book did
but carry out the promise to be seen in the opening pages it would be a remarkable and interesting production.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 150w.
“As the faults of the novel are popular, they will not interfere with its circulation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 693. Je. 8. 230w.
“It lacks but little of achieving distinction of style; it just misses success in portraying one of those rare women characters that really count.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 391. Je. ’07. 460w.
“On its merely human side, this is a singularly impressive and well-managed story; to the lover of trees, who can share in Elyot’s passion, it is an inexpressibly poignant tragedy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 800w.
“The book escapes being what it might have been, a notable piece of work; as written it is nothing but a fairly readable ‘minor novel.’”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 180w.
“With a subtler art than that of the descriptive writer, Miss Brooke contrives to pervade her story with the beauty and sanctity of the woods, showing them to us through the eyes of her characters, and keeping them always before us.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 120w.
=Brooke, George H.= Story of a football season. **$1. Lippincott.
7–29718.
Steeped in the atmosphere of the athletic field, this story of a foot-ball season, written with all the life-likeness and authority which inside knowledge can afford, makes its appeal to every champion of a college eleven. All the stages of team development are interestingly set down and gridiron encounters, including the great end-of-the-season victory are realistically described.
=Brooke, Stopford A.= Life superlative. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.
W 6–183.
A collection of Mr. Brooke’s sermons and addresses which are characterized by their moral outlook, their grasp of things unseen and eternal, their practical appeal to the highest and best in human nature, and a high note of optimism. They are grouped under the following headings: Religion and conduct, Lessons by the way, Social problems, The outlook—here and hereafter, The foundations of life and The city of the soul.
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“This is a book good to have on the table for leisure moments and their opportunities of refreshment for the higher self.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 160w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 545. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.
=Brookfield, Frances (Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield).= Cambridge “Apostles.” *$5. Scribner.
7–13938.
“A record of the talk and a study of the character of a large group of gifted people who enlivened their intercourse with one another with unfailing gaiety of mood and unflagging humor. High spirits and abounding wit are generally found in the company of men of genius; and the madness theory of Nordau is set at naught by the sanity and love of fun of the apostles’ who gave the University of Cambridge distinction between 1830–1840.”—Outlook.
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“The book, indeed, is full of blunders—some due probably to slack reading of proofs, some to want of familiarity with the details of the life of the time.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1320w.
“An index, whose five pages, however, do not contain all the entries one might have occasion to look for—not even all the names of persons mentioned in the work. If the book has still another fault, it may by the more serious be thought to be an unduly generous inclusion of pleasant trivialities. However, they entertain—or, if not, they may be skipped.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 12: 134. Mr. 1, ’07. 1500w.
“To one behind the scenes this is not a good book.”
− =Nation.= 84: 205. F. 28, ’07. 890w.
“A few typographical errors disfigure a volume unusually excellent in its format, a joy to both eye and hand. It is of the nature of an accolade to be admitted to this elect circle. Mrs. Brookfield’s readers cannot but have a sense of distinction conferred upon them.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 25. Ja. 19, ’07. 930w.
“It is loosely put together and not always carefully written, but it is starred with great names and full of delightful glimpses of that rare kind and quality of society which charms, refreshes, and liberates.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
+ + − =No. Am.= 181: 528. Mr. 1, ’07. 1470w.
“A more interesting and witty book has not come from the press for a long time.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 164. Ja. 26, ’07. 1900w.
Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 613. Ag. ’07. 1270w.
“We may complain that her proofs have not been read, and that her pages bristle with inexcusable misprints. We may object that many of her statements are inaccurate. But, when all deductions are made, we cannot deny the merit of Mrs. Brookfield’s book, and we have read it from beginning to end with a pleasure which its faults have done no more than temper.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 988. D. 15, ’06. 1270w.
* =Brooks, Mary Wallace.= A prodigal. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
7–22410.
This story tells how the goodness of a sweet maid reformed the prodigal son of a brokenhearted minister. It contains reproof for the unthinking people of the world who lift their voices in popular condemnation of every son among them who feeds on husks, people who not only do not offer a more Christian diet but who scoff at those who have the courage to offer it.
=Broughton, Rhoda.= Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Is no more than a sketch, verging here and there on caricature. It is light, unpretending, avowedly skimming over the surface of things. It is amusing to an unusual degree.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 510w.
=Brown, Alice.= County road. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“None of the tales touch upon the darker aspects of life, all are optimistic in tone, and delicately humorous in treatment.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 160w.
“The title of the book is well chosen, carrying with it a leisurely pace, happy endings, unforced homely dialect, Yankee talk as it really is.” Alice Durant Smith.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 598. F. ’07. 920w.
“The people in the book are mainly earth creatures, dimly aware of, but in no wise intimate with their own mental processes, and they are handled with insight and unfailing charm.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 220w.
“All lovers of New England studies are cordially advised to read this collection.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 130w.
=Brown, Arthur J.= Foreign missionary: an incarnation of a world movement. **$1.50. Revell.
7–23292.
A text-book for the student contemplating going into the field. “Beginning with a statement of the missionary motive and aim, he describes simply and clearly the essential qualifications for the work, then passes on to a detailed account of the missionary’s relations to the society which sends him out, his duties to it, and its obligations to him. The principal arguments against foreign missions are briefly stated and answered, and the book closes with a striking portrayal of the modern missionary, not as a saint on a pedestal with a halo about his head, but as ‘preëminently a man of affairs.’” (Nation.)
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“We only regret, and it is our single criticism, that he has not given some information as to the way in which young English, German, and Swiss candidates are prepared for missionary work in Asia and Africa.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“A thoroughly sane book is a thing of beauty and a joy. Such is Dr. Brown’s book on missions. This book is especially adapted for two classes of persons—those who believe in foreign missions and those who don’t.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 746. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= Main points: a study in Christian belief. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
7–19461.
“The present work puts before thoughtful laymen the main points of evangelical doctrine as now held by what twenty years ago began to be known as ‘progressive orthodoxy.’ It is for these who desire a statement of fundamental Christian truths more accordant with modern thought and experience than what they find in the historic creeds.”—Outlook.
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+ =Ind.= 62: 504. F. 28. ’07. 150w.
“It is a luminous help to the clear thinking that grasps essential reality. It is also sane in stopping at the line where it is more reasonable to wait for more light before exploring further. This quality, however, is not so manifest in its discussion of the divinity of Christ.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 352. F. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= Social message of the modern pulpit. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–32406.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 110w.
“The main interest in the volume lies in the method by which the Biblical story of Exodus is made to suggest moral factors in the labor problems of our own time and land.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 12. Ja. 1, ’07. 400w.
=Brown, Francis.= Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament. *$8. Houghton.
Professor Brown has brought an enormous undertaking to its completion, aided by Professors Driver and Briggs. It is “the most important contribution to Hebrew lexicography since the ‘Thesaurus.’ When it is added that the gains of three-quarters of a century in Semitic philology, in textual criticism, geographical exploration, and archaeological research, as well as in Biblical exegesis, have been brought to bear on the lexical problems of the Old Testament, it will be understood that the lexicon has no need to commend itself by even the greatest names of former generations.” (Nation.)
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“It is, indeed, a veritable thesaurus, and will not fall far short of meeting the most exacting requirements. It is safe to predict that it will be a long time before it is superseded; and in the meantime it will remain what it is now, an indispensable helper.” Charles C. Torrey.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 510. Jl. ’07. 2990w.
“We regret that the price of this essential dictionary will conduce to the further neglect of the Hebrew language in our theological seminaries.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 310w.
“Let the place of honor among the religious books of the year be given to a monument of patient toil and exact and searching scholarship. Professor Francis Brown’s ‘Hebrew and English lexicon of the old Testament.’”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 130w.
“Scholars of the English tongue have now in their hands an instrument not only unsurpassed, but unrivalled in any other language.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 200w.
=Brown, Sir Hanbury.= Irrigation: its principles and practice as a branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.
A work of some three hundred pages which sets forth the guiding principles that should govern the practice of irrigation, and furnishes illustrations of their application in existing canal systems. Many of the illustrations have been taken from material supplied by the irrigation experience of India and Egypt.
=Brown, Helen Dawes.= Mr. Tuckerman’s nieces. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–32838.
Mr. Tuckerman, a professor and bachelor, learns one day that three nieces have been bequeathed to him. His sense of duty demands that he open the doors of his colonial home, sacred to study and repose, to these doubtful western girls. The story tells how they slip into his home life and soften the callous spots of his nature and by their freshness and ingenuousness teach him to love youth, and, further, how this training turns him into the channels of neglected love making.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Brown, Hiram Chellis.= Historical bases of religions, primitive, Babylonian and Jewish. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–33632.
A chapter on the origin and development of the religious sense, introduces a study of the Babylonian and Jewish religions. Babylonian civilization receives friendly, almost enthusiastic treatment. The chapters on Jewish religion, which occupy over half the volume, give a résumé of the results of the higher criticism and recent research, and attempt to prove that Judaism retarded rather than advanced religious progress.
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“Is a well-written but misleading book. It is the product of wide reading rather than of close study or original investigation.” Kemper Fullerton.
− + =Am. J. Theol.= 16: 666. O. ’07. 250w.
“We have no opportunity to verify at this time the author’s statement of historic facts concerning the teachings of the monuments, but assuming them to be correct we feel that the conclusions drawn therefrom are not entirely warranted. In our opinion the author lacks power of historic perspective.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 107. Ja. ’07. 870w.
“Throughout the volume the wrong is so mingled with the right, and there is such a distortion (doubtless unintentional) of the history, that the general reader may often get an impression not in accordance with the facts. A proper estimate of Hebraism and Judaism calls for wider knowledge and a calmer and more Judicial attitude than are to be found in this volume.”
− =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 540w.
=Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 160w.
=Brown, John Mason.= Lecture on the law of contracts. $1. John M. Brown, Washington, D. C.
7–23481.
“The subject-matter of the book was prepared by Mr. Brown for delivery before the Association of American Government Accountants, the aim and desire of the author being to correct some of the misconceptions of law and some of the errors of practice which have so largely characterized the government contract and those who have had to deal therewith.”—Engin. N.
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“The presentation of the matter—especially those features and branches with which contractors are so frequently harassed and annoyed—is exceptionally clear. The language is entirely untechnical and the book is so arranged as to give the layman a thorough grasp of the main principles of the law.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 320w.
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 230w.
=Brown, John Pinkney.= Practical arboriculture: how forests influence climate, control the winds, prevent floods, sustain national prosperity: a text book for railway engineers, manufacturers, lumbermen and farmers; how, where and what to plant for the rapid production of lumber, cross-ties, telegraph poles and other timbers, with original photographs by the author. $2.50. J. P. Brown, Connersville, Ind.
6–23171.
A thorogoing handbook sufficiently well outlined in the sub-title.
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“The work can in no proper sense be called a text-book, since it is utterly lacking in systematic arrangement, but it will doubtless prove of no little educational value. It is a pity that the book has no index, what is called such being merely a table of contents.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 56: 525. N. 15, ’06. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 761. D. ’06. 80w.
=Brown, Katharine Holland.= Dawn. †50c. Crowell.
7–21225.
An overworked surgeon goes to the northern wilds to rest and to avert a nervous breakdown. While there the miracle of restoration is wrought thru a night of service to a woman whose life he fought for and won.
=Brown, Kenneth.= Sirocco: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.
6–19771.
“This tale is described as ‘a thrilling story of the Arabian desert;’ and as dealing with the ‘most uncivilized of North African despotisms.’ It deals with a country existing only in the author’s rather unbridled imagination. His ‘Sirocco’ is clearly meant to be Morocco; but, while it may resemble a tourist’s dream of that country, it is far from resembling the real Moghreb.”—Ath.
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“‘Thrilling’ the story may possibly prove to the unfastidious reader who likes his fiction hot and strong; but its glaring impossibilities, not to mention improbabilities, will militate against appreciation of such merits as it possesses. It owes something to the ‘Naulahka,’ but lacks the artistry of that ingenious extravaganza.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w.
“It is written in a crisp, virile style, and the contrasts between the Americanisms of the American and the very Oriental situations in which he finds himself are brought out in a racy and picturesque fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 300w.
=Brown, William Adams.= Christian theology in outline. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–44353.
A textbook of doctrinal theology for those who feel themselves attached to the historic forms of faith. “He has succeeded in stating several of the doctrines of historic Christianity, notably that of the Trinity, in a manner to relieve dogma of some of its difficulties, while retaining largely the classic form of expression.” (Nation.)
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“It may be questioned, however, whether Professor Brown is altogether justified in retaining the orthodox terminology for his modern doctrine.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 884. O. 10, ’07. 330w.
“Professor Brown is a careful scholar, who has trained himself to avoid exaggeration, and whose chapters never offer rhetoric in the place of thought.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 280w.
“This conception of the relation of the Bible to theology, of which Dr. Brown observes it is not the only source, underlies his entire work, and gives it distinctive character. It is undeniably the true conception. In the fidelity, the fullness, and the freedom with which he has applied it he is not surpassed by any contemporary theologian.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 565. Je. 13, ’07. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w.
=Browne, Edward G.= Literary history of Persia from Firdawsi to Sa’di. (Lib. of literary history.) $4. Scribner.
7–2590.
The second volume of Professor Browne’s “Literary history of Persia,” the first volume of which appeared four years ago. The period covered is from the beginning of the eleventh century to the middle of the thirteenth, the Golden age of Persian poetry.
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“The virtue or the defect of his book is that it is an encyclopaedia of the results of firsthand research. It is designed for the benefit of the man of learning rather than for the delectation of the lover of letters.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 9. Ja. 5, ’07. 1530w.
“Prof. Browne’s translations in verse are generally excellent, but it is a pity that they are now and then marred by the use of false rhymes. Altogether this book is a monument of ripe learning and bounteous exposition.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 822. D. 29. 2520w.
“More generally interesting than its predecessor, although it is not so weighted by the enormous erudition of the author as to be anything but light reading.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Is the most important work on Persian literature that has appeared in years.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 280w.
“In point of workmanship, the book is ill-composed. To the student and scholar it will be a fund of prolonged delight, and to such the faults which detract from its literary workmanship will seem almost merits. The Persian scholar will find it a stout staff to lean on in all matters of biography, bibliography, and textual apparatus. The ‘mere reader’ may perhaps wish for a more balanced and consecutive treatment of the literature, and will probably be alarmed by the sternly scholarly spelling of the names.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 341. O. 12, ’06. 2190w.
“The author has conscientiously omitted nothing. If ever [the reader] comes across the name of some obscure ‘littèratur’ of Persia, he will find all that can be said about him in the Cambridge Professor’s book.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1090w.
“He deserves hearty thanks for the delightful anecdotes with which his book is garnished. He has penetrated into the soul of Oriental story-telling, and he realises, with the East that a fact flies the further when winged with an epigram. Admirable, too, are his short biographical notices of his authors, compiled from materials that his critical sense knows well how to use, and just as admirable are his appreciations of their works from a Western point of view, and even from an Eastern.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1570w.
=Browne, George Waldo.= Comrades under Castro; or, Young engineers in Venezuela. 75c. McKay.
A new edition of the second volume in “The round world series.” It is an interesting account of the part which two American lads played in the revolution in Venezuela, being comrades under Castro thruout his fight to maintain his own against the enemies of his government.
=Browne, J. H. Balfour.= Essays, critical and political. 2v. *$5. Longmans.
The greater part of these essays appeared in the Westminster review between the years 1876 and 1886. Among subjects discussed in the “Political” volume are: Russia, 1877; Afghanistan, 1881; African slave trade; English supremacy, and England in Egypt. They are principally valuable for the historical interest of opinions expressed. The “Critical” volume includes among its subjects Michael Angelo, Machiavelli, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Landor, Dickens and Macready.
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“A writer of substantial merit, though hardly of the first rank. He is too fond of putting his subjects into the box as it were, and submitting them to a severe cross-examination.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 590w.
“The ‘Political’ volume is too far outdated to have any particular value in this twentieth century.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 90w.
“The essays on Landor, Dickens, Michael Angelo, and Machiavelli all show an insight and are written with a force quite out of the common.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 330w.
“Harmless in their original form they may have served well enough to occupy the leisure hours of an aspirant to legal fame, but it is hard on the reader that they should be forced again upon his notice under the cover of a name now well known in a sphere not that of literature.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 528. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.
− + =Spec.= 98: 1014. Je. 20, ’07. 210w.
=Browne, Sir Thomas.= Religio medici: Letter to a friend; and Christian morals; with introd. by C. H. Herford. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
=Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.= Complete poetical works; with a prefatory note by Robert Browning. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
The complete poetical works of Mrs. Browning uniform with the limp leather “Thin paper poets.”
=Browning, Oscar.= Fall of Napoleon. *$5. Lane.
7–32141.
“Mr. Browning’s new book is a personal history of Napoleon between the years 1813 and 1815, and the author does not claim therein to bring to light new facts, but to summarize the results of other people’s researches. His book, is, however, more valuable than might be expected, because he gives for the first time in English a view of Napoleon’s character and conduct, largely founded upon the work of M. Albert Sorel, rather different from that generally accepted in this country.”—Acad.
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“As a whole the book is useful. The tale is clearly told but without the help of maps, and it is told moreover with rare, self-restraint. The opinions of the author seldom intrude. Is decidedly an advance on the same author’s work on the youth of his hero.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 482. My. 18, ’07. 610w.
“Taken as a study of the politics of these stirring months, and as a sketch of by far the strongest actor in the momentous drama, the work can be highly commended. It is one that the worshippers of Napoleon will welcome.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 138. O. ’07. 820w.
“Mr. Browning begins his story rather abruptly. In another matter of high significance Mr. Browning’s narrative is unsatisfactory. We refer to his account of the relations between Napoleon and Pius VII. early in 1813.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w.
“One noticeable feature of Mr. Browning’s work is the sense of proportion which he has maintained throughout his treatment of these singularly troubled years.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 660w.
“Mr. Browning’s narrative is often vivid and interesting, but it is a pity that inaccuracies and misprints which a little care in revision would have removed should give an impression of hasty, or, shall we say, over-facile composition.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 750w.
“Shows no very distinctive merit, save that it is not marred by the extreme carelessness of his last book on the same subject.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 1190w.
“It is in this matter of the physical and mental changes which for some years had been taking place in Napoleon that Mr. Browning’s book shows a serious lack, mine of information though it is upon other matters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 580w.
“Our chief criticism of Mr. Browning’s book is that there is too much mere narrative and too little comment and explanation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 500w.
“Without doubt he has produced a book which should have its place in any library of Napoleonic literature.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 910. Je. 8, ’07. 380w.
=Bruce, Audasia Kimbrough.= Uncle Tom’s cabin of to-day. $1.50. Neale.
6–46250.
The new order of things as it exists today in time of freedom for the negro is pictured in this sketch of the Berney family, “in the heart of the black belt of Alabama.”
=Bruce, George A.= Twentieth regiment of Massachusetts volunteer infantry, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–18330.
Popularly known as the Harvard regiment because officered by young men just out of the university, the Twentieth Massachusetts was a part of the Second corps of the Army of the Potomac. Among the engagements especially dealt upon are Ball’s Bluff, Fair Oaks, the Seven days’ battles, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness and Spottsylvania.
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“One of the best of recent regimental histories. The narrative is full of valuable sidelights.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 70w.
“This volume deserves large folded maps to replace the meagre ones it offers, and it is too valuable to remain, like a novel or a fairy tale, without an index.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 630w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 70w.
=Bruce, Jerome.= Studies in black and white. $1.50. Neale.
6–43783.
The subtitle states that this is a novel in which are exemplified the lights and shades in the friendship and trust between black and white—slave and master—in their intercourse with each other in antebellum days.
=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= Robert E. Lee. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
7–29102.
More side-lights are here furnished on the great American sectional struggle. Following the early life and education, the sketch presents Lee, the patriot and soldier, fighting gallantly for his convictions, and, at the war’s close, Lee, the reconciler, whose watchwords were conciliation, forbearance, and oblivion of the surviving hatreds of the past.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 193. N. ’07. S.
“We know of no better or fairer statement of the Virginian theory of constitutional law and secession than that which here prepares the readers’ mind for Colonel Lee’s resignation of his command in the United States army, and his refusal of the proffered command of the northern army of invasion.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 290w.
“It is well worth the few hours required for its perusal. It presents in brief outline one of the great and tragic figures of world history.” W: E. Dodd.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 1250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 100w.
=Brunetiere, Ferdinand.= Honore de Balzac. **$1.50. Lippincott.
6–43793.
The second volume of a series which aims to do for French literature what has been achieved for the English and American men of letters. The sketch deals not so much with the biographical facts of Balzac’s life, as with the elemental points that define, explain and characterize his work. The life is subordinated to the creative energy that appeals to the critic and historian of literature.
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“In this volume we have an excellent example of M. Brunetière’s work.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 30. Ja. 12, ’07. 1240w.
“Scholarly, of course, in treatment, compact, finished, and readable. Not equally well translated throughout.”
+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.
“He has gone over fields trodden by many predecessors, without discovering either new flowers or new weeds. When we come to specific judgment on particular novels, M. Brunetière is inclined to be too arbitrary. It is surprising to find such a critic as M. Brunetière confusing real persons with the creatures of fiction.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 1390w.
“Can hardly be disregarded in any study of Balzac’s literary art.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 230w.
“Whoever cares for literary morphology, whoever delights in following the organic evolution of literary form, will find in Brunetière’s ‘Balzac’ a work of genuine fascination. The book appeals to one with all the delightful freshness of a work of creative art.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 1030w.
=Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 140w.
“Less brilliant than the celebrated study by Taine, to which it frequently refers, this work is marked by the more exhaustive and comparative criticism made possible by a wider perspective and greater distance of time.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 16. Ja. 3, ’07. 850w.
“It is a sober, solid, piece of workmanship, not especially illuminating, though surprisingly liberal in its attitude toward and in its judgments of Balzac’s moral influence for a man of Brunetière’s narrow, hard, and dogmatic temperament. The translation is idiomatic.” James Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 280w.
“The book will certainly rouse much controversy. There are whole chapters that ring like a challenge, and many who will accept the author’s conclusions will refuse to follow him through the steps of his demonstrations. Interesting and important as his book is, we feel that it would have carried farther had its author never become involved in literary Darwinism.” Christian Gauss.
+ + − =No. Am.= 184: 532. Mr. 1, ’07. 1580w.
“As a piece of writing it lacks grace and ease: but as a piece of literary analysis nothing so exhaustive, so penetrating, and so decisive has been written about the author of ‘Père Goriot.’”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 280. F. 2, ’07. 230w.
“Solid and brilliant this monograph is, yet dry, dogmatic, and partial.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 751. Mr. ’07. 1180w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 83. Jl. 20, ’07. 2180w.
* =Bryant, W. W.= History of astronomy. **$3. Dutton.
“The work contains 345 pages, and after a few words on the early and primitive notions of antiquity, the first 95 carry the purely historical (or almost biographical) portion, through Copernicus, Tycho Brahé, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and his successors in gravitational astronomy, and Flamsteed and his successors in observational astronomy, to Herschel, Bessel, and Struve. The different departments of the science, solar, planetary, cometary, and stellar, are then successively treated. A chapter is also devoted to observatories and instruments, and a concluding one to stellar systems and celestial evolution.”—Ath.
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“Altogether this highly interesting book is remarkably free from inaccuracies; care has evidently been taken all around.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 623. N. 16. 360w.
“Is neither so long as to repel a reader whose time is limited, nor so short as to be unsatisfactory.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Bryce, James.= Studies in history and jurisprudence. 2v. *$3.50. Oxford.
A reissue made timely by Mr. Bryce’s recent appointment to the British embassy at Washington. Thruout his treatment of varied topics there runs “a common thread, that of comparison between the history and law of Rome and the history and law of England.”
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“The essays ... are weighty studies of fundamental principles.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 50w.
“The distinguishing feature of Mr. Bryce’s temper in the discussion of the subjects in history and jurisprudence which he has chosen is the sense he preserves of the actuality of these subjects. He approaches them as he would matters of current practical interest, say, in the house of commons, or even in conversation. He is as cautious of extreme or dogmatic statements as if he expected to be brought to book by a gentleman on the other side of the table as well informed as himself.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 1150w.
=Buchanan, Alfred.= Real Australia. **$1.50. Jacobs.
Australia’s political, social and intellectual standards are set forth with some good portrayals of men and women most closely identified with them. The author knows his Australia, and understands well the relation between that continent and Great Britain. “The bond is not one that has grown strong by reason of political adjustments or of commercial necessities. Its virtue consists in the fact that it has not been manufactured in the mills of diplomacy. The more it is tampered with, the weaker it becomes. It is made of impalpable materials—of such materials as memory, sentiment, self-abnegation, heredity, pride. To attempt to trim it in one place and to buttress it in another is to attempt to alter its character and thus bring about its decay.”
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“Rather cynical, inclined to be pessimistic, somewhat too wordy, Mr. Alfred Buchanan has nevertheless a decided gift of vigorous expression, and is capable of writing terse and racy English.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Buchanan’s style is dignified and his narrative informing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 70w.
“He is not by any means foolishly partial to the land of his adoption. On the contrary, he is even severely faithful.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
=Buckell, G. T. Teasdale.= Complete English wing shot. *$3.50. McClure.
A complete manual of bird shooting. It covers the subject of weapons old and new with recommendations of those suited for different kinds of game; it treats of the breeding and breaking of dogs; and it gives valuable hints regarding the preparations for the pursuit of game birds.
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“There is much more within the covers of ‘The complete shot’ than its title would lead one to expect.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 360. S. 28. 1070w.
“The first 200 pages or so of this book, the part on guns and dogs, seem to us good and useful. They are evidently written out of a long and practiced experience, and will, no doubt, win the attention they deserve. But, frankly, the rest of the book does not go very far to justify so ambitious a title. It is written in a pleasant and natural style and is admirable journalism; but those, we think, are its limits.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The fact is that what is wanted in a new book about shooting, or any sport about which much has already been written, is the direct personal note. This is why Mr. Buckell is so successful in writing about dogs. He is not less instructive on the various methods of bringing up pheasants and partridges.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 711. N. 9, ’07. 1500w.
=Buckham, James.= Afield with the seasons. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–23873.
The author reads nature like an open book and imparts the messages learned with the bloom of truth and poetry still fresh upon them. Flowers and birds and tiny animals are his friends, and as he wanders among their haunts he betrays the intimate enthusiasm of the true nature-lover. The book suggests leisure, the “hurry never” manner of forming an acquaintance with nature.
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“Sympathy without undue philosophy or moralizing characterizes these meditations.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* =Budge, E. A. T. Wallis.= Egyptian Sudan: its history and monuments. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.
7–24130.
A cyclopædic work which on the one hand includes the history of Sudan from its earliest mention in Egyptian history down to the close of independent Egyptian rule; and on the other, contains an account of the temples and other antiquities written after four archaeological expeditions, during which the author studied these monuments in their natural surroundings and became acquainted with the people whose ancestors built them and worshipped in them.
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“Few scholars can compete with Dr. Budge in the learning and opportunities necessary for relating the monumental history of the Sudan. Dr. Budge is too indifferent to the graces of style, and, whether from contempt or natural defect, he never allows imagination or humour to shine in his clear but awkward paragraphs. The arrangement of the book also might have been better.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 625. My. 25. 2780w.
“What we complain of is that the ideas might have been expressed in a quarter the space and with twice as much point. A work which is essential to everyone who wants to know nearly all that is to be known about a great province which England has rescued from outer barbarism and is steadily, surely, indomitably leading into the path of prosperity.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 146. My. 10, ’07. 2230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Combining, as they do, pertinent and luminous observations on travel with information concerning archaeological research and history, these books are not less interesting to the general reader than to the student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 761. N. 30, ’07. 1490w.
“One of the most valuable books ever written on an African subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 744. N. 16, ’07. 1690w.
=Buel, Albert Wells, and Hill, Charles Shattuck.= Reinforced concrete. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. *$5. Eng. news.
6–41296.
This revision includes sixty-five pages of additional matter entirely accounted for by the two years of progress in methods and their application.
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“The book retains the excellent features of the first edition. The index is good. In the field it attempts to cover this book should rank among the standard books and should continue to be of service to designer, constructor, and general reader.” Arthur N. Talbot.
+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 960w.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 458. Mr. 15, ’06. 530w.
=Bullen, Frank T.= Frank Brown, sea apprentice. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–25665.
“It is a good tale, full of action and incident, with a steady progress of the main theme and the constant growth in character of the lad of 14, who first steps aboard the Skylark, into the young man of force and intelligence and dignity, second mate of a fine ship. The privations, suffering, and hardships of boys who go to sea get no glossing over from Mr. Bullen’s pen, but he does show not a little literary skill in making them all help in the evolution of his young hero’s character and in doing this without making him anything more than a natural, healthy, right-minded, ambitious boy.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is the real thing put on paper with authoritative skill.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w.
“The present book is pretty frankly a tract written for boys who have the sea-craving. It is a random patchwork of selected adventures, lessons in seamanship, criticism of the methods of captains, owners, and marine boards, and pious moralizing.”
− =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.
“Young boys without exception, and all old boys who care about sea yarns, will find the book entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w.
“As a story strictly speaking the book lacks proportion and construction; but as a picture of the sailor’s life in port and on board ship, and a narrative of adventure and incident that might easily befall a boy apprentice, the book is capital, and will be relished by young readers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 110w.
“A tale of unflagging interest, admirably told from beginning to end.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 656. N. 3, ’06. 700w.
=Bullen, Frank T.= Our heritage—the sea. *$1.50. Dutton.
W 7–129.
Lying back of these essays is “a mass of information and of personal observation upon the nature, the features, the characteristics, and the movements of the sea.” “It is intended specifically for the British public, and the author’s constant aim is to hammer well into the minds of that public the conviction that the very existence of the British empire depends upon her sea supremacy, and that this can be maintained only by a general national interest in the ocean heritage and a widespread knowledge of all it means to the country.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Bullen has reached that point in the literary career at which the author begins to think it is necessary to take himself very seriously. Accordingly whenever he thinks about it he puts on an air of great profundity. But ordinarily Mr. Bullen forgets his pose as soon as he gets well warmed to his subject, and writes with almost the simplicity and clarity which made it possible for even a child to understand and enjoy his early works.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.
“A peculiarly novel and fascinating volume in a book which is at once scientific without the burden of scientific nomenclature, and romantic without being at all a romance.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 744. Ag. 3, ’07. 270w.
“Is solid, competent, and most useful work, and forms an admirable companion to Mr. Conrad’s more esoteric studies.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Selected readings in economics. *$2.25. Ginn.
7–31981.
A volume which supplies collateral reading needed for a general course of study in economics. “It makes no effort to present selections upon all the topics treated in such a course, but endeavors merely to provide supplementary material, historical, descriptive and theoretical which will enrich the instruction offered.”
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“The work is carefully, thoroughly, and serviceably done, and should respond to a real need, especially in institutions lacking adequate library facilities.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 100w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse=, ed. Selected readings in public finance. *$2.25. Ginn.
6–6286.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The studies are very carefully selected. The book is of great value alike to teachers and students of public finance.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 463. N. ’06. 230w.
=Bulpett, C. W. L.= Picnic party in wildest Africa: being a sketch of a winter’s trip to some of the unknown waters of the upper Nile. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–19053.
“The chief object of the expedition was to explore and survey the Musha and Roma plateaux, which lay to the South of the Akobo, between that river and Lake Rudolph in Central Africa. That object seems to have been accomplished with some thoroughness, and in describing the journey the authors afford their readers a good deal of useful information.... Starting from Khartoum in January in a flotilla of launches and boats, they found it possible to navigate the Sobat and Baro rivers as far as Gambela, on the Abyssinian frontier, and then, bearing south towards Lake Rudolph, traversed a well-watered and interesting region of which little is known.”—Spec.
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“In the latest account of the marvels of this fascinating country a great deal of new and suggestive information is offered. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the volume is the chapter which deals with Abyssinia.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
“The story of this unusual picnic is told in a very simple and straightforward way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 460w.
“They are ... observant of their surroundings, and discourse agreeably upon their progress and adventures.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 903. Je. 8, ’07. 340w.
=Bumpus, T. Francis.= Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy. *$5. Pott.
Mr. Bumpus introduces his subject with an instructive essay on Italian church architecture, after which he proceeds to his field—northern Italy. “The region Mr. Bumpus covered in his tour is roughly bounded by Trent on the north, Venice on the east, Ravenna on the south, and Turin on the west, and includes, besides those cities, Milan, Verona, Vincenza, Padua, Bologna, and others—some twenty or twenty-five in all. Each chapter is illustrated with photographs and colored reproductions of the cathedrals, churches, and basilicas described therein.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Full of information that he has evidently been at some trouble to collect, yet his work is unsatisfactory—an almost futile attempt to explain, to make allowances for, something he has failed altogether to understand.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 1140w.
“Whatever one’s interest in churches, be it devotional, historical, or artistic, it will be quickened by a perusal of this entertaining and instructive book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 280w.
“He is sympathetic, taking, it is evident, a keen delight in gorgeous ritual and ornamentation; and he is sufficiently well read, in ecclesiastical history. His detailed descriptions ... are always full of spirit and vigour.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 300w.
=Burbank, Luther.= Training of the human plant. **60c. Century.
7–15628.
Mr. Burbank’s investigation into plant life—“creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others”—has impressed him with the points of similarity between the development of plant and human life. He shows that the human plant needs the environment of love, sunshine, air, and nourishing food; he discusses heredity, predestination, training, growth and character. It is a sane and earnest treatise on life and its possibilities.
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“Speculations in regard to the training of the child sensible as to recommendations of fresh air, nourishing food, proper environment, differentiation in training, but illogical at times in the application of the principles of plant growing, and not important.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.
“The volume is to be commended to those in charge of old-fashioned Sunday school libraries.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 151. Jl. ’07. 90w.
“It opens new vistas of thought to parents and teachers. Its every page is pregnant with suggestions of the gravest importance. It would be difficult to overestimate its value, and we heartily recommend it to our readers.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 110. Jl. ’07. 690w.
“The book appeals to parents just as strongly as to teachers and it should be very widely read, for it exposes clearly the dangers and fallacies both of false education and of over-education.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 400w.
“Originally issued in magazine form, the matter in this volume well deserved separate publication.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.
=Burgess, Gelett.= Heart line. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–32840.
If it were not for the prologue the reader might be mystified over certain psychic revelations which the hero as palmist and clairvoyant makes to the heroine concerning her past life and her future. As it is, the trick of the clear seeing is bared, and one is prepared to enjoy the human side of this tale of the Golden Gate which deals as much with the froth of a San Francisco smart set as with the longings of a so-called charlatan bent upon learning his origin and winning the girl he loves.
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“Is a good love story and something more—a really clever exposition of the methods of charlatanry among clairvoyants, spiritualistic mediums, ‘healers,’ and other deceivers of the credulous.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 100w.
=Burgess, Gelett.= White cat. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–10048.
A tale which suggests “Double trouble.” The possessor of the dual personality is a young girl, charming and womanly one day, and hoidenish and cruel the next. She is under the spell of a hypnotist who makes use of his power over her to the end of extorting money from her. A prince in the form of a broad-shouldered young architect is thrust upon the mercies of the “white cat” as the result of a motor car accident. His mission, as in the fairy tale of old, is that of destroying the fatal work of the fairies and annihilating the lower personality.
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“An exciting and rather well written story.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.
“The story is a fascinating one, tho not so interesting as Dr. Prince’s ‘Dissociation of a personality.’”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.
“His imagination runs wild at the last. The book is certainly entertaining, nevertheless.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 490w.
=Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Burkett, Charles William, and Poe, Clarence Hamilton.= Cotton; its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.
6–26066.
The complete story of cotton culture. “The value of the book lies in section II, which contains a description of how the cotton-plant grows and is grown. To cotton farmers this section alone is worth the price of the book. It treats of the botanical structure of the plant, seed selection, environment, climatic conditions, fertilizers, farm tools required, injurious insects, planting, cultivating, picking, and the cost of making cotton.” (Nature.)
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“Much valuable information is conveyed in an interesting way.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 80w.
“The book would be more correctly described by the title of ‘American cotton,’ for India, Egypt and other cotton fields, and the efforts of England to widen the source of supply by producing cotton within the British empire, are little more than subjects for the authors’ derision.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 27. N. 8, ’06. 1160w.
“The volume is recommended to the attention of those who raise the staple, or trade in it, or manufacture it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 603. S. 29, ’06. 150w.
“Although the style is of the cheap-magazine variety, the book contains so much exact and interesting information on every phase of the cultivation and marketing of cotton that it will be found useful by the special student. The chapters on cotton manufacture are less full and satisfactory.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 140w.
“It is intended mainly for the expert, but is written in a popular—occasionally too popular—style, and may be skimmed with interest by the reader who desires to know the history of cotton.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 270w.
=Burkitt, Francis Crawford.= Gospel history and its transmission. *$2.25. Scribner.
7–31392.
“Ten lectures on the origin, mutual relations, and historical value of the four gospels and the history of their adoption into the canon, delivered in the spring of 1906.”—Nation.
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“It is a book to put into the hands of the nonspecialist who desires to know something of what scholars are thinking about the gospels; yet it is not without its measure of service to one who already has done much reading and reflection on the subject.” Henry Burton Sharman.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 683. O. ’07. 1030w.
“Not one of Mr. Burkitt’s arguments is frivolous, though his conclusions may sometimes be startling: and his book deserves high praise as the work of a fearless, competent and reverent critic.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 795. D. 22. 720w.
=Bib. World.= 29: 240. Mr. ’07. 80w.
“The volume is one of the best in English on the sources of information concerning the life of Christ.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.
=Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.
“The volume evinces ripe scholarship and good critical judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.
“He is always interesting, original, and so ingenious that slower minds grow alarmed as to what he may not undertake to prove next; but in this book he is on the whole conservative.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 500w.
=Burland, J. B. Harris.= Gold worshippers. †$1.50. Dillingham.
6–42432.
“What profit hath a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” fittingly furnishes the text for a sermon, preached, be it said, in no orthodox way. A band of Chinamen lose thru theft, a little metal ball, which when touching gold reveals a formula for converting cheap metals into gold. It comes into the possession of a young Englishman who is seized with a mania for gold, which, he learns to his later sorrow, is the curse of the god, Kiao Lung upon the possessor of the metal globe. His thrilling experiences make a full chapter of horrors. The book is a travesty on the greed for money and material power.
=Burne, Sir Owen Tudor.= Memories. *$4.20. Longmans.
7–28493.
Recollections of an old soldier who was in Crimea and was present at the capture of Lucknow of which he gives a spirited description. “The reader of Sir Owen Hume’s ‘Memories’ will find ample evidence as to the large part he took in shaping the external policy of India during a long period of years.” (Ath.)
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“He has written a delightful volume of reminiscences which every one who has the good sense to skip the tedious parts will feel the better for reading.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 185. F. 23, ’07. 1760w.
“From first to last there is not a disparaging remark or unkind word about anyone. The author in looking back on his eventful life has managed to remember only the pleasant incidents, and the consequence of this general good feeling is that his ‘Memories’ will be read with unqualified pleasure by those who do not share his political views, as well as by those who do. The book is certain to secure a wide public.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 247. Mr. 2. 1690w.
“In some respects it is difficult to avoid the feeling that the writer has missed a great opportunity of producing a really valuable book, the great authority of which could not have been denied.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 182. Je. 1, ’07. 620w.
“A welcome addition to the numerous works of the same nature which form so important a part of our modern literature.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 510w.
“We wish that he had been content to avoid a fashion too common in published diaries, and had not scattered so many ancient jokes and so much indifferent poetry about his pages. The whole tone and spirit of the book, in its optimism and kindliness, is instinct with charm, and there can be no lack of interest in the details of a life so full and distinguished.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 463. O. 5, ’07. 450w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= Cozy lion. †60c. Century.
7–29094.
A continuation of the magic of Queen Silverbell which in this instance reforms a lion and makes him a fit companion for the village youngsters.
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“By far the most delightfully spirited story for young folks.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
“A nice little children’s story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 120w.
“A jolly invention.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= The shuttle. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–29574.
There is much that is food for thought in this tale of the socially elect of the England and America of today. Reuben Vanderpoel of New York has added greatly to the millions his father wrested from the new world, and his two daughters carry that wealth to the old world to re-build two fine old English estates. The elder daughter, Rosie, is the victim of a dissipated fortune-hunter who abuses her and neglects his property. It is left for her sister, Bettina, the best product of American birth and European schools, to come to her rescue twelve years later with a clear head and a large bank account. While at work upon this task she finds that all poor noblemen are not mercenary and that one is both a man and noble.
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“The present author has quite frankly adopted the method of the chromo-lithograph, with its violent contrasts and over-colored brightness. But, in spite of the method used, Mrs. Hodgson Burnett has succeeded in at least endowing her work with some semblance to life.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 145. N. 16, ’07. 600w.
“The last chapters fall off deplorably, being both sentimental and sensational.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠
“Here and there we notice discrepancies chronological and otherwise. The story, though rather long drawn out, maintains its interest well.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 140w.
“Fundamentally ‘The shuttle’ is ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ over again. And be it understood that this is said in a spirit, not of disparagement, but of candid admiration. For as ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ was good, this book is good, and added to the ‘Fauntleroy’ idea there is a great deal more.” Beverly Stark.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 272. N. ’07. 1150w.
“The story is a long one, and might be shortened to its advantage.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 400w.
“The force of Mrs. Burnett’s book lies in its detail. There is detailed pathos, detailed joy and grief, detailed melodrama even; but it is all frankly discussed and accounted for, and the writer’s knowledge of various kinds of life serves her in good stead.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 325. O. 25, ’07. 550w.
“It is a story which would have a mild interest for most people and about which nobody could conceivably have much to say. Exception might be taken to the villain as a shade more diabolical then even the code of melodrama permits. He is an extravagant caricature of the sufficiently absurd wicked baronet of legend.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 430w.
“Mrs. Burnett’s plot is stark nonsense, her American father a wierd exaggeration, her villain a Jack-in-the-box goggling on a coil of wire—but what of that? She is so kind, so honest, so free and splendid with her fairy gold, she loves her heroine, she admires her hero with such thoroughgoing ardor, that we want with all our hearts to make believe with her.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 625. O. 19, ’07. 1330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Mrs. Burnett is a born story-teller, and her best is very good indeed; it is a pity that her judgment as to what is true art in fiction is sometimes seriously at fault.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 220w.
“The book indeed is over-loaded with the sociology of two countries, and we hear far too much about the power of the everlasting dollar.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
=Burnham, Clara Louise.= Opened shutters. †$1.50. Houghton.
Mrs. Burnham has chosen her favorite summer haunts, the islands of Casco Bay, for the setting of this story. Silvia Lacey, orphaned and bitter against her relatives, finally accepts the hospitality of her mother’s cousin “Thinkright” Johnson, so called because of his faith in a happy solution of all life’s problems if only one’s thoughts are right and harmonious. Under the influence of Thinkright’s fine example of brotherhood love, Silvia scripturally finds herself, thru losing her rebellious vanity and self-love. An old disused tide-mill with its closed shutters is symbolic of Silvia’s discordant outlook on life, but with her transformation even the shutters open and let the sunlight in.
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“It can no more be called a novel than a plate of bread and butter can be called a meal—even though the bread and butter be good of its kind.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 168. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 245. D. ’06.
“The heroine of the novel, Sylvia, is one of Mrs. Burnham’s best-drawn figures. There are some amusing situations in the book, and the humor is plentiful and genuine.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Is surpassed by none which she has produced in her twenty-five years of work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 691. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
“It Is written in her own pleasant style, with a strain of symbolism which reminds one of Mrs. Whitney.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 853. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Burr, Anna Robeson.= Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton.
This story intense as it is from the human interest standpoint has a more vital significance in the warfare between a clergyman who permits the cloth to shield dishonesty and a frank youth who knows no religion other than that of high thinking and right living. Bennet Sherrington conniving with the intimidated Reverend Wynchell tampers with death records to throw a fortune into the hands of Wynchell’s granddaughter, Diana Jessop. Anthony Brayne, Sherrington’s secretary, unable to endure his employer’s trickery leaves him and becomes the champion of justice through whom the girl’s dignity and honor are spared, the grandfather’s weakness revealed and Sherrington’s villainy punished.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Burrage, Champlin.= True story of Robert Browne, father of Congregationalism, including various points hitherto unknown or misunderstood, with some account of the development of his religious views. *85c. Oxford.
7–6783.
Some lately discovered manuscripts throw new light upon the history and views of the founder of Congregationalism which the author offers as corrective and supplementary to the work of older biographers, especially Dr. Henry M. Dexter.
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“The whole monograph is painstaking and workmanlike.” Williston Walker.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 419. Ja. ’07. 360w.
Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 346. Ap. ’07. 110w.
“Has the merit of modesty in tone and of brevity and clearness in method.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 210w.
=Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
=Burrage, Henry Sweetser.= Gettysburg and Lincoln: the battle, the cemetery, and the National park. **$1.50. Putnam.
6–34848.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is clearly written, and should be of much interest to those who have taken part in the preservation of our most famous battlefield.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 140w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w.
=Burrill, Katharine.= Loose heads. *$1.25. Dutton.
In these chatty essays “every-day matters, and some others, are treated with good sense, cheerful philosophy, and literary skill.” (Dial.) “Rusty needles, Chloe in the kitchen, Joys forever, People who have nothing to do, are among the titles.”
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“Fresh and bright and eminently readable are most of the little essays.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.
“The style is agreeable, but it might be wished that there were fewer split infinitives.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 103. F. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Burroughs, Dwight.= Jack, the giant killer, jr.; being the thrilling adventures, authentically told, of a worthy son of the celebrated Jack, the giant killer. il. †$1. Jacobs.
7–31422.
The mantle of the traditional Jack falls to a worthy successor whose adventures are no whit less thrilling, only more wholesome. The adventure entitled “The automobile race” suggests the modern note in Jack, junior’s experiences.
=Burroughs, John.= Bird and bough. **$1. Houghton.
6–10676.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07.
=Burroughs, John.= Camping and tramping with Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–31186.
A two-part sketch, the first of which being an account of the camping trip in the Yellowstone which the President and Mr. Burroughs made together in the spring of 1903, the second being an account of a visit to Oyster Bay in which the author gives his impressions of the President as a nature-lover and observer. He shows how Mr. Roosevelt can stand calm and unflinching in the path of a charging grizzly, with the same quality of coolness and determination with which he confronts predaceous corporations and money powers of the country; he claims for the President the power of observation “to see minutely and to see whole;” above all, shows how his interest in wild life is at once scientific and thoroughly human—making of him the rarest kind of sportsman.
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“The book is as sincere as it is frankly the work of an admirer, but it is such a tribute as any man might be proud of.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 340w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 712. N. 9, ’07. 1170w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 110w.
=Burrows, Ronald M.= Discoveries in Crete, and their bearing on the history of ancient civilisation. *$2. Dutton.
7–37534.
Professor Burrows’ book becomes an “Ariadne’s thread in a bewildering labyrinth.” He “has rendered signal service not only to the public at large, but also to the cause of archæological research by his little book. He has read, as it would seem, everything which has been published concerning the Cretan discoveries, and has had access to a great deal of information at first hand which has not yet found its way into print at all. And from this enormous mass of material, which has been the bewilderment even of many of the elect, he has drawn out the main threads of argument and has woven them into a work which has more than the mere colour of cohesion and continuity.” (Acad.)
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“It is ungracious to cavil at Homeric criticism in a book whose main object is so well and so modestly achieved. We can say without hesitation that this little work is almost a necessary introduction to the unwieldy mass of material with which the author has had to deal. And if the illustrations are few and far between, they are admirably chosen.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 674. Jl. 13, ’07. 2140w.
“Prof. Burrows, like Ariadne, offers to the adventurous a clue through the labyrinth. But, to avail ourselves of it we need the labyrinth itself—the archæological library.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 1380w.
“Will be welcomed to a limited circle for its painstaking summary of the present situation, its impartial balancing of probabilities, and its valuable bibliography.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w.
“It is presumed that his main function is to set forth the results achieved by the workers; but no man with such a theme can bridle his tongue, and we may be glad that Burrows has not done so.” Rufus B. Richardson.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 755. S. 26, ’07. 1170w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 130w.
“It must be also said that those readers who are not able to procure access to the dozen or more volumes referred to will find this book of very little use, while those who open it in hope of gaining a preliminary idea of the subject at small cost of time and money will almost certainly be disappointed.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 1650w.
“Two criticisms may fairly be made upon the book. The English expression is often careless, and the tone in which the author refers to views with which he disagrees is unpleasant; what might pass in a familiar lecture is out of place here.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 2000w.
“He is like editors who write for one another instead of the public.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 518. Ag. 24, ’07, 1300w.
“The book contains much valuable and carefully thought out ethnological speculation, and, by dint of what he modestly terms ‘balancing probabilities and opening up lines of inquiry,’ Mr. Burrows gives in practicable volume that adequate guidance which is so necessary to a study of the complicated racial problems with which the history of Aegean civilization is bound up.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 330w.
=Burton, Theodore E.= John Sherman. (American statesmen, 2nd ser.) **$1.25. Houghton.
6–43551.
A close acquaintance with Sherman, also a full understanding of the public measures with which Sherman was identified lie back of Mr. Burton’s sketch.
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“As a history of national politics in the last quarter-century, the volume is highly creditable. Criticism is directed against the editorial plan of the publishers rather than to individual shortcomings of Mr. Burton.” Davis R. Dewey.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 905. Jl. ’07. 540w.
“A brief, scholarly, readable and wholly admirable work. Ranks as one of the best accounts of reconstruction finance.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.
“The book is rather hard reading for the ordinary person who has no great liking for figures and financial history. But it gives a good account of a real statesman, and a history of several important phases of our national development during the last half century.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.
“It is creditable biography, written by one in full sympathy with the political ideas of Mr. Sherman, but free, on the whole, from undue bias.” Eugene B. Patton.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 311. My. ’07. 680w.
“Candor is perhaps the most noteworthy quality displayed by Mr. Burton—a candor which personal friendship was powerless to eliminate. And yet the book is sympathetic and its attitude that of one who sincerely admired Sherman.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Burton’s plain and unimpassioned style does little to make Sherman interesting, and his book will not, we fancy, be much read except for reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 906. D. 29, ’06. 660w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 102. O. ’07. 560w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 150w.
=Buskett, Evans Walker.= Fire assaying. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.
7–7504.
A practical treatise on the fire assaying of gold, silver and lead, including description of the appliances used.
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“This little book has nothing against it except its brevity. It is clearly and concisely written and well illustrated.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 170w.
=Busquet, Raymond.= Manual of hydraulics; tr. by A. H. Peake. *$2.10. Longmans.
7–28954.
Rather ancient theories and discussions are included upon such subjects as Fundamental laws, Flow of liquids in delivery pipes, Flow of liquids in open canals, Hydraulic engines, and Construction of a waterfall.
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“In the opinion of the reviewer, however, it is an unsafe guide for both students and engineers.”
− =Engin. N.= 56: 639. D. 13, ’06. 280w.
“The translator appears to have done his work well, and to have given the meaning of the author in English terms and phrases. The writer does not know of any book that deals with this subject in so practical a way as the one under notice.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 29. N. 8, ’06. 390w.
=Bussell, Frederick William.= Christian theology and social progress; the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–12985.
“The general aim, expressed in the eight statutory lectures, and more fully developed in the supplement, is to show the identity of interest which unites the various ideals of Christianity and democracy. The writer sets himself to prove that society in its advance towards the goal of social reform is dependent for its sanction and its vital force alike upon the teaching, the beliefs, the influence of Christian faith.... Man’s duty in the world—the nature of his being—the motive power behind its actions—his consequent relations with the state—such are some of the riddles that demand attention.”—Sat. R.
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“This fascinating, though difficult book is, in the reviewer’s opinion, the most important contribution to apologetics which has been published in recent years. It is more interesting, and in some ways more valuable, than the writings of Abbé Loisy and Father Tyrrell, and more suggestive even than the work of Dr. Schiller and other ‘humanists,’ of whose school Dr. Bussell is a convinced though independent member. It is brilliant, paradoxical, amazing, and ill-arranged.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 434. Ap. 13. 1740w.
“Is the ripe fruit of prolonged reflection and often learned investigation.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 220w.
“Throughout the book—the original and supplementary lectures—Mr. Bussell speaks as a scholar, albeit a true churchman, and in discourse of great charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 370w.
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 1410w.
“The whole is a finely wrought piece of literature rather than of dialectics. One important point deserves criticism: the priority ascribed, to rights rather than to duties must be contested as a clear inversion of the ethical relation between the two.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.
“With much that is included in this volume we are already familiar; but there is originality of treatment which marks it as a valuable contribution on this side of thought.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 429. Ap. 6, ’07. 1590w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Confessions of a daddy; illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory. 75c. Century.
7–18096.
The “daddy,” “a rank amateur in the baby business” confesses the heart-breaking blow of the first glance at the wrinkled, red little thing that the nurse brings for his proud expressions of joy. He further records the agony of the first “spank” administered after the “98 per cent of sweetness” grown to twenty-two months, cries all day for “laim,” and the grief that follows when the discovery is made that the baby only wanted to say “Now I lay me.” It is the common experience of all parents told simply and to the point with Mr. Butler’s inimitable humor that makes the book worth reading.
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“There is a certain suspicion of obvious humour here and there; and some notes, which seem taken from child-life, may please. But the book is a disappointment.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 403. O. 5. 100w.
“If, as a whole, the volume is not as overwhelmingly funny as his ‘Pigs is pigs,’ it is still a delightful bit of humor.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Butler, John Wesley.= Mexico coming into light. *35c. West. Meth. bk.
7–14569.
A brief sketch of the physical conditions, inhabitants, pre-colonial dynasties, sixteenth century tragedy, reform movements, etc., leading to the Macedonian cry and the planting of the mission.
=Butler, Nicholas Murray.= True and false democracy. **$1. Macmillan.
7–20888.
Dr. Butler’s aim has been to hasten the day when “every member of a self-governing community has a clear understanding of what democracy really means and implies, as well as a character strong enough to fix his own relations to his fellows in accordance with moral principle.” The three papers discuss respectively True and false democracy, Education of public opinion, and Democracy and education.
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“Three sane and simple addresses.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.
=Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w.
“The papers are admirably phrased and merit thoughtful reading.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07, 150w.
“The addresses are worthy of their audiences, being considered and cultured deliverances upon the general topic of the value of knowledge in politics and the duty of educated men to assume their share in cultivating a public sentiment which shall distinguish the mob from the people.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 470w.
“The conversance with affairs which we have just noted as an indispensable part of the equipment of the modern university president gives particular point to these thoughtful and suggestive addresses.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 227. N. ’07. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 100w.
“This is a book full of sound sense from beginning to end.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 204. Ag. 10, ’07. 430w.
=Butler, Pierce.= Judah P. Benjamin. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
7–21376.
A sketch of the life of Judah B. Benjamin, the Jewish lawyer and statesman who, “after conspicuous success at the bar in this country, after continuous service in the leadership of the Confederacy, again achieved the most honorable triumphs at the bar of England.” The biographer’s main difficulty in approaching his work has been insufficiency of material upon this great advocate’s private life. A few letters with such details as members of Mr. Benjamin’s family could furnish, constitute the information for the personal side of the sketch. For his public and professional activities ample records make possible accuracy even to the smallest details.
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“The only great contribution of the volume is in its orderly assembling of materials which are familiar, in detail, to the average historian.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1000. O. 24, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Butler has succeeded pretty well in collecting his material, and nothing of value known to be extant seems to have escaped him. No attempt is made to portray Mr. Benjamin as a faultless character. But the true greatness of the man is appreciated and will be felt by all who read these pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.
“His is not a book of any marked literary merit (suffering especially from an undue tendency to quotation), but it is careful, conscientious and convincing. With few exceptions, too, it is free from rancor and partisanship.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07, 420w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 103. O. ’07. 290w.
=Butler, William.= Golfer’s guide; with an introd. by Dr. Macnamara. *$1. Lippincott.
A thorogoing hand-book of golf for beginners. Uniform with “The complete bridge player,” and “The complete fisherman.”
=Butler, William Francis.= Lombard communes. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–9819.
“In no very picturesque phrase, but at the same time in easily understood language, Mr. Butler recounts the history of the city-states of Lombardy, the rule of the early bishops, the rights of the communes, the history of Milan, Lombardy’s natural capital, the first and second Lombard leagues, and the final struggles of the communes.”—Outlook.
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“The book is not a work of research, based upon the original resources; but it is scholarly and well written. There is, indeed, no other book in English which covers the ground so satisfactorily.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 917. Jl. ’07. 240w.
“While heartily commending his industry, accuracy, and general level of attainment, we may fairly warn the reader that his treatment is such as is ordinarily characterized by the term ‘popular.’ We have rarely seen a better book written by an Englishman about Italy.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, ’07. 370w.
“The work would be improved by topical side notes giving dates. The author’s style is clearly intelligible and soberly dignified; it will win respectful attention, although it may not compel enthusiasm.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 520w.
“A book to be read in connection with Symond’s ‘Age of the despots’ has long been a desideratum—a clear and comprehensive account of North Italy from the Roman times down at least to the middle of the fourteenth century. Such a book is now at hand in Mr. Butler’s ‘Lombard communes.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w.
=Butterworth, Hezekiah.= Story of the hymns and tunes, by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth. *$1.50. Am. tract.
7–6630.
In this volume have been combined Mr. Butterworth’s “The story of the hymns” and “The story of the tunes.” There have also been added modern hymns and tunes that “have won recognition since the books were first published.”
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=Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w.
“Mr. Butterworth himself passed over his manuscript to Mr. Brown, who has executed his difficult task not only with sympathy for his subject, but with no little original research. This work is more valuable than most popular books on hymns and also more readable.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1209. My. 23, ’07. 180w.
“Many helpful historic and biographic facts are given; nor do the authors disdain anecdote.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.
=Buxton, E. M. Wilmot-.= Stories of early England. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–22918.
Tales retold for children which reflect the English and Celtic social life and manners up to the fifteenth century. Such old favorites are included as the story of Beowulf, of Cynewulf and Cyneherd, of Alfred and Guthrum, and of Caedmon; stories of “Old English charms,” of Richard Lion-Heart, of Olger the Dane and many another. The author has preserved the glamour of knighthood and chivalry sure to delight the young reader.
* =Bynner, Witter.= Ode to Harvard. **$1. Small.
7–22080.
This ode limns the impression of a graduate revisiting his Alma mater in after years. “The poem rises by thoughtful and natural stages from the discursive and anecdotal early passages to the heightened concentration of the close, where, with a fine idealism, he evolves the precise nature of the debt which every man owes to his Alma mater.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is a lengthy composition of jocose patter, lacking in both dignity and restraint. The miscellaneous poems ... make a somewhat better impression, although their artistic quality remains inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 230w.
“A poem that succeeds in spite of his deficiencies, by virtue of the genuineness of its emotional content, and, too, by a certain air of elegance which comes fresh upon us at every turn and creates a very distinct impression of the personality of the poet.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 539. S. 7, ’07. 500w.
“Clever and sprightly reminiscence is this, yet not altogether born of a gay insouciance, for the inscrutable light peers out of the jester’s eyes. His lyrics show the same duality, the light note pierced through with the poignant.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 367. D. ’07. 130w.
=Byrne, Austin Thomas.= Treatise on highway construction; designed as a textbook and work of reference for all who may be engaged in the location, construction, or maintenance of roads, streets, and pavements. 5th ed. $5. Wiley.
7–20713.
The author has set himself to the task of collating the varied mass of scattered information on highway construction and working it over into an accessible work of reference. It is the fifth edition revised and enlarged.
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“The book is full of anachronisms and antiquated statements, and the reader may be unable to separate the ancient from the modern. Parts, at least, of the book give one the impression that they have been written hastily and with too little regard for the precision of statement one naturally expects in engineering books; and the qualifications necessary to make statements of fact accurate and reliable are often wanting. It seems a great pity that a book designed to be a vade-mecum, and otherwise so admirable, should be marred by such faults. Nevertheless it is a book that should be in the library of every municipal engineer.” S. Whinery.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 177. Ag. 15, ’07. 2390w.
C
=Cabell, James Branch.= Gallantry. $2. Harper.
7–32561.
“An eighteenth century dizain in ten comedies with an afterpiece.” There is romance true to the times of the second George and there is also much strange love-making in these tales of a day when gallantry ranked with the arts, when wit was broad and the sword was ready. The illustrations in color by Howard Pyle add much to the volume.
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“His descriptions of the gallant is a bit of very pretty writing in prose, pleasantly suggestive, as is the versified prologue, of Mr. Andrew Lang.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 120w.
“We may safely say that while not for an instant comparing with such a masterpiece as Mr. Hewlett’s ‘Stooping lady,’ it has infinitely more merit than many such popular successes as, to take one example, ‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”
+ =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 450w.
“A vigorous romance ... with the swift spirit of love and swords.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Cabot, Mrs. Mary Lyman.= Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.
6–33635.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Teachers will find the book a practical and valuable aid.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 118. My. ’07. S.
“Good sound principles, illustrated with a fund of illustrated matter, mark Mrs. Cabot’s chapters on ethics.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 110w.
“I suspect this book would not altogether win boys. But let not the book be altogether condemned, for it is after all one of the best that are to be met with, so full of the sense of real problems in the real life of the young of today.” Herbert G. Lord.
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 103. Je. ’07. 870w.
“This volume is both interesting and suited to actual moral needs.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 300w.
“Throughout, the spirit of the work is wholesome, and the discussions helpfully suggestive. Particularly noteworthy is the avowed and fulfilled purpose of avoiding ‘sentimentalism’ and the usual ‘sugar-coated’ moral stories.” A. R. Gifford.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 507. Jl. ’07. 1720w.
“The success of the author in finding examples from real life is a chief merit of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 186. Ag. 29, ’07. 160w.
“This book is a distinct contribution to both the science and the art of ethical instruction.” Anna Garlin Spencer.
+ + =School. R.= 15: 231. Mr. ’07. 1080w.
=Cadbury, Edward; Matheson, M. Cecile, and Shann, George.= Women’s work and wages: a phase of life in an industrial city. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–11022.
“A record of investigation and philanthropic effort, principally in the city of Birmingham. The refrain of the whole is a complaint from the humanitarian point of view against existing conditions. It is a tale of honest effort to raise the standard of life.” (Spec.) “The book deals with conditions of work, life, recreation, and ameliorative agencies, wages, legislation, home life, recreation, clubs, trade union, legal minimum wage, and wages boards.” (Nation.)
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“Three of the four aims which the writers of this book set before themselves have been successfully accomplished.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 157. Ag. 18, ’07. 1210w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.
“The plan of the present study has been well worked out.” S. P. Breckinridge.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 411. N. ’07. 1230w.
“Contains a goodly array of facts interesting to the economist and social reformer. The value of these facts would have been considerably enhanced by a more scientific method of arrangement, and a clearer view on the part of the writers of the volume touching the kind of book they were setting themselves to produce.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 140. S. 1. 810w.
“The book is interesting and suggestive, and if it has not furnished any new or valuable statistical evidence on the subject of the employment of women, it has succeeded where some of the more detailed studies have failed—in giving the public a thoroughly readable account of an important social problem. The book undoubtedly loses in unity from the fact of its having had three authors, but it must also gain from the very special knowledge that each of the three possessed.” Edith Abbott.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 563. N. ’07. 870w.
=Nation.= 83: 75. Jl. 26, ’06. 40w.
“The volume we are considering contains a vast amount of suggestive and instructive material.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 450. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w.
“The concluding chapter, is for American readers probably the most valuable portion of the book.” Florence Kelley.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 175. Mr. ’07. 530w.
=Spec.= 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
* =Caffin, Charles Henry.= Story of American painting. **$2. Stokes.
7–36959.
A fully illustrated work which “goes back to the earliest painters working in this country and traces the various influences that have played upon American art up to the present time. In accordance with his plan of showing the connection between our art and our national life and history, he concentrates his attention upon those artists who best illustrate the effect of these influences.” (Putnam’s.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The text ... shows much detailed observation, an impartial temper, and an orderly method of procedure that gives it value as a book of reference.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 359. D. ’07. 600w.
“He praises rather indiscriminately; but considering the difficulty of the subject ... he has put forth a volume that has surprisingly few mistakes in it, and in which the laymen will find a great deal of valuable information.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 90w.
* =Cain, Georges.= Nooks and corners of old Paris; tr. by Frederick Lawton. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–37532.
Under the headings, The old city, The isle of Saint-Louis, The left bank of the Seine, and The right bank of the river, M. Cain has set forth both the historic and artistic points of the city of by-gone days. “Though it is in no sense a guidebook, the prospective sojourner in Paris would do well to read the work, especially if he is at all interested in noteworthy sights outside the ken of the ordinary tourist.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The present translation cannot be praised, but the illustrations and the printing of the volume are admirable, and it thus forms an excellent gift-book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 600w.
“There is nothing aloof or academic in M. Cain’s account of the landmarks of the Paris of by-gone days; he takes his readers on four delightful rambles through four divisions of the region that held the germs of the great city of to-day.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
* =Caird, Edward.= Lay sermons and addresses: delivered in the hall of Balliol college, Oxford. *$2. Macmillan.
“Of the twelve addresses which are here published, the first deals more especially with the opportunities and duties of college life; three discuss in a large-hearted way the great themes of national patriotism and civic service, while the last two, on ‘Immortality’ and ‘The faith of Job,’ touch impressively on the ultimate questions of Divine justice and human destiny, which lie behind all the creeds. A sermon on ‘Salvation here and hereafter’ gives the author’s general view of the nature of the religious ideal and the place of religion in human life; while the remaining discourses are devoted to the perennial themes of moral and spiritual experience—‘Freedom and truth,’ ‘Spiritual development,’ ‘The great decision,’ ‘True purity,’ and ‘Courage.’”—Lond. Times.
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“With the sermon-form there goes in Dr. Caird’s discourse the Christian outlook at its broadest and best.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 609. N. 16. 1520w.
“These discourses ... convey with a grave simplicity the counsels of a great teacher on the conduct of life, as well as his mature outlook on the problems of human destiny.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 2260w.
“Addresses himself, with a rare combination of philosophic thought plainly and practically expressed, ethical keenness and vigor, and a finished literary style, to thoughtful young men confronted with the intellectual problems and moral temptations of university life. This volume should find place in all college libraries.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Caird, Mrs. Mona.= Romantic cities of Provence: il. by Joseph Pennell and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.
6–45159.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The excellence of the book lies chiefly in the illustrations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 441. O. 13. 1290w.
“The reader is brought face to face with the very spirit of the silent wilderness of stones known as La Cran, and with that of its even more melancholy neighbour, the deserted Camargue, whilst the idiosyncrasies of the travellers who are met by the way are humorously touched off. There is not one dull page in the book.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 240w.
“She is mortally afraid of being dull ... and in her panic lest she should commit this enormity she becomes chronically playful, almost depriving herself of the power to say anything simply. It is worse when Miss Caird is playful about dates. She shares the feminine tendency to include them in dulness, and only mentions them apologetically. Let us hasten to add, she takes us to fascinating places.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 432. D. 29, ’06. 740w.
“It is to the credit of the writer that she has managed to transfer to her pages something of the charm which lingers about these districts so unattractive at first sight and so enthralling when closely studied.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 240w.
“She has an easy style, though rather too abundant in long words and adjectives. Some of her pages, indeed, remind us of the plain of the Crau scattered over with stones, which she describes so picturesquely.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 220w.
=Cairns, D. S.= Christianity in the modern world. *$1.25. Armstrong.
7–15937.
Mr. Cairns discusses the mighty principle of Christianity as it has come thru the centuries, with such settings, mainly dogmatic, as people’s understandings have afforded, until today it stands for greater impersonal might with “the line of its hope lying in its power to moralize th