“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. |