“The Epworth league movement is here set forth with such attention to detail that the book will be found a working hand-book, sufficient to give every chapter a complete and not easily exhausted scheme of work, with most of the plans worked out in full,” and it will be of interest and value to the thousands of young people of the Methodist church who are enrolled under the league’s banners thruout the United States.
Bryan, William Jennings. Letters to a Chinese official: being a western view of eastern civilization. **50c. McClure.
Written by way of reply to the “Letters from a Chinese official” by Mr. Lowe Dickinson. They have grown out of Mr. Bryan’s recent travels in the Orient, and discuss such subjects as Chinese civilization overrated, Western civilization underrated, The folly of isolation, Labor-saving machinery, Government, The home, Without a mission, and Christianity versus Confucianism.
Ind. 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 40w. + – Outlook. 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 60w.
“It is a serious and convincing argument that Mr. Bryan advances—rather more serious, perhaps, than was called for by so evident a satire as the first production.”
+ – R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 150w.
Bryant, Sara Cone. [How to tell stories to children.] *$1. Houghton.
Helpful instruction to mothers and teachers on the psychology of story-telling is followed by a group of stories prepared for use. “It is pleasant to realize that the author places more store by the imaginative force of the legend than its educative value, that she realizes the first requisite of the story is to give joy rather than to carry primarily useful information.”—Ind.