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=Bacheller, Irving Addison.=^{[5]} Hand-made gentleman: a tale of the battles of peace. †$1.50. Harper.
9–10497.
James Henry McCarthy, son of an uneducated wash-woman, discovers early in life that he is not a gentleman, and, with the aid of Lord Chesterfield’s letters, sets to work to attain ideals of good breeding. Having unusual ability for organizing business, he first achieves success in a private commercial industry, and afterwards makes himself necessary to the business of railroad consolidation, then in its incipiency.
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“As a novel less successful than ‘Eben Holden.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 185. Je. ’09.
“In his last book he has returned to his earlier manner and has written with the same sweet wizardry that made ‘Darrel of the Blessed Isles’ one of the most delightful spells ever cast by an author in fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1343. Je. 17, ’09. 300w.
“It is written in his usual inimitable style.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 851. My. 15, ’09. 250w.
“This story has something approaching the free panoramic effect of ‘Huckleberry Finn.’ His humor is as genuine, though with a leaning toward sentiment, and the flavor of his people and his scenes is as truly of the soil as Mr. Clemens’s or Mr. De Morgan’s. It is delightful to find an American novelist now and then who can picture American types without self-consciousness.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 562. Je. 3, ’09. 420w.
“Is according to brand, but not quite up to sample. More bluntly put, his latest effort still retains the flavor of the workshop and shows its joints a little more freely than workmen approve.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 339. My. 29, ’09. 400w.
“Mr. Bacheller entertainingly describes rural New York in the period immediately after the close of ‘the’ war. There is nothing depressing throughout the book—everything is cheerful and warm hearted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
“Its love story no one cares for, its literary form is odd, its plot is negligible, but it is decidedly worth while.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 390. Je. 19, ’09. 80w.
“The new story is quite as effective as anything that the author has done.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 760. Je. ’09. 80w.
=Bacheller, Irving Addison.=^{[11]} The master. **$1.20. Doubleday.
9–28042.
This is many stories in one; but first of all it shows the influence of one Christlike soul over the dominant spirit of one styled “The Napoleon of Discontent.” The latter is head of a chain of anarchy that encircles the world, he has planned a campaign of blood and warfare, when this friend publishes a book preaching peace and helpfulness and the world supposes that the anarchist leader has written it. At once he is sought by wealth and power, offers of help pour in upon him and he finds himself more powerful as a leader of a peace movement than he had dared hope to be as a bloody avenger. Interwoven with this great theme is a tale of villainy and crime, an account of a school for novelists and also a charming love story.
=Bacon, Benjamin Wisner.=^{[10]} Commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians. (Bible for home and school.) *50c. Macmillan.
9–25114.
A commentary that, in keeping with the aim of the series, offers Bible students the results of the best modern scholarship as brought to bear on the study of Galatians.
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“The comment is sympathetic, intelligent, and stimulating.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 360. N. ’09. 50w.
=Bacon, Josephine Dodge (Daskam).= An idyll of All fool’s day. †$1.25. Dodd.
8–23558.
A book of “busy nonsense” which records the adventures of a young man and a maid during a day’s outing. “Of course, from the time Mrs. Bacon’s youthful Benedick and Beatrice exchange hostilities at first glance, one foresees that on the last page the moon will be throwing a needless glory over youth and love and laughter, but the events of the day that work the change are none the less piquantly unexpected for leading to a foregone conclusion.” (Nation.)
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“Bright, light and as amusing as impossible.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 54. F. ’09. ✠
“The action is continuous and amuses by its very impossibility.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 282. Mr. 18, ’09. 140w.
=Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam.=^{[11]} In the border country. **$1. Doubleday.
9–27445.
Here are three visions seen long years apart by a woman who three times, from different causes, hovers between life and death at the border land of consciousness. They show to her, and through her they teach us, that the work of woman is great in that it is a never ending service. The first vision comes to her when she hopes to be a famous artist and says to her: “Let men make pictures: do you make men!” The second, coming at a time when she is overwrought with trying to live her own life as well as her husband’s and her children’s, shows her that she need not make great songs but only teach them to her children. When she is grown old and willing to rest and ponder upon what life may be at a sunset window, the third vision comes to teach her that “We are running streams that muddy, if we settle. We have to live and find life out in living.” The three, too charmingly fanciful to be mere preachment, teach a great lesson to the restless, ambitious woman of today.
=Baddeley, John F.= Russian conquest of the Caucasus. *$5. Longmans.
9–2520.
“Not one man in a hundred knows or cares what happened in the Caucasus during the first sixty years of the last century; it has been left to Mr. Baddeley to tell us a story from which we can gather lessons that would have saved us lives and money immeasurable in our fiascos during our wars on the North-West frontier of India or even in our late contest with the Boers. Every one of the difficulties we have encountered in our wars with semi-civilised races, from Highlanders to Pathans, Zulus, and Boers, was met by Russian generals in the Caucasus.... Mr. Baddeley has saturated himself with a ‘genius loci’ before putting pen to paper.... And we have now for the first time in English a connected narrative from first to last of the startling succession of incidents that forms the history of one of the most magnificent mountain regions of the globe.”—Sat. R.
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“In its impartial estimate of the essential strength and weakness of the Murid movement, its careful balancing of the case for the conquered with the case for the conquerors, lies the chief value of Mr. Baddeley’s sketch; and for this he has placed all students of modern Russia under obligation. As a piece of historical writing the work proves to be of very uneven character. Mr. Baddeley lacks the historian’s touch, and this is nowhere more evident than in the first half of the book. Here the narrative is labored and perfunctory in the extreme. Part 2, on the contrary, offers some very good reading.” C. E. Fryer.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 583. Ap. ’09. 620w.
“Of limited use in the public library but an interesting addition to the literature of frontier warfare and of considerable value for the study of Russian history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 154. Je. ’09.
“No complete history of the conquest has ever been published, even in Russian, and this work of Mr. Baddeley is therefore a most important and useful contribution. A book that should appeal to a general reading public and not merely to those interested in military affairs.” S: N. Harper.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 197. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“[There are] one or two trifling inaccuracies in the text. He writes well, he has a thorough knowledge of the Russian language, and he is an enthusiast for the Caucasus.” Oliver Wardrop.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 599. Jl. ’09. 1100w.
“His main subject, the wars of the Russians with the tribesmen, has never before been presented to English readers. Of them he gives a clear and impartial, but not a particularly animated narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 53. Jl. 15, ’09. 220w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 189. Ap. 3, ’09. 270w.
“Travels and history have rarely been more aptly combined and set before us in an appetising dish. It represents thoroughly good work from beginning to end, and it deserves to find a place in every library. We have praised highly but not more so than is deserved. If the book has a fault it lies not so much with the author as with his subject.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 763. D. 19, ’08. 1100w.
“His is a very fine achievement, and he may well be proud of it. The publication of this book is an event in the English study of Russian history.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 881. N. 28, ’08. 1800w.
=Bagot, Richard.=^{[7]} Anthony Cuthbert: a novel $1.50. Brentano’s.
9–19668.
A story set in Italy which deals with the tragedy that a beautiful girl brings into an innocent man’s life. “When, two months after parting with her lover of a day, Sonia becomes the wife of his uncle, Anthony Cuthbert, unaware of the relationship between the two men, it is apparent that we are faced with a situation as repellent as the peculiarly heartless and sordid intrigue which brought it about. Mr. Bagot solves the difficulty ingeniously enough, but the final picture of Anthony complacently regarding his nephew’s son as his own, even if it can be reconciled with what is known of human nature (which seems doubtful), is one on which few, presumably, will care to dwell.” (Sat. R.)
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“A garrulous style, a mass of unessential trivialities which retard the action and try the reader’s patience, and dialogue generally stilted and unnatural go far to discount the fatalistic impressiveness of the main idea.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 150w.
“In spite of a few strong episodes, this book is distinctly below the usual level of Mr. Bagot’s work, and in theme is needlessly and painfully offensive.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 30: 67. S. ’09. 270w.
“Unfortunately, it is disagreeable without being impressive.”
− =Nation.= 89: 238. S. 9, ’09. 500w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
“In the present story it is impossible not to feel that he has overstepped the bounds, not simply of conventionality, but of artistic restraint and good taste.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 462. Jl. 31, ’09. 220w.
“There is no true pleasure to be got out of a story of this kind.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. Bagot sets himself a thoroughly unpleasant task in the plot of his new novel, and he does not succeed in carrying it out without offending against many of the canons of good taste.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 1106. D. 26, ’08. 140w.
=Bagwell, Richard.=^{[6]} Ireland under the Stuarts and during the interregnum. 2v. *$10.50. Longmans.
9–17184.
These volumes complete the history of Ireland to the restoration. They describe the dealings of the English government with Ireland during the transition from Tudor to Stuart rule which period includes the effacement of the tribal system. The vital questions presented are the Settlement of Ulster, the career of Strafford, the rebellion of 1641, and the war and the confiscation that grew out of it.
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“In one direction, and that unconnected with the narrative, the present volumes may be open to criticism. That is in the scarcity of maps. In short, Mr. Bagwell has not merely produced the best history of Ireland during this period, but the only one in its class. And he has laid a heavy debt of gratitude on reader and scholar alike for a contribution of the highest value in a field at once one of the most difficult and important in modern history.” W. C. Abbott.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 812. Jl. ’09. 950w.
“Occasionally there are signs of the easy writing which makes hard reading, and we wish that Mr. Bagwell would in future put the exact date of the occurrences he is describing in the margin, as a check to discursiveness. We should like to congratulate Mr. Bagwell on a fine piece of work. We are sure Mr. Bagwell will carry with him the judgment of most students of Irish history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 457. Ap. 17. 1450w.
“While each single paragraph is good, his book as a whole is unsatisfactory. Added to this, and perhaps because of it, his horizon is a limited one. ‘Ireland under the Stuarts’ is worthy to be placed alongside ‘Ireland under the Tudors,’ and this is high praise.” R. Dunlop.
+ − =Eng. Hist.= R. 24: 797. O. ’09. 1550w.
“One may regret the absence of certain maps which would be useful to the reader, and the inadequacies of the indexes; one may note certain obscurities or omissions in the text; one may wonder at the lack of reference to the work of continental scholars; yet, when all is said, Mr. Bagwell has enriched the history of Ireland and historical literature generally.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 487. My. 13, ’09. 1050w.
“Our author is diligent and judicious, tells his story clearly, and has produced a work which ought to be (though it will not be) carefully studied by everyone who intends to allude to the events of the seventeenth century in Ireland. He is, perhaps, a little too contemptuous of certain legends which have obtained wide currency.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 443. O. 9, ’09. 1500w.
“The two volumes before us are characterised by the thorough and workmanlike treatment which gained their author his reputation some twenty years ago.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 938. Je. 12, ’09. 1300w.
=Bailey, John Cann.=^{[7]} Claims of French poetry: nine studies in the greater French poets. $2.50. Kennerley.
W8–89.
Aims to discover and illustrate what may be a reasonable attitude for an English lover of poetry to assume with regard to some of the poets of France. Following an introduction the essays are as follows: English taste and French drama; Marot; Ronsard; La Fontaine; André Chénier; Victor Hugo; Leconte de Lisle; Heredia.
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“Mr. Bailey is at his best when he accepts and praises, but it is a little difficult to follow him in his apology for Marot. In the essays on Ronsard, Chénier, Hugo, Leconte de Lisle and Heredia, Mr. Bailey is at his best.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 33. Ja. 11. 1000w.
“In spite of certain conspicuous merits, Mr. Bailey’s volume does not wholly satisfy the expectations which it raises.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 307. S. 30, ’09. 630w.
“If only for the fortunate manner in which the essentially poetic nature of the great fabulist is disclosed and illustrated, Mr. Bailey’s book deserves a hearty welcome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 418. Jl. 3, ’09. 750w.
“This is an honest, capable, and on the whole entertaining book; its aim is to interest English readers in French poetry, and its quotations are in themselves enough for that purpose. The writing is careful, a little loose, sometimes very happily turned.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 731. D. 14, ’07. 750w.
“A series of interesting and sympathetic studies. Mr. Bailey though he says nothing of Malherbe is as hostile as Mr. Lucas to the whole school of classical poetry of which Malherbe was the forerunner and the prophet. This is all the more to be regretted, since his essays show clearly enough that Mr. Bailey possesses in no small degree that quality of sympathy without which all criticism is a vain and empty thing.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1051. D. 21, ’07. 1000w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=,^{[7]} ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the United States and Canada. v. 4. $5. Macmillan.
7–8529.
=v. 4.= “Is in part statistical and historical, in part social and educational. It considers the natural resources of agriculture, questions of labor in its relation to land, and of business organization in relation to agriculture. The further one looks into the four massive volumes of which this work consists, the more fully does one realize that it can be truly described as a popular survey of agriculture and its allied subjects. The illustrations which embellish these books have practical value and are in line and half-tone, the full-page plates being carefully printed on supercalendered paper.”—Lit. D.
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“It gathers together from many sources a large mass of material hitherto unobtainable in book form.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 129. My. ’09. (Review of v. 4.)
“This cyclopedia should be put at the head of the list of books to be bought by every public library having a farming constituency. The smaller the library the more important that it should have it, for it would require many other volumes to take its place.”
+ + =Ind.= 66: 981. My. 6, ’09. 570w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Altogether Dr. Bailey’s work adequately fills a place that has long remained vacant.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 38: 1069. Je. 19, ’09. 750w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Volume 4 contains more than one can find elsewhere, even though it does not contain all that one would like to find in it.”
+ + − =Nation.= 89: 18. Jl. 1, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Well would it be if the fourth volume, or at least parts of it, could be placed in the hands of a multitude of thoughtful readers, for it contains the best knowledge attainable of the development in farm and country life along historical, commercial, and economic lines.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 268. Ap. 24, ’09. 750w. (Review of v. 4.)
“A very important contribution to the literature of farming and farm-life.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“The person who will read intelligently these four books will have absorbed a large part of the best knowledge of American agriculture, and he will find that henceforth he will read agricultural periodicals and technical bulletins and books on agriculture and country life with more discernment.” W. M. Hays.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 30: 444. O. 1, ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.=^{[11]} Nature-study idea: an interpretation of the new school-movement to put the young into relation and sympathy with nature. 3d ed. rev. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–27583.
A third revised edition of Professor Bailey’s authoritative nature study work. He leaves unchanged his fundamental contentions that the movement is not the product of “eminent scientific men” but it belongs to the common schools; that its first object is a science-teaching movement, and its second, a nature-study movement; and that its purpose is to enable every person to live a richer life, whatever his business or profession may be. The changes introduced are such as have grown out of the author’s new view point that came with the change from teaching to administrative work.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 718. N. 20, ’09. 100w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= State and the farmer. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22260.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Every chapter contains valuable suggestions from a man of ripe experience.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 552. Ja. ’09. 110w.
“Dean Bailey advances striking arguments in support of his thesis.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 450. Mr. ’09. 110w.
“The author’s philosophy of life is woven into every paragraph of this book. This philosophy is virile. It is put in forceful words which will be understood by all. The spirit of life is in the book, hence the book will live.” H: C. Taylor.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 305. D. ’08. 600w.
“This book is marked by lucidity of style, soundness of judgment and breadth of view.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 712. D. ’08. 150w. + =Nature.= 81: 157. Ag. 5, ’09. 400w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.=^{[11]} Training of farmers. **$1. Century.
E9–1594.
A popular, suggestive, authoritative presentation of the farmer’s place in the scheme of American development, his possibilities and his obligations to society. The first general division deals with The means of training farmers; the second, with The school and the college in relation to farm training.
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=R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 80w.
=Bain, Francis Wilson.= Incarnation of the snow; tr. from the original manuscript by F. W. Bain. †$1.25. Putnam.
8–25743.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Few writers have a better vocabulary for translating the moon-capering spirit in Indian mysticism than Mr. Bain commands.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 590. Mr. 18, ’09. 300w.
“Falls in no way below the level of its delightful predecessors. Indeed, we question whether the earlier books can show anything equal to the preface.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 156. Ja. 30, ’09. 300w.
=Bain, Robert Nisbet.=^{[11]} Last king of Poland and his contemporaries. **$3. Putnam.
A sketch of the life of Stanislaus Poniatowski thruout which are vividly pictured the influences that caused the downfall of Poland; among them, class prejudice, religious controversy, useless Diets, and great waste and extravagance.
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“We heartily commend Mr. Bain’s book, which is the most sympathetic and authentic on Poland since that published some years ago by George Brandes.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 455. O. 16. 1000w.
“Mr. Nisbet Bain has written for us this mournful chapter in the history of a decadent nation, with a brilliancy and point not common excepting in the writings of French historians. The tale is as exciting as a romance, and reflects much of that realistic description of manners, good and bad, which we find in the works of Balzac.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 633. O. 16, ’09. 360w.
“Bain’s work is a valuable contribution to the modern history of Europe.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 629. O. 23, ’09. 1200w.
“A scholarly and strongly written volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 757. D. ’09. 120w.
=Bainbridge, William Seaman.=^{[7]} Life’s day: guide-posts and danger-signals in health. **$1.35. Stokes.
9–10809.
A volume based upon a series of lectures delivered at Chautauqua by the author. There are “no pet theories, no fads, no panacea. He states clearly and directly the conclusions attained by enlightened science and sound common sense working harmoniously for the hygienic salvation of ordinary people in this present-day world.” (Cath. World.) “It begins with the baby, in the chapter called ‘Dawn,’ and follows the man thru the working day to ‘Twilight,’ ending in ‘Night,’ with many sensible and scientific suggestions as to wise avoidance of danger and proper physiological ethics.” (Ind.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 154. Je. ’09.
“The characteristic note is one of moderation in all things, whether it be diet, exercise or parental guidance.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 174. Jl. ’09. 120w.
“An amount of useful information and of sane advice that will serve the uses of the general public better than a whole library of medical and surgical literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 404. Je. ’09. 200w.
“It is free from any trace of the morbid or the pessimistic.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 42. Jl. 1, ’09. 90w.
“The advice is generally good and the book ought to help many of the class for which it was written.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 217. S. 2, ’09. 110w.
“A really helpful manual of health.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 640. My. ’09. 80w.
=Baird, Annie L. A.=^{[12]} Daybreak in Korea: a tale of transformation in the Far East. **60c. Revell.
9–8931.
“A simple story, by a woman, of her Korean sister’s life in its phases of child-wife, widow, and slave. Though the leading character may be fictitious, yet all the facts and incidents narrated have come within the experience of the writer, and give a most vivid impression of the degradation and misery of the heathen peasant woman. Some interesting illustrations add to its attractiveness.”—Nation.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 68. N. ’09. ✠
“The transforming of Christianity and the happiness which it brings into these gloomy lives are so strikingly portrayed as to make the book a demonstration of the value of missions which cannot be gainsaid.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 512. My. 2, ’09. 120w.
=Baird, Jean Katharine.=^{[11]} Sixty-five on time. $1.25. Saalfield.
9–26320.
Just before Jim Crissman, conductor on number sixty-five, is seriously injured in a wreck, he is asked by a young vagabond, found on his train, to deliver a message to a famous surgeon. Crissman’s recovery from the accident is attended with a loss of memory. He has forgotten all of his past, having but a dim recollection of something he was to tell some one. After a number of years, memory is restored by an operation performed by the very surgeon for whom he had a message. Thru the delivery of the belated message a father and son, long estranged, are reunited.
=Baker, Alfred.= Life of Sir Isaac Pitman. *$2. Pitman.
9–8038.
Sketches the career of the man who invented shorthand and who agitated spelling reform. The story of his life is the story of self education, hard work and definite accomplishment. While Pitman did not live to see his cherished scheme of spelling reform realized, his efforts can be traced in the latter-day interests in simplified spelling.
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+ =Cath. World.= 88: 825. Mr. ’09. 420w.
“The work should interest all stenographers and teachers of stenography. It will also be of value to spelling reforms.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 303. F. 20, ’09. 110w.
“Mr. Baker’s story is very interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 58. Ja. 30, ’09. 330w.
“A useful biographical work. It may be said that slightly undue emphasis is laid upon minor incidents in the life of this inventor. The general story, however, was well worth telling.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 763. Je. ’09. 100w. + =Spec.= 102: sup. 158. Ja. 30, ’09. 480w.
=Baker, Etta Anthony.=^{[11]} Girls of Fairmount. †$1.50. Little.
9–25809.
A story of life among a group of girls at a finishing school. Wholesome ideals are exploited instead of the superficial ones that are cultivated in many schools of the sort.
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“Commends itself because of its glow of youth.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1015. D. 4, ’09. 150w.
=Baker, Rev. James F. B.=^{[5]} Nestorius and his teaching: a fresh examination of the evidence; with special reference to the newly recovered Apology of Nestorius (The bazaar of Heraclides). Putnam.
Based upon a fresh examination of the evidence bearing on the teaching of Nestorius, this contribution to theological study aims to promote closer relations and intercommunion between the church of England and the “Nestorian” church.
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“While this does not in the least diminish the scholarly merits of the book, we can see that it is with unconcealed pleasure that the writer reaches the conclusion that Nestorius was not ‘Nestorian.’” H. L. Taylor.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 298. Ap. ’09. 440w.
“Mr. Bethune-Baker has conducted a detailed examination into the doctrines held by the arch-heretic with acuteness, learning, and impartiality; and it is hardly possible to read his book without sharing his conclusion.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 428. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
“We must be content with strongly recommending Mr. Bethune-Baker’s volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1036. Je. 27, ’08. 520w.
=Baker, Ray Stannard.= Following the color line. **$2. Doubleday.
8–31180.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“A study of the negro problem remarkable for its objectivity and psychological insight.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 119. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“The treatment of the question is sane and impartial.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 283. D. ’08. ✠
“The best book yet written for the general reader, describing the actual present situation of the negro, and the problems growing out of the presence in a white civilization. The book has a good tone. The author is not a pessimist. The illustrations are numerous and excellent.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 466. Mr. ’09. 550w.
“There is a great wealth of material in Mr. Baker’s book, which needs to be studied by every one who would form a well-based opinion on racial conditions in the South.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 484. Mr. 4, ’09. 430w.
“Mr. Baker’s attitude is that of the experienced newspaper reporter practised in observing closely and in following clues, skilled in choosing relevant and illustrative facts, accustomed to describing things as he sees them, but without marked sense of perspective.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 92. Ja. 28, ’09. 180w.
“Is essentially a piece of journalism. As such it is very successful. Its chief value, perhaps, is found in its record of the attempt on the part of members of both races to develop a spirit and method of co-operation.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 271. My. 29, ’09. 150w.
“Has set down his story in a spirit of fairness, although he has not veiled his sympathy with the negro in the struggle upward. There is not much new in the book, however. Nevertheless, the book is full of intense human interest, and it ought to take high rank among the ‘documents’ on the negro question.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 564. S. ’09. 160w.
“That part of the book that will prove of the greatest interest is the fascinating and continual play of opinion that enters into every chapter. Deserves careful and serious reading.” M. W. Ovington.
+ =Survey.= 22: 348. Je. 5, ’09. 950w.
=Baker, Ray Stannard.= New ideals in healing. **85c. Stokes.
9–4938.
A first exposition of the Emmanuel movement and the medical profession’s allied activity. The first part is devoted to “Healing the sick in the churches,” and the second to “The new mission of the doctor.” “As the Emmanuel movement is only one of many new efforts or experiments of the church to place itself in the full current of the new thought, so the work of Dr. Cabot in extending the influence and service of the hospital is only one of many notable activities of the medical profession.... The clergyman is discovering that a man has a body: and a doctor, that he has a soul.”
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 99. Ap. ’09. ✠ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 181. Mr. 27, ’09. 220w.
“It uses psychological terms without careful discrimination.”
− =Outlook.= 93: 644. N. 20, ’09. 130w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 507. Ap. ’09. 220w.
=Baldwin, May.= Holly House and Ridges Row. †$1.50. Lippincott.
In story form are set forth for children interesting bits of information about London past and present.
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“A brightly written story.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 253. Ja. ’09. 40w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
“The girls take walks, and explain all sorts of places, old and new, information as to which Miss Baldwin has collected copiously and gives out again in quite discreet and readable doses.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 9. D. 12, ’08. 70w.
=Baldwin, William Alpheus.= Industrial-social education. $1.50. Bradley, M.
E8–36.
“The story of a movement which has been a gradual growth. It gives the underlying principles of selection, the kind of activities which, while adapted to Hyannis, are suggestive for the public schools of the state. Finally, the teachers of the different grades tell how they do the work. Interesting and helpful illustrations accompany the text.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The book is full of enthusiasm and common-sense. All teachers will be helped by considering the way useful activities indoors and out were made fundamental in the school life of Hyannis.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 189. Ja. ’09. 270w.
“Set forth in an interesting way.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 36. Mr. 18, ’09. 320w.
=Ball, Oona H.=^{[7]} Their Oxford year. 6s. Methuen, London.
A pleasant story written by the wife of a Canadian professor who is devoting his Sabbatical year to work in historic Oxford. “They meet the people whom they might be expected to meet,—heads of houses, professors, tutors, undergraduates, and residents, the newcomers through whom, thanks to the academical changes and other causes, the population of half-a-century has been almost doubled. All these are very pleasantly drawn.” (Spec.)
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“Mrs. Ball writes very pleasantly, if somewhat discursively, about Oxford life, which she evidently knows well from the inside.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 697. Je. 12. 180w.
“This book is little more than a repetition of the same writer’s ‘Barbara goes to Oxford,’ and shows evidence of fatigue.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 142. Jl. 31, ’09. 130w.
“Its contents are mainly fact, very pleasantly pictured. The Latin might have been more carefully corrected.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 784. My. 15, ’09. 380w.
=Ball, Robert Steele.= Natural sources of power. *$2. Van Nostrand.
9–5180.
The contents cover: Water power and methods of measuring; Application of water power to the propulsion of machinery; The hydraulic turbine; Various types of turbines; Construction of water-power plants; Water-power installations; The regulation of turbines; Wind pressure, velocity and methods of measuring; The application of wind power to industry; Modern windmills—constructional details; and Power of modern windmills.
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“Written primarily for the student, but of value also to the professional engineer.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 99. Ap. ’09.
“The book has been made readable and interesting, not only to the engineer, but to every manufacturer who is in a position to economize on his means of power production by taking the natural forces that lie at his hand and harnessing them in his service.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 171. F. ’09. 350w.
“This book, though brief in its treatment of the subject, possesses many features of value to the engineer. While it neither pretends to, nor does present anything new in regard to water and air power, it forms a compilation in condensed and convenient form, making it a valuable work of reference.” F. C. Finkle.
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 36. O. 14, ’09. 1050w.
“The book can be specially recommended to those readers who, while not being specialists in the particular branch dealt with, desire to obtain a general survey of the subject.” C. C. G.
+ =Nature.= 79: 4. N. 5, ’08. 900w.
=Balmer, Edwin.=^{[6]} Waylaid by wireless; a suspicion, a warning, a sporting proposition, and a transatlantic pursuit. †$1.50. Small.
9–15088.
The English cathedral towns furnish a background for this story whose plot centers about a series of robberies in which American tourists are victims. The real thief, a wily Englishman, puts the guilt upon an innocent American and thru clever manipulation of wireless instruments and messages has him tracked, arrested and locked up. A vivacious American girl plays a willing part in clearing the hero.
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“Breezy story of mediocre merit, improbable, but ingenious in its exposition of the possibilities of wireless telegraphy.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 25. S. ’09.
“This invention alone would have sufficed the author to produce a readable book; for good measure he adds the counter-complication of wireless at sea.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 160w.
“The conversation is always telling and to the point, whether clothed in humor or seriousness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.
=Bancroft, Marie, and Bancroft, Squire.=^{[6]} Bancrofts: recollections of sixty years. *$5. Dutton.
9–20768.
The memories during sixty years of the Bancrofts who in the height of their success were accorded the leadership of the London stage. “The volume contains much interesting theatrical history, a rich fund of personal reminiscense, a rare budget of anecdote. The illustrations comprise many portraits, caricatures, scenes from plays, pictures of buildings. There are many letters from prominent personages. The Bancrofts have been more or less in touch with the leaders of thought and the men of action of their time and country.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Too expensive for its usefulness to the average public library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 6. S. ’09.
“On the whole the figures and financial details are the most interesting features of this book, which is not without ‘padding.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 655. My. 29. 1000w.
“For liveliness and variety, the book is one of the best of its kind.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 186. S. 16, ’09. 230w.
“Their book is full of interesting and often pregnant matter.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 635. Je. 24, ’09. 750w.
“The book has a cheery, optimistic vein, and there is little in it of the acerbity and irony generally associated with the reminiscences of aged actors off the stage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 341. My. 29, ’09. 2000w.
“As a book of theatrical gossip it will prove innocent and entertaining reading to those who enjoy gossip.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 428. Je. 26, ’09. 400w.
“A delightful book.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 7: 243. N. ’09. 120w.
“It is wonderful that two people of sixty-years of age should deliberately put such childish stuff into print. We have never met with anything which shows more clearly how ability on the stage is compatible with general insignificance of intellect and temperament.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 662. My. 22, ’09. 900w.
=Banfield, E. J.=^{[11]} Confessions of a beachcomber: scenes and incidents in the career of an unprofessional beachcomber in tropical Queensland. *$4. Appleton.
9–17185.
“Records the life and observations of an Australian retired from the society of white men on a little island off the north-east coast of tropical Australia. The author prides himself that he has ‘returned to nature,’ but that is almost impossible: he has returned to solitude, to poverty, to freedom, and many other things, but he has not accepted the conditions of nature. He has rejected the burdens of civilization, and gone off with the loot into the wilds; extirpated the native vegetation, and planted the trees that feed him agreeably. And there he sits with his telescope, rainguage, gun, and camera, and laughs at the slaves that stay behind, inventing more such instruments, and sending him groceries by the weekly steamer.”—Ath.
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“He is not a man of science, but he has the instincts of the field naturalists, and writes interestingly of birds and beasts and insects.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 819. D. 2. 240w.
“We would freely acknowledge the literary charm, the wealth of metaphor, the artistic qualifications, and the excellent powers of observation of our beachcomber. At the same time we direct attention to some faults in this work, because we hope to see it pass into a second edition and become a classic for naturalists.” J. S. G.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 403. F. 4, ’09. 680w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 30w.
=Bangs, John Kendrick.=^{[10]} Real thing, and three other farces. $1. Harper.
9–26299.
The first of these four farces, the title piece, is a clever take-off on the servant question. The scene is the office of the Maginnis Employers’ bureau, New York City, where appear not servants for employers to choose, but employers for domestic artists to choose. The reader can imagine what amusement Mr. Bangs could furnish out of this situation. The other pieces, each suited to dramatic reading or monologue, are: The Barrington’s “At home”; The return of Christmas and The side show.
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“Four little farcical plays are very well suited for dramatic reading or for home theatricals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 70w.
=Bankart, George P.= Art of the plasterer: an account of the decorative development of the craft, chiefly in England from the xvith to the xviiith century. *$10. Scribner.
W9–80.
Traces development of plaster work. “The illustrations, of which there are several hundred, are most of them from excellent photographs taken specially for the book or from geometrical drawings by Mr. Bankart, and include complete buildings, portions of ceilings, façades, etc., some on a large scale, with numerous separate reproductions of details such as rib enrichments, heraldic animals, panels, friezes, etc., culled from an immense variety of sources, beginning with antique stucco-duro and coming down to quite modern plaster work, so that they form a complete pictorial epitome of the plasterer’s craft from its first inception to the present day.” (Int. Studio.)
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“A volume which can at once be accepted as a standard work. It can hardly be said that the volume is equally interesting throughout.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 18. Jl. 3. 850w.
“This important work will, no doubt, be widely welcomed, and, it is greatly to be hoped, will do much to inaugurate a much needed reform in the design and execution of decorative stucco. Perhaps the most valuable section of this book, truly unique of its kind, is that in which the causes of the decline in plaster work in England are examined.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 83. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“He has rendered a real service to architects and decorators on both sides of the ocean by setting before them through actual example, the possibilities of a beautiful, but sadly neglected, form of decorative art.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 636. Je. 24, ’09. 280w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 175. Mr. 27, ’09. 400w.
=Banks, Rev. Louis Albert.=^{[12]} Problems of youth: a series of discourses for young people on themes from the book of Proverbs. **$2.50. Funk.
9–28189.
A volume of talks to young people full of the sort of sympathetic and sane counsel that young people will be interested in and heed. Illustrative anecdote is fully used to send the lessons home to readers.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.=^{[11]} Captain Chub. †$1.50. Century.
9–26149.
The fourth “Tom, Dick and Harriet” story, in which the boys rent a house-boat and, with Harry and her father for guests, cruise up and down the Hudson, going ashore now and then for the fun of adventure. They dance, fish, keep store in the absence of the owner, run into a camp of gipsies, and end with a merry house party.
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“Tho this new volume is the fourth in a series, there is no abatement of wholesome fun and adventure.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1015. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.=^{[10]} Double play. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–25638.
In this new baseball story the author continues with the experiences of Dan Vinton, the hero of “Forward pass,” during his second term at Yerdley Hall. The incidents deal, on the one hand, with his mentorship over a wealthy New York boy who gets into a good many scrapes, and on the other, with the hero’s effort to make the baseball team, his final success, and the great game in which he wins the victory for Yerdley Hall. The methods of the baseball coach will interest all who are interested in the training of a team.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.=^{[12]} Lilac girl. †$2. Lippincott.
9–28246.
Another of Mr. Barbour’s illustrated romances which is a symphony in lavender. The heroine is Eve of Eden Village and the hero is a young miner to whom the maid first appeared on the rear platform of a Pullman for a brief moment, in the mountains during a stop for a “hot box.” The daring man makes love to her, swears allegiance, and continues his love-making under more difficult circumstances five years later in a New Hampshire village.
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“The tale is at once sufficiently brief, improbable, and cleverly told, to make an hour or so pass pleasantly.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 160w.
=Barclay, Florence Louisa (Charlesworth).=^{[12]} The rosary. **$1.35. Putnam.
9–29767.
A novel whose love motif is sounded in Nevin’s “Rosary.” Thru her rendering of that song, the plain faced Honorable Jane Champion reveals her soul to a young artist who is reputed to love beauty more than all else in the world; he declares his love for her, and the young woman, believing that her physical imperfections would prove a martyrdom to him, refuses to marry him. She believes that he will go off and forget her and leave her to her lonely life; but his allegiance never falters. One can’t quite forgive the inartistic touch in the story invention that renders the young artist blind before the reconciliation is brought about. It is too great a concession to a homely face and not enough of a justification for the illuminating beauty of the soul.
=Barine, Arvède, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).=^{[11]} Madame, mother of the regent, 1652–1722; tr. by Jeanne Mairet. **$3. Putnam.
9–27598.
A familiar and intimate story of the life of the Duchesse d’Orleans, the second wife of Philippe of France, the younger brother of Louis XIV. It reveals Madame’s uncurbed hostility of a thoroly German temperament against the French people until she came under the spell of Louis XIV; from that moment reconciliation with French life began. Her happiness, later domestic troubles, her great jealousy of Mme. de Maintenon and her association with Louis XIV are set forth in clear relief against a background of social and political France.
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“A cleverly-written account. The translation is commendably fluent and readable.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 458. D. 1, ’09. 210w.
“M. Barine’s is most interesting. Altho the translator does not appear to have been born under the star of Addison, or exactly to the idiom of Addison, the translator makes herself intelligible. The work is a valuable addition to the history of social life in France during the age of Molière.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 683. O. 23, ’09. 950w.
“Altogether the story of her life is wrought into a delightful bit of comedy, not, however, to the neglect of its more serious aspects.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 547. D. 2, ’09. 370w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 140w.
=Baring, Maurice.=^{[5]} Russian essays and stories. 5s. Methuen and co., London.
A book that “helps to fill the gap of ignorance that still remains of a country with which we ought to be better acquainted. Mr. Baring has resided long enough among the Russians to have become master of their language and a welcome fellow-traveller to the sérroy naród (the lower classes). He has made it his practice to travel third class, to talk and hobnob in tea with the peasant, the soldier, the cobbler, and the Jew. His only object in writing the book, he states, is to give a record of things seen. To the two vital questions in Russian economics—that of the peasant and of the Jews—the author devotes several interesting and instructive chapters.”—Sat. R.
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“Is one of the most picturesque and fresh books on Russia which we have seen for a long time.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 315. Mr. 13. 400w.
“We welcome this book. It presents a true picture of Russian life and character taken from nature. Mr. Baring’s deductions regarding the causes of the hate the Russians have for the Jews are in our opinion erroneous.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 312. Mr. 6, ’09. 420w.
“No one writing in English gives us a more truthful picture of the Russian peasant as he works and lives and talks.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 133. Ja. 23, ’09. 1500w.
=Baring-Gould, Sabine.= Cornish characters and strange events. *$5. Lane.
9–6566.
“A volume of nearly eight hundred pages filled with all sorts of curious matter. In general arrangement it is a collection of biographies of those Cornish celebrities who have escaped interment in the National cemetery so ably planned and laid out and filled by Leslie Stephen and his successor in the editorial chair. Cornwall’s comparative isolation, as the author remarks, ‘has tended to develop in it much originality of character; and the wildness of the coast has bred a hearty race of seamen and smugglers; the mineral wealth, moreover, drew thousands of men underground, and the underground life of the mines has a peculiar effect on mind and character.’ A forty-three-page index conveys some idea of Cornwall’s wealth in noteworthy characters.”—Dial.
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“The volume is as a whole distinctly entertaining, and contains only a few well-known or hackneyed subjects.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 701. Je. 12. 400w.
“How the subject could have been more exhaustively treated, the reader of this thick octavo would find it hard to indicate.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 463. D. 16, ’08. 180w.
“As a whole, it cannot be said that the book gives the reader a strong impression of the imaginative character of the people and the land.”
− =Nation.= 87: 627. D. 24, ’08. 220w. =Sat. R.= 107: 792. Je. 19, ’09. 110w.
=Baring-Gould, Sabine.=^{[12]} Family names and their story. $3. Lippincott.
A thoroly informing book on an interesting subject. “In his introductory chapter the author gives us some curious instances of how a confusion, naturally great, has been worse confounded by ignorance and carelessness, but in the next he brings us to somewhat firmer ground, and shows how names have developed. The first distinctions were tribal only; the tribal name gave way to the personal; the personal name had to be supplemented by descriptive appellations; last of all, the surname became hereditary.” (Spec.) He suggests the course of evolution in the case of many names thereby keeping the reader’s close attention.
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“This is an interesting book; indeed, it is admirable in some respects because, although not a little has been written on the subject by others, it adds much to our knowledge; but we are bound to say that some of its statements are open to question.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 586. N. 13. 1300w.
“Mr. Baring-Gould will be found a very instructive and entertaining guide by those who will follow him in such explorations as he has been able to make. We promise the readers of the volume plenty of amusement, and doubtless not a few occasions of debate.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 691. O. 30, ’09. 600w.
=Barker, Edward Harrison.= France of the French. *$1.50. Scribner.
9–5988.
“A book of reference, description, and discussion. In it we learn about contemporary French statesmen, scientists, inventors, authors, architects, painters, sculptors, dramatists, players, composers, singers. Especially do we learn about certain ‘Lights and shadows.’ Among the latter are, for instance, the blight of politics in its ‘tendency to descend to mere intrigue, faction-fighting, and Byzantism.’... Another shadow is, of course, that of pornographic literature and journalism.... But the lovers of the real France will welcome the ‘lights’ too, as described by Mr. Barker—the amazing industry, frugality, and thrift of the people, their kindness, good-fellowship, hospitality, and, what is little understood by those who visit Paris only, the emphasis on family life and the respect shown to age.”—Outlook.
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“A cyclopedic work that touches very briefly on almost every phase of modern French life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 6. S. ’09. ✠
“Meets a want which, if not yet long-felt, is none the less genuine.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 299. My. 1, ’09. 330w.
“Mr. Barker’s volume may be best described as an attempt to clothe the skeleton structures of ‘Who’s who’ with sufficient flesh for the uses of the average American newspaper office. This the author has done very successfully.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 444. Ap. 29, ’09. 430w.
“There is hardly any phase of French life which is not brought before us in Mr. Barker’s book and clearly illuminated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 400w. + =Outlook.= 91: 535. Mr. 6, ’09. 250w.
=Barker, Elsa.=^{[10]} Son of Mary Bethel. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–24253.
Set in Nashburg, Vermont, this story sketches a modern parallel of the Christ mission. The chief character is Jesse Bethel, a modern divinity, who is supplied “with parables and sermons, many of them of distinct spiritual beauty and valuable in themselves, but losing in impressiveness by reason of the inevitable comparison. The other characters are closely reminiscent of the apostles, Mary Magdalen, Lazarus, Mary the Mother, and others. Jesse Bethel preaches a mixture of socialism, pantheism, and mysticism intensely modern in inception.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The author is a woman who has not only plagiarized the New Testament and the acts of the apostles for her material, but Madam Blavatzsky as well as other theosophists, yogi, mystics, mental scientists, Christian scientists and spiritualists. It is the most naïvely composite compendium of quotations ever dramatized as fiction and designed as Scripture. All told, the book is harmless. If the reader is perfectly sane and normal he will not understand the worst parts of it, which are merely bad on the mind, and if his faculties have already been dissolved by the New thoughters, his case is hopeless anyhow and he might as well buy it and enjoy it.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 878. O. 14, ’09. 900w.
“If Miss Barker has a message of real spiritual import to give us, it is unfortunate that she chose this method, for it is not one which will appeal to those who hold the orthodox tenets of Christianity; and to others, while due recognition must be paid to her elevation of thought and reverent treatment of her theme, the value of the book is doubtful.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 551. S. 18, ’09. 330w.
=Barker, Ethel Ross.= Buried Herculaneum. *$3. Macmillan.
9–5985.
An account of the excavations of Herculaneum and of their products. “A brief description of the various works of art that are figured in the illustrations; also full tables of the various objects found, arranged in a convenient form.” (Ath.)
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“Briefer and less entertaining than Waldstein but more convenient and satisfactory for the general reader wishing an introduction to the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 71. Mr. ’09.
“Its bibliography is more serviceable for students than that of the larger work [Prof. Waldstein’s], because it is classified and accompanied by brief critical notes. The book serves excellently to supply the compendious account of these excavations that has long been needed both by the student and the general reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 108. Ja. 23. 210w.
“It is neither so well written nor so entertaining as Waldstein, the only other modern work on the subject, but is more unified and less extravagant, and is to be preferred as an introduction to a somewhat neglected subject.” Grant Showerman.
+ − =Class. J.= 5: 46. N. ’09. 400w.
“The author gives a concise and methodical account of the past excavations and of the objects discovered. But some perverse demon seems to have made havoc of her scales.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 642. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Barnes, William.= Selected poems; ed. by T: Hardy; with a preface and glossarial notes. (Oxford lib. of prose and poetry). *90c. Oxford.
W9–127.
“In the judgment of Mr. Hardy, this volume of selections includes the greater part of that which is of the highest value in the poetry of Barnes. In his preface Mr. Hardy devotes some dozen pages to weighty criticism on the poet’s aim, his methods, and the literary value of the poems themselves; these he divides into ‘Lyric and elegiac,’ ‘Descriptive,’ ‘Meditative,’ and lastly ‘Humorous.’”—Ath.
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“A new edition of his poems selected by one of our foremost men of letters, and he is the man best qualified to judge of the special value which attaches to the work of his whilom master, neighbour, and friend. Regarded as a penetrative analysis, carefully thought out and subtly expressed, [the preface] is noteworthy, even if it does not move us to enthusiasm for our author.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 2: 815. D. 26. 1050w.
“His homely pathos and beauty will have a charm for any reader who can surmount the first repulsion of the Wessex dialect.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 651. D. 31, ’08. 60w.
“With the aid of Mr. Hardy’s glossarial notes, the reader soon finds that the difficulties of the dialect have vanished, and that he is beginning to understand its charms. Perhaps a more serious impediment lies in the spirit of Barnes’s art. The genius of Barnes combines, in a unique fashion, the simple with the subtle, the ordinary with the profound.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 95. Ja. 16, ’09. 1550w.
=Barnett, Rev. Samuel A., and Barnett, Henrietta O. (Mrs. S. A. Barnett).=^{[5]} Towards social reform. *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–9823.
Based upon a careful investigation of London’s social problems this study covers the subject of social reformers, poverty, education, recreation and housing. “If [the modern mind] could be aroused to overcome its primary disinclination, it would find here something more valuable than the ripe practical suggestions that appear on every page, namely, a prevailing steadiness of moral outlook, a cheerful sanity of judgment, and a hopeful spirit of faith and good-will which cannot fail to brighten the baffled student and draw the despairing social worker into fresh and more sanguine effort.” (Hibbert J.)
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“Can be heartily recommended to social workers as one of the most stimulating and suggestive books of its class.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 130. My. ’09.
“The point of view is sanely and progressively conservative, as befits those who have long dealt at first hand with the difficult task of social reform.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 174. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“Their book is a record of liberal-minded achievement.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 372. Mr. 27. 470w.
“Of course these papers are written from the standpoint of a careful and sympathetic observer of English conditions, but there is in them a universal human element which gives them more than common interest for us in America, where the same problems are pressing for solution.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 100w.
“The reading of it has been a refreshment, and the memory of it will be grateful. There is one statement in this book [regarding the Labour party] that provokes contradiction.” J. M. L. Thomas.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 684. Ap. ’09. 1650w.
“The essays are more valuable as revelations of British social conditions than as guides to progress in America.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 201. Jl. 22, ’09. 140w.
“Although for American readers, the work suffers from its localized outlook, yet its consideration of social problems is so sensible and judicious that it may be consulted to advantage by all interested in social service.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 139. Ag. 12, ’09. 150w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 240w. + =Spec.= 103: 59. Jl. 10, ’09. 700w.
=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith.=^{[5]} Hands of compulsion. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–6847.
“The present story is laid in the Hebrides, among people of a Calvanistic inheritance, yet with their Scotch humor lending them warmth enough. The heroine is led by those hands of compulsion named by many names—Fate, Providence, Chance—according to the temper of the speaker—which are busy shaping our ends for all our willful rough hewing. She is led from foolish and ignoble love to a sweet and true one. And the leading is not too evident, is apparently accomplished by the usual acts of life; yet the author is not afraid to hint of Divine government.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The well drawn characters and realistic descriptions are of greater interest than the girl’s fortunes.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 185. Je. ’09. ✠
“It will suffice to say that this author’s admirers will have no reason to feel disappointed at her latest product.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 50w.
“It is a book of wholesome reading, breezy out-of-doors, and cosey within.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 515. My. 20, ’09. 140w.
“There is about Mrs. Barr’s work a sincerity, a direct simplicity, and a knowledge of the singular experiences of human life which give her books a real value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 256. Ap. 24, ’09. 450w.
“Told in Mrs. Barr’s best style.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 21. My. 1, ’09. 120w.
=Barr, Robert.=^{[11]} Cardillac. †$1.50. Stokes.
9–24961.
A story of the times of Louis XIII. Among the incidents the “escape of Marie de’ Medici down the silken rope-ladder from the castle of Blois is well managed.... We get glimpses of D’Épernon, Marshal Luynes, and others, and the queen-mother’s obstinacy and unwieldiness are probably not exaggerated.” (Ath.)
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“Lively tale. From the historic side the story is not serious. Some of the author’s diction ... is jarring in a story of old times.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 91. Jl. 24. 140w.
“It is a clean, wholesome romance with plenty of verve and ‘go’—good pabulum for the young, refreshing to the old.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 728. N. 20, ’09. 210w.
“A machine-made historical tale. Quite inferior to his best work.”
− =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 20w.
=Barrett, Frank W: Z.=^{[6]} Mourning for Lincoln. **$1. Winston.
9–13910.
A slight volume of less than a hundred pages that reveals the universal sorrow that seized people’s hearts during the days following Lincoln’s assassination. “This was the great day of mourning since the world began; no other page of history has so much black ink upon it, nor is there another sodden with so many tears; no other day has its walls so heavily draped, nor its chambers so silent and sad.”
=Barron, Samuel Benton.= Lone Star defenders: a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross’ brigade. *$2. Neale.
8–37340.
A lively chronicle of days of fighting and marching with Ross’ Texas brigade, “of battles and skirmishes, of soldier life in camp, in field, in bivouac.”
=Barrows, William Edward.= Electrical illuminating engineering. *$2. McGraw.
8–30948.
“Deals with light and color, units of illumination and photometry, photometry and photometers, spherical photometry and integrating photometers, standards of illuminating power, incandescent lamps, arc lamps, flaming arc lamps, vapor lamps, shades and reflectors, and illumination calculations. Coming at the present time when interest in illuminating engineering topics is on the increase, and being the first book to treat the subject of illuminating engineering from both a scientific and practical standpoint, it should prove welcome.”—Engin. Rec.
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“A technical treatise, less complete and taking up the subject along different lines than Cravath and Lansingh’s ‘Practical illumination’ which is the only similar work in English.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 130. My. ’09.
“The value of the book is chiefly as a ready reference work for those with some technical education, and as a series of suggestions as to matters which may be followed up with greater thoroughness elsewhere.”
+ =Elec. World.= 53: 582. Mr. 4, ’09. 480w.
“The book suffers from carelessness of statement on minor points, and the effect is increased by typographical errors and omissions. What the volume covers is in convenient and accessible form so that the reader will be sorry the author stopped short of making it a great book.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 14. F. 18, ’09. 460w.
“The book is intended as a text in illuminating engineering for class room use, and is probably the best one in English now available for that purpose.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Bartlett, Frederick Orin.= Web of the golden spider. †$1.50. Small.
9–4296.
The golden spider of the tale is an ugly little heathen idol. It lures strong men into a web for the hope of hidden treasure at the end of a veritable Jason quest. The story begins one stormy night in Boston, and continues its course in the republic of Carlina. A Monte Cristo never gazed upon more wonderful treasure, nor engaged to serve a sweeter maiden than the reader is introduced to in Mr. Bartlett’s imaginative story.
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“There are moments when it would seem almost as if here were a new writer worthy to be ranked with the few who can justify a story of wild men and wild scenes by its only real reason for existence. It is safe to predict that a great many readers will read this book through in a sitting, and also that almost all of them will like it immensely. A few will sigh and wish the talented author had set his standard just a little higher, or had been more consistent in living up to it.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 199. Ap. ’09. 520w.
“Lacks somewhat in even comparative originality.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 763. Ap. 8, ’09. 100w.
“This book gives the reader a lively hour. A combination of Richard Harding Davis and Rider Haggard, somewhat inferior in style to the originals.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 338. Ap. 1, ’09. 120w.
“The dazed reader need hardly be surprised if the too liberal author has not always managed to get his material to work together.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 119. F. 27, ’09. 340w.
=Barton, Edwin H.= Text-book on sound. *$3. Macmillan.
9–10049.
“Is neither taken up wholly with a mathematical discussion of dynamical principles, nor consists merely of experiments, yet combines these features and so fully covers the subject as to deserve the attention and meet the needs of the serious student of acoustics.” (Science.) “It is a book of a simpler order than the classic works of Helmholtz and Lord Rayleigh, being intended for students of moderate mathematical knowledge.” (Spec.)
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“What, then, are the main characteristics of this book which confer superiority upon it? In the first place, the author does not hesitate to employ the elements of the calculus, although in many cases geometrical proofs are given as well. The second main characteristic is the close connection, maintained throughout, between theory and experiment. In the third place, we commend this book because it rings true to the spirit of research. There are very few misprints in the entire book.”
+ + − =Nature.= 79: 425. F. 11, ’09. 800w.
“All the material in it is excellent, the principal question in regard to some of it being one as to its relevancy. A few errors have escaped the proof-reader. The admirable choice and distribution of experiments, the masterly character of the discussions, the ample scope of the work and its attractive topography and makeup, constitute it a welcome addition to the text-books of this division of physics.” D. W. Hering.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 888. D. 18, ’08. 1050w.
“The chapters on various musical instruments are fuller and clearer than is usually the case in a physical text-book, and we should think that this is just the kind of treatise which the musician who desires some acquaintance with the physical side of the subject would be well advised to procure.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w.
=Barton, George.= Adventures of the world’s greatest detectives. 75c. Winston.
9–7401.
Fifteen detective stories, each the experience of some secret service man who has not only upheld the traditions of his post but has won laurels by personal success in several big cases. Among the adventures are Vidocq’s experiences in running to cover a gang of burglars in Paris, Chief Wilkie’s work in breaking up a great counterfeiting scheme, Robert Pinkerton’s clever management of a great safe robbery, and Captain O’Brien’s solution of a Chicago murder mystery.
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“Detective stories that are true, and yet are just as complicated, mysterious and exciting as any that a novelist ever invented. Sometimes he has strayed far afield from the facts in the case, as in the opening story. But in this, as in the other stories, he keeps true to the kernel of the story, the methods and work of the detectives.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 196. Ap. 3, ’09. 250w.
=Barton, Rev. James Levi.= Daybreak in Turkey. *$1.50. Pilgrim press.
8–37732.
Dr. Barton states that his book does not pretend to be an exhaustive study of the Turkish empire and its problems, but that his purpose has been to set forth the various historical, religious, racial, material and national questions having so vital a bearing upon all Turkish matters, and which now reveal the forces that have operated in changing Turkey from an absolute monarchy into a constitutional and representative government.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 155. Je. ’09. ✠
“It is a volume of special value for study by mission classes or bands.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 707. Ap. 1, ’09. 130w.
“The book is eminently readable, the writer a broad-minded political thinker, and no more timely contribution to the discussion of the Turkish question from one point of view has come into our hands.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 633. O. 16, ’09. 400w.
“Is an eminently timely and readable statement of the various causes which have brought about the present conditions in the Ottoman Empire. There is a personal touch throughout which adds much to its interest. Its value would have been increased by a map giving the different missionary stations, and principal educational institutions as well as the political divisions.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 222. Mr. 4, ’09. 400w.
“One who would understand how the way was prepared for the surprising transformation of Turkey last summer from despotism to constitutionalism should read Dr. Barton’s recent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 583. Mr. 13, ’09. 130w.
=Bashford, Henry Howarth.= Pilgrims’ march. †$1.50. Holt.
9–5518.
The pilgrim of the tale is a youth with an artistic temperament. He struggles against the uncongenial tasks assigned to him in his niche in a big tea house, yet more disturbing are the unsympathetic Puritan friends whose constant warning is this: “Do not allow a love for drawing to intrude between your heart and God.” The struggle, the development, and the triumph are reproduced true to life.
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“His tale is by no means without flaw, but it is at least individual, shows more thought, and has a new point of view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 313. Mr. 13. 300w.
“It would have been much better had it been pruned of nearly half the characters. The book could have stopped fifty pages sooner and by doing so have been a better book.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 189. Ap. ’09. 750w.
“The exposition is not altogether lucid, and the sentimental outcome is abrupt and rather puzzling; but one closes the book with genuine regret at parting from the agreeable company of people who occupy its pages.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 369. Je. 1, ’09. 280w.
“In technique the book is faulty, being much too long as well as overcrowded with characters. It happens, however, that the author has something to say, and on the whole has said it rather well.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 392. Ap. ’09. 580w.
“These evangelical people are unnecessarily unlovely and devoid of imagination, but they have a sort of grim reality. The esthetic circle is more nebulous, nor is it, in spite of its freedom, much more attractive.”
− =Ind.= 66: 814. Ap. 15, ’09. 250w.
“Though irritated, perchance, by a ‘bouffe’ opening, and by the use of small, every-day material, and by an excess of soliloquizing spirit—exaggerated DeMorgan echoes all—the reader ultimately yields to the honesty of the work and the broadly human sympathies that animate the pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 387. Ap. 15, ’09. 280w.
“There is often quite good humor in the situations, and the talk and the people are set forth with that cleverness and lifelikeness and that never failing air of good breeding which are so constantly in evidence in English novels and so rare in American fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 160w.
“A story of original power and charm. The speech, being chiefly that of young persons, runs for the most part in that astonishing vernacular with which we are constrained to credit the juvenile Briton and some others.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 6: 496. Jl. ’09. 340w.
=Bate, Frank.=^{[5]} Declaration of indulgence, 1672: a study in the rise of organised dissent. 6s. Constable, A., London.
9–9656.
A study of the “religious and political forces the ceaseless conflict of which, by slow degrees, led Charles II to the issue of the Declaration of indulgence, and which, by a process much more rapid, drove him, much against his will, to the withdrawal first of the declaration itself, and finally, two years afterwards, of the licences which had been issued under it. The range of literature, printed and written, which Mr. Bate has laid under contribution is ample. He gives citations from nearly 170 out of the 225 distinct sources which are enumerated in the bibliography.”—Eng. Hist. R.
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“Though his story is clearly and fairly told, its narrow range and the avoidance of many larger issues of politics with which the toleration policy was closely bound up causes this study, while valuable and suggestive, to lose a certain depth of interest and breadth of perspective which the inclusion of other tendencies would have given it.” W. C. Abbott.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 138. O. ’09. 650w.
“We congratulate Mr. Bate upon what we imagine to be his first published work. It displays great and well-directed industry; it is agreeably impartial in tone; and it is written without undue emphasis, and with an effective simplicity of style. It is not without good reason that his study has earned the warm commendation of Prof. Firth.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 554. My. 8. 2200w.
“This work contains by far the most complete and elaborate treatment [of this subject] which has yet appeared.” G. L. Turner.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 366. Ap. ’09. 1250w.
“His heart is in his work, and it does not much matter that he shows the temper of a militant dissenter. He has admirably performed his task, enriching his book with an abundance of local knowledge, chiefly of Lancashire affairs, and enlivening it with extracts from the ballads and satirical literature of the time. But his greatest service is that he is the first to give a complete list of preachers and buildings licensed in 1672.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 4. My. 22, ’09. 850w.
“This study is, in respect of the industry which has been expended on it and the research of which it is the outcome, a most meritorious work.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 786. N. 14, ’08. 340w.
=Baterden, J. R. Timber.=^{[8]} *$2. Van Nostrand. Agr9–837.
A popular manual containing information about the uses, preservation and strength of the commercial timbers of the world.
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“The book shows intelligent use of a wide range of information, and promises to be of interest and at least general usefulness to purchasers and users of timber throughout the world.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 3. Jl. 15, ’09. 140w. + =Engin. Rec.= 60: 223. Ag. 21, ’09. 230w.
“Owing to the limitations of space he has failed to present enough in regard to any one point to make the whole of great use to students or practical mechanics.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 466. N. 11, ’09. 180w.
“It is unfortunate that the author attempted to write a general treatise. He is confessedly ignorant of botany; and his account of the structure and origin of the numerous species dealt with is usually meagre and defective, and in many instances almost puerile. The practical man, for whom the work is intended, may find it worth the money, in spite of its inaccuracies.”
+ − =Nature.= 80: 94. Mr. 25, ’09. 600w.
“The book is, constructively, like a well-built lumber pile of valuable information, and every item of interest drawn therefrom is a carefully weighed log of seasoned stock.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 555. S. 18, ’09. 330w.
=Bates, Frank Amasa.=^{[5]} Camping and camp cooking. *75c. Ball pub.
9–11254.
A book addressed “to the business man, the clerk, the mechanic and every one who wishes to camp out and does not know how to do it and still keep his self-respect.” As the result of camping experience the author offers a little book full of valuable suggestions to the amateur camper. He gives good advice concerning camp outfits, selection of place for camp, what to do if lost, and camp cooking.
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“Less extensive than Kephart’s ‘Book of camping and woodcraft’ and White’s ‘Camp and trail,’ but also less expensive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 155. Je. ’09. ✠
“An excellent little treatise, presented in a spirit which will appeal to any man who really appreciates what camping means.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 545. Jl. ’09. 200w. =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 60w.
“A practical little book.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 138. Ag. 12, ’09. 50w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 390. Je. 19, ’09. 120w.
=Bateson, William.=^{[9]} Mendel’s principles of heredity. *$3.50. Putnam.
Agr9–1516.
“The work is divided into two parts. The first part is a compilation and summary of all Mendelian work to date. The second part contains a biographical sketch of Mendel and a translation of his two classic papers on hybridization in Pisum and Hieracium.... The body of the work is occupied with an account of the facts of Mendelian inheritance, as they have been accumulated since the work of Mendel was brought to the attention of the scientific world at the beginning of the century; and a considerable proportion of this work is the result of the activities of Bateson and his students.”—Bot. Gaz.
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“In reading this book one seems to see the author striving to unravel a hopelessly entangled skein. Thread after thread is taken up and followed amongst a maze of seeming contradictions until the clue is ultimately lost. Prof. Bateson’s book is a fair presentation of the subject, though there is throughout a tendency rather to the special pleading of the advocate than to a critical examination of the theory.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 271. S. 4. 600w.
“It is a curious blindness to other facts of heredity which leads the author to the opinion that Mendelism probably represents the only type of inheritance which exists. The work will be indispensable for reference by all students of heredity as a compendium of Mendelian phenomena.”
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 48: 61. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“Professor Bateson’s book is the most complete and authoritative presentation of the studies which have been made of inheritance phenomena of this sort.” C.-E. A. Winslow.
+ =Dial.= 47: 282. O. 16, ’09. 1100w.
“Bateson’s well illustrated and arranged summary of these facts is particularly useful as a work of reference for the biologist who is able to discount properly the too frequently exaggerated form of statement engendered by great enthusiasm and zeal for the cause.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 762. S. 30, ’09. 270w.
“Professor Bateson has indicated some of the lines on which the new suggestions can develop, and he has presented the subject in a clear manner.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 261. S. 16, ’09. 1750w.
“It should be of value to the student of science.” Mary Proctor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 501. Ag. 21, ’09. 1400w.
“It may be regarded as an authoritative statement of Mendelism at the present time. The book as a whole will be quite indispensable to the student of heredity.” W. E. Castle.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 481. O. 8, ’09. 1000w.
=Batson, Henrietta M. (Mrs. Stephen Batson).= Summer garden of pleasure. *$3.50. McClurg.
9–18609.
This book devoted entirely to flowers aims first to illustrate the subject of colour schemes in groups and borders, and second to show “how the annual flower famine may best be avoided that seems to afflict most herbaceous borders when June’s plethora is over.” The witchery of flowers creeps into the pages, and the author’s advice to the person who intends to join the sudoriferous band is “If he desires to be a free man—or she a free woman—gardening he ‘should shun like gambling, and take refuge in cities and hotels from this pernicious enchantment.’”
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“Mrs. Batson is eminently practical, and she writes pleasantly.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 765. Je. 20. 260w.
“Thoroughly delightful book.” S. A. Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 46: 368. Je. 1, ’09. 160w.
“It is well worth its place in the flower-lover’s library.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1246. Je. 3, ’09. 180w.
“Mrs. Batson’s book should make a very wide appeal. She approaches her subject with the same care as that with which, one can see, she tends her flowers. While to those whose lot is cast in the country the book will be of great interest and real practical value, to the town-dweller it will be an ever-present delight.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 280w.
“Much of the advice is presented in an uninteresting manner, but it is all made easily accessible by the device of marginal headings for the paragraphs.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 469. My. 6, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
“For the lover of home gardens the book will be most useful.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 277. O. 2, ’09. 230w.
“Altogether, we have here a delightful and useful book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 982. Je. 20, ’08. 120w.
=Batten, Samuel Zane.=^{[7]} Christian state: the state, democracy and Christianity. **$1.50. Am. Bapt.
9–16157.
To interpret the State to itself, to make society know its meaning, its functions, its tasks, and its goal, to interpret this modern phenomenon known as democracy and to show its relation to human progress—these points are included in the problem with which the author deals in this volume.
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“A good solid book the reading of which would awaken many a man from his lethargy as a citizen and convert him into an active helper in the task of making state and national life to conform more and more closely to the ideal of the kingdom of God. Dr. Batten is conversant with the best literature upon his subject.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 216. S. ’09. 60w.
“As a popular presentation of an important subject the work deserves commendation.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 722. N. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Baudrillart, Henry Marie Alfred.= Catholic church, the renaissance, and Protestantism: lectures given at the Catholic institute of Paris, January to March, 1904; tr. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. $2. Benziger.
“The renaissance and the reformation are treated as two phases of the same movement which, in modified form, continues to-day—a movement away from authority and towards individualism.” (Cath. World.) The rise of the renaissance is traced and its anti-Christian influence in Italy. “The sweep of the movement is followed into France, England, and Germany, in which latter countries it merges into the fiercer current of the reformation.... Other lectures are devoted to following up the intellectual, doctrinal, and political consequences of Protestantism and to a refutation of the frequently urged claim that Protestantism has been more favorable than Catholicism to the political and social progress that has been made in modern times.” (Cath. World.) Sidelights are thrown on the character and work of Luther.
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“This is an extremely interesting and instructive volume from a fair-minded and erudite Ultramontane. We have, indeed, rarely found a juster and more discriminating account of the great religious genius [Luther] of the sixteenth century. The translation is fairly good; but the use of proper names is misleading, and there are far too many misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 251. F. 27. 200w.
“The work is avowedly apologetic in aim; but, however much one may challenge some of M. Baudrillart’s interpretations, no opponent can quarrel with his impartiality in his presentation of facts.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 537. Jl. ’08. 800w.
=Bayley, Harold.=^{[8]} New light on the renaissance; displayed in contemporary emblems. *$4. Dutton.
9–35795.
Water marks in paper and printers’ designs used in tail pieces and typographical decoration are the emblems that the author studies for the purpose of showing that “the civilization of Provence, in the dark ages, far ahead of that of the rest of Europe, was the real precursor of the renaissance; that the Albigenses and Waldenses, objects of papal persecution from the thirteenth century and originally dwellers in Provence, where they were the first papermakers, were the heralds of a new and liberal thought and aspiration opposed to ecclesiastical corruption; that these were destined to have their fruition in the renaissance and the reformation, and that they and other thinkers of like sort circulated and spread their beliefs by the water marks in the paper of which they were the makers, just as the other sects of heretics, Lollards, Hussites, and such, secretly communicated with each other.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The author’s conclusions may fail to convince, but his work is of considerable interest to the bibliophile and to students of printing and papermaking and of medieval history and literature.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 35. O. ’09.
“Mr. Bayley has written a considerable book with views of mediæval thought derived from unsatisfactory sources.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 327. S. 18. 600w.
“However difficult it may be to accept the author’s conclusions as a whole, it must be admitted that he has really shed a new light on the renaissance, and in so doing has evolved a theory that carries with it genuine interest, and moreover he has extracted from these ancient emblems facts and interpretations that must enter into any consideration of the subject in the future.” Laurence Burnham.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 531. Jl. ’09. 750w.
“It may be doubted whether the main thesis of the book will be taken very seriously by those who study the renaissance. Nevertheless his book has claim to serious consideration in some ways. It will interest, and it certainly is very handsomely made.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 318. My. 22, ’09. 800w.
=Bayne, Samuel Gamble.=^{[11]} Fantasy of Mediterranean travel. **$1.25. Harper.
9–27121.
A running comment upon the amusing incidents and petty annoyances of travel constitutes this small volume. The author’s cruise of the Mediterranean with visits to Spain, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, the Holy Land, Italy and finally England is sketched in a sprightly and somewhat slangy fashion while the real charm and beauty of the places visited are shown in more than thirty photographic illustrations.
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“His text is of the most casual, superficial character, but his illustrations are excellent.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 1044. N. 4, ’09. 50w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 658. O. 23, ’09. 20w.
“Notwithstanding all his merriment and his flippancy ... his pages are full of accurate and serious information concerning all the places visited.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 673. O. 30, ’09. 170w.
=Bazin, René.= Coming harvest (Le blé qui lève); tr. by Edna K. Hoyt. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–25122.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Sympathetic in the treatment of nature and deeply religious in tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 301. D. ’08.
“It is too well written. The author has idealized his poor man, lifted him into the realm of art, and made his grievance a part of literature rather than of life.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 149. Ja. 21, ’09. 100w.
“Most interesting study of peasant life in the Nivernais. It must be confessed that the story itself is almost lifeless and the individual characters not very interesting.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 48. Ja. 9, ’09. 160w.
=Bazin, René.= Italians of to-day; tr. from the French by William Marchant. **$1.25. Holt.
3–5350.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“There is a strong personal quality in M. Bazin’s slightest pages; and he has the knack of unobtrusively inocculating his readers with his own sympathies.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 110. Ap. ’09. 370w.
“Its translations exceed the limits of freedom, for they are incorrect. In general, however, the translator has caught the language and spirit of the French critic, and has done him and Italy a service to put this book in English dress. M. Bazin is a worthy follower of Taine and Gautier in their memorable ‘Voyages en Italie.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 246. Ja. 30, ’09. 200w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 252. F. ’09. 50w.
=Bazin, René.= “This, my son.” †$1.25. Scribner.
9–6572.
Pierre Noellet, son of a small peasant proprietor in La Vendée, knows full well that he will never become a priest, yet for the sake of the coveted education which he cannot have in any other way, declares himself willing to enter the priesthood, profits by his years of preparation, announces his deception to his father, goes to Paris to pursue a literary career, is wrecked mentally and physically, feeds on the prodigal’s husks, and finally, dying, is taken back to his father’s home. The relentlessness of class distinction, and the modern-prodigal lesson make the book important.
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“An artistic, vivid picture of French peasant life and customs.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 25. S. ’09. ✠
“No writer to-day is depicting the varieties of provincial life and the problems of the French peasants with the same minuteness as René Bazin. The plot itself is neither skilfully worked out nor important. The structure is diffuse and there is small effort at proper proportion or emphasis.” G: Middleton.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 198. Ap. ’09. 580w.
“With all the sweetness of the French scenery, the ‘blond light of France’ upon everything, his stories are ghost stories of human sorrows.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1082. My. 20, ’09. 350w.
“Without lagging for a moment, it lacks incident, and the plot is common-place.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 38: 763. My. 1, ’09. 180w.
“It has none of the tediousness of the sugar-coated tract, nor has it the melodramatic obviousness which is perhaps suggested by a bald rehearsal of its incidents.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 563. Je. 3, ’09. 370w.
“The story at large is one of compelling truth where in Anglo-Saxon hands it would almost certainly have been one of utter falsehood.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 158. Mr. 20, ’09. 520w.
“Another of René Bazin’s sweet, wholesome stories of rural France.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 760. Je. ’09. 80w.
“A story simple enough, but M. Bazin colours every page with his sympathetic understanding of rural life, of the call of the land, of the allurement towards town life that so easily grips the farmboy who discovers that he has brains and yet so rarely leads him to happiness.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 48. Ja. 9, ’09. 200w.
“Not equal in power to M. Bazin’s last book, ‘Redemption.’ The novel is quite adequately translated.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 466. Mr. 20, ’09. 110w.
=Beach, Edward Latimer.=^{[10]} Ralph Osborn, midshipman at Annapolis. †$1.50. Wilde.
9–25972.
A story that offers a true portrayal of midshipman life at the Annapolis naval academy. It affords the young American an accurate conception of the routine of drills, studies, customs and environment of our naval college.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 712. N. 13, ’09. 120w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 30w.
=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.=^{[10]} Silver horde. †$1.50. Harper.
9–24324.
“A thrilling record of struggle against the elements and of struggle also against the duplicity of man in the newly opened country in Alaska. The plot turns about the establishment of salmon-canning factories in a district where the wealth to be obtained easily through the marvelous incoming of the fish has led an unscrupulous man to establish a monopoly and to fight newcomers by every means, fair or foul.”—Outlook.
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“A lively tale.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 89. N. ’09.
“Undeniably there is good stuff in it, if that happens to be the kind of stuff you like.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 280. N. ’09. 450w.
“The reader, who has been fascinated by the author’s graphic descriptions of the cold and the hardships of the country, begins to recognize that he is really reading Frank Norris’s ‘Octopus,’ with the scenes laid in Alaska rather than in California.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1262. D. 2, ’09. 660w.
“The book has verve and go, a stir of life that affects you like a deep breath of sea or mountain air. There are some excellent pictures of the world out there in the grip of its deadly winter and the brief bright glory of its summer.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 607. O. 16, ’09. 900w.
“No one can deny that this story has rugged vigor or that it holds the reader’s attention closely, but it lacks just what Sir Gilbert Parker has—that is, literary finish and a sympathetic touch.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 317. O. 9, ’09. 140w.
“Love and adventure crowd upon each other so swiftly that the reader almost gasps for relief.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 60w.
=Beadnell, Hugh John Llewellyn.=^{[9]} Egyptian oasis: an account of the oasis of Kharga, in the Libian desert, with special reference to its history, physical geography, and water supply. *$3.50. Dutton.
9–22221.
“A record of solid and painstaking works conducted under many difficulties and real hardships. Mr. Beadnell gives a very fair account of the historical monuments of Khargeh, but he is at his best when describing things of a more modern and practical nature, such as artesian wells, desert routes, and the work of the Geological survey.”—Sat. R.
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“It will be read with profit by many besides professional water-engineers.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 101. Jl. 24. 1000w. =Ind.= 67: 1267. D. 2, ’09. 190w.
“The accounts of the various deposits laid down in these old lakes, with their interesting contents of worked flint-flakes and pottery, are among the most novel and interesting portions of Mr. Beadnell’s book.” J: D. Judd.
+ =Nature.= 81: 70. Jl. 15, ’09. 1050w.
“What he has to say about the water supply is perhaps the part most apt to interest the ordinary reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 522. S. 4, ’09. 600w.
“Told in a simple style without any embellishments.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 3. Jl. 17, ’09. 90w.
“Mr. Beadnell gives us a very complete scientific account of the region, of its geological formation and other physical conditions.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 330w.
=Beale, S. Sophia.=^{[5]} Recollections of a spinster aunt. Reynolds, Paul R., N. Y.
Letters and a diary which throw light upon social and political England as well as on the Continent during the period from 1847 to 1882. “The contents of the book are too varied in subject to catalogue. In a charmingly unconnected fashion are recorded the child’s first ideas of ‘Don Giovanni,’ of the queen and Prince Albert, and of the opening of Crystal palace. Then follow the art student’s impressions of London and Paris; and we are shown glimpses of an intimate acquaintance with the art of Europe, with English politics, letters, religion, and music, all in the simple personal narrative of an evidently unusual and interesting woman.” (Dial.)
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“In a book of this kind there is no need to dwell on inaccuracies. Miss Beale has produced a refreshing and lively book, full of good things, and however she ‘put together’ these ‘old letters,’ she has done it very well.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 281. Mr. 6. 1400w.
“To the catholicity of interest is added an unusual lucidity and delightful simplicity of style.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 300. My. 1, ’09. 260w. =Nation.= 88: 139. F. 11, ’09. 60w.
“Miss Beale has given the reading public an opportunity of enjoying many shrewd observations and well-considered judgments.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 643. Ap. 24, ’09. 340w.
=Bean, William Joseph.= Royal botanic gardens, Kew, historical and descriptive; with introd. by Sir W: Thiselton-Dyer. *$7.50. Cassell.
9–6520.
“The author of the present work is the assistant curator, who not only knows all the circumstances connected with the internal management of the gardens, but is also full of their spirit and traditions.” (Ath.) “Besides history, it contains a capital description of the most remarkable plants and the latest improvements.” (Spec.)
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“He has told the story of Kew in a straightforward and interesting manner, without any superfluous matter.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 230. F. 20. 1200w.
“Mr. Bean has most happily succeeded in combining historical and descriptive chapters.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 227. F. 6, ’09. 660w.
=Beard, Charles Austin=, ed.^{[12]} Readings in American government and politics. *$1.90. Macmillan.
9–25160.
“A source-book to accompany the author’s text upon this subject, now in course of preparation. The selections are 237 in number, grouped in 32 chapters, from ‘Colonial origins of American institutions’ down to recent ‘Social and economic legislation.’”—Dial.
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“The selections are well suited to accompany an elementary course in government in either college or secondary instruction.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 610. N. ’09. 130w.
“The book affords a very valuable adjunct to the work of instruction in American history and political science.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 291. O. 16, ’09. 70w. =Spec.= 103: 796. N. 13, ’09. 100w.
=Beard, Daniel Carter.=^{[12]} Boy pioneers. **$2. Scribner.
9–28484.
Every true American boy, to whom Daniel Boone is a hero, will be interested in the Society of the sons of Daniel Boone, an organization now numbering over twenty thousand members. Here is a book by the founder of the society telling just how a branch may be organized and how its business should be conducted. It also tells how to erect a fort, handle a gun, throw a tomahawk, talk Indian sign language,—in short, how to be a boy pioneer.
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“Were a boy to put into execution all the admirable directions given by Mr. Beard he would be such a pioneer as one would imagine Boone himself dreamed of being.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1016. D. 4, ’09. 150w.
=Bearne, Mrs. Catharine Mary.= Royal quartette. *$3. Brentano’s.
9–13597.
In the lives of four women is traced the history of France from the reign of Louis XIV thru the first third of the nineteenth century. The heroines of the quartet are Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchess of Burgundy; Madame Adélaïde, daughter of Louis XV, granddaughter of the earlier Adélaïde; Marie Luisa, Infantà of Spain, daughter of Carlos IV; and Marie Amélie Thérèse of Naples, wife of Louis Philippe, King of the French.
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“Although the author has the command of several languages, a certain familiarity with the Continent, and some facility in narration, she seems to possess little or no powers of concentration or sense of perspective.”
− + =Ath.= 1901, 2: 65. Jl. 17. 930w.
“Mrs. Bearne, as always, has a good scent for the telling anecdote, and in the present arrangement, especially, there is an added interest in the historical changes of such lives as we pass from the autocratic court of Louis XIV to the Paris of Louis Philippe.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
“She has gathered her material from the most authentic sources and enlivens her recital by vivid pictures of the times of which she writes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 704. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.=^{[6]} Works. Variorum ed. v. 3. *$3.50. Macmillan.
=v. 3.= Contains five plays as follows: “The faithful shepherdess”; “The mad lover”; “Rule a wife and have a wife”; “The loyal subject”; and “The laws of Candy.”
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“The high standard of scholarship and accuracy, to which we called attention when we had our first opportunity of welcoming this edition of Beaumont and Fletcher, is well maintained in the third volume lately published.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 435. Ap. 3, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Set forth in all the perfection of careful scholarship and charming form.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 420. Mr. 13, ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Becker, Carl H.=^{[9]} Christianity and Islam; tr. by H. J. Chaytor. (Harper’s lib. of living thought.) **75c. Harper.
A comparison of Christianity with Mohammedanism, of interest to the missionary, the ecclesiastic and the inquirer, which traces the course of analogous development and the interaction of influence for the purpose of increasing one’s knowledge of religion.
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“The subject is one with which English readers are not very familiar, and it will be found exceedingly suggestive.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 5. My. 22, ’09. 100w.
=Becquer, Gustavo Adolfo.=^{[10]} Romantic legends of Spain; tr. by Cornelia F. Bates and Katharine L. Bates. **$1.50. Crowell.
9–23730.
A mother and daughter have here rendered into English a score of short stories by a latter-day Spanish writer. The tales are romantic and imaginative, full of such delicate mystery that they cannot have lost much in translation. They tell of such things as a young noble who spent years following the trailing robe of an illusive vision whom he thought he loved only to become a hopeless pessimist on finding her a moonbeam; or of a hunter who pursues a strange white doe hoping to stay it to gain his mistress’ favor but when his arrow flies true he finds to his despair that he has slain the loved one herself; or again, of the wronged maiden whose love was gone to the wars and after her death her unburied hand bearing his bethrothal ring warns him of dangers. The volume is illustrated with photographs of Spanish scenes.
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“Tales containing some of the morbid elements which distinguish Poe’s stories. However, their delicate imagery, close observation and tendency to mystery and symbolism establish a closer kinship to Hawthorne.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 89. N. ’09.
“His writings are well worth reading and are given to the public in excellent form in the volume before us.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1209. N. 25, ’09. 100w.
“It is a real service to literature which Prof. Bates and the late Mrs. Bates have performed, in giving us this admirable translation of the work of a powerful and poetic spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 550. S. 18, ’09. 570w.
=Bedell, Frederick, and Pierce, Clarence Albert.=^{[12]} Direct and alternating current testing. *$2. Van Nostrand.
9–26810.
“A manual for use in the electrical engineering laboratories of technical schools, and in conjunction with standard texts on electrical engineering.... The book consists of a carefully selected series of typical tests on direct and alternating apparatus.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Engin. D.= 6: 429. N. ’09. 180w.
“A little book of great general and practical interest. The study of the actual working of electrical machinery, together with a continuous interlacing of theoretical exposition, as found in this book, is immensely valuable reading, apart from its purpose as a hand-book for the testing floor. The description of test procedure is clear and thorough.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 693. D. 4, ’09. 150w.
=Beeching, Henry Charles.=^{[6]} William Shakespeare: player, playmaker, and poet: a reply to George Greenwood. *$1. Lane.
9–18622.
A small volume “containing three lectures, the first a direct series of arguments against Mr. Greenwood’s ‘Shakespeare problem restated.’ The two others ‘endeavour to set out the player’s life as simply as possible, and show the congruity of what is recorded of his character with the impression made upon our minds by the dramas themselves.’”—Ath.
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“That it would have been well if Canon Beeching had cut himself adrift from his lectures, and spent a little more time and trouble on his work. Nevertheless, even in this little volume there are collected some very hard problems for Mr. Greenwood’s ‘replication.’ There is unfortunately no index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 143. Ja. 30. 450w.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 633. Ag. ’09. 50w. =Nation.= 89: 147. Ag. 12, ’09. 40w.
“Somewhat more coherent and saner than most of its predecessors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 302. My. 15, ’09. 630w.
“But full of interest as these pages are, most readers will probably be of opinion that so fine and scholarly a critic has done too much honour to a ‘weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable’ theme. The value of Canon Beeching’s essay lies in the opportunity which it affords him of discussing several curious and obscure points connected with Shakespeare’s biography.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 185. Ja. 30, ’09. 770w.
=Beer, George Louis.= Origins of the British colonial system, 1578–1660. *$3. Macmillan.
8–29307.
A full account of the origins, establishment and development of the British colonial system up to the outbreak of the dissension that resulted in the revolution. The author “gives an account of the laws of trade and navigation as they prevailed in the reigns of Henry VII, Elizabeth, under the Stuarts, and during the Commonwealth. He goes deep enough into his subject to treat of the general fiscal system of England as far as it concerned the colonies.” (Lit. D.)
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“The chapters which contain the exposition of his main thesis are the most important portions of his book.” C: M. Andrews.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 808. Jl. ’09. 1150w.
“The first comprehensive and scholarly treatment of this subject, based on records heretofore generally neglected.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 71. Mr. ’09.
“Several of the more political chapters contain much that is both valuable and new.” C: H. Hull.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 123. Je. ’09. 350w.
“If present-day politicians were willing to learn lessons from history, no publication could be more timely for the tariff reformers and imperialists of England than Mr. George Beer’s two volumes on British colonial policy.” A. G. Porritt.
+ =Forum.= 41: 605. Je. ’09. 2500w.
“He is obliged to tread the same ground again and again, until the repetition becomes a little wearisome. Still, altho this may detract somewhat from the readableness of Mr. Beer’s present volume, it does not lessen its value as a contribution to the history of the British empire.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 198. Jl. 22, ’09. 430w.
“Writers, especially those in this country, undoubtedly have too long overlooked or failed fully to appreciate the [British] side of the issue, and we are under no slight debt to Dr. Beer for the admirable way in which he is developing it.” C. W. Wright.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 303. My. ’09. 1100w.
“The author sets about the task of elucidating his points with praiseworthy accuracy and lucidity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 103. Ja. 16, ’09. 280w.
“Mr. Beer’s style lacks grace and charm of presentation, and his treatment is rendered heavy by excessive detail and by a lack of clearness of exposition. His book would have been more readable if he had introduced more summaries and generalizations to show the bearing of his facts and statistics. He has, however, performed a very important work, and future volumes will be awaited with interest.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 632. Je. 24, ’09. 900w.
“His laborious compilation of authorities is rather a marshaling of facts than of thoughts.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 719. D. 5, ’08. 1350w.
“No student of this or any other period, whatever his predispositions, can fail to welcome a work which is so effective and so satisfying in its conclusions as this.” H. L. Osgood.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 127. Mr. ’09. 1400w.
“Not only does credit to his patience in research, but is also a most readable volume.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 940. Je. 12, ’09. 380w.
=Beethoven, Ludwig van.=^{[5]} Letters; a critical edition, with explanatory notes by A. C. Kalischer; tr. with preface by J. S. Shedlock. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
9–18573.
Tho deficient in the “deliberate niceties of composition” Beethoven’s briefest note is “characteristic of his deep, sincere, and passionate nature.” These letters furnish an insight into the soul-struggle of a great genius. Dr. Kalischer “does not profess to give us all Beethoven’s letters, but a complete and carefully collated collection of all those which have already appeared in book form, plus a considerable number which have not hitherto been printed. To the English edition Mr. Shedlock has added a few more new letters and a brief introduction.” (Spec.) There are indexes to the references to Beethoven’s works in his letters, and to the names mentioned in the portraits; facsimiles, etc.
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“Of small service to the average public library, and less readable than the standard biographies but a valuable addition to large reference collections.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 1. S. ’09.
“It is not too much to say that no other man was so well fitted as Mr. Shedlock to edit and add to this collection.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 162. Ag. 7. 2000w.
“For students of Beethoven, this edition of the letters is now the only one. His annotations and commentary give his work the character of a biography, and it is brought up to date.” L: J. Block.
+ =Dial.= 47: 15. Jl. 1, ’09. 1900w.
“His letters constitute perhaps the best biography of this titanic genius of the tone world, certainly the basis of all that we know of his life and character.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 255. Jl. 29, ’09. 470w.
“All that was really worth reading could have been easily held in one volume of 400 pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 470. My. 6, ’09. 1200w.
“The letters are endless in their suggestions of characteristics of the great composer, and their interest for admirers of the man and his music is far reaching. The English edition is not free from misprints—in fact, they are rather surprisingly frequent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 254. Ap. 24, ’09. 1650w.
“Of actual new material there is not much in these volumes, and the new portion is not of very great musical interest. Mr. Shedlock has done his work of translation extremely well on the whole, and that fact renders his occasional lapses the more surprising.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 663. My. 22, ’09. 850w.
“Where Dr. Kalischer differs from Nohl, Thayer, and other experts as to dates or the identity of Beethoven’s correspondents, he does so on good grounds, and his notes, though somewhat ponderous in expression, show a pleasant combination of careful research, good feeling, and enthusiasm.” C. L. G.
+ − =Spec.= 102: 665. Ap. 24, ’09. 1600w.
=Belabre, Baron de.=^{[5]} Rhodes of the knights. *$9.75. Oxford.
“Six years’ residence in the island as French consul has given [the author] special facilities for his task; he has been allowed to inspect several buildings hitherto closed to scholars, and he has produced a very complete account of the walls, public edifices and shields of the knights, profusely interspersed with excellent photographs. He does not profess to deal with the history of the island, except where it is necessary for the explanation of the monuments, but he gives a brief historical introduction with a list of the Grand masters who held office in Rhodes, and he has carefully read the works of his predecessors, whom in several cases he is able to correct.”—Eng. Hist. R.
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“We must be grateful to Baron de Belabre for a most valuable collection of views and plans of Rhodes, which make his monograph a work of permanent value. A few slips in dates deserve correction.” W. M.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 400. Ap. ’09. 430w.
“A scholarly publication. Most of the photographs with which the book is illustrated are unique and were taken from places to which access is usually denied.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 184. Ag. 26, ’09. 200w.
“An elaborate and amply illustrated account.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 644. Ap. 24, ’09. 240w.
=Bell, John Joy.=^{[5]} Oh! Christina! 2d ed. **60c. Revell.
9–8994.
A new edition of a story which has for its heroine an irresistible child of the Glasgow streets. This little girl, an orphan, goes to live with a prim aunt who keeps a shop. The child’s perspicacity in matters pertaining to store management is exceeded only by her intense enjoyment in grown-ups’ love affairs. She is a refreshing little creature near of kin to the author’s Wee Macgreegor.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 185. Je. ’09.
“Scotophobes and other dull folk are warned off, but most people will, we think, appreciate the sterling and winning character that underlies the little rough husk of the Glasgow ‘keelie’ of twelve.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 528. My. 1. 140w.
“Christina and her nonsense are likely to be much laughed at and quickly forgotten, which is, of course, laying more to her credit than to her discredit.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 607. Je. 17, ’09. 230w.
“‘Christina’ will help to pass a very enjoyable hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 130w.
“The book may be read in an hour, and that hour at least will be one of jollity.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 21. My. 1, ’09. 80w.
=Bell, John Joy.= Whither thou goest: a romance of the Clyde. **$1.20. Revell.
8–30130.
An unspoiled, unselfish girl left at her father’s death with a fortune becomes the victim of a jealous, ambitious aunt’s cunning and cruelty. The niece discovers the woman’s perfidy in time to save from her doom a cousin who had been auctioned off to the highest bidder on the matrimonial slave block, and to woo back her own happiness at the expense of pride and fortune.
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“An interesting story of average merit.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 90. Mr. ’09. ✠
“The story is chiefly remarkable for the careful drawing of the minor characters.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 756. D. 12. 180w.
“A sweet, simple story, sweetly and simply told.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 443. Ap. 29, ’09. 180w.
“‘Whither thou goest’ is a much better piece of work [than ‘Thou fool’], closer and finer in construction, its interest better managed, its characterization more vivid. It shows the hand of a man with a native gift for story telling growing stronger and more skillful with practice.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 131. Mr. 6, ’09. 370w.
“The story is not on ordinary lines; it is most skillfully constructed and includes a variety of characters which make it bright and unfailingly entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 815. Ap. 10, ’09. 220w.
“Is full of that genial humor and kindly philosophy applied to things of everyday life that made his other stories so attractive.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 762. Je. ’09. 80w.
=Belloc, Hilaire.=^{[12]} Marie Antoinette. **$2.75. Doubleday.
9–28753.
An introductory chapter on “The diplomatic revolution” emphasizes the importance of the great alliance between France and Austria in relation to Marie Antoinette’s entire life. “Her marriage, her eminence, her sufferings, and her death were each directly the consequence of that compact; its conclusion coincided with her birth; from childhood she was dedicated to it as a pledge, a bond, and at last, a victim.” Following a lead thus established, the biographer sketches against a background of historical events, terror-wrought towards the close, the fascinating story of Marie Antoinette. The modern viewpoint and method give special force to the work.
=Belloc, Hilaire.= On nothing and kindred subjects. **$1.25. Dutton.
9–8424.
“Mr. Belloc’s little collection of essays and reflections is quite one to put in the pocket or portmanteau for the end of the week; and it is one to be taken out and read. But it is probably small beer compared with the stuff Mr. Belloc could brew if he chose.” (Sat. R.) “Among the topics chosen for treatment as ‘kindred’ to nothing are these: On ignorance, On advertisement, On a house, On a dog and a man also, On railways and things, On a child who died, On the departure of a guest, and On coming to an end.” (Dial.)
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“The book has the air of being designed for a small circle of the elect. It is, however, the work of a clever man.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 320. Mr. 14. 270w.
“The book is written in a fine spirit of carelessness and spontaneity; nevertheless the author need not have pushed laxity to such an extreme.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 143. Mr. 1, ’09. 280w.
“The book is passably entertaining, but it lends weight to the assertion in the fourth essay that ‘you must not take things for granted because they are printed.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 240w.
“His new volume is quite up to the standard; fresh, frank, versatile. It sparkles all through. He gives us here the result of his play, and a most pleasant result; but many of his admirers may be beginning to look for the result of his labours.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 343. Mr. 14, ’08. 220w.
“Of Mr. Belloc’s satire we have no very high opinion. Some one may suggest that he makes fun of things which we respect. But if we are not pleased we might at least be hurt, and we are not hurt.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 545. Ap. 4, ’08. 140w.
=Benedict, Clare.= Resemblance and other stories. †$1.50. Putnam.
9–5526.
“Fresh and charming sentiment, care for lively and ingenious plot, faithful presentation of social life, sunny humor, convincing characterization, and graces of style” are the points that make their appeal to Miss Benedict’s audience. There are ten stories in the group. The first or titular story is an example of the suggestive method in story writing. It begins and ends in mystery of which the reader’s only inkling comes through the agitation and fear manifested by a husband and wife who are witnessing a performance of “Macbeth,” both of whom are further terrified by the resemblance of the wife to Lady Macbeth.
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“It is a good, sensible, workmanlike fulfilment of the formula. One may read these stories with a sense of gentle satisfaction, if with no thrill.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 727. Je. 19. 160w.
“Miss Benedict unquestionably has great ability as a writer of delicate psychological problems. What she lacks in technique is sure to come with practice, while she starts with the possession of a quality which subtler and more finished writers, such as Mrs. Wharton, might well envy, the quality of heart.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 319. My. ’09. 800w.
“A volume of short stories that, although of quite uneven merit, are distinctly of some importance.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 394. Ap. ’09. 1000w.
“Miss Benedict writes gracefully, though without a great deal of distinction. Her stories are mildly interesting and belong to the class of magazine fiction which is too well-bred to be very striking.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 148. Mr. 13, ’09. 300w.
=Benjamin, Helen Mina (Helen Melville, pseud.), and Benjamin, Lewis S. (Lewis Melville, pseud.).=^{[7]} London’s lure; an anthology in prose and verse. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–29607.
“An anthology of brief passages in prose and verse, classified with more than ordinary intelligence, relating to the great city, its sights and scenes, its denizens, and its natural beauties.”—Dial.
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“Attractive little book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 24. Jl. 1, ’09. 60w.
“The volume is delightful.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 786. My. 15, ’09. 140w.
=Benn, Edith Fraser.=^{[12]} Overland trek from India by side-saddle, camel, and rail; the record of a journey from Beluchistan to Europe. *$5. Longmans.
A record of travel “far too rough for a lady, and still less suited to a child.” “Starting from Quetta, in Beluchistan, Mrs. Benn, after a sojourn in Seistan, made her way to Krasnovodsk, on the eastern shore of the Caspian. She crossed the Caspian to Petrovsk, and journeyed from this place to Batoum, on the eastern extremity of the Black Sea. Along the southern shore of the Black Sea her three methods of progression, side-saddle, camel, and railway, had to be given up for conveyance by sea. But of this part of her travel she takes small account. It will suffice to say that she went home by Constantinople, Sofia, Belgrade, Budapest, Vienna, and Dresden. Indeed, from Tiflis to Batoum occupies but twenty-five pages out of three hundred and fifteen.” (Spec.)
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“Interesting book. Though the account is not up to date, it has the special importance of recording the state of affairs at and around Seistan before the consulate was built and the telegraph laid from Mashhad (Meshed) and Quetta.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 490. O. 23. 650w.
“The book is full of noteworthy things.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 851. N. 20, ’09. 450w.
=Bennet, Robert Ames.=^{[11]} Volunteer with Pike: the true narrative of one Dr. John Robinson and of his love for the fair Señorita Vallois. †$1.50. McClurg.
9–26323.
A picture of life in Washington during Washington’s administration stands out in clear contrast to graphically described frontier experiences which include the sighting of Pike’s peak by the man whose name it was given.
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“Robert Ames Bennet deserves not a little praise for the historical setting he has given to his romance of love and adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 220w.
=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.=^{[11]} The glimpse: an adventure of the soul. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–27998.
A Londoner, devoted to art and literature, finding that he had ceased to love his wife and that she preferred the attentions of a certain genius whom he numbered among his friends, suddenly succumbs to a stroke of apoplexy. He is left for dead when, in reality, he is conscious but unable to move. In this state he gets a glimpse of the world to come which the author amplifies with skill and imagination.
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“This is not a real novel; it is a ‘tour de force,’ but there is no denying its extreme cleverness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 230w.
“Although not to be put in the same class with that author’s strong, big, and rather grim volume, ‘The old wives’ tale,’ is none the less a work of distinct originality. Whether it was really worth doing is quite another question.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 386. D. ’09. 370w.
“There is much mysticism and some metaphysical felicity in the book, which will hardly make a strong popular appeal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 750. N. 27, ’09. 220w. =Spec.= 103: 851. N. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.=^{[9]} Old wives’ tale. *$1.50. Doran.
W9–196.
“Paints in minute detail the commonplace events of a rather dull middle-class provincial English family.” (Outlook.) “Mr. Bennett takes as the subject the separate histories of two sisters, who in the first chapters of the book are in their later teens, while the curtain does not fall till they have both died as elderly women.... The other characters in the book are grouped round these two salient figures, and though they stand out from the canvas, yet do so in due subordination to the two heroines.” (Spec.)
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“A story of unusual length but unfailing interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 54. O. ’09.
“There are very few books in English which mirror back so truly and with such a fine sense of proportion the relative amount of joy and sorrow that enter in to the average human life.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 186. O. ’09. 830w.
“A remarkable work of fiction, a book of such sincerity, truthfulness and insight as to make the ordinary novel seem hopelessly shallow and artificial by comparison.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 236. O. 1, ’09. 950w.
“It is a solid chunk of reality, a character study in three dimensions. Intensely interesting because the author has the uncanny power to turn ordinary people inside out so we can see what they think of themselves.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 548. S. 2, ’09. 200w.
“When he has ceased to speak, there remains nothing for us to learn about these people, body, mind, or soul. For the rest, it is enough to say that there is nothing about them which we are not grateful for knowing.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 356. O. 14, ’09. 570w.
“Not a book to be readily forgotten by those who read it with understanding.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 498. Ag. 21, ’09. 650w.
“In ‘Old wives’ tale’ Mr. Bennett has arrived. It is a great novel.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 836. D. ’09. 210w.
“To make such a book thoroughly enjoyable, as it certainly is, forms a literary ‘tour de force’ on which Mr. Bennett is to be congratulated.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 7. S. 4, ’09. 130w.
“An exceedingly clever novel, and one which will well repay perusal.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 950. D. 5, ’08. 550w.
=Bennett, William Harper.=^{[6]} Catholic footsteps in old New York. $2.50. Schwartz, Kirwin & Fauss.
9–6272.
“Covers a period from 1524 to 1808, with chapters on martyrs like Jogues, bishops like Carroll, and governors like Dongan; it rambles with Father Le Moyne up the Heere-Graft or Great Canal, now Broad Street, and calls on Dominie Megapolensis, that courteous host and would-be theological opponent of the early Jesuits; it pays a tribute to the memory of James II; exposes the fanatical bigotry of Jacob Leisler against the ‘Papists’ and gives a full picture of his downfall; portrays the hallucination of the ‘hellish negro plot,’ following which ‘the law passed against Catholic priests was only once enforced, and then to bring to death a Protestant clergyman.’”—Cath World.
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“It need not be said that the author has attempted no critical analysis of movements or of personages; he cares little for sequence, and wanders in many climes, not without bringing home some of their brightness; though he has consulted very many authorities, he makes no pedantic show of learning; he is devout yet just to opponents; sometimes vigorous in style, and never dull. To the growing class of educated Catholic readers it is to be cordially commended for its intrinsic merit and for its loyal tribute to the church.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 387. Je. ’09. 500w.
“A valuable as well as a highly entertaining history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 190. Ap. 3, ’09. 1200w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= At large. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–30590.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Quiet, reflective essays affording new and helpful viewpoints on the philosophy and meaning of life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 283. D. ’08.
“Is lighter, clearer, and much more sensible and bracing than his previous essays concerning life or things in general. Though there are several things said which have previously been said better.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 99. Ja. 23. 550w.
“Whatever Mr. Benson’s titles ... the welcome thing, the thing we are sure to find, is a genial understanding of the frailties of human life along with a calm optimism, a wealth of thought, and a very fluent style enabling one to wander under any title easily away with the author from the cares that infest the day.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 705. Ap. 1, ’09. 170w.
“On the whole, they stand very well the test of consecutive and continuous reading, though primarily intended to be taken up at monthly intervals.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 494. Ja. ’09. 230w.
“His new book, even if one cannot quite receive all his ideas, has the old originality and haunting charm. His thoughts are not platitudes.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 1105. D. 26, ’08. 500w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= Poems of Arthur Christopher Benson. *$1.50. Lane.
9–8005.
A collection of Mr. Benson’s poems including old and new pieces. His verse shows “the same vein of quiet, wholesome sentiment that runs through his essays, the same sensitiveness to the beauty of nature and to the beauty of moral dignity and spiritual purity.” (Outlook.)
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“Larger libraries having the author’s volumes of essays will find readers for this unpretentious verse, which has the same pleasing qualities.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 131. My. ’09.
“Mr. Benson’s aptness for the Laureate-like task of writing both decorously and with distinction on topics of public interest ... is also, we think, significant of his limitations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 285. Mr. 6. 700w.
“Mr. Benson is as fluent a writer of verse as of prose, and his poems are thoughtful, placid and refined, but not distinguished.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 97. Ag. 16, ’09. 270w.
“His work is minor in the better sense that it is unpretentious, and that it is replete with conscious reminiscences. Indeed, it might almost be sufficiently characterized by calling it a mixture of Tennyson and Matthew Arnold.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 256. Mr. 11, ’09. 630w.
“Mr. Benson’s verses appeal to a cultivated dilettante fancy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 102. F. 20, ’09. 470w.
“His verse is in no sense poetry of a high order; but it shows the practiced hand of the intelligent craftsman, well trained and disciplined.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 385. F. 20, ’09. 250w.
“When he is at his best and simplest there is something very gracious and soothing about his scholarly and assiduous work.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 153. Ja. 30, ’09. 70w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher.=^{[10]} Until the evening. (What is worth while ser.) **30c. Crowell.
9–22921.
Six brief essays as follows: Prayer; The mystery of suffering; The faith of Christ; The mystery of evil; Renewal; After death; The Eternal will; Until the evening. In each the author takes a fearless stand, as, for instance, in the opening essay, he says “I confess that liturgical prayer does not very much appeal to me.... Prayer should not be relegated to certain seasons, or attended by certain postures, or even couched in definite language ... the deeper secret lies in the fact that prayer is an attitude of soul and not a ceremony.”
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Climber. **$1.40. Doubleday.
9–3204.
A social climber is the central figure of this story. “Lucia Grimson, knowing that her dearest friend was on the verge of becoming engaged to X (a rich peer), carries off X. The friend marries Y. Lucia, heartily bored with X, steals the affections of Y. Exposure follows, and the carefully wrought fabric of social success goes crash. We are asked to believe that Lucia, the heartless, mercenary, treacherous, frivolous, falls so madly in love with Y that for a moment she believes the world well lost for love.” (Sat. R.)
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“The evolution of the clever and at times vulgar Lucia is logical and consistent, except, perhaps, in the closing scenes. We hear much of the brilliance of intellectual and ‘smart’ gatherings and superb banquets, but something has evaporated in the telling.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 640. N. 21. 270w.
“Mr. Benson is a very prolific writer, but it is long since he has given us as good a story as ‘The Climber.’” M. K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 93. Mr. ’09. 640w.
“Never, perhaps, has the ruthless nature of social ambition ... been more sternly unmaskt than in ‘The Climber.’”
+ =Ind.= 66: 698. Ap. 1, ’09. 200w.
“It is with a sense of dreariness that the reader closes the book with the question in his mind if the society life of to-day is really as bad as it is painted.”
− =Lit. D.= 38: 385. Mr. 6, ’09. 200w.
“A solid book which refuses to be skimmed, and which might even bear a second reading.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 200. F. 25, ’09. 420w.
“An immensely clever and detailed portrait. The background of the novel is put in with dash and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 88. F. 13, ’09. 450w.
“Mr Benson in an unexpected moment of candour about his heroine observes that ‘it is hard to follow the working of so superficial and trivial a soul.’ Conscious of that by the time he has produced some twelvescore pages about her, he forbears to ask whether the attempt is worth making.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 765. D. 19, ’08. 120w.
“If it is necessary to portray in great detail so unattractive a figure, it must be acknowledged that Mr. Benson’s study is eminently successful. ‘The climber’ is not an immoral book in the sense of vice being triumphant, but inasmuch as the overthrow of the heroine is due to the imprudence of being found out, it can hardly be said to be what our forefathers would have called ‘improving reading.’”
− + =Spec.= 101: 843. N. 21, ’08. 320w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.=^{[10]} A reaping. **$1.25. Doubleday.
9–35805.
“The record of a kind of sentimental journey through a twelvemonth of a married couple who are still on the sunny side of forty, and is mainly a chronicle of moods and reflections. We find here, besides much introspective matter, discourses on most of the author’s favorite topics: music, gardening, travel, the amenities of town and country life, with a passing touch of the supernatural. The picture of the husband and wife playing with lead soldiers, rocking-horse, and Noah’s ark, to say nothing of the dolls’-house, in the as yet unoccupied nursery appears to us a little curious.”—Ath.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 54. O. ’09. + − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 124. Jl. 31. 140w. =Nation.= 89: 487. N. 18, ’09. 350w.
“The book is a series of essays strung on a shining strand of story. More particularly it is a mood, a smiling outlook on life, to be often taken from the shelf and glanced through, remembered in quiet moments and talked over with a friend at tea.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 563. S. 25, ’09. 900w.
“All this is agreeable enough to read, except that the important things touched upon—the bunkers in the course—are a little out of keeping with the small-talk.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 323. S. 11, ’09. 170w.
=Benson, Margaret.=^{[6]} Venture of rational faith. 6s. Macmillan, London.
A clear-headed, conscientious defense of orthodox Christianity.
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“Though not an important book, may interest a good many. She never seems to me to touch the quick of human thought and feeling. I fear that the stuff of her book is conventional, and that the book itself is mostly dull for the reason that she nowhere gives us to see how the conventionalities which she handles have come to be to her so real. I will add that it is not a book written in a hurry, that wide reading has gone to it, and that it is clear and forcible. It has a good many memorable sentences.” H. W. Garrod.
− + =Hibbert J.= 7: 680. Ap. ’09. 730w.
“An able and scrupulously candid book.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 741. My. 8, ’09. 850w.
=Benson, Ramsey.=^{[10]} Melchisedec. †$1.50. Holt.
9–24017.
To bring out strongly the un-Christlike qualities of the orthodox churches of to-day the author has chosen for his hero a child of the wilderness, a nameless quarter-blood Indian to whom civilization and convention are not even names but in whose heart glows the Christ spirit, the obsession to serve his fellowmen. Jean Valjean and St. Francis first inspire him, and, eager to be about his Father’s business, he seeks a white man’s city only to find hate in the church, sneers in organized charity and crime and selfishness in the hearts of his fellowmen. His zeal carries him from revivalists and the Salvation Army to Catholicism and the Jesuits, then in his distress of spirit he turns to the Unitarian ministry. From each new hurt he flees from man to his native woods for comfort, but always returns to his life of service until, too deeply scarred, his soul is at last martyred upon the rack of orthodoxy.
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“He has written another book in the same certifying manner, the most improbable and at the same time one of the most veracious stories ever conceived.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1205. N. 25, ’09. 900w.
“There is scarcely room for question that Mr. Benson, at least, has failed in his major purpose, though he has given us a psychological study of no mean interest.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 306. S. 30, ’09. 270w.
“The author has essayed a theme well out of the ordinary, and one of sufficient difficulty to test the powers of a skilled novelist. The practical handling of it has been a little too much for Mr. Benson’s capacities at this time, but it is, nevertheless, a noteworthy piece of fiction. But as a whole the tale is picturesque, unusual, and has the always gratifying quality of suggestiveness.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 563. S. 25, ’09. 300w.
=Bentley, Harry Clark.= Corporate finance and accounting; Legal notes by T. Conyngton. $4. Ronald.
8–9769.
“The aim has been to provide a manual for the use of a corporation treasurer. Various devices and methods for procedure are described in simple, untechnical language, while the legal side has been carefully elucidated by Mr. Conyngton. The volume is divided into six parts dealing respectively with the treasurer’s duties and legal obligations; the corporate books of account; the corporate finances, including checks and dividends; negotiable instruments; corporate securities; and finally the various forms used by the treasurer or for the corporate finances and securities. For obtaining a knowledge of such things this volume should prove valuable for those interested in corporation finance. It does not attempt, however, to enter into the broader and more fundamental questions of policy in connection with this subject.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“Presents the subject in an entirely new and satisfactory manner.” W. K. Hardt.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 206. Ja. ’09. 300w.
“A reading of the text leads to the conclusion that for any other than a general purpose the author has either attempted too much, or has succeeded in doing too little.” F. A. C.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 46. Ap. ’09. 240w.
“In the selection of materials judgment has been used to give to the uninformed a complement of ideas that may be useful, but in no part is the work systematic. The book possesses considerable pedagogical value for a school offering a ten weeks’ course in business practice, but has contributed nothing to scientific literature.” F: A. Cleveland.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: sup. 648. Je. 11, ’08. 220w. + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 465. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“[There is] a failure, in the presentation of the subject, to distinguish properly between principles and their application by ‘methods’ to specific cases. A manual easy of access and worthy of a prominent place on every business man’s desk.” B: F. Wright.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 327. Je. ’09. 580w.
=Benton, Elbert Jay.=^{[7]} International law and diplomacy of the Spanish-American war. $1.50. Johns Hopkins.
8–9495.
“A history of the relations of the United States and Spain during the Cuban insurrection and the resulting Spanish-American war. Especial emphasis is given to the controverted points of international law which were passed upon during the conflict. Though the sources used do not include the Spanish material on the subject, the viewpoint throughout is judicial. Some of the author’s conclusions are, that the ‘reconcentrado’ policy was a justifiable means of warfare; that the refusal of arbitration offered by Spain in the Maine case was a mistake; that McKinley did not exhaust the resources of diplomacy before turning the conduct of affairs over to Congress; and that the intervention of the United States on humanitarian grounds was not good practice in international law. The decisions of the courts in prize cases and allied subjects are reviewed in detail.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 440. S. ’08. 180w.
“The material is well organized and clearly and compactly presented. The author’s judgments are generally fair and impartial.” G. W. Scott.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 341. Je. ’09. 700w.
=Bernard, Auguste.=^{[7]} Geofroy Tory, painter and engraver; first royal printer reformer of orthography and typography under François I; an account of his life and works; tr. by George B. Ives. *$37.50. Houghton.
9–10130.
“A translation of M. Auguste Bernard’s account of Tory’s life and work, supplemented by scholarly notes and by a large number of designs, which represent, however, only a very small part of the immense amount of work accomplished by Tory’s fervid industry.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The main value of this book is, then, due to its perfect reproduction of the best work of Geofroy Tory.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 90. Jl. 24. 550w.
Reviewed by Laurence Burnham.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 194. O. ’09. 930w.
“This beautiful volume is creditable in the highest degree to the author, the translator, the printer, and the publisher.” F: W. Gookin.
+ =Dial.= 46: 401. Je. 16, ’09. 2100w.
“Mr. Ives’s rendering of the French text is accurate and painstaking, but now and then leaves the reader a little conscious that it is a translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 61. Jl. 15, ’09. 1250w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 293. My. 8, ’09. 1650w.
=Berry, Charles William.= Temperature-entropy diagram. 2d ed. rev. and enl. $2. Wiley.
8–32508.
“In the revised edition of the ‘Temperature-entropy diagram’ a more extended application of the principles of the Τφ-analysis to advanced problems of thermodynamics has been made than was possible in the limited scope of the previous edition. The chapter on the flow of fluids has been entirely rewritten and treats at length various irreversible processes. A graphical method of projecting from the ρυ- into the Τφ-plane has been elaborated for perfect gases and its application illustrated in the chapters on hot-air engines and gas-engines. The various factors affecting the cylinder efficiency of both gas- and steam-engines have been thoroughly discussed. One chapter has been devoted to the thermodynamics of mixtures of gases and vapors, and another to the description and use of Mollier’s total energy-entropy diagram.”—Preface.
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=Engin. D.= 5: 56. Ja. ’09. 230w. =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 695. D. 17, ’08. 320w.
“It is evident that the author has put an Immense amount of work into the revision and brought out one of the most complete books that we have on the subject.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Berry, John B. N.= Some assurances of immortality. 50c. Fenno.
9–7954.
A slight book of sixty-six pages whose short chapters discuss the modern acceptance of Who and what is God? Where is the soul? Man’s immortality; Spiritism; Materialization; Faith; Intuition and conscience; Prayer; Love; Trust; and Hope.
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=R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 30w.
=Berry, W. Grinton.= Bishop Hannington and the story of the Uganda mission. **$1. Revell.
A book designed for mission study classes which “tells the romantic story of Bishop Hannington, not without detail, but still within a moderate space, and so makes it more accessible. James Hannington was a veritable Moses. His name is connected, and rightly connected, with Uganda, and yet he never set foot within its borders. Nevertheless he achieved much. Things seemed hopeless enough when he met his end; yet there is no part of the world where missionary effort has achieved a more distinct success. Hannington was martyred on October 29th, 1885,—he was but thirty-seven years old; twelve years afterwards there were six hundred and fifty-nine Christian lay-agents and four thousand four hundred and forty-two baptisms, nearly half as many as those recorded in all the Church missionary society stations throughout the world. The story of the struggle by which these results were won is singularly interesting.” (Spec.)
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“He has seized upon the essentials of the great tale and leaves us stirred with a new wonder at the Gospel which could inspire such devotion and win such triumphs.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 378. F. 18, ’09. 110w.
“This very handy volume will be welcome to many readers.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Berry, W. Grinton.= France since Waterloo. *$1.50. Scribner.
W9–66.
A record for the reader who has “only a vague, imperfect, and unsatisfying knowledge of what has happened in France since Waterloo.” “The ‘interpretation of facts’ is the author’s own, and he is an Englishman, but seemingly unprejudiced. He has acquired the art of visualization. He presents clear pictures of important epochs in comparatively few words.... He does not neglect the advance of science in France, the encouragement of art, the unsettled relations of church and state. He has chapters on Boulanger and the Dreyfus affair. Besides some acceptable portraits, there are maps and a chronological table, a list of rulers and chief magistrates, some genealogical tables, and a good index.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is only fair to say that the author exhibits scrupulous care to be impartial, although his ‘limitations’ must be obvious. It is not possible to commend Mr. Berry’s treatment of recent history. The kind of reader who may be expected to peruse a condensed history will be puzzled by many passing allusions, and will not find much assistance from the index.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 300. S. 12. 680w.
“There is also a lack of exact statement in tracing the beginnings of the present difficulties in the first revolution.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 100w.
“He may not reach the same conclusions as other competent students of contemporary French history, but the utility of his book is unquestionable. It tells a long and involved story in a few well-chosen words. It is comparable with the best kind of journalism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 145. Mr. 13, ’09. 560w.
=Bertholet, Alfred.=^{[12]} Transmigration of souls. (Harper’s lib. of living thought.) **75c. Harper.
9–35855.
A clear account of the doctrine of metempsychosis traced thru ancient and modern history. “The doctrine filled a considerable space in time past, and it is well to be instructed about its various forms and phases by one who has studied the subject thoroughly.” (Spec.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 68. N. ’09.
“This little volume is worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 170w.
=Beruete y Moret, Aurelino de.=^{[8]} School of Madrid. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
9–26478.
Continues and supplements the work of Señor Beruete’s father on Velasquez. The author’s task is “the exploration of that unknown country from which the figure of the great Spanish master emerges so unexpectedly. The period to be studied covers some seventy-five years from the arrival of Velasquez at the Court of Madrid in 1623 to the death of Claudio Coello at the end of the century. Of these successors of Velasquez who go to form the school of Madrid, that artist’s pupil and son-in-law Del Mazo is the protagonist and the hero of the story.” (Sat. R.)
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“Is distinguished by scholarly caution and critical acumen.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 68. N. ’09.
“It is possible to dispute Señor de Beruete’s judgment in connexion with matters of which he treats only in passing fashion. On the whole the English is clear, and the style idiomatic if pedestrian.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 337. S. 18. 900w.
“Valuable work.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 328. O. ’09. 260w.
“Señor Beruete’s work is so scholarly and so serviceable that we regret to point out its obvious weakness—the failure to take into account Spanish pictures in America.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 126. Ag. 5, ’09. 370w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 400w.
“To students of the Spanish school [it] should prove invaluable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 53. Jl. 10, ’09. 300w.
=Betts, George Herbert.=^{[10]} Distribution and functions of mental imagery. $1. Teachers college.
9–25433.
A study of both voluntary and spontaneous imagery whose problems divide themselves in two groups: (1) those which grow out of the power to evoke images voluntarily: and (2) those which grow out of the spontaneous use of imagery in thought.
=Beveridge, William Henry.=^{[5]} Unemployment: a problem of industry. *$2.40. Longmans.
9–16585.
An inquiry into the conditions and causes of unemployment and suggestions for the problem’s solution. “The principles of future policy laid down are chiefly two: First, organized fluidity of labor through central labor exchanges, reducing to actual requirements the necessary labor reserve, instead of the existing reserve in each trade, and even for each employer; and second, the averaging of work and earnings by means of insurance against unemployment, principally through the labor unions.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 69. N. ’09.
“The author tells us, in excellent form and with singular completeness, exactly what the public wants to know at the present moment on ‘Unemployment.’ The volume is a storehouse of facts for the use of both sides in any controversy which may arise.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 224. F. 20. 670w.
“One of the most searching analyses of unemployment that has yet been made.” Irene Osgood.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 2: 141. Je. ’09. 1200w.
“While his details are drawn from British sources and his conclusions apply more particularly to conditions in Great Britain than to those of any other country, yet his conclusions are largely applicable in any of the great industrial countries of the world.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 46. N. 18, ’09. 1050w.
“No doubt the student of economics will find much to question in Mr. Beveridge’s pages. But for all that, the real value of the book is not to be questioned. It is worthy a permanent place on the bookshelf of the economist and in the hands of the reformer.” A. B. Wolfe.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 476. Jl. ’09. 950w.
“The chief value of the book—and it is a real one—is the very complete and fair presentation and analysis of the facts and the causes of unemployment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 289. My. 8, ’09. 750w.
“If the Unemployed workmen act of 1905 had accomplished nothing more than the production of this book it would have been justified.” J: R. Commons.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 534. S. ’09. 650w.
“Not the least interesting part of Mr. Beveridge’s book is his examination of the difficulties which beset older workers in finding fresh employment. We cannot follow Mr. Beveridge in the easy view he takes of the mobility of labour.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 570. N. 6, ’09. 880w.
“A correct analysis of the machinery of exchange as the organising principle of labour distribution is of the highest importance, and we recommend Mr. Beveridge’s contribution to the subject as one of much force and ability. We enter, however a ‘caveat’ that the author hardly realizes the influence of the existing labour exchange.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 485. O. 2, ’09. 210w.
=Biagi, Guido.=^{[10]} Men and manners of old Florence. **$3.50. McClurg.
Five sketches that give realistic glimpses of the social life in Florence from the thirteenth to the beginning of the last century, during the age when Florence was a distinctive factor in the civilization of Europe, when, as the author says, “her native manners and customs had not yet been submerged and lost in the great stream of modern influence and fashions.” Contents: Florence within her ancient boundary; The mind and manners of a Florentine merchant of the fourteenth century; The private life of the renaissance Florentines; Tullia of Arragon; The twilight of the past; Index.
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“Is not only a highly informing work but a highly entertaining one.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 388. N. 16, ’09. 460w.
“The author wrote the preface of a charming work upon ‘The women of Florence,’ by Isadoro del Lungo, reviewed in these columns last year, which should be read in connection with these essays.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 601. N. 13, ’09. 200w.
=Bianchi, Martha Gilbert.=^{[9]} Cuckoo’s nest. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–18025.
“A novel, the action of which takes place chiefly at Monte Carlo, offers well in this hour of cosmopolitan fiction. England, America, France, Poland, and Germany share the honors in providing the principal persons of the tale.... The American abroad, the gambler of noble birth, the courtesan, the brilliant and amorous amateur of the violin, the rude but sportsmanlike Englishwoman with a title, the all-conquering dragoon—these are the not unfamiliar human materials out of which the Countess Bianchi has constructed her plot.”—Nation.
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“Up to the last, one has no clear idea just where the author meant to place her centre of interest. But this does not alter the fact that she has here and there done some surprisingly good bits of work in portraying character.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 68. S. ’09. 950w.
“There are passages of somewhat too detailed description for the taste of Anglo-Saxondom; but the moral of the story is wholesome.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 212. S. 2, ’09. 270w.
=Bierce, Ambrose.=^{[10]} Shadow on the dial, and other essays. *$2. Robertson.
9–28535.
A group of essays with a wide range of subjects. They are as follows: The shadow on the dial; Civilization; The game of politics; Some features of the law; Arbitration; Industrial discontent; Crime and its correctives; The death penalty; Religion; Immortality; Opportunity; Charity; Emancipated woman; The opposing sex; The American sycophant; A dissertation on dogs; The ancestral bond; The right to work; The right to take oneself off.
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“Mr. Bierce now forces the note, talks about matters he does not perfectly understand, says habitually more than he means, counts that sentence lost which contains no paradox, and contradicts himself without a blush.”
− =Nation.= 89: 306. S. 30, ’09. 650w.
“If Mr. Bierce does not contribute vastly to the knowledge of the world, he assuredly adds delightfully to its amusement.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 491. Ag. 14, ’09. 1600w.
“It is quite clear that what Mr. Bierce writes must be taken ‘cum grano.’ But there must be something genuine in it.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 315. Ag. 28, ’09. 430w.
=Bigelow, John.=^{[12]} Retrospections of an active life. **$12. Baker.
“To have lived to the ripe age of 92 years with full share of health and happiness, to have seen pass in review a great crisis in the history of one’s country, to have grown up with the great advances in science and the applications of science to commercial and industrial life, and finally to be able to sit down with pen in hand and describe these events accurately, fully, and entertainingly.” (N. Y. Times.)—this is what John Bigelow, ex-Ambassador to France has done in three volumes.
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“More of his own way of looking at things, and less of his friends’ epistolary account of them, would have been welcome. The result, in the bulk and cost of the work, is not eminently satisfactory.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 446. D. 1, ’09. 2500w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 731. N. 20, ’09. 230w.
“One ought not and one can scarcely criticise this voluminous work. But a little more careful editing would improve the quality of certain sections. For instance, one would like both sides of the correspondence more frequently in order not to lose the thread of the argument. While giving many letters written by other men, Mr. Bigelow is rather too sparing with his own letters, a sign of his never-failing modesty. The intrinsic value of the matter adduced outweighs all secondary considerations.” I. W. Voorhees.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 737. N. 27, ’09. 2600w.
“There is no man living to-day so fitted to write the story of the last three-quarters of a century of American life as seen by one who has actively participated in it; and the vigor of his activity is paralleled by the vigor of his narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 789. D. 4, ’09. 400w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 753. D. ’09. 600w.
=Bigelow, William Sturgis.= Buddhism and immortality. (Ingersoll lecture for 1908). **75c. Houghton.
8–30599.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 496. Jl. ’09. 160w. =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 99. Ap. ’09.
“An exceedingly well written presentation of the Buddhistic conception of immortality from the point of view of a sympathetic student of Buddhism.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 143. F. ’09. 20w.
“The result of asking us to conceive states without a subject to which these states are attributable is to render his ideas very confused and confusing.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 693. F. ’09. 180w.
“As an attempt to interpret oriental ideas to western minds, the book deserves high praise. In particular, the exposition of ‘Karma’ is admirable; and the nobler side of Japanese Buddhist doctrine is brought before the reader very effectively.” E. H. Hollands.
+ =Philos. R.= 18: 346. My. ’09. 780w.
=Bigg, Charles.=^{[8]} Origins of Christianity; ed. by T. B. Strong. *$4.15. Oxford.
9–25437.
“In this excellent work, the Christian history and literature of the first three centuries are treated with great learning and breadth of view, being constantly brought into relation with the wider history of the times. The book is thus an introduction both to the history and to the literature of the early church.” (Bib. World.) “The first chapter is a review of the Roman Empire as it was at the time, an institution usually tolerant, but coming into hostile contact with Christianity on the point of Caesar-worship. Dissent from this was high treason. Chapters follow on the foundation of the Roman church, on the fiery trials through which it passed under Nero and Domitian, and on its early teachers, the pseudo-Barnabas, Clement, and Hermas.” (Spec.)
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“The style is terse, concrete, original, and often abrupt. But the story is full of interest, and exhibits a wide acquaintance with Christian and pagan literature. While the work will have no little value and interest for the student, the general reader will find it a useful introduction to the early history of the church. Professor Bigg’s views on Christian literature are not always critically based. The index is far from complete, which is the more unfortunate in view of the large range of subjects, persons, writings, and events treated.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 617. O. ’09. 350w.
“On some matters Dr. Bigg has not adopted what seems the most critical view, and the later books of the New Testament, those, e. g., of Domitian’s time, might well have been included. But the book will be useful, as showing the subsequent literature vividly in its historical setting.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 72. Jl. ’09. 100w.
“This is a disappointing book. The promise of the title is not fulfilled. Nor is the work of the quality one might expect from the Regius Professor of ecclesiastical history in Oxford, whose Bampton lectures on ‘The Christian platonists of Alexandria’ have long been well and favorably known. A more serious defect is the superficiality of treatment.”
− =Nation.= 89: 382. O. 21, ’09. 600w.
“Altogether, this is an awakening book.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 23. Jl. 3, ’09. 500w.
=Bigham, Madge A.=^{[11]} Overheard in fairyland. †$1.50. Little.
9–27956.
A book of fanciful explanations of the origin and characteristics of flowers, trees and other elements of woodland life.
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+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 20w.
=Biles, John Harvard.= Design and construction of ships, v. 1. *$7.50. Lippincott.
9–11028.
=v. 1.= Calculations and strength.
It is divided into three parts: pt. 1 deals with areas, volumes, and centers of gravity; pt. 2 deals with ship calculations proper, such as calculations of displacement, center of buoyancy, metacenters, trim, etc.; pt. 3 deals with the strength of ships.
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“The book could be somewhat condensed to advantage, and its value would be increased if the author had expressed more fully his own opinions and recommendations as regards some of the matters touched on.” D. W. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 1. Ja. 14, ’09. 3000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The author’s style is clear and the method of development orderly and well arranged. The mathematical methods used in dealing with the various principles involved in the theoretical portions are not always the simplest or best. In the broad field of ship design and construction, it is a book which should prove of the highest value and it may be cordially commended to the notice both of students and of designers and practitioners in general.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 223. F. 20, ’09. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The arrangement of the book is excellent, its style concise and clear. For a long time there has been a need for such a book.” W. H. White.
+ =Nature.= 79: 454. F. 18, ’09. 950w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Bindloss, Harold.=^{[11]} Greater power. **$1.30. Stokes.
9–23728.
In its wilderness setting, and in its pioneer struggle with the forces of nature this book is similar to the many that the author has written of life in the Canadian Northwest. To the intelligence and ability of the hero are united the fore-sightedness and initiative of the heroine—a combination that is bound to transform wildernesses into places of habitation.
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“Readers who have liked his earlier volumes will find in ‘The greater power’ substantially the same merits and the same defects.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 189. O. ’09. 150w.
“It makes a varied and virile tale no less deserving of praise than the half dozen of its sort that have come before.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 385. N. 16, ’09. 140w.
“Mr. Bindloss’s muse is always rather heavy footed, and his style, intensely realistic, lacks the imaginative spirit. But his knowledge of the country is profound, his love for it evident, and his descriptions of the wilderness and of the lives of the men who toil therein have the flavor of actuality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 456. S. 18, ’09. 480w.
“The book is a good, straightforward description of a way of living which must always have at least a vicarious attraction for readers pent in crowded towns.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 502. Ap. 17, ’09. 270w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Lorimer of the Northwest. †$1.50. Stokes.
9–2261.
The Canadian northwest is the scene of this story which follows a clean, strong, young pioneer’s fight for fortune and the woman he loves. Its pages are filled with struggle, disappointment and finally the success resulting from a determined fight with the elements of opposition that face the sturdy pioneer. The ozone of the prairies gets into Mr. Bindloss’s pages.
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“The way in which two women are always turning up at the psychological moment to add new complications to his difficulties, forms a tax upon our credulity which tends to discredit even that part of the story that is soberly and sincerely told.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 29: 78. Mr. ’09. 350w.
“In his dealings with nature, as exhibited in that part of America which he has made his own, it seems to us that Mr. Bindloss is steadily growing in fineness of observation and power of description.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 264. Ap. 16, ’09. 260w.
=Bingham, Hiram.=^{[8]} Journal of an expedition across Venezuela and Colombia, 1906–1907: an exploration of the route of Bolivar’s celebrated march of 1819 and of the battle-fields of Boyacá and Carabobo; with map and 133 il. from photographs taken by the author. *$2.25. Yale pub. assn.
9–13527.
The journal of an expedition made in the interests of history along the route of the great general Bolivar who in 1819 conducted an army across Venezuela and Colombia by a road that was regarded impassable. The record of Dr. Bingham’s undertaking along this course is of definite interest “not only to historians, but to naturalists, geographers, ethnologists and lovers of travel in general.” The book is generously illustrated.
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“The text is a useful contribution to the meager literature of this region, but is not of great interest to the average reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 35. O. ’09.
“Had the author used the diary to refresh his memory, and written the account of his trip in regular book form, it would have made the work more readable and more valuable. Even as it stands the volume is one of great interest, and the numerous photographs are excellent.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 93. Jl. 8, ’09. 200w.
“While the historical element in Dr. Bingham’s diary is always dominant, yet other interests are by no means excluded from the narrative. That Dr. Bingham is not an ornithologist may be known from his speaking of toucans as if they were horn-bills; and indeed science is throughout the story a secondary interest. Yet his observations in the fields of geography and ethnology have considerable value.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 328. O. 7, ’09. 560w.
“The reader will get a very good idea of the kind of country and its inhabitants.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 453. O. 14, ’09. 470w.
“The ordinary reader will find in this volume an interesting account of travel off the beaten track and will gain from it an insight to the manner of life of the rural populations of Colombia and Venezuela.” Forbes Lindsay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 479. Ag. 7, ’09. 550w. =Spec.= 103: 138. Jl. 24, ’09. 300w.
=Binyon, Laurence.= Painting in the Far East. *$6. Longmans.
9–5221.
“The artistic unity of Asia is Mr. Binyon’s theme, and in a series of illuminating chapters he proceeds to demonstrate that it is in China that the central tradition of Asian painting is to be found. His thesis unfolds itself spontaneously like some lovely blossom, and his accompanying exposition of Oriental color, line and rhythm offers a helpful initiation to a style which few Occidentals rightly appreciate though many lay claim to that distinction. Not only is Mr. Binyon’s book specifically valuable; it is also collaterally so.”—Putnam’s.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 155. Je. ’09.
“His book is a notable one, comprehensive in its outlook, clear in its statements, and irrefragable in its philosophy.” F: W. Gookin.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 257. Ap. 16, ’09. 2300w.
“Although at a disadvantage by reason of the probable paucity of fine original examples to refer to, the author has succeeded in producing a valuable résumé of the history of art in China and Japan which is a welcome addition to our literature upon the subject. Some regret, however, will be felt by lovers of that art at the altogether unrepresentative character of the illustrations to the volume.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 37: 83. Mr. ’09. 500w.
“His task has thus been comparable to that of a critic who should attempt to describe Italian art without the treasures of Italy. But within the limitations imposed upon him, he has made a useful and interesting volume.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 637. D. 24, ’08. 700w.
“This is a work to study by heart and come back to often of works on art (and the word is said advisedly) the most important in the last decade, and the most enchanting of more than half that time.”
+ + =No. Am.= 190: 838. D. ’09. 130w.
“So simple and direct are his pictorial and poetical perceptions that you get at once at the secret sources of an immeasurably remote and tortuous fountain-head. Real knowledge of the subject is limited, and hence such a work as Mr. Binyon’s should find place on the shelves of almost every apostle of beauty.” Christian Brinton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 622. F. ’09. 430w.
“Mr. Binyon’s book delights us not only by the interest of the subject, but also by the charm of its style and power of expression.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 541. Ap. 3, ’09. 1000w.
=Birdseye, Clarence Frank.= Reorganization of our colleges. **$1.75. Baker.
9–8596.
As a result of a well conducted examination of the grave abuses practised in both administration and student life departments of our colleges and the inadequacy of means used for remedial purposes the author indicates the nature of the trouble and its location in the college body, and suggests a general method of treatment—an antitoxin—capable of effecting a cure if taken in time and in the right way. He proposes the placing of college reorganization under a separate administrative department, with the active cooperation of parents and business alumni.
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“The exposition of the problems is a helpful service in the cause of higher education.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 131. My. ’09.
“From a literary standpoint the book is greatly marred by its redundancy. Mr. Birdseye states that the chief duty of the college is to prepare for citizenship and therefore that the intellectual is not alone to be considered. Here he goes too far.” Carl Kelsey.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 614. N. ’09. 530w.
“Much of the emphasis of the book is timely, and some of it commendable.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 265. Ap. 16, ’09. 570w.
“An interesting and stimulating contribution to the now widespread discussion as to the conditions of American collegiate instruction.” F: P. Keppel.
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 526. My. ’09. 1050w. + =Ind.= 66: 1296. Je. 10, ’09. 500w.
“This is the boldest and clearest plan for improving the higher education in this country which has hitherto appeared.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 559. Ap. 3, ’09. 330w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 233. Ap. 10, ’09. 950w.
“He has put his finger on the most serious defect in our American colleges; he has analyzed that defect with great skill and has shown how composite it is; and he has offered, so far as we know, the only remedy that appears to be as comprehensive as the ill it is designed to cure.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 149. My. 22, ’09. 900w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 150w.
“In its diagnosis of the weaknesses of the college this book is clear, and even trenchant; but it is, on the whole, fair.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 220. Ag. ’09. 200w.
=Bisland, Elizabeth, and Hoyt, Anne=.^{[10]} Seekers in Sicily: being a quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica. **$1.50. Lane.
9–23013.
“Miss Elizabeth Bisland and Miss Anne Hoyt, masquerading as ‘Jane’ and ‘Peripatetica,’ went to Sicily as seekers for the dead body of a great civilization, using their Theocritus oftener than their Baedeker, and waiting in the cold springtime for the coming of Persephone ‘laden with leaves and flowers and the waving corn.’ Every step they took stirred up wraiths of myths and history, and reminded them of Proteus rising from the sea, and of old Triton blowing his wreathèd horn. The theatrical scenery of Taormina, the bones and stones of Syracuse, the temples of ancient Girgenti, ‘the nicest place’ in Sicily, and the land of Goethe’s ‘das land, wo die citronen blüh’n,’ Palermo, were visited in turn.”—Dial.
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“The book is full of life and color, successfully interprets the spirit of the country and supplies a need for a book of popular travel devoted entirely to Sicily.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 35. O. ’09.
“Seriousness and playfulness go together in this happy visit to the fields of old renown, and provide a very readable book of travel.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 234. O. 1, ’09. 300w.
“The book is worth reading, provided that one does not attempt to read too much of it at one sitting.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 823. O. 7, ’09. 270w.
“It is the usual combination of random and inaccurate information by way of crumb, with abundant facetiousness, sentimentality, or simple talky-talk by way of plums.”
− =Nation.= 89: 462. N. 11, ’09. 220w.
“Visitors to Sicily will find this book an exceedingly interesting and valuable companion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 330w.
=Bithell, Jethro.=^{[10]} Minnesingers. v. 1. *$2. Longmans.
W9–220.
A forerunner of the author’s history now in preparation which will treat of the minnesong as compared with the old lyrical poetry of Provence, Portugal and Italy. “This volume is independent of the one to come, for as the translator justly observes of its contents, ‘if they are poems, they should need no commentary; that they are poems in the original, is certain.’ We take satisfaction in saying that they are also poems in their English dress, poems to be enjoyed for themselves, with no ‘arrière-pensée’ of a philological nature.” (Dial.)
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“He undoubtedly permits himself a good deal of freedom both in form and expression—occasionally with happy results, but not infrequently, we think, without adequate compensation for the sacrifice made.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 236. Ag. 28. 630w.
“This volume is a real enrichment of the literature of poetic translation.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 408. Je. 16, ’09. 170w.
“Mr. Bithell’s translations are excellent, preserving in good measure the spirit of the originals, together with the form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 404. Je. 26, ’09. 170w.
=Black, Hugh.= Gift of influence. **$1.25. Revell.
8–31998.
Sermons dealing with young men’s problems of life. “While quoting frequently from the poets, they noticeably abstain from anecdote, a resource of preachers for which Professor Black’s earnest and engaging manner is an effective substitute. All college preachers should take suggestion from their compact brevity. Dr. Black thinks that there is more of idealism among our students than of materialism. ‘No one can despair of the future who knows the splendid material the colleges of the land contain, and how eagerly men long to attempt great tasks.’” (Outlook.)
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“These brief and vigorous sermons constitute real messages to students, not, indeed, as such, but as men and women with ideals and needs common to humanity.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 499. Jl. ’09. 50w. =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 131. My. ’09.
“A volume abounding in eloquence, wisdom, and sound teaching.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 318. Mr. ’09. 40w. =Ind.= 66: 428. F. 25, ’09. 100w. =Nation.= 89: 439. N. 4, ’09. 150w.
“The sermons are eminently practical.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 583. Mr. 13, ’09. 150w.
=Blackwood, Algernon.= Jimbo: a fantasy. **$1.25. Macmillan.
9–7037.
Partly allegorical, this is a study of the mind of an imaginative child whose governess introduces the first element of fear into his marvelously peopled world of thought. It further furnishes a remarkable analysis of the strange forms and weird experiences encountered during this same child’s season of delirium, in which the governess atones for the wrong done to the child by helping his astral self escape from the prison in which it was detained.
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“A distinctly clever and even poetic fantasy of aviation. The total effect would be stronger if Mr. Blackwood had revealed or appeared to reveal a doctrine about fear which would uplift the reader.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 284. Mr. 6. 120w.
“It is written in a simple and exceedingly graphic style, and people who like that sort of reading will doubtless enjoy the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 130. Mr. 6, ’09. 160w.
“We do not believe it is fit for children to read, nor do we imagine its lesson would be very effective among matter-of-fact grown-ups who need the warning contained in it.”
− =Outlook.= 91: 815. Ap. 10, ’09. 120w.
“The book is thus incidentally a sermon to governesses, and ought to be studied by everybody who has to do with children, except children themselves, for whom the homœopathy is quite excessive. One false touch and the aerial illusion would be shattered, but the realism is maintained.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 310. Mr. 6, ’09. 500w.
“‘Jimbo’ is not a book for children, and tender-hearted parents will find it almost unbearably painful, in spite of its comparatively happy end. But as a fantastic exposition of the psychology of fright, as an attempt to illustrate the workings of the mind in the spectral world of delirium, it is of engrossing interest.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 619. Ap. 17, ’09. 1650w.
=Blackwood, Algernon.= John Silence: physician extraordinary. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
9–12624.
Dr. John Silence is a psychic doctor-detective who in the five cases narrated by his confidential assistant tracks criminals who are not discernible by the human senses. He deals with the powers of darkness; in one case it is the discarnate soul of a woman whose evil he transforms by his spiritual alchemy; in another, personified emotions; and still another, “fire elementals” and fluidic bodies.
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“The reader can take the prescribed amount of the supersensible for granted long enough to feel creepy with the victims of uncanny manifestations, and to pursue their adventures with interest to the climax of each ‘case.’”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 400. O. 3. 150w.
“John Silence is a sort of spiritual Sherlock Holmes, a novel contribution to the gallery of autocratic specialists in various lines who tower in the pages of modern fiction.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 563. Je. 3, ’09. 220w.
“You do not lay down the book until it is finished; and when you do it is with distinct regret that it must come to an end at all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 160. Mr. 20, ’09. 550w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 130w.
“These stories are weird and thrilling, and their literary and psychological atmosphere makes that of the cleverest of ordinary detective stories appear thin. But they are too palpably impossible to produce illusion. They interest and excite, and Mr. Blackwood is ingenious, imaginative and skilful in description of persons, moods, and scenery; but they are just sensational and melodramatic.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 426. O. 3, ’08. 320w.
=Blaine, Harriet Bailey (Mrs. James G. Blaine).= Letters of Mrs. James G. Blaine; ed. by Harriet S. Blaine Beale. 2v. **$4. Duffield.
8–35845.
These letters run thru Mrs. Blaine’s Washington life from 1869 to 1889, and are mostly home letters to her absent children. They show her devotion to her husband and children, cast sidelights upon Mr. Blaine’s statesmanship, furnish brief, intimate characterizations of men and women prominent in Washington society during her day, and reveal her love of service, honesty, honor, and courage.
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“A judicious editing would have resulted in reducing the work by half.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 72. Mr. ’09.
“Why on earth should a book be issued in two volumes to inform us, for instance, that the Blaine family had liver and bacon for breakfast in November, 1876.” R: W. Kemp.
− =Bookm.= 29: 193. Ap. ’09. 1050w.
“Mrs. Blaine at her best was a bright and witty woman, and her letters would stand on their own merits far above many which get into print; but, after all, it is the political connection which gives them their chief interest. Hence it is the inevitable impression that they have been a little too thoroughly culled, for the sake of avoiding offense, that will be felt by many as their main defect.” W. H. Johnson.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 114. F. 16, ’09. 680w. + =Ind.= 66: 1033. My. 13, ’09. 600w.
“A real and extremely interesting portrait. Occasionally she shows marks of what is almost literary genius. The letters are always excellent. The volumes have an index, but it has been badly prepared.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 103. Ja. 16, ’09. 1700w.
“There is a useless index, consisting of a list of proper names, with nothing but the pages on which they are referred to. The notes are school-girlish, and not without errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 226. Mr. 4, ’09. 1000w.
“Mrs. Beale has rendered a very important service to the American people in making public [this] collection of letters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 765. D. 12, ’08. 2700w.
“In making a collection of her letters public Mrs. Beale has revealed the portrait of a characteristically American woman and has thrown new light on some recent phases of American history, and she has thus done a double service to the American people.” E. F. Baldwin.
+ =Outlook.= 91: 316. F. 6, ’09. 2250w.
“They show us the simplicity of life in Washington a few decades ago.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 627. F. ’09. 420w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 507. Ap. ’09. 130w.
=Blake, Alice Elizabeth (Mrs. Warrenne Blake)=, ed.^{[5]} Memoirs of a vanished generation, 1813–1855; with an introd. by the Lady St. Helier. *$5. Lane.
9–8386.
While chiefly confined to the domestic affairs of General Knox, his children and many kinsmen, these memoirs reflect the inner political and social life of the times. “There is an atmosphere of old-fashioned goodness and kindness, high morality, warm affection, all kept fresh, gay, and healthy by a keen sense of the absurd, which makes the book a charming contrast indeed to some family chronicles, French and English, one could name.” (Spec.)
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“There is a sufficiency of anecdote and family incident in these memorials.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 66. Jl. 17. 700w.
“Not, perhaps, very exciting, but giving a true picture of the times. On the whole, these memoirs are a unique and interesting addition to our knowledge of a ‘vanished generation.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 38. Ja. 23, ’09. 1000w.
“The singular, unaffected charm of the book ... is owing to Admiral Knox’s delightful and excellent character, the graceful ease with which he and his belongings accepted the troubles of a life not altogether smooth, and the light Irish humour which meant happiness for them all.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 618. Ap. 17, ’09. 470w.
=Blake, Sir Henry Arthur.=^{[10]} China; il. by Mortimer Menpes. (Menpes crown ser.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
W9–270.
A work whose art value is of the first importance. Mr. Menpes’s excellent illustrations consist of sixteen full-page color drawings and numerous marginal line drawings. The accompanying text sketches the physical features, the manners and customs of the various peoples in China, their status in the educational affairs and their prospects for future commercial activity.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 69. N. ’09.
“The illustrations are excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 490. O. 23. 700w.
“The book is an art work of merit, and (no negligible item to many buyers) of modest price.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 455. D. 1, ’09. 210w. =Nation.= 89: 569. D. 9, ’09. 150w.
“Sir Henry Blake would undoubtedly be very interesting in conversation, but he cannot impart his first-hand knowledge or impose his valuable opinions, because simply he does not know the trick of writing.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 841. D. ’09. 100w.
“The text is reasonably picturesque in its description of Chinese life and customs.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 318. O. 9, ’09. 110w.
“A very sympathetic, human quality runs through the illustrated story of an artist’s trip through the Celestial kingdom.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 760. D. ’09. 60w.
“Compresses a great deal of information within his hundred and forty pages of letterpress.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 666. N. 27, ’09. 120w.
=Blanchard, Amy Ella.=^{[10]} Four Corners abroad. (Corner ser.) †$1.50. Jacobs.
9–22943.
A new chapter in the lives of the four girls who, since the days of their first introduction to young readers, have enjoyed a good deal of sight seeing. The haunts of tourists take a new interest as seen thru the eyes of the enthusiastic quartette. The book furnishes plenty of amusement as well as information.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).=^{[5]} Daphne in Fitzroy street. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–4957.
A lovable, ingenuous girl without home and parents and for near relative a little sister to love and protect, is the heroine of this story. Opening in a private French school where Daphne is captain of her playfellow brigands, the scene shifts, after her father’s death, to a disagreeable aunt’s home and finally to an artist’s quarter in London where the chief events, closely linked with art and romance, transpire.
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“On the whole, it is a readable and pretty book, especially for young people.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 340. Mr. 20. 120w.
“The story is genuinely amusing and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 672. O. 30, ’09. 250w. =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
“It is a bright romance, told with the easy manner of an expert.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 502. Ap. 17, ’09. 300w.
“The book, though readable, cannot be called a great success.”
− + =Spec.= 102: 466. Mr. 20, ’09. 400w.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= House with no address. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–6278.
A tale which ranges from the pathetic to the gruesome, from simple motives to deeds darkly mysterious. The central figures are a dancer of the Salome dance, the idol of London, and her lover who after a long absence returns to find her enmeshed in a strange matrimonial tangle. Mystery and tragedy in which the head used in her dance plays a gruesome part are followed by an unexpected squaring of accounts in which the supposed hero is not a hero at all.
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“As a sheer study in horror, the thing is well done, but it is not the sort of book that can be commended either as good art or helpful reading.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 29: 318. My. ’09. 240w.
“‘Salome’ sensationalism cannot possibly go farther.”
− =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 120w.
“A sufficiently lively essay, it will be seen, in the latest style of the blood-and-thunder romance.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 562. Je. 3, ’09. 240w.
“Any amount of clever handling cannot make the preposterous persons seem real. It holds the interest, but not the convictions of the reader, and it leaves him disgusted.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 160. Mr. 20, ’09. 170w.
=Blandin, Isabella M. E.= History of higher education of women in the South prior to 1860. *$3. Neale.
9–2274.
From acts of state legislatures, catalogs of schools, data preserved in libraries of historical associations, and letters written by people connected with schools facts have been gathered to justify the South’s often misdoubted claim to an early recognition of the importance of girl’s education. The book sketches the history of the various institutions, seminaries and colleges for women that existed prior to 1860.
=Bleackley, Horace.=^{[8]} Ladies fair and frail; sketches of the demi-monde during the eighteenth century. *$5. Lane.
Sketches of the following six adventuresses of the eighteenth century: Fanny Murray, Kitty Fisher, Nancy Parsons, Kitty Kennedy, Grace Dalrymple Eliot and Gertrude Mahon.
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“Despite its somewhat meretricious title this careful book is a genuine contribution to serious biography. The results of Mr. Bleackley’s careful research are recorded in pleasant style, but a few slips in names and spelling need attention.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 369. Mr. 27. 1600w.
“Has treated his subject in a manner at once serious and indicating a great deal of patient and painstaking investigation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 426. Jl. 10, ’09. 170w.
=Blewett, George John.= Study of nature and the vision of God. *$1.75. Briggs.
8–6091.
“Concerned with a two-fold opposition of fundamental philosophic tendencies: that between idealism and mysticism, and that between abstract and concrete idealism. The first two essays deal with the main antithesis itself; the one outlining the idealistic position which in its method of apprehending the true nature of reality is made to move from the world to God, without forgetting the world from which it started: the other tracing the development of mysticism, as interpreted by Spinoza, which in its method ‘leaves the world behind.’ The history of Christendom, is considered as representing the conflicts of these two tendencies. The remaining essays are studies in the history of idealism, with reference to Plato, Erigena and St. Thomas.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The philosophical and theological value of this work lies in its reconciliation of the world as it appears to the demand that it shall be seen as framed throughout for the realization of a supreme purpose. Its theme is logically, but rather verbosely, outlined.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 617. N. ’08. 200w.
“These essays deserve a permanent place in the English library of philosophy. His style has the defects of its merits. It is never commonplace, and at times rises to impressive eloquence. The refined but vigorous moral enthusiasm which pervades the whole book is almost appealing. But there are few passages, especially in the first essay, which are somewhat turgid and periphrastic, and some have a slight tinge of homiletic sentimentalism.” E. H. Hollands.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 88. Ja. ’09. 1600w.
=Bliss, Edwin Munsell.= Missionary enterprise. **$1.25. Revell.
8–20164.
A volume which supersedes the author’s “Concise history of missions.” He has “put into this moderately sized volume the whole story of Christian missions from the early times till now, enlarging especially upon their development in the nineteenth century.” (Outlook.)
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“A good, general survey of Christian missions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 6. Ja. ’09. ✠
“A statesmanlike presentation of the objects for which the most progressive missionaries are working and the methods by which they are seeking to accomplish them.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 42. Jl. 1, ’09. 80w.
“His skill is exhibited in this volume, in which the large facts and salient principles are brought to due prominence, notwithstanding the extent of field and fact which he covers. His volume will serve to spread intelligence as to the ambitions and purposes which underlie the efforts of the more statesmanlike propagandists of the faith, and the substantial and permanent results which missionary effort is assuredly accomplishing.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 485. My. 13, ’09. 180w. + =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 160w.
=Blomfield, Reginald Theodore.=^{[9]} Mistress art. *$1.40. Longmans.
9–5222.
“A series of critical essays varying greatly in subject, but all bearing on the author’s main contention, ‘that architecture is not mere decoration or ornamental building, but something outside and beyond the various crafts which it calls into play,’ ‘a grim intellectual art, moving amid big conceptions.’” (Ath.) Contents: The study of architecture; Design and temperament: Architecture and the craftsman; The limitations of the arts; The grand manner: Egypt and Greece; Pergamos and Hellenistic art; Rome; The grand manner: France.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 100. Ap. ’09.
“We strongly recommend it to architectural students and others, as a vivid and sane piece of criticism.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 187. Ag. 14. 530w.
“These lectures contain plenty of matter which is worth pondering over.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 61. Ja. 9, ’09. 530w.
=Bloomfield, J. K. Oneidas.= $2.98. Alden bros.
8–5599.
“Gives a very sympathetic and appreciative account of the career of the Oneida tribe of Indians. His chief interest is in the religious work done among them. One learns very little of the social organizations or daily life either under the older régime or to-day in Wisconsin.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “It describes their habits, customs, and beliefs during these several periods, and devotes a good deal of attention to the development of their present degree of civilization. A particularly interesting chapter is that which gives an account of the mysterious Eleazer Williams, believed by many to have been the Dauphin, son of Louis XVI.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Much extraneous matter is introduced and there is little evidence of critical judgment in dealing with sources of evidence.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 618. N. ’08. 70w.
“A historical document of value and a work of remarkable patience and care.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 160. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
=Boardman, Edwin Augustus.=^{[8]} Small yacht. **$2. Little.
9–16854.
“A practical treatise on the building, care and management of racing boats, to which is added instruction on the strategy of the race itself. All these points, where such a thing is possible, are illustrated with photographs, designs, and diagrams. The designs include valuable plans of 18-footers of several designs, of 30-foot cruisers and racers, showing many details of construction, with many plans of sounder boats of various shapes and rigs. A complete copy of a builder’s specifications for a sounder class yacht, extending over some ten pages, is added to the section of the work which is devoted to construction.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 36. O. ’09.
“Amateurs and even experts will find [it] of both interest and value.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 42. Jl. 1, ’09. 70w.
“A book which should be of value to owners and prospective owners of small sailing craft for racing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 452. Jl. 24, ’09. 180w.
=Bode, Wilhelm.=^{[5]} Florentine sculptors of the renaissance. (Classics of art ser.) *$4. Scribner.
W9–67.
A collection of studies published six years ago to which have been added an essay on Leonardo da Vinci and on the Medallist Niccolo Fiorentino.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 7. S. ’09.
“The book is the most authoritative work on its subject that has hitherto appeared, and combines with much keen technical criticism a realization of the personal idiosyncrasies of the artists under review such as has been rarely achieved by the author’s fellow-countrymen who, as a general rule, lose sight of the craftsman in their vivisection of his productions.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 78. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“There is a swarm of loose and occasionally false renderings by the translator. Professional students know how to use Dr. Bode’s writings. Others should be warned perhaps that many of his conclusions are of a tentative and most disputable sort.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 369. Ap. 8, ’09. 420w.
“The critic is independent and at times aggressive, and he has undoubtedly made here an important and original contribution to the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 336. My. 29, ’09. 850w.
“The illustrations are absolutely the next things to having a set of fine photographs, and the book is full of interest and personal charm and delightful sentiment. If this book is a little rambling, yet the stopping-places are all delightful.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 261. Ag. ’09. 400w.
“The book’s only defect is an undue vehemence in criticising other critics of sculpture.” E. F. Baldwin.
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 597. N. 13, ’09. 160w.
“There is rather too much of Dr. Bode and his opponents in the book, and too little about certain of the Florentine sculptors: especially about the greatest of them all, Michelangelo. It need hardly be said, of course that, taken simply as a series of essays on various aspects of the subject, the book contains much that is extremely valuable.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 381. S. 25, ’09. 720w.
“Dr. Bode, as we should expect, writes an interesting study of Florentine sculpture. His knowledge is great, and his views command respect. We cannot, however, go quite so far as he does when he says that but for the remains of antique statues left in Italy, the art of that country would have developed on the same lines as in the north.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 668. Ap. 24, ’09. 450w.
=Bode, Wilhelm.=^{[5]} Great masters of Dutch and Flemish painting; tr. by Margaret L. Clarke. (Library of art ser.) *$2. Scribner.
W9–98.
A translation of the second edition of “Rembrandt und seine zeitgenossen.” The author deals with the following subjects: Landscape painting in Holland; Dutch still life; Dutch genre pictures; Rembrandt; Van Rijn; Frans Hals; Adriaen Brouwer; Rubens; and Van Dyck.
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“With the few exceptions to which we draw attention the book is thoroughly up to date and unusually accurate.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 104. Jl. 24. 1650w.
“Nowhere else will one find Rembrandt’s life and work more sympathetically described.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 291. O. 16, ’09. 100w.
“The opinions of the scholarly Dr. Bode will always command respect, but some of those expressed in the work before us will challenge contradiction.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 37: 254. My. ’09. 170w.
“There are venial blemishes in a usually excellent book.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 424. Ap. 22, ’09. 330w.
“He writes with full knowledge, and from a critical point of view that is at once discriminating and sympathetic. His analyses and descriptions are helpful and sympathetic, and while his criticism is seldom technical, it gives a real assistance to the reader who would enter into the spirit of this art, understand its motives and methods, and gain a well-rounded idea of what the principal period of Dutch art signified and still signifies.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 303. My. 15, ’09. 800w.
“Is rather unequal in its interest, but leaves an impression of more substance than the look of it promised. The rendering is, on the whole, so fluent and easy as to read like original work; twice only has the idiom betrayed the translator.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 259. Ag. ’09. 500w.
Reviewed by E. F. Baldwin.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 597. N. 13, ’09. 150w.
=Boehm, Theobald.=^{[6]} Flute and flute-playing in acoustical, technical, and artistic aspects; originally published in German in 1871; tr. and annotated by Dayton C. Miller. $1.50. D. C. Miller, Cleveland, O.
9–982.
A treatise written in 1871 by the inventor of the modern flute. It “bears on the acoustic, technical, and artistic aspects of the instrument. The tables of fingerings are easily understood, and will no doubt be of value to the flute player as well as interesting to the student of acoustics.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It contains many useful hints both as regards the execution of florid music (which operatic audiences still dote on) and the expressive playing of sustained melodies.”
+ =Nation=. 88: 494. My. 13, ’09. 220w.
“The treatise is a thorough one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 197. Ap. 3, ’09. 100w.
=Bogges, Arthur Clinton.=^{[12]} Settlement of Illinois, 1778–1830. (Chicago historical society’s collection, v. 5.) $3. Chicago historical society.
9–12041.
“The record of the narrow poverty out of which came abundance, of the chaos out of which came organization, in short, the record of the small beginnings of a great American commonwealth. The description is minute: forty-five closely printed pages contain the list of the authorities used. Its accuracy is vouched for by Prof. Frederick J. Turner and J. B. McMaster, who critically read the work before publication.”—Nation.
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“The technique is commendable. Numerous references to government documents, territorial records, and manuscript collections support statements of fact. Little use, however, has been made of the ‘Publications’ of the Illinois state historical society. Some statistics could well have been left to the foot-notes and an additional map showing the location and density of population in 1830 would have been an aid to the reader. Typographical errors occasionally occur, the most serious ones being the inaccurate numbering of foot-notes. A carefully prepared bibliography, critical in nature, gives an appraisal of the historical value and accuracy of all works consulted.” W: V. Pooley.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 159. O. ’09. 600w.
“The book will have small attraction for those who read merely for pleasure. The sober student, however, will find here the bases of Illinois’s history clearly and fully discussed.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 465. N. 11, ’09. 120w.
=Bohannon, Hattie Donovan.=^{[5]} Light of stars. *$1. Fenno.
9–10789.
A story of Eastern Texas whose young hero is a weird mixture of youth and old age. His lonely struggles are shared by his one friend, an old doctor, who from his quiet corner witnesses with pain the village flirt’s unconscionable weaving of a net about the boy. How the young man uses his disappointment for strength development furnishes the lesson of the story.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 324. My. 22, ’09. 60w.
=Bojer, Johan.= Power of a lie; tr. from the Norwegian by Jessie Muir; with an introd. by Hall Caine. $1.25. Kennerley.
9–4956.
Set in Norway this is a story of a man who signs his name to a bond for a friend, and then, when the friend goes into bankruptcy, denies that he had gone security for him, and sees him imprisoned for forgery, while he himself becomes a longsuffering hero and is banqueted by his townsmen.
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“We have seldom read a novel in which the psychology of self-deception is so strikingly presented as in this grim little study of human nature.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 433. O. 10. 180w.
“It is all done with Scandinavian thoroughness, with utter conscientiousness of patient detail, unsparing, indefatigable, grim—as Mr. Hall Caine says with ‘high seriousness.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 166. Mr. 20, ’09. 500w.
=Bond, Francis.= Fonts and font covers. *$4.80. Oxford.
9–18980.
“The first section of this book is concerned with the story of baptism, wherein are discussed its original import, the methods of administration, the baptistery and its piscina, and the transformation of the baptistery tank into a tub font, a font on legs, a pedestal font, a chalice font, and even a metal basin or earthen-ware bowl.... The second part of Mr. Bond’s work discusses the classification of fonts and their symbolism, together with the exceptional materials of which they are sometimes formed, such as various metals and brick.” (Ath.) The last section deals with a fully illustrated list of fonts chronologically arranged.
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“The present volume marks a great step in advance in both the quantity and carefulness of the descriptive letterpress, especially in the number of illustrations; of these by far the greater number have never appeared before, while the more important examples are produced on a generous scale.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 352. Mr. 20. 1750w.
“The text, indeed, while a monument of painstaking erudition, and crammed full of detailed information, partakes too much of the nature of a descriptive and analytical catalogue to possess any special charm or attractiveness. As a compendium of information, and as an admirable collection of historic examples, most suggestive to architect and decorative or ecclesiastical designer, this handsome book must be of great value and must entirely supersede all previous essays in the same field.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 233. Mr. 4, ’09. 200w.
“When he quits the quaking ground of ritual and religious practice he is on safe soil; his expert knowledge serves him well in his classification and description of fonts, and shows to advantage in the historical sketch of pre-Conquest, Norman, Gothic and post-Reformation design.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 601. My. 8, ’09. 950w.
“A very elaborate work.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 161. Ja. 30, ’09. 170w.
=Bond, Francis.= Screens and galleries in English churches. *$2. Oxford.
9–3348.
“He treats ... the peculiarly English subject of those partitions which, under such names as chancel screen, choir screen, rood screen, rood loft, and gallery, were as essential as roof and wall to an English church. He deals with the subject ‘from an evolutionary point of view,’ and shows how the need of high and rather solid screens followed from the opening of the great window in the square east end, so common in English church architecture and so peculiar to the island. He shows how much the old churches have lost in internal beauty and fitness from the destruction of those screens in recent times.”—Nation.
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“There is abundant room for other volumes on the same topic which are announced as likely to appear shortly. We do not always find ourselves in agreement with Mr. Bond’s contentions in the letterpress. By far the greater part, however, of Mr. Bond’s reflections on screens and their history are most helpful and informing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 616. N. 14. 770w.
“It is not easy to praise too highly the simple and effective presentation of the subject, and the interest of the book to all persons who care for ecclesiology or for decorative art. It is the work of an enthusiast whose zeal is informed with full knowledge.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 124. Ag. 6, ’08. 500w.
“Useful little book.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 668. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.
=Bond, Frederick Bligh, and Camm, Bede.=^{[12]} Rood screens and rood lofts. *$12.50. Scribner.
“The volumes before us are an account of the screenwork in Devon, in the first place, and Somerset in a lesser degree, with some remarks on the few remains which the vandalism of the earlier part of last century has left us in Cornwall. The whole is introduced by a long dissertation on the origin, construction, and uses of early screenwork in the East and in Roman churches of the basilican type.”—Ath.
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“It is a valuable addition to the vast literature which has grown up on mediæval architecture in general and its special divisions.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 562. N. 6. 1800w.
“The work is addressed particularly to the ecclesiologist; yet there is no doubt that it may also lay rightful claim to the attention of the antiquary, the student of hagiography, and the liturgiologist. Finally, it will be no less valuable to the social historian, within whose province in some measure all these subjects are necessarily embraced. Some experts may possibly be disposed to differ from Mr. Bligh Bond on certain points in his theory of the origin and evolution of rood screens and lofts; but all must agree that his facts are treated in a most scholarly manner, and with the sincerest scientific intention.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 712. N. 6, ’09. 1650w.
=Bonney, Sherman Grant.= Pulmonary tuberculosis and its complications; with special reference to diagnosis and treatment, for general practitioners and students. *$7. Saunders.
8–22246.
This book which embodies “largely the results of personal experience” is designed especially for the general practitioner. “The sections of the book which will probably most interest the practitioner are those on diagnosis, symptomatology, complications and treatment. These occupy the major portion of the book, and are illustrated by many excellent and well-chosen cuts.” (Science.)
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“In the sixth part there is a good deal of general interest for the intelligent layman as to safeguarding the community and the individual.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 95. Ja. 28, ’09. 260w.
“In spite of the defects, and though we may not agree with Dr. Bonney in some of his views we consider the book a valuable addition to our knowledge of the terrible disease of which he treats. Not only the general practitioner, for whom the book is written, but the specialist will find it well worth careful study.” M. P. Ravenel.
+ − =Science=, n. s. 29: 298. F. 19, ’09. 700w.
=Book= of Christmas; with an introd. by Hamilton W. Mabie.^{[10]} *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–27107.
The introduction which Mr. Mabie contributes to this volume eulogizes the Christmas festival, mentions the writers since Dickens who have revived Christmas sentiment, touches upon the symbolism of Christmastide, emphasizes the necessity of celebrating the old rites yearly to save Christmas from desecration and to keep it sacred, and commends this “text-book of piety, friendship and merriment” to the skeptical and the cynical. The divisions of the anthology of prose and verse are: Signs of the seasons; Holiday saints and lords; Christmas customs and beliefs; Christmas carols; Christmas day; Christmas hymns; Christmas poets; When all the world is kin; Christmas stories; New Year; Twelfth night; The Christmas spirit.
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+ =Dial.= 47: 466. D. 1, ’09. 80w. =Nation.= 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 50w.
“It is a truism that nobody’s anthology suits anybody else, but the present one comes very near covering the ground for a Christmas anthology. Should there be a second edition, we should enter a plea to have the photographs omitted as not only ugly in kind, but commonplace in choice and robbing the book of any touch of distinction.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 844. D. ’09. 140w.
“Really delightful book.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 788. D. 4, ’09. 130w.
=Boorman, T. Hugh.= Asphalts, their sources and utilizations. $3. Comstock.
9–35049.
“The first eleven chapters are devoted to descriptions of the occurrence, properties and uses of the various forms of asphaltic substances. Two chapters then follow on the developments of the asphalt industry. Asphaltic oils and their application to roads for the purpose of making them dustless are discussed in the succeeding six chapters. The author then includes chapters dealing with municipal asphalt plants, asphalt water-proofing, asphalt roofing and asphalt for manufacture. The book closes with a short chapter on asphalt machinery.”—Engin. D.
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“His information taken in connection with the various specifications he has drawn up for the use of asphalt, will be found of marked value by the increasing number of persons who are finding uses for this material.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 175. F. ’09. 200w. =Engin. D.= 5: 537. My. ’09. 100w.
“The author does not appear to have given the reader very much of the benefit of his ’36 years of active life’ among asphalt men, in so far as criticism of the opinions of others or expression of his own opinions is concerned.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 16. F. 18, ’09. 300w.
“Timely and valuable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 57. Ja. 30, ’09. 220w.
=Booth, William Stone.=^{[9]} Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon; Baron Verulam, of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban; together with some others, all of which are now for the first time deciphered and published. **$6. Houghton.
9–11139.
“Mr. Booth does not attempt in any sense to treat the whole Baconian theory, accepting, rather, most of the conclusions and evidence of Greenwood and Begley. He divides his royal octavo volume of some six hundred and twenty pages into two parts. The first part, after some preliminary treatment of Elizabethan cryptography, considers ‘The uses of ciphers,’ ‘Anonymity and Pseudonymity,’ ‘Method,’ and ‘Practical specimens of acrostical signatures.’ In part two, in some fifteen chapters, he deciphers the signatures of Francis and Anthony Bacon in works originally published anonymously, or over the names of other men.”—Nation.
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“A collection of ‘signatures’ in the form of acrostics which the amiably credulous will doubtless receive as proof absolute that William Shakespeare was none other than Francis Bacon.” E: Fuller.
− =Bookm.= 29: 633. Ag. 109. 300w.
“The purpose of the book is serious, its method is painstaking, and it aims to be judicial, but can a theory which proves too much, and which calls for belief in an extraordinary manifestation of multiple personality, be taken with entire seriousness?”
− =Nation.= 88: 609. Je. 17, ’09. 2000w.
=Borchers, Wilhelm.= Electric furnaces: the production of heat from electrical energy and the construction of electric furnaces; tr. by H: G. Solomon. *$2.50. Longmans.
GS9–32.
“The first six chapters give a good, concise and classified review of various commercial designs of resistance and arc furnaces, with historical notes.... Then follow the best and most valuable chapters in the book, sketches of the author’s own experimental furnaces designed for various purposes, and a discussion of various details of construction. The book is concluded by two chapters on the particular advantages of electric heating and on furnace outputs of some of the larger industries.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The cuts and the descriptive matter are above criticism and the book will find place as a standard in every establishment having to do with this type of heating appliance.”
+ =Elec. World.= 54: 441. Ag. 19, ’09. 140w.
“The matter is well arranged, finely illustrated and altogether very readable. The writer of the book has an exaggerated opinion as to the value of some of the experiments which he himself made with electric furnaces between 1888 and 1898. The omissions are not numerous, and mostly of unimportant matter.” J. W. Richards.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 540. N. 12, ’08. 350w.
“The technical information in the book is reliable. In some cases the expression is not quite exact, but this may be the fault of the translator.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 735. D. 26, ’08. 220w.
“The book is decidedly useful ... but at times the description is scrappy, and we are rather afraid the reader who knows nothing about furnaces will hardly get sufficient information to be of service.”
+ − =Nature.= 79: 216. D. 24, ’08. 450w.
=Bordwell, Percy.=^{[8]} Law of war between belligerents. $3.50. Callaghan.
9–1248.
“Falls naturally into two parts—the first historical, the second in the nature of a commentary. Beginning with a rapid sketch of the rules regulating warfare in ancient and mediæval times, the author traces in considerable detail the growth of the law and practice of belligerency from the days of Grotius through the Russo-Japanese conflict of 1904–5.” (Dial.) “The second part of his work he devotes to commentary on war practice between belligerents, carefully considering all the important international connections, including those drawn up at the second Hague conference, the regulations respecting the laws and customs of war on land, and the several Red Cross agreements.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The entire monograph, in truth, partakes rather too much of the character of a notebook.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 50. Jl. 16, ’09. 280w.
“Prof. Bordwell handles a subject of large international importance with great skill, understanding, and conciseness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 32. Ja. 16, ’09. 250w.
“The work is well organized, and is written in a clear, interesting style.” G: W. Scott.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 517. S. ’09. 1300w.
=Boswell, Charles Stuart.=^{[5]} Irish precursor of Dante: a study on the vision of heaven and hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text. *$3.40. Scribner.
9–2032.
An English translation accompanied by commentary, of a ninth century text which presents early Irish visions of the world to come. “It brings together most of the important documents of this class, analyzes them at length, and compares them with one another, and with the accounts of the happy other-world in secular Irish saga.... On the whole, the book exhibits better than any other the part the Irish took in developing the literary type which derives its chief interest from the ‘Divine comedy,’ and it does this without losing sight of literary values or making untenable claims of Dante’s indebtedness to Celtic sources.” (Nation.)
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“Serious as seem the defects in Mr. Boswell’s Celtic scholarship, his book is, nevertheless, of considerable value, as being the only extensive collection of early Irish visions of the world to come.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 172. F. 18, ’09. 600w.
“Excellent little book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 468. Ap. 10, ’09. 1050w.
=Bousset, Wilhelm.=^{[5]} Faith of a modern Protestant; tr. by F. B. Low. **75c. Scribner.
9–2256.
“Professor Bousset ... declares that the doctrine of the uniqueness of the individual is essential in Christianity. ‘Modern biologists are especially interested in the fact that every form of organic life, every plant, even though it is in conformity with the law of its development, has something peculiar, individual, incalculable in it. And it is this same riddle that confronts us everywhere, that meets us in human life, only with far greater potency and distinctness.’ This idea, he says, ‘has remained peculiar to the Christian belief.’”—Atlan.
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=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 500. Jl. ’09. 150w. =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 7. S. ’09.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 103: 555. Ap. ’09. 160w.
“Whether or not we agree with it in all details we must at any rate acknowledge its spiritual depth. It is in truth a remarkable book, and almost every page is full of illuminating suggestion. In one respect the treatment is weak, in that it tends to overindividualism.” E. S. Brown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 239. Ap. 17, ’09. 500w. + =Spec.= 102: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 130w.
=Bowen, Marjorie, pseud.=^{[9]} Leopard and the lily. **$1.20. Doubleday.
9–24330.
A stirring tale of medieval times in Brittany by the author of the “Viper of Milan.” It depicts the downfall of a woman of great beauty and wealth who, for the love of an honest English adventurer, runs the gamut of treachery and deceit, including murder itself, to free herself from her husband who stands between her and happiness. Even the far reaching villainy practiced by a typical crafty, brutal medieval nobleman does not choke the growth of a wonderful friendship between the Englishman and the husband of the woman he loves.
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“The whirring of the machinery is as painfully apparent in every page of Miss Bowen’s last book as it is in a cheap talking machine behind the singer’s voice. For all its tawdriness it gives some real thrills and any one wanting to kill time will find the book a useful A. D. C. in the task.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 152. O. ’09. 700w.
“There are more thrills in the book than in a whole week’s issue of a yellow newspaper. Miss Bowen handles the many threads of her story deftly, with an instinctive sense for mechanical construction. She has, moreover, a certain eloquence of the pen point, an imaginative vision, and an opulence of jeweled phrase that carry her narrative along on light, quick foot and comport well with its tense and highly colored spirit.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 555. S. 18, ’09. 530w.
=Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair).= Lonesome trail. †$1.25. Dillingham.
9–8812.
A new chapter in the lives of the Flying U boys. Miss Sinclair’s understanding of cowboy life enables her to lose no phase of their rugged, dare-devil, loyal, big-hearted natures. The story contains the favorite school teacher but she is not up to the standard.
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“Can be warranted to give an hour’s amusement to readers of many sorts, provided only that they have some sympathetic understanding of the life of the western plains.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 230w.
=Bowne, Borden Parker.=^{[10]} Studies in Christianity. **$1.50. Houghton.
9–7107.
Six essays of a controversial nature which constitute a defense of modern thought. They are: The Christian revelation; The incarnation and the atonement; The Christian life; The modern conception of the kingdom of God; The church and moral progress; The church and the truth.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 7. S. ’09.
“Altogether, these two essays may be strongly recommended to all persons interested in or perhaps troubled by the present conditions of theological controversy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 322. My. 22, ’09. 650w.
=Box, George Herbert=, tr.^{[12]} Book of Isaiah; tr. from a text rev. in accordance with the results of recent criticism; with introds., critical notes and explanations, and 2 maps; together with a prefatory note by S. R. Driver. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“The translation constitutes the bulk of this book. The introductions and notes are very condensed. The author proceeds upon the basis of historical criticism, showing the assignment of the materials to their various sources by means of different styles of type. He attempts no original contribution in the analysis of sources, but contents himself with the views of Duhm for the most part.”—Bib. World.
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“Notwithstanding the more or less serious criticism to which parts of the work may justly be subjected, the book as a whole recommends itself by its scholarly character, its clearness of exposition, and the fearless, yet reverent spirit of investigation by which it is animated.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 783. D. 19. 730w.
“The translation is well done and is deserving of praise for its endeavor to adhere to the poetical form of the original.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 360. N. ’09. 110w.
“Mr. Box deserves high praise for his admirable critical work. His ‘Introductions’ are models of clear statement; his notes short and to the point; he prints the text so that its ‘rhythmical articulation and movement’ are set plainly before the reader’s eye. In short, the student could hardly find a more useful work.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 19. Ja. 2, ’09. 2000w.
=Boyer, Charles C.= Modern methods for teachers: a twentieth century hand-book for American teachers, normal schools, and teachers’ reading circles. $1.50. Lippincott.
9–711.
Modern methods for the modern teacher—the teacher who is “an evolution, the product of the centuries of progress behind him.” The work is divided into three parts as follows: Pt. 1, Principles of teaching; Pt. 2, Methods of culture; Pt. 3, Methods of instruction.
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“Containing much sound practical sense.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 425. Ap. ’09. 30w. =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.
“The suggestions offered are in harmony with the best practice of the present time.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 90w.
“One looks in vain for any exposition in modern, or any other, method of teaching either the manners or the morals which were thought to be of so much importance two or three centuries ago.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 122. F. 27, ’09. 110w.
=Boyles, Kate, and Boyles, Virgil Dillin.=^{[10]} Homesteaders. †$1.50. McClurg.
9–24261.
By the authors of “Langford of the three bars,” this is also a tale of the free-range cattle country whither Jack Carroll and his sister go to take up a homestead. The plucky girl will not for one moment be depressed over her brother’s desperate fight with cattle rustlers, but courageously aids him in overturning and reconstructing the “whole moral plan of the cow lands.”
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“The story is full of the life and color of the country and its characters are, for the most part, life-like, although they do sometimes indulge in speeches too long to seem natural.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 594. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
=Boys= on the railroad by Molly Elliot Seawell, James Barnes, Ellen Douglas Deland, John R. Coryell, E. Carruth and others.^{[10]} (Harper’s athletic series, iii) †60c. Harper.
9–24259.
Thirteen stories of thrilling adventure all connected with railroad perils, quick heroic action, and escapes. They furnish good food for the average boy’s vivacious appetite.
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“For the lover of thrills—be he boy in age or in spirit—the book can be safely recommended.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 583. O. 2, ’09. 120w.
=Brabant, F. G.=^{[8]} Rambles in Sussex. 6s. Methuen, London.
An expansion of the author’s “Little guide” to Sussex published some years ago. “Mr. Brabant proceeds, for the purposes of his descriptions, first from various southern centres—Chichester, Midhurst, Arundel, Bramber, Brighton, Lewes, Eastbourne, and Hastings. The northern districts he covers by first travelling along the southern forest ridge from Hastings to Horsham (which he uses as a centre for the Wealden country west of it), and then turning eastward again along the main forest ridge to Tunbridge Wells. His pages are adorned with interesting reflections and historical matter, and though he has a liking for legends, he has also a ready pin wherewith to prick bubbles of untrustworthy romance.” (Ath.)
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“If we want more of Mr. Brabant, it is no doubt largely due to the alluring character of the Sussex scenery he has chosen to wander in; but undoubtedly his own qualities as a rambler contribute generously to our enjoyment.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 696. Je. 12. 900w.
“His strongest point is the summary descriptions of the architectural features of the village churches.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 54. Jl. 10, ’09. 180w.
“His fidelity to his theme is admirable, and he writes with perfect clarity; but he lacks alike the synthetic vision which gave us Mr. Kipling’s Sussex poem, the pantheistic rapture of Mr. Hudson, the lyrical devotion of Mr. Belloc, and that joy of the discoverer which made the late Louis Jennings so pleasant a companion in the South Downs.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 1005. Je. 26, ’09. 350w.
=Bradley, Andrew Cecil.=^{[7]} Oxford lectures on poetry. *$3. Macmillan.
9–22233.
Lectures delivered during the author’s tenure of the professorship of poetry at Oxford. “About a third of the volume is devoted to Shakespeare, and one at least of these chapters is fully the equal of anything in the earlier work. The remaining lectures deal with the theory of poetry and contain notable examples of poetic practice.” (Spec.)
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“Profound, vigorous and original, they are an important addition to the literature of criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 36. O. ’09.
“It is probable that this volume will attain a permanence for which critical literature generally cannot hope. Very many of the things that are said here are finally said; they exhaust their subject. Of one thing we are certain—that there is no work in English devoted to the interpretation of poetic experience which can claim the delicacy and sureness of Mr. Bradley’s.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 721. Je. 19. 3000w.
“As a whole, the book is worthy of its author and of his professorship.” J. W. Tupper.
+ =Dial.= 47: 334. N. 1, ’09. 1000w.
“Of the general essays, that on ‘Hegel’s theory of tragedy’ is the most penetrating, the most perspicuous, and the most instructive. We could wish that the discussion had been translated into terms of the scientific age for the sake of readers to whom the ideal world is somewhat lacking in solidity.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 214. S. 2, ’09. 700w.
“The writer of these admirable lectures may claim what is rare even in this age of criticism—a note of his own. If space permitted we should like to argue several of Mr. Bradley’s points.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 229. Ag. 21, ’09. 1350w.
“Professor Bradley’s new collection of Oxford lectures has not the unity of impression and interest of his previous book on ‘Shakespearean tragedy.’ The new volume shows the same complete sanity of judgment, the same subtlety, the same persuasive and eloquent exposition; but its subjects are chosen from up and down the fields of poetry.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 978. Je. 19, ’09. 1600w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= Making of Canada, 1763–1814. *$3. Dutton.
9–5540.
A sequel to “The fight with France for North America.” It is a history of Canada from 1763, the date of its cession to England by the French, to the end of the war of 1812. The author’s aim has been to depict “the most vital and interesting period of Canadian history within a compass that is neither sketchy on the one hand, nor monumental on the other.” “Happily the facts he deals with can generally support this mode of presentation, and we readily forgive the author an occasional turgid passage for the sake of his admirable battle pictures and his many graphic sketches of the old life of the backwoods and the clearings.” (Spec.)
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“The formative period of Canadian history is nowhere else so well and succinctly treated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 72. Mr. ’09.
“It is to be regretted that Mr. Bradley has not taken the trouble, in passing his sheets thru the press, to correct any grammatical errors and even more numerous examples of awkward constructions of sentences which mar greatly the quality of his book.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 199. Jl. 22, ’09. 530w.
“Mr. Bradley’s appeal is to the general reader. His book is always readable, but scarcely profound.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 17. Jl. 1, ’09. 400w.
“A careful narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 200w.
“He is too frequently under the influence of a partisanship that renders him an untrustworthy guide. As between the French and English Canadians in the crucial period precedent to the Quebec act, he is uncompromisingly on the side of the French; and as between both French and English Canadians and their neighbors to the south, he consistently maintains an attitude unpleasantly reminiscent of the bitternesses of the time, and quite unworthy a modern historian.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 815. Ap. 10, ’09. 280w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 252. F. ’09. 90w.
“Mr. Bradley with plenty of facts at command, carries one forward on a rush of words sometimes to the point of redundancy.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 3. My. 22, ’09. 470w.
“Mr. Bradley’s story of this half-century of making is as vigorous and spirited as the great argument demands.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 307. F. 20, ’09. 1550w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.=^{[10]} Romance of Northumberland. **$2.75. McClurg.
A travel book which is less a guide book than an armchair companion. It follows the leisurely course of a traveler over Northumberland’s varied expanse of mountain and moorland, showing the country as it is to-day and recalling historic associations in which the whole territory is particularly rich. The illustrations in color and black and white are unusually artistic.
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“The sketchy style of writing is fairly interesting, and the book will probably be valued by those who visit any part of a fascinating and comparatively little-known county.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 509. O. 24. 180w.
“Mr. Bradley treats a subject full of interest of many kinds with his accustomed skill. A better tour and a better guide we could not have.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 374. S. 12. ’08. 470w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.=^{[11]} Worcestershire. (Color books ser.) *$3. Macmillan.
Painted by Thomas Tyndale and described by A. G. Bradley, this delightful ramble proves that Worcester, famous to most people chiefly for its sauce and china, “is the most illuminating county in England to the historical student.” The county is treated from a geographical, historical and industrial standpoint, with most of the description devoted to Malvern range, the River Severn and Bredon Hill.
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“Mr. Bradley does not deal much in superlatives, which is no doubt one important reason why his descriptions are pleasing.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 461. D. 1, ’09. 240w.
“The coloured pictures are inoffensive, but the value of the book so far as it has value is literary. Mr. Bradley is picturesque without the aid of the three-colour process.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 6. Jl. 17, ’09. 260w.
“Altogether, Mr. Bradley has in Worcestershire a great subject, whether in its geographical or its historical aspect. Nor is there wanting an interesting industrial side. He does his work, as one might expect, admirably well; and he has an excellent assistant in Mr. Tyndale.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 300w.
=Bradley, John W.=^{[12]} Illuminated manuscripts. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
A recent addition to the “Little books on art.” The volume gives a résumé of the best historical information to be had upon the subject. “Mr. Bradley, whose text is supplemented with many illustrations, including a reproduction in colour of a page from a fourteenth-century English ‘Book of hours,’ gives a list of the mss. consulted, and concludes a most valuable monograph with a hope of a future revival of illumination by competent artists.” (Int. Studio.)
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“In this scholarly little volume the author deals ably and exhaustively with the art of illumination.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 276. My. ’06. 110w.
“He falls into the seductive error of beginning with Adam or his contemporaries. The book is compact of information, treating the subject on a historical outline and should prove of real service.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 110w.
“By bringing the book up to date and adding further illustrations it might be made over into a really excellent manual. Its defects are rather in minuter matters of scholarship than in judgment and taste.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 582. D. 9, ’09. 290w.
“An immense amount of information is packed into small compass, and it is all written in a way to make it interesting even to the general reader and doubly so to those who are moved to give it closer attention.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 690. N. 6, ’09. 80w.
=Bradley, Samuel Carlyle.= Jesus of Nazareth. *$2. Sherman, French & co.
8–32494.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“This volume is one of the most notable religious works of the season. It is a book that in spite of some serious defects in style, abounds in passages of strength and beauty.”
+ − =Arena.= 41: 82. Ja. ’09. 780w.
“An account of the ‘Man of Galilee’ that is sympathetically told.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1621. D. 31, ’08. 100w.
“Highly imaginative and equally unreliable.”
− =Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 90w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.=^{[12]} Island of regeneration. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–27033.
A story in which the hackneyed shipwreck theme is treated in a novel manner. A young woman, cast ashore upon a lonely island in the Pacific, finds an Apollo-like man clothed like a savage and unable to speak any language. The woman develops the mind and soul of this weird islander and incidentally discovers in herself a fuller, deeper womanhood than had ever revealed itself to her before. The ship that never fails appeared one day and carried them back to the world. Then came revelations and the trial that tests character. “The regeneration is not in the education of the man, but in re-education of the woman, who learns eventually from her pupil what is really and originally right as touching human nature. There are also side lights on what is right as touching a man’s life and wrong as touching a woman’s. It is a good story.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Brady has succeeded in writing a most ingeniously original tale.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 959. N. 27, ’09. 230w.
“Although it is apparent that Mr. Brady has a sermon to preach in this story, he is none the less the same entertainer of old, with an eye for the picturesque, the adventurous, and the blood-thrilling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 738. N. 27, ’09. 270w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.=^{[12]} On the old Kearsarge: a story of the civil war. (Boys of the service.) **$1.35. Scribner.
9–28212.
A boy’s story of the civil war which opens with a hand to hand encounter between James Montgomery Stevens, acting midshipman of the U. S. navy, seventeen years old, and Charles Farrer Tucker, acting second-lieutenant of the Virginia infantry, also seventeen years old. Each of the two boys claims the capture of the other, and then, with all the dignity of veteran generals, proceeds to effect an exchange of prisoners, and each goes his way. The Union midshipman in company with an old bo’s’n’s mate makes his way back to his ship. He is promoted rapidly and is a lieutenant on the Kearsarge when that ship sinks the Alabama. Among those rescued from the doomed vessel he finds his Confederate friend.
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“The narrative is not a great one, but in its class, as one of a series, it will have its momentary appeal, especially if incident and adventure are what readers most desire.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1016. D. 4, ’09. 110w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 50w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Ring and the man. †$1.50. Moffat.
9–5701.
A tale of politics and love set in New York. The hero is a reformer, and is bent upon purifying political conditions and gaining a victory over the “ring” leaders. “Of course the campaign is heated, and of course the old story of guilty adventure crops up to add its incubus to the man’s race. There are plenty of exciting pages and narrow political escapes.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Style mediocre but plot good and action lively.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠
“It is written by a man who knows how, and there is no reason why a number of people shouldn’t be interested in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 159. Mr. 20, ’09. 260w.
=Brahms, Johannes.= Johannes Brahms: the Herzogenberg correspondence; ed. by Max Kalbeck; tr. by Hannah Bryant. *$3.50. Dutton.
9–10981.
The correspondence between the composer and his devoted friends Heinrich and Elisabet von Herzogenberg. “The musical experiences and compositions, the professional ideals and aspirations, of the three writers of these letters are the favorite topics discussed by them, with all sorts of variations and with the occasional introduction of homelier themes. The friendship between the bachelor composer and the Herzogenbergs was intimate and beautiful.” (Dial.)
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“Too special for any but large libraries.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 156. Je. ’09.
“Abundant footnotes clear up all perplexities in the text.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 232. Ap. 1, ’09. 220w.
“All who enjoy the intimacy of revelation which is the charm of personal letters will welcome the attractive volume.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Forum.= 42: 384. O. ’09. 1550w. + =Ind.= 67: 603. S. 9, ’09. 200w.
“A volume which quite deserves the compliment of a translation—a task excellently accomplished by Hannah Bryant.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 232. Mr. 4, ’09. 730w.
“There is a vast deal that is real meat for the admirer of Brahms and that cannot fail to increase the respect and admiration for the warm-hearted and sincere though outwardly rugged personality which they reveal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 179. Mr. 27, ’09. 340w.
“Really gives such a glimpse of Brahms’ character as to amount to a biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 507. Ap. ’09. 50w.
=Braithwaite, William Stanley=, comp. Book of Georgian verse; chosen and ed. with notes by W: S. Braithwaite. *$2.50. Brentano’s.
8–37176.
An anthology containing the best poems of a hundred and sixty English, Scottish and Irish poets who contributed to the rise and development of poetry under the four Georges. There are full explanatory and biographical notes, a glossary and full indexes of authors, titles and first lines.
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“On the editor’s judgment in selection some strictures might be made.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 113. F. 4, ’09. 260w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 102. F. 20, ’09. 240w.
=Braithwaite, William Stanley.= House of falling leaves, with other poems. *$1. Luce, J. W.
8–27527.
Some sixty poems, strong in imagination and sympathy, many of which emphasize the “white radiance of inward light” which the high souls of literature have furnished for man’s “steep road of life to Heaven’s gate.”
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“Mr Braithwaite shows himself to be a sonneteer of thoughtful dignity and an effective poet of occasions.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 50. Ja. 16, ’09. 250w. + − =Nation.= 89: 54. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
=Brandes, Georg M. C.= Anatole France. (Contemporary men of letters ser.) **75c. McClure.
9–861.
A new volume in the “Contemporary men of letters” series. “M. France described by his sympathetic critic as ‘the most strictly upright politician, the most eloquent orator, and the greatest writer of the France of to-day,’ whose easily intelligible while ironical style ‘succeeds in captivating an audience representing every class in society,’ is likewise described as a hedonist, a skeptic, and, when treating of religious subjects, ‘as callous in his inmost soul as Voltaire.’... It is not M. France alone, but the character of the people who acclaim such a man as their representative, that is discernible here by a thoughtful reader, the fruit of a certain long dominant type of ecclesiasticism.” (Outlook.)
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“It will be useful to meet a small demand in larger libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 73. Mr. ’09.
“As an estimate by one of the foremost critics of the world of letters of the work of a prominent writer of a leading nation in that world the essay is inadequate. Its method and style are simple and direct to the verge of the commonplace, while its observations upon France’s characteristics are of the obvious sort that might occur to almost any reader who had made a study of his books.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 230w. =N. Y. Times=. 14: 582. O. 2, ’09. 850w. =Outlook.= 90: 841. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
=Branford, Benchara.= Study of mathematical education; including the teaching of arithmetic. *$1.10. Oxford.
E8–894.
Contains “pedagogical methodology, educational psychology, historical citation beginning with Thales of Miletus (600 B. C.), tracing ‘the evolution of zero,’ the ‘evolution of geometric axioms’ and many other evolutions.” (Nation.) “By far the most valuable part of this book consists of the examples which it gives of the curiously limited powers of generalisation and abstraction possessed by young pupils.” (Nature.)
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“Within its 392 compactly printed pages one finds [many subjects], all woven together with rare skill, genuine platitude, unfailing patience, and infinite enthusiasm.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
“The volume is very miscellaneous, and, indeed, suffers from the fact that addresses, lectures, notes, &c., have been gathered together without much attention to revision or general effect. The bibliography is neither discriminating nor up to date. In spite of defects the book is worth reading, and the author’s views appear to be sound.” G. B. M.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 473. S. 17, ’08. 540w.
“On its practical side the book is of immense value, and bears evidence of the greatest care. There is at the present moment every need of such a book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 448. O. 9, ’09. 260w.
=Brebner, Percy James.=^{[6]} Royal ward. †$1.50. Little.
9–10651.
A stirring tale of love and adventure in England during the days just preceding and following Napoleon’s defeat at Leipzig. The hero is a French marquis, suffering thru painful vicissitudes while seeking to keep an oath made to a dying father; the heroine is the king’s ward, more charming even than the usual historical novel heroine for the very reason that she takes less delight in grilling her hero to test him properly.
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“A straightforward story of a rather old-fashioned sort, without psychological subtleties or perplexing mysteries, which keeps a surprisingly firm hold upon the reader’s interest.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 47. Jl. 16, ’09. 170w.
“In his latest novel Mr. Brebner has drawn a more vivid picture of time and place than hitherto. A tale crammed full of action and excitement. It is good entertainment with a modicum of instruction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 420. Jl. 3, ’09. 320w.
=Bredon, Julie.=^{[12]} Sir Robert Hart: the romance of a great career. **$1.75. Dutton.
W9–272.
The sketch of a “small, insignificant Irishman” whose diplomatic career is “remarkable, interesting and significant.” (N. Y. Times.) “He began as a student-interpreter, was then appointed to the British Consulate at Ningpo, and took the place of his chief when suspended for a time. In 1859 was made Deputy-Commissioner at Canton of the Chinese imperial maritime customs. In 1863 he became Inspector-General. ‘I. G.’ is the familiar designation under which we meet him as we follow these pages in many a vivid scene of action and council, diplomacy and war.” (Spec.)
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+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 701. Je. 12. 700w.
“The narrative is agreeable—even profitable—reading, and gives a pleasant picture of the man Hart as he seemed to the women folk of his own family.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 707. N. 13, ’09. 1100w.
“Admirable volume.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 169. Jl. 31, ’09. 450w.
=Brennan, B. A.= Brennan’s handbook: a compendium of useful legal information for business men. *$5. Wiley.
“The result of the author’s experience in providing business and legal advice for the guidance of the large staff of his company. It covers contracts in general, sales, contracts, deeds, mortgages, liens, insurance, acknowledgments, power of attorney, guarantee, notes, checks, interest, negotiable instruments, conditional sales, chattel mortgages, mechanics’ liens, bills and notes, collections and legal forms.”—Engin. Rec.
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“A very complete index adds considerably to the value of the book.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 34. Mr. 18, ’09. 200w.
“Should prove useful to engineers, contractors and salesmen.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 335. Mr. 20, ’09. 130w.
=Brennan, George Hugh.= Bill Truetell: a story of theatrical life. †$1.50. McClurg.
9–6274.
A hard luck story of the stage, with the value of a document, recounting the experiences of a manager whose specialty invariably ran to “theatrical shipwrecks.” How he played a losing game with his “Gay Gothamites” annexing hotel proprietors who “went along” to attach, for unpaid bills, the “next night’s” receipts; how he managed a rising Shakespeare star; and how for the love of a little dancing girl he attempted suicide and was rescued in time to find the little maid of his dreams quite constant—is all set forth with humor, pathos, and a realism true to life.
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“Mr. Brennan’s book is about as illuminative of actual stage people as the long-haired caricatures of actors in the comic papers, though scarcely so amusing as some of them. It is a typical railway counter book, and as such may enjoy some popularity with travelers.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 177. Mr. 27, ’09. 300w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
=Brent, Charles Henry.= Leadership; being the William Belden Noble lectures delivered at Sanders theatre, Harvard university, December, 1907. **$1.25. Longmans.
8–28971.
“‘A leader is one who has the sense of purpose for himself and the universe of which he is a part in a marked degree, and who bears in his character the features discernible in the larger order.’ The power of the single social motive, the power of will, the power of the blameless life, form his triple crown, and consciousness of a calling from above his secret inspiration.”—Outlook.
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=Ind.= 66: 266. F. 4, ’09. 50w.
“His lectures exhibiting the philosophy of leadership and the ethical qualifications of the true leader of men will stand as a classic work on that subject. These discourses are distinctly inspirational in their presentation of great motives and noble examples.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 383. F. 20, ’09. 180w.
=Brett, George Sidney.=^{[10]} Philosophy of Gassendi. *$3. Macmillan.
9–12892.
“The main part of Mr. Brett’s task has been to give us the substance, with a running commentary, of Gassendi’s ‘Syntagma’—a work which, if we may judge from certain passages in which Mr. Brett takes us into his confidence, is almost, if not altogether, unreadable. That Gassendi revived the principles of ‘atomism,’ and furnished anew the philosophy which has become known as ‘Epicureanism,’ may be gathered from histories of philosophy. But beyond this is there anything of importance to be gained by a detailed study of this genial, but too monumental author?”—Ath.
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=Ath.= 1909, 1: 344. Mr. 20. 210w.
“I think the book would be improved by omitting the final chapter, which weakens the impression left by the preceding ones. With this exception it would be difficult to find fault with the book. It is a well-written account of a philosophy of which we have hitherto known but little, and displays an admirable union of enthusiastic interest and temperate judgment.” G. N. Dolson.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 552. S. ’09. 2000w.
=Brewer, Isaac Williams.=^{[12]} Rural hygiene. *$1.25. Lippincott.
9–28068.
A hand-book of sanitation designed for the use of students in the agricultural schools and colleges and for the residents of the rural districts of the United States. It is practical, scientific and untechnical.
=Brewer, Robert W. A.=^{[10]} Motor car: a practical manual, with notes on the internal combustion engine and its fuel, for the use of students and motor car owners. *$2. Van Nostrand.
W9–223.
“A short history of the internal combustion engine is given in the first chapter tracing the development of this machine from the year 1690, when Denis Papin obtained motive power by exploding gunpowder in a cylinder, up to the comparative perfection of the present-day engines. Following this are discussions of different varieties of engines, transmission gears, lubrication, ignition, and care of the car. The book is indexed.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The technical parts seem to have been carefully prepared, though British practice alone is treated of. The greatest value of this book is in its presentation to interested car owners and drivers of the place of the automobile engine in the wide field of the development of internal-combustion motors.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 18. Ag. 12, ’09. 200w.
“The average owner of an automobile may learn much that he never knew before by carefully reading ‘The motor car.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 490. Ag. 14, ’09. 130w.
=Brewster, William N.= Evolution of new China. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.
7–29049.
A missionary’s discussion of the trend of religious development in China. “His volume deals very largely with ethical and religious questions: but the first half of his book is devoted to a careful survey of political and industrial conditions in China and furnishes a basis for the author’s general conclusions.” (Econ. Bull.) “The main theme of the book appears to be that missions and the spread of Christianity will prove the solution of all difficulties and make China the foremost nation of the East.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“For the average reader the first half of the book holds the chief interest; the later chapters are hardly likely to appeal to anyone but the enthusiastic mission worker. It is often difficult to follow some of the leaps in his logic.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 265. Ja. ’08. 500w.
“Interestingly written volume.” O. C. Gould.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 340. D. ’08. 350w.
=Bridgman, Raymond Landon.= Passing of the tariff. *$1.20. Sherman, French & co.
9–4575.
A timely book presenting an untechnical survey of the economic and moral merits of the tariff question. The author’s aim is to show the political, industrial and economic forces operating to destroy the tariff system, to encourage those who are fighting for the removal of artificial obstructions to trade and prosperity, to inform readers concerning the signs of the times, to arouse the indifferent, to challenge opponents and to make friends of all. World unity, world trade, and world peace are the watchwords.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 156. Je. ’09.
“The general reader, for whom it is intended, will find it well worth while; though unfortunately it is badly organized, and would greatly gain in force by condensation.” C. W. W.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 382. Je. ’09. 450w.
“The chief point in Mr. Bridgman’s book, however, is the summing-up of the forces which, in the United States at present, are undoubtedly making for a letting-down of the tariff bars. But, like all enthusiasts, the author grossly exaggerates the strength of that movement.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 562. S. ’09. 200w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 382. Mr. ’09. 100w.
“A powerful exposition of the working of protection in the United States.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 786. My. 15, ’09. 160w.
=Brierley, Jonathan (“J. B.,” pseud.).= Sidelights on religion. *$1.40. Whittaker.
9–11697.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The writer is evidently an Englishman of a somewhat violently Protestant type, and is not always fair to Christianity in its organic forms. Nevertheless he writes forcibly and presents a great deal that is true. The reader may be occasionally provoked, but he will always be interested, and will be forced to do some thinking for himself.” E: S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 127. Mr. 6, ’09. 100w.
“The book as a whole is full of suggestion. Perhaps we may say that it is a book for those whose business it is to teach, and who have a fairly well assured standing ground of belief. These it cannot fail to strengthen, while it broadens their outlook.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 642. Ap. 24, ’09. 320w.
=Briggs, Charles Augustus.=^{[10]} Church unity: studies of its most important problems. **$2.50. Scribner.
9–25299.
The author is lecturer on Christian irenics in the Union theological seminary and is the foremost apostle of church unity in America. The book is the result of exhaustive study of church polity, worship, and doctrine in all their phases with a view of finding what is essential to Christianity, what is Catholic, and what is the consensus of Christianity. A warm human sympathy pervades the book which gives it the appeal of the true irenic.
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=R. of Rs.= 40: 762. D. ’09. 80w.
=Briggs, Ernest Edward.= Angling and art in Scotland: some fishing experiences related and illustrated. *$4. Longmans.
9–14707.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The illustrations are of more than usual value.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 251. Ja. ’09. 100w.
“Charming and amusing to read.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 885. N. 28, ’08. 400w.
=Brigham, Louise.=^{[8]} Box furniture: how to make a hundred useful articles for the home. **$1.60. Century.
9–14202.
Describes and gives instruction for making useful and artistic pieces of furniture out of dry goods boxes. The author shows how with simple tools one may fashion bedsteads, washstands, desks, music racks, flower stands, footstools, pipe racks, etc. The author says “Besides the educational and artistic values found in such work there is also a wide economic significance in the use of the box.... To all who care for simplicity and thrift, utility and beauty, I send my message.”
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 156. Je. ’09. ✠
“Her directions are to the point, her illustrations helpful, and the required material is easily obtained.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 257. Jl. 29, ’09. 170w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 207. Ag. 7, ’09. 330w.
“Deserves a good word.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 312. S. 30, ’09. 170w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 356. Je. 5, ’09. 200w. + =School R.= 17: 725. D. ’09. 70w.
=Brightmore, A. W.= Structural engineering. *$3.75. Cassell.
“Suitable for students of engineering, intermediate between what is generally called ‘Strength of materials,’ and such specialized works as, for instance, Merriman and Jacoby’s ‘Roofs and bridges.’” “An endeavor is therefore made to set forth as a basis the fundamental principles of statics, and especial attention is given the methods of the equilibrium polygon and of the ellipse of stress.” (Engin. D.)
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“With this formidable array of subjects, only the barest outlines and conclusions can be given; but as the book is intended for use in schools, it is proper to consider it as an elaborate synopsis of the work of the course which is to be amplified by verbal explanation and blackboard illustration in the classroom.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 5: 55. Ja. ’09. 210w.
“This material is in such shape that it is rather hard reading. It may be commended as being sound, though for the most part distinctly English, both in terminology and in methods of treatment. A clearer didactic style and sufficient dilution to make the book palatable would have commended the book to the reader’s attention far more forcibly.”
− + =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 429. O. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Bristol, Frank Milton.= Life of Chaplain McCabe, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. **$1.50. Revell.
8–23284.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Sympathetic biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 100. Ap. ’09. =Ind.= 66: 704. Ap. 1, ’09. 340w.
“The biography is full of anecdotes and interesting incidents.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 626. D. 24, ’08. 170w.
=Bronson, Walter Cochrane=, ed.^{[12]} English poems; selected and ed., with illustrative and explanatory notes and bibliographies. 4v. v. 2. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–29843.
=v. 2.= The Elizabethan age and the Caroline period.
Numerically, the second volume in a series of four, altho the third to be published, this volume devotes two-fifths of its space to Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton and the remainder to some sixty of the minor poets. In method, completeness of notes, bibliographies and index, this volume follows the plan adopted for the series.
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“A good collection for larger libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 36. O. ’09.
=Brookfield, Frances Mary.=^{[5]} Friar observant. $1.50. Herder.
A story of the reformation in England narrated by a friar of the period.
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“From its historical side, indeed, the book is throughout somewhat open to criticism; but with all its faults there is a certain amiability in it which will redeem it in the eyes of many readers.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 341. Mr. 20. 200w.
“It presents only an episode; but the episode is well-conceived and well-related, and the characters of Luther, Philip, and Margaret are boldly drawn, while the friar himself and the Lady Anne are mere marionettes. It is a stirring and picturesque tale of the times.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 256. My. ’09. 470w.
=Brooks, John Graham.= As others see us: a study of progress in the United States. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–31147.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“An excellent volume for general reading, informing and entertaining.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 6. Ja. ’09. ✠
“It is a volume that merits a place in every well-ordered library and should be found on the shelves of all public libraries.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 253. F. ’09. 1050w.
“It is Mr. Brook’s commentary that makes the book worth while, that makes it, indeed, a book about America by an American.” J: Macy.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 607. F. ’09. 3700w.
“A book worthy of being read, and wholesome in its lessons.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 54. Ja. 16, ’09. 140w.
“The point of view of the book is a novel one, and the treatment of the subject by Mr. Brooks makes both interesting and suggestive reading. He handles some critics a little too gently and some others perhaps not quite roughly enough.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 37: 531. My. ’09. 90w.
“I wish that every faint-hearted American, whose faith in democracy is wavering, could be induced to read and re-read and then read again Mr. Brooks’s book. Nothing more splendidly sanely, and convincingly optimistic has appeared in a long time.” H. A. Bruce.
+ =Forum.= 41: 386. Ap. ’09. 1000w. + =Ind.= 66: 637. Mr. 25, ’09. 550w.
“The volume is one that should be widely read if for no other reason than that it is delightful reading.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 490. My. 13, ’09. 700w.
“A work which is not only very readable, with its variety of pertinent comment, but is also informing. There are few evidences in Mr. Brooks’s work of false perspective.” E: Cary.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 1. Ja. 2, ’09. 1300w.
“No book that has recently appeared is more interesting or suggestive.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 862. D. 19, ’08. 1900w.
“His own connected comment on these criticisms is sane and enlightening as well as kindly.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 125. Ja. ’09. 110w.
“We must be content with saying generally that not only is the book one of the most entertaining and illuminating that we have ever come across, but that it is from beginning to end a happy proof of the good understanding that is growing more and more complete between the two countries.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 642. Ap. 24, ’09. 380w.
“We cannot refrain from urging that the volume should be at the earliest moment in the hands of two classes of people: first, those who contemplate a journey to another country, either for the purpose of pleasure, or study; second, those who intend to stay at home, either from choice or from necessity. The first class will find the volume a delightful traveling companion and a guide to intelligent observation. The second will find it a most entertaining text book in a study of American life and institutions.” O. R. Lovejoy.
+ =Survey.= 22: 304. My. 29, ’09. 1600w.
=Broomhall, Marshall.= Present-day conditions in China. **50c. Revell.
9–964.
The author, editorial secretary of the China inland mission, gives in this volume a summary of happenings in China during a year. Quotations from Chinese newspapers, maps, tables and text all bear witness to the fact that there is a great movement in China and with it are opportunities for Christianizing its people.
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“His little book is as up to date as anything can be upon a subject that changes with kaleidoscopic rapidity.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 324. F. 11, ’09. 220w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Broomhall has some very striking facts to lay before his readers.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 835. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=Broughton, Lord.=^{[9]} Recollections of a long life; with additional extracts from his private diaries; ed. by his daughter, Lady Dorchester. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
9–25987.
“Fifty years ago Lord Broughton privately printed his ‘Recollections of a long life’ in five volumes. With this work as a basis, his daughter, Lady Dorchester, has compiled a record of his early manhood, when he was the intimate friend of Byron and a notable figure among the stalwarts of reform. The record is elucidated by many extracts from his private diaries—like all his contemporaries, he was a voluminous diarist—and from his published works. And we can only hope that these volumes, which come down to 1822, will be followed by others dealing with Lord Broughton’s later life.”—Spec.
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“A fascinating and valuable book.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 117; 2: 147. Jl. 31; Ag. 7. 600w.
“The chief interest, of course, attaches to the personal reminiscences of Byron, which are so plentiful in these volumes.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 47: 175. S. 16, ’09. 1750w. =Lit. D.= 39: 775. N. 6, ’09. 430w.
“It must be confessed that as a whole these pages are pretty thin reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 431. N. 4, ’09. 1550w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 589. O. 9, ’09. 1900w.
“Apart from what we consider the Byron blunder, Lady Dorchester has done her work in editing and arranging these papers very well.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 84. Jl. 17, ’09. 830w.
“It is one of the most delightful books of reminiscences which we have read for long.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 131. Jl. 24, ’09. 2000w.
=Brown, Abbie Farwell.= Fresh posies; rhymes to read and pieces to speak. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–27776.
A book of natural, spontaneous child-wisdom set to rime.
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“Charming rhymes, happy in thought and expression, for children of seven and eight.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 307. D. ’08. ✠
“Many of the verses hold to the child spirit, while others neglect it. I hope that the book will have an encouraging reception, for there is in the lines a naïve appreciation of youth that is rare.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1470. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“Deserves a warm welcome.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Brown, Abbie Farwell.=^{[12]} John of the woods. †$1.25 Houghton.
9–28265.
A book with a message for children which tells the story of a little boy who lives in the forest with a good hermit, learns from him a secret power over the wild creatures of the woods and comes to trust them as protectors and brothers. The influence of the kingdom of the forest reaches out to the troubled realm of which it is a part and teaches the ruler lessons of harmony and happiness.
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“Miss Abbie Farwell Brown has succeeded commendably in disguising an overworked moral beneath a sufficiently entertaining story. Miss Brown is a good companion for children, both in her prose and verse.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1016. D. 4, ’09. 170w.
“This is one of the best of the new books for children.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 844. D. ’09. 100w.
=Brown, Alice.= Story of Thyrza. **$1.35. Houghton.
9–5521.
Miss Brown has woven into the structure of her story the conditioning forces that made for happiness and tragedy in a single woman’s life. A studious, imaginative little girl, a hero worshiper, grows to womanhood, mistakes for the prince of her dreams a wooer who fools and betrays her, then with grim resolution and stout-hearted purpose faces alone the future of her child. She trains and educates him the while refusing the love of a good man whose name she was not willing to sacrifice. It is a strong handling of a difficult situation.
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“Though unconvincing in its main motive, it is a strong dramatic novel, wholesome in its teaching and remarkably unobjectionable for its kind. Not advised for the small library or a traveling collection.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 147. My. ’09.
“This is an attractive and, in a measure, original story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 581. My. 15. 80w.
“Lacking consistency and continuity, this study of a woman’s development fails to satisfy.”
− =Atlan.= 103: 710. My. ’09. 300w.
“With all its art, the story still leaves you incredulous.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 191. Ap. ’09. 270w.
“A more significant work than has hitherto come from the pen of Miss Alice Brown.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 372. Je. 1, ’09. 480w.
“A story which, although sombre and somewhat painful, cannot be denied a place among recent volumes of some importance.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 393. Ap. ’09. 500w.
“Such an ending is fortunate, but somehow it thins the tragedy to an obvious fiction.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 812. Ap. 15, ’09. 750w.
“As with other novels from the same pen, the book rings true. Delineations of New-England character are well done and show acute observation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 559. Ap. 3, ’09. 230w.
“An almost austere restraint of style gives the work a peculiar charm. The interest of plot is subordinated to that of the characters and their reaction upon one another. The situations are rich in suggestion beyond what is actually developed.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 307. Mr. 25, ’09. 230w.
“It has taken all of Miss Brown’s art and skill, and that is saying a good deal, to make plausible the situation which is the crux of the story. She has made it plausible, but not quite convincing.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 136. Mr. 6, ’09. 430w.
“The earlier chapters are amusing and charming in their pictures of Thyrza’s girlhood, and there is a deal of tenderness in the final chapters.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 19*. My. 1, ’09. 120w.
“She has done nothing so good on the larger scale.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 6: 495. Jl. ’09. 320w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 760. Je. ’09. 100w. =Sat. R.= 107: 822. Je. 26, ’09. 30w.
“It is a thoroughly engrossing, poetical, and distinguished study of a finely conceived character, and the narrative is rich in odd surprises and contrasted emotions.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 785. My. 15, ’09. 730w.
=Brown, Charles Reynolds.=^{[9]} Young man’s affairs. **$1. Crowell.
9–35794.
A book of common sense for every young man who hopes some day to “arrive.” The chapters are: His main purpose; His intimates; His books; His money; His recreations; His wife; and His church.
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“Distinguished by a grasp of essentials, sound common sense and a picturesque and humorous style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 37. O. ’09. ✠
“A strong religious flavor manifests itself in these talks, but their really distinguishing characteristics are the clear understanding they exhibit of young-man life, and the quaint, picturesque forcefulness, with which the advice they contain is presented. A strong vein of humor runs through them which cannot fail to make an appeal to young men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 511. Ag. 28, ’09. 140w.
=Brown, Daniel Rollins.= The baby: a book for mothers and nurses. *$1. Whitcomb & B.
8–36406.
Includes the results of recent investigation of all matters pertaining to the health of a baby.
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“A good general treatment limited to the principles and practical knowledge that every mother and nurse should possess. The subject of food receives special attention.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 73. Mr. ’09. ✠ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 200w.
=Brown, Demetra (Vaka) (Mrs. Kenneth Brown).=^{[6]} Haremlik: some pages from the life of Turkish women. **$1.25. Houghton.
9–13429.
Out of the experience of six years in America a Turkish girl, back once more in Constantinople, studies the Turkish women who had been her friends in girlhood. The chapters record her impressions gained during a round of visits among them and afford an authentic view of life as it is lived by Turkish women of today.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 8. S. ’09.
“Whatever may be the book’s value as documentary evidence for the sociologist,—and it is probably not impersonal enough or general enough to give it a great deal of value in that direction,—it is stirringly written, and two or three little incidents of childhood companionships, in particular, are told almost as prettily as anything of the kind in literature.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 75. Ag. 1, ’09. 230w. + − =Nation.= 89: 166. Ag. 19, ’09. 450w.
“It is a strange book this—strange in that it is something quite fresh and, if not quite new, the subject is treated with a newness of unbiased viewpoint that compels attention and willing conviction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 304. My. 15, ’09. 880w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 200w. =Outlook.= 92: 428. Je. 26, ’09. 430w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“Whatever the precise value may be which the reader allows to the present book, he will scarcely after reading these conversations dismiss it as altogether insignificant.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 505. O. 23, ’09. 780w.
“Mrs. Kenneth Brown’s book is well worth reading because, although it says nothing about the revolution, it reveals the standpoint and temperament of Turkish women, and proves that they are likely to remain for a long time just what they are.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 514. O. 2, ’09. 2400w.
=Brown, Goodwin.= Scientific nutrition simplified: a condensed statement and explanation for everybody of the discoveries of Chittenden, Fletcher, and others. **75c. Stokes.
8–19025.
The self application of principles of nutrition discovered thru recent physiological study has resulted in this “condensation” for general use. “The author shows that science strongly antagonizes the deep-rooted idea in the mind of man that everything he can get down will do him good, and he shows that science declares, on the contrary, that food taken in excess of physiological requirements does not yield increased energy for work, but actually takes energy that might be given to work. He makes it plain that the average man overloads his system with waste products difficult to dispose of because of eating too much and improperly selected food.” (Educ. R.)
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“It would be of great advantage if every teacher, and, what is more important, every mother, would read this little volume. The book may be unreservedly recommended, and will be found of markt practical value.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 200w.
“Whoever is interested in the modern theories of nutrition will find here a plain, accurate statement of the ideas of the most advanced scientific thinkers upon how best to make food conserve the body’s needs.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 282. My. 16, ’08. 180w.
=Brown, John Franklin.=^{[11]} American high school. *$1.40. Macmillan.
9–14954.
Discusses the distinctive features of the American high school, its function, organization and management, its curriculum and its social life.
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“An important contribution to the history of education.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 662. O. 23, ’09. 30w. + =Spec.= 103: sup. 490. O. 2, ’09. 270w.
=Brown, John Mason.= Lectures on the statutory provisions relating to government contracts, delivered before the Engineer school, U. S. army, Washington barracks, D. C., March, 1908. (Occasional papers, Engineer school, U. S. army, no. 31.) Press of the Engineer school, Washington barracks, D. C.
8–26844.
This volume is intended to supplement its predecessor and to call attention to the more important of the many statutory provisions which have direct bearing upon government contracts, and the observance of which, by both the contractor and the agents of the government, is so important.
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 294. Mr. ’09. 200w.
“Should be of value to any and all contractors doing business with the government. The material is wisely condensed.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 316. S. 17, ’09. 160w. =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 48. Ap. 15, ’09. 50w.
=Browne, Patrick William.=^{[9]} Where the fishers go: the story of Labrador. *$1.75. Cochrane pub.
9–17326.
“Gives topographical, historical, industrial and social [information] concerning the people and their surroundings, their mode of life, the products of the soil and the sea. Every step that a tourist can take, and every detail that might contribute to secure his comfort or satisfy his curiosity, is recorded with the fidelity of a Baedeker.”—Cath. World.
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“A convenient volume for larger libraries because of its supplemental information to the several narrative and travel accounts published within the past few years.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 37. O. ’09.
“The book is not remarkable for descriptive power nor, in fact any conspicuous grace of style. But it is packed full of detailed information.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 839. S. ’09. 120w.
“It would be difficult to discover a single volume in which so much information is contained, and for this reason the book may be heartily recommended to travellers in the northlands.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 234. S. 9, ’09. 170w.
“His information is as miscellaneous as it is unarranged in spite of all the mechanics of topics which adorn his pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 455. Jl. 24, ’09. 270w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 639. N. ’09. 50w.
“Mr. Browne writes about his theme with knowledge and with enthusiasm.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 693. O. 30, ’09. 230w.
=Brownell, William Crary.=^{[12]} American prose masters. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–28257.
Studies of Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell and Henry James. The author’s criticism “is seriously concerned in discovering what is significant, what has contributed to the great success and what is ephemeral, what is vital and upholds the tenets of the faith—in fine, in clarifying the discussion of his subjects from the traditions both of ill-judged enthusiasm and prejudice.”
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“An important addition to our small but distinguished company of books of criticism that count and will endure.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1136. N. 18, ’09. 220w.
“He has rendered real and novel service to American letters, to letters in America, to the vital function of the intellect in the national life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 708. N. 13, ’09. 1050w.
“One would not hesitate to file Mr. Brownell’s book with the best books of its class abroad as convincing evidence that we have, so to speak, arrived.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 649. N. 27, ’09. 220w.
=Brownscombe, Fred J.= State control of courses of study. $1. Silver.
8–28066.
A book whose “merit consists in the presentation it makes of information about the educational systems of the world heretofore to be had only after laborious searchings through many books and pamphlets, some printed in foreign languages.... Among the topics treated are: the relation of the state to the subjects of instruction, the grading of school systems, the status of schoolmasters in various parts of the world, educational systems prescribed by home governments for their dependencies, the relation of kindergarten, elementary, secondary, normal, and high schools to themselves and the state, amount of religious instruction permitted and required, recent American legislation relating to education.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Students of education will do well to keep it at their elbow. We regret that the bibliography, beginning on p. 123, does not contain an indication of the date and place of publication of each of the books quoted.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 37: 315. Mr. ’09. 120w.
“A little book which educators will value highly. His classification is extremely well conceived, inasmuch as it facilitates comparisons and makes it easy to turn up the particular bits of information one desires to obtain.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 86. F. 13, ’09. 200w.
=Bruce, Henry A. B.=^{[5]} Romance of American expansion. **$1.75. Moffat.
9–8392.
A story which elicits “the romance [of American expansion] by exhibiting the picturesqueness of the personalities engaged in the various stages and steps of it.” (Bookm.) Contents: Daniel Boone and the opening up of the west; Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana purchase; Andrew Jackson and the acquisition of Florida; Sam Houston and the annexation of Texas; Thomas Hart Benton and the occupation of Oregon; John Charles Fremont and the conquest of California; William Henry Seward and the Alaska cession; William McKinley and the transmarine possessions; Hints for further reading.
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“It is not claimed that the specialist will find in the sketches anything that is new. At the same time they are not unworthy of perpetuation in book form, because they are sane, well written, and, so far as they go, generally superior to the works of their class with which our shelves have grown crowded in recent years.” F: A. Ogg.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 187. O. ’09. 430w.
“Taken individually, they are somewhat unsatisfactory, but as a compact survey the book has considerable usefulness.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 132. My. ’09.
“The author’s enthusiasm in his description of these men leaves him in little less than hero worship. The man who finds history dull will not have to discard this volume. The personal element is given such emphasis that events serve only as a setting.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 175. Jl. ’09. 150w.
“It does include a concise and popular and well-informed account of its subject, though that fact is obscured by the fine writing which some friendly blue pencil ought remorselessly to have deleted.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 307. My. ’09. 940w.
“The book will not be ranked among important contributions to the historical library. It is excellently fitted for that large class of readers who, while disinclined to serious study, seek not merely entertainment, but profit, from their book.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 385. Je. ’09. 300w.
“A useful book for supplementary reading on the part of students of American history.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 315. O. ’09. 20w. + =Ind.= 67: 146. Jl. 15, ’09. 280w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 776. N. 6, ’09. 180w.
“This book is, as might be expected, buoyant, vigorous, and optimistic. But his work shows lacks and lapses which disappoint, and we can not altogether trust his guidance.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 605. Je. 17, ’09. 1500w.
“Somewhat inexcusably it seems in a volume published in the year 1909, the author quite omits the contribution of Theodore Roosevelt to this series—the acquisition of the Canal Zone and the bringing into the world of the convenient Republic of Panama.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 290. My. 8, ’09. 700w.
“In clarity of narrative, smoothness of style, and sense of proportion as to subject matter, Mr. Bruce has told this story admirably. An excellent feature of the book is a supplementary chapter giving hints for further reading—not a mere list of books, but a carefully prepared sketch of the literature of the entire subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 21. My. 1, ’09. 300w.
“Reasonably good history, and is certainly good reading.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 333. N. ’09. 130w.
=Brückner, Alexander.= Literary history of Russia. (Lib. of literary history.) *$4. Scribner.
9–3063.
“It is the history of Russian culture, of the gradual freeing of the Russian mind from its bonds, that the author undertakes to write. He points out causes and influences, giving to each its due weight; he follows the main current of the national mental life, with occasional excursions into the affluents.” (Spec.) Professor Brückner shows what elements have entered into the early literary history of Russia, to the seventeenth century, reviews the tendencies and growth of the literature of the eighteenth century, and for the nineteenth century presents “Pushkin, Nekrasov, Turgenev, Tolstoi, and many another not as artists, living for their art alone, but utterers of their country’s longing for freedom, of its discouragement and its shame.” (Spec.)
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“The most exhaustive and scholarly work yet published, containing a wealth of information and giving acute analyses and discriminations. The prejudice of the Polish author is noticeable, especially in the earlier portions, and the style is difficult in places. The index is incomplete.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 73. Mr. ’09.
“Professor Brückner’s original work in German has been and still is the authoritative book of Western Europe on Russian literature as a whole.” S: N. Harper.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 199. Jl. ’09. 430w.
“Prof. Brückner is a Pole, but does not allow his sympathies to be warped.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 66. Ja. 16. 1100w.
“Unfortunately, this valuable work is clothed in a style that will frighten away any but determined students of literature. The book as a whole may be recommended almost without reserve as the one thorough, comprehensive, and scholarly account of Russian literature in any of the languages of western Europe.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 630. Je. 24, ’09. 2000w.
“Prof. Brückner’s fine work on the literary history of Russia suffers under the slight disadvantages which necessarily attend any book of the class when written from a viewpoint foreign to the people to whom it is addressed. Its acute analyses and discriminations and its wealth of information place it beside the greatest essays in interpretive criticism. The work of the translator is without distinction.” Anne Peacock.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 2. Ja. 2, ’09. 2000w.
“Professor Brückner’s book is not only remarkable as a history of Russian literature, but as a history of Russia. It should be said that the translation of the book by Mr. H. Havelock is excellent, with the exception of the passages quoted as translations from the Russian. These are sometimes, as on page 258, unintelligible.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 242. F. 20, ’09. 1500w.
“So far no English student of Russian literature has treated the subject with the authority and searching penetration that distinguish every page of Professor Brückner’s book. The translation which we are reviewing is on the whole close, following the original with almost canine fidelity. It bears, however, numerous marks of haste.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1057. D. 19, ’08. 1800w.
=Bryan, William Jennings.=^{[12]} Speeches; with a biographical introd. by Mary Baird Bryan, his wife. 2v. ea. **$1. Funk.
9–30038.
A two-volume edition of Bryan’s speeches. The first volume contains Speeches on taxation and bimetalism; the second, those included under the divisions, Political speeches, Speeches in foreign lands, Educational and religious speeches and Miscellaneous speeches. Mrs. Bryan has written a biographical introduction, free from estimates of character or of mental endowments, that narrates simply the principal facts “necessary to an understanding of the forty-nine years spanned by his life.”
=Bryant, Marguerite.= Christopher Hibbault: roadmaker. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–35333.
Two cousins are rivals for the hand of Elizabeth Hibbault. She rejects the Apollo and marries the egotist. The rejected suitor maims himself thru attempted suicide, while the marriage that drove him to it turns out a failure. The young woman dies in a workhouse leaving a son. The story is concerned with the fortunes of this boy who is adopted by the crippled man. When the father meets the boy in his cousin’s charge “he takes a fancy to him and offers him an opening in his business ... in ignorance of their relationship. Christopher enters his father’s office, works there for years, develops great ability as an engineer and inventor, and does not discover the secret of his parentage until after the death of his father, who leaves him the whole of his colossal fortune.” (Spec.)
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“A story of peculiar charm and decided originality.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 90. Mr. ’09. ✠
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper.
=Bookm.= 29: 404. Je. ’09. 300w.
“It is doubly a document, no doubt, but no doubt, also, an interesting story written in a fine spirit. A hundred pages less and the weaving would draw together into greater firmness.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 418. Ap. 22, ’09. 300w.
“A good story just for its plot and its incident alone. The characters are interesting people, too, not just like others, especially the others that are to be found between the covers of books of fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 94. F. 20, ’09. 300w.
“The book throughout is well written, but the serious social purpose disclosed as the story nears its end, fine and sincere as it is, gives the whole a didactic tinge and weakens the story as such.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 534. Mr. 6, ’09. 60w.
“She is to be congratulated on a piece of work which, though far from perfect, is marked by many engaging qualities,—charm of style, elevation of thought, and a vivid sense of beauty. The cumulative effect of a sequence of improbabilities seriously impairs the persuasiveness of Miss Bryant’s story.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 64. Ja. 9, ’09. 560w.
=Buckley, Elsie Finnimore.=^{[5]} Children of the dawn: old tales of Greece; with introd. by Arthur Sidgwick. †$1.50. Stokes.
W9–90.
Stories of Greece retold for children. Contents: The riddle of the sphinx; Eros and Psyche; Hero and Leander; The sacrifice of Alcestis; Hunting the Calydonian boar; The curse of Echo; The sculptor and the image; The divine musician; The flight of Arethusa; The winning of Atalanta; and Paris and Œnone.
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“Admirable versions of these old tales for older children, well adapted for reading aloud. An attractive and very well made book in every respect.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 115. Ap. ’09.
“She embroiders her authorities with taste, supplying full details, adding descriptive passages, and using dialogue and soliloquy to add dramatic point to the story.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 642. N. 21. 100w.
“Unusually well-written versions of the stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 9. D. 12, ’08. 70w.
“She tells these stories once more with much grace and skill. We cannot wholly approve of her choice.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 809. N. 21, ’08. 120w.
=Bullen, Frank Thomas.=^{[5]} Young nemesis. †$1.50. Dutton.
W9–225.
“A realistic picture of the sea some two hundred years ago, of a sort calculated to stir the imagination and hold the interest of any healthy-minded boy, to whom the ordinary happenings of a seaman’s life with its numerous perils in the early part of the eighteenth century are unknown. For the glamour of romance which has been thrown around piracy and for the abominations of the press-gang, Mr. Bullen has nothing but the strongest condemnation.”—Sat. R.
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“Shows the author’s gift for sea-pictures.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 643. N. 21. 90w.
“A really ludicrous performance.”
− =Nation.= 89: 37. Jl. 8, ’09. 270w.
“Is as moral as amusing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 420w.
“To say that it is an admirable sea story and just the thing for boys seems almost superfluous. In this story he paints piracy in its true colours, shorn of the false glory with which so many writers have decorated it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. D. 12, ’08. 180w.
“It is a book for boys, and he knows how to entertain them if anyone does.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Introduction to the study of economics. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *$1.28. Silver.
8–18386.
“The issue of the third edition of this excellent text has given the chance of adding to it a chapter on railroad transportation, which is mainly devoted to the movement toward combination, the rate problem, and the question of public control of railroads. A section on the localization of industry has also been added, but aside from bringing the statistical data up to date there are no other changes of importance.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 60. F. ’09.
“As a whole the work is well fitted for its purpose.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 451. Mr. ’09. 120w. =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w. =Ind.= 67: 304. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w. =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 712. D. ’08. 70w. =Nation.= 87: 261. S. 17, ’08. 30w.
=Burge, C. O.=^{[10]} Adventures of a civil engineer: an autobiography. $3. Rivers, A. London.
“A record of fifty years of engineering work and of impressions of five continents, gathered during a busy career in the development of India, South Africa and Australia, as well as Europe. It contains very little about civil engineering work, except a popular description of the difficulties encountered in the foundations of the Hawkesbury bridge of which the author was resident engineer and American companies were the contractors.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The present book has hardly any indication that the author is an engineer. In this we are disappointed, for instead of an account which might have been of peculiar interest to the profession, we find the typical chat of the traveled Englishman who has gone far and seen much, and who is constrained to set it all down in detail. It is clever writing and good reading, but it is the work of Burge the traveler and not of Burge the engineer.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 11. Ag. 12, ’09. 1000w.
“A delightful autobiography. It is this ‘stereoscopic view’ of life on five continents, as it appears to a cultured civil engineer, which makes the book so interesting.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 195. Ag. 14, ’09. 450w.
“Being evidently a man of observation and humour, the writer has a good deal to tell that is amusing. If some of his stories are rather venerable they may, from their very age, have an element of novelty for a new generation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 418. O. 2, ’09. 150w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= Good wolf. **$1. Moffat.
8–28997.
“A little boy by the name of Barry goes into the woods, where he meets a big wolf, which at first frightens him. However, after the animal tells him that he is a good wolf and a good friend to a boy who is happy and never grumbles, Barry trusts him and many good times are in store for the boy through the kind offices of the big wolf. It is illustrated throughout with pictures of all the animals Barry meets in the woods.”—Bookm.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 499. Ja. ’09. 100w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 20w.
“The instinctive humor and the unerring repetitions of effective phrasing are wholly commendable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 30w.
“A most attractive volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Burns, Rev. James Aloysius.= Catholic school system in the United States; its principles, origin and establishment. *$1.25. Benziger.
8–18343.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“It is fair and unbiased in its treatment of mooted questions, though overemphasizing the part that the schools of the Catholic church have played in the educational development of the country.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 35. F. ’09.
“As a summary of the facts in the history of the educational policies of the church, the volume deserves notice.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 176. Jl. ’09. 120w.
“The book is characterized by a high degree of fairness and candor.” S: T. Dutton.
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 420. Ap. ’09. 1450w.
=Burr, Mrs. Anna Robeson (Brown).=^{[11]} The autobiography. **$2. Houghton.
9–28082.
A far reaching comparative and scientific study of the origin, motives, ideals and psychological importance of the autobiography. Eight hundred biographies in Latin, French, German, English and Italian have furnished the groundwork for the author’s investigation of the “obscure and important questions of the subjective tendency in private history, of the standards of sincerity, and of the relative value of the deliberate self-study and the unconscious self-revelation.”
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“This is one of those books that no working library should be without, an aid where the card index of the general library generally fails one.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 220w.
“The absolute ignoring of Montaigne is quite incomprehensible. A reckless audacity of statement is the prime defect of the book.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 513. N. 25, ’09. 800w.
“The book must take its place at once as an exceedingly valuable and unhackneyed contribution to the history of literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 676. O. 30. ’09. 820w.
“A book of unique purpose and value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 727. N. 20, ’09. 1150w.
=Burr, Jane.=^{[12]} Letters of a Dakota divorcee. $1. Roxburgh pub.
9–29507.
Letters that remind the reader of Elinor Glyn’s “Three weeks.” The manner in which the divorcee deports herself is not conventional, to say the least; and there are a good many thoughtless flings at decorum and various religious bodies that cheapen the “high soul” experiences of the letter-writer.
=Burstall, Sara A.=^{[5]} Impressions of American education in 1908. *$1.25. Longmans.
E9–825.
“Miss Burstall ... has written what we have no hesitation in calling much the best of recent books on the present educational situation in America. She visited and inspected schools widely, both west and east. A trained observer and a skilful teacher herself she was keen to note the difference between educational programs and educational performances. In consequence, she has brought together a series of really valuable observations and critical interpretations of American educational activity of every sort and kind.”—Educ. R.
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“A work for college, reference and large public libraries only.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 132. My. ’09.
“Appreciative but discriminating study of our educational system.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 176. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“In short, Miss Burstall’s book can be unreservedly commended not only to the intelligent foreigner who would read accurate and painstaking criticism of American education, but also to the reflective American who would like to know how what is being done here impresses the well trained professional observer from another land.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 419. Ap. ’09. 320w. =Ind.= 67: 309. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.
“Is remarkable for its breadth of view, its keen diving after the causes of things and its illuminating comparison between educational aims and progress in England and America.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 278. My. 1, ’09. 930w.
“It would be hard to equal it for careful research and relevant, well-balanced statement.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 379. Mr. 6, ’09. 1800w.
=Burt, William.=^{[12]} Europe and Methodism. (Little books on missions.) *35c. West Meth. bk.
9–28781.
A little dictionary of European Methodism in which is sketched briefly the rise of that church in eleven countries of Europe.
=Burton, Charles Pierce.= Bob’s cave boys: a sequel to “The boys of Bob’s hill.” †$1.50. Holt.
9–7040.
Continues the rollicking good times of a group of boys whose abounding spirits and energy escape thru the safety valves of wholesome, innocent pranks and sports.
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“Mr. Butler, in the person of one of the boys, [writes] with excellent understanding and interpretation of boy nature. The book is thoroughly wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 178. Mr. 27, ’09. 220w.
=Burton, Ernest Dewitt; Smith, John Merlin Powis; and Smith, Gerald Birney.=^{[12]} Biblical ideas of atonement; their history and significance. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–28224.
A “historical interpretation rather than a theological systematization” whose aim is “to set forth the content of the biblical teachings upon the subject of atonement, and to suggest the point of view from which these conceptions may be profitably studied at the present day.” The divisions of the subject are: The idea of atonement in the Old Testament; The idea of atonement in non-canonical Jewish literature; The idea of atonement in the New Testament; Summary of the biblical teachings concerning atonement; The significance of the biblical teachings concerning atonement.
=Burton, Frederick Russell.=^{[8]} Redcloud of the lakes: a novel. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–14513.
An epic story dealing with the history of a group of Ojibway Indians thru three generations—from the time that the grandfather of the tribe goes forth as a young man to fast, and in the wilderness sees a vision, until the vision is fulfilled in the life time of the grandson. The vision—that of a young buffalo despoiled of horns and mane and heart by a great beast whose body trailed away to invisible distance—foretells the coming of the white man, the end of the wild tribal life, and the civilization of the Indian.
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“One feels that the book suffers from looseness of construction: and that it would have greatly gained had the traditional form of epic narration been followed. Nevertheless, ‘Redcloud of the lakes’ will take its place among the very few sincere attempts to put the Real Indian into fiction.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 525. Jl. ’09. 450w.
“In the present volume he has had a freer hand, and the book is far better in both conception and execution than [‘Strongheart’].”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 486. Ag. 14, ’09. 600w.
=Burton, Marion Le Roy.=^{[11]} Problem of evil. $1.25. Open ct.
9–26820.
A detailed and technical criticism of the philosophical basis of the Augustinian treatment of the problem of evil. It aims to set forth in a true light the historic theory which for centuries has dominated Christian thought, and has shown the absolute necessity of a reconstruction of the doctrine of sin.
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=R. of Rs.= 40: 763. D. ’09. 80w.
=Burton, Richard.=^{[10]} From the book of life [poems], **$1.25. Little.
9–24977.
Such poems as a minstrel and a harp could interpret to gentle listeners. There is no din of war, nor the glory of conquerors; but there are brief, clear-cut impressions, some born of human struggle, others of human conquest. The dumb animal at man’s mercy, the Discard of the pack, the steamship stoker, the miner of the nether pit, the sweat-shop worker and the factory child furnish themes for the grim chants; while music, mother love, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s love, beauty, and kindred themes are touched upon with poetic tenderness.
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“As we turned the leaves we were reminded of nothing so much as an orchestra whose music is marred by some discordant instrument. Occasionally the offending instrument is silenced and then the music rises sweet and clear and unvexed.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 731. O. 30, ’09. 200w.
=Burton, Richard.= Three of a kind. †$1.50. Little.
8–26676.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“It will not appeal to the average novel reader.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 24. Ja. ’09.
“This book is wholesome in its atmosphere and the lessons it subtly and unobtrusively impresses are of the very best.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 610. D. ’08. 350w.
“Happily, a certain amount of sugar is wholesome, and there is here, besides, a good deal of good human nature in the old German musician; while the boy and the dog are very commendably real, the boy satisfactorily canine, the dog more than half boy, as nice boys and good dogs should be and are.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 260w.
=Bury, John Bagnell.= Ancient Greek historians. (Harvard lectures.) *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–2594.
A survey of Greek history and its writers down to the first century B. C. Contains: The rise of Greek history in Ionia; Herodotus; Thucydides; The development of Greek historiography after Thucydides; Polybius; The influence of Greek on Roman historiography; Views of the ancients concerning the use of history; Appendix: The re-handling of his history by Thucydides; Bibliography; Index.
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“Professor Bury’s book is extremely readable and very much up-to-date in the citation of the latest finds and discussion of the newest hypotheses.” Paul Shorey.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 113. O. ’09. 770w.
“An important work for classical students, and interesting to the educated reader. Herodotus and Thucydides are treated very fully and with critical acumen.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 100. Ap. ’09.
“In thoroughness the book of necessity contrasts strikingly and unfavourably with H. Peter’s elaborate work on the cognate subject of Roman historiography in Imperial times, and it cannot serve any purpose as a work of reference. The author’s great learning, however, is manifest notwithstanding the popular character of the lectures and this combined as it is with a felicity of expression which is all his own, makes the book very welcome.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 430. Ap. 10. 1100w. + =Dial.= 47: 75. Ag. 1, ’09. 210w.
“We welcome it with unmixt praise.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 98. Je. ’09. 120w.
“The first criticism that is likely to suggest itself to most readers of these lectures is that too much is attempted. The result of attempting to cover so much ground is apparent in the want of proportion which is observable in the treatment of the subject-matter. There are one or two particular points, as to which I find it hard to accept Mr. Bury’s views.” E. M. Walker.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 542. Jl. ’09. 2050w. + =Ind.= 67: 145. Jl. 15, ’09. 300w.
“A volume whose value for all students of the Greek historians is in no wise affected by these minor criticisms which we have thought more profitable than the indiscriminate praise usually awarded to writers of Professor Bury’s eminence.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 516. My. 20, ’09. 700w.
“Prof. Bury treats Herodotus and Thucydides and the others as litterateurs, and invests them with a very human interest. Moreover, he succeeds in attaching them to the present day by discerning and disclosing a relation to the art and science of writing history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 211. Ap. 10, ’09. 860w.
“Professor Bury is well within his métier when in this highly interesting book he discusses so lucidly the ancient historians of Greece.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 216. F. 13, ’09. 480w.
=Busch, Wilhelm.=^{[8]} Edward’s dream: the philosophy of a humorist; tr. and ed. by Dr. Paul Carus from the German of Wilhelm Busch. *$1. Open ct.
9–16925.
A little volume made up of those passages in Busch’s “Eduards traum” that the translator looks upon as especially trustworthy. “The plot of the little narrative is simple enough. It is a dream, and in this dream the author presents to the reader a number of philosophical problems which he either solves in an aphoristic way, or, only touching upon them, passes on to other problems.”
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“Admirers of Busch’s light-hearted genius should be warned to avoid Mr. Carus’s depressing analysis of humor with unconvincing examples.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 206. S. 2, ’09. 100w.
“‘Eduard’s traum,’ even in its present emasculated version, is interesting, and, while the dreamer’s adventures in the world of pure forms would probably appeal most to the risibles of a Pythagoras or a Euclid, his encounters with philosophers and philanthropists have a fine satiric flavor.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 526. S. 4, ’09. 550w.
=Butler, Edward.=^{[11]} Carburettors, vaporisers, and distributing valves used in internal combustion engines. *$2. Lippincott.
“The object of this treatise is to present information specially useful to engineers, designers, and others engaged in constructing internal combustion engines for automobiles, stationary and marine engines. The book is confined to the discussion of carburettors for use with gasoline and similar volatile fuels, vaporisers for use with kerosene and crude oils, admission and exhaust valves, and two-cycle and valveless engines. As would naturally be expected, the book refers most largely to English practice, although the practice of continental manufacturers is quite well represented and some of the more prominent American designs are shown.”—Engin. N.
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“He presents in a clear and concise form valuable information.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 337. O. ’09. 140w.
“The book should be useful for any engineer engaged in any way in the design of internal combustion engines. It covers a limited but nevertheless very important field.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 41. O. 14, ’09. 180w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.=^{[8]} Mike Flannery on duty and off. 50c. Doubleday.
9–14821.
Three stories which set forth in a manner quite up to the author’s standard of humor the trials of the express agent. The first, “Just like a cat” relates the difficulty arising from Mike’s confusing “deceased” and “diseased” in his report of orders; the second, “The three hundred,” depicts a struggle with three hundred simplified spelled words; the title of the third story is quite Butleresque, “Fleas will be fleas.”
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“The third and last story of the book is not up to the usual Mike Flannery standard, despite its promising title.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 441. Jl. 17, ’09. 170w.
=Butler, Harold E.=^{[8]} Post-Augustan poetry, from Seneca to Juvenal. *$2.90. Oxford.
9–22234.
“The first chapter handles the general question of the decline of post-Augustan poetry, and then we have a series of chapters dealing with Seneca, Persius, Lucan, Petronius, the minor poetry of the years 14–69 A. D. and 70–117, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus, Martial, and Juvenal.” (Ath.) “No attempt is made to glorify these poets unduly; their faults are indicated clearly enough, but a generous endeavor is made to save them from an undeserved neglect.” (Dial.)
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“To have so much done for us by a man of Mr. Butler’s literary powers, with his clearness of discrimination and expression, is a substantial boon. We wish to make it plain that we consider Mr. Butler’s book wholesomely helpful. We have enjoyed the perusal of Mr. Butler’s pages, perhaps the more because in his critical estimates he allows generosity gently to strike the balance, and is determined to dig out what precious ore there may be in a confessedly second-rate mine.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 462. Ap. 17. 900w.
“As separate studies of individual poets the chapters are altogether convincing.” H: W. Prescott.
+ − =Class. J.= 5: 90. D. ’09. 800w.
“Will be of service not only to the Latin specialist but also to the student and critic of any literature.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 51. Jl. 16, ’09. 250w.
“Somehow Mr. Butler’s work lacks the flavor of the essay—the all-essential quality in an undertaking of this scope. It contains nothing new for the scholar, and will not, we fear, gain the wide popularity deservedly won by Sellar and Mackail.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 359. O. 14, ’09. 850w.
“This is a book to be read with much interest and profit.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 820. Je. 26, ’09. 950w.
=Butler, Rev. Henry Montagu.=^{[12]} Ten great and good men. $2. Longmans.
Sketches, with characterizations and estimates, of Burke, the second William Pitt, George Canning, John Wesley, William Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, John Bright, General Charles George Gordon, Dr. Arnold and Thomas Erskine of Linlathen.
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“Though modest in scope, the volume is welcome.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 656. N. 27. 130w.
“Some very interesting lectures are published in ‘Ten great and good men.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 765. D. 4, ’09. 140w.
“The first of the ten sketches is headed ‘Some gleanings from Burke,’ and it is the only one of which we have to make a serious criticism.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 650. O. 23, ’09. 570w.
=Butler, Nicholas Murray.= American as he is. *$1. Macmillan.
8–34126.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 713. My. ’09. 280w.
“Every American who wishes to get a good look at himself at his best should read this interesting volume.” F. W. Collier.
+ =Arena.= 41: 85. Ja. ’09. 360w.
“His patriotism did not quite hinder him from an occasional admission that the typical American betrays some slight imperfections of character, and that the prevailing conditions of life, political, commercial, and social, are not absolutely Utopian. But his good taste and loyalty rightly restrained him from airing family grievances before strangers.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 542. Ja. ’09. 1200w.
“The lectures are characterized by breadth of treatment and a clean-cut style.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 25. Ja. 1, ’09. 180w. + =Ind.= 66: 428. F. 25, ’09. 100w.
“If they were half as interesting to those he talked to as to those of whom he talked, they must have been successful. The analysis of the unifying forces made by Dr. Butler is particularly suggestive. Some of the elements in it are familiar enough, but those are freshly treated, and others are relatively novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 6. Ja. 2, ’09. 900w.
“The four lectures are good for home as well as foreign consumption, and are deservedly published for that purpose. They will serve to correct both a provincial and a pessimistic view of our domestic conditions. There is hardly a sentence that needs correction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 21. Ja. 2, ’09. 150w.
“Dr. Butler’s estimate of the American contribution to the fine arts is too modest.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 624. Mr. 20, ’09. 1000w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 124. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“The passages with which we are most inclined to disagree are those in which, though he regrets the divorce between political life and some of the best elements in the country, President Butler appears to think of that divorce as inevitable.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 183. Ja. 30, ’09. 1550w.
“The general freedom from any tendency to exaggerate the importance of American traditions is much to be commended.” Agnes Miller.
+ =Survey.= 22: 699. Ag. 21, ’09. 670w.
=Butler, Samuel.= Characters and passages from note-books; ed. by A. R. Waller. (Cambridge Eng. classics.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–32380.
A complete presentation of the prose writings of Butler, the author of “Hudibras.” “It is made up of a large number of ‘Characters,’ after the manner of Theophrastus, and a mass of observations and notes, written in varying degrees of elaboration, upon a multitude of miscellaneous topics. The majority of the ‘Characters’ and a small selection of the notes have been already printed; the rest are reproduced for the first time from the manuscripts in the British museum. It is in the notes that the main interest of the volume lies.” (Spec.)
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“Butler’s important prose writings are now for the first time adequately and completely presented. Of the value of this volume to students there can be no question; there is reasonable ground for doubt as to its general worth as a contribution to literature. At the most it is probably to be ranked with the curiosities of letters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 176. Mr. 27, ’09. 980w.
“How did the pungent satirist bear his sorrows? Did he laugh or did he weep? What was his philosophy? What was his true attitude towards the world? From this point of view the volume ... is of the greatest interest.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 224. F. 6, ’09. 1150w.
=Butlin, F. M.=^{[11]} Among the Danes. **$2.50. Pott.
9–35857.
“This is a pleasant book to read. There is nothing, certainly of the ‘Smelfungus’ tone about it. Everything pleased the traveller, except, perhaps the etiquette of the Copenhagen pavement, which, as an earlier traveller expressed it, consists in pushing you into the gutter. Perhaps the most interesting chapter is that in which what we should call the ‘continuation schools’ are described. It is a quite inexhaustible wonder, when we remember what the corresponding class in England think about such things, that thousands of young men and women, women chiefly in summer and men in winter, leave their places to improve their education. It is no thought of bettering themselves that moves them; simply, it would seem, the desire of knowledge. Another Danish wonder is the co-operative system.” (Spec.) “Mr. Butlin has supplemented his work with a multitude of Danish myths and tales of historical events, and he has repeatedly, with great success, translated some of the ancient ballads so dear to the Danish heart.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 69. N. ’09. ✠
“The many Danes who will study Mr. Butlin’s volume will be highly interested in the views of the author, his justness in sizing up the national faults and sins, and his fair-mindedness in telling about the attractive features of Danish life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 655. O. 23, ’09. 750w.
“A pleasant book, and Miss Ellen Wilkinson’s pictures add greatly to its attraction.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 353. S. 4, ’09. 200w.
=Buxton, Charles Roden.=^{[5]} Turkey in revolution. *$2.50. Dutton.
W9–99.
An account of what was observed by the members of the Balkan committee deputation who went out to study the new régime at the invitation of the Young Turks.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 8. S. ’09.
“It is marked by conspicuous fairness, and is highly interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 436. Ap. 10. 800w. + =Outlook.= 92: 825. Ag. 7, ’09. 350w.
“In so far as his work deals with the establishment of the constitution by force of arms and the history of the events which led up to the famous Twenty-fourth of July, it is an interesting record of the observations of one who, whatever his personal opinions may be, knows the country well; but much has happened during the last few weeks to diminish the value of these observations.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 725. Je. 5, ’09. 650w.
“He has made an honestly balanced statement of the difficulties in the way of the Young Turks, and of the advantages on their side, before venturing to sum up with optimism.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 500. Mr. 27, ’09. 1750w.
=Byrne, Mary Agnes.=^{[11]} Peggy-Alone. $1.25. Saalfield.
9–15999.
Peggy-Alone is left for one summer in the charge of her uncle, a young man who does not approve of the exclusive notions of upbringing held by her parents. He allows her for the first time in her life to make friends with other girls. She becomes an enthusiastic member of the “Happy go lucky” club and learns to live and play as other children do.
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=Cabell, James Branch.=^{[11]} Chivalry. **$2. Harper.
9–27967.
Ten stories in holiday make-up retold from the work of a dependent of the Duke of Burgundy in 1470. They “treat of divers queens and of their love-business.” They are the stories of the Sestina, of the Tenson, of the Rat-Trap, of the Choices, of the Housewife, of the Satraps, of the Heritage, of the Scabbard, of the Navarrese and of the Fox-Brush.
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=Outlook.= 93: 787. D. 4, ’09. 110w.
Cabell, James Branch. Cords of vanity. † $1.50. Doubleday.
9–4297.
Should the young hero of these chapters of wooings and small flirtations open his palm for a professional reading, doubtless where the line of constancy ought to appear there would be sundry “fickle” lines in evidence. For he is the bee that sips the honey from many a flower, and his flitting process is the book’s only diversion.
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“Viewed as a whole, the book is a notable performance.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 357. S. 25. 160w.
“One is reminded of the time-honored characterization of this class of fiction as worse than immoral—dull.”
− =Nation.= 88: 582. Je. 10, ’09. 200w.
“When it comes to near half a score love affairs, with only one man for the entire lot, the atmosphere grows sirupy, and not all Mr. Cabell’s skill with the English language, which is considerable, is sufficient to save the reader from a keen longing for fresh air and lemons.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 175. Mr. 27, ’09. 170w.
=Cable, George Washington.= Kincaid’s battery. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–32648.
A story of New Orleans during the first part of the civil war. In the background is the din of warfare while the center of the stage is held by two women combatants. One of them, a Creole, loves fiercely and jealously the young captain whom she tries to separate from the other woman.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 24. Ja. ’09. ✠
“We cannot describe it as a successful work of fictive art. A certain amount of misunderstanding and playing at cross-purposes is quite proper as a means of holding the reader’s interest in suspense, but the device is absurdly overworked in the present instance.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 46: 87. F. 1, ’09. 260w.
“All told, it is a story where the red fuse of war burns into the drawing-room of a pretty society. And the author misses neither the lightness nor the tragedy of such a situation.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 700. Ap. 1, ’09. 320w.
“Perhaps the tale pleases us chiefly because it takes us back to the old scene and the old figures. The theatrical inventions might be dispensed with.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 19. Ja. 7, ’09. 580w.
“He trails every elusive emotion to its last hiding place, and with exquisitely fine art, even if the reader does find it a bit tedious sometimes and not quite worth while, makes his chief characters depict themselves and one another through pages upon pages of conversation and unimportant action.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 500w.
“Frankly, we find it rather hard reading. It seems to us that the author does not tell his story in a simple, direct way, but adopts a style that is, not exactly enigmatic, but, if we may use the phrase, ‘round-the-cornerish.’ The result is that the interest halts or retrogrades just when it should move forward with firm, quick step.”
− =Outlook.= 91: 107. Ja. 16, ’09. 240w.
=Cable, George Washington.=^{[12]} “Posson Jone’” and Père Raphaël; with a new word setting forth how and why the two tales are one. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–28036.
A reprint, in holiday dress of two favorite Creole stories. For the second, Mr. Cable kept blowing thru his bubble pipe, refusing a new dip into the source of his first well rounded sphere of lights and colors, knowing that there was another bubble up the pipe which he could develop to the full proportions of the first. And here we have the two which Mr. Cable’s genius has lent permanency to—the drafts of criticism cannot blow them out, neither have they the disposition to.
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+ =Dial.= 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 130w.
“‘Père Raphaël’ is more melodramatic, conventional, and even machine-like in plot and development than this author’s stories are wont to be.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 120w.
=Cabot, Oliver.=^{[6]} Man without a shadow. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–11688.
A young man after a lapse of memory wakens to consciousness one day in a sanitarium but by some queer freak his memory was left behind. There is an indefinable fear that compels him to believe that he has been evilly dealt with. He escapes and the incidents of the story have to do with his efforts to win back his memory by the aid of instinct and faces seen in dreams, and they involve the tricking of enemies who had been responsible for the young man’s condition, the interest of a French scientist, and the devotion of a young New York girl. The scene shifts from New Jersey to Paris.
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“Ingenious tale.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 25. S. ’09.
“This story may be regarded as a faint reflection of ‘Somehow good,’ and, although it offers not a tithe of the art or the psychology of Mr. De Morgan’s novel, may yet be recognized as an entertaining production.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 48. Jl. 16, ’09. 180w.
“Its plot has been well invented and worked out, and the incidents contrived in a perfectly natural way. The story lays no claim to literary quality, it makes no literary pretensions, but it holds the attention easily and agreeably until the end.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 80w.
“Merely as a story of plot and incident ‘The man without a shadow’ is remarkably clever, skillful and entertaining. Mr. Cabot is to be congratulated upon the fertility of invention and the mastery of construction which it shows.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 270. My. 1, ’09. 530w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry.=^{[12]} Story of Dutch painting. **$1.20. Century.
The story of Dutch art from the beginning of the seventeenth century which date marks a new era. It is with the newness of their art that the author is concerned, but he studies it in “its relation to the material and mental environment of the nation itself, of whose newness it was so immediate a product and so manifest an expression.” Mr. Caffin tells how the artists of the seventeenth century developed a new school of painting, what they accomplished in portraiture, in landscape, and in the representation of the indoor and outdoor life of the people; why they chose these subjects and why they treated them as they did.
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“This book will hardly serve the turn of those who love painting as such. Those, however, who wish merely information about artists and their times, and discursive meditation about pictures, will find it both edifying and entertaining.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 522. N. 25, ’09. 620w.
“A complete handbook of Dutch art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14; 659. O. 23, ’09. 30w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry, and Caffin, Caroline A.= Appreciation of the drama. **$1.50. Baker.
8–31502.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“An interesting contribution to stage literature, but not of first importance.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 6. Ja. ’09.
“The salient points in the general history of the drama are lucidly presented with practical succinctness.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 25. Ja. 1, ’09. 260w.
“He does not in any way show a deep knowledge of the theater or a wide knowledge of the theatrical situation.”
− =Ind.= 66: 1141. Je. 27, ’09. 180w.
=Cain, Georges.=^{[5]} Walks in Paris; tr. by Alfred Allinson. *$2. Macmillan.
W9–151.
The author as guide avoids the megaphone man’s method of stringing together commonplaces and does the honors properly and pleasantly, of the old quarters of Paris, to Parisians who complain of knowing nothing of the history of the great city. He dabbles not at all in hackneyed legend but supplements the history of buildings with brief narratives of events, heroic or calamitous, that have happened beneath their shadow. It is Paris from a French point of view. Numerous illustrations accompany the text.
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“Excellent descriptions of notable landmarks written by a Parisian having ample knowledge and love for his city.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 156. Je. ’09.
“All M. Cain writes about Paris is worthy of introduction to English readers.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 583. My. 15. 200w.
“M. Cain’s conspicuous merit is his ability to keep off the paths beaten by the guide-books; and wherever he conducts his readers he reveals new interests in unlikely places.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 373. Je. 1, ’09. 350w.
“A veritable treasure-house of information about the Paris that has disappeared, or is doomed to disappear, on both banks of the Seine—the old Paris of history and of the historical novel.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1241. Je. 3, ’09. 130w.
“The translator was obviously interested in his translation and tries to supplement in his notes the information of the text.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 628. Je. 24, ’09. 240w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 403. Je. 26, ’09. 400w.
“He knows not only all of Paris in brick and stone, he has known all of Paris living; he is the son of the house, he is your delightful host, he is full of family anecdotes. He has the incomparable faculty of making you feel, for the nonce, as if you too were of the family.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 561. O. ’09. 320w.
“This book, we should say, almost reaches the ideal of the art of writing about the old buildings and historical associations of a city such as Paris or London.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 728. Je. 5, ’09. 320w.
=Caine, Hall.= My story. **$2. Appleton.
9–6264.
“A brief but graphic sketch of the surroundings of his childhood, and the friendships formed among literary men in his early manhood.” (Outlook.) He shows “familiar knowledge of the methods, phraseology, and varied ‘tricks of the trade’ of modern journalism.... This familiarity has been expressed in racy comments on American newspapers and their interviewers; it has also impressed the general style of many pages of his book.... The chief interest is found in the nucleus of the story—the revelations of Rossetti and his small, but choice coterie of friends as they were known by Mr. Caine during the last few years of Rossetti’s life.” (Dial.)
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“A story of considerable interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 100. Ap. ’09.
Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 305. My. ’09. 1750w.
“In spite of its blemishes of style, and its incompleteness of structure, ‘My story’ is interesting and illuminating as a series of impressions of Rossetti and his friends, Watts-Dunton, Madox Brown, Philip Marston, Shields, and others, and as a revelation of Mr. Caine’s own personality and convictions.” A. R. Marble.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 223. Ap. 1, ’09. 1400w.
Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.
+ =Forum.= 41: 398. Ap. ’09. 950w.
“This autobiography is interesting because it does actually reveal the character of the writer.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 38: 473. Mr. 20, ’09. 730w.
“Mr. Caine gives ... an altogether undue number of letters from these great men in praise of his own works of fiction. Perhaps the most striking minor portrait is that of Henry Irving playing a rôle in life as on the stage.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 256. Mr. 11, ’09. 650w.
“Caine fails in trying to picture Rossetti as an attractive personage, arousing only pity, and not sympathy. The chapter written around his visits to America has a distinct aroma of patronage. Mr. Caine concludes with some observations on the literary life, its joys and its emoluments. Some of these are pertinent and others are impertinent.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 192. Ap. 3, ’09. 530w.
“To those who are fond of literary gossip, Mr. Hall Caine’s ‘Story’ must, in despite of defects, appeal. Is nowise an important book, but it is a readable and amusing book of very light literary gossip.”
+ − =No. Am.= 189: 781. My. ’09. 600w.
“Altogether, while the book is in no way important, it is entertaining and well worth reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 773. Ap. 3, ’09. 380w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 763. Je. ’09. 160w.
=Caine, Hall.=^{[9]} White prophet. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–23731.
A novel of Egyptian life and English life in Egypt in which the author “attempts to re-create the course of the events of the last quarter of a century as they ought to have happened.” (Sat. R.) It portrays social and official life in government and military circles of Egyptian cities and follows the unconvincing course of the “White prophet” half Christian, half Mohammedan as leader of the new Nationalist movement.
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“Of the plot, founded as it is on misconception of the state of Egypt, and defective understanding of its men and problems, without one spark of humour, we will only say that it is wildly melodramatic.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 232. Ag. 28. 870w.
“Fortunately we now know the worst that Mr. Hall Caine can do. No living being, not even himself, can surpass the enormity which he calls ‘The white prophet.’” A. Schade van Westrum.
− − =Bookm.= 30: 150. O. ’09. 1330w.
“Compound of preposterous politics and sickly sentiment.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 47: 238. O. 1, ’09. 450w.
“This book has no message from the spirit, but is just another subject the author has selected over which to have hysterics.”
− =Ind.= 67: 1093. N. 11, ’09. 380w.
“The eastern atmosphere with which the entire story is infused is quite as pleasing as the more familiar British setting usually associated with Hall Caine’s work. In the main the dramatic unfolding of the plot holds the reader’s attention.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 535. O. 2, ’09. 400w.
“Mr. Caine has a habit of dwelling interminably upon his facts without really illuminating them.”
− =Nation.= 89: 255. S. 16, ’09. 600w.
“‘The white prophet’ is Mr. Caine at his worst and at his best. It is good melodrama: it is also full of platitude, prolix, and overlarded with sentimentality. The book would gain in intensity and power were a goodly number of 600 pages judiciously blue penciled. Mr. Caine ‘preaches’ too much, but the bones of the story are good melodrama—and melodrama is always popular.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 522. S. 4, ’09. 500w.
“As a novel this is a typical Hall Caine book, and in its own way the appearance of a Hall Caine book is a literary event. In this story the action and movement are at first rapid and strong, but by the middle one begins to weary of the artificial excitement and to long for a little plain common-sense realism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 52. S. 11, ’09. 530w.
“On more than one of the more than 600 pages of this novel the reader finds blood-stirring dramatic narrative strength, but from even the most casual perusal it is quite evident that if the tale had been half as long it might have been twice as strong.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 140w.
“‘The white prophet’ is vulgar and unpretentious; it never gets within a hundred leagues of literature; even in its badness it is undistinguished.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 228. Ag. 21, ’09. 1350w.
“When leniency has done its utmost, the book must be described as a bad work of art as well as a most mischievous and odious travesty of our policy in Egypt.”
− =Spec.= 103: 244. Ag. 14, ’09. 1100w.
=Cairns, William B.=, ed.^{[9]} Selections from early American writers, 1607–1800. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–14597.
Selections from early American writers from 1607 to 1800. “Theology is the base of most of these selections, although such matters as Indian rights, poems on various sentimental subjects, translations of the Psalms, the examination and condemnation of witches, love letters and historical and descriptive sketches lend variety and prove more agreeable reading than the dissertations upon infant damnation or descriptions of the traits of the grim Deity these people had fashioned for their terror and worship.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =Dial.= 47: 52. Jl. 16, ’09. 30w. + =Ind.= 67: 298. Ag. 5, ’09. 40w.
“The volume ought to serve a good purpose in many ways.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 535. O. 2, ’09. 110w.
“Mr. Cairns has done a good work for students of American literature. He has also given us a book full of human interest, quaint knowledge, and real experience, where in a small compass it is easy to get a broad idea of a phase of our national life none the less important because it has utterly passed away.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 475. Ag. 7, ’09. 1200w.
=Calisch, Edward N.=^{[6]} Jew in English literature, as author and as subject. *$2. Bell bk.
9–15983.
A work the scope of whose subject and the method of whose treatment “have been determined with the view to bring out the purpose of the work, viz., to show, on the one hand, what has been the attitude of the British nation, as expressed by its writers, toward the Jew at various periods of their common history, what influence the Jews have thus unconsciously had upon its literature; and on the other hand, what influence they have unconsciously exercised by their own contributions to this literature.” It covers English literature from the tenth century to date.
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“The little book will attract attention to one of the curiosities of English literature, and, indeed, might be regarded as a supplementary chapter to Isaac Disraeli’s book of that name, though scarcely with its charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 479. Ag. 7, ’09. 430w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 639. N. ’09. 40w.
=Call, Annie Payson.=^{[11]} Nerves and common sense. **$1.25. Little.
9–35851.
The author who has delivered numerous helpful messages to nervously tired people has gathered into this volume twenty-five papers that have been published separately, very many of them in the “Ladies’ home journal.” The titles are suggestive, some of them being: Habit and nervous strain: How women can keep from being nervous; “You have no idea how I am rushed”; “Why does Mrs. Smith get on my nerves”; The trying member of the family; Irritable husbands; How to be ill and get well; Is physical culture good for girls? Working restfully; Telephones and telephoning; “Why fuss so much about what I eat”; About faces; About vices; and About frights.
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“More restricted in its appeal but also more practical and suggestive in the field covered than any of the numerous recent books.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 70. N. ’09.
“A collection of pleasant suggestive essays.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 639. N. ’09. 20w.
=Callender, Guy Stevens=, ed.^{[11]} Selections from the economic history of the United States, 1765–1860, with introductory essays. (Selections and documents in economics.) *$2.75. Ginn.
9–26314.
A book of collateral reading for undergraduate classes in American economic history, or for general courses in American history that give attention to economics. At the beginning of each chapter is a preliminary essay that prepares the way for the account of economic affairs that follows.
=Calthrop, Dion Clayton.=^{[9]} Everybody’s secret. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–20662.
Toby Quarrenden, an over-trustful young man, is a firm believer in the idea that there is more good in man than evil. Tenderly pictured is his Platonic friendship for an actress, Christine Macaire, and his sorrow over the discovery that the woman whom he had married and his best friend Mr. Welby have concealed from him an illicit relation of early years. The deception of these two, which had reached everybody’s ears before its revelation to him, somewhat shakes his faith in mankind. After the death of his wife, thru the influence and love of Christine, his simple trust in humanity is restored.
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“The unskilful employment of incidences in the manufacture of difficulties casts a serious blot on this novel, which, however, is written in a sparkling style, and studded with poetic ideas.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 9. Jl. 3. 120w. =Atlan.= 104: 686. N. ’09. 260w.
“The story is very interesting and not of the sensational sort. It compares favorably with the author’s former success, ‘The dance of love.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 548. S. 18, ’09. 380w.
“His book is quite devoid of offence, and is evidence once again of the intense importance of manner in treating of certain matters.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 202. Ag. 14, ’09. 150w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.=^{[8]} Madrid: an historical description and handbook of the Spanish capital. *$1.50. Lane.
9–35585.
A general, popular account “containing a chapter of general impressions, a brief history of the city, descriptions of the court, society, art, literature, and the drama, churches, and public buildings, including the Escorial, La Granja, and Alcalá; an excellent guide to that marvellous collection of arms and armor, so little of which, curiously enough, is of Spanish workmanship; and last but not least two chapters on the bull-fight.”—Nation.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 157. Je. ’09.
“Though the style of the text is popular and at times diffuse, the prospective tourist to Madrid will find the book of great value.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 177. Jl. ’09. 200w.
“One could not ask for a better supplement to the more practical details of the guide-book. The work is accurate, sympathetically just, complete without being tiresome, and profusely illustrated.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 468. My. 6, ’09. 370w.
“A corner of the curtain has just been rather ungently raised, but the revelation reveals only one phase of Spanish life—the religious and social.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 80w.
“Possibly the chapter on ‘Literature and the drama’ is the most inadequate.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 99. Jl. 17, ’09. 80w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.=^{[8]} Royal palaces of Spain: a historical and descriptive account of the seven principal palaces of the Spanish kings. *$1.50. Lane.
9–12927.
Describes El Alcazar, the Escorial, El Pardo, Aranjuez, La Granja, Royal palace (Madrid), and Miramar.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 157. Je. ’09.
“The text and 165 small but excellent illustrations fulfil the promise of the preface.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 105. Jl. 29, ’09. 500w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 70w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Southern Spain; painted by Trevor Haddon. *$6. Macmillan.
9–5230.
This book, the embodiment of the author’s personal impressions and observations, is intended for guide-book use; in it are brought together “as much of history, art, and topography as the traveler is likely to assimilate.”
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“A sumptuous and well-informed handbook.”
+ Dial. 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 230w.
“One of the most fascinating gift books of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Trevor Haddon’s book of coloured sketches may be taken on the whole as giving a good general idea of the various scenes depicted. Mr. Calvert’s descriptions are pleasantly written and give a very fair historical account of the places visited. His errors are at any rate harmless.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 180w.
“We are told that he has ‘introduced a little gossip into the descriptive matter.’ It is perhaps this ‘gossip’ that gives the book its curiously second-hand character, though this is a merit as well as a defect, for the authors copied by Mr. Calvert are often men of sound taste and knowledge.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 268. F. 13, ’09. 550w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila and Zaragoza; an historical and descriptive account. (Spanish ser.) *$1.50. Lane.
8–26390.
The text mainly historical is followed by some four hundred full-page illustrations.
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“The text contains sundry, random assertions, some unauthentic anecdotes, and not a few serious errors. The photographs are more valuable than the letterpress.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 250w. =Dial.= 45: 300. N. 1, ’08. 60w. =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 80w. =Spec.= 101: 171. Ag. 1, ’08. 60w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Catherine Gasquoine.=^{[8]} El Greco: an account of his life and works. *$1.50. Lane.
9–17456.
Contains an introduction giving an account of the development of Spanish painting during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, followed by a sketch of the famous Creton’s life from his birth to the time of his coming to Spain.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 8. S. ’09.
“This book is a conscientious but wholly uninspired compilation, negligible as criticism, but useful as a collection of facts not readily accessible in English.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 388. O. 21, ’09. 130w. + − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 440w.
“The Spanish and Italian quotations in this volume are often somewhat inaccurate, and we have some amazing Greek on p. 25. There is, moreover, a strangely persistent confusion in the proper names.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 99. Jl. 17, ’09. 300w.
=Camac, Charles Nicoll Bancker=, comp.^{[9]} Epoch-making contributions to medicine, surgery, and the allied sciences; being reprints of those communications which first conveyed epoch-making observations to the scientific world, together with biographical sketches of the observers. *$4. Saunders.
9–5259.
A series of “articles each of which communicated such observations as first placed the subject upon a sound scientific basis.” The contributions include those of Lord Lister on antiseptic surgery; Harvey’s circulation of the blood; Leopold Auenbrugger’s Percussion of the chest; R. T. H. Laënnec’s Use of the stethoscope; Edward Jenner’s Vaccination against small-pox; Morton, Wells, and Warren’s Anesthesia; Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Puerperal fever.
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“The idea of the compilation is a good one and the work will interest laymen as well as professionals.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 851. My. 15, ’09. 100w.
“The book is handsomely and, barring a few slight typographical errors in the bibliography, excellently printed, and should keenly interest those medical students—‘raræ aves’—who can be induced to read anything outside the required textbooks.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 167. Ag. 19, ’09. 160w.
=Cambridge= history of English literature; ed. by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. 14v. ea. *$2.50. Putnam.
7–40854.
=v. 3.= Renascence and reformation.
“The present volume begins with the English humanists, Linacre and Grocyn, in the closing years of the fifteenth century, and ends with Hooker’s ‘Ecclesiastical polity,’ the first books of which appeared in 1594. It does not include, however, the plays which fall within the limits of these dates, since the whole subject of the English drama, from its beginnings, down to the closing of the theatres in 1642, is reserved for continuous treatment in the fourth and fifth volumes.”—Nation.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 133. My. ’09. (Review of v. 3.)
“The bibliographies are in general good but are unequal in merit: in some cases the best editions are not noted, and the dates of first editions are not mentioned. The index of names is laudably complete.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 6. Jl. 3. 1300w. (Review of v. 3.)
“These articles fail in what should be their first purpose, the orientation of the student. Our philological scholarship has never been particularly felicitous in expression; but the effect of it, when massed in such bulk as this, is unexpectedly depressing.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 865. Ap. 22, ’09. 950w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.) + =Lit. D.= 38: 904. My. 22, ’09. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The third volume of this work shows an even greater improvement on the second than the second showed on the first. This volume, like the previous ones, contains a full and excellent bibliography. We note some lacunæ in the section devoted to Spenser.”
+ + − =Nation.= 88: 338. Ap. 1, ’09. 700w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The absence of any dominating names renders this volume even more useful for the student of English literature, since it is the second and third rate little masters about whom it is difficult to get full and accurate information such as is afforded in the present volume. Apart from a few defects, the present volume seems to be fully up to the very high standard of the two preceding.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 114. F. 27, ’09. 650w. (Review of v. 3.) =R. of Rs.= 39: 508. Ap. ’09. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This rich composite history of English literature is a real service to English scholarship.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 562. My. 1, ’09. 1550w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
=Cambridge= modern history; planned by the late Lord Acton; ed. by Adolphus W: Ward, G: Walter Prothero and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
4–21616.
=v. 11.= The growth of nationalism.
“Considers that highly important period in human history from 1845 to 1871. It treats of the great revolutionary period, which was continent wide 1845–48, and of the political and social changes throughout Europe which culminated in the Franco-Prussian war of forty years ago.”—R. of Rs.
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“Perhaps in no other volume of this series has the need of a unifying hand been so much felt as in this. There is a dead level of more than respectable scholarship—an immense accumulation of facts—yet hardly more distinction than you meet in a dictionary.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 822. Jl. ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 11.) + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 74. Mr. ’09. (Review of v. 11.)
“Where the book fails to satisfy is in its lack of general views of international diplomacy, and secondly, in its manifest inequalities of treatment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 367. Mr. 27. 1450w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Probably, the most valuable part of the volume is the series of bibliographies.” W: Miller.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 390. Ap. ’09. 860w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The volume, like all others in the series, is indispensable to every student of modern history.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 200. Jl. 22, ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The present volume is perhaps the most interesting of all that have appeared, at least to those who wish to understand the Europe of their own generation in the light of the years that most closely preceded it.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 763. My. 1, ’09. 620w. (Review of v. 11.)
“All the work is carefully and intelligently done; all conforms to the modern conception of scientific history.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 441. Ap. 29, ’09. 2100w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The chapter on Rome and the Vatican council by Mr. G. A. Fawkes only increases the regret that Lord Acton did not live to write upon a subject, which, in English-speaking lands, he had made so decisively his own. Able as Mr. Fawkes’s treatment is, it is too detailed and has no firm general standpoint.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 97. F. 20, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 11.)
“There is probably no other volume in this monumental work so packed with information of interest and value to the modern reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 91: 819. Ap. 10, ’09. 350w. (Review of v. 11.) =R. of Rs.= 39: 381. Mr. ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Of course no book dealing with this period can be without interest, and, bald as the style of narration generally is, there will be found a great deal of ‘miscellaneous feeding’ for the inquiring mind. But to call such a book a ‘history’ is almost a misuse of terms.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 467. Ap. 10, ’09. 1100w. (Review of v. 11.)
“In a work so full of interest it is impossible to comment on all that is valuable.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 614. Ap. 17, ’09. 960w. (Review of v. 11.)
=Cambridge= natural history; ed. by S. F. Harmer and A. E. Shipley.^{[12]} 10v. v. 4. *$4.25. Macmillan.
5–12127.
=v. 4.= Although the fourth in numerical order, this volume is the tenth and last of this important work begun sixteen years ago. It includes Crustacea, by Geoffrey Smith and the late W. F. R. Weldon; Tardigrada and Pentastomida, also Introduction to Arachnida, and Xiphosura, by Arthur E. Shipley; Arachnida embolobranchiata (scorpions, spiders, mites, etc.), by Cecil Warburton; Eurypterida and Trilobita by Henry Woods.
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“It is a pleasure to congratulate all concerned on the completion of an undertaking which is a credit to a generous publisher, two excellent editors, and many competent zoologists.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 301. S. 11. 720w. (Review of v. 4.)
“A comprehensive work, one that exhibits so many excellencies and has been of such great service as a reference work to zoologists. We can say of this volume that what is given is given fairly well, the errors are mostly of omission.” T: H. Montgomery, jr.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 682. N. 12, ’09. 1350w (Review of v. 4.)
=Cameron, Agnes Deans.=^{[12]} New North; being some account of a woman’s journey through Canada to the Arctic. **$3. Appleton.
9–29788.
The record of the travels of two women down the Mackenzie river from Athabasca Landing in Alberta, Canada, to the Arctic ocean, and back by way of the Peace river. It is a narrative of dangerous passages on the river, meetings with the Esquimaux, the discovery of new sites; and abounds in descriptions of people, of northland scenes, interspersed here and there with anecdote. On its economic side the author discusses the agricultural possibilities, timber resources, etc. Many illustrations from photographs form a pictorial accompaniment to the text.
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“She has much that is interesting to say about arctic animals and arctic food, and she writes enthusiastically of the many friends she made along the way.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 110w.
=Cameron, Margaret.=^{[10]} Involuntary chaperon. †$1.50. Harper.
9–26953.
This chaperon is one of those fascinating young widows so dear to fiction, and the series of sprightly letters she writes to her chum forms the story. But her situation is unusual as she is chaperoning, against her will, a young girl who is being sent by her parents on a trip to South America to escape an incipient love affair. A bachelor uncle accompanies them, and they discover many amusing people and interesting scenes in the course of their journey, all of which is told in detail to the friend at home who is also the recipient of heart to heart confidences which develop into a double love story. The illustrations are South American views.
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“They are such letters as anybody would be delighted to receive from a traveling feminine friend.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 691. N. 6, ’09. 230w.
=Camp, Walter Chauncey.=^{[11]} Jack Hall at Yale: a football story. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–26146.
The group of boys who were introduced in “The substitute,” reappear in the present story. After a Christmas house party, they participate in college life and athletics open to freshmen, and, in their Sophomore year, two win places on the football team; the victory over Harvard being largely due to Jack’s punting and clear thinking. Jack Hall, one of the boys in “The substitute” soon acquires the Yale spirit and carries it into contests on the wrestling mat and on the football field in which he brings honor to Yale. The intercollegiate games of his Sophomore year, during which he develops skill as a kicker, give the interest to the book.
=Campbell, F. W. Groves.= Apollonius of Tyana: a study of his life and times; with an introd. by Ernest Oldmeadow. *$1. Kennerley.
“As Blount’s translation is only an obsolete fragment, and as Berwick’s almost inaccessible version contains a superabundance of misrenderings and lacks all the flavour of the original” this rendering of the life of the rhetorician and sophist of Lemnos fills a gap in English libraries. Mr. Oldmeadow says: “Dr. Campbell has sought to recover Apollonius of Tyana from the dust of controversy and to picture him as he existed in the minds of his more reverent and spiritually minded believers.... He has rounded off his short study by contrasting some of the practices and doctrines of this Cappadocian ... with some words and works of that Galilean who has conquered the world.”
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+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 701. Je. 12. 620w.
“A Pateresque appreciation of the first-century sage and mystic revealed to us in the third-century biographical romance of Philostratus. Judged as such it must be pronounced successful in spite of a few exuberances of rhetoric.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 560. Je. 3, ’09. 150w.
“Dr. Campbell’s story of this strange and fascinating life is well worth reading. Its style is rather florid, and the writer is sometimes led by his enthusiasm into extravagances of expression and sentiment; but the enthusiasm itself is refreshing and interesting. Mr. Oldmeadow’s introduction is careful and concise, and his hope that the book may be of value to general readers rather than especially to scholars is amply justified.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 206. Ap. 10, ’09. 650w. + =Spec.= 102: 102. Ja. 16, ’09. 100w.
=Campbell, Reginald John.= Thursday mornings at the City Temple. *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–35041.
A group of sermons preached before his Thursday morning audiences in which Mr. Campbell continues to expound the New theology interpretation of the teachings of Jesus.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 7. Ja. ’09.
“The book is modern, both in method and doctrine, and is superior to the author’s ‘New theology sermons’ since they are less distinctly theological.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 152. Ja. 21, ’09. 90w.
“The world doubtless has need of iconoclasts, but one does not ordinarily go to church to hear things smash, not even on a Thursday morning in a city temple.”
− =Nation.= 88: 39. Ja. 14, ’09. 190w.
“The occasional note of extravagance, which is Mr. Campbell’s chief defect as a preacher, is the defect of his quality, which is a constant though not always well-balanced enthusiasm for humanity and for the realization in all men of the divine ideal.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 593. N. 14, ’08. 310w.
=Camphor, Alexander Priestley.=^{[6]} Missionary story sketches, folk-lore from Africa; with an introd. by Rev. M. C. B. Mason. *$1.50. West Meth. bk.
9–15872.
Story sketches, folk-lore and incidents that reveal something of the African as he appears by nature in his native habitat, and shows what influence the missionary is exerting upon him in his moral and spiritual awakening.
=Canby, Henry Seidel.=^{[12]} Short story in English. *$1.60. Holt.
9–24292.
A historical and critical study of the short story as a distinct type of literature. It touches upon the early English, medieval and Elizabethan periods of the short story and presents fully the origin and development of the modern short story. Separate chapters discuss some of the latter-day successful short story writers.
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“Let it be said at the outset that Professor Canby has performed with much tact and adroitness a pretty difficult task. Professor Canby’s historical sympathy and imagination are at times distinctly defective.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 513. N. 25, ’09. 630w.
“It is written by a man who knows his subject, has read widely, and has reached conclusions. As a study in evolution it is disappointing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 448. O. 9, ’09. 230w.
=Canfield, William Walker.=^{[9]} Along the way. $1.50. Fenno.
9–24449.
A political story which is based upon conditions as they must exist should public utilities be controlled by the government. The plot deals with the attempt made by a grafting government official to thwart an honest, influential capitalist in his efforts to reestablish private control.
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“The literary critic can find little to say for ‘Along the way.’ It is crude, obvious, halftract, half-melodrama; its persons have little reality, its didacticism is a nuisance. Yet the book is written with good purpose, and will no doubt find its own respectful audience.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 433. N. 4, ’09. 440w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 594. O. 9, ’09. 450w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 80w.
=Cannan, Gilbert.=^{[11]} Peter Homunculus: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–12880.
“Mr. Cannan’s hero is introduced to us as a small boy applying for work at a bookshop in Shaftesbury avenue. His employer at the bookshop, X. Cooper—an old man who dies early in the story, but whose influence haunts its pages—is a unique and remarkable creation, for whose sake alone the book is worth reading. The other characters do not suggest much reality. The upward career of the hero—a vainglorious, affected youth who never becomes a gentleman—is described with much elaboration and detail.”—Ath.
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“The book is an interesting effort, of which the first part is successful, but the conclusion feeble.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 612. My. 22. 140w.
“His adventures and development are of more than curious interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 50w.
“Mr. Cannan has generally a sure touch, and, while his beautiful actress is very hard to comprehend, he has filled his story with odd people who arrest the reader’s attention.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 173. Ag. 7, ’09. 210w.
“The old formula of the ‘good idea badly worked out’ may be applied here with some explanatory reservation. If he will take our advice, which is sincerely offered, because, in our opinion, he is a brand well worth plucking from the burning, he will not be so desperately afraid, as he betrays himself to be here, of relaxing the tautness of his epigrams, and of being now and again simple, comfortable, and placid.”
− + =Spec.= 103: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 750w.
=Canning, George.=^{[5]} George Canning and his friends. 2v. *$9. Dutton.
9–14585.
“A contribution to the definitive life of Canning which has yet to be written. They illustrate, but they present no finished portrait. The letters published by him tell us little that is new, for example, about the birth and brief existence of ‘The Anti-Jacobin,’ though they give a curious sequel, namely, Canning’s peremptory suppression of a proposal to publish an edition of the poetry with plates by Gillray. No fresh light, again, is thrown upon those very important events, the bombardment of Copenhagen and capture of the Danish fleet in 1807; and thus the story of Canning’s first foreign secretaryship remains incomplete in an essential particular.”—Ath.
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“The general reader will find much to interest him in these fascinating pages, while the historical student will rise from them with the feeling that, though many points remain to be elucidated, he has yet gained a much more complete idea than was hitherto possible of a brilliant, but vulnerable statesman. As for Capt. Bagot’s editing, it is most ably done, though he might have curbed a tendency to repeat himself in the foot-notes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 310. Mr. 13. 1300w.
“The running comment of this correspondence, most of it undress, and some of it highly confidential, is as amusing to the general reader as it is instructive to the historical reader.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 561. Je. 3, ’09. 1600w.
“Bagot has collected a vast deal of correspondence written by the statesman and his intimates, and has linked it together in an interesting and pleasing sequence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 548. S. 18, ’09. 930w.
“Captain Josceline Bagot has edited these letters ... with a tact and knowledge of politics and society which place him amongst best biographers of the day.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 338. Mr. 13, ’09. 2000w.
“The present compilation ... will certainly prove indispensable to every future biographer. The selection and arrangement of this large mass of material leave very little to be desired; the reader is relieved to find in Captain Bagot an editor who is at once informal and informed,—a combination of qualities rare enough in these days of hasty and ponderous book-making.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 499. Mr. 27, ’09. 1800w.
=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.=^{[10]} Key of the unknown. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–25183.
Altho the scenes described are those of modern English life, there is an old-fashioned flavor about this story, and it gives an impression of a much earlier time. Motor cars and other present day innovations seem quite out of place. The love affair of Craig Barstow, heir to a title, and Joan Leigh, beautiful and attractive, but poor, seems about to end disastrously because, according to the dictates of his family, he must marry money. Thru the opportune appearance of a will in the last chapter their marriage is made possible.
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“Shows about the same quality as her previous books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 674. O. 30, ’09. 220w. + =Sat. R.= 108: 572. N. 6, ’09. 160w.
“Miss Carey’s stories are restful, wholesome, constructed with sufficient skill, and not without touches of humor and pathos.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 610. O. 16, ’09. 320w.
=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= Sunny side of the hill. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–26685.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Though far remote from real life, the atmosphere of the book is soothing and sympathetic, and there is some clever characterization.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 90w.
“A welcome is due to a story which is mild, modest, interestingly eventful, and well-written.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 144. F. 11, ’09. 200w.
“A pretty little English love story of quite the approved pattern.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 110w.
=Carleton, Will.= Drifted in. **$1.50. Moffat.
8–11414.
“The rhymed narrative of a journey on a railroad train, with episodic songs developing thoughts by the way.”—Dial.
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+ =Dial.= 45: 468. D. 16, ’08. 140w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1466. D. 17, ’08. 60w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 60w.
=Carlton, Frank Tracy.= Education and industrial evolution. (Citizen’s lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–28067.
“Part 1 discusses ‘The modern educational problem’ and Part 2 ‘Actual or proposed additions to the educational system.’ The author points out the fact that education to-day is greatly in need of ‘democratising’ in order that it may become ‘an integral and vital part of the experience of every future efficient member of the community.’ The book is permeated with the new social spirit that is abroad in the land to-day.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“A thoroughgoing study of the problem of education in the industrial state of civilization. One misses in the book the legal justification of class education, and the correlation of industrial education to the development of the higher culture interests. For purposes of ready reference this book is commendable and up to date.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 414. N. ’08. 330w.
“A helpful, up-to-date contribution to the literature of the ‘new education.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 7. Ja. ’09.
“The style is easy and forceful, the treatment broad minded, and constructive. Altogether, the book is of value to students of modern problems either in the field of education or of sociology.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 191. Ja. ’09. 120w.
“It will serve to concentrate attention upon the problems which are perhaps the most vital of all those connected with the schools to-day.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 230w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“One may differ from the author in some of his interpretations of needs and tendencies but there is no question that the book is a real contribution to the situation.” F. A. Manny.
+ − =School R.= 17: 726. D. ’09. 650w.
Carlyle, Thomas. ^{[12]} Carlyle [selections]; ed. by A. W. Evans. (Masters of literature.) *$1.10. Macmillan.
In keeping with the aim of the “Masters of literature” series this volume contains the finest passages from Carlyle’s writings, connected by editorial comment and prefaced by an introduction that includes a sketch of his life and critical estimates of his spirit of criticism, political and social teaching, style and influence.
=Carlyle, Thomas.= ^{[10]} Frederick the Great: abr. by Edgar Sanderson. **$1.50. McClurg.
The main thread of the narrative as it runs thru the larger work is unbroken still in this abridged work. The aim has been that of cutting out the extraneous matter and bringing the work within reasonable length.
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“Mr. Sanderson’s manageable volume will be found useful.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 271. F. 13, ’09. 70w.
=Carlyle, Thomas.=^{[5]} Love letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh. 2v. **$8. Lane.
9–10960.
Letters written by the Carlyles during the period from 1821 to 1826. Their emotion “never rises into an all-absorbing and terrific force, shattering conventions, annihilating the ambiguous and the secondary, and seizing upon the secret springs of language with mysterious art. The emotion of the Carlyles expressed itself in a very different manner,—through the medium of moral exhortations, and metaphysical disquisitions, and immense argumentations, and a somewhat formal and pompous style.” (Spec.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 157. Je. ’09.
“We wish that Mr. Alexander Carlyle had not found it necessary to rake up the ashes which reticence had allowed to grow cold.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 553. My. 8. 1500w.
“If the last word has not now been said on the relations of Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle to each other the fault is not Mr. Alexander Carlyle’s.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 46: 290. My. 1, ’09. 2000w.
“The world’s thanks are due to the editor of these two volumes for his courage and wisdom in printing all the letters, for his pains taken to insure complete accuracy, for the excellent notes, which are always clear and helpful, for the adequate illustrations, and for the extremely valuable appendices. No one can fully understand his position in the history of literature without reading these volumes.” W: L. Phelps.
+ =Forum.= 41: 594. Je. ’09. 1150w.
“It was time for these letters to be published in full.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 349. S. 4, ’09. 730w.
“So far as mere interest goes, these two thick volumes will be a disappointment to readers who know the writers from Froude and from their other letters.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 416. Ap. 22, ’09. 2400w.
“The courtship of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welch, as it is set forth in this long correspondence. is as interesting as a novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 285. My. 8, ’09. 1650w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
+ =Outlook.= 92: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 3100w.
“The best reading the wretched Carlyle controversy has yet supplied.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 402. Mr. 27, ’09. 1800w.
“The real interest of the correspondence is not literary, but psychological.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 577. Ap. 10, ’09. 1350w.
=Carnegie, Andrew.= Problems of to-day: wealth—labor—socialism. **$1.40. Doubleday.
8–32653.
A summary of Mr. Carnegie’s book may be found in the following: “First, the millionaire must be left alone during his life time, for his accumulation of wealth means an enterprise and a mobilisation of capital which do infinitely more good than harm. Secondly, as the millionaire’s enterprise dies with him, his wealth may fairly be taxed out of all recognition at his death. Thirdly, the land must be split up into small properties. Fourthly, the system of profit-sharing businesses must become universal. Fifthly, the family is the only training-ground for the good citizen, and socialism must nowhere be more furiously resisted than when it tampers with this holy of holies.” (Spec.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 7. Ja. ’09.
“To the conservatives this book will seem radical. To the radicals it will seem conservative.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 451. Mr. ’09. 500w.
“It will amply pay perusal.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 325. F. 11, ’09. 480w.
“His fondness for gross optimistic assertion precludes anything like true discussion. Mr. Carnegie’s habit of cutting discussion short by oracular utterance gives to his style a peculiar quality, that can only be described as pudgy.”
− =Nation.= 87: 628. D. 24, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Carnegie’s argument as to the undesirableness of wealth really is just about as misleading as his representation that the American workingman bears no portion of the burden of the protective tariff. A book that should be rated as valuable and important. In placing this estimate on Mr. Carnegie’s book, we especially have in mind his views touching socialism. They are well considered and well expressed.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 797. D. 26, ’08. 1250w. =Outlook.= 91: 65. Ja. 9, ’09. 250w. =Pol. Sci.= Q. 24: 563. S. ’09. 120w.
“Mr. Carnegie’s book is really a sentimental romance. His Vicar of Wakefield simplicity is not credible.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 676. N. 28, ’08. 630w.
“Mr. Carnegie’s doctrines are so clearly and simply stated that the reader will have no difficulty in measuring other men’s opinions by them, or deciding what he can or cannot accept himself. We could summarize the book in five sentences. It would be easy to state certain doubts in as few sentences.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 1500w.
=Carotti, Giulio.=^{[9]} History of art. 4v. v. 2. *$1.50. Dutton.
8–36413.
=v. 2.= Early Christian and neo-Oriental art, European art north of the Alps. “Excluding Italy, after the thirteenth century, it includes what is usually called early Christian, Byzantine, Saracenic, Romanesque, and Gothic art.... The bibliography is full, though not exhaustive, the lists of typical monuments, in smaller type, very useful. The scope of the work may be inferred from the space given to Gothic art—something more than one hundred pages, as against about fifteen in Reinach’s standard manual, ‘Apollo.’” (Nation.)
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“Convenient texts for reference or study, fairly accurate, systematically arranged, fully illustrated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 9. S. ’09. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) + =Ind.= 67: 94. Jl. 8, ’09. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A great amount of information, generally accurate and up to date, has been packed within a small compass. The text has not had proper editorial supervision and needs a minute overhauling. It is fair to add that these defects are usually rather of taste than of substance.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 148. Ag. 12, ’09. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The value of his book does not depend on its fullness so much as on the stimulus afforded to more extensive researches.” E. F. Baldwin.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 598. N. 13, ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Carpenter, Edmund J.=^{[12]} Roger Williams: a study of the life, times and character of a political pioneer. (Grafton historical ser.). **$2. Grafton press.
A study of Roger Williams not in the light of the doctrinal considerations of his day but in the scientific, human-brotherhood spirit. He is viewed as a man among men; the times are considered “from a political and personal, rather than from a strictly religious point of view; his characteristics are studied impartially without the bias of adverse or favorable criticism of the centuries since he lived.”
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“Mr. Carpenter has dug deeply and his researches have been rewarded.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 772. D. 4, ’03. 400w.
=Carpenter, George Rice.= Walt Whitman. (English men of letters.) *75c. Macmillan.
9–8067.
A study of Whitman’s life under the following heads: Boyhood (1819–1841); Journalist (1841–1850); Workman and poet (1850–1860); Comradeship (1861–1873); Old age (1873–1892). The author places Whitman in the class of men who represent a new attitude, who bring a message to their brothers, a truth mainly expressed in their lives and only incidentally thru their writings. “These are the great accepters and unifiers of life; their teachings and examples pass beyond the confines of literature or politics; they show new and noble ways of living. Of this type, in his own degree, Whitman seems to me to have been.”
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“The best of the brief works, but not to be chosen before Bliss Perry’s life when a single volume must suffice.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 133. My. ’09.
“Mr. Carpenter has given us a genuine biography, a thoroughly readable and vivacious life of one of the most picturesque in the group of our American writers, and one whose significance in the history of American literature is more and more clearly recognized with the passing years.” W. E. Simonds.
+ =Dial.= 46: 404. Je. 16, ’09. 650w.
“The whole book is broad and brilliant, clear, and calmly wise. In this biography the seer has found a seer, and is granted the great boon of being understood. It is a book to be not only read but pondered—a monument not merely to Walt Whitman, but to George Rice Carpenter as well.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ =Forum.= 42: 80. Jl. ’09. 2600w.
“The clearest, plainest, and least vexatious account of Walt Whitman in print.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 603. S. 9, ’09. 300w.
“This is an excellent and notably precise life of Whitman.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 349. S. 4, ’09. 220w.
“We cannot but believe that Professor Carpenter’s rejection of literary sources (despite his protests, Whitman was in some respects always a bookish man) for a vague theory of ‘impassioned speech’ based on a rather fine-spun psychology of language, is due in part to the necessity imposed on the later biographer of being different. As a whole, Professor Carpenter’s work is well-proportioned and pleasantly written.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 364. Ap. 8, ’09. 900w.
“The book is particularly welcome because it is such a good book to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 244. Ap. 17, ’09. 1000w.
“Is distinctly the best of those accounts of the poets which may be classed as appreciations rather than as critical estimates.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 420. Je. 19, ’09. 300w.
“It is refreshing to read the sober, sedate, and impartial appraisal.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 763. Je. ’09. 70w.
=Carpenter, Rolla Clinton, and Diederichs, Herman.=^{[5]} Internal combustion engines, their theory, construction and operation. *$5. Van Nostrand.
8–22568.
“Professors Carpenter and Diederichs have done a good service in extracting what is most valuable from German literature and incorporating it in their book.... There are four principal divisions to the book. The first five chapters are occupied with definitions and theoretical considerations; the next five with fuels and the phenomena of combustion; then follow four chapters on gas-engine construction and operation; finally there are four chapters on power estimation, testing, results of tests and costs.”—Engin. N.
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“Very complete and satisfactory treatment.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 416. Ap. ’09. 330w.
“The line drawings are sometimes fair, but the reproductions of photographs are uniformly poor. Altogether this book may be highly recommended to students and engineers. It covers its chosen field more thoroughly and more capably than any other book in the English language, and it appears to be remarkably free from inaccuracies. The only respect in which it is seriously lacking is in its failure to handle satisfactorily the subject of gas-engine construction.” L. S. Marks.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 533. N. 12, ’08. 1350w.
“Anyone wishing to obtain a good general idea of present-day practice in America will find this book a valuable work.” E. G. Coker.
+ =Nature.= 80: 124. Ap. 1, ’09. 220w.
=Carr, Clark Ezra.=^{[5]} Railway mail service: its origin and development. **50c. McClurg. 9–5707.
A brief history of the railway mail service from the time of its conception and inauguration to the present high state of efficiency.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 58. O. ’09.
“Clark E. Carr impressively sets forth the improvement that has taken place in the handling of mail in this country in the last half century.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 321. My. 22, ’09. 550w.
=Carr, Clark Ezra.=^{[11]} Stephen A. Douglas: his life, public services, speeches and patriotism. **$2. McClurg.
9–28566.
A sketch and an appreciation of the great Illinois senator that aims to perpetuate a proper conception of his statesmanship and character. It is a searching and analytic review of Douglas’s career linked close with the stirring events in which he took part.
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“The little volume, while far from being a thorough life of Douglas or a comprehensive estimate of his services, is a valuable and interesting contribution and will aid in placing in a truer light the man whose unfortunate lot it was to act as a foil for Lincoln and to be on the losing side in the final casting of the dice of chance.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 337. N. 1, ’09. 400w.
“An entertaining sketch of the career of that famous democratic statesman and a generous appraisement of his public services.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 783. D. 11, ’09. 550w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 754. D. ’09. 120w.
=Carr, Joseph William C.= Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters. *$3.50. Scribner.
W9–193.
A book of pleasant recollections and stories of famous men of letters, actors and artists whom the author knew during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Among them are Tennyson, Browning, Irving, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Millais, Holman Hunt and Leighton.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 9. S. ’09.
“Is not only pleasantly and intimately reminiscent of many celebrated men of the last century, but also receives something of added weight and value from the interspersed expressions of a ripe judgment on divers questions of art, literature, and the drama.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 46: 134. Mr. 1, ’09. 1500w.
“The pages on his life as a newspaper man in the old Bohemian days are the most entertaining in the book.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 167. F. 18, ’09. 330w.
“Among the many books of personal recollections that have come to our notice, none contains a more varied lot of interesting information about artistic and literary men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 137. Mr. 6, ’09. 680w.
=Carr, Kent.= Rivals and chums. †$1.25. Lippincott.
A story of public school life in England, with side lights on athletics.
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“English school stories are seldom anything but good reading, and this is no exception.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 40w.
“A first-rate story. The football in the school is quite peculiar. Has the author got his notions of sport from Ouida?”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. D. 12, ’08. 240w.
=Carr, Sarah Pratt.=^{[10]} Billy To-morrow. †$1.25. McClurg.
9–24957.
Billy is a little California boy whose spirit of procrastination earned for him the nickname of the title. In the weeks following the earthquake all his courage and manliness are called into action, and he wins for himself the new name, Billy To-day.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 70w.
=Carrington, Hereward.= Coming science; with an introd. by James H. Hyslop. **$1.50. Small.
8–37615.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“At last we have a rational and well-written work on psychic research by an author who knows his business and keeps his feet on solid scientific ground. This is the highest possible praise and I am glad to give it.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 41: 510. Jl. ’09. 280w. =Lit. D.= 39: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 200w.
“We discover in Mr. Carrington’s work nothing new which is of special value, and small justification for proclaiming the birth of ‘the coming science.’”
− =Nation.= 88: 70. Ja. 21, ’09. 1400w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 400w.
“It lays too much stress on the alleged necessity for proving life after death as the main motive of psychical investigation. And it betrays a too obvious tendency to regard such proof as having been already obtained. It should be added that, regarding the book not as an appeal to the incredulous scientist but as a brief exposition of the nature, problems, and theories of psychical research, it affords a helpful introduction to the reading of more elaborate works, such as those of Myers and Podmore, dealing with the subject in detail.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 383. F. 20, ’09. 310w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 572. Ap. ’09. 480w.
=Carruth, William Herbert.= Each in his own tongue and other poems. **$1. Putnam.
8–37720.
“Mr. Carruth, who is the head of the department of Germanic language and literature in the University of Kansas, is widely known by his short poem, ‘Each in his own tongue,’ which is the initial number in this collection.” (N. Y. Times.) “We must think of Mr. Carruth as more than a man of a single poem, for he has just given us a collection of some fourscore pieces, many of which approach in seriousness of thought and felicity of expression the one widely-known example which provides his book with its title.” (Dial.)
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“A fine sense of the essential realities pervades Mr. Carruth’s verse. He is an academic poet, but one whose sensibilities the academic environment has not deadened.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 50. Ja. 16, ’09. 420w.
“All of the poems are filled with the deep religious feeling and moral earnestness characteristic of the author.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 140w. + =Nation.= 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 150w.
“One finds the central interest in these verses to be their intense moral earnestness and their concern with the serious questions of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 10. Ja. 2, ’09. 270w.
=Carson, Blanche Mabury.=^{[6]} From Cairo to the cataract. $2.50. Page.
9–10281.
“The book is in the form of original letters, and gives a very good account of many of the things that one sees and experiences on the boat journey up the Nile and back again.... As a lively narrative of the doings and sight-seeing of a wide-awake American girl, the book is a success.”—Nation.
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“A readable account of a familiar trip.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1138. My. 27, ’09. 380w. + =Nation.= 88: 512. My. 20, ’09. 220w.
“Her condensations will be found extremely useful to those who have not the leisure nor the inclination to make exhaustive studies of Egyptian history on their own account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 170w.
=Carson, William English.=^{[11]} Mexico, the wonderland of the South. *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–29345.
A volume of nearly four-hundred and fifty pages which pictures and describes very nearly all that is worth seeing and knowing in Mexico. Its picturesqueness, its romance, its contrasts; its rapid development into a modern country; its cities, its haciendas, gold and silver mines, health resorts; and its human interest to the modern economist—all claim a share of the author’s attention in his fresh, accurate, inclusive pen picture of Mexico of to-day.
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=Ind.= 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 140w.
“The sure touch of the man who knows his subject intimately is evident throughout. A book of real human interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 140w.
=Carter, Ada.=^{[12]} Seamless robe: a twentieth century imprint of the ideal. †$1.50. Wessels.
9–28693.
An American edition of a Christian science novel written by an English woman. It is a strong, serious argument for the faith of Christian scientists, made concrete by the psychological development and evolution of a young clergyman who rises, thru struggle, from his plane of traditional, orthodox belief to the heights of religion as a demonstrable science.
=Carter, Charles Frederick.= When railroads were new; with introd. note by Logan G. McPherson. **$2. Holt.
9–9511.
An attempt “to gather the floating fragments of railroad history having a human interest into a coherent narrative of the work-a-day trials and triumphs of the pioneers in the planning and building of the railroad that would be neither a dry historical treatise nor a collection of anecdotes.” The suggestive chapter headings are: The dawn of the railroad era; America’s pioneer railroad; Early days on the Erie; Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania railroad; Genesis of the Vanderbilt system; Incubator railroads; The first transcontinental railroad; Through tribulation by rail; and Romance of a great railroad. Index.
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“The absence of better books on the subject gives to this a real value. Its contents are not accessible elsewhere in any single volume.” F: L. Paxson.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 191. O. ’09. 320w.
“A decided tendency to realism and a wealth of local color will make it attractive reading for boys.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 133. My. ’09. ✠
“A little more attention to literary finish would not have hurt the book.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 200w.
“A few slips were noticed, but they were surprisingly few. All in all, the book may be commended to those who desire to read the romance of the railroads.” E. L. Bogart.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 128. Je. ’09. 250w. =Engin. D.= 5: 667. Je. ’09. 100w.
“Much of the intimate and popular information (and the conversations) must be taken on trust or with some shadow of doubt.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 40. O. 14, ’09. 550w.
“A vast amount of curious information, hitherto left uncollected and in peril of being lost. And, in addition to all this, the book is good desultory reading for the layman.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1086. My. 20, ’09. 140w.
“It can scarcely fail to excite interest, and while many of the details are fictitious, or at the best used with considerable freedom, the main body of facts is essentially correct.” L. C. M.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 481. Jl. ’09. 260w.
“The story is told in a clear, accurate, and interesting manner in the present volume, which is enriched with many illustrations and should find a place in every popular library.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 898. My. 22, ’09. 200w.
“That he has cultivated his field assiduously is clear from the abundant harvest of new and fugitive material which he has garnered. Amid such an array of matter one expects to find occasional errors in dates and points of fact, but these could be more readily forgiven if the finality of statement so prevalent throughout the book, were supported by the evidence.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 350w.
“Mr. Carter’s very entertaining book is brim full of interesting records of the early days of railroading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 257. Ap. 24, ’09. 320w.
“This book is not a history of the development of railroad finance or railroad exploitation, but the fascinating story of the struggles, the fantastic failures and the final triumphs of the pioneer railroad builders.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 90w.
“It appeals to the general reader and will be to him a highly interesting narrative.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 333. N. ’09. 160w.
=Carus, Paul.=^{[12]} Pleroma: an essay on the origin of Christianity. $1. Open ct.
9–29363.
The editor of “The monist” conducts a scientific investigation of the causes of Christianity with the result that he finds Christianity to be not the result of accident, but of necessity. “There are definite causes and definite effects. Its doctrines, its ceremonies, its ethics are the product of given conditions and the result could not be different.” The divisions of the treatment are: Christianity predetermined by the needs of the age; Pre-Christian gnosticism; The bloom preceding the fruitage of Christianity; How the gentile Savior changed into the Christ; The origin of Judaism and its significance for Christianity; Conclusion.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.=^{[12]} Artists past and present: random studies. **$2.50. Moffat.
9–25959.
Contains a dozen “random studies” of artists as follows: “Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Carlo Crivelli, Callot, Fantin-Latour and Louis Barye represent the past: Mary Cassatt, Max Klinger, Alfred Stevens, Carl Larsson and the recent exhibitions in New York of modern German paintings and of Zuloaga and Sorolla, the present.” (Ind.) “All are keen, penetrating, appreciative, and sensible.” (Dial.)
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“As attractive in appearance as it is stimulating in content.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 210w.
“The note is mostly that of the fugitive magazine article, which is often of considerable immediate helpfulness in giving first aid to the benighted, but generally of little permanent significance.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1142. N. 18, ’09. 120w.
“There is little critical literature in English dealing with certain of these artists, and the group has been chosen in an unusual and interesting way.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
“To each of the studies, although they differ so widely in their appeal to both intellect and temperament, she brings the critical qualities of personal detachment, penetrating vision, breadth of view, and a keenly intellectual but at the same time warmly human appreciation of intention, content, and method.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 706. N. 13, ’09. 300w.
=Cary, Rev. Otis.=^{[12]} History of Christianity in Japan. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Revell.
9–22916.
Tells the story of “how Catholic missions flourished in the sixteenth century, were cruelly extirpated in the seventeenth, and revived in the nineteenth, then the rise, vicissitudes, and expansion of Protestant missions since 1859.” (R. of Rs.) “Official documents, narratives of events, and relations of personal experience are skilfully woven together by the scholarly historian, now more than thirty years an actor on the scene.” (Outlook.)
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“Standard work of reference.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1316. D. 9, ’09. 820w.
“Throughout the 800 pages his statements are invariably unimpassioned, rational, and free from partisan spirit. At the same time it must be admitted that the book is somewhat ponderous in style and the manner it deals with the subject.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 702. N. 13, ’09. 1400w.
“There is no other work on the subject which compares in interest or in value with this.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 560. N. 6, ’09. 260w.
“The official documents and personal memoranda in these two volumes make them valuable for reference.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 762. D. ’09. 80w.
=Casson, Herbert Newton.=^{[11]} Cyrus Hall McCormick: his life and work. **$1.50. McClurg.
9–28139.
A life of the master builder of the modern business of manufacturing farm machinery. His life, coincident with the pioneer era of replacing muscle with machinery, has been devoted to inventions that have revolutionized farm labor, and it is one of those “rare life-histories that blazon out the peculiar genius of the nation under the stress of a new experience.”
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“He has diligently collected and very attractively presented much historical and statistical matter concerning the development of agricultural implements and the recent rapid increase in the world’s wheat production. The life and personality of the great inventor are adequately set forth. The author makes an occasional error of fact.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 184. S. 16, ’09. 270w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 160w.
=Castaigne, André.=^{[9]} Bill-toppers. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–21870.
A story which pictures the life of the “artistes” of the vaudeville circuit and which tells more particularly of Lily and the process by which her father P. T. Clifton, manager, endeavors to make her a star. The career has its beginning in the South seas, and runs its course in various parts of the world, from India to San Francisco, from Mexico to New York. The final height is at length reached in London where thru the efforts of her humble lover, Lily achieves the triumph which crowns her ambition—that of seeing her name at the top of the bill.
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“The story is wholesome in tone and catches that decency and simple morality which, more often than the public believes, characterize these people of the vaudeville. Mr. Castaigne’s style of writing is deplorable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 563. S. 25, ’09. 450w.
“The story is quite entertaining, and, in a sense, instructive.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. S. 25, ’09. 160w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.=^{[11]} Diamonds cut paste. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–24954.
“Sir Reginald Esdale returns from India, after several years’ absence from his family, with a splendid record behind him, a distinguished career ahead of him, and a mild and sentimental attachment to a pretty and clinging widow. The attachment is mild, but Sir Reginald is peculiar, and the widow is very clinging.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Judged as a comedy of manners, it should be a success: but from the point of view of fiction it has many shortcomings. Mr. and Mrs. Castle never leave the impression of discounting their own work; they are invariably conscientious and careful, and take a pride in their craft. We hope to see a dramatic version of this story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 421. O. 9. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 50w.
“The reader ... will just get from the book what it was meant to give—an hour or two of perfectly sinless enjoyment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 180w.
“Their latest venture may be considered to prove not only the wisdom in their selection of bygone periods but also how easily, when dressed in costume, the most moderate of talents may pass for something more considerable.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. O. 16, ’09. 820w.
=Catholic= church in the United States of America: an illustrative history published in honor of the golden jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. 6v. $90. Catholic editing co., 1 W. 34th st., N. Y.
9–7144.
“This initial volume of the series is devoted to the religious orders. The five succeeding volumes will deal with the secular clergy, v. 2 treating of the provinces of Baltimore and New York; v. 3 of Boston, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati; v. 4 of Chicago, St. Paul, and Oregon, and v. 5 of New Orleans, St. Louis, Dubuque, Santa Fé, and San Francisco. The sixth and concluding volume will be of general character, and will follow in broad lines the history of the Catholic church in this country. It will take up movements of the American church as a whole, and will be especially rich in statistics. Separate sections will deal with Catholic charities, education, literature, journalism, eminent men, societies, clubs, sports, and other subjects.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Offered as a history, it must be judged by modern critical standards, and by these this first volume may be set down as a remarkable collection of pictures, valuable and novel in their extent, rather than a record comprehensive in detail, exact in statement, and complete in scope. In going over this list of communities several serious omissions must be noted.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 200. F. 25, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.) =N. Y. Times.= 14: 112. F. 27, ’09. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
=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.
7–11606.
=v. 4.= Cland-Diocesan. Especially noteworthy in this fourth volume are the articles on the book of Daniel, The deluge, Constantinople, Congo Free State, Collectivism, Communism, and Cross and Crucifix in which archaeologically the Catholic attitude toward the use of images in worship is clearly stated and defended.
=v. 5.= Continues the scholarly excellence of the foregoing volumes. “Among the more notable contributions are those relating to evolution, excommunication, ecclesiastical art, dispensation, editions of the Bible, eschatology, extreme unction, dynamism, Ethiopia, England, and divorce.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The fourth volume fairly merits the praise of maintaining the high standard embodied in the preceding numbers.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 88: 546. Ja. ’09. 930w. (Review of v. 4.)
“While microscopic criticism might find some opportunities for stricture, this volume fulfils the promise of the encyclopedia to be a work that will meet the reasonable standards of the learned without neglecting the claims of the uncritical.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 538. Jl. ’09. 900w. (Review of v. 5.)
“While splendid scholarship exists in the Catholic church, and appears to admirable advantage in the discussion of what we may call neutral matters, still as soon as it approaches the more delicate topics of modern criticism, it is either clouded by prejudice or paralyzed with fear.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 51. Ja. 7, ’09. 780w. (Review of v. 4.)
“What can a candid critic do but despair when important articles like ‘Esther,’ ‘Elijah,’ ‘Elisha,’ ‘Ecclesiastes,’ ‘Divination,’ and ‘Eucharist,’ are assigned to writers whose incompetence fairly takes one’s breath away?”
− =Ind.= 67: 657. S. 16, ’09. 730w. (Review of v. 5.) + =Lit. D.= 39: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Contains a number of important articles, more or less popular, which exhibit in general the same spirit of fairness that characterizes the earlier volumes.”
+ + =Nation.= 88: 68. Ja. 21, ’09. 530w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The standard set by the earlier volumes is fully maintained in the present volume.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 35. Jl. 8, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 5.) + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 399. Je. 26, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 5.) + =R. of Rs.= 39: 383. Mr. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 4.) + =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)
“On the whole, the bibliographies are by no means a strong point in this instalment of ‘The catholic encyclopedia.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 532. Ap. 24, ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 4.) + =Spec.= 102: sup. 1005. Je. 26, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Catlin, George.=^{[11]} Boy’s Catlin: my life among the Indians; ed. with biographical sketch by Mary Gay Humphreys. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–25173.
Contains the most interesting parts of Catlin’s book about the North American Indians, and their habits and customs, in war, peace and hunting. The writer gained his wide knowledge of Crows, Blackfeet, Assiniboines, Ojibbeways and other tribes first hand while painting among them; and he produces for the reader pictorial impressions that are very closely related to his work with the brush. Sixteen of his own drawings are used for illustration.
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“From the cover design, with its dashing ‘brave,’ to the index, there are ‘real’ incidents more picturesque than, and equally as unbelievable as, incidents of fiction.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1016. D. 4, ’09. 130w.
“It is a book which boys will welcome heartily as being stranger than fiction, however careful the fact.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 50w.
“It should be a welcome addition to any boy’s library.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 30w.
=Caw, James Lewis.=^{[5]} Scottish painting, past and present, 1620–1908. *$8. Stokes.
“Mr. Caw, the director of the Scottish national galleries, has in this volume covered the entire field from the time of Jamesone to the present day. Encyclopædic in extent, and indicative of wide and accurate knowledge and much painstaking study and research, Mr. Caw’s history is a valuable and timely contribution to the literature of art.”—Int. Studio.
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“If the informed reader may not at all times be inclined to accept Mr. Caw’s conclusions, he cannot but be impressed by their general accuracy, and above all by the fearlessness with which they are stated. One cannot read the book without admiring the keen perception, accurate information, critical acumen, ripe judgment, and well reasoned conclusions of the author.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 36: 332. F. ’09. 700w.
“A comprehensive and copiously illustrated volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 120w.
“An inspection conveys the impression that while it deals with some works and some artists of real distinction, it is over-weighted with mediocrities.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 205. F. 25, ’09. 70w.
“As a history the book is excellent and worthy of its author’s position: as a book to read it is a little handicapped as all such complete accounts must be, by the necessity of covering so much ground and treating of so many minor men.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 490. Ap. 17, ’09. 1500w.
=Cayley, George John.=^{[5]} Bridle-roads of Spain; or, Las Alforjas. *$2. Estes.
A reprint of a book published in 1853. In the form of letters it records the author’s experiences while traveling in Spain, 1851–1852. “As he met with no exciting adventures, he drew largely on his imagination, represented himself as having killed a rogue in Seville, and eked out a volume with similar inventions, to which he confessed good-humouredly enough later. These flights of fancy seem to have irritated some of his critics, but irritation is out of place. Cayley as a traveler in Spain is not to be taken seriously. He was barely eight months in the country, knew little of the language, and was therefore not in a position to understand the national characteristics.” (Ath.)
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“Some of the misprints in the text might have been corrected.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 405. Ap. 3. 280w.
“The chief blemish of the book is the introduction of imaginary adventures into the account of his travels. Still we forgive him, if only because few writers have described so well as he does the life, manners, and customs of the Spanish peasantry as they were when he saw them in 1851 and as they happily still are when once the traveler breaks away from railways and tourists’ routes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 350w.
“For all its faults it is in many ways an original and entertaining work, based as much upon romantic imaginings and thoughts suggested on the road as upon actual fact.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1104. D. 26, ’08. 580w.
=Cecil, Algernon.=^{[9]} Six Oxford thinkers. *7s. 6d. Murray, John, London.
9–22567.
Holds up for critical inspection the careers of six typical Oxford men: Edward Gibbon, John Henry Newman, R. W. Church, James Anthony Froude, Walter Pater, Lord Morley of Blackburn.
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“Although there is not much which is new in this volume, and in some cases the author betrays a rather inadequate acquaintance with well-known authorities, the essays contained in it are well worth reproduction. In the first place, the writing is good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 235. Ag. 28. 600w.
“Mr. Cecil has given us a book full of interest and suggestion. In many places he carries us with him and in points where we differ from him we can still appreciate his point of view.” Wilfred Wilberforce.
+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 758. S. ’09. 6800w.
“A remarkable book, full of that subtle criticism and fine seriousness which are marks of his distinguished family. His standpoint is conservative, and, in the most liberal sense of the word, catholic; or rather, in his philosophy of history the two stand identified.”
+ Spec. 102: 940. Je. 12, ’09. 900w.
=Cesare, Raffaele de.=^{[10]} Last days of papal Rome, 1850–1870; abridged with the assistance of the author and tr. by Helen Zimmern; with an introd. by G. M. Trevelyan. **$3.50. Houghton.
9–25989.
A history of the papal states less for the amateur than for the student of modern Italian history and for the specialist in international politics of the past century. The narrative begins with the Pope’s return to Rome from Gaeta in 1850, and continues down to the entry of the Italian troops into the city on September 20, 1870.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 70. N. ’09.
“It is in a tone of impartiality that the whole of this splendid chapter in history is written.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 633. O. 16, ’09. 1000w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 692. N. 6, ’09. 210w. =Outlook.= 93: 601. N. 13, ’09. 260w.
“A monograph scientifically valuable but artistically of small consequence. He has, it is true, produced a work that can only be appreciated by collating it with other works written upon the same lines; but, at the same time, he has written a book that no student of papal history can afford to neglect.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 230. Ag. 21, ’09. 1300w.
=Cesaresco, Evelyn Martinengo.=^{[10]} Place of animals in human thought. *$3. Scribner.
A volume of absorbing interest to students of animal psychology and those interested in man’s treatment of the inferior animals. “Mixed up with a large amount of perhaps somewhat irrelevant matter relating to the history of religions, the author has collected a vast store of information relating to the estimation or otherwise in which animals have been held by the ancient nations from Egyptian, Bhuddistic, and Græco-Roman times to the middle ages; while the concluding chapter deals with modern ideas on the subject. The objects, origin, and conception of sacrifice are each treated at considerable length, while folk-lore has been largely drawn upon to illustrate the subject from all points of view.” (Nature.)
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“Though it is full of curious facts, they are not sifted with care, or co-ordinated with any consistency. But withal the book is both learned and entertaining—a very creditable combination.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 450w.
“The work sadly wanted revision by a well-educated proof-reader. If such blemishes occurred in many books, we could mention, we should pass them over without notice; the pity of it is that they mar the pages of such a thoroughly interesting volume as the one of which we now take leave.” R. L.
+ − =Nature.= 81: 276. S. 2, ’09. 600w.
“The huge mass of material which she has collected has anthropological value as well as human interest. As a source of accurate information as to the habits and capacities of animals, however, the old mythologies, and, indeed, all the so-called zoology produced more than a few score years ago, are, of course, quite useless. This obvious and unquestionable fact has escaped the attention of the Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, and if anybody ever told her of it she did not believe him. The book has the interest of very unintentional and consequently frank self-revelation. It is uninteresting, too, in another way. It rehearses dozens and dozens of the best of the old animal stories—stories that nowadays are grouped with the biographies of fairies, though they were once told with as much faith—and about as much accuracy—as the exploits of dawn-historic kings.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 669. O. 30, ’09. 1050w.
“The recital of this history by so well-informed and skilful a writer as the author is makes pleasant reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 142. Jl. 31, ’09. 300w.
“A fascinating book. It is a book full of miscellaneous information and entertainment, the sort of book which makes the reader idly long for Macaulay’s memory in which to store all the delightful things which the author has told and shown him. Stories, quotations, comments, and pictures are all alike good. The writer of this book has with extraordinary self-control avoided every temptation to put in foolish or sentimental or improbable stories.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 770. My. 15, ’09. 1550w.
=Chaimovitsch, Isaac.= Tables for calculating sizes of steam pipes for low pressure heating. $2. Domestic engineering.
8–32657.
“Prepared for those who have not had enough experience to judge of the limitations of mere ‘rules of thumb’ in the design of steam pipes. These tables are calculated to show the loss of pressure per linear foot of pipe, in diameters of 3/4 to 24 ins., for various deliveries of steam under 1, 3, and 5 lbs. boiler pressure. The use of the tables is explained and illustrated.”—Engin. N.
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=Engin. D.= 5: 176. F. ’09. 100w. =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 695. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
“Part of the book lacks clearness.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Chamberlain, Arthur Henry.= Standards in education, with some consideration of their relation to industrial training. *$1. Am. bk. co.
8–37723.
A discussion of the factors in modern elementary education including aims of education, special elements of good character, the curriculum in the elementary school, the method of its presentation, the method of training teachers, and the duties of parents toward school work.
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“It is to be regretted that the book is published without an index.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 177. Jl. ’09. 80w.
“A useful and stimulating book. Mr. Chamberlain has combined wide reading with his unusually valuable practical experience and his book bears the mark of both. It may be used in a normal school or as material for study and discussion at teachers’ meetings and associations.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 425. Ap. ’09. 70w. + − =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.
“Though there is nothing new in point of view or treatment it has some merits as a textbook.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 120w.
“On the whole the contents are representative of what one would say to a class rather than organized material for publication in a book.” F. A. Manny.
+ − =School R.= 17: 729. D. ’09. 210w.
=Chamberlain, James Franklin.= How we travel: a geographical reader. (Home and world ser.) *40c. Macmillan.
8–19617.
A book for young readers that “provides a simple, entertaining, and attractively illustrated account of means of travel and communication in various parts of the world. Previous volumes have dealt with man’s activities connected with securing food, clothing, and shelter.” (Nature.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 308. D. ’08. ✠ + =Educ. R.= 37: 209. F. ’09. 30w.
“The little book should be popular in the lower classes of secondary schools.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 569. O. 8. ’08. 90w.
=Chamberlain, John Aldrich.=^{[6]} Principles of business law. $2.50. Anderson.
8–28323.
“This volume undertakes to state clearly and with as few technical expressions as possible those rules and accepted principles of legal procedure which a business man should know when, for instance, he makes contracts, handles commercial paper, sells or buys real estate, enters into a partnership, or sustains one of the relations of landlord or tenant. The book is carefully arranged in sections, each with its particular head, and is indexed with completeness and clearness.”—Outlook.
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“A useful compendium for the commercial man.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1142. My. 27, ’09. 120w.
“The prime usefulness of the volume is as a book of reference. Its value in this respect, however, is somewhat impaired because of the meager information given on very important topics.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 882. O. 14, ’09. 190w.
“It will not save the ordinary business man from employing a lawyer, but it will often save him getting into such a situation that it needs a lawyer to extricate him.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 180w.
=Chamberlain, Lucia.=^{[5]} Other side of the door. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–14827.
A story built up about a murder which the heroine chances to be eye witness to and concerning which she furnishes the evidence that convicts the hero of the crime. He is not the real criminal and why he is loath to clear himself is revealed in a closing chapter in which the confession of a Spanish woman sets matters straight.
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“It is not a very skillfully managed narrative.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 302. My. 15, ’09. 280w.
=Chamberlin, Georgia Louise, and Kern, Mary Root.=^{[11]} Child religion in song and story: walks with Jesus in his home country. (Constructive Bible studies. Elementary ser.) *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–29793.
A second volume of songs, prayers, song texts and story to be supplemented and enforced by the manual work. The first volume, “The child in his world,” should precede this, if possible, in Sunday school work. The purpose of the lessons is to emphasize ethical truth and to give to the child a sense of the reality of Jesus and an attitude toward him.
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“Here is a wide range of well-chosen, helpful material, sympathetically selected in view of a child’s religious life and arranged helpfully for the teacher.” H: F. Cope.
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 348. My. ’09. 1000w.
=Chambers, Robert William.=^{[10]} Danger mark. **$1.50. Appleton.
9–24255.
Idle and overrich New York society folk fill the pages of this novel. The heroine, one of the orphaned Seagrave twins, who has inherited dangerous wealth and more dangerous appetites, is thrust at her début into a world of pleasure seekers where ennui is often banished at the expense of home ties, and where physical and financial gratification are the sole ambitions. The girl has ideals and bravely fights the degenerating tendencies within her to make herself worthy of the man she loves, a man who is fighting also against social weakness. But such as they are, tempted, back-sliding, struggling, but winning in the end, they are the best of their luxurious, naughty world “whose sole intellectual relaxation is in pirouetting along the danger mark without overstepping, and in concealing it when they do.”
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“Mr. Chambers is deservedly a popular writer, for never does he fail to hold the attention of his readers to the end. It is thus with his latest story, even though its first hundred pages or so are decidedly slow reading, and the interest goes in the end to minor characters rather than to the heroine, least of all to her brother.” A. S. van Westrum.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 264. N. ’09. 930w.
“Mr. Chambers has been clever and deft as usual in many scenes, but he has spun the thing out too thin, spread on too much society marmalade for his bread and butter.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 632. O. 23, ’09. 580w.
“Mr. Chambers’s books are probably read as widely as any American novels now appearing, but their faults of taste are not light.”
− =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 120w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Special messenger. †$1.50. Appleton. 9–8578.
“A novelet of the civil war, the special messenger being a woman who rendered great service to the Union armies in the field as a gatherer and conveyor of intelligence. The book reads as if it were based upon facts, but Mr. Chambers expressly denies this in a very brief preface.”—Ind.
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“Of no literary merit and inclined to sensationalism, but there is otherwise no objection to it.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 147. My. ’09.
“It is a vivid, stirring piece of work, well put together.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 120w.
“She is not the civil war heroine we have known; she is merely the protagonist of Mr. Chambers’s society novels set to ‘The star spangled banner.’ The stories—for the book is a small sheaf of short stories, not a novel—are built in the regular style of such things, and from the usual materials.” Ward Clark.
− =Bookm.= 29: 310. My. ’09. 850w. =Ind.= 66: 765. Ap. 8, ’09. 120w.
“With his usual skill, Mr. Chambers holds the reader’s attention from start to finish.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 898. My. 22, ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Chambers tells the tale of her deeds so entertainingly and makes her always so womanly that the reader does not care the least bit whether or not they are plausible, or even possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 216. Ap. 10, ’09. 550w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“A stirring tale maintaining the author’s high level of narrative power.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 70w.
=Chancellor, Edwin Beresford.=^{[5]} Private palaces of London, past and present. *$5. Lippincott.
A rehabilitation of the characteristics of the more important of the famous London houses and an account of the annals of those that still remain.
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“Containing much useful information respecting most of the lordly houses of London, which will interest a large number of readers. Mr. Chancellor writes in a verbose style which wastes a good deal of space and does not tend to pleasant reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 494. Ap. 24. 400w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 280. F. 27, ’09. 220w.
“The book is worthy of its great subject.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 156. Ja. 30, ’09. 370w.
=Chancellor, Edwin Beresford.=^{[5]} Wanderings in London: Piccadilly, Mayfair and Pall Mall. **75c. Pott.
“Dr. Johnson thought that Charing Cross was the centre of the universe; Mr. Chancellor puts it somewhat more to the northwest. But the region that he suggests is too large. It reaches from Buckingham palace to Oxford street, from Bond street to Park lane.” (Spec.) “These notes on the heart of the West End are made to gyrate round Stewart’s Tea-rooms at the corner of Bond street, called ‘Stewart’s Corner.’” (Ath.)
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“In this pretty little book the illustrations are of more value than the letterpress, which is merely an epitome of other books on the same subject.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 495. Ap. 24. 200w.
“The traveller who likes to realize the dead-and-gone past of the scenes he visits will find Mr. Chancellor’s little book a help and an entertainment for his journeys about London.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9, ’09. 140w.
“This little volume, which is judiciously illustrated, makes good reading, the better the more the reader knows of the English literature of the last two centuries. We venture to correct one quotation of Mr. Chancellor’s.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 507. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
=Chancellor, Louise Beecher.=^{[11]} Players of London: a tale of an Elizabethan smart set. *$1.75. Dodge, B. W.
9–28110.
An interesting tale of the players of Elizabeth’s times in which Shakespeare, the veritable Jack-of-all-stage-trades, is intimately portrayed. His personal charm and his lovable characteristics that won him friends everywhere are apparent in the pretty romance that grows up between himself and the charming Phyllis who plays Juliet to his Romeo.
=Chancellor, William Estabrook.= Our city schools: their direction and management. *1.25. Heath.
8–21610.
“Written with direct reference to the problems that are peculiar to cities of more than 40,000 population, and is intended to complement the author’s earlier work, which dealt with conditions prevailing in communities of from 5000 to 40,000 population.” (R. of Rs.) “The author’s point of departure is his belief that a correct system is absolutely essential to good schools; that those charged with the supervision of schools have too long contented themselves with seeking the best results possible under conditions far from perfect; and that they should have the courage to demand the best-known methods both of legislation and administration. Many ideas which he presents seem radical, and yet nearly all may be found exemplified in practice.” (Nation.)
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“This is one of a group of books now appearing which, by giving details of methods, records, forms, etc., aim to aid in unifying educational processes throughout the nation.” J. S. Hiatt.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 200. Jl. ’09. 330w.
“Is of unusually practical value.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 207. F. ’09. 50w.
“Seldom is the administration of public schools treated so philosophically and courageously. However revolutionary some of his proposals appear, he compels us to think and to ask whether we are basing our procedure upon rational principles or merely upon tradition.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 140w. =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 120w.
=Chandler, Walter Marion.= Trial of Jesus from a lawyer’s standpoint. 2v. ea. 3/4 mor. $5. Empire pub. co.
8–28970.
Two volumes, the one dealing with the Hebrew trial, and the other with the Roman trial, which set forth from a lawyer’s standpoint “the legal rights of the man Jesus at the bar of human justice under Jewish and Roman laws.”
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“The work is on the plane of the popular lecture platform, where the speaker appeals to his audience with picturesque description, commonplace allusion, and a matter-of-fact handling of topics that are usually treated only in the solemn language of the pulpit. The subject is spun out by numerous digressions.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 545. Ja. ’09. 380w.
“He has given us the completest study of the whole matter yet presented to English readers.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 813. Ap. 15, ’09. 650w.
“It would seem probable that nothing more exhaustive upon this topic will ever be produced, since it evidently covers all the material available. The amount of erudition disclosed in this treatment is surprising, and the capacity to reduce it all to an argument so clear that the ordinary reader can grasp it easily should give the book a very wide general reading.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 983. D. 26, ’08. 250w.
“To his legal discussion Mr. Chandler has prefixed a defence of the authenticity and credibility of the gospel narratives, but the work would be improved by the omission of this part.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 278. Mr. 18, ’09. 350w.
“A production closely and clearly reasoned, which those readers who are in sympathy with his belief will hold to be an unanswerable argument, but which those who are not will doubtless feel could be demolished by a lawyer holding a brief for the opposite side.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 680w.
“There have been several recently published monographs on ‘The trial of Jesus.’ This is the fullest and most comprehensive with which we are acquainted. The learning is ample and is well digested; the style is lucid, the temper judicial, the whole work that of a judge, not of an advocate, strong by reason of its self-restraint.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 976. D. 26, ’08. 600w.
“Noteworthy for [its] firm, courageous, and dispassionate, but delicate and reverential handling.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 756. D. ’08. 1000w.
=Channing, Edward.= History of the United States. 8v. ea. *$2.50. Macmillan.
5–11649.
=v. 2.= A century of colonial history, 1660–1760.
“Professor Channing’s second volume opens with the English restoration of 1660, and the return of king and courtiers, ‘poorer in purse even than they were in morals,’ and carries the story to the eve of the revolution when the colonists, ‘in all that constitutes nationality,’ were quite a separate nation from ‘that empire from which they had sprung.’ It not only covers the hundred years between 1660 and 1760, but it shows as no other history from a single hand has done how the great transformation came about which split the course of imperial development and started the portentous deviation.”—Ind.
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“Professor Channing has set so high a standard of accuracy in his work that it is surprising to find a few errors of rather an unexpected character. We may not agree with all that Professor Channing has said or be entirely satisfied with his way of treating the history of this period, but we do acknowledge that he has produced a book of first importance for the study of the neglected period and in so doing has removed a reproach hitherto cast upon historical scholarship in America.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 364. Ja. ’09. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.) + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 36. F. ’09. (Review of v. 2.)
“The manner in which source material is used in weaving the fabric of history must command the admiration of all historians. The most obvious shortcoming of the book is in the treatment of social and economic questions.” E. R. Johnson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 469. Mr. ’09. 550w. (Review of v. 2.)
“If any unfavorable criticism be deserved, it is to be grounded upon the absence of a complete and unified survey of colonial and imperial politics in the first half of the eighteenth century. A few errors, usually in the case of dates, have escaped the proof-reader.” St. G: L. Sioussat.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 327. My. 16, ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The main impression made is one of wide reading and of studied moderation. Professor Channing is as incapable of being elevated as of being obscure. This is more than a mere fault of style.” W. L. Grant.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 145. Ja. ’09. 880w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“His style is always clear and precise. The same conscious authority which marked his first volume is here too. The hand of the master is imprest on every page. We have still what promises to be the most important history of the United States since George Bancroft’s. But no other scholar has had at once the attainment with which to carry thru a complete history, and the courage to attempt it.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1122. N. 12, ’08. 530w. (Review of v. 2.)
“We believe that Professor Channing has some very good theories about [history], and only regret that he has concealed the best part of them. That, however, is a small matter. We commend Professor Channing’s book to scholar and reader alike: a better one is not likely to appear soon.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 440. N. 5, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is a thoroughly scholarly book, serviceable to the general reader as well as to the student, and noteworthy as containing the best account yet written of the constitutional growth of the country during the century.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 91: 753. Mr. 27, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It can no longer be said that the period has been neglected, since Professor Channing has explored it with all the zest and thoroughness that have characterized his work in other periods of our history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 251. F. ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Channing, Edward, and Lansing, Marion Florence.= Story of the Great lakes. *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–7929.
A chronicle of the important events, with the customs and life of each period of the history of the Great lakes. The chapters are arranged under the following divisions: Discovery and exploration; The struggle for possession; and Occupation and development. There is a brief bibliography and an index.
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“The book is less the story of the Great lakes than chapters from the history of the regions contiguous to the lakes. Much is omitted; too much, sometimes, to make what is told an adequate presentation of the subject. In nothing is the present work more eccentric than in it’s illustrations.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 189. O. ’09. 450w.
“The varied and interesting, often romantic, history of our great inland seas is well told and admirably mapped and illustrated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 133. My. ’09. ✠
“It is perhaps a little to be regretted that they did not see fit to round out the story by telling us something of the exploration and development of the Canadian side of the lakes. These are but trifling omissions in what is in other respects a fair-minded, well-balanced, and decidedly readable history of the Great lakes.” L. J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 45. Jl. 16, ’09. 320w. =Ind.= 66: 1240. Je. 3, ’09. 50w. + =Lit. D.= 38: 898. My. 22, ’09. 480w. + =Nation.= 89: 36. Jl. 8, ’09. 250w.
“They have presented very fully and satisfyingly the letter of the story, but have sometimes missed its spirit.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 290. My. 8, ’09. 850w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 30w.
=Chapin, Robert Coit.= Standard of living among workingmen’s families in New York city. $2. Charities pub. com.
9–8817.
A study of the actual standards of living of several hundred workingmen’s families of normal size, who, with annual incomes varying from $600 to $1,100 and more, have been able to maintain themselves independently. A carefully planned and conducted investigation yielded material which has been used for extensive tabulations showing sources of income, objects of expenditure, and relation of income to expenditure. Appendices contain studies relating to the causes of poverty and working budgets, reports of investigations in other towns and cities of the state, and a partial bibliography and index.
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“The reviewer desires to express his appreciation of the high grade of work done by Dr. Chapin and his colaborers who have done well, using a method that has in itself many serious difficulties and some positive limitations.” T. J. Riley.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 268. S. ’09. 2800w.
“The value of the work as a basis of comparison is large, though inaccuracies in estimates vitiate the results of the reports on nutrition.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 134. My. ’09.
“Had the four hundred schedules been collected by the same person in the same spirit, with the same point of view, there would have been more reason for the publication of a book based upon them.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 177. Jl. ’09. 370w.
“As a provisional general statement of conditions now prevailing in this city, the conclusions of the present volume are of very considerable value.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 401. Je. ’09. 570w.
“Professor Chapin has done a most thoro piece of work, and he deserves the commendation of students of the subject for the very careful workmanship he has shown in putting together in readable, compact, accessible shape the mass of data gathered by his investigators.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 983. My. 6, ’09. 440w.
Reviewed by Marion Talbot.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 541. O. ’09. 1600w.
“All social workers will recognize in Professor Chapin’s exhaustive treatise a very valuable presentation of the subject.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 851. My. 15, ’09. 180w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 370. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
“The conclusions now published are worthy of full credence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 127. Jl. ’09. 80w.
“The book represents an important piece of work admirably done. It deserves the careful attention of social workers, economists and employers alike.” H: R. Mussey.
+ =Survey.= 22: 147. Ap. 24, ’09. 1150w.
“The book shows the effects of the painstaking labor which was bestowed upon it. It has increased our knowledge of living conditions among the working class, and offers a mass of information which may be used for the determination of the standard of living.” W: B. Bailey.
+ =Yale R.= 18: 325. N. ’09. 1150w.
=Chapman, Abel.= On safari: big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird life. *$4.50. Longmans.
9–53.
A book of interest to readers who wish to familiarize themselves with hunting grounds and big game which will occupy Roosevelt’s attention after the coming inauguration. The book is in the main a record of two expeditions made by Mr. Chapman into the African wilds. “He describes in entertaining fashion his experiences in killing elephants and rhinoceroses, hippopotami, leopards, giraffes, zebras, and a wide range of other animals of strange names and strange appearance: a veritable Noah’s ark of them.” (N. Y. Times.) “The nearest English equivalent to ‘safari’ as used in Africa is probably ‘camp,’ a very comprehensive expression.” (Ath.)
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“In an appendix notes on bird-life in British East Africa should be useful to students. The illustrations deserve praise.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 817. D. 26. 1000w.
“Mr. Chapman’s book contains very much that is interesting upon the habits of African animals. In this particular he has brought to bear a degree of ornithology and natural history not possessed by the average hunter of big game.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 39. Ja. 23, ’09. 800w.
Reviewed by F. C. Selous.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 41. Ja. 9, ’09. 1600w.
“His latest work will be read with the greatest pleasure, for though his style is without pretension, he is such a keen observer of animal life and so competent an ornithologist that every detail which he records is worth recording. A delightful book for naturalists and sportsmen.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 345. F. 27, ’09. 530w.
=Chapman, Frank Michler.= Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. **$3. Appleton.
8–34816.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Contains a great deal of useful information, often about birds of which our knowledge is meager.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 7. Ja. ’09.
“A notable contribution to bird lore.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The work done in ‘Camps and cruises of an ornithologist’ is of the best in quality and in general interest, being most enticing to the general reader and most suggestive to the special student of birds.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1033. My. 13, ’09. 500w.
“No one can read this book without feeling a closer touch of friendship with the forms of bird life about him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 19. Ja. 9, ’09. 1200w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 170w.
“Though popular in style, it is not lacking in seriousness, for it contains many fresh or new observations on the habits of birds which will be of permanent value to ornithologists. Typographical errors and a few other slight evidences of haste while the book was in press are rather too frequent to be overlooked.” W. H. Osgood.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 549. Ap. 2, ’09. 630w.
“No praise is too great for Mr. Chapman’s admirable photographs, and he writes exceedingly well.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 816. N. 20, ’09. 380w.
=Chapman, John H.=^{[5]} Notes on the early history of the Vulgate gospels. *$5.25. Oxford.
“Accepting the results of recent scholars Dom Chapman inquires what lines are to be followed for the restoration of Jerome’s text of the Gospels. The first step, he thinks, will be to recover the readings of the codex possessed by Eugipius.... Other points discussed are the relation of the Eugipian text to that of Codex Fuldensis and to the Gallican liturgy, the Capuan mass-books, the Irish text, the ‘Gospels of St. Augustine,’ and the Vulgate text of Gregory the Great.”—Nation.
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“He shows himself acquainted with the recent literature which deals with the subjects he discusses, and his own scholarship is equal to the task he has undertaken.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 123. Ja. 30. 2800w.
“Much excellent material has been gathered by Dom John Chapman. Such a contribution is particularly welcome now that Pope Pius X, as has been announced, has ordered a new edition of the Vulgate.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 253. Mr. 11, ’09. 340w.
=Chapman, John Jay.= Maid’s forgiveness: a play. **75c. Moffat.
8–33412.
A play set in mediaeval times. “It is written in blank verse and prose, and tells a somewhat fanciful, but interesting, story of a royal bigamist, his remorse, confession, and abdication, and the enthronement of his newly discovered heir in the place of the really illegitimate son, who had been accepted for twenty years as the crown prince. Both the plot and the construction are old-fashioned, but the characters of the two half-brothers—the one a gallant man of action and the other a fervent idealist, oppressed by the conviction of a wrong to be righted—are well and vigorously drawn.” (Nation.)
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“Possesses much literary merit and some effective theatrical qualities. The dialogue is not only excellent in form—the blank verse especially showing careful study of the Elizabethans—but vigorous, picturesque, and imaginative in matter.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 585. D. 10, ’08. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 40w.
=Chatelaine= of Vergi: a romance of the XIIIth century: tr. by Alice Kemp-Welch; introd. by L. Brandin. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
This is the tragic story of the Chatelaine of Vergi which excited the tears and admiration of court lords and ladies of six centuries ago. “The absence of the conventional and the traditional, the depth and Variety of the psychological analysis, the naïveté of the moral, the unexpectedness of the philosophical ideas—these are the causes of its eternal youth.”
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“Miss Kemp-Welch has revised and altered her translation, not always to the improvement of its rhythm.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 170w.
“It appears in a form which will appeal to bibliophiles.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 359. Ap. 8, ’09. 300w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 80w.
=Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart C.=^{[5]} Fame’s pathway: a romance of a genius; il. by “JoB.” †$1.50. Duffield.
9–8576.
A story built up about the life of the French dramatist, Molière. It “is a romanticised and popularized account of the playwright’s amorous adventures as well as of his fight.... The crux of the story is Molière’s determination to be a devotee of tragedy, and his loving Madeleine’s sincere conviction that comedy is his real mistress. Many and hard are his lessons before he realizes that his actress-love is right and he wrong.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Considering the obstacles he has had to contend with, Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has achieved a more than creditable measure of success in picturing the life and fortunes of the young Molière, and reproducing the atmosphere of the period in which he struggled.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 47. Jl. 16, ’09. 300w.
“An interesting picture of the life of a strolling player in the France of Mazarin and Louis XIV.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 868. Ap. 22, ’09. 220w.
“The author’s chief aim was obviously to present Molière in the flesh, and it must be recorded that he has merely succeeded in exhibiting a rather awkwardly stuffed effigy of him.”
− =Nation.= 88: 539. My. 27, ’09. 300w.
“Events follow one another with considerable swiftness, but there is nothing of real character drawing; the figures are lay, and their talk is manufactured talk, while the straining after wit and attempts at repartee are only painful.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 450w.
“There are many words to be passed before the heart of the tale is reached, and then it shows but a feeble pulse, and we are not deeply impressed by the sorrows and struggles of the genius of the seventeenth century.”
− =Outlook.= 92: 21. My. 1, ’09. 110w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 50w.
=Cheetham, F. H.= Louis Napoleon and the genesis of the Second Empire; being the life of the Emperor Napoleon III to the time of his election to the presidency of the French republic. **$5. Lane.
8–37055.
A careful account of the life of Napoleon III and his times. “Mr. Cheetham has treated events in France briefly but with intelligence, so that the resurrection of the Napoleonic legend in the person of the un-Napoleonic nephew of the great Emperor is made comprehensible.” (Sat. R.) The author agrees with Bagehot that Napoleon became Emperor because France wanted a savior of society. “So long as he retained his mental and physical vigour he was by no means a bad ruler. He had ideals, and there was considerable nobility in many of his conceptions. Mr. Cheetham shows that these ideas existed in his mind long before he became the ruler of France, and that there was much practical sense behind his dreams.” (Sat. R.)
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“Though written in the tone of apology, this book deserves attention because it represents under an attractive literary form a detailed, if not a complete and thorough, account of the early career of a great French ruler.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 144. Ag. 12, ’09. 650w.
“Mr. Cheetham is, perhaps, too amiably biased in his attitude toward Louis Napoleon, and some of the conclusions at which he arrives cannot be considered wholly warranted. The book commends itself not only to students of Napoleonic literature, but to the general reader as well, furnishing a unique and detailed view of the rise of a little-understood personality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 14. Ja. 9, ’09. 1050w.
“Mr. Cheetham gives the English reader what he has not possessed hitherto, a readable and accurate account of the life of Napoleon III before he became President. Mr. Cheetham has shown some capacity for historical research and criticism; this is not mere book-making.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 310. Mr. 6, ’09. 230w.
=Cheramy, Paul Arthur.=^{[5]} Favourite of Napoleon: memoirs of Mademoiselle George; ed. from the original manuscript. *$2.50. McBride, J:
A document which throws light on a little known side of Napoleon’s character. It contains the artless chatter of a “great child,” an actress whose liaison with Napoleon extended thru a period of eight years. People of the period and events of the day are commented upon with ingenuous and unsophisticated reserve.
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=Ath.= 1909, 2: 124. Jl. 31. 60w. =Nation.= 89: 39. Jl. 8, ’09. 280w.
=Chester, George Randolph.=^{[11]} Cash intrigue. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–27745.
A money extravaganza set in New York in which a money-mad broker who has stored away a billion and a half dollars in vaults under his house, a young American, mad with the thirst for power, a socialistic leader, mad for notoriety, a young woman mad of passion and of lust, an older woman, mad for social position—all craving success—fight a wild battle and lose. Insanity, ignominy, and death follow in the wake of their money debaucheries.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 721. N. 20, ’09. 230w.
=Chester, George Randolph.=^{[7]} Making of Bobby Burnit. $1.50. Bobbs.
9–16442.
By the author of “The letters of a self-made merchant” this story outlines the struggles of a rich man’s son which begin at the death of his father and are directed by the provisions of a curious will. The father’s aim had been that of making a real man out of his son, and the son had the grit to follow the father’s well-planned course. At intervals marked by special business crises a long gray envelop was delivered to him by his father’s old clerk in which each time was found sound, homely business philosophy of just the sort to spur him on. The love interest is of a character quite in keeping with the main idea of the story.
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“Despite serious defects, a story that will attract many readers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 25. S. ’09.
“May be summed up as modern, American, spirited, entertaining, and ephemeral.” Beverly Stark.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 642. Ag. ’09. 380w.
“There is a slender thread of love-story running through this entertaining yarn, but it adds practically nothing to the interest, which is wholly centered upon Bobby’s successive eyeopenings and their salutary contribution to his development.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 49. Jl. 16, ’09. 550w.
“The appositeness of his father’s letters, always ready for him at the proper moment, their keen prevision and homely practical wisdom are very amusing.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.=^{[10]} George Bernard Shaw; portrait sketches of George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert K. Chesterton by Mrs. Barney. **$1.50. Lane.
9–23024.
A sketch of the man and criticism of his works written for the “English men of letters” series by one “who is kindly disposed toward Mr. Shaw personally but who does not take his ideas altogether seriously.” “Mr. Chesterton starts with remarking on the absurdity of writing a book about Mr. Bernard Shaw at all, and the indefensible foolishness of attempting to explain a man whose sole object through life has been to explain himself. If the reader reminds him, he says, that this is a book about Shaw, ‘I can only assure him that I will reasonably and at proper intervals remember the fact.’” (Sat. R.)
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“Will entertain those readers familiar with Shaw’s dramas who are inured to Chesterton’s running fire of chaff and paradox.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 70. N. ’09.
“He has written a pretty sharp criticism, tempered with eulogy, of what he professes to understand. His book is a clever, ill-written, but readable performance. The book is nothing more than a piece of good journalism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 291. S. 11. 1200w.
“G. K. Chesterton has written a most interesting book about G. B. Shaw, and also, by the way, about many other things.”
+ =Cath. World.= 90: 244. N. ’09. 850w.
“The reviewer’s tone is in general cordial, and there is little of captious criticism. The book as it stands is well worth while.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 47: 280. O. 16, ’09. 1700w. + =Nation.= 89: 375. O. 21, ’09. 1400w.
“Mr. Chesterton’s analysis of Shaw’s literary work is of unusual interest but he makes it clear that he does not consider Shaw primarily a writer, but a public figure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 624. O. 23, ’09. 1200w.
“There is a great deal of good sense in this analysis of the elusive Irishman.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 130w.
“A most entertaining book, full of illuminating phrases on many subjects.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 574. N. 13, ’09. 1650w.
“A racy and sparkling volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 80w.
“Chaff is always intended to bring out the chaffer’s cleverness, and this is evidently Mr. Chesterton’s primary purpose, the revelation of Mr. Shaw being only secondary. It would be absurd to take the book seriously as being anything but this. In Mr. Chesterton’s book there is a considerable amount of the fun-at-a-fair sort of amusement. Mr. Chesterton alone of all possible writers of a Shaw book, biography or whatever we are to call it, could have set opinions out so cleverly, humorously, frankly, and yet so inoffensively.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 290. S. 4, ’09. 1100w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Orthodoxy. **$1.50. Lane.
8–28073.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“A curious ‘apologia,’ unconventional and original to a degree, it would be interesting to a large number of people were it not written in Chesterton’s most difficult and paradoxical style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 36. F. ’09.
“Many a weighty philosophic or historical argument is couched in witty metaphor or whimsical illustration: and its richness of thought, if diluted with a sufficient infusion of syllogism, would furnish forth more than one respectable volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 538. Ja. ’09. 1200w.
“The volume is evidently written ‘currente calamo,’ and with little attention to the best order and the most concise form of statement; but it is, on the whole, one of the best pieces of work Mr. Chesterton has given us.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 52. Ja. 16, ’09. 400w.
“It is interesting just because Mr. Chesterton really is clever, and knows it and delights in it. I rather fancy that ‘Orthodoxy’ is one of Mr. Chesterton’s failures. Mr. Chesterton has attempted in ‘Orthodoxy’ exactly that for which he was not born—a piece of consistent thinking.” H. W. Garrod.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 448. Ja. ’09. 1750w.
“‘Orthodoxy’ is at once more serious and less irritating than its predecessors.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1620. D. 31, ’09. 450w.
“But in manner as in style, the book pays the penalty of its merit. In the first place, it does not cover its own ground; for it expounds the author’s theology only in part. Is the most important religious work that has appeared since Emerson.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =No. Am.= 189: 135. Ja. ’09. 2350w.
=Chesterton=, Gilbert Keith: a criticism. [Anonymous.] *$1.50. Lane.
W9–38.
“Here are 266 fair pages concerning Chesterton’s opinions, fancies, impressions, and whims as they are derived from or founded on the contemplation of art and letters, religion and public affairs, and here are also likenesses of the protagonist to illustrate the text, including one at thirteen years, a likable boy with a book, who looks as if he would rather be out in the open with a good frisky dog, and another at the age of seventeen, representing a purposeful youth with inherent capacity for making his way in the world.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 365. S. 26. 260w.
“This book is almost as diverting as one of Mr. Chesterton’s.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 559. Ap. 3, ’09. 700w.
“Chesterton is worth while, and so is this anonymous book about his life and his prejudices.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 44. Ja. 23, ’09. 1250w.
“We must own that we are among those who think ‘that this book demands an apology,’ and we would say further that such an apology cannot in the nature of things be forthcoming. Still, to be candid, we have found it good reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 210w.
=Cheyney, Edward Potts.= Readings in English history, drawn from the original sources, intended to illustrate A short history of England. *$1.80. Ginn.
8–31971.
Intended to serve as a close companion to the author’s “Short history of England.” The order of arrangement of material follows the order of subjects in the text-book, illustrating and supplementing it. “It differs from previous collections in drawing on a somewhat greater variety of historical material, and in being, it is believed, the result of a more extensive and prolonged search for suitable illustrative passages.” (Preface.)
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“It is indeed a most interesting and valuable collection of illustrative material. The introductory paragraphs to the various selections are all that could be asked, clear, concise and instructive. Several minor criticisms may be made. The date when the sources used were written ought to be given in every instance and words not now in common use should be defined. Professor Cheyney quotes from Howell’s ‘Letters’ as if they were authentic sources, which they are not.” R. C. H. Catterall.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 639. Ap. ’09. 200w.
“An admirable collection. It will make a useful library tool, especially where translations of early English texts are not available.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 74. Mr. ’09.
“The work is well done and we are glad to see that the social, industrial, and the bibliographical aspects of English history are not neglected.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 314. Mr. ’09. 50w. =Ind.= 67: 302. Ag. 5, ’09. 100w.
“The collection is especially noteworthy for its illustration of the life of various periods.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 80w.
“Mr. Cheyney has a wide and scholarly knowledge of the material from which the narrative history of England is drawn and has chosen wisely from this abundant store.” Dora Wells.
+ =School R.= 17: 578. O. ’09. 480w.
=Chittenden, Lucius Eugene.= Lincoln and the sleeping sentinel: the true story. **50c. Harper.
9–3197.
A true version of the story of Lincoln in his quick action of suspending the execution of William Scott, a young Vermonter, who fell asleep while on sentinel duty. On the one hand are shown Lincoln’s human kindness and sense of justice, on the other, his ability to inspire patriotism, loyalty, and manhood courage in young men.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 74. Mr. ’09. ✠ =Ind.= 66: 261. F. 4, ’09. 470w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 300w.
=Chitty, J. R.= Things seen in China. (Things seen ser.) lea. *$1. Dutton.
9–5229.
“Mr. Chitty’s little book is packed full of interesting, intimate things about the life, customs, manners, habits of the Chinese which he learned during a residence in various parts of China.... The general reader ... will find a multitude of observations which will enable him to understand better the inner conditions, local and national, of the Chinese empire, as well as some of the puzzling characteristics of the nation in its dealings with the western world.”—N. Y. Times.
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“There is little excuse for the appearance of the present work, since the information which it contains appears to be eminently commonplace. We exclude from this remark the photographs with which the volume is adorned, and which are excellent.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 40. Ja. 9. 650w.
“Mr. Chitty’s knowledge is limited and sounds in places suspiciously second hand.”
− =Ind.= 66: 325. F. 11, ’09. 40w.
“It is all told very simply and directly, with no words wasted on rhetoric.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 210w.
=Cholmondeley, Mary.=^{[5]} Hand on the latch. †$1.25. Dodd.
9–9254.
“Four stories from the author of ‘Red pottage’ are prefaced by a rather witty rehearsal of the trials of authorship. Each story shows a woman and analyses her with skill. The lonely prairie home, where the wife waits her husband’s return, having disobeyed his last injunction to let no one in, by allowing a miserable wounded tramp to lie by the fire, is a sombre picture wonderfully done. The dramatic stir all through the story reaches the climax with such true artistic feeling that even the hardened novel-reader will feel a thrill. The amusing and witty contrast between true and false sentiment, in the tale of a fugitive convict woman, arouses alternately smiles and sober thought. ‘The understudy’ and ‘St. Luke’s summer’ are in no way inferior to the other two.”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 185. Je. ’09.
“Remarkably finished stories.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 56. Jl. 15, ’09. 350w.
“The preface which has been written for the book is perhaps the most delightful part of it. Its only crying fault is its brevity. One wants more.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 256. Ap. 24, ’09. 270w.
“An exceptional quartet of entertaining and well-conceived stories.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 140w.
=Church, A. Hamilton.= Proper distribution of expense burden. (Works management lib.) $1. Eng. mag.
8–27359.
“The two common methods of distribution—hour rate and labor cost rate—are discussed and the weak points revealed. The author then takes up the machine and supplementary rate and gives figures and data illustrating its use and closes with a good argument for the general adoption of this combination system as the proper way.”—Engin. Rec.
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 417. O. ’08. 280w.
“One could hardly wish a clearer or more suggestive little dissertation on the ‘unproductive expenditures’ of a manufacturing organization. For the benefit of the less informed reader, however, the author might profitably have given some direct illustrations of the unhealthy conditions which may prevail when the cost distribution among different classes of work is known very imperfectly.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 44. Ap. 15, ’09. 230w.
“The book is a good one for those interested in the subject and who know enough about accounting to appreciate the arguments and the fine points made by the author.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=Church, Irving Porter.= Mechanics of engineering; comprising statics and kinetics of solids; the mechanics of the materials of construction, or strength and elasticity of beams, columns, shafts, arches, etc.; and the principles of hydraulics and pneumatics, with applications; for use in technical schools; rev. ed., partly rewritten. $6. Wiley.
8–19874.
A new edition “partly rewritten and improved by the addition of new sections on reinforced concrete beams, the determination of the flexure of beams by a geometrical method, modern column formulas and a great many notes in most of the chapters.”—Engin. Rec.
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“It is primarily a text-book for students, with the rare characteristic, an adaptability to the practicing engineer.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 30. Mr. 18, ’09. 260w.
“The author’s painstaking care and critical spirit in the revision are shown on a very large proportion of the pages, and the volume deserves a continuation of its popularity among engineers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 35. Mr. 20, ’09. 100w.
“In any further re-issue of this work, it would be a distinct improvement if the indices were made more thorough and complete.” T. H. B.
+ − =Nature.= 80: 34. Mr. 11, ’09. 400w.
“It is needless to say that the emendations and revisions have added greatly to the value of the book by the introduction of much new matter now necessary to the engineer. As a whole the book is singular for its clear, lucid treatment, wise selection of subjects and subordination of mathematical to mechanical considerations.” H: T. Eddy.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 185. Ja. 29, ’09. 750w.
=Churchill, Winston Spencer.= My African journey. *$1.50. Doran. 9–8731.
The story of what Mr. Churchill saw and did in his recent visit to Africa. “It contains many shrewd and suggestive remarks, and certainly sets before us in clear and attractive form a number of facts about which most minds are hazy. He has a robust faith in the civilizing power of railways and cotton-mills, and the value of a civilization so produced.” (Ath.)
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“Besides its interest as a recital of hunting adventures, it is a careful study of the physical, political, and racial conditions of a region that promises to be of considerable importance to Great Britain and is of immediate interest to Americans.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 101. Ap. ’09. ✠
“Mr. Churchill has a graphic touch and a practised pen; and considered as letters to a newspaper, written in the midst of the scenes they describe, his chapters could hardly be better.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 99. Ja. 23. 180w.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 46: 364. Je. 1, ’09. 800w.
“The main charm in this work lies in the freshness imparted to a somewhat hackneyed subject by the personality of its author.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 473. Mr. 20, ’09. 300w. + =Nation.= 88: 366. Ap. 8, ’09. 1000w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 151. Mr. 13, ’09. 750w.
“Mr. Churchill’s new book is a delightful literary performance, a tribute to British imperial achievement in savage lands, a statesmanlike forecast of the needs of the immediate future, and a monument to Churchillian self-sufficiency.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 761. D. 19, ’08. 1050w.
“It would be just to say of Mr. Churchill’s book, that it is capital, and in places brilliant journalism. It has all the touches, and all the graces that are possible in the circumstances, of the man who knows how to keep his readers thoroughly entertained although he writes in a hurry.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1056. D. 19, ’08. 1600w.
=City history club of New York.=^{[11]} Historical guide to the city of New York; compiled by Frank Bergen Kelley from original observations and contributions made by members and friends of the City history club of New York. **$1.50. Stokes.
9–25287.
“Contains a series of excursions to all the spots of historic interest within the limits of the greater city. It has maps and plans, and bibliographies (and these last might be a little fuller). It calls attention to all the historical tablets, and to all the commemorative statues and paintings. It seeks to record the houses where famous men were born or lived or died. It brings together an immense mass of facts not otherwise easily accessible: it presents these facts in their proper places.”—Forum.
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“It is certain to be a valuable incentive to the continued study of the city’s history—a study likely to bear fruit in determined resolve to better present conditions.” Brander Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 42: 477. N. ’09. 340w.
“One can not too much respect the conscientious nature of the work which has gone into this compilation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 781. N. 6, ’09. 340w.
“The volume will be a useful addition to the library of every citizen of New York who is interested in its development and is able to appreciate the things that are not obvious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 790. D. 11, ’09. 230w.
=Clark, Ellery H.= Loaded dice. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–9251.
A man who concludes that life is a gamble chooses to disregard any moral law, and murders, steals, cheats and betrays his friends to win the fortune that can lead him straight to the realization of his towering political ambitions. There is no betrayal of friend or foe too heinous for his brutality to cope with. His cleverness in covering up the tracks of his treachery stands him in stead for a time and then come the reckoning, the confession, and the bitter cry of one who had made a gamble of life and lost.
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“A poor and unpleasant book.”
− =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.
“The incidents that develop the plot are of the tinsel-theatric order, while in characters, style, and method the story follows conventional lines.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 162. Mr. 20, ’09. 170w.
=Clark, Francis Edward, and Clark, Harriet A.=^{[5]} Gospel in Latin lands: outline studies of Protestant work in the Latin countries of Europe and America. (United study of missions ser.) *50c. Macmillan.
9–12891.
Deals with the rise and progress of missionary work first in Latin Europe and second in Latin America. There are twenty-four distinct nations treated from the missionary point of view, “separated from each other not only by seas and continents, but by the wider gulfs of different languages, customs and traditions.” The work is historical rather than picturesque.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 37. O. ’09.
“It is worth reading. It brings a very important question to a direct issue.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 566. O. 9, ’09. 220w.
=Clark, Imogen.=^{[10]} We four and two more. †$1.25. Crowell.
9–24964.
“We four” are the Egertons, Philip and Judy, twins, and Margery and Gilbert the little brother and sister, who come to live with their grandmother while their father and mother are in the Philippines. The “two more” are Jack and Sheila who also come to stay at Granny’s house while their father is in Europe. Philip tells the story of their good times thru one happy summer.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 39: 1027. D. 4, ’09. 60w.
=Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Browning’s England: a study of English influences in Browning. *$2. Baker.
8–31681.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 37. F. ’09. + =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 180w.
“If somewhat desultory, the work will aid in making Browning more agreeable and in some way more real to the ordinary reader.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 38: 104. Ja. 16, ’09. 120w.
“Is hardly a study, but rather a cursory glance at some of the English influences to be discerned in that poet’s work. The book’s criticism and comment are all of the most obvious kind.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 769. D. 12, ’08. 150w.
=Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Child’s guide to mythology. **$1.25. Baker.
8–33422.
An introductory chapter answering the query “What is a myth?” is followed by legends grouped according to subject containing myths about plants, trees, animals, sky and air, the sun, moon, and stars, mother-myths and child-myths.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 28. Ja. ’09. ✠
“Is well fitted for the work she has undertaken in the preparation of a volume of this kind.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 502. Ja. ’09. 110w.
“A collection of folk-tales of an unusually wide range.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1568. D. 24, ’08. 40w.
“She herself has evidently gone profoundly deep into the subject, but it is to be feared that children’s minds will confound the nationalities of these tales, which one should prefer to tell them without tracing their origin or paternity. The book is well written.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 983. D. 26, ’08. 100w.
“A book of information which may be safely recommended. Miss Clarke tells the old stories in simple and good English.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
=Clarke, John Henry.=^{[12]} Vital economy; or, How to conserve your strength. *50c. Wessels.
9–29494.
Seeking its audience mainly among people who have just enough vitality to enable them to get thru their duties by exercising due economy and no more, this little book discusses the bath—in which the author makes the paradoxical statement that one “may wash themselves dirty,” by removing too much of the protecting surface and thus allowing dirt to get into their skin—fresh air, exercise, stimulants, tea, coffee, worry, and visiting the sick.
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“Dr. Clarke’s volume, while entertaining in its way, contains nothing new save his so-called ‘plea for an acknowledgment of a Science of vital economics.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 784. D. 11, ’09. 280w.
“Altogether, this is a book worthy of attention.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 888. N. 28, ’09. 120w.
=Clarke, William Newton.=^{[6]} Christian doctrine of God. (International theological lib.) **$2.50. Scribner.
9–6858.
“The volume falls into the following divisions: (1) Introduction, setting forth the theme, the method, and the sources of information; (2) God, expounding his character, personality, goodness, love, holiness, wisdom and unity; (3) God and Men, in his relations as Creator, Father, Sovereign, moral Governor, Providence, Savior, Trinity, and in human life; (4) God and the Universe, wherein the commonly accepted attributes of God are treated, e. g., self-existent, eternal, infinite, omniscient; (5) Evidence, in which the author seeks to show the reasonableness of the Christian conception of God, as he has thus far interpreted it. The volume departs widely from the usual type of discussion of the doctrine of God in that Dr. Clarke eschews absolutely all metaphysical and philosophical questions and furnishes us instead a persuasive and winsome exposition of the religious content of the God-idea as held by the Christian church.”—Bib. World.
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“An instructive book, full of clear thought and independent insight; but it is something better; it is a live book, dealing with realities and not with words merely, and relying for its appeal upon the assent of the reader’s own experience. Passing to the doctrine of freedom, one notes a certain lack of clearness in the definition of terms.” W: A. Brown.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 466. Jl. ’09. 1000w.
“An extensive and scholarly exposition.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 134. My. ’09.
“This important volume has long been eagerly awaited.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 358. My. ’09. 170w.
“It is a book which will enter current religious life as a sweetening and purifying influence, revealing to many the truths by which they have lived, but which they knew not how to state.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 707. S. 23, ’09. 600w.
“The book in hand is easily Dr. Clarke’s ‘magnum opus.’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 258. S. 16, ’09. 870w.
“Perhaps the main lack in the book as a whole is its failure to bring out strongly the essentially social element in the Christian belief of God. As a whole the book is valuable, sound, and attractive. It should be widely read by all who want a thoroughly sympathetic and modern expression of the Christian belief.” E: S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 367. Je. 12, ’09. 920w.
“Apart from these serious disadvantages of method, there is much clear and readable exposition of these great themes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 50. Jl. 10, ’09. 1200w.
=Clarke, William Newton.=^{[12]} Sixty years with the Bible: a record of experience. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–26003.
The author tells the story of his “own progress from the dim and unsatisfying light of a book mechanically inspired to the clearer vision which historical appreciation of the ancient records have made possible.... Dr. Clarke has made it possible for even a timid and hesitant inquirer, humble as to his own measures of knowledge and intellectual power, to acquire a modern, informed and reverent conception of the Bible without the paroxysms of a revolution, and it may be hoped that his gentle pages will fulfil this purpose for large numbers.”—Ind.
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“An exceedingly persuasive book, especially for the many who still require, for their spiritual good, to be persuaded on this subject.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1208. N. 25, ’09. 400w.
“This frank recital of his experience will serve admirably as a guide to less thorough and discerning minds.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 578. D. 9, ’09. 220w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 761. D. ’09. 80w.
=Cleaves, Margaret Abigail.=^{[12]} Autobiography of a neurasthene; as told by one of them and recorded by Margaret A. Cleaves. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
A physician’s story based upon the experiences of a neurasthene. It is told with the definite purpose “of removing, if possible, the sting and opprobrium which the essential neurasthene bears because of the long continued pose of the neurasthene who does not exhaust neuronic energy, but poisons it by his way of living.”
=Clegg, Thomas Bailey.=^{[8]} Joan of the hills. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of Australia which “concerns the fortunes of a very uninteresting and weak-kneed Englishman—a briefless barrister who has taken to the colonies and counter-jumping for the living the law failed to afford him. But it depends for its dramatic and romantic appeal upon a handsome Australian girl aided and abetted by a youngster, the weak-kneed person’s son, and for its special favor upon a sort of David Harum of the bush, a shrewd old Australian general storekeeper and money lender.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Clegg takes his hero and enlists a good deal of sympathy and interest before the curtain falls on an uneven tale.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 641. My. 29. 120w.
“Though it deals with topics pleasantly far from modern clatter, this novel lacks, in its swing and briskness, nothing either of originality or modernity.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 279. S. 23, ’09. 210w.
“The book is readable and even exciting, in spite of the shortcomings of the hero.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 428. Jl. 10, ’09. 550w. =Spec.= 103: 136. Jl. 24, ’09. 180w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).=^{[11]} Extract from Captain Stormfield’s visit to heaven. †$1. Harper.
9–27263.
A humorous account of a celestial journey which, on account of thirty years of whirling thru space, ended at a gate millions of leagues from the one that usually admitted earth’s inhabitants. Stepping on the wishing carpet and wishing himself in the booking office of his own section the narrator speeds thru space and realizes that he is in the proper quarter when he hears some one shout out “A harp and a hymn-book, a pair of wings and halo, size 13, for Cap’n Eli Stormfield, of San Francisco!—make him out a clean bill of health and let him in.” The experiences that follow are above all else practical and quite out of the run of what is supposed to happen in an orthodox heaven.
* * * * *
“His humour is still of the brand labelled American, and consisting in the juxtaposition of obvious incongruities.”
+ =Bookm.= 30: 323. D. ’09. 160w.
“Underneath the drollery of Captain Stormfield’s forms of expression there is an immense lot of philosophy of a shrewd and homely sort concerning the future life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 130w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).=^{[5]} Is Shakespeare dead? From my autobiography. **$1.25. Harper.
9–9664.
In his well known jocular style, Mark Twain attempts to show that William Shakespeare could not have written the plays and poems attributed to him. By a similar process of reasoning it is claimed that Bacon and no other person living in Shakespeare’s time could have written them. Incidentally a good deal of Mark Twain’s life on the Mississippi is included.
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“Not recommended except where demand necessitates.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 158. Je. ’09.
“He is not even funny when he loses his temper.” E: Fuller.
− =Bookm.= 29: 633. Ag. ’09. 1250w. =Ind.= 67: 90. Jl. 8, ’09. 200w.
“The humor, however, it must be confessed, is occasionally somewhat forced.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 422. Ap. 22, ’09. 150w.
“Even in such meagre quantity the quality of Mark Twain’s writing is always assured of a wide welcome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 272. My. 1, ’09. 300w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 230w.
“So far as Shakespeare is concerned, this volume is a thing of naught. There are occasional entertaining passages, descriptions of life on the Mississippi; there is also a great deal of dreary reading.”
− + =Outlook.= 92: 69. My. 8, ’09. 260w.
“The argument abounds in humor, but it is not for that reason the less convincing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 767. Je. ’09. 140w.
“The little volume before us ... does, indeed, make a strong demand upon our indulgence. His only serious arguments are ‘lifted’ avowedly from Mr. Greenwood’s pages. Happily Mark Twain from time to time puts off the harness which so ill becomes him, and we get glimpses of the author of the ‘Mississippi pilot,’ of the creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 716. N. 6, ’09. 900w.
=Cléry, Jean Baptiste C. H.=^{[11]} Royal family in the Temple prison (journal of the imprisonment). (Court ser. of French memoirs.) **$1.50. Sturgis & Walton.
9–28241.
An impressionistic account, kept in the journal of Jean Baptiste Cant-Hanet, called Cléry, of the life of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin during the five months of their confinement in the Temple.
=Cleveland, Frederick Albert.=^{[8]} Chapters on municipal administration and accounting. **$2. Longmans.
9–14716.
A suggestive work by a leader in the movement for reform in American municipal accounting. Dr. Cleveland is connected with the New York city Bureau of municipal research and has had full opportunity to study the accounting system of that city. “As to the book as a whole, it may be noted that, while it takes up many phases of municipal administration, it centers for the most part in accounting and related problems. At the same time, the need for physical and other operative statistics, as well as accounting figures and conclusions, is always kept in mind by the author, and often forcibly presented.” (Engin. N.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 37. O. ’09.
“It is true that for consecutive reading there is a large amount of repetition in the volume, but until the underlying principles set forth by the author are more generally understood and appreciated they will bear repeating.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 4. Jl. 15, ’09. 650w.
“His work is valuable in its constructive as well as its destructive criticism.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 483. Ag. 26, ’09. 450w.
“It has the weaknesses which are necessarily found in a work of this sort: It is loosely constructed, full of repetition, and in some respects out of date. However, its constant reiteration of fundamental principles will prove not to be a fault if it results in driving home the indisputable propositions so clearly and convincingly set forth.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 530w.
“A book almost unique in its sphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 593. O. 9, ’09. 1300w.
“Some extremely suggestive chapters.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 254. Ag. ’09. 140w. =Spec.= 103: sup. 825. N. 20, ’09. 170w.
=Cleveland, Frederick Albert, and Powell, Fred Wilbur.=^{[8]} Railroad promotion and capitalization in the United States. **$2. Longmans.
9–12091.
“The present work is not speculative, nor is it commentary on things as they are or ought to be. It is pure fact and history from title-page to finis.... The authors begin at the beginning, and in the first chapter give an account of the transportation equipment and condition of the highroads during the revolutionary period.... It contains a history of the origination, financing, and completion of every important railroad on this continent.”—Lit. D.
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“On the whole the merits of the work are such that it must be regarded as a valuable addition to the literature of American industrial and financial history.” H. S. Smalley.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 166. O. ’09. 580w. =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 38. O. ’09.
“Every library and student of railway history should have a copy as a bibliographical reference and as an excellent history of railroad construction.” G. G. Huebner.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 615. N. ’09. 730w.
“The book is written in most entertaining style. It ought to be included in every engineering reference library and the library of every engineering school; in fact, we may go further and say that in the development of courses of business engineering in our engineering schools, this book may well be placed upon the list of works which the student should be required to read.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 3. Jl. 15, ’09. 230w.
“Some few exceptions may be taken; but the narrative is on the whole a good brief account, covering well-trodden ground. The book is distinctly serviceable, and can be recommended.” Stuart Daggett.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 475. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“A most valuable work of reference. In its own particular line it is a monument of erudition and should find its way into the library of every college, polytechnic, and professional railroad man in the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1069. Je. 19, ’09. 270w.
“Much detailed information concerning the general history of railways is given, some of it not heretofore published.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 309. S. 30, ’09. 230w.
“A condensed survey of American railroad finance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 80w.
=Cleveland, Grover.=^{[6]} Letters and addresses; ed. by Albert Ellery Bergh. 72c. Unit book pub.
9–11525.
Includes a collection of the addresses, state papers and letters of Cleveland, besides a brief life, a story of the book, notes on the text, list of authorities and an index.
=Clews, Henry.= Fifty years in Wall street. *$3. Henry Clews, 15 Broad st., N. Y.
8–18389.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The book should not be taken too seriously, however. The original edition was not intended for the well-informed reader, and there is little in the additional chapters which will add to its value, or extend its range of appeal.” F. W. Powell.
− =Econ. Bull.= 1: 322. D. ’08. 400w.
=Clouston, J. Storer.=^{[11]} Prodigal father. †$1.50. Century.
9–25631.
A thoroly amusing tale in which the straitlaced father of a family of five children takes some sort of cell-renewing treatment which reverses the aging process and starts him back over the ground to youth. The story is concerned with his astonishing antics and capers, accompanied by leniency in place of the former harsh treatment of a son and daughter in relation to their love affairs. He is censored and thwarted by an imperious prig of a son who finally gives him his choice between the insane asylum and exile. The father chooses the latter only for the purpose of freedom in which to plan the obnoxious son’s downfall.
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“An amusing book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 653. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
“It is a well-told, bizarre, and amusing tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 90w.
“In returning to the vein of his early success ‘The lunatic at large,’ Mr. Clouston makes a considerable draft upon the charity of the reading public. There are times and seasons for everything, even for humour, and ‘The prodigal father’—after the manner of champagne at breakfast—strikes us as decidedly outside the fitness of things.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 8. O. 16, ’09. 270w.
=Clow, W. M.=^{[7]} Cross in Christian experience. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
A series of addresses which are arranged so as to present the atonement “as a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.” The essential feature is the study of the Christian consciousness.
=Cobham, Claude Delaval=, tr. Excerpta cypria. *$6.30. Putnam.
9–2022.
Descriptive note in December, 1908, under “Excerpta cypria.”
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“They will be convenient as a work of reference to the few who are interested in Cyprus, and will certainly prove most useful to any student who undertakes to write on the mediæval or modern history of the island.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 288. Mr. 6. 430w.
“The authorities for the history of the Levant are so scattered, and at times so difficult of access, that it is extremely convenient to have them collected within the compass of a single volume. It may be doubted however whether it was worth while to devote space to an author so easy to obtain as Paruta, who wrote moreover in a language with which every student of this subject must be familiar.” W. M.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 183. Ja. ’09. 380w.
“The book is valuable as far as it goes, but as he says, it is material for a history, not the history itself.” C: R. Gillett.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 13. Ja. 9, ’09. 1800w.
“It is to be regretted that Mr. Cobham has left unnoticed the long, interesting period preceding the birth of Christ. The volume will undoubtedly prove of great value to all who wish to make themselves acquainted with Cyprus.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 177. Mr. ’09. 200w.
=Codd, Margaret Jane.=^{[9]} With Evans to the Pacific: a story of the battle fleet. 60c. Flanagan.
9–24658.
A travel story of the great cruise told for young readers. The route of the fleet has been closely followed; typical experiences have been introduced to give an idea of life on shipboard; sketches of the life of Admiral Evans are given; while the matters of general interest in regard to the principal countries of South America add value to the book.
=Coerne, Louis Adolphe.= Evolution of modern orchestration. *$3. Macmillan.
8–21540.
Touches only lightly upon the ground covered in Lavoix’s “Histoire de l’instrumentation,” but lays special emphasis upon the nineteenth century. The author says that his purpose has not been that of writing a treatise on instrumentation or to prepare a pedagogical analysis of orchestration only, but rather to trace the evolution of the orchestra and of orchestration in connection with the history of music proper.
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“The book shows wide reading and experience.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 50. Ja. 9. 620w.
“It is not a treatise in any sense, but a history of the orchestra, and from this point of view is unique.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 407. Je. 16, ’09. 160w.
“The book was written to prove Dr. Coerne’s erudition; it was not written to instruct others. There is much fragmentary information about the composers of Russia, the Scandinavian and other countries, that might escape him unless he read many books not published in English.” F: R. Burton.
− + =Forum.= 42: 269. S. ’09. 1250w.
“The book is one which no musical library can afford to do without.”
+ =Ind.= 66; 1299. Je. 10, ’09. 160w.
“America is not forgotten in this volume; indeed, Dr. Coerne accords it more honor than it deserves.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 72. Ja. 21, ’09. 560w.
“A useful book to keep on hand for reference. A good many statements are made in a pragmatic and final form which any critic would be likely to call into question, and musical estimates are there in abundance which cannot be held in very high regard.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 266. Ag. ’09. 180w.
“A scholarly piece of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 292. F. 6, ’09. 100w.
“In spite of infelicities of manner and of the hovering between the too technical and the vaguely general, there is much solid research and much luminous criticism in Dr. Coerne’s book.” D. G. Mason.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 6: 112. Ap. ’09. 300w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 255. F. ’09. 60w.
“In spite of some excellent qualities, Dr. Coerne has only achieved a partial success. He is handicapped by a ponderous style and a fatal fondness for polysyllables. Again, his laudable desire to be fair and generous to everybody results too often in undiscriminating praise.” C. L. G.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 836. N. 21, ’08. 1950w.
=Cohen, Alfred J. (Alan Dale, pseud.).=^{[7]} Great wet way. **$1.50. Dodd.
9–9225.
Some fifty trips across the ocean have furnished the author with the material out of which to construct an entertaining exposé of the “essential idiocy of humanity.” “He has pierced the deceits of shipboard aristocracy and shipboard epicures, and has analyzed if not solved the intricate problems of the tip. He has played with the children on board.... He has discovered why shipboard is the ideal place for flirtations. He has listened to the noisy boasts of the ‘tinsel patriot,’ accompanied the ‘hustler’ while he collected talent for the ship’s concert, and watched and meditated upon the subtle change that comes over some of the passengers when land and the custom-house approach.” (Dial.)
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“Humorous descriptions of life aboard an ocean steamer.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 158. Je. ’09.
“His book is very entertaining.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 373. Je. 1, ’09. 320w.
“Mr. Dale’s style is easy and familiar.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 218. Ap. 10, ’09. 230w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.
=Cohu, Rev. J. R.=^{[11]} Gospels in the light of modern research. *6s. Parker, James, & Co., Oxford.
A work whose purpose “is to demonstrate that modern criticism substantiates the view of the church as to the age, spiritual character, and inestimable worth of the Gospels.... The account which Mr. Cohu gives of each of the Gospels is of value, not because of the removal of any fundamental difficulty, but for the statement of the problems concerning these Gospels and solutions accredited by high authority.”—Ath.
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“In this volume he has justified his reputation as a popular expositor. Mr. Cohu, while undoubtedly on the side of the higher critics, is never in the company of extremists; and his book may be commended to those who, though they may tremble for the faith, desire to know what scholars of repute believe and teach regarding the Gospels.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 459. O. 16. 1100w.
“The reader who wants to know what higher criticism of the sober kind has to say about the Gospels cannot do better than study Mr. Cohu’s new volume. We are not prepared to accept all his conclusions.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 423. S. 18, ’09. 400w.
=Colby, Albert Ladd.=^{[11]} Reinforced concrete in Europe. $3.50. Chemical.
9–19618.
Data collected from books, government reports, trade and government specifications, committee reports and personal interviews “have been collated, compacted and classified under several heads, such as economies of reinforced concrete, endurance of concrete, foreign systems, mechanical bond, reinforcing metal, cement, and specifications for concrete and reinforced concrete. This portion of the report is therefore in the nature of a symposium, in which the opinions of the various contributors are reduced to the lowest terms.... The rest of the book is mostly given over to lists of the various concrete systems now in use or on the market in Europe, and of the numerous individuals, committees, commissions, societies and laboratories engaged there in the study of the subject.” (Engin. N.)
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“The multiplicity of so-called systems is the bane of concrete construction abroad and we can see no use of recording them for American eyes. However, Mr. Colby’s clients desired this information and its undue prominence in the book is due to that fact. The report is closed by a very extensive and complete, but poorly arranged, concrete bibliography.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 33. O. 14, ’09. 280w.
“A work which is unique in many respects and which fills a heretofore open space in the literature of concrete-steel construction. The book is an excellent summary of European methods, but it should be used judiciously in a search for precedents for work on this side of the Atlantic.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 419. O. 9, ’09. 380w.
=Colby, Charles W.= Canadian types of the old régime, 1608–1698. **$2.75. Holt.
8–20983.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“In the field of Canadian history it is the most readable book that has appeared for many a day.” W: B. Munro.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 393. Ja. ’09. 500w.
“Authoritative, popular, attractively written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 285. D. ’08. + =Ind.= 66: 52. Ja. 7, ’09. 400w.
“The lectures gain a novel and very real value because of the author’s point of view and effective presentation.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 143. F. 11, ’09. 550w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 308. Mr. 6, ’09. 600w. + =Spec.= 102: sup. 1007. Je. 26, ’09. 180w.
=Cole, Mrs. Donna Rieta.=^{[5]} Chums: or, An experiment in economics: ed. by Gertrude Ogden Tubby. $1.25. Gertrude Ogden Tubby. 7 West 42d st., N. Y.
9–16.
Six stories dealing with the actual problems, hardships, reverses and victories of a group of settlement workers.
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“There is a great deal of good material in this work, but here again the laborious pen of the inexperienced handler falls short of the subject. There is, however, the sense of firsthand knowledge conveyed to the reader’s mind.” Stephen Chalmers.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 278. My. 1, ’09. 120w.
=Cole, William Morse.= Accounts, their construction and interpretation. *$2. Houghton.
8–31984.
Descriptive note in December, 1908
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“The best single reference volume for public libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 37. F. ’09.
“On the whole, Professor Cole’s book is not of great value to the student of higher accounting, but presents the material in a way calculated to make the reader think.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 714. My. ’09. 300w.
“Generally speaking, the principles stated and the conclusions reached are those supported by the best accounting authorities. In this the author has rendered a service by bringing together in a single volume which may be used for purposes of instruction, the premises for sound reasoning concerning a wide range of administrative problems, the data for the solution of which must be obtained through accounts.” F: A. Cleveland.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 137. Je. ’09. 900w.
“It should find its way into the hands of all persons interested in publicity in corporate affairs.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 254. Jl. 29, ’09. 270w.
“The author has faithfully carried out the plan which he laid down, and anyone who wishes to obtain a clear understanding of the subject will be well repaid by reading this book. Ordinarily one finds books on accounting dry and dull, but this is the exception, for the principles here presented are explained very clearly, and at the same time in a most attractive style.” Trevor Arnett.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 165. Mr. ’09. 770w.
“For the student of accounting practice, this book, clearly and concisely written, should prove a valuable guide. It is difficult to understand why some of the chapters have been included in a book of this kind.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 408. O. 28, ’09. 400w.
“It will be sufficient to say of Professor Cole’s book that he has admirably succeeded in his ‘attempt to set forth in simple form the main principles which must govern any attempt at accounting.’ His style is so simple and direct that one is conscious only of the thought to be conveyed, save for the presence of some quaint but good old orthodox words. The freedom from anything dogmatic in the presentation of illustrative material comes as a refreshing breeze to one who has perused the literature of accounting.” B: F. Wright.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 325. Je. ’09. 950w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 640. My. ’09. 90w.
=Coles-Finch, William.=^{[10]} Water: its origin and use. *$5. Van Nostrand.
A popular work which the author describes as “an ordinary person’s interpretation of what he sees in nature.” The twenty chapters are: Heat; Atmosphere; Clouds; Rain; Water; Forms of water; Snow; Ice; Glaciers; Springs; Rivers; Waterfalls; Lakes; Ocean and sea; Mountains and volcanoes; Chalk; Denudation; Water: how obtained; Use, abuse and waste; Lessons from nature.
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“A work which, though written for the most part in a popular form, and not free from certain elements of weakness, yet tells with fair completeness the fascinating story of water and its work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 651. N. 21. 600w.
“The book is, in fact, a nature study. It is a subject of which the average person knows comparatively little, but which, presented as it is in this work, has an intense interest alike for the lover of nature and for those who are not generally attracted to subjects of this kind.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 246. S. ’09. 250w.
“The book is commonplace, antiquated, uncritical, and erroneous.”
− − =Nation.= 89: 363. O. 14, ’09. 220w.
“Apart from slips, and notwithstanding some defects of arrangement and a little too much sermonising, Mr. Coles-Finch’s book contains a large amount of interesting information.”
+ − =Nature.= 79: 271. Ja. 7, ’09. 1050w.
“Considering the scope and general interest of the work one can well forgive the sketchy character of several chapters which are obviously the outgrowth of very copious notetaking.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 567. S. 25, ’09. 1050w.
=Collier, Price.=^{[5]} England and the English from an American point of view. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–8385.
Impressions, fairly-formed opinions and convictions concerning the “slow-moving, unchanging, confident” Englishman whose dullness is his safety and his success, and “out of whose root has grown an overshadowing national tree.” The author contrasts American and English ways, and avers that the Americans while in England do as the English do so far as their temperamental limitations permit. The chapters are: First impressions; Who are the English? The land of compromise; English home life; Are the English dull? Sport; Ireland; An English country town; Society.
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“Entertaining studies.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 134. My. ’09.
“Presents us with a picture of ourselves in part flattering, and in part, perhaps, too accurate to please.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 615. My. 22. 550w.
“One of the most entertaining contributions of late years to the literature of transatlantic guesswork.”
+ =Bookm.= 30: 327. D. ’09. 670w.
Reviewed by F. M. Colby.
=Bookm.= 30: 399. D. ’09. 380w.
“The value of the book lies not in the author’s views on Ireland, still less in the two or three incidental remarks through which he indicates his views on religion, but in the lessons which it has for Americans.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 545. Jl. ’09. 1150w.
“The book leaves an impression of fairness, even of warm friendliness, toward the English, and of carefully matured opinions and well-informed judgments on a number of timely and interesting topics.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 299. My. 1, ’09. 370w.
“Mr. Collier’s book is not judicial, or philosophic, or scientific, but falls squarely within the familiar field of international impressionism where we no longer look for the ‘clear, white light of truth,’ but for the colors of personal experience. Like other books of its class it owes both its interest and its value to its instances.” F. M. Colby.
+ − =Forum.= 42: 479. N. ’09. 2200w.
“This is a clever and entertaining account of some features of British life—an account accurate, fair-minded and penetrating.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 369. Ag. 12, ’09. 300w.
“The England he discusses is the England one will find if one goes across this summer. Most Americans should therefore find the book rather readable—and not less so because it has no particular distinction or profundity.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 634. Je. 24, ’09. 700w.
“Although Mr. Collier is at times rather sharp and satirical, he is sympathetic and appreciative always.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 250w.
“It offers more sagacious observation of a general kind than the American dwelling in England is usually able to give.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 411. S. ’09. 520w.
“One of the most thought-provoking, stimulating, and keen analyses of the English character we have ever seen. Mr. Collier’s style is very graphic and suggestive.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 130w.
“Only on a very few points need any fairly self-satisfied Englishman take the trouble to quarrel with Mr. Collier. For some reason, however, that we find hard to understand, English women do not please him so much as the men.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 262. Ag. 28, ’09. 1000w.
“Mr. Price Collier’s book on English life and character is more thoughtful and better expressed than anything on similar lines by an American that we have read for a long time. Naturally (we might say inevitably) Mr. Collier makes some statements which most Englishmen could not accept.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 819. My. 22, ’09. 1900w.
=Collins, Archie Frederick.=^{[10]} Design and construction of induction coils. *$3. Munn.
9–12097.
“Mr. Collins considers that there is a need for a convenient and complete reference book devoted entirely to the induction coil and he has tried to meet the need. He has, from his large experience in the use of such coils, in wireless transmission, been able to give practical details as well as underlying principles. The data and directions are such as to enable any reader, who has some mechanical skill, to design and build his own coils. This is the purpose of the book.”—Engin. N.
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=Engin. D.= 5: 664. Je. ’09. 170w.
“The style is popular and descriptive, well suited to the amateurs and young students who will form the bulk of the readers. The information will be useful to any one who requires induction coils for any purpose.” H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 14. Ag. 12, ’09. 400w.
“Within its limits the work is unusually complete, although fault may be found with the manner of presenting certain features.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 726. Je. 5, ’09. 60w.
=Collins, Hubert E.= Erecting work. (Power handbooks.) $1. Hill pub.
8–31840.
“Begins with an excellent chapter on foundations and ends with a decidedly condensed one on the lighter work of erecting such as putting in flywheel links, crossheads and pistons. The remaining ten chapters are given over to methods of moving and lifting the heavy pieces, together with descriptions of blocking ginpoles, and various ‘hitches.’”—Engin. Rec.
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“It can scarcely be said to constitute a complete or connected treatise on this subject, but it contains much information on practical details which may save inexperienced engineers considerable annoyance.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 693. D. 17, ’08. 230w.
“The book is excellently written and would undoubtedly prove of inestimable value to an engineer, somewhat short in practical experience, who found himself compelled to directly supervise the unloading and erection of a 2,000-h.-p. reciprocating engine, but to a rigger or a constructing engineer the information contained in it would be somewhat elementary and too narrow in its scope to be of interest.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 595. N. 21, ’08. 150w.
=Collins, Hubert E.= Knocks and kinks. (Power handbooks.) $1. Hill pub.
8–32655.
“Deals almost entirely with the causes of ‘knocking’ in steam engines and with the means of locating and correcting them. With few exceptions the information is conveyed by describing actual cases and explaining the cause and cure of each. Chapter VIII describes a method of ‘rigging up to turn and refit large pistons’ and a crank-pin turning device. The final chapter describes the common method of finding the ‘dead center.’”—Engin. N.
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+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 693. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
“The subject of ‘Kinks’ however is rather disappointing, as there are only about a dozen engine room kinks described, of which half would be known to the average fourth-year apprentice boy in the machinist’s trade.”
− =Engin. Rec.= 58: 595. N. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Collins, Hubert E.= Pipes and piping. (Power handbooks.) $1. Hill pub.
8–31650.