THE
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
FOURTH ANNUAL CUMULATION
BOOK REVIEWS OF 1908 IN ONE ALPHABET
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES WRITTEN BY
JUSTINA LEAVITT WILSON
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS SELECTED BY
CLARA ELIZABETH FANNING
MINNEAPOLIS
THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
1908
PREFACE
With this annual cumulation the BOOK REVIEW DIGEST completes its fourth
year. The volume includes principally the books of 1908 that have been
reviewed by expert book critics in America and England. It aims first to
record with unprejudiced exactness the scope, character and subject
content of books as they appear; and further, to supplement this
descriptive information from month to month with excerpts culled from
the current reviews appearing in fifty-one American and English
magazines that give prominence to book criticism. Thus it furnishes to
the librarian a basis for the valuation of books. As the best reviews of
a book often appear during the year following its publication, there
will be found in this volume supplementary excerpts relating to books
which were entered in the 1907 annual. It will be observed that a few
entries include only the descriptive note, reviews for these books
having not yet appeared; 1909 will furnish the material for
appraisement, and excerpts will be included in current numbers of the
DIGEST as fast as reviews are published.
Good, bad, and indifferent books fall into the hands of reviewers who,
in the main, honestly reveal the good, bad, and indifferent qualities.
The DIGEST then, in making reviews the basis of its selection of books,
includes accredited books, doubtful books, and some books altogether
profitless. It is quite as important for a librarian or bookseller to
know why he rejects some volumes from a list of new books as it is to
have a reason for including others. To aid intelligent book selection is
the sole purpose of this bibliography.
J. L. W.
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. Macmillan Company. 66
Fifth Ave., New York.
Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $2. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
A. L. A. Bkl.—A. L. A. Booklist. $1. A. L. A. Publishing Board, 34
Newbury St., Boston.
Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science. $6. 36th and Woodland Ave., Philadelphia.
Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Beatty & Adeline Sts., Trenton, N.
J.
Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C., London.
Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St.,
Boston, Mass.
Bib. World.—Biblical World. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Bookm.—Bookman. $2.50. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave., N. Y.
Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $7. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.
Class. J.—Classical Journal. $1.50. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Class Philol.—Classical Philology. $2.50. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Dial.—Dial. $2. Fine Arts Building, 203 Michigan Blvd., Chicago, Ill.
Econ. Bull.—Economic Bulletin. $2. American Economic Association.
Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, N. Y.
Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia
University, N. Y.
El. School T.—Elementary School Teacher. $1.50. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago.
Engin. N.—Engineering News. $5. 220 Broadway, New York.
Eng Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green, & Co., 39
Paternoster Row, London, E. C.
Forum.—Forum. $2. Forum Publishing Co., 45 East 42d Street, New York.
Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $2.50. Williams & Norgate, London.
Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics. $2.50. 1415 Locust
St., Philadelphia.
Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 110–114 West 32d
Street, New York.
J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods.
$3. Science Press, Lancaster, Pa.
J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $3. 44–60 East 23d Street, New York.
Mod. Philol.—Modern Philology. $3. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Nation.—Nation. $3. P. O. Box 794, New York.
Nature.—Nature. 31s. 6d. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review, New York.
No. Am.—North American Review. $4. North American Review Pub. Co.,
Franklin Sq., New York.
Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
Philos. R.—Philosophical Review. $3. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Phys. R.—Physical Review. $5. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon
St., Boston.
Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. $2. 41 North Queen St.,
Lancaster, Pa.
Putnam’s.—Putnam’s and the Reader. $3. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 27 & 29 W.
23d St., New York.
R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $3. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor
Place, New York.
Sat. R.—Saturday Review. $7.50. 33 Southampton St., Strand, London.
School R.—School Review. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.
Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $5. Science Press, Sub-Station 84,
New York.
Spec.—Spectator $7.50. 1 Wellington St., Strand, London.
Univ. Rec.—University Record. $1. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill. (Incorporated into University of Chicago Magazine on N.
1, 1908. $2. U. of Chicago Press.)
Yale R.—Yale Review. $3. New Haven, Conn.
From the following publications, digests of reviews are frequently made:
Elec. World—Electrical World. $3. McGraw Publishing Co., 239 West 39th
st., New York.
Engin. D.—Engineering Digest. $2. Technical Literature Co., 220
Broadway, New York.
Engin. Rec.—Engineering Record. $3. McGraw Publishing Co., 239 West
39th st., New York.
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:
=Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names= will be found in the Publishers’
Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.
=An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates= those books sold at a
limited discount and commonly known as net books. Books subject to
the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a
double asterisk (**) when the bookseller is required to maintain
the list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed
at 20 and 10 per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.
=The plus and minus signs= preceding the names of the magazines
indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire review.
=In the reference to a magazine=, the first number refers to the
volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.
=Books noticed for the first time= this month have an asterisk (*)
immediately below the author’s name in entry heading.
=A Maltese Cross= (✠) indicates that the A. L. A. Booklist suggests
the books for first purchase. The letter =S= indicates that the
same publication recommends the book for small libraries.
* * * * *
The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading
reviews of the English-speaking world. Few libraries are able to
subscribe for all and the smaller libraries are supplied with
comparatively few of the periodicals from which the digests are to be
culled. For this reason the digests will be of greater value to the
small libraries, since it places at their disposal, in most convenient
form, a vast amount of valuable information about books, which would
not otherwise be available.
We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and
the digests so full and accurate, that librarians who do not have
access to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at
substantially correct appreciations of the value of the books
reviewed.
This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which
are practically out of the reach of the ordinary library, we shall
endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there
will be little occasion to refer to the original publications.
Chapter
PREFACE
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
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Book Review Digest
Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
January-December, 1908
A
=Abbott, Ernest Hamlin.= On the training of parents. **$1. Houghton.
8–12208.
The first chapter on Spasm and habit urges mothers to forsake the
collision and spasm methods of governing children. The author preaches
the practice of regularity to insure health, contentment, and that
obedience which marks the beginning of the child’s moral training.
Other chapters follow on The will and the way, By rule of wit, Peace
at a price, For it is their nature to [quarrel], and The beginning of
wisdom.
* * * * *
“A popular but sound book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Abbott’s pleasant and profitable little book illustrates this
truth [that ‘self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,—these three
alone lead life to sovereign power’] with much shrewdness, humor, good
sense, and evidence of actual and often perplexing experience.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 277. My. 1, ’08. 450w.
“There is an hour of genial reading, not without its minutes of
instruction and more sober reflection, in Mr. Abbott’s little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“It should be in the hand of every parent and teacher of the young.
The tone is genial, and a vein of pleasant, sympathetic humor lightens
every page. Mr. Abbott’s little book cannot be too heartily
commended.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 305. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Abbott has a keen power of observation and the faculty of being
serious without being dull.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
=Abbott, George Frederick.= Israel in Europe. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–37533.
A synopsis of the history of the Jews in Europe, from the earliest to
the present times, which tells the “story of suffering, partial
degradation, and petty general victory of the better elements of
humanity.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“With this reservation, the author may be praised for a concise and
brightly written presentment of a singularly tragic and often
repulsive story, a presentment which only degenerates into special
pleading when the latter-day developments of the Jewish question are
approached.” Rowland Strong.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 730. Jl. 27, ’07. 1650w.
“Obsessed by his idea of persecution, the author can not spare the
space to recount the positive labors of the Jew in the field of
letters, journalism, finance, invention and pure science. These
defects are offset by a personal enthusiasm and vivacity of tone
unusual in a work of encyclopedic character.” Ferdinand Schwill.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 320. Ja. ’08. 740w.
“An excellent history, only slightly biased (because of association in
modern questions with the English Jew’s viewpoint). Does not replace
Graetz, but is more readable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 253. N. ’08.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 174. Ag. 17. 580w.
“Admirable as are its tone and purpose, suffers from the fact that the
authorities consulted are chiefly those on the Jewish side; that, in
fact, what is needed is again to return to original authorities,
whether Latin or Hebrew, and from them to reconstruct the history to
which this book serves as a finger-post. Mr. Abbott also is unfair in
his attitude to the medieval church.” E. R. Y.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 823. O. ’07. 200w.
“It is interesting in subject, comprehensive in material, and lucid in
expression.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 270. S. 6, ’07. 690w.
“As to the future, Mr. Abbott is not hopeful—he believes that ‘there
is no rest for Israel.’ This note of hopelessness is the only
unsatisfactory feature in a work which will do much to popularize the
knowledge of Jewish history and lead to a juster and kindlier estimate
of the Jew’s place in modern civilization.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 350w.
“It has knowledge, fairness, industry, and a lucid, pleasant style.
And many besides those who can claim descent from the unconquerable
race whose tribulations it chronicles will be glad to have a summary
of Jewish history in a form so easy to handle and so agreeable to
consult.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 530. O. 12, ’07. 1260w.
=Abbott, Katharine M.= Old paths and legends of the New England
border: Connecticut, Deerfield, and Berkshire. **$3.50. Putnam.
7–40881.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 35. F. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Miss Abbott is anxious to relate, not what actually occurred, but
what the country-folk have believed or fancied as occurring; and, in
pursuing this end she pours out a lavish store of things amusing,
pathetic, often in a high degree romantic.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 210w.
“It would be impossible to find, probably impossible to create, a book
more fully saturated with the spirit of old New England.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 140w.
“To any one in the least interested in the old days of our Yankee
ancestors this volume would prove an extremely satisfying gift.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 90w.
=Abbott, Leonard D.= Ernest Howard Crosby: a valuation and tribute.
*50c. Ariel press.
A tribute to a Tolstoyan reformer whose life of service was the
outgrowth of a rebirth experienced on the way from “stolid
conservatism to extreme radicalism.” By profession, a judge, Mr.
Crosby ceased to care to judge men but wished rather to love and serve
them. His life was broad, sane, spiritual: he studied real values; his
creed, if creed it may be called, seems to be summed up in the
following:
“Love others; love them calmly, strongly, profoundly,
And you will find your immortal soul.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Abbott has rendered a service to the cause of human progress by
writing this beautiful and worthy tribute.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 500. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Ind.= 64: 260. Ja. 30, ’08. 160w.
=Abbott, Lyman.= Home builder. **75c. Houghton.
8–30941.
Short chapters portraying in the highest sense of idealism the
daughter, the bride, the wife, the mother, the housekeeper, the
philanthropist, the saint and the grandmother. This ideal woman is
capable of sure practical results; is spiritual, wise, provident;
obeys Heaven’s laws of order and cleanliness; in short, rises to the
stature of Solomon’s word portrait of the virtuous woman.
=Abercrombie, Lascelles.= Interludes and poems. **$1.25. Lane.
“The chief poems in the book are tales in verse after Browning’s
fashion,—the story of the girl turned by God into His own likeness,
the tale of the sophist Peregrinus from Lucian, a beautiful little
eclogue called An escape, and Blind, which tells a hideous tale with
uncommon power. This last is the story of a woman and her blind son
who wander through the world looking for the boy’s father.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“It is ‘Sordello’ uninspired; full of wanton tortuosities of syntax,
vain gleaning of rare and obsolescent words, and a versification which
congratulates itself upon flouting scansion. The book leaves an
impression of Buddhistic philosophy, seeming to preach the dissolution
of self-mannerism hymning Nirvana.” Brian Hooker.
− =Forum.= 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“This book is interesting aside from its failure, for some human
nature shows in it, despite a turgid diffuseness of language, an
apparently willful avoidance of simplicity.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 130w.
“He has no prettinesses; he has a most defective ear; he works to
death the trick of the extra syllable in the pentameter line; he is a
true ‘spasmodic,’ and takes a delight in saying the simplest thing in
the most extravagant way, with the result that he is as often as not
forcible-feeble. Yet he has great merits. He has thought, imagination,
and a rude gusto of style.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.
=Abraham, George D.= Complete mountaineer. **$4.80. Doubleday.
8–16910.
Full of hints and rules and suggestions for accoutrement, this is a
book for beginners in mountain climbing which is occupied with a
detailed description of the footholds of the celebrated peaks of Great
Britain and the Continent.
* * * * *
“A very readable and admirable survey of the principal climbing
districts in the world.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠
“His style is of the journalistic order, in which a cow is called ‘a
bovine quadruped,’ and so forth. The ‘greased pole’ aspect of a
mountain was never so remorselessly set forth.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 351. Mr. 21. 900w.
“Written with a great intimacy of detail. The philosophy of choice of
guides especially, and when to do without them, is set forth with
gratifying lucidity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
“We have never before seen so many faithful and beautiful mountain
pictures in one volume. The technical information is sound, and
luminously set out, and the point of view throughout will secure the
approbation of all climbers. The one fault is a tendency to minor
jocularities. But the author is surely insufficiently appreciative of
the merits of a good guide.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 900. D. 7, ’07. 1500w.
=Acton, Sir John Emerich.= Historical essays and studies; ed. by J:
Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3. Macmillan.
8–2757.
A volume of bibliographical and biographical essays consisting of
articles and reviews contributed to magazines and societies during the
period between 1858 and 1892. “The two types may best be illustrated
by the masterly article on German schools of history ... and the
pronouncement on Cavour contributed to The Rambler in 1861.” (Ath.)
Other topics are dealt with such as Wolsey and the divorce of Henry
VIII. The secret history of Charles II. The causes of the
Franco-Prussian war, and the war of 1870. A particularly scholarly
essay is the one on George Eliot.
* * * * *
“They may be divided roughly into bibliographical and biographical
essays, the former excellently instructive to the student, the latter
often rather dull reading for scholar and layman alike.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 220. F. 22. 1100w.
“The editors have contributed an interesting introduction, but they
have not done much besides. The actual words of Lord Acton had to be
retained; but some small inconsistencies might have been remedied.” P.
V. M. Benecke.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“Not only give us glimpses of the awe-inspiring scholarship of Lord
Acton, but diffuse some quality of biography and reveal the
personality of the man.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Acton, Sir John Emerich.= History of freedom and other essays; ed.
with an introd. by J: Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence.
*$3. Macmillan.
8–2560.
In the introduction the editors have summed up Lord Acton’s
personality, the character of his work, and the influence which he
exerted upon historical scholarship. The body of the book gives all
that was realized of a projected work on the history of liberty. It
consists of an address on The history of freedom in antiquity, and one
on The history of freedom in Christianity, to which has been added an
article on Erskine May’s “Democracy in Europe.”
* * * * *
“It is a book which does more than add to our information: it
strengthens and inspires.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 68. Ja. 18. 1450w.
“The greater part of the work shows those characteristics which are
generally associated with the late Lord Acton: reading that seems to
be limitless, and elusive style which is the despair of the ordinary
man.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“What is remarkable in these generalizations is not so much their
inconsistencies as their air of unreality. They are the work of a man
with a passion for truth, indeed, but a one-sided passion.” Sydney
Waterlow.
− =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 506. Jl. ’08. 1150w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 220w.
“Sufficient to convince us, if we had needed conviction, of the
prodigious learning, the consummate literary ability, and the
unfailing candour of the writer.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 265. F. 15, ’08. 1800w.
=Adam, James.= Religious teachers of Greece: being Gifford lectures
on natural religion delivered at Aberdeen; ed. with a memoir by
his wife, Adela Marion Adam. *$4. Scribner.
8–25723.
“A splendid piece of work on the great thinkers of Greece from Homer
to Plato. Five lectures are devoted to the latter, two each to Homer,
Heraclitus, Socrates, and Euripides, and one each to Pindar,
Aeschylus, and Sophocles.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Exhibit throughout the fine qualities which mark all Adam’s work:
soundness of scholarship, fullness and accuracy of knowledge,
clearness and vigour of expression. Apart from a few slips of
printing, the revision has been executed ... with commendable care.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 146. Ag. 8. 1050w.
“The lectures display the master’s control of the subject and its
literature, a fine literary charm and distinction, and profound
appreciation of the problems of the religious view of the world.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 152. Ag. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Adam’s book is likely to hold its place for long, not only
because of its learning and philosophic insight, but as a complete and
worthy memorial of a life of constant and conspicuous devotion to the
study of Greek literature and thought.” G. F. Barbour.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 7: 198. O. ’08. 2850w.
“A work of unusual merit, the opus magnum of a man who literally put
his life into it.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 450w.
“Not the least of Professor Adam’s merits then has been his steadfast
hold upon common sense, even at the risk occasionally of appearing
commonplace. His comparisons, as far as they go, are generally
excellent, but we could wish that he had not confined one side of his
parallel so closely to a Christianity of Anglican hue. Once or twice
this tendency draws him, we think, into false or forged analogies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 55. Jl. 16, ’08. 1550w.
“[His method of taking each author singly] is defective, inasmuch as
it fails to bring out satisfactorily the general trend of Greek
religious thought, to show how one system is connected with another.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 272. Ag. 29, ’08. 1750w.
* =Adams, Elizabeth Kemper.= Aesthetic experience: its meaning in a
functional psychology: a dissertation. pa. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–2424.
“From data furnished by analytic psychology and descriptive sociology,
the author of this excellent monograph attempts a philosophical
interpretation and estimate of the aesthetic experience from a single
and definite point of view. Among the important topics treated with
special suggestiveness are: The relation of the aesthetic to the
intellectual; its relation to fundamental life interests, instincts,
and activities; its social characteristics; and a reinterpretation of
the aesthetic categories from the functional and social point of
view.”—Philos. R.
* * * * *
“Among its commendable features are its arrangement, its
connectedness, its grasp of essential problems in their bearings. The
monograph should have considerable value for all who are interested in
aesthetics or functional psychology.” E. L. Norton.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 660. N. ’07. 400w.
“The reviewer is unable to harmonize the conclusions of the final part
of the monograph with the preceding parts.” W. D. Furry.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 363. N. 15, ’08. 1650w.
=Adams, Rev. John.= Sermons in syntax; or, Studies in the Hebrew
text: a book for preachers and students. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–5282.
A guide to students who desire “to gain a clear insight into the
varied and often picturesque use of verbal forms in Hebrew, and to
employ the knowledge thus obtained for homiletical purposes.... The
first chapter treats of the value of Hebrew study; the second gives a
brief account of Hebrew grammarians, Jewish and Christian; and the
remaining twelve deal with the Hebrew tenses in all their forms and
moods.... It is in the elucidation of the special texts introduced to
illustrate the grammatical propositions that the expository and
homiletical element of the treatise appears.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“We have rarely seen a book which, under a title apparently stiff and
uninviting, provides valuable instruction in so attractive a manner.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 230w.
“The non-Hebraist even will often obtain here illuminative hints for
the treatment of biblical texts.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w.
“It offers sermon-stuff to all expositors who care for the finer lines
of thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“The student of Hebrew will doubtless find in it a valuable supplement
to the grammar which he may be in the habit of using.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 193. F. 1, ’08. 70w.
=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s electricity book for boys. $1.75.
Harper.
7–37737.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“An excellent book for the ordinary boy who has only ordinary
resources.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 21. Ja. ’08. ✠
“The boy who goes through this admirable book with vim and zest stands
an excellent chance of making a good electrical engineer in the long
run.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
“The book is not so historical as Mr. Jenks’s; on the other hand, it
is more practical.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 100w.
=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s indoor book for boys. $1.75. Harper.
8–12775.
A companion to Harper’s outdoor book for boys which, equally practical
and comprehensive, shows how leisure time indoors may be spent
pleasantly and profitably. Clear instruction and simple equipment
commend the book to every active boy. Work is outlined under four
general headings: Wood-working, Metalworking, Household arts, Round
about the house.
* * * * *
“A practical and comprehensive book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 225. Je. ’08.
“Ought to be in every school library and wherever else there are boys
who like to make things.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“Is even a better handbook of its kind than the ‘Outdoor book.’”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 20w.
“It is quite up to the high mark set by its predecessors. A world of
boys could be kept busy and interested with the help and instruction
afforded by this thick volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 120w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 368. D. ’08. 320w.
=Adams, Samuel.= Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. by H. A. Cushing. 4v.
ea. *$5. Putnam.
4–18620 Additions.
These volumes contain an accurate collection of the writings of Samuel
Adams during the first ten years of his public career, and afford the
student of history “the opportunity of examining critically the work
of the foremost democratic leader of the great democratic movement of
the last century.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The productions of his pen were
among the most powerful and persistently active forces that brought
about the American revolution.... [And his opinions are recorded in]
legislative reports, in instructions of the Boston town meeting, in
circular letters to the other colonies, in controversies over
constitutional points with the governors, in petitions and protests to
the home government, in elaborate statements of principles to the
agents of Massachusetts resident in England, and in trenchant
newspaper articles.” (Pol. Sci. Q.)
* * * * *
“There was in fact no wisdom in hoping that this third volume would
contain the wealth of material found in the earlier ones. The private
letters are in a good many instances, if not in all, not very
illuminating.” A. C. McLaughlin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 367. Ja. ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The usefulness of the four volumes is much diminished by the very
imperfect index, which is, in fact, all an index should not be.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w. (Review of v. 4.)
“There are a good many interesting and instructive letters in this
volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 720w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The absence of an adequate topical index is to be regretted.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 174. Mr. ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Adams, Samuel Hopkins.= Flying death. †$1.50. McClure.
8–3520.
Montauk Point, the tip-end of Long Island is the scene of a series of
casualties which baffle the guests at Third House. After a sailor, an
aeronaut, a newspaper man, and a coast-guard are stretched upon the
sands, with evidence of having suffered a similar fate, a crusade is
instituted to solve the mystery of the ravages. A pteranadon, a huge
arrow-beaked bird, known only to the beginning of the race, is laid
low after an encounter which results in the loss of one man of the
party. In addition to thrilling adventure there are two romances which
relieve the weight of the tragedy.
* * * * *
“One smells the lamp here and there; the effort the book has cost is
perceptible.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Adams has written quite an interesting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 72. F. 8, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Adams has written a readable story, and has offered for his
mystery an explanation at the same time impossible and eminently
satisfying.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 20, ’08. 140w.
=Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf.= Arts and crafts in the middle ages: a
description of mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments
of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in
the early renaissance. $3. Page.
8–19089.
Examines mediaeval artistic crafts for the original processes which
are being restored in the great handicraft revival in America to-day.
Fully illustrated, the chapters touch upon gold and silver work,
jewelry and precious stones, enamel, tapestry, embroideries, sculpture
in stone, carving in wood and ivory, inlay and mosaic, illumination of
books. Bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“Necessarily, the accounts are fragmentary, but they serve their
purpose.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.
* =Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf.= Mrs. John Vernon: a study of a social
situation. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
8–32645.
When Mrs. John Vernon faces the question of consenting to the marriage
of her daughter, born out of wedlock, with the young scion of a Boston
family, she takes her secret to her clergyman, asks advice and is
counseled on the side of silence. Tho the author intimates little good
from a disclosure, the secret comes to light thru outside sources, the
lover is constant, the daughter dies ignorant of the cloud, and the
mother purges her life thru hard work and good deeds.
* =Adventures= at sea, by F. H. Converse and others. (Harper’s adventure
ser.) †60c. Harper.
8–32331.
A story for boys and girls which reproduces the fascination of the
sea. There are fourteen chapters including strange stories of
whale-hunts, shark-encounters, wrecks, fires, storms, castaways and
heroic rescues whose dramatic incidents are actual facts.
* * * * *
“A number of stories, all worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 20w.
=Adventures= of pirates and sea-rovers, by Howard Pyle, Rear-Admiral
J: H: Upshur, Paul Hull and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.)
†60c. Harper.
8–18406.
The wild life of the seventeenth-century buccaneers pictured vividly
by Howard Pyle, Rear-admiral Upshur, Paul Hull and others. The first
part gives strange glimpses of colonial conditions along our Atlantic
seaboard from New England to Carthagena, with colonial pirates bent
upon treasure hunts; the second part gives a series of pictures of the
great sea-rovers in the times of Queen Elizabeth and James I.
* * * * *
“Satisfy the demand for pirate stories without being too sensational.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 272. N. ’08. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 789. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.
=Adventures= with Indians, by Philip V. Mighels and others. il.
†60c. Harper.
8–3518.
Pioneer life in the middle west is pictured here in stirring tales of
ambush, battle, and adventure in which the wit and courage of the
white man struggle against the stealth and savage instinct of the
Indian. Many of the stories are based upon fact, and many contain
actual historical incidents, while together they reveal Indian life
and character as represented by tribes from the Montagnais of Canada
to the Seminoles of Florida and to the Piutes of the Rockies. The
contributors include eleven well known writers of stories.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 112. Ap. ’08. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.
=Ady, Cecelia M.= History of Milan under the Sforza. (Historic
states of Italy.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–5826.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“As a monograph on the Sforza it seems to us one of the very best
books ever written by a foreigner about Italy. A bibliography at the
end of the volume, however full it may be, is not enough. We must have
notes.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 266. D. 21, ’07. 1350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“In point of construction, narrative skill, and judgment on men and
matters, it would do credit to a far more experienced historian.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 316. Mr. 14. 950w.
“Miss Ady’s book will take a prominent place among the histories of
Italy in the English language, and this largely because of the care
and accuracy with which she has studied her subject. A few slips are
to be noticed.” K. H. Vickers.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 781. O. ’08. 1400w.
“With reasonable fulness, it is intended to be popular, but not
shallow.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 200w.
“Is the first in English to describe on an adequate scale the dramatic
events in Milan under the house of Sforza. It is to be hoped, however,
that future writers in this series will be more generous in their
notes and less chary of dispensing with authorities.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 470. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.
“Here, if anywhere, one can find an account of a particular historical
period affecting one of the Italian states, an account as clear and
concise as it is brilliant and forceful.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 240w.
“This book is painstaking to a degree and full of information about
the Sforza dukes. But it does not kindle; it does not warm; it does
not incite to further study. If not exactly argumentative in itself,
yet the style has at times an argumentative cast which spoils its
narrative quality.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 271. F. 29, ’08. 1000w.
=Agger, Eugene E.= Budget in the American commonwealth. (Studies in
history, economics and public law, v. 25, no. 2.) *$1.50.
Longmans.
7–16495.
The misuse of public funds with attendant carelessness in auditing
them has sent many an economist to the root of evil. Dr. Agger’s book
brings together the constitutional and statutory provisions and the
various customs affecting the budget right. “He points out the
differences between American and European procedure; he describes the
budget as a report and as a project of law; he sets forth the
conditions of voting the budget, the collection of revenue and its
centralization, the safe-keeping of the public funds and their
disbursement; finally he treats of the control of the budget, in which
the subject of auditing is emphasized as above.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It will prove a very useful contribution to our knowledge of a much
confused and bewildering subject.” C. C. Plehn.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 142. Je. ’08. 570w.
“Dr. Agger’s book gives a valuable general survey of the American
system.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 612. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
=Aglionby, Francis Keyes.= Life of Edward Henry Bickersteth, poet
and bishop. $2.50. Longmans.
A biography of the “poet and bishop” who is best known thru his two
hymns, “Peace, perfect peace,” and “Yesterday, to-day, and for ever.”
He is portrayed more as a saint than a man of intellectual powers. “It
will be said that by tradition and by choice Bishop Bickersteth was a
strong party man of the Evangelical persuasion, and that partisanship
is too often inimical to saintship. Some would reply that the
evangelicalism of a man whom Mr. Gladstone promoted twice within a few
weeks must have been of a doubtful quality. The true answer is to be
traced through this sketch of his life which shows how he was saved
from the perils of partisanship by a genius for friendship with men of
the opposite school.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 220w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 315. O. 18, ’07. 580w.
“Mr. Aglionby draws an attractive picture of the man, of his zeal for
good works, his devoutness, his generous sympathy with all efforts
that made for the benefit of others.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
=Aitken, Robert.= Golden horseshoe. il. $1.50. McBride, J.
7–34306.
“A mysterious advertisement calling for adventurers willing to enter
blindly upon a hazardous undertaking [is answered by three young men],
an American, an Englishman and an Irishman—[who] get mixed up in the
villainous doings of a Central American dictator and his plots against
his beautiful niece.” (Ind.) “The predicaments are magnificently many
and ingenious, full of novelty to even the well-inured reader.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is distinctly American, and is full of exciting incident.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 474. Ap. 18. 270w.
=Ind.= 64: 209. Ja. 23, ’08. 80w.
“There is everything in the book to recommend it as a fantasy in
exploit. It may be added that it makes appeal mainly to the reader who
likes that kind of thing and likes a good deal of it.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 400w.
=Aitken, Thomas.= Road making and maintenance: a practical treatise
for engineers, surveyors, and others; with an historical sketch of
ancient and modern practice. 2d ed. *$6. Lippincott.
Agr 8–366.
This new edition has been prepared to keep pace with changed
conditions. The new matter relates chiefly to the question of damage
done to roads by motor-cars, and the nuisance arising from dust caused
by the speed at which these vehicles are driven. The author who has
been actively identified with the movement to prevent dust believes
that the system of tar macadam offers the best solution to the dust
problem.
* * * * *
“The volume as a whole might serve in many respects as a model for a
technical book. The book should find a place in every engineering
library which makes any pretense of including the best works on roads
and pavements.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 295. Mr. 12, ’08. 600w.
+ + − =Engin. Rec.= 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“The book deals in an exhaustive and practical manner with [16]
subjects.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 244. Ja. 16, ’08. 600w.
=Aix, pseud.= Adventures of a nice young man. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–26194.
The adventures of a genteel, pedantic youth, who, impressionable and
unqualified for struggle, goes to New York to seek his fortune. The
incidents of the story are strung together upon a slight thread of
plot relating to a valid will and a forged one.
* * * * *
“One reads it, a chapter at a time ... for the sake of the rather
whimsical humor of what happens from page to page.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 265. N. ’08. 260w.
“The interest of the book is entirely in the manner of its telling,
which is whimsical, quaintly audacious in its irreverence for literary
tradition, sometimes as romantically impossible as a fairy tale in its
narrative of events, and again crudely realistic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
* =Aked, Charles Frederic.= Old events and modern meanings, and other
sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
8–29641.
A group of sermons preached from the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue
Baptist church. “They are evangelical, and they are also distinctly
modern in their wide outlook upon the things and thoughts of the
world’s work, and play, and folly, and wrong. Their ethical tone and
temper are incisive and stirring. Their felicitously modernized
interpretation from an ethical and religious standpoint of Lord
Bacon’s famous aphorisms concerning the ‘idols of the tribe, the cave,
the market-place, and the theatre’ is thoroughly characteristic of the
preacher.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Aked occasionally offends against good taste. When all’s said Dr.
Aked is a strong man and has published a good book. The kind of
preaching in these sermons is not only what people want, but what they
need.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 720w.
“The discourses in this volume are not merely sermons; they are also
literature.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 110w.
=Albanesi, Effie Adelaide Maria (Effie Adelaide Rowlands, pseud.).=
Forbidden road. 75c. Cupples & L.
7–42010.
“The story of what happened to a man when wealth came to him at the
age of 30 and found him rather simple in his tastes, good looking,
intelligent, right meaning, and with an unspoiled capacity for
enjoyment. The two chief women characters are a gay, fascinating,
light-minded young widow and the capable and lovable young woman who
is the governess of the widow’s children.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is rather regrettable, a bit of shoddy sufficiently smooth of
surface to engage the eye, but with no real substance. The governess,
the baronet, the millionaire, all have human attributes, and even an
air of individuality; but they really are, and are meant to be,
nothing more than wax figures designed with sufficient cunning to
deceive the ignorant or indolent patron of the show.”
− =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Alden, Henry Mills.= Magazine writing and the new literature. **$2.
Harper.
8–28839.
Writing out of the fulness of fifty years of close association with
literature, forty years of which have been spent on the editorial
staff of Harper’s magazine, the author has two objects in view:
“First, to show the intimate relations of periodical to general
literature, as to authorship and aim; secondly, to present certain
characteristic features of a new life and literature, beginning two
centuries ago with the emergence, in the natural course of evolution,
of the distinctively modern physical era.” The keynote of the study is
the ever-developing relation of modern literature to life itself.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The present work is a symmetrical and impressive whole, a harmonious
composition, with a distinctive historical and critical meaning.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
“Minor differences of opinion, however, and the intellectual effort
required in following the argument should prejudice no one against the
important and startling major conclusions.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 520w.
“If anything were needed to complete the extraordinary character of
the new volume by the editor of Harper’s magazine it would be supplied
by the fact that a veteran in letters, such as Mr. Alden, is the
author of it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 585. O. 24, ’08. 1350w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 90w.
=Aldis, Janet.= Queen of letter writers, Marquise de Sévigné, Dame
de Bourbilly, 1626–1696. *$3. Putnam.
8–9535.
The letters cover, as Sainte-Beuve said, “twenty-seven years of the
most delightful period of the most agreeable French society”—the time
of Corneille and La Fontaine, Moliere and Racine, the time when court
and society set the example of good breeding to all the world, when
“the church [was] rich in great preachers as she never was before or
since ... and the king [was] at last really on his throne and
preparing France for the only century of freedom from the civil war
she has ever known.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Shows in a lively way Madame de Sévigné’s relation to her times and
her connection with the important people and the events of her day.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 163. Je. ’08.
“Miss Aldis’s style lacks distinction and sometimes correctness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 205. Ag. 22. 640w.
“A full, readable, and altogether excellent account of Madame de
Sévigné and her times.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w.
“Mrs. Aldis has gathered much of interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 381. Ag. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The fault of Mr. Lucas is that he has given nothing of this
‘delightful creature’; and of Miss Aldis that she has allowed her to
be too much buried under the pomps and vanities of a ‘Life and
times.’”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 380. D. 13, ’07. 970w.
=Nation.= 86: 238. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Miss Aldis evidently loves the image of the brilliant and amiable
Marquise, for she writes of her with a deft and understanding pen.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 850w.
“The author has been wonderfully successful in throwing into relief
and rendering attractive to readers of our own day just those things
which made up the social and literary associations which surrounded
Madame de Sévigné and her friends. The story, as told here, is lively
and even brilliant.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 160w.
“An excellent example of its class.” E. J. Putnam.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 364. Je. ’08. 400w.
“An excellent piece of work.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 860w.
“With such a subject and such materials, of which she has made the
fullest use, it is no wonder that Mrs. Aldis should have written a
delightful book. To our mind, its defect is a necessary one: the
amount of translation from Madame de Sévigné’s letters.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 66. Je. 11, ’08. 550w.
* =Aleramo, Sibilla, pseud.= A woman at bay; translation of the Italian
“Una donna” by M. H. Lansdale. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–30133.
A woman’s troubled life revealed thru the process of subjective
analysis becomes a human document from very introspection. The story
depicts the agony resulting from marriage with a dull, brutal man, and
deals with the problem of separation which involves separation also
from her child, the one being she loves devotedly.
* * * * *
“The chief fault of the book is not merely that it is a purpose novel,
but that it flaunts its purpose rampantly on every page.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 383. D. ’08. 280w.
“It is hard for an American woman, however she may pity the
protagonist of the book, to sympathize with this morbid,
‘oversexed’—if we may coin such a word—passionately complaining
creature; but the story of brutal physical tyranny and abuse, however
hysterically told, is not negligible when we consider that it
represents an actual condition of the present day, permitted—one might
almost say enforced—by law.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 330w.
“Signora Aleramo knows how to enlist the warmest human sympathies in
behalf of the wronged woman’s right to freedom and to support her view
of the matter by reason and the fervor of her eloquence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“Of calm logic there is little; and hysteria flavors the emotional
passages.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 140w.
“It has been very happily rendered.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 366. D. ’08. 100w.
=Alexander, Archibald B. D.= Short history of philosophy. *$2.60.
Macmillan.
8–1778.
A history of philosophy from the beginning to the present time,
showing the characterizing features of each system and its place and
influence in the evolution of thought. The plan involves “a very
cursory treatment of Greek, patristic, and scholastic philosophy; a
fairly extended treatment of that of the seventeenth century; and then
a very full account of the English, French, and German enlightenment,
of Kant, and of the movement, from Kant to Hegel. Post-Hegelian
thought is touched lightly.” (Philos. R.)
* * * * *
“As for Mr. Alexander’s method in particular the various philosophies
he expounds appear to us bereft of life and actuality in a peculiar
degree. The whole treatment of ancient philosophies strikes us as
uncritical.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 321. Mr. 14. 350w.
“One feels that the secondary sources have been the main inspiration
of the book. It can hardly be said that the book offers anything which
can not be had as well, if not better, in already existing works,
though written by Germans or even by Americans.” Norman Wilde.
− + =J. Philos.= 5: 527. S. 10, ’08. 1050w.
“For the most part the author’s explanations and criticisms are clear
and just. He is, however, less happy in his chapters on German
philosophy from Kant to Hegel than in any other part of his work.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 354. O. 17, ’07. 450w.
“The accounts which Mr. Alexander gives of the various systems of
philosophy are clear and sound, and in all important cases have the
vital quality that comes from first-hand acquaintance with the
classics of his subject. The pages which we grudge to the lesser
Teutonic lights might well have been used to make more adequate the
author’s picture of recent philosophical discussion in this country.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 443. S. 10, ’08. 430w.
“In point of execution, the work is uneven. While the book is
unreliable on delicate matters throughout, candor demands the
recognition that much of it is instructive and effectively written,
and presents material not otherwise so readily available.” E. L.
Hinman.
− + =Philos. R.= 17: 219. Mr. ’08. 1500w.
=Allaben, Frank.= John Watts de Peyster. (Allaben biographical ser.)
2v. *$2.50. Frank Allaben genealogical co., 3 W. 42 st., N. Y.
8–21542.
A complete biography of General de Peyster, “the first notable
military critic produced by America—the first to treat the battles and
campaigns of our great conflicts in the spirit of a true philosophy of
the art of war.” Ten chapters are devoted to his ancestors of Flemish
origin, nine to early recollections, ten to military career, and
twenty-three to literary work.
* * * * *
“A work which will prove of high interest to many countrymen of Gen.
de Peyster, especially if they are New Yorkers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 360w.
=Allen, Alexander V. G.= Phillips Brooks. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–41554.
An abridgment of the two volume biography which appeared six years
ago. It is authoritative and concise and “is a history of the
evolution of a character of a spirit, and that rather under the
influence of the events which affected all men whose allotted term of
life was the latter half of the nineteenth century, rather than under
that of the special events which befell the individual, Phillips
Brooks.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 35. F. ’08. ✠
“It will be welcomed by many who found the two large volumes too
expensive.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 60w.
=Dial.= 44: 111. F. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The abridgment is of sufficient compass to tell the story of the man
and his work, and the most valuable and interesting portions of the
letters have been retained.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 81. Je. 23, ’08. 60w.
“Dr. Allen has allowed Phillips Brooks to furnish this explanation
largely in his own words, following discriminately revealing journals,
memoranda, and letters ... and the result is a personal revelation as
fascinating in its way as the ‘Confessions of Augustine’ or the
‘Journal intime of Amiel.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 829. D. 14, ’07. 700w.
=Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 100w.
“The process of condensation ... has not in any way detracted from the
clearness of the picture which Professor Allen draws of the man and
his ministry. This, like the more elaborate biography published eight
years ago, is an inspiring and compelling human portrait.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 130w.
“We may commend it generally to our readers.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Allen, Annie Winsor.= Home, school and vacation; a book of
suggestions. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–36254.
A book of detailed rules for bringing up children written for the
average parent who is not able to cope with the terminology of the new
psychology. “The opening chapters are devoted to generalities and
‘what to avoid’; and the rest is constructive, with appended tables
telling what should be accomplished at the various ages, both
physically and mentally. The underlying principle in Mrs. Allen’s
scheme of education is well expressed by her phrases: ‘Not a month
must be unheeded—the child will never come to that age again.’”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Rather dogmatic at times, and not thoroughly based in scientific
research, but on the whole, sane and wholesome, and will be read when
more critical books will be passed over.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 127. My. ’08.
“There are qualities which all will admire on all her pages—the sanity
of her judgment, the sincerity of her feeling, and the evidence
visible everywhere that the writer has gathered her conclusions from
an experience unusually rich and varied.” J. G. Croswell.
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 512. My. ’08. 550w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 200w.
“Its suggestions, broadly conceived and evolved from a long and
valuable experience as a teacher, cannot fail to lead to saner
educational processes and to more fruitful results, if intelligently
grasped and applied in the homes and schools of to-day.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 150w.
=Allen, Charles C.= Engineering workshop practice. *$1.25. Dutton.
“The first 30 odd pages are given up to a general discussion of
materials and kinematics, as involved in machine-shop practice....
About 20 pages hold descriptions of gages, micrometer and vernier
callipers, and their proper field and use. The following 18 pages
treat of tool steels and their manipulation, and the next few pages
contain practical directions for brazing, soldering, riveting, etc.
The rest of the book is mainly composed of chapters on chipping,
filing and scraping, on lathe work, boring, planing, milling,
grinding, screw cutting, gear cutting, etc.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The volume as a whole may be indicative of British instruction in
metal working, but it cannot be taken as representative of American
methods and could not well serve as a guide in manual-training schools
and technical-school workshops on this side of the Atlantic.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 300w.
“This book, good as it is, would have been much more useful if no
attempt had been made to write for the information of both the
beginner and the skilled workman; their needs are so different that
the result cannot be satisfactory to either class.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 28. N. 14, ’07. 450w.
=Allen, Grant.= Evolution in Italian art. *$3.50. Wessels.
An introductory chapter suggesting some of the forces affecting the
painters of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries precedes
a detailed study of the set subjects of Italian art. In his study the
author shows “the stream of development by which, thru the hands of
various artists and various schools, the dry and lifeless picture in
the rude native manner was vivified and spiritualised into the art of
Fra Angelico, of Bellini, of Leonardo.” Some of the subjects studied
are the marriage of the Virgin, the visitation, the annunciation, the
madonna and child, the madonna and saints, the adoration of the Magi,
the presentation, and the Pietà.
* * * * *
“His cogent argument is pleasant to read and by the aid of a large
number of excellent illustrations is made easy to follow.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 407. D. 1, ’08. 500w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 395. O. 22, ’08. 170w.
“Evolution in art is of course taken into consideration by every
serious historian of art, but it has never been so systematically
studied as in the present volume.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 557. O. 10, ’08. 1650w.
“Whether one agrees with the Grant Allen idea or not, Mr.
Cruickshank’s introductory chapter is pertinent reading for anyone.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 570w.
=Allin, C. D.= Early federation movement of Australia. $1.50.
British Whig pub. co., Kingston, Ontario.
8–17801.
Deals with the beginnings of this movement in Australia, continuing to
1863. “Mr. Allin traces successively the federal policy of Lord Grey,
which he treats with great fulness and sympathy; the proposals of
constitutional committees in New South Wales and Victoria; and,
lastly, the conclusions arrived at in parliamentary reports.” (Eng.
Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Allin’s work is a clear exposition of his theme and has the merit
of being well written. It is not free of occasional slips, but the
only objection of consequence to which the volume as a whole appears
to be open, is a too exhaustive treatment.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 350w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 707. My. ’08. 200w.
“A sound and accurate, but somewhat arid survey.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 150w.
“Mr. Allin’s work is generally of a sound and trustworthy character,
but a few slips have found admission.” H. E. Egerton.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 389. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“The work will prove illuminating to those who have regarded
federation as a recent idea and who are unaware of the long and
arduous work which precedes any considerable political achievement.
Dr. Allin has marshaled the results of his thorough researches with
mature and sober judgment, while the vigor of his style lends color
and charm to a theme naturally lacking in these qualities.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 173. Mr. ’08. 150w.
=Allingham, William.= William Allingham: a diary; ed. by H.
Allingham and D. Radford. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–9512.
Literary small talk, quips and jests bring the reader into touch with
the companionable side of such men of letters as Tennyson, Browning,
Carlyle, and many of their contemporaries. “One does not see why this
diary is not the Boswell’s Johnson of its time, as authentic and
interesting a delineation of literary London during the Victorian as
the other during the Georgian period.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“In literary charm the book suffers from being so largely a ‘rudis
indigestaque moles’—for which, however, no one is to blame, unless we
choose to quarrel with the dead poet for dropping so soon the
autobiography that he had begun to frame out of his diary material.
This too-short portion, indeed, does possess a very readable quality.
Mrs. Allingham and Mrs. Radford have done good editorial work.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 69. F. 1, ’08. 1470w.
“The volume might yield many more stories than those we have taken;
and most of them are true in the best sense of the word.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 820w.
“A good deal of this is entirely trivial, and ought to have been
suppressed. There would still be sufficient left to fill a fair-sized
volume.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 700w.
“A fascinating book as well as a most instructive document.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 841. D. 21, ’07. 3420w.
“This is a book with a pleasant literary flavour, though some of the
entries from Allingham’s diaries seem rather small beer.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
“The little sketches of the man [Tennyson], of his looks and ways, the
little scraps of his talk, have a convincing air of truth about them.
After Tennyson come Browning and Carlyle, and after these again a
multitude of literary men, every one being happily touched off.”
+ + =Spec.= 89: 713. N. 9, ’07. 450w.
=Almack, Edward.= Bookplates. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
8–34675.
An introduction treats of the different kinds of blocks or plates from
which bookplates were first produced and the styles of _ex libris_
early predominating in Germany, France and England. This is followed
by chapters on bookplates chronologically, bookplates with mantling,
some specimens found in the British museum, Chippendale and
crestplates, modern bookplates, various bookplates, and bookplates in
America.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Unfortunately the volume does not deserve the same commendation that
may freely be given to the rest of the series. Although it contains
much information, particularly concerning armorial book plates, it is
ill-balanced.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 60w.
=Alston, Leonard.= White man’s work in Asia and Africa: a discussion
of the main difficulties of the colour question. *$1. Longmans.
8–1381.
With a broad grasp of the situation, thru optimistic and eclectic
doctrines, Mr. Alston treats the political, social, and religious
factors which combine to make the color problem a complicated one.
* * * * *
“No one interested in civil administration of colonies, or in foreign
mission work can afford to overlook this modest essay.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 616. N. ’08. 130w.
“Leonard Alston considers the white man’s burden with as much
open-mindedness as is reconcilable with the nature of a thesis which
assumes that the white man is, on the whole, right and the child of
destiny.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 37. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“In style and in command of English the author displays a singular
ability; but the book is more noteworthy for these characteristics
than for any practical suggestion which it contains for the solution
of the most important question of the future.”
− + =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 300w.
=Ames, Joseph Bushnell.= Pete, cow-puncher: a story of the Texas
plains. †$1.50. Holt.
8–30533.
The experience of a young New Yorker who, much to the chagrin of his
father, preferred life in the Texas plains to Yale first and Wall
Street afterwards. It is the story of a clean, honest, resolute fight
against hardships and peril.
=Amundsen, Roald.= North-west passage: being a record of a voyage of
exploration of the ship Gjöa in the years 1903–7; with a
supplement by Lieut. Hansen. 2v. *$8. Dutton.
8–35750.
An account of the voyage which Captain Amundsen and his crew of seven
men made in exploration of the North-west passage. “Difficult
navigation, sledge excursions that were not exactly summer picnics,
meteorological and magnetic observations under trying conditions, the
exaction of some degree of respect and decorum from the swarming
Esquimaux that beset them in their winter quarters, and the continual
problem of food, fuel, and shelter in the cruel cold of these
latitudes—that, in brief, indicates the work that was cut out for
Captain Amundsen and his little crew.” Lieut. Hansen’s supplementary
chapter relates to his surveying expedition to the east coast of
Victoria Land.
* * * * *
“This record ... is written with sailorlike simplicity and with an
attractive enthusiasm for the subject. The arrangement leaves
something to be desired. Lieut. Hansen’s supplement should have been
inserted in the body of the narrative; and the historical survey of
previous exploration, which is slight and in some points inaccurate,
appears rather aimlessly in the tenth chapter.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 33. Jl. 11. 1800w.
“Not the least interesting parts of the book are the stories of the
distinctly Scandinavian character of practical jokes which,
apparently, were everlastingly played on each other by all the members
of the party.” A. W. Vorse.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 276. N. ’08. 1200w.
“His straightforward narrative makes not only one of the best books of
Arctic exploration, but one of the best books of adventure of any sort
that have ever been written. The narrative is not free from
bewildering inconsistencies, which sometimes amount to positive
inaccuracies.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 80. Ag. 16, ’08. 1850w.
“It is difficult to realize that the book is a translation, so easy is
the style.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 267. S. 17, ’08. 950w.
“Though the book would not lose by condensation in places, it is
singularly free from the trivialities with which such volumes are
often loaded. But an appendix of scientific results would have given
more permanent value to these volumes.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 478. S. 17, ’08. 1550w.
“With the skill of the true artist, the North-west passage is there,
the real hero of the story, behind all the humorous and sometimes
tragic adventures with which this excellent narrator entertains his
readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 373. Jl. 4, ’08. 2050w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 120w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 823. Je. 27, ’08. 660w.
“The observations which Captain Amundsen makes on the mode of life,
manners, and struggle for existence of the inhabitants near the
North-west passage are quite the most interesting and valuable in the
volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 840. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Anderson, Ada Woodruff.= Heart of the red firs. †$1.50. Little.
8–9815.
Set in the grim forest country of the Pacific northwest, this story
deals with the epoch that closed with the completion of the Northern
Pacific road thru to the coast. A charming heroine is portrayed who
has fearlessness, ability to command, the foresight and memory
necessary for the self protection of pioneers, and withal is feminine
to the core. The perils of the wilds are truthfully set down.
* * * * *
“For the most part one brings away from the reading an abiding sense
of splendid freedom, health and courage in a glorious setting of
fir-clad mountains.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 578. Ag. ’08. 400w.
=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“It is more effective in description than in narrative.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Is written very vigorously and authoritatively. The ‘story part,’ as
the children say, lags often, and, indeed, does not seem to have been
conceived in the first place with any marked conviction or
originality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
=Anderson, Galusha.= Story of a border city during the civil war.
**$1.50. Little.
8–27164.
A story of St. Louis during the civil war told by a man who was a
clergyman in that city from 1858 to 1866. It is an intimate sketch of
local conditions and local feeling recorded from personal observations
and experiences, revealing the struggle between the opposing factions
standing respectively for secession and for the union.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1250. N. 26, ’08. 300w.
“Rich in the material of which history is made as well as most
interesting in itself. He writes with calmness and in a judicial,
objective sort of way that cannot carry any offense. On its literary
side his work would have been the better for more careful revision and
editing, for his style is often so slovenly as to be annoying.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 600w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 120w.
=Anderson, J. Wemyss.= Refrigeration: an elementary text-book.
*$2.25. Longmans.
8–28304.
“An exposition of the scientific principles involved in the production
of low temperatures, and descriptions of the apparatus by which they
are obtained. The work being an elementary one, questions relating to
the design of apparatus have been properly withheld for a succeeding
and more advanced volume.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“The illustrations are good, the index is ample, and many instructive
and practical problems are given in their proper place for the further
use of the student.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 300w.
“This book differs and compares favorably with all other books on that
subject, inasmuch as examples are used for explaining the fundamental
principles. The book as a whole is all that is claimed for it and can
therefore be highly recommended.” J. C. Bertsch.
+ + =Engin. N.= 60: 77. Jl. 16, ’08. 860w.
“The treatment of the subject is accurate and lucid, and in all cases
the necessary mathematical investigations are reduced to their
simplest elements, many numerical examples being added.” E. Edser.
+ =Nature.= 78: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 470w.
=Andreiyeff, Leonidas.= Silence: tr. from the Russian by John
Cournos. bds. 25c. Brown bros.
“A story, a melancholy poem, in which the reader is subjected to a
series of heart pangs, and is forced to listen to a music, in which
the dominant motif is a terrible, oppressive and crushing silence.”
(Translator’s preface.) The author who is linked in literary
sympathies with Gorky embodies “conscious artistry” while Gorky is
possessed of “crude blind force.”
* * * * *
“So painful a story does not make a favorable introduction to the
series.”
− =Ind.= 65: 615. S. 10, ’08. 70w.
=Nation.= 87: 494. N. 19, ’08. 90w.
=Andrews, Eliza Frances.= War-time journal of a Georgia girl.
**$2.50. Appleton.
8–27163.
A spirited diary extending thru the year and a half that followed
December of 1864 and covering the last days of the war and the
beginning of the reconstruction era. “This diary, intended solely for
the author’s own eyes, gives an intimate picture of the intensity of
Southern feeling, at the same time that it describes the diversions in
which Southern society sought to forget the continual tragedy through
which the country was passing.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The book is charmingly natural and lifelike, and will prove a
valuable addition to the diaries of the war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
“It is, in fact, what one might call an original document in history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 180w.
“The journal is a contribution of real merit to the literature of
Southern conditions at that time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 400w.
“An exceedingly interesting book to those who care for absolutely
truthful, unaffected pictures of life during the civil war.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
=Andrews, Hiram Bertrand.= Practical reinforced concrete standards
for the design of reinforced concrete buildings. $2. Simpson bros.
8–21937.
Contains chapters on the design of beams, with tables and diagrams,
and standardized sizes for buildings, together with sets of
specifications for concrete work.
* * * * *
“Allowing for the usual tendency to use a designing diagram without
regard for the varying conditions that must affect the design, this
book of standards must be of value.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.
“A suggested standard building code for concrete work is published,
but it incorporates all of the author’s original ideas, thus making it
of questionable value without revision. Some of the author’s
statements ... do not agree with the opinions held by reinforced
concrete specialists.”
− =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Andrews, William Symes.= Magic squares and cubes. *$1.50. Open ct.
8–19276.
“Here may be found directions for making quadratic combinations that
surpass Benjamin Franklin’s famous sixteen puzzle, which he said was
‘the most magically magical of any magic square ever made by any
magician.’ Dr. Paul Carus contributes a chapter on the importance of
magic squares in Hindu, Chinese and Greek philosophy.”—Ind.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 90w.
“To those who are interested in the subject, Mr. Andrews’s book will
be very acceptable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 101. Jl. 30, ’08. 180w.
=Anet, Claude.= Through Persia in a motorcar, by Russia and the
Caucasus; tr. by M. Beresford Ryley. *$4.50. Appleton.
A lively account of a tour by train, boat and motor-car. “The route
followed was through Bessarabia, the Crimea and the Caucasus; Persia
is reached on p. 84, but the motoring does not begin until p. 151. It
consisted of a run from Ispahan to Teheran. Ispahan is reached on p.
192. A week in that city which excites the enthusiasm of our
traveller, occupies thirty-eight pages. And then we have about fifty
pages in which the return is described.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Altogether a not uninteresting book, and ably translated; but as
there are no maps and no index, it is useless as a work of reference.
It might have been so much better done.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 59. O. 26, ’07. 420w.
“A book which has few dull pages.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 550w.
“A work in which veracity has not been sacrificed to imagination.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 370w.
“M. Anet has written a lively and amusing account of the tour,
illustrated with photographs, and has been fortunate in his
translator.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“Directions are given which should prove helpful to intending
travellers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 370. S. 14, ’07. 300w.
=Annesley, Maude.= Door of darkness. †$1.50. Lane.
A story built up around the unexplained mysteries of clairvoyance and
magic. “Miss Annesley secures her most striking effects by imagining
mysteries which she cannot attempt to explain; and the reader of a
novel, like the spectator at a manifestation, wants to know how things
are done. In this case the reader very soon perceives that the central
figure in the book is an ‘adept’ who has mastered the secret of
perpetual youth. The love of such a man for a girl bound by the normal
conditions of human life can be made, and here is made, into an
interesting romance.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“It needs some courage to write a novel upon the elixir of life, and
we can scarcely say that the enterprise is in this case justified. We
note also a large proportion of commonplace and uninteresting
padding.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 784. Je. 27. 100w.
“While it does not lack complication, is a mixture of such unlike
parts that anything like a co-ordinated impression is out of the
question.” E. L. Cary.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 391. Jl. 11, ’08. 440w.
“The opening chapters of this novel are so good that we recognize with
disappointment the author’s failure to maintain the plausible
atmosphere of the supernatural which envelops them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
=Annunzio, Gabriele d’.= Daughter of Jorio: a pastoral tragedy; tr.
by Charlotte Porter, Pietro Isola, and Alice Henry; with an
introd. by Miss Porter. *$1.50. Little.
7–37999.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The merely English reader will get little good from it, and will meet
with scarcely a line, certainly not with a passage of any length, that
will appeal to him as poetry.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 27. Ja. 18, ’08. 200w.
“It has something of the majesty of a classical drama and of the
inexorableness of fate. The play is wonderfully reproduced in
English.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 142. Ja. 18, ’08. 500w.
“Really remarkable dramatic work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.
=Anthropological= essays presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in honor
of his 75th birthday, Oct. 2, 1907, by H. Balfour, A. E. Crawley
[etc.] *$5. Oxford.
8–1439.
These nineteen essays contributed by eminent specialists are a
birthday offering to a distinguished Oxford scholar. See Cumulative
book index for contents.
* * * * *
“The arrangement of the essays is alphabetical, according to the
surnames of the authors. The result of this automatic distribution is
to produce a course of miscellaneous reading which is rather
bewildering.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 522. O. 26. 1400w.
“Contain a large mass of permanently important material.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 470. My. 21, ’08. 900w.
“The book will be a welcome addition to all anthropological libraries,
and we could not give it higher praise than to say that it is quite
worthy of the great scholar whose name it bears.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Archer, William, and Barker, Henry Granville.= Scheme and estimates
for a national theatre. *$2.50. Duffield.
Here are the scheme and estimates for the building of a national
theatre in Great Britain, but inclusive enough to apply to the
establishment of a similar institution in America. “The book
discusses, with a convincing array of facts and figures, every step in
the process of construction from the appointment of the first
committee to the raising of the curtain on the opening night.”
(Nation.) “They are ready with a scheme of decoration for the
entrance-hall of their hypothetical theatre; they have drawn up
elaborate lists and tables of the repertory of plays to be performed
there; they have even gone so far as to create a company of imaginary
actors with imaginary names, and to cast them for imaginary parts.”
(Spec.) The plans also include the founding of a dramatic college to
provide actors for the theatre.
* * * * *
“One cannot withhold from the authors the admiration which is due to a
lively faith. The estimates for the various branches of the theatre
collected here ... are the work of experts, and we may assume them to
be, on the whole, calculated with as much accuracy as the nature of
the case admits.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 139. N. 16, ’07. 1000w.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 488. Ap. 18. 700w.
“Both Mr. Archer and Mr. Barker are well qualified for the task which
they have undertaken, the one by his long study of dramatic literature
and the art of acting in England and on the continent, and the other
by his experience as a dramatist, as an actor, and a producing
manager. The bulky volume which they have compiled does infinite
credit to their enthusiasm, their industry, their technical knowledge
and their foresight.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 178. F. 20, ’08. 1250w.
“For lovers of the theatre it will have all the attractiveness of a
fascinating romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 143. Mr. 14, ’08. 2300w.
“It would be difficult to conceive of two men better qualified to
prepare such a volume.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 235. My. ’08. 600w.
“An interesting and suggestive volume. [The authors] have thrown
themselves with gusto into the task of castle-building, and have
produced an airy edifice which for completeness of conception and
minuteness of execution it would be difficult to rival. But it would
be doing an injustice to the book to suggest that it is nothing more
than an ingenious Utopian ‘jeu d’esprit.’ It will be welcome to all
who are interested in the welfare of the theatre, if only on the score
of the quantity of information which it contains, and the light which
it throws on the actual conditions of theatrical work.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1093. D. 28, ’07. 1600w.
=Armagnat, H.= Theory, design and construction of induction coils;
tr. and ed. by Otis Allen Kenyon. *$2. McGraw.
8–17739.
An exact and definite treatment of the theory relating to induction
coils and their practical uses. The translator has extended the
bibliography to include all contributions to the subject since 1904,
the date of the appearance of the original work.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4: 55 Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Until recently there has been in English no book adequately setting
forth the extent of our knowledge of this apparatus.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 400w.
=Armour, Frances J.= Brotherhood of wisdom. †$1.50. Lane.
A London professor discovers a combination of chemistry and
electricity which detaches the soul from the body. A member of the
Brotherhood of wisdom, an oriental occult society, works his way into
the professor’s confidence, persuades him to try the experiment upon
his niece; then kidnaps her astral body, when it has been set free,
and installs her as high priestess in one of the brotherhood’s secret
shrines. The adventures which the girl’s lover has in uniting soul and
body are as thrilling as they are ingeniously conceived.
* * * * *
“A fine theme for a pithy short story has been stretched by divers
expedients to the dimensions of a novel; and shows its resentment, as
ideas will, by declining to infuse with any of its own life the
mechanical effects that have been forced upon it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 240w.
“The author is to be congratulated upon having invented a new sort of
thrills and excitements. She has handled her weird matter very well,
and the interest, excitement, and general uncanniness accumulate and
intensify to a fitting climax.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 495. S. 12, ’08. 300w.
“Redeemed from the realm of the impossible for the reader who yields
himself to the spell, the tale is cleverly told.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“The book shows at times a certain unfamiliarity with the life
depicted. But against this inexperience must be set the valuable
qualities of energy and enthusiasm, a picturesque imagination, and a
style much above the average. Lastly, she must be congratulated on her
ability to excite the curiosity and retain the interest of her readers
without resorting to the repulsive realism into which she might easily
have been led by the somewhat macabre nature of her theme.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 382. Mr. 7, ’08. 880w.
=Arrhenius, Svante August.= Immunochemistry; the application of the
principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological
antibodies. *$1.60. Macmillan.
7–34600.
A volume based upon a course of lectures given by the author at the
University of California. The object of the lectures was to illustrate
the application of the methods of physical chemistry to the study of
the theory of toxins and antitoxins. The idea is that the reciprocal
action of toxin and antitoxin is of the same nature as a chemical
reaction.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 40w.
“The book is to be recommended to all who have an elementary knowledge
of physical chemistry.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“Would especially call the attention of the younger biologists to the
importance of a study of Arrhenius’s books.” Jacques Loeb.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 343. F. 28, ’08. 400w.
=Arrhenius, Svante August.= Worlds in the making. il. **$1.60.
Harper.
8–9543.
A new theory of the universe evolved from the principle of the
mechanical radiation pressure of light—that rays of light falling upon
a surface tend to push that surface back. The guiding principle in
this exposition of cosmogonic problems has been the conviction that
the universe in essence has always been what it is now. Matter,
energy, and life have only varied as to shape and position.
* * * * *
“A valuable treatise.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 166. Je. ’08.
“It would be difficult to find a book which gives so well and in such
short compass a view of the modern developments of the science.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 130. Ag. 1. 700w.
“It is to be regretted that neither the author, the translator, nor
the publisher of this thoughtful and stimulating book has provided it
with an index; for, though the work contains only 230 pages, it is
full of details many of which will be valuable for purposes of
reference.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 277. My. 1, ’08. 500w.
“Astronomers will question his conclusions at many points, here and
there holding his data insufficient and his assumptions unwarranted.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1401. Je. 18, ’08. 1000w.
“This throwing back of the life problem to the region of primal things
is carefully worked out, and though I, for one, cannot believe it is
forced by our present knowledge, or lack of it, there are no especial
objections to such a view, save in that it will probably be taken to
give a new lease of life to the Obscurantists—the people who want to
make a mystery of everything.” Carl Snyder.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 932. Je. ’08. 1000w.
=Spec.= 100: 676. Ap. 25, ’08. 250w.
=Ashe, Sydney Whitmore.= Electric railways theoretically and
practically treated. v. 2. il. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
The second of a three volume series designed to cover the entire field
of electric railway operation. “The present volume contains two main
divisions. The first comprises the engineering studies which are made
before a railway project is undertaken. The second is descriptive of
the equipment and operation of sub-stations in which the electric
power is transformed from the standard, three-phase variety necessary
for transmission, to the direct-current form still used in most
railway systems.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The book suffers from a lack of consistent editing. By far the best
part of the book is found in chapters 2, 3, and 4 on ‘Electrical
features,’ which contains much useful information presented in a
logical manner. In fact, it may be stated that the intrinsic value of
these chapters is sufficient to counterbalance the errors of
carelessness found elsewhere in the book.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Owing to the fact that the scissors are conspicuous in the make-up,
there is a certain lack of homogeneity in the treatment, but the
author is very careful to give proper credit for all quotations and
data. The authorities quoted are excellent, but they are not all in
agreement; in fact, some of the papers given aroused violent
opposition upon their original presentation.” H: H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 654. D. 12, ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Contains some excellent articles ... but the author has not always
shown sound judgment in the selection of his illustrations or specific
examples. Taken as a whole, however, the work should be useful to the
student in showing the various factors which must be considered in the
simple layout of an electrical railroad system.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 2.)
“This is essentially a book for experts, and especially American
experts. Altogether the author’s mathematics is not characterised by
exactitude.” Gisbert Kapp.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 27. My. 14, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Askew, Alice, and Askew, Claude Arthur Cary.= Lucy Gort: a study in
temperament. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“The minute details of the miserable existence of a young woman whose
discontent leads her to forsake her quiet but comfortable home in a
small English town and become a lady’s traveling companion are
recorded in this ‘study of temperament.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It merely deals with the imaginings of high life as set forth through
many years, one had supposed, for the edification of shop-girls and
serving-maids. It is full of sensationalism.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 409. Ap. 20. 90w.
“It is morbid, artificial, and meretricious.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 842. D. 21, ’07. 310w.
=Association= of American law schools. Select essays in
Anglo-American legal history. 3v. v. 1. set, *$12. Little.
7–26401.
=v. 1.= “Contains a series of twenty essays, by various authors, all
except one heretofore published in magazine or in book form, and an
autobiographical letter by James Kent. They are arranged in five
groups: 1, prior to the Norman conquest; 2, thence to the 18th
century; 3, the American colonial period; 4, development of law in the
19th century; and 5, a biographical survey of the bench and bar from
the Norman conquest to the present.”—Yale R.
* * * * *
“Present-day readers will welcome these volumes not alone because of
their diverting qualities, but also because of their informing,
guiding and inspiring qualities. The charm and spirit of the
year-books are in them, and so too are some of the most important
results of researches by the new historical school of English and
American lawyers.” H. D. Hazeltine.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 628. Ap. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is particularly well done. A volume that the casual reader with
only a few minutes to spare can dip into almost anywhere with pleasure
and profit.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 850w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Good judgment is shown in the compilation and editing of this
volume.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 568. S. ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The selection is certainly good, and the arrangement is such as to
give a certain unity and a tolerable continuity to the whole. This
unity and continuity, however, are disturbed by the numbers included
under part v, the substance and construction of which are scarcely in
harmony with the preceding parts. It is unquestionable that the
editing committee are performing a very valuable service to all who
are or may be led to become interested in legal history, in making
accessible the results of the best thought along this line.” A. L.
Corbin.
+ + − =Yale R.= 17: 99. My. ’08. 1300w. (Review of v. 1.)
* =Astley, Rev. Hugh John Dunkinfield.= Prehistoric archaeology and the
Old Testament: being the Donnellan lectures delivered before the
University of Dublin in 1906–1907, enl. and ed. with notes and
appendices. *$2. Scribner.
8–26257.
“This is another eirenicon between science and religion and from the
pen of an episcopal clergyman who seems familiar with the main
outlines, at least, of both archaeological science and Old Testament
scholarship.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The book certainly deserves the careful reading of all interested in
this important theme.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 77. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“This volume, however, has distinctive interest in the support for the
conclusions of Biblical scholars which it adduces from the sciences of
archaeology and anthropology. Rather curiously, he combines with this
breadth of view a narrow sacramentalism. But only a few pages of a
really useful book are thus spoiled.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
* =Atherton, Gertrude Franklin.= Gorgeous isle: a romance; scene: Nevis,
B. W. I., 1842. **90c. Doubleday.
8–28995.
A story set in the West Indian island of Nevis. “The heroine, having
married a man to save him, arrives gradually at the conviction that
his creative power (he is a poet of the first rank) is irretrievably
dependent on unlimited alcohol, and that it is therefore her duty no
longer to stand between him and this noble source of inspiration—a
rather excessive concession to the principle ‘art for art’s sake.’ The
period is Early Victorian, and the language and customs of that day
are reproduced, on the whole, with accuracy, though perhaps with a
slight tendency to archaism.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It deals with a situation which is fresh and powerfully handled,
though not entirely exempt from a suspicion of grotesqueness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 640. N. 21. 150w.
“Mrs. Atherton in her new novel launches an interesting ethical
problem, which she solves in her own way, but which will undoubtedly
suggest different solutions to her readers, according as the latter
differ in temperament and point of view from the author. One is
somewhat dubious over the possibility of the physiological theory,
advanced as fact, which is involved in Mrs. Atherton’s problem.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 950w.
=Atkey, Bertram.= Folk of the wild. il. $1.50. Lippincott.
8–19028.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Apart from its unoriginal mannerisms, this is an excellent book, and
entertaining throughout.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 130w.
“No British boy can read ‘Folk of the wild’ without understanding more
of the animals he may have the good fortune to see in the wilder spots
of his home. It is the kind of book that begets a desire for
sanctuaries of wild life.”
+ =Spec.= 99. sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Atkinson, Eleanor.= Boyhood of Lincoln. **50c. McClure.
8–30378.
An old man dozing between relays of reminiscences tells of the early
days when he, Dennis Hanks, cousin and playmate of Lincoln, stood in
uncomprehending awe of the crude stripling and his mighty ambition.
The little book is only a handful of memories, without philosophizing,
in which “tragedy and comedy mingle as only Shakespeare and real life
can bring them together.”
* * * * *
“Its inherent interest warrants its preservation in permanent form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 716. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Atlay, J. B.= Victorian chancellors. 2v. ea. $4. Little.
=v. 2.= Contains sketches of Lords St. Leonards, Cranworth,
Chelmsford, Campbell, Westbury, Cairus, Hatherley, Selborne, Halsbury,
and Herschell. “Mr. Atlay ... has surrounded his biographies with
their appropriate political, legal and social atmosphere; and he is so
well versed in the forensic traditions that his memoirs are as amusing
as they are instructive. The sketches of Lord St. Leonards, Lord
Campbell, and Lord Westbury are admirable of the generation which
preceded those later Victorian chancellors Lord Halsbury and Lord
Herschell.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“A want of proportion is the most noticeable defect of a valuable and
entertaining work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 358. S. 26. 660w. (Review of v. 2.)
“His work is distinguished by conciseness, research, preëminent
fairness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 413. O. 29, ’08. 2500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though doubtless intended primarily for the delectation and
instruction of members of the legal profession, there is not a sketch
in the volume that ought not to attract the man of letters, and
especially the student of politics and English political history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 438. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w. (Review of v. 2)
“It is because Mr. Atlay fastens on the personality that his ‘Lives’
are never dull.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 86. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Atlay is a friendly critic of most chancellors; but we are
inclined to think that he is too severe in his final judgment on Lord
Westbury.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 939. Je. 13, ’08. 1750w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Atton, Henry, and Holland, Henry Hurst.= King’s customs: an account
of maritime revenue and contraband traffic in England, Scotland
and Ireland, from the earliest times to the year 1800; with a
preface by F. S. Parry *$3.50. Dutton.
8–33017.
“A rich mine of good stories of desperate and resourceful smugglers,
and of ineptitude or connivance on the part of officials. The stories
are gathered from official records of the ports, from letters
addressed by customs house officers to their superiors, and from the
reports of cases in the law courts.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Rarely does a book make so many sided an appeal to readers as is made
by ‘The king’s customs.’ So much could scarcely be gathered into so
comparatively few pages and leave room for literary style. The
anecdotes and incidents are presented one after another tersely and
somewhat abruptly. To the ordinary reader also there is abundant
opportunity for judicious skipping; but the parts skipped by the
reader in search of entertainment are the parts most valuable to the
student and scholar.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 779. O. 1, ’08. 700w.
“While the book cannot be accepted as a history of the customs, it
contains a certain amount of valuable new material, particularly upon
the subject of contraband trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 800w.
=Auerbacher, Louis John.= Electrical contracting; shop system,
estimating, wiring, construction methods, and hints on getting
business. *$2. McGraw.
8–21776.
A book for the wireman and contractor containing practical hints on
the latest construction methods, with suggestions concerning means of
increasing his income.
* * * * *
“Every branch of work which falls in the province of the average
electrical contractor is covered, and taken all in all the book is
well adapted to his needs.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 99. Jl. 11, ’08. 160w.
“The book is a very useful one and many of the men for whom it was
written could profit materially by it.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 302. S. ’08. 180w.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.= Santa Lucia: a common story. †$1.50.
Harper.
8–11701.
When Serena Haven was wooed, she mistook chivalry for love. But she is
true to the bond and stands out in contrast—and here is the point of
the story—to Julia Maybury who marries, also without love, the college
biologist. Julia has not the character to be faithful to her vows and
a tragedy ensues.
* * * * *
“The story is told with leisureliness and sureness that raises it
decidedly above the average, but it is not characterized by the charm
of the author’s earlier work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“It is a pity that Mrs. Austin did not take more pains with her plot,
for she displays plenty of cleverness in her characterization as well
as her observation of life.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 664. My. 30. 140w.
“It is a substantial advance upon ‘Isidro’ and ‘The land of little
rain.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 400. Je. ’08. 180w.
“The interest of her story lies not in the plot, which is
conventional, but in her literalism, particularly in her understanding
of human nature constrained by a college campus environment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 154. Jl. 16, ’08. 460w.
“She aims to present a fairly complete picture of life in this set of
Santa Lucia society; and to do this she does not hesitate to introduce
as many subordinate characters as she pleases. They are all distinct
and well drawn. The novel, as a whole, is decidedly above the
average.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“There is delightful art in the depiction of some of her characters,
both men and women, and her descriptions of nature are exquisitely
beautiful. But one grieves to note a falling off in that distinction
of style which has marked her previous work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
“It is painfully deficient in construction, and, as it nears its
culmination, positively depressing.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
=Aveling, Rev. Francis.= God of philosophy. *$1. Herder.
“A statement of the scholastic proofs of the existence of God. The
author, expanding by illustration and comment, the matter of the
ordinary text-book, presents the arguments in a form freed, as far as
may be, from technical language, and adapted to the minds not
possessed of much experience in metaphysical reflection.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“It would be well, we think, if the very meagre treatment of the claim
of the Roman church had been omitted. It is inadequate, to say the
least, and could not possibly convince any one not already persuaded.
We doubt if any one trained in modern philosophy will find the work at
all adequate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 497. Ap. 6. 100w.
“The classic proofs could not be more lucidly set forth; and they are
formulated in their full strength.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 560. Ja. ’07. 180w.
=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= History of the United States and its
people from their earliest records to the present time. 15v. ea.
*$6.25. Burrows.
=v. 4.= “Covers the comparatively short period in the middle decades
of the eighteenth century, during which took place the final contest
between England and France for the possession of North America.... An
important part of the story is the Indian warfare waged along the
border, including the remarkable conspiracy of Chief Pontiac. As in
the case of preceding volumes in this history, especial care has been
taken to obtain authentic portraits and reproductions of significant
documents.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Avery has not superseded Parkman. What Mr. Avery has done,
however, is to take Parkman’s material, study it carefully, cull from
it generously, and then add to it the rich findings of investigators
subsequent to Parkman. The result is par excellence.” A. H. Abel.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 252. O. 16, ’08. 960w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Informing, and as a whole readable, as the book is, one wonders
whether, after all, Dr. Avery takes his history seriously.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The [Indian warfare] period has never before been covered in just
this way by any American historian.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Ayscough, John.= Marotz. †$1.50. Putnam.
A story centering about a Sicilian nobleman’s family. “Much of the
scene passes in a convent of contemplative nuns, and the novel
generally is concerned with the higher problems of religion and the
mystical aspects of the Christian faith. The book is written from the
point of view of the Roman church, but it will not be found in any way
offensive to Protestant readers, and those who wish to take their
sermons disguised as stories will gain much edification from its
perusal.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Altogether ‘Marotz’ is a notable piece of work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 568. My. 9. 230w.
“The novel is strong and striking, with one structural fault—it is
poorly knit together. Even with this fault, it stands high above the
average of the year’s fiction.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 111. O. ’08. 320w.
“One may be but languidly interested in the book as a whole, but he
cannot help liking the parts of which it is constructed.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“It is not a good novel—it is a chronicle, rather, ... slowly and
clumsily related, and delayed in its course by many elaborate studies
of eccentric character quite unnecessary to the plot.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 460w.
“The simple story is delightfully told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 438. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
“The purpose of the book is rather misty. The book has a spice of
fun.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 250w.
“The work though by no means faultless, is yet a remarkable
achievement, and the serious purpose which the author has obviously
set himself is fully attained.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 907. Je. 6, ’08. 400w.
B
=Babbitt, Irving.= Literature and the American college: essays in
defense of the humanities. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–8540.
A protest against a “vulgarly humanitarian” age. “The central thought
of the book is that the old-fashioned culture and discipline of the
American college (somewhat idealized perhaps in the retrospect) are
being crowded out of modern life and education by the encroachment of
the sentimental license of the kindergarten from below, and the
pressure from above of specialized pedantry in the graduate school.
The remedy is to be found in a return to humanism.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A book that ought to be available in every community from which boys
go to college.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 166. Je. ’08. ✠
+ − =Nation.= 86: 403. Ap. 30, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 183. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
“We welcome Mr. Babbitt as a powerful ally of the literary cause in
the great educational struggle of the time.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Babcock, Maltbie Davenport.= Fragments that remain from the
ministry of Maltbie Davenport Babcock; reported and arranged by
Jessie B. Goetschius. **$1.25. Revell.
7–32160.
An enthusiastic member of Dr. Babcock’s congregation was in the habit
of taking notes during his sermons. Her notebook furnished the
material for these “fragments” which are inadequate in “producing the
power and effectiveness of his preaching.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Those who profited by Dr. Babcock’s spoken words will gladly refresh
their memories, while a much larger audience will be benefited by the
out-givings of such a rare personality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Here and there flashes of the real man and of his unusual insight
into truth occur, but in general these so-called fragments are
disappointing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=Bacher, Otto Henry.= With Whistler in Venice. **$4. Century.
8–27402.
Intimate friendship and frank admiration lie back of these pen
portraits of Whistler, the artist and the man. Whistler’s personal
characteristics, with anecdotes to emphasize them, his methods of
work, his success in oils, pastels, etchings and lithographs, and his
relations with fellow artists provide ample material for the text of
the book; while twenty-six Whistler etchings, three lithographs,
several facsimile letters and thirteen Bacher etchings and photographs
add to the value and beauty of the quarto volume.
* * * * *
“Especial interest attaches to these reminiscences because they deal
with a period in Whistler’s life about which comparatively little is
known.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 466. D. 1, ’08. 500w.
“Will be a pleasure to the admirers of both artists and important to
students of Whistler’s art and life.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 90w.
“This should be a favorite gift-book for those whose inclinations are
toward the higher realms of art.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 561. O. 17, ’08. 750w.
“The thread of reminiscences is spun out very thin.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 448. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Bacher is able to tell us a good deal that is interesting about
Whistler’s Venetian days and to give us a great many facts and
impressions which contribute to our knowledge of Whistler’s eccentric
character and of his artistic methods.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
“A book of reminiscences thoroughly characteristic of the eccentric
painter and etcher.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 40w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 90w.
=Bacon, Edgar Mayhew.= Henry Hudson (American men of energy ser., v.
6.) **$1.35. Putnam.
7–38631.
A sketch of the life of Henry Hudson which is by no means restricted
to the discoverer’s exploration of the river which bears his name.
* * * * *
“A careful study throwing some new light upon the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 127. My. ’08.
“The author has made a creditable book, which, while unsatisfactory to
the severely critical student, will be warmly welcomed by the ordinary
reader.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 976. Ap. 30, ’08. 270w.
“Much new light is thrown by this well-known author upon the
misunderstood personality of Hudson.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Mr. Bacon has pieced the fragments [of Hudson’s biography] together
in admirable style, giving them their correct historical setting, and,
while recognizing fully the efforts of previous biographers, has
exposed their inaccuracies to a searching light.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 170. Mr. 28, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Bacon has made careful studies of all of Hudson’s voyages, and
embodies in this work a great deal of information that will be new to
most American readers.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 130w.
“We cannot say that this volume throws much new light on the obscure
subject of Hudson’s career and character.”
− + =Spec.= 100: sup. 649. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= English voyages of adventure and discovery;
retold from Hakluyt. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27377.
A summary of the Hakluyt narrative of English exploration and
adventure from the earliest records to the establishment of the
English colonies in North America. The story extends from the earliest
adventures for conquest to those for discovery and expansion of trade
and on down to the settlement of Virginia. To the summary has been
added an account of the life of Hakluyt.
* * * * *
“As solid reading the book is not without adventurous interest; it
will not be popular, but it is more than a high school reference book,
though it should appeal to the high school boy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 250w.
“Should be an acceptable present to any young man of spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 120w.
=Bacon, Francis.= Essays; edited, with introd. and notes by Mary
Augusta Scott. *$1.25. Scribner.
8–5190.
A student’s book very fully annotated. An introduction of nearly one
hundred pages gives first a fresh sketch of Bacon’s life, then
discusses the essays as a whole, showing their Elizabethan setting,
the universality of theme, the particular conditions and circumstances
that called each forth, and the method, literary style, and language
employed by Bacon.
* * * * *
“This excellently printed edition, with notes at the bottom of the
page, is a pleasant one to read.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 571. My. 9. 250w.
“Serviceable and inexpensive edition.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 280w.
“We think the editor in the desire to be complete, has loaded her
annotations with a good deal of dead matter.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“Her introduction, which occupies about a quarter of the volume, is
worth reading. In the matter of annotation she errs on the side of
excess. But upon the whole, this is a fairly good edition of the
essays—possibly for some readers, the best. For all readers it is
immensely better than no edition at all.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 650w.
=Bacon, Josephine Daskam.= Ten to seventeen: a boarding school
diary. †$1.50. Harper.
8–2943.
In the language of a track meet these boarding school affairs of grown
ups, seen from a school girl’s point of view, are called events. A
group of shrewd girls allow nothing of interest among their elders and
teachers to escape them, especially love affairs over which sixteen
casts the glamour of “do or die” romance. The school girls are clever
and the diary is written in the confident, ne’er-to-be-repulsed style
of invincible youth.
* * * * *
“Will interest the grown-ups who have a taste for studies in
temperament. Will not appeal, one would fancy, to the young girl.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 200w.
“It is amusing reading, in spite of a certain suggestion of coarseness
which makes one feel that while the Elmbank girls have apparently
never undergone the snickering age, their chronicler has not yet
outgrown it.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“We must thank her for her excellent portrayal of so difficult a
subject, while thoroughly enjoying the sense of fun which made her
success in achieving it possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 90w.
“A cleverly written composite diary of boarding-school girls, with a
sub-consciously humorous setting forth of the school-girl point of
view.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 50w.
=Bagot, Richard.= Lakes of northern Italy. $1.75. Macmillan.
8–431.
A new edition of a “semi-guide,” so called, “because it does not give
the material details which the tourist needs to know, but describes
fully and often picturesquely, all the main-travelled spots and many
of the out-of-the-way ones.” (Nation.) “Here the traveller may find
some excellent suggestions as to what he should look for and how he
should look.” (Spec.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 36. F. ’08.
“He is lucid, simple and occasionally witty. Our grateful recognition
of these qualities, rare in a book of the kind under notice, increases
our regret that he should have permitted himself, in treating of
things religious and political, an acrid tone which detracts from its
charm as a traveling-companion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 834. D. 28. 530w.
“A real service has been done by his publishers in reissuing it, with
additional chapters, in a convenient pocket volume.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 110w.
“A handy little volume. His pages are pleasantly written for the most
part, tho sometimes marred by expressions of the insular Britisher’s
insolent contempt for travelers from other lands—from Germany and
America, especially.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Bagot does for this region what the late Augustus Hare did for
Florence, Rome, and Venice; and he spices his descriptions with views
of his own on whatever subject comes up.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 180w.
“The present edition will prove a pleasant text-book for anyone who
desires to know something of the associations, historical and
traditional, of the scenes he is visiting.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 676. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
“The author brings knowledge of classical and medieval history to the
fulfilment of his task, and he has a keen appreciation of scenery, a
sufficient knowledge of art; in short, he has the qualifications of a
traveller’s friend.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 300w.
* =Baikie, Rev. James.= Story of the Pharaohs. *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–35753.
A finely illustrated volume, concise and lucid, which covers the
history of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest in
525 B. C. Not only does its monarch live again “but also the great men
who served them, its society, literature and art—rivaling the latter
fame of Rome, and stained by no excesses of wickedness.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It would have been a calamity if the author had modestly supprest his
work because the ground was already well covered. Every statement that
he makes is lucid and helpful.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1306. D. 3, ’08. 860w.
“Mr. Baikie, while availing himself of the latest results of research,
writes for the general reader, and gives life and reality to his
picture of the first great world power in history.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 593. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Bailey, Elmer James.= Novels of George Meredith: a study. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–34148.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A good and useful study, neither remarkable as to originality nor
masterly as to treatment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 6. Ja. ’08.
“In making [his classification, Mr. Bailey] analyzes the characters
and situations with true insight, appreciation, and restraint. He
clearly sees and feels Meredith’s high ideals, his strength, and his
beauty of temperament.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 44: 129. Mr. 1, ’08. 480w.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Bailey pursues his end with a grim determination
totally devoid of humor, and the result is sad to contemplate. The
only thing of worth in Mr. Bailey’s book is an alphabetical list of
Meredith’s characters, and some statistics as to their number.” E. C.
Marsh.
− + =Forum.= 39: 384. Ja. ’08. 500w.
“Of several attempts to treat his collected novels critically or to
furnish a guide to them, Mr. Bailey’s work is easily the best. It is
the fullest and the most philosophical, and it springs from a riper
study of nineteenth century fiction. It narrowly misses unquestioned
right to a place beside Mr. Trevelyan’s splendid study of Meredith’s
poetry and philosophy.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Bailey, Henry Christopher.= Colonel Greatheart. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–29002.
The setting for this story of “men and arms” is taken from the
stirring days of Cavaliers and Roundheads, of Puritans and
“malignants”; but the machines of war are rather in the background,
while in the fore is a witching woman, a conqueror of hearts and a
marker of destinies. It tells of a woman’s ambition which urges
valiant men to perilous deeds.
* * * * *
“A particularly good story.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 340w.
“A story of spirit, sure to hold the reader to the last page. It is a
pity that Mr. Bailey should have seen fit to burden it with a comic
French cook and Italian groom who delay the action without a
compensating return of amusement.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 611. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=Bailey, Henry Christopher.= Gentleman of fortune. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–33910.
About one Raoul de Tout le Monde the author groups incidents and
battlefield struggles that happened during the time that Philip of
Spain was striving to crush the Netherlands.
* * * * *
“His English is good, nervous English, but his manner is too brusque.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 722. D. 7. 240w.
“Not, you understand, a strong book, but whimsical and full of
conversations so short and keen that the sparks of spirits fly between
retorts.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 923. Ap. 23, ’08. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Although these stories of the struggle between the Dutch and the
Spanish in the sixteenth century are written with much of Mr. Bailey’s
usual felicity of style, the reader cannot help feeling that such very
slight and rather theatrical sketches are unworthy of the pen of their
author.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 935. D. 7, ’07. 140w.
=Bailey, Henry Christopher.= God of clay. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
8–30132.
“An episodic résumé of Napoleon’s career, as visualized by the
imagination. The thread of interest remains in the person of
Bonaparte, who connects the tales.... Out of the mass of incredible
events and incidents which Mr. Bailey does not even condescend to
explain, emerges nevertheless a vivid and powerful, and faithful
portrait of Napoleon.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The form of this work, we imagine, was dictated by serial
necessities, which have hampered the author. But the matter proves
that he is in the forefront of our historical novelists.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 473. Ap. 18. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=, ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a
popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in
the United States and Canada. 4v. ea. $5. Macmillan.
7–8529.
=v. 3.= Deals with the subject of animals. Part 1 treats of the
physiology and breeding habits, feeding, diseases and management. Part
2 is devoted to the manufacture of animal products. Part 3 is
concerned with the description of North American farm animals, their
breeding, history, rearing, and the “general treatment towards
accomplishing the ends for which they were intended.” Bibliography
under each heading.
* * * * *
“A valuable reference work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08. (Review of v. 3.)
“In spite of the fact that it is packed with technical information, it
is almost all of it comprehensible to any person of ordinary
education, and much of it is so well written that it could be read
aloud in the farmhouse to the whole family.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1569. D. 26, ’07. 870w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“This cyclopedia is as complete and authoritative as any work can be
in the present state of science.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Hardly full enough to be of much value to the farmer who is already
engaged in that particular industry, and American conditions of
climate and labour render much of the information inapplicable to
British agriculture; but this volume of the ‘Cyclopedia’ would be of
the greatest service to any settler breaking ground in a new country,
and looking round for profitable crops outside the accepted routine.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 292. Ja. 30, ’08. 310w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is only in the parts of the book dealing with the science of
breeding and in the descriptions of individual breeds that we would
suggest amendments.” James Wilson.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 657. O. 29, ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= State and the farmer. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22260.
The expansion of an address given before the Association of American
agricultural colleges and experiment stations in 1907. Professor
Bailey in discussing the political and economic status of the farmer,
examines for their merits and demerits present remedial services
rendered the farmer by government and society and offers suggestions
for progress toward a substantial betterment of conditions and
results.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.
“The book needs and deserves a very wide circle of readers. It must
not, however, be cursorily read and laid aside. The problems discussed
are very deep, and we close our review with an endorsement of the
statement that we must have a new sort of statesmanship as well as a
new sort of farmers.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1068. N. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Bain, Francis William.= Incarnation of the snow; tr. from the
original manuscript by F. W. Bain. †$1.25. Putnam.
8–25743.
“The several little tales relating how the daughter of the mountain
quarreled with her husband, the Lord of Creatures, and went to sit and
grieve beside a lonely lake, and how, in various forms, he sought her
out and stayed with her until she was ready to make up the lovers’
quarrel, are very beautiful. They bring down to the plane of daily
living the Hindu attitude toward life and death, and by their very
simplicity transform it from a philosophical creed to a human,
sustaining faith.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This is a tale of strange terrors and beauties, told in a style
rising to a kind of intoxication.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 330w.
“The stories are warm and bright with human passion, but they are
wonderfully tender in sentiment, while the exquisite delicacy of the
style in which they are written, or translated, combined with their
rich Oriental imagery, makes the reading of them an unmixed delight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 531. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Bain shows the same captivating and delightful style that
distinguished his previous works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Bain, Robert Nisbet.= Slavonic Europe: a political history of
Poland and Russia from 1447 to 1796. (Cambridge historical ser.)
*$2. Putnam.
8–11486.
A political history of Poland and Russia from the middle of the
fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century which “concerns
itself almost entirely with the detailing of the progress of wars, the
intrigues and achievements of diplomacy, and the doings of monarchs
and statesmen.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“He has crowded his book with useless detail, probably as a result of
hasty writing which leaves too little time to discriminate between the
essential and the unessential. The use of sources does not strike a
reviewer as critical. Most of the old stories are accepted without the
least hesitation.” R. C. H. Catterall.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 110. O. ’08. 570w.
“On the institutional and social side it is not strong, while the
abundance of detail sometimes obscures the main course of the
narrative, and in any case does not make the volume entirely easy
reading. Russian and Polish names are at best stumbling-blocks to
Latins and Teutons, and Mr. Bain does not lessen the difficulty by his
preference for less usual forms of transliteration, as well as by some
inconsistency in their use.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 520. N. 26, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Bain’s performance is interesting perhaps to the ordinary reader,
but is hardly worthy of his plan.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 83. Jl. 18, ’08. 1000w.
“Much of the history of eastern Europe is still unexplored; and we
cannot give Mr. Bain’s work higher praise than to say that out of the
tangle he has produced a singularly compact, clear, and
well-proportioned history that ought to be a safe and welcome guide to
thousands of readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 300. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
* =Baker, Ray Stannard.= Following the color line. **$2. Doubleday.
8–31180.
“The negro as he is in the South, as he is in the North, and as he is
in the nation at large defines the scope of the inquiry which Mr.
Baker has undertaken in the present work. While confining himself
largely to racial conditions as they exist to-day, the author
considers various tendencies as they have found expression in the past
and gives critical estimates of some of the views that have been
advanced as to the ultimate solution of the negro problem.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“The unique value of the book lies in its presentation of certain
facts regarding the life of the negro in the United States, which the
author has collected during several years spent in personal
investigation which give to his work the quality of originality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Baker, Tarkington.= Yard and garden: a book of practical
information for the amateur gardener in city, town or suburb. il.
**$2. Bobbs.
8–11497.
Gives directions for the speediest and safest process of converting
the bit of ground allotted to a town or city house into a harmoniously
and effectively beautiful spot. It is devoted to the planting and care
of trees, shrubs, plants and vines that beautify and add luxury to the
little square of ground.
* * * * *
“Probably the best general, popular treatment of the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 166. Je. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Baldwin, Charles Sears.= Essays out of hours. **$1. Longmans.
7–36392.
These essays, some of which have appeared in the Atlantic monthly and
Putnam’s deal with such subjects as My friend Copperfield, Master
Vergil, Stearn’s influence on French literature, John Bunyan, and The
genesis of the short story.
* * * * *
“Brief, pleasant comments on various aspects of life or letters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08.
“Here we have the critic whose intellect delicately steers his taste.”
Florence Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 101: 712. My. ’08. 300w.
“Among this collection of papers ... are four or five that are good
examples of sound literary criticism of that old-fashioned type which,
with good taste and a knowledge of life as well as of books, exhibited
sound common sense, displaced now-a-days too frequently by crude
psychologising, or ambitious attempts at philosophic generalization.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 692. F. ’08. 340w.
“One is a little surprised to find the writer’s scholarship permitting
such blemishes as ‘unique’ in the superlative degree of comparison.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 20. Ja. 1, ’08. 200w.
“In all of these shorter disquisitions reprinted from magazines, the
author shows the true essayist’s capacity to say engaging things about
matters of little moment in themselves. The three distinctly literary
essays which form the bulk of Prof. Baldwin’s book are earnest pieces
of constructive criticism which go deep into their respective
subjects, discuss them with erudition, and are much more concerned
with saying something of import and interest than with the manner in
which it is said.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 76. F. 8, ’08. 450w.
=Baldwin, Edward Chauncey, and Paul, Harry G.=, eds. English poems.
*$1. Am. bk.
8–15301.
An anthology of more than four hundred pages containing poems from
Chaucer to Tennyson. The poems have been selected with a view to
presenting material which should be representative of the successive
periods of English history, of the chief types of poetry, and which
should lend themselves easily to comparative study. Abundant notes
including thought-stimulating questions are provided for the benefit
of teacher and pupil.
* * * * *
“The volume is without any very distinguishing characteristic, but is
useful nevertheless.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 521. D. ’08. 50w.
“While a convenient book, is in no wise superior to others already in
existence.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 310. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Thought and things: a study of the
development and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. ea.
*$2.75. Macmillan.
=v. 2.= Deals with Experimental logic, or Genetic theory of thought.
* * * * *
“If we have hardly done justice to the argument, the blame is not
wholly ours, but attaches likewise to the piecemeal method of
publication already deprecated, and, still more, to the extraordinary
obscurity of the phraseology and idiom employed. A thinker of great
vigour and ability has been content to express himself anyhow.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 268. S. 5, 1350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“We can testify that, having gone through the whole with the utmost
care and with predilections not unfavorable to the author, we do not
think it worth our reader’s while to enter into the necessarily more
lengthy criticisms of the more difficult problems as treated in this
volume. We greatly regret our disappointment with it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 164. Ag. 20, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It presents on first reading a multitude of divisions and
distinctions in a terminology that is largely unfamiliar, but these
difficulties largely disappear on further acquaintance. It still
appears to me, indeed, that some of the author’s distinctions are not
of vital importance, and that he has an undue fondness for his own
terminology. But the comparatively new field which he is exploring,
together with the value of his results, would excuse more serious
defects than these.” J. E. Creighton.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 68. Ja. ’08. 3350w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Baldwin, May.= Mysie: a Highland lassie. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“This is a story of troubles in family life. Mysie and her little
brother come home from India, and there are differences between them
and the elder children. These differences become more serious than it
is easy to imagine possible. Hamish is a villain of the melodramatic
sort, and could hardly find his way into the home which Miss Baldwin
describes for us.” (Spec.).
* * * * *
“Another fat book with many interesting and exciting happenings.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 20w.
“It is a tale of an original, quite lovable small girl, with an
imagination too big for her. The style of the writing is a little
feeble except in the dialogue, which is always natural and unforced.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. D. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Spec.= 99: sup. 904. D. 7, ’07. 70w.
=Balet, Joseph W.= Analysis of elastic arches, three-hinged,
two-hinged, and hingeless, of steel, masonry, and reinforced
concrete. *$3. Eng. news.
8–4024.
“Sets forth principally a graphic method the author has developed,
largely based on the work of other investigators, into the properties
of masonry, concrete and steel arches.... Several useful tables are
given, relating to existing arches, formulas for safe stresses in
members, loads on bridges, impact coefficients and other subjects. The
appendix contains the mathematical analysis of the elastic arch which
the author believes most satisfactory.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The work shows a keen insight into the mathematics and the theory of
the arch, and the engineer who is well-versed in mathematics and
mechanics will derive benefit from studying the book, but the beginner
will find difficulty in following the subjects as here set forth.” F.
P. McKibben.
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 415. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The book is very hard reading. [The author] knew his subject too
well, perhaps, to exercise due care in maintaining that rigid logic of
development and clearness of expression which the case demanded; and
he was evidently handicapped by lack of practice in writing.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 203. F. 20, ’08. 1250w.
“The author has evidently given the subject much study and deserves
credit for his investigations, but it is something of a pity that he
has not arranged his explanations of methods and their applications so
as to obviate constant reference to subsequent pages.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 224. F. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Ball, Eustace A. R.= Tourist’s India. *$2. Brentano’s.
8–14845.
“A sort of etherialized guide-book. It runs rapidly and lightly from
one place of interest to another—towns, caves and waterfalls—and all
the time keeps up a delightful chatter, in which anecdote and jest
sugar-coat the pill of dry information. It is just the thing needed,
to inform the traveler about hotels, snakebites, Babu English,
history, and the amount of alcohol he may imbibe without
danger.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is a well-systematized tour, and throws light on many different
aspects of life in the principal cities. The arrangement in chapters
devoted to particular towns is one to be commended for ready
reference, and will be of great help to a prospective tourist.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 450. S. ’08. 200w.
“Not even Murray gives so much out-of-the-way wisdom, and Murray is
far from being so amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 282. Mr. 26, ’08. 100w.
“A business like guide.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 61. Ja. 12, ’07. 50w.
* =Balleine, G. R.= History of the Evangelical party in the Church of
England. *$1.75. Longmans.
“In the moderate compass of some 300 pages the author sketches the
growth and progress of evangelical ideas within the Anglican
communion, and estimates the contribution of evangelical churchmen to
the cause of English religion. He starts with the Wesleys, Whitefield,
and the Oxford Holy club, and follows the fortunes of the party down
to Bishop Ryle and churchmen who are still living.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Evangelicalism within the Church of England has found a sympathetic
and worthy historian in the Rev. G. R. Balleine.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Balleine has found a somewhat neglected place in church history,
and has filled it with a book which is clearly the outcome of a
penetrating study of almost all the contemporary evidence. He presents
his facts in very readable form and with very little of party bias.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 180. Ag. 8, ’08. 460w.
“A really excellent book. He tells us not a few truths that have been
forgotten; he corrects not a few misrepresentations. One important
point that he makes is the distinction between the Evangelicals and
the Low Churchmen.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 360w.
=Bamford, Harry.= Moving loads on railway underbridges; including
diagrams of bending moments and shearing forces and tables of
equivalent uniform live loads. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“‘Moving loads’ is used in the sense of ‘wheel loads.’ The book gives
a demonstration of graphical and analytical methods for finding
maximum moments and shears under any given system of wheel loads.
Methods for girders or solid beams only are discussed, and nothing is
said of the modifications introduced by the paneling in truss
bridges.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“A book that will be found useful.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“Forms a concise and interesting discussion of the subject.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 251. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
=Bancroft, George.= Abraham Lincoln: a tribute. **60c. Wessels.
8–25391.
A review of the historical facts concerning slavery, the forces
favoring and opposing, lead up to a statement of the definite work of
Lincoln for slavery. The undertone of the brief tribute is Lincoln’s
perfect faith in the perpetuity of the union. The sketch closes with a
terse comparison of Lincoln and Palmerston, England’s prime minister
contemporary with Lincoln.
=Bangs, John Kendrick.= Genial idiot: his views and reviews. †$1.25.
Harper.
8–29647.
In which the Idiot of “Coffee and repartee” fame reappears. His wit
and shrewdness go hand in hand as he descants upon such themes as
ideal husbands, finance, a comic opera, fame, the decadence of
April-fool’s day, flat-hunting, the gentle art of boosting, the music
cure, campaign methods, short courses at college, the horse-show, etc.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 120w.
=Bangs, John Kendrick.= Potted fiction: being a series of extracts
from the world’s best sellers, put up in thin slices for hurried
consumers, by the United States literary canning company. †50c.
Doubleday.
8–34602.
Literary products put up in such convenient form “that they may be
carried in the vest pocket or vanity bags, to be consumed as
opportunity presents, between courses at quick lunch counters, between
nibbles at bridge parties,” etc. The six sellers so condensed are:
Rollo in the metrolopus, by Dopeton Hotair; Six months, by Hellinor
Gryn; The lost secret, by E. Fillips Dopenheim; A pragmatic enigma, by
A. Conan Watson, M.D.; The stepdaughter of Peterson Jay, by George
Jarr McClutchem; Somehow long, by the author of Alice in wanderland.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Unless one is unduly grouchy and hard to suit, the book will
occasionally provide a laugh.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 500w.
=Banks, Rev. Louis Albert.= Sermons which have won souls. **$1.40.
Funk.
8–19116.
Sermons of a Denver preacher who believes in business-like methods for
soul-saving. The introductory chapter on The pastor as a soul-winner,
sets forth the evangelistic methods which he employs for the salvation
of souls. It is a good chapter on the demonstrable phases of church
principles. Mr. Banks believes in steady movement, in following up
people who have been awakened until their lives begin to express the
conviction in their hearts.
* * * * *
“If his sermons at times seem commonplace, they nevertheless, for the
most part, ring true. If the sermons at times seem like patchwork the
pieces are of good material.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 390. O. ’08. 400w.
=Banks, Robert Webb.= Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864, the
bloodiest engagement of the war between the states. *$1.25. Neale.
8–30516.
An account of the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, from the Confederate
point of view.
=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Lead glazed pottery pt. 1. (Art primer.)
**90c. Doubleday.
8–854.
The fourth art primer in a series of industrial art. Historical data,
reviews of processes, descriptions of wares made in various countries
including the slip-decorated wares of Europe, are given with numerous
illustrations.
* * * * *
“A reliable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 86: 563. Je. 18, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 280w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Harry’s Island. †$1.50. Century.
8–25995.
Another of Mr. Barbour’s lively, wholesome stories for young people
which tells of the adventures of Tom, Dick, Harriet and Roy, all well
known to the author’s readers, during a summer of camping on an island
in the Hudson river.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 60w.
“Save that it is much too long, shows surprising ingenuity in
invention; but it is like what he has done before.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 767. D. ’08. 50w.
* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= My lady of the fog. †$2. Lippincott.
8–25123.
A light-house island and the surrounding sea furnish the setting for
this romance of a New York heiress and a young Colorado engineer
loafing during a brief vacation. She has run away from Newport for a
season of quiet in which to decide the momentous question of marriage
with a foreign count. The intrepid youth finds her in a fog, rescues
her, restores her to her island, woos her, and wins her—all without
learning that she is his employer, the Judy Sypher whom from rodman to
chief he and his co-workers idealize.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Is an excellent sea story with a decidedly sentimental interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=Barclay, Mrs. Florence Louisa.= Wheels of time. (What is worth
while ser.) **30c. Crowell.
8–23556.
A dramatic little story of a woman’s sudden awakening to a great love
for a husband for whom she had been in the habit of doling out
grudgingly her affection in small quantities.
=Barclay, Sir Thomas.= Problems of international practice and
diplomacy, with special reference to the Hague conferences and
conventions and other general international agreements. $6.50.
Boston bk.
7–42317.
Questions of international law and order are discussed with particular
emphasis on the ethical principles and the reasons of expediency
underlying them. Each topic is taken up separately with a full
historical record of what has been done in regard to it, its present
position and the authoritative attitude towards further developments.
* * * * *
“Sir Thomas Barclay has published a most valuable volume at the right
moment. It is difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of his chapters.
On the other hand, he will disappoint many of his friends in peace and
arbitration circles by the caution and the conservative tendency
displayed in the greater portion of his work.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 68. Jl. 20. 1000w.
“We cannot doubt that this volume, with its full discussion of many
points and the richness of its suggestions as to details, will be
useful to representatives at The Hague. It is a book which the
international lawyer cannot dispense with.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 300w.
“Sir Thomas’s book is unsatisfying only if the reader expects too
much.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 608. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w.
“The book is invaluable for all international lawyers, politicians,
and the higher ranks of journalism.”
+ =Sat R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 300w.
=Barham, Richard Harris (Thomas Ingoldsby, pseud.).= Ingoldsby
legends; il. by Arthur Rackham. *$6. Dutton.
An “edition definitive de luxe” of the “Ingoldsby legends” in whose
illustrations by Mr. Rackham appears the same quality of
interpretation as was found in his drawings for “Peter Pan” last year.
* * * * *
“Mr. Rackham has caught the fantastic humor of the ‘Legends’ so
perfectly that one feels for the first time his full power.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1471. D. 10, ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Rackham enters so thoroughly into the spirit of these now classic
tales, and his drawings reveal such rare talents, that the success of
this new edition is assured. As a gift-book nothing could be better.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 252. Ja. ’08. 130w.
“Here is delicate art, excellent drawing, and a refined whimsicality
which might carry even a poor book to success. With such a setting
‘The Ingoldsby legends’ should gain many new friends, and enter on a
new era of popularity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 420w.
“The present is certainly an advance on the edition of the ‘Ingoldsby
legends’ published some years ago with illustrations by this very
artist. In paper, print, illustration, and binding the new volume
seems well-nigh ideal.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. D. 7, ’07. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 906. D. 7, ’07. 50w.
=Baring, Maurice.= Year in Russia. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–11807.
Mr. Baring tells the story of the Moscow rising and of the first duma,
as well as of other important happenings of the year of revolution
from August, 1905 to August, 1906.
* * * * *
“It is not, however, so much for the political views expressed in it
that this book will be valued, as for the light which the author
throws on the life of the Russian people.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 506. My. 25, ’07. 900w.
“The author is a sane observer and tries to do justice to the various
opinions and political parties.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Baring’s sketch of the physical conditions of Russia is
admirable, but we doubt whether he has in fact a ‘clear idea’ as
regards its future.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 650w.
“His modest purpose is achieved in an easy, graceful and interesting
manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1035. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
“He has made it his aim to depict the ordinary instead of inventing
the extraordinary, and, as might perhaps have been expected, the
ordinary thus depicted proves to be vastly more entertaining as well
as more informing than the extraordinary.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 154. My. 17, ’07. 1550w.
“The book pretends to be nothing more than a jotting down in diary
form of hearsay, impression, and casual observation, and as such can
possess little permanent value, especially in the presence of more
elaborate and systematic presentations of the same subject.”
− =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 150w.
“The style is easy and amusing, with an undercurrent of humorous
good-natured chaff and raillery sown broadcast here and there, which
makes the book pleasant and instructive reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 786. Je. 22, ’07. 1020w.
“In no book which deals with the last few years of Russian history is
the inspiration of the interpreter so manifest, and none that we know,
whether in English or in Russian, contains such admirable material for
the study of Russian public opinion during one of the most momentous
years of Russian history.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 943. Je. 15, ’07. 1650w.
=Barker, J. Ellis.= British socialism. *$3. Scribner.
“The author has consulted about a thousand socialistic works, and his
‘book is a summary of the whole literature of British socialism and a
key to it.’” (Spec.) “This volume enables one to obtain a conspectus
of the views of typical socialists upon the various concrete problems
to which they direct their attention, such as the family, the empire,
the land, the army, the railways, and a host of similar issues.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“It cannot be said, unfortunately, that the critical thread of comment
which ties the illustrative extracts together is altogether fair or
discriminating. But he has collected an instructive and compendious
anthology.”
* * * * *
+ − =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 230w.
“A work of praiseworthy industry, which will be most useful to those
who wish to know the practical suggestions deduced from socialist
theories.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 471. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
=Barnard, J. Lynn.= Factory legislation in Pennsylvania: its history
and administration. $1.50. Winston.
7–19757.
“The subject matter is divided almost evenly into the two fields of
history and administration. Under the former, the movement for the
legal regulation of women and child labor is carefully reviewed from
the days of 1824 until the present date. Allied movements, such as
sweatshop, fire-escape and bake-shop legislations are duly treated....
Under the subject of administration, the author shows an inside
knowledge of the conditions which make easy the violation of the
factory law.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The author has given a much needed and scholarly account of this
field of social progress in Pennsylvania. Books such as this, covering
all the large industrial states, would soon remove the criticism one
sometimes hears that college courses in social welfare would be very
good were they not ‘spread out so thin.’”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 263. Ja. ’08. 220w.
“His monograph is a valuable contribution to the literature dealing
with factory legislation in the United States, which is gradually
approaching that degree of completeness necessary for scientific
comparative study of our state codes.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 375. Je. ’07. 220w.
“It is much to be desired that similar studies for other states than
Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts may be undertaken by students
of social legislation, and for such studies Dr. Barnard’s work may
well serve as a model.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 555. S. ’07. 160w.
=Yale R.= 16: 445. F. ’08. 200w.
=Barnes, James.= Clutch of circumstance. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–12555.
A young physician coming into a fortune returns from a prolonged
absence abroad to his western New York home. He finds that the girl
who had promised to marry him in his college days has become the wife
of his old chum, now a prominent minister. With the discovery that he
still loves the girl, comes the startling revelation that her husband
is in the clutches of morphine. During the physician’s attempt to save
the friend the latter dies and a murder charge results. Great love
triumphs over all obstacles in the end.
* * * * *
“The book is marred rather than made by its sensational ending.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
− + =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w.
“All the threads of his narrative appear clean and fine and well-dyed,
only they do not seem to belong together, and the fabric that has
resulted from their combination has certainly a few discordant colors
in its eminently dignified design.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 300w.
“The story is readable, but unpleasant.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 80w.
=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith.= Heart of Jessy Laurie: front, by Harrison
Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–31283.
A fisher lass is the heroine of this story of simple Scotch life.
“Jessy Laurie is an Effie Deans of a sturdier mould. She abandons a
lover of her own class in response to the call of an aristocratic
young Lothario. He gains possession of her by a form of marriage which
he intends to be a mockery, but which turns out to be legal, so that
technically she is not betrayed. The child of the union becomes the
scapegrace’s heir, and the scapegrace, taking himself off by drowning,
leaves her free to marry the faithful and magnanimous lover.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“In itself, this is a good story by an experienced story-teller. If
the sum of all this is not a story of remarkable power, it is
certainly a story told with more than ordinary intelligence and
control.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 15. Ja. 2, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith.= Strawberry handkerchief. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–24302.
This little drama enacted in Stamp act times deals chiefly with two
romances in which Cupid plays at cross purposes with obdurate parents,
defies, too, taut political lines. The strawberry handkerchief is a
love token that plays an important part in righting misunderstandings,
and binding hearts even across the sea.
* * * * *
“A pleasing historical romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 583. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“If Mrs. Barr could alter the fixed form of her conversations, an
added charm would enliven her well-written pages.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Barr, James R.= Principles of direct-current electrical
engineering. *$3.25. Macmillan.
8–32343.
Written primarily for the use of intermediate classes in universities
and technical colleges with the intention of bridging the gap between
elementary manuals and too highly specialized works. Problems to
illustrate principles and illustrations of machinery and instruments
are taken from modern practice.
* * * * *
“Two chapters treat of storage batteries and electric lighting, but
these are rather disappointing. The author is to be congratulated upon
the work which he has produced. It is not too practical or too
theoretical, but contains just the information which a second-year
student wants.” L. C.
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 172. Je. 25, ’08. 720w.
“Should find a considerable application in colleges and technical
schools. The index of the book is complete enough to make it a ready
work of reference.” G: C. Shaad.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 411. S. 25, ’08. 600w.
=Barr, Robert.= Young Lord Stranleigh. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–16950.
A story which will especially interest teachers; for it presents some
of the problems of coeducation in the American public schools. It also
shows the groping of a young man for the thing in life which he can do
best.
* * * * *
“From the unfamiliarity of its circumstances—if for no other
reason—the book is most interesting, and Mr. Barr’s well-known humour
has lost none of its power. The scope is naturally limited, but the
picture is so complete in itself that its narrowness is forgotten.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 299. D. 28, ’07. 200w.
“Full of pleasant turns of thought and mirthful incident.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 150w.
“As a study of the educational conditions of such an institution as is
described, the book has a puzzling interest for us.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The reader who does not find it rather solemn reading will probably
call it exceedingly humorous.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 250w.
“The author has chosen a singularly colorless phase of social life,
colorless at least so far as fictional uses are concerned. It does not
appear to be one of Mr. Barr’s happiest achievements.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w.
“The novel is original in its subject and treatment, has plot
interest, and while not of tremendous power, is certainly readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The merit of the present story lies in the unusually vivid
portraiture of two or three teachers and students, and though the plot
is commonplace the book has a real interest.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 458. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Barr, Robert.= The measure of the rule. †$1.50. Appleton.
The triumph of a British dandy, one Lord Stranleigh, suffering from
ennui and too many millions, over the hard bargainers of London high
finance. He becomes interested in a mine that is being taken from its
owner by stock gamblers’ tricks, and when the stock is at low water
mark he sends twenty buyers to as many sellers at the same instant,
taking all each will sell, thus overbuying the market. The mine
manager proceeds to steal the mine’s best ore but is outwitted by
Stranleigh whose yacht beats the thieves to the mine where he watches
them dig his ore. Later he buys their boat, trades captains, returns
to London with his gold in time to relieve the bank of England from
temporary stringency.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 140w.
“Is one of Mr. Barr’s better books—perhaps one of his best.” W: M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The charm of this book lies in its bland childlike preposterousness.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“There may be hardened story readers who can absorb this yarn by
installments, but most readers will do better not to tackle it until
they can read it through at a sitting. They will want to, for it is
easy, pleasant, and, at times, thrilling, reading. Withal it carries a
budget of useful morals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 550w.
=Barron, Edward.= Lost goddess. †$1.50. Holt.
8–9523.
A South American bent upon the villainy of wife-stealing draws a group
of idle New Yorkers into the adventurous undertaking of rescuing an
American girl from the captivity of the Tigrane Indians somewhere on
the headwaters of the Amazon. This story deals with their thrilling
experiences on board their yacht and in Brazilian wilds where the trap
into which they have been lured is sprung.
* * * * *
“An ingenious tale, whose greater merit lies in the deftness and
firmness with which the author handles a love interest that has depth
and strength.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 973. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“The true spirit of romance, rare at best in the fiction of to-day, is
sadly lacking in Mr. Barron’s book, which in its execution is not
without merit.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Barrus, Clara.= Nursing the insane. **$2. Macmillan.
8–13623.
Advice chiefly for the care of women, based upon talks which the
author has given during a long experience in the hospital at
Middletown, New York. “The last chapter briefly notes the legal
requirements to be fulfilled in the admission of insane patients to
the hospitals of this state, and gives good advice concerning the
removal of such persons from their homes.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It may be said that the book contains too little for a nurse obliged
to work without constant direction, especially in private houses, and
often almost too much for those that have such supervision.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 260w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 20w.
=Barth, Fritz.= Gospel of St. John and the synoptic gospels.
(Foreign religious ser.) *40c. Meth. bk.
8–265.
“A vigorous apologetic for the credibility and authenticity of the
fourth Gospel, which, with the Apocalypse, is ascribed to the Apostle
John.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The style is sometimes obscure, and the treatment of early Christian
literature, e. g., Papias, is arbitrary.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 239. Mr. ’08. 50w.
“A vigorous brief.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 311. F. 6, ’08. 350w.
“Unfortunately, the translation is often awkward. It is a translation
from German, but not always a translation into English!”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 70w.
=Barton, George Aaron.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the
book of Ecclesiastes. (International critical commentary.)
**$2.25. Scribner.
8–15777.
A commentary in which the author looks upon the unknown writer of
Ecclesiastes “as a skeptic who has outgrown his ancestral faith, but
has not abandoned such belief in God as an agnostic may cherish,
holding to which he ‘preaches a gospel of healthy work, and the full
enjoyment of life’s round of duties and opportunities.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The only defect in the makeup of the volume is the inexcusably bad
proof-reading. In every other respect the work constitutes a worthy
companion volume to those that have preceded it in this splendid
series.” J: M. P. Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 361. N. ’08. 600w.
“For the professional student we do not know of any commentary on
Ecclesiastes superior to this.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 492. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
“In this volume the results of the most recent critical studies are
canvassed succinctly and thoroughly, with regard to the needs both of
specialists and of other intelligent readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 160w.
=Spec.= 100: 1037. Je. 27, ’08. 580w.
=Barton, James Levi.= Unfinished task of the Christian church:
introductory studies in the problem of the world’s evangelization.
50c. S. V. M.
8–20161.
An appeal to the student volunteers of American colleges. “The extent
of the task before the church, the obstacles to be overcome at home
and abroad, the partial success already achieved, and the resources
now available for it, are all so presented that the statement is
practically an argument for greater activity.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The book is admirable in the selection and arrangement of very useful
material.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 527. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“It is a plain, clear, crisp recital by a recognized authority, widely
traveled, and personally acquainted with the facts he relates
concerning existing conditions.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 160w.
=Barzini, Luigi.= Pekin to Paris: an account of Prince Borghese’s
journey across two continents in a motor car. *$5. Kennerley.
8–11793.
A full account of the motor-car journey undertaken by Prince Borghese
across Asia and Europe. “On June 10, five cars started on their eight
thousand mile course.... In the Chinese Empire the party met the
almost irresistible rocks of Ki-mi-ni; in the Mongolian deserts the
sands were almost too much for the machine; in the Russian Empire they
availed themselves of the rails of the Trans-Siberian railway. Thus
they came to the western borders of the Russian Empire, to the good
roads of Germany and the better ones of France, and to their journey’s
end.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It is a straightforward, graphic piece of journalism, and provides a
full and detailed account of the adventurous journey. It may be
considered over-long by some, but the reviewer has found its interest
well sustained, and it has no ‘padding.’”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 550w.
“The volume contains an interesting and modest introduction by the
prince, a hundred good illustrations, and an excellent detailed map
showing the route traversed. Señor Barzini’s style, as translated by
Señor De Castelvecchio, is best described by Prince Borghese as
vivacious: no other style could possibly do justice to the subject.”
H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 105. F. 16, ’08. 500w.
“The narrative, written by the practiced hand of a journalist, reads
with the rush and excitement of the motor ride.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 527. Mr. 5, ’08. 130w.
“There is much of general interest in Signor Barzini’s narrative. The
volume contains much wearisome detail of rescues from swamps and
broken bridges, and there are frequent poetic digressions which might
well have been omitted.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 359. Ap. 16, ’08. 600w.
“He gives us the latest and the best pictures of the awakened East.”
Julius Chambers.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 618. Ap. ’08. 1600w.
“The book has been well translated and will appeal irresistibly to the
reader who loves to undertake adventures and enjoy novel experiences
by his own fireside.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 242. F. 22, ’08. 650w.
“We are thrilled by the book as if it were some tale of wonderful
adventure; but we get more than that in much food for speculation and
thought.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 645. Ap. 25, ’08. 370w.
=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Sanitation of recreation camps and parks.
$1. Wiley.
8–16540.
A practical hand book suggesting how to obviate improper sanitation in
camps, by screening the food, avoiding impure water, daily burning or
burying all the waste, solid and liquid, by treating with kerosene the
brooks and pools in mosquito infested districts, and keeping weeds and
grass cut around the camp. There is also advice on the location and
construction of camps.
* * * * *
“A very suggestive handbook in the elementary principles of
sanitation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.
“By the avoidance of technical terms and the presentation of the
subject in an interesting and pleasing style the writer has provided a
most readable and useful little work.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 366. Ag. 20, ’08. 340w.
“This little book ought to have a wide circulation during the summer
months.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 110w.
=Bates, Arlo.= Intoxicated ghost, and other stories. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–12556.
Nine short stories in Mr. Bates’s best vein. “The intoxicated ghost,”
the titular story, portrays a ghost-compelling young woman who, in
love with the impecunious scion of a New England house, is called by
his sister to communicate with the ghost of an ancestor who when upon
earth had hidden the family diamonds. After three separate visits from
the specter, during which the intrepid young woman has the novel
experience of seeing her ghost grow intoxicated on wraith wine, the
hiding place of the jewels is revealed.
* * * * *
“A collection of clever short stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“He is the well-bred and accomplished amateur of fiction, and the
pince-nez literature he produces is excellent in its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 370w.
“The author’s taste is as noteworthy as his versatility.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Bates, David Homer.= Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2.
Century.
7–32385.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A simple straight-forward narrative. It is a pity that errors of fact
should have crept into these entertaining pages.” Allen Johnson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 656. Ap. ’08. 470w.
“This work possesses a three-fold interest: as a narrative of
thrilling and momentous facts it appeals to the imagination in an
absorbing manner; as a contribution to history it is of real worth;
while its intimate pictures of Abraham Lincoln give it special value,
and the moral idealism that made the martyred president one with the
noblest patriots and statesmen of the earlier days of our republic
adds inestimably to its genuine worth.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 676. D. ’07. 580w.
“It is rather unfortunate that Mr. Bates undertakes to deal with
matters not related to his subject. About a third of the book is
padding, interesting but not always authentic. On pages 86 and 87,
pages 28 and 29 are repeated—a slip not to be expected in a work from
the De Vinne press.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 47. Ja. 16, ’08. 510w.
“There is much in this direct and incisive narrative, told in plain,
nervous English, that is of technical interest, but, fortunately, Mr.
Bates does not dwell on that aspect of the first great use of
telegraphy in actual warfare.”
+ =Elec. World.= 50: 1257. D. 28, ’07. 360w.
“An entertaining book of reminiscence in a comparatively unfamiliar
field.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 220w.
=Bates, Lindon Wallace.= Retrieval at Panama. $5. The Technical
literature co., 220 Broadway, N. Y.
8–8499.
A compilation of the Panama company’s “colossal blunders” obtained
from official reports, books, pamphlets, maps, and correspondence;
also from visits to the isthmus. “The design of the canal in its broad
aspects, its general details, its commercial aspects, and its
construction are discussed at great length.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Bates’s book is the most instructive work of constructive
criticism of the Panama canal that has ever been written. It is
thorough in its discussions and is written in a readable style
characteristic of the author.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 303. Mr. ’08. 750w.
“The literary style of these criticisms is unique. It reminds us at
once of Tom Lawson and Poultney Bigelow. Like the work of those
eminent authors, too, it somehow fails to carry conviction to the
minds of the readers.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 202. F. 20, ’08. 600w.
“The book is of a controversial nature, but is one of those works
which contain a great deal of interesting information and criticism.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 180w.
“A large part of his criticism is undeniably justified.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 167. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
=Batiffol, Louis.= Marie de Médicis and the French court in the
seventeenth century; tr. from the French by Mary King; ed. by H.
W. Carless Davis. *$2. Scribner.
8–20525.
A study of a phase of French society in which are set down the
intimate details of Marie de Médicis’ ten years of life at the French
court. “How the queen spent her days in her new residence, what she
ate, what she wore, how much she spent on her household, for her
stables, her jewels; what her relations were with her husband and his
mistresses, who her friends were, what influences ruled her, what sort
of interests she had; what she did to encourage art and artists; how
much money she received, how she used it—all that and much more is
told by a trained historian who has consulted first-hand documents and
gives us a most instructive chapter in the history of civilization.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“He has achieved his purpose within the somewhat narrow limits of the
subject, although the study will be read perhaps more for its lighter
interest than for its historical value. One of his judgments is
certainly open to criticism.” H: E. Bourne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 167. S. 16, ’08. 840w.
“It offers concrete and tangible facts, and gives us the kind of
information we are all hungering for. The translation by Miss King is
faithful as well as readable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 430w.
“The editor of the book—which needed some editing for the English
public generally—appears to have done his work well.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1035. Je. 27, ’08. 520w.
=Battle, Kemp Plummer.= History of the University of North Carolina.
v. 1. *$3. K. P. Battle, Chapel Hill, N. C.
7–30472.
“The present volume traces the history of the university from its
first conception in 1776 (it was chartered in 1789) to the year 1868.
Its growth from modest beginnings is told, its inner life depicted,
its public occasions described, its influence in the affairs of the
state and the nation set forth.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“While the story centres in the campus it is by no means confined
there. There are many interesting side lights on manners and events;
much about the personalities and careers of the men who have touched
the institution’s life.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 426. Ja. ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Battle’s history will prove both entertaining and instructive to
any student of the country’s educational growth.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“An interesting narrative, of a very real value, because in a
considerable measure it is a history of the customs and people of the
South during the long period through which the university has passed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Battle= for the Pacific, and other adventures at sea, by Rowan
Stevens, Yates Stirling, jr., William J. Henderson, George E.
Walsh, Kirk Munroe, F. H. Spearman, and others. il. †$1.25.
Harper.
8–12227.
This little volume contains short stories by many writers. They treat
of imaginary battles upon the sea in which the United States has for
an antagonist sometimes Japan and sometimes England. They are the
purely fanciful creations of an active imagination.
* * * * *
“Thrilling enough to satisfy any appetite for the spice of
excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 130w.
=Baughan, Edward Algernon.= Ignaz Jan Paderewski. *$1. Lane.
8–35168.
A sketch of the musical career of the great pianist together with a
temperate interpretation of his genius. “The author considered
Paderewski’s technique not always clear; he found ‘too many spots of
virtuoso exaggeration of contrast,’ and so on. Yet, in spite of
shortcomings, Paderewski is for him ‘the greatest of living pianists,’
for in addition to strong individuality and ripe musicianship, he is
strongly emotional, and possesses that ‘curious magnetism which always
enchains the attention of the public.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“A good brief biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“In judging Paderewski as a composer, the critic is very guarded in
his language. He finds, as many others do, much to praise in the
various works, yet he suspends judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 203. F. 15. 250w.
=Nation.= 85: 524. D. 5, ’07. 800w.
“Mr. Baughan’s critical attitude is judicious. He recognizes the
greatness of Paderewski, but he puts in clauses of limitation.”
Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Bax, Ernest Belfort.= Roots of reality; being suggestions for a
philosophical reconstruction. *$2. Dodge, B. W.
8–8287.
From the idealist’s standpoint, Mr. Bax outlines the directions that
future philosophic thinking must take. The central topic of his book
is that in all mind and consciousness an alogical element stands out
against the logical element and can never be merged therein. The four
modes of opposition between the logical and alogical are the
antitheses between the universal and the particular, being and
appearance, infinite and finite, and chance and law.
* * * * *
“Professionalism is just as odious in philosophy as in athletics;
wherefore, if Mr. Bax handles metaphysics decidedly ‘en amateur,’ his
conscientious effort to get to the bottom of things merits respect and
attention none the less.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908. 1: 160. F. 8. 700w.
“As to the manner of exposition, most readers will probably complain
of a certain slowness in getting down to real issues; and the frequent
repetitions rather obscure the argument. Mr. Bax also has the rather
irritating habit of now and then patronizingly foisting his own
triumphant opinions upon Plato, Kant, or Hegel. As a whole, however,
the book is both timely and suggestive.” M. R. Cohen.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 78. Ja. 30, ’08. 1400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 498. S. 12, ’08. 180w.
Reviewed by A. R. Gifford.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 162. My. 15, ’08. 1600w.
“The reader who is not to be daunted by a formidable phraseology will
find this book worth reading. But the author’s professed ‘purpose of
reaching the average intelligent man’ would have been better served by
his adopting a simpler style of diction.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 115. Jl. 27, ’07. 1250w.
=Baylor, Mrs. Edith M. H.= Little prospector. il. †$1. Lothrop.
7–23301.
The adventures of a patriotic little American who goes with his family
from Boston to the mining regions of Nevada. Pioneer life with its
fascinations and perils is portrayed in a manner to interest juvenile
readers.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 40w.
=Bayne, Samuel Gamble.= Quicksteps through Scandinavia; with a
retreat from Moscow. **$1.25. Harper.
8–18339.
A short illustrated account of a trip thru Scandinavia and Russia
presented with the hope of aiding the tourist in selecting what to see
and what to avoid.
* * * * *
“Mr. Bayne is apparently an intelligent and well-informed man, as he
has the requisite facility for mental kodaking, and a share of a sense
of humor—the American kind—his book turns out to be a diverting affair
on the whole.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 435. Ag. 8, ’08. 630w.
=Bazin, René.= Coming harvest (Le blé qui levé); tr. by Edna K.
Hoyt. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–25122.
“A picture of some aspects of peasant life in France to-day ... the
hate of the laborer for the man of family and for the man of wealth,
the unreasonable demands which socialistic agitators have taught him
to make.... The chief character, an honest upright pagan, after a
varied experience of injustice and disloyalty at the hands of his
fellows, of ingratitude from his child, is, when he has almost fallen
into despair, drawn to religion, where he finds peace.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“In his own restrained, forcible manner, with a realism that convinces
but never descends to the repulsive, he allows us to see with our own
eyes, the narrow, hopeless, sordid view of life which unbelief and
materialism has forced upon the humbler rural class in France. The
translation is correct and idiomatic.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 258. N. ’08. 360w.
“Of the literary art of the novel it is necessary to speak highly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 820w.
“A powerful novel of life in the country in France to-day, full of
picturesque incidents, vivid characters, and descriptions of the
country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
* =Bazin, René.= Italians of to-day; tr. from the French by William
Marchant. **$1.25. Holt.
Keen observation and unprejudiced reflection characterize this
presentation of the Italian of to-day. A chapter on The northern
provinces—provincial life shows cause for the great poverty of the
Italian peasant, discusses his national characteristics of
hospitality, affection for home, his educational opportunities, and
literature. Other chapters are: Roman houses, and the Roman Campagna:
Southern Italy and A corner of Sicily—Aetna in eruption.
=Bazin, René.= The nun (L’isolée). $1. Scribner.
8–15729.
The story of five nuns living in a convent in Lyons. When the order
comes to disband their religious community, they abandon their work
among the children of the town and cast themselves upon the world.
Pascale, the youngest, prettiest and least experienced of them is
betrayed and is cast low in sin and suffering.
* * * * *
“The picture of convent life is vivid, and the characterization is
good, but the book is weakened by some exaggeration.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08.
“The book is excellent, but marred by exaggeration.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 318. Mr. 14. 100w.
“We forget we are reading, and we actually see the drama pass us.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 679. Ag. ’08. 730w.
“The book is typically French in its clear construction and dramatic
curtness. The indicative mood prevails—things are explained,
demonstrated, or reasoned out rather than acted; and the
characterization is clever, but compressed for each individual into a
page or so of initial biography. It is probable that the large success
of ‘The nun’ abroad is due to a sympathy for the plight of the church,
impossible for many American readers to share.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“The picture of convent life is one well worth reading. Realism of
this kind can only do good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18, ’08. 600w.
“Has been excellently translated.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.
“No one but a Frenchman could have written this ... remarkable book.
It is a pitiful and poignant story, rich in real drama and arresting
by its fidelity to the truths of life.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 241. F. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Bazin, René.= Redemption. (De toute son âme); tr. by A. S.
Rappoport. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–30021.
Out of a background of shop women and fishermen, thick with the
atmosphere of unleavened toil there gradually emerges a saint-like
woman whose mission is to love much, to minister to the sin-burdened,
to console the misery-stricken, and to sacrifice self-gratification
for the sake of fellow mortals. The development of this character is
the serious business of the author thruout the story.
* * * * *
“The story is sweet, wholesome and worth while.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08. ✠
“The book, so full of honesty and kindliness, lacks conviction to the
Anglo-Saxon.” G: Middleton.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 48. S. ’08. 750w.
“Even in English, after much of its exquisite aroma has,
notwithstanding the high quality of the translator’s work, been,
necessarily, lost, it is a fascinating story. Simple in construction,
commonplace in incident, it is a superb delineation of the glory of
consecration and sacrifice exemplified in the life of a young girl of
the people.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 838. S. ’08. 1100w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“His logical French mind avoids the pitfalls of the too literal
realist, and co-ordinates the various facts and appearances that come
within his chosen field, presenting as a result a coherent and
expressive picture. The translation is clear but not distinguished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 399. Jl. 18, ’08. 1350w.
“The translation of this book, though marred by one or two blemishes,
is sufficiently flowing for the reader’s enjoyment of the story.
Remarkable novel.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 302. Ag. 29, ’08. 160w.
=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.= Barrier: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
8–10616.
A miners’ trading post in the Alaskan gold region is the scene of this
story which is not so full of brutality as “The spoilers.” Yet it has
its hard side, with rough, unscrupulous men in the background, against
which is enacted a drama of love and its hardships. The hero is a
Kentuckian, a young lieutenant, stationed at the post with some
soldiers; the heroine is a beautiful girl supposed to have Indian
blood in her veins which forms the barrier to marriage. The discovery
of who she really is sets matters straight in spite of the fact that
her foster father and her own father had been enemies for life.
* * * * *
“The main narrative is not obscured by a complexity of minor
characters as was ‘The spoilers,’ by the same author, nor does it
present quite so brutal an aspect of life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“This is a virile story. Mr. Beach is here to confute the critic, with
a book innocent of construction, scornful of grammatical propriety,
callow and jejune in sentiment, but none the less successful in its
kind, because it is ‘elemental.’” Burton Bancroft.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 282. My. ’08. 500w.
“It is all good thrilling conventional melodrama, written by a man
with an eye for actuality and a sense of dramatic fitness.” W: M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“All the descriptions are given with a very evident knowledge of the
details, and information about the laws and customs of the land is
imparted in an interesting way.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 866. Ap. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Readers will begin the book in confident expectation of getting
another installment of glorified frontier history, and most of them,
it is to be feared, will lay it down with that natural, though
slightly unfair, expectation disappointed.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Beach did much better in his first novel of Alaska.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 312. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Beard, Daniel Carter.= Dan Beard’s animal book and camp-fire
stories. il. **$1.60. Moffat.
8–3274.
“This is not a natural history, neither is it a so-styled nature book.
It is simply a book of animals and is made up from the author’s
personal notes and sketches made in the fields and forests for his own
amusement and not with a view to publication; here and there scattered
through the volume will be found a few short camp-fire stories and
legends, some of which have already appeared in print.... These are
not intended to be taken as either strictly or scientifically true,
but the notes and sketches are as accurate as the author could make
them.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 55. F. ’08.
“A spirit of kindness and gentleness pervades the book and cannot fail
to exert a helpful influence on the minds of those who read it.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 502. Ap. ’08. 700w.
“A curious hodge-podge—a mass of undigested information about all
sorts of creatures ... the whole presented in a style a good deal of
which would be none the worse for a little editing. The entire spirit
of his book makes it a capital one to put into the hands of any boy.”
G: Gladden.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 607. Ag. ’08. 860w.
“This new volume will also undoubtedly hit the mark. The numerous
sketches by the author, some in color, are the most original and
valuable feature of the book.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 317. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Bearne, Mrs. Catharine Mary.= Sister of Marie Antoinette: the
life-story of Maria Carolina, queen of Naples. *$3. Dutton.
8–11809.
In the main a sketch of Maria Carolina. It also furnishes side lights
on the history of the times. “The heroine herself is, in any
presentation, a striking type of woman in politics. Her hatred and
dread of Napoleon, the trouble she managed to give him, and her
embarrassment when she became his grandmother-in-law, form a dramatic
theme which hardly needs the enlivenment furnished by her entanglement
in the affairs of Nelson and Lady Hamilton. In her realm, as in that
of Prince Otto, politics and love affairs were hardly distinguishable
in method, in content, or in importance.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“An interesting and not uninstructive piece of historical biography,
which may easily be supplemented or corrected by those who wish to
pursue the subject further. The index is ludicrously inadequate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 94. Ja. 25. 1250w.
“A story full of intrinsic interest is told in a style of vivacious
dulness, with a syntax of its own.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A good book of its class.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 200w.
“Valuable in more than one way.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Beer, George Louis.= British colonial policy, 1754–1765. **$2.
Macmillan.
7–30451.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A thorough, concise, scholarly piece of work; for the larger
libraries or special collections of history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 99. Ap. ’08.
“The book is very carefully written, but the style is not so
entertaining as one might desire.” E. R. Johnson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 514. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“His book is not without defects, chiefly due to the fact that, in his
reaction against the school of Bancroft, he does rather more than
justice to the mother country and rather less to the colonies.” W. L.
Grant.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 371. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“No one before him has ever attempted to examine in detail or
systematically the evidence which the British archives furnish. Mr.
Beer has had the courage and patience to undertake a systematic search
of the British departmental records, volume by volume, page by page,
in the effort to discover exactly what ‘colonial policy’ meant to
those in whose hands lay its enforcement.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 1300w.
“Here and there are theses which challenge discussion, and details
which may be questioned. The essential thing is that Mr. Beer has
given us a well-reasoned, and in the main convincing, study of
eighteenth-century imperial problems. The book shows throughout
unusual mastery of printed and manuscript sources.” E. B. Greene.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 326. Je. ’08. 750w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 489. Jl. ’08. 650w.
=Beers, Clifford W.= A mind that found itself: an autobiography.
**$1.50. Longmans.
8–7899.
A record of the author’s own experience in a private sanitarium and in
an insane hospital. “The purposes of Mr. Beers’s book as he sets them
forth are three in number: to rob insanity of its terrors; to correct
existing abuses and to elevate the standard of treatment; and to
induce the benevolent rich to aid state and nation in supplying funds
for the erection and maintenance of model institutions for the care of
the mentally diseased.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08.
“The book naturally carries with it ... much of the intensity of an
irritable temperament; yet with ample allowance for this trait, the
account rings true, and should do much to enlighten the public in
regard to what is needed in the way of practical reforms for the work
of ministering wisely to minds diseased.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 278. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“A striking psychological monograph.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“Here are furnished the most invaluable data for a new order of social
reform.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 489. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Beers has written a readable book. If he has failed to
subordinate the personal element to his ‘cause,’ he can be pardoned
because of his desire to stir up popular indignation for current
asylum abuses as he views them.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 265. Mr. 19, ’08. 700w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“A most fascinatingly written human document.” Adolph Meyer.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 611. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The volume is, both dramatically and psychologically, one of great
interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“It aims to be constructive, and therein lies its superiority over
many other criticisms or defenses of existing conditions. To do this
and yet to retain the reading quality of a story is a feat denoting a
decided literary talent.” A. M.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 283. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 200w.
=Spec.= 100: 506. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Begbie, Harold.= Tables of stone. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Mr. Begbie’s hero is a young man from the country whose remarkable
simplicity engages the amused attention of fashionable people in
London, with the result that he is launched by means of a tutorship on
a successful career as a social philosopher. Having by somewhat
unsportsmanlike means obtained the hand of a girl immeasurably his
superior ... he proceeds to break her heart by his colossal
priggishness and egoism.” (Sat. R.) “Finding the task of spending a
lifetime with the Wrong Man too hard for her, she deliberately betrays
him, and on being discovered, kills herself and her child.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“The story is thoughtful and interesting, but obscure in purpose.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 160w.
“A somewhat ponderous, conscientious piece of fiction. Altogether a
cheerless and unprofitable sort of book.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 264. N. ’08. 360w.
“As a piece of literary work the ‘Tables of stone’ is extremely
creditable to its author, but it is not a pleasant story, and, so far
as is evident, there is no important lesson taught by it.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Begbie has grasped neither the tone of the political society
which he endeavours to portray, nor the character of the supra-mundane
problems which he handles so glibly.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 730. Je. 6, ’08. 260w.
=Begbie, Harold.= The vigil. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–9173.
A story in which a young clergyman, secure in the strongholds of
intellect and tradition and bound to celibacy by an oft-renewed vow,
learns thru the suffering of humanity that his religion is Christless.
A woman, the embodiment of love in its purest sense, keeps vigil over
the soul of the man knowing that in time the dawn will come. A number
of theological doctrines are advanced, prominent among them the belief
that a human being cannot sense the reality of Christ until he
realizes the enormity of hell.
* * * * *
“Mr. Begbie believes that the world is a wicked one and that few men
live as they should in the fear of the Lord. He is very much in
earnest and he makes his appeal with eloquence but not as it seems to
us with great success.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 516. My. 25, ’07. 400w.
“There is a good deal of sound theology as well as genuine human
nature in ‘The vigil.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 397. Je. ’08. 500w.
“A combination of the shrewd observation and humor of Dickens and
George Eliot is noticeable in many places, and makes the book worth
while, despite its heavy load of theological verbiage.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The trouble with the whole affair is that the man is a weakling. Also
the woman is a prig, with a horrid habit of being right. Several of
the minor figures, on the other hand, possess a good deal of vitality,
especially certain rustics, male and female, worthy to keep alive the
memory of Tabitha Bramble and Mrs. Poyser.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Begbie has given us a very good piece of religious fiction, which
should be interesting to persons of all creeds.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
“It is a strong story, and, for the general reader, is dexterously
managed.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“The book is a rare one in its quiet atmosphere, in its serene gaze
into eternity.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 749. N. 28, ’08. 640w.
“Mr. Begbie is ambitious, but does not convince us of his ability to
teach a philosophy of life through the medium of fiction. It is all
very painstaking and unconvincing.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 274. Ag. 31, ’07. 200w.
=Bell, Lady Florence (Mrs. Hugh Bell).= At the works: a study of a
manufacturing town. 3d impression. $2. Longmans.
8–3942.
“The author has ‘put a piece of prosperity under the microscope,’
giving a detailed account of conditions obtaining in a community of
ironworkers situated in the north of Yorkshire. The material for the
several descriptive chapters—dealing with The genesis of the town, The
process of ironmaking, The expenditures of workmen, Illness and
accidents, Old age, Recreation, Drink, Betting, Gambling—has been
gathered during a period of nearly thirty years’ intercourse with the
population, during which period ‘more than a thousand working-men’s
homes have been visited, many of them on terms of friendly and
continuous intercourse.’”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“Possibly not so valuable a book as Rountree’s ‘Poverty’ but new,
sane, authentic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“She has done the patient, impartial investigation, the ordered
collection of results. She has at least stated the problem which needs
solution.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 930w.
“The study is of permanent value for those interested to know the
everyday life of a typical wage-earning community.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 130w.
“We note some omissions. The two subjects on which Lady Bell throws
most light are reading, and wives and daughters.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 109. Ap. 5, ’07. 800w.
“This book is emphatically worth reading; it is clear, restrained,
straightforward and sympathetic; no social reformer should be without
it, and still less any economist who wishes to see book terms
translated into facts of life.” H: W. Macrostv.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 526. S. ’07. 940w.
“It is essentially a social and domestic study of the working classes,
very sensible and sympathetic and founded on real knowledge.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 722. Je. 8, ’07. 280w.
“The student of social problems cannot possibly afford to miss it,
while the romance of industry has never been more vividly painted than
in her pages.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 534. Ap. 6, ’07. 1800w.
=Bell, John Joy.= Thou fool! †$1.50. Baker.
8–23530.
“Tells how a selfish, hard-headed young Scotchman, bent upon getting
on in the world, starts life as a grocer’s assistant, and walks a
straight path to opulence and a baronetcy, only to discover
despairingly that his commercial triumphs are powerless to win him the
woman whom he loves, and that he has missed all the real good in
life.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“It makes entertaining enough reading, for it is agreeably written,
keeps up its interest well, and shows a good deal of pleasant, if
somewhat superficial observation.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 762. D. 14. 270w.
“A strong story, admirably told.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 144. O. ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Bell has greater facility in the creation of character than in
the construction and development of plot. But he has written a good
story and one that is very characteristic of the time.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 502. S. 12, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Benedict, Francis Gano.= Influence of inanition on metabolism.
(Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 77.) $2.75.
Carnegie inst.
8–995.
“The book deals with fourteen fasts in which ten different persons
voluntarily went without food from two to seven days, but mostly only
for periods of two to four days.” (Nation.) “It consists mainly of the
protocols of the experiments, their ultimate valuation, and the
general results to be drawn from them being left for the future.”
(Nature.)
* * * * *
“The observations are given in great detail and with a fulness which
has never been attained in similar investigations.”
+ + =Nation.= 36: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 300w.
“It is a monument of prolonged and patient industry and
self-sacrifice, as well as of admirably planned experiments on a large
scale under careful and coordinated guidance. The book is to be
commended to all interested in physiological work, and especially to
those engaged in a study of nutrition.” W. D. H.
+ + + =Nature.= 77: 610. Ap. 30, ’08. 650w.
=Benedict, Leonard.= Waifs of the slums and their way out. **$1.
Revell.
7–28507.
From this account of Mr. J. F. Atkinson’s work among the waifs in his
Chicago Boys’ club one may catch the spirit of missionary work as
distinguished from social settlement work. Sin and not poverty is at
the bottom of the trouble as the missionary views it. The book
contains statistical matter about the condition of the Chicago slums,
the work and the present outlook.
* * * * *
“A well written book of information.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 52. Ja. 2, ’08. 90w.
“The trouble with Mr. Benedict is the lack of that charity which is
almost always lacking in propagandists—even when their propaganda is
charity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 800w.
=Benham, W. Hamilton.= Trade and trade centers of history. Printed
for H. C. Swords at the DeVinne press.
7–19753.
A monograph which “gives a bird’s-eye view of the rise and fall of
nations as a result of the fortunes of their commerce, rather than of
the vigor or the weakness of their dynasties.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 550w.
“Its only justification is the excuse which it gives for including
some of the remarkable prints of prominent merchants and financiers in
the collection of Mr. Swords. As a contribution to, or exposition of,
the subject of trade centers it is of no significance.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 189. Mr. ’08. 70w.
=Benjamin of Tudela.= Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela; critical
text, tr. and commentary, by Marcus Nathan Adler. *$2. Oxford.
“The ‘Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela’ will always hold a high place
among the records of medieval travellers, and is of much interest not
only to the student of the history of the Jews in the middle ages, but
also to the student of the Crusades.... Mr. Adler was ‘fortunate
enough to be able to trace and examine three complete mss. of
Benjamin’s Travels, as well as large fragments belonging to two other
mss.’ The result of his study of these documents is the present
critical text, the basis for which he has used the manuscript
belonging to the British museum, the variants being noted in all
cases. Mr. Adler has added indexes to both the Hebrew text and to the
translation, the references being in all cases to the pages of Asher’s
edition.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“Ought to prove valuable both to those who use Asher’s edition and to
those unable to have access to it.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 634. Ap. ’08. 450w.
“Although it cannot be affirmed that the last word on everything has
now been said, the merit of a distinct advance in the critical study
of the ‘Itinerary’ must be cheerfully accorded to the new edition.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 159. F. 8. 900w.
“In one or two instances Mr. Adler’s notes require correction.” G. Le
S.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 193. Ja. ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Adler gives in a small compass excellent material for the
criticism of Benjamin’s text and of his historical statements.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 250w.
=Bennet, Robert Ames.= Into the primitive. il. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–12557.
A story of three persons, an English gentleman, an American heiress,
and an uncouth engineer, who were shipwrecked on a barren coast in the
tropics. With a rather lurid setting the writer has allowed these
three diverse characters to work out their natural development. The
story shows the effect upon human character of a journey back to
nature. All that is real in each individual comes out. The essential
manliness of the engineer triumphs over his lack of social training;
the Englishman proves himself a cad; while the woman retains her sweet
womanliness to the end.
* * * * *
“The quality of the book is not good enough to hold its own against
the handicap of a much overworked situation.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 68. S. ’08. 400w.
=Ind.= 64: 973. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“That the story is not hopelessly damaged by the coarse
characterization is tribute to the immortal freshness of the
primitive.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The author’s aim seems to be to prove that culture is a kind of
tommyrot that serves only to ruin a man or woman’s efficiency. But
there is a vital energy about his people and the story as a whole that
makes it unusual, even worth while.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 350w.
=Bennett, Ida D.= Vegetable garden. (Country home lib.) **$1.50.
McClure.
8–19599.
A thoroly practical exposition of vegetable gardening based upon
experiment directed by science and furthered by sound common sense.
Besides dealing with vegetables that form the staple of the small
garden, the book includes chapters on fertilizers, insecticides and
garden tools.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08. ✠
“The selection of vegetables here given might be improved in certain
ways but, on the whole, the choices are good, and the hints for the
kitchen are extremely suggestive.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
“The last word in vegetable gardening has surely been said by Miss
Bennett.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
“Many practical directions which will be appreciated by the novice.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Bennett, James Robert S.= Life of William Sterndale Bennett, by his
son, J. R. Sterndale Bennett. *$3.50. Putnam.
8–6997.
The biography of an English musician who, while he does not rank among
the masters, deserves a place among sincere artists. “Bennett was a
man of mark in his time. He had a peculiarly winning nature, a gift
for friendship. He was the intimate of Schumann and of Mendelssohn,
and of many other nineteenth-century musicians, and their relations
with him, their correspondence with him, as well as the part he played
in the musical life of England, give a certain interest to these pages
which the present importance of their subject would not.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“The conversations, letters quoted, and other matters give a picture
of the years especially connected with Mendelssohn more vivid than any
which have been drawn by historians who gathered information solely
from written records.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 138. F. 1. 600w.
“It is interesting at many points, and a contribution to the history
of music in the England of Victoria.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 850w.
“The task has been done once and for all with a discretion and a
delicacy worthy of the subject, and with a filial piety that is never
disfigured by hero-worship.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 1050. D. 21, ’07. 1600w.
=Bennett, John William.= Roosevelt and the republic. $1.50. Broadway
pub.
8–17978.
A sketch of President Roosevelt as a public man and office-holder,
with special emphasis given to the influence of his administration
upon the republic.
=Bennett, Rev. William Henry.= Life of Christ according to St. Mark.
**$1.75. Armstrong.
Aims to present the impression of Christ which would be derived from
St. Mark’s gospel by a reader who has no other source of information
and who knows nothing of Christian theology.
* * * * *
“His book is full of freshness and vigor, and is an interesting essay
in interpretation.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 80. Ja. ’08. 40w.
“Is written with much of the beautiful simplicity that marks the
gospel narratives themselves.” W. J. Davis.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 938. Jl. ’08. 180w.
“Unfortunately the reader is left with questions on every page, and
the problems and difficulties presented by Mark’s Gospel are not
squarely faced.”
− =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“It is a most interesting and informing volume.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 644. N. 2, ’07. 270w.
=Bennett, William Henry.= Religion of the post-exilic prophets.
(Literature and religion of Israel.) *$2. Scribner.
8–19130.
The first of a series of ten volumes to be published upon the
development of religion in Israel up to the time of Christ. “In the
exemplification of this plan as worked out by Prof. Bennett, the
prophets (Ezekiel, the later Isaiah, Haggai, Zechariah, etc.) are
first treated individually, in chronological order; and in the second
part of the work the general teaching of the literature described ‘is
expounded in relation to the main subjects of dogmatics.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Professor Bennett is persuasive, candid, critical, and withal never
over-venturesome. He moves along the main line of the most recent
cautious scholarly investigation, but at the same time has special
views of his own on certain matters.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 400w.
“The book is a useful contribution to the popular knowledge of a
period concerning which altogether too little is known by the average
Bible student.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 80w.
“His book will be indispensable to Old Testament teachers, and to
ministers who desire a scholarly treatment of the prophetical
literature in this important period of Israel’s history. There is
nothing however of a technical character in the book to debar its use
from the layman.” Harlan Creelman.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 289. O. ’08. 1150w.
“‘Respectable’ is the word for Professor Bennett’s volume. The
occasion being given, the task is diligently and intelligently
performed.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
“The book is neither exclusively doctrinal nor controversial, and if
not touched by the spirit of the higher criticism tries at least to be
in keeping with the development of scholarship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 450w.
=Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The chief complaint we have to make is that it is a trifle dull.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 520w.
=Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 300w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= At large. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–30590.
At large once more in the realm of thought, Mr. Benson only continues
to apply his well verified principles to new phases of life; achieving
what may be called “Mr. Benson’s view,” for instance, of optimism, of
shyness, of joy. Other essays bear upon contentment, friendship,
humor, travel, specialism, our lack of great men, equality, Kelmscott
and William Morris, literary finish, symbols and the love of God.
* * * * *
“His logic is as keen, his irony as delicate as ever; the flowing
cadences of his style woo us like quiet music; and always we are
conscious that our two chairs are quite close together, and that Mr.
Benson has a very friendly and companionable arm thrown lightly around
our shoulders.” M. A. Havens.
+ =Dial.= 45: 342. N. 16, ’08. 1350w.
“The unwholesome element of Mr. Benson’s convalescent optimism is its
intense self-consciousness. He makes the pursuit of happiness a
business. His flowers of felicity, like carnations, demand a hot-house
culture, and exhale their perfume only in a specially prepared soil
and climate.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 280w.
“Whether the essays be called sermons or otherwise, ‘At large’ is
marked by the kindly, deliberate, tolerant wisdom which has already
won him so many friends.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 579. O. 17, ’08. 700w.
“The essays get on pleasantly to the end, eked out with personal
recollections and anecdotes and amusing stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 548. O. 31, ’08. 530w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= The schoolmaster: a commentary upon
the aims and methods of an assistant-master in a public school.
*$1.25. Putnam.
E 8–323.
Published for the first time in America this book records frankly and
candidly the results of impressions and observations gained during
twenty years of teaching. Whatever recommendations it offers “have
been deduced from experience and tested by practice.” It treats such
subjects as training of teachers, discipline, teaching, work,
intellect, originality, praise, the boarding-house, athletics, time,
holidays, sociability, religion, moralities and devotion.
“Will prove readable, suggestive and inspiring.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.
=Dial.= 45: 119. S. 1, ’08. 280w.
“The book is sure to be read with interest and profit on this side of
the Atlantic.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Forum.= 40: 402. O. ’08. 200w.
“Though we have no Etons here, we have many schoolmasters who tend to
fall into ruts, and who may receive from Mr. Benson’s suggestions a
new glow of enthusiasm.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 130w.
“Altogether ‘The schoolmaster’ is a very sensible and at the same time
a very readable book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
=Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Blotting book. †$1. Doubleday.
8–23104.
“Describes the devilish ingenuity with which a middle-aged barrister
of hitherto spotless reputation, contrived to cast suspicion upon his
young client of having committed a murder which was in fact his own
work. He was exceeding clever, but, as the event turned out, too
clever for his own safety. Skillful detective work discovered the
truth by means of the very things he had done to conceal his traces.
The story deals chiefly with the crime and the trial.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Develops into a skilful portrayal of the character and self-deception
of a hypocritical egotist.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08. ✠
“Failing to hold us as a mystery, the tale fails of its purpose.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 234. Ag. 29. 120w.
“There is somewhat too much pretense of keeping up the mystery with
the reader, somewhat too strong a contention that a man may lie,
steal, and commit murder, and yet go about his cheerful way not seeing
himself for the villain that he is, but these defects in no wise
interfere with the interest of the story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 270w.
“We wish the detection of the criminal had been treated in a less
sketchy manner.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“The little story is exciting, it marches rapidly to its conclusion,
and, further, it is singularly unlike the usual work of Mr. Benson,
the student of social manners.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 337. S. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Sheaves. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–29434.
In this story are discussed the problems that arise from marriage
entered into by a man of twenty-four and a woman of forty-two. “In
this union there is perfect harmony of tastes and mind and a
passionate mutual love; there is nothing to prevent its being an ideal
coupling of two human beings except the great gulf between twenty-four
and forty-two—with the seniority on the wrong side.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“He has a definite claim now to be considered among our serious
novelists of rank.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 260w.
“Conversation and incident are alike natural, and the author’s
contribution of comment and analysis is temperate and pleasing. The
story is drawn out to tiresome length, and it demands much judicious
skipping if it is to provide tolerable entertainment.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 133. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
“By the temper rather than the method of his treatment he has given
new life to an old story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 128. F. 6, ’08. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 12, ’07. 30w.
“Contains a story so full of the lyric joy of love and so strong with
the mightier elements that go to make real love that, swept along in
its fresh and beautiful current, the reader scarcely realizes how he
is being charmed, page after page, by the minor incidents and
characters that help to make the book complete.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Benson’s most admirable point as a writer is his hatred and
clever setting forth of cant and priggishness and his clear
contrasting of it with the real goodness it attempts to mimic.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 210w.
“Well knit novel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 128. Ja. ’08. 40w.
“The author’s treatment of his main theme rises much above the level
of the rest of the book. The humour which he extracts from Mannington
society is very cheap, and he misses there and elsewhere all breadth
of effect by a wearying insistence on insignificant detail.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 112. Ja. 25, ’08. 950w.
“In his present novel he sets a problem, and then runs away from its
solution.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 267. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Benson, Ramsey.= Lord of lands. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24470.
Just how one man translated himself and family out of the cramped and
artificial environment which the city on fifty dollars per month
offered, into the free air of new Canadian country where they all
labored and learned to find peace and plenty is told with pioneer
simplicity and courage. The ethical value of country life is
emphasized.
* * * * *
“Its interest as fiction lies in the sustained note of simplicity, in
the fact that it is ostensibly told in the first person by a
workingman, an Irish brakeman, who never rises above a certain honest
and rather primitive outlook on life, and who tells his story with
something of the grave importance that characterises the narrator of
‘The Swiss family Robinson.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 381. D. ’08. 330w.
“If any rich man with too many ignoble dollars to his credit wishes to
do the country a real service let him buy a hundred thousand copies of
this book and distribute them among the poor who have not yet
despaired.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 840. O. 8, ’08. 780w.
“Many, too, are the practical hints administered with an Irish
twinkle.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Manner aside, the matter of the story is well adapted to its object.
We congratulate the public upon having secured a bit of literature of
new and not clearly definable flavor.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 508. S. 19, ’08. 1500w.
“The book gains its interest from its definite statement of
difficulties encountered and the way in which they were surmounted.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 110w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Lord of the world. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–7386.
A novel with scenes laid partly in London. “Mr. Benson sees the world,
four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels,
and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who
believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who
believe in no divinity but that of God.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Judged as fiction, it shows that an emotional brain of a distinctive
character is behind the writing; but its impassioned faith is the
prevalent note, and everything else is subjected to this.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 250w.
“The most interesting story of the ‘Looking backward’ type that has
appeared for years.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 284. My. ’08. 700w.
=Cath. World.= 87: 396. Je. ’08. 700w.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
=Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 970w.
“The whole thing is very well done and Father Benson is particularly
happy in his graphic and convincing descriptions of the great
inventions, now merely dreamed of, but then in common use.” M. K.
Ford.
+ =Forum.= 40: 404. O. ’08. 260w.
“Mr. Benson may assure us that he knows what he is up to and that he
is doing it with his eyes open, but we are left with the suspicion
that his sensationalism comes more easily to him than it should.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 550w.
“Interesting it must be to all to whom the deepest convictions of a
man’s heart are of moment. And in the artistic balance and taste of
Father Benson’s literary power every reader will find delight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 350w.
“Notwithstanding the imaginative and literary skill evinced in the
construction of this chimera, it seems hardly more worth while than
the entertainment of the breakfast-table with the report of a
fantastic dream—except perhaps as a revelation of the absurdity of the
Pope’s fanatical campaign against ‘Modernism.’”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“It is the failure to endow all the characters equally with a definite
and vital personality that makes the effect upon the reader somewhat
indefinite. Yet the book as art is beautiful, delicately balanced,
deeply inspired, intelligently executed.” E. L. Cary.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 616. Ag. ’08. 730w.
“His breadth of view really forms the most striking feature of the
book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 50w.
“The whole story is frankly sensational, and the picture of the cult
of humanity decidedly ingenious.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1057. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
* =Benson, Robert Hugh.= St. Thomas of Canterbury. *80c. Benziger.
A brief life of St. Thomas of Canterbury which forms one of the St.
Nicholas series of Roman Catholic biographies edited by Dom Bede Camm.
* * * * *
“It contains many picturesque touches, and will probably be welcomed
by the younger and less learned members of the Roman obedience. His
whole account is too biassed to deserve serious criticism.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 573. N. 7. 120w.
“Enlivens the narrative with picturesque details that will impress the
reader with the feeling that he is witnessing real events and
observing real men, in contrast with the dry abstractions of his
historical text-book.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 392. D. ’08. 130w.
“Father Benson tells the story of St. Thomas picturesquely and
effectively. His point of view is not ours; but we have no wish to
deny that some of the aspects of character and of principle which he
presents to us accord with the truth.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 204. Ag. 8, ’08. 260w.
=Bensusan, Samuel Levy.= Velazquez. (Masterpieces in color.) *65c.
Stokes.
W 8–31.
A brief but direct sketch including the conditioning facts of the life
and time of this artist. “The author has pointed out that Spain, in
spite of her recent great political decline, still exercises great
influence in the art world thru Diego de Silva Velazquez.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“By merely glancing thru the little volume under consideration it will
be possible to understand something of this influence and the reason
for it.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1466. D. 19, ’07. 140w.
“Without pretending to any great critical acumen the writer succeeds
in presenting to the reader a clear notion of the characteristic
qualities distinguishing the art of the great master of portraiture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 160w.
=Bentley, Arthur Fisher=. Process of government. *$3. Univ. of
Chicago press.
8–10462.
A study of the theory of social dynamics, whose purpose is to fashion
a tool—“a tool which shall serve to analyze and measure all the
varieties of cause and effect which make up those processes of control
which are indicated approximately by the term government.... The first
part ‘To prepare the way’ arraigns a series of theorists, and charges
them with attempting to put into circulation each a particular variety
of false and futile interpretation of what actually occurs in society.
Part II, ‘Analysis of governmental pressures,’ contains the author’s
substitutes for these mischievous explanations.” (Am. J. Soc.)
* * * * *
“This is a real book. It is more genuine than it would be if it were
more attentive to the minor literary conventions.” A. W. Small.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 698. Mr. ’08. 3600w.
“Of value to the sociologist, but too technical for the general
reader. Brilliantly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.
“The second part of the book is more extensive, more readable, and
more useful than the introductory criticisms.” E: C. Hayes.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 13. Jl. 1, ’08. 730w.
“Mr. Bentley’s volume is bulky and diffuse, and its style often
flippant, but its acute and outspoken criticism ... should cause it to
be welcomed by speculative sociologists as at least a rod of
chastening.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Bentley’s analysis is no more satisfying than that of other
theorists of the ‘group activity’ school, and less satisfying than
some, by reason of its impatient, unjudicial tone, to say nothing of
its utter elimination of the individual and of psychic elements as
causal factors in the social process.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Bentley’s attempt to get below formalism into the governing
process as a manifestation of social pressures deserves serious
consideration, even though he is at times tedious and at other times
unnecessarily rude to his predecessors in the field of politics.” C:
A. Beard.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 739. D. ’08. 700w.
=Bentwich, Norman De Mattos.= Law of private property in war. $1.80.
Boston bk.
7–42501.
“In the main Mr. Bentwich’s essay is concerned with private property
in time of war, whether on land or at sea; the writer giving a fair
but not minute account of the present practice. His suggestions as to
the ‘temperamenta belli’ are few and cautious. He expects but little
from the action of conferences or from agreements between
belligerents. He does not countenance either the abolition of the
right of capture of private property or of contraband, the latter an
‘undesirable aspiration’ which, if adopted, would soon be abandoned in
the stress of war. But he makes several suggestions as to minor
changes, one being the establishment of a prize court of appeal,
another the relaxation of the old rule as to enemy domicile and the
adoption of the French rule as to nationality.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“One weakness of this interesting volume is that it slides over many
questions of moment. Another is that it gives paraphrases when a
fastidious reader will ask for texts.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Bentwich’s volume is quite thick enough to require, and should
have, a general index in addition to its admirable table of cases
cited.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 607. Mr. 14, ’08. 670w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.
=Berenson, Bernhard.= North Italian painters of the renaissance.
**$1.50. Putnam.
7–36958.
“Except for Mantegna and Correggio, the volume treats of hardly any
artists approaching the first rank.... [Its] importance is that it is
the negative end of Mr. Berenson’s demonstration of his theory of art,
as its companion volumes were the positive end. He is now dealing with
the absence of his three great qualities, tactile values, movement,
and space-composition, as he has before dealt with their presence, and
the burden is ever the same—these are the things that make serious
art, and in their absence art ceases to become serious.”—Nation.
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“Discriminating, suggestive, stimulating criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 36. F. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 167. F. 8. 640w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 755. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“The book has all the characteristics of its predecessors, but it does
not deal with so interesting a subject.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 526. D. 5, ’07. 310w.
“[Has] many characteristically keen observations, expressed in a
rather more categorical style than Mr. Cox’s or Mr. Caffin’s.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Berenson has the artistic and not merely the archaeological
outlook.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 901. Je. 6, ’08. 1550w.
=Berg, Ernst Julius.= Electrical energy, its generation,
transmission, and utilization: lectures given at Union university.
*$2.50. McGraw.
8–1719.
“Applications to engineering problems of the equations deduced from a
theoretical consideration of alternating-current phenomena.... There
are two sections to the book. Section 1 is devoted to the transmission
line, and section 2 to the generating station. The former section
contains what is probably the most easily applied accurate solution of
transmission line problems available in textbook literature....