Apperson, G. L. Bygone London life: pictures from a vanished past. [*]$1.50. Pott.
“An industrious collection of odds and ends illustrative of the life of London in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.... The restaurants and coffeehouses, and their frequenters, the swells and beaus and macaronies, are depicted by aid of the memoirs, letters, and society verse of that day. The effect is much like that of a visit to one of the quaint old museums described in chapter IV.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The especial value of Apperson’s treatment is the literary point of view.” Katharine Coman.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 687. Ap. ‘05. 320w. |
Archbald, Anna, and Jones, Georgiana. Fusser’s book. 75c. Fox.
An enlarged edition of the “Fusser’s book” which gives advice to fussers or flirts in epigrammatic phrases. “Angle for a lady’s hobby, and when you’ve hooked it play her. If the lady in turn angles for yours, don’t jump at the bait.”
Aristotle. Politics; tr. by B. Jowett. [*]$1. Oxford.
In an introductory discussion, Aristotle’s relation to his “Politics” is clearly defined as that of the utilitarian philosopher, and student of human nature, with due emphasis on ethical values as he “treats of the state as one of the chief means thru which the individual obtains to happiness.” “The object of the ‘Politics’ is both practical and speculative; to explain the nature of the ideal city in which the end of happiness may be fully realized; to suggest some methods of making existent states more useful to the individual citizen than they were in Aristotle’s time, or had been in the past.”
“The analysis and the index are well done.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 463. Ap. 15, 130w. |