Traces development of plaster work. “The illustrations, of which there
are several hundred, are most of them from excellent photographs taken
specially for the book or from geometrical drawings by Mr. Bankart, and
include complete buildings, portions of ceilings, façades, etc., some on
a large scale, with numerous separate reproductions of details such as
rib enrichments, heraldic animals, panels, friezes, etc., culled from an
immense variety of sources, beginning with antique stucco-duro and
coming down to quite modern plaster work, so that they form a complete
pictorial epitome of the plasterer’s craft from its first inception to
the present day.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“A volume which can at once be accepted as a standard work. It can
hardly be said that the volume is equally interesting throughout.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 18. Jl. 3. 850w.
“This important work will, no doubt, be widely welcomed, and, it is
greatly to be hoped, will do much to inaugurate a much needed reform in
the design and execution of decorative stucco. Perhaps the most valuable
section of this book, truly unique of its kind, is that in which the
causes of the decline in plaster work in England are examined.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 83. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“He has rendered a real service to architects and decorators on both
sides of the ocean by setting before them through actual example, the
possibilities of a beautiful, but sadly neglected, form of decorative
art.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 636. Je. 24, ’09. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 175. Mr. 27, ’09. 400w.
=Banks, Rev. Louis Albert.=^{[12]} Problems of youth: a series of
discourses for young people on themes from the book of Proverbs.
**$2.50. Funk.
9–28189.
A volume of talks to young people full of the sort of sympathetic and
sane counsel that young people will be interested in and heed.
Illustrative anecdote is fully used to send the lessons home to readers.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.=^{[11]} Captain Chub. †$1.50. Century.
9–26149.
The fourth “Tom, Dick and Harriet” story, in which the boys rent a
house-boat and, with Harry and her father for guests, cruise up and down
the Hudson, going ashore now and then for the fun of adventure. They
dance, fish, keep store in the absence of the owner, run into a camp of
gipsies, and end with a merry house party.
* * * * *
“Tho this new volume is the fourth in a series, there is no abatement of
wholesome fun and adventure.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1015. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.=^{[10]} Double play. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–25638.
In this new baseball story the author continues with the experiences of
Dan Vinton, the hero of “Forward pass,” during his second term at
Yerdley Hall. The incidents deal, on the one hand, with his mentorship
over a wealthy New York boy who gets into a good many scrapes, and on
the other, with the hero’s effort to make the baseball team, his final
success, and the great game in which he wins the victory for Yerdley
Hall. The methods of the baseball coach will interest all who are
interested in the training of a team.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.=^{[12]} Lilac girl. †$2. Lippincott.
9–28246.
Another of Mr. Barbour’s illustrated romances which is a symphony in
lavender. The heroine is Eve of Eden Village and the hero is a young
miner to whom the maid first appeared on the rear platform of a Pullman
for a brief moment, in the mountains during a stop for a “hot box.” The
daring man makes love to her, swears allegiance, and continues his
love-making under more difficult circumstances five years later in a New
Hampshire village.
* * * * *
“The tale is at once sufficiently brief, improbable, and cleverly told,
to make an hour or so pass pleasantly.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 160w.
=Barclay, Florence Louisa (Charlesworth).=^{[12]} The rosary. **$1.35.
Putnam.
9–29767.
A novel whose love motif is sounded in Nevin’s “Rosary.” Thru her
rendering of that song, the plain faced Honorable Jane Champion reveals
her soul to a young artist who is reputed to love beauty more than all
else in the world; he declares his love for her, and the young woman,
believing that her physical imperfections would prove a martyrdom to
him, refuses to marry him. She believes that he will go off and forget
her and leave her to her lonely life; but his allegiance never falters.
One can’t quite forgive the inartistic touch in the story invention that
renders the young artist blind before the reconciliation is brought
about. It is too great a concession to a homely face and not enough of a
justification for the illuminating beauty of the soul.
=Barine, Arvède, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).=^{[11]} Madame, mother
of the regent, 1652–1722; tr. by Jeanne Mairet. **$3. Putnam.
9–27598.
A familiar and intimate story of the life of the Duchesse d’Orleans, the
second wife of Philippe of France, the younger brother of Louis XIV. It
reveals Madame’s uncurbed hostility of a thoroly German temperament
against the French people until she came under the spell of Louis XIV;
from that moment reconciliation with French life began. Her happiness,
later domestic troubles, her great jealousy of Mme. de Maintenon and her
association with Louis XIV are set forth in clear relief against a
background of social and political France.
* * * * *
“A cleverly-written account. The translation is commendably fluent and
readable.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 458. D. 1, ’09. 210w.
“M. Barine’s is most interesting. Altho the translator does not appear
to have been born under the star of Addison, or exactly to the idiom of
Addison, the translator makes herself intelligible. The work is a
valuable addition to the history of social life in France during the age
of Molière.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 683. O. 23, ’09. 950w.
“Altogether the story of her life is wrought into a delightful bit of
comedy, not, however, to the neglect of its more serious aspects.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 547. D. 2, ’09. 370w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 140w.
=Baring, Maurice.=^{[5]} Russian essays and stories. 5s. Methuen and
co., London.
A book that “helps to fill the gap of ignorance that still remains of a
country with which we ought to be better acquainted. Mr. Baring has
resided long enough among the Russians to have become master of their
language and a welcome fellow-traveller to the sérroy naród (the lower
classes). He has made it his practice to travel third class, to talk and
hobnob in tea with the peasant, the soldier, the cobbler, and the Jew.
His only object in writing the book, he states, is to give a record of
things seen. To the two vital questions in Russian economics—that of the
peasant and of the Jews—the author devotes several interesting and
instructive chapters.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Is one of the most picturesque and fresh books on Russia which we have
seen for a long time.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 315. Mr. 13. 400w.
“We welcome this book. It presents a true picture of Russian life and
character taken from nature. Mr. Baring’s deductions regarding the
causes of the hate the Russians have for the Jews are in our opinion
erroneous.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 312. Mr. 6, ’09. 420w.
“No one writing in English gives us a more truthful picture of the
Russian peasant as he works and lives and talks.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 133. Ja. 23, ’09. 1500w.
=Baring-Gould, Sabine.= Cornish characters and strange events. *$5.
Lane.
9–6566.
“A volume of nearly eight hundred pages filled with all sorts of curious
matter. In general arrangement it is a collection of biographies of
those Cornish celebrities who have escaped interment in the National
cemetery so ably planned and laid out and filled by Leslie Stephen and
his successor in the editorial chair. Cornwall’s comparative isolation,
as the author remarks, ‘has tended to develop in it much originality of
character; and the wildness of the coast has bred a hearty race of
seamen and smugglers; the mineral wealth, moreover, drew thousands of
men underground, and the underground life of the mines has a peculiar
effect on mind and character.’ A forty-three-page index conveys some
idea of Cornwall’s wealth in noteworthy characters.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The volume is as a whole distinctly entertaining, and contains only a
few well-known or hackneyed subjects.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 701. Je. 12. 400w.
“How the subject could have been more exhaustively treated, the reader
of this thick octavo would find it hard to indicate.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 463. D. 16, ’08. 180w.
“As a whole, it cannot be said that the book gives the reader a strong
impression of the imaginative character of the people and the land.”
− =Nation.= 87: 627. D. 24, ’08. 220w.
=Sat. R.= 107: 792. Je. 19, ’09. 110w.
=Baring-Gould, Sabine.=^{[12]} Family names and their story. $3.
Lippincott.
A thoroly informing book on an interesting subject. “In his introductory
chapter the author gives us some curious instances of how a confusion,
naturally great, has been worse confounded by ignorance and
carelessness, but in the next he brings us to somewhat firmer ground,
and shows how names have developed. The first distinctions were tribal
only; the tribal name gave way to the personal; the personal name had to
be supplemented by descriptive appellations; last of all, the surname
became hereditary.” (Spec.) He suggests the course of evolution in the
case of many names thereby keeping the reader’s close attention.
* * * * *
“This is an interesting book; indeed, it is admirable in some respects
because, although not a little has been written on the subject by
others, it adds much to our knowledge; but we are bound to say that some
of its statements are open to question.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 586. N. 13. 1300w.
“Mr. Baring-Gould will be found a very instructive and entertaining
guide by those who will follow him in such explorations as he has been
able to make. We promise the readers of the volume plenty of amusement,
and doubtless not a few occasions of debate.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 691. O. 30, ’09. 600w.
=Barker, Edward Harrison.= France of the French. *$1.50. Scribner.
9–5988.
“A book of reference, description, and discussion. In it we learn about
contemporary French statesmen, scientists, inventors, authors,
architects, painters, sculptors, dramatists, players, composers,
singers. Especially do we learn about certain ‘Lights and shadows.’
Among the latter are, for instance, the blight of politics in its
‘tendency to descend to mere intrigue, faction-fighting, and
Byzantism.’... Another shadow is, of course, that of pornographic
literature and journalism.... But the lovers of the real France will
welcome the ‘lights’ too, as described by Mr. Barker—the amazing
industry, frugality, and thrift of the people, their kindness,
good-fellowship, hospitality, and, what is little understood by those
who visit Paris only, the emphasis on family life and the respect shown
to age.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A cyclopedic work that touches very briefly on almost every phase of
modern French life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 6. S. ’09. ✠
“Meets a want which, if not yet long-felt, is none the less genuine.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 299. My. 1, ’09. 330w.
“Mr. Barker’s volume may be best described as an attempt to clothe the
skeleton structures of ‘Who’s who’ with sufficient flesh for the uses of
the average American newspaper office. This the author has done very
successfully.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 444. Ap. 29, ’09. 430w.
“There is hardly any phase of French life which is not brought before us
in Mr. Barker’s book and clearly illuminated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 400w.
+ =Outlook.= 91: 535. Mr. 6, ’09. 250w.
=Barker, Elsa.=^{[10]} Son of Mary Bethel. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–24253.
Set in Nashburg, Vermont, this story sketches a modern parallel of the
Christ mission. The chief character is Jesse Bethel, a modern divinity,
who is supplied “with parables and sermons, many of them of distinct
spiritual beauty and valuable in themselves, but losing in
impressiveness by reason of the inevitable comparison. The other
characters are closely reminiscent of the apostles, Mary Magdalen,
Lazarus, Mary the Mother, and others. Jesse Bethel preaches a mixture of
socialism, pantheism, and mysticism intensely modern in inception.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author is a woman who has not only plagiarized the New Testament
and the acts of the apostles for her material, but Madam Blavatzsky as
well as other theosophists, yogi, mystics, mental scientists, Christian
scientists and spiritualists. It is the most naïvely composite
compendium of quotations ever dramatized as fiction and designed as
Scripture. All told, the book is harmless. If the reader is perfectly
sane and normal he will not understand the worst parts of it, which are
merely bad on the mind, and if his faculties have already been dissolved
by the New thoughters, his case is hopeless anyhow and he might as well
buy it and enjoy it.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 878. O. 14, ’09. 900w.
“If Miss Barker has a message of real spiritual import to give us, it is
unfortunate that she chose this method, for it is not one which will
appeal to those who hold the orthodox tenets of Christianity; and to
others, while due recognition must be paid to her elevation of thought
and reverent treatment of her theme, the value of the book is doubtful.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 551. S. 18, ’09. 330w.
=Barker, Ethel Ross.= Buried Herculaneum. *$3. Macmillan.
9–5985.
An account of the excavations of Herculaneum and of their products. “A
brief description of the various works of art that are figured in the
illustrations; also full tables of the various objects found, arranged
in a convenient form.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Briefer and less entertaining than Waldstein but more convenient and
satisfactory for the general reader wishing an introduction to the
subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 71. Mr. ’09.
“Its bibliography is more serviceable for students than that of the
larger work [Prof. Waldstein’s], because it is classified and
accompanied by brief critical notes. The book serves excellently to
supply the compendious account of these excavations that has long been
needed both by the student and the general reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 108. Ja. 23. 210w.
“It is neither so well written nor so entertaining as Waldstein, the
only other modern work on the subject, but is more unified and less
extravagant, and is to be preferred as an introduction to a somewhat
neglected subject.” Grant Showerman.
+ − =Class. J.= 5: 46. N. ’09. 400w.
“The author gives a concise and methodical account of the past
excavations and of the objects discovered. But some perverse demon seems
to have made havoc of her scales.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 642. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Barnes, William.= Selected poems; ed. by T: Hardy; with a preface and
glossarial notes. (Oxford lib. of prose and poetry). *90c. Oxford.