“However fascinating these researches into hoary antiquity may be, the great value of Mr. Hall’s work consists in its ample and careful description of the ruins as they are, and in the plans and photographs which illustrate it.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 501. Ap. 15. 1250w. | |
| + | Nation. 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 610w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 185. Mr. 25, ‘05. 390w. |
“In the main his account is intended for the archæologist rather than for the general reader.”
| + | Outlook. 80:139. My. 13, ‘05. 330w. |
Halsey, R. T. H. Boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary London cartoonist. Grolier club.
“Through the associations of the remarkable series of cartoons described and beautifully reproduced the author is led to tell directly or incidentally almost everything that is known about the Port bill ... [He] traces, through little-known letters, newspaper accounts, and pamphlets, public and private opinion about the Port bill both in England and America.... Five of the mezzotint cartoons ... were the work of one man, Philip Dawe, a pupil of Hogarth.... Other humorous mezzotints ... were put forth by anonymous cartoonists, and the subject is further fitly illustrated by portraits from contemporary prints and pictures of statues and famous historical buildings.”—Outlook.
| + + | Outlook. 79:907. Ap. 8, ‘05. 580w. |
Halstead, George Bruce. Rational geometry. $1.75. Wiley.
Altho Euclid still holds its place as the one authoritative text book on geometry, modern criticism tends to make pure reason the only court of appeal, and doubts the reliability of the intuition of our senses. This “Rational geometry” upholds this view, using points, lines and planes as the names of things, the physical conception of which is not necessary. “The object is to deduce the conclusions which follow from certain assumed relations between these things, so that if the relations hold, the conclusions follow, whatever these things may be. Space is the totality of these things; its properties are solely logical, and varied in character according to the assumed fundamental relations. These assumed relations which develop space concepts that are apparently in accord with vision constitute the modern foundations of Euclidean space.” (Science). At a hasty glance the book does not appear to differ from ordinary text-books, diagrams are given, but not as essential to the argument. Altho the method of development is new, all the school propositions of both plane and solid geometry are eventually developed.
[*] Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.