Brown, Sir Hanbury. Irrigation: its principles and practice as a branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.
A work of some three hundred pages which sets forth the guiding principles that should govern the practice of irrigation, and furnishes illustrations of their application in existing canal systems. Many of the illustrations have been taken from material supplied by the irrigation experience of India and Egypt.
Brown, Helen Dawes. Mr. Tuckerman’s nieces. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–32838.
Mr. Tuckerman, a professor and bachelor, learns one day that three nieces have been bequeathed to him. His sense of duty demands that he open the doors of his colonial home, sacred to study and repose, to these doubtful western girls. The story tells how they slip into his home life and soften the callous spots of his nature and by their freshness and ingenuousness teach him to love youth, and, further, how this training turns him into the channels of neglected love making.
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Brown, Hiram Chellis. Historical bases of religions, primitive, Babylonian and Jewish. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–33632.
A chapter on the origin and development of the religious sense, introduces a study of the Babylonian and Jewish religions. Babylonian civilization receives friendly, almost enthusiastic treatment. The chapters on Jewish religion, which occupy over half the volume, give a résumé of the results of the higher criticism and recent research, and attempt to prove that Judaism retarded rather than advanced religious progress.