Part 2
deals with food, food-materials, food accessories, preservatives, beverages and dietaries.
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“Professor Bailey has brought together much of the material which he has used for his lectures on domestic economy in the University of Kansas, and made of it a practical class textbook.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 150w.
Reviewed by Ellen H. Richards.
=Science=, n.s. 24: 338. S. 14, ’06. 900w.
“The field covered by the work is so very great that it is hardly to be expected that thoroughness can be attained in a book of 345 small pages. There are many things in the book which will interest the student reader, but he must remember that it is essentially elementary.”
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 419. Mr. 15, ’07. 290w.
* =Bailey, Elmer James.= Novels of George Meredith: a study. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–34148.
In five chapters Mr. Bailey deals with the development of Meredith’s genius, the best known characters in his stories, and the analogies between his work and that of his predecessors.
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“Neither the style nor the matter is of a kind to inspire confidence. The new and interesting part of the book is a sketch of Meredith’s influence upon other novelists.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 200w.
“The volume can be used as a companion to Trevelyan’s work on Meredith’s poetry and philosophy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07 40w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=, ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the United States and Canada. 4v. $5. Macmillan.
7–8529.
A work whose purpose is to sift the literature in which scientific farming finds expression and to “embody its most important and permanent results.” (N. Y. Times.)
=v. 1.= Deals with “Farms.” Discusses agricultural regions, their soils, temperature; the selection, laying out and culture of farms; farm machinery irrigation, sanitation, etc.
=v. 2.= Considers the subject of crops under three divisions: “the first deals with the plant in general, its life processes, its response to such stimuli as artificial light, weak poisons, and electricity, insects and diseases which harm it, plant breeding and introduction, the management of weeds, crop rotation and crop yields. Part second describes the manufacture of various crop products from pickles to denatured alcohol. The third section, which is a general discussion, alphabetically arranged, of American farm crops, fills the main portion of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A monumental work of interest to a much larger class than farmers only.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 117. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is indispensable to public and reference libraries, and it should be extensively purchased for circulating and school libraries in the rural districts.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ − =Nature.= 76: 315. Ag. 7, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A truly magnificent, coherent and exhaustive work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Bailey, Temple. Judy.= †$1.50. Little.
7–30439.
Two motherless girls of contrasting types are joint heroines in this story. One happy hearted girl who had been brought up on fresh air, simple food, sunshine and flowers teaches the other child, cloyed with things of life to the point of youthful ennui, a wholesome life lesson.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Bailey, William Bacon.= Modern social conditions. $3. Century.
6–34864.
“The field covered by this volume is part of that treated in Mayo-Smith’s ‘Statistics and sociology.’ The first chapter is an elementary treatise on the history of statistics. The other chapters give statistical information in relation to sex, age, conjugal conditions, births, marriage, death and the growth of population.”—Am. J. Soc.
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“The author has rendered a service to students by bringing up the figures as nearly as possible to date.” C. R. H.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 571. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“Judged intrinsically the book not only justifies its appearance, but strongly commends itself to the use of every student of demography. The author’s style is simple, and the volume is crowded with information. In fact the data are often compelled to speak too largely for themselves. A stronger emphasis upon their interpretation and practical bearing would have heightened the interest of the book. On the other hand, the theoretical discussion avoids all irritating mathematical complexities.” George B. Mangold.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 473. N. ’06. 390w.
“It is undoubtedly the most excellent compilation of more or less familiar population statistics that has been done by an American. Yet the question may be seriously raised as to the essential value of such treatises for the student of social conditions. Several sections are included in the treatise under consideration, which are abstruse and difficult, and ... the reader is not led up carefully to a full comprehension of those sections.” J. C.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 641. D. ’06. 790w.
“I am compelled to conclude that the book is not based upon the best authorities, that the authorities followed have not been used critically, and that it is not an adequate presentation of the present condition of American vital statistics.” Walter F. Wilcox.
− − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 169. Mr. ’07. 2690w.
“As a text for students, its most serious fault is the constant resort to an off-hand, ready-made explanation of every conceivable situation. Comments are too facile and correlations too readily assumed. The style of the book is loose in the extreme.” D. C. Wells.
− + =Yale R.= 16: 95. My. ’07. 1050w.
=Baillie, James Black.= Outline of the idealistic construction of experience. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–11048.
The general purpose of this volume “is to expound the essential principles of British Neo-Hegelianism in fairly systematic fashion and with reference to the present problems of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)
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“The book will not be found easy even by the trained student of philosophy, but we know no English work in which there has been a more successful effort to give clear and convincing meaning to those abstract phrases in which alone idealist doctrines can be expounded.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 400w.
“Its debt to the ‘Phanomenologie des Geistes’ is so avowedly extensive, and yet its hold upon modern problems—psychological and epistemological, social and religious—is so vital, that the reader is hardly able to say whether the work is strongest as a fresh treatment of these problems or as an exposition of Hegel; the fact being that it is both things—the one because it is the other.” J. W. Scott.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 933. Jl. ’07. 2280w.
“If his object is to make an effective appeal to common sense and the scientific mind, we are inclined to think that his method is not well chosen for the purpose. To render Hegel is one thing, to do the work of the great idealists ‘all over again’ is another. Each is sufficiently difficult by itself, and they would be best attempted independently; to combine the two in a single volume is almost to court disaster.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 1480w.
“The book is as accurate, in nearly all essential respects, as it is dry and colorless; and it is really helpful in assisting one to think out again the idealistic problem and its solution. But it fails exactly where Mr. Haldane’s Gifford lectures (1902–4) were so preëminently successful,—in impressing the reader with the very important bearing of modern idealism upon the most recent problems of science and philosophy, as well as upon the more practical but not less perplexing, problems of modern life.” Ernest Albee.
+ − =Philos. R.= 16: 538. S. ’07. 2480w.
“In this lucid volume the profound difficulties that underlie an idealistic theory of experience are analyzed with great elaboration, and the idealistic position placed in a new and more helpful environment.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 649. Ap. 27, ’07. 700w.
=Baily, J. T. Herbert.= Emma, Lady Hamilton; a biographical essay with a catalogue of her published portraits. *$3.50. Stokes.
A record of Lady Hamilton, the prominence of whose pictorial phase but emphasizes the avenue thru which she made so many conquests, namely, her beauty. The text serves only as a setting for the pictures.
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“Mr. Baily’s narrative, short and readable, is apologetic and even warmly eulogistic in tone, and may well be supplemented and corrected by some less favorable presentation of the famous courtesan.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 300w.
“Although the book is not an authoritative life or a critical essay on her portraiture, it is quite the best pictorial record.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Baker, Cornelia.= Court jester; with il. by Margaret E. Webb and Margaret H. Deveneau. †$1.25. Bobbs.
6–28221.
The story of the journey of the Princess Marguerite to Spain to become the wife of the son of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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“Well-told and interesting but too drawn out to hold the average child’s attention throughout.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 206. N. ’07.
“A book well worth while. The publishers are to be congratulated on this successful collaboration.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 70w.
“A well-written historical novel for children. The illustrations ... are excellent in portrayal of character and costume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 130w.
=Baker, Ernest A.= History in fiction. 2v. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–29857.
An enlargement of an earlier work, “Guide to the best fiction.” It is classified, arranged and indexed for the convenience of the student. “Its two small volumes deal, the first with English historical fiction, the second with American and foreign subjects.... The general arrangement is chronological under the various countries, but a novel and acceptable feature is that, wherever possible, there is added, in the fashion of a foot-note, information about fiction actually written in the time treated by the books in the regular text.” (Outlook.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 157. O. ’07. S.
“These two volumes are the result of an enormous amount of labor well expended. The brief notes appended by Mr. Baker to the titles of the books he enumerates are generally informing, and occasionally not without a touch of humour.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 82. S. ’07. 790w.
“So far as we have tested the accuracy and inclusiveness of the work, it seems capital, and a special word of praise should be given for the index.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 310w.
“Very carefully compiled catalogue.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 50w.
=Baker, Etta Anthony.= Youngsters of Centerville. il. †$1.50. Holt.
7–30441.
Stories for children which deal with real boys and girls, their games, their pranks, their school and their faith in each other. There is wholesome patriotic sentiment in the doings of these youngsters, the sort that any school boy may profit by.
=Baker, George Pierce.= Development of Shakespeare as a dramatist. *$1.75. Macmillan.
7–22387.
A comprehensive modern analysis of Shakespeare’s growth as a playwright. Comprehensive, inasmuch as it omits no step of the great dramatist’s development, and modern “in the generous citations from the most recent critics of the drama in England, France, and America; in the omission of the well-known facts of Shakespeare’s life, and the disregard of the familiar quibbles over the text.” (N. Y. Times.) “The illustrations constitute a valuable feature of the book. They embrace the most authentic maps of Elizabethan London, all illustrations that throw light on the construction of the Elizabethan stage, and many other things that help us to an understanding of the drama of the period.” (Nation.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 158. O. ’07. S.
“The book may well be read in conjunction with Professor Raleigh’s, as supplying precisely the information which is lacking in that.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 156. O. ’07. 970w.
“The book throws more light on Shakespeare’s intellectual and artistic development than many others written with less regard for external conditions and for the part other playwrights played in preparing the way for Shakespeare.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 390w.
“There are certain points in Professor Baker’s study that one is tempted to disagree with; but on the whole his book is extremely valuable because of the sound common sense of his attitude toward the playwright and his work.” Walter Clayton.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 259. O. ’07. 1060w.
“We wish to recommend the general sanity of Professor Baker’s work and his thorough sympathy with his author.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 980w.
“The enthusiastic analyst gets the better of that poetic sense so desirable in the Shakespearean critic. Excepting this limitation, however, the viewpoint of the book is wholly admirable, and a lover of the poet’s plays cannot fail to extract from it both profit and inspiration.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 513. Ag. 24, ’07. 1180w.
“His conclusions may seem radical to readers who are not familiar with the more recent discussions; but they are in accord substantially with those held by nearly all later investigators.” Brander Matthews.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 281. O. ’07. 1140w.
“This study ... is full of light and leading in the confusion of uneducated opinion.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 320w.
“It is to be regarded as an exceptionally interesting and valuable addition to recent Shakespeare literature.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 728. S. ’07. 220w.
=Baker, James Hutchins.= American problems; essays and addresses. **$1.20. Longmans.
7–7477.
In which American ideals are depicted and problems of sociology and education discussed. “The main emphasis is laid on moral ideals, and on moral culture as ‘the corner-stone of all culture.’” (Outlook.)
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“Professor Baker’s style is clear and pleasing, his large range of illustrations are aptly applied while the general tone of the work is vigorous and even inspiring.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 630. My. ’07. 270w.
=Cath. World.= 85: 257. My. ’07. 90w.
“The author firmly believes that the world is growing better on the whole, and sets forth his belief in an interesting if not strikingly original manner.” Max West.
+ =Dial.= 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 170w.
=Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 90w.
“The only distinction of the book is its style, which has a crispness and vigor that many readers, especially such as are neither thoughtful nor well read, will doubtless find attractive.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
=Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 160w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 229. N. ’07. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 30w.
“If it lacks style, it is also without pedantry—a virtue not to be despised in this day of the making of many books.” Edward C. Elliott.
+ − =School R.= 15: 473. Je. ’07. 950w.
=Baker, John Cordis=, ed. American country homes and their gardens; introd. by Donn Barber. $5. Winston.
6–38345.
“A folio of over two hundred pages, whose plates exhibit the best features of nearly fifty American country-places, scattered from Maine to California and from Massachusetts to North Carolina. The owners’ and architects’ names are generally given, and a plan of the estate often supplements the pictures of its most attractive aspects. All of the houses are of the more pretentious kind of country-seat, such as ‘Blair Eyrie’ at Bar Harbor and ‘Biltmore’ at Asheville; but they are artistic rather than showy, and prospective builders may get many hints from the book, even though they may be working on a much smaller and less ambitious scale.”—Dial.
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“Mr. Donn Barber packs into three pages a tremendous amount of information about the status and development of American architecture and landscape gardening, and puts the reader in the way of appreciating and profiting by the pictures.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 130w.
=Baker, Louise R.= Bettie Porter, boardwalk committee. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–27611.
A wholesome story for girls which tells of the enterprise of a group of girls in a country town who undertake the building of a board walk. It contains a lesson for the easily discouraged.
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“Is a little out of the ordinary run of stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 80w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Mental development in the child and the race: methods and processes, with figs. and diagrams. 3d ed. *$2.25. Macmillan.
6–44351.
Third edition with improvements and enlargements.
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“Professor Baldwin’s book deserves high commendation even though one cannot agree in all details with the particular theory of mental development which he sets forth. The book gathers together a wealth of data regarding mental development, and is so well grounded upon biological facts and principles that one who is not a specialist in genetic psychology hesitates to criticise it. Nevertheless, the particular theory of mental development which Professor Baldwin champions—the imitation theory—seems to the writer decidedly weak at certain points.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 651. My. ’07. 1000w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 260w.
=Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 40w.
“One thing that impresses the reader most favorably, apart from the obviously astute observation of the author, is his personal attitude of interest and appreciation. Analytic though his study of children must be, it contains a notable trait of appreciative humanity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 38. Ja. 19, ’07. 260w.
“As a book of genesis, biological and psychological, the present work is of distinctive and permanent value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Social and ethical interpretations in mental development: a study on social psychology. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“The whole argument of Professor Baldwin’s book is that society is a product of self-consciousness; that it depends in all phases of its evolution upon the development of the self-thought. Accordingly, he finds the matter of social organization to be thoughts; and he denies that animal associations constitute true societies, since animals do not possess self-consciousness.”—Am. J. Soc.
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“In spite of all criticisms, however, Professor Baldwin’s book is an invaluable one to every student of sociology, and it remains, up to the present, the only systematic attempt in the English language to apply modern genetic and functional psychology to the interpretation of social organization and evolution.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 281. S. ’07. 530w.
“It is a book for students, and should be approached in a purely studious spirit, as the matter will require gradual assimilation and cannot well be hastily scanned.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 580w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Thought and things: a study of the development and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. v. I. *$2.75. Macmillan.
6–44293.
The first volume treats of “Functional logic” or “Genetic theory of knowledge.” The author looks upon it as “an inductive, psychological, genetic research into the actual movement of the function of thought.”
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“We opened this volume in the expectation of an intellectual treat; we close it with a feeling of disappointment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 1790w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is a work of much learning and research, and of very considerable interest.” J. S. Mackenzie.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“I cannot see that anything is gained by [his] methodology; on the contrary, I think this method is largely responsible for an excessive complexity of details, a lack of simplicity, directness, clearness and thorough system in the handling of the subject-matter. The other embarrassment I have suffered in reading this book is due to the author’s terminology. I do not make these criticisms without having at the same time a very great willingness to record my fullest appreciation of a notable book, one that cannot fail to add to its author’s already splendid reputation, and one which will enlarge not a little our knowledge in a great field of science.” John E. Russell.
+ − =J. Philos.= 3: 712. D. 20, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We will say at once that this is a most earnest, profound, laborious, systematic analysis of cognition, such as cannot fail to be of continual utility to students of psychology. But this does not mean that the work is fundamentally sound; for the imperfection that belongs to all human works necessarily appears in a philosophical doctrine in the form of error.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The terminology of the book is not of the simplest but behind it one finds that the writer, has something true and important to say.”
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Doubtless some of these perplexities represent, as usual, the reviewer’s ‘personal equation’ and some may disappear in the other volumes. At all events ... the significance of the aim, the standpoint and general method of the treatment, together with the suggestive special features mentioned and others unmentioned, make the work a notable one.” A. W. Moore.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 81. Mr. 16, ’07. 3750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Seriously, we protest against the German and American tendency to turn divine philosophy into a jargon comprehensible only to an inner ring.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The methodological difficulties of the subject are unusually great and have been handled with a remarkable degree or success.” G. A. Tawney.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 177. F. 1, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Baldwin, May.= Peg’s adventures in Paris: a school tale. †$1.50. Dutton.
The adventures of a “high spirited, good-hearted, but much spoilt young lady” who “rides roughshod over the few rules and regulations of the particularly undisciplinary _pensionnat_ in which she is placed, and eventually finds herself in a French court of law.” (Ath.)
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“Points of difference in matters social and educational are well brought out, but ‘Madame’ is considerably overdrawn, and careless revision has permitted numerous errors in French to pass.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.
“It is told in a sprightly manner, and the incidents follow so rapidly upon one another’s heels that a very lively interest is maintained through all its 400 pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
“Tells of an almost fatiguingly sprightly young woman whose ‘adventures’ are stimulating but rather improbably thick upon the ground.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 130w.
=Balzac, Honore de.= Père Goriot; ed. with introd. and notes by R. L. Sanderson. *80c. Heath.
7–15141.
A student’s edition of Père Goriot uniform with Heath’s “Modern language series” and supplied with generous editorial material.
=Banks, Louis Albert.= Sinner and his friends. **$1.30. Funk.
7–23975.
This volume of thirty evangelistic sermons represents Dr. Banks’ mature thought characterized by force and unerring judgment.
=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Salt glazed stoneware. (Primers of industrial art, v. 2.) **90c. Doubleday.
7–19048.
An authoritative treatment which “attempts to clear certain disputed points and correct some long-accepted traditions of ceramic writers which have been found to be erroneous. The characteristics of real salt glazed stoneware are briefly outlined and the origin of its manufacture related. The three divisions in the volume take up the stonewares of Germany and the low countries and other continental centres, the salt glazed wares of England—Fulham, Nottingham, Staffordshire, and Lambeth—and the stoneware of the United States.”—N. Y. Times.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 191. N. ’07.
+ =Nation.= 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.
=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Tin enamelled pottery: maiolica, delft, and other stanniferous faience. (Art primer. Pennsylvania museum and school of industrial art, Phila.) **90c. Doubleday.
7–18108.
The first of a series designed to furnish in condensed form reliable information based on the latest discoveries relating to various industrial arts. In this first volume “descriptions are given of the maiolica of Italy, Spain, and Mexico; the delft wares of Holland and England, and the stanniferous faience of France, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden. The pottery of the United States also comes in for brief consideration. A list is added of marks on pottery that are most familiar. Preceding the index is a table giving the principal features of tin enameled pottery in the different countries named in the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07.
“The latest handbook of pottery usually reflects in epitome the taste of collectors of thirty years ago—a defect, if it is such, from which Dr. Barber’s monographs are not free.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 215. S. 5, ’07. 760w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w.
“An authoritative work; indeed, so far as we know, it is the first complete work on the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 350w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Crimson sweater. †$1.50. Century.
6–34684.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“While not so satisfactory as some of the earlier stories of school life by the same author, it is wholesome, fairly well written, and will certainly be liked by boys.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.
“The best he has done.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 60w.
* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Holly: the romance of a southern girl. †$2. Lippincott.
7–33207.
A very pretty southern romance in which Holly Wayne, eighteen and a true daughter of the confederacy, is wooed by Robert Winthrop, thirty-eight and a northerner. The book is a holiday offering from its very name to its full-page colored illustrations and the blue and gold binding.
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“Being longer and more ambitious than his previous efforts, it is natural that it should not be quite so well finished. Nevertheless ‘Holly’ is a pretty story.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Maid in Arcady. †$2. Lippincott.
6–34813.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ind.= 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w.
“This is a commonplace little volume which strives to be idyllic. The story and the marginal photographs are equally inartistic and lacking in suggestive quality.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 20w.
* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Tom, Dick and Harriet. †$1.50. Century.
7–32158.
The final syllable of the last name in this trio is responsible for the element of dignity which added to the rollicking abandon implied in “Tom, Dick and Harry” makes as wholesome a tale as any young reader could wish. Ferry Hill is once more the scene of schoolwork and play, and especially true to life is the account of a track meet between Ferry Hill and Hammond with a victory for the former which means the winning of a much needed endowment fund.
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+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w.
“The book is worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
=Barclay, Armiger.= King makers. †$1.50. Small.
The kingmakers are certain financiers who, for business reasons, undertake to put a new king on the throne of Sergia, one of those misty European kingdoms at which Russia glowers and England looks askance. While this is being accomplished two pretty love stories are worked out and, the revolution safely over, an English girl is persuaded to ascend the throne with the young king, and his princess cousin is left free to marry the Irish officer she loves. But there is much fighting and intrigue and much chagrin for the kingmakers before all this is safely brought about.
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“As long as invention can produce stories as good as this, we shall not greatly object to them on the score of being mere variants upon a well-worn theme.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“The author of ‘The kingmakers’ has really written a battle which is worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w.
=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Life of Alfred de Musset; done into English by Charles C. Hayden. Il. subs. Hill, E. C.
6–26201.
“Arvède Barine’s little book shows a curious grasp of essentials in both biography and criticism. In the former she presents only that which influenced or found expression in the poet’s verse and prose; in the latter she preserves sufficient contemporary criticism which is essential in defining de Musset’s place today in French letters, rightly conjecturing that the future will still further qualify and reduce the essential fragments of to-day.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Creditable English version. Mr. Barine had access to intimate sources, and his work is marked by literary finish and sympathetic insight into the extraordinary epoch of French romanticism.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 450w.
“The account of the liaison with George Sand, on which his life turns and which might prove an attraction for the desultory reader, is anything but satisfactory from any point of view. Nor is the translation itself, though well enough in general, such a masterpiece of English as to merit a setting quite so luxurious.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 580w.
=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Princesses and court ladies; authorized Eng. version. **$3. Putnam.
6–45155.
The third of the author’s series on the lives of royalties translated from the French. The five women who are sketched here and who played parts in the history of Europe are Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin; Christina of Sweden; the Duchess of Maine, granddaughter of Le Grand Condé; the Margravine of Bayreuth, Frederick the Great’s sister; and “An Arab princess.”
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“It is unfortunately only one more instance of the poor standard of translation now prevalent.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 420w.
“Writes in a popular style that does not obtrude its background of scholarship, but nevertheless depends upon it to avoid any suspicion of cheapness or superficiality.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 560w.
“The text is vivacious and sprightly, and is heightened by many interesting pictures.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
“It is as vivid as a gypsy dance, as entertaining as a fairy tale.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 670w.
“The chapter on ‘An Arab princess’ ... is as interesting a piece of biography as we have seen for some time.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 70w.
“A very attractive style which, we are glad to say, is adequately represented in the translation.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 221. F. 9, ’07. 220w.
=Barker, Ernest.= Political thought of Plato and Aristotle. $3.50. Putnam.
7–15512.
“Two most desirable qualities appear in Mr. Barker’s exposition—a just perception of parts as related to the whole, and insight into the spirit within the letter.”—Nation.
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“Mr. Barker is to be congratulated on having taken so broad a view of his subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 780w.
“Mr. Barker’s book is not only particularly competent, but in every respect a masterly presentation of its subject. Mr. Barker’s book is much more than a contribution to an understanding of Greek political thought; it is an admirable text-book on political science, as well as an admirable popularization (in the best sense) of the best theory, both of ancient and modern.” Sydney Ball.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 517. Jl. ’07. 2220w.
“A lucid, sane, and rightly proportioned presentation of the entire subject, scholarly but free from excess of erudition and extravagance of hypothesis, philosophical but not expressed in equivocal Hegelian verbosity or pseudo-scientific sociological terminology, apt and suggestive in the use of modern illustrations without strained and fantastic analogies.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 290. Mr. 28, ’07. 1810w.
“Mr. Barker’s work is no mere translation, it is a masterly exposition of the two chief constructive thinkers of ancient civilization. The universities to which we look for future statesmen may be congratulated on the addition of this volume to their apparatus for political studies.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 139. Ja. 19, ’07. 860w.
“As a whole is a satisfactory, truthful and interesting treatment of its subject, and should find readers wherever political science in its historical aspects receives attention.” Wm. A. Dunning.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 545. S. ’07. 1050w.
“Mr. Barker has many of the qualifications for an excellent critic, but he does not possess the art of presenting a luminous running analysis. He has given generously of his deep study, and written a book that will be necessary to future students of Greek philosophy.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 591. My. 11, ’07. 1570w.
“Illuminating volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 860w.
=Barker, J. Ellis.= Rise and decline of the Netherlands: a political and economic history and a study in practical statesmanship. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–6776.
“It is a political pamphlet, in which the author makes use of material professedly furnished by the history of the Dutch republic for the purpose of a long invective against the evils of democratic and party government, and especially against the particular form of government which exists in Great Britain. Mr. Ellis Barker also writes undisguisedly as an advocate holding a brief on behalf of the necessity of Great Britain’s adoption of a strong imperialist and federal policy based on the maintenance of a powerful navy and army.”—Lond. Times.
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“Mr. Barker’s book will itself divide men into two parties: tariff reformers will applaud its conclusions, whilst free traders will say that the colours are laid on thickly for the very party purpose which Mr. Barker denounces.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 57. Ja. 19, ’07. 920w.
“The over-abundance of quotations, apt and inapt alike, are wearisome and weaken the argument which contains some wheat to a large proportion of chaff.”
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 922. Jl. ’07. 420w.
“By the historian it can be safely passed over. Even for the general reader of moderate historical training it will be of little value.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 410w.
“In style he certainly does not approach Motley, nor does he impress the reader with the feeling of a first-hand contact with the fresh sources of information opened up of recent years. But our chief objection is to having our history bent to the shape of a political tract. Considered as a history, the book is too evidently biassed not to inspire suspicion; as a political tract it is twenty times too long.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 230w.
“Mr. Barker’s style is bright and vivid. His references to authorities are numerous, and there is an excellent analytical index of thirty-six pages. The book is well worth reading by Americans interested in the study of national federation and state-rights.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 250. Ap. 16, ’07. 1340w.
“Despite his claim to originality and freshness many pages have an antiquated air. On the whole, a vigorous, suggestive book. Despite the author’s limitations, it provokes thought.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 913. Ap. 18, ’07. 320w.
“With the aim that Mr. Ellis Barker sets before him it is possible to be in entire sympathy and at the same time to hold that his arguments are unsound and untrustworthy, because they are based on false premises and bad history. It is, in short, evident throughout this book that the author has failed to make himself acquainted with the intricate machinery of the Netherland system of government on which he dogmatizes.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 41. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.
“From an artistic as well as from an historic point of view there are very grave defects in Mr. Barker’s volume. Petty inconsistencies in reasoning, repetitions of statement, and above all the over-abundance of citation, all combine to make it tiresome reading.”
− =Nation.= 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 700w.
“Mr. Barker writes with the firmness and steady conviction of a man who is perfectly sure, in his own mind, of the ground he stands on, and his style is remarkably lucid, forceful, and incisive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 319. My. 18, ’07. 1220w.
“Although intended as a stirring appeal to the people of England, it is written throughout from the view-point of an uncompromising critic of popular government and all its ways.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 530w.
“One of the most fascinating bits of historical interpretation we have read for some time.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. My. ’07. 180w.
“We are not concerned here to argue the merits or defects of Mr. Barker’s political and economic creed with reference to current controversies, but the wearisome reiteration of it in season and out of season in what professes to be a sober historical narrative is fatal to the very object that he himself desires.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 1480w.
“The warmest devotee of Clio in her traditional garments must admit the writer’s thorough familiarity with the best literature of his subject, the high intellectual tone of his ideas and generalizations, and the polish of his epigrammatic style, reflections, and warnings that give many of his pages a verve and colour of which his great American predecessor [Motley] would not have been ashamed.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 1010. Je. 29, ’07. 530w.
=Barksdale, Emily Woodson.= Stella Hope. $1.50. Neale.
7–20866.
Stella Hope is early left an orphan and lives, like Cinderella, in the home of an austere aunt and her three daughters. To this house comes a wealthy invalid cousin and his companion, who after being snubbed as a paid assistant by the socially ambitious family, is discovered to be a cousin and joint-heir. A number of love stories combine to create the plot and bring to each character deserved reward or punishment.
=Barnes, Howard Turner.= Ice formation, with special reference to anchor-ice and frazil. $3. Wiley.
6–37871.
The book deals with the problems of physics which the ice-packs of the St. Lawrence give rise to. The ice-formations known as sheet-or-surface-ice, frazil-ice, and anchor-ice are discussed in relation to their mode of formation, general appearance, position they occupy in the river, and the effects they produce.
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“The subject-matter of Professor Barnes’ book is of unusual interest, and as a pioneer work of the author’s effort deserves the more consideration. That the arrangement of the matter and the progression of the argument are sometimes lacking in directness, and that at a few points the language is a bit awkward, is therefore of minor import. To our view a serious fault of the book is its total silence on the subject of trouble with ice at water-works intakes.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 90. Ja. 17, ’07. 1430w.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 267. F. 17, ’07. 880w.
=Barnett, T. Ratcliffe.= Blessed ministry of childhood. *50c. West. Meth. bk.
The lessons that a little child can teach to “scholars of the heart rather than to the scholar of the head—to wayfaring men and women ... who look out upon life with wistful eyes, desiring to know God, to win goodness, and to learn patience amid the shadows.”
=Barr, Martin W.= King of Thomond. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.
7–14249.
The pitiful tale of an insane patient’s life written by herself during her perfectly lucid moments. A joyless childhood, a lonely girlhood, and the speedy wrecking of the happiness that finally dawned for her, produce a wail on every page. It forms an intense human document.
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“A weird tale, apparently half in and half out of the region of reality. It is quite as fantastic and as full of creepy horrors as such a tale might be expected to be.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.).= Rock in the Baltic. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
6–16737.
“The ‘rock’ is used as a prison by those supposed monsters of iniquity the Russian Grand Dukes, and there, in process of time, two enthusiastic seekers for trouble, one a young Englishman and the other a titled Russian, are incarcerated. Finally they are taken away on a yacht, on which two American girls are conveniently placed.”—Ind.
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“This is a commonplace book written in a commonplace way about commonplace people.”
− =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 110w.
“It is not often that the elusive grace and humor of modern girlhood are so well reproduced as they are in these pages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 230w.
“Reads as if it had been written against time.”
− =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 70w.
=Barrett, Howard.= Management of children. *$2. Dutton.
7–29143.
“Treats of the physical care of infants and children, in both disease and health, from the time of birth into and past the early teens. All of the usual problems of food, drink, clothing, and sleep, the ordinary diseases, contagious and other, to which children are liable; accidents, malformations, and many possibilities of unusual disease are discussed in a plain, common sense, untechnical way for the enlightenment and guidance of those who have the immediate care of the young.”—N. Y. Times.
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=N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 260w.
“We offer our hearty congratulations to Mr. Barrett, and we may add, to those for whom he writes.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.
=Barrie, J. M.= Little minister. $1.25. Crowell.
A thin paper edition with limp leather binding which contains a reproduced photograph of Maude Adams.
=Barrington, Emilie Isabel (Mrs. Russell Barrington).= Life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton. 2v. *$10.50. Macmillan.
7–13427.
“This work is said to have the approval of the family of the late President of the Royal Academy, and may be considered authoritative, if not official. A friendship existed between Frederick Leighton and the author for more than thirty years, and so the pages which deal with personal characteristics will be found peculiarly intimate.... The book includes Leighton’s diary, covering a period of fifty years, and among the mass of interesting correspondence incorporated is to be found a number of letters from George Eliot, Ruskin, Browning, Henry Greville, and Charles Dickens. Besides many of Leighton’s finest works reproduced especially for this publication are several fac-simile drawings and paintings never before published.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Unsatisfactory as biography, these volumes are entirely valueless as criticism. Instead of disentangling the real merits of Leighton’s work from less admirable characteristics, Mrs. Barrington vaguely couples him with Phidias and the old masters, and urges claims so absurd as to tax severely the patience and perseverance of all educated readers.”
− − =Acad.= 72: 91. Ja. 26, ’07. 1120w.
“It is disfigured by one or two hasty figures of speech ... and the printer’s reader has been unusually neglectful of his duties. It is a pity to leave such blemishes on a book of sterling value, indispensable to all students of modern English life and art.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 140. F. 2. 860w.
“Unfortunately Mrs. Barrington is not as skilful in arranging and adapting her material as she has been industrious in collecting it.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
− + =Dial.= 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 1980w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 363. F. ’07. 500w.
“Interesting as are many of Leighton’s letters, and multifarious as are the details with which the book is filled, the reader would have been able to gather a truer impression of Leighton, his development, his artistic character, and his work as an administrator if the biographer had been more rigorous in selecting and had been a better critic.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 61. F. 22, ’07. 1500w.
“It cannot be called a worthy monument to its subject. Its author has little critical acumen or severity of taste; it is rambling and repetitious; padded with much matter of little interest as presented; marred by mistranslations of foreign tongues, misunderstanding of technical terms, faulty transcription of proper names, and careless proofreading.”
− − + =Nation.= 84: 275. Mr. 21, ’07. 1510w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“On the whole the book disappoints one in the lack of letters from the interesting people Leighton knew. A more serious matter is the failure of the biographer to offer a plausible pen-portrait of Leighton, or even to allow him to describe himself.” Charles de Kay.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 2490w.
“Small points and insignificant matters are grossly inflated, but the real issue is never faced. The flawless impeccable Leighton remains so to the last, though we are not told why he was, or, what is rather more important, why he was really not so.” Christian Brinton.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 340w.
=Barron, Elwyn Alfred.= Marcel Levignet. †$1.50. Duffield.
6–36038.
“A detective story laid in Paris and including all the elements needed for profound sensation. The author is skilled in keeping apparently tangled threads in his hands, and unties several hard knots with all the ease of a practiced novel writer.” (Outlook.) “The hero is a sort of modern Cyrano de Bergerac.... He is bon vivant, editor, amateur detective, student of life as it is lived. His kinship with Cyrano is sentimental.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A refreshing variant on the old detective story. To readers of a certain vein, in fact, ‘Marcel Levignet’ will furnish a particularly agreeable light evening’s pastime.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 500w.
“The tone of the story is essentially French—sentiment, situation, and characters, and most especially the climax.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
“As fantastic as the generality of detective stories, ‘Marcel Levignet’ differs from said generality in being readable by grown-up persons.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Barry, Richard Hayes.= Events man; being an account of the adventures of Stanley Washburn, American war correspondent. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–15132.
In which Mr. Barry records some of Mr. Washburn’s adventures on a newspaper dispatch-boat between Corea and Port Arthur during the first part of the war between Russia and Japan.
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“The story is rich or tiresome in detail, according to taste, but is an exciting picture of conditions in war time on the water around Port Arthur.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
“The book has evidently been written in a great hurry, not even time enough having been given to have the chapter headings all spelt correctly.”
− + =Lit. D.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w.
“The author indulges himself in a diction so plentifully sprinkled with slang that it often becomes unintelligible to the reader accustomed to ordinary English. It is a story full of dogged perseverance and unbounded pluck, and it was well worth telling.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 500w.
“On the whole the good ‘stuff’ ... far outweighs the bad. The story is a bit of real life; vivid, strong and picturesque. It remains to be recorded that the proof reading of the volume is unbelievably bad.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 257. Je. 1, ’07. 1830w.
“Mr. Barry may always be counted upon for graphic power.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 60w.
=Bartholomew, John George=, ed. Atlas of the world’s commerce. *$8. Scribner.
A new series of maps, with descriptive text and diagrams showing products, imports, exports, commercial conditions, and economic statistics of the countries of the world, compiled from the latest official returns at the Edinburgh geographical institute.
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+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 42. F. 8, ’07. 170w.
“So excellent is the idea, and so good the execution by devices of colorings and diagrams, that whoever wants information of this description can hardly be directed to a better source for satisfaction. This cordial recognition of the volume’s merits must be accompanied with regrets that the figures are some years old, and that all figures of this sort are incomplete and contradictory.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 310w.
=Barton, Clara.= Story of my childhood. 50c. Baker.
7–35389.
A simply told story of the childhood of Clara Barton, which is really written for the school children of the country after repeated appeals from them for bits of her early life.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07. S.
“Is as wonderful as its writer: it is extremely interesting, and yet it hardly touches on those aptitudes and activities that all the world associates with her remarkable personality.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 171. S. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Will be found interesting to all persons who have followed her beneficent career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 60w.
=Barton, George.= Mystery of Cleverly. 85c. Benziger.
7–19594.
A story in which the example of the hero finally wins to a manly life a good-for-nothing son of an indulgent father.
=Barton, James Levi.= Missionary and his critics. **$1. Revell.
6–43768.
In which the author has brought together a “large number of testimonies favorable to missions and missionaries from witnesses of competence and character.” (Ind.)
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=Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.
“It deserves a place among the books of reference found in every well-furnished editorial library. It is not only an enlightening but a thoroughly interesting book, and greatly needed also.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w.
“Rev. James L. Barton has admirably infused into readable form the opinion of different nationalities, particularly in the Orient, as to the worth of Christian missions.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Barton, Mrs. Marion T.= Experiment in perfection. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–11589.
The story of a young woman “of great beauty, much intensity of character, and an unfortunate penchant for logic on all occasions, who starts out with the idea that all she needs to round out her life to perfection is one woman friend and one man friend, both, of course absolutely without the flaws to which human flesh is commonly heir.” Her perfection system has its vulnerable points, and is mutilated in part by an estrangement, an unfortunate love affair, and a second marriage.
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“About the best that can be said for it is that its author possesses the story-telling instinct without the still more important possession of a story worth telling.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 520w.
“The working out of the story shows skill and insight, and the reader is always interested. But there is a repellant hardness in Persis, and certainly an improbability in the episode upon which the friendship between the girls hangs.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
=Bashford, James Whitford.= China and Methodism. *35c. West. Meth. bk.
7–524.
A brief outline which will enable American Methodists to understand the problem which confronts them and to make preparation for a suitable participation in the centennial celebration of the founding of Protestant missions in China which will occur in Shanghai, April 25 to May 6, 1907.
=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Outlines of practical sanitation, for students, physicians, and sanitarians. *$1.25. Wiley.
6–33610.
Improved sanitation with regard to habitations; water, milk and food supplies; the collection and disposal of waste; schools and cars. There are chapters on vital statistics, municipal, rural and suburban sanitation, and personal hygiene.
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“Clear, convincing, and simple; but, covering as it does so wide a range of subjects in 198 pages, is of course, only suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 5. Ja. ’07.
“Within the limits indicated by its sub-title, this is one of the best and most practical books on sanitation that has ever come to our attention. Perhaps it is surprising that in attempting to cover so wide a range of subjects in a popular manner, more slips and questionable statements were not made.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 56: 417. O. 18, ’06. 260w.
“The book should be found useful as a means of imparting sound ideas of the laws of healthy living to teachers and citizens.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 125. Je. 6, ’07. 100w.
=Baskerville, Beatrice C.= Polish Jew: his social and economic value. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–15500.
Eight years’ residence and study in Poland lie back of Miss Baskerville’s presentation of the Jew of that country. She throws light upon the Polish Jew immigrant by revealing the conditions of his native economic and social environment.
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“The author is very frankly unfavorably impressed by the Jews, and, although it is to be hoped she has exaggerated the dark side of the situation, her volume is of great importance. The style is good and the thought clear.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 204. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“Such a book as this deserves a hearty welcome, and for valuable matter contributed on Poland—a country very little known—it may be classed with that of Dr. George Brandes, which appeared a short time ago.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 95. Jl. 27. 870w.
“Would have enhanced value if the author ... would have shown more sympathy with the population she describes.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w.
“It is so obvious that she knows a great deal that we cannot help regretting a certain lack of clearness in the impression which her book produces. It would almost seem as though Miss Baskerville had unconsciously written rather for a Polish than for an English public.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 359. O. 26, ’06. 880w.
“The substantial truth is there, but it is truth without sympathy, and with much distortion. By itself the volume would be open to severe censure on the point; but as a study of the restless Hebrew energy that is so active in stirring Slav indifference and hesitation towards fruitful action, it serves its purpose.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 680w.
“What she has to say is, in the first place, interesting in itself. In the second place it can hardly fail to throw light upon some of the problems which immigration (too rapid for easy digestion by our own not too settled civilization) is fastening upon the United States.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1190w.
“Her immediate contact with the representatives of parties, as well as with actual facts and events in Poland, enables the writer to speak with authority.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 330w.
“An elaborate, dispassionate study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“It has the very rare merit among its contemporaries of being impartial both from a Russian and a Jewish standpoint. From a political point of view, in connexion with the present struggle of revolutionary parties for power, the chapters on the strikes and the Bund contain facts little known outside Russia; facts particularly instructive for the serious and unprejudiced reader.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 368. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w.
=Bastian, Henry C.= Evolution of life. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–33603.
“A detailed and somewhat belated statement of his side of the controversy over the spontaneous generation of life, which followed the publication, in 1872, of his book on ‘The Beginnings of life.’”—Dial.
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“Ingenious and striking some of the new experiments cited certainly are; but it will be very difficult to find any biologist who will be convinced that they _demonstrate_ the truth of the conclusion drawn from them by Dr. Bastian.” Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Ind.= 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 1140w.
“With practically all the eminent bacteriologists of the world flatly denying such a postulate of spontaneous generation, we can only add, in deference to Dr. Bastian’s evident sincerity, that his experiments must be at fault in some way; there is some loop-hole unguarded.”
− =Nation.= 85: 192. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w.
“It is impossible not to admire the author’s strong desire to get at the truth, the courage of his convictions, and his incomparable good humour.” J. A. T.
− + =Nature.= 76: 1. My. 2, ’07. 1070w.
=Batcheller, Mrs. Tryphosa Bates.= Glimpses of Italian court life: happy days in Italia adorata. **$4.80. Doubleday.
6–41530.
“Dedicated by permission to Queen Helena, this sumptuous book is a worthy record of an American woman’s visit to Italy, of her experiences in aristocratic social circles of Rome, and of her impressions of the natural and artistic wonders of the Peninsula. Her story is told in letters written to friends at home, a literary form well adapted to books of this kind, and giving opportunities for naïve description and impressions caught on the wing.”—Lit. D.
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=Current Literature.= 42: 162. F. ’07. 1500w.
“The personal note is therefore strong, and the narrative is rambling, informal, and thoroughly readable.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 340w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 190w.
“The book would have been improved by more careful editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Of special interest and value are her comments on and appraisement of the various vocal teachers in the eternal city.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w.
“The personal tone is so strenuously evident throughout that it becomes wearisome. The book is ingenuously written.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Bates, Arlo.= Talks on teaching literature **$1.30. Houghton.
6–37886.
“Talks founded on lectures delivered before the Summer school of the University of Illinois in 1905. Concerns the problems, conditions, and some difficulties of the subject, the inspirational use of literature, the study of prose and of the novel, criticism, literary workmanship, literary biography, and voluntary reading.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.
“It is a very interesting and suggestive book, and we particularly recommend to the teachers into whose hands it falls the chapter which tells how Blake’s ‘Tiger’ was brought by the author within the comprehension of a boy of eight. We have rarely seen as sensible a book upon the subject with which it deals.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 90w.
“The suggestions and criticisms contained in this volume will be found extremely helpful to school and college teachers of English subjects.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 105. Je. ’07. 60w.
“The virtue of Professor Bates is that his remarks and experiences are always copious and illuminating. As such, the book should be read by every teacher, if for no other reason than the fresh and invigorating common-sense with which Prof. Bates approaches his subject. It is not an easy book, however. Occasionally Prof. Bates’s earnestness leads him to fall into a mild fremescence of style not good for clearness. But mainly the book is excellent.” William T. Brewster.
+ + − =Forum.= 38: 389. Ja. ’07. 860w.
“The points about which those in the main agreeing with Professor Bates are most likely to feel a little dissatisfied with the book are his suggestion that vocabulary be studied independent of context, and his failure to recognize in his discussion, though he doubtless recognizes in his own mind, the difference between the psychology of the adolescent and that of the child.” William Morse Cole.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 236. Mr. ’07. 950w.
=Bates, Carroll Lund.= The Master; a rosary of Christian verse, il. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–7479.
Sixteen poems whose themes are drawn from incidents in the life of Christ.
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“Some fairly good and illustrated by well-chosen half-tones.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 20w.
=Bates, David Homer.= Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2. Century.
7–32385.
Mr. Bates was manager of the War department telegraph office from 1861 to 1866. This book is one of reminiscences in which Lincoln plays an important part, being an almost daily visitor to the office where cipher despatches were sent and received during the war.
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“His account of happenings in the telegraph-office during the strenuous days of the war is Well ordered in arrangement and simply and naturally written.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Bates’s book of reminiscence is very important, but it is certainly fresh and original, and contains not a few incidents of Washington life and some stories about Lincoln himself which are decidedly worth preservation.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 170w.
“Aside from the revelations that he makes of Lincoln’s relations with the military telegraph corps during war time, Mr. Bates imparts in his books a great deal of information concerning important military movements.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 140w.
=Bates, Katharine Lee.= From Gretna Green to Land’s End: a literary journey in England. **$2. Crowell.
7–32870.
In which the author visits the Border, the Lake country and the heart of England and reviews, with many a fresh allusion, the connection which historic places have with tradition, story and song. The work is based upon wide reading and careful observation.
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“A book that readers who look forward to a trip abroad will enjoy and that returned travellers will thoroughly appreciate.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 130w.
“As she hurls herself through the length and breadth of England, easily making two moves to any other pilgrim’s one, she pours out a lively stream of fact and comment that keeps the reader amused and only too well instructed. The information, literary and historical, is thoroughly got up.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 180w.
“She has a keen sense of the picturesque and the worth-while, and she knows well how to find color in what might appear but gray to others.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.
=Battersby, Harry F. P.= Avenging hour. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–37929.
A novel which involves an unusual treatment of a man’s seduction of the wife of another. “We follow the progress of this rapid lovemaking not only without disgust but with entire sympathy. The man and woman we feel are not mad or bad but only intensely human—winning personalities of great charm. The author has managed to convey a sense of that intuitive power which in a flash makes people recognise their true affinities.” (Sat. R.)
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“The teller of this story disguises its essential repulsiveness by a skillful use of the casuistry of sentiment and the grace of literary composition.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 410w.
“The book has many good points, but unfortunately they do not counteract its unpleasant features.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Battersby has done a daring and remarkable thing and his book should place him high among contemporary novelists.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 440w.
=Baxter, William, jr.= Switchboards for power, light and railway service, direct and alternating current, high and low tension. $1.50. Derry-Collard co.
6–45714.
“In the first third of the book the way in which switchboards are connected for single generator and multiple generator plants, and also for the three-wire system, is shown.... Somewhat over a third of the book following the matter just mentioned is devoted to switchboards in actual practice.... The remaining portion of the volume is devoted to switches, circuit breakers, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.
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“With the exception of [three] omissions ... the book is an ideal one from a didactic standpoint.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 305. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.
=Bayley, R. Child.= Complete photographer. $3.50. McClure.
7–35187.
A guide to photography which deals thoroly with the science of photography from its earliest beginnings to its most recent developments and adaptations.
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“The completeness of his book, however, lies more in the fact that scarcely a single point is left untouched, than that any particular point is exhaustively treated; and in this respect the work, admittedly, does not challenge comparison with cheaper specialised brochures already on the market. Of many good pictures it would be invidious to mention a few; but it may safely be said that their praiseworthy selection and adequate printing will give the book a great value.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 634. D. 22, ’06. 520w.
“The book is much in advance of most works in completeness and attractiveness.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 94. Ap. ’07.
“As an historical review of photography it seems to merit its title, the whole subject being treated with a great deal of method. For the beginner ‘Complete photographer’ should serve as a textbook, and he will do well to follow the author’s advice.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 350w.
“There is hardly a difficulty which besets the practice of photography, on which valuable advice is not given in it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 850w.
“There are some opinions with which we do not agree. To those who know enough about photography to appreciate it, and there must be a very large number of persons so qualified, the volume will prove both entertaining and instructive.”
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 75. N. 22, ’06. 590w.
“The book treats of the subject thoroughly and is of value to the beginner as well as the expert.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The book is clearly written and the descriptions are easily followed, and not too technical, each particular subject being dealt with in a separate chapter in a most thorough and practical manner.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“It is as an art that Mr. Bayley prefers to deal with his fascinating hobby, and his book should meet a widely felt want in this respect.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 270w.
=Beale, Harriet S. B.= Stories from the Old Testament for children. il. $2. Duffield.
7–30462.
A sure help to mothers and Sunday school teachers who wish to present Old Testament characters in an attractive light with nothing lacking of the historical and religious significance. The book is interestingly illustrated.
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“The Old Testament is practically retold in a way to interest children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 40w.
“For a book which might be kept in a household and referred to every other Sunday, the volume seems well compiled, though we think the author has unnecessarily preserved the phraseology of the Bible. We would suggest that since her narrative is in the language of today, the conversation should be also; it would then seem truer to the child reader.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w.
=Beale, Joseph Henry, jr., and Wyman, Bruce.= Law of railroad rate regulation, with special reference to American legislation. *$6. Nagel.
6–36405.
“This is a legal treatise of twelve hundred pages. It contains the full text of the Interstate commerce act and decisions of both of the courts and of the commission under this act, as well as a discussion of the general principles of public service law and the primary obligations of these in public employments, particularly of carriers. In brief, it covers comprehensively the whole law, both common and statutory, with respect to railway rate regulation.”—Outlook.
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“The book appears to us a valuable addition to the editor’s library, and with its companion book of ‘Selected cases’ on the same general subject, to be well nigh indispensable to the lawyer who has to deal with this subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.
“The authors intrude some assertions not supported—and in some cases not supportable—by citations of authorities. But Professors Beale and Wyman have been wofully betrayed by him who compiled the index. Lawyers will be dismayed to find the text rendered so inaccessible. The impression left by the book is of hasty compilation and absence of just proportion.” Roberts Walker.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 333. Je. ’07. 1080w.
=Beard, Charles Austin.= Introduction to the English historians. *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–37646.
“In this book Mr. Beard tries to solve a problem very real to teachers of large history classes—the twofold problem of introducing each member of the class to a number of great authorities on special periods and topics at the same time, and of securing a critical examination of the materials in the class-room. His work differs from the well-known source-books in that it consists of excerpts from the secondary sources only: e. g., Maitland, Freeman, and Stubbs. Thirty-six authors are represented and a larger number of works. The difficulty of making a wise selection from abundant materials is recognized and fairly met. Each chapter is prefaced by a brief, explanatory statement concerning the citation, which is divided into sections with topical headings. These form a brief, clear analysis.... A short bibliographical note concludes each chapter, and an index at the end of the volume gives easy access to the material.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“A collection of this kind is open to two serious objections: (1) the subject matter is in a sense ‘pre-digested’ ... (2) the personality of the author becomes blurred.” C. T. Wyckoff.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 416. Ja. ’07. 460w.
“An excellent reference book. Nothing else like it available at present.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 94. Ap. ’07.
“The usefulness of the volume should be considerable. The extracts are all well within the grasp of college students, and the larger number can be profitably used in secondary schools. To teachers the book will be of service as a guide in the selection of suitable matter for collateral reading, while for the many schools which lack access to good libraries the volume will be a real boon.” William MacDonald.
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 101. Je. ’07. 680w.
“Both from the pedagogical and the research points of view the volume deserves unqualified commendation. It is intelligently discriminating in its selections, liberal and mature in its comment, and in its arrangement it shows the results of thoro scholarship and fruitful classroom experience. It should save both teachers and students of English history a vast amount of labor and time.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1291. N. 29, ’06. 370w.
“Even outside Mr. Beard’s own classroom it is an open question how far such a collection will find a following. We are inclined to think his selections somewhat severe for college freshmen.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 438. N. 22, ’06. 120w.
“The good effect of its use would probably overbalance any counter tendencies.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 897. D. 22, ’06. 420w.
“Time alone can demonstrate the success of his experiment from the pedagogical point of view, but there can be no doubt as to the value.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 360w.
=Beard, Daniel Carter.= Field and forest handy book: new ideas for out of doors. $2. Scribner.
6–40572.
In furnishing to boys a year-around guide for equipping themselves for out-of-door pursuits Mr. Beard has drawn only upon his own outing experiences. “The book is not a ‘re-hash’ of old ‘stunts,’ but is full of brand-new things, cleverly arranged according to the seasons to which they are appropriate.” Some of the problems solved are: How to cross a stream on a log, How to make a bridge for swift waters, How to make a real hunter’s clothes and moccasins, and How to build a real log house.
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“The material is almost wholly new.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07. ✠
“It is simply indispensable to any wide-awake, _real_ boy.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w.
“There is nothing, from airships to flying birds, from boating to camping, from loghouse to snowhouse, that has escaped this born sportsman of our time.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
“A treasure for all boys and not without its use for men.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“The boy or man who has heard the ‘call of the wild’ will do well to entrust himself to Mr. Beard’s guidance.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 762. D. ’06. 220w.
=Beard, Lina, and Beard, Adelia Belle.= Things worth doing and how to do them. $2. Scribner.
6–40580.
Clear directions accompanied by pen drawings are given for all manner of clever things at home. The book is designed for girls, and one part is devoted to things for parties, shows and entertainments, and the other to things for home, gift days and fairs.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.
“The ideas are novel and easy to make, for the authors are thoroughly practical and actually make the things they describe.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
=Beardsley, Rufus C.= Design and construction of hydroelectric plants; including a special treatment of the design of dams. *$5. McGraw pub.
7–18823.
“This work presents in a very thorough and practical manner the method of the design and construction of hydro-electric power plants, taking up in detail, in the order in which they are met by the practical engineer, most of those points which must be considered in designing or constructing a complete waterpower development. The purpose of the work seems to be to give to the designing engineer, in as short and as concise manner as possible the method in which the various problems are attacked, including under each topic most of the data and tables which he is required to use in connection therewith.”—Engin. N.
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“Altogether the book will be found to contain much of value to the student and to teachers and will be a valuable addition to the engineer’s reference library.” A. W. M.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 75. Jl. 18, ’07. 780w.
=Beare, John Isaac.= Greek theories of elementary cognition, from Alcmæon to Aristotle. *$4.15. Oxford.
7–29076.
“This volume deals with the various theories entertained in regard to the five senses, sensation in general, and lastly the Sensus Communis, and its method is under each head to give as consistent a view as possible of what was severally taught by Alcmaeon, Empedocles, Democritus, Anaxagoras, Diogenes of Appollonia, Plato, and Aristotle.”—Nature.
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“Mr. Beare’s scholarship is sound.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 121. Ag. 9, ’06. 660w.
“The statement is very clear, the discussion of disputed points scholarly, the facts are well arranged, and the literature—to judge from the foot-notes and the list of books consulted—seems to have been thoroughly studied; although one misses a reference to one recent work on the ‘De anima’—that of Rodier, whose commentary, if not his translation, has been regarded by competent judges as indispensable. On every account this volume is to be commended to those interested in the development of theories of sense-perception.”
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 122. D. 6, ’06. 630w.
“The present volume should be of the greatest service not only to Greek scholars, but to all psychologists who take an interest in the history of their science.” A. E. Taylor.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 205. Mr. ’07. 1360w.
“A learned and elaborate disquisition which will be welcome not only to students of ancient Greek psychology, but also to readers who desire to know what the Greek philosophers accomplished in this particular line of psychological investigation.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 252. N. ’06. 130w.
=Bearne, Mrs. Catherine.= Heroines of French society in the court, revolution, empire and restoration. *$3. Dutton.
7–25682.
“Contains sketches of the lives of four women: Madame Vigée Le Brun, La Marquise de Montagu, Madame Tallien, and Madame de Genlis. Scraps of contemporary history are interwoven; a number of photogravure portraits are scattered here and there; and the whole makes a fairly readable volume.”—Nation.
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“The book is one which deserves more attention than we can give it.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 210w.
=Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 260w.
“As an historical study the work has little value; as a group of biographical sketches it adds nothing to what has already been published in a much more useful and entertaining fashion.”
− =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 180w.
“A chatty book, filled with anecdotes and incidents that illustrate the manners, morals, and ideas of the upper classes of France previous to and following the years of the revolution.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 165. Mr. 16, ’07. 460w.
“Mrs. Bearne writes fluently, and opens here and there a door through which the lover of personal anecdote and gossip can get a glimpse of characteristic French court society.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 310w.
“The volume is full of stirring pictures of the terror and moves with spirit.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.
* =Bearne, Rev. David.= Guild-boys’ play at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.
More glimpses of Ridingdale boys and this time they try their skill as actors in Shakesperian rôles.
* =Bearne, Rev. David.= New boys at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.
Another Ridingdale book whose events take place at a Catholic school for boys. Wholesome lessons are taught between the lines of fun and frolic.
=Bearne, David.= Ridingdale flower show; il. by T. Baines. 85c. Benziger.
6–46345.
A story of real live boys who “talk as boys and act as boys.”
=Bearne, David.= Witch of Ridingdale; il. by T. Baines. 85c. Benziger.
6–46344.
A spiritual story for boys whose hero, Lance Ridingdale, has become a favorite among young readers.
=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.= Works. Cambridge English classics; text ed. by A. R. Waller, 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Nation.= 84: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 111. F. 23, ’07. 1560w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Beazley, Charles Raymond.= Dawn of modern geography. 3v. ea. *$6.75. Oxford.
=v. 3.= A history of exploration and geographical science from the middle of the 13th to the early years of the 15th century (c. A. D. 1260–1420). In it the author tells of the great inland-trade pioneers and of the daring challenge that they made for the “open door” in Hind and Cathay.
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“Mr. Beazley’s work is most timely. It is without doubt the best that has yet appeared on the subject. It is not only a work belonging to geographical literature, it has an important place in historical literature. Such a work serves well to impress the importance of historical geography, an importance which receives commendable recognition in the European countries, but which we in America are slow to appreciate.” E. L. Stevenson.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 869. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The most interesting and easiest to master of the series.” G. Le Strange.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 573. Jl. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The form and arrangement of the book undoubtedly leaves something to be desired. After surmounting a long list of abbreviations and corrections, a very ill-knit preface, and an introduction which reads like an after-thought, the reader flounders heavily amid footnotes, supplementary notes, appendix notes, and bibliographical notes. The references are often rather bewildering, and one misses a capable summary at the close. One is easily reconciled to the lumbering of the wheels by the novelty of the outlook and the strange vision of these outlandish regions, so seldom penetrated by modern book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 98. Mr. 29, ’07. 2860w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In the completion of his great work Mr. Beazley has done and more than done for the middle ages what Bunbury did for ancient times in his ‘Ancient geography.’”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 330. O. 10, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A credit both to him and to his university.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 343. F. 7, ’07. 2410w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A work which will be the standard authority in English on a very important subject.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Beck, Otto W.= Art principles in portrait photography, composition, treatment of background, and the processes involved in manipulating the plate. **$3. Baker.
7–19429.
The “good straight photography” descended from Daguerre is elevated into the realm of art away out of the “lifeless groove” into which “commercialism has enslaved it.” “In the treatise before us. Mr. Beck has shown, by description and pictorial illustration, that if creative work is to enter into photography it must be possible to make on the negative a line of any character and to control the light and shade with the facility of one who paints. In fact, his illustrations show that those powerful resources of the graphic arts, light lines and dark lines, can be made on the negative as readily as on paper and canvas.” (Dial.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 159. O. ’07.
“The book is worthy of perusal by amateur as well as professional photographers.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Beck’s ‘principles’ are generally very good, but we cannot say as much for his practice.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 380w.
“Mr. Beck’s book is the work of a man who knows pictures for their full value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 310w.
=Becke, Louis.= Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.
W 6–235.
“Reminiscences of a happy-go-lucky wandering along quiet French byways.... The dog furnishes most entertaining diversion all along the way, but so does Jimmy Potter, with his sophomoric proclivities; Mrs. Basker, with her mania for ‘doing things cheaply’ at somebody else’s expense ... and a dozen other quaint and interesting personalities that stand out with remarkable distinctness, considering the highly unconventional mode of their introduction.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Delightfully humorous sketches. Fortunately Mr. Becke’s love of fun is tempered by discretion.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 334. Je. ’07. 90w.
“Doubtless there is little to be said for these casual and garrulous sketches, except that they are unusually readable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 250w.
“Not the kind of book of which it is possible to give outlines or digests, since its very beauty and charm consist in its utter disregard of sequence or logic or of any substantial subject matter, but every chapter is a fresh delight to an appreciative mind, and the whole quite reconciles even Mr. Becke’s old acquaintances to his taking a ‘day off,’ as it were, from his bounden duty in regard to the South Seas.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 283. My. 4, ’07. 560w.
=Becke, Louis.= Settlers of Karossa Creek and other stories of Australian bush life. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Three stories of Australian bush life which reveal the evil in man, as old as Adam, pitted against refining integrity. Here are shown the crude beginnings of selectors, their trials and small victories as they battle with the avarice of men mightier than they.
=Beckwith, Clarence A.= Realities of Christian theology; an interpretation of Christian experience. **$2. Houghton.
6–37867.
An interpretation of Christian experience in the light of modern intelligence. “His object is to construct doctrines that are certainly vital and real from the facts of life to which the saints of the Christian ages bear testimony.” (Ind.)
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“It will carry a ministry of mental peace and satisfaction to many earnest thinkers in this field. It is an interpretation of the Christian religion in terminology and thought-units that will be comprehensible to the student of the present generation. It is a book for the transition period in Christian theology.” Herbert Alden Youtz.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 694. O. ’07. 1210w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 300w.
“The statement of the author in his preface, that there is universal agreement that, ‘whatever the differences of the past or present explanations of Christian belief; the Christian experience of to-day is essentially the same that it has been from the beginning,’ will hardly find so universal an assent as he supposes. Leaving this fundamental criticism of the method of the book, we may express our admiration of the vital way in which Professor Beckwith, with genuine historical sympathy, has penetrated beneath the formal elements of doctrine and has discovered the essential reality of the great spiritual issues with which theology deals.” Gerald Birney Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 300. O. ’07. 630w.
+ − =Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.
“The principal themes of the usual doctrinal systems appear in the discussion, but it can hardly be said that new light is thrown upon them.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 255. F. ’07. 70w.
=Beddoes, Thomas Lovell.= Poems; ed. with an introd., by Ramsay Colles. (Muses’ lib.) *40c. Dutton.
“This single and handy volume of Beddoes’ poems contains all his published poems, with the exception of ten, which may be found in the standard two-volume edition of Edmund Gosse. It is not conceivable that Beddoes will ever be popular, yet there will always be a few who will savor the peculiar mingling of the gruesome and the beautiful that runs thru his dramas, and who will not be deterred by his incoherence. His most famous play, ‘Death’s jest book,’ is best described as a mixture of Webster and John Ford, mitigated by ‘Festus’ Bailey.”—Nation.
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“Since Dr. Gosse’s edition is not to be had by all, we offer a hearty welcome to the little reprint before us. May it sell far and wide, and bring Beddoes many new admirers.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 360. Ap. 13, ’07. 1780w.
“Mr. Colles’s introduction, though rather carelessly written, gives a good many interesting facts about his obscure life, and he has been at considerable pains to produce a correct text.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 209. Jl. 5, ’07. 2160w.
=Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 120w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 334. S. 14, ’07. 680w.
=Beebe, C. William.= Bird: its form and function. **$3.50. Holt.
6–37592.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“But not only is this volume crowded with new and interesting facts: it is also profusely illustrated, and most of these illustrations are extremely good.” W. P. Pycraft.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 431. My. 4, ’07. 1050w.
“Written in so interesting a style as to be enjoyed by the general reader as well as by the specialist.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.
“Each chapter is the work of the born lecturer, holding the attention of his audience from beginning to end, suggesting here, illustrating there, and always stimulating the appetite for further investigation.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 293. Mr. 9. 1700w.
“Of substantial merit and permanent value for every lover and student of denizens of the air.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 370w.
“Mr. Beebe’s style is in itself pictorial: but in clothing his facts with ‘living interest,’ as he says in his preface, he occasionally passes the boundary line between warrantable deduction and pure fancy. Considering the wide field covered, actual errors are infrequent.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 566. D. 27, ’06. 850w.
“The book will take and hold a distinct place in the literature of the subject for it is quite original and stands alone. His book is of worldwide interest.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 489. S. 12, ’07. 820w.
“Side by side with a perfection of scientific detail, Mr. Beebe fans to a vital flame an exquisite appreciation of the ethical value of bird life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 730w.
“It thus covers ground that has been but little worked. Here and there slips occur. The book abounds in information and represents a large amount of original work.” F. A. L.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 142. Ja. 25, ’07. 920w.
“It is with real satisfaction that we recommend a book which is thoroughly popular, very suitable for youthful naturalists, and at the same time scientific.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1035. Je. 29, ’07. 530w.
=Beebe, C. William.= Log of the sun: a chronicle of nature’s year; with 52 full-page il. by Walter King Stone; and numerous vignettes and photographs from life. **$6. Holt.
6–41017.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is one of the best nature-books we have had from America.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 210w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 38. F. ’07.
“He has imagination and a keen sense of extracting the artistic from matters of fact, but he never allows these accomplishments to distort the truth.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 880w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“This is a beautiful book, and good to read.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 96. Ja. 19, ’07. 200w.
=Beeching, Rev. Henry Charles, and Nairne, Alexander.= Bible doctrine of atonement. *$1. Dutton.
These six lectures, five of them by Dr. Beeching, were given in Westminster abbey. Three of them trace the idea of atonement as it appears in the Old Testament, and three treat the New Testament aspects of the subject.
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“All [lectures] are interesting and easily read. Prof. Nairne’s lecture is a valuable piece of exposition, but is not such easy reading as the rest of the volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 382. My. 30. 160w.
“The treatment is popular, but in touch with the results of modern investigation.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.
“When we get to what he rightly calls ‘the very centre of the subject’ ... we have a feeling of disappointment, a feeling that after all Dr. Beeching has failed to take us to the centre. We believe Dr. Beeching to be true and correct so far as he goes, but we believe that he has not gone far enough or deep enough; he has given us but part of the doctrine of the atonement.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 360w.
“A short book upon the atonement which shall be at the same time learned and popular, will, we are sure, be eagerly read by many persons whose views in regard to this difficult doctrine have become unsettled as a result of recent criticism. Such a book lies before us at the present moment.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 210w.
=Beer, George Louis.= British colonial policy, 1854–1865. **$2. Macmillan.
7–30451.
A work which in presenting the British colonial policy from 1754 to 1765 covers the fundamental cause of the revolution. It is a work which “has not for its purpose the glorification of revolutionary patriots or motives, but which is content to view the facts of the period as facts.” (Ind.)
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“We commend this book to persons who desire a fairer view of the ultimate causes of American independence.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 310w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 720w.
“This is a book that Fourth of July orators will have to reckon with, sooner or later.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 100w.
=Beet, Joseph Agar.= Manual of theology. *$2.75. Armstrong.
“Professor Beet’s ‘Manual of Christian theology’ expounds the views on the intermediate state which brought him into difficulty with the English Methodists some years ago, but otherwise it follows well-worn paths to conclusions which are now familiar and trite.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Dr. Agar Beet’s is, no doubt, a good specimen of its class, but its main result is only to afford one more proof, if such were needed, of the futility of this kind of literature.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 278. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w.
“The value of Dr. Beet’s work—and it has considerable value—lies in its minute knowledge and skilful use of the words of the Biblical writers, and in the systematizing of the thoughts he finds in those words.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 500w.
“The religious tone of the treatise prevents it from being a dry compendium of proof-texts. But one who has accepted the historical method of studying the Bible will be unable to use the book for anything more than an expression of Dr. Beet’s own convictions.” Gerald Birney Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 77. Jl. ’07. 430w.
=Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 200w.
=Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 320w.
“We cannot follow his expositions, but we may say that they are characterised by lucidity and moderation.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
=Begbie, Harold.= Penalty. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–14251.
A story whose plot rests upon a woman’s determination to have a certain bishop reinstate her in English society. By means of the theft and later the loss of a certain book, she planned to show to the world that this bishop now aspiring to the archbishopric of Canterbury formerly belonged to a secret order that was proselyting for the Roman Catholic church. “There results a comedy of errors which in the end very narrowly escapes becoming a tragedy.” (Bookm.)
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“A novel of unquestionable cleverness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 220w.
“The welcome feature ... is a distinct originality of theme. Taken altogether, a very readable volume, full of veiled irony, and plainly written with a certain underlying seriousness of purpose.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 286. My. ’07. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 336. My. 25, ’07. 190w.
“The dignity and serious tone of the book make it quite worth while.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 160w.
=Belcher, John.= Essentials in architecture: an analysis of the principles and qualities to be looked for in buildings. *$2. Scribner.
“Everybody who wishes to be able to distinguish between a good building and a bad, to recognize at a glance the best and worst points of the houses he passes in the street, is under a debt of deep gratitude to Mr. Belcher.” (Acad.) “Dividing the work into four main parts, entitled respectively principles, qualities, factors, and materials, Mr. Belcher discourses pleasantly on each, illustrating the points he makes by reference to well-known buildings.” (Ath.)
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“Uncompromising in his denunciation of vital defects, Mr. Belcher is as broad-minded as he is sound in his judgments, and his book is remarkably free from whims, fads, and that irrelevant mass of fuss and metaphysics which Ruskin in later years detected in his ‘Seven lamps.’”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 769. Ag. 10, ’07. 1030w.
“The interest of the book lies less in the correctness or otherwise of the principles formulated than in the intimate view of architecture presented, which is not that of the historian or the art critic, but one of the practising architect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 277. S. 7. 370w.
“Every line is pregnant with interest alike to the cultured general reader and to the professional student, whose attention is called to those first principles and ultimate ideals which he is apt to overlook in the maze of practical details.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 335. O. ’07. 190w.
“One has only to regret the too obvious and every-day tone of the criticism. It is an odd fault to find with a book devoted to analysis—but one does really long for a little more subtlety, a little finer splitting of hairs, and here and there something unexpected.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 500w.
“It is as to contents only a fair average specimen of a class of historical ‘rewrite’ (to use a newspaper term) of which there has been an oversupply of late.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 280w.
=Bell, Gertrude Lowthian.= Desert and the sown; a record of travel from Jericho through the unfrequented parts of Syria to Antioch. *$5. Dutton.
7–35188.
“The book describes the converse with all sorts of Syrians enjoyed by Miss Bell on a journey through the country east of Jordan to the Jebel-ed-Drûz, and thence, by Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, and Antioch, to the coast of Iskenderun.” (Ath.) “We get stories of shepherds and men-at-arms as they ‘passed from lip to lip round the camp fire, in the black tent of the Arab and the guest chamber of the Druze, as well as the more cautious utterance of Turkish and Syrian officials.’ She eschews politics, and points out that the wise traveller in Syria will avoid being drawn into the meshes of the Armenian question.... Much of her time was given to archaeological matters, but they are not her chief consideration in this book.” (Sat. R.)
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“It is not too high praise to say that the book before us is the most charming addition to the literature of travel that has been published for many years—we had almost said, and we think we should be justified in saying, for many decades.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 210. Mr. 2, ’07. 2460w.
“A most delightful account of travel in Syria in which the author shows a wide knowledge of desert lore and desert peoples, of archaeology and Asiatic politics, an unusual power of description, which, together with a keen sense of humor and fine dramatic touch, conveys the whole scene in a quite remarkable way.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.
“But after a searching criticism this book remains one of the best of its kind that we have ever read. A valuable map is appended, but, alas! there is no index.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 159. F. 9, 1540w.
“The author has made a distinct contribution to the literature of travel, and has put her name far up on the list of women who have written good travel-books.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 391. Je. 16, ’07. 670w.
“One thing is wanting: Miss Bell has not sufficiently absorbed the medieval associations of Syria.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 28. Ja. 25, ’07. 2510w.
“I cannot quote it all and unless all is quoted you have lost the better part.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 1020w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 240w.
“A book of unusual atmosphere and charm.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 530w.
“A charmingly written, fully illustrated account.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 270w.
“An enchanting example of travel literature. To her power of describing scenery and people, and of recording the living talk of men who, though they belong to the wilderness, have shrewd and capable brains, Miss Bell adds a wide knowledge of archaeology and a sound instinct for the politics of Asia.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 253. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.
=Bell, John Keble (Keble Howard, pseud.).= The Smiths: a comedy without a plot. †$1.50. McClure.
7–16483.
“It is a simple, agreeable story of the lives of two affectionate and well-behaved people from the day when they come back from their wedding journey and begin housekeeping in a snug suburban cottage, to the time when they become grandparents.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Keble Howard has shown us again his keen insight into ordinary human nature and with his sympathetic touch has brought to the surface valuable jewels from unsuspected sources.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 320w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w.
“The record of two honest young people who marry on a small income and lead the uninspired life of the solid British middle class, may be quite as tiresome in print as it appears in its suburban villa.”
− =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Howard is not only in earnest, but he has also an old-fashioned, tender reverence which is refreshing at a time when that high quality has become somewhat rare. His people are fairly representative of the best members of that great, sterling middle class which at all periods has been the safeguard of English social life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 450w.
“We are warned that the Smiths are neither superior nor fashionable, but it would have been more kind to warn us that they are absolutely uninteresting. We object to the inference that superiority and fashion are required in order to be interesting.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
“Many a person who is genuinely depressed by the mere sight of a suburb from a train-window, and who would be utterly bored by half an hour’s companionship with the Smiths in real life, will find himself oddly interested in Mr. Howard’s little story, until he comes to the love affairs of Phyllis, when the conversations become tedious.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 210. F. 17, ’06. 200w.
“The story of ‘The Smiths of Surbiton’ is not told with any distinction of literary style or any subtlety in the analysis of the human heart. The want of literary artifice in the treatment makes it therefore obvious that the approval with which the book has been greeted is due solely to its subject.”
− + =Spec.= 96: 226. F. 10, ’06. 460w.
=Bell, Lilian.= Why men remain bachelors, and other luxuries. **$1.25. Lane.
6–38991.
A group of half humorous half philosophical essays which deal with such subjects as The management of wives, The management of husbands, The luxury of being stupid, How men propose, The broken engagement, Modern mothers, etc.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
“These very personal little essays are amusingly frank, and clever in a journalistic way, but they have none of that delicacy of form—and spirit—which pleases the artistic sense.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=Bell, Malcolm.= Old pewter. (Newnes’ lib. of the applied arts.) *$2.50. Scribner.
W 6–139.
Contains little if any new information but deserves recognition on account of the numerous carefully chosen illustrations.
* * * * *
“His various brief chapters show a considerable mastery of, and love for, his subject. One of the weak points of the letterpress is the ‘Useful books of reference,’ a list which occupies only a single page immediately before the index. The only works named in this insignificant list that deal with church pewter are wrongly cited.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 803. Je. 30. 550w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 186. D. ’06. 60w.
“Treats its subject very successfully.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 179. Mr. 24, ’06. 420w.
=Bell, Nancy R. E.= Historical outskirts of London. **$2. McClure.
“Mrs. Bell conducts her readers on a tour of the places situated on the fringe of London, recalling the historic associations in which they abound and noting the changes they have undergone down to the present time when these once isolated hamlets and townships have become practically merged in the great metropolis.” (Int. Studio.) Highgate, Hampstead, Woolwich, Epping Forest, Epsom, Fulham, Hammersmith, Greenwich and other places are described with interesting anecdotes of people whose history is associated with them.
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“The general reader should be glad to have so much put before him in a compact and readable form. The ‘proofs’ have occasionally been badly read.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 240w.
“The book should not fail to stimulate interest in these time-honoured spots.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 336. O. ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur George Bell) (N. D’Anvers, pseud.).= Picturesque Brittany; il. in col. by Arthur G. Bell. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–35603.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 70w.
“The charm of her writing entirely dispels from her pages, full of carefully-acquired information as they are, that suggestion of the guide-book which is not always inseparable from works of this kind.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 278. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“The truth is that writers like Mrs. Bell do not possess a tithe of the information necessary to draw a real picture of Brittany.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 720w.
=Bellamy, Charles Joseph.= Wonder children, their quests and curious adventures. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–38395.
Here are quests that frequently terminate where the rainbow touches the earth, and which permit the wanderer children to open the bags of gold and live in peace forever after.
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=Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 17w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
“The material is not new and the use of it is not marked by any especial charm.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 40w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.
=Belloc, Hilaire.= Hills and the sea. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–13406.
“Mr. Belloc’s book opens with one marvelous sea voyage and ends with another, while the intervening pages are occupied with observations of places and persons encountered along untraveled paths of England, France, Spain, and countries which are not named and whose identity only the initiated can recognize. There is information, too, strewn through these pages—information that some day may serve as footnotes to more serious and less personal books of travel.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is in tense narration, touched with fantasy, that his strength lies.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 659. D. 29, ’06. 390w.
“None the less, if not wholly a satisfactory book, this is a book that is filled with a fine spirit and has no slovenly writing in it, and has many passages of pellucid and admirable prose often direct and simple as Bunyan’s. At its best ... it has radiance and gusto, both very rare qualities, and a pleasant wayside Borrovian flavour.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 554. D. 27, ’06. 320w.
“The book abounds in sweetness and light, and one must be something more than human or something less not to find therein some congenial and sympathetic message—possibly many.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 260w.
“It is because these sketches contain so much good matter that their failings are worthy of note. The faults are mainly faults of manner, and it must be admitted that as the excellencies seem for the most part due to French influences, the badnesses are solidly Britannic.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 840w.
“He has none of the serious and brooding passion of Mr. Conrad. He sneers at all that he does not understand, whereas the other writer is reverently silent. He postures and swaggers, and, for all his hatred of imperialism, betrays much of the boastful ‘mafficking’ spirit which he repudiates. He falls into mannerisms and catch-words which weary us from their repetition. And yet he has the charm against which all criticism is powerless.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 370w.
=Belloc, Hilaire.= Historic Thames. *$6. Dutton.
“Mr. Belloc ... severely avoids the Thames of the pleasure seeker, and deals almost exclusively with the place of the river in the topographical and commercial system of early England, as well as incidentally, but at great length, with the dissolution of the Thames-side monasteries. From this branch of his subject he is lead, by digressions worthy of Victor Hugo, to the family history of the Cromwells. Mr. Belloc writes as an anti-Protestant, and even gives some slight colour to the popular belief that a curse follows the possessors of abbey lands.”—Ath.
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“With all its faults of omission ‘The historic Thames’ is a thoughtful and stimulating essay—in the strict usage of the word. The publishers have made a bad mistake in sending out this volume without maps or plans. No good word can be said of the illustrations; many of them are very badly drawn.” W. T. S.
− + =Acad.= 72: 599. Je. 22, ’07. 1240w.
“Mr. Belloc’s letter-press may disturb the ordinary Thames public, and is perhaps too good for its place. The drawings have little or nothing to do with it, and are chiefly of scenes attractive to the artist, without special connexion in his mind with history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 390w.
“In spite of the evident efforts to the contrary he becomes involved in the tangle of the Thames’s history with that of England and ends in a tedious recital of the destruction of the monasteries, which has little to do with his subject.” May Estelle Cook.
− + =Dial.= 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Naturally his book will call down reprobation from certain high quarters, but it can not by any one be denied the qualities of interest and vivacity.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 810w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 70w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w.
“While he has performed his task with thoroughness and conscientiousness he has missed, whether purposely or not, it is impossible to say, the tone of romance and æsthetic delight which one naturally expects with this subject.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Belloc’s book is a serious contribution to history. The illustrations are very attractive, but they do not illustrate the book, and they are arranged, or scattered about, with a more than usually provoking irrelevance.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 340w.
=Bement, Alburto.= Peabody atlas: shipping mines and coal railroads, in the central commercial district of the United States, accompanied by chemical, geological and engineering data. $5. Peabody coal co., 125 Monroe st., Chicago.
Maps 7–25.
In which are set forth conditions in the coal-carrying railways and their relations to the coal mines. “The atlas contains some valuable information and illustrations on smokeless furnaces and smoke prevention, analysis of combustion gases and improvements in boiler designs.”—Engin. N.
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“To the investigator in this field, the statistics of the various bituminous mines and contributing railways throughout the central states, which is given in this atlas, should be of as great value as they also are to the various dealers for whom the book will serve the purpose of a trade directory.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 120w.
=Benham, W. Gurney.= Book of quotations: proverbs and household words. $3. Lippincott.
A collection of quotations from British and American authors, ancient and modern, with many thousands of proverbs, familiar phrases and sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other languages.
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“The collection shows an advance on those available, including material from more recent authors, and from some now adorning or amazing the world with their pens. A fairly thorough search has convinced us of the general suitability and accuracy of the English section. The section of miscellaneous quotations and other odds and ends is good, but we are unable to praise the various lists of foreign quotations.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 222. F. 23. 1230w.
“We know of no other book of the kind that contains so much matter, and we can heartily recommend it as an addition to the reference shelf.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
+ + =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 180w.
“Upon the whole, while it is not to be expected or desired that the new book will supersede the old [Bartlett], it may very conveniently supplement it, and is very well worth having, if one may say so without applying to it the only real test, that of habitual use.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w.
“A slight examination will show that a good deal of original research has been employed in the work. The arrangement, classification, and indexings of the book are all commendable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 170w.
+ + =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 190w.
=Benjamin, Charles Henry.= Machine design. *$2. Holt.
6–45053.
“A text-book for the use of students, and while very useful for that purpose is not complete enough for the requirements of the practical designer.... The principal things in the book which are valuable are the results of experiments performed on various springs, journals, fly-wheels, etc.”—Engin. N.
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“It has the fault that is common to most books bearing its title; that is, it covers only a small part of the subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 86. Ja. 17, ’07. 250w.
“The faults of the book are faults of omission rather than of commission; to a large extent the matter given is original and cannot fail to be of great value to designers of machinery. The analytical treatment of some of the problems dealt with is both new and ingenious. We have noticed a few slips, but they are mostly unimportant.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 564. O. 3, ’07. 500w.
=Benjamin, Charles Henry.= Modern American machine tools. *$5. Dutton.
7–33555.
A book written from the purchaser’s point of view which gives “a good outline of the principal characteristics of modern machine tools, as manufactured in the United States, the various points in which they differ, the advantages and disadvantages of different styles, and some data in regard to their capacity and performance.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The book is a valuable one and well worth consulting. There is, however, one important fact to be remembered which lessens the value of the book to the buyer of machine tools and that is the impossibility of getting the latest and best information from a book. In this case, it would be safe to say that this book is now two years behind the times.” W: W. Bird.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w.
=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= The ghost: a novel. †$1.50. Small.
7–24288.
“The Ghost” by the author of the fantastic “Hugo” “is an exciting story of opera singers and railway accidents and channel-boat disasters and trapdoors and revenge and jealousy that is strong enough to be carried beyond death, and of love that triumphs even over such fatal jealousy.”—Acad.
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“Whether his mood be fantastic or serious, his work is always first-class, and though his output is enormous, signs of haste are never apparent in the writing or construction.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 274. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= Hugo; a fantasia on modern themes. $1.50. Buckles.
6–41708.
One feels that Mr. Bennett fairly slaps his canvas with a Kipling brush of comet’s hair. The result is a fantastic, panoramic “improvisation.” “Hugo is proprietor of an immense shop in London. He falls in love with a milliner in one of his innumerable ‘departments.’ She weds another, is pursued by a third, officially dies, is bereft timely of her spouse, and returns in due season to life and Hugo.” (Nation.)
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“He never makes an attempt to modify or explain: he piles improbability upon improbability with calm assurance, and mortars it all together with clever little facts and truths in a style which is always restrained and neat, and by its very lack of ornaments convincing.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 92. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w.
“The plot has been deliberately and cunningly designed to sustain the reader’s excitement from chapter to chapter, and, this being admitted as the author’s aim, the book may fairly be pronounced a success.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 131. F. 3. 210w.
“It is all very absurd and pleasant; all the more so that the writer appears to be regarding his own fable with merely good-humored toleration.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 160w.
“An Italian novel with the plot laid in the sixteenth century is tame in comparison, and though Mr. Bennett has used all kinds of incongruously modern stage machinery along with his melodramatic characters, he does it with a seriousness that seems to bridge the difficulty.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 11. Ja. 5, ’07. 440w.
“The book, in fine, is an amusing skit on the vastness of modern commercial enterprises; but in it Mr. Arnold Bennett has by no means touched the level of his delightful comedy, ‘A great man.’”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w.
* =Benson, Arthur C.= Alfred Tennyson. **$1.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Benson thus formulates his object in the present volume: “(1) I have given a simple narrative of the life of Tennyson, with a sketch of his temperament, character, ideals, and beliefs; (2) I have tried from his own words and writings to indicate what I believe to have been his view of the poetical life and character; (3) I have attempted to touch the chief characteristics of his art from the technical point of view, here again as far as possible using his own recorded words.””
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“A quiet sympathy, a genial appreciation, pervades the book and makes it most enjoyable, even inspiring, reading.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 380w.
“Few readers, indeed, one would say, can read the volume without deriving from it both a clearer and a higher estimate of its subject than they had before.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 650w.
* =Benson, Arthur C.= Altar fire. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–32854.
Wholly reflective “this volume contains, in the form of a friend’s diary, Mr. Benson’s conclusions upon many things, from the doctrine of the atonement to the Browning letters, but chiefly on the processes of personal religious life.” (Ind.)
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“One feels there is a message, but hardly formed and loosely articulated and lacking the virile note. One cannot but wish the book a larger reading than its somber monotony will invite.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 340w.
“To his usual characteristics, with which the public is well acquainted by this time, his new volumes add a rather unexpected extension of scope.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“This generation can hardly have too many books of this temper put into its hands.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 560w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 120w.
“As an artistic whole ‘The altar fire’ suffers from the use of too ambitious a scene. The book is sure of a large and respectful public; but the remnant of reactionaries, the classical people whose eyes have been dazzled by gazing upon the sun, will still see patent blots in Mr. Benson’s work—if indeed it is Mr. Benson and not the mask which comes between.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. N. 16, ’07. 980w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= Beside still waters. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–15922.
“Meditations and recollections of a man who, after a busy life, settles down into a kind of epicurean seclusion from the world. ‘He found a small, picturesque, irregularly-built house crushed in between the road and the river, which, in fact, dipped its very feet in the stream.’... Could a better lodge be found for a recluse who likes to season his days of solitude with an occasional dinner in Hall with his old college friends! And presently the college takes him back into its fold, while the house by the waters is kept as a place of retreat and quiet work.”—Nation.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 159. O. ’07.
“It is difficult to write so completely introspective a book as this. We wonder at the end of it how we have interested ourselves with it for so long, till we reflect on Mr. Benson’s easy flow of undistracting thoughts, raised just a little above commonplace by a certain sanity or breadth of view which no doubt is a gospel in itself.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 539. My. 4. 330w.
“Those who have enjoyed the charm of ‘From a college window,’ with sweet spirit, lofty thought, and exquisite tenderness expressed in limpid delightful English, will find a similar treat in Mr. Benson’s present work.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 117. O. ’07. 470w.
“Notwithstanding a tendency to repetition and undue elaboration—a conspicuous lack of epigrammatic terseness,—this book is the ripest, thoughtfullest, best piece of work its author has yet produced.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 350w.
“Gives us a scholar’s philosophy of life.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 700w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Benson’s polished prose and his mastery of style and language serve only to throw into bolder relief the thinness of the substance.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 84. Mr. 15, ’07. 1060w.
“Remind one of ‘The private papers of Henry Ryecroft,’ graceful and wise and sober, a delightful refreshment in the bustle of modern literature, but lacking in the last incalculable touch of style and insight that make Gissing’s book so memorable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 330w.
Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= From a college window. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–17648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 560. F. ’07. 1060w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= Gate of death; a diary. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–43770.
The author says that the book is not a treatment of death “the saddest, darkest, most solemn, most inevitable, most tremendous fact in the world.” It is merely “the record of the sincere and faltering thoughts of one who was suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with death, and who, in the midst of a very ordinary and commonplace life, with no deep reserves of wisdom, faith, or tenderness, had just to interpret it as he best could.”
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“Naturally a great deal in the book will not be agreed with by Catholics; but, making allowances for this, we must say we have here a book of more than ordinary interest and power.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 111. Ap. ’07. 260w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 196. F. ’07. 2460w.
“He has great power of attention and analysis, a great interest in ideas, and considerable culture, and in addition he is master of an easy and picturesque style; so that he has no difficulty in putting upon paper what he feels and thinks and sees. What he seems to lack as an artist is power of selection.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 346. O. 12, ’06. 1290w.
“A work not of didactic effect, but of singularly pure and elevated sentiment; of melancholy in the old sweet sense.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 560w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 768. Mr. ’07. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 531. Ap. 7, ’07. 300w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, extracted from his letters and diaries, with reminiscences of his conversation by his friend Christopher Carr of the same college. $1.25. Holt.
The quiet story of the life of a “thoroughgoing determinist who was still faithful to the voice of duty, still striving upwards,” who trusted “in an invisible all-ruling Father who really was ordering the world in the smallest details when He seemed to be ordering it least and who wished the best for His children.” It is a character study with a moral, for Arthur Hamilton “in spite of every trial and every rebuff, preserved at heart a serenity that was not thoughtlessness, a cheerfulness that was not hilarity, a humor that was not cynicism.”
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“It is a curious piece of intellectual dissection and has many of the graces of style that characterized the author’s recent volumes.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 29, ’07. 460w.
Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= Upton letters. *$1.25. Putnam.
5–34654.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 560. F. ’06. 1060w.
“We honestly thank him for painting his portrait so well. It is good work no less than a good likeness. The touch is firm and easy; the treatment broad and yet very delicate. There are a few patches of prettiness which should be painted out; but they do not much mar the effect of the whole.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 144. F. 2, ’07. 1670w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Paul. †$1.50. Lippincott.
6–37196.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a purposeless book and an unpleasant one. Its interest suddenly drops at the halfway point, like an underdone loaf of cake, and what is meant to be its most solemn chapter is more apt to provoke a desire to laugh.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 24: 487. Ja. ’07. 540w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 345. Mr. ’07. 660w.
“He deliberately constructs the first half of his plot in such a way as to produce the maximum of irritation, not to say resentment.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ − =Forum.= 38: 542. Ap. ’07. 1260w.
“Escaped by a hair breadth writing a novel of the first rank.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 340w.
“The individuality and distinction of phrase are maintained, but the obtrusive ‘smartness’ which marred the first novel [‘Dodo’] has been carefully eliminated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 210w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= History of Richard Raynal: solitary. $1.25. Herder.
“The story purports to be the translation of an ancient Latin MS., discovered by Father Benson in a library of Rome, and containing an old English priest’s account of a young solitary, who lived somewhere near London in the earlier part of the fifteenth century.”—Cath. World.
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“The rare qualities of Father Benson’s mind find here their perfect expression.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 229. Mr. 10, ’06. 400w.
“The quaint beauty of the archaic style adopted by Father Benson in his recital is beyond praise.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 412. D. ’06. 340w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Mirror of Shalott, being a collection of tales told at an unprofessional symposium. *$1.25. Benziger.
7–21227.
Fourteen stories which a group of Reverend Fathers told, one tale each evening. They are largely gathered from their professional experiences and concern incidents which cannot be explained without recourse to the supernatural. The evil spirit which was exorcised, the man who offered himself for his brother’s unbelief, the artist whose art founded on corruption was lost when he regained his faith, these and the others have the charm of the unusual.
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“There is one that suggests a better capacity on Mr. Benson’s part as a writer than anything else we have read from his pen.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 310w.
=Cath. World.= 86: 257. N. ’07. 210w.
“In truth, qualities that are admirable elsewhere rather prevent Mr. Benson from telling his tales so as to excite the feelings which people, whatever their faith, cherish for the supernatural. He is too surefooted, too painstaking. His method is too robust to deal with such intricate and at the same time poignant emotions; he sets everything in order, tells you how the basket chair clicked, and what happened next, and works out the situation methodically with the desire clearly to get at the truth. But it is a great matter that every story makes an impression of sincerity and intelligence.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 189. Je. 14, ’07. 500w.
“Father Benson, like the other brilliant sons of the late archbishop, is a fluent and spirited writer.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 167. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w.
“The author displays in the narration a skill as subtle and as charming as his imagination has been subtle and weird in the conjuring up of incidents. Each narrator is distinctly individualized by the character of his experience and his manner of telling it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 460w.
“Father Benson’s language comes as near as language can to making his readers realize by analogy spiritual experiences which are incapable of being translated into the words and phrases of a material world.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1038. Je. 29, ’07. 380w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Papers of a pariah. **$1.25. Longmans.
7–14565.
“The ‘Pariah’ is an actor, who has been educated however at Rugby and Oxford, and the ‘papers’ reveal the mental process by which he finally arrived at the Catholic faith.” (Acad.) “Their point of view is of one who regards the Catholic church from without not from within, though with a favourable eye.”
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“If only he could bestow his style, and humaneness, and clearness of exposition on converts we would wish him many of them as the result of this brilliant little book.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 314. Mr. 30, ’07. 140w.
“The tenor of the reflections witnesses to a deeply religious nature and the aesthetic temperament, reminding one of the books of Huysmans, though displaying more of the religious and less of the aesthetic than did that strange Frenchman.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 542. Jl. ’07. 780w.
“‘The papers of a pariah,’ while they will appeal to religious zealots of the Roman Catholic faith, and, to a certain extent, to all who are deeply interested in discussion of abstract creeds, loses in literary value by virtue of these very tendencies. The discussion, moreover, is one of sentiment rather than of reason, an argument of dreams rather than of realities.” Florence Wilkinson.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 490w.
“The reader will note that in the early part of the book emphasis is laid on the unchangeableness of the teaching in the Roman church, while later this argument is dropped in favour of development.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 210w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 330w.
=Benziger, Marie Agnes.= Off to Jerusalem. *$1. Benziger.
6–36010.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Though she modestly refuses to enter into competition with other pens, which have described the scenes through which she has passed, she evinces good capacity for observation and for describing whatever came under her notice.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 837. Mr. ’07. 230w.
=Bergen, Joseph Y., jr., and Davis, Bradley, M.= Principles of botany. $1.50. Ginn.
6–35475.
Following an introduction devoted to a definition of botany and its subdivisions, the subject is treated in three parts, viz., 1, the structure and physiology of plants, 2, The morphology, evolution and classification of plants, and 3, Ecology and economic botany.