based on the fourth Gospel, well planned, neglectful neither of the historical growth of Judaism nor of the literary character of the different Gospels.”—Outlook.
| + + | Outlook. 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Boulton, William B. Sir Joshua Reynolds. [**]$3. Dutton.
“Mr. Boulton’s work is the fullest in biographical interest of any of those which have appeared since Leslie and Taylor in 1865. To the students of technical processes of Reynolds’ art the book makes but slight appeal.... Reynolds entered very fully into the social and intellectual life of his time, and the wealth of anecdote of contemporary diarists and letter-writers has been aptly laid under contribution.... The illustrations ... are well selected and excellently reproduced.”—Ath.
| * | + | Ath. 1905, 2: 652. N. 11. 1180w. |
[*] “Mr. Boulton has written a most useful handbook, entirely trustworthy and keen on the elaboration of what others have suggested. Of a wealth of material he has also made splendid and always proportionate use.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “In saying that the present volume is less interesting than Sir Walter’s we do not say that it is less valuable. More people probably will agree with Mr. Boulton’s critical estimate of the great president of the Royal academy than with Sir Walter Armstrong’s estimate. Sir Walter’s book is only the more interesting of the two because it is less conventional and more original.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 892. D. 9, ‘05. 170w. |
Bourget, Paul (Charles Joseph). Divorce. $1.50. Scribner.
“The scenes of this novel are laid in France. It concerns Gabrielle, a woman divorced from her husband, whose remarriage to another man is one of highest ideals. Owing to religious fervor, however, Gabrielle becomes estranged from her second husband. The other thread in the story deals with the love affair of the heroine’s son, who has been as thoroughly educated and cared for by his mother’s second husband as by an own father.”—Bookm.
“M. Bourget has constructed a diagram to illustrate his view of the sacredness of marriage, and has called it a novel.”
| — | Critic. 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 110w. |
“M. Bourget sketches his characters and states their opinions with great fairness.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1005. My. 4, ‘05. 1490w. |
“Distinctly the strongest piece of fiction which M. Bourget has written. Whether the reader agrees with its extreme position or not, he cannot fail to be impressed by its sincerity of conviction, its powerful analysis, and its admirable style. It is a piece of fiction of very unusual strength and dignity.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 142. Ja. 14, ‘05. 270w. |
“There is a certain finesse about the plot that is commendable with the mental reservation that only a Frenchman will commend it. There is not enough beef and iron in Paul Bourget’s psychology to commend him to the average American.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 25. Ja. 5, ‘05. 410w. |
“Paul Bourget’s latest work is ostensibly a novel, but to English readers it will appear as a purely pathological presentation of the relation between the Roman church and its adherents in the matter of divorce. It is really the story of an intense mental and moral struggle between religion and love.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 100w. |
Bourne, Robert William (John Wright, pseud.). Home mechanic: a manual for industrial schools and amateurs. [*]$2.50. Dutton.
An English book, the usefulness of which in the United States is qualified by the necessity of making allowances for the difference in prices, measures, and shop practice. It teaches the use of tools and the construction of machines. There are many diagrams and cuts.
“Very comprehensive and practical work.”
| + | Ind. 58: 270. F. 2, ‘05. 50w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 199. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w. (Survey of scope). |
“Carefully designed to teach the use of tools and the construction of machines.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 245. Ja. 28, ‘05. 20w. |
Boutmy, Emile. English people: a study of their political psychology from the French by E. English; with an introd. by J: E: Courtenay Bodley. [*]$2.50. Putnam.
“This work is divided into five distinct parts: (1) the national type, (2) the human environment, (3) the Englishman—moral and social, (4) the Englishman as a politician, (5) the individual and the state. At the very outset the author sounds the keynote of his book in pointing out the disdain of the English people for abstractions and their love of fact.... While primarily a psychological analysis of the English people, at the same time the author gives a considerable insight into French character.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“While there is too much of generalization, which detracts greatly from the scientific value, the book is full of interest, and possesses an easy flowing style which will commend it to the majority of readers.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 335. Mr. ‘05. 350w. |
“It is piquant, varied, plausible in spots, interesting all over,—and fatally unconvincing. The solution is too neat to be true. The English dress which the work bears is fair on the whole, but the translator’s unsure foothold in the region of idiom occasionally reminds one of its Gallic origin.” Winthrop More Daniels.
| + — | Atlan. 95: 551. Ap. ‘05. 390w. |
Bouton, Archibald Lewis. See Lincoln and Douglas debates.
Boyd, James E. Differential equations, 60c. James E. Boyd, Columbus, O.
A little book well adapted to serve as a basis for the study at home of this branch of calculus which is often not fully covered in the engineering courses of the technical colleges.
“It is clear in its exposition.”
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 641. Je. 15, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Boyesen, Bayard. Marsh: a poem. $1. Badger, R. G.
A tragedy in poem-drama form. A gaunt mother and an aged father are left alone in the castle of Nyarva by Luxander, their only son, who, followed by Nyassa, “a vague faint flower on a waving stem” who loves him, goes out into the darkness accursed of God at the call of the “blind marsh and restless surge,” led by a spirit within him “stronger than life, or Christ, or love.”
Boyle, Mrs. Virginia (Fraser). Serena [†]$1.50. Barnes.
“A story of the South during the Civil war, thoroughly provincial. The plot turns upon the cowardice of the twin brother of the heroine. The latter takes her brother’s place in the Confederate army, leading his deserted men to victory. This is the one blot upon Southern chivalry in the tale, while the author evidently holds that both civilians and soldiers north of Mason and Dixon’s line were knaves and coarse mercenaries.”—Outlook.
“Is written in a spirit that few readers nowadays will find sympathetic.”
| — | Critic. 47: 284. S. ‘05. 40w. | |
| — | Ind. 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 70w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 250w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 16: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 70w. |
“The plot is conventional, the love affair ordinary, and the whole story commonplace. Its atoning feature is its easy wording.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 90w. |
... “The amateurish plot construction, the lack of connection between parts, the absence of a well-defined story motive.”
| — + | Reader. 6: 596. O. ‘05. 220w. |
Brace, Benjamin. Sunrise acres. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
A young athlete and football player is made heir to half a million dollars by his uncle on condition that he seek out and thrash a man who had once beaten this uncle in fair fight for a lady. The nephew finds his man and also finds him to be the father of a pretty daughter, but the fight takes place nevertheless with amusing complications.
“The author has an excellent idea for a farce comedy. He has unfortunately lacked some skill in execution.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 651. O. 7, ‘05. 190w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 50w. |
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. John Maxwell). Rose of life. [†]$1.50. Brentano’s.
“Miss Braddon must be congratulated on having described a real human being in her new novel. Daniel Lester, the poet, to whom the reader is introduced in the very first line, is a remarkable creation, and a creation which would only have been possible in the present day.... Indeed, readers of the book will almost be persuaded that they are familiar with his personal appearance, so intimately will they seem acquainted with the huge man whose delicate tact, colossal selfishness, unfailing amiability, and atrocious greed make him such an amusing companion.... The book, beyond the figure of the poet, is a little commonplace, and the beautiful but unscrupulous Lady Beauminster is entirely conventional and melodramatic. But the novel as a whole is a not uninteresting background to its principal figure, and is worth reading solely for the one admirable piece of character-drawing which it contains.”—Spec.
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 651. My. 27. 210w. |
“This latest of many canvases is as big as any.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 161. My. 19. 490w. |
“The merit of the story lies in the first part, and particularly in the artistic perfection of the character of Daniel Lester.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 350w. | |
| + — | Spec. 94: 717. My. 13, ‘05. 370w. |
Bradford, Amory H. Inward light. [**]$1.20. Crowell.
The author says: “The teaching of the book may be condensed as follows: There is in every man light sufficient to disclose all the truth that is needed for the purpose of life: that light is from God who dwells in humanity as He is immanent in the universe; therefore the source of authority is to be formed within the soul and not in external authority of church, or creed or book: that light being divine must be continuous; it will never fail; it will lead to all truth and show things to come; and it may be implicitly trusted.”
[*] “The analytical critic will pass it by because it is neither analytical nor polemical, but the devout soul will find spiritual nutriment in it, and for the devout soul it has been written.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 752. D. ‘05. 70w. |
Bradford, Gamaliel, jr. Pageant of life. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
Poems for book lovers grouped under the headings: A pageant of life; The villa of Hadrian; Song of the sirens to Ulysses; A verse of Isaiah; Leopardi; Sonnets; Songs and lyrics; Prologue and lyrics from a mad world; Translations.
“Besides these, and other sonnets, Mr. Bradford’s volume gives us some charming lyrics, a deeply-sympathetic poem placed upon the lips of Leopardi, and two successful translations from that world-wearied singer.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 180w. |
“‘A pageant of life’ ... is the intelligent verse of a scholarly man of fine sensibilities, who has meditated the literary history of the world long and minutely.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 130w. |
“Although he occasionally sinks into ... banality ... his muse is on the whole sturdy and self-respecting.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 406. Je. 17, ‘05. 390w. |
Bradford, Gamaliel, jr. Private tutor. [†]$1.50. Houghton.
“An artist manqué” accompanied by “the graceless son of an American millionaire,” makes a tour thru Europe, and records his experiences in a manner to call forth the following statement from the Dial: “‘Glorified Baedeker or Hare’ would do fairly well as a characterization of these pages, which are the result of a sympathetic intimacy with the scenes described.”
“Is an amateurish production, without much to tell in the way of a story, but having some very pretty pages descriptive of Rome, where the action is laid. The author exhibits no power of characterization worth mentioning, and therein is the essential failure of his novel. This defect is hardly to be offset by style and observation, which qualities are in fair measure his.” W. M. Payne.
| — | Dial. 38: 128. F. 16, ‘05. 230w. |
“It is a very good story, told with sufficient humor to make it almost a comedy.”
| + | Ind. 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w. |
Bradley, A. C. [Shakespearian tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.] $3.25. Macmillan.
“Besides the lectures on the tragedies themselves, Prof. Bradley, of the University of Oxford, writes on ‘The substance of Shakespearean tragedy,’ ‘Construction in Shakespeare’s tragedies,’ and ‘Shakespeare’s tragic period.’ His purpose in presenting these four tragedies is, as he states, ‘to increase our understanding and enjoyment of these works as dramas; to learn to apprehend the action and some of the personages of each with a somewhat greater truth and intensity, so that they may assume in our imagination a shape little less unlike the shape they wore in the imagination of their creator.’ “To the single task of interpretation he accordingly devoted himself, examining each of the tragedies individually, after a preliminary inquiry into such questions germane to all four as Shakespeare’s conception of tragedy and the form in which he expressed that conception.”” (Outlook).
“Every question, every controversy, theory, view, or supposition which arises, he subjects to the same test. It is another merit of the book that every question is submitted to common-sense argumentation. The arrangement of the book is admirable.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
| + + | Acad. 68: 229. Mr. 11, ‘05. 2240w. |
“In our opinion a book like that which is before us is not much less essential for the complete comprehension of Shakespeare’s tragedies than an atlas is for the fruitful study of geography.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
| + + | Acad. 68: 266. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1350w. |
“In thoroughness of workmanship the book recalls German models.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 602. My. 13. 2270w. |
“But there can be no doubt as to the gratitude which every student who has been puzzled by these familiar problems must feel to Professor Bradley for the help afforded by his careful and sympathetic volume.” R. W. Chambers.
| + + + | Hibbert J. 4: 213. O. ‘05. 1630w. |
“Is an excellent example of sedate English critical scholarship.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 839. Ap. 13, ‘05. 440w. |
[*] “It is the best piece of Shakespearean criticism published for some time.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 110w. |
“The book is worthy of its theme; and it will carry the reader deeper into the mind of Shakespeare—deeper, I believe, than of any other commentator.” Henry Jones.
| + + + | Int. J. Ethics. 16: 99. O. ‘05. 2920w. |
“A great mass of erudition, thoroughly digested, reasoned, and ordered, is brought to bear not merely on the four tragedies professedly dealt with, but incidentally on the other plays as well; the ideas are expressed in a style always admirably clear and often of a finely restrained eloquence.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 506. Je. 22, ‘05. 1890w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 24. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w. |
“An intellectual treat. The originality, the analytical ability, the poetic perception.... Into all phases of his task he throws himself with enthusiasm. If he is not always convincing, he is always helpful, the sum total of his efforts being to produce a work which is really a welcome and distinctly useful addition to the already voluminous literature on the subject.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w. |
“From the beginning to the end the level is sustained, exact criticism never sinks, and at times there is in the interpretation an imagination and a poetry which make the book in the truest sense a work of creation. His explanations are so lucid, so compelling that, novel though many of them are, we are almost invariably convinced. We have no hesitation in putting Professor Bradley’s book far above any modern Shakespearean criticism that we know, worthy to rank very near the immortal work of Lamb and Coleridge.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 138. Ja. 28, ‘05. 2120w. |
Bradley, Henry. Making of English. [*]$1. Macmillan.
The avowed object of this book is “to give educated readers unversed in philology some notions of the excellencies and defects of modern English as an instrument of expression.” The author discusses first the grammar, second the vocabulary, of our language. The history of the decay of inflection and the development of the new machinery which took its place is given, and the principles of composition, derivation and root creation are discussed at length. The closing chapter deals with the contribution of individual writers.
“English-speaking people, especially Americans, whose interest in their own language has always been conspicuous, will ask nothing better than to study its history under Dr. Bradley’s guidance.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1054. Ap. 29, ‘05. 2060w. |
Bradley, William Aspenwall. William Cullen Bryant. [**]75c. Macmillan.
A volume in the “English men of letters series.” While he deals particularly with Bryant as the “poet and man of letters, Mr. Bradley touches upon his qualities as a man of affairs and his participation in the politics of the time; and as the beloved citizen and foremost figure at the civic celebrations of New York city.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is what seems a perfectly reasonable estimate of Bryant as a poet.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Atlan. 96: 275. Ag. ‘05. 600w. |
“The story of Bryant’s life is told plainly and succinctly, accompanied by very sensible comment on his writings and a not illiberal estimate of his position in literature.” Edward Fuller.
| + + | Critic. 47: 246. S. ‘05. 480w. |
“A convenient, clear, and thoroughly readable biography.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 560w. |
“Is more critical than sympathetic.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1128. My. 18. ‘05. 150w. |
“While his story lacks something of the ‘detailed verisimilitude of his predecessors,’ it does present a view of Bryant the poet that is, perhaps, a little more integral and impressive. No one has yet written at length of Bryant with a firmer hold on the American origins of his poetry or a wider perspective of general literature.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 443. Je. 1. ‘05. 1010w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 200. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 1280w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 150w. |
“Little that is valuable or striking is added to the sum total of estimates of Bryant’s place in American literature. From the biographical side the book deserves great praise.”
| + + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 90w. |
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Conquest of the Southwest: the story of a great spoliation. [**]$1.50. Appleton.
“A story of the struggle for independence in Texas, also, of the Mexican war, beginning with the Treaty of 1819 and concluding with the Compromise of 1850. The volume, which is well illustrated with drawings and maps, is an addition to ‘The expansion of the republic series.’”—Bookm.
“The author has made a careful study of the vast literature bearing upon the subject.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w. |
“It is written simply and effectively, and with less elaboration of detail than previous works from the same hand.”
| + | Dial. 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 220w. | |
| Ind. 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 60w. |
“The book is written in an easy, pleasant, and decidedly popular style. It is, indeed, a popular account of the Mexican war and events leading up to it, rather than what the author insists on calling it—a monograph.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 156. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1050w. |
“... An outline narrative in which shall be presented, lucidly, impartially, and in proper proportion, the salient aspects, episodes, and personalities. Such a presentation may fairly be said to be embodied in Dr. Brady’s book.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 604. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w. |
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Indian fights and fighters. [**]$1.30. McClure.
“The material for this book has been secured from various documents, and from officers and men who were in the engagements. It is divided into two parts: Protecting the Frontier, and the War with the Sioux. An account of Custer’s defeat is given in the appendix. It is an addition to the ‘American fights and fighters’ series.” (Bookm.) “Mr. Brady seems a bit hampered as a story teller in many of the chapters by the wealth of facts he has to deal with and cling to, but is at his best in the description of the battle of the Wichita, where Custer led his troops against the Cheyennes under the leadership of Black Kettle.” (N. Y. Times).
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 130w. |
“The book, like its three predecessors, is fairly authentic history, and every endeavor has been made to set down the facts without fear or favor.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1160w. |
[*] Brady, Cyrus Townsend. My lady’s slipper. [**]$1.50. Dodd.
“Francis Burnham, an American midshipman, finds himself in the power of the villainous Marquis du Tremigon, and is forced to assume a disguise and enter the apartments of the beautiful Comtesse de Villars to steal a token for the Marquis—a slipper worn by her, if possible, ... and because he refuses to do the Marquis’s bidding there are dark days in prison and other dangers in store for him. But the slipper is a talisman of good fortune, and ... the Comtesse is made happy for life, and so is Burnham. The book is in a pretty binding of blue and gold, the illustrations are gracefully designed by Charlotte Weber Ditzler.”—N. Y. Times.
| * | Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “The story of their love affairs is a pretty trifle, well adapted to its ornate setting.”
| + | Dial. 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | Ind. 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 80w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 3, ‘05. 180w. | |
| * | Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 30w. |
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Three daughters of the Confederacy. [†]$1.50. Dillingham.
The history and romance of three Southern girls with the Civil war setting which Mr. Brady is past master of. The adventures of the first take place on the Atlantic coast during the blockade at the beginning of the war, while the Mississippi river furnishes the background for the experiences of the second who marries a Yankee non-combatant and straightway rues it. The third is a girl of such great daring that she faces the enemy with her lover on the battlefield during “Stonewall Jackson’s greatest day.”
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Two captains. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“A story of Nelson and Bonaparte in the troubled times of France’s struggle to free herself from monarchy. The long, detailed accounts of sea fights and naval maneuvers will doubtless interest some readers, but the popular taste will find more gratification in the love story of the bold young Irish sea captain and the unhappy French countess whom he rescues from many perils and finally wins for his wife.”—Outlook.
“A brightly contrived romance of an interesting period, which suffers somewhat from the intrusion of the two gigantic historical figures.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 460. Ap. 15. 310w. |
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 390. Je. 1, ‘05. 260w. | |
| — + | Ind. 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 250w. |
“A very creditable and entertaining book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 126. F. 25, ‘05. 560w. | |
| Outlook. 79: 505. F. 25, ‘05. 70w. |
“The story itself is not of great significance. Mr. Brady has a sure touch in his pictures of battles, whatever one may think of his romantic passages. Nelson, too, is impressively presented. If it does nothing else, the book may at least inspire some of its readers with the desire to study in sober history the progress of the events which are here so rapidly but glowingly sketched.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 391. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w. |
Brain, Belle Marvel. All about Japan; stories of the sunrise land told for little folks. [**]$1. Revell.
“Miss Brain is already favorably known as a writer of ‘missionary’ stories for children, and in her present volume she manages to incorporate, in a style peculiarly adapted to the juvenile mind, a great variety of interesting facts concerning the history, life, customs and manners of the Japanese, as well as brief biographies of some of the most successful of those who have given themselves to the task of spreading the gospel of Christ throughout the islands.”—Lit. D.
“An excellent gift-book in every sense.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 110w. |
“In it we have not only a capital book for little folks but a welcome volume for their elders.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 110w. |
Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt. [Concerning Belinda.] $1.50. Doubleday.
The experiences of an attractive western girl as “Youngest teacher” in a fashionable New York finishing school for girls are most entertainingly narrated here. Belinda’s initiation into the mysteries of responsibility took place the night of her arrival when she was delegated to chaperone twelve strange maidens to the theatre, whom at the close she utterly forgot when Jack Wendell dropped into the midst of her homesick gloom. The chapters all furnish disconnected bits taken from life in a fashionable school, with now and then the least suggestion of romance.
“Is written with the same lightness and sprightly humor that characterized the author’s previous stories.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 651. O. 7, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “There are a number of other stories, all equally bright and entertaining, and a private love affair or two for the pretty Belinda herself.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 210w. |
Brainerd, Henry C. Old family doctor. [*]$1. Clark, A. H.
It might be fancied that this family doctor is some kin to Dr. McLaren’s much beloved old Scotch doctor. At least there are characteristics, sacrifices and experiences in common. One chapter of the six, “Views,” showing the superstitious beliefs of a quack concocter of unheard-of remedies, is exceedingly clever.
Braithwaite, William Stanley. Lyrics of life and love. [**]$1. Turner, H. B.
“The poems of that rising young negro poet, William Stanley Braithwaite have been collected under the general title ‘Lyrics of life and love.’”—R. of Rs.
“A poet of the race in which both the gloom of life and its wildest joys meet with prompt response. Neither his metres nor his moods are classic in suggestion, and his wayward rhythms have the attractiveness of undisciplined grace, but his melody is unmistakable and his images are haunting.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 50. Ja. 28, ‘05. 150w. |
“Verse is musical, clear, and forceful.”
| + | R. of Rs. 30: 759. D. ‘04. 30w. |
Branch, Anna Hempstead. Shoes that danced and other poems. [**]$1.10. Houghton.
“In the present volume ... there are sinewy dramatic sketches, meditative monologues, child verses, lyric odes, and fragments of dramatic narrative, all marked by fluent, unconventional music, and strong, unconventional phrase. Yet the mood of wonder that underlies all of it is singularly integral.”—Nation.
“Poetry that is at once full, sometimes a little too full, of temperament, and in the truest sense of the word, ‘significant’, both in its own quality, and in its relation to some of the deeper moods of the hour.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + | Atlan. 96: 421. S. ‘05. 680w. |
“Miss Branch’s work exhibits a mind saturated with English poetry—particularly its naive older forms—and prettily echoes a variety of manners. It is touched with mysticism, and has considerable imaginative reach. Many of the pieces are marred by obscurity and an obvious straining for effect.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 64. Ag. 1, ‘05. 220w. |
“For all the intellectual energy and sincerity of Miss Branch’s work, and its frank preoccupation with the more passionate issues of life, it never ceases to be finely feminine in a certain lurking wistfulness and tenderness in little things.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 16. Jl. 6, ‘05. 750w. |
“Miss Branch is extremely fortunate in her descriptions of life in studios and courts, and strikes a deeply poetic note in her unpretentious drama of the time of Watteau which she calls ‘The shoes that danced.’”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 406. Je. 17, ‘05. 340w. |
Brandenburg, Broughton. Imported Americans: the story of the experiences of a disguised American and his wife studying the immigration question. [**]$1.60. Stokes.
“The author, a newspaper correspondent, with his wife, lived for a time in the Italian quarter of New York. Thence they go in the steerage to Italy, and make a study of the districts from which emigration is most pronounced.... Then with a group of Sicilians, Mr. and Mrs. Brandenburg return in the guise of immigrants, observing the snares laid for the credulous incomer whose great fear is that he may be kept out of America, suffering the ill treatment meted out to steerage passengers on board ship, and learning the laws of this country are constantly evaded.... The revelations made of the debasement of our naturalization papers furnish food for thought.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“The most interesting and important study yet made of present-day immigration into the United States.”
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 125. Ja. ‘05. 320w. |
“A most interesting narrative of, really, the epitomized experiences of thousands of Italian wayfarers.”
| + + + | Charities. 14: 641. Ap. 1, ‘05. 880w. |
“The book is not remarkable either in a sensational or a scientific sense.”
| + | Critic. 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 160w. |
“The most earnest efforts to provide proper laws for the exclusion of undesirable aliens, with an efficient system for securing the enforcement of such laws, has resulted in little more than an evasion of them by the least desirable emigrants. Mr. Brandenburg traces the causes of this failure by an investigation as thorough and complete as it perhaps is possible to make.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 200w. |
“Is of special interest for the reason that it offers a radical remedy for existing immigration evils.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 625. Ap. ‘05. 270w. |
Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. [Main currents in nineteenth century literature.] 6v. v. 4. Naturalism in England. [*]$3. Macmillan.
The period known as the romantic movement in English poetry at the beginning of the nineteenth century is treated in this volume. “Mr. Brandes seems to approach literature not wholly from the side of art.... He is concerned rather with the moral and spiritual progress of the world ... he ... takes poet after poet, and, with a skilful handling of biographical material and an ardent critical appreciation makes a rapid and interesting sketch of the motives and performances of the particular writer.” (Acad.)
“As one reads one becomes aware that the volume is rather a sympathetic interpretation of certain great figures, from Mr. Brandes’ point of view, than a piece of masterly generalisation. It is a mine of apposite biographical illustration, of delicate appreciation and of felicitous criticism of a high order.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 583. Je. 3, ‘05. 1260w. |
“Dr. Brandes is marvelously well read, illuminating in analysis, comprehensive and balanced in his historic outlook. Always searching for the leading idea, he is guilty at times of reading into an author what he is determined to find.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905 2: 168. Ag. 5, 1040w. |
“It is one of its author’s most brilliant performances.”
| + + + | Dial. 39: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 310w. |
“There is no attempt in Mr. Brandes’ case to suppress the personal equation, or to conceal the bias.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 157. My. 19, ‘05. 2290w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 290w. |
“It is as candid as the ‘tendenz’ will allow, very well informed, highly entertaining, frequently striking, and even useful.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 360. Je. 3, ‘05. 960w. |
“As a proof of Prof. Brandes’s specific judgments of poets and of poems which are chosen for individual mention, they do not always commend themselves as agreeing with the opinion which English critics have given authority.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 461. Jl. 15, ‘05. 3010w. |
“The chapters on Byron are the best part of Dr. Brandes’s book; they will be read with pleasure by Byron’s countrymen.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 429. S. 23, ‘05. 1970w. |
Brastow, Lewis Orsmond. Representative modern preachers. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
“Nine notable men are considered ... five broad churchmen, Schleiermacher, Robertson, Beecher, Bushnell, and Brooks; two high churchmen, Newman and Mozley; two low churchmen, Guthrie and Spurgeon. The book is the result of repeated studies of these men with classes of students of the Yale Divinity school.”—Atlan.
“The estimates of these various masters are made with deep sympathy and substantial justice.”
| + + | Atlan. 95: 706. My. ‘05. 180w. |
Breal, Auguste. Velazquez, tr. by Mme. Simon Bussy. [*]75c; lea. [*]$1. Dutton.
This volume declares itself to be merely an invitation to visit Madrid and see the works of the great Spanish painter, but it also serves as an inspiration for the journey. There are many illustrations.
“He does succeed in giving a clear idea of the nature of Velazquez’s genius, of what he was, and what he was not, together with all that is necessary of biographical information regarding an entirely uneventful life. Mme Bussy is as accurate as readable.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 630w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 210w. |
“A good little guide.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 20w. |
[*] Breasted, James Henry. History of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest. [**]$5. Scribner.
This volume, designed for the general reader as well as the scholar, traces the history of Egypt from earliest times thru the days of the Old kingdom, the Middle kingdom, and the New empire, down to the Persian conquest. There are many new translations from original documents in the book and two hundred illustrations and maps. “Nowhere can we find a clearer account of the general history of Egypt, as known to us by the latest studies and excavations carried on by the numerous societies and individuals at work in the Nile valley.” (Ind.)
[*] “This is a most valuable and interesting work.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1109. N. 9, ‘05. 660w. |
[*] “A history that may fairly claim to be, for the immense period which it covers, more close to facts than any of its predecessors.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 940. D. 16, ‘05. 490w. |
Brewer, David Josiah. United States: a Christian nation. [*]$1. Winston.
The first of these three lectures, “The United States a Christian nation,” shows that our Republic should be so called because it has been so declared by the Supreme court of the United States, by many of the highest state courts, by colonial charters, by nearly all of the state constitutions, by state legislatures, and by popular sentiment and practice: the second, “Our duty as citizens,” discusses the compatibility between Christianity and patriotism, and the reasons why Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect: the third, “The promise and the possibilities of the future,” is an eloquent appeal to young men to temper their devotion to country with fidelity to the teachings of the Gospel.
“We do not think, however, that these addresses represent the eminent jurist at his best.”
| + — | Arena. 34: 557. N. ‘05. 280w. |
“The three chapters of this volume are three lectures delivered at Haverford college. We are glad that they now command a wider audience.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 140w. |
Brewster, H. Pomeroy. Saints and festivals of the Christian church. [**]$2. Stokes.
“This single volume of hagiology is conveniently arranged in calendar form, giving for each day in the year some details of the life and legends of the saints whose festivals are celebrated according to the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches. A great deal of curious information, difficult to find elsewhere, is here given on sacred art and the symbols, ceremonies, superstitions, stones and colors associated with saints and their days.”—Ind.
“Mr. Brewster is not a Catholic, but he endeavors to tell the story of the saints in a devout spirit, and he succeeds.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 256. My. ‘05. 130w. |
“Is an unusually terse and at the same time comprehensive church year-book. The greatest merits of the work are its entire freedom from denominational bias, and the wide knowledge which it shows of profane and ecclesiastical history and canon law.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 170w. | |
| Ind. 58: 673. Mr. 23, ‘05. 70w. |
Brewster, William Tenney, ed. See Representative essays on the theory of style.
Briggs, Le Baron Russell. Routine and ideals. [**]$1. Houghton.
Perhaps no man in America is better fitted to write authoritatively on the subject of college routine than Dean Briggs of Harvard and Radcliffe. There are included in the volume with the title essay, A school and college address, Harvard and the individual, Address to the school children of Concord, Commencement address at Wellesley college, Discipline in school and college, The mistakes of college life, and Mater fortissima.
“Admiration of the author’s style should not blind the reader to his essentially one-sided presentation of an intricate subject.” Henry D. Sheldon.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 210w. |
“The essays and addresses that compose his little volume are therefore more than they seem: they state his creed; they are the guiding laws of one of the most powerful influences brought to bear, within our generation, on college students in the United States.” G. R. Carpenter.
| + + + | Educ. R. 29: 422. Ap. ‘05. 640w. | |
| + + | Ind. 59: 95. Jl. 13, ‘05. 830w. |
“One that all who have to do in any way with college or school administration may profitably read.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 190w. |
Bright, James Wilson, ed. Gospel of St. John in West-Saxon. 60c. Heath.
A volume in the Belles-lettres series. The text of the gospel of St. John, based upon the original manuscripts, also an exhaustive introduction, full notes, and a glossary.
| Nation. 80: 436. Je. 1. ‘05. 70w. |
Bright, James Wilson, ed. Gospel of St. Matthew in West-Saxon. 60c. Heath.
This little volume belongs to section I, English literature from its beginning to 1100, of the Belles-letters series. It contains the text of the gospel of St. Matthew in West-Saxon, as found in the copy of the version preserved in Ms. CXL of the library of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge; the rubrics have been carried into the text from Ms. A. The variant readings of all other surviving copies of the version are subjoined to the text.
| Ath. 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 150w. | ||
| Nation. 80: 436. Je. 1, ‘05. 70w. |
Bromley, George Tisdale. Long ago and later on; or, Recollections of eighty years. [*]$1.50. Robertson.
The autobiography of a happy-go-lucky soul, who began work at the age of ten in his father’s ropewalk. His callings were many and varied, he worked on whalers, steam boats, and railroads, dabbled in politics and ran a hotel. Born in Connecticut, he made his home on the Pacific coast, and spent two years in China as consul to Tien-Tsin. The story of his long and eventful career is full of interesting detail and anecdote.
| + + | Nation. 80: 296. Ap. 13, ‘05. 650w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 141. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1030w. (Abstract of book). |
Bronson, Walter Cochrane, ed. See English essays.
Brontë, Charlotte. [Jane Eyre.] $1.25. Crowell.
“Jane Eyre” proves a better companion than ever in the handy form of the “Thin paper classics” series.
[*] Brooke, Stopford Augustus. On ten plays of Shakespeare. [*]$2.25. Holt.
A delightful discussion of ten plays of Shakespeare in which is reflected a wealth of suggestion from extended research and sound judgment. The author’s side light revelations of Shakespeare himself are suggestively framed in the following: “Deeply as Shakespeare felt the woe, wickedness and weakness of humanity, he was still their master.... This power to stand outside as well as inside of human sorrow belonged to Shakespeare, because at the deepest root of him, was, I repeat, delight of life; even rapture—the word is not too strong—with the playfulness of its spring and the fulness of its summer.”
[*] “Will be sure of a welcome when he comes forward with these acute, thoughtful, sympathetic studies in the plays of Shakespeare.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 406. N. 24, ‘05. 970w. |
[*] Brookfield, Charles, and Brookfield, Frances. Mrs. Brookfield and her circle. 2v. [**]$7. Scribner.
Mrs. Brookfield, the charming, witty and beautiful niece of Hallam, the historian, and her well known husband, William Henry Brookfield, fashionable preacher and ready writer, were the center of an exclusive intellectual circle and numbered among their friends Thackeray, Carlyle, FitzGerald, Tennyson, Mrs. Proctor, Lady Ashburton and many other interesting people. In this account of them which has been prepared by their son Charles and his wife, extracts from letters and diaries aid in furnishing much chatty information and many anecdotes concerning the social and literary London of their time.
[*] “This is one of the most delightful books of memoirs which we have seen for many years.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 1143. N. 4, ‘05. 1740w. |
[*] “As illustrative of a great and vigorous age which has passed away, these letters possess no inconsiderable value.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 678. N. 18. 1030w. |
[*] “We close the volumes, feeling that it is well to have been admitted, even for a few hours, to the bright and joyous company of a merry-hearted husband and wife and their brilliant circle of high-souled friends.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 39: 370. D. 1, ‘05. 2070w. |
[*] “The letters and anecdotes which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brookfield have here collected are so rich and abundant that the most copious extracts must give an inadequate idea of what they contain.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 382. N. 10, ‘05. 1760w. |
[*] “Whether it be grave or gay, the book is always interesting, and we are peculiarly grateful to it, for it has added to our literary acquaintance one of the best men who ever published a book, and a lady whose charm of manner and quick sensibility are evident in every letter she wrote, in every line of her diary.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 929. D. 2, ‘05. 370w. |
Brooks, Elisabeth Willard. As the world goes by. [†]$1.50. Little.
Bohemia with much of its usual abandon is pictured here, but there is reared in its surroundings a clever, philosophical girl who after eighteen years of loyal devotion to her worldly actress mother none the less finds it natural to fit into the cultured corner of her father’s world. Her romance forms the undercurrent of the story—a romance of the intense subjective order which thru its misunderstandings tries and purifies.
“It’s rather a dim, inconclusive sort of story, the heroine being particularly dim.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 404. Je. 17, ‘05. 360w. |
“The author ... keeps a quiet control over her material, and produces a decidedly interesting and valuable study of character development.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 190. My. 20, ‘05. 180w. |
“The lack of a villain, the complex psychology and rarefied philosophy carry no great appeal to the multitude, but the reflections will attract the thoughtful, and the musical interpretations charm the initiated.”
| + | Reader. 6: 359. Ag. ‘05. 210w. |
Brooks, Geraldine. Dames and daughters of the French court. [**]$1.50. Crowell.
These women, who for brilliancy, courage, charm, and occasionally intrigue, cannot be surpassed have been much written about as salonists, and literary successes, but the personal side of their lives has been omitted. These sketches aim to supply the inner view, and trace the motives and formative influences from their source. In the group are Madame de Sevigné, Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, Madame Roland, Madame de Staël, Madame de Rémussat, Madame Le Brun, Madame de Lafayette, Madame Geoffrin, Madame Recamier, and Madame Valmore.
“About these women ... much has already been written, and better written than in the present volume.”
| — | Critic. 46: 187. F. ‘05. 70w. |
“Readable sketches of Mesdames de Staël, de Lafayette, Récamier, Le Brun, and other notable French women. Charmingly written.”
| + | R. of Rs. 30: 755. D. ‘04. 70w. |
“Interesting and instructive volume.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 140w. |
Brooks, Rt. Rev. Phillips. Christ the life and light. [**]$1. Dutton.
“A group of selections from the writings of Phillips Brooks, chosen and arranged with reference to their use for Lenten readings, the whole collection having as its keynote Christ as the life and light of the world.”—Outlook.
| Outlook. 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 60w. | ||
| Spec. 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 320w. |
Brooks, Sarah Warner. [Garden with house attached.] $1.50. Badger, R. G.
It is of a Cambridge garden that the author writes which “for twenty years was the property of one who had in the Harvard botanical garden ‘a friend at court,’ and was able thus to obtain choice shrubs and herbaceous plants. The author describes the rose, foxglove, iris, Canterbury bells, violets, hollyhock, and other plants in this garden.” (N. Y. Times). “The general theme is plant and plant-life. It contains good suggestions in regard to the cultivation of flowers.” (Bookm.)
“The style is somewhat diffuse and parenthetical, except where direct advice is given, in which case it is clear enough.” Edith Granger.
| + | Dial. 38: 382. Je. 1, ‘05. 330w. |
“Writes in a semi-practical, semi-meditative manner in regard to the comforts and enjoyments of a small country home.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w. |
“Instructive and entertaining. The healthy love of nature which outdoor life awakens in most of us has pervaded it and has transferred itself to the reader.”
| + | South Atlantic Quarterly. 4: 95. Ja. ‘05. 180w. |
[*] Brooks, William Keith. Oyster, The; a popular summary of a scientific study. [*]$1. Hopkins.
“Fourteen years ago Prof. Brooks made a rational appeal to Marylanders on the subject of oyster culture, in the hope of reviving a decaying and contentious industry. His tract ... failed, as he sorrowfully admits in his preface to a second and revised edition, to penetrate the ignorant conservatism of a State ruled hitherto by Gorman. However, in returning to the fray, he adds a chapter on the peril of the oyster as a vehicle of collection for cholera and typhoid germs, and perhaps this aspect will do something to help the economic reform.”—Nation.
| * | Dial. 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | Nation. 81: 463. D. 7, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “It is written in an interesting manner. An index would increase the value of the book many times; it deserves to have one.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 871. D. 9, ‘05. 940w. |
Broughton, Rev. Leonard Gaston. Soul-winning church. [**]50c. Revell.
Some of the most effective addresses of the well-known revivalist are found in this volume. They have been delivered here and in England, and concern the work and workers of the church to-day, its doctrine and its hope.
“They are plain, pungent, and spiritually quickening, though blended with archaic matter that is intellectually offensive to the educated.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Broughton, Rhoda. Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.
The waif is a young minx of eighteen who, learned in the ways of the French demi-monde, is brought to England on her mother’s death and saddled upon the relatives of her father, a lax lord. She creates havoc in the straight-laced families which shelter her, but the end of all her schemes being to win a permanent home or to make a creditable match, she finally marries a peer, the widower of her first hostess.
[*] “Her new novel shows the old daring and spirit in the dialogue, though not quite the old raciness and spontaneity that kept everything and everybody alive.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 503. O. 14. 400w. |
[*] “Miss Broughton herself is more puzzled to know what to make of her and what to do with her than all the people in the book put together.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 383. N. 10, ‘05. 360w. |
[*] “While not up to her best work, it is still Rhoda Broughton—and that is a guarantee of interest and of quality unusual and piquant.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 370w. |
[*] “A good many of the details introduced to complete the picture are frankly repellant. It is rather melancholy to see Miss Broughton’s fine talent wasted on the conscientious delineation of ineffectual or uncomely types of goodness and decadence.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 531. O. 7, ‘05. 1000w. |
Brouner, Walter Brooks, and Fung Yuet Mow. Chinese made easy; with an introd. by Herbert A. Giles. [*]$6. Macmillan.
“This is a handsomely got-up book, with a red cloth cover and a gilt dragon impressed on it. The title-page is on the right hand and the pages of the book follow from right to left as in a Chinese book.... What ‘Chinese made easy’ teaches is one of the dialects spoken in the Canton province.... To be pronounced useful the book should have for title ‘Cantonese made easy,’ and the spelling should be made to correspond with that adopted in all other works on the subject, local deviations and solecisms being changed into their proper equivalents in standard Cantonese.”—Nation.
“Only those who are to work among the Cantonese natives, including many of the Chinese residents in the United States, may find it of some use.” F. Hirth.
| + — | Bookm. 20: 457. Ja. ‘05. 1160w. | |
| + — | Nation. 80: 179. Mr. 2, ‘05. 510w. |
[*] Brown, Abbie Farwell. Star jewels, and other wonders. [†]$1. Houghton.
“A collection of original, modern fairy stories, with the starfish as the theme—five stories, five little poems, and five pictures, like the points of the starfish.”—Critic.
[*] “Will be liked by children.”
| + | Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “A collection of wonder stories told in a simple and familiar way, but with a touch of poetry, a little play of imagination, and a refinement of feeling which separate them from most works of the same kind.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] Brown, Alice. Paradise. [†]$1.50. Houghton.
“Here, in a little story of country life and country character, we have at least five personalities clearly and entertainingly sketched, with a story of love, disappointment, and sacrifice, at times poignant in its depth of feeling, but nevertheless always treated with an underlying sense of humor.... Almost all of the characters are quaint and in a gentle way queer.” (Outlook.) The heroine is an orphan, who, after a varied experience is trying to train herself as a nurse.
[*] “The end rallies to a justification of the beginning, and stamps the whole as a little human document of fine quality.”
| + | Nation. 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 280w. |
[*] “The present story is not quite as ambitious to fill the place of a fully rounded-out novel as some of its predecessors, but it is perhaps none the less acceptable for that reason.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 140w. |
Brown, Anna Robeson (Mrs. C. H. Burr, jr.). Wine-press. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
The daughter of a New England mother and an Italian poet who deserted his wife for an actress who could interpret his dramas, meets her irresponsible half sister, the child of her father and this actress, at a woman’s college, and after graduation takes charge of her and witnesses her tragic end. Disillusioned, disgusted with both men and women, she is brought back to a normal attitude thru the influence of a nice young doctor.
“It is a study in feminine psychology carried out with uncommon insight, and deserves to be read with attentive interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 22: 38. S. ‘05. 230w. |
“The book is unconventional in its interest, and above the average of contemporary fiction.”
| + | Dial. 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w. | |
| Ind. 59: 208. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w. |
“It is due to Miss Brown to say that she has been most conspicuously successful where her task has been hardest; namely, where the homely and the tragic confront one another. Where weakness chiefly lies is in the limp into commonplace situation which all her ability has not averted.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 750w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 362. Je. 3, ‘05. 440w. |
“The author has developed an idea, not novel in itself, in a striking and unusual way.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 346. Je. 3. ‘05. 100w. |
Brown, Arthur Judson. [New forces in old China: an unwelcome but inevitable awakening.] [**]$1.50. Revell.
A study of the new forces now developing in China. The work “has for its object the description of those features which he thinks are to effect changes in China, and this will be due to Western trade, Western politics, and Western religion. D. C. Boulger’s words are: ‘the grip of the outer world has tightened around China. It will either strangle her or galvanize her into fresh life.’” (N. Y. Times). “Dr. Brown deals with many timely points in this book. Among them are the stupendous proportions of the economic revolution in China; the growth of the newspaper, of which there were none a decade ago and nearly a hundred to-day; Japan’s plan to arouse, organize and lead China; a question as to the responsibility of the missionaries for the trouble in China; the rapid development of American trade with China; an up-to-date statement of the Chinese railway system, and many other salient points.” (Bookm.)
“In rapid and highly interesting style, and in compact form, he arrays the evidences that make for the preservation, on a nobler plane, of the best ideas and the nobler outlook of the oldest of empires.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 91. Jl. ‘05. 130w. |
“Mr. Brown’s volume deserves general reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1280w. (Summary of ideas of book.) |
“This is a volume which will well repay careful study.”
| + + | Spec. 94:23. Ja. 7. ‘05. 550w. |
Brown, E. Burton-. Roman Forum, [*]$1. Scribner.
“A popular account of the excavations in the Roman Forum from 1898 to 1904 in handy form.... The book is intended not only to present information concerning the excavations, but also an account of the light they have thrown upon the religion and history of the Romans and through these upon the character of the people.... Well-known facts contained in the many previous publications about the Forum have been omitted; but the monuments that were not recently excavated have been noticed in their place, in order to make the little volume a complete handbook.”—N. Y. Times.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 350w. |
“Summarises in a clear, methodical and scholarly way all the latest discoveries.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 602. My. 6, ‘05. 90w. |
Brown, G. Baldwin. William Hogarth. [*]$1.25. Scribner.
“A fresh and independent treatment of Hogarth’s life and art.” As his life was spent at his work save for his runaway marriage, his French visit and arrest at Calais, and some sharp political controversy, the book deals chiefly with his paintings, their value, influence and humor. There are many illustrations.
“Mr. Brown gives a fairly satisfactory and correct summary of the leading incidents in the painter’s life but he has little that is original or enlightening to say concerning his art.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 839. Ag. 12, ‘05. 220w. |
“Concise, yet, within its necessary limits, really admirable monograph.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 248. Ag. 19. 1780w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 474. N. ‘05. 70w. | |
| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 150w. |
“Professor Baldwin Brown has written a very good book on Hogarth, and one which, in spite of its moderate size and price, will give the general reader a juster understanding of the true nature of Hogarth’s art than he is likely to get elsewhere.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 249. Ag. 4, ‘05. 1760w. |
“The volume is much better than the average of the series to which it belongs.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 187. Ag. 31, ‘05. 1860w. | |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 600w. |
Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes. In and around Venice. [*]$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Brown’s new volume has characteristics in common with his “Life on the lagoons,” viz., full sympathy with the people, love for their customs, their legends and their life. “The short papers vary as widely in subject as in treatment. Here one finds a careful account of the Campanile of San Marco and the loggetta of Sansovino, followed by a diagrammed description of the columns of the Piazzetta, which an architect might prize.... His trips to the mainland, including a voyage to Istria, furnish several papers on out-of-the-way places, which one is glad to see through his eyes.” (Nation.)
[*] “His book is compact enough to be taken abroad as a companion to the ordinary guidebooks, and may be heartily commended to the tourist as well as the general reader.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 70w. |
“Has made a charming book out of a number of facts about Venice, soberly told.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 339. O. 13, ‘05. 350w. |
“Some of his papers are slight, and in others there are repetitions; but, taken as a whole, this volume is a worthy successor to ‘Life on the lagoons.’”
| + + | Nation. 81: 189. Ag. 31, ‘05. 490w. |
“If the publishers had provided an index, or even a table of contents, its value, already considerable, would have been enhanced greatly.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 675. O. 14, ‘05. 630w. | |
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + + | Spec. 95: 432. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w. |
Brown, John. See MacBean, L., jt. auth. Marjorie Fleming.
Brown, Katharine Holland. Diane. [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
“‘A romance of the Icarian settlement on the Mississippi river’: a small body of French colonists with communistic views who had been brought to America by Pére Cabet; the story opens in 1856, when most of them were thoroughly tired of him.... But the schisms of the commune pale in interest beside the affairs of the American abolitionists who come into the story.... In one chapter Robert Channing is carrying runaway slaves to safety; in the next Pére Cabet is preaching his flock into rebellion. The petty affairs of the Icarians and the quarrel that shall shake the states run side by side. Their separate currents meet in the loves of Robert and Diane.”—Acad.
“The value of the story depends on its description of the commune, and to English readers on its sympathy with the intimate, tremendous issues forced on American men and women by the abolition of slavery. The novel is worth reading for the sake of its pictures of people so near us in point of time, so immeasurably removed from us in sentiment and surroundings. They have charm.”
| + | Acad. 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 240w. |
“But the tale, though full of faults, is a creation, and not a mere echo.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 237. F. 25. 330w. |
“Diane is thoroughly lovable; other characters are vividly drawn and full of genuine pathos. The book is well written.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 50w. |
“There is, altogether, a great deal to read in ‘Diane,’ and although it suffers a little from faults of construction, it is on the whole a very good story.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 150w. |
Browne, George Waldo. St. Lawrence river: historical, legendary, picturesque. [**]$3.50. Putnam.
The great river is described from the ocean to the lake, and the men who were connected with it are brought in in chronological order, Cartier, Champlain, Frontenac, LaSalle, Wolfe, Montcalm, and the early voyageurs. There is an account of Indian wars, and a fine blending of past scenes and present scenery. There are one-hundred full page illustrations.
“The text appears not to be inadequate, ... but no one can think the style good or graceful.”
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 949. Jl. ‘05. 110w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w. |
“Within its limits the book is satisfactory, and a good map adds to its value.”
| + | Dial. 39: 210. O. 1, ‘05. 420w. |
“The author of the book before us has told the story of the St. Lawrence and of early Canada in a most interesting manner.”
| + | Engin. N. 53: 642. Je. 15, ‘05. 460w. |
“Mr. Browne manifests no great originality or literary power, but he weaves together history and geography, legend and description with sufficient skill to make it all readable to one who has any interest in the subject.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1256. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w. |
“It is a choice company of readers who will hail its appearance with cordial greetings.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 497. O. 7, ‘05. 800w. |
“Of course in a book of 365 pages there are some good things; the index, for example, so far as it goes, is one of them.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 375. Ja. 10, ‘05. 620w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w. |
Browne, Henry. Handbook of Homeric study. [*]$2. Longmans.
Opening with a discussion of the Homeric poems this volume contains commentaries on the Homeric bards; historical outlines of the Homeric controversy, chapters on Homeric life, the Homeric people, and “The epic art of Homer.” There are twenty-two illustrations in half-tone, an “approximate” chronology, and an index.
“It is an honest, candid, careful, and within its limits, it is a lucidly arranged book.” Andrew Lang.
| + + | Acad. 68: 487. My. 6, ‘05. 1540w. |
“The book would have gained greatly had the author waited a few years to digest his material. We also complain that there is no bibliography.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 39. Jl. 8, 840w. |
“Deserves the highest commendation.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 842. S. ‘05. 350w. |
“An eminently modern, although probably not final, word on the study of Homer.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 410w. |
“Treated with conspicuous judgment and moderation the complex topic of the Homeric literature.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 300w. |
Browne, John Hutton Balfour. South Africa: a glance at current conditions and politics. $2.50. Longmans.
A description of a voyage from England to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria with a rather superficial treatment of present social and political questions.
“A two-hundred-page volume of impressions, views, opinions, deductions, and half-baked facts which can only be characterized as superficial and misleading when they are not absolutely inaccurate. Has committed to paper a vast amount of untrustworthy information.”
| — — — | Acad. 68: 242. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 210. Ap. 8, ‘05. 220w. | ||
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 459. Jl. 8, ‘05. 670w. |
“His book is very loosely put together. Mr. Balfour-Browne often fails either in observation or in accurate description.”
| — — + | Sat. R. 99: 743. Je. 3, ‘05. 1060w. |
[*] “Whatever he says is forcible and lucid.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 503. O. 7, ‘05. 560w. |
Browne, Mary. Diary of a girl in France in 1821; with introd. by Euphemia Stewart Browne. [*]$2.50. Dutton.
The self-illustrated diary of a little fourteen year old English girl, who spent the summer of 1821 in France. She regards her fine scorn for all things French as loyalty to everything that is English. At times her comments run close to humor though no one tells her that they do, and she could not discover the fact herself.
“This is a perfectly irresistible book, a pure delight to all lovers of children and quaintness.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 708. Jl. 8, ‘05. 740w. | |
| Ath. 1905, 2: 175. Ag. 5. 510w. |
[*] “Incidentally the book is an interesting picture of French life almost a century ago as seen through juvenile British eyes.”
| + | Critic. 47: 573. D. ‘05. 90w. |
“Since Marjorie Fleming wrote the ill-spelled pages of her delightful journal, no child’s diary has been published more fascinating, because none have been more unconscious or sincere, than ‘The diary of a girl in France in 1821.’”
| + + | Dial. 39: 244. O. 16, ‘05. 300w. |
“Little Mary is an accomplished grumbler.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 211. Je. 30, ‘05. 570w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 609. S. 16, ‘05. 160w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 120w. |
Brownell, Leverett White. Photography for the sportsman naturalist. [**]$2. Macmillan.
A book describing hunting with a camera in all its details, and illustrated with pictures made from life. There is much practical information concerning camera plates, the best methods to use in taking pictures, and the best processes to employ after they are taken.
“In the present work Mr. Brownell has gone into the subject thoroughly. The book may be called a first-rate guide to hunting with the camera.”
| + + | Baltimore Sun. : 8. Mr. 8. ‘05. 440w. |
“This book is packed full of practical directions.”
| + + | Country Calendar. 1: 221. Jl. ‘05. 70w. | |
| + + | Ind. 58: 900. Ap. 20, ‘05. 270w. |
“It is essentially a book for the novice.”
| + | Nation. 81: 263. S. 28, ‘05. 490w. |
“The book is by no means dry reading, the technical details being enlivened with numerous and appropriate anecdotes. Mr. Brownell has, in fact, succeeded in producing a treatise on practical field photography which it will be very hard to beat.” R. L.
| + + | Nature. 71: 483. Mr. 23, ‘05. 600w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 255. F. ‘05. 30w. |
Brownell, William Crary. [French art; classic and contemporary painting and sculpture.] $1.50. Scribner.
This new and enlarged edition contains a chapter on “Rodin and the institute” and the identical text of the illustrated edition of 1901.
| Dial. 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 50w. | ||
| + — | Nation. 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w. |
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. [Sonnets from the Portuguese.] $1. Century.
These sonnets which have had so large a share in immortalizing one of the “most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge,” once more make their appearance with a few of the love poems of Robert Browning, and this time in the dainty workmanship of the “Thumb nail series.” A frontispiece of Mrs. Browning, and an introduction by Richard Watson Gilder add to the value of the volume.
| * | + + | Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 30w. |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 80w. |
Browning, Oscar. Napoleon: the first phase: some chapters on the boyhood and the youth of Bonaparte, 1769-1793. [*]$3.50. Lane.
Napoleon’s boyhood in Corsica, his education at Brienne and Paris, his relations with Paoli, and his career down to Toulon are given in detail. Appendices contain three selections from Napoleon’s writings and some original documents from the British museum concerning the siege of Toulon. The illustrations are largely taken from old paintings and drawings.
“Comparison is inevitable, and recent Napoleonic literature has established so high a standard in this branch of history that Mr. Oscar Browning suffers by being inopportune.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 694. Jl. 1, ‘05. 360w. |
“In regard to historical accuracy as distinct from literary presentment, the volume is, on the whole meritorious.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 774. Je. 24. 1140w. |
“Altogether this is an important contribution to the study of Napoleon’s early career, clearing away the accretions of legend and presenting the known facts with satisfactory fulness.” Henry B. Bourne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 241. O. 16, ‘05. 920w. |
“The author tells his story in a business like way, with no superfluous adornments save in the matter of panegyric, and that he leaves on the reader’s mind a distinct impression of the young Bonaparte as a brave, eager, lovable, and virtuous youth. Whether the picture is altogether true to life will perhaps be doubted by those who weigh carefully the evidence, even as here presented in the narrative and in Appendix I.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 226. Jl. 14, ‘05. 930w. |
“Carelessness, to use no more unpleasant word, is the predominant note of the book.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 151. Ag. 17, ‘05. 730w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w. |
“There is in it practically nothing new, nothing that has not been told earlier and told better.”
| — — | N. Y. Times. 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 450w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 509. O. ‘05. 50w. |
“If Mr. Browning had refrained from pushing his hero-worship to such extravagant lengths, he might have written a book of greater weight, but in spite of these slips he has given us a treatise of deep interest which will not detract from the reputation he has already attained in this field of historical inquiry.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 811. Je. 17. ‘05. 1610w. |
“Presenting his results in a readable and lively style which marked his ‘Age of the Condottieri’ and his notable little biography of ‘Swedish Charles.’”
| + + | Spec. 95: 495. O. 7, ‘05. 2780w. |
Browning, Robert. [Select poems]; ed. with introd. and notes, biographical and critical, by Andrew Jackson George. $1.50. Little.
The poems selected here range from “Pauline” to “Asolando”, and are so chosen as to reveal the principles which formed the mind and fashioned the art of Browning.
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “Browning has everything to gain and nothing to lose from such intelligent editorship as that shown in this volume.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 230w. |
Browning, Robert. [Blot in the ‘scutcheon, Colombe’s birthday, A soul’s tragedy, and In a balcony.] 60c. Heath.
This is a volume in section 3, “the English drama from its beginning to the present day,” in the Belles-lettres series. The texts are those of the latest editions, and there is a scholarly introduction and brief biography, bibliography, and glossary.
“If Browning is to be considered as a dramatist, and by an editor who is willing to accept him as a dramatist, perhaps the present edition is all that we have the right to expect.” Brander Matthews.
| + — | Educ. R. 29: 198. F. ‘05. 340w. |
Browning, Robert. [Pied piper of Hamelin.] $1.25. Wessels.
Browning’s poem made attractive for children by numerous ingenious colored illustrations, the work of Van Dyck.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 30w. |
Brudno, Ezra Selig. Little conscript. [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
The little conscript is a Jew pledged to the synagogue whose life is devoted against his will to the service of the czar. A truthful picture of Russia of to-day is presented, including military and peasant life. There is sidelight information on the methods of force and fraud employed in organizing and maintaining the army.
“Throughout his book, Mr. Brudno’s style is deliberately simple at times to the verge of crudeness. It would have been improved by a certain amount of relentless pruning.”
| + — | Bookm. 22: 37. S. ‘05. 280w. | |
| Ind. 59: 581. S. 7, ‘05. 90w. |
“He is a Russian who has much English yet to learn. Is not a novel, though it may contain some ugly chapters of Russian history.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 660w. |
“The end is black and depressing but the value of the book as a great human document and as a strong indictment of the political and military methods of a great nation remains with the reader.”
| + + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w. |
“Is a much more appealing piece of literature than ‘The white terror and the red,’ but not, we suspect, so trustworthy an account of actual conditions.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 140w. |
Brumbaugh, Martin Grove. Making of a teacher. $1. S. S. times co.
“This book is on ‘How to teach.’ Its emphasis all through is where the emphasis needs to be laid, upon the trained teacher. The first part of the book is a simple, clear series of lessons on pedagogy; then follow chapters on the Teacher, the Courses of study, the Educational principles of Jesus; and finally several wise chapters on the scope of religious education. The illustrative materials, the captions, and the arrangement are excellent, and the book is made admirable as a text-book for normal classes by suggestive questions at the close of each chapter.”—Bib. World.
“It is no exaggeration to say that the book by Dr. Brumbaugh is just now the one most needed in the Sunday-school world.” Wm. Byron Forbush.
| + + + | Bib. World. 26: 395. N. ‘05. 170w. |
“He has done his work well.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 811. O. 5, ‘05. 140w. |
Bryan, Michael. Dictionary of painters and engravers. 5v. subs. [*]$30; hf. mor. [*]$50. Macmillan.
The present volume (S-Z) is the fifth and last of the 1904-5 edition of this valuable reference work, and contains over a hundred full-page illustrations. This is the fourth edition of the work which has appeared since 1816 when it was first published, and it includes 1200 new biographies.
“The revision has been very thorough throughout the volume.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 368. Ap. 1, ‘05. 210w. |
“The dictionary is now as complete as it can be made, and the work has been done with the greatest care.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 140w. |
“A work which should be absolutely indispensable to every one interested in art or artists.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1480. Je. 29, ‘05. 300w. |
[*] “Another great and invaluable work of historical narrative and critical comment, ranking in its field with Grove in the field of music.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. (Review of v. 5.) | |
| + + + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 87. Je. ‘05. 340w. |
“Thoroughness of research and fulness of detail are the most salient characteristics of the text of a work that will be an inexhaustible mine of wealth to all future students of art history.”
| + + + | Int. Studio. 27: 88. N. ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“The conclusion must be that the great new ‘Dictionary’ is not well and strongly edited; that no proportionate scale has been maintained. In spite of all that, it is still the most useful dictionary of painters we have, and also a relatively good dictionary of engravers.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 488. Je. 15, ‘05. 1200w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“We may be pardoned, therefore, in the face of the fulsome praise already uttered, if we make two items of adverse criticism—one is in regard to judgment and the other concerns facts. The biographical sketches attached to the names actually included in the volumes are meagre, careless, and inaccurate.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 401. Je. 17, ‘05. 340w. |
“The fifth volume has the merits and defects of the rest.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. |
Bryce, James. Constitutions. [*]$1.25. Oxford.
This volume includes six of the sixteen essays by Mr. Bryce, published in 1901 under the title, “Studies in history and jurisprudence.” The essays are as follows: Flexible and rigid constitutions: The action of centripetal and centrifugal forces on political constitutions; Primitive Iceland; The constitution of the United States as seen in the past; Two South African constitutions; The constitution of the commonwealth of Australia.
| Nation. 81: 75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 190w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 613. S. 16, ‘05. 560w. |
Bryce, James. [Holy Roman empire.] [*]$1.50. Macmillan.
“Not only has Mr. Bryce rewritten the work with a view to a clearer presentation of the theories it elaborates, but he has met and admirably overcome the criticisms to which it was formerly exposed—the seeming neglect of certain striking personalities and events, the inadequate treatment of the Byzantine empire, and the expression of views rendered untenable by the political developments of the past quarter of a century.... The more important changes ... of his work may be briefly summarized. In chapter V. Mr. Bryce, discussing the reluctance of Charles the Great to assume the imperial title, incorporates the theories of Dahn and Hodgkin; in chapter VII, he enters into a broader explanation of the theories that went to sustain the empire through the middle ages; chapter XIII., on ‘The fall of the Hohenstaufen,’ he considerably enlarges by the inclusion of a fuller account of the momentous struggle between Louis IV. and Pope John XXII.; in chapter XIV. he develops the early electoral system under the Germanic constitution; in chapter XV. the theories regarding the source of civil authority, a vexed question subsequent to the struggle of the investitures, are discussed more largely; chapter XVI., ‘The city of Rome in the middle ages,’ contains new studies of Arnold of Brescia and Cola di Rienzo. Chapter XVII. is entirely new, embodying an account of the Eastern empire and affording a comprehensive idea of the impress made on history by the people and rulers of New Rome; finally, in Chapter XVIII., the attempts to reform the Germanic constitution are disclosed in greater detail. To this it should be added that the text is more fully annotated, that greatly needed maps are supplied, and that, in addition to the chronological list of popes and emperors found in previous editions, there is a compact and helpful table of salient events connected with the empire.”—Outlook.
| + + + | Critic. 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 50w. |
“The two new chapters exhibit Mr. Bryce’s capacity for brilliant historical generalisation at its best.” H. A. L. F.
| + + + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 605. Jl. ‘05. 320w. |
“The identity of the book is by no means lost in the revision, for the changes have not been such as to alter the general mode of treatment, nor to increase the size of the work beyond the limits of a single volume.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 560w. |
“But not since the edition of 1873 has it shown such changes as are now apparent—changes which, while not materially affecting the main argument, are nevertheless of a character and extent that make the present edition completely supersede its predecessors. He has met and has admirably overcome the criticisms to which it was formerly exposed. The revision he has found it necessary to make in his exposition of the rise, decline, and fall of the ancient empire is of an elucidatory rather than a corrective nature.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 443. F. 18, ‘05. 2010w. |
“Now more than ever before deserves high rank as a text-book. It is still centered upon a single idea and institution, empire and popedom in the middle ages. On this subject it is the standard English authority.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 26. Ja. 5, ‘05. 250w. |
“This latest edition has taken into account fully the results of modern historical research. A concluding chapter, sketching the constitution of the new German empire and the forces which have given it strength and cohesion, has been appended. A chronological table and three maps have also been added, and the book has been revised throughout. Typographically it is very satisfactory.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 247. F. ‘05. 100w. | |
| + + + | Spec. 94: 408. Mr. 18. ‘05. 2120w. |
Buchanan, Thompson. Judith triumphant. [†]$1.50. Harper.
The siege of the Assyrians under Holofernes against the Jews of Bethulia is the field of this romance. Judith, its heroine, goes forth into the camp of the enemy at the risk of her life and honor, in the hope of saving her people. The dangers she encountered, the brutality of Holofernes, the intrigues of Nin-Gul, the dancing girl, whom she has supplanted in the affections of Holofernes and her love for the Ammonite captain, who devotes himself to her interests, form the theme of the story.
“Appears to possess no unusual or particular qualities to distinguish it from the vast number of other equally interesting and entertaining narratives of the same period. For quick and easy reading, however, with plenty of spirit and no little action it can be highly commended.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 279. Ap. 29, ‘05. 190w. |
“Told with some skill and much vigor.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 27. Jl. 1. ‘05. 120w. |
Buckham, James. Wayside altar. [*]$1. Meth. bk.
A collection of poems which contain a mellow philosophy and treat of the hereafter, and the deep contentment attending true Christian living.
Buckmaster, Martin A. Descriptive handbook of architecture. [*]$1.25. Dutton.
There is a strong plea in Mr. Buckmaster’s preface for the study of historical architecture in our elementary schools. “Though this historian of architecture does no more than merely to outline the various styles and briefly to trace their development, he does this in such untechnical, though not over-picturesque language, that those who read his text to the end will wish to learn more about architecture and in greater detail.” (Outlook.)
[*] “As a popular elementary text-book on the history of architecture this little book is certainly welcome. It is brightly and clearly written.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 475. O. 7. 550w. |
[*] “It would probably have been better had the author dealt with one period of architecture, and have done that thoroughly, rather than have taken up so large a field. It has resulted in an essay which is ‘scrappy.’”
| + — — | Nature. 73: 52. N. 16, ‘05. 370w. |
[*] “A valuable vade mecum for the student of the history of architecture.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 330w. |
“To the average reader Mr. Buckmaster’s text is particularly useful; first, because he has appended thereto a glossary of architectural terms, and secondly, because he has illustrated that glossary.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 270w. |
Buell, Augustus C. History of Andrew Jackson, pioneer, patriot, soldier, politician, president. 2v. [**]$4. Scribner.
A comprehensive biography based upon public and private documents, and personal recollections of eminent men and women. The long life of the man of many-sided character and varied activities is given in full with the history of his time in the background.
“Against Mr. Buell’s style of expression one cannot bring the charge of dullness. He has written with alertness and clearness. He has given us a personal biography in which an abundance of incident and many amusing anecdotes are introduced. Mr. Buell’s facile narrative is full of errors great and small. There are in the book serious omissions of facts.” John Spencer Bassett.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 667. Ap. ‘05. 450w. |
“Mr. Buell gives the fullest and most elaborate description [of the battle of New Orleans] which we have seen.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 540w. |
“From such tokens—as from laxities of style sufficient to rouse a suspicion that every statement will not bear scrutiny—the reader finds his confidence in the historical value of the book impaired. To the author’s credit it must also be said that he has performed with marked success the difficult task of giving a fairly intelligible account of the two great battles of Jackson’s life,—the battle of New Orleans, and the fight against the United States bank. This is manifestly one of the works to which future students of the man and period must have recourse.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
| + + — | Atlan. 95: 132. Ja. ‘05. 710w. |
“The work is written in a spirit that may well be characterized as judicial, although in places the author leans far too heavily on Parton. We are inclined to class the work, at this writing, as the best biography of Jackson that has appeared.”
| + + + | Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 810w. |
“As a mass of biographical material, pleasantly and honestly presented, these volumes have a real value, especially to the student who can remove the chaff.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 710w. |
“There are occasions also, it is to be feared, where Mr. Buell suffers his personal Anglo-phobism to interfere with his facts.”
| — | Lond. Times. 4: 231. Jl. 21, ‘05. 460w. |
“It is not a balanced work in execution. It exhibits a singular incapacity to weigh testimony and to judge the contemporaries. It would be a fruitless task to follow Mr. Buell in his many errors of statement, for no chapter is free from them.”
| — — — | Nation. 80: 77. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1460w. |
Bullen, Frank Thomas. Denizens of the deep. [**]$1.75. Revell.
“A study-built book.... The subjects of Mr. Bullen’s collection of short stories are animals that cause the reader to have a vivid conception of the life of the inhabitants of the deep. There are many different specimens of these denizens considered, whales and sharks and seals and sea lions, or sea elephants, as Mr. Bullen calls them, and the birds of the sea as well as the fishes. We find that there is a story about every one of the more important birds.... And the narratives are not all fictional.”—Baltimore Sun.
“When the narrative is not fiction it is full of information conveyed in a delightful manner. The author writes easily and accurately, and his work, whether taken as a collection of interesting stories of fish and of bird life or as contribution to popular natural history, is deserving of praise.”
| + + | Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 380w. | |
| + | Dial. 38: 242. Ap. 1, ‘05. 250w. |
“Is certainly as charming in style and graphic in description. All sorts of representatives of the reptilian and finny tribes are introduced and made as familiar as men we know.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 124. Ja. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Bumpus, T. Francis. Cathedrals of England and Wales. [**]$4. Pott.
“This volume is a detailed account of the architectural features of a number of English cathedral churches, prefaced by a sketch of the general characteristics of cathedrals and of the development of cathedral building in England and Wales. It is, of course, copiously illustrated from photographs of the exteriors and interiors of the edifices treated, and the author takes up each cathedral historically.... The book is intended for students (or at any rate connoisseurs) of cathedral architecture.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The book has all the marks of close observation and a real knowledge of what is and what is not good art and good archaeology.”
| + | Nation. 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 430w. |
[*] “It is not a popular but a serious work.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “Mr. Bumpus’ style has a refreshing air of the gossiping antiquary.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 528. O. 21, ‘05. 1140w. | |
| * | + | Spec. 95: 324. S. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
Bunyan, John. [Pilgrim’s progress: from this world to that which is to come.] $2. Macmillan.
Just the text and Gertrude Hammond’s eight pictures, “good in themselves, and excellent examples of modern processes of color printing” make up this new edition of “The Pilgrim’s progress.”
“We are inclined to doubt whether Mr. White, in his otherwise admirable monograph, need have given a fifth of his space to what is really an abridgement of the famous narrative.”
| + + — | Bookm. 21: 358. Je. ‘05. 460w. |
“Attractive edition.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 87. F. 11, ‘05. 290w. |
“This is an admirable edition, so far as paper type, and size go.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 40w. |
Burdett, Sir Henry. Hospital and charities annual, 1905; being the year book of philanthropy and the hospital annual. [*]$2. Scribner.
An account of the hospitals and charities of the United Kingdom, India, the British colonies and the United States. The work of various branches, such as free dispensaries and military hospitals is described, and hospital administration, officials, details of staff, the number of patients and the income of each institution are given. A copious index renders the book convenient for reference.
“A wonderfully complete record of hospitals and charitable undertakings.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 144, Mr. 4, ‘05. 130w. |
Burgoyne, Frank J., ed. History of Queen Elizabeth, Amy Robsart, and the Earl of Leicester: being a reprint of “Leycester’s commonwealth,” 1641. [*]$2.50. Longmans.
This work, of unknown authorship, was first printed 1584, it was translated into French and Latin, was proscribed by the queen in England and burned whenever found, by the officers of the law. It depicted Leicester as an “inhuman monster” and charged him with many crimes among them the murder of Amy Robsart. The queen officially denied the charges and Leicester’s nephew, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote an indignant answer to them.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 708. Ap. ‘05. 130w. | ||
| Critic. 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 190w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w. |
“The editor has done little beside write a necessary introduction.”
| + | South Atlantic Quarterly. 4: 93. Ja. ‘05. 260w. |
Burke, Edmund. American taxation: ed. by James Hugh Moffatt. 25c. Ginn.
A fully annotated copy of Burke’s speech for class room use.
Burkitt, F. Crawford. Early eastern Christianity: St. Margaret’s lectures, 1904, on the Syriac speaking church. [*]$2. Dutton.
“It is far Eastern Christianity with which these lectures are concerned, not that of the Greek and other Eastern churches within the ancient Roman world. Its chief seat was Edessa, in the Euphrates valley, the ancient ‘Ur of the Chaldees, the fatherland of Abraham.’ ... Into this unfamiliar field these lectures conduct the reader, through an interesting account of the Bible, the theology, and the internal life of a long extinct but once flourishing and distinctively characterized church.”—Outlook.
| Ind. 58: 1367. Je. 15, ‘05. 90w. |
“It is, then, especially in this fertility of ideas and suggestion that the value of Mr. Burkitt’s book lies.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 105. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1360w. |
“The task is difficult, and despite the careful study made by Prof. Burkitt the result leaves much to be desired. The data is uncertain and mixed up with legend and fable. Lectures have their value, if only to make comparisons between the beliefs of to-day and those of the past.”
| + — | N. Y Times. 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 580w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 245. Ja. 28, ‘05. 120w. |
Burland, Harris. Black motor car. [†]$1.50. Dillingham.
An exciting story of a man who, when young, stole some money for a woman’s sake and on the death of his neglected wife turned against her. She in anger betrayed him to the police. He serves his term in prison, and twenty years later builds the black motor car, commits burglaries and murders, captures and tortures a man who turns out to be his own son, and seeks out the woman who had ruined his life to kill her, but is foiled in his revenge, for she is already dead. The whole thing culminates one night in a race for life, he in his black car, the whole country aroused and armed and waiting for him. The criminal maniac escapes them all, however, but meets his death in a quicksand.
“Mr. Burland does not waste words in his story. He has a good yarn to tell, and does not stand on art to do it.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 197. Ap. 1, ‘05. 480w. |
“It is a story with thrills and shivers.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w. |
“For those who love horrors and melodrama, this book will furnish a feast.”
| — | Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 70w. |
“May be characterized as a freak tale.”
| — | Pub. Opin. 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 90w. |
Burnaby, Andrew. Travels through the middle settlements of North America; ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. [**]$2. Wessels.
“Another volume of the ‘Source books of American history,’ and a notable one; first published in 1775, reprinted the next year, soon translated into French and German, and reissued in enlarged form in 1798, from which this new reprint is made. It is hardly necessary to say that a book with such a history, and long out of print, richly deserves to be rescued from the obscurity into which it had fallen in the lapse of more than a century.”—Critic.
“Of critical notes there are none, which seems unfortunate. The form of the book is, however, very attractive, and the narrative was well worth reprinting even without editorial annotations.” F. H. H.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 445. Ja. ‘05. 220w. | |
| Critic. 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 80w. | ||
| + | Ind. 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 130w. | |
| Nation. 80: 51. Ja. 19, ‘05. 200w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 220w. |
Burne-Jones, Georgiana. Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones. 2v. [**]$6. Macmillan.
While the attitude of the real man towards his thoroly idealized art fills the pages of Lady Burne-Jones’s “Memorials,” “it is not the painter to whom we are introduced so much as the man, and a very straightforward, single-minded and lovable character we find him.” (N. Y. Times). “The author has very wisely avoided any artistic appreciation of her husband’s work as a painter, but has taken great pains to collect all the facts relating to his family, its origin, his education and early tendencies, his friendships and ideas, often quoting his own words from letters to friends.” (Nation).
“The whole book is filled with the poet’s personality, and little anecdotes of his sayings and doings. G. B.-J. has worthily carried out her task, and the world is the richer for the story of a great artist and a lovable and much-loved man.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 24. Ja. 7. 2290w. |
“She presents him in a wise Boswellian way, mainly by the record of his daily speech and acts. The result is a very clear impression of a personality of great, of surprising power and charm.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + + | Atlan. 95: 423. Mr. ‘05. 1130w. |
“It is a wonderful revelation of an intensely interesting and lovable personality. A striking feature of these volumes is the never-failing humour of Burne-Jones’s letters and of the many comic sketches that enliven the text. Lady Burne-Jones has given us a biography that is at once a life record of deep human interest and an invaluable contribution to the history of English painting in the Victorian era.”
| + + | Contemporary R. 87: 294. F. ‘05. 1980w. |
“It is a true and an appreciative record of the man and his life-work.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 46: 118. F. ‘05. 1090w. |
“It is only fair to Lady Burne-Jones to say at once that she has avoided every pitfall that lay along her path, and has made the most of every pleasure that the excursion afforded.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 1930w. |
“She reveals in this book a skill in construction and a charm of style that would do credit to a writer of established reputation.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + | Forum. 36: 553. Ap. ‘05. 2170w. |
“She would have shown a finer devotion to his memory had she reduced the bulk of these two volumes to one. Having made our own abridgement, we have little but praise for Mrs. Burne-Jones’s work. To our mind the best part of the narrative is that which contains the experiences of Burne-Jones at Oxford and during the first years in London, while the Oxford influence was still upon him. Mrs. Burne-Jones has a happy knack, all the more artful for its extreme simplicity, of hitting off the great men of the day as they come into her circle.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 263. F. 2, ‘05. 720w. | |
| * | + + | Ind. 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
“No more deeply interesting biography has appeared of late years than this tribute to the memory of Sir Edward Burne-Jones from the pen of his widow. Its one drawback is the fact that the illustrations are not in the least representative of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.”
| + + — | Int. Studio. 24: 367. F. ‘05. 420w. |
“Lady Burne-Jones seems especially endowed with the qualities needed for the task; she writes with convincing sincerity and a sense of humor, and has the gift of literary style. Her readers cannot fail to get a vivid impression of Burne-Jones’s fascinating personality.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 115. F. 9, ‘05. 2780w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 140w. |
“Lady Burne-Jones writes from a standpoint of knowledge and sympathy impossible to anyone else, and we can but admire the skill with which she has arranged the material. The narrative is full, but never confused, and the characters of the men and women who pass through the pages are drawn with rare ease and distinctness.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 111. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1920w. |
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townesend). [In the closed room.] [†]$1.50. McClure.
The father and mother of Judith, a strange visionary child of the tenements, are called to be caretakers of the big empty house with the closed room where a little girl has died. Judith mysteriously passes thru the locked door and plays with the child who is dead and her toys until this strange spiritual bond is tightened and little Judith is drawn into the land of spirits.
“She is artistically vague and not dogmatic. The story is accomplished with a fleeting, caressing touch; it has a considerable charm and is very suggestive.”
| + | Reader. 5: 785. My. ‘05. 370w. |
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townesend). [Little princess: being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time.] [†]$2. Scribner.
The story of Sara Crewe and what happened at Miss Minchen’s school, which charmed its young readers years ago, appears once more in holiday garb with a dozen beautiful colored plates by Ethel Franklin Betts. The book has grown and the present volume includes all the new matter which was put into the successful play called the “Little princess,” and also much matter newer still which was inserted when the play came to be transformed once more into a story.
| * | Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. |
| + + — | Nation. 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 230w. | |
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 380w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “Is the leading child’s book of the year.”
| + + + | R of Rs. 32: 764. D. ‘05. 470w. |
Burney, Frances (Madame D’Arblay). [Diary and letters of Madame D’Arblay]; ed. by her niece, Charlotte Barrett. 6v. ea. [*]$2.50. Macmillan.
A new edition of the famous diary, with preface and notes by Austin Dobson, photogravure portraits and other illustrations. It extends from the issue of “Evelina” to the author’s death (1778-1840).
| Acad. 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w. (Review of Vol I.) | ||
| Acad. 68: 331. Mr. 25, ‘05. 620w. (Review of Vols. II and III.) | ||
| + + + | Acad. 68: 743. Jl. 15, ‘05. 250w. (Review of v. 6.) | |
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 709. Ap. ‘05. 50w. | ||
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 233. Ag. 19. 2870w. | |
| Nation. 80: 92. F. 2, ‘05. 70w. (Reviews of vols. 1-3.) | ||
| Nation. 80: 317. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1510w. (Reviews of Vols. I.-III.) |
“The foot-notes are precisely what one must desire for such a text.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 113. F. 25, ‘05. 1910w. (Reviews of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 640w. (Review of Vols. III. and IV.) | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 343. My. 27. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 5.) | ||
| + | Outlook. 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 210w. (Reviews of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The value of this edition is greatly increased by the complete general index in the last volume, each volume having its own index as well. On the mechanical side the edition leaves nothing to be desired, while on the editorial side Mr. Austin Dobson has brought thorough knowledge and ... sympathetic appreciation.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“Madame D’Arblay’s diary is her masterpiece, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is as good as a novel, for it is composed in all respects like a work of fiction. The diary from beginning to end is written in Miss Burney’s characteristic style; it is not marred in a single page by Johnsonese, and we believe that it will be read even when ‘Evelina’ itself has become a curiosity.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 141. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
[*] Burr, William Hubert, and Falk, Myron Samuel. Design and construction of metallic bridges. $5. Wiley.
This book is based upon the ninth edition of Prof. Burr’s standard work, “The stresses in bridge and roof trusses, arched ribs and suspension bridges.” “The book consists of ten chapters, the first of which is A historical sketch of bridge building.... Chapter II. is devoted to the general types of trusses, loads and specifications, and contains the most recent practice in railroad and highway bridges.... Chapter III. treats of moments and shears, and of the design of plate girders.... Chapter IV. and V. treat of all kinds of trusses with parallel and horizontal chords and with chords not parallel.... To the chapter on swing bridges has been added the treatment of these bridges by the method of deflections, with examples in each case.... The book concludes with chapters on wind stresses and details of construction.”—Engin. N.
[*] “It may be stated that the book reflects well the advance in the design of metallic bridges, and is a worthy successor to the old standard which it replaces.” Leon S. Moisseiff.
| + + | Engin. N. 54: 531. N. 16, ‘05. 930w. |
Burrage, Champlin. Church covenant idea: its origin and its development. [**]$1. Am. Bapt.
“Mr. Burrage has reproduced a great many covenants of the early Baptist and Congregational churches. They are, like the early Christian oaths, pledges of loyalty to standards of right living to a remarkable degree. The beginnings of the covenant idea are found among the German Anabaptists of the reformation period. Mr. Burrage is very modest in the claim he makes for any Anabaptist roots of the Scotch covenants. These, culminating in the Solemn league and covenant of 1643, were quite apart from the main course of the development of the covenant idea. They were all covenants to maintain a fixed order of belief and worship. In conclusion, it is confessed that ‘the covenant idea has ceased almost entirely to have for us the great significance it had for the early New England colonists.’”—Nation.
“It is a splendid specimen of scholarly method and interest.”
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 9: 383. Ap. ‘05. 110w. | |
| + | Nation. 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 370w. |
Burrage, Henry Sweetser. History of the Baptists in Maine. $2. Marks ptg. house, Portland, Me.
This history “covers the period from about 1675 to the present time. It treats freely the educational and temperance activities of the denomination, its connection with the anti-slavery agitation, its missionary labors, and the growth of its church organizations.”—Am. J. of Theol.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 50w. |
“Leaves little to be desired by persons interested in the Baptist history of the state of Maine.”
| + + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 383. Ap. ‘05. 90w. |
Burrill, Katharine. Corner stones. [*]$1.25. Dutton.
A book which pleads for the old-time leisurely courtesy and a home education for girls. “The volume is made up of essays, several of which appeared in a London magazine, to girls on friendship, cleanliness, duty to parents, letter writing, cooking, etc. In her ‘Foreword,’ the author speaks of the modern girl. She does not believe in sending a girl away from home for her education. The mother is the best teacher. ‘It is better,’ she writes, ‘to keep a girl at home, if all she learns is spelling and simple arithmetic.’” (N. Y. Times). While it appeals strongly to English girls, it is no less a book with a mission for the American girl.
“The ethical purpose of the book and its pleadings for sweeter manners are sufficiently plain, and are handled so wittily, with such lurking fun and brimming humor, that their assimilation is an easy and pleasant process. In its pages it never outsports discretion. As a gospel of goodness it is eminently reasonable, and its style has the charm of unconsciousness.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 107. F. 18, ‘05. 450w. |
“It is a series of monitory chapters upon all sorts of social and moral observances delivered in slangy English.”
| — | Outlook. 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 100w. |
Burroughs, John. Far and near. [**]$1.50. Houghton.
“My life has gone on, my love of nature has continued, my habit of observation has been kept up, and the combined result is another collection of papers dealing with the old, inexhaustible, open-air themes.” So says Mr. Burroughs. The “far” scenes described are those in “green Alaska” and Jamaica. The “near” pictures are of the wild life around his home on the Hudson river. Nearly half of the book is devoted to an account of his Alaskan trip in 1899 as a member of the Harriman expedition. The only heretofore unpublished essay of the group is that in which he tells how he lost February and found August in Jamaica. Mr. Burroughs’s northern soul however, takes little pleasure in nature in her tropical aspect. He “cannot make love to her there.” She “has little winsomeness or tenderness. She is barbaric; she is painty and stiff; she has no sentiment; she does not touch the heart.”
“Humdrum, undistinguished style. It is kindly wholesome stuff.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 271. F. 25. 180w. |
[*] “He records impressions however slight and incidents however trivial, but it is all done with that charming double gift of his for seeing everything as if for the first and only time, and of making others see it in the same way.” F. M. Colby.
| + + | Bookm. 20: 475. Ja. ‘05. 190w. |
“The records of far journeys in this new book may not add greatly to his reputation, but they serve the gracious purpose of showing us an old friend in new surroundings.”
| + | Dial. 38: 19. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10:5. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w. | |
| R. of Rs. 30: 757. D. ‘04. 100w. | ||
| + + | Spec. 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 300w. |
[*] Burroughs, John. [Ways of nature.] [**]$1.10. Houghton.
In these essays Mr. Burroughs, who has ranged himself upon the side of those who protest against animal stories which humanize animal life, not only sets forth his own views, in which he declares that animals share our emotional but not our intellectual nature, but also defends himself from recent attacks upon his theories and gives counter arguments.
[*] “This book succeeds in presenting what may be judged as a rational view of Nature’s methods.”
| + | Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘06. 70w. |
Reviewed by May Estelle Cook.
| * | + | Dial. 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 420w. |
[*] “One reads the little volume with extreme pleasure, drawing from its pages an uplifting sense of air and light.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “The whole discussion is pervaded by Mr. Burroughs’ well-known charm of style and clearness of statement.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w. |
Burton, Charles Pierce. Boys of Bob’s hill; adventures of Tom Chapin and the “band” as told by the “secretary.” [†]$1.25. Holt.
The summer vacation of eight healthy-minded boy bandits who live at home and are petted and disciplined by turns, like most everyday boys, but when they climb Bob’s hill and enter their cave they are outlaws. They do many plucky things, and incidentally they start a forest fire, almost wreck a train, call out the fire department on the Fourth of July, and try to smoke real tobacco. The reader, whether he be boy or a grown-up, will follow their adventures with interest and will agree with the band that the hermit’s gold rightfully belongs to Tom.
| Outlook. 79: 1012. Ap. 22, ‘05. 40w. |
Burton, E. D. Short introduction to the Gospels. [*]$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
An introduction to Biblical literature which may become a distinct treasure to the student. Dr. Burton’s work is concise, and reveals a careful examination of the four gospels. There is added a chapter on the synoptic problem. “The chapter of ‘the gospel according to Matthew’ closing with a table of contents which exhibits excellently its general plan, will be welcome to all students of that difficult New Testament book.... The notes appended to the chapter on Luke’s gospel merit particular attention. Note II is on ‘The enrolment in the governorship of Quirinius.’ ... Dr. Burton’s view of the Johannine problem will command attention.” (Bib. World).
“Has a definite aim, and without superfluous words goes straight to its mark. It uses chiefly internal evidence, and asks each gospel to disclose its own secret. To expound the synoptic problem in less than twenty small pages of English is to do the impossible. No other book that the reviewer knows of does it so well as this.” Wm. Arnold Stevens.
| + | Bib. World. 25: 150. F. ‘05. 610w. |
Burton, E. D. Studies in the Gospel according to Mark. [*]$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
The “Studies” in Mark’s gospel is a book “for secondary classes.”
“The lessons have already borne the test of actual use by experienced teachers, and all the material appears to be admirably arranged. The appended dictionary, filling twelve pages, is an important feature.” Wm. Arnold Stevens.
| + | Bib. World. 25: 150. F. ‘05. 80w. | |
| Ind. 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 40w. |
Bury, John B. Life of St. Patrick and his place in history. [*]$3.25. Macmillan.
“The book opens with a chapter on the diffusion of Christianity beyond the Roman empire, followed by the story of the life of St. Patrick. The appendices contain the descriptions of the writings of St. Patrick and other documents from which the author drew the material for his biography; notes on the different chapters, and an excursus.”—N. Y. Times.
“Speaking generally, what chiefly impresses us in narrative and appendices alike is the constant presence of a wide and just sense of historical perspective which should not in the least dwarf the particular interest of the book.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 899. S. 2, ‘05. 2250w. |
“A life of St. Patrick in which careful and minute research has not quenched a bold and vivid imagination. The index ... is wholly insufficient and not prepared with a fraction of the care required.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 101. Jl. 22. 2360w. |
“Although, as we have seen, the Professor is absolutely beyond suspicion of any religious bias in favor of his hero, he gives us a picture of Patrick which may be called sympathetic.” James J. Fox.
| + + | Cath. World. 82: 145. N. ‘05. 5550w. |
“Perhaps some readers regret that Professor Bury has found it necessary to reject so much picturesque material, but students of the middle ages are likely to agree that in writing this biography the author has done a real service to the cause of Irish history.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 277. N. 1, ‘05. 490w. |
“The appendix ... is in many respects better reading than the body of the book. For the main portion is a little confusing from the way in which it gives all the legends and no clear criticism of them.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 239. Jl. 28, ‘05. 2390w. |
“The volume is built of hypotheses.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 980w. |
“A work whose technical merit is commensurate with its intrinsic interest. The main part of the work spreads before the general reader the sifted results of historical criticism.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 240w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 509. O. ‘05. 100w. |
“The sources are meagre, and Dr. Bury’s examination of them is masterly.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 438. S. 30, ‘05. 2270w. |
Butcher, S. H. Harvard lectures on Greek subjects. [*]$2.25. Macmillan.
If in the intense modernism of the present century we sometimes vaingloriously forget the debt we owe to the ancients, such scholars as Mr. Butcher do a real service in commanding a mindful attitude. While given at Harvard, the author addresses himself not only to scholars but to a mixed audience. “The first lecture compared in a singularly able and effective fashion the Greek spirit with the Jewish spirit, the Greek influence and the one other comparable with it.... Then he passes in the next lecture to a comparison of the Hellenes and the Phoenicians. These represent the pure commercial spirit. The next lecture deals specifically and enlighteningly with the quality of the Greek passion for knowledge. Still further lectures deal with ‘Greek art and inspiration,’ and with ‘Greek literary criticism.’” (N. Y. Times).
“These lectures are not only full of thought, they are also written, it is superfluous to say, in admirable English.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 48. Ja. 14, ‘05. 320w. |
[*] “The style throughout is admirable. It would be difficult to say too much in praise of this most scholarly book.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 717. N. 25. 1500w. |
“Mr. Butcher’s own style is admirably suited to such essays as these. No one can read them without recognizing how desirable it is that a synthetic mind like his should handle these larger questions of classical scholarship.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 233. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1700w. |
“The title of Greek to retain its ancient place in education of the broader kind is convincingly supported by Mr. Butcher in this volume. The book needs no recommendation to Hellenists. It may be cordially commended to the attention of the more open-minded and liberal of those who consider Greek a cumberer of the modern stage.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 600w. |
“So illuminating an interpretation of the Greek spirit. Knows his subject, and he deals with it in the freshest way and in the most human spirit.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 260w. |
“It is their naturalness, their contagious freshness and vivacity, rather than their learning, which strike the reader first.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 179. F. 4, ‘05. 1630w. |
Buxton, E. M. Wilmot. Ancient world: outlines of ancient history for the middle form schools. [*]$1. Dutton.
A “wonderful story” of the civilization of bygone days. The “author writes about the first ages of man, the history of Egypt, ancient Babylonia, the Medes and Persians, Phoenicia, the land of the merchant carriers, the Hebrews, the story of Carthage, the Hindu people, China, the story of Alexander, and of Parthia, and gives some glimpses of the ancient Romans and Greeks.... For those who wish for a bird’seye view of the great landmarks of the history of the ancient world, the author has provided a full summary, with approximate dates, embracing the period from 4400 B.C. to the Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Gives a striking picture of the mind, manners, customs, myths and legends of the different ancient nations and describes the influence exercised by these nations on one another.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 265. Ag. 3, ‘05. 30w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 280w. |
Byles, C. E. Life and letters of Robert Stephen Hawker. [*]$5. Lane.
“A visionary, a poet, a humorist, a priest.... His love of fighting was perhaps the only quality in which he differed from the gentlest of the saints. There are still some who believe that modern science is a tool the devil has put into the hands of sinners, but Hawker’s certainty of that is only equalled by his belief in witchcraft, charms, pixies, mermaids, evil eyes, the immediate answer of prayers, the damnableness of dissent, and much else allied to these. But he made his parish of Morwenstow. He rescued and tended the shipwrecked, he consoled the wicked, he spent his income on charity.... He was a very wild, naughty boy, and, as a youth, full of practical jokes and uncomfortable animal spirits.”—Acad.
“The Reverend R. S. Hawker has left behind him no literary remains which point to the possession of any extraordinary genius, and yet a baffling and beautiful soul leads us to examine every record and study every poem for a key. In ‘The life and letters of R. S. Hawker’ just published we turn page after page and only manage to catch the flying skirts of the vicar. Of Hawker’s own poems, his fragment of the ‘San Graal’ is worthy to be compared with Tennyson’s treatment of the subject, and his ballads earned the praise of Sir Walter Scott.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 168. F. 25, ‘05. 2310w. |
“Mr. Byles has performed his task—by no means an easy one—with skill and good taste.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 363. Mr. 25. 1070w. |
“Its contents are a product of unusual skill and discretion.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Atlan. 96: 277. Ag. ‘05. 710w. |
“Must be regarded as one of the best biographies of recent years.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + + | Bookm. 21: 358. Je. ‘05. 810w. |
“Mr. Byles has given us an excellent presentment of a most interesting and picturesque figure of the last century.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 100w. |
Reviewed by Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 38: 308. My. 1, ‘05. 2260w. |
“His ‘Life and letters,’ by his son-in-law, C. E. Byles, leaves nothing to be desired.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 292. Ap. 13, ‘05. 350w. |
“His book therefore, demands acceptance as the real biography of the Vicar of Morwenstow.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 222. Ap. 8, ‘05. 850w. |
“This book, written by Hawker’s son-in-law with such fairness and discretion as may well eradicate even the memory of an unhappy effort by another hand.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 778. Je. 10, ‘05. 750w. |
Byron, George Gordon. Complete poetical works; ed. by Paul Elmer More. $3. Houghton.
For this Cambridge edition of Lord Byron’s poems, the editor has chosen the text of 1832-33 in preference to that of 1831 because of its more satisfactory use of capitals, italics and punctuation marks. It is unexpurgated and contains the recently resurrected poems of Byron.
| * | + + | Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 15w. |
| * | + + | Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w. |
“A thoughtful and scholarly estimate of Byron’s genius and character introduces the volume.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 875. O. 12, ‘05. 310w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81 :278. O. 5, ‘05. 90w. |
“Mr. Paul Elmer More edits the book with judgment and restraint.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 110w. |
Byron, George Gordon. Confessions of Lord Byron; sel. and arr. by W. A. Lewis Bettany. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
In discussing this compilation the London Times says: “There is nothing new in it; but it gives a convenient synoptic view of the poet in his various relations with his times and his contemporaries. Thus seen, Byron strikes one chiefly as that distinctively English product—the brilliant amateur who can beat the professionals at their own business, likes to do so, but absolutely refuses to take the business seriously.”
“The whole tone of his writing is more that of the literary ‘gobemouche’ than of the man of letters. The reader gains no very clear idea of Lord Byron as a letter-writer, and may be well advised to skip the introduction and proceed to the letters themselves. Mr. Bettany’s volume is only a piece of book-making pure and simple, and has very little claim to be dignified by the title of a scientific analysis of correspondence.”
| — + | Acad. 68: 653. Je. 24, ‘05. 1410w. |
[*] “These excerpts give a rather more favorable impression of him as a man and a man of letters than he desired to give his contemporary public.” H. W. Boynton.
| + | Atlan. 96: 846. D. ‘05. 560W. |
Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.
| + + | Dial. 39: 235. O. 16, ‘05. 1530w. |
“These editorial lapses are not, however, very numerous; and the compilation is on the whole satisfactory and instructive.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 217. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1030w. |
[*] “Mr. Bettany’s selections are, however, judicious, and, in spite of frequent detachment from illuminating context, do the writer no injustice.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 940w. |
“The selections are full of interesting matter for those who wish to approach Byron’s personality in this way.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 618. S. 23, ‘05. 970w. |
“Mr. Bettany has made an excellent arrangement of the matter with which he deals.”
| + | Spec. 95: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
Byron, George G. N. Love poems of Byron. 50c. Lane.
Among the sixty poems found in this group are “When we two parted,” “She walks in beauty,” “Maid of Athens,” “Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa,” “She walks in beauty like the night,” and “There be none of beauty’s daughters.” “This volume is one of a series of little works entitled ‘The lover’s library’ which constitutes a veritable treasure-house of poetry sentiment.” (Arena).
“Love poems of Byron is a dainty little volume, bound in flexible violet cloth, stamped in gold, with gilt edge, and of vest-pocket size, contains more than sixty poems and selections from Byron’s verse devoted to love.”
| + | Arena. 33: 222. F. ‘05. 140w. |