Preface
With this annual cumulation the BOOK REVIEW DIGEST completes its fourth year. The volume includes principally the books of 1908 that have been reviewed by expert book critics in America and England. It aims first to record with unprejudiced exactness the scope, character and subject content of books as they appear; and further, to supplement this descriptive information from month to month with excerpts culled from the current reviews appearing in fifty-one American and English magazines that give prominence to book criticism. Thus it furnishes to the librarian a basis for the valuation of books. As the best reviews of a book often appear during the year following its publication, there will be found in this volume supplementary excerpts relating to books which were entered in the 1907 annual. It will be observed that a few entries include only the descriptive note, reviews for these books having not yet appeared; 1909 will furnish the material for appraisement, and excerpts will be included in current numbers of the DIGEST as fast as reviews are published.
Good, bad, and indifferent books fall into the hands of reviewers who, in the main, honestly reveal the good, bad, and indifferent qualities. The DIGEST then, in making reviews the basis of its selection of books, includes accredited books, doubtful books, and some books altogether profitless. It is quite as important for a librarian or bookseller to know why he rejects some volumes from a list of new books as it is to have a reason for including others. To aid intelligent book selection is the sole purpose of this bibliography.
J. L. W.
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. Macmillan Company. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
A. L. A. Bkl.—A. L. A. Booklist. $1. A. L. A. Publishing Board, 34 Newbury St., Boston.
Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. $6. 36th and Woodland Ave., Philadelphia.
Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Beatty & Adeline Sts., Trenton, N. J.
Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C., London.
Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St., Boston, Mass.
Bib. World.—Biblical World. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Bookm.—Bookman. $2.50. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave., N. Y.
Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $7. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.
Class. J.—Classical Journal. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Class Philol.—Classical Philology. $2.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Dial.—Dial. $2. Fine Arts Building, 203 Michigan Blvd., Chicago, Ill.
Econ. Bull.—Economic Bulletin. $2. American Economic Association. Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, N. Y.
Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia University, N. Y.
El. School T.—Elementary School Teacher. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Engin. N.—Engineering News. $5. 220 Broadway, New York.
Eng Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green, & Co., 39 Paternoster Row, London, E. C.
Forum.—Forum. $2. Forum Publishing Co., 45 East 42d Street, New York.
Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $2.50. Williams & Norgate, London.
Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics. $2.50. 1415 Locust St., Philadelphia.
Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 110–114 West 32d Street, New York.
J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods. $3. Science Press, Lancaster, Pa.
J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $3. 44–60 East 23d Street, New York.
Mod. Philol.—Modern Philology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Nation.—Nation. $3. P. O. Box 794, New York.
Nature.—Nature. 31s. 6d. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review, New York.
No. Am.—North American Review. $4. North American Review Pub. Co., Franklin Sq., New York.
Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
Philos. R.—Philosophical Review. $3. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Phys. R.—Physical Review. $5. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon St., Boston.
Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. $2. 41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.
Putnam’s.—Putnam’s and the Reader. $3. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 27 & 29 W. 23d St., New York.
R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $3. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor Place, New York.
Sat. R.—Saturday Review. $7.50. 33 Southampton St., Strand, London.
School R.—School Review. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $5. Science Press, Sub-Station 84, New York.
Spec.—Spectator $7.50. 1 Wellington St., Strand, London.
Univ. Rec.—University Record. $1. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. (Incorporated into University of Chicago Magazine on N. 1, 1908. $2. U. of Chicago Press.)
Yale R.—Yale Review. $3. New Haven, Conn.
From the following publications, digests of reviews are frequently made:
Elec. World—Electrical World. $3. McGraw Publishing Co., 239 West 39th st., New York.
Engin. D.—Engineering Digest. $2. Technical Literature Co., 220 Broadway, New York.
Engin. Rec.—Engineering Record. $3. McGraw Publishing Co., 239 West 39th st., New York.
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:
=Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names= will be found in the Publishers’ Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.
=An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates= those books sold at a limited discount and commonly known as net books. Books subject to the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a double asterisk (**) when the bookseller is required to maintain the list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed at 20 and 10 per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.
=The plus and minus signs= preceding the names of the magazines indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire review.
=In the reference to a magazine=, the first number refers to the volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.
=Books noticed for the first time= this month have an asterisk (*) immediately below the author’s name in entry heading.
=A Maltese Cross= (✠) indicates that the A. L. A. Booklist suggests the books for first purchase. The letter =S= indicates that the same publication recommends the book for small libraries.
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The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading reviews of the English-speaking world. Few libraries are able to subscribe for all and the smaller libraries are supplied with comparatively few of the periodicals from which the digests are to be culled. For this reason the digests will be of greater value to the small libraries, since it places at their disposal, in most convenient form, a vast amount of valuable information about books, which would not otherwise be available.
We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and the digests so full and accurate, that librarians who do not have access to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at substantially correct appreciations of the value of the books reviewed.
This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which are practically out of the reach of the ordinary library, we shall endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there will be little occasion to refer to the original publications.
Chapter
PREFACE Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Book Review Digest
Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
January-December, 1908
A
=Abbott, Ernest Hamlin.= On the training of parents. **$1. Houghton.
8–12208.
The first chapter on Spasm and habit urges mothers to forsake the collision and spasm methods of governing children. The author preaches the practice of regularity to insure health, contentment, and that obedience which marks the beginning of the child’s moral training. Other chapters follow on The will and the way, By rule of wit, Peace at a price, For it is their nature to [quarrel], and The beginning of wisdom.
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“A popular but sound book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Abbott’s pleasant and profitable little book illustrates this truth [that ‘self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,—these three alone lead life to sovereign power’] with much shrewdness, humor, good sense, and evidence of actual and often perplexing experience.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 277. My. 1, ’08. 450w.
“There is an hour of genial reading, not without its minutes of instruction and more sober reflection, in Mr. Abbott’s little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“It should be in the hand of every parent and teacher of the young. The tone is genial, and a vein of pleasant, sympathetic humor lightens every page. Mr. Abbott’s little book cannot be too heartily commended.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 305. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Abbott has a keen power of observation and the faculty of being serious without being dull.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
=Abbott, George Frederick.= Israel in Europe. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–37533.
A synopsis of the history of the Jews in Europe, from the earliest to the present times, which tells the “story of suffering, partial degradation, and petty general victory of the better elements of humanity.” (Ath.)
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“With this reservation, the author may be praised for a concise and brightly written presentment of a singularly tragic and often repulsive story, a presentment which only degenerates into special pleading when the latter-day developments of the Jewish question are approached.” Rowland Strong.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 730. Jl. 27, ’07. 1650w.
“Obsessed by his idea of persecution, the author can not spare the space to recount the positive labors of the Jew in the field of letters, journalism, finance, invention and pure science. These defects are offset by a personal enthusiasm and vivacity of tone unusual in a work of encyclopedic character.” Ferdinand Schwill.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 320. Ja. ’08. 740w.
“An excellent history, only slightly biased (because of association in modern questions with the English Jew’s viewpoint). Does not replace Graetz, but is more readable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 253. N. ’08.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 174. Ag. 17. 580w.
“Admirable as are its tone and purpose, suffers from the fact that the authorities consulted are chiefly those on the Jewish side; that, in fact, what is needed is again to return to original authorities, whether Latin or Hebrew, and from them to reconstruct the history to which this book serves as a finger-post. Mr. Abbott also is unfair in his attitude to the medieval church.” E. R. Y.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 823. O. ’07. 200w.
“It is interesting in subject, comprehensive in material, and lucid in expression.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 270. S. 6, ’07. 690w.
“As to the future, Mr. Abbott is not hopeful—he believes that ‘there is no rest for Israel.’ This note of hopelessness is the only unsatisfactory feature in a work which will do much to popularize the knowledge of Jewish history and lead to a juster and kindlier estimate of the Jew’s place in modern civilization.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 350w.
“It has knowledge, fairness, industry, and a lucid, pleasant style. And many besides those who can claim descent from the unconquerable race whose tribulations it chronicles will be glad to have a summary of Jewish history in a form so easy to handle and so agreeable to consult.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 530. O. 12, ’07. 1260w.
=Abbott, Katharine M.= Old paths and legends of the New England border: Connecticut, Deerfield, and Berkshire. **$3.50. Putnam.
7–40881.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 35. F. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Miss Abbott is anxious to relate, not what actually occurred, but what the country-folk have believed or fancied as occurring; and, in pursuing this end she pours out a lavish store of things amusing, pathetic, often in a high degree romantic.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 210w.
“It would be impossible to find, probably impossible to create, a book more fully saturated with the spirit of old New England.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 140w.
“To any one in the least interested in the old days of our Yankee ancestors this volume would prove an extremely satisfying gift.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 90w.
=Abbott, Leonard D.= Ernest Howard Crosby: a valuation and tribute. *50c. Ariel press.
A tribute to a Tolstoyan reformer whose life of service was the outgrowth of a rebirth experienced on the way from “stolid conservatism to extreme radicalism.” By profession, a judge, Mr. Crosby ceased to care to judge men but wished rather to love and serve them. His life was broad, sane, spiritual: he studied real values; his creed, if creed it may be called, seems to be summed up in the following:
“Love others; love them calmly, strongly, profoundly, And you will find your immortal soul.”
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“Mr. Abbott has rendered a service to the cause of human progress by writing this beautiful and worthy tribute.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 500. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Ind.= 64: 260. Ja. 30, ’08. 160w.
=Abbott, Lyman.= Home builder. **75c. Houghton.
8–30941.
Short chapters portraying in the highest sense of idealism the daughter, the bride, the wife, the mother, the housekeeper, the philanthropist, the saint and the grandmother. This ideal woman is capable of sure practical results; is spiritual, wise, provident; obeys Heaven’s laws of order and cleanliness; in short, rises to the stature of Solomon’s word portrait of the virtuous woman.
=Abercrombie, Lascelles.= Interludes and poems. **$1.25. Lane.
“The chief poems in the book are tales in verse after Browning’s fashion,—the story of the girl turned by God into His own likeness, the tale of the sophist Peregrinus from Lucian, a beautiful little eclogue called An escape, and Blind, which tells a hideous tale with uncommon power. This last is the story of a woman and her blind son who wander through the world looking for the boy’s father.”—Spec.
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“It is ‘Sordello’ uninspired; full of wanton tortuosities of syntax, vain gleaning of rare and obsolescent words, and a versification which congratulates itself upon flouting scansion. The book leaves an impression of Buddhistic philosophy, seeming to preach the dissolution of self-mannerism hymning Nirvana.” Brian Hooker.
− =Forum.= 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“This book is interesting aside from its failure, for some human nature shows in it, despite a turgid diffuseness of language, an apparently willful avoidance of simplicity.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 130w.
“He has no prettinesses; he has a most defective ear; he works to death the trick of the extra syllable in the pentameter line; he is a true ‘spasmodic,’ and takes a delight in saying the simplest thing in the most extravagant way, with the result that he is as often as not forcible-feeble. Yet he has great merits. He has thought, imagination, and a rude gusto of style.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.
=Abraham, George D.= Complete mountaineer. **$4.80. Doubleday.
8–16910.
Full of hints and rules and suggestions for accoutrement, this is a book for beginners in mountain climbing which is occupied with a detailed description of the footholds of the celebrated peaks of Great Britain and the Continent.
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“A very readable and admirable survey of the principal climbing districts in the world.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠
“His style is of the journalistic order, in which a cow is called ‘a bovine quadruped,’ and so forth. The ‘greased pole’ aspect of a mountain was never so remorselessly set forth.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 351. Mr. 21. 900w.
“Written with a great intimacy of detail. The philosophy of choice of guides especially, and when to do without them, is set forth with gratifying lucidity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
“We have never before seen so many faithful and beautiful mountain pictures in one volume. The technical information is sound, and luminously set out, and the point of view throughout will secure the approbation of all climbers. The one fault is a tendency to minor jocularities. But the author is surely insufficiently appreciative of the merits of a good guide.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 900. D. 7, ’07. 1500w.
=Acton, Sir John Emerich.= Historical essays and studies; ed. by J: Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3. Macmillan.
8–2757.
A volume of bibliographical and biographical essays consisting of articles and reviews contributed to magazines and societies during the period between 1858 and 1892. “The two types may best be illustrated by the masterly article on German schools of history ... and the pronouncement on Cavour contributed to The Rambler in 1861.” (Ath.) Other topics are dealt with such as Wolsey and the divorce of Henry VIII. The secret history of Charles II. The causes of the Franco-Prussian war, and the war of 1870. A particularly scholarly essay is the one on George Eliot.
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“They may be divided roughly into bibliographical and biographical essays, the former excellently instructive to the student, the latter often rather dull reading for scholar and layman alike.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 220. F. 22. 1100w.
“The editors have contributed an interesting introduction, but they have not done much besides. The actual words of Lord Acton had to be retained; but some small inconsistencies might have been remedied.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“Not only give us glimpses of the awe-inspiring scholarship of Lord Acton, but diffuse some quality of biography and reveal the personality of the man.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Acton, Sir John Emerich.= History of freedom and other essays; ed. with an introd. by J: Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3. Macmillan.
8–2560.
In the introduction the editors have summed up Lord Acton’s personality, the character of his work, and the influence which he exerted upon historical scholarship. The body of the book gives all that was realized of a projected work on the history of liberty. It consists of an address on The history of freedom in antiquity, and one on The history of freedom in Christianity, to which has been added an article on Erskine May’s “Democracy in Europe.”
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“It is a book which does more than add to our information: it strengthens and inspires.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 68. Ja. 18. 1450w.
“The greater part of the work shows those characteristics which are generally associated with the late Lord Acton: reading that seems to be limitless, and elusive style which is the despair of the ordinary man.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“What is remarkable in these generalizations is not so much their inconsistencies as their air of unreality. They are the work of a man with a passion for truth, indeed, but a one-sided passion.” Sydney Waterlow.
− =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 506. Jl. ’08. 1150w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 220w.
“Sufficient to convince us, if we had needed conviction, of the prodigious learning, the consummate literary ability, and the unfailing candour of the writer.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 265. F. 15, ’08. 1800w.
=Adam, James.= Religious teachers of Greece: being Gifford lectures on natural religion delivered at Aberdeen; ed. with a memoir by his wife, Adela Marion Adam. *$4. Scribner.
8–25723.
“A splendid piece of work on the great thinkers of Greece from Homer to Plato. Five lectures are devoted to the latter, two each to Homer, Heraclitus, Socrates, and Euripides, and one each to Pindar, Aeschylus, and Sophocles.”—Bib. World.
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“Exhibit throughout the fine qualities which mark all Adam’s work: soundness of scholarship, fullness and accuracy of knowledge, clearness and vigour of expression. Apart from a few slips of printing, the revision has been executed ... with commendable care.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 146. Ag. 8. 1050w.
“The lectures display the master’s control of the subject and its literature, a fine literary charm and distinction, and profound appreciation of the problems of the religious view of the world.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 152. Ag. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Adam’s book is likely to hold its place for long, not only because of its learning and philosophic insight, but as a complete and worthy memorial of a life of constant and conspicuous devotion to the study of Greek literature and thought.” G. F. Barbour.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 7: 198. O. ’08. 2850w.
“A work of unusual merit, the opus magnum of a man who literally put his life into it.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 450w.
“Not the least of Professor Adam’s merits then has been his steadfast hold upon common sense, even at the risk occasionally of appearing commonplace. His comparisons, as far as they go, are generally excellent, but we could wish that he had not confined one side of his parallel so closely to a Christianity of Anglican hue. Once or twice this tendency draws him, we think, into false or forged analogies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 55. Jl. 16, ’08. 1550w.
“[His method of taking each author singly] is defective, inasmuch as it fails to bring out satisfactorily the general trend of Greek religious thought, to show how one system is connected with another.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 272. Ag. 29, ’08. 1750w.
* =Adams, Elizabeth Kemper.= Aesthetic experience: its meaning in a functional psychology: a dissertation. pa. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–2424.
“From data furnished by analytic psychology and descriptive sociology, the author of this excellent monograph attempts a philosophical interpretation and estimate of the aesthetic experience from a single and definite point of view. Among the important topics treated with special suggestiveness are: The relation of the aesthetic to the intellectual; its relation to fundamental life interests, instincts, and activities; its social characteristics; and a reinterpretation of the aesthetic categories from the functional and social point of view.”—Philos. R.
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“Among its commendable features are its arrangement, its connectedness, its grasp of essential problems in their bearings. The monograph should have considerable value for all who are interested in aesthetics or functional psychology.” E. L. Norton.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 660. N. ’07. 400w.
“The reviewer is unable to harmonize the conclusions of the final part of the monograph with the preceding parts.” W. D. Furry.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 363. N. 15, ’08. 1650w.
=Adams, Rev. John.= Sermons in syntax; or, Studies in the Hebrew text: a book for preachers and students. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–5282.
A guide to students who desire “to gain a clear insight into the varied and often picturesque use of verbal forms in Hebrew, and to employ the knowledge thus obtained for homiletical purposes.... The first chapter treats of the value of Hebrew study; the second gives a brief account of Hebrew grammarians, Jewish and Christian; and the remaining twelve deal with the Hebrew tenses in all their forms and moods.... It is in the elucidation of the special texts introduced to illustrate the grammatical propositions that the expository and homiletical element of the treatise appears.” (Ath.)
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“We have rarely seen a book which, under a title apparently stiff and uninviting, provides valuable instruction in so attractive a manner.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 230w.
“The non-Hebraist even will often obtain here illuminative hints for the treatment of biblical texts.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w.
“It offers sermon-stuff to all expositors who care for the finer lines of thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“The student of Hebrew will doubtless find in it a valuable supplement to the grammar which he may be in the habit of using.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 193. F. 1, ’08. 70w.
=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s electricity book for boys. $1.75. Harper.
7–37737.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“An excellent book for the ordinary boy who has only ordinary resources.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 21. Ja. ’08. ✠
“The boy who goes through this admirable book with vim and zest stands an excellent chance of making a good electrical engineer in the long run.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
“The book is not so historical as Mr. Jenks’s; on the other hand, it is more practical.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 100w.
=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s indoor book for boys. $1.75. Harper.
8–12775.
A companion to Harper’s outdoor book for boys which, equally practical and comprehensive, shows how leisure time indoors may be spent pleasantly and profitably. Clear instruction and simple equipment commend the book to every active boy. Work is outlined under four general headings: Wood-working, Metalworking, Household arts, Round about the house.
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“A practical and comprehensive book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 225. Je. ’08.
“Ought to be in every school library and wherever else there are boys who like to make things.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“Is even a better handbook of its kind than the ‘Outdoor book.’”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 20w.
“It is quite up to the high mark set by its predecessors. A world of boys could be kept busy and interested with the help and instruction afforded by this thick volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 120w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 368. D. ’08. 320w.
=Adams, Samuel.= Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. by H. A. Cushing. 4v. ea. *$5. Putnam.
4–18620 Additions.
These volumes contain an accurate collection of the writings of Samuel Adams during the first ten years of his public career, and afford the student of history “the opportunity of examining critically the work of the foremost democratic leader of the great democratic movement of the last century.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The productions of his pen were among the most powerful and persistently active forces that brought about the American revolution.... [And his opinions are recorded in] legislative reports, in instructions of the Boston town meeting, in circular letters to the other colonies, in controversies over constitutional points with the governors, in petitions and protests to the home government, in elaborate statements of principles to the agents of Massachusetts resident in England, and in trenchant newspaper articles.” (Pol. Sci. Q.)
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“There was in fact no wisdom in hoping that this third volume would contain the wealth of material found in the earlier ones. The private letters are in a good many instances, if not in all, not very illuminating.” A. C. McLaughlin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 367. Ja. ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The usefulness of the four volumes is much diminished by the very imperfect index, which is, in fact, all an index should not be.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w. (Review of v. 4.)
“There are a good many interesting and instructive letters in this volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 720w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The absence of an adequate topical index is to be regretted.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 174. Mr. ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Adams, Samuel Hopkins.= Flying death. †$1.50. McClure.
8–3520.
Montauk Point, the tip-end of Long Island is the scene of a series of casualties which baffle the guests at Third House. After a sailor, an aeronaut, a newspaper man, and a coast-guard are stretched upon the sands, with evidence of having suffered a similar fate, a crusade is instituted to solve the mystery of the ravages. A pteranadon, a huge arrow-beaked bird, known only to the beginning of the race, is laid low after an encounter which results in the loss of one man of the party. In addition to thrilling adventure there are two romances which relieve the weight of the tragedy.
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“One smells the lamp here and there; the effort the book has cost is perceptible.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Adams has written quite an interesting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 72. F. 8, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Adams has written a readable story, and has offered for his mystery an explanation at the same time impossible and eminently satisfying.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 20, ’08. 140w.
=Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf.= Arts and crafts in the middle ages: a description of mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in the early renaissance. $3. Page.
8–19089.
Examines mediaeval artistic crafts for the original processes which are being restored in the great handicraft revival in America to-day. Fully illustrated, the chapters touch upon gold and silver work, jewelry and precious stones, enamel, tapestry, embroideries, sculpture in stone, carving in wood and ivory, inlay and mosaic, illumination of books. Bibliography and index.
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“Necessarily, the accounts are fragmentary, but they serve their purpose.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.
* =Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf.= Mrs. John Vernon: a study of a social situation. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
8–32645.
When Mrs. John Vernon faces the question of consenting to the marriage of her daughter, born out of wedlock, with the young scion of a Boston family, she takes her secret to her clergyman, asks advice and is counseled on the side of silence. Tho the author intimates little good from a disclosure, the secret comes to light thru outside sources, the lover is constant, the daughter dies ignorant of the cloud, and the mother purges her life thru hard work and good deeds.
* =Adventures= at sea, by F. H. Converse and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.) †60c. Harper.
8–32331.
A story for boys and girls which reproduces the fascination of the sea. There are fourteen chapters including strange stories of whale-hunts, shark-encounters, wrecks, fires, storms, castaways and heroic rescues whose dramatic incidents are actual facts.
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“A number of stories, all worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 20w.
=Adventures= of pirates and sea-rovers, by Howard Pyle, Rear-Admiral J: H: Upshur, Paul Hull and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.) †60c. Harper.
8–18406.
The wild life of the seventeenth-century buccaneers pictured vividly by Howard Pyle, Rear-admiral Upshur, Paul Hull and others. The first part gives strange glimpses of colonial conditions along our Atlantic seaboard from New England to Carthagena, with colonial pirates bent upon treasure hunts; the second part gives a series of pictures of the great sea-rovers in the times of Queen Elizabeth and James I.
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“Satisfy the demand for pirate stories without being too sensational.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 272. N. ’08. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 789. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.
=Adventures= with Indians, by Philip V. Mighels and others. il. †60c. Harper.
8–3518.
Pioneer life in the middle west is pictured here in stirring tales of ambush, battle, and adventure in which the wit and courage of the white man struggle against the stealth and savage instinct of the Indian. Many of the stories are based upon fact, and many contain actual historical incidents, while together they reveal Indian life and character as represented by tribes from the Montagnais of Canada to the Seminoles of Florida and to the Piutes of the Rockies. The contributors include eleven well known writers of stories.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 112. Ap. ’08. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.
=Ady, Cecelia M.= History of Milan under the Sforza. (Historic states of Italy.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–5826.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“As a monograph on the Sforza it seems to us one of the very best books ever written by a foreigner about Italy. A bibliography at the end of the volume, however full it may be, is not enough. We must have notes.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 266. D. 21, ’07. 1350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“In point of construction, narrative skill, and judgment on men and matters, it would do credit to a far more experienced historian.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 316. Mr. 14. 950w.
“Miss Ady’s book will take a prominent place among the histories of Italy in the English language, and this largely because of the care and accuracy with which she has studied her subject. A few slips are to be noticed.” K. H. Vickers.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 781. O. ’08. 1400w.
“With reasonable fulness, it is intended to be popular, but not shallow.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 200w.
“Is the first in English to describe on an adequate scale the dramatic events in Milan under the house of Sforza. It is to be hoped, however, that future writers in this series will be more generous in their notes and less chary of dispensing with authorities.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 470. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.
“Here, if anywhere, one can find an account of a particular historical period affecting one of the Italian states, an account as clear and concise as it is brilliant and forceful.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 240w.
“This book is painstaking to a degree and full of information about the Sforza dukes. But it does not kindle; it does not warm; it does not incite to further study. If not exactly argumentative in itself, yet the style has at times an argumentative cast which spoils its narrative quality.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 271. F. 29, ’08. 1000w.
=Agger, Eugene E.= Budget in the American commonwealth. (Studies in history, economics and public law, v. 25, no. 2.) *$1.50. Longmans.
7–16495.
The misuse of public funds with attendant carelessness in auditing them has sent many an economist to the root of evil. Dr. Agger’s book brings together the constitutional and statutory provisions and the various customs affecting the budget right. “He points out the differences between American and European procedure; he describes the budget as a report and as a project of law; he sets forth the conditions of voting the budget, the collection of revenue and its centralization, the safe-keeping of the public funds and their disbursement; finally he treats of the control of the budget, in which the subject of auditing is emphasized as above.” (Outlook.)
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“It will prove a very useful contribution to our knowledge of a much confused and bewildering subject.” C. C. Plehn.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 142. Je. ’08. 570w.
“Dr. Agger’s book gives a valuable general survey of the American system.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 612. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
=Aglionby, Francis Keyes.= Life of Edward Henry Bickersteth, poet and bishop. $2.50. Longmans.
A biography of the “poet and bishop” who is best known thru his two hymns, “Peace, perfect peace,” and “Yesterday, to-day, and for ever.” He is portrayed more as a saint than a man of intellectual powers. “It will be said that by tradition and by choice Bishop Bickersteth was a strong party man of the Evangelical persuasion, and that partisanship is too often inimical to saintship. Some would reply that the evangelicalism of a man whom Mr. Gladstone promoted twice within a few weeks must have been of a doubtful quality. The true answer is to be traced through this sketch of his life which shows how he was saved from the perils of partisanship by a genius for friendship with men of the opposite school.” (Lond. Times.)
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=Ind.= 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 220w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 315. O. 18, ’07. 580w.
“Mr. Aglionby draws an attractive picture of the man, of his zeal for good works, his devoutness, his generous sympathy with all efforts that made for the benefit of others.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
=Aitken, Robert.= Golden horseshoe. il. $1.50. McBride, J.
7–34306.
“A mysterious advertisement calling for adventurers willing to enter blindly upon a hazardous undertaking [is answered by three young men], an American, an Englishman and an Irishman—[who] get mixed up in the villainous doings of a Central American dictator and his plots against his beautiful niece.” (Ind.) “The predicaments are magnificently many and ingenious, full of novelty to even the well-inured reader.” (Nation.)
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“It is distinctly American, and is full of exciting incident.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 474. Ap. 18. 270w.
=Ind.= 64: 209. Ja. 23, ’08. 80w.
“There is everything in the book to recommend it as a fantasy in exploit. It may be added that it makes appeal mainly to the reader who likes that kind of thing and likes a good deal of it.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 400w.
=Aitken, Thomas.= Road making and maintenance: a practical treatise for engineers, surveyors, and others; with an historical sketch of ancient and modern practice. 2d ed. *$6. Lippincott.
Agr 8–366.
This new edition has been prepared to keep pace with changed conditions. The new matter relates chiefly to the question of damage done to roads by motor-cars, and the nuisance arising from dust caused by the speed at which these vehicles are driven. The author who has been actively identified with the movement to prevent dust believes that the system of tar macadam offers the best solution to the dust problem.
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“The volume as a whole might serve in many respects as a model for a technical book. The book should find a place in every engineering library which makes any pretense of including the best works on roads and pavements.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 295. Mr. 12, ’08. 600w.
+ + − =Engin. Rec.= 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“The book deals in an exhaustive and practical manner with [16] subjects.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 244. Ja. 16, ’08. 600w.
=Aix, pseud.= Adventures of a nice young man. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–26194.
The adventures of a genteel, pedantic youth, who, impressionable and unqualified for struggle, goes to New York to seek his fortune. The incidents of the story are strung together upon a slight thread of plot relating to a valid will and a forged one.
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“One reads it, a chapter at a time ... for the sake of the rather whimsical humor of what happens from page to page.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 265. N. ’08. 260w.
“The interest of the book is entirely in the manner of its telling, which is whimsical, quaintly audacious in its irreverence for literary tradition, sometimes as romantically impossible as a fairy tale in its narrative of events, and again crudely realistic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
* =Aked, Charles Frederic.= Old events and modern meanings, and other sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
8–29641.
A group of sermons preached from the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church. “They are evangelical, and they are also distinctly modern in their wide outlook upon the things and thoughts of the world’s work, and play, and folly, and wrong. Their ethical tone and temper are incisive and stirring. Their felicitously modernized interpretation from an ethical and religious standpoint of Lord Bacon’s famous aphorisms concerning the ‘idols of the tribe, the cave, the market-place, and the theatre’ is thoroughly characteristic of the preacher.” (Outlook.)
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“Dr. Aked occasionally offends against good taste. When all’s said Dr. Aked is a strong man and has published a good book. The kind of preaching in these sermons is not only what people want, but what they need.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 720w.
“The discourses in this volume are not merely sermons; they are also literature.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 110w.
=Albanesi, Effie Adelaide Maria (Effie Adelaide Rowlands, pseud.).= Forbidden road. 75c. Cupples & L.
7–42010.
“The story of what happened to a man when wealth came to him at the age of 30 and found him rather simple in his tastes, good looking, intelligent, right meaning, and with an unspoiled capacity for enjoyment. The two chief women characters are a gay, fascinating, light-minded young widow and the capable and lovable young woman who is the governess of the widow’s children.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is rather regrettable, a bit of shoddy sufficiently smooth of surface to engage the eye, but with no real substance. The governess, the baronet, the millionaire, all have human attributes, and even an air of individuality; but they really are, and are meant to be, nothing more than wax figures designed with sufficient cunning to deceive the ignorant or indolent patron of the show.”
− =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Alden, Henry Mills.= Magazine writing and the new literature. **$2. Harper.
8–28839.
Writing out of the fulness of fifty years of close association with literature, forty years of which have been spent on the editorial staff of Harper’s magazine, the author has two objects in view: “First, to show the intimate relations of periodical to general literature, as to authorship and aim; secondly, to present certain characteristic features of a new life and literature, beginning two centuries ago with the emergence, in the natural course of evolution, of the distinctively modern physical era.” The keynote of the study is the ever-developing relation of modern literature to life itself.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The present work is a symmetrical and impressive whole, a harmonious composition, with a distinctive historical and critical meaning.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
“Minor differences of opinion, however, and the intellectual effort required in following the argument should prejudice no one against the important and startling major conclusions.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 520w.
“If anything were needed to complete the extraordinary character of the new volume by the editor of Harper’s magazine it would be supplied by the fact that a veteran in letters, such as Mr. Alden, is the author of it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 585. O. 24, ’08. 1350w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 90w.
=Aldis, Janet.= Queen of letter writers, Marquise de Sévigné, Dame de Bourbilly, 1626–1696. *$3. Putnam.
8–9535.
The letters cover, as Sainte-Beuve said, “twenty-seven years of the most delightful period of the most agreeable French society”—the time of Corneille and La Fontaine, Moliere and Racine, the time when court and society set the example of good breeding to all the world, when “the church [was] rich in great preachers as she never was before or since ... and the king [was] at last really on his throne and preparing France for the only century of freedom from the civil war she has ever known.” (Lond. Times.)
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“Shows in a lively way Madame de Sévigné’s relation to her times and her connection with the important people and the events of her day.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08.
“Miss Aldis’s style lacks distinction and sometimes correctness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 205. Ag. 22. 640w.
“A full, readable, and altogether excellent account of Madame de Sévigné and her times.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w.
“Mrs. Aldis has gathered much of interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 381. Ag. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The fault of Mr. Lucas is that he has given nothing of this ‘delightful creature’; and of Miss Aldis that she has allowed her to be too much buried under the pomps and vanities of a ‘Life and times.’”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 380. D. 13, ’07. 970w.
=Nation.= 86: 238. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Miss Aldis evidently loves the image of the brilliant and amiable Marquise, for she writes of her with a deft and understanding pen.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 850w.
“The author has been wonderfully successful in throwing into relief and rendering attractive to readers of our own day just those things which made up the social and literary associations which surrounded Madame de Sévigné and her friends. The story, as told here, is lively and even brilliant.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 160w.
“An excellent example of its class.” E. J. Putnam.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 364. Je. ’08. 400w.
“An excellent piece of work.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 860w.
“With such a subject and such materials, of which she has made the fullest use, it is no wonder that Mrs. Aldis should have written a delightful book. To our mind, its defect is a necessary one: the amount of translation from Madame de Sévigné’s letters.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 66. Je. 11, ’08. 550w.
* =Aleramo, Sibilla, pseud.= A woman at bay; translation of the Italian “Una donna” by M. H. Lansdale. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–30133.
A woman’s troubled life revealed thru the process of subjective analysis becomes a human document from very introspection. The story depicts the agony resulting from marriage with a dull, brutal man, and deals with the problem of separation which involves separation also from her child, the one being she loves devotedly.
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“The chief fault of the book is not merely that it is a purpose novel, but that it flaunts its purpose rampantly on every page.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 383. D. ’08. 280w.
“It is hard for an American woman, however she may pity the protagonist of the book, to sympathize with this morbid, ‘oversexed’—if we may coin such a word—passionately complaining creature; but the story of brutal physical tyranny and abuse, however hysterically told, is not negligible when we consider that it represents an actual condition of the present day, permitted—one might almost say enforced—by law.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 330w.
“Signora Aleramo knows how to enlist the warmest human sympathies in behalf of the wronged woman’s right to freedom and to support her view of the matter by reason and the fervor of her eloquence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“Of calm logic there is little; and hysteria flavors the emotional passages.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 140w.
“It has been very happily rendered.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 366. D. ’08. 100w.
=Alexander, Archibald B. D.= Short history of philosophy. *$2.60. Macmillan.
8–1778.
A history of philosophy from the beginning to the present time, showing the characterizing features of each system and its place and influence in the evolution of thought. The plan involves “a very cursory treatment of Greek, patristic, and scholastic philosophy; a fairly extended treatment of that of the seventeenth century; and then a very full account of the English, French, and German enlightenment, of Kant, and of the movement, from Kant to Hegel. Post-Hegelian thought is touched lightly.” (Philos. R.)
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“As for Mr. Alexander’s method in particular the various philosophies he expounds appear to us bereft of life and actuality in a peculiar degree. The whole treatment of ancient philosophies strikes us as uncritical.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 321. Mr. 14. 350w.
“One feels that the secondary sources have been the main inspiration of the book. It can hardly be said that the book offers anything which can not be had as well, if not better, in already existing works, though written by Germans or even by Americans.” Norman Wilde.
− + =J. Philos.= 5: 527. S. 10, ’08. 1050w.
“For the most part the author’s explanations and criticisms are clear and just. He is, however, less happy in his chapters on German philosophy from Kant to Hegel than in any other part of his work.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 354. O. 17, ’07. 450w.
“The accounts which Mr. Alexander gives of the various systems of philosophy are clear and sound, and in all important cases have the vital quality that comes from first-hand acquaintance with the classics of his subject. The pages which we grudge to the lesser Teutonic lights might well have been used to make more adequate the author’s picture of recent philosophical discussion in this country.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 443. S. 10, ’08. 430w.
“In point of execution, the work is uneven. While the book is unreliable on delicate matters throughout, candor demands the recognition that much of it is instructive and effectively written, and presents material not otherwise so readily available.” E. L. Hinman.
− + =Philos. R.= 17: 219. Mr. ’08. 1500w.
=Allaben, Frank.= John Watts de Peyster. (Allaben biographical ser.) 2v. *$2.50. Frank Allaben genealogical co., 3 W. 42 st., N. Y.
8–21542.
A complete biography of General de Peyster, “the first notable military critic produced by America—the first to treat the battles and campaigns of our great conflicts in the spirit of a true philosophy of the art of war.” Ten chapters are devoted to his ancestors of Flemish origin, nine to early recollections, ten to military career, and twenty-three to literary work.
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“A work which will prove of high interest to many countrymen of Gen. de Peyster, especially if they are New Yorkers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 360w.
=Allen, Alexander V. G.= Phillips Brooks. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–41554.
An abridgment of the two volume biography which appeared six years ago. It is authoritative and concise and “is a history of the evolution of a character of a spirit, and that rather under the influence of the events which affected all men whose allotted term of life was the latter half of the nineteenth century, rather than under that of the special events which befell the individual, Phillips Brooks.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 35. F. ’08. ✠
“It will be welcomed by many who found the two large volumes too expensive.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 60w.
=Dial.= 44: 111. F. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The abridgment is of sufficient compass to tell the story of the man and his work, and the most valuable and interesting portions of the letters have been retained.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 81. Je. 23, ’08. 60w.
“Dr. Allen has allowed Phillips Brooks to furnish this explanation largely in his own words, following discriminately revealing journals, memoranda, and letters ... and the result is a personal revelation as fascinating in its way as the ‘Confessions of Augustine’ or the ‘Journal intime of Amiel.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 829. D. 14, ’07. 700w.
=Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 100w.
“The process of condensation ... has not in any way detracted from the clearness of the picture which Professor Allen draws of the man and his ministry. This, like the more elaborate biography published eight years ago, is an inspiring and compelling human portrait.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 130w.
“We may commend it generally to our readers.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Allen, Annie Winsor.= Home, school and vacation; a book of suggestions. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–36254.
A book of detailed rules for bringing up children written for the average parent who is not able to cope with the terminology of the new psychology. “The opening chapters are devoted to generalities and ‘what to avoid’; and the rest is constructive, with appended tables telling what should be accomplished at the various ages, both physically and mentally. The underlying principle in Mrs. Allen’s scheme of education is well expressed by her phrases: ‘Not a month must be unheeded—the child will never come to that age again.’” (Nation.)
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“Rather dogmatic at times, and not thoroughly based in scientific research, but on the whole, sane and wholesome, and will be read when more critical books will be passed over.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 127. My. ’08.
“There are qualities which all will admire on all her pages—the sanity of her judgment, the sincerity of her feeling, and the evidence visible everywhere that the writer has gathered her conclusions from an experience unusually rich and varied.” J. G. Croswell.
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 512. My. ’08. 550w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 200w.
“Its suggestions, broadly conceived and evolved from a long and valuable experience as a teacher, cannot fail to lead to saner educational processes and to more fruitful results, if intelligently grasped and applied in the homes and schools of to-day.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 150w.
=Allen, Charles C.= Engineering workshop practice. *$1.25. Dutton.
“The first 30 odd pages are given up to a general discussion of materials and kinematics, as involved in machine-shop practice.... About 20 pages hold descriptions of gages, micrometer and vernier callipers, and their proper field and use. The following 18 pages treat of tool steels and their manipulation, and the next few pages contain practical directions for brazing, soldering, riveting, etc. The rest of the book is mainly composed of chapters on chipping, filing and scraping, on lathe work, boring, planing, milling, grinding, screw cutting, gear cutting, etc.”—Engin. N.
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“The volume as a whole may be indicative of British instruction in metal working, but it cannot be taken as representative of American methods and could not well serve as a guide in manual-training schools and technical-school workshops on this side of the Atlantic.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 300w.
“This book, good as it is, would have been much more useful if no attempt had been made to write for the information of both the beginner and the skilled workman; their needs are so different that the result cannot be satisfactory to either class.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 28. N. 14, ’07. 450w.
=Allen, Grant.= Evolution in Italian art. *$3.50. Wessels.
An introductory chapter suggesting some of the forces affecting the painters of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries precedes a detailed study of the set subjects of Italian art. In his study the author shows “the stream of development by which, thru the hands of various artists and various schools, the dry and lifeless picture in the rude native manner was vivified and spiritualised into the art of Fra Angelico, of Bellini, of Leonardo.” Some of the subjects studied are the marriage of the Virgin, the visitation, the annunciation, the madonna and child, the madonna and saints, the adoration of the Magi, the presentation, and the Pietà.
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“His cogent argument is pleasant to read and by the aid of a large number of excellent illustrations is made easy to follow.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 407. D. 1, ’08. 500w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 395. O. 22, ’08. 170w.
“Evolution in art is of course taken into consideration by every serious historian of art, but it has never been so systematically studied as in the present volume.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 557. O. 10, ’08. 1650w.
“Whether one agrees with the Grant Allen idea or not, Mr. Cruickshank’s introductory chapter is pertinent reading for anyone.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 570w.
=Allin, C. D.= Early federation movement of Australia. $1.50. British Whig pub. co., Kingston, Ontario.
8–17801.
Deals with the beginnings of this movement in Australia, continuing to 1863. “Mr. Allin traces successively the federal policy of Lord Grey, which he treats with great fulness and sympathy; the proposals of constitutional committees in New South Wales and Victoria; and, lastly, the conclusions arrived at in parliamentary reports.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
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“Mr. Allin’s work is a clear exposition of his theme and has the merit of being well written. It is not free of occasional slips, but the only objection of consequence to which the volume as a whole appears to be open, is a too exhaustive treatment.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 350w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 707. My. ’08. 200w.
“A sound and accurate, but somewhat arid survey.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 150w.
“Mr. Allin’s work is generally of a sound and trustworthy character, but a few slips have found admission.” H. E. Egerton.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 389. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“The work will prove illuminating to those who have regarded federation as a recent idea and who are unaware of the long and arduous work which precedes any considerable political achievement. Dr. Allin has marshaled the results of his thorough researches with mature and sober judgment, while the vigor of his style lends color and charm to a theme naturally lacking in these qualities.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 173. Mr. ’08. 150w.
=Allingham, William.= William Allingham: a diary; ed. by H. Allingham and D. Radford. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–9512.
Literary small talk, quips and jests bring the reader into touch with the companionable side of such men of letters as Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, and many of their contemporaries. “One does not see why this diary is not the Boswell’s Johnson of its time, as authentic and interesting a delineation of literary London during the Victorian as the other during the Georgian period.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“In literary charm the book suffers from being so largely a ‘rudis indigestaque moles’—for which, however, no one is to blame, unless we choose to quarrel with the dead poet for dropping so soon the autobiography that he had begun to frame out of his diary material. This too-short portion, indeed, does possess a very readable quality. Mrs. Allingham and Mrs. Radford have done good editorial work.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 69. F. 1, ’08. 1470w.
“The volume might yield many more stories than those we have taken; and most of them are true in the best sense of the word.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 820w.
“A good deal of this is entirely trivial, and ought to have been suppressed. There would still be sufficient left to fill a fair-sized volume.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 700w.
“A fascinating book as well as a most instructive document.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 841. D. 21, ’07. 3420w.
“This is a book with a pleasant literary flavour, though some of the entries from Allingham’s diaries seem rather small beer.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
“The little sketches of the man [Tennyson], of his looks and ways, the little scraps of his talk, have a convincing air of truth about them. After Tennyson come Browning and Carlyle, and after these again a multitude of literary men, every one being happily touched off.”
+ + =Spec.= 89: 713. N. 9, ’07. 450w.
=Almack, Edward.= Bookplates. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
8–34675.
An introduction treats of the different kinds of blocks or plates from which bookplates were first produced and the styles of ex libris early predominating in Germany, France and England. This is followed by chapters on bookplates chronologically, bookplates with mantling, some specimens found in the British museum, Chippendale and crestplates, modern bookplates, various bookplates, and bookplates in America.
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=Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Unfortunately the volume does not deserve the same commendation that may freely be given to the rest of the series. Although it contains much information, particularly concerning armorial book plates, it is ill-balanced.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 60w.
=Alston, Leonard.= White man’s work in Asia and Africa: a discussion of the main difficulties of the colour question. *$1. Longmans.
8–1381.
With a broad grasp of the situation, thru optimistic and eclectic doctrines, Mr. Alston treats the political, social, and religious factors which combine to make the color problem a complicated one.
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“No one interested in civil administration of colonies, or in foreign mission work can afford to overlook this modest essay.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 616. N. ’08. 130w.
“Leonard Alston considers the white man’s burden with as much open-mindedness as is reconcilable with the nature of a thesis which assumes that the white man is, on the whole, right and the child of destiny.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 37. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“In style and in command of English the author displays a singular ability; but the book is more noteworthy for these characteristics than for any practical suggestion which it contains for the solution of the most important question of the future.”
− + =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 300w.
=Ames, Joseph Bushnell.= Pete, cow-puncher: a story of the Texas plains. †$1.50. Holt.
8–30533.
The experience of a young New Yorker who, much to the chagrin of his father, preferred life in the Texas plains to Yale first and Wall Street afterwards. It is the story of a clean, honest, resolute fight against hardships and peril.
=Amundsen, Roald.= North-west passage: being a record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Gjöa in the years 1903–7; with a supplement by Lieut. Hansen. 2v. *$8. Dutton.
8–35750.
An account of the voyage which Captain Amundsen and his crew of seven men made in exploration of the North-west passage. “Difficult navigation, sledge excursions that were not exactly summer picnics, meteorological and magnetic observations under trying conditions, the exaction of some degree of respect and decorum from the swarming Esquimaux that beset them in their winter quarters, and the continual problem of food, fuel, and shelter in the cruel cold of these latitudes—that, in brief, indicates the work that was cut out for Captain Amundsen and his little crew.” Lieut. Hansen’s supplementary chapter relates to his surveying expedition to the east coast of Victoria Land.
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“This record ... is written with sailorlike simplicity and with an attractive enthusiasm for the subject. The arrangement leaves something to be desired. Lieut. Hansen’s supplement should have been inserted in the body of the narrative; and the historical survey of previous exploration, which is slight and in some points inaccurate, appears rather aimlessly in the tenth chapter.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 33. Jl. 11. 1800w.
“Not the least interesting parts of the book are the stories of the distinctly Scandinavian character of practical jokes which, apparently, were everlastingly played on each other by all the members of the party.” A. W. Vorse.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 276. N. ’08. 1200w.
“His straightforward narrative makes not only one of the best books of Arctic exploration, but one of the best books of adventure of any sort that have ever been written. The narrative is not free from bewildering inconsistencies, which sometimes amount to positive inaccuracies.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 80. Ag. 16, ’08. 1850w.
“It is difficult to realize that the book is a translation, so easy is the style.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 267. S. 17, ’08. 950w.
“Though the book would not lose by condensation in places, it is singularly free from the trivialities with which such volumes are often loaded. But an appendix of scientific results would have given more permanent value to these volumes.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 478. S. 17, ’08. 1550w.
“With the skill of the true artist, the North-west passage is there, the real hero of the story, behind all the humorous and sometimes tragic adventures with which this excellent narrator entertains his readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 373. Jl. 4, ’08. 2050w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 120w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 823. Je. 27, ’08. 660w.
“The observations which Captain Amundsen makes on the mode of life, manners, and struggle for existence of the inhabitants near the North-west passage are quite the most interesting and valuable in the volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 840. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Anderson, Ada Woodruff.= Heart of the red firs. †$1.50. Little.
8–9815.
Set in the grim forest country of the Pacific northwest, this story deals with the epoch that closed with the completion of the Northern Pacific road thru to the coast. A charming heroine is portrayed who has fearlessness, ability to command, the foresight and memory necessary for the self protection of pioneers, and withal is feminine to the core. The perils of the wilds are truthfully set down.
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“For the most part one brings away from the reading an abiding sense of splendid freedom, health and courage in a glorious setting of fir-clad mountains.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 578. Ag. ’08. 400w.
=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“It is more effective in description than in narrative.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Is written very vigorously and authoritatively. The ‘story part,’ as the children say, lags often, and, indeed, does not seem to have been conceived in the first place with any marked conviction or originality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
=Anderson, Galusha.= Story of a border city during the civil war. **$1.50. Little.
8–27164.
A story of St. Louis during the civil war told by a man who was a clergyman in that city from 1858 to 1866. It is an intimate sketch of local conditions and local feeling recorded from personal observations and experiences, revealing the struggle between the opposing factions standing respectively for secession and for the union.
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=Ind.= 65: 1250. N. 26, ’08. 300w.
“Rich in the material of which history is made as well as most interesting in itself. He writes with calmness and in a judicial, objective sort of way that cannot carry any offense. On its literary side his work would have been the better for more careful revision and editing, for his style is often so slovenly as to be annoying.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 600w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 120w.
=Anderson, J. Wemyss.= Refrigeration: an elementary text-book. *$2.25. Longmans.
8–28304.
“An exposition of the scientific principles involved in the production of low temperatures, and descriptions of the apparatus by which they are obtained. The work being an elementary one, questions relating to the design of apparatus have been properly withheld for a succeeding and more advanced volume.”—Engin. D.
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“The illustrations are good, the index is ample, and many instructive and practical problems are given in their proper place for the further use of the student.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 300w.
“This book differs and compares favorably with all other books on that subject, inasmuch as examples are used for explaining the fundamental principles. The book as a whole is all that is claimed for it and can therefore be highly recommended.” J. C. Bertsch.
+ + =Engin. N.= 60: 77. Jl. 16, ’08. 860w.
“The treatment of the subject is accurate and lucid, and in all cases the necessary mathematical investigations are reduced to their simplest elements, many numerical examples being added.” E. Edser.
+ =Nature.= 78: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 470w.
=Andreiyeff, Leonidas.= Silence: tr. from the Russian by John Cournos. bds. 25c. Brown bros.
“A story, a melancholy poem, in which the reader is subjected to a series of heart pangs, and is forced to listen to a music, in which the dominant motif is a terrible, oppressive and crushing silence.” (Translator’s preface.) The author who is linked in literary sympathies with Gorky embodies “conscious artistry” while Gorky is possessed of “crude blind force.”
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“So painful a story does not make a favorable introduction to the series.”
− =Ind.= 65: 615. S. 10, ’08. 70w.
=Nation.= 87: 494. N. 19, ’08. 90w.
=Andrews, Eliza Frances.= War-time journal of a Georgia girl. **$2.50. Appleton.
8–27163.
A spirited diary extending thru the year and a half that followed December of 1864 and covering the last days of the war and the beginning of the reconstruction era. “This diary, intended solely for the author’s own eyes, gives an intimate picture of the intensity of Southern feeling, at the same time that it describes the diversions in which Southern society sought to forget the continual tragedy through which the country was passing.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The book is charmingly natural and lifelike, and will prove a valuable addition to the diaries of the war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
“It is, in fact, what one might call an original document in history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 180w.
“The journal is a contribution of real merit to the literature of Southern conditions at that time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 400w.
“An exceedingly interesting book to those who care for absolutely truthful, unaffected pictures of life during the civil war.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
=Andrews, Hiram Bertrand.= Practical reinforced concrete standards for the design of reinforced concrete buildings. $2. Simpson bros.
8–21937.
Contains chapters on the design of beams, with tables and diagrams, and standardized sizes for buildings, together with sets of specifications for concrete work.
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“Allowing for the usual tendency to use a designing diagram without regard for the varying conditions that must affect the design, this book of standards must be of value.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.
“A suggested standard building code for concrete work is published, but it incorporates all of the author’s original ideas, thus making it of questionable value without revision. Some of the author’s statements ... do not agree with the opinions held by reinforced concrete specialists.”
− =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Andrews, William Symes.= Magic squares and cubes. *$1.50. Open ct.
8–19276.
“Here may be found directions for making quadratic combinations that surpass Benjamin Franklin’s famous sixteen puzzle, which he said was ‘the most magically magical of any magic square ever made by any magician.’ Dr. Paul Carus contributes a chapter on the importance of magic squares in Hindu, Chinese and Greek philosophy.”—Ind.
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=Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 90w.
“To those who are interested in the subject, Mr. Andrews’s book will be very acceptable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 101. Jl. 30, ’08. 180w.
=Anet, Claude.= Through Persia in a motorcar, by Russia and the Caucasus; tr. by M. Beresford Ryley. *$4.50. Appleton.
A lively account of a tour by train, boat and motor-car. “The route followed was through Bessarabia, the Crimea and the Caucasus; Persia is reached on p. 84, but the motoring does not begin until p. 151. It consisted of a run from Ispahan to Teheran. Ispahan is reached on p. 192. A week in that city which excites the enthusiasm of our traveller, occupies thirty-eight pages. And then we have about fifty pages in which the return is described.” (Spec.)
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“Altogether a not uninteresting book, and ably translated; but as there are no maps and no index, it is useless as a work of reference. It might have been so much better done.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 59. O. 26, ’07. 420w.
“A book which has few dull pages.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 550w.
“A work in which veracity has not been sacrificed to imagination.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 370w.
“M. Anet has written a lively and amusing account of the tour, illustrated with photographs, and has been fortunate in his translator.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“Directions are given which should prove helpful to intending travellers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 370. S. 14, ’07. 300w.
=Annesley, Maude.= Door of darkness. †$1.50. Lane.
A story built up around the unexplained mysteries of clairvoyance and magic. “Miss Annesley secures her most striking effects by imagining mysteries which she cannot attempt to explain; and the reader of a novel, like the spectator at a manifestation, wants to know how things are done. In this case the reader very soon perceives that the central figure in the book is an ‘adept’ who has mastered the secret of perpetual youth. The love of such a man for a girl bound by the normal conditions of human life can be made, and here is made, into an interesting romance.” (Sat. R.)
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“It needs some courage to write a novel upon the elixir of life, and we can scarcely say that the enterprise is in this case justified. We note also a large proportion of commonplace and uninteresting padding.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 784. Je. 27. 100w.
“While it does not lack complication, is a mixture of such unlike parts that anything like a co-ordinated impression is out of the question.” E. L. Cary.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 391. Jl. 11, ’08. 440w.
“The opening chapters of this novel are so good that we recognize with disappointment the author’s failure to maintain the plausible atmosphere of the supernatural which envelops them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
=Annunzio, Gabriele d’.= Daughter of Jorio: a pastoral tragedy; tr. by Charlotte Porter, Pietro Isola, and Alice Henry; with an introd. by Miss Porter. *$1.50. Little.
7–37999.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The merely English reader will get little good from it, and will meet with scarcely a line, certainly not with a passage of any length, that will appeal to him as poetry.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 27. Ja. 18, ’08. 200w.
“It has something of the majesty of a classical drama and of the inexorableness of fate. The play is wonderfully reproduced in English.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 142. Ja. 18, ’08. 500w.
“Really remarkable dramatic work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.
=Anthropological= essays presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in honor of his 75th birthday, Oct. 2, 1907, by H. Balfour, A. E. Crawley [etc.] *$5. Oxford.
8–1439.
These nineteen essays contributed by eminent specialists are a birthday offering to a distinguished Oxford scholar. See Cumulative book index for contents.
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“The arrangement of the essays is alphabetical, according to the surnames of the authors. The result of this automatic distribution is to produce a course of miscellaneous reading which is rather bewildering.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 522. O. 26. 1400w.
“Contain a large mass of permanently important material.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 470. My. 21, ’08. 900w.
“The book will be a welcome addition to all anthropological libraries, and we could not give it higher praise than to say that it is quite worthy of the great scholar whose name it bears.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Archer, William, and Barker, Henry Granville.= Scheme and estimates for a national theatre. *$2.50. Duffield.
Here are the scheme and estimates for the building of a national theatre in Great Britain, but inclusive enough to apply to the establishment of a similar institution in America. “The book discusses, with a convincing array of facts and figures, every step in the process of construction from the appointment of the first committee to the raising of the curtain on the opening night.” (Nation.) “They are ready with a scheme of decoration for the entrance-hall of their hypothetical theatre; they have drawn up elaborate lists and tables of the repertory of plays to be performed there; they have even gone so far as to create a company of imaginary actors with imaginary names, and to cast them for imaginary parts.” (Spec.) The plans also include the founding of a dramatic college to provide actors for the theatre.
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“One cannot withhold from the authors the admiration which is due to a lively faith. The estimates for the various branches of the theatre collected here ... are the work of experts, and we may assume them to be, on the whole, calculated with as much accuracy as the nature of the case admits.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 139. N. 16, ’07. 1000w.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 488. Ap. 18. 700w.
“Both Mr. Archer and Mr. Barker are well qualified for the task which they have undertaken, the one by his long study of dramatic literature and the art of acting in England and on the continent, and the other by his experience as a dramatist, as an actor, and a producing manager. The bulky volume which they have compiled does infinite credit to their enthusiasm, their industry, their technical knowledge and their foresight.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 178. F. 20, ’08. 1250w.
“For lovers of the theatre it will have all the attractiveness of a fascinating romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 143. Mr. 14, ’08. 2300w.
“It would be difficult to conceive of two men better qualified to prepare such a volume.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 235. My. ’08. 600w.
“An interesting and suggestive volume. [The authors] have thrown themselves with gusto into the task of castle-building, and have produced an airy edifice which for completeness of conception and minuteness of execution it would be difficult to rival. But it would be doing an injustice to the book to suggest that it is nothing more than an ingenious Utopian ‘jeu d’esprit.’ It will be welcome to all who are interested in the welfare of the theatre, if only on the score of the quantity of information which it contains, and the light which it throws on the actual conditions of theatrical work.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1093. D. 28, ’07. 1600w.
=Armagnat, H.= Theory, design and construction of induction coils; tr. and ed. by Otis Allen Kenyon. *$2. McGraw.
8–17739.
An exact and definite treatment of the theory relating to induction coils and their practical uses. The translator has extended the bibliography to include all contributions to the subject since 1904, the date of the appearance of the original work.
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=Engin. D.= 4: 55 Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Until recently there has been in English no book adequately setting forth the extent of our knowledge of this apparatus.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 400w.
=Armour, Frances J.= Brotherhood of wisdom. †$1.50. Lane.
A London professor discovers a combination of chemistry and electricity which detaches the soul from the body. A member of the Brotherhood of wisdom, an oriental occult society, works his way into the professor’s confidence, persuades him to try the experiment upon his niece; then kidnaps her astral body, when it has been set free, and installs her as high priestess in one of the brotherhood’s secret shrines. The adventures which the girl’s lover has in uniting soul and body are as thrilling as they are ingeniously conceived.
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“A fine theme for a pithy short story has been stretched by divers expedients to the dimensions of a novel; and shows its resentment, as ideas will, by declining to infuse with any of its own life the mechanical effects that have been forced upon it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 240w.
“The author is to be congratulated upon having invented a new sort of thrills and excitements. She has handled her weird matter very well, and the interest, excitement, and general uncanniness accumulate and intensify to a fitting climax.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 495. S. 12, ’08. 300w.
“Redeemed from the realm of the impossible for the reader who yields himself to the spell, the tale is cleverly told.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“The book shows at times a certain unfamiliarity with the life depicted. But against this inexperience must be set the valuable qualities of energy and enthusiasm, a picturesque imagination, and a style much above the average. Lastly, she must be congratulated on her ability to excite the curiosity and retain the interest of her readers without resorting to the repulsive realism into which she might easily have been led by the somewhat macabre nature of her theme.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 382. Mr. 7, ’08. 880w.
=Arrhenius, Svante August.= Immunochemistry; the application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies. *$1.60. Macmillan.
7–34600.
A volume based upon a course of lectures given by the author at the University of California. The object of the lectures was to illustrate the application of the methods of physical chemistry to the study of the theory of toxins and antitoxins. The idea is that the reciprocal action of toxin and antitoxin is of the same nature as a chemical reaction.
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=Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 40w.
“The book is to be recommended to all who have an elementary knowledge of physical chemistry.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“Would especially call the attention of the younger biologists to the importance of a study of Arrhenius’s books.” Jacques Loeb.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 343. F. 28, ’08. 400w.
=Arrhenius, Svante August.= Worlds in the making. il. **$1.60. Harper.
8–9543.
A new theory of the universe evolved from the principle of the mechanical radiation pressure of light—that rays of light falling upon a surface tend to push that surface back. The guiding principle in this exposition of cosmogonic problems has been the conviction that the universe in essence has always been what it is now. Matter, energy, and life have only varied as to shape and position.
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“A valuable treatise.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 166. Je. ’08.
“It would be difficult to find a book which gives so well and in such short compass a view of the modern developments of the science.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 130. Ag. 1. 700w.
“It is to be regretted that neither the author, the translator, nor the publisher of this thoughtful and stimulating book has provided it with an index; for, though the work contains only 230 pages, it is full of details many of which will be valuable for purposes of reference.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 277. My. 1, ’08. 500w.
“Astronomers will question his conclusions at many points, here and there holding his data insufficient and his assumptions unwarranted.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1401. Je. 18, ’08. 1000w.
“This throwing back of the life problem to the region of primal things is carefully worked out, and though I, for one, cannot believe it is forced by our present knowledge, or lack of it, there are no especial objections to such a view, save in that it will probably be taken to give a new lease of life to the Obscurantists—the people who want to make a mystery of everything.” Carl Snyder.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 932. Je. ’08. 1000w.
=Spec.= 100: 676. Ap. 25, ’08. 250w.
=Ashe, Sydney Whitmore.= Electric railways theoretically and practically treated. v. 2. il. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
The second of a three volume series designed to cover the entire field of electric railway operation. “The present volume contains two main divisions. The first comprises the engineering studies which are made before a railway project is undertaken. The second is descriptive of the equipment and operation of sub-stations in which the electric power is transformed from the standard, three-phase variety necessary for transmission, to the direct-current form still used in most railway systems.” (Engin. N.)
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“The book suffers from a lack of consistent editing. By far the best part of the book is found in chapters 2, 3, and 4 on ‘Electrical features,’ which contains much useful information presented in a logical manner. In fact, it may be stated that the intrinsic value of these chapters is sufficient to counterbalance the errors of carelessness found elsewhere in the book.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Owing to the fact that the scissors are conspicuous in the make-up, there is a certain lack of homogeneity in the treatment, but the author is very careful to give proper credit for all quotations and data. The authorities quoted are excellent, but they are not all in agreement; in fact, some of the papers given aroused violent opposition upon their original presentation.” H: H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 654. D. 12, ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Contains some excellent articles ... but the author has not always shown sound judgment in the selection of his illustrations or specific examples. Taken as a whole, however, the work should be useful to the student in showing the various factors which must be considered in the simple layout of an electrical railroad system.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 2.)
“This is essentially a book for experts, and especially American experts. Altogether the author’s mathematics is not characterised by exactitude.” Gisbert Kapp.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 27. My. 14, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Askew, Alice, and Askew, Claude Arthur Cary.= Lucy Gort: a study in temperament. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“The minute details of the miserable existence of a young woman whose discontent leads her to forsake her quiet but comfortable home in a small English town and become a lady’s traveling companion are recorded in this ‘study of temperament.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“It merely deals with the imaginings of high life as set forth through many years, one had supposed, for the edification of shop-girls and serving-maids. It is full of sensationalism.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 409. Ap. 20. 90w.
“It is morbid, artificial, and meretricious.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 842. D. 21, ’07. 310w.
=Association= of American law schools. Select essays in Anglo-American legal history. 3v. v. 1. set, *$12. Little.
7–26401.
=v. 1.= “Contains a series of twenty essays, by various authors, all except one heretofore published in magazine or in book form, and an autobiographical letter by James Kent. They are arranged in five groups: 1, prior to the Norman conquest; 2, thence to the 18th century; 3, the American colonial period; 4, development of law in the 19th century; and 5, a biographical survey of the bench and bar from the Norman conquest to the present.”—Yale R.
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“Present-day readers will welcome these volumes not alone because of their diverting qualities, but also because of their informing, guiding and inspiring qualities. The charm and spirit of the year-books are in them, and so too are some of the most important results of researches by the new historical school of English and American lawyers.” H. D. Hazeltine.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 628. Ap. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is particularly well done. A volume that the casual reader with only a few minutes to spare can dip into almost anywhere with pleasure and profit.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 850w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Good judgment is shown in the compilation and editing of this volume.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 568. S. ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The selection is certainly good, and the arrangement is such as to give a certain unity and a tolerable continuity to the whole. This unity and continuity, however, are disturbed by the numbers included under part v, the substance and construction of which are scarcely in harmony with the preceding parts. It is unquestionable that the editing committee are performing a very valuable service to all who are or may be led to become interested in legal history, in making accessible the results of the best thought along this line.” A. L. Corbin.
+ + − =Yale R.= 17: 99. My. ’08. 1300w. (Review of v. 1.)
* =Astley, Rev. Hugh John Dunkinfield.= Prehistoric archaeology and the Old Testament: being the Donnellan lectures delivered before the University of Dublin in 1906–1907, enl. and ed. with notes and appendices. *$2. Scribner.
8–26257.
“This is another eirenicon between science and religion and from the pen of an episcopal clergyman who seems familiar with the main outlines, at least, of both archaeological science and Old Testament scholarship.”—Bib. World.
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“The book certainly deserves the careful reading of all interested in this important theme.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 77. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“This volume, however, has distinctive interest in the support for the conclusions of Biblical scholars which it adduces from the sciences of archaeology and anthropology. Rather curiously, he combines with this breadth of view a narrow sacramentalism. But only a few pages of a really useful book are thus spoiled.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
* =Atherton, Gertrude Franklin.= Gorgeous isle: a romance; scene: Nevis, B. W. I., 1842. **90c. Doubleday.
8–28995.
A story set in the West Indian island of Nevis. “The heroine, having married a man to save him, arrives gradually at the conviction that his creative power (he is a poet of the first rank) is irretrievably dependent on unlimited alcohol, and that it is therefore her duty no longer to stand between him and this noble source of inspiration—a rather excessive concession to the principle ‘art for art’s sake.’ The period is Early Victorian, and the language and customs of that day are reproduced, on the whole, with accuracy, though perhaps with a slight tendency to archaism.” (Ath.)
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“It deals with a situation which is fresh and powerfully handled, though not entirely exempt from a suspicion of grotesqueness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 640. N. 21. 150w.
“Mrs. Atherton in her new novel launches an interesting ethical problem, which she solves in her own way, but which will undoubtedly suggest different solutions to her readers, according as the latter differ in temperament and point of view from the author. One is somewhat dubious over the possibility of the physiological theory, advanced as fact, which is involved in Mrs. Atherton’s problem.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 950w.
=Atkey, Bertram.= Folk of the wild. il. $1.50. Lippincott.
8–19028.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Apart from its unoriginal mannerisms, this is an excellent book, and entertaining throughout.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 130w.
“No British boy can read ‘Folk of the wild’ without understanding more of the animals he may have the good fortune to see in the wilder spots of his home. It is the kind of book that begets a desire for sanctuaries of wild life.”
+ =Spec.= 99. sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Atkinson, Eleanor.= Boyhood of Lincoln. **50c. McClure.
8–30378.
An old man dozing between relays of reminiscences tells of the early days when he, Dennis Hanks, cousin and playmate of Lincoln, stood in uncomprehending awe of the crude stripling and his mighty ambition. The little book is only a handful of memories, without philosophizing, in which “tragedy and comedy mingle as only Shakespeare and real life can bring them together.”
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“Its inherent interest warrants its preservation in permanent form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 716. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Atlay, J. B.= Victorian chancellors. 2v. ea. $4. Little.
=v. 2.= Contains sketches of Lords St. Leonards, Cranworth, Chelmsford, Campbell, Westbury, Cairus, Hatherley, Selborne, Halsbury, and Herschell. “Mr. Atlay ... has surrounded his biographies with their appropriate political, legal and social atmosphere; and he is so well versed in the forensic traditions that his memoirs are as amusing as they are instructive. The sketches of Lord St. Leonards, Lord Campbell, and Lord Westbury are admirable of the generation which preceded those later Victorian chancellors Lord Halsbury and Lord Herschell.” (Sat. R.)
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“A want of proportion is the most noticeable defect of a valuable and entertaining work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 358. S. 26. 660w. (Review of v. 2.)
“His work is distinguished by conciseness, research, preëminent fairness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 413. O. 29, ’08. 2500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though doubtless intended primarily for the delectation and instruction of members of the legal profession, there is not a sketch in the volume that ought not to attract the man of letters, and especially the student of politics and English political history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 438. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w. (Review of v. 2)
“It is because Mr. Atlay fastens on the personality that his ‘Lives’ are never dull.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 86. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Atlay is a friendly critic of most chancellors; but we are inclined to think that he is too severe in his final judgment on Lord Westbury.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 939. Je. 13, ’08. 1750w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Atton, Henry, and Holland, Henry Hurst.= King’s customs: an account of maritime revenue and contraband traffic in England, Scotland and Ireland, from the earliest times to the year 1800; with a preface by F. S. Parry *$3.50. Dutton.
8–33017.
“A rich mine of good stories of desperate and resourceful smugglers, and of ineptitude or connivance on the part of officials. The stories are gathered from official records of the ports, from letters addressed by customs house officers to their superiors, and from the reports of cases in the law courts.”—Ind.
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“Rarely does a book make so many sided an appeal to readers as is made by ‘The king’s customs.’ So much could scarcely be gathered into so comparatively few pages and leave room for literary style. The anecdotes and incidents are presented one after another tersely and somewhat abruptly. To the ordinary reader also there is abundant opportunity for judicious skipping; but the parts skipped by the reader in search of entertainment are the parts most valuable to the student and scholar.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 779. O. 1, ’08. 700w.
“While the book cannot be accepted as a history of the customs, it contains a certain amount of valuable new material, particularly upon the subject of contraband trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 800w.
=Auerbacher, Louis John.= Electrical contracting; shop system, estimating, wiring, construction methods, and hints on getting business. *$2. McGraw.
8–21776.
A book for the wireman and contractor containing practical hints on the latest construction methods, with suggestions concerning means of increasing his income.
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“Every branch of work which falls in the province of the average electrical contractor is covered, and taken all in all the book is well adapted to his needs.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 99. Jl. 11, ’08. 160w.
“The book is a very useful one and many of the men for whom it was written could profit materially by it.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 302. S. ’08. 180w.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.= Santa Lucia: a common story. †$1.50. Harper.
8–11701.
When Serena Haven was wooed, she mistook chivalry for love. But she is true to the bond and stands out in contrast—and here is the point of the story—to Julia Maybury who marries, also without love, the college biologist. Julia has not the character to be faithful to her vows and a tragedy ensues.
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“The story is told with leisureliness and sureness that raises it decidedly above the average, but it is not characterized by the charm of the author’s earlier work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“It is a pity that Mrs. Austin did not take more pains with her plot, for she displays plenty of cleverness in her characterization as well as her observation of life.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 664. My. 30. 140w.
“It is a substantial advance upon ‘Isidro’ and ‘The land of little rain.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 400. Je. ’08. 180w.
“The interest of her story lies not in the plot, which is conventional, but in her literalism, particularly in her understanding of human nature constrained by a college campus environment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 154. Jl. 16, ’08. 460w.
“She aims to present a fairly complete picture of life in this set of Santa Lucia society; and to do this she does not hesitate to introduce as many subordinate characters as she pleases. They are all distinct and well drawn. The novel, as a whole, is decidedly above the average.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“There is delightful art in the depiction of some of her characters, both men and women, and her descriptions of nature are exquisitely beautiful. But one grieves to note a falling off in that distinction of style which has marked her previous work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
“It is painfully deficient in construction, and, as it nears its culmination, positively depressing.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
=Aveling, Rev. Francis.= God of philosophy. *$1. Herder.
“A statement of the scholastic proofs of the existence of God. The author, expanding by illustration and comment, the matter of the ordinary text-book, presents the arguments in a form freed, as far as may be, from technical language, and adapted to the minds not possessed of much experience in metaphysical reflection.” (Cath. World.)
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“It would be well, we think, if the very meagre treatment of the claim of the Roman church had been omitted. It is inadequate, to say the least, and could not possibly convince any one not already persuaded. We doubt if any one trained in modern philosophy will find the work at all adequate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 497. Ap. 6. 100w.
“The classic proofs could not be more lucidly set forth; and they are formulated in their full strength.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 560. Ja. ’07. 180w.
=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= History of the United States and its people from their earliest records to the present time. 15v. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.
=v. 4.= “Covers the comparatively short period in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, during which took place the final contest between England and France for the possession of North America.... An important part of the story is the Indian warfare waged along the border, including the remarkable conspiracy of Chief Pontiac. As in the case of preceding volumes in this history, especial care has been taken to obtain authentic portraits and reproductions of significant documents.”—R. of Rs.
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“Mr. Avery has not superseded Parkman. What Mr. Avery has done, however, is to take Parkman’s material, study it carefully, cull from it generously, and then add to it the rich findings of investigators subsequent to Parkman. The result is par excellence.” A. H. Abel.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 252. O. 16, ’08. 960w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Informing, and as a whole readable, as the book is, one wonders whether, after all, Dr. Avery takes his history seriously.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The [Indian warfare] period has never before been covered in just this way by any American historian.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Ayscough, John.= Marotz. †$1.50. Putnam.
A story centering about a Sicilian nobleman’s family. “Much of the scene passes in a convent of contemplative nuns, and the novel generally is concerned with the higher problems of religion and the mystical aspects of the Christian faith. The book is written from the point of view of the Roman church, but it will not be found in any way offensive to Protestant readers, and those who wish to take their sermons disguised as stories will gain much edification from its perusal.” (Spec.)
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“Altogether ‘Marotz’ is a notable piece of work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 568. My. 9. 230w.
“The novel is strong and striking, with one structural fault—it is poorly knit together. Even with this fault, it stands high above the average of the year’s fiction.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 111. O. ’08. 320w.
“One may be but languidly interested in the book as a whole, but he cannot help liking the parts of which it is constructed.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“It is not a good novel—it is a chronicle, rather, ... slowly and clumsily related, and delayed in its course by many elaborate studies of eccentric character quite unnecessary to the plot.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 460w.
“The simple story is delightfully told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 438. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
“The purpose of the book is rather misty. The book has a spice of fun.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 250w.
“The work though by no means faultless, is yet a remarkable achievement, and the serious purpose which the author has obviously set himself is fully attained.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 907. Je. 6, ’08. 400w.
B
=Babbitt, Irving.= Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–8540.
A protest against a “vulgarly humanitarian” age. “The central thought of the book is that the old-fashioned culture and discipline of the American college (somewhat idealized perhaps in the retrospect) are being crowded out of modern life and education by the encroachment of the sentimental license of the kindergarten from below, and the pressure from above of specialized pedantry in the graduate school. The remedy is to be found in a return to humanism.” (Nation.)
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“A book that ought to be available in every community from which boys go to college.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 166. Je. ’08. ✠
+ − =Nation.= 86: 403. Ap. 30, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 183. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
“We welcome Mr. Babbitt as a powerful ally of the literary cause in the great educational struggle of the time.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Babcock, Maltbie Davenport.= Fragments that remain from the ministry of Maltbie Davenport Babcock; reported and arranged by Jessie B. Goetschius. **$1.25. Revell.
7–32160.
An enthusiastic member of Dr. Babcock’s congregation was in the habit of taking notes during his sermons. Her notebook furnished the material for these “fragments” which are inadequate in “producing the power and effectiveness of his preaching.” (Outlook.)
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“Those who profited by Dr. Babcock’s spoken words will gladly refresh their memories, while a much larger audience will be benefited by the out-givings of such a rare personality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Here and there flashes of the real man and of his unusual insight into truth occur, but in general these so-called fragments are disappointing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=Bacher, Otto Henry.= With Whistler in Venice. **$4. Century.
8–27402.
Intimate friendship and frank admiration lie back of these pen portraits of Whistler, the artist and the man. Whistler’s personal characteristics, with anecdotes to emphasize them, his methods of work, his success in oils, pastels, etchings and lithographs, and his relations with fellow artists provide ample material for the text of the book; while twenty-six Whistler etchings, three lithographs, several facsimile letters and thirteen Bacher etchings and photographs add to the value and beauty of the quarto volume.
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“Especial interest attaches to these reminiscences because they deal with a period in Whistler’s life about which comparatively little is known.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 466. D. 1, ’08. 500w.
“Will be a pleasure to the admirers of both artists and important to students of Whistler’s art and life.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 90w.
“This should be a favorite gift-book for those whose inclinations are toward the higher realms of art.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 561. O. 17, ’08. 750w.
“The thread of reminiscences is spun out very thin.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 448. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Bacher is able to tell us a good deal that is interesting about Whistler’s Venetian days and to give us a great many facts and impressions which contribute to our knowledge of Whistler’s eccentric character and of his artistic methods.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
“A book of reminiscences thoroughly characteristic of the eccentric painter and etcher.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 40w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 90w.
=Bacon, Edgar Mayhew.= Henry Hudson (American men of energy ser., v. 6.) **$1.35. Putnam.
7–38631.
A sketch of the life of Henry Hudson which is by no means restricted to the discoverer’s exploration of the river which bears his name.
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“A careful study throwing some new light upon the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 127. My. ’08.
“The author has made a creditable book, which, while unsatisfactory to the severely critical student, will be warmly welcomed by the ordinary reader.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 976. Ap. 30, ’08. 270w.
“Much new light is thrown by this well-known author upon the misunderstood personality of Hudson.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Mr. Bacon has pieced the fragments [of Hudson’s biography] together in admirable style, giving them their correct historical setting, and, while recognizing fully the efforts of previous biographers, has exposed their inaccuracies to a searching light.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 170. Mr. 28, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Bacon has made careful studies of all of Hudson’s voyages, and embodies in this work a great deal of information that will be new to most American readers.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 130w.
“We cannot say that this volume throws much new light on the obscure subject of Hudson’s career and character.”
− + =Spec.= 100: sup. 649. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= English voyages of adventure and discovery; retold from Hakluyt. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27377.
A summary of the Hakluyt narrative of English exploration and adventure from the earliest records to the establishment of the English colonies in North America. The story extends from the earliest adventures for conquest to those for discovery and expansion of trade and on down to the settlement of Virginia. To the summary has been added an account of the life of Hakluyt.
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“As solid reading the book is not without adventurous interest; it will not be popular, but it is more than a high school reference book, though it should appeal to the high school boy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 250w.
“Should be an acceptable present to any young man of spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 120w.
=Bacon, Francis.= Essays; edited, with introd. and notes by Mary Augusta Scott. *$1.25. Scribner.
8–5190.
A student’s book very fully annotated. An introduction of nearly one hundred pages gives first a fresh sketch of Bacon’s life, then discusses the essays as a whole, showing their Elizabethan setting, the universality of theme, the particular conditions and circumstances that called each forth, and the method, literary style, and language employed by Bacon.
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“This excellently printed edition, with notes at the bottom of the page, is a pleasant one to read.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 571. My. 9. 250w.
“Serviceable and inexpensive edition.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 280w.
“We think the editor in the desire to be complete, has loaded her annotations with a good deal of dead matter.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“Her introduction, which occupies about a quarter of the volume, is worth reading. In the matter of annotation she errs on the side of excess. But upon the whole, this is a fairly good edition of the essays—possibly for some readers, the best. For all readers it is immensely better than no edition at all.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 650w.
=Bacon, Josephine Daskam.= Ten to seventeen: a boarding school diary. †$1.50. Harper.
8–2943.
In the language of a track meet these boarding school affairs of grown ups, seen from a school girl’s point of view, are called events. A group of shrewd girls allow nothing of interest among their elders and teachers to escape them, especially love affairs over which sixteen casts the glamour of “do or die” romance. The school girls are clever and the diary is written in the confident, ne’er-to-be-repulsed style of invincible youth.
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“Will interest the grown-ups who have a taste for studies in temperament. Will not appeal, one would fancy, to the young girl.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 200w.
“It is amusing reading, in spite of a certain suggestion of coarseness which makes one feel that while the Elmbank girls have apparently never undergone the snickering age, their chronicler has not yet outgrown it.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“We must thank her for her excellent portrayal of so difficult a subject, while thoroughly enjoying the sense of fun which made her success in achieving it possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 90w.
“A cleverly written composite diary of boarding-school girls, with a sub-consciously humorous setting forth of the school-girl point of view.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 50w.
=Bagot, Richard.= Lakes of northern Italy. $1.75. Macmillan.
8–431.
A new edition of a “semi-guide,” so called, “because it does not give the material details which the tourist needs to know, but describes fully and often picturesquely, all the main-travelled spots and many of the out-of-the-way ones.” (Nation.) “Here the traveller may find some excellent suggestions as to what he should look for and how he should look.” (Spec.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 36. F. ’08.
“He is lucid, simple and occasionally witty. Our grateful recognition of these qualities, rare in a book of the kind under notice, increases our regret that he should have permitted himself, in treating of things religious and political, an acrid tone which detracts from its charm as a traveling-companion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 834. D. 28. 530w.
“A real service has been done by his publishers in reissuing it, with additional chapters, in a convenient pocket volume.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 110w.
“A handy little volume. His pages are pleasantly written for the most part, tho sometimes marred by expressions of the insular Britisher’s insolent contempt for travelers from other lands—from Germany and America, especially.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Bagot does for this region what the late Augustus Hare did for Florence, Rome, and Venice; and he spices his descriptions with views of his own on whatever subject comes up.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 180w.
“The present edition will prove a pleasant text-book for anyone who desires to know something of the associations, historical and traditional, of the scenes he is visiting.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 676. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
“The author brings knowledge of classical and medieval history to the fulfilment of his task, and he has a keen appreciation of scenery, a sufficient knowledge of art; in short, he has the qualifications of a traveller’s friend.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 300w.
* =Baikie, Rev. James.= Story of the Pharaohs. *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–35753.
A finely illustrated volume, concise and lucid, which covers the history of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest in 525 B. C. Not only does its monarch live again “but also the great men who served them, its society, literature and art—rivaling the latter fame of Rome, and stained by no excesses of wickedness.” (Outlook.)
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“It would have been a calamity if the author had modestly supprest his work because the ground was already well covered. Every statement that he makes is lucid and helpful.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1306. D. 3, ’08. 860w.
“Mr. Baikie, while availing himself of the latest results of research, writes for the general reader, and gives life and reality to his picture of the first great world power in history.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 593. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Bailey, Elmer James.= Novels of George Meredith: a study. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–34148.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“A good and useful study, neither remarkable as to originality nor masterly as to treatment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 6. Ja. ’08.
“In making [his classification, Mr. Bailey] analyzes the characters and situations with true insight, appreciation, and restraint. He clearly sees and feels Meredith’s high ideals, his strength, and his beauty of temperament.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 44: 129. Mr. 1, ’08. 480w.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Bailey pursues his end with a grim determination totally devoid of humor, and the result is sad to contemplate. The only thing of worth in Mr. Bailey’s book is an alphabetical list of Meredith’s characters, and some statistics as to their number.” E. C. Marsh.
− + =Forum.= 39: 384. Ja. ’08. 500w.
“Of several attempts to treat his collected novels critically or to furnish a guide to them, Mr. Bailey’s work is easily the best. It is the fullest and the most philosophical, and it springs from a riper study of nineteenth century fiction. It narrowly misses unquestioned right to a place beside Mr. Trevelyan’s splendid study of Meredith’s poetry and philosophy.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Bailey, Henry Christopher.= Colonel Greatheart. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–29002.
The setting for this story of “men and arms” is taken from the stirring days of Cavaliers and Roundheads, of Puritans and “malignants”; but the machines of war are rather in the background, while in the fore is a witching woman, a conqueror of hearts and a marker of destinies. It tells of a woman’s ambition which urges valiant men to perilous deeds.
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“A particularly good story.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 340w.
“A story of spirit, sure to hold the reader to the last page. It is a pity that Mr. Bailey should have seen fit to burden it with a comic French cook and Italian groom who delay the action without a compensating return of amusement.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 611. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=Bailey, Henry Christopher.= Gentleman of fortune. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–33910.
About one Raoul de Tout le Monde the author groups incidents and battlefield struggles that happened during the time that Philip of Spain was striving to crush the Netherlands.
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“His English is good, nervous English, but his manner is too brusque.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 722. D. 7. 240w.
“Not, you understand, a strong book, but whimsical and full of conversations so short and keen that the sparks of spirits fly between retorts.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 923. Ap. 23, ’08. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Although these stories of the struggle between the Dutch and the Spanish in the sixteenth century are written with much of Mr. Bailey’s usual felicity of style, the reader cannot help feeling that such very slight and rather theatrical sketches are unworthy of the pen of their author.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 935. D. 7, ’07. 140w.
=Bailey, Henry Christopher.= God of clay. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
8–30132.
“An episodic résumé of Napoleon’s career, as visualized by the imagination. The thread of interest remains in the person of Bonaparte, who connects the tales.... Out of the mass of incredible events and incidents which Mr. Bailey does not even condescend to explain, emerges nevertheless a vivid and powerful, and faithful portrait of Napoleon.”—Ath.
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“The form of this work, we imagine, was dictated by serial necessities, which have hampered the author. But the matter proves that he is in the forefront of our historical novelists.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 473. Ap. 18. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=, ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the United States and Canada. 4v. ea. $5. Macmillan.
7–8529.
=v. 3.= Deals with the subject of animals. Part 1 treats of the physiology and breeding habits, feeding, diseases and management. Part 2 is devoted to the manufacture of animal products. Part 3 is concerned with the description of North American farm animals, their breeding, history, rearing, and the “general treatment towards accomplishing the ends for which they were intended.” Bibliography under each heading.
* * * * *
“A valuable reference work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08. (Review of v. 3.)
“In spite of the fact that it is packed with technical information, it is almost all of it comprehensible to any person of ordinary education, and much of it is so well written that it could be read aloud in the farmhouse to the whole family.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1569. D. 26, ’07. 870w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“This cyclopedia is as complete and authoritative as any work can be in the present state of science.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Hardly full enough to be of much value to the farmer who is already engaged in that particular industry, and American conditions of climate and labour render much of the information inapplicable to British agriculture; but this volume of the ‘Cyclopedia’ would be of the greatest service to any settler breaking ground in a new country, and looking round for profitable crops outside the accepted routine.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 292. Ja. 30, ’08. 310w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is only in the parts of the book dealing with the science of breeding and in the descriptions of individual breeds that we would suggest amendments.” James Wilson.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 657. O. 29, ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= State and the farmer. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22260.
The expansion of an address given before the Association of American agricultural colleges and experiment stations in 1907. Professor Bailey in discussing the political and economic status of the farmer, examines for their merits and demerits present remedial services rendered the farmer by government and society and offers suggestions for progress toward a substantial betterment of conditions and results.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.
“The book needs and deserves a very wide circle of readers. It must not, however, be cursorily read and laid aside. The problems discussed are very deep, and we close our review with an endorsement of the statement that we must have a new sort of statesmanship as well as a new sort of farmers.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1068. N. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Bain, Francis William.= Incarnation of the snow; tr. from the original manuscript by F. W. Bain. †$1.25. Putnam.
8–25743.
“The several little tales relating how the daughter of the mountain quarreled with her husband, the Lord of Creatures, and went to sit and grieve beside a lonely lake, and how, in various forms, he sought her out and stayed with her until she was ready to make up the lovers’ quarrel, are very beautiful. They bring down to the plane of daily living the Hindu attitude toward life and death, and by their very simplicity transform it from a philosophical creed to a human, sustaining faith.”—N. Y. Times.
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“This is a tale of strange terrors and beauties, told in a style rising to a kind of intoxication.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 330w.
“The stories are warm and bright with human passion, but they are wonderfully tender in sentiment, while the exquisite delicacy of the style in which they are written, or translated, combined with their rich Oriental imagery, makes the reading of them an unmixed delight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 531. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Bain shows the same captivating and delightful style that distinguished his previous works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Bain, Robert Nisbet.= Slavonic Europe: a political history of Poland and Russia from 1447 to 1796. (Cambridge historical ser.) *$2. Putnam.
8–11486.
A political history of Poland and Russia from the middle of the fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century which “concerns itself almost entirely with the detailing of the progress of wars, the intrigues and achievements of diplomacy, and the doings of monarchs and statesmen.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“He has crowded his book with useless detail, probably as a result of hasty writing which leaves too little time to discriminate between the essential and the unessential. The use of sources does not strike a reviewer as critical. Most of the old stories are accepted without the least hesitation.” R. C. H. Catterall.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 110. O. ’08. 570w.
“On the institutional and social side it is not strong, while the abundance of detail sometimes obscures the main course of the narrative, and in any case does not make the volume entirely easy reading. Russian and Polish names are at best stumbling-blocks to Latins and Teutons, and Mr. Bain does not lessen the difficulty by his preference for less usual forms of transliteration, as well as by some inconsistency in their use.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 520. N. 26, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Bain’s performance is interesting perhaps to the ordinary reader, but is hardly worthy of his plan.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 83. Jl. 18, ’08. 1000w.
“Much of the history of eastern Europe is still unexplored; and we cannot give Mr. Bain’s work higher praise than to say that out of the tangle he has produced a singularly compact, clear, and well-proportioned history that ought to be a safe and welcome guide to thousands of readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 300. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
* =Baker, Ray Stannard.= Following the color line. **$2. Doubleday.
8–31180.
“The negro as he is in the South, as he is in the North, and as he is in the nation at large defines the scope of the inquiry which Mr. Baker has undertaken in the present work. While confining himself largely to racial conditions as they exist to-day, the author considers various tendencies as they have found expression in the past and gives critical estimates of some of the views that have been advanced as to the ultimate solution of the negro problem.”—Lit. D.
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=Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“The unique value of the book lies in its presentation of certain facts regarding the life of the negro in the United States, which the author has collected during several years spent in personal investigation which give to his work the quality of originality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Baker, Tarkington.= Yard and garden: a book of practical information for the amateur gardener in city, town or suburb. il. **$2. Bobbs.
8–11497.
Gives directions for the speediest and safest process of converting the bit of ground allotted to a town or city house into a harmoniously and effectively beautiful spot. It is devoted to the planting and care of trees, shrubs, plants and vines that beautify and add luxury to the little square of ground.
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“Probably the best general, popular treatment of the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 166. Je. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Baldwin, Charles Sears.= Essays out of hours. **$1. Longmans.
7–36392.
These essays, some of which have appeared in the Atlantic monthly and Putnam’s deal with such subjects as My friend Copperfield, Master Vergil, Stearn’s influence on French literature, John Bunyan, and The genesis of the short story.
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“Brief, pleasant comments on various aspects of life or letters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08.
“Here we have the critic whose intellect delicately steers his taste.” Florence Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 101: 712. My. ’08. 300w.
“Among this collection of papers ... are four or five that are good examples of sound literary criticism of that old-fashioned type which, with good taste and a knowledge of life as well as of books, exhibited sound common sense, displaced now-a-days too frequently by crude psychologising, or ambitious attempts at philosophic generalization.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 692. F. ’08. 340w.
“One is a little surprised to find the writer’s scholarship permitting such blemishes as ‘unique’ in the superlative degree of comparison.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 20. Ja. 1, ’08. 200w.
“In all of these shorter disquisitions reprinted from magazines, the author shows the true essayist’s capacity to say engaging things about matters of little moment in themselves. The three distinctly literary essays which form the bulk of Prof. Baldwin’s book are earnest pieces of constructive criticism which go deep into their respective subjects, discuss them with erudition, and are much more concerned with saying something of import and interest than with the manner in which it is said.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 76. F. 8, ’08. 450w.
=Baldwin, Edward Chauncey, and Paul, Harry G.=, eds. English poems. *$1. Am. bk.
8–15301.
An anthology of more than four hundred pages containing poems from Chaucer to Tennyson. The poems have been selected with a view to presenting material which should be representative of the successive periods of English history, of the chief types of poetry, and which should lend themselves easily to comparative study. Abundant notes including thought-stimulating questions are provided for the benefit of teacher and pupil.
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“The volume is without any very distinguishing characteristic, but is useful nevertheless.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 521. D. ’08. 50w.
“While a convenient book, is in no wise superior to others already in existence.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 310. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Thought and things: a study of the development and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. ea. *$2.75. Macmillan.
=v. 2.= Deals with Experimental logic, or Genetic theory of thought.
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“If we have hardly done justice to the argument, the blame is not wholly ours, but attaches likewise to the piecemeal method of publication already deprecated, and, still more, to the extraordinary obscurity of the phraseology and idiom employed. A thinker of great vigour and ability has been content to express himself anyhow.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 268. S. 5, 1350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“We can testify that, having gone through the whole with the utmost care and with predilections not unfavorable to the author, we do not think it worth our reader’s while to enter into the necessarily more lengthy criticisms of the more difficult problems as treated in this volume. We greatly regret our disappointment with it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 164. Ag. 20, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It presents on first reading a multitude of divisions and distinctions in a terminology that is largely unfamiliar, but these difficulties largely disappear on further acquaintance. It still appears to me, indeed, that some of the author’s distinctions are not of vital importance, and that he has an undue fondness for his own terminology. But the comparatively new field which he is exploring, together with the value of his results, would excuse more serious defects than these.” J. E. Creighton.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 68. Ja. ’08. 3350w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Baldwin, May.= Mysie: a Highland lassie. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“This is a story of troubles in family life. Mysie and her little brother come home from India, and there are differences between them and the elder children. These differences become more serious than it is easy to imagine possible. Hamish is a villain of the melodramatic sort, and could hardly find his way into the home which Miss Baldwin describes for us.” (Spec.).
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“Another fat book with many interesting and exciting happenings.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 20w.
“It is a tale of an original, quite lovable small girl, with an imagination too big for her. The style of the writing is a little feeble except in the dialogue, which is always natural and unforced.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. D. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Spec.= 99: sup. 904. D. 7, ’07. 70w.
=Balet, Joseph W.= Analysis of elastic arches, three-hinged, two-hinged, and hingeless, of steel, masonry, and reinforced concrete. *$3. Eng. news.
8–4024.
“Sets forth principally a graphic method the author has developed, largely based on the work of other investigators, into the properties of masonry, concrete and steel arches.... Several useful tables are given, relating to existing arches, formulas for safe stresses in members, loads on bridges, impact coefficients and other subjects. The appendix contains the mathematical analysis of the elastic arch which the author believes most satisfactory.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The work shows a keen insight into the mathematics and the theory of the arch, and the engineer who is well-versed in mathematics and mechanics will derive benefit from studying the book, but the beginner will find difficulty in following the subjects as here set forth.” F. P. McKibben.
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 415. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The book is very hard reading. [The author] knew his subject too well, perhaps, to exercise due care in maintaining that rigid logic of development and clearness of expression which the case demanded; and he was evidently handicapped by lack of practice in writing.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 203. F. 20, ’08. 1250w.
“The author has evidently given the subject much study and deserves credit for his investigations, but it is something of a pity that he has not arranged his explanations of methods and their applications so as to obviate constant reference to subsequent pages.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 224. F. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Ball, Eustace A. R.= Tourist’s India. *$2. Brentano’s.
8–14845.
“A sort of etherialized guide-book. It runs rapidly and lightly from one place of interest to another—towns, caves and waterfalls—and all the time keeps up a delightful chatter, in which anecdote and jest sugar-coat the pill of dry information. It is just the thing needed, to inform the traveler about hotels, snakebites, Babu English, history, and the amount of alcohol he may imbibe without danger.”—Nation.
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“It is a well-systematized tour, and throws light on many different aspects of life in the principal cities. The arrangement in chapters devoted to particular towns is one to be commended for ready reference, and will be of great help to a prospective tourist.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 450. S. ’08. 200w.
“Not even Murray gives so much out-of-the-way wisdom, and Murray is far from being so amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 282. Mr. 26, ’08. 100w.
“A business like guide.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 61. Ja. 12, ’07. 50w.
* =Balleine, G. R.= History of the Evangelical party in the Church of England. *$1.75. Longmans.
“In the moderate compass of some 300 pages the author sketches the growth and progress of evangelical ideas within the Anglican communion, and estimates the contribution of evangelical churchmen to the cause of English religion. He starts with the Wesleys, Whitefield, and the Oxford Holy club, and follows the fortunes of the party down to Bishop Ryle and churchmen who are still living.”—Nation.
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“Evangelicalism within the Church of England has found a sympathetic and worthy historian in the Rev. G. R. Balleine.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Balleine has found a somewhat neglected place in church history, and has filled it with a book which is clearly the outcome of a penetrating study of almost all the contemporary evidence. He presents his facts in very readable form and with very little of party bias.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 180. Ag. 8, ’08. 460w.
“A really excellent book. He tells us not a few truths that have been forgotten; he corrects not a few misrepresentations. One important point that he makes is the distinction between the Evangelicals and the Low Churchmen.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 360w.
=Bamford, Harry.= Moving loads on railway underbridges; including diagrams of bending moments and shearing forces and tables of equivalent uniform live loads. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“‘Moving loads’ is used in the sense of ‘wheel loads.’ The book gives a demonstration of graphical and analytical methods for finding maximum moments and shears under any given system of wheel loads. Methods for girders or solid beams only are discussed, and nothing is said of the modifications introduced by the paneling in truss bridges.”—Engin. N.
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“A book that will be found useful.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“Forms a concise and interesting discussion of the subject.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 251. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
=Bancroft, George.= Abraham Lincoln: a tribute. **60c. Wessels.
8–25391.
A review of the historical facts concerning slavery, the forces favoring and opposing, lead up to a statement of the definite work of Lincoln for slavery. The undertone of the brief tribute is Lincoln’s perfect faith in the perpetuity of the union. The sketch closes with a terse comparison of Lincoln and Palmerston, England’s prime minister contemporary with Lincoln.
=Bangs, John Kendrick.= Genial idiot: his views and reviews. †$1.25. Harper.
8–29647.
In which the Idiot of “Coffee and repartee” fame reappears. His wit and shrewdness go hand in hand as he descants upon such themes as ideal husbands, finance, a comic opera, fame, the decadence of April-fool’s day, flat-hunting, the gentle art of boosting, the music cure, campaign methods, short courses at college, the horse-show, etc.
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=Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 120w.
=Bangs, John Kendrick.= Potted fiction: being a series of extracts from the world’s best sellers, put up in thin slices for hurried consumers, by the United States literary canning company. †50c. Doubleday.
8–34602.
Literary products put up in such convenient form “that they may be carried in the vest pocket or vanity bags, to be consumed as opportunity presents, between courses at quick lunch counters, between nibbles at bridge parties,” etc. The six sellers so condensed are: Rollo in the metrolopus, by Dopeton Hotair; Six months, by Hellinor Gryn; The lost secret, by E. Fillips Dopenheim; A pragmatic enigma, by A. Conan Watson, M.D.; The stepdaughter of Peterson Jay, by George Jarr McClutchem; Somehow long, by the author of Alice in wanderland.
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=Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Unless one is unduly grouchy and hard to suit, the book will occasionally provide a laugh.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 500w.
=Banks, Rev. Louis Albert.= Sermons which have won souls. **$1.40. Funk.
8–19116.
Sermons of a Denver preacher who believes in business-like methods for soul-saving. The introductory chapter on The pastor as a soul-winner, sets forth the evangelistic methods which he employs for the salvation of souls. It is a good chapter on the demonstrable phases of church principles. Mr. Banks believes in steady movement, in following up people who have been awakened until their lives begin to express the conviction in their hearts.
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“If his sermons at times seem commonplace, they nevertheless, for the most part, ring true. If the sermons at times seem like patchwork the pieces are of good material.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 390. O. ’08. 400w.
=Banks, Robert Webb.= Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864, the bloodiest engagement of the war between the states. *$1.25. Neale.
8–30516.
An account of the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, from the Confederate point of view.
=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Lead glazed pottery pt. 1. (Art primer.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–854.
The fourth art primer in a series of industrial art. Historical data, reviews of processes, descriptions of wares made in various countries including the slip-decorated wares of Europe, are given with numerous illustrations.
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“A reliable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 86: 563. Je. 18, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 280w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Harry’s Island. †$1.50. Century.
8–25995.
Another of Mr. Barbour’s lively, wholesome stories for young people which tells of the adventures of Tom, Dick, Harriet and Roy, all well known to the author’s readers, during a summer of camping on an island in the Hudson river.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 60w.
“Save that it is much too long, shows surprising ingenuity in invention; but it is like what he has done before.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 767. D. ’08. 50w.
* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= My lady of the fog. †$2. Lippincott.
8–25123.
A light-house island and the surrounding sea furnish the setting for this romance of a New York heiress and a young Colorado engineer loafing during a brief vacation. She has run away from Newport for a season of quiet in which to decide the momentous question of marriage with a foreign count. The intrepid youth finds her in a fog, rescues her, restores her to her island, woos her, and wins her—all without learning that she is his employer, the Judy Sypher whom from rodman to chief he and his co-workers idealize.
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+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Is an excellent sea story with a decidedly sentimental interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=Barclay, Mrs. Florence Louisa.= Wheels of time. (What is worth while ser.) **30c. Crowell.
8–23556.
A dramatic little story of a woman’s sudden awakening to a great love for a husband for whom she had been in the habit of doling out grudgingly her affection in small quantities.
=Barclay, Sir Thomas.= Problems of international practice and diplomacy, with special reference to the Hague conferences and conventions and other general international agreements. $6.50. Boston bk.
7–42317.
Questions of international law and order are discussed with particular emphasis on the ethical principles and the reasons of expediency underlying them. Each topic is taken up separately with a full historical record of what has been done in regard to it, its present position and the authoritative attitude towards further developments.
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“Sir Thomas Barclay has published a most valuable volume at the right moment. It is difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of his chapters. On the other hand, he will disappoint many of his friends in peace and arbitration circles by the caution and the conservative tendency displayed in the greater portion of his work.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 68. Jl. 20. 1000w.
“We cannot doubt that this volume, with its full discussion of many points and the richness of its suggestions as to details, will be useful to representatives at The Hague. It is a book which the international lawyer cannot dispense with.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 300w.
“Sir Thomas’s book is unsatisfying only if the reader expects too much.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 608. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w.
“The book is invaluable for all international lawyers, politicians, and the higher ranks of journalism.”
+ =Sat R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 300w.
=Barham, Richard Harris (Thomas Ingoldsby, pseud.).= Ingoldsby legends; il. by Arthur Rackham. *$6. Dutton.
An “edition definitive de luxe” of the “Ingoldsby legends” in whose illustrations by Mr. Rackham appears the same quality of interpretation as was found in his drawings for “Peter Pan” last year.
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“Mr. Rackham has caught the fantastic humor of the ‘Legends’ so perfectly that one feels for the first time his full power.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1471. D. 10, ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Rackham enters so thoroughly into the spirit of these now classic tales, and his drawings reveal such rare talents, that the success of this new edition is assured. As a gift-book nothing could be better.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 252. Ja. ’08. 130w.
“Here is delicate art, excellent drawing, and a refined whimsicality which might carry even a poor book to success. With such a setting ‘The Ingoldsby legends’ should gain many new friends, and enter on a new era of popularity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 420w.
“The present is certainly an advance on the edition of the ‘Ingoldsby legends’ published some years ago with illustrations by this very artist. In paper, print, illustration, and binding the new volume seems well-nigh ideal.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. D. 7, ’07. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 906. D. 7, ’07. 50w.
=Baring, Maurice.= Year in Russia. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–11807.
Mr. Baring tells the story of the Moscow rising and of the first duma, as well as of other important happenings of the year of revolution from August, 1905 to August, 1906.
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“It is not, however, so much for the political views expressed in it that this book will be valued, as for the light which the author throws on the life of the Russian people.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 506. My. 25, ’07. 900w.
“The author is a sane observer and tries to do justice to the various opinions and political parties.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Baring’s sketch of the physical conditions of Russia is admirable, but we doubt whether he has in fact a ‘clear idea’ as regards its future.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 650w.
“His modest purpose is achieved in an easy, graceful and interesting manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1035. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
“He has made it his aim to depict the ordinary instead of inventing the extraordinary, and, as might perhaps have been expected, the ordinary thus depicted proves to be vastly more entertaining as well as more informing than the extraordinary.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 154. My. 17, ’07. 1550w.
“The book pretends to be nothing more than a jotting down in diary form of hearsay, impression, and casual observation, and as such can possess little permanent value, especially in the presence of more elaborate and systematic presentations of the same subject.”
− =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 150w.
“The style is easy and amusing, with an undercurrent of humorous good-natured chaff and raillery sown broadcast here and there, which makes the book pleasant and instructive reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 786. Je. 22, ’07. 1020w.
“In no book which deals with the last few years of Russian history is the inspiration of the interpreter so manifest, and none that we know, whether in English or in Russian, contains such admirable material for the study of Russian public opinion during one of the most momentous years of Russian history.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 943. Je. 15, ’07. 1650w.
=Barker, J. Ellis.= British socialism. *$3. Scribner.
“The author has consulted about a thousand socialistic works, and his ‘book is a summary of the whole literature of British socialism and a key to it.’” (Spec.) “This volume enables one to obtain a conspectus of the views of typical socialists upon the various concrete problems to which they direct their attention, such as the family, the empire, the land, the army, the railways, and a host of similar issues.” (Nation.)
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“It cannot be said, unfortunately, that the critical thread of comment which ties the illustrative extracts together is altogether fair or discriminating. But he has collected an instructive and compendious anthology.”
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+ − =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 230w.
“A work of praiseworthy industry, which will be most useful to those who wish to know the practical suggestions deduced from socialist theories.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 471. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
=Barnard, J. Lynn.= Factory legislation in Pennsylvania: its history and administration. $1.50. Winston.
7–19757.
“The subject matter is divided almost evenly into the two fields of history and administration. Under the former, the movement for the legal regulation of women and child labor is carefully reviewed from the days of 1824 until the present date. Allied movements, such as sweatshop, fire-escape and bake-shop legislations are duly treated.... Under the subject of administration, the author shows an inside knowledge of the conditions which make easy the violation of the factory law.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The author has given a much needed and scholarly account of this field of social progress in Pennsylvania. Books such as this, covering all the large industrial states, would soon remove the criticism one sometimes hears that college courses in social welfare would be very good were they not ‘spread out so thin.’”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 263. Ja. ’08. 220w.
“His monograph is a valuable contribution to the literature dealing with factory legislation in the United States, which is gradually approaching that degree of completeness necessary for scientific comparative study of our state codes.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 375. Je. ’07. 220w.
“It is much to be desired that similar studies for other states than Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts may be undertaken by students of social legislation, and for such studies Dr. Barnard’s work may well serve as a model.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 555. S. ’07. 160w.
=Yale R.= 16: 445. F. ’08. 200w.
=Barnes, James.= Clutch of circumstance. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–12555.
A young physician coming into a fortune returns from a prolonged absence abroad to his western New York home. He finds that the girl who had promised to marry him in his college days has become the wife of his old chum, now a prominent minister. With the discovery that he still loves the girl, comes the startling revelation that her husband is in the clutches of morphine. During the physician’s attempt to save the friend the latter dies and a murder charge results. Great love triumphs over all obstacles in the end.
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“The book is marred rather than made by its sensational ending.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
− + =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w.
“All the threads of his narrative appear clean and fine and well-dyed, only they do not seem to belong together, and the fabric that has resulted from their combination has certainly a few discordant colors in its eminently dignified design.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 300w.
“The story is readable, but unpleasant.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 80w.
=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith.= Heart of Jessy Laurie: front, by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–31283.
A fisher lass is the heroine of this story of simple Scotch life. “Jessy Laurie is an Effie Deans of a sturdier mould. She abandons a lover of her own class in response to the call of an aristocratic young Lothario. He gains possession of her by a form of marriage which he intends to be a mockery, but which turns out to be legal, so that technically she is not betrayed. The child of the union becomes the scapegrace’s heir, and the scapegrace, taking himself off by drowning, leaves her free to marry the faithful and magnanimous lover.” (Nation.)
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“In itself, this is a good story by an experienced story-teller. If the sum of all this is not a story of remarkable power, it is certainly a story told with more than ordinary intelligence and control.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 15. Ja. 2, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith.= Strawberry handkerchief. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–24302.
This little drama enacted in Stamp act times deals chiefly with two romances in which Cupid plays at cross purposes with obdurate parents, defies, too, taut political lines. The strawberry handkerchief is a love token that plays an important part in righting misunderstandings, and binding hearts even across the sea.
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“A pleasing historical romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 583. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“If Mrs. Barr could alter the fixed form of her conversations, an added charm would enliven her well-written pages.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Barr, James R.= Principles of direct-current electrical engineering. *$3.25. Macmillan.
8–32343.
Written primarily for the use of intermediate classes in universities and technical colleges with the intention of bridging the gap between elementary manuals and too highly specialized works. Problems to illustrate principles and illustrations of machinery and instruments are taken from modern practice.
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“Two chapters treat of storage batteries and electric lighting, but these are rather disappointing. The author is to be congratulated upon the work which he has produced. It is not too practical or too theoretical, but contains just the information which a second-year student wants.” L. C.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 172. Je. 25, ’08. 720w.
“Should find a considerable application in colleges and technical schools. The index of the book is complete enough to make it a ready work of reference.” G: C. Shaad.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 411. S. 25, ’08. 600w.
=Barr, Robert.= Young Lord Stranleigh. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–16950.
A story which will especially interest teachers; for it presents some of the problems of coeducation in the American public schools. It also shows the groping of a young man for the thing in life which he can do best.
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“From the unfamiliarity of its circumstances—if for no other reason—the book is most interesting, and Mr. Barr’s well-known humour has lost none of its power. The scope is naturally limited, but the picture is so complete in itself that its narrowness is forgotten.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 299. D. 28, ’07. 200w.
“Full of pleasant turns of thought and mirthful incident.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 150w.
“As a study of the educational conditions of such an institution as is described, the book has a puzzling interest for us.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The reader who does not find it rather solemn reading will probably call it exceedingly humorous.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 250w.
“The author has chosen a singularly colorless phase of social life, colorless at least so far as fictional uses are concerned. It does not appear to be one of Mr. Barr’s happiest achievements.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w.
“The novel is original in its subject and treatment, has plot interest, and while not of tremendous power, is certainly readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The merit of the present story lies in the unusually vivid portraiture of two or three teachers and students, and though the plot is commonplace the book has a real interest.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 458. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Barr, Robert.= The measure of the rule. †$1.50. Appleton.
The triumph of a British dandy, one Lord Stranleigh, suffering from ennui and too many millions, over the hard bargainers of London high finance. He becomes interested in a mine that is being taken from its owner by stock gamblers’ tricks, and when the stock is at low water mark he sends twenty buyers to as many sellers at the same instant, taking all each will sell, thus overbuying the market. The mine manager proceeds to steal the mine’s best ore but is outwitted by Stranleigh whose yacht beats the thieves to the mine where he watches them dig his ore. Later he buys their boat, trades captains, returns to London with his gold in time to relieve the bank of England from temporary stringency.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 140w.
“Is one of Mr. Barr’s better books—perhaps one of his best.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The charm of this book lies in its bland childlike preposterousness.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“There may be hardened story readers who can absorb this yarn by installments, but most readers will do better not to tackle it until they can read it through at a sitting. They will want to, for it is easy, pleasant, and, at times, thrilling, reading. Withal it carries a budget of useful morals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 550w.
=Barron, Edward.= Lost goddess. †$1.50. Holt.
8–9523.
A South American bent upon the villainy of wife-stealing draws a group of idle New Yorkers into the adventurous undertaking of rescuing an American girl from the captivity of the Tigrane Indians somewhere on the headwaters of the Amazon. This story deals with their thrilling experiences on board their yacht and in Brazilian wilds where the trap into which they have been lured is sprung.
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“An ingenious tale, whose greater merit lies in the deftness and firmness with which the author handles a love interest that has depth and strength.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 973. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“The true spirit of romance, rare at best in the fiction of to-day, is sadly lacking in Mr. Barron’s book, which in its execution is not without merit.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Barrus, Clara.= Nursing the insane. **$2. Macmillan.
8–13623.
Advice chiefly for the care of women, based upon talks which the author has given during a long experience in the hospital at Middletown, New York. “The last chapter briefly notes the legal requirements to be fulfilled in the admission of insane patients to the hospitals of this state, and gives good advice concerning the removal of such persons from their homes.” (Nation.)
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+ =Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It may be said that the book contains too little for a nurse obliged to work without constant direction, especially in private houses, and often almost too much for those that have such supervision.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 260w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 20w.
=Barth, Fritz.= Gospel of St. John and the synoptic gospels. (Foreign religious ser.) *40c. Meth. bk.
8–265.
“A vigorous apologetic for the credibility and authenticity of the fourth Gospel, which, with the Apocalypse, is ascribed to the Apostle John.”—Bib. World.
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“The style is sometimes obscure, and the treatment of early Christian literature, e. g., Papias, is arbitrary.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 239. Mr. ’08. 50w.
“A vigorous brief.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 311. F. 6, ’08. 350w.
“Unfortunately, the translation is often awkward. It is a translation from German, but not always a translation into English!”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 70w.
=Barton, George Aaron.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes. (International critical commentary.) **$2.25. Scribner.
8–15777.
A commentary in which the author looks upon the unknown writer of Ecclesiastes “as a skeptic who has outgrown his ancestral faith, but has not abandoned such belief in God as an agnostic may cherish, holding to which he ‘preaches a gospel of healthy work, and the full enjoyment of life’s round of duties and opportunities.’” (Outlook.)
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“The only defect in the makeup of the volume is the inexcusably bad proof-reading. In every other respect the work constitutes a worthy companion volume to those that have preceded it in this splendid series.” J: M. P. Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 361. N. ’08. 600w.
“For the professional student we do not know of any commentary on Ecclesiastes superior to this.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 492. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
“In this volume the results of the most recent critical studies are canvassed succinctly and thoroughly, with regard to the needs both of specialists and of other intelligent readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 160w.
=Spec.= 100: 1037. Je. 27, ’08. 580w.
=Barton, James Levi.= Unfinished task of the Christian church: introductory studies in the problem of the world’s evangelization. 50c. S. V. M.
8–20161.
An appeal to the student volunteers of American colleges. “The extent of the task before the church, the obstacles to be overcome at home and abroad, the partial success already achieved, and the resources now available for it, are all so presented that the statement is practically an argument for greater activity.” (Outlook.)
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“The book is admirable in the selection and arrangement of very useful material.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 527. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“It is a plain, clear, crisp recital by a recognized authority, widely traveled, and personally acquainted with the facts he relates concerning existing conditions.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 160w.
=Barzini, Luigi.= Pekin to Paris: an account of Prince Borghese’s journey across two continents in a motor car. *$5. Kennerley.
8–11793.
A full account of the motor-car journey undertaken by Prince Borghese across Asia and Europe. “On June 10, five cars started on their eight thousand mile course.... In the Chinese Empire the party met the almost irresistible rocks of Ki-mi-ni; in the Mongolian deserts the sands were almost too much for the machine; in the Russian Empire they availed themselves of the rails of the Trans-Siberian railway. Thus they came to the western borders of the Russian Empire, to the good roads of Germany and the better ones of France, and to their journey’s end.” (Dial.)
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“It is a straightforward, graphic piece of journalism, and provides a full and detailed account of the adventurous journey. It may be considered over-long by some, but the reviewer has found its interest well sustained, and it has no ‘padding.’”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 550w.
“The volume contains an interesting and modest introduction by the prince, a hundred good illustrations, and an excellent detailed map showing the route traversed. Señor Barzini’s style, as translated by Señor De Castelvecchio, is best described by Prince Borghese as vivacious: no other style could possibly do justice to the subject.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 105. F. 16, ’08. 500w.
“The narrative, written by the practiced hand of a journalist, reads with the rush and excitement of the motor ride.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 527. Mr. 5, ’08. 130w.
“There is much of general interest in Signor Barzini’s narrative. The volume contains much wearisome detail of rescues from swamps and broken bridges, and there are frequent poetic digressions which might well have been omitted.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 359. Ap. 16, ’08. 600w.
“He gives us the latest and the best pictures of the awakened East.” Julius Chambers.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 618. Ap. ’08. 1600w.
“The book has been well translated and will appeal irresistibly to the reader who loves to undertake adventures and enjoy novel experiences by his own fireside.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 242. F. 22, ’08. 650w.
“We are thrilled by the book as if it were some tale of wonderful adventure; but we get more than that in much food for speculation and thought.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 645. Ap. 25, ’08. 370w.
=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Sanitation of recreation camps and parks. $1. Wiley.
8–16540.
A practical hand book suggesting how to obviate improper sanitation in camps, by screening the food, avoiding impure water, daily burning or burying all the waste, solid and liquid, by treating with kerosene the brooks and pools in mosquito infested districts, and keeping weeds and grass cut around the camp. There is also advice on the location and construction of camps.
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“A very suggestive handbook in the elementary principles of sanitation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.
“By the avoidance of technical terms and the presentation of the subject in an interesting and pleasing style the writer has provided a most readable and useful little work.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 366. Ag. 20, ’08. 340w.
“This little book ought to have a wide circulation during the summer months.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 110w.
=Bates, Arlo.= Intoxicated ghost, and other stories. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–12556.
Nine short stories in Mr. Bates’s best vein. “The intoxicated ghost,” the titular story, portrays a ghost-compelling young woman who, in love with the impecunious scion of a New England house, is called by his sister to communicate with the ghost of an ancestor who when upon earth had hidden the family diamonds. After three separate visits from the specter, during which the intrepid young woman has the novel experience of seeing her ghost grow intoxicated on wraith wine, the hiding place of the jewels is revealed.
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“A collection of clever short stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“He is the well-bred and accomplished amateur of fiction, and the pince-nez literature he produces is excellent in its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 370w.
“The author’s taste is as noteworthy as his versatility.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Bates, David Homer.= Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2. Century.
7–32385.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“A simple straight-forward narrative. It is a pity that errors of fact should have crept into these entertaining pages.” Allen Johnson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 656. Ap. ’08. 470w.
“This work possesses a three-fold interest: as a narrative of thrilling and momentous facts it appeals to the imagination in an absorbing manner; as a contribution to history it is of real worth; while its intimate pictures of Abraham Lincoln give it special value, and the moral idealism that made the martyred president one with the noblest patriots and statesmen of the earlier days of our republic adds inestimably to its genuine worth.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 676. D. ’07. 580w.
“It is rather unfortunate that Mr. Bates undertakes to deal with matters not related to his subject. About a third of the book is padding, interesting but not always authentic. On pages 86 and 87, pages 28 and 29 are repeated—a slip not to be expected in a work from the De Vinne press.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 47. Ja. 16, ’08. 510w.
“There is much in this direct and incisive narrative, told in plain, nervous English, that is of technical interest, but, fortunately, Mr. Bates does not dwell on that aspect of the first great use of telegraphy in actual warfare.”
+ =Elec. World.= 50: 1257. D. 28, ’07. 360w.
“An entertaining book of reminiscence in a comparatively unfamiliar field.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 220w.
=Bates, Lindon Wallace.= Retrieval at Panama. $5. The Technical literature co., 220 Broadway, N. Y.
8–8499.
A compilation of the Panama company’s “colossal blunders” obtained from official reports, books, pamphlets, maps, and correspondence; also from visits to the isthmus. “The design of the canal in its broad aspects, its general details, its commercial aspects, and its construction are discussed at great length.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“Mr. Bates’s book is the most instructive work of constructive criticism of the Panama canal that has ever been written. It is thorough in its discussions and is written in a readable style characteristic of the author.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 303. Mr. ’08. 750w.
“The literary style of these criticisms is unique. It reminds us at once of Tom Lawson and Poultney Bigelow. Like the work of those eminent authors, too, it somehow fails to carry conviction to the minds of the readers.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 202. F. 20, ’08. 600w.
“The book is of a controversial nature, but is one of those works which contain a great deal of interesting information and criticism.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 180w.
“A large part of his criticism is undeniably justified.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 167. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
=Batiffol, Louis.= Marie de Médicis and the French court in the seventeenth century; tr. from the French by Mary King; ed. by H. W. Carless Davis. *$2. Scribner.
8–20525.
A study of a phase of French society in which are set down the intimate details of Marie de Médicis’ ten years of life at the French court. “How the queen spent her days in her new residence, what she ate, what she wore, how much she spent on her household, for her stables, her jewels; what her relations were with her husband and his mistresses, who her friends were, what influences ruled her, what sort of interests she had; what she did to encourage art and artists; how much money she received, how she used it—all that and much more is told by a trained historian who has consulted first-hand documents and gives us a most instructive chapter in the history of civilization.” (Nation.)
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“He has achieved his purpose within the somewhat narrow limits of the subject, although the study will be read perhaps more for its lighter interest than for its historical value. One of his judgments is certainly open to criticism.” H: E. Bourne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 167. S. 16, ’08. 840w.
“It offers concrete and tangible facts, and gives us the kind of information we are all hungering for. The translation by Miss King is faithful as well as readable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 430w.
“The editor of the book—which needed some editing for the English public generally—appears to have done his work well.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1035. Je. 27, ’08. 520w.
=Battle, Kemp Plummer.= History of the University of North Carolina. v. 1. *$3. K. P. Battle, Chapel Hill, N. C.
7–30472.
“The present volume traces the history of the university from its first conception in 1776 (it was chartered in 1789) to the year 1868. Its growth from modest beginnings is told, its inner life depicted, its public occasions described, its influence in the affairs of the state and the nation set forth.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“While the story centres in the campus it is by no means confined there. There are many interesting side lights on manners and events; much about the personalities and careers of the men who have touched the institution’s life.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 426. Ja. ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Battle’s history will prove both entertaining and instructive to any student of the country’s educational growth.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“An interesting narrative, of a very real value, because in a considerable measure it is a history of the customs and people of the South during the long period through which the university has passed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Battle= for the Pacific, and other adventures at sea, by Rowan Stevens, Yates Stirling, jr., William J. Henderson, George E. Walsh, Kirk Munroe, F. H. Spearman, and others. il. †$1.25. Harper.
8–12227.
This little volume contains short stories by many writers. They treat of imaginary battles upon the sea in which the United States has for an antagonist sometimes Japan and sometimes England. They are the purely fanciful creations of an active imagination.
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“Thrilling enough to satisfy any appetite for the spice of excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 130w.
=Baughan, Edward Algernon.= Ignaz Jan Paderewski. *$1. Lane.
8–35168.
A sketch of the musical career of the great pianist together with a temperate interpretation of his genius. “The author considered Paderewski’s technique not always clear; he found ‘too many spots of virtuoso exaggeration of contrast,’ and so on. Yet, in spite of shortcomings, Paderewski is for him ‘the greatest of living pianists,’ for in addition to strong individuality and ripe musicianship, he is strongly emotional, and possesses that ‘curious magnetism which always enchains the attention of the public.’” (Ath.)
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“A good brief biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“In judging Paderewski as a composer, the critic is very guarded in his language. He finds, as many others do, much to praise in the various works, yet he suspends judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 203. F. 15. 250w.
=Nation.= 85: 524. D. 5, ’07. 800w.
“Mr. Baughan’s critical attitude is judicious. He recognizes the greatness of Paderewski, but he puts in clauses of limitation.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Bax, Ernest Belfort.= Roots of reality; being suggestions for a philosophical reconstruction. *$2. Dodge, B. W.
8–8287.
From the idealist’s standpoint, Mr. Bax outlines the directions that future philosophic thinking must take. The central topic of his book is that in all mind and consciousness an alogical element stands out against the logical element and can never be merged therein. The four modes of opposition between the logical and alogical are the antitheses between the universal and the particular, being and appearance, infinite and finite, and chance and law.
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“Professionalism is just as odious in philosophy as in athletics; wherefore, if Mr. Bax handles metaphysics decidedly ‘en amateur,’ his conscientious effort to get to the bottom of things merits respect and attention none the less.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908. 1: 160. F. 8. 700w.
“As to the manner of exposition, most readers will probably complain of a certain slowness in getting down to real issues; and the frequent repetitions rather obscure the argument. Mr. Bax also has the rather irritating habit of now and then patronizingly foisting his own triumphant opinions upon Plato, Kant, or Hegel. As a whole, however, the book is both timely and suggestive.” M. R. Cohen.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 78. Ja. 30, ’08. 1400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 498. S. 12, ’08. 180w.
Reviewed by A. R. Gifford.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 162. My. 15, ’08. 1600w.
“The reader who is not to be daunted by a formidable phraseology will find this book worth reading. But the author’s professed ‘purpose of reaching the average intelligent man’ would have been better served by his adopting a simpler style of diction.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 115. Jl. 27, ’07. 1250w.
=Baylor, Mrs. Edith M. H.= Little prospector. il. †$1. Lothrop.
7–23301.
The adventures of a patriotic little American who goes with his family from Boston to the mining regions of Nevada. Pioneer life with its fascinations and perils is portrayed in a manner to interest juvenile readers.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 40w.
=Bayne, Samuel Gamble.= Quicksteps through Scandinavia; with a retreat from Moscow. **$1.25. Harper.
8–18339.
A short illustrated account of a trip thru Scandinavia and Russia presented with the hope of aiding the tourist in selecting what to see and what to avoid.
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“Mr. Bayne is apparently an intelligent and well-informed man, as he has the requisite facility for mental kodaking, and a share of a sense of humor—the American kind—his book turns out to be a diverting affair on the whole.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 435. Ag. 8, ’08. 630w.
=Bazin, René.= Coming harvest (Le blé qui levé); tr. by Edna K. Hoyt. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–25122.
“A picture of some aspects of peasant life in France to-day ... the hate of the laborer for the man of family and for the man of wealth, the unreasonable demands which socialistic agitators have taught him to make.... The chief character, an honest upright pagan, after a varied experience of injustice and disloyalty at the hands of his fellows, of ingratitude from his child, is, when he has almost fallen into despair, drawn to religion, where he finds peace.” (Cath. World.)
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“In his own restrained, forcible manner, with a realism that convinces but never descends to the repulsive, he allows us to see with our own eyes, the narrow, hopeless, sordid view of life which unbelief and materialism has forced upon the humbler rural class in France. The translation is correct and idiomatic.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 258. N. ’08. 360w.
“Of the literary art of the novel it is necessary to speak highly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 820w.
“A powerful novel of life in the country in France to-day, full of picturesque incidents, vivid characters, and descriptions of the country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
* =Bazin, René.= Italians of to-day; tr. from the French by William Marchant. **$1.25. Holt.
Keen observation and unprejudiced reflection characterize this presentation of the Italian of to-day. A chapter on The northern provinces—provincial life shows cause for the great poverty of the Italian peasant, discusses his national characteristics of hospitality, affection for home, his educational opportunities, and literature. Other chapters are: Roman houses, and the Roman Campagna: Southern Italy and A corner of Sicily—Aetna in eruption.
=Bazin, René.= The nun (L’isolée). $1. Scribner.
8–15729.
The story of five nuns living in a convent in Lyons. When the order comes to disband their religious community, they abandon their work among the children of the town and cast themselves upon the world. Pascale, the youngest, prettiest and least experienced of them is betrayed and is cast low in sin and suffering.
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“The picture of convent life is vivid, and the characterization is good, but the book is weakened by some exaggeration.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08.
“The book is excellent, but marred by exaggeration.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 318. Mr. 14. 100w.
“We forget we are reading, and we actually see the drama pass us.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 679. Ag. ’08. 730w.
“The book is typically French in its clear construction and dramatic curtness. The indicative mood prevails—things are explained, demonstrated, or reasoned out rather than acted; and the characterization is clever, but compressed for each individual into a page or so of initial biography. It is probable that the large success of ‘The nun’ abroad is due to a sympathy for the plight of the church, impossible for many American readers to share.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“The picture of convent life is one well worth reading. Realism of this kind can only do good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18, ’08. 600w.
“Has been excellently translated.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.
“No one but a Frenchman could have written this ... remarkable book. It is a pitiful and poignant story, rich in real drama and arresting by its fidelity to the truths of life.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 241. F. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Bazin, René.= Redemption. (De toute son âme); tr. by A. S. Rappoport. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–30021.
Out of a background of shop women and fishermen, thick with the atmosphere of unleavened toil there gradually emerges a saint-like woman whose mission is to love much, to minister to the sin-burdened, to console the misery-stricken, and to sacrifice self-gratification for the sake of fellow mortals. The development of this character is the serious business of the author thruout the story.
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“The story is sweet, wholesome and worth while.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08. ✠
“The book, so full of honesty and kindliness, lacks conviction to the Anglo-Saxon.” G: Middleton.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 48. S. ’08. 750w.
“Even in English, after much of its exquisite aroma has, notwithstanding the high quality of the translator’s work, been, necessarily, lost, it is a fascinating story. Simple in construction, commonplace in incident, it is a superb delineation of the glory of consecration and sacrifice exemplified in the life of a young girl of the people.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 838. S. ’08. 1100w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“His logical French mind avoids the pitfalls of the too literal realist, and co-ordinates the various facts and appearances that come within his chosen field, presenting as a result a coherent and expressive picture. The translation is clear but not distinguished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 399. Jl. 18, ’08. 1350w.
“The translation of this book, though marred by one or two blemishes, is sufficiently flowing for the reader’s enjoyment of the story. Remarkable novel.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 302. Ag. 29, ’08. 160w.
=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.= Barrier: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
8–10616.
A miners’ trading post in the Alaskan gold region is the scene of this story which is not so full of brutality as “The spoilers.” Yet it has its hard side, with rough, unscrupulous men in the background, against which is enacted a drama of love and its hardships. The hero is a Kentuckian, a young lieutenant, stationed at the post with some soldiers; the heroine is a beautiful girl supposed to have Indian blood in her veins which forms the barrier to marriage. The discovery of who she really is sets matters straight in spite of the fact that her foster father and her own father had been enemies for life.
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“The main narrative is not obscured by a complexity of minor characters as was ‘The spoilers,’ by the same author, nor does it present quite so brutal an aspect of life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“This is a virile story. Mr. Beach is here to confute the critic, with a book innocent of construction, scornful of grammatical propriety, callow and jejune in sentiment, but none the less successful in its kind, because it is ‘elemental.’” Burton Bancroft.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 282. My. ’08. 500w.
“It is all good thrilling conventional melodrama, written by a man with an eye for actuality and a sense of dramatic fitness.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“All the descriptions are given with a very evident knowledge of the details, and information about the laws and customs of the land is imparted in an interesting way.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 866. Ap. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Readers will begin the book in confident expectation of getting another installment of glorified frontier history, and most of them, it is to be feared, will lay it down with that natural, though slightly unfair, expectation disappointed.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Beach did much better in his first novel of Alaska.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 312. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Beard, Daniel Carter.= Dan Beard’s animal book and camp-fire stories. il. **$1.60. Moffat.
8–3274.
“This is not a natural history, neither is it a so-styled nature book. It is simply a book of animals and is made up from the author’s personal notes and sketches made in the fields and forests for his own amusement and not with a view to publication; here and there scattered through the volume will be found a few short camp-fire stories and legends, some of which have already appeared in print.... These are not intended to be taken as either strictly or scientifically true, but the notes and sketches are as accurate as the author could make them.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 55. F. ’08.
“A spirit of kindness and gentleness pervades the book and cannot fail to exert a helpful influence on the minds of those who read it.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 502. Ap. ’08. 700w.
“A curious hodge-podge—a mass of undigested information about all sorts of creatures ... the whole presented in a style a good deal of which would be none the worse for a little editing. The entire spirit of his book makes it a capital one to put into the hands of any boy.” G: Gladden.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 607. Ag. ’08. 860w.
“This new volume will also undoubtedly hit the mark. The numerous sketches by the author, some in color, are the most original and valuable feature of the book.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 317. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Bearne, Mrs. Catharine Mary.= Sister of Marie Antoinette: the life-story of Maria Carolina, queen of Naples. *$3. Dutton.
8–11809.
In the main a sketch of Maria Carolina. It also furnishes side lights on the history of the times. “The heroine herself is, in any presentation, a striking type of woman in politics. Her hatred and dread of Napoleon, the trouble she managed to give him, and her embarrassment when she became his grandmother-in-law, form a dramatic theme which hardly needs the enlivenment furnished by her entanglement in the affairs of Nelson and Lady Hamilton. In her realm, as in that of Prince Otto, politics and love affairs were hardly distinguishable in method, in content, or in importance.” (Nation.)
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“An interesting and not uninstructive piece of historical biography, which may easily be supplemented or corrected by those who wish to pursue the subject further. The index is ludicrously inadequate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 94. Ja. 25. 1250w.
“A story full of intrinsic interest is told in a style of vivacious dulness, with a syntax of its own.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A good book of its class.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 200w.
“Valuable in more than one way.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Beer, George Louis.= British colonial policy, 1754–1765. **$2. Macmillan.
7–30451.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“A thorough, concise, scholarly piece of work; for the larger libraries or special collections of history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 99. Ap. ’08.
“The book is very carefully written, but the style is not so entertaining as one might desire.” E. R. Johnson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 514. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“His book is not without defects, chiefly due to the fact that, in his reaction against the school of Bancroft, he does rather more than justice to the mother country and rather less to the colonies.” W. L. Grant.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 371. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“No one before him has ever attempted to examine in detail or systematically the evidence which the British archives furnish. Mr. Beer has had the courage and patience to undertake a systematic search of the British departmental records, volume by volume, page by page, in the effort to discover exactly what ‘colonial policy’ meant to those in whose hands lay its enforcement.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 1300w.
“Here and there are theses which challenge discussion, and details which may be questioned. The essential thing is that Mr. Beer has given us a well-reasoned, and in the main convincing, study of eighteenth-century imperial problems. The book shows throughout unusual mastery of printed and manuscript sources.” E. B. Greene.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 326. Je. ’08. 750w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 489. Jl. ’08. 650w.
=Beers, Clifford W.= A mind that found itself: an autobiography. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–7899.
A record of the author’s own experience in a private sanitarium and in an insane hospital. “The purposes of Mr. Beers’s book as he sets them forth are three in number: to rob insanity of its terrors; to correct existing abuses and to elevate the standard of treatment; and to induce the benevolent rich to aid state and nation in supplying funds for the erection and maintenance of model institutions for the care of the mentally diseased.” (Nation.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08.
“The book naturally carries with it ... much of the intensity of an irritable temperament; yet with ample allowance for this trait, the account rings true, and should do much to enlighten the public in regard to what is needed in the way of practical reforms for the work of ministering wisely to minds diseased.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 278. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“A striking psychological monograph.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“Here are furnished the most invaluable data for a new order of social reform.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 489. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Beers has written a readable book. If he has failed to subordinate the personal element to his ‘cause,’ he can be pardoned because of his desire to stir up popular indignation for current asylum abuses as he views them.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 265. Mr. 19, ’08. 700w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“A most fascinatingly written human document.” Adolph Meyer.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 611. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The volume is, both dramatically and psychologically, one of great interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“It aims to be constructive, and therein lies its superiority over many other criticisms or defenses of existing conditions. To do this and yet to retain the reading quality of a story is a feat denoting a decided literary talent.” A. M.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 283. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 200w.
=Spec.= 100: 506. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Begbie, Harold.= Tables of stone. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Mr. Begbie’s hero is a young man from the country whose remarkable simplicity engages the amused attention of fashionable people in London, with the result that he is launched by means of a tutorship on a successful career as a social philosopher. Having by somewhat unsportsmanlike means obtained the hand of a girl immeasurably his superior ... he proceeds to break her heart by his colossal priggishness and egoism.” (Sat. R.) “Finding the task of spending a lifetime with the Wrong Man too hard for her, she deliberately betrays him, and on being discovered, kills herself and her child.”—Bookm.
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“The story is thoughtful and interesting, but obscure in purpose.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 160w.
“A somewhat ponderous, conscientious piece of fiction. Altogether a cheerless and unprofitable sort of book.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 264. N. ’08. 360w.
“As a piece of literary work the ‘Tables of stone’ is extremely creditable to its author, but it is not a pleasant story, and, so far as is evident, there is no important lesson taught by it.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Begbie has grasped neither the tone of the political society which he endeavours to portray, nor the character of the supra-mundane problems which he handles so glibly.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 730. Je. 6, ’08. 260w.
=Begbie, Harold.= The vigil. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–9173.
A story in which a young clergyman, secure in the strongholds of intellect and tradition and bound to celibacy by an oft-renewed vow, learns thru the suffering of humanity that his religion is Christless. A woman, the embodiment of love in its purest sense, keeps vigil over the soul of the man knowing that in time the dawn will come. A number of theological doctrines are advanced, prominent among them the belief that a human being cannot sense the reality of Christ until he realizes the enormity of hell.
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“Mr. Begbie believes that the world is a wicked one and that few men live as they should in the fear of the Lord. He is very much in earnest and he makes his appeal with eloquence but not as it seems to us with great success.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 516. My. 25, ’07. 400w.
“There is a good deal of sound theology as well as genuine human nature in ‘The vigil.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 397. Je. ’08. 500w.
“A combination of the shrewd observation and humor of Dickens and George Eliot is noticeable in many places, and makes the book worth while, despite its heavy load of theological verbiage.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The trouble with the whole affair is that the man is a weakling. Also the woman is a prig, with a horrid habit of being right. Several of the minor figures, on the other hand, possess a good deal of vitality, especially certain rustics, male and female, worthy to keep alive the memory of Tabitha Bramble and Mrs. Poyser.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Begbie has given us a very good piece of religious fiction, which should be interesting to persons of all creeds.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
“It is a strong story, and, for the general reader, is dexterously managed.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“The book is a rare one in its quiet atmosphere, in its serene gaze into eternity.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 749. N. 28, ’08. 640w.
“Mr. Begbie is ambitious, but does not convince us of his ability to teach a philosophy of life through the medium of fiction. It is all very painstaking and unconvincing.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 274. Ag. 31, ’07. 200w.
=Bell, Lady Florence (Mrs. Hugh Bell).= At the works: a study of a manufacturing town. 3d impression. $2. Longmans.
8–3942.
“The author has ‘put a piece of prosperity under the microscope,’ giving a detailed account of conditions obtaining in a community of ironworkers situated in the north of Yorkshire. The material for the several descriptive chapters—dealing with The genesis of the town, The process of ironmaking, The expenditures of workmen, Illness and accidents, Old age, Recreation, Drink, Betting, Gambling—has been gathered during a period of nearly thirty years’ intercourse with the population, during which period ‘more than a thousand working-men’s homes have been visited, many of them on terms of friendly and continuous intercourse.’”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“Possibly not so valuable a book as Rountree’s ‘Poverty’ but new, sane, authentic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“She has done the patient, impartial investigation, the ordered collection of results. She has at least stated the problem which needs solution.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 930w.
“The study is of permanent value for those interested to know the everyday life of a typical wage-earning community.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 130w.
“We note some omissions. The two subjects on which Lady Bell throws most light are reading, and wives and daughters.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 109. Ap. 5, ’07. 800w.
“This book is emphatically worth reading; it is clear, restrained, straightforward and sympathetic; no social reformer should be without it, and still less any economist who wishes to see book terms translated into facts of life.” H: W. Macrostv.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 526. S. ’07. 940w.
“It is essentially a social and domestic study of the working classes, very sensible and sympathetic and founded on real knowledge.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 722. Je. 8, ’07. 280w.
“The student of social problems cannot possibly afford to miss it, while the romance of industry has never been more vividly painted than in her pages.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 534. Ap. 6, ’07. 1800w.
=Bell, John Joy.= Thou fool! †$1.50. Baker.
8–23530.
“Tells how a selfish, hard-headed young Scotchman, bent upon getting on in the world, starts life as a grocer’s assistant, and walks a straight path to opulence and a baronetcy, only to discover despairingly that his commercial triumphs are powerless to win him the woman whom he loves, and that he has missed all the real good in life.”—Ath.
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“It makes entertaining enough reading, for it is agreeably written, keeps up its interest well, and shows a good deal of pleasant, if somewhat superficial observation.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 762. D. 14. 270w.
“A strong story, admirably told.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 144. O. ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Bell has greater facility in the creation of character than in the construction and development of plot. But he has written a good story and one that is very characteristic of the time.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 502. S. 12, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Benedict, Francis Gano.= Influence of inanition on metabolism. (Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 77.) $2.75. Carnegie inst.
8–995.
“The book deals with fourteen fasts in which ten different persons voluntarily went without food from two to seven days, but mostly only for periods of two to four days.” (Nation.) “It consists mainly of the protocols of the experiments, their ultimate valuation, and the general results to be drawn from them being left for the future.” (Nature.)
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“The observations are given in great detail and with a fulness which has never been attained in similar investigations.”
+ + =Nation.= 36: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 300w.
“It is a monument of prolonged and patient industry and self-sacrifice, as well as of admirably planned experiments on a large scale under careful and coordinated guidance. The book is to be commended to all interested in physiological work, and especially to those engaged in a study of nutrition.” W. D. H.
+ + + =Nature.= 77: 610. Ap. 30, ’08. 650w.
=Benedict, Leonard.= Waifs of the slums and their way out. **$1. Revell.
7–28507.
From this account of Mr. J. F. Atkinson’s work among the waifs in his Chicago Boys’ club one may catch the spirit of missionary work as distinguished from social settlement work. Sin and not poverty is at the bottom of the trouble as the missionary views it. The book contains statistical matter about the condition of the Chicago slums, the work and the present outlook.
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“A well written book of information.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 52. Ja. 2, ’08. 90w.
“The trouble with Mr. Benedict is the lack of that charity which is almost always lacking in propagandists—even when their propaganda is charity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 800w.
=Benham, W. Hamilton.= Trade and trade centers of history. Printed for H. C. Swords at the DeVinne press.
7–19753.
A monograph which “gives a bird’s-eye view of the rise and fall of nations as a result of the fortunes of their commerce, rather than of the vigor or the weakness of their dynasties.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 550w.
“Its only justification is the excuse which it gives for including some of the remarkable prints of prominent merchants and financiers in the collection of Mr. Swords. As a contribution to, or exposition of, the subject of trade centers it is of no significance.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 189. Mr. ’08. 70w.
=Benjamin of Tudela.= Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela; critical text, tr. and commentary, by Marcus Nathan Adler. *$2. Oxford.
“The ‘Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela’ will always hold a high place among the records of medieval travellers, and is of much interest not only to the student of the history of the Jews in the middle ages, but also to the student of the Crusades.... Mr. Adler was ‘fortunate enough to be able to trace and examine three complete mss. of Benjamin’s Travels, as well as large fragments belonging to two other mss.’ The result of his study of these documents is the present critical text, the basis for which he has used the manuscript belonging to the British museum, the variants being noted in all cases. Mr. Adler has added indexes to both the Hebrew text and to the translation, the references being in all cases to the pages of Asher’s edition.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“Ought to prove valuable both to those who use Asher’s edition and to those unable to have access to it.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 634. Ap. ’08. 450w.
“Although it cannot be affirmed that the last word on everything has now been said, the merit of a distinct advance in the critical study of the ‘Itinerary’ must be cheerfully accorded to the new edition.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 159. F. 8. 900w.
“In one or two instances Mr. Adler’s notes require correction.” G. Le S.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 193. Ja. ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Adler gives in a small compass excellent material for the criticism of Benjamin’s text and of his historical statements.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 250w.
=Bennet, Robert Ames.= Into the primitive. il. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–12557.
A story of three persons, an English gentleman, an American heiress, and an uncouth engineer, who were shipwrecked on a barren coast in the tropics. With a rather lurid setting the writer has allowed these three diverse characters to work out their natural development. The story shows the effect upon human character of a journey back to nature. All that is real in each individual comes out. The essential manliness of the engineer triumphs over his lack of social training; the Englishman proves himself a cad; while the woman retains her sweet womanliness to the end.
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“The quality of the book is not good enough to hold its own against the handicap of a much overworked situation.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 68. S. ’08. 400w.
=Ind.= 64: 973. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“That the story is not hopelessly damaged by the coarse characterization is tribute to the immortal freshness of the primitive.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The author’s aim seems to be to prove that culture is a kind of tommyrot that serves only to ruin a man or woman’s efficiency. But there is a vital energy about his people and the story as a whole that makes it unusual, even worth while.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 350w.
=Bennett, Ida D.= Vegetable garden. (Country home lib.) **$1.50. McClure.
8–19599.
A thoroly practical exposition of vegetable gardening based upon experiment directed by science and furthered by sound common sense. Besides dealing with vegetables that form the staple of the small garden, the book includes chapters on fertilizers, insecticides and garden tools.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08. ✠
“The selection of vegetables here given might be improved in certain ways but, on the whole, the choices are good, and the hints for the kitchen are extremely suggestive.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
“The last word in vegetable gardening has surely been said by Miss Bennett.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
“Many practical directions which will be appreciated by the novice.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Bennett, James Robert S.= Life of William Sterndale Bennett, by his son, J. R. Sterndale Bennett. *$3.50. Putnam.
8–6997.
The biography of an English musician who, while he does not rank among the masters, deserves a place among sincere artists. “Bennett was a man of mark in his time. He had a peculiarly winning nature, a gift for friendship. He was the intimate of Schumann and of Mendelssohn, and of many other nineteenth-century musicians, and their relations with him, their correspondence with him, as well as the part he played in the musical life of England, give a certain interest to these pages which the present importance of their subject would not.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The conversations, letters quoted, and other matters give a picture of the years especially connected with Mendelssohn more vivid than any which have been drawn by historians who gathered information solely from written records.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 138. F. 1. 600w.
“It is interesting at many points, and a contribution to the history of music in the England of Victoria.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 850w.
“The task has been done once and for all with a discretion and a delicacy worthy of the subject, and with a filial piety that is never disfigured by hero-worship.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 1050. D. 21, ’07. 1600w.
=Bennett, John William.= Roosevelt and the republic. $1.50. Broadway pub.
8–17978.
A sketch of President Roosevelt as a public man and office-holder, with special emphasis given to the influence of his administration upon the republic.
=Bennett, Rev. William Henry.= Life of Christ according to St. Mark. **$1.75. Armstrong.
Aims to present the impression of Christ which would be derived from St. Mark’s gospel by a reader who has no other source of information and who knows nothing of Christian theology.
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“His book is full of freshness and vigor, and is an interesting essay in interpretation.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 80. Ja. ’08. 40w.
“Is written with much of the beautiful simplicity that marks the gospel narratives themselves.” W. J. Davis.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 938. Jl. ’08. 180w.
“Unfortunately the reader is left with questions on every page, and the problems and difficulties presented by Mark’s Gospel are not squarely faced.”
− =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“It is a most interesting and informing volume.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 644. N. 2, ’07. 270w.
=Bennett, William Henry.= Religion of the post-exilic prophets. (Literature and religion of Israel.) *$2. Scribner.
8–19130.
The first of a series of ten volumes to be published upon the development of religion in Israel up to the time of Christ. “In the exemplification of this plan as worked out by Prof. Bennett, the prophets (Ezekiel, the later Isaiah, Haggai, Zechariah, etc.) are first treated individually, in chronological order; and in the second part of the work the general teaching of the literature described ‘is expounded in relation to the main subjects of dogmatics.’” (Ath.)
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“Professor Bennett is persuasive, candid, critical, and withal never over-venturesome. He moves along the main line of the most recent cautious scholarly investigation, but at the same time has special views of his own on certain matters.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 400w.
“The book is a useful contribution to the popular knowledge of a period concerning which altogether too little is known by the average Bible student.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 80w.
“His book will be indispensable to Old Testament teachers, and to ministers who desire a scholarly treatment of the prophetical literature in this important period of Israel’s history. There is nothing however of a technical character in the book to debar its use from the layman.” Harlan Creelman.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 289. O. ’08. 1150w.
“‘Respectable’ is the word for Professor Bennett’s volume. The occasion being given, the task is diligently and intelligently performed.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
“The book is neither exclusively doctrinal nor controversial, and if not touched by the spirit of the higher criticism tries at least to be in keeping with the development of scholarship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 450w.
=Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The chief complaint we have to make is that it is a trifle dull.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 520w.
=Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 300w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= At large. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–30590.
At large once more in the realm of thought, Mr. Benson only continues to apply his well verified principles to new phases of life; achieving what may be called “Mr. Benson’s view,” for instance, of optimism, of shyness, of joy. Other essays bear upon contentment, friendship, humor, travel, specialism, our lack of great men, equality, Kelmscott and William Morris, literary finish, symbols and the love of God.
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“His logic is as keen, his irony as delicate as ever; the flowing cadences of his style woo us like quiet music; and always we are conscious that our two chairs are quite close together, and that Mr. Benson has a very friendly and companionable arm thrown lightly around our shoulders.” M. A. Havens.
+ =Dial.= 45: 342. N. 16, ’08. 1350w.
“The unwholesome element of Mr. Benson’s convalescent optimism is its intense self-consciousness. He makes the pursuit of happiness a business. His flowers of felicity, like carnations, demand a hot-house culture, and exhale their perfume only in a specially prepared soil and climate.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 280w.
“Whether the essays be called sermons or otherwise, ‘At large’ is marked by the kindly, deliberate, tolerant wisdom which has already won him so many friends.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 579. O. 17, ’08. 700w.
“The essays get on pleasantly to the end, eked out with personal recollections and anecdotes and amusing stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 548. O. 31, ’08. 530w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= The schoolmaster: a commentary upon the aims and methods of an assistant-master in a public school. *$1.25. Putnam.
E 8–323.
Published for the first time in America this book records frankly and candidly the results of impressions and observations gained during twenty years of teaching. Whatever recommendations it offers “have been deduced from experience and tested by practice.” It treats such subjects as training of teachers, discipline, teaching, work, intellect, originality, praise, the boarding-house, athletics, time, holidays, sociability, religion, moralities and devotion.
“Will prove readable, suggestive and inspiring.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.
=Dial.= 45: 119. S. 1, ’08. 280w.
“The book is sure to be read with interest and profit on this side of the Atlantic.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Forum.= 40: 402. O. ’08. 200w.
“Though we have no Etons here, we have many schoolmasters who tend to fall into ruts, and who may receive from Mr. Benson’s suggestions a new glow of enthusiasm.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 130w.
“Altogether ‘The schoolmaster’ is a very sensible and at the same time a very readable book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
=Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Blotting book. †$1. Doubleday.
8–23104.
“Describes the devilish ingenuity with which a middle-aged barrister of hitherto spotless reputation, contrived to cast suspicion upon his young client of having committed a murder which was in fact his own work. He was exceeding clever, but, as the event turned out, too clever for his own safety. Skillful detective work discovered the truth by means of the very things he had done to conceal his traces. The story deals chiefly with the crime and the trial.”—Outlook.
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“Develops into a skilful portrayal of the character and self-deception of a hypocritical egotist.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08. ✠
“Failing to hold us as a mystery, the tale fails of its purpose.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 234. Ag. 29. 120w.
“There is somewhat too much pretense of keeping up the mystery with the reader, somewhat too strong a contention that a man may lie, steal, and commit murder, and yet go about his cheerful way not seeing himself for the villain that he is, but these defects in no wise interfere with the interest of the story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 270w.
“We wish the detection of the criminal had been treated in a less sketchy manner.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“The little story is exciting, it marches rapidly to its conclusion, and, further, it is singularly unlike the usual work of Mr. Benson, the student of social manners.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 337. S. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Sheaves. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–29434.
In this story are discussed the problems that arise from marriage entered into by a man of twenty-four and a woman of forty-two. “In this union there is perfect harmony of tastes and mind and a passionate mutual love; there is nothing to prevent its being an ideal coupling of two human beings except the great gulf between twenty-four and forty-two—with the seniority on the wrong side.” (Outlook.)
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“He has a definite claim now to be considered among our serious novelists of rank.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 260w.
“Conversation and incident are alike natural, and the author’s contribution of comment and analysis is temperate and pleasing. The story is drawn out to tiresome length, and it demands much judicious skipping if it is to provide tolerable entertainment.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 133. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
“By the temper rather than the method of his treatment he has given new life to an old story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 128. F. 6, ’08. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 12, ’07. 30w.
“Contains a story so full of the lyric joy of love and so strong with the mightier elements that go to make real love that, swept along in its fresh and beautiful current, the reader scarcely realizes how he is being charmed, page after page, by the minor incidents and characters that help to make the book complete.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Benson’s most admirable point as a writer is his hatred and clever setting forth of cant and priggishness and his clear contrasting of it with the real goodness it attempts to mimic.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 210w.
“Well knit novel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 128. Ja. ’08. 40w.
“The author’s treatment of his main theme rises much above the level of the rest of the book. The humour which he extracts from Mannington society is very cheap, and he misses there and elsewhere all breadth of effect by a wearying insistence on insignificant detail.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 112. Ja. 25, ’08. 950w.
“In his present novel he sets a problem, and then runs away from its solution.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 267. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Benson, Ramsey.= Lord of lands. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24470.
Just how one man translated himself and family out of the cramped and artificial environment which the city on fifty dollars per month offered, into the free air of new Canadian country where they all labored and learned to find peace and plenty is told with pioneer simplicity and courage. The ethical value of country life is emphasized.
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“Its interest as fiction lies in the sustained note of simplicity, in the fact that it is ostensibly told in the first person by a workingman, an Irish brakeman, who never rises above a certain honest and rather primitive outlook on life, and who tells his story with something of the grave importance that characterises the narrator of ‘The Swiss family Robinson.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 381. D. ’08. 330w.
“If any rich man with too many ignoble dollars to his credit wishes to do the country a real service let him buy a hundred thousand copies of this book and distribute them among the poor who have not yet despaired.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 840. O. 8, ’08. 780w.
“Many, too, are the practical hints administered with an Irish twinkle.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Manner aside, the matter of the story is well adapted to its object. We congratulate the public upon having secured a bit of literature of new and not clearly definable flavor.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 508. S. 19, ’08. 1500w.
“The book gains its interest from its definite statement of difficulties encountered and the way in which they were surmounted.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 110w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Lord of the world. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–7386.
A novel with scenes laid partly in London. “Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who believe in no divinity but that of God.” (Lond. Times.)
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“Judged as fiction, it shows that an emotional brain of a distinctive character is behind the writing; but its impassioned faith is the prevalent note, and everything else is subjected to this.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 250w.
“The most interesting story of the ‘Looking backward’ type that has appeared for years.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 284. My. ’08. 700w.
=Cath. World.= 87: 396. Je. ’08. 700w.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
=Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 970w.
“The whole thing is very well done and Father Benson is particularly happy in his graphic and convincing descriptions of the great inventions, now merely dreamed of, but then in common use.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Forum.= 40: 404. O. ’08. 260w.
“Mr. Benson may assure us that he knows what he is up to and that he is doing it with his eyes open, but we are left with the suspicion that his sensationalism comes more easily to him than it should.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 550w.
“Interesting it must be to all to whom the deepest convictions of a man’s heart are of moment. And in the artistic balance and taste of Father Benson’s literary power every reader will find delight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 350w.
“Notwithstanding the imaginative and literary skill evinced in the construction of this chimera, it seems hardly more worth while than the entertainment of the breakfast-table with the report of a fantastic dream—except perhaps as a revelation of the absurdity of the Pope’s fanatical campaign against ‘Modernism.’”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“It is the failure to endow all the characters equally with a definite and vital personality that makes the effect upon the reader somewhat indefinite. Yet the book as art is beautiful, delicately balanced, deeply inspired, intelligently executed.” E. L. Cary.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 616. Ag. ’08. 730w.
“His breadth of view really forms the most striking feature of the book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 50w.
“The whole story is frankly sensational, and the picture of the cult of humanity decidedly ingenious.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1057. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
* =Benson, Robert Hugh.= St. Thomas of Canterbury. *80c. Benziger.
A brief life of St. Thomas of Canterbury which forms one of the St. Nicholas series of Roman Catholic biographies edited by Dom Bede Camm.
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“It contains many picturesque touches, and will probably be welcomed by the younger and less learned members of the Roman obedience. His whole account is too biassed to deserve serious criticism.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 573. N. 7. 120w.
“Enlivens the narrative with picturesque details that will impress the reader with the feeling that he is witnessing real events and observing real men, in contrast with the dry abstractions of his historical text-book.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 392. D. ’08. 130w.
“Father Benson tells the story of St. Thomas picturesquely and effectively. His point of view is not ours; but we have no wish to deny that some of the aspects of character and of principle which he presents to us accord with the truth.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 204. Ag. 8, ’08. 260w.
=Bensusan, Samuel Levy.= Velazquez. (Masterpieces in color.) *65c. Stokes.
W 8–31.
A brief but direct sketch including the conditioning facts of the life and time of this artist. “The author has pointed out that Spain, in spite of her recent great political decline, still exercises great influence in the art world thru Diego de Silva Velazquez.” (Ind.)
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“By merely glancing thru the little volume under consideration it will be possible to understand something of this influence and the reason for it.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1466. D. 19, ’07. 140w.
“Without pretending to any great critical acumen the writer succeeds in presenting to the reader a clear notion of the characteristic qualities distinguishing the art of the great master of portraiture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 160w.
=Bentley, Arthur Fisher=. Process of government. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–10462.
A study of the theory of social dynamics, whose purpose is to fashion a tool—“a tool which shall serve to analyze and measure all the varieties of cause and effect which make up those processes of control which are indicated approximately by the term government.... The first part ‘To prepare the way’ arraigns a series of theorists, and charges them with attempting to put into circulation each a particular variety of false and futile interpretation of what actually occurs in society. Part II, ‘Analysis of governmental pressures,’ contains the author’s substitutes for these mischievous explanations.” (Am. J. Soc.)
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“This is a real book. It is more genuine than it would be if it were more attentive to the minor literary conventions.” A. W. Small.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 698. Mr. ’08. 3600w.
“Of value to the sociologist, but too technical for the general reader. Brilliantly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“The second part of the book is more extensive, more readable, and more useful than the introductory criticisms.” E: C. Hayes.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 13. Jl. 1, ’08. 730w.
“Mr. Bentley’s volume is bulky and diffuse, and its style often flippant, but its acute and outspoken criticism ... should cause it to be welcomed by speculative sociologists as at least a rod of chastening.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Bentley’s analysis is no more satisfying than that of other theorists of the ‘group activity’ school, and less satisfying than some, by reason of its impatient, unjudicial tone, to say nothing of its utter elimination of the individual and of psychic elements as causal factors in the social process.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Bentley’s attempt to get below formalism into the governing process as a manifestation of social pressures deserves serious consideration, even though he is at times tedious and at other times unnecessarily rude to his predecessors in the field of politics.” C: A. Beard.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 739. D. ’08. 700w.
=Bentwich, Norman De Mattos.= Law of private property in war. $1.80. Boston bk.
7–42501.
“In the main Mr. Bentwich’s essay is concerned with private property in time of war, whether on land or at sea; the writer giving a fair but not minute account of the present practice. His suggestions as to the ‘temperamenta belli’ are few and cautious. He expects but little from the action of conferences or from agreements between belligerents. He does not countenance either the abolition of the right of capture of private property or of contraband, the latter an ‘undesirable aspiration’ which, if adopted, would soon be abandoned in the stress of war. But he makes several suggestions as to minor changes, one being the establishment of a prize court of appeal, another the relaxation of the old rule as to enemy domicile and the adoption of the French rule as to nationality.”—Lond. Times.
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“One weakness of this interesting volume is that it slides over many questions of moment. Another is that it gives paraphrases when a fastidious reader will ask for texts.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Bentwich’s volume is quite thick enough to require, and should have, a general index in addition to its admirable table of cases cited.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 607. Mr. 14, ’08. 670w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.
=Berenson, Bernhard.= North Italian painters of the renaissance. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–36958.
“Except for Mantegna and Correggio, the volume treats of hardly any artists approaching the first rank.... [Its] importance is that it is the negative end of Mr. Berenson’s demonstration of his theory of art, as its companion volumes were the positive end. He is now dealing with the absence of his three great qualities, tactile values, movement, and space-composition, as he has before dealt with their presence, and the burden is ever the same—these are the things that make serious art, and in their absence art ceases to become serious.”—Nation.
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“Discriminating, suggestive, stimulating criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 36. F. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 167. F. 8. 640w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 755. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“The book has all the characteristics of its predecessors, but it does not deal with so interesting a subject.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 526. D. 5, ’07. 310w.
“[Has] many characteristically keen observations, expressed in a rather more categorical style than Mr. Cox’s or Mr. Caffin’s.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Berenson has the artistic and not merely the archaeological outlook.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 901. Je. 6, ’08. 1550w.
=Berg, Ernst Julius.= Electrical energy, its generation, transmission, and utilization: lectures given at Union university. *$2.50. McGraw.
8–1719.
“Applications to engineering problems of the equations deduced from a theoretical consideration of alternating-current phenomena.... There are two sections to the book. Section 1 is devoted to the transmission line, and section 2 to the generating station. The former section contains what is probably the most easily applied accurate solution of transmission line problems available in textbook literature.... Section 2 relates to generators, stationary transformers and station instruments.” (Elec. World.)
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“To the student or the designer of electrical transmission systems, the book will prove particularly valuable.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 266. F. 1, ’08. 270w.
“An authoritative book. The treatment is vivid for the theory is applied in every case to the problem at hand.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 545. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Bergh, Louis de Coppet.= Safe building construction, a treatise giving in simplest forms possible practical and theoretical rules and formulae used in construction of buildings and general instructions. **$5. Macmillan.
8–12772.
After twenty years this book has been thoroly revised to meet modern needs. It is “practically a treatise on engineering, dealing especially with those problems which the architect is called upon to solve. Its simple rules for ‘those who do not understand trigonometry,’ its diagrammatic illustrations, and its pages of tables will be attractive to many an architect and builder.” (Nation.)
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“There is such unmistakable flavor of its early origin as to arouse regret that the revision did not extend to scrapping the old text entire.”
− =Engin. N.= 60: 80. Jl. 16, ’08. 130w.
“There are a great many useful tables and diagrams, but it is a pity that so many of them relate to wrought iron, a material no longer employed in building.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 567. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 90w.
=Berglund, Abraham.= United States steel corporation: a study of growth and influence of combination in the iron and steel industry. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–36147.
A study of the organization, the development and the policies of the steel corporation. “Mr. Berglund’s important conclusions are: that the company has never had—and is not likely to have—more than a qualified monopoly of the steel trade; that its policy in respect to prices has been one of moderation, but would probably not remain so moderate if monopoly were ever assured; and that such control over markets as the organization may wield in the future will probably be exercised ‘in association with independent producers’ through such agencies as pools or price agreements.” (Nation.)
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“Mr. Berglund not only gives an excellent analysis of the world’s greatest industrial combination, but also gives many interesting points concerning the present and future of American iron and steel.” W. S. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 515. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“The book is a valuable one, in that it treats the well known facts in a different light than they have been treated in most works on the subject.” J: C. Duncan.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 127. Je. ’08. 450w.
“There is often a vagueness of statement when he is writing of the plants and of labor at the furnaces. Dr. Berglund is on much surer ground when he is dealing with conditions in the iron and steel industry which led to the organization of the Steel corporation in 1901; and when he is tracing with much detail, and with admirable clearness, the developments which have marked the history of the trust in the first six years of its existence.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 819. O. 3, ’07. 580w.
“It is the sort of detailed study that should be made of each of the great industrial combinations—study that should have preceded much of the generalizing in which economists have indulged.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 159. F. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Bernhardt, Sarah.= Memories of my life: being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist. **$4. Appleton.
7–34323.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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+ − =Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
“Versatile, whimsical, egotistic, vivacious, eccentric, singularly sincere, and always interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 7. Ja. ’08.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“These memoirs leave us with a very vivid sense of the qualities that made their author what she was.” H. S. Krans.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 748. Mr. ’08. 900w.
“The vividness of the narration, the sure sense of what was worth telling and what was not, the sharp, salt vivacity of the style (which not even the slip-shod English of the translator can obscure)—all these virtues have to some pedants seemed incompatible with authenticity.” Max Beerbohm.
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 693. D. 7, ’07. 1650w.
=Bernier, Louis Leon.= Autogenous welding of metals. $1. The boiler maker, N. Y.
8–17741.
“This work is translated from reports of the National school of arts and trades of France, and describes the application of autogenous welding to the manufacture of tanks, boilers, piping, etc., together with its application to the manufacture of steel, brass, bars, plates, etc.”—Elec. World.
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“The book lacks specific instructions on how to perform the welding operations and inasmuch as the oxyacetylene flame can be used for repairing and cutting metals, such information would be of value.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 51: 1296. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
“There is much useful matter in the pamphlet, but it is all on European practice. No mention is made of American apparatus and methods. In view of this fact and the size of the pamphlet the price seems far beyond reasonable bounds.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 648. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
* =Bertrin, Georges.= Lourdes: a history of its apparitions and cures; tr. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$2. Benziger.
A book whose purpose is to set forth “with invincible clearness, the evidence that exists to prove, in the first instance, the indisputably miraculous character of the visions of Bernadette; and, in the second place, the equally miraculous nature of some of the most remarkable cures which have taken place at the Grotto of Lourdes, and in one instance, at a shrine of our Lady of Lourdes in Belgium. His method is to state the facts that are known to have occurred, to cite the eyewitnesses who testified to them, and then to take up successively the various explanations offered by those who refuse to believe in any miraculous intervention.” (Cath. World.)
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“In many respects ... the most satisfactory work that we possess on the subject. In many others an excess of emotionalism spoils the value of their evidence to the miraculous.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 254. N. ’08. 820w.
“We shall say no more than that the book is a remarkable one from any point of view.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
* =Besant, Sir Walter.= Early London: prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman. *$7.50. Macmillan.
8–28407.
The last volume in Sir Walter Besant’s “magnum opus.” He began with London of the eighteenth century and in six volumes has traced back to prehistoric times. This volume deals with London from the remotest times to the middle of the twelfth century, and contains numerous illustrations and a chapter on the geology of London by Professor T. G. Bonney.
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“The work is thoroughly readable. Doubtless Besant, if he had lived to give the finishing touches to his book, would have made considerable alterations and he would have prevented his work from appearing with numerous misprints, especially in the Latin quotations, which are badly mangled.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 91. Jl. 25. 830w.
“The illustrations are numerous, and for the most part excellent, largely from manuscripts of the period described.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, 08. 1300w.
“It is naturally full of out-of-the-way matter, giving an idea of the beginnings of the greatest of cities, which no Londoner at least can help but study with the most curious attention.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 56. Jl. 11, ’08. 450w.
“The story is made, as we might expect, highly interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 474. O. 3, ’08. 440w.
=Beven, Thomas.= Negligence in law. 3d ed. 2v. $18. Canada law bk.
8–15769.
This third edition not only brings the material of former editions up to date but includes 1465 new cases. “A large proportion of, though not nearly all, the new cases introduced into this book, is due to the expansion of the subject and is the growth of ten years of active legal work. The residue is to be put down to what was improvidently omitted before, or what is material for new exemplification or is of historical interest.”
=Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah.= Meaning of the times, and other speeches. **$1.50. Bobbs.
8–12769.
A volume of Senator Beveridge’s addresses made during the past ten years. “Most of the subjects are current political topics, capital and labour, the trusts, the Philippines, forestry, child labour, nationalism and state rights. Mr. Beveridge’s main idea is an unlimited, unsectional United States with Indiana as the centre and the Republican party over all.” (Bookm.) See Cumulative book index for contents.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“The work is full of ingenious pleas for the corporation interests that are calculated to throw dust in the eyes of unthinking and undiscriminating readers who are prone to accept without question presentations when made by statesmen who pose as Christian gentlemen.”
− =Arena.= 40: 389. O. ’08. 500w.
“If Mr. Beveridge knew what his words mean and if he meant what they say, he would be a promising young writer.” J: A. Macy.
− =Bookm.= 27: 490. Jl. ’08. 970w.
“A reading of it is a tonic of citizenship.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1203. My. 28, ’08. 140w.
“The extracts from the debate in the Senate on child labor form one of the most interesting parts of the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 358. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 260w.
=Bianchi, Martha Gilbert.= Modern Prometheus. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–7596.
A story in which a Jesuit priest tries to draw into the Catholic sisterhood an American girl saddened by an unfortunate marriage. “The background is like other Umbrian backgrounds of story, with its many touches of Italian life and its many figures of peasants, priests, and tourists, its incidental legends, art-histories, and church dogma, its landscape and birds, its fruits and flowers and stars.” (Nation.) The author “develops two concurrent ideas: faith through blind acquiescence and obedience conferring spiritual peace; doubt, accompanied by sturdy resistance, and independence condemning to internal tumult.” (R. of Rs.)
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“The story itself is not commonplace, and the interest holds to the end.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The writer of this book has succeeded in creating an atmosphere, an atmosphere strong enough to distinctly affect the reader with its dreamy softness, its vague color.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 280w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; authorized tr. from the German by W: A. Cooper. 3v. ea. **$3.50. Putnam.
5–36314.
=v. 3.= This concluding volume covers the period of Goethe’s life from the Congress of Vienna to the poet’s death, 1815–1832. “The biographer makes the daring assertion that without Goethe the Germany of to-day would not exist. ‘Without Goethe, no Bismarck; without Goethe, no German empire.’ He made the whole people feel spiritually one nation. But Prof. Bielschowsky does not claim his hero exclusively for Germany. He exists, beside Homer and Shakespeare, for the whole world.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Considered on the whole the most valuable biography of Goethe.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“Containing much excellent matter together with a good deal of indifferent work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 301. S. 12. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)
“He fails too ... in humor or decorum; the two are one in this sense.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 150. Jl. 16, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
“We note a serious defect in Bielschowsky’s plan; there has been no provision for a separate chapter upon Goethe as critic.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 225. Ap. 18, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Bigelow, William Sturgis.= Buddhism and immortality. (Ingersoll lecture for 1908.) **75c. Houghton.
8–30599.
An epitome of the teaching of the two Buddhist sects, the Tendai and the Shingon in regard to the immortality of man.
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“The lecture is a simple and lucid exposition of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 100w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= By right of purchase. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–24466.
“Mr. Bindloss starts with a very hackneyed theme and familiar dramatis personae, the haughty well-born girl with the impecunious father and brother who force her into a marriage with a rich man of the honest, simple, rugged type. By degrees of course the honest farmer wins the love of the haughty wife, who endures in the most amazingly brave way the appalling dullness and monotony of life in a remote and lonely Canadian farm.”—Sat. R.
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“Is little more than a replica of his earlier stories of life in the American Northwest.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 240w.
“The characterization is of the crudest simplicity.”
− =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1, ’08. 280w.
“There is no lack of action in Mr. Bindloss’s story, but we know so well what the ending will be that we do not very much care what happens along the road.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He is a better observer of nature than of men and women.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“The story is made readable, though only mildly interesting, by pictures of Canadian life.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 180. Ag. 8, ’08. 90w.
“Mr. Bindloss is always interesting on the subject of his own country, but his present book does not quite reach the level of some of his former works.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 110w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Delilah of the snows. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–15298.
“The nucleus of this story ... is the blindness of a young man to the sterling worth of a girl in his own class, his mad infatuation for another girl socially beyond his reach, and his final awakening to his folly when the other girl betrays him, as wantonly as Delilah betrayed Samson, into the hands of the authorities who demand his life. The scene of the story, at least of such part of the story as really counts, is the Klondike.”—Bookm.
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“The author’s power and grip of his subject seem to have deserted him, and we miss his descriptions of colonial scenery and more particularly of colonial life and character.”
− =Acad.= 73: 905. S. 14, ’07. 270w.
“The story begins at the wrong point; in other words, the lace pattern of his plot lacks symmetry.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The narrative is vigorous and straightforward, without nicety of style, but wholesome in tone, and moderately interesting.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 88. Ag. 16, ’08. 130w.
“In spite of a heavy-footed gait and a superfluity of scene, the book is worth reading for the sincerity and picturesqueness of its adventure.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 280w.
“One expects picturesque incident, thrilling adventure, novel characters in a story that takes Northwest Canada for its setting, but one will scarcely find these necessary qualities in ‘Delilah of the snows.’”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4, ’08. 250w.
=Bindloss, Harold=. For Jacinta. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–2379.
A story of love and adventure which portrays “the savagery, fever, damp heat, and general hatefulness of the coast where the hero is trying to get by salvage the cargo of a wrecked steamer, and thereby prove in his lady’s eyes his capacity to be something more than a dawdler and dilettante.” (Outlook.)
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“Well told and wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08. ✠
“An excellent story of incident and adventure, reminiscent in plot of Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne’s ‘The wrecker,’ and in scene and treatment of Mr. A. J. Dawson’s ‘In the bight of Benin.’ But Mr. Bindloss apparently will not take the trouble to do justice to his undoubtedly lively invention, and distinct feeling for the picturesque and romantic side of open-air life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 23. 170w.
“The story is capitally told, and takes us to an interesting part of the world not much frequented by novelists. As in all the books by Mr. Bindloss that we have read, the money motive is forced a little too much, jarring the romantic sensibilities to which he particularly endeavors to appeal.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 133. Mr. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Certain passages are written with the requisite fire, but there are dead levels where the attention flags.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
“An almost too realistic and minutely drawn picture. The narrative of this adventure is too long drawn out, but there is some sincere effort at character depiction.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“It is a straightforward, absolutely wholesome story of love and adventure. And neither the love nor the adventure is in any way commonplace.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Long odds. †$1.50. Small.
8–32330.
The hero of this tale is dismissed from colonial military service for a fancied offence, and becomes stranded in the wilderness of Portuguese West Africa. His perilous adventures in righting the wrongs of a native bondswoman reveal many of the commercial and official conditions in that country which hamper good deeds and generous impulses.
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“The vagueness of the descriptions and the want of individuality in the characters betray the writer, who depends upon his reading and his imagination to furnish forth his material.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 409. D. ’08. 150w.
“He has not a little of the incisive power of Mr. Conrad in dealing with this tropical material.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 340w.
“It is to be regretted that the style is marred by mannerisms evidently the result of sheer carelessness.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The love story is of minor importance and is not well managed, lacking warmth and color and impressiveness. But the story of the wilderness and the brutal things that harbor there and of the man’s grim fight with them is strong and realistic and vital.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
Bindloss, Harold. Mistress of Bonaventure. *$1. Fenno.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It is a stirring story of real men and women, full of incident, and fairly well written, although the style is now and then disfigured by a slovenly touch.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 230w.
=Binns, Henry Bryan.= Life of Abraham Lincoln. *$1.50. Dutton.
8–14339.
An intimate picture of Lincoln with only enough political history included to interpret his character and development.
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“A valuable presentation of the life and character of the man.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 168. Je. ’08.
“One of the best-balanced and sanest of the innumerable lives of Lincoln.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 249. Ap. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Must therefore take its place among the essays rather than the lives. As such, and as the work of an Englishman, it is not uninteresting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 98. Jl. 30, ’08. 600w.
“It is Mr. Binns’s merit that he has shown so clearly how firmly, reasonably, patiently, bravely, and wisely in the flood of these controlling events the President steered.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 127. Mr. 7, ’08. 1450w.
“Mr. Binns has done a very creditable work in welding into a connected popular biography existing material about Lincoln’s life and career.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 380. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Binns has evidently taken great pains to sift his facts, and has given a very full picture of Lincoln’s life before he became president.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 210. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Birch, Walter de Gray.= Seals. (Connoisseur’s lib., v. 19.) *$7.50. Putnam.
8–2185.
The author, a fully trustworthy guide in the field of antiquities, confines himself mainly to a consideration of the heraldic seals of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland; several concluding chapters turn to the Byzantine empire, Italy and France. “There is no mention of the seals and stamps of the remote East, so much in question in studies of Chinese painting and bronze casting; nothing about the engraved gems of Greek and Greco-Roman antiquity, except as they appear in a few mediæval settings.... The book [fully illustrated] has only four pages of index for over three hundred of text. There is a glossary, but the heraldic terms are not made plain—to the layman.” (Nation.)
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“The book is so handsome and well produced as to make us regret that it was not written on a more definite plan.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 75. Jl. 18. 340w.
“The complete history of the engraved stamp remains to be written; but to that history Mr. Birch’s volume is a very notable contribution.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 80. N. ’08. 430w.
“The vast deal of interesting information in this work is limited in range and hardly made accessible.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 20. Jl. 2, ’08. 560w.
“The only defect one notes is that excessive attention is paid to English, or at least British examples, in contradistinction to those of the continent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 280w.
=Birt, Rev. Henry Norbert.= Elizabethan religious settlement: a study of contemporary documents. *$4.50. Macmillan.
8–13679.
Six hundred pages of careful discussion resulting from the digesting of a huge mass of Elizabethan manuscripts, papers and documents, showing the true relation which the church held to the social development of the sixteenth century. The general purpose of the volume is to put the best face possible on the Roman side, and the worst face possible on the Protestant side, of the Elizabethan controversy.
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“We should recommend those who desire to know the truth with regard to that memorable period to place this volume on their shelves by the side of those of Bishop Creighton and of Dr. Gee, and to use all three of them as correctives to Froude’s glowing, but untrustworthy volumes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 574. N. 9. 2350w.
“Of first-class value, and must be given a place among books to be read and studied on the subject.” W. H. Frere.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 571. Jl. ’08. 2450w.
“Mr. Birt’s volume should be read side by side with Froude’s work on the same period. Mr. Birt is far more accurate than his brilliant predecessor in the field.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“Welcome study.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 388. O. 22, ’08. 630w.
“His historical treatment of the Elizabethan settlement must be reckoned with by all careful investigators of that period.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 145. Ja. 18, ’08. 300w.
“Dom Birt’s volume might be a good deal more one-sided than it is, and it is a solid contribution to the literature of the subject.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 18. Ja. 4, ’08. 1220w.
“Mr. Birt has conducted his inquiry [in] a manner which we had hoped was obsolete. Mr. Birt writes history as Johnson wrote his Parliamentary debates, with a determination that the Protestant dogs shall not have the best of it. Mr. Birt is a controversialist first, and an historian only in the second place. His methods all through are those of the special pleader.”
− =Spec.= 100: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 1850w.
=Bishop, Avard Longley.= State works of Pennsylvania. (Publications of Yale university.) $1.50. Yale univ., New Haven, Ct.
“The monograph contains six chapters and an equal number of appendices, and there is also a good bibliography. The several parts of the study deal, in turn, with the transportation improvements made before 1823, with the popular agitation resulting in the state’s adoption of the policy of public works, with the activities of the state in constructing and financing the canals and railroads, with the many corrupt practices connected therewith, and with the difficulties in selling out the state works after they had shown themselves to be a burden instead of a profit to the state.”
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“It has been carefully done, and the result is a chapter in our economic history which should prove very instructive reading to those now interested in the problem of government ownership.” C. W. Wright.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 172. Mr. ’08. 470w.
“Dr. Bishop has made good use of the original material, still to be found in Pennsylvania.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 561. S. ’08. 160w.
“The author has done his work thoroughly and most impartially. The sources of information have been amply drawn upon, and the subject has been presented with due conciseness and with good sense of proportion.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =Yale R.= 17: 239. Ag. ’08. 360w.
=Bisset, Peter.= Book of water-gardening. *$2.50. De La Mare.
7–22907.
Mr. Bisset, superintendent of Mrs. Gardiner Hubbard’s estate, Twin Oaks, Washington, D. C., places within the reach of amateurs the information necessary to establish and conduct an inexpensive water-garden. “It gives directions also for the cultivation of aquatic plants upon the large scale demanded by parks and estates.” (Nation.) “A chapter is devoted to gold and other fish for ponds, the different types of fish being carefully described and illustrated.” (N. Y. Times.) The book is fully illustrated.
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“The value of a book of instruction and reference like this is much enhanced by a full index, and perhaps one may be given in a second edition.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 110w.
=Black, Rev. Hugh.= Christ’s service of love. **$1.25. Revell.
7–28618.
Urges Protestants to make more of the sacrament especially as a mark of Christian unity. “While Priestism makes too much of this sacrament, Protestantism makes too little of it, and is weakened thereby. Sensible of this, Professor Black lays needed emphasis on various aspects of the sacramental rite to secure it a more appreciative observance.” (Outlook.)
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 675. O. ’08. 20w.
=Ind.= 64: 640. Mr. 19, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 40w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 170w.
=Blackie, John Stuart.= On self-culture. 75c. Funk.
Three scholarly essays written by the professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. They are The culture of the intellect, On physical culture, and On moral culture.
=Blackmore, Richard Doddridge.= Lorna Doone; with introd. and notes by H. Snowden Ward. (Doonland ed.) $2.50. Harper.
8–28992.
An edition in which the principal new interest is topographical. Both introduction and scenic illustration afford the reader an opportunity to know his Doone-land well.
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“Apart from the notes on the Doone controversy, this is an excellent edition of a favourite book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1350w.
“It is hard to see how the work could have been better done. The numerous views, even the wide landscapes, have an admirable clearness and finish. The editor’s lore will please the curious, and will be at least skimmed by the indifferent and careless.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 240w.
“This edition is particularly excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 692. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
=Blake, Katharine Evans.= Stuff of a man. il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–8301.
A drama enacted among southerners, dealing with the negro question and revealing in the climax the “stuff of a man” which the negro possesses in common with all humanity. Mrs. Blake peoples her stage with a delightful group of men and women, whose inherited courtesy, grace, hospitality and sincerity of heart are capable of expansion into brotherhood magnanimity with which they face the vital racial problem. The phases of this problem set forth and analyzed are the phases confronting the entire South—negro lawlessness and crime that result in mobs and lynchings. Mrs. Blake’s solution is found in the development of the superman in black as well as white.
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“It is one of the most wholesome, charming and human love romances of the year, while at the same time it is the best study of the negro question that has been made in fiction.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 592. My. ’08. 660w.
“An example of what Mr. Thomas Dixon, jr., might have accomplished had he possessed poise and the ability to present with equal judgment both sides of a question.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Enchanted castle. †$1.25. Harper.
8–15327.
A fairy tale in which a group of natural, fun-loving children of very up-to-date characteristics discover an enchanted castle and a magic ring, instead of an Aladdin’s lamp, which once in their possession makes possible a round of most exciting adventures.
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“In its general character it is decidedly above the average run of so-called juvenile literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Bland, Hubert.= Happy moralist. *$1.25. Kennerley.
Seventeen short chapters containing comments and opinions on literature, art, music, socialism, love, marriage, manners, ethics, with a concluding chapter on Ibsen and Mr. Shaw.
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“His work is characterized by a lightness and a certainty of aim which make it invariably pleasant reading, even when it is most frivolous.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 320. Mr. 14. 230w.
“Mr. Bland’s style is piquant, now and then a little cynical, characterized throughout by this-worldliness rather than other-worldliness, but never other than light and bright and breezy and thoroughly readable.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 450w.
“His chapters amuse a little, persuade a little, but refuse to nourish and leave us somehow feeling emptier than we were before we read them.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 184. Ag. 27, ’08. 180w.
“Each of the essays will have its charm for readers and particular ones their special appeal to the individual.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.
=Bleackley, Horace William.= Story of a beautiful duchess; being an account of the life and times of Elizabeth Gunning, duchess of Hamilton and Argyll. *$5. Dutton.
8–15741.
A sketch of the life of the good and beautiful Elizabeth Gunning whose story is to a great extent the story of English society during the latter half of the eighteenth century. “Her life, with a minute account of the famous Douglas cause and a fair picture of the times, is clearly end comfortably given in this volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“He is particularly to be commended for his researches into the journalism of the eighteenth century, since, though his gleanings may not contribute much to the elucidation of truth, they show, at any rate, what was being said and thought by people like the ‘Tertium quid’ of ‘The ring and the book.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 822. D. 28. 600w.
“After completing the book the reader is likely to ask if the author’s efforts have really been worth while.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 240w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1404. Je. 18, ’08. 330w.
“It is a pity that honest industry should be marred by such ill taste. So many anecdotal memoirs of the eighteenth century are turned out these days upon the most superficial preparation that we should be glad to commend more heartily a book that is, at least, thoroughly documented, and, in its substance, not without human value.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 460w.
“Mr. Bleackley gives us a good portrait of his heroine, enthusiastic, as behooves a man writing of a beautiful woman, but careful, and based on thorough research.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 116. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
“The story which extends to upwards of three hundred and fifty pages, is not unusually enthralling or entertaining. However, it is better than the ruck of modern six-shilling novels.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The book, though written in a too ornate and often awkward style, gives a spirited picture of a time abounding in curious interest. The book is very handsomely got up, and the portraits of the Duchess and members of her family are charmingly reproduced and most attractive.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 270w.
=Bligh, William George.= Practical design of irrigation works. *$6. Van Nostrand.
Agr 8–246.
“The object of this work is the presentation of the principles which govern the design of irrigation works in such a manner that engineers not specifically conversant with this branch of practice may, by means of the information thus afforded, be enabled to solve suitable plans for such improvements. In order to accomplish this the author has adopted a novel procedure, which consists of analyzing the plans of existing and projected works, pointing out their good and bad features and then developing alternative plans in which improvements suggested by the critical study are incorporated.”—Engin. D.
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=Engin. D.= 3: 191. F. ’08. 250w.
“The book is comparatively free from errors of consequence, except possibly in the complicated formula given for submerged orifices (p. 116), and the incorrect reference to orifice formulas (p. 139), and in the omission of an appropriate index. The author deserves the high appreciation of the profession, however, as having published the most important work yet issued on the design of irrigation works, and his book should find a welcome and useful place in the library of every engineer, and especially every designing engineer interested in the subject of irrigation.” F. W. Hanna.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 539. My. 14, ’08. 1700w.
=Bliss, William Dwight P.=, ed. New encyclopaedia of social reform; ed. by W: D. P. Bliss, ed.-in-chief, and Rudolph M. Binder, assistant ed., with the cooperation of many specialists; new ed. *$7.50. Funk.
8–13953.
A new edition of a work which includes all social-reform movements and activities and the economic, industrial, and sociological facts and statistics of all countries and all social subjects. “This is a completely new book, save for a few purely historical economic articles, the subjects of which need no new treatment, but many even of these are either revised or completely rewritten. A comparison of this new edition with the old shows at once that a great improvement has been made. Every article has been written by some specialist on its particular subject.” (R. of Rs.) “The information is, as a rule, remarkably comprehensive, accurate, recent, and judicial.” (Outlook.)
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+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 168. Je. ’08.
“It is in fact an evolution, being a far more comprehensive and a vastly superior work to the preceding edition.”
+ + =Arena.= 40: 120. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“It is useful in many cases, and we propose to mention, with a view to future improvement, only a few points in which it falls short.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 761. Je. 20. 330w.
“Clippings have been too freely used. Articles evidently compiled some years ago have not been revised so as to bring their dates up to the approximate present. It would be much more highly valued if it were really expert thru and thru.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 420w.
“All the excision, though at times detracting from the more permanent value of the volume, has made room for a great deal of new and up-to-date material, such as will greatly increase its usefulness for reference on all present-day social reform.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 636. N. ’08. 160w.
“In pithiness and objectivity the work shows a distinct improvement over the first ‘Encyclopedia of social reform’ prepared by Dr. Bliss several years ago. It ought to have a place in every reference library.” E. A. Ross.
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
“In its way will prove as serviceable as its predecessor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 9. Jl. 2, ’08. 420w.
“The book fills a special place regarding subjects in the thoughts of almost everybody in active life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
“It is true that in some cases what we might reasonably expect to find is wanting. We can think of no reference library to which it would not be an addition.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
“Altogether, this book is invaluable to the journalist or the writer upon sociological topics, and all who have occasion to read widely in this field will find its bibliographical references indispensable.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 120w.
=Blok, Petrus Johannes.= History of the people of the Netherlands; tr. by Oscar A. Bierstadt. 5 pts. ea. $2.50. Putnam.
=pt. 4.= Deals with the period intervening between the renewal of war with Spain in 1621 and the death of William III. in 1702.
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“We are glad that Professor Blok shows throughout great judicial poise. His work is on the whole admirable.” W: E. Griffis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 573. Ap. ’08. 700w. (Review of pt. 4.)
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 100. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 4.)
“Dr. Blok is neither a Motley nor a Macaulay, but for trustworthiness he is a leader beyond these masters of rhetoric and erudite scholarship. Happily, too, Dr. Blok’s decidedly modern Dutch style is strongly and felicitously rendered by the translator, Mr. Oscar A. Bierstadt, who, with his former collaborator, Miss Ruth Putnam, deserves very high praise.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 103. F. 16, ’08. 840w. (Review of pt. 4.)
“Professor Blok is an authority on questions of fact, and those in search of information can get it from him. But one needs to employ the cyanide process in extracting the ore.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 250w. (Review of pt. 4.)
“Altogether this is an admirable piece of historical work well deserving of being reproduced in English, as has been done by Mr. Oscar A. Bierstadt in a very adequate manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w. (Review of pt. 4.)
“As a rule, Professor Blok’s judgments on men, measures, and events are conspicuously fair and sober, though occasionally, in writing, of foreign relations, he is a Dutchman first and a historian afterwards.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 97. Ja. 11, ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 4.)
=Bloomfield, Maurice.= Religion of the Veda: the ancient religion of India, (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads). (American lectures on the history of religions, 7th ser., 1906–1907.) **$1.50. Putnam.
8–5569.
Sketches “the motives and principles that underlie the remarkable chain of religious ideas that leads from the ritual worship of the great nature-gods of the Rig-Veda to the high theosophy of the Upanishads.” The author gives an account of the gods worshiped, gives various translations of Vedic hymns and philosophical works, then turns to the Upanishads or philosophical writings, of the seventeenth century B. C., and gives a description of the early search for truth in the development of the monistic idea.
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“A worthy successor to the list of notable volumes thus far included in the series.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 40w.
“The lectures, on the whole, while offering little that is new to the scholar, will prove a readable book to any one desiring to know the latest opinions on several points connected with the history of Hindu religion, and references are sufficiently frequent to enable the reader to find out for himself in what particulars Professor Bloomfield’s views differ from those of other scholars.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1201. My. 28, ’08. 500w.
“In his interpretation of the Vedic hymns the author is inclined to see only one side of religious expression. In the final lectures he gives a good account of the Hindu’s religious life and the goal of religious aspiration.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Unlike many scholarly discussions, these lectures have a personal charm, for the author, despite the fact that he has devoted a lifetime to research, has not lost his common sense, his humanity, or his sense of humor. His quotations and his comments on them are always delightful.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The latest volume of a series of standard works [by] a foremost authority on his subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 656. Mr. 21, ’08. 350w.
=Bodine, William Budd.= Some hymns and hymn writers; representing all who profess and call themselves Christians: short studies in the hymnal of the Episcopal church. **$3. Winston.
7–38889.
A book of hymns and information about them. “While the material is not sought outside of the choice hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal church, this is sufficiently representative of the church, ancient and modern, in the service of sacred song, in which all sectarian distinctions are ignored.” (Outlook.)
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“The book contains much that will interest a lover of hymns.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“His grouping of the writers under the different denominations is not a wise grouping. It does not give a clear principle of division. But the book contains a great deal of material that will be prized by the lover of hymns.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 100w.
=Bogart, Ernest Ludlow.= Economic history of the United States. *$1.75. Longmans.
7–41061.
Written for “high-school as well as college students.” The book contains four parts: (1) Colonial development, (2) The struggle for commercial and economic independence (1763 to 1808), (3) The industrial revolution and the westward movement (1808 to 1860), and (4) Economic integration and industrial organization (1860 to 1906). “The characteristics of the successive periods, the forces at work in them, and the various phases of this mighty development, which, as the author remarks, is the keynote of all American history, are saliently outlined.” (Cath. World.)
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“For the general student it is the best on the subject yet published.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 100. Ap. ’08. ✠
“To the student specializing in any particular branch of economic history, the book is of less value than many others. Its value lies in that it presents, in a connected form, the chief events which constituted the economic development of the United States.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 497. Mr. ’08. 350w.
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 113. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“Is the best text-book in its field. It stands the test of class-room use.” C: H. Hull.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 26. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“Certainly great credit is due to Professor Bogart for having made a distinct advance over anything yet written.” C. W. Wright.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 458. Jl. ’08. 800w.
“The treatment as a whole is unduly objective, burdened by a multitude of details, and it fails to convey the impression of organic development.” Katharine Coman.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 332. Je. ’08. 450w.
“We may particularly mention the author’s treatment of the question of slavery, which seems to us admirably concise and illuminating.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 792. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The book is greatly needed. While there are certain respects in which it may show deficiencies, the wonder is that these are so few. It is the best history of its kind for college classes. The style is simple and plain, the explanations clear.” E. D. Fite.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 352. N. ’08. 740w.
=Boigne, Comtesse de.= Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne; ed. from the original ms. by M. Charles Nicoullaud. **$2.50. Scribner.
=v. 3.= This last volume describes the latter part of the reign of Louis XVIII. and that of Charles X. and gives a first-hand account of the revolution of July, 1830, which made Louis Philippe king. The Comtesse de Boigne was closely associated with the courts of these times and writes interestingly of such men as Talleyrand, Chateaubriand, Guizot, the French royal family, Metternich, the Duc de Richelieu, and other important personages.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 7. Ja. ’08. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The translation is generally competent, although it might in many passages be improved.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 126. F. 1, 700w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The entertaining author is wont to clothe the baldness of fact in the embroidery of fancy. Much, therefore, that she records is to be taken with reservations.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 422. D. 16, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dial.= 44: 278. My. 1, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 3.)
“She is so obviously honest a witness, so clearly desirous of telling the truth, that her inaccuracies, though abundant, do not detract from the value of her evidence. Her political sympathies were not strong enough to blind her to facts nor to tempt her to misrepresent them. The English translation is respectable and accurate. A book so interesting in substance remains attractive even when it has lost the graces of style and manner which charm us in the original.” P. F. Willert.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 179. Ja. ’08. 2250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The author carefully restricts herself to being ‘the careful chronicler of the impressions of the moment,’ and resists the temptation to interpret events in the light of after history.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 975. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 765. My. 23, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The third volume, completing the work, deserves less consideration [than the second]. The most vivid pages are those describing the circumstances connected with the death of the Duc de Berry, but for the larger part the volume is made up of small talk.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 405. Ap. 30, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“They are all very charming and told with that intimate touch which French writers alone seem capable at all times of imparting to their narratives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 125. Mr. 7, ’08. 2100w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 270w. (Review of v. 3.)
“There is a good deal of padding for a little lightness in these volumes, but on the whole one is repaid.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 773. My. ’08. 1500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 476. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Bolton, Reginald Pelham.= Elevator service: operating conditions and proportions; with diagrams, formulas, and tables for passenger travel, schedule and express operation, with the relation of the elevators to the building, and proportions and loads of cars. *$5. Reginald P. Bolton, 527 5th av., N. Y.
8–7889.
“The book discusses in considerable detail the various features of the problem of elevator service as it is affected by the floor area of the building in relation to its height, the characteristic operating conditions that ordinarily obtain in business buildings and the effect of the personal equation of both operators and passengers upon the service, and many suggestions are offered as a result of careful studies of the problem.”—Engin. Rec.
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 529. My. ’08. 250w.
“It is to be regretted that a work of such range and value should be marred by minor blemishes which will no doubt be corrected in later editions. In spite of these the book is deserving of commendation.” W: H. Bryan.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 436. Ap. 16, ’08. 1800w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 540. Ap. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Bond, Beverly Waugh, jr.= Monroe mission to France 1794–1796. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–22912.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Altogether, it is an interesting bit of history, and the author has succeeded in shedding new light upon this episode.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 264. Ja. ’08. 220w.
=Bondurant, Bernard Camillus.= Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus: a historical study. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–28562.
A dissertation offered for a doctor’s degree. “Dr. Bondurant begins by giving an analysis of the text; then comes a list of dates of important events connected with the career of Decimus Brutus after the death of Caesar—i. e., from 15 March 44 B. C. to September 43 B. C.—followed by a selected list of books, articles, and dissertations, while at the end of the work there is a good index of proper names. The work itself is a careful study of the period.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
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“The work has been carefully done and the results arrived at are, in general, sound.” H: A. Sanders.
+ =Class. Philol.= 13: 212. Ap. ’08. 440w.
“Dr. Bondurant’s personal affection for Brutus has distinctly injured his critical faculty. The treatise will be valued by students of this period, on account of the scholarly care with which the authorities are given for every statement.” W. A. G.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 192. Ja. ’08. 260w.
=Booth, Edward C.= Post-girl. (Eng. title, Cliff end.) †$1.50. Century.
8–20677.
A story set among the out-of-the-way cliffs of Yorkshire. To Cliff Wrangham there comes a young composer bent upon the task of finishing a concerto. He finds among the diverting natives a wonderful girl, Pamela Searle, who in babyhood, had been dropped into this corner of the world, and had grown to reflect, chameleon like, the glories of sky and sea, and to exult in her elemental strength. She carries the mail at six shillings a week; is the object of the somber passion of the schoolmaster. When the “Spawer” comes he teaches her the beauty of his world, the world of art which she has longed to know. The struggle between the old influences and the new, the love which comes on apace, and the mad determination of the schoolmaster to thwart it furnish elements for an unusually strong story.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“The book will suggest Barrie’s ‘Little minister,’ but it is in no sense an imitation.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 392. O. ’08. 1200w.
“The whole impression that you retain from the book, is of careful workmanship, sincerity of purpose and that deep insight which comes from a sympathetic interest in human life.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 578. Ag. ’08. 300w.
“He has a manner almost Meredithian in its richness, but without the Meredithian asperity.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 85. Ag. 16, ’08. 470w.
“The ‘Post-girl’ joins to freshness of atmosphere an artistic touch, a technical felicity, which, gracefully light in its comedy, lacks neither poetry nor strength in its sentiment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 170w.
“There breathes no man or woman—or only the fewest at least admirable of our race—who will not be glad to read this sweet and tender story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 520w.
“It is surprisingly fresh and fine. To our taste the author lingers too long over the talk of his characters, and sometimes the flow of good spirits runs rather thin.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 160w.
=Borsa, Mario.= English stage of today; tr. by Selwyn Brinton. *$2.50. Lane.
8–9149.
A concise treatment particularly illuminating to foreigners. “Among the principal subjects which it passes in review, are the nature of English playgoers, actors, and actor-managers, the leading dramatists and critics, the Stratford-on-Avon celebrations; the work of the various independent theatres, the realistic and the literary drama, the Irish theatre, and the censorship.” (Nation.)
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“Dr. Borsa’s survey of the contemporary British drama is a better book in its English dress, as edited and translated by Mr. Selwyn Brinton than it was in its original Italian form as published a year ago in Milan. There are still some minor inaccuracies which should have been corrected, but they are not sufficiently grave to destroy the value of the book as a whole.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 250. D. 14, ’07. 460w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08.
“Dr. Borsa’s book challenges attention. Dr. Borsa’s chapters are the merest journalism. Some of his judgments on plays have a certain piquancy as revealing an attitude of mind and a philosophy of life other than our own; but the bulk of his matter is ephemeral, while his criticism is too often marred by his tendency to exaggeration inherent in ‘impressionism.’”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 204. F. 16. 540w.
“An attempt, on the whole a successful one, to analyze present dramatic conditions and possibilities in England.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Not for a long time has there been published a more pertinent treatise on current stage matters in England than that of Dr. Mario Borsa.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1039. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“He has written a most attractive, instructive, and clear-headed work, which will repay the study of all persons interested in theatrical affairs.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 594. D. 26, ’07. 1200w.
“The book is the work of a man who understands the human heart and who can express himself with power. It is of value in excess of mere criticism, for it constructs and explains, bringing that fresh eye and open mind as necessary in life as in art. The translation by Selwyn Brinton is felicitous.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 97. F. 22, ’08. 1500w.
“The book would be more helpful if its criticism were more constructive, but as an attempt to diagnose the malady which afflicts the drama in England it is singularly successful.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 234. My. ’08. 400w.
=Bosch, Mrs. Hermann.= Bridget. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–11700.
A prepossessing Irish girl is the heroine of this story. Her career from the landing with immigrant companions on Ellis island to the end of a romance with a footman in a millionaire establishment is sketched with special detail given to the pitfalls along the servant’s way to an honest living.
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“Inartistic and exaggerated, but humorous, clean and rather unique.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“The book remains wholesome and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Bose, Jagadis Chunder.= Comparative electro-physiology. *$5.75. Longmans.
8–13638.
A work which is complementary to Professor Bose’s books on response in the living and nonliving, and plant response. “[He generalizes] that the responses of all living substances are similar, and that responses are to be found even in inorganic substances. The similarity depends on some common fundamental reaction of matter. The response is recorded largely by electrical methods. Motor responses are also considered, particularly in plants; but they are treated also rather less fully in animals.” (Nation.)
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“The author has made a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the extremely difficult subject of electro-physiology, and whether or not his conclusions prove to be accurate in detail, there can be no doubt of their general truth. His observations, therefore, are useful alike to the physiologist (concerned with animals or plants), the physicist, and the psychologist, by all of whom his book should be read carefully.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 357. Mr. 21. 1000w.
“The author herein shows the same peculiarities as in the preceding volume. There is the same naïve interest in well-known phenomena, as though they were quite novel; there is the same lack of effort to connect his work with that of others, so far, at least, as citing their researches or results is concerned. There is much repetition of the earlier volume; the same tilting at windmills. This book shares with its predecessor, also, the confusion between energy and stimulus, a confusion that is possible because we know so little of plant energetics. Bose seems to ignore, if he is not ignorant of, the anatomy of the parts with which he is dealing. Out of these books we look for someone to rescue many good observations, now apparently gone awry.” C. R. B.
− + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 58. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“Prof. Bose has great ingenuity in device of experimental apparatus, fertility in initiating new lines of observation, and a clear style of setting forth his experimental results and theoretical deductions; nevertheless, we feel far from satisfied with his performance. The whole book abounds in interesting matter skilfully woven together, and would be recommended as of great value if it did not continually arouse our incredulity.” L. H.
+ − =Nature.= 77: sup. 3. Mr. 5, ’08. 1500w.
=Boulger, Demetrius C. de K.= Life of Sir Halliday Macartney. *$6. Lane.
8–21787.
The story of forty-four years of useful service to the Chinese empire. Sir Halliday Macartney commanded Li Hung Chang’s trained force in the Taeping rebellion, founded the first Chinese arsenal, was secretary to the first Chinese embassy to Europe, and secretary and councillor to the Chinese legation in London for thirty years. The narrative is one of historical interest. The book is fully illustrated.
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“Sir Halliday’s career was interesting, but not such as to furnish material for a volume of 515 pages. Mr. Boulger has been driven to surround his subject with essays on the political and other events touched upon, and to invest his hero with an importance which did not naturally belong to him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 960w.
=Nation.= 87. 236. S. 10, ’08. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 460w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 60w.
“He was a voluminous writer of letters and despatches, to many of which Mr. Boulger has had access, and, which he quotes profusely in a volume which is somewhat too much expanded by their aid.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 302. S. 5, ’08. 1250w.
=Bourget, Paul.= Weight of the name. †$1.50. Little.
8–9812.
A French marquis who proclaims his divine right to power and fame thru his name and lineage, who has the pride and the religious veneration of his race and of old France, faces the fact that his only son loves the daughter of a provincial notary. Close in the wake of this discovery comes the appalling revelation that this son is the child of his dead wife and a trusted friend. The magic of lineage cannot set straight this irregular fact and as his pride is humbled he grows more amenable to influences that soften and lead to a more democratic outlook on life.
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“His ideas are so pronounced that for friends of democratic and religious advance the book holds little or no interest.”
− + =Arena.= 40: 269. S. ’08. 140w.
“Though the elements of the story are few, and there is nothing violent in the action, M. Bourget’s superb art and psychology construct an intensely interesting story in which there are two or three powerful situations.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 403. Je. ’08. 400w.
“This touching story keeps in its English dress much of the peculiar charm, the quivering intensity of emotion never verging upon mawkishness, of the original.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 550w.
“The character of this finely tempered and uncompromising old nobleman is drawn with skill and affection; and while in the love passages the novelist does not escape his tendency to be didactic, the story as a whole gains immensely in vitality over his earlier work, because he has put his heart into it.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“Monsieur Bourget sustains his reputation as scientific analyst by exhibiting both the value to a country of a stable territorial aristocracy and at the same time the evils springing from its ways of thought.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 765. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Bousset, Wilhelm.= What is religion? (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–12833.
“Bousset’s work in eight chapters deals, after the introduction, with the religion of savages, with national, prophetic, legal, and redemptive religions, and with the nature and future of Christianity. It is an ambitious attempt, therefore, to review popularly all of religion as at present understood, to show its origins and development, its varieties, its present status and future prospects. It reaches the conclusion that Christianity is the acme of development in its union of the elements of morality, redemption, and assurance of the future life.”—Am. J. Theol.
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Reviewed by G: W. Gilmore.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 322. Ap. ’08. 270w.
“This is an extremely interesting book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 520w.
Reviewed by T. D. A. Cockerell.
=Dial.= 44: 213. Ap. 1, ’08. 130w.
“Professor Bousset is well equipped for his task, and writes here, as always, in a limpidly clear and graphic manner, enabling the reader to see a century in a sentence. He approaches his task sympathetically, which cannot be said of all students of religion.” W. Jones-Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 682. Ap. ’08. 2300w.
“The book is not a thoro treatise, either in the philosophy of religion or in its history, but as an introduction to the modern science of comparative religion it is of much value.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1403. Je. 18, ’08. 330w.
“As a rapid survey of the field of comparative religion and a concise and graphic description of the chief types of religion, Professor Bousset’s lectures are of merit. In its English dress the book scarcely does justice to the author of the learned and exhaustive history of the Jewish religion in the age of the New Testament.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 445. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“The book is an excellent introduction to the study of the nature of religion and its development into the religions of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 829. D. 14, ’07. 250w.
=Boutet de Monvel, Roger.= Beau Brummell and his times. **$2.50. Lippincott.
8–34712.
“It is a strange mingling of comedy and tragedy, this story of the Regent’s friend, the bully of society, the arbiter elegantiarum, and then the broken-down exile, brave against all his enemies save, disease and death.” (Nation.) “The book is a vivid picture of the brilliant heartless, and witty society under the Regent. We get glimpses of the court, its festivities, and its petty squabbles, wherever Brummell brings his imposing figure, the ‘sublime dandy,’ the ornament and leader of society.” (Ath.)
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“This is an altogether charming book. The notes, drawn from contemporary sources, are brief and admirable, giving just the information needed. The attitude throughout is French, and, on the whole, sympathetic. There is no unnecessary moralizing.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 535. My. 2. 1400w.
“The author approaches his subject absolutely without prejudice. In his attitude there is neither admiration nor contempt, but a kind of blending of the two, and above all, wonder and sly amusement.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 268. N. ’08. 1800w.
“A delightfully picturesque and sympathetic study, etched on the background of contemporary English life.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 217. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“An entertaining brief account.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 200w.
“M. de Monvel’s work is exceedingly well done; it gives us strong and clear impressions of the famous London dandy and the folk among whom he lived his life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 554. O. 10, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Bovill, W. B. Forster.= Hungary and the Hungarians. **$2. McClure.
8–34714.
Mr. Bovill tells what the Hungarians are, what their resources and short comings are, and how their institutions and ideals make them “the most bewildering, fascinating, hospitable race in Europe.” He admits they are lacking in the genius for practical organization which insures a sound political basis for a government.
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“A readable, and, above all, an informing book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“W. B. Forster Bovill has performed a good service in writing his book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 420w.
“Some very vivid descriptive writing about a comparatively unknown fascinating people makes this volume an unusually attractive work of descriptive travels.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 639. N. ’08. 120w.
=Bowen, Edwin Winfield.= Makers of American literature: a class-book on American literature. *$2.50. Neale.
8–5135.
Not a history but a guide to the study of American literature. “It purports simply to discuss and consider the literary achievements of our leading American authors,—those who stand out most conspicuously in a general survey of our literature and who are recognized among the foremost makers of American literature.” There are informing chapters on Franklin, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Prescott, Hawthorne, Emerson, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, Lowell, Lanier and Whitman.
=Bowen, Marjorie.= Sword decides. †$1.50. McClure.
8–10858.
The court of Naples in the 14th century is here depicted with much local color. The life and evil deeds of Giovanna, the queen, and her diplomatic relations with the principality of Hungary form a subject around which is grouped much incident having a wealth of melodramatic detail.
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“Miss Bowen’s style has improved in directness and ease. It is still highly coloured and fresh and young; she has still little thought of restraint; but one accepts the wealth of material, and the profusion even of horrors, for the sake of genuine promise. Her strong point is not character, but she has one or two excellent portraits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 506. Ap. 25. 150w.
“When all is said there is nothing remarkable about the story except the author’s youth, her evident reversion to type, and her extraordinary use of words expressing color.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 151. Jl. 16, ’08. 460w.
“Has none of the stiff, unreal quality of most very old-world tales, and looms as vividly before us as if it concerned the passing events of the present day. And still it never loses the spirit, never drops the phraseology, never forgets the air and glamour of the time in which it is set.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Not archaeological exactness and faithful portraiture of character constitute the indispensable elements to fiction of this class, but descriptive vividness and dramatic sharpness. These two requirements are certainly reached by Miss Marjorie Bowen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
“What pleases us most in Miss Bowen’s work is her freedom from any pretentiousness in style or in reflection; she indulges but rarely in intellectual flights of general comment on the mysteries of life, and she is never precious.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 634. My. 16, ’08. 400w.
=Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair).= Lure of the dim trails. †$1.50. Dillingham. 7–32836.
Once again Mr. Bower writes a story of the west beyond the Mississippi “where the trails of men are dim and far apart.” His hero is a cowboy whose romance begins when the heroine of the tale calls him a coward.
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“It may all have been done before, but probably there is little harm in that, and it is done here as well as anywhere else.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 12. Ja. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Bower, Frederick Orpen.= Origin of a land flora: a theory based upon the facts of alternation. *$5.50. Macmillan.
8–19077.
A technical study presented by the professor of botany in the Glasgow university mainly concerned with the theories as to the origin of the leafy fern-plant and of the moss-fruit. “Starting with the hypothesis that the origin of our present land flora is to be found in an aquatic ancestry, the author’s main object is to ascertain to what extent the life histories of the higher plants justify such an assumption, and to trace as far as possible the methods by which aquatic plants specialised themselves in order to attain a land habit. Thus Professor Bower makes a comparative study of plants from the point of view of descent.” (Sat. R.)
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“It should be read by everyone interested in the evolution and development of plant-life.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 608. My. 16. 880w.
“The scope of the volume is very broad and its spirit is admirable. The volume is a monument to the research power and philosophical insight of its distinguished author.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 56. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“All botanists owe a debt of gratitude to the author for the theory which he has so systematically worked out, as well as for the detailed investigations to which it has been the guide. No more important contribution to scientific botany has appeared in England since the revival of botanical research in this country in the seventies of the past century. Nothing can be better for English botany than the appearance of such a book as this, a full and most original treatise on an important branch of the science by one who is an acknowledged master of his subject.” D. H. S.
+ + − =Nature.= 79: 1. N. 5, ’08. 2900w.
“Perhaps the most important contribution to the theoretical side of botany during the present generation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 732. Je. 6, ’08. 450w.
“It is in all ways a thoroughly satisfactory book.” C: E. Bessey.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 618. Ap. 17, ’08. 950w.
“It is a remarkable contribution to botanical literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 791. My. 16, ’08. 470w.
* =Bowie, Augustus Jesse, jr.= Practical irrigation, its value and cost; with tables of comparative cost, relative soil production, reservoir dimensions and capacities and other data of value to the practical farmer. *$3. McGraw.
8–19875.
“Chapters 1 to 7 deal in a brief and more or less elementary manner with some of the broad features of irrigation and the remaining nine chapters deal almost wholly with irrigation pumping plants and the construction of artificial reservoirs.... The book contains very little information concerning irrigation farming, although its title might be taken to indicate otherwise.”—Engin. N.
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“From the viewpoint of the agriculturist the entire work will be found of practical benefit, and from the viewpoint of the engineer the treatment of pumping systems and of the artificial reservoirs will be equally valuable.” F. W. Hanna.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 189. Ag. 13, ’08. 560w.
“Throughout the whole treatment of these subjects the author is distinctly ‘practical,’ in that he dwells insistently on the cost of the different classes of work and on the total cost of the service they will perform.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 531. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Bowne, Borden Parker.= Personalism. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–6100.
The N. W. Harris lectures for 1907, Northwestern university. Professor Bowne discusses the subject of personal metaphysics; shows the relation of sound philosophy to science and to common sense; points out that the field of science is empirical phenomena, while philosophy’s realm is that of causality and purpose behind experience; and agrees with Comte that abstract and impersonal metaphysics is a mirage of formal ideas which begin, continue and end in abstraction and confusion. He stands for a personal idealism in philosophy and the possibility of an enlightened orthodoxy in religion.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 169. Je. ’08.
“His metaphysics is likely to provoke amusement in many minds, rather than serious consideration.”
− =Nation.= 86: 559. Je. 18, ’08. 1150w.
“His style is beautifully, even amazingly, simple and lucid, and though of course his chapters are not what is called easy reading, that is the reader’s fault, not Dr. Bowne’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 700w.
“For a thorough exposure of radical fallacies in philosophic and popular thought, and for clear pragmatic thinking toward the ultimate reality of an all-embracing Intelligence and Will, as the ground of this personal world, beginners in philosophy will find this an eminently serviceable book.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Boxall, George E.= Awakening of a race. *$2.75. Wessels.
7–32830.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“We fully appreciate this writer’s legitimate discontent with certain aspects of our social life, and may agree with him, that it is ignorance of human nature that underlies much of the evil. But Mr. Boxall is himself not well informed, and his total inappreciation of the inwardness of great religious and social problems renders his book quite valueless for purposes of reform.”
− =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 430w.
=Boyce, Neith, pseud. (Mrs. Hutchins Hapgood).= The bond: a novel of modern marriage. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–11083.
A story of the clashing of temperaments. A young artist weds an idealistic young woman. Liking and interest seem to be the only requirements of their bond. These elements prove incapable of sustaining the two natures thru experiences of married life and they “quarrel, jar and nag, as no two persons outside a comic paper could ever be induced to do.” It is once more a study of the artistic temperament suffering amid unsubordinated crass experiences.
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“The volume is a frank and interesting study of the intimacies of married life; but it contains, in our opinion, nothing that is undesirable for clean-minded youth.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 433. O. 10. 100w.
“We could wish that the author’s delicate talent had been employed upon a worthier theme, or a theme, bearing a closer relation to normal existence.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 260w.
“[The author] does her work faithfully and discerningly, and her story rings true.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 550w.
“It is not at all a bad novel. Parts of it are written with insight and skill, and there is very little that does not indicate both feeling and intelligence. What dooms the book is not its construction, not its phraseology, not its mental or artistic standpoint, but its characters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 248. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Boyle, Eleanor Vere.= Peacock’s pleasaunce. **$1.50. Lane.
“A bundle of papers lightly and fancifully connected through the pretty, fantastic title. Her Prologue in explanation of this title is characteristic of her style and manner, and well prepares the reader for what follows. The peacock is merely a figure, a symbol standing decoratively at the head of her page, to light the way into the pleasaunce. E. V. B. writes of strange flowers and woods, of birds and weeds, of art and insects—being catholic and benignant in her taste.... The pages are scattered with iridescent fragments of old myths and legends, showing the author’s often mystic leanings.”—Ath.
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“The only exception we can take to this pretty volume is that the author has included two papers on ‘Art education’ which seem to us out of place here.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 765. Je. 20. 300w.
“In the semi-suggestions of the supernatural that sprinkle her pages, as well as in the veil of mysticism thrown over all, there is something almost Hawthornesque—a nameless charm that makes one forgive the fine writing in which the author is prone to indulge.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 220w.
“To persons who share her delights the reading of her essays will furnish a certain amount of pleasure, although it must be confessed that other writers have treated her subjects more entertainingly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 110w.
=Bradford, Gamaliel, jr.= Matthew Porter: a story of to-day. $1.50. Page.
8–10859.
The social and political life of Boston forms the setting of this story into which enter the conflict of personalities, character development, and an appealing human element. The hero, a candidate for governor, is a reformer; he holds to the belief that more power should be vested in the governor and less in the legislature. The story traces the influence of his liberal views upon a young woman belonging to an aristocratic Boston family. She turns from her musicians, sculptors, writers and painters and tries her hand at practical campaigning. The hero wins both his office and the heroine.
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“The narrative is cumbered with many irrelevant persons, and the inevitable love-theme is a wearisome affair.”
− =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 500w.
“He has used the story as a peg upon which to hang a great many not very novel lectures on what politics and government ought to be.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 318. Je. 6, ’08. 280w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= Round about Wiltshire. (Highways and byways in England.) *$2. McClure.
W7–180.
A monograph which shows the author’s delight in his “rambles and his topics—in the ancient camps and temples on the downs, in the deserted abbeys and old manor houses of the slopes and the valleys, in the thatched cottages and their rustic tenants, in the cornlands and the meadows, in the streams and the trout.” (Sat. R.) It is illustrated with fourteen reproductions of water-colors, and numerous halftones.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.
“This Marlburian chronicle is interesting, doubtless, but there is too much of it; it throws the work out of scale and compels the omission of divers famous local themes which might well have been illustrated. Its chief charm lies in the ease and spontaneity of the narrative; in the manifest gusto with which the author has set about his task.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 211. Jl. 5, ’07. 920w.
“It is full of information and full of appreciation of the peculiar features of Wiltshire scenery and legend.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 146. Ag. 3, ’07. 1750w.
“Mr. Bradley handles his materials with judgment, and talks well about them all, and his felicity in narrative is incontestable.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 868. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
* =Bradley, Samuel Carlyle.= Jesus of Nazareth. *$2. Sherman, French & co.
8–32494.
A life of Jesus that aims first to bring into prominence the “Manliness of Jesus” by emphasizing the saying of Paul that Jesus was in all points tempted like as we are; and second, to fill up the gap in the record of Jesus’s life which includes the formative period that prepared him for his later mission.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend=, comp. Northwestern fights and fighters. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36235.
A collection of accounts of operations against Indians most of which were written by army officers who took part in the engagements described. “The general desire of Dr. Brady as editor seems to be to vindicate the army, which has so often been under unjust critical fire.” (Ind.)
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“Are of use principally as entertaining reading for men and boys, and offer nothing of any particular value to the student.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 37. F. ’08. ✠
“The book as a whole is full of adventure and is real into the bargain.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1478. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
“Mr. Brady’s own contribution to the history is clear and full of patriotic fire.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 50w.
=Braid, James.= Advanced golf. **$3. Jacobs.
8–20687.
Instruction and advice combine to make this handbook valuable for advanced golfers, especially, as the rudimentary details of the game are omitted. Mr. Braid, a champion player, “writes intelligently of the choice of clubs, gives sound instruction on such delicacies of play as intentional pulling and slicing, as to play in wet weather and against direct winds, as to putting, systems of practice, and the ‘science of the stroke.’ He has chapters on the planning of courses, and relates frankly yet modestly some of his personal experiences.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Braid’s book will be generally welcomed by golfers. Its charm lies in its lucidity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 630w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 170. Ag. 8, ’08. 1200w.
“The biographical characters are highly entertaining.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Brainerd, Ira Hutchinson=, ed. Edwin Davis French: a memorial; his life, his art. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.
8–13734.
Deals authoritatively with the life and work of a noted book-plate engraver. “The selection of biographical material has been painstaking and discriminating; the plates used as illustrations cover a wide range. The check list of the French plates, as published by Paul Lemperly in 1899, has been continued, and the series brought to a finish. A supplementary list of designs and engravings other than bookplates has been included. The edition is limited to 475 copies, of which 425 are on handmade paper and 50 are on imperial Japanese vellum.” (Nation.)
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“The biographical portion of the volume has been delightfully written.” Laurence Burnham.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 49. S. ’08. 1100w.
“He has carefully avoided saying too much and has not left unsaid anything vital.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 977. Ap. 30, ’08. 110w.
“An admirable piece of work.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 385. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
=Brand, Jack.= By wild waves tossed; an ocean love story. †$1.50. McClure.
8–13949.
A spirited romance which begins with the abduction of an English girl by a profligate captain of the royal navy, and continues on board a merchant ship whither an American naval officer, masquerading as a common sailor, had conducted the rescued girl for passage to America where relatives would claim her. The times are those just prior to the war of 1812 and the frigate Constitution figures in the story.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A story of love, war, and the sea in the spirit of Sir Walter when he deals with that romantic trinity of elements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 250w.
“It is bright of its kind, clean and wholesome, and has never a serious moment for the jaded reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Breasted, James Henry.= History of the ancient Egyptians. (Historical ser. for Bible students, v. 5.) **$1.25. Scribner.
8–15332.
An abridgment and condensation of Professor Breasted’s larger work to which have been added such recent discoveries as the finding of Gem-Atom in Nubia, and the discovery of the Hittite capital at Boghaz Koi in Asia Minor. It is based directly on original monuments and is adapted for class use.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 170. Je. ’08. ✠
“Notable book.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 79. Jl. ’08. 70w.
“Is as trustworthy as present study can make it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 436. Ag. 20, ’08. 140w.
“The story is told in a plain and lucid style, without ornamentation, and with the earnestness of a man who has something to tell and is intent merely upon the telling.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 150w.
“Is a history, the most reliable yet produced, not merely of Egypt, but of the Egyptian people.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 812. N. 21, ’08. 200w.
=Brebner, Percy James.= Vayenne. $1.50. McBride, J.
8–7896.
A story charged to the brim with adventure in which an unlawful successor to the Duchy of Montvilliers resorts to foul trickery to push his claim, but is outwitted by a young soldier of fortune and a court fool. The latter unite their energies and wits to put upon the throne the rightful heir. Sword play, bloodshed, justice grown eloquent to sway the multitude, sacrifice, and romance mingle in dramatic variety.
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“Of its class it is a member in good standing.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
“The action of ‘Vayenne’ is as rapid as any of its proto-types, and dramatic episodes are born, flourish, and pass away on every page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Spec.= 100: 344. F. 29, ’08. 20w.
=Breck, Edward.= Way of the woods: a manual for sportsmen in northeastern United States and Canada. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–11766.
A practical field manual containing concise, comprehensive and authoritative information on all subjects of interest to the camper, the fisherman and the hunter; not omitting the essentials of a complete outfit, their place of purchase and approximate cost.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08. ✠
“It ends with a good working bibliography wherefrom further knowledge may be gained.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It is an ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’ of the woods. Our only criticism of the book is that the outfits are inclined to be elaborate.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1292. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“As a sportsman’s manual [this book] would be hard to surpass in its breadth and compactness of information, without sacrificing readability altogether.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 32. Jl. 9, ’08. 350w.
“The interesting manner in which practical hints are presented and the sterling good sense give Mr. Breck’s book a real value, which will be appreciated alike by veterans of the woods and novices.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 80w.
=Brenan, Gerald, and Statham, Edward Phillips.= House of Howard. *$6. Appleton.
8–15740.
A two volume work which sketches the history of this notable family than which none in England “has been more concerned in the political, social and religious developments of the English people: none shows to greater advantage upon the rolls of the English nobility at the present time. Messrs. Brenan and Statham do not undertake in their book to take account of all the branches of the family that are now in existence; what they give us is a historical record of the family chiefly with regard to those members who have held the more prominent positions and especially those who have enjoyed the highest hereditary titles.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The style of the book is so well maintained that, if the facts were not known, it would be difficult to differentiate one collaborator from the other. No fault can be found with the historical portion of the work, which is fairly and impartially written. These genealogical tables are generally accurate, though misprints are occasionally to be found.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 721. D. 7. 1100w.
“Errors of detail in dates, spellings, and misinterpretations of documents are to be found on nearly every page. Its virtues would have been enormously enhanced, and its faults correspondingly diminished, had the book enjoyed the advantage of systematic and scholarly revision.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 524. N. 26, ’08. 1200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 573. O. 17, ’08. 300w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 227. F. 8, ’08. 460w.
* =Brereton, Austin.= Life of Henry Irving. 2v. **6.50. Longmans.
“This biography is just a chronicle—admirably exact and faithful—of its hero’s public life. All Irving’s professional experiences, from his appearances in Sunderland, Edinburgh, Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool down to his farewell seasons at the Lyceum and Drury Lane, and his final performance of ‘Becket’ at Bradford, are here presented with a carefulness that merits enthusiastic acknowledgment. If ever there was an object-lesson in what can be done by an actor, through force of character, to overcome natural defects and the obstacle of self-consciousness, it is surely afforded by Irving’s career, and in Mr. Brereton’s chapters the moral is consistently pointed.”—Ath.
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“The reader will search in vain for information as to what the man was apart from his art. His writing, so far from having any distinction, does not rise above the level of average journalism. Mr. Brereton’s statistics are among the most important features of his book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 551. O. 31. 1000w.
“The author is not impartial in his attitude toward his subject, indiscriminating admiration being its keynote.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“Its unexceptionable sources of information and capital index make it an exceedingly useful work of reference for the student of the theatre. Though on the historical side it is complete and accurate, on the critical it is less trustworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 418. O. 29, ’08. 1500w.
“It may be accepted as the definitive life of Irving, published with the sanction of his family and executors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 651. N. 7, ’08. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 280w.
“Contains many interesting passages. Yet one cannot but reflect how much better it would have been as a book in its quiddity if the author had but read and marked to practical purpose Isaac Disraeli’s comment on biographies at large.” W. H. Pollock.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 605. N. 14, ’08. 1400w.
=Brewster, William Tenney.= Specimens of modern English literary criticism; chosen and edited by W. T. Brewster. *$1. Macmillan.
7–33232.
Contains the following: Stephen’s Wood’s halfpence, Masson’s DeQuincey’s writings, Johnson’s The metaphysical poets, Macaulay’s Montgomery’s poems, Bagehot’s Dickens, Pater’s Wordsworth, Robertson’s Poe, Dryden’s Preface to the fables, Harrison’s Ruskin as a master of prose, Lamb’s Tragedies of Shakespeare, James’s The art of fiction, Poe’s Philosophy of composition, Arnold’s Study of poetry, Coleridge’s On poetry and poetic form, and Shelley’s Defense of poetry. “The essays,” says the author, “proceed from the simplest, most matter of fact and most easily demonstrable to the more general, more abstract, and less easily provable.”
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“What is particularly admirable in the execution of his plan is the broad and generous introduction, which discusses freely and interestingly not only the general type of literature included, but also the particular selections themselves.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“To adapt a well-known dictum—by Augustine Birrill, we believe—a man may talk like a gentleman and scholar for a year on the material gathered from this book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =School R.= 16: 345. My. ’08. 340w.
=Brierley, Jonathan (“J. B.,” pseud.).= Sidelights on religion. *$1.40. Whittaker.
A series of observations aiming to show that religion broadly considered is the real and only explanation of the riddle of existence.
=Briggs, Ernest Edward.= Angling and art in Scotland: some fishing experiences related and illustrated. *$4. Longmans.
“Mr. Briggs shows us how companionable his two arts are, how each serves the other, and how the man that is committed to them finds his days in the woods and along the streams full of delight. Where Mr. Briggs has fished in Scotland there also has he painted, and vice versa, and his book gives us charming records of his achievements in both respects.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A book with many charms; foremost among them are the thirty-two coloured plates, but they are run close by the descriptions of Galloway and the Highlands, and by the admirable production of the volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 471. O. 17. 640w.
“His pictures, which are reproduced in color, are little gems. He tells his fish stories beautifully.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 360w.
=Brinton, Christian.= Modern artists. il. **$6. Baker.
8–9098.
Fourteen artists are presented from Fragonard to Zuloaga. “Mr. Christian Brinton does not state explicitly anywhere in his studies what constitutes his idea of modernity and thereby his basis of selection. But in general his test seems to be virility of insight and workmanship, a compelling personality, above all the power to paint realities, whether ideal realities like Watts, rococo realities like Fragonard, or the stern reality of toil like Meunir and Segantini. Of the fourteen artists discussed all are painters; eleven are still living or have died within the present century; and all are figure painters.” (Dial.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 170. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Brinton is able to approach each painter with open mind and ready sympathy. His criticism is interesting in that it seizes so readily upon salient features and phrases its conclusions so forcibly.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 214. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“What the author writes of the people as well as of their art is extremely entertaining, and much of it is informing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Bristol, Frank Milton.= Life of Chaplain McCabe, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. **$1.50. Revell.
8–23284.
A eulogistic record of the deeds of a man whose motto thru life was “Ich dien.” He served as army chaplain during the civil war and was loved for his cheerfulness, helpfulness and his sympathetic voice. For thirty years after the war he labored to strengthen and extend mission work in the Methodist church, being known as the most “irresistible beggar” of his times; for ten years he served in the high ecclesiastical office of bishop. “If his biographer’s style occasionally reminds one of the hallelujahs and amens heard in old-fashioned Methodist prayer-meetings, it is pardonable, as if caught from the perfervid spirit of his subject.” (Outlook.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 495. S. 12, ’08. 1200w.
“It is not pardonable in Bishop Bristol to inject into his memorial of this Christian hero an accusation of ‘rationalism’ and ‘infidelity’ against the theological schools and university professors who teach differently from the evangelists and class leaders.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
=Britton, Nathaniel Lord, and Shafer, John Adolph.= North American trees; being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America north of Mexico and the West Indies. (American nature ser. Group 1. Classification of nature.) **$7. Holt.
8–15485.
A splendid volume of nearly nine hundred pages devoted to descriptions and to illustrations of all the kinds of trees known to grow independently of planting in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies. The descriptions contain as few technical terms as possible and are aided by the illustrations in rendering easy the identification of trees by their foliage, flowers and fruit. There is a general key to families, a glossary of special terms and an index to English names.
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“Libraries having Sargent will find Britton useful as meeting a different need; those having Hough will perhaps not find Britton necessary.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 255. N. ’08.
“The authors are in an exceptionally favorable position to make such a book accurate rather than merely popular, and it is a good thing now and then for men who have the facts to give to the public something that can be relied upon.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 62. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee of nomenclature, and all the inconsistency of the disfiguring use of capitals in common and scientific names, need not here detain us. Dr. Britton’s work is a notable contribution to the science of his country and the world.” T: H. Macbride.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 341. Je. 1, ’08. 600w.
“An impressive work which is an honor to American scholarship.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 80w.
“Extremely valuable book.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 227. Ag. 15, ’08. 120w.
“The authors have brought together a considerable amount of trustworthy and valuable information relative to uses, pharmaceutical and other.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 120w.
=Brodrick, Mary.= Trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. *$1.25. Longmans.
8–26255.
Three lectures based upon a careful study of Jewish law. They are The arrest, The trial and condemnation and The crucifixion and the site of the holy sepulchre.
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“The three lectures, short though they are, are interesting in every detail, and deserve the attention of the ordinary reader as well as the New Testament student and scholar. Miss Brodrick has certainly studied Jewish law to good purpose.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 666. My. 30. 630w.
“One must utterly dissent from the conclusion of this book.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 625. Jl. 18, ’08. 80w.
* =Bronson, Edgar Beecher.= Reminiscences of a ranchman. †$1.50. McClure.
8–30304.
Here are set down the experiences of a New York newspaper man, who, something of a physical wreck from illness, turns to the plains and casts his lot among the “nervy nomads of the range” who are forced to “make good or make tracks.” The trials and physical hardening process that marked his course from tenderfoot cowboy to ranch owner are interspersed with character sketches revealing brutal, domineering traits, as well as the qualities of loyalty, honesty, human kindness.
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“Thanks to his newspaper training he is able to tell his stories exceedingly well; they come straight from the plains, full of vigor and intensely graphic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 674. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Bronson, Walter Cochrane=, ed. English poems. 4v. library ed. ea. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–29843. Additions.
=v. 3.= Restoration and the eighteenth century, 1660–1800.
Uniform with the other volumes of the series, the method followed is (1) to choose poems representing the different phases of the work of poets and schools of poetry, (2) to print entire poems or entire parts of poems, whenever possible, (3) to follow the latest accessible text approved by the author, (4) to modernize spelling and punctuation as a rule, but to retain the original form when change could affect rhythm or rime, (5) in the notes to explain difficulties of expression and allusion, give the poet’s view of poetry, furnish material illustrating his mode of work and throw light upon the literary standards of different periods.
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“Professor Bronson’s long experience in teaching literature has familiarized him with the needs of the average student in the matter of elucidations.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w.
=Brooke, C. F. Tucker=, ed. Shakespeare apocrypha; being a collection of fourteen plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare; ed., with introd., notes and bibliography. *$1.75. Oxford.
8–34728.
The following plays reprinted in the original text and spelling with an introduction and notes and a bibliography, constitute the doubtful Shakespearian class: Arden of Feversham, Locrine, Edward III, Mucedorus, Sir John Oldcastle, Thomas Lord Cromwell, The London prodigal, The puritan, A Yorkshire tragedy, The merry devil of Edmonton, Fair Em, Two noble kinsmen, The birth of Merlin and Sir Thomas More.
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“Though on the whole we must give praise to Mr. Brooke for some excellent work, his book cannot, without considerable revision, take its place as a final recension of the text of the plays included.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 446. O. 10. 1000w.
“Mr. Brooke’s collection meets a definite need. It is unfortunate that the notes are so scanty: herein the volume fails of being definitive.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 118. S. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The true Shakespeare will be the more relished after a study of Mr. Brooke’s introduction and the reading of these apocryphal plays.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 762. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“There is, indeed, only one fault to be found with an otherwise admirable volume,—its exceedingly unattractive form.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 298. Ag. 29, ’08. 1800w.
=Brooke, Stopford A.= Four Victorian poets: a study of Clough, Arnold, Rossetti and Morris; with an introd. on the course of poetry from 1822 to 1852. (English title, A study of four poets.) **$1.75. Putnam.
8–14374.
The introductory chapter follows the steady course of English poetry from the Byron and Shelley influence to the whirlpool of thoughts and hopes and passions, political, social, ideal, democratic, but chiefly religious and theological into which Clough and Arnold were cast. The aim of the study is to show to what extent Clough, Arnold, Rossetti and Morris influenced the poetic movement of the latter half of the nineteenth century and to give an estimate of the quality and importance of their work.
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“Is rather tedious because it talks round and round its subject, never saying anything essential.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 691. Je. 6. 1100w.
“This is not only a delightful but an encouraging book.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 599. Ag. ’08. 1550w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 92. Ag. 16, ’08. 380w.
“The best part of the volume is the introductory chapter.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“May be placed among the important minor studies of the Victorian period.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 812. Ag. 8, ’08. 250w.
“Whoever enjoys literary criticism welcomes a new book by Mr. Stopford Brooke, and no one who reads ‘A study of four poets’ will be disappointed.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 697. My. 2, ’08. 1600w.
=Brooke, Rev. Stopford Augustus.= Sea charm of Venice. *$1. Dutton.
W 7–160.
Here the author “blends impressions and emotions, history and art. He is not the hasty tourist, who peers, and nods, and hurries on, but the lover of Venice, who has returned to her again and again, seen her under many aspects, thought upon her glories, and felt her fascination.” (Nation.)
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“He has [a] smooth, flowing style.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 110w.
“He writes with genuine enthusiasm, but without gush, and displays also an unusual skill in description.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 80w.
“An essay in which its sea-charm is analyzed as well as described is justified by its radical deviation from familiar lines, if for nothing else. A clear vision and appreciation of each aspect of Venetian life, art, and poetry are combined with facility of expression.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 110w.
“This book will help. This fine bit of word-painting cannot fail to be a delight.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 90w.
=Brooke, Rev. Stopford Augustus.= Studies in poetry. *$1.75. Putnam.
8–5211.
An introductory essay on “Poetry as an art” is followed by six papers three of which are devoted to Shelley, one to Blake, one to Walter Scott and the last to Keats.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 170. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Stopford Brooke has achieved the skill of the craftsman, without losing his individual traits as a critic with a keen perception of literary art.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 65. Ag. 1, ’08. 580w.
“The book itself is not large enough for the subjects broached in it; and its limits must be remembered, lest in speaking of its imperfections we forget to be grateful to the writer for all that he has given us.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 2020w.
“A pretty thin gleaning.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 35. Ja. 9, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“American readers are familiar with Mr. Brooke’s critical work, always sympathetic, based on sound knowledge, and not lacking in the finer insight; but of late years somewhat too fluent, lacking exact definition and sharp precision of statement, and inclining occasionally to didacticism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 80w.
“The only flaw that strikes us—a faintly sermonic touch here and there, a hint of the pious platform cadence, coupled inevitably with the note of conventional reticence or apology in dealing with big people that comes of addressing the wierd sort of audience which likes to feel assured of complete private respectability in its poets. His style generally is purged of conventionality. As a whole he is admirably sane and free from prejudice.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 696. My. 30, ’08. 800w.
“Perhaps the Scott lecture is the best. The Shelley lectures we like the least of all.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 994. D. 14, ’07. 200w.
=Brooks, John Graham.= As others see us: a study of progress in the United States. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–31147.
Here are woven into most readable and entertaining form the opinions by way of approval, of censure, or of warning, which visiting foreign critics have expressed concerning America since the beginning of national life. In the light of these objective estimates the author discusses topics and problems which bear upon present-day progress.
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“The light and gossipy character of Mr. Brooks’s work will make it a pleasant companion for snatches of reading in dull and idle days. We cannot dismiss this review of it without acknowledging the thoroughness with which the author has ranged through a wide field of reading and furnished the completed book with a bibliography and an index.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 260w.
=Brown, Abbie Farwell.= Friends and cousins. il. †$1. Houghton.
7–30835.
The sequel to “Brothers and sisters.” The fun of Kenneth and Rose is continued, new friends are made with whom they play pirate, dig for treasure, and experience other thrilling mock adventures as well as a few of the real sort.
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“But it is a relief to find ‘Friends and cousins’ less weak than ‘Brothers and sisters,’ tho the same tendency is evident in each to be ethical in the midst of playing ‘treasure trove.’ We speak thus plainly because Miss Brown has gained a library foothold thru her verses and her myth tales. Her new vein lacks spontaneity and imagination of a high character.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 110w.
“The story is superior in style and plot to its predecessor, and will probably amuse young readers.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 30w.
=Brown, Alice.= Rose MacLeod. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–12225.
Here are brought together two grandmothers, one sprightly with a literary bent and the other saintly; Electra, a Puritan in conscience and a Spartan in control of feelings; Markham McLeod, a brotherhood-of-man agitator who worshipped Mammon and basked in its material warmth; MacLeod’s daughter, the heroine, who had been a victim of her father’s unrighteous theories and who alone understood his whited-sepulchre practices; and two brothers, one an artist who temporarily comes under the hypnotic spell of MacLeod, and the other a gardener who through the purification of honest hard work has a right perspective of life and straightens out the tangle of doubts and misgivings.
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“A tale of quite unusual workmanship, full of variety and charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
“The book is a most skillful counterfeit of the real thing, and if it fails of the highest excellence, that is all the more reason for crediting it with all the lesser excellence that it indubitably possesses.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 494. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“Miss Brown has contributed another distinct personality to the portrait gallery of American women.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Forum.= 40: 132. Ag. ’08. 950w.
“Is better than merely entertaining.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 378. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Miss Brown’s vein of whimsical romance still holds; it may be that the whimsy gains upon her a trifle. In this story, indeed, it runs pretty frankly into extravagance.”
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“It is a notable book and well worth reading, but it ought to have been better.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“The romantic interest of the book is thruout rather cool and thin, and of far less rich and satisfying quality than its comedy.” O. H. Dunbar.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 137. Jl. ’08. 1200w.
“The men in the story are highly vizualized, imaginary male persons. They live in a rarefied atmosphere and they never by any accident come to life.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The book has an individuality of its own—a personal freshness in the point of view that helps to compensate for the lack of personality in its characters.” E. L. Cary.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 260w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 135. Jl. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Brown, C. Campbell.= China in legend and story. **$1.25. Revell.
W8–68.
Abounding in broad fellowship, this narrative presents China,—“not the willow-pattern country of our conventional ideas, but the living, palpitating, human China.” The author’s “standpoint is neither that of a missionary soliciting pity for an ‘afflicted people,’ nor of a traveller describing the picturesque peculiarities of an alien and, by implication, inferior race. It is that of a man who, in the course of ten years’ residence among the people of whom he writes, has had occasion to say of many of them, ‘You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din.’” (Spec.)
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“A well-written volume of stories.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 20w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“The influence of Christianity on character has seldom been more impressively exemplified than in the tales which compose the latter half of the volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 540. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Brown, Charles Rufus.= Book of the Prophet Jeremiah: an American commentary on the Old Testament. *$2. Am. Bapt.
7–18189.
“A concise commentary upon the Book of Jeremiah” which fills “in part the place of the German kurzgefasste commentare, a form of biblical literature which, strangely enough, is still sadly lacking in our language.... The book gives in the left-hand column of the page the text of the authorized version; on the right, the author’s own translation, the metric passages being presented typographically in poetical form, but without any attempt to produce the exact rhythm of the original. The commentary appears below the text.”
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“Scholarly in character and structure, and withal adapted to the needs of the intelligent reader, whether or not he be acquainted with the Hebrew. The book is to be welcomed as capitally meeting its purpose and filling a long-felt want.” J. A. Montgomery.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 455. Jl. ’08. 730w.
“The exegesis is sound and judicious. We know on the whole of no better explanation in English of the prophecies of Jeremiah, and yet at the same time we feel constrained to point out blemishes in this work. The commentary seems padded. It is an anachronism also to reproduce the authorized version—the American revision should take its place if the author’s new one was not sufficient. The commentary is also marred by occasional little homilies and common-place observations which detract from its scholarly dignity. The work also fails in a good English style.” E: L. Curtis.
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 396. My. ’08. 520w.
=Brown, Demetra, and Brown, Kenneth.= First secretary: a novel. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–36248.
Constantinople is the scene of the romance in which Stephen Weir, an attaché of the American legation, woos surreptitiously the daughter of a pasha who is the promised wife of a young Turk. America’s red-handed methods in matters of matrimony are strongly contrasted with traditional oriental restraint.
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=Ind.= 64: 756. Ap. 2, ’08. 130w.
“It is a book to pass the time and it has the distinct merit of not pretending to be anything else.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 180w.
=Brown, Gerard Baldwin.= Rembrandt. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
7–37526.
“Gives a great deal of information about the paintings, etchings, and drawings, the technical methods, and the qualities of the art of the great Dutchman, and what is really known or reasonably surmised as to his life in a shape hardly to be so conveniently found elsewhere.” (Nation.) “Professor Brown is particularly keen in pointing out the painter’s arbitrary use of shadow.” (Outlook.) There are over forty plates, representing every phase of the painter’s work.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.
“Prof. Brown has erred, perhaps, in including too many subjects for discussion. The selection of illustrations is unconventional and good, and the book is provided with such critical apparatus in the way of analysis, notes, and indexes, as is suitable to its scope. It may be commended as the best book on Rembrandt’s life and art for the general reader that has been produced in England.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 200. F. 15. 600w.
“Seldom in a popular monograph does one meet with such scholarly treatment, combined with breadth of vision and catholicity of judgment.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 420w.
“That clearness about things which reigns in the author’s own mind is communicated to the reader.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 169. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Especially for purposes of reference or for systematizing one’s acquaintance with the known and inferred facts of the painter’s career, this book is to be highly commended.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 80w.
“Without being a specially illuminating piece of criticism it is a capable bit of work, and a pretty complete one.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 44. Ja. 9, ’08. 130w.
=Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Brown, Horatio F.= Studies in the history of Venice. 2v. *$6. Dutton.
8–15744.
From the study of a bewildering mass of archives the author has produced a work on the diplomacy, the constitution, and the finance of Venice in relation to the republic’s formation, growth, and decline. “The studies fall under two types,—the investigation of the constitutional and economic policy of the State, and the retelling of some of her famous tales.” (Spec.)
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“Mr. Brown’s book is to be commended for its various light on our own living problems.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1095. My. 14, ’08. 550w.
“We think it is a mistake that he introduces into his text untranslated passages in Venetian or Latin; but this is a slight blemish on so valuable a work.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 900w.
“These admirable volumes might well take the place of a more formal history of Venice.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 279. My. 16, ’08. 900w.
=Outlook.= 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Brown’s essays are on wisely chosen subjects, and illustrate almost continuously the development and growth of the city.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 81. Ja. 18, ’08. 1400w.
“Mr. Brown’s scholarship is profound, but he wears his learning lightly, and these essays are as remarkable for their grace of style and vivid portraiture as for their sound historical judgment. The book will be prized by all lovers of the enchanted city as an illuminating guide to the essentials of her past.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 337. F. 29, ’08. 1700w.
=Brown, Rev. J. Wood.= Builders of Florence. il. *$6. Dutton.
8–35375.
“A scholarly study and interpretation of Florentine architecture as an expression of the character of the Florentine people, illustrated more in detail and specifically by the examination of twelve important and monumental buildings possessing both architectural and historic interest, ‘and such as lend themselves readily as illustrations of the city’s life, whether commercial, ideal or political.’ An introductory part, before taking up the characteristics of Florentine architecture, provides an exposition of the ‘Substance of Florence.’”—Ind.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.
“An art treasure as well as a delightful account of some aspects of Florentine life and thought as expressed most vitally and most permanently in the city’s buildings.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Among architectural treatises this work must take rank at once as noteworthy for breadth of vision, insight and erudition. It is packed with a wealth of historical material and that material is skilfully used.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 103. Ja. 9, ’08. 620w.
“The whole book is indeed instinct with the very spirit of Florence. As compared with the scholarly text with its impression of reserved power the drawings of Mr. Railton cannot fail to appear sketchy and inadequate.”
+ + − =Int. Studio.= 34: 344. Je. ’08. 300w.
“Not less valuable than his more elaborate studies are the stimulating thoughts he sprinkles over his pages.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 650w.
=Brown, John.= Letters of Dr. John Brown; with letters from Ruskin, Thackeray, and others; ed. by his son and D. W. Forrest; with biographical introductions by Elizabeth T. M’Laren. *$4. Macmillan.
8–2410.
The letters of a hard-working doctor, a practitioner of no little fame, “with a great capacity for friendship and delight in simple things.” His “Rab and his friends” immortalized him. His letters are supplemented by nearly a hundred written to him by Ruskin, Thackeray, Gladstone and others.
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“Gaiety and gravity are alike characters of this good physician’s mind, and neither is the gravity gloomy nor the cheerfulness tedious or strained.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 720. D. 7. 1870w.
“In the near view thus afforded of a tender and beautiful, rather than a brilliant and powerful, character the book is all that could have been expected, and nearly all that could be desired.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 171. Mr. 16, ’08. 1950w.
“In spite of the three collaborators in the work of editing, very little has been done either in the text or footnotes to connect the letters, or to make the allusions to people and events intelligible.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“A general human and healthy interest in the things of the mind Dr. Brown’s letters abundantly evince. A ‘rounded intelligence,’ the correspondent of one of his correspondents called him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 103. F. 22, ’08. 2850w.
“Dr. Brown’s comments upon literary men, women, and their works are keen and most engaging.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 793. Ap. 4, ’08. 1450w.
“Brown’s letters are just what one would expect—direct, terse, humorous and tender. The collection has been well arranged and edited.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 769. D. 21, ’07. 150w.
“It is very good fare which his son and Dr. Forrest have provided for us. These three hundred and twenty-seven letters are like a continuation of the ‘Horae.’ The style is precisely the same,—the same use of italics (dating from his twentieth year), the same rusty rhetoric, the same careless phrases, as exquisite in their simplicity as any you will find in Lamb.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 928. D. 7, ’07. 1420w.
=Brown, Sir Robert Hanbury.= Irrigation: its principles and practice as a branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.
8–4027.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The book reflects wide reading on the part of the author and is written in exceptionally good English for an engineering work. The subject matter, on the whole, is logically and pleasingly presented. The irrigation engineer will find pleasure and value in reading the book but not in studying it. The engineer in other branches of engineering will be able to obtain a comprehensive view of the subject of irrigation from this book, and it is in this field that the usefulness of the work mainly lies.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 539. My. 14, ’08. 800w.
“Standard books, indeed, have been previously issued dealing with irrigation works on their grandest scale, in ‘The irrigation works of India,’ by Mr. Buckley, and ‘Egyptian irrigation,’ by Sir William Willcocks; but the book under review will be very valuable for all persons interested in irrigation, by dealing in a single volume with and contrasting the principal works and systems of irrigation in these two great countries, and thus presenting a very comprehensive view of that most important subject of irrigation for the development of arid regions.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 513. S. 19, ’07. 1500w.
=Brown, Stewardson.= Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky mountains. **$3. Putnam.
8–310.
A student’s manual of plants to be found in the region of the Canadian Pacific railway between Banff and Glacier. “Mr. Stewardson Brown, curator of the herbarium at the Philadelphia academy of natural sciences, furnishes the text. Species are arranged in accordance with their scientific relationships, and there are keys to the genera, a general key to the families, a glossary, and an index to both common and scientific names. Seventy-nine full-page plates, about half of them in color, ... are the work of Mrs. Charles Schäffer, who proves herself a botanical draughtsman of much ability.” (Dial.)
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“Mrs. Schäffer has shown exceptional skill in drawing and in reproduction of color.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 497. Mr. ’08. 90w.
“A complete and beautiful guide to the flora.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It will prove a vade mecum for the botanically inclined visitor to the resorts along the Canadian Pacific railway, between Banff and Glacier.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Brown’s descriptions appear to be clear and helpful, but it is to be regretted that he has made use of a provincial nomenclature, which is not in accord with the conclusions reached at the International congress of botanists.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 40w.
=Browne, Abdullah, Haji.= Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of to-day. *$3. Scribner.
7–42482.
A volume which aims “to familiarize Englishmen with the Egypt of to-day, to outline its history, and to present its problems. Intimate acquaintance with the oriental nature and mode of thought has begotten in the author a keen sympathy with the people he is describing, though he retains the broad outlook and enlightenment of the European.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The story of Bonaparte in Egypt is excellently told, and gives one to understand, better perhaps than any other of the many books on the subject, the trend of his policy, especially as it was altered and modified to suit the exigencies of the situation. The account is naturally from the Egyptian point of view, but the conclusions are not unfair, neither are the deductions unwarranted.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 865. S. 7, ’07. 570w.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 642. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“This is indeed a book that can hardly be taken seriously by anyone but its author; as a whole, the work is worthless to the scholar, and, for the most part, wearying to the general reader.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 300w.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 357. S. 28. 1900w.
“In spite of its numerous faults, the book has distinct value.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 350w.
“We can recommend this book for the perusal of all who are interested in the British occupation of Egypt.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 284. S. 20, ’07. 1200w.
“Haji Browne’s point of view is too personal to find a large audience, too heterogeneous to convince, and too discursive to please. His hold on fact is slight. There is further ground of complaint against the Haji; his style is tedious, his egotism insistent.”
− =Nation.= 86: 39. Ja. 9, ’08. 500w.
“A remarkable work on modern Egypt.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
“We fancy that Haji Browne could have written a fascinating personal record, and we would willingly have forfeited for it all the not very important stuff he has written about Bonaparte.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 362. S. 14, ’07. 1750w.
=Browne, Edith A.= W. S. Gilbert. il. (Stars of the stage.) *$1. Lane. 7–32813.
“Interesting in the details which it gives of the brilliant humorist’s youth and up-bringing, his early literary and theatrical tendencies, his career at school and the London university, and his various disappointments in seeking distinction in the army, the law, and civil service. In these diverse pursuits he acquired the varied experience of life which he was to put to such admirable satirical purpose later on.”—Nation.
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“Of the man she paints so truthful and kindly a picture that we seem to know Gilbert as we have never known him before; to be in touch with him, to be holding a warm, generous hand that it is most pleasant to grasp, but with the delineation of the author we have some quarrel.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 724. Jl. 27, ’07. 850w.
“Is not altogether destitute of sound critical appreciation, but is written too much in the style of the feminine newspaper interviewer to be quite worthy of its subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 370w.
=Bruce, Edwin Morris.= Detection of the common food adulterants. *$1.25. Van Nostrand. 7–38618.
To aid in the pure food cause this little book brings together the best and simplest qualitative tests for all the common food adulterants. It contains a brief statement of the adulterants likely to be found and the reason for their use.
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“As a collection of recipes the work is good; in other respects it commands but qualified admiration. As a compendium of some of the best qualitative tests for ordinary food-adulterants the book will be useful, especially to the man who already knows how to apply the processes.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 28. My. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Historic ghosts and ghost hunters. **$1.25. Moffat.
8–24447.
“A collection of fascinating and strange stories relating to famous mysteries. Thus we have the tale of the ‘Devil of Loudun,’ of ‘Lord Brougham’s ghost,’ of the ‘Drummer of Tedworth,’ of the ‘Cock Lane ghost,’ in which Dr. Johnson was interested, and the less known story of the relations to ghostland of the Wesleys; while coming down to our day, the marvels alleged to have been done by Mr. Home (Browning’s ‘Mr. Sludge, the medium’) are related, and a chapter is devoted to ‘Ghost hunters of yesterday and to-day,’ including a rather slight sketch of what has been told more fully elsewhere by Mr. Bruce.”—=Outlook.=
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“The ghost stories he has told us are interesting and not easily attainable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Many of the conversations and descriptions with which he enlivens these tales, while increasing what may be called the interest of the narratives, are so obviously imaginary as to detract somewhat from their value. With this much of adverse criticism out of the way, it is pleasant to admit that the author has done his work extremely well, and certainly he is not to be blamed for attaining his intended object instead of another.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 552. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.
“Such a volume could hardly fail to be readable, and the author has been successful in putting his narratives into a semi-fictional form which has spirit and entertainment.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Riddle of personality. **$1.50. Moffat.
8–6655.
See Cumulative book index for contents. “Mr. Bruce sketches the progress of the problem from the magician Mesmer and his ‘doings’ down to the latest American explorers of the sub-conscious world. His account of the work of the Society for psychical research is particularly interesting. His own conviction of departed spirits under the theories of ‘spiritism’ (a more exact term than spiritualism) can be equally well explained by the theory of telepathy.”
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“The book may be ranked between the ultra-scientific and the ‘crank’ theories, and is of special interest as summing up what the scientific study of personality has contributed to therapeutics and as an estimate of the work of the Society for psychical research.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 255. N. ’08.
“Obviously, a safe elementary guide is needed for the study of a subject so full of pitfalls for the uninstructed; and the need has been admirably supplied by Mr. Bruce. He will be criticised by the specialist, of whatever school, for a somewhat dogmatic method of statement, for occasional simplification by the expedient of ignoring troublesome factors.” E: C. Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 278. My. ’08. 900w.
“The man of science ... takes what comfort he can in the fact that the presentation is temperate and not extravagant, and he finds further comfort in the guidance offered by the author to prospective students, who, if they follow it, may find the path toward an understanding of personality, not as a mystery but as a profound natural development.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 350w.
“No other volume of its size gives such a complete survey of this debatable ground or tells in such an interesting way of what is being done to explore it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 25. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The worth of Mr. Bruce’s book is much increased by a critical bibliography of his subject, admirably written and covering the whole field fairly well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 900w.
“The book is one of great value, and written in a style that will bring enlightenment to many readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 796. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= Social life of Virginia in the seventeenth century; an inquiry into the origin of the higher planting class, together with an account of the habits, customs, and diversions of the people. *$1.50. Bell bk.
7–21275.
A supplement to the author’s “Economic history of Virginia in the seventeenth century.” It is an “attempt to reconstruct the social life of Virginia during the seventeenth century. To the origin of the higher planting class, and the causes of social distinctions, he devotes more than half of his small volume; the amusements and pastimes of his people occupy the remainder.” (Ind.)
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“The reader will gain from the work a more vivid and adequate understanding of the beginnings of the upper classes of Virginia society in the period of lowland ascendancy.” F. J. T.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 609. Ap. ’08. 1100w.
“A careful piece of minute research, based throughout on original authorities.” C. H. Firth.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 155. Ja. ’08. 760w.
“His picture of colonial life is clearly drawn, and his thesis of the essential similarity between English and Virginia conditions well maintained. At times Mr. Bruce’s local pride gets the better of his logic, as when he follows up a statement of the superiority of Virginia sobriety over that of England, with a series of quotations and incidents which seem to us to point to the reverse of his conclusion. In more serious matters his judgment is excellent.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1000. O. 24, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Bruce’s scholarship is well known, and this volume, like his work in general, shows wide reading, an appreciation of historical values, and a faculty for presentation.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 352. O. 17, ’07. 410w.
=Brudno, Ezra S.= The tether. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–20348.
A subjective study of a Jewish boy’s struggle for education, freedom, and the love of a Gentile maiden, while the inexorable prejudices and decrees of his race withhold them from him. He goes the length of the tether which the grim leniency of his race allows, and then is brought to a standstill which is symbolized by a mortal sickness.
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“The most dramatic and forceful parts of the book are those which deal with the Hebrew relatives and friends of the hero, among whom the author describes many varieties of the Jewish immigrant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Brudno writes with an ardent spirit, curbed by intelligence, and effective to the end he seeks.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 270w.
=Bruner, James Dowden.= Studies in Victor Hugo’s dramatic characters; with an introd. by R: G. Moulton. *$1. Ginn.
8–8836.
Following the method of sympathetic induction in his investigation, the author has collected, arranged, weighed and harmonized into a unity all the details of each character studied. He includes Hernani, Don Ruy Gomez, Don Carlos, Doña Sol, Ruy Blas, the villain in “Ruy Blas,” and Lucrezia Borgia.
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“A volume of deeply interesting literary criticism.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 70w.
“A volume to which the word charming may properly be applied. The author has very genuine insight into the creations of Hugo’s genius, and his own style is attractive and readable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 50w.
“It must be scientific literary criticism, for it betrays no sign of literary taste, no insight, no humor, and no charm.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1310. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
− =Nation.= 87: 241. S. 10, ’08. 370w.
“The Introduction contributed by Professor Moulton illuminates the entire field.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
=Bryant, Lorinda Munson.= Pictures and their painters; the history of painting. *$3.50. Lane.
7–21729.
A book which appeals to the student, to the professional, or to the lay reader. “The volume begins with the work of the ancient Egyptians, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. Italian painting from Cimabue to Giotto down to Vasari and Baroccio is then considered, followed by several separate chapters on Venetian painters from Giorgione and Titian down to Salvator Rosa. In the second part of the book we are given the story of Irish painting and of the work of Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish, French, English and American artists.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Throughout the book will be found bits of anecdote, history, and legend giving additional interest to an artist, his painting, or the times he worked in.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 230w.
“Is a compact series of notes on the art of the world with the stamp of personal familiarity with the pictures discussed and with an unusually keen sympathy with early schools.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 90w.
=Bryant, Walter William.= History of astronomy. *$3. Dutton.
8–9045.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It covers a wider range of time than Miss Clerke’s ‘Popular history of astronomy,’ and though a good piece of work, hardly equals that book in intrinsic merit.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08.
“Terseness and sanity of scientific statement characterizes the work. It is amply worth buying, reading and keeping.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 295. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
“The work is descriptive, and is characterized thruout by clearness and directness of statement.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1402. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.
“The book contains a few inaccuracies. Occasionally, too, there is lack of lucidity of style, and a use of cryptic expressions or unexplained technical terms. But in general the author’s opinions are clearly expressed and are also sound.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 593. D. 26, ’07. 500w.
“To the more advanced reader it is likely to appear superficial, as only touching with notelike brevity a few of the many chapters of the science; to the reader merely interested in astronomical development, however, it should appeal as a popular and very attractive account of many interesting sections of nature-study.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 193. Jl. 2, ’08. 1450w.
“The subject is treated by one well able to deal with a wealth of material almost overwhelming.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 460w.
“We have every reason to think Mr. Bryant an accomplished practical astronomer, but he has not the gift of lucidity, and above all he is no historian.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 632. My. 16, ’08. 900w.
“He writes lucidly enough, and his book may be recommended to the beginner.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 124. Ja. 25, ’08. 170w.
=Bryson, Charles Lee.= Tan and Teckle. **$1.25. Revell.
8–23922.
Tan and Teckle are field mice, and these stories of their adventures with neighbors, both friendly and hostile, will prove fascinating as well as instructive to young readers.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Buchanan, Alfred.= Real Australia. *$1.50. Jacobs.
7–38524.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The chief impression left by Mr. Buchanan’s ‘Real Australia’ is the cleverness of the author. The book is undeniably interesting. It is a book that, once begun, will be read to the last page; but when the reader has finished, while he will certainly know a great deal more about Mr. Buchanan, his views of life, and his powers and ability, it is doubtful whether he will have a much better or fuller knowledge than he had before of the real Australia.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 350w.
“A welcome offset to the books which have dealt with the subject in detached phases, more particularly with the political history of the country and the socialistic experiments made there.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 156. F. 13, ’08. 500w.
=Buckman, David Lear.= Old steamboat days on the Hudson river. (Grafton historical ser.) il. **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–36976.
Tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation. It records “not merely a picturesque episode in local experience, but the very beginnings of steam navigation.” (Bookm.)
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“On account of the lack of references the work can hardly be classed among scholarly books. Furnishes pleasant reading and will prove a useful book of reference for particular phases of the local life of which it treats.” E. K. Alden.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 656. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08. ✠
“Is a book which one only wishes were longer, more lavish both of fact and of legends.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 90w.
“An interesting account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“This volume is full of entertaining reminiscences and anecdotes relating to the development of steam navigation, with full descriptions of the various mechanical improvements that have been introduced in recent years.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 170w.
=Bullen, Frank Thomas.= Call of the deep; being some further adventures of Frank Brown. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–30939.
“The writer professes to record incidents of actual sea life aboard British sailing vessels twenty-five years ago. The rise of the hero from common sailor to the rank of captain is the unifying element. The narrative contains the usual wicked commanders, outrageous mutinies, storms, and hair-breadth ’scapes, wherein our sense of security is rarely joggled, because the idea that fair play ultimately succeeds is early premised.”—Nation.
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“The spirit of manliness, the healthy contempt for ‘girls and tea-parties,’ and the equally healthy love affair which crowns Frank’s good fortune, will compensate, in the youthful minds, for a decided lack of literary finish, and novelty of plot. The masters are challenged, but they may rest easy.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 355. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Written in Mr. Bullen’s unaffected, breezy way, with capital descriptive passages and an abundance of exciting incidents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“This will entrance all the youngsters, and as many of their elders as love the smell of salt water.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 30w.
“Mr. Bullen’s new book is written avowedly for boys, and the more of them who read it the better—it will do them nothing but good—but it will please their elders too.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 200w.
“The story is full of real life from beginning to end. Long ago John Newton remarked that he did not know of any books ‘suitable for mariners.’ Well, here they are; wholesome to the core; the work of an expert, but with nothing which would ‘warn off’ the most absolute landsman.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 574. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Selected readings in economics. *$2.25. Ginn.
7–31981.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Admirable judgment has been shown in choice of subject and of authorities.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
“One feels in reading each of the various chapters that he has before him the last thing that has been said on the particular subject under discussion. Such a book cannot fail to fill an important place in the thorough presentation of a course in economics.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“The selections might have been made to better advantage and might more thoroly represent the best modern reading on economics in England and America, but just as it is, the book is useful.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 70w.
“The most serious omission appears to be the virtual neglect of the more recent developments in economic theory commonly associated with the Austrian school. It is doubtful whether any other equal group of selected readings would prove more generally acceptable or serviceable.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 191. Mr. ’08. 50w.
“Every teacher will find in the book some material that he will be very glad to have available for the use of his students.”
+ =Yale R.= 16: 443. F. ’08. 200w.
=Bumpus, Thomas Francis.= Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy, their history and their architecture; together with much of interest concerning the bishops, rulers and other personages identified with them. (Cathedral series.) $2.50. Page.
8–21818.
An introductory chapter gives some insight into the principles which guided the progress of North Italian church art, and describes some of the distinguishing marks of the various schools. The body of the volume is concerned with the cathedrals themselves, their architecture, history and associations; while a concluding chapter gives a list of the most remarkable pictures and wall paintings found in the churches described. The book is fully illustrated.
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+ =Cath. World.= 88: 410. D. ’08. 160w.
“Might be described as an ornate hand-book, so closely does it combine the useful and the ornamental.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 260w.
“To the reader interested in architecture, especially if he be able to follow the author’s commentaries ‘in situ,’ this volume will prove a valuable aid to intelligent comprehension.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 502. N. 19, ’08. 580w.
“An interesting as well as a handsome book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Burba, George Francis.= Our bird friends: containing many things young folks ought to know—and likewise grownups. *$1. Outing pub.
8–14714.
Aside from four chapters devoted to facts about birds, how birds fly and sing, and bird migration, each of nineteen short chapters deals in a popular descriptive manner with a familiar bird neighbor. Facts concerning appearance, habits, nest placing and building are supplemented by full-page colored illustrations of ten birds.
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“As a condensed account of interesting facts the book is well worth one dollar and the time required to read it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“The poorest and most colorless nature book that could well be imagined. The illustrations so offend the artistic sense, the diction is so flippant and uninteresting and the facts are thrown together in such a purposeless, haphazard way as to repel the reader of any age.”
− − =Nation.= 87: 78. Jl. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Breezy and enthusiastic, with no sentimental twaddle, the volume is a delight.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 50w.
=Burgess, Isaac Bronson.= Life of Christ; adapted from the life of Christ by Ernest D. Burton and Shailer Mathews. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–29368.
An aid to constructive and historical Bible study for classes in secondary schools and in the secondary division of the Sunday school.
=Burnham, Clara Louise.= Leaven of love: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23559.
A story full of spiritual enlightenment whose situation grows out of the separation of a jealous wife from her husband. The scene shifts from Boston to Regina Beach, at which latter place the leavening work progresses, presided over by a young girl whose activities are marshalled into heavenly order by demonstrable principles of life. How she shows the misery-burdened wife a sure way back to happiness, how she stimulates and encourages the husband to hope and work for the reconciliation, how the evil woman in the way vanishes, and how life may be a living example of limitless freedom—are all shown with reasonableness and skill.
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=Nation.= 87: 443. N. 5, ’08. 120w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Rather amusing story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Burns, James.= Christ face in art. *$2. Dutton.
8–14762.
A survey extending from St. Luke to Ottilie Roederstein which traces the growth and historical development of sacred art as expressed in the face of Christ as conceived by the greatest painters of each age and country.
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“The criticism is superficial, and of little value to serious students of art, but Mr. Burns has one indispensable qualification for the task he has chosen: he writes always in a spirit of seriousness and devotion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 260w.
“A valuable book.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 240w.
=Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Burns, Rev. James Aloysius.= Catholic school system in the United States; its principles, origin and establishment. *$1.25. Benziger.
8–18343.
A coherent view of the Catholic parish school movement in the United States from the earliest times down to the great immigration period, which began in about the year 1840. The author dwells upon the steady effort to build and equip schools, to provide teachers and overcome fundamental difficulties both from within and from without.
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“A very attractive and instructive historical study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 548. Jl. ’08. 840w.
=Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone.= Search for the western sea. *$5. Appleton.
8–23910.
The story of the exploration of Northwestern Canada during a period of about three centuries. Mr. Burpee’s examination of manuscripts in the Canadian archives has been painstaking and exhaustive. “The story begins with the Northmen who a thousand years ago pushed across the Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland and America, ‘where they stood the first of the white men on the shores of a new world,’ and appropriately it ends with the Northmen who, still by Greenland, Baffin bay and King William Land, succeeded where so many gallant spirits had failed. Mr. Burpee does not confine himself to men like La Verendrye, Jonathan Carver, Alexander Henry, Mackenzie, Fraser, Thompson, and the rest whose work was mainly overland; he tells also of the men who ‘with characteristic obstinacy’ clung to the idea that the Western sea might be approached through Hudson strait.” (Sat. R.)
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“Contains much of permanent interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 430w.
“He writes with very full knowledge of his subject and presents his facts in a very pleasing fashion.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 560. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24. ’08. 20w.
“Mr. Burpee puts before us vividly the personality and the achievements of the pathfinders of the Canadian west.” James White.
+ =Ottawa Evening J.= 4. Je. 27, ’08. 1000w.
“Valuable contribution to geographical knowledge.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 823. Je. 27, ’08. 660w.
=Burr, Anna Robeson.= Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton. 7–34309.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The book is an example of that best type of realism, the type that one instinctively accepts as plain, unvarnished reality.” F. T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 672. F. ’08. 780w.
“It is a well-written story in point of style, but exhibits a low degree of vitality, and is burdened with much inconsequential detail.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 230w.
“She has invented an ingenious plot, with a daring point of departure, and peopled it with rather interesting, if not strikingly original, characters, but her atmosphere is provincial, like her setting.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 156. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
“A novel may be without especial originality or significance in itself, and yet possess interest as permitting the reader, as he fancies, a peep into the psychic processes of the writer.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 140w.
=Burrell, Rev. David James.= Lure of the city: a book for young men. **$1. Funk.
8–28413.
Twenty-three talks to young men, including the following chapters: The call of the city; Going into business; The poor boy’s chance; The ten o’clock man; The choosing of one’s friends; Amusements; Books and reading; Dreams; Voices; How to spend Sunday; Temptation; The code of honor; The doubter; The Christian; The quitter; The honest man; and Opportunity. They aim to help the city youth to “tighten a buckle of his harness.”
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“Is not only full of good Christian sense, but is readable and lively, just such talk as would appeal to those to whom it is addrest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 70w.
“Admirable series of essays, which make up a readable, wise, and helpful volume, half homiletic, half of a guide-book character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
“He writes here with his well-known vigor.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 60w.
=Burroughs, John.= Leaf and tendril. **$1.10. Houghton.
8–11501.
A book of essays a part of which are nature sketches symbolized by the “leaf,” and a part nature sermons in which Mr. Burroughs teaches the trimming and high-culture gospel of the vine-dresser. The opening essay on The art of seeing things imparts to the reader some of the secrets of observation inherent in the “eye and ear, yea, in the mind and soul” and presided over by a great love of nature.
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“Written in the author’s usual pleasant style and characterized by careful observation and sympathetic treatment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 172. Je. ’08.
“His philosophy is of the wholesome and kindly sort which we like to think belongs to those who live much out-of-doors.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1297. Je. 4, ’08. 320w.
“As a country summer companion, it will set one to study nature with sharper and kindlier eyes. We may add that Mr. Burroughs’s observations on natural history are of distinctly more value than his utterances on philosophy and religion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 450. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“And those men and women who grow doubtful or bitter, scornful or hopeless as the result of too much contemplation of man and his works, can not find better medicine for their souls than these calm and trustful pages, filled with the maturest thought of a venerable man who loves and believes in life, his fellow-man, and the universe.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 300w.
=Burt, Mary Elizabeth=, ed. Prose that every child should know; a selection of the best prose of all times for young people; decorated with photographs by Eve Watson Schütze. (Every child should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–11736.
This volume goes to increase the responsibility already rather arbitrarily imposed upon children by the foregoing volumes in the “Every child should know series.” None the less here are prose gems for a child’s thought worth reckoning with. The selections range from Homer and Esop to Lincoln, Ruskin, Cable, Stockton, Markham and others. Articles are furnished on the absorbing questions of the day—money, labor, reforms, etc.—so providing material for oratorical and debating societies.
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“An excellent collection of quotations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 160w.
=Burton, Frederick Russell.= Strongheart: a novel; founded on William C. De Mille’s play. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–24461.
A story based upon the drama which adheres to the scheme of De Mille’s play, while extending and broadening the treatment. The Strongheart of the novel is identified with the Ojibways, about whom and whose tribal characteristics the author has sound, first-hand knowledge. The extending of the drama story consists of a prologue showing Strongheart’s Ojibway surroundings and an epilogue in which Dorothy wins the hearts of the Indians thru missionary work and gains their consent to marry Strongheart.
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“The chances against a novelised drama being anything more than a piece of clumsy carpentry, makes it distinctly worth while to say a few words in praise of ‘Strongheart.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 382. D. ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Burton has written an entertaining novel, and he has also given forcible dramatic and truthful presentation of the surroundings, conditions, and sentiments of the Ojibway people, and of the complicated matter of their relations with the whites.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 509. S. 19, ’08. 500w.
“The story is an entertaining one and gives the reader some idea of the true Indian of to-day and his relations with the white man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Burton, Richard.= Three of a kind. †$1.50. Little.
8–26676.
A German violinist, a newsboy and a cocker spaniel constitute the “top-floor trinity” of this story that tugs away at the heart strings. In the foreground are the three comrades, unprosperous, struggling for daily bread. Uniting the elements of the tale is a romance, unfulfilled, hallowed thru years of the musician’s unworldly striving. When the waif was revealed to be the child of the woman of the violinist’s life of dreams, “he was gathered into an embrace that reclaimed him forever from his homeless state and set him safe in the harborage of a good man’s long-starved love.”
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“It is good for man or boy; it will insure a happy hour; and it will appeal especially to every one who loves, or has ever loved a dog.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 544. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Bury, Lady Charlotte.= Diary of a lady-in-waiting; being the diary illustrative of the times of George the fourth; interspersed with original letters from the late Queen Caroline and from various other distinguished persons; new ed.; with an introd., by A. Francis Steuart. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.
8–29183.
A reprint of “a plain record of the follies of a princess.” The chronicler was lady-in-waiting to Caroline, Princess of Wales, and traitorously divulged court secrets. “It was history of a sort, the intrigues of the back stair and the evil or insipid gossip of snobs and flunkies of all ranks of society. And Thackeray himself, as the editor, Mr. A. Francis Steuart points out, quoted ‘some of its most pregnant passages when he desired to use them as brilliant illustrations of his immortal “Four Georges”.’” (Sat. R.)
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“We cannot help thinking that while Mr. Steuart was about it, he might have accomplished his editing more thoroughly.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 182. Ag. 15. 360w.
“Of course the work as it stands is not continuously interesting to readers who have no intimate knowledge of the history of the time. But there is no livelier, or perhaps truer, picture of the wretched consort of George IV in existence.” E: Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 270. N. ’08. 1400w.
=Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w.
“There is probably no better picture to be found of the social life of the early years of the last century.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 400w.
“In many ways this edition is improved and made more readable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.
“It should never have been written, and, having been written, it cannot be read by the most callous without an absorbing and pitiful interest.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 197. Ag. 8, ’08. 1550w.
=Bussell, Rev. Frederick William.= Christian theology and social progress: the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–12985.
The author, rector of Sisland, Norfolk, prepared eight lectures for delivery in St. Mary’s church, Oxford. These occupy about two-fifths of the volume; the remaining lectures are eight “Supplementary lectures.” “Mr. Bussell defends Christian doctrine on the ground of its utility, seeking to show its value and necessity for the present age.... He contends that Christian ethics cannot outlast Christian dogma, and that the general welfare is bound up with the faiths and hopes of Christian belief.” (Ind.)
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“He conducts his argument on a high plane, meeting philosophical objections with no small penetration and skill.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 210. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.
“The discussions are stimulating and suggestive throughout; but owing to the extent of the ground covered, and the manner of exposition chosen by the author, it is very difficult to state shortly the exact drift of the book.” S. H. M.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 524. Jl. ’08. 470w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Cheerful smugglers. †$1. Century.
8–11086.
The young parents of a year old baby evolve a scheme to provide a fund for the child’s college education. A ten per cent tariff is imposed upon everything that comes into the house, groceries, cigars, candy, clothes, and even upon the belongings of their guests. The comedy of the situation reaches its climax when everybody takes to smuggling,—cook, guests and the parents themselves.
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“The little book is very good fun.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 11, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“It is all very cheerful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 297. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“Sheer nonsense, but amusing nonsense at least.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 20w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Kilo; being the love story of Eliph’ Hewlett, book agent. †$1. McClure.
7–36094.
Eliph’ Hewlett, the irrepressible, ne’er-to-be-downed book agent, cannot detach himself from his “Jarby’s encyclopedia” even when he goes a-wooing. “Peer Gynt did not divert his dying mother’s mind by their imaginary ride more utterly than did this Iowa book agent with his enthusiastic recital of the merits of ‘Jarby’s encyclopedia’; her last words were: ‘Eliph’, you may put me down for a copy.’” (Ind.)
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“Certainly it is lively reading; but the persistent effort to be funny thru 279 pages exhausts author and reader alike, and we may fail to see some passages of genuine sincerity and a few veritable folks.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 40w.
* =Butler, Nicholas Murray.= American as he is. *$1. Macmillan. 8–34126.
Three lectures delivered before the University of Copenhagen which aim to set out some of the aspects of American life and to draw a picture of that part of present-day civilization which the world knows as American. The chapters are The American as a political type, The American apart from his government, and The American and intellectual life.
=Butterfield, Kenyon Leech.= Chapters in rural progress. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–4449.
A book which emphasizes the social aspects of rural communities and describes some of the newer movements resulting in the expansion of country life. It “does not offer a complete analysis of the rural problem; but attempts, in general, to present some of the more significant phases of that problem, and, in particular, to describe some of the agencies at work in solving it.”
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“The book is a splendid introductory study to rural sociology and should do much to call attention to the subject and to mark out the lines for its study.” T: J. Riley.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 127. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
“The book is written in an admirable spirit. The chief defect of it is repetition of non-essentials due to being boiled down from several separate compositions.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 172. Je. ’08. ✠
“It should be in the hands of all who are in any way interested in rural progress, from the farmer to the school trustee.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 313. My. 16, ’08. 500w.
=Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 340w.
“[These chapters] have already been presented to the public either in the more serious magazines or from the platform. But they have all been rewritten and combined so skillfully as to give a succinct view of what the farm needs in order that it may have the highest efficiency in the production of men and women as well as wheat and corn.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Buttles, Janet R.= Queens of Egypt. *$3. Appleton.
Miss Buttles “has gathered together from all available sources all that Egyptology has known concerning the names, personalities, and deeds of the women who shared the thrones of the Pharaohs, and has put all this together into a readable, connected account of the feminine side of the royal line.”—N. Y. Times.
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“On the whole, the book is carefully written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 363. S. 26. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
“Her book is singularly free from inaccuracies or antiquated theories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 207. Ag. 15, ’08. 960w.
“The portraits, the personal descriptions, the mass of detail to be found in Miss Buttles’s attractive book are little short of amazing: the extent to which this almost prehistoric history has been disinterred can hardly be believed by any one who has not followed modern study very closely. Queens of six thousand years ago are here made to live again.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 371. S. 12, ’08. 480w.
=Buxton, E. M. Wilmot-.= Stories of Persian heroes. $1.50. Crowell.
8–24871.
From Persia’s book of kings, Shah-Nameh, have been drawn these tales of Rustum, the Persian King Arthur, and his warriors and foes. “Mingled with the crash of fierce battles we find other strange accounts of enchanted gardens, snorting dragons, beleaguered forests, imprisoned maidens, and knightly guests as fine as any ever inspired by that other Eastern hero, Haroun-al-Raschid. In most of them Rustum himself appears, mounted upon his wonderful horse, Rakush, whom every boy will wish to have for his own.”
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 30w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
“Altogether delightful, a prize in a miscellaneous collection of books for young people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 320w.
=Byers, Morton Lewis.= Economics of railway operation. *$5. Eng. news.
8–982.
The economics of railway operation are treated under seven heads: (1) Organization; (2) Employment, education and discipline of forces; (3) Accounts and accounting; (4) Reports; (5) Economic operation; (6) Analysis of operations and control of expenses; and (7) Betterments. “The book outlines briefly these main features of different aspects of operating topics, shows their inter-relation, and goes into considerable detail in explaining how the work done under each of these features is controlled by instructions and reports submitted to the higher railway officers.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“We must express our highest commendation of the work Mr. Byers has done in the interest of railroad engineering as a whole and we feel sure that there is hardly a man in the railway service who cannot derive much benefit from a study of this book.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 302. Mr. ’08. 900w.
“A good book for the student of railway affairs, but too detailed for those who have but little time for reading.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 110. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
“The level of the book is a high one; and fullest recognition should be given to the wide knowledge of railroad operation which it reveals, and to the thoroughness and care with which its material is given to the public.” Stuart Daggett.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 241. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Byron, Henry.= Day-dreamer’s harvest. $1.25. Shepard, Morgan.
7–20965.
“A modern key to the best that is in Marcus Aurelius and La Rochefoucauld, which adds much besides as a result of the author’s own observations and researches in human phenomena.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Byron has filled his pages with wisdom nuggets that makes the book one into which to dip at odd moments.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 947. O. 17, ’07. 80w.
“Open the book where you may, you will always find something that arrests the attention and invites thought.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 848. D. 21, ’07. 280w.
“A collection of thought-provoking ‘meditations.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 60w.
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=Cadogan, Edward Cecil G.= Life of Cavour. *$2. Scribner. 7–37531.
A life of the Italian statesman built upon a political structure “revealing the causes that brought about, the influences which shaped, and the political consequences ensuing from the cause of United Italy.”
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“Reading his book, with its pretense to learning which its author does not possess; with its disregard on every page of honest historical methods; and with its bluff at being a pioneer in a field which has already been well explored, we are at a loss to decide whether Jowett’s college has greater need of up-to-date instruction in history or in the elements of ethics.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 645. Ap. ’08. 800w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 450w.
“It is an example of a certain kind of false scholarship which ought not to be tolerated in English universities or by English critics.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 312. Ap. 2, ’08. 850w.
“Mr. Cadogan’s book should be read with interest; not, as we have said, as a biography of Cavour, but as a political essay outlining the story of his career and clearly defining and showing the development of those forces which were combined to produce the Italy of the present day.” Walter Littlefield.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 1330w.
“The story of how he had accomplished a work such as no statesman of the century could show, with what helps and what hindrances, is well told in these pages.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry.= Child’s guide to pictures. **$1.25. Baker.
8–22108.
A book whose sole aim is to help young people find expression in words for the feeling of beauty which pictures inspire in them, and to put some idea into the reader’s head that will lead him to find more and more beauty in pictures, in nature, and in life. The elementary principles of art analysis are outlined as the basis of criticism, and illustrations are furnished from the work of representative artists.
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“Especially valuable for teachers and others who work with children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 247. O. ’08.
“This attempt, in spite of an imperfect sympathy with the more formal side of art as compared with its picturesque qualities, is so well carried out that one feels inclined to advise Mr. Caffin to submit his book to some slight revision—relieving it of an occasional air of condescension.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 272. S. 17, ’08. 580w.
“Written for children, it seems to be quite beyond their capacities. Its instruction is wonderfully clear and admirably simplified, but it is an extremely ambitious book, undertaking to give the child a much wider and deeper art education than he is capable of receiving.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 420w.
“The author assumes a great deal of authority in Ruskin-like patronizing tones, and there is an excess of waste verbiage throughout the volume. But Mr. Caffin is nearly always correct in his judgment upon great pictures.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 70w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry.= Story of American painting. **$2.50. Stokes.
7–36959.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Reliable as to information and rating of artists, founded apparently on opinions of recognized authorities, but lacking in original criticism.... Does not compare favorably with Isham’s admirable work on the subject but has its place.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 37. F. ’08.
“Merely as a picture book the volume will be both entertaining and instructive. Mr. Caffin’s criticism, however, is not of the kind that is subordinate to its illustrations.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“While Mr. Caffin’s contributions to art criticism contain little that is new or original, he gleans his facts and opinions from authoritative sources and he is in the main a perfectly safe guide.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 318. F. 6, ’08. 240w.
“If not an original critic, Mr. Caffin generally knows where to go for opinions or information, and seldom makes serious mistakes.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 21. Ja. 2, ’08. 120w.
“There has long been a need for a book on American art that would trace its evolution in a manner at once popular and authoritative. This need is now supplied by Mr. Charles H. Caffin.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 220w.
“While his estimates of the American painters of the past is, in general, just and forceful, when he discusses the qualities of his contemporaries his estimates seem sometimes too eulogistic. Nevertheless, the book is specially strong in dealing with contemporary American painting, and upon that latest phase of which Mr. Luks and Mr. Sloan are the apostles.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 873. D. 21, ’07. 430w.
* =Caffin, Charles Henry, and Caffin, Caroline A.= Appreciation of the drama. **$1.50. Baker.
The sixth volume in the “Appreciation series.” The promise of good things which the foreword, a little classic, gently intimates is fulfilled in large measure in the chapters that follow it. The author invites his reader at the start to take a comfortable seat in front of the curtain, then proceeds from an analysis of the sensations of the man in the audience to a review of some of the salient considerations that affect the appreciation of the drama, viz., a brief history of the drama, the art of acting and stage management, the building of a drama technically; and from these facts of experience past and present deduces principles for a basis of critical appreciation.
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“He takes up the subject as a new thing, without prejudice, and he says again many of the old, old things with a fresh buoyancy of spirit. His historical chapters are exceedingly interesting and free from tedious details, and his discussion of the pictorial side of the contemporary stage, of the deficiencies in lighting in spite of the modern machinery, and the need of what he calls plastic scenery, is novel and suggestive.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 697. N. 28, ’08. 1100w.
=Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-.=. Petrarch: his life and times. *$3.50. Putnam.
8–6038.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Two slight objections must find their way into our short criticism. The one—the inappropriateness of the rhyme ... which Mr. Calthrop places on the dedicatory page. And, secondly ... we deprecate Mr. Calthrop’s references and allusions to the house of Stuart. Having aired these grievances against Mr. Calthrop, we end as we began, by saying his book is only too short.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 263. D. 21, ’07. 1270w.
“A discriminating yet enthusiastic guide who has made good use of the material already published.” A. R. Marble.
+ =Dial.= 44: 379. Je. 16, ’08. 1150w.
“He writes clearly, without mannerism or particular distinction, and he has put within reach of readers of English the best biography, so far as we are aware, of Petrarch.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 355. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“A literary hash in which there is little new material and in which the old, frequently over or under done often defies identification. The book is without references or footnotes of any sort. All this does not mean that the author has not written an entertaining book.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 467. Ag. 29, ’08. 980w.
“The volume may very well be placed on the shelf which holds Mrs. Ady’s ‘Beatrice of Milan’ as an equally picturesque account of mediæval social conditions in Italy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 170w.
“It is so dull that considered as a work of the imagination it does not exist at all. A book full of vain repetitions, of the vaguest generalisation, inaccurate, untrustworthy, a mere arid interjection, an ipse dixit, without any evidence to support it or indeed any knowledge properly understood of the subject with which it deals.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1020w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Goya: an account of his life and works; with 612 reproductions from his pictures, etchings and lithographs. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
8–13747.
A biographical sketch precedes a full list of the artist’s work accompanied by descriptive notes which include information concerning where the originals may be found.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 130. My. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The text accompanying the pictures is biographical rather than critical, but contains some acute comment and is carefully prepared.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 390w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Granada: present and bygone. *$2.50. Dutton.
8–21789.
Of interest alike to historian and artist, this volume in Mr. Calvert’s “Spanish series” reflects the Moorish and Christian grandeur of the “Mecca of every pilgrimage beyond the Pyrenees.” The volume is finely illustrated.
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“The text shows considerable research, and compares favorably with the author’s earlier work in this series; it is, however, unfortunate that he is not the master of a more attractive style of presentation.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 256. N. ’08.
“The most satisfactory section of the book is a supplementary chapter written in collaboration with Miss C. Gasquoine Hartley, though Alonso Cano’s talent is decidedly overrated.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 140w.
“To all who have visited or hope to visit Granada, as well as to those who are interested in Spanish art, we can confidently recommend ‘Granada.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Its æsthetic value is somewhat lessened by the juxtaposition of a full-paged colored illustration and a large line drawing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.
“Treats, perhaps, more fully of the town of Granada, as well as of the Alhambra itself, than any other book upon the subject which is easily attainable. It is not deficient in humour. There are one or two little errors which might easily have been avoided.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 116. Jl. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“A specially good volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 871. My. 30, ’08. 80w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Leon, Burgos, and Salamanca: a historical and descriptive account. (Spanish ser.) 462 half-tones, *$1.25. Lane.
8–35378.
A souvenir rather than a guide book which in its historical sketches and descriptions provides information for the amateur on architecture and archaeology.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 131. My. ’08.
“The illustrations are plentiful, as in the other volumes of the series, but the text, as usual, leaves a good deal to be desired.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 460w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Murillo. (Langham ser., v. 20.) 165 il. $1. Scribner. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
W8–6.
The entire work of Mr. Calvert tends to furnish the tourist with the “royal roads to knowledge.” A biographical sketch of Murillo is followed by a list of the artist’s works with brief descriptions.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 131. My. ’08. 40w.
“He puts together the well-known facts with some skill, and his narrative is pleasantly written. We notice a few inaccuracies.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 300w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Toledo: an historical and descriptive account of the “City of generations;” with over 500 il. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
W8–6.
The author’s aim has been that of equipping the illustrations with brief descriptive matter rather than of supplying new facts and theories. “He gives us legend, as, for instance, the curious story of the birth of Pelayo; history—when it can be distinguished from legend—and this both local and national; art, in its various development of architecture, sculpture, etc.” (Spec.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08.
“For the casual tourist a handbook of this sort is of value.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 441. S. ’08. 130w.
“The chapter on El Greco, in which Mr. Calvert has had the advantage of a collaborator, is the most readable part of this volume. The rest of the text is burdened with details which will seem excessive to the average reader, and many of which will be found inaccurate by scholars.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 352. Mr. 21. 420w.
=Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Catherine G. (Hartley).= Velazquez: an account of his life and works; with 136 reproductions from his most celebrated pictures. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
8–13287.
“It is not an exhaustive treatise of the painter’s work, nor a full biographical essay, still less is it a handbook to explain his pictures. It is just an invitation, as it were, to look more carefully at the pictures themselves.... The list of the paintings of Velasquez, together with an indication of where the originals may be found, is in itself a valuable guide to the student.”—N. Y. Times.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 131. My. ’08.
“The principal value ... will be found in the almost unprecedented fulness of illustration.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 170. Mr. 28, ’08. 280w.
“The book gives the well-known information in a convenient form.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 50w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Walter M.= Cordova: a city of the Moors. il. *$1.25. Lane.
7–41577.
“A historical sketch of three chapters gives the setting of the town in the life of the peninsula, and another chapter introduces us to its famous sons, Seneca, Lucan, El Gran Capitan and others less noted. One hundred and fifty-nine excellent plates give an outlook upon the chief objects of interest. These form almost half of the book and contribute to its value in at least the same proportion.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“It is a mischievously bad book. The larger works were, at least, protected by their high price from falling into the hands of ordinary students: this handbook is within the reach of all, and therefore able to mislead a large number of readers. Even worse than his want of all method is the mawkish clap-trap meant for poetical description. Mr. Calvert has not the art of fine writing, and had better give up these ungainly essays.”
− − =Acad.= 13: 917. S. 21, ’07. 1250w.
“The author has excellent powers of description, and leads us around the city and through the mosque in a way that enables the reader to catch the spirit of the place exceptionally well.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 268. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“Their labour in respect of the collection of plates which occupies a good half of their book has been well bestowed. The book, is, on the whole, well and agreeably written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 412. O. 5. 800w.
=Cambridge= history of English literature; ed. by A. W. Ward. 14v. ea. *$2.50. Putnam.
7–40854.
A work covering the whole course of English literature from Beowulf to the end of the Victorian age which is intended (a) to give a connected account of the successive movements, both main and subsidiary, in English literature; (b) to trace the progress of English as a vehicle of English literature; (c) to take note of the influence of foreign literature upon English literature and on foreign literatures; (d) to provide each chapter with a sufficient bibliography.
=v. 1.= From the beginning to the cycle of romance.
The volume is composed of a number of essays contributed by different writers whose scholarship and fitness have recommended them for the service.
=v. 2.= Carries the treatment from the time of Chaucer to the end of the middle ages.
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“The authority of some of the many contributors to these two volumes may be questioned, the treatment in the main is cyclopedic rather than continuous, and the general trend linguistic more than literary, but the work as a whole will from its scope and nature be a valuable tool in larger libraries.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 256. N. ’08. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dealing with the book as a whole, we can commend it as an astonishingly correct and well-printed handbook; but it falls short of satisfaction as a history of English literature. It will not stand comparison with ‘Petit de Julleville,’ the test which presents itself naturally, either in quality of production or literary style. More efforts might be made to prevent overlapping.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 719. D. 7. 3000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editors of this volume are to be congratulated on a much higher level of achievement than its predecessor showed; they have produced a book which is indispensable to any serious student of English literature.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 325. S. 19. 1350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Not all the contributors are persons, we will not say of ripe scholarship, but even of accurate and ordered knowledge.”
− + =Atlan.= 102: 692. N. ’08. 3000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Most of the bibliographies are well compiled, though there is a want of uniformity in their plan. The volume as a whole deserves unstinted admiration.” D.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 402. Ap. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The first volume is altogether too encyclopedic for a thoroly satisfactory literary history, which ought to be continuous and expansive.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1094. My. 14, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We must look upon the present work as the first-fruits, albeit ripe and perfect, of the new school of English scholarship, and we welcome the present volume as a splendid specimen of taste, learning, and research in this department. As an earnest of what is yet to come its contents are remarkable.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 400. S. 19, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The cooperative history of which we now have the first volume, fulfils, to a respectable degree, our expectations. It is a pity, however, that for so many chapters, the editors have been unable to secure contributors of authority. On the other hand, actual errors of statement are few.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 129. F. 6, ’08. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A serious deficiency in the present volume is the want of a general characterization of the period.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 74. Jl. 23, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The volume has an interest as well as a value, only the interest is rather linguistic than literary.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“To the reader of ordinary culture the second volume seems vastly more interesting and instructive in the right sense, than the first. Its array of essays represents sound and broad scholarship and they form a collection of good literature by themselves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“For the larger of these tasks some of the authors of this volume are not very well qualified.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 437. Ap. 4, ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Cambridge= modern history; planned by the late Lord Acton; ed. by Adolphus W: Ward, G: Walter Prothero and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. *$4. Macmillan.
=v. 5.= The age of Louis XIV.
“The government of Louis, his foreign policy, the Gallican church, Molière and his contemporaries in letters, and the war of the Spanish succession are here, but they have been taught their place in the scheme of things. The revolution in England, the affairs of the small but mighty United Provinces, the Anglo-Dutch rivalries, and Peter the Great, Charles XII, the Great Elector and their respective enterprises are justly estimated and printer’s space meted out to them accordingly. The colonies and India also have a chapter.”—Ind.
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“The English edition of this volume, like its companions, is notably free from such errors, but a considerable number of typographical mistakes, sometimes quite serious ones, have found their way into the American edition. Few more useful volumes, and, save for one hopelessly confused contribution, few more eminently usable volumes on this period have appeared or are likely to appear.” W. C. Abbott.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 863. Jl. ’08. 1800w. (Review of v. 5.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08. (Review of v. 5.)
“Contains a number of exceptionally good articles, but it leaves us wondering how the editors would justify the inclusion of others.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 722. Je. 13. 1400w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1200. My. 28, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Regarded as literature, this volume seems to us less effectively written than the first two were, and there are fewer contributors of first-rate eminence.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 11. Jl. 2, ’08. 1850w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Making allowances for deficiencies of the plan, it is a remarkable contribution to historic science by its comprehensiveness, its almost excessive fullness of detail, and its facilities for easy references.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A high standard of scholarship prevails, together perhaps with a rather higher quality of literary excellence than usual.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 88: 657. Mr. 21, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 5.)
Reviewed by J. T. Shotwell.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 529. S. ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 5 and 10.)
=R. of Rs.= 37: 636. My. ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Is fully equal to any of its predecessors. The chapter by M. Faguet on French seventeenth-century literature and its influence in Europe is disappointing. Making all allowances, this contribution remains sketchy and unsatisfying.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 141. F. 1, ’08. 1800w. (Review of v. 5.)
“By some mysterious process it has converted the excitement and the significance of the seventeenth century into flatness and insipidity. The book falls between two stools; it should have been either a great deal longer or a great deal more condensed.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 577. Ap. 11, ’08. 1700w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Cameron, Margaret.= Cat and the canary. †$1. Harper.
8–5576.
A suburban farce-comedy that grows out of a husband’s invitation to an influential capitalist and his wife to spend the night at his home. The wife suddenly bethinks herself of the fact that the necessary lingerie garment to offer her guest is not forthcoming on account of a series of accidents, chief among which being the baby’s overturning of an ink bottle in the laundry basket. In desperation the husband robs his neighbor’s wash, pins a five-dollar bill to the line, is caught, extricates himself thru the prestidigitateur’s art and wins the approval of his admiring neighbor.
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“The humor is heightened by the plausibility of the situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Campbell, Frances.= Shepherd of the stars. *$1.50. Dutton.
Steeped in the atmosphere of the East, beguiling in its invitation to “embark immediately for Morocco,” this book is all about a maiden aunt and two wonderful nieces, Felicia and Pickle, who journey and camp in Morocco. “Felicia, who is always in the foreground of prettily studied Eastern life and scenery, is a blend of alluring early-Victorian and twentieth century models.... We can watch the wooing and winning of her by that astonishingly splendid young duke in disguise without a pang of envy, since for ourselves we prefer Pickle.” (Lond. Times.)
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“No one but the most carping of readers would deny its cleverness and quick sympathy and charm. And yet one has constantly to regret little exaggerations, little pieces of carelessness, little shallownesses more apparent, perhaps, than real.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 380w.
“For its unconscious humor, its ingenuous amateurishness, the book has a value not to be ignored in this day of sophisticated accomplishment.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“The author’s power of transmitting impressions of colors, sounds, scents, moods, and a host of other delicate things usually incommunicable is almost magical.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ − =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 200w.
=Campbell, James Mann.= Paul the mystic: a study in apostolic experience. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–25728.
Paul’s experiences and teaching interpreted from the standpoint of the mystic. “Even those who do not like mysticism will scarcely find any violence done to the apostle here: Paul the mystic is Paul at his best. In this respect I think that Dr. Campbell’s book is to be welcomed: it awakens distrust of those rationalistic accounts of the apostle’s character, in which everything really divine in his life and doctrine is relegated to the irresponsible void of religious fancy, where anything may happen.... Throughout the book, Paul’s mysticism is shown to be the vital, originative, principle in religious experience; it is, in fact, the highest expression of his faith.” (Hibbert J.)
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“It is a pity that a volume of such character should be vitiated by two well-defined flaws. Dr. Campbell is most rabidly anti-Roman. Side by side with these unnecessary jibes are occasional lapses of taste in diction.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 361. Ap. 13, ’07. 1000w.
“A stimulating and interesting study.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 78. Jl. ’08. 20w.
“He shows a varied knowledge of books, especially of those on the subject with which he deals, and has a sound grasp of the principles of critical exegesis.” R. A. C. Macmillan.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 690. Ap. ’08. 660w.
“He has written a good deal that is true, and much that is important, but he has hardly come at the heart of his subject or portrayed with any clearness or satisfaction the mystical elements in Paul’s religious faith.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 440w.
“Such a writer may convey much information on Paul the missionary, or even Paul the maker of dogma, but he cannot deal successfully with Paul the mystic.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“An interesting and thought-provoking volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Campbell, Norman Robert.= Modern electrical theory. (Cambridge physical ser.) *$2.25. Putnam.
8–16903.
“The present book might be called ‘The science of the electron.’ It is not written for the expert. ‘It was begun with the idea of providing a text-book from which students, well-grounded in the elementary branches of physics, might obtain some knowledge of the later developments’; and although this scheme has been departed from in some respects, the above quotation from the preface represents fairly well the general scope of the book.” (Nature.)
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“Some few objections may be taken to the book. An honest and very able book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 163. F. 8. 1230w.
=Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“His exposition would gain if the overbearing tone were modified. The reader also resents the too colloquial character of some sentences. Although we do not find ourselves in agreement with everything in this book, it is undeniably a very invigorating study of the subject.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 73. My. 28, ’08. 1450w.
“The author has chosen his material wisely and combined it with skill. The perspective is thoroughly good and the point of view is not that of the popularizer of second-hand knowledge.” H. A. Bumstead.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 649. N. 6, ’08. 600w.
=Campbell, Rev. Reginald John.= Christianity and the social order. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–41762.
An analysis which shows the correspondence between the principles of Christianity and those of modern socialism—socialism in its best sense. The book is written “from the point of view of one who believes that the movement reprobated by the Pope on the one hand, and dogmatic protestantism on the other, under the name of modernism really represents a return to the primitive Christian evangel, freed from its limitations and illusions.” Mr. Campbell believes that the present spiritual movement is destined to rescue Christianity from ecclesiasticism in all its forms.
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“The writer cannot agree with the ultimate conclusions of this book.” A. T. Burns.
− + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 671. O. ’08. 400w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 37. F. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 499. Mr. ’08. 130w.
“The volume is one of the most profoundly thoughtful popular treatises dealing with the world-wide struggle and irrepressible conflict for economic independence that has yet appeared from the pen of a moral idealist. The Rev. R. J. Campbell is a worthy successor to Canon Kingsley and Frederic D. Maurice.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 374. Mr. ’08. 4700w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 127. Jl. ’08. 870w.
“I do not know where a better general discussion of the subject may be found; it is wholly sympathetic, yet not at the expense of truth, and might well carry conviction to those who would not be moved by a colder and more purely scientific treatment.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 164. S. 16, ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by James Seth.
=Hibbert J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 1800w.
“It is an able work, free from the blemishes of style and sentiment which make volumes of sermons the least popular of all forms of literature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 587. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 350w.
“Dr. Campbell is undoubtedly doing good, But his best work is as a preacher of religion. He is not a success as theologian or economist.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“One reads a book like this with regret and misgiving. Not only is one forced to disagree with very much that it contains, but one is also compelled to think that it will inevitably cast a shadow on Mr. Campbell’s earlier work.” C: Johnston.
− =No. Am.= 188: 140. Jl. ’08. 980w.
“Mr. Campbell’s volume illustrates that curious incoherence of thought which seems to me to be a general characteristic of the radical socialists.” Lyman Abbott.
− + =Outlook.= 88: 538. Mr. 7, ’08. 650w.
“It is not worth while to examine Mr. Campbell’s argument chapter by chapter. He has nothing that is particularly striking or novel to say.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 320w.
=Campbell, Rev. Reginald John.= New theology sermons. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33946.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“These sermons are a very interesting exhibition of the homiletic possibilities of what Mr. Campbell reluctantly calls the new theology.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 675. O. ’08. 120w.
“The controversial is subordinated to the practical ethics or the spiritual message that glows in the light and warmth of the living truth on every page.” B. O. Flower.
+ =Arena.= 39: 113. Ja. ’08. 3850w.
“Many will find them altogether too theological, and too much of any theology, old or new, is bad for sermons.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“With their endless confusions, their perfervid and narrow zeal for a type of doctrine, their blindness to the most real distinctions, the discourses of Mr. Campbell induce anything but the feeling of religious calm and trustfulness.”
− =Nation.= 86: 81. Ja. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Hastily written, bad in style, and based on a rough mixture of diluted Hegelianism and cheap nonism. He will make many men think whom profounder theologians will leave untouched.”
− − + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 160w.
“These sermons are characterized by insistence on reality, by care for things rather than names, by warmth of human feeling and by confidence in the invincibility of love. To the reader who shares in these qualities they will prove broadening and uplifting, despite what we regard as a theological one-sidedness.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 470w.
=Campbell, Thomas.= Complete poetical works; ed. by J. Logie Robertson. (Oxford ed. of standard authors.) *75c. Oxford.
Mr. Robertson has collected Campbell’s poems and rearranged them according to natural rather than chronological order. The author in his preface “explains that he has ‘not printed everything metrical that Campbell wrote,’ but that this edition contains more than any previous one, and ‘nothing that deserved to be included has been omitted.’” (Ath.)
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“The book is a further specimen of the careful editing and arrangement we associate with ‘The Oxford poets.’”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 200w.
=Dial.= 44: 251. Ap. 16, ’08. 140w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 300w.
“On the whole Campbell deserves a high place among the second class of poets because of his national poems.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 190w.
=Campbell, Rev. Thomas Joseph.= Pioneer priests of North America, 1642–1710. $1.60. Fordham univ. press.
8–22530.
Consists of eighteen monographs of the missionaries who labored among the Iroquois Indians. From Isaac Jogues to Julien Garnier, the sketches become a continued story of heroism and holy living as revealed in the missionary cause. The book is profusely illustrated.
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“In lasting popular form, a splendid story of heroic apostolic zeal, and a valuable contribution to American ecclesiastical history.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 832. S. ’08. 170w.
“One may well wish for Father Campbell’s book the general circulation in public and private historical libraries which it well deserves to secure.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Altogether Father Campbell’s book is one of permanent interest and value. One may commend the numerous and well-chosen illustrations quite as heartily as one must deplore the absence of any kind of index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
=Campbell, W. S.= Passer-by in London. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–21786.
Largely based upon second hand information, characterized by ‘bare and brief’ statements, this volume is devoted to points of interest to the sight-seer in London. The fullest portion of the book is that offering information about Wren’s city churches.
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“His book does not tell inquirers much.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 200w.
“For its carefully compiled contents rather than its style, of which, indeed, it has little, the book may be recommended. It will be useful to tourists.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Canfield, Dorothea Frances.= Gunhild: a Norwegian-American episode. †$1.50. Holt.
7–33199.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It is so well written as to leave one distinctly depressed.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 568. D. 19, ’07. 480w.
“After seeking in vain for the purpose of the story, it ends in the air.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
=Canfield, Dorothy Frances, and others.= What shall we do now? new rev. Am. ed. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–36217.
Five hundred games and pastimes are included in this book for children. Science underlies the suggestions for play so that children may be instructed as well as amused.
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=Ind.= 63: 1485. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“There is abundant fun in its pages, well grouped.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 70w.
=Canfield, Mrs. Flavia A.= Kidnapped campers: a story of out-of-doors. †$1.25. Harper.
8–28985.
A story for boys which tells of a camping trip that changed a sickly, fretful young son of wealthy parents into a sturdy, brown skinned youngster who becomes the hero of a bear-hunt.
=Canning, Albert S. G.= British writers on classic lands: a literary sketch. *$2.25. Wessels.
8–19258.
“A series of short—even abrupt—literary sketches, quite elementary in their scope, [this volume] deals with the literary treatment of classical lands and learning by British poets and prose-writers of varying fame. Dean Farrar and Milton, Mangnall’s ‘Questions’ and Macaulay’s ‘Essays,’ Lecky and Lemprière are all here.” (Acad.)
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“The writing is pleasant and readable, but rather aimless. It is not quite clear whether the author has any definite object in writing his book.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 727. Jl. 27, ’07. 340w.
“The style of the book is loose to exasperation, and often ungrammatical, and there is no evidence whatever of sound scholarship.”
− =Nation.= 85: 587. D. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Carden, Robert W.= City of Genoa. *$2.50. Pott.
Deals with the history, life and art of Genoa. The historical survey extends from the early colonizing struggles of the people to the alliance with Napoleon in 1797. The main portion of the book “is devoted to a study of the principal civic monuments—the Church of S. Siro, the cathedral, the harbor, the Palazzo di S. Giorgio, the Palazzo Ducale, etc., etc.—and, in each and every instance, the dull details of topography are illuminated by the associations of the sites described.” (Nation.)
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“Perhaps the weakest point in the book is to be found in the fact that Mr. Carden studies his Genoa, as it were, in a vacuum, and rarely draws an analogy from the history of other communes. The volume is one which no visitor to Genoa can possibly afford to do without, and our author is to be congratulated upon the production of what is at once a learned and a readable book, serviceable alike to the student and the tourist.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 780w.
“An admirable condensation of the history of the city and gives us in a very satisfactory way the sum and substance of the information that is available about the various objects of interest that are on view in the city at the present time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“What he has to say he says concisely and well, and the visitor will find his account of the art and architecture of the city more extensively serviceable than anything to be got from the none the less necessary guide-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 260w.
“He has worked the story out with unfailing industry, and has given it all the interest of which it is capable.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 711. N. 7, ’08. 360w.
=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= Sunny side of the hill. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–26685.
A bright story of wholesome girlhood in which the daughter of a typically English household strives cheerily through many vicissitudes to sight the silver lining.
=Carlisle, George Lister.= Around the world in a year. $2. Cooke.
8–10289.
A book which exceeds in interest the ordinary book of travel. It is a record of impressions, reproduced with humor, gained by an overworked New York lawyer off for a year’s vacation. “The book may be read with decided interest by all who want to know about those things which are essential to national life the world over, and about industrial and political conditions. There are many photographic illustrations.” (Outlook.)
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“Would merit but little attention were it not for the author’s genial good sense, his freshness of observation, his odd turns of speech, his delightful scorn of all things praised by those more scholastically inclined, and his almost sinful disrespect for venerable objects, both sacred and profane.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Carlisle is keenly and shrewdly observant as well as humorous.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 144. Mr. 14, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Carlisle has a trained mind and decided facility in arranging and placing in literary perspective his observations.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 130w.
=Carman, Bliss.= Making of personality. $1.50. Page.
8–12175.
A plea for self-culture. Mr. Bliss introduces ideas of reform in bodies and raiment that shall make for better symbolism of soul fitness and poise.
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“Mr. Carman’s book is both philosophy and poetry, and its appeal is twofold.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 313. My. 16, ’08. 480w.
“It is, thruout, a gospel of good cheer that the poet preaches, kindly, hopeful and reasonable, with more spiritual import than appears on the surface; the happy phrases run on so pleasantly that the book might be called ‘light reading,’ but they are ‘good sentences’ that ‘would be better if well followed.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1311. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
“The clear lyric utterance of the poet is apparent in many of his sentences, and this work as a whole will be found by all readers of taste at once a suggestive guide and a source of inspiration.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 380w.
“It is a beautiful philosophy, most delightfully set forth, and whoever looks into it will feel impelled to do some of the things he is invited to do.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Carman’s prose—if it be understood as his—is as clumsy and cacophonous as his verse is nimble and sweet.” H. W. Boynton.
− =Putnam’s.= 5: 108. O. ’08. 550w.
=Carotti, Giulio.= History of art. 4v. ea. *$1.50. Dutton.
=v. 1.= Ancient art; ed. and rev. by Mrs. Arthur Strong; tr. by Alice Todd.
“Professor Carotti has wished to do on a larger scale something like what Solomon Reinach has done in his admirable ‘Apollo.’... The ground covered in the present volume is that of Chapters 3 to 10, inclusive, of ‘Apollo’ (Professor Carotti does not concern himself with prehistoric art); and the 350 pages of text correspond to some 72 of Reinach’s, the pages containing much the same amount of matter, while there are 540 illustrations, against 128 in the ‘Apollo.’”—Nation.
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“The translation is rather stiff, and not easy to read, but it appears to be accurate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 409. O. 3. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“With its very numerous illustrations the work should be of great value to the student.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 318. O. ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“If Professor Carotti is thus enabled to give us more detail, he has neither the grasp and lucidity nor the charm of Reinach. His book is dryer reading and will hardly convey so definite a conception of the character of the art discussed in it.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 124. Ag. 6, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is crammed with information and cannot fail to be highly appreciated as a textbook or work of reference. Despite the admirable translation the style is conspicuous for it dryness. Dr. Carotti’s budget of compressed information deserves all possible praise for the care with which it has been brought together from authoritative sources and arranged to throw light on the chronological development of ancient art.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The first part of Signor Carotti’s volume seems more striking and novel than does the second, which is in comparison more like the treatment of classical art found in other histories.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 700w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The amount of information which has been compressed into this small book is astonishing.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Carpenter, Charles U.= Profit making in shop and factory management. (Works management library.) *$2. Eng. mag.
8–11463.
In the first part of the book not only does the author discuss “the internal management, i. e., that which must secure maximum output, minimum cost, elimination of delays, and stability as well as progressiveness of manufacturing conditions, but he considers also the direction of the external phases of the business, such as marketing the product, keeping in touch with the demands of trade in order to bring out new products to meet changing demand and the like.” (Engin. N.) The second division considers for its principal topic the upbuilding of a selling organization.
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“Among the many and various writings ... on factory management, Mr. Carpenter’s little book claims a high place for practical utility.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 549. My. 14, ’08. 500w.
“Altogether the book is one that can be studied by manufacturers, to their benefit.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 380w.
“This well written and concise volume is full of sound and practical advice that can scarcely fail to be of great value to all manufacturers and students of industrial economics.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1201. My. 28, ’08. 160w.
“The book makes no appeal to literary or popular appreciation, but it has considerable economic value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 180w.
=Carpenter, Edward.= Sketches from life in town and country, and some verses. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–16591.
“Sketches and notes, straight from life, with no stuffing or gilding, from life chiefly in English villages, but also in a slum and in Bombay. In addition there is a note on the International socialist congress at Paris in 1889, a humorous piece of autobiography, a chapter on weeds, and some poems.”—Sat. R.
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“Their power consists not in the style in which they are written so much as in their evident truthfulness.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 340w.
“When he reflects on ‘civilization, its cause and cure,’ he is a petulant child with the temper of the older Ruskin, and his mouth echoing Rousellian fallacies. When he sets quietly to work depicting the lives of the humble which have appealed to his imagination ... he reveals a certain talent of his own, albeit slightly reminiscent of Thomas Hardy.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 313. O. 1. ’08. 260w.
“Some of the notes are excellent, the work of patient observation, and careful if not always vivid record.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 826. Je. 27, ’08. 540w.
=Carr, Clark Ezra.= My day and generation; with 63 il. **$3. McClurg.
8–11659.
Reminiscences of an Illinois lawyer who has been active in every pre-election campaign since 1856.
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“Some of the best pages in the book treat of matters European, and more particularly Danish. Colonel Carr’s pen is not so severely correct as to be incapable of making an occasional slip.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 273. My. 1, ’08. 1350w.
“Colonel Carr has given us a really delightful and ever-valuable article in ‘Journey to California in 1869 with governor Yates.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 170w.
“While Mr. Carr’s relations are sometimes scrappy, sometimes tell too little and sometimes too much, they are worth reading, and will be resorted to hereafter by historians on the lookout for character and color.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 600w.
“A pleasant book of memoirs.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 230w.
=Carrick, John Charles.= Wycliffe and the Lollards. $1.25. Scribner. 8–20493.
“A conventional treatment characterized throughout by a belligerent attitude toward Romanism. The last part gives a very fine, concise statement of the work of the reforming councils, which in the author’s opinion are due to the ‘ne’er-ending influence of Wycliffe.’”—Am. J. Theol.
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“This is a scholarly treatment, condensed and highly attractive.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 50w.
“A slovenly index forms a worthy conclusion to a book which has no real reason for being.”
− =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
* =Carrington, Hereward.= Coming science; with an introd. by James H. Hyslop. **$1.50. Small.
A book which covers in a clear, cautious, intelligible way the real or possible meaning and explanation of the main points of interest in the problems which the psychic researcher attempts to solve. The Coming science as the author views it is psychic research.
=Carrington, Hereward.= Vitality, fasting and nutrition: a physiological study of the curative power of fasting; together with a new theory of the relation of food to human vitality; with an introd. by A. Rabagliati. *$5. Rebman co.
8–4583.
A book which refutes the whole system of orthodox medicine and all accepted notions as to the nature of disease and maintains that life is a thing apart from the body; that food merely replaces tissue; that the cause of all disease is the presence of effete, morbid matter within the organism; that to cure disease one must fast.
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“He has written 650 pages in which a robust common sense struggles with erroneous statements, perverted facts, and uncritical methods.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 158. Ag. 8. 860w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 655. My. 2, ’08. 450w.
“His book is a strange medley, and hardly merits serious consideration in a scientific journal. The book is only remarkable as an instance of the lengths to which a fad can be carried.” W. D. H.
− =Nature.= 79: 66. N. 19, ’08. 360w.
“Certainly a great book. Mr. Carrington knows a whole lot of things, some of which are so and a few more of which may be, and his big book can be read with profit and interest, even by those who will not accept many of its main contentions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 169. Mr. 28, ’08. 850w.
=Carter, James Coolidge.= Law: its origin, growth and function. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–31236.
A course of lectures prepared for delivery before the Harvard law school. “The lectures, as would be anticipated from the proposed occasion, are general in their nature and couched in non-technical language. They make no contribution to legal history. Mr. Carter adopts, for his purposes, the views and conclusions generally held by others. These lectures make no such attempt to determine the province of jurisprudence, as was the purpose of the painful and laborious logic of John Austin. They contain no such searching analysis of legal ideas as is to be found in the classical treatise of Professor Holland. Their force is spent upon the general theorem, that ‘the whole private law, which governs much the larger part of human conduct, has arisen from and still stands upon custom, and is the necessary product of the life of society, and therefore incapable of being made at all.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“Whether one agrees with him or not, the book is of great interest as an expression of the deliberate and mature conviction of one of the most thoroughly trained and powerful legal minds which this country has yet produced.” F. R. Mechem.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 313. Ja. ’08. 660w.
“It is an honor to American literature, as well as to the American bar, to have made such a contribution as this to the philosophy of jurisprudence. It is hardly hazardous to predict that this posthumous volume will prove to be an epochmaking work in the study of its subject.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 717. N. 9, ’07. 2670w.
=Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 530w.
=Carter, John F., jr.= Destroyers. $1.50. Neale.
8–1780.
A novel which depicts the struggle of a young American capitalist against organized labor. “A strong plea is made for the incorporation of unions. But the argument throughout is for the victory of might, not right, and presupposes that men are enemies and that society must naturally be based on that supposition.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is the book of a man who has made up his mind hastily about some of the greatest questions with which society is confronted. He has seen the danger in the unions—he has overlooked much else.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
=Carter, Samuel T.= Wanted—a theology. *75c. Funk.
8–17230.
A continuation of Dr. Carter’s contention against scholastic theology. It is a forcible arraignment of the old doctrine and a plea for the religion as Christ taught it in the love of God and man.
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“It is a vital work that merits the widest possible circulation among orthodox Christians who yearn for something more than the husks of scholastic or creedal theology.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 469. N. ’08. 2000w.
=Ind.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
=Nation.= 87: 73. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.
“He writes incisively, but evidently out of a long experience of gladsome faith in God.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 250w.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Art of William Blake: his sketch-book, his water-colors, his painted books. **$3.50. Moffat.
7–41109.
“The various phases of Blake’s art are discussed.... She bases part of her information on Blake’s sketch book, to the manuscript copy of which she had access. Many of the illustrations are published for the first time.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The essay ... is a bit of unrestrained eulogy.” F: W. Gookin.
− + =Dial.= 45: 36. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 130w.
− + =Nation.= 86: 317. Ap. 2, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Is notable for its penetration, its critical acumen, and the sanity and breadth of its appreciation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 770w.
“To the general reader and, we think, to many a technician, Miss Cary’s text may seem to be unduly emphatic as to the importance of drawing as the true essence of great art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 278. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Honoré Daumier. **$3.75. Putnam.
7–36960.
Miss Cary says “If we care to look upon the France of the past century with eyes that note not merely the surface view, but types, characteristics, deep-seated principles, unconscious tendencies, with a clear appreciation of their values and relations, we cannot do better than turn page by page a collection of Daumier’s drawings if by good fortune, such may have fallen in our way.” Here are reproduced about seventy-five of Daumier’s social and political caricatures with an introductory and explanatory essay on his art.
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“Miss Cary’s introduction is critical and interpretative, and makes an excellent basis for a study of the great cartoonist’s work.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“As a character-study, not only of an artworker, but also of his times, Miss Cary’s ‘Honoré Daumier’ occupies a unique place.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Casson, Herbert Newton.= Romance of steel: the story of a thousand millionaires. **$2.50. Barnes.
7–25647.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Bright, interesting, and apparently reliable biographical sketches of men in whom the public is interested. Not a great book, nor especially educational, but answering the demands of a legitimate curiosity.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 8. Ja. ’08. ✠
“It is decidedly readable, despite an occasional complication of biographies. The title, however, may prove misleading. The person seeking a scholarly, or even complete, history of the iron and steel industry in this country will certainly be disappointed at the brief mention accorded the early history of iron making. The book is to be heartily recommended to all who would know the manner in which America’s greatest industry came to be controlled by a relatively small group of men.” W. S. Tower.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 290. Ja. ’08. 390w.
“His book is almost entirely free from the errors met with frequently in works of this class.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 387. Mr. 28. 1200w.
“It may be of interest to the public, but is more likely to be highly valued by the various steel magnates for whose greater glory it seems to have been written. Its appropriate place seems to be among the ‘Fads and fancies’ of economic literature.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 160. F. 13, ’08. 120w.
“Gives a popular and dramatic account of the development of the modern iron industry.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 189. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Casson, Herbert Newton.= Romance of the reaper. **$1. Doubleday.
8–15470.
“The tenacious struggle of the inventors of the reaping machine, their Titanic combats for supremacy, the succession of mechanical triumphs that have produced the modern self-binder and the final development of the harvester trust, together form a wonder tale of modern industry as marvelous as a story from the ‘Arabian nights.’” (Ind.) “Beginning with the story of the first practical reaper, which was completed in 1831 by Cyrus McCormick, the author traces its growth through the improvements made from time to time by other inventors up to the present harvester, a machine almost human in its workings.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Its slightly sensational style may attract older boys, for whom it is particularly suitable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 257. N. ’08. ✠
“At times the vivid imagination of Mr. Casson seems to take possession of his mental machinery.”
− =Arena.= 40: 381. O. ’08. 1200w.
“Reading a chapter by Mr. Casson is like holding the handle of an electric machine—one gets a series of shocks that make the nerves tingle.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 665. S. 17, ’08. 220w.
“A bright, entertainingly written, and popular account of the development and importance of the American harvester.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 464. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“He tells the history of the International course, for the book is at bottom a piece of trust publicity—but most of all vitally and in a very interesting manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 160w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.= Flower o’ the orange. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–5883.
A collection of short stories written during the years since 1900. They are tales of the sort of daring that wins love, and are set in times all the way from the days of Elizabethan chivalry to the nineteenth century. There are eight as follows: Flower o’ the orange, The young conspiracy, The great white deeps, My rapier and my daughter, The great Todescan’s secret thrust, Pomona, and The mirror of the faithful heart.
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“Light, pleasant, rather graceful, love stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08.
“Unflagging spirits mark the volume, and sometimes tend to screw up the key slightly above the requisite pitch. The tales, being the issue of deft craftsmanship, are far above the average short story, and may be read with pleasure by the discriminating.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 448. Ap. 11. 200w.
“All have merit; if one must choose, the one which gives its title to the volume seems to have a rather special claim.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 185. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The stories are thin, absurd, and uninteresting, composed upon half-made plots.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 149. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“A courtly book, and good for a fireside evening.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Such stories are meant for nothing more than the entertainment of an idle hour, and when they are as well told as are these they serve their purpose very well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 142. Mr. 14, ’08. 350w.
“In point of style and manner the authors have done nothing better, and they have done much that is praiseworthy in story-telling.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 70w.
“They are very just in the conception of the material required by a short story; they are well shaped and quite adequately contrived; the writing is always polished and sometimes admirable; and the adventures in many instances challenge one’s concern. Yet there is not from cover to cover the least suggestion of character.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 305. Mr. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.= Wroth. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–26197.
The Castles have hit upon an ingenious plot for their new story. A young Englishwoman, the wife of an old Italian nobleman, cherishes the memory of a brief moment of love-making when Lord Wroth swore that she was the queen of his life. They go their separate ways, her husband dies, she returns to England and learns that Lord Wroth is advertising for a wife, whom he must wed within two days or lose a vast fortune. Veiled, she presents herself with other candidates, is passed by, but buys from the chosen woman the privilege of marrying Wroth, and is wedded to him. The remainder of the story is concerned with her reasons for withholding from him the fact that she is his wife, with the conflict between love and pride.
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“Told with the usual dash of these authors, but with little of that delicate charm that made their earlier stories acceptable.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“It is atmosphere and incident that tell; and both are here. Moreover, the style is vivid, and full of force and colour.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 360. S. 26. 180w.
“There is in all the writing’s of the Castles a certain deliberate and wilful note of exaggeration, an almost confessed intention to write as glowingly as the resources of verbal colouring and rich imagery may achieve.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 143. O. ’08. 640w.
“Lord Wroth, is artificial and Ouida-esque. He is introduced in an overwrought and almost hysterical piece of purple writing; and throughout the story is peppered with exclamation points and has an excess of sentiment and pseudo-passion.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 110w.
“The atmosphere of the footlights descends upon the story as it advances, and it concludes in sheer theatricality.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 488. O. 17, ’08. 580w.
=Catholic= encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic church; ed. by C: G. Herbermann and others. 15v. ea. $6. Appleton, Robert.
=v. 3.= “The contents of the present volume range between Brownson and Clairvaux, and cover a subject-list of unusual interest to the non-Catholic reader.”—Lit. D.
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“A question that might be worth the consideration of the editorial board is whether there are not too many biographical notices of obscure and insignificant persons. One weakness is in the matter of places and persons that have been concerned in events in modern history which have had a grave bearing on the interests of Catholics and Catholicism even up to our own day.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 88: 99. O. ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The silences of the book are more eloquent than its utterances. If the ‘Catholic encyclopedia’ is to be of this stamp thruout, it does not deserve the name of scholarship.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 103. Ja. 9, ’08. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole, the ‘Catholic encyclopedia’ has more than fulfilled its promises. It only remains to demand a slightly greater editorial care and discretion in the choice of subject and allotment of space. In comparison with other contemporary works of reference, neither authors nor publishers have anything to fear.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 36: 163. F. 1, ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + − =Lit. D.= 37: 227. Ag. 15, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 121. Ag. 6, ’08. 680w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“In respect to candor and fairness, the editors deserve great commendation.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + − =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The work has a value not only for Catholics, but for the general reader of whatever religious belief.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
“When due allowance is made for the special difficulties likely to be felt in the early volumes of any international undertaking, the performance, though very unequal, seems to us to be distinctly high in its general level.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 4. N. 21, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Cavanagh, Francis.= Care of the body. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–6051.
“In the series, as planned, all the great aspects of ‘preventive medicine’ are dealt with from many standpoints. In ‘The care of the body’ Dr. Cavanagh handles in a very popular yet fundamentally scientific way the leading generalities of personal bodily hygiene—sleep, baths, exercise, training, fatigue and massage, clothing, skin, hair, teeth, feet and hands, light, eye, ear, nose. Each of these has a chapter. The volume is completed by chapters on position, habit, and the functions of the physician.”
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“The author is well read, writes attractively and is original in his method of presentation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 257. N. ’08.
“The book may serve as a standard one for the subject with which it deals; the information is accurate and useful.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 485. O. 19. 200w.
“The general criticism may be made that there is often lack of explicitness as to the remedy for the evils which the reader is asked to recognize; in fact, the book appeals to a rather well-bred and somewhat limited class of readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 359. Ap. 16, ’08. 260w.
“The author succeeds in his effort to be simple, scientific and vivacious.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 5. N. 7, ’07. 500w.
“It is a doctor’s book which every educated man and woman should read who desires to follow such a health toilet as may keep the body and mind comfortable and fit for everyday life.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Cecil, Alicia-Margaret.= London parks and gardens. *$6. Dutton.
8–21790.
“It is the history of the irregular growth of open spaces with which Mrs. Evelyn Cecil deals, beginning with Hyde, Green, and St. James’s parks, and so through the municipal parks, the commons and open spaces, to end among the squares and private gardens. But she has written more than a mere history; she describes the parks and gardens themselves, and especially deals with their horticultural possibilities. This is the distinctive feature of the book.” (Spec.) The illustrations are from water colors done by Lady Victoria Manners.
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“It contains everything one could reasonably wish to know on the subject, together with some details that seem unlikely to be of the slightest possible interest to anyone.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
“Altho written for English readers there is a fascination in the perusal of the volume for us who have but the rare chance of seeing the famous places here described.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1200. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 70w.
“There was room for a writer who should look at London apart from streets and houses, and Mrs. Evelyn Cecil has filled the gap with an engaging book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1097. D. 28, ’07. 680w.
=Cena, Giovanni.= Forewarners; tr. by Olivia Agresti Rossetti; preface by Mrs. Humphry Ward. †$1.50. Doubleday.
The story of a poor proof-reader in Turin. “Sorrow, toil, injustice, all force the hero to brood upon a solution of the problems about him. Some of the scenes are marvelously vivid, notably a company in the etcher’s room, made up of the pathetic figure of the drunkard’s wife and her imbecile child, a mad cobbler, a woman called the Salamander, and the two men. One conclusion is reached by the author. The first imperative duty of society is to favor and watch over birth—death should not be the all-absorbing point of the thought of mankind.” (Outlook.)
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“The novel possesses little narrative interest, but holds the attention by virtue of its compelling sincerity, and many of its scenes and episodes are rich in artistic beauty. We should add that the translation is excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 123. Ag. 1. 240w.
“It is well worth reading; it quickens thought, widens the horizon, gives a living value to the ideal, and, best of all, it touches the heart.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It moves on with irresistible force, carrying one away by its picturesque and real power.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 330w.
“It presents a vivid picture of a part of the body politic in Italy that has not been presented, at least to the outside world, by any previous novelist.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 366. D. ’08. 530w.
“As a close and poignant study of the life of the poor in an Italian town the book is remarkable and depressing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 337. S. 12, ’08. 170w.
“Signor Cena has described brilliantly the episodes of preternatural gloom ... which he proposed to himself, but we ourselves can hardly read the philosophy of Stanga as such with patience.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 63. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.
=Chadwick, William Edward.= Pastoral teaching of St. Paul: his ministerial ideals. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–19131.
“The principles, methods, and spirit of the great Apostle are submitted to careful examination with a view to securing counsel for ministerial, activity in the present day. The temptation in this sort of essay is to let one’s feeling for present needs dominate his research into the work of the exemplar, but Dr. Chadwick has evidently studied Paul first, and subsequently applied conscientiously to present needs the principles discovered.”—Nation.
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“It is refreshing to see a book on the pastoral teaching of Paul, sounding a note that has long been wanting.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 515. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“Though there is a taint of prolixity in the style, the book is to be praised for the high conception of ministerial work which it reveals and for its earnest treatment of that work. It may be safely commended to men who desire to be helped in their spiritual labours by wise advice and an assurance of their high calling.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 189. F. 16. 340w.
“A sympathetic inquiry into the pastoral aims and methods of the great missionary ... which will help the pastor, or Christian worker, who is in need of inspiration for his task.” H: B. Carré.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 145. Ag. ’08. 460w.
“The treatise is none the less practical because it is in the first instance a careful piece of Christian biography.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 149. F. 13. ’08. 130w.
=Chaffers, William.= Keramic gallery. rev. ed. *$12.50. Scribner.
A pictorial supplement to the author’s “marks and monograms on pottery and porcelain.” “In the present edition [the illustrations] have been reproduced by the half-tone process, and are inserted with the letterpress referring to them.... It has been found possible also, notwithstanding the inclusion of a hundred additional illustrations from important collections, to make one volume serve in place of two bulky ones which were required for the first edition, and as this one volume is not inconveniently large, the usefulness of the work is increased.” (Int. Studio.)
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“Mr. Cundall’s letterpress is hopelessly antiquated: to enumerate the inaccuracies which Mr. Cundall has not corrected would be practically to re-write the book, and Mr. Cundall’s additions are mere unskilled botching. But it is by sins of omission that Mr. Cundall’s inadequacy is most clearly exposed.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 265. D. 21, ’07. 1650w.
“It includes both historical and descriptive matter, and it is both exact and exhaustive.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 200w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 168. D. ’07. 160w.
“A well-made and valuable, if somewhat colorless book.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 563. Je. 18, ’08. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 220w.
“Unfortunately, the index is not ample enough for so exhaustive a work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
* =Chamberlain, Arthur Henry.= Conditions and tendencies of technical education in Germany. 50c. Bardeen.
8–13346.
“A brief but very complete classification and account of the industrial and technical continuation schools of Germany. The chief function of the schools is viewed as vocational training. The commercial demand for such training is naïvely accepted as the sufficient reason for their being and the psychology of manual work in the schools is not considered.”—El. School T.
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“Mr. Chamberlain has brought together in small compass a great deal of valuable material.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 50w.
“While we may not agree with Mr. Chamberlain in the very few deductions which he makes, and though the book is very poorly printed, it is an exceedingly valuable report of existing conditions in the home of vocational schools.” W: C. Payne.
+ − =El. School T.= 9: 218. D. ’08. 100w.
“Not only those interested in technical education, but all who are interested in fundamental questions of education should read Chamberlain’s little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Chamberlain, Esther, and Chamberlain, Lucia.= Coast of chance; pictures by C. F. Underwood. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–13722.
A story of love and intrigue with an adorable heroine and two lovers who are mysteriously involved in the theft of a famous ring. One is the real thief, the other the owner of this remarkable craftsman’s conceit; the two are made to change places, and upon the attending confusion hangs the plot.
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“Much better than most of the modern mystery tales.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 733. Je. ’08. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 70w.
“It is new, vital, well written, and so crisp yet smooth of motion, that it carries the most unwilling reader pell-mell to the finish.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 16, ’08. 100w.
* =Chamberlain, Jacob.= Kingdom in India. **$1.50. Revell.
8–16957.
“No man did more with his life than did Jacob Chamberlain, who was for many years a missionary of the Reformed church in India. A great preacher, an accomplished scholar, a business man of ability, a medical practitioner of no mean skill, all his talents were devoted with tremendous enthusiasm to the evangelization of India.” (Ind.) “The volume itself consists of addresses, &c., on various aspects of Christian work in India. In the first there is an appreciation of Indian religions under the title of ‘The religions in the Orient: their beauties and their fatal defects.’ Then comes a paper on the Bible in India, followed by others on missionary topics, medical missions and the work of women among them. Under this last heading comes an interesting account of the high-caste Hindu girls’ schools.” (Spec.)
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“All the papers and addresses are interesting, but more so after reading Dr. Cobb’s appreciation of the veteran.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
“Dr. Chamberlain was a diligent worker and a keen observer, and he knew how to describe what he did and what he saw.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
=Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar.= Ifs of history. **$1. Altemus.
7–42024.
Twenty-two “ifs” constitute a novel discussion, one which suggests a process of construction that bears resemblance to the process of restoration engaged in by sculptors who fashion arms for the Venus de Milo and heads for the Samothracian Victory. If Charles the second had accepted the kingship of Virginia, and If the Confederates had marched on Washington after Bull Run, are two of the propositions fitted to the then-existing structure of government and war, with the well-rounded conclusions which a sense of proportion demands.
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“The volume is well written and is a valuable work especially to place before young people to stimulate a further interest in history.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 491. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Chamberlin writes agreeably and suggestively.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 313. Mr. ’08. 70w.
“It would be wearisome, and would spoil the romantic flavor of the book, to point out all the technical inaccuracies in the different chapters. The author writes with a charming disregard of all probabilities, and limits his speculations by possibilities only.” S. E. Thomas.
− + =El. School T.= 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Firing line. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–23561.
Palm Beach furnishes the setting for nearly all of the scenes in this love drama. The heroine, clever, beautiful, with a heart and head struggling with each other for mastery, finds at twenty that her heart is in the ascendency and that she is hopelessly in love. A simple enough fact had she not two years before in a moment of despondency over the discovery that she was a foundling, secretly married a young college student, whom she did not love, he returning the same day to college and she to her foster-parents’ home. This secret lying at the foundation of her happiness to menace it directs the course of the story thru which run the anguish and heroism of two lovers who could meet only as comrades on the firing line.
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“The story, like other good stories, suffers from the fact that it is based on a rather ancient situation.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 151. O. ’08. 1050w.
“The best thing about this rather cheap book is its semi-tropical setting, which is the author’s opportunity for a great deal of observant and loving description. The worst part of it is the slangy talk of most of the characters.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 320w.
“Is not so good a novel as ‘The fighting chance’ because it lacks the uplift of a great moral victory.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 553. S. 3, ’08. 330w.
− =Nation.= 87: 235. S. 10, ’08. 360w.
“It is hard to forgive a hundred pages of introductory drivel, but Louis Malcourt more than atones even for that.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“The book may be best described as having in certain parts humor, lively dialogue, and some charm, but as lacking compactness and a continuously single situation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Some ladies in haste. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–13948.
In which a New York man of leisure discovers that he has hypnotic power and exercises it upon a few of his acquaintances with the hope of turning them from their frivolous society inanities to nature and the open. Most astonishing things happen,—whimsical, curious, surprising ones, not the least fantastic of which is the wooing of a society girl by a club man in a tree-top.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A vastly amusing bit of whimsicality, of the recognized Chambers variety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The adventures have the Chambers spice, the adventurers—unreal as is their world in many respects—have always nevertheless a certain warm suggestion of being really human and delightfully alive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“Only a light touch would carry off this preposterous fun, but here, as in ‘Iolanthe,’ Mr. Chambers has a fantastic fancy and the suggestion at least of poetic feeling.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9. ’08. 100w.
“Quite delightful, even if improbable.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 130w.
=Champney, Elizabeth.= Romance of Roman villas (the renaissance). **$3.50. Putnam.
8–25384.
Here is given the most important chapter of the every day happenings that history records concerning each of the following villas of the great cardinals of the renaissance: Vatican, Villa of the Belvedere; Villa Farnesina; Villa Madama; Villa Aldobrandini; Villa d’Este; Villas Borghese and Mondragone; Villa Medici; Collona palace and castle of Palliano; and Hadrian’s villa. The book deals with the life more than the art of these villas. It is profusely illustrated with photogravures and reproduced photographs.
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“Mrs. Champney is not equal to the occasion, and is altogether at the mercy of the difficult form she has adopted. Her English is careless, and full of Americanisms; her Italian is inaccurate; and her book exhibits a romanticism of speech that in truth was never heard on sea or land.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 506. O. 24. 130w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 140w.
“She has told the stories of Raphael and Pauline particularly well.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 240w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 220w.
“To turn its handsome pages and catch the names on them, to glance at the illustrations is to make the least adventurous long to behold the grandeur that was Rome’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5. ’08. 160w.
“Mrs. Champney is always an agreeable writer, and she has made in her new volume excellent use of the abundant material in the field indicated by the title.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 229. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Chancellor, William Estabrook.= Theory of motives, ideals and values in education. *$1.75. Houghton.
7–33579.
“A really philosophical and ethical reflection upon the fundamental bases of life, society, and education.... [The author] devotes himself principally to the study of civilization—its nature, its institutions, its tendency towards degeneracy under urban conditions, the requisites for a stable and progressive civilization, and so on. For his principles he draws on a large group of sciences—upon history, psychology, physiology, anthropology, social science, theology, mental development, pathology, biology, logic, ethics, aesthetics, philology, and education in its history, theory and practice.”—Psychol. Bull.
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“A stimulating, scholarly discussion of education as an integral part of civilization.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 8. Ja. ’08.
“The book is not for all readers, but rather for those who can bring to it some knowledge of philosophical as well as educational thought. To such it will prove a stimulus and inspiration. Every teacher may well feel a deep satisfaction in the production of so strong and able a work on the deeper problem of his profession.” E: O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 275. My. 1, ’08. 1000w.
“Is rich in suggestion and on the whole is a broad and philosophic treatment of the subject.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 318. Ag. 6, ’08. 90w.
“While it is stimulating and will doubtless be read by many teachers, it will have little influence upon the course of education.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“The topics chosen for discussion, the point of view taken in treating them, the extraordinary quality of the style, the absence of current and conventional educational terms and phrases—all make this volume an exceptional one in educational literature. Dealing in general conceptions and in ideals as the book does, it is not likely that any reader will endorse without question all that he reads, though I believe that in the large it is in accord with contemporary scientific thought.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 16. Ja. 15, ’08. 1000w.
=Chandler, Frank Wadleigh.= Literature of roguery. (Types of English literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.
7–31996.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Valuable to the special student, and probably interesting but not valuable to the general reader of more than average education.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 8. Ja. ’08.
“A very complete and admirable piece of synthetic work.” G: H. Casamajor.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 533. Ap. ’08. 1900w.
“On the whole his book must be considered mainly as a collection of materials never before gathered into one place, and, as such, a useful, indeed, an indispensable, preliminary to further work in this field.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 754. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“The book is one big bibliography; and as such it is not without its value.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 1020w.
“Mr. Chandler’s work is a very comprehensive and generally excellent study.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 28. Ja. 4, ’08. 350w.
* =Chapman, Frank Michler.= Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. **$3. Appleton.
A volume of over four hundred pages which contains in text and illustration the results of the author’s field study in preparation for a series of “Habitat groups” of North American birds for the American Museum of natural history. These groups including certain birds from the West Indies to western Canada are designed to illustrate not only the habits and haunts of the birds shown, but also the country in which they live. The reproduced illustrations contain in the foreground the birds and nests with from sixty to one hundred and sixty square feet of the locality in which they are found; while sketches of the surrounding country have been painted from nature for a background.
=Chapman, John Jay.= Four plays for children. **$1. Moffat.
8–18062.
Four plays in blank verse which lend themselves readily to children’s acting. They are The lost prince, King Ithuriel, The hermits, and Christmas in Leipsic.
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“[Three of] the stories are in themselves sufficiently juvenile, but the dialogue, written with a magniloquence often approaching rhodomontade—in which all the little fishes talk like whales—is, as a rule, quite unsuitable for childish entertainment.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 540w.
“One may read thru many books of verse without the enjoyment to be found in the perusal of these four brief plays. All the plays are written in a blank verse that is decidedly worthy of comment, not for great brilliancy, but for its almost classic simplicity and charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Chapman, Sydney John.= Work and wages; in continuation of Lord Brassey’s “Work and wages” and “Foreign work and English wages.” 2 pt. ea. $4. Longmans.
=pt. 2.= Wages and employment; with an introd. by Lord Brassey.
“The present instalment is ‘largely in the nature of a report,’ but ‘attempts have been made to sum up evidence and to frame independent judgments.’ These independent judgments cover some of the most important controversies of the day.... Chapters deal with the organisation of labour; the policy of trade-unions; industrial peace, with some interesting information on arbitration and wage boards in the Australasian colonies; unemployment; and lastly, workmen’s insurance and old-age pensions.”—Spec.
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“Able, scientific in spirit, moderate in tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 257. N. ’08. (Review of pt. 2.)
“Granted the scope of the inquiry undertaken in this second volume, it is difficult to see how it could have been made more exhaustive than it is.” J: Cummings.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 462. Jl. ’08. 460w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 160w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“For a long time it will remain the chief storehouse of co-ordinated facts regarding employment and unemployment, the organization of labor, and the policies of trades unions, industrial insurance, and pensions. Prof. Chapman writes in the scientific spirit, without bias or faddism, seeking rather the true thing than the forwarding of any hobby.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 228. Ap. 18, ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“Unfortunately the very qualities that should commend it to English readers render it of little value to readers in other lands. For them its treatment of English conditions is, if anything, too full and its treatment of the experience of other countries too meager and, it must be added, not up-to-date.” H: R. Seager.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 727. D. ’08. 700w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“By reason of its fulness of information and moderation of tone is not unworthy of the honourable traditions of the Brassey family.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 834. My. 23, ’08. 370w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Charlton, Randal.= Virgin widow. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–9522.
A colorless, stolid, withal sensitive cripple, the brother-in-law of the “virgin widow” tells the story. He stands between the woman and the traps which her temperament sets for her. He shields her from a blackmailing Italian with the same quality of patience that he uses in protecting her from the agonies of her unrequited love. His is a work of love, unappreciated, unrewarded. The book abounds in weird atmosphere.
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“Is as improbable and uncomfortable as the title suggests, but there is no denying that he has a gift for inventing ingenious and dramatic situations. His handling of these is as clumsy and unfinished as his style; but he has a rude force that overrides improbability, and holds the reader’s interest.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 170w.
=Cheetham, Samuel.= History of the Christian church since the reformation. *$2.60. Macmillan.
8–15779.
“Gives the history of three centuries and a half, to speak in round numbers; it includes the great churches of the East and the West, the Anglican church, and the dissident communities here and abroad.”—Spec.
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“The book is learned, readable, and honest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 140w.
“Is full of miscellaneous information, carefully and accurately compiled. The whole is written in so reasonable and sympathetic a spirit that its merits as an interpretation add greatly to its value as a narrative.” E. W. W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 827. O. ’08. 420w.
“A very valuable book. It is impartial and it is comprehensive.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 648. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
* =Chesson, W. H.= George Cruikshank. (Popular lib. of art.) *75c. Dutton.
A sketch of Cruikshank’s career which was continued thru seventy-six working years. More than fifty illustrations show the development of his art.
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“Any who are interested will wish for a more straight-forward and less affected book.”
− =Nation.= 87: 533. N. 26, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Chesson shows that he appreciates the artist, sees his merits, and is aware of his limitations. But we have found the style in which he sets forth his knowledge distinctly fatiguing.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 374. S. 12, ’08. 180w.
=Chester, George Randolph.= Get-rich-quick Wallingford: a cheerful account of the rise and fall of an American business buccaneer. †$1.50. Altemus.
8–12804.
“This is a buoyant and blithesome account of the life and deeds of one who would probably describe himself as the past grand master of the gentle art of separating the gullible from their coin.” (N. Y. Times.) It “shows an astonishing knowledge of the ways and tricks of American ‘financiers’ and swindlers of the class indicated by the title, and the narrative is lively and amusing.” (Outlook.)
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“This is a story that cannot fail to do good.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 732. Je. ’08. 550w.
=Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 30w.
“Behind ‘Get rich quick Wallingford’ is a larger significance than that usually conveyed in a good yarn well told. Mr. Chester has put his finger on a phase of our life that demands treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 570w.
“The narrative is lively and amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
* =Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= All things considered. *$1.50. Lane.
8–34727.
Thirty-five essays upon topics ranging from fairy tales to phonetic spelling from the death of Francis Thompson to the Communal kitchen.
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“‘All things considered’ has, in its incoherence and scrappiness and in its unrelieved joltiness of style, the Chestertonic quality distilled to quintessential strength.”
− =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is true that these sparkling diatribes have a kind of journalistic and temporal appositeness; but all will never be so well that they will lose their point.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 270w.
“Coming into competition with ‘Orthodoxy’ it loses its raison d’être altogether, so much is it overshadowed by its more vital fellow.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 589. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“Whatever were the merits of his earlier writing, they are here overlaid; whatever the faults, they are here accentuated.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. O. 24, ’08. 120w.
“Sincere, enthusiastic, endlessly witty little essays. He is so witty, one must simply refuse, in sheer self-defence perhaps, to acknowledge that he is always wise.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 709. N. 7, ’08. 420w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Man who was Thursday: a nightmare. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–7893.
A story of fantastic fears, of “the huge devils that hide the stars, yet fall at a pistol shot.” The chasers of evil are seven members of a central anarchical council, mainly detectives in disguise, who are named for the days of the week. “The actual change from the horrible to the burlesque is happily contrived; but unluckily, once the transit is completely effected, every semblance of realism is abandoned, and we are committed to a carnival of incredible absurdity, out of which, by an abrupt jerk of the kaleidoscope, we are suddenly projected into an atmosphere of exalted allegory, in which the demon-Falstaff of the plot assumes a role of mystical benevolence.” (Spec.)
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“A fantasia faithfully modelled on Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’ Mr. Chesterton has not produced the eerieness or awesomeness of Stevenson, and perhaps had no desire to do so. On the other hand, he is very witty and amusing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 350. Mr. 21. 150w.
Reviewed by F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 452. Jl. ’08. 1600w.
“A highly entertaining yarn.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 280w.
“Is consistent with nothing but its author’s freakish inclination of the moment.” E: C. Marsh.
− =Forum.= 40: 400. O. ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Chesterton pays the penalty of the wit in not being taken seriously, even when most serious.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 869. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Although the work is negligible as a piece of fiction, it has the interest of Mr. Chesterton’s essays—a vivacious and clever style that glitters with paradox, sometimes almost silly, and sometimes shrewd and suggestive.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 180w.
“This story is told as Mr. Chesterton tells things, with wit and paradox nudging you into frequent smiles, with felicitous phrase and apt simile—quotable from page to page.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Chesterton is, in short, a master of fantastic fiction.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 300w.
“An ingenious fabric of topsy-turvey, written with all the dexterous play of phrase and wit that might be expected from the author.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 100w.
“The story, viewed as a mere piece of narration, is up to certain point quite first-rate. Mr. Chesterton cannot be blamed for failing to achieve the impossible—to graft spiritual ecstasy on to riotous extravaganza—but it is a pity that he should be so wanting in self-criticism as to have made the attempt.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Orthodoxy. **$1.50. Lane.
8–28073.
Essays which “are concerned only to discuss the actual fact that the central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles’ creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics.”
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“Lest any one should be tempted again to rediscover Christianity after Mr. Chesterton’s fashion, we should like to point out that before proceeding upon his explorations he should acquire a more satisfactory equipment than Mr. Chesterton has had time to do.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 534. O. 31, 1000w.
“You may be startled, even shocked, by this novel book; but you must admit that the heart of this witty Philistine is in the right place.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by J. B. Rittenhouse.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 588. O. 24, ’08. 2400w.
“This book is as funny as Punch, and it is a new and unusual type of humorous theology.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 842. D. 12, ’08. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 106: sup. 4. O. 24, ’08. 900w.
=Childs, Mary Fairfax.= De namin’ ob de twins, and other sketches from the cotton land. *$1. Dodge, B. W.
8–14809.
In prose and rime these dialect sketches portray the old time negro with his loyalty, irresponsibility, and humor truthfully accentuated. The title piece depicts a grandmother’s indecision over selecting names for her dead Ceely Ann’s twins, with the final choice of “Neu-ral-gy” and “Hom-i-cide.”
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“Embraces a sentiment so tender as to endow it with altogether a rare and charming quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30. ’08. 250w.
=Chisholm, Louey=, comp. Golden staircase: poems and verses for children. il. *$2.50. Putnam.
W7–200.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“A well-selected anthology.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 21. Ja. ’08.
“There is a random choice and a random arrangement: some inclusions of historic interest, other inclusions of undoubted beauty; but between them there is a depression of the mediocre.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Churchill, Winston.= Mr. Crewe’s career. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–13723.
A state, presumably New Hampshire, is under the political domination of a railway. Hilary Vane, chief counsel for the corrupt machine, has a son, a young attorney, who dares to espouse the people’s cause and to defend them against the corporation. Mr. Crewe, a bachelor millionaire, uses the people’s newly aroused demand for rights as an entering wedge into politics. The railroad president and his daughter, a charmingly drawn heroine, play important parts in the story; but the chief interest, in spite of the title, centers in the career of Austin Vane as he stands unflinchingly for clean politics, and, not without a struggle, quickens his father’s conscience to the point of resigning his office.
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“The tale possesses vitality and interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08. ✠
“It will hasten the great awakening that shall save democracy from the night of reaction and despotism.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 122. Jl. ’08. 1900w.
“The human interest is even more poignant than in previous novels by this author, whose present work marks a distinct advance.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 723. Je. 13. 250w.
“His book is too long, is rather loosely put together, and the manner of its setting forth is almost slovenly at times, but it is a story that has vitality, is informed by a fine idealism, and is possessed of an interest that does not pall.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 349. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Crewe is a unique creation in American fiction.” James MacArthur.
+ =Forum.= 40: 60. Jl. ’08. 1650w.
“The book has the accent of reality rather than fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1400. Je. 18, ’08. 800w.
“On the whole, it is clear that this popular novelist is growing in power. His style is still quite without distinction, and often slovenly. But his people are people (Humphrey Crewe being exaggerated as the irony of his conception demands), and the atmosphere in which they move is that of a ripened and really admirable humor.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 447. My. 14, ’08. 600w.
“The book is not devoid of a fine tone of inspiration for the new generation of voters, but, however steadily there may burn in it the splendid determination of the author to do what he can to purify politics, it lacks the fire of imagination.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 261. My. 9, ’08. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“All Mr. Churchill’s novels have been American to the core; none more than this. As a story there are defects in its construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 323. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
“The novel belongs to the minority that call into play the reader’s mental faculties and provide agreeable exercise for them.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“A certain real phase of American life is exhibited, and, from many points of view, it is a near approach to the American novel.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 350w.
“That one should thus criticise it as a pamphlet rather than as a work of art is inevitable from the author’s almost avowed partiality.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 698. My. 30, ’08. 670w.
“The excellence of Mr. Churchill’s analysis of American politics is shown by his refusal to label all those concerned in them as either angels or devils.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 870. My. 30, ’08. 1000w.
=Clark, Francis Edward.= Continent of opportunity: the South American republics. **$1.50. Revell.
7–39011.
Their history, their resources, their outlook, together with a traveler’s impressions of present day conditions. Of Dr. Clark’s observations regarding the possibilities for intellectual and material development in South America he says: “In all material matters, ... in her mines and manufactures, in her forests and fisheries, in her commerce and agriculture, in her schools and churches, in her politics and business, South America is to-day pre-eminently the continent of opportunity.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08. ✠
“Dr. Clark’s descriptions are never dull and are often relieved in the most pleasant way by a touch of humor; only as the author had no time, in the course of his trip, to wander away from the beaten tracks and to get a glimpse of the byways, those descriptions seldom reveal any new aspects of life or of nature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
“He has an entertaining style, albeit his writing is sometimes deplorably careless, and he has tried to consider justly both the faults and the virtues of South American character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 120w.
* =Clark, Henry W.= Christian method of ethics. **$1.25. Revell.
8–25722.
The ultimate ideal of Christian ethics as stated by Mr. Clark is “an automatic right adjustment to every circumstance, an instinctive right bearing toward every question of duty and every temptation to wrong.” “The presentation of religion as something worthy of supreme effort, rather than the easing down and popularizing of Christianity which is now the fashion of many churches, is Mr. Clark’s message, and such a message makes a really far stronger appeal to young men and women than can be made by any easy-going demands on their spiritual natures.” (Ind.)