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.