Bunyan, John. [Pilgrim’s progress]: with notes and a sketch of Bunyan’s life. *25c. Ginn.
Uniform with the “Standard English classics” this “Pilgrim’s progress” has been carefully edited and abridged for school use.
Burdick, Lewis Dayton. Hand. $1.50. Irving co.
A survey of facts, legends, and beliefs pertaining to manual ceremonies, covenants and symbols. The chapters include a historical study of the hand as “Executant of the brain,” “A symbol of life,” “A symbol of authority,” “An indicator of fortune,” “Trial by the hand,” “Laying on hands,” “Lifting the hand,” “Taking an oath,” “The social hand,” “The healing hand,” “The hand of evil,” and others related in idea.
Arena. 35: 335. Mr. ’06. 190w.
“An unusually interesting little monograph, prepared in a scholarly manner.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett. [Are you a bromide? or, The sulphitic theory expounded and exemplified] according to the most recent researches into the psychology of boredom, including many well-known bromidioms now in use. *50c. Huebsch.
In his satiric essay the sulphitic author raises a question without an answer, furnishing a classification by which the bores may be separated from the apostles of the unexpected which the few will apply and the many will indignantly condemn. But his theory is expounded with such conviction that if he reach a wide enough audience the stock phrases of the bromides here listed are doomed to become obsolete.