As compared with the scholarly text with its impression of reserved
power the drawings of Mr. Railton cannot fail to appear sketchy and
inadequate.”
+ + − =Int. Studio.= 34: 344. Je. ’08. 300w.
“Not less valuable than his more elaborate studies are the stimulating
thoughts he sprinkles over his pages.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 650w.
=Brown, John.= Letters of Dr. John Brown; with letters from Ruskin,
Thackeray, and others; ed. by his son and D. W. Forrest; with
biographical introductions by Elizabeth T. M’Laren. *$4.
Macmillan.
8–2410.
The letters of a hard-working doctor, a practitioner of no little
fame, “with a great capacity for friendship and delight in simple
things.” His “Rab and his friends” immortalized him. His letters are
supplemented by nearly a hundred written to him by Ruskin, Thackeray,
Gladstone and others.
* * * * *
“Gaiety and gravity are alike characters of this good physician’s
mind, and neither is the gravity gloomy nor the cheerfulness tedious
or strained.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 720. D. 7. 1870w.
“In the near view thus afforded of a tender and beautiful, rather than
a brilliant and powerful, character the book is all that could have
been expected, and nearly all that could be desired.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 171. Mr. 16, ’08. 1950w.
“In spite of the three collaborators in the work of editing, very
little has been done either in the text or footnotes to connect the
letters, or to make the allusions to people and events intelligible.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“A general human and healthy interest in the things of the mind Dr.
Brown’s letters abundantly evince. A ‘rounded intelligence,’ the
correspondent of one of his correspondents called him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 103. F. 22, ’08. 2850w.
“Dr. Brown’s comments upon literary men, women, and their works are
keen and most engaging.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 793. Ap. 4, ’08. 1450w.
“Brown’s letters are just what one would expect—direct, terse,
humorous and tender. The collection has been well arranged and
edited.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 769. D. 21, ’07. 150w.
“It is very good fare which his son and Dr. Forrest have provided for
us. These three hundred and twenty-seven letters are like a
continuation of the ‘Horae.’ The style is precisely the same,—the same
use of italics (dating from his twentieth year), the same rusty
rhetoric, the same careless phrases, as exquisite in their simplicity
as any you will find in Lamb.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 928. D. 7, ’07. 1420w.
=Brown, Sir Robert Hanbury.= Irrigation: its principles and practice
as a branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.
8–4027.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book reflects wide reading on the part of the author and is
written in exceptionally good English for an engineering work. The
subject matter, on the whole, is logically and pleasingly presented.
The irrigation engineer will find pleasure and value in reading the
book but not in studying it. The engineer in other branches of
engineering will be able to obtain a comprehensive view of the subject
of irrigation from this book, and it is in this field that the
usefulness of the work mainly lies.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 539. My. 14, ’08. 800w.
“Standard books, indeed, have been previously issued dealing with
irrigation works on their grandest scale, in ‘The irrigation works of
India,’ by Mr. Buckley, and ‘Egyptian irrigation,’ by Sir William
Willcocks; but the book under review will be very valuable for all
persons interested in irrigation, by dealing in a single volume with
and contrasting the principal works and systems of irrigation in these
two great countries, and thus presenting a very comprehensive view of
that most important subject of irrigation for the development of arid
regions.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 513. S. 19, ’07. 1500w.
=Brown, Stewardson.= Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky mountains.
**$3. Putnam.
8–310.
A student’s manual of plants to be found in the region of the Canadian
Pacific railway between Banff and Glacier. “Mr. Stewardson Brown,
curator of the herbarium at the Philadelphia academy of natural
sciences, furnishes the text. Species are arranged in accordance with
their scientific relationships, and there are keys to the genera, a
general key to the families, a glossary, and an index to both common
and scientific names. Seventy-nine full-page plates, about half of
them in color, ... are the work of Mrs. Charles Schäffer, who proves
herself a botanical draughtsman of much ability.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mrs. Schäffer has shown exceptional skill in drawing and in
reproduction of color.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 497. Mr. ’08. 90w.
“A complete and beautiful guide to the flora.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It will prove a vade mecum for the botanically inclined visitor to
the resorts along the Canadian Pacific railway, between Banff and
Glacier.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Brown’s descriptions appear to be clear and helpful, but it is to
be regretted that he has made use of a provincial nomenclature, which
is not in accord with the conclusions reached at the International
congress of botanists.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 40w.
=Browne, Abdullah, Haji.= Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of
to-day. *$3. Scribner.
7–42482.
A volume which aims “to familiarize Englishmen with the Egypt of
to-day, to outline its history, and to present its problems. Intimate
acquaintance with the oriental nature and mode of thought has begotten
in the author a keen sympathy with the people he is describing, though
he retains the broad outlook and enlightenment of the European.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The story of Bonaparte in Egypt is excellently told, and gives one to
understand, better perhaps than any other of the many books on the
subject, the trend of his policy, especially as it was altered and
modified to suit the exigencies of the situation. The account is
naturally from the Egyptian point of view, but the conclusions are not
unfair, neither are the deductions unwarranted.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 865. S. 7, ’07. 570w.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 642. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“This is indeed a book that can hardly be taken seriously by anyone
but its author; as a whole, the work is worthless to the scholar, and,
for the most part, wearying to the general reader.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 300w.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 357. S. 28. 1900w.
“In spite of its numerous faults, the book has distinct value.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 350w.
“We can recommend this book for the perusal of all who are interested
in the British occupation of Egypt.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 284. S. 20, ’07. 1200w.
“Haji Browne’s point of view is too personal to find a large audience,
too heterogeneous to convince, and too discursive to please. His hold
on fact is slight. There is further ground of complaint against the
Haji; his style is tedious, his egotism insistent.”
− =Nation.= 86: 39. Ja. 9, ’08. 500w.
“A remarkable work on modern Egypt.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
“We fancy that Haji Browne could have written a fascinating personal
record, and we would willingly have forfeited for it all the not very
important stuff he has written about Bonaparte.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 362. S. 14, ’07. 1750w.
=Browne, Edith A.= W. S. Gilbert. il. (Stars of the stage.) *$1.
Lane. 7–32813.
“Interesting in the details which it gives of the brilliant humorist’s
youth and up-bringing, his early literary and theatrical tendencies,
his career at school and the London university, and his various
disappointments in seeking distinction in the army, the law, and civil
service. In these diverse pursuits he acquired the varied experience
of life which he was to put to such admirable satirical purpose later
on.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Of the man she paints so truthful and kindly a picture that we seem
to know Gilbert as we have never known him before; to be in touch with
him, to be holding a warm, generous hand that it is most pleasant to
grasp, but with the delineation of the author we have some quarrel.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 724. Jl. 27, ’07. 850w.
“Is not altogether destitute of sound critical appreciation, but is
written too much in the style of the feminine newspaper interviewer to
be quite worthy of its subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 370w.
=Bruce, Edwin Morris.= Detection of the common food adulterants.
*$1.25. Van Nostrand. 7–38618.
To aid in the pure food cause this little book brings together the
best and simplest qualitative tests for all the common food
adulterants. It contains a brief statement of the adulterants likely
to be found and the reason for their use.
* * * * *
“As a collection of recipes the work is good; in other respects it
commands but qualified admiration. As a compendium of some of the best
qualitative tests for ordinary food-adulterants the book will be
useful, especially to the man who already knows how to apply the
processes.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 28. My. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Historic ghosts and ghost hunters.
**$1.25. Moffat.
8–24447.
“A collection of fascinating and strange stories relating to famous
mysteries. Thus we have the tale of the ‘Devil of Loudun,’ of ‘Lord
Brougham’s ghost,’ of the ‘Drummer of Tedworth,’ of the ‘Cock Lane
ghost,’ in which Dr. Johnson was interested, and the less known story
of the relations to ghostland of the Wesleys; while coming down to our
day, the marvels alleged to have been done by Mr. Home (Browning’s
‘Mr. Sludge, the medium’) are related, and a chapter is devoted to
‘Ghost hunters of yesterday and to-day,’ including a rather slight
sketch of what has been told more fully elsewhere by Mr.
Bruce.”—=Outlook.=
* * * * *
“The ghost stories he has told us are interesting and not easily
attainable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Many of the conversations and descriptions with which he enlivens
these tales, while increasing what may be called the interest of the
narratives, are so obviously imaginary as to detract somewhat from
their value. With this much of adverse criticism out of the way, it is
pleasant to admit that the author has done his work extremely well,
and certainly he is not to be blamed for attaining his intended object
instead of another.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 552. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.
“Such a volume could hardly fail to be readable, and the author has
been successful in putting his narratives into a semi-fictional form
which has spirit and entertainment.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Riddle of personality. **$1.50. Moffat.
8–6655.
See Cumulative book index for contents. “Mr. Bruce sketches the
progress of the problem from the magician Mesmer and his ‘doings’ down
to the latest American explorers of the sub-conscious world. His
account of the work of the Society for psychical research is
particularly interesting. His own conviction of departed spirits under
the theories of ‘spiritism’ (a more exact term than spiritualism) can
be equally well explained by the theory of telepathy.”
* * * * *
“The book may be ranked between the ultra-scientific and the ‘crank’
theories, and is of special interest as summing up what the scientific
study of personality has contributed to therapeutics and as an
estimate of the work of the Society for psychical research.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 255. N. ’08.
“Obviously, a safe elementary guide is needed for the study of a
subject so full of pitfalls for the uninstructed; and the need has
been admirably supplied by Mr. Bruce. He will be criticised by the
specialist, of whatever school, for a somewhat dogmatic method of
statement, for occasional simplification by the expedient of ignoring
troublesome factors.” E: C. Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 278. My. ’08. 900w.
“The man of science ... takes what comfort he can in the fact that the
presentation is temperate and not extravagant, and he finds further
comfort in the guidance offered by the author to prospective students,
who, if they follow it, may find the path toward an understanding of
personality, not as a mystery but as a profound natural development.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 350w.
“No other volume of its size gives such a complete survey of this
debatable ground or tells in such an interesting way of what is being
done to explore it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 25. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The worth of Mr. Bruce’s book is much increased by a critical
bibliography of his subject, admirably written and covering the whole
field fairly well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 900w.
“The book is one of great value, and written in a style that will
bring enlightenment to many readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 796. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= Social life of Virginia in the
seventeenth century; an inquiry into the origin of the higher
planting class, together with an account of the habits, customs,
and diversions of the people. *$1.50. Bell bk.
7–21275.
A supplement to the author’s “Economic history of Virginia in the
seventeenth century.” It is an “attempt to reconstruct the social life
of Virginia during the seventeenth century. To the origin of the
higher planting class, and the causes of social distinctions, he
devotes more than half of his small volume; the amusements and
pastimes of his people occupy the remainder.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The reader will gain from the work a more vivid and adequate
understanding of the beginnings of the upper classes of Virginia
society in the period of lowland ascendancy.” F. J. T.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 609. Ap. ’08. 1100w.
“A careful piece of minute research, based throughout on original
authorities.” C. H. Firth.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 155. Ja. ’08. 760w.
“His picture of colonial life is clearly drawn, and his thesis of the
essential similarity between English and Virginia conditions well
maintained. At times Mr. Bruce’s local pride gets the better of his
logic, as when he follows up a statement of the superiority of
Virginia sobriety over that of England, with a series of quotations
and incidents which seem to us to point to the reverse of his
conclusion. In more serious matters his judgment is excellent.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1000. O. 24, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Bruce’s scholarship is well known, and this volume, like his work
in general, shows wide reading, an appreciation of historical values,
and a faculty for presentation.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 352. O. 17, ’07. 410w.
=Brudno, Ezra S.= The tether. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–20348.
A subjective study of a Jewish boy’s struggle for education, freedom,
and the love of a Gentile maiden, while the inexorable prejudices and
decrees of his race withhold them from him. He goes the length of the
tether which the grim leniency of his race allows, and then is brought
to a standstill which is symbolized by a mortal sickness.
* * * * *
“The most dramatic and forceful parts of the book are those which deal
with the Hebrew relatives and friends of the hero, among whom the
author describes many varieties of the Jewish immigrant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Brudno writes with an ardent spirit, curbed by intelligence, and
effective to the end he seeks.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 270w.
=Bruner, James Dowden.= Studies in Victor Hugo’s dramatic
characters; with an introd. by R: G. Moulton. *$1. Ginn.
8–8836.
Following the method of sympathetic induction in his investigation,
the author has collected, arranged, weighed and harmonized into a
unity all the details of each character studied. He includes Hernani,
Don Ruy Gomez, Don Carlos, Doña Sol, Ruy Blas, the villain in “Ruy
Blas,” and Lucrezia Borgia.
* * * * *
“A volume of deeply interesting literary criticism.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 70w.
“A volume to which the word charming may properly be applied. The author
has very genuine insight into the creations of Hugo’s genius, and his
own style is attractive and readable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 50w.
“It must be scientific literary criticism, for it betrays no sign of
literary taste, no insight, no humor, and no charm.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1310. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
− =Nation.= 87: 241. S. 10, ’08. 370w.
“The Introduction contributed by Professor Moulton illuminates the
entire field.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
=Bryant, Lorinda Munson.= Pictures and their painters; the history
of painting. *$3.50. Lane.
7–21729.
A book which appeals to the student, to the professional, or to the
lay reader. “The volume begins with the work of the ancient Egyptians,
Chaldeans, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. Italian painting
from Cimabue to Giotto down to Vasari and Baroccio is then considered,
followed by several separate chapters on Venetian painters from
Giorgione and Titian down to Salvator Rosa. In the second part of the
book we are given the story of Irish painting and of the work of
Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish, French, English and American
artists.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Throughout the book will be found bits of anecdote, history, and
legend giving additional interest to an artist, his painting, or the
times he worked in.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 230w.
“Is a compact series of notes on the art of the world with the stamp
of personal familiarity with the pictures discussed and with an
unusually keen sympathy with early schools.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 90w.
=Bryant, Walter William.= History of astronomy. *$3. Dutton.
8–9045.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It covers a wider range of time than Miss Clerke’s ‘Popular history
of astronomy,’ and though a good piece of work, hardly equals that
book in intrinsic merit.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08.
“Terseness and sanity of scientific statement characterizes the work.
It is amply worth buying, reading and keeping.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 295. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
“The work is descriptive, and is characterized thruout by clearness
and directness of statement.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1402. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.
“The book contains a few inaccuracies. Occasionally, too, there is
lack of lucidity of style, and a use of cryptic expressions or
unexplained technical terms. But in general the author’s opinions are
clearly expressed and are also sound.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 593. D. 26, ’07. 500w.
“To the more advanced reader it is likely to appear superficial, as
only touching with notelike brevity a few of the many chapters of the
science; to the reader merely interested in astronomical development,
however, it should appeal as a popular and very attractive account of
many interesting sections of nature-study.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 193. Jl. 2, ’08. 1450w.
“The subject is treated by one well able to deal with a wealth of
material almost overwhelming.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 460w.
“We have every reason to think Mr. Bryant an accomplished practical
astronomer, but he has not the gift of lucidity, and above all he is
no historian.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 632. My. 16, ’08. 900w.
“He writes lucidly enough, and his book may be recommended to the
beginner.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 124. Ja. 25, ’08. 170w.
=Bryson, Charles Lee.= Tan and Teckle. **$1.25. Revell.
8–23922.
Tan and Teckle are field mice, and these stories of their adventures
with neighbors, both friendly and hostile, will prove fascinating as
well as instructive to young readers.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Buchanan, Alfred.= Real Australia. *$1.50. Jacobs.
7–38524.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The chief impression left by Mr. Buchanan’s ‘Real Australia’ is the
cleverness of the author. The book is undeniably interesting. It is a
book that, once begun, will be read to the last page; but when the
reader has finished, while he will certainly know a great deal more
about Mr. Buchanan, his views of life, and his powers and ability, it
is doubtful whether he will have a much better or fuller knowledge
than he had before of the real Australia.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 350w.
“A welcome offset to the books which have dealt with the subject in
detached phases, more particularly with the political history of the
country and the socialistic experiments made there.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 156. F. 13, ’08. 500w.
=Buckman, David Lear.= Old steamboat days on the Hudson river.
(Grafton historical ser.) il. **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–36976.
Tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the
introduction of steam navigation. It records “not merely a picturesque
episode in local experience, but the very beginnings of steam
navigation.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“On account of the lack of references the work can hardly be classed
among scholarly books. Furnishes pleasant reading and will prove a
useful book of reference for particular phases of the local life of
which it treats.” E. K. Alden.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 656. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08. ✠
“Is a book which one only wishes were longer, more lavish both of fact
and of legends.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 90w.
“An interesting account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“This volume is full of entertaining reminiscences and anecdotes
relating to the development of steam navigation, with full
descriptions of the various mechanical improvements that have been
introduced in recent years.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 170w.
=Bullen, Frank Thomas.= Call of the deep; being some further
adventures of Frank Brown. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–30939.
“The writer professes to record incidents of actual sea life aboard
British sailing vessels twenty-five years ago. The rise of the hero
from common sailor to the rank of captain is the unifying element. The
narrative contains the usual wicked commanders, outrageous mutinies,
storms, and hair-breadth ’scapes, wherein our sense of security is
rarely joggled, because the idea that fair play ultimately succeeds is
early premised.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The spirit of manliness, the healthy contempt for ‘girls and
tea-parties,’ and the equally healthy love affair which crowns Frank’s
good fortune, will compensate, in the youthful minds, for a decided
lack of literary finish, and novelty of plot. The masters are
challenged, but they may rest easy.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 355. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Written in Mr. Bullen’s unaffected, breezy way, with capital
descriptive passages and an abundance of exciting incidents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“This will entrance all the youngsters, and as many of their elders as
love the smell of salt water.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 30w.
“Mr. Bullen’s new book is written avowedly for boys, and the more of
them who read it the better—it will do them nothing but good—but it
will please their elders too.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 200w.
“The story is full of real life from beginning to end. Long ago John
Newton remarked that he did not know of any books ‘suitable for
mariners.’ Well, here they are; wholesome to the core; the work of an
expert, but with nothing which would ‘warn off’ the most absolute
landsman.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 574. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Selected readings in economics. *$2.25.
Ginn.
7–31981.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Admirable judgment has been shown in choice of subject and of
authorities.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
“One feels in reading each of the various chapters that he has before
him the last thing that has been said on the particular subject under
discussion. Such a book cannot fail to fill an important place in the
thorough presentation of a course in economics.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“The selections might have been made to better advantage and might
more thoroly represent the best modern reading on economics in England
and America, but just as it is, the book is useful.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 70w.
“The most serious omission appears to be the virtual neglect of the
more recent developments in economic theory commonly associated with
the Austrian school. It is doubtful whether any other equal group of
selected readings would prove more generally acceptable or
serviceable.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 191. Mr. ’08. 50w.
“Every teacher will find in the book some material that he will be
very glad to have available for the use of his students.”
+ =Yale R.= 16: 443. F. ’08. 200w.
=Bumpus, Thomas Francis.= Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy,
their history and their architecture; together with much of
interest concerning the bishops, rulers and other personages
identified with them. (Cathedral series.) $2.50. Page.
8–21818.
An introductory chapter gives some insight into the principles which
guided the progress of North Italian church art, and describes some of
the distinguishing marks of the various schools. The body of the
volume is concerned with the cathedrals themselves, their
architecture, history and associations; while a concluding chapter
gives a list of the most remarkable pictures and wall paintings found
in the churches described. The book is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 410. D. ’08. 160w.
“Might be described as an ornate hand-book, so closely does it combine
the useful and the ornamental.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 260w.
“To the reader interested in architecture, especially if he be able to
follow the author’s commentaries ‘in situ,’ this volume will prove a
valuable aid to intelligent comprehension.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 502. N. 19, ’08. 580w.
“An interesting as well as a handsome book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Burba, George Francis.= Our bird friends: containing many things
young folks ought to know—and likewise grownups. *$1. Outing pub.
8–14714.
Aside from four chapters devoted to facts about birds, how birds fly
and sing, and bird migration, each of nineteen short chapters deals in
a popular descriptive manner with a familiar bird neighbor. Facts
concerning appearance, habits, nest placing and building are
supplemented by full-page colored illustrations of ten birds.
* * * * *
“As a condensed account of interesting facts the book is well worth
one dollar and the time required to read it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“The poorest and most colorless nature book that could well be
imagined. The illustrations so offend the artistic sense, the diction
is so flippant and uninteresting and the facts are thrown together in
such a purposeless, haphazard way as to repel the reader of any age.”
− − =Nation.= 87: 78. Jl. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Breezy and enthusiastic, with no sentimental twaddle, the volume is a
delight.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 50w.
=Burgess, Isaac Bronson.= Life of Christ; adapted from the life of
Christ by Ernest D. Burton and Shailer Mathews. $1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
8–29368.
An aid to constructive and historical Bible study for classes in
secondary schools and in the secondary division of the Sunday school.
=Burnham, Clara Louise.= Leaven of love: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23559.
A story full of spiritual enlightenment whose situation grows out of
the separation of a jealous wife from her husband. The scene shifts
from Boston to Regina Beach, at which latter place the leavening work
progresses, presided over by a young girl whose activities are
marshalled into heavenly order by demonstrable principles of life. How
she shows the misery-burdened wife a sure way back to happiness, how
she stimulates and encourages the husband to hope and work for the
reconciliation, how the evil woman in the way vanishes, and how life
may be a living example of limitless freedom—are all shown with
reasonableness and skill.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 443. N. 5, ’08. 120w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Rather amusing story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Burns, James.= Christ face in art. *$2. Dutton.
8–14762.
A survey extending from St. Luke to Ottilie Roederstein which traces
the growth and historical development of sacred art as expressed in
the face of Christ as conceived by the greatest painters of each age
and country.
* * * * *
“The criticism is superficial, and of little value to serious students
of art, but Mr. Burns has one indispensable qualification for the task
he has chosen: he writes always in a spirit of seriousness and
devotion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 260w.
“A valuable book.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 240w.
=Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Burns, Rev. James Aloysius.= Catholic school system in the United
States; its principles, origin and establishment. *$1.25.
Benziger.
8–18343.
A coherent view of the Catholic parish school movement in the United
States from the earliest times down to the great immigration period,
which began in about the year 1840. The author dwells upon the steady
effort to build and equip schools, to provide teachers and overcome
fundamental difficulties both from within and from without.
* * * * *
“A very attractive and instructive historical study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 548. Jl. ’08. 840w.
=Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone.= Search for the western sea. *$5.
Appleton.
8–23910.
The story of the exploration of Northwestern Canada during a period of
about three centuries. Mr. Burpee’s examination of manuscripts in the
Canadian archives has been painstaking and exhaustive. “The story
begins with the Northmen who a thousand years ago pushed across the
Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland and America, ‘where they stood the
first of the white men on the shores of a new world,’ and
appropriately it ends with the Northmen who, still by Greenland,
Baffin bay and King William Land, succeeded where so many gallant
spirits had failed. Mr. Burpee does not confine himself to men like La
Verendrye, Jonathan Carver, Alexander Henry, Mackenzie, Fraser,
Thompson, and the rest whose work was mainly overland; he tells also
of the men who ‘with characteristic obstinacy’ clung to the idea that
the Western sea might be approached through Hudson strait.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Contains much of permanent interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 430w.
“He writes with very full knowledge of his subject and presents his
facts in a very pleasing fashion.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 560. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24. ’08. 20w.
“Mr. Burpee puts before us vividly the personality and the
achievements of the pathfinders of the Canadian west.” James White.
+ =Ottawa Evening J.= 4. Je. 27, ’08. 1000w.
“Valuable contribution to geographical knowledge.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 823. Je. 27, ’08. 660w.
=Burr, Anna Robeson.= Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton. 7–34309.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The book is an example of that best type of realism, the type that
one instinctively accepts as plain, unvarnished reality.” F. T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 672. F. ’08. 780w.
“It is a well-written story in point of style, but exhibits a low
degree of vitality, and is burdened with much inconsequential detail.”
W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 230w.
“She has invented an ingenious plot, with a daring point of departure,
and peopled it with rather interesting, if not strikingly original,
characters, but her atmosphere is provincial, like her setting.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 156. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
“A novel may be without especial originality or significance in
itself, and yet possess interest as permitting the reader, as he
fancies, a peep into the psychic processes of the writer.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 140w.
=Burrell, Rev. David James.= Lure of the city: a book for young men.
**$1. Funk.
8–28413.
Twenty-three talks to young men, including the following chapters: The
call of the city; Going into business; The poor boy’s chance; The ten
o’clock man; The choosing of one’s friends; Amusements; Books and
reading; Dreams; Voices; How to spend Sunday; Temptation; The code of
honor; The doubter; The Christian; The quitter; The honest man; and
Opportunity. They aim to help the city youth to “tighten a buckle of
his harness.”
* * * * *
“Is not only full of good Christian sense, but is readable and lively,
just such talk as would appeal to those to whom it is addrest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 70w.
“Admirable series of essays, which make up a readable, wise, and
helpful volume, half homiletic, half of a guide-book character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
“He writes here with his well-known vigor.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 60w.
=Burroughs, John.= Leaf and tendril. **$1.10. Houghton.
8–11501.
A book of essays a part of which are nature sketches symbolized by the
“leaf,” and a part nature sermons in which Mr. Burroughs teaches the
trimming and high-culture gospel of the vine-dresser. The opening
essay on The art of seeing things imparts to the reader some of the
secrets of observation inherent in the “eye and ear, yea, in the mind
and soul” and presided over by a great love of nature.
* * * * *
“Written in the author’s usual pleasant style and characterized by
careful observation and sympathetic treatment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 172. Je. ’08.
“His philosophy is of the wholesome and kindly sort which we like to
think belongs to those who live much out-of-doors.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1297. Je. 4, ’08. 320w.
“As a country summer companion, it will set one to study nature with
sharper and kindlier eyes. We may add that Mr. Burroughs’s
observations on natural history are of distinctly more value than his
utterances on philosophy and religion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 450. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“And those men and women who grow doubtful or bitter, scornful or
hopeless as the result of too much contemplation of man and his works,
can not find better medicine for their souls than these calm and
trustful pages, filled with the maturest thought of a venerable man
who loves and believes in life, his fellow-man, and the universe.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 300w.
=Burt, Mary Elizabeth=, ed. Prose that every child should know; a
selection of the best prose of all times for young people;
decorated with photographs by Eve Watson Schütze. (Every child
should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–11736.
This volume goes to increase the responsibility already rather
arbitrarily imposed upon children by the foregoing volumes in the
“Every child should know series.” None the less here are prose gems
for a child’s thought worth reckoning with. The selections range from
Homer and Esop to Lincoln, Ruskin, Cable, Stockton, Markham and
others. Articles are furnished on the absorbing questions of the
day—money, labor, reforms, etc.—so providing material for oratorical
and debating societies.
* * * * *
“An excellent collection of quotations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 160w.
=Burton, Frederick Russell.= Strongheart: a novel; founded on
William C. De Mille’s play. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–24461.
A story based upon the drama which adheres to the scheme of De Mille’s
play, while extending and broadening the treatment. The Strongheart of
the novel is identified with the Ojibways, about whom and whose tribal
characteristics the author has sound, first-hand knowledge. The
extending of the drama story consists of a prologue showing
Strongheart’s Ojibway surroundings and an epilogue in which Dorothy
wins the hearts of the Indians thru missionary work and gains their
consent to marry Strongheart.
* * * * *
“The chances against a novelised drama being anything more than a
piece of clumsy carpentry, makes it distinctly worth while to say a
few words in praise of ‘Strongheart.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 382. D. ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Burton has written an entertaining novel, and he has also given
forcible dramatic and truthful presentation of the surroundings,
conditions, and sentiments of the Ojibway people, and of the
complicated matter of their relations with the whites.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 509. S. 19, ’08. 500w.
“The story is an entertaining one and gives the reader some idea of
the true Indian of to-day and his relations with the white man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Burton, Richard.= Three of a kind. †$1.50. Little.
8–26676.
A German violinist, a newsboy and a cocker spaniel constitute the
“top-floor trinity” of this story that tugs away at the heart strings.
In the foreground are the three comrades, unprosperous, struggling for
daily bread. Uniting the elements of the tale is a romance,
unfulfilled, hallowed thru years of the musician’s unworldly striving.
When the waif was revealed to be the child of the woman of the
violinist’s life of dreams, “he was gathered into an embrace that
reclaimed him forever from his homeless state and set him safe in the
harborage of a good man’s long-starved love.”
* * * * *
“It is good for man or boy; it will insure a happy hour; and it will
appeal especially to every one who loves, or has ever loved a dog.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 544. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Bury, Lady Charlotte.= Diary of a lady-in-waiting; being the diary
illustrative of the times of George the fourth; interspersed with
original letters from the late Queen Caroline and from various
other distinguished persons; new ed.; with an introd., by A.
Francis Steuart. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.
8–29183.
A reprint of “a plain record of the follies of a princess.” The
chronicler was lady-in-waiting to Caroline, Princess of Wales, and
traitorously divulged court secrets. “It was history of a sort, the
intrigues of the back stair and the evil or insipid gossip of snobs
and flunkies of all ranks of society. And Thackeray himself, as the
editor, Mr. A. Francis Steuart points out, quoted ‘some of its most
pregnant passages when he desired to use them as brilliant
illustrations of his immortal “Four Georges”.’” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“We cannot help thinking that while Mr. Steuart was about it, he might
have accomplished his editing more thoroughly.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 182. Ag. 15. 360w.
“Of course the work as it stands is not continuously interesting to
readers who have no intimate knowledge of the history of the time. But
there is no livelier, or perhaps truer, picture of the wretched
consort of George IV in existence.” E: Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 270. N. ’08. 1400w.
=Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w.
“There is probably no better picture to be found of the social life of
the early years of the last century.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 400w.
“In many ways this edition is improved and made more readable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.
“It should never have been written, and, having been written, it
cannot be read by the most callous without an absorbing and pitiful
interest.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 197. Ag. 8, ’08. 1550w.
=Bussell, Rev. Frederick William.= Christian theology and social
progress: the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–12985.
The author, rector of Sisland, Norfolk, prepared eight lectures for
delivery in St. Mary’s church, Oxford. These occupy about two-fifths
of the volume; the remaining lectures are eight “Supplementary
lectures.” “Mr. Bussell defends Christian doctrine on the ground of
its utility, seeking to show its value and necessity for the present
age.... He contends that Christian ethics cannot outlast Christian
dogma, and that the general welfare is bound up with the faiths and
hopes of Christian belief.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“He conducts his argument on a high plane, meeting philosophical
objections with no small penetration and skill.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 210. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.
“The discussions are stimulating and suggestive throughout; but owing
to the extent of the ground covered, and the manner of exposition
chosen by the author, it is very difficult to state shortly the exact
drift of the book.” S. H. M.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 524. Jl. ’08. 470w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Cheerful smugglers. †$1. Century.
8–11086.
The young parents of a year old baby evolve a scheme to provide a fund
for the child’s college education. A ten per cent tariff is imposed
upon everything that comes into the house, groceries, cigars, candy,
clothes, and even upon the belongings of their guests. The comedy of
the situation reaches its climax when everybody takes to
smuggling,—cook, guests and the parents themselves.
* * * * *
“The little book is very good fun.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 11, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“It is all very cheerful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 297. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“Sheer nonsense, but amusing nonsense at least.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 20w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Kilo; being the love story of Eliph’
Hewlett, book agent. †$1. McClure.
7–36094.
Eliph’ Hewlett, the irrepressible, ne’er-to-be-downed book agent,
cannot detach himself from his “Jarby’s encyclopedia” even when he
goes a-wooing. “Peer Gynt did not divert his dying mother’s mind by
their imaginary ride more utterly than did this Iowa book agent with
his enthusiastic recital of the merits of ‘Jarby’s encyclopedia’; her
last words were: ‘Eliph’, you may put me down for a copy.’” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Certainly it is lively reading; but the persistent effort to be funny
thru 279 pages exhausts author and reader alike, and we may fail to
see some passages of genuine sincerity and a few veritable folks.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 40w.
* =Butler, Nicholas Murray.= American as he is. *$1. Macmillan. 8–34126.
Three lectures delivered before the University of Copenhagen which aim
to set out some of the aspects of American life and to draw a picture
of that part of present-day civilization which the world knows as
American. The chapters are The American as a political type, The
American apart from his government, and The American and intellectual
life.
=Butterfield, Kenyon Leech.= Chapters in rural progress. *$1. Univ.
of Chicago press.
8–4449.
A book which emphasizes the social aspects of rural communities and
describes some of the newer movements resulting in the expansion of
country life. It “does not offer a complete analysis of the rural
problem; but attempts, in general, to present some of the more
significant phases of that problem, and, in particular, to describe
some of the agencies at work in solving it.”
* * * * *
“The book is a splendid introductory study to rural sociology and
should do much to call attention to the subject and to mark out the
lines for its study.” T: J. Riley.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 127. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
“The book is written in an admirable spirit. The chief defect of it is
repetition of non-essentials due to being boiled down from several
separate compositions.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 172. Je. ’08. ✠
“It should be in the hands of all who are in any way interested in
rural progress, from the farmer to the school trustee.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 313. My. 16, ’08. 500w.
=Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 340w.
“[These chapters] have already been presented to the public either in
the more serious magazines or from the platform. But they have all
been rewritten and combined so skillfully as to give a succinct view
of what the farm needs in order that it may have the highest
efficiency in the production of men and women as well as wheat and
corn.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Buttles, Janet R.= Queens of Egypt. *$3. Appleton.
Miss Buttles “has gathered together from all available sources all
that Egyptology has known concerning the names, personalities, and
deeds of the women who shared the thrones of the Pharaohs, and has put
all this together into a readable, connected account of the feminine
side of the royal line.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the book is carefully written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 363. S. 26. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
“Her book is singularly free from inaccuracies or antiquated
theories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 207. Ag. 15, ’08. 960w.
“The portraits, the personal descriptions, the mass of detail to be
found in Miss Buttles’s attractive book are little short of amazing:
the extent to which this almost prehistoric history has been
disinterred can hardly be believed by any one who has not followed
modern study very closely. Queens of six thousand years ago are here
made to live again.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 371. S. 12, ’08. 480w.
=Buxton, E. M. Wilmot-.= Stories of Persian heroes. $1.50. Crowell.
8–24871.
From Persia’s book of kings, Shah-Nameh, have been drawn these tales
of Rustum, the Persian King Arthur, and his warriors and foes.
“Mingled with the crash of fierce battles we find other strange
accounts of enchanted gardens, snorting dragons, beleaguered forests,
imprisoned maidens, and knightly guests as fine as any ever inspired
by that other Eastern hero, Haroun-al-Raschid. In most of them Rustum
himself appears, mounted upon his wonderful horse, Rakush, whom every
boy will wish to have for his own.”
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 30w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
“Altogether delightful, a prize in a miscellaneous collection of books
for young people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 320w.
=Byers, Morton Lewis.= Economics of railway operation. *$5. Eng.
news.
8–982.
The economics of railway operation are treated under seven heads: (1)
Organization; (2) Employment, education and discipline of forces; (3)
Accounts and accounting; (4) Reports; (5) Economic operation; (6)
Analysis of operations and control of expenses; and (7) Betterments.
“The book outlines briefly these main features of different aspects of
operating topics, shows their inter-relation, and goes into
considerable detail in explaining how the work done under each of
these features is controlled by instructions and reports submitted to
the higher railway officers.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“We must express our highest commendation of the work Mr. Byers has
done in the interest of railroad engineering as a whole and we feel
sure that there is hardly a man in the railway service who cannot
derive much benefit from a study of this book.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 302. Mr. ’08. 900w.
“A good book for the student of railway affairs, but too detailed for
those who have but little time for reading.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 110. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
“The level of the book is a high one; and fullest recognition should
be given to the wide knowledge of railroad operation which it reveals,
and to the thoroughness and care with which its material is given to
the public.” Stuart Daggett.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 241. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Byron, Henry.= Day-dreamer’s harvest. $1.25. Shepard, Morgan.
7–20965.
“A modern key to the best that is in Marcus Aurelius and La
Rochefoucauld, which adds much besides as a result of the author’s own
observations and researches in human phenomena.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Byron has filled his pages with wisdom nuggets that makes the
book one into which to dip at odd moments.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 947. O. 17, ’07. 80w.
“Open the book where you may, you will always find something that
arrests the attention and invites thought.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 848. D. 21, ’07. 280w.
“A collection of thought-provoking ‘meditations.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 60w.
C
=Cadogan, Edward Cecil G.= Life of Cavour. *$2. Scribner. 7–37531.
A life of the Italian statesman built upon a political structure
“revealing the causes that brought about, the influences which shaped,
and the political consequences ensuing from the cause of United
Italy.”
* * * * *
“Reading his book, with its pretense to learning which its author does
not possess; with its disregard on every page of honest historical
methods; and with its bluff at being a pioneer in a field which has
already been well explored, we are at a loss to decide whether
Jowett’s college has greater need of up-to-date instruction in history
or in the elements of ethics.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 645. Ap. ’08. 800w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 450w.
“It is an example of a certain kind of false scholarship which ought
not to be tolerated in English universities or by English critics.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 312. Ap. 2, ’08. 850w.
“Mr. Cadogan’s book should be read with interest; not, as we have
said, as a biography of Cavour, but as a political essay outlining the
story of his career and clearly defining and showing the development
of those forces which were combined to produce the Italy of the
present day.” Walter Littlefield.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 1330w.
“The story of how he had accomplished a work such as no statesman of
the century could show, with what helps and what hindrances, is well
told in these pages.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry.= Child’s guide to pictures. **$1.25. Baker.
8–22108.
A book whose sole aim is to help young people find expression in words
for the feeling of beauty which pictures inspire in them, and to put
some idea into the reader’s head that will lead him to find more and
more beauty in pictures, in nature, and in life. The elementary
principles of art analysis are outlined as the basis of criticism, and
illustrations are furnished from the work of representative artists.
* * * * *
“Especially valuable for teachers and others who work with children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 247. O. ’08.
“This attempt, in spite of an imperfect sympathy with the more formal
side of art as compared with its picturesque qualities, is so well
carried out that one feels inclined to advise Mr. Caffin to submit his
book to some slight revision—relieving it of an occasional air of
condescension.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 272. S. 17, ’08. 580w.
“Written for children, it seems to be quite beyond their capacities.
Its instruction is wonderfully clear and admirably simplified, but it
is an extremely ambitious book, undertaking to give the child a much
wider and deeper art education than he is capable of receiving.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 420w.
“The author assumes a great deal of authority in Ruskin-like
patronizing tones, and there is an excess of waste verbiage throughout
the volume. But Mr. Caffin is nearly always correct in his judgment
upon great pictures.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 70w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry.= Story of American painting. **$2.50.
Stokes.
7–36959.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Reliable as to information and rating of artists, founded apparently
on opinions of recognized authorities, but lacking in original
criticism.... Does not compare favorably with Isham’s admirable work
on the subject but has its place.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 37. F. ’08.
“Merely as a picture book the volume will be both entertaining and
instructive. Mr. Caffin’s criticism, however, is not of the kind that
is subordinate to its illustrations.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“While Mr. Caffin’s contributions to art criticism contain little that
is new or original, he gleans his facts and opinions from
authoritative sources and he is in the main a perfectly safe guide.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 318. F. 6, ’08. 240w.
“If not an original critic, Mr. Caffin generally knows where to go for
opinions or information, and seldom makes serious mistakes.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 21. Ja. 2, ’08. 120w.
“There has long been a need for a book on American art that would
trace its evolution in a manner at once popular and authoritative.
This need is now supplied by Mr. Charles H. Caffin.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 220w.
“While his estimates of the American painters of the past is, in
general, just and forceful, when he discusses the qualities of his
contemporaries his estimates seem sometimes too eulogistic.
Nevertheless, the book is specially strong in dealing with
contemporary American painting, and upon that latest phase of which
Mr. Luks and Mr. Sloan are the apostles.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 873. D. 21, ’07. 430w.
* =Caffin, Charles Henry, and Caffin, Caroline A.= Appreciation of the
drama. **$1.50. Baker.
The sixth volume in the “Appreciation series.” The promise of good
things which the foreword, a little classic, gently intimates is
fulfilled in large measure in the chapters that follow it. The author
invites his reader at the start to take a comfortable seat in front of
the curtain, then proceeds from an analysis of the sensations of the
man in the audience to a review of some of the salient considerations
that affect the appreciation of the drama, viz., a brief history of
the drama, the art of acting and stage management, the building of a
drama technically; and from these facts of experience past and present
deduces principles for a basis of critical appreciation.
* * * * *
“He takes up the subject as a new thing, without prejudice, and he
says again many of the old, old things with a fresh buoyancy of
spirit. His historical chapters are exceedingly interesting and free
from tedious details, and his discussion of the pictorial side of the
contemporary stage, of the deficiencies in lighting in spite of the
modern machinery, and the need of what he calls plastic scenery, is
novel and suggestive.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 697. N. 28, ’08. 1100w.
=Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-.=. Petrarch: his life and times. *$3.50.
Putnam.
8–6038.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Two slight objections must find their way into our short criticism.
The one—the inappropriateness of the rhyme ... which Mr. Calthrop
places on the dedicatory page. And, secondly ... we deprecate Mr.
Calthrop’s references and allusions to the house of Stuart. Having
aired these grievances against Mr. Calthrop, we end as we began, by
saying his book is only too short.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 263. D. 21, ’07. 1270w.
“A discriminating yet enthusiastic guide who has made good use of the
material already published.” A. R. Marble.
+ =Dial.= 44: 379. Je. 16, ’08. 1150w.
“He writes clearly, without mannerism or particular distinction, and
he has put within reach of readers of English the best biography, so
far as we are aware, of Petrarch.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 355. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“A literary hash in which there is little new material and in which
the old, frequently over or under done often defies identification.
The book is without references or footnotes of any sort. All this does
not mean that the author has not written an entertaining book.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 467. Ag. 29, ’08. 980w.
“The volume may very well be placed on the shelf which holds Mrs.
Ady’s ‘Beatrice of Milan’ as an equally picturesque account of
mediæval social conditions in Italy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 170w.
“It is so dull that considered as a work of the imagination it does
not exist at all. A book full of vain repetitions, of the vaguest
generalisation, inaccurate, untrustworthy, a mere arid interjection,
an ipse dixit, without any evidence to support it or indeed any
knowledge properly understood of the subject with which it deals.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1020w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Goya: an account of his life and works;
with 612 reproductions from his pictures, etchings and
lithographs. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
8–13747.
A biographical sketch precedes a full list of the artist’s work
accompanied by descriptive notes which include information concerning
where the originals may be found.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 130. My. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The text accompanying the pictures is biographical rather than
critical, but contains some acute comment and is carefully prepared.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 390w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Granada: present and bygone. *$2.50.
Dutton.
8–21789.
Of interest alike to historian and artist, this volume in Mr.
Calvert’s “Spanish series” reflects the Moorish and Christian grandeur
of the “Mecca of every pilgrimage beyond the Pyrenees.” The volume is
finely illustrated.
* * * * *
“The text shows considerable research, and compares favorably with the
author’s earlier work in this series; it is, however, unfortunate that
he is not the master of a more attractive style of presentation.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 256. N. ’08.
“The most satisfactory section of the book is a supplementary chapter
written in collaboration with Miss C. Gasquoine Hartley, though Alonso
Cano’s talent is decidedly overrated.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 140w.
“To all who have visited or hope to visit Granada, as well as to those
who are interested in Spanish art, we can confidently recommend
‘Granada.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Its æsthetic value is somewhat lessened by the juxtaposition of a
full-paged colored illustration and a large line drawing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.
“Treats, perhaps, more fully of the town of Granada, as well as of the
Alhambra itself, than any other book upon the subject which is easily
attainable. It is not deficient in humour. There are one or two little
errors which might easily have been avoided.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 116. Jl. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“A specially good volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 871. My. 30, ’08. 80w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Leon, Burgos, and Salamanca: a
historical and descriptive account. (Spanish ser.) 462 half-tones,
*$1.25. Lane.
8–35378.
A souvenir rather than a guide book which in its historical sketches
and descriptions provides information for the amateur on architecture
and archaeology.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 131. My. ’08.
“The illustrations are plentiful, as in the other volumes of the
series, but the text, as usual, leaves a good deal to be desired.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 460w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Murillo. (Langham ser., v. 20.) 165 il.
$1. Scribner. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
W8–6.
The entire work of Mr. Calvert tends to furnish the tourist with the
“royal roads to knowledge.” A biographical sketch of Murillo is
followed by a list of the artist’s works with brief descriptions.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 131. My. ’08. 40w.
“He puts together the well-known facts with some skill, and his
narrative is pleasantly written. We notice a few inaccuracies.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 300w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Toledo: an historical and descriptive
account of the “City of generations;” with over 500 il. (Spanish
ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
W8–6.
The author’s aim has been that of equipping the illustrations with
brief descriptive matter rather than of supplying new facts and
theories. “He gives us legend, as, for instance, the curious story of
the birth of Pelayo; history—when it can be distinguished from
legend—and this both local and national; art, in its various
development of architecture, sculpture, etc.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08.
“For the casual tourist a handbook of this sort is of value.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 441. S. ’08. 130w.
“The chapter on El Greco, in which Mr. Calvert has had the advantage
of a collaborator, is the most readable part of this volume. The rest
of the text is burdened with details which will seem excessive to the
average reader, and many of which will be found inaccurate by
scholars.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 352. Mr. 21. 420w.
=Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Catherine G. (Hartley).=
Velazquez: an account of his life and works; with 136
reproductions from his most celebrated pictures. (Spanish ser.)
*$1.25. Lane.
8–13287.
“It is not an exhaustive treatise of the painter’s work, nor a full
biographical essay, still less is it a handbook to explain his
pictures. It is just an invitation, as it were, to look more carefully
at the pictures themselves.... The list of the paintings of Velasquez,
together with an indication of where the originals may be found, is in
itself a valuable guide to the student.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 131. My. ’08.
“The principal value ... will be found in the almost unprecedented
fulness of illustration.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 170. Mr. 28, ’08. 280w.
“The book gives the well-known information in a convenient form.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 50w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Walter M.= Cordova: a
city of the Moors. il. *$1.25. Lane.
7–41577.
“A historical sketch of three chapters gives the setting of the town
in the life of the peninsula, and another chapter introduces us to its
famous sons, Seneca, Lucan, El Gran Capitan and others less noted. One
hundred and fifty-nine excellent plates give an outlook upon the chief
objects of interest. These form almost half of the book and contribute
to its value in at least the same proportion.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“It is a mischievously bad book. The larger works were, at least,
protected by their high price from falling into the hands of ordinary
students: this handbook is within the reach of all, and therefore able
to mislead a large number of readers. Even worse than his want of all
method is the mawkish clap-trap meant for poetical description. Mr.
Calvert has not the art of fine writing, and had better give up these
ungainly essays.”
− − =Acad.= 13: 917. S. 21, ’07. 1250w.
“The author has excellent powers of description, and leads us around
the city and through the mosque in a way that enables the reader to
catch the spirit of the place exceptionally well.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 268. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“Their labour in respect of the collection of plates which occupies a
good half of their book has been well bestowed. The book, is, on the
whole, well and agreeably written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 412. O. 5. 800w.
=Cambridge= history of English literature; ed. by A. W. Ward. 14v.
ea. *$2.50. Putnam.
7–40854.
A work covering the whole course of English literature from Beowulf to
the end of the Victorian age which is intended (a) to give a connected
account of the successive movements, both main and subsidiary, in
English literature; (b) to trace the progress of English as a vehicle
of English literature; (c) to take note of the influence of foreign
literature upon English literature and on foreign literatures; (d) to
provide each chapter with a sufficient bibliography.
=v. 1.= From the beginning to the cycle of romance.
The volume is composed of a number of essays contributed by different
writers whose scholarship and fitness have recommended them for the
service.
=v. 2.= Carries the treatment from the time of Chaucer to the end of
the middle ages.
* * * * *
“The authority of some of the many contributors to these two volumes
may be questioned, the treatment in the main is cyclopedic rather than
continuous, and the general trend linguistic more than literary, but
the work as a whole will from its scope and nature be a valuable tool
in larger libraries.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 256. N. ’08. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dealing with the book as a whole, we can commend it as an
astonishingly correct and well-printed handbook; but it falls short of
satisfaction as a history of English literature. It will not stand
comparison with ‘Petit de Julleville,’ the test which presents itself
naturally, either in quality of production or literary style. More
efforts might be made to prevent overlapping.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 719. D. 7. 3000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editors of this volume are to be congratulated on a much higher
level of achievement than its predecessor showed; they have produced a
book which is indispensable to any serious student of English
literature.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 325. S. 19. 1350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Not all the contributors are persons, we will not say of ripe
scholarship, but even of accurate and ordered knowledge.”
− + =Atlan.= 102: 692. N. ’08. 3000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Most of the bibliographies are well compiled, though there is a want
of uniformity in their plan. The volume as a whole deserves unstinted
admiration.” D.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 402. Ap. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The first volume is altogether too encyclopedic for a thoroly
satisfactory literary history, which ought to be continuous and
expansive.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1094. My. 14, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We must look upon the present work as the first-fruits, albeit ripe
and perfect, of the new school of English scholarship, and we welcome
the present volume as a splendid specimen of taste, learning, and
research in this department. As an earnest of what is yet to come its
contents are remarkable.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 400. S. 19, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The cooperative history of which we now have the first volume,
fulfils, to a respectable degree, our expectations. It is a pity,
however, that for so many chapters, the editors have been unable to
secure contributors of authority. On the other hand, actual errors of
statement are few.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 129. F. 6, ’08. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A serious deficiency in the present volume is the want of a general
characterization of the period.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 74. Jl. 23, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The volume has an interest as well as a value, only the interest is
rather linguistic than literary.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“To the reader of ordinary culture the second volume seems vastly more
interesting and instructive in the right sense, than the first. Its
array of essays represents sound and broad scholarship and they form a
collection of good literature by themselves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“For the larger of these tasks some of the authors of this volume are
not very well qualified.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 437. Ap. 4, ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Cambridge= modern history; planned by the late Lord Acton; ed. by
Adolphus W: Ward, G: Walter Prothero and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea.
*$4. Macmillan.
=v. 5.= The age of Louis XIV.
“The government of Louis, his foreign policy, the Gallican church,
Molière and his contemporaries in letters, and the war of the Spanish
succession are here, but they have been taught their place in the
scheme of things. The revolution in England, the affairs of the small
but mighty United Provinces, the Anglo-Dutch rivalries, and Peter the
Great, Charles XII, the Great Elector and their respective enterprises
are justly estimated and printer’s space meted out to them
accordingly. The colonies and India also have a chapter.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The English edition of this volume, like its companions, is notably
free from such errors, but a considerable number of typographical
mistakes, sometimes quite serious ones, have found their way into the
American edition. Few more useful volumes, and, save for one
hopelessly confused contribution, few more eminently usable volumes on
this period have appeared or are likely to appear.” W. C. Abbott.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 863. Jl. ’08. 1800w. (Review of v. 5.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08. (Review of v. 5.)
“Contains a number of exceptionally good articles, but it leaves us
wondering how the editors would justify the inclusion of others.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 722. Je. 13. 1400w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1200. My. 28, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Regarded as literature, this volume seems to us less effectively
written than the first two were, and there are fewer contributors of
first-rate eminence.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 11. Jl. 2, ’08. 1850w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Making allowances for deficiencies of the plan, it is a remarkable
contribution to historic science by its comprehensiveness, its almost
excessive fullness of detail, and its facilities for easy references.”
Joseph Jacobs.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A high standard of scholarship prevails, together perhaps with a
rather higher quality of literary excellence than usual.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 88: 657. Mr. 21, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 5.)
Reviewed by J. T. Shotwell.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 529. S. ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 5 and
10.)
=R. of Rs.= 37: 636. My. ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Is fully equal to any of its predecessors. The chapter by M. Faguet
on French seventeenth-century literature and its influence in Europe
is disappointing. Making all allowances, this contribution remains
sketchy and unsatisfying.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 141. F. 1, ’08. 1800w. (Review of v. 5.)
“By some mysterious process it has converted the excitement and the
significance of the seventeenth century into flatness and insipidity.
The book falls between two stools; it should have been either a great
deal longer or a great deal more condensed.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 577. Ap. 11, ’08. 1700w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Cameron, Margaret.= Cat and the canary. †$1. Harper.
8–5576.
A suburban farce-comedy that grows out of a husband’s invitation to an
influential capitalist and his wife to spend the night at his home.
The wife suddenly bethinks herself of the fact that the necessary
lingerie garment to offer her guest is not forthcoming on account of a
series of accidents, chief among which being the baby’s overturning of
an ink bottle in the laundry basket. In desperation the husband robs
his neighbor’s wash, pins a five-dollar bill to the line, is caught,
extricates himself thru the prestidigitateur’s art and wins the
approval of his admiring neighbor.
* * * * *
“The humor is heightened by the plausibility of the situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Campbell, Frances.= Shepherd of the stars. *$1.50. Dutton.
Steeped in the atmosphere of the East, beguiling in its invitation to
“embark immediately for Morocco,” this book is all about a maiden aunt
and two wonderful nieces, Felicia and Pickle, who journey and camp in
Morocco. “Felicia, who is always in the foreground of prettily studied
Eastern life and scenery, is a blend of alluring early-Victorian and
twentieth century models.... We can watch the wooing and winning of
her by that astonishingly splendid young duke in disguise without a
pang of envy, since for ourselves we prefer Pickle.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“No one but the most carping of readers would deny its cleverness and
quick sympathy and charm. And yet one has constantly to regret little
exaggerations, little pieces of carelessness, little shallownesses
more apparent, perhaps, than real.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 380w.
“For its unconscious humor, its ingenuous amateurishness, the book has
a value not to be ignored in this day of sophisticated
accomplishment.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“The author’s power of transmitting impressions of colors, sounds,
scents, moods, and a host of other delicate things usually
incommunicable is almost magical.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ − =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 200w.
=Campbell, James Mann.= Paul the mystic: a study in apostolic
experience. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–25728.
Paul’s experiences and teaching interpreted from the standpoint of the
mystic. “Even those who do not like mysticism will scarcely find any
violence done to the apostle here: Paul the mystic is Paul at his
best. In this respect I think that Dr. Campbell’s book is to be
welcomed: it awakens distrust of those rationalistic accounts of the
apostle’s character, in which everything really divine in his life and
doctrine is relegated to the irresponsible void of religious fancy,
where anything may happen.... Throughout the book, Paul’s mysticism is
shown to be the vital, originative, principle in religious experience;
it is, in fact, the highest expression of his faith.” (Hibbert J.)
* * * * *
“It is a pity that a volume of such character should be vitiated by
two well-defined flaws. Dr. Campbell is most rabidly anti-Roman. Side
by side with these unnecessary jibes are occasional lapses of taste in
diction.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 361. Ap. 13, ’07. 1000w.
“A stimulating and interesting study.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 78. Jl. ’08. 20w.
“He shows a varied knowledge of books, especially of those on the
subject with which he deals, and has a sound grasp of the principles
of critical exegesis.” R. A. C. Macmillan.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 690. Ap. ’08. 660w.
“He has written a good deal that is true, and much that is important,
but he has hardly come at the heart of his subject or portrayed with
any clearness or satisfaction the mystical elements in Paul’s
religious faith.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 440w.
“Such a writer may convey much information on Paul the missionary, or
even Paul the maker of dogma, but he cannot deal successfully with
Paul the mystic.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“An interesting and thought-provoking volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Campbell, Norman Robert.= Modern electrical theory. (Cambridge
physical ser.) *$2.25. Putnam.
8–16903.
“The present book might be called ‘The science of the electron.’ It is
not written for the expert. ‘It was begun with the idea of providing a
text-book from which students, well-grounded in the elementary
branches of physics, might obtain some knowledge of the later
developments’; and although this scheme has been departed from in some
respects, the above quotation from the preface represents fairly well
the general scope of the book.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Some few objections may be taken to the book. An honest and very able
book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 163. F. 8. 1230w.
=Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“His exposition would gain if the overbearing tone were modified. The
reader also resents the too colloquial character of some sentences.
Although we do not find ourselves in agreement with everything in this
book, it is undeniably a very invigorating study of the subject.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 73. My. 28, ’08. 1450w.
“The author has chosen his material wisely and combined it with skill.
The perspective is thoroughly good and the point of view is not that
of the popularizer of second-hand knowledge.” H. A. Bumstead.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 649. N. 6, ’08. 600w.
=Campbell, Rev. Reginald John.= Christianity and the social order.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–41762.
An analysis which shows the correspondence between the principles of
Christianity and those of modern socialism—socialism in its best
sense. The book is written “from the point of view of one who believes
that the movement reprobated by the Pope on the one hand, and dogmatic
protestantism on the other, under the name of modernism really
represents a return to the primitive Christian evangel, freed from its
limitations and illusions.” Mr. Campbell believes that the present
spiritual movement is destined to rescue Christianity from
ecclesiasticism in all its forms.
* * * * *
“The writer cannot agree with the ultimate conclusions of this book.”
A. T. Burns.
− + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 671. O. ’08. 400w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 37. F. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 499. Mr. ’08. 130w.
“The volume is one of the most profoundly thoughtful popular treatises
dealing with the world-wide struggle and irrepressible conflict for
economic independence that has yet appeared from the pen of a moral
idealist. The Rev. R. J. Campbell is a worthy successor to Canon
Kingsley and Frederic D. Maurice.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 374. Mr. ’08. 4700w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 127. Jl. ’08. 870w.
“I do not know where a better general discussion of the subject may be
found; it is wholly sympathetic, yet not at the expense of truth, and
might well carry conviction to those who would not be moved by a
colder and more purely scientific treatment.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 164. S. 16, ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by James Seth.
=Hibbert J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 1800w.
“It is an able work, free from the blemishes of style and sentiment
which make volumes of sermons the least popular of all forms of
literature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 587. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 350w.
“Dr. Campbell is undoubtedly doing good, But his best work is as a
preacher of religion. He is not a success as theologian or economist.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“One reads a book like this with regret and misgiving. Not only is one
forced to disagree with very much that it contains, but one is also
compelled to think that it will inevitably cast a shadow on Mr.
Campbell’s earlier work.” C: Johnston.
− =No. Am.= 188: 140. Jl. ’08. 980w.
“Mr. Campbell’s volume illustrates that curious incoherence of thought
which seems to me to be a general characteristic of the radical
socialists.” Lyman Abbott.
− + =Outlook.= 88: 538. Mr. 7, ’08. 650w.
“It is not worth while to examine Mr. Campbell’s argument chapter by
chapter. He has nothing that is particularly striking or novel to
say.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 320w.
=Campbell, Rev. Reginald John.= New theology sermons. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–33946.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“These sermons are a very interesting exhibition of the homiletic
possibilities of what Mr. Campbell reluctantly calls the new
theology.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 675. O. ’08. 120w.
“The controversial is subordinated to the practical ethics or the
spiritual message that glows in the light and warmth of the living
truth on every page.” B. O. Flower.
+ =Arena.= 39: 113. Ja. ’08. 3850w.
“Many will find them altogether too theological, and too much of any
theology, old or new, is bad for sermons.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“With their endless confusions, their perfervid and narrow zeal for a
type of doctrine, their blindness to the most real distinctions, the
discourses of Mr. Campbell induce anything but the feeling of
religious calm and trustfulness.”
− =Nation.= 86: 81. Ja. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Hastily written, bad in style, and based on a rough mixture of
diluted Hegelianism and cheap nonism. He will make many men think whom
profounder theologians will leave untouched.”
− − + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 160w.
“These sermons are characterized by insistence on reality, by care for
things rather than names, by warmth of human feeling and by confidence
in the invincibility of love. To the reader who shares in these
qualities they will prove broadening and uplifting, despite what we
regard as a theological one-sidedness.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 470w.
=Campbell, Thomas.= Complete poetical works; ed. by J. Logie
Robertson. (Oxford ed. of standard authors.) *75c. Oxford.
Mr. Robertson has collected Campbell’s poems and rearranged them
according to natural rather than chronological order. The author in
his preface “explains that he has ‘not printed everything metrical
that Campbell wrote,’ but that this edition contains more than any
previous one, and ‘nothing that deserved to be included has been
omitted.’” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The book is a further specimen of the careful editing and arrangement
we associate with ‘The Oxford poets.’”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 200w.
=Dial.= 44: 251. Ap. 16, ’08. 140w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 300w.
“On the whole Campbell deserves a high place among the second class of
poets because of his national poems.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 190w.
=Campbell, Rev. Thomas Joseph.= Pioneer priests of North America,
1642–1710. $1.60. Fordham univ. press.
8–22530.
Consists of eighteen monographs of the missionaries who labored among
the Iroquois Indians. From Isaac Jogues to Julien Garnier, the
sketches become a continued story of heroism and holy living as
revealed in the missionary cause. The book is profusely illustrated.
* * * * *
“In lasting popular form, a splendid story of heroic apostolic zeal,
and a valuable contribution to American ecclesiastical history.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 832. S. ’08. 170w.
“One may well wish for Father Campbell’s book the general circulation
in public and private historical libraries which it well deserves to
secure.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Altogether Father Campbell’s book is one of permanent interest and
value. One may commend the numerous and well-chosen illustrations
quite as heartily as one must deplore the absence of any kind of
index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
=Campbell, W. S.= Passer-by in London. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–21786.
Largely based upon second hand information, characterized by ‘bare and
brief’ statements, this volume is devoted to points of interest to the
sight-seer in London. The fullest portion of the book is that offering
information about Wren’s city churches.
* * * * *
“His book does not tell inquirers much.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 200w.
“For its carefully compiled contents rather than its style, of which,
indeed, it has little, the book may be recommended. It will be useful
to tourists.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Canfield, Dorothea Frances.= Gunhild: a Norwegian-American episode.
†$1.50. Holt.
7–33199.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“It is so well written as to leave one distinctly depressed.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 568. D. 19, ’07. 480w.
“After seeking in vain for the purpose of the story, it ends in the
air.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
=Canfield, Dorothy Frances, and others.= What shall we do now? new
rev. Am. ed. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–36217.
Five hundred games and pastimes are included in this book for
children. Science underlies the suggestions for play so that children
may be instructed as well as amused.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 63: 1485. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“There is abundant fun in its pages, well grouped.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 70w.
=Canfield, Mrs. Flavia A.= Kidnapped campers: a story of
out-of-doors. †$1.25. Harper.
8–28985.
A story for boys which tells of a camping trip that changed a sickly,
fretful young son of wealthy parents into a sturdy, brown skinned
youngster who becomes the hero of a bear-hunt.
=Canning, Albert S. G.= British writers on classic lands: a literary
sketch. *$2.25. Wessels.
8–19258.
“A series of short—even abrupt—literary sketches, quite elementary in
their scope, [this volume] deals with the literary treatment of
classical lands and learning by British poets and prose-writers of
varying fame. Dean Farrar and Milton, Mangnall’s ‘Questions’ and
Macaulay’s ‘Essays,’ Lecky and Lemprière are all here.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The writing is pleasant and readable, but rather aimless. It is not
quite clear whether the author has any definite object in writing his
book.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 727. Jl. 27, ’07. 340w.
“The style of the book is loose to exasperation, and often
ungrammatical, and there is no evidence whatever of sound
scholarship.”
− =Nation.= 85: 587. D. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Carden, Robert W.= City of Genoa. *$2.50. Pott.
Deals with the history, life and art of Genoa. The historical survey
extends from the early colonizing struggles of the people to the
alliance with Napoleon in 1797. The main portion of the book “is
devoted to a study of the principal civic monuments—the Church of S.
Siro, the cathedral, the harbor, the Palazzo di S. Giorgio, the
Palazzo Ducale, etc., etc.—and, in each and every instance, the dull
details of topography are illuminated by the associations of the sites
described.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Perhaps the weakest point in the book is to be found in the fact that
Mr. Carden studies his Genoa, as it were, in a vacuum, and rarely
draws an analogy from the history of other communes. The volume is one
which no visitor to Genoa can possibly afford to do without, and our
author is to be congratulated upon the production of what is at once a
learned and a readable book, serviceable alike to the student and the
tourist.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 780w.
“An admirable condensation of the history of the city and gives us in
a very satisfactory way the sum and substance of the information that
is available about the various objects of interest that are on view in
the city at the present time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“What he has to say he says concisely and well, and the visitor will
find his account of the art and architecture of the city more
extensively serviceable than anything to be got from the none the less
necessary guide-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 260w.
“He has worked the story out with unfailing industry, and has given it
all the interest of which it is capable.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 711. N. 7, ’08. 360w.
=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= Sunny side of the hill. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–26685.
A bright story of wholesome girlhood in which the daughter of a
typically English household strives cheerily through many vicissitudes
to sight the silver lining.
=Carlisle, George Lister.= Around the world in a year. $2. Cooke.
8–10289.
A book which exceeds in interest the ordinary book of travel. It is a
record of impressions, reproduced with humor, gained by an overworked
New York lawyer off for a year’s vacation. “The book may be read with
decided interest by all who want to know about those things which are
essential to national life the world over, and about industrial and
political conditions. There are many photographic illustrations.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Would merit but little attention were it not for the author’s genial
good sense, his freshness of observation, his odd turns of speech, his
delightful scorn of all things praised by those more scholastically
inclined, and his almost sinful disrespect for venerable objects, both
sacred and profane.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Carlisle is keenly and shrewdly observant as well as humorous.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 144. Mr. 14, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Carlisle has a trained mind and decided facility in arranging and
placing in literary perspective his observations.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 130w.
=Carman, Bliss.= Making of personality. $1.50. Page.
8–12175.
A plea for self-culture. Mr. Bliss introduces ideas of reform in
bodies and raiment that shall make for better symbolism of soul
fitness and poise.
* * * * *
“Mr. Carman’s book is both philosophy and poetry, and its appeal is
twofold.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 313. My. 16, ’08. 480w.
“It is, thruout, a gospel of good cheer that the poet preaches,
kindly, hopeful and reasonable, with more spiritual import than
appears on the surface; the happy phrases run on so pleasantly that
the book might be called ‘light reading,’ but they are ‘good
sentences’ that ‘would be better if well followed.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1311. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
“The clear lyric utterance of the poet is apparent in many of his
sentences, and this work as a whole will be found by all readers of
taste at once a suggestive guide and a source of inspiration.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 380w.
“It is a beautiful philosophy, most delightfully set forth, and
whoever looks into it will feel impelled to do some of the things he
is invited to do.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Carman’s prose—if it be understood as his—is as clumsy and
cacophonous as his verse is nimble and sweet.” H. W. Boynton.
− =Putnam’s.= 5: 108. O. ’08. 550w.
=Carotti, Giulio.= History of art. 4v. ea. *$1.50. Dutton.
=v. 1.= Ancient art; ed. and rev. by Mrs. Arthur Strong; tr. by Alice
Todd.
“Professor Carotti has wished to do on a larger scale something like
what Solomon Reinach has done in his admirable ‘Apollo.’... The ground
covered in the present volume is that of Chapters 3 to 10, inclusive,
of ‘Apollo’ (Professor Carotti does not concern himself with
prehistoric art); and the 350 pages of text correspond to some 72 of
Reinach’s, the pages containing much the same amount of matter, while
there are 540 illustrations, against 128 in the ‘Apollo.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The translation is rather stiff, and not easy to read, but it appears
to be accurate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 409. O. 3. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“With its very numerous illustrations the work should be of great
value to the student.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 318. O. ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“If Professor Carotti is thus enabled to give us more detail, he has
neither the grasp and lucidity nor the charm of Reinach. His book is
dryer reading and will hardly convey so definite a conception of the
character of the art discussed in it.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 124. Ag. 6, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is crammed with information and cannot fail to be highly appreciated
as a textbook or work of reference. Despite the admirable translation
the style is conspicuous for it dryness. Dr. Carotti’s budget of
compressed information deserves all possible praise for the care with
which it has been brought together from authoritative sources and
arranged to throw light on the chronological development of ancient
art.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The first part of Signor Carotti’s volume seems more striking and
novel than does the second, which is in comparison more like the
treatment of classical art found in other histories.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 700w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The amount of information which has been compressed into this small
book is astonishing.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Carpenter, Charles U.= Profit making in shop and factory
management. (Works management library.) *$2. Eng. mag.
8–11463.
In the first part of the book not only does the author discuss “the
internal management, i. e., that which must secure maximum output,
minimum cost, elimination of delays, and stability as well as
progressiveness of manufacturing conditions, but he considers also the
direction of the external phases of the business, such as marketing
the product, keeping in touch with the demands of trade in order to
bring out new products to meet changing demand and the like.” (Engin.
N.) The second division considers for its principal topic the
upbuilding of a selling organization.
* * * * *
“Among the many and various writings ... on factory management, Mr.
Carpenter’s little book claims a high place for practical utility.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 549. My. 14, ’08. 500w.
“Altogether the book is one that can be studied by manufacturers, to
their benefit.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 380w.
“This well written and concise volume is full of sound and practical
advice that can scarcely fail to be of great value to all
manufacturers and students of industrial economics.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1201. My. 28, ’08. 160w.
“The book makes no appeal to literary or popular appreciation, but it
has considerable economic value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 180w.
=Carpenter, Edward.= Sketches from life in town and country, and
some verses. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–16591.
“Sketches and notes, straight from life, with no stuffing or gilding,
from life chiefly in English villages, but also in a slum and in
Bombay. In addition there is a note on the International socialist
congress at Paris in 1889, a humorous piece of autobiography, a
chapter on weeds, and some poems.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Their power consists not in the style in which they are written so
much as in their evident truthfulness.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 340w.
“When he reflects on ‘civilization, its cause and cure,’ he is a
petulant child with the temper of the older Ruskin, and his mouth
echoing Rousellian fallacies. When he sets quietly to work depicting
the lives of the humble which have appealed to his imagination ... he
reveals a certain talent of his own, albeit slightly reminiscent of
Thomas Hardy.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 313. O. 1. ’08. 260w.
“Some of the notes are excellent, the work of patient observation, and
careful if not always vivid record.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 826. Je. 27, ’08. 540w.
=Carr, Clark Ezra.= My day and generation; with 63 il. **$3.
McClurg.
8–11659.
Reminiscences of an Illinois lawyer who has been active in every
pre-election campaign since 1856.
* * * * *
“Some of the best pages in the book treat of matters European, and
more particularly Danish. Colonel Carr’s pen is not so severely
correct as to be incapable of making an occasional slip.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 273. My. 1, ’08. 1350w.
“Colonel Carr has given us a really delightful and ever-valuable
article in ‘Journey to California in 1869 with governor Yates.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 170w.
“While Mr. Carr’s relations are sometimes scrappy, sometimes tell too
little and sometimes too much, they are worth reading, and will be
resorted to hereafter by historians on the lookout for character and
color.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 600w.
“A pleasant book of memoirs.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 230w.
=Carrick, John Charles.= Wycliffe and the Lollards. $1.25. Scribner.
8–20493.
“A conventional treatment characterized throughout by a belligerent
attitude toward Romanism. The last part gives a very fine, concise
statement of the work of the reforming councils, which in the author’s
opinion are due to the ‘ne’er-ending influence of Wycliffe.’”—Am. J.
Theol.
* * * * *
“This is a scholarly treatment, condensed and highly attractive.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 50w.
“A slovenly index forms a worthy conclusion to a book which has no
real reason for being.”
− =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
* =Carrington, Hereward.= Coming science; with an introd. by James H.
Hyslop. **$1.50. Small.
A book which covers in a clear, cautious, intelligible way the real or
possible meaning and explanation of the main points of interest in the
problems which the psychic researcher attempts to solve. The Coming
science as the author views it is psychic research.
=Carrington, Hereward.= Vitality, fasting and nutrition: a
physiological study of the curative power of fasting; together
with a new theory of the relation of food to human vitality; with
an introd. by A. Rabagliati. *$5. Rebman co.
8–4583.
A book which refutes the whole system of orthodox medicine and all
accepted notions as to the nature of disease and maintains that life
is a thing apart from the body; that food merely replaces tissue; that
the cause of all disease is the presence of effete, morbid matter
within the organism; that to cure disease one must fast.
* * * * *
“He has written 650 pages in which a robust common sense struggles
with erroneous statements, perverted facts, and uncritical methods.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 158. Ag. 8. 860w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 655. My. 2, ’08. 450w.
“His book is a strange medley, and hardly merits serious consideration
in a scientific journal. The book is only remarkable as an instance of
the lengths to which a fad can be carried.” W. D. H.
− =Nature.= 79: 66. N. 19, ’08. 360w.
“Certainly a great book. Mr. Carrington knows a whole lot of things,
some of which are so and a few more of which may be, and his big book
can be read with profit and interest, even by those who will not
accept many of its main contentions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 169. Mr. 28, ’08. 850w.
=Carter, James Coolidge.= Law: its origin, growth and function.
**$2.50. Putnam.
7–31236.
A course of lectures prepared for delivery before the Harvard law
school. “The lectures, as would be anticipated from the proposed
occasion, are general in their nature and couched in non-technical
language. They make no contribution to legal history. Mr. Carter
adopts, for his purposes, the views and conclusions generally held by
others. These lectures make no such attempt to determine the province
of jurisprudence, as was the purpose of the painful and laborious
logic of John Austin. They contain no such searching analysis of legal
ideas as is to be found in the classical treatise of Professor
Holland. Their force is spent upon the general theorem, that ‘the
whole private law, which governs much the larger part of human
conduct, has arisen from and still stands upon custom, and is the
necessary product of the life of society, and therefore incapable of
being made at all.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“Whether one agrees with him or not, the book is of great interest as
an expression of the deliberate and mature conviction of one of the
most thoroughly trained and powerful legal minds which this country
has yet produced.” F. R. Mechem.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 313. Ja. ’08. 660w.
“It is an honor to American literature, as well as to the American
bar, to have made such a contribution as this to the philosophy of
jurisprudence. It is hardly hazardous to predict that this posthumous
volume will prove to be an epochmaking work in the study of its
subject.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 717. N. 9, ’07. 2670w.
=Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 530w.
=Carter, John F., jr.= Destroyers. $1.50. Neale.
8–1780.
A novel which depicts the struggle of a young American capitalist
against organized labor. “A strong plea is made for the incorporation
of unions. But the argument throughout is for the victory of might,
not right, and presupposes that men are enemies and that society must
naturally be based on that supposition.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is the book of a man who has made up his mind hastily about some
of the greatest questions with which society is confronted. He has
seen the danger in the unions—he has overlooked much else.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
=Carter, Samuel T.= Wanted—a theology. *75c. Funk.
8–17230.
A continuation of Dr. Carter’s contention against scholastic theology.
It is a forcible arraignment of the old doctrine and a plea for the
religion as Christ taught it in the love of God and man.
* * * * *
“It is a vital work that merits the widest possible circulation among
orthodox Christians who yearn for something more than the husks of
scholastic or creedal theology.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 469. N. ’08. 2000w.
=Ind.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
=Nation.= 87: 73. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.
“He writes incisively, but evidently out of a long experience of
gladsome faith in God.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 250w.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Art of William Blake: his sketch-book, his
water-colors, his painted books. **$3.50. Moffat.
7–41109.
“The various phases of Blake’s art are discussed.... She bases part of
her information on Blake’s sketch book, to the manuscript copy of
which she had access. Many of the illustrations are published for the
first time.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The essay ... is a bit of unrestrained eulogy.” F: W. Gookin.
− + =Dial.= 45: 36. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 130w.
− + =Nation.= 86: 317. Ap. 2, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Is notable for its penetration, its critical acumen, and the sanity
and breadth of its appreciation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 770w.
“To the general reader and, we think, to many a technician, Miss
Cary’s text may seem to be unduly emphatic as to the importance of
drawing as the true essence of great art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 278. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Honoré Daumier. **$3.75. Putnam.
7–36960.
Miss Cary says “If we care to look upon the France of the past century
with eyes that note not merely the surface view, but types,
characteristics, deep-seated principles, unconscious tendencies, with
a clear appreciation of their values and relations, we cannot do
better than turn page by page a collection of Daumier’s drawings if by
good fortune, such may have fallen in our way.” Here are reproduced
about seventy-five of Daumier’s social and political caricatures with
an introductory and explanatory essay on his art.
* * * * *
“Miss Cary’s introduction is critical and interpretative, and makes an
excellent basis for a study of the great cartoonist’s work.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“As a character-study, not only of an artworker, but also of his
times, Miss Cary’s ‘Honoré Daumier’ occupies a unique place.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Casson, Herbert Newton.= Romance of steel: the story of a thousand
millionaires. **$2.50. Barnes.
7–25647.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Bright, interesting, and apparently reliable biographical sketches of
men in whom the public is interested. Not a great book, nor especially
educational, but answering the demands of a legitimate curiosity.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 8. Ja. ’08. ✠
“It is decidedly readable, despite an occasional complication of
biographies. The title, however, may prove misleading. The person
seeking a scholarly, or even complete, history of the iron and steel
industry in this country will certainly be disappointed at the brief
mention accorded the early history of iron making. The book is to be
heartily recommended to all who would know the manner in which
America’s greatest industry came to be controlled by a relatively
small group of men.” W. S. Tower.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 290. Ja. ’08. 390w.
“His book is almost entirely free from the errors met with frequently
in works of this class.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 387. Mr. 28. 1200w.
“It may be of interest to the public, but is more likely to be highly
valued by the various steel magnates for whose greater glory it seems
to have been written. Its appropriate place seems to be among the
‘Fads and fancies’ of economic literature.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 160. F. 13, ’08. 120w.
“Gives a popular and dramatic account of the development of the modern
iron industry.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 189. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Casson, Herbert Newton.= Romance of the reaper. **$1. Doubleday.
8–15470.
“The tenacious struggle of the inventors of the reaping machine, their
Titanic combats for supremacy, the succession of mechanical triumphs
that have produced the modern self-binder and the final development of
the harvester trust, together form a wonder tale of modern industry as
marvelous as a story from the ‘Arabian nights.’” (Ind.) “Beginning
with the story of the first practical reaper, which was completed in
1831 by Cyrus McCormick, the author traces its growth through the
improvements made from time to time by other inventors up to the
present harvester, a machine almost human in its workings.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“Its slightly sensational style may attract older boys, for whom it is
particularly suitable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 257. N. ’08. ✠
“At times the vivid imagination of Mr. Casson seems to take possession
of his mental machinery.”
− =Arena.= 40: 381. O. ’08. 1200w.
“Reading a chapter by Mr. Casson is like holding the handle of an
electric machine—one gets a series of shocks that make the nerves
tingle.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 665. S. 17, ’08. 220w.
“A bright, entertainingly written, and popular account of the
development and importance of the American harvester.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 464. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“He tells the history of the International course, for the book is at
bottom a piece of trust publicity—but most of all vitally and in a
very interesting manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 160w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.= Flower o’ the
orange. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–5883.
A collection of short stories written during the years since 1900.
They are tales of the sort of daring that wins love, and are set in
times all the way from the days of Elizabethan chivalry to the
nineteenth century. There are eight as follows: Flower o’ the orange,
The young conspiracy, The great white deeps, My rapier and my
daughter, The great Todescan’s secret thrust, Pomona, and The mirror
of the faithful heart.
* * * * *
“Light, pleasant, rather graceful, love stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08.
“Unflagging spirits mark the volume, and sometimes tend to screw up
the key slightly above the requisite pitch. The tales, being the issue
of deft craftsmanship, are far above the average short story, and may
be read with pleasure by the discriminating.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 448. Ap. 11. 200w.
“All have merit; if one must choose, the one which gives its title to
the volume seems to have a rather special claim.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 185. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The stories are thin, absurd, and uninteresting, composed upon
half-made plots.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 149. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“A courtly book, and good for a fireside evening.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Such stories are meant for nothing more than the entertainment of an
idle hour, and when they are as well told as are these they serve
their purpose very well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 142. Mr. 14, ’08. 350w.
“In point of style and manner the authors have done nothing better,
and they have done much that is praiseworthy in story-telling.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 70w.
“They are very just in the conception of the material required by a
short story; they are well shaped and quite adequately contrived; the
writing is always polished and sometimes admirable; and the adventures
in many instances challenge one’s concern. Yet there is not from cover
to cover the least suggestion of character.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 305. Mr. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.= Wroth. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–26197.
The Castles have hit upon an ingenious plot for their new story. A
young Englishwoman, the wife of an old Italian nobleman, cherishes the
memory of a brief moment of love-making when Lord Wroth swore that she
was the queen of his life. They go their separate ways, her husband
dies, she returns to England and learns that Lord Wroth is advertising
for a wife, whom he must wed within two days or lose a vast fortune.
Veiled, she presents herself with other candidates, is passed by, but
buys from the chosen woman the privilege of marrying Wroth, and is
wedded to him. The remainder of the story is concerned with her
reasons for withholding from him the fact that she is his wife, with
the conflict between love and pride.
* * * * *
“Told with the usual dash of these authors, but with little of that
delicate charm that made their earlier stories acceptable.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“It is atmosphere and incident that tell; and both are here. Moreover,
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