Aims to discover and illustrate what may be a reasonable attitude for an
English lover of poetry to assume with regard to some of the poets of
France. Following an introduction the essays are as follows: English
taste and French drama; Marot; Ronsard; La Fontaine; André Chénier;
Victor Hugo; Leconte de Lisle; Heredia.
* * * * *
“Mr. Bailey is at his best when he accepts and praises, but it is a
little difficult to follow him in his apology for Marot. In the essays
on Ronsard, Chénier, Hugo, Leconte de Lisle and Heredia, Mr. Bailey is
at his best.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 33. Ja. 11. 1000w.
“In spite of certain conspicuous merits, Mr. Bailey’s volume does not
wholly satisfy the expectations which it raises.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 307. S. 30, ’09. 630w.
“If only for the fortunate manner in which the essentially poetic nature
of the great fabulist is disclosed and illustrated, Mr. Bailey’s book
deserves a hearty welcome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 418. Jl. 3, ’09. 750w.
“This is an honest, capable, and on the whole entertaining book; its aim
is to interest English readers in French poetry, and its quotations are
in themselves enough for that purpose. The writing is careful, a little
loose, sometimes very happily turned.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 731. D. 14, ’07. 750w.
“A series of interesting and sympathetic studies. Mr. Bailey though he
says nothing of Malherbe is as hostile as Mr. Lucas to the whole school
of classical poetry of which Malherbe was the forerunner and the
prophet. This is all the more to be regretted, since his essays show
clearly enough that Mr. Bailey possesses in no small degree that quality
of sympathy without which all criticism is a vain and empty thing.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1051. D. 21, ’07. 1000w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=,^{[7]} ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture:
a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in
the United States and Canada. v. 4. $5. Macmillan.
7–8529.
=v. 4.= “Is in part statistical and historical, in part social and
educational. It considers the natural resources of agriculture,
questions of labor in its relation to land, and of business organization
in relation to agriculture. The further one looks into the four massive
volumes of which this work consists, the more fully does one realize
that it can be truly described as a popular survey of agriculture and
its allied subjects. The illustrations which embellish these books have
practical value and are in line and half-tone, the full-page plates
being carefully printed on supercalendered paper.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“It gathers together from many sources a large mass of material hitherto
unobtainable in book form.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 129. My. ’09. (Review of v. 4.)
“This cyclopedia should be put at the head of the list of books to be
bought by every public library having a farming constituency. The
smaller the library the more important that it should have it, for it
would require many other volumes to take its place.”
+ + =Ind.= 66: 981. My. 6, ’09. 570w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Altogether Dr. Bailey’s work adequately fills a place that has long
remained vacant.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 38: 1069. Je. 19, ’09. 750w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Volume 4 contains more than one can find elsewhere, even though it does
not contain all that one would like to find in it.”
+ + − =Nation.= 89: 18. Jl. 1, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Well would it be if the fourth volume, or at least parts of it, could
be placed in the hands of a multitude of thoughtful readers, for it
contains the best knowledge attainable of the development in farm and
country life along historical, commercial, and economic lines.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 268. Ap. 24, ’09. 750w. (Review of v. 4.)
“A very important contribution to the literature of farming and
farm-life.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“The person who will read intelligently these four books will have
absorbed a large part of the best knowledge of American agriculture, and
he will find that henceforth he will read agricultural periodicals and
technical bulletins and books on agriculture and country life with more
discernment.” W. M. Hays.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 30: 444. O. 1, ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.=^{[11]} Nature-study idea: an interpretation of
the new school-movement to put the young into relation and sympathy
with nature. 3d ed. rev. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–27583.
A third revised edition of Professor Bailey’s authoritative nature study
work. He leaves unchanged his fundamental contentions that the movement
is not the product of “eminent scientific men” but it belongs to the
common schools; that its first object is a science-teaching movement,
and its second, a nature-study movement; and that its purpose is to
enable every person to live a richer life, whatever his business or
profession may be. The changes introduced are such as have grown out of
the author’s new view point that came with the change from teaching to
administrative work.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 718. N. 20, ’09. 100w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= State and the farmer. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22260.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Every chapter contains valuable suggestions from a man of ripe
experience.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 552. Ja. ’09. 110w.
“Dean Bailey advances striking arguments in support of his thesis.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 450. Mr. ’09. 110w.
“The author’s philosophy of life is woven into every paragraph of this
book. This philosophy is virile. It is put in forceful words which will
be understood by all. The spirit of life is in the book, hence the book
will live.” H: C. Taylor.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 305. D. ’08. 600w.
“This book is marked by lucidity of style, soundness of judgment and
breadth of view.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 712. D. ’08. 150w.
+ =Nature.= 81: 157. Ag. 5, ’09. 400w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.=^{[11]} Training of farmers. **$1. Century.