“The first six chapters give a good, concise and classified review of
various commercial designs of resistance and arc furnaces, with
historical notes.... Then follow the best and most valuable chapters in
the book, sketches of the author’s own experimental furnaces designed
for various purposes, and a discussion of various details of
construction. The book is concluded by two chapters on the particular
advantages of electric heating and on furnace outputs of some of the
larger industries.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The cuts and the descriptive matter are above criticism and the book
will find place as a standard in every establishment having to do with
this type of heating appliance.”
+ =Elec. World.= 54: 441. Ag. 19, ’09. 140w.
“The matter is well arranged, finely illustrated and altogether very
readable. The writer of the book has an exaggerated opinion as to the
value of some of the experiments which he himself made with electric
furnaces between 1888 and 1898. The omissions are not numerous, and
mostly of unimportant matter.” J. W. Richards.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 540. N. 12, ’08. 350w.
“The technical information in the book is reliable. In some cases the
expression is not quite exact, but this may be the fault of the
translator.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 735. D. 26, ’08. 220w.
“The book is decidedly useful ... but at times the description is
scrappy, and we are rather afraid the reader who knows nothing about
furnaces will hardly get sufficient information to be of service.”
+ − =Nature.= 79: 216. D. 24, ’08. 450w.
=Bordwell, Percy.=^{[8]} Law of war between belligerents. $3.50.
Callaghan.
9–1248.
“Falls naturally into two parts—the first historical, the second in the
nature of a commentary. Beginning with a rapid sketch of the rules
regulating warfare in ancient and mediæval times, the author traces in
considerable detail the growth of the law and practice of belligerency
from the days of Grotius through the Russo-Japanese conflict of 1904–5.”
(Dial.) “The second part of his work he devotes to commentary on war
practice between belligerents, carefully considering all the important
international connections, including those drawn up at the second Hague
conference, the regulations respecting the laws and customs of war on
land, and the several Red Cross agreements.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The entire monograph, in truth, partakes rather too much of the
character of a notebook.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 50. Jl. 16, ’09. 280w.
“Prof. Bordwell handles a subject of large international importance with
great skill, understanding, and conciseness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 32. Ja. 16, ’09. 250w.
“The work is well organized, and is written in a clear, interesting
style.” G: W. Scott.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 517. S. ’09. 1300w.
=Boswell, Charles Stuart.=^{[5]} Irish precursor of Dante: a study on
the vision of heaven and hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish
saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text. *$3.40. Scribner.
9–2032.
An English translation accompanied by commentary, of a ninth century
text which presents early Irish visions of the world to come. “It brings
together most of the important documents of this class, analyzes them at
length, and compares them with one another, and with the accounts of the
happy other-world in secular Irish saga.... On the whole, the book
exhibits better than any other the part the Irish took in developing the
literary type which derives its chief interest from the ‘Divine comedy,’
and it does this without losing sight of literary values or making
untenable claims of Dante’s indebtedness to Celtic sources.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Serious as seem the defects in Mr. Boswell’s Celtic scholarship, his
book is, nevertheless, of considerable value, as being the only
extensive collection of early Irish visions of the world to come.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 172. F. 18, ’09. 600w.
“Excellent little book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 468. Ap. 10, ’09. 1050w.
=Bousset, Wilhelm.=^{[5]} Faith of a modern Protestant; tr. by F. B.
Low. **75c. Scribner.
9–2256.
“Professor Bousset ... declares that the doctrine of the uniqueness of
the individual is essential in Christianity. ‘Modern biologists are
especially interested in the fact that every form of organic life, every
plant, even though it is in conformity with the law of its development,
has something peculiar, individual, incalculable in it. And it is this
same riddle that confronts us everywhere, that meets us in human life,
only with far greater potency and distinctness.’ This idea, he says,
‘has remained peculiar to the Christian belief.’”—Atlan.
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 500. Jl. ’09. 150w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 7. S. ’09.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 103: 555. Ap. ’09. 160w.
“Whether or not we agree with it in all details we must at any rate
acknowledge its spiritual depth. It is in truth a remarkable book, and
almost every page is full of illuminating suggestion. In one respect the
treatment is weak, in that it tends to overindividualism.” E. S. Brown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 239. Ap. 17, ’09. 500w.
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 130w.
=Bowen, Marjorie, pseud.=^{[9]} Leopard and the lily. **$1.20.
Doubleday.
9–24330.
A stirring tale of medieval times in Brittany by the author of the
“Viper of Milan.” It depicts the downfall of a woman of great beauty and
wealth who, for the love of an honest English adventurer, runs the gamut
of treachery and deceit, including murder itself, to free herself from
her husband who stands between her and happiness. Even the far reaching
villainy practiced by a typical crafty, brutal medieval nobleman does
not choke the growth of a wonderful friendship between the Englishman
and the husband of the woman he loves.
* * * * *
“The whirring of the machinery is as painfully apparent in every page of
Miss Bowen’s last book as it is in a cheap talking machine behind the
singer’s voice. For all its tawdriness it gives some real thrills and
any one wanting to kill time will find the book a useful A. D. C. in the
task.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 152. O. ’09. 700w.
“There are more thrills in the book than in a whole week’s issue of a
yellow newspaper. Miss Bowen handles the many threads of her story
deftly, with an instinctive sense for mechanical construction. She has,
moreover, a certain eloquence of the pen point, an imaginative vision,
and an opulence of jeweled phrase that carry her narrative along on
light, quick foot and comport well with its tense and highly colored
spirit.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 555. S. 18, ’09. 530w.
=Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair).= Lonesome trail. †$1.25. Dillingham.
9–8812.
A new chapter in the lives of the Flying U boys. Miss Sinclair’s
understanding of cowboy life enables her to lose no phase of their
rugged, dare-devil, loyal, big-hearted natures. The story contains the
favorite school teacher but she is not up to the standard.
* * * * *
“Can be warranted to give an hour’s amusement to readers of many sorts,
provided only that they have some sympathetic understanding of the life
of the western plains.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 230w.
=Bowne, Borden Parker.=^{[10]} Studies in Christianity. **$1.50.
Houghton.
9–7107.
Six essays of a controversial nature which constitute a defense of
modern thought. They are: The Christian revelation; The incarnation and
the atonement; The Christian life; The modern conception of the kingdom
of God; The church and moral progress; The church and the truth.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 7. S. ’09.
“Altogether, these two essays may be strongly recommended to all persons
interested in or perhaps troubled by the present conditions of
theological controversy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 322. My. 22, ’09. 650w.
=Box, George Herbert=, tr.^{[12]} Book of Isaiah; tr. from a text rev.
in accordance with the results of recent criticism; with introds.,
critical notes and explanations, and 2 maps; together with a
prefatory note by S. R. Driver. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“The translation constitutes the bulk of this book. The introductions
and notes are very condensed. The author proceeds upon the basis of
historical criticism, showing the assignment of the materials to their
various sources by means of different styles of type. He attempts no
original contribution in the analysis of sources, but contents himself
with the views of Duhm for the most part.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Notwithstanding the more or less serious criticism to which parts of
the work may justly be subjected, the book as a whole recommends itself
by its scholarly character, its clearness of exposition, and the
fearless, yet reverent spirit of investigation by which it is animated.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 783. D. 19. 730w.
“The translation is well done and is deserving of praise for its
endeavor to adhere to the poetical form of the original.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 360. N. ’09. 110w.
“Mr. Box deserves high praise for his admirable critical work. His
‘Introductions’ are models of clear statement; his notes short and to
the point; he prints the text so that its ‘rhythmical articulation and
movement’ are set plainly before the reader’s eye. In short, the student
could hardly find a more useful work.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 19. Ja. 2, ’09. 2000w.
=Boyer, Charles C.= Modern methods for teachers: a twentieth century
hand-book for American teachers, normal schools, and teachers’
reading circles. $1.50. Lippincott.
9–711.
Modern methods for the modern teacher—the teacher who is “an evolution,
the product of the centuries of progress behind him.” The work is
divided into three parts as follows: Pt. 1, Principles of teaching; Pt.
2, Methods of culture; Pt. 3, Methods of instruction.
* * * * *
“Containing much sound practical sense.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 425. Ap. ’09. 30w.
=Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.
“The suggestions offered are in harmony with the best practice of the
present time.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 90w.
“One looks in vain for any exposition in modern, or any other, method of
teaching either the manners or the morals which were thought to be of so
much importance two or three centuries ago.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 122. F. 27, ’09. 110w.
=Boyles, Kate, and Boyles, Virgil Dillin.=^{[10]} Homesteaders.
†$1.50. McClurg.
9–24261.
By the authors of “Langford of the three bars,” this is also a tale of
the free-range cattle country whither Jack Carroll and his sister go to
take up a homestead. The plucky girl will not for one moment be
depressed over her brother’s desperate fight with cattle rustlers, but
courageously aids him in overturning and reconstructing the “whole moral
plan of the cow lands.”
* * * * *
“The story is full of the life and color of the country and its
characters are, for the most part, life-like, although they do sometimes
indulge in speeches too long to seem natural.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 594. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
=Boys= on the railroad by Molly Elliot Seawell, James Barnes, Ellen
Douglas Deland, John R. Coryell, E. Carruth and others.^{[10]}
(Harper’s athletic series, iii) †60c. Harper.
9–24259.
Thirteen stories of thrilling adventure all connected with railroad
perils, quick heroic action, and escapes. They furnish good food for the
average boy’s vivacious appetite.
* * * * *
“For the lover of thrills—be he boy in age or in spirit—the book can be
safely recommended.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 583. O. 2, ’09. 120w.
=Brabant, F. G.=^{[8]} Rambles in Sussex. 6s. Methuen, London.
An expansion of the author’s “Little guide” to Sussex published some
years ago. “Mr. Brabant proceeds, for the purposes of his descriptions,
first from various southern centres—Chichester, Midhurst, Arundel,
Bramber, Brighton, Lewes, Eastbourne, and Hastings. The northern
districts he covers by first travelling along the southern forest ridge
from Hastings to Horsham (which he uses as a centre for the Wealden
country west of it), and then turning eastward again along the main
forest ridge to Tunbridge Wells. His pages are adorned with interesting
reflections and historical matter, and though he has a liking for
legends, he has also a ready pin wherewith to prick bubbles of
untrustworthy romance.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“If we want more of Mr. Brabant, it is no doubt largely due to the
alluring character of the Sussex scenery he has chosen to wander in; but
undoubtedly his own qualities as a rambler contribute generously to our
enjoyment.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 696. Je. 12. 900w.
“His strongest point is the summary descriptions of the architectural
features of the village churches.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 54. Jl. 10, ’09. 180w.
“His fidelity to his theme is admirable, and he writes with perfect
clarity; but he lacks alike the synthetic vision which gave us Mr.
Kipling’s Sussex poem, the pantheistic rapture of Mr. Hudson, the
lyrical devotion of Mr. Belloc, and that joy of the discoverer which
made the late Louis Jennings so pleasant a companion in the South
Downs.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 1005. Je. 26, ’09. 350w.
=Bradley, Andrew Cecil.=^{[7]} Oxford lectures on poetry. *$3.
Macmillan.
9–22233.
Lectures delivered during the author’s tenure of the professorship of
poetry at Oxford. “About a third of the volume is devoted to
Shakespeare, and one at least of these chapters is fully the equal of
anything in the earlier work. The remaining lectures deal with the
theory of poetry and contain notable examples of poetic practice.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“Profound, vigorous and original, they are an important addition to the
literature of criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 36. O. ’09.
“It is probable that this volume will attain a permanence for which
critical literature generally cannot hope. Very many of the things that
are said here are finally said; they exhaust their subject. Of one thing
we are certain—that there is no work in English devoted to the
interpretation of poetic experience which can claim the delicacy and
sureness of Mr. Bradley’s.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 721. Je. 19. 3000w.
“As a whole, the book is worthy of its author and of his professorship.”
J. W. Tupper.
+ =Dial.= 47: 334. N. 1, ’09. 1000w.
“Of the general essays, that on ‘Hegel’s theory of tragedy’ is the most
penetrating, the most perspicuous, and the most instructive. We could
wish that the discussion had been translated into terms of the
scientific age for the sake of readers to whom the ideal world is
somewhat lacking in solidity.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 214. S. 2, ’09. 700w.
“The writer of these admirable lectures may claim what is rare even in
this age of criticism—a note of his own. If space permitted we should
like to argue several of Mr. Bradley’s points.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 229. Ag. 21, ’09. 1350w.
“Professor Bradley’s new collection of Oxford lectures has not the unity
of impression and interest of his previous book on ‘Shakespearean
tragedy.’ The new volume shows the same complete sanity of judgment, the
same subtlety, the same persuasive and eloquent exposition; but its
subjects are chosen from up and down the fields of poetry.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 978. Je. 19, ’09. 1600w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= Making of Canada, 1763–1814. *$3. Dutton.
9–5540.
A sequel to “The fight with France for North America.” It is a history
of Canada from 1763, the date of its cession to England by the French,
to the end of the war of 1812. The author’s aim has been to depict “the
most vital and interesting period of Canadian history within a compass
that is neither sketchy on the one hand, nor monumental on the other.”
“Happily the facts he deals with can generally support this mode of
presentation, and we readily forgive the author an occasional turgid
passage for the sake of his admirable battle pictures and his many
graphic sketches of the old life of the backwoods and the clearings.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“The formative period of Canadian history is nowhere else so well and
succinctly treated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 72. Mr. ’09.
“It is to be regretted that Mr. Bradley has not taken the trouble, in
passing his sheets thru the press, to correct any grammatical errors and
even more numerous examples of awkward constructions of sentences which
mar greatly the quality of his book.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 199. Jl. 22, ’09. 530w.
“Mr. Bradley’s appeal is to the general reader. His book is always
readable, but scarcely profound.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 17. Jl. 1, ’09. 400w.
“A careful narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 200w.
“He is too frequently under the influence of a partisanship that renders
him an untrustworthy guide. As between the French and English Canadians
in the crucial period precedent to the Quebec act, he is
uncompromisingly on the side of the French; and as between both French
and English Canadians and their neighbors to the south, he consistently
maintains an attitude unpleasantly reminiscent of the bitternesses of
the time, and quite unworthy a modern historian.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 815. Ap. 10, ’09. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 252. F. ’09. 90w.
“Mr. Bradley with plenty of facts at command, carries one forward on a
rush of words sometimes to the point of redundancy.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 3. My. 22, ’09. 470w.
“Mr. Bradley’s story of this half-century of making is as vigorous and
spirited as the great argument demands.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 307. F. 20, ’09. 1550w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.=^{[10]} Romance of Northumberland.
**$2.75. McClurg.
A travel book which is less a guide book than an armchair companion. It
follows the leisurely course of a traveler over Northumberland’s varied
expanse of mountain and moorland, showing the country as it is to-day
and recalling historic associations in which the whole territory is
particularly rich. The illustrations in color and black and white are
unusually artistic.
* * * * *
“The sketchy style of writing is fairly interesting, and the book will
probably be valued by those who visit any part of a fascinating and
comparatively little-known county.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 509. O. 24. 180w.
“Mr. Bradley treats a subject full of interest of many kinds with his
accustomed skill. A better tour and a better guide we could not have.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 374. S. 12. ’08. 470w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.=^{[11]} Worcestershire. (Color books ser.)
*$3. Macmillan.
Painted by Thomas Tyndale and described by A. G. Bradley, this
delightful ramble proves that Worcester, famous to most people chiefly
for its sauce and china, “is the most illuminating county in England to
the historical student.” The county is treated from a geographical,
historical and industrial standpoint, with most of the description
devoted to Malvern range, the River Severn and Bredon Hill.
* * * * *
“Mr. Bradley does not deal much in superlatives, which is no doubt one
important reason why his descriptions are pleasing.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 461. D. 1, ’09. 240w.
“The coloured pictures are inoffensive, but the value of the book so far
as it has value is literary. Mr. Bradley is picturesque without the aid
of the three-colour process.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 6. Jl. 17, ’09. 260w.
“Altogether, Mr. Bradley has in Worcestershire a great subject, whether
in its geographical or its historical aspect. Nor is there wanting an
interesting industrial side. He does his work, as one might expect,
admirably well; and he has an excellent assistant in Mr. Tyndale.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 300w.
=Bradley, John W.=^{[12]} Illuminated manuscripts. (Little books on
art.) *$1. McClurg.
A recent addition to the “Little books on art.” The volume gives a
résumé of the best historical information to be had upon the subject.
“Mr. Bradley, whose text is supplemented with many illustrations,
including a reproduction in colour of a page from a fourteenth-century
English ‘Book of hours,’ gives a list of the mss. consulted, and
concludes a most valuable monograph with a hope of a future revival of
illumination by competent artists.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“In this scholarly little volume the author deals ably and exhaustively
with the art of illumination.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 276. My. ’06. 110w.
“He falls into the seductive error of beginning with Adam or his
contemporaries. The book is compact of information, treating the subject
on a historical outline and should prove of real service.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 110w.
“By bringing the book up to date and adding further illustrations it
might be made over into a really excellent manual. Its defects are
rather in minuter matters of scholarship than in judgment and taste.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 582. D. 9, ’09. 290w.
“An immense amount of information is packed into small compass, and it
is all written in a way to make it interesting even to the general
reader and doubly so to those who are moved to give it closer
attention.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 690. N. 6, ’09. 80w.
=Bradley, Samuel Carlyle.= Jesus of Nazareth. *$2. Sherman, French &
co.
8–32494.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“This volume is one of the most notable religious works of the season.
It is a book that in spite of some serious defects in style, abounds in
passages of strength and beauty.”
+ − =Arena.= 41: 82. Ja. ’09. 780w.
“An account of the ‘Man of Galilee’ that is sympathetically told.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1621. D. 31, ’08. 100w.
“Highly imaginative and equally unreliable.”
− =Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 90w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.=^{[12]} Island of regeneration. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–27033.
A story in which the hackneyed shipwreck theme is treated in a novel
manner. A young woman, cast ashore upon a lonely island in the Pacific,
finds an Apollo-like man clothed like a savage and unable to speak any
language. The woman develops the mind and soul of this weird islander
and incidentally discovers in herself a fuller, deeper womanhood than
had ever revealed itself to her before. The ship that never fails
appeared one day and carried them back to the world. Then came
revelations and the trial that tests character. “The regeneration is not
in the education of the man, but in re-education of the woman, who
learns eventually from her pupil what is really and originally right as
touching human nature. There are also side lights on what is right as
touching a man’s life and wrong as touching a woman’s. It is a good
story.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Brady has succeeded in writing a most ingeniously original tale.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 959. N. 27, ’09. 230w.
“Although it is apparent that Mr. Brady has a sermon to preach in this
story, he is none the less the same entertainer of old, with an eye for
the picturesque, the adventurous, and the blood-thrilling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 738. N. 27, ’09. 270w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.=^{[12]} On the old Kearsarge: a story of the
civil war. (Boys of the service.) **$1.35. Scribner.
9–28212.
A boy’s story of the civil war which opens with a hand to hand encounter
between James Montgomery Stevens, acting midshipman of the U. S. navy,
seventeen years old, and Charles Farrer Tucker, acting second-lieutenant
of the Virginia infantry, also seventeen years old. Each of the two boys
claims the capture of the other, and then, with all the dignity of
veteran generals, proceeds to effect an exchange of prisoners, and each
goes his way. The Union midshipman in company with an old bo’s’n’s mate
makes his way back to his ship. He is promoted rapidly and is a
lieutenant on the Kearsarge when that ship sinks the Alabama. Among
those rescued from the doomed vessel he finds his Confederate friend.
* * * * *
“The narrative is not a great one, but in its class, as one of a series,
it will have its momentary appeal, especially if incident and adventure
are what readers most desire.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1016. D. 4, ’09. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 50w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Ring and the man. †$1.50. Moffat.
9–5701.
A tale of politics and love set in New York. The hero is a reformer, and
is bent upon purifying political conditions and gaining a victory over
the “ring” leaders. “Of course the campaign is heated, and of course the
old story of guilty adventure crops up to add its incubus to the man’s
race. There are plenty of exciting pages and narrow political escapes.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Style mediocre but plot good and action lively.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠
“It is written by a man who knows how, and there is no reason why a
number of people shouldn’t be interested in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 159. Mr. 20, ’09. 260w.
=Brahms, Johannes.= Johannes Brahms: the Herzogenberg correspondence;
ed. by Max Kalbeck; tr. by Hannah Bryant. *$3.50. Dutton.
9–10981.
The correspondence between the composer and his devoted friends Heinrich
and Elisabet von Herzogenberg. “The musical experiences and
compositions, the professional ideals and aspirations, of the three
writers of these letters are the favorite topics discussed by them, with
all sorts of variations and with the occasional introduction of homelier
themes. The friendship between the bachelor composer and the
Herzogenbergs was intimate and beautiful.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Too special for any but large libraries.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 156. Je. ’09.
“Abundant footnotes clear up all perplexities in the text.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 232. Ap. 1, ’09. 220w.
“All who enjoy the intimacy of revelation which is the charm of personal
letters will welcome the attractive volume.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Forum.= 42: 384. O. ’09. 1550w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 603. S. 9, ’09. 200w.
“A volume which quite deserves the compliment of a translation—a task
excellently accomplished by Hannah Bryant.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 232. Mr. 4, ’09. 730w.
“There is a vast deal that is real meat for the admirer of Brahms and
that cannot fail to increase the respect and admiration for the
warm-hearted and sincere though outwardly rugged personality which they
reveal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 179. Mr. 27, ’09. 340w.
“Really gives such a glimpse of Brahms’ character as to amount to a
biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 507. Ap. ’09. 50w.
=Braithwaite, William Stanley=, comp. Book of Georgian verse; chosen
and ed. with notes by W: S. Braithwaite. *$2.50. Brentano’s.
8–37176.
An anthology containing the best poems of a hundred and sixty English,
Scottish and Irish poets who contributed to the rise and development of
poetry under the four Georges. There are full explanatory and
biographical notes, a glossary and full indexes of authors, titles and
first lines.
* * * * *
“On the editor’s judgment in selection some strictures might be made.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 113. F. 4, ’09. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 102. F. 20, ’09. 240w.
=Braithwaite, William Stanley.= House of falling leaves, with other
poems. *$1. Luce, J. W.
8–27527.
Some sixty poems, strong in imagination and sympathy, many of which
emphasize the “white radiance of inward light” which the high souls of
literature have furnished for man’s “steep road of life to Heaven’s
gate.”
* * * * *
“Mr Braithwaite shows himself to be a sonneteer of thoughtful dignity
and an effective poet of occasions.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 50. Ja. 16, ’09. 250w.
+ − =Nation.= 89: 54. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
=Brandes, Georg M. C.= Anatole France. (Contemporary men of letters
ser.) **75c. McClure.
9–861.
A new volume in the “Contemporary men of letters” series. “M. France
described by his sympathetic critic as ‘the most strictly upright
politician, the most eloquent orator, and the greatest writer of the
France of to-day,’ whose easily intelligible while ironical style
‘succeeds in captivating an audience representing every class in
society,’ is likewise described as a hedonist, a skeptic, and, when
treating of religious subjects, ‘as callous in his inmost soul as
Voltaire.’... It is not M. France alone, but the character of the people
who acclaim such a man as their representative, that is discernible here
by a thoughtful reader, the fruit of a certain long dominant type of
ecclesiasticism.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It will be useful to meet a small demand in larger libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 73. Mr. ’09.
“As an estimate by one of the foremost critics of the world of letters
of the work of a prominent writer of a leading nation in that world the
essay is inadequate. Its method and style are simple and direct to the
verge of the commonplace, while its observations upon France’s
characteristics are of the obvious sort that might occur to almost any
reader who had made a study of his books.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times=. 14: 582. O. 2, ’09. 850w.
=Outlook.= 90: 841. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
=Branford, Benchara.= Study of mathematical education; including the
teaching of arithmetic. *$1.10. Oxford.