A work whose art value is of the first importance. Mr. Menpes’s
excellent illustrations consist of sixteen full-page color drawings and
numerous marginal line drawings. The accompanying text sketches the
physical features, the manners and customs of the various peoples in
China, their status in the educational affairs and their prospects for
future commercial activity.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 69. N. ’09.
“The illustrations are excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 490. O. 23. 700w.
“The book is an art work of merit, and (no negligible item to many
buyers) of modest price.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 455. D. 1, ’09. 210w.
=Nation.= 89: 569. D. 9, ’09. 150w.
“Sir Henry Blake would undoubtedly be very interesting in conversation,
but he cannot impart his first-hand knowledge or impose his valuable
opinions, because simply he does not know the trick of writing.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 841. D. ’09. 100w.
“The text is reasonably picturesque in its description of Chinese life
and customs.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 318. O. 9, ’09. 110w.
“A very sympathetic, human quality runs through the illustrated story of
an artist’s trip through the Celestial kingdom.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 760. D. ’09. 60w.
“Compresses a great deal of information within his hundred and forty
pages of letterpress.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 666. N. 27, ’09. 120w.
=Blanchard, Amy Ella.=^{[10]} Four Corners abroad. (Corner ser.)
†$1.50. Jacobs.
9–22943.
A new chapter in the lives of the four girls who, since the days of
their first introduction to young readers, have enjoyed a good deal of
sight seeing. The haunts of tourists take a new interest as seen thru
the eyes of the enthusiastic quartette. The book furnishes plenty of
amusement as well as information.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).=^{[5]} Daphne in Fitzroy
street. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–4957.
A lovable, ingenuous girl without home and parents and for near relative
a little sister to love and protect, is the heroine of this story.
Opening in a private French school where Daphne is captain of her
playfellow brigands, the scene shifts, after her father’s death, to a
disagreeable aunt’s home and finally to an artist’s quarter in London
where the chief events, closely linked with art and romance, transpire.
* * * * *
“On the whole, it is a readable and pretty book, especially for young
people.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 340. Mr. 20. 120w.
“The story is genuinely amusing and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 672. O. 30, ’09. 250w.
=Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
“It is a bright romance, told with the easy manner of an expert.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 502. Ap. 17, ’09. 300w.
“The book, though readable, cannot be called a great success.”
− + =Spec.= 102: 466. Mr. 20, ’09. 400w.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= House with no address.
†$1.50. Doubleday.
9–6278.
A tale which ranges from the pathetic to the gruesome, from simple
motives to deeds darkly mysterious. The central figures are a dancer of
the Salome dance, the idol of London, and her lover who after a long
absence returns to find her enmeshed in a strange matrimonial tangle.
Mystery and tragedy in which the head used in her dance plays a gruesome
part are followed by an unexpected squaring of accounts in which the
supposed hero is not a hero at all.
* * * * *
“As a sheer study in horror, the thing is well done, but it is not the
sort of book that can be commended either as good art or helpful
reading.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 29: 318. My. ’09. 240w.
“‘Salome’ sensationalism cannot possibly go farther.”
− =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 120w.
“A sufficiently lively essay, it will be seen, in the latest style of
the blood-and-thunder romance.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 562. Je. 3, ’09. 240w.
“Any amount of clever handling cannot make the preposterous persons seem
real. It holds the interest, but not the convictions of the reader, and
it leaves him disgusted.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 160. Mr. 20, ’09. 170w.
=Blandin, Isabella M. E.= History of higher education of women in the
South prior to 1860. *$3. Neale.
9–2274.
From acts of state legislatures, catalogs of schools, data preserved in
libraries of historical associations, and letters written by people
connected with schools facts have been gathered to justify the South’s
often misdoubted claim to an early recognition of the importance of
girl’s education. The book sketches the history of the various
institutions, seminaries and colleges for women that existed prior to
1860.
=Bleackley, Horace.=^{[8]} Ladies fair and frail; sketches of the
demi-monde during the eighteenth century. *$5. Lane.
Sketches of the following six adventuresses of the eighteenth century:
Fanny Murray, Kitty Fisher, Nancy Parsons, Kitty Kennedy, Grace
Dalrymple Eliot and Gertrude Mahon.
* * * * *
“Despite its somewhat meretricious title this careful book is a genuine
contribution to serious biography. The results of Mr. Bleackley’s
careful research are recorded in pleasant style, but a few slips in
names and spelling need attention.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 369. Mr. 27. 1600w.
“Has treated his subject in a manner at once serious and indicating a
great deal of patient and painstaking investigation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 426. Jl. 10, ’09. 170w.
=Blewett, George John.= Study of nature and the vision of God. *$1.75.
Briggs.
8–6091.
“Concerned with a two-fold opposition of fundamental philosophic
tendencies: that between idealism and mysticism, and that between
abstract and concrete idealism. The first two essays deal with the main
antithesis itself; the one outlining the idealistic position which in
its method of apprehending the true nature of reality is made to move
from the world to God, without forgetting the world from which it
started: the other tracing the development of mysticism, as interpreted
by Spinoza, which in its method ‘leaves the world behind.’ The history
of Christendom, is considered as representing the conflicts of these two
tendencies. The remaining essays are studies in the history of idealism,
with reference to Plato, Erigena and St. Thomas.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The philosophical and theological value of this work lies in its
reconciliation of the world as it appears to the demand that it shall be
seen as framed throughout for the realization of a supreme purpose. Its
theme is logically, but rather verbosely, outlined.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 617. N. ’08. 200w.
“These essays deserve a permanent place in the English library of
philosophy. His style has the defects of its merits. It is never
commonplace, and at times rises to impressive eloquence. The refined but
vigorous moral enthusiasm which pervades the whole book is almost
appealing. But there are few passages, especially in the first essay,
which are somewhat turgid and periphrastic, and some have a slight tinge
of homiletic sentimentalism.” E. H. Hollands.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 88. Ja. ’09. 1600w.
=Bliss, Edwin Munsell.= Missionary enterprise. **$1.25. Revell.
8–20164.
A volume which supersedes the author’s “Concise history of missions.” He
has “put into this moderately sized volume the whole story of Christian
missions from the early times till now, enlarging especially upon their
development in the nineteenth century.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A good, general survey of Christian missions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 6. Ja. ’09. ✠
“A statesmanlike presentation of the objects for which the most
progressive missionaries are working and the methods by which they are
seeking to accomplish them.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 42. Jl. 1, ’09. 80w.
“His skill is exhibited in this volume, in which the large facts and
salient principles are brought to due prominence, notwithstanding the
extent of field and fact which he covers. His volume will serve to
spread intelligence as to the ambitions and purposes which underlie the
efforts of the more statesmanlike propagandists of the faith, and the
substantial and permanent results which missionary effort is assuredly
accomplishing.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 485. My. 13, ’09. 180w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 160w.
=Blomfield, Reginald Theodore.=^{[9]} Mistress art. *$1.40. Longmans.
9–5222.
“A series of critical essays varying greatly in subject, but all bearing
on the author’s main contention, ‘that architecture is not mere
decoration or ornamental building, but something outside and beyond the
various crafts which it calls into play,’ ‘a grim intellectual art,
moving amid big conceptions.’” (Ath.) Contents: The study of
architecture; Design and temperament: Architecture and the craftsman;
The limitations of the arts; The grand manner: Egypt and Greece;
Pergamos and Hellenistic art; Rome; The grand manner: France.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 100. Ap. ’09.
“We strongly recommend it to architectural students and others, as a
vivid and sane piece of criticism.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 187. Ag. 14. 530w.
“These lectures contain plenty of matter which is worth pondering over.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 61. Ja. 9, ’09. 530w.
=Bloomfield, J. K. Oneidas.= $2.98. Alden bros.
8–5599.
“Gives a very sympathetic and appreciative account of the career of the
Oneida tribe of Indians. His chief interest is in the religious work
done among them. One learns very little of the social organizations or
daily life either under the older régime or to-day in Wisconsin.” (Ann.
Am. Acad.) “It describes their habits, customs, and beliefs during these
several periods, and devotes a good deal of attention to the development
of their present degree of civilization. A particularly interesting
chapter is that which gives an account of the mysterious Eleazer
Williams, believed by many to have been the Dauphin, son of Louis XVI.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Much extraneous matter is introduced and there is little evidence of
critical judgment in dealing with sources of evidence.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 618. N. ’08. 70w.
“A historical document of value and a work of remarkable patience and
care.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 160. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
=Boardman, Edwin Augustus.=^{[8]} Small yacht. **$2. Little.
9–16854.
“A practical treatise on the building, care and management of racing
boats, to which is added instruction on the strategy of the race itself.
All these points, where such a thing is possible, are illustrated with
photographs, designs, and diagrams. The designs include valuable plans
of 18-footers of several designs, of 30-foot cruisers and racers,
showing many details of construction, with many plans of sounder boats
of various shapes and rigs. A complete copy of a builder’s
specifications for a sounder class yacht, extending over some ten pages,
is added to the section of the work which is devoted to
construction.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 36. O. ’09.
“Amateurs and even experts will find [it] of both interest and value.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 42. Jl. 1, ’09. 70w.
“A book which should be of value to owners and prospective owners of
small sailing craft for racing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 452. Jl. 24, ’09. 180w.
=Bode, Wilhelm.=^{[5]} Florentine sculptors of the renaissance.
(Classics of art ser.) *$4. Scribner.