The book review digest, Volume 04, 1908
Part II, ‘Analysis of governmental pressures,’ contains the author’s
substitutes for these mischievous explanations.” (Am. J. Soc.)
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“This is a real book. It is more genuine than it would be if it were more attentive to the minor literary conventions.” A. W. Small.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 698. Mr. ’08. 3600w.
“Of value to the sociologist, but too technical for the general reader. Brilliantly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“The second part of the book is more extensive, more readable, and more useful than the introductory criticisms.” E: C. Hayes.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 13. Jl. 1, ’08. 730w.
“Mr. Bentley’s volume is bulky and diffuse, and its style often flippant, but its acute and outspoken criticism ... should cause it to be welcomed by speculative sociologists as at least a rod of chastening.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Bentley’s analysis is no more satisfying than that of other theorists of the ‘group activity’ school, and less satisfying than some, by reason of its impatient, unjudicial tone, to say nothing of its utter elimination of the individual and of psychic elements as causal factors in the social process.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Bentley’s attempt to get below formalism into the governing process as a manifestation of social pressures deserves serious consideration, even though he is at times tedious and at other times unnecessarily rude to his predecessors in the field of politics.” C: A. Beard.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 739. D. ’08. 700w.
=Bentwich, Norman De Mattos.= Law of private property in war. $1.80. Boston bk.
7–42501.
“In the main Mr. Bentwich’s essay is concerned with private property in time of war, whether on land or at sea; the writer giving a fair but not minute account of the present practice. His suggestions as to the ‘temperamenta belli’ are few and cautious. He expects but little from the action of conferences or from agreements between belligerents. He does not countenance either the abolition of the right of capture of private property or of contraband, the latter an ‘undesirable aspiration’ which, if adopted, would soon be abandoned in the stress of war. But he makes several suggestions as to minor changes, one being the establishment of a prize court of appeal, another the relaxation of the old rule as to enemy domicile and the adoption of the French rule as to nationality.”—Lond. Times.
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“One weakness of this interesting volume is that it slides over many questions of moment. Another is that it gives paraphrases when a fastidious reader will ask for texts.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Bentwich’s volume is quite thick enough to require, and should have, a general index in addition to its admirable table of cases cited.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 607. Mr. 14, ’08. 670w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.
=Berenson, Bernhard.= North Italian painters of the renaissance. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–36958.
“Except for Mantegna and Correggio, the volume treats of hardly any artists approaching the first rank.... [Its] importance is that it is the negative end of Mr. Berenson’s demonstration of his theory of art, as its companion volumes were the positive end. He is now dealing with the absence of his three great qualities, tactile values, movement, and space-composition, as he has before dealt with their presence, and the burden is ever the same—these are the things that make serious art, and in their absence art ceases to become serious.”—Nation.
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“Discriminating, suggestive, stimulating criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 36. F. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 167. F. 8. 640w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 755. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“The book has all the characteristics of its predecessors, but it does not deal with so interesting a subject.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 526. D. 5, ’07. 310w.
“[Has] many characteristically keen observations, expressed in a rather more categorical style than Mr. Cox’s or Mr. Caffin’s.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Berenson has the artistic and not merely the archaeological outlook.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 901. Je. 6, ’08. 1550w.
=Berg, Ernst Julius.= Electrical energy, its generation, transmission, and utilization: lectures given at Union university. *$2.50. McGraw.
8–1719.
“Applications to engineering problems of the equations deduced from a theoretical consideration of alternating-current phenomena.... There are two sections to the book. Section 1 is devoted to the transmission line, and section 2 to the generating station. The former section contains what is probably the most easily applied accurate solution of transmission line problems available in textbook literature.... Section 2 relates to generators, stationary transformers and station instruments.” (Elec. World.)
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“To the student or the designer of electrical transmission systems, the book will prove particularly valuable.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 266. F. 1, ’08. 270w.
“An authoritative book. The treatment is vivid for the theory is applied in every case to the problem at hand.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 545. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Bergh, Louis de Coppet.= Safe building construction, a treatise giving in simplest forms possible practical and theoretical rules and formulae used in construction of buildings and general instructions. **$5. Macmillan.
8–12772.
After twenty years this book has been thoroly revised to meet modern needs. It is “practically a treatise on engineering, dealing especially with those problems which the architect is called upon to solve. Its simple rules for ‘those who do not understand trigonometry,’ its diagrammatic illustrations, and its pages of tables will be attractive to many an architect and builder.” (Nation.)
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“There is such unmistakable flavor of its early origin as to arouse regret that the revision did not extend to scrapping the old text entire.”
− =Engin. N.= 60: 80. Jl. 16, ’08. 130w.
“There are a great many useful tables and diagrams, but it is a pity that so many of them relate to wrought iron, a material no longer employed in building.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 567. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 90w.
=Berglund, Abraham.= United States steel corporation: a study of growth and influence of combination in the iron and steel industry. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–36147.
A study of the organization, the development and the policies of the steel corporation. “Mr. Berglund’s important conclusions are: that the company has never had—and is not likely to have—more than a qualified monopoly of the steel trade; that its policy in respect to prices has been one of moderation, but would probably not remain so moderate if monopoly were ever assured; and that such control over markets as the organization may wield in the future will probably be exercised ‘in association with independent producers’ through such agencies as pools or price agreements.” (Nation.)
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“Mr. Berglund not only gives an excellent analysis of the world’s greatest industrial combination, but also gives many interesting points concerning the present and future of American iron and steel.” W. S. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 515. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“The book is a valuable one, in that it treats the well known facts in a different light than they have been treated in most works on the subject.” J: C. Duncan.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 127. Je. ’08. 450w.
“There is often a vagueness of statement when he is writing of the plants and of labor at the furnaces. Dr. Berglund is on much surer ground when he is dealing with conditions in the iron and steel industry which led to the organization of the Steel corporation in 1901; and when he is tracing with much detail, and with admirable clearness, the developments which have marked the history of the trust in the first six years of its existence.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 819. O. 3, ’07. 580w.
“It is the sort of detailed study that should be made of each of the great industrial combinations—study that should have preceded much of the generalizing in which economists have indulged.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 159. F. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Bernhardt, Sarah.= Memories of my life: being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist. **$4. Appleton.
7–34323.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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+ − =Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
“Versatile, whimsical, egotistic, vivacious, eccentric, singularly sincere, and always interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 7. Ja. ’08.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“These memoirs leave us with a very vivid sense of the qualities that made their author what she was.” H. S. Krans.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 748. Mr. ’08. 900w.
“The vividness of the narration, the sure sense of what was worth telling and what was not, the sharp, salt vivacity of the style (which not even the slip-shod English of the translator can obscure)—all these virtues have to some pedants seemed incompatible with authenticity.” Max Beerbohm.
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 693. D. 7, ’07. 1650w.
=Bernier, Louis Leon.= Autogenous welding of metals. $1. The boiler maker, N. Y.
8–17741.
“This work is translated from reports of the National school of arts and trades of France, and describes the application of autogenous welding to the manufacture of tanks, boilers, piping, etc., together with its application to the manufacture of steel, brass, bars, plates, etc.”—Elec. World.
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“The book lacks specific instructions on how to perform the welding operations and inasmuch as the oxyacetylene flame can be used for repairing and cutting metals, such information would be of value.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 51: 1296. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
“There is much useful matter in the pamphlet, but it is all on European practice. No mention is made of American apparatus and methods. In view of this fact and the size of the pamphlet the price seems far beyond reasonable bounds.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 648. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
* =Bertrin, Georges.= Lourdes: a history of its apparitions and cures; tr. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$2. Benziger.
A book whose purpose is to set forth “with invincible clearness, the evidence that exists to prove, in the first instance, the indisputably miraculous character of the visions of Bernadette; and, in the second place, the equally miraculous nature of some of the most remarkable cures which have taken place at the Grotto of Lourdes, and in one instance, at a shrine of our Lady of Lourdes in Belgium. His method is to state the facts that are known to have occurred, to cite the eyewitnesses who testified to them, and then to take up successively the various explanations offered by those who refuse to believe in any miraculous intervention.” (Cath. World.)
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“In many respects ... the most satisfactory work that we possess on the subject. In many others an excess of emotionalism spoils the value of their evidence to the miraculous.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 254. N. ’08. 820w.
“We shall say no more than that the book is a remarkable one from any point of view.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
* =Besant, Sir Walter.= Early London: prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman. *$7.50. Macmillan.
8–28407.
The last volume in Sir Walter Besant’s “magnum opus.” He began with London of the eighteenth century and in six volumes has traced back to prehistoric times. This volume deals with London from the remotest times to the middle of the twelfth century, and contains numerous illustrations and a chapter on the geology of London by Professor T. G. Bonney.
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“The work is thoroughly readable. Doubtless Besant, if he had lived to give the finishing touches to his book, would have made considerable alterations and he would have prevented his work from appearing with numerous misprints, especially in the Latin quotations, which are badly mangled.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 91. Jl. 25. 830w.
“The illustrations are numerous, and for the most part excellent, largely from manuscripts of the period described.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, 08. 1300w.
“It is naturally full of out-of-the-way matter, giving an idea of the beginnings of the greatest of cities, which no Londoner at least can help but study with the most curious attention.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 56. Jl. 11, ’08. 450w.
“The story is made, as we might expect, highly interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 474. O. 3, ’08. 440w.
=Beven, Thomas.= Negligence in law. 3d ed. 2v. $18. Canada law bk.
8–15769.
This third edition not only brings the material of former editions up to date but includes 1465 new cases. “A large proportion of, though not nearly all, the new cases introduced into this book, is due to the expansion of the subject and is the growth of ten years of active legal work. The residue is to be put down to what was improvidently omitted before, or what is material for new exemplification or is of historical interest.”
=Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah.= Meaning of the times, and other speeches. **$1.50. Bobbs.
8–12769.
A volume of Senator Beveridge’s addresses made during the past ten years. “Most of the subjects are current political topics, capital and labour, the trusts, the Philippines, forestry, child labour, nationalism and state rights. Mr. Beveridge’s main idea is an unlimited, unsectional United States with Indiana as the centre and the Republican party over all.” (Bookm.) See Cumulative book index for contents.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“The work is full of ingenious pleas for the corporation interests that are calculated to throw dust in the eyes of unthinking and undiscriminating readers who are prone to accept without question presentations when made by statesmen who pose as Christian gentlemen.”
− =Arena.= 40: 389. O. ’08. 500w.
“If Mr. Beveridge knew what his words mean and if he meant what they say, he would be a promising young writer.” J: A. Macy.
− =Bookm.= 27: 490. Jl. ’08. 970w.
“A reading of it is a tonic of citizenship.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1203. My. 28, ’08. 140w.
“The extracts from the debate in the Senate on child labor form one of the most interesting parts of the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 358. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 260w.
=Bianchi, Martha Gilbert.= Modern Prometheus. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–7596.
A story in which a Jesuit priest tries to draw into the Catholic sisterhood an American girl saddened by an unfortunate marriage. “The background is like other Umbrian backgrounds of story, with its many touches of Italian life and its many figures of peasants, priests, and tourists, its incidental legends, art-histories, and church dogma, its landscape and birds, its fruits and flowers and stars.” (Nation.) The author “develops two concurrent ideas: faith through blind acquiescence and obedience conferring spiritual peace; doubt, accompanied by sturdy resistance, and independence condemning to internal tumult.” (R. of Rs.)
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“The story itself is not commonplace, and the interest holds to the end.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The writer of this book has succeeded in creating an atmosphere, an atmosphere strong enough to distinctly affect the reader with its dreamy softness, its vague color.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 280w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; authorized tr. from the German by W: A. Cooper. 3v. ea. **$3.50. Putnam.
5–36314.
=v. 3.= This concluding volume covers the period of Goethe’s life from the Congress of Vienna to the poet’s death, 1815–1832. “The biographer makes the daring assertion that without Goethe the Germany of to-day would not exist. ‘Without Goethe, no Bismarck; without Goethe, no German empire.’ He made the whole people feel spiritually one nation. But Prof. Bielschowsky does not claim his hero exclusively for Germany. He exists, beside Homer and Shakespeare, for the whole world.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Considered on the whole the most valuable biography of Goethe.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“Containing much excellent matter together with a good deal of indifferent work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 301. S. 12. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)
“He fails too ... in humor or decorum; the two are one in this sense.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 150. Jl. 16, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
“We note a serious defect in Bielschowsky’s plan; there has been no provision for a separate chapter upon Goethe as critic.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 225. Ap. 18, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Bigelow, William Sturgis.= Buddhism and immortality. (Ingersoll lecture for 1908.) **75c. Houghton.
8–30599.
An epitome of the teaching of the two Buddhist sects, the Tendai and the Shingon in regard to the immortality of man.
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“The lecture is a simple and lucid exposition of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 100w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= By right of purchase. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–24466.
“Mr. Bindloss starts with a very hackneyed theme and familiar dramatis personae, the haughty well-born girl with the impecunious father and brother who force her into a marriage with a rich man of the honest, simple, rugged type. By degrees of course the honest farmer wins the love of the haughty wife, who endures in the most amazingly brave way the appalling dullness and monotony of life in a remote and lonely Canadian farm.”—Sat. R.
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“Is little more than a replica of his earlier stories of life in the American Northwest.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 240w.
“The characterization is of the crudest simplicity.”
− =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1, ’08. 280w.
“There is no lack of action in Mr. Bindloss’s story, but we know so well what the ending will be that we do not very much care what happens along the road.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He is a better observer of nature than of men and women.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“The story is made readable, though only mildly interesting, by pictures of Canadian life.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 180. Ag. 8, ’08. 90w.
“Mr. Bindloss is always interesting on the subject of his own country, but his present book does not quite reach the level of some of his former works.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 110w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Delilah of the snows. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–15298.
“The nucleus of this story ... is the blindness of a young man to the sterling worth of a girl in his own class, his mad infatuation for another girl socially beyond his reach, and his final awakening to his folly when the other girl betrays him, as wantonly as Delilah betrayed Samson, into the hands of the authorities who demand his life. The scene of the story, at least of such part of the story as really counts, is the Klondike.”—Bookm.
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“The author’s power and grip of his subject seem to have deserted him, and we miss his descriptions of colonial scenery and more particularly of colonial life and character.”
− =Acad.= 73: 905. S. 14, ’07. 270w.
“The story begins at the wrong point; in other words, the lace pattern of his plot lacks symmetry.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The narrative is vigorous and straightforward, without nicety of style, but wholesome in tone, and moderately interesting.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 88. Ag. 16, ’08. 130w.
“In spite of a heavy-footed gait and a superfluity of scene, the book is worth reading for the sincerity and picturesqueness of its adventure.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 280w.
“One expects picturesque incident, thrilling adventure, novel characters in a story that takes Northwest Canada for its setting, but one will scarcely find these necessary qualities in ‘Delilah of the snows.’”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4, ’08. 250w.
=Bindloss, Harold=. For Jacinta. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–2379.
A story of love and adventure which portrays “the savagery, fever, damp heat, and general hatefulness of the coast where the hero is trying to get by salvage the cargo of a wrecked steamer, and thereby prove in his lady’s eyes his capacity to be something more than a dawdler and dilettante.” (Outlook.)
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“Well told and wholesome.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08. ✠
“An excellent story of incident and adventure, reminiscent in plot of Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne’s ‘The wrecker,’ and in scene and treatment of Mr. A. J. Dawson’s ‘In the bight of Benin.’ But Mr. Bindloss apparently will not take the trouble to do justice to his undoubtedly lively invention, and distinct feeling for the picturesque and romantic side of open-air life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 23. 170w.
“The story is capitally told, and takes us to an interesting part of the world not much frequented by novelists. As in all the books by Mr. Bindloss that we have read, the money motive is forced a little too much, jarring the romantic sensibilities to which he particularly endeavors to appeal.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 133. Mr. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Certain passages are written with the requisite fire, but there are dead levels where the attention flags.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
“An almost too realistic and minutely drawn picture. The narrative of this adventure is too long drawn out, but there is some sincere effort at character depiction.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“It is a straightforward, absolutely wholesome story of love and adventure. And neither the love nor the adventure is in any way commonplace.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Long odds. †$1.50. Small.
8–32330.
The hero of this tale is dismissed from colonial military service for a fancied offence, and becomes stranded in the wilderness of Portuguese West Africa. His perilous adventures in righting the wrongs of a native bondswoman reveal many of the commercial and official conditions in that country which hamper good deeds and generous impulses.
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“The vagueness of the descriptions and the want of individuality in the characters betray the writer, who depends upon his reading and his imagination to furnish forth his material.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 409. D. ’08. 150w.
“He has not a little of the incisive power of Mr. Conrad in dealing with this tropical material.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 340w.
“It is to be regretted that the style is marred by mannerisms evidently the result of sheer carelessness.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The love story is of minor importance and is not well managed, lacking warmth and color and impressiveness. But the story of the wilderness and the brutal things that harbor there and of the man’s grim fight with them is strong and realistic and vital.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
Bindloss, Harold. Mistress of Bonaventure. *$1. Fenno.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It is a stirring story of real men and women, full of incident, and fairly well written, although the style is now and then disfigured by a slovenly touch.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 230w.
=Binns, Henry Bryan.= Life of Abraham Lincoln. *$1.50. Dutton.
8–14339.
An intimate picture of Lincoln with only enough political history included to interpret his character and development.
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“A valuable presentation of the life and character of the man.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 168. Je. ’08.
“One of the best-balanced and sanest of the innumerable lives of Lincoln.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 249. Ap. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Must therefore take its place among the essays rather than the lives. As such, and as the work of an Englishman, it is not uninteresting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 98. Jl. 30, ’08. 600w.
“It is Mr. Binns’s merit that he has shown so clearly how firmly, reasonably, patiently, bravely, and wisely in the flood of these controlling events the President steered.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 127. Mr. 7, ’08. 1450w.
“Mr. Binns has done a very creditable work in welding into a connected popular biography existing material about Lincoln’s life and career.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 380. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Binns has evidently taken great pains to sift his facts, and has given a very full picture of Lincoln’s life before he became president.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 210. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Birch, Walter de Gray.= Seals. (Connoisseur’s lib., v. 19.) *$7.50. Putnam.
8–2185.
The author, a fully trustworthy guide in the field of antiquities, confines himself mainly to a consideration of the heraldic seals of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland; several concluding chapters turn to the Byzantine empire, Italy and France. “There is no mention of the seals and stamps of the remote East, so much in question in studies of Chinese painting and bronze casting; nothing about the engraved gems of Greek and Greco-Roman antiquity, except as they appear in a few mediæval settings.... The book [fully illustrated] has only four pages of index for over three hundred of text. There is a glossary, but the heraldic terms are not made plain—to the layman.” (Nation.)
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“The book is so handsome and well produced as to make us regret that it was not written on a more definite plan.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 75. Jl. 18. 340w.
“The complete history of the engraved stamp remains to be written; but to that history Mr. Birch’s volume is a very notable contribution.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 80. N. ’08. 430w.
“The vast deal of interesting information in this work is limited in range and hardly made accessible.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 20. Jl. 2, ’08. 560w.
“The only defect one notes is that excessive attention is paid to English, or at least British examples, in contradistinction to those of the continent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 280w.
=Birt, Rev. Henry Norbert.= Elizabethan religious settlement: a study of contemporary documents. *$4.50. Macmillan.
8–13679.
Six hundred pages of careful discussion resulting from the digesting of a huge mass of Elizabethan manuscripts, papers and documents, showing the true relation which the church held to the social development of the sixteenth century. The general purpose of the volume is to put the best face possible on the Roman side, and the worst face possible on the Protestant side, of the Elizabethan controversy.
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“We should recommend those who desire to know the truth with regard to that memorable period to place this volume on their shelves by the side of those of Bishop Creighton and of Dr. Gee, and to use all three of them as correctives to Froude’s glowing, but untrustworthy volumes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 574. N. 9. 2350w.
“Of first-class value, and must be given a place among books to be read and studied on the subject.” W. H. Frere.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 571. Jl. ’08. 2450w.
“Mr. Birt’s volume should be read side by side with Froude’s work on the same period. Mr. Birt is far more accurate than his brilliant predecessor in the field.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“Welcome study.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 388. O. 22, ’08. 630w.
“His historical treatment of the Elizabethan settlement must be reckoned with by all careful investigators of that period.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 145. Ja. 18, ’08. 300w.
“Dom Birt’s volume might be a good deal more one-sided than it is, and it is a solid contribution to the literature of the subject.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 18. Ja. 4, ’08. 1220w.
“Mr. Birt has conducted his inquiry [in] a manner which we had hoped was obsolete. Mr. Birt writes history as Johnson wrote his Parliamentary debates, with a determination that the Protestant dogs shall not have the best of it. Mr. Birt is a controversialist first, and an historian only in the second place. His methods all through are those of the special pleader.”
− =Spec.= 100: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 1850w.
=Bishop, Avard Longley.= State works of Pennsylvania. (Publications of Yale university.) $1.50. Yale univ., New Haven, Ct.
“The monograph contains six chapters and an equal number of appendices, and there is also a good bibliography. The several parts of the study deal, in turn, with the transportation improvements made before 1823, with the popular agitation resulting in the state’s adoption of the policy of public works, with the activities of the state in constructing and financing the canals and railroads, with the many corrupt practices connected therewith, and with the difficulties in selling out the state works after they had shown themselves to be a burden instead of a profit to the state.”
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“It has been carefully done, and the result is a chapter in our economic history which should prove very instructive reading to those now interested in the problem of government ownership.” C. W. Wright.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 172. Mr. ’08. 470w.
“Dr. Bishop has made good use of the original material, still to be found in Pennsylvania.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 561. S. ’08. 160w.
“The author has done his work thoroughly and most impartially. The sources of information have been amply drawn upon, and the subject has been presented with due conciseness and with good sense of proportion.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =Yale R.= 17: 239. Ag. ’08. 360w.
=Bisset, Peter.= Book of water-gardening. *$2.50. De La Mare.
7–22907.
Mr. Bisset, superintendent of Mrs. Gardiner Hubbard’s estate, Twin Oaks, Washington, D. C., places within the reach of amateurs the information necessary to establish and conduct an inexpensive water-garden. “It gives directions also for the cultivation of aquatic plants upon the large scale demanded by parks and estates.” (Nation.) “A chapter is devoted to gold and other fish for ponds, the different types of fish being carefully described and illustrated.” (N. Y. Times.) The book is fully illustrated.
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“The value of a book of instruction and reference like this is much enhanced by a full index, and perhaps one may be given in a second edition.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 110w.
=Black, Rev. Hugh.= Christ’s service of love. **$1.25. Revell.
7–28618.
Urges Protestants to make more of the sacrament especially as a mark of Christian unity. “While Priestism makes too much of this sacrament, Protestantism makes too little of it, and is weakened thereby. Sensible of this, Professor Black lays needed emphasis on various aspects of the sacramental rite to secure it a more appreciative observance.” (Outlook.)
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 675. O. ’08. 20w.
=Ind.= 64: 640. Mr. 19, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 40w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 170w.
=Blackie, John Stuart.= On self-culture. 75c. Funk.
Three scholarly essays written by the professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. They are The culture of the intellect, On physical culture, and On moral culture.
=Blackmore, Richard Doddridge.= Lorna Doone; with introd. and notes by H. Snowden Ward. (Doonland ed.) $2.50. Harper.
8–28992.
An edition in which the principal new interest is topographical. Both introduction and scenic illustration afford the reader an opportunity to know his Doone-land well.
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“Apart from the notes on the Doone controversy, this is an excellent edition of a favourite book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1350w.
“It is hard to see how the work could have been better done. The numerous views, even the wide landscapes, have an admirable clearness and finish. The editor’s lore will please the curious, and will be at least skimmed by the indifferent and careless.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 240w.
“This edition is particularly excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 692. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
=Blake, Katharine Evans.= Stuff of a man. il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–8301.
A drama enacted among southerners, dealing with the negro question and revealing in the climax the “stuff of a man” which the negro possesses in common with all humanity. Mrs. Blake peoples her stage with a delightful group of men and women, whose inherited courtesy, grace, hospitality and sincerity of heart are capable of expansion into brotherhood magnanimity with which they face the vital racial problem. The phases of this problem set forth and analyzed are the phases confronting the entire South—negro lawlessness and crime that result in mobs and lynchings. Mrs. Blake’s solution is found in the development of the superman in black as well as white.
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“It is one of the most wholesome, charming and human love romances of the year, while at the same time it is the best study of the negro question that has been made in fiction.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 592. My. ’08. 660w.
“An example of what Mr. Thomas Dixon, jr., might have accomplished had he possessed poise and the ability to present with equal judgment both sides of a question.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Enchanted castle. †$1.25. Harper.
8–15327.
A fairy tale in which a group of natural, fun-loving children of very up-to-date characteristics discover an enchanted castle and a magic ring, instead of an Aladdin’s lamp, which once in their possession makes possible a round of most exciting adventures.
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“In its general character it is decidedly above the average run of so-called juvenile literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Bland, Hubert.= Happy moralist. *$1.25. Kennerley.
Seventeen short chapters containing comments and opinions on literature, art, music, socialism, love, marriage, manners, ethics, with a concluding chapter on Ibsen and Mr. Shaw.
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“His work is characterized by a lightness and a certainty of aim which make it invariably pleasant reading, even when it is most frivolous.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 320. Mr. 14. 230w.
“Mr. Bland’s style is piquant, now and then a little cynical, characterized throughout by this-worldliness rather than other-worldliness, but never other than light and bright and breezy and thoroughly readable.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 450w.
“His chapters amuse a little, persuade a little, but refuse to nourish and leave us somehow feeling emptier than we were before we read them.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 184. Ag. 27, ’08. 180w.
“Each of the essays will have its charm for readers and particular ones their special appeal to the individual.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.
=Bleackley, Horace William.= Story of a beautiful duchess; being an account of the life and times of Elizabeth Gunning, duchess of Hamilton and Argyll. *$5. Dutton.
8–15741.
A sketch of the life of the good and beautiful Elizabeth Gunning whose story is to a great extent the story of English society during the latter half of the eighteenth century. “Her life, with a minute account of the famous Douglas cause and a fair picture of the times, is clearly end comfortably given in this volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“He is particularly to be commended for his researches into the journalism of the eighteenth century, since, though his gleanings may not contribute much to the elucidation of truth, they show, at any rate, what was being said and thought by people like the ‘Tertium quid’ of ‘The ring and the book.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 822. D. 28. 600w.
“After completing the book the reader is likely to ask if the author’s efforts have really been worth while.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 240w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1404. Je. 18, ’08. 330w.
“It is a pity that honest industry should be marred by such ill taste. So many anecdotal memoirs of the eighteenth century are turned out these days upon the most superficial preparation that we should be glad to commend more heartily a book that is, at least, thoroughly documented, and, in its substance, not without human value.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 460w.
“Mr. Bleackley gives us a good portrait of his heroine, enthusiastic, as behooves a man writing of a beautiful woman, but careful, and based on thorough research.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 116. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
“The story which extends to upwards of three hundred and fifty pages, is not unusually enthralling or entertaining. However, it is better than the ruck of modern six-shilling novels.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The book, though written in a too ornate and often awkward style, gives a spirited picture of a time abounding in curious interest. The book is very handsomely got up, and the portraits of the Duchess and members of her family are charmingly reproduced and most attractive.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 270w.
=Bligh, William George.= Practical design of irrigation works. *$6. Van Nostrand.
Agr 8–246.
“The object of this work is the presentation of the principles which govern the design of irrigation works in such a manner that engineers not specifically conversant with this branch of practice may, by means of the information thus afforded, be enabled to solve suitable plans for such improvements. In order to accomplish this the author has adopted a novel procedure, which consists of analyzing the plans of existing and projected works, pointing out their good and bad features and then developing alternative plans in which improvements suggested by the critical study are incorporated.”—Engin. D.
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=Engin. D.= 3: 191. F. ’08. 250w.
“The book is comparatively free from errors of consequence, except possibly in the complicated formula given for submerged orifices (p. 116), and the incorrect reference to orifice formulas (p. 139), and in the omission of an appropriate index. The author deserves the high appreciation of the profession, however, as having published the most important work yet issued on the design of irrigation works, and his book should find a welcome and useful place in the library of every engineer, and especially every designing engineer interested in the subject of irrigation.” F. W. Hanna.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 539. My. 14, ’08. 1700w.
=Bliss, William Dwight P.=, ed. New encyclopaedia of social reform; ed. by W: D. P. Bliss, ed.-in-chief, and Rudolph M. Binder, assistant ed., with the cooperation of many specialists; new ed. *$7.50. Funk.
8–13953.
A new edition of a work which includes all social-reform movements and activities and the economic, industrial, and sociological facts and statistics of all countries and all social subjects. “This is a completely new book, save for a few purely historical economic articles, the subjects of which need no new treatment, but many even of these are either revised or completely rewritten. A comparison of this new edition with the old shows at once that a great improvement has been made. Every article has been written by some specialist on its particular subject.” (R. of Rs.) “The information is, as a rule, remarkably comprehensive, accurate, recent, and judicial.” (Outlook.)
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+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 168. Je. ’08.
“It is in fact an evolution, being a far more comprehensive and a vastly superior work to the preceding edition.”
+ + =Arena.= 40: 120. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“It is useful in many cases, and we propose to mention, with a view to future improvement, only a few points in which it falls short.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 761. Je. 20. 330w.
“Clippings have been too freely used. Articles evidently compiled some years ago have not been revised so as to bring their dates up to the approximate present. It would be much more highly valued if it were really expert thru and thru.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 420w.
“All the excision, though at times detracting from the more permanent value of the volume, has made room for a great deal of new and up-to-date material, such as will greatly increase its usefulness for reference on all present-day social reform.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 636. N. ’08. 160w.
“In pithiness and objectivity the work shows a distinct improvement over the first ‘Encyclopedia of social reform’ prepared by Dr. Bliss several years ago. It ought to have a place in every reference library.” E. A. Ross.
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
“In its way will prove as serviceable as its predecessor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 9. Jl. 2, ’08. 420w.
“The book fills a special place regarding subjects in the thoughts of almost everybody in active life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
“It is true that in some cases what we might reasonably expect to find is wanting. We can think of no reference library to which it would not be an addition.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
“Altogether, this book is invaluable to the journalist or the writer upon sociological topics, and all who have occasion to read widely in this field will find its bibliographical references indispensable.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 120w.
=Blok, Petrus Johannes.= History of the people of the Netherlands; tr. by Oscar A. Bierstadt. 5 pts. ea. $2.50. Putnam.
=pt. 4.= Deals with the period intervening between the renewal of war with Spain in 1621 and the death of William III. in 1702.
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“We are glad that Professor Blok shows throughout great judicial poise. His work is on the whole admirable.” W: E. Griffis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 573. Ap. ’08. 700w. (Review of pt. 4.)
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 100. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 4.)
“Dr. Blok is neither a Motley nor a Macaulay, but for trustworthiness he is a leader beyond these masters of rhetoric and erudite scholarship. Happily, too, Dr. Blok’s decidedly modern Dutch style is strongly and felicitously rendered by the translator, Mr. Oscar A. Bierstadt, who, with his former collaborator, Miss Ruth Putnam, deserves very high praise.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 103. F. 16, ’08. 840w. (Review of pt. 4.)
“Professor Blok is an authority on questions of fact, and those in search of information can get it from him. But one needs to employ the cyanide process in extracting the ore.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 250w. (Review of pt. 4.)
“Altogether this is an admirable piece of historical work well deserving of being reproduced in English, as has been done by Mr. Oscar A. Bierstadt in a very adequate manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w. (Review of pt. 4.)
“As a rule, Professor Blok’s judgments on men, measures, and events are conspicuously fair and sober, though occasionally, in writing, of foreign relations, he is a Dutchman first and a historian afterwards.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 97. Ja. 11, ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 4.)
=Bloomfield, Maurice.= Religion of the Veda: the ancient religion of India, (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads). (American lectures on the history of religions, 7th ser., 1906–1907.) **$1.50. Putnam.
8–5569.
Sketches “the motives and principles that underlie the remarkable chain of religious ideas that leads from the ritual worship of the great nature-gods of the Rig-Veda to the high theosophy of the Upanishads.” The author gives an account of the gods worshiped, gives various translations of Vedic hymns and philosophical works, then turns to the Upanishads or philosophical writings, of the seventeenth century B. C., and gives a description of the early search for truth in the development of the monistic idea.
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“A worthy successor to the list of notable volumes thus far included in the series.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 40w.
“The lectures, on the whole, while offering little that is new to the scholar, will prove a readable book to any one desiring to know the latest opinions on several points connected with the history of Hindu religion, and references are sufficiently frequent to enable the reader to find out for himself in what particulars Professor Bloomfield’s views differ from those of other scholars.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1201. My. 28, ’08. 500w.
“In his interpretation of the Vedic hymns the author is inclined to see only one side of religious expression. In the final lectures he gives a good account of the Hindu’s religious life and the goal of religious aspiration.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Unlike many scholarly discussions, these lectures have a personal charm, for the author, despite the fact that he has devoted a lifetime to research, has not lost his common sense, his humanity, or his sense of humor. His quotations and his comments on them are always delightful.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The latest volume of a series of standard works [by] a foremost authority on his subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 656. Mr. 21, ’08. 350w.
=Bodine, William Budd.= Some hymns and hymn writers; representing all who profess and call themselves Christians: short studies in the hymnal of the Episcopal church. **$3. Winston.
7–38889.
A book of hymns and information about them. “While the material is not sought outside of the choice hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal church, this is sufficiently representative of the church, ancient and modern, in the service of sacred song, in which all sectarian distinctions are ignored.” (Outlook.)
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“The book contains much that will interest a lover of hymns.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“His grouping of the writers under the different denominations is not a wise grouping. It does not give a clear principle of division. But the book contains a great deal of material that will be prized by the lover of hymns.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 100w.
=Bogart, Ernest Ludlow.= Economic history of the United States. *$1.75. Longmans.
7–41061.
Written for “high-school as well as college students.” The book contains four parts: (1) Colonial development, (2) The struggle for commercial and economic independence (1763 to 1808), (3) The industrial revolution and the westward movement (1808 to 1860), and (4) Economic integration and industrial organization (1860 to 1906). “The characteristics of the successive periods, the forces at work in them, and the various phases of this mighty development, which, as the author remarks, is the keynote of all American history, are saliently outlined.” (Cath. World.)
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“For the general student it is the best on the subject yet published.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 100. Ap. ’08. ✠
“To the student specializing in any particular branch of economic history, the book is of less value than many others. Its value lies in that it presents, in a connected form, the chief events which constituted the economic development of the United States.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 497. Mr. ’08. 350w.
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 113. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“Is the best text-book in its field. It stands the test of class-room use.” C: H. Hull.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 26. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“Certainly great credit is due to Professor Bogart for having made a distinct advance over anything yet written.” C. W. Wright.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 458. Jl. ’08. 800w.
“The treatment as a whole is unduly objective, burdened by a multitude of details, and it fails to convey the impression of organic development.” Katharine Coman.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 332. Je. ’08. 450w.
“We may particularly mention the author’s treatment of the question of slavery, which seems to us admirably concise and illuminating.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 792. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The book is greatly needed. While there are certain respects in which it may show deficiencies, the wonder is that these are so few. It is the best history of its kind for college classes. The style is simple and plain, the explanations clear.” E. D. Fite.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 352. N. ’08. 740w.
=Boigne, Comtesse de.= Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne; ed. from the original ms. by M. Charles Nicoullaud. **$2.50. Scribner.
=v. 3.= This last volume describes the latter part of the reign of Louis XVIII. and that of Charles X. and gives a first-hand account of the revolution of July, 1830, which made Louis Philippe king. The Comtesse de Boigne was closely associated with the courts of these times and writes interestingly of such men as Talleyrand, Chateaubriand, Guizot, the French royal family, Metternich, the Duc de Richelieu, and other important personages.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 7. Ja. ’08. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The translation is generally competent, although it might in many passages be improved.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 126. F. 1, 700w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The entertaining author is wont to clothe the baldness of fact in the embroidery of fancy. Much, therefore, that she records is to be taken with reservations.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 422. D. 16, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dial.= 44: 278. My. 1, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 3.)
“She is so obviously honest a witness, so clearly desirous of telling the truth, that her inaccuracies, though abundant, do not detract from the value of her evidence. Her political sympathies were not strong enough to blind her to facts nor to tempt her to misrepresent them. The English translation is respectable and accurate. A book so interesting in substance remains attractive even when it has lost the graces of style and manner which charm us in the original.” P. F. Willert.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 179. Ja. ’08. 2250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The author carefully restricts herself to being ‘the careful chronicler of the impressions of the moment,’ and resists the temptation to interpret events in the light of after history.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 975. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 765. My. 23, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The third volume, completing the work, deserves less consideration [than the second]. The most vivid pages are those describing the circumstances connected with the death of the Duc de Berry, but for the larger part the volume is made up of small talk.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 405. Ap. 30, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“They are all very charming and told with that intimate touch which French writers alone seem capable at all times of imparting to their narratives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 125. Mr. 7, ’08. 2100w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 270w. (Review of v. 3.)
“There is a good deal of padding for a little lightness in these volumes, but on the whole one is repaid.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 773. My. ’08. 1500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 476. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Bolton, Reginald Pelham.= Elevator service: operating conditions and proportions; with diagrams, formulas, and tables for passenger travel, schedule and express operation, with the relation of the elevators to the building, and proportions and loads of cars. *$5. Reginald P. Bolton, 527 5th av., N. Y.
8–7889.
“The book discusses in considerable detail the various features of the problem of elevator service as it is affected by the floor area of the building in relation to its height, the characteristic operating conditions that ordinarily obtain in business buildings and the effect of the personal equation of both operators and passengers upon the service, and many suggestions are offered as a result of careful studies of the problem.”—Engin. Rec.
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 529. My. ’08. 250w.
“It is to be regretted that a work of such range and value should be marred by minor blemishes which will no doubt be corrected in later editions. In spite of these the book is deserving of commendation.” W: H. Bryan.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 436. Ap. 16, ’08. 1800w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 540. Ap. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Bond, Beverly Waugh, jr.= Monroe mission to France 1794–1796. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–22912.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Altogether, it is an interesting bit of history, and the author has succeeded in shedding new light upon this episode.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 264. Ja. ’08. 220w.
=Bondurant, Bernard Camillus.= Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus: a historical study. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–28562.
A dissertation offered for a doctor’s degree. “Dr. Bondurant begins by giving an analysis of the text; then comes a list of dates of important events connected with the career of Decimus Brutus after the death of Caesar—i. e., from 15 March 44 B. C. to September 43 B. C.—followed by a selected list of books, articles, and dissertations, while at the end of the work there is a good index of proper names. The work itself is a careful study of the period.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
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“The work has been carefully done and the results arrived at are, in general, sound.” H: A. Sanders.
+ =Class. Philol.= 13: 212. Ap. ’08. 440w.
“Dr. Bondurant’s personal affection for Brutus has distinctly injured his critical faculty. The treatise will be valued by students of this period, on account of the scholarly care with which the authorities are given for every statement.” W. A. G.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 192. Ja. ’08. 260w.
=Booth, Edward C.= Post-girl. (Eng. title, Cliff end.) †$1.50. Century.
8–20677.
A story set among the out-of-the-way cliffs of Yorkshire. To Cliff Wrangham there comes a young composer bent upon the task of finishing a concerto. He finds among the diverting natives a wonderful girl, Pamela Searle, who in babyhood, had been dropped into this corner of the world, and had grown to reflect, chameleon like, the glories of sky and sea, and to exult in her elemental strength. She carries the mail at six shillings a week; is the object of the somber passion of the schoolmaster. When the “Spawer” comes he teaches her the beauty of his world, the world of art which she has longed to know. The struggle between the old influences and the new, the love which comes on apace, and the mad determination of the schoolmaster to thwart it furnish elements for an unusually strong story.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“The book will suggest Barrie’s ‘Little minister,’ but it is in no sense an imitation.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 392. O. ’08. 1200w.
“The whole impression that you retain from the book, is of careful workmanship, sincerity of purpose and that deep insight which comes from a sympathetic interest in human life.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 578. Ag. ’08. 300w.
“He has a manner almost Meredithian in its richness, but without the Meredithian asperity.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 85. Ag. 16, ’08. 470w.
“The ‘Post-girl’ joins to freshness of atmosphere an artistic touch, a technical felicity, which, gracefully light in its comedy, lacks neither poetry nor strength in its sentiment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 170w.
“There breathes no man or woman—or only the fewest at least admirable of our race—who will not be glad to read this sweet and tender story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 520w.
“It is surprisingly fresh and fine. To our taste the author lingers too long over the talk of his characters, and sometimes the flow of good spirits runs rather thin.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 160w.
=Borsa, Mario.= English stage of today; tr. by Selwyn Brinton. *$2.50. Lane.
8–9149.
A concise treatment particularly illuminating to foreigners. “Among the principal subjects which it passes in review, are the nature of English playgoers, actors, and actor-managers, the leading dramatists and critics, the Stratford-on-Avon celebrations; the work of the various independent theatres, the realistic and the literary drama, the Irish theatre, and the censorship.” (Nation.)
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“Dr. Borsa’s survey of the contemporary British drama is a better book in its English dress, as edited and translated by Mr. Selwyn Brinton than it was in its original Italian form as published a year ago in Milan. There are still some minor inaccuracies which should have been corrected, but they are not sufficiently grave to destroy the value of the book as a whole.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 250. D. 14, ’07. 460w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08.
“Dr. Borsa’s book challenges attention. Dr. Borsa’s chapters are the merest journalism. Some of his judgments on plays have a certain piquancy as revealing an attitude of mind and a philosophy of life other than our own; but the bulk of his matter is ephemeral, while his criticism is too often marred by his tendency to exaggeration inherent in ‘impressionism.’”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 204. F. 16. 540w.
“An attempt, on the whole a successful one, to analyze present dramatic conditions and possibilities in England.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Not for a long time has there been published a more pertinent treatise on current stage matters in England than that of Dr. Mario Borsa.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1039. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“He has written a most attractive, instructive, and clear-headed work, which will repay the study of all persons interested in theatrical affairs.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 594. D. 26, ’07. 1200w.
“The book is the work of a man who understands the human heart and who can express himself with power. It is of value in excess of mere criticism, for it constructs and explains, bringing that fresh eye and open mind as necessary in life as in art. The translation by Selwyn Brinton is felicitous.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 97. F. 22, ’08. 1500w.
“The book would be more helpful if its criticism were more constructive, but as an attempt to diagnose the malady which afflicts the drama in England it is singularly successful.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 234. My. ’08. 400w.
=Bosch, Mrs. Hermann.= Bridget. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–11700.
A prepossessing Irish girl is the heroine of this story. Her career from the landing with immigrant companions on Ellis island to the end of a romance with a footman in a millionaire establishment is sketched with special detail given to the pitfalls along the servant’s way to an honest living.
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“Inartistic and exaggerated, but humorous, clean and rather unique.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“The book remains wholesome and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Bose, Jagadis Chunder.= Comparative electro-physiology. *$5.75. Longmans.
8–13638.
A work which is complementary to Professor Bose’s books on response in the living and nonliving, and plant response. “[He generalizes] that the responses of all living substances are similar, and that responses are to be found even in inorganic substances. The similarity depends on some common fundamental reaction of matter. The response is recorded largely by electrical methods. Motor responses are also considered, particularly in plants; but they are treated also rather less fully in animals.” (Nation.)
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“The author has made a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the extremely difficult subject of electro-physiology, and whether or not his conclusions prove to be accurate in detail, there can be no doubt of their general truth. His observations, therefore, are useful alike to the physiologist (concerned with animals or plants), the physicist, and the psychologist, by all of whom his book should be read carefully.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 357. Mr. 21. 1000w.
“The author herein shows the same peculiarities as in the preceding volume. There is the same naïve interest in well-known phenomena, as though they were quite novel; there is the same lack of effort to connect his work with that of others, so far, at least, as citing their researches or results is concerned. There is much repetition of the earlier volume; the same tilting at windmills. This book shares with its predecessor, also, the confusion between energy and stimulus, a confusion that is possible because we know so little of plant energetics. Bose seems to ignore, if he is not ignorant of, the anatomy of the parts with which he is dealing. Out of these books we look for someone to rescue many good observations, now apparently gone awry.” C. R. B.
− + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 58. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“Prof. Bose has great ingenuity in device of experimental apparatus, fertility in initiating new lines of observation, and a clear style of setting forth his experimental results and theoretical deductions; nevertheless, we feel far from satisfied with his performance. The whole book abounds in interesting matter skilfully woven together, and would be recommended as of great value if it did not continually arouse our incredulity.” L. H.
+ − =Nature.= 77: sup. 3. Mr. 5, ’08. 1500w.
=Boulger, Demetrius C. de K.= Life of Sir Halliday Macartney. *$6. Lane.
8–21787.
The story of forty-four years of useful service to the Chinese empire. Sir Halliday Macartney commanded Li Hung Chang’s trained force in the Taeping rebellion, founded the first Chinese arsenal, was secretary to the first Chinese embassy to Europe, and secretary and councillor to the Chinese legation in London for thirty years. The narrative is one of historical interest. The book is fully illustrated.
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“Sir Halliday’s career was interesting, but not such as to furnish material for a volume of 515 pages. Mr. Boulger has been driven to surround his subject with essays on the political and other events touched upon, and to invest his hero with an importance which did not naturally belong to him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 960w.
=Nation.= 87. 236. S. 10, ’08. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 460w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 60w.
“He was a voluminous writer of letters and despatches, to many of which Mr. Boulger has had access, and, which he quotes profusely in a volume which is somewhat too much expanded by their aid.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 302. S. 5, ’08. 1250w.
=Bourget, Paul.= Weight of the name. †$1.50. Little.
8–9812.
A French marquis who proclaims his divine right to power and fame thru his name and lineage, who has the pride and the religious veneration of his race and of old France, faces the fact that his only son loves the daughter of a provincial notary. Close in the wake of this discovery comes the appalling revelation that this son is the child of his dead wife and a trusted friend. The magic of lineage cannot set straight this irregular fact and as his pride is humbled he grows more amenable to influences that soften and lead to a more democratic outlook on life.
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“His ideas are so pronounced that for friends of democratic and religious advance the book holds little or no interest.”
− + =Arena.= 40: 269. S. ’08. 140w.
“Though the elements of the story are few, and there is nothing violent in the action, M. Bourget’s superb art and psychology construct an intensely interesting story in which there are two or three powerful situations.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 403. Je. ’08. 400w.
“This touching story keeps in its English dress much of the peculiar charm, the quivering intensity of emotion never verging upon mawkishness, of the original.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 550w.
“The character of this finely tempered and uncompromising old nobleman is drawn with skill and affection; and while in the love passages the novelist does not escape his tendency to be didactic, the story as a whole gains immensely in vitality over his earlier work, because he has put his heart into it.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“Monsieur Bourget sustains his reputation as scientific analyst by exhibiting both the value to a country of a stable territorial aristocracy and at the same time the evils springing from its ways of thought.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 765. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Bousset, Wilhelm.= What is religion? (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–12833.
“Bousset’s work in eight chapters deals, after the introduction, with the religion of savages, with national, prophetic, legal, and redemptive religions, and with the nature and future of Christianity. It is an ambitious attempt, therefore, to review popularly all of religion as at present understood, to show its origins and development, its varieties, its present status and future prospects. It reaches the conclusion that Christianity is the acme of development in its union of the elements of morality, redemption, and assurance of the future life.”—Am. J. Theol.
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Reviewed by G: W. Gilmore.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 322. Ap. ’08. 270w.
“This is an extremely interesting book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 520w.
Reviewed by T. D. A. Cockerell.
=Dial.= 44: 213. Ap. 1, ’08. 130w.
“Professor Bousset is well equipped for his task, and writes here, as always, in a limpidly clear and graphic manner, enabling the reader to see a century in a sentence. He approaches his task sympathetically, which cannot be said of all students of religion.” W. Jones-Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 682. Ap. ’08. 2300w.
“The book is not a thoro treatise, either in the philosophy of religion or in its history, but as an introduction to the modern science of comparative religion it is of much value.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1403. Je. 18, ’08. 330w.
“As a rapid survey of the field of comparative religion and a concise and graphic description of the chief types of religion, Professor Bousset’s lectures are of merit. In its English dress the book scarcely does justice to the author of the learned and exhaustive history of the Jewish religion in the age of the New Testament.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 445. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“The book is an excellent introduction to the study of the nature of religion and its development into the religions of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 829. D. 14, ’07. 250w.
=Boutet de Monvel, Roger.= Beau Brummell and his times. **$2.50. Lippincott.
8–34712.
“It is a strange mingling of comedy and tragedy, this story of the Regent’s friend, the bully of society, the _arbiter elegantiarum_, and then the broken-down exile, brave against all his enemies save, disease and death.” (Nation.) “The book is a vivid picture of the brilliant heartless, and witty society under the Regent. We get glimpses of the court, its festivities, and its petty squabbles, wherever Brummell brings his imposing figure, the ‘sublime dandy,’ the ornament and leader of society.” (Ath.)
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“This is an altogether charming book. The notes, drawn from contemporary sources, are brief and admirable, giving just the information needed. The attitude throughout is French, and, on the whole, sympathetic. There is no unnecessary moralizing.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 535. My. 2. 1400w.
“The author approaches his subject absolutely without prejudice. In his attitude there is neither admiration nor contempt, but a kind of blending of the two, and above all, wonder and sly amusement.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 268. N. ’08. 1800w.
“A delightfully picturesque and sympathetic study, etched on the background of contemporary English life.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 217. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“An entertaining brief account.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 200w.
“M. de Monvel’s work is exceedingly well done; it gives us strong and clear impressions of the famous London dandy and the folk among whom he lived his life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 554. O. 10, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Bovill, W. B. Forster.= Hungary and the Hungarians. **$2. McClure.
8–34714.
Mr. Bovill tells what the Hungarians are, what their resources and short comings are, and how their institutions and ideals make them “the most bewildering, fascinating, hospitable race in Europe.” He admits they are lacking in the genius for practical organization which insures a sound political basis for a government.
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“A readable, and, above all, an informing book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“W. B. Forster Bovill has performed a good service in writing his book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 420w.
“Some very vivid descriptive writing about a comparatively unknown fascinating people makes this volume an unusually attractive work of descriptive travels.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 639. N. ’08. 120w.
=Bowen, Edwin Winfield.= Makers of American literature: a class-book on American literature. *$2.50. Neale.
8–5135.
Not a history but a guide to the study of American literature. “It purports simply to discuss and consider the literary achievements of our leading American authors,—those who stand out most conspicuously in a general survey of our literature and who are recognized among the foremost makers of American literature.” There are informing chapters on Franklin, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Prescott, Hawthorne, Emerson, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, Lowell, Lanier and Whitman.
=Bowen, Marjorie.= Sword decides. †$1.50. McClure.
8–10858.
The court of Naples in the 14th century is here depicted with much local color. The life and evil deeds of Giovanna, the queen, and her diplomatic relations with the principality of Hungary form a subject around which is grouped much incident having a wealth of melodramatic detail.
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“Miss Bowen’s style has improved in directness and ease. It is still highly coloured and fresh and young; she has still little thought of restraint; but one accepts the wealth of material, and the profusion even of horrors, for the sake of genuine promise. Her strong point is not character, but she has one or two excellent portraits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 506. Ap. 25. 150w.
“When all is said there is nothing remarkable about the story except the author’s youth, her evident reversion to type, and her extraordinary use of words expressing color.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 151. Jl. 16, ’08. 460w.
“Has none of the stiff, unreal quality of most very old-world tales, and looms as vividly before us as if it concerned the passing events of the present day. And still it never loses the spirit, never drops the phraseology, never forgets the air and glamour of the time in which it is set.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Not archaeological exactness and faithful portraiture of character constitute the indispensable elements to fiction of this class, but descriptive vividness and dramatic sharpness. These two requirements are certainly reached by Miss Marjorie Bowen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
“What pleases us most in Miss Bowen’s work is her freedom from any pretentiousness in style or in reflection; she indulges but rarely in intellectual flights of general comment on the mysteries of life, and she is never precious.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 634. My. 16, ’08. 400w.
=Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair).= Lure of the dim trails. †$1.50. Dillingham. 7–32836.
Once again Mr. Bower writes a story of the west beyond the Mississippi “where the trails of men are dim and far apart.” His hero is a cowboy whose romance begins when the heroine of the tale calls him a coward.
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“It may all have been done before, but probably there is little harm in that, and it is done here as well as anywhere else.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 12. Ja. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Bower, Frederick Orpen.= Origin of a land flora: a theory based upon the facts of alternation. *$5.50. Macmillan.
8–19077.
A technical study presented by the professor of botany in the Glasgow university mainly concerned with the theories as to the origin of the leafy fern-plant and of the moss-fruit. “Starting with the hypothesis that the origin of our present land flora is to be found in an aquatic ancestry, the author’s main object is to ascertain to what extent the life histories of the higher plants justify such an assumption, and to trace as far as possible the methods by which aquatic plants specialised themselves in order to attain a land habit. Thus Professor Bower makes a comparative study of plants from the point of view of descent.” (Sat. R.)
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“It should be read by everyone interested in the evolution and development of plant-life.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 608. My. 16. 880w.
“The scope of the volume is very broad and its spirit is admirable. The volume is a monument to the research power and philosophical insight of its distinguished author.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 56. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“All botanists owe a debt of gratitude to the author for the theory which he has so systematically worked out, as well as for the detailed investigations to which it has been the guide. No more important contribution to scientific botany has appeared in England since the revival of botanical research in this country in the seventies of the past century. Nothing can be better for English botany than the appearance of such a book as this, a full and most original treatise on an important branch of the science by one who is an acknowledged master of his subject.” D. H. S.
+ + − =Nature.= 79: 1. N. 5, ’08. 2900w.
“Perhaps the most important contribution to the theoretical side of botany during the present generation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 732. Je. 6, ’08. 450w.
“It is in all ways a thoroughly satisfactory book.” C: E. Bessey.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 618. Ap. 17, ’08. 950w.
“It is a remarkable contribution to botanical literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 791. My. 16, ’08. 470w.
* =Bowie, Augustus Jesse, jr.= Practical irrigation, its value and cost; with tables of comparative cost, relative soil production, reservoir dimensions and capacities and other data of value to the practical farmer. *$3. McGraw.
8–19875.
“Chapters 1 to 7 deal in a brief and more or less elementary manner with some of the broad features of irrigation and the remaining nine chapters deal almost wholly with irrigation pumping plants and the construction of artificial reservoirs.... The book contains very little information concerning irrigation farming, although its title might be taken to indicate otherwise.”—Engin. N.
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“From the viewpoint of the agriculturist the entire work will be found of practical benefit, and from the viewpoint of the engineer the treatment of pumping systems and of the artificial reservoirs will be equally valuable.” F. W. Hanna.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 189. Ag. 13, ’08. 560w.
“Throughout the whole treatment of these subjects the author is distinctly ‘practical,’ in that he dwells insistently on the cost of the different classes of work and on the total cost of the service they will perform.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 531. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Bowne, Borden Parker.= Personalism. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–6100.
The N. W. Harris lectures for 1907, Northwestern university. Professor Bowne discusses the subject of personal metaphysics; shows the relation of sound philosophy to science and to common sense; points out that the field of science is empirical phenomena, while philosophy’s realm is that of causality and purpose behind experience; and agrees with Comte that abstract and impersonal metaphysics is a mirage of formal ideas which begin, continue and end in abstraction and confusion. He stands for a personal idealism in philosophy and the possibility of an enlightened orthodoxy in religion.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 169. Je. ’08.
“His metaphysics is likely to provoke amusement in many minds, rather than serious consideration.”
− =Nation.= 86: 559. Je. 18, ’08. 1150w.
“His style is beautifully, even amazingly, simple and lucid, and though of course his chapters are not what is called easy reading, that is the reader’s fault, not Dr. Bowne’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 700w.
“For a thorough exposure of radical fallacies in philosophic and popular thought, and for clear pragmatic thinking toward the ultimate reality of an all-embracing Intelligence and Will, as the ground of this personal world, beginners in philosophy will find this an eminently serviceable book.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Boxall, George E.= Awakening of a race. *$2.75. Wessels.
7–32830.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“We fully appreciate this writer’s legitimate discontent with certain aspects of our social life, and may agree with him, that it is ignorance of human nature that underlies much of the evil. But Mr. Boxall is himself not well informed, and his total inappreciation of the inwardness of great religious and social problems renders his book quite valueless for purposes of reform.”
− =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 430w.
=Boyce, Neith, pseud. (Mrs. Hutchins Hapgood).= The bond: a novel of modern marriage. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–11083.
A story of the clashing of temperaments. A young artist weds an idealistic young woman. Liking and interest seem to be the only requirements of their bond. These elements prove incapable of sustaining the two natures thru experiences of married life and they “quarrel, jar and nag, as no two persons outside a comic paper could ever be induced to do.” It is once more a study of the artistic temperament suffering amid unsubordinated crass experiences.
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“The volume is a frank and interesting study of the intimacies of married life; but it contains, in our opinion, nothing that is undesirable for clean-minded youth.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 433. O. 10. 100w.
“We could wish that the author’s delicate talent had been employed upon a worthier theme, or a theme, bearing a closer relation to normal existence.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 260w.
“[The author] does her work faithfully and discerningly, and her story rings true.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 550w.
“It is not at all a bad novel. Parts of it are written with insight and skill, and there is very little that does not indicate both feeling and intelligence. What dooms the book is not its construction, not its phraseology, not its mental or artistic standpoint, but its characters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 248. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Boyle, Eleanor Vere.= Peacock’s pleasaunce. **$1.50. Lane.
“A bundle of papers lightly and fancifully connected through the pretty, fantastic title. Her Prologue in explanation of this title is characteristic of her style and manner, and well prepares the reader for what follows. The peacock is merely a figure, a symbol standing decoratively at the head of her page, to light the way into the pleasaunce. E. V. B. writes of strange flowers and woods, of birds and weeds, of art and insects—being catholic and benignant in her taste.... The pages are scattered with iridescent fragments of old myths and legends, showing the author’s often mystic leanings.”—Ath.
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“The only exception we can take to this pretty volume is that the author has included two papers on ‘Art education’ which seem to us out of place here.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 765. Je. 20. 300w.
“In the semi-suggestions of the supernatural that sprinkle her pages, as well as in the veil of mysticism thrown over all, there is something almost Hawthornesque—a nameless charm that makes one forgive the fine writing in which the author is prone to indulge.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 220w.
“To persons who share her delights the reading of her essays will furnish a certain amount of pleasure, although it must be confessed that other writers have treated her subjects more entertainingly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 110w.
=Bradford, Gamaliel, jr.= Matthew Porter: a story of to-day. $1.50. Page.
8–10859.
The social and political life of Boston forms the setting of this story into which enter the conflict of personalities, character development, and an appealing human element. The hero, a candidate for governor, is a reformer; he holds to the belief that more power should be vested in the governor and less in the legislature. The story traces the influence of his liberal views upon a young woman belonging to an aristocratic Boston family. She turns from her musicians, sculptors, writers and painters and tries her hand at practical campaigning. The hero wins both his office and the heroine.
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“The narrative is cumbered with many irrelevant persons, and the inevitable love-theme is a wearisome affair.”
− =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 500w.
“He has used the story as a peg upon which to hang a great many not very novel lectures on what politics and government ought to be.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 318. Je. 6, ’08. 280w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= Round about Wiltshire. (Highways and byways in England.) *$2. McClure.
W7–180.
A monograph which shows the author’s delight in his “rambles and his topics—in the ancient camps and temples on the downs, in the deserted abbeys and old manor houses of the slopes and the valleys, in the thatched cottages and their rustic tenants, in the cornlands and the meadows, in the streams and the trout.” (Sat. R.) It is illustrated with fourteen reproductions of water-colors, and numerous halftones.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.
“This Marlburian chronicle is interesting, doubtless, but there is too much of it; it throws the work out of scale and compels the omission of divers famous local themes which might well have been illustrated. Its chief charm lies in the ease and spontaneity of the narrative; in the manifest gusto with which the author has set about his task.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 211. Jl. 5, ’07. 920w.
“It is full of information and full of appreciation of the peculiar features of Wiltshire scenery and legend.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 146. Ag. 3, ’07. 1750w.
“Mr. Bradley handles his materials with judgment, and talks well about them all, and his felicity in narrative is incontestable.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 868. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
* =Bradley, Samuel Carlyle.= Jesus of Nazareth. *$2. Sherman, French & co.
8–32494.
A life of Jesus that aims first to bring into prominence the “Manliness of Jesus” by emphasizing the saying of Paul that Jesus was in all points tempted like as we are; and second, to fill up the gap in the record of Jesus’s life which includes the formative period that prepared him for his later mission.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend=, comp. Northwestern fights and fighters. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36235.
A collection of accounts of operations against Indians most of which were written by army officers who took part in the engagements described. “The general desire of Dr. Brady as editor seems to be to vindicate the army, which has so often been under unjust critical fire.” (Ind.)
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“Are of use principally as entertaining reading for men and boys, and offer nothing of any particular value to the student.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 37. F. ’08. ✠
“The book as a whole is full of adventure and is real into the bargain.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1478. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
“Mr. Brady’s own contribution to the history is clear and full of patriotic fire.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 50w.
=Braid, James.= Advanced golf. **$3. Jacobs.
8–20687.
Instruction and advice combine to make this handbook valuable for advanced golfers, especially, as the rudimentary details of the game are omitted. Mr. Braid, a champion player, “writes intelligently of the choice of clubs, gives sound instruction on such delicacies of play as intentional pulling and slicing, as to play in wet weather and against direct winds, as to putting, systems of practice, and the ‘science of the stroke.’ He has chapters on the planning of courses, and relates frankly yet modestly some of his personal experiences.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Braid’s book will be generally welcomed by golfers. Its charm lies in its lucidity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 630w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 170. Ag. 8, ’08. 1200w.
“The biographical characters are highly entertaining.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Brainerd, Ira Hutchinson=, ed. Edwin Davis French: a memorial; his life, his art. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.
8–13734.
Deals authoritatively with the life and work of a noted book-plate engraver. “The selection of biographical material has been painstaking and discriminating; the plates used as illustrations cover a wide range. The check list of the French plates, as published by Paul Lemperly in 1899, has been continued, and the series brought to a finish. A supplementary list of designs and engravings other than bookplates has been included. The edition is limited to 475 copies, of which 425 are on handmade paper and 50 are on imperial Japanese vellum.” (Nation.)
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“The biographical portion of the volume has been delightfully written.” Laurence Burnham.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 49. S. ’08. 1100w.
“He has carefully avoided saying too much and has not left unsaid anything vital.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 977. Ap. 30, ’08. 110w.
“An admirable piece of work.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 385. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
=Brand, Jack.= By wild waves tossed; an ocean love story. †$1.50. McClure.
8–13949.
A spirited romance which begins with the abduction of an English girl by a profligate captain of the royal navy, and continues on board a merchant ship whither an American naval officer, masquerading as a common sailor, had conducted the rescued girl for passage to America where relatives would claim her. The times are those just prior to the war of 1812 and the frigate Constitution figures in the story.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A story of love, war, and the sea in the spirit of Sir Walter when he deals with that romantic trinity of elements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 250w.
“It is bright of its kind, clean and wholesome, and has never a serious moment for the jaded reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Breasted, James Henry.= History of the ancient Egyptians. (Historical ser. for Bible students, v. 5.) **$1.25. Scribner.
8–15332.
An abridgment and condensation of Professor Breasted’s larger work to which have been added such recent discoveries as the finding of Gem-Atom in Nubia, and the discovery of the Hittite capital at Boghaz Koi in Asia Minor. It is based directly on original monuments and is adapted for class use.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 170. Je. ’08. ✠
“Notable book.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 79. Jl. ’08. 70w.
“Is as trustworthy as present study can make it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 436. Ag. 20, ’08. 140w.
“The story is told in a plain and lucid style, without ornamentation, and with the earnestness of a man who has something to tell and is intent merely upon the telling.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 150w.
“Is a history, the most reliable yet produced, not merely of Egypt, but of the Egyptian people.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 812. N. 21, ’08. 200w.
=Brebner, Percy James.= Vayenne. $1.50. McBride, J.
8–7896.
A story charged to the brim with adventure in which an unlawful successor to the Duchy of Montvilliers resorts to foul trickery to push his claim, but is outwitted by a young soldier of fortune and a court fool. The latter unite their energies and wits to put upon the throne the rightful heir. Sword play, bloodshed, justice grown eloquent to sway the multitude, sacrifice, and romance mingle in dramatic variety.
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“Of its class it is a member in good standing.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
“The action of ‘Vayenne’ is as rapid as any of its proto-types, and dramatic episodes are born, flourish, and pass away on every page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Spec.= 100: 344. F. 29, ’08. 20w.
=Breck, Edward.= Way of the woods: a manual for sportsmen in northeastern United States and Canada. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–11766.
A practical field manual containing concise, comprehensive and authoritative information on all subjects of interest to the camper, the fisherman and the hunter; not omitting the essentials of a complete outfit, their place of purchase and approximate cost.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08. ✠
“It ends with a good working bibliography wherefrom further knowledge may be gained.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It is an ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’ of the woods. Our only criticism of the book is that the outfits are inclined to be elaborate.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1292. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“As a sportsman’s manual [this book] would be hard to surpass in its breadth and compactness of information, without sacrificing readability altogether.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 32. Jl. 9, ’08. 350w.
“The interesting manner in which practical hints are presented and the sterling good sense give Mr. Breck’s book a real value, which will be appreciated alike by veterans of the woods and novices.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 80w.
=Brenan, Gerald, and Statham, Edward Phillips.= House of Howard. *$6. Appleton.
8–15740.
A two volume work which sketches the history of this notable family than which none in England “has been more concerned in the political, social and religious developments of the English people: none shows to greater advantage upon the rolls of the English nobility at the present time. Messrs. Brenan and Statham do not undertake in their book to take account of all the branches of the family that are now in existence; what they give us is a historical record of the family chiefly with regard to those members who have held the more prominent positions and especially those who have enjoyed the highest hereditary titles.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The style of the book is so well maintained that, if the facts were not known, it would be difficult to differentiate one collaborator from the other. No fault can be found with the historical portion of the work, which is fairly and impartially written. These genealogical tables are generally accurate, though misprints are occasionally to be found.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 721. D. 7. 1100w.
“Errors of detail in dates, spellings, and misinterpretations of documents are to be found on nearly every page. Its virtues would have been enormously enhanced, and its faults correspondingly diminished, had the book enjoyed the advantage of systematic and scholarly revision.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 524. N. 26, ’08. 1200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 573. O. 17, ’08. 300w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 227. F. 8, ’08. 460w.
* =Brereton, Austin.= Life of Henry Irving. 2v. **6.50. Longmans.
“This biography is just a chronicle—admirably exact and faithful—of its hero’s public life. All Irving’s professional experiences, from his appearances in Sunderland, Edinburgh, Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool down to his farewell seasons at the Lyceum and Drury Lane, and his final performance of ‘Becket’ at Bradford, are here presented with a carefulness that merits enthusiastic acknowledgment. If ever there was an object-lesson in what can be done by an actor, through force of character, to overcome natural defects and the obstacle of self-consciousness, it is surely afforded by Irving’s career, and in Mr. Brereton’s chapters the moral is consistently pointed.”—Ath.
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“The reader will search in vain for information as to what the man was apart from his art. His writing, so far from having any distinction, does not rise above the level of average journalism. Mr. Brereton’s statistics are among the most important features of his book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 551. O. 31. 1000w.
“The author is not impartial in his attitude toward his subject, indiscriminating admiration being its keynote.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“Its unexceptionable sources of information and capital index make it an exceedingly useful work of reference for the student of the theatre. Though on the historical side it is complete and accurate, on the critical it is less trustworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 418. O. 29, ’08. 1500w.
“It may be accepted as the definitive life of Irving, published with the sanction of his family and executors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 651. N. 7, ’08. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 280w.
“Contains many interesting passages. Yet one cannot but reflect how much better it would have been as a book in its quiddity if the author had but read and marked to practical purpose Isaac Disraeli’s comment on biographies at large.” W. H. Pollock.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 605. N. 14, ’08. 1400w.
=Brewster, William Tenney.= Specimens of modern English literary criticism; chosen and edited by W. T. Brewster. *$1. Macmillan.
7–33232.
Contains the following: Stephen’s Wood’s halfpence, Masson’s DeQuincey’s writings, Johnson’s The metaphysical poets, Macaulay’s Montgomery’s poems, Bagehot’s Dickens, Pater’s Wordsworth, Robertson’s Poe, Dryden’s Preface to the fables, Harrison’s Ruskin as a master of prose, Lamb’s Tragedies of Shakespeare, James’s The art of fiction, Poe’s Philosophy of composition, Arnold’s Study of poetry, Coleridge’s On poetry and poetic form, and Shelley’s Defense of poetry. “The essays,” says the author, “proceed from the simplest, most matter of fact and most easily demonstrable to the more general, more abstract, and less easily provable.”
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“What is particularly admirable in the execution of his plan is the broad and generous introduction, which discusses freely and interestingly not only the general type of literature included, but also the particular selections themselves.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“To adapt a well-known dictum—by Augustine Birrill, we believe—a man may talk like a gentleman and scholar for a year on the material gathered from this book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =School R.= 16: 345. My. ’08. 340w.
=Brierley, Jonathan (“J. B.,” pseud.).= Sidelights on religion. *$1.40. Whittaker.
A series of observations aiming to show that religion broadly considered is the real and only explanation of the riddle of existence.
=Briggs, Ernest Edward.= Angling and art in Scotland: some fishing experiences related and illustrated. *$4. Longmans.
“Mr. Briggs shows us how companionable his two arts are, how each serves the other, and how the man that is committed to them finds his days in the woods and along the streams full of delight. Where Mr. Briggs has fished in Scotland there also has he painted, and vice versa, and his book gives us charming records of his achievements in both respects.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A book with many charms; foremost among them are the thirty-two coloured plates, but they are run close by the descriptions of Galloway and the Highlands, and by the admirable production of the volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 471. O. 17. 640w.
“His pictures, which are reproduced in color, are little gems. He tells his fish stories beautifully.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 360w.
=Brinton, Christian.= Modern artists. il. **$6. Baker.
8–9098.
Fourteen artists are presented from Fragonard to Zuloaga. “Mr. Christian Brinton does not state explicitly anywhere in his studies what constitutes his idea of modernity and thereby his basis of selection. But in general his test seems to be virility of insight and workmanship, a compelling personality, above all the power to paint realities, whether ideal realities like Watts, rococo realities like Fragonard, or the stern reality of toil like Meunir and Segantini. Of the fourteen artists discussed all are painters; eleven are still living or have died within the present century; and all are figure painters.” (Dial.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 170. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Brinton is able to approach each painter with open mind and ready sympathy. His criticism is interesting in that it seizes so readily upon salient features and phrases its conclusions so forcibly.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 214. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“What the author writes of the people as well as of their art is extremely entertaining, and much of it is informing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Bristol, Frank Milton.= Life of Chaplain McCabe, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. **$1.50. Revell.
8–23284.
A eulogistic record of the deeds of a man whose motto thru life was “Ich dien.” He served as army chaplain during the civil war and was loved for his cheerfulness, helpfulness and his sympathetic voice. For thirty years after the war he labored to strengthen and extend mission work in the Methodist church, being known as the most “irresistible beggar” of his times; for ten years he served in the high ecclesiastical office of bishop. “If his biographer’s style occasionally reminds one of the hallelujahs and amens heard in old-fashioned Methodist prayer-meetings, it is pardonable, as if caught from the perfervid spirit of his subject.” (Outlook.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 495. S. 12, ’08. 1200w.
“It is not pardonable in Bishop Bristol to inject into his memorial of this Christian hero an accusation of ‘rationalism’ and ‘infidelity’ against the theological schools and university professors who teach differently from the evangelists and class leaders.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
=Britton, Nathaniel Lord, and Shafer, John Adolph.= North American trees; being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America north of Mexico and the West Indies. (American nature ser. Group 1. Classification of nature.) **$7. Holt.
8–15485.
A splendid volume of nearly nine hundred pages devoted to descriptions and to illustrations of all the kinds of trees known to grow independently of planting in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies. The descriptions contain as few technical terms as possible and are aided by the illustrations in rendering easy the identification of trees by their foliage, flowers and fruit. There is a general key to families, a glossary of special terms and an index to English names.
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“Libraries having Sargent will find Britton useful as meeting a different need; those having Hough will perhaps not find Britton necessary.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 255. N. ’08.
“The authors are in an exceptionally favorable position to make such a book accurate rather than merely popular, and it is a good thing now and then for men who have the facts to give to the public something that can be relied upon.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 62. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee of nomenclature, and all the inconsistency of the disfiguring use of capitals in common and scientific names, need not here detain us. Dr. Britton’s work is a notable contribution to the science of his country and the world.” T: H. Macbride.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 341. Je. 1, ’08. 600w.
“An impressive work which is an honor to American scholarship.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 80w.
“Extremely valuable book.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 227. Ag. 15, ’08. 120w.
“The authors have brought together a considerable amount of trustworthy and valuable information relative to uses, pharmaceutical and other.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 120w.
=Brodrick, Mary.= Trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. *$1.25. Longmans.
8–26255.
Three lectures based upon a careful study of Jewish law. They are The arrest, The trial and condemnation and The crucifixion and the site of the holy sepulchre.
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“The three lectures, short though they are, are interesting in every detail, and deserve the attention of the ordinary reader as well as the New Testament student and scholar. Miss Brodrick has certainly studied Jewish law to good purpose.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 666. My. 30. 630w.
“One must utterly dissent from the conclusion of this book.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 625. Jl. 18, ’08. 80w.
* =Bronson, Edgar Beecher.= Reminiscences of a ranchman. †$1.50. McClure.
8–30304.
Here are set down the experiences of a New York newspaper man, who, something of a physical wreck from illness, turns to the plains and casts his lot among the “nervy nomads of the range” who are forced to “make good or make tracks.” The trials and physical hardening process that marked his course from tenderfoot cowboy to ranch owner are interspersed with character sketches revealing brutal, domineering traits, as well as the qualities of loyalty, honesty, human kindness.
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“Thanks to his newspaper training he is able to tell his stories exceedingly well; they come straight from the plains, full of vigor and intensely graphic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 674. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Bronson, Walter Cochrane=, ed. English poems. 4v. library ed. ea. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–29843. Additions.
=v. 3.= Restoration and the eighteenth century, 1660–1800.
Uniform with the other volumes of the series, the method followed is (1) to choose poems representing the different phases of the work of poets and schools of poetry, (2) to print entire poems or entire parts of poems, whenever possible, (3) to follow the latest accessible text approved by the author, (4) to modernize spelling and punctuation as a rule, but to retain the original form when change could affect rhythm or rime, (5) in the notes to explain difficulties of expression and allusion, give the poet’s view of poetry, furnish material illustrating his mode of work and throw light upon the literary standards of different periods.
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“Professor Bronson’s long experience in teaching literature has familiarized him with the needs of the average student in the matter of elucidations.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w.
=Brooke, C. F. Tucker=, ed. Shakespeare apocrypha; being a collection of fourteen plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare; ed., with introd., notes and bibliography. *$1.75. Oxford.
8–34728.
The following plays reprinted in the original text and spelling with an introduction and notes and a bibliography, constitute the doubtful Shakespearian class: Arden of Feversham, Locrine, Edward III, Mucedorus, Sir John Oldcastle, Thomas Lord Cromwell, The London prodigal, The puritan, A Yorkshire tragedy, The merry devil of Edmonton, Fair Em, Two noble kinsmen, The birth of Merlin and Sir Thomas More.
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“Though on the whole we must give praise to Mr. Brooke for some excellent work, his book cannot, without considerable revision, take its place as a final recension of the text of the plays included.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 446. O. 10. 1000w.
“Mr. Brooke’s collection meets a definite need. It is unfortunate that the notes are so scanty: herein the volume fails of being definitive.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 118. S. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The true Shakespeare will be the more relished after a study of Mr. Brooke’s introduction and the reading of these apocryphal plays.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 762. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“There is, indeed, only one fault to be found with an otherwise admirable volume,—its exceedingly unattractive form.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 298. Ag. 29, ’08. 1800w.
=Brooke, Stopford A.= Four Victorian poets: a study of Clough, Arnold, Rossetti and Morris; with an introd. on the course of poetry from 1822 to 1852. (English title, A study of four poets.) **$1.75. Putnam.
8–14374.
The introductory chapter follows the steady course of English poetry from the Byron and Shelley influence to the whirlpool of thoughts and hopes and passions, political, social, ideal, democratic, but chiefly religious and theological into which Clough and Arnold were cast. The aim of the study is to show to what extent Clough, Arnold, Rossetti and Morris influenced the poetic movement of the latter half of the nineteenth century and to give an estimate of the quality and importance of their work.
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“Is rather tedious because it talks round and round its subject, never saying anything essential.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 691. Je. 6. 1100w.
“This is not only a delightful but an encouraging book.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 599. Ag. ’08. 1550w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 92. Ag. 16, ’08. 380w.
“The best part of the volume is the introductory chapter.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“May be placed among the important minor studies of the Victorian period.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 812. Ag. 8, ’08. 250w.
“Whoever enjoys literary criticism welcomes a new book by Mr. Stopford Brooke, and no one who reads ‘A study of four poets’ will be disappointed.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 697. My. 2, ’08. 1600w.
=Brooke, Rev. Stopford Augustus.= Sea charm of Venice. *$1. Dutton.
W 7–160.
Here the author “blends impressions and emotions, history and art. He is not the hasty tourist, who peers, and nods, and hurries on, but the lover of Venice, who has returned to her again and again, seen her under many aspects, thought upon her glories, and felt her fascination.” (Nation.)
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“He has [a] smooth, flowing style.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 110w.
“He writes with genuine enthusiasm, but without gush, and displays also an unusual skill in description.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 80w.
“An essay in which its sea-charm is analyzed as well as described is justified by its radical deviation from familiar lines, if for nothing else. A clear vision and appreciation of each aspect of Venetian life, art, and poetry are combined with facility of expression.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 110w.
“This book will help. This fine bit of word-painting cannot fail to be a delight.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 90w.
=Brooke, Rev. Stopford Augustus.= Studies in poetry. *$1.75. Putnam.
8–5211.
An introductory essay on “Poetry as an art” is followed by six papers three of which are devoted to Shelley, one to Blake, one to Walter Scott and the last to Keats.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 170. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Stopford Brooke has achieved the skill of the craftsman, without losing his individual traits as a critic with a keen perception of literary art.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 65. Ag. 1, ’08. 580w.
“The book itself is not large enough for the subjects broached in it; and its limits must be remembered, lest in speaking of its imperfections we forget to be grateful to the writer for all that he has given us.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 2020w.
“A pretty thin gleaning.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 35. Ja. 9, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“American readers are familiar with Mr. Brooke’s critical work, always sympathetic, based on sound knowledge, and not lacking in the finer insight; but of late years somewhat too fluent, lacking exact definition and sharp precision of statement, and inclining occasionally to didacticism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 80w.
“The only flaw that strikes us—a faintly sermonic touch here and there, a hint of the pious platform cadence, coupled inevitably with the note of conventional reticence or apology in dealing with big people that comes of addressing the wierd sort of audience which likes to feel assured of complete private respectability in its poets. His style generally is purged of conventionality. As a whole he is admirably sane and free from prejudice.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 696. My. 30, ’08. 800w.
“Perhaps the Scott lecture is the best. The Shelley lectures we like the least of all.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 994. D. 14, ’07. 200w.
=Brooks, John Graham.= As others see us: a study of progress in the United States. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–31147.
Here are woven into most readable and entertaining form the opinions by way of approval, of censure, or of warning, which visiting foreign critics have expressed concerning America since the beginning of national life. In the light of these objective estimates the author discusses topics and problems which bear upon present-day progress.
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“The light and gossipy character of Mr. Brooks’s work will make it a pleasant companion for snatches of reading in dull and idle days. We cannot dismiss this review of it without acknowledging the thoroughness with which the author has ranged through a wide field of reading and furnished the completed book with a bibliography and an index.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 260w.
=Brown, Abbie Farwell.= Friends and cousins. il. †$1. Houghton.
7–30835.
The sequel to “Brothers and sisters.” The fun of Kenneth and Rose is continued, new friends are made with whom they play pirate, dig for treasure, and experience other thrilling mock adventures as well as a few of the real sort.
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“But it is a relief to find ‘Friends and cousins’ less weak than ‘Brothers and sisters,’ tho the same tendency is evident in each to be ethical in the midst of playing ‘treasure trove.’ We speak thus plainly because Miss Brown has gained a library foothold thru her verses and her myth tales. Her new vein lacks spontaneity and imagination of a high character.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 110w.
“The story is superior in style and plot to its predecessor, and will probably amuse young readers.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 30w.
=Brown, Alice.= Rose MacLeod. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–12225.
Here are brought together two grandmothers, one sprightly with a literary bent and the other saintly; Electra, a Puritan in conscience and a Spartan in control of feelings; Markham McLeod, a brotherhood-of-man agitator who worshipped Mammon and basked in its material warmth; MacLeod’s daughter, the heroine, who had been a victim of her father’s unrighteous theories and who alone understood his whited-sepulchre practices; and two brothers, one an artist who temporarily comes under the hypnotic spell of MacLeod, and the other a gardener who through the purification of honest hard work has a right perspective of life and straightens out the tangle of doubts and misgivings.
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“A tale of quite unusual workmanship, full of variety and charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
“The book is a most skillful counterfeit of the real thing, and if it fails of the highest excellence, that is all the more reason for crediting it with all the lesser excellence that it indubitably possesses.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 494. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“Miss Brown has contributed another distinct personality to the portrait gallery of American women.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Forum.= 40: 132. Ag. ’08. 950w.
“Is better than merely entertaining.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 378. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Miss Brown’s vein of whimsical romance still holds; it may be that the whimsy gains upon her a trifle. In this story, indeed, it runs pretty frankly into extravagance.”
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“It is a notable book and well worth reading, but it ought to have been better.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“The romantic interest of the book is thruout rather cool and thin, and of far less rich and satisfying quality than its comedy.” O. H. Dunbar.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 137. Jl. ’08. 1200w.
“The men in the story are highly vizualized, imaginary male persons. They live in a rarefied atmosphere and they never by any accident come to life.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The book has an individuality of its own—a personal freshness in the point of view that helps to compensate for the lack of personality in its characters.” E. L. Cary.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 260w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 135. Jl. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Brown, C. Campbell.= China in legend and story. **$1.25. Revell.
W8–68.
Abounding in broad fellowship, this narrative presents China,—“not the willow-pattern country of our conventional ideas, but the living, palpitating, human China.” The author’s “standpoint is neither that of a missionary soliciting pity for an ‘afflicted people,’ nor of a traveller describing the picturesque peculiarities of an alien and, by implication, inferior race. It is that of a man who, in the course of ten years’ residence among the people of whom he writes, has had occasion to say of many of them, ‘You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din.’” (Spec.)
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“A well-written volume of stories.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 20w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“The influence of Christianity on character has seldom been more impressively exemplified than in the tales which compose the latter half of the volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 540. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Brown, Charles Rufus.= Book of the Prophet Jeremiah: an American commentary on the Old Testament. *$2. Am. Bapt.
7–18189.
“A concise commentary upon the Book of Jeremiah” which fills “in part the place of the German _kurzgefasste commentare_, a form of biblical literature which, strangely enough, is still sadly lacking in our language.... The book gives in the left-hand column of the page the text of the authorized version; on the right, the author’s own translation, the metric passages being presented typographically in poetical form, but without any attempt to produce the exact rhythm of the original. The commentary appears below the text.”
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“Scholarly in character and structure, and withal adapted to the needs of the intelligent reader, whether or not he be acquainted with the Hebrew. The book is to be welcomed as capitally meeting its purpose and filling a long-felt want.” J. A. Montgomery.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 455. Jl. ’08. 730w.
“The exegesis is sound and judicious. We know on the whole of no better explanation in English of the prophecies of Jeremiah, and yet at the same time we feel constrained to point out blemishes in this work. The commentary seems padded. It is an anachronism also to reproduce the authorized version—the American revision should take its place if the author’s new one was not sufficient. The commentary is also marred by occasional little homilies and common-place observations which detract from its scholarly dignity. The work also fails in a good English style.” E: L. Curtis.
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 396. My. ’08. 520w.
=Brown, Demetra, and Brown, Kenneth.= First secretary: a novel. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–36248.
Constantinople is the scene of the romance in which Stephen Weir, an attaché of the American legation, woos surreptitiously the daughter of a pasha who is the promised wife of a young Turk. America’s red-handed methods in matters of matrimony are strongly contrasted with traditional oriental restraint.
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=Ind.= 64: 756. Ap. 2, ’08. 130w.
“It is a book to pass the time and it has the distinct merit of not pretending to be anything else.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 180w.
=Brown, Gerard Baldwin.= Rembrandt. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
7–37526.
“Gives a great deal of information about the paintings, etchings, and drawings, the technical methods, and the qualities of the art of the great Dutchman, and what is really known or reasonably surmised as to his life in a shape hardly to be so conveniently found elsewhere.” (Nation.) “Professor Brown is particularly keen in pointing out the painter’s arbitrary use of shadow.” (Outlook.) There are over forty plates, representing every phase of the painter’s work.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.
“Prof. Brown has erred, perhaps, in including too many subjects for discussion. The selection of illustrations is unconventional and good, and the book is provided with such critical apparatus in the way of analysis, notes, and indexes, as is suitable to its scope. It may be commended as the best book on Rembrandt’s life and art for the general reader that has been produced in England.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 200. F. 15. 600w.
“Seldom in a popular monograph does one meet with such scholarly treatment, combined with breadth of vision and catholicity of judgment.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 420w.
“That clearness about things which reigns in the author’s own mind is communicated to the reader.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 169. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Especially for purposes of reference or for systematizing one’s acquaintance with the known and inferred facts of the painter’s career, this book is to be highly commended.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 80w.
“Without being a specially illuminating piece of criticism it is a capable bit of work, and a pretty complete one.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 44. Ja. 9, ’08. 130w.
=Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Brown, Horatio F.= Studies in the history of Venice. 2v. *$6. Dutton.
8–15744.
From the study of a bewildering mass of archives the author has produced a work on the diplomacy, the constitution, and the finance of Venice in relation to the republic’s formation, growth, and decline. “The studies fall under two types,—the investigation of the constitutional and economic policy of the State, and the retelling of some of her famous tales.” (Spec.)
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“Mr. Brown’s book is to be commended for its various light on our own living problems.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1095. My. 14, ’08. 550w.
“We think it is a mistake that he introduces into his text untranslated passages in Venetian or Latin; but this is a slight blemish on so valuable a work.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 900w.
“These admirable volumes might well take the place of a more formal history of Venice.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 279. My. 16, ’08. 900w.
=Outlook.= 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Brown’s essays are on wisely chosen subjects, and illustrate almost continuously the development and growth of the city.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 81. Ja. 18, ’08. 1400w.
“Mr. Brown’s scholarship is profound, but he wears his learning lightly, and these essays are as remarkable for their grace of style and vivid portraiture as for their sound historical judgment. The book will be prized by all lovers of the enchanted city as an illuminating guide to the essentials of her past.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 337. F. 29, ’08. 1700w.
=Brown, Rev. J. Wood.= Builders of Florence. il. *$6. Dutton.
8–35375.
“A scholarly study and interpretation of Florentine architecture as an expression of the character of the Florentine people, illustrated more in detail and specifically by the examination of twelve important and monumental buildings possessing both architectural and historic interest, ‘and such as lend themselves readily as illustrations of the city’s life, whether commercial, ideal or political.’ An introductory part, before taking up the characteristics of Florentine architecture, provides an exposition of the ‘Substance of Florence.’”—Ind.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.
“An art treasure as well as a delightful account of some aspects of Florentine life and thought as expressed most vitally and most permanently in the city’s buildings.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Among architectural treatises this work must take rank at once as noteworthy for breadth of vision, insight and erudition. It is packed with a wealth of historical material and that material is skilfully used.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 103. Ja. 9, ’08. 620w.
“The whole book is indeed instinct with the very spirit of Florence. As compared with the scholarly text with its impression of reserved power the drawings of Mr. Railton cannot fail to appear sketchy and inadequate.”
+ + − =Int. Studio.= 34: 344. Je. ’08. 300w.
“Not less valuable than his more elaborate studies are the stimulating thoughts he sprinkles over his pages.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 650w.
=Brown, John.= Letters of Dr. John Brown; with letters from Ruskin, Thackeray, and others; ed. by his son and D. W. Forrest; with biographical introductions by Elizabeth T. M’Laren. *$4. Macmillan.
8–2410.
The letters of a hard-working doctor, a practitioner of no little fame, “with a great capacity for friendship and delight in simple things.” His “Rab and his friends” immortalized him. His letters are supplemented by nearly a hundred written to him by Ruskin, Thackeray, Gladstone and others.
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“Gaiety and gravity are alike characters of this good physician’s mind, and neither is the gravity gloomy nor the cheerfulness tedious or strained.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 720. D. 7. 1870w.
“In the near view thus afforded of a tender and beautiful, rather than a brilliant and powerful, character the book is all that could have been expected, and nearly all that could be desired.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 171. Mr. 16, ’08. 1950w.
“In spite of the three collaborators in the work of editing, very little has been done either in the text or footnotes to connect the letters, or to make the allusions to people and events intelligible.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“A general human and healthy interest in the things of the mind Dr. Brown’s letters abundantly evince. A ‘rounded intelligence,’ the correspondent of one of his correspondents called him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 103. F. 22, ’08. 2850w.
“Dr. Brown’s comments upon literary men, women, and their works are keen and most engaging.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 793. Ap. 4, ’08. 1450w.
“Brown’s letters are just what one would expect—direct, terse, humorous and tender. The collection has been well arranged and edited.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 769. D. 21, ’07. 150w.
“It is very good fare which his son and Dr. Forrest have provided for us. These three hundred and twenty-seven letters are like a continuation of the ‘Horae.’ The style is precisely the same,—the same use of italics (dating from his twentieth year), the same rusty rhetoric, the same careless phrases, as exquisite in their simplicity as any you will find in Lamb.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 928. D. 7, ’07. 1420w.
=Brown, Sir Robert Hanbury.= Irrigation: its principles and practice as a branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.
8–4027.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The book reflects wide reading on the part of the author and is written in exceptionally good English for an engineering work. The subject matter, on the whole, is logically and pleasingly presented. The irrigation engineer will find pleasure and value in reading the book but not in studying it. The engineer in other branches of engineering will be able to obtain a comprehensive view of the subject of irrigation from this book, and it is in this field that the usefulness of the work mainly lies.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 539. My. 14, ’08. 800w.
“Standard books, indeed, have been previously issued dealing with irrigation works on their grandest scale, in ‘The irrigation works of India,’ by Mr. Buckley, and ‘Egyptian irrigation,’ by Sir William Willcocks; but the book under review will be very valuable for all persons interested in irrigation, by dealing in a single volume with and contrasting the principal works and systems of irrigation in these two great countries, and thus presenting a very comprehensive view of that most important subject of irrigation for the development of arid regions.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 513. S. 19, ’07. 1500w.
=Brown, Stewardson.= Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky mountains. **$3. Putnam.
8–310.
A student’s manual of plants to be found in the region of the Canadian Pacific railway between Banff and Glacier. “Mr. Stewardson Brown, curator of the herbarium at the Philadelphia academy of natural sciences, furnishes the text. Species are arranged in accordance with their scientific relationships, and there are keys to the genera, a general key to the families, a glossary, and an index to both common and scientific names. Seventy-nine full-page plates, about half of them in color, ... are the work of Mrs. Charles Schäffer, who proves herself a botanical draughtsman of much ability.” (Dial.)
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“Mrs. Schäffer has shown exceptional skill in drawing and in reproduction of color.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 497. Mr. ’08. 90w.
“A complete and beautiful guide to the flora.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It will prove a vade mecum for the botanically inclined visitor to the resorts along the Canadian Pacific railway, between Banff and Glacier.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Brown’s descriptions appear to be clear and helpful, but it is to be regretted that he has made use of a provincial nomenclature, which is not in accord with the conclusions reached at the International congress of botanists.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 40w.
=Browne, Abdullah, Haji.= Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of to-day. *$3. Scribner.
7–42482.
A volume which aims “to familiarize Englishmen with the Egypt of to-day, to outline its history, and to present its problems. Intimate acquaintance with the oriental nature and mode of thought has begotten in the author a keen sympathy with the people he is describing, though he retains the broad outlook and enlightenment of the European.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The story of Bonaparte in Egypt is excellently told, and gives one to understand, better perhaps than any other of the many books on the subject, the trend of his policy, especially as it was altered and modified to suit the exigencies of the situation. The account is naturally from the Egyptian point of view, but the conclusions are not unfair, neither are the deductions unwarranted.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 865. S. 7, ’07. 570w.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 642. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“This is indeed a book that can hardly be taken seriously by anyone but its author; as a whole, the work is worthless to the scholar, and, for the most part, wearying to the general reader.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 300w.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 357. S. 28. 1900w.
“In spite of its numerous faults, the book has distinct value.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 350w.
“We can recommend this book for the perusal of all who are interested in the British occupation of Egypt.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 284. S. 20, ’07. 1200w.
“Haji Browne’s point of view is too personal to find a large audience, too heterogeneous to convince, and too discursive to please. His hold on fact is slight. There is further ground of complaint against the Haji; his style is tedious, his egotism insistent.”
− =Nation.= 86: 39. Ja. 9, ’08. 500w.
“A remarkable work on modern Egypt.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
“We fancy that Haji Browne could have written a fascinating personal record, and we would willingly have forfeited for it all the not very important stuff he has written about Bonaparte.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 362. S. 14, ’07. 1750w.
=Browne, Edith A.= W. S. Gilbert. il. (Stars of the stage.) *$1. Lane. 7–32813.
“Interesting in the details which it gives of the brilliant humorist’s youth and up-bringing, his early literary and theatrical tendencies, his career at school and the London university, and his various disappointments in seeking distinction in the army, the law, and civil service. In these diverse pursuits he acquired the varied experience of life which he was to put to such admirable satirical purpose later on.”—Nation.
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“Of the man she paints so truthful and kindly a picture that we seem to know Gilbert as we have never known him before; to be in touch with him, to be holding a warm, generous hand that it is most pleasant to grasp, but with the delineation of the author we have some quarrel.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 724. Jl. 27, ’07. 850w.
“Is not altogether destitute of sound critical appreciation, but is written too much in the style of the feminine newspaper interviewer to be quite worthy of its subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 370w.
=Bruce, Edwin Morris.= Detection of the common food adulterants. *$1.25. Van Nostrand. 7–38618.
To aid in the pure food cause this little book brings together the best and simplest qualitative tests for all the common food adulterants. It contains a brief statement of the adulterants likely to be found and the reason for their use.
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“As a collection of recipes the work is good; in other respects it commands but qualified admiration. As a compendium of some of the best qualitative tests for ordinary food-adulterants the book will be useful, especially to the man who already knows how to apply the processes.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 28. My. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Historic ghosts and ghost hunters. **$1.25. Moffat.
8–24447.
“A collection of fascinating and strange stories relating to famous mysteries. Thus we have the tale of the ‘Devil of Loudun,’ of ‘Lord Brougham’s ghost,’ of the ‘Drummer of Tedworth,’ of the ‘Cock Lane ghost,’ in which Dr. Johnson was interested, and the less known story of the relations to ghostland of the Wesleys; while coming down to our day, the marvels alleged to have been done by Mr. Home (Browning’s ‘Mr. Sludge, the medium’) are related, and a chapter is devoted to ‘Ghost hunters of yesterday and to-day,’ including a rather slight sketch of what has been told more fully elsewhere by Mr. Bruce.”—=Outlook.=
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“The ghost stories he has told us are interesting and not easily attainable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Many of the conversations and descriptions with which he enlivens these tales, while increasing what may be called the interest of the narratives, are so obviously imaginary as to detract somewhat from their value. With this much of adverse criticism out of the way, it is pleasant to admit that the author has done his work extremely well, and certainly he is not to be blamed for attaining his intended object instead of another.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 552. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.
“Such a volume could hardly fail to be readable, and the author has been successful in putting his narratives into a semi-fictional form which has spirit and entertainment.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Riddle of personality. **$1.50. Moffat.
8–6655.
See Cumulative book index for contents. “Mr. Bruce sketches the progress of the problem from the magician Mesmer and his ‘doings’ down to the latest American explorers of the sub-conscious world. His account of the work of the Society for psychical research is particularly interesting. His own conviction of departed spirits under the theories of ‘spiritism’ (a more exact term than spiritualism) can be equally well explained by the theory of telepathy.”
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“The book may be ranked between the ultra-scientific and the ‘crank’ theories, and is of special interest as summing up what the scientific study of personality has contributed to therapeutics and as an estimate of the work of the Society for psychical research.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 255. N. ’08.
“Obviously, a safe elementary guide is needed for the study of a subject so full of pitfalls for the uninstructed; and the need has been admirably supplied by Mr. Bruce. He will be criticised by the specialist, of whatever school, for a somewhat dogmatic method of statement, for occasional simplification by the expedient of ignoring troublesome factors.” E: C. Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 278. My. ’08. 900w.
“The man of science ... takes what comfort he can in the fact that the presentation is temperate and not extravagant, and he finds further comfort in the guidance offered by the author to prospective students, who, if they follow it, may find the path toward an understanding of personality, not as a mystery but as a profound natural development.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 350w.
“No other volume of its size gives such a complete survey of this debatable ground or tells in such an interesting way of what is being done to explore it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 25. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The worth of Mr. Bruce’s book is much increased by a critical bibliography of his subject, admirably written and covering the whole field fairly well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 900w.
“The book is one of great value, and written in a style that will bring enlightenment to many readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 796. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= Social life of Virginia in the seventeenth century; an inquiry into the origin of the higher planting class, together with an account of the habits, customs, and diversions of the people. *$1.50. Bell bk.
7–21275.
A supplement to the author’s “Economic history of Virginia in the seventeenth century.” It is an “attempt to reconstruct the social life of Virginia during the seventeenth century. To the origin of the higher planting class, and the causes of social distinctions, he devotes more than half of his small volume; the amusements and pastimes of his people occupy the remainder.” (Ind.)
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“The reader will gain from the work a more vivid and adequate understanding of the beginnings of the upper classes of Virginia society in the period of lowland ascendancy.” F. J. T.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 609. Ap. ’08. 1100w.
“A careful piece of minute research, based throughout on original authorities.” C. H. Firth.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 155. Ja. ’08. 760w.
“His picture of colonial life is clearly drawn, and his thesis of the essential similarity between English and Virginia conditions well maintained. At times Mr. Bruce’s local pride gets the better of his logic, as when he follows up a statement of the superiority of Virginia sobriety over that of England, with a series of quotations and incidents which seem to us to point to the reverse of his conclusion. In more serious matters his judgment is excellent.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1000. O. 24, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Bruce’s scholarship is well known, and this volume, like his work in general, shows wide reading, an appreciation of historical values, and a faculty for presentation.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 352. O. 17, ’07. 410w.
=Brudno, Ezra S.= The tether. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–20348.
A subjective study of a Jewish boy’s struggle for education, freedom, and the love of a Gentile maiden, while the inexorable prejudices and decrees of his race withhold them from him. He goes the length of the tether which the grim leniency of his race allows, and then is brought to a standstill which is symbolized by a mortal sickness.
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“The most dramatic and forceful parts of the book are those which deal with the Hebrew relatives and friends of the hero, among whom the author describes many varieties of the Jewish immigrant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Brudno writes with an ardent spirit, curbed by intelligence, and effective to the end he seeks.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 270w.
=Bruner, James Dowden.= Studies in Victor Hugo’s dramatic characters; with an introd. by R: G. Moulton. *$1. Ginn.
8–8836.
Following the method of sympathetic induction in his investigation, the author has collected, arranged, weighed and harmonized into a unity all the details of each character studied. He includes Hernani, Don Ruy Gomez, Don Carlos, Doña Sol, Ruy Blas, the villain in “Ruy Blas,” and Lucrezia Borgia.
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“A volume of deeply interesting literary criticism.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 70w.
“A volume to which the word charming may properly be applied. The author has very genuine insight into the creations of Hugo’s genius, and his own style is attractive and readable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 50w.
“It must be scientific literary criticism, for it betrays no sign of literary taste, no insight, no humor, and no charm.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1310. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
− =Nation.= 87: 241. S. 10, ’08. 370w.
“The Introduction contributed by Professor Moulton illuminates the entire field.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
=Bryant, Lorinda Munson.= Pictures and their painters; the history of painting. *$3.50. Lane.
7–21729.
A book which appeals to the student, to the professional, or to the lay reader. “The volume begins with the work of the ancient Egyptians, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. Italian painting from Cimabue to Giotto down to Vasari and Baroccio is then considered, followed by several separate chapters on Venetian painters from Giorgione and Titian down to Salvator Rosa. In the second part of the book we are given the story of Irish painting and of the work of Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish, French, English and American artists.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Throughout the book will be found bits of anecdote, history, and legend giving additional interest to an artist, his painting, or the times he worked in.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 230w.
“Is a compact series of notes on the art of the world with the stamp of personal familiarity with the pictures discussed and with an unusually keen sympathy with early schools.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 90w.
=Bryant, Walter William.= History of astronomy. *$3. Dutton.
8–9045.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It covers a wider range of time than Miss Clerke’s ‘Popular history of astronomy,’ and though a good piece of work, hardly equals that book in intrinsic merit.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08.
“Terseness and sanity of scientific statement characterizes the work. It is amply worth buying, reading and keeping.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 295. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
“The work is descriptive, and is characterized thruout by clearness and directness of statement.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1402. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.
“The book contains a few inaccuracies. Occasionally, too, there is lack of lucidity of style, and a use of cryptic expressions or unexplained technical terms. But in general the author’s opinions are clearly expressed and are also sound.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 593. D. 26, ’07. 500w.
“To the more advanced reader it is likely to appear superficial, as only touching with notelike brevity a few of the many chapters of the science; to the reader merely interested in astronomical development, however, it should appeal as a popular and very attractive account of many interesting sections of nature-study.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 193. Jl. 2, ’08. 1450w.
“The subject is treated by one well able to deal with a wealth of material almost overwhelming.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 460w.
“We have every reason to think Mr. Bryant an accomplished practical astronomer, but he has not the gift of lucidity, and above all he is no historian.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 632. My. 16, ’08. 900w.
“He writes lucidly enough, and his book may be recommended to the beginner.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 124. Ja. 25, ’08. 170w.
=Bryson, Charles Lee.= Tan and Teckle. **$1.25. Revell.
8–23922.
Tan and Teckle are field mice, and these stories of their adventures with neighbors, both friendly and hostile, will prove fascinating as well as instructive to young readers.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Buchanan, Alfred.= Real Australia. *$1.50. Jacobs.
7–38524.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The chief impression left by Mr. Buchanan’s ‘Real Australia’ is the cleverness of the author. The book is undeniably interesting. It is a book that, once begun, will be read to the last page; but when the reader has finished, while he will certainly know a great deal more about Mr. Buchanan, his views of life, and his powers and ability, it is doubtful whether he will have a much better or fuller knowledge than he had before of the real Australia.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 350w.
“A welcome offset to the books which have dealt with the subject in detached phases, more particularly with the political history of the country and the socialistic experiments made there.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 156. F. 13, ’08. 500w.
=Buckman, David Lear.= Old steamboat days on the Hudson river. (Grafton historical ser.) il. **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–36976.
Tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation. It records “not merely a picturesque episode in local experience, but the very beginnings of steam navigation.” (Bookm.)
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“On account of the lack of references the work can hardly be classed among scholarly books. Furnishes pleasant reading and will prove a useful book of reference for particular phases of the local life of which it treats.” E. K. Alden.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 656. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08. ✠
“Is a book which one only wishes were longer, more lavish both of fact and of legends.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 90w.
“An interesting account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“This volume is full of entertaining reminiscences and anecdotes relating to the development of steam navigation, with full descriptions of the various mechanical improvements that have been introduced in recent years.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 170w.
=Bullen, Frank Thomas.= Call of the deep; being some further adventures of Frank Brown. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–30939.
“The writer professes to record incidents of actual sea life aboard British sailing vessels twenty-five years ago. The rise of the hero from common sailor to the rank of captain is the unifying element. The narrative contains the usual wicked commanders, outrageous mutinies, storms, and hair-breadth ’scapes, wherein our sense of security is rarely joggled, because the idea that fair play ultimately succeeds is early premised.”—Nation.
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“The spirit of manliness, the healthy contempt for ‘girls and tea-parties,’ and the equally healthy love affair which crowns Frank’s good fortune, will compensate, in the youthful minds, for a decided lack of literary finish, and novelty of plot. The masters are challenged, but they may rest easy.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 355. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Written in Mr. Bullen’s unaffected, breezy way, with capital descriptive passages and an abundance of exciting incidents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“This will entrance all the youngsters, and as many of their elders as love the smell of salt water.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 30w.
“Mr. Bullen’s new book is written avowedly for boys, and the more of them who read it the better—it will do them nothing but good—but it will please their elders too.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 200w.
“The story is full of real life from beginning to end. Long ago John Newton remarked that he did not know of any books ‘suitable for mariners.’ Well, here they are; wholesome to the core; the work of an expert, but with nothing which would ‘warn off’ the most absolute landsman.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 574. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Selected readings in economics. *$2.25. Ginn.
7–31981.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Admirable judgment has been shown in choice of subject and of authorities.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
“One feels in reading each of the various chapters that he has before him the last thing that has been said on the particular subject under discussion. Such a book cannot fail to fill an important place in the thorough presentation of a course in economics.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“The selections might have been made to better advantage and might more thoroly represent the best modern reading on economics in England and America, but just as it is, the book is useful.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 70w.
“The most serious omission appears to be the virtual neglect of the more recent developments in economic theory commonly associated with the Austrian school. It is doubtful whether any other equal group of selected readings would prove more generally acceptable or serviceable.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 191. Mr. ’08. 50w.
“Every teacher will find in the book some material that he will be very glad to have available for the use of his students.”
+ =Yale R.= 16: 443. F. ’08. 200w.
=Bumpus, Thomas Francis.= Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy, their history and their architecture; together with much of interest concerning the bishops, rulers and other personages identified with them. (Cathedral series.) $2.50. Page.
8–21818.
An introductory chapter gives some insight into the principles which guided the progress of North Italian church art, and describes some of the distinguishing marks of the various schools. The body of the volume is concerned with the cathedrals themselves, their architecture, history and associations; while a concluding chapter gives a list of the most remarkable pictures and wall paintings found in the churches described. The book is fully illustrated.
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+ =Cath. World.= 88: 410. D. ’08. 160w.
“Might be described as an ornate hand-book, so closely does it combine the useful and the ornamental.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 260w.
“To the reader interested in architecture, especially if he be able to follow the author’s commentaries ‘in situ,’ this volume will prove a valuable aid to intelligent comprehension.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 502. N. 19, ’08. 580w.
“An interesting as well as a handsome book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Burba, George Francis.= Our bird friends: containing many things young folks ought to know—and likewise grownups. *$1. Outing pub.
8–14714.
Aside from four chapters devoted to facts about birds, how birds fly and sing, and bird migration, each of nineteen short chapters deals in a popular descriptive manner with a familiar bird neighbor. Facts concerning appearance, habits, nest placing and building are supplemented by full-page colored illustrations of ten birds.
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“As a condensed account of interesting facts the book is well worth one dollar and the time required to read it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“The poorest and most colorless nature book that could well be imagined. The illustrations so offend the artistic sense, the diction is so flippant and uninteresting and the facts are thrown together in such a purposeless, haphazard way as to repel the reader of any age.”
− − =Nation.= 87: 78. Jl. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Breezy and enthusiastic, with no sentimental twaddle, the volume is a delight.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 50w.
=Burgess, Isaac Bronson.= Life of Christ; adapted from the life of Christ by Ernest D. Burton and Shailer Mathews. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–29368.
An aid to constructive and historical Bible study for classes in secondary schools and in the secondary division of the Sunday school.
=Burnham, Clara Louise.= Leaven of love: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23559.
A story full of spiritual enlightenment whose situation grows out of the separation of a jealous wife from her husband. The scene shifts from Boston to Regina Beach, at which latter place the leavening work progresses, presided over by a young girl whose activities are marshalled into heavenly order by demonstrable principles of life. How she shows the misery-burdened wife a sure way back to happiness, how she stimulates and encourages the husband to hope and work for the reconciliation, how the evil woman in the way vanishes, and how life may be a living example of limitless freedom—are all shown with reasonableness and skill.
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=Nation.= 87: 443. N. 5, ’08. 120w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Rather amusing story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Burns, James.= Christ face in art. *$2. Dutton.
8–14762.
A survey extending from St. Luke to Ottilie Roederstein which traces the growth and historical development of sacred art as expressed in the face of Christ as conceived by the greatest painters of each age and country.
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“The criticism is superficial, and of little value to serious students of art, but Mr. Burns has one indispensable qualification for the task he has chosen: he writes always in a spirit of seriousness and devotion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 260w.
“A valuable book.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 240w.
=Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Burns, Rev. James Aloysius.= Catholic school system in the United States; its principles, origin and establishment. *$1.25. Benziger.
8–18343.
A coherent view of the Catholic parish school movement in the United States from the earliest times down to the great immigration period, which began in about the year 1840. The author dwells upon the steady effort to build and equip schools, to provide teachers and overcome fundamental difficulties both from within and from without.
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“A very attractive and instructive historical study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 548. Jl. ’08. 840w.
=Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone.= Search for the western sea. *$5. Appleton.
8–23910.
The story of the exploration of Northwestern Canada during a period of about three centuries. Mr. Burpee’s examination of manuscripts in the Canadian archives has been painstaking and exhaustive. “The story begins with the Northmen who a thousand years ago pushed across the Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland and America, ‘where they stood the first of the white men on the shores of a new world,’ and appropriately it ends with the Northmen who, still by Greenland, Baffin bay and King William Land, succeeded where so many gallant spirits had failed. Mr. Burpee does not confine himself to men like La Verendrye, Jonathan Carver, Alexander Henry, Mackenzie, Fraser, Thompson, and the rest whose work was mainly overland; he tells also of the men who ‘with characteristic obstinacy’ clung to the idea that the Western sea might be approached through Hudson strait.” (Sat. R.)
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“Contains much of permanent interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 430w.
“He writes with very full knowledge of his subject and presents his facts in a very pleasing fashion.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 560. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24. ’08. 20w.
“Mr. Burpee puts before us vividly the personality and the achievements of the pathfinders of the Canadian west.” James White.
+ =Ottawa Evening J.= 4. Je. 27, ’08. 1000w.
“Valuable contribution to geographical knowledge.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 823. Je. 27, ’08. 660w.
=Burr, Anna Robeson.= Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton. 7–34309.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The book is an example of that best type of realism, the type that one instinctively accepts as plain, unvarnished reality.” F. T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 672. F. ’08. 780w.
“It is a well-written story in point of style, but exhibits a low degree of vitality, and is burdened with much inconsequential detail.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 230w.
“She has invented an ingenious plot, with a daring point of departure, and peopled it with rather interesting, if not strikingly original, characters, but her atmosphere is provincial, like her setting.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 156. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
“A novel may be without especial originality or significance in itself, and yet possess interest as permitting the reader, as he fancies, a peep into the psychic processes of the writer.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 140w.
=Burrell, Rev. David James.= Lure of the city: a book for young men. **$1. Funk.
8–28413.
Twenty-three talks to young men, including the following chapters: The call of the city; Going into business; The poor boy’s chance; The ten o’clock man; The choosing of one’s friends; Amusements; Books and reading; Dreams; Voices; How to spend Sunday; Temptation; The code of honor; The doubter; The Christian; The quitter; The honest man; and Opportunity. They aim to help the city youth to “tighten a buckle of his harness.”
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“Is not only full of good Christian sense, but is readable and lively, just such talk as would appeal to those to whom it is addrest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 70w.
“Admirable series of essays, which make up a readable, wise, and helpful volume, half homiletic, half of a guide-book character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
“He writes here with his well-known vigor.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 60w.
=Burroughs, John.= Leaf and tendril. **$1.10. Houghton.
8–11501.
A book of essays a part of which are nature sketches symbolized by the “leaf,” and a part nature sermons in which Mr. Burroughs teaches the trimming and high-culture gospel of the vine-dresser. The opening essay on The art of seeing things imparts to the reader some of the secrets of observation inherent in the “eye and ear, yea, in the mind and soul” and presided over by a great love of nature.
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“Written in the author’s usual pleasant style and characterized by careful observation and sympathetic treatment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 172. Je. ’08.
“His philosophy is of the wholesome and kindly sort which we like to think belongs to those who live much out-of-doors.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1297. Je. 4, ’08. 320w.
“As a country summer companion, it will set one to study nature with sharper and kindlier eyes. We may add that Mr. Burroughs’s observations on natural history are of distinctly more value than his utterances on philosophy and religion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 450. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“And those men and women who grow doubtful or bitter, scornful or hopeless as the result of too much contemplation of man and his works, can not find better medicine for their souls than these calm and trustful pages, filled with the maturest thought of a venerable man who loves and believes in life, his fellow-man, and the universe.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 300w.
=Burt, Mary Elizabeth=, ed. Prose that every child should know; a selection of the best prose of all times for young people; decorated with photographs by Eve Watson Schütze. (Every child should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–11736.
This volume goes to increase the responsibility already rather arbitrarily imposed upon children by the foregoing volumes in the “Every child should know series.” None the less here are prose gems for a child’s thought worth reckoning with. The selections range from Homer and Esop to Lincoln, Ruskin, Cable, Stockton, Markham and others. Articles are furnished on the absorbing questions of the day—money, labor, reforms, etc.—so providing material for oratorical and debating societies.
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“An excellent collection of quotations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 160w.
=Burton, Frederick Russell.= Strongheart: a novel; founded on William C. De Mille’s play. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–24461.
A story based upon the drama which adheres to the scheme of De Mille’s play, while extending and broadening the treatment. The Strongheart of the novel is identified with the Ojibways, about whom and whose tribal characteristics the author has sound, first-hand knowledge. The extending of the drama story consists of a prologue showing Strongheart’s Ojibway surroundings and an epilogue in which Dorothy wins the hearts of the Indians thru missionary work and gains their consent to marry Strongheart.
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“The chances against a novelised drama being anything more than a piece of clumsy carpentry, makes it distinctly worth while to say a few words in praise of ‘Strongheart.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 382. D. ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Burton has written an entertaining novel, and he has also given forcible dramatic and truthful presentation of the surroundings, conditions, and sentiments of the Ojibway people, and of the complicated matter of their relations with the whites.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 509. S. 19, ’08. 500w.
“The story is an entertaining one and gives the reader some idea of the true Indian of to-day and his relations with the white man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Burton, Richard.= Three of a kind. †$1.50. Little.
8–26676.
A German violinist, a newsboy and a cocker spaniel constitute the “top-floor trinity” of this story that tugs away at the heart strings. In the foreground are the three comrades, unprosperous, struggling for daily bread. Uniting the elements of the tale is a romance, unfulfilled, hallowed thru years of the musician’s unworldly striving. When the waif was revealed to be the child of the woman of the violinist’s life of dreams, “he was gathered into an embrace that reclaimed him forever from his homeless state and set him safe in the harborage of a good man’s long-starved love.”
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“It is good for man or boy; it will insure a happy hour; and it will appeal especially to every one who loves, or has ever loved a dog.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 544. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Bury, Lady Charlotte.= Diary of a lady-in-waiting; being the diary illustrative of the times of George the fourth; interspersed with original letters from the late Queen Caroline and from various other distinguished persons; new ed.; with an introd., by A. Francis Steuart. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.
8–29183.
A reprint of “a plain record of the follies of a princess.” The chronicler was lady-in-waiting to Caroline, Princess of Wales, and traitorously divulged court secrets. “It was history of a sort, the intrigues of the back stair and the evil or insipid gossip of snobs and flunkies of all ranks of society. And Thackeray himself, as the editor, Mr. A. Francis Steuart points out, quoted ‘some of its most pregnant passages when he desired to use them as brilliant illustrations of his immortal “Four Georges”.’” (Sat. R.)
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“We cannot help thinking that while Mr. Steuart was about it, he might have accomplished his editing more thoroughly.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 182. Ag. 15. 360w.
“Of course the work as it stands is not continuously interesting to readers who have no intimate knowledge of the history of the time. But there is no livelier, or perhaps truer, picture of the wretched consort of George IV in existence.” E: Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 270. N. ’08. 1400w.
=Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w.
“There is probably no better picture to be found of the social life of the early years of the last century.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 400w.
“In many ways this edition is improved and made more readable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.
“It should never have been written, and, having been written, it cannot be read by the most callous without an absorbing and pitiful interest.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 197. Ag. 8, ’08. 1550w.
=Bussell, Rev. Frederick William.= Christian theology and social progress: the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–12985.
The author, rector of Sisland, Norfolk, prepared eight lectures for delivery in St. Mary’s church, Oxford. These occupy about two-fifths of the volume; the remaining lectures are eight “Supplementary lectures.” “Mr. Bussell defends Christian doctrine on the ground of its utility, seeking to show its value and necessity for the present age.... He contends that Christian ethics cannot outlast Christian dogma, and that the general welfare is bound up with the faiths and hopes of Christian belief.” (Ind.)
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“He conducts his argument on a high plane, meeting philosophical objections with no small penetration and skill.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 210. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.
“The discussions are stimulating and suggestive throughout; but owing to the extent of the ground covered, and the manner of exposition chosen by the author, it is very difficult to state shortly the exact drift of the book.” S. H. M.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 524. Jl. ’08. 470w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Cheerful smugglers. †$1. Century.
8–11086.
The young parents of a year old baby evolve a scheme to provide a fund for the child’s college education. A ten per cent tariff is imposed upon everything that comes into the house, groceries, cigars, candy, clothes, and even upon the belongings of their guests. The comedy of the situation reaches its climax when everybody takes to smuggling,—cook, guests and the parents themselves.
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“The little book is very good fun.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 11, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“It is all very cheerful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 297. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“Sheer nonsense, but amusing nonsense at least.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 20w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Kilo; being the love story of Eliph’ Hewlett, book agent. †$1. McClure.
7–36094.
Eliph’ Hewlett, the irrepressible, ne’er-to-be-downed book agent, cannot detach himself from his “Jarby’s encyclopedia” even when he goes a-wooing. “Peer Gynt did not divert his dying mother’s mind by their imaginary ride more utterly than did this Iowa book agent with his enthusiastic recital of the merits of ‘Jarby’s encyclopedia’; her last words were: ‘Eliph’, you may put me down for a copy.’” (Ind.)
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“Certainly it is lively reading; but the persistent effort to be funny thru 279 pages exhausts author and reader alike, and we may fail to see some passages of genuine sincerity and a few veritable folks.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 40w.
* =Butler, Nicholas Murray.= American as he is. *$1. Macmillan. 8–34126.
Three lectures delivered before the University of Copenhagen which aim to set out some of the aspects of American life and to draw a picture of that part of present-day civilization which the world knows as American. The chapters are The American as a political type, The American apart from his government, and The American and intellectual life.
=Butterfield, Kenyon Leech.= Chapters in rural progress. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–4449.
A book which emphasizes the social aspects of rural communities and describes some of the newer movements resulting in the expansion of country life. It “does not offer a complete analysis of the rural problem; but attempts, in general, to present some of the more significant phases of that problem, and, in particular, to describe some of the agencies at work in solving it.”
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“The book is a splendid introductory study to rural sociology and should do much to call attention to the subject and to mark out the lines for its study.” T: J. Riley.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 127. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
“The book is written in an admirable spirit. The chief defect of it is repetition of non-essentials due to being boiled down from several separate compositions.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 172. Je. ’08. ✠
“It should be in the hands of all who are in any way interested in rural progress, from the farmer to the school trustee.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 313. My. 16, ’08. 500w.
=Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 340w.
“[These chapters] have already been presented to the public either in the more serious magazines or from the platform. But they have all been rewritten and combined so skillfully as to give a succinct view of what the farm needs in order that it may have the highest efficiency in the production of men and women as well as wheat and corn.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Buttles, Janet R.= Queens of Egypt. *$3. Appleton.
Miss Buttles “has gathered together from all available sources all that Egyptology has known concerning the names, personalities, and deeds of the women who shared the thrones of the Pharaohs, and has put all this together into a readable, connected account of the feminine side of the royal line.”—N. Y. Times.
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“On the whole, the book is carefully written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 363. S. 26. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
“Her book is singularly free from inaccuracies or antiquated theories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 207. Ag. 15, ’08. 960w.
“The portraits, the personal descriptions, the mass of detail to be found in Miss Buttles’s attractive book are little short of amazing: the extent to which this almost prehistoric history has been disinterred can hardly be believed by any one who has not followed modern study very closely. Queens of six thousand years ago are here made to live again.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 371. S. 12, ’08. 480w.
=Buxton, E. M. Wilmot-.= Stories of Persian heroes. $1.50. Crowell.
8–24871.
From Persia’s book of kings, Shah-Nameh, have been drawn these tales of Rustum, the Persian King Arthur, and his warriors and foes. “Mingled with the crash of fierce battles we find other strange accounts of enchanted gardens, snorting dragons, beleaguered forests, imprisoned maidens, and knightly guests as fine as any ever inspired by that other Eastern hero, Haroun-al-Raschid. In most of them Rustum himself appears, mounted upon his wonderful horse, Rakush, whom every boy will wish to have for his own.”
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 30w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
“Altogether delightful, a prize in a miscellaneous collection of books for young people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 320w.
=Byers, Morton Lewis.= Economics of railway operation. *$5. Eng. news.
8–982.
The economics of railway operation are treated under seven heads: (1) Organization; (2) Employment, education and discipline of forces; (3) Accounts and accounting; (4) Reports; (5) Economic operation; (6) Analysis of operations and control of expenses; and (7) Betterments. “The book outlines briefly these main features of different aspects of operating topics, shows their inter-relation, and goes into considerable detail in explaining how the work done under each of these features is controlled by instructions and reports submitted to the higher railway officers.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“We must express our highest commendation of the work Mr. Byers has done in the interest of railroad engineering as a whole and we feel sure that there is hardly a man in the railway service who cannot derive much benefit from a study of this book.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 302. Mr. ’08. 900w.
“A good book for the student of railway affairs, but too detailed for those who have but little time for reading.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 110. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
“The level of the book is a high one; and fullest recognition should be given to the wide knowledge of railroad operation which it reveals, and to the thoroughness and care with which its material is given to the public.” Stuart Daggett.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 241. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Byron, Henry.= Day-dreamer’s harvest. $1.25. Shepard, Morgan.
7–20965.
“A modern key to the best that is in Marcus Aurelius and La Rochefoucauld, which adds much besides as a result of the author’s own observations and researches in human phenomena.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Byron has filled his pages with wisdom nuggets that makes the